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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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WHAT OTHERS SAY. 
( Continued.) 
never be gathered from where they fall to 
the ground. He has the satisfaction of 
seeing that his spraying has been needless. 
The bags and fungi seem this year to have 
had an instinctive premonition that for an 
assault upon such a multitudinous fruit 
crop “there would not b9 enough of them 
to go round,” and they did not try it. 
Mb. Pearson quotes from a Southern 
friend who farms (in Dixie) very exten¬ 
sively : “ Never was seen such an apple 
crop, but it is not gathered, because the fruit 
in market will not return cost of picking. 
Eighty acres of grape vines, loaded with 
fruit, will be untouched for the same rea 
son. They cannot be handled so as to pay 
cost of handling ”.' 
Let any one note the insignificant size 
and meager foliage of a tree growing in a 
thin soil, or on a hungry ridge, and compare 
it with a specimen of the same species 
standing In deep, rich, moist loam, and he 
will have, says Garden and Forest, an ob¬ 
ject lesson in the value of thorough enrich¬ 
ment of the soil for ornamental planting. 
An effort to produce immediate effect, as 
it is called, is often made by planting large 
specimens, or by grouping them close to¬ 
gether, but the best way to secure early 
effect, as well as lasting effect, is to feed 
trees well and encourage them to a speedy 
growth, which is, as a rule, the most health¬ 
ful growth.. 
A writer says, In the Practical Farmer, 
that the man who raises a few acres of pop¬ 
corn every year and has plenty of crib 
room, can bide his time, knowing that a 
year of high prices will come, paying him 
a good profit with interest. It will not pop 
well unless a year old. The white varieties 
alone should be chosen. 
The Black Mexican Sweet Corn shows 
itself occasionally on ears of the old Ten¬ 
nessee Prolific which The R N.-Y. has 
been endeavoring to improve for a dozen 
years. The two plots were within 50 feet of 
each other. 
Rev. A. D. Carter tells the Clifton 
Springs Press that he has raised a “400” 
Tomato that weighs one pound and nine 
ounces, measuring 16 inches in circumfer 
ence. 
A correspondent of Sawens, N. Y., 
sends us the following clipping from a local 
paper: “Our enterprising farmer, Mr. 
George Strong, has been experimenting 
with different varieties of wheat. He tried 
six kinds, three of which he has rejected as 
unprofitable, or at least doubtful; the re 
maining varieties, however, have surprised 
him with unmistakable proofs of merit and 
profit, far beyond his expectation. These 
three kinds are the Beal, the Johnson and 
the Stewart. They ripen with the Claw¬ 
son, and are more prolific. The Beal heads 
shown us would average four inches in 
length, with five kernels abreast on each 
side of the head, running in number of ker¬ 
nels from 60 to 90 per head. The Stewart 
was planted one kernel every foot, and each 
berry forms a stool of from 10 to 30 straws, 
each bearing a head of from 50 to 75 kernels, 
four or five kernels abreast. It is a large, 
plump-berried wheat and apparently of 
fine quality. With such a growth of straw, 
bearing such heavy, long and well-filled 
heads, the yield per acre would be simply 
enormous. These varieties were originated 
on The Rural New-Yorker farm, and are 
a cross between wheat and rye.” [No ; all 
three are pure wheat crosses, as stated in 
The Rural of September 12, page 654.— 
Eds.] 
Dr. Hoskins in Garden and Forest says 
that an apple makes a noticeable portion of 
its growth—often as mucn as one-fourth— 
while its seeds are coloring. But, on the 
other hand, the keeping of late-ripening 
apples is greatly lengthened by gathering 
them as soon as the seeds are fully colored. 
Up to that time the fruit improves on the 
tree. After that it deteriorates, so far as 
keeping Is concerned, and, with some varie¬ 
ties, it deteriorates rapidly, so that winter 
fruit becomes in a few days fall fruit. 
The temperature of a fruit-cellar is best 
when kept as near to the congealing tem¬ 
perature of the fruit as possible. It is not 
safe to freeze so watery a fruit as the grape; 
but apples and pears can be frozen without 
injury, if slowly thawed again in the dark. 
Dr. Hoskins is not quite sure of the latter 
condition being essential, as he has had 
apples that had been slowly frozen, and as 
slowly thawed, in a light cellar, come out 
of the trial apparently uninjured. 
A long, heavily shouldered bunch of the 
Winchell Grape comes to us from Ellwan- 
ger & Barry. Berry about the size of Dela¬ 
ware, pea green, translucent, with little or 
no bloom, one to four seeded—seeds small; 
pulp tender, parting from the seeds readily, 
pure-flavored, juicy and sweet with no 
acidity about the seeds. Skin thin, but 
firm. The quality of the Winchell and its 
earliness should secure it a trial every¬ 
where. 
L. Bell of Rockland Co., N. Y., warns 
our readers against wrapping the stems of 
trees with tarred felt. He says It will kill 
them, or is liable to do so.—Farm Journal. 
The R. N.-Y. years ago and since has 
given the same warning and this aa a result 
of its own experience. Neither tarred felt 
nor any other solid substance which ex¬ 
cludes the air should be placed in perma¬ 
nent contact with the stems of trees. 
