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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 16 
Wltrate at Different Times. 
J II , Nutlky, N. J.— Same time since, 
there was a discussion in Tjik R. N.-Y. 
as to whether it was better to apply fer¬ 
tilizers at one or several applications. 
In my opinion, the advantage of apply¬ 
ing at different times is in a more per¬ 
fect distribution. In olden times, when 
our mothers made saleratus biscuits, if 
the saleratus were not thoroughly mixed, 
and we got a taste of the alkali, it was 
very distasteful. So I think the corn or 
other plants would prefer the food thor¬ 
oughly mixed with the soil. I think it 
was Prof. Johnson who said, “ too much 
soluble plant food is not good, as it tends 
to carbonize the rootlets.” 
Hired Men's Wages; Egg Records. 
T. M. R., Fairview, Pa.— Hands are 
scarce and hard to get here, at 31.25 per 
day and board themselves, or 31 per day 
and board—two meals. I think it is an 
outrage and a shame on this nation that 
they should let such a horde of tramps as 
Coxey’s gang march through the country 
to the seat of government, annoying and 
imposing upon the charities of civil and 
industrious citizens. “In the s«eat of 
thy face shalt thou eat bread,” is the de¬ 
cree to mankind, and these gangs should 
be compelled to earn their living in 
some way instead of being allowed to im¬ 
pose upon the charities of the public and 
loaf around to breed disease and pesti¬ 
lence. There is work of some kind, or 
uncultivated land about every man’s 
home or town or city to give them a 
chance to earn a living if they are willing 
to work. May 22, first ripe strawberries, 
Michel’s Early. My egg record from 115 
Brown Leghorns : January, 32 dozens ; 
February, 86 dozens ; March, 175 dozens; 
April, 17() 7-12 dozens ; May to this date, 
10914^ dozens. 
Curlag Sweet Corn. 
W. L., Monroe County, N. Y.—On 
page 336, G. 1). inquires for the best 
method to cure seed corn in large quan¬ 
tities. A great deal of Evergreen sweet 
corn is grown for seed about here, and it 
IS mostly cured in boxes holding two 
bushels each. Tne ends of the boxes are 
of inch boards 14 x 17 inches. The bot¬ 
toms and sides are of strips, one half 
inch thick, two inches wide and two feet 
long. We husk directly into these crates, 
and when they are filled, they are col¬ 
lected each day and set in tiers three 
high on six-inch blocks, covered with 
boards and well braced. They remain 
until cold weather, when the corn is per¬ 
fectly dry, and is taken to the barn, 
sorted and shelled. In curing seed corn, 
it is necessary to husk it early that it 
may thoroughly dry before winter, as 
freezing injures the germ. Some have 
tried kiln drying in moderate heat; but 
for various reasons that has proven un¬ 
satisfactory, and has been abandoned 
for the method described above. Though 
these crates are somewhat expensive at 
first, yet, if carefully housed when not 
in use, they will last for years. Consid¬ 
ering the saving in handling the crop, 
they form the most economical cribbing 
for all varieties of corn. 
Catching a Seeding. 
W. E. R., Dover, N. H.—On page 231 
of The R. N.-Y., G. P. asks in regard to 
re-seeding clay land. Eight years ago 
next August 1 plowed a piece of such 
land, which bore a little hay and a good 
many vines. I put on about 1,000 pounds 
per acre of superphosphate of lime and 
ground bone, and seeded with Timothy, 
one-half bushel to the acre—putting in 
clover seed in the spring. This has borne 
good crops of hay ever since, but some 
parts of it are running out. A year ago 
last August, I plowed about one-half of 
the piece, and put on a fair quantity of 
barnyard manure and 300 pounds per 
acre of Cleveland fertilizer, and seeded 
with Timothy and Red Top, putting on 
clover seed last spring. Last season, it 
bore a very heavy crop, and was so thick 
that the clover seed did not catch very 
well. I intend to plow and re-seed 
the rest of the piece next August, but 
will not seed quite so heavily. My ex¬ 
perience has been that oats are not a 
very good crop for clay land ; I would 
pref e' to put them on lighter ground and 
sow grass seed with them, thus saving 
one plowing. We often do that way 
here on ground that has not been planted. 
“ Gold and Slver Dollars.” 
