asa07. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
469 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
This is from a prominent breeder: 
I regret exceedingly the loss of the A. J. 
C. C.'s report the express company lost, and 
hope the committee may remember part of it 
anyway. I did not expect they would do 
anything but whitewash Dawley, bub I don't 
see that they even did that, simply made 
a bungle of the job. Are you going to drop 
It? c. A. 
New York. 
Since that was written the report 
has been made public. The report is not 
a whitewash. The committee did all it 
could by way of apology and denial, but 
it admits that at least one cow does not 
fit the papers, and of others it is only 
said that they could be the ones described 
in the papers. This breeder asks: “Are 
you going to drop it?” Why, sir, we 
have not yet begun. We had hoped that 
the A. J. C. C. would handle this matter 
in a way to make further exposure un¬ 
necessary. .Now the whole sickening story 
must be told. 
Do you know anything about the Lake Brie 
Seed Co. of West Seneca, N. Y. ? They are 
selling seed corn and also selling silos. 
New York. c. s. k. 
Yes, we know a whole lot about them. 
See issue of April 20, page 355. If you 
believe ten per cent of what these people 
tell you, you are easy. Our information 
and belief is that they take common west¬ 
ern corn out of the elevators, give it a 
new name, and sell it as a special variety. 
Practically the same thing is done with 
potatoes and other seeds. 
I like the way your paper Is exposing the 
crooks of all sorts and kinds. I was In 
New York in the latter sixties, and if I 
should get over again any time, I shall be 
sure to come to see you and the new print¬ 
ing press you speak of. In the meantime I 
send you check for $3. h. j. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
When this good friend calls we hope 
the new press will be in operation, print¬ 
ing papers at the rate of two hundred a 
minute, as it will be capable of doing. 
But whether it is or not he will always 
find our latchstring out, so that he can 
walk right in without knocking, and this 
applies to every farmer in the country 
who finds time to favor us with a call. 
We appreciate the sentiment that prompts 
this good friend to send a remittance for 
three years to help along in the payment 
of the press. We have not the slightest 
doubt that there are enough others who 
would if requested do the same thing to 
pay for the press before the first paper 
is run on it. But we do not need to ask 
this, and shall not ask it. We only re¬ 
quest that each one send in his renewal 
promptly when the expiration notice 
reaches him, and if this be done, we will 
take care of the press all right. The ex¬ 
tra help you can do by sending in the 
new names. As you know, 10 cents will 
pay for a new subscription for 10 weeks. 
An inquiry comes to us from New Jer¬ 
sey in reference to a nursery company 
whose agent claims that he has a scale- 
proof plum, and a new prune that will 
dry itself without heat or evaporation. 
We should call it a doubtful recommend 
for the prune. A shriveled-up fruit of 
any kind is the last thing anyone would 
care to have. A scale-proof plum is, of 
course, a fake. The firm may not be, and 
probably is not, responsible for the agent’s 
representation, but he affords a good rea¬ 
son for giving direct orders to some re¬ 
sponsible house. 
No use talking, we have the best 
natured friends in existence. When 
we said we would ship the grapes 
up to June 15, we calculated we could do 
so on account of the late cold Spring. 
When we got word from the nursery 
that it was impossible to send out any 
more with safety, we had about two 
thousand orders ready to go out. We 
had to send these a letter of explanation. 
We knew there would be some disap¬ 
pointment. We expected some complaint, 
but not a word of complaint has reached 
us. The replies are practically all like 
the following: 
Yours of the 14th inst. just received; in 
regard to the grape, it suits me much better 
to get it this Fall than this Spring, as it will 
be better to set it out in the Fall this far 
south. Yours with very best wishes. 
Mississippi. w. o. v. 
Yours of Mav 18 received in regard to 
grapevine, which will be thankfully received 
whenever it suits your convenience. 
Virginia. j. c. B. 
Of course if there had been any seri¬ 
ous complaint, we would simply return 
the remittance. We are always ready to 
do this for any cause whatever, but it is 
especially pleasing to receive such kindly 
and considerate assurances under the cir¬ 
cumstances. 
Do you know what those little 10 weeks 
for 10 cents subscriptions mean? The two 
letters that follow may give you a hint: 
Emclosed you will find my check for $2 
to be applied to my subscription account to 
The R. N.-Y. I am one of your trial sub- 
scribers. I did not think I would renew, but 
it seems that the longer I read your paper 
the better I like it. f. m. h. 
Ohio. 
Some person sent me a trial subscription 
for your most, valuable paper. I am much 
pleased with it. I also admire the stand you 
take in regard to tlie fraud advertisers. If 
you run short of material train your artil¬ 
lery on the automobiles and blow them off 
from our highways. Enclosed find one dol¬ 
lar in payment for one year’s subscription. 
