THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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in the way of well-filled baskets, when the 
prices paid for eggs are at the highest. The 
winter-quarters for fowls should now be made 
as snng, warm and comfortable as possible 
consistently with needful ventilation, which 
should be so arranged as to be at the top of 
the building, as high above the fowls as pos¬ 
sible. Under no circumstances should the 
roosts be so placed that the fowls would be 
compelled to sit in a draught. Even in Sum¬ 
mer (if housed at night) they should not be ex¬ 
posed to direct currents of air. Top and side 
ventilation—this latter so arranged as not to 
blow directly upon the roosts—is just the 
thing for Summer; but for Winter, the better 
and only necessary draught is best secured 
from the upper part of the building, tbus al¬ 
lowing the foul air and gases to rise and pass 
away, without the dangers arising from a 
chilliug current of air or strong winds “when 
the wintry blasts do blow.” 
To fowls accustomed to roosting in trees, or 
in an open, windy plaee, a change will now 
prove very benefi ial, but can be brought 
about only after considerable trouble, the 
whole family (including help) being scarcely 
equal to the occasiou, the perverseness of a 
headstrong chick being equaled only by that 
of a hog. 
Protected and well covered roosts are al¬ 
ways among the best preventives of colds and 
croup. Under no circumstances, Summer or 
Winter, should fowls accustomed to quarters 
protected from draughts, be changed to ex¬ 
posed and open roosts; for such change gener¬ 
ally proves disastrous to the birds. 
In preparing for Winter. puJl off your coat 
and roll up your sleeves; then you’ll find plenty 
to do. Rake and shovel out the dirt, carrying 
some to the manure pile, or preserve it other¬ 
wise, as may be thought best. White wash 
the building thoroughly at top, ends and sides, 
and, if need be, upon the outside also. To do 
this with the least labor 3 r ou will find it best 
to use a “fountain pump,” squirting the wash 
through the sprinkler, spriukliug every¬ 
where aud everything upon which you can 
direct a stream, as this will greatly assist in 
the destruction of vermin, and at the same time 
sweeten and disinfect the premises. With a 
fountain pump onecan readily cover 200square 
yards of surface in an afternoon, and it is an 
implement which no farmer or poulter should 
be without, as by its use the poultry house, 
outbuilding, etc., can be quickly cleansed 
and purified, with white-wash or other disin¬ 
fectant. 
After having given the entire premises a 
thorough renovation, take a lot of old papers 
(prepared tarred paper is best) and after the 
wash has dried, with paste aud brush spread 
the papers all over the walls, after which gire 
them another good sprinkling with the wash. 
You will then have nice, clean quarters for 
the Winter, and, if the building be properly 
batted upon the outside, they will be com¬ 
fortable. 
In the Spring the papers should be removed 
and the whole premises sprinkled as before. 
By sprinkling every month with white-wash 
daring the Summer, giving the roosts, floor, 
and nests (haviog first given all a complete 
cleaning out) a thorough sprinkling with coal 
oil—say every three or four months—you will 
then be entirely freed from the ravages of 
the pestering little mites aud vermin of all 
kinds, coal oil being one of the best vermin 
exterminators, also an excellent disinfectant. 
Have the roosts elevated some three or four 
feet above the floor, with a platform beueath, 
to catch the droppings—which should be re 
moved at least once a week, and the platform 
dusted with dry ashes or sand. You will find 
this method greatly conducive to clean floors, 
and in the main very profitable, as the manure 
so saved is valuable, aud otherwise it might 
be mostly lost. Keep the floors well covered 
with litter of some sort, hay, leaves, or chaff, 
removing it as ofteu as it becomes foul, 
and in this scatter their grain, so that they 
may scratch, as it. were, for a living, and your 
birds will be happy, contented and profitable. 
In all things pertaining to the poultry house, 
“cleanliness is akin to godliness,” and with 
out it one had better engage in some other 
pursuit. j. J. FULTZ. 
Jefferson Co., Ohio. 
BAGGING GRAPES. 
