850 
Jht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 17, 1010 
Helps Its Policyholders 
Safeguard Their Health 
The ideal 
holders than 
SOME 
SUBJECTS 
TREATED 
IN THE 
HEALTH 
BULLETINS 
The Body's 
Needs 
Pood and die 
Man 
Health Con¬ 
servation 
Cleanliness 
Practical Sani¬ 
tation 
Caring for the 
Stomach 
Eyesight 
Spring 
Health-Hints 
Mouth Hy¬ 
giene 
Pneumonia 
Value of Raw 
Food 
Child Mor¬ 
tality 
Grip 
Gateway ot 
the Body 
Heatthfulness 
Eyesight and 
Illumina¬ 
tion 
Colds 
Science and 
Sense in 
Optics 
Health-Hints 
for Children 
How to treat 
the Eyes, 
etc., etc, 
insurance-institution can do much more for its policy- 
collect premiums and pay death-claims. 
It can help them to enjoy better health, to prove 
more efficient, to live longer and happier; and that is 
iust what is done for its-policyholders by the 
POSTAL LIFE 
R«sources T » T r»TTTf a "v t 1 " s " ranre 
more than INSURANCE in Force 
$9,000.000 $1,0.000MO 
COMPANY 
The “Postal”, as it is now familiarly called, was 
chartered in June 1905 and soon thereafter began 
tendering a distinct co-operative service through its 
Policyholders’ Health Bureau. Some of the 
features of the BUREAU are as follows : 
Health Bulletins: 
A valued 
privilege 
extended by the Bureau con¬ 
sists of practical Health Bulle¬ 
tins, prepared under scientific 
guidance, and presenting in 
simple language, dependable 
information regarding disease 
prevention. 
Correspondence: S; 
are privileged to correspond 
with the Health Bureau re¬ 
garding matters of personal hy¬ 
giene and health-preservation 
and advice is given which is 
Annual Examinations: 
i ty- 
holders are entitled, under cer¬ 
tain liberal conditions, to the 
privilege of one free medical 
examination, each year, if de¬ 
sired, so as to detect disease in 
time to check it. 
Statistical Service: l' Q h m e - 
pany receives and studies pub¬ 
lished statistics on Health 
Conservation in the interest of 
policyholders. It thus sup¬ 
plies a leaven helpful to the 
public health in many com¬ 
munities. 
timely and helpful. 
It will thus he seen that the Postal Life is not 
only the company of safety and saving but also of 
service —real, co-operative service, of distinct, immed¬ 
iate advantage to its policyholders and the general public. 
Full Information Sent On Request 
To learn more in detail just how the POSTAL 
serves its policyholders, alone health-lines, write 
for the Company’s free Booklet, “POLICY- 
HOLDERS’ HEALTH BUREAU”, and a Bulle¬ 
tin on any particular subjectmentioned atthcleft. 
To find out what you can save on any form of 
policy, aimply mention The Rukal Nkw- 
Yorker for May 17 and give 
(a) Your exact date of birth, and 
lb) Your occupation. 
No agent will be sent to visit you. The Com¬ 
pany will send you full information —direct by 
mail only. 
By thus dealing direct, the Cempany 
is enabled to pay you a Guaranteed 
Dividend 0(9)4 % of your premium. 
Postal Life Insurance Company 
Wm. R. Malone, President 
511 Fifth Avenue, cor. 43rd Street 
New York City 
HOISTS 
Are you in need ol a “HOIST” 
during the coming year? If 
ho, we can save you money, 
we can aluo save you the expense of one man 
and team in the haying season. 
Wo have made a reduction of 15* on Hoists, 
will give you the benefit, we are also manu¬ 
facturers of the famous Ireland Wood Sawing 
Machine and 8;<w Mills write for circulars 
and prices -weoriginate, others imitate. 
IRELAND MACHINE & FOUNDRY CO. 
Jk-18 State Street NORWICH, NEW YORK 
i«ao* 
fr~ 
HAY-CAPS 
I lay-Caps for Alfalfa. clover, etc. Stack, 
implement and wagon covers. Canvas enters 
for all purposes. Plain or waterproof. 
tTrculurm etc. 
HENRY DERBY 
453 St. Pauls Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 
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BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
ANALYZING 
16^ Phosphoric Acid 7% Barium Sulphide 
SHOULD BE USED IN THE BARN EVERY DAY 
MANURE IS DEFICIENT IN PHOSPHORUS 
h should have this element added to make it a well-balanced fertilizer. 
The value of manure is doubled by reinforcing it with Barium- 
Plu-Hphate. 
BARIUM PHOSPHATE IS A DISINFECTANT 
It will keep your barns sweet and sanitary. 
Ha< a’r and disease go hand in hand. 
