THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 29 
i5o 
Market Hunter Worse Than Pot Hunter. 
VV. A. F., Homewood, Pa.—I see that 
The R. N.-Y. is after the millionaire pot 
hunters again. My experience with 
these city sportsmen of means is that 
they will not run over ground that is 
posted, and when they come to the 
country, are willing to pay for whatever 
they get; in fact, they belong to the 
most liberal class that come to the 
country. Pot hunters, indeed ! Who are 
the sportsmen if these people are pot 
hunters ? Are they the class that are 
found in every neighborhood, and hunt 
and destroy game before the season 
opens and after it closes, hunt through 
all the open season for market, dig up 
your fields for skunks, and leave holes 
that a horse can fall in, run your farm 
over at night, cut your timber when you 
are in bed, swear at game laws, hunt 
rabbits with ferrets for market, and 
clean them all up before the farmer gets 
time to go out hunting, shoot down 
trespass signs, and if you prosecute them 
can not pay their fines, go to jail, and 
when they get out, destroy something 
tor spite V Something was said some 
time since about farmers’ boys hunting 
game to get a little money for Christ¬ 
mas. Nonsense ! I pity the farmer's boy 
that would stand any show with the 
class I have just described. Again, 
every farmer’s boy should be in school 
at this time of year, and the father that 
can not give his boy a little spending 
money for Christmas, is to be pitied, 
after the boy has worked all summer. 
No wonder'the boys are leaving the 
farm. 
But after all, is not the farmer like 
Robinson Crusoe, monarch of all he 
surveys ? If he does not want these city 
sportsmen, let him post his farm, and 
that ends it. Again, is it not a fact that 
in every country where game is to be 
found in any quantity, there are farmers 
that make some money entertaining 
their friends from the city, and are very 
glad to have them come ? Let us have 
the opinion of other farmers on this 
question. I admit that there is a class 
that come to the country from the city, 
no better than the class I have described; 
but they are not millionaires, or men of 
means. Something will have to be done 
here in western Pennsylvania, to stop 
this wholesale destruction of game, or we 
shall soon have none for any one to fight 
over. If these city sports are on the 
wrong track, will The R. N.-Y. give us 
something better. 
plot of 10 acres, which had a wire fence 
eight feet high all around it, putting 
the males with them. In about two 
weeks, they commenced to lay again: 
they laid about double the eggs they did 
before, and the eggs hatched much bet¬ 
ter. Out of 300 eggs, I got 272 fine chicks 
which looked like young quails. Did the 
males fight ? Yes, they did at the stai t, 
and about six lost their lives, and some 
were wounded so badly as to necessitate 
killing them. After the first skirmish 
was over, they seemed to live in peace. 
About five acres of the plot were cov¬ 
ered with brush and an abundance of 
leaves. They seemed to mate up and 
scatter all over this place, and all roosted 
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The rural New-Yorker. 
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True to name. Write J. K. LOSKE, Elnora. N. Y. 
Seed Potatoes 
Seed Oats 
We have a small sur¬ 
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and No. 3. Will be sold 
cheap to close out. 
Also, a nice lot of White Plume 
Oats. weighing 42 lbs per bush. 
Prices right. M.GARRAHAN, 
Kingston, Pa. 
POTATOES 
FOR SAL E.—Carman 
No 1. 30c. per ib., two 
lbs , 50c.; No. 3. 35c. per 
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Potatoes 
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Choice Seed Potatoes, f,™ S,!' X 
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L. HINMAN, Neenah, Wis. 
Hens in Large Flocks. 
F., Allentown, Pa.—T here are sev¬ 
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Pasture, page 97. The cost of meat and 
green bone in this city, is one-half cent 
per pound, and the cost of collecting 
and cutting will not exceed two cents 
per pound, which makes the total cost 
less than three cents per pound. One 
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for 16 days. If J. A. W. will make a trial 
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the flock that gets the green bone will 
lay more eggs than will pay for the 
extra expense. Of course, if a man pay 
30 cents per pound for beefsteak, it is a 
question whether the production of eggs 
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About keeping 200 hens in one flock, 
we had three bouses seven feet high in 
front, three feet back, 10 feet wide, and 
over 300 feet long. They were divided 
off into 10-foot sections, each with a yard 
75x10 feet front and back. Each pen 
had 12 hens and one male. The yards 
were cultivated and sowed to grain, and 
the fowls were changed from one yard 
to the other at intervals of 10 days. I 
was not satisfied with the result, and 
resolved to try 400 Leghorn hens in one 
CARMAN No. I. 
A line stock of this most desirable potato. Circulars 
free. Dr. JABEZ FISHER, Fitchburg, Mass. 
Carman No. I Potatoes. 
S3 per barrel. Barrel lots only. 
T. GREINER. La Salle, N. V. 
POT FOR ALL. Prices very low. For 
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P 9Pitt On II A I (Thorburn Stock), $2.50 per 
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six pounds postpaid $1. Carman No. 3, $0 per barrel: 
five pounds, $1. Also, Moonlight and Shuleys No. 7 
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A. E. JANSEN, New Paltz. N. Y. 
Carman No. I Potatoes $1 per bushel ; $2.50 
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W ALLEN, Wolverton. Wilkin County. Minn 
IT’S A GREAT POTATO 
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Carman No. 1.$2.25 per barrel 
Great Divide.$2.00 per barrel 
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I LARCE 
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■ r EYES are not desirable in a 
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Carman No. 3, $7 per barrel. Great Divide and 
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Sir William. 
Only three years on the market, but is 
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Write him for price. 
Send for our 1896 Catalogue of Northern Grown 
SEED POTATOES. 
Catalogue I Prices Reduced to I AGENTS 
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HOOKER, GROVER & CO. I men, Rochester. N. Y. 
SEED POTATOES FOR SALE. 
Nineteen leading varieties, including Carman No. 1 
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GEO. W. MACE. Greenville, Ohio. 
PflTATflFQ We ha ' f e an extra early potato that 
I U I H I ULO catches the Silver Dollar. We know 
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1)()T ATOFS Ournew high-grade. Rose introduction. 
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We challenge critical and competitive tests in every 
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R. H. Brown & Co , P. O. Miller Corners,Ont. Co., N. Y. 
iND-CROP SEED POTATOES doublethe 
2 lii« wiiwi wkbH ■ winiwbw returns. 
Hebron, N. Queen, Thorburn, Puritan, Early 
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Free Pamphlet. JOHN Q. PEARCE & CO., 
404 West Main Street, Louisville, Ky. 
Carman Seed Potatoes. 
No. 1, 800 bushels (Livingston’s stock). $1.25 per 
bushel; Carman No. 3 (Thorburn stock), $3; Banner, 
$2; World’s Fair, $1. All seeds kept true to name. 
Packages free. WM. H. RUSSELL. Pine City. Minn. 
Seeds and Potatoes Carman No 3, $4.00 
33 varieties, true stock, our growing. Rural New- 
YorkerNo. 2,Orphan, Dutton, Irish.Daisy,Am. Wonder, 
$1 per barrel. Write for free catalogue of Seeds, 
Grains, Plants, etc. Everything at special low prices. 
ENTERPRISE SEED CO., Newark. N. Y. 
Seed Potatoes, 
ED S HILL, 
PERUVILLE, 
TOMPKINS Co., N. Y. 
Conover's Colossal Asparagus 
Two-year Plants. 60 cents per 100; $2.50 per 1,000; 
or $2 in 5,000 lots. A. R. NORTON, Selden, L. 1., N. Y. 
