1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Butteu is up two to three cents, except 
storage creamery, which is practically un¬ 
changed. The quantity of prime fresh goods 
on the way is only moderate. The price of 
milk remains one-half cent per quart above 
last year's figures, and this reduces the but¬ 
ter output in some of the territory within 
milk shipping distance of New York. The 
market on factory and packing stock is firm. 
Egos. —Since last week's report a drop of 
four cents on nearly all grades is noted, and 
still further declines have been checked by 
shippers putting a price limit on the stock- 
unsold or on the way. This steadies the mar¬ 
ket for a time, but practically everything de¬ 
pends on the weather in the largest producing 
sections. If favorable for production another 
drop of five cents or more may be expected 
within a week or two. 
A Fine Point Settled.—O ne of the ques¬ 
tions with which the Board of Appraisers and 
T'nited States Circuit Court of Appeals have 
been wrestling related to the exact tariff 
status of the little spheres actively used in 
that exerciser of intellectual fiber, the game 
of ping pong. The importers of these little 
balls attempted to bring them in as toys, sub¬ 
ject. to 35 per cent duty, hut the collector 
of customs assessed them as manufactures 
of pyroxylin, at more than double this 
amount. On protest the general appraisers 
sustained the claim of the firm. The Treas¬ 
ury Department then took the case to the Cir¬ 
cuit Court of Appeals, which has decided that 
ping pong bails are not toys, hut are subject 
to the higher duty. The court’s decision in 
part is as follows: 
"We cannot close our eyes to the fact that 
the game of ping pong is ordinarily played on 
a table which is of such a height that it 
would he difficult for children td play the 
game; that it is a game indulged in by adults, 
and one which requires a degree of skill not 
ordinarily possessed by children, and that 
ping pong balls are sold in stores where ath¬ 
letic goods, such as footballs and baseballs, 
tennis and golf halls, are sold. The fact that 
small boys indulge in games of baseball and 
football does not serve to bring the balls 
within the category of toys.” 
Wool.—B oston, which is the great wool 
market for this country, is having a brisk 
trade, running toward 2,500,000 pounds a 
week, hut prices are held at a little above the 
mark at which the manufacturing trade is 
willing to stock up heavily. Dealers have 
hoped to run prices up still higher, but it now 
seems that the top has been reached. Some 
of the figures current at present are: Scoured, 
58 to 70 cents; Texas and Wyoming, not 
cleaned, 21 ; Ohio unwashed delaine, 28 to 20 ; 
washed, 37 to .'IS; South American one-fourth 
bipod, 55 ; carpet wools, from 20 to 32. Trade 
at the London auctions continues good, Amer¬ 
icans taking considerable fine greasy merino 
and bright crossbreds at prices considered 
high. Following is the range of recent sales: 
New Zealand, greasy, 12 to 20 cents; Queens¬ 
land, scoured, 20 to 47 ; Cape of (lood Hope, 
scoured, 17 to 37. Shearing in Arizona and 
other portions of the Southwest will com¬ 
mence very soon. Buyers are already on hand 
and a large part of the clip will be taken at 
once. 
Apples. —Interest in the apple market is 
Increasing and many people are wondering 
when the expected rise in price, for which sq 
much fruit has been held, will take place. 
Dealers are giving out statements of the quan¬ 
tity now in storage, well calculated to frighten 
growers who have not sold into disposing of 
their stock at once, particularly those held in 
common cellars, where the fruit is soon likely 
to lose firmness. One authoritv says that the 
quantity still held is nearly 4,000,000 barrels, 
two-fifths in common storage and three-fifths 
in cold houses, a discouraging outlook if this 
estimate is to be taken at all seriously. Week 
after week one fact is strongly emphasized in 
this market, viz., that too many medium and 
low grade apples have been held. The offer¬ 
ings have constantly been peppered with fruit 
of this character, which ought to have been 
disposed of in some way last Fall. So many 
good apples are grown in this country every 
year that the time when much stock below 
"medium can safely be held has passed. Im¬ 
proved methods of dairying have increased 
the percentage of prime butter and put poor 
at a discount, and the same is true of horti¬ 
cultural methods which have turned out. large 
quantities of apples free from worms, scab 
and other defects. A fallacy which seems to 
he widely believed is that quality in com¬ 
mercial apples is of little account compared 
with looks. I recently heard a man say in a 
large horticultural meeting that it "doesn’t 
make any difference what the quality is for 
city markets so long as the apples look fine.” 
