1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
779 
Hope Farm Notes 
Intuition vs. Confidence Game ! — A 
brignt farmer, iu writing of other matters, 
gives the following opinion: 
"The Hon. W. M. Ostrander got $20 from 
me on the strength of his countenance. I was 
not fooled, however by him, but my wife 
argued me into making a fool of myself, an 
illustration of Woman's intuition versus con¬ 
fidence game." 
1 hardly think this a fair sample, for nine 
times out of 10 a woman is a better judge 
of honesty than man. I would hardly blame 
a person for reading that well-known face 
wrong. It might easily be selected as a 
suitable title page for a Sunday school super¬ 
intendent ! Ever since the days of Adam 
men have had a favorite excuse! A wise 
and reflective man will never say "I told you 
so” to his wife! lie ought to know that 
his conduct is likely to give her 12 chances 
to his one. and he should know that Nature 
has doubly qualified her in the art of making 
these four words expressive. 
Profit In Hens.—A reader in St. Law¬ 
rence Co.. N. Y. sends the following question : 
"Is there a profit in raising chickens where 
all the food is bought? The breeds would be 
Brahmas. Cochins, etc., and raised to sell. 
If there is a profit how much?” u. m. c. 
That is much like asking how long a piece 
of string is. Men like Cosgrove and Mapes, 
who write about hens, buy nearly all the 
food and make a good profit. Others that I 
could mention lose money on poultry even 
when they raise a good share of the food. 
So it is largely a matter of man rather than 
hen. I think I may safely say that the men 
who are doing best, with their poultry buy 
most of the feed. My brief experience with 
large breeds like Brahmas and Cochins would 
make me hesitate to buy food for a 
flock of them. They eat too much, 
are like Holstein cattle—profitable 
where you can raise a large 
age, but not up to the 
feed must all be bought. 
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amount of 
smaller breeds 
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Feeding Chickens.—H ere is a question 
from a man who evidently wants to make 
his 12 hens beat a baker's dozen of ordinary 
hi rds : 
“Will you advise me as to the best daily 
diet for ‘a flock of 12 hens (six Plymouth 
Hocks and six Leghorns) kept iu a yard l-> 
feet square.” F - c - M - 
If I had 12 hens and wanted to make 
them do their best I would feed about as 
follows: A good-sized laying ben should 
have about five ounces of food each day. 
Make the following mixture to be used as a 
mash: Two pounds cornmeal. two pounds 
wheat bran, two pounds wheat middlings, 
and one pound animal meal. Mix them 
thoroughly. Take 24 ounces of this mixture 
and mix with water (or skint-milk if you 
have it) and make a crumbly—not sloppy— 
mash for breakfast. Feed it in a clean dish 
or trough, and see that nothing is lett 
after the hens are satisfied. Make a mix¬ 
ture of equal parts by bulk of corn, oats 
and wheat, and feed one pound of the mix¬ 
ture at noon—the grain scattered in the 
litter—not on filthy ground. At night feed 
a pound of whole or cracked corn just before 
the hens go to roost. In addition give cut 
grass, cabbage or other green stuff. We 
should also feed “table scraps" such as 
waste bread, potatoes or bits of waste meat. 
r I’he feeding is not all. Fresh water and 
good shells must be constantly provided, the 
yard must be spaded over at least once a 
month from April to December, and the hens 
must be kept free from insects. There are 
cheaper ways of feeding hens, but this system 
provides the raw material for eggs! 
Water Glass Eggs. —Here comes a man 
from Kansas with a leading question : 
"In market where eggs are sold as eggs, 
with nothing said in regard to freshness, 
would not water-glass eggs that were put 
down the day they were laid be as good as 
the average run of eggs, and would it be 
wrong to sell them without telling that they 
were preserved eggs?” s. w. w. 
