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June 2 
TIIli RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Rural New-Yorker 
Oor. Ohambera and Pearl St»., New York. 
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The articles on “A Pound of Butter” proved so 
satisfactory that we propose following them up with 
another series on “A Pound of Berries.” This will 
give in plain and simple language the life history 
and pedigree of berries that are sold in retail market 
by the pound. The “ pedigree ” will run away back to 
the stumps and grubs that formerly covered the farm. 
*r 
Hay Field Lessons: The rake may well take the 
place of the tedder if used by a skillful hand. Air or 
dry wind make better hay than hot sun. The well- 
aired windrow or cock will give better hay than that 
which is spread out flat for a long time. The aroma 
or perfume of the hay has no actual feeding value, but 
when it is burned or blistered out, a good share of 
the hay’s value goes with it. 
* 
A GOOD manure trap can be made out of nails and 
boards by almost any one who can hold a hammer. 
The best form is that of an open shed in a pasture. 
It may be temporary or fixed. Shelter and shade are 
the bait for these traps. In hot or in rainy weather 
the stock will go there for rest or shelter. The result 
is that manure accumulates on these spots. It is a 
first-rate plan to put one of these traps on the poorer 
spots in the field. That is where you want to catch 
the manure. 
* 
“ Labor Day” is now a legal holiday in more than 
half the States—made so by State laws. Efforts are 
now being made to make it a National holiday, a 
bill with this object in view having been before the 
House for some time. So far as we have noticed, this 
holiday has been observed only by clerks and city 
workmen. As it comes on Monday, they are enabled 
to take “two days off” in the country. What has 
become of the Harvest Day holiday Gov. Flower 
talked about ? 
* 
We used to be told that there was a “dairy belt” in 
this country outside of which it was well-nigh impos¬ 
sible to make good butter. That “ belt” has long 
since been wiped out. Modern invention has done so 
much for dairy utensils that now-a-days good butter 
is made wherever clover or corn will grow. Mr. Ban¬ 
croft’s success with Scarlet clover ensilage indicates 
that the clieapeM butter ration may yet be found in 
crops that are now comparatively new. This, too, 
will bring new sections into competition. 
* 
We have often recorded pitiful stories about the 
spreading of weed seeds by the wind. The recent 
history of the Russian thistle is a case in point. This 
vile weed is scattered broadcast—over States and 
counties by the force of the wind. That is the curse 
of the wind, but it is capable of carrying a blessing in 
the same way. See how it scatters the Scarlet clover 
seed over those Delaware farms ? That is a good 
thing. That “weed” is a friend in need. Would that 
the wind could carry it all over the country. 
* 
Some of the New York papers are arguing that the 
demand for woman’s suffrage in New York State 
comes from a few enthusiasts and not from the major¬ 
ity of women The women on farms and in country 
villages, they say, care nothing for the right to vote. 
What are the facts ? So far as we can see, the major¬ 
ity of those who desire suffrage are country women. 
Surely the Granges and farmers’ clubs teach this 
doctrine. Are we not right ? Are farmers’ wives and 
daughters indifferent in this movement ? How are 
they in your neighborhood ? 
The first thing to remember about Scarlet clover is 
that it is an annual. That is, when it once produces 
seed there is an end of that plant. It is like corn or 
wheat in this respect, not like Timothy, which will 
yield crop after crop of seed and still grow. Scarlet 
clover may, however, be sowed in the spring and 
clipped or pastured in the fall before the heads form. 
If then kept through the winter it will yield a crop of 
seed the next year. That really means two crops 
from it. 
The result of the South Carolina liquor war is that 
the Supreme Court of that State decides that the pro¬ 
hibitory clause is the only one left standing from the 
wreck of the Dispensary law. Legally, therefore, 
South Carolina finds itself under the strictest prohibi¬ 
tion ever attempted in this country. It remains to be 
seen what the next legislature will do. Meanwhile, 
there is an agitation in Massachusetts for a trial of 
some form of the Norwegian system of State liquor 
selling. Of course, the present liquor dealers are most 
bitterly opposed to it. ^ 
Long Island and the state of Delaware are about 
of a size. They have several points in common. Out¬ 
side of one or two large cities, the chief business is 
farming. Through lack of competition, the farmers 
are at the mercy of railroads. They are obliged to ac¬ 
cept the service and the rates the railroads see fit to 
offer. The farmers themselves are largely responsible 
for this state of affairs. If they would unite and 
make a spirited and persistent fight for their rights, 
the railroad companies would, in time, be forced to 
more reasonable terms. 
