1912. 
TUB RURAL NEW-VORKER 
7 
HOW TO FEED YOUNG FISH. 
I have recently received from our 
State fish hatchery about two or three 
hundred young crappic and perch and 
placed them in a pond of about a quar¬ 
ter acre in size on my farm. The pond is 
from three to six feet deep. Will some 
reader of The R. N.-Y. tell me how and 
what to feed and how to care for the 
young fry during the Winter? Would 
it be necessary to cut holes in the ice- 
of the pond when frozen over to give 
the young fish air? The pond has 
no supply from spring, but is supplied 
from rains and surface drainage only. 
Missouri. N. j. 
R. N.-Y.—We feel sure that some of 
our people have had experience. Will 
they tell what to do? 
FARM FOREMAN’S PERQUISITES. 
A. T., Highland , N. Y .—Is there any 
custom among farm owners respecting per¬ 
quisites to a foreman or superintendent 
whose wages are fixed to include residence 
on the place? I And that, in respect to the 
man the foreman is in charge of, that be¬ 
side his house rent he usually gets wood for 
his kitchen fire, a quart of milk a day and 
a garden patch. Would the foreman usually 
have also a share in the butter • produced 
(assuming all stock to belong to the place), 
as well as eggs, and if so what percentage? 
Does such arrangement ever affect the 
fowls themselves and what about bis share 
of fruit? 
Ans. —Many farmers hire men on 
the basis of house rent, fire wood, gar¬ 
den and the keep of a cow. This is 
varied according to the man’s circum¬ 
stances, as lie might prefer to have a 
small quantity of milk daily rather than 
bother with a cow. Hens are so uncer¬ 
tain as to profit that they arc better 
handled separately. Regarding fruit, 
considerable latitude should be given. 
If apples form part of the farming he 
should have all needed -'or family use, 
and the tenant house should be provided 
with currants and such other small 
fruits as the tenant is interested in 
caring for. As a rule it pays the owner 
to be generous in the matter of per¬ 
quisites unless the tenant is a thorough 
ingrale. 
torch is the 
daily where a 
Is to be fed. 
eat it off the 
get it in the 
cut before singeing. About 100 pounds of 
singed pear and from four to eight pounds 
of oil cake, or ground grain, makes an 
excellent daily ration for a dairy cow, and 
not bad for a beef steer. It is also fed 
without singeing by cutting it fine in large 
feed troughs. 
A young man working on a small dairy 
near town gave me the following account 
of his daily routine of work. "I get up 
at about 4 a. m. and build a lire in the 
cow lot to warm our feet by if it is cool. 
I then milk from six to eight cows and 
feed each one from a half gallon to one 
and a half gallons of cotton-seed, the 
quantity depending on the amount of milk 
a cow gives and the time it takes to milk 
her, and milk while the cow eats. Then 
I put the milk in bottles, hitch a horse to 
a rig and deliver it to customers in town. 
I get back at about 8 a. m.. eat breakfast, 
then get a saddle horse 
line pear burner and go 
and singe pear for the _ __ 
follow and eat the pear while I singe more 
I get back to the house about 11.80 a. m. 
and get dinner about 12, and don’t do 
much till about 2 p. m. Then I get the 
saddle horse and gather the cows and 
drive them to water. We have no well on 
the place where they are milked. I begin 
milking Winter evenings at about 3.80 
and in Summer at about 4 p. m. I bottle 
and deliver the milk as in the morning and 
get back about 7.30, eat supper, feed tiie 
horses sorghum, read a while, and go to 
bed at about 9.” For such labor a white 
man gets from $15 to $25 per month with 
board and washing. A Mexican would get 
about $15 per month and possibly two 
meals per day. The reason for the differ¬ 
ence in wages is the difference on the real 
values of the laborer. The average Mexican 
laborer usually sleeps at his home nearby, 
and if the morning happens to be a little 
cold or damp he is not likely to be on 
hand for the milking, it is difficult to 
get a Mexican laborer that will do work 
strictly according to instructions, without 
a boss watching him all the time. 
Brown Co., Texas. a. c. Thompson. 
LIFE IN SOUTHERN TEXAS. 
Now that articles on the occupations of 
farmers and others of kindred pursuits are 
in order for Tiib It. N.-Y., and seem to be 
appreciated whether written from Alaska, 
I’atagonia or other localities of the western 
hemisphere, I will briefly describe conditions 
of the agricultural class here. As in many 
other parts of the United States, we have 
suffered from the effects of a severe 
drought, that continued during most of the 
past year. Cotton, the staple crop, was 
short. The drought broke with a destruc¬ 
tive hailstorm here, and destroyed the Fall 
truck and most of the Winter onion plants, 
also nearly all the Fall feed crops. Usually 
at this season of the year, November 6, 
many people are occupied in gathering and 
shipping eggplant, tomatoes and snap 
beans, also transplanting Bermuda onions. 