It is true that a good many gold-brick apples 
have been sold here, but the people who buy 
them make their opinions known, and do not 
buy the same again. For three years I 
have noticed a steady decrease in re¬ 
tail offerings of high colored but poor varie¬ 
ties, and at present but few are to he seen in 
the retail stores compared with a few years 
ago. They are slowly being weeded out. and 
those who plant with the idea that quality- 
does not. count are likely to lie disappointed. 
Railroad Matters.- —Numerous bills for the 
“regulation" of railroad rates, etc., are sprout¬ 
ing up in Congress. The time when easy reg¬ 
ulating can be done has long since passed, be¬ 
cause from a physical standpoint it is easier 
to thrash a small boy than a big one. It 
has often been noted, particularly in com¬ 
mercial affairs, that the more controlling 
power a man gets the bigger hog he becomes, 
and the more numerous his business connec¬ 
tions the greater the field for the operation 
of his greed. This explains why the indi¬ 
vidual Tom. Dick and Harry, here and there, 
can he a very mean man without creating any 
widespread complaint, while everyone wishes 
to put the screws on a transportation com¬ 
pany that indulges in the same practices, thus 
apparently establishing a higher standard of 
business integrity for corporations than for 
individuals, which, from the viewpoint of 
their wider power for help or harm to the 
whole country, and the special charter privi¬ 
leges granted them, is just. Most of the leg¬ 
islation thus far proposed is so loaded down 
with red-tapism that little help can lie ex¬ 
pected unless pruned and amended so as to 
hit the point without an endless system of 
referring the questions from one commission 
to another and thus dodging the whole issue. 
A few of the difficulties in the way of dealing 
with railroads as a whole are: Difference in 
cost of building and repairs, owing to char¬ 
acter of soil, grades, weather conditions, 
etc.: difference in operating expenses; con¬ 
venience of terminals, and the ups and downs 
in tlie history of the roads caused by good 
or bad management. These and many other 
considerations, understood best by railroad 
men, are some matters that rate-adjusting 
commissions will have to struggle with in 
order to accomplish anything useful to the 
public within constitutional limits. Merely 
playing tag around these questions will hasten 
more radical measures of Government control. 
w. w. II. 
Salting Cattle.- When feeding salt to 
the cattle sprinkle some on ton of the head 
and neck, and see if the habit of gentleness 
and cleaning each other does not grow fast 
while the practice is kept up, especially with 
the hornless ones. f. d. ii. 
Mixed Fodder. —A few years ago when 
we tried Winter rye, oats and peas. Japanese 
millet and green cornstalks we found that 
there would be weeks between finishing up 
the cutting of one kind before another would 
be ready. We also found that daily cutting 
of them interfered with our other work, and 
there was so much waste of time in the 
changing over, first to cut the feed, then 
to stop the work of one of the teams to 
haul to the barn, that we concluded it was 
better to feed dry hay from the barn, even 
if results were not quite as good. 
Maine. .r. henry rines. 
An Unpractical Mixture. —It seems to me 
you are printing something very unpractical 
in that recipe of I’rof. Hayward's, of Penn¬ 
sylvania State College, for raising calves 
without milk. I hunted around considerable 
to find some of the ingredients, and finally 
got a large drug firm to hunt over New York 
City and find that nutrium would cost about 
10 cents per pound in quantities, while co- 
coanut meal could not be found in New York. 
I was referred for that to a large Phila¬ 
delphia firm that manufactures it. You see 
that for a small number of animals it would 
cost more than they are worth, unless they 
are registered stock. I was quite anxious 
to find a cheap means of raising one calf 
without milk. f. m. 
Plainfield, N. .T. 
When you write advertisers mention Tiie 
I i. N.-Y. an'd you'll get a quick reply and 
"a square deal.” See guarantee, page 14. 