If moral law grew by some form of evolu¬ 
tion out of habit a man would be justified in 
selling such eggs. In fact this is a question 
which must be settled by the distance we 
have traveled along the way of such evolu¬ 
tion. I would not sell water-glass eggs as 
“fresh,” because they are not. From the 
first statements made about this useful pro¬ 
cess I have advised against such sales. The 
"wrong” of such a transaction is a matter ot 
individual opinion. Most of the water- 
glass eggs will be quite as good as the 
average “fresh” egg, but if your customers 
once learn that vou have sold them 
"doctored” eggs they will distrust everything 
you offer them thereafter. You may know 
that water-glass is all right, but the people 
who buy your eggs may think it is broken 
glass or something worse, and in the end 
such trade will hurt you. If I had such 
eggs to sell I would take them to customers, 
explain what they were and asu for a fan- 
trial. One of the worst evils that farmers 
have to confront is food adulteration. What 
business have we to try to make laws to 
shut off the big frauds, if we in a small 
wav. attempt to misrepresent the food we 
seli ? 
Summer Boarders.— I am asked to print 
the following blast: 
“I notice on page 710 an item referring to 
the fashionable family boarding house kept 
by the quoted abused poor widow. Now. it's 
all very well to pat us farmers on the back 
by your severe criticism of the class whom 
you say live in idleness and ease on the 
veranda or hammock, and read novels. Let 
me tell vou if these boarders had never left 
the farm'and their life of overalls and drudg¬ 
ery that is attached to the best of all farms, 
there would never be any money to support 
the widows' boarding houses you refer to. 
instead these widows would likely become 
town paupers, and the living given by many 
towns to such would be far harder to worry 
over than your mentioned Summer boarders. 
Consequently you should extol ways and 
means that create the boarder for the poor 
widows, and whom God's mercy lifted off 
the beautiful treadmill of the farm life, 
known onlv to editors bv reports or in 
dreams miles afar from the reality of the 
said life. One of your contemporaries, a 
high class paper, quotes from Sioux City 
Special. Iowa, the supported theories that 
life on a farm is conducive to insan¬ 
ity and appointments of guardians in 
many cases of past and recent dates, and 
statistics of hospitals for insane show (50 per 
cent of the inmates came from rural districts, 
which led to numerous learned discussions, 
tending to show that farm lire is most con¬ 
ducive to insanity. So your so-called para¬ 
sites are the godsend of all country towns 
that get good livings out of the board money 
paid by them: oft times the only cash seen 
in spots where it is only an exchange with 
the general store-keeper, and if two cents of 
a balange they give you two nutmegs in¬ 
stead of the two cents in cash." 
Connecticut. a farmer’s wife. 
I don't know whether this is meant as a 
joke or in all seriousness, l will assume the 
latter. The great majority of these boarders 
never lived on a farm. Some of them are 
very worthy people who earn their living in 
town and go to the country to rest and 
brace up for another round. The class we 
referred to is mostly made up of lazy and 
complaining women who seem to have little 
or any real object in life. I know this class- 
well from observation in city flats and board¬ 
ing houses. The husband works hard to sup¬ 
port his family while the woman loafs. The 
"housekeeping” they do is a farce: with 
every convenience for doing their work they 
must have a servant and then live mostly on 
the baker and “delicatessen” stores. If these 
loafers would use their idle time in study or 
some useful way I would find little fault, but 
both bodv and brain are softened by idle¬ 
ness. With great libraries within a stone's 
throw and surrounded by poor creatures who 
need a taste of human kindness those women 
spend the best share of the day at the de¬ 
partment stores or theatres. I have known 
such ridiculous creatures to leave children 
alone in the house or flat and go to card 
parties or similar meetings. I am aware that 
the money paid by boarders to farmers is a 
great help but for every dollar thus brought 
to the farm the social conditions made possi 
ble by such idlers rob the farmer of $25. 
When’ I see these soft, idle creatures flitting 
about like butterflies I am obliged to think of 
women in farm homes abler, more ambitious 
and with truer ideals who do their hard 
dntv from day to day without complaint. If 
seems like a hard whirl of fate when women 
of real character and usefulness must feed 
these butterflies in order to save (be home. 
As for the statement that 60 per cent of the 
inmates of insane asylums come from the 
farm, no greater nonsense ever was printed. 
