1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
447 
Farmers’  Club  Discussion. 
( Continued. ) 
good-natured  stock.”  There  is  where  l 
don’t  agree  with  P.  H  M.;  in  the  way  I 
keep  bulls  a  devilish  one  is  just  as  safe  as 
a  gentle  one,  and  while  I  don’t  know 
that  the  devil  in  a  bull  counts  for  good, 
I,  as  I  said  before  in  The  Rural,  believe 
that  it  does.  Rut,  whether  it  does  or  not, 
there  are  very  few  Jersey  bulls  that  are 
fit  to  be  tui*ned  loose  with  the  herd,  or, 
in  fact,  fit  to  be  kept  in  any  place  except 
a  safety  pen.  And  as  for  trying  to  “breed 
good-natured  stock,”  it  is  a  matter  of  no 
moment  whether  my  bull  is  good-natured 
or  not,  but  it  is  a  matter  of  great  impor¬ 
tance  that  the  cows  should  be  so,  and  the 
Jersey  cows  are  as  noted  for  their  gentle¬ 
ness  as  the  Jersey  bulls  are  for  their 
viciousness. 
In  The  Rural  of  June  4,  several  cor¬ 
respondents  give  their  views  as  to  the 
viciousness  of  Jersey  bulls,  but  it  can  be 
easily  read  between  the  lines  that  what 
they  call  “docile”  or  easily  managed 
bulls,  are  animals  that  need  close  watch¬ 
ing  and  are  never  handled  except  with  a 
strong  staff.  If  the  bull  is  kept  up, 
closely  watched,  and  only  handled  with 
a  staff,  he  may  be  considered  “gentle” 
till  some  carelessness  gives  him  a  chance 
to  show  the  devil  in  him. 
When  I  can  make  $54  a  j’ear  profit  p<  r 
cow  over  cost  of  (dry)  feed,  why  should  I 
grow  ensilage  or  mangels  till  somebody 
shows  me  how  I  can  make  more  dollars 
by  so  doing  ?  I  have  grown  and  fed  both 
mangels  and  ensilage  for  dairy  cows. 
When  an  ensilage-feeding  dairyman 
says  he  wouldn’t  dairy  unless  he  could 
feed  ensilage,  shouldn’t  we  take  his  asser¬ 
tion  cum  qrano  salts,  or,  rather,  cum 
chunho  sails?  When  dairying,  in  order 
to  be  profitable,  is  pinned  down  to  one 
particular  kind  of  feed,  isn’t  it  time  to 
inquire  why  it  is  so  and  whether  it  be 
true  ?  That  the  silo  profitably  fills  a 
niche  in  some  cow  barns  there  can  be  no 
doubt ;  that  there  is  an  empty  niche 
awaiting  it  in  all  cow  barns  is  yet  to  be 
proved. 
An  Uncultivated  Orchard. 
C.  W.  C.,  Edgkwater,  W.  Va. — I  have 
a  fine  orchard  that  has  not  been  plowed 
for  21  years,  and  the  trees  have  been 
planted  14  years.  They  are  too  close, 
being  planted  30  feet  north  and  south  and 
25  feet  east  and  west.  The  limbs  of  some 
grew  together  and  passed  each  other  in 
1 1  years.  Tne  orchard  has  been  in  Tim¬ 
othy  and  clover  for  21  years.  The  trees 
are  headed  so  low  the  hogs  can  eat  the 
fruit  from  the  lower  limbs.  At  the  usual 
time  I  mow  the  grass  and  pasture  the 
after  growth.  A  friend  on  the  adjoining 
land  has  an  orchard  of  165  trees  set  19 
years  ago,  and  it  has  been  cultivated 
every  year  except  one  ;  mine  has  only  65 
trees,  still  I  get  more  fruit  than  he  does. 
My  friend  has  told  me  that  he  would  give 
his  whole  crop  for  the  yield  of  a  block  of 
six  trees  I  have  at  one  place.  The  majority 
of  my  trees  bear  more  or  less  every  year. 
I  prune  for  fruit,  and  not  for  water 
sprouts.  People  say  to  me  “  How  do  you 
keep  down  water  sprouts  ?”  The  wounds 
made  by  my  moderate  pruning  all  heal. 
In  my  orchard  one  can  see  no  holes  rotted 
in  the  trees  such  as  are  frequently  seen 
elsewhere.  I  do  no  root-pruning,  and 
have  a  few  old  native  trees  that  have 
been  set  over  50  years.  They  were  on 
the  land  when  I  bought  it,  26  years  ago, 
and  are  still  quite  vigorous.  When  I  set 
a  fruit  tree  I  give  it  the  benefit  of  all  the 
elements  in  the  soil,  regardless  of  what 
the  land  cost.  For  that  under  my  orchard 
I  paid  $166  per  acre,  26  years  ago,  and  it 
is  naturally  underdrained. 
