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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARCH 21 
“ Rough on Rogues .” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOE NUMBER ONE. 
MARCH. 
Monday ^ ^ r ^ en< ^ out i° wa writes to 
^ ask about a little two-cent paper 
2 3* issued in this city. He has seen 
its advertisement—as he says—“ offering a 
fine gold watch to every subscriber.” There 
are, it appears, several parties there who 
wish to send for the paper and watch, if 
the firm is all right. The offer is good for 
60 days, so he wants to know The Rural’s 
opinion of the concern. Our friend ought 
to know that this little paper can no more 
send the gold watches than he can afford 
to give a gold-headed cane with every 
bushel of wheat he sells. It is doubtful if 
the paper really offers the watch. The ad¬ 
vertisement is carefully worded, and seems 
to be straight, but it is not, and a little 
study will show that one must either get 
up a big club of subscribers or do some 
other work before getting the watch. Just 
as long as sensible people will permit 
themselves to believe that it is possible to 
get something for nothing, just so long 
will rascals and rogues live without labor. 
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TllftSdaV That miserable fraud in Detroit, 
^ “ The Ledger and Farmer,” bobs 
2 4* up again. As we have said, the 
scoundrels behind it offer loans of $50 to 
$500 to their subscribers. They know how 
to ply their game, as the following letter 
from a lady in Louisiana will show : “ Is 
there any possible way by which a woman 
who positively knows she can return the 
loan within four months, from the pro¬ 
ceeds of her crops, can borrow $500, when 
she has no security whatever to give ? My 
sore need now is the cause of my noticing 
this article.” You see this lady is desper¬ 
ately in need of money. These scamps 
send her their lying circular, offering to 
loan money if she will only make a small 
payment to begin with. They hope she 
will grasp at a straw, jump at their offer, 
and send the small amount of money to 
them. They ought to take a ride out of 
Detroit on a rail! 
Of course, there is no possible way by 
which a stranger can secure such a loan as 
that wanted by this inquirer. If her pros¬ 
pects were really satisfactory she might be 
able to obtain the loan from merchants or 
money lenders in her own neighborhood. 
Thousands of planters and farmers all over 
the South get advances, in goods and some¬ 
times in cash, every year, on the security 
of crops not yet even in the ground; and 
the knowledge of this fact, even if there 
were no other reasons, would prevent out¬ 
siders from making advances. Of course, 
there are exceptional cases; but these, 
however severe and worthy of outside con¬ 
sideration, must be classed by strangers 
with the others. 
Wednesday ^■ ason R° we ” * s su p _ 
* posed to do business in Cin- 
2 5* cinnati. He claims to be 
manager of the American Poultry and 
Butter Company, w T hich has agents all 
over the world ! He sends to farmers a 
circular in which he states that the new 
tariff will be sure to raise the prices of eggs 
and butter. In order, therefore, to make 
the “ Gold Bugs of the East pay for their 
favorite dishes,” he proposes to give away 
certain wonderful secrets. You pay $2 for 
the “ secrets” and receive an agreement on 
the part of “A. Mason Rowe” to pay you 
$65 per month for doing light, genteel 
work. Here are the secrets : 
“ How to make hens lay the whole year. 
How to fatten fowls in a few days. 
How to increase the laying of eggs. 
How to increase the flow of milk 25 per 
cent daily in cows. 
II 010 to make one pound of best butter 
from every quart of milk. 
The last named secret is alone well worth 
$25 to any farmer; they can get butter 
enough out of the milk they throw away 
every day to pay fur their groceries, cloth¬ 
ing, etc.” 
Can it be possible that such a fellow can 
get intelligent people to send him money 
on such an absurd proposition ? No, not 
intelligent people by any means—yet he 
gets thousands of dollars from the public ! 
Thnrsdav out that you makea proper 
, ' use of your gifts. Don’t be like 
the man in this story, taken 
from the N. Y. Sun : 
I had been looking over the battle fields 
around Marietta, Ga., and was five miles 
from the town when a Cracker came aloDg 
with an ox cart and offered me a lift. After 
riding some distance, I realized that both 
wheels were sadly in need of grease, and I 
asked him why he didn’t lubricate. 