The following is the result of a thorough 
trial of bagging grapes the present season. 
About “U,000 good two-pound paper bags were 
applied, as soon as practicable after the bloom 
had fallen, and before the berries had attained 
the size of peas. The Summer was unusually 
wet, aud the soil much of the time completely 
soaked. On one portion of the vineyard the 
bags were only a partial success, as many of 
fhe clusters rotted entirely, while others con¬ 
tained more or less rotten berries. This was 
more particularly noticeable on older vines, 
and where the water was inclined to settle; 
while upon vines more favorably located the 
bagging was an almost perfect success, as far 
as preventing rot was concerned; but the final 
and most important result was not so favor 
able. The grapes not bagged ripened at least 
a week the earliest, and although the clusters 
were not so compact, owing to the decay of 
more or less berries, they bore transportation 
to New York in perfect condition, and sold for 
as high as 30 cents per pound wholesale, while 
the bagged clusters were very flue (one weigh¬ 
ed 23 ounces), and the color and flavor were 
both improved, yet they sold in New York as 
low as 1% cent per pound, because they ar¬ 
rived in such bad condition, for the reason, no 
doubt, that the bags rendered them too tender 
for ristant shipment. To make grape grow¬ 
ing a success we must have some other pre¬ 
ventive of rot. Cannot some of our learn¬ 
ed men tell us how to treat it? I tried spraying 
with a carbolic acid solution, after the fruit 
had been attacked; but no effect was visible 
As this rot attacks the grape just before it 
commences to ripen, will not sulphur, lime, 
or something of the kind,applied at the proper 
time, prevent it? This is a very important 
matter, and I trust will be thoroughly dis¬ 
cussed. S. C. SATTERTH WAIT. 
Aiken Co.. S. C. 
EUPHORIA INDA. 
PROFESSOR A. J. COOK. 
A subscriber to the Rural, from Franklin 
Grove, I1L, sends me a “bug” (it is really no 
bug at all, but a beetle', which he reports 
to be doing serious mischief to his corn, and 
which he fears may do as much harm to the 
corn as the potato beetle does to the potato, 
“The pests commenced their ravages,” he 
says, “about the time the corn was getting 
too hard to cook, and now (Sept. 2Stb) are 
nearly done working. Tney begin at the tip 
of the ear, and make clean work of husk 
and corn, eating all close to the cob.” 
This is one of our common beetles which 
in Harris and the older authors is called 
Celonia Inda; but is now called Euphoria 
Inda. It is described and illustrated in Saund¬ 
ers’s work, on page 159. It is fl ve-eigbths of an 
inch long and three-eights of an inch broad 
across its wing covers. Its bead and thorax 
are so narrow as to make it appear wedge- 
shaped anteriorly. It is brown dotted and 
flecked with black. The thorax, head and 
under parts are thickly set with j'ellowisb hairs. 
When it flies it reminds one of a lazy bumble¬ 
bee. 
There are two broods in a season. The 
early brood may be seen about sap in 8pring. 
In September the second brood appears. (I 
think it more than probable that the so called 
first brood is really the old beetles of the pre¬ 
vious Autumn, which have hibernated;such is 
exactly the habit of many well known beetles, 
like thecurculio. The fall beetlesnot only eat 
the corn, but burrow into peaches, and our 
finest fall apples, like the Pall Pippin, and so. 
often do considerable damage. The breeding 
habits of the pests are unknown, though, 
judging from the other beetles nearly allied to 
it, the grubs, quite likely, live iu the earth, 
feeding either on roots, etc,, or else on decay¬ 
ing matter. “Subscriber” says: “They breed 
ou the ears of corn, as 1 have seen on the 
same ear as many as 25 of all sizes. They can 
fly, and they have a very offensive odor.” It 
is difficult to understand this description. 
These beetles in the stage of their ruinous 
work, never grow. They vary somewhat in 
size; but,as in all cases with beetles, the growth 
takes place in the grub state, and after wings 
are developed, there is no more growth. The 
smaller insects must be something else, pos¬ 
sibly smaller beetles of the same family, 
which were attracted by the decaying excreta 
from these beetles. There is do way to fight 
these, except hand-picking, so far as I know. 
