THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
l(m|ilcm(Bts anil gftacMattj). 
We will be interested to know how the rye 
yields next year.— uncle mark.] 
cester. We are half a mile from any house, 
although we can see quite a number. The 
house stands ou a hill, and at the foot of the bill 
there is quite a large pond, and in the months 
of July, August and September the pond is 
quite white with lilies. In those months I go out 
on the pond almost every day and gather large 
hand fills of the lilies. My father broke his left 
leg, just below the knee, two years ago and 
still has to go on crutches. He keeps three 
cows, a pair of steers, fourteen pigs and 
a horse. I ride horseback considerably ; I 
have a side saddle. I commenced to ride 
when I was seven years old and I am fifteen 
now% I have 13 turkeys that I raised myself, 
this year, and I have two old ones besides; 
they are part bronze. My father takes the 
THE DANA 
CENTRIFUGAL-G OYERN OR 
WINDMILL. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—W e like your paper 
very much. I would like to join the Cousins 
society and become a member of the Y. H. C. 
The Garden Treasures you sent us did not do 
much good, the weather was too dry; and the 
cattle ate up all the Rural Corn. Please tell 
me how often the Cousins have to write. Can 
you tell me how peanuts should be planted 
and whether the blooms should be buried? 
Would you give the ten dollars offered to a 
young lady with the seventh present to a 
young gentleman? willik k, KKLLy. 
Laclede Co., Mo. 
[Peanuts should be planted in rich, sandy 
soil two or three inches deep, the vines, if not 
disturbed, will bury their own blossoms, but 
the soil must be kept mellow to give them a 
fair chance. The offer of $10 worth of furni¬ 
ture with the stove is only for the girls. See 
the rules for the Y. H. C. cn this page 
TJNCLK MARK.] 
THE YOUTH’S HORTICULTURAL CLUB 
FOR 1885. 
This la the best working anti the 
most powerful Wlud-F.n- 
■Vglne In the world, because 
: . v J of -first, the superior cx- 
E,! 3 celleuce of its seir rcgulat- 
< lng meehaulsuijandsrcojuf, 
the better form and posl- 
ANY blight eyes are 
Q n (looking inquiringly in- 
QW to the Department for 
\S ' the Young, for the first 
AV'J ■ 0 . time, wondering what 
D\i ' U f 3 ' it is like and question¬ 
ed _</"(J« l I a ing w’hat the letters 
ImT)] [j £] I Y. H. C. stand for, and 
who the fortunate boys 
V and girls are that be- 
'i ((v// • long to tlie mysterious 
something i - epresented 
by those letters. 
y 6y © To all our new friends 
° K (for of course we shall 
QJ be friends) let me say 
that this department belongs to the boys and 
girls of the Rural; all that is in it, is written 
for them or by them. 
The letters Y. H. C. stand for Youth's 
Horticultural Club, and to become a member 
of the club the full name, address and the 
age of the one wishing to join must be sent 
in, to be entered in our Y. H. C. book. 
We then want each member to read the de¬ 
partment aud to send in a report of his or 
her work at least once during the year. 
We have discussions ou subjects relating to 
horticulture and farm life, in which all the 
members of the Club may join. The good, 
practical letters that have been written for 
past discussions made them worthy of careful 
reading by the grown folks as well as by the 
boys and girls. 
We hope to make them even better during 
the corniug year, aud will be glad of help from 
new friends among the boys and girls, and 
from those who have written before, whom we 
are already acquainted with. Send in your 
names soon if you wish to become members 
of our club the coming year, and you will be 
gladly welcomed by uncle mark. 
Hon of Its sails. The facts 
and reasons which support this 
claim arc si t forth (n our Poscrip- 
tivc Catalogue, Second Edition— 
1884, for which apply to 
Fnirhnrcn, IWiish., U.H.A 
Mention this paper. 
ilifiTNlORiil VM Flour and Corn 
SJLrf /Min the sks HANDMIXjL 
TFiJLJV'y■ 'Wilson’s Patent). IDO per 
cent, more made In keeping poul- 
Also 1*0WKR MILLS and FARM 
MILLS. Circulars and Testimonials sent 
cation. WILSOk BROS.. Eualou. l*a- 
Dear Uncle Mark and Cousins;—I guess 
it is about time I sent in my farming report. 
I had a nice patch of watermelons this Sum¬ 
mer, one weighed 24 pounds; most of them 
were Mountain Sweet. My squashes were 
very nice and one weighed 413 pounds; my 
garden soil is a light, sandy loam fertilized 
from the barnyard. I had 50 bushels of 
potatoes, 41 bushels of White Elephants, the 
rest were Blush and Chicago Market; they 
were raised on new ground. I have about, a 
half bushel of beans. My pop-corn did not do 
very well. Why? Because I don’t thiuk it 
had all the care it needed. 
My guardian and I got a swarm of bees out 
of a tree, and he gave them to me. We found 
them the middle of August. They did very 
nicely while the honey season lasted, and then 
we bad to feed them on sugar. We put a 
little water with the sugar and made a sirup, 
and when it was warm weather they were 
glad to get it, in cold weather they cluster 
down in the hive and do not feed. It was not 
a very good honey season in our locality. 
