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FHE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
gftiswtlanmis ^Mvcrti.oing, 
corn plants are just beginning to show tiny 
ears coming; two tomatoes are in blossom, 
and this morning I picked five real string 
beans to cook for my dinner, and left 15 more 
on the bushes to grow older and become “lima 
beaus.” I sit and watch them and wish l had 
a real garden like the boys who write to you. 
I am going to be a farmer, if I live to be a 
man. 1 save all the Rurals, so as to know 
how to manage then. 
The rest of the vegetable seeds are planted 
at Cornwall, on the side of a beautiful, grand 
mountain—just near the Hudson River. The 
gentleman who owns the garden writes books 
and knows almost everything. 
Maude is quite as proud of her flowers, and 
keeps them in the parlor window—she says 
they are the best kind of screens to hide us 
from our saucy neighbors across the way'. The 
periwinkle is in bloom—the coreopses and 
stocks just ready to unfold—while the asters, 
portulaca, etc., are all in due time preparing 
to put on their gay robes. Altogether we 
have enjoyed your flower-seeds very much 
and later on will tell you about the corn and 
tomatoes. 
There is a large hospital full of sick children 
near us, and we want to get enough flowers 
in blossom to send a nice bouquet over there 
every morniug—the poor little girls are so 
fond of flowers—1 know the boys would like 
my vegetables. W. F. poole. 
New York City. 
[We ar6 very glad to hear again from your 
garden. The Cousins who have whole acres of 
ground ought to feel very thankful after read¬ 
ing of your little farui up so far above the 
ground.— UNCLE MARK ] 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I joined the Club 
when I was six years old, and now 1 am 11. 
Mamma raises a great many chickens some¬ 
times. If I help raise them this year, I am to 
have half the profit. I am to spend the money 
as I choose. We have lately bought Langshan 
and Pekin eggs. Of the Pekins, we have only 
four little duckies. Our other fowls are 
Plymouth Rocks, and they are very handsome. 
Uncle Mark, I hope you haven’t a niece who 
hates dish washing worse than I. My brother 
is getting so tall he don’t like to help any 
more. And it would be no use to break them 
all; mamma would only buj r more. Besides 
washing dishes. I take care of my baby sister, 
five mouths old, weighing 22 pounds, tend the 
flowers, milk my cow and help mvtnma about 
everything. 
My papa is going to be a fruit-grower. He 
has 300 pear trees, besides apples and other 
fruit trees. At our house we have a large 
trunkful of Rural New-Yorkers. 
ETHEL WYSOR. 
Pulaski Co., Virginia. 
[[ hope you will learn to wash dishes so 
quickly and well that you will forget to hate 
the work. Write us how much your share of 
the chicken mouey is this Summer.— 
UNCLE MARK.] 
thrashing it in the field. I will close, hoping 
to see this in print. From your niece, 
Talbot Co., Md. ANNIE LAURA BRYAN, 
[We are pleased to welcome you among the 
Cousins. Write again when the fall crops are 
ripe. uncle mark ] 
Dear Uncle Mark:— The farmer depends 
on his sheep for a great deal, the wool beiDg 
almost the only source of income to a great 
many farmers,. This Summer the price offer¬ 
ed for wool is 28 to 80 cents per pound. A 
few years ago the price paid was 45 to 48 cents. 
The yield to the sheep varies greatly in differ¬ 
ent years; it would average about five pounds 
this year. The wool market is dull at present. 
