1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
749 
To Our Friends, Club-Raisers and Agents. 
The R. N.-Y. 10 Weeks for 10 Cents. 
We have set out to g-et 30,000 new trial subscriptions by January 1, 1902. May 
we ask you to help us g’et them? To make it easy for you we are ^oing’ to send 
the paper to the new subscriber the 10 weeks for 10 cents. No intelligent farmer 
will refuse you an order on these terms. To make it an object for you to help us 
we are going to send 23 cash premiums as New Year’s presents to the 23 persons who 
have sent us the 23 largest clubs up to January 1, 1902. These will be as follows: 
First Largest, ------ $25 
Second Largest, - - - - - - 15 
Third Largest, ------ lo 
Ten next largest $5 each, - - - - 50 
Five next largest $3 each, - - - 15 
Five next largest $2 each, - - - -10 
These premiums will be awarded on the basis of 10 weeks’ trials. Every such 
order will count one, and an order for a new yearly subscription will count 10. 
These premiums are in addition to regular commissions. Renewal of old subscrip¬ 
tions will not count for the premiums, because we want to make this a special 
effort to get our 20,000 new names. But the commissions will be allowed on the 
new and old names alike. If you have not already received the regular commission 
rates, blanks, samples, etc., send for them. We look for all our old friends to take 
a personal interest in this matter, and send us a club, be it large or small. Don’t 
delay until the last week. Begin at once. 
THE 
MARKET NOTES 
POTATO PRICES have declined still 
further. The highest figure now given is 
$2.26. The chief reason for this drop is 
the Inferior quality of a large part of the 
receipts, many of which go for $1.25 to 
$1.75 per barrel. The crop of Aroostook 
County, Maine, is reported to be very 
heavy, although there is considerable 
damage from rot. 
ORANGES are in this market during 
the whole year; but the local fruit trade 
is considerably interested just now In the 
first receipts from Porto Rico under free 
tiade. The fruit thus far has been in¬ 
ferior and poorly packed, and prices have 
run considerably below California and 
Florida stock. The Porto Rican orangf' 
matures earlier than the western or 
Florida fruit. The trade generally expects 
a rapid development in the Porto Rico 
or.angp business, as a number of exper¬ 
ienced growers who have suffered from 
frosts in northern Florida have gone to 
that Island. A few Florida oranges have 
reached New York, but they were so 
green that buyers did not take hold of 
them very well. The crop is estimated 
to be less than the average, owing to un¬ 
favorable weather. 
BUYING BY LABEL.—“That’s the kind 
I want,” said a man who was looking for 
grapes on a fruit stand. “I have had that 
man’s pack before, and know they are all 
right.” He picked up a four-pound basket 
labeled Niagara white grapes 723, paid 
20 cents for it, and did not go through the 
usual performance of loosening the cover 
and holding the basket bottom side up to 
see that the fruit was uniform. Evidently 
he had considerable confidence in number 
723 of that brand. Out of curiosity I 
bought a basket from the same lot, and 
found that the buyer was not mistaken. 
The grapes were well ripened, and this 
makes at least 60 per cent difference In 
the quality of Niagaras. A great many 
are picked and shipped when about the 
color of Paris-green, and by the time 
the consumer gets them they are insipid 
and watery. A ripe Niagara with the 
blcom on is yellowish white wdth a faint 
shade of green showing through the skin. 
The grapes in the bottom of the basket 
were as large and fine as those on top, 
and the fruit had been packed so closely 
that it had not been bruised in handling. 
At each end of the cover was tacked a 
strip an inch wide and three-eighths inch 
thick. This raised the cover slightly, so 
as to leave an air space between it and 
top of the basket. Retail buyers are good 
people to be friendly with, and it would 
be hard to find a better way to get ac¬ 
quainted with them than by putting up 
the fruit under a label that stands for 
quality, and living up to it strictly. Of 
course buyers do not expect that every 
basket of perishable fruit will be equally 
good, for some may be kept too long be¬ 
fore selling, but they appreciate the at¬ 
tempt to protect them from the dishonest 
practices of those who try to make the 
good fruit sell the poor by mixing it. 
_ w. w. H. 
The entries for the Pan-American poul¬ 
try show call for 2,000 large poultry. There 
are 550 bantams, 140 turkeys, 110 ducks and 
25 pheasants, which are all single birds. 
In addition there are 185 breeding yards 
and three displays which contain 950 birds, 
making a total of about 4,000 birds; besides 
1,866 pigeons. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, New Yoke. 
THE WEST THROUGH EASTERN EYES 
Part II. 
Home Surroundings.— One peculiarity of 
the country that strikes an eastern man 
is the small low houses and lack of barns 
or outbuildings. The farmhouses are al¬ 
most exclusively one-story buildings. 
They are usually square or nearly so, the 
roof coming to a point or apex over the 
center, and slanting down on all four 
sides, making eaves all around the house. 
I su.spect this construction is built with 
a view of exposing the least possible sur¬ 
face to the winds. Another invariable 
protection from the winds is the “wind¬ 
breaks.” These are clumps of trees 
which have been set to the windward side 
of the house to protect it from storms. 
Sometimes they quite surround the house, 
and cover considerable area, while others 
are small in extent and flank one or two 
sides of the home. Another thing one 
notices as peculiar is the general lack of 
fruit and kitchen gardens. We were told 
that they had no time for such small 
things. It is greatly to be regretted, be¬ 
cause both fruit and vegetables could be 
produced in great abundance, and would 
add much to the appearance of the home 
and the comfort and living of the family. 
