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THE ftlSIML nCW-TOftKCR. 
FENCE ACROSS SMALL STREAMS. 
The posts or crotches shown in Fig. 118, 
should be set firmly into the banks of the 
stream on opposite sides. Then get six bars with 
the bark on, long enough to reach from one 
crotch to the other. One bar rests above high 
water in the top of each crotch. One end of 
Fig. 118. 
each remaining bar is fastened by two staples 
and one link to one leg of the crotch on one 
side of the stream. The other end rests loosely 
on one of the several pins in the crotch on the 
other side. These bars must be on the side 
facing down the stream, so that in time of 
high water one or more bars may swing around 
down the current and let all flood-wood and 
rubbish puss. Afterwards they can be restored 
to their places. j, krupp. 
iitisccllancoiis. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
John S. Collins, Moorestown, N, J.—An 
illustrated catalogue of fruits, especially 
small fruits. Mr. Collius sent us plants of the 
May King Strawberry, on June IS, 1KS4, and 
we have found the variety of good quality 
and among the earliest of those tested at the 
Rural Grounds. We"deem it well worthy of 
instructions as to the formation and manage 
ment of a vegetable garden, and tells the 
whole story, including the making and care of 
hot-beds, etc. It offers Manshury Barley, the 
Saskatchewan (Spring). Fife Wheat, which is 
deemed by the firm to be the best No. I Hard 
Amber yet introduced, aud the most valuable 
milling wheat in the world. Fruit, evergreen 
and deciduous tree seeds are also offered. 
Ellwanoer & Barry., Rochester, N. Y— 
A descriptive, illustrated catalogue (140 pages) 
of ornamental trees, shrubs, hardy perennial 
plants, etc. This is probably the most trust¬ 
worthy catalogue of its kiwi published. It aims 
to aid the reader to make judicious selections, 
uot to confuse him by indiscriminate praise 
of everything in the list. If without the aid 
of one who knew, an inexperienced person 
was obliged to select his own plants from a 
catalogue, we should place before him this 
one. 
Pure Austrian or German Carp.— Pam¬ 
phlet from ( 'has. 8. Medary, 145 Broadway, 
New York. A short treatise on carp 
culture with various opinions as to the qual¬ 
ity and productiveness of the fish and the 
profi t to be derived from raising them. Prices 
are given. Those interested in carp culture 
should study the pamphlet. 
Grappling Hay Forks and Railway 
Hay Conveyers.— Pamphlets from Gardner 
B. Weeks, Syracuse. N. Y. Unlucky is the 
man who, in this age, seeks to handle a large 
quantity of hay with the ordinary hand fork. 
If you wish to learn how to handle hay in a 
wholesale manner, send for this pamphlet. 
Proceedings of the New Jersey state 
Horticultural Society 1885.—pin pages. 
It is full of interest to the horticulturist, the 
best report yet published by the society. 
Write to E. Williams. Sec’y, Montclair, N. J. 
Big Lambs.— I have just sold 13 Shropshire 
lambs, which averaged 136 pounds each: I 
began to feed them November 15. I fed noth- 
from people who evidently think the Eye- 
opener mast be acquainted with all the doubt¬ 
ful and rascally concerns in the country. 
What is the address of Graham & Co? IVhat 
kind of goods do Brown, Smith &Co., adver¬ 
tise, and where do they “hang out?” Who are 
Jones & Co., and what do they promise? 
That highfalutin 1 artful affair, what salary 
bait is it offering to gudgeons? 
Most of the large towns all through the 
country are infested with a number of swind¬ 
lers who prey upon the public and especially 
on the agricultural part of it, by means of 
advertisements in the press and in circulars; 
while many small places are notorious on 
account of the great numl>er of frauds ad¬ 
vertised from them. In such cases there are 
sometimes several advertising sharpers in a 
place; but usually there is only one person 
or set advertising under several different 
names. The knaves seldom operate under the 
same name for any considerable length of 
time. They soon become too well-known to 
be trusted; aud as there is always a multitude 
of new and attractive names, they readily 
change a disgraced one for one which they 
will soon render equally notorious. Then 
these rascals have no stronger attachment to 
a place than to a name, and are constantly 
changing the scenes of their villainies. 