The sheep market is also dull, $8.80 being the 
hig hest price paid so far this year. The sheep 
are mostly native and Cotswold or Merino 
crosses. Sheep require a great deal of care 
and attention; they must be in good condition 
in the Fall or a great rnnuy will die through 
the Winter. Last Winter a large per cent, 
died on account of the drought which burnt 
out nearly all the pasture, so they were in 
poor condition in the Fall. In Winter grain 
is given once a day, generally prepared by 
mixing corn aud oats or bran. If corn or oats 
is scarce, wheat is used instead. One must be 
careful not to feed too much. This feed once 
a day, together with plenty of good hay, is 
sufficient for any sheep. In preparing hay, 
cut Timothy in the forepart of the day and 
“shock” in the afternoon, let it stand a day or 
two then stack or mow away. It makes the 
best hay when it is cut in bloom, but it is uot 
so good for horses. Cut clover as soon as in 
full bloom. Cure it well, but do not burn it, 
nor let it get wet, as ram will spoil it. Timothy 
seed is sown with wheat in the Fall, and 
Clover seed on the same ground in the Spriug, 
This makes good feed, making clover aud 
timothy about equal parts. 
Many thanks for those beans Uncle, some 
of the vines have reached t he tops of the poles, 
but some are very slow. 1 have 18 in all 
growing. None have bloomed yet, but will 
soon. 1 will write when they ripen and tell 
you more. Finally in reverence to our illus¬ 
trious Uncle, and in homage to the many 
Cousins who have devoted noble labors to the 
good of our department, aud who I hope 
may become noble men and women in our 
land, I beg that the shortcomings of my too 
hurried letter may be forgiven. It has been 
written in the brief intervals of days without 
leisure, but is inspired by an abiding desire 
to aid in the better knowledge of man's most 
useful and most needful of domestic auimals. 
Carroll Co., Ohio. EMORY c. spence. 
Dear Uncle Mark : —I’ve written one letter 
before this and I saw it in print, so 1 thought 
I would try agaiu. I have been going to school 
this Summer. I am 13 years old. I have one 
mile and a half to go to school. It closed the 
17th of July. We had about 40 scholars en- 
and we had a good 
A DART. 
WONDER] how many of the 
Ly Cousins—the boys I mean— 
have ever heard of a Dart. I 
j Yf, remember distinctly the first 
1 one I ever saw; my grand- 
father told me that if I would 
stay at home and not go out 
with the boys, he would make 
^ t ^ me something new to play 
with. So I told the boys I couldn’t go fishing 
with them, and my grandpa made me a dart. 
It was the wonder of the neighborhood, aud 
I soon had my hands full, making them. The 
boys would bring me a shingle—and a precious 
piece of lumber it was to the boys then—and 
1 would make them a dart. I soon had a 
surplus of stangles and all my chums had 
darts, and that ended the business. I set out 
to tell bow I nsed to make them, but when an 
old man begins to tell of what he did when a 
boy, you know be never knows wheD to stop. 
Well, you first get a piece of shingle, say two- 
inches wide, and cut out each side, leaving 
the thin end (A) the full width of the piece, 
The Committee In charge of the construction of 
the liH.sc mu! pedestal for the reeeptlou of this great 
work. In order to raise Hindu lor its comple¬ 
tion, have prepared a mini unto Statuette six inches 
in height ,—the Statue Bronzed: Pedestal, Nickel-sil¬ 
vered,—which they are now Oetlvorlng to subscrib¬ 
ers throughout the United Siutes at One Hollar 
^Tuis*attractive souvenir and Mantel or Desk orna¬ 
ment Isa perfect faa simile or the model furnished 
by the artist. ... , . , 
The Statuette In same metal, twelve inches high, at 
Five Hollars Kuril, delivered. 
The designs or Statue aud Pedestal are protected 
by u. S. Pateuts, and the models run only be fur¬ 
nished bv this Committee , Address with remittance 
It 1(111 A 1C D II ITT I,BK, Secretary. 
Amerisan Committee of the Statue of Liberty, 
33 Mercer Street, New 1 ork. 
cutting a notch or other ornament in it, and 
poiuting the thick end (B). You next balance 
it on the edge of your knife and cut a notch 
at the point, where it balances (C). You next 
make (D) a stick with a string to it and a 
knot in the end (E). very much like a small 
whip. Patting the knot in the notch of the 
dart you take the sender (D) iu your right 
hand, the head of the dart (A) lightly in your 
left, you then throw it with a quick move¬ 
ment of the right hand, letting go of the dart 
at the same moment with the left. It is a 
handy and harmless toy, and yet with a little 
practice you can fire them very straight. 
