JULY 30 
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THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER' 
JEUairratjfor tj)rf|ottitg. 
MENDLE'S SONGS FOR CHILDREN. 
THE SOAI* BUBBLE. 
Far over the hills, mid over the lea. 
As far as the eye could possibly see, 
A bubble of air went floating' along— 
Wherever it flouted it Bang this song; 
“ I came from the end of a little pipe-stem. 
Which Arthur had dipped in a saucer of soap; 
But look at me now, all so round and so plump, 
I never could stay In a corner and mope. 
“ They say I am empty and pulled np with air— 
But look at my sides with their beautiful hues; 
I can dauce over meadows and dunce over brooks, 
And us 1 go dancing 1 frighten the ' bluer.’ 
** I dance on the sunlight, and float up to heaven ; 
And when 1 fly up till I’m out of their sight, 
The boys and the girls talk it O' er together. 
And call me a sweet little thing of delight* 
«* I float on the breath of a little child’s month, 
And upward I goto the heavens above, 
Because little children are wedded to truth, 
And breathe from their hearts a pure Bpirit of 
love.” 
FARMING FOR BOYS AND GIRLS-NO. 29. 
HENRY STEWART. 
Whnt is Manure ! 
After studying the nature or the soil: the char¬ 
acters of Uie plant, and the feeding of animals, 
we are led directly to the subject of manure. For 
the soli requires manure to remain fertile ; plants 
need It for food; animals produce It; and Its quali¬ 
ty and value de pend upon the kinds of food that 
have been, used by the animals. The care and use 
of manure la the principal thought of the farmer. 
Without it he can have no crops, tout with it theie 
is hardly a limit to the productiveness of the soil. 
The market gardener who often usee loo loads per 
acre at a oost of $200 to 1300, and after that applies 
1,000 pounds of guano at a further cost or $80, pro¬ 
duces $ 1,000 to $i ,200 worth of produce to the acre 
in a season; while the farmer who uses n veiy 
sparsely may not be able to get more from an acre 
than a poor ten dollars’ worth. This may be a 
very strong way to put i hts case, but It Is true and 
its application may be of use in showing how true 
It la in the cultivation or the sou, that out of noth¬ 
ing nothing comes, and that the richer we can 
make the soil the more we may be able to get out 
of It. It is very useful for a young farmer to know 
what manure Is; how It operates in the 6oil and 
how It should bo used. 
Manure may be said to be anything that feeds 
the crops that are grown upon farms or m gar¬ 
dens. But in common u e it is considered to be the 
dung of farm animals mixed with whatever litter, 
such as straw, that may be used to absorb it. it 
Is certain that the manure can contain nothing 
but what was in the food of the animals and not 
all or that, because a certain portion of the food is 
used up In supporting the animals and making 
flesh, bone and other portions of the body. We 
know very nearly how much of the food is thus 
used and as we know precisely of what the food 
consists, It is quite easy to tell what is left In the 
manure. As plant* require to be fed chiefly with 
three substances, viz , phoaphortoacld, potash and 
nitrogen, we are more concerned about these than 
any tiling else I hat themanire may contain and 
disregard all besides. The following tables show 
how much or these elements of the food escapes in 
the dung and Ihe urine and In bath together and 
ot course how much ts used up by the animal. 
table 1. 
In loo pounds of tUe dry substance In the food 
there is round in the waste matter discharged 
Dry matter. 
Cow. 
Ox. 
Horse. 
Sheep 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
In dung. 
.... 38 
45* 
■12 
47 
In urine.... ... 
.... H 
(}% 
3* 
6 * 
In the whole manure..., 
.... 17 
51M 
451* 
63X 
TABLE 2. 
In loo pounds of organic matter m the food there 
Is found la the waste matter discharged 
Organic matter. 
Cow. 
lbs. 
Ox. 
lbs. 
Horse. Sheep, 
lbs. lbs. 
In dung. 
.36* 
44 
38* 
•is*; 
In urine. 
3* 
3 * 
In the whole manure 
.42* 
TABLE 8. 
47i ( 
4!'* 
In 100 pounds of nitrogen lu 
the 
food there la 
found In the waste matter alscharged 
Nitrogen. 
Cow. 
as. 
Ox. 
IbH. 
