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TAN. 31 
“ Rough on Roques.” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
FEBRUARY. 
Look out for bogus appeals for 
help for Dakota and other Wes- 
z ' tern sufferers. No doubt many 
families In the “ Far West ” are In want. 
More fortunate folks in other parts of the 
country would gladly aid them. There are 
rascals who take advantage of this state of 
affairs, collecting supplies of kind-hearted 
people and then selling them or otherwise 
turning them to their own profit. D. L. 
Mulford of Chicago, who ran what he 
called an “ Economy Club,” is such a man, 
according to the Chicago papers. He has 
just been arrested and we hope he will be 
convicted. Shame on the man who would 
profit by the troubles of others ! 
Tuesday ou ^ * or tbe professional 
J punster. There are plenty of 
3* young men and women who 
spend a great deal of valuable time in de¬ 
vising so called puns to spring upon their 
friends later on. Get out of the habit. It 
does no good, takes time that might be 
used to better advantage and disgusts re¬ 
fined and educated people whose friendship 
and respect will be useful to you. Over in 
Connecticut a number of idle folks have 
formed what they call a “ Pun and Joke 
Club.” Each member is required to pre¬ 
pare an original joke to be given at the 
regular meetings, and the club gives prizes 
for the best and the worst jokes. Here are 
two “prizewinners.” 
KIND 
A little more than Kin, end less than kind." 
?MNCt 
Can’t you employ your time to better 
advantage than in composing such things ? 
Look out that you plan and 
conduct a few good experi- 
4* ments this year. Think out 
the things in your farming that trouble 
you most and work them up. We would 
like, however, to suggest this experiment 
to you smart young fellows who are smok¬ 
ing cigarettes. After taking a mouthful 
of smoke, hold your handkerchief lightly 
over your lips and blow the smoke through 
it. You will find a dark brown stain on 
it. If you inhale the smoke—all cigarette 
smokers think this is the proper thing to 
do—there will be very little stain, if any. 
Consequently all that brown nicotine and 
other noxious matter must be deposited in 
your lungs, nose and air passages. How 
do you like that idea ? Look out for 
cigarettes — they are nothing but slow 
poison. They will eat your life and comfort 
away. 
Thursday ^ pay to out for t * ie 
J American Bond Company of 
5* Chicago, “ Ellis & Co.” The 
Household Companion, Madrid Chemical 
Company, “ Morse & Co.,” J. A. Lawrence 
& Co. * * * The Pacific Portrait House 
and similar concerns are still trying to 
catch greenhorns. We have had so much 
to say about these frauds that sensible 
people must be tired of it; still the frauds 
are making money and we quote the fol¬ 
lowing from one of our friends in West 
Virginia: I answered the advertise¬ 
ments of the Pacific Portrait House 
of St. Louis, in which the concern pro¬ 
poses to make a crayon portrait free of 
charge, the photograph sent them to be 
“ returned in perfect order,” and the folks 
say they will make any change in picture 
desired. The picture I sent to be copied 
was a tintype, in which the hair and eyes 
were too dark. I sent another picture 
of the same person to enable them 
to secure the proper color of these. 
The latter picture was returned in a 
short time, without any effort having 
been made to follow the copy as far as I 
could discern on the portrait when it came, 
over two months after I had answered the 
advertisement. I sent a third picture from 
which to make the desired change in dress. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
They sent the portrait without making any 
change in the dress whatever. The two 
first pictures were returned, but the third 
was retained for the purpose of soliciting 
an order, the lady’s name being on the back 
of the card. I have several letters they 
wrote her seeking an order. The frame 
was very dear, but I would not have com¬ 
plained of this had they paid the transpor¬ 
tation charges, as they promised in the cir¬ 
cular they sent me. Finally, I wrote 
threatening to expose them if they did not 
return the picture. I had written twice 
before for it after I had received the por¬ 
trait. They sent it four months after they 
had received it, but it was ruined with 
blots of ink. I then asked them to pay the 
express charges and also to recompense me 
for the injury to the picture. They have 
failed to do either. The portrait is not fit 
“to hang up.” 
FridflV These portrait frauds are willing 
, * to do anything to make money. 
There are bogus picture dealers too 
who sell pictures which they pretend are 
painted by celebrated people, and thus 
secure extra prices. Two pictures were re¬ 
cently sold, which the dealers claimed were 
painted by Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, though 
she had never seen them. * * * A famous “mi¬ 
crobe killer” has just been analyzed and 
found to contain oil of vitriol, muriatic acid, 
red wine and pure water. This stuff was ad¬ 
vertised to “cure everything.” People 
were after that “red wine.” By the way, 
tell your Prohibition friend who guzzles 
great doses of patent medicine that he is a 
fraud. 
Saturday kook out f° r fraudulent nur- 
1 serymen who knowingly send 
7* out bogus stuff. A Kansas 
friend writes thus: 
“I want to see the nurserymen scored 
until they are compelled to send stock true 
to name, or go to prison like any other dis¬ 
honest rascals. Of 300 apple trees, few are 
true to name, except the Ben Davis and 
Wine Sap. Summer varieties were sent in¬ 
stead of winter and vice versa. The fellows 
try to hide behind the plea of justifiable sub¬ 
stitution. A friend ordered a lot of free¬ 
stone peach trees, and two clings. All were 
worthless clings except two. Such frauds 
are to be found in every orchard I know of. I 
do not blame the agent; it is the principal 
who distributes the stock.” 
Everybody is liable to make mistakes 
—nurserymen included. We believe the 
honorable men are always ready to make 
things right and to do their best to insure 
accuracy. The frauds who send bogus stock 
deserve to be treated like convicts. 
“ When use find a ya'per that has back¬ 
bone enough to tell the truth, let us 
have backbone enough to help it along.”— 
l. w. lightly. 
