THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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A WOMAN FARMER'S NOTES. 
Extiiriting Stock.—A woman farm- 
rr who takes pride in her stock can 
hardly see the Fall fairs approaching 
without a desire to exhibit. Poultry 
is quite within the possibilities for her, 
even though she must coop them and 
lake them to their destination and back 
herself, but cattle and swine are quite 
a different matter. They must be man¬ 
aged by men and that often costs more 
than the resultant advertising is 
worth. Tt is even more important for 
women than for men that every animal 
on the farm should be so trained that 
it can be led easily, or where leading 
is impracticable, so controlled that 
it may be exhibited easily. Good 
sales are often effected at the fairs, 
and though a woman cannot assume 
the care of her “flocks and herds” in so 
public a place, she would often find it 
to her advantage to show her stock if 
she desires good sales. It is not pleas¬ 
ant for a woman to court this kind of 
juiblicity, but if it becomes necessary 
for her to do man’s work she must do 
it in man fashion or lose a great deal 
of the profit. 
(’ATTt.K Itch.— The cattle last Sum¬ 
mer were affected by an eczema-like 
disease which farmers call “swamp 
itch.” My own herd was by no means 
the only one which contracted the dis¬ 
ease, as I saw it on animals which 
were miles away from mine. Spaces, 
usually near the face and neck, had a 
slightl}" swollen appearance. All hair 
dropped out and the skin looked rough 
and scaly. The animals were not con¬ 
fined to low land, as they had the run 
of a hill pasture adjoining the swale. 
During the Winter my own cattle en¬ 
tirely recovered but several of my last 
Summer boarders were still afflicted 
when returned to my pastures this 
season. I have not seen a trace of it 
for several weeks. The pastures are 
much better this season, possibly bet¬ 
ter nutrition has toned up the system 
of the afflicted animals, putting them 
into condition to ward off disease. The 
lierd is looking exceptionally well for 
animals in fly time. 
Good P.\,sti i!K. —Our frequent rains, 
wliile hard on haying and harvest, 
have kept the pastures in prime condi¬ 
tion. The milch cows did not need the 
oats and peas planted for them, indeed, 
they could not be coaxed to eat them, 
liking the sweet White clover pasture, 
which was abundant, better than the 
oats and peas, so the crop has been 
harvested and put into the barn to be 
thrashed with the other grain. There 
are few years when a soiling crop is of 
no advantage even though the dairjr is 
as small as mine, but my pastures con¬ 
tain a good deal of clover and some 
Quack grass, and the abundant rains of 
the past few weeks keep them fresh 
and quite to the taste of the cattle. 
Late Gkain.—I have just had a 
piece of work done which may have 
been unwise. It should, at least, have 
been done earlier. A field which bore 
corn and cabbage last year has grown 
up to weeds and wild grasses. A part 
of the field has been plowed for Sum¬ 
mer fallow and on purpose to sow it to 
wheat. I fear that we shall not get the 
\\hf Ip field plowed, so I have had it 
mown, and I intend to rake the growth 
into windrov/s and burn it. Whether 
the grain, so late in the season, will 
pay for the expense is a problem. 
-Many weed seeds must have dropped, 
but myriads will be destroyed. 
Economy. —A woman’s ideas of econ¬ 
omy are widely different from a man’s. 
1 know I have had losses because I 
feared to send money in hand to hunt 
for money which I was not sure of 
finding: losses where a little more 
hired help would have paid, but where 
I did not dare to hire lest the “game 
might not pay for the ammunition.” A 
man would hire the extra labor and 
would be well paid for the investment. 
A man says, “Nothing ventured noth¬ 
ing gained.” A woman fears to ven¬ 
ture much. She prefers to take few 
chances and though her gains may be 
less her losses are fewer. 
SociAi. Loss.—One point where the 
woman farmer who is In close touch 
with all the affairs of her fields and 
orchards feels her lirojtations is when 
she attempts to step back into woman’s 
realm to entertain her friends. So 
many old friends whom she wishes to 
hold in remembrance are only in the 
old homes for a few weeks in Summer. 
Now Summer is the very busiest time 
of all. Fruit and vegetables must seek 
their market at exactly the right time 
or loss is inevitable. A man can en¬ 
tertain his friends in field or garden oi¬ 
ls readily excused for a few hours, but 
a woman can hardly do the same, so 
she is in a measure cut off from social 
pleasures. True, her business affairs 
leave her little time in which to be¬ 
wail her lot. but the person who leaves 
out the social side of life does it at 
great loss of enjoyment as well as of 
improvement. A woman farmer is apt 
to fall into the rut of “all work and no 
play,” and she soon drops out of the 
habit of seeking entertainment unless 
there are young people in her family, 
who will not allow her to forget her 
social obligations. saka a. little. 
LAYING PULLETS IN N. Y. MARKETS 
I see an occasional mention of persons 
buying live poultry in the New York mar¬ 
kets. for the purpose of securing laying 
pullets. Where are such markets located’ 
Are there special days, and at what hours? 
Does one need to be there before daylight 
as in the vegetable market? o. n. w. 
Providence. R. I. 
The bulk of the live poultry coming 
to New York is unloaded at the West 
W'ashingion Market, between Little 
West Twelfth and Bloomfield Streets, 
North River, known to New Yorkers 
as the “Goose Market.” The early 
days of the week find the largest as¬ 
sortment, and daylight hours will an¬ 
swer. The pushing and energetic 
poultrymen have scattered their flocks 
over the length and breadth of the 
land, preaching the gospel of the pure¬ 
bred versus scrub, until the quality of 
the poultry that now comes to market 
is a vast improvement over that of a 
decade since. For this reason I am 
almost convinced it is cheaper to buy 
than raise laying stock, under certain 
conditions. One of these conditions is 
the lack of range and quarters. At the 
present time the young stock now ar¬ 
riving averages from 2% to 314 pounds 
in weight, and sells from 1214 to 15 
cents a pound. Not all dealers will 
separate the pullets from the cockerels, 
but in every line of business there are 
always some more accommodating than 
others, and at times when the rush is 
past there are few who will turn a 
prospective buyer down. Where one 
has the accommodations and private 
customers to consume them, the young 
cockerels will more than double their 
value in a short time, and help pay the 
keep of the pullets while maturing. 
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