Horse. Sheep, 
tbs. a». 
In dung. 
51 
66 
43* 
In urine... 
. 18* 
38* 
27* 
SIX 
In the whole manure. 
.63* 
TARLE 4. 
89* 
83* 
9»* 
In 100 pounds of the mineral matter (phosphoric 
acid and potash) In the food there la found In the 
waste matter discharged 
Mineral matter. 
Cow. 
lbs. 
Ox. 
as. 
Horse. Sheep, 
lbs, lbs. 
In dung. 
... 53* 
70*. 
46* 
Ha* 
63'* 
In urine.... 
... 43* 
16* 
40* 
In|tho whole manure. 
... 97 
117* 
101?* 103* 
In the last table It Is seen that there la an excess 
of mineral matter in the manure. This should not 
cast doubt upon tbe flgures because account must 
be taken of lire water drank with the large quan¬ 
tity of food required to contain iuO pounds of phos¬ 
phoric acid and potash, and t he water so used will 
amount to hovoral thousand pounds while so much 
food Is consumed. The water may easily contain 
In solution tuts excess of mineral matter. The 
flgures, however, show that a grown animal dis¬ 
charges In the wastes very nearly all of the min¬ 
eral matter of the food and this Is so Important 
that further consideration should be given to It. 
THE BOOK FABMER. 
A Lent from n Life, 
BY MRS. B. J. K. 
Well pet, we are going into the country,” said 
Herman Carroll to Ills pale young wife, as ho came 
In from his business with a huge pile of books un¬ 
der his arm, “ see, here are agricultural works, 
and I Intend to make a capital farmer ot myself.” 
Mrs. Carroll, who had looked up with a startled 
air when her husband Urst entered, burst into 
tears. Her childhood and youth bad been spentln 
the country, and during the long months of fall¬ 
ing health she had thought with a heartsick long¬ 
ing of the old ramlllar scenes, but three little 
daughters, and the cares of her little household, 
more than all her husbands’ business cares seemed 
to forbtd the hope that she should ever look upon 
the dear old haunts again. 
" Why Anna,” said her husband coming to her 
side, “ I thought this would please you,” and ho 
stroked her black silken hair soothingly noting 
with pain the almost transparent whiteness of the 
blue veined forehead. 
“What would please me? Oh, Herman, you 
can’t know how 1 long for the country', but I know 
that It cannot be ” 
“Why not puss v people live in the country, a 
good many people." 
“ But we are not rich and you have all your life 
been a mei chant; was any such i hlng ever known 
—a New York merchant turning farmer 7” 
“ We will make a precedent then,” he answered, 
“ but seriously, 1 have an ofTer for my store and 
business which I shall accept. Then a friend tolls 
me he knows a pretty farm of nearly one hundred 
acres, near a thriving village In the central part 
of the state and I have about decided to buy it. 
so I must begin to study tor my new—proresalon 
shall I call It?” 
Mrs. Carroll sank back in her easy chair, her 
hands clasped above her heart which was beating 
wildly, but she wore a happy smile, while she saw 
her husband carefully examining his authorities 
with a grave business like air. 
*• You always do succeed In what you set out to 
do, Herman,” she said at length, “ but this seems 
too good to be true." 
There was a good deal ot homely prose however, 
before the Carroll's found Themselves settled in 
the large roomy house which was to be their fu¬ 
ture home. Mr. Carroll’s now neighbors shook 
their heads when they learned his history and 
said, " he'll soon tire ot farming, besides the rarm 
Is all worn out and needs a deal done to bring It up.’, 
This was precisely the state of things which Mr. 
Carroll found to be true, but Instead of despODdlng 
he set hlraselt to woilc. He did this more cueer- 
fully when he saw the faint color ccmlng Into his 
wire’s pale cheek and the brightness In her eyes. 
The little girls, too, never tired of admiring the 
sleek fat cows, which constituted Mr. Carroll’s 
dairy, nor the gentle ponies which were to do the 
work of the farm. And Mrr. Carroll, not to be 
outdone, learned the art of butter making. She 
skimmed the thick, leathery cream and placed 
it In the chum with her own hands, and then the 
little girls churned it,singing as the dash went up 
and down so many, many limes: 
" Churn, butter, oh urn, 
Peter's at the gale 
Waiting for the butter cake, 
Churn, butter, churn," 
“ Who taught you that, chicks?" said mamnu, 
stopping In the door to listen. 
