1966. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
23 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
As increase of 10 per cent in wages is the 
New Year' present given about 50,000 woolen 
mills workmen in 61 plants in this coun¬ 
try. This will add about $1,500,000 to the 
pay rolls.. 
Eggs of the fancy white grade are four 
cents lower than last week, and reports in¬ 
dicate considerably increased shipments on 
the way. I.ower grades and storage stock 
are very dull. 
The Kansas Board of Health reports that 
out of 20 samples of food analyzed, pur¬ 
chased in the open market, 10 were found 
badly adulterated with preservatives, color¬ 
ing matter, etc. 
Fire losses in the United States and Can¬ 
ada during the last year amounted to $175,- 
157,800. The record for December shows 
eight with losses from $200,000 to $500,000; 
52 from $100,000 to $100,000; 47 from $50,- 
000 to $05,000; 413 from $30,000 to $45,000 
and 173 from $10,000 to $28,000. 
The production of petroleum in this country 
during the last year was about 4,500,000 
barrels short of the 1004 crop, yet trade con¬ 
ditions were such that the wholesale price 
for the year averaged a trifle more than .9 
cent less than for 1904. Exports were con¬ 
siderably increased owing to the strike in the 
Russian fields, which cut short the European 
supply. 
The coffee market is firmer and prices are 
advancing. The total supply of coffee re¬ 
ported from all the great markets of the 
world is more'than one million bags less than 
the amount on hand at the same time last 
year. Another element which tends to 
harden the market is the talk of a possible 
duty on coffee from Brazil, in retaliation for 
the heavy taxes imposed by that government 
■ on flour, grains and some other goods from 
the United States.. 
One of the queerest kinks in deception I 
have recently met was a case in which a man 
who was butchering a “Spring" lamb and a 
.calf the same day, fixed up the lamb's caul 
fat with some of that from the calf in such 
:a way as to make the lamb look very fat. 
The commission man who received it was 
: astonished at the amount of fat and its hard 
.texture, so different from the fat of a young 
llamb, and concluded that it was considerably 
.older than the shipper said. Buyers who 
.looked at it made the same comment, though 
ithe job was so skillfully done that it was 
not detected until cut up. The price re¬ 
ceived was less than if the lamb (which was 
really young and of good quality) had been 
.dressed honestly. This seems like an almost 
impossible trick, but the facts leaked out 
from the shipper's neighborhood later, verify¬ 
ing the assertion of the retailer to whom 
the lamb was sold. 
Heavy Trade With Britain. —During 1905 
-the United States sent to Great Britain prod¬ 
ucts to the value of $523,000,000, nearly three 
.times the value of our imports from that 
.country. The exports are chiefly food stuffs 
and raw materials for manufacturing. Our 
imports are largely manufactured goods, yet 
more raw material Is brought over than is 
generally supposed. Among other items of our 
imports from that country are $17,000,000 for 
wool ; $12,000,000 for block tin; $7,000,000 
for hides; and about the same for rubber; 
$2,000,000 for flax and similar fiber, and 
$1,000,000 each for Egyptian cotton and cabi¬ 
net wood. This extensive handling of raw 
materials for other countries by British deal¬ 
ers is owing to the fact that country’s poss¬ 
essions are so widely scattered, and that di¬ 
rect steamer lines with all parts of the world 
are maintained at the ports of the United 
Kingdom. 
Fruits. —The New Year's trade developed 
surprising strength iu the cranberry market, 
some fancy ones selling as high as $20 per 
barrel, prices ranging from that figure down 
to $12 for very ordinary. Strawberry re¬ 
ceipts are light. ‘ Those that I have seen dur¬ 
ing the past week were small and uninviting. 
Only the choicest have wholesaled at 50 cents 
and 25 cents took a large number. There is 
no special change in prices of apples, except 
that buyers who are after choice fruit appear 
willing to bid above quoted prices to get what 
they want. No. 1 fruit of all popular varie¬ 
ties wholesales at $5, and these apples cost 
the consumer from $7 to $9. Lower grades 
run down as low as $2.50. The past week 
has been a bad one for Florida oranges, which 
have sold at $1 per box less than previous 
figures. The receipts were too heavy, con¬ 
sidering the inferior quality of an unusual 
proportion of the stock. The offerings of 
California oranges showed a decided improv- 
ment and good prices were realized. The few 
Arizonas arriving are of first-class quality. 
The growers have wisely decided to ship 
nothing inferior and to wait until the fruit 
Is ripe enough to do it justice. h. 
