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AUG. 2 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
*Rough on Rogues.*’ 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
AUGUST. 
Look out Western subscribers 
for rascals who are working in 
4* Central Illinois. The Farmer’s 
Review says: “They claim to have dis¬ 
covered a virus which is said to be a never- 
failing preventive of hog cholera. Twenty- 
five cents is charged for each inoculation of 
swine, and they give a worthless guarantee 
that their remedy will prove successful. 
Their remedy is said to be a fraud, and 
when it is so proven the operators are al¬ 
ways out of reach.” Regular practitioners 
have met with a good deal of success in pre¬ 
venting cholera by inoculation. These 
frauds evidently think they can reap a rich 
harvest from the reputation honest men 
have gained. The public should be inocu¬ 
lated while such frauds are about. 
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Tuesday Look out that you take a pair 
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is all that could be found of the “agency.” 
He represented “ Dear Mary” and dozens 
of other young women. He pocketed all 
money and fees and made a nice living out 
of it. The man who wrote the above letter 
must feel nice now ! 
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SfltlirdftV out that you do not sign 
" petitions which do not express 
9* your sentiments. Lots of peti¬ 
tions are presented for our signature. Now 
somebody wants to retain the teacher, now 
somebody wants to have a dog killed, some¬ 
body wants this and somebody else wants 
that. The result is that people come to 
consider a petition of any sort as a thing 
that must be signed anyway. Don’t get 
into that way of thinking. It makes your 
signature too cheap. The first you know 
you will be signing something that will 
get you into trouble. Have some respect 
for your signature. 
and proceed to trim yourself up every now 
and then. Bad habits and bad qualities 
come sprouting out all over us. We need 
to clip them off while they are young and 
small. If we wait too long they will be¬ 
come large and hard and it will require an 
axe and a saw to get rid of them. It is 
sheer nonsense to let them grow, when a 
good pair of shears would prevent them. 
Use the shears on yourself and thus make 
yourself presentable. 
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WoHnoeriflV Look out for counterfeit $2 
neUUeMIdJ 8ilver certiflcate8 . Itls quite 
O. likely that the heavy issues of 
silver certificates will stimulate counter¬ 
feiters to try to get ahead of U ncle Sam by 
issuing a lot of bills before the legitimate 
money is ready to be sent out. Look out 
for them. Look out again for “ Preserva- 
liDe.” Here we have a note from a leading 
medical authority: “ It is borax, a sub¬ 
stance which when added to soap rots the 
clothing. How would you like a baby of 
yours to be fed with milk kept sweet by 
this urinary irritative, which causes disease 
in strong persons?” We should feel like 
using the man who “ doctored” the milk 
for a chopping block. 
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Thnr<hlflv This is R - N -" Y - Day a 8 ain - 
111UI0 J ou t. that you don’t “ catch 
7* a cold.” If you do catch one, 
try all the remedies proposed by our 
doctors In this issue. If there is anything 
left of you after this, you will be pretty 
sure to keep that fragment away from an¬ 
other cold 1 Read what that Maryland 
man has to say about his farming. The 
tree agent is well patted on the back this 
week. 
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FridflV Rook out what yon write to uu- 
™ known parties. This advice is iu 
O. line with what we had to say 
about matrimonial agencies last week. A 
young man was picked up on the streets of 
this city while drunk. In his pocket was 
found the following letter from a man 
well known in Cayuga County, N.Y.: “ My 
Dear Mary—I saw your advertisement in 
the A. R. A., and I determined to answer 
it. I live in the beautiful country of which 
you are so fond. I am so lonely, as I am 
an orphan, and I have longed for a wife to 
fill the vacant place in my heart, and even 
now 1 feel a strange love in my heart for 
my unknown beloved. I am well educated 
and a good-looking young gentleman, 22 
years of age. I own a farm of about 200 
acres. Forty thousand dollars is no object 
at all, as I have enough for two. You have 
all my sympathy (as well as my love), for I 
know what it is to have a crusty old man 
looking after any one. You would smile if 
you could see me writing this. I am seated 
under an apple tree in the orchard. The trees 
are loaded down with blossoms, and the 
apple petals are falling all around me. The 
petals are a sign of love, and I wish they 
could waft this love of mine to you. Hop¬ 
ing to hear from you soon, I remain your 
loving friend.” This drunken young man 
Poultry Yard. 
