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RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 9 
THE 
Rural New-Yorker 
Cor. Ohambera and Pearl St *., Hew York. 
NatiMftl Weakly Jenrnel for Country end Snburben Homes. 
ELBBBT 8. CABMAN, Bdltor-ln-Chlef. 
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VvpvrigMed 1894. 
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able to THB BUBAL NEW-YOBKBB. 
Be sure that the name and address of sender, with name of Post 
office and State, and what the remittance Is for, appear in every letter. 
Money orders and bank drafts on New York are the safest means of 
transmlttlnx money. 
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We believe that Mr. S. M. Macomber, of Vermont, 
has repaired more mowing machines than any other 
blacksmith in the country. He will have an article in 
next week’s R. N,-Y. showing where these machines 
most frequently break and how they may be simply 
repaired. 
“ Hoggerine ” is the latest name for the verses 
printed in The R, N.-Y. of May 5 . Call it what you 
will so long as you hang that page up in your barn, 
dairy or creamery. We have sent out over 1,000 already 
for this purpose. Why can’t you hang up a dozen or 
more ? We will furnish any number on application. 
Strike a blow at “ hog butter.” Strike it now ! 
# 
A Cincinnati daily has unearthed what it describes 
as “ a most artistic liar.” He has a little 3x4 ofSce, 
with perhaps 3200 worth of goods, but is flooding the 
country with circulars to agents, and extravagant 
offers of goods in exchange for advertising, in which 
he conveys the idea that the concern is doing a busi¬ 
ness of thousands of dollars every year. Such firms 
are best left alone. It is unsafe to patronize these 
blowhards that make such extravagant offers. 
« 
What kind of a farmer would you expect a man to 
be who wrote to his favorite agricultural weekly for 
information as to the page where he could find a cer¬ 
tain article published a few weeks previously ? Had 
his papers all on file, too 1 Yet that is just what a 
certain man did instead of looking it up himself. 
What is more, he wanted an answer by mail, but 
showed the added carelessness of omitting his post 
office address. What must we conclude with reference 
to the business habits of such careless people ? 
• 
That is a new side of the hired man question given 
on page 362. We are told of farmers who cannot se¬ 
cure reliable helpers. Here comes a man claiming to 
be a reliable workman who has not secured a satisfac¬ 
tory job. The problem has ever been to bring the job 
and the workman together. How shall that be done ? 
Business men in search of a job or a helper advertise 
their wants. Farm managers who command good 
salaries may also do this to advantage. Will the time 
come when farmers and skillful hired men can afford 
to try this method of coming together ? It is worth 
thinking about. 
Western farmers are using more fertilizers each 
year. They begin with the tankage, blood and bone 
from their slaughter houses. This is as it should be, 
for these waste products have all come from their 
land and must go back to it if the fertility is to be 
maintained. Formerly they were sent to Eastern 
farms. The Western farmer looks forward to the 
time when all this nitrogen and phosphoric acid will 
be used west of the Alleghanies. Will not this then 
cripple the Eastern farmer by cutting off the supply 
and to that extent increasing the price of fertilizers? 
No. The Eastern farmer will then be driven into the 
sea. That is, he will be obliged to use more fish to 
obtain organic nitrogen. There are few who realize 
the possibilities or even the present proportions of 
the business in non-edible fish—that is, the fish used 
entirely for oil and fertilizer. It has been said that 
the vast stores of plant food that escape into brooks 
and rivers and run into the ocean are lost forever. 
That is hardly true. Much of it is recovered in the 
form of fish which feed on this refuse or the forms of 
life which grow from it. It is a singular thought 
that the ocean is yet to feed the land, and that some 
of the fertility we now mourn as lost may yet be 
caught in a net and brought back to our children. 
« 
The discussion on the different methods of starting 
cabbages shows that much more depends upon circum¬ 
stances than we are wont to admit. Most of those 
who discussed the subject favored starting the plants 
in beds and transplanting. Mr. C. L. Allen, of Long 
Island, disagrees, page 362, and gives good reasons for 
so doing. Long Island, for several years past, has 
been subject to severe and long protracted summer 
droughts, rendering the successful transplanting of 
anything extremely problematical. So the method he 
advocates seems best for that locality. A great deal 
depends upon circumstances and conditions in all farm 
operations. ^ 
Mb J. a. Westbrook, of Mt. Olive, N. C., sends us a 
sample package of strawberries as they are sent to 
the New York market; four boxes of fruit, packed in 
a light open rack with a wooden bale or handle. The 
berries were of fine, even size—if anything, the largest 
ones were at the bottom. Between each layer of ber¬ 
ries were green strawberry leaves, with other leaves 
spread over the top of the tray. Of course, all this 
took time and required skill and care. Did it pay ? 
