1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
467 
THE L 4TEST AND BRIEFEST. 
( Continued .) 
The old rhyme that “ It is dogs’ delight 
to bark and bite ; 
It is their nature, too”—might better have 
been written. 
“ It is cats’ delight to scratch and bite— 
It is their nature, too.” 
After an experience—and a somewhat ex¬ 
haustive experience too—of some 50 years, 
it is our belief that cats cost more than 
they are worth. They are destitute of any 
love for man; they haven’t the slightest 
appreciation of any kindnesses shown 
them ; they had just as lief as not scratch 
the hand that has fed them. They glory in 
squalling and fighting at night. They 
despise the barn and love the little place 
under the stove. They love to steal better 
than any other animal and are incapable 
of discipline. They kill more useful birds 
than the professional hat-bird killer. 
The less time you spend in trying to 
make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, the 
better. 
Don’t kick against the pricks. 
The way to enjoy life, and to earn a full 
living as well, is to make play out of work. 
It is the work of a philosopher, you know, 
and we are not overstocked with those. 
There is always room for one more in the 
position that only energy, enterprise, tem¬ 
perance and sound judgment can gain. 
Lawn Tennis is the farmers’ game. We 
have told you that before. Pardon us. We 
may have occasion to tell you so again. A 
real good, new, strong truth will bear repe¬ 
tition... 
One way to have roses in your heart is to 
plant them about your home. Did you ever 
see a happy, prosperous country home 
without roses ?. 
Six eggs of the much puffed up Indian 
Game fowls came to us from Burpee of 
Philadelphia. Five chickens were hatched 
out. They are now five weeks old, strong 
and healthy, reminding one of Partridge 
Cochins without the leg feathers. 
At the same time seven eggs of the new 
breed called Sherwood were set. Five 
hatched out. They are also vigorous, of a 
creamy white color and rather long-legged. 
It is astounding that the experiment sta¬ 
tions have so little to say of poultry. It 
may be remembered to its credit that The 
R N.-Y. was the very first paper that, 
speaking from experience, gave the facts 
regarding, first, the Plymouth Rock and, 
next, the Wyandotte. Refer to back vol¬ 
umes, friends, if you doubt it. Meanwhile 
its condemnations of certain new breeds 
have been galore. 
But the Sparrow Catchers—Oh, Mr. 
Samuel Wilson, how could you !. 
Jost at this time, it is hard to conceive of 
any combination of shrubs more enchant¬ 
ing than a well selected assortment of 
a/.aleas and rhcdcdendrons. 
“ Mind your own business,” is oftener 
uttered in anger than as a kindly injunc¬ 
tion to the offender. But a more wholesome, 
judicious piece of advice it would be hard 
to put into four words. 
There is a mighty difference between 
being just a little behind and a little be¬ 
fore. 
WE shall continue plantings of Evergreen 
and Black Mexican sweet «orn until July 
1, every two weeks. 
Make a note to plant a specimen or so of 
Xanthoceras sorbifolia. It is one of the 
finest shrubs of recent introduction. 
PROF. Storer in his “ Agriculture,” al¬ 
ludes to the fact of the preservative action 
of salt in hay-mows as illustrated by the ease 
with which water-melons may be kept 
sound until December by simply packing 
them away in a cool barn in salt hay, i. e., 
hay made from grass grown upon salt 
marshes. Of late years large quantities of 
this salt hay have been used for packing 
bananas also that are transported into the 
interior of the country... 
Balky Horses.—A writer in Our Dumb 
Animals says that whenever a horse driven 
by himself has balked, he has got out of 
his carriage and gone to its fore foot, lifted 
it from the ground and struck the shoe a 
few blows with a stone. He has never 
failed to start a horse in that very simple 
way, and he has, on several occasions, had 
balky horses which had exhausted the pa¬ 
tience of all former owners. 
DIRECT. 
-W. F. Massey in Orchard and Gar¬ 
den : “ In North Carolina and southward, 
I am satisfied that the Northern sorts of 
winter cabbage can be grown with fair suc¬ 
cess by deferring the sowing of the seed 
until August and setting the plants 
the last of the month in a very rich and 
moist piece of land.” 
