1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
8i5 
Farmers'  Club  Discussion. 
( Continued . ) 
Wot  Favorable  to  “  New  Celery  Culture.” 
M.  M.,  Cambridge  City,  Ind.— Here  is 
my  experience  in  raising  celery  under 
the  new  system  : 
I  set  three  different  plots  with  Giant 
Pascal,  500  plants  in  each  plot,  hut  on 
account  of  other  pressing  business,  the 
plants  were  not  set  until  August  1.  Plot 
1  was  good  ordinary  garden  soil,  that  is, 
it  had  been  manured  early  in  the  spring 
with  well  rotted  stable  manure.  Plot  2 
was  an  empty  cold-frame  in  which  early 
cabbage  plants  had  been  grown.  Plat  3 
was  a  spent  hot-bed.  The  plants  were 
set  6x8  inches  apart.  Plot  1  never 
received  any  additional  fertilizer,  with 
the  exception  of  a  liberal  dose  of  nitrate 
of  soda  in  the  shape  of  a  solution  some 
time  in  September.  Plot  2  received,  be¬ 
fore  planting,  a  complete  fertilizer,  es¬ 
pecially  rich  in  ammonia,  at  the  rate  of 
1,000  pounds  per  acre.  Plot  3  got  only 
phosphate  in  the  shape  of  ground  raw 
bone,  at  the  rate  of  1,000  pounds  per 
acre.  The  plants  grew  finely.  The 
beds  were  flooded  regularly  every  even¬ 
ing,  and  apparently  there  was  no  dif¬ 
ference  between  them,  but  really  there 
was.  Plot  1  made  the  highest  but 
smallest  stalks.  Plot  2  made  the  best 
and  strongest  stalks,  but  not  as  high  as 
those  in  plot  1.  Plot  3  made  good,  solid, 
but  very  brittle  stalks  ;  all  more  or  less 
bleached  from  6  to  10  inches  from  the 
roots  up.  I  consider  the  new  way  a  de¬ 
cided  success  on  a  small  scale,  but  have 
decided  objections  to  plant  in  this  man¬ 
ner  on  a  large  scale.  I  had  to  cover  and 
protect  the  beds  frequently  to  keep  the 
wind  from  tearing  them  to  pieces;  the 
least  little  snow  would  mash  them  down 
if  not  protected,  which  would  be  impossi¬ 
ble  on  a  large  scale ;  the  plants  grow 
too  tender  to  handle,  and  a  careless  or 
inexperienced  person  would  destroy 
many  and  make  them  unsalable,  My 
other  celery,  raised  in  the  old  way,  is  in 
quality  superior  to  that  raised  under  the 
new  plan. 
Rarebits. 
According  to  the  last  bulletin  (No.  19, 
September  1892)  published  by  the  Rhode 
Island  Experiment  Station,  one  of  the 
fertilizers  analyzed  sold  for  $39.33  per 
ton  more  than  it  was  worth  as  shown  by 
the  analysis.  Many  fertilizers  are  shown 
to  be  worth  from  $10  to  $15  less  than  the 
prices  charged  for  them.  Such  bulletins 
should  be  carefully  examined  by  all 
farmers  who  purchase  fertilizers,  to  the 
end,  on  one  hand,  that  those  manufac¬ 
turers  who  value  their  good  name  should 
be  liberally  supported,  while  the  others 
go  to  the  wall,  and,  on  the  other  hand, 
that  farmers  should  receive  just  what 
they  pay  for. 
let  Disease  ”  was  prevalent  to  a  consider¬ 
able  extent  in  Dakota,  and  attended  by  a 
death  rate  of  7  to  10  per  cent,  about  one 
animal  dying  for  every  10  affected.  It 
received  the  name  “  Millet  Disease  ” 
from  the  fact  that  95  to  98  animals  out  of 
every  100  becoming  afflicted  had  been  fed 
on  millet.  It  seemed  to  make  no  differ¬ 
ence  as  to  the  condition  of  the  millet 
with  regard  to  its  maturity  at  the  time 
of  cutting.  Th  .t  which  was  cut  when  it 
began  to  head  produced  the  same  effects 
as  that  which  had  already  headed  out, 
even  if  the  heads  were  all  matured.  The 
subject  is  discussed  at  length  in  Bulletin 
No.  7  of  the  North  Dakota  Experiment 
Station. 
