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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Dr. Haux Spectacle Co., St. Louis, Mo., 
puts up some plausible arguments to in¬ 
duce you to buy his glasses and outfits to 
sell your neighbors. He calls his outfits 
worth $ 20 , but will send them to you for 
a $10 bill. If this doesn’t appeal to you, 
you can have two pairs of glasses for $1 if 
vou send the dollar in advance. He says 
you can sell the glasses at $2 to $2 a pair. 
Perhaps so. He does not say that you 
can buy glasses at 25 cents a pair in al¬ 
most any country store. The following 
letter from a western reader speaks for 
itself: 
Enclosed I send you circular, etc., which 
I received last month from Dr. Ifaux Spec¬ 
tacle Co. 1 did not bite at the bait. I con¬ 
sulted The Rural New-Yorker and the Farm 
Journal, as we always do in a case* of this 
kind. I found the adv. in an Ohio fnrm 
paper, in a New York religious paper and in 
two other papers I take. I wrote and told 
them that we never Invested in anything Hint 
looked shady, that was not. advertised in Tub 
Rural New-Yorker, but if they would 
send the glasses by express for examination 
and if satisfactory I would pay the dollar 
and all the expenses. In answer I received 
the card marked. Their reliability may be 
all right when they receive the money. Hut 
when the goods are received if not satis¬ 
factory what then? It is only one dollar. 
It is ’ no use to prosecute them for that 
amount. I have no doubt they are raking in 
thousands, from the unwary. The dupes 
would better send their dollar for The R. 
N.-Y. and that would in time save them a 
great many dollars as it. has our family. 
We renew our allegiance to The Rural New- 
I'ORKER. J. H. S’. 
Indiana. 
Of course they want the dollar first. 
No one is going to law about a dollar. 
We are asked about an instrument 
which has been advertised to locate veins 
of coal, water, etc., under the ground. 
They are fakes. 
One of the most transparent fakes that 
has come to us yet is the Vincless Potato 
Company, Pullman, Ill., by W. D. Darsh, 
inventor. This man is going to do away 
with the plow and the hoc. and the planter 
and digger and even of the soil itself. All 
you need is a few tubers to start with and 
some of his patent “Potatinc.” Mix the 
two in a bin, and the first thing you 
know you have a brand new lot of pota¬ 
toes without vines, just clean tubers— 
finer than were ever grown in the soil. 
Besides, the original potatoes are better 
than before and can be used for any pur¬ 
pose. Now then, if you want to get rich 
easy and quick, just buy the right of Mr. 
Darsh to grow potatoes by this process. 
The process will certainly appeal to the 
man who has grown potatoes by the old 
and out-of-date process. We must not 
neglect to mention that there arc no hugs 
in the new process. The thing we can’t 
understand it why Mr. Darsh does not keep 
a monopoly of potato production instead 
of parceling it out by the county right. 
Now here arc two little notes from those 
who have just seen the “Farmer’s Gar¬ 
den.” 
I have great pleasure in informing you 
that I have just received a copy of your 
new book, “The Farmer's Garden.” It Is 
an excellent work from every point, of view 
in which tlie expert as well as the novice 
will find valuable and useful information. 
' New Jersey. t. m. w. 
In regard to "The Farmer's Garden" I 
cannot speak loo highly In Its* favor. It lias 
a whole lot of Information between t lie 
two covers; those who possess It are like 
tin* faliled “pigs in clover," live (read) and 
thrive. C, p, j;. 
Connecticut. 
I bus far in February we received just 
about double the number’ of subscriptions 
that had been received the same days in 
I'ebruary last year. A Farmer’s Garden 
went out to each and every one of them 
the day the renewal was received. The 
letters in praise of the little book would 
fill a volume. We have your book all 
ready to send you. Send the renewal to¬ 
day and the book goes hack to-morrow. 
PLAN FOR HOGPENS. 
Will you give me a plan of Winter farrow- 
*ng pens for eight to TO sows, to be placed 
in a cellar, over which a barn was burned 
severnl years ngo? There is now nothing 
left hut a tumbling wall and a cistern, 
empty of course. The wall at the back, 
(north) side is eight feet deep gradually less¬ 
ening In depth toward the south until It 
reaches the level. Originally the cellar was 
dug into a hank and stoned up and a barn 
2 b feet square built on top of wall with a 
cistern on east side; eow.vard was built In 
front. I wish to use this place for pig¬ 
pens as it is already excavated and lias the 
cistern, which to l>e of any use must bo filled 
roof of building over thle cellar, Can 
you give me an economical plan for such a 
thing? This cellar Is situated on west side 
of a lot. which 1 use for run for hogs and 
chickens, as my chicken house Is in east 
side of lot. a. b. w. 
Long Island. 
Inside this wall there is plenty of room 
for stalls and pens for eight or 10 sows. 
