1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
233 
Fox Terriers and Children. 
A. H. P., New Hampshire.— Several years 
apo The R. N.-T. contained a picture of 
Fox terriors, and recommended them for 
farm dogs. I do not see them advertised 
in The R. N.-T. or other agricultural pa¬ 
pers. I have made some inquiries about 
them, and am told by some that they are 
not safe to have with children while oth¬ 
ers claim they are all right. I would like 
to hear from some of your readers who 
have had experience. I have a lot of wood • 
chucks I want to get rid of. 
Ans.— We have always admired Fox 
terriers for their companionableness, 
vivacity, courage, intelligence and loy¬ 
alty. They are devotedly attached to 
their human friends, will fight any sort 
of vermin and dig up moles and wood¬ 
chucks with tireless enthusiasm. Un¬ 
fortunately these good qualities often 
turn into defects through lack of bal¬ 
ance, for they are the most nervous and 
restless dogs we know. They will dig 
up choice plants quite as enthusiastic¬ 
ally as woodchucks, and if tied up in a 
a small enclosure against his will, one 
small terrier will not only awake the 
whole neighborhood with his protests, 
but will gnaw away as much lumber as 
a cribbing horse. These terriers also 
have a great habit of chasing chickens, 
which makes them a nuisance on the 
farm. Their nervousness- makes them 
very undesirable playmates for children, 
they snap In a moment, apparently 
without malice, merely from passing ir¬ 
ritation, but the result may be a scar 
that disfigures some little one for life. 
We disposed of our last terrier, a hand¬ 
some pedigreed animal, for this reason. 
After a good deal of canine experience 
we have come to the conclusion that the 
biteless dog does not exist, but if choos¬ 
ing one as a companion for children in 
the country (no dog ought to live in a 
town), we would select one of the hunt¬ 
ing type, such as an Irish setter, a 
Cocker spaniel or a collie. They are 
more sedate in disposition than terriers, 
and have the advantage of hereditary 
education. But don’t let an untrained 
child bring up an untrained dog, and 
then expect good results. 
Cucumbers Fail to Fruit. 
I). F., Salem, Ore .—I have a difficulty in 
growing cucumbers under glass. I grow 
them so they are in bearing from the first 
part of June to the middle of August. 
After the first two or three weeks nearly 
half of the cucumbers are not fully fer¬ 
tilized, so they are ill-shaped and un¬ 
marketable. I have several swarms' of 
bees, and they are working on the blos¬ 
soms every day. I think that there is a 
lack of pollen, not enough to go around. 
If this is the case, what can I do to get a 
greater quantity of pollen? I am growing 
the White Spine variety, and last year I 
had some of the Long Green, but it was 
all the same as the years before. 
Ans.—I t may be that while the plants 
are producing a sufficient number of 
staminate flowers with plenty of pollen, 
the pistillate flowers are not well pol- 
lenized. Cucumbers vines will set and 
produce fruit in the absence of all pol¬ 
len, but only while the plants are young 
and in full vigor. When once the vines 
are carrying a few fruits, the remainder 
of the crop must be furnished with an 
abundance of pollen; and my experience 
is that it well pays to be sure on this 
score. To one having a large range in 
cucumbers, and especially to one who 
has always relied on bees to do the 
work, it seems a large proposition to do 
the pollinating by hand, but after one 
has become an expert at this work, the 
rapidity with which it may be done, the 
almost absolute certainty of the setting 
and the ability of setting a given num¬ 
ber of fruits to a vine, commend this 
method of pollenizing. It may be that 
damp, cloudy weather is the cause, as I 
am told that through the Summer 
months such conditions prevail in west¬ 
ern Oregon. If this is so, I should en¬ 
deavor to dry out the houses, even if 
necessary to start fires in the boilers 
and shut down the ventilators. These 
cloudy conditions are met with in the 
East through the Winter, and often re¬ 
sult in partial failure of a crop, and re¬ 
sort must be made to methods of great 
detail to insure even a minimum crop, 
such as picking the male flowers and 
drying them out in a warm dry room, 
pollinating through the middle of the 
day and going over each pistillate flower 
each day until the petals close. This 
Winter has been an exceptionally dark 
one, but by careful attention to details, 
a good crop of cucumbers has been 
brought to maturity in the forcing 
houses at Cornell, many pistillate flow¬ 
ers being pollinated two or three times 
to insure fruits. The English cucum¬ 
bers lend themselves to forcing with 
greater ease than do the White Spine 
strain, and I should suggest that D. F. 
try a house of the former. 
O. E. HUNN. 
Taking Cattle to the South. 
J. F. V., East Liverpool, 0.—I am thinking 
of going to Georgia, and am told that 
stock taken from the North to the South¬ 
ern States invariably die of some disease. 
Can you or any of your readers from the 
South give me any information on the 
subject? 
Ans. —It is true that formerly many 
northern cattle died when taken to the 
Gulf States. For years the disease which 
caused their death was not understood. 
It was finally discovered that the cattle 
tick, a small insect found in the South, 
was responsible for the disease. It was 
found that when cattle were inoculated 
with the blood of cattle that had suf¬ 
fered from the disease, or even with the 
blood of the ticks, they became immune 
—that is not likely to have the disease 
seriously. Thousands of Northern cattle 
have been inoculated in this way before 
going South, and in a large proportion 
of such cases there was no trouble. 
Write to the directors of the following 
stations: Georgia, Experiment P. O.; 
Missouri, Columbia; Texas, College Sta¬ 
tion; Louisiana, Baton Rouge; Alabama, 
Auburn. You can in this way obtain 
bulletins giving experience with this 
disease. 
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