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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
Continued. 
Paying the Hired Man. 
\j. M. X., Canajoharie, N. Y. —Apro¬ 
pos of the hired man discussion, T want 
to call attention to the manner in which 
farmers hire men. The way this is 
usually done is not business-like, and 
tends to demoralize matters. To hire a 
man for 12 months at a uniform monthly 
rate, and begin his time at the season 
when current wages are less than the 
price paid him, is to offer a premium for 
him to leave in harvest. If he does not 
do this, sickness or death may deprive 
the farmer of his services when they are 
most valuable, after he has paid him an 
excessive price for the slack season. 
What is more likely to happen, however, 
is a lowering of moral tono—a surrender 
of that dignity and authority which are 
essential to the position of employer, 
caused by his sense of utter helplessness 
should his employee leave. This, of 
course, meets a counterpart in the over¬ 
bearing and often insolent behavior of 
the rude and uncultivated employee, 
who is quick to see his advantage. The 
remedy seems simple enough—agree 
upon a price for each month, according 
to its value, and settle for each month 
by itself. It needs a little cooperation, 
maybe, to make such a rule acceptable 
to the hired man, but once adopted and 
lived up to, it would benefit both classes. 
A complete payment at the end of each 
month, either with cash or duo bill, as 
may bo agreed upon, would go farther 
to keep pleasant relations between the 
parties than anything which I know, 
and during my 40 years’ experience I 
have seen a great deal of farm help. 
The first ripe Teira Cotta tomato 
picked at the Rural Grounds measured 
10x8 inches in its two circumferences. It 
is a perfect specimen with the lusterless 
skin of an apricot. The color is a real 
terra-cotta unlike that of any other 
variety and it reminds one while hand¬ 
ling it of a bag of jelly or custard. 
Canna plants grown from seed planted 
in pots in March are now in bloom. The 
flowers do not come at all true from 
seeds, and the shape and color of the 
leaves, and the height of the plants vary 
as well. It is worth knowing, however, 
that cannas do bloom so early from seeds 
and that the plants are more shapely 
than those purchased in the spring, 
which have been started in pots from 
pieces of the roots. Then, too, we escape 
the necessity of wintering the roots, 
which in case of those who are obliged 
to keep them in cold cellars, id not just 
the easiest thing to do. 
Many complain of the ditlieulty of 
starting the seeds, though they soak 
them, according to the standard direc¬ 
tions, in warm water overnight. Get us 
give a bit of our own experience the past 
spring : The seeds were placed in water 
nearly boiling hot and kept there for 
24 hours. They were again placed 
in hot water and soaked 24 hours 
longer. They were then planted, but 
as there was no germination in two 
weeks they were taken out of the soil 
and again soaked in hot water for 24 
hours and again planted. This time 
they germinated at once. Very likely 
the plan of filing off the hard outer coat¬ 
ing may be a better one to insure speedy 
germination. 
Thk editors of T n e Rural N k w- 
Yohkkk, who are in no way responsible 
for the plans of the late management, 
regret that the promiso to send applicant 
subscribers the Rugosa hybrid roses has 
not been kept : they feel it is their right 
that they should in no way be held respon¬ 
sible. The mistake was in offering them 
before there was an assured stock large 
enough to supply the probable demand. 
We shall do our best to keep all prom¬ 
ises, and we trust that the propa¬ 
gation of the hybrids — every one of 
which, as we have before said, must bo 
worked upon other stock—will be pushed 
with all diligence. There were 17 of 
them offered. We have already had calls 
for possibly 5,000 of each. This would 
require 85,000 plants and 85,000 stocks. 
The magnitude of the undertaking was 
not dreamed of when, with more enthus¬ 
iasm than judgment, they were offered to 
the army of readers of Thk R. N.-Y. 
A krmarkablk flower, and one which 
has not been alluded to elsewhere so far 
as we have observed, is Aristolocliiagigas 
var. Sturtevantii, described and illus¬ 
trated in the American Florist. The 
plant is now in (lower in the Lord «& 
Burnham houses at the World’s Fair, 
containing a part of the New York State 
exhibit. It is a strong-growing vine, a 
native of Guatemala, and belongs to the 
same family as the Dutchman’s Pipe, 
but instead of little pipe-like blooms, it 
has enormous, fantastic blossoms, pale 
green on the outside, and looking, before 
open, much like the body of a pelican, 
wheuce the popular name of pelican 
flower. When open the flower is about 
12 inches wide and 18 long, with a teil- 
like appendage 20 to 40 inches long. 
When open the outside of the flower is 
cream color, the inside dark brown, 
mottled near the edges and having a 
very disagreeable odor. This variety 
originated with E. 1). Xturtcvant, of 
wafer-lily fame. 
Our last peas were eaten August 15. 
They were, as before stated, the Heroine 
planted late, and a better, more satis¬ 
factory late pea in every way we have 
never raised. 
