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BOYS AND GIRLS 
(Continued from page 1355) 
There was not room to include a game 
on Our Page this month (except the Hal¬ 
lowe’en games which are plenty) but 
there will surely be one next time. If 
you have a favorite game, write out a 
clear description of how to play it and 
send it in. Others may like to know 
about it. 
Several answers have been received to 
the question one reader presented for dis¬ 
cussion last time. I should like to hear 
from more of you on this and next month 
will publish the best answers. The ques¬ 
tion is: “Shall school work be taken as 
a pleasure or a duty?” 
Now then, Our Page has done its best 
to make this a happy Hallowe’en for its 
boys and girls, and hopes to hear from 
many of you after the celebration is over. 
Address your friend and editor, Edward 
M. Tuttle, in care The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 West 30th Street, New 
York City. 
List of October Contributions 
These are the readers who answered the Sep¬ 
tember page before this one went to the printer. 
The name itself indicates that a letter was re¬ 
ceived from that boy or girl. Following each 
name is the age, whenever given, and a series 
of alphabetical symbols referring to various 
contributions according to the following key: 
b—Words for box. 
d—A drawing, 
e—An essay, 
g—A game. 
k—A new book or poem puzzle. 
1—Correct answer to last book puzzle. 
m—A new nature puzzle. 
n—Correct answer to last nature puzzle. 
o—An original poem. 
p—A photographic picture. 
r—A rhyme for drawing. 
s—A story. 
v—A memory verse. 
x—Correct answer to last puzzle. 
z—A new puzz’e or riddle. 
Connecticut: Norman Hallock (17, d), Helen 
Wasilesky (12, m, v), May Kasulis (14, d, g, 
in, n, x), Peter Kasulis (12, d, s), Rodger 
Orem (11, g, k). 
Illinois: Anna Graham (15, k). 
Kentucky: Anna Hillenmeyer (11, n, x, z). 
Maine: Rebecca Spencer (14, d), Alice Cray 
(14. b, d, k, z). 
Maryland: Cornelia Amoss (13, o), Agnes 
Bovey (1(5, d), Mildred Itneyer (12, x). 
Massachusetts: Mildred Gillfetber (n, x, z), 
Rachel Jones (12, v), Miriam Tilden (14, b, 1, 
v, x). 
Missouri: Mary Smith (13, s). 
New Hampshire: Albert Wilson (16, d, o), 
Frieda Haynes (d). 
New Jersey: Mary Holdrum (16. d), Mary 
Latomme (d, g, m, n. v), Frances I.ayton (11, 
x), Eugene Rostow (11, 1). Marie Oker (n, p, 
v, x), ltaymer Newton (13, x, z), Anna Grif¬ 
fith (12). 
New York: Wilhelminia Rasmussen (16, d), 
Edith Bailey (m, n), Orvilla Oudt (14, g, n, x), 
Doris Ives (15), Elva Terry (12, n), Ruth Rel- 
is (9, p, z), Frieda F’eiehmann, Unsigned (d), 
Esther Lapper (13, s), Quintin Tuthill (11, x]. 
Hazel Pray (11, d), Harry Pray (12, d), Celes- 
tine Bapst (15, n, x), Carmen Fuller (12, v, x), 
Donald Morehouse (7, d), Frank Craig (15, n), 
Esther Kraft (13, v), Dorothy Butterfield (15, 
x, z), Florence Centner (11, z), Vera Chase (8, 
n, x), Ruthford Lindsley (d), Florence Lee (15, 
d, n, x), Lenna Parmelee (8, d), Helen Wittwer 
(11, d, n), William Beaton (12, n, x), Aubrey 
Gregory (14, d, v), Marian Lewis (9, v). Anna 
Holan (9, k, n, v), Elizabeth Holan (13, n, 
z), Beatrice Booth (13, d), Unsigned (d), Flora 
Finch (13, o, x), Bernard Kopaskie (12, d, e, 
n, s), Mabel Cast (8), Janet Cragin (8, d, n, 
x), Olive Riker (1, x), Ellen Rickard (16, d, 
x), Ruth Clement (12, n, x), Charlotte Booth 
(1(5, d, n, x), Gladys Warner (11, n, x, z), 
Edith Beardslee (11, k, s, x), Barbara Morse 
(10, g, p), Dorothy Rich (s), Amy Rich (11, 
d, z), Ellen Weeks (10, s), Andress Doolittle 
(s), Ellen Doolittle (12, s, x), Mildred Betz- 
ler (7, d), Elizabeth McWhorter (10, k, n, x), 
Roy Bergman (13, n, v, x). 
Ohio: Gladys Shaw' (15, x), Hazel Francisco 
(g, n, s, x), Muriel Smith (12, n), Albert 
Mantz (13, d). 
Pennsylvania: Dorothy Mitchell (15, d), Mar¬ 
tha Horst (15, g, m, n, s, x, z), Evalyn Utter 
(d. x), Anna Torrence (13, n, o), Miriam 
Kechel, Margaret Farabaugh (n, x), Mary Kulp, 
Esther Herr (15, d), Lester Trittenbaeh (14, 
d), Unsigned (d), Edna Spencer (9, d). 
