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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE GRIMES GOLDEN APPLE. 
The world would soon have forgotten 
Thomas Grimes, the West Virginia farmer, 
had he devoted his life to growing ordin¬ 
ary farm crops. He gave the world the 
Grimes Golden apple, and thus will live 
in song, story and pie crust long after 
great captains of industry have passed 
away. The latest effort to do him justice is 
the following by Walt Mason : 
“Where is the stately Mr. Grimes, the 
noblest man of modern times, whose ap¬ 
ple soothes and pleases? He surely is a 
crackerjack; I’d to pat him on the hack, 
and hold him on my kneeses. I’d like to 
fold him to my breast, and say: ‘Your 
apple is the best that ever grew and 
ripened; I think so much of you that I 
would share with you my pumpkin pie, 
my taxes or my stipend.’ O let the good 
old name of Grimes be sounded by the 
evening chimes, and blazoned on the hoard¬ 
ing ; his apple drives dull care away, and 
makes each heart seem light and gay, down 
here where I am boarding. O let the 
noble name of Grimes be handed down to 
future times, embalmed in song and story; 
his apple cheers, inspires and thrills, in¬ 
cites to splendid deeds, and fills our 
boarding-hyouse with glory. ’Twould be 
the foulest of all crimes if nevermore the 
name of Grimes should be on earth par¬ 
aded ; for he has brought a new delight— 
an apple that the gods would bite—and 
has old Burbank faded. O Grimes, I lack 
the poet's speech, or I would tell you what 
a peach you are, you dear old lummix! 
You’ve poured some balm upon our smarts ; 
you’ve surely reached the people’s hearts, 
and reached them through their stomachs!” 
BUYING A FEED MILL, 
When buying a feed mill it is a good 
plan to see the mills of different kinds in 
operation, and note the kind of feed pro¬ 
duced. Failing in this one must depend 
upon what the maker says, or get the mills 
on trial. There are two general kinds of 
corn and cob power mills; one kind has a 
crusher, above the main shaft and geared 
to it, for the purpose of breaking up the 
cob into small chunks ready for the burrs 
or grinding plates; another and simpler 
style has the crusher on the main shaft 
with the grinding plates. The latter is 
preferable, because there are no gears or 
extra belt to bother with and cause extra 
friction, and the mill has but two bearings. 
Such a mill consists essentially of a crusher 
to break up the ears and to feed the 
pieces into the burrs, and the burrs or 
grinding plates to fine the product. The 
other parts are the shaft, frame, bearings, 
pulley and regulating screw. The make 
of the mill is not so important as the 
kind. Get the simplest kind and avoid 
trouble. There are fine and coarse grind¬ 
ing plates; the coarse grinding plates haje 
a force feed and a shear cut, while the 
others have a less rapid feed and a grind¬ 
ing or rubbing action. For feed grinding 
the coarse plates should be used, while 
for table meal or graham the fine grinding 
plates should be used and set to run as 
close together as practicable. The writer 
has seen several makes of feed mills, and 
believes there is but little choice among 
them. However, it is well to get a mill 
capable of grinding cob meal fine, should 
one desire it, as well as coarse, to see 
that the mill is mounted on a substantial 
iron frame, and that it is suited to the 
power available. All the mill makers give 
a broad guarantee of satisfaction, and it 
would seem that the purchaser runs but 
little risk in securing a mill for any need. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
This closes one of the driest years ever 
known around here, and I think half the 
wells have failed. Some families have 
hauled their drinking water a mile or 
more. In spite of this we had Summer 
showers enough to keep the top of the 
ground in good condition, and most crops 
were fully up to the average in both quan¬ 
tity and quality. e. m. s. 
New Hampshire. 
Potatoes were light in yield, good size 
and excellent quality, selling at 90 cents and 
$1 per bushel. These prices are for home¬ 
grown, shipped stock selling at 50 and (JO 
cents per bushel. Wheat got a poor star 
by reason of drought. Eggs 40 cents a 
dozen; butter 35 cents per pound; milk 
9 cents a quart; chickens 15 to 18 cents 
per ipound dressed. Hay $16 per ton; 
dressed hogs 10 cents per .pound; apples $1 
per bushel. w. d. 
Crookesville, O. 
A rainy day, and, oh, how we need the 
rain ! Hardly a well in this section in 
use. Farmers nearly all hauling all water 
used. I read of one farmer selling 350 
gallons of water daily in Norwich, a city 
of 20,000, a dozen miles south, at five 
cents a quart. Another wealthy farmer 
•with a deep artesian well, and water in 
abundance, bought a tank wagon and de¬ 
livers a tankful, 400 gallons, to surround¬ 
ing farmers at one dollar. Quite a dif¬ 
ference in price between four gallons for 
one cent and 20 cents per gallon ! My own 
well in low ground has not yet failed. 
