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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 22 
/» WOMAN FARMER^S NOTES. 
BrsiNKss OiM-oKTi'NiTiEs. —Many wo¬ 
men are asking: “Can a w'oman make 
money on a farm?” Or in other words, 
ean she make a living and a little bet¬ 
ter? Taking into consideration the com¬ 
paratively small amount invested, she 
can make as much money on a farm as 
in any other way, but much depends on 
the woman, just as it does in any w^alk 
in life. I do not think I could live and 
perform the duties of a trained nurse. I 
am not sufficiently accurate in figures to 
become an accountant, but I love ani¬ 
mals. I love the trees and shrubs and 
the field and garden plants, and my 
place is on the farm. There are hun¬ 
dreds of women who would share the 
feeling if they knew more of what it 
meant. Having this kindly affection for 
the earth and her productions a woman, 
w'ith just a fair amount of health, can 
earn her living and more. She will find 
it necessary to work, but so does the 
successful teacher or stenographer or 
bookkeeper. Work to a successful issue 
is desirable. Over-work rarely produces 
a successful issue. A woman farmer 
must so plan her work that she will not 
go beyond her strength, and she must 
arrange to have a man’s help occasion¬ 
ally for the heavy work if she is not a 
modern Amazon. This if she must work 
at farm work with her own hands. Un¬ 
til this year all the grain and hay on 
my farm has been produced on shares, 
and except the first year the apjdes were 
harvested in the same w’ay. 1 sold each 
year for my share a little over $1,15U 
worth of farm produce, including live 
stock and the pasturage of stock. The 
entire farm has never been worked dur¬ 
ing that time. Each year found a field 
or two neglected, so that the income was 
less than it might have been had I pos¬ 
sessed either the money or the courage 
to hire more, or my tenant had been 
able to work the whole of the plow^ed 
land to advantage. I have never deem¬ 
ed it advisable for me to borrow money 
where I was not sure of being able to 
pay it within a few weeks at the most. 
Debt is more unsafe and unpleasant for 
a woman than for a man. In several in¬ 
stances I might have made a large in¬ 
terest on money borrowed, but there 
was an element of risk, and I do not 
chide the caution which made me shun 
the borrowing. A small sum cleared 
without undue worry is better than a 
large sum at tne expense of sleepless 
nights. 
M AKKETIXCJ THE PUODI CT. —A WOmail 
farmer must decide at the outset how 
she will market her crops. If they are 
to go at wholesale more area must be 
planted and crops raised which will 
yield the best returns. Sweet corn, to¬ 
matoes, pickles, squashes, peas and 
string beans are used at the canning fac¬ 
tories, and the question of marketing is 
very simple. The canning factories also 
make a market for small fruits, and 
many prefer the certainty of their fixed 
rate for the season to the uncertainty 
of shipping to commission men. Where 
fruit is sent to a canning factory by 
other than home transit the baskets and 
crates must be in ample supply, for 
though they are usually returned there 
is often much delay. When fruit is 
shipped to commission houses the bas¬ 
kets are lost, and this is no small item 
of expense. The greatest return for the 
least outlay is obtained where the pro¬ 
ducts of the farm so far as possible are 
sold to a retail trade. This can be man¬ 
aged by a woman as well as by a man. 
Let the product whatever it may be, 
recommend itself, and if there is a sec¬ 
ond quality to be sold, put it in separate 
packages and tell just why you do so. If 
convinced (hat anything sold was not 
so good as you and your customer su))- 
I'.osed, make the matter satisfactory 
either hy replacing the goods or refund¬ 
ing the money. If you decide to charge 
customers the same price they would 
pay at the groceries, make your produce 
appeal to them by its superior freshness 
and excellence. Regular days must be 
given to the work, where it is not suffi¬ 
cient to pay for going every day, as cus¬ 
tomers must know when to expect their 
supplies. A gentle horse, a low wagon 
with a long box, which gives ample 
room so that its contents may not be too 
much crowded, and plenty of patience 
are among the necessary adjuncts to 
success in a retail trade. One must put 
her pride in her pocket, and be “all 
things to all men.” If a customer makes 
herself disagreeable say little, but pass 
that house by at the next trip. Argu¬ 
ment, gossip and fault-finding may be 
listened to, but must never be answered 
in kind, for in this work as in most 
others: 
“llc*wlu> lui.s a thmisaiid friends has not 
a friend to spare. 
