The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1679 
Various Notes 
Feeding Chickens on Diamonds 
The following tale is printed in the 
Philadelphia Ledger. You may believe 
it or not, as you please. Very likely those 
who pay $1.50 at a restaurant for a small 
portion of “chicken” think that all poul¬ 
try keepers are wearing diamonds as most 
people wear hats: 
Out of Davenport. Ia., comes a piteous 
tale. A grocer and butcher, embodying 
in one person two business potentialities 
with miilionairish possibilities, is the hero. 
This man, in the characteristic opulence 
of his class ever since the war began to 
boost prices, was wearing one of his pre¬ 
sumably many .$(>00 diamond rings, the 
while he attended to the needs of his 
flock of 150 chickens. With the careless¬ 
ness that comes of long familiarity with 
such baubles, he knocked the diamond 
loose from its setting, and while lie was 
probably speculating as to whether he 
should pick uji such a trifle, one of the 
chickens swallowed it and disappeared 
among its fellows. Then the butcher 
wanted his diamond, but couldn’t find the 
particular fowl which had made way with 
it. There was nothing to do but slay the 
chickens until the right one was found. 
In the 50th chicken the diamond was lo¬ 
cated. 
The tale points many interesting 
don't take up the fad of wearing their 
own cloth. 1 think some firm could sell 
spinning wheels and looms and make good 
on it. The people during the war knitted 
sweaters for the soldiers, and were inter¬ 
ested. and I think they would take up 
this weaving their own cloth for their 
own clothes and save themselves a lot of 
money. j. m. b. 
New York. 
This is a case where wc hare got to do 
it ourselves or it never will be done. 
There are just two ways of helping out 
the wool situation for farmers, tine is 
to pool the wool and hold it until a fair 
price is offered. Such a price should be 
at least cost and 10 per cent profit. Even 
that will not solve the problem so long as 
the manufacturers are free to use as 
much shoddy as they jdease. YVe cannot 
stand the competition of old rags with 
our sheep. If present prices for yarn 
and coarse goods continue, farmers will 
be obliged ‘o control some of the manu¬ 
facturing 5 am at least can be made in 
small quantities at home. This will mean 
going back to old habits and practice, but 
it will have to be done if the ju-esent out¬ 
rageous conditions continue. Such work 
“This Ts Your 
things. That grocer-butchers in Iowa, or 
any place else, wear diamonds in the pur¬ 
suit of their occupations will surprise no 
one who is familiar with the present day 
prices of their wares, for to judge by this 
standard, the diamond might well be the 
insignia of their trade. But think of the 
profits of this fortunate Iowa butcher 
from the transaction. He recovered his 
$600 diamond, but that bulks small with 
"hat he must have received from the sale 
of the 50 chickens he slew to recover his 
bauble. 
But the unanswered question is, why 
did the butcher make such a fuss over 
only one diamond? Most, of us who have 
tried eating chicken in Philadelphia res¬ 
taurants have been led to believe when 
the check appeared that chickens were fed 
exclusively upon diamonds, instead of 
containing only one, as did this indiscreet 
Middle West fowl. 
Homespun Woolens 
Dn page 1156 1 have been reading 
where T. bought a ball of knitting yarn 
which would have cost $l».NN per pound, 
lu your editorial you say if needs be our 
folks can go back to spinning yarn at 
home. In our State fair, which just 
closed here, we had a great exhibit of 
wool, and we actually «uw a home spin¬ 
ning wheel and loom working, and when 
*1 compared the homespun doth and the 
cloth in the suit which I am wearing, 
"hick cost $55, I wondered why people 
will either be done at. home or farmers 
will control small mills to manufacture 
yarn, blankets and rougher cloth. The 
American fanner will do all that, rather 
than be robbed. 
Legality of Note 
Is a note made out on plain writing 
paper, and signed by the party who bor¬ 
rowed the money, without any other wit¬ 
ness besides the person borrowed from, 
legal in this and in all other States? 
llow long before a note is outlawed when 
overdue, if not renewed, when time is up? 
Michigan. mbs. j. b. 
In this State it does not matter what 
kind of paper or writing instrument a 
promissory note is drawn upon or with ; 
plain paper and lead pencil are as valid 
as engraved forms and pen could be. It 
is, of course, not wise to use a lead pencil 
in drawing up papers of importance, be¬ 
cause of the easily erasible nature-of its 
mark. No witness to a promissory note 
is needed, and interest is presumed at 
the legal rate of the State in which it is 
drawn. A note becomes outlawed after 
six years, unless tin- time is extended In¬ 
payment of interest or partial > my incur 
of principal, in which case the six years 
dates from time of last partial payment 
or interest payment. m. b. p. 
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