THE 
OCTt 
RURAL NEW'YORKER, 
ANationol J ournal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Conducted by 
EfcBBRT S. CABMAN. 
Address 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
No. 84 Park Row, New York. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1887. 
By request we are again raising the Mi¬ 
kado or Turner’s Hybrid Tomato. This 
year we value it even less than last year. 
The vines sprawl over too much space. 
They are no more fruitful than Acme, 
Perfection, or any others of that class, 
while the tomatoes are generally as un¬ 
shapely as those of the old Trophy. 
Titose of our readers who have barns to 
build will do well to wait until the Rural 
presents the elevation and plans of the 
barn lately built by the well-known 
farmer and farm writer, T. B. Terry, of 
Summit Co., Ohio, after the carefullest 
study of what a barn should be. The 
photographs and plans are now in our 
artist’s hands, and with a plain descrip¬ 
tion the cuts will appear at an early day. 
In the development of our hybrids be¬ 
tween rye and wheat, as shown the past 
season, we may allude to one new feature 
which appears in a seven-eighths rye 
plant. It has a stem so downy for several 
inches below the head that the down 
might be “parted” with a fine tooth comb. 
Our efforts this season to again cross 
the seven-eighths rye plants in the hopes 
of getting back to rye failed, though no 
less than 20 hours were spent at the ted¬ 
ious work. 
Among about 100 different varieties of 
strawberries tried at the Rural Grounds 
the past season, we are not prepared to say 
that one shows a real step in advance over 
older kinds. There are several like the 
Lida, Jessie, Summit, Crawford, Anna 
and Truitt, that are promising, but they 
will need another year's growth aud fruit¬ 
age before any well-founded opinion can 
be formed. The Hilton, not yet offered 
for sale, shows a marked improvement 
over the Sharpless in fruitfulness and 
average size of berry. It is a pistillate, 
however, and in quality it is a trifle too 
acid. 
Later on we shall place before our 
readers illustrations of the leaves and 
stems of our hybrids between the black¬ 
berry and raspberry. The plants vary in 
a remarkable way, and most of them 
show characteristics of both parents. A 
description of the Rural’s hybrids be¬ 
tween the Japan rose, Rosa rugosa, and 
Harrison's Yellow,with leaf illustrations, 
will also interest many. Though the 
mother plant was the japan rose, which 
bears distinct, leathery foliage, only one 
of the 1G hybrid seedlings shows any re¬ 
semblance to it. Sixteen roses with foli¬ 
age more unlike could scarcely be named. 
Fouthe third season we find that sulphur 
repels the wire-worm and that where there 
are no wire-worms there is no scab on pota¬ 
toes. For example: here are 10 hills of po¬ 
tatoes all smooth. The seed-pieces were 
lightly covered with soil and then the fer¬ 
tilizer and sulphur were strewn over this 
soil. In the next 10 hills the sulphur was 
omitted and we find the potatoes more or 
less scabby. In the soil of the first lot 
few wire-worms are to be seen about the 
tubers; in the second, many. Is it a 
fungus that first attacks the skin aud fits 
it to the liking of the wire-worm ? We 
believe not in our case. And yet Western 
readers tell us that their potatoes are 
scabby and the wire-worm (lulus) is 
unknown. 
Two years ago, a dozen potatoes were 
sent to this office covered with scab. The 
sender stated that he had never seen a 
wire-worm, and that the corrosions must 
have been formed by a fungus. Upon a 
careful examination we found several 
small wire-worms imbedded in the scabby 
potatoes. 
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Duty On Imported Canadian Cream. 
—There is considerable complaint among 
dairymen in Vermont anti Northern New 
York at a late ruling of the Treasury De¬ 
partment. In answer to an inquiry as to 
the duty on cream imported from Canada, 
the. Department held that the separation 
of the cream from the milk did not con¬ 
stitute a manufacture, and therefore that 
the cream could only be taxed at the rate 
of 10 per cent, ad valorem as a new and 
unmanufactured article; while butter, a 
manufactured article, is taxed four cents 
a pound—more than double the tax on 
cream. 'Phis duty on butter has been al¬ 
most prohibitory, so that there has been 
little competition with Canadian butter in 
our home markets. To seud milk across 
the border would involve heavy expense 
for transportation; but when the cream 
is mechanically separated from the milk 
by the newly invented machines, and scut 
across the border to be made into cream¬ 
ery butter, the cost of the latter is not 
materially higher than if it was made in 
Canada; and thus the heavier duty on but¬ 
ter is evaded. It is claimed that Cana¬ 
dian dairymen can produce butter and 
cream cheaper than they can be produced 
by their brethern ou this side of the line, 
and therefore that the latter will be ex¬ 
posed to active competition with Cana¬ 
dian cream, brought across the border 
and made into butter at a lower price 
than that at which American butter can 
be produced. Is this true, and if so, 
why ? 
This year, as in years past, 
we have special club combinar 
nations (see page 659) with; 
1st, the Inter-Ocean of Chicago, 
Ill.; 2d, the Detroit Free Press 
of Detroit, Mich., and last, the 
Weekly World of New York. 
