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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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were it not tender. It must be covered ; 
but in quality it is delicious. Pocklington 
is a grand grape when dead-ripe, but it is 
too often sold and eaten when only half ripe. 
Empire State is nowhere nearly as good as 
It ought to be. Martha, if thinned sharply, 
is fine; otherwise, poor. He makes his list 
of white grapes Diamond, Hayes, Niagara 
and Duchess. 
Diamond has not fruited at the Rural 
Grounds; neither has it made a vigorous 
growth of vine. Lady gave us, the second 
year, an immense crop. Our vines (two) 
have never borne a perfect bunch since. 
We never regarded it as better than the 
Concord. Niagara does mildew readily and 
the berry at its best is foxy. Duchess is a 
meaty grape, but otherwise of low quality. 
That is, it is like the “ Malagas” of the 
market, sweet and nothing more. Pock¬ 
lington is too late to become “ dead-ripe” 
except in one season out of three. Then it 
is even more foxy than the Niagara with a 
tougher pulp. 
At the New York farmers’ institute held 
at Booneville, it was the opinion of members 
well-posted as to the several topics dis¬ 
cussed, that it will pay to feed pigs for the 
manure alone, and that it will also pay to 
rear pigs for pork at five cents per pound. 
But it is more profitable to make bacon 
and other products which will sell for 
about double the price of whole pigs. Mr. 
Woodward, Mr. Powell and others say 
that though their cows have been confined 
to the stables since last fall, the milk 
makes good butter. Constant confinement 
will not taint the milk if the stables be 
kept clean and well ventilated. 
Experiments at the Missouri Station, 
like those of the R. N.-Y., indicate that re¬ 
moving the tassels from the corn plant, 
after the grain begins to glaze, increases 
the crop. It seems also to have been shown 
that the material for the final perfection of 
the ear was drawn mainly from its husks, 
proving the important and hitherto un¬ 
recognizable use of this leaf-like covering. 
Many of the older subscribers of the R. 
N.-Y. will remember that we sent them 
seeds of the Shell Flower (Moluccella 
lievis). It grows readily from the seeds 
and forms very curious little symmetrical 
bushes by mid-summer. The plant seems 
little known even now. The calyx of the 
flower being large and shaped somewhat 
like thespathe of the Calla Lily, is the con¬ 
spicuous and interesting portion of the 
plant. It is not too late to sow seeds. 
“ Our own White Pine is a most desirable 
sort. Its sea green foliage, ?oft to the touch, 
and its clean, smooth bark makes it much 
sought for. It grows large, but I have seen 
specimens almost bush-like in appearance, 
where they have been kept pruned. Their soft 
needleB do not get hurt in winter, which 
makes the tree a valuable one for wind 
breaks.” 
So says Joseph Meehan in the Philadelphia 
Weekly Press. Yes, it is true, as we can 
testify from our own experience of 13 years 
with a single tree of the White Pine (Pinus 
Strobus). It may be restrained to an ever¬ 
green tree of dimensions suitable to a lawn 
of an acre,growing more thickly and beauti¬ 
fully clothed with its elegant foliage from 
year to year. Plant a White Pine. It is not 
yet too late for this spring. 
THE RURAL’S LUNCH. 
-Weekly Press: “He who does not 
start with the procession will probably re¬ 
main in the rear.” 
-“Being forehanded is not being in a 
hurry. Nor is the man who leads his neigh¬ 
bors the one who does careless or superficial 
work. In fact he is never crowded into 
slighting his work. He has time to be 
thorough. It is work delayed beyond its 
season that is done in a hurry, and there¬ 
fore for a double reason ineffectively done. 
-Prof. Bailey, in American Garden: 
" Mr. McCarthy of the N. C. Experiment 
Station, recommends that seedsmen assume 
entire responsibility for their seeds, and 
states that European dealers do so. It is 
undoubtedly true that within certain 
limits, seedsmen should be held responsible 
for what they sell. The problem is a diffi¬ 
cult one, inasmuch as failure as often 
results from poor treatment as from poor 
seeds; and, moreover, the seedsman cannot 
control the season or other conditions which 
affect bis crop. The author makes much 
of the European means of seed responsibil¬ 
ity, yet, in reality, many of these means 
are practically inefficient, particularly the 
one which he cites as a model. No doubt, 
any reputable house would cheerfully 
“ take back the seeds and pay the cost of 
carriage both ways” if shown to be poor 
before they were sown. At least, such has 
been our experience. We recall that one of 
our leading houses filled our order gratis a 
second time for cauliflower seed to a con¬ 
siderable amount, upon our representation 
that its vitality was low. But the whole 
subject of seed warranty needs discussion, 
and this bulletin will serve a good purpose 
in this direction.” 
