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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
for tlje 1 ) oirag. 
NEVER STOP TO CROW! 
I saw a Bantam rooster 
Strutting foolishly around; 
He was .lust the vainest fellow 
That could possibly l>e found. 
With his feathers all a-ruffle 
And his head held high in air. 
He was just a feathered handful 
Of importance, I declare. 
As he strutted through the garden 
With a step both high and firm. 
On the mellow soil below him 
Lay a fat and toothsome worm. 
All the other mighty roosters 
Had been hunting all in vain 
For the prize which little Banty 
Felt himself about to gain. 
But the foolish little fellow 
Thought that he must stop and crow. 
Just to celebrate Ills smartness, 
That the other folks might know. 
So he threw his small head backwards 
And he opened wide his beak. 
And to him the sound was mighty. 
Though to me It seemed a squeak. 
While the little chap was crowing 
All his foolish breath away. 
Came a wise old hen and gobbled 
Up the fat worm where it lay. 
So that when he stopped hts crowing 
There was nothing to he found; 
He had won a barren triumph, 
He had lost It all In sound, 
Now remember, when Dame Fortune 
Puts her chances In your way. 
Never stop to brag about It 
While you let them idly stay. 
Be not like the foolish Bantam, 
Work with patience long and well 
Then no need to crow your triumph. 
For the years them solve, will tell. 
—I7NCLB MAItK. 
BROWN LEGHORNS. 
The champion layers of the world. These 
are the birds of my choice ou account of tbeir 
beauty and their value as layers. When I be¬ 
gan I bought the best stock I could fiud, and 
having taken great care in breeding, 1 think I 
can now say that my Brown Leghorns are as line 
as any in the State of Connecticut. The first, 
importation of Brown Leghorns into this 
country, of which we have any record, was 
altout 50 years ago. They were called Red 
Leghorns and had combs and wattles larger 
than any seen before in this country. The 
pullets would commence laying when about 
four months old. aud their reputation for pro¬ 
lificness became established beyond a caviL 
This reputation has been kept up so that at 
present no one pretends to have fowls that will 
excel Brown Leghorns in the production of 
eggs. They are small, lively, erect of carriage, 
have large wings, are good foragers, small 
eaters,and turn w bat they eat to good account. 
They require a warm house in Winter on ac¬ 
count of their large combs, but in my warm 
house, mauy a day in the past Winter 1 have 
brought in 15 or hi eggs from a Hock of 18 hens. 
Brown Leghorns have Iteen improved, aud it 
is easier to-day to find standard birds of this 
breed in the United .States than in Italy. 
Hartford, Conn. Howard a. biddings. 
[Leghorns are the birds for eggs undoubted¬ 
ly. Id is not so much the bird, though,as it is 
the care that produces the eggs.—u. m ] 
MONEY IN POULTRY. 
I raise ducks only for fancy—Roueus aud 
Dark Muscovas. 1 raised about 50 last year. 
The eggs hatched well in the incubator. I 
raised them in a brooder without any heat. 
Gave them soft feed, corn meal, stale crackers 
soaked in milk, and did not lose but oue by 
weakness. They had good clean water three 
or four times a day. I do not think that a 
pond is absolutely necessary, but they want a 
place to wash when they begin to get feathers. 
I want to tell you something about; my chick¬ 
en house ami the profits. I will give you facts 
without dollars aud cents, Any one can make 
that out for themselves. 1 started Nov. 1,1884 
to build a house. 1 had 5(5 very good Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks aud *2il in the Lank. December 
20 I had my house 24x28 feet ready for the 
chickens. Now for what I have done, I have 
increased my stock to 180 hens, with two fine 
breeding pens of Plymouth Rocks from the 
liest iu the country, and one very line pen of 
S. C. B. Leghorns. I have paid for most of 
the feed 1 used. Paid #05 for incubators, fixed 
my house all over aud now it is 24x58 feet, and 
I am now in debt about $20, with an income 
of 00 eggs a day. 1 ship 21 dozen per week to 
customers in New' York City, for which 1 get 
36 cents per dozen. 1 raised about 500 chick¬ 
ens last year. I used brooders that I made 
myself. They cos-t me 04 cents, besides the 
lumber and labor, which is very small 
Coxsackie, N. Y. jay b lam pm an. 
[Well done! That Is good business. Who 
says chickens will not pay now? Won’t you 
semi us a description of your brooder?—u. m.] 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark; I am not a little girl, 
but a little old woman, 61 years old, I want 
to tell the Cousins how I feed my chickens. 
