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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 25 
G. W. E , Peabl Creek, N. Y.—I use 
the common grain drill for planting 
small beans, but for Marrows and 
Kidneys a regular bean drill is prefer¬ 
able. With either, the rows should be 
28 inches apart. The harvesting machine 
consists simply of two long knives or 
shares of steel so adjusted as to cut off 
the roots of two rows of beans just 
beneath the surface, and with the aid of 
two iron rods crowd them together and 
out of the ground; they are then either 
forked out by hand, four rows of 
beans being gathered into one windrow, 
or, if conditions are favorable, raked up 
with a horse rake and then forked over 
by hand to free them from dirt. About 
eight acres are considered a fair day’s 
work for a team and machine, and the 
number of men required to fork out 
would depend entirely on the condition 
of thj field, freedom from weeds, variety 
of beans, etc. A heavy crop of beans 
can be harvested in less time and for 
less money than a light crop. The 
length of time between harvesting and 
thrashing depends entirely on the con¬ 
dition of the crop when harvested; if 
secured very dry they may be thrashed 
immediately. Unless intended for an 
early market, it would be better to let 
them remain in the vines at least a 
month: they will be brighter and sell 
better. A common thrashing machine 
can be used only with small Pea beans. 
I grow from 25 to 40 acres and consider 
20 bushels of Marrows, Yellow Eyes or 
Kidneys a fair crop; the yield of small 
beans is five to ten bushels more. The 
cull beans are either fed whole to sheep, 
or cooked for hogs. The vines are 
usually fad to sheep; I consider a ton of 
bi’ight vines equal in feeding value to a 
ton of mixed hay, although the selling 
value is usually one-third less. Every¬ 
thing considered, I think the bean har¬ 
vester saves the labor of from six to ten 
men. 
Strawberry Notes. 
G J. K., Janesville, Wis. —The straw¬ 
berry crop here was imperfect owing to 
unfavorable weather during blossoming 
time, and also a short crop because of 
drought. Among the best and most profit¬ 
able kinds are the Wood and Warfield for 
early; Jessie and Bubach. No. 5 for size and 
family use, Parker Earle and Eureka for 
late. Enhance gave us, July 6, 22 quarts 
per square rod for that day’s picking. 
While the fruit is unshapely, it will prove 
a profitable pollen-producir.g plant and 
will pay in all collections. Haverland is 
very productive and profitable for near 
market and family use. These eight varie¬ 
ties are the best of 72 kinds fruited this 
season, and among the poorest of the 
whole lot are Michel’s Early and Van 
Deman. 
Proportion of Pallets to Eggs. 
Henry Hales, New Jersey. —With me 
on an average, counting all losses, I think 
three eggs are required to raise one 
good pullet with hens. With the average 
farmer who cannot give them so much 
attention, I think the average about one 
to four eggs. It runs something like 
this : In the first place, many eggs fail 
to hatch not so much because they are 
ivfertile, as many say, but from unknown 
causes. Many start right, but afterwards 
the process of incubation ceases and the 
eggs become rotten. It is a common 
thing to have a yard of fowls from which 
most of the eggs will hatch under some 
hens while under others they fail. There 
are many chicks killed by accidents. On 
most farms, and even in some better 
cared for poultry establishments, cats, 
rats, or other enemies take a few small 
chicks ; while sickness of some kind 
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usually claims some. These mishaps re¬ 
duce the number to one-half of the num¬ 
ber of eggs. As the sexes are about 
equally divided, the remaining chicks 
will give about one pullet for four eggs 
set. Of course the assistance of an incu¬ 
bator together with better care will re¬ 
duce the losses, but I believe one to three 
a fair proportion of pullets to eggs set. I 
have no doubt that many will think this 
a low average, but I don’t believe that 
many farmers can do better without 
special care. With a few, say 20 or 30 
chicks, and good care nearly all can be 
raised ; but that is different from large 
flocks of 200 or more. 
Most breeds produce about an equal 
number of the different sexes with ordin¬ 
ary mating ; but if hens be mated with 
cockerels, the average flock will pro¬ 
duce more females, but I have often 
known this rule to be reversed. In 
my yards, Hamburgs, Spanish, Light 
Brahmas, Partridge Cochins, Minorcas 
and Plymouth Rocks did not have quite 
half males ; Dorkings about equal; In¬ 
dian Games two to one males. With all 
the Leghorns the males were rather more 
abundant than the females. In no breed 
do I know of the females greatly outnum¬ 
bering the males. Five to seven hens to 
one male is a safe number to insure fer¬ 
tility in all the eggs and very often 10 to 
15 hens do as well with a vigorous young 
male. 
What "Was the Apple ? 
