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RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 14 
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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1894. 
Thebe is a g^rand chance for somebody to enlighten 
the world on page 439. This matter of sowing grass 
seed with Crimson clover is an important one, and it 
is very hard to get definite experience about it. 
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The dozens who have asked how to use hen manure 
to the best advantage are referred to Mr. Johnson’s 
method of utilizing it. His formula gives good results 
on his farm, but on many soils we would recommend 
the addition of bone meal or nitrate of soda to pro¬ 
vide extra nitrogen. ^ 
About the most industrious things on Mr. John¬ 
son’s farm were three Guinea fowls which raced up 
and down the strawberry beds chasing insects as a 
hound chases a fox. They probably eat some berries, 
their eggs are of little value, and they will make a 
horrible noise in the morning—but they do not scratch 
up the garden, and they eat many times their weight 
of bugs every season. ^ 
That “ Three-Horse Jersey Farm ” is one of The R. 
N.-Y.’s models of what a man can do on a small area. 
There is no luck about Mr. Johnson’s success. He had 
a good market and a piece of wet land to start with. 
He took advantage of the former and improved the 
latter. There is a chance for similar work near every 
large town. We have one subscriber who is doing a 
successful fruit and vegetable business in a farming 
community with no to An for a market. There is no 
place in the world where it will not pay to push the 
soil and make it produce a maximum crop. 
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The plan of the farmers who use large quantities 
of fertilizers is to put all the manure on the corn or, 
if they do not grow corn, on some crop that has simi¬ 
lar feeding habits and is planted on sod. The time 
for applying the manure is often just after the mead¬ 
ows are cut and harvesting is over. This is a much 
more convenient time than in spring when all work is 
pressing, and the work is done more easily because 
the ground is not soft or muddy. On level ground, it 
is not probable that much, if any, of the value of the 
manure is wasted by this summer application. This 
manure and sod should provide ample food for a heavy 
corn crop. After that will come potatoes, with a 
heavy dressing of fertilizer, this crop to be followed 
by small grain and grass. 
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Mr. Johnson employs women pickers, mostly, for 
his strawberries, and his wife superintends the pack¬ 
ing. There is also a good demand for his berries at 
extra prices. Is there any connection between these 
two facts ? Why are women superior to men for such 
purposes ? A member of the sex in question suggests 
that as women are the purchasers and users of the 
berries, they realize the importance of honest pack¬ 
ing ; that they will not put all the larger berries on 
top and the smaller ones in the bottom. This may be 
true, but we believe that woman as a general rule, is 
more nearly honest than man. That she has a keener 
discrimination between right and wrong. And, with¬ 
al, that she has better taste in arranging fruit, or any¬ 
thing else, for that matter, in aMractive shape. This 
sort of work is a sphere in which woman excels, and 
in which she always proves herself superior to her 
political master. ^ 
On page 389, Mr. 0. W. Mapes claimed that many 
eggs were spoiled because broody hens were per¬ 
mitted to sit on them for 24 hours or more. This is 
such a common practice in some henyards that many 
poultrymen were inclined to look upon such an idea 
as absurd. The interesting article on page 440 shows 
us that the idea is perfectly reasonable and true. 
Think of selling an egg in which incubation had so 
far progressed that the heart of the chick had begun 
to beat! Yet this would require only 30 hours of in¬ 
cubation, and many a neglected egg is left that long 
under a hen. The fact is that the egg is the most 
delicate and sensitive product that the farmer han¬ 
dles. The plan of making money by selling “strictly 
fresh eggs ” looks easy, but often fails, as we all well 
know. One reason for the failure is apparent in this 
article. It will not do to handle an egg as one would 
handle an apple—not if you are after the top price. 
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That is a sensible article on horse breeding—page 
451. It is well enough to remember that though you 
may buy a horse for farm work cheaper than you 
could some years ago, still you are obliged to raise 
more bushels of wheat to pay for it than you did at 
the former price. Bicycles, cable cars and electricity 
have destroyed the business of the low-grade horse. 
There used to be a market for anything that could 
walk, but that time has now gone. Unless a horse 
have good blood to start with, it will be cheaper to 
kill it the day it is born. A good example of the 
value of “blood” was given by a breeder of Berkshire 
pigs the other day. He had just sold a sow and a boar 
for 8200. Any one can figure what 250-pound pigs 
would have brought if sold for pork, and yet the 8200 
animals had the same care and not quite so good feed 
as the pigs kept to provide meat for the family. 
