1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
2l9 
What  Others  Say. 
(Continued.) 
Ellw anger  &  Barry  say  that  the  Wil¬ 
son  Jr.  Blackbei:i*y  is  hardy  with  them. 
It  is  not  hardy  at  the  Rural  Grounds. . . . 
Dr.  George  F.  Shrady,  President 
Grant’s  staunch  friend,  declares  that  he 
must  vary  his  food  in  order  to  develop 
and  nourish,  separately  and  collectively, 
the  organs  of  his  body,  Imt  he  believes 
that  the  brain  is  most  nurtured  by  sleep 
and  rest . 
Dr.  Chauncey  M.  Depew  says  that  if 
men  would  avoid  gorging,  overfeeding 
and  otherwise  abusing  their  systems,  they 
would  find  that  in  so  far  as  the  mind  is 
developed,  so  far  can  it  be  depended  upon 
in  every  emergency  and  at  all  times.  We 
all  know  that  man’s  brain  power  is  not 
in  accordance  with  the  capacity  of  his 
stomach.  He  knows  two  men  of  won¬ 
derfully  clear  minds  who  could  write  a 
logical  essay  on  political  economy  after 
two  plates  of  corn-beef  hash  which  might 
place  another  man  of  ordinary  capacity 
on  the  verge  of  apoplexy,  and  therefore 
every  man  must  be  a  “  law  unto  him¬ 
self.” . 
Dr.  H.  P.  Loomis  thinks  men  pay  too 
much  attention  to  the  specific  uses  of  cer¬ 
tain  foods.  “  Look  at  the  enormous  sale 
of  phosphates  and  so-called  brain  foods,” 
said  he.  “  There  is  nothing  in  them.  If, 
instead  of  wondering  whether  this,  that 
or  the  other  is  good  for  him,  a  man  would 
simply  follow  the  dictates  of  his  own 
appetite,  he  would  be  much  better  off. 
Nature  places  a  safeguard  upon  excess 
by  creating  the  sensation  of  satiety . 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  Van  Dyke,  the 
author  and  clergyman,  believes  the  brain 
to  be  touchingly  appreciative  of  all  kind¬ 
ness  shown  to  the  stomach,  and  sullen 
and  unmanageable  when  the  latter 
is  oppressed.  At  the  same  time  allow¬ 
ance  must  be  made  for  individual  tastes... 
Begonia  Baumanni,  Mr.  Falconer  tells 
us  in  the  American  Florist,  is  a  new  tuber¬ 
ous-rooted  species  from  Bolivia,  that  is 
expected  to  revolutionize  the  whole  set 
of  tuberous-rooted  garden  varieties  by 
imparting  to  them  its  delicious  fragrance. 
Our  American  specialists  have  already 
got  it  and  are  working  it  for  dear  life 
hybridizing  their  stock.  It  has  large, 
showy,  rose-colored  flowers  and  forms 
unusually  big  tubers . 
Do  not  condemn  the  purchase  of  novel¬ 
ties  because  nine  out  of  ten  prove  less 
valuable  than  other  kinds.  Remember 
that  the  popular  kinds  of  seeds  and  plants 
of  all  kinds  to-day  were  at  one  time  or 
another  novelties.  Use  your  best  judg¬ 
ment  in  selecting  and  buying  costly  nov¬ 
elties.  Buy  them  and  try  them  in  a  small 
way.  But  buy  them  and  try  them . 
Mr.  H.  N.  Smith,  of  South  Sudbury. 
Mass. ,  reports  Goff’s  Station  Tomato  as 
very  popular  for  forcing  under  glass,  as 
it  can  be  successfully  fruited  when  grown 
in  pots  or  on  benches  where  other  kinds 
will  not  succeed.  While  not  so  produc¬ 
tive  as  others,  the  tomatoes  are  heavy 
and  have  proved  profitable  to  sell  by  the 
pound . 
The  Soja  or  Soy  Bean,  the  papers  tell 
us,  has  been  tried  by  the  stations,  and 
the  reports  are  all  good.  The  R.  N.-Y. 
tried  this  bean  at  least  10  years  ago,  and 
its  report  was  bad.  It  is  a  comparatively 
worthless  legume . 
James  Carter  &  Co.,  of  England,  find 
that  90  per  cent  of  French  natural  sam¬ 
ples  of  clover  seed  contain  dodder . 
Prof.  Paul  Wagner  says  that  good  re¬ 
sults  of  any  consequence  can  never  be 
obtained  by  green-manuring  with  non- 
leguminous  plants . 
The  burning  of  a  single  ton  of  coal 
sends  into  the  atmosphere  more  than 
three  tons  of  carbonic  acid . 
