THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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NEW-YORKER 
iug that within us, which, when developed, 
makes whole men and whole women. 
Nothing condemns a farmer in the eyes of 
any intelligent visitor, more than the absence 
of agricultural books and journals from his 
home. Not to seek knowledge of his own 
trade through the help of the press is, in this 
age, to bo indeed a fossil. 
It is every man’s duty co economize, and 
not to waste. It is equally his duty not to be 
miserly, for miserliness is the worst kind of 
wastefulness. 
Don’t read too much, but read what is good 
—and “chaw on it.” 
Fanning is a manly business, and if the 
farmer is not a man all through, he fails lo 
live up to his opportunities and his privileges. 
Love your neighbor as yourself; lovo your 
country more than your party. 
led me to carefully eradicate it, and pre 
vented its covering the whole country. 
A friend of mine once saw in his Held a few 
stalks of what he supposed was common mus¬ 
tard, and he carelessly allowed them t.o ripen 
seed, and has now been nearly a score of years 
fighting charlock, whereas a few hours’ work, 
and a little knowledge of botany, would have 
enabled him to have nipped the pests in the 
bud. 
Those farmers are uniformly the most suc¬ 
cessful who most closely comply with Nature’s 
requirements in adapting crops to soils, aud 
in supplying those things deficient in the soil, 
biit, essential to full production, and this is 
scientific farm iug, and the men who .system¬ 
atically practice it are scientific farmers. It 
matters not whether facts are learned by 
long years of practice and dose observation of 
cause and ellects, or iu a few weeks from the 
text books. The text books being but the rec¬ 
ords of facts of other men’s observations, it 
seems to me the hightof wisdom tc enable our 
children to study them, thus furnishing them 
with opportunities of learning iu a short time 
what many could not get iu a whole lifetime 
by their limited experience. The fact is, our 
modern (arming is so indebted to science, and 
science is now so intimately connected with 
common thiugs, that we enjoy the results of 
its teachings without so much as a thought as 
to where the credit belongs. “rustic.” 
PITHY PARAGRAPHS. 
T. H. HOSKINS, 51. D. 
A farmer is not half a farme,r who does 
not know how to save all his manure, and does 
not put the knowledge in practice. 
Thorough tillage doubles the effect of man¬ 
ures. Experience shows that good tillage 
without manure, will often produce a better 
crop than good manure with poor tillage. 
Fine stable manure and all artificial ferti¬ 
lizers are better harrowed iu than plowed in. 
The rains carry down all soluble plaut foodj 
and only long droughts bring it up again. 
The larger the area of the field the cheaper 
the crop can be grown, all other things being 
equal. Where there is loss, it is because this 
last condition is disregarded. 
The man who says, absolutely, “plow deep,” 
or plow shallow, is a man of narrow (if any) 
experience in practical agriculture. The 
depth to which the plow is run should be 
gauged both with reference to the soil aud the 
intended crop. 
The absolute value of stable manure is never 
greater than when it is dropped. But in that 
condition it is not best suited to all crops. We 
can therefore sometimes afford to sacrifice 
some intrinsic value for the sake of better ad¬ 
aptation. 
Farmers will often fail in attempts to test 
one fertilizer against another, to learn their 
relative values, but they need never fail in 
testing a fertilizer ogainst no manure. 
When many new remedies against diseases 
of plants or animals, or against insects, are 
being brought forward, we may bo certain 
that the true remedy has not been found. 
When this appears, the nmiflf’ii flfPlinutirm L, I 
SHALL WE IGNORE SCIENCE 1 
1 n e essay of Ed win Taylor, on page 357 of the 
R i rah, reminded me of the Irish man iu a storm 
at sea, w ho prayed and swore alternately, aud 
who, lu recounting the incident, said he’sup¬ 
posed he mixed them so much that neither did 
any good. If Mr. Taylor meaus thut mere 
book learning aloue will not make a farmer, 
he Is undoubtedly correct, though, even that 
will assist, by developing his reasoning and 
thinking (lowers, as it would assist u man go¬ 
ing into any other profession; neither will 
book knowledge aloue make a man scientific. 
But if he means that science is of no use to 
the farmer, he could not be farther wrong. 
1 hero is no business in life more closely related 
to science than the successful cultivation of 
the soil. AH the advancement of the present 
over the rudest methods of our ancestors is 
duu tD the better understanding of the scien¬ 
tific relations of crops to soils, and the nueds of 
each to insure profitable results. 