Hut he who has one enein\- will lind him 
everywhere.” 
Swine Notes. —We weighed a pig this 
morning, which has been growing nice¬ 
ly to produce a good breeding animal 
since birth, but which has not been fed 
for fat. He was farrowed March 17, and 
to-day, August 4, he weighed 94 pounds. 
He has had the range of about 1^4 acre 
of ground, part of it clover, and the 
dropped fruit from five apple trees 
which he has shared with two bi’ood 
sows, three small pigs and four of his 
own age. They get very little milk; 
their grain ration is about four quarts 
of middlings fed in two feeds since the 
apples came, mixed with dishwater. The 
hue and cry raised about the dishwater 
from a farmer’s kitchen is, to say the 
least, amusing. We are advised to keep 
salt and wood ashes constantly before 
our pigs. The dishes from a farmer’s 
table are usually washed with soft soap, 
made from the best of wood ashes and 
grease. When this is the case, what ele¬ 
ment of harm is there in the dishwater? 
In city houses and hotels chemical com¬ 
pounds are used, and this is the case in 
some farmers’ families. When they are 
used the dishwater should be thrown on 
the land, never twice in the same place, 
or on a compost heap. But where pure 
lye soap is used I have never known 
dishwater to hurt hogs, and I have rais¬ 
ed a good many of them. The pig we 
weighed this morning, while not a bit 
fat, is smooth and well rounded, and 
in perfect condition for a breeder, 
month of heavy feeding or six weeks at 
the most would fit him for the block. 
He is a purebred Cheshire, eligible to 
registry. saka a. i.itti.e. 
TO KILL ROUP GERMS. 
Give a good strong solution for spraying 
poultry houses for disease germs. Must 
bo veiy effective and reasonably cheai) be¬ 
cause of the great amount 1 shall have 
to use. keade'R. 
Canton, Ha. 
The following is suggested: Four 
ounces corrosive sublimate, four ounces 
common salt dissolved in two to four 
quarts of water. Add water enough to 
make 25 gallons and spray the inside of 
the house thoroughly, taking care to 
reach all cracks and crevices. This so¬ 
lution is highly poisonous. It will be 
more effective if the. building is first 
sprayed with soapy water. Another so¬ 
lution is formaldehyde diluted with four 
to eight parts of water. Chlorine gas is 
sometimes used. This is prepared by 
putting salt in an earthen dish and add¬ 
ing sulphuric acid. Keep the room 
closed for five hours, first moistening t he 
walls. The charge for a room 12xlt) feet 
is four gallons of salt and two pints of 
sulphuric acid. 
THE CHEVIOT SHEEP. 
The traveler over the beautiful hill 
country of northern England and south¬ 
ern Scotland—the “Cheviot district”—is 
everywhere confronted by the beautiful 
white-faced sheep bearing the name of 
Cheviot. Here this mai'velously beau¬ 
tiful breed has flouri-:hed for more than 
a century. Many valuable improvements 
have been made. Scotch families set¬ 
tling around Lake Otsego, in the coun¬ 
try made famous by ,1. Fenimore Coop¬ 
er, some t)fi years ago, brought the first 
specimens of the breed to .America. The 
writer found them here a dozen years or 
so ago, and brought them to public view 
more than had been done in all the yeari- 
previous. For hilly and mountainous 
country supplied with nutritious grasses 
no breed is superior to this, the hardies', 
of all the mutton breeds. The quality 
of its mutton ranks very high. The wool 
is medium, and for manufacturing chev¬ 
iots and tweeds is superior to all others. 
