1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5i3 
PUBLISHERS DESK. 
The farm papers that accept the Seed¬ 
less apple advertising make desperate el- 
forts to live up to the requirements of the 
contract. The seedless people arc not 
sides as a condition of getting the order 
and the money. Some of the more pre¬ 
tentious editors escape the personal re¬ 
sponsibility by sending a representative to 
write up the great merits of the Seedless 
the way they all do it. None of them 
seems to enjoy it, and some of them ac¬ 
tually ease their conscience by qualifying 
their own paid-puffery with the informa¬ 
tion that The R. N.-Y. has exposed its 
worthlessness. It is a notable fact that 
the papers which have not accepted the 
advertising have not said a single word in 
favor of this much-discussed and alleged 
novelty. But any one that has published 
the advertising also published some sort 
of an endorsement of it. The promoters 
are now using these paid—or at tuo>t 
money-inspired-editorials — in circular 
form to influence sales.of trees. It is also 
worthy of note that the apple is con¬ 
demned as worthless by practically all the 
well-known horticulturists of the coun¬ 
try. The papers that find merit in it have 
simply been bought. We challenge a sin¬ 
gle one of them to deny it. 
A Canadian subscriber sends us some 
three-cornered piece of glass wedged 
fast at the back of her mouth. I took it 
squirts” of kerosene oil down their 
soak whole corn in kerosene and feed it 
to his fowls once a week as a preventive 
of roup, canker, or other diseases; skip¬ 
ping one meal previous to feeding it, so 
the hens would cat it. I do not think 
Care of Colt’s Feet. —I wish to express 
my appreciation and thank you kindly for the 
valuable information given in care of colt’s 
feet. The colt for whom the information 
was desired has arrived, and is now two 
weeks old. The mother, a fine mare in every 
respect save her feet, is one I have tried to 
raise, and now that the information has been 
received, I am reminded of how the smith, 
a man as ignorant of the anatomy of a colt’s 
foot as I am of surgery, would cut and trim 
out the frog and bars of the foot as though 
he were trying to fashion a foot of wax. 
Illinois. E. M. F. 
A Hen Record.— On page 449 you give 
Mr. Cosgrove’s poultry account. I enclose 
mine for May from a flock of 70 hens. Tart 
are purebred Silver Gray Dorkins and re¬ 
mainder are grade Dorkings. I had some 
sitters during this time, and also kept 28 
Dorkings confined more or less to keep their 
' eggs separate for hatching. For market eggs 
OOi/. dozen at 17 cents, $15.38; eggs for 
hatching. $3.75: total, $19.13; total cost for 
feed, $3.00; profit, $16.13. Profit per hen 
23 cents. f. a. c. 
Portlandville, N. Y. 
Is your mistress at home?” inquired 
at ye. If ye hov a wart on the side o’ 
yer nose, ma’am, she ain’t.”—Philadelphia 
Press. 
Baby’s Awful Eczema. 
Skin Peeled Off Hands and Face—En¬ 
dured Tortures—Cured by the 
Cuticura Remedies. 
“I can truthfully say that just two 
cakes of Cuticura Soap and two bottles of 
Cuticura Resolvent surprised me, as the 
skin was peeling off my baby’s hands and 
face, and he was suffering awful. When 
the eczema first appeared he was very 
healthy, but as soon as he was covered 
with it he lost flesh rapidly. But as soon 
as I commenced to use the Cuticura Rem¬ 
edies be started to mend. I kept on using 
the Cuticura Soap, as I think it is an in¬ 
dispensable article around the house. As 
my baby weighs only thirty-seven pounds 
and is only seventeen months old, you can 
imagine the torture he endured. My 
neighbors can vouch for this statement as 
being correct. Mrs. Alex. Weeks, Jr., 
268 North Water St., Newburgh, N. Y., 
Sept. 7, 1905.” 
R egistered angora GOATs.-p a irs or 
trios. REGISTERED RAMBOUIRRKT RAMS. 
Write for prices ami information. 
MERROSE STOCK FARM, Oincinnatus, N. Y. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM NkVV york. K ’ 
VV. Ply mouth Rocks and VV. Holland Turkeys. 
Wars Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
’Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. bookMOc. 