- Christian Union : “ Bismarck is in¬ 
clined to doubt whether there is aDy labor 
question ; or, rather, to assert that it is a 
chronic, necessary, perpetual, and insoluble 
question. ‘ We shall never reach a situation 
where the laboring men will say, We are 
satisfied.’ The better they are off the 
greater will be their desire for still further 
improvement. In the struggle thus far the 
laborer has scored most of the victories; 
‘should there ever be a final victory it would 
be his.’ But the end of strife would be the 
end of progress, and this is not the inten¬ 
tion of Divine Providence. Socialism will 
not afford a rest to society; ‘ for the social¬ 
istic system of government is a species of 
slavery, a sort of penitentiary system for 
the union of its intended victims. ” 
——On the whole, we do not think that 
Prince Bismarck’s views indicate a very 
profound study of the conditions of modern 
society, or throw much light on the solution 
of its industrial problem. It is the view of 
the politician rather than that of either the 
economist or moralist. 
-“There is but one way toward a better 
future—that way which will give more 
leisure to the hand, that it may give more 
time for the head and the heart. A system 
which makes machines of men costs more 
than all the wealth its machines—human 
or otherwise—produce.” 
-“That eight hours of physical toil will 
produce all the physical comforts the world 
needs, we think so plain that the proposi¬ 
tion does not need arguing. Humanity can 
live on what the hand can do in eight 
hours a day; humanity does not truly live 
when the hand has to work and the brain 
lie idle for 10 or 12 hours a day. In 
that one sentence is involved the whole 
argument for the eight-hour day.” 
-“Ought modern civilization to ask 
any man to be a machine for more than 
eight hours out of the 24? And to that 
question we unhesitatingly answer, No!” 
-“When the carpenter did all parts of 
his work himself—planed, sawed, measured, 
mortised, fitted, framed—his industry was 
diversified, his dexterity developed, his 
judgment exercised, his whole faculty kept 
alert.. His bench was his school. But this 
is not true of the man who tends a planing 
machine 10 hours a day, and whose whole 
life is devoted to running a board in at one 
end and taking it out at the other. The 
industry of the one was itself educative; 
the industry of the other is not—his daily 
duty is a daily drudgery; and if he is to 
be educated, if interest is to be awakened, 
and judgment exercised, and faculty 
created, it must be by mental employment 
outside the hours of his industrial employ¬ 
ment. Eight hours may not be enough for 
work, but it is quite enough for drudgery.” 
-“If the army of labor is willing to sub¬ 
mit to discipline and conduct its campaign 
as a united force, fighting one battle at a 
time, it is certain to gain substantial vic¬ 
tories. But if the strike fever turns the 
army into a mob, defeat is almost in¬ 
evitable.” 
- Forest and Garden: “It is not easy 
to see why one man should be allowed to 
jeopardize his neighbor’s property and 
another snould be restrained from doing so. 
This community would not hold that a 
resident of Fifth Avenue who should be re¬ 
strained from building a big bon fire on a 
windy day in his back yard would suffer 
injustice, and yet his fire would not be 
a greater menace to his neighbors’ prop¬ 
erty than the fire of a farmer burning his 
brush-pile. There cau be no security of 
forest property in the Eastern and Northern 
States until laws are passed regulating 
within proper limits the setting of brush 
fires by individuals on their own land, and 
making them responsible for the damage 
caused by such fires. To secure the passage 
and enforcement of such laws, should be 
the aim of our various forest associations 
and of all persons interested in forest- 
property.” 
- President Dwight : “ The knowl¬ 
edge of botany gives a joy which should 
be in the possession of every educated man, 
and should be gained, as it easily can be, 
in the early youthful season. Science 
everywhere brings us into a close relation 
with nature.” 
- New York Tribune : “ Mr. Poor Pay 
is usually a poor farmer also.” 
