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moderately well. I sa w by the Rural, that 
some of the Cousins wish to know how to kill 
cabbage worms. I kept them off from onr 
cabbages last year, by placing Dog-fennel and 
Pennyroyal on the heads of cabbage. 
Your nephew, c, c. m’clure. 
Green Co., Pa. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I raised last Summer 
in my garden, one bush'd of onions, three pecks 
of pop corn, and some beans, watermelons, 
tomatoes, cabbage and lettuce, t have iu a 
nursery 100 peach trees, 20 apple tn es, and 
two chestnut trees, and have 1.10 grape cut¬ 
tings. Father raised three kinds of potatoes 
from seed last Summer. 1 would like to cor¬ 
respond with some of the Cousins. I am IS 
years old. With host wishes to Uncle Mark 
and all the Cousins. 
Russellville. GEORGE A HOUGHTON 
[At anytime you see letters from Cousins 
that you think you would like to hear from, 
write to me, stating what you wish, aud I 
will make known to them what you desire.— 
UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark:— My papu has taken 
the Rural for four years, aud I have belong¬ 
ed to the Club ever since, and 1 have written 
several letters, but they have all found their 
way to the great waste basket. I seem to be 
one of the members that are left out, when the 
seed distribution comes around. The supply 
of melon seeds was exhausted before it reach 
ed me, and now this year I am left out again. 
Was you afraid (lowers would not grow iu 
Dakota ? 1 had many nice flowers last year, 
but would like to have 'some of your seeds 
too. Your niece. anna shcub. 
lioadlc Co.. D. T. 
[{ sent seed to all of the Cousins who sent in 
their names to be lie put on the Club Roll, be¬ 
ginning with .btuuary 1. Some I am sorry to 
sav did not get their seeds, even when sent. 
You may be among the number. If 1 had any 
seeds left l would gladly send them to you.— 
UNCLE MARK. 
Dear Uncle Mark: We have removed 
from Queen Anne Co.. Maryland, since I wrote 
you last September, to a farm on the line of 
the Eastern Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia 
It R. The road runs through the farm, and 
as it is (lie only railroad through eastern 'leu- 
nessce, it carries a great, deal of freight. 
£ was much interested in the strawberry dis¬ 
cussion, but 1 was not well enough acquainted 
with the fruit, to take part iu it. We have an 
acre of strawberries, comprising the follow¬ 
ing varieties, viz : Warren, Mt. Vernou, Man¬ 
chester. Old Iron Clad, Sharp less. Cuoilier- 
lftiirl Triumnh. and Kentucky. There are no 
land prepared, in which to plant what I chose. 
First. I planted pop com, and raised a little 
less than two bushels of flue ears. Iu order 
to produce good heads of cabbages, jnst. 
before a shower 1 put on each head one 
teasiKxmfnl of fine salt, which I think kept 
off the worms. I sowed the seed of Red 
Wethersfield and Yellow Danvers Onions, 
and when they got well to growing, 1 sowed 
ashes along the rows, either early in the 
morning, or just before a shower. They kept 
out the white worm; and when the tops 
got their growth, 1 rolled an empty barrel 
over them, to break the tops, which made the 
bottoms 1 >etter. My tomatoes were sowed in 
the house in March, In boxes, and t ransplanted 
once, before being put into my garden. I 
found, by pruning the branches, that they 
ripened better, and bore larger I ruit. 1 he 
variety was the Acme. Thanks to the Rural 
for our melons. I raised a good many water¬ 
melons. Those prod need from seed the Ru kal 
sent, were the sweetest. The Surprise M clous 
were large and very nice, but they must have 
a warm, very rich, sandy soil. The Shoe peg 
Corn grow well, and would have l>eeu all 1 
could have wished for, had not a frost come 
when it was in the milk, and injured it. W e 
saved a few ears, which ripened; two weighed 
together 12 ounces when dry. After my school 
closes I shall ‘•break” steers; I have •‘broken" 
two yoke. 1 commence when they are one 
year-old, and drive them in the yoke occasion¬ 
ally until two years of age. when I can uiun- 
uge them easily, as they become used to the 
yoke by that, time. We keep sheep, and have 
a very nice Hock of mostly South-Downs. 
Some of the fleeces, after shearing, weighed 
eight pounds. The sheep are very tame, and 
follow uie around; 1 like them very much. I 
read, in the Rural, that some one wished a 
cure for a trouble called the stretches. My 
father has tried many remedies, hut the best 
we know of, is to put into a bottle one table- 
two of linseed oil (lard 
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NOTES FROM UNCLE MARK. 
GET a great many inter¬ 
esting letters from the 
Cousins, and it always gives 
me pleasure to ’ read them, 
but I take great pleasure in 
reading such sin was written 
by Frank Logan and pub¬ 
lished in the last Rural. 
How many Cousins by next 
Fall can make so complete a 
report as that? Hegin to take 
notes on the growth of your 
crops, now. 
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Oi Would it not be a good idea 
for each member of the Club to send iu at the 
end of the strawberry season, the name of the 
ei-ry that seems the best for his or her local¬ 
ly ? Make a note of this. 
You have Cousins on the Atlantic aud Paci¬ 
fic Coasts; in Canada, on the edge of Mexico, 
and iu the Moon, as we put all who send uo 
address, there. The Youths’ Club of the Ru¬ 
ral is a big family. Who says it does not 
amount to anything? 