The commission man who handles these berries states 
that while other Southern fruit was selling at five to 
eight cents a quart, not a quart of these berries has 
sold for less than 20 cents I There is “ pay ” for you ! 
“ Hayt & Co.” continue to send out their lying cir¬ 
culars. They come back to us from all parts—sub¬ 
scribers sending them in to know if this is the same as 
Stephen H. Hayt. Yes, it is the very same old hum¬ 
bug with a few added weeks of rascality. What an 
old impostor he is 1 In the circulars returned to us, he 
quotes prices for eggs and butter that are ridiculous. 
There is nothing in the prospect to justify any such 
offers. At the end of his circular he has this sugges¬ 
tive line : 
“ We Deal Heavy in Baled Hay and Straw ! ” 
Correct! You’re right, you do I Your whole concern 
is stuffed with straw. You are a straw man, and we 
only regret that the irons of the law cannot bale you 
as you deserve ! ^ 
An immigration convention was recently held at 
Augusta, Ga. The object was to devise means for in¬ 
ducing capital and skilled labor to come to the South¬ 
ern States. It was easy to show that the Southern 
States offer superior attractions both to those who 
have money to invest and those who seek homes. 
Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, made the statement 
that the South should first import ideas ! “No use to 
bring capital here,” he said, “ while Southern farmers 
spend six months killing grass and the other six pay¬ 
ing for Northern hay !” There is a good deal in that 
homely way of putting it. Let all the farm products 
needed at the South be grown on Southern farms, the 
money received for them paid and spent at the South, 
and within 10 years the average condition of Southern 
agriculture would be bettered by 50 per cent. 
We saw two fields of oats and peas last week that 
gave an excellent illustration of the seedina effects of 
stable manure. The oats and peas were in drills. On 
one field stable manure had been used, and fertilizers 
on the other. On the manured field, the spaces be¬ 
tween the drills were a perfect mass of weeds—from 
the seeds applied in the manure. These weeds will 
grow as fast as the oats and peas and will greatly in¬ 
jure the fodder, because all must be cut together. On 
the fertilized field, the weeds were not half so heavy, 
and the chances are good that the grain will outgrow 
them. The lesson was plain—never put weedy manure 
on a crop like oats and peas, which cannot be culti¬ 
vated and which is not planted close enough to smother 
the weeds. The place for manure is on grass or crops 
that may be hoed or cultivated. Either that or on 
small grain planted so that the weeds cannot grow so 
readily. ^ 
You now understand some of the possibilities of 
Crimson clover. The next point is to know whether 
some of these possibilities may be worked out on your 
farm. How are you to find that out? We know of 
but one way, and that is to experiment. We feel like 
advising every one of our readers south of Lake On¬ 
tario to try this clover in a small way. Sow at the 
last working of the corn. If all would try it, we might 
learn some very valuable facts about it. Another 
plant worth trying is Alfalfa. These two plants are 
exactly opposite in their habits. The Crimson clover 
is an annual. It is valuable chiefiy because it does not 
hold the land away from other crops. The Alfalfa, 
on the other hand, is valued because it holds the ground 
for years, making permanent use of fields that other¬ 
wise would demand expensive plowing and culture. 
Mr. Bancroft, of Delaware, showed us where the two 
plants had been usefully combined. On an Alfalfa 
field that had become thin in spots, he sowed Crimson 
clover. This had grown up so as to be ready with the 
first cutting of Alfalfa, and helped out the yield of 
forage wonderfully. ^ 
Congress has appropriated 3100,000 to investigate 
tuberculosis and methods of “stamping it out.” It is 
proposed to begin work in the city of W ashington and 
the herds that supply the milk for its citizens. Milk 
with the disease germs in it has already been found 
there. The fact is that this matter of tuberculosis is 
becoming a very serious problem. It seems evident to 
us that sooner or later the consuming public will 
demand milk absolutely free from the disease. This 
they have a perfect right to do, and milkmen cannot 
afford to stand in the way of such a demand. If they 
do, it will be so much the worse for them in the end. 
The majority of dairymen will, we think, fully agree 
with that, but the use of tuberculin for testing arouses 
serious objections in some quarters. This is because 
it is thought the test is too accurate—that is to say, it 
will detect the slightest trace of the disease—even a 
form so mild that milk from the cow could not pos¬ 
sibly be dangerous. Others firmly believe that the use 
of tuberculin in a ccw tha’i is predisposed to the disease 
may actually stimulate and lead to the formation of 
tubercles. We refer to these facts to show what an 
intricate and complex question we have to deal with. 
