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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 30 
Our Friend the Hornet. 
A. R. A., Short Creek, W. Va. 
he could find 1,000 more cases where it 
lost as little, or even less ; but he could 
also find thousands of lots that lost 
more. What does one case prove ? In 
this case, the holder made money by 
selling at the right time ; but I know of 
men who held it for a higher price, but 
The held too long and lost a great deal by 
much abused and persecuted hornet is dcdn e so< speaks of “speculators 
not the deadly enemy some people think who are fairl Y aching to get the bulk of 
that he is. Hornets are really the farm- the cro P into the channels of trade at a 
ers’ friends, and catch multitudes of P rice that is fairl Y ruinous to the 
files, that annoy the horses and cattle, grower.” Now how many dealers are 
besides spiders, and other injurious in- there who bu Y and store corD ' and P ile 
sects. I never knew them" to sting, it up for future advance ? Precious few, 
unless first attacked or molested. 
The French Everbearing Raspberry. 
I think ; but if they did, believing it to 
be a good investment, why should they 
not do it ? What wrong is there in it ? 
A. L. W., Grizzly Flats, Cal.— The It is just as proper for them to hold it 
French Everbearing raspberry in Cali- for an advance as for the farmer, 
fornia, is far ahead of the Cuthbert; it It is the tone of the article that I criti- 
is a most vigorous, powerful grower, cise, for it is wrong to lead the farmer 
and a very heavy yielder, yielding heavy to think that all dealers impose on him. 
crops of fruit after all other berries are The farmers should think for themselves, 
gone. The berries are very much larger and sell or hold back as seems best to 
than the Cuthbert, a very brilliant red in them; but they should remember that 
color, and exceedingly sweet and delic- corn will shrink in the neighborhood of 
ious in flavor ; they are very firm and jo per cent, and they should not be led 
good shippers. The canes are large and to think that men of other trades are 
heavy ; the leaves are enormous for combined to cheat them. The city in 
raspberry bushes and a vivid green in which I live contains large distilleries 
color; the young canes also yield a fine and hominy mills among the largest in 
crop of fruit the first season. This rasp- the world, which are now using over 
berry was introduced here from France 
several years ago. As to how it would 
10,000 bushels of corn per day. I have 
taken pains to get the prices paid by 
do in the East, I cannot tell ; but if it them the past year, which ran from 
would do as well there as here, it would 38 cents in November a year ago, up 
be widely cultivated, as it is one of the to 40 cents in April, 45 cents in May, 
kinds of raspberries that yield extremely 48 cents in June, 32 cents in August 
large, heavy fruits, and plenty of them, and down to 25 cents for old corn 
Late Sown Grass. novv - Counting a shrinkage of 1% 
per cent, as Mr. Grundy’s experiment 
S. W., Massachusetts, llow late can shows, we find that 100 bushels that 
grass seed be successfully sown ? Here, would have brought $38 in November, 
18 miles from Boston, last year, we were 1894) wou ld have brought $37.90 in 
late in our fall work ; one piece was not Apnli $ 41 . 51 in May, $44.28 in June, 
seeded when the sleighing came, Novem- $o 9>52 in August and $23.00 now. This 
her 7 We had heavy frosts until the shows that only in two months of the 
middle of December, then there came a past year) May aud June5 eould the 
couple of warm weather breeders ; in holder have made a profit over one year 
those two days, we seeded the neglected ago, and that a small one ; also that 
piece. A heavy freeze came within 24 those who have held since June, have 
hours. \\ e cut a good crop of rye, and lost money. This shows that there are 
found the catch of grass seed good this t v\o sides to the question, 
spring. 
Hard to Understand. Saving Sweet Corn Fodder. 
O. D. T., Town Hill, Pa.—I am a M. M., Medway, Mass. —The experi- 
farmer, and expect to remain one ; but ence of L. H. W. on page 754, about cur- 
there are some things that are hard to ing sweet corn fodder, agrees very well 
reconcile with the general teachings of with my own. I have, however, a some- 
Tiie R. N.-Y., particularly the editorial what different way of shocking the fod- 
on leaving the farm and leaving the der for curing. 1 used to shock in the 
city. There are some facts that are hard field, and haul in winter, but the butts of 
to deny, even to one's self when one the stalks would freeze into the ground, 
wishes it were otherwise; for instance: and made much trouble in taking in 
The smartest of the people who are the fodder. So I hauled the fodder as 
reared in the country, leave it. Farm soon as cut to a lot near the barn and 
property has depreciated 50 per cent in stacked it on sod. I never tie in bundles. 
