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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Aug.  6 
Odds  and  Ends. 
A  sick  cow  gives  you  the  flavor  of  her 
disease  in  her  milk. 
In  buying  stock  by  live  weight,  have 
them  weighed  in  the  morning.  You  are 
not  buying  grass. 
There  were  old-time  doctors  who  used 
to  prescribe  donkey’s  blood  for  nervous¬ 
ness  because  the  donkey  is  “  a  very  calm 
beast.” 
A  writer  in  the  National  Stockman 
gives  this  curious  remedy  for  liver  rot  in 
sheep  : 
Keep  one  or  two  dozen  Pekin  ducks  in 
the  sheep  pasture.  They  will  eat  the 
snails  that  harbor  the  eggs  of  the  liver 
fluke.  I  have  had  no  liver  rot  among  my 
sheep  since  I  began  keeping  ducks. 
Here  is  a  song  the  blacks  of  Jamaica 
are  said  to  sing  while  loading  bananas  on 
the  steamer : 
Good-bye,  banana, 
God-bye,  banana, 
Oh,  de  banana  am  fur  de  buckra  man, 
Fur  de  buckra  man  him  lub  de  banana; 
De  pig  him  eat  de  banana  too, 
Jlst  Ilk  de  buckra  man. 
Oh,  good-bye.  banana, 
Oh,  good-bye,  banana. 
“  Buckra  ”  man  means  white  man.  Is 
he  like  the  pig  in  any  other  respect  ? 
This  is  what  the  Sheep  Breeder  says 
about  dogs  : 
It  is  a  pitiful  reflection  that,  if  it  were 
not  for  dogs,  wool  would  be  as  cheap  as 
cotton,  if  not  cheaper — so  cheap  that  the 
poorest  of  mankind  could  be  comfort¬ 
ably  clad  in  winter,  and  mutton  would 
be  more  abundant  than  all  other  kinds 
of  meat  put  together  noware.  If  Nature 
ever  made  a  mistake  it  was  in  the 
creation  of  the  dog. 
Dogs  have  had  free  trade  with  our 
flocks  too  long  and  the  law  has  protected 
them,  too. 
Force  of  Habit. — The  ignorant  per¬ 
son  who  has  learned  a  few  things  and 
therefore  thinks  he  knows  it  all,  often 
makes  some  queer  mistakes.  Miss  North, 
in  a  recent  book  on  animals,  tells  a  capi¬ 
tal  story  of  a  cockatoo,  brought  up  in  a 
zoological  garden,  and  taught  to  say : 
‘  Walk  in,  ladies  and  gentlemen  ;  don’t 
all  come  at  once — one  at  a  time.’  The 
bird  escaped,  and  was  found  with  a  troop 
of  wild  cockatoos  attacking  it.  It  was 
lying  on  its  back,  fighting  beak  and 
claw,  and  screaming  out :  “  Come  on, 
ladies  and  gentlemen,  come  on  ;  not  all 
at  once,  one  at  a  time.” 
Foreign  Ideas  of  “  Hood  Roads.” — 
The  Hon.  Isaac  B.  Potter,  Potter  Build¬ 
ing,  New  York,  Chairman  of  the  Con¬ 
gressional  Committee  on  Highways, 
offers  three  prizes  for  the  best  three 
essays  of  foreign  engineers  on  “the  prac¬ 
tical  construction  and  maintenance  of 
country  roads.”  The  first  prize  amounts 
to  420  German  marks  or  an  equivalent  in 
the  currency  of  other  countries ;  the 
second  to  294  marks  and  the  third  to  120 
marks.  The  articles  may  be  in  German, 
French  or  English  and  must  contain  not 
more  than  20,000  or  less  than  8,000  words. 
