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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
ticular shipper. The barrels of apples at 
Glasgow, Liverpool, London and other ports 
are not opened before sale. They are merely 
shaken. Those that remain tightly packed go 
into the first class of each variety; those that 
are rather loose, into the second, and the very 
loose or wet into the third, as it is thought 
that the compactness of the fruit in the barrel 
indicates the amount of rot that has taken 
place, and the prices for each variety are regu¬ 
lated entirely on this basis. The apples are 
sold in lots ranging from 10 to 100 barrels each. 
There is much talk ot late years about the 
inefficiency of lightning-rods. Many hold 
that they are worse than useless. The opinion 
of the most scientific body of electricians in 
the world is that there is no authentic case on 
record where a properly constructed conduct¬ 
or failed to do its duty. 
A writer in the Husbandman says that he 
has known men who owe their success in life 
to a change of location or business, men who 
dragged out a miserable existence once but 
now by one decided change or move, are pros¬ 
perous and happy, but he believes from person¬ 
al observation that such cases are exceptions, 
aud not the rule. Where there is one man 
who betters himself by frequently changing 
location there are many more who lose by 
changes. 
That “a rolling stone gathers no moss.” 
should bo remembered by every farmer, espec¬ 
ially by every young farmer. Whether his 
farm is a small one paid for, or he is stagger¬ 
ing under a load of debt be should stick to it. 
He should improve his methods of farming; 
strive to learn the causes of failure or success 
but he should not give up and aud sell out for 
less than the property is worth and move to 
some other country.. 
The O. C. Farmer says that a profitable 
dairy cow should give not less than 7,000 
pounds of milk por annum, and with proper 
care in feed and breed, any intelligent far¬ 
mer can easily reach that standard. But the 
cold fact is that three out of four cows in the 
country will fall below 5,000 pounds, and the 
owners of them wonder why their dairies do 
not accomplish a larger financial result. 
Judge Milder, speaking of the Moyer 
pecan, says that the original tree is about 60 
feet high with a stem 18 inches in diameter. 
This tree bears abundantly aud is growing in 
a region where the temperature has been 
known to drop to 32 degress below zero in 
winter. The nuts are of medium to large 
size with thin shells,and the kernel is of excel¬ 
lent flavor. The discovery of this tree settles 
the mooted question of the hardiness of the 
pecan nut. The seedlings raised from the 
Moyer may not all be as hardy as the parent 
tree, still by grafting we can secure hardy 
trees that will thrive whore tho ordinary 
varieties of the apple and pear grow. 
The It. N.-Y. wrote to Sec’y Campbell, of 
Ohio, as to the hardiness of tho Empire State 
grape. He believes it to be as hardy as the 
Concord. He says it is as vigorous in growth 
and is perfectly healthy. It is of better qual¬ 
ity than the Niagara and somewhat earlier to 
ripen its crop. 
Three years ago, first of September, a 
writer in Orchard and Garden cultivated his 
strawberry bod (rows four feet apart) and 
sowed to oats, raking them in with a garden 
rake. The oats grew about eighteen inches 
high before they wore killed by frost, and 
falling down made a splendid wiuter protec¬ 
tion, and left the ground mellow and moist. 
The next berry season he did not cultivate 
until after picking. 
Moderate-sized cions are better than very 
small or very large ones, remarks the editor 
of the Journal above quoted. To keep them 
in best condition for out-door grafting in 
spring, bury them in dry sand or sandy loam 
on the north side of a building, wall or fence, 
and mound up the soil so the surface water 
will run off quickly. 
According to Mathew Crawford, in the 
Ohio Farmer, an extensive apple grower of 
Illinois, Is said to plant only half ns far apart 
as the trees should stand permanently, and 
then hearings three-fourths of them into bear¬ 
ing as soou as possible by girdling, letting them 
produce all they will until the permanent ones 
need the room. Tho girdled trees are then 
cut out and the others have all needed space 
forgrowthand productiveness. 
Although Pres. Lyon (in the Michigan 
Farmer) recommends low branching of pear 
trees, whether on pear or quince, he says that 
quince-rooted trees are rather to be regarded 
as the playthings of fancy cultivators and as 
demanding tho kind of care and high culture 
only to lie expected of amateurs proj)er. He 
therefore unhesitatingly recommends the gen¬ 
eral cultivator to plant only standards. 
Ik one wishes tp write down the result of 
the coming contest,how many letters of the al¬ 
phabet will it be necessary to put down? 
Put 8 os ! 
“Though Wrong may sway the world to-day, 
You hold the hand of Fate: 
Your good seed grows beneath the snows.' 
Right can afford to wait." 
ABSTRACTS. 
- -Field and Farm: “Here in Colorado 
we have known a farmer to plant a hundred 
acres of corn and cultivate but for live. He 
not infrequently milks and feeds six lean 
cows, when one good one would yield more 
than all the six.” 
