1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4i3 
Market Briefs 
PICKED DP HERE AND THERE 
A FISH ITEM.—What is supposed to be 
the largest cargo of fresh fish ever landed 
has just been unloaded from a vessel at 
Gloucester, Mass. There were over 200,000 
pounds. 150,000 pounds being cod. 
SLIGIITEY MIXED.—At the ftegislry 
Department of the New York post office 
a man called for a letter and was told to 
sign his name on the receipt card in the 
usual place. He then did some something 
that probably not one person In a million 
could do without considerable practice. 
Taking the pen in his left hand he wrote 
his name backwards. People standing by 
looked on curiously, but the man paid no 
attention to them, and evidently that was 
his usual way of making a signature. 
A NEW FODDERING PLACE.—A man 
who has opened a small restaurant near 
The R. N.-Y. office advertises the fact by 
means of a sign man who walks around 
the streets carrying a big canvas sign con¬ 
taining his announcement, name and busi¬ 
ness motto, which is; “Live and Let Live.” 
It is a relief to know that he does not 
intend to season his food with Paris-green 
or strychnine, and that the results of 
patronizing him are not likely to prove 
immediately fatal. He evidently means 
well, but in his effort to appeal to the 
economical sense of the hungry crowd, has 
overlooked the fact that there are other 
lines of business for which this motto 
would be more appropriate than for an 
eating-house. 
HEAVY GAME SEIZURE.—The law ex¬ 
plicitly states that, even though game 
birds are killed in the open sea.son. it is 
not permlssil)le to put them in cold storage 
and offer them for sale during the closed 
season. The mere fact of having in one’s 
possession during the closed season game 
birds protected by law, is considered a 
misdemeanor. State Game Protector Over- 
ton recently made a big haul in a cold- 
storage place in this city. Several thou¬ 
sand game birds were found, enough, it is 
said, to make a fine of |200,000 if assessed 
to the fuli extent of the law. The birds 
were partridge, quail, grouse, etc. A sam¬ 
ple of each kina was taken for evidence 
and will be turned over to a naturalist to 
decide the species. At this writing the 
matter has not been closed up, and there 
is nothing definite to be said as to fines. 
DOCKAGE CHANGES.—The Norwich 
and Stonington lines of Sound steamers 
have for 20 years occupied docks at Pier 
36, North River. Their lease expires the 
last of this week, and it is said that the 
Dock Board has given them notice that 
the lease will not be renewed. It is evidenit- 
ly the Intention of the Dock Board to lease 
this pier to some transatlantic line and 
force these Sound steamers to take dock¬ 
age in the East River. This action comes 
as a great surprise, and has brought out 
many protests from merchants and ship¬ 
pers. Pier 36 is near a great business dis¬ 
trict dealing extensively in the dry goods, 
shoes and other articles of New England 
manufacture. In fact, many business 
houses are in this section largely because 
they wish to be reasonably near the docks 
to save trucking long distances. Also th s 
is convenient for the produce commission 
dealers, who get considerable stuff from 
these steamers. These people consider that 
the Dock Board is acting in an extremely 
arbitrary manner in peremptorily ordering 
the steamship companies to get out with¬ 
out in any way consulting the interests of 
the business men who are located in that 
section. The task of trucking these goods 
from some pier in the East River across 
the city is enormous. 
FRUIT NOTES.—There Is a big surplus 
of miserably poor strawberries from North 
Carolina. In going through the markets 
an occasionai crate of fine berries is seen, 
but they are the exceptions, the bulk on 
hand at this time being inferior on ac¬ 
count of their small size, some but little 
larger than field berries; or, worse yet, the 
soft and rotten condition in which many 
have arrived. In nearly all the fruit 
houses men are seen picking over the ber¬ 
ries and throwing away the poor ones, and 
in some instances the condition is so bad 
that they do not sell for enough to pay 
the freight. Wholesale prices on ordinary 
lots have been as low as two cents. A very 
lair grade of picked-over berries is retail¬ 
ing at 10 cents per short quart. The 
baskets, howevei-, are not marked “short,” 
and this short-package law seems to have 
frozen out during the Winter. A few 
North Carolina cherries are seen, some 
bringing as high as bO to 75 cents per eight- 
pound basket, but the bulk received thus 
far is inferior, and not to be compared 
with the California cherries, which retail 
a* 12 to 25 cents per pound. There is now 
and then a small lot of gooseberries, but 
this fruit does not attract much attention, 
and the canners usually get the most of it. 
One fruit man on Washington Street had 
five watermelons (the first we have seen 
thi.s season) for which he asked $2 apiece. 
Judging by their appearance we should 
say that this would be but a fraction of 
the amount a man would have to spend 
for the doctor, and perhaps worse, if he 
were so rash as to buy one of these melons 
and let his children help themselves. 
w. w. H. 
BARH PASTURE FOR COWS. 
A Well-Arranged Soiling Sysiem. 
