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FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSION. 
( Continued.) 
show how the sound changes as the exper¬ 
imenter approaches and walks under the 
tree and away from it. It is even more 
marked in rooms and a trained ear can enter 
a room in the dark and tell by the sound of 
the voice or of the feet on the floor whether 
It is a large or a small room, and whether 
it is carpeted or not or is full or empty of 
people or furniture. There can be no doubt 
that blind horses also use this resonance of 
the air as a guide in the streets and roads. 
Next time you ride in the cars study the 
noise of the train and you will find it 
changes with the change in the character 
of the line. Every bridge, fence, stone wall, 
embankment and cutting will plainly affect 
the noise of the cars. 
The Trouble With Those Potatoes. 
A. A , Gallia County, O.—In The R. N. Y. 
for June 13, “T. S.” wants to know what 
is the matter with his Rural Nev-Yorker 
No. 2. Potatoes, as they failed to come up, 
and produced small potatoes in the hill. 
The probable cause of his failure was the 
heating of the seed before it was planted. 
Such a thing may be uncommon in the cold 
North, as we may infer from The Rural’s 
reply; but in Southern Ohio I have often 
seen potato pits opened in the spring when 
there would be hundreds of small potatoes 
mixed with the large ones. This, in my 
opinion, rarely happens except when the 
temperature has been too high. Occasion¬ 
ally there is a very rough potato grown in 
a wet place, that is inclined to put out 
small potatoes from the eyes. Usually a 
potato that has heated will, when planted, 
put out several sprouts that do not come 
to the surface, but spread out like roots, 
and at the ends of these the new potatoes 
form. Often one or two eyes will force 
spindling stalks to the surface, and they 
will make a small top, while other eyes 
send out the new potatoes. They are, of 
course, worthless and do not attain much 
Another Mole Nostrum. 
H. P. N., Elmira, N. Y.—Here is a 
Southern method of getting rid of moles 
in a garden : Drop two or three castor oil 
beans in their runs and they will disappear. 
It is a cheap and simple remedy. 
R. N.-Y.—It is among the wonders that 
this supposed remedy has been so widely 
published. Moles do not mind castor beaus 
or the plants in the least. We have known 
them to make their headquarters in a 
ricinus plantation. 
Is It A Dark Outlook? 
A. W. S., Nepang, Conn.— The conditions 
prevailing here now have not varied much 
for years. Potatoes and corn are generally 
furrowed out with a shovel-nosed plow, and 
manured in the trenches; the corn hills are 
m arked by drawing a chain across the piece; 
so me have or borrow a coverer; many cul¬ 
tivate with the shovel plow; more oxen 
than horses are used at farm work; many 
use a little phosphate (whatever it may be) 
carrying it in a pail, using a spoon to drop 
so much to a hill of corn. They know the 
secret of fertilizers if you listen to them. 
The knowledge of scientists is nowhere, 
compared with their experience. Farmers 
are in classes here: first come the live men 
who are attending strictly to their business, 
using the tools adapted to their style of 
work (not system); second, the men who 
are constantly looking and working for 
some petty town office, and those who are 
making a voting record for a pension; and, 
third, those who are farmers by force of 
circumstances, and those who work a farm 
and work in the shops or factories. Some 
drive five to six miles to work and are not 
making a success of either. We can boast 
of more rods of unlawful fences to the mite; 
more daisies to the rod in the mowing lots; 
more golden rod to the foot in the fall than 
any other section of treble the area in or 
out of New England. 
TO COLORADO VIA 
BURLINGTON ROUTE 
ONLY ONE NIGHT ON THE ROAD. 
Leave Chicago at 1:00 P. M., or St. Louis 
at 8 :25 A. M., and arrive Denver 6:15 P. M. 
the next day. Through Sleepers, Chair 
Cars and Dining Cars. All Railways from 
the East connect with these trains and 
with similar trains via Burlington Route 
to Denver, leaving Chicago at 6:10 P. M., 
St. Louis at 8 :15 P. M., and Peoria at 3 :20 
P. M. and 8 :00 P. M. All trains daily. 
Tourist tickets are now on sale, and can 
te had of ticket agents of all roads and at 
Burlington Route depots in Chicago, Peo¬ 
ria and St. Louis. 
