1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
743 
Fruits and Flowers at Fairs. 
(CONTIXUBD.) 
will cause the Gladiolus to flourish. 
Their corms, like flat, fleshy tubers, will 
multiply rapidly. New varieties are be¬ 
ing grown all the time. Luther Bur¬ 
bank originated a lot of very choice 
ones, which he named mainly for his¬ 
toric places, mountains and streams in 
his State. I have grown a number of 
them for years past and have seen no 
better ones. There are many extensive 
Gladiolus growers, some making it a 
specialty ; several are in the vicinity of 
Cleveland, Ohio, and there were nearly 
20 acres in one field along the railroad 
on Long Island, N. Y. Imagine such a 
scene of splendor. 
The Chrysanthemum is the third of 
the list, and blooms the latest, for it 
will endure more cold than either of the 
others. We need not wonder that the 
Japanese have it for their national 
flower. They excel in its culture, too, 
but our American florists are fast catch¬ 
ing up with them. The annual Chrysan¬ 
themum shows all over the country are 
direct testimony on this point. Flowers 
of all sizes from those just right for a 
little buttonhole bouquet, to those nearly 
as large as a dinner plate, and of all col¬ 
ors, from purest white to dark magenta 
or violet, including many hues of pink, 
yellow and red, ought to satisfy the 
most exacting floral critic. Some are 
almost as round as a ball, snowy white, 
and more than six inches in diameter. 
One of the named varieties of this char¬ 
acter is Mrs. Henry Robinson. But 
such huge flowers are grown singly on 
a plant, and under the very tenderest 
care. Peter Kay is a yellow one of sim¬ 
ilar proportions. Some kinds have long, 
pendent twisted rays, and others stand 
out like the points of a crown. Country 
people can grow and enjoy Chrysanthe¬ 
mums in bountiful variety, and large 
enough for any purpose but prizes in 
the shows, where they need not go if 
they make use of the privileges they 
have of seeing them at home, judge. 
Keeping Sweet Potatoes for Seed. 
T. W. F., South Bend, Neb. —W. G. 
D. inquires, page 693, how to keep sweet 
potatoes for seed. I have been keeping 
from 20 to 25 bushels each year for four 
years, and have always found them in 
the very best condition for seed when 
wanted. I pick them over as soon as 
they are dug, and put them into market 
baskets, being careful that none is 
broken or bruised. I then put them on 
a high shelf (the nearer the ceiling the 
better) in a room where a fire is kept all 
winter. I keep mine in a grocery store. 
I have tried to keep them near the floor, 
but they always rotted badly. The pota¬ 
toes must be ripe when dug. Mine gen¬ 
erally sprout in the baskets, but I like 
them all the better for that, as they are 
not so likely to rot in the seed bed. I 
don’t rub the sprouts off when planting. 
The above method is very simple, but 
it has saved me as much as $5 per year 
in cost of seed, besides I have a much 
better quality of seed. Appreciating 
the many good things that I have learned 
from The R. N.-Y., I send the above, 
hoping that it may be of benefit. 
The Fall Calf. 
W. M. Benningeb, Pennsylvania.— 
My experience is that I can raise just as 
good calves in the fall, and the best 
calves I ever raised were fall calves. I 
find that even spring calves do better if 
they are stalled than if they run in 
pasture. I have been raising and fitting 
show calves for the last eight years, and 
have always taken fall calves for the 
purpose. I find that I can control the 
temperature better, and keep them 
more comfortable in the winter than in 
the summer. I raise all our calves, 
several hundred a year, and have them 
come almost every month in the year. 
As soon as dropped, we take them from 
the cow, and teach them to drink the 
mother’s milk out of a pail; I can teach 
them as easily to drink out of the pail 
as to suck their own mothers. This 
also prevents the cow and calf from 
worrying when the calf is weaned. We 
feed whole milk from the cow for the 
first four weeks, and then gradually 
change to separator milk. This milk is 
taken from my creamery, where I buy 
milk from different herds. The milk is 
all boiled before feeding, to kill tuber¬ 
culosis germs. We keep constantly be¬ 
fore them dry bran, and feed all the 
clover hay they will eat. I don’t feed 
any grass, as it is too laxative. Uni¬ 
formity in feeding and care, and com¬ 
fortable quarters, are the great secrets 
to success. 
All Sorts of Notes. 
A. F. A., Clabemont, Va.—I have seen 
several reports of the Carman grape 
which you sent out several years ago, 
but none of the Brilliant, which you sent 
me in its place. My Brilliant has been 
moved twice, so this was the first year 
it bore, and a finer and better grape in 
all respects for home use I have failed 
to find. The quality is about perfect, 
according to all who tasted it; bunch 
and berry all that could be asked for, 
pulp tender, the most so of any grape 
I have tested. The vine is thrifty and 
healthy, and I should say a good bearer; 
but the berry is a pale red instead of 
brilliant. 
