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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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" THE LATEST THING IN HATS.” 
The fashion editor desires to inform our 
young lady readers that the following 
styles in hats will be much in vogue 
this season. The R. N.-Y. takes much 
pleasure in ' presenting these notes in ad¬ 
vance of its esteemed contemporaries. The 
R. N.-Y. girls will be able to lead all their 
friends in the matter of hats. 
The Milk-Pail Hat 
will be much 
worn by dairy girls 
and good butter 
makers. It is best 
suited to display a 
round, full peach 
blossom face, such 
as we hope all our 
good butter girls 
are blessed with. 
Four-leaved clov¬ 
ers make an appro¬ 
priate trimming. 
The Broom Head-dress 
will be the favor¬ 
ite head-gear 
of many young 
housekeepers who 
despise dirt and 
have no respect 
for “tracks.” It 
will not be popu¬ 
lar with men folks 
because it will 
suggest a use for 
the doormat, with 
which they are not 
sufficiently famil¬ 
iar. Another hat 
pictured below 
and to which we 
call particular at¬ 
tention because of 
its simplicity and 
effectiveness, will 
be known to its 
wearers as the 
Dust-Pan Hat, 
which teaches the door-mat lesson even 
more forcibly than the head-dress. The 
great advantage of this hat is that it suits 
all styles of beauty, and no young woman 
need be afraid that it will “upset” her pro¬ 
file or fall to match her hair. 
The Trowel Hat 
will be worn by all young women who are 
interested in the culture of flowers and 
fruits, and the general design is recom¬ 
mended to all who perform out door work, 
as it is neat, attractive and handy. 
The Tub Hat 
is another excel 
lent design for a 
young housekeep 
er. It suggests the 
nearest neighbor 
to godliness, and 
is therefore better 
for church wear 
than either of the 
others. An excel¬ 
lent trimming ef¬ 
fect can be obtain¬ 
ed by covering the 
front with imi- / 
tation soap-suds. 
The “Poem” Hat 
is an appropriate 
hat to wear to the 
“ literary,” to 
lectures or simi- 
1 a r entertain- 
ments. All 
healthy young 
women like to 
read a certain 
amount of 
poetry. We are 
therefore led to 
believe that this 
hat will prove 
very popular indeed. The R. N.-Y. gives 
these designs to the public without reserve. 
SOME VERMONT DUCKS. 
CARRIE T. MEIGS. 
After raising ducks three years with 
success and profit, as well as pleasure, I 
think I can give some new ideas gleaned 
from my experience and observation. I 
have always raised the Pekin ducks. 
There may bo other breeds equally hardy 
and profitable; but the Pekins are my 
choice and very near perfection. They are 
hard to beat when properly raised and 
dressed for market. One of my customers 
called them canary birds because they pre¬ 
sented such an attractive appearance. I 
kept four ducks and a drake last winter, 
and this summer marketed over 200 duck¬ 
lings when 10 weeks old, selling the last of 
them in October. Moreover, we used about 
four dozen eggs for cooking and I sold 40 
more. I am in about the same predicament 
as the old farmer who complained to an¬ 
other that he was losing money right 
along because corn was selling at $1 per 
bushel and he had not raised any, only I 
raised all the ducks I could care for and 
still could not supply the demand here in 
town. It is not necessary to take off one’s 
hat and almost beg the people to buy, as a 
farmer sometimes must do in order to sell 
his other products. I get my price instead 
of the purchaser giving what he pleases. I 
keep ducks, hens and turkeys all together 
in the same building, and use hens and 
turkeys for hatching the duck eggs. Hens 
are preferable to turkeys, as they are not so 
liable to hurt the little ducks with their 
feet. I usually let the old ducks sit too, 
though they are easily kept laying if their 
nests are removed, feathers and all, and 
a few boards are placed over the place 
where the nests were. 