The publishers of those journals 
will gladly furnish specimen 
copies without charge. We 
promise prompt attention in 
forwarding all subscriptions re¬ 
ceived._ 
The Piedmont Exposition. —The last 
great exposition of Southern industries at 
Atlanta, Georgia, a few years, ago is 
believed to have been the inauguration 
of the current era of industrial activity 
and prosperity in the “New South.” The 
attention of the capitalists of this and 
other countries was forcibly directed to 
the vast undeveloped resources and possi¬ 
bilities of that section, and since then 
money has been flowing in there from the 
North and from Europe in a steady, pow¬ 
erful stream which has set or kept the 
wheels of every industry in rapid motion, 
and brought unexampled prosperity to 
the land. Again the public-spirited citi¬ 
zens of the “Gate City” are preparing to 
make a grand display of the industrial re¬ 
sources and progress of the couutry, in the 
Piedmont Exposition which is to open at 
Atlanta on October 10, aud last for two 
weeks. A large sum has been expended 
in providing the necessary buildings, every 
dollar of which has come out of the pock¬ 
ets of public-spirited people of the city. 
Cheap rates have been secured ou all the 
railroads North and South, that center at 
Atlauta. President Cleveland is to spend 
two days at the show studying Southern 
resources aud getting acquainted with 
Southern people. This is an excellent op¬ 
portunity for the people of the North and 
West to fraternize with their brethren of 
the South, aud for the business men of the 
rest of the country to study the great and 
hitherto undeveloped resources of that 
section. The “New South” is energetic¬ 
ally helping itself, and, very justly,the rest 
of the world are most disposed to help 
those who do so. 
TEXAS FEVER. 
A dispatch from Hartford, Connecticut, 
Friday, says that niue days earlier a herd 
of 20 Western bulls had been bought at 
Albany, N. Y., and taken to Warehouse 
Point, Conn. Within the first week nine 
of them died j>f Texas fever, symptoms 
of which were clearly marked, and “an¬ 
other was killed by the order of Dr. 
Crossey, the veterinary surgeon who was 
called.” The symptoms of Texan fever 
are easily distinguishable, and here, we 
are told, they were well marked; why then 
were any of the animals slaughtered ? 
We have seen reports of cases in which a 
large number of affected animals were 
killed. Why ? Inasmuch as Texan cat¬ 
tle show no symptoms of the disease, no 
affected animal in the North can bo a 
Texan. All must be Northern cattle 
which have become diseased through 
coming in contact with the virus of the 
malady conveyed through the excreta or 
saliva of Texas cattle in roads, pastures, 
water-courses, etc. Now, there is no 
known instance where Northern cattle, 
however badly diseased, have ever com¬ 
municated the disease to other Northern 
cattle, even when pastured with them or 
standing side by side in the same stable. 
These cattle must have passed over places 
contaminated by Texan cattle from ten 
days to nearly three months before they 
left Albany, for the period of incubation 
varies -within those limits. It is appar¬ 
ently sound Texan cattle, not ailing 
Northern cattle, that must Vie feared as 
spreaders of the disease. Now that it is 
so widespread over the Northern States, 
this fact should be borne in mind. As it 
is, however, destroyed at once by frost, its 
days in the North are numbered this 
year. 
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during 1888. We shall do all in our 
power to improve it in every way. We 
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as hitherto, to make it worthy of the 
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THE FRUIT OF MONOPOLY. 
When petroleum was first discovered 
iu Pennsylvania, it was looked upon as 
the source of great wealth to the couutry. 
The excitement was as great as if gold 
had been discovered. There was an im¬ 
mense rush to the oil fields. Fortunes 
were rapidly made. Towns quickly sprang 
up among the mountains and gulches. 
There was work for all; wages were 
high; ever}body made money, and the 
region was prosperous and happy. Ac¬ 
cording to the latest reports, though more 
oil than ever is produced, no part of the 
country is suffering more. There is no 
profit in operating wells. Throughout the 
whole region towns are dwindling, houses 
are falling into ruins and oil exchanges 
into decay. Never were wages lower, and 
never were so many men idle. Drillers, 
carpenters, pumpers and others compul¬ 
sorily idle, because no more wells are 
going down, are seeking employment 
elsewhere. Business having abandoned 
store-keepers, store-keepers are abandon¬ 
ing ihe country. Everywhere are reminis¬ 
cences of a vanished prosperity. Every¬ 
where a heavy curse seems brooding over 
the region. To what malign influence is 
this woeful change attributable ? Over¬ 
production, doubtless, has contributed 
something toward it; but the most affec¬ 
tive and baueful cause has been the Stand¬ 
ard Oil monopoly. It owns the pipe¬ 
lines and controls the railroads, so that it 
has a monopoly of transportation, thus 
compelling other producers to sell their 
oil to it at its own figures.lt has crushed 
out all opposition, and is now entire 
master of the field; but, like the Russian 
autocrat in Poland, it has secured sub¬ 
mission only by making the country deso¬ 
late. It has ground the producers down 
to an unprofitable level; it has oppressed 
the workers; it has impoverished the 
country; but while others have been los¬ 
ing, it has been adding to its millions 
every year. “By its fruit shall ye know 
it,” and such is the fruit of the greatest, 
strongest and most wealthy monopoly on 
earth. 
