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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 2 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
MAY. 
Look out that your actions and 
your statements fit; that you 
4* don’t say one thing and mean 
another. I was thinking of this not long 
ago at an evening gathering, when an old 
English farmer sang a song for the benefit 
of the company. Here is one verse— 
probably most of you know it:— 
Let the wealthy rejoice, 
Boll In splendor and state, 
I envy them not. X declare It; 
I eat my own lamb, 
My chickens and ham, 
I shear my ow n fleece and I wear It. 
I have lawns. I have bowers, 
I have fruit, I have flowers, 
The lark Is my morning alarmer; 
So Jolly boys, now. 
Here’s God-speed to the plow, 
Long life and success to the farmer 
He rolled this out in great style. It was 
doubtless true about the farming when he 
was a boy but it sounded a little strange 
to me as I knew it did not suit his present 
farming at all. He is always talking about 
the power of trusts and corporations, and 
saying that the wealthy do altogether too 
much rolling in splendor and state. As 
for eating his own meat he doesn’t do it at 
all, because the Chicago dressed meat is a 
good deal cheaper than any he can make. 
It simply pays him bette to grow other 
things. His song has not been changed at 
all, but farm conditions have all been 
changed and changed for good. Our friend 
still sings his song, but he has been sharp 
enough to change his methods. The trou¬ 
ble is that too many farmers still sing the 
old song and think it is a Divine injunc¬ 
tion to keep on in the old, old way. Times 
have changed ; change your time. 
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T nfi 0(jav That old game of advertising for 
' a farm has been successfully 
5» played in Orange County, N. Y. 
A man located in one of the largest towns 
and advertised for farms which he said he 
wanted to buy. Lots of people replied and 
were informed that an agent would visit 
their farms and examine them just as soon 
as money enough to pay expenses was for¬ 
warded. Of course, they said, the agent 
could not be expected to go and pay his own 
expenses! So some of the farmers sent the 
small amount of money called for. They 
have not yet seen the “ agent ” and they 
never will, for all he wanted was this “ex¬ 
pense money.” * * * A subscriber wants 
to know if the cures for fits are reliable. 
He sees them advertised in a certain 
Prohibition paper—and therefore they 
“ ought to be harmless.” No, they are not 
“ reliable.” The paper ought to know bet¬ 
ter thau to print such advertisements. The 
stuff sent out by these so-called doctors is 
more deadly than any whisky that ever was 
made. 
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Wednesday P eo P* e about Washington, 
* Pa., were recently visited by 
a man who claimed to be an 
agent for a “Collection Agency.” His 
scheme was to collect $5 or $10 from busi¬ 
ness men and farmers and then make 
them members of his agency. When they 
had any bills which they could not collect 
by ordinary methods they could send 
them to the “ Agency,” and that concern 
would employ able lawyers to collect the 
money. The man secured lots of money in 
this way and then departed. The new 
members have about come to the conclu¬ 
sion that the whole thing is a humbug. 
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Thursday A number o£ Western papers 
^ • contain accounts of a gang of 
7* agents who are selling stoves and 
ranges. They tell big stories about the 
great advantages of these stoves, their 
strength, etc., but are silent about several 
defects which are painfully evident when 
the fire is started. The price is $68 in a 
note or $62 in cash. You can buy a stove 
just exactly as good for $35 of any reliable 
hardware dealer. To hear the story these 
agents tell, this wonderful range will get 
up in the morning and cook breakfast 
while you lie abed. If you are going to 
have your imagination stimulated by such 
yarns you must pay for it. 