LITTLE STORIES. 
A True Cat Story.—W hile the contractors 
were painting the Mechanic’s Hall some time 
ago, a little kitten appeared on the scene, 
and as the man at work is very skillful as 
decorator, he added to the kitten’s appear¬ 
ance by using some paint, not knowing who 
was the owner. Next morning a woman 
appeared with a whole apron full of them 
and said she wanted them all painted. 
Fulton Co., Pa. k. l. s. 
Lightning Rods and Insurance. —As the 
lightning rod question is being discussed at 
some length in The It. N.-Y., I enclose a clip¬ 
ping from assessment notice of Washtenaw Co., 
Mich., Mutual Insurance Co., which speaks 
for itself in regard to rods on farm risks. 
I thought it might be of some use to you 
if you see fit to reprint it. “By reference 
to the long list of losses for the payment of 
which this assessment has been made, it will 
be seen that lightning has again done its 
part in making up the number of losses, and 
the amount of the assessment. For some 
reason not fully understood the number of 
lightning losses arc on the increase, not 
only in this company at in all agricultural 
insurance companies. Another thing in this 
regard your directors desire to state, that in 
the past nineteen years no building insured 
in this company has been burned by light¬ 
ning that was provided with a lightning rod. 
A fact that argues well in favor of lightning 
rods.” J. h. we*-*’^ 
A Friend of The R. N.-Y.—I think it is 
my duty to write and tell you of the fate 
that has befallen an old subscriber of yours, 
Stephen Rasmussen. He bought 10 acres 
half a mile south of us two years ago, built 
a large barn in which he incorporated his 
living rooms, set the place out to large and 
small fruits, and also raised vegetables for 
market. He said he was going to show his 
neighbors that he would make more off his 
10 acres than they did off one hundred, and 
I think he would, had he lived. He consid¬ 
ered The R. N.-Y. a valuable aid to him in 
his work ; sa.id he had taken it when he was 
where he could for a good many years. He 
was a Dane, a bachelor about 40 years old, 
a clean liver and an honest man, and I am 
so glad now we neighbors took him in among 
as and didn't let him feel too lonely. He 
spent Thanksgiving with us. He was burned 
to death in his barn Sunday night. He was 
probably doing the evening chores and was 
kicked by a horse that was known to be 
vicious, though he thought the world of 
“Old Bill.” The lantern was probably 
broken and fired the barn. The neighbors 
saw it too late to help, and horses, cows and 
all burned together. He. with the lantern, 
was found by the horse mentioned. He had 
no known relatives, and his estate reverts 
to the State. Because he thought so much 
of your paper I thought you should know 
all this. MRS. a. c. B. 
Belvidere, Ill. 
Pubi.ic Steam Heating.— The city of 
Chatham has the distinction of being the 
first city in Canada to install a public heat¬ 
ing plant. The exhaust steam from the rail¬ 
road company's power house is used by the 
heating company. About a mile of mains has 
been laid, and several churches, schools, ho¬ 
tels, office buildings, as well as business 
houses and private residences, are connected 
with the mains. The main pipe through 
which the steam passes is an iron one. It 
is wrapped in asbestos, and this again is 
enclosed in a tin tube. Outside the tin tube 
there is an air cushion, and outside of that 
again is a wooden covering, which is bound 
with wire, and the whole treated with creo¬ 
sote and other materials. In this way a 
durable and cold-proof tube is secured. At 
short intervals there are condensing valves, 
which make up in themselves the bulk of the 
cost of laying the pipes, which amounts to 
$8 per foot. The pipes are laid in a rather 
peculiar manner, the depth varying from 
four to six feet, in order to allow a sufficient 
slant for drainage, for a little water is sure 
to condense in the tubes. This runs off into 
(he sewers. The steam has just been turned 
into the mains, but whether the rates fixed 
will lower the heating expense of the users 
has not yet been demonstrated. They will, 
however, be saved the trouble of paying men 
to look after their furnaces or of doing it 
themselves. It is expected, however, that 
there will also be a considerable reduction 
in insurance rates, because of the absence 
of fire in the buildings. The rates are made 
up in two ways. On the flat rate the charge 
is based on the number of cubic feet in the 
building to be heated, and varies from $3 to 
$5 per hundred feet, according as there are 
one or more sides exposed to the weather. 
On the meter system the charge is at the 
rate of 50 cents per thousand pounds of 
water condensation. 
Sawdust and Shavings in Manure.— 
Some one has asked about manure where 
shavings or sawdust are used for bedding. 
