1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
529 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
The editors of farm papers which are 
printing advertisements and inspired edi¬ 
torial endorsement of the seedless apple 
with occasional veiled abuse of 1 he R. 
N.-Y. for telling the truth about it, may 
care to read the following comments 
by J. H. Hale, of Conecticut. It is an 
extract from Mr. Hale’s speech at the 
White Class Advertising banquet in Chi¬ 
cago on May 22d, and printed in the 
June number of Class Advertising. Per¬ 
haps some of these paid critics will like 
to reply to Mr. Hale’s criticism. If so, 
we will promise to print their defense of 
themselves. Mr. Hale said: 
There are some things that I might he 
glad to criticise some of our newspaper pub¬ 
lishers about. You can only succeed through 
the honest success of your advertisers, and 
your advertisers can only succeed through 
earnest, honest efforts on their own part. 
Other methods may succeed temporarily, but 
the men who build up sucessful newspapers, 
the men who build up successful businesses, 
do it by straightforward, honest, successful, 
fair and square business efforts A good deal 
of your income comes* from nurserymen, flor¬ 
ists' and seedsmen of this country for their 
advertisements. I know file majority of them 
personally, and a more honorable, upright, 
fair lot of men does not live on tlie face of 
the earth than that class of men. Now. I 
noticed recently one or two pictures in one 
of our farm papers, or rather a combination 
of farm papers, together with a great big 
article that had all the earmarks of a paid 
writeup on it. telling of a certain worthless- 
seedless apple that is going to be foisted on 
the market pretty soon. By advertising of 
this sort probably some gullible people will 
buy that thing, and probably a few million 
dollars will be spent on them. Now, a few 
million dollars out of the pockets of the farm¬ 
ers of the United States won't hurt them, be¬ 
cause they have got it: but if you take two or 
three million dollars out of (he pockets of the 
nurserymen, it will hurt them, and it is ad¬ 
vertising of this kind that does it. The ma¬ 
jority of these men are clean and for every 
dollar that the newspapers get out of that 
kind of advertising they lose ten dollars from 
the honest nursery trade of the country. (Ap¬ 
plause. ) 
Gentlemen, every time you help along a 
fraud of that kind you are hurting yourself. 
If they want to advertise in the columns and 
take their chances with the rest of ns, it is 
all right, but when you run their writeups, 
which pretend to be from tlie editorial rooms 
and which every intelligent man knows is 
paid for, it hurts you in the long run. 
A few million dollars out of the pock¬ 
ets of the farmers may not hurt them as 
Mr. Hale remarks because it would be 
collected in small sums from many people, 
but we do not propose to let them lose 
it if we can help it. 
A Pennsylvania subscriber sends us a 
copy of a contract for the sale of seed 
wheat which ought to make the seedsman 
rich, provided he gets enough farmers 
to invest in his seed. In substance he 
agrees to deliver two bushels of Number 
10 wheat for $15, to be paid for the same 
kind of wheat next Fall at $1.50 per 
bushel, recleansed and delivered at ship¬ 
ping station. The farmer is also bound 
not to sell or give away any of the wheat 
he grows on the contract prior to Novem¬ 
ber 20, 1907. It is said that the agent 
who makes the deal does not know the 
origin of the seed, or whether or not it is 
a new or old variety. There are prob¬ 
ably a good many farmers who would 
like to give two bushels of wheat this 
year for ten bushels to he delivered in its 
place next year. Five per cent, is con¬ 
sidered good interest on money. Why pay 
500 per cent interest on wheat? 
PRAISE FOR THE WHITE MINORCA. 
I am not a poultry fancier, nor a breed¬ 
er of fancy fowls, with sittings of eggs, 
or stock for sale. I keep a few hens of 
various breeds, and I have, in plenty, op¬ 
portunities for observation and comparison 
of the qualities and value of other varie¬ 
ties. From boyhood I have kept fowls, 
and after a series of pastorates in city 
and country of 50 years, when I have 
kept them both for family use and for 
pleasure, I keep them still. In country 
pastorates where grounds were ample, and 
in city charges where lots were small, to 
furnish our table with good fresh eggs, 
and an occasional roast or stew was all 
I aimed at. Our trusty pony, Jersey 
cow and choice fowls comprised our out¬ 
door family. I have tried Andalusians, 
Bantams, Brahmas, Black Spanish, Black 
Minorcas, Cochins, Creveceurs, Dork¬ 
ings, Hamburgs, Games, Polands, Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks and White Minorcas, variety 
enough, surely. Just before my youngest 
son went to the Hub for his university 
course he had acquired a fine lot of White 
Minorcas from a fancier who was leaving 
the Stqte. They were of the Princess 
strain, and prize-getters. For about six 
years I have kept them pure, using hens 
of other breeds for sitting. Minorcas 
are non-sitters. They will sometimes 
steal a nest and sit just long enough to 
spoil a clutch of eggs. Then they will go 
around singing as though race suicide 
had no terrors for them. Like some other 
bipeds, they are willing that their less 
aristocratic neighbors shall enjoy all the 
honors of perpetuating their species. Often 
before her eggs had been a week under 
the Plymouth Rock foster-mother Mrs. 