Keep these facts before the people. Stephen H. 
Hayt, a man of this city attempting to do a commission 
business, is a fraud and a humbug. Parties sending 
goods to that address or to “ Hayt & Company” might 
just as well throw them away. This man is but a 
type of dozens of rascals who live by plundering the 
farmer. They offer big prices and make great prom¬ 
ises on purpose to induce farmers to make shipments. 
They have no intention of settling up. We have no 
sympathy for any reader of The R. N.-Y. who is 
caught by such fellows. Surely one who will not 
take The R. N.-Y. need not expect sympathy. 
* 
America is not the only country in which people 
tramp to the seat of government to seek redress for 
real or fancied wrongs. While the Coxey army was 
on its way, an old English veteran was walking 180 
miles to London to try to get a more liberal pension. 
He is 96 years old, fought against Napoleon, was dis¬ 
charged in 1860 and has since drawn the princely sum 
of 20 cents a day as a pension. Strange to say, he 
thought his age and condition warranted more than 
this. The officials “promised to consider the case,” 
and the old fellow tramped 180 miles home. A “peti¬ 
tion with boots on” doesn’t seem able to make a very 
big “ kick ” on either side of the water. 
* 
A little back yard which the writer passes daily on 
his way to the city oifice, is filled and covered with 
grape vines. They clamber up the high brick walls, 
and spread out over arching trellises, forming a per¬ 
fect oasis in the city desert o^ brick and mortar. They 
fairly revel in the torrid heat of their narrow prison. 
It is an ideal place for the sun-loving grape, and here, 
secure from late and early frosts, it luxuriates and 
ripens its luscious fruit. It is a great contrast to 
neighboring bare and forbidding back yards, and is a 
good object lesson of the possibilities of waste places. 
Aren’t there spots on your farm that could be similarly 
occupied greatly to your profit an d advantage ? 
* 
Sometimes you find a farmer who loudly proclaims 
that “farming don’t pay.” He bases his conviction on 
the fact that wheat or some other standard crop can 
no longer be sold at a profit. Say to him, “Why don’t 
you raise something else—like potatoes or fruit ?” 
and he will reply, “ Why, that wouldn’t be farming I” 
There are very few people now-a-days who can do just 
exactly what they wish. If a man will not change his 
methods simply because such a change would break a 
rule made by his grandfather, how can he expect 
sympathy or respect from those who are to do busi¬ 
ness with him ? There is not a man in any line of 
business who can afford to farm on the principle of a 
mud turtle. 
Ought we to call Trifolium incarnatum Crimson or 
Scarlet clover ? The R. N.-Y.’s opinion is decidedly 
in favor of the former. Why ? Because the color of 
the long, conical heads of bloom is crimson in color— 
not scarlet. The Latin verb incarnare, of which incar¬ 
natum is the participle, means “ flesh-colored” as 
nearly as it may mean any color. It appears that the 
flowers are sometimes flesh-colored, or rather cream- 
colored as well as occasionally white, though gener¬ 
ally crimson. Possibly this is the reason why it was 
named Incarnatum, '1 he value of this comparatively 
new clover, as it would now appear, can hardly be 
over-estimated and it is desirable that it should every¬ 
where be known by the same name. Some catalogues 
have it Crimson, some Scarlet. Those who hear of 
the wonderful plant and who desire to try it for the 
first time will naturally ask, “Are they the same?” 
* 
An ancient writer made the statement that he could 
turn a donkey loose between two stacks of the finest 
hay and, if he could only secure control of that 
donkey’s mind so that it could not tell which hay it 
preferred, the poor beast would starve to death. There 
is a grain of sense in that apparently ridiculous prop¬ 
osition. Take a young man surrounded by oppor¬ 
tunities. Let him take hold of one thing and master 
it and he will succeed. Let him aimlessly ramble 
from one to another without plan or purpose and, like 
the donkey, he will starve. It pays to get on a sensi¬ 
ble hobby these days and stick to it. 
