1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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in part, as follows : “ The samples sent 
were nearly round with an obscure 
suture. The flesh grows close about the 
little stem, leaving no cavity. Its color 
is a medium crimson—purple with a 
suspicion of yellow in parts.” 
At the same time (August 10), Mr. Bur¬ 
bank sent us a specimen or so of the 
Wickson, which he then regarded as 
among the best of the Japan plums. 
The flesh was exceedingly juicy, tender, 
mild s weet—scarcely sub-acid—and rich. 
Again quoting from The R. N.-Y. of 
September 1: “ The flesh of the ‘ J ‘ is 
about the same as that of the Wickson 
in color and quality, except that it is 
distinctly sub-acid, even more juicy and 
possibly not quite so rich. There is, too, 
an acidity of the skin.” 
During October of 1894, Mr. Burbank 
wrote to Mr. J. H. Hale as follows: 
“ Two years ago, in a hedgerow of seed¬ 
lings, ‘ J ’ was the most vigorous, most 
productive, handsomest, most uniform 
and best flavored of any Japan plum I 
had ever seen. No other Japan plum 
now known equals it in growth. The 
plums are richly marbled, dotted and 
striped with purple on light yellow 
ground. The trees are always loaded to 
the muzzle, and just in the right place, 
so they hold and perfect more fruit than 
the Burbank, and I may say, perhaps 
more than any other fruit tree of any 
name or nature. No one who has ever 
tasted the fruit when ripe will say that 
any European plum is superior. I know 
of no other plum that will keep longer.” 
Under date of December 16, Mr. J. H. 
Hale'writes as follows : “ In Ruralisms, 
page 850, I noted what you say in regard 
to the Hale plum ; but it does not make 
clear what the peculiarities of this variety 
are upon your grounds.” 
Prof. Bailey, when here a few weeks 
ago, and Mr. S. D. Willard, of Geneva, 
N. Y., stated before the Massachusetts 
Board of Agriculture, at its meeting at 
Amherst last week, that, of all Japan 
plums, the nale was the best in quality. 
The Hale plum at the Rural Grounds 
is a tree of immense vigor. What we 
have said of it have been notes of pro¬ 
gress rather than any positive expression 
of opinion. To what peculiarities of 
climate or situation it may be due, we 
cannot say, but it is a fact, nevertheless, 
that the color of the plums has been of a 
light green or greenish yellow when 
fully mature. Not one plum has shown 
any trace of cherry, pink or crimson.... 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
A FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. 
A Strong Attraction.—A farmers’ institute 
was held at our town on December 17, by the New 
Jersey Board of Agriculture. We had had three 
institutes in our county, but none was very well 
attended. About a month before this one, our 
local board of agriculture got together to see 
what we could do to get out a crowd. It occurred 
to us that we were about as likely to hit the aver¬ 
age Bergen County man in the stomach as any¬ 
where else. These eloquent institute speakers 
are all well enough, but a good taste of roast pig 
looked like a better drawing card! So we made 
plans to get up a hot dinner with this bill of fare: 
Bergen County Boast Pig. 
Bergen County Baked Beam. 
Bergen County Bread and Butter. 
Coffee. 
Bergen County Apples. 
We might have had some Bergen County rye 
roasted and ground instead of coffee, but we 
gave that up, and went ahead with our pro¬ 
gramme. The secretary got out a poster with a 
picture of a pig on it, and hired a mau to do the 
cooking. A hunter contributed a fat ’possum, 
and we had him baked and served with the pig. 
A Square Meal.—Hope Farm supplied the pig 
and the beans. One of our shotes dressed 63 
pounds. We had him roasted whole, and he 
came on the table with a big red apple in his 
mouth. There were 16 big dishes of baked beans, 
a barrel of big red apples, and nobody knows 
how much bread and butter. Our Bergen County 
farmers went at those victuals just as their an¬ 
cestors went at the Hessians during the Revolu¬ 
tionary War, and they cleaned them up equally 
well. Secretary Franklin Dye and his State 
speakers were not a bit behind them. Your 
humble servant undertook to talk just before din¬ 
ner, and I’ll tell you right now that “ eloquence ” 
is no match for roast pig at 12 o’clock. After 
dinner, the crowd came up into the hall and sat 
down comfortably to listen to one of T B. Terry’s 
noble talks, and I don’t believe he ever had a 
more attentive audience. We gave the visitors 
another meal in the evening, and they nearly 
cleared up the baked beans. 
The Institute.—I suppose a description of a 
farmers’ institute is pretty much of an old story 
to most readers. We did not have a very large 
crowd, but those who did come were mostly farm¬ 
ers The speakers were Secretary Dye, D. D. 
Denise, president of the New Jersey Board of 
Agriculture, T B. Terry, Prof. C B. Lane, Mrs. 
F. II. Valentine and Dr. J. B. Ward. They were 
all practical, common-sense people who got up 
and talked as neighbor to neighbor without any 
fuss or frills. Our people were glad to see T. B. 
Terry. Many had read about him or read his 
writings, and they came in eager to see and hear 
the man In the evening, he gave his talk on the 
“ Wife’s Share ” which, probably, many of our 
readers have heard. Some of our farmers are 
pretty conservative, and I wondered how far his 
plain talk would go home. The people liked it 
all because they felt that Mr. Terry was sincere. 
There was something about him that made the 
people feel that this man had really felt atd 
known some of the troubles and trials that fall 
to the lot of the every-day farmer. Our farmers 
have a good deal to contend with, and some of 
these older men somehow dropped a little of their 
load in thinking that this man had been through 
the Ore. I wish I could give a full account of the 
institute, but there isn’t room for it. It started 
up many a thought that I shall try to talk about 
some da.v. 
Does It Pay ?—The question came up as to 
whether these meetings pay It would be a hard 
job to figure that thing out in dollars and cents. 
No man can expect to have his taxes or his gro¬ 
cery bills paid by the institute speakers. T feel 
sure that most of those who came to our insti¬ 
tute •* got their money's worth,” at least It is 
worth a good deal for farmers to get together 
now and then and talk. I noticed between the 
meetings and after dinner how the room was 
filled with little groups of farmers—most of them 
talking earnestly and forcibly. Go near to one 
of these groups, and you would hear plain com¬ 
mon sense—thoughts that were brought out by 
friendly discussion. If these farmers would only 
get right up in the irstitute and talk as they do 
in these little groups, they would often double 
the value of the meeting. As soon as the chair¬ 
man calls to order, though, these farmers miss 
the freedom of the neighborly talk, and they can’t 
say a word. I have heard people wonder how it 
is that men like Mr. Terry, who do not pretend to 
be orators, can hold the people so well with a 
plain recital of facts. The meaning seems clear 
enough to me—these men get right down to the 
heart of the average farmer. Farmers who 
naturally would feel so stiff and odd in a public 
gathering with strangers, are at home with this 
plain, off-hand talker. He is ‘‘like them” in 
feeling and thought, and what he says sticks to 
them. They can’t rub it out, for some sort of 
mental chemistry has made it a part of them. I tell 
you it is the plain, honest, sincere, true speaker 
that leaves the right sort of a mark at our fa Ba¬ 
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back of a chair or mixes his grammar all up, so 
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