MAY 24 
THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
fox* t!)c Doling. 
LETTERS PROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: It has been a long 
time since I lmve written you a letter, and I 
suppose you have almost forgotten your niece. 
The sweet peas you sent me grew very luxu¬ 
riantly. They were really beautiful. Their 
colors were delightful to the eye. They have 
six colors. We had a joyful Thanksgiving 
day. Wo had a Hue turkey for the Thanks¬ 
giving dinner. It. was delicious. 1 wish you 
hail been here for dinner. I know you would 
have enjoyed it very much. We had many 
other nice toothsome things, among which 
some fine sweet-cakes were very attractive 
and delicious. Our crops of grain were very 
excellent and abundant. We have several 
tine turkeys, some of which are wild ones. 
From your niece, N. e. woodford. 
Alpina, W. Va. 
[Uncle Mark wishes he could have been on 
hand.] 
Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins: 1 am 
a little girl 13 years old, and want to be a 
Cousin. I have live sisters, Elsie, Anuie, Mat- 
tie, Nellie, and Mazie; all waut to be Cousins. 
We cun hardly wait till the Rural comes. 1 
read the letters in the Rural every week. 
We milk 31 cows. My sister Annie and I 
fed 23 calves this winter. Out of that num¬ 
ber we are raising 0. We have three little 
Jersey calves that we are learning to lead. 
We call them Mattie, Nettie, and Madge. We 
had two twin calves that. We named (Linger- 
b r ead and Sweetcako. How are they for 
names? They were so near alike that we 
could hardly tell them apart. We have made 
a good deal of garden. We sowed about 
tli rec-fourths of ail acre of onion seeds. We 
have some nice lettuce to eat now; the seed 
was sown in February in cold frames. Pupa 
planted about 2,000 fruit trees this spring, and 
we girls held the trees for the men. 
Wayne-boro, Pa. vinnik good. 
[Gingerbread is my favorite, I guess. My 
mother used to make good gingerbread, and I 
would like to get some like it now. We are 
glud to have you all come in the club.— V. M.] 
Dkau Uncle Mark; I have been attend¬ 
ing school since last September, an 1 will con¬ 
tinue to do so until the middle of June, and as 
you all kuow, when one is going to school 
thtre is not much time for writing letters. 
We received the Rural Free Seed Distribution 
some time ago. Last year we plautt’d the 
Rural Oardeu Treasures, mid they were very 
pretty. We are going to plant them this year 
and give them extra good care, and see how 
nmuy dilferent kinds of flowers we can raise 
from them. I am a great lover of flowers, 
and we always raise a good many (if the hens 
don’t scratch them up). We have tried sev¬ 
eral ways to keep them out of one flower beds, 
but wo do not have very good success. Do 
any of you kuow a good way to keep them 
out? Perhaps Uncle Mark can tell us some 
good ways, for 1 presume he raises flowers. 
I do think the hens might find some other 
place to scratch beside in our flower beds, 
for r is such a disappointment to have the hens 
scratch them up when you have lukou so much 
pains in preparing the beds and sowing the 
seeds, and watching the plants grow, when 
they are small, and then when they are about 
an inch high to have an old hen and her chick¬ 
ens get in and scratch them all out but three 
or four that she did not notice. If nuy one 
can tell us any way of keeping them out I am 
sure we will bo very much obliged, indeed. 
MILLIE UALDW1N. 
rI have tried various ways and never had 
any success except in keeping the hens shut 
up. Then they can’t get out to do any damage. 
XVhen I was younger 1 could chose them away, 
but 1 am pretty old to do that now. -U. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: One of our neighbors 
caught an oppossum in bis pig pen. He did 
not know wlmt it was so he took it to Delavan 
and about 100 people came to look at it, and 
among them were two darkies, and when they 
saw it they said it was an oppossum. There 
was never oue known to lie around here be¬ 
fore. Last week we all bad the measles; that 
is, my two brothers, and two sisters and my¬ 
self. We all were very sick. We all are quite 
well now. We have very nice weather 
now. Pa has sowed ten acres of outs and is 
plowing now. Your Niece, 
Delavan, XVis. jsklla shimmins. 
[The negroes, at the South, are very fond 
of ’possum burning. They like baked ’possum 
too. It seemed to mo that it must taste like a 
woodchuck. 1 had to eat a piece of a wood¬ 
chuck once, and shall never forget how it 
tasted —u. m.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 would like to join 
the Y. H. C. I am a boy, 11 years old. I live 
on a farm of 120 acres, I go to school. Pa 
has taken the Rural New-Yorker for 18 
years, and ho says that he could not do with¬ 
out it. We have four horses and nine cows. 
