AUG 29 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
fox fye Jhmng. 
TALKS BY UNCLE MARK. 
Some of the Cousius say that they are to 
have all the money they can make out of 
their farming or gardening, to spend as they 
like. Now, I wonder what they will do with 
this money when they get it. It will be good 
to know just what our boys and girls think 
money is made for. Suppose you tell us in 
your next letter just what you did with this 
money. I thiuk that all boys and girls ought 
to kuow something about business, and we can 
teach ourselves many things. We must take 
care of the little sums of money and then they 
will multiply. I want our boys and girls to 
be sure and keep a strict account of all they 
spend or save. That is the foundation of all 
successful business. There are plenty of men 
and women who do not know how much they 
spend or save, because, when they were boys 
and girls, they did not learn to keep accounts. 
Now is the b9St time for ns to learn. The 
girls need not think that the boys must do all 
the business. Our Rural girls must know 
how to keep accounts too. They are all too 
smart, I know, to be driven away from any¬ 
thing that is good or useful. 
Freddie Reeve planted all the beans, and 
he has IS growing now. Some of them have 
climbed above the poles. He has some beauti¬ 
ful flowers, Freddie has a pet dog. They 
have great fun. They like to hunt wood¬ 
chucks together. What is the dog’s name, 
Freddie ? 
NOTES FROM THE COUSINS. 
Birdie Kellogg wants to join the club. 
We are glad to welcome her. She is 12 years 
old, and has a little brother who is six years. 
Write us more about the flowers Birdie. 
Mabel Temple writes a very nice little 
letter. She has beeu sick and could not go to 
school for nearly six weeks. She likes to go 
to Sunday school, for she has a very nice teach¬ 
er. It is so nice to have a good teacher, for 
then we can take more interest in our work. 
Write again Mabel. 
Lizzie Squires is our latest member. She 
is 12 years old and lives in Wayne Co. N. Y. 
She always reads the letters and notes from 
the Cousins. The Rural peas and beans are 
very nice. She has a nice flower garden 
and some day she means to take the Rural for 
herself. 
Illtyp C. I. Evans would be glad to cor¬ 
respond with Addison Reynolds, of Vermilion 
Co. ills, who wished to write to some of the 
Cousins. Illtyd says he is only a farmer’s 
boy, and he seems a little afraid that bis let¬ 
ters will not be very instructive. We do not 
think he has any reason to fear at all on that 
score, for he writes a very good letter. He is 
18 years old, and works on a large farm of 680 
acres. We hope Addison will write to his 
Cousin at once. The address is Evanston 
Farm, Muskoda P. O. Clay Co. Minn. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I will tell you about 
my little garden and flowers. I have four 
o'cloeks, balsams, zinnias, verbenas, prince’s 
feather, dish cloth gourds, and some others all 
in bloom now. Mamma gave me a strawberry 
tomato plant, and it bloomed and had a ripe 
tomato before papa’s did. I planted morning 
glories by the smoke-house and brained them 
over the front of the house, and they are 
beautiful in the morning. 
We had three swarms of bees, and I found 
them all. Our bees are so gentle, we hardly 
ever get a sting. They have not made but 
two boxes of honey for us this Summer. 
My calf is growing, and will mike a flue 
cow. She Is more than a year old now. We 
have three little calves in a small lot, and I 
have to give them water every day. When 
we make cider, papa gets me to put the apples 
in the mill. One of our neighbors brought his 
apples here to-day, and made two barrels of 
cider. My sisters and 1 gathered dewberries 
and blackberries this Summer. We made nice 
jelly of some of them. Katie cau spell very 
well, and reads in the third reader. She is not 
quite seven years old. My baby sister baa 
been sick all the Summer. She is not two 
years old yet, but she talks very plainly. Our 
tube rose is nearly ready to bloom; I think it 
is a beautiful flower. I like to read Mrs. 
Wager-Fisher’s letters in the Rural, and 
read those from the Cousins every week too. 
Your little niece, sallik l. daniel. 
Pr. Ed. Co., W. Va. 
Dear Uncle Mark: — I received the Lima 
beans which you were so kind to send to me. 
Many thanks for them. I planted them and 
they are growing very nicely. Some of the 
vines are about twelve feet high and are cov¬ 
ered with pods while others are not quite so 
high. 1 think I will try for one of the prizes 
but I do not know which one to try for yet. 
I cannot try for the most beans on the 15 
vines because I have only got eight vines. 
The Gera peas which you sent us are about the 
finest I ever saw. We planted eight peas 
which yielded 290. The Prince of Wales 
peas yielded very well. The Flageolet beans 
have yielded very well and over one-half of 
them are ripe. The Garden Treasures look 
very brilliant and l like to look at them. The 
country which surrounds where we live looks 
very beautiful because there are so many nice 
trees, flowers and fields of grain. We have a 
nice place to live on. There are nearly all 
the different kinds of raspberries, black cur¬ 
rants, red currants, white currants, apple 
trees,plum trees, pear trees, gooseberry bushes, 
elderberry bushes, strawberries, over a dozen 
grape vines and all the different kinds of veg 
etables that any person would want to grow. 
We have six Jarge buildings. A wagon shop, 
blacksmith shop, lumber shop.a stable, and two 
other buildings for general purposes, We 
have cattle, pigs, hens, geese and oue cat. 
