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THE RUfcAL NEW-YORKER 
May 1 
The Last Call. 
As we write, there is just one week left for those cash premiums May 1. They 
are, $100, $50, $25, $15, $10, $5, for the six largest premiums. By the time this 
reaches the reader’s eye, there will he only two or three days left in which to add 
to the lists, yet these two or three days may make a difference of $50 to some one 
and $25 to some one else. We can only say now that the clubs are all small, and 
a good day or two would make a difference in the relative standing of several 
clubs. Work up to Saturday night, May 1, but be sure that all your list gets into 
the post office Saturday nifcht. TUIi BlJEiL NEW-YORKER, New Yobk. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
Reports from the war in Greece are 
somewhat mixed, but we judge that the 
Turks rather out-generaled the Greeks 
in several important battles. The Turks 
have more soldiers than the Greeks. 
They can send up one regiment to fight 
while another is resting, and then put 
up the rested troops so that the Greeks 
are kept at it all the time and, unless re¬ 
lief comes, they will be worn out. It is 
an outrage against civilization that all 
Europe seems to be helping on “ the un¬ 
speakable Turk”, even to the extent of 
perverting the war news in his favor. 
We would gladly see Greece win in this 
struggle, but if she is to roast Turkey 
in proper shape, several things must be 
done. 
Every man and boy capable of shoul¬ 
dering a gun must hasten to the front 
and stand ready to stop a Turkish bulLet. 
When they get to the front, good wea¬ 
pons must be put in their hands, and they 
must know how to use them. There 
must be brave and wise leaders to direct 
the forces in battle. These men must 
know what to do, and when and how to 
do it. Here the other day a Greek gen¬ 
eral misunderstood an order from head¬ 
quarters and, as a resul*, an important 
fort was lost. Now, that won’t do at 
all ! The leaders must know what they 
are up to. They ought to have studied 
the history of modern and ancient wars 
so well that they understand all possi¬ 
ble combinations of men and conditions. 
Mind you now, they must get this in¬ 
formation largely out of books. Of 
course I don’t mean to say that, if the 
Greeks had been well supplied with 
copies of the Life of Napoleon, they 
would have been sure to hold the famous 
Milouna pass; but a study of Napoleon’s 
campaigns should have shown that gen¬ 
eral the importance of holding that pass 
at any cost. 
Now, the average farmer and his 
family represent the Greeks, while frost, 
sickness, drought, flood and other dis¬ 
turbing elements represent the Turks. 
While flood fights, drought is resting up. 
While frost is pinching things hard, 
heat is asleep, and so it goes through 
the year. The farmer, like the King of 
Greece, must call up all the reserves. 
Mother must keep things moving in¬ 
doors, as well as she can, Jack must 
tackle the chores, Billy must do this 
and Mary that, so that father can be 
free to do his best work in the field. 
The Greeks are rallying like heroes to 
defend their native land, and so, in the 
well-managed farm family, you will find 
each member taking the right place and 
working hard to fill it well. Just as the 
Greek soldiers need good weapons, so 
the farm workers must have good tools, 
both indoors and out. Such tools enable 
workers to take hold of a job at just 
the right time, and push it hard when 
work will count. 
Then there must be good generals to 
oversee the work. Some farmers think 
that they are good enough managers 
without any help from outside. That is 
where they are wrong. Some new bug 
or blight, or some other plant enemy is 
sure to come marching upon them when 
least expected. They are lost, unless 
they can have, right at hand, the advice 
of some captain who knows how to 
fight this enemy and kill it off. 
Now, what I want to say is that most 
of these captains are found in books. 
Of course, The R. N.-Y. stands ready to 
find an answer for you ; but though we 
answer hundreds of questions by mail, 
we cannot always hope to get the facts 
to the battle ground until the Turks 
have swarmed up into the pass. Then 
it means a fearful job to drive them out. 
