1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
625 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
The so-called McLean Publishing Co., 
of 88 Walker St., New York, is still anx¬ 
ious to send “presents” to country people. 
All they ask is $1.35 to cover cost of box¬ 
ing and packing. One of our western 
subscribers received the following letter: 
New York. July 10th, 1906. 
Dear Friend :—We beg to inform you of 
the closing of our special offer. We have 
just completed a list of persons who may 
receive presents, and are now ready to ship 
them. Your name is on the list, and this 
notice is sent so that you may take advan¬ 
tage of it and claim your present. The 
present which will be given you is a very 
beautiful set of table silverware consisting 
of an eight-piece A-l silver-plate flatware 
coffee set, including sugar shell gold bowl, 
carefully packed in an elegant double-sealed 
box, all fully warranted. We have reserved 
for you the four full volumes of the Ar¬ 
lington Edition (list enclosed), and these 
will be shipped with this handsome present 
immediately upon receipt of the enclosed 
blank, properly filled out giving shipping 
directions, with remittance of one dollar and 
thirty-five cents to cover cost, boxing and 
packing charges. It is necessary that your 
claim for this present be made within twelve 
days to close the transaction. We fully 
guarantee silverware, and if not exactly as 
represented it may be returned to us imme¬ 
diately, and we will refund the amount of 
your remittance. Yours truly, 
M’LEAN PUBLISHING CO. 
Just note the clever wording of this let¬ 
ter. It promises much and yet nothing. 
The table set is in one place called “sil¬ 
verware” and later described as “flat- 
ware.” No doubt flatware better de¬ 
scribes the articles, and anyone who is 
foolish enough to send $1.35 for “boxing 
and packing” will feel exceedingly flat 
on receipt of the goods. Our correspond¬ 
ent states that she never answered an ad¬ 
vertisement of McLean Pub. Co., or had 
any communication with them. Ller 
name was secured from a coupon which 
she signed in sending a subscription to 
one of the cheap Chicago mail-order 
publications. The publishers of this pub¬ 
lication evidently sold the name of this 
subscriber with others to the New York 
concern, cither directly or through some 
broker. This shows the danger of send¬ 
ing a subscription to this class of pub¬ 
lishers, who have no interest in their sub¬ 
scribers and for a paltry sum are willing 
to sell the names to other houses regard¬ 
less of what use is to be made of them. 
This scheme for selling worthless stuff 
has been exposed many times in this col¬ 
umn. A few years ago the Post Office 
Department refused the use of the U. S. 
mails to concerns working this scheme, 
and we understand that the McLean Pub. 
Co. are now under investigation by the 
Department. 
During the past month we insisted that 
an advertiser who did not live up to the 
promises made in his advertising refund 
to his customer the purchase money. We 
have the following letter of appreciation 
from our subscriber: 
I am indebted to you for your kindness 
in making good your guarantee of a “square 
deal” to those who do business with your 
advertisers. Thg fact that you did not 
hesitate to put yourself to considerable in¬ 
convenience and expense to obtain justice for 
me proves that you are sincere in making 
this guarantee. One fact has always been 
before me as I read your valuable weekly, 
and that is its absolute sincerity of purpose. 
Such a paper cannot help being of great 
assistance to the interests which it. so ably 
serves. Accept my thanks for your klnd- 
ness and my congratulations upon the good 
work in which you are engaged. r. k. g. 
Fall River, Mass. 
Some publishers make a similar guar¬ 
antee of advertisers which is of little 
value, since they show their insincerity by 
admitting all sorts of dubious advertise¬ 
ments in their columns—the Vineless 
potato and Seedless apple as examples. 
We still have some of the garden books 
ready to mail to all subscribers who have 
not received theirs. The book goes right 
back, postage prepaid, as soon as we re¬ 
ceive the renewal. 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE. 
Oranges are extremely high, fancy Cali¬ 
fornia Valencias having sold up to $7 per 
box. 
Heavy Mackerel Catch. —At the ports of 
Boston and Gloucester, July 30, 26 cargoes, 
about 400,000 mackerel, were sold for not 
far from $60,000. 
Canadian Wheat. —Crop conditions in the 
Saskatchewan district this year are highly 
satisfactory, the outlook being for 33,000,- 
000 bushels on about 1,500,000 acres. 
