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NOV. 22 
T ft E RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
‘Rough on Rogues. 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOB NUMBER ONE. 
NOVEMBER. 
MOIldftV Look out for two new frauds who 
^ are operating near this city and 
2 4- perhaps in other sections. One is 
a book agent who pretends to be dumb ! 
It is generally supposed that a book agent 
ought to be able to talk like a phonograph 
—the writer found it so in his old “canvass¬ 
ing” days—but this one does not speak a 
word. She—for it is a pretty young woman 
this time—writes on a slate, and most 
people get so tired of writing to her that 
they buy the book in order to have her go. 
The other fraud is a “ maimed sailor,” who 
pretends that he has pawned his wooden 
leg and wants to redeem it! He asks for a 
few cents to help him make up the fresh 
leg fund. There are so many of these 
frauds about that it is hard to pick out the 
honest people. * * * A man and woman 
over in Connecticut have been playing a 
fine game. Their scheme was to go to 
some country clergyman and get him to 
marry them. When this interesting cere¬ 
mony was completed the man informed the 
clergyman that he wished to pay him §10 
for the wedding fee. So he pulls out a §20 
bill and calls for §10 in change. The clergy¬ 
man changes the bill and off they go ! Of 
course the §20 bill turns out to be a counter¬ 
feit. This much married couple made high 
wages for awhile—probably “owing to 
the McKinley Bill.” 
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TflPSlIflV Look out that you keep your 
l uoauaj feet off yQur neighbor > s 
2S. 
Those of us who believe that Nature ab¬ 
hors waste are bound to think that corns 
and mosquitoes are meant to serve some 
useful purpose. They are. The corn is not 
intended as a punishment for wearing ill- 
fitting shoes, but is meant to quicken our 
self assertion and sense of injustice. You 
may, perhaps, cuff, kick or bulldoze a man 
with impunity, but don’t step on his corns. 
Do you want an illustration ? Take the 
last election. The farmers felt that they 
had been cuffed, snubbed and kicked. They 
grumbled, but did little else. At last a big 
foot came down on their pet corns. Did 
they kick then? Well, rather, and the 
thud of that kick is still echoing. 
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Look out for the following 
“firms.” They will bear 
2 L. watching according to the 
American Advertiser Reporter. “Bigg’s 
Medical Co.” This is one of the “ cure-all ” 
schemes. “Paisley Improvement Co.” 
This concern is trying to build up a “ magic 
city ” out West. “ Crittenden & Co ” have 
been arrested in Baltimore on a charge of 
swindling farmers. They solicited consign¬ 
ments of produce and then failed to pay. 
“ Babcock & Co.” of New York offer “the 
new American, stem wind and stem set,” 
only §1. This is said to be the old “ House¬ 
hold Companion ” swindle. “ The Guaran¬ 
tee Loan and Trust Co. of San Francisco,” 
Chicago managers, “Hall & Co.,” is de¬ 
nounced by the Chicago News as a “loan ” 
lottery. 
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Thursday Look out that you are “tbank- 
^ ful” for something this year. 
27. Nothing to be thankful for? 
That’s perfect nonsense and you know it 1 
You ought to be ashamed of yourself to 
say that you have nothing to be thankful 
for. Come now, I could give a list of things 
—long enough to fill the whole paper—that 
you should be grateful for. Here are a few 
“thoughts” by James Whitcomb Riley, 
that you ought to learn by heart: 
Some fays the crops Is ruined, and the corn’s drowned 
out. 
And prophesy the wheat will be a failure, without 
doubt- 
But the kind Providence that has never failed us 
jet, 
Will be on hands onc't more at the Teventh hour, I 
bet! 
Does the medder lark complaiu, as he swims high and 
dry 
Through the waves of the wind and the blue of the 
sky ? 
Does the quail set up and whistle in a disappointed 
way, 
Er hang his head in silence, and sorrow- all the day ? 
Is the chipmunk’s health a failin’? Does he walk er 
does he run ? 
Don’t the buzzards ooze around up thare just like 
they’ve alius done ? 
Is they anvthing the matter with rooster’s lungs er 
voice ? 
Ort a mortal be complaining when dumb animals 
rejoice ? 
