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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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A  Gleaner’s  Notes. 
The  editor  is  not  aware  that  the  alka¬ 
line  sulphides  have  been  used  with  suc¬ 
cess  in  preventing  gooseberry  mildew  ; 
the  experiment  is  well  worth  trying, 
however,  and  he  hopes  to  hear  from  some 
of  the  Ploughman  contribuLors  who  may 
have  energy  enough  to  try  it  and  report. 
— Massachusetts  Ploughman. 
Our  esteemed  contemporary  should 
write  to  the  New  York  Experiment  Sta¬ 
tion  at  Geneva  for  their  bulletin  detailing 
their  experiments  on  this  subject.  It  has 
been  demonstrated  there  that  liver  of 
sulphur  (potassium  sulphide)  effectually 
destroys  this  pest  and  enables  one  to 
successfully  grow  the  fine  gooseberries 
that  have  hitherto  been  uniformly  ren¬ 
dered  worthless  by  mildew. 
Mr.  «T.  L.  Hyde,  of  Middle  Haddam, 
Conn.,  brought  specimens  of  the  Red 
Russet  to  The  Rural  office.  Mr.  Hyde 
values  this  variety  very  highly  and  The 
Rural  agrees  with  him  in  his  judgment. 
The  fruit  is  above  medium  size,  rather 
large,  of  excellent  quality  and  a  good 
keeper,  keeping  until  apples  come  again. 
The  flesh  is  yellow,  sub-acid,  very  pleas¬ 
ant  and  aromatic  in  flavor.  It  is  worthy 
of  a  more  general  planting.  According  to 
Downing,  the  variety  originated  on  the 
farm  of  Mr.  Sanborn,  Hampton  Falls, 
N.  H. 
The  bill  appropriating  $800,000  for  con¬ 
tinuing  work  on  the  Capitol  was  ad¬ 
vanced  to  the  order  of  third  reading 
without  amendment  to-day,  and  then, 
on  appeal  of  Mr.  Hitt  in  behalf  of  the 
many  unemployed  men,  it  was  passed. 
The  vote  was  ayes  90,  nays  3 — Clark, 
Congdon  and  Porter.  It  goes  to  the  Sen¬ 
ate  now. — Albany  Evening  Journal. 
Whenever  our  legislators  have  a  par¬ 
ticularly  rotten  appropriation  to  put 
through,  they  are  very  apt  to  lug  in  the 
poor  the  unemployed,  or  else  make  a  bid 
for  the  support  of  the  church,  or  other 
organizations,  in  order  to  hide  the  enor¬ 
mity  of  their  dirty  work.  This  Capitol 
building  was  to  cost  four  millions.  They 
have  spent  nearly  $20,000,000  on  it  and 
here  goes  $800,000  more.  Next  year  an¬ 
other  and  still  another  appropriation  will 
be  wanted  year  after  year,  unless  the 
structure  is  meanwhile  swallowed  up  by 
an  earthquake. 
What  profiteth  it  if  the  chemist  tells 
us  there  are  five  pounds  of  butter  in  100 
pounds  of  milk,  if  the  churn  can  get  only 
four  pounds  out  of  it  ? — American  Dairy¬ 
man. 
It  profits  the  fossilized  dairyman  not 
at  all — he  would  probably  incline  to  the 
opinion  that  the  chemist  was  a  fool.  But 
it  would  profit  the  intelligent,  progres¬ 
sive  dairyman  about  20  per  cent,  for  he 
would  at  once  revise  his  methods,  go 
after  that  extra  pound  of  butter  and,  in 
the  end,  get  it. 
A  Maine  man  says  that  the  proper  way 
to  set  apple  trees  on  clay  soil  is  to  set  the 
roots  on  the  surface  of  the  ground  and 
then  pile  up  the  earth  over  them. — Peo¬ 
ple  and  Patriot. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  none  of  the 
Patriot’s  readers  will  follow  the  advice 
above  given.  If  they  do  their  patriotism 
for  that  paper  will  not  overflow. 
At  the  Kansas  Station,  Brighton  was 
found  to  be  the  best  early  red  grape. 
