1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
347 
Rurallsms—Con«nti€(Z. 
present limited experience were to guide 
us, before the end of August. 
It is said that on stubble land a catch 
may be secured by harrowing deep and 
sowing the seed and rolling or harrowing 
lightly. It is further said that a yield of 
about two tons of fine hay may be 
secured from very thin land and the hay 
is taken off in time to allow the use of 
the field for other summer crops. 
At the Delaware Station Scarlet clover 
yielded at the rate of over 13 tons of 
green clover per acre' which, it was esti¬ 
mated, contained 131 pounds of potash, 
35 pounds of Jphosphate and 115 pounds 
of nitrogen. This, of course, exclusive 
of roots and stubble. As a source of 
nitrogen for field crops, vegetables and 
fruits, it has given the most satisfactory 
results. We would ask our friends to 
read attentively all that appears in our 
columns regarding this plant which gives 
promise of being more useful in many 
ways and for many parts of our country 
than any other plant ever introduced. 
Mr. T. Greiner predicts in our excel¬ 
lent contemporary, the Farm and Fire¬ 
side, tliat the Carman No. 1 potato will 
be worth $5 a bushel next season. He 
thinks “there is nothing more promising 
at present than this variety.” 
Prof. Hamerik has discovered among 
other things, that chickens have a very 
acute sense of taste, hearing and vision, 
but lack the sense of smell. The most 
powerful fumes of acid are imperceptible 
to them. An experiment with ammonia 
proved that though overcome with it the 
hens walked blindly into the same dan¬ 
ger repeatedly. 
The new hardy (hybrid perpetual) 
rose, Roger Lambelin, illustrated in the 
catalogue number (page 133) has met 
with an unexpected sale. The entire 
stock (except plants retained for propa¬ 
gation) has been sold and the introducers 
—Peter Henderson & Co.—for the past 
three weeks have been returning money 
daily to customers who send money 
for it. 
Our respected friend. Prof. Thomas 
Meehan, notes in his interesting Monthly 
that there is a Tulip tree (Lirioden- 
dron tulipifera) on Lord Homes’s estate 
in England known to have been planted 
200 years ago. At two feet from the 
ground, it measures 23 feet in circumfer¬ 
ence. 
It is said (The R. N.-Y. has not tried 
it) that spraying plum trees with Paris- 
green water will kill the curculio—about 
two ounces to 20 gallons of water. That 
any surface application of this kind can 
kill an egg which is deposited beneath 
the skin of the little plum, or the larva 
when it hatches, is not easy to under¬ 
stand. Still those who have tried it say 
that it is just as effective as the old way 
of jarring the trees. 
It is to be hoped that the entomologists 
of the stations will give due time the 
present season to inventing or discover¬ 
ing some practical means of ridding 
grape vines, rose bushes, etc., of the de¬ 
structive rose-beetle or chafer. The R. 
N.-Y. was the first to hit upon Buhach or 
Pyrethrum powder and the hot water 
remedy. These are the most effective 
thus far made known, but still far from 
satisfactory. It may be remembered that 
the hot-water remedy was suggested to 
the writer in this way : For the purpose 
of trying a certain possible remedy he was 
hunting for rose bugs in the hottest part 
of a day when the thermometer stood at 
90 degrees or thereabouts. All the rose 
bugs were at that time found to be under 
the shelter of rose petals or leaves, thus 
avoiding the direct sun rays. One of the 
beetles fell upon the hot, unshaded soil 
and died in a few moments. The tem¬ 
perature of the soil was ascertained and 
hot water of the same temperature was 
found to be equally effective. 
We would advise our readers to use 
“Buhach” rather than the imported 
Pyrethrum powder. It is put up in sealed 
cans containing from two ounces to six 
pounds, the first size mailed for 20 cents. 
It is claimed that the California product 
(Buhach) is more powerful than the im¬ 
ported ground petals, because of the dry¬ 
ness of the California section where the 
Pyrethrum cinerar 00 folium plants are 
raised. It appears that the oil of the 
petals which paralyzes or kills the in¬ 
sects is partially soluble in water, so 
that the best quality is grown only in a 
dry climate. We find that nearly all of 
the “ non-poisonous ” insect extermi¬ 
nators now in the market and sold under 
various names have Buhach for the base, 
as it may be considerably diluted with 
plaster or other harmless, cheap sub¬ 
stances and still be effective in paralyzing 
insects for from 2 to 3G hours, or killing 
them outright. We have tried the fresh¬ 
est powder upon rose bugs and potato 
beetles, and find that nearly all revive 
sooner or later. 
