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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 13 
AMONG THE MARKETMEN. 
WHAT I SEE AND HEAR. 
A correspondent in Florida sent a sample jar 
of very fine guava jelly. He said that he had 
been experimenting for many years with the 
object of making the best. Now that he has suc¬ 
ceeded, he finds that retailers are anxious to buy 
that which they can retail the cheapest without 
regard to quality, and he concludes that the con¬ 
sumers will be forced to take the latter whether 
they will or not. The source of this demand for 
cheap goods opens a wide field for argument, for 
which we have no' room. T showed this sample 
jar to one.of the largest fancy grocery firms in the 
city. They had something very similar to it, put 
up in Florida, in fancy glass jars, but the sale of 
it is very limited. Being in glass jars, makes the 
transportation charges heavy, and the price 
high. The firm say that the trade that buys a 
high-priced jelly, takes an imported French jelly 
—Bar-le-duc—made of currants and containing 
the fruit. It is in small packages containing not 
much more than a tablespoonful, but selling for 
an extremely high price. Many people do not 
like guava jelly, and most of those that do, buy a 
brand that is made in Cuba, comes in wooden 
boxes, and is much cheaper. I showed the 
sample to a wholesale dealer in canned goods. 
He said that he formerly handled guava jelly, 
but there was so little sale for it that it wasn’t 
worth while and he dropped it. Another showed 
a very good quality of ajjple jelly that he said 
suited most people and could be sold for a frac¬ 
tion of the price of guava jelly. The sample re¬ 
ceived was submitted to an expert who pro¬ 
nounced it very fine, having the flavor peculiar 
to guava jelly. 
XXX 
I discovered a couple of barrels of lettuce in 
one commission house. The so-called heads were 
large but loose, all leaves. “Where did you get 
this?” “Oh, it came from a place where they 
are teaching young men how to farm. It is no 
good for <market. We want lettuce with heads 
like a cabbage.” Which shows that even the 
teachers of agriculture and horticulture need to 
study the needs of the markets they intend to 
supply as well as the principles of plant growth. 
I know that some of them do, for I have piloted 
some of them around the New York market; but 
it is evident that more of them need to do so. 
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Dealers say that the supply of capons was 
never larger. So many have come, especially 
from the West, that large quantities have been 
put into cold storage. Receivers are trying hard 
to sell their stock. The Produce Review tells of 
one buyer who bad become so weary of being im¬ 
portuned to buy capons, that he had a sign 
painted which read: “ We Do Not Want Any 
Capons ! ” and displayed it on entering a store. 
Prices for the best capons are but little higher 
than for the best Philadelphia chickens, r. n. v. 
NU TNI EG 5 TA TE DA IE YNIEN. 
The Connecticut Dairymen’s Association held 
its annual meeting in Hartford, January 19-21. A 
large number were in attendance, and there was 
an equally large exhibit of butter. The quality 
of butter displayed is higher than ever, showing 
that Connecticut is steadily improving her qual¬ 
ity. The judging was done, as usual, by Messrs. 
Douglas & Fales, of Boston. Cooperative cream¬ 
eries usually score highest, but this year, proprie¬ 
tary lead. Scores of 96 and over in each class 
are as follows: 
Butter Made by Creameries, Association Coopera¬ 
tive. 
Class No. 1. Score. 
Vernon Creamery. 97 
Spring Brook Creamery. 96^4 
Turnerville Creamery. 96*4 
East Granby Creamery. 96 
Butter Made by Proprietary Creameries. 
Class No. 2. Score. 
Charlemont Creamery. 98*4 
D. E. Mills. 97*4 
Theo. A. Stanley. 97 
Cornwall Creamery. 98*4 
Winsted Creamery. 96J4 
Butter Made by Private Dairies. 
Class No. 3. Score. 
F. L. Ives, West Goshen. 96 
D. D. Hawley & Son, Danbury. 96 
Granular butter, (J) Winsted Creamery, (2) 
Lebanon Creamery, (3) Tunis Creamery. 
Discretionary, (1) Winsted Creamery, (2) East 
Granby, (3) Mrs. G. F. Douglass. 
In the contest of butter made from registered 
cows, Ayrshires lead with 98 points, Holsteins 
second with 97*4, while the poor Jersey comes in 
with 97. 
Parker & Co. exhibited over 50 varieties of for¬ 
eign and domestic cheese. 
An attractive feature in the display room was 
a case of samples collected in the State by the 
Connecticut Experiment Station showing the 
adulteration in foods, etc. Three samples of 
cream tartar were shown which contained no 
cream tartar; coffee containing one-half coffee, 
and the rest chicory, split peas and kernels of 
flour. A larger part of the adulterations were in 
spices. 
A resolution was unanimously adopted asking 
the legislature to appropriate money for the pur¬ 
pose of carrying on original tuberculosis ex¬ 
periments at Storrs Agricultural College Experi¬ 
ment Station, also a resolution asking the legis- 
SUFFERERS FROM COUGHS, SORE THROAT, etc., 
should be constantly supplied with “ Brown's 
Bronchial Troches.'' Avoid imitations.— Adv. 
lature to enact a bill to prevent the sale of bogus 
print butter. 
One of the most interesting papeis given at 
the meeting was by C. M. Winslow, Vermont, 
Secretary of the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association. 
