1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8o7 
the reach of most of the sunlight. The up¬ 
ward look is the look of faith and trust. 
It does not anticipate any coming woe, and 
a large share of the sorrows that fill the 
eye and bring on the heartache are thus re¬ 
moved at a single sweep of the upturned 
vision. 
What a difference there is in homes ! 
The farmer returns from his work at night 
bringing with him only a record of the 
day’s trials and disappointments. The 
good wife has also had her troubles and 
they pile them together on the table at the 
evening meal, or in front of the hearth¬ 
stone. They dream about them all night. 
In their visions they are falling off precipices 
and sinking into deep ravines. They rise in 
the morning unrefreshed and go to their sev¬ 
eral duties clothed in sable, with the furrow¬ 
ing wrinkles sinking deeper each day into 
their tell-tale cheeks. They are looking 
downward with their eyes and thoughts 
full only of the roadway, its difficulties and 
impediments. Here is another pilgrim 
who has had as many struggles and crosses 
as the former, but he, like him, has had suc¬ 
cesses and deliverances too, and it is the 
brighter side of the record he has hid in his 
heart and brought to his home His wife 
has had a toilsome day, perhaps ; the chil¬ 
dren have worried her, and many things 
have gone wrong ; but when the husband 
appears with his sunny face the load some¬ 
how seems lifted from her aching heart. 
He is such a tower of strength to her weak 
frame and quivering nerves, and she soon 
adds her smile to the brightening hours. 
And the children, if there are any, how 
their ringing laugh catches a gayer tone 
from father’s cheerful spirit. His day’s ex¬ 
perience has been perhaps a sharp conflict 
in the battle of life, but he has fought with 
an upward eye which doubles the joy of 
every victory and takes the sting from each 
defeat. The pilgrim in any part of life’s 
journey, who can truly say with the poet : 
“ Upward I turn mine eye,” has a never- 
failing source of strength and hope. 
plants began to ripen their fruit at least 10 
days earlier than a small experiment plot 
of the R. N.-Y. containing some 100 plants. 
These had received both stable manure and 
fertilizer in liberal quantity. We cannot 
say positively whether the average quanti¬ 
ty per plant was more or less. A general 
impression is that the poor field yielded 
more than the rich plot and that fewer 
green tomatoes were destroyed by frost.... 
To show how the same tomato will vary in 
different soils and under different treatment 
let us compare a few of Prof. Bailey’s re¬ 
ports with ourown. He says that the Haines 
(No. 64 from Northrup, Braslan and Good¬ 
win) is too irregular. We found it fully as 
regular as Ignotum. Prof. Bailey considers 
that “regularity of shape” is one of its" par¬ 
ticular points of superiority.” In other re¬ 
spects the two reports agree. 
Our report of the Shah (Henderson) and 
Prof. Bailey’s are alike. It has no value. 
The fact of its being the first yellow with 
potato-leaf foliage is simply worthy of note. 
Our own tomatoes, however, were not all 
yellow. Some were reddish, others orange 
color. 
Lori Hard (Henderson) at the Rural 
Grounds was not only very regular and 
productive, but there seemed no reason for 
designating it as not valuable as a market 
variety, as Prof. Bailey does. 
RURAL LIFE NOTES. 
than with kohl rabi. Of the two kinds, 
purple and green, sold in the market for 
stock purposes, the purple is greatly the 
better, giving larger and handsomer bulbs 
apparently of better quality than the 
“white,” the name under which the seed 
of the green variety is commonly sold. In 
seeding avoid the hand drill; it always 
wastes two-thirds of the seed that it sows 
and does its work poorly. He plants by 
hand preferably and thereby saves seed suf-* 
ficient to pay the laborer, and gets a better 
stand than can be had with the drill. Two 
to four seeds thrust into the moist earth 
by the thumb and fore-finger, at intervals 
ofl0tol2 inches, are almost certain to give 
an even stand in the best possible shape for 
the subsequent operations of thinning and 
are few safer investments for capitalists 
than these deserted lands which are now so 
freely offered for sale.” 
-Printers’ Ink: “The man who does 
not believe in the value of his goods is in a 
bad position when he tries to convince 
others of their desirability by means of an 
advertisement.” 
-“Lying advertisements are, and al¬ 
ways will be, failures in the long run.” 
-American Florist: “Mr. Halliday 
denounces as fraudulent the practice of 
selling one variety under two or more dif¬ 
ferent names— obviously with the intention 
to deceive.” 
