1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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DOGS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IH SILVER, 
EVEN AT A GOLD-STANDARD RATE. 
To many, a dog is a dog—to be feared, shunned or 
despised, as the case may be; to others, a faithful 
companion, a trusted friend. In some parts of the 
country, he is a semi-wild depredator and midnight 
marauder. It is safe to say that, so far as the farmers 
are concerned the country over, the dog is more of a 
curse than a blessing. But at the recent show of the 
Westminster Kennel Club, were dogs valued more 
highly than are many of the horses and cattle on our 
farms. They are not mongrels, but belong to estab¬ 
lished breeds, bred to perpetuate certain characteris¬ 
tics. The larger part of them are bred to satisfy fash¬ 
ions’ demands. The number adapted to utilitarian 
purposes, from the farmer’s standpoint, was small. 
The classes that embraced hunting dogs of various 
kinds were numerous. The small dogs that delight 
the hearts of the women and children were in con¬ 
siderable numbers, and it was a noticeable fact that 
the larger the woman, the smaller the dog she de¬ 
lighted to fondle. 
Of greatest interest to farmers, were the Collies. 
These always attract the attention of visitors to these 
shows, because of their intelligent appearance and 
friendly disposition. The standard requires that a 
Collie should present an elegant and pleasing outline, 
and exhibit strength, speed and intelligence. The 
head must be moderately long, covered with short, 
soft hair. Skull flat, moderately wide between the ears 
and tapering to the eyes. Muzzle must be of fair 
length, tapering to the nose, which should always be 
black. Teeth, level. Ears, small. Eyes, fair size, of 
any shade of brown, the darker the better. Neck, long, 
arched and muscular. The color is immaterial. In 
size, dogs should weigh 45 to 60 pounds, and bitches, 
40 to 50 pounds. The height of a dog is 21 to 24 inches, 
of a bitch, two inches less. The most of the Collies 
shown were rough coated. The smooth-coated ones 
do not seem to be popular. The best Collie in the 
show was Sefton Hero, exhibited by J. Pierpont Mor¬ 
gan. He was imported two years ago, £500 having 
been paid for him. 
The little Fox Terriers are the noisiest and most 
active of any breed. The color of these is largely 
white. They are strong and muscular, and are built 
for endurance. They are excellent as watch dogs, 
not so much for their power to capture and hold 
an intruder, as for their ability to raise the alarm. 
One of the newer breeds shown, and fine specimens 
they were, too, were the Boston Terriers. They are 
something between a Bulldog and a Bull Terrier. 
They are not fighting dogs, and are said to be of ex¬ 
cellent disposition, though brave and plucky. They 
are active and intelligent, and affectionate in disposi¬ 
tion. There are two classes—light and heavy weight, 
the former ranging from 15 to 25 pounds, and the 
latter from 25 to 35. It is said that the Bull Terriei’S 
were frowned upon in Boston because they turned up 
their noses at pork and beans. As these have in a 
measure taken their place in favor, it is probable that 
they have taken kindly to that delectable New Eng¬ 
land dish. 
The Russian Wolfhounds do not increase in numbers 
from year to year in these shows. They are among 
the fleetest and most powerful of dogs, but are of 
little practical value. In their native country, they 
are used for coursing wolves. They have excellent 
dispositions. 
The old Newfoundland breed seems to be going out 
of existence, as only three dogs were shown. The 
Mastiffs, Great Danes and St. Bernards are the 
popular large breeds at present. These might be 
utilized on the farm, on the tread power for churning 
or similar work. One Great Dane, Major McKinley, 
was sold during the show for $1,000. Many of these 
dogs are valued at prices far beyond those for which 
a stylish horse may be purchased. 
In small dogs there was great variety, many of 
them being shown in glass cases, resting on silken 
cushions, and with a maid constantly in attendance. 
Many women are engaged in breeding these, and if 
they find many purchasers at prices asked, should find 
it very profitable. The show was a big success. Never 
were so many or so fine dogs brought together before. 