I’ackerville, Conn. e- P- r - 
We are having steady Winter weather 
with no extremes so far, favoring the 
fruit prospects, as buds are in good shape. 
We are hauling mulch around the trees, 
while other orchard work cannot be done. 
Farmers’ orchards generally are neglected 
and will not produce anything but a local 
supply of wormy and cider apples as long 
as thorough spraying is neglected, and 
trees are hurt some by being thoroughly 
covered in many cases with scurfy bark- 
louse. The market for good sound fruit is 
good, and with good methods of growing, 
spraying and mulching there is the promise 
of good profits in apple culture, as with 
most other fruit in this locality. c. w. 
Wayne Co., Ohio. 
We are having an old-fashioned Winter, 
have had nearly two months already. It 
has been to zero several times. It is good 
weather for feeding stock, but there is 
not a very large amount being fed. Meat 
prices have fallen off since cold weather 
came. Some say that it is due to the large 
corn crop, but the corn is not on the mar¬ 
ket in the shape of meat. There probably 
will be more stock fattened, than usual, but 
I think it premature to give this as the 
reason for the decline. I think the true 
reason can be attributed to the packers; 
an investigation I think would be in order 
and a good thing. for. .the. .farmer.... 
Canandaigua Co., N. Y. fi. T. b. 
We have been having plenty of Winter 
since early November. Very dry all Sum¬ 
mer and still dry, wells and springs dry 
that never were known to fail before. 
People are busy hauling water. Wheat 
was sown last Fall in dry ground and not 
looking very well; thin on the ground. 
Prices as follows: Butter, 32 cents per 
pound; eggs, 35 cents per dozen; wheat, 
93 cents per bushel; corn, $1 per barrel of 
106 pounds; hay, $18 to $20 per ton; 
hogs, dressed, 10 to 11 cents per pound; 
horses selling from $75 to $275 accord¬ 
ing to quality ; cows, from $45 to $100 per 
head. Prospects look good at present for 
a peach crop. Farms selling from $60 to 
$lr>0 per acre. s. w. M. 
Washington Co., Md. 
We live in what is known* as the “wheat 
belt,” and most of our land is sown to 
wheat, which looks rather poor on account 
of drought. The soil is good, no rock, a 
little sand. Water is fine and abundant, 
at an average depth of 20 to 30 feet, sheet 
water, and everywhere on the Arkansas 
Valley and upland. In the valley proper 
is it only three to six feet depth. Far¬ 
ther west it is higher in elevation and 
water farther down, on the uplands as you 
get away from the river, but the soil is 
generally all good, and with proper amount 
of rain* fall will raise good crops. The 
price of land here is from $50 to $75 
per acre, perhaps it would average $60, 
depending on location and improvements. 
The land 100 miles west js just about the 
same in quality and can be bought yet at 
from $12 to $30 per acre, away from the 
river and towns, but such land put into 
crops suitable to the West, with its less 
rainfall makes a good, fair home, for a 
person with limited means. Land here 
and West is continually on the rise, and 
is yet the best place for a poor man I 
know of, if he has money enough to pay 
for his home, or most of it. d. h. w. 
Macksville, Kan. 
on. If the goods we order do not weigh 
over four pounds we have the merchant 
add something else that we can use. The 
mail carrier does not charge anything for 
carrying goods that weigh over four 
pounds. Goods that are too heavy and 
would prevent the carrier from delivering 
mail on time are not accepted. A. s. 
Laddonia, Mo. 
We are not in favor of a limited parcels 
post. When we want to purchase some 
article from our home merchant we call 
up the merchant over the telephone, tell¬ 
ing the merchant what we want and ask¬ 
ing him to deliver the goods to the mail 
carrier, who goes over the route we live 
The “Inside Ballot.” —See clipping at¬ 
tached for English apples. I think the 
farmer got $2.25 for his apples here. 
“FRANKLIN, N. II., Dec. 29.—While 
packing apples for shipment at Benjamin 
Little’s, in Webster, last Fall, Miss Myra 
Little put a letter in one of the barrels, 
with.a request that whoever purchased the 
fruit answer the letter. Yesterday Miss 
Little received a letter from a lady in 
London, England, saying that she paid 
$5.25 for the apples, and that they were 
of fine quality.” w. j. n. 
