1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Fob the 10 years preceding' 1894, the 
average yield of Velvet Chaff at the 
Purdue Experiment Station (LaPayette, 
Ind.) has been 29.8 bushels, of Fultz 27.3 
bushels, and of Michigan Amber 29,40 
bushels. The Velvet Chaff the past sea¬ 
son produced seven bushels, the Fultz 
twelve bushels and the Michigan Amber 
six bushels more than the average for the 
past decade. 
The average yield, for 1894, of all the 
other varieties (34 in number) most of 
which have been grown there but one to 
three years, is only 36.78 bushels, or less 
than the yield of Velvet Chaff or Fultz, 
and but slightly better than that of 
Michigan Amber, in the eleventh year of 
their trial. 
It is high time, the station contends, 
that farmers everywhere should abandon 
the notion that wheat will ''run out,” 
because this same “notion” which many 
seedsmen so industriously encourage “for 
revenue only,” is yearly costing the 
farmers large sums of money in the pur ■ 
chase of “new” and “ improved” (?) va¬ 
rieties of wheat that are advertised in 
such glowing terms in seed catalogues. 
The standard varieties of wheat which 
have proved successful should not be 
abandoned for costly, new and untried 
sorts. It is better carefully to select 
seed from home grown wheat and give it 
generous treatment. Pursue the same 
methods in selecting seed wheat that 
would be followed in improving the live 
stock and it will not “run out.” On the 
other hand, it will run into the granary 
improved in quality and increased in 
quantity. 
What is the earliest grape ? What is 
the best early grape ? are questions we 
are trying to answer for the benefit of 
our readers. Of what value is the earliest 
grape if so sour that no one can eat it 
with enjoyment ? The earliest grape, if 
of poor quality, raised in the North, can 
in no wise compete with grapes earlier 
or as early and of better quality, which 
come to our markets from the South. 
The following notes were made August 
23. Readers will kindly bear this date 
in mind. Such well-known kinds as 
Brighton, Concord and Worden are men¬ 
tioned for comparison: 
Most of the berries of Cottage (black) 
are coloring; none ripe, many still green. 
Green Mountain (white) ripening, but 
still sour. Geneva (white) softening, but 
still sour. It is a little later than Green 
Mountain. Nectar (black) is earlier than 
Cottage, but not ripe; it is of better 
quality. Early Victor is earlier than 
Nectar and is nearly ripe. The berries 
are small and of inferior quality. Wilder 
and Brighton begin to turn. Hayes 
(white) softening a little. Diamond, too, 
begins to soften. Moore’s Early is not 
quite ripe, but more nearly so than any 
other mentioned. Some are ripe. Eaton 
(black) still green. Early Ohio (black) 
about which so much has been said of 
late, looks to be ripe, but it is sour and 
not so good as Moore’s Early. The ber¬ 
ries and bunches are rather under medium 
size. It is more prolific than Moore’s 
Early, but we would prefer the latter 
either for home use or market. Worden 
and Barry are beginning to color; so, 
too, is Concord, though less. Colerain 
(white) is softening. A black seedling 
raised by the late David Bundy (the origi¬ 
nator of Colerain) is as early as Moore’s 
Early. The quality is, perhaps, a trifie 
better—the bunches not so large. The 
vine has not as yet been introduced. 
Obedient to the request of the deceased 
originator, we name it the Bundy. 
OcTB choice of the above varieties would 
be Moore’s Early for black. Green Moun- 
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tain for white. Possibly the Bundy will 
be preferred to Moore’s Early because it 
may be more prolific and of better 
quality. 
August 28. Green Mountain and Early 
Ohio are about ripe. Moore’s Early is 
not fully ripe. Of the three, we would 
place Early Ohio last. 
OuK indefatigable friend, Prof. W. F. 
Massey, of the North Carolina Station, 
who perhaps, more than any other one 
man has been instrumental in popular¬ 
izing Crimson clover, calls editorial at¬ 
tention in Mr. W. H. Maule’s paper, the 
Practical Parmer, to the reasons why it 
may be more valuable than Red clover. 
Not as a substitute, but as an adjunct 
where Red clover thrives, and as a sub¬ 
stitute in the sandy sections of the South, 
where Red clover does not thrive. 
