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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Ground Ivy, Mr. Childs says is a beautiful 
variegated form of the old variety and is in 
every respect a sterling novelty. It was in¬ 
troduced by Peter Henderson two years 
ago and he sells it for a larger price than 
Mr. Childs asks. 
We make these statements in justice to 
Mr. Childs, because, we were made, by the 
blunder or omission, to make the state¬ 
ments of which he complains appear as 
original in this paper, when, as before 
stated, they were simply copied from The 
Rural. We leave our contemporary to 
look into the matter. If it is satisfied that 
Mr. Childs has been wronged, and says so, 
we will add its apology to this in a later 
issue.” 
No, we are not satisfied that we have 
wronged Mr. Childs or we would hasten to 
make due reparation. In The R. N.-Y.’s 
article which the O. C. Farmer quotes, we 
stated that Mr. Childs gave a prominent 
place in his catalogue to a ‘ new trailing 
plant,” which he calls Nepeta Glechoma. 
We pointed out that Nepeta Glechoma is 
the old Catnip, familiarly known as Gill, 
Gill-over-the-ground or Ground Ivy, a plant 
already inconveniently abundant in our 
gardens and fields. The leaves of the “ new 
trailing plant,” Mr. Childs says, “ are 
green and white.” The R. N.-Y. merely 
asked if it is a variegated variety of the old 
Glechoma, and if its variegation is its re¬ 
deeming characteristic? How can Mr. 
Childs construe these questions as a wrong 
to him ? He answers in the O C. Farmer 
that it is “ a variegated form of the old 
variety, and in every respect a sterling 
novelty.” Well, that settles it. Its var¬ 
iegation makes it a “ sterling novelty,” 
since the plaiu Gill is a weed that we are 
all anxious to keep out of our gardens. 
We have a “sterling novelty” which 
originated at the Rural Grounds, in the 
way of a beautifully variegated form of a 
Caryophyllaceous plant, imported from 
Europe years ago. It will grow anywhere, 
is perfectly hardy, bearing great numbers 
of handsome, pink-like flowers, of a tender 
flesh-color, and usually double. Moreover, 
the plant makes lather with water, so that 
it has an economic as well as an ornamental 
value, and might well be mentioned in the 
same category with Childs’s Great Japan 
Wineberry, the Great Weather Plant 
(Abrus precatorius) and Everbearing Tree 
Blackberry. We shall be very glad to pre¬ 
sent our entire stock of this “ sterling 
novelty” to Mr. Childs or to any 
other enterprising seedsman, provided 
only that he will bind himself to 
take the entire stock. Its name is 
Saponaria officinalis foliis variegatis. The 
name of the old kind, imported from 
Europe many years ago, and now abund- 
dant along roadsides from New England to 
Georgia, is Bouncing Bet l Ine intro¬ 
ducer, however, need feel uuuer no obliga¬ 
tion to mention its robustuous common 
name, if it were deemed inimical to a ready 
and profitable sale. 
SHORT AND SWEET. 
Those of our readers who have canary 
birds will do well to place a pinch of pyre- 
thrum powder in their bathing water. It 
can do them no harm and will rid them of 
all insects. 
Prof. Brewer of Yale, says, in the New 
Englander, that modern immigration has 
brought in a new class of farmers, who have 
spread out over the lands of the West and 
are going to occupy the farms in the older 
States. They do not rank socially or intel¬ 
lectually with the earlier immigrants, and 
they are lowering the standard of rural in¬ 
telligence. In the cities they have taken to 
politics. In the city papers, to which many 
men of foreign birth are contributors, the 
farmers as a class are made the butt of rid¬ 
icule for their stupidity. These foreign 
writers for the press are rapidly educating 
people into a belief that the farmers are not 
ouly a class but a peasant class. Thus it 
happens that the social status of the farmer 
is lowered, his influence crippled and his 
calling dishonored. 
