1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
789 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Please do not forget to send at least 
your one new subscriber to The R. N.-Y. 
this month. In order to make it easy for 
you, we will send the paper 
Ten Weeks for 10 Cents 
to the new name. All of our old friends 
have not yet returned the little envelope. 
Perhaps you arc one. In any event, we 
confidently look for your new name—just 
one. 
Last week we received an order from 
Waldo E. Barnes, Jr., of Providence, R. 
I., inclosing a copy of an advertisement 
which is running in some of the farm 
papers, and requesting us to run it three 
months. Before inserting the advertise¬ 
ment we instituted an investigation, and 
received the following reply: 
Referring to your request for report on 
Waldo E. Barnes, Jr., I beg to advise that 
this man is one of tlie worst beats in this 
city. He has conducted a campaign against 
the farmers of* New England and New York 
for the past two or three years, and one of 
our clients has now taken the matter up with 
the Post Office authorities. We have claims 
aggregating hundreds of dollars here. lie 
lias no assets and it is almost imposssible to 
secure a cent from him. lie obtains orders 
for goods which he then orders from farmers 
by offering prices above the market, lie im¬ 
mediately sells the goods, and hence never 
lias anything that can lie secured. Extend 
him no credit whatever. 
It is rather a slick game, but an old 
one; offer prices a little above the 
market for county produce, and never pay 
for it when received. Farmers will do 
well to keep this name and address for 
reference. In the future Mr. Barnes, Jr., 
will do well to confine his confidence 
game and proposition to other papers. 
The R. N.-Y. cannot be used to further 
bis schemes. 
We are receiving many kindly words 
for the new poultry book, 1 he Business 
Hen. Here is a note that we prize highly, 
as it comes from a poultryman of un¬ 
questioned ability and experience. 
The hook, “The Business lien,” to hand. It 
is certainly a very valuable manual, and 
should he in the hands of every poulterer—- 
novice or expert. Its pages are replete with 
good, sound, common-sense. 
MICHAEL K. BOYER. 
Poultry Editor Farm Journal. 
The Business Hen is fully illustrated, 
contains 128 pages. Price, paper, 75 cents; 
cloth, $1. 
ABANDONED WELLS FOR CESS¬ 
POOLS. 
The following question is sent by one of 
our readers. Will you be kind enough to give 
us an opinion regarding the use of such wells 
as cesspools? "In a. rural locality where there 
Is city water, but no sewer system, some ot 
the neighbors have turned deep old wells, now 
disused, into cesspools. What are the disad¬ 
vantages of tliis system? Would they be dan¬ 
gerous because rarely cleaned? Wells are 50 
to SO feet deep.” 
This is a very bad practice if the city 
water supply is itself drawn from wells; 
otherwise it would not be very objection¬ 
able provided the wells were in earth and 
not rock. editor engineering record. 
Cesspools, if not made watertight, are 
to be condemned, as otherwise they are 
liable to contaminate sources of potable 
water. Where there is a public water sup¬ 
ply a system of sewers should necessarily 
follow, as the use of leaching cesspools 
must lead to a contamination of surround¬ 
ing soil, the pollution of wells and general 
unsanitary conditions. t. a. stuart. 
N. Y. Dept, of Health. 
In the case you mention, if the water 
supply is entirely from a distance, the use 
of the old wells for cesspools would not 
be attended with any special danger. 
Whatever objection to them there might 
be would be obviated by the systematic 
use of disinfectants—and this use should 
be obligatory in the case of any cesspool, 
whether deep or shallow, and whether fre¬ 
quently or rarely cleaned. 
New York. editor medical record. 
If all the wells are abandoned, none be¬ 
ing used for household purposes, thus 
eliminating the danger of contamination, 
by percolation, etc., to other wells, and if 
said wells are not too near the houses, so 
that the odor arising be not objectionable, 
1 see no disadvantage with such disposal 
of sewage. In fact, it seems preferable to 
the cesspools near the surface, as in time 
the natural elements—air, light, water, etc. 
—do away with the harmful effects of the 
sewage. Mixed with earth I see no need 
of frequent cleaning. d. st. John, M. d. 
Hackensack, N. J. 
This method of house drainage is com¬ 
mon where there is a lack of a sewer sys¬ 
tem, but cannot be altogether approved of. 
It is, to say the least of it, making the best 
of an unfortunate condition. Probably the 
deeper the well the less danger. They are 
rarely cleaned; I suppose the solids soon 
liquefy and the organic matters disappear 
by oxidation, provided the wells have good 
and proper ventilation. In non-passive 
streams sewerage is known to become 
negative as to harm by oxidation as it 
passes along, as is claimed in the great 
Chicago Drainage Canal. I don’t know 
the ratio as to distance traveled. One 
using these wells should see to their thor¬ 
ough ventilation and sunlight where pos¬ 
sible, and the house plumbing must be ab¬ 
solutely scientifically done. 