1 would roof it in such a way as to shed 
the water towards the cistern. If no stor¬ 
age room for feed and bedding is wanted 
over the pens, I would make the roof 
nearly flat, using for roofing the best qual¬ 
ity of galvanized metal. If not wishing to 
roof the whole of this space, leave a hol¬ 
low square in center, and roof the east, 
north and west sides, having the higher 
part of the roof next to hollow square.' 
1 understand that the entrance to this 
cellar is from the south. This being the 
case, I would make the hollow square 
12 by 24 feet, then there would be the 
sides, 12 feet by 36 feet, for stalls and 
nests, and at the back end a room 12 feet 
square for a feed and work room. But it 
will be cheaper doubtless to roof over the 
whole thing, and hoard up the front, than 
to hoard up the stalls and nests next the* 
hollow square. If five sows are to he 
stalled or penned on a side, the pens will 
be a fraction over seven feet wide and 
12 feet long. The nests should he next 
the wall, and the feed end next the 12 -foot 
alley in the center. If desired, make the 
alley narrower and the pens longer. I 
would arrange to have pump inside the 
building, which can be easily done. This 
is the best arrangement I can advise. Still 
it has many objections that cannot be 
overcome in a large hoghouse. The 
stone wall will he cold and damp, and 
doubtless it will he hard to keep the floor 
dry. In nearly all hog-growing sections 
where the weather is not extremely cold 
the colony house plan is finding favor over 
the large hoghouse. It is much cheaper, 
and more healthful. Yet I always try to 
advise first along the line asked for. 
JOHN M. JAMISON. 
BOTH FOOD 
AND MEDICINE. 
We like best to call Scott’s 
Emulsion a food-medicine. It 
is a term that aptly describes 
the character and action of 
our Emulsion. More than a 
medicine—more than a food, 
yet combining the vital prin¬ 
ciples of both. It is for this 
reason that Scott’s Emulsion 
has a distinct and special 
value in all wasting diseases. 
There is nothing better to 
remedy the troubles of im¬ 
perfect growth and delicate 
health in children. Theaction 
of Scott’s Emulsion is just as 
effective in treating weak¬ 
ness and wasting in adults. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl Street, New York. 
CEMENT FENCE POSTS 
that can be stapled to, same as wood. 
JUST WHAT YOU WANT. 
To Introduce them quickly a 
Farm Right and an Iron Mold 
will be sold for 
tiff rYrY F, O, B. Detroit, 
|)IO.UU Michigan. 
Satisfaction guaranteed or money 
(funded. _ 
AGENTS WANTED. 
[ICHIGAN CEMENT POST CO., 
Detroit, Mich. 
The Natural 
Incubator 
is the incubator of right air con¬ 
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NOT WARP, CRACK NOR SPLIT, as all oth¬ 
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no supplied moisture required. 
, WE PAY THE FREIGHT 
to all points east of the Mississippi. Don’t buy 
an incubator until you get out Free Catalog. 
Perpetual Hen Co., Menufio- Inoubatore * Broodera, 
ZlCeoherSt., ‘ui.riof Trenton, N. J. 
Let Me Quote You a Price on a 
First-Class Fanning Mill 
How many dollars could you save if you 
owned a genuine Chatham Fanning Mill? 
Think for a moment what it will do. 
It will grade grain so you can get a fancy- 
price for the best. 
It will take weed seed, chaff and withered 
kernels out of seed grain. 
It will separate one kind of grain from 
another. 
It will remove oats from wheat. 
It will clean Corn, Rye, Barley, Wheat, 
Oats, Timothy, Clover, Millet, Flax, Rice, 
Peas, Beans, Kaffir Corn, Potatoes, Broom 
Corn, Alfalfa, Grass Seed, Cotton Seed, 
Alsike, Blue Grass, Red Top, Buckwheat, 
Hungarian.Orchard Grass, Rape, Rye Grass 
and everything of this kind. 
And in any one of these processes a Chat¬ 
ham Fanning Mill will save its entire cost in 
short order. 
For the fanning makes every bushel of 
grain you raise worth more money. 
Yon don’t sow weeds if you use a Chatham 
Fanning Mill. 
You don’t get "second price" for grain if 
it has been fanned. 
And to prove our claims to you—to con¬ 
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the best made and will do what we say,—wo 
are willing to let you try one 30daysifHKH, 
if you wish. 
Send today for our liberal propo¬ 
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please you. 
For we sell direct to you 
and 
ship 
from 
one of 
our 20 
big 
branch 
ware¬ 
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in lead¬ 
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means 
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And you get a Fanning Mill made by a 
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mills. 
You buy at a bargain price. 
For we make our own mills in one of the 
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Our ample capital enables us to buy sup¬ 
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We turn out hundreds of Fanning Mills. 
Our workmen are skilled. They have had 
long experience. They know just what to 
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Consequently we are able to give you 
bigger value for your money than you can 
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The Chatham 
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And you can get no such Fanning Mills as 
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houses. 
