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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MARCH 28 
V. H., Monroe County, N. Y.—In a late 
Issue of The R. N.-Y. Crosby is recom¬ 
mended for an early corn for market. I 
am sorry to see such a recommendation in 
The Rural, for the Crosby is not an early 
corn. It is, at most, a second early, and 
not a very good one for market, either. 
I have grown the Cory for early ever since 
it was introduced, and it is the best I have 
found, though some parties claim now to 
have better. My selection for succession is 
Cory, Perry’s Hybrid, Hickox and Ever¬ 
green, or Egyptian. My soil varies from a 
sandy to a clayey loam. Different varieties 
behave differently on different soils. But 
don’t plant Crosby for earliest. 
A Bowl of Apples and Milk. 
M. A. P., CoBLESKlLL, N. Y.— I would 
like to say a few words in defense of sweet 
apples, for the editor’s remark that “ few 
liked them ” went straight to an “ aching 
void” in our gastronomical enjoyments 
since the failure of the sweet apple crop on 
our farm for several years. That sweet 
apples are not marketable I am aware 
from trial, but the wonder to me is why so 
few like them. I can solve the question 
only by supposing that city people do not 
prepare them for their tables in the ways 
that many do in the country, and, in fact, 
there are many in the country who, with 
an abundance of sweet apples at command, 
do not appreciate their value for culinary 
purposes. As a dessert apple raw, I admit 
the inferiority of most kinds of sweet 
apples, but there is one variety which we 
have, which, if it could be tested in a per¬ 
fect state of development, by the editor or 
any other person, would certainly be ap¬ 
proved. It is the Sweet Greening and is a 
late harvest apple shaped like the Rhode 
Island Greening, but when ripe it is a 
golden yellow with dark blotches or 
“moles” on the skin. It is very juicy, 
with a peculiar sweetness which character¬ 
izes a first-class dessert apple. I have 
never seen its name in the catalogues of 
nursery varieties, so I conclude it must be 
little known. 
One of our sweet apple dishes is cider 
apple sauce which makes a relish equal to 
any that I know. I think it almost indis¬ 
pensable at butchering time as an accom¬ 
paniment to the first fresh meat. Talman 
Sweets are favorites with me for this 
purpose. I would not like to omit to 
mention the old Pound Sweet, the aromatic 
fragrance of which makes me hungry and 
brings back a train of childhood memories. 
Another favorite dish with us is boded 
apples, which, if just enough water is 
added to cook them tender, and if they are 
boiled down with a little molasses added 
just at the finish, make a delicious dish. 
Another way to eat sweet apples is at the 
“fourth meal” as we call it, after sunset, 
when the day’s work on the farm is done 
and the family gather on the porch, each 
with a spoon and bowl filled with bread 
and pieces of boiled or baked sweet apples 
immersed in new milk. This is good, and 
if any city epicures are incredulous I would 
like to entertain them some evening at the 
old farm-house in apple time and let them 
taste and see. 
Build Up Useful Fences. 
E. Skeels, Livingston Co., N. Y.—I 
have been very much interested in the dis¬ 
cussion which has been going on in the 
columns of The Rural, in regard to useless 
fences. I heartily agree with the sentiment 
“ down with useless fences,” but would ad¬ 
vise people to think a number of times be¬ 
fore indicting, as a nuisance, any well estab¬ 
lished fence; then if one’s judgment decides 
that any fence is a nuisance it should be 
removed. My mind has changed very much 
after the removal of the fences on a farm 
which was fenced in lots of suitable size. 
By way of more fully conveying my mean¬ 
ing I will make mention of a few cases of 
inconvenience and loss which have occurred 
owing to the removal of the division fences. 
I had a lot of about 30 acres which had been 
devoted exclusively to pasture, mostly for 
sheep. When the lot was last seeded it was 
seeded to clover, Timothy and Orchard 
Grass, and there was a strong inclination of 
June or Blue Grass to work itself in. For 
a few years at three cents per head for pas¬ 
turing sheep, it paid six per cent interest 
on $90 per acre. But after a few years the 
percentage ran down, and I was compelled 
to reduce the size of the flock. On the drier 
parts the grass seemed to run out, and moss 
took its place. Also on the higher parts of 
the lot where the sheep congregated for the 
night, the manure literally eovered the 
ground, which greatly lessened the amount 
of feed. So I came to the conclusion that it 
would be of more profit to breakup the lot, 
and reseed. As it would take two years to 
accomplish this, and as other division fences 
were gone, I was compelled to dispose of 
the flock. Now I am decidedly of the opin¬ 
ion that if the land above mentioned had 
been divided into three lots, and two of 
them were pastured and one was put under 
the plow each year and reseeded, it would 
have furnished more feed, and more profit, 
and there would have been no need to sac¬ 
rifice any of the flock. 
Another lot lying near the buildings was 
devoted to a permanent cow pasture. 
After a few years its usefulness has be¬ 
come less. The cows have got into the 
habit of going to a particular spot to stay 
for the night, consequently that part of the 
lot gets very heavily manured, and the 
grass grows very rank, but they will not 
eat it. Ocher parts of the pasture are 
growing up to weeds that are running the 
grass out, and it takes but a glance to con¬ 
vince one that the lot needs the plow and 
more clover. Some years when we have 
a protracted drought the feed gets too 
short for dairy profit, there is good feed 
adjoining, but as the division fences are 
gone it cannot be used, as corn, potatoes, 
buckwheat and bean crops shut stock out 
until frost detroys its value. 
