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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 2 
Among M.v Strawberries. 
E. J. II , Oi,yphant, Pa.—I fruited 52 
varietieB of strawberries this year. War- 
field is the best bearer I have ever raised. 
It does well on sand or elay and always 
brings a good priee. Beder Wood is my 
next best paying variety. We picked 
berries nearly every day for one month. 
At the beginning of the season I thought 
barker Earle would produce more ber¬ 
ries than any other. I counted 200 blos¬ 
soms on one plant. The season was too 
dry for it, and the berries were very 
small at the last of the reason. Edgar 
Queen produced the largest fruit. Phil¬ 
lip Seedling bore the finest-looking and 
Greenville the best-flavored. Manches¬ 
ter lias paid me better than any other 
late berry I have ever raised. I was 
very much disappointed in Enhance. It 
is not very productive and the berries 
are rough and ill-shaped, with green 
tips. Maverland and Bubacli did not do 
as well as usual ; the season was too dry 
for them and some other varieties. 
Saunders are much larger than Lovett's 
Early and much more productive. Shus¬ 
ter’s (Jam always gives me a good crop 
of fruit good for a near market, but too 
soft for long shipment. Don’t spend 
money or time with Westerbrook ; the 
berries are too small and it iB not pro¬ 
ductive. Regina, dandy, E. I*. Roe, 
Lady Rusk and Middlefield are not pro¬ 
ductive enough for profit. 
Diseased Llveforever Again. 
C. It., Guilford, N. Y. —Sometime ago 
] saw in Tub R. N.-Y. an inquiry as to 
how to get rid of liveforever and cultiva¬ 
tion was advised. Now, the more culti¬ 
vation it gets, the more it thrives, as 
every stalk, root or piece of either will 
grow anywhere, even in the side of a 
house, as I have seen it do a number of 
times. The only remedy I know of is 
the use of a diseased plant, which, when 
set among the others will spread the 
disease to another stalk and so on till all 
are affected, causing them to turn black 
and die—a great deal like the black 
blight among potatoes. This has been 
tried hero and proved to be effective. 
That Southern Pit Silo. 
John Gould, Ohio. —The plan outlined 
on page 1540 is a little difficult of compre¬ 
hension, but on the face of it there seems 
to be much labor involved. If the in¬ 
quirer will roll up two good log houses, 
10x10 feet square and 10 feet high, of 
good-sized logs, hewed flat on the inside 
face when up, and mortar the chinks 
with wliito-limo mortar so as to make a 
fairly smooth inside wall, his silo will be 
far more satisfactory, lie will find it 
about impossible to tramp freshly-turned 
earth hard enough against the outside of 
his poles to make an air-tight wall, and 
the bilo must be that in any form or style 
of pit. Besides, the rough pole face of 
the silo on the inside will prevent good 
and solid setting of tho ensuage, and 
trouble will ensue by the imperfect con¬ 
ditions of walls and ensilage in contact. 
By all means omit straw in. the bottom 
of the silos, as it results only in an air 
layer to spoil more ensilage. It will, if 
help bo plenty, be less work to roll up 
two log houses and hew down the inside 
facings than to dig this great trench, 
build the 10-pole silos, throw back the 
earth and tramp it in, and then put on 
the covers proposed. When the log-house 
silos are filled, all that will be needed is 
to lay some stout poles across the too of 
the houses, and top them out with straw 
or wild hay, enough to keep out the rain, 
and not remove these roofs when the en¬ 
silage is being fed ; simply get in under 
the joof and throw it out as needed. 
There is not a particle of use of the heavy 
covers proposed. Leave the top of the 
pits as level as possible when the job is 
complete, aDd, the second day after, put 
on a foot of green hay of any kind and a 
few old rails to hold it down when it 
dries out. 
R .1. Redding, Gkohgia Experiment 
Station. —The details as given are not 
very clearly expressed. A pit 100 feet 
long by four feet wide and 15 deep (as 
expressed by B. L ), would be in very 
bad shape for a silo. Moreover, the 
rough pole walls would not answer at 
all, because their irregular surfaces 
would prevent uniform settling and in¬ 
evitably leave air spaces. It is essential 
that the inner surfaces of a silo shall be 
approximately true and smooth. A 
strong frame-work of square, sawed tim¬ 
bers, lined with inch plank, matched and 
jointed, would answer much better. Our 
silo is weather-boarded outside, sheathed 
with surfaced inch planks on the inside, 
lathed and plastered and finished with 
cement. B. L.’s plan is too crude and 
inaccurate in details and would not be 
satisfactory. The straw should be first 
put on, then inch boards cut to fit, then 
weights. I have no experience with 
prairie grass for ensilage. There is 
m thing better than Imban corn, unless 
it be the Soja bean. 
New Thing:* About Slloa. 
J. II. CoNNKLI., DlKKOTOK TEXAS EX¬ 
PERIMENT Station. — I have had a very 
general experience with silos and ensi¬ 
lage, with and without buildings, and in 
my opinion, a pit four feet wide, of any 
depth, would not be economical for en¬ 
silage, as there will be waste from the 
sides, which would amount to a large 
proportion of tho ensilage when a pit is 
so narrow. I can see no necessity for 
packing earth between the soil and the 
walls of the silo. A dry, airy space 
would be preferable in ray opinion. I 
have attempted tho ensiloing of Grab 
grass, but have never made a success, 
because I could not exclude the air suffi¬ 
ciently well. This was cut. I have 
stored green Chicken corn (Sorghum 
vulgare) in an open field without exca¬ 
vation, and added some earth on the top 
to protect it from rain. The stalks in 
this pile were laid parallel *>nd closely 
tramped, and no weights were used. 
