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SEPT. 6 
‘Rough on Rogues .” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Look out for scoundrels who go 
o about the country trying to sell a 
patent feed for horses and cattle. 
Let these patent feeds alone. You can mix 
meal, bran and oats as well as anybody else 
can. Do you feel like paying some smart 
chap for mixing these foods and naming 
them ? Not long ago a man offered a “ pat¬ 
ent cow food” that gave a fine analysis. 
Chemists wondered where such “ highly 
nitrogenous” food could be obtained for 
such a small sum. It was found that the 
proprietors bought up small and damaged 
beans and ground them fine, mixing with 
them corn-meal and bran. You can have 
beans ground as well as anybody. Better 
let sheep grind them for you. We are often 
asked about the value of dried brewers’ 
grains. We are collecting all the informa¬ 
tion we can and will print it soon. 
Tuesday Look out that y° u rea ^ ze the 
3 full dignity and importance of 
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your 
It is very easy for your nose to get you 
into trouble. When you put it into the 
business of other people you stand a good 
chance of having it pounded and justly 
so. Keep your nose on the proper track, 
because you are positively obliged to fol¬ 
low it, no matter whether it goes into 
mischief or into well-doing. If you could 
put your nose into the affairs of others 
without pushing the rest of yourself in 
after, nobody could reasonably object. But 
you cannot do it. Your nose is tied to 
you ; you must follow it. Your nose points 
the way ; therefore guide it properly. 
Another thing—your nose is not a chemist; 
it cannot analyze fertilizers accurately. 
The odors that offend It most grievously 
may come from substances that are of little 
value as plant food. On the whole, the nose 
is to be watched rather than trusted. 
Watch it! 
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Wpdnpsdav Look out for “consumption 
• cures.” There are a number 
I®* of rogues in the country who 
pretend to have discovered a “ remedy ” for 
this terrible disease. They advertise it 
extensively, well knowing that the poor 
consumptive is eager to grasp at any hope, 
no matter how slight it may be. There is 
something peculiarly cruel in the way these 
frauds work their trade. They send you a 
strong stimulant which is sure to make 
you feel excited and lively for a week or so, 
just as a glass of whisky would make you 
excited for a few hours. The patient who 
takes this stimulating medicine imagines 
he is better, and of course orders more. 
Poor fellow ! He finds too late that this 
“ feeling better ” is a cruel mockery. He is 
really worse; his system can be kept up only 
by increased doses of stimulants. These 
“ consumption-cure ” doctors are usually 
the most ignorant or the most cruel of men. 
They know they would not trust their own 
children or wives to their “treatment.” 
Look out for them—every one. Science is 
now studying this terrible disease. Let us 
hope some means of prevention may be 
found. It has been recently stated that 
inoculation may be useful in preventing 
consumption, as well as in small pox. Let 
us all hope on. Nothing positive is known 
about it yet. 
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Thursday Look out now * or pretended 
* agents and drummers. Scoun- 
11 • drels are taking advantage of 
the farmers’ demand for co-operation, by 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
pretending to act as agents for some “ co¬ 
operative association.” They go about 
offering to furnish farmers or mechanics 
with goods almost for nothing. Of course 
all who are to avail themselves of the great 
privileges of co operation must pay one 
dollar admission fee. You thus become a 
“ member.” The substance is that you pay 
your money and you have no choice. The 
point to remember is that you can spoil all 
the possibilities of co-operation by starting 
wrong. 
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Friday Lookout for “Snowflake.” This 
3 is another “preservative” sub- 
stance to “keep milk sweet.” As 
we have before remarked, such sweet milk 
will turn your conscience sour—if you are 
possessed of such a thing. Look out again 
for bogus photograph agents. A fellow 
calling himself Lehn or Franks was re¬ 
cently arrested in Philadelphia for offering 
a “ life sized photograph for $3.” He col¬ 
lected 50 cents with each order, and the 
“subject” was to pay $2.50 when the pic¬ 
ture came. Of course the photograph 
never came, neither did Franks with the 
50 cents or an explanation. We have a 
good deal to say about these photograph 
frauds, because it is evident that hundreds 
of them are at work throughout the coun¬ 
try. As we remarked last week, many 
people seem to have fallen in love with 
their own faces. This makes it easy for a 
smooth-tongued rascal to get them to order 
a “life-sized photograph.” 
