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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOV. i 
“Rough on Rogues.” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
NOVEMBER, 
Look out that you remember to 
cultivate and observe good old 
3* habits and celebrations. A fav¬ 
orite festival in Colorado this year is a 
Potato Bake Day. Doubtless this.was in¬ 
augurated by some Yankee who did his 
duty at a “clam bake” earlier in life. 
These “potato bakes” are very pleasant 
affairs. A speaker comes to tell the people 
what he knows; there are plenty of good 
things to eat and no bad drinks to breed a 
fight, and so everybody has a good time, 
and King Potato settles a little more com¬ 
fortably into his chair. Another thing you 
want to keep up is the observance of birth¬ 
days. When any member of your family 
celebrates a birthday, make much of it— 
have a good time, kill the fatted hen, and 
be thankful that the world is as bright as 
it is. 
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Tuesday Lo ° k 
* seed. 
out for adulterated clover 
The Director of the Maine 
4* Experiment Station sends us a 
packet containing “New York Red Clover 
Seed,” which was offered for sale in Maine. 
It is adulterated with 10 per cent, of Rib 
Grass or English Plantain—a detestable 
weed. Look out for such stuff. It will 
spoil your clover field. Examine clover 
seed carefully before you buy it. With a 
little practice you can tell by looking at it 
whether it is pure or not. Pure seeds, keep 
out weeds; many weeds, sorrow leads. 
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Wednesday ( Loo ‘ °“ t 
fair.” Never allow yourself 
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to strike a 
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A foul blow is the work of a coward. You 
may see plenty of chances when it seems as 
though it would be profitable to take an 
unfair advantage. Do not do it. You will 
always foul yourself worse than you foul 
your opponent. The farmers are starting 
out in many States to try to make politics 
a little purer. They cannot afford to use 
unfair means. They set themselves up as 
reformers and the world expects them to set 
an example of what reformers ought to be. If 
in their honest fight they begin to strike 
foul blows, they will lose the respect of the 
public. Then they will be lost. “ Fight 
fair 1 ” 
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Ttinrsdav kook out that you n °t keep 
s * all your money in cash at home. 
O. Some people seem afraid to put 
their money in banks or other safe places. 
They hoard it up at home packed away in 
an old stocking or in a trunk. Some night 
a robber climbs into their rooms and puts a 
loaded revolver to their heads. Rather 
than have their brains fired away these 
folks generally get up and pass out their 
hard-earned gold. In other instances the 
house takes fire and all the money is burned 
up. A case of this sort happened in our 
neighborhood last week. A poor working¬ 
man, by the hardest labor and most rigid 
self-denial, had accumulated $300. This 
money was put in a safe place inside the 
house. A few nights ago this man and his 
wife woke up to find the building on fire. 
They had just time to run out in their 
night-clothes—the money was burned up. 
Put your cash in a safe place. Some 
curious statistics are given to show the 
volume of money tucked away by farmers 
and thus withdrawn from circulation. We 
should surely need more money if farmers 
all tucked their cash away in old stockings. 
Friday Look out about whipping a good 
^ horse. Some drivers think it is their 
/• duty to be constantly flicking away 
with the whip. The consequence is that 
the horse cares no more for the whip than 
he does for a fly. Ladies frequently spoil 
horses by this silly whipping. If you use a 
whip at all, use it so that the horse will feel 
it, * * * The police made a successful 
raid on some “ green goods” men the other 
day, making several arrests and capturing 
a good many circulars and books. They 
have the names of hundreds of men, in all 
parts of the country, who have been nego 
tiating for counterfeit money. It would 
serve every one of these rascals right if his 
name were widely published in his own 
neighborhood so that his friends and ac¬ 
quaintances might know that he wanted to 
swindle them by passing counterfeit money 
on them. If such exposures were always 
made when the addresses of the humbugs 
are discovered, the fear of the consequent 
neighborhood odium might act as a salutary 
check upon the greed which urges them to 
seek dishonest gains. The “ green goods ” 
scoundrels would soon have to cease opera¬ 
tions were it not that they constantly find 
congenial frauds belonging to the respecta¬ 
ble classes, in all parts of the country. Why 
should uot the true character of these hvpo 
crites be laid bare for the nrotection of their 
unsuspecting neighbors ? 
SfltnrdSV k°°k out that you keep your 
o J pigs and other live stock out of 
court. In the Pennsylvania Su¬ 
preme Court, recently, an argument was 
heard in the case of G. B Stewart against 
Jacob Benninger, appealed by Benninger 
from the Common Pleas of Clarion County. 
The statement of Stewart alleges that Ben¬ 
ninger “ kept a drove of swine of all siz Q s 
and ages. They were of the slab-sided, 
long snouted breed, against whose daily 
and nocturnal visits there is no barrier. 
They were of an exceedingly rapacious 
nature, and six of them at one sitting 
devoured 50 pouuds of paint, 30 gallons of 
soft soap, four bushels of apples and five 
bushels of potatoes.” The lower court had 
awarded Stewart $24 50; Benninger claims 
that Stewart’s fences are out of repair. A 
pig that will eat paint may be expected to 
do almost anything. 
We learn that a number of English 
poultrymen are testing what they call the 
“ American system” of breeding for sex in 
poultry. The roosters are “half capon- 
ized,” that is, the right testicle is taken out 
on the theory that all the chickens will 
then be pullets. It is a pity that our Eng¬ 
lish friends are going to waste time on this 
“test.” Their time and efforts will be 
thrown away. 
Poultry Yard. 
Some iiens will eat too much—if you let 
them. 
There is a good chance for poultry-rais¬ 
ers on Puget Sound. 
California poultrymen claim that rot¬ 
ten potatoes are poisonous to hens. 
Spade the yards over before the ground 
freezes. Plan, if you can, to have the yard 
on the other side of the hen house next 
year and plant vegetables in the old yard. 
Hatching Under Difficulties. — A 
poultryman writing from South America, 
has the following story to tell:—“On Au¬ 
gust 8 a plumber in the employ of the 
Buenos Ayres and Rosario Railway, set 15 
oggs under a hen. He was, at the time, 
near Santa F 6 , and living in an ordinary, 
three-axle, cargo wagon, in which was 
also the hen. On the 17th he got orders to 
proceed a distance of 250 kilometers (about 
102 miles'). During this journey the wagon 
was subjected to innumerable severe 
shocks, and the majority of poultry raisers 
would have pronounced it impossible for 
the eggs to turn out any good ; but on the 
29th 10 chicks appeared, two of which, un¬ 
fortunately, the hen trod on and killed, but 
the remaining eight are doing well. When 
we think of the noise, shaking and shocks, 
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HOW TO TRAIN THE VOICE 
Which appears in the NOVEMBER number of 
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“A Thanksgiving Surprise,” 
“Elder Lamb’s Donation Party 
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