Poultry Yard. 
A LITTLE HEN TALK. 
William A. Nolan sends to the Maine 
Farmer the following statement of a hen 
business for one year. There were 75 hens 
in the flock and they raised 80 chickens: 
Outlay for food consumed : 
1,155 pounds shorts .$12.13 
10 bushels corn meal, 55 cents. 5.50 
10 “ cracked com, 55 cents . 5.50 
10 “ whole coru. (Si cents. 6.50 
6 “ wh at, 9.5 cents. 5.70 
15 “ carrots, 3u cents.. 4. to 
S00 pounds meat scraps . 7.00 
Oyster and clam shells. 1.00 
Bone meal.... . 90 
Oat straw, unthrashed. 8.00 
Skimmed milk. 10.00 
Total expense.$61.73 
The monthly egg record was as follows: 
January. 
February. 
March. 
April. 
May. . 
June. 
July. 
August. 
September . 
October. 
November. 
December. 
704 
760 
916 
1,022 
1,124 
916 
820 
642 
648 
521 
412 
540 
Total. . 9,025, or 752J^ dozen. 
Average price received. 21 cts. 
Total for egirs . .$i57.93 
80 chickens at 40 cents each. 32.00 
$189.93 
Deduct cost of keeping.$61.73 
$128.20 
Unfortunately we are not told of what 
breed these hens were. As to this we can 
say that many practical poultrymen care 
less for breed than for shape and size. Prof. 
Davenport has clearly pointed out the fact 
that all breeds of cattle turn out steers of 
the “milk type” as well as of the “meat 
type.” The “ milk type” steers, shaped 
more like cows than bulls, are never fat¬ 
tened at a profit. We also know that cows 
shaped like steers are seldom good at the 
pail. There are similar type differences in 
hens. The hen that is “ built for laying ” 
is the most profitable egg producer. 
Mr. Nolan gives this account of his 
method of feeding poultry in cold weather: 
“In the morning two quarts of corn meal 
and three of shorts are scalded with the 
milk and then fed; at noon six quarts of 
carrots and a small forkful of the un¬ 
thrashed straw are given them to keep 
them at work, and at night four quarts of 
wheat or corn. With my cooked food I 
feed every other day 1 % pound of meat 
scraps, and keep an abundance of gravel, 
ashes, and dry road dust, also oyster shells 
and bone, which they can have access to at 
any time. In cold weather they have warm 
water or milk to drink.” 
If any of our readers have similar state¬ 
ments we would like to see them. The av¬ 
erage profit, according to Mr. Nolan’s 
statement, is $1.50 per fowl, not including 
the value of the manure, which is certainly 
worth more than the cost of the labor. Of 
course the hens are kept warm, clean and 
comfortable. 
It will be noticed that 80 bushels of corn 
were used as meal, cracked or whole. We 
have noticed that hens prefer corn to any 
other grain, but is it the most profitable 
food for them ? Maine is a cold State and 
these hens needed heat-producing food, 
and the $10 worth of skimmed milk went 
far to make a “perfect ration” of the 
heavy corn feeding. Prof. Whitcher, of 
New Hampshire, found that pigs did better 
on skim milk and corn meal than they did 
on corn meal and wheat middlings—the 
skim-milk actually taking the place of the 
grain and making a more palatable and 
more digestible ration. If this is true of 
pigs it is equally true of hens, and the skim 
milk is worth more to feed to hens, because 
eggs are manufactured products, taking 
less waste away from the farm than pork. 
The bone meal, too, was an economical 
food. Prof. Henry’s experiments with pigs 
show the good effects of feeding bone meal. 
The pigs thus fed had stronger bones, better 
frames, better appetites, better digestion 
and better blood. It was a good idea to 
make the hens thrash out the straw, and 
we should consider carrots excellent for 
green food, but why not have fed clover 
hay ? 
We shall be glad to have our friends send 
us similar statements of hen profits or 
losses. 
IMPROVING IRISH POULTRY. 
A benevolent Irish gentleman, Mr. 
Edward Brown, is trying to Improve the 
poultry on Irish farms by introducing 
purebred birds for breeding stock. His 
plan is to get breeders of improved birds 
to donate a certain number of sittings of 
eggs which are to be sent free of cost to 
different parts of the island, where farmers 
will agree to put them under hens and give 
them proper care. Two years ago some¬ 
thing of this sort was tried by sending out 
birds instead of eggs. It is now thought 
that the eggs will give better satisfaction 
because, if the hatching is satisfactory, 
there will be many birds to be scattered 
through the neighborhood. It is proposed 
to conduct this distribution in a very 
thorough manner. Among the questions 
sent out to those who would take the eggs 
for hatching, are these: 1. What fowls are 
general in the district at the present time ? 
2. Where does the produce go to, and are 
eggs or poultry chiefly in demand t 3. Has 
any attempt at improvement been made in 
the district; and if so, what are the breeds 
introduced, and what have been the re¬ 
sults? 4. If new breeds have been intro¬ 
duced, how have they thriven ? These 
questions are pertinent for this country as 
well as for Ireland, and The R. N.-Y. 
would like to have its readers answer them. 
Covered Barnyard and Hen House.— 
Thanks to T. B. Terry for telling us of his 
covered barnyard. Last fall I built one 
36x36 feet and am pleased with it and know 
the stock is, too. Thirty sheep run in it 
all the time, besides cows and horses dur¬ 
ing the day-time. One year ago I built a 
hen house to obtain eggs in winter as well 
as in summer. I am now getting an aver¬ 
age of 20 per day from 40 hens, whereas 
formerly I never saw an egg laid by my 
hens in winter. J. v. c. 
R. N.-Y.—We want the plans of that hen 
house, please. 
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