1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
io 3 
Farmers’ Club Discussion. 
( Continued .) 
Good Roads for Minnesota. 
' J. M. D., Rollingstone, Minn. —1 at¬ 
tended the State Road Convention at St. 
Paul. The convention was made up 
mostly of old men (the average age was 
nearly 50 years) and not of a lot of 
“bicycle boys,” as was predicted by 
some. There were “ many men of many 
minds,” as was to be expected : but they 
all agreed as to the folly of the present 
system of working out the road tax ; and 
were anxious that something be done by 
the present legislature looking to an 
improved system. The only thing of 
importance omitted in the official report 
was a letter read before the convention 
showing the cost of macadam roads in 
Minnesota in sections where stone can 
be readily obtained. It was from a man 
near Rushford, who ran a stone crusher 
there last fall. He said 82 rods of road 
had been built in five days. The cost of 
the macadam surfacing eight inches thick 
and 82 rods long cn a turnpike 16 feet 
wide, was $160. He said that five teams 
were kept busy by the crusher at the 
start, and eight towards the end of the 82 
rods. The crusher was run by an ordin¬ 
ary thrashing engine and the $160 above 
mentioned included the fuel and the cost 
of running the engine. 
Crescent Strawberry 0. K. 
G. B., Fremont, N. H.—The Crescent 
strawberry is criticised adversely in The 
R. N.-Y of January 21. It is of good 
quality and fair size here, and always 
sells well and is sure to bear well. In¬ 
deed it is one of the most profitable for 
market. The quality is better than that 
of the average of varieties. My sales of 
it average as well as those of any other 
variety and no other kind is liked so 
well. My average net price was 13% 
cents per box for Crescents wholesale at 
the railroad station here. 
About the Ruby Currant. 
N. H., Creedmoor, N. Y.—In a late 
Rural mention is made of a Ruby cur¬ 
rant—Moore’s. The Ruby of the May¬ 
flower is most certainly not the Moore 
Ruby, and it is unfortunate that two 
varieties should receive the same name. 
The Moore has the priority. The Ruby 
of the Mayflower originated as a chance 
seedling along a stone wall beside a cur¬ 
rant field, in Ulster County, N. Y. See¬ 
ing its merits, a German took it, and by 
him it has received only a limited dis¬ 
semination in the immediate neighbor¬ 
hood of its origin ; of this I am sure. 
R. N.-Y.—Then Mr. Childs ought not 
to have called his currant “ Ruby.” Hav¬ 
ing called it by that name, it ought at 
once to be changed. 
Poor Roads That Help Agriculture. 
W. H. B., Newark, Del. —Too much 
cannot be said on the subject of good 
roads, nor can too many arguments in 
their favor be brought forward, but the 
illustrations in the editorial on page 24, 
do not seem to be just to the point, for to 
my mind the keeping of cotton seed at 
home on the farm is a benefit and not a 
loss to the Southern farmer. 
We are told “it is better for the planter 
to sell whole seed and buy back cotton¬ 
seed meal.” Let us see what the figures 
will say to that. A ton of cotton seed is 
worth, as The Rural says, about $7.50 
after the farmer has delivered it at his 
railroad station. That ton of seed will 
yield about 1,000 pounds of hulls, 750 of 
meal and 250 of oil—with the best meth¬ 
ods of manufacture, perhaps a little more 
oil and less meal. The usual price of the 
meal to the farmer is not far from $20 
per ton, sometimes $1 or $2 more or less. 
The hulls in car-load lots bring from $3 
to $4 per ton delivered at the farmer’s 
station, and if he buys meal, the cost of 
freight must also be added, for compar- 
tively few farmers are near enough to 
the crushers to buy directly from'them. 
Now, the account stands thus: The 
ton of seed will bring $7.50. If the farmer 
wishes the fertilizing or feeding material 
contained in that seed he can buy it 
back in this way : 750 pounds of meal, 
$7.50: 1,000 pounds of hulls, $1.50—a total 
of $9. That is, he must not only have 
all the expense of loading and hauling 
his seed to the railway station and then 
hauling back his meal and hulls, but he 
must pay at least $1.50 besides for the 
privilege, and as many farmers in the 
South are from 4 to 10 miles from a rail¬ 
road, the labor involved is not slight. 
It might be claimed that the better 
mechanical condition of the meal and 
hulls would pay for the difference in 
cost. In that case, it would have to be 
proved that the products from the seed 
which the farmer uses are worth 40 per 
cent more after the oil has been taken 
out, than in the raw seed. That has not 
been proved yet, so far I know, and for 
that reason, during several years’ resi¬ 
dence in the South, I not only used all the 
cotton seed raised on the farm, but 
bought many thousand bushels for feed¬ 
ing and fertilizing, always feeling that 
seed at $7.50 per ton was cheaper than 
meal at $20, especially as freight and 
hauling expenses amounting to $2 or 
$3 per ton, would have to be added to 
the cost of the meal, and I was about 
eight miles from market, but less than 
one from a railroad station. Again, if 
the seed is sold to the crushers, it means 
generally just so much fertility taken 
away from the farm, for seed retained 
on it is carefully saved and used as feed 
or fertilizer and not by any means 
wasted. So, on the whole, so far as this 
particular phase of the road question is 
concerned, poor roads are a benefit if 
they really do cause the planter to keep 
his cotton-seed at home and use it on the 
farm. 
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