Try it, boys, but be sure and not shoot at 
birds or animals. Put up au apple or an old 
hat, and you cau Boon learn to hit it every 
time. 
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moM nutritious forms, derived from the best materials, anil 
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hartley Fertilizer Co.. rK°este m r as n‘ y 
rolled this Summer, 
teacher. 
I have three Hot 
brother has one. So 
bloom. We have ha 
are doing well. 1 b 
hocks in bloom now; they are very pretty. 
Last year we had a grape vine with our Gar¬ 
den Treasures. It is growing very nicely. I 
have a patch of potatoes; they are looking very 
nicely. We have 10 old hens and 15 young 
ones. I take care of them and have part of 
the chickens I live on a farm of 160 acres. 
I have throe brothers aud no sisters. My 
brother Herbert said he was going to write to 
you today, so I thought I wonld. I don’t 
have much time to write when I am going to 
school. I hope to see this in print, but if I 
don’t I will not be discouraged. 
I remain, your loving niece, 
Oceana Co., Mich. aggie dannell. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins:— 
I have been calculating to write to yon for a 
long time, but I have been putting it off until 
i made up my mind to any bow. My brother 
and 1 put in nearly half an acre of potatoes 
and they are doing well. Pa put in nearly 
two acres. We had green peas the 2«th of 
June, Cleveland’s R. N. Y. being the first. 
Horsford’s Market Garden are just ready to 
eat now. I live on a farm of 106 acres. We 
keep 15 head of stock and milk four cows aud 
have two horses and five pigs. We have 12 
acres of wheat ready to cut this week. I hope 
to see this in print, but if I don’t I shall try 
agaiu. 1 remain your nephew, 
Oceana Co., Mich. Herbert dannell. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I hope you have not 
forgotteu what we wrote about our “gardeu 
in the sky”—ho w we had made it in a soap box 
on the fire escape ot back balcony to our flat, 
which is on the seventh floor of a big house. 
We planted the seeds you sent us—that is, a 
few of them—to see how corn, peas and beans 
looked while they were growing, and these 
are certaiuly as well behaved young vege¬ 
tables as auy city garden cau show. Two tall 
LIQUID CLUE 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— As papa takes the 
Rural, and I have been reading some of the 
letters from the Cousins, I thought, I would 
write you a letter too. I have a little flower 
bed, aud papa gave me the flower seeds you 
sent him. I have 12 kinds of flowers in Dloorn, 
and papa thinks I will have more. 1 am near¬ 
ly nine years old. I live in the village, and 
papa has a creamery, and makes butter, cheese, 
and ice cream. I have two cats and three 
kittens. Sister Lulu says I write such a long 
letter you will throw it in the waste basket 
before you get through reading it. Your 
niece, edith b. fichter. 
Somerset Co., N. J. 
[Tell LuJu to write us a long letter and see 
what becomes of it. uncle mark.] 
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Dear Uncle Mark:—As papa takes the R. 
N.-Y., and 1 love to read it, 1 take the liberty 
to drop a few lines to you, aud would like to 
join the Club. We are pleased with the seeds 
you sent us. We moved from Monroe Co., 
Fa., to this place one year ago last April. 
That was a hilly section; this is all level. It 
is much warmer here in Summer, and not so 
cold in Winter. We all like it here very well. 
I am ten years old; have five sisters aud three 
brothers. I go to school at Easton, three 
miles from here. I love my school. I study 
spelling, reading, writing, aud arithmetic. 
The corn you seDt us is growing nicely. The 
pears are splendid. Mamma saved them all 
for seed next year. The flower seeds you sent 
us all came up, and are growing well. The 
wheat is all cut here, and the farmers are 
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