New Castle, Del. jno. j. black. 
This system of house drainage may 
quite often be adopted with much conven¬ 
ience ami pertect safety. I say this with 
confidence, having used it in my own 
house over 20 years ago, with perfect 
success and having professionally, as an 
expert, applied it to a large number ot 
country houses and with perfect success, 
advantage and safety. But one especial 
point is indispensably and seriously im¬ 
portant. This is that the lay of the 
ground, and the nature of the soil, are 
to be considered. The ground must ab¬ 
solutely slope down from the dwelling, 
and the soil must be sufficiently sandy to 
permit, not so much the absorption of 
the liquid, as the complete oxidation of 
the waste, by which the organic matter 
will he rendered obnoxious. As I made 
precisely such a drainage system for my 
own house, the result of which has been 
perfectly satisfactory, I may probably meet 
the inquiry by simply describing the 
method in this special case. The ground 
selected was on the side of the dwell¬ 
ing on which the slope was down 
from the dwelling. A dry well, or pit, 10 
feet in diameter, was dug down to the 
sand and a few feet into it. This was 
walled up with hard brick, leaving the 
bottom bare. The top rows of the brick 
for four feet were laid in cement, to se¬ 
cure firmness in the wall, and to support 
the arch, which covered the top and in the 
top a manhole was left for convenience, 
and was covered by a flagstone bedded in 
cement to make it airtight. The drain 
into it was placed safely below the reach 
of frost and carried off the waste from 
the kitchen, as well as two water closets, 
the bath room, and half the rainfall from 
a large house. The drain has never failed, 
and in all the years since, it has done its 
work without any need for notice. It 
will be seen tnat these conditions were 
all favorable. But I have done similar 
work for other dwellings where the soil 
was clay or gravel, and never in any case 
had to give any attention or do any work 
on any one of them afterwards. In prac¬ 
tice, rural conditions, in almost every in¬ 
stance will call for such means of drain¬ 
age as this, and so far I have never found 
any difficulty in adopting this system of 
drainage with perfect success, even when 
it has been applied to quite large villages. 
For instance the Orange villages in New 
Jersey, a good many years ago, were 
drained in this way and with success. It 
may be mentioned as illustrating this sub¬ 
ject that there is scarcely a well in ex¬ 
istence in which there'is not a large quan¬ 
tity of water always flowing out at the 
bottom, and the supply of water is thus 
kept pure and wholesome so that this 
will go to illustrate and explain this ac¬ 
tion of drains made on this system de¬ 
scribed. HENRY STEWART. 
Curing a Cold. —The editorial note rec¬ 
ommending soda for the cure of acute 
catarrhal colds is timely and the remedy is 
certainly good if carefully used. If it is 
overdone there is danger to the hearing. Soda 
is also valuable as a corrective to the acidity 
of the mouth which destroys the teeth, but 
too much soda should not lie swallowed. 
Many people have acquired the soda habit, 
which is known to be injurious. An intel¬ 
ligent man who has been a school teacher 
and who worked our farm one Summer swal¬ 
lowed it at the rate of a pound a month. 
For colds in the head I now use something 
which in my case is almost Instantaneous as 
a cure, equal parts of oil of Eucalyptus and 
oil of tar. I wet the end of my little finger 
with the mixture and insert it Into the nos¬ 
trils once or twice and the influenza or 
catarrh or cold in the head dries up and 
is gone. The specific action of the Eucalyp¬ 
tus is to dry up the “trouble,” and combined 
with the oil of tar it is not unpleasant to 
use in most cases, but if it should take hold 
a little too suddenly a little vaseline takes 
the edge off at once. I am convinced that 
this way of using the Eucalyptus is effective 
as a direct inoculation of the mucous mem¬ 
brane of the entire respiratory tract, and 
may therefore prove valuable in the treat¬ 
ment of most diseases there located. It is 
not claimed that this is anything new to the 
medical profession, but it may he to some 
of your readers. Try it. j. yates peek. 
NEW THOUGHTS. 
Are you growing more attractive as you 
advance in life? 
"Given a healthy body,” says Dr. R. V. 
Pierce, the special¬ 
ist in woman’s dis¬ 
eases, of Buffalo, 
N. Y., "and a 
healthy mind, and 
everyone can culti¬ 
vate and enjoy hap¬ 
piness.” 
We must eat 
properly and di¬ 
gest well to be 
beautiful. It ia a 
fact that any form 
of dyspepsia may 
in a '-w days trans¬ 
form a clear, white 
skin into a mass of 
pimples and black 
spots. A beautiful 
woman has the 
beauty of her stom¬ 
ach. 
Dr. Pierce’8 
Golden Medical 
Discovery main¬ 
tains a person’s nutrition by enabling one 
to eat, retain, digest and assimilate the 
proper nutritious food. It overcomes the 
gastric irritability and symptoms of indi¬ 
gestion, and thus the person is saved from 
those symptoms of fever, night-sweata, 
headache, etc., which are so common. A. 
tonic made up largely of alcohol will 
shrink the corpuscles of the blood and 
make them weaker for resistance. 
