1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
679 
fail to see how it will pay to use expensive 
feeds for egg-production in the winter. 
ANOTHER TELL-TALE ACCOUNT. 
C. N. IX, South Westminster, Mass.— 
The “ Tell-Tale Account ” of J. Bounds, in 
a late Rural, reminds me of a like account 
left by a revered ancestor, which reveals 
the customs of the New England farmers 100 
years ago. No wonder they had a “hard 
struggle” I inclose a copy. 
FEBRUARY— 1787. 
-Dr. £. s. D. 
For 2 qts. rum and of & mug flip-2 0 
For a gallon of rum. 3 0 
For 2 qts. PI. I. 1 qt. W. I. rum. 2 10 
For 2 qts. rum,X» mug flip. 1 11 
For )4 a mug of flip—. 4 
For 2 mugs of tod. 6 
For 10 oz. loaf sugar. 7 
For fish. 10 
For a butter of tod. 3 
•T. H. G., Queens County, N. Y.—H. G. 
L.. of Charlton, Mass, page 644 should not 
let his angrv passions rise so hastily. The 
KeifTer Pear as grown in many localities, is 
anything else but a “ little insignificant 
hide-bound thing.” He should see it as 
raised by William Parry, J. S. Collins and 
other new Jersey fruit-growers. It is, with 
them, one of the largest, handsomest and 
most prolific, and therefore the most profit¬ 
able of market pears. A good orchard of 
KeifTer Pears will bring in more money, 
more clear profit, than an orchard of twice 
the size planted with any other variety. A 
KeifTer raised in a section where the sun 
shines most of the time, is a beautiful fruit, 
having excellent cooking qualities; and 
when properly ripened, it is a good eating 
pear. If H. G. L., will visit Mt. Holly (New 
Jersey) Fair, he will learn some things 
worth knowing about the KeifTer and 
other pears. 
G. W. H., Reading, Pa.— In the Rural 
of September 28, Mr. Green’s notes on Mon¬ 
tana are correct. On September 9th I 
reached home from a trip to California, 
Oregon and Washington, returning by way 
of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Neither 
is all gold that glitters in Washington, and 
especially as regards the climate of Puget 
Sound and other places. I have also been to 
Los Angeles and San Diego in Southern Cali¬ 
fornia where one can see what excitement 
iia land-booming has donfc—how the human 
mind can be led away by specious misrepre¬ 
sentations. Three years ago I went South 
and this year I went West and, all the 
merits and demerits of both sections 
summed up, I think I would prefer the 
South for my future home. 
J. E. P., Wading River, N. Y.— I no¬ 
tice, in a back Rural, a request that farm¬ 
ers should give their experience in breed¬ 
ing from “ sore ” mares purchased in towns 
and cities or taken to pasture until they 
have become sound. I have had consider¬ 
able experience with “sore” mares for 
breeding purposes, and only once out of 
many times have I succeeded in raising a 
colt, and that was a small and deformed 
one. Farmers intending to buy “sore” 
mares for breeding purposes had better 
save their money. 
C. F. E., Easton, Maryland.—M y ex¬ 
perience is that stable manure damages a 
potato crop in any season and ruins it in a 
wet season when rot prevails. The more 
manure, the worse the disease. A high- 
'•ade fertilizer rich in potash, and plenty 
f it, will give fine, smooth potatoes in 
bundance two years out of three. Stable 
manure will do it rarely if ever. 
'THE MONTANA BOOM. 
did not care to join with some of the other 
editors in investments there and would not 
urge New England boys and girls to ex¬ 
change a good situation and agreeable 
neighbors for the wild and lonely life of an 
unbroken prairie, yet we cannot blame 
Western editors for the course they have 
taken. They believe in the West as 
thoroughly and as fully as the Rural and 
the New England Farmer believe in the 
East. 
Mr Orange Judd was formerly an Eastern 
man, but he is now a Western man and ex¬ 
pects his children and his children’s chil¬ 
dren will choose that section for their per¬ 
manent home. Such persons are anxious 
to see their country growing up and im¬ 
proving, just as Eastern people who intend 
to remain East desire to keep population 
and wealth in a healthy state of growth 
here. These Western editors and railroad 
men are no more selfish or unscrupulous 
than are the same classes here in the East. 
They believe in the West and are doin 
their best to bring it up to their ideal, an 
that ideal is not a low one either. We pre¬ 
fer New England and are doing what we 
can for it.” 
The Editor of our friendly contemporary 
unwittingly misrepresents the R. N.-Y’s. 
views in regard to Montana and the West 
in general, while it does not fairly set forth 
its objections to the method employed in 
advertising the Montana lands which are 
offered for sale. The R. N.-Y., as a jour¬ 
nal, is just as much interested in the West 
as in the East; in the South as in the 
North. It “believes” in the West as thor¬ 
oughly as it believes in the East. It is 
published for the entire country and not 
for any section. It is not the booming of 
Montana lands that the R. N.-Y. objects to. 
