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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEi 
MARCH 29 
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Last year was my first with the R. N.-Y., 
and I like it very much and thins its new 
“ Business Column ” can be made of great 
benefit^to farmers, as, next to lack of suf¬ 
ficient working capital, I think ignorance 
of business principles and sound methods 
of doing business is one of the greatest ob¬ 
stacles to the financial success of many 
farmers in this vicinity as well as else¬ 
where; for owing to their lack of knowl¬ 
edge of the ways of trade, they are fleeced 
by sharpers on every hand; but the great¬ 
est trouble is that those who need the most 
help in these matters are not subscribers or 
readers of such live papers as the R. N.-Y. 
Worcester Co., Mass. F. A. putman. 
I AM more indebted to the “ Rural ” than 
I can express for the feast of good things it 
brings to our cozy little home in the Annap¬ 
olis Valley every week. I am also under 
deep obligations for its answers to impor¬ 
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over a dozen papers and periodicals the 
Rural is the favorite. Would that every 
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praise indeed.” 
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W-tros of \\)t Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, March 22, 1890. 
The Senate Committee on Irrigation will 
recommend a considerable appropriation 
for boring artesian wells in the semi-arid 
regions of the West, with a view to reclaim¬ 
ing the land for agricultural purposes. 
Previous experiments have given much 
satisfaction.Just before the ad¬ 
journment of the North Dakota legis¬ 
lature on March 18, R. D. Stevens, 
Chairman of the House Committee on 
Railroads, disappeared with a bill tax¬ 
ing the railroads of the State. The 
bill had passed the Senate and by common 
consent was to pass the House. It was 
too late to pass another bill and all efforts 
to capture Stevens were futile. A certified 
copy of the original bill was passed, but 
the legality of the measure is doubtful. A 
motion to expel the abscondingrascal was de¬ 
feated, but a clearer case of bribery is not 
on record. The voters of Dakota should 
never again give R. D. Stevens a chance to 
betray their interests. 
A bill before Congress places the telegraph 
companies under the control of the Inter- 
State Commerce Commission. .An 
Anti-Lottery League has been formed in 
Louisiana to resist the efforts of the swind¬ 
ling lottery concern to secure a renewal of 
its charter. Mayor Shakespeare accepted a 
bribe of §50,000 from the company to 
strengthen the New Orleans levees, but de¬ 
clares himself strongly opposed to a renew¬ 
al of the charter.The Master 
Laundrymen’s Association of New York 
and i\ew Jersey, representing a capital of 
$25,000,000, is determined to drive out the 
Chinese laundrymen, and has contributed 
a fund of $500,000 to carry out its purpose 
by establishing near each Chinese laundry 
an opposition place run by white people 
who will cut prices and wash for nothing 
whenever necessary. The wealthy Chinese 
“Six Companies” of San Francisco who con¬ 
trol the Chinese laundries throughout the 
country, are ready for an obstinate fight.... 
American ice companies are cutting and 
buying enormous quantities of Canadian 
ice. The price paid varies from $5 to $5.50 
per ton. Never have the people aloDg Pen¬ 
obscot, Maine, seen so prosperous a season. 
Ice has been high and the demand for it un¬ 
limited and several millions in wages have 
already found their way into the savings 
banks.J. M. Cheatam was hanged 
at Grenada, Mississippi, Wednesday, the 
first white man ever executed in that State 
for the murder of a negro. In spite of a 
large number of petitions for a commu¬ 
tation of sentence Gov. Stone refused to 
show any mercy.The Supreme Court 
of Mississippi has quashed the sentence of 
one year’s imprisonment against slugger 
John L. Sullivan on a technicality. There 
is some talk of reindicting him ; but prob¬ 
ably no farther action will be taken in the 
matter. Kilrain, his defeated opponent, 
began serving his sentence of two months’ 
imprisonment the other day. 
During the week the Mississippi River has 
been booming and several crevasses have 
deluged large areas of Louisiana and Ar¬ 
kansas. Indeed the Father of Waters and 
his tributaries have inflicted great damage 
in seven States and the danger is not over 
yet. Secretary Proctor has authorized an 
expenditure of $170,000 out of the National 
Treasury for strengthening the levees 
along the Mississippi, and large sums have 
been contributed for the same purpose by 
State, county and municipal authorities as 
well as by private parties in the threatened 
districts. The Louisiana lottery offered 
$100,000 for the purpose, but the bribe was 
refused by Governor Nicholls as tending to 
influence public opinion with regard to the 
renewal of the charter which will soon be 
decided by the legislature.Jon¬ 
athan Young Scammon, the founder of the 
Chicago Inter-Ocean, and for very many 
years prominently identified with the 
growth and prosperity of Chicago, died at 
his home in Hyde Park, near the Windy 
City, the other day aged 78 years. 
The Indiana Grand Army insists on a ser¬ 
vice pension bill “ at once.” Such a meas¬ 
ure would cost the people $125,000,000 a 
year in addition to the $100,000,000 now paid 
yearly for pensions.There’s a “dis¬ 
crepancy” of $688,250 in the accounts of 
City Auditor Vernon Whitesides, of Chatta¬ 
nooga, Tenn. and Whitesides has “ disap¬ 
peared.”.Ex-Congressman Isaac Cle¬ 
ments has been made pension agent at 
Chicago, in place of the widow of Col. 
