rHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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been 93 sacks, averaging’ 112 pounds to the sack. This 
is exclusive of the small and cut tubers, and they were 
dug rather carelessly. According to Eastern measur¬ 
ing, there were 173 bushels, or, at the rate of over 750 
bushels per acre. From the prongy Burbank, I could 
have reached the “00 pounds” with little more than 
a baker’s dozen. J. ii. ci.akke. 
Mendocino County, Cal. 
SMALL NOTES FROM A SMALL FARM. 
1 have 200 hardy carnations from the finest German 
seed, planted in a bed 3x18 feet, for next year's bou¬ 
quets. Not all will be double ; about 20 per cent 
will be single. I have cut from one plant, at one time, 
70 blooms of a double pink variety. It will take some 
of good wife’s time away from her household cares to 
cut bouquets for friends and neighbors. 
I have no waste waterway or filthy drain from my 
well, blit use a large tub which seldom gets full more 
than once a day in warm weather, and then it is 
emptied on some of the vegetable or flower beds as 
they seem to need it. All dishwater, soap-suds, rinse 
water and night slops are utilized around pear, plum 
and quince trees; grape vines and berry bushes come 
in for their share. 
All flower, vegetable and tillable garden ground, is 
sown heavily to rye about September 20, to keep 
down weeds and protect the ground from washing ; 
also to furnish green food for the biddies through 
the winter. In the spring, I have a heavy coat of rye 
tops and roots to fork under to hold moisture and 
help feed the flowers and vegetables. 1 added Crim¬ 
son clover this fall to part of the ground. 
I have cut over 600 spikes of gladioli blooms the past 
summer from two beds, size 53^x24 feet. We were 
never without three to five quart glass cans filled with 
seven to ten of these grand spikes of bloom, till after 
frost. They were used as door props and to decorate 
our windows and our dining-room table for many 
weeks. Fully one-half of them were given to friends, 
and some of them were taken hiindreds of miles to 
decorate the homes of those who know us only by oxw 
flowers. We have in our cellar 2,000 blooming size 
bulbs for next year’s flowers, besides over 8,000 small 
bulbs and bulblets started with three packages of 
seed in 1890 costing 20 cents. 1 have bought, probably, 
200 bulbs since to add to the above collection. 
1 sowed Crimson clover on the onion beds and gar¬ 
den August 30. We had no rain till September 10. It 
came up soon after the rain. Some was sowed by 
itself, some with lettuce and some with rye. That 
sowed with rye is two to three inches high and hardly 
as thick as I wish, but probably thick enough. That 
sowed by itself, is very thick and about four inches 
high. That sowed with lettuce, is seven inches high 
and a perfect mat. It is a wonder to see as it is only 
two months old. There is about twice as much clover 
as lettuce, and we keep using the lettuce to make 
room for the clover. We shall leave some for flowers 
another year. o. c. 
Darke County, Ohio. 
LOCATION OF THE DAIRY ROOM. 
On a dairy farm, the location of the dairyroom 
should be a matter of careful study and much fore¬ 
thought. Two points should be kept in view, the 
ability to do the work in a workmanlike manner with 
the fewest steps and in the shortest time, and locating 
the conveniences so that they may help the other work 
along. Our dairy measures 10x18 feet, and lies just 
back of the kitchen and washroom. It has two large 
south windows which give it abundant light on dark, 
winter days, and can be quickly darkened when 
necessary. Back of the dairy is a room 12x18 feet with¬ 
out a floor, with a board partition through the center. 
The first portion is for wood or coal, the second for 
ice, and holds 120 cakes two feet square and about 
eight inches thick. The ice is surrounded by sawdust 
one foot in thickness, well trodden down, and also 
covered with the sawdust. On this ice is placed an 
ice-box 4x4 feet, with double sides and cover, the ice 
forming a bottom with a thin layer of sawdust over it. 
This box has shelves on which are placed the fresh 
meat, butter dish and milk pitcher for the table. The 
bottom is left for jars and small tubs of butter await¬ 
ing orders. 
On the other side of the room, is a long veranda, 
which covers the one-horse tread power that drives 
the line shaft with a belt run on a pulley, just out¬ 
side the room. On this shaft within the room are 
pulleys of the required size for running the separator, 
churn and washing machine at the proper rate of speed. 
