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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AUG. 3o 
"Bough on Rogues 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
SEPTEMBER, 
Monday Look out for scoundrels who go 
J abouttakingordersforpaint.They 
agree to furnish 10 gallons free if 
you will contract to use the same on your 
house or barn immediately on its arrival. 
The contract which you sign turns up 
afterwards as an order for 100 or more 
gallons of paint at $2.25 per gallon. Sign 
nothing. Your word should be as good as 
your bond. If it is not, something is 
wrong. Personally, we have no wish to 
act as agent for the Inter-State Publishing 
House of Chicago. That is to say, we 
would not make the cash advance which 
they demand from would-be agents as 
security. We do not believe there are a 
dozen men among our readers who can 
make a living at canvassing for books. 
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Tuesday Pi c *' ure day again- Look out that 
' you realize that you are the pos- 
sessor of a 
The hand is eloquent. The open, out¬ 
stretched palm indicates good-will and 
friendliness. The closed fist indicates force 
and a desire to hurt something. There are, 
unfortunately, things in this world that 
deserve to be hurt, that must be hurt and 
hurt severely. Wrongs, frauds and hum¬ 
bugs all deserve to be pounded. They ex¬ 
pert to be pounded sooner or later, but 
hope to do all the wrong they can until the 
pounding takes place. Justice is some¬ 
times represented as kicking rogues with a 
heavy boot. She should strike with her 
fist, thereby striking a more vital portion 
of the body and doing more damage. There 
are degrees of rogues. Some we want to 
prick with a pin, others call for a good 
shaking, while others are so brutal and 
mean that nothing will do but to smash 
them as hard as possible. Never forget 
how to double up your fist. You can serve 
your country well by taking good aim at 
the nose of some humbug and throwing 
your shoulder into the blow. 
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Look out for frauds in Minne¬ 
apolis who are engaged in 
3* timber stealing from the 
government. The “ Western Land Agency ” 
is doing such business. The Farmers’ Re¬ 
view reports the manager of this concern as 
saying to a decoy purchaser:—“ If you will 
go to Washington and buy 160 acres of 
timber land we will give you a round-trip 
railroad ticket, and when you get to the 
coast you can go to our office and they will 
provide you with $400 with which to buy 
the lands, the government charging $2.50 
per acre. After you have acquired title we 
will pay you $500 for the land, and you 
can return on the ticket we gave you. The 
only money you will be required to advance 
to us will be $17.50, which is one-half of the 
cost of filing the papers; we will pay the 
other half.” The government will not sell 
more than 160 acres to one person, but these 
frauds want it so badly that they are will¬ 
ing to go through this game to get it. 
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Thursday Look out for “watch clubs,” 
* which are operated extensively 
4* in Connecticut. The scheme is 
to secure 35 or a greater number of persons 
to club together. Each pays in $1 a week, 
and each week there is a drawing, and the 
person who holds the lucky number gets a 
watch. The dealer who manages the club 
thus sells one watch each week to each 
club, receives a good price for the watches, 
and makes money rapidly. Many people 
nave joined these clubs and paid their 
dollars regularly, without drawing any 
watch. Now they begin to complain, and 
the authorities propose to stop the whole 
business. Of course, it is a gambling enter¬ 
prise. Still another man has fallen a vic¬ 
tim to the “card game.” E. A. Van 
Sickle, a rich farmer of Deckertown, N. J., 
lost $3,400 to two fine gentlemen who played 
cards with him. It was the old. old story— 
too old to be repeated. Van Sickle thought 
he had won lots of money, and carried it 
home in a box. When he opened the box 
he found that it contained nothing but a 
package of papers. Served him right ! 
“ Next 1” 
Friday Look out for photograph canvass- 
J ers. Lots of people have been 
5* swindled by the “ Van Dyke 
Studio,” an institution in this city which 
sent out canvassers offering a dozen “ hand¬ 
some, artistically-finished imperial photo¬ 
graphs.” The customer was to pay $1 
down and $1 more w’hen the photographs 
were delivered. It was called a club or co¬ 
operative arrangement. Co-operation is 
the watchword of the hour just now, very 
pleasant to those who have been obliged to 
suffer the losses of doing a retail business. 
