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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
783 
OPINIONS ON THE OVERTHROW 
of the mckinley high- 
prices BILL. 
One Thing Mainly.— The one thing to 
which our victory is more directly due than 
to any other is the fact that the McKinley 
Bill was put into operation just long enough 
before election to let the people fully feel 
its injurious effects.—Secretary Josiah 
Quincy, Massachusetts Democratic State 
Committee. 
Free Raw Materials Demanded.—I 
believe that it means that Massachusettts 
demands that the tariff shall be revised so 
as to give free raw material for her indus- 
trles. I know very well that the result 
is not a personal triumph to any man, but 
it is a triumph of principles and ideas.— 
Gov.-elect Russell (Dem.) Massachusetts. 
An Independent Republican Opinion. 
—We are deeply thankful for the result. It 
will have far-reaching effects, not only in 
breaking the power of Quay and the “ Ma¬ 
chine,” but also in opening the way for 
future reforms.—Herbert Welsh, Secretary 
Ind. Rep. Committee, Philadelphia. 
All Agreed on the Cause.—T he Repub¬ 
licans are dumbfounded at the result, but 
they all charge it to the tariff.—Boston dis¬ 
patch to N. Y. Evening Post. 
The Most Significant Feature.— The 
vote against the high protection-McKinley- 
tariff iniquity is the most significant feature 
of yesterday’s election .—Chicago News. 
Settled.—T he people have simply rhen 
up in their might and served notice on the 
country that, as I have often said before, 
the people of Massachusetts never consider 
a thing settled until it is settled right.— 
Ex Congressman P. A. Collins, (Dem) 
Massachusetts. 
A Senatorial Opinion.— If we have 
suffered defeat it is owing to three things 
—the McKinley Bill, the Farmers’ Alliance 
and the School law. There is no use in 
denying but that the people are wonderfully 
prejudiced against the McKinley Bill, and 
many Republicans seized upon the oppor¬ 
tunity of showing their disapproval of this 
law.—Senator C. B. Farwell, (Rep.) Illinois. 
Republican Reasoning.— Three causes 
operated to defeat the Republicans—gen¬ 
eral apathy among the Republicans, dis¬ 
satisfaction with President Harrison’s ad¬ 
ministration, and a false impression that 
the McKinley Bill would raise prices all 
along the line. The last cause was no 
doubt the most powerful. The false im¬ 
pression was one we could not counteract 
on the eve of an election. If the election 
had been held before the bill went into 
force we would have carried the State.— 
Chairman Michener, Indiana Rep. S ate 
Committee. 
A Massachusetts Verdict.— I consider 
the verdict is a popular expression on the 
tariff.— Governor Brackett (Rep.). 
It is the result of monkeying with the 
tariff.—Chairman Burdett, Rep. State 
Committee. 
She Doesn’t Continue.— The issue was 
plainly made from the beginning of the 
canvass. It was to determine whether 
Pennsylvania should continue the faithful 
and unfaltering supporter of the policy of 
protection, or whether, by a break in the 
Republican line here, ground should be 
yielded to the ruinous policy of free trade. 
—Philadelphia t rcss (Rep.). 
The Farmers Were In It.— The result 
ought to be particularly pleasing to those 
who have been laboring in the tariff reform 
cause for many years. I think when an 
analysis of the vote is made it will show 
that the farmers had much to do with the 
result.—Ex-Governor Gray (Rep.) Ind. 
It Is Condemned.— In a vote of 12,000,COO 
American electors, McKinleyism is con¬ 
demned and with it Reedism .—Chicago 
Times. (Ind.) 
Protection badly Crippled.—W ith the 
overthrow of the Republicans, protection 
has received a blow from which it cannot 
easily recover.— London Chronicle. 
The Tariff Bill an Injury.—T he result 
of the elections shows conclusively that the 
great bulk of the population feels that it 
has suffered and not gained from the effects 
of the tariff bill. The fate of the unfortu¬ 
nate author of t,his ill-advised piece of leg¬ 
islation is dramatic in its reversal of his ex¬ 
pectations.—London Telegraph. 
Tried and Condemned.— The McKinley 
tariff, that monument of perverted ingenu¬ 
ity, was tried at the bar of universal suf¬ 
frage on Tuesday and emphatically con¬ 
demned.—London Daily News. 
Touched the Pocket-book.— The Mc¬ 
Kinley tariff has caused a general advauce 
in prices, and it stands condemned by tne 
sovereign people because it has affected the 
public in its pocket .—London Times. 
Poultry Yard. 
THE BROILER BUSINESS. 
Part II. 
Brooders. 