Ratos free. J. A. BERGEY.Box 8,Telford,Pa, 
B EE OUTFIT— Colony best Italian Bees, hive, 
super, sections, hat, veil, broom, gloves and 
smoker, $10. GEO. ENTY, R. R. No. 2, Mosgrove. Pa. 
throats, using the little squirt can that 
you oil the sewing machine with. I 
satisfied with the advertising space alone. j £now an Q ] ( i poultryman who used to 
They insist on editorial endorsement be- 
much could be fed, though, without af- 
apple. The smaller fellows swallow the fecting the eggs. geo. a. cosgrove. 
whole bait and come out in straight edi¬ 
torial puffery. It is a bit pitiable to see 
Mrs. Borem, standing in the shadow of 
out and the hen was all right in a few the doorway. “I don’t know, ma’am,” 
days. I should try squirting two or three replied the servant. “Can’t tell whether 
she’s at home or not till I git a good look 
Get Rid of Lice and Mites 
One application of Avenarius Carbollncum 
to the inside woodwork of your ben house Is 
guaranteed to exterminate all of them. A 
thin, nut-brown liquid applied with a brush or 
spray. Rarge covering capacity. On the market 
sioee 1875. Acknowledged the best preserver <.f 
wood in any situation against rot and decay. 
CARBOLINEUM WOOD PRESERVING CO., 
INC., 351 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
ISQUABS 
are raised in one month 
bring big prices. MoneyTSy' 
makers for poultrymen.tW* 
farmers, women. y&y 
for our Free Book and learn this 
rich industry. Correspondence inviteddWA 
ffff Plymouth Rock Squab Co., V&7 
Q^Uw< 335 Howard St., Melrose, Mass. 
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(bators. Live Stock, Brooders—anything— { 
sit’s our business. Call or let us send you< 
jour Illustrated Catalogue—it’s free for the< 
)asking—it's worth having. 
(Excelsior Wire 8c Poultry Supply Co.,< 
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WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY! 
FOR BARE—Yearling Hens #1.50 each; Cocks $2 up. 
Eggs for Hatching $1.50 per sit. $5 per 100. A satisfac¬ 
tory deal guaranteed. E. F. KEAN, Stanley, N. Y. 
SPECIAL 
L. C. 
R. C. VV. LEGHORNS. W. 
P. ROCKS. EGGS 5c. EACH. 
STOCK FOR SALE. 
HILLS, Delaware, O. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair. 1004-05. Trios, $5. Eggs 
for hatching, $1.00 per 15; $5.00 per 100. Catalogue 
free. C. H. ZIMMER, R. D. 41. Weedsport. N. Y. 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, m ^ b n t a t . a ’ 
Breeder of Thoroughbred Poultry. Prices reasonable. 
L IGHT BRAHMAS— Prize stock. EGGS $1.00 
for 15. C. GORDON, R. F. D. 1, Sprakers, N. Y. 
Maple Villa Poultry Yards—Eggs and stock guaran¬ 
teed. Hamburgs. Leghorns, Andalusians, Mlnorcas, 
WyandotteS, Rocks, Anconas. W.G.MOSHKK, Sylvania, Pa. 
circulars and letters from McLean Pub. 
Co., of 88 Walker Street, New York City, 
and includes a remittance of $1.35 which 
he tells us to hand them if we think it 
an honest proposition. The publishing 
company claim that the subscriber is to 
receive a present for some unknown rea¬ 
son, and requests that he send $1.35 to 
cover boxing and packing charges. They 
do not say so; but the correspondent 
would have to pay the express charges if 
he ever received anything. It is alleged 
in some such cases that the express com¬ 
pany also rebates the shipper a certain 
amount on every shipment. Stripped of 
all ingenuity of language, these people 
have something they would be glad to sell 
for $1.35, and presents or guessing con¬ 
tests have no consideration at all. If you 
could see the so-called presents you prob¬ 
ably would not want them at all. We have 
not seen the presents. The things that 
we have seen sold under similar schemes 
were pure and simple humbugs. We do 
not say that this one is. We do not know 
whether it is or not. But being left to our 
judgment we are not going to send them 
that $1.35. If the goods are all right, we 
see no reason of adopting the methods of 
well-known fakers to sell them. 
WHAT AILED THE HENS. 
I am interested in a small way in poultry; 
have 135 fowls, mostly pullets, and in Jan¬ 
uary they laid 1,684 eggs; February, 1,680; 
March, 2,424 ; and April, 2,559, which I 
think is very good. I have 100 pullets in 
under a wagon house and the horses, and 
drop the manure down, so they have had 
that to scratch in; feed mostly oats, buck¬ 
wheat and corn. Some of my hens have 
something the matter with their throats; 
they act as if there was something there 
they were trying to get out. I have lost six 
from (his cause. Will some of our hen men 
tell me the trouble, what is the cause and 
what will cure it? c. F. G. 
East Chatham. N. Y. 
It would be impossible to answer this 
question without a more definite state¬ 
ment of the trouble. Why not look 
down their throats and see if they have 
canker in the throat? Sometimes a cold 
will cause a wheezing noise as they 
breathe, but fowls will usually get over 
a cold in a few days if nothing is done 
for them. A neighbor sent a hen down 
to my house by one of his boys, asking 
if I could tell what ailed her; she would 
not eat and kept shaking her head; had 
been so for several days. I noticed she 
could not close her mouth, and found a 
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409 PEARL STREET NEW YORK 