When making a nest for a hen about to 
hatch duck eggs, make it as nearly like a 
duck’s nest as possible. When the hen is 
off her nest eating, always cover the duck 
eggs about two inches deep, as a duck does. 
The old duck makes a deep nest, the foun¬ 
dation of which is of straw, sticks and 
leaves, which she gathers up and arranges 
about five or six inches deep, and then 
she covers these so thickly with feathers 
and down pulled from her body that the 
nest appears to be all made of feathers. It 
is a pretty sight to see her sitting under a 
bush in the green grass. One must, how¬ 
ever, never forget to turn a box over her at 
night, in order to keep rats and skunks 
away, otherwise all the beauty of the nest 
will be destroyed some night, and only 
shells and a headless duck will remain, as I 
found to my sorrow one morning. 
Ducklings endure the cold much better 
than chicks, and the eggs can be set much 
later in the season. Some of my ducks were 
hatched in September, 1889, and wintered 
all right and began laying early enough in 
the spring. Old ducks are considered the 
best layers, but mine lay too early, as I al¬ 
ways find some of the first eggs frozen, for 
my house is not very warm. During the 
last week of incubation, if a hen is hatch¬ 
ing the eggs, moisten the nest and eggs 
about three or four times; if a duck is en¬ 
gaged in the business don’t attempt to do 
so, as she understands her duty perfectly, 
and supplies plenty of moisture by return¬ 
ing to her nest while her feathers are 
dripping wet. For an atomizer I use an 
old brush wet in lukewarm water. During 
the last two or three days it will be neces¬ 
sary to keep close watch over the eggs and 
remove the ducklings as soon as hatched, as 
they- are very liable to get killed if left. 
To save every one, procure a basket aud 
the more open-work in the weaving of it 
the better. Don’t on any account use a 
box, thinking it will do as well, for it is too 
close, aud the little things must have 
plenty of air. Arrange a soft piece of flan¬ 
nel in the basket, and if you have any hen 
feathers put in a few to make it like a nest, 
place the basket in the sun or near the fire, 
and be careful not to cover the little things 
too closely. Look at them often to see 
that they are not too warm, and remember 
the more ducklings in the basket the less 
artificial heat they require. When they 
are dry and downy, which will be in a few 
hours, get a shallow dish and fill it with 
tepid water. Take each one^ and give it a 
drink by dipping its beak in the water; 
sprinkle around some hard-boiled eggs 
chopped fine and the ducklings will eat at 
once. When a day or two old, I put them 
all in a pan of water for a swim and it will 
do no harm if they hop in the water before 
they are a day old, as they often will, only 
they must have a warm place where their 
down can get dry. If any are inclined to 
remain in the water until their down is 
drenched, take them out and put the water 
away. After their meal and bath they are 
capable of taking care of themselves, with¬ 
out the aid of a mother, but you must not 
forget and let them go hungry and thirsty. 
I never allow a hen or old duck to go 
with the little ones; they are only a 
nuisance—the ducklings thrive just as well 
or better alone. Ducklings don’t care to be 
brooded like other fowls, and when with an 
old duck they lie around among her feath¬ 
ers instead of under her. Give them a dry, 
rat proof coop with plenty of chaff and 
straw and a little yard, and there will be 
no need whatever of any brooding. They 
cuddle up together and are as quiet and 
contented as one could wish. I raised all 
of mine this summer in this way, and 
found it much better than the old plan. 
All who saw the ducklings were surprised 
to see' so many little ones without a 
mother. I have no running water for 
them and use pans filled from the pump. 
If a half barrel is used or anything very 
deep, large stones should always be placed 
in the bottom, and spaces should be left be¬ 
tween them so that the ducklings can 
plunge in their heads over their eyes and 
ears. Then they can stand on the stones 
and get out. A neighbor manufactured a 
pond and failed to provide the stones, and 
one morning he took 10 dead ducks out of 
his pond—all of nis brood but one. 
Franklin County, Yt. 
If you let the pullet start right she will 
stay by you all winter. 
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