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Kinplcmcnt^ anti ^Uafhinety 
about, once and never manure only Irish 
potatoes, as most farmers do. Excuse 
us if we are a little plain in our 
talk, for it is true that, as we travel along the 
country highway, we see many more worn-out 
gardens than we ought to. We think our 
garden is half of our living. We have vege¬ 
tables the year round. We raise early calv 
bage, and always make a barrel of sauer¬ 
kraut. We can tomatoes and have Lima and 
other dried beans, and also Irisli potatoes. 
Many thanks to Rural New-Yorker for 
the White Elephant Potato, for it is a splen¬ 
did variety. Beauty of Hebron rotted with 
us; so did our beets, parsnips and cabbages; 
they were almost an entire failure. 
We will tell you how we saved our cabbages 
from the ravages of the green worms. We 
sprinkled dry salt over them several times 
when the dew was on, as the young worms 
came on them we used about a tablespoonful 
to the plaut each time. The salt crisped the 
ends of the leaves a little. W v had some very 
flue heads; if we had not used the salt we 
would not have had any cabbage. 
We have sweet potatoes yet and will have 
until February; we raised very fine ones, as 
good or better than ever be foi e. Papa took 
leached ashes and covered the plot of ground 
where we had them, and then mixed them well 
with the earth. We set out 1,000 plants, and 
as a result have had potatoes ever since July. 
We have apples, canned fruit, dried fruit, 
poultry, fresh eggs, sweet cream and butter. 
Who would not bn proud of being a farmer’s 
daughter? As the little piece of poetry runs: 
“Let tlie wealthy and s-reat 
Roll In splendor and state. 
I envy them not I declare U. 
teat my own lamb, my own chickens and ham, 
I shear my own tleoceand I wear it-. 
I have lawns and bowers, etc., etc." 
We read a great deal of grumbling in the 
Rural New-Yorker from wives and daugh¬ 
ters about the hard times they have. We 
w'ould not change our farm home for any in 
the land, and we milk, have beds to make, 
etc. 
We will tell you a little about our poultry 
raising. We had about 600 young fowls at 
one time last Bummer, most of which were 
chickens. We sprinkle the nests with flowers 
of sulphur when the hens are sitting, and 
grease the hens under their wings and breasts 
when we take off broods of young chicks. 
Whou the chicks get to be three or four weeks 
old, once a week we smoke them with tobacco 
to keep off vermin. We raised about 400 
young fowls last year, consisting of turkeys, 
geese, thickens, ducks and Guinea hens. We 
ought to have raised a great many more con¬ 
sidering the number of youug ones we put out. 
We had a great many enemies or fowl pests to 
fight against. The rats were our greatest ene¬ 
mies. This Winter we are trying to extermi¬ 
nate them, for next year we expect to try and 
raise a great many fowls. We have seven 
dozen pullets which we saved; we only raised 
them for pleasure. We sold last Winter from 
October to March $40 worth of eggs. We have 
sold nearly all of our old hens, and have now 
about three or four dozen of last year's rais¬ 
ing. We also raised some turkeys. 
We will tell of one more enemy to turkeys, 
for it may be of some value to some that don't 
know of it. If turkeys droop and hang their 
wings, examine the quills of their wings and 
pull a feather and see if there is not a brown- 
looking insect ou the quill Examine it 
closely, and you will find thousands of little 
insects: you can hardly see them moving, they 
are so small. Grease all along the quills with 
lard. As we write we look at our flowers, aud 
then observe how dreary and cold it is out¬ 
side. It is snowiug. This is the first snow we 
have bad, and yet our flowers look well and 
green, aud some are full of buds ready to 
bloom, lizzie J. pound : Barbara e. pound. 
Spencer Co., Ky. 
[It gives me pleasure to receive such an in¬ 
teresting letter as this. I shall be pleased to 
hear about the poultry. Surely you can give 
the Cousins some good “chicken talk.” 
Uncle Mark.] 
