1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Farmers* Club Discussion. 
(Continued.) 
to do. I mean to keep him as long as 
he does as well as he does now. 
Some may say that they can’t hire in¬ 
telligent help, at that price. I reply 
that we can hire muscular help. This 
man can dress a saw equal to any man I 
ever saw ; he can go into the blacksmith 
shop (which I have on the farm) and 
sharpen his plow, dress and lay a mat¬ 
tock, can make shingles, and is generally 
handy and useful. He attends to the 
horses on Sunday, as well as when at 
work. Again some one says that a man 
can’t live on such wages. They do. We 
furnish them a house and truck patch ; 
with our long seasons, where two crops 
of potatoes can be grown, and other stuff 
in proportion, they can raise much of 
their living from a small piece of ground. 
It does not require so much or such ex¬ 
pensive clothing here as in the North, 
and while these men do not accumulate 
much, they get along and seem to enjoy 
life as well as, or better than, the North¬ 
ern laborer. 
There are fewer “ Coxeyites” from the 
South than from the North and West. 
As wheat is worth 60 cents, corn 46 cents, 
and butter 25 cents, in our local market 
now (butter is engaged by the year) we 
have no reason to complain of the wages 
we pay; $15 per month is the top price for 
farm help here. These men all board 
themselves, of course. The cotton coun¬ 
try south of us takes all our produce, 
and our prices, as a rule, are better 
tlian Northern prices. 
Wk have just received from Luther 
Burbank, of Sanca Rosa, Cal., a book of 
32 pages which ho calls, and justly so, 
“ New Creations in Fruits and Flowers.” 
The illustrations (quinces, plums, rasp¬ 
berries and blackberries, lilies, clematis, 
roses, etc.) are all photo-engravings and, 
instead of exaggerating the plants or 
fruits they are generally smaller than 
the natural size. Our readers may desire 
to know what he charges for these ‘‘new 
creations.” The quince No. 80 which 
we illustrated February 3, 1894, is now 
offered for $600, the stock on hand being 
“ one seven-year-old tree and a few 
grafts.” 
A cross-bred Japan plum named Wick- 
son is offered for $2,500, the stock being 
“20,000 grafts.” Several other plums are 
offered as low as $300. A white black¬ 
berry, “Iceberg,” is offered for $2,500, 
the stock being 300 strong plants. The 
parents were Lawton and Crystal White. 
The berries are “snowy white” and so 
transparent that the seeds which are 
very small, may be seen in the berries 
when ripe. The berries are as large as 
those of Lawton, earlier, sweeter and 
more tender. 
Wk now find, what 3 we ought to have 
remembered, that the Japan Golden 
Mayberry, offered at $5 a plant by John 
Lewis Childs, is one of Mr. Burbank’s 
productions. We read about it in his 
New Creations” of 1893. It seems that 
it is the result of a cross between the 
Japan Rubus palmatus and the Cuthbert. 
Mr. Burbank corroborates ail that Mr. 
Childs says of it. “ The earliest rasp¬ 
berry known.” “Ripens here in April, a 
month before Hansell.” “ The bushes 
grow like trees six to eight feet high, 
with spreading tops and all aloag the 
branches large, white, bell-shaped blos¬ 
soms are pendant which are soon follow¬ 
ed by the sweet, glossy, golden, semi- 
translucent berries.” Mr. Burbank’s 
price was $8G0, the stock consisting of 
“ six very large clusters and 48 strong 
young suckers.” 
Crimson clover is well worth culti¬ 
vating in the flower garden as an orna¬ 
mental annual. The heads are often 
three inches long and, if plucked when 
just coming into bloom and placed in 
water, will keep fresh and continue t 
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bloom for a long time—10 days at any 
rate. We would like to have all of our 
readers try it in a small way. Send five 
cents to any seedsman for a sample 
which would enable all to try it and see 
just what sort of a beautiful plant it 
is. The plants will bloom in about seven 
weeks if the seed be sown now. 
Our friend Dr. W. Van Fleet, of West 
Grove, Pa., writes us that Mr. Antoine 
Wintzer, who propagated for the Dingee 
& Conard Co., for many years, secured 
53 cuttings from his Agnes Emily Car¬ 
man (Rugosa hybrid) rose, received from 
the Storrs & Harrison Co. last Novem¬ 
ber, and succeeded in rooting 48 of them. 
The plants are now thrifty in 2-inch 
pots. We would be glad to know how 
Mr. Wintzer succeeds in rooting these 
Rugosa cuttings. Certain it is that 
Storrs & Harrison—among our most ex¬ 
perienced growers—were obliged to bud 
on Manetti. So, too, the firm that is 
propagating the other Rugosa hybrids 
of The R. N.-Y. failed in rooting the cut¬ 
tings, though several methods were tried. 
All of our readers are familiar with 
the common White horse-chestnut—.lEs- 
culus hippocastanum. It is one of our 
finest ornamental trees whether for the 
lawn or roadside—round-headed, tall, 
majestic and well clothed in its dark- 
green, large leaves. There is one decided 
objection to this tree for the lawn. It 
fruits bountifully and the large nuts and 
shells must be frequently gathered from 
the grass underneath during the fall. 
Now, in the Double White horse-chest¬ 
nut we have all the beauty of the species 
as to form and foliage with two con¬ 
spicuous advantages, viz., the flowers, as 
to the individual and as to the raceme, 
are larger and more durable, and no fruit 
forms, for the reason that the stamens 
and pistils have changed to petals. It is 
really one of the most beautiful trees in 
existence and ought to be chosen always 
in preference to the single flowered 
white. 
Prof. J. L Budd of the Iowa Agri¬ 
cultural College, who was kind enough 
to send us tbe specimen of Siberian 
almond alluded to in this column a few 
weeks ago, writes as follows : 
I notice your note on the Siberian almond It will 
probably be well loaded with almonds and now that 
It Is In flower and fruit like the cultivated almonds, 
why, by crossing, may It nut be the mother of a race 
of hardy edible almonds? In the trying northwest, 
It Is hardy everywhere. It blossoms early, but we 
have not In 12 years had the fruit destroyed until 
the present spring. Our ethereal inl.dness of early 
March was followed by zero weather which for the 
flrst time destroyed the blossom buds of Prunus 
maackl, Betula amureusls and other plants and 
trees. We hoped to try crossing the Siberian almond 
this spring, so regret the loss of the bnds. 
Abstracts. 
-New York Herald: “There is but 
one Niagara, but on every hillside is a 
rippling rill. As much credit is due to 
the rivulet that sings as to the cataract 
that roars—neither more nor less. Each 
was made for a specific purpose, and each 
must accomplish that purpose. The 
rivulet has no right to complain, the 
cataract no right to be proud. Not abil¬ 
ity, but excellence, determines the meas¬ 
ure of merit.” 
-Irving: “Money can do much with 
stone and mortar, but, thank Heaven, 
there is no such thing as suddenly build¬ 
ing up an avenue of oaks. ” 
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THE DEACON’S ADVICE 
FROM PUACTICAl. EXPEKIENOB. 
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SLUG SHOT helps the plants to grow and keeps 
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The Bellows for applying Is the best for eoonomy 
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Remember that the Ullght comes like a thief In the 
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