Some of the flower seeds you so kindly sent 
me came up; the zinnias - were very handsome, 
there were many shades of color. Some 
Phlox Drammondi and some balsams came up- 
I had some seeds left to plant next Bpring. I 
have saved a great many seeds of flowers and 
vegetables for my garden next year. 
Your Nephew and Cousin, 
Manistee, Co., Mich. henry Johnson. 
[I venture to say that your pop-corn will be 
well taken care of next year; a boy who sees 
what mistakes he has made is the boy who 
will not make them twice, if he can help it.— 
uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I have not written to 
you for so long that I am afraid my name will 
be taken off the list. I live in the county of 
Haldimand in Ontario. I am 14 years old, 
and 1 go to school and study reading, writing, 
arithmetic, geography, grammar, algebra, 
geometry, aud chemistry, and I am going to 
study botany after Christmas. I passed into 
the High School last July. Our flowers were 
very pretty, and 1 saved some of the seeds, 
but the frost came and killed the rest before 
they came to seed: I had no sensitive plauts. 
We had over 1,500 bushels of grain and 80 
bushels of potatoes, but we bad not much 
fruit; there were no plums or cherries, but 
lots of raspberries, huckleberries and straw 
berries. I think l will have to close before you 
get tired reading my letter. I remain your 
loving Diece, aggie r. Patterson. 
Ontario, Canada. 
Hand Cultivator, 
Wheel Hoe, 
SINGLE OR COMBINED. 
Admitted Ly leading Seedsmen and Market Garden 
ers everywhere to he the most perfect and reliable 
Implements In use for planting and cultivating gar¬ 
den crops. Iieware of cheap Imitations! Inquire lor 
the genuine machines which are made only by- 
T. B. EYERETT & CO., Boston, Mass. 
Send for circulars, giving luted prices and improvements. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— In my garden I had 
beans, corn, beets and cabbages. They all did 
very well excepting the cabbages, the turkeys 
aud worms destroyed them. I have some 
currant cuttings, some young peach trees aud 
some young cherry trees. We have some 
seedling grapes, some of the vines had a few 
on this year; one kind is very early, they 
were ripe on the 20th of August. Another 
kind which ripens later was a very excellent 
grape, aud auother vine produced a white 
grape; if they bear another season 1 will pre¬ 
sent you with some. I think 1 shall close 
before you get tired and this reaches the 
waste basket, as my first letter did. 
Your nephew, monrok demarest. 
Passaic Co., N. J. 
[Your seedling grapes were a success, were 
they not? I will enjoy trying them next 
season if they do well, and I hope they will. 
UNCLE MARK. 
SCALES. 
Satisfactory references given. F r Illustrated 
Book address. Osgood & Co.. Binghamton. N. Y 
LATEST 
AND I 
BEST. 
NOTES BY UNCLE MARK. 
Here is the New Year, boys aud girls; now 
I must ask each one who intends to continue a 
member of the Y. H. C. to send in his or her 
address; please give name, post office, county, 
state and age. 
A postal card will hold all these, and if the 
Club is worth anything to you, it is worth 
sending your name once a year. Please send 
the postal cards right away, for I have the 
book all ready to enter your names. 
Those who have asked to join the club 
since November 1st need not write again, if 
they sent full name, address and age; but un¬ 
less sure of this, you had better seud me a 
card giving them. 
Do any of the boys and girls grumble about 
the weather when it doesn’t suit them? Don’t 
do it, please, for it does not change the 
weather: but it does change you for the time 
from an agreeable boy or girl to a disagree¬ 
able one. If you want to say that you do not 
like the rain, or cold or mud, say it pleasant¬ 
ly ; don’t grumble about things that cannot be 
helped. _ _ 
One of the Cousins writes from Iowa that 
his father has discovered a spring, the water 
of which will tan skins with the hair on or off, 
and make leather equal to that made by any 
other process; and thinking we would be in¬ 
terested to hear of it, he has written of it to 
me. Can you tell us, Edgar, what property 
in the water causes it to do the tanning? 
Boys and girls, are you working for the 
gifts offered to subscribers? If not, you will 
be interested to know that there is a good 
chance yet of small clubs winning the pres¬ 
ents; only a few are working for them yet, 
and you ought not let so rare a chance to earn 
something valuable go by without trying to 
make the most of it. Send me tbe names and 
addresses, plainly written, of those whom you 
intend to ask to subscribe, and we will send 
each of them a copy of the Rural to examine. 
Now go to work in good earnest, and see how 
much you can do; perhaps you can win some 
of the larger presents tbe older folks are work¬ 
ing for. I will be much pleased if the Cousins 
win some of the largest gifts. 
Send for circulars of Stone Separating Crushers, 
Engines and full Tile Factory Outfits to 
FREY, SHECKLER &, HOOVER, Bucyrus, 0, 
ID A TAD Q " 
I |S £A I (I n t° *ioo. too t.. tooo 
) ]Jl\. X vlUJ eggs. Warranted. All 
- IiKBKUKILB Ilf I'"('|.TRYiik> 
Kanfl for descriptive circuit.!-, ami testimonials. 
