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SHORT AND FRESH. 
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the farrow for a drill, and then covered by 
two horses and a large scriper, he can grow 
a decidedly larger crop per acre than from 
machine planting. He found this out 
several years ago, but said nothing, be¬ 
cause he could not understand it, and up 
to this time he has failed to flDd out the 
why. He says that in two cases the gain 
in yield has been 40 and 45 bushels an acre, 
in rows through a long field side by side... 
Was the excess in yield caused by the 
extra tillage, plowing the furrows out and 
returning the soil ? asks Mr. Terry. His 
great two-horse scraper coverer pulverizes, 
rolls and tumbles and mixes the soil in a 
glorious manner. Perhaps that had some¬ 
thing to do with it. Again, the planter 
ridges the earth over the drills ; his coverer 
fills only level, and as it is looser in the 
drills it settles so the surface in the drills 
is always a little lower than between them. 
“ You will notice,” continues Mr. Terry, 
“ that my old way of marking and cover¬ 
ing, which was in use several years before 
the planter came around, is something on 
the plan of The Rural New-Yorker Trench 
System.”. 
A YEAR or so ago Mr. Terry tried The 
Rural New-Yorker Trench System and it 
did not apparently increase the yield. We 
have regretted that he did not give it a 
more thorough trial. We would have had 
him trench several parts of his field and 
try not only different fertilizers, but fertil¬ 
izers varying in amount from 500 to 2,000 
pounds to the acre strewn in the trenches 
upon the covered seed. 
Stephen Beale, an English poultry 
authority, says, In the Country Gentle¬ 
man, that there can be no question of the 
value of the Indian Game as an econom¬ 
ical variety of poultry. It may not un¬ 
reasonably be anticipated that it has a suc¬ 
cessful future before it,and that its Influence 
will be widespread. It is most important, 
however, that there should be every en¬ 
deavor to secure the right type of fowl, or 
great disappointment may ensue. From 
the illustrations which Mr. Beale sees in 
some of the American papers there is some¬ 
thing wrong somewhere. The birds so 
represented are not Indian Games at all.... 
One most important consideration is the 
value of this fowl for crossing purposes, in 
which respect it is certainly taking the 
place of the ordinary Game fowl. The ad¬ 
vantage of crossing some other breed with 
Dorkings for the production of the be it and 
largest table chickens has often been em¬ 
phasized, and in some places this is abso¬ 
lutely necessary, as the Dirking is too 
delicate for damp locations. 
The Vermont Watchman says that 
there is an element of consolation in the 
condition of the labor market. Farm help 
demands higher wages, short days and easy 
work, all of which is discouraging to em¬ 
ployers ; but right here is the golden oppor¬ 
tunity of young men who have the real 
get-up and-get In them. Not being afraid 
of work, these can secure the best situations 
and acquire the control of farm property. 
Men who work for the interests of their 
employers are the ones who come out pro¬ 
prietors in the long run, every time. 
We are more and more pleased with 
Shuster’s Gem (Lovett). The vines are 
thrifty and enduring, exceedingly fruitful, 
beginning early and holding out with the 
late kinds. A notable excellence is that 
the later ripening berries are nearly as 
large as those first to ripen. The berrries 
are large, firm and of fair quality. 
Michel's Early is the earliest berry we 
have tried. Its quality is, for so early a 
variety, first-rate ; the size medium, grow¬ 
ing smaller as the saason advances. Its 
first value rests in its earliness and quality. 
Gandy, as a late berry, probably has no 
superior.. 
The Middlefleld Strawberry was sent to 
us on trial some five years ago by P. M. 
Augur & Son, of Middlefleld, Conn., as 
seedling No. 70. The quality is fine, the 
plants healthy and productive. The shape 
is roundish, the flesh a rather light scarlet 
not firm enough for distant shipment. The 
size is from medium to large. It is an ex¬ 
cellent home berry. 
The successful physician, with excep¬ 
tions which happily are much more numer¬ 
ous than they were, is the most intolerant 
despot on earth, says Scribner’s Magazine. 
And we encourage him to be so. We are 
vaguely aware of the limitations of his 
knowledge; we know he has to guess first 
what is the matter with us and next what 
will do us good, and that though there are 
facts his acquaintance with which helps 
him to guess right, many theories that 
regulate his professional action are still 
hypothetical, and may or may not be cor¬ 
rect. We know that he has discovered 
that many of the methods his father used 
were unwise and deleterious, and that the 
doses his grandfather gave often hastened 
the result they were intended to prevent, 
and hindered what they were designed to 
produce. 