Many wealthy men are providing small 
Hocks for their parks on account of their 
rare beauty, and to ?ui)ply their tables 
with the choicest mutton. The ew?s arc 
very prolific and are excellent mothers 
The writer had 10 ewes farmed to p 
neighbor a few years ago. These ewe.- 
raised 27 lambs without artificial help— 
a record 1 have never known beaten, 
l ambs grow rapidly and weigh well 
Ewes weigh about 150 pounds and rams 
200 pounds at maturity. They are easy 
keepers and the farmer’s most useful 
sheep. After breeding them exclusively 
for a dozen years we have no occasion to 
change to any other breed. 
Ladoga, Ind. how.\i!I) ii. kelm. 
DR. HESS 
Great Stock Book 
_ If you -will write and say wliat 
stock you have—how many head 
rrof each, what stock food you 
■ ■ have used—and mention this 
naper. This hook is a comprehensive treatise 
on the care of all live stock, lias*^! on the 
scientific knowledge and attainments of the 
eminent veterinarian. Dr. Hess (Jl.D., 
D V .S.); written in popular language; com¬ 
mended and used hy veterinarians every¬ 
where. Cet it and liecome a master of all 
stock diseases. Write to-day, to 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 
Makers of Dr. Hess Stock Food. 
Scoured to death ! — Poor 
little calf—poor careless farmer. C H L O R O* 
NAPTHOLEUM DIP ■would have put the 
calf right, saved it, made it healthy, hearty- 
valuable. Chloro-Naptholeum Dip is a harmless 
germicide—it annihilates all germs and para¬ 
sites, lice, ticks, itch. 1 gal., $1.50 ;5 gals., if6.75; 
10 gals., $12..50; booklet free. The West Disin¬ 
fecting Co., Inc , 4 E. 59th St., New York 
GAM YOU AFFORD IT? 
You cert-’.lnly cannot 
afford to have horses 
lamed from Spavin. 
Ring Bone. Splint. 
Curb, when they may 
he cured by simply 
using 
Kendall’s 
Spavin 
Cure. 
It cures all these and 
all other forms of lameness. Think about it and then act. 
Price (1; S forts. As a liniment for family use it has 
no equal. All druggists. Book “A Treatise on the 
Horse" mailed free. Address 
OR. B. J. KENDALL CO., ENOSBURC FALLS. VT. 
You Lose Money 
eveiy time your horse is laid up 
with Sore SKovilders, Neck 
back. 
Tuttle’s Elixir 
cures them and Cvirb, Spllrvt, 
Spralrved Cord.SpaLvin.etc. 
Given internally it is unequaled forColic, 
, Pounder, Pneumoniai etc. 
l/seti a>tt/ Endorsed hy Adams 
Tuttle’s American Condition Powders 
—A specific for impure blood and all diseases arisi ng therefrom. 
TUTTLE’S FAMILY ELIXIR cures rheumatism, 
sprains, bruises, etc. Kills ^ain instantly. Our lOO-page book, 
"Veterinary Hxiiericnce,'* F llEK, 
Dr. 5. A. TUTTLE, 30 Beverly St., Boston, Mua 
Beware of so-called HHxirs—aone genolne bot Tiitlle’a, 
Avoid all NUters; they offer only temporary relief. If any. 
Breeders’ Directory 
rnt HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
Vood ones., and all ages Fine Yearling Bulls 
..-eady for service. 
RAMBOUILLET SHEEP. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
Write DKETHUKST FARMS, Mentor, Ohio 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice young stock of the best breeding for sale. 
Prices reasonable. Every animal registered. 
WOODCKEST FARM, Kifton, Ulster Co., N. y. 
RARPAINQ purebred Holstein-Friesian Hull 
DnilUMIIlO ('alves. Low present prices to reduce 
-!tock. Write promptly. 