Good  illustrations— drawings,  engravings 
or  photographs — will  be  considered  es- 
peciaUy  important.  The  essays  should 
be  sent  in  before  December  31,  1892,  and 
the  prizes  will  be  awarded  on  or  before 
March  1,  1893.  Each  should  be  signed 
with  a  pseudonym  and  be  accompanied 
with  the  author’s  real  name  in  a  sealed 
envelope. 
Cows  as  Breweries. — The  following 
fantastic  tale  comes  from  the  State  of 
Washington  and  is  submitted  in  evidence 
of  the  fact  that  the  food  will  affect  the 
richness  of  the  cow’s  milk  product ! 
Puyallup  Valley  is  great  for  its  hops. 
Last  summer,  while  the  Sequash  Indians 
were  gathering  in  the  hop  harvest,  they 
used  to  throw  now  and  then  a  handful  to 
the  herd  of  cow's  in  the  field.  This  par¬ 
ticular  cow,  which  is  of  the  ordinary  red 
species,  soon  showed  such  a  taste  for 
hops  that  the  Indians  fed  her  generously. 
At  length  she  would  eat  no  grass,  but 
confined  her  diet  only  to  hops.  At 
length  Mr.  Denabb  detected  a  strange  yet 
familiar  taste  in  the  milk.  After  inquiry 
and  experiments  he  traced  this  taste  to 
this  particular  red  cow.  He  then  called 
in  a  veterinarian,  who,  having  got  to¬ 
gether  the  facts  and  after  several  days’ 
brooding,  said  :  “  Tom,”  addressing  Mr. 
Denabb,  “you’ve  got  a  walking  brewery 
in  that  cow.  Loan  her  to  me  and  I’ll 
give  you  as  good  a  glass  of  beer  as  any 
brewery  can  furnish.”  This  Mr.  Denabb 
did.  The  milk  which  had  for  some  time 
been  gray  now  began  to  run  brown,  and 
shortly  after  a  foamy  top  gathered.  The 
fluid  now  is  so  unmistakably  beer  that 
one  could  desire  no  better.  Mr.  Denabb. 
who  is  himself  authority  for  the  truth  of 
this  story,  is  very  proud  of  his  cow,  of 
which  he  believes  there  is  not  the  like  in 
this  country. 
This  wild  and  woolly  tale  takes  the 
lead  up  to  date.  Let  us  have  the  next 
famous  Washington  product. 
Useful  Toes. — Much  has  been  written 
about  the  usefulness  of  cultivating  the 
left  hand.  Most  people  are  one-handed 
— the  left  hand  doing  nothing  alone  and 
but  little  when  used  with  the  right. 
There  are  special  schools  and  systems  for 
cultivating  the  left  hand.  In  India  not 
only  are  both  hands  cultivated,  but  the 
feet  also  are  taught  to  work.  By  con¬ 
stant  use  the  great  toe  becomes  almost 
like  a  thumb  and  the  distance  between 
it  and  the  other  toes  is  greatly  increased. 
A  writer  in  the  Popular  Science  Monthly 
says  about  this : 
In  the  making  of  wooden  combs  I  have 
seen  the  comb  held  straight  up  by  the 
feet,  while  the  workmen  marked  the 
teeth  with  one  hand  and  with  the  other 
directed  the  instrument  that  cut  them. 
The  wood  turner  directs  the  hand-rest 
with  his  great  toes ;  so,  generally, 
do  Egyptian  and  Arabian  turners.  In 
smoothing  twine  or  sewing  a  bridle  the 
Indians  hold  the  article  between  the  first 
and  second  toes.  When  the  butcher  cuts 
his  meat  into  small  pieces,  he  holds  his 
knife  between  the  first  and  second  toes, 
takes  the  meat  in  both  hands,  and  pulls 
it  up  across  the  knife.  I  have  seen  a 
child  climb  a  tree  and  hold  a  branch  be¬ 
tween  his  toes. 
Home-Made  Educators. — Felix  L. 
