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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
Oct.  8 
Latest  from  Lakewood  Farm. 
W.  F.  Tabor,  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 
— I  would  like  to  supplement  the  report 
and  correct  one  or  two  errors  in  the 
otherwise  good  report  of  The  Rural’s 
able  correspondent  who  visited  my  place, 
an  account  of  which  was  published  in  the 
issue  of  September  17.  He  makes  me  say 
that  I  feed  ensilage  freely  to  both  cows 
and  horses.  This  is  an  error  as  to  horses, 
as  I  am  on  record  as  having  lost  four 
horses  through  eating  ensilage  too  freely 
two  years  since.  My  young  vineyard 
where  the  third  crop  of  strawberries  was 
picked  this  season  has  not  been  sprayed 
at  all.  The  crop  was  good,  with  no  rot 
to  speak  of.  The  Concords  have  been 
sprayed  twice,  and  the  loss  from  rot  will 
not  be  five  per  cent ;  crop  large  and 
quality  very  fine.  My  potatoes  showed 
signs  of  blight  at  two  different  times 
under  the  influence  of  showers  and  hot 
sunshine  ;  but  it  was  arrested  by  spray¬ 
ing,  which  was  done  at  three  different 
times  in  the  manner  reported,  so  that, 
in  my  opinion,  the  crop  was  saved 
by  this  means,  as  some  kinds  I  had 
planted  are  subject  to  blight.  I  shall 
dig  about  700  bushels,  mostly  early  kinds. 
Among  tomatoes  Ignotum  sustains  its 
reputation,  being  early  in  ripening  and 
holding  out  with  the  latest.  The  Beauty 
is  correctly  named.  The  Longkeeper  is 
very  firm,  and  the  Mikado  is  the  best  of 
all  in  quality,  but  inclined  to  be  rough 
and  unshapely  for  market.  Altogether, 
my  quarter  of  an  acre  of  tomatoes  netted 
over  $125. 
Under  the  head  of  “Brevities”  is  a 
statement  in  regard  to  the  amount  of 
water  sold  in  my  small  fruits  and  the 
remark  that  the  water  did  not  cost  a  cent. 
In  one  view  of  the  matter,  it  did  not,  but 
in  another  it  cost  much.  As  one  who  on 
all  proper  occasions  strives  to  impress 
upon  the  mind  of  the  farmer  and*  partic¬ 
ularly  the  young  farmer  the  great  im¬ 
portance  of  a  proper  preparation  of  the 
soil  by  heavy  fertilization  and  deep  and 
thorough  cultivation,  I  cannot  let  this 
occasion  pass  without  saying  that  those 
fruits  never  could  have  taken  that 
amount  of  moisture  from  the  soil  to  per¬ 
fect  their  growth,  if  the  soil  had  not  been 
in  such  a  condition  that  it  could  store  up 
and  render  available  that  which  the 
plant  needed.  The  man  who  neglects 
to  furnish  these  conditions  must  not  ex¬ 
pect  to  reap  such  rewards,  and  truly  we 
.  sometimes  fail  even  under  them.  Farm¬ 
ing  is  “  a  manufacturing  business  and  a 
mighty  scientific  one  at  that,”  and  the 
only  tariff  that  can  help  us,  we  must 
evolve  out  of  our  own  brain. 
No  Flies  on  Tobacco. 
O.  C.  V.,  Port  Jervis,  N.  Y. — I  have 
used  tobacco  dust  to  kill  or  drive  away 
the  horn  flies  from  cows,  with  good  re¬ 
sults.  The  principal  drawback  is  the 
necessity  of  applying  it  often,  at  intervals 
of  three  to  four  days.  I  stable  the  cows 
closely,  shutting  the  doors  and  windows, 
and  go  for  the  flies  with  the  dust,  and 
then  “  dust  out,”  as  I  am  neither  a 
chewer  nor  smoker  of  the  weed  and  dis¬ 
like  the  smell.  When  I  let  the  cows  out 
later,  no  flies  are  on  them. 
Who  Has  Disgraced  South  Carolina  P 
NOT  GOV.  TILLMAN. 
