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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Farmers’  Club  Discussion. 
( Continued. ) 
cleared  and  worn  out  all  naked  and 
bare,  we  also  reduce  the  water  supply 
and  defile  and  desecrate  what  streams 
we  have  by  making'  them  the  carriers 
and  the  buryers  of  the  waste  which  the 
plainest  and  the  most  urgent  of  our 
duties  to  ourselves  and  our  kind  demand 
that  we  should  preserve  and  restore  to 
the  land  from  which  it  has  been  taken. 
It  has  been  argued  strongly  of  late  that 
China  will  be  the  final  master  among  the 
nations  of  the  earth.  Certainly  we  can¬ 
not  gain  that  distinction  unless  we  take 
up  as  a  people  in  good  earnest  the  plain 
precaution  of  husbanding  the  resources 
of  the  soil  that  feeds  and  clothes  us,  and 
the  water  supply  that  is  indispensable 
for  conveying  during  the  whole  of  every 
summer  the  plant-food  elements  in  the 
soil  into  the  rootlets,  and  through  them 
to  the  myriad  chambers  of  the  plants. 
Evidently  there  are  some  practical  points 
of  vital  consequence  for  all  of  us  yet  to 
discover  and  to  adopt  if  we  want  to  per¬ 
petuate  our  national  strength  and  the 
prosperity  and  well-being  of  our  people. 
English  Sparrows  in  Michigan. 
G.  C.  Davis,  Agricultural  Coi.legk, 
Michigan. — As  to  the  sparrow  bounty  of 
Michigan,  I  can  say  that  it  has  mater¬ 
ially  lessened  the  number  of  English 
sparrows  here  about  the  State  Agricul¬ 
tural  College  at  Lansing.  Where  there 
are  now  only  a  few  on  the  college  grounds 
there  used  to  be  flocks.  The  small  boy 
with  his  air-gun  has  been  the  means  of 
disposing  of  them  on  our  grounds  and  is 
the  most  general  agent  everywhere,  as  far 
as  this  region  is  concerned.  If  there  is 
anything  in  the  bounty  bill  that  should 
be  amended  it  is  in  the  line  of  providing 
more  stringent  measures  against  the  kill¬ 
ing  of  other  birds  that  somewhat  re¬ 
semble  the  English  sparrow.  Such  a 
provision  would  necessitate  a  better 
knowledge  of  the  sparrow  on  the  part  of 
the  small  boys,  so  that  they  could  tell  it 
from  others.  We  have  received  for  iden¬ 
tification  quite  a  large  number  of  speci¬ 
mens  which  have  proved  to  be  heads  of 
other  birds,  many  of  them  beneficial. 
paper,  The  Industrialist.  He  calls  it 
“  the  coming  fodder  plant.”  They  are 
grown  in  rows  32  inches  apart,  the  plants 
filling  out  the  space  completely,  and 
yielding  5%  tons  of  green  fodder,  or  about 
three  tons  of  hay  to  the  acre  on  unma¬ 
nured  land.  The  crop  can  be  cleared  oft’ 
in  time  for  wheat  and  will  leave  the 
ground  in  excellent  shape  for  the  drill 
without  plowing.  The  crop  was  planted 
May  23,  and  the  above  growth  was  made 
in  exactly  three  months.  Its  feeding  value 
is  of  the  best.  It  compares  favorably 
with  clover  and  Alfalfa  in  nutritive  quali¬ 
ties,  and  the  ripe  beans  are  only  excelled 
by  oil  meal.  Cattle  and  hogs  eat  all  parts 
of  the  plant  greedily  ;  even  the  dry  bean 
straw,  thrown  into  the  yard  after  the 
beans  were  thrashed  out,  was  all  eaten 
the  possibilities  that  the  yield  would  be 
less,  the  tubers  smaller  and  less  sym¬ 
metrical  . 
Abstracts. 
- N.  Y.  Tribune:  “To  produce  the 
best  results  the  strawberry  should  be 
treated  as  a  biennial  plant.” 
- N.  Y.  Observer:  “Gather  up  the 
money  that  the  working  classes  have 
spent  for  rum  during  the  last  30  years, 
and  I  will  build  for  every  workingman 
a  house,  and  lay  out  for  him  a  garden, 
and  secure  him  a  policy  of  life  insurance 
so  that  the  present  home  may  be  well 
maintained  after  he  is  dead.  The  most 
persistent,  the  most  overpowering  enemy 
of  the  working  classes  is  intoxicating 
liquor.” 
