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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 22 
Short Stories. 
One Course Enough. —William Henry 
Harrison was a man of plain tastes. He 
had lived much in camps and in the wil¬ 
derness. The following story Is told 
about him: 
Any one Item of food that tickled his 
palate was enough for him, and he 
would satisfy his hunger on it. At the 
first and only diplomatic dinner which 
he lived to give, there was served after 
the soup what was then considered 
to be the perfection of dishes, mutton 
chops trapped in brown paper, so as to 
preserve the juices while cooking. This 
delicacy was entirely new to the Presi¬ 
dent, and he called for a second and even 
a third chop, and was satisfying his ap¬ 
petite with this one entrGe, when his eye 
lighted upon some turkey which had just 
been served to his neighbor. Turning to 
his wife with a look of reproach, he said: 
‘‘Why, my dear, I didn’t know we had 
turkey for dinner, too.” 
King Cotton’s Cabinet. —At a meet¬ 
ing of the Louisiana Stock Breeders’ 
Association, the' president, Mr. W. L. 
Foster, read a series of resolutions, of 
which the following is a sample: 
Resolved, That since ‘‘in a multitude of 
counsel there is wisdom,” there shall 
this day be selected a cabinet advisory 
and assistant to his majesty, King Cot¬ 
ton, whose duty it shall be to relieve his 
majesty from now henceforth and per¬ 
petually from all duty other than those 
of providing for the maintenance of our 
foreign relations. We should most hum¬ 
bly suggest to his majesty the selection 
of the following members of his most 
honorable cabinet—the same to have full, 
complete and co-equal powers with his 
majesty in their respective department: 
For secretary of the interior, Hon. Mr. 
H. Og; for secretary of home develop¬ 
ments, the Hon. S. H. Eep; for secre¬ 
tary of internal revenue, the Hon. G. 
Rain, to be assisted by the Hon. C. Ow; 
to be equaled in authority by the Hon. 
Mrs. H. En, whose beneficent and uplift¬ 
ing influence in the homes of our people 
we believe to be beyond computation. 
A Southern Vet. Talks. —The agri¬ 
cultural bureau reports the condition of 
the cotton crop an average; they know, 
hut their agents and reports have not 
traveled in this section and some others, 
if the newspapers are correctly in¬ 
formed, but down, down, King Cotton 
goes every day now. I suppose we all 
have to live—the bureau, the merchants, 
the future man, the option man, the 
middleman, and the hindmost man that 
makes the cotton. If it cost five cents 
per pound to make it, and the producer 
sell at 4%, is there really much money in 
the stuff? Can one get many “Hope 
Farm” dinners out of it, or one “Dewey” 
dinner during the year, $100 a plate? 
Answer—answer quick! 
I like Hope Farm; hope the Madame, 
all of the Buds, Scions and Grafts may 
live long and prosper. I bought me a 
weeder on the Hope Farm say-so, 
through The R. N. Y. I like it; I want 
a riding one though. I walked from 
Pensacola to Gettysburg and back most 
of the way, once, and made various cir¬ 
cuits, and promised myself, when I 
wound up my trip in 1865, to quit walk¬ 
ing. I ran some, too, when occasionally 
we got to a big pike—nice road like that 
down the Shenandoah Valley, in Vir¬ 
ginia. I bave not run any since. 
Wilcox Co. ALABAMA. 
