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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
APRIL 11 
LARK'S 1 
UTAWAr^ 
ORN6> /jiD 
ULTIVATOR 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
Pi.sceHattMUiS 
Always name Thk R. N.-Y. in writing to 
advertisers. 
S&tnrdRV kook out ior the agents for 
q 3 creamery houses. We spoke of 
* their work severil weeks ago. 
There is a promised revival in the dairy 
business, and farmers everywhere are study¬ 
ing at this creamery plan. The agent wants 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. to sell his goods and if you let him do just 
as he likes he may sell you too. A. C. Tup 
per, State Dairy Commissioner for Iowa, 
gives, through the Breeders’ Gazette, this 
common sense advice: “If a community 
wishes to embark in a farmers’ cooperative 
creamery or a stock company creamery in 
a section where there is a little dairy knowl¬ 
edge and but few or no creameries are run¬ 
ning in the county, a committee of the 
most successful and conservative farmers 
should be sent on a visit to the nearest 
county in which a large and successful 
creamery or cheese factory business is done. 
The committee should not only visit the 
different creameries and talk with the man¬ 
agers, but should converse with the differ¬ 
ent patrons and look over their outfits for 
the proper care of cows, milk and cream.” 
Tnesdav Two rort men recently Know what you are dolnK and fchen d0 k * 
^ visited the premises of an old res- 
14* ident in Green County, Ohio, and 
got him to sign a note for $800. Very likely 
it will turn up with a face value of $8,000, 
as it is a very easy matter for such scamps 
to multiply by 10. The “old resident” 
claims that the strangers must have mes¬ 
merized or hypnotized him; all he seems to 
remember is that they praised his stock and 
farm and teemed to think him a wonder¬ 
fully successful farmer. Has it ever oc¬ 
curred to you that praise and flattery will 
upset a man quicker than anything else f 
There are lots of men whom you can’t 
frighten at all, no matter how hard you try 
to drive them. Praise them a little though, 
and rub up their bump of self esteem and 
they become your willing slaves. Look out 
that you learn to estimate yourself at your 
real worth so that you won’t be upset by a 
little praise. 
farmer can afford to consider any part of 
his establishment as beneath his notice, 
which promises to pay him a fair profit 
upon his outlay. While attention is being 
called to the necessity of more intelligent 
farming—through the press and bv means 
of numerous farmers’ institutes—I would 
register a plea that the poultry yard should 
receive a more honorable place in the 
economy of the farm. It is my belief that 
sn investment in labor, feed and build¬ 
ings, for poultry will pay a much larger 
percentage of profit than will a similar in¬ 
vestment in any other kind of live stock. 
Compared With Dairying. 
As compared with what might be called 
an average dairy record, the results upon 
a small farm were as follows—the figures 
at least as to poultry being applicable to a 
farm of any size : During 1888 we fed two 
milch cows. The sales of butter during 
the year amounted to $72, and all the dairy 
products amounted to $100, allowing for 
the butter, cream, etc , freely used by the 
family. The cost of keeping the cattle hav¬ 
ing been about $54, the profits were $23 per 
head. Upon a farm where all grain and 
vegetables fed are produced we find the an¬ 
nual expense of one cow or of 50 fowls to 
be a out equal In 1888 50 fowls laid 442 
dozen eggs, worth $70.75, at an average 
price of 16 cents per dozen, making a bil¬ 
ance of $20.75 in favor of the poultry yard, 
or a profit of $43 75. No chickens were 
raised, and of course none was sold, while 
the record for January of that year was 
only 60 eggs, and for February 144 eggs, 
as agains k 408 and 480 for the same months 
of this year for 50 hens. In the next two 
years the record was slightly below this, 
owing to the advancing age of the birds 
and the introduction of common stock. 
The hens are doing much better this year 
with better breeding and feeding. The 
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Colored plate, England’s best 
fowls, only 10 c. F. A. WEB¬ 
STER, Cazenovia, N. Y. 
Yale Strawberry. 
A late variety, of large size, perfect blos¬ 
som. Splendid shipper and of excellent 
quality. Send for circular. Address 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, 
NEW CANAAN, CONN. 
Monday kook out for the counterfeit Han- 
3 cock $2 silver certificate. This 
I 3* is probably the most dangerous 
counterfeit ever put forth in this country. 
