SEPT. 29 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Practical departments: 
Cottiiire Costing $300, A ... 
Clover, Fall Tro»itmont of Young. 
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Thoughts from n Kami... 
Kami and Other Experiments... 
1 total Grounds. A in* lou) turn 1. 
Klrliv Uomusteud, Jottings nt... 
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(iarrionin# Pun-Talk*. 
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Si me Kulr, New York... 
Suite Kiilr, New Jersey.. 
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Dish- Washing, Red Ants stud Tea-biscuit... 
Recipes. 
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Sheep llusbindrv, Commencing. 
Butter, Preserving. 
C'owh In the south. Management of. 
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Editorial Paok; 
A Uvelv Patient... 
A Reverie..... 
Notes—Brevities..... 
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Literary : 
Poetry. 
Bermuda Islands, The. 
Story... 
Ladles’ Portfolio. 
Reading for the Young 
Puzzler... 
Millionth Reading.. 
Markets. 
Publisher's Notices... 
News of the Week...... 
Personals.. . .. 
Humorous. 
Advertisements. 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHK0 EVERY SATURDAY. 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1877. 
Tiik second of tbo scries of low-priced, but 
neat and artistic dwellings is presented upon tbe 
lirst page. 
The Ladles' Portfolio will hereafter bo con¬ 
ducted by Faith Ripley, to whom all communi¬ 
cations for that department should bo addressed. 
Garden articles are not goncrally amusing, 
however instructive they may bo. Mr. Aiken's, 
published this week is both amusing and in¬ 
structive. 
The first of a short series of articles by that 
well-known horticulturist and author, Mr. B. 8. 
Williams of the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
London, England, will be read with interest. 
Col. F. J>. Curtis begins tbis week occasional 
articles entitled “Jottings at Kirby Homestead,” 
niado up of bis daily experience in practical 
farm life. Our old readers will recognize in him 
a trustworthy friend. 
It gives us much pleasure to announce the re¬ 
engagement of Mrs. Mary A. E. Waokr 
Fisher ('*Mintwood") so long and favorably 
known to every old friend of the Rural New- 
Yokkgr. Adding to her familiarity with both 
city and country life, tbo observations made dur¬ 
ing recent travels, her writings will doubtless 
prove more than over acceptable to our readers. 
A LIVELY PATIENT. 
“The sick man of Europe” lias, for 
years back, been a phrase applied with a 
touch of jocularity and a dasli of con¬ 
tempt to the Turk ; aud iu this role the 
turbaued infidel is just now showing him¬ 
self a marvelously active, dangerous, aud 
resolute patient. So slow aud lethargic 
were his movements at the outbreak of 
the present struggle, and so unchecked 
the liberty of advance he allowed to his 
colossal foe, that all tLe diplomatic and 
other wiseacres exclaimed :—“I told you 
so; the old barbarian will, at most, show 
a final spusrn of frantic violence just be¬ 
fore crossing either the Styx or the Bos¬ 
phorus,” But with a change of doctors 
—or rather of generals—this moribund 
specimen of anachronism has grown won¬ 
derfully lively, aud besides wurdiug off 
successfully nearly all the lunges of his 
gigantic antagonist, has managed to plant 
some pretty stinging blows on his un¬ 
wieldy body. Of course, if the struggle 
is allowed to continue, size, weight, and 
northern persistence must triumph in the 
long run ; but tbe Turk has already re¬ 
lieved Europe from an incubus of dread 
owing to its extravagant estimate of Mus¬ 
covite power, greatly raised the opinion 
of the world with regard to his own man¬ 
hood, and even in his decadence proved 
himself the lineal descendant of that bel¬ 
ligerent race before whose thundering 
march all Europe, a couple of centuries 
ago, trembled. 
--— 
A REVERIE, 
Passing through Nmv Chamber St. a 
while ago,—a part of this city that one 
cannot pass through too quickly—we no¬ 
ticed a Rt,range kind of a garden. Upon 
a wooden shed over the side-walk, were 
arranged, along the edges, twenty-Hix lialf- 
barrols, filled with earth and planted with 
Morning dories. These had twined about 
perpendicular cords tied to horizontal 
wires stretched four or five feet, above. 
The perpendicular strings wen* placed so 
closely together that the foliage of the 
vines formed, as it were, a second story 
to the rickety old shed. It, occurred to us 
that the poor man who had taken ho much 
trouble with his shed-garden could not be 
destitute of kiudly feeliug, though living 
in the midst of squalor aud depravity. 