“ What fur ?” he asked. 
“ To make the cart draw more easily.” 
“ Sho ! This yere ox doan’ mind. He un 
doan know.” 
“ But it would stop the squeaking.” 
“Yes, I reckon, but the squeakin’ doan’ 
hurt.” 
“It would save your wheels,” I finally 
said. 
“Sho! This ole cawt ain’t wuth savin’.” 
“ Didn’t you ever grease it ?” I persisted. 
“Once. A Yankee rode to town with 
me and bought me a box of stuff.” 
“ How did it work ?” 
“ Mighty slick. But we done spread it 
on hoe cake and ate it up.” 
You, smart sir, in your superior wisdom, 
think this man was a fool. See here, now, 
is your record any better ? The chances are 
that you have done things just as silly as 
this was, if your education and training 
are to be considered at any decent valua¬ 
tion. The more you know, the less excuse 
there will be for you. 
FFi(l9.V * n ^is column for January 17 we 
^ had something to say about “ W. 
2 7 ' R. S.,” who offtrs pecan nuts for 
planting. We quoted a note from an old 
friend of The R. N.-Y., who made the fol¬ 
lowing claims: 
1. That W. R. S. has but one tree that 
bears large pecans. 
2. That he buys large nuts and sells them 
at a good price, claiming that the seedlings 
will bear nuts as good and as large. 
3. That the party writing the note has 
trees seven years old, from choice nut (50 
to the pound) trees well cared for, yet the 
nuts they bear are not nearly as good as 
the ones planted. 
The point our friend tried to make was 
that the big nuts (sold at $1.50 per pound) 
would not produce trees yielding nuts of 
equal size. 
Now, in this column we try to “look 
out ” for fraud and injustice. The mean¬ 
est sort of injustice is that which clouds 
one’s reputation. As we “ look out,” let us 
let the sun in clear and strong. Therefore 
we take pleasure in stating what the friends 
of “W. R. S.” have to say in his behalf. 
We may add that he has sent The R. N.-Y. 
some of the finest pecans we have ever 
seen. Who grew them, whether they will 
produce nuts of equal size or whether they 
are worth $1.50 per pound are matters for 
others to decide. 
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SfltlirdflV Here is a synopsis of the letters 
, ^ referred to. F. B. Hancock, of 
2 ^** Christian County, Ky., has al¬ 
ways found “ W. R. S.” “ a clever gentle¬ 
man, who must be all right.” 
Thos. L. Brink, of Maryland, thinks 
W. R. S.’s “pecan grove a living witness 
of his enterprise.” He also says that if he 
can buy pecans at a low price and sell them 
at $1.50 per pound, it shows that he has the 
reputation and his neighbors are making 
what use of it they can. He knows W. R. 
S. to be a Christian gentleman. He has not 
seen the pecan grove himself, but refers to 
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, and Parker 
Earle as to W. R. S.’s honesty and ability. 
The whole letter is too long to be given in 
full here. 
Mr. John Keller, of Mississippi, sends cer¬ 
tificates from persons in Ocean Springs as 
to the reputation of W. R. S. One gentle¬ 
man regards the business as “ both legiti¬ 
mate and patriotic.” All state that W. R. 
S. “stands high in the estimation of the 
community.” A letter from H. E. Van 
Deman, of the Agricultural Department at 
Washington, is also sent. Mr. Van Deman 
says : “ There is no doubt that you possess 
some of the finest varieties of the pecan 
ever brought to notice;” also, “ * * future 
generations cannot but thank you and 
others for the good work of distributing 
trees and nuts at this time.” Any further 
facts from those “who have actually seen 
the trees in bearing and know that the 
seedlings will equal the parents in size and 
quality ” will be gladly printed. 
Make your sitting hen comfortable on 
her eggs and then let her alone. 
The “ Animal Meal ” is a good poultry 
food. 
Poultry Yard. 
Market for Fresh Eggs. 