Science is the reason of things—the know 
mg—as Mr. Taylor says, “The Why,” and is 
as much science when learned by long experi¬ 
ence as if learned from the books. The un¬ 
educated farmer cultivated the soil and for a 
while raised good crops, but by aud by they 
began to fail, and what little science ho had 
acquired told him his land needed mnuure. 
Ho applied such manure as he made from 
w js uave naa several inquiries as to the re¬ 
liability of the World’s Dispensary Medical 
Association of Buffalo, N. Y. This association 
is under the control of Ex-Congressman 
l lorco, au.l will doubtless till all orders re¬ 
ceived for goods; but wo do uot think the 
medicines advertised will du nil that is claim¬ 
ed lor them iu the circulars that are buing 
scattered broadcast through the country. 
In answer to several inquiries, wo must, do¬ 
cline to recommend the Waltham Watch and 
Silver 1‘lato Company of Boston, Mass. 
We are still receiving inquiries about 
"Brabmo Yan,” the “Hindoo Deafness Reme¬ 
dy,” sold by 1). C. Thompson & Co,, of this 
city, although wo have several limes already 
denounced the thing as a humbug. “Thomp¬ 
son & Co.” occupy u little ollice in tho upper 
part of Broadway; but it is very difficult to 
find anybody there except au office boy. 
To several inquirers. We do not advise you 
to have anything to do with the Murstou 
Remedy Co., of this city. 
D. r. D., Olympia, V r a., asks about Mrs. 
Brown’s Metaphysical Discovery, it is a hum¬ 
bug. 
A lesson muy be drawn by others elsewhere 
from the losses of the customers of Pledalue & 
Bcuudreau, of Ht. John’s, Province of Quebec, 
Canada, who have boon purchasiuirall tlm hav 
uegmmugs oetore the milk from which they 
are madeLseven secreted. Togo “clearback,’) 
they have their origin in the nature and bring¬ 
ing up of the dairy rimn and his assistants. 
Ibo time saved in not cleansing your cellar, 
will soon be lost iu running after the doctor. 
Typhoid fever aud diphtheria, when they 
originate on a farm, are conclusive evidences 
of gross neglect of sanitary precautions; aud 
this, notwithstanding a considerable appear¬ 
ance of care and neatness. 
A siop boie at tbe back door wifi make doc¬ 
tor’s bills enough to pay for draining the whole 
farm. 
The farmer who carefully plans his season’s 
work before he begins it, wifi uot find much 
difficulty in paying his help. 
1 here is no surer sign of bad judgment in a 
farmer, than bis buying a large farm and 
going heavily in debt for if. Having begun 
with a big blunder, it is uot to be wondered at 
that he should Llunder on, to the end. 
IU ulltJ ««nonw, which, for tbe sake of a 
name, she calls carbohydrates, and entirely 
too deficient in others, which she calls aibu- 
miuoides, and that if wo will use a certain 
portion of bran or oil meal, feeding stuffs con¬ 
taining a surplus of the elements lacking iu 
the corn meal, we shad secure better results. 
We try the experiment, aud this “honest 
steer” every time corroborates the teachings of 
science, and we make two dollars where we 
were before making but one. Mr. Taylor 
scouts tiie notion that a farmer should have a 
| knowledge of algebra, but would not surely 
have him ignorant of arithmetic, and the one 
is as much a part of tho science of numbers 
as the other. 
Ignorance thinks a seed is a seed, and takes 
corn from the crib or potatoes from the refuse 
ol the bins at planting time; science teaches 
that all plauts are very susceptible to 
change owing to tho condition of tho seed; 
that a plant grown from a seed whose vitality 
is greatly weakened or nearly destroyed, is 
not as likely to improve as is one grown from 
one perfectly developed ami preserved; fol¬ 
lowing its teachings the scientific farmer care¬ 
fully selects his seeds at harvest time, and 
as carefully preserves them in the best possi¬ 
ble condition, amt thus keeps his crops con¬ 
tinually improving. How is it that the seeds¬ 
men of this country have done so much for its 
agriculturef By scientifically hybridizing, 
crossing, selecting, growing and constantly 
improving those seeds—a thing that could be 
done only by strict compliance with the 
science of botany. I once found a curious 
plant, and, unfortunately having no knowl¬ 
edge of botany, would have passed it by, were 
it not that curiosity impelled me to pull it up 
and show it to a botanical friend, who on 
analyzing it, assured 
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