Concord, N. H. 
R. N.-l r .—Here we have a scant 43 cents 
of the consumer's dollar—quite a little 
above the average—with the grower to pay 
for the barrel. 
Express Charges. —I shipped a hamper 
of sweet potatoes from here to Catskill, 
N. Y., (Adams Express) which cost me 60 
cents and the express charges were $1.46. 
What do you think of that? G. p. 
Millville, N. J. 
R. N.-Y.—All our thoughts on this sub¬ 
ject run into one channel—we shall con¬ 
tinue to be held up until we have a fair 
parcels post. 
Another Express “Kick.” —Here is an¬ 
other kick against the holdup express com¬ 
pany. We ordered an article from New 
York, valued at $1.15, express charges 
$1.10. If we had parcels post, 40 cents 
would have carried it. Even now I could 
take the same article, weight five pounds, 
mail it here at Neosho, Mo., and send it 
to the center of Europe, and do it for 60 
cents. It is just as Barnum said. H. h. 
Neosho, Mo. 
r. n.-Y.—W e get the full force of this 
express monopoly this year in trying to 
send goods to Florida. That is enough of 
itself to make one a rabid parcels poster. 
January 14, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 16. 
Wliat Even Sowing Means. 
Even sowing means even growing, 
even ripening and proper grading of 
the grain. The feed of a grain drill, 
as well as the furrow opening devices, 
are of great importance. Some styles 
of furrow openers are best adapted to 
one kind of soil and some to others. 
But the farmer who realizes that seed 
sown in a wide, broad, flat seed bed 
will do better than if narrowly con¬ 
fined will investigate the Farmers’ Fa¬ 
vorite “Plowfur” Single disc, which has 
a shield shaped like the mouldboard 
on a plow. The Farmers’ Favorite 
Grain Drill, manufactured by The 
American Seeding-Machine Co., Incor¬ 
porated, Springfield, Ohio, is positive in 
its sowing of all known seeds, both 
large and small, as well as all kinds 
of fertilizers. It is a decided success 
in all parts of the world where grain 
is raised. It is made in large variety 
of styles and sizes, fully and honestly 
guaranteed to do the best possible work. 
Wherever you live or whatever your 
seeding conditions may be you can get 
a Farmers’ Favorite Drill that will do 
your work as you want it done. Send 
to the manufacturers for their Farm¬ 
ers’ Favorite catalogue, and go to your 
local implement dealer and insist on 
seeing the Farmers’ Favorite. 
A BEAUTIFUL FARM FUR SALE in the finest fruit 
growing and trucking section in the world: 
fertile soil and fine climate: also a beautiful water 
front farm with timber. For full particulars ad¬ 
dress SAMUEL P. WOODCOCK, Salisbury, 
Wicomico County, Maryland. 
GOLD MEDAL CORN! 
THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL 
Given at the Great New England Corn Exposition, 
Held at Worcester, Mass., November 7th to 12th, was 
Awarded to Hon. THEODORE C. BATES, 
For CROP and for EXHIBIT 
Those who visited the Corn Exposition will recall the Great Pyramid and Great Cone of Com near the entrance. 
There 
Were 
2000 
Perfect 
Ears 
on the 
Pyramid 
from 12J4 to 
14 inches 
long. 
GOLD MEDAL CORN GROWN ON PERUVIAN VEGETABLE GROWER 
On One Acre of Flint Corn Mr. Bates Raised 
One Hundred Seventy-Three and Three- 
Tenths (173.3) Bushels of Ears Weigh¬ 
ing 70 Pounds to the Bushel 
There 
Were 
3000 
Perfect 
Ears 
on the 
Cone 
none of them 
less than 12 
inches long. 
Allowing 43 per cent for moisture and cob, and reducing to 
12 per cent moisture basis (average moisture in crib-dry corn) 
we find that Mr. Bates produced 
One Hundred Forty and Three-Tenths 
Bushels (140.3) of Shelled Corn Per Acre 
(56 lbs. of shelled corn to the bushel) 
MANUFACTURED 
The yield was certified to by three competent men (as 
sworn to by them before the clerk of the courts at Worcester, 
Mass.) The Worcester Magazine says:— 
* ‘ The authorities present at the Corn Show gioe this yield the 
credit of excelling any record of Flint Corn in this country. 
Truly a wonderful tribute to Mr. Bates’s skill as a farmer, 
to New England soils, and to 
PERUVIAN VEGETABLE GROWER 
with which this remarkable crop was raised. 
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