The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1237 
This Great Outfit Complete 
COOKING STOVE ° N , LY 
FUEL and EXTINGUISHER *.OC 
By Mail—Satisfaction Guaranteed 
This handy stove cooks regular meals, with 
instant Sterno Canned Heat—-does anything a 
kitchen stove can do—but you can take it any¬ 
where, folds flat, weighs only 8 oz. Use it in 
bedroom, sick room, dining room, home, office, 
camping. Frys, broils, boils meats, eggs, soup, 
spaghetti, heats water for shaving, flat and 
curling irons, baby’s milk. 
Sold bv dealers or direct. Send this Ad. and 
25c to STERNO CORP., 9 E. 37th St., New 
York City, Dept. 208. We will send, prepaid, 
stove, can of Sterno and extinguisher. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed or money back. Send now, 
while special offer lasts. 
STERNO 
CANNED 
HEAT 
“Get a Portable Kitchenette” 
Consolidated Asbestos Coating is a 
tough, durable, fire resistant, asbestos- 
ashphalt roof builder. Easily applied over 
wood, paper, tin, concrete or any old roof. 
Always stormproof, regardless of heat, cold, 
rain, hail or snow. Seals Every Leak 
Special Offer 
5 Gals. $8; 10 Gals. $ 15 
C, O. D. 
A Dollar Brush included without extra 
charge for cash with order. 
Contains No Coal Tar 
Money back if not entirely satisfied 
Avoid Cheap Substitutes 
Consolidated Asbestos Cerp., Dept. DD 
100 Fifth Avenue, New York 
NINE WATER IN HOME AND 
9* if jpou liVe 
neat* a Creek. 
| or Spring 
'■* Buy Direct 
Save 1-5 to 35% 
This free catalog is a real text-book 
on solving your household and dairy bam 
problems — all standard water or steam 
pipe and fittings, plumbing, and water sys¬ 
tems, engines, pulleys, saw outfits, furnaces, 
electrical supplies, etc. 
You can save by our method of cutting out middle* 
men and bookkeepers. 
Freight paid. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re^ 
funded. Write today for catalog and prices. 
Smyth-Despard Co- 
96-804 Broad Pt., UTICA, N. Y. 
Plumbin^-Pipe-Fittin^s 
OLESALE PRICES 
imimimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiuiiiiiimimiiimr 
The Farmer 
| His Own Builder | 
= By H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS = 
— A practical and handy book of all kinds “ 
— of building information from concrete to — 
— carpentry. PRICE $1.50 2 
“ for sale by — 
| THE RURAL NEW-YORKER | 
EE 333 West 30th Street, New York 5 
viiiiiiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiin 
111111111111111111111111111 i 111111111111111111111111 
the stove, it seemed like a malignant leer 
of hate. 
I hope you will never have the experi¬ 
ence which the deaf go through when they 
are suddenly plunged into new and 
strange company, and in the dark at that. 
It is a very trying thing for all. I think 
it a good experience for a country family 
to try to entertain a strange deaf man. It 
is a great test, of courtesy and household 
patience. People who live in lonely coun¬ 
try places are naturally curious and they 
get such information as they can out of 
strangers. When the local deaf man 
calls they let him alone. He can have 
little if any worth-while news to relate, 
and there is no use wasting time and 
energy in trying to tell him all the hap¬ 
penings. Yet let some strange deaf man 
appear and the family will overwhelm 
him with well-meant, yet often tiresome 
attention. It would be better to let him 
alone to his own devices—that is his na¬ 
tural condition—but most people who 
have had little to do with the deaf, stand 
somewhat in awe of one who must pass 
his days in the silent country, and they 
can hardly treat him naturally. 
In this family, when they found that 
Joe was deaf, they went through the 
usual forms with which most of us who 
live in the silence are familiar. Grand¬ 
father was spokesman. At first he roared 
at the top of his voice. This failing, he 
began a sort of ridiculous baby talk as if 
the deaf man were some sort of idiotic 
person or simple-minded child. This 
bringing no response be began an awk¬ 
ward pantomine, using his hands and 
shaking his head, in a sign language no 
mortal could understand. The hired man 
studied the situation a while, and then 
reached into his pocket and pulled out 
the stub of an old lead pencil. lie found 
a piece of paper and handed it to the 
school teacher as the best fitted by educa¬ 
tion to act as interpreter. This young 
woman came over by Joe and wrote out 
questions for him to answer. He was a 
good talker, and here was a way for him 
to be agreeable. They were getting on 
famously when mother rapped on the ta¬ 
ble with her big spoon. 
“Supper’s ready.” 
As if this were not enough, grandfather 
took the pencil and wrote with a shaking 
hand : 
“Set by—and eat!” 
Joe Strong is something of a man 
among men. and he has eaten in places 
which come close to sitting with kings, 
but in all his years he will never forget 
the supper in that farm kitchen, under 
the kerosene lamp. After grandfather 
had said “grace,” mother took from the 
oven a great deep dish of fragrant hash. 
Not the stuff they give you in a restaur¬ 
ant called “browned in the pan.” This 
was cooked in a deep yellow dish. The 
corned beef was homemade and there was 
a dash of ham in it to bring out the 
flavor. Then it was hand chopped, not 
run through a dull grinder, but cut by 
hand with a sharp chopping knife. A lit¬ 
tle onion had been mixed in. The pota- 
toes were well cooked and mealy. A 
thick smear of butter went over the in¬ 
side of the dish before the hash went in, 
and it had slowly baked in a hot oven. 
