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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Two Grapes. 
W., Monrok, Wis.—T he Ontario and 
Shaker grapes are identical. The vine, 
which is less hardy than Concord, bears 
well of bunches and berries that are by 
comparison, immense and do admirably, 
to astonish people with. The quality of 
the fruit is entirely negative—not very 
sour, not sweet, no particular flavor, just 
a huge mass of insipidity, appearing too 
flne to throw away, and not good enough 
to eat. Bees don't eat them, and they are 
good judges. 
Steam Pipes for Heating. 
(1. \V. L., Rutherford, N. J.—M. L. 
R., page 74.9, can heat the rooms on the 
floor above his kitchen range, with an 
ordinary water back such as is used for 
hot-water boilers. The piping should 
be as direct as possible, pitched away 
from the back. It is possible to heat the 
rooms on the level of the range or even 
below, but no one not an expert, would 
make much of a job of it, and might 
make a system that would be dangerous. 
My advice would be to place all the 
heating surface on the floor above, and 
be sure to place a small expansion tank, 
open to the air, at the highest ijoint. 
Would-be Farmers. 
C. M., Royauton, Vt.— 1 would offer a 
plan that 1 think would be better all 
around than the one given on page 74a. 
It seems to me that the place for a city 
man and family, is near some of our 
pleasant villages—not over one mile out 
—a small place as farms go. The ideal 
place has a few acres of nice land, not 
over ten and often only flve, a small 
pasture, and maybe a small wood lot. 
The owner is to keep a horse (one with 
enough life to make a nice di-ivei-), a 
cow (a grade Jersey) and hens, the last 
to belong to the child or children who 
like them best. With a big vegetable 
garden, the surplus to be sold in the 
village, a big, very big, sti-awberry bed, 
the spare berries to follow, or rather 
precede the vegetables ; a flower garden, 
six children and their pai’cnts wall find 
all the good times and things to eat, and 
work enough to do at home. 
“ Possibilities of an Acre ! " 
E. C., Carbon Ci.iff, li.i..—On page 
696, L. R. Pierce, in speaking of the pos¬ 
sibilities of an acre, says that he sold 
32..50 worth of beets from a row six rods 
long, and then estimates that 36.90 worth 
could be raised on a square rod, and 
31,104 woi-th on an acre. Whew ! This 
sounds big, and I suppo.se it is all right 
in his locality ; but suppose that he had 
been here in Illinois, and had to do as 
one of our farmers did. He went to 
town with seven bushels of beets, hauled 
them all over town, offering them at the 
stores for 10 cents per bushel, and then 
couldn’t sell them. This man’s experi¬ 
ence was not so encouraging as Mr. 
Iherce’s, and I think that he w'ould hardly 
quit growing oats, even though he raised 
only eight or ten bushels to the acre. If 
he raised only eight or ten bushels of 
oats per acre, he would raise a very poor 
crop of beets. The oats could be sold 
at home, shipped away, or kept for a 
better market, while the beets and other 
vegetables mentioned, would be almost 
a total loss if raised in large quantities 
here for market. It would not pay grain 
growers to spend any time transplant¬ 
ing beets and raising a little truck in a 
small way for market, wdiile their horses 
are in the stables and their acres wait¬ 
ing to be sowed to oats or other grain. 
1 would not advise any one to quit giwv- 
ing grain and to commence growing 
beets and other truck, unless certain of 
a near market that is not already over¬ 
done. Rut if you are raising only eight 
or ten bushels per acre, w’^ake up ! Get 
interested in your work ! Give your soil 
better cultivation, and by a judicious ro¬ 
tation of crops and by applying all the 
manure obtainable, bring the land up to 
a paying point and be independent ! 
Dairy Chance in Michigan. 
J. II., Filion, Mich. —M. R. C., page 
742, wishes to know how to start a small 
dairy. 1 think this part of the country 
would .s\iit his capital. He can get wild 
land for 310 an acre ; it is very easily 
cleared. He and his three boys, if they 
are of any size, could clear an acre a day. 
The soil is first-class—black clay loam 
and great for grass. It can be bought 
on ea.sy terms, 3-50 down and the balance 
on any length of time desired, at seven 
per cent interest. Rutter generally 
brings a good price. He can get partly 
improved land for .318 an acre. This land 
lies from one to three miles from a rail¬ 
road station, and within six miles of Rad 
Axe, the county seat of Huron County, a 
fine, thriving little town. 
What Destroys the Lawn ? 
M. H. R., CHE.STKR County, Pa.—T he 
soil becomes too loose. In this Rlue- 
grass country, our pastures are never 
plowed. Pastured as closely as you will, 
you cannot kill it, but one often .sees 
ragged lawns along the roadsides. The 
grass grows in the foot-path, but dies 
out next to the fence where it is not 
ti’amped. Pound it, or ti*amp it with 
horses (rolling it is not enough.) Rlue- 
grass and potatoes require exactly oppo¬ 
site treatment. 
Co-operative Loans for Farmers. 
