1905, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
64i 
PUBLISHER'S DESK. 
The following letter was received this 
morning. It is submitted for the infor¬ 
mation of those who buy and sell nursery 
stock: 
I am very glad you have got after those 
frauds at Bosky Dell. Ill. They swindled me 
out of .$24 worth of nursery stock. There is 
another fraud at Indianapolis, Ind., by the 
name of T. C. Furnas. lie swindled me out 
of $73 worth of nursery stock last Fall. He 
made great promises to pay me in a few let¬ 
ters he wrote me after receiving the stock, 
hut has never paid a cent, and now will not 
answer any of my letters. 1 sent the account 
to a collecting attorney at Indianapolis, hut 
he wrote me that he had many similar ac¬ 
counts against the same man, hut could not 
collect any of them ; that he would not pay 
anything. t. ,t. w. 
Indiana. 
A subscriber asks if we would advise 
buying stock in a theatrical enterprise 
which promises a weekly dividend of one 
per cent, or more. We certainly should 
advise nothing of the kind. We venture 
the prediction that the man who makes 
such an investment will never see 25 cents 
for every dollar invested. 
Another subscriber asks us if a con¬ 
cern in Fergus Falls. Minn., which adver¬ 
tises to send a recipe for increased egg 
production for $10, is reliable- He wants 
you to promise to keep the information 
secret. Our correspondent at that place 
has not been able to locate the concern 
referred to, but through other sources we 
learn that such a concern does exist, or 
at least was in existence there some time 
ago. Their method at best is nothing 
more than a system of selections as we 
understand it, and while it may have 
some value, is probably little different 
from the information often found in an 
article published in the papers on the 
same subject. If you have “The Business 
Hen," you have more reliable information 
than he is likely to send you for $10, and 
you need not make a secret of it either. 
Speaking of “The Business Hen” the 
following clipping from the Florida 
Agriculturist may interest you : 
All books on poultry have many things in 
common. The general principles of (he busi¬ 
ness are the same everywhere. “The Busi¬ 
ness Hen” introduces some new features; 
for instance, Chapter 4 is headed, “What is 
an Fgg?’’ It contains the fullest and clearest 
description of Hie method by which an egg 
is formed that we have ever seen. We have 
been reading poultry articles and books for 
years, but much that is found in this book 
was entirely new to us. 
Here is another from a regular reader: 
As to “The Business Hen.” it is (lie first 
publication of the sort of all the half dozen 
I have bought that is a really practical work 
for the layman, instead of an advertisement 
for the fancy breeder or a dealer in poultry 
supplies. s. a. c. 
New Hampshire. 
There is a suggestion in the following 
letter that is timely just now: 
I am a young, but all the more interested, 
member of your family, and certainly wish 
you the success you deserve as the farmers' 
champion, and am sorry that so many of our 
farmers are not getting your paper on ac¬ 
count of not knowing about it. c. F. vv. 
Pennsylvania. 
We are sorry too that there are so many 
farmers who do not take The R. N.-Y. 
because they do not know the real value 
it is to them. Almost every mail brings 
us letters from farmers who took a 10- 
weeks trial for 10 cents, and come back 
with a year’s renewal; and express re¬ 
grets that they did not know the paper 
sooner. Now, why not help spread this 
information? Just tell your neighbors 
about it- Rut telling will not be enough. 
Get their dime and send us for a 10-wceks 
trial. If they are not satisfied in 10 
weeks, let us know, and we will return 
the money. _ 
PRODUCTS PRICES , AND TRADE. 
