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COMPANY 
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Above is a Farquhar Cornish or 
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traction power investigate our Styles K and W. also 
Gas Tractors. Illustrated booklet ’’Farquhar En- 
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The Farquhar Line includes Sawmills. Threshers, 
Hydraulic Cider Presses, Potato Diggers. Grain 
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Box 430, York, Pa. 
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The Health Officer and Diseases 
1. Can a health officer, appointed by a 
town board, come to a man's home and 
put up a quarantine sign when he is away 
and say nothing about it? 2. Has he 
any right to say one shall stay home 
after the person lias been entirely over 
the mumps for five days? 3. Can anyone 
give the mumps after the swelling lias 
entirely gone? 4. Is not the health officer 
supposed to quarantine all cases in a 
neighborhood? (He quarantined ns and 
not oasis which broke out since ours.) 
5. Is there a tine for not reporting mumps 
to the health officer, and if so is the head 
of household, the one who has the disease, 
or tin 1 health officer responsible? 6. Can 
a health officer collect pay for trips to 
put up quarantine where there is no 
mumps, or where patients are over 
mumps? If so, does it come out of the 
town, and how much? 7. Is a person 
compelled to regard a quarantine put up 
where one is over a disease, or has none 
at all? If not, who is responsible for in¬ 
convenience incurred by such quarantine? 
8. Whom should one notify if a health 
officer does not do his work correctly? 
D. If school is ordered 1 closed on account 
of a disease does the teacher draw full 
pay? Is it closed by health officer or 
school trustee? 10. If the school is closed 
by trustee or health officer and the trustee 
refuses to sign order for salary, who 
should lie consulted? H. G. B. 
New York. 
1. A health officer could not legally quar¬ 
antine a family or patient without proper 
investigation to ascertain tin* presence of 
a quarantinable disease and due notifica¬ 
tion of the family involved. The mere 
putting up of a quarantine card, however, 
does not require the knowledge or con¬ 
sent. of the head of the family. 
2. The State sanitary code (New York) 
fixes the minimum period of isolation of 
a case of mumps at two weeks after the 
appearance of tin 1 disease and one Week 
after tin 1 disanpearance of tho swelling. 
This is tin* minimum period, and may be 
extended by the health officer if. in his 
judgment, the safety of the public re¬ 
quires it. 
3. No one can toll in any given case 
just what the period of infectivity is. 
The disease may be communicated before 
any active symptoms appear, probably for 
several days previous, and some compe¬ 
tent observers believe that it may be 
given to Others for six weeks after tin* 
disappearance of these symptoms. The 
sanitary code merely fixes a minimum pe¬ 
riod of isolation, without attempting the 
impossible task of fixing a maximum pe¬ 
riod for all cases. 
4. Yes, if he is aware of the existence 
of such cases. 
5. Where no physician is in attendance 
it is the duty of the head of a household 
to report the existence of any disease 
presumably communicable in that house¬ 
hold to the local health officer. Refusal 
to do this is a misdemeanor, punishable 
by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, or six 
months’ imprisonment, or both. 
fi. The health officer in New York State 
receives a salary, fixed by the local board 
of health and not dependent upon the 
amount of wo -k that lie does. Tt may not 
be less than 10 cents per capita for the 
municipality which he serves, and is a 
legal charge upon that municipality. 
7. The existence of communicable dis¬ 
ease and the fixing of a period <>f quaran¬ 
tine are matters for the determination of 
the health officer, subject to appeal to the 
State Department of Health at Albany. 
If a health officer maliciously established 
a quarantine or unnecessarily prolonged 
it he would, of course, be liable at law for 
damages. 
8. Notify the president of the local 
hoard of health, the executive officer of 
which board the health officer is. 
f). Tf the school is closed bv the health 
officers tho teacher is not, I think, en¬ 
titled to pay for the period during which 
school is not kept. If closed by tin* trus¬ 
tee. the teacher may draw pay for that 
period This, is governed by the school 
law. with which I am not very familiar, 
but I believe tho above statements to he 
accurate. 
10. The district superintendent of 
schools for that district. m. b. d. 
Read about Pyrox, the combined poison and 
fungicide, in the April 9th issue ol this paper. 
