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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 29 
“BUGS.” 
The R. N.-Y. has a wise and witty 
friend in Wisconsin, who often comes to 
the front with a new idea. We take his 
latest effusion for our text this week. 
Here it is : 
Now you have done it! Those questions about 
the flavor of butter, have elicited replies that are 
amazing. Willi a unanimity seldom seen or heard, 
these scientific gentlemen, with one accord, de¬ 
clare the flavor of butter to be caused by bacteria, 
microbes, animalculae—in one word BUGS! 
Some of them reluctantly admit, that, perhaps, 
garlic and one or two other heavily flavored 
articles, eaten by cows, will in some occult way, 
impart an odor or flavor to the butter, but no 
other food, mind you, will do it! It is simply 
bugc or “bacteria” and they are all one. So 
these scientific iconoclasts coolly proceed to 
smash the beautiful ideal image of June butter, 
made of sweet and tender herbage, mingled with 
the life and breath of the lovely flowers, cherished 
without a shadow of doubt or question for, lo, 
these many years, and in its place, put bugs ! 
As well then, some old scrubs chewing at a 
straw stack as the finest Jerseys fed on the rich¬ 
est June pasture, if one has the right assortment 
of bugs for a “starter.” “No. 41”!—so many 
different sorts of bugs (.and it may be up in the 
hundreds), each producing a separate and dis¬ 
tinct flavor. Next, they will be blending them, as 
wines and coffees are blended. Now, I am a little 
scientific or so myself, but I must draw the line 
somewhere, and I draw it at “ bugs” in my beau¬ 
tiful June butter. Fortunately they are invisible 
to unassisted vision, and I refuse to look through 
a microscope. Oh 1 but I feel buggy! 
Of course, a man with a large per cent 
of rubber in his imagination, can spell 
bug with the letters b-a-c-t-e-r-i-a. The 
bacterium is the smallest possible form of 
life. It is the starting point for good or 
bad organized results. Without going 
into a "discussion of buttermaking, we 
wish to say that we are glad that the 
flavor of butter, as well as that of every¬ 
thing else—mental, moral and physical— 
is started and developed by a Living prin¬ 
ciple. That is the fact which gives the 
skillful man an advantage, because, by 
studying and understanding the laws 
which regulate this life principle or bac¬ 
teria, he is able to get good out of it; 
whereas, working at haphazard, half 
his labor might have been thrown away. 
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There are worse things than “bugs” 
in this world. Our friend is not the 
only one who feels “buggy ” this week. 
Our short-term subscription contest 
ended last Monday. For a long time 
there was no contest at all. People 
were busy, and it was a bad time for 
subscription work any way. The “ bac¬ 
terium ” we tried to get into the heads of 
our agents was that this lack of competi¬ 
tion was sure to make the clubs small. 
This “bug” was a lazy one. It took a 
long time to start up life in those heads. 
Most of them were only fully waked up 
when the contest ended. The following 
men were so filled with this idea that 
they may well be called “ buggy,” and 
as they walk off with mower and rake 
and cash, lots of their neighbors will 
wish that they had some of the same 
breed of bugs. Here are the names in 
order : 
1. W. F. Newcomb,.Kings County, N. S. 
2. J. H. Farrington, Saratoga County, N. Y. 
S. H. II. Powell, Montcalm County, Midi. 
4. Ronson German, Macomb County, Mich. 
5. C. P. Hayes, Oneida County, N. Y. 
6 . Geo. H. Pearson, Fairfield County, Conn. 
7. Allen R. Yale, New Haven County, Conn. 
8 . J. A. Newhall, Essex County, Mass. 
9. W. R. Houser, Northampton County, Pa. 
Now these bacteria-eaten men have no 
fault to find. They get mighty good 
pay for their work. The point is that 
we set loose the “bug,” and when it 
found a mind ripe for its work, it started 
in and did something—won a prize To 
do good work, a “ bug” of this sort must 
get into a mind in which are found con¬ 
fidence in the owner’s ability, and faith 
in The R. N.-Y. We tell you this be¬ 
cause we expect to set some more bac¬ 
teria afloat about the first of August. 
Look out for them, and get your mind 
into proper shape so that they will mul¬ 
tiply in it. 
We are not going to talk about your 
confidence in yourself. That we will 
leave to you ; but speaking of faith in 
The R. N.-Y., just read this : 
My wife is afraid that a paper that publishes 
such reports, as “The Boarder Crop,” “$20 per 
week,” will lead me astray. She does not believe 
the Boarder story. With Jersey cream on Gandy 
strawberries (14 to a box), roast beef and home¬ 
grown Plymouth Rocks, raspberries, peaches, 
plums and apples, sweet peas, Evergreen corn, 
etc., and particularly a fine looking husband ! She 
cannot always get as many as she wishes at $5 
per week. The Boarder Crop may be misleading, 
though I think your Crimson Clover a dandy. 
Sown last August 31, no rain for two months, we 
had a crop of bloom that surprised the neighbor¬ 
hood, dozens inquiring what it was, and the 
truckers buying bundles of it to sell in the Balti¬ 
more markets for bouquets. I plowed it down June 
1 , and shall plant again to sweet corn, followed 
by Crimson clover. Our Grange will use about 15 
bushels this fall. E. s. w. c. 
Randallstown, Md. 
You tell your good wife that that story 
was true, nevertheless. We wouldn't 
print it if it weren’t so. We are free to 
confess that we don’t know of any other 
place where such prices are obtained. 
It’s just one of the possibilities of the 
thing—that’s all. We’ll guarantee that 
the Crimson clover stories seemed as big 
to you—before you t/i'ied it. 
No, sir, the mental “ bacteria” we put 
out through The R. N.-Y., are minute 
forms of fact, or as near as we can get 
to it. If we do get things wrong, we 
want the mistake pointed right out, and 
we will take it back so quick that the 
shock will kill all the bogus “bacteria” 
started by the error. Remember this 
now, because we shall remind you of it 
when our subscription prize contest gets 
back from its vacation. 
gMvntii&ing. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
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