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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Business. 
WAR ON THE WATCH TRUST. 
It Attempts to Boycott the Newspapers of the 
United States. 
AND THE RURAL NEW-YORKER PROPOSES THAT ITS READ¬ 
ERS SHALL BE PROTECTED. 
Everybody knows that the watch movements made by 
the factories at Elgin, Ill., and Waltham, Mass., are the 
best in the world, and to get a watch with a genuine 
"American movement ” is an object of ambition abroad 
as well as here. Trading on this ambition, the country has 
been flooded with foreign counterfeits of the Elgin and 
Waltham movements, which are advertised as “ like Elgin 
or Waltham movements,” or “ in form Elgin or Waltham 
movements,” etc., to make the reader believe he is really 
getting the famous genuiue “ American movement.” 
Sometimes the advertiser supplies the cheapest of all the 
Elgin or Waltham movements, in a plated case that will 
wear only for a few weeks ; but the customer always gets 
either a counterfeit movement or a counterfeit case, while 
usually he gets both. If he goes ta an honest jeweler, the 
price is too high. Under the trust rules the jeweler must 
sell at 25 per cent, advance, and he invariably adds from 
100 to 300 per cent. 
To protect subscribers at post offices where there were 
no jewelers, and where the buyer had to purchase from a 
“ shark,” several newspapers combined and bought large 
quantities of watches at the lowest trade rates, which they 
re-sold at cost. The Watch Trust sprang instantly to the 
rescue of its shark-trade, and it has declared a boycott of 
all newspapers supplying subscribers with Elgin or Walt¬ 
ham watches at any price. The ostensible ground was to 
protect the retail jewelry trade; the real reason, to keep 
its rapidly growing shark-trade, the shark taking all the 
cheap movements and forcing the jeweler to sell only dear 
movements. The Watch Trust of the United States is one 
of the closest strongest, and most insolent of all the trusts 
in the United States, and The R. N.-Y. enters the lists to¬ 
day, and proposes to break a lance with it on behalf of its 
subscribers. So far as the subscribers to The R. N.-Y. are 
concerned, it proposes that each and every one of them 
shall obtain any grade of watch made at Elgin or Waltham 
at the trade cost, without being compelled to pay tribute 
to the Watch Trust, and without being swindled by a 
shark who sells foreign counterfeits. 
The Cost of Watch Movements.— The net prices of 
the Elgin hunting-case movements (or “ works,”) for men’s 
watches, known as No. .18 size, are confidentially as fol¬ 
lows, with six per cent, off to the jeweler who pays cash : 
B. W. R . Nickel, P. R. Adj. D. S. D'al.$20 00 
B. W. R., Ollt. I*. R.. Adj., D. S. Dial. 17 50 
H. H. T.. Nickel, P. R , Adj. 15 00 
H. H. T. Gilt, P. R., Adj. 12 50 
G. M. W., Nickel, P. R. 9 i o 
G. M. W , Gilt, P. R. S 50 
NAMELESS. Engraved Elgin National Watch Co. 
No. 83. Nickel. Com. bal., Breg. h. s. p. adj.. 15 jewels (four prs. 
settings) pat reg. ... 15 00 
No. 80. Gilt. Com. bal., Breg. h. spg.. adj , 15 jewels (four pairs 
settingsi. pat. reg. 12 fO 
No. 103. Nickel Com. bal., 15 jewels (four pairs settings), pat. reg... 9 ou 
No. 82. Gilt, Com. bal., 15 jewels (four pairs settingsi, pat, reg... 8 50 
No 102. Half Nickel. Com bal., 1 jewels . 7 10 
No. 10. Gilt. Com. bai, 11 jewels . 6 25 
No. 96. Gilt. Com. bal., seven Jewels... 500 
“Nickel ” or “ gilt ” relates to the movement. “ R. R.” 
means patent regulator; “adj.” means adjusted to heat, 
cold and position ; “ U. S.” means double sunk dial. The 
“ R. T. & W.” stand for Raymond, Taylor & Wheeler. 
The Waltham Companies make corresponding grades at 
closely corresponding prices. 
