Porcupines Throw Their Quills 
I saw on page 1640 F. W. B.\s account 
of jhooting a porcupine under his front 
porch, and I was quite interested in it. 
[n looking over the situation the follow¬ 
ing morning F. W. B. finds the porcupine 
Surrounded hy a roughly circular area 
which was sprinkled with quills. lie 
raises the question, “Did the porcupine 
throw the quills from his body?” I should 
say that he did. 
I am 85 years old; hunted all kinds of 
game ever since I was 12 yearn old, and 
have an idea that I am one of the oldest 
experienced hunters in the State of Penn¬ 
sylvania. In my younger days I was 
hunting on Lick Run near Farrandsville, 
Clinton Co., Pa. My dog harked loudly, 
and when I got to him I found a large 
porcupine held up and throwing quills in 
the direction of the dog. I had stopped 
right in line of his fire. At no time had 
I been nearer than 30 ft. from him, when 
I discovered that several quills had struck 
my clothing. I then stepped off some 
distance so as to be out of range of his 
artillery, taking a position where I could 
see his every movement. He was making 
good use of his tail in throwing quills; 
when his ammunition was exhausted he 
would slash his tail over his sides and 
back and begin sending a fresh supply in 
the direction of the dog. There was a 
bright stream of sunlight through an 
opening in the hemlock growth at right 
angles of the log upon which the animal 
was perched, and I could see distinctly 
the quills passing through the bright light. 
After shooting him I examined a smooth- 
barked red oak which stood about 30 ft. 
distant and found many quills some 16 ft. 
from the ground. 
I have heard that some naturalists 
deny that the porcupine can do this stunt. 
If any one of them thinks he knows all 
there is to know about game, let him take 
his gun and invite the old hunter to go 
with him into the forests of Clinton 
County, and he will come home a con¬ 
verted hunter, for those woods raise the 
kind of porcupines that do throw their 
quills. H. C. M. 
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Farm Help Wanted | 
WANTED—Woman or girl as helper in small 
private family living in suburb of New York 
City; state wages and references in first letter. 
ADVERTISER 7919, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Single men and women as attendants 
in State Institution for Feeble-minded; salary 
$50 per month and maintenance for both men 
and women, with opportunity for advancement. 
Apply, stating age. to SUPERINTENDENT. 
Letehworth Village, Tblells, Rockland Co., N. Y. 
WANTED—Young man experienced and capable 
of handling a young orchard in bearing of over 
l. r ).000 trees. Apply, with full particulars, to 
CLIFFORD L. MILLER, Claverack. N. Y. 
WANTED—A cook for Elm HU1 School; a good 
job. For particulars write DR. G. P. BROWN 
Barre, Mass. 
M ANTED—-To do good plain cooking and down¬ 
stairs work; no washing; farm residence. E. 
G. CURRY, Morristown, N. J. ’Phone 1097M. 
WANTED—Single man for general work on 
dairy farm; prefer German or Hungarian. 
LOUIS DOBSA, New Kingston, N. Y. 
WANTED—Woman to cock and make butter for 
small dairy; wages $75 per month and board. 
Address E. C. H., Box 194, Monroe, N. Y. 
PERMANENT position, with opportunity to ad¬ 
vance, for capable dairy herdsman who can 
show results in care, fitting and long-time test¬ 
ing of young llolsteins, in clean herd; un-to- 
date equipment and housing; give age, size fam¬ 
ily, wages expected to start. ADVERTISER 
7924, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Herdsman for Guernseys; married 
man; experienced in A. R. O. work. WHITE 
DAIRY FARM, Cairo, N. Y. 
WANTED—-On small farm, man and wife, with¬ 
out children; five-room house, wood, milk and 
garden; man for general farm work, milk three 
cows; woman for plain cooking, ironing and 
downstairs work in owner’s house; six days a 
week; electric iron and electric washing 
machine used; two adults and two children in 
family; references required. ADVERTISER 
7920. care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Practical farmer and wife; man. 
general farm work, care for small herd of 
purebred Holstein cows; wife, muke butter and 
care for chickens; good wages and privileges for 
right narties. HUDSON GUILD FARM, And¬ 
over, N. J. 
