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November 11 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Various Topics Discussed. 
J. W., Paterson, N. J.—I have been 
much interested in The R. N.-Y. for 
October 21. As usual, it is full of good 
things only a little more so. Six years 
of close perusal of it ought to qualify 
me to give an opinion. The advice given 
to C. A. C., of Brooklyn, page 699 is ex¬ 
cellent, and if he will be advised by one 
who has had a 20 years’ acquaintance 
with South Jersey, he will not only pay 
special heed to what has been told him 
in those four or five excellent letters 
from men who know of wbat they are 
talking, but he will read The Rural 
steadily and carefully and be sure to 
stick a pin in what Franklin Dye says: 
“Not to Farm at Arm’s Length,” if you 
can possibly help it. 
On “The Prospect” page we meet with 
our old friend Grundy. Fred never 
speaks unless be has something to say, 
and then he invariably says it well, and 
there is solid food for thought in what he 
says. While we may not agree with all 
his conclusions, they are pretty much all 
regular eye openers. But our friend is 
apt, after filling the pail, to give it a tip 
in some way. In this case it consists in 
his concluding remarks on the situation; 
he “thinks we can rest assured that we 
have reached the bottom.” From our 
point of vision, we can discover nothing 
calculated to warrant such a conclusion 
Then he tells us that “from this on 
the tendency of everything except waves 
(it*lies mine) will be upward, and the 
farmer will find a ready market.” This 
appears to me slightly paradoxical. But 
friend Grundy may be able to tell us how, 
with the purchasing power, i. e., wages, 
growing less, the farmer is going to get 
more for bis produce and find a ready 
market. This sort of political economy 
aston'shes me almost as much as did 
Mr. Wilson of Virginia, when be in¬ 
troduced the repeal bill in the lower 
house of Congress. He almost paralyzed 
some of his hearers by remarking that 
“the country was not suffering from a 
stringency of the circulating medium, 
but a redundancy.” 
The editor, on this same page, has some 
very excellent and pertinent remarks, 
on the liquor and irrigation questions. 
There is hardly any doubt that the 
conservative thinkers of the world have 
come to the conclusion that the temper¬ 
ance question will be best served by its 
friends adopting some such methods as 
are so fully and ably discussed in The 
Rural. On the other question we fully 
agree with the writer, when he says that 
“ we are already farming too much land,” 
but when irrigation is needed it would be 
far preferable for the government to do 
it than to permit these millions of acres 
to pass into the control of corporations 
and syndicates, wno have, if reports be 
true, already made large purchases. 
A Friend of Butterine. 
C. L. M., Milwaukee, Wis.—I have 
been reading an article in Tee *R. N.-Y. 
cn the struggle for the suppression of 
butterine by the New York Dairy Com¬ 
missioner. This article, as well as others, 
smacks very much of selfishness. You 
ask “what wide-awake dairyman, care¬ 
ful consumer or honest citizen will fail 
to wish him,’ - that is the Dairy Commis¬ 
sioner, “success?” Now no dairyman, 
unless very broad and liberal in his 
views, woulo be expected to encourage 
the butterine business. But why should 
an honest man object to the sale of an 
article that is in every way far superior 
to any but the very best grade of butter 
which this season has been practically 
prohibitive in price ? A farmer whose 
main crop is cotton, wants to see ways 
multiplied for the use of cotton-seed oil, 
and to him the butterine business has 
been a blessing. The breeder of high- 
grade beef cattle knows that the choicest 
fat of his stock is used in the production 
of butterine, and a large amount of the 
fat of hogs is also used. Why should 
the farmers producing these articles be 
prohibited, for the benefit of dairymen, 
from getting these many millions of 
pounds of product into market for the 
production of butterine ? 
While I have never seen in your col¬ 
umns any other objection urged against 
butterine than that it injures the sale of 
butter, I have never seen a word said in 
its favor. You will admit that there is 
no objection to its use excepting a lack 
of flavor. In better grades of butterine 
thiB is remedied by adding a large per¬ 
centage of creamery butter. But with 
such a wide difference in the market 
price of genuine good butter and cheaper 
fats such as predominate in butterine, 
and with the further fact that butterine 
will keep without becoming rancid or* 
tainted, while ordinary country butter 
such as predominates in our markets will 
neither keep nor give satisfaction when 
first received—considering these facts, 
butterire is nothing short of a blessing 
to great multitudes. While interested in 
agricultural pursuits, I have more sym¬ 
pathy with the poor dweller of the city 
or town whose means and income have 
put butter entirely out of the question, 
but who finds in butterine an excellent 
substitute. I myself buy many tons of 
it every year for use in lumber camps. 
The men wba eat it, and who know what 
it is, know that butter would not stand 
the exposure and lack of care to which 
this is subjected, and that it could not be 
furnished to camps, yet they never find 
a word of fault. In fact until the era of 
butterine, no lumberman ever thought 
of supplying butter to the crews work¬ 
ing in lumber camps, wlile butterine is 
in general use. Even when butter gets 
to within a few cents of the price of but¬ 
terine, lumbermen prefer the latter on 
account of its many good qualities. 
