1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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Farmers’  Club  Discussion. 
( Continued .) 
Can  Farmers  Afford  Wide  Tires  P 
G.  C.  M.,  Gref.nk  County,  N.  Y.—  In  an 
editorial  in  The  Rurai.  for  February  13, 
1892,  the  readers  are  urged  to  petition  for 
a  law  to  compel  the  use  of  wide  tires  on 
wagons  carrying  heavy  loads.  Either 
such  petitioners  do  not  understand  the 
matter,  or  are  cat’s  paws  for  wagon  man¬ 
ufacturers,  who,  with  other  manufac¬ 
turers,  are  prompting  the  matter,  and, 
having  sounded  our  legislative  commit¬ 
tees,  think  such  a  measure  can  be  worked 
through.  In  Greene  County,  N.  Y.,  though 
a  small  county,  it  would  require  $490,000 
to  buy  new  vehicles  to  comply  with  the 
law,  for  only  entirely  new  wagons  could 
be  used  with  such  wheels.  The  change 
would  cost  me  not  less  than  $375.  I  am 
70  years  old,  and  would  be  obliged  to 
abandon  the  farm  ;  so  would  most  of  my 
neighbors.  On  our  mud  roads  our  teams 
would  be  fagged  out  by  hauling  the  wide- 
tired  wagons  without  any  load.  Such 
projects  have  been  tried  and  have  been 
found  very  foolish  for  a  progressive  peo¬ 
ple.  An  outlay  of  $490,000,  if  fairly  applied, 
would  build  980  miles  of  fairly  good 
crushed-stone  road  in  this  mountainous, 
stony  county,  though  it  might  not  in 
some  other  counties.  But  such  wagons 
as  demanded  above  would  stop  farming 
at  once.  A  State  law  compelling  the 
State  to  build  good  roads  and  bond  the 
State,  might  do  good ;  but  a  wide-tired 
law,  without  good  roads  first,  would  be  a 
supreme  calamity. 
II.  N.-Y. — We  think  our  correspondent 
is  wrong  in  supposing  that  new  tires 
would  mean  new  wagons. 
Short  and  Fresh. 
The  American  Florist  has  the  follow¬ 
ing : 
“The  Crown  ok  Thorns”  Plant. — 
Honor  to  whom  honor  is  due.  Neither 
The  Rural  New-Yorker  nor  any  other 
newspaper  or  person  openly  raised  one 
breath  of  objection  to  this  fraud  till  after 
it  had  been  thoroughly  investigated  and 
openly  exposed  and  vigorously  denounced 
by  the  Chairman  of  the  Nomenclature 
Committee  before  the  Society  of  Ameri¬ 
can  Florists.” 
In  so  far  as  The  R.  N.-Y.  is  informed, 
the  above  statement  is  true.  Our  own 
information  came  from  two  sources:  1, 
the  Nomenclature  Committee  of  the  S.  A. 
F.,  and,  2,  the  Industrialist,  a  paper 
issued  by  the  Manhattan  Agricultural 
College,  of  Kansas.  We  quoted  from 
both  sources,  and  gave  credit  in  both 
cases.  The  R.  N.-Y.  did  not  claim  to 
have  made  personal  inquiry  or  investiga¬ 
tion . 
According  to  a  picture  in  the  catalogue 
of  J.  L.  Childs,  the  Mapledale  Prolific 
Pop-corn  bears  14  ears  to  the  stalk  ! . 
Prof.  E.  S.  Goff,  of  the  Wisconsin  Ex¬ 
periment  Station,  Madison,  sends  us  a 
beautiful  specimen  of  both  the  McMahan 
(McMahan’s  White)  and  Newell  (Newell’s 
Winter,  Orange  Winter)  Apples.  Hand¬ 
somer  specimens  of  apples  it  would  be 
hard  to  find.  The  McMahan  is  large  with 
a  clear,  whitish-yellow  skin.  The  llesh  is 
white,  extremely  tender,  subacid  and 
good.  The  Newell  is  smaller,  but  still 
of  fair  size,  with  a  rich  golden-yellow 
skin  and  yellow  flesh  of  a  peculiar 
quality.  They  are  natives  of  Wisconsin, 
and,  as  Prof.  Goff  says,  “fast  coming  to 
the  front  as  reliable  varieties.”  He  will 
send  us  notes  of  their  origin  with  many 
facts  of  interest  regarding  them . 
We  heard  a  first-rate  judge  of  grapes 
define  the  Eaton  as  a  big,  diluted  Con¬ 
cord.  The  R.  N.-Y.  scarcely  agrees.  There 
is  less  of  foxiness  in  the  Eaton  than  in 
the  Concord ;  it  has,  too,  a  flavor  quite 
peculiar  to  itself,  a  refreshing  acidity 
with  apparently  less  sugar  that  the  Con¬ 
cord  . 