“GOLIATH AND DAVID.” 
There is material for an hour's think¬ 
ing in our first page picture. What could 
show more forcibly the conflict which is 
bound to come between temperance and 
morality on the one side, and fraud and 
crime on the other? The face of the 
scoundrel, who represents for these days 
what the profane Phil’stinc represented 
in Bible times, is taken directly from life. 
It is the exact likeness of a low, bar-room 
politician who can be seen any day on the 
streets of this city. Bold to desperation, 
cruel and cunniug as brutes, with no re¬ 
spect for law and order, such fellows 
form the most dangerous element in 
American politics. They arc skillful 
manipulators of voters more ignorant and 
cowardly thau themselves. They are keen 
enough to see that in this great city, they 
can frighten party leaders into the belief 
that they hold the balance of power. It 
is because of this belief that hundreds of 
honest men become, disgusted with poli¬ 
tics, and by neglecting to vote allow such 
fellows to make good their claims of 
power. Bribers, jury-fixers and frauds 
of all sorts arc emboldened by the crimes 
of these political Philistines to pursue 
their wretched business. Owing to the 
peculiar distribution of electorial power 
in this country, New York city can justly 
be called the political key. It is a 
sad thought to all self-respecting men to 
feel that the election of a Governor, a 
Congressman or even a President may de¬ 
pend upon the influence of such a brutal 
rascal as we have faithfully pictured. 
Where shall a David he found to meet 
this Goliath and cut his power away from 
him ? Our ideal is represented by the 
bright young farmer boy. With the 
strength of thought and purpose which he 
has gained in the church aud school-house, 
he advances to meet the boasting giant. 
The Grange, representing organization 
and power in the noblest and highest 
sense, gives him the strength of 1,000 men. 
Let him but stand muufuUy to his task, 
and the giant will fall before him. Edu¬ 
cation, organization, courage—these are 
the three rocks upon which the farmer 
must build his hopes for the future. In 
studying this picture read again the old 
story of Goliath and David. You will 
find a new meaning in it. 
brevities. 
The Rural New-Yorker is for the homes 
of the entire country. 
Try the Hayes (F. B.) Grape. Try the 
Ulster Co Prolific. Try the Eaton. Among 
the newer kinds these are the most promising. 
Sept. 23d wo dug one hill of a Rural seed¬ 
ling potato that yielded seven pounds of pota¬ 
toes—all of goodly size. 
In the cure of sick animals “trust to nature 
rather than to quackery.” See Dr. Kilborne’s 
article on page 040. 
Try the Golden Queen. It is the best aud 
hardiest yellow raspberry, though the berries 
are less firm than those of its parent, the 
Cuthberb. Try the Enrhart Everbearing 
Cap. From the beginning of the season until 
frost, plants of this variety were in constant 
bearing. 
The “hot corn” trade in New York is enor¬ 
mous. The ears are cooked and carried about 
for sale in tin steamers. With a supply of 
salt and butter they retail at live cents each, 
and people iu all conditions of life buy them. 
Many negroes, who work through the day¬ 
time, sell “hot corn” at night. Market gar¬ 
deners frequently sell 150 ears ata time to 
one of these cooks. 
The “three L’s” mentioned in the article on 
New Euglaud Farms, calls to mind a remark 
made by a leading implement manufacturer 
last week. He said: “Did it ever occur to 
you that times will never seem better until 
people moke up their minds to be contented 
with smaller profits?” Our ideas expanded 
when money was plenty. In times of string¬ 
ency iu money matters ideas regarding ex¬ 
tend iture aud profits must bo contracted. 
In til they arc we cannot have that uniform¬ 
ity which represents “good times.” 
At the animal meeting of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association, held in this 
city the other day, Dr, Huuiekoper, of Phil¬ 
adelphia, head of the Veterinary Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania, was 
elected President, it was reported that nearly 
all the veterinary colleges in the country 
favor a uniform standard of matriculation 
and final examinations. In discussing the 
outbreak of cereln o spinal meningitis that has 
lately ocurrcd in New Jersey, Dr. McLean, 
of Brooklyn, held to the theory that the dis¬ 
ease is contagious: but Dr. Huidekoper said 
that he had proved by actual experiment that 
it is not contagious lie had lakeu several 
affected horses from New Jersey and sand¬ 
wiched them among his own horses ia his 
stables In Philadelphia. The diseased horses 
all died, but his own were not affected. He 
thinks the eases ho examined wore duo to mi¬ 
asmatic causes. He believes the disease, 
whatever it really may lie, is not properly 
named cei-ebro-spinal meningitis. 
