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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
JULY 18 
IN THE GARDEN. 
f piece of ground is set apart 
for a flower garden, and 
every plant growing on that 
piece of ground, excepting 
the flowers, becomes a weed, 
the potato plant or the let¬ 
tuce springing up among the ( 
pansies are weeds not to be 
tolerated at all. 
If the ground is devoted to potatoes, then 
the petunias or moruiug glories that dare to 
appear among the potatoes are in their turn 
weeds, but as a rule such weeds are not very 
troublesome. 
It is the growths that multiply almost as 
fast as we can check them,and useless growths, 
that we usually call weeds. To keep the weeds 
down the garden must be hoed very often,and 
sometimes rainy weather keeps the ground 
too wet to hoe and the weeds grow so fast, 
they seem to laugh because of the flue time 
they are having. But when the clouds roll 
away, the sun comes out again and the ground 
gets dry enough to work, then some one with 
a sharp shining hoe takes out the weeds; and 
leaves the vegetables or flowers in happy pos¬ 
session of their rightful territory. 
If the weather will permit, the weeds should 
not get such a vigorous start, but while they 
are still quite small, the stirring of the soil to 
keep it mellow about the growing plants, will 
kill them almost before they start. 
In digging potatoes from the kitchen garden 
mauy are often left in the ground and lost 
when the boys or girls are sent to dig them, 
because they do not know how deep the tubers 
sometimes form. 
In gathering peas and beans the vines are 
crushed and the young pods fail to develop. 
Cucumber vines are turned over and spend 
their vitality in turning their leaves back, 
endeavoring to right themselves. Radishes 
are pulled before they are large enough to 
make a mouthful; beets are pulled carelessly 
and the tops are broken off, so that in boiling 
the color of the beets escapes and they are 
faded aud uninviting when they reach the 
table. 
When a hill of early potatoes isdug, squash 
seeds can be planted, and by the time the 
vines begin to run, the hills of potatoes all 
about, will have been used, aud the vines 
will have all the room they need. Turnip 
seed can lie sowed in August on the ground 
other early vegetables occupied. 
The weeds in the Fail grow strong and high 
and, their seeds maturing, are scattered over 
the soil to lie there until Spring and Summer 
again starts them to growing to plague the 
gardener. If these weeds are kept down and 
not allowed to seed this trouble will be great¬ 
ly lessened for coming seasons. 
When frosty nights approach we often have 
one or two cold nights and then a week or 
two of warm pleasant weather; if squash vines 
bearing squashes that are almost matured, 
can be protected through these first frosts, 
they will mature their fruit in the sunny days 
that follow. 
Tomatoes can be gathered, both the green 
and ripe, when a frost approaches. Those that 
are full grown, hut still green, can be ripened 
in the sun. Half-grown green ones may be 
gathered too if the housewife wants them for 
chow chow or any other green tomato com¬ 
bination. 
When done with the workshop where vege¬ 
tables were fashioned through the Summer it 
should be set in order for another year, by 
plowing it; leaving dead furrows to carry off 
the melting snows and rains. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins:— 
I would like to join the Y. H, Club. My father 
takes the Rural. I am 11 years old. I live 
in the country. Will you please tell me what 
will keep the little striped bugs off our water¬ 
melon plants? I live six miles from town. 1 
like to read the Cousins’ letters. I hope I will 
see this letter in print. willik SHARP. 
LincQln Co., Dakota. 
[ Have you tried liubach on the melon-bugs? 
Fine bone meal sprinkled on the vines is some¬ 
times effective. Is your part of Dakota a 
good melon country ? We are getting melons 
now, in New York from the South.— 
UNCLE MAJUC.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: — You asked me to 
report ray strawberry seedlings. My report 
is, N. G. (no good). The best one is like Ken¬ 
tucky, except that it is red inside where the 
Kentucky is white. I have some fair berries, 
but not as good as some that are older and 
better knowB, We have about 30 varieties 
and will discard about 10 of them. One is the 
Glendale; we do not like it because in one 
quart of berries we get one-half a quart of 
hulls. Strawberries will be nearly done by 
.Tune 23. I have nothing but apple, pear and 
cherry trees in my gurdon. There is a good 
demand for all kinds of trees,excepting poach; 
people are getting afraid we will not have any 
more peaches in this part of the country. We 
have not had a peach for three years, and a 
good many of the trees are dying. There is 
going to be a good crop of plums, apples aud 
a few pears; also a good crop of raspberries 
and blackbemes. We will have an extra 
good crop of Snyder and Taylor, and a few 
Kittattiny. I planted the Rural Corn one 
grain in a hill, eighteen inches apart. It is 
up and doing well; all of the Rural Peas aro 
doing fine, both last year’s and this. The 
Cleveland’s Rural New-Yorker Peas are get¬ 
ting ripe. 1 never saw such pods as are on 
the Rural Strategem Peas, they are so large. 
I received the Lima Beans. They are planted 
and up; I hope they will do well. There is a 
large urea of corn and oats planted here this 
year. Wheat is nearly a failure; if the farm¬ 
ers get enough seed to plant their ground 
they will do well. Your nephew, 
Madison Co., 111. WH. jackson, jr. 
[This is a good report, let us hear from 
others who have been raising seedlings.— 
UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: —Tapa takes your 
paper and likes it very much. I am 12 years 
old. I would like to join the Club of Cousins. 
1 was born in Nebraska and stayed there 
about seven years, when we moved to Dakota. 
