THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JAN 47 
for ti)c Pen wo;. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Deak Uncle Mark:— We generally have 
good cottou and corn crops, but this season, 
in May, we had such floods they washed them 
away, and some people had to plant their 
fields the second and third time. Our cotton 
crop was a very short one. I suppose there 
are many of the little Cousins who have never 
seen cotton growing. The cotton Lilos:-om is at 
first a very light yellow: as it wilts, itturus 
to a pink, and then drops off, leaving the 
form, which grows into a boll, and the boll 
holds the cottou. The stalks usually grow 
five to six feet high, but this Summer the best 
was only about three feet high, ou account of 
the severe drought wc had, commencing about 
the first of June and lasting until the 4th of 
October; but Ta had a good rye, and wheat, 
and corn crop, lister aud I helped Pa pick 
his cotton; when the Cousins buy a calico 
dress they may think it may he made from 
our cotton that I picked. Maybe the Cousins 
do not know that every boll of cotton has 
several seeds growing in it, about the size of a 
kernel of corn, aud to remove this seed it is 
drawn to the gin and passed through the gin- 
stand and baled in large bales about four feet 
by three cubits; these are then sent to a com¬ 
press to be made smaller for convenience of 
shipping. Maybe some time I will tell you 
about the gin and compress, if you wish to 
hear it. One of the Cousins, 
Ellis Co., Texas. matie h. kichmond. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— It has been a long 
time since I have written to you, but my 
brother and I have been so busy, living on 
such a large farm as we do. Many thanks for 
the flower seeds. I made a bed about six feet 
long and three feet wide; but that was hardly 
large enough, they were too close together, 
but as soon as they began to bloom, and I 
found there were two or three of a kind, I 
thinned them out and left but one of a kind; 1 
transplanted some of them, they were all ad¬ 
mired very much, but 1 thought the poppies 
aud asters the prettiest; no one enjoyed them 
more than I did, for 1 am a great lover of 
ilowets; the first thing every morning I would 
pay a visit to my little flower bel and find 
some ‘ new beauty unfolding” as Ma says; I 
saved a good many of the seeds. 
I believe I promised to write to you about 
our cotton crop. I don't suppose many of the 
Cousius ever have seen any cotton growing. 
Well we first prepare the ground as you would 
for any crop, we put in about two hundred 
pounds of fertilizer to the acre and plant in 
rows about three feet apart; it comes up very 
soon, when it is about four or five inches 
high we chop it out with a hoe, leaving the 
plants from 18 inches to a foot apart and we 
keep on hoeing the grass aud weeds out and 
stirring up the soil until it begins to bloom. 
It has beautiful blossoms, something like a 
holly bock, changing to three or four different 
colors before dropping off. When they first 
open they are a pale yellow, then pink and 
changing from that to a dark red; then a boll 
forms w hich gets to be about the size of a wal¬ 
nut before it opens. My brother and I have 
picked a bale, that is fifteen hundred pounds 
before ginning, and five hundred after. 
From your affectionate nephew, 
Cobb, Co., Ga. cor chamberlain. 
Uncle Mark:— I thought it was time to 
write and tell you about my flowers. The 
seeds did not come up very well ou account 
of unfavorable weather, and I pulled up for 
weeds a good many that did grow. I had a 
sunflower with two bud* grown together, but 
the w ind broke them off before they bloomed. 
We live ou Walden's Ridge, in Rhea Co., 
Tenu. The land here is poor, but we can 
raise good potatoes and fruit of different 
kinds. Apples do very well nearly every 
year; peaches do well generally, but there 
was no fruit this year—the cold killed the 
buds last Winter. Rears and quinces do well, 
so do grapes and berries. Rye aud oats grow 
well, but wheat and corn do not thrive to any 
extent; grass does well on wet land. 
WILLIAM STEWART. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —The flower seeds you 
so kindly sent me did not come up very well, 
as the weather was so dry that nothing could 
grow. The Sensitive Plant grows wild 
here; the roots grow as much as two feet 
long, the tops grow about six feet high. I 
planted some sprouts of the lata Beauty of 
Hebron Potato last Spring and they yielded 
very well and very nice tubers. 
JOHN STEWART. 
Uncle Mark:—W e had some of the pret¬ 
tiest balsam flowers we ever saw. We have 
a plant of Ipomopsis and have covered it with 
leaves so that it will bloom next year. We 
have saved seed from all our nice flowers to 
plant another year. Mattie is eight years 
old and I am eleven. The only pet we have 
is a cat; his name is Peter Blacknose. 
