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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 23 
Ttie Populists Are the People. 
•J. S. McC., Fout Collins, Col. —F'or 
10 years, we have had but little rainfall 
in this State, and we depend almost en¬ 
tirely upon irrigation. Within the past 
week, however, rain has fallen fre¬ 
quently, and the Foil is now well satur¬ 
ated. Owing to the very dry early spring, 
we have had to irrigate fullyithree weeks 
earlier than usual; but grain is coming 
on nicely, and the first cutting of Al¬ 
falfa is about ready for the mower. A 
very large acreage of potatoes is being 
planted, the varieties generally used be¬ 
ing Rose Seedling and Mammoth Pearl. 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 is now being 
quite extensively introduced ; the only 
fault of which I hear is that they grow 
too large. Closer planting will perhaps 
obviate this. The usual yield is from 
100 to 200 sacks per acre. In his letter 
from Nebraska (page 328), Prof. I. P. 
Roberts expresses the opinion that “our 
country will stand the shock of Coxey’s 
army, the Populists aud the Anarchists 
if,” etc. Out here on the broad plains, 
where men’s minds are broadened and 
made liberal, we think that a farmer who 
does not know enough to be,a Populist, is 
badly in need of information as to what 
is for his own good. As for a learned 
professor of agriculture who classes the 
most intelligent farmers of the West with 
Coxey and the Anarchists—well, hasn’t 
he mistaken his vocation ? He should, 
evidently, join one of the “learned pro¬ 
fessions ” forthwith. While it might be 
appropriate for me to class “ Coxey’s 
army. Republicans, Democrats and other 
Anarchists ” together, yet it would be 
contrary to Populistic principles, for we 
don’t believe calling names is argument, 
but we do believe that other men have 
the same right to their views that we 
have to ours. 
About that Hired Man. 
L. J. F., Pulaski, N. Y.—Probably, 
for a man of my age, I have hired more 
help than any other man in this locality; 
yet I don’t think I know any more in re¬ 
gard to the subject from my experience. 
At times, I have written articles laying 
down certain rules in regard to hired 
men, only to find by experience with the 
next man I hired that these rules would 
not apply at all. I have arrived at sev¬ 
eral conclusions, however, in regard to 
this subject, viz.: Men like to work 
where there are large numbers em¬ 
ployed. They don’t like to work alone. 
This is why large manufacturers, the 
railroads, etc., get the best of our labor¬ 
ers. All the complaints come from 
farmers who employ one or two men, 
and are their own foremen. I formerly 
had more trouble to keep one man than 
I do now to keep several. It is not so 
important how much I pay as whether I 
get a good man or not. If an employer 
hire a lot of men, he gets such a reputa¬ 
tion that men come to him, people send 
them to him, and then he is able to se¬ 
lect the best. I employ 25 to 60 people 
in berry picking time ; everybody wants 
to work for me then. If I required only 
two or three I could hardly get any¬ 
body. 
When employing several men, it will 
pay to have a working foreman. He 
can always be with the men, while if 
the employer acts as his own foreman, 
he must constantly have to leave the 
men to themselves while he transacts 
business. Men left to themselves with 
no one to lead them will not accomplish 
much. While I would prefer not to be 
such a foreman, he takes a great burden 
from the shoulders of the employer. 
The men lay their grievances largely at 
his door; he soon becomes the imagined 
cause of everything that goes wrong.. 
He is a sort of kicking place for all of 
them, and the employer escapes. In 
every gang of men may be found one 
who is able and willing to do more than 
the others. Give him the best wages 
and make him your foreman. I have no 
suggestions for the farmer who employs 
but one man. Except in individual and 
exceptional cases, his is a hard lot. If 
he can get a good man who will stay, 
the environments must be most con¬ 
genial. 
A Scheme for Irrleratlon. 
Reader, Southern Michigan. —I was 
very much interested in the article in a 
recent R. N.-Y. about windmill irriga¬ 
tion. I have been studying this subject 
for a couple of years, and hope some day 
to reap some good results from it. It 
seems to me that Mr. Woodhams has 
spent too much money on his plant. I 
have 10 acres set to fruit that I want to 
irrigate as soon as it comes into bearing. 
My plan was something like this: The 
land slopes south, hence is warm. This 
will make the crop dry up easier and 
consequently the need of water is greater. 