Last year I used that kind of manure when 
I planted peas, and my crop was an entire 
failure. They came up and grew about four 
inches and withered away. On one corner of 
the garden where I used other manure the 
crop was good. G. b. d. 
Wisconsin. 
Gate In Wire Fence. — I have a mountain 
farm and of-course have barbed wire fences 
with bars and gates where necessary. But 
there are many places where I occasionally 
wish to go through with a team to draw 
out crops or draw in manure, or draw wood 
or timber, and we have always cut the wires 
and then had to splice and strain them up 
In the Spring. Now I buy halter snaps for 
25 cents a dozen, and put them on to the 
end of the wire and when the Spring comes 
all I have to do is to snap the wires Into 
the staples. s. e. s. 
Springfield, Mass. 
Mail Orders 
Are what we want for our 
Tea and Coffee 
W E want to place our 
Tea and Coffee with¬ 
in reach of those who do not 
live near any of our stores. 
We confine ourselves to 
Tea and Coffee and sell to 
you at the wholesale price. 
We know “DUCHESS 
Blend " (Java and Mocha) 
coffee (25c. lb.) and KING 
CHOP tea (35c. lb.) are 
unsurpassed in Quality. 
We do not ask you to 
buy five lbs. or even one lb. 
on the strength of this 
advertisement, just send us 
10c. for a 3 oz. package 
of Coffee and a 2 oz. pack¬ 
age of Tea (total, 5 oz.) and 
verify our statement. 
The Tea and Coffee you order is 
exactly the same as our samples 
James Van Dyk Co. 
307 F. Water St., New York City. 
Saves $5 to $50 a Year. 
And, mind you, this is what the Angle Lamp will save in your light bill, not as 
compared with acetylene, electric light or other expensive systems, 1IIJT AS COM¬ 
PARED WITH ORDINARY LAMPS—usuaUv considered the cheapest of aU lighting 
methods. 
Now then, look closely at the above Illustration and we will show you why The Angle Lamp Is the 
cheapest of all lighting methods, as well as the safest and best. First notice that the burner is ar¬ 
ranged at the side of the oil fount. The Angle Lamp does not “get in its own light” as all vertical 
lamps do, but throws every soft, restful ray directly upon your book, table or work, thus increasing 
the effect of the light perhaps 25$. 
But this Angie of the burner serves a far more important purpose. It makes possible the special 
glassware that in this lamp takes the place of the usual chimney and which combined with the no- 
under-shadow feature have made 
THE ANGLE LAMP 
so famous a success. 
You see the ordinary lamp, economical as It is, wastes oil. For Its chimney applies practically 
the same principle as the chimney of a house; that of creating a forced draft in order to supply 
the oxygen necessary for combustion. 
You can prove how strong this draft is. Just hold a smoking cigar or match beneath the burner 
of a lighted lamp and see how instantly the smoke drawn into the chimney is carried off Then if you 
would like to know now much valuable oil gas is carried off by this draft and wasted, turn your lamp 
down for a moment low enough so that you can hold your face above it and notice how strongly the 
air coming out of the chimney smells of oil. We said that this was wasted—but it's worse than wasted 
—it’s thrown off to discolor and blacken your ceiling and taint the air with that unpleasant smell. 
Now were you to try this same experiment with The Angle Lamp and hold a smoking cigar or 
match just below the burner, you would find that the smoke drawn Into the glassware circles 
about for several seconds before it Is finally drawn into the ttame and thrown off, showing t hat the air 
necessary for combustion is supplied in a natural, steady current, but the forced draft of theordinary 
lamp completely done away with, and with it all their smoke, odor and bother, for not only does this 
save you in oil enough to pay for the lamp times over in a year's use but it makes it possible to turn 
the lamp at full height or turn it low without the slightest trace of smoke or odor. 
But you have to use The Angle Lamp yourself to fully appreciate how fur superior it is to all 
othermethods of lighting. Wecan tell you of its convenience,-of its brilliant, but soft, restful, 
pleasant light, but we would rather prove these things to you by a 
And 
so If you are interested in SATISFACTORY ILLUMINATION—and by ‘ 
illumination” we mean not merely one that gives a brilliant light, be 
• “satis¬ 
factory illumination” we mean not merely one that gives a nriinant ngnt, Dut one 
that combines brill ancy with soft, rich restful quality that is convenient as gas, safe 
as a candle, and yet more economical than even the troublesome old style lamp. If you 
are interested In that kind of satisfactory illumination write for Catalog “NN” at once. 