One of the most interesting dairy farms 
in this country is located at the New Jer¬ 
sey Experiment Station at New Bruns¬ 
wick. Prof. Voorhees, the Director, is a 
very practical man, and he has devoted 
the greater part of the farm to an experi¬ 
ment for providing cheap forage for a large 
herd of dairy cows. The old idea of pro¬ 
viding one or two acres of pasture, over 
which a cow must roam in order to obtain 
her food, has been proven to be a back 
number at this Station. The farm is pro¬ 
viding the rough forage for more than one 
head of stock for every cultivated acre. 
The cattle are given a small Inclosure in 
which they exercise during a part of the 
day. The green forage Is cut and brought 
to them, and a succession of forage crops 
must be provided in order to furnish this 
barn pasture from the middle of April 
until the middle of October. Two silos fur¬ 
nish a fine quality of silage for the Winter 
months, and stand ready to fill any gap 
made by failure of field crops. On May 
2S I went to New Brunswick, so as to 
be able to tell R. N.-Y. readers Just 
how this soiling system is operated. They 
had just finished cutting the wheat from 
two acres, and this and two acres of rye 
have furnished green food for the stock 
for May. As soon as these four acres were 
cut, plows were put at work turning over 
the stubble, and, as soon as the weather 
permits, cow peas of the Wonderful va¬ 
riety will be sown. At the proper time 
these cow peas will be cut so as to fill a 
niche in the soiling system, the remainder 
being cured as hay, and then the ground 
will be plowed again and planted to fodder 
corn. This will produce a good crop be¬ 
fore frost, and, when it has been cut and 
fed green, wheat or rye will be sown for 
next Spring’s feeding. At the time of my 
visit. Prof. Voorhees said that he had al¬ 
ready green forage for 50 cows and other 
young stock, enough to last until the mid¬ 
dle of July. This meant the Crimson 
clover, which was seeded in last year’s 
corn; the first cutting of Alfalfa, which, 
on the day of my visit, stood 30 to 36 Inches 
high; three different sowings oi oats and 
peas; and an acre of mixed grasses, which 
are to be cut and fed If needed. The first 
planting of corn had also been made, al¬ 
though the stand was poor on account of 
the wet weather. In order to understand 
just what this system means, I will give 
the following table. 
which 
shows how 
the 
crops were fed last year; 
Kind. Date of 
Period of 
cutting and Yield, 
seeding. 
feeding. 
tons. 
Rye .Sept. 
Rye . " 
6, 
’99 
Maj’ I- 4 
“ 4- 7 
4.1 
3.4 
Rye .Oct. 
12, 
’99 
“ 7-12 
6.0 
Rye . “ 
” 12-16 
5.4 
Wheat .Sept. 
27, 
’99 
“ 16-19 
3.5 
Alfalfa (first 
cutting) .May 
Crimson clover.July 
Crimson clover. “ 
H. 
'98 
” 19-25 
9.0 
8, 
‘99 
“ 25-29 
5.0 
to June 2 
6.0 
Mixed grasses. 
June 2- 7 
6.2 
Oats and peas.April 
Oats and peas. “ 
3. 
" 7-11 
B.O 
3. 
” 11-16 
6.8 
Oats and peas. 
10, 
“ 16-23 
10.2 
Oats and peas. 
10, 
” 23-29 
10.2 
Oats and peas. “ 
21, 
" -29 
10.2 
Oats and peas. “ 
21, 
to July 6 
10.2 
Corn .May 
Corn . ” 
3. 
July 6-10 
“ 10-14 
6.0 
3, 
6.0 
Corn . ” 
3. 
“ 14-18 
6.0 
Corn . “ 
10, 
" 18-24 
10.1 
Corn . “ 
10, 
“ 24-30 
11.6 
Alfalfa (third 
cutting) . 
o 
CO 
1 
4.9 
Alfalfa (third 
cutting) . 
4.9 
Cow peas and 
Teosinte . “ 
28, 
Aug. 2- 6 
6.0 
Mixed grasses.. 
. " 6-11 
6.0 
Pearl millet... " 
29, 
“ 11-16 
8.7 
Kaffir corn and 
Velvet oeans. “ 
26, 
“ 16-21 
8.4 
Cow peas and 
Kattir corn.. " 
26, 
" 21-26 
8.0 
Pivergreen 
sweet corn... “ 
28, 
“ 26-30 
5.9 
Alfalfa (fourth 
cutting) . 
. “ -30 
2.8 
Alfalfa (fourth 
cutting) . 
,. to Sept. 2 
2.8 
Teosinte . “ 
16. 
Sei)t. 2- 6 
8.1 
Cow peas.July 12, 
“ 6-10 
6.2 
Cow peas.Aug. 
1, 
“ 10-16 
8.0 
Cow peas. ” 
1, 
“ 16-22 
8.0 
White fi i n t 
corn .Juiy 
10, 
“ 22-30 
n.o 
This explains itself, giving the date of 
sowing, date of cutting, number of days’ 
feeding from each crop, and the full suc¬ 
cession from May 1 to October 1. The 
crops are cut each day with the mower, 
loaded into wagons and hauled to the barn. 
