1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
659 
“Making a Market.” 
Webb Donnell, Maine. —There were 
two points in The R. N.-Y. for June 6, 
that have so striking 1 a connection, that 
they deserve to be firmly joined together 
in a succeeding issue, that the lesson 
that is thus taught may not he lost upon 
the readers. The article on strawberry 
growing in Florida stated that, near the 
close of the season, thousands of bush¬ 
els of berries are allowed to rot in the 
fields because the price at the North has 
fallen so low that it does not pay to 
pick and ship them. Elsewhere, in the 
same issue of the paper, is the experience 
of a man who has used his evaporator 
for evaporating strawberries, and has 
found the evaporated product delicious. 
Instead of letting the berries rot in 
Florida fields, let the owners evaporate 
the strawberries, and add a new product 
to the market. It is shrewd adaptation 
of circumstances that is the keynote of 
success in farming in these times of 
small margins of profit. Farmers and 
fruit growers have wasted enough, in 
times past, to make them all independ¬ 
ently rich. 
In the manufacturing industries of the 
world, nothing is allowed to go to waste, 
and material that, to the ordinary ob¬ 
servation, would be utterly worthless, 
by the aid of chemistry, has been turned 
into articles that have a ready sale. 
Only by this careful saving have manu¬ 
facturers been able to make money in 
these days of sharp competition. The 
farmer and fruit grower must learn the 
same lesson, and give more attention to 
stopping the waste of valuable material. 
Many of us, for instance, have seen hun¬ 
dreds of bushels of apples rotting under 
the trees in farm orchards, because it 
was thought that the price would not 
pay for picking and marketing. This 
fruit might have been worked up 
into a choice article of cider vinegar, 
into apple jelly, put up in glasses, into 
apple butter or cider jelly, all of which 
have a constant sale in the grocery 
stores. It is the same with many other 
farm products now often wasted. They 
may be made to assume a form which 
will make them desired at remunerative 
prices, though, in their original form, 
they might have found a glutted mar¬ 
ket. The farmer must be sharp to 
“ catch on ” to these points, for they are 
becoming of more and more vital im¬ 
portance every day, so changed and 
changing are becoming the conditions 
of supply and demand in this country. 
Apples for Milch Cows. 
J. S. W., Lockpobt, N. Y.—I do not 
think that there is any better food for 
milch cows than ripe, sound apples. I 
am aware that the prevalent opinion is 
that apples have a tendency to make 
cows sick and dry them up. As con¬ 
firmatory of this, 1 have heard of numer¬ 
ous instances where cows have broken 
into orchards and eaten their fill of ap¬ 
ples, and have been made sick, in a few 
instances have died as the result. I 
also knew a case where a man ate an 
unreasonable quantity of baked beans, 
and it killed him. Now the one case, no 
more proves that ripe apples are not 
good cow food than that baked beans 
are not good human food. 
The proper way to feed apples to cows 
is to have them ripe and sound ; green 
or rotten apples are not good food for 
anything. The cows should never be 
given a full feed of them at first, or 
given them on an empty stomach. At 
the first, the cow should have no more 
than two or three quarts once a day, 
but this may be increased so that, in 10 
days, she may be safely fed one peck 
twice a day, and if a very large cow, 
twice this quantity. In all cases, the 
cow should have some dry food when 
eating apples, and as apples are quite 
wide in nutritive ratio—1:8—she should 
have something like clover hay or wheat 
bran to balance the ration. Cotton-seed 
meal is a capital food to add to apples 
for cows, as its effect is constipating, 
while the apples are rather laxative. 
Still I would prefer to feed a mixture of 
cotton-seed meal and wheat bran. If, 
when feeding liberally on apples, the 
hay should happen to be clover largely, 
then it would be well to add a little corn 
meal to the provender, say, make it one- 
third each corn meal, cotton-seed meal 
and wheat bran. 
There is some danger when feeding 
whole apples, that the cow may choke ; 
but if a pair of posts or stakes be firmly 
set in the ground or made fast to the 
floor like a pair of stanchions, just far 
enough apart to admit a cow’s neck, and 
a hole be bored just high enough so that 
a pin put through will prevent the ani¬ 
mal raising her head quite level, it will 
be impossible tor the apples to roll down 
into the throat and choke her. The 
same apparatus will prevent animals 
choking when eating potatoes or any 
other food. What makes the animal 
choke is raising the head so high that 
the pieces slip, by their own weight, 
into the gullet. 