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Ffidiiy Advertisements dish-washing 
q * machines begin to appear in the 
papers, and our housekeeping 
friends are naturally anxious to know 
whether they are of any value. Dish¬ 
washing is about the meanest work in the 
house. Machines have been made for 
lightening other forms of household labor, 
but the old reliable dish-pan still stays by 
us. Certainly the person who will invent 
a cheap and reliable dish washing machine 
may reasonably expect to head the list of 
those wnose names are written on the 
hearts of his countrymen. During the past 
year several patents have been issued for 
dish washers. The principle is much the 
same in all. The dishes are put into a wire 
cage so they will not slip. This cage is then 
lowered into a can or tub of boiling water 
and whirled about by means of a cog. 
wheel. The dishes thus wash themselves 
—that is, they are dashed or rubbed against 
the hot water and “ rinsed.” 
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SfttlirdftV otber machines the dishes are 
* stationary in a cage placed in 
9* the center of a tub and the hot 
water is forced upon them much like the 
action of a turbine water wheel. This is 
supposed to dash off the dirt from the 
dishes and only a light rinsing is needed. 
These machines are said to do fairly well 
where there are dishes enough to make it 
an object to fit up large tubs, steam pipes, 
etc. In the large hotels we should think 
some such plan would work well as they 
have every convenience of steam and hot 
water. We don’t believe the small machines 
will give much satisfaction. “Boiling” 
the dishes in a big tin boiler will probably 
answer just as well. A good dish washing 
machine is needed by a large and highly 
honored class of our fellow citizens. We 
must have it. What experiment station 
will render itself immortal by devising such 
a machine? 
Poultry Yard. 
AN OLD POISON STORY. 
I send a clipping from the Detroit Bul¬ 
letin of Pharmacy, and would like the 
following questions regarding it answered : 
Can a sufficient quantity of nux vomica be 
fed to young chickens to kill a hawk if it 
should catch one and eat it ? How long 
could such feeding be continued ? Is It 
true that such a quantity of the drug 
could be fed without injury to the chicken ? 
Would it be safe for men to eat the flesh 
of such chickens ? j. r. w. 
Baltimore, Md. 
In certain districts of the country, espe¬ 
cially the mountainous parts of the South¬ 
ern States, farmers find it almost impossi¬ 
ble to successfully raise poultry, on ac- 
•count of the depredations of hawks. When 
the chickens have reached that very tooth¬ 
some age of “spring,” the hawks, in spite 
of the vigilance of the farmers, succeed 
in carrying them off to such an alarming 
extent that the poor farmers in their des¬ 
peration are willing to resort to any de¬ 
vice which will rid them of the bold ma¬ 
rauders. The plan which they have 
adopted is as follows, and a unique one it 
certainly is : A quantity of “ nux vomiky 
buttons” are procured, and powdered 
about as fine as ordinary corn meal. A 
very generous supply of this unpalatable 
meal is added to the chicken’s food, and as 
the chicken is a bird which digests 
its food entirely by mechanical means, 
gravel, sand, etc., it is not affected 
at all by the strychnine, which 
is practically insoluble in water (solubility 
being about 1-36,000) and does not act 
locally, but only by absorption; thus large 
quantities can be given the chickens with 
impunity, and still not interfere with their 
use as an article of food for man, as the 
strychnine remains undissolved in the en¬ 
trails. But when the unsuspecting hawk 
takes one of these doctored fowls to his 
lofty home, he is seized with an attack of 
indigestion, or rather digestion of strych¬ 
nine, after eating his stolen meal, from 
which he never recovers. For the hawk is 
a carnivorous bird, hence its digestion is a 
chemical one instead of mechanical, and as 
the entrails are to him the daintiest por¬ 
tion, he gets into his stomach the greater 
part of the undissolved drug, which is acted 
upon by digestive fluids present in the 
stomach, forming soluble compounds, 
which being absorbed, result fatally. 