J.  C.  Stribling. — On  page  606  of  The 
R.  N.-Y.,  T.  R.  H.  holds  up  the  farmers 
of  his  own  State  to  shame  and  disgrace 
through  his  misrepresentations  of  the 
situation  of  affairs  here.  Now,  the  true 
situation  and  condition  of  affairs  here  are 
quite  different  from  T.  R.  H.’s  way  of  put¬ 
ting  them.  To  begin  with,  there  is  no 
one  man  under  the  sun  (Gov.  Tillman  not 
excepted)  who  can  unjustly  “  raise  the 
taxable  property  of  this  State  $18,000,- 
000,”  “  reduce  the  revenue  $135,000,” 
“array  class  against  class,”  “father 
against  son,”  “ignore  the  laws,”  “appoint 
lynchers  to  office,”  retard  progressive 
agriculture  and  our  industrial  progress 
by  driving  capital  from  the  State,  and 
then  after  two  years  of  such  wholesale 
destruction  come  before  the  farmers  of 
the  State  as  a  candidate  for  the  same 
office  and  after  going  through  the  hottest 
campaign  ever  known  in  this  State,  come 
out  with  over  20,000  majority  of  the  votes 
of  the  people  who  have  thus  indorsed  his 
administration.  I  would  not  like  the 
readers  of  The  Rural  to  think  the  farm¬ 
ers  of  my  State  such  a  set  of  depraved 
fools  and  bad  men  as  they  must  be  if 
what  T.  R.  H.  says  is  true,  especially  as 
most  of  the  wisest  and  best  statesmen 
have  come  from  the  farmers’  ranks. 
Every  effort  for  reform  supported  by  the 
Governor  was  started  by  the  people  and 
thoroughly  discussed  during  the  cam¬ 
paign,  so  that  the  people  at  large  must 
share  with  the  Governor  any  “  disgrace” 
attached  to  his  action.  It  was  they  who 
asked  that  the  tax  dodger  be  hunted  out, 
whether  a  banker,  railroad  magnate  or 
land  owner,  and  from  T.  R.  H.’s  state¬ 
ment  it  appears  that  he  found  $18,000,000 
worth  of  hidden  property,  mostly  among 
the  two  first  named.  Has  he  in  this  dis¬ 
graced  the  State  ?  He  stopped  a  large 
corporation  from  illegally  using  the 
State’s  phosphate  and  turned  over  a 
monopolistic  combine  to  a  number  of 
independent  companies  which  have  been 
mining  phosphate  some  time  at  an  aver¬ 
age  increase  of  revenue  to  the  State  in¬ 
stead  of  sinking  her  revenue  $135,000  per 
annum — as  stated  by  T.  R.  H.  This 
action  by  the  Governor  was  sustained  by 
the  highest  court  in  our  land.  Is  there 
any  disgrace  in  this  ?  If  anything  has 
been  done  by  individuals  to  injure  the 
credit  of  the  State,  it  has  been  done  by 
the  opposing  press  and  capitalists  for 
campaign  purposes. 
Gov.  Tillman  came  into  office  at  the 
head  of  the  “  farmers’ movement,”  which 
had  for  one  of  its  objects  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  an  agricultural  college  and  ex¬ 
periment  station  separate  from  the 
South  Carolina  University,  the  aim  being 
to  secure  an  institution  where  farmers’ 
sons  may  learn  the  science  and  art  of  agri¬ 
culture  and  its  kindred  branches,  and  the 
project  has  now  ripened  into  the  develop¬ 
ment  of  a  gi’and  institution  for  this 
purpose  now  nearing  completion.  Is 
this  not  a  helping  hand?  Is  it  a  “  dis¬ 
grace  ?” 