The Cost of Watch Cases. —There are half a dozen 
great case companies, known the world over, who make 
gold-filled cases in 10-carat and 14-carat grades. Their half¬ 
marks on the cases carry the same guarantee that the 
United States Assay stamp does, and their guarantees of 
the former grade for 15 years and the latter for 21 years are 
the same as the Mint Director’s. These also belong to the 
Watch Trust, but they never sell to a “shark.” The trade 
prices are as follows : 
open face, 15 years, plain or engine-turned.$ 6 00 
Open-face, 21 years “ • “ . 8 oi 
Hunting-ease, 15 years... 9 uO 
Hunting case, 21 years. . 11 00 
Coin silver cases cost the same as the 15 year gold-filled 
cases. Half-pound cases in coin silver correspond to the 
21 year gold-filled. There are excellent “silveriue” 
cases in the market which cost 75 cents for open-face, and 
$2 for hunting-case. 
A Special Offer to Subscribers.—The Rural New- 
Yorker offers to each one of its subscribers, whose name 
isou Its printed mailing list, either an Elgin or a Waltham 
watch, stem-winding and stem-set, in either a gold filled 
15-year 10-carat case, or a corresponding coin silver case. 
OPEN FACE WATCHES. 
1. Seven jewels, safety pinion, compensation balance. 
tempered Ualr springs .... . 
With patent regulator SI extra. 
2. Ten or eleven jewels, as nb >ve, gilt. 
vVitn patent regulator $1 extra. 
8. Same, nickel movement . 
4. Ktfteen Jewels, gilt. patent regulator . . 
5. Santo 111 uickel. . 
In silveriue cases, $5 less. 
$12 00 
. IS 25 
. 15 00 
. IS 5(1 
. 16 00 
HUNTING CASE WATCHES. 
6. Seven jewels, safety pinion, compensation balance .$15 00 
With patent regulator $1 extra. 
7. Eleven jewels, gilt. . 16 ■>-, 
8. Eleven Jewels uickel. . IT tin 
y. Fifteen Jewels, in settings, patent regulator, gilt. 13 So 
10 . Same as No. 9, in nickel.19 00 
11 . Fifteen ruby Jewels in settings, patent regulator, adjusted 22 no 
12. Same as No. L, in nickel.. 25 UO 
In silveriue case 87 less. 
The 14-carat, 21-year, gold-tilled cases, cost $2 additional. 
This offer is made upon the distinct understanding that 
either ah Elgin or Waltham movement of the same or 
higher grade may be sent. Only $1 has been added to the 
trade price for expenses of buying, setting up, casiug, crys¬ 
tal, packiug, postage aud registry. It is very close 
figuriug. The watches have to be bought from the Elgin 
ami Waltham Companies through jewelers all over the 
couutry, aud only a few from each, aud the cases from one 
aud the movements from another, to bother the trust spies, 
and orders must be filled as they come in. Every watch is 
guaranteed perfect in every respect, and the latest and 
best product of the factories. 
Cheap but Good. —At these prices no man need be with¬ 
out a fine watch. It is far better to buy a 15-jeweled move¬ 
ment with a patent regulator, in a cheap case, than a lower- 
grade watch in a higher priced case. A case can be bought 
at any time. Cases fit all movements, and this is an op¬ 
portunity to buy the movement. These are not “ cheap ” 
watches. Nine watches out of ten, costing from $75 to $100 
have only the seven-jeweled Elgin or Waltham movement. 
For the cheapest watch on the list jewelers charge from 
$25 to $50. The subscriber to The R. N.-Y. is buying at 
the factory price to the jeweler. He saves the latter’s 100 
to 300 per cent, profit which the trust is trying to retain. 
Ladjes’ Watches. —These are No. 6 size, and in the 
beautiful 10-carat, gold-filled Montauk cases made by 
Joseph Fahys with his 15 years guarantee, cost as follows : 
13. Fifteen jewels, in settings, nickel...$21 50 ■**— 
14. Same in gilt movement,. ... 13 00 
15. Eleven Jewels, gl't. 15 25 
16. Seven Jewels, safety pinion. 14 (0 
A beautiful solid 14-carat gold case, No. 1 size, hand en¬ 
graved to imitate frost-work, called vermicelli, with a 13- 
jeweled movement for which jewelers charge from $55 to 
$75, is the last offer to its subscribers, and it is known as, 
17. A Joy Forever,.. ... $25 00 
Points to Remember. 
1. In ordering give the number and state the price. 
2. Any subscriber whose name is on The R. N.-Y.’s 
printed subscription list may buy as many as he pleases at 
these prices. He may supply every person at his post office, 
but he should charge 25 per cent, advance on these prices. 
3. This offer is open only to subscribers. It is made 
solely to protect them from The Watch Trust. The 
Rural New-Yorker is not in the watch business. It 
does not care whether a single subscriber buys a watch. 
If all its subscribers are protected, so much the better. 
If any are not, it proposes they shall be. This is a form of 
protection they can approve of. 
