THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
491 
1915. 
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Women Help Wanted. 
I am very anxious to get a girl or 
woman to do housework. Do you know 
whether there are any emigrant women 
coming over now. and will you tell me 
where to apply and what to do to get one 
to do housework? 
NATHAN VAN NAMEE. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
There have been so many of those 
help questions lately that it seems well to 
give the facts. Very few desirable immi¬ 
grants are now coming over and it would 
he very difficult to induce a desirable 
woman to go to the country for work. 
The demand for such women is very 
great. As an experiment, we have several 
times printed the needs of our readers. 
Calls for men or boys will bring 50 or 
more responses, while similar urgent calls 
for women bring at most one or two. One 
would think that hundreds of capable 
women would like to obtain a home in 
the country, but most of them seem to 
be suspicious, and do not care to go. 
The Free Labor Bureau mentioned on 
page 457 might help. In years past we 
have obtained help from these, but we 
cannot give much encouragement. If any 
women wanting such work read this, we 
would like to hear from them. 
information from those having practical 
experience, especially in the restoration 
of one that has been neglected. Our 
orchard is young, but did not have the 
right start. I am so glad these new 
fields of work are opening to the women 
and girls. ethel tost. 
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Why does wool shrink, and how can 
we wash woolen garments so they will 
not? This question is answered by the 
North Dakota Experiment Station. Use 
lukewarm water and a neutral soap. Do 
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You get me down as “Mister.” That 
would entitle me to a vote and pockets in 
my clothing. I belong to a higher caste 
(?). I can influence those who make 
the laws, and train the young ideas! 
Well, I may see things through too rosy 
a light but I love to help people. 
MRS. M. A. 
Next to our local church paper The 
R. N.-Y. is a winner with me, and I am 
a railroader at that. More force to 
your “Publisher’s Desk.” j. w. F. 
Scio, N. Y. 
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I am not a farmer, nor do I live among 
any farmers, but out in the wild woods 
.”,0 miles from the post office, but a train 
passes here every day and I pay one of 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Can eggs which have been preserved 
in water glass, be distinguished from 
fresh eggs? If so, in what way? How is 
it used? Where can I buy it? 
j. c. s. 
The water glass eggs have a sort of 
varnished appearance or a gloss to them, 
and when the eggs are broken, the shell 
crumbles. It doesn’t make a clean cut 
like a fresh unpreserved egg. It will be 
useless to put eggs into water glass and 
expect to be able to sell them for fresh 
eggs. We have never recommended that 
and will not do so. We merely regard 
the water glass treatment as a very desir¬ 
able tiling for home use, but for commer¬ 
cial eggs, cold storage is about the only 
thing to be considered. In preserving 
eggs in water glass, be sure to use only 
crocks or wooden receptacles, and in 
placing the eggs in the water glass use 
a long wooden spoon. Have the eggs 
clean, and preferably infertile. The 
water should be thoroughly sterilized by 
boiling for at least a half hour. When 
ready dilute one pound of water glass in 
nine pounds of water. 
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Having been helped many times by 
answers in R. N.-Y., I would like to ask 
if you know anything about automatic 
feeders worked by alarm clocks, I am 
building a barn for six horses, and 
thought if they could get their hay an 
hour earlier in the morning I could have 
longer to rest and they more time to 
eat. Can you tell me how they are con¬ 
structed and if they are practical? 
c. it. w. 
R. N.-Y.—This does not appear to be a 
woman farmer who desires more rest, but 
some “lord of creation” who thinks an 
alarm clock may serve as hired man. We 
do not know of any such device. If 
there is one we would like to know about 
it, though our own horses will still get 
their hay from a pitchfork. 
My wife has become interested in the 
Woman’s Department vf your good paper, 
and has several times remarked, that she 
wished that the “Woman’s Page” was 
exactly in the middle of the paper, so 
she could slip out the center sheet to 
retain the valuable receipts and informa¬ 
tion. a. L. 
New Jersey. 
R* N.-Y.—We would like to make up 
the paper so as to do this, but for many 
reasons which would be understood by a 
printer it is not possible to do so. Most 
of the pages are so arranged that they 
can be taken out without interfering seri¬ 
ously with the other matter. 
I was interested in the article by Miss 
Susan Everett. I am so glad to learn 
of a girl who is interested in the same 
subject that I am. I too am working 
with a little orchard and want to obtain 
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A Masterly Woman Gardener in the Cold North. 
not rub very much. The fibers of wool the men to bring my mail so I get that 
have small scales. When they are wet fluite regularly. I am taking many other 
o„u iWn papers, but The R. N.-Y. is so different 
from any other. I find no advertisements 
and rubbed together or changed from 
warm to cold water or from cold to 
warm water, these scales pull past each 
other and so cause a shrinking of the 
cloth, or felting. 
of patent medicines, liquor, whiskey, wine 
and other disagreeable things, and other 
silly and absurd things with which so 
many of the other papers are full. 
Minnesota. mrs. wm. rielley. 
A Canadian Woman Gardener. 