Rhode Island: Margaret Palmer, Eleanor 
House (9, n, s, v, x). 
Virginia: Ruth Knoeller (13, e), Annie Cal- 
jonw (d), Helen Caljonw (14, d). 
Hope Farm Notes 
(Continued from page 1350) 
things. I have a good house and enough 
to eat and wear, and I can see my hus¬ 
band count his money—but that isn’t all 
of life for me. I want more of the 
spirit!” 
***** 
No indeed, Billy was not a success as 
a catalyzer, and the situation grew worse 
as Winter came on and both John and 
Helen realized that they would be shut 
in together. One day, right after dinner, 
there was an unusually bitter quarrel. 
Something Helen said stung John to the 
quick, and he said what I suppose thou¬ 
sands of husbands have said in moments 
of anger: 
“If you were only a man I’d thrash you 
within an inch of your life!” 
And Helen came back with the answer 
of many a spirited woman : 
“If I were a man you never would dare 
to touch me, you big coward!” 
John was white with anger, and he 
actually raised his hand to strike, but 
from what Billy says I imagine he caught 
himself in time. He got up from the table 
and stamped out through the door. The 
rural mail carrier had reached the gate. 
and as he held up a package of mail John 
walked out and took it. There were sev¬ 
eral papers, a business letter for John, a 
package of new records for the machine 
which Billy had sent for and a letter for 
Helen. Somehow, as John took it in his 
hand he felt that here was the great crisis 
of his life wrapped in paper. He opened 
the door tossed the mail on the table and 
stamped off to the barn. 
Helen read the letter and her face went 
white. It was from her brother George. 
He was the black sheep of the family—a 
ne’er-do-well—and his failure in life was 
the great trump card which John always 
played in his many sneering remarks 
about the Harris family. I suppose there 
is no bitterness that can enter a woman’s 
life equal to that which comes when a 
husband expresses his contempt for her 
brothers—and the woman knows in her 
heart that it is true. I never saw but one 
thing that could equal it; that was when 
a man of lowly fortune married a hard 
woman older than himself. She had 
property. He worked her farm and he 
fell sick and became an invalid. He sat 
there, a useless wreck, and had to ask his 
hard and scolding wife if he could not 
have bis mother come and live with them ! 
H. w. c. 
(To he Continued) 
The Last Night of Summer 
(Continued from Page 1351) 
time! Machinery makes it possible for 
us to accomplish too much for our own 
good, they say. Yet we cannot believe the 
evidence, and go on with production, 
trusting to Nature to adjust matters. 
But she’s failed us this Fall. The drought 
that we hoped would shade production 
turned into rains—the rains helped things 
grow and threatened us with frost, and 
the frost held off so late that here we are 
again with a bumper crop of potatoes. 
Lucky are those who have some stock to 
feed. 
But. all the same, we shan’t gloom over 
it. We’ll bring in the beans and sort 
them, and hang some pork up to cure, 
make more catsup and get our wheat and 
corn milled. We’ll live through it again. 
MRS. F. H. UNGER. 
Picking a Duck 
Would you give an easy way to pick 
ducks? 1 have about 200 to kill, and 
would be pleased to know of some way to 
make the job easy. mrs. ii. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
There is no “easy” method, but by 
practice one acquires a knack, and the 
number of ducks picked a day materially 
increases. For instance, a new picker for 
several weeks can pick but 25 a day ; then 
the number increases rather rapidly to 
75, and after more time it is increased to 
possibly 100. I have one woman who never 
picks less than 100, and she has, when 
everything is favorable, done 138, and on 
one occasion beaten this. The working 
hours are from 7:30 a. m. to noon, and 
from 12 :30 p. m. to 5 p. m. As I be¬ 
lieve you know, the ducks are scald- 
picked. 
Some of the growers have tried steam, 
but from the information I have received 
do not find it saves any time. All you 
can tell Mrs. II. M. is to have a large ket¬ 
tle of water just under the boiling point 
(about 190 degrees), and dip them in by 
holding on to the head and legs and al¬ 
lowing them to remain in for 15 seconds, 
then remove and try the feathers. If 
they do not come off readily, put them 
back for 10 or 15 seconds longer. She 
should try to rub the feathers off with 
the palm of her hand and not “pick” at 
them, as this is hard on the fingers, and 
slow. After scalding, lay the duck on a 
smooth board, with the breast up and 
head away from the piqker; then rub. 
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PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO., 
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A FewSelected White Holland Toms 
May hatched ; good type and a wonderful bird for #10. 
ZoarHill Farm, W. M. WATKINS, Sup!., Gowanda, N T. R.F.D.Na. 1 
Prize-Winning Pekin Drakes For Sale 
ZDAR HILL FARM, W. M. WATKINS, Jupl., Gowanda,N.T. R. F. D. No. I 
W H Hnoeu (Breeding stock.) 2 and 3 yr. old at *4 each. 
, U. UUuoti ED. STRAW Columbus, N J. 
Pullets and Cockerels 
50 Colored ,H “ H ' Homeing Pigeons 
Don’t order less than ten. LKO.NAKP PETTIT, Ath.»», N. Y. 