Oswald  tells,  in  the  Chautauquan,  how 
in  some  parts  of  the  South,  pupils  are 
sent  to  a  neighbor’s  for  schooling  where 
no  regular  school  is  found.  He  says  : 
Fifty  cents  a  month,  per  child,  is  con¬ 
sidered  a  liberal  compensation,  which 
too  often  cannot  be  collected  in  cash. 
Like  his  haggard  brother,  the  country 
editor,  the  home-teacher  has  to  accept 
turnips  and  cord-wood — in  stress  of  cir¬ 
cumstances  perhaps  even  promissory 
notes  or  misfit  jeans — though  the  children 
themselves  may  have  partly  liquidated 
the  debt  by  interact  tussles  with  the 
woodpile. 
“  Let  me  see,  Jim  :  that  sum  ain’t  right; 
you’re  getting  a  little  muddled  again, 
ain’t  ye  ?  Go  and  get  an  axe  and  split 
me  an  armful  of  wood  in  the  fresh  air  to 
clear  the  cobwebs  off  your  brain.” 
“Is  that  what  you  call  writing,  Jessie  ? 
Your  fingers  must  be  stiff  with  cold  ;  go, 
sit  at  the  fire  and  help  Jane  peel  that  pot 
of  biled  potatoes  to  give  you  a  chance  to 
thaw  up  a  bit.” 
In  spite  of  such  intermezzos,  the  main 
purpose,  however,  is  generally  attained 
before  the  end  of  the  third  term  ;  the 
young  woodcutter  learns  the  principles 
of  addition  and  subtraction,  cons  his  First 
Reader  till  he  can  spell  out  the  home 
news  of  the  local  weekly,  and  is  dis¬ 
missed,  with  one  of  Aunt  .lane’s  best  mo¬ 
lasses  cakes,  as  a  “  pretty  fair  scholar.” 
Satisfied  with  California. — Some¬ 
body  in  Dakota,  speaking  of  the  prom¬ 
ising  wheat  crop,  calls  upon  Americans 
to  come  to  that  State  and  “be  happy,” 
whereupon  the  California  Fruit  Grower 
says  about  the  Dakota  farmer  : 
As  a  rule  he  buys  corn  in  Chicago  to 
feed  his  pigs,  and  sugar  and  fruits  in 
California  for  his  family.  His  beef  may 
come  from  Montana  or  Texas.  This 
happy  producer  raises  at  the  most  15 
bushels  of  wheat  per  acre ;  sometimes 
only  seven  bushels,  and  at  other  times 
nine  bushels,  which  he  sells  at  70  cents 
or  less  per  bushel.  It  costs,  according  to 
the  statements  of  careful  farmers,  30  to 
45  cents  per  bushel  to  produce  this 
wheat,  thus  leaving,  say  35  cents  a  bushel 
margin  for  profit.  For  100  acres,  at  the 
highest  average  yield  of  the  United 
States,  the  net  income  to  the  “happy” 
producer  would  be  the  princely  sum  of 
$487.50  wherewith  to  support  his  family, 
educate  his  children  and  “  be  happy.” 
Whenever  the  time  shall  come  that  the 
California  “  producer  ”  is  unable  to  sit 
in  the  shade  of  his  orange  trees  and 
shoot  coyotes  enough  before  breakfast 
to  greatly  exceed  the  Dakota  wheat 
grower's  income,  he  will  doubtless  con¬ 
sider  favorably  the  advice  so  freely 
given  ;  but  for  the  present  he  must  de¬ 
cline  the  invitation  with  thanks.” 
There  is  a  bounty  of  $2.00  per  head  on 
coyotes  in  California. 
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Fruit  Culture, 
and  the  Laying  Out  and 
Management  of  a  Country 
Home. — By  W.  C.  Strong,  Ex- 
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ticultural  Society,  and  Vice-Presi¬ 
dent  of  the  American  Pomolog'ical 
Society.  Illustrated.  New  revised 
edition,  with  many  additions,  mak¬ 
ing  it  the  latest  and  freshest  book 
on  the  subject. 