I 1. It AT EH CO., WEYMOUTH, MASS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I planted the Deihl- 
Mediterrauean Wheat and the Thousand-Fold 
Rye, about the middle of October, in rows an 
inch in depth, 18 inches apart, and one grain 
in a place, a foot apart in the rows. I also 
planted a few Champion Oats, to try them as 
winter oats. We had fine rains until the first 
of August; after that time the weather was 
very dry, aud all kinds of crops suffered very 
much. Tomatoes, cabbage, and sweet pota¬ 
toes made short crops, and although we plant¬ 
ed Perfection, Icing and Carter Water melons’ 
the melon crop was almost a failure, except 
the Carter. We had some that were very 
large, aud very sweet and tender. We had 
3015 Rural Tomato vines, but they did not 
yield well on accouut of the drought. 
Last Spring I noticed a fine stool of rye that 
had grown lrom a single grain which had 
washed down to an uncultivated field. I 
watched it till it was ripe aud counted 021 
graiuB of rye from it. I intend to plant it and 
save its product for seed, as it yielded so 
heavily. 1 want to answer yes, sir, to those 
questions you asked about “Hoe Work,” some 
time ago. Papa says J can do more of it iu a 
day than any boy he ever saw. I milk the 
cows, aud used to churn, until we bought a 
Davis Swing-Churn. My little sisters use 
that, aud almost think it play. 
I made a box with a partition in it, aud a 
large auger hole in each end as a bird-house, 
and put it up in an elm tree iu our yard; the 
blue-birds and wrens fought for it some time, 
but tbe blue-birds gained it. Then the cats 
waged war on them aud killed every brood 
they raised, so I knocked it down and hung 
some gourds out on the long limbs with wire, 
and hope the birds can find safe homes iu 
them. 
Last Fall a mink killed forty chickens for 
us and dragged off most of them. We found 
a dozen a quarter of a mile from the house 
where he had buried them. Boon after an owl 
carried off several that were roosting iu an 
open shed. A neighbor of ours set his steel 
trap for hawks and has caught four very large 
owls. We have two fine cows, two heifers, 
that will come in next Spring, a thorough¬ 
bred Jersey bull, named Major, and two 
grade Jersey calves. My brother and 1 feed 
and brush them down. They are all accus¬ 
tomed to us, aud do not like to be handled or 
fed by any one else. 
Yours most respectfully, 
Pr. Edward Co. Va. wm. river daniel. 
[It does me good to hear that “yes, sirl” 
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COMBINATION 
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Especially for Farmers In do¬ 
ing odd Jobs about the farm. 
TIME ANDMONEY SAVED. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue 
describing these and our Sci¬ 
entific Grinding Mill. 
Have you seen the announcement of the 
Rural's present Free - Seed Distribution? 
Have you read an account of Us $3,000 worth 
of gifts to subscribers alone? If not, send 
for the Seed and Premium Supplement, It 
will be sent at once without charge. 
mid lot* of thrut can bo 
grown if yam follow our 
* Oat a Ingut* 'teftftribps all 
So. Gltmtonburp* Conn. 
BIC BERRIES 
method. l’re< 
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voriotien. 
Household Purposes 
To Insure obtaining only the "Arm k Hammer" brand Soda 
or Saluratue. lmy (t In "pound or bait pound ” cartoons which 
bear our name and trade-mark, as inferior goods arc BcunutimOs substituted lor the "Ann k Ham¬ 
mer brand when bought in bulk. Ask for the “ Arm & Hammer” brand SALS0DA (Washing Soda). 
THE (( pi A MET ID JJ hollow steel standard 
nkw rLANfcl Jn - horse hoe,- 
As lately Introduced, has no equal In the world. Its excellent 
work in the Held has distanced that of all compeillm-. U ik. 
in Home secilons, doing In one passage, the work ol four or 
live old style Implements, and In others HUpescedlng the cum¬ 
bersome and expensive two - horse tools. The* * PLANET 
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evenings out INN.» t AT \ i.imii !•:. which gives reduced 
prices, careful uiid exact engravings of ilu-se dllb-rcnt 
machines, anti such deacrlptiuns a* w ill enable tbe render to 
judge correctly oflhclr merits. Thirty pngeH ami Forty 
engravings, l-’ree to all. Correspondence solicited. 
uxJnrlevnorDfl i m ...a 10(1 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Uncle Mark:—I have long been wishing 
to write aud 1 would ask, may I join the Hor¬ 
ticultural Club. I do not know even one of 
the rules or regulations, but I would like very 
mucb to know them all. I read almost all of 
the Cousins’ letters and like them very mucb. 
Uncle Mark, I think you must be very fond of 
children, to take so much interest in such a 
large family. Perhaps you would like to 
kuow something about my home and myself. 
I live nine and one-half miles south of Wor¬ 
L‘r**Kpon<i*nc* hoiumhhi. 
cl Iiiru I rn MANUFACTURERS, 117 «nd 119 
S. L. ALLEN & CD., CATHARINE ST., PHILADELPHIA. PA 