Hundreds of people joined this “ club ” and, 
of course, paid their dollars. Now the con¬ 
cern fails and both dollars and photo 
graphs are lost. Two thoughts are sug¬ 
gested by this: There is no use to “ co¬ 
operate ” until you know what you are do¬ 
ing. Better do a retail business forever 
than mix up in any partnership that relies 
upon any element of guess, luck or chance 
for success. The majority of people are 
very much in love with their own faces and 
very desirous of being photographed. There 
is danger of carrying this to excess. 
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Saturday k°°k out t^at you cultivate the 
x- * habit of making exact state- 
ments. When the writer was a 
young man, he looked about one winter for 
a chance to make some cash. A friend ad¬ 
vised book canvassing. “Why,” said he, 
“ I tried it one winter and made $40 a 
week! ” This profit seemed perfectly 
dazzling. The writer bought an “ outfit ” 
secured a “ territory ” and started in. He 
worked 15 days at an expense of over $1 
per day and sold four books at an average 
profit of $1 each. At the end of that time 
he was glad to quit and take a job at saw¬ 
ing wood. He always wondered why his 
friend was so much smarter. It came out 
afterwards that the friend canvassed two 
hours and sold one book. He neglected to 
say that his profits were "at the rate of 
$40 per week.” This made all the difference 
in the world. State the facts, just as they 
are, or say nothing. 
Poultry Yard. 
THE FARMERS’ FLOCK. 
In no series of years “ within the memory 
of the oldest inhabitant ” have the poultry 
improved so much as since the advent of 
the Plymouth Rocks. To-day it is hard 
work to find a flock that does not show 
marks of the blood of that breed. This is a 
very encouraging sign of progress. I be¬ 
lieve that if every farmer were to market 
his mixed flock and put the money into 
purebred birds, though the flock would be 
considerably smaller, the profits at the end 
of the year would be larger. But I do not 
expect everybody to believe as I do, and 
perhaps it is better that people should not 
in some things. How to still further im¬ 
prove the flock of the average farm-yard, 
with the least expense and in the shortest 
time, is what many would like to know. I 
do not presume so far as to say that I can 
accomplish this, or advise others so that 
they can do all I would wish to in this 
respect; but I will give a few hints and let 
our farmer friends work out the problem 
to their benefit. 
I will take it for granted that the present 
flock is such as is oftenest found—a general 
assortment, showing the blood of Brahma, 
Cochin, Leghorn, Dominique, Plymouth 
Rock, Spanish, and perhaps half a dozen 
others ; a hodge-podge of everything, in 
which no two fowls are alike. The first 
season, let the farmer get a purebred cock¬ 
erel of the breed he likes best, pick out a 
pen of his best hens past one year old, 
marked as nearly alike as possible, select¬ 
ing the largest that show strong constitu 
tions and are good layers; let him give them 
a yard by themselves and put the purebred 
cockerel with them. He should kill off all 
his other male birds—the hens will lay just 
as well without them—and breed from the 
pen he has mated, and no other. When 
the old stock begin to moult, he should kill 
and market every one of them, and put his 
purebred cockerel (cock now) by himself 
until the chickens have reached full size. 
Let him kill off all the cockerels raised this 
year and eat or market them. The second 
year he should pick out another breeding 
pen from the pullets raised the first year, 
chosing the best, as he did with the orig¬ 
inal pen, mate the pure cock with them. 
This year let him kill off all the old stock 
again, and also the male he has used 
during the two seasons. The third 
year he should buy another male bird 
from the same yard and from the same 
blood from which number one came; 
a cock coming two years old will be better 
this year. Let him pick out his third 
breeding pen from the pullets raised the 
second year, as he did the first two, and 
mate his new male with them. The chick¬ 
ens from this mating will, if he has used 
good judgment in his selections.be uniform 
in type and markings and practically as 
good as the pure breed. This plan, fol¬ 
lowed up year after year, will keep the 
flock uniform ; they will be strong and vig¬ 
orous, and, with good care and judicious 
feeding, will give good results both in eggs 
and chickens. 
There is no more pernicious practice than 
swapping males and eggs with neighbors 
whose flocks are no better than our own, 
and the chances are that we will introduce 
into our flocks some constitutional weak¬ 
ness or defect that they were free from. If 
the farmer feels too Door to buy a pure¬ 
bred male let him pick the best specimen 
from his flock, then pick his breeding peu 
from the best hens, having an eye to mark¬ 
ings aud laying qualities, and breed from 
them only. Let him save the male used 
this year to be used the third year. The 
second year he should pick out the best 
male from the chickens raised the first 
year and mate him with the hens used for 
breeding the first year. The best pullets 
from this mating he should mate the third 
year with the male used the first year. 