Minorca would be cackling gleefully over 
her new^laid treasure; and she’d keep it 
up all the season. With her it was not 10 
eggs and a cluck, hut ’twas 10 clucks and 
an egg. Such is their habit from early 
Spring to late Fall. The supply of eggs 
from all the Mediterranean breeds de¬ 
pends on warmth. Judging from my ex¬ 
perience, if one has to buy every scrapi of 
feed, aside from the table scraps, there 
is no profit in raising Winter eggs from 
any breed. Yet given the necessary 
warmth and a rightly balanced feed, any 
breed will yield a supply of eggs in cold 
weather; zero outside is of little moment 
if the quarters inside can be kept at Sum¬ 
mer temperature. 
As I have not been in for commercial 
ends I have sought the hen that will give 
the best flavored eggs, with the largest 
size and number, at the least outlay of 
money for feed. Then for a table fowl a 
good, well-fattened Minorca is hard to 
beat; good size, good color, plump and 
well-meated. We seldom sell, and do not 
care to buy, even turkey, when we have 
good mature fowls to select from for 
the roast. As foragers they know no su¬ 
periors. From the hour that the half- 
dormant bug stirs, touched by the forces 
of Spring, until the last earth worm seeks 
security in his subterranean home the 
jaunty Minorca hen, with eyes alert and 
springy step, is on the lookout for egg 
material. She is no lazy slouch hanging 
around at all hours to listen for the 
rattle of the feed trough. She is a good 
feeder. Yet as the bigger the egg, the 
bigger the feed, and as the Minorca lays 
the largest egg of all the gallinaceous 
tribes, the breed may not be the most 
profitable for market supply. When over 
the grocer’s counter you pay for a dozen 
of Lilliputian eggs the same price you pay 
for a dozen of large pearly white ones 
the difference to the consumer is quite 
considerable. While in the market an egg 
is an egg, in family use pound for pound 
the larger is the more economical. No 
egg in the New York market compares in 
size and value with the pearly Minorca. 
And around the home with her pure white 
plumage, which she keeps in admirable 
order, her delicate flesh pink legs, her 
large lop-over comb and the rich carbuncle 
color of comb and wattles, she is an ele 
gantly dressed gallinaceous beauty. Yet 
she is not a faultless hen. Next to a 
Guinea hen she would win in a hurdle 
race. If she would not raid the straw¬ 
berry bed while I took my morning 
snooze, or jump so high to pick the finest 
of my red raspberries; if she could only 
be induced to forego the pleasure of fly¬ 
ing over the netting to get my earliest 
Delawares; if she wasn’t so quick to 
hear the first ripe peach fall to the ground. 
I’d lift my hat and say to her: “Good¬ 
morning, madam, most bright and beauti¬ 
ful of all the dainty fowls that grace our 
lawns and rob our gardens, and cackle 
forth your joy over that welcome gift of 
yours, a new-laid egg, I salute you, queen 
of all poultry yards and ornament of our 
country homes.” t. Edwards. 
“Doctor,” said the patient upon whom 
the hospital surgeon had just operated 
for appendicitis, “You’re the same sur¬ 
geon that amputated the first finger of 
mv right hand when I had it crushed in 
a railroad accident a few months ago, 
ain’t you?” “Yes,” answered the sur¬ 
geon. “Well, you got my index then, and 
now you’ve got my appendix. I hope 
you are satisfied.”—Chicago Tribune. 
Limb Raw as Piece of Beef. 
Suffered For Three Years With Itching 
Humor—Cruiser Newark, U, S. N., 
Man Cured by Cuticura. 
“I suffered with humor for about three 
years off and on. I finally saw a doctor 
and he gave me remedies that did me no 
good, so I tried Cuticura when my limb 
below the knee to the ankle was as raw as 
a piece of beef. All I used was the Cuti¬ 
cura Soap and the Ointment. I bathed 
with Cuticura Soap every day, and used 
about six or seven boxes of Cuticura 
Ointment. I was thoroughly cured of the 
humor in three weeks, and haven’t been 
affected with it since. I use no other 
Soap than Cuticura now. H. J. Myers, 
U. S. N., U. S. S. Newark, New York, 
July 8, 1905.” 
She’s Too Lousy 
A printed five minutes talk sent 
free to everybody. ‘ ‘llow to Keep 
Away Vermin Permanently, ” 
saving monthly expenses for 
whitewash, kerosoning, insect 
powder, lico killers. 
Carbollneum Wood 
Preserving Co., 
351 W. B’way, New York 
RHODE ISLAND REDS. m F % ER S 
Wo visited their birth place many times, years ago; 
had the pick of the farms. We are offering yearling 
BULLETS and COCKERELS at reduced prices for 
July delivery. Good breeders, red under color, good 
shape, size, perfectly healthy. Young stock growing 
fast for Kail delivorv. Send for circular. 
WAQUOIT FARM, Waquoit, Mass. 
