March Si 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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" THE LITTLE COW.” 
The latest story is about a city man who rented 
a small farm for the summer. On it were a cow 
and her little calf. The farmer wanted the Cit to 
hire the cow, and he cracked her up with all his 
eloquence, claiming that she gave eight quarts a 
day, even after the calf had filled up. 
“ Oh no,” said Mr. Cit. “ That’s too much for 
my family. We never could use that much milk 
—take that little cow now. She’s about our family 
size—what will you rent her for ?” 
Now a calf is a little cow, but after Cit paid his 
rent, he found that her milk is a mighty imagin¬ 
ary quantity. When some of you good people 
look at this little snip of a department this week, 
you may feel about the same as Cit did the first 
time he tried to milk that calf. But no—we’re 
small, but we're select this week. Few words but 
much wisdom. Here are two bits of .advice that 
are worth their weight in gold : 
1. Read every advertisement in this paper, and 
answer every one that offers what you think you 
ought to have. Send a letter off on a bargain 
hunt wherever you can scent game in an adver¬ 
tisement. 
2. Remember those subscription prizes and the 
books! There’s that neighbor of yours! Cap¬ 
ture him! Why—see what this Pennsylvania 
man did : 
•‘Two weeks ago, a neighbor was at my house 
when I gave him your paper to read. He seemed 
to take a liking to the paper, and said that he 
would subscribe for it. Then in the January 11 
number, you are offering books for a new yearly 
subscription sent to you with |1. So I went to my 
neighbor the following week to get him for you 
as a subscriber, but he had sent the dollar on 
the previous Thursday.” M. b. s. 
Of course this man got the book. 
Now then, the “little cow” is at the end of her 
rope—but we shall stretch it enough to print the 
following list of dollar-winners for last week. 
Here they are: 
March 9 —W. S. Moore, Chenango Co., N. Y. 
10. —H. II. Studlev, Valley County, Neb. 
11. —Chas. Caldwell, Mercer County, Pa. 
12. —E. G. Kelts, Tioga County, Pa. 
13. —Jos. Morris, Sanilac County, Mich. 
14. —Edwin Scott, Lackawanna Co., Pa 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
White clover honey is scarce and firm. 
The Virginia peanut growers have reorganized. 
Stocks of cheese are reported to be extremely 
light. 
The market for dry beans is extremely dull and 
weak. 
The butter market is in good shape for fancy 
brands. 
Trade in hops is slow, and the market dull and 
unchanged. 
Receipts of eggs have not been large, but the 
market is dull. 
The fur trade has been extremely dull and 
quiet this winter. 
A good live poultry market is probable until 
after the Passover. 
Game is not in large supply, but in most lines 
fully equals the demand. 
There has been considerable export demand 
for fresh factory butter. 
Nevada is reported to be sending plenty of 
choice butter to California. 
Plans are under way for an exposition of south¬ 
ern products in Chicago next fall. 
New York city consumes, in round numbers, 
about 1 , 000,000 quarts of milk daily. 
The freight rate on beans via the Southern 
Pacific Railroad, has been reduced. 
Considerable damage has been caused in some 
parts of California by frosts early in this month. 
The time for the order for the inspection of 
meat for export, to take effect, has been extended 
to June 1. 
Florida cabbage has come in freely, and indica¬ 
tions are for heavier receipts. Prices are some¬ 
what lower. 
The Lenten season causes a decline in the de¬ 
mand for meats, and an increase in that for 
fish and eggs. 
There was a big drop in butter and cheese when 
four cars went into the river when being put on 
fioats in the yards of the P. R. R. 
More than 500 head of hothouse lambs were re¬ 
ceived last week, and prices had to be cut con¬ 
siderably in order to clean up the stock. 
Two truckmen were recently arrested in this 
city for having on their trucks several packages 
of oleomargarine not marked according to law. 
Some of the southern California papers an¬ 
nounce that some of the growers of hard-shell 
walnuts are taking out their trees because of low 
prices. 
Prof. Robertson, of Canada, says that the Brit¬ 
ish markets prefer butter pale in color, lightly 
salted, packed in 50-pound packages lined with 
thick paper. 
Receipts of live poultry last week footed up to 
40 car-loads, an unusually large quantity for any 
other than a week containing a Jewish holiday. 
The market weakened considerably in conse¬ 
quence of the heavy receipts. 
Denmark sends England more than 150,000,000 
pounds of butter and pork in a year. But she 
sends good goods, and has agents to look out for 
her interests. 
A company is reported in process of formation 
at Norfolk, Va., to build a mill for the extraction 
of oil from the peanut This will be likely to help 
the peanut industry. 
The National Butter and Cheesemakers’ As¬ 
sociation, at its recent meeting at Cedar Rapids, 
la., passed a resolution demanding the passage 
of the Wilber bill against filled cheese. 
The Board of Health have decided to allow 
commission merchants to sell small calves if they 
weigh over 45 pounds dressed, although previous 
regulations called for a weight of not less than 60 
pounds. 
Why don’t farmers raise more turkeys ? The 
supply is far below the demand. Late hatched 
ones that will be of medium size in midwinter, 
would seem likely, from the range of prices in the 
past, to prove most profitable. 
The Attorney General of New York State has 
Instituted suits against Armour <fc Co., of Chicago, 
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The New York Journal 
recently offered ten bi¬ 
cycles to the ten win¬ 
ners in a guessing con¬ 
test, leaving the choice 
of machine to each. 
ALL OF THEM 
chose: 
A’fl 
Standard of the World. 
Nine immediately, and one after he had 
looked at others. And the Journal 
bought ten Columbias. Paid $100 each 
for them, too. On even terms a Col¬ 
umbia is chosen 
10 M 10 
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The Price of Wheat 
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The Nitrate can be obtained of any dealer in fer¬ 
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FACTS 
like the following are what make our competi¬ 
tors writhe so in the agony of defeat: 
I have no trouble in convincing others of the superior 
merits of the Improved United States Separator, as any one 
can ascertain by enquiring in this section, as I have sold 
to my neighbors io Improved U. S. Separators, seven 
of these in my own town, where there have been in the last 
five months placed on trial, 5 DeLavals, 4 Sharpies and 
1 Empire, and at the present time no one in town 
owns any other Separator than the Improved 
United States. w. n. DUN KLEE. 
South Vernon, Vt., Mar. 7, 1896. 
I have placed nearly 20 Improved United States 
Separators in 30 days, and have not had one complaint. 
C. E. IIULBERT. 
Downsville, Del. Co., N. Y., Dec. 30, 1895. 
Cornell University Bulletin No. 105, page 109, gives 19 tests of the Improved 
United States Separator, running through February and March, the average of all 
being only O.05 of l Per Cent, of fat, excelling all dairy Separators at the Station. 
Send for Catalogues. VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Yt. 