Neither mercantile agencies nor any other 
respectable sources of information take any 
notice of them; and as soon as the 
police “spot 11 them they generally change 
their abode or title or both. For these and 
other reasons it is quite impossible for the 
Eye-Opener to learn the names and abodes of 
all the advertising humbugs and swindlers in 
the country, or even to keep track of those 
that have once come within the blighting rays 
of his lantern. 
Inquirers often say: “Answer in next 
issue, or better, by return mail.' 1 How- 
little such people know about the difficulty of 
tracing swindlers. It has often, required 
several visits to their dens aud a great 
rascals. The other day one of these victim¬ 
izes of the needy and distressed was ejected 
from his den and his mail accumulated for 
four weeks, when it was found that it con¬ 
tained over *800 in small sums. These had 
been sent to him for “outfits” in answer to a 
number of advertisements in various papers, 
and were intended to cover the cost of mater¬ 
ials, patterns, implements, etc., etc. The poor 
women who have scrimped themselves to send 
petty sums to such scoundrels seldom or 
never hear about their applications, unless 
there is a fair chance that more money can 
be weedled out of them. The above associa¬ 
tion. No. 74 Boylstou St., Boston, “will gladly 
investigate, free of charge, advertisements 
offering to women -work at home, 1 if the 
advertisers live in or about Boston.” We ad¬ 
vise all intending investors to seek its services. 
Similar sharpers advertise from all large 
cities and many small places—would that 
similar associations were ready everywhere 
to expose them. 
We are constantly receiving accounts of 
swindles by agents for Bohemean Oats and 
other grains; but such swindles bave been 
described here so often and so fully that none 
of our readers can be among the dupes unless 
through his own stupidity, gullibility or greed. 
A sharp, even if expensive lesson would 
doubtless be wholesome for such a person_ 
.R. F. Loyd. Hebron, Ala., who 
offers “10,000 books free," is a confessed hum¬ 
bug according to his own circular, and a 
swindler according to the judgment of any 
honest man. The rascal offers to send for 81 
full instructions how to obtain books free on 
false pretenses. His plan might be successful 
if publishers were ninnies; as they are almost 
invariably smart business men, the only dupes 
of this precious rascal will be those who send 
him the one dollar required. 
We have already said here that St. Andrew, 
by the Sea is one of the Florida “paper cities' 
in which no sensible man will invest a dollar 
WOODLAWN IIOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS. Fig. 11! 
(See page 183.) 
extended trial. Mr. Collins’s is one of the 
two head-quarters of the Lawson (Comet) 
Pear, which the R. N.-Y. was the first to bring 
to the notice of the public. Whatever has 
been said for or against it, our opinion, as 
already expressed, is that if, is one of the larg¬ 
est aud Jiandsomtvf pears of its season we 
have ever seen, its season being, as we remem¬ 
ber, late July. Theqnality is—well, sufferable , 
or, as the Am. Pom. Society would class it 
“good,” being the lowest rating. Mr. Collins 
also sent us plants of his Early Cluster Black¬ 
berry which wo cannot as yet praise. 
The Eureka Mower, from the Eureka 
Mower Co., Utica, N. Y. The motto of this 
firm is a good one: “How good and durable a 
machine can we offer to t he farmer ?” Changes 
were made in 1885, which greatly stre ng then 
these mowers. The grass-rods were made 
large)' aud of steel, resting higher upon the 
tongue-irous. The guards wore made heavier 
aud stronger; steel was substituted where 
wrought iron was previously used in the 
axles, back aud crank shaft, side arms, pole 
braces, hoisting rig shafts, in fact, in all places 
where it would make the mower stronger and 
stiffen A brace was introduced from the 
axle to the cross-rail near the gearing, making 
the frame more rigid aud stronger. We can¬ 
not begin to give all the good point of these 
machines. Send tor t he catalogue. 
D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich.—Not¬ 
withstanding the main seeds house of this old 
firm was entirely destroyed by fire, the busi¬ 
ness scarcely suffers an interruption. The 
catalogue is one of 125 pages, offering 
everything in the way of seeds, and it will be 
mailed free to our subscribers. It opens with 
iug but whole grain and clover hay. My ewes 
are looking well. I feed them all the good 
straw they can cat three times a day, and 
about, a pint of culled beaus ouce a day to 
each ewe. I claim that with proper handling 
aud bi'eeding there Is more money in feeding 
lamlis than in any grain crop the farmer can 
raise. C. P. 