Various Vegetabi.es. —Choice tomatoes are 
very scarce. Kot is doing some damage, and 
the weather has not been favorable for rip¬ 
ening. The supply of sweet corn is heavy, 
all except what is known as Hackensack sell¬ 
ing below $1 per 1 oo. The chief merit of 
this special brand is that the growers raise 
good varieties, have suitable land, and haul 
it into market by wagons, so that corn 
picked one day may be on the eater's table 
the next morning. Peppers are very low, 
some going for 50 cents per barrel. The 
drought did not bother these plants so much 
as many other things. Where well taken care 
of they moved right along, and with the 
present abundance of rain the peppers are 
growing to enormous size, being tender and 
fine for pickling and salads. Egg plants are 
unusually low, having sold at 70 cents per 
barrel, a price calculated to startle amateurs, 
who find this about the most difficult vege¬ 
table to grow. Experienced growers have a 
“know how" about fertilizing and general care 
which secures large crops. 
Potato conditions are slightly improved on 
the better grades, which are not very plenti¬ 
ful, but the market has been swamped with 
seconds and culls, which are dull and lower. 
There are many farmers whose early crop 
turned out. no first-class tubers, the drought 
continuing from the time the potatoes started 
to set until the tops died. There is no ad¬ 
vantage in potatoes being extra large; in fact, 
overgrown tubers are not wanted, as they 
are likely to be hollow or coarse. But pota¬ 
toes below' medium size cannot be expected 
to sell for anything more than a minus me¬ 
dium size price. It takes too much time to 
peel them and they are too small to look well 
boiled in their jackets. There are two classes 
of potatoes usually in good demand here for 
hotel use, round varieties, dry and mealy, for 
baking or boiling whole, and soggy sorts of 
any shape, for frying, as they do not absorb 
the fat. The demand for a round potato, 
which makes a fair sized portion served whole 
has made unpopular (he old-fashioned varie¬ 
ties which grew seven to nine inches long. 
Telegraph bills in the produce trade are 
very large. Part of this wiring is necessary, 
but much useless expense is piled up in a 
year. In many eases the mails would have 
taken the information back and forth with 
all necessary speed. I saw one case where a 
bill of $2.80 was worked up in wiring about 
a comparatively small shipment, and the 
produce man stood it rather than offend the 
shipper, though it cut into his profits on that 
deal. The shipper w r as several hundred miles 
away and kept sending telegrams “collect,” 
asking for shipping instructions and inquir¬ 
ing about the condition of the goods before 
they ever arrived. This free use of tele¬ 
grams has been encouraged by a certain class 
of commission men to drum up trade. They 
learn of a man who has something to ship, 
telegraph him a high quotation if he can 
send at once, and ask him to wire back at 
their expense. This bluff often works, and 
they steal more than enough from the re¬ 
turns to make up for the extra cost. If the 
shipper complains because the returns are 
not what was promised, they ignore him or 
send back a hard luck story about a drop in 
the market or the poor condition in which 
the stuff arrived. It is a safe rule to ignore 
these telegraphing shipment solicitors, unless 
they are men whom you know and have had 
satisfactory business dealings with. 
Melon Matters.— “I notice in last num¬ 
ber of your paper in the market report of 
fruits and vegetables the quotations of canta¬ 
loupes w'ere $2 to $3 per crate for melons 
from Texas, and those from Arizona from $• 
to $8. Why this difference? Can it be pos¬ 
sible that the difference is alone in the qual¬ 
ity?” w. H. C. 
Tennessee. 
As has bean said before, the writer tested 
these various melons in an effort to learn 
why anyone should pay $8 for a bushel of 
melons in the market season. Not one was 
found that was any better than some south¬ 
ern melons on hand at the same time, but 
they seemed to be all alike in flavor, and 
there were practically no culls to remove or 
complaints from customers to straighten out. 
It was this uniformity that sold them. If a 
hotel steward knew that he ought to provide 
say 200 melons for a day's business be got 
only a few r more than the required! amount, 
depending upon every one to turn out right. 