Many chunks of sound dairy wisdom were 
brought out. “ The cow is the farmer’s machine 
for converting rough products to the finished 
dairy products. Select a good machine and 
suited just to your purpose. Avoid the cow with 
the smooth back, small milk veins, tight, close¬ 
setting ribs or that compels you to spend five 
minutes hunting for her navel orifice. Select for 
the dairy, the cow whose backbone is like the 
knuckles of one’s closed hand, whose ribs are far 
enough apart to allow you to stick your fingers 
between, and into whose navel orifice you can 
insert your little finger. The lowest limit 
on a city milkman’s cow ought to be 6,000 
pounds per year of four-per cent milk, and for 
the butter man, 5,000 pounds of flve-per cent 
milk. It is not necessary to test a cow every day 
or every week; test her six weeks after calving, 
for four consecutive milkings, then repeat the 
same six months later. The average is then 
found. The cow, like man, has a character that 
is well fixed. Study each cow’s individual char¬ 
acter. It doesn’t cost much more to keep the 
8,000-pound cow than it does the 4,000-pound cow, 
or to keep the 300-pound co jv than the 150-pound 
cow, but it makes a sight of difference in your in¬ 
come. Breed your own cows. Get a bull with a 
good mother back of him; that’s all-important. 
Good men have good mothers. A difference of 
$10 or $25 in the cost of a bull won’t count much 
when you consider the advantages of a good bull. 
Raise calves in the right line. Don’t spoil a good 
calf by feeding it so as to develop a beef animal. 
Fat calves won’t make good cows. Bran and hay 
are the best food for growing calves. Feed plenty 
of hay, so that the calf will develop the power of 
converting cheap roughage. Get a heifer into a 
cow as soon as you can; that’s her life work. 
After the first calf, farrow her so as to prolong 
the milk period and to get that habit fixed. Get 
the cow so that you can feed her heavily. Have 
your stables clean, light and comfortable. Re¬ 
member that your cows will pay you for all you 
do to make them comfortable.” h. g. si. 
The next bench show of the Westminster Kennel 
Club will be held at Madison Square Garden dur¬ 
ing the week beginning February 22. 
The National Dairy Union will hold a meeting 
at the Sherman House, Chicago, February 13, at 
2 r. si., for the election of officers and the trans¬ 
action of other business. A president must be 
elected to fill the place of the late President 
Hatch. Ex-Governor Hoard is expected to pre¬ 
side. The union has accomplished much work 
in the past, but there is more on the same line to 
accomplish. 
Mother-love is 
mixed with daily, 
hourly sacrifice. 
The love increas¬ 
es with the sacri¬ 
fice it entails. 
The more a 
mother suffer* 
and endures for 
her little one, the 
more precious it 
becomes. She 
) loves it because 
I she has labored 
and suffered for 
it. The physical 
organs concerned 
in maternity af¬ 
fect a woman’s 
entire constitu¬ 
tion to a decree 
only half realized 
by many doctors. Women are often 
treated specially for sick headaches, dys¬ 
pepsia, melancholy, or what is supposed 
to be a liver or kidney affection or heart- 
disease, when in reality the whole trouble 
is with the reproductive organs. This 
delicate and intricate organism and the 
rational treatment for its peculiar ail¬ 
ments is a life study for the wisest physi¬ 
cian. Probably no practitioner living 
has a higher repute in this special direc¬ 
tion, than Dr. R. V. Pierce, Chief Con¬ 
sulting Physician of the Invalids' Hotel 
and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y. 
His “ Favorite Prescription,” is the most 
perfect remedy ever known for all ‘‘fe¬ 
male complaints.” It gets at the source 
of the trouble from the inside: It is not 
merely temporary, external, local, bol- 
stering-up or palliative. It is a cure. . It 
directly tones and strengthens the in¬ 
ternal organs, restores them to health 
and regularity, and completely banishes 
the continual weakness, drag and drain 
which wear out body and mind. Its 
sale exceeds the combined sales of all 
other medicines for women. 
In every American household, there should be 
a copy of Dr. Pierce’s great work, “Common 
Sense Medical Adviser," 1008 pages, illustrated. 
One copy free to any address on receipt of ai one- 
cent stamps to pay for mailing only World’* 
A Bonn at ion Buffalo. N. Y. 
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WILLIAMS MFG. CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH 
APhysician’sTribute 
To the Benefits Received From Dr. Miles’ 
NEW HEART CURE 
H EART DISEASE is curable. It is not 
surprising that all cases are not 
cured, since no physician has made 
the heart a special study for a quarter of a 
century as Dr. Miles has done. The follow¬ 
ing tribute from a physician will be read 
with interest. “For six years prior to taking 
Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure my wife was a 
terrible sufferer from heart disease. She 
had a constant flutter¬ 
ing of the heart and 
severe palpitation and 
pain in the left side. 
She took three bottles 
of Dr. Miles’ New Heart 
Cure and was complete¬ 
ly restored to health, 
and has not taken a 
drop of medicine during the past two years. 
Under these circumstances I cannot do 
otherwise than recommend it to others." 
Friendship, N. Y. W. H. Scott, M. D. 
Dr. Miles’ Remedies are sold by all drug¬ 
gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle 
benefits or money refunded. Book on Heart 
and Nerves sent free to all applicants. 
DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. 
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