APRIL 25 
gratis for nothing.” Too bad that Mrs. 
Belmont should have to sacrifice her estate 
in this unusual way. 
Here is another; 
SiiTrt WILL BUY MY FAST BLACK TROTTING 
e? 1 ») horse, WIIHam C„ provided he is taken in 
the country off the cobblestones; trots in 2:8)%; lady 
can drive him ; prime roadster ; Byears old : weighs 
1,00c. Call at m> private stable, rear 105V6 West Ded¬ 
ham st.; also $75 for brood mare Efflie Dean, record 
2;37, in foal by Jay Gould. 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
sumed, but remains, and may be profitably 
utilized in egg-production. How is this 
brought about ? By ignoring natural se¬ 
lection. To retain the vigor of a flock of 
fowls, Nature demands that the strongest 
must be selected for breeders. In a wild 
state, the law which provides for the “ sur¬ 
vival of the fittest” attends to this matter, 
and thus vigor is conserved. With* the Pit 
Games man’s efforts follow in Nature’s 
footsteps. But with most breeds man’s 
selection is unnatural, and by it a blow is 
aimed at the usefulness of those on which 
it is exercised. Where the old-fashioned 
system of poultry keeping is retained, the 
fowls being allowed to increase “at their 
own sweet will,” many things conspire to 
bring a natural selection to bear upon the 
increase. To illustrate this truth: the 
Silver Spangled Hamburgs (Bolton Grays) 
were in my boyhood ideal fowls for profit. 
In later years they have been selected with 
reference to fancy points until they have 
been well-nigh “ improved off the face of 
the earth.” The Sebright Bantams also 
are a notorious example of fancy extiu 
guishing vigor. 
I beg leave to differ with many as to the 
certainty of prolific laying being trans¬ 
mitted to offspring. Egg-type properlj 
refers to breeds, not to individuals of the 
breed. An element of importance quite 
generally overlooked in this discussion, is 
the fact that long continued laying under¬ 
mines strength. The true basis of prolifi¬ 
cacy is constitutional vigor, and the inevlt 
able consequence of selection by unusual 
laying records, must be disastrous to the 
vigor of the offspring. The best layers of 
the fleck must be descended from a hen in 
which vigor had not been exchanged for a 
record. This fallacy is on a par with the 
trite story of the cow which mysteriously 
expired on the eve of making a record for 
(Continued on next page.) 
Piisirdlattmtg 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
MAY. 
FrldliY I® 11 ’*' ^ °dd that h° rse dealers 
' should let these opportunities go 
I# unimproved? Perhaps they realize 
that the trotter must be “taken in the 
country” and that he is indeed a “fast 
black ” in color if not in gait. We have 
recently become conversant with the facts 
in a case which the hero (?), a thrifty young 
farmer not 200 miles from this city, 
endeavors to hush. An advertisement of 
brood-mares called him to the metropolis. 
On reaching the stable where they were 
supposed to be, he was informed that they 
were in another part of the city. Could he 
wait a few minutes ? The owner was 
engaged just then showing a choice animal 
to a gentleman who desired greatly to 
become its purchaser, but could not. 
Monday ^-‘ as ^ December we took occasion 
* to say “ It is well enough to look 
2 7* out for the Daisy Implement 
Company.” Facts and evidence have since 
come to hand which convince us that we 
had no right to question the reliability of 
this firm. We therefore take this oppor¬ 
tunity of saying that we have made a 
blunder and unintentionally done injury 
to a concern that is doing a legitimate 
business. We are informed that the Daisy 
implements are really “daisies” and that 
they will give satisfaction to those who use 
them. The offne of this company is at 
Pleasant Lake, Ind. * * * * Another 
mistake that we have to record is connect¬ 
ed with the celery crop of Mr. A. Donald, 
see pages 243 and 282. Mr. Donald’s entire 
farm consists of 4X acres. He sold $979.39 
worth of celery. We made it appear that 
all this was grown on one acre, which was 
a great mistake as there were a little over 
two acres in celery. The true record is 
good enough without trying to add to it. 
Will plant seeds In Hills. Drills and Cheek*. 
Will distribute all fertilizers, Wet or Dry, In dif¬ 
ferent Amounts and Distances, each side of seed. 
“ Send for circulars.” 
EOLIPSK CORN PLANTER CO., 
Enfield, Grafton Co.. New Hampshire. 
n%p oo of 
have been sold.IFie/'are Wjl 
T ? in nearly 
Saturday k° rse > a ver y valuable one, 
^ pedigreed, belonged to a 
2 * wealthy woman to whom money 
was no object. She had given strict orders 
that it must be sold to go into the country, 
even if it brought only a low price. Our 
young breeder was eager to see it. The 
richly-dressed, would-be purchaser had 
known the mare for years, had her lineage 
and performance by heart and expatiated 
learnedly on her merits and possibilities. 
