1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
493 
BOOK BULLETIN 
For Sale by The Rural New-Yorker 
Thk Farmstead, by Prof. I. P. Roberts. 
A treatise on the making of the rural home 
and lay-out of the farm. Illustrated; 350 
pages. Price, postpaid, $1.25. 
Wessons with Plants, by Prof. L. H. 
Bailey: 523 pages, 446 illustrations. Prac¬ 
tical suggestions for seeing and interpret¬ 
ing some of the common forms of vegeta¬ 
tion. Nature study so presented as to be 
interesting. Price, postpaid, $1.10. 
Cut-Price Books.—A ny of these 20-cent 
books mailed postpaid for 10 cents. 
Fruit Packages. 
My Handkerchief Garden. 
Memory Training. 
Country Roads. 
Fertilizers and Fruit. 
How to Plant a Place. 
Chemicals and Clover. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl St., New York. 
Market Briefs 
PICK ED UP HERE AND THERE 
NATURAL INDIGO is the product of 
certain leguminous plants, cultivated to a 
large extent in British India, China, Java 
and Guatemala. For 20 years German 
scientists have been actively engaged In 
efforts to make artificial Indigo, and it is 
claimed that they have now succeeded in 
getting up an article which is equal to the 
natural product and can be made cheaper. 
Whether this artificial blue will prove as 
durable and generally satisfactory as the 
natural under varying conditions can be 
told better when the results of tests now 
under way are known. Shipments of 
woolen clothing dyed in this way have been 
sent to tropical countries, where it will be 
severely tested. If no drawback is found 
in this artificial product, planters will have 
to lessen the cost of production or get out 
of the business. Many of them are feeling 
blue over the outlook, but it is more than 
likely methods of growing and handling 
(he plants will be improved, as the ques¬ 
tion is already being studied seriously by 
the planters. The wholesale price of in¬ 
digo, as quoted in New York, runs from 
•10 cents to $1.15 per pound, according to 
quality. 
THE CAT-TEASER is an invention in¬ 
ti tided chiefly for the relief of people in 
the residence section of cities who are tor¬ 
mented by cats, which travel back and 
forth through the backyards between rows 
of houses, breaking down plants in flower 
beds and making the night air lurid with 
their yowls. Most people simply endure 
this nuisance, protesting now and then by 
saying “scat” or throwing things out of 
the windows, which, of course, never hit 
the cats. The best of these cat-teasers is 
thoroughly effective for those who have a 
tight fence so that the only way the ani¬ 
mals can get into the yard is to jump over. 
It consists of a lot of wires seven or eight 
Inches long set in a strip or joist about two 
inches apart, and sharpened at the top. 
They come in sections, and a row of them 
around the top of the fence fixes it so 
that no cat can get in or out. The sharp 
points give them no chance to jump or 
climb over. One man tried a plan which 
worked fairly well for a time. He was an 
electrician by trade, rigged a wire along 
the top of the fence, and attached a bat¬ 
tery giving quite a strong current. Any 
cat that touched the wire would be greatly 
surprised and get off the fence at once. 
A good barn cat is a highly profitable piece 
of live stock for a farmer. There are too 
many, however, in cities. While no cruelty 
should be tolerated, people certainly have 
a right to use harmless methods to keep 
them off their property. 
FRUIT NOTES.—No doubt readers un¬ 
derstand that any statement about the 
market conditions of perishable products 
in a large city can only give the facts at 
the time the report is made, as the next 
day conditions may be entirely changed. 
In notes of this sort it seems better to give 
the situation at the time the paper goes 
to press, rather than attempt to review 
the conditions for the whole week, which 
might be more or less confusing. The re¬ 
ceipt and distribution of produce like fruits 
and vegetables in a large market are not 
unlike the ebb and flow of the tide in the 
ocean. The motion is fully as constant and 
as necessary to the health of the market. 
Stagnant water and stagnant markets are 
alike undesirable. Southern peaches are 
showing better quality. Prices for fancy 
grades run high, but inferior ones are 
hard to sell at any figure. Plums are low, 
but sell for more than they are worth, if 
those that we have tried were fair sam- 
I)les. There are still a good many damaged 
cherries seen, and none but the better 
grades sell for anything like fair prices. 
There are a few currants, but quality 
seems to be below prime. There is not 
much call for these as table fruit, except 
those that are large and fully ripe. Can- 
ners get the bulk of the lower grades. 
