THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARCH 22 
194 
“ Roxigh on Rogxies.” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC. 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
game was for the new man to disappear 
and the stable men to make Mr. Grant pay 
the balance or forfeit his $188. The horse 
may have been worth $100. Mr. G’s friends 
knew the game and a detective got his 
money back. This game is often played. 
HORTICULTURIST’S 
RULE-BOOK. 
BY J-. W. BAILEY, 
Corresponding Editor of Tile American Garden, Horticulturist of the Cornell Experiment Station 
and Professor of Horticulture in Cornell University. 
march. 
Monday 
24. 
Look out for the old “ gold brick 
and Indian” fraud. James H. 
Badeau is reported as the last vic¬ 
tim. A fine young man made himself at' 
home at Badeau’s house. One day they 
walked in the wood together and came 
upon an Indian who held a shining brick 
in his hand. The fine young man pre¬ 
tended to talk to the Indian in some un¬ 
known gibberish. The Indian appeared to 
tell a plausible story about finding the 
gold in Arizona. Cowboys were after him 
and he had lost his way. He wanted to sell 
Tuesday tke and gave Badeau a small 
r\ c chip from the block for examin- 
ation. The fine young man said 
he knew of an “assayer” who would tell 
them what the brick was worth. This 
gentleman put the figure at $5,000. 
Badeau paid the Indian $3,000 and thought 
he had a bargain. The brick, of course, 
turned out to be worthless. Nice young 
man, Indian and “assayer” have all dis¬ 
appeared. 
* 
* * 
Wednesday Look out!!!! The B ° he - 
q rj mian oat frauds are still at 
^ ® ■ work. Here is a letter from 
one of our subscribers in Greene County, 
N. Y. : 
“ The Bohemian oat swindlers are in our 
vicinity. Here one man was bit to the 
tune of $900. As long as farmers refuse to 
take and read live papers like the R. N.-Y. 
there will be fools, and as long as there are 
fools the fool-killer will be abroad in the 
land. I have little sympathy for a man 
who can be swindled after the exposures 
that have been published for many years. 
If the victim that was swindled out of $900 
had invested $2 in the Rural, he would 
have saved his money. I presume he 
thought he was practicing economy in not 
reading a good paper. This sort of economy 
is saving at the tap and wasting at the 
bung.” 
Thursday Book out that y° u rea ^ the 
c\ -j J article by Prof. Roberts on page 
^ * ■ 181. Look out that you organ¬ 
ize an English sparrow hunt. 
FridaV Bo °^ ou t f° r a Sharper in Western 
qq New York who asks you to try an 
improved plow-share. He wants 
you to sign an article of agreement. He 
writes this with a fountain pen which con¬ 
tains two kinds of ink—one will fade, the 
other will remain. He writes the agree¬ 
ment with the former, then changes the 
pen and hands it to the farmer who signs 
his name with the permanent ink. The 
words of the agreement soon fade and the 
sharper has a blank sheet of paper with 
the farmer’s name at the end of it. What 
a chance for a bogus note! 
Qaturdav Bo °^ out f° r smart young Eng- 
qq J lish agents who want you to 
^ ** • take young men and teach them 
agriculture. The recent horrible murder 
in Canada discloses a sickening business. 
Young Englishmen are induced to come to 
this country to learn “ how to farm.” The 
agents who bring them over are after their 
money even if murder is necessary. This 
is an old game frequently exposed before. 
Look out for advertisements of horses for 
sale at bogus stables in New York and 
other cities and large towns. Donald 
Grant of Nova Scotia recently had an ex¬ 
perience here with some feilows who tried 
what is called “gypping” on him. A fine- 
looking man met Mr. Grant and told him 
about a very valuable horse that could be 
bought for a little money. Mr. G. went to 
see the horse and met another man who 
wanted to buy a “fine trotter” which 
stood in a stall with a blanket over her. 
This new man explained that he would 
give $400 for the mare and if Mr. G., a 
stranger, could get her for any less, he 
could make the difference. The horse was 
offered to Mr. G. for $350. He paid $188 as 
a deposit, and signed a paper which vir¬ 
tually bound him to buy the horse. Then 
he went for more money. Of course the 
THE CITRUS FAIR 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
Designed as a pocket companion. The book has been prepared with great 
care and much labor. It contains in handy and concise form a great 
number of the rules and recipes required by fruit growers, truck 
gardeners, florists, farmers, etc. Undoubtedly the best 
thing of the kind ever published. 
A UNIQUE exhibition is (Feb. 22) being held 
at the Armory building at the intersection of 
Sixth Avenue, Broadway and 35th Street. 
It is an exhibition of California products 
such as has never before been attempted at 
the East. Orange trees are here to be seen 
growing in their native soil, having been 
transported from California. The display 
of fruit and other products is immense. 
The celebrated seedless Riverside Wash¬ 
ington Navel Oranges are monsters in size, 
but are said to be inferior in quality to the 
smaller ones. The California oranges are 
said to show a larger percentage of sugar 
than the Floridas, and also a greater 
amount of acid, thus forming a richer com¬ 
bination and a spicier fruit which is pre¬ 
ferred by those accustomed to it, though 
some familiar only with the Florida fruit 
think at first that it is too sour. Large 
quantities of these oranges are shipped to 
Chicago, where they sell for high prices. 
They are not sent to New York because the 
prices at which they would have to be sold 
to compete with the Florida fruit, would 
be unprofitable. The fair is made up of 
exhibits by different towns in the county. 
That made by Riverside is under the im¬ 
mediate charge of Mr. HolmeR of the River¬ 
side Daily Press. 
