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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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PITHS AND SUGGESTIONS. 
Every experiment station of the country, 
situated where late corn will mature, 
should try a plot of the Rural Thorough¬ 
bred Flint Corn. It must be borne in 
mind, however, that the plants must not 
be closer than 3% x 4 feet, if the land be 
even moderately rich. 
There are two new strawberries that 
the R. N.-Y. would recommend its readers 
to try; one is Michel’s Early, the other 
Lovett’s Early. From a single season’s 
trial we were favorably impressed by 
them... 
W. I. Chamberlain contends, in the Ohio 
Farmer, that even the legitimate manu¬ 
factures of towns harm agriculture with 
one hand while they help it with the other. 
The vast increase of labor-saving farm 
machinery has tended, for one thing, to in¬ 
crease the isolation of the farmer. For 
example, the twine binder and the Aspin- 
wall potato planter are not so social or 
so much company to the farmer as the five 
men whose former work they do. The five 
men used to be neighbors. Now they have 
gone to the cities to manufacture the twine 
binders and steam thrashers, the potato 
planters and diggers, the mowers, hay 
rakes, tedders, horse forks and hay-slings, 
the hay loaders and stackers, and the 
countless implements and machines that 
do nearly all the former hand-work of the 
farm. 
Mr. E. G. Fowler, for we know not how 
long, has been the editor of the Orange 
County Farmer of Port Jervis, N. Y. 
Lately he has taken editorial charge of the 
Husbandman of Elmira, N. Y. We shall 
look for an immediate improvement in the 
latter, while apprehensive that our old 
friend, the Orange County Farmer, will 
not find it the easiest thing in the world to 
supply Mr. Fowler’s place. 
W. I. Chamberlain, ex-president of the 
Iowa Agricultural College, says, in the 
Ohio Farmer, that he has never in his life 
known the time when it seemed so utterly 
impossible as it is now to find any kind of 
live stock to which one can feed the farm 
supply of hay and grain without actual 
and heavy loss. Are we to be driven out 
of animal farming into vegetable farming 
for a time ? It looks that way even to 
level-headed men. For example. Mr. 
Chamberlain in substance repeated the 
above to Mr. Terry. He laughed, and 
quietly remarked : “I found that out sev¬ 
eral years ago.” And yet it is “ specialty ” 
farming, not “ vegetable ” or truck or fruit 
farming that Mr. Terry has advocated. 
On another occasion Mr. S. H. Ellis, 
master of the State Grange, said to Mr. 
Chamberlain : “ I might better have killed 
my pigs and buried them before I fed them 
a pound of corn. They brought less than 
the corn was worth which they ate in a few 
weeks in simply fattening for market.” He 
fed in hope and finally sold at a great loss. 
Later Mr. Chamberlain was talking 
with Secretary L. N. Bonham. He used to 
make money selling pedigreed Poland- 
China breeding stock, males and females. 
But with pork “flat” and lard adulter¬ 
ated, there is no call for registered breed¬ 
ing stock. Mr. Chamberlain said : “With 
your eaucation, experience, and wide busi¬ 
ness acquaintance, cannot you make any 
animal industry profitable on your fertile 
farm ?” Said he: “ It is well-nigh im¬ 
possible.”..... 
J. R. McNary, of Burgettstown, Pa., 
who has been experimenting with 20 dif¬ 
ferent kinds of potatoes during the past 
two years, finds Crown Jewel and Pearl of 
Savoy, of the early sorts, and Summit and 
Delaware, of medium sorts, the leading va¬ 
rieties for quantity and quality. 
One of the frauds of the day—The Tree 
Tomato. 
Last season the editor of the Canadian 
Horticulturist sprayed certain plum and 
cherry trees with hellebore and water, 
using about one ounce to three gallons. The 
results were highly satisfactory. 
J. J. H. Gregory says, in the American 
Agriculturist, that those who raise cauli¬ 
flowers will find that they do decidedly bet¬ 
ter when the seeds are planted in the hills 
where they are to grow and mature. 
F. J. Meech says, in the American Flor¬ 
ist, that the Tuberous Begonia has all the 
elements of a popular plant, not requiring 
any particular skill to grow, free from dis¬ 
ease, insects do not trouble it, can be read¬ 
ily increased, especially by seed, therefore 
will be cheap and there is no need of a 
greenhouse to winter the plants in. The 
tubers can be taken up as soon as frost 
touches them and stored in any place that 
will keep a potato, they are sure to come 
out all sound in the spring. 
