THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February[20 
124 
Last Subscription Contest 
for 1896=7. 
Next week, we shall give the details 
of our last subscription contest for the 
season of 1896 97. All names sent in 
from March 1 to May 1 will count in this 
contest. The terms will be liberal, and 
we expect that our old club-raisers and 
maDy new ones besides, will round out 
the season with some good clubs. Our 
clubs this season have, for the most part, 
been small, but there have been enough 
of them to keep up the average. Keep 
an eye on this corner for next week. 
AMONG THE MARKETMEN. 
WHAT I SEE AND HEAR. 
Although it is now tbe close season in New 
York State for a large part of tbe gatne, one sees 
great quantities in market. Tbe law provides that 
it may be sold at any time if not killed witbin 300 
miles of tbe State, and this fact must be proved 
to tbe authorities if proof be called for. I’ll 
warrant that it would be difficult to prove tbe 
origin of much of that on sale. 
X X X 
"Those pigs are too fat,” said a retail butcher 
who was looking at several banging in a com¬ 
mission bouse. “ There is tbe same trouble with 
a great deal of tbe beef we buy to cut up. Much 
of the fat must be cut off, and all we can get for 
it now is \ l /i cent a pound. We used to get two 
or three cents. Now tbe loss on tbe fat of a beef 
often eats up nearly all tbe profit.” Less fat and 
more lean meat is wanted. Especially is this 
true of hogs. Tbe day of tbe bog that is a mass 
of lard, is past. 
X X X 
One commission merchant was complaining 
because he bad to sell so much of tbe produce 
that was consigned to him, for such low prices, 
yet bad to pay such high prices for the same arti¬ 
cles for his family supplies. " Why not take such 
things as potatoes, apples, etc., right from the 
store by tbe barrel ? ” I inquired. “ It would cost 
too much for cartage on a small lot, as I live 
away up town, and then, again, I haven’t room to 
store any great quantity.” Thus it seems that 
even the middlemen have to pay toll to each other. 
X X X 
One commission merchant receives a great 
deal of dressed poultry from a certain shipper in 
Virginia. He has been shipping for a long time, 
and a great deal of his poultry is drawn and has 
heads and feet off. This isn’t according to mar¬ 
ket requirements, and a great deal of ink has 
been used to persuade this particular shipper to 
conform to market requirements. Still the poul¬ 
try comes in the same condition, and sells for 
lower prices. It’s costing this shipper good money 
to adhere to his old notion. The receiver said 
that he’d have trouble in selling a great deal of 
it if it weren’t for the fact that he supplies a lot 
of restaurants that will buy this class of stuff 
just because it is a little lower in price. 
X t X 
Marketmen here say that tbe recent cold wave 
has materially affected the receipts of southern 
vegetables. Much truck has been shipped that 
was, evidently, damaged before being gathered, 
and is, in consequence, sold at a low price. Choice 
vegetables sell for high prices. Receipts of 
strawberries have been largely cut off, and the 
crop is reported to have been so badly damaged 
and put back, that few need be looked for before 
next month. This gives a better chance for the 
arrivals from the extreme southern points and 
from Bermuda, and, also, is the harvest season 
of the hothouse grower. Still, as considerable 
sections of Florida were not injured in the least 
by the freeze, there is no danger of the supply 
becoming exhausted. f. h. v. 
FROM HERE AND THERE! 
The dates for the New York State Fair at Syra¬ 
cuse have been fixed for August 23 to 28. James 
B. Docharty, secretary, Albany, N. Y. 
Every farmer in western New York may avail 
himself of the privileges of the Nixon bill provid¬ 
ing for university extension of agricultural 
knowledge. Address Prof. L. II. Bailey, College 
of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., for a plan of a 
farmers’ course of reading. The topics relate to 
the farmer’s occupation. After reading on a 
question, a discussion with the College of Agri¬ 
culture will follow. In the spring, some simple 
experiments will be urged upon all readers by 
which to test the truth of the principles taught. 
Under the Nixon bill there is no expense to those 
taking up this course of reading. 