Onfurdav Look out for the man who wants 
3 a tariff on eggs while his hens 
13- are being eaten up with insects 
and the wind whistles through the hen 
house. Look out for the man who wants 
the government to loan him some money 
while the best part of his manure is being 
washed down hill into the brook. Look 
out for the man who shouts for temper¬ 
ance and fills up on “stomach bitters.” 
Look out for the man who subscribes for 
every public charity and makes his wife 
go without the clothes she needs. They 
are humbugs—every one of them. 
Poultry Yard. 
We are putting eggs in salt for December 
use. 
It is time to stop the cracks in the hen 
house. 
Eat or sell the poorest of the young 
roosters. 
The chickens will soon learn to roost in 
the trees if you let them start. 
OUR Silver Wyandotte pullets, hatched 
the last week in March are beginning to lay. 
SOME hens like to think they are stealing 
their nests. Accommodate them by putting 
old barrels and boxes in out-of-the way 
places. 
Our hens are giving us lots of eggs now. 
They have not been fed specially for eggs 
either, but more with a view to forcing the 
growth of the chicks and fattening the old 
fowls. 
As prices of all kinds of grain are likely 
to be high, it would be wise for you to 
make provision for some other feed like 
clover, cabbages, etc., if you have not al¬ 
ready done so. 
While the Boston market requires 
dressed poulry drawn and minus heads 
and feet, such poultry could not be sold, to 
any extent at least, in this market. While 
the former method of dressing would seem 
to be more desirable, dealers here claim 
that poultry will taint and spoil quicker if 
dressed in that way. The air certainly has 
access to a greater surface. It is necessary 
for shippers to understand the market to 
which they ship. 
Stephen Beale, the noted English 
breeder, says that for quality of flesh he 
would select Dorkings, La Flhche, Crfcve- 
coours, Indian Games and Old English 
Games, in the order named ; for hardiness, 
Indian Games and Games. He alsosays that 
those who go in for breeding table fowls 
for the market would do well to study the 
question of crossing, for by this means 
greater size can be obtained, and the softer 
flesh of the Dorking or the French en¬ 
grafted on the Game and Indian Game. To 
these he suggests the following crosses: 
Indian Game-Dorking, Indian Game- 
French, Game-Dorking and Game-French. 
Indian Game-Laugshan makes a good 
cross where the Dorking is too delicate for 
the place. 
The following is said to be Mr. James 
Rankin’s rule for feeding ducks: “ During 
the autumn and winter months feed twice 
each day about equal parts of corn-meal, 
wheat bran and boiled turnips or potatoes, 
with about 10 per cent, of beef scraps. At 
noon give a small amount of dry food, com¬ 
posed of equal parts of cracked corn, oats 
and wheat. When the birds commence 
laying, as they will about January, gradu¬ 
ally increase the quantity of meal and ani¬ 
mal food, proportionally decreasing the 
amount of bran.” This is what one might 
term training for egg production. The 
feeding of meat scraps keeps the ducks 
strong and healthy—in good condition to 
use the heavier feeding when eggs are 
wanted. It is a common mistake to half 
starve the hens when they are not laying, 
and then crowd food into them when they 
begin. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Ram’s Horn 
has had the incubator fever; hear him: 
“ When I heard the first chick chirp in my 
incubator, and realized that I was indeed a 
mother, in spite of the cold, unfeeling fact 
that I was regarded by the world as a bald- 
headed man of much sadness, I felt as 
though I was worth a million dollars. Six 
months later I had to pawn my overcoat, 
in midwinter. When you see a man with 
hollow eyes, haggard cheeks, unshaven face 
and lifeless hair, shambling around in an 
aimless sort of way, looking as though he 
hadn’t slept, washed or combed for a 
month, it is safe to conclude that he owns 
an incubator. Anybody can hatch chickens 
with an incubator, but it takes a large 
amount of science and eternal vigilance to 
raise them. Patrick Henry never said any¬ 
thing more true than his memorable 
allusion to the price of a spring chicken and 
the cost of liberty being one and insep¬ 
arable. Patrick no doubt kept a few hens 
himself.” 
