1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
759 
about twice a month. Do the editors put 
it in for want of copy or do they really 
think they would like to plow at the rate 
of four miles per hour—40 miles or five to 
six acres per day according to the size of 
the plow ? How many teams in this State 
have the nerve to do it ? How many hii’ed 
men are there that will follow the team ? 
With such horses what would one want 
with a steam plow? 
R. N.-Y. Nothing is ever put in the R. 
N.-Y. to “fill up.” No, we do not care to 
run behind a plow. At the same time, 
when we haul a load to market, we do not 
want to “poke” along as many teams do. 
What a good many farmers want in a 
horse is the ability to walk fast when fast 
walking is required. 
E. M. T., CATAWISSA, Pa.—I n “Discus¬ 
sion” I notice that E. C. B., Middletown, 
Pa., makes a complaint that his “Sharp¬ 
less Strawberries produce berries of a dif¬ 
ferent type, like the Charles Downing.” 
This is the home of the Sharpless. Mr. .T. 
K. Sharpless, its originator, lives here, and 
in showing me at one time the mother 
plant, stated that he thought it originated 
from the seed of a Charles Downing. Why 
should not E. C. B.’sherries resemble the 
Charles Downing if that be true ? In my 
opinion they did not get “mixed.” They 
did not “hybridize.” It was simply the 
old law of atavism or “harking back,” 
manifesting itself. 
How a Great Doctor Won His Way.— 
Sir Andrew Clark, the President of the 
Royal College of Physicians in London, is 
one of the most distinguished medical men 
in the world. For many years, says the N. 
Y. i- uu, he has been connected with the 
medical school of the London Hospital. 
The first clinical lectures ever given in 
England were delivered at this institution, 
and the first laboratory organized in the 
country for the practical teaching of 
physiology and pathology was organized 
by the London Hospital. A few weeks ago 
the members of the medical and surgical 
staff of the hospital presented to Sir An¬ 
drew Clark a portrait of himself, and on 
the occasion of the presentation Sir Andrew 
made a speech which is interesting and in¬ 
structive as showing that even in these 
modern days the highest degree of success 
is attainable by those who, when they start 
out in life, have very few advantages, let 
them be professional men, business men or 
farmers. 
“ I had the habit of dealing with every 
day of my life as if it were my whole life,” 
he said. “ I was contented and happy over 
what the day brought me. I had no ambi¬ 
tion of any kind, and I hated schemes and 
intrigues. 
Firstly, I believe that every man’s suc¬ 
cess is within himself, and must come out 
of himself. No true, abiding, and just suc¬ 
cess can come to any man in any other 
way. Secondly, a man must be seriously 
in earnest. He must act with singleness of 
heart and purpose: lie must do with all his 
might and with all his concentration of 
thought the one-thing at the one time 
which he is called upon to do. And if some 
of my young friends should say here, ‘ I 
cannot do that—I cannot love work,’ then 1 
answer that there is a certain remedy, and 
it is work. Work in spite of yourself, and 
make the habit of work, and when the 
habit of work is formed it will be trans¬ 
figured into the love of work ; and at last 
you will not only abhor idleness, but you 
will have no happiness out of the work 
which then you are constrained from love 
to do. Thirdly, the man must be charit¬ 
able, not censorious—self-effacing, not self- 
seeking : and he must try at once to think 
and to do the best for his rivals and antag¬ 
onists that can be done. Fourthly, the 
man must believe that labor is life, that 
successful labor is life and gladness, and 
that successful labor, with high aims and 
just objects, will bring to him the fullest, 
truest and happiest life that can be lived 
upon the earth.” 
No saying is more common among physi¬ 
cians than the declaration that a strong 
physical constitution and good health are 
necessary to success in life; yet there have 
been many instances in which the rule does 
not seem to have been true. Darwin, the 
greatest naturalist of his time, was always 
an invalid, and here we have Sir Andrew 
Clark, one of the most, eminent iqeij of the 
present day, telling us that he was so sick¬ 
ly that his life was not deemed worth a 
year’s purchase when he began the active 
work of his singularly successful career. 
WHICH MAY REMIND YOU. 
portant argument in favor of its employ¬ 
ment.’ My own notes concerning this va¬ 
riety reveal the fact that it is about a fort¬ 
night later in opening its blossoms than the 
ordinary kind, and consequently extends 
the blooming season, added to which, the 
double flowers retain their beauty longer 
than the single ones.” 
T. Y. Munson, one of our foremost au¬ 
thorities, says that the Red Cedar (Juni- 
perus Yirginiana) is one of the trustiest 
evergreens for Texas. He pronounces the 
Austrian the most successful pine. 
Mr. Munson pronounces his new grape, 
named Rommel, the finest early white 
grape known to him. He considers Bril¬ 
liant. another of his own seedlings, as re¬ 
sembling the Delaware though better in 
several essential respects. 