Mulligan, the gallant leader of the famous 
“Mulligan Guards.”.Carl Schurz is 
by no means dead. He is out at St. Paul’s 
Minn., investing a great deal of German 
capital.The accounts of ex-treasurer 
Hemingway of Mississippi are $315,612 
short.San Francisco has passed an 
ordinance prohibiting Chinese from resid¬ 
ing or doing business anywhere within the 
city limits, except in a prescribed section 
on the outskirts of the city. “ China 
Town ” now is near the center of the busi¬ 
ness part of the city, and Chinamen are ap¬ 
pealing to the U. S. Court, claiming that 
the ordinance violates the 14th Amendment 
which prohibits any State from denying to 
any person within its jurisdiction the equal 
protection of the law. 
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided 
unanimously that the Bible has noplace in 
public schools.. .TheNewark, the last of the 
three steel cruisers built for the government 
by Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia, was suc¬ 
cessfully launched on Wednesday afternoon 
.The whole town of Milton, la., 
turned out on a rat hunt the other day and 
killed 3,000 rodents before sunset. A ban¬ 
quet at which the mayor presided celebrat¬ 
ed the victory at night.The City of 
Mexico is to have the finest hotel on the 
American Continent. It will cost $2,000,000 
and the Diaz Government gives $1,000,000 in 
the form of a subsidy New England shoe¬ 
makers are all up in arms against the pro¬ 
posed duty of 1U cent per pound on hides, 
and unless Western cattle men bestir 
themselves, the item is likely to be “amend¬ 
ed ” out of the tariff bill.The work 
of the Pan-American conference fias so far 
progressed that adjournment is confidently 
expected within the next 30 days. 
Last Thursday only 81 votes could be mus¬ 
tered in the upper House of Congress in 
favor of the Blair Educational Bill, appro¬ 
priating $77,000,000 for educational pur¬ 
poses. It was claimed that in reality it 
would cost hundreds of millions. It would 
chiefly benefit the colored and poor white 
children of the South. The majority 
against it was 37, including most of the 
Southern senators. That vote has killed 
the measure which caused endless discus¬ 
sion for over two years.TheGerman- 
American societies are protesting against 
the numerous bills now before Congress 
discouraging immigration to the United 
States.The School Act, abolishing 
the right of the Roman Catholics to have 
separate schools »nd obliging all classes of 
the community to patronize the national 
secular schools, finally passed the Man¬ 
itoba Legislature on the 19th, and goes 
into force May 1. The act has been bitter¬ 
ly opposed. The New York Legis¬ 
lature has passed a ballot reform bill, sub¬ 
stantially on the Australian plan, but Gov¬ 
ernor Hill is likely to veto it in spite of 
universal Republican and strong Demo¬ 
cratic support of the measure. 
A Chance To Make Money. 
Mr. Editor : I bought one of Griffith’s 
machines for plating with gold, silver or 
nickel, and it works to perfection. No 
sooner did people hear of it than I had 
more spoons, knives, forks and jewelry 
than I could plate in a month. The first 
week I cleared $31.30, the first month $167.- 
85 and I think by July first I will have 
$1,000 cash and give my farm considerable 
attention too. My daughter made $27.40 
in four days. Any person can get one of 
these machines by sending $3 to W. H. 
Griffith & Co., Zanesville, O., or can ob¬ 
tain circulars by addressing them. You 
can learn to use the machine in one hour. 
As this is my first lucky streak, I give my 
experience hoping others may be benefited 
as much as I have been. Yours truly, 
A SUBSCRIBER.— Adv. 
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for Preserving Eggs, Established 1845. 
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SEED POTATOES 
Choice selected Houlton, Aroostook Co.. 
Maine, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and 
all other well known varieties. For sale by 
W. E. DURYEA’S SONS, 
Produce Commission Merchants, 119 Warren St. N Y 
If you intend t3 buy a 
hay car(of which we make 
three (3) styles), a grap¬ 
pling Fork or a Sulky 
Plow, send for prices, 
etc., to 
Fowler & Farrington, 
Taughannock Falls, N. Y. 
Spraying Fruit Trees. 
Insects on fruit trees have multiplied so rapidly in 
the past few years as to nearly discourage the farmer 
and orchard 1st, but these troublesome insects can be 
destroyed by spraying the trees with proper insecti¬ 
cides. Outfits for this purpose become as necessary 
to the farmer as,his plow or cultivator, and informa¬ 
tion as to tlie proper use of insecticides is eagerly 
souRht. The above illustration shows the practical 
metood of spraying trees economically, the cost not 
exceeding 2 or 8 cents per tree. The Field Force 
Pump Co., of Loekport. N-Y.. are extensive manu¬ 
facturers of spraying outfits for both hand and horse 
power. They have recently Issued a very instructive 
treatise upon this interesting subject, containing 
receipts and full directions, which they will send free 
upon application. 
“CROMWELL ” 
Mom Cvtro rovlu Send for circular giving 
Hew CAlId CdllJ full description and testi¬ 
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Black Raspberry. of Nurserv Stock at rea¬ 
sonable rates. 1,000 Sny¬ 
der Blackberries for $7.00. Catalogue free. 
C. S. BUTLER, 
Croimvell, Ct. 
“FIGHTING OVER MILK.” 
A Hook for Dairymen. 
THE FIGHT OF THE DAIRY FARMERS. 
Giving a full account of the efforts now be¬ 
ing made by the Milk Producers’ Union, to 
secure fair prices for the producer and a 
pure article for the consumer in the New 
York market. 
History of a Powerful Organization 
among Eastern farmers, with a full account 
of the different methods of conducting the 
milk business in all our large cities. 
You ought to rend this book. 
Price, 25 Cts. Sold by the Rural New-Yorker. 
} >E8T Early Potato New queen, also unnamed 
> late seedling, mall, 25c. lb.; express, 50c. peek. 
L. I*. WHEELED. Quincy. 111. 
THE PERKINS' 
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s the Strongest and Best Self- 
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address 
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