- Popular Science News: “The old- 
fashioned method of planting potatoes in hills 
bids fair to be superseded by the trench sys¬ 
tem introduced the past season by the Rural 
New Yorker. We think it has been clearly 
shown that the new system is a great improve¬ 
ment on the old one and we commend it to the 
attention of agriculturists.” 
-“ It is more blessed to give than to receive 
It is likewise more expensive.” 
- O. C. Farmer: “ The cost of living has 
been steadily reduced in the past 25 years and 
the salaries of public officials have as steadily 
been increasing.” 
—Philadelphia Call: “ In spelling them 
there is only the difference of a letter i>etween 
Christmas bells and Christmas bills, but in 
figuring them up a stupendous difference be¬ 
comes apparent. ” 
—Orchard and Garden: “We think we 
can safely predict that the hardy varieties of 
the English walnuts will thrive wherever the 
peach tree grows and boars fruit.” 
—Binghamton Republican ; “An eel lays 
9,000,000 eggs. How insignificant thy work, 
O hen! Goto the eel, thou cackler, consider 
her ways and glut the market.” 
—Texas Siftings: “New Year’s might be 
made to come less often, too, which would be 
a blessing to old maids, aud men who kick 
against growing old. It would be a great 
saving in calendars, journals aud broken 
resolutions.” 
- The Century: “Why should we not 
establish an American Socioty for the Pro¬ 
motion of Political Honesty ? Such an associa¬ 
tion could have branches in all prominent 
cities. It could have committees on the en¬ 
forcement of penal laws, on legislation, on ed¬ 
ucation. It could exert its influence through 
the press and through our school boards. 
Before long it would gain the fear, if not the 
respect, of our political parties, and the move¬ 
ment once begun would not end until political 
corruption had ceased to be a national sin.” 
— N. O. Picayune: “Goods in the Hands 
of a merchant who does not advertise are like 
rowboats. They have no sale.” 
—Texas Siftings : “Liquor bills are often 
paid at the lunatic asylum.'' 
“ ‘|L will insert one more Claus.’ says Senta, 
smiling.” 
“With children a Christmas present beats 
any Christmas past.” 
“The highway of virtue is so little frequented 
that collisions are rare. ” 
- Breeder’s Gazette; “An overproduc¬ 
tion of grade draft horses is not probable— 
scarcely possible— in ten years to come.” 
-Philadelphia Herald: “It is a trying 
moment to a married man when debating 
with himself whether it is best to buy his 
wife a Christmas present or to use the money 
in settling the big bill which he owes at the 
little saloon around the corner.” 
-Philadelphia Weekly Press: “Mr. E. 
S. Goff, of the New York Experiment Station, 
a cautious and trustworthy man, reports that 
the potato, Rural New-Yorker No. 2, yielded 
more at the station than any other of the 
67 varieties tested, bore the smallest propor¬ 
tion of undersized tubers, and, so far, has 
proved best in quality of all those tested. 
This is an indorsement worth having.” 
-N. Y. Tribune: “I broke a hen of sit¬ 
ting by placing chestnut burrs in her nest. 
She had only one trial at it and left in dis¬ 
gust; not so with a goose, which carefully 
removed the offending accumulation.... Pigs 
should not be bedded with buckwheat straw. 
It causes a serious eruption of tho skin... All 
buttermakers do not know that salt to some 
degree absorbs odors as well as milk; conse¬ 
quently dairy salt should be stored where this 
cannot occur.” 
-Tegetmier; “The poultry business is 
nevei conducted successfully on a large scale 
two years in succession.... Poultry fanciers 
have harmed almost irreparably every breed 
they have put hands on_Breeding for 
feather and mark has been at the expense of 
fertility.... When Cochins aud Brahmas 
introduced they had only a few feathers on 
their legs; but now they must have enough to 
make a wing for a fair-sized bird....It should 
be borne in mind that feather is entirely 
dry animal matter, aud four times the amount 
of food is required to make feather as is 
necessary to form flesh.... Farmers had given 
up the enormous Long-horned cattle, and 
those with big bones, as they were aware that 
such could not be produced without a consid¬ 
erable consumption of food. These birds laid 
small eggs, and it was useless to employ an 
enormous bird to do that which a lesser one 
could do equally well; a cart-horse should not 
be employed to do what a Shetland pony could 
accomplish.” 
-Life: “Neither gifts nor food, nor 
drink can make a Christmas. The Goulds, 
Vanderbilts and Astors are as liable to have 
a dull day of it as you or I, or the lady on the 
corner who sells apples, or the gentleman who 
leaves our morning paper on the doorstep. 
Food aud drink and gifts are handy things 
for Christmas; and take care that, so far as 
lies in you, all the world shall have these 
things—but they don’t make the day. It is 
the state of mind that does that, and the state 
of mind that is needed was Tiny Tim’s when 
he said ‘God bless every body!” 
