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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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worth of the man. His death means a 
loss to the cause of horticulture in his 
native State that is almost irreparable. 
He belonged to that older generation 
who pursued their chosen calling with 
an enthusiasm and devotion which seem 
to be lacking in more recent times.” 
- New England Farmer: “Every 
farmer has a chance to make his home a 
bower of beauty.” 
-Storbs & Harrison: “ Burrank — 
Another exceedingly valuable plum that 
is proving a bonanza to all planters. A 
very vigorous grower, usually producing 
a crop the second year after transplant¬ 
ing. Large; nearly globular, clear 
cherry red with a thin, lilac bloom; flesh 
a deep yellow, very sweet, with a pecu¬ 
liar and very agreeable flavor. Hardy; 
one of the best for both garden and mar¬ 
ket planting. Ripens in August.” 
“Ogon. —Large, nearly round; bright 
golden yellow, with faint bloom; flesh 
Arm, sweet, rich and dry. Tree vigor¬ 
ous and hardy. First of August.” 
“ Satsuma. —Large; color purple and 
red, with blue bloom; flesh Arm, juicy, 
dark red or blood color, flue quality; 
pit very small. Hardy and vigorous 
grower. August.” 
“ Willard.— One of the imported Jap¬ 
anese varieties, ripening a month be¬ 
fore Abundance and before any other 
pi am, European or native. For several 
years in Geneva, N. Y., has ripened July 
15 to 20. When ripe it is dark red, bor¬ 
dering on purple; a long keeper, and 
not inclined to decay ; carries to market 
well. Tree a vigorous grower, very 
hardy and productive. Quality not as 
good as most of the Oriental varieties, 
but it is very desirable and will be 
largely planted on account of its ex¬ 
treme earliness.” 
-J. H. Hale : •• I have several times 
before mentioned the Japan plums favor¬ 
ably, and am now more than ever of the 
opinion that this type of plum will in a 
very few years revolutionize plum cul¬ 
ture in Connecticut, and this delicious 
fruit become as abundant and cheap as 
apples in all our homes and markets.” 
There Are Farmers and Farmers. 
Mrs. F. C. Johnson, Nebraska —There 
are many truths in Mr. Grundy’s article 
on The Honest Farmer, but with sorce 
of his ideas I do not agree. There are 
farmers and farmers, and they are, to a 
great extent, what they make them¬ 
selves. In the portion of western New 
York where I was born, and lived for 31 
years, it was no disgrace to be a farmer. 
I never heard the term “hayseed” “clod¬ 
hopper,” “country greenie,” “old plug,” 
etc., applied to them. On the street, it 
was rarely that you could distinguish a 
farmer by his looks, dress or manners 
from a town man, and the same was true 
with their wives and daughters. There 
were few that had more than a common 
school education, and some had very 
little of that; but I never heard the low, 
uncultivated manner of speech that is 
usually attributed to farmers in litera¬ 
ture. Their sons and daughters were 
educated at academies and colleges; their 
homes were pleasant and attractive. It 
was seldom that some musical instru¬ 
ment was not found, more often a piano 
than any other. Books, pictures and the 
literature of the day were found in these 
farmers’ homes as much as in homes in 
town. A suit of fine broadcloth and a 
silk hat were considered important for 
Sunday and dress occasions. My father 
always put on a fine, white shirt when 
going to town, even if only to the black¬ 
smith shop, and I never considered that 
we were below town people because we 
were farmers. 
I married a farmer and came West. 
We found a great change in many ways. 
If one lived on a farm, he did not amount 
to much as far as education, refinement 
and culture were concerned. But I did 
not wonder, sometimes, that the town 
people thought so, for the farmers, as a 
rule, go to town any how and any _way 
—dirty overalls tucked into their boots, 
colored shirts and old slouch hats, with 
a gait and manner in keeping with their 
clothing Their hands are brown with 
dirt and grime ; hair and beard show lack 
of comb or brush, and they stand on the 
street corners with their hands in their 
pockets talking politics, monopolies and 
railroads. This they consider “more 
pleasant occupation” than “grubbing and 
digging and scratching for dimes.” 
“ The Honest Old Farmer” is a thing 
of the past, for of all ways of deception 
and scheming, the farmer in this por 
tion of the world will keep even with 
any town man. They scheme to cheat in 
what they sell and the way they sell it, 
and at the same time prate of the steal¬ 
ing by the railroads. Which is worse, 
stealing or misrepresenting on a large or 
on a small scale ? A lady of wealth and 
cultuie from town calling here on a 
matter of business, expressed great sur¬ 
prise to find books and literature in pro¬ 
fusion ; a piano, pictures and furnishings 
to correspond. “ Why, you have things 
as nice as town people !” was her ex¬ 
clamation on entering our rooms. As 
she has since visited here, she has told 
us some of her experiences in calling at 
farmers’ homes, and I did not wonder 
that the terms “hayseed,” “clodhopper,” 
etc., were used, for they were fittingly 
applied. There are a few exceptions, 
but, Mr. Grundy, there are farmers and 
farmers. 
Agrees with Grundy for Once. 
A. W., Litchfield, Conn. —It is seldom 
that I wholly agree with the articles of 
Fred Grundy. They sometimes seem 
anti-farmer in spirit, attempting to cast 
all the blame for the unfortunate condi¬ 
tions under which the farmers labor and 
exist, on themselves ; upbraiding them 
and discouraging their broadest, most 
hopeful and only intelligent attempts at 
bettering their condition, by seeking vari¬ 
ous reforms through political action. His 
article in The R. N.-Y. of July 7, how¬ 
ever, it seems to me, is, in many respects, 
very important. If only the plain farmer 
could be made to realize that just, sim¬ 
ple, plain farming, such as he does year 
in and year out, is quite as truly “skilled 
labor” as that done by the mechanic, the 
carpenter, the stone mason, the molder, 
etc., or the service of the average pro¬ 
fessional man, and should, in justice, 
command every whit as high money re¬ 
muneration ; and if he could only be 
aroused to a realizing, lively sense of 
what he is missing of life in merely 
breathing away his existence, an out¬ 
cast, practically, from social, intellec¬ 
tual and aesthetic privileges, away from 
art galleries, away from social doings, 
except of the infrequent or rougher sort, 
away from music halls, away from read¬ 
ing rooms, lectures, libraries, etc., then 
he would rouse up and strike ” for 
larger pay on his part, or (what, at the 
end, would amount to the same thing) 
for smaller pay to the other classes. 
Then, for a few days’ service from 
“ skilled ” laborers, carpenters or stone 
masons, he would not see the scanty sav¬ 
ings of months, perhaps years, of toil, 
social, intellectual and aesthetic depriva¬ 
tion, swept away from him to go to build 
up city and village attractiveness and 
luxuriousness. He would then begin to 
see that since he is so far from the means 
of social culture and enjoyment, these 
should be in large measure brought to 
him. He would insist that his home 
should be a model of architecture, an art 
gallery almost in its furnishings, a library 
and reading room in its intellectual equip¬ 
ments, and he would demand that his 
income should be such as to enable him 
to give his daughters somewhat further 
accomplishments than merely to play 
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