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No Buckles To Tear 
No Rings To Wear 
J.M 
WALSN 
, Pres. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 4, 1!) 
Double Wear 
at Less Cost. 
Before you buy any harness let me send you this won¬ 
derful “No-Buckle Harness” on thirty days free trial. 
Post yourself on the latest and best harness to buy. 
Walsh No-Buckle Harness needs no patching, no mend¬ 
ing, no repair bills because it has no buckles to tear and 
no rings to wear the straps. Buckles cut and tear 
straps, rings wear straps in two. Examine your buckle 
harness and prove this. You will find more than one 
hundred places, where buckles and rings are wearing 
it. The Walsh No-Buckle Harness is a proven 
success on thousands of farms—in use over eight years. 
Q Days FREE Trial 
# j On Your Own’ Team 
Try Walsh No-Buckle Harness on your 
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riames, adjustable strap holders, etc., etc. _ Saves repairs, gives double 
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money showing Walsh No-Buckle Harness to your neighbors. 
JAMES M. WALSH, President 
WALSH HARNESS COMPANY 
Dept. J-5 137 Keefe Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. - 
Send No Mone> 
James M. Walsh, Pres., Walsh Harness Co., Dept. J-5 ^ 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
Send me free ol charge Walsh Harness Book, free trial offer and 
liberal long time terms on Walsh Harness. 
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Remport Company, 350 Broadway, New York City 
POULTRY BREEDING | 
AND MANAGEMENT ■ 
By JAMES DRYDEN 
A standard book by an eminent 
poultry authority. Price $2.00. 
For Sale by 
THE RURAL NEW YORKER I 
333 West 30th St., New York City 
Make Better Butter 
and save time and work by using the 
FENNER 
Uk I six-sided revolving 
W CHURN 
H is practical, efficient, 
exhaustive and economical. 
E.C.Straight, Creamery man 
of Cassadaga, N. Y., writes: 
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of churns and discarded them all for the 
FKNNER CHI RN, because it is the 
most practical for both creamery and 
dairy use. the operator being able to 
complete churning, washing, saltine and 
working in one operation.’’ 
t’sed by good dairymen for 56 years. Guaran¬ 
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Buy from your dealer or direct. 
WRITE Dept. G 
FOR FREE FREDRICKSON BROS. 
EOOKLET 309 Main St.. Jamestown, N.Y. 
oo r New Price 
Nature Notes 
Breeding Silver-Black Foxes 
The business of breeding silver-black 
foxes in this country is slowly develop¬ 
ing. The last census shows that in the 
United States there are 215 fox ranches. 
They contain, all told, from 5,(100 to 
0.000 silver-black foxes, with a total val¬ 
uation of $-l,297.S30. In addition to these 
foxes, which seem to give chief value to 
these ranches, there are also bred hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of red foxes, skunks, 
martens and muskrats, so that within 
the last few years the business of fur 
farming has greatly developed. Michi¬ 
gan seems to be the leading State for this 
business, as about one-quarter of all the 
silver-black foxes are kept in that State. 
Then follow Maine. Wisconsin. Minne¬ 
sota and New York, in the order named. 
It seems evident that a person who suc¬ 
ceeds in this business must be at least 
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This low cash price eaaily saveB you $15 to $50. 
Cornea complete—ready to use. Big surplus 
engine—all the power you need, Lever Csnlrol. 
Geared outfit. Latest Improved WITTE. 
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Sold on Lifetime Gnarantee— Cash or Terms. 
Write at once for catalog, or wire order from 
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WITTE ENGINE WORKS, 
1891 Oakland Avenue, KANSAS CITY, M0. 
1894 Empire Building. PITTSBURGH, PA. 
I have never known a time when a 
guaranteed singer cotdd be bouglii For 
less than $10, The best way for this in¬ 
quirer is to wait until Spring, then buy 
a baby male. Baby birds will lie for sale 
from May on. Probably then he can get 
one for $5. The advantage in getting a 
ha by bird is that you can train it as van 
like. The dealer will give you n bird that 
is beginning to swell out. its throat, and 
try to sing. 
•Sunny .Tim cost $2.50 eight years 
ago. and came from the pet shop in town, 
lie was of Si- Andrensburg stock, the 
dealer guaranteed, and lie might be taken 
back as many times as we liked, if re¬ 
turned in good condition, if n* did not 
suit us when lie began to sing. Tie could 
be returned, that is, if we did it the first 
time within 31 days. This is a good way 
to purchase if one lives near a large 
town. 
There are large pet. shops that enrrv 
birds trained especially for invalids. Wee 
Dickie, who boarded with us for a year, 
was such a bird, and had had a six 
The Bee Tree Hunter at Work 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal ." See guarantee editorial page . 
half fox, half skunk or half muskrat, ac¬ 
cording to the wild animal he associates 
with. Undoubtedly, some of these experi¬ 
enced people are doing fairly well at the 
business. It is no job for the amateur, 
however, who knows nothing about the 
I habits of these animals. 
