SUPPLEMENT TO THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCT I 
CORRESPONDENTS’ VIEWS. 
(Continued from page 655.) 
A Stithy of Experiments. —The habitual 
render of agricultural periodicals cannot fail 
to have often been struck by the fact that the 
experiments therein recorded in relation to the 
growing of crops and to nil departments of 
farm work are frequently contrary in their 
results. This is the case even with State and 
National reports wherein men show forth their 
conclusions, who devote their lives to this work 
and are supposed to conduct their operations 
with the utmost care. Take as au Instance the 
experiment often made to determine the kind 
of seed which will produce the largest yield in 
potato growing. Numberless individuals have 
attempted to solve this problem. They have 
planted the seed in a great variety of ways, 
given each plot, according to their own state¬ 
ment, equal soil and culture, carefully meas¬ 
ured the produce and obtained to their satis¬ 
faction the truth they sought. Such is the 
procedure in each separate case. But when 
wo compare the results, uaturally expecting 
them to agree, what do we find? Why, that 
Farmer Brown, a practical agriculturist, lias 
concluded that largo whole potatoes are best, 
that Partner Jones found the seed end was 
host, that, Prof. Jackson got the largest re¬ 
turns from single eyes, and that Prof. John¬ 
son satisfied himself that if they were cut so 
that each eye was connected with the center 
the heaviest yield would l>e produced. Still 
different results were obtained by other par¬ 
ties. Now it is clear that the question sought 
to be determined is, after all this effort, still 
unanswered. It is also clear that there was 
something radically wrong in the experiments 
for if, as pre-supposed and claimed, tbo condi¬ 
tions of each were alike, the results would 
have been alike, for this is a natural law. 
Now what was wrong? Is it not evident that 
the conditions were not the same, hence the 
variance in the results? The soil, the culture, 
the climate, or more accurately weather, dif¬ 
fered. Perhaps it, was some very small thing 
that turned the balance. Any way the method 
was faulty and the reason it was so was be¬ 
cause the various experimenters failed to con¬ 
duct their operations under like conditions. 
And it Is obviously necessary that they should 
have done so in order to obtain farts of any 
definiteness or value. It may be said that 
t hey could not control every condition; well 
then they had host lot tho experiment alone, 
for until they could do so their efforts were 
useless. jayhawker. 
Kansas. 
Codling Moth in Idaho.— Until within the 
last two years a wormy apple was never seen 
in this county; last, season one orchard in this 
vicinity was quite seriously infested with tho 
codling moth. This season the plague is still 
more widely spread and wo fear that our 
Idaho pears are damaged; otherwise they will 
bo very fine. J- h. e. 
Lewiston, Idaho. 
The past summer has been very dry, giving 
tho laboring man very few idle days since 
spring begun, and also affording many tho op - 
port,unity of obtaining a good well of water, 
if they will only exert themselves in tbo right 
direction, and not bo content to drive their 
stock a mile or more, and content themselves 
with drinking out of a half-covered well 
which is tho receptacle for all kinds of filth. 
1 think the cartoons which tho Rural is giv¬ 
ing every now and thou should wako some 
people up; I might, say all of us, for there are 
few but can take a good lesson out of them 
They will teach more than the same amount 
of reading matter. J. m. w. 
Fernhili, Ontario. 
West Michigan Fruits. —The varieties of 
small frutt« which require winter promotion 
here nro strawberries, raspberries, and some 
varieties of grape-vines, as tho Niagara. To 
protect the strawberries over winter cover 
lightly with manure. Bend the raspberries 
and grape-vines down carefully with the 
foot, and cover lightly with straw or man¬ 
ure. I would raise the hardy variety of 
fair quulity which required no winter pro¬ 
tection, rather then the bettor quality requir¬ 
ing winter protection. It is sometimes ad¬ 
visable to allow shoep and hogs to run In ap¬ 
ple orchards, It is undesirable to have a 
growth of grass or grain of any kind iu au or¬ 
chard. Tbo future of tho fruit business is 
very favorable, gradually increasing every 
year. The principal fruits raised in this lo¬ 
cality are peaches, apples, grapes and rasp¬ 
berries. Five hundred tons of grapes aro 
yearly shipped in 1,500,000 packages. 
Law'ton, Mich. F. 0. L. 
(Continued on page 657.) 
OtB NIAGARA. 
Is the name of the Latent I mprovod, UlieiipcHt 
nml Heat well Force Pump. 
Cylinder and Packing hex below frost, will not 
ftWise costs but little more than a wood pump, State 
deuthof well. FIELD FORCE mil 1 CO., 
Lock port, N. Y, 
OVER THE FALLS I 
THE FATE INVITED BY A HEAD¬ 
STRONG YOUNG MAN 1 
A LIKE FATALITY INEVITABLE TO ALL WHO 
IGNORE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS. 
