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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 27 
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$ 1 , 000.00 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
ANNUAL REPORT U. S. SECRETARY 
OF AGRICULTURE. 
The report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 
the fiscal year ending June 30 last, has just been 
issued. The objects of the Department are suc¬ 
cinctly stated in the opening paragraph to be to 
help farmers to a better knowledge of produc¬ 
tion and its tendencies at home and abroad, so 
as to enable them intelligently to meet the •re¬ 
quirements of home and foreign markets for 
material that may be profitably grown or manu¬ 
factured on American farms. It was also in¬ 
tended that the Department should organize a 
comprehensive system of means by which the 
sciences that relate to agriculture should be¬ 
come familiar as household words among our 
farmers. 
The scope of the Department work is outlined. 
The live stock and dairy interests have been fos¬ 
tered through the experiment stations, and the 
Department will, in the future, endeavor to help 
producers to find markets for surplus products, 
by getting and spreading information concern¬ 
ing them and concerning what foreign markets 
require. 
Apropos of the experiments with sugar beets, 
it is stated that the policy of the Department in 
the future will be to encourage the introduction 
of what will enable our people to diversify their 
crops and keep at home money that is now sent 
abroad to buy what the United States should 
produce. Seven tons of imported sugar-beet 
seeds were distributed last spring in 27 States, 
among 22,000 farmers, through the experiment 
stations of those States, to ascertain where the 
sweetest beets can be produced. Samples are 
now being analyzed at the experiment stations, 
and where they are not prepared to do the work, 
the beets are forwarded to the ilaboratory of the 
Department at Washington. There is abundant 
encouragement to lead us to conclude that our 
country will, within a few years, produce what 
sugar it requires. The Department will collect 
all the facts regarding the work of this season, 
and publish them for general distribution. The 
pioneer work will be pushed energetically dur¬ 
ing the next year. 
The United States paid $382,000,000 the last 
fiscal year for sugar, hides, fruits, wines, ani¬ 
mals, rice, flax, hemp, cheese, wheat, bar¬ 
ley, beans, eggs, tea, etc., $ 6 , 000,000 for chic¬ 
ory, castor beans, lavender, liquorice, opium 
poppy, sumac, etc., and $ 2 , 000,000 for bulbs, 
nearly all of which could be grown and prepared 
for use at home. The Department of Agriculture 
will encourage the growing of these articles by 
the introduction of seeds, and by sending out 
farmers’ bulletins giving information concerning 
them. 
An American farmer can grow horses as cheaply 
as he can grow cattle; we have a heavy and 
profitable export trade in cattle, and may have 
an export trade equally heavy and profitable in 
horses. 
The Department is gathering facts regarding 
our horse industry at home and the requirements 
of purchasers abroad, so that our farmers may 
learn what foreign buyers demand. 
In regard to seed distribution, agents are sent 
into foreign countries to make selections suitable 
to our various latitudes. A scientist has been 
appointed in the Department to have charge of 
seed and plant importation. Efforts have been 
made to procure suitable grasses and legumes 
from the semi-arid countries of Asia for trial in 
the western and southwestern sections of the 
country. 
The Department intends to put into the home 
of every farmer information about the markets 
of the world, which are now in close, sympa¬ 
thetic touch. During the summer, on account of 
the low price of the higher grades of butter, ex¬ 
perimental exports were made. It may be news 
to some that exports of butter were made as long 
ago as 1747,and exceeded 1,000,000 pounds annually 
100 years ago. Then they increased to 35,000,000 
pounds in 1863, and dropping to 2,000,000 in 1870, 
rose to almost 40,000,000 in 1880. Since that time, 
the quantity exported has been as low as 5,000,000 
pounds a year (1894) and as high as 31,000,000, the 
latter for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. 
Shipments of butter were made to London early 
in the summer, and these were spoken of in Thk 
R. N.-Y. at the time; these have been continued 
at intervals of three or four weeks. Improve¬ 
ments in the matter of transportation have also 
been made. Much valuable information along 
these lines is given, facts about packages, color, 
flavor, etc. Experiments along the same lines 
for other perishable commodities are contem¬ 
plated. 
In the farmer’s home, the Department purposes 
help in the better training of the women, and in 
raising the grade of home life on the farm. In¬ 
vestigations on the food and nutrition of man 
will be continued. 
The Bureau of Animal Industry has been con¬ 
cerned in the inspection of meat, for which pur¬ 
pose the appropriation has been insufficient, 
in the inspection and quarantine of cattle, and in 
experiments along the lines of preventing, con¬ 
trolling and eradicating disease. 
Fiber investigations have revealed the fact 
that we can produce superior flax straw in the 
Puget Sound region. Hemp is grown in Ne¬ 
braska, and further experiments in this direc¬ 
tion are promised. 
