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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 27 
It will pay you, friends, to find out 
what variety of potato will yield most in 
your soil, and at the same time will sell 
best in your market. 
It has paid The R. N.-Y. over and over 
again to try a tuber or so ot the promis¬ 
ing kinds as announced by seedsmen. 
A LATE New Jersey Agricultural Station 
bulletin gives 23 analyses of ground bone. 
Tke nitrogen ranges from about 2 to 4.5.5 
per cent. Peter Cooper’s contains but 
1.58 of nitrogen, but is the highest in 
phosphoric acid, viz., 29.98 per cent. 
Leaving out three samples (steamed bone, 
and bone and potash), the average per 
cent of phosphoric acid is about 22. The 
average price is about 331 per ton. The 
average of nitrogen is three per cent. 
Our readers should carefully examine 
these analyses. The table considered 
above shows that while some brands 
were worth 313 more than the price 
asked, others were worth 310 less than 
the price asked ! 
A GUARANTEE on the part of the seller 
of less than four per cent of ammonia, or 
say three per cent of nitrogen, and 
20 per cent of bone phosphate “may well 
create a suspicion that the product is not 
a pure bone.” 
Nearey all the catalogues of last year 
described and illustrated what has been 
named the Chinese Sacred lily, a kind of 
Polyanthus Narcissus or Narcissus Ta- 
zetta. Tre illustration shows the plants 
blooming in deep saucers filled with 
water and pebbles to hold them in place. 
Thus eared for, it was said, the bulbs 
would bloom in about a month. 
It was a little experiment that we 
thought could be tried in our New York 
winter home. Accordingly bulbs were 
procured and placed in the saucers of 
water and pebbles November 24. They 
began to grow in a few days, and the 
first blooms appeared December 24- The 
fiowers are about an inch in diameter, 
white, with a yellow center, and of a 
fragrance that pervades the entire room. 
It is somewhat too pronounced for many. 
The scapes shoot up to a height of 15 
inches, each bulbha/ing half a dozen 
or more flowers in racemes. The leaves 
are upright, strap-shape, an inch in 
width, and of a deep green color. They 
need no support. These bulbs, if kept 
in a cold room or ice-box, may be made 
to bloom successively until spring. The 
cost is only about 10 cents each. 
One of the pleasures of being in the 
city is that we find so many good people 
that are fond enough of flowers to buy 
them and care for them. The Chinese 
Sacred lily has seized upon their af¬ 
fections at once, showing that they are 
as quick to appreciate a novelty that is 
adapted to the hard conditions of city 
rooms as are those who live in the 
country and can afford conservatories, 
greenhouses, or bright sunny windows. 
Writing of the Columbus, Carman and 
Chautauqua reminds us again to allude 
to another new gooseberry which our 
Notes from the Rural Grounds do not 
seem to have done justice to. It is the 
Red Jacket introduced by Geo. S. Josse- 
lyn, of Fredonia, N. Y., the introducer, 
also, it will be remembered, of Fay’s cur¬ 
rant. Mr. J osselyn made the claim that, 
although a pure, native American, it has 
the best foliage, is the most vigorous 
grower of any in cultivation. It is also, 
he further claims, a great cropper of 
fruit of the best quality and mildew proof. 
Let us hear what a few good authori¬ 
ties say: 
Dr. T. II. Hoskins, Vermont: “ The Red Jacket Is 
proving all and more than I hoped. Strong grower, 
quite free from mildew or any other sign of fungus, 
bushes have made two feet or more growth. The big 
branches make Red Jacket very easy to pick, just 
the reverse of Downing In this respect Sufficiently 
late to make a good succession to earlier varieties 
and making a much longer season.” 
Mr. Parry, New Jersey: “ The Red Jacket plants 
are making a clean, healthy growth and show no 
evidence of mildew. The indications are that they 
will pass through our trying climate without Injury 
from mildew.” 
Pres. T. T. Eyon. Michigan: “The Red Jacket has 
now fully recovered from the unprecedented wet 
spring and summer of 1892, and Is making a vigorous 
and healthy growth, entirely free from mildew.” 
J. J. II. Gregory, Mass.: “The Red Jacket stand¬ 
ing side by side with a number of Imported varieties 
of gooseberries, surpasses them in vigor and hardi¬ 
ness.” 
I*. M. Augur’s Hons, Connecticut: " We find the 
Red Jacket to be all that was claimed for it, and we 
are much pleased with it.” 
The c’over hay fed to animals in a ser¬ 
ies of experiments carried on at Cornell 
had a fertilizer value of 37.55 per ton, 
which is often as much as the selling 
price of clover hay. It is true with the 
hay, also, that the greater part of the 
fertilizer value is in the nitrogen which 
it contains, although the mineral matter 
contained in the hay is considerably more 
than that in corn meal. Corn meal has 
a high feeding value for the production 
of fat meat, while on the other hand its 
fertilizer value is very low, being only 
about two and one-half times more than 
wheat straw. 