To make sure of an equal quantity of edible 
melons from southern or eastern sections 
where rain rather than irrigation is depend¬ 
ed on for water and the melons must gather 
flavor from cloudy, cool or sour weather, he 
would have had to lay in, perhaps, four times 
as large a stock. Then he might run short 
or have some over, depending on the way 
they turned out. Probably no line of busi¬ 
ness has a keener lot of tradesmen than those 
handling fruit and produce. They have to 
be in order to keep going. When the charges 
for transportation and telegrams are deduct¬ 
ed, the enormous (?) profits of the handlers 
often look as though squeezed up into a small 
bundle. Such men sometimes make bad bar¬ 
gains, but when they pay $8 per bushel for 
melons they know pretty nearly w’here they 
can be disposed of. h. 
ON THE FARM. 
This is a busy time indeed. Haying is a 
little late, but the small fruit, strawberries 
and raspberries, are in their prime. We get 
breakfast over by quarter before six, and then 
it is really pleasant hoeing until the dew 
dries. The pickers come about 8 A. M., and 
set to work gathering strawberries. There is 
about a half an acre in one bed asul a quarter 
in another. One day there were 10 crates of 
32 quarts taken from the big piece, and nine 
from the smaller. That was the best picking. 
Our strawberry bed is plowed, w-ell manured 
and some phosphate applied. Then the plants 
are set in rows three feet apart, and plants 
tw'o feet in the row. They are kept perfectly 
clean from w'eeds, and the ground well stirred 
the first Summer. Of course all buds are 
trimmed away before setting out, but If any 
are seen they are quickly nipped off. The first 
hard freeze and snow they receive a mulch 
of salt hay. In the Spring this is raked into 
the paths, and keeps the berries clean and 
bright. On the average one can double his 
money in the business. Some years we have 
lost money, owing to unusually bad weather 
or a glutted market. The local markets are 
very poor. Once the price goes dow'n, no mat¬ 
ter how fine your product, you can't get a 
cent more. Our berries are picked in the 
aflernoon, and packed ; stored in a cool, dark 
place, and sent early in the morning by train 
on a 30-mile journey to Boston. This gives 
the best returns, and the three-mile drive 
through the woods is a delightful beginning 
for the day's heat and toil. If you are fair 
with your commission man, and send him 
first-class fruit, besides letting him know you 
are following the market sharply, he will do 
the square thing by you. But it does not pay 
to ship one or two crates once in awhile to a 
man you know nothing about. 
The beans are flourishing, and they tell me 
the dried ones are $3 a bushel at present. We 
have half an acre of cauliflower that promises 
well. There will be quantities of peaches. 
The trees are loaded. It has been dreadfully 
warm and uncomfortable to-day. I have made 
some strawberry college-ice and invited our 
neighbors to come over this evening. There 
will be no more strawberries until next year, 
and so we shall make the most of the blue¬ 
berries and raspberries and other good things 
crowding to be- noticed. adah e. colcord. 
Massachusetts. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
SHORT HORN BULL SALE. 
llob White of Meadowvale, No. 104943. 
Out of SPENCER HERD of Dairy Short Horns. 
Pure White; three years old. Price moderate. 
WM. < 5 . DURHAM, Darien, Conn. 
I P .Pigs.—April and .lulyjf arrow. Prices reason- 
■ U* able, VanDoren Bros,, Lysander, N. Y. 
Union Lock Poultry Fence 
A Fence—Not a Netting. 
Send for our in¬ 
teresting booklet 
D, “A Short 
Story for Poultry 
Raisers.” 
Union Fence Company, 
114 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Mills at New Haven, Conn.; DeKalb, Ill. [Oakland,Cal. 
R eliable Hatching Eggs, any number. Barred Rocks, 
Brown, W. and B. Leghorns, W. and U. Wyan- 
dottes, K.O. Beds. McCain Co, B., Delaware, N. J 
Var's Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book. 10c. 
Bates free. J. A. BEKGKY.Box 8,Telford,Pa, 
ROSE COMB W. LEGHORNS 
Prize Winners at the Best Shows. Eggs $1 
for 15; $3 for 50: $5 for 100. Half price after June 
first. L. C. HILLS, Delaware, Ohio. 
“ MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS.” 
Let us know your wants. We have either sox, Old or 
Young. From $1.00 to $3.00 each. 
Lauderdale Farm, Loudonville, Albany Co., N. Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Four promising young Cockerels for $0.00. Over 
1,000 to select from. Send for circular. 
WHITE & RICE, Yorktown, N. Y. 
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CURES 1 
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Ileel, Sweeney, Wlndgall, 
1 Enlargements. Curb,Galls, 
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fShoeBoils.&c.Removesun- 
f natural growths and lame¬ 
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Land clean. Testimonials. 
CHURCH BROL.APTON. N.T. 
$1.00 per Box, by Mail. For Horses and Cattle. 
ABSORBINE 
REMOVES 
BURSAL ENLARGEMENTS, 
THICKENED TISSUES, 
INFILTRATED PARTS, and any 
PUFF OR SWELLING, CURES 
LAMENESS, ALLAYS PAIN 
without laying the horse up. Does not 
blister, stain or remove the hair. $2.00 a 
bottle, delivered. Pamphlet 1-B free. 
ABSORBINE, JR„ for mankind, $1.00 
Bottle. Cures Synovitis, Weeping Sinew, 
Strains, Gouty or Rheumatic Deposits. 
Allays Pain. Book free. Manufactured only by 
W. F. YOUNG, P. 0. F. ( 88 Monmouth St., Springfield, Mats. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Well developed Cockerels from stock bred for laying, 
$1 each. D. F. ARNOLD, Burlington Flats, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S, C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Won two first premiums at New York State Fair,1004. 
Cockerels and pullets, five months old, $1 each. Cata¬ 
logue free. C. H. ZIMMER, R.D.41, Weedsport, N.Y. 
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R. F. D. No. 1, Wayville, Saratoga County. N. Y. 
“SAVE-THE-HORSE” 
Ki*Klntere«l Traile Mark 
SFAVIN CURE 
Write us before you lire or blister. 
You will then appreciate why our 
written guarantee is a legal, absolutely 
binding contract to protect you. 
“Save-the-IIorse” permanently 
cures Spavin, Ringbone (except low 
Ringbone), Curb. Thorouglipin, Splint, 
Shoe Boil, Wind Puff, Injured Tendons 
and all Lameness without scar or loss of 
hair. Horse may work as usual. 
per bottle with written guanintee- 
Semi for copy, also booklet mid scores ot 
letter* on every kind of case and lameiie**. De¬ 
scribe your own case. 
At all drnsglata and dealers or express paid. 
Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N.Y 
trade mark on overjr box. 
Cure For 
Galls 
While you work 
the horse. 
WsBICKNIORE’S 
Dealers selling it everywhere are authorized 
to refund money if it tails to cure all Galls, 
Scratches, Cracks, Wire Cuts, etc. The stand¬ 
ard horse remedy for many years. Sample 10c. 
BICKMORE GALL CURE CO., Box 519, Old Town, Me. 
f4 YEARS THE STANDARD 
EASILY APPLIED. 
Any handy man can apply Ruberoid Rooting. Complete directions, nails, tin-caps and 
Ruberine Cement with every roll. 
RUBEROID ROOFING is not new. It has been on the market for 14 years and is used 
all over the world. Positively weather- proof and fire-resisting. Outlasts metal and shingles 
and costs less. Contains no tar or paper. Will not melt, rot or tear. 
Avoid inferior imitations. Look for the registered trade-mark " RUBEROID,” stamped 
on under side, every four feet. There is only one Ruberoid, and we sell it. Send for samples 
and Booklet K.” 
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dry. Slate color—contains no tar—resists fire, water, heat, cold, sparks, cinders, frost and gases. 
Any one can lay it. Does not crack nor run. 
and see for yourself. Don't fako an imitation. For two 2 e 
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East Waloole, Mass., Chisago, III. 
Send for Free Sample 
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