Coal Ashes for Evergreens. 
E. B W., Newton, Ia.—I notice that 
the subject of coal ashes in the soil has 
been discussed in The R. N.-Y. recently. 
Two of my neighbors have had experi¬ 
ence with the ashes of soft coal around 
evergreen trees, that may be of value to 
others. One has a large windbreak of 
maples and cottonwoods on the north 
and west of his house. It had grown 
up so thick and high, and left so much 
space beneath the branches, that the 
snow drifted through it badly. To pre¬ 
vent this, he set out a double row of 
spruce on the north of the old wind¬ 
break. Previous to this, he had carried 
the ashes from the house through the 
grove north, and emptied them over the 
fence. When the evergreens were set, 
the fence was moved further north, and 
the row of evergreens crossed the pile 
of ashes. The trees that were set in the 
ashes all died, and they were the only 
ones that did die. Mr. Dodge then dug 
out large holes in the cinder heaps, set 
new trees in them, and filled up with 
good earth. lie also watered very faith¬ 
fully, but they died. I think that he 
tried the third time. At any rate, he 
has not succeeded in getting a tree to 
grow where there were any ashes in the 
ground. 
The other neighbor set out 50 or more 
trees in his lawn, four or five years ago, 
mostly Balsam Fir, and he hauled coal 
ashes to mulch most of them. He thought 
that it would keep down the weeds, and 
keep the ground cool and moist. Per¬ 
haps it did the first year, but the second 
year, the trees began to die. As soon as 
one died, he replaced it, but after a 
while, he decided that the ashes were 
hurting them, so he took them all away 
from the trees. But that did not remedy 
matters, for they kept on dying, and he 
found that if he set out a tree where the 
coal ashes had lain for some time, it 
would die, for the poison seemed to go 
into the ground. If he wanted a tree to 
grow in that place, he had to remove a 
large block of soil, and replace it with 
fresh. So his little mistake of mulching 
with coal ashes cost him considerable 
money, plenty of hard work, and loss of 
time in the growth of his trees, besides 
making the trees uneven in size. 
Our nlacksmith tells me that the coal 
mined here has so much sulphur in it 
that he cannot use it in his forge, but be 
buys Pennsylvania soft coal. Perhaps, it 
is the sulphur in the ashes that injures 
the evergreen trees. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Potash 
is a necessary and important 
ingredient of complete fer¬ 
tilizers. Crops of all kinds 
require a properly balanced 
manure. 
The Best 
Fertilizers 
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Pittsburgh. 
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Pittsburgh. 
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Pittsburgh. 
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ECKSTEIN ) 
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JEWETT 
ULSTER 
UNION 
SOUTHERN 
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MISSOURI 
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SOUTHERN 
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Chicago. 
St. Louis. 
JOHN T. LEWIS BROS.CO 
Philadelphia. 
MORLEY 
Cleveland. 
SALEM 
Salem, Mass. 
CORNELL 
Buffalo. 
KENTUCKY 
Louisville. 
N O MISREPRESENTATION on the 
part of our agents tolerated or of 
dealers or painters necessary. You 
know just what you are getting when you 
have painting done with 
Pure W hite Lead 
(see list of brands, which are genuine) and 
Pure Linseed Oil. Don’t be misled by try¬ 
ing something else said to be “just as good.” 
Any desired shade or color may be easily 
produced by using National Lead Co.’s 
Pure White . Lead Tinting Colors. 
Pamphlet giving valuable information and card showing samples 
of colors tree; also cards showing pictures of twelve houses of different 
designs painted in various styles or combinations of shades forwarded 
upon application to those intending to paint. 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., 
1 Broadway, New York. 
Don’t 
Suffer 
any longer from 
Asthma 
It is needless. 
Never mind if you have “tried every¬ 
thing ” and failed. Never mind if you 
feel discouraged and hopeless. Never 
mind if your ease has seemed incurable. 
Try once more and you will never re¬ 
gret it. We will tell you frankly if we 
can’t help you. 
