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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 
A “ Cw/'e " /or Rheumatism 
B. T. W., Bochesteb, Mass. —I used to 
suffer very severely with sciatic rheu¬ 
matism. On one occasion 12 or 15 years 
ago, when every movement required a 
great amount of moral or physical cour¬ 
age, a very skillful physician came into 
my place of employment. Before that, 
I had heard him express the opinion 
that there was no known remedy for 
this painful disease. I asked him if he 
could do nothing for my relief. He took 
from his medicine case a small package 
containing a whitish powder, and lift¬ 
ing upon one-half inch of the small or 
pen blade of his pocketknife as much of 
the powder as he could, he told me to 
take about that quantity dissolved in a 
little water once every few hours. I re¬ 
plied, ‘‘all right”, and asked, “How 
much is your bill?” “Oh”, said he, 
“nothing ; it can do you no harm and 
may do good. I would like you to re¬ 
port the effects.” The whitish powder 
was salycilate of soda, then a new 
remedy. I used it with entirely satis¬ 
factory results. 
Rheumatism is caused by too much 
acid in the blood. Salycilate of soda 
seems to neutralize this acid. Since then, 
when I have had slight returns of the 
trouble, one or two doses of the salyci¬ 
late always give immediate and perfect 
relief. I think many pains and aches 
are called rheumatism that are some¬ 
thing else ; but, from my own experi¬ 
ence, and that of others, I am convinced 
that the salycilate will cure any case of 
real rheumatism. I get 10 cents’ worth 
of the salycilate of soda from any good 
druggist, and take what I can lift on 
the point of my knife once in about three 
hours. I, probably, never took 10 cents’ 
worth in my life, but I frequently have 
given to others, who were suffering, 
what I had and, at the first opportunity, 
got a new supply, as I do not like to be 
without it. This is hardly a farming 
subject, but its importance and interest 
to suffering farmers are my excuse for 
writing of details and, indeed, of writ¬ 
ing at all upon the subject. 
R. N.-Y.—Salycilate of soda is now 
considered a specific in some cases of 
rheumatism. Iodide of potash is also 
used quite extensively. 
German Carp Defended. 
H. S., Highlands, N. C.—The recent 
excitement—as it may deserve to be 
termed—in disfavor of the German carp, 
is, certainly, to be considered with a 
large allowance for misrepresentation 
and ignorance. The introduction of this 
fish has been of great service in such 
localities as are not well fitted for the 
better kinds as trout or black bass, 
and, indeed, it may be said, every¬ 
where, for the fish does not deserve 
the maledictions cast upon it. It is 
true that it is not a first-class fish, but 
it is better than none, and as it feeds 
on vegetable matter only, it serves some 
useful purpose in keeping stagnant 
water pure by freeing it from undesir¬ 
able vegetable growths, as some kinds of 
algae and other aquatic plants which, 
by decay, give forth unhealthful influ¬ 
ences. The charge that it devours the 
eggs of other fish is wholly baseless, as 
it feeds only on vegetable matter as the 
roots and other parts of aquatic plants, 
while its numerous eggs deposited on 
the stems and leaves of aquatic vegeta¬ 
tion afford useful food to carnivorous fish. 
When properly cooked, it is quite equal 
to many other species which are sold in 
the markets, and it affords a welcome 
addition to the table where other fish 
are not to be procured. Indeed, it fills 
one of those places in nature where it 
becomes a truly hygienic instrument for 
the purification of such ponds as may be 
kept for the supply of ice, and in this 
way, tends to preserve the balance of 
nature—as it may be termed—for the 
interest of mankind. Large trout and 
bass find a very large portion of their 
food in the small carp, and on the whole, 
the introduction and distribution of this 
fish may be gratefully accepted as one 
of the good works of our fish commis¬ 
sion, which has quietly and industriously 
done so much for the increase of an in¬ 
valuable supply of food for the nation. 
Farm Labor in Western Pennsylvania. 
H. S., Woodlawn, Pa.—I n former 
years, we have had trouble to get good 
help on the farm, but in the past three 
years, we have been able to obtain 
fairly good help. We get laborers from 
an employment office in Pittsburgh, Pa. 
They are usually farmers’ sons who 
drifted to the city and were pinched by 
the hard times. They all expect to re¬ 
turn to the city when prosperity returns. 
Hiring farmers’ sons is out of the ques¬ 
tion—they all want to work in the city. 
The reason is a deep social problem. 
