1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
265 
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WHAT I SEE AND HEAR. 
On ajmilk wagon I saw the announcement that the 
“ shop ” was located at a certain street and number. 
This was a new use of the term. The word office, or 
store, or depot is often used to indicate the head¬ 
quarters of a milk business ; hut the word shop, as 
generally used, indicates a place of manufacture, and 
I don’t believe that any milk dealer would wish to 
convey the idea that he was manufacturing milk in 
his city shop. The place of manufacture is in the 
country, where the four-legged milk machines are in 
their element. 
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A son of the Emerald Isle was working about the 
chicken yards. Noticing the full, red combs of the 
Leghorns, he said, “ In the old country, they cut off 
the combs when the fowls are killed and pickle them. 
In the restaurants in Dublin, you can order pickled 
combs, and they make a fine dish, too; but in this 
country, they cut off the heads and throw them away, 
combs and all.” Which goes to show that we Yankees 
are not so economical as some other people. Our 
marketing is not reduced to such an exact science as 
it is in some other countries. In France, one may buy 
any part of a chicken desired—a leg, wing, neck or 
other part. Here we buy the whole fowl or none of it. 
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A New Jersey friend inquires what style of berry 
crate and basket is most popular in the New-York 
market. The dealers are almost unanimous on this 
matter. In brief, they say a 32-quart gift crate, and 
the common, square quart baskets. For red rasp¬ 
berries, and sometimes for blackcaps and some other 
berries, pint or one-third-quart baskets are used. 
Commissionmen say that the retailers are the ones 
who are most persistent for non-returnable crates. 
They will not buy berries in crates on which they are 
required to make a deposit, when they can buy them 
in gift crates. The handling and returning of crates 
is a tremendous task, where thousands of them are 
received every day, as they are here during the berry 
season. Crates and baskets are sold so cheaply now 
that there isn’t the expense that there formerly was, 
when their cost was higher. What apple or potato 
grower would expect to have his barrels returned ? 
Yet I have been told by dealers here that it is not 
more than 30 years ago that nearly all apple barrels 
were returned to the shippers. The most of the 
apples came from nearby points. When more distant 
parts of the country began to ship in larger quanti¬ 
ties, the futility of returning the barrels was evident. 
Now, almost no packages of this kind are returned. 
The berry shippers are almost the only ones who 
stand out for the return of their crates. 
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The Superintendent of the Biltmore Farm (Geo. 
Vanderbilt’s North Carolina estate), wrote to know 
whether we could help him to find an ink with which 
to stamp his eggs, that would not boil off. Each egg 
is stamped with a rubber stamp, with the name of 
the farm, and the date on which it is laid, and the 
customers wish this to show when the eggs are boiled 
and brought to the table. But the ordinary rubber- 
stamp ink wouldn’t stand the boiling. I interviewed 
a number of rubber-stamp makers, but couldn’t find 
anything to fill the bill. Finally, I found an ink 
manufacturer that had something which he said 
would do—an indelible ink ; so another problem is 
solved. 
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It is interesting to observe the schemes of city busi¬ 
ness men to attract attention. One clothing firm has 
a small wagon, the body of which is an exact imita¬ 
tion of a coat, in which the driver sits. Of course it 
is lettered with their name, address and business. It 
is drawn around the streets by a span of diminutive 
mules, and attracts attention wherever it goes. A 
shoe dealer has a wagon built in the shape of an im¬ 
mense shoe, lettered with his name and business, and 
no one who sees it can help knowing that he sells 
shoes. A furniture firm has a miniature delivery 
wagon which is drawn by three ponies, and is a most 
attractive and taking advertisement. There are many 
other similar devices, the main idea of which is to at¬ 
tract attention by some original method which is sure 
to be noticed and commented on. Here is a good hint 
for the sellers of farm produce. F. u. v. 