■—Pres. Chamberlain, of Iowa, in the 
Ohio Farmer: “Change brings expense 
hoeing. and loss in all things, especially in farm¬ 
ing, and should never be made without 
Prof. Bailey’s (Cornell University Exper¬ 
iment Station) experiments are always of a 
practical nature and described in plain lan¬ 
guage. A late bulletin is devoted to toma¬ 
toes. Prof. Bailey finds that both early fruit¬ 
ing and abundant fruiting are promoted 
by early sowing provided the plants are 
properly treated. They must be stocky 
plants and these cannot be produced with¬ 
out sufficient space to grow, in, plenty of 
light and several transplantings. A record 
of his experiments fully shows this in every 
case. The gain in the earliness of fruit¬ 
ing (March 21) sometimes amounted to 
three weeks. The disadvantage of late 
planting (May 15) is particularly pro¬ 
nounced, especially in point of productive¬ 
ness... 
It has been the R. N.-Y.’Sexperience, as re¬ 
corded from time to time in these pages, that 
rich soil is conducive to rampant, vines, to 
unproductiveness and to late maturity. 
Prof. Bailey’s experiments give very differ¬ 
ent results. He planted on three plots. 
The. first received 5,460 pounds of fine, old 
stable manure. It was 60 by 30 feet. The 
second received nitrate of soda, eight 
pounds to 55 by 30 feet; and the last, of the 
same size, had received no fertilizer or man¬ 
ure of any kind. The rich surface soil had, 
moreover, been removed. The three plots 
were treated alike in all ways. From the first, 
there was a great difference in the appear¬ 
ance of the different areas. The plants on 
the heavily manured plat were uniformly 
most vigorous and largest. The nitrate-of- 
soda plantation gave stocky plants of me¬ 
dium size with a very dark color of foliage. 
The unfertilized plat gave sma’l plants 
McCullom’s Hybrid with him was a 
“ second early.” With the R. N.-Y. it 
was late. Bay State (Bragg) was also 
late and of no notable value. Prof. B. esti¬ 
mates it as “one of the best recent intro¬ 
ductions.” 
As to Prelude, both reports agree. The 
tomatoes are rather small, but regular in 
shape, very early and productive. breeds of cattle 
Prof. Bailey, says of the Ignotum^ 
which originated with him while at the 
Michigan Agricultural College, that it is 
without question by far the finest, market 
tomato which he has ever grown. Its par¬ 
ticular points of superiority are large size, 
regularity of shape, solidity, productive¬ 
ness, and uniformity throughout the sea¬ 
son. It is the largest and heaviest of the 
perfectly regular tomatoes, and the most, 
solid of any of the market sorts. The 
pickings from his patches this year were 
usually fit for market as they came from 
the vines: and the last picking, October 
10th, after a long season, was scarcely in¬ 
ferior to the best picking of the season. 
As grown with us it was not particularly 
regular. It occurred to the writer, and a 
note appeared to that effect in these col¬ 
umns in early fall, that it should be grown 
from selected seed a season or so longer be¬ 
fore introduction. As to solidity, fruitful¬ 
ness, etc., the R. N.-Y. fully agrees with 
A new method of dressing chickens for 
market is given by a correspondent of the 
Massachusetts Ploughman. 
The chicken is either beheaded or knifed 
in the throat in the ordinary way, and is 
instantly immersed in a tub of cold water 
and held there until it has ceased to kick, 
when it is immediately taken out and the 
feathers will come out by the handful, as 
easily as if scalded. Care must be taken to 
hold the chickens long enough, but not too 
long in the water, and remove the feathers 
immediately. The skin is not torn or dis¬ 
figured in any way, and the dressed bird 
presents a particularly attractive appear¬ 
ance. This was done with spring chickens 
of about four pounds’ weight. It required 
not over five minutes to kill and dress a 
bird in this way. 
The Western Agricuttjrist says that 
Holstein-Friesians outnumber all the other 
at leading Western State 
fairs this season. This shows the increasing 
interest in dairy production. The strong 
point with the Red Polled and Swiss cattle 
is that they are good dairy cattle as well as 
good beef animals, and the best milking 
families of the Short-horns are increasing 
in popularity in this country and Europe. 
Still, the beef-producer will ignore milk as 
of little consequence. Meanwhile the dairy 
cattle are increasing in popularity the 
world over. 
clear proof of a net advantage to be gained. 
It will cost a thrifty farmer far more than 
$1,000 to move to another State and get 
started as well again, and another $1,000 to 
learn new methods, for soil and climate. 
Will it pay to change ? Take the two States 
of Ohio and Iowa—grand States. My ad¬ 
vice to nearly all the farmers in both States 
would be to stay right where they are and 
do the best they can there.” 
-Harper’s Weekly : “ It was a saying 
of Navisson, a lawyer, that no man could 
be valiant unless he hazarded his body, or 
rich unless he hazarded his soul.” 
-Milwaukee Journal: “The man 
who is always looking for work seldom 
puts on spectacles to assist in the quest.” 
-T. B. Terry : “ We do not live in the 
kitchen, but in the whole house.” 
