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May 10, 1017. 
ZShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Business 
Cat Raising for Farm Women 
I’ART T. 
High-Class !<tock. —At tlio present 
time tlie Legislature is enntemplating 
lev.ving a tax on eats, ami for the Ijenefit 
of the farmers T think something should 
be said in the favoi' of the eat. If wc 
are to i)a.v a tax on eats wh.v not keep a 
eat fif value and a mone.v-maker, whieh is 
al.so a riit and mouse exterminator, sueli 
as a I’ersian or Angora? As few i>eople 
among the faianers know what the diffor- 
enrsi is between a TVi'sian and an An¬ 
gora I am going to explain tlnan. 
Pkksiaxs a.m) Angoras. —All Angoras 
are 1‘er.sians but I’er.sians are not An¬ 
goras. The Angoras eame origiiall.v 
from .\ngora. a eit.v in Persia, which is 
now extinct, conseqiientl.v the Angoras 
of to-day ar<> mix(*d with Persians to such 
an extent th.at one might sa.v tbe.v are 
extinct also. The Ajigora is a long- 
hairi'd cat. but has a thick woolly under 
ef>at. whieh is ver.v h.ard to comb and caie 
for. and the outer coat although long, is 
not !is straight and silky as the Persians. 
The Per.sian has a .shorter leg and heavier 
body, which the fanciei- <-alls “cobby 
built.” also a shorter, broader face, and 
is far more liandsonK!, loving .■ind valuable 
tlnm an Angora. ISIany si>eak of a Per¬ 
sian and call it an Angora, which is as 
complimentary to the Persian as it would 
be to call a gentleman a loafer, or a timv- 
eling man a tramp. 
City Cats. —A very largo per cent, of 
Persian cats are city raised; why it is I 
cannot see, for the farm with its many 
good things to eat. is an ideal place for 
cats, also they can have so muc!i more 
freedom and foraging for natur(‘'.-< own 
food. A cat’s natural instim-t is to hunt 
for its living. IMore than once I have 
bought cats from barge city catteries, and 
they didn't kmtw what a mou.se was. be¬ 
cause they and their parents before them, 
h;id never seen f>ne. but iti a surprisingly 
short time they were catching moi-o than 
was good for them. 
l*KKSf.\NS For Profit. —T have had 
T’ersian cats for nine years, and have 
found them profitable and would like to 
say to other farm women, if there are 
things .von want that the farm cannot 
supply the money to get. try Persians, 
but remember they are no “get-rich- 
rpiick” i)lan, and .although pleasant labor 
it is far from play to do the many things 
th.at have to be done for them day after 
day. 
Thk Cattkry. —Persian cats are a 
profitable addition to any farm 1)eeause 
they do not require an expensive budiling 
to be erected to keep them in like chick¬ 
ens. lielgian hares or cavies. but they do 
need a room to be kept esiiecially for the 
cats, that they can be shut in when neces¬ 
sary. This room should have a good 
floor that can be mopped with boiling 
water as occasion demands; broad shelves 
in front of the windows that they may 
sit and sun themselves, and kittens will 
.Mlipreciafe a cushion or two on these 
shelves, also a few easy cushioned chairs. 
There should also be several nest baskets 
or boxes. I i)refer cracker boxes set u)) a 
few inches from the floor, for tiieia* is 
always a draught near the floor; A dish 
of pure fresh wjiter every da.v is abso¬ 
lutely neci'ssary. In a secludeil cornei* 
have !i sanitary pan half filled with dry 
earth, coal a.shes. or sawdust. In the 
bottom of pan have several thicknesses of 
]iaper. which if burned each time the pan 
is emptied, will take much less time .and 
care to keep it in a swf'et sanit.ai'y condi¬ 
tion. and if the pan is seen to rcHidarly 
thei’e will be no tiamble, for kitt.v is about 
the I'leanest of animals. b'or Suiiimer 
some .small building with good ventilation 
and without draughts, .set in the shade, 
with a wired run, will be found a soli<1 
comfort to one's tired niu’vi's. for night 
prowling, back-fence howling and indis¬ 
criminate wanderings are things to be 
avoided if you wish to keep your <‘at 
healthy and coat in fine condition. 
Affection Needed.—A cat to do well 
needs the love and fellowship of human 
beings, and if you don’t love a cat well 
enough to make it one of the family and 
let her show you that she loves you. bet¬ 
ter not enter the field of cat hiishandi'y. 
fo7- cats ai'e shy. sensitive c-reatures. with 
great intuition by which they detect all 
kinds.of ytuir fc'elings tow.ai'd them. f)ue 
will find in a family of several i)eople and 
several cats, that each cat has its special 
favorite, and is always ready to love and 
be loved by that special person. They 
iilso have great memories, especially if 
an\' per.sonal injustice is shown them. 
<'o.NST.y.NT (’are. —Do not dr.av. tin; 
<'on«-lusion from this article th.at theie 
is no si)ecial caia' and vigilance to be 
successful for you must be “.lohiiny on 
the spot’’ continually. Many a night I 
have (a-.awled out of the warm bed to see 
what made kitty ca'y. An old man said 
to me onc(‘: ‘‘Jt is easy miough to ni.ake a 
wiaal or a worthless tree grow, hut to 
make .sonudhing of real value thrive is 
(piite a ditrerent proposition.” and 1 have 
found this ipiite true in regard to cats. 
There is good money in Persian cats, but 
nothing of value is obtainable without 
money or eijuivaleut exertion. S. P. J. 
How to Cane Chair Seats 
Will some reader of the Rural tell 
us how to cane chairs? R. 
This is slow work for the beginner, 
but an expert works so rapidly that you 
can hardly follow his motions. In coun¬ 
try districts it is almost impossible to 
g»>t this work done. Indeeil. I hav,' heard 
of country women who have (>arned their 
I)in money by hnirning to do this work, 
hence I am answering this question as 
fully as possible. 