I should like to have you do a little experi¬ 
menting this Bummer. What are you going to 
do during the long vacation? Perhaps a great 
many will work, but 1 am sure that a greater 
number will play. You that work, eau get 
some interesting news for me. You thut have 
so much time to play, cau experiment in the 
garden Whatever you do, don’t forget the 
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spoonful of ginger, 
will do), u little salt, and one-half pint of hot 
water, and shake well. Cool the liquid so as 
not to scald the mouth, but give it hot. 1 his 
remedy always helps our sheep. 
Your nephew, Robert morris colt. 
Litchfield Co,, Conn. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I have been feeling 
quite blue (as the saying is) for several weeks 
pant 1 ,'dll tiecuunr. *^ur folk.'have been talking of 
giving up the Rural; but my little brother 
has carried the day, so we shall be made glad 
another year by the old Rural’s welcome 
visits. 1 oftentimes hear people say they 
don’t care to take a paper devoted to a busi¬ 
ness that they know all about, and that they 
would rather spend their spare moments in 
reading something that interests them. Now, 
Uncle Mark, I look at this subject quite dif¬ 
ferently from what some folk do. I think we 
can never become too well educated in that, 
pursuit which is to be our life lalior, and farm¬ 
ing is ever changing aud presenting to us new 
plans and ideas for improvement, and advance 
meut. We who know the Rural best, can 
say that it has been ever, aud continues to be, a 
medium through which we are gaining knowl¬ 
edge which strengthens our minds and light 
eus our labor. Many thanks to Uncle Mark 
for his many kind letters to the children dur- 
Do you have any flowers in your school- 
yard ? Did >»u act upon my suggestion re¬ 
garding putting flower-beds around the school 
house ? _ 
I hope you got your seeds. Borne icomplaiu 
that they have never received anv^.iit they 
must have been lost or stolen on the way. 
Don’t think for a moment, that I have for¬ 
gotten my nieces aud nephews. 
I told you not to grow any weeds, 
they flourishing in your garden now I 
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If you wish to join the Youths' Club, please 
send iu your ago. No one will know it but 
me, and 1 wish to keep a record of the ages of 
the members of the Club. 
YOUR CHOICE 
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out last Spring. There were three seeds in 
the lot that looked something like those of a 
sunflower. They have sprouted, and the sec¬ 
ond leaf looks something like an apple leaf. 
Will you please toll me what it is? The 
laud is heavier aud richer here, than on 
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but uot so 
easy to farm. There is a great deal of grass 
land here, aud the grain aud grass looks very 
well. There is uo bilious fever here, aud we 
are rejoicing to think that we can go out and 
work in our flowers and vegetables without 
gettiug a chill. If all the folks from Bergen 
County could eouio ’town here this Bummer, 
they would tie welcome, aud we would take 
them to Bald, Iron, Stone, Unicom and Roan 
Mountains, and have a good time. We live 
one mile trom Johuson City, a town of 1,400 
inhabitants. It has a large steam tannery, a 
planing mill, and there is talk of building a 
hub and spoke factory. A party of capital¬ 
ists ha ve bought a site for a lurge iron works, 
and if the tariff party elects the President, so 
that the iron interests of the country will be 
protected, they will build their works, and run 
a new railroad to a point iu Virginia. With 
much love to Uncle Mark and the Cousins, 1 
must close. Your neice, 
Washington C-o., Teuu. annie eckkr. 
[1 think very likely it Ls asuutlower, as a 
few seeds were sent out iu the distribution. 
UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have been reading 
the letters aud discussions in the Rural for 
some time, but have seen nothing about rais¬ 
ing peanuts; would some Cousin who has 
raised them, give uie a little information on 
the subject? In 1880 I planted some in sandy 
soil; they grew rapidly, hut the moles troubled 
them very much' I raised some sweet pota¬ 
toes last year; they were very large, but were 
Sadie Steigleders description of the insect 
on her plants, will not enable me to tell w hat 
it .s. I should have to have a more complete 
description, or see one of the hugs. 
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Let uie suggest to the Cousins, that if you 
have not already done so, it would be a good 
idea to make a scrap book, collecting cuttings 
upon such subjects that may most iuteiest you. 
Scrap- books are always interesting aud especi¬ 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— l grew some very 
pretty (lowers from the seed you sent me, but 
last Full the frost came so early, 1 lost nearly all 
the seed. Pa sowed the Rural tomato seed in a 
box, and gave mo the flower seed. I sowed a 
little of it iu a box. The soil here is very rich, 
and it looks ns though anything would grow 
iu it. This is a new place; one year ago it 
was all woods.now we have eight acres cleared. 
The surrounding country is being rapidly 
cleared. 1 like it better here than in Penn¬ 
sylvania. The Winter was not very cold, we 
having just a few cold snaps. 1 will write 
again, aud toll you how my flowers do this 
Summer. Rosalia s. loomis. 
Clare Co., Mich. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— Papa has taken the 
Rural for a number of years, and likes it 
very much; he used to take it when published 
iu Rochester. I have, or try to have, with 
the help of my geranium plants, a nice looking 
garden; 1 also have a number of rose bushes. 
1 like to work out of-doors very much. 
1 have a large bed of Wilson Straw¬ 
berries, and 1 a 1 ways like to read all articles 
iu your paper about them. Last. Summer 1 
sold over 70 dozen of eggs, aud got a good 
price for them. Your new cousin, 
Wyoming Co., N. Y. nellik c. wright. 
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Dear Unci.k Mark:—I find it is time for 
me to make my report on my success in gar¬ 
dening last year; but trust you will forgive 
my negligence, as 1 urn busy most of the time 
studying and doing chores. 1 had a piece of 
Dear Uncle Mark:— Our Blush Potato did 
well, as did also the wheat. We got about two 
quarts of Shumaker’s Wheat, and about a 
pint of the Surprise. The garden seeds did 
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