Thk cook of the Rural homo tried an 
experiment in cooking this last lot of 
peas, which was new to her and the rest 
of us, though possibly old to the majority 
of our readers. She put a piece of bak¬ 
ing soda about the size of a pea to a 
quart of the peas. When cooked they 
were as green as grass. They were 
greener than grass. They were the green¬ 
est thing in vegetables we ever saw—at 
any rate they seemed to be, possibly be¬ 
cause so intense a green is never seen in 
an uncooked pea, much less in peas raised 
and cooked in August. The greenness 
reminded one of the vivid, staring green 
of cucumbers treated to alum, copper or 
whatever it is that picklers use to pro¬ 
duce the color. It might remind others 
of newly painted green blinds when just 
hung upon a house freshly painted white. 
The coloring does not in the least impair 
the quality. 
Again alluding to the Wonder White 
cucumber, we must say there is nothing 
or not much in it. At this time there is 
an intense bitterness of not only the 
skin, as in green sorts, but the bitterness 
extends somewhat into the flesh, so that 
the rind cut off must be thick, and always 
thick, or the bitterness, which is as pro¬ 
nounced as that of quinine, will spoil the 
dish. 
Thk drought (August 15) is terrible. 
The country about the Rural Grounds is 
not inspiring now. It is getting to be a 
sad picture. As one looks at the shriv¬ 
eled corn leaves, the burut-up beet tops, 
the scorched potato vines, and the gray 
hay fields, he thinks of those poor farm¬ 
ers and their families who in favorable 
seasons not much more than make ends 
meet. One such family lives opposite a 
three-acre field of The Kuuai.’h. It con¬ 
sists of father, nlother and eight children, 
the oldest being but 12 years old. The 
parents are untiring workers and excel¬ 
lent farmers. They have but 12 acres of 
land, and their crops are among the best 
in the neighborhood year after year. 
They have gained a little—just a little— 
they think, every year, in spite of this 
numerous family of babies, their crops 
being Lima beans, potatoes, green corn, 
tomatoes, peas, cabbages, beets, onions 
A 11 RUN DOWN" 
and “usod-up” fooling fa 
the hist, warning that 
JBjfll your liver isn’t doing 
its work. And, with a 
torpid liver and the 
impure blood that fol- 
A lows it, you’re an easy 
FV/CSfur prey to all sorts of ail- 
&ments. 
That is the time to 
*- take Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
— Medical Discovery. As 
an appetizing, restora¬ 
tive tonic, to repol disease and build up the 
needed flesh and strength, thero’s nothing to 
equal it. It rouses every organ into health¬ 
ful action, purifies and enriches tho blood, 
braces up tho whole system, and restores 
health and vigor. 
For ovory disease causod by a disordered 
liver or impure blood, it is the only ffuaran- 
tce.d remedy. If it doesn’t lienoflt or cure, in 
ovory case, you have your money back. 
$500 is offered, by the proprietors of 
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, for an In¬ 
curable case of Catarrh. 'I'heir remedy 
perfectly and permanently cures the 
worst cases. 
and the like, which they ride to Pater- PtsuccUHncfluj* 
son market, seven miles distant. 1 hey y0 „ nnine t tiK ritual nkw-Yokkku to our 
always manure as liberally as their funds advertisers, you may i>o pretty mire of prompt 
will allow, but this year they manured replies and right treatment 
heavily, and still owe for fertilizers. For 
the first year in an experience of 12 years, A 11 RUN DOWN" 
they will go sadly behind, and it diseour- and “ used-up” feeling ia 
... .I, tbo first warning that 
ages them. They cannot hire good help. JBk r u V er isn’t doing 
There isn’t any about. “ I can’t wasto its work. And, with a 
my time,” said tho father to the writer fturo Mood that fob 
a few days ago, “in chasing to New York lows it, you’re an easy 
to bring back an incompetent man that l >ro - y J® a11 sort8 ot 
generally remains but a few days. And * That is the time to 
so it happens that you see m y children take Dr Pierce’s Golden 
who ought to be to school hoeing in my — nn appetizing, rostora- 
fields.” tivo tonic, to repol discaso and build up tho 
noeded ilesli and strength, tliero’s nothing to 
And yet we are in the throes of terri- SJflS ancPe^fch^'the MoS 
ble times. Thousands are being turned braces up tho whole system, and restores 
out of employment in tho cities every- health and vigor. . 
,,, , . , . For every disease causod by a disordered 
where. Mills are closing or working on ij vor or impuro blood, it is the only guaranr 
short time. Wages are cut down. There feed remedy. If it doesn’t benefit or cure, in 
, , , . , ,, evory caso, you have your moiioy back, 
is a lot of suffering. The daily papers _ 
are full of it. l’oor, laboring people, $500 is offered, bv the proprietors of 
how we sympathize with you. If you i> r * Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, for an in- 
J * , .. ... , ', curable case of Catarrh. Their remedy 
will come out and live with us and work perfectly an(l permanently cures the 
for us a hit, wo will pay you for it and worst cases. 
thus aid you and alleviate your suffer- __ 
Ing». Put you tell you prefer the CANADA UNLEACHED HARDWOOD 
city. Then you must get your comfort _ 
there. A Q U B? Q Af0 HatUr0 ’ S 
Our esteemed contemporary, the Cana- ■ I ■■ w Fertilizer. 
rlb.T, 1 1irMiItnriut nnbliuhnrl in Tnrnn- Nupplled by Hall on Short Notion. 1 can posl- 
(Uun Horticulturist, puoiisneil in loion tlvoly uuarantoo my Asbus pure unloacbed and tree 
to, gives with its August number a col- fr ‘ ,m ««liiltoraiion. For I'aicm, pamimilkt and ail 
’ & ° other Information, address 
ored picture of the remarkable Abun- ciiah. STEVENS, Drawer <». 