This fruit, second only to the strawberry 
when at its best, has never received the 
attention it merits. People pass by the 
currant and take the insipid raspberry or 
blackberry, which soon lose their flavor 
when exposed on the street. The straw¬ 
berry season is practically over. Hot 
weather has boomed the trade in water¬ 
melons and lemons. w. w. h. 
Observations on Strawberry Varieties. 
Tice C. Kevitt had a strawberry field 
meeting on his grounds at Athenia (near 
Paterson) N. J., June 15. The day was 
cloudy and showery; attendance small. 
Mr. Kevitt has over four acres of berries, 
on soil adapted to growing fine fruit; gives 
them best of culture, and the exposure is 
such as to favor early ripening. He has a 
sj)ecial market, disposing of all at his 
packing house to near residents, retail 
grocers and peddlers having the best pay¬ 
ing class of customers. Pew growers have 
equal facilities for raising fine fruit, and 
demand for all grades at full retail prices, 
even to the lowest grade. June 15 was not 
suitable for close observation, and I re¬ 
visited his grounds again on June 18. Mr. 
Kevitt selects varieties of large size, seeks 
productiveness, and quality is a requisite. 
In the trial row were Jersey Market, Will¬ 
iam Belt, Sample, Ridgeway, Marshall, 
Bisel, Lovett, Improved Parker Earl, 
Parker Earl, Jr., Nic Ohmer, Gandy, Bis¬ 
marck, Warfield, Duff I. S. Palmer, Haver- 
land, Tennessee, Enormous, New York, 
Brunette, Johnson’s Early, Clyde, Bush 
Cluster and Oom Paul. All these varieties 
were set in other portions of grounds, so 
that a fair judgment of merits could be 
obtained with accuracy. 
New York made the best showing, quality 
first rate, sub-acid, no core, prolific and 
matured full crop. Is a seedling of Jessie, 
which it closely resembles In plant and 
fruit, and as a pollenizer of pistillate va¬ 
rieties far excels it, and in many localities 
is being set Instead of Jessie as a pollen¬ 
izer. Is of large size, color good, inclined 
to irregularity. Sample, a close competi¬ 
tor of New York, lacks character, and is 
inclined to be a little soft. More regular 
in shape and as productive as New York. 
Is proving to be a good berry for near 
market. Jersey Market is an old variety 
in some sections, though apt to be deficient 
in plant growth; good, high flavor, rather 
acid, large size, attractive in color. Set 
full, but did not mature crop well, yet the 
season has been such that only about 40 
per cent of setting of most varieties has 
matured in the best strawberry sections 
of northern New Jersey. It ripened aver¬ 
age crop for the season. 
Glen Mary and Bismarck were said by 
Mr. Kevitt to be his most profitable va¬ 
rieties. Enormous, too irregular in shape 
and too acid to become popular; not ex¬ 
tremely large for coxcombed berries. Bru¬ 
nette, large, regular dark red in color and 
flesh; fine quality, prolific, foliage inclined 
to blight. Bush Cluster, fruit resembles 
Crescent: not quite as acid; fruit stalks 
fully a foot long, extending above foliage, 
and while it matured a large crop, yet 
the long fruit stalks caused berries to suh- 
scald badly. Bisel, large, prolific, fine qual¬ 
ity for very acid berry, but too soft and 
delicate for even home use, unless great 
care is exercised in handling. Duff, very 
early, very prolific, ripened full crop; good 
size for early berry; lacks character. Very 
acid, large core, good early market berry. 
Warfield, too soft and poor to be profitable. 
Haverland, fine showing; very soft, and 
although its tough skin aids in marketing, 
yet not profitable. Clyde, while in most 
places a total failure from blight of foli¬ 
age, here a perfect success. 
Gandy was here, as in most of northern 
New Jersey, a failure as to yield. Mr. 
Kevitt had the true Gandy, known in many 
sections as the Jersey Gandy to distin¬ 
guish it from the many seedlings grown 
from it. In many sections of North Caro¬ 
lina, Maryland and Delaware the Gandys 
sent to market are seedlings, as the origi¬ 
nal is too soft and unproductive to ship 
with them. I have found in Newark, N. 
J., market at least four seedlings which 
growers acknowledge to be such and carry 
very firmly. Nic Ohmer, Pride of Cum¬ 
berland, Tennessee, Johnson’s Early, Mar¬ 
shall, Lovett and Bubach were a failure 
as to yield. 