On one of our perfect summer days, a few 
years ago, a young man apparently a stranger, 
left Grand Island, iu Niagara River, for an 
hour’s fishing. Ho rows for a time vigorously 
down stream, and casts out his line, but be¬ 
coming tired of tho recreation, then be quietly 
drops into a dreamy mood, half awake and 
half asleep, in his enjoyment of perfect case. 
As he listlessly drifts in tho steady breeze 
and current, the smooth and glassy water 
gives him no alarm. 
As tho boat nears the right bank a man 
hastens towards him from a field near by, ges¬ 
ticulating frantically, trying to attract his at¬ 
tention and pointing down the river, 
SHOUTING 
with might and main in his efforts to make 
himself heard. The voyager, a little aston¬ 
ished at the spectacle, flushes farther out into 
tho stream again, forgetting all, but wonder¬ 
ing why this unsought for stranger should 
presume to disturb him in his enjoyments. 
He can see no occasion for such demonstra¬ 
tion. 
Suddenly the river narrows, the current 
grows stronger, and the boat is borne rapidly 
onward. It has entered the rapids I 
Too late tho man becomes aware of his 
peril. He seizes the oar and now begins a 
hopeless struggle with the rushing, roaring 
waters. The cold perspiration flows down his 
BLANCHED CnEEK, 
and his eyes assume a glassy, staring gaze as 
he descends. The oars drop from his nervous 
and paralyzed hands. Miseries of agony and 
despair are drowned in the roar of the awful 
cataract. Round and round iu the rapids 
the little boat in its feebleness is hurled, but 
always onward and downward I It is poised 
for a moment on the brink of tho precipice, 
and then disappears forever in tho whirlpool I 
His friends learn Inter how indifferently 
he drifted into danger, how ho ignored the 
warning from the stranger, and that, because 
it. came from a stranger, though with every 
appeuraneo of truth aud honesty, the victim 
preferred to rest undisturbed. 
So it is with many of tho little ills of the 
present time. The trouble goes smoothly 
and rapidly onward. To people indifferent, 
to their surroundings in the happiness of life, 
these ills have no comparison with tho enjoy¬ 
ments that are about them. The condition 
of disordered kidneys, that become so, surely 
but Stealthily and fatally, is yet looked upon 
at first with much indifference. These organs 
with their few nerves, do not themselves con¬ 
tinually 
BOUND THE ALARM, 
but warn us in every other part of the body 
that something is wrong. 
If a decayed tooth causes us one night’s 
sleeplessness we give it attention by extract¬ 
ing or repairing it. The blood that flows to 
tho maiden’s check will not add to her 
beauty unless it has lioen purified by the kid¬ 
neys; but many foolishly expect that health 
can bo kept up with tho same blood that 
passes through the diseased kidneys that does 
through the healthy kidneys. Those organs 
ilrst overtaxed, then slightly inflamed, then 
slightly ulcerated, later become putrifled with 
corruption itself. In them there is no pain 
and no alarm, yet we have time and again 
published tbo warning from the proprietors 
of Warner’s safe cure, but because, perhaps, 
it was u paid-for warning it has 
GONE BY MANY UNHEEDED, 
the same as tho warning from tho stranger on 
the bank of tho river. It causes a moment’s 
thought and anxiety, and then the people 
settle back and place their confidence iu tho 
medical profession which protends to excel iu 
hundreds or diseases, forgetting that old say¬ 
ing, “ A Jack at ail trades is master of none.” 
They are like tho dissatisfied dog over tho 
bone, who knows bo cannot. ciTnsume Mu* 
same, yet ho lights and growls at any one that 
may appear to trespass upon his rights. 
Bo it is with tho medical profession. They 
know that they cannot cure ad vanced kidney 
diseases, aud when its wasting corruption is 
about ended they then to excuso themselves 
pronounce it Bright’s Disease. As near ns we 
can learn from tho public investigation, given 
to the public by tho proprietors of Warner’s 
safe cure, and from other reliable sources, 
there is no point in this disorder that is called 
Bright’s Disease until it has reached a fatal 
development and at such a time there is but 
little to be done. It is useless to 
CATCH UP Tint OARS 
or cry out in our despair then, but when the 
first symptoms of disordered kidneys become 
apparent, bo they over so Blight, it is really 
tho beginning of Bright’s Disease. It is then 
that tho proper remedies must be used, and 
we should not sit listlessly and glide indiffer¬ 
ently forward, looking upon tho warning 
with indifference or contempt. 
We often receive benefit from strangers 
wbo are better acquainted with a subject than 
others who pretend and do not know, and 
who, because of their inability, try to deaden 
our sense of danger because it is beyond their 
power to assist. 
Why should we bo thus blinded and ignore 
tho warning of tho stranger which cannot be 
disputed and is true ? 
We give tho foregoing thoughts thus forci¬ 
bly in tho hope that some of our readers may 
tako warning before they are in the cataract 
and it is too late. Do not think the stranger’s 
warning is always worthless, even if it may 
seem to be given for a selfish reason. 
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