While the number of different kinds of 
brooders is not so large as that of incubators 
it Is not small. They are operated both by 
lamps and by hot water, probably the larger 
number by the latter. Each compartment 
of a brooder house contains one brooder 
and usually 100 chicks. Mr. Pressey uses 
a lamp brooder, made by and named after 
himself. It consists of a bottomless heater 
box, the top of which is a metal plate over 
which is an air chamber and above this is 
the floor on which the chickens stand. 
This is surmounted by an adjustable cover 
surrounded by a woolen cloth, cut in strips. 
A warm-air pipe from the air chamber rises 
under the center of this cover, whence the 
pure, warm air is diffused over and among 
the chicks. The floor of the brooder house 
is covered with dry sand. For the first day 
or two the chicks may require attention to 
insure their getting under the brooder; but 
they soon learn to run under their un¬ 
natural mother, who never steps on them 
with her great clumsy hoofs. The cover 
being adjustable, is raised as the chicks 
grow, to accommodate their increasing 
height. The great desideratum is to keep 
them dry, warm and supplied with pure 
air. The last is an absolute necessity. 
Many of the first brooders constructed were 
supplied with bottom heat only, but these 
have mostly given place to those giving 
heat from above. The brooders are all con¬ 
structed on the same principle. Those 
using hot air or hot water differ somewhat 
in the manner of supplying the heat. P. 
H. Jacobs and some others use what is 
known as the Smyrna system, in which a 
series of hot-water pipes run from a fur¬ 
nace at one end the whole length of the 
brooder houses above the chicks in the 
brooders. This system, while it has its ad¬ 
vantages, is more expensive to establish and 
has some disadvantages as well. It is un¬ 
doubtedly more expensive to operate on a 
small scale, while the advocates of the 
lamp brooders claim that it is on any 
scale. With the hot-water pipes as usually 
arranged, the whole house must be heated 
though only a part of it is in use. With 
the lamps only so many brooders are heated 
as are required. The hot-water system 
furnishes hot water for running incubators, 
cooking feed, etc. Notwithstanding all 
that is said there are those who will always 
be afraid of lamps and such will probably 
prefer hot water. Chicks raised in these 
brooders and properly handled are free 
from vermin and disease and make rapid 
growth. It is an interesting sight to see 
hundreds of these little creatures scratching 
around in the sand as busy and happy as 
it is possible for chicks to be. 
Feeding The Chicks. 
Chicks require no food the first 24 hours. 
They are then fed a cake made of corn meal, 
oat meal, middlings and sometimes meat 
meal, a little salt being added. This is 
mixed quite stiff with water or milk, and 
baked. It is crumbled and fed several 
times daily for the first week. The infertile 
eggs'are also fed. Small grain is fed as 
soon as they can eat it. Mashed potato or 
turnip is given once daily with plenty of 
pure water and coarse sand. After they 
are a mouth old they are fed four times 
daily. Stale bread, broken crackers, etc., 
are used to vary the diet. One ration given 
for chicks running out-of doors, which ap¬ 
pears to be a good one, consists of two parts 
corn, one part wheat and one part oats 
ground together quite fine. To each ten 
quarts is added one quart of wheat bran, 
one half cup of pulverized bone meal, one 
pint of middlings and one pint of meat 
meal. This is mixed rather dry with hot 
water two hours before feeding and left to 
swell. It is recommended to add a spoonful 
of sulphur once or twice a week, but poul- 
trymen differ as to the advisability of feed¬ 
ing this. Powdered charcoal is kept by 
them all the time and cabbage or some sim¬ 
ilar green food after they are large enough 
to eat it. Mr. Jacobs gives the cost of food 
to bring a broiler to marketable age as five 
cents per pound of broiler. Mr. Pressey 
gives the total expense, including eggs, 
labor, feed, interest on investment, losses, 
etc., as ten cents per pound. Chicks are 
usually sold when they weigh about 1)4 
pound. F. H. v. 
Those Big Ducks: Incubators.—T his 
world does move, but there are some people 
who do not believe it, because they do not 
move it, or see it done. On page 034 J. H. 
Drevenstedt wants some poiuts. The ducks 
he refers to were allowed to run at will 
with a hen. They staid near the house, 
and were fed little and often, on about 
everything a duck will eat, and they never 
refused anything. They had milk to drink, 
and a small spring hole to play in. I be¬ 
lieve that nearly all the solid food given 
them was cooked; but they had a chance 
to get and did get plenty of insects, worms 
and green stuff. Maybe Mr. D. has raised 
ducks on the high-pressure plan—concen¬ 
trated foods, little drink, etc.—let him try 
my way. I sold all I had for table use, and 
got my pay by weight, so there could have 
been no mistake on that point. I kept no 
ducks for some years; but have this year 
started in "again. Those I have now are not 
so good as those I had; still I have none 
for sale. 
