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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOV. 14 
To Exterminate White Grubs. 
Subscriber, Ohio —The injury done to 
corn, Timothy meadows, wheat and pota¬ 
toes by the white grub worms, in the parts 
of the country infested by the pests, being 
greater than the damage caueed by ail 
other insect foes combined, as they caused 
no trouble whatever this year, is it not well 
to examine into the habits of the pest and 
provide against it during the next two 
years, in which it is most likely to get in 
its work ? This year it was the May bug, 
and could be found in countless numbers 
under the matted graes in Timothy mead¬ 
ows and clover fields where it had laid its 
eggs and died. It could not, so far as the 
writer examined, be found in cultivated 
or wheat fields. It would seem then that 
the better plan will be to plant corn next 
year either on the same ground as this 
year, or on wheat btubble and the year 
following on stubble ground of early fal¬ 
low ground of this year. The same rule 
will apply to potatoes, except on a tough 
Blue Grass sod which does not, so far as 
observed, afford a suitable breeding place 
for the insects. Extra manuring will be 
essential as the general rule has been rota¬ 
tion-just what the pest would order if 
consulted. In preparing sod ground (clover 
and Timothy) for wheat next year and the 
year following, late plowing will probably 
be the safest. Three years from now, or in 
1894, it will be likely to appear again in the 
form of the May bug, or at least it appears 
in that order in this locality. The year it 
is in the bug form or stage it does not ap¬ 
pear to do any damage. 
Berries by Weight In Iowa. 
F. S. White, Polk County, Iowa.—I do 
not think that berries or any green fruits 
could be sold by weight in this market. I 
think our quart boxes filled nicely all 
through and not capped are by far the most 
convenient and profitable means of dispos¬ 
ing of small fruits. I do not care to han¬ 
dle less than one quart of berries in mar¬ 
keting. I sell nearly all my berries by the 
crate of 24 quarts each. My wife generally 
sees to the picking and is very careful to 
see that the berries in the bottom of the 
box are just as good as those on top. By 
careful sorting and filling we have no 
trouble in holding our customers and in 
getting fair prices. However the idea of 
selling by the pound is new and we may 
yet see an advantage in it. 
Wheat After Corn. 
L. W. L., Mulberry, Pa —Some very 
useful information has been given in The 
Rural on this important subject. I have 
invariably had success with wheat after 
corn. My method is this : I put the spring- 
plowed ground in No. 1 order, and keep it 
so all summer until the corn gets too large; 
then as soon as the corn is cut up, I put the 
ground in good order again with the corn 
cultivator and harrow—I never plow corn 
stalks—and sow with the drill and use 200 
pounds of a good fertilizer to the acre and 
give it a slight top-dressing of fine manure. 
With this management I have had perfect 
success. I have experienced no trouble in 
getting a good catch of clover. I use the 
Acme barrow, and the corn stalks are 
pressed down and are not thereafter in the 
way. I have often seen failures, and they 
were due to a lack of proper summer culti¬ 
vation or to want of proper preparation of 
the ground as a seed bed. A light top¬ 
dressing helps very much to get a good set 
of grass. Corn should be planted early for 
this rotation. 
Water-tight Cloth; Caladlum Leaves. 
C. O. Y., Vineland, N. J.—In a recent 
issue of The Rural, in reply to an inquiry 
as to how to make cotton cloth water-proof, 
we are told that the most practical way is 
to saturate it with linseed oil, etc. I have 
used the following recipe for 25 years and 
with it can make a bag of common cotton 
cloth so tight that it will hold water till it 
evaporates: Take two pounds and four 
ounces of alum and dissolve it in 10 gallons 
of water. In like manner dissolve the same 
quantity of sugar of lead in a similar quan¬ 
tity of water; mix the two together. They 
form a precipitate of the sulphate of lead ; 
withdraw the clear liquor, and immerse 
the cloth in it for one hour ; hang it in the 
shade to dry—then when dry wash it in 
clean water, and dry again. This prepar¬ 
ation enables cloth to repel water like a 
duck’s back, and yet allows the perspira¬ 
tion to pass freely through it. 
