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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 11 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
LET US REPEAT. 
We send The R. N .-Y. for the rest of 
this year for 25 cents 1o new subscribers. 
We allow you 10 cents out of this for 
your work in getting the new subscrip¬ 
tion. 
In addition to this, we give bicycles 
and cash premiums for clubs received 
September 30. 
We send you the wheel when you have 
sent 250 names, so that you can use it 
to go on and win a lump of the cash 
premiums. 
If you have the largest club Septem¬ 
ber 30, you get $50 in cash and a $60 
wheel. 
If your club is not the largest, you 
may be one of the next largest 10 and 
share $100 in proportion to the size of 
your club. 
If you are not able to send a club, we 
look for one trial subscription from you 
anyway ; but there is a great chance 
here to make some good money. Take 
our word for it, you will be more than 
satisfied with your reward for any work 
you do. _ 
THE PRICE OF BEEF CATTLE. 
What is the outlook for beef cattle in your 
locality ? Has the price of steers increased, and 
are there indications of still better prices ? Will 
this increase have any influence on the dairy 
business ? 
Cattle of all kinds, both beef and dairy, will go 
higher. There is a big demand, and not nearly 
enough to supply it. Milch cows are in big de¬ 
mand, and not many cattle on feed. 
Jasper County, Iowa. albert harraii. 
Cattle are high and seem to be getting higher 
all the time. I do think that the price of beef 
will affect dairying to some extent, for people 
will put their milk into rearing young calves, 
and breed more for beef. I think that prices for 
beef will keep up for some time, as the supply is 
short. At present, feeders are very high and 
hard to get. Things look well here for the farmer; 
wheat brings a fair price, and is getting higher, 
but corn is low. k. m. hickman. 
Seward County, Neb. 
The demand for beef cattle is good, and re¬ 
mains steady and unchanged. Fine stock for 
breeding purposes are in good demand, and at 
much better prices than they were one year ago. 
Calves are bought up by farmers here for any 
price they can get them for, some jiaying as high 
as $10 for grade calves but a few days old. In 
regard to the effect on dairying, it cannot in any 
way affect it here. We have no established dairy 
industry in this country. The only dairying is 
to supply the local trade in the towns here, and 
that supply is largely furnished by cows which 
are kept in town. Most farmers here use their 
milk supply to raise their calves, and make their 
own butter supply. e. h. liitlefield. 
Kay County, O. T. 
I have noticed a steady but slow advance in 
the price of beef cattle for a few years past, of 
course with some fluctuations. The advance has 
been lately in arithmetical proportion, say for 
the past year, and I think that it is to go to a yet 
higher mark. It depends on circumstances. If 
we should have, within the next 12 months, such 
a general revival of business and “ prosperity” 
as to set all idle men to work who actually want 
work, and at good living wages, I believe that 
we shall see a sharp, strong advance in prices of 
beef cattle that will be sustained for several 
years to come. What effect this will have on the 
dairy business is problematical, but it is reason¬ 
able to assume that prices of dairy products will 
advance, also. Some dairymen will change to 
beef production, and this will benefit those who 
stay with the dairy. d- p. Norton. 
Morris County, Kan. 
We have already noted a very material advance 
in the price of beef cattle, and look for good 
prices for seyeral years to come. The calf is no 
longer carted off to the butcher, or knocked in 
the head, but receives the best of care, and a 
good steer calf will bring almost any price asked. 
I most certainly think that, with the return of 
better times and better prices for beef cattle, 
dairymen will share in the general prosperity. 
During the depressed prices in beef cattle, farm¬ 
ers discovered that they could not afford to feed 
a cow a year just to raise a calf worth, perhaps, 
$10 at a year old, so the calf was hustled off to 
the butcher and the cow milked. Now all this is 
changed, and a good steer calf will bring $25 to 
$30 at a year old, and we think that the result 
will be more attention to the calf, especially the 
steer, and also to dairying. J. h. irwin. 
Benton County, la. 
The prices for beef cattle have advanced very 
materially throughout the West during the past 
year, and the prevailing opinion is that, with the 
improving general business conditions through¬ 
out the country, will come corresponding ad¬ 
vance in the demand for, and the prices of, beef. 