Contents. 
I.  Rural  Homes— Choice  of  Locality— Treat¬ 
ment— A  Good  Lawn — The  Approach. 
II.  Fruits— Location  of  the  Fruit-Garden— Suc¬ 
cess  In  Fruit-Culture— Profit  In  Fruit  Cul¬ 
ture. 
III.  How  to  Procure  Trees— Quality— How  to 
Plant— Time  to  Plant— Preparing  the  Land 
— Fertilizers— Cutting  Back — Distances  for 
Planting. 
IV.  Care  of  the  Fruit-Garden— Irrigation— Ap¬ 
plication  of  Fertilizers— Thinning  the  Fruit 
—Labels. 
V.  The  Apple— Insects  Injurious  to  the  Apple. 
VI.  The  Pear— Dwarf  Pears— Situation  and  Soil- 
Pruning— Ripening  the  Fruit— Insects  In¬ 
jurious  to  the  Pear— Diseases. 
VII.  The  Peach— Injurious  Insects  and  Diseases  or 
the  Peach— Nectarines. 
VIII.  The  Plum— Insects  and  Diseases  of  the  Plum 
—Apricots. 
IX.  The  Cherry— Insects  Injurious  to  the  Cherry 
X.  The  Quince— Insects  Injurious  to  the  Quince 
XI.  The  Grape  — Grape-Houses  — Varieties— In¬ 
sects  Injurious  to  the  Grape— Mildew. 
XII.  The  Currant— Insects  Attacking  the  Currant 
—The  Gooseberry. 
XIII.  The  Raspberry— The  Blackberry. 
XIV.  The  Strawberry. 
XV.  The  Mulberry— The  Fig— Rhubarb— Aspar¬ 
agus. 
XVI.  Propagating  Fruit  Trees— From  the  Seed— By 
Division— By  Cuttings— By  Layers— By  Bud¬ 
ding— By  Grafting. 
XVII.  Insecticides— Fungicides— Recipes. 
“Mr.  Strong  gives  evidence  of  that  thorough  grasp  of 
the  subject  which  he  has  gained  from  30  years'  experi¬ 
ence  as  an  orchardist.  His  book  Is  a  simple,  clear 
well-condensed  manual  of  practical  information  on 
the  fundamental  principles  Involved  in  the  success¬ 
ful  cultivation  of  each  species  of  fruit.”— Boston 
Advertiser. 
“  In  no  branch  of  Intelligence  has  there  heen  so 
much  advance  as  In  horticulture.  Every  yea  solves 
new  problems  Insoluble  before,  and  with  new  ideas 
new  books  follow.  It  is  in  just  this  line  (In  the  en¬ 
deavor  to  elucidate  fundamental  principles)  that  Mr. 
Strong  believes  he  finds  an  unoccupied  Held,  and  this 
book  is  the  result.”— Thomas  Meehan,  In  Gardener's 
Monthly. 
“  A  most  Inspiring  little  book,  and  one  that  fairly 
makes  the  mouth  water,  the  subjects  treated  are  so 
snggestlve  of  flavor  and  fineness. ”— Philadelphia 
Ledger. 
“There  is  very  little  in  this  book  that  will  not  be 
found  applicable  to  fruit  culture  in  the  South  as  well 
as  the  North.”— Charleston  News  and  Courier. 
“The  author  has  shown  excellent  judgment  in 
giving  the  particular  information  which  small  fruit 
ralsei  s  wish  to  know.”— Boston  Transcript. 
“The  directions  are  specific  enough  to  be  under¬ 
stood  by  beginners  and  wise  enough  to  be  of  profit  to 
experienced  fruit  growers  .’’—Home  and  Farm  (Louis¬ 
ville). 
Price,  in  one  volume,  16mo.,  cloth,  $1. 
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