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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 18 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
(Continued.) 
even Sankey tunes on the cabinet org'an. 
He would demand a piano as a necessity 
about as much as a pork barrel—and 
keep it in tune, lie would demand re¬ 
muneration that should enable him and 
his family to have sufficient help indoors 
and out so that he and they could en¬ 
joy these things, attend social doings, 
entertain company, relatives and friends 
at bis own home in such good form and 
attractive style that people from the vil¬ 
lage would seek instead of scorning him 
and his. In short, if the common farmer 
could be led to put a just estimate on his 
own labors, as compared with those of 
others, and demand extra remuneration 
for the deprivations incident to his life 
of isolation, he would soon take the non¬ 
sense out of skilled labor charges and 
big professional fees. The doctor charges 
him a dollar or two for riding over the 
distance from town to attend his family. 
It is just as far to town as it is from 
town. Does the farmer get such a mile¬ 
age for the necessary travel imposed on 
him ? He must travel for practically 
nothing to get his mail, and even to mar- 
acre tract of low land. Dig through the 
clay subsoil to the under stratum of 
sand. Fill these holes with sand. By so 
doing, the clay stratum might be brought 
to a state of agricultural civility, and a 
productive piece of ground result. These 
‘•chimneys'’ allow surface water to go 
down, and hydrostatic water to come up, 
Harrah for the Tlmbrell. 
II & M., Antlers, Colo. —We are glad 
to see in Tue R. N.-Y. that the Timbrell 
strawberry has again done well this 
season. It is no doubt a remarkable 
berry. It has beaten everything on our 
place the past season, excepting Parker 
Earle; but it is much later than that 
variety, also firmer; in fact, Timbrell 
is the solidest we have ever grown. We 
had one berry 2)4, inches in diameter by 
2% inches long, that weighed 2)4 ounces, 
and was as solid as a hard boiled egg. 
The first berries were ripe June 12; they 
were at their best June 28, and the last 
picking was July 22. The R. N.-Y. has 
not boomed Timbrell half enough. 
Red Flowering Horse Chestnnt. 
R. W. C , Stratford, Conn. —In reply 
to the question in The R. N.-Y. of July 
28, as to the Red Flowering horse chest- 
clover, I do net see how the application 
of fertilizer will help it, as the fertilizer 
will remain on the surface unless there 
is rain enough to dissolve it and carry it 
to the roots. If it is wet enough, the 
young clover will take care of itself and 
fertilizer will not make the clover if it 
does not rain. 
Crimson Clover In Maine. 
G. S. P , Winslow, Me,—I procured 
from Mr. Gregory a small package of 
Crimson clover seed, and sowed about a 
square rod with it May 1, in the corner 
of a barley field. No grain was sowed 
with it, but some buckwheat and many 
weeds came up with it, though the 
barley alongside is clean and very stout, 
•luly 22, I picked a bunch of the clover 
blossoms. They are very handsome. 
They do not seem to bloom the whole 
length at once, but the bases of the 
heads are dry while the upper part is at 
its best. This clover grew about 18 
inches high and, perhaps owing to the 
weeds, is not very stout. I shall try it 
again, on a clean piece of ground. This 
shows, however, that it can be grown as 
far north as 45 degrees and may perhaps 
ripen its seed. 
formation. The growing that the plants 
neglected in the fall, thpy made up the 
following spring, and May 10 the plants 
averaged 15 inches in height and were in 
full bloom. The first week in June it 
was turned under with a Rochester gang- 
plow. 
“ It is not very often that we have the 
pleasure of beholding a more beautiful 
sight than a vineyard with Crimson clover 
in full bloom. Ladies wou’d ask for the 
fiowers as a bouquet, gentlemen would 
put a spray in their but.onholes, and the 
more practical farmers would want to 
know all about it. To my knowledge, 
about 100 acres are being sown this sea¬ 
son in Westfield township. A vineyard 
of 60 acres has already been sown, and 
part of it is up. 
“ The family cow showed her appre¬ 
ciation of it in the increase of milk. 
“Profs. Bailey and Lodeman have both 
been here and are fully aware of all the 
facts. While I have every reason to be¬ 
lieve that this is the first Crimson clover 
grown in Chautauqua County, if not in 
western New Yorx, I would be glad to 
hear from some one else that has grown 
it, and compare notes. G schoenfeld. 
Chautauqua County, N. Y. 
gnUTrtii&'ing. 
I.\ wrliliiK to adveriUe/8 please always nieotlon 
Tub Rural New Vowkek. 
ket his crops. The mileage, at such 
rates, would probably be greater than 
his present profits. 
It is sometimes claimed that it costs 
the farmer less than others to live. It 
costs him more if he really lives. If he 
merely exists like his woodchucks, fore¬ 
going all but physical necessities and 
comforts, perhaps it is so. Given, sev¬ 
eral young men, equally intelligent and 
educated, and equally ignorant of the 
trades, the professions, and of agricul¬ 
ture, divide them up among these call¬ 
ings to learn them, and, all working 
equally hard, would not those alloted to 
the trades and professions be easily able 
to conquer their callings to the average 
“skilled labor” point long before those 
set at farming ? The cheek to charge, 
however, would be much more largely 
developed in the former, while the farm¬ 
ers’ would have become shrinking. And, 
too, the former would have joined their 
trades’ unions, or their bar or medical 
associations (combinations well adapted 
to keep up professional charges and 
backed up by State authority), while the 
farmers would be found disorganized 
and competing with each other, working 
16 hours a day and studying how to 
raise the biggest and best crops and sell 
them for the least money to these same 
city or village chaps. 
