for iljt goiwg. 
CITY COUSINS. 
A Parody on “ Country Cousins.” 
"WRITTEN BY A MEMBER OF THE HORTICULTURAL CLUB. 
How dear to my heart are the sweet city cousins, 
When the cold days of Winter begin to draw near ’ 
When thoughts of the cows, to be milked by the 
dozens, 
Fill the body with anguish and the bosom with 
fear. 
The graud roomy house and the opera which pleases, 
The 'scaping from work to sit quietly down. 
The candy and sweetmeats, which the ready hand 
seizes, 
And e‘eu the fair cousins who live In the town. 
The pale city cousins, the fair, cultured cousins, 
The sweet city cousins who live in the town. 
The sweet city cousins! Oh, arn'c they a treasure ? 
So handy to have In the cold Winter time; 
And paying one's board is too costly a pleasure, 
When all euu Vie had without spending a dime. 
How pleasant to Uve on rich pastry and dainties 
Prepared by soft lingers that arc not your own. 
And to eat by the side of those cousins and aunties; 
The sweet city couslus who lice In the town. 
The fair city cousins, the pale, cultured .-ouslns, 
The sweet city cousins who live in the town. 
Oh I yes; in the Winter how dearly we love them 
The sleigh-iidos and theaters work like a charm; 
But quickly a change comes—we learn to despise 
them, 
When we think ol' their vis t next year to the farm 
The rich cream and berries, the milk and the honey 
Their dedicate throats will most swiftly go down. 
The sequel of Winter is not quite so funny; 
Why don’t the sweet cousins remain lu the town? 
The white-vlsaged cousins, the mean, scornful 
couslus. 
The bothersome couslos should stay in the town. 
« ♦» — 
“ GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS.” 
To no class dues the above quotation apply 
with more force than to the wives and daugh¬ 
ters of farmers, for, what with our ceaseless 
round of duties, (f we do not gather up the 
fragments of time between breakfast and din¬ 
ner and dinner and supper, many a longed- 
for pleasure will be crowded out, many a 
choice poem or whole book will remain un¬ 
read, and many a pretty ornament that adds 
so much to our rooms will not be made, So 
girls have your crochet needles, canvas, or 
cardboard handy and pick them up at odd 
moments and you will be surprised at how 
soon you get a piece finished; you will wonder 
when you did it. Also have a few books and 
papers handy and read a little every day, 
and you will find that after a while you are 
quite well “posted” by thus gathering up 
the fragments of knowledge in the fragments 
of time that could be, and by many are, 
spent in idleness. 
Dear Uncle Mark, I expect that you think 
I am careless or have forgotten the children, 
but no; there are so few fragments for the 
many things I have to do. My heart is drawn 
out in sympathy for those poor children that 
are taught that labor is an unmitigated curse 
even if they are able to live without work. 
We do not see them happy for the human 
mind caunot be continually at rest; it must 
act, so if it is not employed in something use¬ 
ful it will cause discontent and misery, and 
where the family are poor how miserable one 
must feel who thinks that labor is degrading. 
I really think that labor in moderation is a 
blessing, rather than a curse; it gives us more 
sinew and vitality. With Annie L. Jack I 
do not see anything disgraceful in picking up 
potatoes or doing anything else that is useful 
or necessary to be done. “Give the girls a 
chance.” Yes ! not only give the girls a 
chance but make them take a chance to make 
their own living. We ought to be self-sup¬ 
porting, the same as our brothers are, yet at 
the same time being careful of our health and 
beauty. There is no need of being rough and 
uncultured because we have to work. 
Maggie Woolman Thomas. 
NOTES BY UNCLE MARK. 
In response to a query by W. M. R., we re¬ 
ply that the hibiscus will stand the Winter 
out-of doors. 
W E are glad to note that many new names 
are being enrolled on the Horticultural Club 
list. Come and join us and we can do each 
other good! _ 
The Ephiphyllum truncatum and its varie¬ 
ties are among the finest of Winter-blooming 
plants for the parlor. They should be grown 
in a light, sandy soil and watered regularly 
when they are in bloom. If a little ammonia 
water or weak manure be applied as soon as 
the buds begin to appear, it will strengthen the 
plant. Cuttings will strike readily in sand. 
The varieties E, vLolaceum and earmineum 
are perhaps the best on the list. 
Sometimes we receive letters from young 
people asking if they can get up Clubs for 
the Rural if they are not members of the 
Horticultural Club. Certainly, we shall be 
pleased to have you! But the premiums we 
offered in the Rural of Oct. 21, are designed 
for the members of the Club only. If, how¬ 
ever, you make application for membership 
you can then compete for our prizes. All 
that you have to do is to send in your names. 