“Blood” is the product to sell in these times. “ Hard 
times” always cling to the scrub. Breed up I 
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Those agricultural papers still continue to come 
with the “ Preservaline ” advertisement. Perhaps the 
owners want still stronger evidence that “ Preserva¬ 
line ” is a fraud. Well, here it is : 
Editor Rural New-Yorker: 
“I am glad to note your war on Preservaline, and 
hope the agricultural press will take up this matter 
generally and drive this new fraud from the land. 
Preservaline is the dirty milkman’s makeshift. Find¬ 
ing that milk will keep sweet to the taste longer by 
its use, he grows even more careless in washing the 
cans, airing and cooling the milk, and puts in this 
drug to relieve him from painstaking labor. We have 
analyzed .Preservaline from different sources again 
and again at this station, and always find that the 
preservative principle is boracic acid. Borax or 
boracic acid is a substance which no one should ever 
take into his system except when prescribed by a 
physician. ^ 
“When once taken into the stomach, borax or boracic 
acid can only be eliminated from the system through 
the kidneys, thereby entailing upon them increased 
work in the riddance of an unnatural substance from 
the blood. In these days kidney troubles are all too 
common for one to think for a moment of allowing 
the milkman to drug milk without knowledge on the 
part of the consumer. Where only a little milk or 
cream is used in coffee, no doubt the danger is slight, 
but think of the infants, invalids and others whose 
lives are more or less dependent upon this one article. 
“ The basis of the whole dairy industry is the purity, 
wholesomeness and healthfulness of milk. Every one 
interested in its advancement should guard in every 
way possible this product and jealously ward off any 
attempts at tampering in any way whatsoever.” 
W. A. HENRY. 
Wisconsin Experiment Station, Madison, Wis. 
“ The dirty milkman’s makeshift! ” That’s the 
proper name. Prof. Henry puts the thing j ust in its 
right light. Down with borax—not down the throat, 
but down from its false position as “ Preservaline.” 
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The railroad strikes have already affected Eastern 
markets, and will affect them still more ifjmuch longer 
continued. Many dealers have already advanced the 
prices of meats from one to four cents per pound, and 
Western dressed meats are becoming scarce. This 
will be a good thing for the poultry and egg markets, 
and will serve to increase the demand, and raise the 
prices of these products. The consumers will not con¬ 
sider it a good thing for them, however. Flour has 
fallen in recent months to low prices, but interrupted 
communication with the great Western fiouring mills 
is rapidly reducing the supply, and threatens materially 
to increase the price. At this season. Eastern cities 
always receive large quantities of California fruit; but 
the traffic is interrupted, much has spoiled on the 
road, and the supply is being rapidly reduced. The 
vegetable market will probably not be seriously inter¬ 
fered with, as the supply of these comes from the 
East and South where there is little danger of inter¬ 
ference with transportation lines. But in the items 
of bread, meat and fruit, there is likely to be more or 
less of a shortage, with correspondingly increased 
prices to the consumers. At the same time, it will 
favorably affect the Eastern producers whose trans¬ 
portation facilities are not disturbed. Large quan¬ 
tities of watermelons destined for Western markets 
have been delayed, and there is a congestion of them 
at some shipping points. In Western cities, the situa¬ 
tion is extremely serious, and unless there be a change 
soon, disastrous results are sure to follow. 
We have given one side of the scare over tuber¬ 
culosis in Chester County, Pa., and now we have the 
other. Mr. Foulke, who states his case on page 445, is 
the man referred to in former articles who made a 
public test of the disease by having his herd slaugh¬ 
tered. In a private letter Mr. Foulke says :J 
Becoming convinced, by the oft recurring reports, of the danger of 
tuberculosis, and the remarkable success attending the use of tuber¬ 
culin as a diagnostic agent, 1 determined to have my herd of 
tested. They were all but one in the pink of flne condition and I 
had no reason whatever—except my fear of the disease—to have them 
tested, othei than by a physical examination, which had always been 
made trl-annually. It was the old story over again—physical exam¬ 
ination proved worthless, and Bve were condemned. 
The slaughter of these animals brought the matter to 
a head and caused the milk inspector of Philadelphia 
to attempt a boycott on Chester County milk. Mr. 
Foulke gives his side of the matter in a forcible way. 
He seems well able to hold up his side of the discus¬ 
sion. He makes a strong point against physical ex¬ 
aminations as a final test of the disease. The R. N.-Y. 
is glad to give space to this side of the controversy. It 
is our desire to give all a chance for a courteous and 
good-natured discussion. This question of tubercu¬ 
losis is the greatest problem that has yet confronted 
the live stock industry of this country. There is no 
occasion for bombast and abuse, but there is ever 7 
reason why all the facts should be carefully stated. 
