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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
As We Go to Press. 
STRONG ARGUMENTS. 
We have all heard of “women farm¬ 
ers.’’ Tino R. N.-Y. has a number of 
them on its list. They are usually good 
farmers and ideal subscribers. What do 
we mean? Well, read this note from a 
Connecticut woman who has just sent 
us a new subscription: 
The man came to ask me If he could sell 
me any milk. He asked how many head of 
cattle I kept, and I told him 30, besides 
my three horses. Pie wanted to know how 
long my feed would last. 1 told him I ex¬ 
pected it would last until 1 turned out in 
May. Well, it was fun to look at him. He 
owns 130 acres and I only 20, and five of 
that are of no use. t told him I depended 
on The R. N.-Y. to heip me, and he 
guessed he would try it, so send it to him 
as soon as you can. 
Certainly, Madame—it goes at once! 
Now this lady is a good farmer—as is 
evidenced by the fact that her barns and 
silos are well filled with the products 
of her small farm. We call her an ideal 
subscriber because she does not hesitate 
to say, right out, that The R. N.-Y. has 
helped her. You see she gave that man 
to understand that the dollar which she 
invested in The R. N.-Y. had swollen so 
that it nearly cracked the silo and hay 
mow. Of course the man had a dollar 
to invest in the same way. Her remarks 
were certainly “words fitly spoken,’’ and 
every reader of The R. N.-Y. might 
easily do as much. Some men say they 
will never let a woman beat them! In 
a case of this sort they ought to get two 
new subscriptions in order to keep 
ahead! 
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We do not want our friends to forget 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
409 Pearl St.. New York. 
MARKET NOTES 
POTATOES are 50 to i5 cents per barrel 
higher than three vreeks ago. The cause 
appears to be the disinclination of farmers 
to sell at present. Those who had made 
uji their minds to sell early, either becau.se 
of lack' of storage facilities or the belief 
tiiat prices would not be higher, have dis¬ 
posed of their crop, while others have de¬ 
cided to hold until Spring. These high 
ligures, however, are likely to change the 
minds of some holders, and draw out extra 
supplies. Just at present is a favorable 
time to dispose of potatoes in this market, 
though there is no certainty that these 
conditions will last long, as considerable 
foreign and western stock is on the way. 
POP-CORN NOTES.—A reader asks 
about the market for this in New York. 
Dealers have had such severe losses on 
account of the corn getting woimy that 
they are cautious about stocking up 
heavily, and few can be found who care 
to take any large quantity unless they see 
an Immediate outlet for it. Most of the 
corn retailed is shelled and put in pack¬ 
ages holding about one pound. If in good 
condition when put up, and kept airtight 
the corn saves very well, although we 
have seen packages where the contents 
when emptied would remain solid, being 
full of webs. To be best the corn should 
be at least a year old, as the new crop is 
not considered fit for use. A man who 
handles large quantities of corn gave me 
the following startling explanation as to 
why it becomes wormy: "Now that corn, 
if it is kept cool, will be all right until 
next Summer. Then the heat will make 
the life of the corn change to a worm 
which will eat its way out and turn into 
a moth miller, the same kind that eats 
your clothes in Summer. It’s easy enough, 
just simply vegetable life changing to ani¬ 
mal life.’’ This way of accounting for it 
seemed perfectly reasonable to him, al¬ 
though it reminds one of the snake that 
swallowed himself, and would hardly pass 
muster with the scientific men. 
LATE COMERS.—“Yes,’’ said a poultry 
man on November 29, “there are 10 barrels 
of turkeys that should have been here 
three days before Thanksgiving, and thei e 
are more on the way now that were meant 
for this trade. It is hard to get people 
who make shipments for the holidays to 
send them early enough. If that poultry 
had been here in time, we could have sold 
it all, but now it will have to be held over 
for several days.’’ Trade after a holiday 
is usually dull, but little being done during 
the remainder of the week following 
Thanksgiving. The market was badly up¬ 
set for several days on account of the 
large quantity of left-over stock, the heavy 
receipts and mild weather. Prices dropped 
three to five cents per pound, and consider¬ 
able quantities had to be put into storage, 
although so poor as to be scarcely worth 
holding. There is a general complaint that 
poultry is thin this year, as the prices of 
grain have been too high to feed heavily. 
