1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. * 
793 
Tne horses are mostly ihose suitable for carnage or 
saddle, though ponies form a very popular class. 
Training for the work in hand goes a great way with 
the judges, and all the appointments—harness, wagon, 
livery, blankets, whip, etc.—count in making the 
awards. High jumpers seem to attract the most 
attention. Carriage horses, especially well-matched 
and well-trained pairs, are in demand. Hackneys 
and Hackney crosses meet a popular demand. A 
touch of Hackney blood seems to be a potent factor 
in the makeup of a good serviceable, active carriage 
or business horse. Heavy horses are seldom seen at 
these shows. The New York Street Cleaning Depart¬ 
ment made an exhibit of good-sized, active animals 
that are a credit to the city. The police horses, also, 
made a fine showing of good quality and thorough 
training. The horse has not yet been relegated to 
obscurity, and there is still a demand for horses of 
good blood and training, at remunerative prices. But 
the training goes a long way with those who have the 
money to pay these prices. 
CUT AND SHREDDED. 
The house plans entered in competition for the 
prizes are coming in lively, and an excellent contest 
is now assured. We are glad to see that most of 
these plans are of farm houses already built and oc¬ 
cupied. That is much better than an ideal plan. 
When one has actually lived in a house so as actually 
to know its comforts and what is needed to make it 
more convenient, he is sure to give helpful advice 
about building. Readers will surely learn something 
from a study of the plans we now have on hand. 
“Modified milk” for feeding infants is prepared 
by milk laboratories in several of our large cities. 
The milk is procured from healthy, well-fed cows, 
and every precaution is taken to secure perfect clean¬ 
liness. The milk is cooled and separated. The com¬ 
ponent parts are then mixed—cream, skim-milk, 
water and sugar, to give the exact proportions of 
normal mother’s milk—four per cent fat, seven per 
cent sugar, and 1}£ per cent proteids. The milk is 
then put in sterilized bottles, and placed in the ice 
chest ready for delivery. The milk is not Pasteurized 
unless specially ordered. The great point in the 
separation and subsequent mixing of the milk is the 
fact that the proper proportion of fat and proteidB 
may be obtained, and this is not possible when the 
milk is mixed without separating. Modified milk is 
practically unvarying, while the milk from one cow, 
mixed in the ordinary style, is likely to vary from 
day to day. 
On page 616, we spoke of the South Carolina liquor 
law and the efforts made by liquor dealers to evade 
the spirit and intention of this law by selling liquors 
in original packages. The California Fruit Grower 
has the following : 
An eastern journal, commenting on the fact that a California 
concern, in order to fill the order of a South Carolina house for 
wine had to place the latter in 1,100 demijohns of one gallon 
capacity each, and each to be packed in a box, says that it had 
to be done in order to “sneak around the law.” Not so, illus. 
trioussir; it was done to conform strictly to the letter and in¬ 
tention of the law. Do not be intemperate. 
The original intention of this law was to secure a 
monopoly of the liquor trade to the State, by prevent¬ 
ing all importation and sale except such as passed 
through the hands of regular State agents. The 
liquor men are using a ruling of the Interstate Com¬ 
merce Commission to enable them to evade the State 
law by importing liquors in bottles and small cases. 
This is just what the “oleo” men attempted to do 
with bogus butter. They were stopped by a federal 
law which made a special class for “ oleo” in inter¬ 
state commerce. That is what will be done with 
liquor when Congress again meets. In the mean¬ 
time, the liquor men will continue to sneak around 
the State law, though we are informed that the rail¬ 
roads are refusing to accept the single bottle pack¬ 
ages for transportation. 
and Lake trout), whitefish, ciscoes, Adirondack frost 
fish and smelts, must be filed in the office at Albany 
on or before February 1, each year. Applications for 
Tom cods must be filed on or before January 1. Pike- 
perch and muscalonge applications may be filed as late 
as April 1, and applications for Black bass as late as 
May 1. Most of the species of the salmon family 
reared by the State, spawn in the fall and are hatched 
the following spring, and are ready for delivery from 
March to May, depending upon the season and the 
situation of the hatchery. The spring spawning 
fishes, like the muscalonge, Pike-perch and Black bass, 
may be delivered in May and June. Applicants for 
fish are notified in advance of the shipments of fish 
assigned to them. Applications for fish received after 
the dates fixed by the commission for that purpose, 
must be rejected for that year, as assignments once 
made are final. By law, no fish, fish fry or spawn, 
other than trout, salmon and frost fish, can be planted 
in the waters of the Adirondack region, and the pen¬ 
alty for violating the law is §500. The law further 
provides that no trout of any kind or land-locked 
salmon shall be taken from any waters of the State 
for stocking a private pond or stream. C. Frank 
Hall, East Randolph, N. Y., has charge of ponds where 
Brook, Brown and Rainbow trout are raised for sale 
for stocking private waters. 
