VOL. XLVIII 
NO, 2039. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 23, 1889, 
[Entered According to Act of Cong-ess. In the Year 1RVH by the Rura New-Yorker. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
$2.00 PER YEAR 
Mamgm 
TWO.COLLIES. 
E take pleasure in 
showing our readers 
—at Fig. 36, on this 
jpage—what we be¬ 
lieve to be one of 
the most life-like 
pictures of dogs ever 
printed. At the top 
of the picture is 
shown the head of 
“ Fordhook Squire," 
A. K. C. S. Book, 
10,454. Both his father (“ The Squire E., 15,- 
767) and his mother (Wanda, 13,879) are 
notable specimens of their breed. He is 
considered a true model for a collie in mark 
ings, temper and intelligence. 
At tha bottom of the picture an excellent- 
likeaess of “ Clifton 
Chief, ’ 10,445, is given. 
This dog is by “Cre- 
morne,” 21,010, out of 
“ Barby Rose,” 10,702. 
He weighs 63 pounds 
and stands 24 inches in 
hight. Both of the*e 
dogs are owned by W. 
Atlee Burpee, of Phila. 
The Rural’s posi¬ 
tion on the dog ques¬ 
tion is well known. We 
would like to organize 
and sustain an armed 
crusade against the 
miserable curs that in¬ 
fest our country neigh¬ 
borhoods, killing sheep 
and worrying cattle, 
frightening hoi ses an 1 
making night hideous 
by their yelping and 
howling. We would 
like to put in the places 
of these pests just such 
animals as we have 
pictured on this page. 
We would thus substi¬ 
tute for a gang of noisy 
and worthless plun¬ 
derers a baud of lova¬ 
ble animals, worthy of 
man’s friendship and 
care. The trained and 
well-bred collie seems 
to us to come, in intelli¬ 
gence and faithfulness, 
nearer to mau than 
any of the other dumb 
animals. Such dogs are 
faitbtul, patient and 
brave. Watch a well- 
trained collie as he 
bandies a flock of 
sheep. W a t c li li i m 
driving a herd of dairy- 
cows from the pasture 
to the barn. On many 
sheep ranches in the 
West the collie is as 
important a factor as 
the shepherd. Through 
the dairy counties of 
NewYork almost every 
farmor finds a place for 
a collie. A good dog 
will pay a profit on the 
farm; a cur will prove 
only a curse. 
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P cm o lenient. 
QUEBEC FRUIT GROWERS. 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
“Importance of schools of horticulture 
‘American iron-clad apples ; carelessness 
in handling and marketing fruit forcibly 
denounced ; “ strawberries and their cul¬ 
ture“summer pruning of grapes-” orna 
mental tree planting : “sod in orchards 
Russian apples ; Fameuse and its seedlings ; 
“the best apples for home use.” 
1U.U.J 
COLLIE DOGS, “CLIFTON CHIEF" AND “FORDHOOK SQUIRE.' Fig. 36. 
The Quebec Fruit Growers’ Association (for¬ 
merly the Montreal Horticultural Society; 
held its fourth annual winter meeting at 
Joyce’s Rooms, Phillips Square, Montreal, 
Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 30 and 31. 
This convention was well attended by mem¬ 
bers from various parts of the province and 
a 1 joining sections of Ontario, and its five 
sessions were devoted to a spirited and intelli¬ 
gent consideration of 
topics of practical and 
scientific interest con- 
nected with fruit 
growing. The exhibi¬ 
tion of winter apples 
adapted to the “Cold 
North’' was large^and 
varied, and veryj en¬ 
couraging to the hopes 
of orchardists in this 
and similar sections of 
North America. Prof. 
Penhallow, president of 
the association, in his 
ope[niug address, 
pressed the importance 
of schools of horticul¬ 
ture. It is time, he 
thought, to place this 
arc upon a scientific 
basis. He referred to 
the recent estab ish- 
ment, in the United 
States, of many txpei i- 
ment stations, which 
would unquestionably 
do much for pomology, 
and for ho. ticultural 
knowledge generally. 
The fruit industry is a 
large and rapidly ex¬ 
tending one, and 
should not Quebec do 
more for herself in the 
direction followed by 
other countries ? He 
concluded with a wi.-h 
taat the sessions of this 
convention might be 
rich in useful informa¬ 
tion. 
T. H. Hoskins, of 
Vermont, then ad¬ 
dressed the convention 
upon “American Iron- 
Clad Apples,’’ giving 
an account of the grad¬ 
ual collection, through 
the investigations and 
efforts of fruit-growers 
in the Union and Do¬ 
minion, of a consider¬ 
able number of apples 
of merit, which could 
be succes-fully grown 
more than 100 miles 
farther north than had 
before been thought 
practicable. His ob- 
