35o 
May 20 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Pbof. Brooks, of the Massachusetts 
Experiment Station, gives some valuable 
information regarding the Soy or Soja 
bean. As our readers are aware, these 
beans have attracted much attention dur¬ 
ing the last few years, chiefly as a fodder 
crop. The seeds of the varieties Prof. 
Brooks has were originally imported 
from northern Japan, and all have 
matured for the last four years. He con¬ 
siders them worthy of trial either as 
fodder crops to be fed green or for the 
silo, or as grain crops. The seeds are 
the richest known natural vegetable sub¬ 
stance. He has had them ground and 
fed the meal with satsfactory results to 
cows in milk. It appears to be fully 
equal in feeding for milk to cotton-seed 
meal, and lias given a milk richer in 
butter than that substance. Several 
parties report success in feeding the 
beans to poultry, for which it is thought 
they may prove valuable, as they are 
nearly as rich as meat. They have been 
fed raw in some instances and in others 
boiled. Boasted and ground they make 
an excellent substitute for coffee; and 
some seedsmen are advertising them 
under the name of the “American Coffee 
Berry.” 
The varieties raised at the Rural 
Grounds were sent to us by Prof. C. C. 
Georgeson and called Yamagata Cba- 
Daidzu, Edamane, Kyusuke Daidzu and 
a yellow soft not named. These were 
planted May 3 and betran to ripen in late 
August. One thing Prof. Brooks does not 
allude to—there are only two beans to a 
pod, and the pods do not open readily. 
Of the seven different kinds of aspara¬ 
gus on trial at the Rural Grounds, 
Dreer’s Eclipse and the old Conover are 
the first this year to give cuttings. The 
varieties are Conover’s Colossal, Pal¬ 
metto, Smalley’s Defiance, Moore’s Cross¬ 
bred, Dreer’s Eclipse, Barr’s Mammoth 
and Columbian Mammoth. The last is 
not considered for the reason that the 
plants (from D. M. Ferry & Co., of 
Detroit, Mich.,) were set only a few 
weeks ago. Some of the plants are send- 
ing up shoots that are nearly white. 
They are, at any rate, a creamy white. 
The shoots of a few are greenish as in 
older kinds. The Columbian is probably 
not fully fixed yet, but it gives promise 
of becoming a distinct and valuable 
variety. 
Many complaints as to the non-receipt 
of plants, seeds, etc., offered to subscrib¬ 
ers are sent to the editor at the Rural 
Grounds. These complaints are at once 
mailed to the New York office ; but this 
involves a delay of several days. All 
such communications should be ad¬ 
dressed to the publisher or simply to 
The Rural New-Yorker, when they 
will receive due attention more promptly 
than if sent to the editor at River Edge, 
N. J., who has nothing whatever to do 
with the business part of the paper or tf 
The Rural Publishing Company. 
The benefits from crossing and hybrid¬ 
izing plants have been incalculable in 
many ways, but the most earnestly hope d- 
for results have not followed where hy¬ 
bridists have sought to combine exceeding 
hardiness in one parent with excellent 
quality in the other. The grape gives 
the most forcible illustration. Scores, if 
not hundreds, of patient, persevering 
men have, year after year, tried to com¬ 
bine the exquisite quality, the meaty 
flesh of the best Vinifera sorts, with the ^ 
hardiness and vigor of our native varie¬ 
ties. What one variety is there to-day 
to show for all this labor? 
OI 
The number of students attending the ™ 
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) for 01 
1893 amounts to the astounding aggre- 81 
gate of 2,778. All the privileges of the n j 
University are offered to persons of either 
sex without charge for tuition. 
Theiie are 103 professors and tutors in 
the faculty headed by President James 
B. Angell, who graduated at Brown Uni¬ 
versity, Providence, R. I., about 40 years 
ago, and who for a number of years 
’ thereafter was its Professor of Modern 
Languages. It is in a great measure to 
Dr. Angell’s remarkable administrative 
ability, his devotion to his profession and 
his noble character that the University 
owes its phenomenal success. 
Many purchasers in cities think that 
maple sugar is adultera*ed in proportion 
to its light color ; this is a mistake. An 
i intelligent writer in Garden and Forest 
knows of instances where sugar has been 
returned on the supposition that it was 
adulterated because it was so light-col- 
colored. The dark color of the sugar and 
syrup is taken as evidence of purity, 
while actually the reverse is true—that 
is, the color is caused by impurities, nat¬ 
ural or artificial. The darker sugar is 
the more pronounced in its taste, and 
our city people think this is the genuine 
maple flavor. But really this taste is 
wholly due to impurities, natural, per¬ 
haps, but something besides sugar. Pure 
sugar is with ut smell or flavor, being 
simply sweet. 
Our much respected contemporary, Gar¬ 
den and Forest, speaks of the American 
Wonder pea as still one of the best of its 
class, Has it tried Nott’s Excelsior?- 
This is quite as early and far more pro¬ 
lific. Our contemporary says that some 
of the most recent introductions have 
been “ improved in quality until they are 
too sweet.” We beg Mr. Stiles, its accom¬ 
plished editor, to tell The R. N.-Y. the 
names of those “ too sweet ” varieties. 
The R. N Y. is in a fair way to give 
the Dwarf Rocky Mountain cherry a 
thorough test. We ba^e received from 
one to three specimens trom six different 
sources. 
Prof. L. II. Bailey, of Cornell Ex¬ 
periment Station, says in bulletin No. 51, 
that the station bought 50 plants of the 
Crandall currant of Frark Ford & Son of 
Ravenna, Ohio, in the spring of 1888 
While he regards this type or species as 
having great promise as the parent of a 
new and valuable race of small fruits, the 
Crandall is too variable too be reliable. 
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