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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
TULY i9 
" Rough on Rogues.” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
JULY. 
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which 
said to 
Look out for the “ Pacific Min¬ 
ing Stock Exchange ” of this 
city. This is a bogus enterprise 
offers rare chances in gold mines 
be located in Southern California. 
Circulars advertising this fraud are sent 
all over the country offering the most 
extravagant bargains. Do not under any 
circumstances have anything to do with 
the concern. There are other companies 
who offer shares in mines said to be in 
operation in Lower California, which, by 
the way, belongs to Mexico. Let all such 
investments alone unless you have money 
to throw away or else want to buy experi¬ 
ence. As we have remarked before, invest 
your money at home. Your farm needs a 
share of your capital. 
TflBSday ^ ,00 ^ out that you realize 
1 importance of keeping a 
the 
in a handy place. Many a man measures 
his success in life by the judicious filling of 
his wasi e-basket. The successful man con¬ 
fines himself to things that pay. He does 
not spend a lot of valuable time over use¬ 
less and unimportant matters; he puts 
them in his waste-basket, where they be¬ 
long. Every day we see people failing 
because they will not recognize the fact 
that the success of the specialist depends 
upon his skill as a waste-basket filler. 
Come, now, how is your waste-basket ? 
Look about you and see if you are not 
spending precious time on a lot of things 
that belong in the basket. You had better 
live an intensive life. The waste-basket 
plays an important part in such a life. 
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Look out for tree agent frauds 
who are at present working 
23- in Indiana and Illinois. They 
go to the farmer and sell a big bill of 
goods “guaranteed true to name,” and 
agree to come back in one ytar and replace 
all trees that have died and also prune all 
trees that are alive. This seems sur¬ 
prisingly liberal, and as they do not ask 
for full payment until the trees are re¬ 
placed and pruned, they sell lots of trees at 
high prices, as they have glowing stories to 
tell about the quality of their stock. The 
trees they sell are culls from the great nur¬ 
series in Western New York, jumbled to¬ 
gether and sold at a very low price. It is 
easy for the tree frauds to label these with 
any desired name. They get such a good 
price for them that it pays them well to 
come back to replace and prune, because 
this gives them a fine reputation for honest 
dealing. Bogus honesty is part of their 
stock in trade. While on this subject we 
may give the following extract from a 
letter sent to the editor of the Iowa Home¬ 
stead. Unfortunately there is no law 
in Iowa to protect farmers from such fel¬ 
lows, as they generally secure their money 
and clear out : “ There is a gang of men in 
our community selling nursery stock from 
some place in Ohio. They are selling a 
* tree blackberry’ that does not die down, 
bears every year and never sprouts. They 
also claim to have bought the State of Iowa 
on the sale of six varieties of apples, all 
seedlings, that will produce finer and hard¬ 
ier stock .and fruit than root-grafted or 
budded trees. They also sell the ‘Lady’ 
Strawberry, that grows higher than the 
bunch beau. They agree to come back here 
and prune all stock and especially their 
tree blackberry. I think it is one of the 
worst swindles I have seen.” 
Thursday out f° r people who want to 
^ sell you “ cultivated blueberry 
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plants.” Wonderful stories are 
told of the profit to be obtained from an 
acre of these plaDts. It is all nonsense. It 
is fun to experiment with the plants, but 
there is no money in it. We are glad to learn 
that Staples, the blueberry fraud of Port¬ 
land, Michigan, has been arrested formisuse 
of the mails. People who sent money to 
Staples could get nothing out of him—not 
even bogus plants. The most skillful fish¬ 
ermen use the most tempting bait. Re¬ 
member that. 
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FridaV k°°k out f° r sunstrokes. Lots of 
^ people all over the country are suf- 
25- fering from the heat. Train for 
your fight with the hot weather. Wear 
thin and loose clothing and drink an 
abundance of cool watei. Bathe frequently. 
Wear a straw hat, ventilated at the top 
and fill the crown with green leaves or a 
sponge. If while working in the hot sun 
you cease to perspire drink freely of water 
at once. Wear thin flannel shirts. Do not 
go into the harvest field with a thin 
“bosom shirt” and a stiff, black hat. 
Keep your temper; keep clean ; keep your 
hands and face wet; keep away from heat¬ 
ing food; keep eating fruit; keep away 
from liquor and keep up your courage. 
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SfltnrdflV kook out * or y° urse lf- Many 
, * of us succeed admirably in look- 
20. i n g ou t for the bad qualities to 
be found in others ; but we forget to keep 
an eye on ourselves. Let us begin on this 
business right away. Many of us will 
find our worst enemy walking around in 
our own clothes. Look out for the horses 
this hot weather. They feel the heat as 
keenly as you do. 
