1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
269 
Nichols No. 5 tomato, as tried at the 
Rural Grounds last year, seems to be of 
the Ponderosa type, though the vines 
were more vigorous, having a more pro¬ 
nounced potato leaf. The fruit was very 
large and generally of regular form, 
ripening fairly about the stem. Some 
plants, however, bore tomatoes as irregu¬ 
lar in shape as any of the Ponderosa 
strain. It would be well to select this 
variety for a season or so before intro¬ 
ducing it. The flesh was solid with few 
seeds. This originated with A. M. Nichols, 
Granville, O. Its parent was Mr. Nichols’s 
“ Stone.” 
Sekds of the Advance tomato were sent 
to us by Frank Ford & Son, of Ravenna, 
O. The firm—an excellent firm it is— 
wrote us that this variety “ripened inside 
of 100 days after seed was sown, and the 
tomatoes kept two weeks after they were 
ripe.” We found it to ripen among the 
earliest. The tomatoes were perfectly 
regular in form, of an orange-red cob r, 
and in size from small to medium. 
I) M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, Mich., 
sent us last year their Round-pod Wax 
bean. Some pods are a little flattened. 
We do not know of a better bean for can- 
ners’ use. The ripening pods are hand¬ 
some and the green shelled beans of extra 
quality. It is more or less like Ladies’ 
Favorite. Later Livingston advertised a 
speckled wax which proved to be the 
same. He lost his stock. Griswold’s 
Everbearing is a similar variety. 
We received a few beans from A. W. 
Smith, of Americus, Ga., last spring. He 
wrote that the variety is a bush of won¬ 
derful productiveness, early, very sweet 
and superior to all Limas. “ It is a won¬ 
der,” he adds, “in that in a green state 
it is as edible as a snap.” Unfortunately 
our few seeds failed to grow. 
Minnesota King corn was introduced 
by the Northrup Braslan Co , of Minne¬ 
apolis, Minn. In our trials it has been 
found an early yellov dent. The ears are 
of medium size, about eight rowed, the 
kernels broad, the rows regular, the tips 
well covered. We regard it as an improve¬ 
ment upon Queen of the Prairie or Pride 
of the North, which The R. N -Y. was the 
first to announce were identical. 
Last year, at the Rural Grounds, the 
plants of Burpee’s Bush Lima averaged 
about two feet in diameter and not over 
15 inches in height, bearing about 35 pods 
that averaged three seeds to a pod. This is 
what it does under ordinary field culture 
in a soil of medium fertility. In previous 
years a plant here and there would show 
the vine habit. Last year there was no 
disposition to run to vine. The bush habit 
is evidently fixed or nearly so. 
Dreer’s Bush and Kumerle, which are 
nearly the same, spread over the ground 
covering a space of about three feet in 
diameter. 
There isn't any flint corn that in our 
opinion is better than Longfellow. We 
once raised a splendid crop (76 bushels of 
grain to the acre) planted June 8. The 
plants grow to a height of about eight 
feet. They sucker considerably and pro¬ 
duce more leaves than most other flints. 
The ears are long, about 10 rows, the 
grain of medium size. 
We cannot too thoroughly impress upon 
those of our readers who buy fertilizers 
without knowing much of their real value 
except as it is indicated by the guaran¬ 
teed analyses printed on the bags or tags 
that the maximum guarantee is not to be 
considered at all. For example, the 
printed analysis says : “ Nitrogen, from 
three to five per cent.” It might just as 
well say “ from three to ten per cent.” 
Three per cent is the legal guarantee, 
and it is all that the purchaser is sup¬ 
posed to pay for. The rest is deceptive 
and it is intended to deceive. The seller 
desires the purchaser to believe that the 
fertilizer contains more than three per 
cent of nitrogen ; more than he is asked 
to pay for. As a rule it will contain 
rather less than three per cent. 
Let us apply this piece of trickiness to 
other transactions. A farmer desires to 
sell his farm. “ How many acres do you 
guarantee the farm to contain ?” asks the 
applicant. lie receives the answer, “ I 
guarantee it to contain from 100 to 150 
acres.” Would it be wise to purchase the 
farm on the basis that it contains more 
than 100 acres ? 
