1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
Publisher’s Desk. 
We hardly think it safe to send the 
new rose, Ruby Queen, out after this 
month. All late requests have been 
filled as fast as received. Those who are 
not yet supplied should speak now, and 
subscriptions which expire during the 
Summer should be renewed now, and ap¬ 
plication for the rose made at same time. 
Here is a pleasant letter just received: 
The rose came all right; it was not wilted. 
I will take care that the pigs don’t get 
mine. I wish your paper could be in every 
home; it will be in mine as long as I take 
any paper. 1 get more than my money's 
worth every time. Many thanks for the 
rose. mrs. l. s. leach. 
Rutland, Vt. 
This good friend expresses our wish 
exactly. It would please us to have The 
R. N.-Y. in every farm home. But it is 
a source of satisfaction and pride to 
know that it is appreciated in the homes 
that it does reach. Keep on telling your 
neighbors about it, and they will come to 
it in time. Such influence is adding new 
names to our list every day. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
OCEAN TRAFFIC.—Some idea of the ex¬ 
tent of this may be had from the report of 
one steamship company, the Cunard, which 
shows net earnings during 1899 of $1,400,000— 
$150,000 in excess of the previous year. The 
assets of this Company, including ships and 
wharfage, are about $11,000,000. During the 
month of April, 1900, 85 sailing vessels and 
21 steamers were reported lost or missing. 
Most of these vessels were wrecked by 
stranding or collision. 
KOIIL RABI is a curious vegetable. One 
might think it had been uncertain whether 
to grow as a cabbage or turnip. It has 
succeeded in looking like both. The color 
is green. A turnip-shaped bulb three or 
four inches in diameter grows on top of the 
ground, and on the sides and top of this 
are several long leaves. There are but few 
of these vegetables in the market, as the 
demand is light. They are used chiefly by 
the Germans in making soups, but are also 
boiled and served with drawn butter, like 
salsify. 
AN ODD-LOOKING PEACH is the Peen 
To. A few from Georgia are now on this 
market, good ones retailing at three for 
five cents. The ends are flattened and 
hollowing only the skin and stone remain¬ 
ing there. The fruit is a trifle over a half 
inch thick and about two inches the other 
way. The skin is a greenish yellow tinged 
with reci on one side, and the flesh a light 
straw color. The quality is superior to 
that of the other early peaches now on 
hand. This peach originally came from 
China, which accounts for its peculiar 
name. The tree is said to be somewhat 
dwarfish in habit. 
VEGETABLES.—Receipts of southern 
new potatoes continue heavy. The first 
shipments of northern Virginia potatoes 
are coming forward. The crop is said to 
be fair, and some growers have made con¬ 
tracts f. o. b. shipping points at $1.25 per 
barrel. Old potatoes are dull. Asparagus 
lias been coming in freely, and the market 
is weak. A Liverpool steamer brought 
1,000 bags of Egyptian onions. The demand 
for choice onions is good. Although there 
are but few cucumbers coming in, the de¬ 
mand is so light that prices continue low. 
There is a large supply of southern toma¬ 
toes, many of which arrived In bad contri¬ 
tion. 
WHEAT.—For a long time there was a 
variation of only a fraction of a cent in 
price from day to day, but during the past 
week it has been jumping up and down like 
a crazy man. At times it has been five 
cents above the average price. These fluc¬ 
tuations have been caused by conflicting re¬ 
ports of the condition of the crop in the 
Northwest, and it seems to be difficult to 
get at the exact facts at present. The 
drought in North Dakota has been partly 
relieved, but since the rains there have 
been fierce urying winds and a sandstorm 
which did great damage. It is said that 
in many fields the wheat is heading out 
with the stalks only 10 inches high, and 
that it will be difficult to cut such grain 
with the harvester-binder. One Dakota 
man who had some old wheat on hand 
started to load a car, but after looking 
over his fields, concluded to hold what he 
had, and brought back what he had al¬ 
ready put into the car. 
A HAND y FinE ESCAPE.—I saw an ex¬ 
hibition of this given from the roof of the 
Fall River Line building. It is a tube 
large enough for a man to slide through, 
made of heavy canvas, with a line of air 
holes on the upper side. One end is fas¬ 
tened to the building by ropes, and men on 
the ground take hold of the ropes at the 
lower end. Whoever wishes to escape gets 
into the tube, and down he comes like a 
shot. Those at the bottom hold the end 
of the tube slanting enough to break the 
force of the fall, and, after a little practice, 
can gauge it so that the man will slide 
out just right. While this could not be 
used on the side of a building already in 
flames, it looks like a feasible plan for get¬ 
ting a whole lot of people out of a danger- 
our place quicker than could be done with 
ladders. If necessary, people could be shot 
through this concern at the rate of 20 a 
minute. To lessen damage to garments 
and avoid the possibility of being stuck in 
the tube a heavy cord could be quickly 
wounu around the clothing, thus binding it 
tightly to the body. 