The picture on this page shows the 
I wish that I could say every dollar I 
have spent had proven so good an invest¬ 
ment. During the last year you have 
produce from a garden 65 miles north of given me at least $10 of your time and 
the 56th parallel of latitude at Fort ^formation, and advice worth even 10 
McMurray, Canada, and the gardener, 
M iss Christina Gordon, the pioneer white 
woman of the district. Miss Gordon has 
been a farmer and storekeeper at this 
point for IS years during which time she 
has the reputation of never having re¬ 
fused an Indian or white man a meal. 
She speaks three Indian dialects, Cree, 
Chippewayan, and Dog Rib, as well as 
French, English and Gaelic, and is a 
power among the natives, her word being 
law, and her commands are carried out 
with more celerity than even those of the 
old-established Hudson’s Bay Company. 
The potato patch in the wilderness, the 
scrub roughly cleared away and the hills 
set down thereon, has yielded big returns. 
Up in that country they just put things 
into the ground and they grow. In ex¬ 
planation of this statement would say, in 
the vicinity of Fort McMurray, though 
bordering on the Arctic, vegetables flourish 
and mature rapidly. The Summer is 
•short, but in the months of June, July 
and August, an average of 16 hours a 
day of daylight, 14 of which is sunlight, 
makes up and overcomes the shortness of 
the growing season. At Vermilion, 2S3 
miles from McMurray River route, and 
about half that distance directly farther 
north, about 40,000 bushels of wheat is 
grown annually. It is milled at an elec¬ 
trically operated mill, the farthest north 
on the American continent, and only ex¬ 
celled in northerly latitude by one other 
situated in Russia. The flour is used 
locally in the district. 
At Vermilion the government maintain 
an experimental farm where strawberries, 
currants and other small fruits have been 
successfully grown. As you are no doubt 
aware, altitude also plays an important 
part in the successful growing of fruits, 
vegetables, etc. Vermilion has an altitude 
of 050 feet, and for this reason and by 
aid of warm currents of air from the 
Pacific coast, many things grow equally 
as well here, at this far north point, as 
they do to the south where, though the 
climate is less severe, the altitude is 
higher. franpis j. dickie. 
times that. The women are so pleased 
with the woman’s department, so in or¬ 
der to preserve the peace of the family I 
would not dare to discontinue your paper 
even if I wished. M. n. g. 
New York. 
Just a Handy Man With a Wrench 
is all that’s required to set up 
a Corcoran Tank and it is ab¬ 
solutely watertight without 
paint, putty, white lead or 
calking. 
But better than this it re¬ 
quires only tightening of nuts 
to make it stay tight after 
years ol' service. 
It’s all in the iron bands 
witli adjustable draw-rods 
at the intersections placed 
over antifriction plate s— 
draws every joint tight and holds it there. 
Erected complete and every part numbered 
at the factory. Made of the best material 50 
years’ manufacturing experience can buy. 
Before you buy any kind of lank or windmill 
get our new catalog. It will save you money. 
A. J. CORCORAN, Inc., 
Water Power 
A small brook or spring 
will furnish free power to 
supply running water to 
your house ami barn. With 
a larger stream you can 
make your own electric 
lights, saw wood. etc. Send 
* for catalog. 
FITZ WATER WHEEL COMPANY 
Penn & George Sts., Hanover, Pa. 
WELL 
DRILLING 
MACHINES 
Over 70 sizes and styles, for drilling either deep or 
shallow wells in any kind ot' soil or rock. Mounted on 
wheels or on sills. With engines or horse powers. Strong, 
simple and durable. Any mechanic can operate them 
easily. Send for catalog. 
WILLIAMS BROS.. Ithaca. N. Y. 
MAKE BIG PAY DRILLING 
WATER WELLS 
Our Free Drillers’ Book with 
catalog of Keystone Drills 
tells how. Many sizes; trac¬ 
tion and portable. Easy 
terms. These machines 
make good anywhere. 
KEYSTONE WATER DRILL CO 
Beaver Falls. Pa. 
ONE FIRST COST 
THEN NO MORE 
That’s what it means to pump 
water with the world’s 
strongest windmill, the| 
long-lived.double geared, 
powerful 
SAMSON 
“Let the wind pump your 
water for nothing” 
STOVER MFGm CO. 
188 Samson Ave., Freeport, III. 
_ Also Stover and Ideal Feedmills— 
Alfalfa Comminutera and Grinders—Pump Jacks 
—Ensilage Cutters. Mena for Catalogues. 
Indian Bead Work 
MOTHING is more fascinating or more in vogue at this time than 
*■ ^ Indian Bead Work articles. We have procured an outfit for 
making these articles, which will be sent, delivery charges prepaid, for 
ONE NEW YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION 
OR 
THREE YEARLY RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 
(One of these may be the renewal of your own subscription for one year.) 
This outfit consists of a Patented Loom for making articles, an instruc¬ 
tion and design book, a spool of cotton, twelve H. Milward Sons’ needles, 
seven bottles of colored beads—dark blue, green, light blue, black, red, 
yellow and white—a complete outfit to start the work. 
Every woman knows and appreciates the value of these home-made 
articles. 
Your neighbor needs The Rural New-Yorker. If he is not a reader 
get his subscription. If he is a subscriber get his renewal. 
These articles will not be given with subscriptions—they are sent as rewards only (in place 
•f cash) to our subscribers and friends who, acting as agents, send us subscriptions as indicated. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30th St., NEW YORK CITY 