Tf the manufacturer or compounder of 
concentrated fertilizers mixes his mate¬ 
rials thoroughly, it is an easy matter for 
his chemist to determine from samples 
just how much nitrogen they contain. A 
guarantee of “from three to five per 
cent” of nitrogen means either that he 
does not know how much it contains or 
that he hopes to induce the belief that 
it may contain from one to two per cent 
more than is reckoned in the price asked 
for it. As farmers become familiar with 
such tricks, manufacturers will cease to 
add the deceptive maximum guarantee 
which guarantees nothing on their part 
except it may be a willingness to take a 
mean advantage of the purchaser’s igno¬ 
rance. 
Just the same caution may be empha¬ 
sized against ammonia, potash and phos¬ 
phoric acid. The purchaser has a right 
to know whether the phosphoric acid is 
in the form of bone or mineral phosphate 
and whether the bone is fine or coarse. 
He should know whether the potash is 
muriate or sulphate, as the latter is worth 
a cent a pound more than the former. If 
the form of actual potash is not stated, 
then the purchaser has a right to assume 
that it is in the form of muriate. 
That veteran, and much respected vet¬ 
eran, Thomas Meehan, says that Robert 
Douglas was the first American (though 
he was not born in America) to show 
that evergreens could be raised in Amer¬ 
ica as cheaply and as easily as in Europe, 
and who gave the first great impetus to 
practical forest planting. He not only 
prepared the seedlings, but undertook 
the work of planting the forests, and 
what he did in this line has been the 
great American exemplar of good forest 
culture. It will gratify his many friends 
to know that though in his 80th year, he 
is still ready on any occasion to climb a 
mountain and enjoy a genuine forest 
outing. 
crank which is moved so easily that the 
operator is hardly conscious of effort. In 
this way a fan is rapidly revolved which 
blows the powder through the gun upon 
the plants to be treated, whether potato 
vines, currant bushes, cabbages, cotton 
plants or fruit trees. The quantity of 
powder blown through the tube is 
nicely adjusted by a slide, and the pow¬ 
der issues from the nozzle in clouds of 
fine dust which may easily be made to 
cover six feet of plants, more or less, as 
the crank is turned more or less rapidly. 
The end of the tube is adjustable so that 
the powder may be directed up, down or 
sidewise, while it is not necessary that 
the operator should stoop or bend the 
body at any time. The powder is evenly 
distributed upon the plants and econom¬ 
ically so, since the construction of the 
machine is such that the powder is never 
blown out in gusts, masses or puffs. 
Without change of position two or three 
currant bushes may be dusted at once in 
a few moments, while a row of potatoes 
may be thoroughly dusted as one walks 
slowly along. The durability of the ma 
chine is such, in our opinion, that with 
careful usage it would last for years. 
What we desire to accentuate in this 
gun is the following point: even, 
easy, economical and rapid distribution 
of the insecticide. It is one of those 
labor-saving machines that we are con¬ 
fident will delight all who give them a fair 
trial. It is made by Leggett & Brother, 
301 Pearl Street, New York. 
Direct. 
-F. W. Semper : “ Guano was first 
imported into the United States at Balti¬ 
more in 1832, and in that and succeeding 
years was used by planters of Maryland 
and other Southern States. It was intro¬ 
duced into England by the Earl of Derby 
in 1841.” 
“ By many planters, castor pomace is 
believed to have a particularly favorable 
effect on the quality of the tobacco leaf.” 
-Dr. Peabody : “ You or I may do 
more harm to our moral nature by a 
willing though slight breach of the law 
of kindness, by a calumnious utterance, 
or by a selfish construction of the right, 
than is wrought by years of evil-doing 
on the part of one altogether born in sin.” 
-W. 0. Eastman, Ontario : “ The new 
Black Lima proved early, productive and 
of good quality—superior to anything in 
the way of a Lima bean that I have ever 
tried.” 
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