1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3i5 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
(Continued.) 
can pay 73 cents of debt. In all those 
countries the producers’ labor is cheaper 
in silver than ours is in gold. Can 
we, then, successfully compete with 
these silver countries ? It is not pos¬ 
sible. The Englishman is satisfied ; why 
shouldn’t he be as a buyer ? The Russian, 
the Indian and the South American are 
each and all satisfied as sellers, because in 
the money values of each of those coun¬ 
tries, a good and profitable price is 
obtained. Only the American is dissat¬ 
isfied, because his 73 cent wheat will not, 
after deducting all expenses, pay the 
cost of production ; therefore he must 
sink deeper in poverty until his situation 
eventually reaches that of the European 
peasant. 
Is there any remedy, then ? None in 
the world so long as we compete with 
silver countries. It may be heterodoxy 
of the worst form to say that the farmer 
of America would be better off if this 
country were on a silver basis instead of 
a gold basis ; but it is a fact, neverthe¬ 
less, and the fact is made so by the 
monetary circulation of our foreign com¬ 
petitors. If all silver countries could be 
induced to demonetize silver and come to 
a gold basis only, we would then be on a 
fair level of competition, because the 
unit of value, a wheat bushel, would then 
pay only 73 cents worth of debt in each 
and every country. Or, again, if all 
could be induced to remonetize silver, 
the paying value of a wheat bushel 
would be alike the world over, and all 
stand an even chance in the struggle. 
With these facts apparent, the future of 
the American farmer is far from encour¬ 
aging. _ 
RIK- 
The Golden Variegated Yucca filamen- 
tosa is announced as a fine acquisition, 
as the leaves are distinctly and broadly 
margined with yellowish white, and the 
variety is said to be as hardy as the 
species. 
Ik our friends want a fertilizer that 
will be sure to help fruit trees of all 
kinds, grape vines and all small fruits, 
they will make no mistake if they take 
The R. N,-Y.’s advice given every year 
for many years, viz.: to use raw bone 
flour and potash—muriate of potash, be¬ 
cause that is the cheapest form in the 
market to-day. 
We may now say that the new white 
Columbian asparagus is really and truly 
all that the introducers claimed for it. 
It is not actually white, but it is so nearly 
so that no one will object to the slight 
tint of green of the tips. On May 1, we 
cooked stalks of the Columbian with half 
a dozen other kinds, but we could not 
detect that it was much more tender (a 
little perhaps) or better flavored than 
the others. 
The Ohio Station for five years has 
been using on different plots, dissolved 
bone-black, acid phosphate- and basic 
slag, to solve the problem which form of 
phosphate is most acceptable to plants. 
Each trial plot is one-tenth of an acre, 
and the crops grown have been, and will 
continue to be corn, wheat and oats. 
The following is the average result in 
bushels upon each plot: 
ixcuzASK Peu Acre. 
Fertilizer 
Corn 
Wheat 
Oats 
Diss. bone-black. 
.... 4.3 
4.0 
5.6 
Add Phosphate.. 
.. . 7.3 
4.2 
6.5 
Basic Blag. 
.... 7.2 
4.0 
7.0 
It will be seen that acid phosphate, or 
South Carolina rock treated with sul¬ 
phuric acid,and basic slag, a by-product of 
the manufacture of steel from phosphatic 
iron ore, give larger yields than dissolved 
bone-black, and would therefore, have 
a higher agricultural value if these re¬ 
sults may be taken as a guide. 
This is a valuable series of experiments 
which might well be carried on by all 
the stations. It would be well to add 
another plot upon which to use bone 
flour, and still another upon which to 
use acid phosphate and three or four 
per cent of nitrogen in some form so as 
to determine the relative effect of raw 
bone phosphate. 
Remember Prof. S. W. Johnson’s state¬ 
ment: “ The fact that leather may be 
put on the fertilizer market and turned 
off on the farmer at a large profit to the 
producer, and a heavy loss to the con¬ 
sumer, is one which will inevitably be 
‘ worked for all it is worth’ by unprin¬ 
cipled manufacturers. The only security 
at present consists in buying of thor¬ 
oughly trustworthy and intelligent par¬ 
ties, and giving a wide berth to organic 
nitrogen which is suspiciously cheap and 
cannot be identified as to its source and 
nature.” 