SPECIAL 
L. C. 
R. O. W. LEGHORNS. W. 
P. DOCKS. EGGS 5c. EACH 
STOCK FOR SALE. 
HILLS, Delaware, O. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY! 
FOR SALE—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. 
L IGHT BRAHMAS—Prize stock. EGGS $1.00 
for 15. C. GORDON, R. F. D. 1, Sprakers, N. Y. 
SQUAB BREEDERS 
It pays to raise Squabs for Market when your 
breeders are from the best stock. Give our Antwerp 
Homer Breeders a trial and you will keep no other 
kind. Send for a Free Booklet To-day 
NORTHERN VALLEY PIGEON FARM 
P. O. Box 23, Norwood, N. J. 
No More Blind Horses Moon blindness and other 
sore eyes, BARRY CO,, Iowa City. Iowa, have a cure. 
UTILITY! 
Laying ability Brst.standard require¬ 
ments second. LARGEST POULTRY 
PLANT IN AMERICA. S.C. White 
Leghorns, White Wyandottes, Barred 
Plymouth Rocks. Free Booklet. 
WOODLANDS FARM, Iona, New Jersey. 
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. 
90 
Aar s Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. boolr.TOc 
Rates free J A. BKRGEY, Box 8,Telford.Pe 
R0CK-H0LLAND FARM ^nh\w , yoiVk. K 
VV. Plymouth Itoeks and W. Holland Turkeys. 
R egistered angora goats.—P airs or 
trios. REGISTERED RAMBOUILLET RAMS. 
Write for prices and information. 
MELROSE STOCK FARM, Cincinnati^, N. Y. 
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20 percent saved on breakage in handling and transit, 
80 per cent saved on strength and durability. Write for 
prices and full particulars. Car load lots only. Address 
The H.B.Camp Co..Bessemer Bldg.,Pittsburg.Pa. 
ASYPOULTRYPROFITS 
Make money raising poultry with the 
Standard Cyphers Incubator. 
Guaranteed to hatch Moroand Healthier Chick b than 
any other. 90da jh trial. Dig 228pago cat’lg FREE 
Ifyou mention thifljoumal and send name of two 
friends intcrented in poultry. Write nearest office. 
S**" Cyphers Incubator Co M Buffalo, N. Y. 
Chicago, Duston, New York, Kansas City or San Francisco. 
Maple Villa Poultry Yards—Eggs and stock guaran¬ 
teed. Hamburgs. Leghorns. Andalusians, Minorcas, 
Wyandottes, itoeks, Anconas. w.g.moshkk, Sylvania, Pa. 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, M ^ V TA ’ 
Breeder of Thoroughbred Poultry. Prices reasonable. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5. Eggs 
for hatching, $1.00 per 15; $5.00 per 100. Catalogue 
free. C. H. ZIMMER, R. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
F0RDH00K KENNELS 
Have the past year been re-enforceit with a 
number of Fiue IMPORTED 
SCOTCH COLLIES 
Of the Choicest Blood. 
We shall be pleased to correspond with 
parties desiring Fine Puppies. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 
PHILADELPHIA. 
Climax Ensilage Cutter 
Simplest, cheapest and most perfect working of all ensilage 
machines. Cuts and elevates at one operation, with no litter 
or waste. No other style of cutter compares with the 
Inward Shearing Gut 
of knives and the Climax is the only cutter that has 
it. Don’t be caught by bare claims of superiority 
without proof. Read the record of the Fair ami 
other Competitive Tests. We are always anxious to 
let the Climax work side by side with any other machine, 
the Imyer to tnke the best. It you wont, to be sure of the best, ask 
for the competitive test. Send for free catalog. 
WARSAW-WM-KINSON CO., 50 Highland Ava.. Wnn.w, N. V. ^ 
The Complete 
Machine 
Cuts and Elevates 
7 to 25 Tons an Hour 
Many a farmer has failed and many a farm gone to rack and ruin 
and been abandoned tor lack of a 
GREEN MOUNTAIN SILO 
Under the old and wasteful system of hay and grain feeding in 
winter the cost of keeping cows was doubled, proper nutrition lacking 
and the milk-yield one-fourth less than it should he. 
But now fresh, green, juicy and nutritious ensilage, properly stored 
at small expense in the Green Mountain—the best of all silos—keeps 
the stock in the pink of condition through frozen winter and pasture- 
parching drought of summer and leaves a handsome cash balance to 
your credit besides. „ 
Agents wanted in unassigned territory. Write for Booklet h 1 
STODDARD MFC. CO., Rutland, Vt. 
Economic Ensilage Cutting 
appeals to you. We have the Blower that requires 
the least power and the Engine that gives the most 
power on the smallest fuel consumption. 
Abenaque Gasoline Engines 
and Papec Blowers 
will suit you in price 
and capacity. Note 
the feed table at¬ 
tached to mournings 
on the Blower. This 
outfit warranted su¬ 
perior to all others 
W rite for Catalogue 
O to 
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Westminster Station, Vt. 
New England Agents for the Papec Machine Co. 