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BREVITIES. 
There's a dollar in your eye ! There’s a dollar In your eyel 
So you cannot see the lorely things of life that pass you by. 
For the dollar dulls your vision and your happiness Is tied 
To the money you are craving, while unnoticed at your side 
Slip away the loving Impulse and the kindly word and deed 
That would lift jou from the selBshness and bigotry of greed. 
There's a do lar In your heart! There’s a dollar in your heart I 
It Is growlrg there and crowding until love can have no part. 
You are living for the dollar. It Is crowding out of place 
All the best part of your nature, all the tenderness and grace. 
It Is dwarUng all your sympathy and making you a slave. 
If the measure of your manhood Is the money you can save. 
There’s a dollar In your soul 1 There’s a dollar In your soul 1 
It will handicap and cripple you before you reach the goal. 
In the end old Death will search you and will throw your gold away, 
And beneath the glided tlnlsb will be found the foul decay. 
Oh, sell not yourself to money—put your wealth in noble things; 
Be content with humbler savings and the peace that honor brings. 
Meat makes heat. 
Feed shade to the calf. 
LET the corn roots alone. 
Sell some clover to the hogs. 
IT’8 fair work to stop foul play. 
Last call for fodder corn for the cows. 
The foundered horse Is lost from work. 
Time to think about the ensilage harvest. 
A STRAINED Imagination makes a muddy mind. 
Save dish water this hot weather by cookl.-ig less. 
Look out for the man who Is satlstled with himself. 
Lots of buttermakers are simply spoiling good raw material. 
Any further Ideas about bloody eggs—page 441, will be acceptable. 
It Is a fact that the milk of a single cow may upset a whole herd’s 
churning. 
PooK stuff—the farmer who can’t grow and eat a quart of berries 
every day. 
OnuuNiNG doesn’t break anything—it Just shakes the butter 
globules together. 
Would not your luierests be safer under an honest king than under 
a dishonest demagogue 7 
" Stkain’ed kelationsI” The country cousins who are giving the 
city cousins a loafing spell. 
The empty milk can needs the sun Inside and out. but when there Is 
milk In It, keep It In the shade. 
No farmer east of the Alleghanles can afford to farm on what Is 
known as the extensive system. 
Now, right now. Is the time to pick out and stake the potato hills that 
make the best promise for breeders. 
Cool the milk! Cool the milk! Oat with the heat, sir, or it will 
smell and sour—then you’ll be beat, sir. 
Beeoue you blame the times, see If you have done all you can to 
supply the demands of your market town. 
Fakmeks near the Rural Qrounds were cutting rye June 30. Never 
before has this been begun before July 4. 
A Califoknian writes to say that his State Is not a “hired man’s 
paradise. ’ Is there any such place anywhere? 
“ Fakms are the bone and sinew of the land!” says the orator Very 
well; and they are made so by bone and potash. 
Who runs your county fair this year-merchants and hotel keepers 
In town? Is It run to give them the b^neSt of a crowd ? 
Think of a man who buys anew carriage and doesn’t keep It cov¬ 
ered In the barn. We hope this will not cause you to think of your¬ 
self. 
AN emulsion made by substituting fish oil for kerosene and diluted 
one part emulsion to five parts water. Is recommended for horn tiles 
and gnats. 
You have a sick animal and are not sure what alls It. You 
would better let it alone rather than dose It with every remedy that 
Is proposed. 
We hear much of the poverty of Ireland. It Is sigaldcant that the 
largest tobacco factory in the world is to be erected at Belfast to sup¬ 
ply local demands. 
This hot weather is getting hard on the hens See that they have 
water enough. By the way, the hens that do not go on a strike are 
the ones yon want for breeders. 
WOOL Is to be free with a duty on shoddy. The theory of this Is 
that materials for making the belter class of clothing will be cheap¬ 
ened. Let us all wait and see how much It will benedt us. 
The Swiss have so perfected the business of testing seeds that hun¬ 
dreds of samples are sent there every year from England to be tested. 
That’s a good Illustration of the value of a reputation for thorough¬ 
ness 1 
Richard Croker is a dls lngulshed American of foreign birth. 
There Is no other country on eartn In which Mr. Croker could have 
distinguished himself as he has here. Does that speak well or ill for 
America ? 
