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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April"15 
Potato Scab on Irrigated Land. 
H. S., Del Norte, Colo. —I have reaa 
I. S. C.’s complaint about potato scab in 
The R. N.-Y. of March 4 and I have also 
uad experience with it like my neigh- 
c r I believe one cause of it is too 
much moisture rather than too much 
fresh stable manure. Here we irrigate 
to raise crops by means of small ditches 
or furrows running between the ridges 
in which the potatoes are raised. Now 
I have observed that most scab has been 
where the potatoes got the most water, 
especially on the lower ends of the rows 
Here is a remedy vouched for by one 
who has tried it—William McClellan of 
Greeley, Weld County, in this State. Last 
year he vitriolized his seed and none so 
treated were troubled with the disease. 
Those which had not been dipped in the 
solution nshowed the disease in marked 
contrast. He first planted 12 acres dipped 
in vitriol, then having occasion to be 
away one day, the boys took advantage 
of his absence and, not having faith in 
his theory, omitted to dip what they 
planted while he was gone. On his re¬ 
turn he called them to account and had 
the rest of the pieces planted after dip¬ 
ping, as at first. The parts which were 
planted with vitriolized seed were entire¬ 
ly free from scab, while those planted 
with undipped seed were diseased. The 
solution is the same as for smut in wheat 
and oats. From that section have been 
shipped since October 4,000 carloads of 
potatoes mostly to the South. A car¬ 
load averages 12 tons and the price has 
ranged from 90 cents to $1 per 100 pounds 
in October to $1.35 at present—an aver¬ 
age of $1.15 or $23 per ton. This makes so 
far a total valuation of $1,104,000. From 
Evans and New Windsor in Weld County 
at least half the quantity has been sent 
out, and from Eastonville and Monu¬ 
ment in El Paso County, the shipments 
have reached 3,500 cars—worth at least 
$1,000,000. Isn’t it a curious fact that 
the immense increase in the Colorado 
potato crop has served only to raise the 
price ? 
Prof. Massev “ Called Down.” 
Subscriber, Richmond, Va. —I wish 
to say a few words in regard to Prof. 
Massey’s last article in The Rural 
(March 18) concerning “ Mr. Grundy’s 
Man.” In the first place I don’t think 
Mr. Grundy described him as a “ model” 
farmer, but simply as a specimen of one 
class of farmers, and such men are not 
confined to his part of the country by any 
means. The Professor says: “ The poor¬ 
est farmer in the South could not be so 
boorish as this man. He would not know 
how, never having seen men act in such 
a way. He might be a poor cotton planter 
and living in a shanty but hecould never 
be an ill-mannered hog.” Now this shows 
that the Professor is either misrepresent¬ 
ing facts about the Southern people or 
that he is as ignorant of their ways as he 
is of the average Northern farmer's. I 
have lived in Virginia two years and in 
that period have seen as many ‘‘ill-man¬ 
nered ” boors, within two miles of my 
farm as I had seen in my previous 
life in Ohio. For example, right next 
door to us is a man who talks “ meaner” 
to his wife right before people than any 
man I ever saw and does not hesitate to 
t 11 her to “ shut up” if he happens to 
want to say something himself when she 
is tilking, and this in company too. 
Right on the next farm is a man who 
claims to be worth $10,000 made by to¬ 
bacco raising, but he has the name of 
being the “ closest ” man in this county. 
He has plenty of money for his own 
gratification—to get drunk on, etc., but 
his wife has worn the same ‘‘best ” dress 
for theUast 10 years, and has never had 
it even ‘‘made over.” On the other side 
of ub is a man who has paid for a farm 
and built a good house and now has 
money at interest, but his wife and child¬ 
ren have to beg ‘‘mighty” hard for every 
dollar they want for themselves and they 
are all hard workers too. He has to be 
watched when he sells anything, for he 
will take advantage even of his neigh¬ 
bors if they trust him to do the measur¬ 
ing or weighing when they buy of him. 
Just back of us is a man who would take 
a premium for ill manners anywhere. 
At a little evening party at a neighbor’s 
he actually filled and smoked his pipe 
right in the parlor in the presence of at 
least half a dozen ladies, and we had 
either to sit there and breathe the fumes 
of that wretched tobacco or leave the 
room, which we were soon glad to do. 
A teacher of the Bible class in the Sun¬ 
day School has a habit of cracking, in 
the presence of ladies, jokes which border 
so closely on the obscene that some young 
ladies actually refuse to go into his class. 
Now, Mr. Massey, “for the credit of your 
section ” you ought not to have tempted 
me to give these facts. Of course there 
are real gentlemen here as there are in 
any section of the United States, but 
there are just as many “ ill-mannered 
hogs ” too. 
