1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7i9 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
Continued. 
been, and when, early in September, I 
commenced to clear it off, the g rubs were 
soon discovered. To plow this would 
have put the grubs down too deep to find 
them, but not so deep as to prevent them 
from coming to the surface and commit¬ 
ting havoc with my new plants. With a 
brush hoe I went over the whole patch, 
cutting the soil in thin slices about three 
inches deep, and the number of grubs 
found was great; it is safe to say that 
there was one to every square yard. Not 
many escaped, as they were crushed 
wherever found. As the ground was not 
plowed, ard was to be set with young 
plants, the rows were marked off 
three feet apart, and a strip one foot 
wide and at least a foot deep dug the 
whole length of each row. But before 
this was done a heavy coat of old ma¬ 
nure was spread evenly over the whole 
surface. In this last trenching a few 
more grubs were found which shared the 
fate of the others. These strips were 
raked smooth, marked out again and 
the plants set, from September 20 until 
October 1, 15 inches apart. After setting 
a row, the plants got a good watering, 
and when the surface dried off a little the 
ground was mellowed, and the feeblest 
plants were shaded for a few days. Now, 
October 10, I don’t see a single plant 
missing. 
The few grubs that escaped are now 
being hunted by the moles which like to 
work in mellow soil. Every day, the 
piece is gone over and where the moles 
have lifted the soil, near a plant or under 
it, I press it down with my foot. When 
the proper time comes, these plants will 
be covered, and if we do not give a good 
report on them if spared until next 
season’s fruiting, one man will be dis¬ 
appointed. 
There are a number of these new varie¬ 
ties that the outsider knows nothing of, 
that promise well. Among the new ones 
that gave us a little fruit the past sea¬ 
son, a few may be mentioned as unusually 
promising : Timbrell, Princess, Green¬ 
ville, America, Columbian, Tennessee 
Prolific and Edith. But first and fore¬ 
most in every respect in my estimation 
is the Timbrell. The plants are a picture 
worth looking at, and are so different 
from all others that they can be picked 
out of 100 varieties at a glance. So well 
pleased am I with it that every plant fit 
now was set out lest I be tempted to sell 
some. One thing to be avoided if the 
grub is to be kept from breeding in the 
ground, is not to use sawdust as a mulch, 
and no old rotten woody manure, as 
they delight in breeding in such stuff. 
Keeping the surface perfectly clean one 
summer before planting is the safest plan. 
Grand News. —Prof. Bailey informs 
our interesting neighbor, Garden and 
Forest, that the potato exhibit of New 
York at the World’s Fair is said to be the 
best potato display ever made in this 
country. “ The variety ,” he continues, 
“ which is shown from the greatest number 
of counties, and which has given, altogether, 
he best yields is the Rural New-Yorker 
No. 2.” 
The display shows different methods 
of treatment. The chief interest lies in 
the products of different amounts of seed. 
Many varieties were planted with one, 
two and three eyes in a hill, and an en¬ 
tire hill produced under each method, 
showing average yield, is displayed upon 
the tables. All the series seem to agree 
in affording fewer and larger tubers from 
the single eyes, and more and smaller 
ones from the cuttings with three eyes; 
yet the largest gross yield of merchant¬ 
able product comes from the three eyes. 
In other words, a single eye does not give 
sufficient root-surface to set a large crop, 
and, because of the few tubers, each one 
grows very large. The reduction of the 
number of eyes in a hill, therefore, 
amounts simply to a thinning process. 
Jersey Pride is a new peach which 
originated in the Newark Nursery of 
Newark, New Jersey. It is claimed that 
it is the best peach now in cultivation, 
being of a clear, bright yellow color, 
streaked with carmine, and of the larg¬ 
est size. It is a freestone, with firm, 
yellow flesh. Specimens, we are told, 
have measured 3% inches in diameter 
and weighed 14 ounces. The peaches 
sent to this office were somewhat de¬ 
cayed, but, as well as could be judged by 
them, there is some foundation for the 
above claims, in so far as size and quality 
are concerned. 
Mr. Greiner, as he states in Farm and 
Fireside, keeps but one rooster to from 
30 to 50 hens, and the chicks he raises 
are strong and healthy, every egg being 
fertile apparently. There is then no use 
of feeding three or four old roosters if 
one will do as well or better. But they 
do more harm than good. The New 
York Experiment Station found, as re¬ 
ported in bulletin 57 (last June), that 
a pen of pullets kept without a male 
gave eggs at about 30 per cent less cost 
than an exactly similar pen with which 
a cockerel was kept. Another pen with¬ 
out a male gave during the first three 
months about the same proportionate 
excess of product over an exactly sim¬ 
ilar pen in which a cockerel was kept. 
Jos. H. Brack, Son & Co., of Hights- 
town, N. J., send us a seedling peach 
(received October 10), of which they 
write as follows: “We claim for it 
hardiness of tree which is an early and 
abundant bearer. It is later than Smock 
and is ripening now. The tree is en¬ 
tirely distinct from the Smock type. It 
is a freestone, yellow flesh of fine qual¬ 
ity.” The peach sent, which Mr. Black 
says “ is only an average specimen,” 
measured nine inches in circumference. 
It was highly colored, red and deep yel¬ 
low, was very juicy, vinous, rich and of 
the first quality in our estimation. 