The advantages of having the dairy room near the 
kitchen are : that the kitchen fire heats the water for 
washing the dairy tools and cleaning up ; one does not 
have to face the weather in going from one to the 
other ; the ice-box is near by, a great convenience for 
the table, also the milk, cream and buttermilk ; the 
line shaft is where one can attach the washing machine 
and a bone mill to grind waste bones from the kitchen 
for the poultry, and we dream, in the dim future, of a 
successful dishwasher run by the same power. A 
good walk from the barn to the dairyroom makes a 
good walk to the house as well. On this, a 30-gallon 
can mounted on a stout, iron-wheeled cart, carries the 
skim-milk and garbage from the house to the barn 
and pigpens, when the men are going that way. Every 
kitchen should be abundantly supplied with water, 
and the two rooms may be furnished with very little 
additional outlay. A good cistern is needed for the 
kitchen range, a good well for cooking, drinking and 
buttermaking. The well should have a pump attached 
to the line shaft, that the horse may fill a large tank 
with water for cooling the cream, washing the butter, 
etc. The central point of woi'k about a farmhouse is 
the kitchen. The work of the dairyroom is largely 
connected with it; so keep them together and the con¬ 
veniences of one will help the other, gear A T. sissON. 
ENHANCED VALUE OF THE ENHANCE 
STRAWBERRY. 
I purchased a few of the Enhance strawberry 
plants in the spring of 1893, for trial. During the 
summer, the vines made only a moderate growth, but 
the plants were of more than ordinary size. This 
year, after fruiting, I mowed the vines in my one- 
year-old plot in which the Enhance were planted, and 
after letting the leaves dry, burned the whole thing— 
ao F-i 
PLAN OF DAIRYROOM CONNECTED WITH KITCHEN. Fio. 201. 
1, 2 and 3. Dishes. 4. Dish sink. 5. Hand sink. 6. Kitchen range. 
7. Cistern supplies range and bath and overflow goes into 
large cistern underground. 8. Cistern pump and sink. 9. 
Washing machine. 10. Back stairs. 11. Tank of well water. 
0. Faucet and short hose for washing butter in churn. 12. 
Sink for washing pails, etc. 13. Separ.ator. 14. Churn. 1.5. 
Scales. 16. Salt. 17. Shelf where butter is covered and tied 
up. 18. Stool where jars are fllled. 19. Bone mill. 20. Cup¬ 
board for color, etc. 21. Heating stove. 22. Writing desk. 24, 
Ice-box. 
mulch and all. The weather wa.s very warm, and the 
ground very dry at the time, and there was nothing 
left but a few of the stems sticking up here and there. 
I then run the double-shovel plow between the rows, 
leaving only about 12 or 15 inches of the old row, 
stirring it about five or six inches deep. This threw 
considerable earth on the rows, almost covering them 
in places with clods. With the field roller I ma.shed 
the clods, all that would mash, and then run the 
smoothing harrow crosswise of the rows. After I 
had finished, it looked as though there was nothing 
left, and people who had seen it before I burned it, 
said, “What did you do that for? You have ruined 
your patch, and it looked so nice.” But in a few 
days, the small green leaves began to show here and 
there, and when we went through to clean out the 
grass this fall, the vines were so thick that I cut out 
a good many. 
One day as we were at work cleaning out the weeds 
and grass, I noticed a ripe berry on the Enhance, and 
passing along the row about six rods long, I picked a 
large handful of nice ripe berries. There were a 
number of over-ripe and green ones, and many still in 
bloom. I have picked a pint several times since, and 
there are still green berries on the plants. This is the 
only variety out of about 20, that has had any berries. 
Is it characteristic of the Enhance to bear the second 
crop ? [Not at the Rural Grounds.— Eds.] 
Our last spring’s planting of an acre, has made a 
remarkable growth considering the drought. Some of 
the rows five feet apart, completely cover the ground. 
There are, perhaps, two or three causes which I might 
name that had something to do with such a growth 
this season. In the first place, I used good, strong 
plants. I had a man who did not like to hoe, and as 
the weeds did not bother much, I kept him busy with 
the cultivator, frequently going through them twice a 
week. Lastly an application of 800 pounds of com¬ 
plete fertilizer—400 applied after planting and worked 
in with the cultivator and hoe, and the remainder 
when they began to make runners between the rows, 
helped this growth. I have learned that it does not 
pay to raise a poor crop of small fruit. That nice 
fruit can be grown only by having good plants, rich 
soil, thorough cultivation, and eternal vigilance 
against drought, insects, fungous diseases, weeds, etc 
Sidney, Ohio. R. N. R. 
TEN NEW SEEDLING GRAPES FROM MUNSON. 
