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TALKS BY UNCLE MARK. 
f T Geu. Grant’s funeral the 
other day, what do you think 
of all the great line of march¬ 
ing people seemed the most 
impressive? It was not the 
youug soldiers with bright 
new uniforms, but it was the 
old, gray headed men, the 
members of the G. A, R. I could not help 
thinking how much these men had done 
for us all, and how grateful the people 
ought to be. It is no wonder that the country 
desires to take care of such men when 
they grow old and feeble. It seems to 
me that we look upon these men just as our 
Rural boys and girls feel towards their par¬ 
ents. 1 tell you my boys and girls, you never 
can possibly think too much of your father or 
your mother. You never eau do too much 
for them. You can’t pay them in money for 
such service as they have done—that is what 
money never can buy. You have to pay them 
in kind words and attention.aud in trying to do 
cheerfully what they would like to have done. 
The poorest boy and the poorest girl can have 
an equal chance to pay this debt you see. 
When I see a boy who is glad to kiss his moth¬ 
er 1 make up my mind that he is going to be 
a good man. When I see a girl trying to do 
what she can to help, aud not crying about 
her work, I kuow what kind of a woman she 
will make. Just remember this now. There 
is nothing that you can ever do that will give 
you so much satisfaction, as the thought that 
you helped your parents. 
I don't see why the Cousins can’t have an 
election this Fall. There are several questions 
that we can vote upon and discuss. We shall 
have to do some pretty hard thinking in order 
to vote just right, but I am sure the thinking 
will do us good. The next time the Cousins 
write I want them to vote as they think best 
on these questions: 1. The most serviceable 
animal to the farmer? 2. The most valuable 
grain? 3 The best pet? 4. The most valuable 
fruit? 5. The most beautiful flower? 0. The 
most valuable vegetable? You need not 
write the questions all out but just give the 
numbers and the answers, if some of you 
want to discuss, and give reasons for voting 
as you do, we shall all be glad to listen. I will 
keep a record ol the vote and announce it in 
due time. It will be interesting to see which 
one of us can come nearest to the majority. 
Now let us all see just what we can decide 
upon after a good think. Take lor instance 
the first question. First think over all the 
animals that you kuow of, what people can 
do with them, aud whether we could get along 
without them. Then decide which is the most 
serviceable of all. 1 think the election will 
be pretty close. 
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NOTES FROM THE COUSINS. 
James Gould writes a good letter from 
Mason County. Michigan. They were iu the 
midst of harvest when he wrote. Hay is a 
fair crop and wheat good. Potatoes never 
looked better. James bad two swarms of 
bees, but they died last Winter. He thinks 
artificial swarming much the best. Bees 
must be kept dry and clean and kept warm 
through such cold winters as they have iu 
Michigan. The Thousand-Fold Rye has 83 
grains on one head, and the common rye has 
71. The Diehl-Mediterranean Wheat has 80 
and the common wheat 54. James says they 
like the rye, but think the beards a great 
drawback on the wheat. 
Grace C. Godwin lives in Richardson 
County, Nebraska. Just think what a play 
ground the Cousins have. Grace lives on a 
farm of 180 acres. They have 26 young tur¬ 
keys. They bad four old ones iu the Spring, 
but the wolves caught three of them. Write 
again whenever you can, Grace. 
W. C. Rigg sends a letter from Pettis 
County, Missouri. He planted 19 beans, but 
has only nine left. The Flageolet Beans were 
splendid. The Stratagem Peas were very 
large indeed. There are plenty of water¬ 
melons in the garden. They are all afraid 
of the hog cholera which is in the neighbor¬ 
hood. People think the Rural is the best 
paper published. They have a tame crow. 
and wing. 1 wonder if any of the Cousins 
ever saw a erow with many white feathers? 
Sophia C. Garrett wishes to add a sentence 
to her nice article on the New State Park. 
“The first flight of stairs that was built by the 
side of the inclined railway was taken down, 
but a more substantial staircase was put in 
its place.” 
Hattie M. Smith has some bad news. The 
beans were all growing very well when a 
terrible hail storm destroyed all but one. It 
was too bad to lose them in this way. The 
flower garden was almost ruined too. The 
flowers started up again and bloomed, but 
they were not as nice as they were before 
the storm. Hattie thinks she can save some 
seed. I hope she can do so, for then she can 
try again, and perhaps next year will be 
better. 
Inez Moon is 18 years old. She planted 
the Garden Treasures, but the dry weather 
kept them from doing very well. She has 
quite a lot of nice flowers in all. Her grand¬ 
mother has two lovely Dahlias, one pure 
white, aud the other dark red. They must 
be beautiful. 
Edith M. Young writes a very nice letter. 
She planted 22 of the beans, and 18 are left iu 
bloom. Before planting, they were soaked 
in lukewarm water. They seemed to swell 
to twice their size. They were planted in 
mellow ground, which had been spaded and 
then raked till it was nearly as fine as ashes. 
It was due greatly to this careful culture, I 
think, that made so many of them grow. 
The Garden Treasures are looking well. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a little girl 10 
years old My papa takes the Rural, and 
likes it very well. We live on a farm one 
mile and a half from the city of Schenectady, 
the city that more than 200 years ago was 
burned by the Indians and French, and many 
little boys and girls murdered. I have two 
brothers, Frank aud Foster, ami a baby sister 
nine months old, whose name is Ida May. 
