1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
451 
SAUNTERINGS. 
Writing from Petaluma, Cal, D. B. 
Weir says that hardly any one East has 
the least Idea of what can be had there 
with the right selection. Within 10 or 20 
miles of Petaluma one may spend the 10 
months of summer without one moment of 
discomfort from heat. In much of the 
southern part of the State there is less of 
cloud and rain, but it is no warmer. He 
has bought some 20 acres north in a 
climate where the finest peaches and apri¬ 
cots thrive. In fact, one can grow, he says, 
nearly everything on the face of the earth 
he desires to... 
Edmund Hersey says, in the American 
Agriculturist, speaking of transplanting 
the huckleberry, that to set single plants 
in the garden and keep the soil well culti¬ 
vated produces an unnatural state, and 
thus prevents a rapid growth. But if the 
plants are set quite close together and the 
tops cut off to within three inches of the 
ground, and then the ground is heavily 
mulched, a growth of from one to two feet 
will be secured the first year. He does not 
remember that he has ever lost a single 
plant when treated in this manner, 
although he has often transplanted the 
high-bush swamp blueberry on high, sandy 
land. 
When the Brazilian Flour Corn was 
announced by Samuel W.lson, of Pa., 
about seven years ago, The R. N.-Y. tried 
it and reported that it was too late for this 
climate The Ohio Station reports a yield 
for 1890 of only a fraction over 22 bushels 
to the acre, with the comment, “ unripe.”. 
In the experience of the New Jersey Ex¬ 
periment Station nitrate of soda has not 
proved a valuable fertilizer for potatoes... 
The largest crop (205 bushels per acre) 
was produced by the use of 10 tons of barn 
yard manure, 100 pound of nitrate of soda, 
160 pounds of bone black and 80 pounds of 
sulphate of potash. 
The effects of the different forms of pot¬ 
ash on potatoes are well shown by three ex¬ 
periments conducted on different farms: 
YIELD PER ACRE IN BUSHELS. 
College White’s Housell’s 
farm. farm. farm. 
Muriate of potash. 116.5 186.7 164.1 
Sulphate of potash. 157.2 174.8 153.8 
Kainit. 142.3 163.8 112.7 
It will be seen that muriate gives the best 
yield in all cases; the sulpnate next and 
the kainit the lowest. 
The results could scarcely have failed to 
be instructive had a fourth trial been made 
combining the three forms. 
“How then,” says Theron Loomis, in 
a late R. N.-Y., and it may wisely be re¬ 
peated again and again, “can the times be 
hard if we are living as we ought ? Any 
man, at any time, can make the times hard 
for himself and family if he squanders his 
earnings or lives beyond his income.”. 
The times are what we make them. 
When we first hear of a freak of Nature 
in the animal world we look for something 
monstrous—some creature unusually small 
or abnormally developed in size. It is rare 
indeed when a departure from the recog¬ 
nized rules of Nature manifests a peculiar¬ 
ity not only harmless but of unusual beau¬ 
ty. The chestnut horse, “ Linus, ” now on 
exhibition in this city, is one of these rare 
examples, says Midy Morgan in the Amer¬ 
ican Agriculturist. The unusual part of 
his structure is a most wonderful growth 
of mane and tail. The mane measures nine 
feet nine inches. The tail measures twelve 
feet three inches. The hair of both is soft 
and fine, more in texture like human hair 
than horse hair. Linus is seven years old, 
is a clear chestnut with both hind legs 
white to the hocks; in color the off foreleg 
is a mealy chestnut to the knee; the near 
foreleg is only a little lighter in color than 
the animal's body. His face is perfectly 
white and his expression is excellent. His 
eyes are clear and full of intelligence. 
Continued experiments made at the 
Kentucky Experiment Station, Lexington, 
upon corn show: 
1. That in those plots where potash was 
one of the ingredients of the fertilizers 
used, there was a marked increased yield, 
both in corn and fodder. 
2. That where a fertilizer wa3 used with¬ 
out potash, there was scarcely any increase 
in yield over those plots containing no fer¬ 
tilizer. 
3. That the greatest increased yield was 
made by using a combination of potash and 
nitrogen. 
4. That the use of muriate of potash alone 
resulted In a marked increase in yield over 
the plots containing no fertilize! s 
5. That there was a profit in the use of 
fertilizers in every instance where potash 
was one of the ingredients, the largest net 
profit arising from the use of the mixture 
of nitrate of sodium and muriate of potash. 
6 . That so far, potash fertilizers have 
shown their effect the third season after ap¬ 
plication. 
Phosphoric acid does not seem to he 
needed in the least in the soil of these ex¬ 
periment plots. Nitrate of soda alone, it 
may also be said, did not increase the yield 
as compared with that from the plots that 
did not receive any fertilizer. The plots were 
one-tenth of an acre each. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
WHAT WE ALL KNOW. 
The man that keeps posted about all his neighbors, 
’N’ nuthing they do but ter him Iz soon known, 
Neglects his own bisness ter do others favors— 
He cannot, in reason, atten I to his own. 
The chap who keeps talking, preventin’his brothers, 
Gross ignerence to him must obstinate cling, 
Because he’s too busy instructin’ all others, 
To ever hisself learn a dadgasted thing. 
The chap that keeps threatenin’, with words never 
endin’ 
About what he’s goin’ ter do in the fall, 
Iz the feller whose pants Iz a goin’ ter need mendin’ 
Before the first blasts of the first early squall. 