Thus it is that a good book, right on 
your table, will often give you just the 
fact you are after. Of course, we don’t 
mean to say that a copy of Grasses and 
Clovers, carried in your pocket, will 
make the grass seed sprout better, but 
we do claim that the men who write 
these books know what they are talking 
about. They are good generals to con¬ 
sult, and their advice right at the proper 
time may help you hold a pass through 
which some Turk is trying to reach your 
farm. Here are a few books that have 
had a good sale during the past week : 
The Dairy Calf, Hardin.$0.25 
Grasses and Clovers, Dreer.25 
Outdoor Vegetables. Dreer.25 
Milk and Its Products, Wing. 1.00 
Manures, and How to Mix Them, Sempers.50 
Tue Sugar Problem, Myrick.50 
New Potato Culture, Carman.40 
Principles of Plant Culture, Goff. 1.00 
Vegetable Gardening, Green. 1.25 
As you know, there are plenty of other 
books. For expample, The Spraying of 
Crops, by Lodeman, price $1, is a great 
general to help head off the Turkish bug 
and fungus brigade. There are many 
others equally valuable. You naturally 
want some of these books, and we want 
the chance of getting them for you. 
We want your book trade ! 
And don’t forget The R. N.-Y. Here is 
a man who does not forget us : 
I have been a subscriber to The R. N.-Y. ever 
since January 1, 1858, and have all the copies 
since that date, except from January 1 to April 
23, 1898. Tnrough a misunderstanding between 
you and the agent, I did not get them. That is 39 
years a subscriber for The R. N.-Y. 
St. Lawrence County, N. Y. thomas allkn. 
When you come to think of it, that 
makes a long term of service as a sub¬ 
scriber. We hope that Mr. Allen will 
be with us for 39 years more. Some of 
you younger men may well try to see 
whether you can’t beat that record. 
SHORT, SEASONABLE SCRAPS. 
Last spring, I planted some Hebron and Car¬ 
man No. 1 potatoes side by side: both received 
the same culture. The Hebron was fit to eat a 
couple of weeks before the Carman. The Hebron 
vines were dead and gone a month before the 
Carmans died. The Carman yielded better, and 
was not affected by a blight which prematurely 
ripened the crop in this section. The only objec¬ 
tion against the Carman is that it has a distinct, 
sweetish flavor which some people dislike. 
Schenectady County, N. Y. o. h. b. 
Spring has been wet—more rain than usual for 
the season. Oats are sown and up. Fully 50 per 
cent of the winter wheat is destroyed in our 
county, and much of the remainder is very thin 
and uneven. Feed has been plentiful the past 
year, and stock are doing well. Thousands of 
cattle are shipped in to feed the cheap corn, 
being pastured and fed. Farmers are getting 
ready for planting corn; some have already 
planted. Fruit is promising — apricots and 
peaches are blooming, and the prospects are for 
a good crop. But the codling moth has been very 
destructive to the apple crop for several years. 
One of the chief industries of farmers of this 
county is dairying, but it is sadly crude with the 
majority. a. m. e. 
Dickinson County, Kan. 
Sussex County, N. Y.—Oats were sowed April 
8, and on the 21st and 22d, it was 10 degrees be¬ 
low freezing. Prospect for peaches good, if not 
hurt by the cold snap. Warmer to-day, April 22. 
w. s. L. 
Crimson Clover in Summit County, O.—I take a 
great deal of interest in the articles about fertil¬ 
izers in the shape of bone meal, also in Crimson 
clover. I have sown it for the past two years, 
and think it is the thing that every man should 
sow in his corn field every year. If it fail once in 
a while, the fall growth will pay all it cost in the 
seed and the sowing. But it must be sown the 
last of July to get enough growth by fall to win 
ter, and it does best when it gets a supply of 
potash, which will pay a large per cent when 
sown with the clover, to make a good growth. 