* 
The R, N.-Y.’s exposure of the methods employed by 
that Chicago creamery concern has had a good effect 
in two ways. It has shown up the papers that con¬ 
tinue to advertise the firm, even in the face of repeated 
exposures. It has also forbed the concern to tone 
down its advertising. The plan now is to advertise 
nothing but a separator and in this way secure names 
of parties to whom they may sell high-priced “ sup¬ 
plies.” Another thing in this connection is the adver¬ 
tising of that old fraud “Preservaline.” So far as we 
can learn, the Farm Journal is the only paper besides 
The R. N.-Y. that refuses to advertise this stuff. 
Every one of these papers knows it is a harmful fraud 
and yet they give silent invitations to their readers to 
try it. A nice state of affairs I 
* 
BREVITIES. 
The BAllora tell ns as they go, 
Across the Gulf of Mexico, 
Ilow. far beyond the eight of land. 
With ocean stretched on every band. 
They And a patch of lighter blue, 
And, bubbling up—the ocean through, 
Kresh water, pure as mountain dew. 
From the far Rockies, cold and gray. 
That crystal flood has found Its way. 
Deep In the earth, to merge at last 
Beneath the bed of ocean vast. 
And reach the surface of the tide 
Where weary mariners may ride. 
Lost mountain waters, moving slow 
Through subterranean rivers low. 
To meet at last the ocean’s blue. 
Like life’s lost Impulses are you. 
Beneath the crust of doubt and wrong 
Through weary years they creep along. 
And, gathering force as time goes past, 
They burst In truth and strength at last! 
Dkw makes sticking plaster. 
ViuGix soil Is not made soil I 
Theme’s no work in a gilt edge. 
Stkaw-bi.anched celery again. 
What alls those hens -page 34C? 
A SOFT answer melts a hard word. 
Thin the fruit to make a thick crop. 
It takes a line horse to make a courser. 
No harrow can rnend a bad break of sod. 
“ Next to godliness”—the scrub dairymaid! 
Don’t forget the second crop in the garden. 
Painless labor is sponging on your neighbor. 
A GUEAT small frult-the Tlmbrell strawberry. 
A i.iAK Is like a bee-the tale end most dangerous! 
A LIVE “beat” does more damage than a dead one. 
How much space to each bearing strawberry plant? 
Give us the haymaking that leaves the clover leaves on. 
We pity those who have to ” live on the fat of the land.” 
It Is a roundabout way to reach lice through the hen’s mouth! 
See what a range there was In that plum blossoming—page 346 . 
The value of a “second hand” article depends on the ilrst hand. 
Many a wonderful scheme will fall through the rot that comes 
through In a slighted detail. 
AT Ellerslle Stock Farm they have just put a crop of rye into the 
silo. It cut live tons per acre. 
WE never did like to pay the hired man for the time he spends com 
Ing to the house to look at the clock! 
The farmer sells twice as much wheat for a cent as bo used to. 
Why can’t we buy twice as much bread for a cent? 
Mr. Bancroft does not think Scarlet clover can be successfully 
sowed with oats, though Mr. Packard has used it with millet. 
If you read the other farm papers regularly tell us how many frauds 
they have exposed in the past year! How does their work in this line 
compare with that of The U. N.-Y.? 
BEAR In mind that all they can punish Coxey for is that he did not 
“ Keep off the grass!” Why can’t we punish the farmer who won't 
keep the grass and weeds off his hoed crops? 
French grape growers have successfully fought the phylloxera on 
grape roots by flooding the vineyards—keeping them covered with 
water for several days. We might call this hide row culture 
Will an acre of good Timothy bring more cash than an acre of 
wheat? If so, you would better experiment with wheat hay. If that 
will satisfy your stock you can have all the Timothy for sale. 
It Is now proposed that the women of suitable age In New York State 
should vote on the question as to whether or not they desire the right 
of suffrage. They would thus settle the matter for themselves. 
A NEW way of shipping fish Is to pack It In frozen sawdust. A layer 
of the sawdust is put at the bottom of a car and boxes of flsh are 
placed In It well covered with the sawdust. Then the car is sealed 
tight. This method is much cheaper than Ice. 