It is in favor of booming them for all they 
are worth. It is to the manner of boom¬ 
ing them that objection is made. If these 
lands are owned by the editors of certain 
farm papers, the renders of those papers 
should know it, that they may accept with 
due caution the advice so freely and forci¬ 
bly set before them. With the exception 
of the Farm Journal, none of them have 
done this. Mr. Atkinson in the issue of his 
paper dated July 1889, said: 
“ The Farm Journal is personally and 
pecuniarily interested in the success of 
this town (Chinook). We have invested 
some money there because we thought the 
FRIENDLY AND VICIOUS COMMENTS AND 
CRITICISMS OF THE R. N.-Y.’S OPl’OSI- 
TION TO THE BOOMING SCHEME AS 
CONDUCTED. 
having been enterprising enough to go and 
see the West, advise investing in Western 
lands rather than in the worn-out soil of 
New Jersey and the sand banks of Long 
Island. 
It was the cream of the enterprising men 
of the East who came West—those who had 
spirit and vigor enough to strike out into 
new fields and develop the country—to 
‘ leave their former safe homes and endure 
the hardships and uncertainties of pioneer 
life.’ The non-progressive, slow-coach, 
ease-loving residue stayed behind and are 
trying to amuse themselves with carping 
at their more enterprising fellows. 
Let the ‘ Rural ’ man get out of his glass 
house, suspend his seed, his potato and 
other gift enterprises for a month, and come 
West. What he receives for advertising 
quack medicines, corn salves, pills, etc., 
will meet all expenses of a trip to the Pa¬ 
cific, to learn something of the country. 
He would find whether or not there are 
* safe homes’ and desirable ones, too. Bet¬ 
ter come and see the West, Young Man!” 
The man who is responsible for the 
above conglomeration of sneaking false¬ 
hoods is one of the leading spirits of the 
Chinook-Montana boom syndicate. We 
heartily wish Montana all the prosperity to 
which its climate, soil and resources may 
entitle it. We merely feel called upon to 
warn people not to accept the advice or 
representations of a-half dozen editors whb 
are unscrupulous enough to seek to fill 
their pockets at the cost of editorial integri¬ 
ty and disinterestedness. Let them visit 
Montana before relinquishing their present 
homes, wherever they may be, and investi¬ 
gate the matter for themselves or, if this 
be impracticable, let them remain just 
where they are. 
BOILED DOWN AND SEASONED. 
Yes, as Mr. Crosby stated in the R. N.- 
Y., last week, it will be found in all kinds 
of stock-growing that some well-establish¬ 
ed axioms have been allowed to stand on 
very slight foundations. 
If Mr. Alfred Rose is an honest man, we 
wonder how he feels now, having stated 
positively, something less or more than a 
hundred times, that the R. N.-Y. appropri¬ 
ated one of his varieties of potatoes and 
investment might prove remunerative. called it R. N.-\. No.2. An apology dear 
When therefore, we commend Chinook, 
among other places to our readers, they 
Western Boomer: * Of course you have ! 
Everybody has heard of the founder of 
Hustlerville, Dakota! ’ 
St. Peter, ‘ You can come in, Mr. Boom¬ 
er, but you mustn’t write any pamphlets 
about this place. You’re liable to make 
statements that the attractions won’t war¬ 
rant. ’ ” 
-Whittier: “ In months of sun, so live 
that months of rain shall still be happy.” 
-“When a man’s head is turned he never 
looks to the right.” 
-CECIL: “ The shortest way to do many 
things is to do only one thing at once.” 
- CENTURY: “ It is a maxim with physi¬ 
cians that the incurable and the easily re- 
lievable maladies are those which have 
most remedies assigned to them.” 
-Dr. Collier in the Husbandman: 
“What would our farmers think to pay 
five cents a pound for nails when the same 
brand may be bought of another tradesman 
for three cents; or 12 cents a pound for 
sugar when another grocer will sell him 
the same for seven cents, and yet that is 
just what they are doing in the purchase of 
commercial fertilizers.” 
- New York Herald: “It has been sug¬ 
gested that one day in the year he set apart 
for the killing of sparrows. It might be 
well to take another for sparrers.” 
-Not a Favorite Dish.—Parishioner 
(to old clergyman with a bundle of old ser¬ 
mons): “What ye got there, Dominie?” 
O. C.: “Preserved tongue.”— Bingham¬ 
ton Republican. 
-It was Funny. —Burglar: “What are 
you laughing at, you fool? Do you see this 
gun?” 
Awakened farmer: “I was laughing to see 
you hunt in the dark for the money I can’t 
find in broad daylight.” 
will please make allowance for the fact that 
we may be influenced,” etc., etc. This is 
the only acknowledgment of the kind we 
have seen. It is very well as far as it goes. 