Why do people drift to the centers of 
population ? There are people in all 
large cities who do not have nearly so 
comfortable quarters as many farm 
animals, yet no amount of wages would 
induce them to leave their filth and evil 
associations to work for a farmer. But 
the farmers themselves are largely to 
blame ; they have held the dark side of 
farm life up until they have shut out 
the light. When a son is away to col¬ 
lege it never enters the farmer’s mind 
to make a good farmer of him ; he must 
choose a profession, which is considered 
higher than farming. But the common 
school is good enough for the son who 
is to remain on the farm. Just as long 
as this condition of things lasts, good 
farm laborers will be scarce, for all men, 
both high and low, have an innate 
desire to be well thought of. There¬ 
fore, they will not work at a business 
that is looked down on, unless com¬ 
pelled to. 
Fully 90 per cent of the farms in this 
neighborhood are for sale, some at very 
low prices, which is proof enough of dis¬ 
content, and as long as the bosses are 
out of heart, we can’t expect the hands 
to be over-enthusiastic. We can get all 
the Americans we want since the finan¬ 
cial depression. Wages are from $12 to 
$20 per month, according to ability, as 
high as, or higher than, they have been 
in the past 20 years. In this neighbor¬ 
hood, improved machinery has increased 
production, but has not decreased the 
demand for good hands. 
Does it Pay to Grind the Cob ? 
Prof. C. C Georgeson, Kansas Ex¬ 
periment Station. —In reply to the in¬ 
quiry whether we have made a practical 
test at this station to determine the 
value of corn-and-eob meal as compared 
with pure ground corn, I will say that 
such a test was made several years ago 
in the fattening of both steers and hogs. 
The facts were briefly these : 
The hogs fed corn-and-cob meal made 
just about the same gains as the lot fed 
pure ground corn. There was not 
enough difference in the results to in¬ 
dicate any marked difference in the 
feeding value. Of two feeding experi¬ 
ments with steers, one gave decidedly 
the best results from the corn-and-cob 
meal, while the other was as decidedly 
in favor of the corn meal. Such being 
the case, the question resolves itself to 
this: Are the 14 or 15 pounds of feed 
obtained from the cobs, of sufficient 
value to pay for the grinding, or would 
not the cobs be worth more for fuel 
than for feed? The answer must, 
evidently, depend more or less upon 
circumstances. If the power that runs 
the grinder costs but little—as, for in¬ 
stance, water power, or wind power— 
and corn is worth 50 cents, or more per 
bushel, it will probably pay to grind 
the cob ; but if, on the other hand, we 
grind by animal power, or by steam 
power, and corn is less than 50 cents a 
bushel, my judgment would be against 
the practice of grinding the cob. 
The cob has, moreover, no small value 
for fuel. Farmers here in the West find 
a ready sale for their cobs in neighbor¬ 
ing towns at about $1 a load, the load 
consisting of an ordinary wagon box 
with side boards filled level. In my own 
experience, I have found that, in shell¬ 
ing and grinding corn at one operation, 
the cobs that come from the sheller 
would furnish sufficient fuel to grind 
the grain shelled from them, when 
burned under the boiler of a 10-horse¬ 
power engine. With a low-grade coal, 
worth between $4 and $5 a ton, I con¬ 
sider the cobs the cheaper fuel ; es¬ 
pecially is this true when we take into 
account that it takes three or four times 
as long to grind the cob as it does to 
grind the pure corn, and we consequent¬ 
ly pay three or four times as much for 
labor, to say nothing of the greater 
wear and tear on machinery. When 
these factors are taken into consider¬ 
ation, as they must be in all practical 
operations, it is, in my judgement, de¬ 
cidedly unprofitable to grind the cob. 
The following table gives the per cent 
of digestible nutrients in corn, corn cob, 
and corn-ard-cob meal respectively : 
Feedstuff's. 
Protein. 
Carbo¬ 
hydrates. 
Fat. 
Corn. 
.... 7.1 
62.7 
4.2 
Corn cob. 
43.9 
.3 
Corn-aDd-cob meal .. 
... 6.5 
56.3 
2.9 
It will be seen from this that 100 pounds 
of cobs contain only 1.6 pound of digesti¬ 
ble protein, or in other words, the cobs 
in a bushel of ear corn will contain only 
a quarter of a pound of digestible pro¬ 
tein and about 6 5 pounds of digestible 
carbohydrates, worth, at the present 
prices for corn, not more than 1)4 cent 
at most. It is evident in view of what 
has been said above that, in most in¬ 
stances, it will be a losing business to 
grind the cobs. 
Dyspepsia 
Is weakness of the stomach. It is the source 
of untold misery. It may be cured by toning 
and strengthening the stomach and enriching 
and purifying the blood with Hood’s Sarsa¬ 
parilla. Many thousands have been cured by 
this medicine and write that now they “can eat 
anything they wish without distress.” 
H00d’S S p a arill'a 
Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. 
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