FOR THESE REASONS 
It will pay you to use Barium-Phosphate in the stable gutters every bay. 
a pound or two behind each animal, and materially reduce your fertilizer 
bill foi 
THE SAME AMOUNT OF MANURE WILL GO TWICE AS FAR 
WHEN RE-INFORCED WITH BARIUM PHOSPHATE 
CARLOADS. $21.50; LESS CARLOADS, $23.50 A TON 
Delivered h New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and most New England 
, points. 
t> • Pool.. "Phosphorus, the Master Key, v tells the story. 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
Up-State Farm Notes 
New Automobile Laws. —Among 
other hills before the Governor are sev¬ 
eral affecting the motorists of the State. 
[ As there is much feeling over some of 
the hills which passed the Legislature 
flic New York State Automobile Assoeia- 
i tion has asked for it hearing May ti, when 
the representatives of 122 motor dubs 
will appear for or against the various 
measures. They will oppose one which 
would raise automobile license fees from 
$2.98 up to .820. according to the size of 
the automobile, and they will urge no 
further increase of license fees until every 
user of the highways pays his just pro¬ 
portion of upkeep and until all license 
fees are applied directly to the highways 
of the State. Three, antiquated toll bridges 
are to be removed from the main high¬ 
way across the State, and law-makers be¬ 
lieve that in view of this and of the 
millions that the State spends on roads 
the motorists should bear more of the 
expense. One bill that will he favored 
requires a registered certificate or trans¬ 
fer from owners when sales of ears are 
made, as a protection against being vic¬ 
timized in the sale of stolen cars. An¬ 
other hill will require operators of cars 
to pass examinations as to fitness, and 
one would erect a new Peace Bridge 
across the Niagara River. 
Ruling on Sunday Amusements. - 
In general there is a feeling of satis¬ 
faction over the Governor's approval of 
the new law allowing communities to rule, 
through local ordinances, on the Sunday 
baseball and movies question. Such to 
be indulged in only after 2 p. m. Working 
people in particular approve the plan as 
a means of relaxation especially available 
to those whose means do not. permit 
other forms of recreation. 
Two Fairs May Not Be Held. —At 
the recent conference of Central New 
York agricultural societies there were uo 
dates announced for the two Broome 
County fairs, as the Whitney Point asso- 
••iatiou was not represented, and the Bing¬ 
hamton Railway is in the hands • >f the 
receivers. This company managed the 
Binghamton fair. 
Farmers’ Hay Plan Defined. —The 
Syracuse employment bureau ranks high 
with those who are successful in securing 
help for farmers. This bureau has desig¬ 
nated one day of each week as a special 
day for farmers, who can visit, the office, 
interview the applicants, and often hire 
and take them home with them. The 
past week saw more men applying here 
for farm work than in ;.ny previous week, 
hut the shortage of women help is still 
acute. 
Fish and Game Plans. —Officers of 
the State Forest, Fish and Game Com¬ 
mission will visit Auburn May 14 for the 
purpose of investigating conditions 
throughout the country and formulating 
a definite stocking policy for the lakes 
and streams of this district. The visitors 
will include George 1). Pratt, State Con¬ 
servation Commissioner; Llewellyn l.egge, 
Chief Game Protector; M. C. Woods, 
Superintendent of Inland Fisheries, and 
.T. W. Titcomb, State Fish Culturtet. 
lbprescntalives of llie game clubs of 
Moravia. Skaueateles ami Syracuse will 
attend the meeting. Owasco laike is to 
receive 70.000 brook trout lingerlings and 
they will be distributed to other nearby 
waters. 
Milk Notes of Interest.- -The cheese 
factory at Taylo* Valley, Cortland Co., 
in March sold 1.021 lbs. of butter for 
$1,022.54, and 0.11s lbs. of cheese for 
81.27s.01, returning a net price for milk 
of $2,025 <u tlic 84.205 lbs. of milk re¬ 
ceived. This factory makes high grade 
goods, and only the smallness of the busi¬ 
ness done prevents better net returns 
for the milk with cheese and butter where 
it is. Dairymen generally are gratified 
at the May increase. 
Fighting Destruction ok hie Pos¬ 
tal Service. —Indignation of up-Ltate 
rural residents has not been so aroused 
in a decade as it. has over the latest 
Burleson postal orders. Without warn¬ 
ing agents of the department appeared 
in central and northern counties and pro¬ 
ceeded to suspend 40 to 50 rural free de¬ 
livery carriers and 1.000 miles of routes. 