That city and village life is so much 
more attractive than country life is sim¬ 
ply the result of inequitable remunera¬ 
tion, which enables the city and village 
callings to bring together the attrac¬ 
tions, while, in contrast, the farmers are 
forced to a scanty life. Farm labor of 
reasonable skill should receive “ skilled 
labor” and professional prices, and above 
all, the farmer himself, who, as a rule, 
probably works longer, has more cares, 
more risks, more skill and more brain 
work and worry, should exceed them all. 
Uow is this end to be achieved ? The 
first step is the creation of a sense of his 
position, and a sentiment for a change. 
It must ultimately be achieved, how¬ 
ever, by legislation. Farming, “ the 
basis of all industry,” is too broad in its 
scope to be handled by a class organiza¬ 
tion like a trade union or professional 
combination. It cannot combine to keep 
farm prices up to the level of other call¬ 
ings. The law that gives a monopoly of 
a certain class of service to a profession, 
for example, should also limit its charges. 
The law that creates a corporation, an¬ 
other species of public service, should 
also limit its dividends, salaries of offi¬ 
cers, etc. Then the farmer might com¬ 
pete with them in hiring labor and in 
the luxuries and comforts, and even ele¬ 
gancies of life on a more even footing. 
Vertical Ditches. 
E. C. B., Southport, Conn.—J. M. P., 
Corning, Ark., might dig “postholes” 
about a rod apart each way, over his 30- 
nut fruiting, there is one near my place 
that is a large tree and it fruits more or 
less every year. I planted three or four 
of the nuts on my place about 12 years 
ago, and I now have one tree from those 
seeds that is 15 feet high and has given 
me fruit or nuts for the last four years. 
This morning I counted 11 pods of fruits. 
The bloom is red, on this seedling. 
Rapid Plant Growth. 
G. W. n., Rochester, Mass. —Hun¬ 
garian millet seed was sown on five 
acres, June 30, from 9 o’clock to 12. It 
was raining most of the time. In the 
afternoon it was harrowed and rolled. 
On July 3, at sunrise, it was up so that 
it could be seen several rods away. On 
July 23, a plant of 22 inches to tip of leaf 
was measured, and I suppose longer 
ones could have been found if the field 
had been visited with that intent. The 
soil was good and well worked. The 
seed was wet when put on. About four 
tons of ground bone, and 20 tons of wet 
cow manure were composted for a few 
days and when thoroughly heated were 
spread upon the five acres with a Kemp 
manure spreader*. The weather was 
quite warm during the 22 days—hence 
the phenomenal growth of one inch per 
day from the time of sowing the seed. 
“Small Stowage." 
G. A. D., Marshfield Hills, Mass.— 
Some years ago, when American com¬ 
merce was more flourishing than it is at 
the present time, a certain class of ves¬ 
sels was built for the tobacco and mo¬ 
lasses trade. They were calculated to 
carry a certain number of hogsheads, 
blit molasses hogsheads, being smaller 
in order to utilize waste room, it would 
be stipulated that a certain portion of 
the cargo should be small stowage, i e., 
tierces and barrels. I have 800 hills pole 
beans, set 4)4 feet each way, so that I 
cultivate with the horse hoe. The 
thought struck me. Why not use small 
stowage the long way of the rows? So, 
after returning from my peddling trips, 
I would take up some of the new plants 
in the strawberry beds, putting them in 
a pail of water. When the pail was full 
of plants, I set them. I have just fin¬ 
ished. In about a month the beans will 
have ceased to bear, and I shall pull 
them up and keep the plants in narrow 
rows. I like small stowage. 
Fertilizers on Young Clover. 
D. K. O., Maria, Pa. —I don’t tee how 
fertilizer would help as suggested on 
page 473. It would not be necessary to 
top-dress the young clover after harvest. 
In this section of country, I believe that 
our failures with young clover have come 
from too thick a stand of wheat; this 
would cause too thick a growth of straw, 
which smothers the clover and makes a 
weak growth which will not stand the 
hot sun and drought after the wheat is 
harvested. If drought kills J. B. J s 
CRIMSON CLOVER IN WESTERN NEW 
YORK. 
The following article, which appeared 
originally in The Grape Belt, is from one 
of the most observing and conservative 
horticulturists in western New York : 
“Last June, I procured a bushel of 
American-grown seed, which I sowed 
August 22 and 23 in different spots in the 
vineyard at the rate of 20 pounds to the 
acre. A vineyard of 11^ acre, heavy 
brick clay, was sown entirely. On ac¬ 
count of the protracted drought we had 
at that time, it took three weeks before 
it came up, and it was what is called a 
poor stand, and I was also disappointed 
that it did not make a better growth be¬ 
fore winter set in. But it wintered well, 
which settled the only point that I was 
in the least doubtful on, that it could be 
grown in Chautauqua County, and on 
which point I was unable to get any in- 
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