Splitting: Roots. 
J. H. L., Stuart, Mont.— About the 
cracking or splitting open of carrots as 
mentioned in a late Rural, my exper¬ 
ience is that when the roots become dry 
from drought, and there happens to be a 
penetrating rain in August or Septem¬ 
ber, or too much irrigation, there is a 
too rapid growth for the expansion, and 
rutabagas, beets and carrots split open 
so that a great part of the crop becomes 
unsalable. Subsoilin g is a partial remedy 
in some soils. 
How to Keep Apples. 
A. W. H., Maine. —In a late Rural 
a North Carolina correspondent asks for 
information about a house in which to 
keep apples during winter where the 
thermometer falls to 10 below zero. An 
inexpensive method is to select a well 
drained piece of ground, dig a trench as 
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To the American 
The Colorado Desert in 
Southern California is about 
to be watered. 
A man of experience says: 
“ Take no man’s word on a 
matter of irrigation ; there is 
too much money involved.” 
On the other hand, men of 
the East do not know and 
cannot believe what wealth 
irrigation creates, and how 
quick it creates it, where all 
outdoors is a hotbed. 
Between the two doubts, it 
takes some courage to speak 
of the profits about to be made. 
And yet you can see, from the 
yield of one acre, what a million 
acres is worth. 
A thousand-million dollars 
is going to be created by the 
Colorado Desert Canal within 
ten years, if all goes well— 
most of it for settlers; a 
hundred-million for our stock¬ 
holders. 
You can take part with us 
in the general work immedi¬ 
ately; or, later, buy ten acres 
of land and grow oranges 
lemons figs etc. 1 he largest 
and quickest returns will come 
from fruit-growing. Settlers 
will get their money out of the 
ground before they pay us 
much for land and water. 
We have a pamphlet to send 
you; free. Our immediate 
object is to sell shares. We 
shall sell shares slowly till 
ready for settlers, then turn to 
water and land. The price, to 
begin with, is $50; but at 
this price our whole stock 
would bring only $7,500,000. 
We shall sell no faster than 
money is needed to pay for the 
work, and no more than 
enough to take the canal to 
where we begin to irrigate; 
keeping sales back by raising 
the price. We suppose a $50 
share will be worth $1,000, 
when half the desert is irri¬ 
gated ; $100 this year. 
Within three months from 
receiving water, the settlers 
will be sending to New York 
and Chicago car-loads of veg¬ 
etables at $50 to $150 an 
acre a year. In two or three 
years the fruit-trees bear. In 
fifteen years they yield $500 to 
$2,500 an acre a year, and are 
worth $2,000 to $ 10,000an.acre. 
You think these figures too 
big. They are not; you shall 
see they are not. If it takes 
you a year to see it, you lose 
by your slowness. We shall 
do our part. 
There is a million acres of 
Mediterranean fruit and nut 
land under our levels; barren 
now, because dry; but, with 
water, quick; and the lay of the 
land is such that the water will 
run all over it naturally. 
The combination of climate, 
People 
soil, transportation to market, 
water, and other favoring 
circumstances, exists in no other 
place in the world. Our 
settlers will have a monopoly 
of it. Name one other place— 
it does not exist. We own 
1,500,000 acres outside of this 
—no railroad, no market. 
The best measure of what 
will be done in the Colorado 
Desert, is what is done in the 
adjoining valley 150 miles 
beyond; but our climate is 
warmer and dryer, our season 
four to six weeks earlier, soil 
as good, situation better, all 
the circumstances so favorable 
that we shall excel and surpass 
what is done in any other part 
of Southern California. 
Everything else but water is 
there already. Water we 
take, without dam, from the 
Colorado River. The water is 
muddy, and soil improves under 
cultivation with it, without any 
other fertilizer; no other will 
ever be used apparently. 
If water turns desert to gar¬ 
den, producing $50 to $150 an 
acre immediately, and ten 
times more when trees are 
half-grown, is it strange that 
the business of bringing water 
is profitable ? 
But the business is new to 
you in the East. We look to 
you for money to make the 
canal; we must make you ac¬ 
quainted with what is going on 
in a dozen valleys in Southern 
California. Farming is, almost 
everywhere, hard and slow; 
but fruit-growing there is easy, 
and vegetables provide the 
trees. We shall have no land 
or water to sell for a year. 
Meantime, get ready by read¬ 
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To save money, we shall 
make our advertisements short. 
In a month you will see what 
we mean ; in a year we hope 
to be acquainted with you. 
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