We picked strawberries for eight weeks 
last spring with only ordinary cultiva¬ 
tion. Meeks and Michel were the first, 
and a large, fine berry which, with me, 
is much finer and later than Gandy, was 
the last. I don’t know the name of the 
last, but if it be as good next year as 
this, it will be a treasure, indeed. About 
the middle of August, our strawberries 
began to bear a second crop, and there 
has been no time since then till now 
(October 25) that we could not find ber¬ 
ries. Parker Earle has borne the most, 
Jessie the next, with the above late 
berry close behind. 
Miller raspberry bore till the second 
crop of strawberries commenced, and 
Cuthbert is now bearing a second crop 
on the tips of the plants ; so we have not 
been without strawberries or raspberries 
from April 28 till the present time. 
If those who have Keiffer pears will 
try them baked, they will never say that 
Keiffer is worthless. It is far ahead of 
any other pear I have tried. Bartlett, 
Anjou, or Lawrence is not in it at all; 
but pears should be baked a long time 
by a slow fire. We bake in a deep crock 
with a cover, and bake all day ; in this 
way, we have a dish that can’t be beaten. 
Much has been written by poultry 
keepers about how to get fertile eggs. 
Last spring, I had about one dozen 
Brown Leghorn hens and pullets mated 
with an Indian Game cock, one year old. 
They were confined in a yard about two 
rods square, and fed all dry feed consist¬ 
ing of bran, ship stuff, corn meal, and 
linseed meal, mixed ; this was a mixture 
I made for my pigs, and I cannot now 
tell just the proportions. This feed was 
kept before them most of the time, as I 
filled the trough once a day, and gener¬ 
ally, found some feed in it. At night, 
they had corn, and through the day, all 
the cabbage they would eat. Oyster 
shells were kept before them all the 
time, for grit. This was all—-no meat 
or bone—and the eggs never hatched 
better or stronger chickens. I did not 
find or hear of an infertile egg, and I let 
them all go for hatching all through the 
spring. The shells were not thick, but 
I had no trouble and heard of none from 
eggs breaking. I consider cabbage a 
great feed for hens. 
A good lamp-chimney deal¬ 
er keeps Macbeth and no 
other. 
Index tells what Number to 
get. 
Write Macbeth Pittsburgh Pa 
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The Lungs and Their Diseases. 
From Dr. Hunter’s Lectures on the Progress of 
Medical Science. 
The lungs are the great vital center 
of the body on which the health and 
proper action of all other organs de¬ 
pend. If we cease to breath, for but five 
minutes, we are dead at the end of that 
time. In rare and exceptional cases the 
flame of life has been rekindled by 
artificial respiration, but, as a rule, 
people sound and well, when suffocated, 
are dead, beyond restoration, at the end 
of five minutes. Have you ever thought 
why this is ? It is because the functions 
of every organ stop the moment we 
stop breathing. Breathing enables the 
heart to beat, the blood to circulate and 
the brain to send forth sensation and 
motion to the entire body. - 
The Lungs, the Brain and the Heart 
constitute the tripod of life, and while 
they act we cannot die. The heart de 
pends on the lungs for its power to cir¬ 
culate the blood, and the blood depends 
on the lungs for its purification. Every 
moment of life carbonic acid is being 
generated in the blood by the action of 
the organism, and must be gotten rid of 
by the act of breathing. That is God’s 
appointed way of purifying our blood. 
When we stop breathing we retain the 
carbonic acid, and five minutes accu¬ 
mulates sufficient in the blood to poison 
and stop the whole machinery of life. 
All affections of the lungs are serious, 
however slight they may seem, because 
they prevent full and free breathing, 
and in the same proportion injure the 
general health. Take, for example, a 
cold which, by inflaming the air tubes 
of the lungs, swells their mucous lining, 
diminishes their size and obstructs them 
by viscid secretions of mucus. As we 
cannot breathe through tubes that are 
narrowed and obstructed by matter in 
them, as well as through those that are 
open and free, so every cold while it 
lasts inj ures our breathing, diminishes 
the purity of our blood, hurts our cir¬ 
culation, clogs the heart and irritates 
the nervous system. 
All diseases which affect our lungs 
begin in the mucous lining of the air 
passages—nose, throat, bronchial tubes. 
This membrane is peculiarly exposed to 
cold, smoke, gas and other irritating 
and noxious matters in the air, all of 
which being drawn in with the breath 
inflame it and set up disease. 
But it is the chronic disease we have 
chiefly to consider in treating of lung 
diseases. The acute stage passes away, 
leaving the patient almost as well as 
before it, but more liable to occur again, 
until it settles into a Confirmed, Chronic 
Catarrh, or Bronchitis—a condition of 
the lungs full of interest, because so 
often mistaken and so liable to be mis¬ 
taken for consumption, of which, indeed, 
it is generally the forerunner. 
(To be continued.) 
Signed 
ROBERT HUNTER, M. D., 
Specialist in Lung Cases, 
No. 117 West Forty-fifth St., N. Y. 
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Yorker who are interested in Dr. 
Hunter’s work, will receive his books 
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