WANTED—Working orchard man, Protestant; 
single; must understand care and working of 
horses; monthly salary, board, room and per¬ 
centage on gross sales; permanent position on 
70-acre fruit and truck farm; 1.000 15-year an- 
ple trees; new house; modern conveniences; 
Gloucester Co., N. J.; must give references. 
ADVEUTISER 7931, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Young woman for general house¬ 
work; good home; own room and hath; small 
family; satisfactory wages; references. DR. 
nARRIS, 49 Charlton St., New York City. 
WANTED—For institution farms, one thorough¬ 
ly experienced poultryman, to take charge of 
and develop small poultry plant; one thoroughly 
experienced truck gardener; applicants wiil 
kindly apply in own handwriting, stating age, 
qualifications, salary expected, at least two ref 
erences, ami enclose latest photograph. THE 
NEW’ JERSEY STATE VILLAGE FOR EPI¬ 
LEPTICS, Skillmau, N. J. 
WANTED—At once; farm hand; single; must 
understand care of stock, handy with tools, 
etc.; steady job for right man on private farm 
in Westchester Co.; wages, $75 per month, room 
and board; no laundry; references requiri 
ADVERTISER 7934, care Rural New-Yorker. 
1124, 154 Nassau Street, New York City. * 
ford. Pa. 
Rural New-Yorker. 
DALE FARMS, Mars, Pa. 
ADVERTISER 7945, care Rural New-Yorker. 
ville, N. J. 
Situations Wanted 
TISER 781G, care Rural New-Yorker. 
7898, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Yorker. 
Chesterfield, Mass. 
TISER 7928, care Rural New-Yorker. 
family. N. POULSEN, General Delivery, Con 
cord, Mass. 
EXPERIENCED dairyman, single, wants posi 
tion; can take charge ef whole herd; no bat 
habits; get my references; state particulars 
Address ADVERTISER 7925, care Rural 
Yorker. 
EXPERIENCED farm manager and superin 
developing, buying, selling and all details regis 
Yorker. 
WANTED—Position on poultry farm by single 
Yorker. 
uco.irn puaniun, uucrusvjs pre- 
ferred; qualified to take charge; A. R. test, 
feeding, breeding, calves, and keep all records. 
ADVERTISER 7928, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as gardener; understand all 
work around gentleman’s place. Winter and 
Summer: no objection to cow and poultry; age 
40: single; Protestant; best of references; no 
faker; cnlv good position accepted. ADVER¬ 
TISER 7930, care Rural New-Yorker. 
HAVING worked under the best tree experts, 
would like to hear from parties having tree 
pruning and cavity work to be done; can fill in 
at otner wo-k if needed; capable; reasonable. 
ADV ERTISEIt 7935, care Rural New-Yorker. 
CAPABLE herdsman would l ! ke position in 
charge of high-class purebred herd; experi¬ 
enced calf raiser; good short and long-time rec¬ 
ords. Address ADVERTISER 7932, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as farm manager hy 
married American agricultural college man; 
lifetime practical experience; purebred livestock; 
all farm crop: certified milk; executive ability-; 
references: kindly give full particulars. AD¬ 
VERTISER 7948, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED—As herdsman or manager 
on purebred stock farm; Guernsevs preferred; 
experienced in general farming iucludi'-g feed¬ 
ing, breeding, raising stock, A.R. work, dairy¬ 
ing, field and garden crops, management i'f 
men, operation farm machinery; 29 years, 
married; excellent: references. ADVERTISER 
7930, care Rural New-Yorker. 
EXPERIENCED FARMER—Intelligent, active. 
on aeount selling my farm, seek position on 
farm or estate where hard work and results are 
needed; thorough knowledge farm, garden crops, 
fruit, dairying, poultry; progressive and trust¬ 
worthy; married; 34. ADVERTISER 7937, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
POULTRY MAN—American, experienced, hatch¬ 
ing, brooding, production, contest work, de¬ 
sires position; college training; one man plant 
preferred; kindly state salary and full partic¬ 
ulars in first letter. ADVERTISER 7939, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
POULTRYMAN—(28) single, experienced and 
energetic, desires a position; expert in getting 
Winter eggs and raising chicks; excellent reL 
erences. ADVERTISER 7940, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN—Single wants position on poultry 
farm; experienced, best references, state full 
particulars. ADVERTISER 7949, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
FOR RENT — A small farm; good buildings; 
about 60 acres; suitable for boarding house; 
situated on a lake; about 60 miles from New 
York: two railroads: good State roads. ADVER¬ 
TISER 7926, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—98-acre good upland farm; all un¬ 
der cultivation and pasture; good, large 
buildings; fruit: good water; $4,000: particu¬ 
lars^ OSCAR ADDIS, 628 Broadway, Kingston, 
BUY FROM OWNER — 68 acres; productive 
farm (45 acres large timber); good markets 
and shipping facilities; long growing season; 
mild Winters. CHARLES KABISCK, Salisbury-, 
Md. 