Twenty-one days is the natural period 
of incubation, and chickens not hatched at 
the end of the 21st day are supposed to be 
hopelessly lost. An instance of the fallacy 
of this is shown by the following experi¬ 
ence : I placed 15 eggs apiece under three 
hens, and on the 21st day took away 12 
chickens, and on the 22nd 10 more, leaving 
one ben on the rest of the unhatched eggs. 
I got five more chicks the last hatching, 
on the 26th day. The breed was the White 
Plymouth Rock, and none of the eggs was 
over two weeks old. 
In the winter eggs hatch unevenly under 
hens, and the 21-day limit is no criterion 
at all,as we have frequently found the eggs 
only beginning to pip on the 22nd day, even 
when those perfectly fresh were used. In 
incubators, however, one seldom gets a de¬ 
cent chick after the 21st day. 
Although I have set a great many hens, 
and have always tested the eggs on the 
seventh day, I have come to the conclusion 
that where reasonably good eggs are used, 
such as we know will prove fertile on an 
average, it is better to leave the hens 
alone and not test the eggs at all. I have 
had remarkable luck this season in letting 
hens alone, as they invariably brought out 
a splendid lot of chickens. Fussiug with 
sitting hens, testing eggs and soaking them 
in hot water prior to the pipping is un¬ 
necessary, except in rare instances, and the 
latter seldom occur where fowls have the 
natural conditions necessary for hatching 
eggs properly. hen man. 
RURAL SPECIAL CROP REPORTS. 
Kansas. 
Parsons, Labette County, August 4.— 
We have just had plenty of rain. It is almost 
impossible to conceive the arduous task the 
farmer has encountered during the past two 
or three months. Wells were dried up, 
stock reservoirs baked through ; cisterns 
dried up—all which entailed great loss on 
the farmer, owing to the forced sale of 
his stock, or their sad deterioration 
due to driving them to distant streams and 
pastures. Domestic management suffered 
painfully, as drinking water could be had 
only by hauling it miles, and at best it was 
poor drink, being warm and perturbed. 
Crops were threatened with entire ruin. 
The late downpour hasn’t wholly saved the 
crops, but it will put a stop to the terrific 
rush of stock into the market, by assuring 
several weeks of grass, and probably grass 
till winter*. The following is the condition 
of crops in this country. Wheat, good, sell¬ 
ing at 70 to 80 cents per bushel; corn, one- 
third of a crop, price 40 cents; oats, an aver¬ 
age crop, 30 cents per bushel; castor beans, 
half a crop, price $1.35 per bushel; flaxseed, 
an average crop, $1. per bushel ; Timothy, 
baled, per ton, $5. a fair crop; prairie hay; 
baled, per ton, $3. three-quarters of a crop ; 
potatoes, a poor crop,$l. per bushel; apples, 
poor but uncertain in quantity and quality; 
peaches and small fruits are poor and nom¬ 
inal. In spite of all these misfortunes, good 
health and spirits prevail. J. B. 
Indiana. 
Rockville, Parke County, August 10.— 
Our yield of wheat in this county will not 
exceed four bushels to the acre, and will 
be of poor quality. Still our farmers are 
busy putting in the coming crop, with the 
knowledge that the last three crops did not 
pay. Still it is wheat and wheat year after 
year. Oats are a very short crop. The hay 
crop is magnificent in yield and quality; 
our barns are full to bursting, and hay 
stacks are abundant. Corn is very fine and 
may be called an extra crop. Apples are a 
very moderate crop—none to be exported 
Grapes are badly rotten. Pears none. Of 
peaches there are but a few. In my ram¬ 
bling over the country I find that stock of all 
kinds appear to be very scarce. We are 
having a visitation of the caterpillar of the 
“ Maid Moth.” It is severe on the walnut 
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