There is no better place than Colorado 
for those seeking rest and pleasure.— Adv. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
cess. Men cannot benefit those that are 
with them as they can benefit those who 
come after them; and of all the pulpits 
from which human voice is ever sent forth, 
there is none from which it reaches so far 
as from the grave. 
Pterellanfousi 
In writing to advertisers please always 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL HYDROPATHY. 
“ Editor Carman, of our esteemed con¬ 
temporary, The Rural New Yorker,” 
says the Farmers’ Review of Chicago, 
“ has published the important announce¬ 
ment that water at a temperature of over 
122 degrees is a sure and speedy death to 
the ‘rose bug’ or ‘chafer,’ so destructive 
to rose bushes and grape vines. 
“ He deserves great credit for giving this 
method of destroying rose bugs prompt 
publicity, and we feel sure that many horti¬ 
culturists and farmers will thank him for 
his work. The method is not, however, a 
new one or the recent ‘ discovery ’ that is 
claimed for it. The Farmers’ Review, with 
all due respect to Mr. Carman, makes this 
assertion in justice to Mr. J. S. Harris, of 
La Crescent, Minn., who is too bashful to 
court any notoriety in the matter. Be¬ 
tween the years 1860 and 1882, Mr. Harris 
was engaged in the florists’ business, and 
tells us that he experienced considerable 
difficulty in ridding his plants of insects 
(aphides) during the summer season after 
they had been removed from the green¬ 
houses. At our request he has furnished 
the readers of the Farmers’ Review with 
the following: 
“ ‘ This led me to experimenting, aud 
among other experiments, and the most 
satisfactory one, was hot water forcibly 
applied with a garden syringe, and rang¬ 
ing in temperature from 128 to 148 degrees 
according to the variety of plants upon 
which it was used. One season the rose- 
bugs were unusually troublesome (I think 
it was about 1868); the hot water bath ap¬ 
plied just after noon for a few days totally 
annihilated them, and I have had none of 
them since. I had not commenced the cul¬ 
ture of grapes at that time, and hence can¬ 
not tell how much heat the foliage would 
stand, but for the rose and some other 
plants they infested it was safe to have the 
water in the boiler when drawn into the 
syringe at 142 degrees. I have tried it upon 
the potato beetle at 145 degrees with one- 
half ounce of saltpeter dissolved in each 
gallon of water. It brings them to the 
ground and if the sun is shining bright 
but few of them return to their feed. I 
have also used it for the cabbage worm, 
but to kill the worm requires the water to 
be so hot that it blisters the head and rot 
follows. I do not find any place in articles 
I have written where I have recommended 
hot water as a remedy for insects except 
one on page 137, of the Minnesota State 
Horticultural Society Report for the year 
1877, where a hot water bath at 120 degrees 
is recommended for clearing house plants 
of insects.’ 
“ When Mr. Harris made the discovery 
some 20 years ago that hot water proved 
effective against the rose-bug, he did not 
realize that the bug was a very general 
pest, and therefore remained silent or only 
told it to his personal friends. Mr. Carman, 
on the other hand, gave the matter im¬ 
mediate publicity, as became the enter¬ 
prising journalist that he is.” 
WORTH NOTING. 
Our Debt to Posterity.— John Ruskin 
says that the idea of self-denial for the sake 
of posterity, of practicing present economy 
for the sake of debtors yet unborn, of plant¬ 
ing forests that our descendants may live 
under their shade, or of raising cities for 
future nations to inhabit, never efficiently 
takes place among publicly recognized mo¬ 
tives of exertion. Yet these are not less 
our duties ; nor is our part fitly sustained 
upon the earth, unless the range of our 
intended and deliberate usefulness in¬ 
cludes, not only the companions, but the 
successors of oui pilgrimage. God has lent 
us the earth for our life ; it is a great en¬ 
tail. It belongs as much to those who are 
to come after us, and whose names are al¬ 
ready written in the book of creation, as to 
us ; and we have no right, by anything that 
we do or neglect, to involve them in un¬ 
necessary penalties, or deprive them of ben¬ 
efits which it was in our power to bequeath. 