We find the following bit of newspaper science 
going the rounds of the papers : 
Here is something that is worth $5 to every farmer in the land: 
Sprinkle a little stone lime in the stock tank, and not a particle 
of-green scum will form in the water. When the lime loses its 
strength and scum begins to form, which may be twice during 
the season, wash out the tank and repeat the dose. It is cheap, 
not only harmless, but wholesome, keeps the water sweet and 
saves work. 
Sprinkling stone lime into the water tank will, prob¬ 
ably, cause a precipitation of all albuminous matter 
and of all sediment which may be in the water. It is 
largely upon this suspended material that the green 
scum subsists. The lime purifies the water, and in 
pure water, this scum collects slowly, if at all. It 
should be remembered that, if used in too liberal 
quantities, there will be formed lime water, which 
may be injurious to stock. We should recommend 
using it in very small quantities and cleaning the 
tank every week. Pure water will have no scum. 
The lime tends to make it pure. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Grotto Farm seed potatoes are grown on high, slate soil. They 
are choice, vigorous and have been free from blight. See prices 
in advertisement. 
Eighteen to 'twenty-five cents a rod is the estimated cost of 
fencingby the Standard Wire Fence Co., Cananda-gua, N.Y. Their 
pamphlet contains considerable valuable matter on fences, be¬ 
sides the illustrations of fence, machine, tensions, etc. 
The Eclipse corn planter distributes any kind of commercial 
fertilizers, wet or dry, pulverizes hen manure, and covers the seed 
with moist earth. This planter has been used for many years, and 
retains its popularity wherever used. Eclipse Corn Planter Co., 
Enfield, N. H., will be glad to send full particulars about it. 
The Bradley Fertilizer Company, Boston, Mass., is oue of the 
oldest fertilizer houses in this country. Starting with a small 
trade, requiring but a single room, their business has grown so 
that acres are now covered with buildings. The pamphlets of the 
Bradley Company are attractive and useful. They will add to 
your agricultural library. 
De Clercq Bros., Cazenovia, N. Y., have invented a spraying 
pump, a cut of which appears in their advertisement, that will 
be found most useful in many instances. It must be especially 
valuable for use on the knapsack sprayer, where it is desirable 
to reach the under side of low plants. The firm will send illus¬ 
trated circular on application. 
Hogs will root and tear up the ground and fences unless ringed. 
Ringing them used to be quite a big job; but Heeson Brothers A 
Co., Tecumseh, Mich., have made it easy now in supplying rings 
ready made and, also, the Wolverine hog ringer for putting them 
in the hog’s snout. Some readers write that they would not be 
without them for anything. Most hardware men keep them. 
Horses, like men, will meet with accidents of one form or 
another, and it is always a good idea to be prepared for them 
as well as possible. A bottle of Gombault’s Caustic Balsam is 
one of the good things to have in the stable for accidents and 
emergencies. It reduces swellings, spavins and similar blem¬ 
ishes. It can be had at druggists, or of the LawreDce-Williams 
Co., Cleveland, O. 
If you have an orchard or a garden or a vineyard, you have 
insects and fungi to fight in one way or another. To carry on 
the battle successfully and cheaply, you want implements of war 
—spraying implements. F. E. Myers & Bro., Ashland, O., publish 
a catalogue giving clear illustrations of every style of pump and 
nozzle they make. Better send for it, and learn about them. 
About one-half the value of the rye crop is in the straw, if pre¬ 
served straight. The straw-preserving rye thrasher made by the 
Grant-Ferris Company, Troy, N. Y., delivers the straw asstraigh 
as if thrashed by hand. This machine can also be changed to an 
oat thrasher in a very few minutes. The above company also 
makes the Ferris combined drill and broadcast seeder, which is 
said by those who have used it to work perfectly. Catalogue 
describing these machines for the asking. 
The writer suggested, three or four y“ars ago, to Leggett Bros 
the manufacturers of the Champion Dry Powder or Paris-green 
gun, that it ought to be possible to make a dry Bordeaux Mix¬ 
ture that could be used in the gun, and save the trouble of making 
the mixture and the labor of carrying the liquid mixture. They 
promptly produced a satisfactory powder which they have called 
Fungiroid. The reports from the Rural Grounds on its use have 
been favorable, and practical growers in all parts of the country 
are enthusiastic over it from the past two years' trial. 