A. G. W., Minnkapouis, Minn. —A re¬ 
cent R. N.-Y. suggested that a coopera¬ 
tive savings and loan association, on the 
plan of the building and loan associa¬ 
tions, which have been found useful in 
cities, might be made to serve farmers 
in two ways, as profitable and safe de¬ 
positories of savings for those who are 
“forehanded,” and as a means of sup¬ 
plying money at moderate rates to those 
who need to borrow. The plans of 
building and loan associations have re¬ 
cently undergone many changes, all in 
the direction of simplicity and greater 
equity, until now they are simply sav¬ 
ings banks, which are conducted at a 
moderate expense, but which do not in¬ 
vite temporary deposits (that is deposits 
subject to check). All members are 
stockholders and share net profits, and 
losses if any come. Shares ai’e usually 
3100 each, payable in weekly or monthly 
installments, as provided by the by¬ 
laws. All members are expected to 
carry their shares to maturity, by pay¬ 
ing a sufficient number~of installmqjits 
on each share to make the amount paid 
in with profits added equal to 3100. Rut 
in case of necessity, money paid in may 
be withdrawn at 30 or 60 days’ notice, 
with a portion of the net profits, propor¬ 
tioned usually according to the time 
stock has remained in force. The bor¬ 
rower gives security on real proiierty 
worth double the amount of his loan, 
and agrees to pay a certain number of 
weekly or monthly installments to cancel 
his loan. All the complications of inter¬ 
est, premium and stock, which beclouded 
the old building and loan plan, and 
made the amount paid uncertain, and 
the loan in consequence unsatisfactory, 
now give place to a definite, clear agree¬ 
ment which any one, who can compre¬ 
hend plain English, can understand. 
There are no “series” or other puzzling 
and mysterious features. Such a plan 
could l)e adapted to a farmer’s coopera¬ 
tive association, and, with conservative 
management, would serve well both the 
inirposes suggested in your article. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
TuE Rural New-Yorker 
From Catarrh 
Is is but a step 
To Consumption 
If you are afflicted with catarrh, do not 
allow it to progress, but check it at once 
by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Remember, 
Hood’s 
1 Parilla 
Be sure to get r^ures 
HOOD'S. 
Hood’s I’ills are purely vegetable. 25c. 
An expert opinion comes to us that the 
new Worden-Seckel pear is “ one of the 
greatest fruit acquisitions of the age.”.. 
Somehow, the old writer and compiler 
of these notes takes more interest in 
fruits than in any other branch of terra- 
culture—we wish this comprehensive 
word might come into general use, be¬ 
cause such a word is really needed. Our 
country may fairly be considered as 
above all others the “ land of fruit.s” of 
the world. The appreciation of fruits is 
yearly growing. The improvement of 
fruits is in its infancy. What hybridiza¬ 
tion and crossing have already done for 
their betterment, emphatic as are already 
the results, gives us, as we believe, a 
mere bagatelle of what pomology has in 
store. 
Mr. W. H. Hay, of Waba.sh, Neb., 
sends Ruralisms a single plant of Crimson 
clover that is fully three inches high 
with not less than 30 leaves, planted 
not until September 18. Rut one rain 
had fallen since sowing the seed. He 
is the first to try Cidinson clover in 
Nebra.ska in so far as he knows. We 
shall be glad to hear how this late-sown 
clover passes the winter. 
Mr. F. E. Reardsuey, of Chenango 
County, N. Y., raised the past season, 4.5 
bushels of R. N.-Y. No. 2 potatoes on 
one-quarter of an acre. On the rest of 
the acre (three-quarters) he raised 60 
bushels. The kinds were Rurbank and 
White Star. The No. 2 yielded at the 
rate of 180 bushels to the acre ; the Rur¬ 
bank and White Star yielded at the rate 
of 80 bushels to the acre. 
Mr. Isaac C. Rogers, the manager of 
the “ Rogers’ Nursery Company,” of 
Moorestown, N. J., sends to the Rural 
Grounds one tree each of the following 
for trial and report: Angel pear (illus¬ 
trated in The R. N.-Y. of September 8), 
Garden Gem apple. Plum’s Cider apple, 
Windsor cherry, Willard plum and Para¬ 
gon plum. 
The Willard plum we have already. 
It is of inferior quality, but valuable, 
nevertheless, for its earliness, ripening, 
as it does in this climate, about July 10. 
The Paragon plum we know nothing 
about, except what Mr. Rogers says of 
it. He regards it as entirely distinct from 
any other variety of the Japs. He claims 
that it is the “largest, the latest and the 
best of the Japan plums.” It was im¬ 
ported with a lot of other varieties for 
testing, .some years ago, and has been 
found to be the latest and best in quality. 
The Windsor cherry is regarded by 
Ellwanger »fe Rarry, who introduced it, 
as remarkably hardy and prolific. The 
cherries are large, liver-colored, resem¬ 
bling the Elkhorn, ripening three or 
four days later. The flesh is very firm 
and of fine quality. 
The Garden Gem apple, it is claimed, 
bears at the age of three or four years. 
The fruit is “ large, luscious, hand.some 
yellow, red-cheeked, rich and mellow ; 
splendid for cooking.” Its dwarf habit 
and early bearing, make it most desir¬ 
able for the garden. Its origin is not 
given. 
Plum’s Cider apple ripens the middle 
of September, when red apples are scarce, 
and is an excellent keeper. The fruit is 
large, and the color yellow, almost cov¬ 
ered with red, hand.somely striped and 
splashed. 
Mr. John Gregory, of Adi-ian. Mich., 
writes : 
The Japan Mayberry, or, as its introducer calls 
it, “Childs’s Golden Japanese Mayberry,” seems to 
be very promising'. By the 'way, I see that, al- 
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