B. T., Friday Harbor, Wash. —On 
page 066 of The R. N.-Y., in the editorial 
notes on the World’s Fair, the apple from 
British Columbia tagged as Twenty 
Ounce, is pronounced to be Red Bietig- 
heimer. It may be, but I doubt it. I 
have the Red Bietigheimer fruiting in 
my orchard, and it has the regular, flat¬ 
tened shape. I also have the Twenty 
Ounce. They are entirely different in 
shape and color. I also have an apple 
called by some the Mammoth Pippin, hy 
others Tulpehocken, and one well-in¬ 
formed fruit man says it is neither one, 
and doesn’t know what it is. It is shaped 
very much like Twenty Ounce, and some 
that grow in the sun have a color very 
much like Bietigheimer. I have grown 
them 16 x 4 inches in circumference. 
A Cauliflower Experiment. 
A. A. Crozikr, Michigan. — In the 
spring of 1893, Francis Brill, of Long 
Island, kindly sent me for trial samples 
of the following varieties of American 
grown cauliflower seed : Earliest Dwarf 
Erfurt, Narrow Leaved Erfurt, Large 
White Erfurt, Worldbeater, Henderson’s 
Snowball and Long Island Beauty. The 
seed was sown in the open ground, May 
20, and about 200 plants obtained of each 
variety were transplanted June 22. An 
examination made September 25 showed 
the number of heads matured at that 
time to be: Long Island Beauty, 28 ; 
Henderson’s Snowball, 17 ; Worldbeater, 
13 ; Narrow Leaved Erfurt, 4; Large 
White Erfurt, 2; Erfurt Earliest Dwarf, 
none. The latest maturing varieties 
had generally the best heads, those of 
Narrow Leaved Erfurt and Erfurt Earli¬ 
est Dwarf being particularly fine. The 
lateness of these two varieties was un¬ 
expected. The heads of Long Island 
Beauty were very poor and leafy and the 
plants lacked vigor. Henderson’s Snow¬ 
ball was inferior to that variety as 
obtained direct from Mr. Henderson. 
Worldbeater gave a few magnificent 
heads, but most of the heads, though 
solid and heavy, were very leafy. Whether 
the fault is in the climate or in the selec¬ 
tion, American grown seed does not seem 
to be yet what we want. The plants are 
generally vigorous, and do not fail to 
head, but the heads are not so uniformly 
perfect as those from the best strains of 
imported seed. 
- Emerson : “ The destiny of organ¬ 
ized nature is amelioration, and who can 
tell its limits ? It is for man to tame the 
chaos ; on every side, whilst he lives, to 
scatter seeds of science and of song, that 
climate, corn, animals, men, may be 
milder and the germs of love and benefit 
may be multiplied.” 
ATTENTION. 
Ax length we are enabled to fulfill 
another promise of the late business 
management, viz., to send a tuber of the 
Carman No. 1 potato to all who have 
applied. The potato to be sent is small, 
weighing not over two ounces. As the 
entire supply of little tubers is extremely 
limited, we have been obliged to cut the 
larger tubers in pieces weighing about 
the same. These cut portions will keep 
as well as the whole tubers if our friends 
will wrap them in paper and place them 
in sand, to be kept in a cool cellar. 
The price of this potato next year, as 
sent out by the introducers, will be 
almost prohibitoiy, so small will be the 
amount left after The R. N.-Y. has sup¬ 
plied its applicants. Every barrel will 
be worth at least $100. 
We see on the face of our lenient sub¬ 
scribers a quiet smile of condolence as 
the little box is opened. On the face of 
our Shylock friends we see a disgusted 
look of dissatisfaction. Well, we thank 
the former for their forbearance while 
we would say to the latter : “ It is the 
best we can do. How much better could 
you do under the circumstances ?” 
Promises were made by our late pub¬ 
lisher, in the heat of a subscription sea¬ 
son—the most prolific of subscribers The 
R. N.-Y. has ever known—which could 
not possibly be kept. It did not appear 
so to him. Enthusiasm and hope were 
ruling in the place of cold, cautious prob 
ability. He took the chances against 
mighty odds—and lost. 
Now the old editors and owners come 
in for the scoldings to which they are 
not in equity entitled. But they have 
shouldered the responsibility and ask 
only of The Rural readers for 
Time. 
Every promise will be kept to the letter 
and more than kept. That we send all 
applicants for the roses a plant of the 
Agnes Emily Carman Rugosa rose with¬ 
out charge, is offered as proof of our 
intention to make generous amends. And 
for the entire fulfillment of the promise 
to send them the roses described in the 
original offer, we ask merely for time to 
propagate them. Then without further 
application all will receive them as they 
were ordered. . 
75,000. ' 
Not less than 75,000 roses will be re¬ 
quired to fill these orders. They are be¬ 
ing grafted on Manetti stock as fast as 
possible, and it is now hoped the stock 
will suffice for the distribution before the 
close of the coming year. 
As to the Carman gooseberry, no prom¬ 
ise as to the time of distribution was ever 
made and, therefore, no promise in this 
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