Vermont. a. j. 
Out of about 15,000 of these 10-week 
orders sent in this year nearly 12,000 
have become regular subscribers, about 
80 out of every 100. These records we 
have right here in the office. From now 
on we shall want more of these to keep 
the new press busy. If every old friend 
would send just one, we would have 
about all the press could do. Can’t you 
send that one? j. j. d. 
THE LITTLE CHICK PROBLEM. 
I have been reading Hope Farm Notes for 
the last two or three years, and seeing your 
troubles with an incubator leads me to 
write this. I have been trying my hand at 
running one for the last nine seasons, and 
SELF-FEEDING BOX FOR HENS. 
have had more or less success—sometimes 
less—but have not been bothered by one 
smoking unless the lamp was turned low, 
until this Spring and I would rather risk 
breaking that quadruped of yours from 
smoking than most bipeds I know of! I 
have a 112-egg machine which I have run 
six years. I got some Standard oil and lit 
it up. It smoked. I then got some 20-cent 
red oil, claimed to be the best, and after 
swabbing about a tablespoonful of soot out 
of the heater with a stick and rag, tried it. 
It then smoked worse than at first. I then 
tried changing lamps, and still the same 
smoke. I made another trip to town and 
got a different oil, a water-white Indiana oil 
this time. After cleaning the heater again 
I tried this, and the smoking stopped at 
once, and I could turn the flame high or low 
and not a particle of smoke or odor after¬ 
ward. So I think if you get the right oil 
and clean the heater well (especially the 
opening or short tube that connects the inner 
tube and outer flues, if you have a Cyphers 
machine, you will have no further trouble on 
that account. There is an oil made espe¬ 
cially for incubators and brooders at Cleve¬ 
land, O., which I think I will try another 
season. This oil was recommended by the 
incubator men at our State fair last Fall. 
I hatched 80 chicks the first time and 70 
the second out of about 100 fertile eggs 
each time—78 and 84 last Spring. When 
you learn how to hatch 100 per cent every 
time tell us about it in The R. N.-Y. 
Lovington, Ill. g. w. t. 
I have just been reading your incubator 
experience, and it is so contrary to mine that 
there is something wrong. In early Feb¬ 
ruary of this year I bought a 300-egg incu¬ 
bator ; set it up and started it, and out of 
315 fertile eggs we hatched 205 strong vig¬ 
orous chicks. This was our first experience 
with an incubator, I never had my hands on 
one before. We had run it three times and 
averaged over 250 chicks each time. My 
aunt is an experienced “poultrvman,” having 
always been manager of the hen department, 
and she cannot beat the Incubator with hens 
(on an average) ; she sometimes hatches every 
egg, and again she loses every one. I think 
I would have had better hatches if my aunt 
had not forced her hens so much. I, too, 
am a Wyandotte man, just paid $56.56 for 
eight. R. T. A. 
Georgia. 
I see that the Hope Farm man is having 
the much to be dreaded white scours in his 
flock of incubator chicks. As one of those 
who have overcome the trouble in her flocV 
I would like to help him out. Two years 
ago I started with a flock of White Leg¬ 
horns and an incubator. The first hatch I 
had no trouble with, but the second hatch 
was mostly pullet eggs from a neighbor, and 
with many misgivings I put those in the in¬ 
cubator. Out of 200 eggs I got 20 chicks, 
and such weaklings! The white scours 
started in the flock, and I saved only 25. 
This Spring I took one of mv henhouses and 
after a thorough cleaning put up an old 
stove and put in a couple of indoor brooders, 
putting a couple of bushel baskets of clover 
heads and siftings off the barn floor on 
the floor of the house. I sprinkled oatmeal 
in the stuff and turned the chicks out on the 
floor, and made them scratch for what they 
wanted to eat; oatmeal and plenty of water 
with a box of sand and one of bone meal to 
pick at, and how they did scratch and thrive 1 
I take once a day a couple of hard-boiled 
eggs, a couple of tablcspoonfuls of powdered 
charcoal and a pint of onfon tops chopped 
fine, with enough stale bread to make one 
mess for the chicks, and feed, and how they 
do enjoy it. The first lot of 150 are five 
weeks oid. and are all feathered out, and are 
twice as large as a dozen I gave an old hen 
to take care of. and not a sign of the scours, 
though I have 300 now. mrs. m. c. h. 
Michigan. 