The complaint that it is sold as butter 
is at best not a very strong argument. 
If it is so good as to deceive buyers, and 
pass for butter, there can be little harm 
done if it is sold for what it will bring in 
competition, but as a license is required 
and every package is branded, and as, 
moreover, in domestic use it will not 
deceive any housekeeper, the prospect 
of its being sold for butter is more imag¬ 
inary than real. 
I pay now 14 cents for butterine, and 
would not, for use in camps, pay the 
same price for the general run of country 
butter and but little more for fancy 
creamery butter which at present is 
worth more than twice as much in mar¬ 
ket. I look upon Armour & Co., and not 
the New York Dairy Commissioner as 
public benefactors. 
No Show For the Scab. 
E. H. M., Stony Point, N. Y.—In ac¬ 
cordance with the suggestions of The 
R N.-Y. last spring we soaked our seed 
potatoes in a solution of corrosive sub¬ 
limate. The potatoes were cut before 
being soaked and were somewhat scabby. 
We have never grown potatoes exten¬ 
sively, but all grown for the past three 
years have been affected with scab, last 
year so badly that a half acre was hardly 
worth digging. Our main crop last year 
was on land that had not been in pota¬ 
toes for years, perhaps never, but the 
crop was very much injured by scab. 
This year, we did not have a dozen scab¬ 
by potatoes, except some which were 
grown very early from untreated seed, 
and these were as scabby as usual. One 
patch of eleven hundredths of an acre 
yielded 30 bushels of handsome R. N.-Y. 
No. 2 potatoes, which were sold for S3 
per barrel. This piece was made very 
rich with manure (some of it was fresh 
horse manure) before plowing, and fer¬ 
tilizer was broadcasted, after plowing, 
at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre. Soil, 
sandy loam ; potatoes had not been grown 
in it before. 
Seme Massachusetts Notes. 
C. W. K., Taunton, Mass—The R. 
N.-Y. says that the Champion quince 
will not ripen in the Rural Experiment 
Grounds. What can be the matter ? 
Here in southeastern Massachusetts it 
ripens well, although it sometimes rots 
badly. Quinces are plentiful and cheap 
here. 
In “Grape Notes” I notice that Pock- 
lington does not ripen well, but my one 
vine ripens its clusters perfectly every 
year, and a splendid grape it is, too. 
In one of my papers Hon. H. E. Van 
Deman is quoted as saying that the Kel¬ 
sey plum is not hardy north of Ten¬ 
nessee, but we have it here fruiting regu¬ 
larly in latitude 42, where the thermom¬ 
eter goes down to 20 degrees and more 
below zero. 
It has been said that peach buds can¬ 
not stand more than 16 degrees below 
zero, but we bad it here 22 degrees last 
winter, and one peach grower in our 
vicir.ity had a full crop, raising about 
1,500 to 2,000 bushels. But he met with 
a serious loss from the gale of the latter 
part of August. 
In The R N.-Y. of October 14, you 
speak of 50 bushels of cranberries per 
acre as an averap e ; one grower near by 
gathered 56 bushels from 15 rods; also 
150 barrels from an acre. 
Scab Dodges a Weak Solution. 
V. D. S., Vira, Pa. —The “corrosive 
sublimate ” treatment for potato scab 
has come to stay, but the exact condi¬ 
tions under which it will always prove 
sure, are yet rather poorly understood. 
The proportions, as given by The R. 
N.-Y. are all right, but I believe may be 
made stronger with safety. I do not be¬ 
lieve potatoes should be left in the solu¬ 
tion for longer than two hours. I Ireated 
two bushels of the scabbiest seed I ever 
saw, so bad that the eyes were scarce 
and we feared not strong. The seed was 
cut, then soaked in a barrel of the solu¬ 
tion, four ounces to 30 gallons of water, 
for IJi hour, the seed being left in the 
bag, and bag and all submerged. Some 
were not planted for one week after 
treatment, but they did not rot. After 
using the same water for 10 or 15 bushels 
it gets dirty, and the results are not the 
same as with the first. Just how often 
or how long the solution is sure, I be 
lieve depends on how clean and how 
fresh it is. We let it stand two weeks, 
and then used it on a second lot, and I 
believe it really did no good, even if it 
did not do harm. Next year we will add 
another ounce to the same amount of 
water, aud not use it more than three or 
four times in this way. One barrel of 
solution will treat about 20 bushels of 
potatoes, and we believe the results will 
be sure. 
The Value of Timber Land. 
B. W. G., Liberty, N Y.—On page 704 
of The R. N.-Y. is the following question: 
“ Is the price of cord-wood higher than 
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After taking six bottles 
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and two boxes of Hood’s 
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