THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Pabst, Jewett,Columbian and VanDeraan 
pecans all of which he is propagating for 
sale. All are of about the same shape. 
The Russell is about 1)4 inch long with 
a shell so thin that one may readily 
crack it between his teeth. The Jewett 
is over two inches long with a more cor¬ 
rugated, but thin shell. The VanDeman 
is about the same length with a perfectly 
smooth, thin shell. The Columbian is 
two inches long with a thicker shell. Of 
the lot, we would choose the Russell be¬ 
cause not only of its very thin shell, but 
because the meat parts so readily from 
both the shell and skin. We could not 
distinguish any difference in the quality 
of the flesh. All were excellent. 
There can no longer be any doubt that 
in a very few years the agitation of the 
improved chestnut question inaugurated 
by The R. N.-Y., will bear magnificent 
fruit. Now we announce the Moncur, 
specimens of which were kindly sent to 
us by E. G. Packard, Dover, Del. It is 
a seedling of the Ridgely, a trifle smaller 
and of excellent quality—better than the 
Ridgely and as good as our best natives. 
Mr. Packard says : 
I send you a small box of chestnuts. The tree 
from which they were gathered, stands on the farm 
of Mr. Frank Moncur, near this town. Mr. Moncur 
called my attention to this tree, saying that he 
thought it a seedling from the original Ridgely 
tree referred to in recent issues of Tub R. N.-Y. 
Mr. James Todd, also of Dover, informs me that 
he planted the Moncur tree about 30 years ago, 
and that it really is a seedling from the Ridgely 
tree. Mr. Moncur, at my request, kindly meas¬ 
ured the tree and gives the following dimensions: 
Circumference of body, 15 inches above the 
ground, 9 feet 0(4 inches; spread of branches from 
the tip on one side of the tree to the longest 
tip on the opposite side, 51 feet. The tree stands 
in the open ground, about 75 yards from the 
dwelling. It bears abundantly every year. In the 
box are also sent two nuts from the Ridgely tree 
for comparison. These I have wrapped in red 
tissue. You will observe that the Ridgely nuts 
are darker in color and rather larger than the 
nine nuts from the Moncur tree. 
Mr. T. C. Furnas, a nurseryman of 
Sheridan, Ind., writes us that with him 
Abundance plum trees have made an ex¬ 
cellent growth each year, and the past 
two years have made an immense show 
of bloom. The show ends with the 
bloom. They bear no fruit. Mr. Furnas 
says that the reason is that they bloom 
too early by about three weeks. The 
same is true of the Russian apricots. 
Here is another instructive letter from 
W. B. Fulton, a nurseryman of Kirk¬ 
wood, Ohio : 
In answer to your paragraph under Ruralisms, 
page 795, I will try to explain matters. No doubt 
about the Japan plums being a grand thing where 
they will bear; but where peaches fail because of 
their early blooming, so will they fail, at least they 
have not proved themselves any more hardy than 
tender peaches here (west central Ohio). In 1893, 
Abundance, Burbank, Ogon, Satsuma were all 
loaded with live blossoms, as were peaches ; but 
a late frost, such as we have nine years out of 
ten, killed them all, while Alexander and Early 
Canada peaches almost side by side, were loaded 
with fruit. This spring, peaches, plums and all, 
went their way, as usual. I must say that this 
year and last, with me, the only plum to pull 
through, out of 21 varieties, was the Robinson; it 
bore heavily, and sold well. 
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-Prof. Sanborn : “ My neighbors in 
Missouri claimed that 40 acres was a fair 
allowance of corn for a man to care for 
in a year. At a moderate sum, entirely 
within the bounds of economy, the aver¬ 
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on the prairies of the West, so that if a 
Western farmer can handle 40 acres of 
corn the Eastern farmer can. The New 
England farmer will not be man enough 
to balance his Western brother until 
muscular tension is relieved by the sub¬ 
stitution of abundant mechanism on the 
farm. Machinery is a sine qua non in the 
mental and material growth of agricul¬ 
ture. The failure to use it is the final 
failure of New England agriculture, and 
the quicker any man who cannot accept 
this saying gets out of farming, the bet¬ 
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chemicals, we obtain 23.9 bushels larger 
crop per acre for the expenditure of $10 
for chemicals. Now, this excess crop 
cost but little more per bushel than the 
26 bushels grown without chemicals by 
the Illinois farmer, as all the cost of till¬ 
age is to be paid by him for the small 
crop.” 
“ Men and capital are beginning to see 
that our old farms afford a reasonable 
opportunity for each, and I predict that 
New England agriculture is about to 
enter upon the most glorious era of its 
history. ” 
“ But it is said that we cannot carry 
on extensive farming as in the West be¬ 
cause we have not its fertility of soil. 
But is this statement true ? For many 
years the East has been peopling the 
West. The younger has, by elastic brawn 
and muscle, made the great West a mag¬ 
nificent empire. It has been thought 
that the aged East would never renew 
its youth, but would rapidly decay and 
pass out of history as a farming region. 
But, like the fabled Phcenix, it is now 
renewing itself and taking on a new na¬ 
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men’s minds do most of the work and the 
head takes the place of the hands, and 
science that of the old, ineffective prac¬ 
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