(•)f course you will match your cane 
according to what is used in the icirt.cu- 
lar chair, .and measure tin* length of the 
coarser binding cane needed to go aroiiml 
the edge. Cane comes in bundles or 
hanks, and in the old da.vs when father 
watched the boys caning chairs at the 
reform school, it took from 'I'l to 24 
sti'auds for the av<'rage chair stmt. This 
is onl.v approximate, as the strands vary 
in length and the newer seats reipure 
less <‘ane. This may be bought of some 
hardware dealer, or is generally in stock 
at a large school supply house. 
(let ready three or four tapering pegs 
that will fit into the holes tif the chair 
.seat; then you are ready to study the 
mesh of the .seat itself. You will notice 
that there are two rows of strands from 
back to front, two from side to side, and 
two rows of diagonals, one fi'om left to 
right and one from right to left. In the 
perfect mesh, you have uniform six-sided 
holes left. Before taking out the old 
cane, he fture to mark the places irhere 
the diafionala are donhled; that is where 
four diagonals go into one hole, or your 
jiattern will never come out right. 
Find the number of short lines needed 
from front to back by subtr.acting the 
number of back holes from the number of 
front holes; in recauing, these might be 
marked like the holes for doubling th" 
diagonals. If the chair has previously 
had a seat of machine woven (*ane in-essed 
in glue to hold it in place, it will be 
necessary to bore hole.s. 
Regin at the upper right hand cor¬ 
ner, put the end of your .strand down two 
or three inches through the .second hoh>. 
no cross strands should go through the 
corner holes, and hold the end in place 
with a peg. (lo straight across from .V 
to .V, then underneath to R and across 
to R; and so on clear across. Work to 
the end of your cane, but if at any time 
the end is too short to go aci-oss, st.art 
with another cane. Ixiose ends may be 
held in place with pegs tucked in under¬ 
neath. 
Next p)it in the strands across fr< in X 
to X’, to Y' and so on. Then d)ack and 
forth from F to F', K to F’ and so forth. 
When putting in the lines from N^ to 
N’, M to M’, the fourth row of strands, 
you weave them in like stocking darning, 
going always on the upper side of the 
jirevious cross strands. This is called 
technically the “first half”: the small 
bo.vs only did this ))art of the work. 
N’ow rake your strands into place to 
g(>t them as even as [)ossible. and !»(> sine 
Method, of Caning Chair Seat 
that yotir s(|uare oiienings are all the 
.same size. Of course you will dieep your 
work as tight iind firm as iio.ssible. .Now 
for the .second half. Regin at the low¬ 
er right hiind corner in R. and go across 
to M’ over all back to front striinds. un¬ 
der all crosswise stiiinds. Work .across 
f.astening off at lower right hand corner. 
Regin again at lower right hand corner 
in F. and go ttcros.s to M as before, hut 
over crosswise threads :ind umltM- length¬ 
wise threads. 
After the braiding is done, fasten all 
loo.se ends underneath by winding around 
or weaving in on the under side, lait oil' 
any loo.se ends and put on -tlu' binding. 
Start near one corner diy putting the end 
of the binding cam' down through a hole 
two or three inclies. and hold it fiat while 
you catch it in place by one stiti.-h in 
each hole done with cane like' that used 
in weaving. When you come back to tin' 
stai'ting point, tuck the ends do\\ n 
through the same hole and fasten in 
place with a peg. 
Don’t be discouraged if your first at¬ 
tempt is rather loose and uneven ; tin' 
second attempt is sure to •bring succe.ss. 
A woman will save herself time if she 
will make a tiny modi'l like' the illustra¬ 
tion, and learn to weavi' the mesh with 
heavy string Ix'fon' undertaking the 
work on a chair seat. Cut the frame for 
the model of heavy cardboard that will 
not bend easily. ed.na s. k.nai’R. 
Northern Visitor fin Georgia)—“I 
see you raise hogs almost exclusively 
about here Do you find they iiay bet¬ 
ter than corn and potatoes?” X’ative 
f slowly)—“Wal. no; hut yer see, 
stranger, hogs don't need hoeing!”— 
Christian t'eg 'ster. 
Four Essentials of the House 
The following questions get (town to the root of the 
farm home problem for people of reasonable means. 
Water, Light, Heat, Power 
They are all necessary—it would be hard to say which 
is most needed to make the home what it should be. 
The best way to learn about this is to ask our read¬ 
ers. We feel sure that some of them have had exper¬ 
ience or have studied out the matter fully. Will they 
tell us? 
We have to build a dwelling house. There are four essen¬ 
tials, four absolute necessities, which must be looked after in a 
house, viz. water, light, heat and power. We see that part of 
these, light and heat for cooking, can be had by installing a 
carbide plant. 
We see also that water and power to run the engine which 
fills the air tank can be arranged for by installing an electric 
plant, the engine which fills the air tank being an automatic one 
and run by electricity. The water is lifted by air pressure from 
the bottom of the well and carried to any part of the building 
desired. 
Now can’t this last named plant, this electrical plant, be ex¬ 
tended a little further and made to do all the work—made to 
perform the function of furnishing water, light, heat and pow¬ 
er? If not why not? 
If one machine or plant can be thus arranged which will give 
all these it would be a modern convenience that all should have. 
We want one plant to do all. The machine ought to run light 
machinery, cream separator, electric fans, churns, washing ma¬ 
chines, etc. 
If any of The R. N.-Y. family of readers know of anything in 
this line which will fill the bill we would like to have them give 
us the information. E. F. C. 
West Virginia. 
Fo’ir Small Candidates for Farm Favor 