Pa has put in 10 acres of oats this spring. Ms 
planted the flower seeds and they were pretty. 
My largest brother and I planted the melon 
seeds; they did not come up very well, but 
when they did we tended to them. Two of 
the melons weighed flobf pounds. For my 
pet 1 have a baby brother six weeks old. I 
would like to have you send a pretty name for 
it. Yours truly, Freddie a. mickey. 
Huron Co., Ohio. 
[I don’t like “pretty” names for boys. They 
are nice when the boy is a baby and is cun¬ 
ning, but when he gets to be n man the pretty 
name does him no good. We w'ant everything 
about a man that will make him manly. 
—tr. M.] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark: Please answer a few 
questions for me. I am learning to bud, 
graft aud propagate plants. Now what I 
want to know is this: 1. Are budded apples 
and pears as good as root grafted ones? 1 do 
not see where the difference is, though I am 
told that budded trees are no good. 2. Under 
the apple and pear trees a good many seed¬ 
lings come up from the fruit that dropped the 
year before; will not those make good stocks? 
Your Nephew, 
Madison Co., Ills. WM jackbon, jr. 
Ans.—1. Experience and observation have 
pretty well demonstrated that, as between 
trees budded near the crowd, upon one or two 
year-old seedlings, using the entire root, and 
those root-grafted upon sections (short pieces] 
of seedling roots, the budded trees are more 
productive, if not also more hardy. The pre¬ 
valance of root-grafting, ns compared with 
budding, arises rather from the fact, that it is 
cheaper and in some respects more convenient; 
rather than from a belief that it produces 
better or healthier t rees; although such root- 
grafts of very hardy or vigorous varieties are 
sometimes employed to be top-grafted at 
standard bight, with more tender or feeble 
growing kinds. 2. These seedlings will prob¬ 
ably make as good stocks as those usually em¬ 
ployed for such purpose, which are grown by 
millions from the seeds washed from the 
pomace of refuse fruit; but the best way to 
secure good seedling stocks would be, to 
select, not the finest fruits, but those yielding 
the largest, plumpest and most perfectly de¬ 
veloped seeds, recollecting that we are aiming 
to produce the soundest trees; and that to do 
so, we must plant good teed. When the pur¬ 
pose is to produce improved fruit, quite a dif¬ 
ferent class of considerations must prevail. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a little girl 10 
years old. We have two cats aud three dogs, 
a cow aud a horse. One of our cats—the big¬ 
gest one—climbs up the viues to the roof of 
our piazza, then she jumps up on the outside 
of Mamma’s window sill and rattles the shut¬ 
ters to be let in. I liko to read the letters 
from the Cousins. I hope you will have room 
to print my letter. I would like to be one of 
the Cousins. doha french. 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
[I saw a cat last winter that climbed to the 
roof of a house so as to get a warm place by 
the side of the chimney. She was there every 
day.—u. M.j 
Dear Uncle Mark: I intend to be a farm¬ 
er. I bought a pair of grade Devon steer 
calves last spring and have broken them to 
the yoke and to the cart. I intend to work on 
the farm. I help Pa milk and feed pigs and 
chickens and feed cattle and help wash and 
wipe dishes, but would rather ride horse to 
cultivate and plow corn and potatoes. 
Wilton, Conn. HARRY B. JACKSON. 
[We want lots of good fnrmers in this coun¬ 
try. We want those who like to farm, aud 
not those who are forced into it. Roys do not 
generally like to wash dishes, but there is no 
disgrace in the work, especially when it is 
done to help mother.—u. m.] 
Care for the Children 
Children feel the debility of the changing sea¬ 
sons, oven more than adults, and they become 
cross, peevish and uncontrollable. The blood 
should he cleansed and the system Invigorated 
by the use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. (live It a trial. 
" Last spring my two children wore vaccinated. 
Soon after, they broke all out with running sores, 
so dreadful I thought 1 should lose them. Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla - cured them completely; and they 
have been hwithy over since. 1 do fool that 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla saved my children to mo.” 
Mus. C. L. Thompson, West Warren, Maas. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. SI; six for $5. Mado 
only by C. J. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass- 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES. 
To destroy Injurious Insects is conceded by nil or¬ 
chard Isis as uceessnry to secure perfect fruit, for full 
directions and oui 111 for Imtul or horse power at bottom 
cash prices address 
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THE “COMMON SENSE” MILK RAIL 
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Fall made. 
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the dirt . 1 1 has 
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Una strainer, 
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he yuiekty and 
thoroughly 
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Extra strain- 
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MILKING TUBES. 
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WARREN 
MILK BOTTLES 
1 Patented March 28d, 1880 . 
Adapted for the Delivery 
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