$etv ^ubliratiottsi 
_ ear Uncle Mark and 
C/ls —\ Cousins:—I have neg- 
U - lected writing longer 
^ ian usual ; I thought 
Wwv I would let other Cousins 
Ml write * aSl P erba I’ s > 1 
$// IvjWj might find some useful 
/£~y'$*3$ ir”? items, and also sorne- 
(<?}>■ thing that was interest- 
\Hl\Cd 'Jf 1 ’Srk ing- Some of the Cous- 
. 'l ius have taken a great 
deal of interest in the 
fAS*) Youths’ Department, 
\ 0) aud I hope they will con- 
s — • y tinue and make it as in 
teresting as any department of the Rural 
Ne\v-Yorker, 
One of the Cousins has requested some one 
to tell about our great Louisville Exposition. 
I took the street cars at Fourth and Market 
Streets, aud passed along Fourth Avenue, one 
of the finest portions of the city, where there 
are many splendid buildings. I cannot de¬ 
scribe the buildings, for it would make my 
letter too long. Here I am at the Exposition; 
brother and sisters take their half-dollars, and 
I my quarter, and pass through the turn¬ 
stiles on to tlie grounds. Each building nov¬ 
el's 15 acres, aud in each building are four 
courts of hall' an acre each; in the center of 
each court is a fountain surrounded by beau¬ 
tiful flowers and plants. Inside of the building 
we turn to the right and go upstairs to the 
outside gallery, which surrounds the whole 
building. As we pass around we see the dis- 
plav. Many furniture firms and others liave 
exhibits, some of which f think canuot be sur¬ 
passed. The furniture l fancy the most is 
made of horns and plush. Coming down, we 
pass through the aisles into the northern por¬ 
tion of the building, where we fiud many 
grand displays, some of which I would like to 
speak of, were it not for the amount of space 
it would take. There is a house made of 
bread aud cakes; the cakes and the bread are 
arranged very prettily; the bouse is covered 
with bread. We pass out into the park north 
of the building, which is a beautiful place; 
walks, and flowers and trees of all kinds that 
grow in our State. We pass on until we come 
to the art gallery, where we see some fine 
paintings and other displays of art work. We 
return to the center entrance, near which is 
the depot for the electric train of cars which 
run around the park; you can take a ride for 
10 cents. It seems strange to see cars mov¬ 
ing without the aid of steam or horses. We 
pass into a building, turn to the right, and pass 
by the displays of Tennessee,Kentucky, Florida 
aud Arkansas, where we see the minerals, 
woods, and other products of each State. The 
exhibits are splendid. In the space between 
the two northern courts is the Music Hall, 
where the grand organ is located. In the 
southern portion of the building we see ma¬ 
chinery of all kinds—engines, brick ma¬ 
chines, printing presses, farming implements, 
woolen and cotton machinery. We pass 
out of the southwest entrance to the 
carriage buildings, where we find all kinds 
of wagons, carriages, farm wagons, Ob'. 
We pass out south of the building, where we 
find some raw silk. We go out into the Agri¬ 
cultural Department, where coru, tobacco, 
cotton, sorghum and vegetables are growing. 
The displays are grand and very interesting. 
The buildings and park are lighted with elec¬ 
tric light?. The fire-works are graud. 
Your little 12 year-old niece, elizla. 
As sister has written of the Exposition, we 
will write of our garden flowers, about raising 
poultry, etc. Our garden was quite a success. 
Our melons werosplendid; we bad some which 
weighed 45 pounds. We had four varieties, 
of which the Cubau Queen was the best. 
They stood the drought very well. It was 
cold and wet in the Spring, and we thought 
the Cuban Queens would be a failure, but when 
the weather became warm they grew 
finely; during the drought the other varieties 
of melons died, but the Cuban Queens kept 
growiug. and we hail many a nice feast from 
them. The Cuban Queen does not keep as 
well as the Ice-cream. Last year we kept our 
Ice-cream Melon until January 18th; it kept 
well, but had a wilted taste. We expected to 
try it again ibis year, so we could tell you of 
our success, but the drought killed the vines. 
It was not late enough iu the season to suve 
any fruit. We arc going to try again. Will 
let yon know of our success or failure. 
A neighbor who was iu our garden during the 
drought said: “Why! you have no dry weather 
like us, for your garden looks too well.” We 
live on adjoining farms. Uncle Mark, it is 
because we manure heavily every year, and 
keep the earth well tilled, and don’t sow the 
same seed from year to year, and hoe 
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Dear Uncle Mark:—As I never see any 
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I would ask you to let me join your Club. 
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Papa plauted a lot of peas, but they did not 
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