"This is to certify that I have used Doctor 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, think it’s 
the grandest medicine in the world,” writes Mrs. 
V. M. Young, of Weir, W. Va. "I had dyspepsia 
in its worst form. I decided to try your med¬ 
icine. I used five bottles, and now I am doing 
my own housework. A number of my friends 
also are using Dr. Pierce's medicine and they 
recommend it highly. May God bless you ia 
your grand work.” 
Dr. Pierce believes that a tonic made with 
alcohol will shrink the red blood corpuscles 
and make the system weak for resistance; 
that is why he avoided the use of any alco¬ 
hol or narcotics in his "Medical Discovery,” 
which contains the pure extract from root* 
and herbs without a particle of alcohol. 
Accept no substitute for "Golden Medical 
Discovery.” There is nothing "just M 
good ” for dyspepsia or debility. 
Biliousness is cured by the use of Df. 
Pisroe’s Pleasant Pellets. 
Power Feed Gutter $26.50. 
For this up-to-dato Food and F.nsllage Cut- 
tor, No. 25U, we ask only *26.50. It 
ha3 4 knives 13 inches long, 
and with from 2 to 4 horse¬ 
power will cut sufficient feed 
for from 30 to 60 head of stock. Every 
part of this machine is perfect and 
strong. It will cut nil kinds of green 
or dry fodder, including unhusked corn 
and stalks. It weighs about 600 lbs. and 
is fitted with adjustable cone-feed gear¬ 
ing and expansion gearing for driving upper feed roll. Ha« 
safety stop lever. Length of cut can he changed without 
stopping. Has reversiblo cutting bar, a safety fly-wheel and 
suitable driving pulley, it can also bo run by hand. Thor¬ 
oughly up-to-date in every respect and is a great money saver. 
We absolutely guarantee this Feed Cutter satisfactory in every 
detail. We ship it on approval. Send $1.00 as a guarantee of 
goisl faith. If not entirely satisfactory when received, leave 
it with freight agent and we will refund you your $1.00 and 
pay the freight both ways. Wo have 22 other sizes and kinds 
of Ensilage Cutters and Shredders, also Carriers any length. 
Wo save yousnoncy on everything you buy, and we give you 
the same guarantee on everything we sell. Send for our new 
catalogue No. 8fi. It’s Free, and full of choice bargains, for 
we sell you anything you use at almost factory cost. 
Quh Supply & Mfg. Co,, 308 Lawrence Sq., Kalamazoo, 2U«h. 
SLOANS 
LINIMENT 
KILLS 
PAIN 
For FARM 
ACTOR® 
family use 
IAN ENTIRE 
* MEDICINE 
CHEST 
The one roofing 
on the market 
which has steadily maintained its 
■ individuality. Standard for thirteen 
years. Avoid inferior imitations. 
Look for the registered trade mark 
“ RUBEROID,” 
stamped on the under side of our 
Roofing every four feet. The most 
durable on the market. 
Send for Booklet “K.” 
THE STANDARD PAINT COMPANY, 
Sole Manufacturers, 
lOO WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK 
Excelsior Swing Stanchion. 
Warranted the best. 30 Days Trial. 
Can be returned at our expense 
If not satisfactory. 
The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
Box 60. CUBA, NEW YORK. 
r Z' TmE ChACE BASIN 
FOR WATERING STOCK IN 5TABLE5 
Sample Basin Sent 
On Approval 
8end for Catalogue 
and Price List. 
F. R.CHAOE, 
Sherman, N. Y. 
ARNESS AT WHOLESALE PRICES 
For 26 years we have been selling direct 
to the consumer. Send for factory price 
list and catalogue F. 
King Harness Co. 6 Lake 8t., Owego,N.Y. 
RAW FURS AND GINSENG WANTED. 
For reliable prices send two-cent stamp. 
LEMUEL BLACK, Exporter of Raw Furs and 
Ginseng, Lock Box 43, Hightstown, N. J. 
MONEY FOR SPARE TIME. 
If you are a well-known farmer and have a little 
spare time each week, WRITE TO-DAY for our 
great business offer to one man in a county. Pay 
is large with opportunity to build up a very profit¬ 
able and permanent business. Full time employ¬ 
ment, If you prefer It. Income may be increased 
every month. WRITE TO-DAY and make $500 
before Spring. 
THE CHAMPION COMPANY, 
4!44 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
IF YOU ARE A LARGE CORN GROWER OR THRESHER* 
MAN AND WANT TO MAKE MONEY 
USE A 
PLANO 
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THAT’S THE WAY TO DO IT 
THE PLANO TEN-BOLL SHREDDER COSTS BUT LITTLE 
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THAT’S WHY THE PLANO 13 A WINNER, 
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