"Rough on Rogues .” 
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LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOE NUMBER ONE. 
FEBRUARY. 
Monday Ii00k out for the Ledger and 
f J Farmer, said to be issued in De- 
* troit, Mich. The manipulators 
of this fraud are playing the old game of 
trying to secnre subscribers for a bogus 
paper. These scamps propose to make 
“loans” out of the advertising profits of 
their paper! Here is the circular they 
send to those who are foolish enough to 
apply to them: 
In reply to your letter received to-day, in¬ 
closed please find our prospectus, and by 
mail a copy of our paper. We are making 
some inquiries about you to-day, and with¬ 
in 10 days can write you definitely just 
what we can offer you. We mean busi¬ 
ness ; but, however annoying this short de¬ 
lay, it is better for all concerned to act 
with full information before us, especially 
when contemplating a business connection 
involving such specially confidential rela¬ 
tions. Of course it will not make us un¬ 
happy for you to favor us with $2 for a full 
year’s subscription, but we do not insist on 
It, unless the merits of our paper commend 
it to your interest regardless of our loan 
and salary features. Do not fail, however, 
to at least send us by return mail 30 cents 
in stamps to cover the postage, clerical out¬ 
lay, etc., involved in correspondence and 
inquiries, and for three months’ subscrip¬ 
tion, as your application will then date 
back to this date, and you will come in 
“ on the ground floor.” Write us also any 
further facts and particulars necessary to 
a full mutual understanding. Whatever 
you write us will be held strictly confiden¬ 
tial. THE LEDGER AND FARMER PUB. CO. 
Another circular accompanies this one, 
detailing their famous “loan system.” 
The only loan you want with them is to 
let them alone. 
Tuesday ^ ook out ft kout letting the 14- 
* year-old boy load 100-pound cans 
■v w • of milk and unload them at 
the factory. He may not realize that he is 
lifting more than is good for him, but in 
time he will find that he has. In the arro¬ 
gance which often accompanies robust 
health boys as well as other members of the 
human race are inclined to think that 
nothing can hurt them, and act on the 
theory until it is too late. Look out also 
that the growing, ambitious young girl is 
not overworked. Teach her to save her 
strength. A three-year old colt that is well 
broken and is occasionally driven in the 
harness, is not put to the heavy plow be¬ 
cause he is not yet matured. 
* 
Wednesday J - M - Bain > of Zanesville > 
o ' doing a swindling game under 
* the several names of “ W. H. 
Griffith & Co.,” “ZanesvilleChemical Co.” 
and others, was arrested last week for 
using the mails for fraudulent purposes. 
He has sold incubators, Wyandotte eggs 
and plating machines, but at last he slipped 
up on soap. He proposed to send 400 
pounds of soap for $5.00, but always sent 
25 pounds of a powder with directions for 
adding 375 pounds of water. This scamp 
is such an ingenious fraud that he has 
made it well nigh impossible to do a legiti¬ 
mate mail business at Zanesville. Delos 
Staples, the man who used to go out in the 
woods and pull up blueberry bushes, which 
he sent by mail to seekers after “ novel¬ 
ties,” has also been arrested. 
Thursday Speaking of “novelties,” the 
* “ woods are full of them ” this 
1 9* year. Probably the most re¬ 
markable “new thing” of the season is 
“ Duck Wheat From The North Pole ! ” By 
the use of this remarkable grain you “ can 
raise from 300 to 500 bushels of grain from 
a single acre in 60 days ! ” Listen to the 
story of the “origin” of this wonderful 
grain as given in the introducer’s circular : 
Every spring and autumn large flocks of 
wild geese and ducks fly over this town on 
their way to and from the “Far North.” 
In the fall of 1882, early one morning, the 
largest flock of ducks 1 ever saw flew di¬ 
rectly south over my buildings, and I told 
my namesake to shoot some ducks on the 
wing flying south, and I would examine 
them carefully and see what kind of seeds 
they fed upon at the North Pole, or wher¬ 
ever they spent the summer months. He 
did so, and from a big drake I took some 
grain resembling “Siberian Buckwheat,” 
as described in Chambers’ Encyclopedia. 
