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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
for t\)t J)onti 0 . 
NOTES BY UNCLE MARK. 
HE flowers one after another 
will be at their loveliest, now 
t-x until the frost comes, and even 
fttf after, if there are chrysanthe¬ 
mums growing in the garden. 
Now, while the flowers are so 
plentiful enjoy them in every 
way you can. Gathering; from 
most varieties, only makes them bloom more 
freely, so keep the vases full, and send bou¬ 
quets to any friends who will enjoy them A 
vase, or pretty dish, to receive the first 
flowers of each variety as they open, and kept 
on the dinner table, will give all the home 
folks a chance to see the very first flowers of 
each kind. 
Bag a few bunches of grapes, boys aud 
girls; take any bag large enough—the bags 
from the grocer’s will do—and while the 
grapes are still very small, put the bunch 
in the bag, fastening the bag to the vine and 
closing it so rain cannot get in. The bags 
should be about eight or ten inches deep and 
six or seven wide. A little hole should be 
cut in one of the lower corners, so that any 
ram that happened to get in may run out, for 
if it stays in the bag the grapes will rot. 
After the early peas are gone they may be 
pulled and cucumbers planted on the same 
ground. If wanted for pickling, about the 
last of June is the best time to plant them. 
When they begin to bear, tbe cucumbers 
must be gathered every day and uone left to 
grow large and yellow, or the vines will stop 
bearing. When gathered, pack th* cucum¬ 
bers in a tight keg, or jar. in salt, a layer of 
salt then a layer of cucumbers; when full, a 
board and a heavy weight on top will keep 
the cucumbers under the brine that will form 
around them. Try this crop if you want to 
earn a little money. 
How many wonders have the Cousins who 
are studying botany discovered? 1 think I 
never analyzed a blossom without finding 
something curious, new or wonderful about 
the flower, making even the commonest weed 
seem new. Have all the roadsides, every 
fence corner and every woods become an in¬ 
teresting book to you from which you read 
chapters iu the story of botany ? Every leaf, 
stem, root and twig lias something of the 
story to tell, and all Summer they tell it in 
the brightest way imaginable. I hope you 
can understand enough of it to enjoy it very 
much. _ 
Whatever work belongs to you especially, 
do it the very best you can. Some of you 
have only a few things to do, aud should 
take pride in doing them well. If it is your 
work to drive the cows, do not keep them 
running, to and from pasture,and do not throw' 
stones at them. I need not tell some of the 
boys not to throw stones, for some of the 
Cousins do not see a stone anywhere in all the 
country about them, but I suspect they like to 
throw as well as any of the boys. If it is 
your duty to keep the wocd-box filled, do that 
well, laying the sticks straight so the box will 
hold, not tbe fewest possible, but the most- 
Put good work into all that you do. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I have been reading 
the letters from the Cousins, and 1 thought I 
would write you a letter and ask you if you 
will let me join your Club. We came here in 
June, 1883, and moved out on our claim, 
aud went to breaking aud plautiug veget ables 
and grew a splendid crop, We like Dakota 
very much, but last year our crops were all 
destroyed by a hail storm. Dakota is a spleu- 
did country in everything; wheat, oats, bar¬ 
ley, rye, flax, corn, vegetables and cattle do 
well. It has a very healthy climate and good, 
rich soil, but in June there is a drought that 
hurts the late crops considerably. 
Truly yours, eddie j. phares. 
Harold, Dak. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—1 am one of the 
young people, and although I am married, 1 
read with interest many of the reports in tbe 
Youths' Department. Will you admit such a 
one to your Club? 
Tbe Rural corn did well, and produced 
many fine ears; but an eight-rowed variety is 
too small for this part of the country, as we 
have other sorts much larger and better. I 
had tbe finest tomatoes I ever raised. The 
flowers, too, were fine, but only a few of the 
seed came up. Last year 1 had a nice lot of 
Black Wax beans, but soup beans do no good 
for me; I get little more than the seedl plant. 
I had three varieties of cornfield beans—the 
Cutshort, the Whippoorwill and a large 
speckled bean of which I do not know the 
name; it does well in a wet season. We had 
all we could use aud 1 pickled two gallons, 
sold a half bushel and gave away many. 
Can any of tbe Cousius give the name of a 
green podded, white seeded variety of either 
garden or cornhill beans that.produces well? 
Lyons Co., Kan. R. p. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I take great pleasure 
in reading the many letters you receive from 
the great army of Cousins, and wish you 
would allow me to be one of the Y. H. C. .and 
help swell the number. I am 13 years old. and 
was born iu Brecon, a very pretty little town 
among the mountains iu Wales, England. I 
go to school nearly two miles from here, every 
day. and have great fun coasting aud skating 
during our long Wiuter months. I ha ve two 
black kittens; they were three months old 
yesterday: one is much bigger and stronger 
than the other,so we called him Grover Cleve¬ 
land, the other we named James Blaine. I 
take care of tbe chickens, of which we have a 
nice lot of Plymouth Rocks; they lay eggs all 
Winter. I also have three pure white Ayls- 
bury Ducks, that my brothers gave me for 
my very own. 1 sell the eggs for setting, and 
have already sold three settings. They are 
very pretty and look like balls of snow. 
I must not forget to tell you that we have 
four Wild Geese ; they are two years old 
now, but they have not laid any eggs yet: we 
expect them to this Spring. They are very 
tame and don’t try to go away; they swim 
down the river, but always come back to their 
house for the night. I have a little garden of 
my own in the Summer. 1 think I have writ¬ 
ten enough for this time, so will-close promis¬ 
ing to write again soon, if you are willing. 
[Your would be niece, ellam. t. evans.] 
Clay Co., Minn. 