And this the more, because it is one of the 
appointed conditions of the labor cf men 
that, in proportion to the time between the 
seed sowing and the harvest, is the fullness 
of the fruit; and that generally, therefore, 
the farther off we place our aim, and the 
less we desire to be ourselves the witnesses 
of what we have labored for, the more wide 
and rich will be the measure of our suc- 
Our respected friend, T. B. Terry, ex¬ 
presses himself in the Practical Farmer as 
having unpleasant recollection of the years 
when he used to work from early in the 
morning until 8 or 9 p. M. It was a foolish, 
drudging way, and he then thought it was 
necessary. He barely lived as it was, and 
surely he would starve if he worked less. 
But he has found since, that eight or ten 
hours of sharp, systematic work will ac¬ 
complish the most in the long run, and 
then one has a chance to rest and live a 
little as he goes along. He presumes many 
who read this will not believe this doctrine, 
but it is true. The bow kept bent too long 
loses its power. When you work man or 
beast 13 or 14 hours a day, as a rule, at hard 
work, they will and must make up for it 
by doing less per hour. Mr. Terry works 
while he does work, and then quits and 
enjoys life a little. 
At 6 P. M. Mr. Terry and his helpers quit 
work. That gives men and employer time 
for a little recreation. And to really enjoy 
rest and recreation one needs to have 
worked hard. The young folks may have 
their games out on the lawn after supper. 
His wife and he usually take a walk around 
the place, and get much pleasure in watch¬ 
ing the growth of the crops, and the shrubs 
and flowers about the house. What is the 
use of keeping the lawn neatly mowed, and 
having flowers and pretty things, if one 
cannot have time from day to day to rest a 
little and enjoy them f It isn’t an unusual 
thing for them to take a drive after supper, 
and even stop on the way and get some ice 
cream, as they used to do 30 years ago. 
Again The R. N.-Y’s hybrid blackberry 
and raspberry plants are fruiting. The 
berries are more or less imperfect. Many 
of the plants bloom but do not bear any 
fruit. 
Ni firmes carta que no leas, ni bebas 
aqua que no veas . 
Dahlia seed sown in early spring pro¬ 
duced plants that began to bloom J uly 15 .. 
The Caladium esculentum s just the 
plant for lake borders. 
Prunus Pissardii. The first ripe fruit 
of this purple-leaved plum were gathered 
July 15. 
The two cannas Star of 1891 and Mad. 
Crozy are the finest yet introduced. They 
are much alike, both being of a bright 
flame color. But Mad. Crozy haB a golden 
border. 
The R. N.-Y. has produced a raspberry 
much like the Marlboro but of a vigorous 
habit. Feebleness of growth is the weakness 
of the Marlboro in most places. 
DIRECT. 
-W. Falconer in the American Flor¬ 
ist : “ Rose-bugs.—The editor of The R 
N.-Y. finds that water at a temperature of 
122 degrees sprayed over the bug-infested 
plants kills the bugs without Injuring the 
plants. This is good news. But as the 
very air is full of the bugs, the operation 
would have to be repeated hourly to be 
effectual. What we want is an insecticide 
to spray upon the plants to render them 
bug-proof without injuring the plants.” 
-Industrialist : “ How shall capital 
and labor be reconciled ? By education, 
cooperation. We are in a period of intel¬ 
lectual warfare. The brightest minds in 
the nation are battling in the cause of phil¬ 
anthropy.” 
“ Anarchy, as a system of redress for 
wrongs, real or fancied, cannot succeed. 
All good people deplore the fact that the 
laborer does not receive the full benefit of 
his toil, but they are united in saying that 
he can never succeed by lawlessness and 
violence. The hope of the workingman lies 
in organization. He knows it now, and all 
over the country 4 reform ’ has become the 
keynote of a mighty movement. Brains 
and ballots are the weapons with which the 
working classes will win.” 
“It is the wants of the civilized races 
that have raised them above their savage 
kinsmen. But before we can reasonably 
ask for more, we must show that we can 
use to advantage what we have already 
been given. If we expect to win, we must 
do something of value to the world. We 
must demonstrate our right to own by 
showing our ability to improve.” 
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