As  it  is  an  English  fad  or  fashion  to 
serve  filberts  at  table  in  the  husk,  and,  as 
everything  English  goes  with  the  400  in 
New  York,  there  is,  according  to  Gar¬ 
dening,  a  considerable  demand  for  the 
fresh  nuts,  the  price  ranging  from  25 
cents  per  pound  up  to  $1  or  more,  ac¬ 
cording  to  the  size  and  quality.  The  de¬ 
mand  for  filberts  in  the  husk  is  a  good 
thing  for  the  grower,  for  the  husks  weigh 
fully  as  much  as  the  nuts  would  when 
dried;  so  to  be  in  this  fashionable  swim 
means  doubling  the  value  of  the  product 
of  one’s  nut  orchard. 
The  new  chrysanthemum,  Golden  Wed¬ 
ding  (Henderson)  was  generally  conceded 
to  be  the  finest  yellow  that  has  been  pro¬ 
duced.  We  were  right  in  saying  that  in 
this  class  it  was  the  sensation  of  the  late 
show. 
Direct. 
- T.  B.  Terry  in  the  Practical  Far¬ 
mer  :  “  I  am  thankful  1  am  not  a  doctor, 
for  if  I  did  not  manage  to  suit  every 
patient  I  would  find  them  slipping  away 
from  me.  I  am  thankful  I  am  not  a 
minister  with  a  whole  congregation  to 
please.  I  might  have  a  certain  fixed  in¬ 
come,  but  oh,  so  many  toes  liable  to  be 
trodden  on  !  I  am  thankful  I  am  not  a 
manufacturer,  for  just  as  I  got  a  large 
supply  of  goods  some  change  of  fashion 
might  take  off  all  the  profit.  Potatoes 
and  wheat  never  go  out  of  fashion.  The 
only  toes  I  am  liable  to  tread  on  belong 
to  weeds  and  potato  bugs,  and  these 
never  resent  the  operation.  If  one  man 
doesn’t  like  the  goods  I  produce,  the 
whole  country  is  my  market,  and  the 
loss  of  a  customer  is  not  to  me  what  it  is 
to  the  doctor  who  can  draw  from  but  a 
few  miles  around. 
“  The  season  has  been  one  of  the  worst 
we  ever  experienced.  Months  of  wet 
weal  her  injured  our  potato  crop.  Greater 
pains  than  ever  before  were  taken  in  put 
ting  in  our  wheat  this  fall.  Six  weeks 
of  very  dry  weather  have  injured  the  pros¬ 
pect  for  a  big  crop,  however.  But  good 
living  returns  have  come  and  are  sure  to 
come  to  the  farmer  who  does  his  best. 
As  in  any  other  line  of  business,  there 
will  be  good  and  poor  years.  I  am 
thankful  that  the  average  returns  from 
farming  are  reasonably  good  and  cer¬ 
tain. 
me  implements  that  enable  me  to  get 
better  crops  with  less  labor.  I  am  thank¬ 
ful  that  I  can  ride  while  the  horses  cut 
and  bind  the  wheat,  and  spread  the  man¬ 
ure,  and  plant  the  potatoes  and  dig  them, 
and  cut  the  clover  and  rake  it.  All  these 
implements  have  come  into  use  during 
my  remembrance  and  they  relieve  us 
from  most  of  the  hard  labor  that  used  to 
be  connected  with  farming.  I  am  thank¬ 
ful  I  was  not  born  50  years  earlier  and 
obliged  to  leave  this  world  just  as  farm¬ 
ing  was  beginning  to  be  a  very  desirable 
business. 
“I  cannot  become  a  millionaire  at 
farming  and  I  am  thatakful  for  it,  but  I 
can  get  about  all  that  is  really  worth 
living  for  from  my  little  farm,  and  get  it 
without  being  subjected  to  the  tremend¬ 
ous  strife  and  rush  to  get  ahead  found  in 
city  life,  get  it  in  a  quiet,  healthful,  easy 
way,  get  it  with  plenty  of  elbow  room, 
with,  acres  of  my  own  instead  of  feet.” 
- Ohio  Farmer  :  “Farming  gives  fewer 
extremes  of  wealth  and  poverty  and  a 
higher  general  average  of  competence 
and  comfort.” 