•* Aunt Dinah over the way ! Isn't It pretty and 
it helps bring the butter,” said Anna, who, In the 
dignity ot her ten years assumed the leadership of 
her sisters. 
Mr, Canoll laughed, and the eager little laces 
watched the whole proceeding ot taking up, wash¬ 
ing and salting the butler wltu Interest. 
•• Really pet, you have learned the art or mak¬ 
ing "gilt edged butrer,” said Mr. Canoll at the 
breakfast table the following morning helping 
himself liberally. " I never tasted sweeter but¬ 
ter.” 
" It must, be because my little birdies churned 
It,” 6atd Mrs. Carroll, laughing. 
" And oh 1 papa It was such lun,” said the three 
little girls In a breath. 
Mr. Carroll did not And farming "such fuu”as 
the children did. The hard work of plowing and 
planting and cultivating the soli was different, 
from selling goods, but he persevered. There were 
now and then rainy days and the ever returning 
holy Sabbath, lor Mr. Carroll was an earnest 
Christian man and kept holy time with great 
strictness. 
The result was, that although often very tired 
he grew stronger and more vigorous. Mrs. Carroll 
too, constantly Improved lu health and the little 
ones were fat and rosy. 
Mr. Carroll spent a good deal upon fertilizers, 
though hts rustic neighbors shook their heads and 
predicted ruin. 
“ I must feed my farm If I expect It to feed me,’’ 
he answered and weut on with his " book farm¬ 
ing.” 
" It beats all what crops that, Carroll la having!" 
said these same neighbors a few months later. 
“A pretty pass things have como tu when we 
must look to a cliy feller for a pattern,'' growled 
another. 
"1 don’t care who seta the pattern so we get 
big crops ” anBwered.the Urst speaker. 
The years rolled on, nearly a score of them, and 
the gentle, sweet-faced Mrs. Carroll was still the 
center of a happy home. Three bright Intelligent 
graceful girls, who had grown up into womanhood 
receiving the mother’s Impress, gathered around 
the hearthstone. 
Uermau Carroll looks abroad upon his fertile 
acres, and around upon his happy home-circle, 
and although his leeks are silvered, says with a 
grateful heart, 
“ We have made a precedent, dear wife. Book 
farming may pay,” to which she answers lovingly: 
" We owe It all to your great loving heart, Her¬ 
man, and to your sterling good sense, Yes, brains 
are needed In successful farming and all your 
neighbors now respect the “ took farmer.” 
THE HORTICULTURAL CLUB. 
The other day I received a letter asking for in¬ 
formation about tlm Horticultural club, as to when 
It originated, how many members It had, etc., etc. 
As this is not the only letter of such a nature that 
has reached tills ofllee, I will answer the query In 
this column so that, all may know. 
It ts probable that the Rural visits but few 
farmers' homes In which there are no children, and 
in a large majority ot cases these children, when 
they grow up to manhood and womanhood, will 
become farmurs and farmers’ w ives. This being 
so, any Instruction and practical information re¬ 
ceived in their childhood days win be of some ma¬ 
terial benefit to them in later life. For the pur¬ 
pose of giving such l rist ruction the Horticultural 
Club was organized some four or live years ago. 
Horticulture is but a division or agriculture—the 
former being the art of cultivating gardens, the 
latter the art of cultivating fields. While some 
men devote themselves to horticulture only, It 1 b 
probable that most ot our fanners’ sons wtll be 
taught that gardening Is a preparatory school, so 
to speak, for farming, and having learned some of 
the principles which control vegetable and plant 
growth, the best methods of cultivation and of 
fertilizing, they wtll be enabled to apply these 
principles to the broader Held of agriculture when 
they become older. With the hope that what In¬ 
formation we might be able to give would aid 
them, this Club was organized, and If we shall 
succeed In Interesting the young In some of The 
topics which pertain to gardening or farming, we 
shall be glad. Besides this, we atm to give Inter¬ 
esting stories, puzzles, etc., so that all may And 
something in this page to benefit and interest. 