In the handsome catalogue of .John 
Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, Qaeens 
County, N. Y., we find the following: 
“It is now conceded that the Japinese 
wineberry is the most valuable berry 
ever introduced, and the most remark¬ 
able of the many fine fruits which have 
come from Japan.” This, it will be re¬ 
membered, was “ popularized ” by Mr. 
Childs. That is, it was forcibly adver¬ 
tised by him several years ago at a high 
price, though the same species had been 
offered by Ellwanger & Barry for up¬ 
wards of a dozen years at a popular 
price, under its true name Rubus Phoe- 
nicolasius. The statement of the fact 
by The R. N.-Y. was the basis of a libel 
suit brought by Mr. Childs against the 
Rural Publishing Company for §50,000, 
the preparation to meet which cost the 
writer of these notes no end of trouble, 
and the Company a considerable ex¬ 
pense. The suit never came to trial, 
however. 
Now Mr. Childs, in the catalogue above 
mentioned, announces “Childs’s Golden 
Japanese Mayberry” which, it is stated, 
“ is the most remarkable of all fruit 
novelties ever introduced.” “ It grows,” 
he says, “in sturdy tree form six to 
eight feet high, and ripens its fruit be¬ 
fore strawberries, a month before the 
earliest raspberries and before some of 
them have hardly wakened from their 
winter’s rest. « « » The large, hand¬ 
some blossoms are followed by great 
glossy berries, which are of a golden- 
yellow color, and in quality sweet and 
luscious beyond description. There is 
nothing like it in cultivation, and its ex¬ 
treme earliness makes it the most im¬ 
portant of all small fruits. The bushes 
are entirely hardy in any location and 
increase in size, vigor and bearing quali¬ 
ties for four or five years after planting 
before they reach the zenith of their 
luxuriance and productiveness. We pur¬ 
chased this berry when there were only 
about a dozen plants of it, and it cost a 
small fortune.” 
The price which Mr. Childs charges for 
it is §5 each for “strong, two-year-old 
plants.” 
Mr. Childs does not state its botanical 
name. The nearest plant we can think of is 
Rubus spectabilis (Botany of California) 
which, as Mr. Luther Burbank tells us, 
is called in California the Salmon Berry, 
a familiar name which properly applies 
only to Rubus nutkanus. It can not be 
this. 
Through a friend we have purchased a 
single plant of the Golden Mayberry, 
which is thriving fairly well at the Rural 
Grounds, and in due time we hope, as in 
the case of the “ Wineberry” to tell our 
readers its real name and just what it 
amounts to. 
Word for Word. 
-Cor of The Cultivator : “I have 
been expecting a rush toward potato 
growing for two years, as the wheat, 
cattle and wool interests were flat, while 
potatoes have been paying.” 
“ Some months ago, I saw a notice in 
a newspaper that the government had 
published two illustrated works upon 
subjects in which I was deeply interested, 
as a farmer, and I made several efforts, 
through Congressmen, to obtain a copy 
of each, which resulted only in vague 
and uncertain promises. Much desiring 
to obtain the books, I wrote a certain 
book seller, reputed as a purchaser of 
surplus distributions, for them, and with¬ 
in a few days received and paid for the 
coveted copies, which were enclosed in 
the original wrappers, and bore the frank 
of an M. C.” [Why not give his name ? 
Eds. R N.-Y.J 
“ Thic. surplus copies of government 
publications remaining after the usual 
distribution among the favored, are de¬ 
posited in the cellars, vaults and attics of 
government buildings, where cords upon 
cords have been rotting for half a cen¬ 
tury. This accumulation is constantly 
increasing, until now there are hundreds 
of cords imprisoned in these immense 
cellars, underground rooms and attics, 
food for vermin, and of no present or fu¬ 
ture use to any human being.” 
-New Review : “ Domestic servants 
are the best paid of the working class.” 
-Edward Bellamy : “ The Govern¬ 
ment of the United States and of the 
States is not now the popular govern¬ 
ment. It is run by what are called ‘ our 
business interests’—that is to say, the 
moneyed interests. It represents great 
aggregations of money and not the 
popular will.” 
“According to the mortgage statis¬ 
tics of the last census, or calculations 
based upon them, it is shown that nine 
per cent of the American people own 71 
per cent of the property in the country, 
leaving but 29 per cent to be distributed 
among the remaining 91 per cent of the 
people. It is that nine per cent of mon¬ 
eyed men who govern the country and 
dictate the policy of Congress.” 
-The Arena : “ The man who has the 
most musical soul is the greatest must 
cian, although ignorant of every note, on 
paper.” 
“The same faculty that lifted the 
monkey into a man is now intended to 
lift man into a still higher grade.” 
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Fine Cheshire Pigs, ready to ship, $7 00 each; $13.0J 
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