WOULD TAKE a farm in Jersey, to rent or run 
on shares; to take possession this Fall. 
CLARENCE E. KNAPP, Box 62, R. F. D., 
Dover, N. J. 
POULTRYMAN—Experienced in ait branches 
of the business; . single; best of references 
• from U. S. Government, state and private plants, 
y J ADVERTISER 7942, care Ru— 1 New-Yorker. 
d 1 
n GARDENER, Seoteh, age 30, married, desires 
position manager of private estate; no children, 
references from last employer. ADVERTISER 
-n 7941!, care Rural New-Yorker. 
I) I 
d YOUNG MAN—31, married, experienced, poultry, 
y truck, general farming, specialty white pota¬ 
toes; would take personal interest and assume 
active working of farm for congenial farmer 
who wishes to retire, "but still retain farm: 
" nothing but livable wages and percentage of 
d profits considered; full particulars. ADVER- 
i. TISER 4 BAYLIS PLACE, Lynbrook, Long 
- Island, N. Y. 
d_ 
v DANISH Gentleman, 42, married, seeks posi¬ 
tion as superintendent of gentleman’s estate; 
g life experience; thoroughly skilled in all branches 
of scientific farming; up-to-date rotation for 
dairy herd, live stock and pig breeding; good 
,] organizer on large scale and used to modern 
labor saving machinery; first-class references. 
’ Address ADVERTISER 7947, care Rural New- 
!. | Yorker. 
- j POULTRYMAN—Working manager, 20 years 
o experience all branches; competent, trust- 
o worthy, married, no children; commerieal or 
r. I private. BOX 426, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
WANTED—To lease poultry-general farm; share 
proposition considered; give full particulars 
first letter. BOX 426, Neyv Rochelle, N. Y. 
BABY chick hatchery wanted; to rent with op¬ 
tion of purchase, or operate on shares; am 
thoroughly experienced. ADVERTISER 7929, 
care Rural Neyv-Yorker. 
1 HIGH-PAYING farm for sale; 212 acres; new 
[, buildings; 44 head registered Holsteins, 4 
y horses; all farming tools and machinery, rnilk- 
{ ing machine; about 100 tons hay, 1,000 bushels 
oats and buckwheat; full silo; everything, with 
_ house furniture, only $21,000. Address ADVER- 
1 | TISER 7910, care Rural New-Yorker. 
SUMMER HOTEL and farm for sale in popular 
resort on the shore of a lake; house accommo¬ 
dates 60 guests; fully furnished; modern, witli 
running water, acetylene gas lights, etc.; farm 
i consists of about 100 acres, full stocked and 
• 1 equipiied with machinery; good money-making 
* business. ADVERTISER 7792, care Rural Neyv- 
Yorker. 
FOR SALE—267 acres farming and grazing land; 
ideal location; buildings first-class. Z. G. 
| MORGAN, Green Springs, Hampshire Co., W. Va. 
1 1 165 ACRES; highly suitable for stock farming; 
1 mile from school, high school, stores, church 
and macadam highway; good house; barn 90x36 
yvith basement; 20 acres of Alfalfa seeding, with 
; 20 acres of Timothy and >ther grasses; 115 acres 
tillable; balance pasture, with springs and wood¬ 
land; rolling land yvith gravel loam soil; price 
$11,00); cash $5,000; balance easy terms; pos- 
session after Nov. 1, 1920. BENHAM & Me- 
1 | CLURE, Edgeyvater Farms, Canandaigua, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—One of the best farm bargains in 
Delaware Co., N. Y.; fully equipped river 
* I farm; 100 head; modern equipment; write for 
particulars. CHARLES PETERS, Castle Creek, 
1 N. Y. 
1 FOR SALE—A very desirable property in West¬ 
chester Co., N. Y., one hour from citv by 
| auto. Inquire of 0. G. BRIAN. Dykemans, N. Y. 