There are now nearly a thousand members of 
the Horticultural Club, whose names are enrolled 
on our books. We Invito all farmers’ boys and 
girls Into whose hands the Rural falls to send us 
their names, as that la all that ts necessary to se¬ 
cure a membership and entitle them to the Youths' 
Seed Distributions whenever they are made. A 
word as to this. Nearly every year we have seeds 
ot rare plants and flowers In quantity not sufficient 
to supply the large number of subscribers to tbe 
Rural, so that It la our custom to give the chil¬ 
dren a chance, though on a small scale, to experi¬ 
ment and thus put Into practice what lessons In 
the cultivation of plants and flowers they may 
learn from our pages or elsewhere. With this 
purpose In view the Horticultural Club exists, and 
each member should bo desirous of making it 
mutually Interesting and profitable. 
Uncle Mark. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COU8INS. 
Dear Uncle Mark :—My little sister Eula May 
wrote you a letter and you sent her some seed 
when you sent Uncle Johnny’s, and they are 
growing nlct ly. Ma says we both can write this 
time, and ask for a few ortho Insect, Powder Seed, 
that she will take great pal ub with them and re¬ 
port tor us. We have such a pretty yard It would 
make the letter too long to tell you about it. I 
wish you could see our wild flower bed, there la 
always something new in It that we had not found 
before. Don't you think everybody ought to have 
one in their garden ? I would like to tell you about 
our water lilies, and how' mamma Baves her flow¬ 
ers. Last Winter while almost everybody lost 
theirs or part at least, mamma did not lose any. 
Cool Springs, Ga. Oscar and Ecla May. 
[Certainly, let us hear the secret of your moth¬ 
er's success in wintering flowers, u. m.] 
Uncle Mark I have not time to write much, 
but 1 want to tell you what our grape Beed are 
doing. We planted thorn last -Spring, hut only two 
came up, or which ooly one lived. This Spring 
seven more oarne up, four of which are still alive, 
but a little black Ilbooi, bo small that 1 can’t well 
tell what it la like, lu killing them. The anta are 
working on the insects, but they Heem to multiply 
too r&st for them. Tho Horticultural club at our 
house all thank you for seed sent tills Spring. We 
have carefully planted them, will cultivate In a 
proper manner, and will send tho leaves and tlow- 
eis of the Japan Red llud If wu succeed with them. 
Caldwell, Tex. Vikuil A. Herron. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— You must think by this 
time that i have deserted you, but not so. 1 re¬ 
ceived the seeds all right, for which please accept 
my thankd. I shall try to do my best, to give you 
a good report of everything. I am now living at 
Corunna, which la a very pleaBunt place. We 
have four flower beds this year. I haTe some 
seeds, Just started to grow, of a Southern tree that 
I don’t know the name of. l will send you a 
Bprout when It gets large enough. 
Corunna, Mich. Henry Welfare. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I have long wanted to 
Join the Club. My sister takes the Rural. I am 
eleven years old and the youngest of the family. 
I have a low flowers but no plants among them, 
and mamma has a great many beautiful roses and 
a lovely hydrangea. If you give this a place in 
the dear old Rural I will write again and tell the 
cousins something about my pets. Your affection¬ 
ate niece, We eta M. Rice. 
Abbeville, La. 
Uncle Mark 1 read In our last Rubai, that 
you had some Pyrethrum seeds yet, so you may 
send mo some. If you please. Only one plant of 
the Japan Red Bud came up. it 1s growing nicely 
and Is a beautiful plant. Some of the pinks that 
we raised from the Rural seed are budded. 
Please aocept thanks for all the seeds. 
Keepvllle, Penn. Helen A. Randall. 
JMfmij) Waiting. 
[For The Rural New-Yorker.] 
AFTER. 
After the night of darkness 
Cometh the light of day; 
After the Btorui ia over, 
The shudowH will pass away. 
Never a day so gloomy, 
But BOimi ray ol’ light shines through. 
With promise of golden sunshine 
And skies of azure bine. 
We east the seed in the furrows, 
Hoping to reap Ihe grain; 
Trusting in Him who has told us 
We shall not sow in vain; 
Then, after day- of waiting, 
The tiny plants appear. 
The blade nud unfolding leaflets, 
And then the “ ful 1 corn in the ear.” 
