1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
7 
Ruralisms. — Continued. 
rigorous laws prevail to prevent the im¬ 
portation of cattle in order to keep the 
blood pure. 
Don’d bullderdrigger undil you dakes 
goot aim. 
B. F. Johnson says in the Practical 
Farmer that when there shall have been 
a just measure of recognition and rights 
accorded to the agriculturist, then or 
some time after, the exodus of the 
country to the city will cease, and hardly 
before that time. 
Alum water—one pound to four gal¬ 
lons of water—will it is said drive away 
rose bugs from the sprayed plants. 
Mr. Kipling tells his English friends 
that the American woman is worn out, 
and that the reason of it is “ the thing 
called ‘ help ’ which is no help.” 
It would appear from careful experi¬ 
ments made in Germany that it is during 
the abundant rains of autumn that the 
nitrates are rapidly washed out of the 
soil. The formation of nitrates is rapid 
in summer but the rainfall is small and, 
consequently, the total loss of nitrogen is 
not very large. 
Keep the soil covered with a crop in 
autumn. 
Apply nitrate of soda in the spring. 
One evening last week we had occasion 
to buy a few flowers of a Madison Avenue 
(New York) florist. Seeing a case of 
American Beauty Roses we inquired the 
price of single buds. “ One dollar and a 
half ” was the reply. The price has been 
as high as $3 per bud. We have all 
heard of the pretty sentiment that he 
who would raise fine roses must have 
roses in his heart. Do any of our readers 
think that those who have “roses in their 
hearts” would pay such a wicked price 
for single rose buds? Or is the traffic 
confined to those who have roses in their 
pocket-books? 
Mr. J. H. Hale shortens in the new 
wood of peach trees one-third to one- 
half, in the spring when the fruit buds 
begin to swell. This style of pruning 
leaves a homely tree, but he gets the 
crop; we may get a good peach crop 
with 90 per cent of buds winter-killed. 
After the fruit is set for a full crop he 
thins till there are no two peaches with¬ 
in four to six inches of each other ; it is 
hard to get help to do this thoroughly, 
but it pays. 
J. H. Hale and his brother kept bor¬ 
rowing money to pay for fertilizers for 
their peach orchards year after year till 
they were in debt nearly $7,000 ; but in 
the ninth year they received $9,000 to 
$10,000. Stick; and then your neighbors 
will tell bow lucky you have been. 
They occasionally have cases of yel¬ 
lows, but when the trees are well nour¬ 
ished, the cases are rare. The diseased 
trees are burned. They seldom cultivate 
after the middle of July. 
Direct. 
-A. W. Che ever in New England 
Farmer : “ I do not know of a man who 
was ever an enthusiastic fruit planter 
who did not set far too many varieties.” 
“ The Baldwin is specially superior as 
a market apple, because it comes into 
bearing early, is a great bearer and the 
fruit suits the market, both here and 
abroad.” 
“The Northern Spy may be the next 
choice, but if so the grower must expect 
to wait a long time for his returns as it 
comes into bearing late, several years 
behind the Baldwin.” 
“ Men are aided by books and papers 
treating upon their vocation, but reading 
alone will not fit one for doing aDy great 
work. Neither will a friend’s advice.” 
-Correspondent of New England 
Farmer: “I speak from experience of 
some 15 years in pear culture when I pro¬ 
nounce the Anjou, all things considered, 
the best and most profitable pear that I 
grow. I am quite an extensive fruit 
grower, having of pears alone about 500 
trees, and the Bartlett, Sheldon and 
Anjou are my favorites. I have kept the 
Anjou till February 1 , much depending 
on the season.” 
- Ohio Farmer : “ What poultry read¬ 
ers want is practical poultry knowledge, 
no red tape theories by writers who never 
raised a chicken. They want the teach¬ 
ings to come directly from the working 
poultry writer. Poultry “authorities” 
generally keep no poultry. The practi¬ 
cal poultryman writes his articles in 
among the hens.” 
