1902 
679 
His Conservative Estimate. 
The Dingleys are just getting settled 
in their suburban home. They have 
their lawn mower and are looking for a 
man to run it. In the meantime Ding- 
ley pushes it in the evenings after his 
return from the city. They have just 
got their cow, which so far has given 
two pints of milk in the morning and a 
pint and a half at night. Dingley, how¬ 
ever, has not been satisfied. 
Like all men at some period in their 
lives he has the chicken-raising craze, 
and so he contracted with a poultry 
fancier for the safe delivery of 10 likely 
young hens and two crowing cocks to 
complete the dozen. They were deliv¬ 
ered only yesterday, and forthwith Mrs. 
Dingley, with the fatal obtuseness of the 
average wife to her husband’s fads, pro¬ 
posed that they have a chicken pie for 
to-day’s dinner. Dingley explained em¬ 
phatically that such wanton destruction 
of fowl life meant the destruction of so 
much wealth. Then he proceeded to 
show her by conservative figures what 
he meant. 
“Bach hen,” began Dingley, inspired 
by the books on poultry-raising which 
he has been reading lately, “is capable 
of raising and caring for three broods 
of chicks a season. I shall set her on 
14 eggs, so as to allow for two bad eggs. 
I count on half of each brood being pul¬ 
lets. That will give me at the end of 
this season—if my family will be satis¬ 
fied to put away the ax—180 young hens 
tor my next season. Most of the remain¬ 
der will be disposed of to the marketmen. 
With my second season I shall pursue 
the same policy, which at the end of the 
season will give me 3,260 hens and an 
equal number of cockerels for Spring 
fries. With my third season, starting 
out with over 3,000 hens, I shall wind 
up with—wait a minute.” Dingley com¬ 
puted rapidly. “Fifty-eight thousand 
six hundred and eighty!” he announced, 
triumphantly. 
Mrs. Dingley looked bored. “I sup¬ 
pose our back yard won’t be any bigger 
by that time,” she remarked. “And you 
have omitted the possibility of cholera 
from your conservative estimate, dear.” 
Dingley was all wrapped up in his 
figuring. “All this at the end of our tuird 
year, remember,” he said, aostracted- 
ly. “At the end of the fourth year we 
shall be in possession of 1,056,240 hens. 
My dear, would you have thought it? 
Now, do you realize that by killing two 
of these valuable fowls for dinner you 
reduce this magnificent result by ex¬ 
actly one-fifth?” 
Mrs. Dingley murmured something 
that sounded like “Nonsense!” and 
walked out of the room. Dingley, left 
to himself, went on computing. 
The astounding results of careful cal¬ 
culation never before were made so ap¬ 
parent to that amazed man as on that 
afternoon. At the end of the fifth year, 
he found, he would be the proprietor of 
19,012,320 hens. At the conclusion of 
the sixth season the number would be 
increased to 342,221,760. The seventh 
season would see his back yard and 
doorsteps swarming with 6,159,991,680 
hens. And this still would be only half 
of his flock as estimated. The eighth 
season he would possess 110,873,250,240 
hens. The tenth year he would have 
35,922,833,077,760 hens, with the samo 
number of cockerels to dispose of to the 
butchers and marketmen of the earth. 
Dingley leaned his head wearily on 
his hand and thought. He had bought 
that suburban home as a permanent in¬ 
vestment. He expected to stay there not 
10 years only, but 15 or 20. He indulged 
in a little mental calculation and he saw 
the heavens above his home crossed and 
recrossed with roosting places. He 
counted up on the food question till he 
perceived that unless he cornered the 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
whole grain supply of the world there 
would not be enough food for his vora¬ 
cious pets. So far as he could see hu¬ 
manity must starve—that is, if those 10 
hens cackling close by lived and laid. 
He saw the entire State crowded and 
jammed with chicken coops and gravel 
beds and drinking troughs. He thought 
till his brain reeled with the magnitude 
of what lay almost within his grasp. 
And at last his spirit weakened. He 
stole softly out to the back yard and 
shortly afterward presented himself be¬ 
fore Bridget with two freshly slain 
hens. 