Poultry Yard. 
NEW AND OLD BREEDS. 
Orpingtons; A neon as ; new Leghorn 
breeds; Qoldcn Wyandottes; Red 
Caps and Indian Oames. 
The poultry business must have its 
novelties as well as any other. New breeds 
come up every year and appeal to the pub¬ 
lic for favor. A few notes in relation to 
these “ novelties” may prove of interest. 
The latest aspirant for recognition is the 
Orpington. This is the result of a cross be¬ 
tween the Langshan and Minorca and 
resembles the Black Java in color, comb 
and general characteristics. The only dif¬ 
ference seems to be in the color of the bot¬ 
toms of the feet, which is pink Instead of 
yellow, as in the Java. I am informed by 
thoroughly reliable parties who have 
visited the yards in England, where the 
Orpingtons originated, that the breed is 
unreliable. Puffing this breed looks very 
much like an attempt to w T ork on the gul¬ 
libility of the American public. I would 
advise fanciers and poultrymen to be care¬ 
ful before investing any money in it. 
The Ancona has been boomed of late as 
the coming fowl. It is really an old breed, 
which has been neglected. Several impor¬ 
tations were made last season and it seems 
some spurious stock found its way over 
here, which has * caused considerable 
trouble, as purchasers of eggs from one of 
the yards complained that the chickens 
came of all colors; but Mr. F. A. Morti¬ 
mer, who has carefully studied the breed, 
was fortunate in securing the genuine 
stock. Last winter I saw a flock that was 
handsome and remarkably uniform in 
color. Anconas are mottled black and 
white, resem ling Houdans in plumage. 
The comb is single; large with five to eight 
serrations; the earlobe Is creamy-white, 
the wattles are long and the general shape 
is that of a Minorca. The legs in good 
specimens are a bright yellow, but many 
males show a dusky shade over the yellow. 
The hens lay very large, white eggs and re¬ 
port says “ plenty of them.” Although 
claimed to be non-sitters, Anconas fre¬ 
quently incubate. The little chicks are 
very hardy, but feather quickly, and hence 
they require a good range on lawn or pas¬ 
ture. The breed is well worthy of trial. 
The popularity of the Leghorn has given 
us the four old varieties—the Brown, White, 
Black and Cuckoo or Dominique. The 
White and Brown Leghorns are the popu¬ 
lar varieties, but, nevertheless, the rage for 
novelty has encouraged several breeders in 
England and Denmark to still further ex¬ 
tend the Leghorn list. In England, Duck¬ 
wing, Pile and Buff Leghorns are now ex¬ 
hibited, and it is but a question of time 
when this country will see them at the 
shows. Of the three I believe the Buffs 
will be great favorites, but I do not think 
either of the others will ever become popu¬ 
lar. Pile Leghorns can be produced by 
crossing the Browns and Whites and select¬ 
ing the best every season until an estab¬ 
lished strain is produced. Where eggs alone 
are wanted the Leghorn still leads in the 
number laid. Birds of this breed require 
good management, however, to get them to 
lay when eggs are scarce and high in price. 
April and May-hatched pullets will, with 
good food and care, shell out the eggs in 
the fall of the year and early winter. 
Probably the most popular new breed 
which this country has produced, is the 
Golden Wyandotte. It has found great 
favor in England and on the Continent. 
Golden Wyandottes, when well bred, are 
very handsome. With me they are ex¬ 
tremely hardy, splendid layers of large 
brown eggs, and considerably more active 
foragers than most of the heavier breeds. 
The chickens, when first hatched, have been 
rather more delicate than I like, but this 
drawback may be confined to the strain I 
am breeding, as new breeds are often bred 
in-and-in too much. Others report them 
as good layers and hardy. A Golden 
Wyandotte male should have a well laced 
breast, the centers being a rich bay with 
lustrous black lacing. The hackle and 
saddle should be golden bay, with black 
stripes ; wing bars reddish bay and second¬ 
aries golden bay when folded, with a 
wing bar of golden bay and black extend¬ 
ing across the wing; tail, black; shanks, 
yellow. The hen is beautifully laced, each 
feather having a golden bay center with a 
lustrous black lacing. 
Red Caps have enjoyed a boom, but it is 
questionable whether they will ever become 
very popular among practical poultrymen. 
They are good layers and in some instances 
have laid more eggs than any other known 
breed The enormous combs they carry are 
an objectionable feature from a practical 
standpoint; but a point of vital import¬ 
ance in a show room. In my mind the 
Red Cap is descended from the Golden 
Hamburg and not the latter from the Red 
Cap, as some English writers will have us 
believe. The Golden Spangled Hamburg 
breeds true, and has more uniform mark¬ 
ings. The Red Cap often comes with single 
combs and the penciling of the feathers be¬ 
trays the foreign blood used with the G. S. 