Ans.—N ux vomica, being a poison, 
should be used cautiously. I have scores 
of letters from those who have tried the 
experiment, and they state that nux 
vomica will not kill fowls, or “anything 
born with its eyes open but whether the 
maxim is true or not 1 must confess I am 
unable to answer from personal experience, 
as I am never troubled with hawks. I 
have evidence from reliable witnesses, 
however, who state that if nux vomica is 
fed to a chicken, and a hawk eats the 
chicken, the hawk will die. Nux vomica 
is different from strychnine, the latter 
being its active principle. As much as 
five grains of nux vomica is not considered 
an overdose for a human, but I would 
advise no one to use it. If it will kill a 
hawk after the hawk has devoured a 
chicken fed on it, no doubt it will a 
human. I believe that as much as one- 
fourth of a teaspoonful has been fed to a 
fowl without injurious effects, and it is an 
excellent remedy, in one grain doses, for 
indigestion in fowls. How long the feed¬ 
ing of the nux vomica should be continued 
probably depends on its effects, if any, and 
the periods of the appearances of the 
hawks. P. H. JACOBS. 
WHAT AILS THE CHICKENS? 
Recently we have killed three chickens, 
all apparently healthy, lively and active, 
with red combs, fat and healthy-looking in 
every way. They are splendid layers, the 
best we ever saw the year through. They 
are a cross between Games and Leghorns, 
which, after many experiments with a 
variety of purebreds and many crosses of 
different varieties, suits us better than 
anything else, both for the table and eggp. 
The three above mentioned were all right 
in the dressing till it came to peeling out 
the inside lining of the gizzard. Then it 
was found that at the lower part of the 
gizzard, where it is thinnest, it could 
hardly be gotten out, and when it came 
out it was full of small red worms. They 
were about as thick as a No. 70 thread and 
some nearly three-fourths of an inch long. 
Many were imbedded in the flesh. Some 
stuck up and waved themselves around in 
a lively manner. They did not seem to 
have penetrated the lining of the gizzard at 
all, and all the rest of that organ and its 
contents looked perfectly natural so far as 
I could see. There was nothing to be seen 
from the outside of the gizzard to indicate 
their presence, and they were in each case 
at the opposite part of the gizzard from 
where the pipes enter it and at the thinnest 
part. The space they occupied was but 
little larger than the thumb nail. I have 
dressed a great many chickens, but never 
saw anything like it. j. F. H. 
Crawfordsville, Ind. 
Ans. —It is not an uncommon occurrence 
to find the worms in the gizzard, just as is 
described, and I have before endeavored to 
solve it. The fowls are always apparently 
healthy, and show no signs of ailment, but 
I find the worms mostly occurring in fowls 
that have been well fed, especially on 
sloppy food, and in fat condition. I have 
not been able to classify the worms, nor 
have I any evidence showing how they 
reach such an obscure point of the body, 
as the worms seem to know that it is dan¬ 
gerous to get through the lining of the giz¬ 
zard, but it happens that they sometimes 
do so, which is fatal to the fowls, but, as a 
rule, they seldom get into the food of the 
gizzard. My opinion is that they are picked 
up as eggs, which hatch in the crop, the 
worms finding their location in the gizzard 
through the muscles, as I have at times 
fopnd them in the muscles also, their be¬ 
havior, I believe, being similar to the 
trichina in hogs. The best remedy is a tea¬ 
spoonful of spirits of turpentine in a quart 
of corn meal fed as dough, the hens being al¬ 
lowed to eat all they wish, but the remedy 
is not known to be a sure one. 
P. H. JACOBS. 
I am feeding my hens on sorghum seed 
aud corn, and they are laying very well. 
I wish to say that the Indian Games are 
not a “new” breed, for in 1860 the game 
fanciers of Phelps, Ontario County, N. Y., 
had them, and it was said then that they 
wouldn’t stand the “steel.” Judging by 
Burpee’s catalogue the only difference is 
that they now have yellow shanks while 
they were black then. F. s. w. 
Sweetwater, Tenn. 
Many men raise a pound of butter worth 
25 cents, at the same cost at which other 
men raise a pound of beef worth two to 
five cents and on the same quantity of 
land.—Rural World. 
Keep this up 50 years, and you have 
“ debtor and creditor classes,” with the 
former calling for “ help.” 
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