4. No subscription is included in the price paid. It is 
not offered as an inducement to subscribe. But it is open 
to all subscribers, and after a man’s name has been entered 
as a subscriber he is entitled to the protection. 
5. Every watch will be sent in perfect order, packed in 
cotton-batting, in a strong, wooden box, by registered 
mail. Both gold and silver cases must be kept away 
from sulphur, or they will tarnish. 
6. Send all orders and remittances to 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
Times Building, New York. 
Protection for Plant Originators.— It seems to me 
that protection to plant originators must come through 
the use of the name of the fruit, and this might be done 
through some amendments to the trade-mark law. In 
brief, such a law should make it a criminal offense punish¬ 
able by fine or imprisonment for any person to advertise, 
sell or attempt to sell any plant under the name of a 
registered trade-mark. It would be necessary to make it a 
criminal offense punishable by imprisonment in case of 
swindling tree peddlers who are almost universally finan¬ 
cially irresponsible; but if prison bars confronted them 
they would hesitate before rendering themselves liable to 
the penalty. While we have our trade-mark, the “Idaho 
Pear” registered, and can undoubtedly go into the United 
States Courts and enjoin nurserymen from labeling trees 
with that name, yet they can advertise to sell Idaho Pear 
trees; can label them No. 1; bill them to their customers 
as No. 1, so many Idaho Pear trees. But under the 
suggested amendments to the law this could not be done. 
Had we the protection above indicated, we could sell trees 
for less price than we advertise, make money and protect 
the public to a great extent from unscrupulous dealers. 
What think Rural readers of the suggestion ? 
THE IDAHO PEAR COMPANY. 
IMPLEMENT NOTES. 
Manure Wagon Wanted.— Will some of The Rural 
readers tell us how best to construct a dump bed for haul¬ 
ing manure on a four wheeled wagon, so that we can dump 
the load without pitching it out with a fork ? G. & D. 
Columbus, Ind. 
R. N.-Y.—We must refer this to our readers. Let us 
have suggestions. We often see two-wheeled carts with 
springs at the bottom, similar to those on coal carts. 
Gravel or sand may be unloaded by using narrow planks 
for the bottom of the wagon, taking the box off, and long 
boards for the sides. This might answer for some kinds of 
manure. We shall be glad to hear from any one who 
has plans to offer. In a volume of the Patent Office Ga¬ 
zette we notice the plan of a wagon that might be made to 
answer. The wagon-box is made in two sections, so that 
when divided the first section goes with the front wheels, 
while the rear section rests on the hind wheels. Both sec¬ 
tions rest on pivots, so that they can be readily dumped. 
When a load is to be emptied, the fastenings that hold the 
sections together are removed and the front wheels are 
hauled a short distance. The center of the wagon box then 
drops to the ground, and the load can be easily dumped. 
Corn cutting Machine.— In The Rural of August 3, 
I find an article concerning machinery for cutting up 
coru. The small sled referred to was introduced in this 
locality this year for the first time; but so rapidly has it 
come into use that I believe one-half of all the corn that 
will be cut will be cut with these machlues. Their work is 
quite satisfactory, and from oue-third to one-half more 
can be done per hand per day than with hand cutters, 
though the labor is quite as heavy. In using the one- 
horse two-row cutter (having a wing and knife on each 
side), two men ride on the sled and catch the corn as it is 
cut off until the shock is reached, when the horse is 
stopped aud the corn set up. We usually make shocks 
either 12 or 14 hills square, so that there are 24 hills of corn 
alongside the two men on the sled when the shock is 
reached. Of course the horse rests often; but he 
has to work hard while it lasts. Another device 
which I like much better is being introduced. It is a two- 
horse one-row cutter. The knife is bolted diagonally 
across the front end of the sled which runs astride the row, 
a horse being hitched to the front end of each runner, so 
that their work is light, and they can easily take the 
cutter along at a brisk walk. GEO. F. PETTIT. 
Oneida, Kan. 
Silage and Syrup From the Same Crop; A New 
Machine Needed. 