THE ANGLE MFG. CO., 78-80 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK. 
WOOD 
WORK 
WON'T 
ROT! 
Paint Barns, Silos, Shingles, Posts, 
etc., with 
“AVENARIUS 
CARB0LINEUM” 
[Registered] 
Cheap, nice color, ready for use 
Will also exterminate vermin. 
Circulars free. 
Carbollneum Wood 
Preserving Co 
124 Reed St., Milwaukee, WU, 
IN POTATOES 
MONEY I 
I HI If you read our 1906 Booklet on 
I ■ I “ How to grow Big Crops.” 
MA f c f'j.nn Get our prices on 
* rcC. Northern Seed. 
We grow our own Stock. Write to-day. 
The Peirson & Nysewander Company, 
LESLIE, MICHIGAN. 
To introduce our patented pumps In evei, 
county, we will send one pump 
to the first to write accepting our 
special Offer. Write to-day. 
AWooden Pump made 
Of Iron. Ju*t remove fulcrum 
and handle to remove «uck- 
leather. Stock made of ateel, bate 
adjustable, brass drain cock prevents 
freezing. Guaranteed, 
*11 repairs done quickly above ground. 
iJERRMS 
^^jkdPotaives^ 
I New ana standard varieties. Promising new vari- 
[eties from the Flower Seed Ball. Cannot be pro¬ 
cured elsewhere. Earliest Seed Corn and 
Garden Seeds from the natural home of 
i the potato, and the garden of Northern 
' Maine. Catalog free. 
The Geo. W. P. Jerrard Co., Cariboo, Maine. 
GAIN ACRES 
by clearing that stumpy pieco 
I of land. Tltk IlKllt l LKS 
Stump Puller pulls any stump. 
_ 5_Saves time, labor and money. 
Catalog FREE. Htrculis Mfg. Co., Daot, PS Cantirvlllt.la. 
SO Days Fro# Trial. 
r 1 Years Guarantee .Writ* 
for free 1906 catalog, over 
J00 ltyles. _ 
SPLIT 
HICKORY 
The Ohio Carriage Mfg. Co^ 
H. 0. Phelps, Pres. 
Station 290 
Cincinnati, Ohio 
''’Williams’* Pump Co., 409Harmon St., Indianapolis, Ind. 
FARMERS, Saw Your Own Wood with the 
ADJUSTABLE ROLLER SAW GUIDE, 
' the simplest, handiest and 
most durable. Best one man 
Wood and Log Cutting Out¬ 
fit ever invented. Can saw 
down trees. Parties inter¬ 
ested, write for full descrip¬ 
tion and prices. 
VerH. Speigle & Co , I>elphos, Ohio 
LONG ISLAND CABBAGE SEED... 
American Cauliflower Seed and other 
Choice Vegetable Seeds for gardeners 
FRANCIS BRILL, Grower, 
Hempstead, N. Y. 
CfY Varieties Strawberry Plants, $3 per 1,000 
DU and up. Send postal card to-day for 1906Catalog 
of plants, fruits and roses. H.W. Henry, LaPorte.Ind. 
GREAT RAY PEACH 
A prize kind in every way. Strong 
grower, immense bearer, bears every 
year. Flesh white, skin kissed with red. 
Fine flavor and excellent shipper. 
Finest peach tree stock in America. 
/ All varieties. Catalogue free. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES. 
Bo* 28, Berlin, Md. 
One Operation 
is all it takes to break, crush and 
grind, either fine or coarse, all 
grains for all feed purposes, 
when you use the 
KELLY 
DUPLEX 
GRINDING MILLS. 
They are the fastest, easiest run¬ 
ning and strongest mills made; 
New double cutters; fo*ce feed; 
never choke. Four sizes. Especially adapted for gasoline engines. 
Use 25 percent less power than any others. 
THE 0. S. KELLY CO.. 137 N. Lime St..Soringfield,0liio 
PRATT’S “ 
Is CHEAPER and MORE EFFECTIVE than LIME, SULPHUR and SALT in controlling 
SCALECIDE”p 
Mr. J. H. BAIRD, Supt. Hale Georgia Orchard Co., Fort Valley, Ga., writes: “ I am more confidant 
each day of the results from Scalecide—to all inquirers I recommend it.” 
For sample, testimonials and prices delivered at your Railroad Station, address 
23. Gr. Pratt Co., IX Broadway, 2Mew Y ox'lv, 