Your affectionate nephew, 
EARNEST BOWLER. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I would like to join 
the Y. H. C , and help swell the numbers. I 
am 11 years old aud go to school and study 
live books. The worms and bugs have taken 
nearly all our corn. We had a very nice 
Fourth. I have a nice melon patch. We had 
a very heavy rain and it washed away a man’s 
wheat. Your nephew, 
Pittsburg, Kaus. Freddie champion. 
[You are surely a member now Freddie. I 
wish I could taste some of your melons. Don’t 
forget that every member has to write two 
letters during the year.— uncle mark ] 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 received the beans 
you sent me and I planted them, but only 
three came up and one of them died. I want¬ 
ed to wiu oue of the prizes so badly, but I am 
afraid I will lose it. Two of them are six or 
seven feet high, and have pods nearly two 
inches loDg and still have a good many blooms 
left. We are looking for the thrasher to come 
and thrash our wheah. Our wheat aud oats 
are very good this year. I planted the Gar¬ 
den Treasure you sent me, and they all came 
up, but I did not kuow anvthiug but t-heZania. 
I had a good many Petuuier and Bachelor’s 
Buttons, and a great many roses. Hoping to 
see this in print, 1 remain your niece, 
Fancy Meadows, Tenn. Maggie meek. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I would like to join 
the Y. H. C. aud be one of the Cousins. I 
have written a letter, but it was not printed. 
I like to read the Cousius’s letters very much. 
We have got about 84 chickens now, and ex¬ 
pect three more hens to have some within a 
week. The Lima beans yo.i seut all started 
to grow, hut just as they were coming out of 
the ground, sbmetbing ate them off. I hope 
that this letter won’t go to the waste basket. 
Your nephew, 
West Eaton, N. Y. ervvin meurit, 
[I am glad to welcome Erwin to our Club. 
I hope he will write again.— uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle Mark : It is raining hard, 
aud we cut our hay one week last Monday, 
and as it has rained every day but one, it is 
out in it yet and is nearly spoiled. I think 
when I joined the Y. H. C. that I was trying 
some experiments which I said I would report. 
I was grafting the Golden Beauty upon the 
Box Elder. Only one Jived, aud that was 
broken off by a horse that got in the orchard. 
I had so much to do last Spring that I did not 
get tune to try again, but will try next Bpring. 
It is so long since I have written, that I sup¬ 
pose you have forgotten all about your neph 
ew in Beetuer County. My last letter is near¬ 
ly two years old, but if you will take me back 
1 will try and do better in the future. It is 
now clearing off, and I must go to work. Suc¬ 
cess to all the Cousins. charlev e. fay, 
Beeiner Co., Iowa. 
[Uncle Mark does not forget his nephews so 
easily, Charley. We want you to write again 
as often as you cau, so that you can make up 
for lost time,] 
Dear Uncle Mark. —It has been a long 
time since I wrote you. 1 intended to write 
to you about the first of May when we bad the 
concert in our new seborjl but neglected it. 
There were about 600 persons present. 1 will 
send you a programme although it is rather 
late. I thank you very much for the beaus 
you sent me, they were planted and have beaus 
on them. I have a very nice flower garden. 
There are a great many of the Garden Treas¬ 
ures in it. My house plants are looking very 
nicely. We had quite u lot of fruit this year. 
We had eotne of the Rural Stratagem peas 
for dinner and they were excellent. I think 
I will plant some grape seeds this fall and see 
what success I will have in raising grapes 
from seed. I will report my success. I am 
trying the Rural’s advice about bagging 
grapes. Fa gave the Niagara grapes you seut 
him to a friend to raise for him aud he allowed 
them to freeze. We have about 30 Plymouth 
Rock chickens. Enclosed find some pressed 
pansies out of my flower garden. 
Cornwall. ella m. turner. 
[Thank you for the pansies Ella. They are 
very pretty indeed .—uncle mark. 
Dear Unlce Mark: 1 have never written 
to j t ou before. 1 would like to join your club 
I am a little girl, 10 years old in September. We 
take the R. N.-Y., and like it very much. I 
have a pet goose, its name is Dick. We got 
those seeds; the peas aud beans were very 
nice. I go to school aud study spelling, read¬ 
ing, arithmetic and writing. I hope to see 
this in print. Your niece, 
Beaver Co., Fa. anna e. smith. 
[We are glad to welcome you to our club, 
Anna, and we hope you will write again. W e 
would like to see Dick too. Tell us more abou t 
him. —UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark and Cousins:—M y 
other letter was not printed, but. I am not dis¬ 
couraged. I received the package of beans 
you sent me. They all came up, but a cut¬ 
worm destroyed one, the rest are growiug 
nicely. Of the flower seed you sent us, Ma gave 
me half. They are beautiful. I have a small 
vegetable garden of my own. I raise carrots, 
lettuce, beets, turnips, cabbage, beans and to¬ 
matoes. I have no pets but we have 45 little 
pigs. Ma raised 750 little chickens this spring. 
I have 14 little turkeys. I had 11 little guin¬ 
eas, but lost all but three. Pa has seven 
horses two of which are Clydesdales Allys. Pa 
has two cows and two calves. For two years 
we have lost our cucumber vines caused by a 
little long striped bug eating the vlues at the 
top of ground, what would destroy them? 
Your niece, mary b. elliott. 
Adams Co., Ill. 
[1 hope you will be able to take a prize Mary. 
About the ouly sure way to get rid of those 
troublesome bugs is to watch the vines every 
day aud kill the bugs as they appear.— uncle 
mark.] 
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