-Industrialist : “It would not be in ac 
cord with our views to stock a pond with 
carp when the native fishes are so vastly 
superior as an article of food, and so much 
better able to take care of themselves than 
the carp. The carp is valuable as a stag¬ 
nant-water fish where nothing better lives.” 
-Pacific Rural Press : “Southern Cali¬ 
fornia has gone crazy over oranges. The 
success of the Australian lady-bug has 
opened up large areas to replanting where 
the culture of the orange had been aban¬ 
doned, and has induced planting every where 
on such a scale as exhausted the supply be¬ 
fore the demand began to be satisfied.” 
BIG MONEY. 
W E women, who are anxious to make 
poultry-raising, bee keeping, gar¬ 
dening, etc., profitable, should “ start into 
business” firmly realizing that we must 
understand our work, if we are to succeed 
in even a small way. To get business into a 
paying condition, one must work patiently, 
plan well and be willing to attend to every 
little detail, no matter how inconvenient or 
disagreeable. 
A woman tells me: “ People will starve 
to death if they depend upon raising poul¬ 
try,” and cites various failures. She 
doesn’t convince me that there is no money 
in eggs or poultry, though I know that 
there isn’t “ oig money ” for the majority 
of poultry raisers. Those who make it 
profitable plan and work, watch and work, 
expecting crosses and losses as well as 
profits. 
Bee-keepers can sell honey ; people will 
buy and eat it. While the bees do the real 
honey-making, the bee-keepers have some 
thing to keep them busy ; but a great num¬ 
ber of people find no money in bees or 
honey. All the “ bee-keepers” that I have 
known have not made “ big money.” 
Gardeners who began tilling the soil 
with great enthusiasm, in the beginning, 
often tell me “there is no money in gar¬ 
dening;” that there is always a drought, or 
a bug, a worm or too much rain, or weeds 
choke out the tender plants; and that 
when they sell anything they get nothing 
for it. Of course, for the gardener on a 
small scale, there isn’t “ big money ” in the 
business, and there is hard, back-aching 
work. The prices paid by consumers often 
seem small to the producer, but the type¬ 
writer, clerk or mechanic who buys even 
directly from the producer, soon uses up 
the small amount to be devoted to such 
things, in buying the vegetables, poultry, 
honey, etc., needed for daily use. 
I have seen fertile soil, and in various 
places, land so rich that all one had to do 
to raise crops, (so the agent said) was to 
scatter seed about and “ leave the rest to 
Nature;” but forme, crops tended in that 
way don’t mature. It is well for every 
worker not to expect too much of a return 
for the labor expended ; it is also well not 
to waste much time dreaming of success 
comiug from “ half doing things,” in any 
venture. ELLA GUERNSEY. 
|$li$iceUattfou.$i gCdtTrti.s'ittg, 
Always name R. N.-Y. in writing to ad¬ 
vertisers. 
That 
Tired Feeling 
Prevails with Its most enervating and discouraging 
effect in spring and early summer, when the toning 
effect of the cold air is gone and the days grow 
warmer. Hood’s Sarsaparilla speedily overcomes 
"that tired feeling.” whether caused by change ot 
climate, season of life, by overwork or illness, and 
imparts that feeling of strength and self confl 
deuce which is comforting and satisfying. It also 
cures sick headache, biliousness, indigestion or dys¬ 
pepsia. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only 
by C. f. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
For Internal and External Use. 
Stops Pain, Cramps, Inflammation in body or limb, 
like magic. Cures Croup. Asthma, Colds, Catarrh, Chol¬ 
era Morbus. Diarrhiea, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lame- 
back, Stiff Joints and Strains. Full particulars free. Price 
35cts. post-paid. L S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
■ Piso’s Remed.v for Catarrh Is the 
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. 
.CATARRH 
■ Sold by druggists or sent by maiL 
oOc. E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa. 
tfmpUm Pitts and Pathinetw. 
CONTINENTAL. 
DISK. a PULVERIZER. 
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. 
Your land will be hard and need thorough culti¬ 
vation f >r the next crop. You will prepare for seed 
ing with less labor if you use our Pulver.zer. 
LABOR SAVED IS MONEY. 
You can get larger returns by using the Continental 
Larger crops mean more cash. Send for prices and 
circular, "How to Buy Direct.” 
