1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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p J DESK WR y * s to sel1 to or through a man who 
__ * knows wool and practices square dealing. 
Did you get your new book , “The 
Farmer’s Garden,” yet? If not, it is 
wrapped up here in the office all ready 
for you. You need it now. It will fur¬ 
nish just the information you will need 
for laying out the garden, planting and 
caring for it. We will mail it to you the 
day your renewal is received. Better send 
it right along now—to-day. 
We know this is a busy season, but you 
arc talking with your neighbors now and 
then just as at other seasons, and it will 
not take long to say a good word for The 
R. N.-Y. This is just the time when a 
timely article will do the most good, and 
when helps and suggestions are most 
needed. You will remember that for in¬ 
troductory purposes we will send the 
paper 10 weeks for 10 cents. It will not 
take long to make this known to a neigh¬ 
bor. Tell him about it, and if you can 
send his name and his dime so much the 
better. 
We referred last week to a 31-piece set 
of breakfast dishes that we are sending as 
a premium for a club of four new sub¬ 
scriptions. This is a premium that ap¬ 
peals to the women. We arc sending 
them all over the country. We arc able 
to do it because the manufacturer lets us 
have them direct, and there arc no middle¬ 
man's profits. Besides, we allow liberal 
concessions for the new subscriptions. 
The new subscribers will get their copy 
of “The Farmer’s Garden,” too. 
Another popular premium is 
THE LEVIN PRUNER. 
Everybody wants one. We send one 
postpaid for a club of two new yearly 
subscriptions at $1 each, or for a club of 
seven 10-week trials at 10 cents each. The 
yearly subscribers will get the garden 
book. 
Useful Man Wanted.—"W ill you give me 
the address of some reliable agency or insti¬ 
tution that would bo likely to furnish a man 
to ditch, cut bogs or bushes and such work, 
no matter if lie can’t speak English very 
well. I have had some experience with a few 
agencies that don't do what they claim.” 
Columbia Co., N. Y. G. c. 
No agency can consistently guarantee the 
men sent out to be reliable, because in most 
cases they know practically nothing about 
them, their habits, or ability to work; and 
when an employer comes to the city to pick 
out. a man he is in the same fix so far as 
getting a fair Idea of the man’s reliability 
or staying power. Try the Labor Bureau in 
the Barge Office if you have not already 
done so. Write W. II. Meara, Sup't Labor 
Bureau, Barge Office, Battery Park, N. Y., 
telling just what is wanted, and describe the 
worst features of the job. They have ap¬ 
plicants of all sorts and may bo able to find 
a man. At the writer’s home on a truck 
farm in New Jersey there is no local help to 
be had and we have to depend entirely on 
men from the city. The only satisfactory 
man found in throe years, an ex-cowboy, got 
a “crick in his back” after a month’s stay 
and had to quit. Another man's failing 
was surplus industry. He insisted on 
working all day Sunday, making flower beds, 
digging around trees and in the garden. Re¬ 
quests to take it easy had no effect. Prob¬ 
ably his head was a little twisted, as he 
often went about muttering to himself. After 
a month he resigned, saying it was too 
lonesome. So the hired help matter is a sort 
of “continuous performance” with us. 
Drunkenness seems to be the chief weak¬ 
ness, and as no intoxicants are allowed on 
the farm the majority of the men quit after 
a month or two and drink as long as their 
money lasts. Our present man when hired 
was told that no drinking was allowed. He 
frankly said: “That’s all right. I usually 
work about four months and then go on a 
tear.” lie is now in his first month, but we 
shall do our best to keep him. xi. 