Perhaps lie felt as much pride, experi¬ 
enced as much pleasure in these early- 
morning Rowers as do the wealthy in their 
costly borders. It seems a wise aud a 
just provision on the part of a benevolent 
God that it should be so. And it is sooth¬ 
ing to all tender hearted people to believe 
that huppiuess, in whatsoever degree, is 
not inseparable from the luxuries or even 
from the necessities of life. 
A vast ileal of pity is wasted upon the 
seemingly hard lot of others. We look at 
the children of the poor and Bay, “ Poor 
things !” When they die, we say, “ It is 
better so.” The honest laborer who toils 
hard to support a large family, is ever an 
object of our commiseration. The man 
who, having accumulated an immense for¬ 
tune through years of successful business 
application, loses it all at once, is espe¬ 
cially to be pitied. “tluviug tasted the 
sweets of riches aud luxuries, you kuow, 
it comes hard upon him.” There is a 
little provision in human nature that ren¬ 
ders the mauufacture of all this pity an 
ineffectual expenditure of moral force. It 
is the power of accommodating itself to 
the ciicumstauoes in which the individual 
is placed. The infant, whether born in 
ufiluonoo or poverty, is equally pleasod 
with a rag baby until it is educated to 
understand the superiority of a wax doll, 
and the cigar-box upon spools answers 
every purpose of the painted chariots pur¬ 
chased in toy bazars. The food of the 
laborer is not relished according to its 
quality or variety, but according to the 
appetite which may afford a pleasure to 
linn who eats pork and beans that is never 
known to him whose table is always spread 
with the daintiest of food. 
Of rich men there are two classes. One 
has inherited riches—the other has made 
his own fortune by “hard knocks,” or by 
economy and devotion to some pursuit. 
If suddenly deprived of his wealth, the 
first will experience a span new sensation. 
The world is new to him, and possibly be 
may find it far from sociable or friendly, 
ami in no wise exercised in the matter of 
assisting him to rebuild his fortunes. 
Here is a virgin field for our fallen mii- 
lionuire. Here is a chance for the devel¬ 
opment of energies aud talents he himself 
may never have dreamed of. The days of 
0 ) 111 ,( 1.1 are gone. He will not be “ bored” 
for tbe future iu devising new ways of 
“killing time.” Any man with enough 
to eat aud to wear, Jus mind all the while 
iuteut upon any pursuit, lias uo business 
to be wretched, aud is no worthy object 
of people’s sympathy or pity. 
The other, who has made his own fort¬ 
une aud suddenly fiuds himself at the 
bottom of tbe ladder again, bus the suc¬ 
cessful experience of years with which to 
aid him iu rebuilding bis fortune—and 
there are few of this class who do not deny 
themselveB more in the acquisition of 
wealth than the poor laborer who never 
aspires to it by bis daily toil. 
There is but one condition that human 
beiugs eaunot accommodate themselves 
to and be happy. It is a couditiou of ac¬ 
tual suffering or helplessness. 
Eujoymcnt, aud luxuries are oftener en¬ 
emies than friends. ludeed, any situation 
in life which does not provoke mental or 
physical action, is a destroyer of happi- 
nesB. Let us, therefore, set a higher vaiuo 
upon sympathy and pity that, we may be¬ 
stow them mure liberally upon worthy 
objects. Assist the sufferers of your own 
neighborhood. Look first of all to your 
own household and next to those who for 
one reason or another, have claims upon 
your assistance. When that is done, you 
may pity the misfortunes of all the world 
besides, if jour stock hold out. 
Meantime, let us learn a lesson from 
the shed-garden and its half barrels of 
Morning Glories. We need not compas¬ 
sionate the man who has been at such 
pains to produce what to our pampered 
eyes seem trivial results. If we eaunot 
have spacious gardens, let us be content 
with little ones, and let us bear iu mind 
that a barrel-garden made attractive by 
one’s own bauds and ingenuity, is incom¬ 
parably more creditable to tbe owner than 
a grand garden that money has purchased. 
“ For unto whomsoever much isgiveD, of 
him shall be much required.” 
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NOTES. 