“Always cut cucumbers from the vines 
with a piece of stem attached. Pulling them 
not only Injures the vines, but renders the 
fruit worthless for pickles.” 
-President Hyde, of Bowdoin, in the 
June Forum: “Brains and Muscles.— 
To infer that athletics are related to scholar¬ 
ship as cause to effect would be unwar¬ 
ranted. But observation does show con¬ 
clusively that excellent physical develop¬ 
ment, which is an indispensable condition 
of success in athletics, is also a favorable 
condition of success In scholarship. It ex¬ 
plodes the popular fallacy that the mind 
and body of the scholar are in inverse pro¬ 
portion, and shows that they stand in clos¬ 
est correlation. * * * The awards of 
the Smyth mathematical prize in Bowdoin 
College for the past six classes present a 
remarkable, if not a representative, phe¬ 
nomenon. This prize of $300 is based on a 
course in mathematics extending over two 
years, and is the most important college 
prize. Of six consecutive recipients of this 
prize, the first was the winner of the quar¬ 
ter-mile run ; the second was the pitcher 
of the college base ball nine; the third 
was the mo3t brilliant performer on the 
trapeze; the fourth was a man of good 
physical development without special ath¬ 
letic attainments ; the fifth was the catcher 
of the college base ball nine and the best 
general athlete in college; the sixth is a 
candidate for a position on the college boat 
crew, and will next year b: a member of the 
football eleven.” 
-Cor. N. Y. Tribune : “ A friend of 
mine has made a fortune buying run¬ 
down, unhandy farms, altering and moving 
the buildings, putting up fences, cutting 
brush and disposing of rubbish at road¬ 
sides, including old wagons, mowers, etc.; 
afterward selling at a large advance on 
the purchase price—reward of neatness and 
talent as a contriver. Opportunity every¬ 
where offers for wise effort in this direc¬ 
tion.” 
make plans for work that will extend 
through more than one administration.” 
Why shouldn’t Under-Secretary Willits 
hold such a position ? 
-Orchard and Garden : “ Coming 
now to the possibility of a blue chrysanthe¬ 
mum, we shall have shades of blue as posi¬ 
tively as we now have blue shades in pan¬ 
sies. It is within the memory of a great 
many of us when there were neither red 
nor blue shades as presented in the pansies 
of to-day.” 
-N. Y. Observer: “Despise not paren¬ 
tal anxiety. The time will come when you 
will have neither father nor mother, and 
you will go around the place where they 
used to watch you, and find them gone 
from the house, and gone from the field, 
and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as 
loud for forgiveness as you may over the 
mounds in the churchyard, they will not 
answer. Then you would give the world 
if you had never thrust a pang through 
their dear old hearts. There is no balm 
powerful enough to heal the heart of one 
who brought parents to a sorrowful grave.” 
-The American Florist : “ A move¬ 
ment is on foot looking to a change in the 
mail service whereby catalogues and cir¬ 
culars may be mailed at pound rates, doing 
away with the necessity of affixing a stamp 
to each one. The change would certainly 
be a most desirable one and would result 
in a saving to both the government and 
those who mail large numbers of cata¬ 
logues. The American Garden is circu¬ 
lating a blank form of petition to use in 
presenting the matter to the Postmaster- 
General.” 
-Century Magazine: ‘Don’t lose 
sight of an honorable enemy ; he’ll make a 
good friend.” 
Members of the 
Alliance, Grange, League 
ami other organizations will make a mistake 
if they hny a 
BUGGY, VEHICLE or HARNESS 
of any kind before 
seeing our free, 
big catalogue, 
just out, show¬ 
ing over 100 dif¬ 
ferent styles of 
Carriages and 
Harness. 
No easli in advance required from members. 
Cincinnati is 
the largest car¬ 
riage market in 
the world, and 
we are ahead of 
the procession. 
BOf” Reference: Second National Bank, Cincinnati. 
Get our prices 
and c o m pare 
them with your 
local dealer’s 
prices. Goods) 
are hand made 
and warranted 
for 2 years. 
