1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
727 
the haulms have fallen, and the weather 
has become cool. The main point of con¬ 
tention resolves itself into a rather nice 
question : Do the tubers keep better when 
lifted early, or later ? Some hold that if 
potatoes are dug as soon as they begin to 
rot, it will stop the disease from spreading ; 
others dispute this theory under the im¬ 
pression that when the disease has set in, it 
is best to let the tubers remain in the land 
until the chill breezes of October come to 
their aid—to the rescue of the unaffected 
potatoes. The subject is one which our ex¬ 
periment stations might well experiment 
upon. 
Prof. I. P. Roberts states, in the Breed¬ 
er’s Gazette, that water should be hot—not 
less than 90 degrees—in order that it may be 
palatable to animals. Hissheeptook it with¬ 
out injury and with apparent relish at 105 
degrees. In order to induce animals to drink 
water enough in cold weather to furnish a 
solvent or disintegrant for the large amount 
of dry matter consumed, especially by dairy 
cows, the animal should be kept warm. 
Some experiments with pigs last winter at 
the Cornell Experiment Station, seemed to 
show that those kept in cold quarters were 
unable to consume as much food as those 
kept in warm quarters, simply because they 
could not be induced to drink a sufficient 
amount of cold water to make assimilable 
their food. 
Prof. Roberts heats the water for all 
the domestic animals, the station horses 
included, and he is quite certain that it 
gives a saving either in food or in increased 
production of not less than 10 per cent. 
Farmers are certainly progressing. Fifteen 
years ago he was hissed off the stage at a 
dairymen’s convention in New York be¬ 
cause he advocated heating water for dairy 
cows. 
Pharo’s Potato Chart will interest and 
instruct all growers of potatoes. It is 
about five feet square and printed upon 
fine, heavy white paper which may be 
folded to any size desired. It shows the 
origin, formation and shape, relative size 
and time of maturity of the leading varie¬ 
ties of potatoes. 
It would appear from our reports that 
there is no other variety that forms its po¬ 
tatoes closer to the main stem than does 
the R. N.-Y. No. 2, and there is no other 
that bears so low a proportion of small 
tubers. 
We have lost none of our faith in Brow¬ 
nell’s Winner, though it would be well, 
perhaps, to buy “seed” from localities 
where the rot or blight did not prevail. 
There seems to be little doubt that 
sound potatoes will command remunera¬ 
tive prices this year. According to our 
reports Iowa, Illinois and Indiana have 
produced the largest crops. Nearly every 
report we have received from the Eastern 
States mentions “ blight ” or that the 
vines died prematurely. The short crop is 
in many instances attributed to the Flea- 
beetle. 
The Michigan Farmer says the loss 
by hilling potatoes is estimated by a well- 
informed grower at not less than 15 per 
cent, of the crop... 
In reply to a question as to the relative 
values of corn in the ear, shelled corn, or 
crushed corn, Prof. Shelton replies in the 
Industrialist that the answer is wholly one 
of cost of shelling, grinding, or crushing. 
It he had plenty of hogs to follow cattle, he 
would prefer to feed corn in the ear, ac¬ 
cording to the familiar plan. If he had 
pleuty of power, and it was easy and com¬ 
paratively costless to shell or grind or 
crush, then he would shell, grind, or crush 
as the case might be. He is satisfied of this, 
however, that with beef at present prices, 
and corn at less than 20 cents per bushel, 
we cannot afford to pay five cents a bushel 
for shelling and grinding. 
Mr. A. I. Root says that Henderson’s 
Bush Lima is fully equal in flavor to the 
pole Limas. He says that a peck of pods 
will make more quarts of shelled beans 
than a peck of large Limas. Mr. Root 
further says that it has been catalogued 
for years as the Dwarf Sieva. He thinks 
that the Kumerle will prove a wonderful 
acquisition. 
Mr. Hoard says that practical da'rymen 
are now milking cows that breed once per 
annum, about 11 months of the year, keep¬ 
ing them well enough fed, so that there is 
a good flow of milk and a healthy, vigorous 
calf, too. A good cow’s milk for two 
months, is worth more than a common calf 
at birth. 
The Farmers’ Review trusts that the 
season of farmers’ institutes now about to 
open will be the most successful on record, 
and in order tbut this may piovo the case 
it hopes politics will be entirely left out of 
the question at such gatherings and strict 
attention be paid to agriculture and its 
truly kindred topics. The only cloud in 
sight that threatens to dim the bright rec¬ 
ord of our farmers’ institutes is this ghost 
of politics, which has already appeared up¬ 
on more than one occasion. To the man¬ 
agers of these annual conventions of farm¬ 
ers we would strongly suggest this idea 
and advise them to substitute the names of 
practical farmers for those of professional- 
circuit-going politicians in printing the 
programmes for the approaching institutes. 
Leave them out!. 
An experienced writer in that incompar¬ 
able journal the London Garden, says that 
potatoes need no drying, and if lifted, as 
they ought to be, in favorable weather they 
may be stored as fast as dug. 