Scraping the Trunks of Trees.— 
Mr. Thomas says that much advice is 
often given on this subject, and the prac¬ 
tice is often recommended by some jour¬ 
nals. The operation may often do no 
harm, but as it exposes the inner bark 
to the cold and storms of winter, its 
utility is questionable. Much stress is 
sometimes laid on washing the trunks 
for producing healthy growth, but there 
is no doubt that cultivating and fertiliz¬ 
ing the ground for some distance about 
the trees is far more valuable. 
Mr. Edison advises that a bushel of 
wheat be compressed into a dollar as a 
standard currency. Take a bushel of 
wheat and squeeze the water out of it 
and then compress it into a hard cake 
the size of a silver dollar, and stamp the 
Government mark upon it. That would 
represent actual value and labor per¬ 
formed, and then you could eat your 
dollar, for when you wanted to use the 
wheat all that would be necessary would 
be to put your money to soak. 
T. C. Kevitt, of Athenia, N. J., sends us 
bunches of Diamond and Esther grapes 
for comparison. Both varieties have 
be m growing at the Rural Grounds for 
seveial years. They are excellent varie¬ 
ties, differing but slightly. Diamond 
has a purer flavor, and the seeds part 
more readily from a more tender pulp. 
The Terra Cotta and Lemon Brush 
Tomatoes. —We have received the fol¬ 
lowing report of these tomatoes from 
Prof. E. S Goff, of the Wisconsin (Madi¬ 
son) Experiment Station : “ These toma¬ 
toes, of which seeds were kindly sent me 
last season by the editor of The Rurar, 
were grown this year with considerable 
interest, knowing that they originated 
at the Rural Grounds. The Terra Cotta 
tomato is certainly a distinct variety. 
The want of luster, and softness of the 
fruit, are not prepossessing, but on cut¬ 
ting a specimen, I was agreeably sur¬ 
prised to find it well filled with pulp v 
and that its softness is not so much due 
to hollowness as to an unusual tender¬ 
ness of flesh. I was more pleased to dis¬ 
cover that its flavor combines the pecu¬ 
liar sweetness of the Peach tomato with 
the pleasant acid of the common varie¬ 
ties. In this latter respect, an advance 
has been made. We have larger, smoother, 
firmer and more highly colored tomatoes 
than the Terra Cotta, but I doubt if we 
have one that fully equals it in flavor. 
Those who enjoy eating tomatoes from 
the hand, should grow the Terra Cotta 
for this purpose if for no other. With 
me, the fruit has rotted far less than 
that of standard varieties. The peculiar 
downy skin, wrinkled surface and dull 
color of the Terra Cotta tomato show un¬ 
mistakably that it is a true cross with 
the Peach variety. The Lemon Blush 
tomato has interested me less than the 
Terra Cotta, because it is less distinct. 
In smoothness and firmness it is all that 
could be desired, but with me, the fruit 
has rotted so much as to be nearly worth¬ 
less. 
Word for Word. 
-Harper’s Weekly : “We take our 
vacations quite generally in July and 
August, not because that is the best time 
to be in the country, but because it is 
the worst time to be in town.” 
“ To be comfortably clean is good, but 
to be extravagantly and inconveniently 
clean is a greater mistake than to go 
dirty.” 
-President Barry : “ An orchard 
that is not pruned in four or five years 
becomes so injured that it is almost im¬ 
possible to get it into proper condition 
again.” 
“The great secrets of fruit culture ; 
you cannot put on too much manure or 
keep the ground too thoroughly culti¬ 
vated.” 
- Mrs. Anna Comstock: “ Insects are 
like folks ; some are of the greatest use, 
some are a nuisance, and some are both. 
Certain it is we owe to these little trav¬ 
elers the fact that our world is bright 
and beautiful, instead of dreary and 
monotonous.” 
-Phirrips Brooks: “No man has 
come to true greatness who has not felt 
in some degree that his life belongs to 
his race, and that what God gives him, 
lie gives him for mankind.” 
-Connecticut Farmer: “ From pres¬ 
ent indications the new class at Storrs 
Agricultural College will number not 
less than 75, a third more than any pre¬ 
vious one.” 
-Vermont Watchman : “ This is the 
one agricultural college in New England 
that bones right down to business, makes 
agriculture the leading study, and goes 
ahead on a big wave of practical support 
from the farmers. It takes in the girls 
as well as the boys, and trains them both 
to fill the places of their fathers and 
mothers on the farm. May its tribe in¬ 
crease I ” 
-Harper’s Weekly : “ That old idea 
of giving a $5,000 education to a $500 boy, 
and a $500 education to a $10,000 girl is 
about played out.' 1 
-Farm Journal : “Let us have in 
this country an honest, 100-cent dollar 
with which to do business and pay our 
•debts. A 150-cent dollar has got to go, 
along with a 60-cent dollar. And give 
us plenty of 100-cent dollars so that the 
money grabbers of the world cannot get 
up a corner.” 
-The Outrook : “ The wise man is he 
who knows the value of to-day ; he who 
•can estimate to-day rightly may leave 
the future to take care of itself. For 
the value of the future depends entirely 
upon the value attached to to-day; there 
is no magic in the years to come ; noth¬ 
ing can bloom in those fairer fields save 
that which is sown to-day. The harvest 
of the future is but the golden ripening 
of to-day’s sowing.” 
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IS THE 
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