HEADQUARTERS FOR ANYTHING ON WHEELS 
We will send a 
beautiful Alli¬ 
ance badge to 
any one who 
will send us the 
addresses of 
ten prospective 
buyers. 
ALLIANCE CARRIAGE CO. Cincinnati,0. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
-Country Gentleman : “ Every one iu 
our country is court eous enough to give 
the whole road to a load of hay.” 
-W. Falconer in American Florist : 
“Double-flowered pansies are more odd 
than beautiful, but they are very interest¬ 
ing.” 
“ Aquilegia chrtsantiia alba, the new 
white flowering golden columbine, a nov¬ 
elty of last year, is now in bloom with us 
and it is a very desirable plant. The seed¬ 
lings were raised in spring last year, plant¬ 
ed out over summer and left out, and they 
have now come into bloom—a little ahead 
of Chrysantha, usually. So far the plants 
are stocky and the flower stems 16 to 20 
inches tall, little more than half of what 
the plain Chrysantha usually runs to. And 
the flowers are large, long-spurred and 
white, with a tinge of yellow or blue In it. 
About half of the plants are white flowered 
and the others yellow, but this large per¬ 
centage of yellows may disappear with con¬ 
tinued isolation and selection. Coming 
Into bloom so early caused me to think 
Ccjernlea had a hand In this variety, but as 
not one of the seedlings have blue flowers, 
I presume It is Chrysantha clear through.” 
Readers of The R. N.-Y. will please the 
advertisers and benefit the paper by always 
mentioning It when writing to ad vertisers. 
For Bilious Attacks 
Breed’s Weeder by Express. 
In sections where we have no agents, that we 
may fill late orders, the Weeder will be delivered 
by express, pre-paid, at retail price. 
STANDARD WEEDER, $10.00. 
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No progressive farmer can afford to lie without 
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D’ye see those 
skates ? The Pitts¬ 
burgh lamp is 
‘ahead. It gives 
magnificent light. 
It is easy to 
care for. 
It keeps itself clean—all 
>ut wiping. 
Send for a primer—can’t 
ell it all here. 
We have often thought that one of the 
wisest things a hard-working farmer could 
do from now until the end of the driving 
season would be to take a nap of one hour 
every day just after the dinner meal. 
The coming earliest strawberry—Michel’s 
Early. 
Is it not a fact that many farmeis make 
the last meal of the day the heartiest? And 
does not nature teach that the breakfast 
should be the heartiest meal ? The name 
itself should teach us that much. 
A penny wise and a pound foolish. The 
land Is full of this weed and it is the vilest 
weed that grows. 
Asparagus, peas, green corn, tomatoes. 
There are other vegetables, you know. 
But were we confined to four, we would 
choose the above quartette. It carries us 
from early May, through early frosts to 
freezing weather. 
Many of the readers of The R. N.-Y. are 
raising the Rural Thoroughbred Flint 
Corn. Again we caution you, friends, do 
not allow the plants to grow closer than 
two feet by four. Two feet and a half by 
four and a half would be better. Having 
raised this corn for upwards of 50 years 
perhaps our advice may safely be regarded. 
Field and Farm : “ Hens are handy 
things to have laying around the house.” 
-Theron Loomis : “ A word for our 
capitalists : For one, I thank God for them, 
both great and small. Were it not for them 
most of the poor laborers would be worse 
off than they are now. Thousands of them 
would starve. They lack the power to 
direct their own energies.” 
-N. Y. Herald : “ Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 
May 30, 189L.—A. W. Lownsburry, of this 
city, has a floe Jersey cow which by mis¬ 
take was shut up in a barn unknown to the 
owner. There she stayed four weeks with¬ 
out food or water. Despite her remarkable 
fast the animal was in fair condition and 
does not appear to be seriously injured.” 
Garden and Forest: “We can see no 
reason why there should bs a Secretary of 
Agriculture, with a seat in the Cabinet, 
whose position is essentially political, and 
who must of necessity be changed with 
every changing administration. The prac¬ 
tical control of the educational machinery 
of the department, at least, ought to be 
invested in some officer whose standing as 
a man of science is universally recognized. 
The position of this man should be cer¬ 
tainly as permanent as that of the Director 
of the Coast Survey. He should be able to 
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