Protect the chickens from rats and 
other night prowling vermin. 
What think you of ducks weighing 10 
pounds each at 10 or 11 weeks of age ? 
The proper place for a chicken-catching 
cat is beneath the roots of vine or tree. 
Feed has more to do with the quality of 
a fowl’s flesh than the color of the skin. 
Clean, white eggs sell for higher prices 
in this market. Boston demands brown 
eggs. 
Furnish the fowls plenty of shade. 
There is such a thing as poultry becoming 
sunstruck. 
California and the “Far West” are 
growing in importance as poultry and egg- 
producing territory. 
The man who firmly believes that hens 
don’t pay, is generally right so far as he 
himself is concerned. 
If you can’t bear “to fuss with hens,” 
let them alone. They will prove a source 
of loss to you if you don’t. 
Broken crockery pounded fine enough, 
so that the fowls can swallow it readily, 
furnishes the best and cheapest grinding 
material extant. Fowls require not only 
hard grinding material, but that having 
sharp, ragged corners and edges. 
It is not generally profitable to spend 
time doctoring a sick hen unless she be of a 
particularly valuable breed. Do all you 
can to keep hens in good health, and if any 
become sick take the hatchet to them and 
bury the bodies near grape vines or trees. 
If your chicks of all ages and sizes run 
together, make provision for feeding the 
smaller ones by themselves, so they will 
not be trampled on and run over by the 
larger and stronger. This may be easily 
accomplished by building a slatted coop into 
which the smaller chicks can go to be fed 
and from which the larger ones are excluded. 
They will be quick to learn and use the ad¬ 
vantage thus given them. 
August is usually the moulting season 
of old fowls, and a hen that does nofmoult 
during this month isn’t likely to be worth 
much as a winter layer. The moulting sea¬ 
son is a severe drain upon fowls, and they 
should be well fed upon good, nourishing 
food. This not only hastens the moulting, 
but keeps the fowls in good condition, so 
that they will be ready to lay sooner if it be 
desired to keep them, or may be more easily 
fattened if they are to be disposed of in 
that way. 
Within the next few weeks is the best 
time to secure pure-blooded males to breed 
up your stock. Breeders generally have a 
surplus at this time of the year and will 
sell cheaper. Cockerels a little off color, or 
with other defects of comb or plumage, are 
just about as good for this purpose, pro¬ 
vided they are strong and vigorous. These 
can usually be bought cheaper. This is the 
cheapest and most satisfactory way to im¬ 
prove a flock. 
The only use for a rooster that it is not 
desirable to keep over, is to confine him 
with broody bens, to dissuade them from 
the error of their ways. The more gallant 
the rooster the better. Have a roomy, com¬ 
fortable coop, give the fowls a variety and 
abundance of food, supply them with 
plenty of pure water, grinding material, 
green food, etc., and, if they don’t begin 
laying by the time they are fat, sell them. 
They will bring a great deal more then 
than they will next Thanksgiving. Besides, 
it pays better to keep pullets for eggs than 
to keep old hens. The highest prices are 
obtained for eggs in late fall and early 
winter, just when the early hatched pul¬ 
lets, if properly fed and treated, are putting 
in their best time. 
Heavy Weights.— One of the corres¬ 
pondents of The Rural thinks there must 
be some mistake when I say ducks should 
weigh 10 pounds each. Well, there is. My 
books tells me that I sold 16 ducks, that 
they averaged 10 pounds one ounce each, 
and that they were just 11 weeks old. Here 
is another such phenomenon, and both can 
be backed by affidavits. Two turkey 
(Bronze) toms hatched about the middle of 
April were sold, as they stood, two days be¬ 
fore Thanksgiving Day of the same year. 
