1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
351 
The  North  Carolina  i 
AGRICULTURAL  EXPERIMENT  STATION,  > 
Raleigh.  May  5, 1892.  \ 
Eds.  Rural  New-Yorker: 
The  eagerness  with  which  you  publish  anything 
that  seems  to  reflect  on  a  station  officer  is  not  credit¬ 
able  to  a  journal  that  has  any  desire  to  be  fair.  (1) 
Y'our  publication  of  Mr.  Bauer's  impertinent  com¬ 
ments  (2)  In  regard  to  mv  candid  statement  of  my 
reasons  for  not  giving  a  report  on  his  berry,  was  not 
prompted  by  any  proper  spirit.  You  insinuated  that 
it  was  a  neglect  of  duty  on  my  part,  without  any 
knowledge  of  the  circumstances.  Mr.  Bauer  sent  his 
berries  here  without  any  notice  beforehand.  They 
came  half  dead  long  after  all  the  planting  we  had 
planned  for  was  done.  They  were  planted  in  the 
best  possible  manner,  but  necessarily  in  an  isolated 
place.  In  compliance  with  the  laws  of  this  State, 
which  require  me  to  attend  all  farmers'  institutes 
which  the  Commissioner  of  Agriculture  holds,  I  went 
on  a  two-months  tour  of  Institute  work,  without  a 
cent  of  pay,  giving  up  my  entire  vacation  to  the 
work.  While  away,  the  health  of  my  assistant 
utterly  breaks  down,  and  some  things  get  overlooked. 
Then,  when  I  make  a  candid  statement  to  Mr.  Bauer, 
expressing  my  regret  for  the  occurrence,  he  has  the 
unblushing  impudence  to  undertake  to  lecture  me  (3) 
about  my  duty,  and  you  being  always  on  the  lookout 
■for  something  to  hit  a  station  officer  with,  (4)  greedily 
print  his  impertinence,  and  intimate  that  it  may 
have  been  my  duty  to  defy  the  law,  shirk  the  lec¬ 
ture  work  and  give  my  whole  energy  to  the  resusci¬ 
tation  of  Mr.  Bauer's  strawberry  (5.)  You  may 
think  this  proper  work  for  a  prominent  agricultural 
journal.  To  me  It  looks  exceedingly  small. 
I  am  not  a  station  officer  of  my  own  seeking,  for  I 
had  already  college  work  enough  to  task  me  suffi¬ 
ciently,  lecturing  dally  at  two  colleges  miles 
apart,  for  white  and  colored  students,  but.  having 
been  assigned  to  station  work,  I  endeavor  to  give  it 
all  the  personal  attention  in  my  power.  Of  course  I 
cannot  at  all  times  do  the  work  of  three  men  thor¬ 
oughly,  having  18  hours  weekly  of  lecture-room  and 
laboratory  work  with  classes,  and  criticism  which  is 
unjust  and  impertinent  in  an  individual  Is  felt  to  be 
keenly  more  so  when  adopted  and  given  currency  to 
by  a  leading  journal,  and  my  sacrifice  of  my  only  sea¬ 
son  of  rest  to  daily  toil  in  farmers’  institutes  is  per 
verted  Into  a  neglect  of  the  interests  of  people  who 
seek  advertising  from  the  stations  A  man  whose 
every  waking  hour  is  spent  in  earnest  work  with 
tongue,  hand  and  pen  in  the  cause  of  agricultural 
and  horticultural  advancement,  may  perhaps  feel 
these  unjust  flings  too  keenly,  but  they  are  none  the 
less  unjust  and -ungenerous.  Mr.  Bauer  is  imperii  , 
nent;  you  are  thoughtless. 
We  have  no  Couch  Grass  here.  It  is  a  Yankee  no¬ 
tion.  Ours  Is  Crab  Grass.  W.  F.  MASSEY. 
It  will  be  remembered  that  The  It.  N.- 
Y.  not  very  long  ago  had  quite  a  lengthy 
discussion  as  to  seed  guarantees  with  Mr. 
McCarthy,  the  Botanist  of  the  North 
Carolina  Station,  which  employs  Mr. 
Massey  as  Horticulturist.  Mr.  Massey 
showed  a  lively  interest  in  the  discussion 
and  wrote  a  letter  of  emphatic  approval 
as  to  The  R.  N.-Y.’s  position.  It  did 
not  then  occur  to  him  to  chide  us  as 
being  (1)  eager  to  “publish  anything  that 
seems  to  reflect  on  a  station  officer,"  or 
as  (3)  always  being  on  “the  lookout  for 
something  to  hit  a  station  officer  with.” 