The Division of Chemistry is carrying on ex¬ 
aminations and comparisons of typical soils 
from different parts of the United States. 
The work of the Division of Entomology may 
be classified under the following heads : Investi¬ 
gations upon specific injurious insects or groups 
of insects, experiments with insecticides-and in¬ 
secticide machinery, determination of species 
sent in by the entomologists of the State experi¬ 
ment stations and by other workers, general in¬ 
vestigations of life histories of injurious insects, 
bibliographic work, and the work of preparation 
of circulars and publications. 
The facts relating to seed distribution are 
briefly stated, and it is evident, from the tone, 
that the Secretary is not pleased with existing 
arrangements. Experiments in roadmaking have 
been begun, and experiments with steel road¬ 
beds undertaken. New plants have been intro¬ 
duced. The imjjortance of forestry investiga¬ 
tions is set forth. Investigations into agricul¬ 
tural conditions in Alaska have been made. The 
Division of Pomology has done a great amount 
of work along the line of propagating, planting, 
cultivating and pruning of fruits. The report 
gives evidence that the Department is working 
earnestly for the good of the class for whom it 
was instituted, and it is a comprehensive and 
valuable one. _ 
Farmers’ Institutes in New York State.— 
Below are the places and dates for those held 
during November and the first two weeks in 
December: 
County. Place. Date. 
Madison.Canastota.Nov. 26-27 
Otsego.Laurens.Nov. 30, Dec. 1 
Schenectady.Scotia. 1 
Schoharie.Breakabeen. 1 
Mad ison.Nelson. 1 
Saratoga.Rexford Flats. 2 
Schoharie.Jefferson. 2-3 
Madison.West Eaton. 2 
Saratoga.Greenfield Center. 3-4 
Chenango.Smyrna. 4 
Schoharie.Gilboa. 4 
Washington.Putnam. 6 
Green.Durham. 6 
Chenango.South Otselic. 6 
Clinton.Peru. 7-8 
Green.Henson ville. 7-8 
Cortland.Cincinnatus. .... 7 
Cortland, N. Y. State Dairymen’s A 9 s’n... 8-9 
Clinton.Chazy. 9-10 
Delaware.Griffin’s Corners. 9 
Delaware.Hobart. 10-11 
Tompkins.Dryden. 10-11 
Clinton.Ellenburg Depot. 11 
Tompkins.Groton. 11 
Scott’s Emulsion is not a 
“baby food,” but is a most 
excellent food for babies 
who are not well nourished. 
A part of a teaspoonful 
mixed in milk and given 
every three or four hours, 
will give the most happy 
results. 
The cod-liver oil with the 
hypophosphites added, as in 
this palatable emulsion, not 
only to feeds the child, but 
also regulates its digestive 
functions. 
Ask your doctor about this. 
50 c. and $ 1.00 ; all druggists. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. 
DRY BRONCHITIS. 
From Dr. Hunter’s Lectures on the Progress of 
Medical Science in Lung Diseases. 
There is another form, called dry 
bronchitis, in which the matter expec¬ 
torated is neither profuse nor watery 
nor purulent. It is a glutinous kind of 
stuff, of a bluish white or pearly gray 
color. The chronic inflammation which 
causes it thickens the mucous membrane, 
thereby narrowing the tubes through 
which we breathe and shortening and 
oppressing the breath. Often tubes of 
considerable size become completely 
clogged by this tough phlegm, causing 
great difficulty of breathing. 
Of all the forms of bronchitis this is 
the most common. “In France,” says 
Laennec, “ fully one-half of the people 
are found, on careful examination, to 
have thickening of some portion of the 
mucous lining of the lungs, caused by 
dry bronchitis.” It is the most insidious 
of lung complaints. Those suffering 
from it have at first only a slight cough; 
it may be only a trifling coughing spell 
in the morning; they have a chilly 
sensation in the forenoon, and toward 
evening are feverish. 
There is always a feeling of more or 
less tightness and oppression in the 
chest, which is relieved from time to 
time by coughing up a quantity of the 
tough, jelly-like matter before described. 
Sometimes the cough comes on in par¬ 
oxysms, attended by great oppression 
and distress, like asthma. On inquiry 
of a person so affected if he has any 
lung trouble, he will almost certainly 
answer No—and yet during your con¬ 
versation, will perhaps hack and raise 
this jelly-like mucous half a dozen times. 
Here we have a lung disease which 
directly tends to consumption, and has 
most of the symptoms of that disease, 
and yet is not consumption at all. When 
it ends fatally, as it often does, an ex¬ 
amination of the lungs reveals neither 
tubercles, ulceration or the bacilli of 
tuberculosis. 
In such cases death generally results 
from suffocation caused by a sudden 
attack of congestion, which, superven¬ 
ing on the chronic disease, fills the 
lungs with viscid mucous that the 
patient, in his weakened condition, is 
unable to raise. 