A FRIEND, G. W. Parker, of Clyde, O., 
desires that the editors, or some of The 
R. N.-Y. readers, would tell him which 
is the best early potato, first, as to pro¬ 
ductiveness ; second, quality ; third, size 
of tubers. 
The writer of these notes has been 
raising the new kinds of potatoes, as an¬ 
nounced in the catalogues, or sent to him 
for trial before introduction, for about 
20 years. The results of these trials have, 
for the most part, been given in these 
columns from season to season. Those of 
last season will appear in a few weeks. 
Still, the question of Mr. Parker is not 
an easy one to answer, for the reason 
that potatoes vary in size, quaPty and 
yield in different soils and localities. It 
is now generally conceded—as The R. 
N.-Y. has for many years held—that the 
Early Ohio is the earliest variety in cul¬ 
tivation. In certain warm, light soils it 
would answer our friend’s requirements. 
It is of good quality, fair shape ; th® pro¬ 
portion of small tubers is low, and it 
yields well. But in most parts of the 
country it yields such small crops that, 
notwithstanding its earliness, it is not 
considered a profitable variety. The 
Beauty of Hebron, Pearl of Savoy, Sun¬ 
rise, Burpee’s Extra l^arly, Thorburn, 
Puritan, Early Harvest and Freeman are 
among the earliest and best. But which 
one is the best for a given soil can be de¬ 
termined only by a comparative trial in 
that soil. 
Abstracts. 
-The Outlook : “If to-morrow every 
one who cares for the poor would be 
come the friend of one poor person—for¬ 
saking all others—there would next wees 
be no insoluble problem of the unem¬ 
ployed.” 
“ You will not be sorry for hearing be¬ 
fore judging, for thinking before speak¬ 
ing, for holding an angry tongue, for 
stopping the ear to a tale-bearer, for dis¬ 
believing most of the ill reports, for be¬ 
ing kind to the distressed, for being kind 
toward everybody, for doing good to all 
men, for asking pardon for all wrongs, for 
speaking evil of no one, for being cour¬ 
teous to all. ” 
- Practical Farmer : “ Flush times 
and easy profits in a single crop never 
made the best farmers, nor the most per¬ 
manently prosperous community. In the 
face of difficulties, manhood comes to the 
front, and the country is the gainer in 
the end.” 
- Prof Massey : “ It is difficulty that 
always brings out the best qualities of 
mankind. If Scotland had possessed a 
genial, sunny climate, and a soil of rank 
fertility, would we ever have seen the 
grand race of Scotch gardeners that have 
made such a marked impression upon the 
horticultural work of the world ? ” 
- Storks & Harrison : “ It is safe to 
say that the Chautauqua is the largest 
gooseberry ever produced in this coun¬ 
try ; it is at the same time a remarkably 
vigorous grower and equally as great a 
bearer, being the most productive goose¬ 
berry inexistence.” 
-Dr. Talmage: “The world’s health 
is improving. There is less rheumatism 
and colic and toothache to the square 
inch than there used to be. People are 
stronger at 70 than they used to be at 60i 
and stronger at 00 than they used to be 
at 50. Dentistry has improved the world’s 
mastication, and consequently its diges¬ 
tion. There is more good sense now 
than ever before characterized the 
people.” 
“Meflez vous des femmes qui n’aiment 
pas la musique et fleurs.” 
“Un mauvais chanteur ne vaut pas ses 
cordes pour le pendre.”- 
-R. I. Experiment Station: “The 
Dlstrlbntes Paris-green, London-purple, Helle¬ 
bore. or any dry powder In any quantity desired. 
By turning the crank a volume of powder Is lorced 
through the tube. It Is simple, durable and cheap. 
Price, complete, $7.00; allowance for expressage. 
Send for circniar. 
Soja bean is superior to Red clover in 
two most important particulars, protein 
and fat, especially the latter.” 
“ Rhode Island farmers cannot expect 
to grow more crops at a lower price 
until they pay more attention to the 
needs of the crop and soil, and the 
chemical composition of the various fer¬ 
tilizers. The question is not, how many 
pounds of fertilizers for the money, but 
how much potash, phosphoric acid and 
nitrogen, and their form?” 
-Irving: “There is no duenna so 
rigid 17 prudent, and inexorably decorous, 
as a superannuated coquette.” 
-Ram’s Horn : “ God employs no hired 
men. His work is done by his sons.” 
By racking Yodb lungs with a Cough, you 
may Irritate them Into a condition ripe for the pro¬ 
duction of tuberclf 8, and then, Instead of a curable 
affection, yon will have to deal with Consumption 
Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant promptly cures all Coughs 
and Colds, and by imparting vigor to the respiratory 
organs, enables them to freely throw off all obstruc¬ 
tions engendered by neglected Colds, and heals all 
sore or Inflamed parts.—A dp. 
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Rest on two to three years time to suit purchaser. 
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