The SnfRiT of Farming.—I have been 
deeply interested in the articles lately giving 
the success of your farmer patrons. Take 
Johnson, with his trucking, Martin Bros., 
with producing milk, and Eldredge with his 
all-around usefulness; they show that the 
farming genius is same as in everything else; 
DO per ceiit of hard work and 10 per cent 
of impetuous love for the independent out¬ 
door life. Then there is Mr. Cosgrove; My, 
look at him! He even pats and talks with 
his pullets while they are laying on the 
nests. This shows the same love for his 
work. If intense cultivation is the “keynote 
to success” then love of it, must be the whole 
[f you get a letter from the North 
American Band Company. Minneapolis, 
Minn., saying they believe they have a 
buyer for your farm, and asking you to 
send on a listing fee, we suggest that 
you burn the letter and make your wife a 
present of the “listing fee.” 
tune. 
Massachusetts. 
e. j. s. 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE . 
Butter has dropped one cent on fresh 
grades and the market is weak. This up¬ 
sets conditions on packed and lower grade 
stock. Judging from experience of previous 
years, it would seem that prices have about 
struck bottom. 
Many New Companies. —Incorporations 
for April were very heavy, $232,080,000. 
There were 03 issues of stock running from 
$1,000,000 to $100,000,000, the latter being 
an increase in capital of N. Y. Central It. It., 
and 239 from $100,000 to $875,000. 
Egg receipts here are very heavy, some 
days more than 1.250,000 dozens. Buying 
for storage lias been a little more conser¬ 
vative than last year, yet a large quantity 
has been put away at 18 cents or above. 
I’liis was the lowest figure at which good 
stock could be had, and egg men think that 
there are no other eggs equal to the April 
product for storage. 
Wool Prices.—“W hat would be a proper 
price for us to receive for good average wool, 
unwashed?” n. w. 
New York. 
I his wool may be worth more than 30 
cents or less than 20, hut this range covers 
most sales of such wool. From a market 
standpoint it is not possible to name an ac¬ 
curate price on wool without seeing the 
sheep or looking the whole bunch of fleeces 
over carefully. Speculative buyers will 
■sometimes set a price offhand without seeing 
ibe wool, but they either hid low enough to 
be safe, or if the bargain proves a had one 
figure docking enough on the deal to square 
lhrniselves. This custom of offering a little 
'iiore than other buyers and when delivery is 
"i.ide listing several fleeces as inferior, works 
well in cases where the seller is not a good 
nidge of wool. The scheme is adapted to all 
sorts of trade and has doubtless been in 
use ever since people began (o buy and sell, 
u a person has wool to sell and does not 
know much about the product the only safe 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
-Little chicks grow 
big, plump and forget 
to die when fed Pratts 
Poultry Food. It 
keeps their blood pure 
and they can’t help 
growing. 
Get Rid of Lice and Mites 
One application of Avenarius Carbolineuin 
to the inside woodwork of your hen house is 
guaranteed to exterminate all of them A 
thin, nut-brown liquid applied with a brush or 
spray. Large covering capacity. On the market 
since 1875. Acknowledged the best preserver of 
wood in any situation against rot and decay 
CARBOLINEUM WOOD PRESERVING CO.. 
INC., 351 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
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(POULTRY LINE— Fencing, Feed, Incu- 
ibators, Live Stock, Brooders—anything— 
jit’s our business. Call or let us send you 
I our Illustrated Catalogue—it’s free for the 
i asking—it's worth having. 
Excelsior Wire & Poultry Supply Co., 
Dep H. G. 2fi & 28 Vesey Street. New York City. 
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Take Your Choice. 
Guaranteed Self Regulating Incubators 
BtUT at H an<1 $2 per month. Let 
1,11,1 rent pay for it. We pay freight. 
Buy on 40 Day. Trial or buy parts and 
plans and build one. Prices, ready to 
[use: $5.00 up. Free catalog—tells all. 
BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO,, Box 23, Springfield, O. 
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are raised in one month: 
bring big prices. Money 
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uUUnDu makers forpoultrymen, 
“ farmers, women. 
fty’Send for our Free Book and learn this 
Vff' rich industry. Correspondence inviteddWI 
yl rf* • Plymouth Bock Squab Co., 
'i^^e/335 Howard St., Melrose, Mass. 
Four Years of Agotiy. 
