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“Rough on Rogues 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
OCTOBER. 
Look out that you keep your tem¬ 
per sweet. It is a law of nature 
13. that when fermentation once sets 
in, the sweeter we are, the sourer it is 
possible for us to get. Consequently 
if we claim extra consideration on account 
of our good temper, we must expect double 
punishment if we ever become sour in 
spirit. The following little incident which 
took place in an Ohio farm house well illus¬ 
trates the point: 
“ A certain housewife is very particular 
shout taking care of her yeast. The other 
morning when her husband was passing 
through the kitchen he was politely asked 
to ‘ take that yeast crock right down cellar 
before it gets warm.’ He did so, of course, 
but made some remarks about wishing he 
was yeast so that the women folks would 
take such good care of him. Sharp 
daughter : ‘ All right, papa ; when you get 
sour we will put you in the swill barrel.’ ” 
TllPSdUV ou ^ f° r a c ^ a P who wants 
' to sell a box of corn salve. He 
14. takes a dollar—when he can get 
it—and gives a receipt promising to return 
in a few days with 10 yards of dress goods 
for which the dollar is part-payment. It 
is needless to say that he never comes 
back. * * The California papers attack 
a concern calling itself The Farm¬ 
ers’ and Mechanics’ League, with head¬ 
quarters in San Francisco. This con. 
cern sends out canvassers who ride about 
trying to get parties to join the “ League.” 
It costs §10 in advance, of which the 
agent gets §4. All the members are to have 
the right to order, from headquarters, 
groceries, clothing, farm machinery, etc., 
at wholesale rates. The “ manager ” refers 
to a well known bank, but the bank officials 
refuse to vouch for him. Let him alone. 
As we have before now stated, a lot of 
bogus “ organizations ” are starting up 
which hope to fatten on the reputation of 
their legitimate neighbors. 
Wednesday 
15. 
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Look out that you fully real¬ 
ize the importance of 
Tongue grafting is considerably used by 
nursirymen for root grafts. It is also 
quite useful in binding families together. 
No good man will feel above kissing his 
wife, mother, daughters or sisters. This 
sort of tongue grafting will make the 
f iniily tree produce a good crop of love and 
loyalty. It is better than tongue lashing. 
And rig it in this connection it may not be 
amiss to say a word or so to some of our 
smart young men who have gone away 
from home to live. Look out that you do 
not grow away from the old folks. Does 
this appeal to you ? 
Tnere’s a homestead waiting for you, my boy, 
la a quaint old . ashioued town ; 
Tat- gray moss clings to the garden wall, 
Ana tne dwelling is low and brown : 
Bui a vacant chair by the fireside stands, 
And never a grace is said 
Bui a mother prays mat her absent sou 
Soon may be homeward led. 
For the mother wants her boy. 
Work on, toil on : give strength and mind 
To tne ta k In your chosen place, 
But never forget the near old home, 
AnJ the mother's loving face! 
You m iy count your blessings, score on score. 
You may heap your golden gain, 
But remember when her grave is made, 
Your coming will be in vain, 
’ 1 is note she wants her boy. 
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Thursday celsbruted Birchell murder 
x- " case in Canada—which, by the 
way, has jus: ended in the con- 
v.ction of the murderer—recalls a most ex¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCT. n 
traordinary plot by which a young man was 
lured from London to Ontario for purposes 
of plunder and murder. Birchell was a 
young man of good family, but of dissi¬ 
pated habits. Having run through his 
money, he set about devising some desper¬ 
ate scheme for raising more. He decided 
to pretend that he owned a stock farm In 
Canada and that he wished to sell a half¬ 
interest in it to some rich young man. So 
he put this advertisement in the London 
papers: 
C 'lANADA.—University man having farm wishes to 
j meet gentleman’s son to live with him and learn 
the business with view to partnership. Must have 
£500 to extend stock. Board, lodging, and 5 per cent, 
interest till partnership arranged. Highest refer¬ 
ences. 
The result was that he found a young man 
named Benwell, who does not seem to have 
been very bright. Benwell’s father thought 
highly of Birchell, and the result was that 
the two young men started for Canada 
with a good slice of Benwell’s money. 
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Friday After man y promises and delays 
^ Birchell agreed to take Benwell 
17- to the imaginary farm. Instead 
of doing so, he lured him into a lonely 
swamp and killed him. Birchell’s plan 
was to keep in correspondence with Ben- 
well’s father by means of type-written let¬ 
ters and forged signatures, and thus draw 
more money out of the old gentleman. The 
plan was a very skillful one, but “ murder 
■will out,” and he is now under the rope. 
