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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 16 
January Premiums. 
The six $2 premiums for the first week in January were mailed 
Saturday night to the following six agents : 
1. —R. R. GAGE.......Ontario. 
2. —E. P. MORGAN..Connecticut. 
3. —THEO. BOND...New York. 
4. —JOSIAH H. SPRAGUE.New York. 
5. —J. H. TROTTER.South Dakota. 
6 . —W. S. GRAVES.Pennsylvania. 
Six more $2 bills will go to six agents every Saturday night 
during the month, no matter if the winners send only one trial sub¬ 
scription each. They go to the largest six clubs, of course. Besides, 
every name counts for those five cash premiums of $50, $35, $25, $15 
and $5, which will be awarded January 30 to the largest five clubs for 
the month. You keep the regular commission when sending in the 
names. The clubs last week came from friends who simply sent in 
the usual list from their neighbors, with, apparently, no attempt at 
making a canvass for premiums. You can have one of the $2 bills 
next week, if you want it. Just put $2 worth of work into it and see. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
" CLOVER 
Before we proceed with the lesson 
this week, let us read this little note : 
The Rural New-Yorker has been of far more 
value to me than any other like paper that I have 
ever seen. My subscription dates from picking 
up a soiled copy on the roadside, and Mr. B’s, 
now sent, comes unsolicited from seeing and 
reading copies at my home. o. e. m. 
Coleman’s Falls, Va. 
Now that might have been a “ sample 
copy” which some unappreciative person 
dropped off from his wagon. Our friend 
picked it up and, like a clover seed, some 
idea in it sprung up in his mind and 
made a crop. Clover seed sometimes 
ails to “catch” the first time. That is 
the story often told about Crimson 
clover. Those who keep at it, however, 
and use lime and potash will, in time, 
get a good stand. Keep at the neighbor 
with The R. N.-Y., and first you know, 
the seed will “ catch.” 
When I was at college, I found boys 
who were using all sorts of devices in 
order to earn an education. Four of us 
met in my room one night to compare 
notes. I had nothing but my wits to 
ride on—and it was hard riding. 
“ Father has given me the use of 10 
acres”, said Tom. “I seed them to 
wheat in the fall vacation, and get off 
in harvest time to cut the grain. With 
what I can earn at teaching school, the 
10 acres will carry me.” 
“ I am riding on a pig’s back”, said 
Dick. “ When I started here, brother 
Joe put aside a fine Berkshire sow and 
said that her pigs must pull me through 
college. Two- litters a year, sold for 
pork, have just about done it thus far. 
It’s easy riding on a pig’s back, and I am 
willing to ride that way.” 
“I can beat you all”, said Harry. 
“ Some years ago, I read about the 
value of clover. Father didn’t want to 
try it, but, finally, I made a bargain 
with him. I bought and paid for the 
clover seed and sowed it. Father agreed 
to let me have the difference between 
the value of the wheat and corn for four 
years before using the clover and four 
years after it. Talk about your wits, or 
your wheat, or your Berkshire sow— 
they are no where. I'm in clover, I am /” 
Not long ago, I told that story at a 
farmers’ meeting. After the meeting 
was over, a young man came up and 
said : “ That’s just the way it was with 
us. We heard about Crimson clover, 
but father didn’t want to try it. At last 
we bought two bushels, but father would 
sow only one. Now we have the whole 
farm covered with it—and it has proved 
the very salvation of our soil !” 
Hurrah for clover ! Another hurrah 
for the boys who have the pluck to stick 
to a true idea until they prove its worth ! 
Such boys range in years all the way 
from eight to eighty. We want to say 
A Cough Should Not be Neglected. “ Brown's 
Bronchial Troches ” are a simple remedy, and 
give immediate relief. Avoid imitations.— Adv. 
to them that during 1897, The R. N.-Y. 
will stick to clover like a burr. We are 
going to tell you some things about it 
that will make your eyes snap. We also 
have some new facts about its partners, 
Mr. Peter Potash and Mr. B. Phosphoric 
Acid, that will be likely to make you 
jump. 
