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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
Nov,  12 
ODDS  AND  ENDS. 
The  New  York  World  tells  this  remark¬ 
able  story  of  a  man  who  set  a  hawk  on 
fire  : 
He  nailed  a  wooden  box  to  the  top  of  a 
post,  put  a  dead  hen  therein  with  matches 
tied  to  her  feet,  and  a  piece  of  sandpaper 
to  scratch  them  on,  and  also  a  large 
bundle  of  gunpowder  on  the  box.  The 
hawk  came,  seized  the  dead  hen  and 
pulled  at  her  until  a  match  was  ignited 
and  the  powder  flashed.  “  The  hawk 
arose  with  his  feathers  all  ablaze  and  flew 
screaming  toward  the  woods.  The  wind 
fanned  the  flames,  the  big  bird  soon  be¬ 
gan  to  waver,  and  when  it  was  over  one 
of  the  back  lots  it  fell  to  the  ground.” 
Solid  Sense. — Seldom  have  we  seen  a 
good  homely  truth  so  well  expressed  as 
this  by  J.  D.  Smith  in  Hoard’s  Dairyman  : 
A  young  couple  in  early  life  buy  a 
farm  that  will  keep  16  to  18  cows 
They  go  in  debt  for  a  large  share  of  the 
purchase  price,  but  by  industry  and 
economy,  they  succeed  finally  in  paying 
it.  An  only  son  has  grown  to  young 
manhood,  and  begins  to  talk  of  securing 
a  home  of  his  own.  His  parents,  although 
comparatively  young,  have  labored  so 
continuously,  giving  themselves  little  or 
no  rest,  that  strength  is  rapidly  failing. 
What  do  they  do  ?  They  begin  at  once 
to  say,  “  our  farm  is  too  small  for  two 
families.”  So  as  an  adjoining  farm  is  for 
sale,  the  boy  buys  it  to  repeat  the  ex¬ 
perience  of  his  father,  with  quite  likely 
the  difference,  that  he  or  his  intended 
helpmeet  has  not  the  strength  to  begin 
with,  his  parents  had.  How  sadly  they 
miss  the  boy  when  he  is  gone.  A  man  is 
hired  in  his  stead,  but  oh  !  how  much  he 
lacks  of  filling  John's  place.  They  brave 
it  out  for  a  few  years,  when  mother's 
health  failing  too,  they  give  it  up  and 
the  farm  is  sold.  Suppose  on  the  con¬ 
trary  the  father  had  taken  his  interest 
money,  and  indeed  his  surplus  income 
for  a  few  years,  and  expended  the  amount 
in  buying  extra  fertilizer,  procuring  bet 
ter  stock,  in  short  making  the  old  farm 
produce  more  than  both  farms  will,  how 
much  better  in  every  way.” 
Fighting  Frost  With  Fire. — We  have 
had  quite  a  little  to  say  about  plans  for 
preventing  damage  from  frost  in  orchards 
and  vineyards.  Here  are  two  plans  pro¬ 
posed  by  the  grape  growers  near  River¬ 
side,  Cal.: 
Several  large  growers  have  provided 
themselves  with  coal  oil  cans,  in  which 
they  will,  after  making  a  suitable  hole 
in  the  bottom  to  admit  a  draft,  lay  kin¬ 
dling  of  an  easily  ignited  sort  and  upon 
this  put  10  pounds  of  New  Mexican  coal. 
This  fuel  is  bought  cheap  in  large  quan¬ 
tities.  The  loaded  cans  remain  under 
the  trees  to  be  removed  into  the  open 
spaces  in  case  of  need.  When  ignited, 
they  give  forth  a  considerable  heat,  and 
will  burn  six  or  seven  hours.  Different 
orchards  will  use  from  8  to  2.1  fires  to  the 
acre.  There  is  little  doubt  that  with  the 
larger  number  of  fires  named  there  would 
have  been  entire  immunity  from  harm 
last  winter.  By  this  plan  the  first  cost 
is  inconsiderable,  the  charge  for  each  can 
being  about  10  cents,  or  from  60  cents 
to  $1.25  per  acre  per  night. 
Here  is  another  method,  and  one  likely 
to  be  more  extensively  and  permanently 
used.  It  consists  in  locating  a  row  of 
tanks  containing  a  cheap  grade  of  petro¬ 
leum,  from  which  pipes  are  laid  so  that 
the  oil  can  be  run  into  receptacles  in 
which  it  is  burned.  The  amount  can  be 
graduated  so  that  the  amount  of  flame 
can  be  large  or  small  as  is  required,  and 
can  be  turned  off  entirely  if  the  weather 
moderates.  This  plan  promises  to  be  the 
most  effective,  and  in  the  long  run  the 
most  economical,  though  the  first  cost  is 
considerable. 
