1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
195 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Few people outside of the publishing 
business can understand the amount of 
work and energy required to get out a 
special number like this one, which we 
now place in the hands of our readers. 
It had to be all planned and thought 
out nearly three months’ ago. I will not 
detain you with the details of the work. 
You are interested only in the result, 
and we submit it to you, confident of 
your interest and of your approval. No 
doubt you will see features which might 
be improved upon. We do not for a mo¬ 
ment think it perfect, but it is the best 
we could do for the time being. 
These annual Special Horticultural 
Numbers have been a development. The 
first one had 20 pages, the second 24 
pages. When we went to 32 pages, we 
though we reached the limit, but last 
year we put on a cover extra, making 36 
pages, and the present number has 40 
pages. The special number began in the 
way of giving brief reviews of the seed 
and nursery catalogues. The intention 
was to give the readers a fair idea of the 
novelties put on the market by the dif¬ 
ferent houses, and to tell them briefly 
what they might expect to find in the 
different catalogues. This led to the dis¬ 
cussion of spraying and fruit growing 
generally up to the present number with 
its wealth of timely and reliable editorial 
discussion of horticultural subjects. 
We have always insisted that a paper 
which represented any particular calling 
should do justice to that interest in both 
appearance and character. The paper 
that represents the farmer is no exception, 
and we wanted this number of The R. 
N.-Y. to do justice to the great horti¬ 
cultural industry of this country. Good 
paper, good ink and good printing costs 
big money, and entails lots of hard work 
and modern hustle, but we feel a pride 
and a satisfaction in the result that no 
amount of profit in dollars and cents could 
give from an issue in which profit alone 
was the principal consideration. 
Advertisers have been quick to appre¬ 
ciate such a number of a farm paper 
as this. This is the time they are look¬ 
ing for trade. What they say now is of 
scarcely less interest to the reader than 
the editorial colurns. You are as much in¬ 
terested to know where to buy to advan¬ 
tage as the manufacturer is to know 
where to sell. We know of no number of a 
farm paper ever before issued that con¬ 
tained so many inches of purely high- 
class, reliable advertising, and we have 
refused several pages of advertising be¬ 
cause it did not come up to our standard. 
Our care in this matter will be apparent 
from the fact that many of the orders we 
have refused are appearing in other farm 
papers. We have the record and rating 
for every advertiser that appears in the 
paper, and we would not hesitate our¬ 
selves to patronize any or all of them. 
Here are a few extracts from letters 
received in to-day's mail. This first 
one from Kansas is especially pleasing: 
I enclose one dollar for renewal to your 
most excellent paper. I had expected to dis¬ 
continue at this time on account of severe 
losses by flood. Wife pleads so pathetically 
for its continuance, and she is so self-deny¬ 
ing in her efforts to keep expenses down that 
I grant her request, hoping “The Business 
Hen will cluck tier satisiaction, where she 
will have a welcome in our domicile. 
Kansas. j. E . H 
I am very much pleased with The Business 
Hen. I think it is a grand, good book, and 
please accept my thanks for it. I am just 
sending you a new subscriber. Please send 
him the paper and The Business Hen. 
Oakland, Me, j > ^ „ 
While I am not farming at present I en¬ 
joy reading The R. N.-Y. as much as or 
more than any of the six papers I am tak¬ 
ing. I am very much interest in our Hope 
Parm man's Florida venture; in fact, all of 
his doings. He seems to have a way of ex¬ 
pressing himself that gets close to the heart 
of a person who loves the farm. c. s. c. 
Bon Air, Va. 
I take this opportunity of saying that 
I believe The R. N.-Y. to be the most valu¬ 
able agricultural paper published. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. wir, a. bakeh. 
When flie good women of the farm I 
home plead “pathetically” for The R. 
N.-Y. it is pretty sure to be a fixture in 
that home. Of course The Business Hen 
went straight back to the new subscriber 
in Maine, D?fvid Harum also went to J. 
C. R. as a reward for his interest. This 
reminds me to say that we have a Busi¬ 
ness Hen to send your neighbor and a 
David Harum to send you. Just send his 
name and his dollar and we will do the 
rest. 
Killing the Radish Maggot. 
J. P. B., Flemington, N. J .—Will you let 
me know how to prevent the small white 
worms from damaging my radish crop? The 
past season they damaged nearly one-half so 
they were not fit for market. 
Ans. —The Radish maggot is quite sim¬ 
ilar, if not identical, with the Cabbage 
root-worm or maggot, and may be con¬ 
trolled by the same methods, though the 
margin of profit on radishes is usually too 
small to warrant expensive applications. 
The adult flies lay their eggs on the 
ground near the plants soon after they 
come through the soil. Table salt or to¬ 
bacco dust strewn over the soil as the first 
true leaves show will usually kill most of 
the newly-hatched maggots. The salt must 
not come directly in contact with the ten¬ 
der plants. Kerosene emulsion made with 
one-half pound hard soap and one gallon 
each water and kerosene, diluted before 
use with 20 times the quantity of water, 
has been recommended for cleaning out 
root maggots. The soil should be well 
moistened with the diluted emulsion be¬ 
fore the radishes begin to swell, prefer¬ 
ably while in the seed leaf. Applications 
of high-grade chemical fertilizers contain¬ 
ing a good per cent of nitrate of soda and 
muriate of potash to the soil about the 
radishes at an early stage of their growth 
appears very distasteful to the maggots, 
and at the same time most beneficial to 
the plants. Best results are had by put¬ 
ting on just before or during rain. 
For over a third of a century Dr. Pieree’a 
Golden Medical Discovery has sold more 
largely than any other blood purifier or 
stomach 
tonic. 
Bigger 
sales to¬ 
day than 
ever be¬ 
fore. Is 
that not 
the true 
test ? 
Cures oth¬ 
ers, why 
not you? 
Makes 
rich red 
blood. 
An imita¬ 
tion of nat¬ 
ure’s meth¬ 
od of 
■ restoring 
waste of 
tissue and 
impover¬ 
ishment of 
— - the blood 
and nervous force is used when you take 
an alterative extract of herbs and roots, 
without the use of alcohol, like Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery. This vegetable 
medicine coaxes the digestive functions 
and helps in the assimilation of food, or 
rather takes from the food just the nutri¬ 
ment the blood requires. 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery 
purifies the blood and entirely eradicates 
the poisons that breed and feed disease. 
It thus cures scrofula, eczema, erysipelas, 
boils, pimples, and other eruptions that 
mar and scar the skin. Pure blood is 
essential to good health. The weak, run¬ 
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people experience is commonly the effect 
of inipure blood. Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery not only cleanses the 
blood of impurities, but it increases the ac¬ 
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enriches the body with an abundant supply 
of pure, rich blood. 
No matter how powerful the intellect or 
the resources of intellectual power, it must 
be backed up by physical force. Every 
day the youth or man must manufacture 
a pint of rich, arterial blood, that is pure, 
stimulating to the brain, and that can re¬ 
build the tissues that were destroyed in 
yesterday’s work. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure biliousness. 
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The butter and egg money Mftnp 
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