The trouble seems to have been with most of the 
farmers, that they sowed on too poor land, with¬ 
out the potash, and too late, so that there has 
been a failure on account of too small a growth 
in the fall to winter well. I have received great 
benefit from this clover; it took first rate last fall, 
has been green all winter, and is growing finely 
now. One year ago, there was a hard winter for 
all grasses, but the Crimson came out as well as 
the other clovers, and made me a fine corn crop 
without any other manure. a. u. m. 
Crimson Clover in Cumberland County, Tenn. 
—You asked, some time ago, if any one had tried 
sowing Crimson clover in the spring. Here is my 
experience with it In 1890: I sowed one-fourth 
acre in the spring along with oats in the far end 
of my chicken yard, where the chickens run the 
least. It made a small growth for a couple of 
months, and then died out. The oats were thin, 
and I left them for the hens to harvest. I saved 
enough seed of my own raising to sow about an 
acre, which I sowed in the corn at the last culti¬ 
vation some time in July. It came nicely and 
grew well until our fall drought, when about two 
thirds of it died. There is some of it left yet, but 
it is only in spots. It was sown in the chaff. The 
ground was heavily manured last spring for the 
corn. I am about discouraged with Crimson 
clover. This makes my third trial. c. e. b. 
Cow Peas and Crimson Clover. —In The R. N.-Y. 
of October 10, 1896,1 gave my experience up to 
date, with cow peas and Crimson clover. On one 
part of the field, rye had been cut just after the 
pollen fell; part had a light and heavy spotted 
growth of rye turned under when the grain was 
in the milk, and the rest of the piece was stubble 
of oats and peas cut for hay. On the part that 
had been in rye, I sowed cow peas and Crimson 
clover, and on the oat stubble. Crimson clover and 
turnips. In some places, the peas choked the 
clover out, but there was a very good stand on 
mostofthe field, and a perfect one on the oat 
stubble. We have had a very open winter with 
the exception of three short cold spells. Once the 
temperature fell to zero, with the ground bare, 
and once a little below, with just enough brow to 
whiten the ground. The other time, it went down 
to 12 degrees below zero, and killed all peach 
buds, many of the cherry buds, and most of the 
Japan plum buds; but the ground was covered 
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neglect. 
S At first thought 
it seems impossi- 
ble that any hu- 
man Leing: should 
a No* wilfullv embrace 
death. Yet thou¬ 
sands of women 
.daily court the 
Igrim - visage d 
monster. Some 
j do so through ig¬ 
norance and others 
through wilful 
The woman who neglects to look 
after the health of the organs most essential 
to her womanhood ignorantly or wilfully 
courts death, and death in a slow and ago¬ 
nizing form. Ills of this description render 
a woman’s life a daily burden, and approach¬ 
ing motherhood a menace of the grave. 
An infallible cure for all weakness and dis¬ 
ease of the delicate organs that make wife¬ 
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for motherhood. It does away with the 
usual discomforts of the period preceding 
motherhood. It insures a healthy baby and 
makes parturition easy and comparatively 
painless. Thousands of women have testi¬ 
fied to its wonder-working virtues. Get it 
at the druggists and refuse all substitutes. 
There is nothing “just the same” or “just 
as good. ” The druggist who tells you there 
is, is either mistaken or dishonest. 
“I am very thankful to you indeed for what 
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me,” writes Mrs. Etta E. Smith, of Grenola, Elk 
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felt better. From then until I was sick, I carried 
nearly all the water that was used, up a long hill, 
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the baby was born the doctor and the women 
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The women said I had an easier time than any 
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in the garden, and felt stout and healthy. The 
baby is now a month old." 
In nine cases out of ten sickness is caused 
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lets are a sure, speedy and safe cure for con¬ 
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never gripe. Druggists sell them. 
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appeals to the farmer, and an arti¬ 
cle that can be used for a hundred 
different purposes ought to be in¬ 
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That article seems to be Nepon- 
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of back plaster in dwelling-houses 
and clapboards and shingles on 
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