He slyly informed our friend that if he 
would buy the mare he would himself give 
$50 advance on the purchase price to own 
her. • The youth bought, the rich man 
went “ to the bank,” and never came back. 
On removing the handsome blanket a 
“ broken-backed,” pitiful object was re¬ 
vealed, worth less than half the money 
paid for it.__ 
TllASdflV Dook out for a “fraud” that is 
q * becoming unpleasantly com- 
mon because so many farmers 
are uneasy and desire to sell out. The 
swindle has been exposed repeatedly in 
our columns for years, in all Its phases; 
but another reminder may serve as a warn¬ 
ing to our numerous new subscribers. A 
pair of sharpers look over the country 
until one of them finds a farmer eager to 
dispose of his place and possessed of sur¬ 
plus money. The rascal asks to be shown 
over the farm, looks through the buildings, 
and finally buys, paying $25 to $100 to bind 
the bargain. He looks like a genuine 
buyer. Before the deed Is signed, his con¬ 
federate “ happens ” to be driving that 
way, being apparently a total stranger to 
the buyer as he is to the owner of the 
farm. He takes a fancy to the same place, 
“ is out looking to buy, and will give a 
large advance for it over the offer made by 
the other,” sometimes as much as $1,000. 
The farmer does not care who buys, and is 
anxious only to get the best possible price. 
A hasty interview is held with his first 
customer who reluctantly consents to 
relinquish his rights to the place if his 
money is returned, together with a bonus 
of $100 or $200. This is paid in cash at 
once. Papers then have to be made out 
for buy er N o. 2, who, before signing, disap¬ 
pears without having paid anything down. 
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MENTION THIS PAPER 
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formerly called ley 
us “TRIUMPH ” 
Poultry Yard. 
Angle of Teeth Adjustable 
to work at desired depth. 
LATEST AND GREATEST 
For SUMMER FALLOW, 
FALL SEEDING and 
STUBBLE GROUND. 
Style A has two gangs. 
Style II has four gangs. 
Leaves No Purrows or Ridge*. 
FANCY POULTRY VS. UTILITY. 
"Egg type;” Asiatics; work, of “ fan¬ 
ciers ; ” the good old “ dunghill; ” 
Leghorns. 
The Rural’s recent discussion of type 
in relation to egg-production can not have 
failed to be of absorbing interest to all in¬ 
terested in poultry, and especially to those 
who, like myself, have given special atten¬ 
tion to breeding. For several years I was 
engaged exclusively in poultry-keeping, 
and in turn had in my possession most of 
the breeds known to fanciers, finally hand 
ling one Asiatic variety alone for several 
seasons, breeding them carefully for exhi¬ 
bition. Leaving the farm a while for town 
life, I finally closed out my stock, content 
with the honors I had won in the show¬ 
room, but convinced of one fact : that the 
breed which had received my painstaking 
efforts was worthless when contrasted with 
either the best laying kinds, or the best 
for dresssd poultry; and satisfied also that 
the same is true of most of the fancy breeds. 
The fancy itself, pure and simple, is well 
enough, and just as excusable as a love for 
the beautiful in any other form. But the 
commercial side of the poultry fancy, where 
the incentive is the last cent that may be 
wrung from it rather than the artistic de¬ 
light which inspires the true fancier, is to 
be deprecated. It is always the commer¬ 
cial fancier who tries to make out the cur¬ 
rent season’s stylo of fowl the best for all 
purposes that has yet appeared. I finally 
came to look with incredulity upon the 
extravagant claims for each new breed; 
in my mind the various articles of the 
poultry creed resolved themselves into 
doubts, and I became a skeptic—a hen- 
skeptic—as to the compatibility of the 
practical and the fancy. And when I meet 
with bombastic axe-grinders in the rural 
press, vaunting the praises of this or that, 
because it is “English, you know,” I can¬ 
not avoid, like the disguised lord in The 
Vicar of Wakefield, ejaculating an occa¬ 
sional “ Fudge!” 
As a rule, a variety that has been in the 
hands of the fanciers exclusively for a few 
years, has parted with its utilitarian value 
—if it ever had any. Fancy and intrinsic 
worth are on two different planes, which 
converge only where popularity has estab¬ 
lished large numbers of a variety outside 
of the fanciers’ hands, where vigor may be 
conserved. In the one case the vigor has 
been exhausted by effort to produce the 
artificial in shape or plumage; in the other 
the vital strength has not been thus con* 
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IN THE WORLD. 
Will do work no other can. 
AGENTS 
WANTED 
Brockport, N.Y. Mention, this paper. 
