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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 30 
THE 
Rural New-Yorker 
Oor. Ohambera and Pearl Sta ., New York. 
Nstisaal Weakly Journal for Country and Suburban Homaa. 
HLBBBT B. CABMAN, Hdltor-ln-Chlaf. 
HBBBKBT W. COLLINQWOOD. Manairln* BdltOT 
JOHN J. DILXiON, Business ManaKOr. 
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Address all business oommunloatlons and make all orders pay* 
able to THE BUBAL NEW-TOBKBB. 
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office and State, and what the remittance Is for, appear in eyery letter. 
Money orders and bank drafts on New York are the safest means of 
transmlttlnK money. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1894. 
A STKANOK feature of the “Preservaline” advertising' 
is furnished by one of our “esteemed contemporaries” 
which prints a large advertisement of the stuff on one 
page, while on another it copies (without credit) a 
portion of The R. N.-Y.’s denouncement of this fraud. 
There’s consistency for you 1 
« 
The herd of dairy cows at the Wisconsin -Station 
has been slaughtered, and tuberculosis was found in 
most all of them. The tuberculin test in this case 
gave accurate results every time. We are promised a 
bulletin giving full particulars of the disease in this 
herd. A costly experiment that, but it ought to be 
helpful. ^ 
We are glad to learn that the recent Nurserymen’s 
Convention raised a substantial purse for Mr. E. W. 
Bull. It was done in response to The R. N.-Y.’s ap¬ 
peal. Good ! We are glad to learn that American 
nurserymen are not ungrateful. We are still receiv¬ 
ing contributions for this fund. Is your name on the 
list yet ? If not, think how easily you can put it on. 
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The R. N.-Y. seems to have driven Stephen H. Ilayt 
away from his new ambush for the farmer’s dollar. 
He located on a well-known street and sent out his 
lying circulars, but publicity seems not to agree with 
him and he has dropped out of sight. He will be up 
again. It would be like him to change his name from 
Hayt to Love in order to draw out shipments. 
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We give you about all there is worth knowing about 
cheap paints on page 407. N ow then, why not clean 
up a little ? Certainly the cost need not stand in your 
way. Peed a little skim-milk to the fence and barn 
by way of variety. Put in some salt and lime to make 
it stick and a little color if the white dazzles your 
eyes. You have sinned against the old barn—put on 
the whitewash. * ^ 
An English law prohibits the use of a steam engine 
within 25 yards of a highway unless within a building 
or concealed by a wall or screen. The object is to pre¬ 
vent the frightening of teams. The English Parlia¬ 
ment is now considering a bill to permit the ujse of 
thrashing machines within the limit, provided a man 
is kept in the road to signal teams or stop runaways. 
Precautions ought to be taken with regard to horses 
and steam engines. The first one should be to teach 
the horse not to fear them. 
* 
This discussion of the hired man and his prospects 
is running into strange lines. After all, it seems to be 
about the livest thing in agriculture. Mrs. Wager- 
Pisher gives us a curious side of it on page 414. This 
idea that a class of men will be forced to take up the 
work that women have dropped or “go on the road” 
may not be relished by the men, but the fact remains 
that women are not going to keep out of jobs simply 
to accommodate men. Another side of the hired man 
question is given by an employer and next week our 
old friend, Fred Grundy, will drop into the discussion 
with a firebrand that is likely to create more talk than 
his famous “ex-farmer” article of last year. 
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Mb. Johnson says, page 406, that he gets more straw¬ 
berries from his two or three-year-old beds than from 
his new ones. We think this is contrary to the ex¬ 
perience of most berry growers ; most of them expect 
not only larger yields but larger berries from the 
newly set beds ; that is, from the beds set one spring 
from which the blossoms are removed the first year, 
good cultivation given, and the first, and often the 
only, crop harvested the succeeding year. By the 
usual method of cultivation, the vines become thicker 
and more or less filled with weeds after the first crop 
is harvested. While there may be as many berries 
in number, they are usually so much inferior in size 
that they do not amount to so much by measure, and 
as they are also so much smaller they are less desir¬ 
able and sell for lower prices. Mr. Johnson’s method 
by which he achieves the results he mentions, would 
be an invaluable one to strawberry growers. For a 
large part of the expense in growing strawberries is 
in the setting of the plants, and where this must be 
repeated every year, it makes quite a hole in the 
profits. ^ 
And so the “oleo” men are suspected of being at the 
bottom of the tuberculosis scare in Philadelphia ! It 
is not by any means improbable. These men have 
shown themselves ready to counterfeit in order to 
push the sale of their stuff and they are not above 
using this scare to attempt to show that butter is 
dangerous to health. We have seen no facts to prove 
this charge, but at the same time the dairymen of 
Pennsylvania are wise to move in time and keep the 
friends of oleo out of their legislature. 
ft 
A LADY in Missouri writes this unpleasant note : 
As we have no fruit, our dinners will have to end with pudding most 
of the oomlLK year. Being deprived of fruit will be felt worse than 
would be the loss of anything else after bread and eggs. 