. , _.. Nnpaneo. Ontario. Uan. 
dance plum. The coloring is not quite ___ 
right as it grows with us. There is too 
much purple (reddish purple) ; too little * aI F S iw it Li C rt TQ 
yellow. As to shape, tho suture is not »J 0 I’’ fY II C It lO 
(piite dee]) enough and the character- T\ C J pAHPRC 
istie nipple of tho apex is not shown. *. -VjipM L= r ' 
The Horticulturist considers it quite too * A/ AND SEE! 
early for any trustworthy statements o r i i&ator of winter Kifo, icariy Red dawn n, 
to be made concerning its adaptability American Bronze, and the late*t and best Early 
,. . ... ,, Genesee (Hunt, Early Wlilto Leader, also Pride Of 
to the Canadian climate. Lut it sue- o ono »ee, the lomieiit headed of all with long dark 
ceeds so well in New York and Michigan flinty grain. Hoe canh i>ri/.o offered for lamest 
that there is no reason why it should not y>«i<i ot Early Genesee uiant. 
, . _ Send for descriptive circular to 
succeed in southern Ontario. .ionics, i,« Kny, Genetre Co., N. Y. 
W 11 at we keep thinking of in connec¬ 
tion with the Abundance is that, though CRIMSON CLOVER. 
every plum bears eureulio marks, not 
, , _. ,__ . 800 IIuhIi. lor Sale. Crop of 189B will he ready 
one lias dropped from any in jury tho for shipment by .lune 20. Hood guaranteed pure and 
inflicted flrst-class la every respeot. Price Ili.UU per bushel, 
pest nas lnmciea. Biuned. Bend chock with ordor. 
Abstracts. wynkoop buoh., mih >rd, Dei. 
CANADA UNLEACHED HARDWOOD 
Acurc Are Mature ’ s 
MO Hi tO Fertilizer. 
Supplied by Hall on Short Notice. I can posi¬ 
tively guarantee my Ashes pure ualonchod and free 
from adulteration. Eor Piucb, PAMl’llLKT and all 
other information, address 
Oil AS. STKVENS, Drawer <». 
Naennoo. Ontario. Can. 
S.cMm Leaders 
f} AND SEE 
Orl lnator of Winter lflfe, ICarly Red Claws n, 
American Bronze, and the latest and best Early 
Genesee Giant, Early White Leader, also Pride of 
Genesee, tho longest headed of all with long dark 
lllnty grain. See cash prize offered for largest 
yield of Early Genesee Giant. 
Send for descriptive circular to 
A. N. .IONICS, Le Hoy, Ueneaeo Co., N. Y. 
CRIMSON CLOVER. 
llrst-elasM In every respect. Price 10.00 per bushel, 
gaoled. Send chock with ordor. 
Du. T. II. IIoskins : “ Farmers lack 
both what is called ‘ practical knowl¬ 
edge,’ and what is called ‘book-knowl¬ 
edge ;’ though why the quality of any 
useful information should be lessened by 
being printed in a book we have so far 
failed to comprehend.” 
“ It is mental indolence, quite as much 
as ignorance, which hinders progress 
and prosperity upon our farms, as well 
as elsewhere. In this ugo of strife, of 
haste to be rich, every faculty is sharp¬ 
ened and put to use to tho best advant¬ 
age by increasing numbers of men and 
women. This works a wider and still 
widening difference between those who 
do their best and those who are satisfied 
with ‘ just getting along.’ ” 
“ Industry alone, if not rightly 
directed, will not make a farmer, or any 
other man, forehanded. To be somebody, 
in these rushing times, a man must be a 
man all over—that is, ho must sharpen 
every faculty.” 
“ Knowledge gives courage and con¬ 
fidence, puts back-bone into every good 
resolution, holds us up, and picks us up 
if we fall. Let us learn all wo can, and 
give our children a chance to know still 
more than ourselves. That will make 
farming pay.” 
-London Live Stock .Journal : 
“There is very little doubt that it is to 
Sir .John Lawes and his colleague that a 
considerable part of tho credit is due for 
having placed the productiveness of the 
land of Great Britain on a higher level 
than that of any other country.” 
-New Jersey Bulletin: “Fertilizers 
of a low composition must be made either 
from high-grade materials to which 
make-weight has been added, or from 
low-grade materials.” 
WYNKOOP BROS., Mllfird, Del. 
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