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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 18 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
TO SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS. 
Our regular subscribers have been 
doing so nicely in sending in names of 
their neighbors in small lots, that we 
have not noticed that none of our regu¬ 
lar workers had set out for the premiums 
for clubs of trials sent in by September 
30. We will not repeat the full terms 
this week, because every one must be 
familiar with them now. If not, drop 
us a line and we will send them with 
samples. We can simply assure any one 
who takes hold of the work now that he 
is sure of a good reward for any time 
that he devotes to it. We will guaran¬ 
tee that he will be pleased with the re¬ 
sult, and the chances are that he will 
come in for something big. He surely 
will unless some one takes hold with 
more vigor than has yet been shown. 
We are pleased with the large number 
of small clubs, as usual; but these come 
mo3tly from friends who simply want to 
help out in the cause. There should be 
some one to lead a little for some of this 
cash in the way of premiums. 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
Use or Carbon Bisulphide. —Bulletin 86 of the 
Alabama Station (Auburn) gives a somewhat 
new method of using this substance. It is recom¬ 
mended for killing all insects or vermin that may 
be found in the house—from bedbugs to rats. 
Here are the directions: “In making preparations 
to treat the house, first see that all windows, doors, 
ventilators, chimney openings and fireplaces are 
securely closed, and all fires entirely extinguished. 
Now go through the house and rapidly pour 
the liquid into large pans, previously conven¬ 
iently placed, at least a pound to the medium¬ 
sized room. It would be better if these pans were 
set up on tables or shelves. Place some, also, 
in closets and cupboards. Start with the attic, 
if there be one, and proceed rapidly down and 
out, closing all the doors. If the outside doors 
have broad, open spaces beneath, close these 
with rugs or something of the sort, and look for 
any other opening that might be stopped up. 
Next morning, the doors may be opened and the 
house aired out. It is used on these same princi¬ 
ples in dtores, warehouses, granaries and mills.” 
Potatoes in Wyoming.— Bulletin 32 of the Wyom¬ 
ing Station (Laramie) contains an interesting 
account of various potato experiments. Wyom¬ 
ing is a good potato country. In the Woman’s 
Potato Contest conducted by The R. N.-Y. sev¬ 
eral years ago, the first prize was won by a 
Wyoming woman. Good yields are obtained in 
sheltered places 9,000 feet above the sea. In some 
ocations where the weather was so cold that a 
fringe of ice was produced along a stream, the 
potato foliage was not injured. Above 7,000 feet 
altitude, potatoes do not ordinarily require irri¬ 
gation, but below that point, water must be sup¬ 
plied. Subsoiling generally gave a large increase 
in yield. As for fertilizing, green manures and 
liotash helped the crop, while no good results 
were observed from bone meal, except the singu¬ 
lar conclusion that bone see med to prevent rot! 
A new destructive insect called “ the Salt Lake 
cricket,” is reported. The best results were ob¬ 
tained when the seed tubers were quartered 
lengthwise, leaving part of the seed end on each 
piece. Some curious facts were observed about 
the amount of starch in potatoes grown at differ¬ 
ent altitudes. Samples of Ohio Red grown at 
4,500 feet, gave 23.3 percent of starch,.with only 10 
per cent at 7,200 feet. These results are of only 
general interest to eastern readers, but should 
prove of considerable value to western farmers. 
“ The New Corn Product.” —A few weeks ago, 
we gave a description of “ the new corn product ” 
which consists of the ground stalks of corn. The 
pith is taken out of the stalk and used for a 
variety of purposes. The dry stalk is then 
crushed and ground, and used for feeding in con¬ 
nection with other grain. It now appears that 
the American Spirits Co. have been conducting 
some feeding experiments with this product in 
connection with distillery waste. These results 
have proved so satisfactory that a company has 
been organized with a capital of $5,000,000 to 
manufacture and feed out this product. At pres¬ 
ent, in addition to the ordinary uses to which the 
maize plant has been put, the pith of the stalk 
has been found of great value as packing for 
war ships. Formerly, cocoa cellulose was used 
for this purpose, but corn pith is about $100 per 
ton cheaper. Henry W. Cramp, of the great Penn¬ 
sylvania ship-building firm, considers corn pith 
to be the most useful protection for war ships 
that has yet been found. It is stated that, in the 
great naval battle between the Chinese and the 
Japanese, two Japanese vessels would cer¬ 
tainly have sunk but for the fact that a packing 
of cellulose was placed between their steel plates. 