The only rapid way of propagation is by 
seed. Mr. Meech sows in flats, 2% Inches 
deep, filled with coarse material in the bot¬ 
tom, with fine sifted soil on top. Soak the 
soil by setting the flats in a tank of water 
or by watering with a fine rose, but we find 
the soaking better. Sow the seeds directly 
and sift a very light covering of very light 
material over them. We use leaf mold or 
rotted sphagnum. Cover with glass and 
paper, to keep dark, until the plants begin 
to appear, then remove the paper. Keep 
the glass on, but give air, which should be 
gradually increased until they are ready 
to prick off into other flats or pots filled 
with about the same soil as for seed, only 
not soaked. Water with a fine rose after 
transplanting. 
“ If you know of any instance in which a 
florist or other dealer misnames a plant in¬ 
tentionally for some selfish or mercenary 
motive, let us know that we may bring his 
sin to the knowledge of the world.” 
This appeal is made by William Falconer, 
chairman on nomenclature, S. A. F., to all 
who raise or are interested in flowers or 
plants of any kind. The R. N.-Y. ap¬ 
peals to its readers to render what assist¬ 
ance they may to aid the good work. 
T. H. Hoskins, speaking of NewEagland 
agriculture in Popular Science Monthly, 
says that if religion has declined among the 
people, there has been no accompanying de¬ 
cline of morality. The ministers have lost 
much of their influence, chiefly because they 
have been educated away from the people. 
In Dr. Hoskins’s youth the rural ministers 
were among the best farmers they had. 
Now, he does not know in a whole county 
a minister who takes any interest in agri¬ 
culture. A farming ministry would baa 
great help to New England agriculture, and 
equally to moral social life. But our classi¬ 
cal schools and colleges all educate away 
from the farm and from sympathy with 
the plain people. Our rural ministers are 
almost to a man the outspoken foes of sci¬ 
ence, as being destructive to the dogmas 
upon which their religious systems are 
built. 
The Edgar Queen is a new strawberry 
which will be tried at the Rural Grounds 
the coming season, plants having been sent 
for that purpose by J. C. Vaughan of 
Chicago. The variety originated with B. 
O. Curtis, who says that it is larger, more 
productive and finer in quality than either 
Jesse or Bubach. 
DIRECT. 
-Life: She. “ Hear that fellow cackle ! 
He makes more noise than I do who laid 
the egg. That’s just like the male sex; 
they’re unhappy if they don’t get credit for 
everythingl” 
-Ohio Farmer: “A gentleman who took 
the pains to find out the number of agricul¬ 
tural papers taken in each township of a 
certain county found that the success of 
each, as shown in the State census of 1885, 
was in exact ratio to the number of farm 
papers taken, and in no case did the figures 
show differently. In one township not an 
agricultural paper was taken, and the aver¬ 
age price of butter for the year was 10% 
cents. In another township 214 agricul¬ 
tural papers were taken, costing about $250, 
and the butter sold at an average of 20% 
cents the same year.” 
-N. Y. Tribune: “ To vary the farm diet 
in cold weather red smoked herrings are 
good. They are both food and spice and can 
be got at half a cent or less each. I have 
just bought a box of 50 for 25 cents.” 
-Mlle. Scuderi : “ Men should keep 
ther eyes wide open before marriage, and 
half shut afterwards.” 
-N. Y. Herald : “The man who isn’t as 
polite in his own home as he is in other 
people’s homes should be immersed in mol¬ 
ten lead and kept submerged until he re¬ 
pents of the crime.” 
“ It is the oddest thing in life that a man 
can behave like a day in June when among 
strangers and like a Dakota tornado in his 
own household.” 
“The fact that, as a general rule, men 
feel at liberty to vent their spleen on those 
whom they really love best, find it possible 
to purr in society and then go home to 
sratch and yowl, presents a problem so 
tangled and horrifying that we give it up 
in despair.” 
-W. I. Chamberlain in Ohio Farmer : 
“ Three days ago I met Mr. Mortgridge, 
who owns 3,000 acres of the best Union and 
Madison County land. He used to make 
money feeding steers, Michigan sheep, etc., 
for a year and turning them off fat. Now 
he says he can find nothing in the feeding 
line at which he can more than make the 
taxes on his land. ‘ Why not sell it ?’ I 
asked. ‘ Sell it 1’ said he ; * you can’t get a 
capitalist to look over a rail fence.’ ” 
- N. E. Homestead: “Jay Gould pays 
taxes on only $50,000 a year, but is worth 
50 millions at least. Tax-dodging is almost 
universal among people of wealth.” 
-N. Y. Tribune : Here is a couplet of 
items that go well together—the first from 
The Jersey Bulletin, the second from The 
Agricultural Gazette of London, both im¬ 
portant to whom they concern: “I don’t be¬ 
lieve in the forced tests except to ruin your 
cows and make areputation for your herd.” 
* * * “I will not contribute anything toward 
offering prizes for stock, which, in order to 
win, must be fattened to a degree which 
ruins half of them for breeding, and spoils 
many of them for meat.” 
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