Nieslcn.—The inhumanity of man is 
painfully illustrated in tho average Euro¬ 
pean war correspondent. He is impervi¬ 
ous to the dictates of that charity aud 
tender regard for the feelings of others 
which distinguish the Christian from 
tbe heathen. At the commencement of 
this cruel war, when nows from other 
quarters failed, wo wero faithfully noti¬ 
fied at proper intervals that Nicsics hail 
been revictualed. As long as tbis con¬ 
tinued there was no reason to complain, 
aud we felt assured that as long as this 
was the case, one outrage at least was 
obviated. But do we hear of Nicsics 
now ? No. It starves right along, and 
not a correspondent has re victualed the 
place since fighting commenced in Bul¬ 
garia. And when we get uneasy, and 
yearn to hear that corn and water have 
trickled into tho mouths of those poor 
Niesieiaus, we are deluded, diverted, 
bamboozled, in fact, by some miserable 
make-shift Bulgarian outrage, As if wo 
could open tho sluice-gates of our sym¬ 
pathy for dead outrages, when Nicsics 
stands a-lmngeriug I It is all the more 
horrible when we think that cablegrams 
cost but a dollar per word, and the fact 
that “Nicsics has been revictualed" 
cabled to expectant millions would relieve 
the anxiety of the civilized world for the 
paltry sum of lour dollars. It is time 
that SeucYLEK, or some other philanthro¬ 
pist, give this complaint, his serious at, 
tentiou. We have been taught to regard 
Nicsics from a Uongry point of view, and 
we insist that it be regularly revietiudod 
—-at least by cable. 
-- 
Japanese Plants. — Prof. Rein, 
a Japanese traveler, says:—“Of idl the 
specimens of Hydrangea, II. pauieulata 
is the most widely dispersed in a wild 
state, ascending to an altitude of 5,000 
feet where it forms large bushes.” We 
need no longer bo surprised at its remark¬ 
able hardiness. Iu many places, lie says, 
it is used for paper-making. Abies 
Tsuga is extremely common in mountain 
forests up to from 5,000 to 0,000 feet, as 
also A. polita, A. finuaaud A. Alcoquiuua. 
Sahsburia adiuuLifolia is not wild iu any 
partof Japan, and is planted only about 
the temples. The largest specimen seen 
by Prof, Rein, which is regarded by the 
Japanese as tbe largest in the empire, 
measured nearly 20 feet in circumference 
but it was hardly 50 feet high. Magnolia 
hypoleuoa is there a stately tree, with 
leaves about 10 inches long, arranged in 
whorls. It grows iu the mountain forests, 
and trunks more than one foot in diameter 
are not uueotnmou. The soft wood of 
Paulonia imperialis is employed in mak¬ 
ing shoes and light boxes. 
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Food of the Potato Beetle.—Ail- 
joiuiug tbe Rural Grounds this season 
was a quarter - aero of potatoes. The 
early potato beetles were killed with 
Paris-green, the later beetles were left 
undisturbed. While the vines supplied 
them with food there were very few to be 
seen upon tbe “ Rural ” premises. But 
as soon as this food failed, they chose our 
tomato plants, many of which were boon 
stripped of leaves. Five hundred feet 
distant and closely surrounded by other 
shrubs, was a lurge Matrimony Vine 
(Lyceum barbarum), upon which we Lad 
never before noticed a potato beetle. 
Now, however, it was so infested with 
them that after two or three days, not 
one leaf or a part of a leaf was left. It 
seems strange to us that these insects 
should so soon have discovered a solitary 
eolanaeeous plant so far off' uud so well 
hemmed in by other shrubs. Petunias, 
growing within a few yards of the Matri¬ 
mony vine have not been molested, though 
two years ago the Petunias were infested 
and the Matrimony vine esoaped. 
BREVITIES. 
The Liquidambar is among the first of trees 
to show brilliant fall colors. 
How greatly tho world has underestimated 
the military resources of tho Turks ! 
Try common salt as a preventive of mildew 
upon Grape-vines, sprinkled about tho Btem. 
It may he well for our fruit-growers who 
have largo crops for sale to boar in mind that 
the English fruit crop is next door to a complete 
failure. 
The “kindly" welcome which our English 
cousins stand ready to give the Colorado Pilgrim 
upon their shores, is sot forth by tho Rural 
artist upon oar last page. 
Horhe Doctors, nccording to their ow T n re¬ 
ports, arc increasing and doing splendidly. But 
how about tho horses?— N. Y. Herald. What 
docs it matter about the horses so long as the 
doctors thrive! 
For those who have glass structures, why not 
sow peas now in pots, leaving them out until 
heavy frosts and then placing them in heat 
under glass? In this way we might have green 
peas by Dec. 1 st or before. 