The R. N.-Y. receives frequent letters 
like the following : “We have about 300 
Leghorn hens and would like to find a 
market for our eggs to which we could ship 
them by the crate as fast as they are laid, 
so that they would be strictly fresh. If 
The R. N.-Y. knows of any parties who 
would like to engage them I would be 
pleased to correspond with them.” 
It is hard to coax 300 hens into profitable 
egg production, but it is harder yet to de¬ 
velop a prime egg market. Anybody can 
ship eggs to New York and take what the 
commission man sees fit to return, but this 
business is not satisfactory to the man who 
knows he has a first-class article, and is do¬ 
ing business enough to warrant him in guar¬ 
anteeing fresh eggs. How can he establish 
his reputation for honesty and care in the 
minds of those who buy his eggs ? How do 
you make a trade-mark valuable t In the 
first place, a man must make up his mind 
that he must spend time, money and pa¬ 
tience. The point is to get in with 
some responsible dealer and convince 
him that the eggs are strictly first- 
class and that they can be supplied in cer¬ 
tain quantities. Have a circular neatly 
printed, stating, in large type, that you 
will guarantee every egg sent out to be 
fresh and good. Offer to supply one dozen 
fresh eggs for every one found bad or 
stale before a certain date. Stamp every 
egg with a neat stamp showing just when 
it was laid. Never let a soiled or badly 
colored egg go out of your house.Have a card 
neatly printed with your name, address, 
egg guarantee and a popular name for your 
poultry farm. Scatter your cards and cir¬ 
culars wherever you go. Write letters, in¬ 
closing your cards and circulars to every 
hotel keeper, every first-class grocer and 
provision dealer you can hear of. Put a 
neat advertisement in the paper that circu¬ 
lates among the best people in your town 
or village. Make a visit to large places 
near by, show your eggs and tell 
what you are doing. In short, believe in 
yourself and in your eggs, and then— 
“blow your horn!” If you blow hard 
enough you will be sure to pierce some¬ 
body’s ear and hold his attention. In order 
to build up a “special” market, a man 
must cultivate self reliance—not “cheek,” 
but an honorable opinion of himself, his 
work and his product. The world loves a self- 
reliant man and will take pleasure in fol¬ 
lowing him—to the egg business as well as 
any other. 
Winter Layers; Burnt and Crushed 
Bones. 
J.V.,Winger,Ont. —1. What kinds of hens 
are the best for winter layers ? 2. Are 
burnt bones as good to make hens lay as 
crushed bones ? 
Ans.— 1. It depends much upon the way 
they are kept. Most of the men who are 
making money at the egg business seem to 
keep Leghorns; but they have tight, warm 
houses and never permit the hens to be¬ 
come chilled. Langshans, Light Brahmas, 
Cochins, Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks 
all lay well in winter, with good treat¬ 
ment, and can stand the cold better than 
Leghorns. 2. Yes and no. The burnt 
bones are softer and more easily eaten, 
especially where the bones are not more 
than half crushed, as is often the case. 
At the same time, the nitrogen of the bones 
is lost by burning. The best bone food we 
have seen was prepared by one of the new 
bone cutting machines. Gristle, meat and 
bone were all chopped into a pasty mass. 
What Ails the Plymouth Rocks ? 
I have kept Plymouth Rocks for four 
years, and during that time I have lost a 
good many by a disease which seems to be 
peculiar to them, common fowls not having 
been affected by it. They are troubled 
with diarrhoea, refuse to eat, and linger 
along until they apparently starve. Some¬ 
times I kill them at once, but often neglect 
to put them to rest till they are nearly 
dead. Diet has nothing to do with the 
matter, for they die at all times of the 
year. They have a dry, roomy house and 
good care. Can The Rural tell me what 
to do, and is the disease contagious ? 
Essex, N. Y. E. G. L. 
This inquirer is guilty of the usual fault. 
“My fowls are sick,” says he; “what is 
the matter?” He gives no symptoms 
whatever, except that they have diarrhoea, 
and droop. No method of feeding is men¬ 
tioned, or whether they have a discharge 
from the nostrils. 
I think that it is roup, as it is the only con¬ 
tagious disease that works slowly. The 
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