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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 17 
Money Begging Again. 
Our last week’s report showed that the six $2 weekly premiums were all taken up 
for the first time in this contest. No money went begging. This week, however, 
there are only four winners, as only four agents sent five or more names during 
the past week. We do not understand why this should be so. Our direct sub¬ 
scriptions from farmers who send their own subscriptions for the month of March 
ran very much ahead of the record for the same month last year, wtile agents 
under more liberal terms have not done so much. Please do not forget that those 
large cash premiums are going out May 1, and by the way, all names mailed May 1 
will count. In the meantime, the $2 bill goes out every Saturday night to six 
agents when there are as many as six who send five or more names. Are you going 
to have one of them next week ? THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Nkw York. 
BOOK TRADE NOTES. 
We are having a good many calls for The 
American Fruit Culturist, by J. J. Thomas. The 
edition we oITer has been carefully revised and 
brought down to date. Every fruit grower should 
own a copy. It is a standard volume. The price 
is $2.50, and it is a whole library in one volume. 
An Indiana reader writes this note: “I wish 
you would give directions for spraying all trees, 
shrubs and vines in your paper.” We can hardly 
be expected to do that, for it would take several 
complete issues of The R. N.-Y. to do the subject 
justice. The Spraying of Crops, by Lodeman, 
tells the whole story. Price $1, and well worth 
the money. 
Lots of readers are rushing in with questions 
that were fully answered in Mr. Carman’s New 
Potato Culture. Newer readers do not always 
know that this book tells the whole story of im¬ 
proved potato culture. It costs only 40 cents, and 
will give you five new suggestions for every penny 
of its cost. 
A Butter Chart .—“ How much butter can be 
made from 127 pounds of milk testing 3.8 per 
cent butter fat?” We, probably, have 250 ques¬ 
tions similar to that every year. By turning to 
Van Norman’s Butter Chart, we find in a fraction 
of a minute that 127 pounds of such milk repre¬ 
sent 5.63 pounds of butter. This chart is a line 
thing for buttermakers. The amounts of butter 
in varying samples of milk are carefully figured 
out, so that, almost at a glance, one may tell how 
much butter his milk should churn out. The 
chart is printed on stiff paper so that you can 
tack it up in the dairy room. It costs only 25 
cents. It may save you $25. 
The Sugar Problem. —Just now, there is con¬ 
siderable interest in the sugar question. We are 
paying about $100,000,000 every year for foreign 
sugar. Germany and France sent us, in 1896, 
nearly 1,000,000,000 pounds of beet sugar. There 
is no good reason why this immense lump of 
sweetness should not be produced in this country. 
Americans can produce the finest of sugar beets, 
and American brains and American machinery 
are fully capable of solving the problems of man¬ 
ufacture. In these days, when thousands of 
farmers are eagerly searching for some new crop 
that has not been “cornered ” or driven to over¬ 
production, this vast foreign sugar bill makes 
Americans very thoughtful. Many of our readers 
will want to know all the facts about sugar pro¬ 
duction and manufacture. A new book, Ameri¬ 
can Sugar Making, by Herbert Myrick and Prof. 
W. C. Stubbs, will give just the information you 
desire. We sell it at 50 cents, and fully recom¬ 
mend it as a complete treatise on sugar-making. 
We are offering a little book entitled The Dairy 
Calf, at 25 cents. The author is L. S. Hardin, well 
known as a dairy authority. This little book tells, 
in a concise and practical way, just how to breed 
and feed the calf, whether it be a baby cow or an 
infant steer. We are guided in our book announce¬ 
ments somewhat by the questions asked by read¬ 
ers. There are many questions about how to 
start the calf on the right track, therefore, we 
offer this book. It is worth a quarter, and more, 
too. 
Here is a question fro m a Pennsylvania reader: 
“ Should Orchard grass be sown in fall or in the 
springt" When you come to think of it, there 
are hundreds of questions about grasses and 
clovers that are constantly bobbing up. It has 
always seemed strange to us that some one has 
not prepared a comprehensive little book about 
grasses that will answer these questions. We 
now have the book in Grasses and Clovers, by 
Henry A. Dreer. This little book, of 120 pages, 
will give you, in a few words, the characteristics 
of all the valuable grasses and accurate notes 
about seeding. Among other things, it tells 
about Mr. Clarke’s new method of grass culture. 
The book costs only 25 cents. It is a great bar¬ 
gain. We sell it._ 
Meeting of Holstein-Friesian Breeders.— The 
12th annual meeting of the Holstein-Friesian 
Association of America was held at Buffalo, N. 