They  say  it  gives  a  fine  yield  of  fruit  of 
superior  quality,  and,  when  bagged,  the 
bunches  kept  remarkably  well,  giving 
choice  table  fruit  long  past  the  usual 
from  inflammation  of  the  bowels,  caused 
by  eating  nails,  tacks,  glass  and  other 
hardware,  with  which  his  stomach  is  said 
to  have  been  lined.  The  death  of  this 
poor  victim  of  his  own  folly  and  a  de¬ 
graded  public  taste,  brings  up  the  ques¬ 
tion  whether  it  isn’t  time  we  had  some 
strict  prohibitive  legislation  on  the  freak 
question. — Farm,  Field  and  Stockman. 
Better  let  them  alone.  The  sooner 
that  sort  of  stock  destroy  themselves  the 
better  for  the  world  at  large.  The  sur¬ 
vival  of  the  fittest  is  desirable.  Freaks 
are  not — they  are  scrubs  ! 
A  Donkey’s  Lamb. — The  London  Live 
Stock  Journal  has  this  story  of  a  volun¬ 
teer  nurse  that  never  had  a  foal  of  her 
own.  A  ewe  dropped  twin  lambs.  When 
the  shepherd  came  to  see  them, 
He  found  one  lamb  with  the  ewe;  and 
at  the  other  end  of  the  park  the  second 
lamb  near  an  old  mare  donkey,  which 
was  as  quiet  and  gentle  as  any  drudge 
of  the  kind  can  be.  But  on  the  man 
going  to  pick  up  the  lamb,  the  donkey 
kicked  at  him  most  vigorously.  He 
thought,  by  driving  up  the  real  mother, 
instinct  would  lead  the  lamb  to  join  the 
ewe;  but  instead  of  the  donkey  being 
content  to  allow  the  first  lamb  to  go  to 
its  mother,  she  appropriated  the  second, 
kicking  at  the  ewe  and  the  man  if  they 
attempted  to  dispute  the  custodianship. 
The  lamb  which  had  sucked  its  mother 
straggled  back  to  her;  when  the  donkey, 
taking  the  other  with  its  teeth,  carried  it 
to  a  quickset  hedge;  and  there  turned  at 
bay  against  all  assailants.  By  help  of  a 
friend,  with  a  big  stick,  the  man  suc¬ 
ceeded  in  getting  possession  of  the  lamb, 
and  carried  it  to  the  homestead,  the 
donkey  following  close  behind  all  the 
way.  When  they  reached  the  yards  the 
donkey  was  shut  into  one;  but  it  con¬ 
tinued  to  cry  for  the  lamb  the  whole 
night,  and  on  part  of  the  following  day. 
The  Farmer’s  Asparagus 
Bed. 
How  many  farmers  have  one?  How 
large  is  it?  How  many  “square  meals’’ 
does  the  farmer’s  family  get  out  of  it  ? 
These  questions  could  be  very  easily 
answered  here,  in  Kalamazoo  County, 
Mich.  I  know  of  but  four  farmers  of 
my  acquaintance,  who  have  ^iny  bed  at 
all,  and  theirs  are  very,  very  small.  One 
farmer’s  is  round,  and  just  3  feet  in 
diameter.  It  was  about  that  size  30 
years  ago,  when  the  farmer  bought  the 
farm,  and  has  never  been  disturbed.  The 
family  is  very  small,  the  square  meals  (of 
asparagus)  are  very  small,  and  the  num¬ 
ber  of  them  each  succeeding  spring  is 
smaller  yet. 
Why  do  not  our  farmers  grow  aspara¬ 
gus,  when  so  many  of  them  relish  this 
luxury?  I  have  seen  some  of  them 
hover  around  the  stands  in  the  city,  gaz¬ 
ing  fondly  at  the  small,  wilted  bunches 
sold  by  grocers.  They  seldom  buy,  be¬ 
cause  they  think  they  “  can’t  afford  it.” 
Any  one  can  prepare  an  asparagus 
bed  with  no  more  labor  than  is  required 
to  grow  a  crop  of  potatoes.  The  only  out¬ 
lay  necessary  is  for  a  small  packet  of 
seed.  I  had  rather  sow  the  seed  and 
transplant  the  roots,  when  one  year  old, 
than  to  buy  them.  It  takes  one  year 
longer,  but,  if  you  order  roots  of  a  seeds¬ 
man,  many  of  them  are  apt  to  die,  if  not 
given  careful  treatment.  I  sowed  my 
seeds  last  spring  in  drills  in  the  garden. 
