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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Pressey and Miss Williams, I visited. 
Everything about these establishments be¬ 
tokened an attention to the requirements 
that bring success. These ladies combine 
the raising of purebred poultry with the 
broiler business. Mr. Jacobs admits that 
he is not in it for the profits to be made, 
but for the sake of the experiments, but I 
doubt if he is losing money. Probably a 
large proportion of those having experience 
and tact make a success of the business, 
but it is folly for one having neither to un¬ 
dertake it. 
The Difficulties. 
While Hammonton possesses peculiar 
advantages, it has also its drawbacks. Most 
of these establishments are located on town 
lots, and in order to guard against the in¬ 
troduction of vermin and disease no hens 
are kept, all eggs being purchased. All 
were unanimous that here was the greatest 
drawback—-the difficulty of securing fresh, 
fertile eggs. Contracts are made with 
farmers nearby to take all their eggs at a 
fixed rate above the market price, they in 
return to give special attention to their fer¬ 
tility, gather them before they become 
chilled, handle carefully, etc. Although 
these things are all paid for they are not 
always performed, and disappointment 
often results. Mr. Pressey said that he was 
satisfied it would pay them to keep the 
hens and produce their own eggs, but as 
this would necessitate-added labor for 
people already busy, it is not done. Then 
again, sometimes a brooder or incubator 
fails to perform as it should and disappoint¬ 
ment results. Disease sometimes decimates 
the flocks, but the loss from this cause is 
usually small. The average hatch is said 
to be about 60 per cent, though 98 per cent 
have been hatched, and the average loss of 
chicks is about 15 per cent. The business 
has been tried in many other places and in 
some localities in South Jersey possessing 
the same advantages of soil and climate as 
Hammonton, success has been achieved, 
but in many other parts of the country 
lacking these, disappointment has resulted. 
Many persons also, here and elsewhere, have 
failed. People who have made a success 
here have failed elsewhere where the con¬ 
ditions were unfavorable. Any one in¬ 
tending a trial of the business would do 
well, as in many other new branches, to 
serve an apprenticeship to an experienced 
and successful operator. F. H. V. 
SOME HEN HINTS. 
What breed of fowls are the worst glut¬ 
tons? I would rather put it: of the heavy 
eaters, what breed puts the feed consumed 
to the best use? Do you consider the pro¬ 
duction of a number of eggs, or a first-class 
table bird, “ the best use,” or, as nearly as 
may be, a combination of both? If this 
last is the end aimed at, I would place the 
Houdans first, and the Plymouth Rocks 
next. 
As regards a frosted comb, I would either 
trim it down with a sharp knife, as is done 
in case of the Games, or, what seems quite 
as good, just leave it alone unless it festers: 
then it must be trimmed severely. But 
why have frozen combs? They are always 
caused by some fault or failing of the 
owner of the flock, such as giving the birds 
poor houses, or allowing them to roost in 
trees in winter. 
How much grain will a hen eat during 
the year ? How much must we estimate 
for In providing for a flock ? Some will say 
a bushel, others a half bushel more of 
wheat or its equivalent in other grain food. 
This is in addition to the various odds and 
ends of animal and green foods to be pro¬ 
vided and what the fowls will pick up 
themselves. I think many overfeed a flock 
and then wonder why they don’t lay better. 
A good way to feed in the morning, if grain 
is used, is to scatter it over a wide area and 
let the hens get exercise by hunting it out; 
they will lay better, and it will do them 
more good. 
The character and size of the hen-house 
for a small flock will depend much on 
where one lives—North or South ; in town 
or in the country. In the country I would 
choose a gravelly hill-side aud build the 
house into the hill, so that the back walls 
aud sides would be stone, the roof wood, 
and about half of the front glass. But I 
would be sure that the house was so built 
that it would always be dry, and it is bet¬ 
ter to give the hens too much rather than 
too little room. If in town, I believe the 
best, and in the end the cheapest, place 
would be a room or house lathed and plas¬ 
tered inside. It would be warm and clean 
and could be easily kept so. 1 once had 
such a hen-house and I could find no fault 
with it. *• M. CARRYL. 
Orange County, N. Y. 
BRIEF BITS ON SUNDRY SUBJECTS. 
Hon. James G. Blaine asserted that the 
McKinley Bill is so impracticable that it 
cannot open the world’s market to “another 
bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork.” 
Hon. Grover Cleveland in his historic 
tariff message said that our progress 
toward a wise conclusion will not be im¬ 
proved by dwelling upon the theories of 
protection and free trade. It is a con¬ 
dition which confronts us—not a theory. 
The persistent claim that all efforts 
to relieve the people from unjust and 
unnecessary taxation are schemes of the 
so called free traders, is mischievous 
and far removed from any considera¬ 
tion for the public good. The simple 
and plain duty which we owe to the people 
is to reduce taxation to the necessary ex¬ 
penses of an economical operation of the 
government, and to restore to the business 
of the country the money which we hold in 
the Treasury through the perversion of 
governmental powers. These things can 
and should be done with safety to all our 
industries, without danger to the oppor¬ 
tunity for remunerative labor which our 
workingmen need, and with benefit to 
them and all our people, by cheapening 
their means of subsistence and increasing 
the measure of their comforts. 