A  Saddle  Heifer. — Admirers  of  Miss 
Frances  E.  Willard,  the  loved  president 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  will  be  interested  in 
this  story  of  her  girlhood  told  in  the 
Review  of  Reviews : 
Father  was  so  careful  of  his  girls  and 
so  much  afraid  that  harm  would  come  to 
us  if  we  went  horseback  riding  that  I 
determined  to  have  a  steed  of  my  own, 
and  contrived  a  saddle  and  trained  a 
favorite  heifer,  Dime,  to  act  in  that 
capacity.  I  took  the  ground  that  the 
cows  were  a  lazy  set,  and  because  they 
had  never  worked  was  no  reason  why 
they  shouldn’t  begin  now.  Up  in  Lap- 
land  they  made  a  great  many  uses  of  the 
deer  that  people  didn't  where  we  lived 
and  he  was  all  the  better  and  more 
famous  animal  as  a  result  of  it.  So  since 
father  wouldn't  let  me  ride  a  horse  I 
would  make  Dime  the  best  trained  and 
most  accomplished  cow  in  the  pasture; 
and  Dime  would  like  it,  too,  if  they 
would  only  let  her  alone.  So  with  much 
extra  feeding  and  caressing  and  no  end 
of  curry-combing  to  make  her  coat  shine. 
I  brought  Dime  up  to  a  high  degree  of 
civilization.  She  would  “moo”  when¬ 
ever  I  approached,  and  follow  me  about 
like  a  dog;  she  wrould  submit  to  being 
led  by  a  bridle,  which  Loren,  always 
ready  to  help,  had  made  out  of  an  old 
pair  of  reins;  she  was  gradually  broken 
to  harness  and  would  draw  the  hand- 
sleds  of  us  girls ;  but  the  crowning  suc¬ 
cess  was  when  she  “got  wonted  ”  (which 
really  means  when  she  willed)  to  the 
saddle  ;  and  though  I  had  many  an  in¬ 
glorious  tumble  before  the  summit  of  my 
hopes  was  reached,  I  found  myself  at 
last  in  possession  of  an  outlandish  steed, 
whose  every  motion  threatened  a  cat¬ 
astrophe,  and  whose  awkwardness  was 
such  that  her  trainer  never  gave  a  pub¬ 
lic  exhibition  of  the  animal’s  powers, 
but  used  to  ride  out  of  sight  down  in  the 
big  ravine,  and  only  when  the  boys  were 
busy  in  the  field. 
A  Georgia  Tariff  Discussion.  —  A 
good  hit  on  the  average  tariff  discussion 
is  given  in  the  Fanciers’  Journal  as  fol¬ 
lows : 
“Clem,  is  yo’  ergwine  to  wote  fow  de 
tariff?  ’  asked  Jim  Pokeberry  of  another 
darkey  in  front  of  the  post-office  lately. 
“  De  tariff!  What's  dat?”  quern  d 
Clem. 
“  Why,  de  tariff  hit  am — er — er — well, 
hit’s  dis  way.  De  ’Publicans  de  wants  de 
tariff  put  way  up  dar  so  high  dat  de 
chickens  kaint  roos’  on  hit,  see?  An’  de 
Demercrats  dey — dey — ” 
“  Look  a  heah,  nigger,”  interrupted 
Clem,  “  I  done  been  hearin’  de  tariff  fo’ 
de  las’  severl  yea’s.  Now,  what  am  de 
tariff,  nohow?  Whar  she  staj  ?  Whar 
am  she  gwine  to?  What  she  want  to 
roos’  high  fur,  nohow?  Who’s  got  the 
tariff?  Is  we  niggers  a  gwine  fur  to  git 
any  ob  de  tariff  ?” 
“De  tariff’s  dis  er  way,  Clem.  Yo' 
owns  a  house — ” 
“  But  I  doan  own  no  house,”  broke  in 
Clem- 
“  Well,  s’posin  de  case,  s’posin  de  case. 
Yo’  owns  a  house.  De  ’Publicans  dey 
wants  to  put  de  tariff  on  dat  way  up. 