I have come to the conclusion that a rota¬ 
tion of crops is the right system of farm¬ 
ing, but the year before breaking up should 
be devoted to pasture by a good flock of 
sheep. Seed to clover, and do not mow or 
pasture more than two years, then let the 
.farm be divided into suitable lots so as to 
alternate them to clover, pasture and 
plowing. Then the crops will be much 
better, and the profits much larger, and 
the laud will improve in fertility. If a 
piece of newly-seeded clover intended to 
lie idle for one year, and then to be broken 
for potatoes or corn, is pastured by sheep, 
and they are rightly managed, the profits 
will equal, if they do not exceed those from 
the crop which follows them. 
Some speak of the great expense of 
fences. Well, we have a great many other 
expenses which we hear no complaint 
about. We have well-made, nicely painted 
and commodious houses, furnished inside 
for comfort and ease; we have large, well- 
built, painted outbuildings for the comfort 
of our stock and the storage of our crops, 
but we do not complain of the great ex¬ 
pense and cost. Then why should we find 
so much fault with division fences when 
their advantages are so very great ? And I 
am of the opinion that the cost and expense 
of building and keeping in repair are over¬ 
stated. A good fence made of good, dur¬ 
able posts and wire, if well made, will not 
be very expensive and will last for a long 
number of years, and the material is now 
so low that the expense of building it 
would be quite low. I am of the opinion 
that the picture which appeared in The 
Rural a few week ago, where some cattle 
were breaking out of a lot, represented a 
permanent pasture and the “ poor ” things 
wanted some better, sweeter grass. 
Smothering: Weeds in Fayette 
County. 
J. H. Rittenhouse, Fayette County, 
Pa. —A correspondent of The Rural tells 
us that in Beaver County, Pa , weeds do 
not smother potatoes ; neither do Fayette 
County weeds when they get an even start 
with the potatoes. My idea is to use a 
preventive rather than a cure. I keep the 
whole surface of my potato field clean 
until the potatoes are up by cultivating 
once and harrowing two or three times. 
After that I stir only the ground between 
the rows, the fast-growing, broad leaved, 
bushy kinds soon shade the ground so that 
but very few weeds spring up close to or 
between the plants; but the upright single 
stem and small leaf of the R. N.-Y. No. 2 
admit so much warm sunshine that the 
weeds are so troublesome that while a 
hand and myself with sharp hoes took out 
the chance weeds here and there from 
among the State of Maine rows, and kept 
up to the two-horse cultivator, we got 5% 
rows behind in the 10 rows of the R. N.-Y. 
No. 2, on account of the tall grass and 
small weeds. “ Seeing is believing and 
feeling is the naked truth.” I felt the dif¬ 
ference with my own muscle applied to 
the hoe. Is it not a plain fact that shade 
retards the growth of weeds ? Some farm¬ 
ers will not drill oats because the space be¬ 
tween the drills allows the crop to become 
weedy. Are not the bare spots on our 
farms the most productive of weeds ? Why 
is it that when one digs the late kinds of 
potatoes, and there is a row of an early 
kind planted at the same time, it is so 
much more grassy and weedy than the late 
ones ? Is it not because the tops died 
sooner and let the weeds grow ? The gar 
den rake mentioned by Mr. J. W. Dobbins 
is an excellent tool for the garden, but the 
timely use of a Thomas Slanting Tooth 
harrow or Breed’s weeder will accomplish 
more than a dozen garden rakes. The 
chance weeds spoken of were mostly plan¬ 
tain and wild pea vines, which come up 
through the inverted clover sod. How 
would Mr. D. scratch them out with a 
garden rake ? I’ll take the sharp hoe, so 
that if I pull out a bunch of plantain and 
leave a hollow close to the potato plant I 
can easily pull the earth into it. If I want 
to cut a large dock or brier in potatoes, or 
along a fence, down come3 the sharp hoe, 
or if I chance to see little weeds close to 
the potatoes, a little jerk with the hoe will 
cover them with dirt. 
Vested Rights Versus Human Rights. 
Edwin Taylor, Wyandotte County, 
Kan. —The editorial on page 168 is a time¬ 
ly and forcible arraignment of the evils of 
the concentration of land into few hands. 
Land monopoly is rightly called a “ curse,” 
and we are told that the great problem is 
to abolish it “ without hardship to vested 
interests.” Is not that like the boy’s prob¬ 
lem of how to keep cake and penny both ? 
The California plan of limiting the amount 
of land one may buy, or sell, or devise, is 
most important; because it is a recogni¬ 
tion of the province of the State to regulate 
the holdings of the citizen. If the State 
may say to the citizen how much land he 
may leave to his heir, why may it not limit 
him also in devising other forms of wealth ? 
Once it is granted that the State has the 
rightto regulate the ownership of property, 
then the California plan of dispersing land 
would seem too slow. Must 500 farmers 
and their families, who could easily find 
support on some of the California ranches, 
stand looking and longing till the lord of 
the manor chooses to sell or finally dies, 
out of regard for his “ vested interests ?” Is 
it revolutionary to say that the rights of 
men as human beings come long before the 
rights of property ? When we, in Kansas, 
concluded that the manufacture of liquor 
in the State was hurtful to it, we did not 
halt in stopping it because properties en¬ 
gaged in the business might be (as, indeed, 
they were) practically confiscated. Why 
there should be any more hesitation about 
confiscating unoccupied land than occupied 
breweries is not clear. Whether the single 
land tax is the best way out is a question. 
It would help. Sooner or later inventive 
minds bent upon it will find a thorough 
method for making the graspers let go. 
But all this can’t be done without hardship. 
Somebody must suffer. The State is suf¬ 
fering now. Isn’t it the grasper’s turn ? 
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