The loss of fruit to an intelligent farm family is a 
serious blow—far more serious than many persons 
imagine. There are very fe^ things that do more to 
make ordinary farm life happier and better worth liv¬ 
ing than the growing of first-class fruits with all the 
attendants of culture, experimenting and preserving. 
Happy is the fruit-growing farmer I 
ft 
The R. N.-Y. has no comment to make on the pro¬ 
posed new tariff bill besides saying that agriculture 
has had by far the worst of it. Manufacturers who 
made a strong fight for their pet industries have, as a 
rule, been “ satisfied.” The tariff on all agricultural 
products has been lowered or wiped out, while the 
duty on manufactured goods has in most cases bean 
kept at a prohibitive or protective point. Another 
thing is that this compromise bill settles nothing and 
only prolongs the tiresome and fruitless battle in the 
next Congress. ^ 
The recent symposium on “washing made easy” 
has stirred up a Kansas man who does the washing 
for a family of seven. He will tell us all about it 
soon. His advice to the women is, “ don’t buy a 
washing machine unless you have a man to run it! ” 
So the tendency of improved machinery in the house 
is to pull the men folks into the housework I Perhaps 
that is why some men oppose such machines. By 
the way, we will cheerfully give a column any time 
to those who want to prove that housework is of 
necessity woman’s work. 
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You don’t like boiled milk 1 There is an unsatis¬ 
factory taste about it—though no doubt the milk is 
just as nutritious. It is a good thing you have had a 
chance to distinguish between fresh and boiled milk, 
because you know now how your stock like boiled or 
stewed hay. Badly cured hay has lost its flavor an-J 
freshness—it is worse for the cows than boiled milk 
is fer you. Don’t boil or bake the hay. The best 
way to avoid doing this is to cut no more than your 
force can handle and get into the barn. In most cases 
grass standing on its own roots will be safer than 
when lying overnight on the ground. 
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Sheep men are very much interested in a cheap, 
portable fence that can be easily moved from place to 
place. Where sheep are to be fed on rape, turnips, or 
other green crops, or where they are grain-fed on 
poor pasture, such light and portable fences are very 
convenient. What shall they be made of ? Wood is 
generally used, but there are some serious drawbacks 
to wood when one has much of the fencing to do. The 
wooden panels are heavy and clumsy to carry about. 
Mr. Oakleigh Thorne uses wire fencing, fastening by 
wire or strings to iron posts—easily movable. Such a 
fence is easily put up and quickly changed so as to 
give a fresh place for feeding. 
ft 
A Pennsylvania friend says that the following note 
in a Philadelphia paper “ knocks out my thought of 
trying Crimson clover” : 
Mr. Cooper wag asked about CrlmBon clover, and Bald his farm had 
It bad and was proving to him that under certain conditions It was a 
weed of the llrst order. When he heard of It three years ago as so 
desirable he got seed from Delaware and put It In after potatoes, three 
quarts to the acre. lie got an excellent stand but let It get too ripe, 
cured It for hay, then put the ground Into fodder corn. Had a splendid 
crop of corn, but a better crop of clover. Again this spring be has a 
splendid crop of the stud ; In fact, better than when he sowed the 
seed for It. 
We don’t exactly see why that experience should 
knock one out of trying the clover. What is the 
objection to anything here recorded when a single 
plowing early in the season will stop the whole thing? 
Speaking of the action of this clover at the North, 
Mr. J. H. Hale, of Connecticut, told us last week that 
it is a great success with him. He has plowed under 50 
acres. Prof. Woods, of the Storrs Experiment Station, 
also believes that it will thrive anywhere in that 
State. He says that many failures have resulted from 
the use of inferior seed. Don’t touch the imported 
seed at all. Use only the fresh American seed— 
grown as far north as possible. 
ft 
Some of our poultrymen feel fairly well satisfied if 
they secure a hatch of 50 per cent of the eggs placed 
in the incubators. Incubator manufacturers claim to 
hatch 90 to 95, and even 98 per cent of all fertile eggs. 