The R. N.-Y. lias been all over this again 
and again with figures from the various 
asylums. I realize that we do not all look 
at such things alike, but a loafer always 
makes me glad I have to work for a living, 
and that I was brought up to work from 
childhood. No loafer that ever lived can 
get the joy out of his idleness that the 
worker does from the labor of bis hands. 
Farm Notes. —All these things have run 
me away from home. We have had the most 
beautiful weather thus far—it seems too good 
'to last. Seymour says that in Canada on 
September 12 all the corn was frozen. Here 
more than a month later nothing has been 
seriously hurt. Below us. in the valley, 
fodder corn was ruined two weeks ago. while 
with us there is hardly a crumpled leaf. . 
Ditching is now the order of business. 
As we cut into our lower fields' we find a 
deep, black soil almost equal to a western 
prairie for richness. For some years nothing 
but coarse grass has grown there. As we 
cut the ditches the water oozes out of the soil 
and runs away. When the stone dams are 
in place we expect to dry out that field and 
take advantage of the plant food that is 
locked up in the soil. I begin to see the 
folly of paying so much money for fertilizer 
and manure when pick and shovel will let 
in the air and sunshine and make a fertilizer 
factory right on the farm. . . . One of 
our neighbors had a large henhouse burned. 
It was sprayed inside with crude oil to kill the 
lice. Then to make the job sure sulphur 
candles were burned. What went wrong with 
the candles no one will ever know, but they 
seem to have set the house on fire. Our own 
chicken deparlement was never more promis¬ 
ing. We start the Winter with about 2fM> 
good pullets. Just now we are eating old 
hens and young roosters at frequent intervals. 
- . . .' Indications were that we would 
run short of fodder, so we looked about for 
a chance to buy cornstalks. We have found 
a lot of nice ones which are for sale at 2V> 
cents a bundle-— which means hot far from 
$5 a ton, which 1 consider a better bargain 
than hay at our retail prices. The stalks 
are in good shape and. when run through the 
shredder will keep the stock happy this 
Winter—at anv rate it is about all they will 
get. and Hope Farm believes in telling folks 
to be content with what is set before them. 
The new cow is a good one. it. w. c. 
-THE- 
Angle Lamp 
Kerosene is the best of all illuminants and the 
cheapest. The Angle Lamp makes it also the 
most satisfactory. It is the best of all kerosene 
lamps. Constructed on entirely different prin¬ 
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kerosene (or petroleum) 
As Convenient as Gas or Electricity 
It is lighted and extinguished lilts gas. May be turned 
high or low without odor. No smoke, no danger. Filled 
while lighted and without moving. Requires filling but 
once or twiqe a week. It floods a room with its beautiful, 
soft, mellow light that has no equal. The Angle Lamp has 
completely superseded ordinary lamps and other unsatis¬ 
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gas and electricity in the homes of those who cater to 
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Do it now—right away. It will tell you more facts about 
the How and Why of good light than you can learn i n a 
lifetime’s experience with poor methods. 
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How Many Children Die 
for Want of Oxygen ?■ 
A tweny-four Candle-Power 
City Gas-Jet, or— 
—24 Candle-Power Gasoline 
Light, or— 
—A good Kerosene Lamp rated 
at 25-candle power of Light, 
burns up all the Oxygen in about 30 
cubic feet of Air every hour you 
use it. 
Think of what that means 
to Health (365 nights in the year) 
in a living or sleeping room! 
They produce, at the same time, 
about 20 cubic feet of Carbonic Acid 
every hour. 
And that Carbonic Acid is what the 
lungs throw off when they breathe out 
dead tissue from the body. 
It is a poison so dangerous that it 
would kill you in five minutes if you 
breathed it pure. 
Now, I’m not trying to scare you, 
but am merely telling you something 
you can prove for yourself by setting a 
lighted lamp in a closed room till it dies 
out for want of the very Oxygen it 
burns up. 
It takes a lot of bad treatment to 
actually kill a person however.-bad 
Food,-bad Air,—Cruelty or Heart 
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And, the City Gas Jet. Gasoline 
Light, or Kerosene Lamp, as generally 
used, is only a slow poison. 