A BOOTBLACK MAGNATE.—As a busi¬ 
ness man, Tony Is a shining success. He 
is an Italian, the proprietor of seven shoe¬ 
blacking establishments in this city. I 
visited one near Lhe postoffice. On a plat¬ 
form two feet high around the sides of the 
room there are 10 comfortable chairs. Sit 
in one of these, put your shoes on the rests 
in front, and a young Italian takes you in 
hand in a way that makes you think he is 
going to do a thorough job in the least pos¬ 
sible time. These workmen get so much arm 
exercise that they look muscular enough to 
handle the tough end of a backwoods dis¬ 
trict. school in the Winter. One man wears 
the bange of foreman, but he works the 
same as the others, Tuey all know their 
business, and the job does not need much 
bossing. There are liquids and pastes for 
all sorts of shoes from cowhides to patent, 
leather or white canvas, and a sign on the 
wall says: “The shoes of our regular cus¬ 
tomers are the best recommendation for 
the quality of the preparations used.’’ They 
also have a hat-cleaning department. A 
straw hat discolored and out of shape 
through getting wet can be scoured and 
Ironed so that the owner will scarcely rec¬ 
ognize it. Tony is a representative of a 
class of Italians who are hustlers in every¬ 
thing that they undertake, some of them 
handling the largest fruit interests in this 
city. ___ w. w. H. 
THE NEW YORK ROSE SHOW. 
The first Rummer exhibition of the 
American Rose Society was held at the 
Eden Musee, New York City, June 12-14. 
Like the previous exhibition In March, it 
may be termed an almost unqualified suc¬ 
cess. The display of garden roses was 
large and generally of fine quality, con¬ 
sidering the cool and backward season. 
The standard, of course, of these exhibi¬ 
tion flowers is not as high as that exacted 
in European rose shows, and, for climatic 
reasons, we may never reach the perfection 
of individual flowers that has been attained 
abroad, though in brilliancy of coloring 
and profusion of bloom we may eventually 
excel. Among the Perpetual or Remontant 
roses, which formed the bulk of the ex¬ 
hibition, the familiar old varieties such as 
Anna de Diesbach, Captain Christy, Fisher 
Holmes, Gen. Jacqueminot, Mme. Gabriel 
Luizet, Magna Charta and Paul Neyron, 
greatly predominated, though about all 
the varieties noted in American catalogues 
were shown. If one should add Margaret 
Dickson and Glolre Lyonnaise, both white, 
the latter with a yellow tinge, and Jean 
Liabaud or Prince Camille de Rohan, both 
very dark crimson, to the above list, a good 
foundation for an amateur collection would 
be laid. A fine and most interesting dis¬ 
play of rose species was made by the New 
York Botanical Garden at Bronx Park, and 
several exhibits of hybrids between species 
and garden varieties were made by ama¬ 
teurs and growers, and excited much com¬ 
ment. The most promising variety of this 
class was conceded to be Pink Pearl, a 
cross between Rosa Wichuraiana and Me¬ 
teor, a dark crimson Hybrid Tea. Pink 
Pearl is not large, but makes a lovely coral 
red bud, with the outer petals opening out 
flat and white. It has the characteristic 
Wichuraiana creeping habit and glossy fo¬ 
liage. Other good hybrids of this interest¬ 
ing species were noted, one of which, 
raised by an Ohio grower, had the color 
and appearance of Ruby Queen, but as ex¬ 
hibited was only half the size. The parent¬ 
age was given as Wichuraiana x Agrippina, 
which makes it a near relative in deriva¬ 
tion with Ruby Queen, as the pollen parent 
of the latter was Queen’s Scarlet, also a 
Bourbon rose. Some of Mr. Carman’s hy¬ 
brid Rugosas were shown and admired, 
though roses of this class do not bear cut¬ 
ting and transportation as well as most 
others. 
The growing interest in hardy roses 
promises well for the development of va¬ 
rieties suited to our climate in the near 
future. Some choice exhibits of herbaceous 
plants brightened the general effect very 
much. Amid all this varied color several 
vases of foxgloves stood out with telling 
effect. The graceful form and pleasing 
tints of the bloom spikes of this neglected 
441 
and old-fashioned plant will bear compari¬ 
son with the latest floral novelties. There 
was one notable display of fancy Japanese 
maples In their quaint and high-colored 
foliage, all appearing to be correctly 
labeled. Strawberries were not shown in 
great numbers, but were generally very 
large and of fine appearance. Sharpless 
led in favor with exhibitors, there being 
nearly as many plates of this variety as 
of all others combined. Some of the speci¬ 
mens were superb. After Sharpless came 
Bubach, Gandy and Marshall. The last is 
especially suited for exhibition purposes 
from its very attractive appearance. Some 
snowy white Alpine strawberries and May¬ 
berries, the latter erroneously labeled 
“strawberry-blackberry,” were inviting to 
the eye and pleasant to the taste. 