“We shall have two more for Sunday 
dinner, Bridget,” he said.—Chicago 
Daily News. _ 
Rag Carpet Suggestions, 
This is the season of the year when a 
great many housekeepers are interested 
in rag carpets, for they are planning to 
have one ready to put down after the 
Fall housecleaning is done. There is 
no covering for the floor that will stand 
the wear and tear of noisy happy chil¬ 
dren like a rag carpet, and there is none 
that costs so little. If the rags are torn 
fine and even, and the colors are good 
the carpet will be pretty, and will wear 
twice as long as an ingrain. I have had 
from one to three rag carpets on my 
floors all the time for the last seven 
years and the longer I use them the bet¬ 
ter I like them. It does not take nearly 
so much time to make them as one 
would suppose if it is managed proper¬ 
ly. When a garment comes from the 
wash that cannot be worn again, the 
hems and rough places are cut out and 
it is put away until a little leisure time 
presents itself. White or light-colored 
rags are saved separate, and dyed red, 
green, blue or yellow. A few of these 
bright rags scattered through the car¬ 
pet helps the looks wonderfully. I use 
the Diamond dyes for coloring, and 
never have any trouble with them. In 
fact, the floor of our dining room is cov¬ 
ered with a rag carpet made three years 
ago; it has had constant wear and lots 
of sunshine ever since, and has been 
washed once, still the colors are bright 
and pretty. I always use soft water for 
dyeing if I can get it, and am careful 
to put in plenty of salt or soda, which, 
ever the directions call for, to set the 
color. Then I boil the goods for half 
to three-quarters of an hour. When 
managed in this way the colors pro¬ 
duced by Diamond dyes do not fade 
from washing or exposure to sunlight. 
When you have enough rags for a car¬ 
pet tear them all at one time, and mix 
thoroughly. Thread the machine, get 
your lap full of rags, lap the ends an 
inch and sew lengthwise across the end, 
then diagonally across to the opposite 
corner of tne lap. Then without raising 
the machine foot or cutting the thread, 
put in another, and so on until you have 
a pile behind the machine large enougn 
for a ball. If you have children old 
enough they will enjoy cutting the 
threads and winding into balls. This 
is much faster than sewing by hand, and 
they never pull apart. I usually make 
hit-or-miss carpet, and have colored 
stripes in the warp. They are cheaper 
than striped carpets, and very pretty. 
ELSIE GRAY. 
ly and allowed to ripen its leaves. When 
they are yellow and dead it is set on the 
top shelf in a dark closet and left there 
until it shows signs of growth again. 
Gladioli are very effective in a pot in 
the window, as six or eight can be 
grown in a 12-inch pot; give a mixture 
of loam and sand, but no fertilizers are 
necessary. They will repay all care in 
the way of careful watering and moving 
to keep them in the sun, and certainly 
no more showy flower was ever culti¬ 
vated in the house. I would not think 
of doing without my pots of Gladioli any 
more than I would try to keep house 
without a barrel of flour. My general 
rule for soil for bulbs would be as fol¬ 
lows: One-third garden soil, one-third 
well-rotted manure, and one-third sand. 
Put three hyacinths or tulips in a six- 
inch pot; cover tulips one inch deep, 
hyacinths one-half their depth in the 
soil. For lilies fill the pots only half 
full, and press the bulbs into it; as they 
grow fill in soil gradually. In this way 
they form a grand stock of working 
roots. Ixias are most satisfactory for 
house bulbs, and produce flowers of 
every shade of scarlet, red, orange, yel¬ 
low and white. Plant in October one 
inch below the surface. Once bought 
‘there need be no more outlay for years 
for Ixias, for the best treatment is like 
Freesias, with which all are familiar. 
Perhaps a few safe rules from an old 
bulb grower may be welcome to the be¬ 
ginners. First, do not use manure water 
or fertilizer of any sort, until buds are 
formed. The time of blossoming can be 
hastened by moving into a warmer 
room, or greatly retarded by keeping 
where it is cold. I have had the earth 
freeze hard in pots containing bulbs, and 
they were none the worse, so if you are 
calculating on a wedding, a family gath 
ering, or any occasion when flowers are 
more especially desirable than at an¬ 
other time, a sensible use of the above 
hints will greatly help you to have them 
when wanted. Last rule of all, buy 
bulbs, buy lots of them, buy any of 
them, for the veriest amateur can suc¬ 
ceed with them if she have but sense. 
Bulbs are good, but good common sense 
is better than fertilizers to use with 
them. If you cannot afford pots, get the 
good man to make some boxes, or get 
them of your grocer, and then have 
ing once procured a stock of bulbs 
take care of them, and invest the money 
saved next Fall in some other plant. 
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