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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 3 , 
Black Hawk 
GRIST MILL 
A hand mill for country, vil¬ 
lage and city houBekeepers. 
Fresh com meal, graham.' rye 
Hour, etc. Fast, easy grinder made to last.. 
Weight 17 lbs. $3.00. E PAID. SS 
Soon pays for itself. You’ll find a dozen uses 
for it. Grinds com, wheat, rye, rice, spices, 
coffee, etc. fine or 
coarse. Just the 
thing for eracking 
grain for poultry. 
Black Hawk book FREE. 
A. H. PATCH, 
Mfr. of Il&nd Mills And Corn 8hellon 
exclusively, Agents Wanted. 
Clarksville, Tennessee. 
How to Get 5% 
\lOV probably have often desired better return on 
■ your savings than 3£ or 4*. But you wanted to 
be sure. Let us show you how, for over 12 
Assets 
$1,750,000 
Surplus and Profits 
*150,000 
counts of patrons in all parts 
of the country, we have never 
paid less than 5*. 
Your money will be in care¬ 
ful hands, free from specula¬ 
tion, earning 5* l’er Y’ear, 
reckoned for every day, no 
matter when received or when 
withdrawn. 
A strong, progressive insti¬ 
tution, ably managed, under 
supervision of New York 
Banking Department. 
Write for particulars. 
Industrial Savings and 
Loan Co., 
S TIM KR BliDO.. BROADWAY. VKW YORH. 
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BEATS THE 
Grindstone 
Ten Times Over. 
Grind any tool, knife to mower 
sickle, with the 
Practical 
Grinder. 
3.000 revolutions of 
carborundum wheel 
per minute. Greatest 
abrasive known. No 
pressure needed, does 
not draw temper or 
heat tools. Every 
home needsit. Write 
for price and circu¬ 
lar. A few good 
agents wanted. 
ROYAL MFC. CO., 226 E. Walnut St 
Lancaster, Pa. 
Milne Mfg. Co F 860 Ninth St., Monmouth, III. 
Stump and Tree Pullers 
Self-anchoring and Stump- 
anchored. Something new. 
Pull an ordinary stump in 1 
minutes. lto5 
acres at a set¬ 
ting. Different 
sizes to 6uit 
all binds of 
clearings. 
For illustrated 
catalog address 
l l A 
Powerful, 
llandy. 
Low 
Priced. 
This Milk Cooler • Aerator 
Costs You Nothing! 
Because it earns its cost out of what it saves. 
Your milk will keep ‘24 to 48 hours longer—there’11 
be no loss from milk "returned” 
And by preventing bacteria growth and driving out 
all taint and odors your milk will be better. 
Butter and cheese from it 
will bo finer flavored and 
there’ll be more of it. 
Your milk will be worth more ' 
money. 
THE CHAMPION 
will save your time—an. hour at 
each milking—a month n year. 
These are only some of the 
ways it earns its cost. 
The Champion is auto¬ 
matic-needs no attention. 
Easy to clean as a pail. _ 
Catalogue free. Write today. 
Champion Milk Cooler Co. 11th St. Cortland, N. 
The International 
Is the only Silo with an Automatic, Self Adjusting 
Hoop. Also has Continuous, Open Front, Air Tight, 
and Easy Operating Door, and a Permanent Ladder, 
aiwavs in Position. Made of Selected 2-inch Tank 
Pine. Matched, ready to set up. THE INTER¬ 
NATIONAL SILO CO., Box 91, Jefferson, O. 
That Is the title of our new 216 page hook. It 
tells everything anybody could possibly want to 
know about the silage subject. You can’t think 
of a question that it does not fully answer. How 
to build, from foundation up, all kinds of silos. 
All about the crops and how to cut and fill. How 
to feed, with the most complete feeding tables 
ever published. About 40 illustrations help to 
make things plain. Used as a text book in 
many Agricultural Colleges. We have always , 
sold the book for 10 cents, but lor a limited 
lime, to any reader who will ask for it, 
and name this paper, we will send a 
copy free. Write at once. 
SILVER MFG. CO. 
Salem, Ohio. 
A PET CROW. 
This crow was one of five hatched in 
the top of a hemlock tree about May 1. 
He was taken from the nest when fully 
feathered, about three weeks old, by a 
12-year-old boy. He was put into a 
screened box and fed every three hours 
during the day on fish worms and raw 
fresh meat. When four weeks old he was 
put out on the grape arbor south of the 
house; he could fly a little. Sometimes 
we would feed him cracked corn or 
soaked whole corn; each time he would 
vomit it, preferring meat. There were 
two families of robins in the pear trees, 
near to the cherry tree. The first few 
days that he was out the robins were 
excited and noisy, as many as 25 at a time 
twittering, flying here and there, trying 
to drive “Jerry” away. As soon as the 
baby robins -were large enough all moved 
out, never bothered us with the berries 
or cherries. Jerry was a very busy bird. 
One day he went into the garden with 
us to weed beets. When he found that 
the beets had pretty red roots, he began 
to pull beets faster than any hen; the 
boy had to take him to the shed and shut 
him up until the beets were weeded. 
He would say “Hello” when about three 
months old; would greet the neighbors 
when they came into the yard, with 
“Hello.” One day Jerry flew up on to a 
THE BOY AND HIS CROW. 
box where some kittens were sleeping; it 
frightened the kittens, and they hissed 
and spit at him; that surprised him so 
he called out “Hello-lo-lo!” He was very 
fond of picking out choice bits from the 
cats’ dinner plate. The old cat would 
strike him in the face. He would step back 
and wait until the old cat began to eat, 
then walk around the dish, catch the tip 
of the old cat’s tail and pinch it wickedly. 