August 10, last, I received from T. V. Munson, 
Denison, Tex., specimen clusters of 10 varieties of 
new seedling grapes which possess such high average 
character that I assume that the readers of The R. 
N.-Y. will be interested in notices of them. 
No. 133 (Parentage, Lincecximii-i-Triumph).—Bunch 
large, long, slightly loose; berry medium, round, 
black, with blui.sh bloom ; pxilp tender ; juice mild, 
vinoxis, very good. 
Prof. Beach (Lincecumii +Triumph).—Bunch large, 
long, compact, slightly shouldered. Berry scarcely 
medium, black, with bluish bloom, tender, slightly 
pulpy, nearly sweet; juice abundant. Very good. 
America (Lincecumii + Rupestris). — Bunch large, 
long, compact, .shouldered ; berry large, round, black; 
bloom blue; seeds few ; skin thin ; pulp tender ; 
juice medium, mild, vinous, slightly colored ; flavor 
very pleasant. 
Carman (Lincecumii + Triumph).—Bunch large, long, 
with two or more shoulders, rather compact ; berry 
medium, round, black, with a slight blue bloom ; skin 
thick, rather tough ; pulp rather tough ; seeds few, 
large ; juice rich, vinous, abundant; quality excellent. 
W. B. Munson (Lincecumii + Triumph).—Bunch me¬ 
dium, round, moderately compact ; berry black, or 
purplish black; bloom slight, bluish ; .skin tough ; 
pulp tough ; juice abundant, sprightly, rich ; seeds 
few, rather large. Very good. 
Big Extra (Lincecumii + Rupestris).—Bunch round, 
or .slightly shoxildered, compact; berry medium or 
above, round, black, with a slight bluish bloom ; skin 
thin ; pulp rather tender ; juice abundant, very rich 
and sprightly ; seeds few, medium ; quality nearly or 
quite best. 
Newman (Lincecumii + Triumph). — Bunch large, 
long, loose, shouldered ; berry very large, round, 
black, with blue bloom; skin rather thick, tough; 
pulp tough ; seeds few, large ; juice very sprightly, 
highly vinous, rich and abundant. Excellent. 
Beacon (Lincecumii + Concord).—Bunch loose, very 
long and large, slightly shouldered; berry large, 
round black ; bloom dense, bluish; skin medium ; 
pulp tender; seeds few, large ; juice medium, vinous, 
very pleasant. Very good. 
Prof. Bailey (Lincecumii- i-T riumph).—Bunch long, 
compact, shouldered ; berry round, black, with slight, 
blue bloom ; skin medium, pulp rather tough ; seeds 
few, large ; juice medium, vinous, rich, very plea.sant. 
Very good. 
Mrs. Munson (Lincecumii + Herbemont). — Bunch 
cylindrical, slightly shouldered, compact ; berry me¬ 
dium, round, dark amber, with grayish bloom ; skin 
thin ; pulp slight, adhering to seeds, which are few 
and small ; juice medium, very mild, pleasant flavor ; 
almost very good. 
The production of so large a number of desirable 
varieties by a single experimenter, from a single 
parent (on the one side), with (as we are given to un¬ 
derstand) many others not included in this list, has 
not been paralleled since the production of the Rogers 
hybrids. If, however, we may infer from several 
years’ experience, with several new varieties from the 
same source, these varieties may be expected to prove 
more especially successful at the South. This may be 
the more reasonably anticipated, since the parentage 
in all the above cases, save one, is strictly Southern. 
T. T. LYON. 
NOTES ON HARVESTING GRAPES IN THE 
SOUTH. 
The .short grape season throws all the work of pick¬ 
ing and packing into a very limited time. This makes 
it necessary to hire much help and put in long days. 
At such a time, good management is necessary. To 
manage the hands and to see that the work is prop¬ 
erly done, require an overseer who knows his bu.si- 
ness. The first thing is to determine the proper 
degree of ripeness at which to pick the fruit. For a 
local market, it should be allowed to become thor¬ 
oughly sweet, but for shipment, it should be picked at 
an earlier stage. It is a mistaken idea that fruit 
pa.sses immediately from ripeness to decay. There 
are different degrees of ripeness, and grapes should 
not be allowed to become so ripe that they will spoil 
before reaching max'ket. This question is made more 
puzzling by the difference in varieties. For example, 
the Ives will become fully black before getting sweet, 
while the Concord becomes sweet first. Familiarity 
with the varieties is necessary. 
It is important to avoid picking the grapes while 