For the first time the paper used in print¬ 
ing the Treasury notes has been copied so 
closely that an expert can hardly tell the 
difference. In fact, the counterfeit is so 
dangerous that the Treasury authorities 
will retire the Hancock $2 certificate and 
make a new series of this denomination 
with a picture of Secretary Windom in 
place of that of Gen. Hancock. 
P II 1 B ffl ■ A Nursery and Fruit 
■ nilllhV Farm. Middletown, 
Rock bottom prices for car load lots. 
E. R. COCHRAN & CO., 
Middletown, Del. 
SYMNIES HAYillLGRAIN CAP 
BETTER QUALITY 
over - Try 
0,000 \ “d”e 
BOIM \ con- 6 
WHfcls. \ vinced. 
MORE HAY 
Practical, 
Useful, 
Best of 
Satis¬ 
faction. 
Write 
for 
Circu- 
lars. i 
Pou Itry Yard. 
The Flavor of Duck. 
On page 179 I notice an article by P. H. 
Jacobs on “Feeding for Flavor.” Mr. 
Jacobs is probably aware of the fact that 
there are many more varieties of wild ducks 
than of tame; but he does not seem to 
know that only one kind (the canvasback) 
seeks and eats wild celery ; and so far as I 
know—and I have had considerable experi¬ 
ence among wild ducks in the tide waters 
of Maryland and Virginia, as well as on 
the Pacific coast—no other ducks have the 
peculiar flavor of celery. When the ducks 
that breed in the immense fresh-water 
marshes of northern Alaska, and get fat 
on seeds, roots and grass, first come down 
to salt water, they are as fine flavored as 
the most fastidious epicure could desire; 
but there is a gradual change, and In six 
or eight weeks after they begin eating 
shell fish, etc., the fish flavor is so strong 
that very few can eat them, and I don’t 
believe any one can relish them, and no 
amount or style of cooking can destroy 
the flavor. If Mr. Jacobs will spend a 
couple of months here next fall I will con¬ 
vince him there is no imagination about it. 
San Juan County, Washington. B. T. 
Capons and Caponizing —Capons cer¬ 
tainly bring high prices In this market and 
in Boston. Poultry dealers always wonder 
why farmers do not caponize more of their 
birds, as the price for capons is nearly 
three times that of roosters, and the former 
are considerably heavier. Can anybody do 
it t People tell us so, though we have not 
tried it. The R N.-Y. has several friends 
who bought sets of caponizing instruments 
and became fairly expert in their use. The 
birds, undoubtedly, grew larger and gave 
finer meat. They claim that the pain is no 
greater than that caused by castrating any 
animal. They were all obliged to butcher 
half a-dozen or more before they learned 
how to do the work properly. Where a 
large number of birds are to be operated on 
it will probably pay to hire an expert to 
come and caponize the lot. He will be 
quicker about it, kill fewer and leave 
fewer “slips’’than an amateur. We be¬ 
lieve, how ever, that almost any careful and 
observing man can learn to do the work 
himself. Sets of instruments, with com¬ 
plete directions, are sold by George Q. 
Dow, North Epping, N. H., and W. H. 
Wigmore, Philadelphia, Pa. 
ALDEN & WOODS 
OOOOO 
SOLE MANUFACTURERS 
SKOWHEGAN . MAINE 
Wednesday ex P er i ence d printer tells 
* us that he could not begin to 
1 5* furnish the gaudy and exag¬ 
gerated pictures of flowers, fruits and veg¬ 
etables found in seedsmen’s catalogues, for 
$200,000. We have made a careful collec¬ 
tion of the chromos found in this year’s 
catalogues. Who pays this vast sum and 
the added profit ? The buyer. He not 
only pays a big and useless price, but he i» 
fooled to boot, for it is simply impossible 
for these “new plants” to imitate these 
pictures. The whole business is a big hum¬ 
bug, and “the public ” pay for it. One of 
our friends out in Ohio talks sense about it 
as follows: “The effect of the enticing 
picture books that are sent out by some of 
our seedsmen, is seen on a family in my 
neighborhood. They are so poor that they 
are unable properly to clothe the children, 
and it is with much difficulty that they 
succeed in negotiating a loan of a dollar to 
pay the yearly tax ou their dog, but 
every spring they manage to accumulate a 
small sum to send for some of the marvels 
of the vegetable world. Often, the wife in 
this family comes to ask us to send with 
her (at our expense) for something that has 
appealed to her desire through flaming 
cuts. This year, a radish caught her eye, 
because, as she said, 1 they were all of even 
size, as the picture showed.’ Just so I 
Y 8EED POTATOE8 Are grown Horn the Choicest Stock, in the virgin lands 
lu of the cold North-East. I have the best New and Standard Sorts, and warrant 
them snperior to all others for seed. I raise my SEED CORN 160 miles Earths* 
North than the North line of Vermont, and for Early Crops my CARDEfj SEEDS 
have no eqnal. 