New Hampshire Notes. —I have not 
lived as long, or done as much farming, 
as most of your readers, but I have lived 
long enough to learn not to have one’s 
back broken with a hoe. The old time 
“first and second hoeing” has lost its 
terrors on my farm. In ’98, I plowed 
five acres, on land just bought, that had 
not been touched for years. Witch 
grass was all that was growing on it, 
and the sod was so tough that it took 
four large horses to run the breaking 
plow. The field was planted June 12 
with corn, the weeder run over it once a 
week for three weeks, when the culti¬ 
vator followed it for about four weeks 
more; the corn was the best in this re¬ 
gion. We follow the practice of break¬ 
ing off the large ears, and then ensilo- 
ing the stalks; from this piece, and an 
acre adjoining, we took 650 bushels of 
ears, and there was scarcely a minute, 
when the ensilage cutter was running, 
that corn in different stages of maturity 
could not be seen going up in the car¬ 
rier. The cost of raising my six acres 
was less, after the seed was in the 
ground, than the cost of a single acre, 
under the old system. Don’t be afraid 
of the weeder. It’s the farmer’s best 
friend. I am experimenting with rape 
for 20 pigs and hogs, but unless rain 
come soon, the experiment will be an 
absolute failure. f. e. b. 
New Hampshire. 
Killing Yellow Jackets. —The Cali¬ 
fornia fruit dryers are often annoyed by 
yellow jackets. They come in such 
swarms that they often ruin the best 
fruit. Dr. J. H. Miller tells the Pacific 
Rural Press how he fought them: 
"I had learned from hunters that these 
Insects often prove very troublesome to 
them, cutting out and carrying away to 
their nests so much of the drying veni¬ 
son as to cause serious loss. I immedi¬ 
ately planned a joke on my little enemy. 
I bought half a dozen beef livers, five 
pounds of arsenious acid and several 
pounds of baling wire. Cutting the liver 
into pieces as large as a man’s fist, I put 
them into a hot solution of arsenious acid 
and, bending the wire into a hook at each 
end, I suspended the pieces from the 
lower limbs of trees all around my dry¬ 
ing ground, and soon had the satisfac¬ 
tion of seeing my fruit deserted and the 
little insects busily working at the fra¬ 
grant liver. I expected results, but not 
such complete work as the poison accom¬ 
plished. The insects carried pieces of the 
liver to their nests, and besides causing 
the death of those that had been destroy¬ 
ing my fruit, the next generation of yel¬ 
low jackets was also destroyed, and so 
complete was the destruction that there 
were not enough of the little pests in 
that neighborhood the following year to 
require a repetition of the treatment. 
“Automatic Cream Separators.”— 
All over the country, companies are 
starting up to sell what are called “auto¬ 
matic cream separators.” They are all on 
the same plan, which consists of pour¬ 
ing cold or warm water directly into the 
milk. The most remarkable claim we 
have seen is made for a so-called “sep¬ 
arator” in Illinois. This is said to oper¬ 
ate by water pressure. Its price is $2.50, 
and it is said to do the work of a $2o0 
power outfit! It consists of a funnel 
with a long tin tube, at the bottom of 
which is a small, round tin box with 
holes at the top. This is to be operated 
in the following manner: 
Strain the milk while warm from the cow 
Into a deep can, filling can about half full. 
Place the separator into the center of the 
can (into the milk); now pour into the fun¬ 
nel of the separator an equal amount of 
cold water, remove separator, let stand 
from 30 to GO minutes, and it is ready to be 
skimmed off. The warmer the milk and 
the colder the ■water, the quicker the sep¬ 
aration; use cold well water. As Soon as 
through with first can, put separator in 
next and proceed until through. 
Most people would be satisfied simply 
to tell what their wonderful machine 
will do, but the makers of this machine 
go on to explain matters as follows: 
Milk consists of butter fat, kasine, and 
water. The butter fat, when it comes from 
the cow’. Is in the form of an oily sub¬ 
stance; this will form into butter globules 
when cold, and a portion wdll in time raise 
to the surface, w'hile a large amount will 
remain in the milk unless removed by 
artificial means. By our operation, we take 
the warm milk and by means of our auto¬ 
matic separator we force numerous small 
streams of cold water into the milk which 
chills and hardens the butter globules, 
(cream) and in their upward course force 
them to the surface. 
A more ridiculous explanation of the 
rise of cream out of milk it would be 
difficult to make. The chances are that 
cold water poured directly into the milk 
from a tin bucket or pitcher would have 
just as much effect as this so-called 
“water-pressure.” It seems too uad 
that, in these days, farmers can be in¬ 
duced to give up their hard-earned 
money on any such ridiculous state¬ 
ment. 
