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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 4, 1922 
form erly L.Briefner£-5ons 
^W. 271* Street 
New "Voi'k. Citv ^ 
Nature Notes 
The Business of Breeding White Rats 
"What about the business of breeding 
white rats or mice? Is there a safe de¬ 
mand for them from laboratories? What 
sized rat is required? s. n. K. 
Our experience has been that the aver¬ 
age breeder or raiser cannot produce an 
animal free enough from objectionable 
features or faults to satisfy all of the 
requirements of scientific institutions. 
They either get a strain that carries 
weaknesses or do not keep them clean. 
There is quite a demand among different 
laboratories and pet stock dealers for 
them, but only in a few instances do the 
breeders stick to the industry long enough 
to assure institutions of a regular source 
of supply. It is a common fault of farm 
or city young people or some dependent 
taking the proposition up as a side line 
and then letting it drop, but if the ones 
who take an interest in the work stick to 
it, however, and follow up their pros¬ 
pects, the white rat and white mice busi¬ 
ness could be made fairly remunerative. 
Animals of from one to four ounces are 
generally used, and are not Controlled by 
any season, except possibly when scien¬ 
tific institutions are slowing down a lit¬ 
tle during the Summer vacation months. 
PARKE, DAVIS & COMPANY. 
Trappers and Collectors 
—you can’t afford to take chances with 
your furs—bo careful where you ship. Get 
more money by shipping to BLUSTEIN In 
New York—the gateway to the fur 
markets of the world. 
Why Wo Gan Pay 
More Than Others 
We pay more for furn than others because 
of our great New York and foreign mar¬ 
kets. Wa charge no commission—saving 
you another 5 or 1M. If requested, we 
will hold furB separate an! quote you our 
best prices. If not satisfactory, we return 
your furs at our expense. Send at once 
for latest Price List and Shipping Tags. 
Wo will place your name on our mailing 
list so you can keep posted on the great 
New York fur market. Write now—our 
prices will surprise you. 
David Blustein & Bro. 
t 76 W. 27th St. New York City 
FROM A KODAK NEGATIVE 
TT A T7~ pictures prove your 
^ selling arguments. Pic¬ 
tures are practical records of your crops, 
stock, equipment—records easy to make, 
vivid, authentic, permanent. 
And the farm abounds with pictures for 
“Eat Out of Your Hand” 
The most interesting vacation exper¬ 
ience I ever had occurred during the 
month of August. 1922, at Highland 
Lake, Sullivan County, N. Y. I boarded 
at the Mills House, which is near Billy’s 
Log Cabin, on Highland Lake. William 
Hammond is the owner of the Log Cabin, 
which is a popular Summer resort for 
refreshments, dances and beefsteak par¬ 
ties. In front of the Log Cabin is a 
long, narrow dock, used as a motor-boat 
landing, and near the shore end of the 
dock you can reach the water with your 
hand by kneeling down or by lying flat 
on your stomach. 
Although there are no restrictions 
against fishing in any part of the lake, it 
is generally recognized as the unwritten 
law that no Ashing is permitted near 
Billy’s Log Cabin. It seems to be a 
tradition, due to the fact that hundreds 
of perch and sunfish hover in schools 
around the Log Cabin dock, without the 
slightest fear. They seem to know by 
intuition that they are free from molesta¬ 
tion, and for this reason they will come 
to the surface of the water and eat out 
of your band. They are very fond of 
crackers and ice cream cones. If you 
break up a cracker or a cone and throw it 
on the water it will attract the fish in 
great numbers. Then comes the time for 
action. There is a violent agitation of 
the water as the fish appear, and you 
then proceed to feed them out of your 
hand by holding the crackers or ice cream 
cones on the surface of the water. In 
litis fashion they will eat up it box of 
crackers in two minutes, and look for 
more. The sensation of feeding them is 
a wonderful thrill, and in this particular 
instance truth is stranger than fiction. 
New York City. Herman hoksig, .tr. 
Gentlemen: 
Send me your latest Price List and u 
supply of Shipping Tags. Keep me 
posted on the New York fur market. 
Name 
No. 2C Autographic Kodak 
Jr., with Kodak Anastigmat 
Lens f.y. 7, makes large sized, 
clean-cut, sparkling pictures— 
the kind you want to make 
at the Thanksgiving reunion, 
for example. Size, 2^$ x 476 
inches. 
Town 
Don’t Take a Chance 
furs 
G ET wise, fellows — 
make those extra dol¬ 
lars yourself. We need 
your furs. You need the 
money. We are right in 
the heart of the New York 
Fur Manufacturing Indus¬ 
try. They are right at our 
door ready to take your 
furs as they come in and 
pay the right prices. 
Your check goes back by re¬ 
turn mall and you get one hun¬ 
dred cents on the dollar. We 
pay right because we sell right. 
This means we get alt your 
shipments and do the business. 
Ask the trapper who knows. 
Once a Struck & Bossak ship- 
per and you're always one. 