W. W. CHENEY, Manlius. N. V. 
GUERNSEYS FOR SALE 
Clover Knoll Herd. Orangeville, I’a. M. SAGEU. 
.Manager, iiargalns in Bulls. 
(Registered Jersey BuH Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices, 
i. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty (Street, Pittsburg, j?a. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES 
hog. Pigs of all ages from Imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BilOOK STOCK FARM, Roche8ter,MlCh 
Impr^ed YORKSHIRES 
The best large hog. Geta Boar and have large litters, 
all white. Price. $8 to $20 now. 
LAKE GROVE FARM, Madison, Lake Co.. Ohio. 
leg. P. Chinas, BerKsnires and C. Whites. 
8 wkB. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
Service Boars, Bred Sows. Write foi 
prices and description. Return if not 
satisfactory; we refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Brclldoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
Shropshire Ram and Ewe Lambs. I.fi up. Scotch Collie 
J pups. Stock ))urebred. Booking orders for C. White 
nd Berksliire Pigs. W. A. IXiTUERS, Lack. I’a 
For Sale.—Scotxih Collies, mafTnificently 
bred. A. J. BENEDICT, Woodworth, Wis. 
Pfl B ^ A1 C—The choicest bred St. Bernard puppies 
run uMLL In the United States. Sired by Ch. 
Keno. 
F. M. WILLIAMS, Box 424, Adams, N. Y. 
SCOTCH COLLIE 
R and white. 
DllUn Registered. 
Trained to drive stock. No faults. Two years old. 
{25.00. F. C. SMITH & SON, Groton, N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Two Cockerels for $2 If taken now. 900 beauties from 
big eggs from big hens. Also old hens and early 
.ullets. WHITE & RICE, Box A, Yorktown, N, Y. 
ZIM’S WHITE LEGHORNS. 
They’re bred to lav; 'I'hafs wliv they pay! Write 
your wants to W. W. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
nrBT'll fn I Iftr on hens and CHICKS, 
llbA In I U LluC *;4-pagc book FREE. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307. Apponaug, R L 
Cure For 
Galls 
While you work 
the horse. 
toArk on every box. 
■J!£BIGKM0RE’S 
Dealers selling it everywhere are authorized 
to refund money if it tails to cure all G&lis» 
Scratches, Cracks, Wire Cuts. etc. The stand¬ 
ard horse remedy for many years. Sample 10c. 
BICKMORE GALL CURE CO., Box 519, Old Town, He. 
NEWTON’S Cough, Wi- 
tpinper and lodigeatiun Cure* 
A veterinary hpecilic for wiml, 
throat and sluuiuch troubles. 
Strong rtcommends. $1.00 per 
can. Uealers. Mail or Kx. paiil. 
Newton llorsc Uemedy Co.| 
Xuledo, Ohio* 
•Thii cow WM 
a terror to 
milk prior to 
using >icent8 
******* worth of Shoo»Fly* Had it 
■been used earlier, *he would 
milk and flesh to the araountof $14.00. Tne 
otbercow was protected early and continuea 
to give 18 qts. of milk daily through fly-Uroc. 
__ _ the original stock protector used by the sain# 
dairy-men since 1885, after testing imitations. It prevents oonlag* 
oua abortion and other diseases, cures all sores, scratches, sain 
diseases, hoof ailments, etc. JJO LICK In poultry bouseorany 
place it is sprayed. Beware of imitations that last only a ic 
hours and make sores. If your dealer does not keep Shoo-* »7 
(made In Philadelphia, Pa.,) sepd us $1.00 for latest 
Three Tgi^ Sprayer and enough B)ioo«Kl7 to protect 2W oewa. 
Cash reiuued if cows are not protected* / 
SHOO-FLY MPG. CO. 1005 Ftlrmoun! Avi., WNl/*. 
£ills 
svery 
fly ft 
strikes: 
keeps off 
the rest. 
Harmless 
to man 
or beast. 
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