Hard on the Poor Man.— I cannot see 
that the new tariff of itself will be a disad¬ 
vantage to the country. If it increases the 
cost of some articles people will simply use 
less of them. Take wool, for instance. If 
the tariff on wool makes clothing cost 
more, a person will get along with one suit 
where he would otherwise have two.—Jay 
Gould. 
How About the Producer ?—The effect 
of the new tariff on the consumer will not 
be adverse. Home competition will reduce 
the prices of all products as low as they 
ought to be.—Russell Sage. 
Unjust and Cruel.— The [McKinley] 
Bill, therefore, is an oppression in the ad¬ 
ditional demand that it makes on the 
scanty purses of the needy and of those 
struggling in the battle of life. It is unjust 
to those who can afford to pay the increased 
cost of everything, but it is cruel to those 
who cannot. There is a wide range between 
a judicious and a necessary tariff and a 
tariff that is neither the one nor the other. 
It is not a question of party, but one of the 
general good.— Boston Saturday Evening 
Gazette. 
Cheaper Goods Pat a Higher Rate — 
Will the man of modest means kindly ob¬ 
serve that on shirts and drawers valued at 
$1.50 per dozen the McKinley Bill places a 
tariff of $1 direct and an additional 85 per 
cent, ad valorem: while on the same ar¬ 
ticles valued at $7 a dozen its tax is only 
$1.50 direct and 40 per cent ad valorem t 
Perhaps it would be cheaper to buy the $7 
drawers rather than the $150 drawers. 
But you can not always do it, you know.— 
Cincinnati Enquirer. 
Blowing Hot and Cold.— One disting¬ 
uishing feature of the new tariff law is the 
great increase of duties on agricultural 
products. * * * It is well to have the 
fact brought out clearly that the rates on 
very many things, and those the most ne¬ 
cessary and the most used as a raw mater¬ 
ial, have been greatly reduced or taken off 
altogether.— Mail and Express. 
Tin Plates from an English Stand¬ 
point. —If tin plates are to be made in the 
States to successfully compete with the 
product of the Welsh works, the possibility 
of which we doubt, it will only he done 
with the aid of the leaders of the tin plate 
industry of this country.— London Iron 
and Steel Trades Journal. 
Higher Prices for Paints.— The Mc¬ 
Kinley Act raises the duty on linseed oil 
from 25 to 32 cents per gallon. White lead, 
into which linseed oil enters as a component 
part in preparing paint, sells in England 
for four cents a pound. The McKinley Act 
continues the protective duty of three 
cents a pound for the benefit of the 
White Lead Trust (although lead is pro¬ 
duced cheaper in the United States than 
in any other country), and the trust has 
advanced the price to 6K cents per pound.— 
Philadelphia Record. 
Even Tracts are Taxed. —Assistant 
Secretary Spaulding has informed Rev. 
Joseph Weston, of Bellefontaine, O., that 
certain tracts imported for free distribu¬ 
tion must pay an ad valorem duty of 25 
per cent. 
Agricultural Gambling.— Hop raising 
is the height of gambling in the agricul¬ 
tural line. I have seen hops sell for eight 
cents a pound and I have seen them sell for 
$1.50 a pound. Some hop raisers have mad e 
$2,000 and $3,000 per acre; others have lost 
about as much. It is about as risky as 
horse racing or poker playing, and hop 
raising hasn't half the elements of fun that 
are found in these popular sports. If 
some satisfactory way could be invented 
of keeping hops from year to year, the 
range of prices would not be so great, but 
until this can be accomplished the growing 
of hops will continue to make some men 
poor, others rich.—J. D. Her, Brewer. 
French Oppression of Labor. — At 
Lyons, France, a capitalist put up a great 
factory and employed 450 men. After work¬ 
ing about a year they discovered that he 
was sucking their life blood, had his foot 
on their necks, etc., and struck for higher 
wages. He closed the factory, and more 
than 150 families had to remove from Lyons 
to find employment. After the factory was 
closed it was discovered that it had paid 
the highest wages in all France. 
The Canning Industry Taxed.—A n 
ordinary coke plate of the cheapest value— 
such as cans are made of—will pay a duty 
of $2.37 per box, or about 40 per cent 
of the value of the plate. A box of 
these plates made up into cans will increase 
the cost of canned goods from 15 per cent 
to 20 per cent. It is not generally known 
that on all canned goods made in this coun¬ 
try and exported by us there is now a re¬ 
bate given to the exporter of 90 per cent of 
the duties paid. Under the McKinley Bill 
this rebate for the benefit of the Standard 
Oil Company, who are large exporters, will 
be increased to 99 per cent; thus while the 
American people have their canned goods 
increased from 15 to 20 per cent, a box of 
tin exported in the shape of canned goods 
pays a duty of two cents and thirty-seven 
hundredths, or not cents a box, against 
$2.37 for those of us who are living under 
the luxury of a tariff bill.—Extract from 
Circular of Metal House to its Selling 
Agencies. 