Prof.  Georgeson,  of  the  Kansas  Agri¬ 
cultural  College  (Manhattan),  offers  to 
distribute  to  State  farmers  two  kinds  of 
a  small,  red  bean  (species,  Phaseolus 
radiatus)  unknown  in  this  country.  They 
are  for  table  use  and  said  to  be  the  finest 
flavored  beans  in  existence . 
It  must  be  as  many  as  T.8  years  ago 
that  the  writer  first  heard  of  the  Hale’s 
Hickory-nut,  named  after  our  occasional 
poultry  correspondent,  Henry  Hales  of 
Bergen  County,  N.  J.  He  discovered  the 
tree  in  the  woods  nearby  and  called  the  at¬ 
tention  of  nurserymen  to  the  nut’s  large 
size,  thin  shell  and  fine  quality.  It  is  hard 
and  slow  work  to  graft  the  hickory,  so 
that  this  remarkable  variety  has  never 
become  well  known  or  been  offered  at 
popular  prices . 
Mr.  Falconer  says  that  everybody 
seems  to  have  begonias  on  the  brain. 
Begonias  are  fine,  beautiful  plants  when 
they  do  well,  but  wretchedly  disappoint¬ 
ing  when  they  don’t — and  they  often 
don’t . 
O.  II.  Alexander  writes  us  that  the 
Russian  Oats  were  introduced  by  W.  P. 
Andrus  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  not  by 
J.  A.  Everitt  &  Co.  The  writer  is  not 
aware  that  The  R.  N.-Y.  ever  said 
Everitt  &  Co.  introduced  the  White 
Russian  Oats.  This  firm  introduced  the 
so-called  Yankee  Prolific  Oats  which  The 
R.  N.-Y.  found  to  be  the  same  as  the 
White  Russian  or  Russian  White.  B.  K. 
Bliss’s  Sons  introduced  the  American 
Triumph.  It  occurs  to  us  that  H.  Sibley 
&  Co.  offered  them  at  the  same  time .... 
Abstracts. 
- The  Industrialist:  “It  is  not  re¬ 
quired  in  these  United  States,  teeming 
with  millions  of  men  and  women,  that 
each  one  should  be  a  ‘  Jack-of-al  1-trades.’ 
‘  Be  a  master  of  one,’  is  our  country’s 
call,  and  for  such  she  always  has  a  place 
ready.  ” 
- Breeder’s  Gazette  :  “  Discontent  is 
a  mental  weed,  but  it  wilts  before  the 
sunshine  of  a  genial  temperament.  Keep 
sweet.” 
- Prof.  I.  P.  Roberts:  “  I  believe  that 
farm  manures  which  have  lain  in  the 
open  yards  or  have  been  heated,  and 
which  have  to  be  drawn  long  distances, 
are  far  more  expensive  than  are  high- 
grade  fertilizers.  Well  preserved  manure 
is  worth,  on  an  average,  scarcely  more 
than  $3  per  ton,  and  our  experiments 
prove  that  such  manure,  exposed  in  piles 
from  April  to  October,  often  loses  one- 
half  of  its  value  ;  therefore  I  am  led  to 
believe  that  many  tons  of  manure  which 
are  transported  from  the  city  contain  less 
than  a  dollar’s  worth  of  soluble  plant 
food.  This  manure  may  act  beneficially 
as  a  mulch,  but,  so  far  as  the  plant-food 
it  contains  is  concerned,  it  is  too  often  an 
expensive  way  of  preserving  the  fertility 
of  the  land.” 
- Ohio  Experiment  Station  :  “It  has 
been  demonstrated  that  the  plum  curculio 
may  be  held  in  check  by  spraying  almost 
or  quite  as  effectually  as  by  jarring,  and 
far  more  cheaply.” 
- Vermont  Watchman  :  “A  good  many 
nurserymen,  in  newspapers  which  are 
not  smart  enough  to  see  the  animus,  have 
been  insidiously  attacking  the  Russian 
tree  fruits ;  and  for  a  time  they  will 
obstruct  the  sale  of  them.  But  these 
very  nurseries,  as  soon  as  they  catch  on 
to  their  merits,  and  work  up  a  stock,  will 
boast  of  their  enterprise  in  the  propaga¬ 
tion  of  Russian  fruit  trees,  and  laud  their 
merits  to  the  sky.” 
“The  Russian  pears,  so  far  as  tested, 
prove  very  successful,  and  are  much  more 
hardy  against  winter’s  cold  than  the  com¬ 
monly  planted  kinds.” 
- Hartford  Times  :  “  One  queer  thing 
about  law  is  that  it  requires  a  man  to 
keep  all  animals  under  restraint,  except 
dogs.” 
- Maryland  Farmer  :  “  We  cannot 
help  a  feeling  of  contempt  for  the  slave 
to  tobacco  who  pretends  to  be  a  temper¬ 
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