Bronchitis is not generally treated 
with success, because the proper reme¬ 
dies are not applied to the diseased 
tubes within the lungs. I had the good 
fortune some years ago to discover and 
successfully apply a local treatment for 
this and other lung complaints. I make 
the air which the patient breathes the 
carrier of the remedies which are neces¬ 
sary for his cure. Instead of sending 
them on a roundabout through the 
stomach and general system, I introduce 
them directly into the air-tubes and 
cells of the lungs, where the disease 
and all the danger lies, and I know by 
ample experience that this treatment is 
the only hope there is for the cure of 
any form of bronchial or lung diseases. 
(To be continued.) 
( Signed) Robert Hunter, M. D., 
Specialist in Lung Cases, 
Nov. 25. No. 117 West 45th st., N. Y. 
NOTE.—Readers of The Rural New- 
Yorker who are interested in Dr. Hunt¬ 
er’s work will receive his books FREE 
by addressing him as above.— Adv. 
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CJLEEY l'AHM KENNELS. 
FARMS FOR SALE. 
If you wish to buy a farm, write to the undersigned, 
You can get what you want, either improved, part 
improved, or without improvement Tobacco farms 
or grain farms in New York state or Pennsylvania. 
Prices and terms to suit the times. 
O. PATT1SON, Executor, Elkland, Pa. 
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Has the Creamery Closed? 
If so the time uas come for you to 
purchase a Safety 
Hand Separator. 
The milk of the 
dairy just before 
the cows dry off is 
the richest of the 
entire year. Do not 
waste it all by neg¬ 
lecting it; do not 
waste one quarter 
of it by hand-skim¬ 
ming. Save money; make money by 
buying a Safety Hand Separator. 
P. M. SHARPLES, 
Dubuque, la. West Chester, Pa 
Omaha, Neb. Elgin, Ill. 
An Expert Butter-Maker now with. 
New York Condensed Milk Co. 
Proprietors of the Celebrated 
Gail Borden Factories. 
Belviderk, Ii.l., April 9, 1896. 
The Thatcher Manufacturing Co., Potsdam, N. Y.: 
Gentlemen— Having used your Butter Color for 
over five years, and having other makes in use 
at different times, found, that after giving all a 
thorough test, that Thatcher’s was the best. 
Made a package of butter colored with Thatch¬ 
er’s Color and upon opening two years later, 
found that the color had remained perfect. Would 
use do other. Yours respectfully, 
Wm. H. Lewis. 
Cornell University 
COLLEGE OF AGAICULTURE. 
Two Winter Courses begin January 3, 1898, and 
continue 11 weeks. Tuition free. In one course 
instruction is given in Farm Management, Til¬ 
lage, Buildings, Fertilizers, Crops and Breeding 
and Feeding domestic animals. In the other 
course instruction is given in Dairy Husbandry 
and Animal Industry. Four-year and two-year 
courses are also offered. Catalogue free. 
I. P. ROBERTS, DIRECTOR, 
ITHACA. N. Y. 
First 
$12 cash buys two H. P. Victory Feed Mill. 
P. S. DOOLITTLE, Paris Station, N. Y. 
GARNER <& CO., 
Produce Commission Merchants, 
844 WASHINGTON STREET, NEW YORK. 
We have an extra demand for CHOICE CREAMERY 
BUTTER, CHOICE CHEE8E and FANCY LEGHORN 
EGGS. Shipping Cards and Stencils on application 
Reference: Gansevoort Bank. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & CO.. 
Produce Commission Merchants, 
BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY, 
284 Washington Street. New York. 
Dressed Meats: 22, 24 and 26 Grace Avenue West 
Washington Market. 
Live Stock: Union Stock Yards, foot of West 60th St 
Refer to Irving National Bank. 
MAKE NO MISTAKE. 
QUID YOUR FRUiTS AND VEGETABLES, 
Onlr POULTRY, PORK, CALVES, totue 
old Reliable Commission House. (Est. 1866.) 
S. H. & E. H. FROST, 100 Park Place, NewYork 
Stencils,Shipping Cards.&o., furnished on application 
References: Irving Nat. Bank or any of the Com.Ag’s. 
FRUITS 
VEGETABLES, 
PRODUCE. 
We receive and sell, in car-loads or smaller lots, all 
Products of the GARDEN, ORCHARD, DAIRY, 
HENNERY and FARM. Market Reports, References 
etc., free npon application. Address 
No. 611 Liberty Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
SOMERS, BROTHER & CO. 
WM. H. COHEN & CO., 
Commission Merchants, 
229 and 231 Washington Street, New York. 
OUR SPECIALTIES: 
Game, 
1 Poultry, 
| Mushrooms, 
Furs, 
Calves, 
I Nuts, 
Ginseng, 
Spring Lambs, | 
| Live Quail. 
