1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7 
R U R A US MS. 
(continued.) 
Ix some of Cicero's orations written 
about 50 B. C., we find some interesting - 
allusions to agriculture. In his essay on 
Old Age and Friendship the following 
excerpts are literal translations : “ I am 
excessively delighted with the pleasures 
of the husbandman. They are not 
checked by old age, and seem to my 
mind to make the nearest approach to 
the life of a wise man. They have re¬ 
lations to the earth which never refuses 
command and never returns without in¬ 
terest that which it hath received some¬ 
times with less, generally with great in¬ 
terest. * * * Nor indeed is rural life 
delightful by reason of corn fields only 
and meadows and vineyards and groves, 
but also for its gardens and orchards; 
also for the feeding of cattle, the swarms 
of bees and the variety of all kinds of 
flowers. Nor do plantings only give me 
delight, but also engraftings, than which 
agriculture has invented nothing more 
ingenious. * * * Is the old age of 
those who cultivate the land to be pitied ? 
In my opinion I know not whether any 
other can be more happy. * * * Noth¬ 
ing can be either more rich in use or 
more elegant in appearance than ground 
well tilled, to the enjoyment of which 
old age is so far from being an obstacle 
that it is even an invitation and allure¬ 
ment. * * * Neither gray hair nor 
wrinkles can suddenly catch respect— 
but the former part of life honorably 
spent reaps the fruits of authority at the 
close. * * * What avarice in an old 
man can propose to itself, I cannot 
conceive; for can anything be more 
absurd than, in proportion as less of our 
journey remains, to seek a greater supply 
of provisions.”_ 
" Doctoring " Seed Corn. 
S. F. A., Columbia County, N. Y.— 
From what Prof. M. V. Slingerland says, 
on page 725, about coating seed corn 
with coal tar, I think the best method of 
application cannot be generally known. 
A very simple and effective way is as 
follows : Have a pail or small tub nearly 
filled with water, slightly warm (as the 
sun will make it at planting time) is 
preferable; put in the corn so that it is 
all covered with water. Add (for six or 
eight quarts of corn) about one-half to 
a teaspoonful of coal tar (warmed by 
the sun so that it will spread more read¬ 
ily), and stir thoroughly for a minute or 
two with a paddle made of a piece of 
board about two or three inches wide, 
and the coal tar will be found almost 
completely to cover every kernel of corn. 
It may then be dipped out of the water 
with the paddle into a large, shallow 
pan or tub, and sprinkled with coal 
ashes or gypsum, again mixed up with a 
paddle, and may then be handled with 
the bare hands, and will scarcely soil 
them. If allowed to drain slightly when 
dipping out of the water, it will not re¬ 
quire so much dryer. It will surprise 
one who has never seen it tried to see 
how very thin and completely each ker¬ 
nel can be covered in this way. The 
preparation does not require much or 
disagreeable labor, and if carefully pre¬ 
pared, I think the corn could be planted 
with a planter. 
Down With the Tramp Hunter. 
B. G., Shickshinny, Pa. —In The R. 
N.-Y. of December 4, the article by 
F. H. Ballou, entitled, The Farmer 
and His Game, is all so true that 1 was 
pleased to have some one write it up. 
I hope that the day may come when 
laws will be so framed that this in¬ 
justice to the farmer can be stopped with¬ 
out going to all the troubl and expense 
now necessary to get any satisfaction. 
The editor’s comments on the same are 
also good and appropriate. I have for 
years been annoyed, and suffered from 
these town hunters; the very day that 
the game season opens, they come in 
droves with a pack of hounds. If one 
remonstrate or order them away, they 
will blackguard and insult him. 
As the case stands now, I presume 
that one would have to leave his work, 
follow them to their homes, learn their* 
names, then get out a warrant, hunt up 
an officer and have them arrested, and 
probably spend a number of days and 
dollars, then probably not get much 
satisfaction. So to prosecute them under 
these conditions is not at all inviting. 
My plan would be that by paying a fee 
of $1 to the county, each and every farmer 
so desiring could be clothed with full 
legal powers of an officer to make arrests 
on sight of any person or persons ille¬ 
gally hunting, fishing or trespassing, or 
stealing, and if on his oath and infor¬ 
mation before any justice of the peace 
they were found guilty, a fine of $25 
could be imposed on each violator, or 30 
days at hard labor pounding stones on 
the public highway, one-half the fine to 
go to the county and one-lialf to the in¬ 
former. Further, I believe that all the 
criminals in our jails and penitentiaries, 
and even some that are able who loaf in 
our almshouses, the tramps, gypsies, 
organ-grinders, Italians with bears, etc., 
should be put in chain gangs and com¬ 
pelled to build the improved roads that 
the newspapers are agitating. Further¬ 
more, I am in favor of reducing all public 
salaries one-half, from the President 
down to the lowest county officer, then 
put $100 duty on every immigrant, and on 
payment of this sum, give him a passport. 
After 21 years’ residence, grant immi¬ 
grants citizenship if they desire it Bat 
these things will never be done while we 
allow the politicians to rule. If we want 
a change, we must elect men of our own 
class, whose interests are ours. 
Some Bright Scrubbed Stock. 
G. I). B., Hibernia, N. Y.—In regard 
to scrub cows, some writers make me 
disgusted. I have but one purebred and 
registered cow on the place, and she has 
got to go. My 18 cows make more butter 
at the creamery per head than any of the 
registered purebred herds , yet they are 
of most any breed. Some look as though 
there were no purebred stock back of 
them, what most call scrubs, but they 
get there. 
S. C., Mitchell Creek, Pa. —In Brevi¬ 
ties, on page 808, is the following query : 
‘•Brightness comes from scrubbing? Any 
bright side to farming with scrub 
stock ? ” Here is an instance : On an 
old plantation in Virginia (with colored 
help), I have tried farming with nice 
young horses. I have changed to mules ! 
Under a warm climate and roug - h usage, 
they prove more serviceable than their 
high-bred relatives, the horse. Hence 
there is becoming a brighter side to farm¬ 
ing by means of scrub stock. 
R. N.-Y.—We will guarantee that the 
mules were as well bred as the horses. 
if you are ill you need a 
doctor in whom you have 
confidence. 
If you need a remedy you 
want one that has been tested 
for years; not an obscure, un¬ 
tried thing that is urged upon 
you, or on which you save a 
few cents—that is no consid¬ 
eration as against health. 
For wasting in children 
or adults, Scott’s Emulsion 
of Cod-liver Oil with Hypo- 
phosphites has been the 
recognized remedy tor twen¬ 
ty-five years. 
50 c. and $ 1 . 00 , all druggists. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. 
THE RECORDS SHOW CURES OF 
Rheumatism 
BY THE USE OF ST. JACOBS OIL OF CHRONIC CRIPPLES AND OF BED-RIDDEN 
INFLAMMATORY CASES. THERE’S NO DENYING, IT CURES. 
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