On the south side, is a creek. Midway, 
east and west, I shall put a pump and 
horse-power. I shall run a pipe north to 
within 10 rods of the fence, then will lay 
two strings of pipe east and west, one 
10 rods from the north fence, the other 
10 rods from the south side. That will 
leave 20 rods between the pipes. This 
pipe need not run out further than to 
within eight or ten rods of the east and 
west fences. So that with 100 feet of 
hose, one could put water on any foot of 
the 10 acres. 
The cost of 90 rods of 2-lnch pipe.liOO 00 
Pumps, 3-cyllnder. lOO barrels per hour. 50 00 
One horse-power. 60 00 
$200 00 
These are list prices. The discount would 
buy any extra parts needed. 
The advantages are that the cost would 
be only one-half that of Mr. Woodhams’s 
plant. I can get water when needed— 
wind is uncertain, even in Michigan. 
The pipe is on top of the ground and can 
be taken to another field later in the 
season if desired. Thus one plant may 
be used on strawberries and then taken 
to the raspberries or blackberries and 
later to any other crop desired. I would 
not want to put water from a well 
directly on the land. Our place is three- 
quarters of a mile long. On it we have 
nearly one mile of creek, so that we can 
get warm water anywhere. We have 
20 to 30 acres of low land that I want to 
drain and irrigate by putting tile in it and 
then run the tile full of water when I need 
it, getting it from a dam I shall make. 
Sub-irrigation is probably best. It pre¬ 
vents baking of the soil, but I believe we 
can make water pay on blackberries and 
strawberries. 
Trench System Compared With Or¬ 
dinary Culture. —Bulletin No. 12 just 
issued by the Maine Station (Orono, Me.) 
gives a plain account of the results of its 
trials to determine whether the Trench 
system pays as'compared with ordinary 
field culture. Mr. Munson, who directed 
the trials, concludes that “It is question¬ 
able whether the results obtained j ustify 
the extra labor involved in practicing 
IN irrltlng to adyertlsera please always mention 
PHI RITBAL. 
Salt Rheum 
“ I had salt rheum. I took Hood’s Sir- 
saparilla, and my hands began to heal. 
By the time I had finished the second 
Hood’s pSr. 
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had all healed JL 
and the skin 
had become smooth Jandomy hands have 
been perfectly well ever since.” Mrs. E. 
F. Niskern, Delavan, Wisconsin. 
Hood’s Pills cure all liver Ills, Indigestion. 
the Trench system of potato culture. In 
our trials the past season, duplicate lots 
in every instance produced contradictory 
results.” 
While Mr. Munson ^evidently intended 
to give the system a thoroughly careful 
trial, he made one very important mis¬ 
take. He planted the seed pieces too 
deep. If he will turn to the New 
Potato Culture (to which he alludes) 
pages 83 to 86 inclusive, he will find that 
our experiments in planting at different 
depths during three seasons show as 
follows: 
Yield per acre 
bushels. 
1888.—Four inches deep.220 
Eight inches deep.177 
Difference in favor of four inches.. 43 
1889 —Four inches deep.220 
Eight inches deep.177 
Difference in favor of four inches.. 43 
1890.—P’our inches deep.277 
Eight inches deep.258 
Difference in favor of four inches. ..19 
The average difference for the three years 
is 35 bushels per acre in favor of four- 
inch planting. Ever since the above ex¬ 
periments were made, we have aimed to 
place the pieces four inches deep, though 
we still favor plowing the trenches eight 
inches deep, and returning four inches 
of loose soil to them, thus insuring a 
deep, mellow seed bed. 
Mr. Munson states that his trenches 
were plowed “ eight inches deep, after 
which the soil in the bottom of the fur¬ 
rows was loosened and pulverized, some 
of the earth being worked back into the 
furrows.” In the absence of more defi¬ 
nite information, we may assume that 
the pieces were placed about, or nearly, 
eight inches deep. 
In our trial last year of “ Furrows 
against Trenches,” the weather was un¬ 
favorable for trench culture, being very 
cold and wet during the early season, so 
that the sprouts of the furrow pieces 
appeared above the ground three weeks 
before the trench sprouts. This advant¬ 
age they kept until late in the season 
when excessive drought enabled the 
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