IHE rural. NEW-YORKER. 
March 3 
144 
A GREENHOUSE FOR THE FARMER. 
What do you say, a greenhouse ? And 
what does a farmer want with a green¬ 
house ? Well, let us see, perhaps to grow 
flowers in, Eh? Oh no. Not exactly, 
though he might do this, too A green¬ 
house on a farm can be made one of the 
best paying institutions, besides giving a 
lot of genuine pleasure and enioyment 
during the long winter months when 
farmers, as a rule, are not very busy. 
Now let us see for a moment what prac¬ 
tical benefit from a financial and com¬ 
mercial standpoint, and aside from the 
pleasure part, can be realized from a 
greenhouse or glasshouse. One may 
grow a number of different vegetables in 
a greenhouse during winter, like toma¬ 
toes, radishes, leeks, cucumbers, beets, 
beans, lettuce, melons, carrots, and 
others. Besides these one can force 
asparagus, rhubarb and mushrooms all 
through the winter, and also start all 
the early vegetable seeds and plants 
like tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, egg 
plant, peppers, melons, cucumbers, 
tobacco, etc., in early spring and thereby 
be working away ahead of the season. 
First sow the seeds, prick off the seed¬ 
lings, and transplant into boxes or what 
are commonly called flats; from these 
flats again transplant into small pots or 
at once into the open ground, according 
to the season. In this way one may 
make time and be ahead of the season. 
In addition to this, one may also grow a 
nice lot of cheap flowers—or if one pre¬ 
fer, choice ones, too. These will keep 
the women folk in the house in good 
humor ; the wife and daughters, the 
children and the neighbors all will derive 
a great deal of enjoyment and company 
from these flowers, and the latter will 
help to brighten the dooryard, phzzas 
and porch, all at a very moderate ex¬ 
pense. 
Ah, now ! that is just what I want to 
know, what it will cost to build such a 
house. That will depend wholly upon 
the style and size of the house. A real 
practical and cheap greenhouse can be 
built 10 feet wide inside by 33^ feet high 
at the sides and about 9 to 10 feet high 
in the center, including heating and ven¬ 
tilating apparatus, for from to $7.50 
per running foot. Thus a house 50 feet 
long would cost, all complete, from $250 
to $375, Such a house could be divided 
into two compartments, one for hot and 
the other for cool temperature, and the 
first cost could be realized out of its pro¬ 
ducts the first season. 
There is another important item for 
which such a greenhouse alone would 
pay many a farmer, especially those who 
depend upon the town markets and who 
engage in truck farming, and that is to 
test all their seeds, and thereby avoid 
failures which oftentimes cause great 
losses. In the next issue I will give a 
diagram of a cross section of such a 
house, together with details and specifi- 
tions for construction. H. A. sikbrecht. 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
“ THE BUSINESS HEN." 
I have lately been studying the “busi¬ 
ness hen,” both in paper covers and in 
feathers. The little book called “The 
Business Hen,” edited and published by 
The Rural, is the best thing on the sub¬ 
ject that I have ever seen. It is plain, 
practical, and the man who can’t learn 
something from its perusal is far too 
chicken-wise for me to have any desire 
to meet him. I mean by that that the 
book contains the experience of some of 
the most successful hen keepers in this 
country, and he who thinks he has 
attained, in his own experience, more 
knowledge of the hen business than these 
men, is too much of a prodigy to make 
pleasant company. 
The “business hen” is the right way to 
put it, for hen keeping is destined to be¬ 
come one of the most important business 
interests of this country. Even now 
there are many persons who devote their 
whole time to caring for the hens, and 
their number is bound to increase largely 
within the next few years. When it 
becomes generally known that keeping 
hens can be made a paying specialty ; 
that business intelligence and capital can 
be invested in it and will pay as large a 
(larger ?) per cent of profit as almost any 
other industry, the business hen will be 
looked upon with more respect than she 
is at present. There is no animal the 
keeping of which gives such genuine 
pleasure as the hen; while the cow 
declares a dividend nearly every day in 
the year, it costs something to draw it; 
and unless sold as received it costs some¬ 
thing more to convert it into cash. But 
the hen, when she lays an egg, puts into 
your possession property that costs noth¬ 
ing for collection and is interchangeable 
for gold, silver or notes at such a ratio 
as will satisfy the most exacting. Most 
farmers won’t “bother” with the hen 
business, it is “ too trifling,” when the 
fact is that 100 hens, if cared for in the 
best manner, will often pay a larger net 
profit than a whole farm. 
The Business Hen tells how to care for 
the hens in such a way that the profit is 
sure; the rules are few and simple, and 
any one can follow them. To women 
particularly does the hen business offer 
an opportunity of making a good living, 
as the labor need be no greater than a 
woman can perform. As a rule, women 
are more successful as chicken raisers 
than men, and upon this part of the busi¬ 
ness depends a great deal of its success. 
As in keeping cows there is a limit to 
each one’s capacity, so far as numbers go, 
so in the hen business there is also a limit 
in the number of hens kept beyond which 
each one cannot successfully venture. 