As a definite and exact experiment is re¬ 
quired, each load is carefully weighed, so 
that they may know the exact amount pro¬ 
duced on each acre. This, of course, takes 
more time than would be required in a 
I)ractical dairy, yet it is of great import¬ 
ance. as it gives the actual results. I will 
ask readers to study the table here given, 
and hope during the season to carry the 
crops through, giving the dates of sowing 
and cutting, the amounts of forage pro¬ 
duced, and the results, so far as they are 
obtained, from time to time. There are 
many farmers so situated that at least a 
partial soiling system would be possible, 
and I feel sure that a visit to the Station 
and a view of the actual crops in growth 
would quickly show the advantages of 
producing this green forage. h. w. c. 
THE STUDY OF SHORTHAND. 
A reader wishes to know whether this 
is taught successfully by mail, and how 
best to practice at home. Yes, certain 
schools do good work in correspondence 
instruction in this line; but it must be 
remembered that really proficient short¬ 
hand writers are nearly as scarce as the 
proverbial hens’ teeth. Authorities go 
so far as to say that there are less than 
25 people in the world who are experts 
in taking down all classes of matter. 
The thousands who are called stenog¬ 
raphers have merely a little smattering 
of some one branch of this trade, just 
enough to enable them to do fair work 
in writing letters, and in some branches 
of reporting. Through mail instruction 
the principles may be had, and also 
hints as to methods of study and prac¬ 
tice, but the pupil will find that this 
word “practice” must be branded on his 
mind in italics or the biggest capitals. 
A reasonably thorough knowledge of the 
best usage in language is necessary. Two 
points to be aimed at are correct and 
readable word outlines, and speed. Many 
try to work up speed at the expense of 
readable signs and vice versa. Instead of 
aiming to keep an even balance. Here 
are a few methods of practice for those 
working at home which we have found 
of service. Have some one read or talk 
to you, speaking as rapidly as you can 
possibly take it and read it afterwards, 
and gradually increasing the speed so 
that the writer will be worked to the ut¬ 
most. This will get to be monotonous, 
but just such bitter doses, sometimes 
for an hour on a stretch, will be met in 
actual shorthand work, and one must 
be able to take them. A plan for acquir¬ 
ing signs for a good many words, and 
also some speed, is to take a newspaper, 
and over each word write the proper 
outline. Study the strange words and 
make the signs for them several times. 
Marked improvement in getting a wide 
vocabulary will be noted by writing a 
column a day in this way. Another help¬ 
ful plan is to take a short newspaper ar¬ 
ticle, read and make the signs for it 
sentence by sentence. Then lay it aside 
foi a day and try to read it, referring to 
the original article only when neces¬ 
sary. Even a very limited knowledge of 
shorthand is of some service, though 
used only now and then in making 
notes. The study of it trains the eye, 
ear, brain and hand to work together. 
It is like a grindstone for sharpening 
up one’s wits and making him think 
quickly. It also develops the memory, 
as in rapid work one will often get a 
whole sentence behind. He must at the 
same time be making the outlines for 
the previous sentence and still thor¬ 
oughly grasp what the speaker is say¬ 
ing, keeping up this double-barreled 
performance until a pause of the speak¬ 
er gives him a chance to catch up. No 
one need expect even partly to master 
this trade unless he is willing to go at 
it in dead earnest. There is no reason 
to be discouraged, however, for great 
difficulties and tasks that seem impos¬ 
sible on the start, melt away before 
careful, persistent work like snowbanks 
under an April sun. 
The Garden Book, by T. Greiner. The 
Farmer Co., Philadelphia, 190 pages; 50 
cents. This is a very useful book calling 
especial attention to the need of every 
farmer for a garden or truck patch. Ex¬ 
plicit and reliable directions are given for 
growing every variety of vegetable. The 
diagrams and plans for farmers’ gardens 
ai'e especially useful. A vast quantity of 
valuable information is contained be¬ 
tween its covers. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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Biliousness is banished by the use of 
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It is one of the host farm papers in 
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FARM PAPER 
FREE! 
Gold-Shell Rings. 
Mo.st people like a 
ice ring. We show 
three styles. These are 
made by drawing a 
shell of gold over a rod 
of composition metal. 
They are better and 
will wear longer than 
solid gold rings of a 
low carat. The retail 
price would be from V.*) 
cents to SI. We will 
send one of the.se rings 
po.stpaid as a reward 
for sending one new subscription at SI. 
Cut a slip of paper the size of finger and 
send for size. 
A Darning Machine. 
This is the only successful darning 
machine we ever saw. We have tried 
others that were absolutely of no value. 
This one is little short of peiTect. It 
enables you to mend imdeiuvear, stock¬ 
ings, curtains, table linens, clothing, and 
does an endless variety of art and fancy 
weaving better, easier and quicker than 
by any other w'ay. Full directions ac¬ 
company each machine. When a lady 
has once used this little machine, siie 
would not do withoiit it for any con¬ 
sideration. We will send it postpaid for 
^I, or for two new yearly subscriptions 
at ^1 each. All money returned if no 
satisfied. 