Why, here is another good friend : 
I like your paper very much. I think that it 
makes the farmer who reads it have more respect 
for his calling, which, I am afraid, some are in¬ 
clined to despise. 
That’s right ! The R. N.-Y. for 1897 
will try hard to increase the analysis of 
respect for the farm ! We can handle 
that subscription of yours right now ! 
THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
•THE BULLETINS BOILED DOWN. 
Strawberries.—Bulletin 109, New York Ex¬ 
periment Station. —In the experiments here re ¬ 
corded , strawberries were fruited in one and two- 
year-old beds, and, contrary to the usual experi¬ 
ence, larger yields were obtained from beds bear¬ 
ing their second crop. Among varieties fruiting 
from one-year-old beds, the following were con¬ 
sidered worthy of further testing: Bissel, Earli¬ 
est, Enormous, Maple Bank, Omega, Robinson, 
Staples, Tubbs, William Belt, and some seedlings 
designated bv number only. Fruited in two-year- 
old beds, and for the second time only, the fol¬ 
lowing varieties were regarded as worthy of 
future tests: Bostonian, Marshall, Marston, and 
Tennessee. Among early berries, Earliest, Michel, 
Staples, Tubbs, Beder Wood, and Marston were 
regarded as worthy of test. For very late ber¬ 
ries, Hunn, Equinox, Princeton, Chief, and Gandy 
were recommended for trial, as were some num¬ 
bered seedlings. 
Blackberries, Dewberries and Raspberries.— 
Bulletin 111, New York Experiment Station.— 
The soil in which these fruits were grown was a 
rather heavy clay loam, fertilized with stable 
manure, and tile-drained. The dewberries only 
received protection. The most productive black¬ 
berries on the Station grounds in 1896, -were 
Ancient Briton, Stone Hardy, Early Harvest, and 
Agawam. Snyder is valuable for its hardiness. 
Mersereau is regarded as promising. 
Lucretia is the only dewberry considered of com¬ 
mercial importance. Austin’s Improved prom¬ 
ises to be a valuable acquisition. 
Among early black raspberries, Eureka and 
Hopkins were most satisfactory. The most pro¬ 
ductive mid-season varieties were Mohler, Hil- 
born, Babcock No. 5, and Pioneer; Mills, Ohio, 
and Onondaga were the most productive late 
varieties. The most satisfactory of the purple 
berries were Cardinal, Columbian, and Shaffer. 
For early red berries, Cline and Pomona are both 
worthy of a trial. Among mid-season reds, Clark 
and Pride of Kent were the most productive, but 
are valuable for home use or local market only. 
Royal Church and Cuthbert are both productive 
late varieties, but the former crumbles badly, 
and Cuthbert does not stand shipping well. Olathe 
and Loudon are quite firm, and have an attrac¬ 
tive color, which should make them valuable 
market varieties. The yellow berries are desir¬ 
able for home use, and of these, the Caroline was 
the most productive of all the raspberries fruited 
on the Station grounds. 
A Modification of the Babcock Method.—Bul¬ 
letin 31, Maine Experiment Station.— The modi¬ 
fication of the method, briefly stated, consists 
chiefly in filling the bottles with hot water after 
the milk or cream and acid are added, before 
they are put in the centrifugal machine and 
whirled. In this way, the separation is com¬ 
pleted in one whirling, and the time required for 
the second whirling is saved. The modifications 
of the apparatus are that the base portions of 
the milk and cream bottles are graduated, so that 
no acid measure is required, and the base por¬ 
tion of the cream bottle is reduced in size. These 
modifications were adopted after a series of ex¬ 
periments, and the method has been in successful 
use for six months with all kinds of milk and 
cream. Comparison of the results obtained by 
the two methods show very uniform results. 
Certain details must be strictly observed: The 
acid must be of proper strength. The milk or 
cream should not be colder than 70 degrees F., 
or warmer than 80 degrees F., when the acid is 
added. The acid and milk or cream must be 
thoroughly mixed and the mixture stand not less 
than five minutes before hot water is added, 
otherwise a clear separation will not be obtained. 