The Austrian minister of foreign affairs advocates 
the formation of a European league against Ameri¬ 
can competition in food production. In spite of the 
“cheap pauper labor of Europe”, wheat and meat 
can be grown in America, shipped half around the 
world, and sold in Vienna at a price which represents 
a loss to the European farmer. The proposed Euro¬ 
pean league would like to establish such high pro¬ 
tective duties on American food products that they 
would be practically shut out. In France, Germany 
and Austria, the landed interests are very strong 
politically. They are well organized, and usually se¬ 
cure the legislation they demand. Immense bounties 
are paid to beet-sugar makers and growers, and in 
other ways, agriculture is recognized and fostered. 
This is partly due to the fact that a good share of the 
land is held by a very few large owners, and these 
comparatively few men are able to agree upon some 
definite policy, and to follow it up with force and 
persistence. In England, where farmers or pro¬ 
ducers have small power compared with workmen 
who are consumers of food products, such a league 
will meet with little favor ; but in Europe it is quite 
likely that something of the sort will be formed. 
The Kansas Farmer prints the following contract 
as a sample of the frauds and “fakes’’that are at 
large in small communities : 
This instrument of writing made and entered into this- 
day of-189—, Witnesseth : That-of-, Kansas, has 
this day made known to me the cause, cure and preventive of the 
disease in cattle commonly known as “ blackleg,” as taught by 
-> of-county, Oklahoma, and that for such information 
I agree to pay to said-the sum of twenty-flve dollars ($25.00) 
on the-day of-, at-, as hereinafter provided, and 
conditioned as follows: If the above referred to information as 
to the cause and remedy of said disease shall prove correct, and 
said remedy cures or prevents said disease, then this agreement 
shall be in full force and effect. But otherwise to be void. I 
hereby further covenant and agree not to divulge to any one 
directly or indirectly by sign, intimation or otherwise, any in¬ 
formation by me this day received from said -, touching 
upon said disease, the remedy or method of prevention. For 
any violation of this contract by me, by communicating the in¬ 
formation received this day, to other persons, I bind myself to 
pay said-the sum of five hundred dollars in lawful money 
of the United States. 
In witness whereof I hereunto write my name. 
Name- 
Witness- p. o._ 
What can be done with or for men who will sign 
such a contract as that ? At a cost of 10 cents, a 
farmer could obtain from his State veterinarian all 
that is known about the treatment of this disease ! 
You may say that thousands of farmers do not know 
that there is any such officer on earth. Whose fault 
is that—the farmer’s or the State’s ? 
AMONG THE MARKETMEN. 
WHAT I SEE AND HEAR. 
A correspondent wishes to know the wholesale 
price of roasters in our markets during April, May 
and June. I suppose that he means chickens sold 
for roasters, though pigs weighing 10 to 25 pounds 
each are also sold as roasters. The price of the lat¬ 
ter last spring was from 8 to 11 cents per pound, 
though there is not much sale for them after warm 
weather begins. Roasting chickens of good quality 
sold last spring and early summer for 11 to 15 cents 
per pound wholesale. The greatest demand at that 
time is for broilers weighing three to four pounds 
per pair, and the price on these, last May, ranged 
from 23 to 35 cents per pound wholesale, the price be¬ 
ing highest late in the month. 
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A recent issue of The Fruit-Grower, Fruiterer and 
Florist, published in London, has several interesting 
notes on apples. Nova Scotia apples seem to be a 
prominent feature in that market. The highest 
prices, early in November, seem to be realized for 
Newtown Pippins, which range from about §3 to §7 50 
per barrel, though the bulk of them sold for §3 to §5, 
and the greatest run was on qualities selling from 
§4.50 to §6.50 per barrel. Baldwins sold for high 
prices, nearly up to the average of Newtown Pippins. 
Nova Scotia sent fine Gravensteins, Ribston Pippins, 
Blenheim Orange and King Pippins which sold for 
§4.25 up to §6.25 per barrel. At Liverpool, prices were 
still higher, King Pippins selling up to nearly §8 per 
barrel, and Newtownsonly a little behind. The paper 
quoted speaks of choice English apples still being in 
market. Ribston Pippins are quoted as selling for 
§2 50 to §3.50 per bushel, and Blenheim Orange at 
§1.75 to §2 25 per bushel. There were said to be fair 
supplies of Spanish apples, ialso, though the prices 
were not considered high. The prices were given by 
the “ case ”, and as we are not told as to the quan¬ 
tity this represents, we cannot intelligently compare 
them with the prices paid for American apples. But 
the demand for these doesn’t seem to be very brisk. 
