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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FEB. 7 
“ Rough on Rogues .” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
FEBRUARY. 
Look out for circulars of churns 
which are advertised to make 
9- butter in “three minutes” or even 
less. There is absolutely no real advantage 
to be obtained in hastening the churning of 
cream, except possibly a soothing of the 
feelings of a lazy man. The good dairyman 
does not try to save work at churning, but 
to do everything that will improve the 
quality of the butter. We have many let¬ 
ters about “Frank’s American Wonder Ma¬ 
chine,” which makes butter from whole 
milk, giving a large amount of butter and 
leaving the milk sweet and suitable for 
cooking, etc. The machine does make a 
mass called butter from the whole milk and 
leaves a mixture of skim-milk and butter¬ 
milk. The thing is more of a toy than any¬ 
thing else, and the man who is after the top 
price does not want it in the house at all. 
We have made butter in a White Mountain 
ice-cream freezer as good as that made in 
the “Wonder Machine.” As for the old- 
fashioned bowl and spoon, for quality it 
beats the “ Wonder ” most wonderfully. 
TflGSdftY Look out for a man who claims 
3 to have discovered a “ new 
1 O* method ” of growing potatoes so 
that they will never be troubled with 
“blight, rot or scab.” We shall have 
more to say about this matter later. In 
the meantime don’t invest a cent in this 
new method till you hear from us again. 
It is certainly to be hoped and perhaps to 
be expected that scientists may some day 
so thoroughly understand the diseases of 
plants that we may prescribe certain rem¬ 
edies for them, but that time has not yet 
come. 
Wfldnpsdav out that your barn- 
3 jard does not become a 
1 1 • leach for leaching your man¬ 
ure. The ocean is rich enough with¬ 
out your sending the best part of your 
farm down to it. Try this little experi¬ 
ment suggested by one of our New Jersey 
friends: “If any of the readers of The 
R. N.-Y. wants to know the effect of leav¬ 
ing manure exposed to the weather, let 
him buy a pound of tea and leave it out in 
the rain and sun for a month, and then 
give it to his wife to make ‘ a cup of good 
tea ’ for him; or if he chews tobacco, let 
him leave a paper of ‘fine cut’ out of- 
doors; it may do him as much good to 
chew it after the exposure, but he prob¬ 
ably won’t like it so well.” 
Thnrsdav I j0 °k out for the publisher who 
3 continues sending his paper 
' “* week after week, when you do 
not care to take it, and does not notify 
you of expiration of the time paid for. It is 
very annoying to those who do not under¬ 
stand the system. If you want your pa¬ 
per continued, but for any reason are not 
quite ready to send cash for it, and 
the publisher gives you credit—that is a 
perfectly legitimate business transaction. 
When, however, without duly informing 
you, the paper still continues to come, and 
you are called upon to pay for what you 
don’t want, there is a screw loose some¬ 
where. Still if you continue to take the 
paper out of the post office, the law pre¬ 
sumes you do not want it for noth¬ 
ing and are therefore willing to pay for it, 
and it can force you to do so. If you re¬ 
fuse to take it from the post office, how¬ 
ever, you will not be responsible for pay¬ 
ment, however long the publisher may con¬ 
tinue to send it. In such a case, the post 
master must notify the publisher that the 
paper sent to your address is not taken. 
The R. N.-Y. always notifies its readers 
some time before the subscription expires. 
Then, if you don’t want it, say so. That 
settles it, and you have nothing more to pay. 
FridftV ^ook out how you destroy animal 
3 life. Man is a destroyer. Because 
1 3- he has “dominion” over the dumb 
creation he seems to feel that he has per¬ 
fect license to go forth and kill all animals 
that are not domesticated, and he hurts 
himself by this indiscriminate slaughter. 
What right have we to believe that life is 
ever created for naught S’ Have we any 
business to argue that life was ever given 
any living creature except for some good 
purpose ? Millions of birds have been 
slaughtered for sport, and many an orchard 
has failed in consequence. Search the list 
of the animal creation and you can hardly 
find a species whose death will not throw 
Nature somewhat out of joint. 
Saturday even the alligator : as a 
3 writer in the Scientific Amer 
* 4* ican says: “Of all created 
animals, I suppose the alligator is one of 
the most repulsive and ferocious. Every 
one for years that could get in a shot has 
fired at the huge saurian, till in some parts 
of the South he is becoming scarce. Yet, 
ugly brute as he is, he fills a not unimpor¬ 
tant place in Nature, and his loss is being 
felt, whether slain for his skin or mere 
sport. In the vicinity of the rivers and 
lagoons where alligators once swarmed in 
Florida, are extensive corn fields, and these 
the creatures frequent for their favorite 
rodents that they are expert in catching. 