Actual Test 
has established the fact that the NEW 
DEERE No. 9 Edge Drop Corn Plant¬ 
er has the most perfect dropping ar- j 
rangement and drill attachment on the 
market. 
This is a corn planter that counts 
and does it a.ccura.tely— 92 to 98 per- | 
cent being its average in hundreds of 
careful tests. A planter that has the 
slightest tendency to uncertainty may 
mean a big loss on the crop as a whole. 
The extra 10 or 15 bushels per acre 
secured with the DEERE is all extra 
profit. Besides, the cost of cultivation 
is no greater with a perfect stand than 
with half a stand. 
The NEW DEERE has a system of 
valves that is simple in construction, 
efficient in action. No stringing of | 
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from hilling to drilling or vice versa is 
insta.ntly made. No switching of the 
valves. 
There are many other valuable I 
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or call on your dealer for further in- | 
formation. Reputable dealers every¬ 
where handle our goods. 
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“MORE CORN.” 
DEERE & 
Mansur Co., 
Moline. Ill. 
USB 
(Sold with or without Elevator.) 
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Have conical shaped grinders. Different j 
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7 hIzom— 2 to 25 horse power. One style for j 
wind wheel use. (Also make 8 weep 
OrinderH—Oeared uiid Plain.) 
P. N. B0WSHER, South Bend, Ind. 
Average 
Yield 125 
Bus. per Acre 
for 10 
Years 
LONG’S CHAMPION 
YELLOW DENT CORN 
remark able com, now offered for pale for the firpt time, 
ip tne result of 25 years’ careful selection and breeding. I 
produced at the rate of 1)50 bushels to the acre, and my average 
this year on 84 acres is better than 125 bushels per acre. All my 
seed is personally selected at husking time and is given special 
attention in curing and drying. Only a limited 
quantity has been selected for seed, and*will be sold 
only by the originator, and Peter Henderson & Co., 
35 Cortlandt St.. N. Y. City. "Will be sold with the 
small ends taken off, band-shelled and every ear 
inspected . Price $8.00 per bushel. Not less than one 
bushel will be sold. ^All ordeTs should be forwarded 
before March 15th. In Lebanon valley, Pa., this 
corn has never failed to mature by September 20th. 
S it is a very rank trrower, and for silage will mature 
anywhere. 
T also have a limited quantity of Long’s White Tartar Oats, Imported and grown by me. 
I consider them superior in yield and in every other respect to any other oats in the United 
States. This seed is also carefully selected. 
I. S. LONG, 
RICHLAND, LEBANON CO., PA. 
OR 102 WARREN ST., NEW YORK. 
Farmer’s Favorite 
Feed Cooker 
Is the model for cooking feed 
and best adapted to water heat¬ 
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sugar making, etc.—a score of 
uses. It’s made to last. Weight 
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of same low price. Write to¬ 
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L. R. Lewis, i 2 Main St. Cortland, N.Y, 
4 
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FULL SIZE 
$1.75 VALUE _ 
Where we have no agent we willsendfree- $1 00 
Box of Wilbur's Stock Food, 25cpackage of Wil¬ 
bur’s Hog Food, 25c package of Wilbur's Poul¬ 
try Food,25c package of Wilbur's Louse Killer. 
AYe want resident ngent* in every locali¬ 
ty whore not already represented, and offer 
you an unusual opportunity to make from 
Twenty-Five to Fifty Diillars jl Week. 
Wilbur Stock Food Co., Milwaukee, WIs. 
Ask Publishers or your Banker of our responsibility. 
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HEAVE 
REMEDY 
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Only Sure Cure. 
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Absolutely Pure. 
$1.00 Package curesany 
ordinary case. 
$3.00 Package cures 
ruse or money refunded. 
Sent postpaid on receipt 
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'.,461 4th Ave., Pittsburg, Pa 
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NEWTON’S Heave, Coagb, Dis¬ 
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A veterinary specific for wind, 
r .^^.throat and stomach troubles. 
Strong recommend* $1.00 per 
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Toledo, Ohio. 
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Cattle with horns are dangerous 
and a constant menace to persons 
and other cattle. Dehorn them 
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