[Certainly, I am willing you should write 
ugain. The letters from the Cousios are al¬ 
ways welcome, whether they can be printed 
or not. Write us as often as you wish.— 
uncle mark.] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark: —Ever since 1 learned 
to read, the department in the Rural devoted 
to the little folks has been of great iuterest 
to me. aud I would like very much to join the 
Cousins’ Club. My papa has taken the R. N.- 
Y. 2? years, or more than half his life. He 
say s that long ago there were yarns and plans 
of houses, and nice recipes, published in It, 
and he would take tbe paper in his pocket 
when he went to the village to see a golden- 
haired girl who lived there—that girl is my 
mamma now, I am not a little girl, as so 
many say, but I have not as yet reached my 
teens. 1 go more than a mile to school and 
study grammar, history, geography, aud have 
been through Ray’s third part of arithmetic 
twice. I am ever your niece, 
Knox Co., Ohio. GERTRUDE WRIGHT. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I have not written 
before this year, because 1 have been so busy. 
We tapped about 300 maple trees, and made 
about 700 pounds of sugar, though we did not 
make any until the last of March. The dishes 
we used are mostly tin with covers. We have 
a large sugar house in our orchard, a little 
ways from the house. We boil the sap in an 
evaporator, into which the sap runs through 
a tube extending from a large tub. The sap 
is brought from the woods, in two somewhat 
smaller tubs, and poured into a strainer, from 
which it runs into the large tub. The evap¬ 
orator is divided into four apartments extend¬ 
ing lengthwise of the pan, with gates connect¬ 
ing them. The sap runs into the first 
apartment, and through the gates into the 
others. To draw off the sirup we shut the 
gates between the third and fourth apart¬ 
ments, and when the sirup is thick enough, 
draw it off. Our winter wheat is looking 
very good, and is tbe best in the neighborhood. 
Bradford Co., Fa. TRUMAN gerould. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I am a little girl six 
years old. I cannot write, but 1 can read; 
aud I like the Cousins’ letters very much, and 
would like to bo one of the Club. I am now 
learniug to write, and if y r ou will allow me to 
join the Club, I will write the next letter my¬ 
self, aud tell you and the Cousins how we 
raise chickens with old turkey hens. We now 
have 17 with one old turkey, and three more 
sitting on 75 eggs. The turkeys do not light 
us as the old hens do, and we think they take 
better care of the chickens. 
Yours respectfully, 
Texas. SALL1E E. BENSON. 
[We will be glad to hear more about the tur¬ 
keys and little chickens .—uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: —1 would like to join 
your Club aud be one of the Cousins. I am 15 
years old. Pa subscribed for the Rural last 
January. Pa put in most of the seeds you 
sent him; they are all doing nicely so far. Pa 
gave me the “Garden Treasures.” I put the 
seeds in, and hope they will do well, for I am 
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very fond of flowers. I have a nice flower 
garden. 
I live away out in the wilds of Oregon, 
where some folks says it rains all the year, 
but that is not true; we have had hardly any 
rain since February. Everything is almost a 
month earlier this year than most years We 
do not have school here iu the Winter, for it 
is so muddy. I always study at home iu the 
Winter. We live 20 miles from Lhe Pacific 
Ocean. I have never seen it. I waut Pa to 
take me this Summer. If I go, I will write 
and tell the Cousins about my trip. Hoping 
to see my letter iu print, I will close. 
Very Respectfully', 
Coos Co., Oregon. ida scofield. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— How would you like 
a niece away down in Florida? That is where 
1 live. We came here last Fall, aud live on a 
farm eight miles from town. We like Flor¬ 
ida very much. We have a beautiful lake in 
front of our house and a boat to ride in; we 
also catch very nice trout aud other Ashes. 
We have over 80 chickens, most of them 
young ones. We have a garden and have 
had vegetables to eat all Winter, 1 will stop 
for this time, aud if any of the Cousins would 
like to hear more about Florida I will tell 
more in my next letter. 
Yours truly, vesta v. ohlingkr. 
Polk Co., Fla*. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— My papa takes tbe 
Rural and likes it very much. I have been 
readiug the letters of the Cousins and would 
like to join them. I have two rows of straw¬ 
berries, about 12 rods long; one Bet. out. last 
year and ono year before, and 1 am going to 
plant a row of raspberries the same length 
this year. My Pa gives me a piece of ground 
every Spring for a garden. Last year 1 had 
potatoes, beans, cabbages, radishes, lettuce, 
tomatoes and sweet potatoes; my sweet pota¬ 
toes were bigger than papa’s. I am 10 years 
old. Your nephew, 
franklin b. rose. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —It is a long time 
since 1 wrote to you last. I will try and tell 
you something about this country. The 
horses are small here, but very strong. Some 
of the farmers have Jersey cows. Many 
people say they are no better than tbe other 
cows kept here. There are mountains all 
round us. fine is called Owl’s Head. The 
people say that Montreal, which is 80 miles 
from here, can bo seen from the top of it. 
The cars run within a mile-and-a-hnlf of our 
house, it is nice to watch them running in 
behind the mountains and out again. We 
live three miles from the line, between Cana¬ 
da aud the United States. There is a great 
deal of smuggling carried on here. Tbe people 
in Canada go over to the States to buy things 
without paying duty on them. When they 
are caught takiug anything across the hue 
with horses, the}'take tbe thing# from them. 
But they almost always go over ou foot, to 
buy little things Farms here are rented with 
cattle on them, some being stocked with 20 to 
30, and even 40 cows. There is a rock here 
that is as big as two barns, it is right aloug the 
road as we go to Mansonville. Vi e have bad 
a very cold, steady Winter, the thermometer 
being sometimes 40 degrees below zero. 
Yours truly. 
Province of Quebec. maria l. cowan. 
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