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh— 
Had to Use Crutches—“Cuticura 
Remedies Best on Earth.” 
“In the year 1899 the side of my right 
foot was cut off from the little toe down 
to the heel, and the physician who had 
charge of me was trying to sew up the 
side of my foot, but with' no success. At 
last my whole foot and way up above my 
calf was nothing but proud flesh. I suf¬ 
fered untold agonies for four years, and 
tried different physicians and all kinds of 
ointments. I could walk only with 
crutches. In two weeks afterwards I saw 
a change in my limb. Then I began using 
Cuticura Soap and Ointment often during 
the day, and kept it up for seven months, 
when my limb was healed up j ust the 
same as if I never had trouble. It is 
eight months now since I stopped using 
Cuticura Remedies, the best on God’s 
earth. I am working at the present day, 
after five years of suffering. The cost of 
Cuticura Ointment and Soap was only $6, 
but the doctors’ bills were more like $600, 
John M. Lloyd, 718 S. Arch Ave., Al¬ 
liance, Ohio, June 27, 1905.” 
Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm n™”";,," 
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. KVoSS 
White Leghorns, White Barred Rocks, White Wyan- 
dottes and Pekin Ducks. Eggs from all varieties chick¬ 
ens balance of hatching season at $1 per 13 or $5 per 
100. Mated pens of Single Comb White Leghorns, 
9 hens 1 cockerel, $15 up to October 1st. Hundreds 
laying pullets ready in July. Strictly high class stock, 
Winners of four ribbons lastMadi on Square Garden 
Show, and 21 ribbons last Poughkeepsie Show. 
Exhibition and fine breeding stock for sale at all 
times. White Pekin Duck Eggs $7 per 100, $1.25 for 12. 
Maple Villa Poultry Yards—Eggs and stock guaran¬ 
teed. Hamburgs. Leghorns, Andalusians, Minorcas, 
Wyandottes, Hocks, Anconas. w.g.mosheu, Sylvauia, Pa. 
L IGHT BRAHMAS— Prize stock. EGGS $1.00 
for 15. C. GORDON, R. F. D. 1, Sprakers, N. Y. 
Var’s Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
Ferrets, etc. " Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book,'10c. 
Rates free. J. A. BERGEY, Box 8,Telford,Pa, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
KGGS from 
Pens hemlcd 
by 1st Prize 
WINNERS. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 8^®*- 
W. Plymouth Rocks}&?V&WrV.5: 
“"lite Holland TURKEYS}^^! 81 
Improved Early Canada (90 day) Seed Corn, 50 ears $1. 
CORNISH INDIAN GAMES, N. Y. Prize Wln- 
v ners. Eggs from prize winners, $1.50 per 15; Cat. 
W. C. VALENTINE, Huntington, R, F. D. 1, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5. Eggs 
for hatching, $1.00 per 15; $5.00 per 100. Catalogue 
free. C. H. ZIMMER, R. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS, WHITE 
Plymouth Bocks Eggs 15 for $1.00; 50 for $3.00; 100 
for $5.00. L. C. HILLS, Delaware, Ohio. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
50c. perdoz. ® 4 perlOO for Hatching Eggs 
^ Carefully selected and packed. 
Incubator chicks 10c. each. Stock unsurpassed for 
beauty or business. HILANDALE FARM, 
Brooklyn Station, Cleveland, Ohio, lit. 2. 
White Plymouth Rocks. Buff Plymouth Rocks,and 
” Rose Comb White Leghorns. Choice stock. 15 
Eggs, $1; 50, $3. B. C HINKLE, Millersburg, Pa. 
R ose comb brown leghorn eggs 
for hatching that will produce beauties and layers 
$1 per 15; $4 per 100. I. C. Hawkins, Chester, N. Y. 
E GGS—Our famous egg-producing strains of S. C. 
Brown Leghorns and Barred Bocks $1 per 15. 
Hatch Guaranteed, NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
Dttnncu nUUNO, from p r j ze ’ Winners $1 per 15; 
$3 per 50. J. W. COX, New Wilmington, Pa. 