Indeed, from their habits and style of work, 
it is hard to devise other means. It is a grat¬ 
ifying fact, however, that they are not very 
common at anv season, and, as I have ob¬ 
served, never seem destructive two seasons in 
succession. 
tor IDomrti, 
CONDUCTED BY MI8L RAY CLARK. 
MAN AND GENTLEMAN. 
BERTHA A. ZEDI WINKLER. 
Under this bend an interesting human an¬ 
omaly and its ill effects upon the social and 
domestic life, may be brought to light and, 
we hope, corrected by the exposure. * 
“Woman! 1 am a man, aud won’t be bother^ 
ed about trifling woman’s duties,” thunders a 
husband, proudly throwing back his head 
with a contemptuous sneer at his wife’s pro¬ 
position to hunt his own collar and black his 
own boots. 
“Madam ! I am a gentleman. Pardon my 
intrusion, as I pardon your unflattering mis¬ 
trust. Good day,” says a luminary of fashion¬ 
able society, bowing with his hat in mid-air 
and a smile of pity for the lady who can’t dis¬ 
tinguish between a gentleman who offers in¬ 
sinuating gallantries, and a bummer who 
jostles'against her without so much as an 
apology. 
Such impressive speeches are distinguishing 
characteristics of a class who, calling them¬ 
selves respectively “man” and “gentleman,” 
maintain a jealous watch over their preroga¬ 
tive smallness. The “gentleman” to one is a 
shoelicker; the “man” to the other a trained 
bear. Correct in tbeir judgment of each other 
as representing a class to which each is happy 
not to belong, they present t.o superior people 
the ridiculous aspect of a wild monkev aud a 
tame monkey in their relations to mankind. 
They need the revolution of many more suns 
to further the evolutiou of their intelligence 
to a knowledge of the fact that a true man 
and a true gentleman are not distinguishable. 
If the man who thinks it beneath him to do 
his own, and, if neoessary, assist in his wife’s 
work; aud the gentlemau who considers him¬ 
self privileged to insult a lady by virtue of a 
high hat and a polished front, will kindly lend 
themselves for my fire, they may be put 
through the necessary evolution with the 
hammer of logic, aud at least one whale man 
aud gentleman be produced, which is better 
any day than two half ones If. for instance, 
instead of playing the young lord, with doting 
parents and sisters to supply every want; in¬ 
stead of having your feet steadied, and your 
path smoothed from the stoop of your home 
on which you would often have bumped your 
infantile nose but for somebody’s care, to the 
threshold of maubood and independence; if 
instead of all this, you had, as an infant, been 
obliged to take care of your own nose; as a 
boy, served, instead of lorded; as a stripling, 
worked, instead of courted; if you had ac¬ 
quired iu the vicissitudes and struggles of life, 
as much courage and perseverance and solid 
principles ami sound sense, as you have in 
ease and solid comfort acquired insolence aud 
nonsense and perversity; if you had felt a 
master’s ill-humor and selfishness in kicks, aud 
cuffs and short allowance, as you have felt a 
mother’s love in caresses and constaut stuff¬ 
ing; if you had eaten stale bread for a week, 
and made pudding without egg and milk and 
sugar of the crust for Sunday, as cheerfully 
as you eat somebody etse’spudding and watch 
them make it; if you had' learned to mend 
your own pantaloons as deftly as you throw 
them at your sister’s bead to be mended; then, 
indeed, your manhood would be iu no danger 
of disgrace by any act within the golden rule. 
For it would have been quite another man¬ 
hood from yours—that semi-savage sample of 
masculine superiority which plumes itself iu 
ferocious displays and thunderbolts of temper, 
and lofty contempt for gentle virtues. It 
would have been the manhood that shows its 
dignity iu calmness and self-control, and its 
superiority iu endurance aud ready adaptation 
to every requirement and condition of life. 
