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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 10, 
THE PRIZE CLIPPINGS. 
Frizes are awarded this week as follows, 
two Kansas contributions being grouped to¬ 
gether for first: 
Out There in Kansas. —A suit was filed 
in Kansas City, Kan., which should be a 
warning to women who cannot be convinced 
of the unseen dangers that lurk in entertain¬ 
ing company. Miss Agnes Rooney, of Kansas 
City, Kan., went to visit Mr. and Mrs. Clar¬ 
ence Walker, of Leavenworth. The petition 
does not state if she was invited, or self- 
invited. One day she stepped out on the 
porch, a rotten board broke, and she fell, 
spraining her ankle. Miss Rooney now brings 
suit against her host and hostess for $2,000 
damages. They not only had to board her, 
but she sues because she hurt herself while 
getting her board free. The case will be in¬ 
teresting. So far as the writer of this knows, 
the Ladies’ Home Journal has never stated 
what action a guest should take under such 
circumstances, and Miss Rooney had to hew 
a path for herself without guidance. It 
should occur to Mr. Walker in his defense 
that the guest ate too much of his wife’s 
company cooking and preserves, and in this 
way made herself too fat for an ordinary 
board to hold. 
Trust love to find a way. The marriage of 
Miss Myrtle Thyme and Albert Grayland oc¬ 
curred yesterday at Lesueur, Minn. The 
groom was only 20 years old, without a guar¬ 
dian, was consequently unable to obtain a 
license. The young woman, although nearly 
two years younger, was still more than IS 
years old, and ox lawful age to get married. 
Neither one wanted to wait for the young 
man to grow older, so the difficulty was clev¬ 
erly settled. Miss Thyme formally and legally 
adopted her affianced, and then, as his guar¬ 
dian, gave the necessary consent to his mar¬ 
riage. Thereupon a marriage license was is¬ 
sued to him. The couple then went to a jus¬ 
tice of the peace anu were married.—Atchison 
Globe. 
The Moon and Weather. —The moon ques¬ 
tion has been pretty thoroughly argued by the 
corner lyceum at its various sessions during 
the last week. The recent “spell” of weather 
was the real cause of the argument, and poli¬ 
tics for the time being had to take a back 
seat. One gray haired member of patriarchal 
appearance said there was no use, the wet 
weather would continue till the moon changed 
on the last quarter, then it would clear up and 
we should have some fine hay weather. A 
young member whose faith in the moon theory 
is considerably shaky, said he'd like to have 
it explained to him how a shadow on the 
moon 240,000 miles distant could possibly 
have any effect on the weather in Connecticut. 
The old gentleman said he couldn’t exactly 
explain it, but it was so, and he knew it 
was so. 
“Well, then,” persisted the young man, 
"how do you account for its raining all day 
in New York yesterday when it was clear as a 
bell here? Don't they have the moon in New 
York same as we do?” 
"You dumbed fool,” said the old man with 
withering scorn. “You dumbed fool, ain’t we 
higher up, a good deal higher up? Aren’t we 
nearer the moon?” 
That settled it. It also satisfactorily ex¬ 
plains why the people in Warren make hay, 
while New Prestonites are drenched and can't 
get a chance to hoe their corn for the last 
time. The moon is a blamed curious thing.— 
Litchfield, Conn., Enquirer. 
Covered the Wrong Barn. —In their 
travels through the country the bill posters 
in advance of Forepaugh & Sells Brothers’ 
circus came to a new barn at Galway. They 
plastered it with flaming pictures and then 
went to the owner’s house to ask permission 
for what they had done. Only the hired girl 
was at home. They gave her two tickets for 
the circus, which was to exhibit at Saratoga 
on August 9. When the farmer returned his 
ire was aroused to a high pitch, and it went 
higher when he saw the free tickets. Upon 
the arrival of the show in Saratoga he levied 
on the big tent under authority granted by a 
Sunreme Court attachment. Then the man¬ 
ager talked the matter over with the farmer’s 
lawyer and settled the case by paying the 
farmer $50 and his attorney’s fee.—Oxford, 
N. Y., Times. _ 
HANDLING THE BEAN CROP. 
The harvesting of the bean crop is very 
rapidly accomplished by the use of an im¬ 
plement made for that purpose. They are 
never pulled by hand, except in very small 
areas. The bean puller (or rather bean 
cutter) consists of a frame mounted on 
two wheels, carrying two strong shares, 
or knives, which are adjusted so as to 
run just under the surface of the ground, 
cutting the plant from the root. Two 
lines on each side are so arranged as to 
draw the beans after they are cut into a 
sort of windrow. The machine is pro¬ 
vided with a pole, a long evener and long 
neck y'oke, the team walking with two 
rows between them. Two rows are cut and 
drawn together by the tines, when they are 
afterwards bunched with a pitch fork, oi 
raked with a sulky hay rake. Some of the 
later machines are provided with a bunch- 
er, which gathers the beans after they are 
cut, and is operated by the driver, who 
also, by the use of levers, regulates the 
depth of cut. The machine works per 
fectly under almost any condition. Even 
large weeds do not seem to trouble it in 
the least. The beans are left in bunches 
until they become dry. In wet weathei 
they have to be turned, after which they 
are drawn to the barn or stack, and 
thrashed by a large machine made for that 
purpose and run by a steam engine. The 
bean thrashing machines are owned and 
operated by men who go from place to place 
in the locality, same as the ordinary grain¬ 
thrashing outfit. The beans are separated 
from the pods, thoroughly cleaned and fit 
ted for market at one operation. The 
grain-thrashing machine could not well be 
used, as it would split the beans. 