Remember further that the cheapest 
and best form of nitrogen now sold is 
that in the form of nitrate of soda. 
Don't pay 19 cents a pound for nitrogen in 
sulphate of arnrnonia when you can get it 
for 15 cents in nitrate of soda. 
Our practice now, as hitherto for many 
years, is to plant at the same time early, 
intermediate and late sweet corn. Then 
plant the best of the late kinds every 10 
days as long as there is a chance of its 
having time to mature. 
Rural Grounds Notes. —May 2.—Crim¬ 
son clover is a perfect mat of thrifty 
verdure, every plant of the same height, 
and as green as green can be. It is 
a foot high ; every portion of the plot 
is covered. This, it will be remem¬ 
bered, was sown last August 28 on an old 
strawberry plot. The seed was raked in, 
and during the following night rain fell. 
On the evening of August 31 it appeared 
that every seed had sprouted. 
On the old plot of last year which was 
cut while partly in bloom a few plants 
which passed the winter in safety, are 
now in bloom. This goes to show that 
if it is mown before bloom, during the 
autumn, it will stand mild winters as well 
as if the seed were sown late. 
Last year, we received from Mr. Parry, 
of Parry (P. O.) N. J., one plant of his 
new Japan quince “ Columbia.” The 
fruit of this, it is claimed, rivals in “size 
and shape the Belleflower apple, measur¬ 
ing from 9 to 12 inches around. It is of 
a greenish yellow, with handsome blush, 
surface ribbed like a citron and covered 
with small, white dots. It is so fragrant 
that one specimen will soon fill a room 
with its delightful perfume. It cooks as 
tender as an apple, and makes a jelly 
equaled only by the Guava.” Itis further 
claimed that the tree is very hardy, 
healthy, free from blight, mildew and 
insect pests, enormously productive, and 
comes to bearing very young. 
Our plant is now in bloom. The flow¬ 
ers are larger than those of most orna¬ 
mental quinces (Cydonia), varying in 
color on the same stem. iSome are nearly 
white, others are part pink and part 
white, others solid pink. 
Abstracts. 
-Ward McAllister: “The result of 
securing to women the privilege of vot¬ 
ing would be an aggravation of the pres¬ 
ent demoralized condition of the munici¬ 
pal government. The wives and daugh¬ 
ters of the unwashed democracy would 
throng to the polls, voting as their hus¬ 
bands vote, and thus simply giving 
additional power to the undesirable ele¬ 
ment which is now in control.” 
-Herbert Spencer : “ Pervading all 
Nature we may see at work a stern dis¬ 
cipline, which is a little cruel that it 
"may be very kind.” 
“ An intensified life, which may be 
summed up as great labor, great profit, 
great expenditure, has for its concomi¬ 
tant a wear and tear which considerably 
diminishes in one direction the good 
gained in another. So that it may, and 
in many cases does, result that dimin¬ 
ished happiness goes along with in¬ 
creased prosperity.” 
“The exclusive pursuit of what are 
distinguished as pleasures and amuse¬ 
ments is disappointing.” 
“As every one may see, fashionable 
life is passed, not in being happy, but in 
playing at being happy. And yet the 
manifest corollary is not drawn by those 
engaged in this life.” 
“ When a man’s knowledge is not in 
order, the more he has of it the greater 
will be his confusion of thought.” 
-CoR. OK The Outlook : “ I hold, in 
general, that for every diamond added to 
the jeweled fingers of wealth, for every 
new and sumptuous appointment of 
house and household, there is involved 
a moral obligation to do more in philan¬ 
thropy. The greater one’s ability to 
spend on one’s self, the greater the claim 
of humanitarian service.” 
“ An idle rich man is he who does lit¬ 
tle or nothing for his fellow men. He 
may toil like a galley-slave in heaping 
up money. If he spends that money in 
a wholly selfish manner, or hoards it 
avariciously, he is contemptible in the 
sight of God.” 
-New England Farmer: “Can any 
one tell why housework, socially con¬ 
sidered, is the most degrading work that 
women do when it is done for wages, al¬ 
though it is most womanly when done 
by one in her own house ? ” 
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