I offer this season my new HARBINCER POTATO, which I beiiere will be 
the Great Market Potato of the future. And my new EARLY BRYANT CORN 
a handsome yellow variety, the Earliest of All. I have Special Low Freight Ratet 
& everywhere. My fine new Catalogue Mailed Free. |^“Name this Paper and addreu 
r GEORGE W. P. JERR ARD. Caribou, Maha 
GOOD FRUITS. 
Can be bought of Butler. He makes a specialty of the standard, tested and found worthy varieties. He can’t 
make money quite so fast as by BOOMING NOVELTIES at big prices, but it Is honest. His prices are as low 
as good reliable stock, warranted pure and true to label, can be sold. His catalogue is neat and concise and 
tells the truth. If you want it write your own name and address on the’ back of a postal card, and 
G. S. BUTLER, CROMWELL. CONN., on its face and pass it to Uncle Sam. who will take it to Mr. Butler and 
bring back the catalogue. 
IT WILL 
CULTIVATE 
CORN and 
COTTON - 
to a Height of 
THREE FEET 
Throwing the 
Soil to or from 
the Plant. 
Send for Special 
Circular. 
ThlirSdaV ‘*^ ew varieties often do well be- 
f 3 cause they receive extra treat- 
* ment. A few years ago I raised 
222 pounds of potatoes from one pound that 
cost me a dollar. They were the O. K. 
Mammoth Prolific. The testimonial I 
rashly gave the variety continued to ap¬ 
pear in the catalogue of succeeding years 
until it seemed very ‘ chestnutty,’ but I 
was soon glad to abandon the variety. It 
was extra soil and tillage that had made 
the yield. Ninety-nine persons out of a 
hundred should spend little money on 
high-priced novelties. Let capable parties 
cull out the very few desirable varieties, 
and, in the meantime, old standard ones 
will give the most profit ” 
POULTRY FOR BUSINESS. 
Well Worth Developing. 
No department of the farm more richly 
deserves the careful, painstaking super¬ 
vision of the farmer himself than the poul¬ 
try yard. Many who are striving to follow 
the best methods in farming still slight the 
poultry yard, some even regarding it as a 
necessary evil to be tolerated only on ac¬ 
count of the delicacies it furnishes for the 
table, and the few shekels sometimes re¬ 
ceived from it as exceedingly costly re¬ 
wards. Often the care of poultry is dele¬ 
gated to women, children, superannuated 
people, or hirelings. I do not wish to die- 
parage what women are doing with fowls, 
but their success is often gained under pro¬ 
test'from the head of the household, who 
regards “ fussing with hens” as too effemi¬ 
nate for him. This ought not to be. In 
these times when low prices have appar¬ 
ently come to stay, the only salvation for 
the farmer seems to be in pushing the farm 
industry in all of its branches, while in¬ 
creasing the productions of the soil, and no 
Sole Manufacturers HIGGANUM, CONN. 
New York Office, 183 Water St. NEW YORK, 
PERFECT ION IN BUTTER M AKING. 
The 0. K. OUTFIT EXCELS THEM ALL. 
^O.K. CREAMERY 
Fridiv ^ eep your eye °p en for tlie 
* “sports” or “new” breeds of 
* 7* poultry. The makers of these 
breeds are about as bad, in their way, as 
the “novelty” felloes. We learn of half 
a dozen of these “ sports ” that are to be 
launched upon the public. Now these 
birds are not “sports” at all—they are 
cross-bred birds, and all the sport to be had 
over the matter will be that of the breeder, 
who succeeds in selling his birds and eggs 
at a big price. 
3HES sH's, ASHES 
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE PURE ARTICLE. 
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lysis. Send for sample prices and illustrated pamphlet free. Address THE FOREST CITY 
iH CO., London. Ont., Canada, or our New England branch office. So. Sudbury, Mass, 
vaated In every farming town. E. W. McGAUVE Y, Manager, 
Please mention Thf, Rim at. 'Nrw.w.Vrt>»Triri> when * 