I planted this grain the next spring, and 
14 stalks came to maturity. I have con¬ 
tinued to cultivate this grain since, and 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FEB i4 
have found it more prolific than any grain 
I ever before have seen or read of, and I 
find it a desirable, healthy food for men 
and animals. 
The writer then goes on to tell of the 
wonderful feeding value of the grain. He 
had an old horse so poor that it could not 
get up alone. Two quarts of Duck Wheat 
daily made this animal so strong that it 
“did as much work as two common 
horses 1 ” Another horse, 21 years old, got 
so vigorous on two quarts of Duck Wheat 
that his owner “ could hardly hold him ! ” 
Now let some of our imaginative friends 
tell us what would have happened if our 
friend Samuel Wilson could have fed this 
“ Duck Wheat” to his “ German Hares! ” 
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Lovett's Rarly Strawberry. 
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Tr " S and plan,s by Mail a Specialty I 
; ’ J. T. LOVETT CO., Little Silver, N. J. I 
Please state where you saw this advt, % 
Friday Look out that you keep out of 
saloons. A Pennsylvania man 
u ' went into a saloon and made a bet 
with a sharper who asserted that his check 
for $1,000 would not be honored at the bank. 
He wrote the check and “ does not exactly 
remembt r” what happened next. The check 
was cashed, however’, and the scamp who 
bet with him has the money. * * * Look 
out for that watch fraud who proposes to 
send a “ gold watch ” by express. If it is 
not worth at least $25 you need not accept 
it. If it is, O. K.: you pay the express agent 
$5.95. The express agent is not permitted 
to do such business anyway. * * * Look 
out for parties offering $20 for the “ best 
collection of Confederate stamps.” 
AN ELEGANT ^ 
FLOWER BED — 
We will furnish 20designs for beds of flowering plants, with full instructions 
showing names of varieties and number of plants required to fill fine show 
beds at a cost of from 15 cents to f l each. It requires knowledge and taste, not 
wealth, to possess elegant beds of flowers. Think of a fine bed all summer for 
a few cents' These designs mailed, with Vlck’n Floral Guide, for 1891, on 
receipt of 10 cents. Now is the time to plan. Send at once. 
Saturday Look out for adulterated cotton 
seed meal. The adulteration 
2 1 • consists in adding quantities of 
the hulls to the meal. Linseed meal is 
also adulterated by some dealers by add¬ 
ing quantities of crushed corn-cobs. 
This adulteration of cattle foods is so 
prevalent in England that strong efforts 
are being made to induce Parliament to 
pass a law similar to the fertilizer law, 
requiring dealers to sell these foods subject 
to chemical analysis. 
JAMES VICK. SEEDSMAN, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
There is genuine pleasure in cropping from 300 to 500 bumheln Potatoes from each and| 
every acre you plant. Now the way to do this is to get SAI.Z Idt’S SEEDS. 
00,000 HUSH ELS SEED POTATOES CHEAP. . 
My WHITE BONANZA OATH took the American Agriculturist's prize- 
♦500 In Bold —for biggest yielding Oats in America ; cropping 1 (14 bu. per acre. 
I am the InrgCHt grower of I 35 PnckafcB Earliest Vegetables,, 
NORTH URN GROWN SEEDS I sufficient for family— postpaid—# 1. 
in America, and make a great specialty of FARM SEEDS, 
Grasses, Clover, Wheat, Corn, Oats, etc. My Farm Catalogue d&fl XJ • 
is beautifully illustrated, contains several brilliant eol'd plates painted H8L. ■ T, 
from nature , elegant enough to adorn any parlor. Send 5c. for hL' 
same, or we will send Catalogue and grain samples upon receipt of He. l 
JOHN A. SALZER, LACROSSE, WlSCONSI N.llSHl 
Pouttvy Yard. 
An American water fowl club is to be 
formed. 
Buff Cochins are very popular In Eng 
land just now. 