Then let us, one and all, be contented with our lot: 
For life is here this morning, and the sun is shinin' 
hot. 
Oh ! let us fill our hearts up with the glory of the day, 
And banish ev’ry doubt and care and sorrow far 
away! 
Whatever be your station, with Providence fer 
guide, 
Such fine circumstances ort to make you satlsnei; 
For the world is full of roses, and the rcnes full of 
dew, 
And the dew- is full of heavenly love that drips for me 
and you. 
FridlV Look out again for adulterated 
Q ^ mill feed. A short time ago we 
gave some remarks by Prof. 
Henry on the adulteration of feed with oat 
hulls. Hon. W. A. Harris, one of the best 
breeders in the country, writes as follows 
to the Breeder’s Gazette: “Prof. Henry’s 
notice of ‘ Adulteration of Mill Feed,’ 
came to me very opportunely, as I was just 
then engaged in hauling to the station and 
shipping back to the mill a car load of bran 
which was at least one fourth “ cheat,” 
which with other screenings had been 
ground and mixed with the bran. On my 
complaining to the miller of course I was 
informed that ‘all millers did it,’ and 
that as ‘ they had got in a lot of cheaty 
wheat this year,’ it was all right to sell 
the ‘ cheat ’ at 65 cents per 100 pounds, 
having taken precious good care that it 
did not cost a cent. As I would rather 
have good clean sawdust mixed vaith bran 
—just as honest and just as nourishing, and 
better-looking—I was not slow about re¬ 
turning it and going where I could buy 
‘bran’ straight, and I would suggest a 
demand to this effect all along the line. 
“ Verily, this is a wicked and adulterous 
generation.” 
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Satnrda.v Tbe " s reen K°° d8 men ” are d °- 
• ing a good business just now. 
2 9’ They are sending thousands of 
letters and circulars from Newark and 
Hoboken, N. J. These are sent back to us 
by the dozen. The latest victim was a 
Kentucky woman who had worked on a 
farm all her life. She came here expecting 
to get §1,000 in “ green goods ” in exchange 
for §300 in cash. Luckily the detectives 
saw her talking to the “ green goods ” man 
and arrested them both. The woman was 
sent back home with a good talking to, 
while the scoundrel was released, as the 
law could not hold him. 
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POULTRY NOTES. 
Hens like boiled beans. 
Meat scraps are cheap. 
Will your hens eat raw bran ? 
“ Germ meal ” is recommended as a food 
for poultry. 
CAN we improve upon Langshans as 
winter layers ? 
When your hens “average” so many 
eggs in a season, do you know which ones 
helped out the average ? 
The Dorkings are excellent for crossing ; 
for they are sure to mark their chickens 
with true Dorking characteristics. 
WE are sometimes told that little chick¬ 
ens should have wheat or other grain 
boiled. Is this necessary ? We always 
feed our chickens dry grain and they thrive 
on it. 
A Good Egg Record.— From January 1 
to November 1, 1890, our flock of 40 hens 
have given us 320 dozen eggs. Of these, 257 
dozen were sold, bringing in §43.01. Old 
fowls and surplus young cocks were sold to 
the value of §7 38, making a total of §50.39. 
No account of feed has been kept. Will 
not the dozen or more chickens, and the 56 
dozen eggs (about nine dozen were used for 
setting) used for home consumption, and 
the manure pay for the feed ? The “ head 
of the family ” thinks not, as he remembers 
the annoyance caused by the fowls in the 
barn, and their destructiveness among the 
grapes. Next year a hen yard will be 
built—we have a good house—and an at¬ 
tempt will be made to keep an account of 
the outlay for the feed. Part of the flock 
are pure Colored Dorkings, the rest a mixt¬ 
ure of Dorkings, Leghorns and Plymouth 
Rocks. MRS. E. c. G. 
Canastota, N. Y. 
THE BROILER BUSINESS. 
Part III. 
Killing and Marketing. 
Marketing is generally begun in Decem¬ 
ber or January and the chicks are sold 
when they weigh from 114 to two pounds, 
and are about 10 weeks old. They are well 
fattened before killing ; they are bled, dry- 
picked, thrown into ice water to plump 
them, then packed in boxes and barrels 
when cool. The killing is usually done by 
professional dressers who receive about 
five cents per head. The chicks are sold in 
New York, Philadelphia, and the watering 
places along the seashore. Atlantic City 
furnishes a handy and good market. The 
best market is in April and May. 