I am much in hopes that many of the mem 
bers of the Horticultural Club will become 
interested in seedling potato-raising as de¬ 
scribed in the Rural of Nov. 4 last, and I 
should not be surprised to hear that some 
gathered the seed balls in tbe Fall and are 
already looking forward to the results of 
another year. There is no reason why young 
people as well as old, cannot originate some 
new variety of vegetable or of fruit, and 
thus begin to take a Jive interest in horticul¬ 
tural in their youthful days. Thus, beginning 
early, what may we not expect of them in 
their later years! 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: We live on a farm and 
keep 28 cows. I like the good old Rural. 
Its weekly visits to our home make it very 
pleasant. The Rural Flint Corn grew nicely 
for this season. The season was about two 
weeks late I planted 162 kernels and 108 
came up. Tne corn worm took some and 80 
grew. 1 planted them four by two feet, one 
kernel in a place. It suckered wonderfully, 
from five to eight from one kernel, but it did 
not all get ripe. I think that part of it will 
grow; 1 hope it will so that I can try it again. 
I have two bushels of ears which measure 
from 12 to 14 inches in length. I had 10 
squashes and they are very good. The holly¬ 
hock came up good. I had two watermelon 
seeds sprout, but they died. The wheat I 
sowed as Winter wheat. Your nephew, 
Lewis Co., N. Y. Kent F. Dodge. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I received the water¬ 
melon seeds you sent me. Two of them came 
up, but one was hid away and the boys 
plowed it up. The other one had seven mel 
ons on it. I gathered two September 17 : one 
weighed b}£ pounds, the other one weighed 18 
pounds; it was two feet2>£ inches around and 
one foot 3% inches long, and 2.^ inches across. 
1 gathered two more September 21: one was 
two feet 3% inches around, tSff inches long, 
and weighed 14 pounds. The other was one 
foot \\}i inches around, 10 inches long, and 
weighed 18pounds. Another weighed four 
pounds and there were two that the pigs ate 
up before they got ripe. I boed them five 
times, and they were plowed twice. 
Your nephew, Earl Peters. 
Decatur Co,, la. 
Dear Uncle Mark: — I thought 1 would 
write you u letter to tell you how my melons 
got along, I planted the seeds in six hills, 
one seed in a hill. Five came up and grew 
very well. I had 18 melons; my largest mel¬ 
on was 19 pounds; my second largest was 18 
pounds: the total weight was 90 pounds, I 
think it is one of the best kinds of a melon 1 
ever saw. We have nine nice hollyhock 
plants; none have blossomed. I would like 
to join in the hueklberry contest but could 
not get any plants. I would be much obliged 
to some of the cousins if they would send me 
some seed. T. E. Trkgemba. 
Osage Co., Kas. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I think it time that 
I write again if I fulfill the cousins’ agree¬ 
ment. I planted three of the watermelon 
seeds in a box, with no success—none of them 
grew. The rest of them I planted in the gar¬ 
den, in three hills; two grew. I had a little 
garden this year of beans, peppers, tomatoes 
and cabbage. I had two melons, one weighed 
2 % pounds, so I think I will get the prize for 
the smallest one, if there is any. 
Your niece, 
Fulton Co., N. Y. A. N. Knapp. 
^ _ « 
It is a most reasonble request that farmers 
should send for specimen copies of the Rural 
New-Yorker before they subscribe for any 
journal for 1883. Compare the specimens of 
all farm journals and then subscribe for the 
the best. Why not / 
Terms of Subscription. 
The subscription price of the Rural New-Yorker Ib 
Single Copy, per year.... *2.0u 
11 Six months... L10 
Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and 
Germany, per year, post-paid.*8.04 (12s. 6d. 
France,. S.U4 (16 3^ fr. 
French Colonies. 4.08 (20 hi fr. 
Any one sending a club of seven Is entitled to one 
copy, one year, free. 
Agents will be supplied with canvassing outfit on 
application. 
Entered at the Post-office at New York City, N. Y., 
as second-class mail matter. 
General Advertising Rates .of 
THK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Inside (Agate space)...40c. per line 
Outside or last page. SO “ 
Discount on 4 insertions, S per ot.; 8 ins., 10 per at 
IS Ins., 19 per ot.; 86 ins., 20 per ct.; 52 ins., 25 per ct. 
MU No advertisement Inserted for less than *2. 