We have four horses, four cows, six pigs, and 
lots of chichens. Eight kittens get their ra¬ 
tions every morning at the back stoop, and 
our puppy dog, Curley, gets lots of fun with 
them. 
Papa raises great quantities of Timothy, 
broom corn, oats, Indian coru, buckwheat, 
barley, and potatoes. He has six acres in 
tobacco, ODe-half acre in onions, one-balf acre 
in cauliflowers, three-fourths acre in cabbages, 
and one half acre in carrots. We have two 
teamsters and four day hands working steadi¬ 
ly from Spring to AutuniD. Our farm is situ¬ 
ated in the beautiful Valley of the Mohawk. 
We can see the waters of the Mohawk river 
and the Erie canal flowing almost side byside, 
and in another direction, close by the cars of 
three great railroads, N. Y. Central, West 
Shore, and a branch of the Delaware aud Hud¬ 
son C. Co Our farm is almost level as a floor, 
so we can’t ride down hill iu Winter. I attend 
school in Schenectady. We planted the Rural 
seeds, aud they are doing nicely. We have a 
vegetable garden, which gives us lots of good 
things for the table. I ve written letters be¬ 
fore, but never for a paper. You seem so 
good an uncle that I thought Pa would not 
object if I just wrote you a letter, aud gave 
my thanks for all the nice things you have to 
say to little children. Good bye, Uucle Mark. 
Your friend lulu j. sauter. 
[Uncle Mark is glad to hear from his new 
niece. We hope you will write again.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: —YYe would like to 
join the Y. H. C. Pa takes the Rcral and 
likes it very much. We had good luck with 
the seeds you sent us and they are looking 
well. The peas were good. We had about a 
quart of each kind. We had a half peck of 
wheat and 32 heads from one grain. We have 
not thrashed the rye yet. There were 62 heads 
from one grain. My brother and I have a 
patch of potatoes and beaus. The Blush Po¬ 
tatoes you sent us were good. We planted 
them aud got 188 potatoes, and next year we 
planted them and got 110 bushels. We live on 
a farm of 342 acres aud keep six horses, 32 
cattle, 43 sheep, 11 pigs, 65 chickens aud a dog. 
Your Nephews, 
WALTER and ALBERT FISHER. 
South Middleton, Ontario. 
[We are glad to have you in the club, boys. 
Wiite again whenever you can.— uncle 
mark.] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark: Pa takes the Rural 
and 1 like it very much. I live on a little 
farm in Johnson Co.. Kansas. Will you 
please enroll my name on the list? Pa plant¬ 
ed all the Rural seeds you so kindly sent us; 
IVwiif name. lit. G UQ i^Alllff 1X7 OI I miCDil 
back ride every day. We have two miJk 
cows and three calves. I will not write too 
long a letter this time. Hoping to flud this iu 
print, I remain you niece, 
MARY E. BECKLY. 
[Yes, indeed, we will gladly put your name 
on the list. You must write again, Mary, and 
tell us about your borne. We are all interest¬ 
ed I am sure.— UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark:— The Lima Beans 
you sent us I planted about the end of May. 
All came up nicely and are climbing higher 
than the poles. We have a nice garden. The 
crops are very poor here on account of the 
drought. Hay is about half crop. Our bees 
are in a tine condition now. They are gath¬ 
ering honey from Basswood,White and Alsike 
Clover. One of our neighbors has a field of 
vetches on which the bees are working, too. 
We have already about 50 pounds of honey 
per hive extracted. We did not have aoy 
cherries this year. Our strawberry plants are 
dying, apparently from the dry weather. 
Your dear nephew, Theodore g. kyfer. 
Brown Co., Wis. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— My brother and I 
joined the Youth’s Horticultural Club two or 
three years ago. So far be has done all the 
writing, so now I thought I would try my 
luck. We received the beaus, for which ac¬ 
cept our thanks, We planted them as you 
directed. We each have 15 hills—more came 
up. but worms or something destroyed them. 
We are going to try for the prize. We have 
been waiting patiently to bear what it is to be. 
My brother and I have a cotton patch of 
about an acre, from which we expect to make 
a bale of 500 pounds; and a Qoobir patch of 
more than 500 hills; and a large watermelon 
patch. We have done all the work in them, 
and are going to have all we make from them. 
We are getting the beuefit of our watermelon 
patch now, having three or four huge old fel¬ 
lows every day to eat. Then we have five 
hogs and 12 pigs all of our own, to feed aud 
take care of, besides our studies; altogether, 
they keep us pretty busy. Pa has got a Jer¬ 
sey bull called the “Duke of Kenesaw.” He 
is a beauty. Pa has also a Poland China hog 
that weighs about 650 pounds. We have a hog 
house with three large pens and a swinging 
door or partition over each trough between the 
alley and pens so that we can shut the hogs 
off from their feed, or let them in to eat it. It 
makes a very convenient place for feeding 
them. Thinking my letter long enough for 
this time, I will close. Yours Respectfully, 
Marietta, Ga. Carl chamberlain. 
[Thanks for your good letter, Carl. The 
Cousins will be glad to hear from the South. 
You are going to make a fine farmer, I think. 
How many of our northern Cousios can tell 
what a “Goober” is?— uncle mark.] 
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