Senator Peffer, says the Christian 
Union, proposes that the government shall 
lend the people money, on adequate secu¬ 
rity, at a nominal rate of interest. What 
does this mean ? The government of the 
United States is the people of the United 
States. It means that the people shall lend 
to the people. 
Or else it means that the people who 
have money shall lend to the people who 
have not. Voluntarily ? No, not volun¬ 
tarily. There is no law now against their 
lending voluntarily at low interest or at no 
interest at all. Senator Peffer proposes, 
either that all the people shall lend to all 
the people, that the right-hand pocket shall 
lend to the left-hand pocket, or else he pro¬ 
poses that the men who have saved their 
earnings shall be compelled to lend to the 
men who have not. 
This is confiscation. 
If the rich men have made their money 
unjustly, and are not entitled to it, let us 
say so frankly, and take it away from 
them. But let us not call it a loan by the 
government to the people. The govern¬ 
ment is the people. 
William Robinson, the founder and 
manager of the London Garden, says that 
we have never yet got from the garden, 
and, above all, the home landscape, half 
the beauty which we may get by abolish¬ 
ing the needless formality and geometry 
which disfigure so many gardens, both as 
regards plan and flower planting. For¬ 
mality is often essential in the plan of a 
garden—never as regards the arrangements 
of its flowers or shrub3. To array these in 
lines or rings or patterns can only be ugly 
wherever done. 
That men have never yet generally en¬ 
joyed the beauty that good garden design 
may give is clear from the fact that the 
painter Is driven from the garden I The 
artist dislikes the usual class of garden 
with its formality and bedding; he hates 
it, and cannot help hating it. In a country 
place he will seek anything but the garden, 
but may, perhaps, be fcun i near a wild 
rose tossing over the pig-stye. This dislike 
is natural and right. 
Wm. Falconer tells the readers of the 
American Florist about the Mosquito- 
Catcher Plant—Vincetoxicum acumina¬ 
tum : This mosquito catcher is a really 
hardy, herbaceous perennial and well worth 
having for its beauty as a garden plant. 
It grows about 18 to 24 inches high and 
forms a good bushy clump of somewhat 
slender shoots that have opposite leaves 
and axillary loose clusters of starry wnite 
blossoms that are borne abundantly in May 
and June and scattering all the summer. 
In the center of the flowers in the clefts of 
the corona is secreted a viscid juice which 
is peculiarly attractive to mosquitoes and 
flies, but woe be to the unwary ; whichever 
of them dips its proboscis into the alluring 
liquid never draws it out again, for it is 
held fast, and no amount of tugging and 
plunging and buzzing will free the insect 
from its cruel captor. Mosquitoes often 
live for two days or more in this trap, but 
once caught they never escape. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-H. Stewart, in The Christian Union: 
“ The city dweller seeks rural retreats for 
his vacation ; therefore the farmer should 
seek the city, where he may see how the 
‘other half’ lives, which proverbially is 
something that no one can know without 
taking opportunities for investigation. The 
farmer should be a seller as much as a pro¬ 
ducer, and in a great city he will meet the 
purchasers of his crops and cattle.” 
-Western Rural: ‘‘Every effort to 
favor a worthy hired man will be repaid.” 
-Iowa Homestead: ‘‘Those hens that 
sat on a ground floor brought forth most 
chicks.” 
-Walt Whitman : “ We New Worlders 
are in danger of ti.rning out the trickiest, 
slyest, ’cutest, most cheating people that 
ever lived. These qualities are getting 
radically in our business, politics, litera¬ 
ture, manners, and filtering in our essen¬ 
tial character. All the great cities exhibit 
them—probably New York most of all. 
They taint the splendid and healthy 
American qualities, & had better be well 
understood like a threatening danger, & 
confronted & provided against.” 
- Journal of Commerce: ‘‘Ten mil¬ 
lions laid out in this State upon the country 
highways would be the best investment 
New York ever made, not even excepting 
the great Erie Canal.” 
“ This road is not passable, not even 
jackass-able 1 ” 
- N. E. Homestead: “When the city 
boarder comes to your town, brother 
farmers, treat him well. Try to get him 
interested in your local affairs,—your 
Grange work or any efforts you are making 
to promote the welfare of the local com¬ 
munity. If he Is possessed of wealth, try 
to Induce him to give a library to the town, 
or to build a mile or two of model road, or 
do something that will be a monument to 
his intelligence and generosity.” 
- Atchison Globe : “ Man is never too 
old to learn, and his sons are never too 
young to think they can teach him.” 