Lucas County, O., has a horticultural and a 
floricultural society which meet monthly at the 
houses of different members in different parts of 
the county. Each socitty has its officers and 
special committees. The programmes for the year 
are published together. The latter society has 
women for officers and the essayists for the year 
as published are all women. The special com¬ 
For Relieving Throat Diseases, Coughs and 
Hoarseness, use " Brown's Bronchial Troches 
Sold only in boxes. Avoid imitations.— Adv. 
mittees are named Flowers, Literary, Poultry, 
Household Economy, so that it will be seen that 
tbe society deals with practical work as well as 
that which might be considered as ornamental- 
Tbe subjects of the horticultural society are all 
intensely practical. 
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society offers 
for 1897, prizes for school gardens of $15. $12 and 
$10; for school herbariums, of from $1 to $7 in a 
number of different classes, and for children’s 
herbariums, about 40 different prizes varying 
from 50 cents to $5. Special prizes are also 
offered. In the prizes for school gardens, orna¬ 
mental plants, or those commonly cultivated in 
gardens, will not stock the school garden contem¬ 
plated by tbe committee. Native wild plants, 
such as ferns, grasses, asters, golden-rods, vio¬ 
lets, native shrubs and economic plants, such as 
grains, vegetable roots and leguminous and 
cucurbitaceous plants must be the stock of the 
garden. The cooperation of teachers and parents 
is desired. W. E. C. Rich, secretary, 99 Moreland 
Street, Roxbury. 
Union Countt, S. D.—Corn hereabouts is all In 
the crib or piled on the ground; it is too cheap to 
pay to build cribs. The corn -would sell for but 
little more than enough to buy the lumber. 
Plenty of it is being used for fuel. It is cheaper 
than wood or coal. I suppose that corn in this 
county will average 60 bushels per acre, wheat 
20 to 25 bushels. e. b. w. 
A Virginia Calf Pasture.— Near the house is a 
field of about six acres in wheat, with Timothy 
seeded in the fall at the time of sowing the wheat 
in 1895. About the middle of March, I sowed 
about six quarts of Crimson clover seed to the 
acre, and with a light steel smoothing harrow, 
cultivated it in by harrowing twice in opposite 
directions. The design was to obtain pasture for 
young calves. We had a nice stand, and after 
the wheat was removed, turned in the calves. 
We fail to see any damage to the Timothy, and 
the calves are the best we have had for years. 
We shall try it again this year. e. b. k. 
Alleghany County, N. Y.—Prices are about as 
follows: Butter, 18 cents per pound; eggs, 18 
cents per dozen; chickens, 7 cents per pound; 
turkeys, 8 cents live weight; dressed pork, 5 
cents per pound ; aressed beef, Scents per pound; 
hay, from $6 to $9 per ton; straw, $4 per ton; 
oats, 20 cents per bushel; buckwheat, 60 to 65 
cents per 100 pounds; potatoes, 20 cents per 
bushel; they appear to be alight crop around 
here. Nearly everything the farmer has to sell 
goes for less than the cost of producing it. It 
appears now that we must depend on some one’s 
misfortune if we ever get paying prices again. 
Namely, when through some accident caused by 
the elements, or by a mistake of the individual, a 
crop fails, then some other producer gains by the 
lessened supply. Is this our only hope ? t. 
A big factory was 
brought to a stand¬ 
still the other day 
for want of a com¬ 
mon shingle - nail. 
The trouble was a 
mystery at first 
Even the boss me¬ 
chanic could'nt tell 
what was the mat¬ 
ter. They 6ent for 
a high - priced ex¬ 
pert who charged 
ten dollars an hour. 
All he said was: 
“Gimme a nail.” 
lie drove it in the 
right place and in 
two minute* the 
whole factory was 
going again. 
That’s the way 
with the machinery 
of the human body. 
When the stomach and bowels are wrong 
what seems a mere trifle, block* the 
whole system. Every part of the body 
feels the effects of a little constipation. 
The head aches, the mouth tastes bad; 
the stomach is distressed, the liver is con¬ 
gested and torpid; you feel sluggish and 
miserable and down-hearted; the energies 
are completely paralyzed—all for want of 
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bowels. What you want is Dr. Pierce’s 
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stay cured. If a druggist makes more 
money on some violent purging pill he 
may try to sell it to you. Don’t let him. 
You will be helped to a thorough understand¬ 
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