Among new varieties, I. S. Palmer was 
originated at Stuyvesant, Columbia Co., N. 
Y., by I. S. Palmer, from Jessie and Bu¬ 
bach No. 5; very early, quality the very 
best, and berry possesses every charac¬ 
teristic of fine quality, yet being a new 
seedling its character is not fixed. It 
ripened at Mr. Kevitt’s place June 1, four 
days before Duff; noted as very early. It 
is as productive as most very early berries, 
yet when compared with Duff is sadly de¬ 
ficient as to yield. Will be put on market 
next Fall. Oom Paul, origin and parent¬ 
age same as I. S. Palmer; large size, pro¬ 
lific, in shape inclined to Jessie; good 
quality, rather acid, foliage Inclined to 
blight. Will be put out next Fall. 
J. B. ROGERS. 
A Tnp Through Southern New York. 
Ex-Mayor C. W. C. Chapin, of Brooklyn, 
has purchased a large tract of wild land 
a few miles to the west and south of Mon- 
ticello. I heard so much of it that I drove 
two hours to see it. To say that I was 
disappointed does not express it. A more 
forbidding place I never sav/. It makes 
one picture the ex-Mayor as a long-beard¬ 
ed lord of iron will and selfish heart with¬ 
out a spark of fellow feeling or a drop of 
human kindness in his whole make-up. A 
workman told us all in three short sen¬ 
tences: “There are 17,000 acres; 20 miles of 
fence, and 32 wires on each post.” There 
is nothing to be added except that the 
general neglect of the place is emphasized 
by frequent signs forbidding trespass; but 
why anyone would trespass on these for¬ 
bidden grounds is not apparent. Even the 
diminutive garden is surrounded with a 
fence 10 feet high made of poultry netting 
with a mesh so close that the passer-by 
could hardly see through it. We were told 
that the ex-Mayor wanted to keep the 
place wild as a game preserve. As far 
as wild is concerned he is succeeding ad¬ 
mirably. We saw one rabbit cross the 
road. White Lake is one of the most pop¬ 
ular Summer resorts of the county. Sur¬ 
rounding It is a very good farming country. 
Edward Nolan and Hon. Luke Stapleton, 
of Brooklyn, have a Summer home and 
farm here, and the Sloan Bros., of New 
York, have one a little to the south. They 
have some young plantings of apples, 
pears and plums that are doing remark¬ 
ably well. From the evident care given 
them nothing that can now be seen will 
prevent a nice crop of fruit from these 
plantings in the course of the next three 
or four years. 
About eight miles to the north one comes 
Into the territory reached through the On¬ 
tario and Western Railroad. This is a 
good farming section, and the country for 
miles on both sides of the railroad is 
literally overrun with Summer boarders 
during the season. At Liberty, Ferndale, 
Loch Sheldrake, Navesink, Woodburn 
and so on to Ellenville the villages and 
farmhouses are being put in readiness to 
receive the city guests. These people seem, 
however, to give themselves up to the task 
of housing their visitors. Home products 
for the table seems to be almost entirely 
neglected, milk alone being furnished from 
the farms. Meats and, for the most part, 
chickens and eggs, fruits and vegetables 
are shipped in from New York City. It 
seems a pity that farmers in this section 
should neglect this local market brought 
close to their own doors. It is a greater 
pity, because all these edibles become stale 
when shipped from city markets, while if 
delivered from the farms near by daily 
the luxury would make the city people 
rave with delight. It seems a shame that 
canned goods from New Jersey and Michi¬ 
gan, and sweet corn over-ripe and with¬ 
ered should be shipped into this farming 
county to feed the people who leave their 
city homes in the hope of escaping just 
such staples of the city markets. Our 
trip was planned to recross the Shawan- 
gunk Mountains, over a new road from 
Ellenville. This is a most delightful and 
interesting drive. For seven miles you 
climb a steady grade, leaving the beautiful 
little village nestled at the base of the 
mountain and confined to a narrow and 
fertile valley by the abrupt hills to the 
west. The new State’s prison in course of 
erection is seen in the valley to the north. 
This road takes you past Arvosing and 
Minnewaska Lakes, at the extreme top of 
the mountain, the latter 10 miles up, 
without a sign of habitation intervening. 