....One of the irreconcilable rebels, 
Captain Julian Myers, died at Mont¬ 
clair, N. J., a few days ago. He was 
born at Savannah, Ga., 74 years ago, and 
at the age of 13, enlisted in the United 
States Navy, w'here he was twice pro¬ 
moted for bravery by special act of Con¬ 
gress. He resigned his commission as 
captain at the outbreak of the Civil War, 
w r as commander of the monitor Hunts¬ 
ville, and engaged with Farragut’s fleet 
in fights below Mobile. To escape cap¬ 
ture, Captain Myers had to scuttle his 
ship. He constantly refused to take the 
oath of allegiance to the United States.— 
Chicago Inter-Ocean. 
A PARTNER FOR PEACHES. 
The Southern Labor Problem. 
We were talking tne other day with 
J. H. Hale, who was on his way to 
Georgia to look at the peach orchards. 
The cold weather of last Winter cut 
many of the trees down to the ground, 
and it was a sad sight to see the work of 
years swept away in a single night, 
“We will cut the trees down, Uncle 
Henry,” he said, “and we will think of 
something to carry us through; but you 
keep a-working just as well as you can, 
and don’t get scared.” 
We would like to have some one tell 
us of any gang of white men wbo have 
ever come forward like this, and re¬ 
quested the boss to cut down their 
wages when they saw that he was in 
trouble. It seems sometimes the strang¬ 
est thing under the sun that so many 
southern white men cannot understand 
and appreciate the possibilities in faith¬ 
fulness and devotion of their colored la¬ 
borers. The answer often is, as we well 
know, that the older colored men who 
were slaves 40 years ago will take this 
view of things, but that the younger 
generation would not give up a cent of 
their wages as a matter of sentiment. 
We doubt it. We do not believe there is 
any laboring class in the country to-day, 
which will more quickly respond to fair 
treatment and honest dealing than the 
better class of southern negroes. 
when Jack Frost put his teeth in just a 
fraction of an inch too deep. In an hour 
after he saw the orchard, Mr. Hale said 
that he had made up his mind what to 
do. They telegraphed to the North for 
an extra supply of pruning tools, and 
went directly at work to cut the trees 
back. 
Mr. Hale said that those trees, after 
being cut down, needed food and culti¬ 
vation. Why not put some partner in 
with them that would use part of the 
food, and superintend the cultivation? 
Cantaloupes have always been consid¬ 
ered a good substitute for the peach, and 
after thinking the matter over, it was 
decided to give them a trial. They 
scoured the country for first-class seed, 
paying as high as $3 a pound for most 
of it; 300 acres of cantaloupes were 
planted and well fertilized. The work of 
cultivating the cantaloupes helped the 
peach trees, and now they are getting 
their reward. The cantaloupes are com¬ 
ing in car-load lots, and if the present 
prices can be held, they will yield almost 
as much per acre as an average crop of 
peaches. 
Mr. Hale said that one thing he had in 
mind in starting this crop of cantaloupes 
was to provide labor for his faithful 
hands. When he went down to look at 
the orchard, he was riding through one 
of the lanes, when “Uncle Henry,” a 
colored man who has worked for years 
in the orchard, came out and touched 
his hat, and beckoned him to stop. 
“Mr. Hale,” he said, “we is mighty 
sorry that this frost is come. We seed 
how hard you have worked here, and all 
the money you have spent, and here’s 
five years’ work all gone, for these trees 
won’t never amount to nuthin’. I have 
been talking it over with the boys, Mr. 
Hale, and we all feel bad. We feel bad 
for you, and we jest want you to cut our 
pay right down to 40 cents a day, till 
you get on your feet again, and get this 
orchard so it will earn some money.” 
Mr. Hale told old Uncle Henry that 
the last thing that would be cut down 
on that plantation, was wages. 
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