1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
209 
Rurallsms— Continued. 
or Mole Plant.” An illustration shows 
a round-headed tree loaded with fruit 
which seem to be about the size of 
apples. Beside this beautiful little tree 
lies a dead mole. We assume that he is 
dead because, first, he is lying on his 
back with his legs up, and, second, be¬ 
cause he lies within a few feet of the 
deadly tree. Mr. Wilson says that a 
dozen trees (they grow to a height of less 
than three feet) “ would keep an ordin¬ 
ary sized garden free from moles.” He 
says, “ the plant is a biennial and easily 
raised from seed.” Mr. Wilson, however, 
fails to allude to the fine fruit borne by 
the tree, and he further omits to mention 
its botanical name or to intimate in any 
way to what order it belongs. 
On page 138 of the catalogue review 
number of The R. N.-Y., allusion is made 
to the American Flag poppy as if Peter 
Henderson & Co., (who kindly loaned us 
the cut at our request) were the intro¬ 
ducers. Mr. J. C. Vaughan, of Chicago, 
informs us that he introduced it one year 
ago. 
In our brief review of the catalogue 
of the Northrup, Braslan & Goodwin 
Co., of Minneapolis, Minn., the writer, 
through some unaccountable obliquity 
wrote Mold’s Ennobled Oats instead of 
Mold’s Ennob’ed Wheat, thus no doubt 
entailing upon the firm a deal of annoy¬ 
ing correspondence. 
The Northrup, Braslan & Goodwin 
Co., offer a new variety which is called 
“ The Lincoln Oat,” and the sum of $500, 
in seven prizes, for the largest yields 
from a single bushel of seed. The com¬ 
pany have had many years of experience 
in growing the standard and new varie¬ 
ties of oats and they pronounce The 
Lincoln “the best oat now before the 
American people.” Here are the reasons 
given for such a statement: 
It has produced one-third more than 
any other variety grown in the same 
locality. It is very early. It is entirely 
rust-proof as far as known. It stands 
up better than any other sort. It is 
best for feeding on acount of its thin 
hull and heavy meat. It is best for oat¬ 
meal or grinding. One grower reports a 
yield of 100 bushels to the acre, a meas 
ured bushel weighing 47 3-10 pounds. 
If the above statements are true—and 
we have no reason to doubt the state¬ 
ments of the enterprising firm offering 
them—we need not care for Mold’s 
Ennobled, or any other variety with 
which The R. N.-Y. is familiar. 
It is the aim of the editor of this de¬ 
partment (Ruralisms) to make it a little 
paper in itself. That is to say, we aim 
to place before our readers everything 
that we desire especially to impress upon 
their minds whether it has to do with 
horticulture, agriculture, pomology, bot¬ 
any, moral aphorisms or anything else 
whatever that may help them and set 
them to thinking and to acting. Criticisms 
are desired—solicited. Whether com¬ 
plimentary or altogether antagonistic ; 
whether kindly or relentless, we desire 
them all the same. The R. N.-Y. likes 
praise ; it is soothing to the earnest 
worker ; it makes him feel that he is 
working to some purpose. On the other 
hand, it may lead him to feel that he is 
doing well enough and that he may relax 
his efforts and still merit soothing words 
of approval from easily satisfied friends. 
Readers of a journal like The R. N.-Y., 
that is truly desirous of doing better 
work from week to week—from year to 
year—should feel it scarcely less than a 
duty to assist by their approval or dis¬ 
approval of the editor’s work. We shall 
thank them for their frowns as for their 
smiles, one or the other or both, as they 
may see fit. The best evidence of worth¬ 
less work is when it receives neither 
frowns nor smiles. 
A whiter in the American Florist tells 
us that he has gathered mushrooms in 
18,19 and 20 days from time of spawning 
The beds were spawned August 30 and 
he gathered mushrooms from September 
17. 
It is well to bear in mind the relation 
of nitrogen to ammonia. Remember 
when considering the analyses of fertil¬ 
izers as printed on the bags that one 
pound of nitrogen will make 1.214 pound 
of ammonia, the ritio being as 14 to 17. 
