October 5 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
680 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FABMER’S PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
Uehbekt w. Coli-ingwood, Editor. 
Dll. Walter Vax Fleet, / 
H. K. Van De.man. vAssoclates. 
Mrs. E. T. XtoYLE, 1 
John J. Dillon, Business Manager. 
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‘A SatTARE DEAL.’ 
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responsible person. But to make doubly sure we will make good any 
loss to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler 
advertising In our columns, and any such swindler will be publicly 
exposed. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we do not guar¬ 
antee to adjust trilling differences between subscribers and honest 
responsible advertisers. Neither will we be responsible for the debts 
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must be sent us within one month of the time of the transaction, and 
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C^pear in every letter. , 
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check or bank draft. 
evidences of grief—yet such sorrow Is often short 
lived. The struggle for life is hard and bitter in the 
town, and there are hundreds of things which quickly 
draw the public attention. In the calm, quiet life of 
the farm noble memories remain longer in mind. It 
has been said that about all the patriotism we have 
left in this country is found among farm freeholders. 
By ail means let us nave McKinley trees. 
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We still think that the corn is not short enough to 
warrant higher prices for the grain. Through the dis¬ 
tricts where silos are numerous the growth of stalk 
has been very heavy, and all through the West we 
learn that thousands of acres of stalks have been cut 
—ready for dry shredding. All this use of the stalk 
will leave more of the grain free for sale, and these 
conditions must be considered as well as the decrease 
in the actual grain crop. We believe that the present 
high price of Wheat bran is not warranted by the mar¬ 
ket conditions, since the wheat crop is one of the 
largest ever known, while the exports of bran to for¬ 
eign countries is considerably less than last year. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 I*earl Street, New York. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1901. 
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In Germany large quantities of cheap alcohol are 
jyf^made from potatoes. The jilmperor has offered a 
_ j i^prize for the best stationary engine capable of using 
'Pure grape juice! We are glad to see the business jLalcohol as fuel, the object being to stimulate the de- 
of making unfermented wine growing. If the juice ''«'j“ 2 ,nd for potatoes for this purpose. Ihe heavy tax 
could be sold cheaply on every block of this great '.'^imposed on all alcohol in this country puts it out of 
city we believe it would prove one of the most effec- market for fuel or similar industrial uses. Con- 
'jWisiderable of this potato alcbhol finds its way into the 
^.i'Jlower grades of wines and liquors, so it is quite pos- 
Providence, R. L, 
different States at once recently. Think of one local innocent-appearing tuber. The Germans are wise 
market reaching out for supplies from Connecticut to encourage the use of aicohol as a fuel. In Prance 
California! What would the big western States do largely consumed as drink, and this different use 
without the little eastern States and their markets? given as one reason for the fact that France lags 
• behind Germany. 
tive temperance agencies ever started. i/i 
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was receiving peaches from 10 ^ man to become drunk from the product of 
The counsel for the wretched murderer Czolgosz 
could find no word of argument for his client. He 
did, however, make a strong plea for a fair trial be¬ 
fore the law. Among other things he said that there 
is more danger in lynch law and mob rule than there 
is in anarchy, and we believe that he voiced the sen¬ 
timents of the great majority of the American people 
when he said so! 
Sometimes a farmer works hard to seed down a 
piece of ground. It may be tough and sticky and 
ptony, requiring twice the time and labor to prepare 
it that would answer for another field. Under such 
circumstances one would think that the farmer would 
aim to keep that land in grass as long as possible, 
since nature seems to have designed it for sod. Yet, 
some farmers proceed deliberately to shorten the life 
of the grass. They give it but little more preparation 
than they do the even and easily worked fields. They 
use but little seed, only a pinch of fertilizer or ma¬ 
nure, and worst of all, they turn in the stock after 
mowing to gnaw and tramp the grass out of sight. No 
wonder the field gives out after two years’ cutting, 
iwhen with good care and judgment it oughi to give 
good crops for five or six years. 
