The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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A t addin 
414 
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13 Garden Tools in 1 
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Cuts runners. Aerates the soil. Works 
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EDMONDS’ 
POULTRY 
ACCOUNT 
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Price, S1.0C 
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If you keep oi\ly ten or a 
dozen hens, there will be 
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The account may be begun 
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For sate by 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St., New York 
ing the proposed new school bill say that 
we are opposed to any improvement what¬ 
ever. They tell us we are mossbacks, 
willing to stick in the mud, hub deep, and 
let our country children starve mentally. 
They know better, but they have taken 
the arbitrary stand that their way is the 
only one worth considering; therefore all 
who oppose it must be ignorant or blind. 
Their form of logic seems to be about as 
follows: 
1. The only persons properly qualified 
to plan for the education of youth are the 
educational experts. Parents or guar¬ 
dians do not count. It makes no differ¬ 
ence what they want for their children. 
2. This bill has been prepared by the 
most noted experts in the country. 
3. Therefore it must be right, and ho 
who opposes it puts a curse upon the 
future rural children. 
Now, I do not believe that these educa¬ 
tional experts understand the conditions 
of rural life. One of the ereat leaders in 
this line once told me: “I feel that I- 
ought to get out into the country and see 
just how these people live!” He suggest¬ 
ed going in a comfortable car in June or 
July, when the country is at its best. I 
insisted on his going in January, up into 
Northern New York, during a time of 
blizzard and snow. I want him to wade 
half a mile through the snow, "et into a 
“kid wagon” on a freezing day—do all 
that he would try to make the country 
children do. I would hold him right to it 
for a couple of weeks, and compel him to 
do his share of farm duties, from cutting 
wood to milking. Then I would pay a 
large price to hear him when he came 
back to defend a bill for forcing a system 
designed for town or city schools upon 
rural districts. I do not think any expert 
is qualified to dictate a system of rural 
education until he has had this practical 
education in country life and the psychol¬ 
ogy of country people. I think the coun¬ 
try people know far more about their 
schools than the experts do. I believe 
they have the instinct and the intelligence 
to improve their own schools if the ex¬ 
perts will stop forcing fads and experi¬ 
ments upon them, and arrange a system 
of taxation much like what we have in 
New Jersey, with a fairer distribution. 
(To be continued) H. W. C. 
A Barrel Smokehouse 
On page 15 there is a picture of a bar¬ 
rel smokehouse with a firepit dug in a 
bank and a pipe laid under ground and 
coming to the surface, under a bottomless 
barrel, which has a perforated lid to let 
the smoke out. x\ll of this is unnecessary. 
Thirty years ago I used to smoke hams, 
shoulders and bacon in a barrel. This is 
the way I did it. I took a cracker barrel, 
laid it on its side, marked a circle just 
above the bottom the size of the stove 
pipe I was going to use, sawed out the 
place, to insert the pipe, stood the barrel 
up on its bottom, inserted the pipe and 
added more lengths of pipe until there 
was about 12 ft. of pipe. The ground 
was sloping enough to make the end of 
the pipe a foot or more lower than the 
barrel. Hanging the hams, shoulders and 
bacon in the barrel, I covered it over 
with a bran sack, and started a fire in 
the end of the stovepipe. I have cut 
some young hickory trees, about the 
size of my wrist, into short pieces 
and split them into quarters. This 
young green hickory made a big smoke. 
It went through that bran sack on top of 
the barrel so easily that I spread an¬ 
other sack on, then a third, and the 
smoke went through all three. It is 
necessary to watch the fire and disturb 
it once in a while, for if it gets to blazing 
there won’t be any smoke. I used to sit 
in the house and read a book, glancing 
out of the window once in a while to 
see how much smoke was coming out of 
the barrel ; if only a little, I knew the 
fire was blazing, and went out and fixed 
it. About five hours of this smoking was 
plenty, then the hams were put in cloth 
bags and hung up in the loft over my 
workshop. I doubt if we ever ate any 
of that ham without someone at the 
table remarking how much nicer that 
ham was than any you could buy. It 
was cured by the Maryland recipe In 
that good old Chase’s Recipe Book, 
worth its weight in gold almost to any 
farmer. When the smoking was done, 
all there was to do was to unjoint the 
pipe, stick it in the barrel and put it 
away for next year. Any old thrown- 
away stove pipe will do; if there are 
many rust holes in it lay the worst side 
on the ground. Anything that smoke 
will go through is good enough. 