H OW WATCHES ARE 
MADE.—In a Solid Gold 
Watch, aside from the necessary 
thickness for engraving and pol¬ 
ishing, a large proportion of metal 
is needed only to stiffen and hold 
the engraved portions in place, 
and supply strength. The sur¬ 
plus gold is a£tually needless. In 
James Boss’ Patent Gold Watch Cases 
this waste is saved, and solidity 
and STRENGTH secured by a sim¬ 
ple process, at to the cost 
A plate of solid gold is soldered 
on each side of a plate of nickel 
composition metal, and the three 
are then passed between polished 
steel rollers. From this the cases, 
backs, centers, bezels, &c., are cut 
and shaped by dies and formers. 
The gold is thick enough to ad¬ 
mit of all kinds of chasing, 
engraving and engine turning. 
These cases have been worn per¬ 
fectly smooth by use without 
removing the gold. This i> the only 
Case made under this process and war¬ 
ranted by special certificate. For sale 
by all Jewelers. T 50,000 of these 
Cases now carried in the U. S. 
and Canada. Largest and Old¬ 
est Factory. Established 1S54. 
to j p:wkFERS 
Our .Ih>. Itoss Pntcut Gold 
Will oh Ca>0S are living imitated An c 
bv iiii8orup»lous makers. Wi? *R|< 
caution you to avoid imposition /V /[\ 
on yuurntlves and. \ HMfntn-crti by t '_| ^ / JA 
taking none 1 *Mienl fliose ooii- 
tattling our trade murk unit our ntfjved Guarantee. 
HAOSTOZ & THORPE, Pmi.ADici.ruiA, Pa. 
Send stamp for lllusii btodCatalogue, and name Mila paper. 
BADGER STATE 
Butter Color. 
Received the on ly honorable mention gran ted to any 
butter Color at the International Daln Fair of 1879. 
If not for sale by your dealer, send for circular, &c., to 
the manufacturer, E. SHELDON,Fort Atklnsou, Wis. 
lUal G^tate t 
Cheap Farms 
NEAR MARKETS. 
The State of Mich lean fans more thun 4,000 miles of 
railroad, and l.liUt) mllciiof lake transportation, schools 
and churches In every county, public buildings all 
paid for, :yul no debt. Its soil and climate combine to 
produce large crops, uml it >8 the best fruit stale in the 
northwest. Mcveitil mil lions Of acresof unoccupied and 
lVrtilo lands are yet in lhe market at low prices. Tim 
Stale bus issued a PAMPHLET containing a map and 
descriptions of its soft, Ciops ami general resources, 
which may be bad free of charge bv weiring to the 
COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, Detroit, Mica 
515 “ S ,T, J -‘■rancloeo Railway for sale on seven 
trine at from $2.00 to 88.00 an acre Free 
transportation from at. Louis to purchasers as 
‘.i _ P/Lyb'cuiar sent ou application |o 
w. H. 7EA.T0N, f Tampio SnlLllng, $ 77, E. C0ITI1T. 
ifis&saaa 
N ew farm ssyaass hee , 
500 raring described. Maps of Virginia, nr. 
II. L. STAPLES & OO.. Richmond, Va. ZOC. — 
“For cultivating apple, 
peach and pear orchards, 
as well as vineyards, use 
the “ ACME Pulveriz¬ 
ing Harrow, Clod Crasher 
eg Leveler, which may be 
graduated to move as 
near the surface as may 
be desired, avoiding any 
injury to the roots, and 
never tearing out any 
over which it passes(See 
page 802 this paper) 
dA At* a 44 ** 4*1 
WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO’S 
: ; IMPROVED 
:BUTTER COLOR k 
A NEW DISCOVERY. 
Vv For several years wo have furnished the 
Dairymen of America with an excellent arti¬ 
ficial color foebutter; so meritorious that It met 
with great success everywhere receiving the 
highest nod only prizes at both International 
Dairy Fairs. 
tYTUut by patient and scientific chemical re¬ 
search we have improved in several points, and 
now offer this new color as the best in theieortd. 
It Will Not Color the Buttermi'k. It 
Will Not Turn Rancid. It Is the 
Strongest, Brightest and 
CTTAnd, wli il« prepared m oil, is so compound¬ 
ed that it is Impossible for it to become rancid. 
tfTBEWARE of oil imitations, ami of nil 
other oil colors, for they avu liable to become 
rancid nnd spoilthu butter. 
15?" !f you cannot get t he “improved" write us 
to know where and how to get it without extra 
expense. (46) 
WELLS, IIICIIAKPSOY A CO., Burlington, Vt. 
ami poultry- 
HOLSTEINS. 
OVER 425 ' 
PURE BRED ANIMALS 
The Largest siml Choicest I in portal ions 
over brought to this country. 