Most of the country must be irrigated, 
but, instead of considering this a disadvant¬ 
age, the people look upon it as a blessing, 
as throughout the working season they can 
have the rain at just thetimeand place and 
in just the quantities they desire. Some of 
the land is moist enough to grow Alfalfa, 
English walnuts and vegetables without 
irrigation ; while some dry knolls above the 
reach ot the irrigating ditches, are pro¬ 
ductive of fine olives' which are said to 
flourish in no other State in the Union, and 
which prove very profitable. The character 
of the soil and climate and the value of the 
products render the intensive system of 
farming the favorite, and consequently the 
majority of the holdings consist of five, 10 
or 20 acres, and the farmers thus enjoy more 
of the advantages of city life, without its 
corresponding disadvantages. 
In addition to the display of citrus fruits, 
there is a great variety of raisins of excel¬ 
lent quality; quantities of English wal¬ 
nuts, which thrive in Southern California ; 
exhibits of grains of various kinds; 
squashes and pumpkins weighing 165 to 
187 pounds; huge beets and mammoth 
potatoes ; bottles of olive oil : other bottles 
in large numbers containing wines of vari¬ 
ous kinds and ages ; canned fruits of vari¬ 
ous kinds : a large assortment of minerals 
and building stones in great variety: 
numerous flowering shrubs and plants; a 
varied assortment ot yuccas and cacti, one 
of the latter, the wonderful Giant Cactus, 
being 20 feet in bight and weighing a ton. 
A bale of Alfalfa hay is exhibited which is 
of a bright green color and very fragrant. 
It is rather coarse, and might be improved 
by running it through a cutter and wet¬ 
ting. You Eastern farmers who had such 
a desperate struggle in the last haying sea¬ 
son, what think you of making hay where 
there is practically no rain from May to 
October P The large hall was decorated 
everywhere with snowy pampas plumes 
and graceful palms. It is an instructive 
exhibit of the products of a wonderful 
country, and will bring more vividly than 
ever before to the attention of the East the 
grand resources of this vast region which 
Daniel Webster once declared to be an irre¬ 
claimable desert, but which has already 
astonished the world by the variety and 
extent of its scenery, its climate, and its 
products. F. H. V. 
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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK 
I. Insecticides. 
II. In jurlous Insects, with preventives and rem¬ 
edies. 
III. Fungicides for plant diseases. 
IV. Plant diseases, with preventives and reme¬ 
dies. 
V. Injuries from mice, rabbits, birds, etc , with 
preventives and remeuies. 
VI. Weeus. 
VII. Waxes and washes for grafting and for 
wounds. 
VIII. Cements, paints etc. 
IX. Seed Tables : 1. Quantities required for sow¬ 
ing given areas. 2 . Weight and size of seeds 
of kitchen garden vegetables. 3 Longevity 
of seeds. 4 Time required for kitchen gar¬ 
den seeds to germinate. 
X. Planting Tables: 1. Dates for sowing or set¬ 
ting kitchen garden vegetables hi different 
latitudes. 2. Tender and hardy vegetables. 
3. Usual distances apart for planting fruits 
and vegetables. 4. Number of plants re¬ 
quired to set an acre at given distances 
apart. 
XI. Maturity and yields : 1. Time required for 
the maturity of kitchen garden vegetables. 
2. Time required for the bearing of fruit 
plants. 3. Longevity of fru.t plants. 4. 
Average yields of various crops. 
XII. Methods of keeping and storing fruits and 
vegetables. 
XIII. Multi plication and propagation of plants: 1. 
Methods of multiplying plants. 2. Ways of 
grafting and buodlug. 3. Particular meth¬ 
ods by which various fruits are propagat¬ 
ed. 4. Stocks used for various fruits. 
XIV. Standard measures and sizes: 1. Standard 
flower pots. 2. Standard and legal meas¬ 
ures. 3. English measures for sale of fruits 
and vegetables. 
Tables of weights ami measures. 
Miscellaneous tables, figures and notes: 1. 
Quantitiesof water held In pipes and tanks. 
2. Thermometer scales. 3. Effect of wind 
in cooling glass roofs. 4. Per cent, of light, 
reflected from glass at various angles of 
inclination. 5. Weights of various varie¬ 
ties of apples per bushel. 6 Amount of 
various products yielded by given quanti¬ 
ties of f ult. ?. Labels 8 . Mlscellaney. 
XVII. Rules: 1. Lon Ion’s rules of horticulture. 2. 
Utiles of liomenclatute. 3. Rules for exhi¬ 
bition 
XVIII. Postal rates and regulations. 
XIX. Weather signs and protection from frost. 
XX. Collecting and preserving: 1. How to make 
an herbarium. 2. Preserving ana printing 
of flowers and other parts of plants. 3. 
Keeping cut flowers. 4. Perfumery. 5. 
How to collect and preserve Insects. 
XXI Elements, symbols and analyses : l. The ele 
mints and their chemical symbols. 2 . 
Chemical composition of a fetv common 
substances. 3. Analyse’: (a.) Fruits and 
Vegetables; (0.) Seeds and Fertilizers; (o.) 
Soils and Minerals. 
XXII Names and histories: 1. Vegetables which 
have different names in England and Am¬ 
erica. 2. Derivation of names of various 
fruits and vegetables. 8 . Names of fruits 
and vegetables in various languages. 4. 
Periods or cultivation and native countries 
of cultivated plants. 
XXIII. 1 acts and statistics of horticulture and the 
vegetable kingdom 
XXIV. Glossary of technical words used by horticul¬ 
turists. 
XXV. Calendar. 
XV. 
XVI. 
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