From 200 to 300 gallons of good syrup, and from 10 to 15 
tons of good silage can be obtained from each acre of sor¬ 
ghum on good land at the South, but owing to the cost and 
tedious nature of the labor of stripping the fodder and 
cutting the seed off the cane by hand, the sorghum indus¬ 
try of this section is at a standstill, and awaiting the ad¬ 
vent of a new machine which will give to this industry an 
impetus equal to that given by the cotton-gin to cotton¬ 
growing, or by the portable thrasher and cleaner to small 
grain raising. The machine needed is the simplest combi¬ 
nation of the cutting knife, fanner and cane crushers or 
rollers. About the only change needed in the common en¬ 
silage cutter and elevator is that the feed rollers should be 
movable, so that for cutting the cane they could be moved 
back about 12 inches from the blades to allow the seed 
heads to fall before they encounter the knife, the stalks 
being fed butt end foremost. As the cut cane and fodder 
fall from the knife, the fodder should be blown out by the 
fanner, and nothing but the heavy, cut cane should be al¬ 
lowed to fall directly between the jaws of the cane crush¬ 
ers or rollers, and after the juice has been squeezed out, 
the bagasse, cut fodder and seed heads should all fall on 
the carrier and be elevated into the silo for stock food, the 
cane juice being conducted to a tank near the evaporator. 
This machine or mill should be made of a size and sim¬ 
plicity to admit of its being operated by the same ordinary 
hands and the same five-horse-power engines that now run 
our traveling grain thrashers and cleaners. I am aware 
that some think the cane worthless after the juice has 
been pressed out; but I have seen both horses and cattle 
eating it greedily when fresh, and I see no reason why it 
would not make better silage after the juice has been 
pressed out than with so much watery juice in it. Sev¬ 
eral silo men in the South think sorghum better than corn 
for silage; but in my first silo (made eight years ago and 
the first in this State,) I objected to the excess of watery 
juices in the former, and if the surplus water has been 
pressed out, and the crashed cane, fodder and seed are well 
mixed, there is no good reason why the mixture should not 
make first-class silage; but in case the crushed refuse is 
not wanted, the machine for separating the seed and fod¬ 
der from the cane would still be the thing most needed to 
make sorghum perhaps the most profitable crop grown in 
the South, and, in my judgment, the man that first gets 
up the machine will make a fortune from its sale. 
Pendleton, S. C. j. c. stribling. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.— We have received two 
catalogues (No.’s 1 and 4) just issued by this thoroughly 
trustworthy and long-established firm, consisting of P. J. 
Berckmans, the President of the American Pomological 
Society, and his three sons who have received, under their 
father’s care, a thorough training in every branch of horti¬ 
culture. No. 1 is an illustrated catalogue of fruit and or¬ 
namental trees, hardy evergreens and roses; No. 4, roses, 
fruit trees, evergreens, etc., for Florida and the Gulf 
coast belt of the Southern States. These will be mailed to 
our readers on application. 
Sidney Tuttle & Co., proprietors of the Bloomington 
(III.) Phoenix Nurseries. A wholesale and retail catalogue 
of trees, plants, shrubs, roses, bulbs, etc. It may be well 
for our readers to compare the retail and wholesale prices. 
For example, a single Cuthbert Raspberry is 10 cents. The 
price for 100 is $1. 
Benj. Hammond, Fishkill-on-Hudson.— An illustrated 
catalogue of Hammond’s insecticides, dusters, bellows, etc. 
Preparations are put up in any quantities, which are guar¬ 
anteed to kill potato beetles, lice, scale, carpet beetles, as 
well as various fungoid growths. The treatise is free to 
applicants. 
Bush & Son & Meissner, Bushberg, Jefferson 
County, Mo. —A list of all the leading varieties of grapes. 
Probably the largest grape growers in the country. Every 
one should have a copy of the Bushberg catalogue. All 
the varieties are therein conservatively described and tne 
parentage given so far as known. It is an invaluable 
work to all who are interested in the grape industry. 
WINTER WORK FOR THE HORTICULTURIST. 
W. W. FARNSWORTH. 
“ Looking ahead a good way ?” Yes; but is not that the 
way to keep things running smoothly and profitably ? 
How many manufacturers could afford to “shutdown” 
or discharge a large portion or all of their help on the ad¬ 
vent of winter, and remain dormant until thawed out by 
Aprii’s sun? But this is what too many horticulturists 
do. Hauling manure is one of the jobs that are nearly al¬ 
ways in order. My own practice in most cases has been to 
apply it directly to the land, spreading it from the wagon 
at all times; my soil is level. Manure tnus applied mulches 
the soil for several months and the rains of early spring in¬ 
corporate the liquid portion more thoroughly with the soil. 
The disadvantages of the plan are an occasional slight loss 
of fertility, from rains when the ground is frozen, aud the 
latter will not become dry enough for the plow quite as 
early as if no manure had been spread ou it. If the ma¬ 
nure is free from grass aud weed seeds it may be used to 
mulch as well as fertilize the strawberry bed with grand 