But to be just and in accordance with the 
impartial and honorable spirit which should 
guide every editor in his editorial utter¬ 
ances, the fact of his ownership in such 
lands should be kept before his readers 
with e very advertisement or commendation 
of the lands for sale that appears, so that 
those who read the one shall read the other 
as well. Nearly all of the papers whose 
editors are booming Montana are just 
about as far from Chinook as they are from 
Boston or New York, and might reasonably 
be expected to help the interests of the one 
section as well as those of the other. The 
simple fact is they have put their heads to¬ 
gether to make a heap of money by prais¬ 
ing without stint certain Montana lands, 
while the readers are left to assume that 
this praise is as disinterested as that given 
to any thoroughly praiseworthy project or 
enterprise. 
“ COME WEST, YOUNG MAN.’ 
Mr. R se, is quite in order. 
T. B. Terry says, in the Ohio Farmer, 
that potatoes must be kept in the dark. 
T is is the only proper way. He says the 
whitest, choicest potatoes will be injured 
in a short time in any cellar where one can 
see to walk around. They will look yellow¬ 
ish when cooked and their fine quality is 
gone. If you cannot make one room of 
your cellar absolutely dark, see that your 
home supply is kept in tight boxes or bar¬ 
rels and well covered. 
Prof. A. J. Cook found tobacco water 
effective against the Flea-beetle on potato 
vines. He used one pound of tobacco dust 
to two gallons of hot water. 
ABSTRACTS. 
The New England Farmer of a late 
date has the following: 
*’ Some Western agricultural journals 
are advertising Montana, editorially and 
otherwise, and the Rural New-Yorker 
thinks they are doing an unfair thing by 
their readers in encouraging persons to 
leave safe homes for the hardships and un¬ 
certainties of pioneer life. The RURAL 
claims to know nothing of that far Wes¬ 
tern State, having declined an invitation to 
join the editorial party that visited it last 
year. The agricultural editor of the 
Farmer did make the trip; and though he 
This is the title of a vicious editorial in 
the Orange Judd Farmer of September 22. 
It contains more falsehoods and those of a 
meaner character than any other article we 
have ever read of the same length. Here 
are its important parts: 
“ If the verdant young man of the Rural 
New-Yorker would arouse himself enough 
to leave his New Jersey acre, and ‘sand 
lot ’ on Long Island, yclept an ‘Experimental 
Farm,’ and come West a few weeks or even 
days to look over the country beyond the 
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, to say 
nothing of the grand country east of them, 
it would be a wonderful eye-opener and 
mind-opener, and he would go back a much 
wiser man. He would learn that there is 
more good farming land even west of these 
rivers, between Canada and Mexico, land 
superior to New York, New Jersey, Long 
Island and New England, than he ever 
dreamed of in his cooped up strip of worn- 
out Atlantic sand; that there is, right on 
the sides of and among the Rocky Mount¬ 
ains, vastly more of the best land in Ameri¬ 
ca than can be found in the whole States of 
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 
He would no longer 
the ‘wildand wooly West,’ 
or depend upon discharged employees of 
Western agricultural papers for false in¬ 
formation, or charge Western editors with 
publishing ‘untruths’ about the value of 
t he newer regions. He would have a high¬ 
er regard for those agricultural editors of 
the West, and Eastern ones too, who, after 
am.sccUancouss ^ttvcrti.sing. 
All Hull Down from the weakening effects of 
warm weather, b* hard work or from a long illnes8 i 
you should take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, wnich will purl- 
fy your blood, expel scrofula and all Impurities, regu ; 
late the liver and other organs, cure headache, gtve 
strength and create an appetite. Be sure to get Hood’s. 
Lon 
thin 
£ 
Island, {sit 
or talk of tl 
-George Houghton in the Christian 
Union: “ The man who is most likely to 
get his salary raised is the one who already 
makes his present salary more than just 
enough. He’s worth more for that very rea¬ 
son. He’s forging ahead.” 
-“ Mere cutting down expenses doesn’t 
mean economy. It may mean extrava¬ 
gance of the worst sort.” 
-“ Yes, I’m a little old-fashioned in that 
respect. I can’t help thinking that every 
trade should be a fair exchange of values. 
Otherwise it’s a trick instead of a trade.” 
-“The sons of Adam have always, so far 
as I know, wanted the world to take them 
at their own valuation, and pay them every 
Saturday night; according to my experience 
and observation, the world has always de¬ 
clined to do that.” 
-“ The only way to make a live paper is to 
inspire it with a live issue of some sort—or 
any sort. That’s its breath of life.” 
-“ They say the patient waiter is no 
loser. That depends on whether he has 
anything in his apple-cart to lose or gain, 
or whether he wears a white apron in a 
restaurant. It also depends on whether it 
is a sit-down or stand up waiting. Phillips 
as a sit-down waiter is a perfect pryramid 
of Cheops, but gray hair and nicotine are 
all he seems to have accumulated.” 
-“You haven’t time? Well, just 
down and fold your hands 
two, until you have!” 
-“ ‘ I care not who makes the incubators 
of the country,’ cackled the hen, 1 so long 
as I furnish the raw material.’ ” 
- Munsey’s Weekly: “St. Peter: ‘ Hav- 
n’t I heard your name bofoi’e? ’ 
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