Cirucatioital 
terms—by “reasonable” I mean keeping no 
human beasts about, who, of all things on 
a place, undergo no evolution, but are a de¬ 
grading element. It needs a general farm 
sentiment aroused to abolish the semi-tramp 
nature of many of our laborers. For if our 
young folk are debauched and demoralized by 
daily contact with vulgar helpers, they 
are educated not to love the farm, or home- 
life of any right sort. In other words, the 
moral surroundings of the farm boy are quite 
as essential as the work surroundings and the 
intellectual surroundings, in order to achieve 
the end proposed in our problem. 
6, By having a public spirit that is not 
limited to the farm boundaries; but which 
aims to make the whole community progres ■ 
sive, to spread information by means of farm¬ 
ers’ clubs, libraries, and the circulation of the 
best agricultural and scientific literature; to 
improve public schools, public highways, and 
to increase the conveniences of life; to bring 
to the farm the very best sources of informa¬ 
tion and culture from abroad, so that the boy 3 
shall not feel that they are cut o£E from “the 
world," that farm life is dull and remote from 
the centers of the world’s activity. Get a 
railroad, if possible, or a telegraph and tele¬ 
phone communication with large towns. The 
tendency of such inventions i6 to spread cul¬ 
ture and destroy the feeling of distance. 
7. By relaxation and attention tosocial con¬ 
siderations. Play or recrea¬ 
tion should be a systematic 
part of farm life for old and 
young. When the young are 
left in this matter to shift for 
themselves, their tastes are 
liable to be depraved and 
their minds taken away from 
the farm. The farmer must 
leave time for his children’s 
§> natural social instincts. Home 
must be homely. Let sun¬ 
lit shine into every corner. Keep 
no moldy rooms. With a 
bright, cheerful life on the 
farm, you can hardly drive 
the boys away from it. 
8. Finally, make farm life 
popular with the girls. When 
women are drudges, life is so 
devoid of a sweet atmosphere 
that the boy’s first duty is to 
‘ get out ^ he can. But, 
apart from mere drudgery, 
nil that is done to improve 
the farm for boys should also 
be done to improve it for 
IggftMEMf girls. They should have part 
in the studies previously enu- 
« merated for boys. A good 
S .'V -ii home library should include 
i cyclopedias and hand books 
^ • of science, and the boys and 
girls should have such imple- 
ments for mind work as a 
microscope, a telescope and 
the furnishing of a plain labo- 
ratory. Try this, and then 
try to drive your lads into 
clerkships, and see if you can 
succeed. X. P- powell 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
AS OTHERS SEE THE RURAL NEW- 
YORKER. 
Mr. Jacob Heckman, of DeKalb Co., Ill., 
says: 
“The only fault I can find with the Rural 
is, that it comes but once a week. Like Mr. 
Beecher, I want it all the time. Each week 
it comes laden with valuable suggestions and 
experiences, embellished with beautiful en¬ 
gravings, and each number seems so exhaust¬ 
ive that I often wonder what the Editor can 
give ns next week. When “next week” is 
here, the Rural is also, “chock-fulT’ of lively, 
interesting reading as before, and my next 
wonder is that any farmer can succeed with¬ 
out its advice. I wish you continued success.” 
D. B. Sanford, of Muehlenburgh Co., 
Ky., says: 
“I take a great interest in the work the 
Rural is doiug for its subscribers. It has 
been my lot to examine audread a great many 
of the leading agricultural journals, but the 
Rural is the best of all. You may think I 
say this ju3t simply to please you, but such is 
not the case. I am sincere in what I say. I 
read with pleasure the experiments you are 
trying at the Rural Grounds. I have tried 
several times to get some of my neighbors to 
try the Rural; one year I loaned them my 
papers to read, but they say: 'Oh, there is too 
much of it; it takes too long to read all of it.’ 
Others say, ‘there is nothing funny in the 
whole paper,’ etc., etc.” 
Mr. Alexander Kennedy, Union Co., 
N. J., says: 
“I am so pleased with the independence and 
truthfulness of the Rural that I would like 
to do something to help on the good cause. I 
believe the Rural is doing a grand work in 
the rural districts, and deserves the support 
of all interested in rural affairs.” 
Mr. P. W. Collins, of Wayne Co., Pa., 
says: 
“I have been taking the Rural since Janu¬ 
ary, 1884, and would like to express my appre¬ 
ciation of it in some way, and I dou’t know 
that I can do it better than by s lying that of 
five I take, I thiuk it is equal to the lot.” 
Rorebt J . Young, of St. Joseph, Mo., says: 
“I consider that one item in yoar most val 
uable paper saved me at least $100 the past 
season, and other in formation gained from its 
columns has been, and will be, in future, a re¬ 
turn of the principal cost, and interest, 1,000 
per cent.” 
Mr. Henry Mortimer, of Kankakee, Co., 
Ill., says: 
“Although in receipt of more papers than I 
have time to read during this busy season, I 
send direct to you for the Rural New- 
Yorker. During the two years that I have 
taken it, I have received 
more practical bints in agri¬ 
culture and disinterested de¬ 
scriptions of fruit than from 
any other paper.” 