The cat of course would jump and spit; 
then Jerry would cry out “Ha, ha, ha!” 
as if laughing. When called he would 
come to us, alight on our hand if held out, 
or on our head. He liked to be praised; 
if we asked him to sing and begin to run 
the scale, he would try to sing, and swell 
out his throat, a laughable sight, his voice 
about as musical as a Plymouth Rock 
lien’s. 
Jerry delighted in teasing the dog; if 
he found the dog asleep he would creep 
up and pull his tail; after trying two 
or three times, if this didn’t wake him, 
he would give the dog’s toenail a good 
pull; that usually brought the old dog up 
with a snap. Then Jerry would laugh. 
When the men were shingling he was 
very much interested in chalk line, nails, 
etc.; if you tried to catch him he would 
just step out of your way, while if you 
coaxed him or flattered^ him would bring 
them back. He thought it great fun to 
take a side comb from a lady’s hair and 
fly to the top of the barn, yet if you 
coaxed him would bring it down to you. 
He went to the village, one and a half 
mile away, with the children to school at 
8 A. M., coming back at about 11 A. M.: 
after a while perhaps he would be gone 
over night. When about a year old he 
forgot to come home. The children say 
they saw him visiting with another crow 
in a treetop. We have heard of him since 
about three miles from home, playing with 
other children. The boy thinks he will 
try to get another this year; they enjoyed 
his company. M. D. H. 
Granby, Mass. 
THE DIFFERENCE BE TWEEN A . COOP ROOF 
* yfrifitite- 
Can a durable satisfactory Ready Roof¬ 
ing be made at a low price? We say 
yes, and offer you Amatite. 
Low price in most things means poor 
quality—unless there is some special cir¬ 
cumstance—and in the case of Amatite 
there are special circumstances that enable 
you to get the very best Ready Roofing 
at the lowest price. 
Years of experience have taught us that 
there is only one way to make a roofing 
that is both cheap and durable. That is 
by using a coal tar pitch as the water¬ 
proofing agent in combination with wool 
felt. Pitch is the lowest priced material 
known that is adapted for protection 
against water. That it is the most dura¬ 
ble, is proved by tests of thirty years 
in actual use. If pitch is used, it is 
really possible to secure a cheap, durable, 
ready roofing. There are other materials 
besides pitch that will make a satisfactory 
roofing, but they all cost very much more. 
None of them is as good as pitch, for 
pitch is ideal. Water is absolutely inef¬ 
fective against it, both chemically and 
physically. 
We are the largest manufacturers of 
coal tar pitch in the world. 
Our many years of experience enable 
us to make a ready roofing out of pitch, 
and this is something: that only this 
company is equipped to do to advantage. 
So we can offer Amatite Roofing— 
made of oitch and wool felt in a practical 
form at so low a price. 
To obtain its equal you must pay at 
least twice as much. 
Compare its cost at your dealers, weight 
for weight—for that is what counts—with 
the cost of its rivals. 
Roughly speaking, a roll of Amatite 
equals in weight (and durability) the 
three-ply or four-ply grade of any roof¬ 
ing which is not made of pitch. But its 
price is usually less than half. 
Don’t be deceived into thinking that 
Amatite can't be lasting because its price 
is on a par with flimsy light weight roof¬ 
ings. 
Amatite would sell on its merits at 
double its price. We prefer to keep to a 
normal profit and to make big sales. 
You, Mr. Purchaser, get the benefit! 
We should like to send you a free sam¬ 
ple, just to show what a solid, practical, 
weather resisting roofing you get when 
you buy Amatite. 
A postal card will do. Address the 
Barrett Manufacturing Company, New 
York, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Alle¬ 
gheny, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Philadel¬ 
phia, New Orleans, Kansas City. 
Every Horseman and Cattle Owner Wants 
A Good, Reliable Liniment and Condition Powder, 
s Such are to be found in 
venetianIorsFuniment 
AND 
DERBY CONDITION POWDERS 
ZfO pay if the Liniment and Powders are not superior to all others. Sold by 
druggists and saddlers. Depot, 40 Murray Street, New York. 
' Tve been fed all winter on Green 
Mountain Silage.” 
Green Mountain Silo 
Mount Herrnon, Mass., Dec. 23,1905. 
After a thorough trial of the Green 
Mountain Silo, we find it satisfactory 
in every respect. Ours is 25 feet in 
diameter, 40 feet high, and feeding 
as we do from 60 to 80 head of cattle 
from it throughout the year, have 
no fault to find with the silo or the 
silage as it comes from it. 
H. Hayward 
Stoddard Mfg.Co.,Rutland, Yt. 
Agents wanted in unoccupied 
territory. 
“ Wish 1 had.” 
OHNSTON 
Steel Hay Tedder is the right tool at hay time. It does its 
work right and does it rapidly. Stirs the hay in the proper 
way. No matter how wet or how heavy the hay, it kicks it 
up as no other tool can, much easier than doing it by hand, 
and allows the sun to cure it quickly and evenly so 
that all the goodness is retained. The Johnston 
Steel Hay Tedder 
works without jar or strain, with least possible friction-- 
no two forks touch the ground at the same time. The steel 
angle and steel pipe construction make The Johnston 
light, compact, durable, neat—just the machine you’ll like 
to use and ought to buy. Our Tedder 
Folder tells why—describes it fully and 
shows how it works. Our 1906 catalog 
illustrates the complete Johnston line 
of “Not in the Trust” farm tools. 
Write today for both. They are free. 
The Johnston Harvester Co.> 
Box 301 Batavia, N. Y. 
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