As I passed around the neighborhood last 
week I saw one mowing machine cutting 
some very short sorghum, several men 
were engaged in piling cotton stalks for 
burning and clearing the land, and in most 
every field there was at least one team 
plowing for future crops. 
Corn, Irish potatoes and watermelons 
are usually planted the latter part of Janu¬ 
ary and sorghum can safely lie planted 
then : cotton from the first of February to 
the first of May, but the early planting 
generally does the best, as it gets ahead 
of the late crops of the leafworm and the 
boll-weevil 
Feed crops being short and shipped feed 
high, people are singeing prickly pear for 
their cattle, especially for the milch cows. 
I’liis plant is very abundant here, and being 
essentially a drought resisting plant, a sure 
crop .ana fine feed for cattle, it is very 
valuable in cases of emergencies like the 
present one. There are two ways usually 
adopted in feeding it; one is to use a 
gasoline torch to singe the thorns off the pear, 
as it stands and the other way is to make 
a brush fire and cut the pear and carry 
it to the fire and singe it. The gasoline 
most commonly used, espe- 
considerablo number of stock 
Witli this method the stock 
standing stalks and do not 
dirt, as they do whim it is 
Keeping Carrots. 
IIow can I keep 30 bushels of carrots 
during the Winter, without having them 
decay? j. p. 
New York. 
Carrots are best stored in a cool place, 
as near freezing as possible. Those dug 
in a thrifty growing condition keep better 
than those that are fully mature when 
stored. 
Frog Culture. 
Could you give me any information re¬ 
garding tiie commercial raising of frogs? 
Michigan. m. k. 
One serious drawback to commercial frog 
raising is the cannibalistic habits of tiie 
grown-up frogs, which devour tiie small fry 
that get within reach. In order to increase 
the crop it is necessary to muzzle the old 
frogs or separate them from tiie young ones 
in some wh;. We know of no frog culture 
hook of much value, and have little faith 
in it as a commercial venture. 
Best Way to Sell Hay. 
I am offered $17 per ton for my best hay, 
about a carload, by a local buyer. Would 
you advise me to sell for this or ship it 
to New York on commission? reader. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
It is difficult to advise without seeing tiie 
hay, but our judgment is that it would be 
better to sell for the price named. It 
might net more if sent to a New York 
commission house, but expenses are heavy, 
and there is always a risk that the hay 
will be officially graded lower than the 
shipper expects. Large quantities of hay 
that the shinoer calls No. 1 are graded by 
the official inspectors as No. 2 or No. 3. 
No. 1 Timothy is supposed to be of good 
color, properly made and not more than 
one-eighth other grasses mixed in. This is 
somewhat indefinite, and considerable that 
is but slightly off the higher grade is 
thrown in witli much poorer hay. 
MATERIAL 
Pulls Any 
Stump or 
Hedge 
Quick 
and 
Easy 
Increased Value 
of Land From 
$30 to $125 Per 
Acre by Pulling 
All the Stumps 
H. E. Blackwell of Sheridan, Oregon, paid 
$30 per acre for land with stumps on—pulled the 
stumps with the Hercules, and now he says the 
land is worth $125 or up per acre. If you have 
stumps on your land, this is probably the best 
piece of reading matter that has come to your 
attention for months and months. If you 
write us, we will mail you facts and figures to 
prove that— 
The Hercules Stump Puller will save you $1300 on 40 acres—the first year. It will make you 
at least $750 extra profit every year afterwards. It will double the realty value of your land. 
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Any ordinary man and team 
can pull an acre of stumps 
a day with a Hercules, and 
wo want to send you tes¬ 
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230 17th St. 
Centerville, Iowa 
PLUMBING 
IB I A |Xf Don’t Buy One Penny’s Worth 
yy HI I ■ of Building Materials or 
■ ■ House Furnishings Till You Hear From Us! 
Twenty-one big manufacturers, who are short of cash, 
have commissioned us to sell their surplus stocks for them. 
They are so anxious to get their money that they don’t 
want any profit at all. 
If they can get out even they will be satisfied. 
So we put these goods on sale at exactly what it cost 
the maker to produce them. This merchandise includes 
almost everything imaginable in building materials and 
things to fit up the home. Now, here is the chance of a life¬ 
time for you to buy Building Materials and Home Furnish¬ 
ings. Such bargains as these may never be offered again. 
We urge you to consult us at once and not to do any build¬ 
ing or repairing or furnishing till you have gotten our big 
free Bargain List. WRITE US TODAY. 