- Weekly Press: “Request when 
you can ; command when you must.” 
“ Men are often discouraged by their 
own bad management.” 
“ It is much easier to hatch ideas than 
to bring them to maturity.” 
“ The farmer helps himself who wisely 
helps his helper.” 
-A. W. Cheever in New England 
Farmer : “ It is a great pity that so 
many people, both young and old, have 
imbibed the idea that the world, the 
State or the public in some way is under 
obligations to furnish them a living. The 
world is in no sense under any such obli¬ 
gation. The sparrows in my garden know 
better than that. So do the squirrels 
that gather and store the acorns which 
fall from my trees. But if I cut down 
the trees, the squirrels do not hang 
around and tease me to furnish them 
nuts, but they look about for other trees 
somewhere else.” 
“ In almost every village are men 
standing at the street corners or sitting 
in the stores complaining of hard times 
and want of employment. But in these 
same villages are other men who never 
have time to do all the work that is 
offered them. Yes, it is the men who in¬ 
telligently rely on themselves and who 
are always ready to lend a hand who 
‘ get on.’ ” 
-New York Herald: “Instead of 
meeting in solemn conclave to split theo¬ 
logical hairs, you will find the Salvation 
Army down in Water street praying with 
some drunkard or pleading with some 
dissolute woman. They have the elo¬ 
quence of sympathy and pity; they think 
nothing too menial if thereby they can 
give some poor soul fresh air.” 
-Popular Science Monthly: “When 
every one is governed by his noblest im¬ 
pulses, in place of selfish instincts, pov¬ 
erty and misery will soon disappear.” 
“Philosophical anarchy can only exist 
when all men have attained that condi¬ 
tion where each fits his place and is 
content to remain in it.” 
“ Where would your capitalists be 
with an extremely limited supply of 
labor ? Given an exclusive community 
of millionaires, and what avail will be 
their millions ? Riches and poverty are 
simply relative conditions. Your mil¬ 
lionaire is rich only because there hap¬ 
pens to be a herd of men extremely 
desirous of getting what he possesses.” 
“The fact that among economists 
there are so many contradictions is evi¬ 
dence of the want of a scientific basis for 
their theories.” 
- Harper’s Weekly: “There is no 
service that so destroys the latent ener¬ 
gies and kills the hopes as that of a 
government clerk. Young men, avoid it 
as you would a plague ! ” 
- Harper’s Weekly: “Slowness in the 
right direction is far more desirable than 
speed in the wrong.” 
- Rev. Plink Plunk on Justice: “ ‘Jus¬ 
tice is blind,” deah breddern, but it do 
look a leetle odd dat dere’s mo’ men 
sent to jail for chicken stealin’ dan for 
embezzlement or highway robbery.” 
-N. Y. Tribune : “ ‘The house beauti¬ 
ful ’ may well be built by master archi¬ 
tects, but let its ornamentation be less 
considered than the strength and fitness 
of its plumbing.” 
-N. Y. Observer: “In France the 
mirror is a potent aid in the education of 
youth; it corrects bad habits in the 
school room; teaches grace in the con¬ 
servatory, and to the woman aiming at 
self-improvement it inculcates an art so 
subtle and gracious that it rises to the 
sublimity of Nature. It is a faithful, 
untiring little friend, and it is but an act 
of poetic justice that it be given a place 
of honor in our homes.” 
-Root’s Gleanings : “I happen to be 
one who does not think veal is fit to 
eat.” 
-J. II. Hale : “ The men furnishing 
fruit of the highest quality do not over¬ 
supply the market, and they never can ; 
the popular taste is constantly improv¬ 
ing.” 
“Sulphate of potash gives the best 
blush to peaches, but I would prefer cot¬ 
ton-hull ashes.” 
-American Agriculturist : “ Some 
men never practice economy except when 
they are buying for their wives.” 
“ One never grows fat by having to eat 
his own words.” 
If you name ThiR. N.-Y. to our advertisers you 
may be pretty sure of prompt replies and right treat¬ 
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