It is the greatest problem that has ever confronted 
our live stock interests. 
BREVITIES. 
The boy he catched a Bwaller In his trap and shut him tight 
In Sarah's cage. I'll tell ye what. It was a sorry sight 
To see the little feller beat his feeble wings and bead 
Agin them bars. “ Jest let him go; I'd rather see him dead," 
Says I, “ than see him struggle ler his freedom—let him go. 
I’ll git a tame canary tbat’ll stay to borne;" an' so 
The boy he opened up the door and let him lly away, 
An’ mother went to town an’ bought a yaller bird that day. 
He didn’t try to tly away-he’d jest set there an’ sing, 
An’ twitter up an’ twitter down as happy as a king. 
" Now, ain’t It funny ? ’’ said the boy; " that swaller almost died, 
While that ’ere little yaller bird Is fully satisfied.’’ 
1 have to think of folks I know who drag their weary race 
In bitterness and discontent because they’re out of place. 
Oh, how they turn their hopeless eyes up to the distant stars ! 
Oh, how they throw their feeble strength against the holding bars I 
While we who are so happy cannot understand at all. 
Why these half-wild, fierce natures find our sweetness only gill. 
For many human swallers pine behind the bars to-day; 
While we canaries live In peace, they’d gladly lly away. 
Don’t spill skill. 
Is your labor at a premium ? 
Ikon the calf's milk—page 371. 
The tariff debate Is a wind row. 
APICCLTUBK calls for a heezy nest. 
WHAT is the safest rack for brains ? 
Can white butter have a high flavor? 
Keep a sulphared hen out of the wet! 
The knife Is the only cure for dandelions I 
You give a man a blowing up In order to ‘‘take him down." 
We still bold that place on the E. W. Bull fund open for yon. 
Don’t feed sugar beets to sheep—they cause bladder trouble. 
" Hike muscle-furnish brain ! ’’ Is that a safe motto for you ? 
YOUNG man! Will you lose anything by working overtime for your 
boss? 
Don’t let the hay fork bite off more than the horse can draw. Better 
make two bites. 
‘‘ Dky measure ’’ for the hired man—page 362. How wonld you like 
to work t'’at way ? 
Buckwheat and Crimson clover will make a good combination to 
use after strawberries. 
Theke is more butler in June-cut grass than In that which celebrates 
the Fourth of July in the field. 
Mr. Ballou calls the hen’s crop the one place where the cut worm 
Is powerless to do Injury—correct! 
Do you think Mr. Woodward Is too conservative In his estimation of 
the value of a hay loader In clover 7 
How long before you will learn that whatever you put your name 
on will be accepted as the best you can do ? 
That's a funny farmer who will walk by a dock plant without pull¬ 
ing It up. Such a man will willingly dock his profits. 
What business has any dalriman or sheepman to grow Timothy 
hay? We have never had a satisfactory answer to that question. Is 
there any ? 
Califoknians are experimenting with rice culture, with every 
prospect of success, in 1893 this country Imported nearly $2,500,000 
worth of rice. 
People who loudly complain about being snlndled byoneof thoie 
old " something for nothing’’games maybe said to be "taking tie 
bit In the mouth.” 
Every year we are called upon to say that If you cannot Irr gate 
the soil yon can at least Irritate It. In other words, shallow cultiva¬ 
tion will aid In a dry time. 
We have noticed some statements as to the size of Crimson clover 
plants. We have one, pulled up at Mr. Murray’s place, that carries 
112 heads with the largest stalks two feet ten Inches long. 
FBANCE has only recently abolished the tax on dcors and windows. 
It was abolished 50 years ago In Great Britain. Think of taxing one’s 
enjoyment of light and air. But bow much worse Is it than an in¬ 
direct tax on water or coal? 
SECRETAHY J. STERLING MORTON concludes that “ every Individual 
of the Coxey army has paid out from birth to date more money for 
whisky, tobacco and beer than for clothing, education, taxes and 
food altogether.” We wonder who will dispute that statement I 
There is a legend of one, "Johnny Appleseed" who went about the 
country scattering apple seeds wherever he could get a chance. From 
the seedlings thus started, the pioneers obtained fruit and got an 
interest In apple growing. Would that some one wonld now start 
about the country sowing Crimson clover seed In the same way. 