Homemade Dog Bread 
Do page 200 II. II. asks for formula 
for doe feed, and Dr. Alexander took it. 
for granted they wanted to make a hard 
biscuit like the commercial kind. Think¬ 
ing perhaps they meant otherwise, I take 
the liberty of sending my recipe for flog 
feed. Our dogs are Airedales and big 
eaters, so I hake twice a week in Summer, 
once a week in Winter, for them. Equal 
parts corn meal, middlings, wheat bran, 
rolled oats (oatmeal); I buy this loose, 
paying 5 or 7c per lb. Add a small 
amount white flour, about, a tablespoon of 
saleratus, a little salt, and mix to good 
baking consistency with liquid sour milk 
or whey for same for preference. Bake 
three or more hours in slow oven, take 
from pans, turn bottom side up in oven 
to dry out thoroughly, and keep loosely in 
dry place. If pans are liberally greased 
and floored the mixture comes out clean. 
Moisten with soup made from good clean 
scraps (no salted meat) boiled half a 
day and more water added and boiled 
down a couple of hours every day until 
gone. Feed at night, or lightly twice a 
day. Don’t make food too soft with the 
soup. This may not be an ideal ration, 
but my dogs thrive on it, and I hope it 
will help H. II. mbs. T. 
MR. FARMER 
IT’S WORTH YOUR WHILE TO GET 
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT 
BARIUM- 
PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
Containing 
28% PHOSPHORIC ACID 
7% BARIUM SULPHIDE 
Write for booklets describing this material 
and its use on various crops. 
NITRATE OF POTASH 
Analysing 
42% ACTUAL POTASH 
15% AMMONIA 
One ton ot this material contains as 
much Potash as 1750 lbs. Sulphate 
of Potash and as much Ammonia as 
1650 lbs. of Nitrate of Soda, 3400 lbs. 
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Less carloads, $65.00 per ton, f. o. b. at 
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FERTILIZERS 
We Recommend for 
Potatoes, General Trucking, Gardening 
Cr ox to n Brand 
4-8-5 and 4-8-2 Mixtures 
We also sell Kinv Mule rials, earloads or 
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NITRATE OF SODA 
SULPHATE OF AMMONIA AND 
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BLOOD AND TANKAGE 
BONE MEAL 
MURIATE OF POTASH 
SULPHATE OF POTASH 
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DER ]NTOW 
There was a Fanner who didn’t believe 
in Grangers Lime, 
And lie was wondrous wise; 
He jumped into a bramble bush 
And scratched out both his eyes. 
Now when he found his eyes were out, 
And his farm it wouldn’t pay, 
He used some Grangers Lime—brot 
back his sight, 
Now his farm’s O. K. 
GRANGERS MI'G. CO., (Successor) 
GRANGERS LIME CO. 
Hartford, Conn. Bridgewater, Muss. 
Works: West Stockbridge, Mass. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker aiul you'll net 
a ouick reply and a “square deal.” See 
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ANECESSITY 
on r/ie FARM 
Because he does not need lo build plat¬ 
forms or carry a ladder, one man can do 
the work of three in spraying trees with a 
The Pump of a Hundred Uses 
He can also cover many 
more acres of potatoes 
a day with Paris Green. 
^ Between seasons it can 
be used every day for a 
great number of dilfer- 
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whitewashing, washing 
the automobile, dis¬ 
infecting pens and 
coups, spraying cattle 
and other animals, put¬ 
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Saves time and temper every day, 
gets work done more easily and 
more quickly. 
Brass construction throughout, it is not 
affected by ordinary chemicals. The pump 
is guaranteed for five years. Sold by hard¬ 
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supply you, write us. 
Price, $5.50. ($6.00 
well of Denver nnd in 
extreme South). Knap- 
lack and olher attach¬ 
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Wrile for leajlet M 
THE STANDARD 
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986 Main St. 
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They earn you 51/2% interest. 
Principal and interest will be 
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date of issue. We give you 
ample security, based upon 
New York State’s diversified 
agriculture. 
Write for particulars 
Farmers Fund, Inc. 
M. W. Cole, President 
Lincnln-Alliaace Bank Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
Direct fifcm 
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A dear saving of at least $1.50 
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Dept. No 2 
Boston,Mass. 
Font paid 
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want. II. II. MAS T E It S, 
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New York State FARMS Ti«*( e of 
making farms for sale. We have a size, local ion mid 
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