20 years ; city property has advanced 100 I use a common tip cart with stakes, and 
per cent in the same time. The best load the fodder butts forward. The 
churches and ministers, the best schools load can be dumped so as to lay straight 
and teachers, the least tax according ir a pile. To build the shock, I use a 
to valuation, especially among the rich, shocking horse (a pole with two legs at 
are all enjoyed by the people of the one end; and start the shock by building 
cities. In our State, the country prop- a small one over the horse and making 
erty is taxed 22 per cent on its valuation; it firm with a band. Then I remove the 
in the large towns 16 and the cities 8 horse, and stand more fodder around the 
per cent, and many of the wealthy and small shock as close as I can, until as 
favored monopolists even less. Ilow are large as desired, usually six or seven 
we to get even with these people who feet diameter at the base. I then bind 
have a mortgage on the assessor, the tax again firmly, and sometimes cap the 
collector, county commissioners, etc.? shock with a few handfuls of fodder 
Whnt Ahnuf “ HnMinn r n m”2 P laced hi £ h enough on the sides of the 
Late Sown Grass. 
ago, and that a small one ; also that 
those who have held since June, have 
lost money. This shows that there are 
collector, county commissioners, etc.? 
What About '■‘Holding Corn"? 
J. A. F., Terre Haute, Ind. — T 
large shock, so that the tops may be 
J. A. F., Terre Haute, Ind. — The bound above the top of the shock. This 
article by Fred Grundy about selling will exclude rain. It takes about a cart- 
corn, reads as though he had a strong load of fodder to build a shock in my 
prejudice against dealers in corn, and practice. Fodder put up in this way 
comes near calling them dishonest. My will keep much better than in the barn, 
impression is that they average as hon- and is liked much better by cattle. It 
est as men of other occupations do. I am 
not writing in my own defense, for I am 
not a dealer in grain ; only once in my 
life, and that over 30 years ago, have I 
does not get over dry. There is very 
little danger of molding, even when put 
up perfectly green, if there is no exter¬ 
nal moisture. A little rain or dew, how- 
bought corn in the fall and delivered it ever, will make trouble. Shocks built 
the next spring, and it lost 10 per cent. 
I am quite disposed to think that it may 
lose much more than that. Mr. Grundy 
gives an instance of a lot that lost only 
1% per cent. Well I have no doubt that 
in this way never blow over or cripple 
down. I was led to adopt this method 
by a boy who was working for me, care¬ 
lessly or boyishly, building a very large 
shock instead of smaller ones as I used 
to make. I had little expectation that 
the fodder vyould cure in it, but decided 
to let it be as an experiment. I was 
agreeably surprised to find the large 
shock an improvement over the smaller, 
and have since used it. 
Axle Grease to Trees. 
W. A. W., Kentland, Ind. —I saw an 
item in The R. N.-Y. on applying kero¬ 
sene to trees. I know nothing of the 
effect of this, but last spring I applied 
wagon grease to the trunks of apple and 
cherry trees to prevent the red ant from 
ascending the tree. Until there came a 
number of rains, it proved effective ; but 
I now find that, where the grease was 
applied, the bark is cracked open and 
the gum exudes considerably. I have no 
doubt that it has injured the trees to 
some extent. 
On page 738, I find reported a case of 
sickness of hogs, exactly such as has 
occurred in this and adjoining counties. 
It is not a hog cholera, and can be cured 
by no common means. It is a lung - dis¬ 
ease, considerably like consumption in 
the human family. I disinfected six 
weeks before my hogs became sick, and 
kept it up thoroughly ; but out of 35 
hogs, 28 died, two sick ones survived, 
aud five were not sick at all. 
Quality of R. N.-Y. No. 2 Potato. 
P. B. C., Catonsville, Md. —I have 
grown it for four years, and as a result 
of so doing, I would pronounce it the 
mealiest potato I have ever grown. It 
has never been a coarse potato, and last 
season it was as nearly perfect as I have 
ever seen a potato. This variety was my 
main crop last year, and is expected to 
be again next year. I have, by the way, 
in my cellar a bushel that were grown 
in North Dakota, for seed next spring. 
New York grown seed last year made 
such a great difference as compared with 
seed of my own raising, that this year I 
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