-“ Look up or down the street, brethren, 
there is your neighbor. If you love him, 
Christmas is a success: if you are indifferent 
to him it is a failure; if you hate him, so far 
as concerns you it is a catastrophe.” 
-“Men and women who consider them¬ 
selves ‘ good,’ and are so considered by others, 
are going to enjoy the celebration of the anni¬ 
versary of the birth of Him who came to 
bring peace on earth and good-will to men, 
in spite of the fact that many about them, 
other good men aud women—judged by the 
same standard as themselves—are suffering 
from cold and hunger, shivering in rags in 
the street.” 
-The Century: “Therefore, fathers, 
give gifts to your children, even if you have 
to lessen the "daily portion, remembering the 
wisdom of Mahomet, who said, that if “he 
had two loaves of bread he would sell one and 
buy hyacinths, for they would feed his soul.” 
And, ye children, stir up your fathers to 
mirth; Christmas comes but once a year, and 
the years left to them may not be many.” 
- Puck: “The annual crop of good resolu¬ 
tions is almost ripe. There is, however, little 
danger of any body souring his jollity by too 
early indulgence in the green fruit.” 
-L. Q. A8KS:“Howdo you preserve autumn 
leaves?” Ans. —We do not know; we never 
triedit; we do not think they would make 
good preserves.” 
-“ It is said that the girl with the rose-bud 
mouth lias a jaeque-mi-nose.” 
-“In a paper read before the meeting of the 
improved Stock Breeders’ Association last 
week, at Iowa City, Hon. L. S. Coffin said 
that as the result of his experience, “the 
sheep is the one domestic animal that never 
dies in debt to its owner. The consumption 
of woolen goods per capita has more than 
doubled in 50 years, and by skillful breeding 
the clip of wool per sheep has also more than 
doubled. There is no fear that the wool in¬ 
terest will be injured in the near future by 
adverse National legislation. Every farmer, 
if favorably situated, should keep at least a 
small flock of sheep.” 
“ Under the ice—under the snow, 
Our lives are bound in a crystal ring ; 
By and, by will the south wind blow, 
And roses bloom on the banks of spring .” 
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Dr. James IT. Stone. Tappan, Ohio, 
I Know of no alterative that gives s< 
satisfaction as Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.” 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 
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“ALL NATIONS WITNESSES.” 
THE WONDERFUL MISTAKES OF SCIENTISTS 
AND EDUCATORS. 
“Prove all things” seems to be the guiding 
maxim of the people of this age. 
This would be all right, were it not for the 
“know-alls” in every community, who are 
sure that every introducer of a new idea is a 
“crank,” and that every new invention is 
“ utterly impracticable.” 
The astonishing fact is that in this class ed¬ 
ucated men and scientists are found. In the 
days of George Stephenson, the perfector of 
the locomotive engine, the scientists proved 
conclusively that a railway tram could never 
be driven by steam-power successfully with¬ 
out peril; but the rushing express trains all 
over the world show how mistaken they were. 
There went up a guffaw of laughter at Pro¬ 
fessor Morse’s proposition to make the light¬ 
ning of heaven his errand boy, and it was 
proved conclusively that the thing could Dever 
be done; but now all the news of the wide 
world by Associated Press, put in your hands 
every morning and night, has made all nations 
witnesses. 
Rev. Dr. Talmago in one of his sermons 
says: “ If ten men should come to you when 
you are sick with appalling sickness, and say 
they had the same sickness and took a certain 
medicine, and it cured them, you would prob¬ 
ably take it. Now, suppose ten other men 
should come up and say: “We don’t believe 
that there is anything in that medicine. 
“Well,” I say, “have you tried it? “No, I 
never tried it; but I don’t believe there is any¬ 
thing in it.” Of course you discredit their 
testimony. The sceptic may come and say 
“There is no power in your religion.” “Have 
you ever tried it?” “No, no,” “Then avaunt!” 
“ Let me take the testimony of the millions of 
souls that have been converted to God, and 
comforted in trial, and solaced in the last 
hour. We will take their testimony as they 
cry “Weare witnesses!’ 
The proprietors of Warner’s safe cure have 
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The evidence comes from all classes. The 
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Rev. Dr. Rankin, ex-chaplain of the U. S. 
Senate, and Dr. Kendrick of the Rochester 
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the new testament, are among the published 
witnesses. 
Hundreds of these testimonials have been 
and are being published. They can be easily 
verified. A standing offer of $5,000 for proof 
that any one of them is not true, so far as the 
proprietors know, is a fair guarantee of their 
genuineness. 
If a man is suffering from any one of the 
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safe cure when thousands testify they have 
been cured by it? 
Think of it! 
The men who refuse to believe that anything 
can be valuable because it is in conflict with 
old ideas and methods are the men who “get 
left ’’ in this world and go before their time to 
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