After  the  girls  saw  that  farmers’  sons 
had  secured  a  grand  institution  of  their 
own,  they  demanded  that  an  industrial 
school  for  women  be  established  also  in 
justice  to  them,  and  this  demand  was 
granted  during  the  sitting  of  our  last 
legislature.  I  will  leave  it  to  the  women 
readers  of  The  Rural  if  they  think  this 
act  a  “disgrace”  to  the  State,  too.  No 
fair-minded  person  could  expect  a  Gov¬ 
ernor  to  come  from  among  the  farmers 
and  compete  with  the  trained  politicians 
in  the  administration  of  all  the  offices  of 
State  without  committing  some  errors ; 
but  if  we  censure  him  for  his  errors,  in 
justice  we  must  give  him  credit  for  his 
good  works  also.  Take  the  industrial 
school  for  girls  and  the  agricultural  col¬ 
lege  for  boys,  for  example.  I  defy  T.  R. 
H.  or  any  one  else  to  show  up  the  record 
of  any  other  Governor  in  the  whole 
country  who  has  done  more  permanent 
and  lasting  good  for  our  industrial  peo¬ 
ple  than  Governor  Tillman’s  administra¬ 
tion  has  done  by  the  establishment  of 
these  institutions. 
I  never  was  in  politics,  but  am  a  far¬ 
mer. 
A  Dearth  of  Strawberries. 
F.  W.,  Philipsburg,  Pa. — A  young  man 
who  understands  small  fruit  culture  could 
do  well  here,  as  not  a  strawberry  is 
grown  for  market  within  20  miles  of  this 
place,  while  there  is  an  industrial  popu¬ 
lation  of  30,000  within  10  miles  of  us. 
Philipsburg  is  one  of  the  oldest  towns  in 
the  center  of  the  State  and  has  most  of  the 
conveniences  and  luxuries  of  cities,  such 
as  steam  heat,  electric  light,  telegraph, 
telephone  and  two  railroads,  the  best  of 
schools  and  several  churches.  Land  is 
held  high  on  account  of  the  underlying 
minerals,  but  some  under  which  none 
is  supposed  to  exist  can  be  bought  at  a 
reasonable  price.  Blackberries  and  rasp¬ 
berries  grow  wild  ;  so  do  strawberries  to 
a  small  extent. 
Vines  for  trial  of  White’s  Northern 
Muscat  grape  were  received  April  23,  1890, 
from  the  Culinary  Grape  Company,  Troy, 
O.  The  original  seedling  was  produced  by 
W.  H.  White  of  Troy,  O.  The  claims 
made  for  this  new  variety  were  as  fol¬ 
lows:  “  The  only  perfectly  hardy  raisin- 
pulp  grape  known.  B  ardy  as  Concord. 
It  is  a  seedling  of  Brighton  fertilized  by 
Muscat.” 
It  fruits  at  the  Rural  Grounds  this  sea¬ 
son  for  the  first.  It  ripens  about  with 
Concord.  Vine  healthy — neither  rot  of 
berry  nor  mildew  of  leaf.  The  pulp  is 
tough — almost  as  tough  as  some  of  the 
native  Labruscas.  There  are  about  six 
seeds  to  the  berry  and  there  is  a  decided 
acidity  of  the  pulp  about  the  seeds.  Be¬ 
tween  the  pulp  and  the  skin  there  is  a 
notable  quantity  of  “  fat,”  or  tender  flesh 
attached  to  the  skin.  The  quality  is 
sweet,  juicy,  without  much  sprightliness, 
and  foxy.  The  color  is  a  dark  green, 
flushed  on  one  side  with  a  purplish  tint 
as  is  often  seen  in  wild,  white  grapes. 
Berries  adhere  well  to  the  skin  ;  about 
the  size  of  Concord  and  somewhat  oblong. 
Bunch  showy  and  not  shouldered  as 
judged  from  the  first  season’s  fruit. 
Whatever  value  it  may  possess  as  a  raisin 
grape,  is  not  known  to  the  writer.  It 
does  not  seem  to  have  any  other  notable 
quality  of  excellence . 
A  tree  of  the  “  Good  ”  Peach  was  sent 
to  the  Rural  Grounds  in  November  of 
1888,  by  H.  M.  Engle  &  Son,  of  Marietta, 
Pa.  The  tree  has  grown  thriftily  and 
borne  for  two  seasons.  It  seems  to  be  a 
late  white  peach  of  no  value  here . 
( Continued  on  next  page.) 
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