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In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural. 
DIRECT. 
-Weekly Press : “ Wage earning 
women, often not so ivell paid as do¬ 
mestics, but ahcays unwilling to be 
come such. Four dollars a week the 
average pay. Out of this the unskilled 
xvorking woman must pay her board, 
her car-fare, and wear neat clothes /’’ 
[And the average country family is 
begging for competent help, in vain. 
Eds. R. N.-Y.] 
-Journal of Commerce : “Reason and 
revelation agree In this that there is no 
higher incentive to righteous living than 
its promised rewards. These are not world¬ 
ly honors, large landed estates, coffers full 
of glittering treasures, or a life of ease and 
luxury. The best gains come through the 
greatest sacrifices. The dying grain of 
wheat is the type of that service which wins 
the greatest good. Selfishness would hoard 
it, and it thereby becomes dry, and hard, 
and shriveled,and turns at last to dust, and 
is lost. But the law of service requires its 
offered life. In the act of sacrifice it shoots 
down the tiny rootlet, and upward the ten¬ 
der blade, soon strong enough to bear the 
nodding grain for the life of the world.” 
“Dyspepsia fears a bucksaw more than 
a pill box.” 
“Cutting one’s garment according to 
the cloth is poor policy, unless one happens 
to have a sufficiency of cloth.” 
-Rev. Tiios. Dixon : “ Gambling has 
thrown its deadly shadow upon society in 
many ways and many disguises.” 
says that the best layers he ever had were 
the old-fashioned Black Spanish. They 
turned out an incredible number of large, 
white eggs. Their fecundity was astonish¬ 
ing, but their angular bodies when dressed 
resembled that of a crow and could hardly 
be forced upon the market. 
For years Mr. Rankin used the Plymouth 
Rocks and Light Brahmas. These fowls 
were run side by side in contiguous build¬ 
ings with the same care and feed, and the 
Light Brahmas came out ahead every sea¬ 
son. The advantages in favor of Brahmas 
are these. They are hardier and there is 
less mortality among them both as chicks 
and old birds. They are quieter—more 
domestic in their habits and can be more 
easily confined, and with him during five 
consecutive winters they produced at least 
60 per cent more eggs than the Plymouth 
Rocks, and,further than that, he has always 
found that when four months old they 
have averaged at least two pounds per pair, 
dressed, heavier than the Plymouth Rocks. 
According to the Massachusetts Plough¬ 
man, Mr. Rankin asserts with more con¬ 
fidence than ever after years of experience, 
that there is no branch of agriculture that 
for time and capital invested will make as 
good returns as that invested in the poultry 
business. Ignorance and inexperience have 
been the only cause of failure in it. 
The New Potato Culture.—The R. 
N.-Y. would be glad if this book were read 
by every one who cultivates potatoes; 
whether it be a little patch in the garden or 
many acres upon the farm. The R. N.-Y. 
would be glad to save farmers many a dol¬ 
lar in the judicious selection of chemical 
fertilizers for this crop. It would be glad 
to prove to them that maximum crops de¬ 
pend upon a system of culture not previ¬ 
ously well understood; it would be glad to 
show that five bushels ought just as well 
be raised where two bushels have hitherto 
been raised and by an increase in cost far 
less than the additional cost of the new 
culture. The book has been written not 
for profit at all. It is the result of 15 years 
of hard work by the editor of The R. N.-Y., 
who would gladly help his readers to raise 
five bushels of potatoes, under the new 
system, where they raised one under the old. 
Read the book and tell us, after a fair trial 
of the methods It advocates, whether our 
claim is just or fanciful. 
Star of 1891.— Of this Mr. Falconer 
says, as quoted in J. C. Vaughan’s 
catalogue. “ It is the grandest flowering 
canna, that I have ever grown or ever seen. 
The habit of the plant is very dwarf, but 
with full, fine foliage, and it has a persistent 
habit of throwing up fresh sprouts from 
the base. Every sprout produces a flower- 
spike, which in its turn becomes many- 
branched, each branch bearing from 12 to 
17 blossoms, each blossom 4 to 5 inches 
wide, and each petal IX inch broad. The 
color of the flowers is glowing orange-scar¬ 
let, faintly banded with golden-yellow, and 
the plants, from tiny morsels to big speci¬ 
mens, are perpetually in bloom. Their 
brilliancy is unsurpassed, and as a house or 
greenhouse winter-blooming plant, it is 
going to cause a great sensation. It never 
ceases growing and blooming, and its blos¬ 
soms under glass are even larger, brighter, 
and last longer than when out-doors. 
C. A. Sharp & Co., extensive dealers in 
Indian Games, assert that the chicks make 
the quickest growth “ from the shell up to 
10 or 12 weeks of all known varieties, large 
or small.” This wonderful growth may 
be accounted for by the fact that they grow 
a very short feather, and the nourishment 
required by other breeds in growing a long 
feather, is utilized by them in producing 
flesh. Mr. Sharp finds them as good layers 
as the Plymouth Rocks, and they lay good- 
sized eggs. 
