THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
We think the White Elephant the finest po¬ 
tato we ever saw. The cross bred Diehl- 
Mediterranean Wheat was badly winter¬ 
killed; the few plants which stood the Winter 
were of no acconut. The Thousand-Fold Rye 
grew well, but did not fill. My brother and 
I sowed the oats and clover seed last Spring. 
We sheared the sheep also. Our bees have 
not done well, only two hives swanued and 
they have not made any honey since. The 
colonies that did not swarm have just begun 
to work, gathering honey from the corn tas¬ 
sels. We think poplar blossoms and white 
clover make the finest flavored honey, but the 
bees did not work at all while they were in 
bloom, and we have had only two small boxes 
of honey. Peaches and apples very abund* 
ant. Grape vines full of fruit, but some vari¬ 
eties are rotting badly with us. 
Your most respectful nephew, 
Farmville, Va, wm. rives danikl. 
[Perhaps you can take a prize with your 
single vine. ' You write a very good letter.— 
UNCLE MARK ] 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins. 
—1 hope that none of you are suffering from 
such a drought as we have here this season. 
Gardens are nearly dried up. The Rural peas 
died before they could ripen their seed; beans 
not much better. The Rural tomatoes were 
planted in a shady spot and are looking, con¬ 
sidering the drought, very well. There seems 
to be rain all around us but none of any ac¬ 
count has fallen in this town for two months. 
May was very wet and hay is a fair crop. I 
had to water and take extra care of my Gar¬ 
den Treasures, and I have got many handsome 
flowers to pay for my trouble. They are get¬ 
ting a world of admiration from passers by. 
Ladies from our Summer resorts stop aud ask 
for a f< w flowers occasionally. I astonished 
one of my visitors who iuquired where l got 
so many nice seeds by telling her that they 
came free, a packet to every subscriber of the 
Rural New Yorker. This lady wanted to 
pay me money. She doubted if in her city she 
could get such bouquets as I gave her for less 
than a dollar apiece, mary walky. 
Gales Ferry, July 28, 1S85. 
[We are glad ihe flowers are giving so much 
pleasure. No wonder the city people are de¬ 
lighted with them since you worked so harri.J 
UNCLE MARK. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins. 
—I received the Lima beans. I planted them 
the 21st of May, and they all came up nice, but 
1 hoed one oil’ a few days ago, and one died. 
They are about six feet high. My sister has 
six potato plants of the seed she planted and 
they are doing well. The chickens scratched 
out all of our Garden Treasures this year but 
we have some nice Hollyhocks Of last yenr. 
There are two kinds, dark double and white. 
I will close wishing success to Uncle Mark 
and the Rural Cousins. mary illg. 
Allegan Co., Mich., July 11*. 
ital letters just right or you will not be able 
to understand it. Now let all the Cousins try 
it. How many think it is true? 
The farmer leads no E Z life, 
The C D sows will rot; 
And when at E V rest from strife 
His hones all A K lot. 
In D D has to struggle hard 
To E K living out; 
If 1 C frosts do not retard 
His crops there’ll B A drought. 
The hired L P has to pay 
An atvfnl A Z. too; 
They C K rest when he’s away 
Nor any work will do. 
Both N Z cannot make to meet 
And then for A D takes 
Some boarders who so R T eat 
& K no money makes. 
Of little IT C finds this life; 
Sick in old A G lies; 
And debts be O Z leaves bis wife 
And then Iu P C be dies. 
TALKS BY UNCLE MARK. 
HEN I was a boy there 
'N used to be an old man 
in the town where I 
lived who liked nothing 
[J ^ better than to get the 
jd ? boys and girls around 
y him every Saturday 
i j ; afternoon and tell them 
stories. He used to en- 
VvS) joy talking aud we 
were never tired of list- 
j J) ening and asking ques- 
Itis hard for me 
tions. 
£ 19 to think of any part of 
K my life that is much 
^ pleasanter than the 
hours spent so long ago with old Uncle Bill. 
I can remember a great many of his stories 
and talks and I am sure that many of them 
did me a great deal of good, 
in a little town by the seashore. 
NOTES FROM THE COUSINS, 
BY UNCLE MARK, 
Wilbur F. Saxton was quite sick during 
the Winter term of school. I am sure that 
we are all sorry to hear it. Wilbur hopes to 
make up for lost time by bard work. His 
beans are all growing nicely in his little gar¬ 
den. His father cut down a tree on which 
Wilbur counted o50 rings. I wonder what 
Cousin can beat that. In the top of the tree 
they found a large coon and four little ones. 
How may of the Cousins have ever seen a 
coon? Uncle Mark used to have a tame one 
years ago. 
Mary E. Truitt wants to join our Club, and 
I am sure we are glad to have her do so. She 
lives in Kansas, and has a great many flowers. 
She helps her mother tend the garden—how 
nice it is to be able to help mother so much. 
I wish we could see your bitten, Mary. What 
color is it? _ 
George B. Fox is going to make a good 
farmer some day, i think. He writes a good 
letter full of valuable facts. George lives iu 
New Jersey. He says that farmers there do 
not think it pays to use phosphates on rye. 