Gigantic Manufacturers’ Sale—Over $500,000 
Worth of Merchandise at Less Than Half Price 
and take a gaso- 
about half a mile 
cows. The cows 
Think of the huge saving we make you. No manu¬ 
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jobber’s expense*. No wholesaler’s profit or expenses 
to pay—no dealer’s profit or expenses to pay. You pay 
only the bare cost (to the manufacturer) of materials 
and labor. You pay less than one-half the dealer’s price. 
Some of these goods we sell as low as 30c on the dollar. 
All Brand New Goods 
The goods are all new, fresh, first-class merchan¬ 
dise—not one dollar’s worth of “seconds,” or Sheriff’s 
Sale Rubbish, or Receiver’s Sale Stuff, or Wreckage 
Junk. And it’s a whole lot better merchandise than 
most retail dealers sell. We guarantee not only the high 
quality of these goods, but prompt, safe delivery or 
your money back quick. 
More Than 2,000 Bargains 
Imagine a gigantic sale of over two thousand spe¬ 
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and Paint Brushes, Roofing—Tarred, Rubber and Cor- 
gated Steel—Steel Brick Siding, Pipes and Fittings, 
Boilers, Radiators, Hardware Supplies, Stoves, 
Ranges, Heaters, Furniture, Chairs, Desks, Dressers, 
Couches, Beds, etc.. Rugs, Curtains, Washing Ma¬ 
chines, Plumbing Outfits — in short, everything to 
build a home and furnish it comfortably. 
Prices Literally Slaughtered 
Here are a few samples of the 2,000 bargains 
offered at this big sale: Famous Buffalo House Paint, 
$1.06 per gallon; Famous Buffalo Barn Paint, 78c per 
gallon; Rubber Roofing, remnants, 63c per square; 
Complete $1A25 
Bed Outfit lU"" 
How’s this? A benutifnl en¬ 
ameled iron bed, flue cotton 
top mattress and woven wiro 
springs, all for $10.25. Head 
is 61H inches high, foot 
inches, post 11-16 inches in 
diameter. Sizes, 4 feet 6 
inches or 4 feet 3 inches. 
Guaranteed mattress anil 
springs. All for $10.25. This 
lied has brass filling in head 
and foot. Less than 100 of 
this particular style and price 
left, so if you want to got in 
on this great burguin, better 
Write at 
Once! 
livery are guaranteed on every order. Write us, and 
don’t order any building or plan any home furnishing 
until our Big 2,000 Bargain List is in your hands. 
You can well afford to wait a few days and save from 
55c to 70c on every dollar’s worth of merchandise you 
need. Our address Is (3) 
Buffalo Improved Wall BoaVd, $2.32 per 100 feet; Two 
Light Ga« Fixture, made of Brass Tubing, 98c; 4%-foot 
Bath Tub, complete to the floor with Nickel Plated Fit¬ 
tings, $17.00; Heavy Bench Vise, made of Heavy Cast 
Iron, $2.98; Roll Top Desk, 36 inches long, 30 inches 
deep, 43 inches high, $11.75; Base Burners, with Nickel 
Plated Trimmings, $24.75; Gas Heaters, will heat 4,500 
cubic feet in zero weather, $4.98; Solid Oak Round Din¬ 
ing Table, 6 feet x 42 inches, with 8-inch Pedestal, $7.75; 
Dresser, made of Solid Oak, size of base 19x36, with 
French Bevel Mirror 12x20, $5.25; Buffalo Leather 
Turkish Rocker, 41 inches high, beautifully tufted, $7.75; 
Buffalo Roller Bearer Washer, $5 -’46 Milkwock and 
Lumber, 45c on the dollar. 
Write for Big 
Bargain List! 
It's FREE—Do It NOW! 
Send name on postal 
for list of 2,000 articles 
— pictured, described 
and priced. Better do 
It now, for all of these 
goods are so excellent 
and prices so low that 
many lines will be 
completely wiped out 
In a jiffy. Remember, 
quality and safe de- 
House Paint, $106 
Genuine Buffalo, 
Roady Mixod, Guar¬ 
anteed House Paint, only $1.06 
nor gallon in 6-gallon cans! 
Regular price, $2.26 per gallon. 
Buffalo House Paint is guaran¬ 
teed to cover more square foot, 
surface for surface, per gallon 
than uny other. Does not flake 
or crack. Wears like iron, pre¬ 
serves buildings 
and makcH them ( 
look most at¬ 
tractive. 
Barn Paint, 78c 
Best Ready- 
Mixed Barn 
Paint only 78o 
per gallon while 
it lusts. Helling 
fast. Write today."’ 
IjTHE MANUFACTURERS’ OUTLET CO., 525 WALDON AVENUE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
