3io 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAY io 
“ Rough on Rogues." 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
JYf AY. 
Monday Ij ° ok out a 8 ain for that "Farm- 
^ ers’ Co operative Brotherhood.” 
12. This is getting a great amount of 
advertising just now. Because its manager 
“ was raised on a farm,” the city papers 
think it will settle all the ills of agriculture. 
Nonsense ; let it alone. Don’t send any $5. 
to help it out, unless you have $5. to throw 
away. Book out once more for that dic¬ 
tionary fraud mentioned last week. It 
seems that this “Original Edition” is a 
reprint of the edition of 1847. Do you feel 
like reading books that are 43 years behind 
the age ? 
* * 
* 
Tuesday kook out f° r poultry frauds. 
3 That man in Ohio saw fit to come 
3* to time, and now says he has sent 
the birds as agreed, so we will not print 
his name here. He has some sense if he is a 
little tardy about showing it. There are 
lots of other poultry men that need punch¬ 
ing up. Here, for example, is a letter from 
a good friend of the R. N.-Y. “ Some 
arrangements should be made looking to¬ 
wards the protection of those who order 
eggs for hatching. It is the cast-iron rule 
with nearly all poultrymen to receive the 
money before making the shipment, leaving 
the purchaser to depend entirely upon the 
honesty of the shipper. I had the misfor¬ 
tune to give an order to one of those who 
did not act towards us as he would like to 
have been served, and I have very good 
reasons for saying that there are many of 
his caliber running around loose. 
I sent this individual an order 
for 300 eggs, stating that I 
wanted them from his best 
stock; that I desired them for our incuba¬ 
tors, and that I would want more if these 
were satisfactory. I paid for the eggs be¬ 
fore examining them, trusting to him to fill 
the order satisfactorily. When I did ex¬ 
amine them, I found that they were far 
from being fresh, many of them when 
shaken appearing to be full of water. I 
wrote to the shipper to that effect, and he 
made no reply. At the end of 10 days the 
eggs were carefully candled, and more than 
two-thirds of the lot were found without 
chicks. I then wrote to Mr. Poultryman 
again, giving him the result of that exam¬ 
ination, and telling him that he could can¬ 
cel my order for the other 300. In reply to 
this letter, he offered to ship me the other 
eggs at half price, stating that he had saved 
them for me, and that he had refused to let 
others have them. 
♦ * 
Thursday reply was to the effect that I 
3 would not put the eggs in my 
■*■5* incubators if he would make me 
a present of them; that I was not one bit 
sorry that he had missed the chance to 
swindle some other person, and that I sel¬ 
dom nibbled at the same hook more than 
once, no matter what kind of bait was on 
it. 
Judging from the number of complaints 
that are made every year in all sections of 
the country. I have no hesitation in saying 
that the woods are full of such swindlers, 
and ask that some protection be given the 
purchaser. Nearly every man who adver¬ 
tises eggs for Bale, guarantees satisfaction, 
or the refunding of the money, but what 
does such a guarantee amount to when you 
have nothing to show for your money but 
the bad eggs and the experience ? ” 
* 
* 
* 
Friday Look out, Southern subscribers, for 
s’ a benevolent old fellow who wants 
T to sell roots of the Cologne tulip. 
This wonderful flower will “ bloom all the 
year, producing gorgeously colored flowers 
which stand erect all day and droop at night. 
When drooping, pure Eau de Cologne will 
flow from them ” (!) Look out you folks 
who have no ice this year for people who 
want to sell you chemicals for “ producing 
cold for less then ice costs.” Wait till we 
tell all about this chemical process as we 
hope to do shortly. 
Saturday kook ou ^ f° r gland®™*! horses. 
3 It seems that quite a business is 
1 7’ being done in the larger cities 
by men who buy these diseased animals, 
take them into the country, doctor them up 
a little, and sell them to people who do not 
know about this disease. Look out that 
you do not sell all your beef calves. Re¬ 
ports from all over the country indicate 
that calves are being crowded into the mar¬ 
kets regardless of the low prices offered for 
them. As true as you live prospects for 
cattle are improving every day, and those 
who raise good calves are sure to get good 
returns. Don’t slaugher the calves just to 
get rid of them. 
ed, vented and then packed away in the 
storehouse, without a moment’s rest. Pri¬ 
vate families would not be compelled to be 
thus systematic, but could fill a boiler at 
the most convenient time. A rainy day 
could be profitably spent in this work, and 
one day’s work at each kind of vegetable 
would be sufficient for a year’s supply of 
wholesome food, an agreeable contrast to 
the regulation diet of the average farmer. 