The schemes for luring rich young English¬ 
men to this country are without number. 
It will never be known how many have 
shared poor Benwell’s fate. We like the 
sample of Canadian justice displayed by 
this trial. There is no nonsense about such 
things on the other side of the line. We 
advocate free trade in the make of scales 
which our respected friend Mrs. Canadian 
Justice held in this trial. 
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^flfnrdflV Look out a K ain for those “ mat- 
OaiUlU J rimonla i agencies.” Twosharp- 
I ers from Binghamton have just 
been arrested for defrauding the public. 
They advertised the fact that a handsome 
young woman of 23 wished to get married. 
The letters simply poured in upon them. 
A surprisingly large number of men were 
evidently anxious to be married. A man 
who ran the business answered most of 
these letters. As a letter-writer he must 
be considered a great success, for he suc¬ 
ceeded in inducing parties in the far West 
to send him sums of money, varying in 
amount from $10 to $200. This money was 
sent to the supposed “ young woman ” to 
pay her expenses to the home of her ac¬ 
cepted husband. The man pocketed the 
money and the Western fools are still 
whistling for their money. W« can only 
call attention to our former advice to 
“those who wish to marry.” 
Poultry Yard. 
Startling Figures on Chicks.— In The 
Rural of September 20 are “ Startling 
Figures on Chicks.” At the last of July, I 
sold adozen 12 weeks old chicks that aver¬ 
aged 2)4 pounds apiece. They were from 
a purebred colored Dorking cockerel and 
some were from colored Dorking hens; 
while others were a mixture of Dorking 
and Brown and White Leghorns. They 
were raised under hens, had free range, and 
were well fed while running with their 
mothers. After that, for the last month, 
they had been a little neglected, as the con¬ 
tents of the grain bins on the farm 
began to get low. They were fed corn-meal 
while with the hens; after that mostly oats. 
I could have picked out of the flock indi¬ 
viduals that would have weighed more. I 
think pure colored Dorkings or a mixture 
of colored Dorkings and Plymouth Rocks, 
if carefully fed, could be made to show 
some “ startling figures ” when from two- 
and one-half to three months old. 
Canastota, N. Y. MRS. E. GOODELL. 
The “Best Mothers.” —The best hens 
for hatchers are those that are clean-legged 
and not too heavy. Very heavy hens are 
apt to crush the eggs when going on and 
off the nest—one of the most annoying and 
unprofitable incidents connected with sit¬ 
ting hens. Feathered legs and toes often 
entangle the little chicks and cause their 
death. Of course, all the non sitting breeds 
cannot be relied on for sitters; yet a few of 
any of them are sometimes broody and sit 
well, but the first cross of any of them 
with sitting breeds will make good mothers. 
Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes and Domin¬ 
iques make excellent sitters, but for care¬ 
fulness, gentleness and long continued care 
for their chicks, I find the Dorkings the 
best of all. It is not compulsory that they 
should be bred pure for mothers, as their 
excellent characteristics are imparted to all 
their crosses. H. h. 
All who keep poultry should study the 
characteristics of the breeds. It is better to 
keep one kind only than to keep two breeds, 
entirely unlike, together, as the food for 
one is not suitable for the other. The active 
breeds do not fatten so readily as the slow, 
heavy breeds, and can therefore be fed 
more liberally with grain, but if a hen is 
laying well and shows no disposition to 
incubate she is being fed correctly, but the 
food she requires may cause another hen to 
store fat and become useless. These points 
are woithy of consideration by all who pre¬ 
fer to make a specialty of eggs rather than 
of poultry for market. 
The Leghorn crossed on the Brahma 
produces an excellent broiler to the weight 
of one pound, and grows as rapidly as any, 
but if the combs (due to Leghorn blood) 
appear, the birds will be considered by 
purchasers as too old. An excellent cross 
is a Wyandotte, Plymouth Rock or Domin¬ 
ique male on Asiatic or cross-bred, large 
hens. It is not an easy matter to fatten 
a chick, as the food is mostly converted 
Poultry Vermin Exterminator. 
Fig. 302. 
into growth and warmtn ; hence, after they 
are five weeks old, one should feed, in con¬ 
nection with other food, cooked corn-meal 
bread. When a chick is fat a yellow 
streak may be noticed on both sides of the 
spine when it is dry-picked and dressed for 
market. 