THE JOHNSTON HiRVESTEH CO., , T?“ 
HHiH CLAS8 .1 Klt.R V f'AT- 
TLE— All registered In American 
Jersey Cattle Club. Bulls now In 
service are STOKE POGISSth, 5937, 
sire of 8 young cows, testing from 
14 lbs. Us ozs. to 22 lbs. 12 ozs. of 
butter in 7 days. Full and only living brother of 
Stoke Pogis 3d, now dead, sire of 27 cows averaging 
over 20 lbs. of butter apiece per week. IDA’S RIOTER 
OF ST. L., 13656, Inbred son of Ida of St. Lambert; 
official butter test 30 lbs, 214 ozs. in 7 days. No bull 
calf sold for less than $’00, nor heifer for less than 
$ 200 . 
Also Pure Bred ANGORA GOATS and Children’s 
Ponies. State what you want. No general catalogue. 
Trotting Horse catalogue sent on application. Ten 
Sons of the great Electioneer. Mention this paper. 
MILLER SIBLEY. Franklin. Venango Co . Pa. 
A Great Bargain. 
In exchange for a herd of Jersey, Alderney or any 
first-class cattle of equal value, I offer a piece of land 
at this city, situated on the Louisville and Nashville 
Railroad, in sight of the great furnaces and mining 
Industries of this section of country. Land nicely 
fenced and Improved; 8,UK) bearing peaches and 
pears. Very fertile and adaptive soil. Refused an 
offer of $8,000 cash for entire place; will trade In 
whole or part. This certainly Is a rare chance as In¬ 
vestigation will prove. 
Also a fine tract In exchange for horses or stock of 
livery. 
Correspondence solicited. 
Al. s. dent, 
Box 822. Birmingham, Ala. 
E COMING HOG. 
liabletoCholera. 
D GROWTH. 
EXHIBITION. most 
< FOR FOOD CONSUMED 
2 WEIGHED 2806 LBS 
L.B.Silver fo. Cleveland,O. 
HOG CHOLERA AND SWINE PLAGUE 
PREVENTED 
and CURED. 
Particulars 
and 
Information 
Free. 
AGENTS 
WA N T E D. 
W. H. DOLE, 
7 I Clinton Street, Boston. Mass. 
SEED POTATOES 
Choice selected Houlton, Aroostook Co., 
Maine, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and 
all other well known varieties. For sale by 
W. E. DURYEA’S SONS, 
Produce Commission Merchants, 119 Warren St. N. Y 
NORTHERN SEED POTATOES. 
Per Bush. 
Per Bbl. 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2, $3 00 
$7 00 
Early Ohio. 
... 100 
2 75 
Early Albino. 
... 1 00 
250 
Beauty of Hebron.... 
... 1 00 
250 
Clark’s No. 1. 
... 1 00 
250 
Chas. Downing. 
.. . 1 00 
250 
Sunlit Star. 
... 1 00 
250 
Bonanza. . 
... 1 00 
2 25 
Crane’s Potentate... 
... 1 IK) 
2 25 
Aud many others. 
Send to 
A. C. SABIN, 
Glenwood, 
Iowa. 
DEAF! 
’NESS & HEAD NOISES CURED by 
Feck’s INVISIBLE TUBULAR EAR 
___CUSHIONS. Whispers heard. Com¬ 
fortable. Sneressful where all itemedle, fall. Sold by F. HISt ilX, 
rjuiy, S48 Br’dway, Sew Vork. Write for book of proofs FKbh. 
RARE BARGAINS 
USEFUL ARTICLES 
in the course of trade we have obtained the follow¬ 
ing uameu articles which we will sell at a big discount 
from manufacturers' prices. We have no use for 
them aud the prices named ought to take them off 
our hands iu short order ; 
A Wood Hewing Machine, Boudoir Cabinet of 
Black Walnut. Manufacturer's price $75. We will 
sell in New York for $30—a rare bargain for some 
one. 
A Wheel Hoe aud Cultivator; retails for $6. 
Our price $3. 
Several Curtiss’s improved Nee**le Hay 
Knives, chisel edge teeth. Retail price $1.25 each. 
Our price only 75c. each. Order at once. Address 
Ji. E. FEliLOWH. Box 4, Tenafly, fc. J. 