*  *  * 
Engineering  Magazine:  “One  of 
the  things  which  should  be  taught  in 
technical  schools  is  this  :  That  theory 
without  practice  is  absolutely  a  worthless 
commodity  ;  that  practice  without  theory 
is  worth  about  $15  a  week,  and  when 
both  are  well  combined  in  one  man  of 
sound  judgment  the  combination  is  worth 
up  to  $10,000  a  year.” 
Those  who  intend  to  make  new  beds  of 
strawberries  should  now  be  making  a 
study  of  the  kinds  they  intend  to  plant. 
The  R.  N.-Y.’s  reports  will  be  unusually 
full  this  season,  since  the  weather  has 
been  most  favorable  and  the  number  of 
new  kinds  tested  unusually  large.  For  a 
home  berry,  Timbrell  will  be  our  first 
choice:  and  we  make  this  statement  with 
more  than  usual  confidence  that  the 
choice  will  bring  no  disappointment. 
The  quality  is  of  the  best.  Kindly  con¬ 
sider  that.  The  vines  are  exceedingly 
productive.  This  may  rarely  be  said  of 
berries  of  the  first  quality.  The  berries 
though  not  perfect  in  shape,  are  more 
regular  than  Rubach,  Sharpless  or  any  of 
that  class  so  popular  to-day  as  market 
berries.  It  has  a  characteristic  shape, 
which  is  so  far  from  ill-shaped  that  no 
objection  need  be  made  to  it.  Resides', 
the  berry  is  solid  and  firm . 
The  Timbrell  has  thus  far  developed 
but  one  imperfection.  In  changing  from 
its  green  or  white  stage  of  ripening  to 
full  maturity  it  usually  becomes  mottled 
or  patchy.  Even  then  the  berries  are 
sweet  and  delicious.  When  readers  con¬ 
sider  how  fortunate  The  R.  N.-Y.  has 
been  in .  its  forcasts  of  the  new  straw¬ 
berries  that  “come  to  stay,”  we  trust  they 
will  deem  it  worth  while  to  try  the  Tim¬ 
brell  as  soon  as  it  may  be  offered  for  sale. 
The  Reebe  is  another  berry  of  some 
promise.  It  is  of  the  Sharpless  class,  but 
the  berries  average  larger  than  those  of 
Sharpless,  of  a  better  quality,  while  the 
vines  are  as  productive . 
Jucunda  Improved  and  Iowa  Reauty 
are  perfect  in  form  and  of  exquisite  qual¬ 
ity.  We  cannot  as  yet  speak  as  to  then- 
productiveness  . 
The  R.  N.-Y.  thinks  it  has  in  its  experi¬ 
ment  grounds  a  gooseberry  absolutely 
free  from  mildew  and  as  large  as  the 
European  kinds.  If  so  our  readers  will 
soon  hear  more  about  it . 
George  Ruedy,  of  Colfax,  Wash  , 
under  date  of  .June  14,  writes  as  follows  : 
“  Although  the  thermometer  registered 
20  degrees  below  zero  once  last  winter, 
my  Japan  Wineberry  plants  were  killed 
to  the  snow  line.” . 
Here  is  a  new  variety  of  cabbage, 
which,  if  our  readers  have  any  faith  in 
the  first  announcement  of  its  presenta¬ 
tion  to  the  public,  may  excite  general  in¬ 
terest.  We  print  the  advertisement  as 
received,  omitting  only  the  name  of  the 
introducing  firm  : 
THE  EXTRAVAGANZA  CAHBAGE. 
MUNCHAUSEN  STOCK. 
Of  all  the  varieties  of  cabbage  which  have  ever 
been  offered  since  the  world  was  made,  especially 
those  described  In  the  picture  seed  catalogues  of  the 
present  day,  no  sort  ever  equaled  this  cabbage  for 
every  good  quality  which  trenchant  words  can  ex¬ 
press,  or  the  fertile  mind  conceive,  and  we  would  say 
no  cabbage  of  the  future  can  possibly  ever  equal 
it,  had  we  not  a  variety  lying  back  to  Introduce  next 
year  which  we  are  going  to  advertise  as  Infinitely  the 
superior  of  the  Extravaganza,  and  we  expect  every 
year  to  have  a  still  better  one  than  the  year  pre¬ 
ceding. 
We  are  getting  up  a  picture  of  the  Extravaganza, 
which  by  comparison  with  other  well-known  objects 
purposely  placed  near  it,  will  show  that  this  cabbage 
is  as  big  as  a  tobacco  hogshead,  and  the  descrip¬ 
tion  which  will  accompany  the  picture  will  prove. 
