1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Strawberry Plants and Gladiolus Bulbs. 
(Continued.) 
hie formerly got his milk cheaper from 
the milkman than he gets it now ; but 
there is no milk route by his place at 
present. He keeps a horse pretty busy 
cultivating from June to October ; but 
there’s not much for it to do the rest of 
the year. Tf he could hire a horse during 
the summer when he wants one, he would 
much prefer not to be bothered with 
keeping one. 
Questioned in regard to his sales Mr. 
Crawford gave the following for the 
last year. 
Gladiolus bulbs .$2,100 
Strawberry plants.1.200 
Total.$2,300 
Not a little is received from the sale of 
berries and also flowers, but the above is 
the bulk of his receipts. He could not 
give a detailed statement of his expenses 
without some trouble, but said his post¬ 
age bill would average $1 per day for the 
year. The rent of the 32 acres is only $125 
per year. The income received would 
seem to be very large for the capital 
invested. c. g. williams. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Inoculation Studies. —Some rhymester 
thus gives his views on the modern craze 
for inoculation : 
First they pump him full of virus from some mediocre 
cow, 
Lest the smallpox might assail him, and leave pit 
marks on his brow; 
Then one day a bulldog bit him—he was gunning 
down at Quogue — 
And they Ulled his veins In Paris with an extract of 
mad dog ; 
Then he, caught tuberculosis, so they took him to 
Ber In. 
A nd injected half a gallon of bacilli Into him; 
Well, his friends were all delighted at the quickness 
of the cure, 
Till he caught the typhoid fever, and speedy death 
was sure; 
Then the doctors with some sewage did inoculate a 
hen. 
And injected half Its gastric juice Into his abdo¬ 
men ; 
But as soon as he recovered, as, of course, he had 
to do, 
There came along a rattlesnake and bit his thumb 
in two. 
Once again bis veins were opened to receive about a 
Kill 
Of some serpentine solution with the venom In it 
still; 
To prepare him for a voyage In an Asiatic Sea, 
New blood was pumped into him lroin a lep'rous old 
Chinee; 
Soon his appetite had vanished, and he could not eat 
at all, 
So the virus of dyspepsia was Injected In the fall; 
But his blood was so diluted by tue remedies he’d 
taken 
That one day he laid him down and died, and never 
did awaken; 
With the Brown-Sequard elixir tbo’ they tried re- 
BUBCitation, 
He never showed a symptom of reviving animation ; 
Yet his doctor still could save him (he persistently 
maintains). 
If he only could inject a little life Into his veins. 
Cold Stub age fob Silks. —The great 
cold storage rooms in this city have 
usually been filled with eggs, butter, 
fruit and other perishable food products. 
Now a new use has been found for them 
and large quantities of raw and finished 
silks are placed there. We are told this 
story about it: 
Raw silk is sold by weight, and when 
stored iu ordinary warehouses it dries 
and naturally decreases in value. By 
storing it in a cold vault the moisture is 
preserved and the silk keeps its weight. 
There is another curious fact in regard 
to the cold storage of silk. It was dis¬ 
covered some years ago that silk in win ter 
usually had a finer luster than in sum¬ 
mer. The cold air was supposed to be 
accountable for the change, and an ex¬ 
periment was tried in keeping bales of 
silk in cold rooms for comparison with 
others on the store counters. The cold 
silk then appeared to be of a much finer 
quality, when in reality it was from the 
same loom As soon as this fact became 
generally recognized the large silk deal¬ 
ers went to the cold storage warehouses 
and bad their silks placed in freezing 
vaults In some cases the thermometer 
is kept as low as 10 degrees, and when 
the bales are taken out they feel like 
blocks of ice. Some firms keep most of 
their stock iu storage, and only take silk 
out in quantities equal to the anticipated 
sales of the day, for the luster acquired 
by freezing soon disappears after ex¬ 
posure on the bargain counter. It is as¬ 
serted that an inferior grade of silk while 
extremely cold has the feeling and ap¬ 
pearance of a much higher grade which 
has not been frozen, while, on the other 
hand, it has been found that the best 
grades are not improved by the Arctic 
treatment. 
