1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
783 
Ruralisms— Continued. 
connection has been broken. This goose¬ 
berry, which we have reason to believe, 
will prove the gooseberry for the mil¬ 
lions—the largest berry and the most 
prolific bearer known of varieties that 
are mildew proof—will be offered to our 
good friends just as soon as a sufficient 
stock can be propagated. 
It appears now that every claim made 
for The R. N.-Y. No. 2 potato when we 
sent a little tuber to subscribers some 
years ago has been substantiated. It is 
by far the most popular intermediate po¬ 
tato in the market to-day—the hand¬ 
somest shape, the largest yielder. We 
ask our readers, therefore, to accept our 
claims for the Carman No. 1 with some 
faith, viz., that it will excel all others in 
the following combination of qualities : 
Whiteness of flesh. 
Fineness of texture. 
Yield. 
Fewness of small tubers. 
The Carman No. 3, which is a late po¬ 
tato, is being propagated, and there seems 
to be no reasonable doubt that we shall 
be able to send a fair-sized tuber to ap¬ 
plicants next fall. Two things are 
claimed for this potato : 
1. It is the best shaped large potato, 
and, 2, the greatest yielder ever pro¬ 
duced. 
One of the acts of the late business 
administration of the Rural Publishing 
Company, was, much against the writer’s 
advice, to change the price of The R. 
N.-Y. from $2 to $1. We argued that 
there could be no doubt that such a 
sweeping reduction of the price would 
be followed by a certain increase in the 
circulation. But would the increase be 
great enough to enable the editors and 
publisher to keep it up to its standard of 
excellence—quality and weight of paper, 
original illustrations, etc ? We were do¬ 
ing well enough and was it not wise to 
let well enough alone ? Whether The 
Rural has been kept up to its old stand¬ 
ard or in what degree it has departed 
therefrom our readers have already de¬ 
cided for themselves and no words of 
ours can change them. We admit that 
a doubling up of the circulation has fol¬ 
lowed the cutting in two of the price. 
Whether or not it was due solely to the 
reduction, we cannot say. To what ex¬ 
tent the remarkable increase was due to 
the too-liberal promises of the late man¬ 
agement may only be conjectured. One 
thing is certain, every promise of the 
late management, however unwisely 
made at the time, shall, as we have said, 
be scrupulously fulfilled. And may we 
not hope, Rural readers and friends, 
that you will lend a helping hand and 
word to maintain the circulation for 
another year which the paper now en¬ 
joys ? The price will remain $1, and we 
shall soon announce premium articles 
which may compensate you for any 
efforts you may care to make in its 
behalf. The editors—life and health 
spared—propose to continue their work 
as vigorously and effectively as a love of 
their vocation and added years of ex¬ 
perience may enable them so to do. The 
writer of this note has a special incent¬ 
ive, that of showing his gratitude to 
many friends for the kind words with 
which they have cheered him during the 
past 15 years and for innumerable little 
tokens of their esteem and respect. 
Mr. Collingwood, who for eight years 
has been the managing editor of The R. 
N.-Y., is now one of the owners, and it 
took his last dollar—the savings of his 
life—to purchase this interest. Mr. Dil¬ 
lon, who under the late management 
was the head of the advertising depart¬ 
ment, now becomes the general business 
manager as well as one of the owners, 
he, too, having invested his all in the en¬ 
terprise. 
We see everywhere men and women 
who for fixed daily, weekly or monthly 
salaries give in return a full equivalent 
of conscientious service. In most cases, 
it may be said, there is little or no in¬ 
centive to work harder than they are re¬ 
quired or expected to work. Both parties 
are satisfied, and these relations between 
capital and labor go on from year to 
year, labor knowing that, without re¬ 
sponsibility or risk of loss, it is assured 
of a livelihood. 
When, however, a man takes upon 
himself the labor of the employed and 
the risks and responsibilities of the em¬ 
ployer, and his income—his very bread 
and butter, indeed—depends upon his 
success in both capacities, he has every 
stimulus to tax his strength, his head 
and heart to the utmost, which, being 
precisely in such a box, is precisely what 
we propose to do. 
We want you to help us, good friends, 
by your criticisms, even more than by 
your words of praise and appreciation. 
Slap us hard, unrelentingly, cruelly. Do 
not spare us. Our cheek is turned toward 
you Smite it that you may see how 
amiably, smilingly we shall turn the 
other. Smite that and we shall still essay 
to smile and to thank you for the punish¬ 
ment. Smite us on both cheeks, if we so 
deserve, and if then we fail to ask for 
more, we shall throw up the sponge and 
seek to edit a paper which has a less 
smiting clientage. 
We want you to help us with your sug¬ 
gestions that we may the better serve 
you and the interests of rural life. 
The Crimson clover, nosv that iee has 
formed several times (November 5) is 
still beautifully green, the plants fully 
covering the soil and averaging eight 
inches in height. It is a refreshing, 
beautiful sight. 
When one has lake banks or precipi¬ 
tous banks in any part of the grounds 
where the lawn-mower cannot well be 
used, it is a good idea to plant honey¬ 
suckles, periwinkles and the like. We 
have lately seen knolls covered with 
IIall’s honeysuckle so thickly that not a 
weed or blade of grass could be seen. It 
forms a perfect mat a foot thick and cov¬ 
ering a rocky knoll 10 feet high and per¬ 
haps 30 feet in diameter. Here and there 
an Adam’s Needle (Yucca filamentosa) 
thrives, growing a foot or more above 
the honeysuckle. The effect is pretty 
enough for almost any part of a wild or 
semi-wild garden, but it is especially 
effective and useful where grass will not 
thrive or where it is troublesome to keep 
it properly cut. 