Mr. John Hurley, of Wet¬ 
zel Co., W. Va., says: 
“I have now five volumes 
of the R. filed and bound 
(bome bonnd), which cannot 
be bought of me for $10; not 
one number missing of the 
five volumes, for which you 
deserve credit for punctual ity, 
and it speaks well for the mail 
delivery also. Considering 
the vast store of practical and 
common seas* knowledge im¬ 
parted in the columns of my 
five volumes on agriculture, 
horticulture, and various 
other branches of culture, I * 
can truly say that I have 
value received for my money.” jS*^*^K* 
Mr. E. W. Clark, of the 
U. S. Revenue Marine, says: 
“All honor to the Rural 
New-Yorker for its fearless 
and disinterested attacks on 
frauds and humbugs of every 
k ind and degree; for its oppo ' 
sition to monopoly and extra- 
vagauce everywhere; for its 
intelligent advocacy of that , 
which eunobles and benefits fflJL 
the whole community, more 
particularly the farmer; for 
its originality in every de- ijwSi 
partment; for its liberal ex- 
penditure for the good of its 
readers; for its excellent re¬ 
turn in intellectual food for 
the money of subscribers; for 
its unparalleled generosity in 
its Free Seed Distributions, 
which may be characterised 
as true t>enefactions to the 
human kind. For its general 
excellence, enterprise, push, 
energy, courage, intelligence, 
vigilance, goodness, it has no 
peer. 
Mr. T. H Michael, of Crawford Co., Pa. 
says: 
“I have never told you what 1 thought of 
you. Well, here it is: the Rural is the best 
farmer’s paper in existence. It pleases me, 
anyway. If I only had the gift of opening the 
eyes of the farmers, you would have u rousing 
club from me.” 
Mr. Bimkon Emerick, of Montgomery Co., 
Ohio, says: 
“I prize the Rural so much that I care¬ 
fully preserve each copy for binding. With 
its elaborate and well arranged index, I find 
it invaluable for reference.” 
Mr. W. T. Graham, of Chariton Co., Mo., 
says: 
“1 would not do justice to my feelings if I 
should withhold an expression of sincere 
thanks to you for the publication of such a 
paper as the Rural. 1 have taken it but one 
year.” 
Mr. Charles Bamukl, of White Co., Ark., 
says: 
“In your paper you defend right and ex¬ 
pose wrong. I therefore highly value it.” 
Mr. J. E. Jones, of Frankliu Co., Ohio, 
says • 
“Tne Rural New Yorker is worth more 
than all the rest of the agricultural papers put 
together. It is honest.” 
HOW SHALL WE EDUCATE OUR CHILD 
REN AGRICULTURALLY? 
MAKE THEM LOVE FARM LIFE: EIGHT WAYS 
OF DOING SO. 
To do this we must educate them to love 
farm life. To do that we must improve the 
farm. The trouble is not with the boys and 
girls, but with their surroundings. The first 
obligation of a sensible young person is to get 
away from a farm which is run in such a way 
that its owners are the least educated and 
cultured part of it. How shall we improve 
our farms, then, so as to remove this obliga¬ 
tion? 1. By comprehending what a farm may 
be at its best; and that nowhere else may there 
be such a combination of health, comfort, 
pleasure, intellectual progress, and moral 
worth. 2. By making the farm the center of 
such pleasures and elements of human culture, 
as may be easily concentrated there; instead 
of being the mere arena for animal life, and 
the culture of animals. The farm, in other 
words, should be run, first, for man, second, 
fer creatures and things. 
How shall this be done? 
L By putting intelligence into whatever is 
done. Keep every farm employment fully up to 
The Rural New Yorker 
is for the North, South, East 
and IFesf. It is the only 
National rural journal in 
America—the only journal 
that conducts Experiment 
Grounds purely in the inter 
ests of its subscribers It 
has never in any instance 
sold seeds or plants to subscribers and its 
advice is disinterested. 
THE JEWELL STRAWBERRY. (From a plant grown at the Rural Grounds.) Fig. 492 
Mr. John G. Cryer, of Bucks Co., Pa., 
says: 
“I have taken the R. N.-Y. but a little 
over a year, but in that short time I have 
learned to like it very much. It is the most 
interesting paper that I see, aud I will try to 
aid you in extending its circulation. ” 
Mr. W. W. Farnsworth, of Lucas Co., 
Ohio, says: 
“I receive eight or ten agricultural aud 
horticultural papers; but the Kuril stands 
at the head. Allow me to express my appre¬ 
ciation of your fearless expression of your 
opinion, even if some one’s corns are stepped 
on.” 
Mr. Thomas Barrett, of Platt Co., Illi¬ 
nois, says: 
“The Rural New-Yorker is the paragon of 
farm papers. It is bright, lively, progressive, 
able, honest, fearless, and independent in its 
judgment of men aud things. Success to the 
Rural 1” 
THE NEW JEWELL STRAWBERRY, 
ascinatiou j T waj i n the year 1872 that the Rural 
creation. New-Yorker first began to test new fruits 
t. of ft u kinds, though from the situation and 
r infusing climate of its experiment grounds, both on 
Rural, but Long Island ;N. Y.) and in Bergen Co., New 
ng studies Jersey, these tests were to a large extent con- 
e natural fined to grapes, strawberries, raspberries, 
table and currants and blackberries. Among the larger 
jhemistry, fruits, new pears have received a full share of 
, and as- attention; but apples, owing to the codling 
only put moth, have been neglected, 
it. As we look back upon our reports of the 
beautiful smaller fruits, we are unable to recall any 
a is -more that we have condemned that are uow popu- 
pays; for. lar, while those which have succeeded well at 
luable for the Rural Grounds have been found to succeed 
eaction on over a wide extent of our country. To speak 
always ac- of strawberries alone at this time, we were 
mlture; 4, the first to speak of the Crescent as a pro- 
lakes them duotive variety of strawberry, though of 
but for its poor quality; the first to popul-rize the 
Cumberland Triumph, Sharpless and Man- 
reasonable | Chester, and these during the past 18 years are 
Mr. Irvine Bell, of Kingman Co., Kan¬ 
sas, says: 
“I like your paper for its independence in 
stating your experience aud beliefs in new 
plants and fruits. Nurserymen are given 
much to exaggerating new sorts; but by care¬ 
fully readiug your paper one keeps posted.” 
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