The attendance was large and the financial -results 
must have been most satisfactory. 
A very finely packed basket of Catawba grapes 
caught the eye of the scribe. The cover was orna¬ 
mented with a lithograph label in colors, which 
stated that the contents were choice Lake Keuka 
Catawba grapes, warranted to be thoroughly ripe and 
of first quality. It also contained the grower’s name 
and address. The grapes were ripe and nice, large 
clusters of choice fruit—on top. Below they were 
refuse, trimmings, small clusters, and some that were 
imperfectly matured. It was the finest looking bas¬ 
ket of grapes purchased this year, so far as cover and 
top layer were concerned, and the poorest so far as 
quality of the most of the contents was concerned. 
Why will people continue such practices ? The buyer 
who is once deceived, will shun the goods of that 
packer in future. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
If you want pig forceps, or book on pigs free, write J. N. Reim- 
ers, 1900 H. Street, Davenport, la. 
A small city family wishes a neat country girl to do genera 
housework. Reference, The R. N.-Y. Address Good Home, care 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Mr. C. C. Asfohl, P. O. Box 358, Rieeville, la., raises mammoth 
pumpkins which he says weigh from 60 to 70, and sometimes over 
100 pounds. He is offering the seed of these pumpkins for sale. 
The spring shovel is an entire success on the Buckeye culti¬ 
vator. For particulars about it, address P. P. Mast & Co., 9 
Canal Street, Springfield, O. When this house puts an implement 
on the market, it has a guarantee of excellence. 
“ Cupid” is the latest as well as the most popular novelty of the 
season in flowers. It’s a dwarf sweet pea—only five inches high. 
It will be a popular home favorite as well as a garden plant. W. 
Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., are the introducers. 
During the season, we are often asked where to buy berry 
baskets in New York. We can refer such inquirers to A. H. 
Montague & Son, 120 Warren Street, New York City. This firm 
make all desirable sizes of boxes and crates, and are prepared to 
fill orders direct to the consumer. 
Derrick Oil Company, Titusville, Pa., are doing country people 
a service in offering to sell them refined oil at wholesale rates. It 
comes in barrels or tanks. The tank is a most desirable con¬ 
venience, with pump, cover and lock. Particulars in their adver¬ 
tisements or by mail on application. 
Mr. H. C. Pratt, manager of the Standard Wire Fence Com¬ 
pany, Canandaigua, N. Y., writes us that he will make a special 
price for his fence to the first customer in any neighborhood. 
This is a perfectly legitimate way of introducing and advertising 
an article of real merit. The later buyers lose nothing on account 
of the first one getting a bargain. 
The New England Conservatory of Music, of Boston, Mass., is 
an excellent institution at which to acquire a musical education. 
Here one may find every facility for studying music that is to be 
found in the great European universities. This is an American 
institution, and one well worthy the support of American students. 
All music-loving people will be glad to learn more about the con¬ 
servatory. Write to Frank W. Hale, general manager. 
Almost any farmer ought to get an inspiration to better and 
newer efforts in his business methods by observing the progress¬ 
ive methods of the advertisers in farm papers, who bid for the 
farmer’s trade. We are led to this thought by a novel method 
adopted by Mr. Willis Whinery, Salem, O. When he receives an 
application for stock, he takes the photograph of such stock as 
he thinks is nearest the applicant’s wish, and sends it to him. 
This gives the intending purchaser a good idea of the animal for 
which he is bargaining. 
What harrow shall I buy? That question comes up every 
spring for answer. In these hard times every dollar counts, and 
when a farmer buys a tool, he wants to get the right one—a tool 
that will actually do the work he has laid out. If a man wants a 
harrow —one that will break up clods and sods, and smooth and 
level the surface, he can’t do better than to buy an “ Acme.” The 
Acme will not dig or plow, and you can’t use it to cultivate corn 
—but it will harrow and leave the seed bed in better shape than 
any other tool you can get. Send to Duane H. Nash, Millington 
N. J., for catalogue, and also for two excellent articles by Henry 
Stewart and Waldo F. Brown. 