Yo’  owns  a  cow.  Dey  wants  to  tariff 
dat  cow  twell  de  milk’s  costin’  yo’  16 
cents  a  quart.  Yo’  owns  a  hoss.  Dey 
wants  tu  tariff  dat  hoss  $10  a  front  foot. 
De  aigs  dat  yo’  hens  lay’ll  hab  a  tariff  on 
dem  of  five  cents  a  aig.  An’  yo’  mel- 
yons,  an’  yo’  taters,  an’  yo’  inguns  ’ll 
hab  so  much  tariff  on  dem  dat  yo’  kaint 
tote  ’em  home.  De  Demyerats  are  agin 
de  tariff,  see?  Yes,  dey’s  sorter  agin  hit. 
De  Demyerats  dey  wants  a  kinder  sorter 
ob  a  free  tariff.  Dat's  wot  de  Demyerats 
is  arter  I  spec.'  Hit’s  like  dis.  Yo’  gwine 
down  to  Br’er  Smiffkins’  hen  roos’,  yo’ 
reach  in  an’  grab  some  fat  pullets.  Br’er 
Smiffkins  he  done  cotcli  yo’.  Dey’s  a 
gwine  to  take  yo’  befo’  de  squiah.  De 
squiah  he  gwine  ter  say,  ‘Wot’s  de 
cha’ge  gine  yo’,  Br’er  Clem  Appleblos- 
som?’  Br’er  Smiffkins  he  say,  ‘Dat  or- 
’nary,  triflin’,  lazy  nigger  done  stole  nine 
ob  my  bes’  pullets.’  Den  de  squiah  he 
say,  ‘Dis  co’t  kaint  hole  de  pris’ner, 
sah.  No,  sah.  Dey  haint  no  tariff  on 
dem  pullets,  Br’er  Smiffkins.  Dem’s 
Demycratic  free  tariff  pullets,  an’  I  dis- 
elia’ge  Br’er  Appleblossom,  an’  yo’  pay 
de  costs.’  De  way  de  ’Publicans  wants 
hit  de  tariff  on  dem  pullets ’d  be  so  high 
dat  de  squiah  is  ergwine  to  sen’  yo’  to  de 
plenitentiary  fo’  299  yea’s.  Dat’s  de  way 
I  Agger  on  de  tariff,  Clem.” 
Clem  listened  attentively,  scratched 
his  head,  and  then  queried:  ‘,We’n’s  de 
Demycratic  tariff  ergwine  to  promul¬ 
gate?  Wen  hit’s  ergwine  fur  ter  strike 
Go’gia?” 
“  Kaint  tell  jest  de  time,  Clem,  ’deed  i 
kaint.  I  reckon  she’ll  be  heah  atter  de 
’lection.  Yes,  dat's  ’bout  de  time  she’s 
ergwine  to  arribe.  Is  yo’  ergwine  ter 
vote  fur  ’Publican  tariff  and  high-priced 
chickens,  er  is  yo’  ergwine  to  vote  fur  de 
Demycratic  tariff  an'  free  chickens  ?” 
“Dis  nigger’s  in  fur  de  free  chicken 
tariff,  shuah.  Wen  ’lection  day  comes 
hunt  me  up  wid  a  Demycratic  free  pul¬ 
let  ticket,  an’  I’ll  shove  her  in.  Free 
pullets.  Bress  de  Lawd,  de  nigger's 
ergwine  ter  git  his  rights,  atter  all!  Yes 
sah,  I’se  in  fur  free  pullets,  an’  I’m  votin 
de  free  pullet  ticket.  Look  heah,  Jim, 
is  dey  ergwine  to  put  dat  ’Publican 
tariff  on  de  ’possums  an’  coons?” 
“Dat’s  jes  what  dey’s  ergwine  to  do. 
Dey’ll  do  dat,  shuah.  How  you  like  ter 
tote  fo’ty  pounds  ob  tariff  on  a  five  poun’ 
’possum,  eh  ?” 
“Well,  sah,  most  in  gen’ally  I  votes  de 
Publican  ticket,  but  dey  doan  fool  me 
wid  dis  yere  tariff  bisness.  No  sah,  dey 
doan.  Puttin’  de  tariff  on  pullets  am 
mean  enuff,  but  wen  dey’s  ergwine  to 
pile  hit  on  de  'possums  and  de  coons,  I’m 
ergwine  to  kick.  De  free  pullet  an’  free 
’possum  an’  coon  pa’ty’s  ergwine  to  git 
my  vote,  shuah.” 
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