Last Summer I raised 50 chickens, nine ban¬ 
tams and eight ducks, I never had a siugle 
sick one. A mink killed eight in one day, but 
the men soon killed the mink. I mix all the 
dough with milk,and put a very little salt, block 
and red pepper and soda in it. Chickens want 
plenty of good water in hot weather. In cold 
weather I take the corn in the house aud heat 
it iu the oven. We give water warm in cold 
weather too. We get our oats and corn ground 
together for the cows, so I mix some of that 
once or twice a week and put in it a piuch each 
of pepper, salt and soda. Our hens have been 
very healthy and have laid a great mauy eggs. 
Some of the hens got to eating tbeir eggs, I 
took an egg-shell and filled it with dough very 
strong with red pepper. Siuco the hens 
started to eat that I have had no more trouble 
with them. an old friend. 
Dear Uncle Mark : We have 10 Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks ; eight of them are hens. We 
got them January 22d. One commenced lay¬ 
ing January 28th, and laid 24 eggs before she 
quit, anti she has commenced to lay again. 
They have altogether laid about 150 eggs. 
We have 37 Plymouth Rock chicks hatched; 
some of them two weeks old. Two of the hens 
wanted to sit; one was easily induced to lay 
again, hut the other we could not stop from 
sitting. We would take her out and put her 
on the ground, but she would sit the same. 
At last we made her a nice nest and gave her 
17 eggs. She Is sitting well. We children 
love to huut the eggs. We cultivated a plant 
last year aud the year before last that we 
thought was one of the Garden Treasures. It 
made a large plant with large coarse Leaves, 
square stem, and had a great many small 
greenisli-brown flowers, and had a drop of 
honey iu each flower. In the Fall it had a 
great mauy little green seed pods. We now 
think it is Figwort. The bees worked on it 
constantly. All of the members here have 
received their Sweet Peas but myself, but we 
have enough and I will help cultivate the 
Gardeu Treasures, Your niece, 
Abingdon, Va. CRACK B. kelly. 
[I am glad the girls like poultry raising. I 
have always thought they could care for fowls 
as well as the boys, if not better.--u. m.J 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a little girl seven 
years old; aud would like to join the Y. H. C. 
I have two sisters, Mary and Anna. Mary is 
12 years old and Anna not quite three. We 
live on a large farm in Birmingham, Chester 
Co., Pa., three miles from West Chester. We 
keep a great mauy cows and hogs. We have 
six horses, two of them are carriage horses. 
We have chickens, turkeys and guineas. We 
live ou “Historic Ground.” The battle of 
Brandywine was fought near here, and the 
British marched right by this place. Bir¬ 
mingham Meeting House, where the wounded 
were taken, is only a mile away, and some of 
the soldiers are buried in the graveyard. 
We go to mooting close to it. Some of the 
hardest fighting was in what is now my 
Papa’s woods, and some years ago, when 
they sawed into a tree, they found oue of 
the bullets. My Papa was born here where 
we live, and my grandfather owned the farm, 
and great-grand-fathor too. We are going to 
have some flower beds this summer. We 
have a truck patch, and will have straw¬ 
berries, raspberries, grapes aud vegetables. 
We have a ehestuut tree my Papa plunted 
40 years ago, when he was-a little boy; and 
last year we sold £25 worth of chestnuts off 
it. We have other trees, but keep the nuts 
at home. Papa had a play-house built for us, 
it is beautiful yellow pine, and is a real house, 
we play “keep house” iu it. It has two 
windows. I cannot read. Mamina doos not 
care for us to iearu too young. My sister 
Mary reads to me sometimes. So do Ma¬ 
ma and Aunty. I like to have the letters in 
the Rural read to me. I am going to help 
feed chickens and hunt eggs this summer, 
for I am to he out as much os possible, as 1 
am not strong. If you will have me for a 
member of the club, I will write ugaiu next 
Fall, and tell you how wo make out with 
our flowers, chestnuts, chickens and turkeys. 
MAGGIE SHAKE LESS, 
Birmingham, Chester Co., Pa. 
[We are glad you wrote, Maggie. We are 
glad enough that thore are no battles to be 
fought ou your Papa’s farm now. We hope 
you will get strong and well again this Sum¬ 
mer. I ant glad you are not in a hurry to 
learn how to read. There will be plenty of 
time for that. 
Maggie’s Papa writes that the chestnut 
tree is a Spanish seedling, nuts, medium 
sized and very early.—u. m.] 
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LETTKits Received from S. P. Shull; Urau Major 
James H. Fregetnba; Lou Hall; Effle Smith; Maude 
F. Wright; Eula Cox; Jimmie B. Bokaw j Arthur 
Smith. 
pisrHUiumts Advertising, 
ANOTHER HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY. 