As the quickest growing chicks, they cap¬ 
tivate the “broiler man;” as the best meat 
birds, the market poultryman; for delicate 
flavor, the epicure; for meat and eggs, the 
farmer; for beauty and delicate penciling 
of plumage, the thorough fancier, and by 
their size and commanding and dignified 
appearance they must eventually become 
the gentleman’s fowl. So Mr. Sharp sums 
up the good qualities of the Indian Game. 
For “extra choice breeders,” he charges $50 
per trio. 
Spring sown oats on land fall-plowed 
and not again spring-plowed will give a 
small crop. So says that careful and suc¬ 
cessful farmer, Jonathan Talcott, in the 
Country Gentleman. He further says, 
and The R. N.-Y. for many years has 
urgently advocated the same, that “ the 
earlier they are sown the heavier and 
plumper the grain will be.”... 
Insects on Fruit Trees 
Those pests are rapidly multiplying and every 
year their ravages Increase; they destroy the apples, 
plums, cherries and peaches. Yet they can be exter¬ 
minated by Judiciously spraying the trees. The Field 
Force Pump Company, of Lockport, N. Y„ have Just 
published a very Instructive treatise on tills subject, 
which they will send free on application. 
THE LATEST AND BRIEFEST. 
Among novelties our friends will be safe 
in trying the Fordhook Squash, the Profu¬ 
sion Pea, the Paris Pickling Cucumber, 
the Sieva Bush Bean, Puritan and Ideal 
Cauliflowers, the 400 Tomato, the Long- 
Keeper Tomato. 
Mr Z. Deforest Ely says, in the Amer¬ 
ican Florist, that he puts more faith to-day 
in originality in advertising than any other 
feature ; those who follow the old beaten 
track cannot hope to strike and rivet at¬ 
tention ; the field for imitators tea narrow 
one. 
The less mind a man has, the more lib¬ 
eral he is in giving you a piece of it. 
The late Peter Henderon was one of the 
strongest and healthiest of men up to a few 
days of his death. In his memoirs, written 
by his son Alfred, it is stated that during 
his apprenticeship of four years at Mel¬ 
ville Castle in Scotland, “ he did not taste 
meat of any kind on more than a dozen 
occasions,” and yet neither he nor any of 
his fellow apprentices lost a day by sickness 
in all that time. 
Chas. A. Green’s Nursery Company of¬ 
fers a new quince called Alaska. If its 
praises were sung by a less conservative 
man, we should say they were sung some¬ 
what vociferously. Here is what Mr. 
Green says of it: “The discoverer of this 
remarkable quince, an honest and enthu¬ 
siastic farmer, used to go about his native 
town holding up a large branch containing 
20 or more of the large golden quinces, to 
the astonishment and delight of all be¬ 
holders. I visited his place to see a large 
orchard of the Alaska in bearing. The 
trees were newly planted, were not higher 
than my chin, yet were heavily laden with 
the largest and handsomest specimens of 
quinces that it had ever been my good for¬ 
tune to see. Most of them were as large 
as my double fists, and some of the branches 
were literally weighed down to the ground 
with their burden of fruit. Though early 
in the season, each quince was the color of 
pure gold, indicating its early ripening. 
The quality of the fruit was delicious, and 
it could be eaten out of hand, like a pear 
with many smacks of the lips. In cutting 
the Alaska Quince, there was no hard, 
gritty core, as is often found in this fruit, 
but all cut smooth like a ripe pear”. 
W. F. Massey, of the North Carolina 
Experiment Station, tells the Philadelphia 
Weekly Press that Lucretia Dewberries 
can be shipped from North Carolina before 
strawberries are ripe in New York or even 
in New Jersey. 
In the Irish potato experiments con¬ 
ducted by the above Station, the planting 
of large, whole potatoes largely increased 
the total weight of the crop, but did not 
increase the marketable crop, a very large 
proportion of small tubers being made. A 
two-eye cut still gives the best results. 
It is upwards of 15 years since The 
R. N.-Y., from its own trials, advised 
farmers to plant “ two strong eyes with all 
the flesh attached that could be cut out of 
the potato” to secure the most profitable 
yield. History repeats itself. Some in¬ 
structors still advise whole seed. Again, 
history repeats itself. . 
Samuel Wilson, in his catalogue for 
this year, places before us a colored picture 
of the Oregon Everbearing Strawberry. 
He says that the plants “ will produce and 
continue to bear the most luscious berries 
the whole season through. It continues to 
blossom and to bear fine berries until 
frost.” What do R. N.-Y. readers think of 
that f . 
Mr. Wilson also offers the “ Wilson’s 
Winter Pineapple Musk-melon—the most 
valuable novelty of the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury.” The vine is healthy, grows in any 
good soil and bears abundantly. The 
melons weigh from nine to eleven pounds 
each. The seed cavity is so small that they 
are almost solid meat. No other melon in 
Mr. W’s 30 years’ experience “will com¬ 
pare with this melon in delicious taste. ’» 
It comes from the Sandwich Islands. The 
melons do not ripen on the vines like other 
melons, but must be picked before hard 
frost and placed in a dry, cool room. When 
wanted for use, take them iDto a warm 
room and they will ripen up at once. This 
may all be true. A trial will entitle us to 
an opinion. 
James Rankin, a large poultry breeder, 
after 50 years of successful experience. 
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