But a poultry man in the famed Mohawk Valley comes 
forward with a claim for 102 per cent, or 51 chicks 
from 50 eggs, all well formed, lively chicks, too. One 
of the eggs was double yolked. So far as we know, 
this record has never been equaled. Years ago, there 
was much discussion over the results to be obtained 
by setting double yolked eggs ; but so far as we can 
remember, the general verdict was that they either 
failed to hatch, or produced monstrosities. Here’s a 
chance for the hen sages. ‘Who can beat this—story 
or hatch, whichever you choose ? 
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The ability of The R. N.-Y. to work up a boom over 
something that promises increased profit to the farm, 
is well illustrated by this note : 
EniTOKS Bcbal New-Yorkbk: 
Take out my •• Crimson ” ad. next week. May Insert It again later. 
Have been obliged to employ a secretary this week to keep up with 
the Inquiries about Crimson clover which tlood me, coming from 
Canada to Texas and from Maine to Oklahoma Territory, and I 
have a pile of letters on my desk now aftattlng reply. Long wave 
The IlOKAL New-Youkkk ! Long wave Crimson 1 e. a. packaku. 
We certainly have no desire to work anybody to death. 
Let our readers give Mr. Packard a short rest and 
fire their orders at some of our other advertisers. We 
are glad people are to try this clover so generally. But, 
a caution again, don’t go into it too heavily at first. 
Take it easy and try it this fall as an experiment only. 
Now a word to advertisers : Ship good seed. Don’t be 
tempted to send a lot of trash because the demand is 
heavy. R. N.-Y. subscribers want the best and are 
worthy of it. ^ 
BREVITIES. 
Ther put a tax on sugai 
To accommodate the Trust. 
Monopolists have candy 
While the farmers have the crust. 
They saw the honest farmer 
Made a “kick’’ but had no “pull,” 
So woolen goods up duty I 
While It's duty down on wool. 
And so with coal and collars. 
And with brandy and with beer, 
Protect the Trust foreyer, 
But send farmers to the rear. 
That's how they make a tariff 
In this good year '94. 
Adjourn! Adjourn! Ye “statesmen' 1 
Pray don't tinker any more. 
Don't overdrink 1 
Why Monday for wash day ? 
Tey that cabbage starter—page 410. 
The Shropshire sheep cannot jump. 
What barbless wire fence will hold a hog T 
How about salting woodchucks—page 408 7 
The English farmer cannot endure a mule. 
SOHREL Indicates a sorry soil, it needs food. 
Don't let the tiles be mightier than the feed. 
DON'T keep the pocketbook in your own pocket. 
To kill a chick weed—cut off Its head with an ax. 
Now Is the time to talk about second crop Southern potatoes. 
Which do you find easier—to get rid of an appetite or to get one? 
Don't forget what makes the difference between water and “blood. 
It'S a poor cow that can't milk her full financial value every year. 
The reading of trash sends the boy’s mind on the sure road to 
smash. 
YocR child should never taste meat until the seco.id teeth are well 
formed. 
Grass is a balanced ration, but poor hay making knocks the balance 
all out. 
Do you keep a supply of odd jobs to make the hired man's time come 
out even 7 
DON'T let the mower cut off more grass than the rakes and loaders 
can handle. 
What an opening there Is for farmers to grow Crimson clover seed 
at the North. 
There's sugar in sweet corn, but can’t the cows get It out cheaper 
than you can 7 
You can’t experiment with stale Crimson clover seed. You are sure 
to lose the crop. 
THERE Is more profit In the breeding of angleworms than In the 
breeding of surplus roosters. 
The Illinois Station (Champaign, Ill) will send a representative to 
supervise tests of dairy cattle In that State. This Is a good work for 
the stations to do. 
It seems that Mr. Macomber’s recent article on “ A Ball and Socket 
Joint'’ has set many farmers to looking at their machinery. That's 
right—make a stand for that joint. 
The Israelites considered a “ land flowing with milk and honey ” as 
the Ideal place to live In. Modern* farmers want It milk and money— 
too much stress on the financial side. 
Let the fire go out and eat fruit and bread and butter. That’s the 
way to enjoy these hot days. The man who will not grow fruit pro¬ 
poses to roast by proxy by keeping his wife over the hot stove. 
Mr. B.4NCROFT speaks of the use of a weeder In strawberries. He 
has also found this tool useful In putting In grass or grain seeds. It 
must be remembered that his soil Is light and free from stones. 