If your ground is too level to make an 
up-draft for the smoke, then swing the 
pipe toward the point the wind is coming 
from. For 20 years that same barrel 
smoked my hams. No expense whatever, 
no need of any smokehouse. 
GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
Raising Peacocks 
Could you give us any information as 
to the possibilities of keeping a pea¬ 
cock, and if it is beSt to buy one full 
grown or hatch them ? g. S. 
■Spring Valley, N. Y. 
As peacocks belong to the pheasant 
family of wild fowl, and are not easily 
raised, it would probably he more satis¬ 
factory for you to purchase one than try 
to raise any. The eggs are rather ex¬ 
pensive. and unless you have very favor¬ 
able natural conditions and plenty of time 
to - devote to the work you would bo 
taking a long chance trying to hatch and 
raise the young. c. s. greene. 
Her bread will be browned just right in the even heat of the Florence Oven 
A stove that minds 
its own business 
This modern range does its work quickly, cleanly, 
and with the least amount of attention 
L IGHT a match and turn a 
j lever—that is all you do to 
start a Florence Oil Range. You 
can instantly regulate the clear 
blue flame to any degree of heat 
you wish. 1 he flame is close up 
under the cooking. Meals are 
not late when you own a Flor¬ 
ence. You can cook meats, 
vegetables, desserts, anything 
—well and quickly. 
There are no 
drafts to bother 
with, no shaking 
to be done, no 
soot or ashes, no 
“tending”thefire. 
The Big 
Burners 
keep the flame 
close up under the 
cooking. This 
means economy 
of fuel. 
Does not burn 
from a wick 
You simply touch 
a match to the 
Asbestos Kindler 
and in a few moments you have 
a clean blue flame, produced 
from vaporized kerosene. This 
flame is a gas flame. It is not a 
wick flame such as you see in the 
ordinary lamp. 
The Florence helps you to re¬ 
duce your household expenses. 
You burn the fuel only when 
you are actually cooking. And 
you put out the fire the moment 
your dinner is ready to serve. 
Kerosene is a cheap fuel and 
is always available. 
The leveling device attached to 
each leg of the stove and the 
non-breakable metal oil-tank 
are features you will appreciate 
in the Florence Oil Range. The 
portable oven has the famous 
“baker’s arch” of the old Dutch 
oven and our patented heat- 
spreader, which distribute the 
heat evenly. You can bake bread 
to a luscious brown on top with¬ 
out burning the bottom. 
Beauty in the kitchen 
Finished in blue or white en¬ 
amel, with jet-black frame and 
nickel trimmings, the Florence, 
is an article of real beauty. It is 
sturdily built and simple in 
construction. Every part is 
readily accessible for cleaning. 
Visit a hardware or furniture 
store and examine critically a 
Florence Oil Range. If you 
don’t know the name of the 
nearest dealer, write us for his 
address. 
Th is booklet is free 
“ Get Rid of the 
‘Cook Look”’ is 
the title of a book¬ 
let containing prac¬ 
tical information 
about oil stoves. 
Send us your ad¬ 
dress and we will 
mail it to you. 
Portable Oven 
The “baker’s 
arch” and the 
special heat- 
spreader assure 
bestresultsinany 
kind of baking. 
Florence Stove Company, Dept. 621, Gardner, Mass. 
Makers of Florence Oil Ranges, Florence Ovens, Florence Water Heaters, and Florence Oil Heater* 
Made and Sold in Canada by McClary’s, London, Canada 
FLORENCE 
OIL RANGE 
Entire Content* 
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