-N. Y. Herald : “Apples and Peaches.. 
—Jake Simpson : ‘ You are the apple of my 
eye, dear.’ Cora Bellows: ‘And you are 
the peach of mine.’ ‘Why the peach?’ 
‘ You are such a perpetual failure.’ ” 
- Carlyle : “ Do the duty that lies near¬ 
est to your hand and already the next duty 
will have become clearer.” 
-Prof. Sombroso : “If I had lived more 
among mechanics and farmers it is prob¬ 
able I should have found many more per¬ 
fect men.” 
- New York Herald: “Plenty of people 
‘in the swim’ find it hard work to keep 
afloat.” 
Mr. Townly : “ I got a letter from our 
country cousins to-day.” Mrs. Townly : 
“ Inviting us out to spend the summer, of 
course.” Mr. Townly: “No; stating that 
they do not intend to run a charity hospital 
this season.” 
-Farm, Stock and Home: “The mass 
of taxpayers want offices reduced, as well 
as salaries.” 
-Maryland Farmer: “I know of no 
better augury of a young man’s future 
than true filial devotion. Very rarely does 
one go morally wrong whose passionate 
love of his mother is a ruling force in his 
life, and whose continued desire is to gl id- 
den her heart. Depend upon it, next to the 
love of God, this is the noblest emotion.” 
-C. A. Green, in Green’s Fruit 
Grower : “ No poor man with a quarter of 
an acre or more of garden can do better 
than to plant it to strawberries and sell 
the fruit to his neighbors and friends. It 
is by far the most profitable crop that he 
can grow. His wife and children can pick 
the fruit and he can sell it. All he gets Is 
clear profit.” 
-Oil City Blizzard: “All who pass 
through the door to success will find it 
labeled ‘push.’ ” 
- Life : “ It is not yet considered respect¬ 
able for an American to neglect to justify 
his existence by some attempt at usefulness. 
But in England men who do not have to 
work for their living and who devote their 
consequent leisure to recreative and purely 
ornamental pursuits are very widely en¬ 
vied and respected. It was to Englishmen 
of this sort that Tolstoi alluded the other 
day In conversation with a representative 
of an American newspaper. His allusion 
was uncomplimentary. In truth he spoke 
of them as ‘ manure.’ ” 
-Garden and Forest: “If the limit 
(fence) between the lawn and the street is 
removed, then the unsubdued ugliness of 
the street becomes a part of the lawn, and 
the lawn is dominated and dwarfed by it, 
and appears unfinished and unsuccessful.” 
-W. F. Massey, N. C. Experiment Sta¬ 
tion : “A grape called Winchell was sent 
to us this year with the statement that it 
is the same grape that has been sent out as 
‘ Green Mountain.’ We planted it along¬ 
side the Green Mountain received last year. 
So far it differs widely in the appearance of 
its foliage from the Green Mountain.” 
-W. H. Goldsmith, N. J. Hort. Soc.— 
“ In the use of bags for grapes I have had 
an experience of several years, and so pro¬ 
nounced has been my success with them 
that I can unhesitatingly recommend the 
practice as one of the most efficient safe 
guards to the preservation of the crops. 
In 1884, out of a vineyard of 700 Niagaras, 
we bagged the fruit on about 200 vines. 
During the summer the foliage on the en¬ 
tire vineyard was almost completely oblit¬ 
erated by mildew. The fruit not bagged 
became hard and did not ripen, while the 
clusters over which the bags had been 
placed ripened nicely and were finely 
flavored. This one experience settled in 
my own mind the value of bags, and ever 
since I have used them. The summer and 
fall of 1889 were perhaps as trying to vine¬ 
yards as any In the memory of the mem¬ 
bers of this society, and yet I had grapes as 
finely flavored and as well ripened as I 
have had at any time since I began their 
cultivation.” 
“The work of putting on bags is no small 
item; indeed, it Is one of the costliest 
necessities. During the past season I put 
on about 66 000 bags at a cost of $130. 
Aside from the matter of cost, the work 
itself must be done not only during the 
busiest season of the year, but, to get the 
best results, the period during which the 
bags should be applied is comparatively 
short. As soon as the clusters have set, the 
work should begin, and be pushed as fast as 
possible until completed. If it could all 
be done at once, it would be much better, 
as the sooner the bunches are covered the 
less danger there will be of loss from 
mildew. In the early part of last season I 
put some bags over clusters that had not 
bloomed, and found it answered as well as 
where the sets had already formed. In no 
case, however, should the work be done 
while the grapes are in blossom.” 
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