When you cut a rose, no doubt you hold it with one hand and 
cut the stem with a knife or shears held in the other. The same 
with other flowers or a bunch of .grapes. Besides the inconven¬ 
ience, you necessarily destroy the bloom of the grapes and often 
damage the flowers. The Florist shears enable you to hold the 
basket on the left arm, and to use the left hand to manipulate the 
branches and leaves. The shears simply catch the stem cut off, 
and hold it firmly until placed in the basket, when it is released 
by a motion of the fingers in opening the shears for the next cut¬ 
ting. Florists’ Shear Company, Fremont, O., will tell you more 
about it if you ask them. 
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USE 
Bradley’s Fertilizers 
ON All FARM AND GARDEN CROPS. 
Being superior in quality, manufacture, and condition, they possess the highest crop-pro¬ 
ducing powers, and therefore yield at harvest larger returns than those of any other make. 
BRADLEY FERTILIZER CO., Boston, Mass., Rochester, N. Y., Cleveland, Ohio, Augusta, Ga. 
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Steam Turbine Improved U. S. 
Cream Separators. 
New features introduced. Steam 
motor can be quickly detached 
or replaced. Very simple and 
perfect in construction and op¬ 
eration. Furnished interchange¬ 
able for running by steam tur¬ 
bine or belt. Also supplied for 
operation by hand or by animal 
power. Closest of skimming 
and full capacity, as proven by 
repeated tests in Experiment 
Stations and in creamery and 
dairy use. Catalogues free for the asking. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vermont. 
ST. JOHNSVILLE AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
manufacturers ok 
Engines, Stone Crushers, Thrashers, 
HORSE POWERS, DRAG AND BENCH SAWS, 
St. Johnsville, N. Y. 
Eclipse Corn Planter 
Will plant 
Corn, Beans, 
Peas and Beet 
Seed In hills, 
drills A checks 
i n distances 
desired. It Is 
the only Planter that will distribute all fertilizers, 
wet or dry, with a certainty, In different amounts, 
each side of seed. Send for circulars. 
ECLIPSE COltN PLANTER CO., 
Enfield, Grafton, Co.. New Hampshire. 
President of the Vermont State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association on the DeLaval 
“Baby” Cream Separators. 
Mokrisyille, Vt., March 5, 1897. 
“ Six years ago 1 took a De Laval 
‘ Baby ’ No. 2 separator to test beside my 
Cabinet creamer. At the end of two 
weeks I became satisfied that I could 
afford to be called a fool by my neighbors 
and throw away my nearly new $150 
creamer, and pay $125 for a little 1 Baby’ 
separator. It has run from two to three 
hours every day since then with but very 
little repairs. It is driven by a small 
tread power, is situated near the stable 
so that no time is lost in carrying the 
milk to it, and the warm skim-milk is 
only a few feet from the calves’ stable. 
What is not wanted for the calves is 
conducted to the basement beneath, all 
warm for the pigs. It not only saves us 
hours of work each day, but we have sold 
more than $200 worth of butter each year 
more than we could have made and sold 
had we kept on with our farmer method. 
“ Farmers to be successful, under 
present conditions, must follow the ex¬ 
ample of careful business men, stop all 
wastes of every kind, and employ the 
best known methods of conducting their 
business.” C. F. Smith 
Semi for new catalogue, No. 257. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR GO., 
Randolph and Canal Streets, I 74 Cortlandt Street, 
CHICAGO. I NEW YORK. 
THROUGH A CRACK. 
In the barn, who has not seen a 
ray of sunshine light up myriads of 
particles of Oust, each laden with 
bacteria. They must get into the milk, but 
how shall we so care for it that they will do 
the least harm? Our free book. *• Milk,” tells 
how. 
Champion Milk Cooler Co., 
No. 39 Railroad Street, Cortland, N. Y. 