When pierced by the shot, this cellulose imme¬ 
diately absorbed water and completely closed 
the holes in the vessels’ sides. The pith is also 
used as packing for car journals; as a non-con¬ 
ductor for surrounding steam boilers and pipes, 
and packing for refrigerators in cold storage 
while the fiber of the stalk is found to be better 
than wood pulp for the manufacture of paper 
stock. The following articles are, also, manu¬ 
factured from the corn stalk: Gunpowder, cel¬ 
luloid, waterproofing compounds, refrigerator 
lining, tile blocks, leather enameling, linoleum, 
fruit packing, liquid cellulose. In addition to 
these, experiments are being made with dozens 
of other articles. In fact, the development of 
the uses to which the corn stalk may be put, is 
one of the marvels of the century. The chances 
are that, within the next 10 years, the corn plant 
will be generally regarded as the most useful and 
valuable plant ever given to man. It is fortunate 
for the American farmer that this continent may 
claim really a monopoly in the production of 
this wonderful plant. 
Wheat Screenings and Sheer.— Bulletin 28 of 
the North Dakota Station (Fargo) states that 
there are 354,758 sheep in the State which are sent 
east as grass-fed stock to be fattened. Wheat is 
the great grain crop of the State. In the six 
years from 1889 to 1895, 39,924,346 bushels were 
produced; an average of 2.85 per cent (68,270,631 
pounds or 34,135 tons) of this were classed as 
screenings. The “screenings” consist of shrunken 
wheat, straw, and weed seeds, and are a loss to 
the Dakota farmer as usually sold. Tests have 
shown that 168 pounds of the screenings will 
feed a sheep 12 weeks when fed with cheap hay 
or straw. On this basis, the average crop of 
screenings will fatten 406,371 sheep, or 51, 613 head 
more than the State contains. Put in another 
way, the screenings, if fed at home, would pro¬ 
duce 9,495,221 pounds of mutton, since 7.19 pounds 
were required to make one pound gain in 
weight. At four cents a pound, this would repre¬ 
sent a gain to the farmers of the State of $379,- 
808.96, besides giving cleaner wheat and fatter 
sheep. If the milling could only be done inside 
the State, also, there would be even greater feed¬ 
ing value in the bran and shorts. 
“Serum Therapy” in Hog Cholera.— Bulletin 
47, of the Nebraska station (Lincoln) discusses a 
new treatment for hog cholera, in which a hog is 
inoculated very much after the plan followed in 
the antl-toxine treatment for diphtheria. Blood 
is taken from the heart of an animal which has 
had a light attack of the cholera, and cultivated 
in a soup of lean beef. This culture is then in¬ 
jected into a horse. The first effect of this injec¬ 
tion is a rise in'the temperature; and a quick¬ 
ened circulation and respiration. A hard and 
sensitive swelling is usually produced at the 
point of inoculation. These injections are re¬ 
peated until large doses do not produce these 
symptoms in the horse. He is then said to be im¬ 
mune, that is, the disease has no effect upon him. 
When the horse reaches this stage, he is bled 
and the blood is treated in such a way that the 
serum may be separated by itself and filtered. 
This blood is used to inoculate the hog, and it is 
claimed that a hog inoculated in this way will, 
also, become immune after a light attack of 
the disease. This treatment is much like the 
old vaccination or anti-toxine treatment for 
diphtheria, and certainly, all those who oppose 
this system of treatment will be likely to 
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Everyone tnows 
*He biblical story 
of the passover. 
The angel of death 
turned aside only 
at the doors of the 
chosen people. 
The first-born of 
all others were 
" slain. There is a 
chosen people to- 
-- day, at whose 
doors the angel of 
death turns aside and whose first-born es¬ 
cape unscathed while the children of others 
perish. The chosen people are the healthy 
people. Nina-tenths of the deaths among 
children are due to the ill-health of the 
mothers during the period preceding moth¬ 
erhood. Every woman owes it to herself, her 
husband and her children to keep herself 
healthy in a womanly way. She should 
thoroughly understand her own physical 
make-up. She should realize the import- 
tance of keeping the organs of womanhood 
healthy and vigorous. She can only do this 
by taking proper care of herself and using 
the proper remedy for weakness or disease 
of those organs. 
The best remedy forweakness or disease of 
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“ Since I wrote you we have had a baby girl born 
to us,” writes W. R. Malcolm, of Knobel, Clay Co., 
Ark. “ My wife took your ‘ Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery ’ and also your * Favorite Prescription ’ all 
during the expectant period and until confine¬ 
ment, aud she had no trouble to mention. A 
stouter, healthier child was never born. Our 
child will be one year of age the 8th inst and she 
has not been sick a day. Has not had so much 
as the colic.” 
Every woman in America should own a 
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Adviser. In its 1,008 pages she will find plain 
talks about all sorts of ailments. These talks 
are made plainer by copious illustrations. 
About 90 pages are devoted to woman’s dis¬ 
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All farmers know 
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of fertilizers, and ap- 
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The Thrice-a-Week World 
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is, beyond doubt, the greatest of Dickens’s stories. 
It is said that he so regarded it himself. Agnes 
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most charming characters of English literature, 
and the other characters, if not so pleasing, are 
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EVANGELINE FREE. 
Did you ever read that pathetic story of the 
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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¬ 
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forests, to meet again only on the brink of the 
grave, is a tale of pathetic and touching devotion 
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new subscriber, and we will send you this hand¬ 
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