Such a manhood would be in no danger of 
receiving its death-blow from the application 
of a blacking-brush to a pair of boots, even if 
they had been your wife’s boots, if you will 
remember the time when yon would have 
been glad of the privilege to stoop and button 
them. Yon thought yourself jast as much of 
a man then as you do now; and if you could 
subject your manhood to the humiliation of 
stooping to gain her, you can elevate a far 
nobler manhood by the fulfillment of promised 
services to keep her. 
As for the gentleman whom I have brought 
in such close quarters with you and whose 
characteristics you despise, he is only a more 
finished copy of yourself. Social refinements 
have smoothed his exterior. His mother is 
probably a woman of society who has taught 
him the niceties of etiquette before the alpha¬ 
bet. He acquired his counterfeit geutleman- 
liness iu the graceful dissipations of children’s 
hops aud parties; while you ucquired your 
counterfeit manliness iu the rude assurance of 
country Copenhagen*. You are one iu nature 
and principle while you are two iu appearance 
and effect. The rude hands of nature pro¬ 
duce the man, the refinement of civilization 
makes him a gentleman if he has the requisite 
merit aud stamina. If not, it only makes him 
the fop—that disreputable class who, if they 
have money, are passed like spurious coin 
from one dnpe to another for the value they 
represent, till the proper man in authority 
gives him the same berth, for high dealings 
in high life, that his moneyless colleague got 
for low dealings iu low life. Better consoli¬ 
date yourshells and root out the growth of 
false ideas witbiu. Be man enough not to be 
OST SI 
a fop, and gentleman enough not to be a brute. 
In one word, be a man at all times and a gen¬ 
tlemau besides. 
THE FRANCHISE. 
WILL THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK VOTE AT 
THE NOVEMBER ELECTION? 
Section 1, of the Constitution of the State of 
New York, reads thus: 
“No member of this State shall be dis¬ 
franchised. or deprived of any privileges 
secured to any citizeu thereof, unless by the 
law of the land, or the judgmentof bis peers.” 
Now that it has been established beyond a 
doubt that there is not only no law on the 
statute books disfranchising women, but that 
tbecommon law of England and of the colony 
of New York entitled women to vote on the 
same terms with their brothers, and that 
Section 17, declares that these same laws shall 
be and continue the law of the State, subject 
to sucb alterations as the Legislature shall 
make concerning the same, it follows hevond 
all dispute that the women of New York have 
the same right to the elective franchise as the 
other sex. which has so long exclusively ex¬ 
ercised the privilege. 
Whether we approve or disanprove, the 
fact remains that until the Legislature of 
New York passes an act disfranchising wo¬ 
man, she has the same right to vote as her 
brother. When the freed negroes were en¬ 
franchised, in order o make sure of the suc¬ 
cess at the polls of the party which had fought 
to save the nation, every newspaper was filled 
with comments either of approval or disap¬ 
proval, according to whichever sentiment it 
represented. But now that research has dis¬ 
covered that one-half of the citizens of the 
Empire State are by right in possession of this 
inestimable privilege, how many papers open 
their columns to communicate the intelli¬ 
gence? Will any one pretend that the women 
of this State cannot vote as intelligently as 
the negro or the foreign-born citizen, who 
ofteu is unable to read the ballot he holds in 
his hand? 
If the ballot iu the hands of man may be a 
power for good, why not in the bauds of wo¬ 
man? Is there any place into which the pres¬ 
ence and the influenceof a true woman cymes 
but is refiued and elevated thereby i It is not 
to be expected that all women who under the 
law are entitled to vote will care to do so. and 
certainly no one would wish to compel either 
man or woman. But there are thiuking wo¬ 
men who will see in this their uew found 
right the opportunity for which they have 
long wished, of aiding good men iu the sup¬ 
pression of the monster evils which curse the 
land and ruin many homes. But in answer 
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Each pronounced it to 
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and a superior laun¬ 
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Free of charge. A full size cake of Ivory Soap 
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