Farmer Village, N. Y, 
Fighting Insect Pests.— You can keep 
the cabbage worms in check by using the 
following mixture: Ten cents' worth of aloe, 
in six gallons of water raised to boiling heat. 
This amount will unswer for 200 plants. Fight 
the currant worms by placing around the 
bushes, as soon as the ground thaws in the 
Spring, unleached wood ashes. Hoe away all 
grass and weeds. w. h. p. 
Boone Co., Ind. 
ToJSeveral Inquirers.— Answers can'sel- 
doin be returned to such inquiries as the 
following: “What is the standing of Graham 
& Co. ? Is the firm trustworthy?” “Are the 
goods advertised by Brown, Smith & Co., 
worth what they say they are?” “Will Jones 
& Robinson do all they promise?” “Will the 
High Art Electrograph Co., really pay the 
salary they offer in their circulars?” Ques¬ 
tions of this kind are constantly received 
deal of inquiries amoug the neighbors and 
more interviews than one with the police to 
ascertain, beyond a doubt, the real character of 
several advertising swindlers in this city. How 
much more difficult it is to learn, through the 
courtesy of others, about similar swindlers at 
a distance, even when their addresses and the 
nature of the business they profess to carry on 
are known. Each inquirer should, therefore, 
send on all the iofonnation he has about the 
party whose standing he wishes to ascertain; 
and no cue should fuel hurt in self-importance 
or ruffled in temper by delay or even failure 
on the part of the Eye-Opener to answer his 
questions. In most cases it is difficult and in 
some impossible to discover uot merely the 
standing of the parties, but even their names 
and residences. There is here a world of will¬ 
ingness to answer everybody promptly and 
fully, to expose all humbugs, mountebanks and 
swindlers; but there is au unsurmountable re¬ 
luctance to base the answers or exposures on 
mere guess-work or inference, or on anything 
less trustworthy than solid information. One 
consolation each waiting inquirer will always 
have—if he does not deal with the doubtful 
advertiser until he sees au answer to his ques¬ 
tion here, he will uot lie swindled. 
The doings of the petty swindlers who offer 
women “work at home” have become so out¬ 
rageous in Boston, that the Women’s Educa¬ 
tional and Industrial Union of that city has 
undertaken to protect the “innocents” from 
their operations. Over and over again we 
have denounced a number of these frauds by 
name, and we are glad of the assistance of 
the above local association in our efforts to 
protect the public from the knavery of the 
in spite of the attractive circulars sent out 
about the place.Some weeks ago we said 
that we were inclined to think the “Chicago 
Dried Fruit aud Produce Company” an honest 
concern. Further information strengthens 
that belief. It is hardly wise, however, to 
talk too much about the value of a franchise 
which any sort of an honest concern can get 
for the asking under the State laws. 
The Farm and Household, Hartford. Conn., 
is “all right”.We have said before that 
we do not believe in the claims put forth on 
behalf of the “Acme Penetrative,” which 
4 ‘positively burns stumps. ” All we have heard 
about it since renders us all the more incredu¬ 
lous.We do not recommend the Popu¬ 
lar Monthly, Kansas City, Mo. The appear¬ 
ance of ati advertisement in a religious paper 
is by no means a proof of the reliability of the 
advertiser. Of eourse, the editor is always a 
truly good man, but sometimes he has a 
"wicked partner” In the publisher, and it is 
the publisher's department that manages the 
advertising business.The N. Y. Truss 
Co., of this city, will send on goods ordered, 
aud their reputation is fair, but we do not in¬ 
dorse all the claims put forth on their behalf. 
.We have twice already said that Gar¬ 
den City, Silver Springs Park and Palma Sola, 
Florida, wei*e humbugs. The prospectuses 
and advertisements of these and other 
“Florida land frauds” are “meant to deceive,” 
aud bave been quite successful, as many vic¬ 
tims testify. The Rural was the first jour¬ 
nal to denounce about a dozen of them, as the 
writer was personally well acquainted with 
the miserable character of many of the places 
they represented as earthly paradises. 