In this locality, all grades of young cattle are 
scarce, and on account of an abundance of feed, 
are held very high in comparison with finished 
beeves. Calves for vealing can scarcely be found, 
as dairymen are raising their calves or selling to 
farmers who will grow them. These conditions 
will, to quite an extent, affect the output of the 
private dairy, and the patronage of the cream¬ 
ery. There is, also, a marked tendency toward 
improving the grade of the cattle throughout the 
country, especially on the ranges, and the out¬ 
look for the breeder of purebred beef cattle is 
brighter than for many years. w. w. vaughn. 
Linn County, la. 
Potash. 
An absolute necessity for every crop. 
SEASONABLE VERMONT NOTES. 
The hay crop in northern Vermont was the 
most uneven in many years, and as a whole, 
below the average. Winterkilling on the up¬ 
lands and flooding on the lowlands were the 
causes of failure. Some farmers lost nearly all 
their hay on the intervale meadows. The crop 
was late in being harvested—it is not even yet 
(August 14) all secured—owing to an unusual 
amount of wet or cloudy weather. The corn crop 
is, also, uneven and not as forward as usual, 
though it has gained very rapidly in the past 
month, and if there be no early frosts, will har¬ 
vest about an average crop. Potatoes are late 
and not over-promising. In the valleys, many 
acres of both corn and potatoes were ruined by 
flooding, as were acres of grain. 
It is refreshing to meet an individual who is 
ever looking on the bright side of life, like the 
cheery farmer who, when told the amount of his 
1897 taxes, said, “Why, that is low!” “Yes,” 
replied the man of whom the cheerful farmer 
rented, “ but the floods this year have damaged 
the highways and bridges so much that taxes 
will be higher next year.” “ Well,” answered 
the cheerful farmer, “ it may be that the prices 
of farm produce will be enough higher so that 
we shall not feel the burden.” 
About this time, one sees an occasional meadow 
on which are no tilled crops, with cattle grazing 
thereon, for there are still a few Vermont farmers 
woo turn cattle into their meadows as soon as 
possible after the hay is off, and a majority pas¬ 
ture their meadows a longer or snorter time every 
fall; yet many of the leaaing farmers and agri¬ 
cultural writers are opposed to the practice. Are 
there tsvo sides to the fail feed question ? On the 
face of it, there seems to be but one; pasturing 
the meadows is penny wise and pound foolish. 
But there is such an army of good farmers who 
practice feeding the aftermath that it would seem 
as though there could not be the loss to the next 
crop that is sometimes stated. Are all this vast 
army of farmers—snrewd Yankees in other re¬ 
spects—foolish and wasteful in this matter of 
feeding their meadows, or is there a saving here 
without consequent loss ? Has any one experi¬ 
mented by pasturing one plot and fencing a simi¬ 
lar one from the cattle, and carefully noting the 
result ? Here is a chance for the experiment 
stations to investigate ana give facts. 
There is still another profit and loss question 
regarding fall grazing of meadows. Do tne cows 
give any more pounds of milk and butter in the 
entire season than those kept in the pasture and 
given dry feed night and morning V It is a notice¬ 
able fact that the farmer whose stock is turned on 
the meadows in September complains bitterly of 
the cows “drying up” as soon as winter ap- 
proacnes, while his brother farmer whose cows 
have not smelled fall feed, is making nearly as 
much butter in November as he did in August 
and September, and his cows which were new 
milch in tne spring, do not dry up badly until 
January. Does not this extra stimulation for a 
few weeks in the fall cause abreaction more than 
its equal ? The steady ticking of the clock tells 
off tne centuries, and the steady flow of milk 
through a long period puts dollars in the dairy¬ 
man’s pocket. Here is another chance for ex¬ 
perimentalists. A. J. ELLIOT. 
People shudder at the tales of Monte 
Carlo suicides, but look on with perfect 
equanimity while friends and loved ones 
commit just as certain suicide by neglecting 
their health. Trifling disorders of the di¬ 
gestion persistently neglected lead to im¬ 
purity of the blood, the tissues of the body 
are imperfectly nourished, and emacia¬ 
tion and debility follow. In the case of 
that dread disease, consumption, imperfect¬ 
ly nourished tissue is built up in the lungs, 
forming a suitable soil for the germs of that 
deadly disease. One-seventh of all the 
deaths each year are due to consumption. 
This fearful death rate could be easily 
avoided if the proper remedy was re¬ 
adied to. 