Cans are sold very cheaply, and, if they 
are scalded and washed perfectly clean 
after they have been used, and put away 
warm and dry, they can be used for a num¬ 
ber of years, the little caps only need to be 
renewed. c. L. A. 
THE ADVAHCE HAY TEDDER 
The most perfect atrlcle of Its kind made. Ease of 
movement and satisfaction guaranteed. Also manu¬ 
facturers of Mowers, Rakes, Uay Presses. Feed Cut¬ 
ters, Plows, etc. Write for Free Circular. Agents 
wanted in every ocaltty. Address 
ANN ARBOR AGRICULTURAL CO., 
CANNING VEGETABLES. 
Canned vegetables are no longer luxu¬ 
ries ; they are now classed among the neces¬ 
saries, and the provident family lays in a 
stock for winter’s use as regularly as it fills 
the coal bin. Farmers in particular, put 
up their own tomatoes, usually in glass 
jars, the poorest way possible, because the 
most expensive; besides, the vegetable does 
not retain its original tasce; it undergoes 
a degree of fermentation that partially, or 
wholly, renders it unfit for use, a large pro¬ 
portion being thrown away. 
The method of canning tomatoes has 
arrived at such a degree of perfection that 
private families find it cheaper to buy veg¬ 
etables put up at the factories than to put 
them up in glass jars at home. Hotels and 
restaurants no longer depend on the mar¬ 
kets for their supply of “fresh ” vegetables; 
but upon their cellars, in which is stored a 
year’s supply ot peas, beans, corn, toma¬ 
toes, succotash, squash and asparagus. 
They claim that the canned goods are quite 
as fresh as those in the market and much 
cheaper. Their claim is just, because the 
vegetables are picked and canned the same 
day, while in the market many sorts a week 
old are palmed off as fresh. Any vegetable 
picked and canned while fresh is far more 
delicious and wholesome than the same 
could be if kept two or three days before it 
is cooked. This is particularly true of corn 
and peas, neither of which are eatable or 
wholesome if kept in the market two or 
three days before cooking; while the ex¬ 
pense of preparing the vegetables for the 
table is not one-half as great at the factory 
as at the hotel. 
Parties visiting Florida for their health, 
think they get fresh vegetables, particular¬ 
ly green peas at the hotel; on the contrary 
they get such as are put up at the North, 
because they are both cheaper and better, 
although Florida supplies the North with 
early vegetables. 
For these reasons every farmer or owner 
of a large garden should can his own vege - 
tables, which is a very simple operation. 
The most important part of it is the solder¬ 
ing, which a farmer can learn in an hour at 
the village tin-shop (at least the writer 
did) and the outfit will not cost more than 
a dollar, and the skillful use of the solder¬ 
ing iron is a convenient art for the farmer 
to understand, as it will enable him to do 
many repairs at a saving of time and ex¬ 
pense. 
Vegetables for canning are prepared in 
precisely the same manner as though they 
were to be cooked for the table. The toma¬ 
toes are scalded, so that they can be peeled 
more readily ; they are then put into the 
cans, as nearly whole as possible, cut just 
sufficiently to go through the openings in 
the tops of the cans, which are about two 
inches in diameter ; the caps are then put on 
and immediately soldered up. The cans 
are then put into the boilers where they re¬ 
main boiling for four hours, the heat being 
supplied by a coil of steam pipe. A boiler 
on the kitchen stove would answer the pur¬ 
pose. After the boiling they are arranged 
on a bench and a small hole is made in the 
top of each with a prick punch ; this lets 
the gas out, and it is immediately soldered 
up. This operation is performed while the 
cans are hot; the operation is then com¬ 
plete, and the cans are then packed away 
to be papered at convenience. In eating 
canned vegetables, we sometimes get a 
small piece of solder in the mouth; this 
comes from carelessness in soldering up 
the vent-hole, as a little drops through. 
All vegetables are put up in the same 
manner, excepting that in boiling, corn re¬ 
quires but three hours, string beans or 
succotash from 2 % to three hours, aud as¬ 
paragus two hours. All vegetables are 
better if boiled the greater length of time. 
At the factory there is an endless chain of 
operations. A sufficient number of hands 
are employed in each department to keep 
the boilers going to their full capacity. 
The empty cans start at one end of a table 
or tables, they are filled, soldered up, boil- 
TO KEEP PIE-CRUST FRESH. 
It often happens that I have a little pie¬ 
crust left over when baking pies, that I 
don’t want to use that day; I wrap it 
closely in tissue or other soft paper, so that 
it is protected on all sides from the air and 
it keeps as fresh as when new for a week 
or more. I used to cover it with flour, but 
it would crack and let the air in ; this 
method is entirely satisfactory, c. R. D. 