W. O E., Whitby, Ontario, Canada. 
—Does not The R. N.-Y. attach too much 
importance to the term “dollar”? Has 
not the use of it slightly mystified its 
ideas of relative values ? It seems so to 
me—calling a thing, whether so much 
gold, so much silver, or a bit of paper 
finely engraved, a “dollar,” in no wise 
affects its value. If a bushel of wheat 
can be bought for .73 of a gold dol¬ 
lar while it takes 1.10 of a silver 
dollar to purchase the same quantity, 
the unavoidable inference is that the 
difference must be in the value of the 
two metals which, though they pass under 
the same name, ara yet by no means the 
same thing. If you degrade the term 
“dollar” by applying it to something 
that is only worth .73 of a gold dollar 
in the expectation that you will thereby 
increase the purchasing power of this so- 
called dollar, disappointment will surely 
follow. You might with just as much 
reason expect to maintain the value, or 
purchasing power, of a bushel of wheat 
at one constant proportion to that of a 
gold dollar by calling the bushel of wheat 
a dollar. 
As in weight, in time and in measure, 
so in the case of money ; it is a matter 
of convenience to fix upon the unit, as a 
pound, an hour, a foot, a dollar. The 
amount or value of the unit which is to 
ser^e as a measure of comparison in 
determining the relative amounts or 
values of things, is fixed by long estab¬ 
lished custom, by authority, by the prac¬ 
tice of the trade or guild, or by legal 
enactment. The one essential requisite 
to fit it to serve its purpose is that it be 
as nearly as is practicable exact, definite, 
unalterable. To attempt to regulate any 
system on a basis of two different units 
whose relative values are constantly 
varying, is about as sensible as it would 
be to try to steer a ship across the ocean 
by the use of two compasses the differ¬ 
ence between which was a constantly 
varying quantity. It is manifestly im¬ 
possible to fix upon any dollar that 
will always under all circumstances be 
constant in value; but it will not sim¬ 
plify matters to have two different dollars 
whose relative values to each other even 
are not constant. We know that just 
about in proportion as the relation be¬ 
tween the supply of wheat and the 
demand for it varies, so does the value 
or selling price of a bushel go up or 
down as the case may be. No human 
device or juggling with the names of 
things can prevent it. Then, why should 
we suppose it possible to maintain any 
fixed relation between the value of gold 
and the value of silver ? 
R. N.-Y.—Just now we have only to 
In writing to adyertlsera please always mention 
THi Buhal. 
Chronic Indisfestion 
Kept me in very poor health for five years. 
I began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla and 
my digestion was helped by the first three 
Hood’s pSr. 
doses. I have 4 4 ^ 
nowtaken^ ^ M 
over four bot- 
ties, and I firmly believe it has cured me, 
and also saved my life. Mrs R E. 
Prince, Bushville, N. Y. Get HOOD S. 
Hood's Pills are purely vegetable. 
say that we used the term in a half play¬ 
ful way to illustrate the value of The R. 
N.-Y at present as compared with the 
old paper. We had in mind the market 
value of the silver and gold in two dol¬ 
lars. Later we will take up this subject 
at greater length. 
How TO Root Cuttings of Rugosa Hy¬ 
brids —It was stated under Ruralisms 
last week that a friend (an experienced 
rose grower) of Dr. W. Van Fleet, of 
West Grove, Pa., had met with easy suc¬ 
cess in striking cuttings of the hybrid 
Rugosa, Agnes Emily Carman. Dr. Van 
Fleet, at our request, asked his friend to 
explain his method to The R. N.-Y., and 
he has kindly complied as follows : 
“On December 21, 1893, I potted one 
budded stock plant of the rose Agnes 
Emily Carman into a six-inch pot. The 
soil used was ordinary loam from an old 
fence row ; no manure was used. The 
house in which the plant was grown is 
100 feet long and 18 feet wide, two thirds 
span, with a southern exposure and 
heated by fiues. A night temperature of 
50 to 56 degrees was maintained, and a 
daily temperature of 60 to 75 degrees. 
with proper ventilation during favorable 
weather. The first crop, consisting of 
51 cuttings, nearly all made with a single 
eye, was planted in pure, sharp limestone 
sand, in the south bench of the same 
house in which the stock plant was 
grown. The heat supply was from an 
eight-inch terra cotta pipe under the 
bench ; distance from the fire hox, about 
75 feet. The entire length of the flue is 
100 feet, with open circulation. The cut¬ 
tings were well watered and covered 
with paper when necessary, and never 
were allowed to become dry. On March 
28, 1894, 44 of the cuttings were rooted 
and potted in 2K-iuch pots, good, fresh 
loam without manure being used. On 
March 31, the second crop of cuttings, 
36 in number, was planted ; 20 of these 
rooted and were potted May 10, making 
the total number from one plant 64, to 
date.” ANTOINE WINTZER. 
West Grove, Pa. 
The Rose-margined European beech 
is at this time the most beautifully varie¬ 
gated tree we have ever seen. The 
“rose” color is really a pink or light 
crimson—almost a light purple. The 
rest of the leaf is of the deep purple of 
the Purple beech. We know not how 
the delicate pink or rose color will stand 
the summer sun, but at present nothing 
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