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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WHAT OTHERS SAY. 
( Continued .) 
prlated to Insure their constant and sys¬ 
tematic repair. At the end of long experi¬ 
ence the testimony of these governments, 
as set forth in their official reports, is quite 
uniform in declaring high-class roads to be 
not only the best, but also the cheapest, 
when the aggregate expense of making and 
repairing is considered for a series of years, 
while in the light of public policy and gov¬ 
ernmental economy they are held to be 
fairly indispensable. Altogether, Mr. Pot¬ 
ter optimistically concludes, the signs are 
hopeful, and the future of the American 
road is fall of promise. Let us rest in the 
confident belief, that by a unity of forces 
and a continuation of the work already so 
well in hand, the government and the 
States will be brought to adopt that benefi¬ 
cent principle of statecraft which leads a 
nation to rightly and fully exercise its pa¬ 
ternal functions, and to direct the public 
hand to the aid and development of that 
great branch of industry which was born 
with the birth of the nation itself, and 
upon the success of which all national 
wealth must eventually depend. 
KURAL1SMS. 
Da. Hoskins says, in Orchard and Gar¬ 
den, that the Longfleld Apple surprises 
him. Up to this time it bears fall crops 
every year, proving itself a true annual 
bearer. As grown with him (Newport, Ver.) 
it keeps into the winter better than Fam- 
euse. It is, he says, very handsome, very 
good and of fair size when not allowed to 
overbear. It pleases buyers both in appear¬ 
ance and quality, being equally good for 
eating or culinary purposes. The Longfleld 
is a Russian variety. 
Prof. Budd of Iowa, states, in the above 
journal, that the Japan Golden Russet Pear 
Is probably a native of Russia. The tree 
thrives with him with a luxuriance never 
reached by anj thing truly indigenous to 
Japan. It fruits at an early age very full, 
and Prof. Budd believes that in the south¬ 
ern half of Iowa it will give much satisfac¬ 
tion at least for amateur growing. As 
ripened in his hot, dry climate, it is hand¬ 
some, unique and really good for culinary 
use. It is, in fact, the last of October, prop¬ 
erly ripened in the house, refreshing for 
dessert use. 
Editor Cornet says that at the Mon¬ 
mouth Nursery (Monmouth County, N. J.) 
the Parker Earle Strawberry has proved to 
be a good grower and an abundant bearer. 
The plant is robust and the foliage bright. 
Do you consider it an insult to have your 
work push you ?. 
As between rust and wear, which does 
the more harm ?. 
How long does it take for a small leaK In 
farm management to make a big leak in 
the farm purse ?. 
If there were such a thing as getting at 
it, to what extent and in what way should 
brutality to animals be punished ? The R. 
N.-Y. sincerely wishes that this might be 
made a practical question; that it might be 
practically answered, and that the punish¬ 
ment might be mercilessly inflicted. 
Why is it that we are prone to be so 
proud of our sails and so ashamed of our 
ballast ?. 
Better keep your own shoes in repair 
than to count much upon those of rich rela¬ 
tives. 
Now Is the time so to attend to things 
that you may really enjoy a vacation dur¬ 
ing next summer. 
A crop that will stand any amount of 
cultivation—the children—aad love is the 
most effective cultivator. 
Pray, dear sir, mind your own business I 
Why do you assume that I am not as cap¬ 
able of minding my own affairs as you are? 
Home, Home, Sweet Home. Are there 
other places dearer to you than home ? 
Whose fault is it ? Not yours ? Then 
hasten to the dearer place. 
Secretary Rusk remarks upon the ex¬ 
cessive difference between the prices paid 
for agricultural products in the market by 
the consumer and those paid on the farm 
to the producer as being a serious evil en¬ 
hancing the cost of living to the people, 
while it depreciates the value of their crops 
to the farmers. A large share of this differ¬ 
ence in price is to be attributed to the 
handling of the product from the time it 
leaves the farm until it is delivered to the 
consumer. Thus it is that the American 
middleman assumes a prominence and an 
influence “ greater than he probably pos¬ 
sesses in any other country.” To provide 
an adequate remedy for this evil is not, he 
says, an easy task, but there is one thing 
which can be done for the benefit of both 
producer and consumer, and this duty 
clearly devolves upon his Department. It 
is to keep the public thoroughly informed 
on the matter of prices of all important 
farm products. His earnest efforts have 
been directed to placing promptly in the 
farmer’s hands the fullest information in 
regard to the market values of his wares, 
which will at least save him from the pen¬ 
alty of Ignorance and the unscrupulous 
greed of traders. 