The excellent Iowa Homestead says: 
“ Every day we see long lines of wagons 
loaded with tine potatoes standing in the 
streets of Des Moines for which the farm¬ 
ers ask 20 cents per bushel, retail. Car¬ 
loads can be bought at 15 cents and under. 
Eastern consumers need not fear any 
scarcity of potatoes. Western farmers 
would be only too glad to get 25 cents per 
bushel.” 
Yes. that is true as we know from our 
Western subscribers and contributors. But 
Prof. Bailey’s report. how much does it cost to get a barrel of po¬ 
ll AS PH>f. Bailey had occasion to notice 
(we address the inquiry to him as having 
given the tomato more study than others) 
t hat the color of tomatoes differs under pe¬ 
culiar conditions ? Last year the R. N.-Y. 
raised about 20 different kinds in a very 
poor soil. Potato chemical fertilizer was 
liberally used, and that alone. The color 
inclined to a yellowish orange in all alike. 
Dairymen, says the Breeder’s Gazette, 
are coming to place a high value on oats, 
and this year they will be used extensively 
on many farms in place of bran. For mak¬ 
ing solid, healthful flesh aud strong bone, 
and giving to the animal great vigor and 
quality, no grain on our farms can equal 
the oat. 
Prof. SHELTON of the Kansas Agricul¬ 
tural College, speaks in the highest terms 
of kohl-rabi as a drought-resisting succu¬ 
lent crop for the West. He recalls, in the 
above journal, the season of 1887 as one of 
drought and disaster. Every grain crop 
upon the college farm was nearly a com¬ 
plete failure. Late in October he harvested 
with a light cast to the foliage. from about half an acre, 205 bushels of 
The first ripe fruits were found on plat 
III.; but there were only two on the whole 
patch which ripened in advance of plat I. 
and the difference amounted to but a day. 
At the first picking, plat I. produced by far 
the most fruits, and they were in every 
way superior to those from the other plats. 
During the whole season plat I. continued 
to hold its superiority. In point of earli¬ 
ness plats II. and III. were about the same. 
On October 10th the average total yield 
per plant was as follows : 
Plat I. heavily manured, 12.7 pounds. 
“ II. nitrate of soda, 9.1 pounds. 
“ III. no fertilizer, 6.8 pounds 
The Rural Groundsand an acre field near 
them would have shown a very different 
state of things during the past season and, 
indeed, in previous ypavs. The acre was 
poor soil feebly manured WlUl ipsa than 10 
tatoes from Iowa to New York?. 
Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, Cal., 
is doing some valuable work in the way of 
producing new varieties of fruits and flow¬ 
ers by crossing. The American Florist 
says that he has 10,000 new varieties of po¬ 
tatoes; that he has grown over 100,000 roses 
from seed, 25,000 of which are retained. He 
is the originator of the Burbank Potato.... 
A GOOSEBERRY is described in the Cana¬ 
dian Horticulturist as twice as large as the 
Downing and utterly free from mildew. 
It is wonderfully prolific. It is a cross, by 
Prof. Wm. Saunders, between Houghton 
and Whitesmith. 
Prof. J. L. BUDD, in the Canadian Hor¬ 
ticulturist, speaks, as the R. N.-Y. is im¬ 
pressed, a well-deserved word of praise for 
the Simon’s Plum. Ourown specimen is 
the only plum ever raised at the Rural 
Grounds that did not seem to sustain in¬ 
jury from the curculio. The flesh is very 
firm. Prof. Budd thinks, when better 
known, it will be valued for canning or 
stewing, as it has the peach flavor without 
the peach bitter. 
DIRECT. 
“ • Tis a marvelous science, deny it who can. 
The double game of the Middleman.” 
- Prof. Wallace. 
-Free Press: “Set in her ways: A 
brooding hen.” 
-BlNGH AM TON Repu BUCAN : “ Favorite 
song of the milkman—Shall we 
the river?” 
Those intending to cultivate kohl rabi 
qre advised to select cleau, rich ground and 
to plant at ordinary corn-planting time 
and keep clean. While Prof. Shelton can¬ 
not guarantee a crop of bulbs in every ease 
he is confident that with no other Western 
itti$rcUancou.$ gMrmising. 
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handsome bulbs, to say nothing of several 
wagon-loads of tops which, without weigh¬ 
ing, were hauled to the cattle and greedily 
consumed by them. 
The past season kolil-rabi was cultivated 
on two detached pieces of ground aggregat¬ 
ing somethu g like one acre. The smaller 
of these (36 .00 acre) was harvested a few 
we^ks ago. It gave 273 bushels (60 pounds) 
of bulbs, a yield which rates at 758 bushels 
or 22 79-100 tons per acre. The bulbs ran 
from six to '.2 pounds each, although a 
single specimen three weeks before harvest- _ WEEKLY Press : “ On broad principles 
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open home markets, which will necessitate 
diversified agriculture there and help the 
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