Mr. Wild, the Inventor nl Linoleum, notes n 
Discovery ns Ynliiublr us his Own, 
Fifteen or twenty years ago it was found 
that a floor-covering could be made, looking 
like oil-cloth aud la-stiug as long if not longer, 
aud yet without that coldness to the tread 
which is oue of the peculiar characteristics of 
oil-cloth. The new article was made of very 
finely ground particles of cork, mixed with 
linsed oil and other substances in mysterious 
ways which need not hero and now be de¬ 
scribed. “Linoleum” was the name selected for 
it. At first it was put before the public on a 
very small scale. But its merits created a great 
demand for it, and is now a household institu¬ 
tion, both iu this country and in England. 
At the head of the Linoleum business, in this 
country, is'the well-known house of Joseph 
Wild & Co., of 84 Worth St., New York. 
The senior partner of this firm is Joseph 
Wild. Esq., a resident of South Brooklyn, and 
one of the most hearty looking gentlemen of 
his age anywhere to he seen. He is consider¬ 
ably over seventy, with snow-white hair, erect 
form, and a very cheerful Countenance. To 
look at him one would suppose he never had 
suffered a day’s illness iu his life. Yet there 
was a time when Mr. Wild was an invalid, 
worn by active attention to business, and 
seeming to be on the verge of total nervous 
prostration. Concerning his invalidity aud 
his restoration to health one of our correspon¬ 
dents recently had little conversation with 
him at his store. 
“They tell me you were considerably run 
down in health, Mr. Wild!” 
“It is very true, sir. I was not bed-ridden, 
nor was 1 entirely laid aside from business, 
but I had given myself very closely to my 
business affairs, aud my duties iu connection 
Because uric acid in the blood causes 
most human ailments is why Warner’s safe 
cure restores to health so many people suffer¬ 
ing from so many apparently different dis¬ 
eases. It neutralizes and removes the uric 
acid. 
I START MEN 
OF SMALL MEANS in iln- New- 1 m*th 1 iv«* business 
of “HOME PHOTOGRAPHY.” 
Bvtlir K-cetn liii-ai Uit>vov»iy "I stilistiuilnm n DltV Gelatine 
film'for Wrt Oollnihon. the entire nmtetml is now pro;,no;,I 
in Inree Photo. Foutlines, anti * 01.11 heady ton use, similar 
to Ciitti nines lor n Gun ; Eimbhmr Men ur Women wit), 
no expei ieiiec, to pmiii. <* superior Photo- to whin lotm- 
ni lv inquired lung years oldtlfloull practice ; nstliir less t.lmn 
50cf.lt. fur.lie- do/,on I arm* lihotot. thin sell lot §4 to SO. 
Is pnvmtr big with other bn«ine*s in stores nr shops, 
or id home, nrfmm house to house. Tim novel surprise ,,) a 
man with e.miiileie npimrai ns,uppeunnK at-the dor ready in 
photo, iioylhiiis-. Peisnnx, Groups, Buililimrs, "T Animals, 
seenren |n"fiialde order. >n nine out of ten homes; Aihnds 
Sfendy Work and pins JJOO per rent, profit. 
To F. \ RTVF.ST :i|i|dieiillts (nne.copy)of lyorr.s Illustrated, 
Fukk, Sample Photon. lOeouls. KRXNKI.IN PUTNAM, 
IVI'lrli Dealer in Photo, Apjtarnios.4&3, AH.”, Canal Si.N.Y. 
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free, by addressing J. tl A>11N. 
78 Nhswiu Mri'Mi N. Y. 
Brewster’s Patent Kein Holder. 
Your lines are where you nut them not under 
horses’feet. One agent sold T2 dox. Ip five days; 
one denier sold six doit, in 15 days. Samples 
worth $1.5(1 fukk. Write for terms. 
E. K. ItUEWSTEK. Holly, Mich. 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. 
BAKERS 
Warranted absolutely pure 
Cocon, from which the excesB of 
Oil hiut been removed. It hast 1 ~:e 
times the. strength of Cocoa mixed 
with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore lar more economi¬ 
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cup. It is delicious, nourishing. 
Strengthening, easily digested, and 
admirably adapted for Invalids as 
well as for peraona in health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
with the church aud some of the Baptist be- 
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W. BAKER & CO., DorcDester, Mass, 
younger man than I might not have felt these 
burdens as I did, but at my time of life they 
began to make their mark on my constitution. 
