THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
731 
FARMERS' CLUB DISCUSSION. 
(continued.) 
a plot of five acres ; they are fat enough 
to kill. He started three years ago with 
three pigs, and as he says that it takes 
300 large hogs to supply his hands, he 
wdll not make enough bacon by 30,000 
pounds. 1 shall sow Alfalfa and Crimson 
clover, and feed hogs and cut hay for 
market. I have sowed this clover every 
two weeks since September 1. It looks 
well, and some of it is eight inches high. 
If it succeed, many otliers will try it. 
The plantations here are all large ; .'>00 
acres being counted a small farm. The 
land is all planted to cotton, and kept 
in a perfect state of cultivation. Mules 
do the plowing. There are few barns ; 
the mules are stabled in quite open 
houses or sheds and fed in large racks, 
on corn fodder and pea vines. Many 
planters buy corn and oats rather than 
spare the land to grow them. The negroes 
have a few chickens, and sometimes a 
truck ijatch ; they do not seem to care 
for anything but bread and meat, and 
are happy in not knowing a “ well 
balanced ration.” 
Another Corn Tie. 
W. .1. C., CoKSic.v, Pa.—I nclo.sed you 
will find one of the ties we use in tkis 
county for tying corn. You will ob¬ 
serve that it is made of two strings of 
binder twine, which has been saved when 
we thraslied. We take one that has 
been cut near tlie knot, and one that 
is cut near the middle. We tie the three 
ends together, and have a loop at one 
end and a knot at the other. To tie it, 
we take a strong piece of wood about 14 
inches long—an old buggy spoke an¬ 
swers very well. Hore a ^^-inch hole 
1 >4 inch from one end ; with a compass 
saw, make a slit about three-fourths of 
an inch toward the end. Pass the knot 
on the string through the hole, .slip it 
down in the slit, pass the string around 
the corn shock, and draw the stick 
through the loop in the string. When 
you have drawn the stick clear through, 
slip the stick back till the knot will 
come out through the %-inch hole, and 
the shock is tied. No gloves are needed 
to tie corn in this way. It is quickly 
done, and costs nothing, as the strings 
from the sheaves are far ahead of the 
new twine. I am sure if tl. K. tries this, 
he will not make any more out of wire. 
VV'p: have received three clusters of a 
red grape named Frances E. Willard, 
from some friend without further ad¬ 
vices. It resembles the Delaware with 
a thick, tenacious skin that must in¬ 
sure excellent keeping qualities. It is 
juicy, sweet, vinous with few seeds and 
a tender pulp. The bunches are small, 
compact and not .shouldered. The bei’- 
ries cling firmly to the stems. It is a 
fine grape. 
Ouu respected friend ljuther Burbank 
gives a bit of most interesting history as 
to his experience in Japan chestnut cul¬ 
ture. Nuts of the true Mammoth Japan, 
average several times larger than the 
largest natives. For many years he grew 
and fruited seedlings by the thousand 
for the purpo.se of producing a better 
variety. The variations in the size and 
quality of the nuts, and the productive¬ 
ness and early bearing of the trees, were 
remax’kable. In one case, a burr con¬ 
taining three good-sized, well-filled and 
well-ripened nuts was produced by a 
tree in October, which had been grown 
from a nut planted in April the year be¬ 
fore ; thus ripe chestnuts were jiroduced 
from a nut planted only 18 months be¬ 
fore. The best one of more than 10,000 
seedlings is a tree which each season 
bears all it can hold of fat, glo.ssy nuts 
of the very largest size and as sweet as 
the American chestnut. So says Mr. 
Burbank, whose impartiality in describ¬ 
ing his own productions is well known. 
Well, then, the nose of the Paragon is 
badly out of joint. 
During the past season, we have raised 
the new Henderson Pink Plume celery 
both as a late and an early variety. We 
may not speak of the late as yet, since 
there has not been time to test its keep¬ 
ing quality. The early seems like the 
White I’lume except that the stems are 
Xiinkish, and the quality better—more 
pronounced, shall we say ?—than that of 
the White. 
Dr. Ch.vmreruain tried 14 different 
kinds of potatoes the past season. Sir 
William (late) gave the highest yield, 145 
bushels per acre. White Flower and R. 
N.-Y. No. 2 gave the next highest yields, 
132 biushels. M unroe Seedling comes 
next with 115 bushels. Freeman (early) 
yielded least, 49 bushels. 
Dana’s Hovey fruited at the Rural 
Grounds tlie past season for the first. 
The pears resemble the Seckel in shape 
and color, but they average larger than 
the Seckel at its best. It is nearly as 
large as the Sheldon, ripening later or 
with Anjou. Anjou is considered by 
many the best pear of its season. But we 
would prefer Dana’s Hovey. The tree 
resembles the Seckel in growth and 
habit. 
Mr. Ciias. a. Green writes us the in¬ 
teresting piece o<’ information that he 
has control of a cross between a red 
raspberry and a blackberry. The bush 
resembles a raspberry. The fruit is very 
large and of a bright red color. In shape 
it resembles the blackberry. 
The R. N.-Y. was the first to fruit 
crosses between the raspberry and black¬ 
berry. We worked over these crosses for 
years, but have now destroyed all but 
two which we preserve as curiosities and 
reminders of blasted hopes. 
Mr. Green also has a Kentucky per¬ 
simmon of large size which he thinks will 
prove hardy in Rochester. He propa¬ 
gates so far from seed only. 
Garden and Forest says that, in places 
where the garden has a gravelly or other 
porous, well-drained subsoil, a simple 
plan to keep a few vegetables over for 
family use, is to take both heads from a 
few sugar barrels and sink them in the 
ground, leaving their tops about six 
inches above the surface. The practice 
of Mr. C. L. Allen, who recommends this 
method, is to fill the barrels about half 
full of vegetables, and then to place over 
them an ordinary barrel cover. The 
warmth from below keeps out frost from 
above unless the temperature falls to 
zero, when some old matting or other 
material can be thrown over the tops of 
the barrels, to be removed as the vege¬ 
tables are needed. He has kept beets, 
turnips, carrots and parsnips in this way 
until the middle of Api’il, and the last 
that were taken out were as fre.sh as 
when they were put away in the fall. 
Cauliflower and cabbage can also be kept 
perfectly in the same manner. 
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indeed be both the seed-time and the 
harvest-time of life ? No ; intellectually 
and physically, it is first the leaf, then 
the blossom, then the fruit.” 
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