You cannot buy mills as good from dealers 
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Over 200,000 Chatham Mills are in use. 
We have made them for sixty years. Today 
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Users everywhere will tell you our mills 
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A post-«ard with your name and address, 
mailed today, gets it. 
^ The Manson Campbell Co. 
(Limited) 
Makers of Chatham Fanning Mills, 
Incubators and Brooders 
339 Wesson Avenue, DETROIT, MICH. 
A Remarkabl© 
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A man who has devoted 24 years to perfecting incubators haa written a book. It tells all 
that he learned by hundreds of tests with different incubators in his hatchery. It tells 
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because the man wfio writes it is the man who has made the Racine Incubators and Brooders. 
He shows them as they are today, and tells why you should have one. No one can read this 
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Racine Hatcher Co., Box 87. Racine, Wis. 
Wo have Warehouses at Detroit, Mich., Rnffalo, N. Y., Kansas Otty, Mo. and 8t. Paul, Minn. 
INCUBATORS 
HATCH OKKATKST NUMBER 
OF PINK8T CHICKS. 
BROODERS 
HAVE NKVKRIIKKN KqlJ A LED 
FIDELITY FOOD 
FOR FOWLS ANI) CHICKS. 
PINELAND 
INCUBATORS 
AND BROODERS 
Tim* t**t«d and proven auocct*; thousands 
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get the maker’* guarantee and say* the 
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Used everywhere by practical poultrymen and 
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perfect health and promotes rapid growth. 
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PINELAND INCUBATOR & BROODER CO., 
Box D.D., Jamesburg, N. J., U. S. A. 
Get An Incubator 
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J. W. MILLER CO., Box 97, Freeport, Illinois. 
BEST ONE-YET 
That's what you got when you buy a 
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8 old on 60 days’Free Trial. New cat¬ 
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Box 807, Caatorland, N. Y. 
Incubator, THE HATCHER 
YOU WANT. 
B*a*ub* ltl* «s*y to op*rsU, bolnf self 
regulating, M»lf molaUnlnf and self venti¬ 
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90 DAYS TRIAL. 
Don’tfall to Investigate the Qutnoj. It's 
different fr<«n other* and our offer is 
the mo*tllberaL Price* low. Mend for 
/Vm Catalogue* It wilt help make mors 
poultry profit. 
QUIIKJT INCUBATOR CO.. Box 3«, QUINCT. ILL. 
!s FREE for the asking. Drop 
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The Book tells facts vou 
ought to know If you are think¬ 
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ucks—large returns on Incubator 
hatched turkeys. Let us start you 
Don’t waste eggs, oil,and 
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01 our 39 years exper 
lence. Profit by the successful 
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our book. Write for it today. 
Ertel Co. Quincy, Ill 
IT’S A CORKER 
ho Keystone Incubator—cork lined, 
double walls, adjustable egg trays, 
safety laino, heat and ventilation 
under perfect control. Easy to 
operate. Big, healthy hatches. It’s a 
corker every way. Catalog free. The 
Diehl-Bohilling Co., Box 60S, Easton, Pa. 
I 
VERYTHIHG FOR POULTRY. 
Our Catalogue, 228 pages, (8x11) is a valuable 
guide to money-making poultry success. De- 
scril>esall needed articles. We make them, 
including the new lOOG-pattern 
STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATOR 
^Sold on DO Days Trial. Guaranteed to hatch 
More and Healthier Chicks than any other. 
Catalogue free if you mention this paper and send addresses of 
two persons interested in Poultry. Write nearest office. 
CYPHERS INCUBATOR C0„ K.n... City or boo Frtocisco. 
$ I 0-80 For 
I mm 200 Egg 
INCUBATOR 
Perfcot In oonatruotion and 
action. Hatches every fertile 
eKK- Write for catalog to day. 
CEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III. 
SI* PER MONTH 
to $ 2 . per month rpnts any Incubator. 
Kent pays for it. We Pey the Freight. 
40 Days Trial « Sfl " ,c i , , rlc< * 
- f .. plans and parts and 
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•6.00; 100 egg W; 200 egg •12.76. Brood¬ 
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40, 60 or 90 Days Trial on 
P§S® "Old Trusty” 
1 fill The Easy Machine to Operate. 
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Km J care—Ion* oil—mont protlt. Don’t 
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SHOEMAKER’S 
BOOK on 
POULTRY 
Almanae for I DOM contain* 2'ii page*,with 
many fine colored plates of fowl* true to life. 
It tell* all about chicken*, their care, diieases 
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Make Your Own Brooders 
with the Universal Hover anti a 
Piano Box 
any form of Colony 
House, or small poul¬ 
try building. 
C Frii Books on Artificial 
u Poultry Production 
1 st—Standard Incut ra¬ 
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Universal Hover and Colony Broodera. 4th 
* ceding and rearing chicka. 5th-What users 
are doing. Other hooka to follow. Getonour 
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