The originator of that splendid potato 
the Rural Blush, told the writer of this 
note ten years or more ago that he would 
have had it introduced before except for 
the reason that there were many hollow- 
hearted potatoes. For several years he 
was careful always to reject hollow- 
hearted “seed,” the result being that the 
disease disappeared. It is well known to 
our readers that the Blush has always 
been used in our experiments with fer¬ 
tilizers, different depths of planting, etc., 
etc. A few years ago the hollow-heart 
again appeared. We have since followed 
the originator’s plan of rejecting all af¬ 
fected tubers for seed, and we now rarely 
find one. 
Never use hollow-hearted potatoes for 
seed. 
We have received a box of Paragon 
chestnuts from H. M. Engle & Son, of 
Marietta, Pa. All are of large size aver¬ 
aging only a fraction less than four 
inches in their wide circumference. The 
quality is very good. 
We would advise our friends not to use 
any nitrate of soda or sulphate of 
ammonia, separately or as a part of 
“complete” fertilizers on plots which 
they may still deem it economy to pre¬ 
pare this fall for spring crops—early or 
late; for strawberries, grapes or any 
other small fruits, or for large fruits of 
any kind, or for dressings of wheat or 
rye, or lawns or ornamental shrubs or 
trees. It might be economy in saving 
the more valuable time of spring, to sow 
potash in the form of ashes, kainit, muri¬ 
ate or sulphate. So, too, bone or in¬ 
soluble phosphates may be sown before 
freezing weather on level land. This is 
the teaching of many. It is assumed 
that such potassic and phosphatic fertil¬ 
izers will remain in the soil until used 
by plants. It may be so. We have no 
data that would justify us in disputing 
it. But we have a feeling—a prejudice 
in the matter. It is that we would wait 
until spring to sow the potash and phos¬ 
phate as well as the nitrate and give 
more time to something else which may 
help along the spring work. 
Word for Word. 
-Rev. Morgan Dix in Ladies’ Home 
Journal : “ I know a society lady who 
had not dined at home for 29 days in suc¬ 
cession, another who had not for four 
weeks. What is the home in the eyes of 
such people ? And what becomes of the 
children ? The degrading result of this 
absorption in what is styled ‘ duties to 
society ’ is evident.” 
“ It would be easy to name women, 
prominent in society by virtue of their 
beauty, talents, moral purity and force 
of character, who have been powers for 
good in their time, incentives to virtuous 
and noble living, respected by men and 
acceptable to God. It would be equally 
easy to mention others who, notwith¬ 
standing their gifts, have done more 
harm than good ; handsome, rich, bril¬ 
liant, capable, generous of heart, but lax 
in their sense of moral obligation, indis¬ 
creet in conduct, tolerant of evil, indif¬ 
ferent of social scandals, they demoralize 
by their example. One obvious sign of 
this demoralization is afforded by the 
readiness of the community to overlook 
the sins of women whom it admires. 
There must be something wrong when 
we are prompt to forgive in a beautiful 
and witty woman what we would not for¬ 
give in a plain and dull one. And what 
is true of the leaders of society is true of 
society in general.” 
“ An upper class which looks with con¬ 
tempt on all below it, and studiously 
avoids contact with the sorrow and trou¬ 
ble of the world, shutting itself up within 
its own gates and excluding the less fav¬ 
ored of mankind with haughty indiffer¬ 
ence, is a bane and a mischief.” 
- The Outlook : “It is most interest¬ 
ing to see how fair a presentation may 
be made of matters inconceivably foolish 
—if only there be sufficient assumption, 
assertion and assurance. But the super¬ 
ficial credulity of many may be trusted.” 
“THKaaverage American newspaper 
libels the country it professes to serve, 
and corrupts the readers it attempts to 
entertain.” 
“Just consider the clergyman. He 
preaches two or three times in a week, 
and he has for his congregation 200, 300, 
500, and if he is a great popular orator in 
a great city, he may have 1,000 hearers ; 
but the newspaper man is the stronger, 
because, throughout all the avenues of 
newspaper communication, how many 
does he preach to ? A million, half a 
million, two hundred thousand people; 
and his preaching is not on Sundays only, 
but it is every day.” 
- Irving : “ A sharp tongue is the only 
edged tool that grows keener with con¬ 
stant use.” 
-Dr. T. H. Hoskins: “The attempt 
has been made, and has well nigh suc¬ 
ceeded, to make the alleged agricultural 
schools a scientific department of im¬ 
pecunious literary colleges ; or to furnish 
work for a lot of professors too ignorant 
and too genteel, and, in most cases, too 
lazy and inefficient, to make any kind of 
a school successful. The results are 
seen, in almost every State, in ‘ agricul¬ 
tural colleges ’ teaching very little agri¬ 
culture, and not enough of anything 
else to attract the public patronage, or 
awaken any feeling other than some¬ 
thing very closely akin to disgust and 
■contempt.” 
If you name The Kuhal Niw-Yobkeh to our 
advertisers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
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