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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Prof. W. J. Beai, (Michigan Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station) in a bulletin 
just received, calls attention to the fact 
that seeds of the Narrow-leaved Plantain 
(Plantago lanceolata) are becoming com¬ 
mon in clover seed. I#is not the worst of 
weeds, it is true. Nearly all kinds of stock 
eat plantain freely, especially while young. 
But as it becomes older, stock leave the 
plantain to go to seed. The leaves spread 
close to the ground like those of dandelion 
and thus exclude other plants. 
For a lawn, sow at the rate of three bush¬ 
els of Blue-Grass per acre. This will cost 
six dollars, or $2.00 per bushel for excellent 
seed weighing 14 pounds to the bushel. 
There is nothing better for a lawn, lted- 
top comes next. For a moist soil it is bet¬ 
ter. The price is but §1.25 per bushel of It 
pounds or §8.00 per 100 pounds. 
Is THERE a little spot of earth near the 
house made bare by trampling over it or oth¬ 
er causes—spade it up. Stick m a straight 
branch of a tree (sharpened atone end) here 
and there and stretch a cord around it. Level 
off the spadea-up soil and sow grass seed— 
say one quart to every 300 square feet of 
soil. This will be by June a little plot of 
verdant beauty in place of an eye-sore.._ 
How MANY pounds of clover to the acre 
shall we sow upon our wheat or oat fields? 
Probably not less than six. But this is a 
question that every farmer must determine 
for himself. Much depends upon the fer¬ 
tility of the land, the thickness of the 
growth of wheat, etc. Many sow as much 
as 10 pounds. If clover seed is to be sown 
alone, not less than 12 pounds would suf¬ 
fice. 
Mr. James Taflin, Messrs. Dingee & 
Conurd, et at. tell us they prefer all roses 
on their own roots. Mauy are of the same 
opinion. It is an old question. Now when 
Ellwanger & Barry give us a list that can 
be grown from cuttings only with great 
difficulty or that utterly refuse to grow, 
what are we to think?. 
E. & B. STATE in their last catalogue 
that the varieties appended below should 
be budded plants. The list is given in 
order to save their patrons disappointment: 
Abel Grand, Baroness Rothschild, 
Blauchefleur, Boieldieu, Centifolia or Cab¬ 
bage, Charles Margottiu, Climbing Edwd. 
Morren, Common Moss, Crested Moss, 
Duke of Albany, Edward Morren, Emily 
Laxtou, Etienne Revet, Eugenie Verdier, 
Francois Michelon, Gracilis, Harrison’s 
Yellow, llippolyte Jamain, Horace Vernet, 
Laneii, Little Gem, Mabel Morrison, Mad. 
Edw'd. Ory, Mad. Gabriel Lui/.et, Mad. 
Hardy, Mad. Lacharme, Mad. Noman, 
Marguerite do St. Amande, Marquise de 
Castellaue, Merveillede Lyon, Persian Yel¬ 
low, Rev. J. B. Camm, Rugosa Alba and 
Rubra, White Baroness, White Bath. 
MR. J. H. Hale, the introducer of the 
Earhart Everbearing Raspberry, says that 
a “ limited quantity of fruit out of season 
will sell at very high prices, but there is 
no demand for a very large supply ; hence 
he has uever recommended the Earhart as a 
market variety ; but as a novelty for the 
family garden it has no equal, and will 
give mauy a meal of delicious berries long 
after everything else of the kind is gone. 
No fruit garden is complete without the 
Earhart.” 
That is about right. We have picked, 
and eaten with a relish considerable quan¬ 
tities of Earhart after several slight frosts. 
The new potato “Ideal,” Mr. M. Craw¬ 
ford tells us, is a seedling of the Jersey 
Peachblow, wit h foliage that has thus far 
proven nearly blight-proof. It is said to 
be an immense yielder of large-sized tubers, 
with few eyes, russeted skin, a good keep¬ 
er and one of the last to sprout. The qual¬ 
ity is good. Single potatoes only are offer¬ 
ed at present. It is an intermediate. 
Yes, there are many simple forms of life 
which hardly rise high enough in t lie scale 
of being to rank distinctively either as 
plant or animal. 
WORD FOR WORD 
-Christian Union : “ If you wish to 
see things clearly, and to be just with your 
fellow men keep clear of the fumes of vanity 
and the thick atmosphere of mere porsoual 
feeling. Make it a rule to see what a man 
is and does, and to value him by these 
things. A person may 1)6 very distasteful 
to us and yet be eminently useful and suc¬ 
cessful iu the world.” 
-“ A paper which preaches godliness in 
2(5 pages ought not to sell itself to the devil 
in the other I0._lu the office of at leas 
one weekly journal contracts, amounting 
to thousands of dollars a year are every 
month rejected.” 
-New York Herald: “‘Short and 
sweet,’ remarked the grocer as he tied up 
13 ounces of sugar and marked it 
‘ One pound.’ ” 
-Milwaukee Journal: “One of the 
hardest things to learn is that the world is 
seldom watching us when we are doing 
good.” 
-Boston Transcript : “ A butcher 
knows how to make both ends meat.” 
“Yes, if you give him the proper steer.” 
-Farm Journal : “ We cannot under¬ 
stand how it is going to benefit farmers, 
East, West, North or South to tax them to 
pay for developing vast areas of new land 
by irrigation or otherwise. Uncle Sam’s 
boys have all the land they need for the 
next 20 years. Nor do we see how it is 
going to help Eastern farmers, to import 
more farmers to cultivate their exhausted 
hill farms, as has been proposed. Better 
let them grow up in forest or use them for 
sheep pastures.” 
-Mr. Milton, in the Country Gentle¬ 
man : “Had Peter Henderson done noth¬ 
ing else but introduce the two varieties of 
cabbage, Henderson’s Early Summer and 
Succession, these would be lasting monu¬ 
ments to his name. No better varieties are 
in cultivation to-day among the second 
early kinds.” 
-New York Times: “Mrs Selinda E. 
Jones of Chautauqua County, N. Y., ^as 
the honor of having grown the largest 
quantity of potatoes from eight square rods 
of ground ever known. The report is given 
iu the Rural New-Yorker, the editor of 
which paper organized the competition and 
olTered the prizes.” 
- Michigan Farmer: “Daniel Batch¬ 
elor, the well known authority on grasses, 
says in the Couutry Gentleman, that the 
best grass to grow with Orchard Grass is 
the Meadow Oat—Avena elatior—either for 
permanent meadow pasture, or for soiling 
purposes. A mixture of seed composed of 
one bushel of each kind to the acre, sown 
on average soil, would produce a very 
valuable crop, perhaps the most valuable 
of any perennial forage that can be grown, 
as these two are the earliest and strongest 
in growth of any variety of the hay-making 
grasses.” 
-New England Farmer : “ The Rural 
New-Yorker is doing some pardonable 
crowing over the fact that the American 
Agriculturist prize for the largest potato 
crop, was won by the use of the trench 
system, which the Rural New-Yorker 
has been booming for 10 years.” 
-Farm Journal : “The coming cow will 
be hornless and the future dairyman will 
take no horns and have no dog.” 
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