Because Ventilation dilutes the Car¬ 
bonic Acid so you don’t notice the effect 
of each single dose at the time itis taken. 
But. it “gets there" just the same,— 
weakening the System, helping on Dis¬ 
ease, and obscuring the Merry Sunshine 
of Life,—its Cheerfulness. 
That’s why these Oxygen Consum¬ 
ing Lights need watching. 
Kerosene used to be about the only 
Light that could be had in small towns, 
villages, country houses, and farm 
houses. 
So that people had to put tip with it. 
even though it poisoned the Air slowly, 
and raised the death rate heavily 
through Fires as well. 
But it’s different now ! 
Acetylene Light can be had at less 
cost than common Kerosene Light. 
Do you know about Acetylene? 
It used to be an experiment once, 
but now it is like the Telephone or Au¬ 
tomobile—a perfected fact. 
There have been hundreds of faulty 
Acetylene Generators made in the ex¬ 
perimental stage of its history. But 
there has never been poor Acetylene 
Light when properly made, as it uni¬ 
versally is today. 
Acetylene is the clearest Light.— 
the purest, whitest , safest, coolest 
Light ever made by Man. 
It comes so near to Sunlight that it 
will actually make Plants grozv by night 
under its wholesome, healthful rays. 
And, because it is so clear and pure, 
with so little color-fog to muddy it—so 
free from flicker and glare,—it is the 
easiest Light on the eyes yet discov¬ 
ered. 
It is 10 to 15 times stronger than 
Kerosene Light. City Gas Light, or 
standard Electric Light. 
On this account it is cheaper than 
any of the three. 
Because, only a tenth as much of it 
need be used to produce the same clear- 
reading effect. 
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That is one reason why it burns up 
only one-fourth as much of the living 
Oxygen in the air of a room as Kero¬ 
sene, Gasoline, or City Gaslight. 
And that’s why it leaves only one- 
tenth as much poisonous Carbonic Acid 
in the air of a room, after it. to be 
breathed and re-breathed by the people 
in that room, in place of the Life-Giving 
Oxygen consumed. 
Moreover, that’s why it is one-third 
cheaper than even Kerosene Light from 
the best Lamps yet invented. 
A 24 Candle Power City Gas Jet 
costs you half a cent per hour, 
A good 25-candle-powei Kerosene 
Lamp will burn a 12-cent gallon of Kero¬ 
sene in five nights, if lighted four hours 
a night. 
That would make it cost three-fifths 
of a cent per hour, or $8.76 a year, for 
Kerosene alone, to say nothing of broken 
Lamp Chimneys, new Wicks, and the 
everlasting Labor and Risk of cleaning 
them. 
A 24-candle-power Acetylene Light 
will cost you a third less than that,—or 
two-fifths of a cent per hour. 
That means only $5.84 per year, if 
used the same number of hours for 365 
nights. 
And, there’s less Work needed for 
fifty Acetylene Lights than for one 
single Kerosene Lamp, with far less 
danger, as the Insurance Records prove. 
Thai's a matter well worth your 
consideration—the comparative danger. 
Over two million people in America 
now use. Acetylene Light, and yet, the 
Insurance Records show that there were 
only four fires from it in one year. 
The same authority shows that there 
were 8,865 Fires from Kerosene, and 
Gasoline, during the same year. 
And, the Insurance Records can’t 
afford to lie. 
If you will tell vie how many rooms 
there are in your house, I’ll tell you 
about how much it would cost, per 
year, to light your home with that 
safest, most wholesome, clearest, clean¬ 
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Lights— A cetylene. 
I have also got a wee bit of a Book 
that’s plumb full of information about 
Lighting in general, and I think you 
" ought to have it. 
Its title is “Sunlight on Tap,” and 
it incidentally tells about some experi¬ 
ments made by Cornell University, 
this year, on Plant Growing under 
Acetylene Light instead of Sunlight. 
Write for a copy today, and I’ll send 
it to you free. 
Just address me as— 
“Acetylene Jones” 5 Adams Street, 
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