THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
What  Others  Say. 
(Continued.) 
over  it.  He  has  another  big  farm  in  Palo 
Alto  County,  which  contains  a  thousand 
acres  of  grazing  land,  and  upon  this  he 
keeps  a  lot  of  fine  stock.  His  men  drive 
his  herds  to  the  grazing  lands  in  the 
spring,  and  in  the  fall  they  are  brought 
back  for  feeding . 
The  effect  of  spraying  apple  trees  with 
London-purple  to  prevent  ravages  of  the 
codling  moth  or  apple  worm  is  well  illus¬ 
trated  by  the  experience  of  Mr.  Lupton, 
of  Virginia,  as  stated  in  a  recent  issue  of 
Insect  Life.  The  work  of  spraying  was 
undertaken  in  his  orchard,  hut  was  dis¬ 
continued  when  less  than  one-third  of  the 
trees  had  been  sprayed.  From  the  sprayed 
trees  1,000  barrels  of  apples  nearly  free 
from  worms  were  gathered,  while  from 
the  remaining  two-thirds  of  the  orchard 
only  883  barrels  of  sound  fruit  were  ob¬ 
tained.  quite  one-fifth  of  the  apples  from 
the  unsprayed  trees  being  wormy  and 
unfit  for  use.  Mr.  Lupton  estimates  that 
his  returns  from  the  orchard  would  have 
been  increased  §2,500,  had  all  the  trees 
been  sprayed . 
Few  will  dissent  from  T.  V.  Munson’s 
statement,  in  the  January  American  Agri¬ 
culturist,  that  it  is  to  Mr.  E.  S.  Rogers, 
more  than  to  any  other  person,  that  the 
honor  of  the  greatest  intelligent  pioneer 
work  in  ameliorating  our  wild  grapes 
must  be  awarded . . . 
Fifty  years  ago,  says  Dr.  E.  H.  Jen¬ 
kins,  in  the  above  monthly,  the  impres¬ 
sion  was  much  more  prevalent  than  now 
that  the  worse  a  thing  smelled  the  better 
it  was  as  a  manure . 
A  fertilizer  factory  was  not  heal'd  of 
in  this  country  45  years  ago.  To-day 
there  are  over  400  in  the  United  States, 
turning  out  annually  more  than  $20,000,- 
000  wortli  of  goods.  It  is  only  within  23 
years  that  the  immense  deposits  of  phos¬ 
phate  rock  have  been  worked  in  South 
Carolina,  from  which  in  some  years  over 
250,000  tons  of  rock  have  been  taken,  for 
use  as  fertilizers . 
But  what  of  the  next  50  years  ?  asks 
Dr.  Jenkins  in  his  review  of  “  Fertilizers 
Then  and  Now.”  There  is  every  reason 
to  believe  that  the  advance  in  sound 
learning  and  sound  practice  will  go  on 
even  more  rapidly  than  before  in  this 
matter  of  the  paying  use  of  fertilizers. 
They  will  become  more  and  more  neces¬ 
sary  to  successful  farming,  and  will  have 
to  be  used  with  greater  discrimination. 
We  have  a  vast  deal  to  learn  of  the  effects 
of  fertilizers  on  the  mechanical  condition 
of  the  soil,  and  also  on  the  bacterial  life 
within  it.  We  are  only  just  beginning  to 
learn  something  of  the  tremendous  im¬ 
portance  of  this  microscopic  life  in  the 
soil,  which  is  truly  the  Alpha  and  Omega, 
the  beginning  and  the  ending  of  all  the 
higher  forms  of  vegetable  life,  without 
whose  kindly  offices — which  come  not  with 
observation— sterility  and  death  would 
soon  ensue.  There  is  a  vast  deal  besides 
for  us  to  learn,  which  is  as  yet  undreannid 
of.  Deep  research  alone  can  give  us  a 
clearer  insight  into  the  subject.  Experi¬ 
ments  must  be  made  both  in  the  laboratory 
and  field  for  years  to  come  ere  this  branch 
of  science  can  be  made  productive  of  the 
highest  good  of  which  it  is  capable . 
