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JONES 
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3INCHAMT0N 
THE RURAL HEW-YORKER 
nice now, as a good many of them are done 
blooming. We have a large bed of Chrysan¬ 
themums of four different colors that are now 
full Of buds. WILLIAM STUART. 
Rhea Co., Tenn, 
[Goobers are peanuts, William. Are you 
sure that you did not see chufas in Florida?— 
UNCLE MARK.] 
grow them so large that I can beat all the 
farmers in the county and obtain many 
premiums at their county fair; secondly, I 
will promise to do my best in writing and 
describing the great results of this improved 
method of farming; thirdly, I will try and aid 
the circulation'of the cousins’ best paper— The 
Rural New Yorker, and in that way I can 
assist in doing them good as well as gaining 
more knowledge of cultivating the soil for 
myself. The cousins all should try and see 
how much they can assist the soil to doits very 
best. Vegetables that would grow very large 
abhor lumps and unprepared soil for their 
rootlets to get their food to make them grow. 
This Summer I have gardened for pleasure, 
and I raised so many kinds and made them 
grow so large that I was induced to take them 
to the fair. It was a very large dray load, 
and some were so large that a man could 
scarcely put a single one into the dray. One 
squash measured six feet and five inches 
around it. When the things were all in the 
WAGON SCALES 
Iron Lcvdt*, B«»rlti| 
T»r« Bonin and Bonm 
OW then, how many of 
our Rural girls are get¬ 
ting the plants all ready 
for Winter? Just think 
what a difference it will 
make wheu the ground is 
covered with snow, and 
the air is so cold, to see 
windows full of green 
leaves and pretty flowers. 
There is nothing that you 
can ever do, girls, that 
will make the Winters 
seem more pleasant. Re¬ 
member that the great 
to bring all the sunshine 
JONES ha pay" lh« ftaljcht—for fraa 
Prlca LI»I rnfUlnn thin pap«r and 
add-,. JONCS or BINGHAMTON, 
Binghamton, N.Y. 
Dear Uncle Mark: Good weather this 
Fall, but a little too cold for corn. Had good 
weather for stacking. Potatoes are 85 per 
cent of a crop; corn is looking fine: oats about 
half a crop; buckwheat extra. No apples in 
this part of Iowa. Small fruit very scarce. 
My father’s barn holds 55 tous of hay,he has it 
nearly full. He has 12 tons stacked, and has 
nearly 40 tons of wild grass yet to cut. Father 
lost 40 of his apple trees last Winter. The Ben 
Davis, Red Astrichan, Tallman Sweet and 
Tallow Pippin do not stand Iowa Winters. 
Small fruit does well here. Mother’s dahlias 
and phlox are nice. Well, it is nearly time 
for the mail, so I will have to stop. 
Your nephew, charley e. fay. 
[A good report Charley; write again.— 
UNCLE MARK.] 
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Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to join 
the Y. H. C., and be one of the Cousins. I 
am 12 years old and study reading, writing, 
arithmetic, geography, spelling and grammar. 
Papa has taken the Rural for about three 
years and says he conld not do without it. I 
think the letters are very interesting. We 
have a pet pony we call Lucy, and a cat we 
call Smut. My sister and I have commenced 
taking music lessons and we are very busy. 
From your niece, 
Odell, Dak. maud mcdonald. 
[We are glad to put your name on the list 
Maud. Write another letter when you can 
—Uncle Mark.] 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878, 
BAKER'S 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a boy about 14 
years aud would like to join the Y. H. C. I 
live on a farm of 100 acres. Father has built 
two silos. He puts the corn in whole and be 
tbiDks it comes out much nicer than when cut. 
Father has five cows, one horse, two pigs and 
ten ealves. One of them I paid him two 
dollars for when it was four or five days old, 
and now I have a nice large calf. I took care 
of them myself from the time they were about 
a week old, until they were turned out to 
pasture this spring, when they were a year old. 
This is the “off” year for fruit, but we have 
quite a lot of pears and a few apples. 