“ In Swampum, Up Stumpum, Railo.” 
Excuse our Latin ; but, if not quite classical, it is to the point, as the above return made by the 
sheriff on the writ when his prisoner took refuge in the swamp exactly expresses the condition of the 
De Laval Separator Company as disclosed by their latest advertisement. 
Nearly one-half of that “ad.” is entirely foreign to the patent matters, and on personalities with 
no foundation in fact. Everybody realizes that when any one stoops to personalities to cover up the 
main issue as the De Laval Company does, they have no valid arguments, and are cornered. 
NOTICE.—1st.—The De Laval Company in referring to Hotchkiss and Houston, whom that com¬ 
pany advertise the court decreed should not use the Hotchkiss Separator, does not deny that they do 
use the Improved United States Separator. 
NOTICE.—2nd.—If the claims of the De Laval Company that the United States was an infringe¬ 
ment were true, the court would have immediately granted an injunction against Hotchkiss and the 
others who were using the United States whom it had already decreed could not use the Hotchkiss 
machine; but the fact that the De Laval Company did not get an injunction against the United 
States is conclusive that the United States Separator does not infringe, and -the fact remains that 
Hotchkiss and the others are using them without molestation. This is prima facie evidence that the 
claim that the United States Separator infringes their patent is false, and is only put out for the 
purpose of frightening persons who prefer the United States. The patent that they claim a decree on 
covers only the internal construction of the bowl, comprising a series of discs or inverted pie plates or 
pudding dishes, with a hole through the bottom, numbering from 27 to 45 of these plates in each bowl, 
according to the size of the bowl. The United States Separator has nothing of the kind, and only 
three parts to the bowl. The simplicity of the United States and its perfect work is what is “knock¬ 
ing the De Laval Company silly.” 
NOTICE.—3rd.—The De Laval Company advertises that two firms of lawyers say the United 
States Separator infringes their patents. Two years ago they advertised as they do now, for the 
purpose of bulldozing and frightening persons who prefer the United States, the opinions of four 
firms of lawyers. They have now dropped one-half the number, and in two years more the other two 
will drop out and be ashamed that they ever made such a statement. The court does not so decree, 
and it is the decree of the court that carries authority with it, and not the opinion of lawyers who 
are paid large fees. 
NOTICE.—4th.—The De Laval Company has claimed for more than ten years that every separator 
was an infringement, yet in all this time they have never sustained their claims except against j 
Hotchkiss, who made no defense; and Houston and all the other users of Hotchkiss’ machines were 
assured that if they would only allow a decree to be entered against them, the De Laval Company 
would pay all costs and damages themselves. It therefore cost the users not one cent. Everyone 
knows the De Laval Company would not have paid the costs themselves had they had any confidence 
in their case. 
NOTICE.—5th.—The De Laval Company say in their “ ad.” that “ they have only delayed prose¬ 
cuting the United States from the fact that the number of such machines in use is hardly sufficient 
to justify the legal expense.” How false and ridiculous this statement, after the case against Hotch¬ 
kiss, who had made less than three dozen machines, when every one knows there are thousands of 
the United States Separators in use. But this admission of the De Laval Company rather confirms 
the statement that Hotchkiss makes that his attorneys advised him he could win if he had the means 
to fight the case, and shows that they jumped on to a poor man like Hotchkiss, knowing that he had 
no money to protect himself with. 