I. K. Felch claims that White Leg¬ 
horns to-day are smaller than they were 
10 years ago. The incubator, he says, is re¬ 
sponsible. To this the Fancier’s Journal 
responds that Mr. Felch and other judges 
are more to blame than the incubator be¬ 
cause of the type they have advocated and 
to which they have awarded prizes. Some 
of the finest and heaviest White Wyan- 
dottes and White Plymouth Rocks were 
hatched in incubators. 
The Poultry Doctor.— This is the title 
of a little book, just published, which 
gives information regarding the treatment 
of ailing fowls by the homeopathic system. 
Homeopathy has found many friends in 
farmers’ families, the ease with which its 
remedies can be given and its undoubted 
value making it particularly valuable in 
isolated neighborhoods where the doctor 
lives at a distance. We are sure that such 
persons will be glad to know that special 
homeopathic remedies have been prepared 
for poultry diseases. This book gives brief 
and clear descriptions of the various poul 
try ailments and indicates the remedies to 
be given precisely as they are given for 
human diseases in standard works on 
homeopathy. We are certain that all who 
keep fowls will be interested in this book. 
Considerable space is given to a discus¬ 
sion of spongia—the new homeopathic 
treatment for roup. The book costs 50 
cents and is supplied by The Rural Pub 
lishing Company. 
(Continued on next page.) 
THE ELKHART carriage and harness mfg. go, 
No. 1, Farm Harness, For 1H Years have dealt direct with consumers, No. 3 
\ $24 50 at wholesale prices, saving them the dealer's profit. flIrn ‘ 
We ship anywhere, with privilege of__ MtPi 
3r -examining before buying. We nay freight /'"yjlf 
ikj 1 mi charges both ways if not satisfactory. War- f /flljr/ JyTpEjTTfrA 
I JVA rant everything for two years. 
___ _ ___ 3 . Any one who can 
write can order a Buggy or Harness from us, as 
well as pay $10 to $&U to some middle-man to 
order for them. We give no credit, and have 
ONE PRICE ONLY 
Plntfonn, 3-Spring or Combination 
Wngons, *(>0 : same as others sell at $86. 
Top Riiggies *»>5; good as sold at $90. 
Ours at * IOO fine as sell for * I 35. 
Phaetons, * 110; same as sell at $160. 
Fine Road Cart— with dash—* 15. /\ 
t take all risk of damagein shipping, lloxing free, f'' 
DUR HARNF9^ Are all No. I (~p 
n/-*n in c.oo ()nk 1>eather V 
, , Single, *» to *20. X, 
Eight Double, *20 to *40. 
64-page Illustrated Cata- W n DDATT C 
logue Free. Address VY ■ D, in A I I) 0 
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-Dull Nickel Harness, 
UNIVERSAL WEEDER^CULTIVATOR 
■ m3 w JaM PVk Greatly improved for 1891. Endorsed by leading agrin 
culturista throughout the country. 
“ I must have two next year."—T. B. TERRY. 
4 ‘ * regard Breed s Universal Weeder as one of the most valuabl 
'.&D implements a farmer can ailord to employ.” J. J. THOMAS, inventor 
of the Smoothing Harrow. 
W are using the Weeder to-day on a field of potatoes a foot high, 
V 1 and does the best work it has done yet.”—WALDO F. BROWN. 
** Your Weeder is about all that can he asked for as a weed killer 
ftn< * 8urface pulverizer.”—JOHN GOULD. 
THE UNIVERSAL WEEDER CO., North Weire, N. H. 
Where we have no Agents, Machines will be DELIVERED at retail price. 
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Yorker. 
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‘Bicycle’Potato Cultivator 
ell Easy. Fast Fine. No more of hors 
•j rt] snatching, cart steering, and trail 
?nls -Plin? down crops. No more hold 
dsti» ing plows with arms and legs nl 
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Order Early. R. H. Agl. Works, RiverHead, N.Y 
—“If XS in one piece with hook. Hand- 
■I M ieat in use and will obtain more sap than any 
BE other. Send for circular of maple sugar goods 
CHAS.MILLAR & SON, UTICA, N.Y. 
Also Manufacturers of Ctieese and Butter Making Apparatus. 