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At the meeting of the American Pomological So¬ 
ciety Prof. M. V. Waite gave some interesting facts 
about bees and Pear blight. His experiments seem 
to show that the germs of this disease may be and 
are carried from tree to tree by bees. Grant that, and 
still the bees have a credit on the books of the fruit 
grower. Kill off and banish the bees, and while there 
might be less blight there would certainly be much 
less fruit. We feel certain that any fair-minded man 
who will really investigate the matter will be led to 
admit that bees are the true dry nurses for the baby 
fruits. Without them the fiowers would most cer¬ 
tainly not be fertilized. Prof. Waugh, of Vermont, 
covered 2,586 apple blossoms so that insects could 
not get at them. As a result there were only three 
apples, even on the varieties which are thought to be 
perfect fiowered! 
, I A CAMPAIGN of education, which might well be Imi- 
■ tated, is that inaugurated by the British Columbia 
Fruit Growers’ Association, in sending an expert to 
the Fall local fairs, to give practical demonstrations 
in fruit packing. We have often referred to the need 
of careful and attractive packing; it is a matter that 
the fruit grower must necessarily study. Many, how¬ 
ever, still err from lack of knowledge; they are will¬ 
ing and anxious to pack their product in the best 
manner, but they lacK. the manual dexterity which 
accompanies the “know how.” To them the work of 
the expert would be an object lesson of great interest 
and value. Such practical demonstrations never fail 
to hold the attention of an audience, and would form 
an educational feature in any agricultural or horti¬ 
cultural gathering. 
The following letter is sent us from the State of 
Washington. Snohomish County is far from head¬ 
quarters, but The R. N.-Y. must travel far to get 
away from its friends: 
As a child I read The R...N.-Y. As a girl I read It, 
and as soon as we were on a piece of Uncle Sam’s land 
that we could call our own I subscribed for it. I am 43 
years of age, and though only a woman can say I have 
loved and read The R. N.-Y. since I was nine years of 
age. This morning the better half was sick, and I was 
in a hurry to build a fire. The first paper I picked up 
was a R. N.-Y., but I couldn’t find a page I wanted to 
spare; took up another; it was again the same. Then I 
picked up a daily paper and put it in use at once. 
When the housekeeper starts to build her morning 
fire the ticks of the clock mark precious time. There 
is a busy, working day ahead of her—all too short for 
the many duties that crowd the waking hours of a 
farmer’s wife. We feel that when such a woman will 
stop and examine The R. N.-Y. page by page and de¬ 
cide that no part of it should be used for kindling, 
that the paper has received about the highest com¬ 
pliment that can be paid it. It ought to be the ambi¬ 
tion of every editor to write and print words that are 
strong enough to live—to kindle ambitions rather 
than kindle fires! 
We have received the following excellent sugges¬ 
tion: 
May I be permitted to suggest one way In which your 
readers may appropriately honor the memory of Presi¬ 
dent McKinley? In the cities people gather to hear ad¬ 
dresses; they drape the buildings in mourning, pass 
resolutions and publish them in newspapers, and do such 
other things as will tend to keep in mind the goodness 
and greatness of the deceased President. In the country 
his memory may be most fittingly perpetuated by setting 
out useful trees. Almost every family may do this, and 
this is peculiarly a favorable season for it. 
Hartford, Conn. j, Lincoln fenn. 
We endorse this suggestion heartily, and hope that 
our readers will plant thousands of McKinley trees. 
Let them be planted on the most prominent places 
on the farm, where they may stand for years, telling 
to coming generations the story of a noble life. It is 
true that town and city show more of the outward 
Last week we had something to say about the 
American Apple Ckinsumers’ League. There are some 
faint-hearted League members whose throats become 
as dry as a Ben Davis apple, when a mellow word 
might help their country. For the benefit of such 
nerveless people we give a bit of history. Two years 
ago we received the following note from the proprietor 
of a first-class restaurant in New York: 
I have been particularly interested in your frequent 
writings on apples, so much so that I have introduced 
them in my restaurant, and am working up quite a de¬ 
mand for them. The trouble that I experience, however, 
is in finding those delicious apples about which you write. 
Can you recommend to me some man or men from whom 
I could obtain a fine eating apple that has a name, and 
one that I could get right along during the season as I 
want them? I am not particular about the price, if I 
could get the quality. 