The demand for alligator leather is so 
heavy that there is apparently danger of 
exterminating this reptile. The crop of hides 
for the last two or three years has averaged 
aliout 250,000, and the hunters are finding 
increased difficulty in catching the required 
number o'f 'gators. 
During the year ending .Tune 30, diamonds 
to the value of $35,000,000 were imported 
here. This is $8,000,000 more than the year 
previous, $16,000,000 more than in 1904, and 
is said to be our largest year in diamond 
importation. About one-third of these stones 
were cut, and the remainder will be worked 
over here, thus giving employment to a 
large number of skilled workmen. 
Peaches continue a disappointment. The 
proportion of poor fruit and consequent low 
prices is rather disheartening for growers, 
particularly those who have sent selected 
fruit that opened specked and wasty here. 
’The South Jersey, Maryland and Delaware 
basket peaches noted have thus far been 
small and go at low prices, many 25 to 40 
cents per basket. There may be some im¬ 
provement when the far southern stock is all 
cleaned out. 
Revolvers are easy to get nowadays, even 
small country stores handling them at prices 
from $1 up. Yet many people have no cor¬ 
rect idea of the carrying power of a rifle or 
revolver. While working in the garden a 
bullet whistled by me about five feet away. 
A neighbor was shooting at a mark, but evi¬ 
dently did not hit it. He is a mild-man¬ 
nered man who has hitherto shown no dis¬ 
position to carve “death notches” on his 
weapon, but he simply did not know that a 
bullet would go so far. Of course he is not 
(it to handle lire arms, and it is doubtful 
whether anyone should lie’ permitted to sow 
bullets where the land is level, with 10 or 
15 houses and 40 people within gunshot. 
Pacific coast plums in four basket square 
crates, have sold as high as $2.35, but the 
range for the average runs down to some¬ 
thing below $2. These crates hold not far 
from 12 quarts of fruit, and probably no 
handsomer package comes to this market. 
The piled-up crates are an ornament to a 
store, and when opened the large showy 
plums look like pictures in a frame. This 
markets and never start shipping without 
advice from the selling end. In this way 
disastrous flooding of the market may be 
avoided. The local buyer for shipment, as a 
rule, is a useful man for those who desire 
to sell at home. Multiplying middlemen is 
not good practice, but potatoes have to be 
handled and the market, must, be looked after, 
and the net results from a crop will often 
be more and the bother less by selling at 
home, provided the buyer is honest. 
Conditions with new apples have improved. 
There are still plenty of low grades which 
have to go at 50 cents to $1.25 per barrel, 
but there are Duchess and Nyack Pippins 
that sell up to $3 for choice, and Sweet 
Bough brings nearly as much. Medium 
grades of these varieties and prime Astraehan 
bring $1.75 to $2.25. It is interesting to 
note the popularity of the apple as a fruit. 
Retail buyers are looking after them, and 
there is a sort of sigh of relief when after 
the dry time of three or four weeks the late 
Summer apples begin to arrive. They are 
not very good, but people buy and eat them 
out of general good feeling toward the apple 
tribe, looking hopefully forward to the bet¬ 
ter fruit of Fall and Winter. Crop short¬ 
age does not trouble them particularly, un¬ 
less it be total failure, for they know that 
New York will have apples, if there are any, 
and they will get them regardless of price. 
It is a fact that some people deny them¬ 
selves what under other circumstances they 
would consider necessities, in order to buy 
high-priced apples. I have been surprised 
and somewhat amused to note a sentiment, 
even akin to affection, with regard to ap¬ 
ples, so possibly the much-criticised expres¬ 
sion of those say that they lore apples may 
be to some extent proper. This is a phase 
of apple trade easily verified by close 
observation. Now the only "reason for not¬ 
ing these facts here is that they stand out 
like the hand on a guideboard, pointing di¬ 
rectly toward the man with the bearing or¬ 
chard and the one who is planting apple 
trees. 'Hiey are both a promise and prophecy 
that apple eating is going to last and that 
orchards planted, handled and marketed in¬ 
telligently are going to lie profitable. The 
extremely retail trade, that is, selling one 
or two apples to a customer, seems a small 
thing, yet hundreds of carloads melt away 
in just this fashion in the large cities. Fam¬ 
ily'and bakery trade are much larger items. 