In a late Rural mention is made of the 
fact that at the Rural Grounds a leaf of 
Caladlum esculentum, or Elephant’s Ear, 
as it is sometimes called, measures 40 inches 
from the apex to the base, and the inquiry 
is made whether this is not about as large 
as the leaves can be induced to grow out- 
of doors It may be In New York, but not 
at this place. I have a plant growing out- 
of-doors with leaves of the following di¬ 
mensions : Two leaves 48 inches each; one 
49; one 50, and one 52 inches. How is that 
for Jersey land ? 
A Coat From a Cow’s Back. 
R. C. Auld, Illinois.—! was interested 
in the symposium on page 723 on substitutes 
for the buffalo robe. The following, taken 
from a communication which I have re¬ 
ceived, shows that there is a chance for 
obtaining good robes of the kind de¬ 
scribed : 
“What everybody ought to have is a good 
protection against the grippe. It gives us 
pleasure to hand you the Inclosed sample 
of our natural black polled Angus-Aber- 
deen hide, from which we are manufactur¬ 
ing physicians’ coats. You will notice it is 
soft, of very light weight, and pliable, and 
it gets softer with use; also that the hair 
does not pull out, which quality no other 
known fur possesses. Just the amount of 
fur you can catch hold of with your thumb 
and finger will hold over 20 pounds’ weight. 
Try it and see. You may soak the sample 
in water as long as you like, and dry it, 
and it will be just as soft as it is now. 
While the sample is wet, you can rub it 
with a white silk handkerchief and you 
will get no color or stains from it. The 
robes made from these hides are moth¬ 
proof and there is no odor about them. 
There is nothing like them in this country 
and for durability and warmth there is 
nothing that equals them. The weight 
of a coat is from seven to nine pounds. 
Gauntlet mittens are also made of the same 
fur. The fur of one sample is over three 
inches long and has all the sheen of the 
velvety, seally touch so distinguishably 
the property of the Aberdeen-Angus.” 
The above is very interesting informa¬ 
tion. I have been assured that the hide of 
the Aberdeen-Angus is particularly con¬ 
sistent and pliable—more so than that of 
any other breed. For that reason £1 more 
per hide used to be received than for any 
other breed at the London Christmas mar¬ 
ket, and the fur, or pelage, of these steers 
would astonish the American. There was 
a long, silky overcovering that would flut¬ 
ter gently in the breeze. This overcov¬ 
ering, silky and thick, obscured the 
thick, mossy coat below. 
I have seen several coats and robes manu¬ 
factured from such hides, and they had all 
had the characteristics just mentioned. I 
have also seen robes made of Galloway 
hides, which seemed to present a thick but 
shorter pile. Whereas the pile of the Aber¬ 
deen-Angus seemed to be gently wavy, the 
other appeared to be curly. The Aberdeen- 
Angus coats were a great sensation, and 
made a fine appearance in the windows 
and on the backs of their wearers. Their 
manufacturers ought to advertise their 
business more so that it might be known 
where to send hides or get robes. 
THE LACK OF GOOD SERVANTS. 
Mrs. Sherwood in the North Ameri¬ 
can Review.— This is getting to be a very 
important and curious question—one of the 
few things that do not right them¬ 
selves. In more than one prosperous village 
of New England, through central New 
York and Pennsylvania—probably the 
geographical limits could be stretched fur¬ 
ther-families are disbanding, going to 
hotels for their dinners, living in anybody’s 
house but their own, in lack of a servant or 
servants. These well-to-do people are will¬ 
ing to pay good wages and give their ser¬ 
vants every comfort, but a maid who can 
cook and wash and iron is becoming a 
greater luxury than a powdered footman 
in London. A person who can and will 
work with her hands has become the law¬ 
giver to those who cannot. Where is that 
class whom, with a fine irony, we call 
“ help ? ” It is a perilous state of things, 
and not to be endured, when a well-to do 
lady, in a prosperous town, has to stay at 
home from church all through the summer 
because she cannot find a nurse to care for 
the baby, and because no maid can be 
hired for love or money. These people are 
perfectly willing to pay good wages, to 
lodge and feed their servants well; but 
although the cities are full of starving, 
able bodied people, the deadlock continues. 