NOTICE.—6th.—The De Laval Company state that Hotchkiss is our agent. This is another false 
statement—he is not, and never was. Mr. Ilulbert is the largest merchant in Downsville, which the 
De Laval Company do not deny. We sell him many goods, and are jjleased to do so. We have never 
sold him at half price—another false statement of the De Laval Company—but the De Laval Com¬ 
pany were so anxious the Hotchkiss patrons should have the De Laval Separators that their county 
agent visited Downsville several times to make the trade, and the De Laval Company offered to 
trade their No. 2 Baby Separator, price $125, for $75 and Hotchkiss infringing machine. “ We leave 
FEBRUARY 28, 1890. 
the public, including the few who have been deluded into buying the De Laval machines at full 
price, to judge of these matters for themselves, and we challenge the denial under oath.” 
NOTICE.—7th.—The De Laval Company, after trying so hard to make the sales to Hotchkiss’ 
patrons, and upon finding that they had decided to buy the United States Separators, wrote threaten¬ 
ing letters to them, trying to frighten them and prevent their purchasing the United States Separa¬ 
tors, but did not succeed. 
NOTICE.—8th.—The De Laval Company deny Hotchkiss’ statement of what his attorneys advised, 
and say his attorneys advised “that it was a waste of money to proceed and that he was sure to be 
beaten.” We challenge the De Laval Company to make this statement under oath. The De Laval 
Company say further that Hotchkiss’ attorneys assured other infringers of the same patent * * * 
that they could do nothing, and finally actually refused the proffered financial support of an out¬ 
side infringer.” This is so flagrant a falsehood that it provokes a smile from all experienced liti¬ 
gants. We challenge the De Laval Company to make this statement under oath, using the firm name 
of the lawyers in the oath. 
NOTICE.—9th.—The De Laval Company have got so desperate because the Improved United 
States Separator is taking the trade away from them that they go so far as to warn the public that 
they fear the United States will be still further improved, evidently realizing that this progressive 
machine will be still further in advance of them in the future than it is to-day. Did any one 
ever bear a more childish and humiliating whine than that ? 
NOTICE.—10th.—The De Laval Company use considerable space to explain the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion records of tests of separators which show that their separator was beaten in the tests—and 
utter another whine. It is too bad for them that their separators are beaten by the United States at 
the Stations, but how fortunate for the dairy public that the superiority of the United States Sepa¬ 
rators has been so clearly demonstrated at these stations. 
NOTICE.—11th.—The De Laval Company intimate that the United States Separators are run at sta¬ 
tions under the supervision of experts. Now let us see what the facts are: At the Vermont Station 
Creamery Course just closed, the United States had one man only to look after them. The De Laval had 
their county agent, the general agent for New England, an expert from the factory in New York, and an 
expert direct from the main factory in Stockholm, Sweden, to look after their separators. The De 
Laval Company always have more men at the Stations to look after their machines than any other 
separator company, and yet they complain that others are allowed even one representative, and he 
not an expert. They whine because the United States had one man to their four ! 
NOTICE.—12th.—The De Laval Company, not being satisfied with having more operators and 
experts than any other separator company to look after their separators, in addition to this had the 
impudence to issue and send to the Experiment Stations a circular letter, the burden of which was 
that the stations should not make the mistake of trying new and improved machines, but should 
give the De Laval the preference, with the hope, no doubt, of having the officials run the stations in 
the interests of the De Laval Company rather than in the interests of the dairy public. 
In the foregoing we have stated the case truthfully, and we believe fairly, and we think every 
reader will concede that we commenced our article with a proper quotation, and agree with us that 
if the De Laval Company’s slippery hold upon the stump should give way, they would go clear out of 
sight in the mire. 
We have been incorporated and doing business for twenty-three years, owning many 
valuable patents, and manufacturing under them. We employ the best patent experts in 
the United States, and never have infringed other patents, and never expect to; and 
neither will we allow the De Daval Company, nor any one else, to infringe our patents 
with impunity. In all this long 2>eriod no purchaser of our manufactures has ever had to 
pay one cent of costs or damages for any claimed infringement. We have always protected 
our patrons from all annoyance of this hind, and always will, so that our name has be¬ 
come a synonym for jrrotection to our patrons. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE COMPANY, Bellows Falls, Vt 