But there will be a demand, there is 
now, for pullets ^and young hens for 
winter layers by those who cannot grow 
enough stock for their own use, and sell¬ 
ing winter layers can be made a very 
profitable business. These winter layers 
will bring a price far above that of table 
fowls, just the same as a milch cow will 
outsell a beef cow. When the hen busi¬ 
ness gets adjusted to its bearings, we 
shall see winter layers quoted at a price 
that will cause the eyes of those not 
familiar with the situation to open wide 
with astonishment. 
The R. N.-Y. is doing its full share in 
showing what can be done with hens. 
The Business Hen being not the smallest 
part of it, and I commend the book to 
every one at all interested in poultry; it 
will be the means of leading many into a 
profitable industry. A. l crosby. 
A PHYSICIAN TALKS. 
THE REMARKABLE STORY AND AFFIDAVIT 
OF DR. LEWIS BLUNDIN. 
Afflicted with Paralysis for 25 Years .— 
Pronounced Incurable by the Foremost 
Physicians of the World.—A Case of 
World Wide Interest. 
(Fromtae Philadelphia Times.) 
Many survivors of our late war left 
the ranks unwounded, but with broken 
constitutions; an instance in point is 
Lewis D. Blundin, a resident of Ilulme- 
ville, Bucks County, Pa. In relating his 
experiences and what he had suffered in 
consequence of the hardships he had en¬ 
countered, Mr. Biundin said ; 
“ I was born at Bridgewater, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, in 1841, and went through the 
war as private, sergeant and hospital 
steward in Company C, 28th Pennsyl¬ 
vania Volunteers. My service was act¬ 
ive, and while in Georgia I had an attack 
of typhoid fever, which left me weak 
and a ready victim for future disease. 
My kidneys were then affected, and this 
finally developed into spinal trouble 
which lasted through my army service. 
In 1866 I was mustered out with an hon¬ 
orable discharge, and entered the Jeffer¬ 
son Medical College m Philadelphia as a 
student. I graduated two years ^ater 
with a diploma but did not practice. At 
that time I was living in Manayunk. 
One day, after I had graduated, I was 
lying on a sofa at my home in Mana¬ 
yunk, when I felt a cold sensation in my 
lower limbs as though the blood had 
suddenly left them. When I tried to 
move them I was horrified at the dis¬ 
covery that I was paralyzed from my 
hips to my toes. The paralysis was com¬ 
plete, and a pin or a pinch of the flesh 
caused no pain. I could not move a 
muscle. I called in Dr. Wm. C. Todd, 
of Philadelphia. He made a careful and 
exhaustive examination of my case, 
sounding and testing, and finally an¬ 
nounced that my trouble was caused by 
inflammation of the spinal cord, and 
that I would likely have another stroke 
of paralysis. I consulted Dr. I. W. 
Gross and Dr. Pancoast, of Jefferson Col¬ 
lege, Philadelphia, with the same re¬ 
sult. I called in Dr. Morehouse, of Phil¬ 
adelphia, who said that no amount of 
medicine would ever prove of the slight¬ 
est beneflt to me. 
“One day last September I decided to 
try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale 
People. I sent for some. I had always 
been troubled with a sort of vertigo 
after my first stroke of paralysis to such 
an extent that when I got out of my bed 
my head would swim and I haddifiSculty 
in saving my'elf from falling. My appe¬ 
tite was bad, digestive organs ruined 
and no assimilation of food. In addi¬ 
tion to my many other ailments, rheu- 
matitm held a prominent place. By the 
time I had finished the, first box of Pink 
Pills I was comparatively free from these 
minor ills. Relief followed upon relief 
with astonishing rapidity. First one ail 
would disappear; then another, until 
the pills got to work upon the founda¬ 
tion stones of my trouble—paralysis. 
Before I had taken the six boxes of pills 
I was sitting in my chair one afternoon 
when I felt a curious sensation in my 
left foot. Upon investigation I found it 
had flexed, or, in other words, become 
movable, and I could move it. From 
that time on my improvement was steady 
and it was not long before I was walk¬ 
ing around on crutches with little or no 
discomfort. It was three years before 
taking the Ihnk Pills that I had been 
able to use the crutches at any time. 
My health is daily improving, and I feel 
sore that Pink Pills have done me more 
good than all the doctors and all the 
medicine in the country, and as they are 
not costly I can easily afford the treat¬ 
ment.” 
Sworn to before me this 15th day of 
May, 1893, Geo. Harrison, Not Public 
These pills contain in a condensed 
form all the elements necessary to give 
new life and richness to the blood, and 
restore shattered nerves. They are an 
unfailing specific for such diseases as 
locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. 
Vitus’ dance, sciatica, rheumatism, ner¬ 
vous headache, the after effects of the 
grippe, palpitation of 'the heart, pale 
and sallow complexions, that tired feel¬ 
ing resulting from nervous prostration ; 
all diseases resulting from vitiated hu¬ 
mors in the blood. They are also a spe¬ 
cific for troubles peculiar to females. 
In men they effect a radical cure in all 
cases arising from mental worry, over¬ 
work, or excesses of whatever nature. 
These Pills are manufactured by the 
Dr, Williams’ Medicine Company, Sche¬ 
nectady, N. Y., and BrockvilJe, Oat., and 
are sold in boxes, at 50 cents a box, or 
six boxes for $2 50, and are never sold in 
bulk or by the dozen or hundred.— Adv. 
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