“  The  number  of  young  men  who  want 
to  'attend  agricultural  colleges  and  thor¬ 
oughly  prepare  themselves  as  farmers,  is 
small  enough,  and  the  country  needs 
every  one  of  them.  We  understand  the 
great  advantage  of  thorough  preparation 
of  the  soil  for  the  reception  of  a  crop. 
How  much  greater  is  the  advantage  of 
thorough  preparation  of  the  mind  for 
one’s  life  work!  We  believe  in  edu¬ 
cating  a  boy  according  to  his  tastes.  If 
he  wants  an  agricultural  education,  he 
ought  to  have  it.” 
- John  Fiske  :  “  Half  the  cruelty  in 
the  world  is  the  direct  result  of  stupid 
incapacity  to  put  one’s  self  in  the  other 
man’s  place.” 
“As  in  more  barbarous  times,  the  hero 
was  he  who  had  slain  his  tens  of  thou¬ 
sands,  so  now  the  man  who  has  made 
wealth  by  overreaching  his  neighbors, 
is  not  uncommonly  spoken  of  in  terms 
which  imply  approval.” 
- Green’s  Fruit  Grower:  “  Farmers, 
don’t  make  your  orchards  side  issues.” 
“  In  my  opinion  the  best  place  for  rot¬ 
ting  manure  is  in  the  soil.” 
“  Celery  and  asparagus  are  the  two 
vegetables  most  rarely  seen  in  either  the 
farm  or  the  village  garden,  yet  there 
are  few,  if  any,  that  will  better  repay 
the  labor  of  cultivation.” 
Peaches ! 
Peaches ! 
Peaches ! 
Peaches ! 
Peaches ! 
For  the  past  2  years  I  hare  grown 
THE  EARLIEST 
PEACHES 
In  the  United  States, 
on  the  muck  lands  of  FLORIDA 
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If,  as  the  bulletin  says,  farmers  were 
to  go  into  the  business  of  extracting  gold 
from  the  crude  ore,  they  would  first 
ascertain  bow  much  gold  the  ore  con¬ 
tained  ;  it  is,  however,  a  fact  that  the 
majority  of  farmers  buy  their  fertilizers 
from  which  to  extract  their  gold  in  the 
form  of  crops,  without  a  glance  at  the 
guaranty  or  any  attempt  to  ascertain  how 
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the  chemical  composition  of  the  various 
fertilizers.  The  question  is  not  how 
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but  bow  much  potash,  phosphoric  acid 
and  nitrogen,  and  their  forms.  The  ques¬ 
tion  involves  in  a  great  measure  the 
profits  and  losses  in  New  England  farm¬ 
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of  farming  in  any  part  of  the  country 
where  fertilizers  are  much  used. 
During  the  winter  of  1891  and  1892,  a 
disease  passing  under  the  name  of  “  Mil- 
“  On  my  farm  I  am  king.  No  man  can 
spit  tobacco  juice  about  me,  or  befoul 
my  air  with  the  smoke  from  his  mouth, 
or  make  me  listen  to  swearing  or  any 
impure  or  foul  conversation.  I  do  not 
have  to  put  up  with  anybody’s  impudence 
as  a  matter  of  business  policy.  Said  a 
merchant  to  me  the  other  day  as  a  cus¬ 
tomer  left  the  store,  whose  words  I  could 
not  have  stood :  ‘  Thank  God  that  you 
do  not  have  to  be  all  smiles  and  bows 
when  yon  are  just  aching  to  kick  a  man 
across  the  street.’  Iam  my  own  boss, 
except  that  I  must  produce  what  the 
world  wants.  No  one  can  discharge  me 
or  find  fault  with  my  work.  There  is  al¬ 
ways  work  to  do.  I  am  never  out  of  a 
job,  and  still  am  not  closely  tied  up,  ex¬ 
cept  for  a  few  weeks  of  the  year.  Many 
farmers  are  as  closely  confined  as  other 
business  men.  I  am  not,  thanks  to  not 
undertaking  too  much. 
“  Oh,  I  am  more  than  thankful  for 
clover,  and  that  I  have  got  fixed  so  as  to 
save  all  my  manure  from  waste,  and  that 
the  inventive  powers  of  man  have  given 
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