I felt a lack of vitality and realized that my 
nerve power was about to fail me. My appe¬ 
tite was uot as it formerly had been aud my 
digestiou was somewhat disordered. I needed 
in fact, revitalizatiou. About this time I 
heard of Compound Oxygen, and I made in¬ 
quiry of Dr. Turner, iu charge of the New 
York office of this remedy, to see if it could 
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be applicable to me. Learning from him that 
others who had been run as down I was had 
been belief!tod by the the Compound Oxygen. 
I procured a ‘Home Treatment’ with consid¬ 
erable doubt as to whether or uot it would do 
me any good. This was al tout two years ago. 
Since that time I have been taking Compound 
Oxygen, uot all the time, but frequently at 
intervals, when I have felt the ueed of it.” 
BEST TRUSS EVER USED !, 
Tuiurovpd E lastio 
Truss, Worn night 
and day. positively 
cures Rupture. Sent 
Icy mail everywhere. 
Writ'-iorfttll descript- 
ivu eiri-uUuu to tho 
NEW YORK ELASTIC 
TRUSS CO., 
*744 Broadway, N. Y 
“Then you received decided benefit from it 
at the outset ?” 
“Very soon after I began to iubale I fouud 
that I was receiving new strength. And I 
was glad to note that it was real strength and 
not a mere stimulus. I noted also the steadi¬ 
ness of my improvement. There was no fall¬ 
ing back but a constant aud reliable advance. 
Daily I could feel au increase of vitality. My 
Flying Dutchman Jr. ill Ml 
’1 11,’ l"',l nml light,*%t ilrnft I’luw 
I hi,I wit tumi'il .oil Forcircu- 
ui'w, ,1,14-rlpttvo. illustrative, 
demount rulivu, logical, pliiio- 
xnphluul, U, tfutabi,-. convinc¬ 
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amusing,n'ttro-al.btit nil true 
wli< n ihrj ili- ci Ibcthomerits 
Of iho plmu-rr Ihrrc-whcel plow, 
tin- I t.UM. Ill TCII.11 (\, mldr.-.i, 
MOLINE PLOW CO. 
Moline, III. 
spirits were better and my power of action 
was greater. I was able to attend to my 
business and to all my other duties with far 
less strain on me than I had for some time 
previously experienced. ” 
“And so you now fiutl yourself as well as 
ever, and beyond the necessity of medicine ?” 
“For a man of my years I am us hearty aud 
vigorous as 1 can expect. 1 am free from dis- 
Wlml i* u Navy llcauf 
Morgan, Tex,—1 was afflicted with gravel, 
and could only get temporary relief from 
physicians. Pain excruciating. Used three 
bottles Warner's safe cure tuid passed ti stoue 
as large as a navy beau, giving me complete 
relief.—D avf. Gili.is, Organ aud Sewing Ma¬ 
chine Dealer. 
case aud pain aud am attending to as much 
detail of business as if 1 were only fifty years 
old. As to medicine, 1 have uo use for it, 
drug-medieine 1 mean. I do not call this 
Oxygen exactly a medicine; certainly not iu 
the sense that drugs are medicinal. 1 regard 
it as a wonderful vitalizer and invigorator. 
And it as such that I even now occasionly re¬ 
sort to it when I feel the need. 1 keep it iu 
the house and mteud to continue doing so.” 
To the many gentlemen of advancing years 
who are over-worked and weary, aud who feel 
themselves in need of revitalization, Com¬ 
pound Oxygeu is, as in Mr. Wild’s ease, a val¬ 
uable helper. The late T. R. Arthur, of Phil¬ 
adelphia. was brought almost from the grave 
by this means when he was quite an old man, 
and by it his life was prolonged for a number 
of years. The lion. William D. Kelley, of 
Philadelphia, who is beyond seventy, attri¬ 
butes to Compound Oxygen, his recovery from 
from wlint had been pronounced a fatal dis¬ 
ease. He still uses the Oxygen as a vitalize!* 
and is iu vigorous condition, attending to his 
legal and congressional duties as actively 
as of old. 
For a valuable treatise on what Compound 
Oxygeu is and what it does, write to Drs. 
Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch Street, Phila¬ 
delphia, The treatise will be mailed free of 
charge, 
NBJPTTJW JD 
Flexible Spray Hose Nozzle. 
All Rubber. Indestructible. Requires no 
pocking. Solid stream Instantly changed 
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Best for Hardens, Window Washing, etc. 
For washing carriages, will not scratch 
paint. By mall, port! paid, 511 cents. Trade 
supplied. 
Hartford Rubber Mills, 
Hurl lord. I onn. 
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Capacity 10,000 lits. per DAY. 
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96 8. tilth St,, Phils., r*. 
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