A sure preventive and cure of consump¬ 
tion is found in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med¬ 
ical Discovery. It cures 98 per cent, of all 
cases. It corrects all disorders of digestion, 
invigorates the liver, and makes the blood 
pure and plentiful. It is the great blood- 
ixaker, flesh-builder, and nerve invigorator. 
It gets into the blood and acts directly upon 
the lungs, building up healthy tissue and 
driving out all impurities and disease germs. 
Thousands have testified to its wonderful 
merits. Druggists sell it 
“I feel that I must write you telling you of the 
great benefits derived from the use of your 
‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ ” writes Miss Laura 
Piersel, of East Bethlehem, Washington Co., Pa. 
“ Last summer my friends thought I was surely 
going into consumption, and having tried doc¬ 
tors before with no satisfactory results and hear¬ 
ing your medicine so highly spoken of, I took 
one bottle. My cough left me altogether with 
all the distressing symptoms, and in fact the 
cure seemed almost miraculous to all who saw 
me. I cannot say enough in praise of the medi¬ 
cine, and have done much to induce others to 
Me it.” 
An illustrated book which tells what Potash is, how it 
should be used, and how much Potash a well-balanced 
fertilizer should contain, is sent free to all applicants. 
Send your address. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. 
Save Money ! We Sell Direct to Farmers ! 
Why not economize ? You save *10 to *12 on every ton of Fertilizer you buy from us. 
Pure Haw Bone Meal.« 
Scientific Corn & Grain Fert... S3 
Per ton 
Ammonia, 4 to 5 p.c. Phos.Acid, 22 to 25 p.c.*22 
Ammonia, 2 to 3 p.c. Phos.Acid, 8 to 10 p.c. Potash, 1)4 to 2)4 p.c. 16 
Ammonia, 2)4 to 3!^ p.c.Phos.Acid, 10 to 12 p.c. Potash. 3 to 4 p.c. 20 
Ammonia, 3 to 4 p.c. Phos.Acid, 10 to 12 p.c. Potash, 3H£ to 414 P-C. 22 
Ammonia, 3 to 4 p.c. Phos.Acid, 10 to 12 p.c. Potash, 5 to 0 p.c. 25 
Ammonia. 414 to b!4 p.c.Phos. Acid, 13 to 15 p.c. 18 
FOR SAMPLES AND ROOK WRITE 
THE SCIENTIFIC FERTILIZER CO.. P. 0. Box 1017 708 Bingham Street. Pittsburg. Pa. 
Scientific Economy Fertilizer 
Scientific Tobacco Fertilizer..; 
Scientific Potato Fertilizer —y 
Bone and Meat Fertilizer. < 
RAISE ALL 
THE WHEAT 
YOU CAN. 
You can get more bushels to the acre of 
better wheat and a sure catch of grass 
by the use of our fertilizers 
than in any other way. 
Good Quality, Perfect Condition, 
Scientific Combination, 
And reasonable prices have kept these fer¬ 
tilizers, as now, in the front rank 
for the past 25 years. 
THE CLEVELAND DRYER CO., 
Manufacturers of Commercial Fertilizers, 
CLEVELAND, O. Oflice, 130 Summit St. 
| |LJ| ^"—Farmers wishing to fertilize and iin- 
I Ivl CL prove their land, should send at once 
and get a car-load of Pure White Kock Lime. Ana¬ 
lysis 95l£ per cent pure Carbonate Lime. Price only 
*150 per ton. Shipped to any part of the country In 
good tight box cars. Address WHITE KOCK LIME 
AND CEMENT CO.. McAfee Valley. N. J. 
DON’T HAVE A LAWSUIT 
with your neighbor because his stock breaks In , 
J and destroys your crops, it is better and cheaper , 
2 to fence with the Keystone Woven Wire Fence, j 
^ Where it is used there can be no such trouble. 
2 Why f Because it keeps stock in or out. 25 to 58 in. | 
j high. Strong, durable, perfect. Can’t hurt stock— 
J it’s smooth. Send for free book on fence building. ^ 
4 Keystone Woven wire fence Co., • 
I* No. 19 Rush St., Peoria, III. • 
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SEE OUR FENCE AT THE FAIRS. 
Our exhibit of native wild animals will be 
found at nearly all State Fairs and will well 
repay a call. Don’t fail to bring the children. 
What they learn about Nature and Page 
Fence will prove of value in years to come. 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian,Mich. 
A 
DAftis ^portable CORN CRIBS. 