The feller what bows down the meekest before ye, 
When fortune’s big sun iz a Hoodin’ your crown, 
W ill be the first chap for to lash ye and score ye 
Whenever bad fortune shall trample ye down. 
The feller that’s loudest In givln’ s;lf glory 
In practical piety oft is most lax ; 
The feller that’s longest In tellin’ a story 
Is niggardly short when he’s measurin’ facks. 
—James Noel Johnson (in the N. Y. Herald.) 
-Journal of Commerce : “ Waiting to 
catch the bird in the bush is the besetting 
sin, which keeps back the tide of help 
sorely needed by a faltering world. To do 
the test with the bird now in hand is the 
surest way to be intrusted with larger 
powers and greater opportunities. He that 
is faithful in little gives assurance that he 
would be equally faithful in much, and by 
the use he makes of the talents he has he 
thereby invites the larger trust.” 
-Henry Stewart in the American 
Agriculturist: “ Something has been said 
of the usefulness of root-pruning corn. It 
is equivalent to drawing a co tv’s teeth when 
she is busy turning good grass into milk and 
butter, and equally prevents the gathering 
of nutriment.” 
-B. W. Jones in the American Agri¬ 
culturist : “But for the fact that the 
peanut crop has been captured by trusts 
and syndicates, and the profits that ought 
to be the farmers’ are turned violently into 
the coffers of the middlemen, its culture 
would be one of the most profitable of rural 
employments. Were there nothing to hin¬ 
der the natural law of supply and demand, 
the grower would get paid for his work, 
even though the cultivation should increase 
tenfold. The demand for it and the uses to 
which it is applied, are constantly increas¬ 
ing, and of course as long as these continue 
to multiply the price will not fall mater¬ 
ially. It is not easy to surmise what the 
next 10 years will bring to the peanut 
grower. Other countries, Argentina, 
Africa, Spain, Italy, etc., are beginning to 
grow the crop for export. This means com¬ 
petition for the American grower.” 
“If some writers for agricultural and 
other papers may be believed, they would 
banish by law every dog on the face of the 
earth. We do not judge the race of men 
by the few, comparatively, that are In jail 
or by the less number that have been 
hanged, and we should not judge the race 
of dogs by the few that run mad or steal 
mutton. The dog—the good dog—has a 
prominent place in our social and domestic 
economy. He is ornamental and useful; 
his friends believe in him as a cheerful com¬ 
panion and a trusty servant, and they make 
him as much as he can be a member of the 
family circle.” 
-Shirley Dare, in the New York 
Herald : “ Gardening is too sweet, brave 
and life-giving a pursuit not to betaken up 
by women. Only the best sort of woman¬ 
hood has the will and enthusiasm to work 
through it, and no calling has richer 
rewards. 
“ You can work either as clowns do, 
reluctantly, or as poets do, for love of 
labor. Very soon the work will captivate 
you and you cannot let it go. I have 
worked in spring rain all the forenoon, 
setting out raspberries and sweetbrier from 
the woods, without catching a sneeze of 
•cold, and wrought from dawn till dark 
over plants for sheer delight in the labor 
with far less fatigue than six hours’ desk 
work costs. Any woman who has to earn 
her bread cannot do so in a sweeter way 
than gardening, and every one who is not 
afraid of work,.and is willing to learn it, 
ought to be encouraged by every means.” 
“ English women of the better class are 
much less afraid of real work in gardens 
than our finical American ladies. Even a 
village woman here feels it beneath her 
dignity to dig a flower border with a fork 
or spade. If she does not fancy it ungen- 
teel she has been taught that it is injurious 
to her health. I have questioned physi¬ 
cians about this and the reply has invari¬ 
ably been that if a woman wants to 
strengthen herself so as to be free from the 
ordinary ailments of her sex she can do 
nothing better than to use spade, fork and 
wheelbarrow to real effect.” 
“ Gardening is vastly better for physi¬ 
cal development than indoor gymnastics, 
because it calls muscles into such varied 
play.” 
“Old farmers grow stiff-jointed and bent 
not by work, but by the utter neglect of 
hygiene, which prevails in rural districts.” 
“ONE of the rewards open to any quiet 
gardener is that of bringing some new 
hybrid into flower which will enrich the 
world long after he or she is under the 
mold. The burial of all others one could 
wish would be to have one’s ashes after 
cremation scattered at the roots of one’s 
flowers.” 
“ The order of the world is reversing 
itself. The lower classes disdain labor, 
slight and shirk it by every possible means, 
while educated young men of good fami¬ 
lies are finding a charm in intelligent cul¬ 
ture of the soil. Best of all, women of 
taste and character begin to look into the 
garden for their best paradise of independ¬ 
ence and security. There is no getting 
through the world anyhow without work, 
and the sweetest work in it is gardening, 
without committee or stockholders to 
worry one.” 
-Garden and Forest: “The experi¬ 
ment stations as yet have not given any 
adequate return for the large amount of 
money they cost. In the first place, it is 
difficult to find trained experimenters to 
conduct the station work, and, again, their 
work is not sufficiently specialized, but is 
spread over too much ground. Besides 
this, the Boards of Control are under con¬ 
stant pressure to show results, so that ab¬ 
stract research is neglected for superficial 
work, which makes some immediate show 
of practical use.” 
-N. Y. Herald: “Jasper: ‘According 
to the fishermen Darwin’s law of the sur¬ 
vival of the fittest is daily exemplified.’ 
Jumpuppe: ‘Is that so V Jasper: ‘Yes. 
The biggest fish always get away.’ ” 
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