For circulars 
and testimonials, writeD. S. MORGA 
THE ELKHART curriuge and harness mfg. co, 
Wfiti n6Sd3.V Still worse are the sharks 
' who entice the forehanded 
29 * ruralist to the city with a 
carefully worded advertisement iu a daily 
paper, or get him to forward money for 
what is never sent him or for something 
entirely different from the article adver¬ 
tised. He has no redress, as the rogue has 
“moved.” The following is au every-day 
specimen: 
N eed of money compels the immediate 
sale of m.v elegant $500 cabinet grand upright 
piano, almost new, best make, fully warranted, $190, 
with stool and scarf. tib'J Tremont st, 
A costly instrument, but little the worse 
for age is shown the caller. It stands in a 
richly furnished apartment. He is pleased, 
pays down and the piano is boxed, labeled 
with his address and put on to a truck for 
shipment before he leaves, but he never 
sees it again—nor his money either. If 
suspicious and willing to pay on delivery 
only, the shipment is promised but never 
made. If money be sent for the piano with¬ 
out seeing it, a poor one is forwarded, or 
“ the letter was never received.” 
For 18 Years have dealt direct with consumers, 
• at wholesale prices, saving them the _] 
dealer's profit. VVe ship any where,. -; v 
with privilege of examining before buying. No. 15 Cart, 
We pay 1 reiglit charges both ways if not Q -1 
* satisfactory. Warrant everything for 2 years. 45 k I . 
, Any one who can write can order a Buggy 
% or Harness from us, as well as pay $10 to $50 to 6ome 
■ jl middleman to order for them. W e give no credit, and 
|jj- have ONE PRICE ONLY 
1 Platform, Three-Spring or Combination V" 
" Wagons, SCO ; same as others sell at $85. \ 
i Top iiuggies, So5; good as sold at $90. ' 
No. 1 Farm Harness. 
UNIVERSAL WEEDER^CULTIVATOR 
Greatly improved for 1891. Endorsed by leading agri¬ 
culturists throughout the country. 
“ I must have two next year.”—T. B. TERRY. 
“I regard Breeds Universal Weeder as one of the most valuably 
implements a farmer can afford to employ.” J. J. THOMAS, inventar 
of the Smoothing Harrow. 
“ We are using the Weeder to-day on a field of potatoes a foot high, 
and does the best work it has done yet.”—WALDO F. BROWN. 
“ Your Weeder is about all that can be asked for as a weed killer 
and surface pulverizer.”—JOHN GOULD. 
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Circular 
and 
PriceList 
Thnr«?dav Tiie earnesfc > humane seeker for 
* a good home, iu which to bestow, 
30- or place at a low price, a choice 
and favorite horse, seems to have difficulty 
in finding the right place. Boston dailies 
contain this notice: 
J* -« r~ BUYS NEW GODTARD BUGGY THAT 
1 <) cost two months ago $325 ; new har¬ 
ness, cost *65; robe, cost *25, and street blanket, cost 
and mar, all *150. I have one of the prettiest Lam¬ 
bert mares in this State. I wautto get iu a good home; 
safe for lady to drive and speed- pet In stable and 
harness: to anyone that buys the buggy I will give 
tue mare free of charge, any one that I give the mare 
to must bring references. Can b» seen by calling for 
Mrs BELMONT S team, at the boarding stable in 
rear 9 Gardner Street, off Prospect Street, Cain- 
bridgepert, 
Quite a bargain! $420 worth for $150, and 
“ one of the prettiest” thrown in, “free, 
Improved Farm and Carden 
Tools for 1891. 
BETTER, Both.Horse & Hand, THAN EVER; jFXAy S 
better and more money saving. We cannot describe them * 
here, but our new and handsome catalogue is free and in- 
teresting. A goodly number of new tools will meet your eye Zf "m . 
there. Among these Gardener^ Harrow* Cnit iva- /a v "I 
tor & Pulverizer, combined, adjustable teeth; Market Y 
Gardener’s & Beet Grower’s Special Horse Hoe " ^^ 
with Pulverizer; Special Furrower, Marker and Ridger, adjustable wings ; Sw eet Potatoe Hors< 
Hoe.four tooth with vine turner; HeavvGrass Edger and Path Cleanerjnew Nine Tootli Cult ivatoi 
and Horse Hoe combined: Special Steel Leveler and Pulverizer combined; all interesting, nothinfrwe hav< 
^ver made so practical or perfect. Some improved things too are grafted upon our older favorites. A capital LILY 
WHEEL, instantly adjustable for depth, is a great feature; put on all ’91 goods unless ordered otherwise. Isc 
have our Hand Seed Drills been forgotten in the march of improvement, nor our Double and Single Wheel Hoes, Ga 
den Plows, Grass Edgers, Etc. Some of them are greatly altered for the better; yet do not forget that no novelties a 
adopted by w» without actual and exhaustive tests in the field. We therefore guar- Q T XT T 1711 JPr » 
HBtee everytfcihg exactly as represeuted Seu-4 for Catalogues no>?> M» U* ttUwftlt 01 vvi j Philadelphia, r* 