He offers the promising strawberry Par¬ 
ker Earle for sale. 
II. A. Phillips of Sun Prairie, Wis., tells 
Hoard’s Dairyman that his herd consists of 
10 cows, three of them full-blood Jerseys, 
and the rest grades. In 1887, his cows made 
an average of 256 pounds of butter. In ’88, 
298 pounds each, besides the cream and 
milk that a family of nine consumed. He 
also raised eight calves from their milk, 
mostly skimmed. His cows feed in the 
pasture, in summer; and he feeds four 
quarts of bran, oats and corn mixed, to 
each cow per day. In winter he feeds good 
hay and corn-stalks. Last winter, he fed 40 
pounds of silage per day to each cow in lieu 
of dry stalks, with eight quarts of oats and 
corn—three-fourths oats, and one-fourth 
corn ground together. He proposes to use 
the same feed the coming winter. His 
neighbors say their cows are “ mostly dry;” 
while his are still doing as well as at any 
time the past summer. Four of the cows 
are fresh, and more of them soon will be. 
They are “ dry,” not over two weeks in the 
year, on an average. He furnishes private 
families with butter at 25 cents in summer, 
and at 30 cents five months in winter. So 
his cows pay him well for their food and 
his work. gages 
T. B. Terry says, in the Albany Culti¬ 
vator, that an old friend of his who has 
been in business for 40 years, and has over 
850,000 invested, told him that competition 
was now so great that it was with difficulty 
that they could hold their own. (The son 
is now m partnership with the father.) 
They do not live as well as many well-to-do 
farmers. They told him plainly that they 
were obliged to economize. He doubts 
whether the men have had a day off from 
business this year. Truly, one half the 
world does not know how the other half 
lives. With an investment of perhaps 
810,000, Mr. Terry has no difficulty in living 
fully as well as his old city friend. His 
house is as well furnished and he knows he 
and his family have more fruit and lux¬ 
uries in their season than the city friends. 
For about five months in the year farmers 
are tied up tightly and must attend right 
to business. The rest of the year they can 
be away, back and forth, as they choose, or 
[The R. N.-Y.’s experience with this 
beautiful tree, accompanied with an illus¬ 
tration appeared on page 193 for 1881. Eds.] 
-Farmers’ Review: “ A few days ago, 
at the Union Stock Yards, the well-known 
Tom Ponting was talking to a number of 
cattlemen, and incidentally alluded to the 
subject of dehorning. Said he: 1 My 
frieuds, dehorning has cost me 81,000 dur¬ 
ing the past summer in feeding steers. De¬ 
prived of their horns, the cattle huddle to¬ 
gether in the shade as close as sheep do, 
and the heat there is terrible. I tell you 
they are almost suffocated and lose flesh 
or make noue from the food consumed. 
Besides this, they kill out the grass where 
they stand, and in wet weather poach it in¬ 
to mud. This discovery was a revelation 
to me and I believe the bad effects from 
crowding in the summer when heat and 
flies are at their worst, will more than 
counteract all the advantages claimed for 
dehorning.’ ” 
-Iowa Homestead : “ So long as the 
West can produce corn, wheat, beef, pork, 
sheep, wool and horses and lay them down 
in Eastern markets cheaper than the East¬ 
ern farmer can produce them, the Western 
farm will afford better security for an in¬ 
vestment than the Eastern farm, and there¬ 
fore the flow of capital from the East to the 
West is the normal condition in which 
both the Eastern investor and Western 
farmer will be profited. It will not always 
be so. Just as soon as there is a substantial 
advance in the one item of cattle, Western 
farmers will begin to pay off their mort¬ 
gages. Sound loan companies tell us they 
are doing it even now, and that in the 
grass and corn districts real estate mort- 
are becoming very scarce, even at 
seven and eight per cent, interest. Firms 
that loan at six per cent, in large sums tell 
us it is hard to keep their money out. 
With such a state of facts it seems strange 
that agricultural journals in the East should 
raise the cry that Western mortgages are 
unsafe. There is nothing safer. We 
hope in the near future they will be¬ 
come so secure that they will rank with 
the Government bond and command no 
higher rate of interest.” 
-Breeders’ Gazette : “ By common 
consent the fabled crow that dropped peb¬ 
bles into the long-necked water jug until 
its contents rose to a hight which enabled 
him to slake his thirst had a great intellect. 
There are thousands of people, however, 
who in a like case seem to lack the percep¬ 
tive faculties of this long-headed bird of 
fiction. The farmer who has cattle to sell 
is just now in about the same position as 
the raven immortalized in the pages of 
JEsop. Values receded into the belly of 
Have you Clematis coccinea ?... 
The quality of Excelsior Sweet Corn is a 
trifle better tliau that of Early Concord. 
In other respects the Concord is as desir¬ 
able and a somewhat, heavier yielder. 
They ripen nearly at the same time, Excel¬ 
sior being the later. 
