1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
i57 
“ La Grippe.” 
“ La Grippe,” or influenza—it makes 
no difference, both mean the same. Other 
names there are, too, “ epidemic ca¬ 
tarrhal fever,” and ‘ ‘contagious catarrh.” 
This disease is a fever, and as is the case 
with fevers generally, its cause is a 
germ poison. It begins with a chill and 
a high temperature quickly rising to 101 
or 103 degrees. Its chief point of attack 
maybe the respiratory system, the diges¬ 
tive system, or the nervous system, and 
its symptoms will vary accordingly. 
Whichever form it takes, it is character¬ 
ized by great weakness and depression, 
a tendency to relapse, and a tedious con¬ 
valescence. In those predisposed to con¬ 
sumption, there is danger that it may 
be followed by that disease. One attack 
confers no immunity against its repeti¬ 
tion ; rather, indeed, the reverse. When 
the weight of its attack falls upon the 
respiratory system, it may become com¬ 
plicated with bronchitis or pneumonia. 
If it be the digestive system that has to 
suffer, there may be very troublesome 
vomiting, or diarrhea, or dysentery. 
Its effect upon the nervous system may 
be marked by the occurrence of head¬ 
ache, sleeplessness, or neuralgia. It may 
even be followed by mania. During an 
epidemic of this disease, other forms of 
sickness are liable to take on some of 
its characteristics. If, as seems prob¬ 
able, the whole mass of the atmosphere 
be at such times, contaminated by the 
poison of the disease, there is small cause 
for wonder that the weak and ailing 
should afford evidence of being affected 
by it. The epidemic—or pandemic, as 
it really deserved to be called—of 1889- 
1890, by its almost universal prevalence 
and unusual severity, drew more atten¬ 
tion to the disease than it had formerly 
excited. It has been remarked that, 
since that date, pulmonary consumption 
has been of more frequent occurrence, 
and it is surmised that there exists some 
obscure connection between the two 
events. The suspicion may not be well 
founded; but it, at least, inculcates a 
caution. w. o. e. 
The Ogon Plum. 
The past season was one that was 
almost ideal for the test of the Japan 
plums, for in nearly all parts of the 
country, the spring opened without the 
usual frost and cold spells mingled with 
warm, pleasant weather, but there was 
steady warm, pleasant weather from the 
very first opening of spring. This was 
what gave a full crop of these plums, 
for their blossoms expand so quickly 
under favorable weather, that a cold 
snap is injurious to them. On the Ohio 
State University grounds, is a plum or¬ 
chard set out by the experiment station 
in 1888 and 1889, containing many of the 
Japan plums as well as a good collection 
of the American and European ; but none 
attracted my attention more than the 
Ogon. 
Prof. Bailey, of Cornell, in a bulletin 
on the Japan plum, speaks of it as not 
being of good quality ; yet, while not of 
the highest quality, it is good when 
fully ripe. Dr. W. O. Aldrich called my 
attention to it as a canning plum, saying 
that he had found it one of the best; 
its fine color is a bright yellow, its flesh 
very firm, and does not cook to pieces. 
The very small pits and the perfect free¬ 
stone are points that are valuable in the 
canning line, that are found in no other 
plum. While it may be deficient in some 
qualities, it looks as though it might be 
a Keiffer among plums in the canning 
line. 
Its earliness is another point in its 
favor; the tree standing by the side of 
the Wild Goose gave ripe fruit nearly a 
week earlier than the earliest of the 
American plums. The fruit is of very 
good size, averaging from 1 to 1)4 inch 
in diameter. The fruit seems to possess 
some very valuable qualities, and the 
drawbacks are in the tree, which 
does not seem to be as vigorous as 
it should be, especially when budded 
on plum stock. I am inclined to think 
that, if it were budded on the peach, it 
might make a better growth. It is 
not so very productive as compared with 
other kinds, although I have seen trees 
that were heavily loaded with fruit. 
The earliness of blooming being a 
drawback of all the Japan plums, is 
especially noticeable in this one, the 
branches of the tree being covered with 
blossoms before a leaf can be seen, and 
its starting so very early will, undoubt¬ 
edly, make it prove unsatisfactory in 
localities subject to early frosts. Its 
earliness of ripening its fruit will, I be¬ 
lieve, render it less liable to the rot, for 
while, during the past season, the Bur¬ 
bank, Satsuma, Abundance and others 
rotted badly,the Ogon was almost entirely 
free from this disease. This fact, coupled 
with its extra earliness and canning 
qualities, will make it valuable in 
localities that are adapted to it. 
Ohio. E. C. GREEN. 
Difference in Coal Ashes. 
I see in The R. N.-Y. inquiries concern¬ 
ing coal ashes, and the answer to one 
inquiry on page 35, brings the matter 
up once more. Readers here in the 
Middle West are often injuriously mis¬ 
led by the advice given in Eastern 
papers concerning coal ashes. The dif¬ 
ference is in the coal used in different 
parts of this broad land. Here our coal 
contains much sulphuret of iron. This 
is a large element in the ashes, and 
when exposed to air and moisture, de¬ 
composes into sulphate, and its strong 
solution made by the leaching effect of 
rain is death to plant roots. 
Winterset, Iowa. w. h. l. 
La Grippe 
If you have had the Grippe, 
you know its aches and pains, 
the fever, the chills, the cough, 
the depression—you know 
them all. The Grippe exhausts 
the nervous system quickly, 
lowers the vitality. Two 
things should be done at once: 
—the body must be strength- 
t ened, and force must be given 
to the nervous system. Cod- 
liver Oil will do the first; Hy- 
pophosphites the second. These 
are permanently and pleasantly 
combined in Scott's Emulsion. 
It lifts the despondency and 
heals the inflamed membranes 
of the throat and lungs. 
But you need not have LA 
GRIPPE. 
You can put your system in 
a condition unfavorable to it. 
You can have rich, red blood; 
resistive strength; steady brain 
and nerves. Scott's Emulsion 
prevents as well as cures. 
And whether you send or go 
for Scott's Emulsion, be sure 
you get the genuine. 
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