Mrs. Brown: “ Johnnie broke a pane of 
glass, but as he told me about it at once, I 
gave him an apple.” Mrs. Cobwigger: 
“ That will teach him a great lesson.” Mrs. 
Brown: “I’m afraid not. As soon as he 
had eaten the apple he went and broke an¬ 
other window.”— Epoch. 
Harry : “ She has jilted me, and I know I 
shall die. The disappointment will kill me.” 
Aunt Hannah : “ I know how disappoint¬ 
ment affects one, Harry. But you’ll .get 
over it. I felt just as you do now when I 
set that yaller hen on thirteen eggs and 
only got just one poor chick out of the lot.” 
—Boston Transcript. 
piocrUanmis §Mv*rtiising. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention the Rural. 
DESKS, 
Chairs, 
Office Furniture. 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 
& KHMER DESK CO. 
Salesroom!, 
opp. Lowell Depot, 
93 Causeway St., Boston 
DEAF 
■ NESS & HEAD NOISES CURED by 
Feck’s INVISIBLE TUBULAR EAR 
___CUSHIONS. Whispers heard. Com¬ 
fortable. Snreessful where all iiemoilie. fall. Sold by K. HISCOX, 
only, 853 Br’dway, New York. Write for book of proof. I KLK. 
P OULTRY PAPER, 16 pages, 4 months for 10c 
Sample/re«. C. C. baPUY, Syracuse. N.Y. 
THE BEST CATTLE FASTENING! 
SMITH’S SELF-ADJUSTING SWING STANCHION. 
jr-T" The only practical Siving Stanchion Invented. 
Thousands In use. Illustrated Circular free. Men¬ 
tion RURAL NKW-YORKKR. 
F. G. PARSONS & CO.. Addison, Steuben Co.,N.Y. 
Rochester Hay Slings and Carriers. 
Result of twenty-two years’ experience. 
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 
RICKER At .MONTGOMERY, 
58 Lorimer St., Rochester, N. Y. 
HAY AND STRAW PRESS. 
Guaranteed to press three tons more of nay In one 
day (10 hours), than any other portable two-horse 
press, with the same amount of help. Give It a trial. 
Satisfaction guaranteed, or no sale and freight 
refunded. For conditions, circulars, etc., address 
J. A. SPENCER, Dwight, Ill. 
POTATO DIGGER. 
HOOVER & TROUT, Avery, Ohio. 
—THE— 
HOOVER 
A 16-page pamphlet free. 
Mention this paper. 
Address 
the 
M’frs 
AGENTS 
WANTED, 
Send for 
Circular 
and 
prlc.lirt 
BREED’S UNIVERSAL 
WEEDER AND CULTIVATOR 
Io, Bays: " It 
.cultivated two 
rows at once; 
tUSSt A 
. ,.v 
fectly, going 
•to tern 
In flv« hours.’’ 
UNIVERSAL' 
WOOER CO. 
JGrtfc Wmuw, 1. U. 
Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York, Pa.' 
I'arqthar’s Standard Engines and Saw Hills. 
Send for Catalogue. Portable, Sta¬ 
tionary, Traction and Automatic Ka- 
ginea a specialty. Warranted equal or 
superiorly 
any made. 
Address A. B. FABQUIIAR A SON, York, Pa. 
THE “ELLIOTT” WHEEL HOE. 
For Use on Onions 
and all 
GARDEN AND BED CROPS. 
Will do more work than four men 
can possibly do with com 
■non hand hoes. 
Will save its cost In ten hours’ 
work, and is 
PRACTICALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE. 
The Cutters are Forged 
Entirely From High-Grade steel, 
AM) WILL NOT BREAK. 
BARTLETT 
THIS HOE may be adapted 
for working in rows of all widths, 
from four Inches wide upwards. 
SEND FOR CIRCULARS. 
Illustrating all the points of this 
Great Labor-Saving Tool. 
OUR SEED CATALOGUE 
For 1890. and Catalogues of 
MILKING TUBES aud MILK 
PAILS, Mailed Free to any ad¬ 
dress on application. 
& DOW LOWELL, MASS. 
• THE 
HAY LOADER 
Will load a ton ot hay In 5 minute*. Yon will 
make hay enaily and quickly, and *nve help. 
Often nays for itself in one season. 10*000 Hold* 
t\tUy guaranteed. Loads loose email grain also. 
KEYStONE MFG. CO., SterlinpJII. 
USE THIS HAY LOADER. —— lAscwun—Branob Howwooovwitosrfly fooatod 