Prof. Massey has known this plant 
grazed hard by horses all winter up to 
March, and then allowed to grow and 
make a fine crop of hay. When a good 
fall growth is obtained, it will bear win¬ 
ter grazing well. 
On the sandy lands of the South, Red 
clover burns out badly in summer, but 
Crimson clover grows in the cool season 
only, and grows where Red clover does 
not thrive. As a crop to accumulate fer¬ 
tility between crops, and to produce a 
pasture or a hay crop in winter. Prof. 
Massey thinks that it is the most valu¬ 
able plant yet brought to the attention 
of American farmers. 
A Tennessee correspondent of Thb 
Rubal Np:w-Yobkkb is quoted as finding 
as one of its faults that it lasts but one 
year. Now instead of this being a fault 
it is one of its chief advantages ; for it 
enables Southern farmers to grow as a 
third crop on their land, an improving 
crop that only requires a single winter 
to mature, and is out of the way in time 
to grow a corn crop. 
Pkof. Massey remarks that in the 
summer of 1893 The Rubau New-Yobkeb 
was induced to try it, and the result has 
been its complete conversion to Crimson 
clover. 
Not complete, Prof. Massey; our own 
experience and investigation do not 
justify that. But our faith is such that 
we are seeking information from every 
source as well as through our own experi¬ 
ments which, as may be seen elsewhere, 
we propose to continue to a finish. 
OuB friend F. K. Phoenix, of Dalavan, 
Wis., writes that the Agnes Emily Car¬ 
man rose has bloomed “ faithfully, the 
fiowers borne in clusters, pink, sweet, 
semi-double.” Mr. Phoenix has had the 
Industry gooseberry for eight years. It 
is nearly free from mildew, with good 
garden culture. It, as yet, leads, for a 
big red. 
We are well aware, and have so stated 
repeatedly, that the Industry thrives in 
many places and there is no better goose¬ 
berry where it does thrive. It is one of 
those excellent things that should be 
tried. 
Bulletin 26 of the Pennsylvania State 
College Experiment Station, compares 
the amounts of digestible matter in dif¬ 
ferent sorts of field beets and ensilage 
corn, and their comparative value for 
the production of milk and butter. The 
soil of the Pennsylvania State College 
farm is of heavy loam, naturally well 
drained by underlying limestone in shat¬ 
tered strata—good wheat and com land, 
but without any stream of water or 
natural grass meadow. This is the case 
in a very large proportion of American 
farm land, and it makes the questions 
treated of in this bulletin of more than 
common importance. A winter supply 
of succulent food is necessary even in 
England where pastures are common, 
and green even in winter. The growing 
of roots, and the greatly incr^sed 
amount of superior meat and of wool 
that mark modern farming there, was 
the greatest improvement in all agricult¬ 
ural history. This bulletin goes far to 
show how the staple crop of our climate, 
Indian com, can be made to supply to us 
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what roots do for farmers who live where 
they can be grown better than corn, or 
where corn entirely fails to mature. 
Word tor Wbi'd. 
-New Yobk Times : “ An eminent 
Italian anthropologist, who has recently 
made a thorough study of the modern 
anarchist, has come to the conclusion 
that man is not an improved monkey, 
but that the monkey is a degenerate 
man. If we study the photographs of 
French, German and Italian anarchists, 
we cannot fail to be struck with their 
resemblance to baboons.” 
-The Outlook ; “ One seat given to a 
tired, homely woman in a street car, is 
worth a thousand hat-raisings in an ele¬ 
vator.” 
-Prof. Massey : “ When, years ago, 
my old friend, J. W. Kerr, of Caroline 
County, Md., said that a crop of Crimson 
clover plowed under in a peach orchard 
was worth as much as a ton of fertilizer, 
I thought he was putting it very strong.” 
-Practical Farmer: “In The 
Rural New-Yorker for 1891, page 515, 
Mr. H. Stewart says : ‘ Crimson clover 
affords a large quantity of succulent, but 
watery food, having less substance than 
either Red or Pea-vine clovers. It is not 
a good hay plant, coming as it does when 
the weather is not adapted for curing 
the fcdder and when the most important 
work is pressing, while for turning under 
as manure, it lacks the substance and the 
large root growth of the tap-rooted, 
longer-lived varieties.’ ” 
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