Monroe County, N. Y. f. e. gott. 
We put the field in shape about as we 
would for a crop of corn; then the beans 
are drilled in with an ordinary 11-hoed 
grain drill, stopping up all the hoes but 
three. In this way we get our bean rows 
28 inches apart. From planting time un¬ 
til harvest the beans are cultivated about 
the same as corn, many using a weeder 
from once to three times, as they think 
best, in the early part of their growth. 
I he remainder of the cultivating is done 
with walking and riding cultivators. The 
harvesting of the crop is done with a 
two-horse, two-wheeled machine, rigged 
with two long cutting blades, something 
like the share of a plow, only longer. 
These blades are raised and lowered by 
levers; each blade cuts a row of beans 
and runs about one inch under the surface 
of the ground. The blades are set in such 
a way that two rows are drawn into one. 
'these rows are then forked out by hand, 
two of the rows put in one, making four 
single rows in one row of bunches. As 
soon as they are sufficiently dry on top 
two more rows are turned into one, mak¬ 
ing eight rows; from these they are drawn 
to the barn. With good beans a man will 
fork out three acres in ten hours from a 
machine. Will it do to stand beans on 
their heads without stacking? Yes. For 
thrasning we use a special machine; a 
grain-thrasher will not do, as it splits the 
beans. These machines thrash 400 to 600 
bushels a day. h. l. brown. 
Orleans County, N. Y. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
Saving Peach Seed. —When a nurseryman 
buys peach seed he doesn't ask for seed‘from 
any named variety. In the first place, he 
wants to get seeds that are sound and such 
as will germinate. In the next place, he 
wants to get the smallest seed he can, because 
the smaller the seed the more there are to the 
bushel. Small seed are always much sounder 
than large seed. Often when you take a large 
freestone peach, cultivated variety, and break 
it. open the seed will come open also, and you 
will find the kernel molded, which, of course, 
when planted would not germinate. Even 
when the seed does not come open entirely, 
the stony part is often cracked or has holes 
in it, which lets in the air and causes the 
kernel to mold. Such seed would not germi¬ 
nate if planted. Nurserymen prefer seed 
from seedling trees because they are practi¬ 
cally all sound and will practically all germi¬ 
nate, and it has been found by experience that 
they make hardy seedlings and put on good 
roots. We have always used these small nat¬ 
urals which we get from the rural mountain 
districts from persons who are in the habit 
of drying fruit. Only a few bushels at the 
most are saved by each family. They are 
instructed to clean off the seed, spread* them 
out thinly under the shade of trees and never 
let them be piled up in heaps, which would 
cause them to go through a heat and be 
worthless. We do not use seed from can 
neries or distilleries. This plan is unsafe, 
because there are so many peaches used at 
such places that the seeds are piled up in 
heaps and often allowed to become heated. 
North Carolina. j. van lindley. 
Williams’ Favorite Api*le. —I note with 
interest what was said in “Ruralisms” about 
Williams’ Favorite apple, page 638, also first 
page cut of the same. What the writer 
says is all true so far as it goes, in my expe¬ 
rience, with two exceptions. There is a de¬ 
mand for gooff eating apples, and they are 
good eating for members of the Apple Con¬ 
sumers’ League, or anybody else. They are 
not liable to scab. But while the tree is vig¬ 
orous, it is a slow grower, and being 
productive it is inclined to overbear, when the 
fruit is undersized. Baldwins and Greenings 
of the same age are from one-quarter to one- 
third larger, and since coming into bearing 
have certainly yielded more than double the 
amount of fruit. The extra 25 cents per bar¬ 
rel that the Williams’ Favorite brings will not 
begin to make up for the smaller amount of 
fruit. “Ripening for several weeks” is all 
r ght where one has a local market to sup¬ 
ply, but a perfect nuisance when one has to 
supply las most of us have) a wholesale mar¬ 
ket. The two exceptions noted are, first, a 
rather weak foliage, which does not accord 
with the highest, type of vigor; second, a very 
delicate flesh, almost as bad to handle witH- 
out bruising as Yellow Transparent. I have 
fruited this variety for 10 or 15 years, and 
my advice to the commercial grower, except 
when he can cater to a local market, Is to 
let it alone. edward van alstyne. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Repairing Cement Trough. — I repaired 
my pig trough by mixing two parts Rosendale 
cement, one part sand, and plastered all over 
the inside about one inch thick;.also a water¬ 
ing tub that began to leak the same way, and 
both jobs were very satisfactory. They have 
been in use several months. ,t. s. 
New Paltz, N. Y. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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