The  records  of  The  R.  N.-Y.  will  show, 
we  fancy,  to  disinterested  judges  that  we 
are  as  (4)  “greedy  ”  to  praise  as  to  criti¬ 
cize  station  work  when  praise  or  criticism 
is  merited,  and  this  we  have  earnestly 
tried  to  do  to  the  best  of  our  ability. 
Mr.  Massey  is  wrong  in  attributing 
any  impertinence  to  Mr.  Bauer.  What 
he  assumes  to  be  Mr.  Bauer's  impertinent 
comment  is  a  simnle,  direct  quotation 
from  Mr.  Massey's  letter  to  Mr.  Bauer  as 
printed  in  the  latter’s  strawberry  circu¬ 
lar.  Mr.  Bauer  does  not  make  any  com¬ 
ment  whatever.  What  follows  tbe 
plainly-quoted  portion  is  the  comment  of 
The  R.  N.-Y. 
No,  neither  Mr.  Massey  nor  any  one 
else  can  do  the  “work  of  three  men.” 
Besides,  what  must  be  an  essential  part 
of  his  labors  is  omitted  in  the  summary, 
viz.,  his  liberal  contributions  to  the  farm 
pr  ?ss.  We  trust  it  will  not  be  considered 
an  additional  impertinence  if  we  venture 
to  remark  that  any  one  who  voluntarily 
undertakes  to  do  the  work  of  three  men 
may  be  held  just  as  accountable  for  a 
thorough  performance  of  his  duties  as  if 
he  engaged  to  do  the  work  which  one 
man  alone  may  reasonably  be  expected 
to  accomplish. 
Mr.  Bauer's  quotation  from  Mr.  Mas¬ 
sey's  letter  to  him  as  printed  in  the  cir¬ 
cular  gives  Couch  Grass,  not  Crab  Grass. 
For  family  use  it  is  better  to  break  than 
to  cut  the  shoots  of  asparagus.  Broken 
shoots  may,  generally,  be  eaten  entire. 
Cutting  shoots  at  or  a  little  below  the' 
surface  usually  gives  from  one  to  two  or 
three  inches  of  stem  which  is  too  stringy 
to  be  palatable . 
Mr.  F.  W.  Loudon  of  Janesville,  Wis., 
sends  us  half  a  dozen  plants  of  his 
new  raspberry  Loudon,  a  seedling  of  the 
Turner  crossed  with  Cuthbert.  lie  says 
the  berry  is  large,  of  a  beautiful  color; 
that  the  yield  with  him  is  about  200 
bushels  to  the  acre  and  that  it  can  be 
shipped  to  New  Orleans  in  good  shape.  . . 
American  Gardening  :  “  The  man  who 
sends  wormy  and  imperfect  apples  to 
market  hereafter  will  find  that  they  'pro¬ 
fit  him  nothing.’  ” . 
The  New  Jersey  Station's  experiments 
with  sulphate  and  muriate  of  potash  upon 
potatoes  give  evidence  that  the  quality  of 
potatoes  treated  to  the  sulphate  was 
decidedly  better  than  the  quality  of  those 
treated  to  muriate . 
Word  for  Word. 
- W.  Atlee  Burpee  &  Co.,  in  Amer¬ 
ican  Fi.okist  :  “  We  would  prefer  that 
some  other  house  than  our  own  should 
try  the  experiment  of  omitting  advertis¬ 
ing  for  one  season  and  testing  the  re¬ 
sults.” 
— S.  Miller  in  Orchard  and  Garden  : 
“I  feel  like  warning  readers  not  to  be 
too  sanguine  of  success  in  growing  pecan 
trees  and  not  to  expect  them  to  bear  a 
paying  crop  in  eight  years,  as  some  have 
stated  they  will  do.” 
- B.  F.  Johnson  in  Practical  Farmer: 
“  In  Illinois  the  great  hog  butchers  are 
having  everything  their  own  way  and  are 
making  millions  of  money  imposing 
fraudulent  foods  on  the  people.  The 
courts  and  the  press,  both  agricultural 
and  commercial,  and  the  revenue  officials 
whose  duties  are  to  enforce  the  law,  seem 
to  find  it  more  agreeable  and  possibly 
profitable,  to  allow  the  scoundrely  busi¬ 
ness  to  go  on  undisturbed.” 
- Ram’s  Horn  :  “  God  never  has  had 
much  to  say  to  people  who  insist  on  living 
in  the  dark.” 