The wholesale destruction of alligators has 
caused the rats to infest the corn fields to 
such an extent that the consequences are 
already serious, and I see the Governor of 
Louisiana is issuing a decree for their pro¬ 
tection—a wise man in his day.” Be just 
in your killing. Be merciful in your 
power. 
Poultry Yard. 
A PROFITABLE HEN-HOUSE. 
My hen-house is built in rather a pe¬ 
culiar way, but is simple and good. The 
main building—see Fig. 48 — is a tobacco 
shed. The lean-to is the stripping room, of 
matched pine and painted six years ago. 
One year ago on January 6, I completed 
the hen-house, there being only two sides 
and the roof to build. I made a flat roof, 
using rubber roofing. The siding was of 
matched pine papered on the inside. The 
Fig. 48 . 
room is 14x18 feet; the roosts are on the 
west end and consist of three poles three 
feet from the ground all the way across. 
About one foot under the poles is a tight 
platform three feet wide. Boxes nailed to¬ 
gether like a drawer under the platform 
serve as nests. The hens go in from the 
back side. Two-thirds of the floor is 
boards and the rest earth where the fowls 
can scratch in their clover chaff. 
I built this hen-house myself without 
any help. I made a grout wall, and did 
the carpenter’s work too. I picked up 
boards enough for the roof. I already had 
the windows, sills and plates; the rest of the 
materials cost $20. The feeding trough is 
four inches deep and six wide, with laths 
one foot long nailed three inches apart, so 
that the hens can eat out of it without 
getting their feet into it. The drinking 
vessel is made in the same way. 
The birds get soft feed, consisting of two 
quarts of bran and two quarts of middlings 
stirred up with hot milk in the morning ; 
four quarts of buckwheat at noon and four 
quarts of corn in the evening, with pure 
water twice a day. They also get meat 
scraps, tallow, oyster-shells, gravel, a dust 
bath, coal ashes, wood ashes, charcoal, and 
clover chaff at all times. Their roosts are 
cleaned every morning as soon as the fowls 
have been fed, and the floor is scraped once 
a week. Results, 22 to 28 eggs per day at 
30 cents per dozen, and the yield is in¬ 
creasing. j. v. clute. 
“A POULTRY SHOW.” 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
The second annual exhibition of the 
Poultry and Pet Stock Association was 
held at Elmira, N. Y., from January 22 to 
26, inclusive. The buildings were crammed 
with the numerous entries in all classes. 
Among the curiosities were four-legged 
hens and a Japanese Silky cock which 
looked like a sick White Leghorn with a 
blue comb, ear lobes, and wattles. Except 
for Its oddity it had better be killed. A 
pair of Frizzles, white fowls with feathers 
all ruffled up, and sticking towards their 
heads, looked as if they might have been 
soaked in the swill barrel by mistake. 
Some extra fine Silver Spangled Hamburgs, 
said to have taken first prize at a show in 
North Carolina, were marvels of uniform¬ 
ity. 
To H. B. Drake, who had Indian Games 
hatched July 3, which weighed 8>£ pounds, 
I am indebted for the following history of 
the breed. 
“They are,” said he, “ a cross between 
the * Asell ’ (which means thoroughbred) 
and the old Pheasant-Malay. They are not 
fighters, but are kept for eggs and table 
use. They have very yellow legs, pea 
combs and short feathers. They grow 
rapidly, weighing from three to four pounds 
in 12 to 13 weeks. They are black-and-tau 
and very long-legged.” The boom is “ up ” 
on them just now. Mr. Drake sold for $50 
five that were to go to Omaha, Neb. 
Santee & Stillman, of Hornellsville, had 
among their fine exhibits the finest Black 
Minorcas I ever saw. This variety, with 
its shiny black plumage, white ear-lobes, 
and red combs, is one of the showiest, and 
the birds’ upright, proud carriage makes 
them handsome lawn ornaments. Some 
White Leghorns were so white that it 
, seemed as if they must have been painted. 
They had been put in alight box, and while 
their legs were protected by paper wrap¬ 
pings and their heads out, they were 
bleached with sulphur. The combs were 
rubbed with drugs and made very red. I 
did not find any one who would confess 
that he had done this, but I heard about it. 
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