Nine routes in Onondaga County and 
eight in Cayuga County were thrown up 
on a general plan to make two routes of 
three—extending them to 25 miles in 
length. In some of these sections the 
r«\utes had already been lengthened dur¬ 
ing the war and sufficient time had 
elapsed to prove the bad effects of such 
lengthening. Carriers resigned after i 
trial of the routes, and the service lias 
collapsed on the extra long routes. It is 
impossible to get carriers of a high type, 
such as the service needs. Mail is un¬ 
delivered at times for days in succession 
and the delivery at. all times is unexciis- 
ubly delayed. No horse can endure a 25- 
mile route, and a change of horses is 
most unsatisfactory, necessitating two 
stables and hired, care for the animals 
half the time. The change is said to be 
based on the fact that a test in the South 
showed that carriers could use Ford cars 
and make 25 to 50 miles a day. Bad 
roads at least eight months of the year, 
with extreme handicaps in form of deep 
snows and drifts, makes the idea of using 
motor vehicles here most absurd. New 
York State postal receipts have exceeded 
its expenditures slightly and it is con¬ 
sidered that the Postmaster-General in¬ 
tends to force most unwelcome economies 
on the farmers of this State to make up 
deficits in other States, a« he says na¬ 
tionally the the service must be self-sup¬ 
porting. In the short time since the 
blow was struck at rural delivery here 
the opposition to it has grown to mam¬ 
moth proportions. Individuals have pro¬ 
tested, Subordinate Granges have called 
special indignation meetings, the State 
Grange of cials have held conferences in 
sections most affected and will send a 
delegation to Washington, and daily pa¬ 
pers have taken up the cudgels with vigor 
—one sent, a representative to interview 
Mr. Burleson. After the proportions of 
the storm he has raised became apparent 
lie has promised that if the new changes 
prove as inefficient as it is asserted that 
he will restore the former regime. The 
changes have already been made in Onon¬ 
daga. Cayuga. St. Lawrence, Oswego. 
Madison. Lewis and other counties, as 
the depart.-.eut would listen to no pro¬ 
tests. A serious condition developed at 
East. Syracuse Friday when three rural 
carriers refused to cover the new ex¬ 
tended routes. and the mail piled up in 
the office. The Onondaga Granges, the 
Skaueateles Gr.\..ge, 1, am son, Geddes and 
Ohittenango Granges and a large number 
of Subordinate Granges in Oswego County 
have held special indignation meetings, 
and special meetings of Poinonas are to 
he called. This week the Farm Bureaus 
of the areas most affected will canvass 
the territories and make vigorous efforts 
for a re cind of the orders at Washing¬ 
ton. m. o. F. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
POTATOES, BEANS AND ONIONS IN STROM. 
POSITION, WITH DECREASING SUPPLY 
AND STEADY DEMAND. 
Four or five States, Maine, Minnesota. 
Michigan ami, Wisconsin, are shipping 
most of the old potatoes, and Florida still 
supplies the bulk of new stock, although 
South Carolina is beginning. Prices for 
both old and new potatoes sag away at 
times, lmt the underlying tone is strong 
because of the limited stock in sight. 
Western growers get from $1.25 to $2 
per 100 lbs. ami Southern producers from 
$7 to $8 per bid. New York shipping 
sections quote around $1.50 per 100 lbs. 
in bulk. 
ADVANCE IN ONION PRICES. 
< hiion shipments arc down to a few 
scattering cars daily, about half of thorn 
starting from Western New York ship¬ 
ping sections. Texan shipments arc 00 
to 70 cars of new stock daily average, and 
a few are coming from Bermuda, but the 
real Bermudas have long ago been sup¬ 
planted by the Texas grown product. Old 
onions such as arc in good condition 
arc high in price, ranging from $5 to $0 50 
per 100 lbs. in many of the large Eastern 
markets. 
THE STEADY POSITION OF BEANS. 
Field beans show a steady market tone 
and carlot movements are above the sea¬ 
son’s average volume. Eastern and 
Northern sections appear fairly well 
cleared of undamaged stock, and the 
Western crop lias been cleared up better 
than seemed possible a few months ago. 
Prices show a little change, ranging from 
$0 to $0.75 paid to producers at Cali¬ 
fornia warehouses for undamaged white 
stock, to $7.75 per ewt. f. o. b. shipping 
stations in Western New York. City 
markets quote steady values at $7 to 
8.8.50. 
GENERAL SUPPLIES ARE MODERATE. 
Old vegetables and fruit have been 
clearing up fast, enough more than to 
offset the increase in Southern truck. 
Even the higher prices quoted fail to keep 
the potato movement up to the mark. 
Old onions, cabbage and apples are about 
done. During the past week nearly one- 
half the shipments of apples were for 
export, and the exports for the season, 
although beginning very late, now make 
quite a respectable showing in compari¬ 
son with figures of preceding years. New 
Southern produce is in a moderate supply 
and likely to continue so during the bal¬ 
ance of the season, owing to reduced 
acreage. O. R. F. 
The Twelve Hundred to One Bean 
For a number of years there has been 
an advertisement running in some farm 
papers telling of the wonders of the so- 
called Twelve Hundred to One bean. The 
picture in the advertisements shows a bean 
plant about, as large as an ordinary cur¬ 
rant bush, and literally loaded with pods. 
In order to test, out these beans I sent for 
a package, and planted them in the best 
garden soil, exactly two beans in a hill, 
and the hills H* in. apart. As a continu¬ 
ation of the row, and also as a check. 1 
planted the same number of my selected 
Michigan pea beans in the same manner 
as the others. There was no difference 
in growth or time of ripening or in yield 
of these two so-called varieties, and also 
both kinds were subject to the same dis¬ 
eases. H. E. C. 
The Federation of Agriculture is 
pledged to open markets for farm prod¬ 
ucts. fair treatment for country schools, 
and good roads for the back country 
farms. If you want these things, send 
in your registration. 
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