Is the new wood on your apple trees a foot 
long? If not the orchard needs manure. 
Ground bone and muriate of potash are whkt 
you ought to apply. 
Good advice, only give the preference to 
unleached wood ashes if they can be bought 
at a fair price. Do not use “superphosphate” 
in the orchard. It costs more than plain 
phosphate and an immediately soluble fer¬ 
tilizer is not needed. 
Catharine Boyle Stirling, a well- 
known maiden lady 78 years of age, living 
in Morris County, N. J., sends us a few 
bunches of a seedling grape of her own 
raising which so closely resembles its 
parent, the Concord, that except by careful 
comparison, the one cannot be distinguished 
from the other. Miss Stirling’s grape, how¬ 
ever, has less acidity about the seeds than 
the Concord and, we fancy, may ripen a 
few days earlier. Miss Stirling lives quite 
alone on a single acre of land which is full 
of the choicest small fruits. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Harper’s Weekly: “It should seem 
that every man who holds a free pass and 
thinks for a moment of the nature and ob¬ 
ject of free passes would instantly return 
his own. He rides for nothing. His poor 
neighbor on the seat besido him, who can 
ill afford the money, pays for his ride. 
Why is not his neighbor presented with a 
pass ? Has honor nothing to say in the 
case? Has what is called “old fashioned 
honesty” wholly disappeared? The pass 
represents to a member of the Legislature 
in New York only some six or eight dollars 
a week during the session. Doesn’t he sell 
himself rather cheaply ? Or does he spurn 
the insinuation that such a sum buys him? 
Then if he intends to make no return, why 
does he take the pass ? ’ 
-Farm Journal: “Many a girl who 
takes the cake wouldn’t if she had to bake 
it herself.” 
Now is the time to enjoy life. Put off 
the opportunity a few years and you will 
lose it. Habit becomes second nature.” 
“ Economy and generosity make a noble 
team.” 
“Plow, smooth and sow to grain and 
grass a portion of the road front. It should 
yield a crop of hay and be mowed with the 
machine every year instead of growing up 
to brush,” 
“One of our readers makes assurance 
doubly sure by hanging his seed corn In the 
smokehouse and smoking it for several 
days.” 
“One reason why kitchen help is so hard 
to get and keep on the farm is that most 
farmers are unwilling to pay for such help 
what it is actually worth. That may 
startle some, but it’s true.” 
“Just imagine a single acre under per¬ 
fect control, well drained, heavily man¬ 
ured, closely planted, thoroughly cultivated 
and in dry times entirely irrigated 1 Surely 
here would be a big crop and little time 
and strength wasted in travel.” 
“ Horses, old and young, are as fond of 
sugar as children. It is their most delic¬ 
ious condiment; and no matter how salt- 
hungry they will choose sugar in prefer¬ 
ence every time. Numerous fractious, 
wild, scary colts and horses have been 
tamed with this sweet. When once they 
get a taste of it, If they think a person has 
it, they will follow and tease for it as a kit¬ 
ten will for milk. Once having had a 
taste, it will start a balked horse sooner 
than all the whips or other coaxing in ex¬ 
istence.” 
-Ram’s Horn : “The larger opportunity 
is often found in the smaller fields.” 
-T. Greiner in his “Practical Farm 
Chemistry.” “Suppose we have a soil 
which needs the mechanical effects that 
stable manure gives about as much as it 
does the plant food which the latter con¬ 
tains. In this case a fair average quality 
of muck is just what is needed.” 
- Farmers’ Review : “A fit of anger is 
as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to 
life.” 
Thkre are only a few years left to love, 
Shall we waste them In Idle strife ? 
Shall we trample under our ruthless feet 
These beautiful blossoms, rare and sweet, 
By the dusty ways of life. 
-New England Homestead: “The 
chance to enormously increase the foreign 
consumption of American maize was never 
better. Let Secretary Rusk send some 
good men to Europe to drum up the mar¬ 
ket for our maize and show the people how 
to use it, and how much cheaper it is than 
wheat or rye at prevailing prices. Get the 
authorities to feed the armies of Europe on 
corn.” 
-Correspondent New York Times : 
“I planted 10 rows, 30 feet long, of three 
varieties, Early Rose, Polaris and Rural 
No. 2. The last mentioned kind is a seed¬ 
ling grown by the editor of The Rural 
New-Yorker, and named after that excel¬ 
lent paper. The yields are as follows: 
Equal to 
bushels 
Bushels per acre. 
Early Rose. 22 6.18 
Polaris. 22$if 645 
Rural. 2o>4 725 
A new variety named Freeman yielded 
three bushels on two rows 30 feet long, and 
this is equal to 726 bushels to the acre.” 
-T. Greiner : “ This I wish to empha¬ 
size: Concentrated fertilizers and green 
manuring go well together and make a 
complete substitute for stable manure.” 
-Prof. S. W. Johnson: “The phcs 
phoric acid if ‘soluble,’ that is, solu¬ 
ble in water, Is equally available to plants 
whether derived from bone, bone black or 
rock phosphate.” 
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