Every itiiitna! selected by n member of tbe 
firm In pc ruiui, aDd all from the deepest milking 
families. It will pay every buyer to seo this herd 
belore purchasing. 
Also u superior stock of 
Clydesdale & HamMetonian Horses 
Personal Inspection solicited. Catalogues on ap. 
plication. Mention this paper. 
SMITHS «fc l’OVVELL. Syracuse, N. Y. 
VIRGINIA CO-OPERATIVE 
Registered Jersey Cattle of bcMt butter strains a 
specialty. The largest herd In the that*?, kept on 
three farms, and most successful r*t Virginia State 
Fairs. Young stock for sale. Also Cotswold. Shrop¬ 
shire and South Down Sheep. Berltiihlrn, fcy.fr and 
Jersey Red Swine, and all the loading varie d)os of 
*>npc-hred Poultry. Address A. P. or V n HOWR, 
V r,>. ft, Vr-t'-lt'lf.li.inr v» 
POLLED ANGUS CATTLE. 
Just Imported. 
For Pedigrees and Prices, apply to FRANCIS H. 
RELFH, Live Stock Importer and Exporter, 
17 am, 19 BROADWAY, N. Y. City. 
(Patented, in V S.. Jutu 8,1877 ) 
MORRIS LITTLE A SON, Prop’isand Manuf’rs. 
Is superior to all other dips, as it is used conn. 
Is cheaper, for one gallon is sufficient for 100 gal¬ 
lons of cold water. 
Is warm and pro 1 retina to the skin, water-proof¬ 
ing it against .vet weather, and perfectly safe to 
use in the coldest weather. 
I nor coses iiiuuititv and Improves quality of the 
wool, for wool twice nin-iin has been declared 
worth *1 par "tod" (28 Ihs ) more money. 
__ 1* A SUKK Cl,'ItIC AND A JtKMKBY AS FOLLOWS: 
11 KKI* -Scab, Ticks, Lice. My and Maggots Foot- 
rot; Gmhlri the Head, and Worms lu the Throat 
In Lambs, " Loniliri*," Tape-worms. 
HORSES— Mungo, Lien Thrush. Grease. Crocked 
"addleand other Gulls, Bots, Lung Disease. 
CATTLE -I,tee, Foot aud-Mouth Disease, Hoof rot; 
prevents Abortion. 
DOGS —Mange und Fleas; makes the coat glossy. 
MODS M an go n nd Lice. 
I NT EIIN A 1,1, V for worms in all animals; ulcers 
and w ounds of all kinds 
POI’l/fll V Fleas ami Lice, Mites on the perches, 
and puritiesth" houses. 
HORTIOIHiTI/RE—Aphis, Blight, Soalp.on Or- 
tuge Trees. Burk Lice, Rust in Carrots, Ants, and 
all Insect pests. 
Is -o extremely valuable in many waya on a 
Farm and m the Household that no Farmer or 
Breeder of live stork should ever be without it. 
Scud .stump for prices and testimonials to 
T. \V. LA IVIOllI), Geu'l Agent, 29G E. Chasic St., 
Baltimore. Md 
(Mention this paper.| 
LABEL 
j 8 ^uv® Metii,lic Far Marking Label, stanmed 
n? h ?. u 5?, e ' °; Uarae find address mnl mim- 
bera. It is reliable, cheap and convenient. Sells at 
Price T El Sty* “ulisfactiou. Illustrated 
and fcarop!» a free*. ^Agents wanted. 
i). II. DANA, West Lekuuuu, N. H. 
RTGlSTEREDiEpEYCATTLE. 
For Sale at Moderate Prices. 
I have bad placed lu my hands 'nr sale, ut low 
prices, a couple of dozeu JERSEY CATTLE, 
A. J. C. C. H. K-; Cows, Bulls, and Heifer and Bull 
Calves, embracing the Hansy, Albert, Rob Roy, Ra¬ 
jah, Aiphea, Rioter, Lady Mary and Gllderoy strains. 
For prices and full particulars, address with stamp, 
RICHARD GOODMAN, JB . 
Yokuu Farm, Lenox, Mass. 
LITTLESCHEMICALFLU 
NON-PO ISO NOUS 
I A IMG —Agricultural, Grazing, Fruit and Timber, 
LAllUd ln K .V- a nd Tenn. Also, Chattanooga City 
property For catalogue seud green stamp 
‘o J. N. BROWN, 132 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 
SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. 
C ASSIUS M. CLAY, breeder of pure SOUTHDOWN 
SHEEP, Whitk-Hall, Kentucky- 