Broilers are always sold dressed. They 
are killed by sticking them in the mouth. 
Nothing is removed but the feathers, and 
they must be dry-picked. About 100 are 
packed in a barrel, with 50 pounds of ice. 
A1 ways ship by express. No ice is needed 
in cold weather. Pack nicely, and assort 
them so as to have each lot uniform. No 
packing material is necessary. To engage 
in the broiler business (to make it pay), in¬ 
cubators and brooders are necessary, as 
the sitting instinct of the hens cannot be 
controlled. 
Beware of draughts. Never attempt to 
give ventilation to young chicks, as they 
are close to the floor (being small) and get 
all the draughts that come in. Never al¬ 
low them in the open air, except on clear, 
dry days. The cold is not as injurious as 
dampness Water should be kept con¬ 
stantly before them, but they must be al¬ 
lowed only to get their beaks in the foun¬ 
tain when drinking. P. H. J. 
DURIKG the winter, when chickeus are 
necessarily restricted to what is given to 
tj^em, some kind of green food, such as cab¬ 
bage, turnips, rutabagas, etc., should be 
put before them every day. It is best to 
let them have soft food in the morning and 
grain at night, as the latter requires a 
longer time for digestion. A small quan¬ 
tity of cotton seed meal mixed with their 
soft food every other day is very nourish¬ 
ing. This is very rich and should be used 
with discretion, one pint to a mess suffi¬ 
cient for about 100 fowls being enough. 
Meat scraps, even meat skins chopped fine, 
and the cracklings from which lard has 
been pressed, are all very good for fowls, 
and should be mixed with their food in 
winter to enrich their blood and enable 
them to stand the cold. When their range 
is restricted it is well to keep a shallow 
vessel of bone-meal within easy reach; the 
egg shells should also be broken in small 
pieces and scattered over the yard, and 
lime placed where they can get it. If this 
is done there is never any trouble from 
soft-shelled eggs. Last winter our chickens 
were fed in this manner, and although the 
season was very severe, and the hen-houses 
rather small, the fowls were remarkably 
healthy, and produced an unusually large 
quantity of eggs. 
A farmer’s daughter. 
The poultry tent at the New York 
State Fair was well filled and every breed 
was represented. J. F. Burleigh, Vernon, 
N. Y., had 300 fowls. His Rose Combed 
Leghorns took the first and second premi¬ 
ums. Barred Plymouth Rocks were extra. 
The single-Comb Leghorns of C. C. Phelps, 
of the same place, could hardly be excelled. 
Both men declared that the Legl orn is the 
most profitable foi egg production. V heat 
they think the best food and they use very 
little corn. John Warner, Niskayuna, N. 
Y., had 20 fine entries of Bantams, Cochins, 
Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks, etc. His stock 
showed skill in breeding. 
In a brood of Silver Wyandotte chicks 
hatched in March are three cockerels. One 
of them took the lead of the others in 
growth from the start, and now will weigh 
nearly, if not quite, as much as the other 
two. The question is whether such a bird 
is not better as a breeder than those which 
have grown less rapidly. We shall keep 
him to breed from. All were fed the same 
—all they would eat—but we presume the 
one making the most rapid growth con¬ 
sumed the most feed. 
“POULTRY VERMIN EXTER¬ 
MINATOR.” 
The device shown at Figure 302 has been 
patented. We print it here to show what 
curious ideas come into the heads of inven¬ 
tors. The 1 ’ originator ” of this device thus 
describes it in the Florida Dispatch: “ It is 
well known that, could poultry be kept 
greased or scented with kerosene, carbolic 
acid, or any other offensive compound, they 
PistfcUnncousi 
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mention The Rural. 
The soft, velvety culortag effect so desirable for 
house exteriors can only be produced and perma¬ 
nently 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. Mass. 
Mention Rural New-Yorker. 
$500 REWARD 
will be paid to the agent of any scale company who 
will say over his own name as agent, that the J on es 
5 TON WAGON SCALE, $60 
is not equal to any made, and a standard reliable 
scale. For particulars, address only 
Jones of Binghamton, Binghamton, O. 
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COM COLLAR SPRING, 
Every man and boy should have 
one. They go under the Collar and 
keep the Collar and Front of Coat In 
perfect shape, without buttoning. 
Cannot blow open. Applied and re¬ 
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2. XX),000 in use. 25 cents each, or one 
dozen for *1 postpaid. BULLOCK 
C C. S. CO., Court Square. Boston, 
Mass. 
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