That is all well enough so far as it goes. 
But may Secretary Rusk hope to place this 
information in the hands of the farmers 
through his Department more effectively 
than it is done through the daily and weekly 
press of the country ?. 
The varieties of blackberry that prove 
the hardiest at the Ottawa (Canada) Ex¬ 
periment Farm are Snyder, Agawam, 
Stone’s Hardy and Western Triumph. The 
Minnewaski proved hardier than the Kitta- 
tlnuy, though it suffered somewhat. 
In No. 11 Oregon Station bulletin a 
record is given of the yields of 375 kinds of 
potatoes. The R. N.-Y. No. 2, Garfield, 
Alexander No. 1 and Early Sunrise afe 
especially commended and are illustrated 
in the cuts. 
ACCORDING to a Maryland Experiment 
Station bulletin, we must manure bounti¬ 
fully for a full crop of tomatoes. But it is 
not even then well to grow them on the 
same land for many successive years. It 
doesn’t say why. Nitrogen in the form of 
dried blood gave no results. Nitrate of 
soda and muriate of potash are recom¬ 
mended as special fertilizers for the tomato. 
Potash seemed to decrease sugar and in¬ 
crease acid in tomatoes. Phosphoric acid 
produced some of the sweetest tomatoes. 
The vines and roots of the tomato are rich 
in potash. 
From the chemical analysis of Prickly 
Comfrey we Would suppose that all ani¬ 
mals would thrive on it. The New York 
Station finds that pigs whose food con¬ 
sisted of over 90 per cent of Comfrey lost 
weight steadily while it was fed. 
Mr. Isaac Hicks, of Queens County, N. 
Y., writes that his two Idaho Pear trees 
planted last spring are poor-looking speci¬ 
mens. They barely lived. Teas’s WeepiDg 
Mulberry, he says, is a “ nice thing. ’. 
Experimenters on the other side oi the 
Atlantic, Mr. B. F. Johnson tells us, in the 
Country Gentleman, have found that by a 
cheap method of supplying atmospheric elec¬ 
tricity to the growing crop, the yield of 
potatoes has been increased from 300 to 450 
bushels per acre. 
Mr. Dawson of the Arnold Arboretum, 
as we learn through Garden & Forest, has 
been crossing General Jatq. on Rosa multi¬ 
flora. The result is a vigorous and hardy 
plant with a tendency to climb high. The 
spines and leaves are these of Jacq ; the 
flowers are clustered like those of the 
mother, sometimes as many as 60 being de¬ 
veloped in a single panicle. They are semi¬ 
double, rose colored, an inch across and ex¬ 
ceedingly fragrant. Rosa multiflora is one 
of the parents of the Polyanthus. 
Mr. Green of the Ohio Station, inclines 
to the belief that if a variety of raspberry, 
grape or strawberry varies greatly on dif¬ 
ferent soils, it may be set down as unreli¬ 
able; sooner or later it will fail even where 
it seems most at home. To hope to find 
varieties suited to certain sections only is, 
he thinks, a delusion. “ The only varieties 
that stand the test in particular sections 
are those that succeed over wide areas.” 
As a broad principle, no doubt there is 
truth in this, though as applied to limited 
areas it must have many exceptions. 
Fruits which succeed only under the most 
favored conditions can, from the nature of 
the case, never become popular. But 
whether such fruits (whether large or 
small) fail, after a time, under those “most 
favorable conditions,” we can not say. The 
best test of future popularity of a new 
fruit is its success under ordinary or unfav¬ 
orable conditions. 
ABSIRAC1S. 
