1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
71 
RURAL/SMS. 
(continued.) 
I bought his nursery, and I have been 
growing it for years. It is all that you 
claim for it—the earliest of all. and one 
of the very best pears of any season. It 
is a long way the best pear that I have 
in my Canada orchard.”. 
A reader of Letcher, S. D., writes us 
that his experience with the Bovee potato 
differs widely from that of The R. N.-Y. 
The Bovee and Six Weeks were planted 
April 27. The vines of the Bovee died 
nearly two weeks later than those of the 
early Six Weeks. Another planting of 
Bovee with Burpee’s Extra Early was 
made May 21. The Bovee cut to one eye 
yielded at the rate of 208 bushels per 
acre. Burpee’s Extra Early cut as for 
ordinary planting — “ fair-sized pieces 
without reference to number of eyes ”— 
yielded at the rate of 219 bushels to the 
acre. “ The vines of both died at the 
same time, and they were so nearly alike, 
both as to vine and tuber, that the one 
variety could not be distinguished from 
the other.” 
The same writer tells us that his Car¬ 
man No. 1 potatoes grew too large the past 
season, and that nearly all of the large 
ones were hollow. Some of the largest 
tubers weighed 4 pounds and 11 ounces... 
Mr. A. 1). P. Young, of Ashtabula, O., 
favors us with the following interesting 
note: 
In Ruralisms, September 19, 1896, page 627, you 
described Mexican June corn. I sent to Mr. 
Gregory for a packet of seed, which I started in 
old fruit cans tilled with good soil. As soon as 
the ground was lit, I planted in the garden, in 
good rich soil, and applied fine manure liberally 
on the surface. There were eight or ten hills. 
The plants attracted much attention. Smut at¬ 
tacked the largest or tallest stalk, and destroyed 
the tassel, but still to where the topmost blades 
broke over, it measured 18 feet ; several others 
measured from 17 feet to 17 feet 9 inches. Many 
of the stalks put forth two ears each, about 12 to 
15 feet from the ground. Most of the ears reached 
the roasting ear stage in November as the plants 
were not hurt by frost, being in a sheltered posi¬ 
tion. 1 had them cooked at different times. The 
first ears had a peculiar flavor, not at all pleasant. 
This was not so noticeable with later ones. But 
what is it good for? It will not make much, if 
any, more fodder than our common kinds, and 
would require four, yes, six or eight times the 
labor to handle. I do not think the stalks, that 
is, the first eight to ten feet, would make ensilage. 
The seed of the Mexican June corn was 
planted at the Rural Grounds May 23, 
1896, in poor soil, treated to potato fer¬ 
tilizer at the rate of 1,000 pounds to the 
acre. We made the following note on 
August 31: “ The stalks averaged three 
inches in diameter. The leaves are four 
to five feet long, and about five inches 
wide in the widest part. The joints are, 
as compared with other field or silo 
kinds, close together, so that the amount 
of leaves, it may be conjectured, per 
given area is something beyond the 
amount borne by any other forage plant 
that we have tried. There is no chance 
of its maturing grain in this climate 
since, at this date, there is not a sign of 
either set, silk, or tassel.” 
Mr. Fred M. Beniiam, of Ivanhoe, Va., 
favors us with specimens of a very fine 
apple not yet introduced. It originated 
on the farm of Capt. W. J. Raper, who 
has named it Parson Graham. Mr. Ben- 
ham writes : “ The apples are of regular 
form and all of a size. The trees hang 
full every other year. The tree is of 
perfect form. The apples are mellow 
and juicy all Winter. They are also fine 
for baking.” 
These apples are distinctly oblong, 
skin bright yellow, with a slight crimson 
cheek. The basin and cavity are rather 
deep and perfectly regular, stem short. 
They measured 10 by 8% inches in cir¬ 
cumference. Flesh yellowish white, fine, 
close-grained, juicy, tender and sweet— 
not so sweet as Talman Sweet. We have 
never eaten a more agreeable, refreshing- 
sweet apple. It would seem well worthy 
of propagation and inu-oduction. 
Who Should “ Wipe Out" San Jose Scale ? 