If  words  have  any  power,  that  Its  flavor  is  as 
sweet  as  sugar,  its  texture  as  fine  as  satin,  and  Its 
habit  exceedingly  early  or  so  rarely  late,  or  so  some¬ 
thing  else,  as  to  eclipse  every  cabbage  ever  before 
known,  and,  above  all,  Its  freedom  from  the  attacks 
of  Insects  is  phenomenally  remarkable:  indeed,  an 
insect  which  simply  flies  over  it  falls  dead  within  20 
yards.  To  the  market  gardener  it  Is  a  boon  as  it  sells 
itself,  its  laughing  face  beaming  with  such  benevo¬ 
lent  expression  as  to  win  the  admiration  of  every 
purchaser  at  once. 
It  appears  from  New  Jersey  and  other 
experiment  station  bulletins  that  rather 
more  nitrogen,  less  potash  and  much 
less  phosphoric  acid  is  now  furnished  in 
the  average  fertilizer,  than  in  1891  or 
1890.  The  market  price  of  phosphoric 
acid  has  d  icreased  within  the  past  two 
years  . 
The  Large-pa ni cl ed  Hydrangea,  ac¬ 
cording  to  the  London  Garden,  may,  by 
gentle  forcing,  be  made  to  bloom  in  May. 
There  are  very  few  herbaceous  shrubs, 
blooming  late  in  th  <  season  that  equal 
Resdmodium  pend uliflor urn.  The  bush  is 
gracefully  pendulous  and  when  in  bloom 
is  one  mass  of  pea-like  purple  flowers. 
In  about  three  times  out  of  four  Stow- 
ell’s  Evergreen  will  mature  at  the  Rural 
Grounds  if  planted  as  late  as  the  Fourth 
of  July.  To  provide  against  all  acci¬ 
dents,  an  earlier  variety  might  well  be 
planted  after  .July  1,  like  Mammoth . 
The  R.  N.-Y.  has  never  favored  pot- 
grown  strawberry  plants.  That  is  to  say, 
it  does  not  pay  the  purchaser  to  order 
such  plants  and  pay  the  expi-essage.  If 
well-grown  and  forwarded  by  freight  it  is 
a  different  matter . 
The  It.  N.-Y.  learns  that  on  the  grass 
trial  grounds  of  Peter  Henderson  &  Co. 
which  are  not  far  from  the  Rural  Grounds, 
the  much  talked-of  Crimson  Clover  has 
been  tried  for  three  years,  the  seed  hav¬ 
ing  been  sown  in  early  fall.  The  first 
year  it  was  such  a  success  that  the  firm 
was  half-confident  that  it  would  bear 
commendation  as  worthy  of  cultui-e  in 
the  North.  The  second  year  and  the 
third  it  was  an  utter  failure;  that  is  to 
say,  it  was  winter'-killed.  We  trust  this 
bit  of  experience  may  deter  our  readers 
from  sowing  Trifoluim  incarnatum  ex¬ 
cept  in  a  small,  experiment  way . 
Direct. 
- New  York  Tribune:  “It  is  a  very 
bad  use  to  make  of  a  good  dinner  to  eat. 
too  much.  How  much  good  do  you  sup¬ 
pose  a  lady  prohibitionist  will  do  who 
is  in  the  habit  of  saying,  ‘  I  know  I 
ought  not  to  take  another  cup,  but  it  is 
so  good  ?’  Such  people  are  not  in  earnest 
with  the  subject  of  temperance.” 
- Omaha  Stockman:  “Many  a  man 
who  keeps  a  dog  regards  the  whole 
neighborhood  as  a  place  to  keep  him  in.” 
- Philadelphia  Record:  “A  man  may 
really  be  said  to  have  horse  sense  when 
he  refuses  to  bet  on  the  races.” 
- The  Ram's  Horn:  “  Sin  will  behave 
itself  a  year  to  get  to  have  its  own  way 
an  hour.” 
- Philadelphia  Press:  “Weeds  should 
die  of  worry.” 
“  It  is  all  right  to  let  your  work  drive 
you,  if  you  only  keep  ahead  of  it.” 
- American  Agriculturist  :  “If  self- 
conceit  were  taxable,  there  would  not  be 
standing  room  for  all  the  humility.” 
“The  little  judgment  with  which  some 
men  apply  their  learning  makes  one  won¬ 
der  they  had  sense  enough  to  get  any.” 
You  Cannot  Be  Sure,  that  you  will  run  the  Sum¬ 
mer  through -free  from  all  attacks  of  Cramps,  Cho¬ 
lera  Morbus,  Diarrhoea,  or  Dysentery,  See.  Prudently 
provide  yourself,  therefore,  with,  I)r.  Jayne’s  Carmi¬ 
native  Balsam,  a  perfectly  safe  medicine,  and  a  sure 
curative.— Adi). 
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