Monuments  adorn  our  parks  and 
squares  in  grateful  memory  of  soldiers, 
statesmen,  poets  and  men  of  letters, 
says  George  Ellwanger.  He  trusts  all 
lovers  of  the  garden  and  orchard  will 
join  in  the  erection  of  a  monument 
in  lasting  love  and  commemoration  of 
these  equally  great  public  benefactors. 
He  proposes  a  bronze  figure  of  “The 
Father  of  Americal  Pomology  ”  with  his 
favorite  Anjou  pear  in  his  hand,  and  the 
above  words  emblazoned  on  a  granite  ped¬ 
estal. 
Mr.  Ellwanger  alludes  to  the  well-be¬ 
loved  M.  P.  Wilder.  The  suggestion  is 
one  that  will  meet  a  hearty  approval 
from  all  who  knew  him,  of  him,  or  of  his 
beneficent  work  and  influence . 
The  American  Agriculturist  for  Jan¬ 
uary  is  a  number  of  which  its  whole- 
souled,  devoted  editor,  Dr.  F.  M.  Ilexa- 
mer,  may  well  be  proud.  Long  live  those 
who  earnestly  work  to  promote  the  true 
interests  of  the  farmers  of  the  land ! . 
Abstracts. 
- Breeder’s  Gazette  :  “  A  man  who 
means  to  be  miserable  always  succeeds. 
If  that  were  all.  it  would  be  a  compara¬ 
tively  trifling  matter  ;  but  such  a  man 
makes  all  about  him  miserable.  He 
clouds  the  sunshine  in  other  lives  :  he  is 
the  fly  in  the  ointment ;  the  dog  in  the 
manger.  ” 
“  We  have  a  supreme  respect  for  an 
honest,  intelligent,  forceful  ‘kicker.’ 
Slang  though  it  be,  it  is  much  too  good  a 
word  to  become  synonymous  with  ‘grumb¬ 
ler.’  ” 
“The  man  who  accepts  as  his  philos¬ 
ophy  “  whatever  is,  ought  to  be”  ranges 
no  higher  in  his  thought  than  the  beasts 
of  the  field.  But  the  genuine  reformer 
is  never  a  sour-spirited  moper  and  grumb¬ 
ler.  He  never  seeks  to  make  himself  and 
his  family  miserable  because  the  world 
does  not  square  with  his  ideas  of  right. 
He  is  earnest,  thoughtful,  energetic,  ag¬ 
gressive,  but  bright,  cheery,  ‘  sunshiny. 
The  farmer  has  grave  problems  to  solve 
— problems  of  ‘  personal  legislation  ’  and 
those  which  bring  him  in  elbow-touch 
with  the  great  world,  but  to  reach  a 
happy  solution  he  must  be  free  from  the 
fogs  and  mists  and  miasmas  which  cloud 
the  mind  of  the  chronic  grumbler.  Dis¬ 
content  is  a  mental  weed,  but  it  wilts  be¬ 
fore  the  sunshine  of  a  genial  tempera¬ 
ment.  Biliousness  is  not  wisdom  ;  liver- 
complaint  is  not  religion.  Keep  sweet. 
‘  Put  not  your  trust  in  vinegar;  molasses 
catches  flies.’  ” 
- Bradstreet’s  :  “Confidence  in  the 
present  and  future  of  the  country  has  not 
been  so  firmly  established  in  Wall  street 
in  a  decade,  and  in  fact  the  general  feel¬ 
ing  of  speculation  is  keyed  up  to  the  pitch 
that  a  ‘  boom  ’  comparable  to  that  of  1879 
— 81  is  believed  to  be  in  immediate  pros¬ 
pect  The  enormous  crops  with  which 
the  country  has  been  blessed,  the  defi¬ 
ciency  in  Europe  and  the  enormous  ex¬ 
port  demand  and  movement  furnish  a 
substantial  basis  for  the  appreciation 
which  has  already  occurred  and  for  the 
confidence  which  obtains  in  speculative 
circles  that  a  period  of  expansion  and 
national  prosperity  is  at  hand.” 