Grass is very small. Only three weeks to 
haying time, and the farmers say not over 
half a crop. Early planted potatoes look 
well. Rye promises extra good. A large 
acreage of corn is planted. Much has 
been put In by machine in drills. It is 
said to give a larger yield than when 
planted in hills. Butter is 25 cents per 
pound. We have a number of private 
dairies. Eggs 16 cents per dozen. A few 
potatoes have been shipped away at 45 to 
50 cents per bushel at station. Some oyster 
farming is done here. Oysters are good 
and are sold at $1 to $1.50 per bushel. 
Chickens (broilers), 90 cents per pair; hens, 
10 cents per pound. The brooks and 
streams and springs are very low for the 
first of June. m. h. j. 
IN THE MANITOBA HARVEST FIELDS. 
Every year, In the month of August, the 
Canadian Pacific Railroad advertises for 
laborers for the wheatflelds of Manitoba 
and the Northwest Territories. Ten dol¬ 
lars will buy a ticket from any point in 
eastern Canada on the C. P. R. R. to any 
point in the wheat-growing districts of the 
Canadian Northwest. Certificates to be 
filled out by the farmer for whom you work 
are supplied with the tickets, and these give 
the holder a right to cheap return rates, 
namely, $18, making the round trip $28. 
Finishing my own harvesting in Quebec 
about the middle of August, I decided to 
take advantage of this excursion. A 
change of air and scene could be had for a 
month’s labor, which, under new and in¬ 
teresting conditions, is in itself a pleasure 
to a young man in good health. I will not 
go into a description of our outward jour¬ 
ney; suffice it to say that we were supplied 
with comfortable colonists’ cars, and came 
through without any serious mishaps or de¬ 
lays. On reaching Winnipeg we all 
changed cars, some of the men going north, 
some south, and many farther west through 
the valley of the Assiniboine. After some 
inquiries and a drive of 17 miles back from 
the railroad, T was very fortunate in find¬ 
ing work in one of the most beautiful and 
fertile spots in Manitoba. Here the 
prairie is rolling, broken by many poplar 
and willow bluffs, and watered by numer¬ 
ous small streams and lakes; much more 
desirable in my estimation than the dead 
level, unbroken by trees or shrubs, as far 
as the eye can reach, which one sees in 
some parts of the West. 
The fields were in their golden glory 
when we arrived. Binding had started in 
many places, but the great bulk of wheat, 
and all the oats, were still standing. As 
soon as the grain is cut and bound It Is set 
up in stooks, where it is left to cure until 
(he kernel is hard, for much of the wheat 
is cut before it is dead ripe. Some farmers 
thrash directly from the stook, but most 
of them stack the grain, two stacks In a 
place, and await in security the coming of 
the thrashing gang. A large part of the 
oat crop is fed in the sheaf to horses and 
cattle, the remainder is thrashed. T cannot 
give figures as to yields throughout the 
Province, but I may say that from 250 acres 
of wheat on the farm where T worked 6,894 
bushels were thrashed out. 
The methods of cultivation in practice 
were interesting to me. Prairie sod Is 
broken in June, cutting two inches deep, 
and turned perfectly flat with wide plows. 
This lies until Fall, when it is “backset,” 
that is nlowed again about four inches deep; 
it Is then ready for a crop the following 
Rnring. Seeding usually begins in April. 
The seeders are put directly on plowed land, 
and the harrowing and rolling done after 
the grain Is up; at least this is the pro¬ 
gram in the section of country which T 
visited. When a field has produced two 
crops of wheat and a crop of oats it is 
Rummer fallowed for a season and will 
again bring forth in abundance. Along the 
lines of railway, towns and villages are 
springing up and thriving, and in ail di¬ 
rections signs of prosperity are apparent. 
Late comers may yet use crude shanties, 
but the older settlers are establishing them¬ 
selves in peace and plenty. Comfortable, 
and in many cases beautiful homes, may be 
seen in all directions, with good stables and 
barns, and windmills in abundance. 
Btanbridge East, Quebec. c. s. m. 
June 8, the wheat harvest began, and 
the crop is 110 per cent Potatoes are out 
of bloom, settled down, laid by and all 
early varieties on the market. I com¬ 
menced digging June 4 at $1 per bushel. 
Flax is out of bloom, nearly three weeks 
early and the bobs will soon turn brown, 
and promises a 110 per cent crop. Corn 
is very clean, early and tall; will be in 
bloom by July 4; Kaffir eight inches tall. 
Moran, Kan. j. c. n. 
Madison, Conn.— The continued dry 
weather and cold nights have made tomato 
plants late. The farmers are having a 
hard time putting out plants. Dry weather 
and hard-shell Potato bugs have destroyed 
half the plants. Slight frost on May 30. 
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