The buyers took them home alive, tied 
under the seat of their carriage. As I had 
no means handy for doing it, I asked the 
buyers to weigh them when they were 
killed, as they handled very heavy. One 
man forgot the weight of his: the other did 
not think of it until his turkey was dressed 
ready to stuff, and in that condition he 
weighed 25 pounds. F. H. C. 
E. R. Spaulding tells the Poultry World 
that the best protection from hawks is an 
abundance of natural cover. “My chicken- 
runs are among trees, shrubs and vines, 
growing quite closely together. This fur¬ 
nishes both shade, protection from hawks, 
and good scratching ground among the 
fallen leaves. Since adopting this plan, I 
have not lost a chickeD from hawks in four 
years, and I find chicks will grow and 
mature more rapidly in runs of this kind 
than in any others. Game chickens hatched 
in June are in feather fit for the show pen 
by December. I give a brood of 15 birds a 
run of this kind, containing about 30 by 100 
feet, and they grow better and mature 
quicker than those that have the run of the 
whole farm. Raspberry, blackberry bushes 
and grape vines make good cover for 
chicken-yards. Sunflowers, or corn, planted 
closely together, answer a good purpose, 
after getting two feet high. Natural shade 
is much better, both as a cover from hawks 
and a shade, than any kind of artificial 
cover that can be produced.” 
AFTER all that has been said and written 
about artificial incubation, the fact remains 
that those who have mastered the business 
and who apply the same tact and business 
principles that insure success in any 
other undertaking will and do succeed in 
this. The incubator is a machine and must 
be properly operated the same as any other 
machine. Opponents of artificial incuba¬ 
tion point triumphantly to persons who 
have failed of success after spending money, 
time and eggs in a vain attempt to hatch 
chickens with a wooden hen. Well 1 what 
of it ? Thousands of men and hundreds of 
women don’t know enough to hatch chick¬ 
ens with a live hen, and the few chickens 
they do secure are hatched in spite of their 
blunders. The ordinary breeder who 
hatches and brings to maturity 50 chickens 
from each 100 eggs placed under hens is 
doing well, much better than the country 
at large will average. The breeder who 
does his work with machines thinks his 
work very poorly done if he doesn’t 
greatly exceed this. But incubators will 
not pay the average farmer. 
Care of Chicks in Summer —Attention 
must be given to the food of young chicks 
in hot weather. Many will mix up a por¬ 
tion of corn-meal, feed it quite wet and 
then wonder why their pets died. Chickens 
do not fully digest this, and it passes from 
the crop to the intestines where little white 
worms are bred, which cause an irritation 
of the alimentary canal, resulting in 
diarrhoea and death. Any one can satisfy 
himself of the presence of these pests by 
examination. Meal should never be used 
in hot weather until the chicks are of good 
size, and then it should be mixed up stiffly. 
Stale bread is excellent for them. Feed 
dry and give what they will eat several 
times a day. Follow this with wheat, oats 
and cracked corn. Be sure they have good, 
fresh, drinking water and plenty of it. 
Disease is often caused by filthy water in the 
drinking vessels. Provide a daily ration 
of some kind of green food if they cannot 
procure this for themselves. Always be 
sure they have some means of shelter from 
the sudden storms and shade from the hot 
sun. Animal food in some form must be 
provided also, or they will actually eat 
each other if it be withheld. I have seen 
chicks nearly scalped by their fellows. A 
feed of raw meat or beef scraps and desic 
cated fish mixed stiffly with meal will 
satisfy the craving they have for this food. 
Their houses should be thoroughly cleansed 
and all the droppings should often be re 
moved. If the above rules are followed, I 
see no reason why you should not raise 
good, strong, healthy chicks with little 
trouble from disease. P. 
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