- New  York  Herald  :  “  It  is  estimated 
that  the  hotels  of  this  country  sell  every 
year  13,000,000  gallons  of  European  wine 
out  of  the  0,000,000  imported,  and  it  is 
further  held  that  the  wine  would  not  be 
drank  if  the  customers  did  not  imagine  it 
was  the  genuine  imported  article.  Not 
that  it  is  any  better  for  that  fact.  On  the 
contrary,  the  native  wine  is  finer  in  flavor 
and  purer  in  make,  but  the  free  and 
enlightened  American  citizen  wouldn’t 
have  it  at  all  if  he  imagined  for  an  instant 
that  it  was  the  native  product.  This  is  a 
shameful  fact,  but  it  is  a  fact,  neverthe¬ 
less.  In  not  one  of  the  first-class  hotels 
of  the  country  can  be  found  an  American 
wine  list.  They  scorn  it.  Rhine  wine  is 
called  for  and  loudly  proclaimed  superior 
to  California  wine,  and  yet  they  both 
come  from  the  same  place.  When  Charles 
Heidsieck  was  in  this  country  he  declared 
that  there  was  more  of  his  wine  sold  in 
the  United  States  than  he  made,  and  from 
outward  appearances  he  could  not  tell 
the  faked  wine  from  the  really  imported 
article. 
“  It  is  a  grand  old  earth  to  live  on, 
after  all  ;  and  though  each  hurrying  year 
brings  us  nearer  to  the  end  of  our  jour¬ 
ney,  the  great  majority  are  constantly 
wishing  the  months  away.” 
“  When  a  man  tries  to  drown  trouble 
in  drink  the  devil  always  supplies  the 
trouble  with  life  preservers.” 
- Farm  and  Fireside  :  “  The  farmers’ 
club  of  the  New  York  Tribune  of  over  30 
years  ago  spent  a  whole  session  trying  to 
find  out  why  corn  cribs  were  made  wider 
at  the  top  than  at  the  bottom,  and  failed. 
The  building  is  not  symmetrical,  and 
looks  top-heavy.  There  is  also  an  appar¬ 
ent  waste  of  roofing  material.” 
- L.  S.  Hardin  in  American  Agricul¬ 
turist  ;  “  The  new  milk  testers  for  de¬ 
termining  the  fat  have  suggested  a  new 
industry.  Students  from  the  various  ex¬ 
periment  stations  are  now  going  about 
the  country  testing  herds  for  pay.  They 
charge  so  much  per  cow.  When  the  herd 
is  large  the  fee  is  only  a  few  cents  each, 
but  sufficient  to  pay  for  the  services  of 
the  tester.  Of  course  one  test  does  not 
determine  the  full  value  of  the  cow,  but 
the  student  can  establish  a  clientage,  and 
by  making  periodical  visits  keep  the  dairy¬ 
man  thoroughly  posted  as  to  the  value  of 
the  cows  he  wishes  tested.  It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  this  new  industry  will  be  found 
to  pay  its  promoters.  It  is  difficult  to  con¬ 
ceive  of  any  point  in  dairying  of  greater 
importance  to  the  dairymen  of  the  coun¬ 
try,  and  shrewd,  energetic  men  will  give 
it  full  support.  Those  who  do  not  will 
soon  find  themselves  forced  to  the  rear. 
- New  York  Herald:  “Charity  no 
doubt  covers  a  multitude  of  sins,  but 
nowadays  she  frequently  seems  to  run 
out  of  covering  material.” 
“  The  woman  who  would  rear  children 
properly  must  be  content  to  remain  in 
the  rear  of  the  society  column.” 
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