- Gardeners’  Chronicle:  “We  have 
by  the  cattle.  The  severest  droughts  do 
not  affect  this  plant .  aU  heartl  the  stoiT  of  the  gardener  who 
inquired  of  the  philosopher  ‘  why  the 
weeds  grew  more  rampantly  in  his  gar¬ 
den  than  the  flowers.’  ‘  You  see,’  said 
the  wise  man,  ‘  Nature  is  mother  to  the 
weeds,  but  she  is  only  stepmother  to  the 
flowers.’  ” 
- Vermont  Watchman:  “Why  should 
one  farmer  in  twenty  be  furnished  with 
common  garden  and  farm  seeds  from  the 
National  seed  store,  instead  of  a  careful 
distribution  of  novelties  of  supposed 
merit  in  an  impartial  and  intelligent 
manner  ?  ” 
“  If  the  National  Department  of  Agri¬ 
culture  is  to  be  made  really  useful  in 
In  bulletin  No.  113,  just  issued  by  the 
Connecticut  Experiment  Station,  there 
are  23  analyses  of  cotton-hull  ashes. 
Some  of  these  were  found  to  be  worth 
$13  a  ton  more  than  the  price  asked  for 
them.  The  average  cost  of  19  samples 
was  $36  per  ton,  the  station’s  valuation 
being  $40.  One  sample,  however,  the 
price  of  which  was  $30  per  ton  was  found 
to  be  worth  $22.03  per  ton.  Are  you  in¬ 
terested  in  such  information,  farmers?. . 
The  Freeman  Potato  is  much  liked  by 
several  farmers  near  the  Rural  Grounds, 
to  whom  we  gave  trial  quantities  of 
“seed.”  They  value  it  for  its  good 
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shape,  earliness  and  quality .  this  manner— and  it  might  be— the  only 
Begonia  (tuberous)  seeds  sown  last  right  and  impartial  way  is  for  it  to  send 
March  produced  plants,  all  of  which  are  out  the  seeds,  cions  and  cuttings,  to  the 
blooming  now.  The  flowers  thus  far  State  experiment  stations,  there  to  be 
seem  to  be  all  males.  The  plants  are  tested,  and  thence  distributed  to  every 
not  over  six  inches  high .  applicant,  after  careful  trial,  and  to  re- 
Who  knows  about  the  Esther  Grape  port  thereof  in  the  station  bulletins.  But 
(E.  W.  Bull)  ?  Who  knows  about  the  this  will  never  be  done,  and  abuses  will 
Climax? .  continue  and  increase,  until  farmers’  or- 
AUTOMATIO  PLUNGKIt  DRAW.  _ 
GIVEN  CDCC  IK  IT  WILL  NOT  do  all  my  circulars 
AWAY  *  HI.  C  claim.  Bond  for  free  circulars  giving 
full  Information.  JAS.  KEMP.  Komuton,  Ills. 
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Witt  (vine  from  G.  W.  Campbell)  is 
bearing  heavily  at  the  Rural  Grounds. 
The  berry  and  bunches  are  large.  Color 
white.  It  ripens  somewhat  before  Con- 
ganizations  take  hold  of  the  matter  in¬ 
telligently  and  energetically  at  the 
moment.” 
- N.  Y.  Herald.— Rev.  Blink  Plunk 
corcl .  on  Children:  “De  Bible  says,  deah  bred- 
dern,  dat  ef  ya  bring  up  a  child  in  de 
Short  Stories. 
Among  many  of  The  R.  N.-Y.’s  Rosa 
rugosa  hybrids  that  have  bloomed  since 
the  subject  has  been  alluded  to  in  these 
columns,  is  one  that  is  well  worth  a  pre¬ 
liminary  introduction  to  those  of  our 
friends  who  have  cared  to  follow  the 
history  of  these  plants.  The  leaflets  are 
large  and  show  conspicuously  the  Ru¬ 
gosa  blood.  They  are  thick,  rugged  and 
healthy.  The  plant  begins  to  bloom  in 
early  June,  and,  though  the  flowers  are 
not  so  large  later,  continues  to  bloom 
during  the  summer  with  more  or  less 
freedom.  The  buds  are  long  like  those 
of  Niphetos ;  buds  that  we  have  long 
hoped  to  get,  but  failed  until  now.  The 
open  flowers  are  nearly  four  inches  in 
diameter,  semi-double  and  of  a  dark 
maroon  color— the  darkest  red  we  have 
ever  seen  in  a  rose — and  of  a  delicately 
sweet-briar  odor.  It  will  make  a  charm¬ 
ing  companion  to  the  ltugosa-Tea  hybrid 
Georges  Bruant . 
The  New  York  Experiment  Station  finds 
that  the  Beder  Wood  strawberry  leads 
in  productiveness.  The  berries  are  not 
of  the  largest,  hut  hold  to  a  good  market 
size  throughout  the  picking  season.  It 
began  to  ripen  June  12.  The  length  of 
the  picking  season  was  18  days.  The 
yield  was  567  ounces.  The  number  of 
plants  is  not  stated.  Michel’s  Early  be¬ 
gan  to  ripen  June  10— two  days  earlier. 