Y., March 17. President C. R. Payne, of Hamil¬ 
ton, N. Y., called the meeting to order, and in his 
opening address called attention to the growth 
of the association, carrying the total number of 
members to 514. He referred to the thrifty con¬ 
dition of the business of the association and the 
grand record of the breed in the dairy competi¬ 
tion of the past year, in which the Holstein- 
Friesians won a majority of all prizes offered 
for largest production of butter. The officially 
authenticated butter records when placed before 
the public must force an acknowledgment of the 
superiority of the breed as butter cows. The re¬ 
port of the secretary, F. L. Houghton, Brattle- 
For Hoarseness, Coughs, Asthma and Bron¬ 
chial Troubles, use '■'Brown's Bronchial Troches .” 
Sold only in boxes. Avoid imitations.— Adv. 
boro, Vt., contained the details of the registra¬ 
tion for the year. The total number of members 
admitted under the $25 fees was 179. The report 
of the treasurer, W. R. Smith, of Syracuse, N. Y., 
showed a cash balance on hand of $13,928.27. 
The sum of $1,517.50 had been paid out for butter 
prizes at fairs and officially authenticated 
records during the year. The report of the 
superintendent of advanced registry, S. Hoxie, 
Yorkville, N. Y., showed that there had been 59 
entries of officially authenticated butter records. 
Fifty-six of these records were entered for butter 
prizes of the association. The total number to 
date of officially authenticated seven-day records 
was 49 full-aged cows, whose average butter 
record was 19 pounds 5 ounces per cow: 28 four- 
year-olds, whose average butter record was 18 
pounds 5.5 ounces; 18 three-year-olds, whose 
average butter record per cow was 16 pounds 3.7 
ounces, and 40 two-year-oldb, whose average but¬ 
ter record per cow was 11 pounds 11.5 ounces. 
The sum of $1,250 was appropriated for prizes for 
officially authenticated records and $250 for sup¬ 
plementary butter records based on economic 
production with a scientific standard of value 
for all foods used. Special prizes for dairy tests 
at fairs were arranged and $1,500 appropriated 
therefor. These prizes will be offered for com¬ 
petition, when won by animals recorded in this 
Herd Book, at California, Nebraska, Ohio, Penn¬ 
sylvania, Michigan, New England, Bay State, 
New York, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin State Fairs 
and at Toronto Industrial Exhibition, Provincial 
Fat Stock and Dairy Show of Canada and others. 
The election of officers resulted as follows: 
President, W. D. Powell, Shadeland, Pa.; treas¬ 
urer, W. R. Smith, Syracuse, N. Y.; secretary, F. 
F. Houghton, Brattleboro, Vt.; superintendent 
advanced registry, S. Hoxie, Yorkville, N. Y. 
How many hap 
py marriage ties 
are daily cut asun¬ 
der by the grim 
destroyer, death. 
How many women 
go radiantly to the 
altar, only to pass 
va few short months 
Jlof agony and pain, 
and then go down 
to early graves. 
There is one cause 
of this ever-recurring tragedy. No woman 
should enter the marriage state without 
some knowledge of the physiology of the 
female organs of reproduction, and of the 
necessity of keeping them always healthy 
and vigorous. Ignorance on these points 
digs graves for thousands of happy brides 
but a few months’ journey from the altar. 
There is a sure and speedy remedy at hand. 
The most marvelous medicine ever dis¬ 
covered for women is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite 
Prescription. It is the discovery of a most 
eminent and skillful specialist. Dr. R. V. 
Pierce, chief consulting physician to the In¬ 
valids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. It acts directly on the delicate 
organs that make wifehood and motherhood 
possible. It makes them healthy and 
strong. It cures all weakness and disease. 
Taken during the expectant period it in¬ 
sures a healthy baby and makes parturition 
easy and almost painless. Women who 
wish to know all about the “ Favorite Pre¬ 
scription ” should write to Dr. Pierce. 
Mrs. W. Robinson, Springhill, Cumberland Co., 
Nova Scotia, writes: ,f I feel that I cannot say 
enough about your ‘Favorite Prescription.’ I 
wa9 confined on the 8th of April, and I was only 
sick about thirty minutes in all. I can truthfully 
say that your medicine worked wonders in my 
case. Although the physician was in the house 
I did not seem to require his aid. I am going 
around doing my own work and before I had to 
keep a girl three months till I was able to do my 
work. I recommended the medicine to a lady 
friend of mine and she is taking it. She expects 
to become a mother next month.” 
Constipation if neglected will lead the 
most robust to the doctor’s office. The 
blood gets loaded down with impurities 
which it deposits in every organ and tissue 
in the body. Serious illness is the inevi¬ 
table result. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets 
cure constipation. They are prompt and 
pleasant in their action. They never gripe. 
They cure permanently, and are not mere 
temporary palliatives. Druggists sell them. 
If you accept something said to be “just 
as good,” you will regret it 
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