KATE AND MATTIE STEWART. 
Rhea Co., Tenn. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Cousins:— I was 
so afraid I would have bad luck with my seeds 
that I only plauted half of them. They grew 
very nicely. Some of them we had never seen 
before. We fetched a Sensitive Plaut into 
the house; it. is alive yet, but looks rather 
feeble. Are they house plants or not? J am 
10 years old, and love to go to school. I have 
a mile and a quarter to go; when there comes 
a stormy morning there is a sad-faced little 
girl here. I won’t say how many cries she 
has had; you must know, if you have had 
much to do with little girls, that it is very 
easy for them to cry. Last Winter my bro¬ 
ther took me to school almost every day. I 
have not so many pets as some of the Cousins; 
I have a little snow-white rooster and a coal 
black kitteu. My kitten is very mischievous; 
every chance it has it runs slyly into the par¬ 
lor bed-room and lies down on the bed like a 
lady. My brother and I have four turkeys 
aud four guineas; the turkeys will come and 
eat from my haud. Your niece and cousin, 
Schenectady Co., N. Y. oora m. ward, 
[1 fear your Sensitive Plant is dead before 
now, for they are not easily transplanted; but 
if grown from the seed in the house they will 
do well as house plants if given good care. 
UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I suppose it is time 
for me to write to you again. Papa is plas¬ 
tering our house; this is Sunday morning. 
No,-l don’t live in the moon, I live in Dakota: 
why wouldn’t I get rich pulling gray hairs at 
five cents each; have your hairs all got white? 
1 have five sisters aud two brothers; my little 
sister is a year old, and she can walk and talk; 
one of my sisters is at Grand View, clerk¬ 
ing in the post-office. 
We milk three cows; we have one yearling 
calf and one little calf; we are raising them 
both; we have a dog named “Shep,” aud a 
cat named “Puss.” Papa has a nice little span 
of mules; their names are “Jack” and “Jim¬ 
my.” The mail comes down from the north 
but three times a week now. We raised a 
good deal of pop corn this year; we had three 
kinds; vre had the round, red and white, and 
white rice; it was very nice. I will close, 
hoping to see this in print. 
1 remain your Niece, 
Douglas Co., Dak. fanny Godfrey. 
[The name of the vegetable you described 
was blotted so I could not read it, so cannot 
tell you whether I ever saw it or not.— uncle 
mark.] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark:— l would like to join 
the Horticultural Club and be one of the 
Cousins. Papa takes your paper; be has 
taken it for three years: he says he can’t get 
along without it. We live in Iowa, close to 
the Minnesota line. We moved here last 
Fall. I have four little sisters; there are four 
of us go to school, and baby sister sta>s at 
borne with mamma. I can make bread, 
cakes, pies and cookies. I milk five and six 
cows in Summer. Papa is a farmer and we 
keep lots of cows. 
1 want to have a nice flower gardm next 
Summer. Many thanks for the flower seeds 
you sent us. 1 am a little girl 11 years old. 
Howard Co., Iowa. minnie avkry. 
[I am glad to enroll your name ou the C.ub 
list. I hope you have read the rules of the 
Y. H. C. for 1885 —uncle mark.] 
My Dear Uncle Mark:—I can't write very 
well, for my little sister is up on the table; 
but she dosen’t know any better, for she is 
only one year old. 
Uncle Mark, you were mistaken in what 
you said about the salsify, for we had never 
had any salsify planted on this farm before 
last year. You said it was a plant that stored 
up food one year to make seed the next, aud 
ours surely seeded the first year. 
We have got our thrashing done and papa 
has hauled off two loads of flax; for the first 
load he took he got $ 1.10 per bushel, but for 
the last loud he took he only got $1.03 per 
bushel. 
We have our corn all gathered but about 
three loads. Papa raised about 300 bushels of 
corn this year. He had 100 bushels of flax, 
233 of oats, U(l of wheat, 22 of buckwheat. 
There was a big prairie fire about four weeks 
ago; it came pretty dose to us; it almost 
burned a man out who fives about two-miles- 
and-a-half northwost of here; it burned four 
or five men out up near Plankinton. A little 
child was burned to death; it was in a baru 
and the bam caught fire and burned down. 
LAURA GODFREY. 
Douglas Co., Dak. Ter. 
[I guess you are right about the salsify; for 
although it does usually store up food one sea 
son to make seed the next, now and then a 
plant goes to seed the first year; but you will 
find that, as a rule, it makes no seed the first 
year .—uncle mark.] 
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