Chas. Thayer, Ontario. —1 have just 
been reading your note on the Judges’ 
decision regarding Red scale, page 824. I 
have, also, just been attending a local 
meeting of fruit growers to discuss the 
question of a Provincial law to compel 
owners to destroy trees infected with San 
Jos6 scale. My own orchard is badly in¬ 
fested, and my chief interest is to have 
such a law passed as will insure myself 
against reinfection from outside points 
when, at great cost, I shall have disin¬ 
fected my own orchard. For the cost 
will be great, either if the work be done 
by myself on scientific methods, or by 
the Ontario Government by the “ stamp- 
ing-out ” process that appears to find 
favor with those owners who have not 
yet discovered their own trees to be in¬ 
fected. 
Your comment on the Judges’ decision 
indicates what is the source of greatest 
danger, that these pests will get beyond 
control. Your comment says that the 
California Commissioners, under this de¬ 
cision. will lose the $7,000 they have 
spent. Do you mean to say that the 
State has not got the value of the work 
done at the expense of the $7,000 ? The 
“fundamental law” the Judge appeals 
to is. that they who have the benefit of 
an expenditure should pay the cost. 
Your idea of justice contemplates only 
one pan of the scales, that in which your 
own interests are cast. I know that this 
is the “ common sense ” of “ justice.” 
But let me remark that there is a “fund¬ 
amental law” in Nature that takes no 
note of the will of the majority except, 
perhaps, to inflict the penalty of its 
violation, even in cases where the mi¬ 
nority do not even know themselves to be 
victims of oppression. The penalty in 
this case has been the uniform spread of 
every noxious plant and insect that has 
ever gained a footing in the country. 
Evils that might have been suppressed 
at once had the people been united in a 
common sense of fundamental justice, 
have been allowed to spread and increase 
while the majority have been striving 
to compel the minority who happen to 
be at the point of attack to bear the 
whole cost of suppression, as well as the 
direct loss of incidence. The case is not 
“ that the State cannot protect its citi¬ 
zens from insects and plant diseases,” 
but that it will not. A vast majority of 
the citizens appear to think that civili¬ 
zation consists in the banding together 
of a sufficient number to compel the 
minority to do for a “ State” that which 
the “ State ” itself should be the means, 
through which each citizen should unite 
his resistance at a point of common dan¬ 
ger. The majority prefer to spend ten 
times the amount of effort that would 
do the needed action thoroughly and 
well, in abortive efforts to compel indi¬ 
viduals to do that which is quite beyond 
individual power. 
Success With Grass. 
J. E. J., Warrenburgh, Pa. —I saw Mr. 
Clark’s statement of the amount of hay 
that he raised on an acre. Having some 
ground similar to his, I thought that, if 
he could raise six tons to the acre, I could 
raise four tons. I fitted one acre as near 
as he directed, as time and tools would 
allow. The result was that I cut an av¬ 
erage square foot of grass, thoroughly 
cured it, and found that it weighed 4>a 
ounces, which was very satisfactory to 
me for the first. I own a portion of a 
large beaver meadow. I have about 60 
acres cleared. It is composed of a clay 
loam, with a subsoil of clay. This mead¬ 
ow has been mown for the last 75 years, 
and cut nothing but wild grass until I 
commenced to break it up, and now I am 
getting good crops of Red-top and Tim¬ 
othy. YVhat chemical fertilizers would 
you recommend for such soil ? 
R. N.-Y.—For grass, we would use a 
mixture of one part nitrate of soda, one 
part muriate of potash, and one part fine 
ground bone. 
Many persons cannot take 
plain cod-liver oil. 
They cannot digest it. 
It upsets the stomach. 
Knowing these things, we 
have digested the oil in 
Scott’s Emulsion of Cod- 
liver Oil with Hypophos- 
phites; that is, we have 
broken it up into little glob¬ 
ules, or droplets. 
We use machinery to do 
the work of the digestive 
organs, and you obtain the 
good effects of the digested 
oil at once. That is why you 
can take Scott’s Emulsion. 
$oc. and $1.00, all druggists. 
SCOT’I & BOWNE, Chemists. New York. 
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