The bottles must be whirled and heat applied as 
directed, or the separation is liable to be incom¬ 
plete. 
Milk Fat and Cheese Yield.—Bulletin 110, 
New York Experiment Station.— Analysis was 
made of the milk of each of 50 herds of cows 
whose milk was taken to a cheese factory. The 
immediate object was to learn the existing rela¬ 
tion between milk fat and casein, or milk fat and 
cheese yield, with individual herds of cows; a 
further purpose was to ascertain whether milk 
fat forms the fairest basis of paying for milk for 
cheesemaking. The data obtained led to the fol¬ 
lowing conclusions among others: When fat in 
milk increases, the casein and cheese yield also 
increase, in general, although there are excep¬ 
tions. As a rule, when milk fat increases, the 
amount of cheese made for each pound of milk 
fat decreases. The increased yield in poor milk 
comes from casein and water. Cheese made 
from milk poor in fat is not like, in composition, 
cheese made from milk rich in fat. Milk rich in 
fat can be made to yield cheese of the same com¬ 
position as milk poorer in fat by adding skim- 
milk to, or removing fat from, the richer milk. 
Payment for milk according to the amount of 
cheese yielded gives an unfair advantage to poor 
milk, since cheese made from rich milk is worth 
more, pound for pound, than cheese made from 
poorer milk. Milk should, in no case, be paid for 
at cheese factories by weight of milk alone, since 
different milks differ greatly in their cheese¬ 
making powers. A critical comparison of all 
methods of paying for milk, suggested or in use, 
leads to the conclusion that milk fat affords the 
fairest practicable basis to use in paying for 
milk for cheesemaking. This bulletin must prove 
extremely interesting and valuable to cheese- 
makers. 
Waterdown, Ont. —Silos are few and far be¬ 
tween throughout this part of the country; we 
built and filled one this fall. The growing of 
southern corn has become quite general through¬ 
out western Canada, but a large amount of it 
has been lost this season through wind and rain. 
We have been trying Crimson clover the past two 
years; it has proved a grand success on sand 
land. <We sowed about the middle of July. It is 
now about six or eight inches high, and thick. 
w. r. F. 
Indiana Horticultural Society. —At our State 
Horticultural Society meeting, Mr. S. D. Willard 
gave us excellent talks on fruits, and answered 
numerous questions from all over the State. The 
apples attracting the most attention were the 
York Imperial and Lawver. h. j. h. 
Indiana. 
Appearances 
what attract the op¬ 
posite sex. Some¬ 
times this seems a 
pity. It seems as if 
it would be juster if 
a fine mind was the 
attraction instead of 
a fine face and figure. 
But you can’t change 
human nature. 
When you come to 
understand it there 
is a sort of justice 
about it too ; because 
although we can’t 
all be handsome, 
almost every one of 
us can add at least 
50 per cent, to his or 
her attractiveness by 
a little attention to 
the laws of beauty. 
When the eyes are 
dull, the lips pallid, 
the skin sallow, 
blotchy or pimply, 
the figure thin and 
wasted or overstout 
and ungraceful, the 
trouble is something 
more than mere out¬ 
ward appearances ; the inner condition is 
wrong ; the blood is poor; it lacks the pure 
nourishing qualities which are needed to 
vitalize and invigorate the body. In this 
case physical activity is largely a question 
}f pure, rich, red blood. 
< You can’t have sparkling eyes, red ripe 
lips, a clear rosy complexion and a graceful 
symmetrical figure while the blood remains 
impure and impoverished. What is needed 
is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to 
cleanse foul humors out of the blood, and 
help the assimilative organism to enrich the 
circulation with an abundance of healthy 
red corpuscles, creating fresh color and firm, 
wholesome flesh. All this is attractiveness, 
and something more— health. 
Every woman will be healthier and happier for 
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Buffalo, N. Y. 
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