The  length  of  the  picking  season  was  but 
seven  days,  and  the  yield  166  ounces . 
Prof.  Georgeson,  of  the  Kansas  Agri¬ 
cultural  College,  gives  a  part  of  his  ex¬ 
perience  with  the  Soy  Bean  in  the  college 
Prof.  W.  F.  Massey,  of  the  North 
Carolina  Experiment,  says  in  Orchard 
and  Garden  that  the  Green  Mountain 
ripened  there  July  25,  with  the  Champion. 
Harper’s  Weekly  says  that  if  one  man 
lias  a  right  to  labor,  so  has  another. 
The  assertion  that  a  man  who  does  not 
belong  to  a  labor  union  has  no  right  to 
accept  work  on  conditions  which  a  mem¬ 
ber  of  a  union  will  not  accept,  goes 
against  the  very  essence  of  that  freedom 
which  forms  the  vitality  of  our  whole 
political  system.  Again  a  worker, 
whether  he  belongs  to  a  union  or  not,  is 
entitled  to  reward  according  to  the  quan- 
m 
way  he  should  go,  wen  he’s  old  he  will 
not  depaht  from  it;  an’  I  might  add  dat 
de  same  rule  holds  good,  only  in  a 
stronger  fashun,  wen  ya  bring  him  up  in 
de  way  dat  he  shouldn’t  go.” 
- Vermont  Watchman  :  “The  indefati¬ 
gable  Professor  Sanborn,  whom  New 
Hampshire  foolishly  parted  with,  Mis¬ 
souri  was  not  worthy  of,  and  Utah  has 
captured,  is  a  man  who  is  ‘  into  every¬ 
thing’  in  the  way  of  thorough  and  intel¬ 
ligent  study.” 
- Life  :  “  Don’t  strike  unless  you  are 
honestly  prepared  to  quit  your  job  and 
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tity  and  quality  of  his  work .  find  another.’  If  wages  are  too  low  and 
you  can  do  better  elsewhere,  by  all  means 
quit,  and  go  elsewhere  ;  but  don’t  quit 
with  the  intention  of  preventing  any  one 
else  from  doing  work  that  you  will  not 
do  yourself.  That  is  fatal.” 
“The  most  competent  jury  for  the 
trial  of  a  case  is  a  jury  of  two  members 
— the  parties  to  the  dispute.” 
- Dr.  A.  K.  H.  Boyd  :  “  Why  on  earth 
do  people  think  it  fine  to  be  idle  and  use¬ 
less?  Fancy  a  drone  superciliously  de¬ 
siring  a  working  bee  to  stand  aside,  and 
saying  :  “  Out  of  the  way,  you  miser¬ 
able  drudge ;  I  never  made  a  drop  of 
honey  in  all  my  life  !  ” 
The  workers  at  the  Rural  Grounds 
meet  with  many  disheartening  failures 
in  their  experiment  work  ;  hut  occasion¬ 
ally  a  fine  success  occurs  that,  for  the 
time  at  any  rate,  overshadows  the  fail¬ 
ures  in  toto.  This  has  been  a  bad  season 
for  potatoes.  Many  of  our  seedlings 
which  we  have  been  carrying  and  care¬ 
fully  selecting  for  years  produced  so 
many  small  tubers  or  such  ill-shaped 
large  ones  that  we  were  tempted  to 
throw  them  all  in  the  “  pool  ”  as  we  call 
the  heap  made  up  of  varieties  for  which 
we  no  longer  have  any  use.  And,  in  fact 
a  much  larger  number  than  usual  were 
consigned  to  that  oblivion.  The  happy 
surprise  occurred  in  a  new  seedling  that 
yielded  at  the  rate  of  1,100  bushels  to 
the  acre.  There  was  not  an  unshapely 
potato  among  them  and  it  might  be  said 
with  only  a  slight  stretch  of  the  origin¬ 
ator’s  conscience  that  there  was  not  a 
small  one  among  the  entire  lot.  As  a 
matter  of  fact  there  were  not  over  20  un¬ 
marketable  potatoes  in  the  dozen  hills, 
which  yielded  about  five  pounds  each, 
with  an  average  weight  of  three-quarters 
of  a  pound  to  each  potato  or  about  six  to 
the  hill.  It  is  a  late  variety  with  light 
colored  skin,  few  eyes  and  those  flush 
with  the  surface.  We  call  this  an  ideal 
potato  yield  for  an  unfavorable  season. 
In  a  favorable  season  it  is  quite  within 
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