DIRECT. 
only in the interest of our Missouri farm¬ 
ers but in the interest of departments of 
agriculture associated with universities, 
and hence is a matter of general interest. 
The contest is sustained by our farmers, and 
already largely successful, is promising to 
be wholly so in the end. Pardon this per¬ 
sonal statement, but the issue here is a pub¬ 
lic and not a personal one and more sharp¬ 
ly drawn than has before occurred in the 
history of agricultural colleges of this 
country. J. "W. sanborn. 
Columbia, Missouri, September 3, 1889.” 
-Life: “The season is now here when 
there is a practical unanimity on the ques¬ 
tion of a national flower—buckwheat flour.” 
-American Garden : “ Horticulture 
offers a field in which many lessons of 
value in the future may be taught. In the 
garden we can, not only teach our boys and 
girls how to grow fruits, flowers and veg¬ 
etables, but we may lay the foundation of 
knowledge and a thirst for more, which 
may prove of inestimable value in later 
years. Study of Nature leads to the de¬ 
velopment of knowledge. Youth seeks to 
know the whys and wherefores of what is 
going on around us, and as we learn the 
glories and beauties of Nature we become 
better fitted to perform our life work, 
whatever that may be.” 
-T. B. Terry in the Albany Cultiva¬ 
tor: “There is no honorable, legitimate 
business in the world that pays better in 
proportion to the brains and capital in¬ 
vested than farming.” 
-W. H. Bowker in the New England 
Homestead: “I want to see as rigid in¬ 
spection of butter and other food products 
as there is of fertilizers, and when that 
time comes everybody will be benefited, ex¬ 
cept the unscrupulous dealer or manufac¬ 
turer, who lives by his wits.” 
-London Live Stock Journal: “A 
cow’s escutcheon : The most remarkable 
air-bubble of modern times.” 
<2£li$ceUant0U£ mdvcrtb'imv 
take it very easy at home. the jug some time ago, but those who have 
persistently dropped the pebbles of im- 
-Carl Schurz before the American 
Forestry Association: “ The destruc¬ 
tion of t he forests of the country will be the 
murder of its future and its progress. It 
seems to me that wherever the forests cov¬ 
er the head-waters of great rivers the 
Government should keep possession. If 
the possession is gone, then regain it. Look 
at the valleys of the Hudson and Mohawk 
—already the flow of these rivers is dimin¬ 
ished from 20 to 30 per cent. If the destruc¬ 
tion of the forests continues the United 
States will be as completely stripped as 
Asia Minor.” 
-London Field: “The best of the 
liorsechestnuts is the Double-flowered, 
which, I believe, is of American origin, and 
for some time after its introduction to this 
country was regarded as an overrated sub¬ 
ject ; but within the last two or three years 
I have met with it in much better condi¬ 
tion than previously, and can now under¬ 
stand the remarks of Mr. Barry, of Mount 
Hope Nurseries, Rochester, who says: ‘The 
Double flowering llorsec best nut. is justly 
admired for its elegant form and magnili 
cent inflorescence. The absence of fruit, 
by which much Jitter is avoided, is ap ini 
All Run Down from the weakening effects ot 
warm weather, by hard work or from a long illness 
you should take Hood's Sarsaparilla, which will purl, 
fy your blood, expel scrofula and all Impurities, regu¬ 
late the liver and other organs, cure headache, give 
strength and create an appetite. Be sure to get Hood's. 
proved blood into the market have been 
able to get an occasional * sip ’ at least. 
Pebbles—and good large ones, too—are 
just now cheap and plenty. This fable 
teaches tlieir use.’’ 
-Puck : “ The pig that gets into clover 
thinks the sward mightier than the pen.” 
-Peck’s Sun : “ It’s a remarkable cow 
that knows his own fodder.” “Corn in 
the ear is worth two on the foot.” 
AUTUMN WHISPERS 
This is the harvest of the year. 
And nature now rejoices 
The while eorn stalk from ear to ear 
In ripe and husky voices. 
Each ear smiles to its ueighbor ear. 
Its fair proportions praising, 
And all remark the crop this year 
Is surely quite a-maize-ing. 
—Chicago Herald. 
-Agricultural Science : 
“The Missouri Agricultural College 
ys. Prof. J. W. Sanborn. You were good 
enough to mention my charges touching 
the management of t he Missouri Agricul¬ 
tural College. Since the matter is thus be¬ 
fore your readers, permit me to condense a 
volume into a few words. 1 have waged 
for the past two years a contest against the 
use of positions under me, as spoil for mere 
politicians, against nepotism in its worst 
form, against violent misappropriation of 
funds, and a general anti agricultural col¬ 
lege atmosphere surrounding the depart¬ 
ment. for which 1 was in a measure respon¬ 
sible. Agricultural Science reaches the 
agricultural college workers of this coun¬ 
try. 1 wish them to know that my deposi¬ 
tion gre\y Wholly put of a contest, made not 
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