I PRINCETON, N. J.—(58 acres; no house; out¬ 
buildings; price $3,000, half cash. Write H. 
X.. HENRY, R. 4, Shaw Ave., Hempstead, L. I., 
N. x. 
| FOR RENT—110-acre dairy farm, near Trenton, 
N. J. ADVERTISER 7897, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
I WANTED—Poultry farm, 10 to 20 acres, in vil- 
lage or near toyvn; good house or bungalow; 
prefer Northern New Jersey; might consider 
Blue .Ridge Mountain section of Virginia. R. 
| H. SAYERS, Vineland, N. J. 
I FOR SALE—140-acre farm in one of the beauty 
1 spots of Bucks County, Pa.; large 14-room 
house, finely finished, with city improvements; 
could not be built for $20,000; large good barn; 
two tenement houses; has a deep dark soil; is 
j mostly level; none better for fruit and grain; 
running stream; timber; near Trenton and Phil¬ 
adelphia; large lawn, set to shrubbery; a real 
country home; price $100 an acre, with crops 
included: tenant farmer would remain; posses¬ 
sion soon. For particulars and photos address 
oyvner, JOS. D. WILSON, New Hope, Pa. 
120 ACRES fertile, tillable; IS acres woods; 
large barns: excellent house; 8 miles from 
Albany, on State road; near village having all 
conveniences; price $5,200; terms; would sell 
stock and equipment reasonably. N. B. GROSS, 
Nassau, N. Y. i 
| FOR SALE—Four-acre farm, near Mt. Holly, ; 
N. J.; fiue apple and peach orchard; excellent 
brick house; new barn and chicken house; an ] 
ideal home. GILLIS M. PARKER, R. D. No. 2, 
Mt. Holly, N. J. i 
1 FOR SALE—Village poultry farm, 7% acres; I 
trout stream through farm; six-room house, 
pantry, tyvo clothes closets, electric lights; j 
20x90 poultry house, 10x16 granarv, 14x24 
1 brooder house; all buildings built and painted ’ 
after 1915: yvater in house and granary; price 
$3,500. LEON 0. HAPP1CH. North Branch, r 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 0 
FOR SALE—83-acre farm; maple grove; run- 
nirtg water: lumber: 65 acres tillable. H. \ 
| PETERS, R. D. 1, Sharou Springs, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—100-acre dairy and poultry farm; 
well watered and good location. Write to 
SEWARD THOMPSON, Cherry Valley, N. Y. 
SUPERB Washington Co., N. Y., home and 
farm; 86 acres; with dairy, stock and tools, 
$16,000. Address ADVERTISER 7815, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
DELAWARE FARM—180 acres; 115 tillable; 65 
timber; all kinds of fruit.; 1 mile from town; 
$15,000 with stock and implements; $12,500 
without; possession at once. ADVERTISER 
7933, care Rural New-Yorker. 
300-ACRE Vermont farm, near Brattleboro; 
must he sold; good dairy farm; very low 
price. F. N. GIDDINGS, Baldwinsville, N. Y. 
WANTED—To buy a farm of 40 to 100 acres; 
prefer near Philadelphia; good soil and run¬ 
ning water; 6 to 8 room house, with conveni¬ 
ences.’ crop and equipment; close schools and 
chnrches; immediate possession; lowest cash- 
no agents. Address BOX 103, It. D. 4, Vine- 
land, N. J. 
$1,800 will buy 90 acres level land; tillible ami 
good timbers; near church, school, village. 
A. SPADA, R. D., Califon, N. J. 
WANT TO RENT good size farm with stock 
and tools; for either cash or share rent; I 
hav_e plenty of help and knoyv all about farming. 
W. S. P., Northport, L. I., N. Y. 
FOR , SALE—Dairy farm of 120 acres, north¬ 
western Connecticut, half mile from village 
and station; excellent buildings, largely new in 
1910; ten-room owner’s house, tyvo baths, elec¬ 
tric light, steam heat; hollow tile anil concrete 
ham, 30 stanchions; milk house with steam 
boiler; la-ge dairy building for bottling certified 
milk; horse bam; hay barn with young stock 
basement; ga-age; two icehouses; tenant cot¬ 
tage; tyvo silos; artesian well yvith windmill, 
etc., eto.j land in unusually high sta^e of fer¬ 
tility; 15 acres of newly seeded clover; well 
yvat°red pastures; has been carrying 60 head ef 
cattle, besides horses; buildings ejected 1910- 
12; cost S35.000; price of whole today $20,000. 