WALLACE fl. TAR BELL. 
Hillsborough Co., N. H. 
[Welcome to the club Wallace. You must 
tell us more about the silos when the time 
gomes for feeding. You are getting to be 
quite aBtockman, and I am glad of it.— uncle 
MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have never seen a 
letter from West Virginia. I thought 1 would 
write if you would let one as old join. I am 
16. 1 live on a farm of 160 acres. We have 
two horses, three cows, five calves, eight 
sheep, eight hogs, chicken and geese. Papa 
gave the geese to Ella and I, but we had poor 
luck with them. Last Bpring was so cold the 
eggs didn’t hatch but one and that died when 
Papa has taken the 
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I am going to giv© you a lifctl© talk about 
what I call a neglected friend. It Is the toad. 
I think you can all learn something from him. 
Now you will laugh perhaps to think of learn¬ 
ing something from a toad, but wait and see. 
He is ugly, there is no doubt about that. He 
looks like a lazy, shapeless mass, all mouth 
and eyes. How fat and awkward he is too. 
Bad boys throw stones at him and cruel men 
cut him with the hoe, but he does not com¬ 
plain and never leaves his work. He could 
not injure you if he tried, and yet you cannot 
think of any living thing of equal weight 
that does so much good. You don’t find him 
trying to pass himself off for something he is 
not. He knows that he is ugly and fat, and 
that it would be nonsense for him to call him¬ 
self handsome and graceful. He just finds 
out what he can do and he does that so well 
that peeple who know him are obliged to re¬ 
spect him. You will never see him fail when 
he starts oat to catch a bug either. He stands 
there blinking his great eyes, but he is think¬ 
ing all the time. Just as you get ready to call 
him lazy, out darts bis sharp tongue and the 
insect is caught. The best of it is that he 
keeps happy iu spite of the fact that people 
will not notice him. He gets up in the night, 
even when the dog is asleep, to work for the 
man who ridicules him. When Winter comes 
he does not tramp about, trying to live on the 
memory of what he has done, but he crawls 
into a stump or under a stone and thinks over 
his work for the next year. He is patient, con¬ 
tented and faithful. Surely we can all learn 
something from him, and take care that he is 
not molested. 
about one week old, 
Rural two years, and we think a great deal 
of it. Papa said there were three ears of corn 
on one of the Rural stalks. We counted the 
pods on a vine and there were 45. I didn’t 
receive any lima beans so i cau’t try for the 
prize. I will not vote this time as I have for¬ 
gotten some of the questions and we have lent 
that number. My oldest sister and I have 
joined the “Literary Society.” I have just 
written an essay for next Saturday night en¬ 
titled "Rainy Weather.” Last Saturday 
night I debated for the first time. The ques¬ 
tion was, resolved; that the ladies are more 
expensive in dress than the gentlemen. It 
was affirmed by three gentlemen and denied 
by two ladies and myself. The decision was 
in favor of the negative unanimously. Hop¬ 
ing to see this in print I will close. 
Yours truly, 
Wood Co., West Va. carrik mckusick. 
[You are a member of the club now, Car¬ 
rie. It is too bad about the geese. We would 
all like to know what to do in rainy weather. 
Where girls eau make their own clothing they 
can save much expense— uncle mark.] 
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Dear Uncle Mark: The beans you sent 
came all right,; many thanks for them. We 
planted them, aud ID came up. Some died, 
and the rest did not do very well. One of the 
Cousins wrote about goobers, and you asked 
how many of the northern Cousins know what 
they were. Although not a northern Cousin, 
perhaps you will allow me to tell what 1 think 
they are. In Florida, we saw nuts called 
goober nnts. They looked a little like peanuts, 
and grow something like them. Nothing will 
eat them but the hogs, and they will not if 
they can get anything else. We had a nice 
flower garden this 8umraer; but it is not very 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark : I would be glad to 
join the club. I will promise in advance— 
First, to work in my own garden and raise 
many, very many kinds of plants and vegeta¬ 
bles, and tell the cousins how I manage to 
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