Of course, the transportation companies 
are often responsible for the delay of 
shipments on account of the extra work 
at such times. The safer plan in shipping 
is to make allowances for such things and 
send a little earlier than seems necessary 
rather than run the risk of being too late. 
Those who have poultry for the Christ¬ 
mas trade can make money for themselves 
and accommodate their selling agents by 
bearing this in mind. . w. w. H. 
Apple-Eaiing Birds. 
In the issue of November 16, page 770, 
11. S. M. makes serious charges against 
certain members of the Apple Consumers' 
I^eague, and asks the League for its aid 
in getting rid of the objectionable mem¬ 
bers, even to the extent of adopting the 
southern policy of shot-gun tactics. I am 
strongly inclined to believe that H. S. M. 
has not been a very close observer of the 
habits of the woodpecker family, and more 
especially of the menu from which they 
choose their daily diet, else he would not 
ask aid in a movement looking towards 
their extermination. 1 have seen a mem¬ 
ber of the family work for 10 minutes to 
get at the larvae of some insect in the 
wood of a maple tree, when the tentless 
caterpillar fairly covered the outside of it. 
As a family the woodpeckers are most 
diligent and persistent workers, and al¬ 
most invariably in the interests of fruit 
grow’ers and horticulturists. Their bill of 
fare is largely made up of foods which are 
beyond the reach of other species, as na¬ 
ture has given to tnem special imple¬ 
ments (a chisel-like or wedge-shaped bill 
and elongated tongue with barbs near the 
end) with which they can supply their 
daily needs. In August I saw a Downy 
woodpecker alight on an apple and peck 
into it. When he had flown away I se¬ 
cured the apple, and on opening it, found 
evidences of the recent work of the larvae 
ot the Codling moth. It might be possible 
tl.at those members of the A. C. L. whom 
H. S. M. desires to have expelled or ex¬ 
terminated are, after all, the most useful 
members of the organization, and that 
their work, of which he so bitterly com¬ 
plains, was protective, rather than de¬ 
structive, and at that late day, they were 
trying to make amends for what he failed 
to do earlier in the season. They dig in¬ 
sects and their larva; out of trees, and 
contrary to prevalent impressions, their 
boring does not seem to injure fruit trees. 
The numbers of noxious insects these 
birds destroy is simply incalculable, and 
wliat little fruit some of them steal is not 
to be mentioned in the same connection. 
New York . a. r. e. 
Olao and Milk Rogues. 
The following parties have received a 
small slice of justice at the hands of the 
State Department of Agriculture: 
MIDK. 
Warwick Valley Milk Association, 1279 
Broadway, $75 and costs. 
Ed. D. Pierson, 325 E. 120th St., $100 and 
costs. 
Ed. Shoemaker, 316 Willis Ave., New 
York City, $50 and costs. 
Benjamin Wacht, 53 Moore St., Brooklyn, 
$50 and costs. 
Jos. A. Rudolf, 513 42nd St., New York 
City, $100 and costs. 
Wm. Jordan, 207 East 36th St., New York 
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Manhattan Dairy Co., 1315 Amsterdam 
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Wm. Schmidt, 138 7th St., New Ifork City, 
$90 and costs. 
Henry Schneider, 402 East 12th St., New 
York City, $100 and costs. 
Mutual Milk & Cream Co., 322 East 103d 
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OLEOMARGARINE. 
Gustave Strunck, 359 First Ave.. New 
York City. $25 and costs. 
Michael O’Brien, Jersey City, (wagon), 
$250. 
Ernest Lentz, 146 Fulton St., Brooklyn, 
$75 and costs. 
Otto Ling, 116 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, $50. 
Henry Dunker, 3009 Third Ave., New York 
York City, $100 and costs. 
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