Write OWNER, Box 12, Bantam. Conn. 
WANTED—To rent, w-'th ontion to btiv, farm 
within one hour of Neyv York City; Southern 
Jersov ’’’referred; must have good house and 
outbuildings; if equipped, would purchase the 
stock a-1 tools. ADVERTISER 7941. care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Farm adaoted to general farming; 
some fruit; good soil; grow clover or Alfalfa; 
’•oasona’dy good improvements; located in 
Western Neyv York. ADVERTISER 7944, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—43-acre farm; fully stocked and 
equipped: with two houses, one large 12-room 
brick house, gas and bath; o-'e 5-room farm¬ 
house: all in first-class condition: for Summer 
boarders most sn-'table, ADVERTISER 7943. 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
Miscellaneous 
BUY direct from producer, Winesap, Black Twig 
apples, $5 per bbl.; Ben Davis, $4.50; good 
seconds, $4: home-canned tomatoes, string beans, 
cherries, raspberries, pie peaches, f. o. b. Trout- 
ville, Va. C. A. LAYMAN. T-outville. Va. 
APPLES! APPLES’ APPLES! For Fall and 
Winter apples place order immediately to C. 
J. YODER, Grantsville, Md. 
WANTED—Cider nnnles In small quantities or 
ea-load lots. JOHN F. WILKENS, Peekskill. 
N. Y. Telephone Feekskill 21-F-4. 
EXTRACTED HONEY—Clover, 60-lb. can, $15; 
10-lb. nail. $2.75; buckwheat. 60-lh. can, $12; 
— lb. pail, $2.50, f. o. b. my station; mailed 
within 3d zone, 10 lbs. clover, $3.25: buckwheat, 
$2.95: snecial prices on large orders. RAY C. 
FOR SALE—Portable Fairbanks Morse gasoline 
and ke-n*ene engine, 15 h. p.; run three 
months; $800.00. J. H. REVE, Lindenhurst. 
N. Y. 
* v - / * ’ 1 1 - ^ CA < l it' “u . 11/ i l/o, yy/- ^'/ 
postpaid 3rd zone. J. C. HICKS, Belleville, 
. i x/vvvu-i-uauu ICVCISIUIC uuue.v p.\- 
tractor; must he in good condition; at rea- 
. I '” Uiumiimim auu UIH A* 
ets for 50 head of cattle; mast be in first- 
luuuu bimw; wneai, 
M2 per ton; buckwheat, $10. A. B. WIL- 
v V.7. —rure uouey centers; 
healthful and delicious: improved and at- 
' ** • v aiiurt* uiuuuttiur; nrsi- 
class hatching order; price $300. CHARLES 
postage. G. S. SPENCER, Route 5. Cuba. 
. I’uuauMj suwiuui, wiui or 
yvithout a gasoline engine; price must be 
--aiziv urcnmcr 
stoves, complete. E. J. HOOPER. Dover. Del. 
FOR SALE—Home-made jellv: apple, grane. 30c• 
wild eherrv, 35c glass. MRS. P. RUNG, 22. 
Tnekerton, N. J. 
PURE Vermont maple syrup, $3 per gallon; 
manle sugar in 5 and 10-lb. pails. 45c per lb 
IV. H. WARREN, North Pomfret, Vt. 
WANTED—No. 3 Buckeye incubator and colonv 
brooder. G. B. THOMPSON, Silver Creek. 
N. Y. 
ONE three-gang plow; never used; reason for 
sell big: too big for Pullford attachment. 
CHARLES HYDE, Afton, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—One new E. & B. Holmes regular 
size apple barrel stave jointer; also a 3 h.p. 
I. C. IT. upright gasoline engine, nearly neyv: 
also one 35-light Pilot acetylene lighting plant 
and fixtures, all complete and in good order. 
JOSEPH S. WIT,FORD, Elba. N. Y. , 