Even if the rye is a little better, the grass seed 
does not seem to do so well. Corn is doing 
well. The worms that you speak of must 
have been cut-worms, I think, George. They 
killed a strip right through the field. George 
wants to tell the Cousins about his first exper¬ 
ience at raising chickens. He bought two 
settings of Light Brahma eggs, but only 14 
hatched out. The rest were taken sick, aud 
though George did the best he could for them, 
12 have died. I am sorry you had such bad 
luck, George, but you must not be discouraged 
at alL __ 
Etta Shaffner writes from Iowa. All the 
beans came up but three. Home of them are 
eight feet high now. She thinks they are 
going to be prize beans. They bad a great 
many raspberries at their home. Etta says 
that her hands show how hard she has worked 
piekiug berries. They like the Cuthbert the 
best of all the raspberries. They always can 
enough to last all through the year. Etta 
wants to tell the Cousins how she cans the 
raspberries. Hhe found that soaking 
the can lids and rubbers lu sour milk would 
clean them and soften the rubbers so that they 
would be good as new. Clean can lids aud 
rubbers aud rinse in hot water; fill the cans, 
put the rubbers ou and screw the lids on tight 
as possible and set iu a dark and cool place, 
aud tbe berries will keep for years. Etta has 
four beds of everlustmgs. She thinks they pay 
for the trouble of raising for one bouquet will 
last for two years. Last year she had thirteen 
different kinds. We all hope Etta will write 
again. _ 
Uncle Bill lived 
We could 
sit under the tree in front of his house and 
look out over the ocean. Very often we could 
see a ship sailing by far out at sea. It would 
seem to siuk and fade away in the distance. 
On stormy days we always went into Uncle 
Bill’s kitchen. He always had a good fire 
when the weather was cool. It was made of 
driftwood that crackled and snapped right 
well. Uncle Bill bad been a great traveler. 
He seemed to have done almost everything. 
It was good to talk with such a man, because 
he gave you a good idea of many strange and 
interesting things. These old talks did me so 
much good when I was a boy, that I would 
like to see something of the kind started in 
our Rural family. We can come together 
every week and spend a little time in talking 
over things that we have seen or things that 
we want to do. Old Uncle Bill is dead now, 
but we can imagine ourselves sitting under 
his tre^ or in his warm kitchen while we talk. 
We can spend a little time in this way quite 
well, I think. It will give us all something 
more to think about during the week, and 
that is certainly what we want. 
is A SUCCESS. 
Send for circular to I* LA NTEK S’ II OK CO 
Troy. N. Y. 
RADLEY’S 
SUPERPHOSPHAT 
I am sure that many of the Cousius would 
be glad to visit New York this week to attend 
Gen. Grant’s funeral. I suppose that every 
American boy and girl kuowssometbiug about 
Geu. Grant’s life. There is something that 
makes us thoughtful when we see the whole 
country in mourning for one man. He must 
have been a very gieat man indeed—there 
must have been something wonderful about 
him that should make people love him so well. 
Oue of the most interesting tilings about him 
lies, 1 think, in the fact that he was once a 
farm boy just like many of our own Rural 
boys. That is tbe way he started, and it seems 
to me that it would be well for our boys to 
thiuk over his life and see if they can find 
what it was that made him successful. Years 
ago he had the same trials and troubles that 
every farm boy has to-day. 1 have no doubt 
he had to bind wheat, rake hay, or hoe in the 
garden when he wanted to play ball or go in 
swimming with tbe boys. No doubt he had to 
do a great mauy things that he did not like. 
The country was newer then and work was 
harder. I think you will find that one great 
reason of Gen. Grant’s success was the fact 
that he always did the very best he could with¬ 
out complaining or worrying anymore than 
he could help. Hard work did not, frighten 
him at all. He found out the great secret of 
all good work. If boys will only do the best 
they can, not get ashamed of their work, aud 
not be in a great hurry to do something better, 
they will be sure to get along; people will 
notice them and be ready at any time to give 
them a lift. People found out at last, you see, 
that when Gen. Grant was given a piece of 
work to do he always worked faithfully on 
till he did it. He won the confidence of the 
people in that way, and that Is tbe only way 
true confidence can be won, 1 hope all our 
Rural boys—and girls too for that matter— 
will remember this. It is the way we do our 
work that counts. Our boys cau milk aud our 
girls can wash dishes in such a way that people 
will notice them aud give them credit for good 
work. We cannot all be Presidents, many of 
us would not care to be, but we cau all work 
in such a way that people will be glad to work 
with us aud always speak a good word iu our 
favor. That is worth a good deal more than 
we think. __ 
The Cousins need not be at all afraid of the 
“ waste basket.” Uncle Mark will try and 
notice every ietter after this. We may not 
be able to publish it all, but you may bo sure 
that a note at least will appear. Ho don’t tie 
afraid to write aa often as you can. 
Here is a curious piece of poetry. You will 
have to read it slowly and pronounce the cap- 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS, 
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LIQUID GLUE 
Dear Uncle Mark: I planted the Lima 
beans you sent me. May 4. Planted them 
two iuches deep iu hills four feetapart. Moles 
or ground rats destroyed all except one, but 
that one is growing finely aud is full of pods. 
They are different from any beaus I ever saw 
before. I thiuk I am out iu the race lor a 
prize, still 1 will take care of my vine and 
beans and make a report from it. Papa’s 
Rural Corn, planted the same day, is looking 
well; tbe stalks are from live to twelve feet 
high, and some stalks have six or seven ears 
on them. There are three or four distinct 
varieties. We planted nearly an acre iu 
White Elephant potatoes. We opened the 
rows first with the lurge mould-board running 
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