There probably always will be individual 
losses, where in flush years crops apparently 
have to be sold at! prices below actual cost, 
of production, but improved methods of han¬ 
dling. storing and distributing, and intelli¬ 
gent and active co-operation on the part of 
growers will prune off many of these losses. 
As to the apple trade as a whole, there is 
no more doubt about its future than of that 
in wheat or shoes. w. w. h. 
iorm 01 crate uas neen careiuuy worKcu out 
with an eye to perfection, but is adapted 
only to showy fruit. It shows up the per¬ 
fection of color and size, but would also 
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rUULInl r«nm, and Mammoth Pokin 
ROCK-HOLLAHD FARM 
W. Plymouth Kocks and \V. Holland Turkeys. 
make glaringly visible any defects. For the 
common run of plums as grows in the Fast 
Now Rnnhollo (1 V Ducks, winners of 22 rib- 
HcW nUUIollc, Hi 1 1 bons at last Madison 
.Square Garden and Poughkeepsie shows. Special 
bargain prices during the Summer and early Fall of 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, "PS™™- 
Breeder of Thoroughbred Poultry. Trices reasonable. 
llHitU IS J1U IMilter UI2111 Lilli 
basket, holding eight pounds. 
Potatoes. —Very little stock is selling up 
to $2 per barrel. Some Long Island are 
mated pens of 10 yearling hens and one selected cock- 
eral of a fine breed, Single or Koso Comb White 
Leghorns, $15.00 per pen. 1.000 laying pullets now 
ready. Choice mammoth Pekin Ducks for breeding, 
$1 each for any number. Selected breeders, $1.50 each. 
ODEAI1I R. C. W. LEGHORNS. W. 
XKr lllAL D. ROCKS. EGGS 5c. EACH. 
STOCK FOR SALE. 
L. O. HILLS, Delaware, O. 
bringing this, but most Jersey and southern 
run below $1.75. The local market in home 
towns is especially worth looking after at 
this season, as often a few barrels sold to 
SQUAB BREEDERS 
It pays to raise Squabs for Market when your 
breeders are from the best stock. Give our Antwerp 
Homer Breeders a trial and you will keep no other 
kind. Send for Free Booklet To-day. 
NORTHERN VALLEY PIGEON FARM 
P. O. Box 23, Norwood, N. J. 
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. I). 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
grocers or private families will net more 
than when shipped to the city. At any 
rate, the local trade ought to be so well 
supplied that there will be no occasion to 
buy any out of town, as is often done. The 
nearby early crop within wagon haul is be¬ 
ing marketed. Just after this is over is 
usually a favorable selling time for people 
A A Var's Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats, 
Mil Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 00 p. hook, 10c. 
w w Rates free. J. A. BERGEY, Box8, Telford.Pa. 
COR SALE Sporting and Pet Dogs, Pigeons. E'er- 
■ rets, Belgium Hares and Swine. 8 cents 40-page 
Illustrated Catalog. C. G. Lloydt, Dept. K, Sayre, Pa. 
SQUAB BREEDERS ATTENTION. 
stock, large birds, as good as can be found for flying 
or breeding, in all colors, mated per pair $2.00. A 
fancy lot of English Carriers at $5.00 to $8.00 per pair. 
Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm, New Rochelle. N. Y. 
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at a little distance who wishto market 
early, and 50 cents per bushel at this time 
is better than a 10 or 15 per cent advance 
after deducting cost of wintering and shrink¬ 
age. But of course everyone cannot sell 
early, as this would swamp the market. Po¬ 
tato growers ought to keep in touch with 
one or more reliable dealers in convenient 
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Mouth and Eyes Covered With Crusts— 
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him, and in our despair we went to a 
third one. Matters became so bad that 
he had regular holes in his cheeks, large 
enough to put a finger into. The food 
had to be given with a spoon, for his 
mouth was covered with crusts as thick 
as a finger, and whenever he opened the . 
mouth they began to bleed and suppurate, j 
as did also his eyes. Hands, arms, chest 
and back, in short, the whole body, was 
covered over and over. We had no rest 
by day or night. Whenever he was laid 
in his bed we had to pin his hands down, 
otherwise he would scratch his face, and 
make an open sore. I think his face must 
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“We finally thought nothing could help, 
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