Of course we told our friend at once that Spitzen- 
burg is the king of baked fruit and named some men 
who ought to supply the apples. Then came the fol¬ 
lowing: 
After receiving your letter I sent to the commission man 
and bought a barrel of Spitzenburg apples at $6 and used 
them for baking, and as you assured me, they were fit 
for a king. The only trouble was that they were too 
small; two served on a plate seemed like a small portion, 
and three would take away most appetites. I never 
could get but one lot, as they did not have them. I then 
wrote to the other parties but got no reply. So I fell 
back on Rhode Island Greenings. Why don’t some of 
the apple growers advertise in The R. N.-Y.? What is 
this Apple Consumers’ League about which you write? 
Now here was a man willing to pay almost any price 
for Spitzenburg apples, but unable even to hear from 
those who ought to have them. There are thousands 
like him right here in this great city, who want good 
fruit, and are ready to pay for it. They will go and 
buy the California apples because they come nicely 
packed in boxes. The Apple Consumers’ League is 
doing a good share of this—^are you helping? 
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'Suppose that from the first the manufacturers of 
oleo had been content to make and sell their mixture 
for just what it is without any effort to counterfeit 
the color and appearance of butter! By this time 
they wouid have secured a good market at a fair 
profit. They would have saved the vast sums of 
money which they have paid for defending suits and 
'“influencing” legislation, while the moral effect upon 
the trade would have been marked. There is and al¬ 
ways has been a fair profit for the manufacturers in 
selling oleo for just what it is—a mixture of fats, all 
of which are cheaper and less delicate than the fats 
of milk! Let it be remembered that the conflict and 
trouble to-day is the fault of the oleo men I’ather than 
the dairymen. If the oleo men had not attempted to 
counterfeit a genuine market product it is not likely 
that a sound case could have been made against them. 
BREVITIES. 
I used to blow the organ in a good old country choir, 
I kept the bellows crowded full and never used to tu'e; 
I seemed to catch a vision of the promised happy land. 
When that old organ thundered underneath the player’s 
hand. 
Now here’s the point I’m making—please to notice 
“where I’m at.’’ 
That wind was raw material, and mighty raw at that; 
But when it came a-rushing that old organ’s piping 
through. 
It then was finished product, way up on its finish too. 
I did the hard, raw labor—pumping in the wind, you see. 
The organist did better—a skilled worker, sir, was she; 
A hundred boys could handle my pump job at any day; 
The church was minus music when that woman stayed 
away. 
And so, in early childhood, I pumped out this settled law. 
To dodge old competition just quit handling the raw 
And learn to make skilled products', you will live to find 
your fill. 
Of good things will be greater as you cultivate your skill. 
The folks who at the organ stay there ever pumping wind 
Have hardly cause to grumble when they tag along be¬ 
hind 
Those folks who learn to handle every pedal, stop and 
key. 
That lets the wind from prison In a fiood of harmony. 
Your dearest idol is probably I. 
Words without work make wind. 
Help spread the baked apple habit. 
Soft pencil and soft paper make a hard job for the 
printer. 
We are having a hard race with Jack Frost for the 
corn crop. 
Notice how Keiffer pear is taking a back seat? Ben 
Davis apple will follow. 
What have you in your performance or in your pedi¬ 
gree which will justify you in putting on airs? 
No man has any right to strike hard blows unless he 
is ready to take equally hard ones without flinching. 
What is the most profitable form of charcoal for poul¬ 
try? Probably that obtained from burning up the scrub 
fowls. 
A MAN may have his arm or leg paralyzed and still live 
so as to benefit the world, but when the paralysis strikes 
his conscience—bury him! 
Some of the new “hotels” and boarding houses at Buf¬ 
falo are perfect tinder boxes. Oh, but how they would 
burn if a little flame started! 
•One of the hardest things for farmers to understand 
is the fact that soils derived from limestone often need 
air-slaked lime before they will produce a full crop. 
The Kansas Experiment Station people find that 
wheat straw with ground wheat added will keep cattle 
through the Winter. That is important to know where 
people are selling stock for lack of feed and burning 
straw stacks to get rid of them. 
The fight against mosquitoes has been reduced (or 
raised) to a science on Long Island. A “mosquito map,” 
covering many square miles, has been prepared, showing 
every body of stagnant water, and even the various 
“breeds” of mosquitoes. Having mapped the mosquito 
we hope our Long Island friends will now proceed to 
wipe him off the map. 