Mammoth Pekin Ducks Eggs 
FGGS $1 per 15; $2 per 40, from thoroughbred Brah- 
. . mas, Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds, Leghorns; 12 va¬ 
rieties; catalogue. S. K. MOHR, Coopersburg, Pa. 
trios. REGISTERED RAMBOUILLET RAMS. 
Write for prices and information. 
MELROSE STOCK FARM, Cinc.innatus, N. Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Eggs for hatching from 500 choice mature birds, bred 
and selected for vigor and egg production. Send for 
our circular and prices. White & Rice, Yorktown,N.Y. 
X fl WhitP I PP'hnriK rJ !0 ° Selected Breeders. 
Eggs for Hatching $1 perT5;*4 per 100. 
i *» Ju • ARNOLD) 
Burlington Flats, N. Y. 
White Plymouth Rocks 
Eggs from Prize Matings, $2 per 15. Laying matings 
from large vigorous tested layers, $1 per 15; $5 per 
hundred. ISAAC C. CLARK, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
BUFF. White Leghorn. Eggs 75c per 15. $1.25 per 30. 
$2 per 60. Cir. free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
Darred, Buff and White Rocks, Wyandottes B. &. W. 
Minorcas and Leghorns, Mammoth Pekin Ducks. 
$3 each, $7.50 for trio. Eggs $2 for 15, $3.75 for 30, $5 
for 4o. Duck eggs $1.50 for 11, $2.75 for 22, $5 for 44. 
Edward G. Noonan. Marietta, Lancaster Co., Penna 
lUOG UUIIIU U Ulfll LGg,IIUIll Comb White 
Leghorn and White Wyandotte 20; Houdan, 13, $1 00 
Locust Grove Poultry Y ards, Middleport, O. 
ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED$-“X,'SS 
right. Circular free. E. E. BAUM, Potsdam, N. Y. 
EGGS 5 uff Orpingtons, 15, $1.00; Barred Rocks, 15, 
cSZrSi JSSS&l fe Co r THERS?lii', 
WRIGHT'S WHITE WYANDOTTE 
WsS’eSKSSsftffi: 
PEKIN DUCK EGGS. Immense Rankin Drakes 
$3.2o each. L. HOPE, West Medway, Mass. 
EKIN DUCK EGGS 
13 EGGS, $1.25; 26, $2; 100, $6 
W. WYANDOTTES anil W. LEGHORNS, 
15 Eggs, *1.35 ; per lOO, *6.00. 
JOHN H7 Gamber, R. F. D., No. 1, Lancaster, Pa. 
Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a is the best aid for growing poultry—a tonic 
that helps a fowl eat more food and thoroughly digest it, forcing a rapid, 
healthy growth. It tones the egg-produciug organs, so hens lay in all 
seasons. It quickly builds flesh on market poultry. It cures all poultry 
disorders—gapes, roup, cholera, indigestion, leg weakness, diarrhoea; makes 
it possible to keep the whole flock in perfect health all the year round. 
DR 
HESS 
Poultry 
Pan 
a 
ce 
a 
is the prescription of Dr. Hess(M. D., D. V. S.), containing the ingredi¬ 
ents recommended by science for increasing digestion and assimilation, 
also supplying iron for the blood and toning up the entire system. It has 
special germicidal principles which destroy all minute bacteria to which 
fowls are so subjected. Poultry Pan-a-ce-a is the greatest tonic for the 
young, makes them grow fast, healthy and strong. It bears the indorse¬ 
ment of leading poultry associations in the United States and Canada. 
Costs but a penny a day for about 30 fowls, and is sold on a written 
guarantee. 
lbs. 25c, mail or express, 40c; 5 lbs 60c; f Except In Canada and 
12 lbs, $1.25 J 25 lb. pail $2.50. \ extreme West and South* 
Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48-page Poultry Book, free. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 
Makers of Dr. Hess Stock Food. 
INSTANT LOUSE KILLElt KILLS LICK 