The Profits. 
I asked one young man who was showing 
me through an establishment, whether the 
business is profitable, and his cautious 
answer was: “Well, that depends.” It 
depends upon a great many different things. 
The chief dependence, though, is upon the 
operator. Good buildings, good machines, 
and favorable conditions are all essential, 
but with all these many persons lose money 
and give up in disgust. Mr. Pressey said 
that his books for five years back showed 
the average price received as 38 cents per 
pound, and the expenses during the same 
time for eggs, feed, interest on plant, etc , 
as 10 cents per pound. This appears like a 
fair margin to an outsider. Prices vary 
from 20 to 50 or 60 cents per pound. Mr. 
Jacobs gives the cost of feed per pound of 
chick as five cents up to a weight of three 
to four pounds per pair. In this, as well as 
in any other business, attention to details 
economy of outlays, close supervision of all 
operations, a prime product and the best 
business methods in marketing have much 
to do with the returns. 
Who Succeed? 
Not every one who engages in it ? At 
the time of my visit a gentleman was 
erecting spacious buildings and fitting 
them up in fine style. He had had no ex 
perience, but others had made money at 
the business and why shouldn’t he ? His 
neighbors predicted an increase of his fund 
of knowledge and a corresponding decrease 
in his bank account before another year 
should roll around. It is not always the 
ones investing the most in fine buildings 
and apparatus who make the most money. 
Neither is it always the largest plants that 
prove the most profitable. It is a peculiar 
business, requiring careful, painstaking 
work and patient watchfulness to bring 
the highest degree of success. It is what 
some term fussy work. Every minute de¬ 
tail must be attended to on time. Any 
part of the work that needs attention to¬ 
day must be attended to to day ; to mor¬ 
row will not do. It is not hard work, but 
is very exacting in its requirements from 
the time when the machines are started in 
the fall until the last chicks are sold the 
next summer; then comes a long vacation 
during the hottest weather. Some of the 
most successful operators are women who 
seem to possess just the qualities so requi¬ 
site to success. There are in Hammonton, I 
was told, seven establishments run by wo¬ 
men, two of which, those of the Misses 
PisceUanmts 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
CHEAPER AND BETTER THAN PAINT. 
Can be applied by any boy. 
Send fi cents in stamps for sanip’es on woo d an 
illustrated < dialogue ol c-eosoted homes 
SAMUEL CABOT, Sole Manufacturer, 
70 KILBY STREET. BOSTON. 
Ho’W To IMIalrs 2v£om.©3r 
--WITH- ’ 
A FEW HENS 
is the motto and teachings of the Pont Poultry Pnpor published. It Cnnts Only 59 ctr,. a year: six 
months as cts. Cash or stamps. Sample free. Address FARM-POULTRY, Box 2118, Boston, Mass. 
OTHING ON 
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CONDITION POWDER 
IF YOU CAN’T GET IT NEAR HOME, SEND TO US. 
Small 
Five Dollars. 
Sheridan’s Condition Powder 
Tt is Absolute 
ti'l v Pure Richly Concentrated. Most Economical, because such small doses. Strictly a Medicine. 
Not a 1 bod. You can buy or raise food as cheap as wo can. Prevents and Cures all diseases of Poultry. >' ortli 
more than sold when hensnro Moulting. "One largo can saved me $40. send six more to prevent roup this 
winter.’’says a Customer. For sale by druggists, grocers, general i store and feed-dealers. No 'Other jnado like It. 
We will send post-paid by mail as follows:—A new elegantly illustrated copy of the FARMERS POULTRY 
RAISING GUIDE ” (price 25 cents. Contains a daily poultry account wort h the price), and two small packages of 
Powder for 60 e -nts for, one largo 2 1-4 pound can for $1.20 (regular price) and Guide free. Sample pack 25c 
five for £1.00. ; ixlar-e cans, express prepaid. $5.00. Send stamps or cash. In quantity costs less than one-tenth 
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