SurrosE a given fertilizer is guaran¬ 
teed to contain 4 per cent of nitrogen. 
That would be equivalent to 4 x 1.214 or 
4.856 pounds of ammonia to every 100 
pounds of fertilizer. Suppose on the 
other hand the fertilizer is guaran¬ 
teed to contain 6 per cent of ammonia. 
What is the equivalent in nitrogen? As 
every pound of ammonia contains .8235 
of a pound of nitrogen, we have to mul¬ 
tiply 6 x .8235, which will give 4.94 pounds 
of nitrogen to every 100 pounds of fer¬ 
tilizer. 
In the simplest form let us put it in 
this way: A pound of ammonia contains 
about four-fifths of a pound of nitrogen, 
the difference being the hydrogen which 
with the nitrogen forms ammonia. 
We have received from L. Osborn of 
Albion, N. Y., an account of last year’s 
potato trials. The seeds were planted 
May 16, by the Rural trench method, one 
by three feet apart. The season was 
unfavorable. In some of the trenches 
sulphur was applied after the pieces were 
covered with one inch of soil. The po¬ 
tatoes from these trenches were all 
smooth; the others were “all scabs,” an 
additional support of The It. N.-Y.’s 
trials. Stray Beauty yielded at the rate 
of 493 bushels per acre. Ripe August 5 
Early Puritan yielded at the rate of 528 
bushels to the acre. Dug August 5. 
Maine Rose yielded at the rate of 504 
bushels to the acre; dug August 10; 
Downing, 478, dug August 15; Freeman, 
428, dug August 15; Rural New-Yorker 
No. 2, 712, dug in September : Early 
Peachblow, 322, dug in September. 
We desire again to call the attention 
of potato growers to the fact that the R 
N.-Y. No. 2 sets its tubers so early that 
they may be dug and sold as early pota 
toes. Their almost perfect form and 
white skin will insure their sale. We 
know nothing as to their quality when 
harvested thus early. 
Abstracts. 
- Life : “ The trouble with the labor 
agitator is that he wants to become the 
capitalist whom he hates ” 
-New York Tribune : “ ‘ The coming 
man will live largely on nuts.’ If so, he 
will hate himself to death, i. e , if they 
stir up his interior department as they 
do mine. Fat pork is an ideal food beside 
black walnuts, which to me are almost 
poisonous.” 
“ I killed this Christmas 27 hogs, and 
every one was diseased in liver, kidneys 
or lungs.” 
-Western Plowman : “ Give a note 
for 60 days, and see how soon the balmy 
breath of spring will be here.” 
“The man who discovered that a rub¬ 
ber tip is the proper caper on the end of 
a lead pencil made a clean $200,000 ; but 
the man who discovered that the proper 
study of mankind is man died poor.” 
Such is life ! 
■ Thomas Huoiies : “ There is not one 
who has not heard the call in his own 
heart to put aside all evil habits and to 
live a brave, simple, truthful life.” 
-N. Y. Tribune : “ A speaker at a 
recent horticultural meeting reported by 
The Nebraska Farmer, advised planting 
each variety of apple in the same row or 
rows ‘ to facilitate spraying, as the dif¬ 
ferent sorts do not all blossom at the 
same time.’ ” 
“Most vegetarians have unusually 
clear and often beautiful complexions.” 
“The way to keep a man out of the 
mud is to black his boots.” 
- Ram’s Horn : “ If you must be dog¬ 
matic, try not to-be bull-dogmatic.” 
-Ladies’ Home Journal : “ Like cures 
like is only another way of saying that 
like kills like.” 
Are you tied to a 
Cow’s Tail? 
This is a startling question propounded by 
the Rural New Yorker, and is another way of 
asking a farmer if he is so much a believer 
in stable manure as to undervalue the use 
of chemical manures. Nothing equals stable 
manure in every respect; but the 
STOCKBRIDGE MANURES 
are the best substitutes, and for some crops are 
superior to it. They furnish to the growing 
crop at the right time, in the right forms and 
associations, all the plant food it requires for 
perfect maturity. 
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