“ This is one of the happiest, summers I 
have seen in JO years. No asthma, sleep 
good, good appetite, and work hard—why 
not bo happy after so many years’ sutTei- 
ing with that terriolo asthma? My family 
doctor says, ‘ What a miracle ’ i ” 
THOS. J. BRADBUUN. 
Rose, N. Y. 
WRITE TO 
Dr. Hayes, Buffalo, N. Y. 
FOR PARTICULARS. 
PAGE FENCE HOLDS BEARS! 
“Haint got any bears, don’t want any, so 
what do I care?’’ Simply this: It’s another 
proof of the benefit of elasticity. Owing to 
his weight, strength, persistency and ability 
to climb, bruin can discount all the bulls rin 
creation testing wire fence, and none but 
Page can hold him. Read particulars in 
July “Hustler.” 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 
BENCH 
& DROMGOLD’S 
SAWMILMNGINES 
A wonderful improvement in Friction Feeds and 
Gig-Back. Buck motion of Carriage:! times as fast 
asanyotlier in tliemarket. Friction Clutch Feed, 
causing all the feed gearing to stand still while back¬ 
ing; great Having in power nml wear. Send 
4 cents iu stamps for large Catalogue and prices Also 
Spring Harrows, Hay Itakes, Cultivators, 
Corn Planters, Shellers, etc. Mention this paper. 
HENCII & DUOMGOLDi Mfrs., York, Pa. 
“SUGCESS”Jr. 
A A IMPROVED 
DIGGER POTATO 
DIGGER 
YOU WANT a digger 
that will please you. We 
want to put 10,000 samples 
ON TRIAL 
for Introduction. 
FREICHT PAID. 
If your d ealer cannot 
show you our improved 
_ “SUCCESS" send at once for particulars. 
D. Y. HALLOCK & SON, Box805 York, Pa. 
U. S. Cook Stove Drier. 
In many localities, fruit is an abun¬ 
dant crop this year. Choice fruit will, 
undoubtedly, command, a fair price ; but 
you must not put one inferior apple in 
the barrel for shipment. Mix choice 
and inferior fruit, and. the whole will 
sell at the price of the poorest. The in¬ 
ferior stock would better be dried for 
future use or sale. There is. besides, a 
certain amount of fruit around almost 
every farm home, that goes to waste. 
KEYSTONE WOVEN WIRE FENCE : 
Will turn your stock. Perfectly safe. 25 • 
to 58 inches high. • 
If interested, drop us a cutd, and we will • 
mail Illustrated catalogue. * 
KEYS TONE WO VEN WIRE FENCE CO., 2 
19 Rush St.. Peoria. Ill. • 
Why not gather this and dry it for use 
when needed? The U. S. Cook Stove 
Alio manufacturer. of Irua Cresting, Iron Turbine and 
Buckeye Wind Engines, Bueksye Force Pumps, 
Buckeye, Globe sad Champion Lawn Mowers. Sena 
for Illustrated Catalogue and Prices to 
MAST. FOOS & CO. SPRINCFIELD. O. 
Drier will be found a great convenience 
in this work. It may be set on top of 
the cook stove, and no extra fire is 
needed. The regular price is $7, but we 
have been able to get better and. better 
rates every year, and can now send it 
and a year’s subscription to The R. N.-Y. 
for $5. There is no experiment in using 
these driers now. They have been used, 
for years with perfect satisfaction. 
TnE Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
contain a high percentage 
of Potash. 
All about Potash — the results of its use 
by actual experiment on the best farms in 
the United States — is told in a little book 
which we publish and will gladly mail free 
to any farmer in America who will write 
for it. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau St., New York, 
WOVEN MBS FENCE 
Over 50 styles\BestoneMtlL Horse-high, 
ou can | 
day for 
12 to 20c. a Rod. 
Uimrirated Catalogue Frs#, 
KITSELMAN BROS,, 
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; fRiageviiioj 
Indiana. 
rt>0‘00 Tor » 
0>O MACHINE 
to weaveyourown feuceof 
Coiled Hard Steel 
Spring Wire, 
52 indies high, at 
25 Cts. per Rod. 
820 buys wire for lOO 
rod fence. Agent* 
Wanted Catalogue Free. 
CARTER 
w i re Fe nee U aeti .C’o. 
Box30 -Mt.Sterling,O, 