What  is  the  value  of  a  tree?  is  a  ques¬ 
tion  which  has  lately  been  settled  in  the 
London  courts,  as  reported  in  a  recent 
issue  of  the  Gardeners’  Chronicle.  It  ap¬ 
pears  that  a  resident  in  the  suburbs  of 
London  had  in  his  garden  two  poplar 
trees,  which  protected  him  from  the 
smoke  and  noise  of  trains  passing  over 
the  rails  of  the  London  and  North-wes¬ 
tern  Railway  Company,  whose  location 
his  land  joined.  The  trees  for  some 
reason  or  other,  interfered  with  the 
traffic  of  the  railroad  ;  the  owner  was 
willing  to  shorten  the  branches,  but  ob¬ 
jected  to  cutting  down  the  trees.  And 
then,  negotiations  for  their  removal  hav¬ 
ing  failed,  the  company  sent  its  own  men 
and  cut  them  down.  They  offered  to 
pay  $250  for  this  high-handed  act,  and 
later  increased  the  amount  to  $500.  The 
court  placed  the  value  of  the  trees  at 
$1,500,  and  awarded  additional  damages 
of  $1,000  for  the  injury  caused  by  their 
removal.  An  occasional  decision  of  this 
character  in  this  country,  comments 
Garden  and  Forest,  would  have  a  very 
salutary  influence  upon  telephone  and 
telegraph  companies,  who  have  come  to 
look  upon  our  highway  trees  as  of  no 
value  whatever  when  they  interfere  in 
any  way,  directly  or  indirectly,  with  their 
business . 
No  inquiry  is  oftener  made  of  farm 
papers  than  how  to  destroy  moles.  The 
editors  seem  not  to  have  had  much  ex¬ 
perience.  Poisoned  corn  or  other  grain, 
and  occasionally  the  castor-oil  bean 
dropped  in  their  tunnels  are  advised. 
The  R.  N.-Y.  fancies  it  may  speak  with 
some  authority  on  this  subject,  since  it 
has  perseveringly  tried  almost  every 
other  method  of  destruction  that  has  been 
suggested.  Moles  will  not  eat  corn  or 
other  grain  whether  poisoned  or  not 
They  care  no  more  for  castor  beans  or 
castor  plants  than  for  any  other  beans  or 
plants.  Their  preferred  food  is  worms, 
grubs,  beetles  and  the  like . 
Traps,  in  The  Rural’s  opinion,  are  the 
one  effective  remedy — not  the  traps  of  15 
years  ago,  but  the  traps  of  to-day.  The 
number  of  moles  infesting  a  given  lawn 
or  plot  or  field  is  always  exaggerated, 
because  the  amount  of  tunneling  a  single 
mole  may  do  is  not  known  or  considered. 
Jn  our  earlier  experience,  it  was  assumed 
that  all  the  way  from  50  to  100  moles 
must  have  been  engaged  in  the  work  of 
upsetting  a  flower  border  or  lawn  during 
a  single  night,  or  before  10  A.  m.,  and 
after  4  p.  m.,  their  favorite  hours  of 
recreation  and  food-getting..  It  has  been 
found,  however,  that  a  single  mole  or 
two,  or  at  most  four  or  five  were  respon¬ 
sible.  The  traps  of  to-day  are  easily  set 
and  so  contrived  that  it  is  impossible  for 
a  mole  to  pass  under  them  without  being 
securely  caught  or  at  once  killed.  Their 
well-known  habit  of  passing  through  the 
same  runs  from  time  to  time,  renders 
their  local  extermination  merely  a  matter 
of  assiduity  and  time . 
Word  for  Word. 
- Dr.  Talmage  :  “It  is  a  great  deal 
easier  to  keep  a  train  on  the  track  than 
to  get  it  on  when  it  is  off.  It  is  said  that 
the  young  must  be  allowed  to  sow  their 
‘  wild  oats.’  I  have  noticed  that  those 
who  sow  their  wild  oats  seldom  try  to 
raise  any  other  kind  of  crop.” 
- New  York  Tribune:  “Spare  the 
thickets  and  brambles,  and  the  clumps  of 
wood,  all  fresh  from  Nature.  What  is  a 
farm,  especially  to  the  children,  when 
nowhere  near  it  is  any  nesting  place  for 
birds ;  no  spot  on  which  wild  flowers  may 
grow  ?  A  perfectly  clean  farm  is  not  a 
thing  of  joy,  but  a  painful  sight.  In  the 
wearing  strife  after  a  livelihood,  it  is  re¬ 
freshing  to  ramble  through  a  real  bit  of 
wilderness.  These  thickets,  desirable  as 
they  are,  should  not,  however,  be  scat¬ 
tered  about  indiscriminately.” 
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