Here the famous mountain Summer houses, 
“The Cliff” and “Wildmere” are located. 
They accommodate about 250 guests and 
are always filled to overflowing. The dark 
waters of the lake below, the blue sky 
above, and the stunted growth of trees 
and abrupt cliffs for miles around are the 
attractions of the place. Lake Mohonk 
lies five miles to the northeast: the drives 
are many and picturesque. About seven 
miles down the east side of the mountain 
you suddenly come to an abrupt bluff, and 
over this you see one of the most delight¬ 
ful farming countries to be found any¬ 
where—the fertile valley of the Wallkill, 
and the fresh gardens of southern Ulster. 
J. J. D. 
One of those “pesky” brooder lamps got 
smoking the other night and burned a hole 
through the zinc and smothered about 26 
handsome six and 10-weeks-old chicks. It 
isn’t all honey in the chicken business. 
M. 
I HAVE closed out all of my different 
breeds; have made up my mind that the 
White Leghorn is good enough for me. I 
shall keep the S. C. and R. C. White. We 
are selling eggs for hatching, fowls for 
breeding, and then after the breeding sea¬ 
son is over ship eggs to New York. The 
breed selected lays more eggs, larger and 
whiter than the Brown; is larger and 
better for table. h. j. brown. 
What IS n? 
A man wlio has been running a race 
with steam and electricity for years, 
finds himself suddenly stopped. It 
seems as if a cold hand clutched his 
heart. His brain whirls ; he can hardly 
see. "What is it?” he asks himself as 
the attack passes. 
If his question 
meets a right an¬ 
swer, he’ll be told 
that his seizure is 
a warning to pay 
more attention to 
his stomach, which 
is already deranged 
by irregular meals 
and rich foods. 
Doctor Pierce’s 
Golden Medical 
Discovery cures 
diseases of the 
stomach and or¬ 
gans of digestion 
and nutrition. It 
eliminates from the 
blood disease 
breeding poisons. 
It makes the blood 
rich and pure, and 
furnishes a found¬ 
ation for sound, 
physical health. 
'< About ten years 
ago I began to have 
trouble with my 
stomach,” writes Mr. 
Wm. Connolly, of 535 
Walnut Street, Lorain. 
Ohio. "It got so baa 
that I had to lay ofi 
quite often—two and 
three days in a week. I have been treated by 
the best doctors in this city, but got no help. 
Some said 1 had cancer of the stomach, others 
catarrh, others dyspepsia. “Then I wrote to 
you for advice. You advised the use of your 
’Golden Medical Discovery’ and ‘Pleasant Pel¬ 
lets.’ These medicines I have taken as directed. 
I commenced to get better from the start, and 
have not lost a day this summer on account of 
my stomach. I feel tip-top, and better than I 
have for ten years.” 
Keep the bowels healthy by using Dr. 
Pierce’s Pellets. They don’t gripe. 
Each 
Ket? con 
tains 100 11)S. of new 
mixed wire nails 
from about .'l to 40 penny 
size. Order a Sample Keir. Write 
for Free ralaloitue No. on 
buildiUK material and supplies. 
CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO. 
West Thirty-Fifth auU Iron Streets, . • • 
CIlllAUU. 
Don’t Be Taken In! 
The dealer who tells yon he has some¬ 
thing ju.st as good as 
Veterinary Pixine 
is mistaken ! He does not know. Trials 
and tests prove it the most marvelous 
Healing remedy made Ab.solutely Sure, 
it penetrates, absorbs, soothes and 
heals—antiseptic—contains no mineral 
or poisonous substance. Will positively 
cure old sores, scratches, grease heel, 
hop])le chafes, hoof rot, mange and all 
skin diseases, when veterinarians and all 
known remedies fail. Sold under an ab¬ 
solute guarantee. At all druggists and 
dealers or sent postpaid. 
At all druggists and dealers or sent prepaid. 
2 oz., 25c.; 8 oz., 50c.; 5-lb. pkge., $4. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., TROY, N. Y. 
A Carving Set. 
Every family needs a carving set three 
times a day. This set consists of a Slief- 
field caiver with eight-inch handmade 
.steel blade, buckhorn handle, fork anci 
steel. Price, $1.90; or we will send it for 
a club of two new subscriptions iit $1 
each and $1.25 extra money, or free for a 
club of six at $1 eachi. 