Hunting a Ece Tree 
In reading those items in reference to 
taking un. as termed, wild bees from trees 
:md buildings, allow us to suggest to those 
who may in the future wish some of these 
stolen sweets, as one later writer refers 
to a former, first to work up a little syin- 
ntly for the hard-working bees, and say: 
“Although I want voUr lnmey, I will com¬ 
promise with you. in giving you a nice 
new home, and in future protect you. only 
exacting from you a smira of surplus 
honey you may store in boxes. I will place 
above your brood chamber a hive.'. Me 
have taken up five sin'll colonies ol bees 
since late in September, with two more 
in dwellings left over until Spring, just 
to save the bees from the brimstone fate. 
Siune who desire us to take, them before 
this time, we offer Iff lbs. nice, clean ex¬ 
tracted honey to appease their desire f<>r 
the present want of sweets. Uur first 
swarm, taken out of a building from un¬ 
der floor, second story, had over 100 lbs. 
dark and light comb. Second swarm, 
from under eaves projection, got a lard 
can full of new, white couih honey, with 
plenty of dark honey to winter through 
fitted in former. Third, from a chestnut 
(blight-killed) tree, a cavity almost 7 ft. 
in length. 11 in. average diameter, chock 
full of sweets from bottom to top. 1 ho 
last two from one occupied building on a 
farm, both yielding up a flue surplus 
after giving bees a liberal Winter supply 
stored in the brood combs as taken from 
them. I enclose a picture of a bee day 
hunt in Jersey woods, that not only paid, 
but gave all parties concerned a tine day s 
outing with nature. All that is needed 
is a hive w ith forms, a smoker, ax. a: d 
cross-cut saw. some pails, two at least 
(not enough for these honey-flowing re¬ 
gions). some gumption to withstand a 
little hard work and likely a few stings. 
Co tO it! A MAUI BEE CHARM KB. 
The Invalid's Canary 
T want a little voice in my house. Ten 
dollars for a singer is the lowest price 
I ran find, and I can’t, quite manage that. 
Is there any way to get a bird cheaper.' 
IIow long should a canary live? An 
uncle of mine, a breeder, used to give us 
birds frequently for Christmas gifts, and 
we seemed to need a new one every year. 
r. M. w. 
months’ course in singing overseas. 
Paler, who is a bit deaf, often could not 
hear when Dickie sang his softest songs. 
The inquirer should be careful not to keep 
a bird that has high, shrill notes, no mat¬ 
ter how good a singer lie may he A 
bird with too loud a voice, does not seem 
wise for an invalid to purchase. 
Some of my friends find birds bought 
from large breeders stronger physically 
than those bought locally, and one “male” 
purchased economically from an amateur 
breeder turns out to he a female instead. 
I have known one bird, a male six years 
old. that did not really learn to sing until 
put in the house with another male that 
did sing. Then Sweetie learned in a few 
weeks. Sweetie had prettv notes, but did 
not know how to connect them. This 
leads up to the remark that if yon buy a 
baby bird, yon may have to emulate the 
patient canary trainers overseas and 
teach your bird to sing. 
As to the length of life of canaries, the 
average is about two years. I know one 
bird of 17 that still sings, and the Gov¬ 
ernment bulletin mentions one bird that 
lived to be 34. It depends mostly on 
regular feeding and care, and keeping tire 
bird out of drafts. But don’t buy a bird 
if you are an invalid, unless there is 
somebody to care for it if you cannot. 
One invalid wrote me the other day 
that she once had a dear little cinnamon 
canary ; but while she was dreadfully ill 
everybody was too busy to feed it and the 
bird died. Digestion is so rapid with 
birds that a very short period of neglect 
may mean death. Sunny .Tim’s seed cup 
nnd w ater cup hold supplies for more than 
one day. 
Five minutes a day of care will look 
after a bird and one cent a week will 
board him. So the expense and trouble 
need not deter an invalid who wants a 
bird. And don’t hesitate to buy from 
your local breeder if he or she knows the 
business. A canary is lots of company 
for an invalid. EDNA s. KNAPP. 
Here is an illustration of friendliness 
between supposedly unfriendly animals. 
Some years ago I had a neighbor to whom 
I frequently gave lambs to raise by hand. 
He had an uglv. w< oily dog. apparently 
of an English sheep dog variety, and this 
dog lived on such good terms with the 
lambs that, nu cold nights they slept in 
his box with him. I also had a neighbor 
who had a fine pack of hounds, and who, 
at one time had a fawn that stayed among 
the hounds and slept in the bed with 
them. In fact it was safer among thorn 
than if it got a little way from them and 
started to run. The end of this fawn 
was that it got vicious as it grew up and 
had to he killed. A. 8. WRIGHT. 
Virginia. 