Duties Reduced.— Under the McKinley 
Bill you can buy furs as cheap as ever, and 
the tax on false hair is reduced one-third. 
Ah, there ! 
The American cat should not fail to sere¬ 
nade Major McKinley at the first oppor¬ 
tunity. His bill places raw cat-gut on the 
free list. 
The McKinley bill reduces the tariff on 
corks nearly one half. But what is the 
earthly use of a cork if you have nothing 
to put it into ? 
In gazing over the new tariff bill in a 
rambling sort of a way, it conveys a cooling 
tendency to discover that fossils have been 
placed upon the free list.— Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. 
To Cure the Smart.— What a mercy 
that Major McKinley put the balm of Gil¬ 
ead on the free list! There is balm in Gil¬ 
ead, Major, and you may import it free of 
duty.— Louisville Courier-Journal. 
Not Fun for the Politicians.— The 
Farmers’ Alliance will hardly get a Sub- 
Treasury Law, but it will have considerable 
fun with the politicians for some time to 
come.— Washington Cost. 
Pi.sireUatteou.si gVdverti.siittg. 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers. 
WHAT CURES? 
EDITORIAL DIFFERENCE OF OPINION ON AN 
IMPORTANT SUB JECT. 
What is the force that ousts disease; and 
which is the most convenient apparatus for 
applying it? How far is the regular physi¬ 
cian useful to us because we believe in him, 
and how far are his pills and powders and 
tonics only the material representatives of 
his personal influence on our health? 
The regular doctors cure ; the homoeo¬ 
pathic doctors cure; the Hahnemannites 
cure: and so do the faith cures and the 
mind cures, and the so-called Christian 
scientists, and the tour dollar-and-a-half 
advertising itinerants, and the patent 
medicine men. They all hit, and they all 
miss, and the|great difference—one great dif¬ 
ference—in the result is that when the reg¬ 
ular doctors lose a patient no one grumbles, 
and when the irregular doctors lose one the 
community stands on end and howls.— 
Rochester Union and Advertiser. 
Nature cures, but nature can be aided, 
hindered or defeated in the curative process. 
And the Commercial's contention is that it 
is the part of rational beings to seek and 
trust the advice of men of good character 
who have studied the human system and 
learned, as far as modern science lights the 
way, how far they can aid nature and how 
they can best avoid obstructing her.— 
Buffalo Commercial. 
It is not our purpose to consider the evils 
that result from employing the unscrupu¬ 
lous, the ignorant, charlatans and quacks 
to prescribe for the maladies that afflict the 
human family. We simply declare that the 
physician who knows something is better 
than the physician who knows nothing, 
or very little ineeed about the structure 
and the conditions of the human system. 
Of course “ he does not know it all.”—Roch¬ 
ester Morning Herald. 
I have used Warner’s Safe Cure and but 
for its timely use would have been, I verily 
believe, in my grave from what the doctors 
termed Bright’s Disease—D F. Shriner, 
senior Editor Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, 
Ohio, in a letter dated June 30. 1890. 
DOUBLE 
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$ 7 , 75 . 
RIFL ES SLOP 
PISTOLS 75c 
GUNS 
■ WATCHES. CLOCKS, Etc. | 
All kinds cheaper than 
elsewhere. Before you 
buy, send stamp for 
Catalogue. Address 
POWELL & CLE3IEST, 
180 Main Street, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
VIRGINIA FARM 
FOR SALE. 
Located at Claremont, on James River. Twenty 
acres unimproved. Will supply *100 worth fruit 
trees and vines to purchaser. For particulars, 
Address G. R. K., care Rural New-Yorker. 
Scroll Sawyer. 
On receipt of 15 cts. I 
.vi II send, postpaid.tbe 
oattem of this three- 
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it new and beautiful 
niniature designs for 
scroll sawing, and my 
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Lathes, Fancy Woods. 
Small Locks. Fancy 
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send ic. for catalogue 
and miniature designs. 
Bargains In Pocket 
Knives. Great in¬ 
ducements In the way 
of Premiums. 
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Advertising Dept., 
116-220 Asylum Street, 
Hartford, Conn. 
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woven by hand; wool-lined; seamless. 
Trice reduced. Where dealers have none, 
we mail postpaid. Ladies’ size, !*>1,25, 
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CARDS 
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The Pittsburgh 
Lamp is one that 
almostkeeps itself 
clean. If it were 
shown to every buyer 
and the truth told 
about it, there would be 
no sale for any other 
lamp at from $2.50 up. 
It is new, and the old- 
fogv stores haven’t got it yet. 
Send for a primer. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh Brass Co 
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