When about half done a little of the 
gravy from frying sausage had been 
poured over it. There it was piping hot 
before grandfather. Then came a great 
dish of hot biscuit. You had your choice 
of butter or honey or both. There were 
baked apples as big as a baby’s head with 
real cream—and such doughnuts as we 
use to eat in mother’s kitchen years ago. 
H. W. C. 
(To Be Continued) 
In the garden was an apple tree, and 
father had forbidden Betty to touch the 
apples until they were ripe. One day 
father came into the nursery looking very 
stern. “Somebody has been at the apple 
tree. I have found three cores on the 
grass.” Betty tried her best to look as 
if she had never seen an apple. At last 
she blurted out: “Well, it wasn’t me, 
’cause I ate my cores.”—Youth’s Com¬ 
panion. 
CONTENTS 
FARM TOPICS 
Fertilizing' Value of Muck and Clay . 1232 
Harvesting Com in the West . 1232 
From Dairying to General Farming . 1233 
New England Notes .... 1233 
Hope Farm Notes . 1236 
An Evening on the Farm . 1249 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Feeding Two Guernseys . 1244 
Using Com and Cob Meal . 1244 
THE HENYARD 
Connecticut Egg-laying Contest . 1249 
Beginning the Poultry Business . 1249 
HORTICULTURE 
Calcium Cyanide for the Peach Tree Borer 1233 
Forestry Matters in New York . 1233 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Boys and Girls .1240, 1241 
A Farm Woman’s Notes . 1242 
A Valuable Japanese Citizen . 1242 
The Home Dressmaker . 1243 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Interesting Matters About a Rural School 
1231, 1232 
Is Water Glass Poisonous . 1235 
Effect of Copper Gutters on Water . 1235 
Mechanics’ Soap; Gear Grease . 1235 
Casting Silver Rings .123J 
Trouble With Battery . 1235 
Editorials . 1238 
Publisher’s Desk . 1250 
7 
Reasons Why 
PIPELESS 
FURNACE 
is the most satis¬ 
factory heater 
you can buy 
See the STEWART DEALER 
in your vicinity or write to the 
factory for interesting folder that 
gives complete details of this BIG, 
POWERFUL, DURABLE, 
WARM AIR HEATER 
Heats the WHOLE 
House Perfectly 
There is tio question about keep¬ 
ing the whole house warm and 
comfortable, even in below Zero 
weather, with a STEWART. 
ALL the heat goes upstairs— 
none escapes in the cellar, and 
every room is ABUNDANTLY 
heated, where doors are open to 
permit circulation. 
Burns Wood or 
Coal 
Gives equally satisfactory serv¬ 
ice with either fuel. 
Saves Fuel 
In actual use in hundreds of 
homes that are hard to heat, the 
STEWART actually saves from 
one-quarter to one-half usual 
fuel expense. 
Saves Work 
Can be operated with less trouble 
than one ordinary stove. Less 
dirt and dust to clean up—no 
coal to lug upstairs and coal 
dust and ashes are not scattered 
through the house. Fires keep 
well and require but little at¬ 
tention. 
Saves Expense 
Costs less to install than the 
average furnace—there is no 
complicated system of pipes to 
put in and the whole job usually 
takes but one day. 
Success Certain 
Because the STEWART is made 
in FIVE STYLES and in 
SIZES to meet the EXACT re¬ 
quirements of ANY home— 
large or small. 
Installed by 
Experts 
The STEWART DEALER who 
will install your furnace has had 
years of experience and he 
knows just how and where to 
locate the furnace to give you 
perfect comfort in every room. 
Dependable 
The STEWART PIPELESS 
FURNACE is built for LIFE¬ 
TIME SERVICE. Every part 
is strong and durable and is 
guaranteed, not only by the 
dealer but by the makers, Fuller 
& Warren Co., who have had 
92 years of experience in build¬ 
ing both heaters #nd ranges. 
FULLER & WARREN 
COMPANY, Troy, N.Y. 
Makers of 
STOVES, RANGES, FURNACES 
SINCE 1832 
CarYYbur 
Own Meats 
and SaveYour 
Late Fruits and 
Vegetables 
You can do it bo easi¬ 
ly, and so economically 
with this great food- 
saving, money-savin#, 
money-making 
Virginia 
Home Can Sealer 
TURN SOFT CORN INTO REAL MONEY 
Martin Cribs with Martin Dryer 
attachment cure soft corn perfectly. 
Corn is money this year. Save and 
cure every bushel of it. Write today 
for special bulletin on Martin Di ver, 
free catalog and easy payment plan. 
MARTIN STEEL PRODUCTS CO. 
74 Longview Ave. Mansfield, Ohio 
GREENHOUSE GLASS 
/ILL SIZES—BEST BRANDS 
Cans in sanitary tins, bo much better, faster and at 
less than half the cost and work of canning in glass 
and insures you as pure, fine-keeping, fine-tasting, 
foods as it you had tne biggest canning plant in the 
world. Wonderful for putting up sausage, spare ribs, 
beef, chicken, mutton etc. — means fresn meat to you 
the year around. As a fruit and vegetable saver It has proved 
one of the finest devices ever invented for the home or farm. 
Not only does it enable you to save all your fruits and vege¬ 
tables, but to insure you a ready sale at a good price foi ever/ 
can you don’t need for your own use. Write now for booklet 
which tells you all. Virginia Can Co.. Box, i< <57? Roanoke, Va, 
BIENENFELD GLASS WORKS, Inc. 
1539-1549 Covert St.. BROOKLYN. N. Y. 
Florida Furnished Cottages *otm. wV.mt^up'co^ 
tagessell, up. Public Library, Lynn Haven, Florida 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