An Election Bet. —The Philadelphia 
Record describes this bet which was 
made by a Pennsylvania couple : 
The man is a Republican and his wife 
is an ardent Democrat. Shortly before 
the election they became involved in a 
dispute over the relative merits of the 
two candidates, which at one time threat¬ 
ened to disrupt the household. This was 
renewed at intervals until in despera¬ 
tion the husband made the following 
startling proposition. Said he : “ If 
Cleveland is elected, every night for a 
year I will clear off the supper table, 
wash the dishes, and put them away. 
On the other hand, if Harrison is elected 
you must shave me and shine my shoes 
every morning.” To this the wife readily 
agreed, and now the unfortunate follower 
of the g. o. p. spends the better part of 
the evening struggling with a dish rag 
and profanity, while his wife wears an 
angelic smile. 
That man will at least get an idea of 
“ woman’s work,” that will stick to him 
all his days. 
Outside ok Inside ?— Let some of the 
folks who are in the habit of asking use¬ 
less questions read this. It’s a pity all 
have not the doctor’s privilege of charg¬ 
ing: 
“Which side should I sleep on, doc¬ 
tor ?” he inquired. 
“In winter or summer?” asked the 
doctor, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. 
“ What’s that got to do with it ?” ex¬ 
claimed the patient, half angrily. 
“ A great deal,” responded the doctor, 
mysteriously. 
“ I don’t see it.” 
“ Of course you don’t,” said the imper¬ 
turbable ; “if you did you wouldn’t be 
here asking me questions about it.” 
“Go ahead, then,” said the patient, 
sitting back, resignedly. 
“Well,” continued the doctor, “in 
winter, when it is cold, you should sleep 
on the inside ; but in such weather as 
this you should sleep on the outside, in a 
hammock with a draught all round it, 
and a piece of ice for a pillow. Two 
dollars, please.” 
Averting a Mule Strike. —This is a 
great country and some of us have but a 
mighty crude conception of what our 
brothers in other parts of it are doing. 
Dudley W. Adams in the Florida Agri¬ 
culturist tells how he tried to get some¬ 
thing for his mules to eat. Every store 
in Florida has three staple articles of 
trade—hay, grain and canned goods— 
all produced at the North and brought 
thousands of miles for the Florida farmer 
to pay for, freight and profit included. 
Mr. Adams was growing squashes for 
the Northern market and his mules were 
growing poorer and poorer. 
“The result was a conference between 
labor and capital. The mules and I got 
together,” he says. “The mules were 
about done for labor and I was out of 
capital. When I went out of the squash 
business I owed the mules some oats. 
Nobody owed me anything. The mules 
acted as though they realized it was a 
bad debt and were glad to compromise. 
We agreed to quit the squash business 
and make oats. I was to furnish the 
land, seed and manure, and they were 
to perform the labor. They were to 
have the entire crop, straw and all, and 
I was to keep the land and pay the taxes. 
This compromise seemed satisfactory to 
labor. So the strike was averted. Now 
we raise all our hay and nearly all our 
grain.” 
To get “ hay ” he sows cow peas broad¬ 
cast at the rate of three pecks per acre. 
Then this remarkable hay making occurs: 
When half the pods are ripe and the 
leaves begin to fail they should be har¬ 
vested. Get a load of poles, round or 
split, two to four inches in diameter, and 
eight feet long—sharpen the big ends, go 
into the peas three steps, and work a 
pole firmly into the ground. Then pull 
with both hands some peas, and put a 
handful on each side of the pole and 
wind them around. Then pull and place 
around the pole till full and cap with a 
bunch of the greenest and leafiest vines 
you can reach. Do not press down hard, 
and be sure the stack is not more than 
16 to 20 inches in diameter. They can be 
rapidly gathered in this way and will 
cure perfectly even if there is a shower 
every day. Do not null when wet. When 
cured, puli up the pole (the peas will ad¬ 
here), and lay it on the wagon and you 
will not lose a leaf, and every one will 
be as green and sweet as when pulled. 
This will give you one to two tons to the 
acre of hay and grain of the best quality. 
Oats are sown on the pea ground about 
November 1, and harvested in January, 
cut while green and cured as hay. 
Regular Bowels follow the use of TUTT’S PILLS. 
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