The fact is apparent that there is more of a demand 
for Canadian apples than for those from the United 
States. This may, perhaps, be attributable partly to 
patriotic reasons, but the fact is that Canadians are 
exerting themselves in this, as in the line of other 
products, to please the English market in varieties, 
style of packages, quality of contents, methods of 
assorting and packing. Our farmers must pay more 
attention to those details. f. h. v. 
NEW YORK’S ANNUAL SHOW OF HORSES. 
The great New York Horse Show was not hoodooed 
by the fact that this was the thirteenth annual exhi¬ 
bition. Almost 800 animals were entered. There 
were nearly 100,000 paid admissions to the show at §1 
each. Boxholders paid about §22,000. Entrance fees 
are high, and although premiums are liberal, the 
show was financially profitable, even beyond any of 
its predecessors. It is the best attended and most 
profitable of any of this class of exhibitions given in 
New York. It can hardly be called a popular show, 
using that word in its broadest sense. It is a show 
of fashionable women and men, of elegant toilets, of 
stylish horses and turnouts, and is patronized by the 
wealthy and exclusive classes. This very fact has 
caused it to be denounced by many as a vulgar exhi¬ 
bition of fashion; but it is really a great help to 
many people. It puts a large amount of money into 
circulation. Many tradesmen and, through them, 
workmen, have reaped a harvest. Some one with a 
head for figures has estimated that 2,000 new gowns 
at an average coat of §100 each were required for the 
occasion—§200,000. The same mathematician esti¬ 
mates the outlay for masculine attire at §125,000. In 
harness alone for the horses, he figures another 
§125,000 expenditure. Then there was the large-out¬ 
lay for labor, the transportation of the horses, the 
advertising and printing, the thousand and one things 
that foot up to handsome sums in the aggregate. 
Then the hotels had a big°trade in feeding and lodg¬ 
ing the attendants, and this made business for the 
dealers in all kinds of supplies. fc5o it is estimated 
that the total amount of money put into circulation 
was not less than §1,000,000. So why should we find 
fault with anything that puts such an amount of 
money into circulation among so many different 
classes ? 
But the horses ! They are generally understood to 
be only a secondary consideration—the occasion for 
getting out the crowd. But they were a fine lot, the 
most of them. The judging is very strict, and the 
judges are supposed to be peculiarly well fitted for 
their positions. But we never before heard so much 
disagreement with the judges’ decisions ; they must 
have seen points invisible to the casual spectator. 
Among those having waters suitable for stocking 
with fish, there seems to be considerable interest in 
the matter of securing fry for this purpose. The 
New York Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission 
furnish certain kinds of fish for stocking public 
waters in that State, but do not furnish fish for pri¬ 
vate waters. Of course, it would be manifestly unjust 
for the State to furnish, at public expense, anything 
to be devoted solely to private uses. Any one in the 
State wishing to stock public waters, on application 
to F. B. Mitchell, secretary, Albany, N. Y., will be 
furnished full particulars for procedure. Application 
blanks will be furnished, each of which contains 22 
questions for the applicant to answer. A separate 
blank must be filled out for each kind of fish desired, 
and the applicant should state which kind is desired. 
Fish will be sent in the proper season. All applica¬ 
tions for trout fry (including Brook, Brown, Rainbow 
BUSINESS BIT?. 
It is doubtful whether any mill made is superior to the French 
burr for grinding grain. Chas. Kaestner <& Co., Chicago, Ill., 
make a full line of portable vertical burr-stone flour and feed 
mille. A great advantage of these mills is that they are both 
family and feed mills. The same stones that grind the stock feed 
will, also, grind the finest of corn meal for family use. A 16-inch 
mill operated by a two to six-horse power will grind from six to 
eight bushels of fine family meal, or 25 bushels of stock feed per 
hour. Send for a copy, free to all, of their little book on mills. 
One good thing about the advertisements of the Page Woven 
Wire Fence Co., of Adrian, Mich., is the fact that they are well 
written and worth reading. The matter is changed every week, 
and is always fresh. One reason for this is that the manufac¬ 
turers have a good thing, and also possess the nerve needed to 
push it along. It would require page after page to tell all the 
virtues of this fence. A bright, sharp advertisement arrests the 
eye atd having once caught the eye, it is easy to connect it with 
the train of documents that lie back of the “ ad.” Every enter¬ 
prising man likes enterprise in others, and that is one reason 
why the Page ads and the Page fence are so popular. 