The Hope Farm Notes speak of the mor¬ 
tality of incubator chickens when placed in 
brooders. Personally I used brooders before 
purchasing an incubator, and for several 
years took the chicks from the liens, hatching 
them and put them in the brooders. I have 
had good success as a rule, and now that 
I am using incubator have the same result: 
use chick food in the litter, beef scrajis and 
growing food in pans where the chicks have 
access to it at all time. It is surprising how 
much of this growing food the little ones will 
eat. Fresh water in drinking fountains so 
they cannot wet their feet, and above all 
“fresh air.” The “Model” brooders are very 
good in regard to ventilation: the hover is 
far enough back from the door so the chicks 
can get under cover if chilly, and the door 
can be kept open to let in air. By using 
an extra long hook on the door one can keep 
the door open enough to let in the air, and 
yet not so far that the little ones get out. 
I begin to feed fresh cut bone a little at a 
time after a few davs, and increase the 
quantity as they become older. When fully 
feathered I feed all the fresh cut bone they 
will eat. It certainly makes them grow. 
TTntil ready for market or the laving house, 
feed all they can eat. It goes to better ad¬ 
vantage when small and growing than when 
they are old. Horace b. Parker 
Massachusetts. 
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Don’t waste time and money on inferior dips. 
USE 
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BONNIE B RA E Breeders ot strictly high 
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335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
S, G. White & Brown Leghorns 
MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS 
. Prize winners wherever shown. Unexcelled for 
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IRA L. LETTS, Moravia, N. Y. 
MONEY IN S0UABS~ Tryi J t ' Pure Homers, guar- 
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STOCK AND EGGS. 
t , ut l? hatched Leghorns will develop before winter 
duly Orpingtons will develop in spite of winter. 
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hatching well, and a majority of pullots. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, Ridgefield, Conn. 
MATED HOMERS $1.15 PAIR 
for limited time. Every pair actually mated, tested 
DELAWARE SQUAB 
FARM COMPANY, Bridgeville, Delaware. 
PGGS FOR HATCHING; Barred Plymouth 
*-< Rocks, from First-Prize Winning Fowls of 10 years 
selection; free range; Fertile Eggs, with 90 per cent 
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JAS. SINSABAUGH, Pine Bush, Orange Co., N. Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from 500 mature hens, selected 
from over 1,;>00 birds bred for egg production. Write 
for prices. WHITE & RICK, Yorktown, N. Y. 
WHITE AND PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTE EGGS 
” from Prize Winners, $2.00 and $3.00 per 15. White 
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N. Y. Walter McEwan, Prop. W. H. Seik, Mgr. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE IEGH0RNS 
Winners at N.Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5; Eggs 
tor hatching, $1 for 15: $5 per 100. Catalogue free 
C. H. ZIMMER, R. 1). 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES— Eggs, $1.25 per 15; $2.50 
per 50; $40 per 1,000. Also fine breeding stock at 
$6.00 per trio: choice pens of ten hens and cock, 
l’. r .°.PS rly roamed. $15.00. Guaranteed to please. Also 
PEKIN DUCK eggs, $1.00 per 11. Send for descrip¬ 
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ESTABLISHED 1888. — BRED FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. 
L Barred, White, Buff Rocks: White, Buff Wyan- 
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quality exhibition, $5 per setting; Trap-nested Lay- 
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DUFF, Wh. Lenhorns, Eggs 75c. per 15, $1.25 per 30; S. C. R. I. 
IF Red Kggs 90c. per 15, $ 1 .50 per SO; Mottled Ancona Eggs, $1.25 
per 15, $2.00 per 30; Clr. free. JOHN A. ROTH, (Junkertonn, Pa. 
O n WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 
Oi Ui Healthy stock bred for heavy laying. Free 
range. Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15; $4 per hundred. 
D. F. ARNOLD, Burlington Flats, N. Y. 
BARRED Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale. Special 
nuiikv mating $1.00 per sitting. Colony mating 
$3.00 per 100. C. A. HERSHEY, R.D.5, Gettysburg,Pa 
COK THE BALANCE OF THE SEASON, 
, A R-.J- h" 0 ! 1 and White Leghorn Eggs; setting, 500; 
100, $3.00. Indian Runner Ducks Eggs; setting, 750 
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East Donegal Poultry Yards, Marietta, Penn. 
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN layers for sale; 
!■ eggs for hatching ; $1.00 per 15, $4.00 per 100. 
Very best strain. I. C. HAWKINS, Bullville, N. Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
NO BETTER STOCK. NO BETTER EGGS. 
February chicks for early shows. All stock sold on 
approval. Sinclair Smith, Box 153, Southold, Suffolk Co., N.Y. 
ROOK-HOLLAND FARM 
W. Plymouth Hocks and W. Holland Turkeys. 