We went in a covered wagon; it was nice 
going in that way. We used to get stuck 
sometimes and that was not very funny. We 
used to camp out nights when it was not too 
cold, or sleep in our covered wagon. We 
were on the road over a month. We reached 
Dakota at last, and we lived there two years 
when we came to New York to live. We 
came here on the cars, and have lived here 
ever since. I like New York the best. I 
would like to give all the Cousins a taste of 
the maple sugar we made this Spring. 
Your uiece, annie shelton. 
Lewis Co., N. Y. 
[Yon have traveled over a good many miles 
of our country for a little girl of twelve.— 
UNCLE MARK-] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark:— Recently I became 
interested in the Youth’s Department of the 
Rural, and therefore wishing to become a 
member of the Youth’s Horticultural Society, 
I send in my name. We live on a farm about 
two aad-a half miles from the city of Green 
Bay. I take much interest in farming, aud 
like to work on the farm when there is no 
school. We also keep bees, aud I help to take 
care of them. I go to school in the city. A 
debating society Las been formed, of which I 
am a member. The society is called the 
Athenian Debating Society. Yours truly, 
THEODORE G. KYBKR. 
Brown Co., Wia. 
[Write us again, Theodore. What is the 
honey prospect ? What blossoms furnish the 
most nectar to your bees?— uncle mark ] 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins: 
—Papa has tukea the Rural Tor four years, 
and likes it very well. I take much interest 
in reading the Youth’s department. Will you 
please enroll my name on the list? I am 13 
years old and live on a farm in the Loup Val 
ley. We had plenty of snow here last Wiuter. 
1 like to raise poultry, I raised over 100 chick¬ 
ens last Summer of the Light Brahmas, and 
have a rooster that weighs ten pounds. Hop¬ 
ing that my letter prove acceptable, 
I remain yours, 
LOUIE W. STUDLEY. 
Valley Co., Neb. 
[Write us how things look in the Loup Val¬ 
ley in their Summer dress.— uncle mark ] 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins:— 
We live about 10 miles from Topeka, the cap¬ 
ital of Kansas: it is a very nice place. Wo 
live one-half mile from a little towu by the 
name of Hoyt; it is in Jackson County. I 
read the Rural every week aud like it very 
much. We have a farm; we raise peaches, 
apples, pears, plums, cherries and black¬ 
berries, raspberries, strawberries aud goose¬ 
berries on our place. Ma raises flowers; wo 
Lave almost a hedge of roses in front of our 
house. We received the Garden Treasures 
sometime ago; many thanks for them. I will 
write and toll you how they do, if you let uto 
join the Y. fl. C. Wo have 21 little chickens 
and three hens setting. I have pansies and 
hollyhocks growing. 
Your niece, lizzie voorhees. 
Jackson Co., Kaus. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I was nine years old 
last March, aud if you will let me I want to 
join the Y. H, C. I like to hear the Cousin’s 
letters read very much. Papa is iixing to build 
a big house this Bummer, and I thought there 
would be no chance for a flower bed in the 
yard, so I sowed the Garden Treasures in 
boxes and jars and put them in sunny win¬ 
dows; also some of the tomatoes. We live on 
a farm in a little village. I have a brother 
six years old aud his name is Darwin, and the 
sweetest little sister six months old; her name 
is Helen. Papa keeps 20 cows, four horses, 
a small flock of choice sheep, besides some 
young cattle and hogs. Our cows are grade 
Jerseys. Papa has a full blooded Jersey bull, 
solid color, called Don of Canton, We have a 
churn deg named Fruuk, six geese and 40 
hens. Darwin and 1 go to school. I study 
reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic and 
geography. 1 like the last study best, and 
will be glad when I can study history. Dar¬ 
win and I are trying to see if we can get 
money enough to furnish our room iu the new 
house, so we are saving all the money we earn. 
Mamina gives us every tenth egg we gather* 
and she says we can have every fifth chicken 
this year. Wo expect to raise corn for our 
owu chickens. When l write again I will 
tell you how much money we saved and how 
I get, along with my seeds. Your nephew, 
MANLEY 8. LAWRENCE. 
Bradford Co., Pa. 
[Is the new house done yet? Tell us how 
you succeeded with the chickens, aud how 
the room is furnished, if it is done. Did the 
flowers do well in the boveH?— uncle mark.] 
Dear Unci.e Mark:—I am a boy ten years 
old. 1 live in northern Pennsylvania. My Pa 
takes the Rural; we could not get along 
without it. Pa has 200 acres of land, keeps 
15 cows, 12 yearlings, 12 calves aud 100 sheep. 
Last Summer we made 53 tous of hay aud I 
built 50 tons of it on the wagon. I drove the 
mower to cut about 20 acres of it, and drove 
the reaper to cut 10 acres of oats. Pa gave me 
one-half acre of ground, to plant in potatoes, 
be got it all ready and told me I could have 
all the potatoes I could raise, aud sell them 
for myself. I planted the ground and the po¬ 
tatoes grew nicely until one of the hogs got 
into the yiateh and he kept gettiug in until be 
rooted the potatoes all out He would jump 
a four rail fence, aud he bad such a long nose 
to root with, We want to know where to get 
short-nosed pigs. I will close, hoping to be 
accepted as a nephew. Yours truly, 
Tioga County, Pa. Leonard swekly. 
[What have yon done this year, Leonard, in 
the field and garden? Am sorry that your 
letter bus waited so loDg.— uncle mark.] 
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