“  The  world  is  full  of  trouble  because 
there  are  so  many  folks  who  would  rather 
have  10  cents  now  than  $10 after  a  while.” 
“  Nobody  knows  better  how  the  Christ¬ 
ian  should  carry  himself  than  the  hypo¬ 
crite.” 
- N.  Y.  Tribune:  “  The  farmer  has  to 
think  in  these  days  or  suffer.  If  you  can¬ 
not  work  and  think  clearly  at  the  same 
time,  stop  work  and  think.” 
“  Bad  roads  give  the  country  a  slovenly 
uninviting  look  ;  check  education,  by 
making  rural  school  attendance  irregular; 
deprive  farmers’  families  of  church  priv¬ 
ileges,  of  social  intercourse  with  each 
other  and  with  the  town  ;  provoke 
grumbling  at  the  weather,  and  are  in 
other  ways  hurtful  to  the  disposition  ; 
increase  cost  of  farm  produce  to  producer 
and  consumer  ;  deprive  voters  of  the 
privilege  of  the  polls  and  thereby  affect 
elections;  put  town  and  country  further 
apart,  often  causing  waste  of  time  and 
loss  of  opportunity  to  sell  produce  at  best 
prices;  use  up  old  horses,  harness  and 
vehicles,  and  make  old  ones  of  the  new: 
depreciate  the  value  of  farm  lands :  are 
exceedingly  cruel  to  draft  animals;  give 
speculators  a  chance  to  fill  their  pockets: 
crowd  farm  work  into  unseasonable 
times ;  in  short,  cause  discomfort  and. 
impede  progress  in  every  direction.” 
- S.  Parsons  in  Scribner’s  Magazine: 
“  If  you  have  room  enough,  one  of  the 
ways  of  emphasizing  certain  interesting 
parts  of  your  country  place,  and  espec¬ 
ially  the  pleasant  home  character  of  the 
house,  is  to  establish  a  grove  near  that 
building.  Set  out  the  best  shade  trees — 
elms,  maples,  beeches,  tulip  trees,  liquid- 
ambars  and  lindens — and  let  them  stand 
40  or  50  feet  apart,  so  that  they  may 
grow  into  broad  and  lofty  trees,  dispens¬ 
ing  abundant  shade.  Such  a  grove  near 
the  house  will  give  perpetual  delight 
throughout  the  year.” 
- Massachusetts  Ploughman  :  “  The 
time  is  near,  when,  if  one  has  half  a 
dozen  boys,  he  must  select  the  smartest 
to  run  the  farm.’’ 
- Omaha  Stockman:  “Were  every  man, 
now  discontented  with  farming,  given, 
in  spot  cash,  the  full  value  of  his  prop¬ 
erty  and  sent  into  our  towns  and  cities 
to  engage  in  business,  in  a  twelvemonth 
there  would  be  the  largest  harvest  of 
bankrupts  the  world  ever  saw.” 
- Ingersoll  :  “It  is  no  advantage  to 
live  in  a  city  where  poverty  degrades  and 
failure  brings  despair.  The  fields  are 
lovelier  than  paved  streets,  and  the  great 
forests  of  oaks  and  elms  are  more  poetic 
than  steeples  and  chimneys.  In  the 
country  is  the  ideal  home.  You  are 
thrilled  by  the  resurrection  called  spring, 
touched  and  saddened  by  autumn — the 
grace  and  poetry  of  death.  Every  field 
is  a  picture,  a  landscape  ;  every  la  ndscape 
a  poem  ;  every  flower  a  tender  thought, 
and  every  forest  a  fairy  land.  In  the 
country  you  preserve  your  identity — your 
personality.  There  you  are  an  aggre¬ 
gation  of  atoms ;  but  in  the  city  you  are 
only  an  atom  of  an  aggregation.” 
— The  Farmers’  Review:  “Ingersoll 
with  all  his  beauty  of  thought  and  poetry 
of  language  misses  in  the  country  life 
what  the  humblest  Christian  worker 
in  the  fields  knows  and  loves — Nature’s 
God.” 
— Ram’s  Horn  :  “  People  with  empty 
heads  most  generally  have  tongues  that 
rattle.” 
- Detroit  Free  Press:  “Farmers 
ain't  got  no  bizness  tryin’  to  raise  crops 
in  the  politikle  field.” 
- Prof.  A.  S.  Packard,  in  Science 
Monthly  :  “  Physically,  man  of  the  pres¬ 
ent  time  is  a  most  composite,  being  the 
result  of  crossings  which  began  to  take 
place  long  before  the  dawn  of  history.” 
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