The following note is copied from the 
London Garden of September 21st: 
“ Rural New-Yorker Potato.— In the 
spring of 1888 I received a potato from New 
York, for trial. It was called Rural New- 
Yorker No. 2; but as the season turned out 
unfavorable, T resolved to give it another 
trial before forming or expressing an 
opinion on it. This spring I planted the 
produce of one of last year’s plants, and 
have just dug the crop, and a finer lot 
of tubers I never saw, there being no really 
small ones, but all of good average size. 
Several are one pound in weight and of 
most excellent quality. It is a white po¬ 
tato, very solid, with shallow eyes and oval 
shape, just the thing for a main-crop va¬ 
riety. I may add that the potatoes were 
planted between rows of young fruit trees, 
and in a quite open position the crop would 
doubtless have been heavier. The tubers 
were simply cut up to a fair seed size. The 
crop from one medium-sized potato in two 
seasons, amounted to fully two bushels of 
fine sound tubers.—J. Groom, Gasport.”.... 
ABSTRACTS. 
-Farmers’ Review. “ The Rural 
New-Yorker, after quoting portions of an 
editorial published in a recent issue of the 
Farmers’ Review, relative to the analyses 
of baking powders made by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, says: 
* The Rural New-Yorker quite agrees 
with the spirit of the article above quoted, 
and the Farmers’ Review does good service 
in thus forcibly condemning such appar¬ 
ently needless work. Turning from the 
shortcomings of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, the Rural New-Yorker would 
feel pleased if the Farmers’ Review would 
heartily join it in condemning a culpable 
piece of business in which certain farm 
journals are engaged. The publishers, 
owners, proprietors or editors, as the case 
may be. of these papers are pecuniarily in¬ 
terested in booming certain Montana lands. 
They praise them up to the skies editorial¬ 
ly, while their advertising columns are 
liberally given up to Montana advertise¬ 
ments. Now all this is being done while 
the readers of these journals are kept in 
ignorance of the fact that the editors or 
proprietors are cracking up the lands in 
which they own a share and for which they 
are striving to obtain the highest price.’ 
The Farmers’ Review heartily indorses 
the position taken by the Rural New- 
Yorker on this question. It is certainly 
beneath the dignity, of any agricultural 
newspaper having the interests of its con¬ 
stituents at heart to lend itself to advertis¬ 
ing schemes of that nature ; and the paper 
that seeks to build up its financial prosper¬ 
ity on the sands of real estate specula¬ 
tion, outside the paths of legitimate 
journalism, is a disgrace and reproach to 
the whole fraternity.” 
-Baltimore American : “Charges of 
plagiarism still continue. It is now hinted 
that successful and hitherto unsuccessful 
farmers crib the stores of their corn maga¬ 
zines from Nature’s cereals.” 
-Michigan Farmer : “ The trench sys¬ 
tem of culture of potatoes, which is ahobby 
with one of our esteemed agricultural con¬ 
temporaries, is almost universally conceded 
by those who have tried it to be good for a 
small plat but too expensive for field cul¬ 
ture.” 
-Dr. Hoskins, in the Vermont Watch¬ 
man : “ ‘Gardeners, as a rule, are in favor 
of changing the seed of potatoes frequent¬ 
ly. Experience seems to have proven the 
desirability of this change, and leaves little 
doubt but that planting the same kind 
year after year on the same soil tends to 
weaken the variety.’ So observes an ex¬ 
change, but the statement is true only of 
gardeners located south of the true potato 
belt. Where the potato is at home, and 
well treated, on suitable soil, it will im¬ 
prove rather than weaken.” 
-Philadelphia Press : “A farmers’ 
club is the proper weapon with which to 
stir up agricultural interests.” 
-“ To the Breeder’s Gazette it seems 
that Secretary Rusk sized up the situation 
exactly when, after an examination of the 
butter extractor, he said sententiously: 
‘This means revolution if it means any¬ 
thing.’ And it is not a revolution back¬ 
ward, either.” 
-Tribune, of Rome, N. Y.: “The na¬ 
tional flour should be wheat.” 
“ In poultry circles, the old hen generally 
proves her good standing by sitting.” 
-Reading Telegraph: “Corn is an 
emblem of peace, but it is never appreciated 
until it gets on its ear.” 
-Orange County Farmer. “The con¬ 
sumer knows the tendency of the small 
fruit to sift through to the bottom, and in¬ 
stead of being willing to pay for a package 
of fruit like the top, he is willing to pay 
only for such fruit as is at the bottom.” 
“ A hard-handed tiller of the soil was 
presented with a sample copy of an agri¬ 
cultural paper at one of the county fairs 
recently. He refused to give 25 cents for a 
trial subscription because ‘ times were 
hard and money scarce,’ and with a know¬ 
ing wink in his off eye passed on. He stop¬ 
ped at a striking machine, not four rods 
from’he paper man, fumbled the copy of 
the paper into a ball, thrust it down into 
his pocket, and blew in just 45 cents to 
show that he couldn’t strike any harder 
than a smaller man who followed the busi¬ 
ness for a living” 
- Correspondent, N. Y. Tribune : “ If 
a German sits down on a piece of land, you 
can almost insure his success. Two Ger¬ 
mans, now better off than myself, worked 
for me by the day 20 years ago.” 
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