Our trappers have no p.oor 
years. They know in advance 
that \vc give a square deal and 
every shipment brings good 
money. 
it your dealer s for $23 
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y 
SEND 
YOUR 
Send us your 
n a m e anil ad- 
dic*». (iit our 
l'rtec HnUt-iln,. 
Shipping Tap*, 
and lull par¬ 
ticular*, Do It 
right now. Till* 
mean, real dol¬ 
lar* to yon. to 
don’t put it off. 
Write today. 
Raw Fur 
Dealers 
Struck & Bossak, Inc 
151 West 28th Street 
New York, N. Y. 
have a buyer 
traveling through 
New York State and 
New England who 
will gladly call on you 
if you write or wire 
us to have him do so. 
BECAUSE: we give top market 
prices. BECAUSE: we send your 
payments to you promptly. BE¬ 
CAUSE : we are a large house and 
can use as many raw furs as you 
send ns. BECAUSE: we give you 
an absolutely square deal. 
. Sent! your name an«5 addreaa and 
receive price liela, market infor- 
^ tnntinn onU hlntu to trapper*. He 
Bure to iret the mostforth!*year’s 
catch bv reeeiviin? lids Informa¬ 
tion before shipping elsewhere. 
Bat Breeding in New England 
On page 1093 you have an item about 
bats and mosquitoes. On the east side of 
my house, which is of brick, and behind 
a shutter which is somewhat protected 
from (lie north. 30 to HO bats hibernate 
every Winter. They have Open there to 
my knowledge for five years. For how 
long a time before one of the children dis¬ 
covered them, 1 do not know. We have 
very few mosquitoes. It is possible to sit 
out of doors evenings with perfect com¬ 
fort. There are plenty of places quite 
near us where mosquitoes can breed. 1 
should like to build a place near by 
where these bats can roost in Summer 
and find good protection against our cold 
Winters. Han you give some ideas about 
a building of this kind? aniitox kollins. 
New Hampshire, 
B. N.-Y.—Wo must ask our .Southern 
friends to toll us about this. Several 
readers who live in Texas seem to under¬ 
stand the matter. Our Northern scien¬ 
tists seem to think that such a plan will 
fail in our Northern climate, hut others 
believe in it. We would like to see it 
tried out fully. 
aSEDELMAN &C0INC. 
H IGH PRICKS for your chi h this year 
nro assured. He sure you ship to a 
reliable house and c<” every dollar 
your p>‘lts am worth. Our many year a in I hr 
uuoinvs'i lias taught ua the aeerol of gradlug 
which means lliai yon net top-noli-h price* from 
as. Don’t bo fooled by promisee—we guarantee 
to pay every aunt your catch la worth, baited on 
rollnfde gntdlutr Semi u* u Miqinivnt anil he 
assured. You will Uion become a regular i-liipper 
anti booster year after year like fliDUg- 
I antis of other trapper*. 
New big price list sent anywhere free. 
IteolilHiiia ui'-to ttie- 
9HK ■ 
£5 wy 
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CHARLES S. PORTER. Inc. 
126 West 27lli SI., New York City 
Trappers and small collectors 
should ship direct to us 
TRAPPERS 
otart your season right 
Communicate with us 
TRAPPERS 
Write for our Price List, also 
Trappers’ Guide, “free” 
IT'S NOT WHAT A MAN SAYS 
BUT WHAT HE DOES 
that puts the dollars in the shippers’ 
pocket*. Thiit’s till) multi ruitaoo why 
JIM ELLIS 
never has any trouble holding 
old xhipperx. No Bluffing. 
No Ridiculous Promises. 
Slinply n square deal bo shippers through¬ 
out the lulled States, <' an a tilt and Alaska 
since 1XW. Who olTera more and keeps 
ins promise t 
ROSENSTIEL FUR CO. 
Maurice Kosenstiel, Proprietor 
107 West 26th St., New York 
The Veteran Hen 
T notice on page 1035 the picture of 
F. II. Tubbs of Olean, N. Y.. and his 
purebred White Leghorn hen, hatched in 
1910. being 12 years old. I have a pure¬ 
bred Brown Leghorn hen hatched in 1904 
in the month of June, making her 18 
years old last June. She laid a few eggs 
tin's Summer, and never wanted to set. 
Ohio. EDWIN J. 1ULIEL. 
IJ t 1111 MM Wc pay highest cash prices for 
If I I Hf If all staph- fur*—Skunk. Mink, 
■ X| wet B I IB Mtislti.il It™. inn, Red Kox. 
■ m B ■ 11 Haney Fin's a specialty. Includ 
ing silver and Cross Kox. 
Kish or, Marten. »tc. Ext. 1X70. 
Oiu ihintiniiofl prompt roturnsnml libonil policy nro now 
bringing us sliipm.ml* from all North America, Alaska 
• " Mexh'o. Rand for free l’rioo 1. 1 st. Address 
M. J. JEWETT X SONS. REDWOOD, N V. Dope. 29 
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