All  my  garden  produce  is  grown  in  rows, 
the  long  way  of  the  plot,  so  as  to  enable 
season.  me  to  work  with  a  horse,  or  wheel  hoe. 
All  that  is  said  of  the  quality  of  the  I  use  a  line  to  make  my  rows  straight. 
Brighton  is  true,  but  with  us  it  is  not  a  The  work  is  much  easier  then  in  culti- 
good  grape  to  be  used  in  prolonging  the  vating  and  weeding.  The  seed  was  slow 
season.  Ten  days  after  it  is  fully  ripe  it  in  sprouting,  and  I  kept  the  wheel  hoe 
begins  to  depreciate  in  quality.  We  know  and  garden  rake  at  work  whenever 
of  no  other  grape  that  will  lose  its  flavor  needed.  I  usually  ran  over  the  rows 
so  quickly.  with  the  rake  attachment,  as  soon  as  the 
At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  patrons 
of  the  Saukville,  Wis.,  cheese  factory  and 
creamery,  held  April  7,  it  was  voted  that 
from  May  1  milk  is  to  be  tested,  and  paid 
for,  according  to  the  per  cent  of  fat  found 
in  each  dairyman’s  milk. — Hoard’s  Dairy¬ 
man. 
That  is  encouraging — a  move  in  the 
right  direction.  The  movement  is  mak¬ 
ing  commendable  progress.  We  shall  yet 
have  our  city  milk  paid  for  on  a  similar 
basis. 
The  death  of  a  dime  museum  “  freak  ” 
occurred  recently  at  a  St.  Louis  hospital, 
soil  was  dry  enough  after  every  rain. 
When  the  plants  were  about  four  inches 
high,  they  were  thinned  out  to  about 
four  inches  apart.  They  were  hand- 
weeded  but  twice  during  the  summer. 
They  presented  a  beautiful  appearance 
in  late  summer,  after  vegetation  had  be¬ 
gun  to  mature  and  dry  up.  As  the  soil 
was  very  rich,  I  put  no  manure  on  the 
ground  last  fall.  The  tops  were  left  on 
also  to  catch  the  snow.  Was  that  right, 
or  should  they  have  been  cut  off  ?  [It 
doesn’t  matter  much  either  way.  The 
tops  would  serve  as  a  mulch  to  some  ex¬ 
tent.  Eds.] 
I  made  the  permanent  “bed”  for  them 
one  long  row  across  the  garden  and  at 
one  side.  I  gave  the  plants  plenty  of 
room,  and  left  four  feet  of  space  on 
each  side  of  the  row  for  horse  cultiva¬ 
tion.  Before  they  were  tranplanted,  I 
put  on  a  heavy  dressing  of  manure 
along  the  row  and  worked  it  in  thorough¬ 
ly  ;  then  harrowed  and  rolled  until  the 
ground  was  fine  and  smooth.  I  then  used 
the  wheel  hoe  with  a  plow  attachment, 
and  made  a  trench  about  seven  or  eight 
inches  deep.  To  do  this  I  plowed  through 
several  times.  By  the  aid  of  my  garden 
line,  I  made  the  trench  perfectly  straight. 
The  roots  were  taken  up  as  soon  as 
possible,  and  set  in  this  trench  about  18 
inches  apart.  I  took  particular  pains  to 
spread  them  in  the  trench  in  their 
natural  position.  The  crowns  were  about 
four  or  five  inches  below  the  surface, 
after  the  ground  was  leveled  off.  I  shall 
see  that  the  row  is  kept  clean  and  well 
cultivated,  and  this  will  require  no  more 
work  than  to  grow  other  vegetables.  To 
succeed,  all  work  must  be  thorough  and 
done  in  time,  no  matter  what  it  is  It 
will  be  two  years  before  I  can  cut  this 
asparagus  regularly  for  family  use,  and 
then  we  can  have  “square  meals”  of 
asparagus  without  limit,  so  long  as  we 
live.  In  fact,  there  will  be  more  than 
we  can  use,  and  it  will  be  a  pleasure  to 
give  several  “square  meals”  to  our 
neighbor,  who  has  the  3>£-foot  30-year- 
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