Two styles 
Four sizes each, \ 
Adam’s No. 1 Crib,, 
The best made. ' 
Adam’s No, 2 Crib 1 
for One Cent per ( 
bushel. Ask your { 
dealer for them or , 
write 
W. J. ADAM, \ 
Cheap and Convenient. Joliet, ills. 
YOUR FEED 
with the W O LV E RIN E cutter. 
Has knives with 4 cutting edges; 
it’sagreatimprovement.We 
can alsoattach our new shredder 
head to our cutters, making two 
greatly improv’d machines 
in one. 44 styles and sizes. Hand 
power cuts 2)4 tons an hr. Price 
$2.50 and up; largest cuts ton in 
5 min. Our swivel carrier can be changed from 1 posi¬ 
tion to another while in operation. Price reduced on 
every outfit. Corn Shellers, all sizes foralluses; 
best hand shellei made, $|. Grinding Mills,« 
styles and sizes, largest and best variety on earth, all 
improved. Powers* all kinds; 9 sizes Tread & Sweep 
h.ps. We can furnish you with the best feed cutter, 
corn shelter, grinding mill or power on earth, 
because our line represents over 36 years experience. 
MARVIN SMITH CO. 66 c&ica l c&T < Ju.? t - 
FOR SALE OR TRADE. 
4:80 acres best farm in Missouri, in whole or In 
part All on Grand Kiver bottom, one-half mile from 
rtica, ana five miles from Chiliicothe Good build¬ 
ings; 200 acres in cultivation, balance pasture, timber 
and river front Over 1.300 young bearing fruit trees. 
Three trunk railroads within three miles. Must be 
sold in 30 days. „ 
JAY E. ADAMS, Owner, CH1LLICOTHE, MO. 
FRUIT GROWER. 
Grower of Peaches, Plums, Pears, Grapes, 
Quinces, Apples, etc. A. J. BALCOM, Youngs¬ 
town, Niagara Co., N. Y. 
MAMMOTH WHITE WINTER RYE, 
noted for its productiveness in grain and straw 
Grown from .Seed awarded us First Frizes at 
New York Htate Fair 1805 and 1S1KJ; American Insti¬ 
tute Fair, 189«: St. Louis, Mo.. 1896. Price, *1 per bu. 
Address K. L. CLARKSON'. Tivoli. N. V. 
Refer by permission to Tne Rural New-Yorker. 
OUROC-JERSEY SWINE 
prizes at New York State Fair. 1896. 
Address K. L. CLARKSON, Tivoli. N. V. 
Refer by permission to The Rural New-Yorker. 
Another Chance for a Watch. 
Here is the best bargain we have yet 
offered in a low-priced man’s watch. It 
has seven jeweled movements, straight 
line lever escapement, cut compensated 
balance, safety pinion. Plates damas¬ 
keened in nickel. White hard enamel 
dial with depressed seconds and black 
marginal figures. The case is dust- 
proof polished silverode (that looks like 
silver and wears better). Has 10 k. gold- 
filled crown. We have secured a special 
price on a lot of these watches. The 
jobber's price is $3 50. He sells to re¬ 
tailer, and you pay $5 00 for them at the 
jewelry store You may send us one 
new subscription and $3 50, and we will 
send you the watch by return mail, and 
the paper for a year to the new sub 
scriber so that the watch will cost you 
only $2 50. We guarantee this watch to 
keep good time, and return the money, 
if you are not satisfied, but you will be 
We want the new subscriptions, and if 
you want a watch, now is the time to get 
it. The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
EVANGELINE FREE. 
Did you ever read that pathetic story of the 
Arcadian farmers as told by Longfellow in that 
famous poem, Evangeline ? If not, you have a 
rare treat Id store for yourself. The story of 
Evangeline, the farmer’s daughter, betrothed to 
Basil, the blacksmith’s son, separated on their 
native shore while being driven into exile by 
order of the English king, and wandering sepa¬ 
rately in search of each other through American 
forests, to meet again only on the brink of the 
grave, is a tale of pathetic and touching devotion 
that delights and fascinates every one who reads 
it. We have secured a handsomely bound illus¬ 
trated edition of this book, that we are going to 
give to every one who sends us one new yearly 
subscription. Send $1 with name and address of 
new subscriber, and we will send you this hand¬ 
some book postpaid by return mail. 
The Rural New-Y t obkeb, New York. 