It is a mysterious and inexplicable prob¬ 
lem, more to be wondered at than the occa¬ 
sional and inevitable panic, worse than the 
strikes, because it lasts all the year round, 
and impossible from the point of view of 
the starving, who would, one would think, 
rather b#»rnmei domestic servants than 
starve. * * * Authority, not brutality, 
authority enforced by law, is necessary to 
the proper conduct of a kitchen, as of a 
State. Employers should be bound to the 
rules of justice and humanity, and should 
have neither right nor power to require 
from their servants what is unjust or in¬ 
human ; also the duties of servants should 
be clearly defined, reasonable, and fixed. 
The mistress should have her rights as well 
as the servant. Once hired and taken into 
the house, the mistress is legally entitled 
to the servant’s time and service, and the 
servant should stay out the number of 
weeks or months for which she has con¬ 
tracted. Butin the United States a maid 
may go at any moment; she follows her 
caprice; may leave the dinner half cooked 
and the baby crying in the cradle. The 
mistress must pay her and let her go. * * * 
It is quite impossible that the affairs of a 
household can be administered with pros¬ 
perity and comfort If the mistress does not 
know what ought to be done and if the ser¬ 
vant does not know how to do it. It has 
been the confusion of the American experi¬ 
ment—this taking of the Irish peasant, the 
peasant from the fields of Europe, into the 
small, well regulated, private family; to 
expect a creature with no training at all to 
cook, wash and iron, sweep, dust, and to 
take care of children—that mo°t. delicate of 
all industries—acceptably. * * * Indeed, 
the general condition of the social state is 
answerable for the majority of the <*v11h 
connected with domestic service. * * * 
The Americans are the only people in the 
world who pay well for bad cooking and 
detestable service, grudgingly given, glad 
In most instances (if rural housekeepers) to 
“get a girl,” no matter how inefficient and 
disqualified she may be, for the work of the 
house. She must be fed, clothed, and re¬ 
spected, and her wages paid. She may 
break crockery to any extent, often to that 
of thousands of dollars; she may throw 
away sugar and flour and meat and pota¬ 
toes by bad cookery; she may be insolent 
to her mistress, taking her own time for 
going out day or evening; and she may 
badly wash the flannels and scorch the 
gentlemen’s shirts ; the mistress must put 
up with it, else the precious creature will 
leave and the lady must do her own work ; 
or, as a dressmaker who had badly cut 
some gowns for an employer remarked, 
putting the fragments in at the door: 
“[Here, finish your gowns yourself.” * * * 
(Continued on next pope.) 
PisireUattfouiS 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
Two Things 
In Regard to Catarrh 
1st, It is a Constitutional Disease; 
and 2nd, It requires a Con¬ 
stitutional Remedy. 
These two facts are now so well known to the medi¬ 
cal fraternity that local applications, like snuff and 
Inhalants, are regarded as at best likely to give only 
temporary relief. To effect a permanent cure of 
catarrh requires a constitutional remedy like 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
which by purifying the blood, repairing the diseased 
tissues and Imparting healthy tone to the aflected 
organs, does give thorough and lasting cure. 
Highly concentrated. Dose small. In quantity costs 
less than one-tenth cent a day per hen. Prevents and 
cures all diseases. If you can’t get it, we send by mail 
post-paid. One pack. 25c. Five $l. 2 1-4 lb. can $1.20; 
6 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps or 
cash. Farmers’ Poultry Guide (price 25c.) free with $1.04 
orders or more. I. S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
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-CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. 
Tastes good. Use it in time. 
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Cheapest, Strongest, Handiest 
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x purposes. 
’ ALL MATERIAL SUPPLIED FORM COM¬ 
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fluents Wanted. 59 WEST 42d ST., N. Y. 
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Corrugated pan over firebox, doubling, 
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Automatic Regulator. 
The Champion is as great \ 
an improvement over the 
Cook Pan as the latter 
was over the old iron ket¬ 
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The C. H.CRIMM 
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this paper ; 
--THE-- REX Trade Mark. 
ATKINS’ SEGMENT GROUND. 
PATENTED OCT. IB, 1889. 
14 gauge on tooth edge. 
16 gauge on ends on hack edge. 
19 gauge at center on back edge. 
PRICE, WITHOUT HANDLES, 75 CTS. PER FOOT. 
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set longer. All the wearing teeth being of uniform thickness, 
each tooth docs its share of the work, and the saw being thin¬ 
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