This feed kept thoroughly good for two 
or three months. In the fall of 1 KK1>, 
three silos, holdirg 250 tons, were burned 
by fire at the Mississippi Agricultural 
and Mechanical College. This food had 
been stored in June and July, and was 
left exposed after the fire. It remained 
in good condition for several weeks until 
fed up. One of tho stacks of ensilage 
leaned to one side, and one-tliird of it 
tumbled oiT. After it had fallen it re¬ 
mained sweet and good in the mass for 
more than 20 days. I have seen cow 
peas ensiloed with but little success 
when put in whole. If cut they can be 
properly handled. It is one of those 
variety plants from which it is difficult 
to drive out tho air, in putting in silo, 
sufficiently well to insure preservation 
Any underground silo is in great danger 
of surface water seeping in and destroy¬ 
ing its contents, unless covered by a roof 
and protected also on tho sideB by tile 
drains, set at some depth in the soil. 
Tho same results may be obtained by 
cementing the bottom and s : deB of the 
pit. I have seen earth used to fill in be¬ 
tween the walls of an “above ground” 
silo, with tho expectation that it would 
exclude all air (no tarred paper was 
used), and tho entire mass of good en¬ 
silage rotted. All things considered, I 
am convinced that the pit suggested by 
the correspondent, on page 540, is apt to 
prove more expensive in the long run 
than a silo properly constructed. 
How Much Wheat Shall We Sow ? 
E. E. It., Flint, Mich.—W ith the pres- 
•ent ruinous price of wheat, no farmer 
can afford to raise it, unless he gets much 
more than the average yield per acre. 
This state of affairs has existed for u 
number of years, but farmers have gone 
on sowing their uaual acreage, hoping 
that the price would rise before the crop 
was harvested, but only to find that, in¬ 
stead of rising, it was steadily falling off 
year by year, until now it really seems 
that rock bottom ha9 been reached. Very 
likely some farmers will sow their usual 
acreage this fall, but in spite of the talk 
that “ this is just the year to sow,” and 
other arguments of like purport, 1 think 
farmers will do well to hesitate before 
sowing an extensive acreage to wheat. 
Unless there should be something very 
unusual in the occurrences of the next 
12 months, there is little prospect that 
the wheat market will materially im¬ 
prove in that time, and there are other 
crops which may much more profitably 
be grown and with a greater certainty 
of bringing a good price. The time may 
come when beans will drop to the pres¬ 
ent price of wheat, but there is no pros¬ 
pect of it at present, and the market for 
them might be considerably below the 
present prices, and still they would be a 
more profitable crop than wheat. Pota¬ 
toes, one year with another, are a profit¬ 
able crop to grow; and, although it is 
much labor to harvest them, the farmers 
who have raised quantities of them for 
years are perfectly satisfied with the re¬ 
sults of their labor. Wheat has been the 
principal money crop for so many years 
that farmers dislike to give it up. It is 
true that it is always as good as the cash 
—but not a very great deal of it lately— 
and that it can be kept indefinitely, two 
points in its favor. But farmers must 
give it up if they are going to pay ex¬ 
penses. It is my opinion that the days 
of profitable wheat growing are past so 
far as the Eastern States are concerned, 
and in many other localities also. There 
may be a change after a few years, and 
prices may advance ; but it will be only 
when the demand shall equal the supply, 
and when speculators shall eeasc to make 
it the base of their operations Those 
farmers who are so situated that they 
can raise other crops successfully, or fol¬ 
low any otner branch of farming, will do 
well to hesitate before setting their teams 
to work plowing for wheat this fall. 
Whittier’# Barefoot Boy Again. 
E E. E., Rai.kioh, N. C.—Please record 
this one protest against the belittling t f 
that barefoot boy. lie is a type of the 
honest, open-handed, upright and liberal 
citizen. Note the straightforward, open, 
manly face and ways, lie is the person¬ 
ification of truth and good nature, and 
his activity and good fellowship for 
everyone he meets, and for all his dumb- 
friends are fostered and improved by the 
free and easy life he is able to lead. 
That boy’s clothes were doubtless made 
by his mother with an eye to use and 
comfort rather than style, and perhaps 
were cut from some his father had worn 
and it may be from home-made cloth 
capable of double wear compared with 
modern elothlng. A boy’s legs need 
somij covering spring and fall, early 
mornings, and on cold rainy days. This 
barefoot boy’s mother appreciated this 
and provided the needed covering; then 
when he wishes to run free, wade in the 
brook building dams or go fishing, what 
more natural thing to do than roll up the 
bottoms to suit his purpose ? Those 
tender feet soon become as firm and 
leathery as his father’s palms and while 
there were always places, no doubt, 
where it was not pleasant to go, instead 
of a whine or feeble, “ I can’t,” this boy 
could go over or around obstacles. Thus 
he learned to meet d fiicultics face to 
face as they were encountered, and in 
this way the boy became “father to the 
man,”—the kind of man who takes the 
holm in business, in professional life, in 
the management of State affairs. Ali 
honor to the barefoot boy and the mother 
whoso busy life left her no time to fuss 
with the petty details of style in his 
clothes. She was careful that he was 
comfortably fed and clad and probably 
let him entertain himself in his own free 
and easy way when he could not bo of 
use in the “ chores ” he doubtless cheer¬ 
fully performed. This is saying more 
than can be successfully maintained for 
the modern boy and his management. 
(Continued oniuxt pane.) 
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