On the other hand, every family, even in 
the villages, seems to keep a few chick¬ 
ens, and some places appear to give con¬ 
siderable attention to this Industry. 
Large Farms.— The farms are laid out 
in sections; that is in tracts one mile 
square, contain 640 acres. Some of these 
are cut up into half and quarter sections; 
but a farmer seems to feel that he has 
something to apologize for when he 
operates only a quartet section of 160 
acres, the tendency and ambition being 
to operate large farms. Farm help is 
scarce, and one man often operates a half 
section, or even a full section of 640 acres 
alone. This scarcity of help, together 
with the tendency to run large farms, 
and the wonderful productiveness of the 
soil, all combine to account for the slip¬ 
shod appearance of things which we in the 
East call improvident. Of what use are 
cornstalks or straw when there are no 
cattle to eat them, and why take the trou¬ 
ble to burn a stack of thrashed straw, 
w'hen there are lots more rich fertile 
ground like that under the stack? Then 
what a waste of time It would seem if 
one spent a half day with small seeds in 
a garden, when the drill or planter could 
distribute bushels of wheat or oats on 
broad acres in the same time? The 
western plowman, like the eastern 
farmer, is a great deal the product of his 
environment, and he is subject to condi¬ 
tions which he has not been entirely able 
to control, but which he is fast learning 
to bring under his dominion. As I passed 
rapidly through his fertile fields, with its 
windmills and homes shaded and protected 
with blocks of trees that he himself Jiad 
set. with roads that he had built, and 
railroads that he had made possible, and 
remembered that 30 years ago this 
had been a trackless prairie with scarcely 
a sign of h.abitatlon, and entirely barren 
of trees, I communed with myself that 
these must be a rugged sturdy people. I 
thought to myself that they had done 
more for civilization and future ages than 
the men in manufacturing and commercial 
circles, of whom we heard so much, be¬ 
cause of the millions they have accumu¬ 
lated. I made up my mind then and there 
that the farmers of the East had nothing 
to fear from the competition of their 
honest products in the markets of the 
world; and that the men who subdued 
those stubborn prauies, watered their sur¬ 
face, and baffled their storms, would never 
help to perpetrate a fraud on the honest 
products of the East. I found them In 
council as I had pictured them—rugged, 
sturdy, honest. Plain and frank them¬ 
selves they are quick to see through 
sham and hypocrisy. Perhaps a bit sen¬ 
sitive, and for that reason quick to re¬ 
sent a sentiment where no offense or 
wrong is intended; yet generous to the 
extreme. He would voluntarily suppress 
his own interests when justice and right 
favored his competitor or neighbor. 
Social functionaries may sneer at his 
rough exterior and gn'ammarians may de¬ 
ride his awkward speech, but his com¬ 
munion with nature, his Independent 
thought, and habit of doing things, have 
given him a power of expression and a 
culture of mind that the city-bred man 
can neither appreciate nor Imitate. 
J. J. D. 
Exhibition of New York Florists' Club. 
The first annual exhibition of the New 
York Florists’ Club was held at Madison 
Square Garden, October 21-27. The im¬ 
mense hall was filled with one of the finest 
collections of ornamental plants and flow¬ 
ers ever brought together in the city. 
Separate days were given to the general 
exhibition, roses, carnations decorations 
and Chrysanthemums. The attendance 
was very good, especially on the closing 
day, which was given over to the Chrys¬ 
anthemums. The show of vegetables was 
much larger than expected for the season 
and generally of fine quality. No potatoes 
showed up to better advantage than Sir 
Walter Raleigh and other Rural New 
Yorker varieties. A few good apples and 
many splendid glass-grown grapes com¬ 
prised the fruit exhibit. 
The great feature was the magnificent 
collections of decorative plants shown by 
many exhibitors. Palms in Immense sizes 
and great variety, ferns, bamboos and 
specimen evergreens in bewildering va¬ 
riety made the hall a bower of greenery. 
The groups of flowering orchids were 
probably the best ever seen here. The 
brightest feature of the show was a large 
group of Knlphofia Pfitzeril, recently 
illustrated In these columns, and the next 
plant in brilliancy was plainly Cleroden- 
dron fallax, shown in a group of well- 
grown specimens. Some fine naninlzed or 
dwarfed conifers from Japan excited 
much Interest. They were fine specimens, 
and it was a comfort to find none was 
claimed to be more than 100 years old, in¬ 
stead of the incredible ages often assigned 
to these twisted little monsters. Some vases 
not over 12 inches in diameter contained 
miniature pine forests of 50 trees. The 
pines were less than two feet high, 
bright and healthy.; one or two bearing 
cones. Clipped bay trees in large sizes 
made a very noticeable feature, the 
formality of which was well balanced by 
many particularly well-grown rubber 
trees. The premiums were very generous, 
and fortunate exhibitors were well re¬ 
warded for their trouble. This first effort 
of the New York Florists’ Club was very 
successful, and similar exhibitions are 
likely to become a permanent feature of 
its operations. w. v. f. 
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If the scene of the saving of one life 
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The People’s Common Sense Medical 
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BONE CUTTER MONEY 
The money spent for the Adam 
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Machines 
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In time of need — for Granulated 
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It absorbs inflammation, penetrates to 
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2 oz., 25c.; 8 oz., 50c.; 5-lb. pkge., $4. 
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