From this mating he will have a flock that 
will be uniform in markings and style, and 
if the largest and finest have been selected 
each season the flock will show a marked 
increase in size over the original stock. 
They will be good, serviceable fowls, but 
will not be purebred. breeder. 
NOTES. 
A good layer is a great feeder. 
Hens that are yarded lay the most eggs. 
Neglect the feed and condemn the 
breed. 
Grass and corn will produce fine 
chickens. 
WHERE grass is not plentiful, feed bran, 
oats and corn to growing chickens. 
A TABLE-SPOONFUL of castor oil will fie- 
quently relieve severe cases of “ crop- 
bound” in adult fowls. 
A LITTLE vaseline rubbed on the heads 
of little chicks aud Persian Insect Powder 
dusted over the hens will prevent lice. 
Brooders in which hen hatched chickens 
are raised should be sprayed with kerosene 
oil once a week. A good plan also is to 
soak the fringe cloth with the oil. 
For lice in a hen-house nothing cheaper 
or more effective has been used than kero¬ 
sene or crude petroleum. A good spray¬ 
ing every two weeks during the summer 
will keep away vermin. 
Houses in which roup or disease of any 
kind was prevalent should be thoroughly 
fumigated by burning sulphur therein. 
Take out the old floor and put in fresh 
gravel. Then syringe the whole building, 
inside and out, with whitewash and chlo¬ 
ride of lime. 
It is well, however, to remember, that 
roup is a constitutional disease, and cer¬ 
tain breeds are very susceptible to it. In 
case of these even the best of care will not 
prevent the disease. After years of trial 
and experiment I have come to the ton 
elusion that the best cure for roup is the 
hatchet. It will pay in the end. 
In the Live Stock Notes in The Rural 
of August 9, a statement is made that an 
English writer wants Andalusians to be 
called “Blue Minorcas,” as they resemble 
the Minorcas very much. This is certainly 
true, and one noted English breeder actually 
gloats over the fact that a yard of Andalu¬ 
sians will produce three distinct breeds— 
Black and White Minorcas and Andalu¬ 
sians. He might have gone further and 
mentioned the mottled birds that appear 
frequently in a flock of Andalusians. The 
latter do not breed true and that is Qne of 
the principal reasons why they have not 
become so popular as they should. I never 
had a breed that laid better than the 
Andalusians, and the eggs were very large 
and chalky white, the pullets’ eggs averag¬ 
ing eight to the pound. As a table fowl I 
prefer a cross. j. h. d. 
OHIO FARMERS. 
The sturdy tramp of the Ohio farmer was 
upon the streets of Columbus, Wednesday, 
August 13. The notice of the people was 
attracted to us as we passed along the street 
both because we were a sun burned company 
and because some of us failed to keep step 
with each other. In this latter trait the 
thoughtless saw only ground for amused 
comment, but the shrewd politician doubt¬ 
less looked deeper and found in it assurance 
of continued power and official life. Indi¬ 
viduality is not lost in the country as in the 
city. 
Six hundred representative farmers had 
been delegated by organized bodies at home 
to meet together and deliberate upon the 
financial condition of our occupation and 
propose remedies for the universal depres¬ 
sion. As seen in the convention they im¬ 
pressed all as a body capable of discussion 
and thoroughly in earnest. Grievances 
were ventilated, wrongs done to the home¬ 
keeping farmer were dwelt on, and dissatis¬ 
faction with the existing state of affairs and 
with the politicians was universal. Re¬ 
moved from the influence of party leaders, 
|Ui,orcHmifawsi 
Pleabe mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver- 
Tlie soft, velvety coloring effect so desirable for 
house exteriors can only be produced and pern a- 
uently held by the use of 
CABOT’S CREOSOTE SHINGLE STAINS. 
For Samples on Wood, with Circulars and full 
Information, apply to 
SAMUEL CABOT, 
70 Kilby Street. Boston, Mbhh. 
Mention Rural New-Yorkku. 
JOHN DE WOLF, 
LANDSCAPE 
Gardener and Surveyor. 
Country Pla’cs visited and consultations for Im¬ 
provements at small expense. No connection with 
any commercial establishment. All communications 
will receive prompt attention. Address care of Tuk 
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