Tho flower yields its veet perfume 
After wet with them ‘ruing dew; 
And sends up its gratel ,1 fragrance 
Each day to its maker anew. 
The bird that sings most sweetly. 
Has sometimes the saddest strain. 
But the cheeriest notes of the robin 
Ring cleat eat after tho rain. 
After our triule are over, 
For us coluos a morning bright. 
With never a cloud of sorrow, 
To again obscure tho light; 
On the other side of the river. 
Where all shall be “ made plain," 
We’ll see, how ’mid earth’s trials 
There never came one in vain. 
Let us wait In patience the dawning 
Of light on the other shore. 
Where sin iB forever banished, 
And sighing and tears are o’er. 
How sweet in that glorious after, 
To dwell In a world of light, 
With all the redeemed forever 
“ Who walk with the Lord in white." 
We now " see through a glass but darkly,” 
And our human iuithisdim, 
There, with clear, unclouded vision, 
We will be " face to face with Him,” 
The dear Saviour who purchased our pardon, 
With Jesus the crucified: 
We’ll wake to tho heavenly likeness, 
And our souls shall be satisfied. 
CONFIDENCE IN GOD. 
When ihe author of the Hebrews wrote the text 
(Chap, x; 35), this was what he had Immediately 
In mind. Cast not away your confidence In things 
unseen—In God, lu Christ, and In religion. Reli¬ 
gion Is a universal fact; it Is peculiar to no race 
or age or civilization. Dogmas differ, sectB vary, 
ordinances change; some religions are better and 
some worse ; but man believes not only la the life 
that now la, hut In that which is to come, a strong 
faith In the unseen world, In Immortality, In re¬ 
tribution, Is essential to man’s greatest power and 
highest happiness. An atheist looks out upon 
a future as cheerless and lifeless as the frozen 
ocean. What can strengthen and warm his 
heart? Even the deepairing Carlyle Bald, "A 
man’8 religion Is the chief fact with regard to 
him.” 
.some will say that nothing more is needed than 
confidence In God. They will enlarge upon the 
weakness orman, and dissuade him from trusting 
in man’s power. They will quote the psalm, "All 
my springs are In thee.” This Is merely a ques¬ 
tion of words. No man la strong in God until God 
has come Into him. He 1 h strong with God’B might 
In his Inner man. There are two ways ot looking 
at the subject. Paul states them thus:—"Work 
out your own salvation, wltu fear and trembling, 
for it la God that workoth in you, both to will and 
to do His own good pleasure.”—President B. A. 
Hinsdale, of lllram College. 
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You may be nearer to Christ than you think. 
Those men who went stumbling along the road to 
Ernmaus, weeping and mourning that their Christ 
was gone, poured Into His very ear the tale of 
their bereavement. They told Him of their 
trouble—that they had lost their Christ; and there 
He was talking with them. In the midst of their 
great grief there was their Victory, and they did 
not know it. There is many a man whoso misfor¬ 
tune Is the occasion of Christ coming nearer to 
him. There Is many a man In embarrassment, 
overwhelmed with care, who does not know what 
to do. It li tho pressure of God’s hand upon him 
for the purpose of betterment. It is Goa present 
In His affairs; Christ near to him for the sake of 
winning him to Himself.—Watchman. 
Love Him that Urst loved jou, and while you 
sink into his arms, and surrender all to Him, with 
a Joyful, absolute self-renunciation, let this con¬ 
fiding love swell and abound, Ull every Ugment of 
distrust snail be swept away. For against every 
challenge, in time or eternity, this may be your 
rejoinder, " He that spared not His own son, but 
delivered Him up tor us all; liow shall He not 
with Him also freely give us all things I”—J. W. 
Alexander. 
The grass of the Held la better than the cedars 
of Lebanon, lr, feeds more, und It rests ihe eye 
better—that tfijrny, daisy-eyed carpet, making 
earth fair and sweet and home-like. Kindness is 
the turf of the spiritual world, whereon the sheep 
of Christ fetd quietly beneath the Shepherd's 
eye.—Faber. 
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God never forgets or forsakes us; It is we who 
wander from Him, Like the earthly parent wait¬ 
ing for the repentance of an erring child, so He 
waits with a holler love. 
No sense In having sickness In the family It you 
will use Hop Bitters In time. Afck those who 
know.—Adn. 