For 
s.io Fifteen 390-Egg Cyphers Incubators S 0 7 ; 
perfect hatchers. Cost tfiii each. All for $750. None 
separate. Write Middlocrook Hatchory, 5liddleBr.pl,, l’u. 
CAD cni C BOURBON RF.il TURKEYS, 
run vHLL related. May hatched liens, $10; t 
non- 
...__ toms, 
$12; also Toulouse Geese , non-related. May hatched 
females $5, males $7. CLAUDE (JUAY, Stony Creek, 51. Y. 
I IISIIT RDAUMAC Bens *:i.HO each; Cocks 95.00 
Liuni DnHn IYImO AMHAB. CORWIN. R Ho. 3.Newburoh,H.y. 
Rose and Single Comb Reds 
The birds that are making Knlck’s Reds famous. Big, 
husky, farm-raised Cockerels and Bullets, bred for 
Vigor, large size, dark red color and heavy laying. 
Fair prices and a square deal always. Catalog free. 
RALPH KNICKERBOCKER, R. 36, PINE PLAINS, N. V. 
f±uain*»ca Pin e 6 females, 3 males, $12.00 
ILTIIIIICd ■ *J/N N. E. WELCH. Somers, Conn. 
WHITE VFARIIWr UFWC Barron strain. Good size at SI 
Leghorn I GrtlVLUlU ULIYO Toil N SleKA Y, Liv. Co., Lima. .N.Y. 
Birds 
How many square feet of yard room 
would it require for 100 chickens? 
How much by weight of corn, wheat and 
barley would you feed 100 chickens per 
day ? v. w. B. 
Minden, Neb. 
From as many as you can spare to 
none at all. Chickens should be raised 
upon as much range as can be given, the 
more the better, but mature fowls may¬ 
be confined, if need be, to roomy houses, 
without run. When you say “chickens,” 
you convey only the idea of domestic 
fowls, for many people speak of fowls 
of all ages as chickens, and I don’t know 
just wbat you mean. Properly speaking, 
chickens are the young of domestic fowls, 
at any age less than one year, and chick¬ 
en# one week old will manifestly con¬ 
sume less grain than chickens six months 
old. Assuming that, by “100 chickens,” 
you mean 100 mature fowls of one of the 
lighter breeds, and also assuming that 
you are feeding a mash of ground grain 
in addition to the grains fed whole, you 
see that I have to do a lot of assuming 
in order to answer your question, 100 
fowls, will consume from 6 to 8 quarts 
of mixed whole grains daily, and the 
weight of a quart, easily ascertained, will 
depend upon the kind of mixture used. 
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Park’s Barred Rocks, WyckoH’s and Hollywood S. C. 
White Leghorns and Viberl’s S. C. Rhode Island Reds 
All April hatched and raised on free range, i.unran- 
teed satisfactory. A. II. Fingar, Elizaville, N.k 
300 S. C. W. LEGHORN PULLETS 
FOR SALE. Hollywood and Barron strain—latter 
from Willow Brook Farm. Free range; weigh 3*a-4 
His. Grand-parents all had official records—218 270 
eggs. Price, #2.50 each. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
ELMVIEW FARM C. H. PALMER New Haven, Vermont 
Good White Leghorn Yearling Hens 
SI each. #95 hundred. A few brown Leghorns, 
same price. UNITED EGG FARMS Hillsdale, New York 
HENS-PULLETS-S. G. W. Leghorns 
Young’s strain yearling hens, #1 each. Free range 
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H. N. CONNER Stockton, N, J. 
For Sale-400 White Leghorn Pullets Stm h l£US"* 
to la.y. Heavy and free from vermin and disease, $2each. 
Parent stock oil premises. A. F. MATHES, Somerville.N. J. R.F.D 4 
100 S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets 
Farm raiser!, healthy birds. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
H. L. GASKILL Lockport, N. Y. Route 8 
100 White Wyandottes Sfck 
raised pullets. Must 
sell to make room. Each #2. Special price on 
entire flock. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
H. L. GASKILL Lockport N. Y. R. 8 
Pullets—White Leghorn from heavy layers. $1 each. 
Prompt deL Sam Frankman, Lakewood, N. J. !(• D. 1 
S.O.n.I.r»ULLETS 
March hatched. Free from disease. Tested for B, 
W. Diarrhoea. #2 up; Cockerels. #5. 
L. It. HARRIS Lambertville, N. J, 
300 Yearling Hens SULch.* "SoffK 
lets about ready for laying, #2.25 each. Fine se¬ 
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Park’s Pure Barred Rocks 
April hatched. II. SUTTLE Schenevus, N.'Y’. 
Jersey Black Giants 
lets and Cockerels—cheap. H. J. 
Wllburtha Strain. Entire flock 
1 —Pullets—Yearling Pul- 
Kempf, French town, N. J. 
100 Black Giant Pullets 
Paul Kuhl Copper Hill, N. J. 
Marcy 
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Capon Ranch II. WEEKS Amagansoit, N.V. 
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Contest records up to 270 lit Storrs, 2«4 Miehigans, 251 
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