-W. I. Chamberlain in the Country 
Gentleman : “ One of the saddest sights 
I ever see is that of a farmer (or any other 
man) and his family slaving for years to 
win a competence, building a fine house, 
perhaps, and then unfit to live any¬ 
where but in its kitchen, and with 
no enjoyment but in work. With them 
‘the life is’ not ‘more than meat,’ nor 
* the body than raiment.’ I remember 
one such—no matter when nor in what 
State—a widower. I had bought grain 
of him for my horse, and was helping 
him bag it. One bag had a hole in it that 
we both noticed. Pretty soon he said, 
‘ I do miss my wife so ! ’ My sympathies 
were aroused, and I was meditating some 
word of comfort. ‘ Yes, I do,’ he continued, 
‘I miss her about mending the bags!’ I 
could not smile. It was too dreadful. 
Poor woman, was that all ? ” 
- New York World: ‘In England 
there are a few trusts—not one-tenth as 
many as here—but these are exposed all 
the time to competition from Germany, 
France and even the United State, while 
American consumers are left to the tender 
mercies of monopolists who put upon every 
article ‘ all the price it will bear.’ ” 
-London Garden: “The Bruce and 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 Potatoes are giv¬ 
ing exceptionally heavy returns.” 
-Harper’s Weekly : “ The kind of 
respect which is paid to the mere fact of 
wealth, the public notice which is taken of 
people solely because they are rich, the 
public interest which is assumed in the in¬ 
cidents of the private lives of the rich, 
and which leads newspapers to chronicle 
the movements and actions and family 
events of those who personally have no 
title to attention except that they own a 
great deal of money, is of course exceedingly 
demoralizing.” 
“ ‘ It is quite dreadful to think,’ said one 
gentleman to another at a great entertain¬ 
ment, ‘ how many of our fellow guests here 
ought to be and probably soon will be in 
the State prison.’ ‘Yes ? ’ said the other. 
‘ and I wonder whether you and I will be 
among them ? ’ ” 
-Life : “ When man begins to get rich 
he does not invariably spend his first sur¬ 
plus income on horses, but his tendency to 
do so is so marked as to make the relation 
between horse flesh and surplus wealth so 
intimate as to be conspicuous.” 
“When you hear more in New York 
about Chicago’s horse show than you do in 
Chicago of New York’s horse show, you 
can make up your mind without further 
investigation that the Star of Empire has 
packed up his rays and gone West.” 
-New England Homestead : 
TOPICS IN SEASON. 
“ This Is the season 
To learn the lesson 
Of rich progression 
In your profession. 
The man of mind 
Is not behind 
Men of his kind 
To search and find 
The truths that bind. 
Don’t be so slow 
As not to know 
That here below 
Until we go 
W e leurn and grow.” 
-New York Herald : On prayer.— 
“ The man who believes most sincerely in 
the efficacy of prayer is the man who 
never prays for what he hasn’t worked 
for.” 
“Sound advice —‘Brethern,’ said the 
* unlettered’ Western preacher, ‘ laziness is 
what makes the pantaloons of life bag at 
the knees and puts a fringe around the bot¬ 
toms of the legs.” 
“A RYE head maketh a wryer thinker.” 
•' As the head swelleth, yea, even so the 
purse shrinketh.” 
- Canadian Horticulturist : “ Noth¬ 
ing surpasses the Lawrence Pear for Decem¬ 
ber and January.” 
- AGRICULTURAL Science: “Bagging 
tomatoes has proven a success with the 
editor of The R. N.-Y. The fruit was im¬ 
proved, the color better and the ripening 
earlier. This Is the first bagging of toma¬ 
toes on record.” 
-Michigan Farmer: “The Rural 
New-Yorker employs the ‘deadly par 
allel ’ column to show how widely the estl 
mates of certain fruits differ in the opinion 
of a couple of well known nurserymen. 
One would hardly believe the same fruits 
are compared, judging from the variance 
of the descriptions.” 
_Edison : “ Between the conditions of 
physical and mental life there exist these 
analogies: appetite in the one corresponds 
to interest in the other.” 
“ I don’t see anything around me to show 
that at the present day, with all our ad¬ 
vanced medical knowledge, we are living to 
any greater age than did our forefathers. 
If men were to live forever the world would 
soon be full, but I don’t think that their 
condition would be improved. It would 
certainly not make an earthly paradise of 
the world—at least for those who come into 
it. The struggle for existence is hard 
enough already without having any more 
•competitors.” 
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