Accordin'!! to M. De Moxcli/s observations 
on the electric conductivity of trees, soft woods 
of spongy tissue and vigorous vegetation, Biich 
as Elm, Chestnut, Luno, Poplar, A-.o., are I lie 
best conductors; while the lnird woods of slow 
vegetation are the most resistant. Birch Hecms 
to form an exception. 
KTRAium paths and stiff rows of shrubs and 
flowers should uot be left to remind one of plots 
in a graveyard. Walks should wind up among 
tbe trees and shrubs, as the path wind# on 
through tho beautiful groves God has made. 
The child will carry with him the sweet visions 
of such a home to the ends of the earth. In 
that nook of boauty will be laid his scenes of 
fancy and fiction. Around it will cluster tbo 
memories of guidance and love.—Dr. IK. IK. 
Netveil 
On Saturday last, tiioro was a privato sort of 
caucus of tho recently organized Now York Bee- 
Keepers' Association held at the Cooper Insti¬ 
tute iu this city. The attendance was slim, hut 
arrangement- wore made for another assemblage 
on the I6th, 17th and 18th of tho coming month. 
Mr. Le Due, Commissioner of Agriculture, 
thinks highly of bee-cult are as one of the sources 
of the nation's wealth, and will furnish the in¬ 
fant association with all the information within 
his roach. 
At the first meeting of the American Pomo- 
logical Society in 1818, only twelve Hiatus were 
represented by delegates, whereas in 1875 
twenty-eight StatoH, Territories and Provinces 
wore represented in person and nine by letters 
of correspond uce, making a grand total of 
thirty-seven. Now there are on tho roll-call 
288 members and its field oovers the entire 
territory from Canada to TexaB. Tho Into 
meeting held in Baltimore was emidontly suc¬ 
cessful, and many beneficial suggestions wero 
made of which our readers shall have the ad- 
vautngo at appropriate seasons. 
The Toad as an insect destroyer Is becoming 
quite popular iu Europe. Once a week a “ toad 
market” is hold regularly iu Paris, to which these 
little animals are brought carefully assorted, ac¬ 
cording to their strength and size, aud paoked by 
I he hundred in baskets of damp moss. Tho 
market is never overstocked, and those of mod¬ 
erate size find ready purchasers at prices rang¬ 
ing from seventy-live to eighty francs per hun¬ 
dred. The majority of them are bought up 
for the use of English market gardens, ami 
it. is stated that orders are on hand for the pur¬ 
chase, at those rates, of every basketful that 
reaches the market. 
D. II. Jacques, well known to many of the 
readers of the Rural as a writer of ability, on 
Agricultural and Horticultural subjects, died of 
paralysis, August 28th, in Ftruamiina, Fla. Mr. 
Jacques resided many years in New York and 
vicinity during which time be contributed largely 
to the Agricultural Press, aud wrote tho series 
of Rural liaml-books “The House, the Farm, 
the tlanlen and the Baru Yard. 1 ' Obliged by 
his health to seek a wsrinor climate, ho located 
iu Booth Carolina and edited an Agricultural Mag- 
zine iu Charleston. FiualJy he made a home 
for liiinseJf in Florida where bodied. Those who 
knew him well will bear testimony that for ster¬ 
ling integrity, and moral worth he had few 
equals. 
Because of the unavoidable absence of one of 
the j udgvn,it became impossible to make thorough 
tests of (he Agricultural steam engines entered 
for exhibition at the N. Y. State fair, and the 
majority of the exhibitors present, united iu a 
request to tho Executive Committee to hold, at 
au early day, a Special trial of such engines to 
bo open to all manufacturers in the United States 
aud Canada. Tho officers appreciating the im¬ 
portance of tho subject, ordered the appoint¬ 
ment of a committee, with Vice-President Ged- 
oits a« chairman, to take the matter into consid¬ 
eration, and if practicable to arrange for aud 
conduct the trial, which it is expected will be 
held at Syracuse, iu October. In the moan time 
all manufacturers of Agricultural engines who 
wish to enter for trial are requested to commu¬ 
nicate their views and wishes to James Geodes, 
Fairmount, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
Ivendall'a Spavin Cure, sold by C. 1$. SMITH 
& CO., 40 Warren St.. Now York. Is a sure cure for 
Spavins, Ac., anil removes tho bunch without bllster- 
ng. Send stamp for Circular. Sold everywhere. 
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The Beat Oil for Harness is the celebrated 
Vacuum oil, made at Rochester, N. Y., aud sold by 
harness makers everywhere. 