On page 652, I notice that J. H. D. has 
actually found out that it requires mois¬ 
ture, and a considerable amount too, to 
secure good results in hatching Cochin 
eggs. I have found it pays with all eggs; 
but it is most needed on the thicker shelled 
sorts. He says experts are satisfied to 
secure average hatches of 50 to 60 per cent, 
in incubators; I would call that- very poor 
success. I do not claim to be an expert, 
but would call a hatch of 75 per cent, poor 
luck, if I had attended to the incubator as 
it should be attended to, and I have done 
very much better. Yes, a hen of the sit¬ 
ting kind will average over 90 per cent, if 
set on the ground in a damp place (not 
wet) on fertile eggs. F. M. carryl. 
Orange County, N. Y. 
Light Shipping Coops.— Trade in chicks 
has now opened for another season, and the 
matter of shipping coops plays an import¬ 
ant part, especially in the bill of express 
charges. It behooves every sensible and 
good-hearted fancier and breeder, therefore, 
to ship in coops that are made as light as 
is consistent with absolute safety while in 
transit. “ Do unto others as you would 
have them do unto you,” is a good, old time 
maxim and one that will apply directly in 
the matter here under discussion. Every 
breeder, as a matter of course, has his ideal 
shipping coop, and, therefore, I have mine. 
In making it, in the first place I use seven 
cents per yard unbleached muslin. For a 
single cockerel I make the bottom one foot 
square, using half-inch siding boards, six 
inches wide. Two cleats made of thin 
plastering laths run along the bottom near 
the edges on the under side. For the four 
posts I use selected plastering laths: that is, 
the strongest and best, picked from the 
bundle. These I cut 20 inches long, and 
they are notched in at the four corners of 
the bottom and nailed thereto by wire nails. 
For the pieces that run around the top and 
bottom, I rip one of the six-inch siding 
boards, making one 3)4 inches wide which 
goes around the bottom, and the other 
2)4 inches wide which goes around the 
top. Now the frame is ready for the can 
vas or muslin. This I cut the propet width 
and length, and tack on with four ounce 
upholsterers’ tacks, drawing the stuff taut 
as I proceed. On the top I place one six- 
inch-wide, half-inch-thick siding board, 
and finish out with plastering laths, spaced 
one inch apart. The lath is nailed on with 
wire nails as the coop is made, while the 
board which admits the bird is nailed 
down when I am ready to ship. The board 
should be planed, so that the express 
sticker may be placed on it. Such a coop 
weighs five pounds, with litter in the bot¬ 
tom and feed. In one corner of the coop, 
fastened to the post by one nail, is a cut- 
down tomato can for feed and water. The 
above is my ideal shipping coop, and 
breeders have congratulated me upon it 
everywhere. It is neat, light and business¬ 
like. The same style is followed in other 
sizes. For a breeding pen coop, heavier 
posts are used by ripping a siding board in 
half. As express rates are high, we must 
study to make the coops light as well as 
safe and durable. E. p. c. 
A frozen comb stops eggs. 
Poultry pays a profit on patience. 
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WOMAN’S INTUITION. 
NEARLY ALWAYS RIGHT IN HER JUDGMENT 
IN REGARD TO COMMON THINGS. 
An old gentleman over seventy, came 
into the city from his farm, without his 
overcoat. The day turned chilly and he 
was obliged to forego his visit to the fair. 
To a friend who remonstrated with him 
for going away from home thus unpre¬ 
pared, he said : “ I thought it was going 
to be warm; my wife told me to take my 
overcoat, but I wouldn’t. Women have 
more sense than men, anyway.” 
A frank admission. 
Women’s good sense is said to come from 
intuition; may it not be that they are 
more close observers of little things. One 
thing is certain, they are apt to strike the 
nail on the head, in all the ordinary prob¬ 
lems of life, more frequently than the lords 
of creation. 
‘‘According to Dr. Alice Bennett, who 
recently read a paper on Bright’s disease 
before the Pennsylvania State Medical So¬ 
ciety, persons subject to bilious attacks 
and sick headaches, who have crawling 
sensations, like the flowing of water in the 
head, who are ‘tired all the time,’ and 
have unexplained attacks of sudden weak¬ 
ness, may well be suspected of dangerous 
tendencies in the direction of Bright’s 
disease.” 
The veteran newspaper correspondent, 
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noting this statement, suggests: “Pos¬ 
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why doesn’t she give some idea of treat¬ 
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all the time’ for ten years. Night before 
last he took two doses of calomel, and yes¬ 
terday he wished he hadn’t.” 
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