Hamburg to produce the breed. Red 
Caps are much larger also than Hamburgs 
and the finest male I have seen in this coun¬ 
try weighed 10 pounds Ht two years of age. 
The chickens, like those of Hamburgs, are 
apt to be a little tender the first week of 
their lives. They need good brooding, but 
soon become as hardy and lively as crickets. 
I have this season not lost a single Red Cap 
chicken,but the soil was dry and the weather 
favorable. 
Indian Games are the most widely ad¬ 
vertised, most talked about and most writ¬ 
ten about fowls that have landed in this 
country in many years. They have been 
boomed as no other fowls have. Hundreds 
of dollars were expended by breeders in 
making known the virtues of this breed 
until the whole poultry fraternity had been 
aroused. Eggs have been scarce this spring 
at $10 for 13, and many orders could not be 
filled, so large was the demand. One firm 
reported that they had received 1,500 in¬ 
quiries for Indian Games and eggs. The 
game firm imported about 150 birds this 
spring, and these were sold readily at $15 to 
$30 each. The prospect is that prices will 
be kept up for another season, as there 
seems to be no limit to the “craze” at 
present. The large demand for Indian 
Games has given some of the poultry 
sharks a chance to send over a mon¬ 
grel stock, which will, of course, 
damage the breed in the estimation 
of many. Malays and crosses between 
these and Black Breasted Red Games have 
been sold as genuine Indian Games. A 
Malay is a higher stationed, coarser bird 
than the Indian Game, and the male 
has a red hackle instead of the 
black hackle of the latter; in fact, the 
general color of the Indian Game male is 
black, and only the shafts of the hackle 
feathers and the saddle feathers contain 
slight markings of red. The wing bar is 
black, the shafts of the feathers being bay 
in color, the wing bay is chestnut. In the 
Malay the general color is that of Black¬ 
breasted Red Game. The Indian Game 
hens are distinct in markings, and cannot 
be confounded with any other breed. The 
ground color is a rich bay, and the feathers 
of the breast, back and wings are double- 
laced with parallel bands of lustrous 
black; in fact, if a small Golden Wyan¬ 
dotte feather is placed on a large feather of 
the same breed, a good idea of an Indian 
Game feather will be formed. On the 
wing bar of the hen this double-lacing is 
often Increased to triple-lacing, and the ef¬ 
fect is beautiful. The tail feathers, as well 
as secondaries, are beautifully penciled. 
So much for the color. As a utility fowl it 
is believed the Indian Game is unsur¬ 
passed. The breast is a study and will re¬ 
mind one in good specimens of a duck’s 
breast, as the great depth and width to¬ 
gether with hardly any prominence of the 
breast-bone proclaim it a table fowl of great 
merit. The carcass looks meaty and judg¬ 
ing by the weights these fowls attain they 
must be very profitable. I recently 
handled a cockerel that was imported and 
some four weeks “on the road” in a coop, 
and found his weight to be just 10 pounds. 
The chickens grow rapidly and are hardy as 
far as I have heard. The hens have cer¬ 
tainly been well tried for laying; but it is 
too early to say whether they are good 
layers or not. I believe their laying abili¬ 
ties will depend on the proper selection and 
feeding more than on the breed. As a fowl 
to be crossed on Plymouth Rocks, Wyan¬ 
dottes, etc., I think the Indian Game very 
desirable, as its flesh and shanks are 
yellow, which would not destroy the mar¬ 
ket value of the crosses, although a change 
is taking place in New York as regards 
yellow legged and yellow-fleshed fowls. 
People are beginning to realize that the 
latter feature is no criterion of the true 
value of the quality of a fowl. 
J. H. DREVENSTEDT. 
(To be continued.) 
EXPERIMENT IN KEEPING EGGS. 
In January, 1889, I put three freshly-laid 
eggs in a Mason jar, having first wrapped 
each in paper, and packed the jar full of 
oats.- After screwing the top on tight I 
placed the jar in a dry cellar, and left it 
undisturbed for 16 months. When taken 
out, a few weeks ago, the eggs were as 
transparent as newly-laid eggs, and when 
put in a vessel of water they sank to the 
bottom as if they had just been laid. One 
was boiled hard the next day, and looked 
exactly like a fresh egg. The other two 
were kept three days longer where they 
were exposed to the air in a warm room. 
When broken these were found to be 
spoiled, the white and yelk being mingled 
together in a fluid mass. This experiment 
seems to show that eggs can be preserved 
for an indefinite period in an air-tight re¬ 
ceptacle, but that they will spoil very soon 
on exposure to the air. J. McK. 
Lee County, Ill. 
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