There is no doubt a foundation of truth 
iu all this, but we are quite positive that 
the ridicule of farmers and its effects are 
not matters of so much concern as Professor 
Brewer seems to think, comments the Phil¬ 
adelphia Weekly Press. The city boy laughs 
at the awkwardness of his country cousin 
when he comes to town, and the couutry boy 
laughs heartily at the city boy’s ignorance 
when on the farm. The newspapers gener¬ 
ally speak of all plumbers and icemen as 
robbers, but neither of these occupations is 
held to be dishonorable. The old saying 
that it requires nine tailors to make a man 
hns never injured the repute of a single 
tailor who behaved himself. None but the 
ignorant, or half-educated, have any lower 
opinion of farmers as a class, because the 
dismal funny man aims feeble funny jokes 
at them. We have never observed any lack 
•f respect for farmers among men bred in 
the city, and we cannot believe that the 
country is in any peril from that cause. We 
have never heard a self-respecting farmer 
complain that he or Mis calling suffered from 
disrespectful treatment. 
A PRY sample of pigeon manure analyzed 
by the Connecticut Experiment Station, 
was found to contain nearly four per cent, 
of nitrogen, 1.83 of phosphoric acid and 1.07 
of potash. 
Have you planted cucumber seeds for 
pickles ? The Paris Pickling Cucumber is 
a novelty that may be worth a trial. The 
cucumbers are said to be as crisp as snap 
beans without the sign of seeds. The 
Early Russian is very short and valued for 
small pickles. The Florida Emerald is 
valued for its perfectly smooth, very dark 
skin. The Green Prolific and Long Green 
will be the surest for market. Tailby’s 
Hybrid is the best as a cucumber for home 
use. 
Our readers should now plant sweet corn 
for latest use—Crosby, Potter’s, Excelsior 
or Evergreen according to season, situation 
and climate. 
Henry Stewart says that the new pro¬ 
cess of separating butter from milk is 
nothing more than a full development of 
the cream separator. This machine per¬ 
forms in itself all the work needed to pro¬ 
cure butter from milk, and does away with 
all the complicated methods of setting milk 
for the slow rising of the cream, and is 
thus the ne plus ultra of this part of the 
dairy process. Nothing further can be ex¬ 
pected unless by an addition to it the gran¬ 
ular butter is discharged into some re¬ 
ceptacle containing cold water or brine, by 
which the small quantity of milk remain¬ 
ing in it may be washed away and the 
clean butter gathered on an apron and 
carried between rollers, where it can be 
pressed dry and then formed into square 
cakes by suitable apparatus or pressed and 
packed into tubs There is nothing diffi¬ 
cult in this, and by and by we may see the 
finished butter made into pound or half- 
pound cakes or put into pails at one opera¬ 
tion directly from the milk. Then will 
come the millennium of the butter dairy¬ 
men. 
Another spraying of hellebore water 
(two table-spoonfuls to a pail—two gallons 
—of water) will dispose .of the last brood of 
currant worms. 
The Mass. E. S. reaches the following 
conclusion among others : “ It is evident 
that only when the farmer knows what his 
soil requires can he produce the most econo¬ 
mical results. It is folly to continue the 
indiscriminate and blind use of fertilizers.” 
Yes, that is a plain case. The R. N.-Y. 
has been preaching it for 10 years. If a given 
farm needs phosphoric acid only, it is not 
economy to give it potash and nitrogen also. 
If it needs potash only, it is not economy to 
spend money for phosphate and nitrogen. 
If it needs nitrogen only, it is not economy 
to sow potash and phosphate. If the land 
do not respond to any one or two, then 
supply all ; and if it do not then respond, 
congratulate yourself that your farm is in 
a very fertile condition. Give it good tillage 
and good crops will follow. 
Bone-dust and Ashes on a Lawn.— We 
find such senseless advice as the following 
in the American Agriculturist: “ D. M. B., 
Michigan, proposes to sow nitrate of soda 
on his lawn and garden, and asks if he had 
better use bone-dust and ashes at the same 
time. Sow the nitrate broadcast in the 
spring, and the next autumn apply the 
bone-dust and ashes. Better still, use 
superphosphate—say 500 pounds per acre 
—instead of bone dust.” 
The nitrate of soda will not benefit the 
lawn at all if in need of potash and phos¬ 
phate, and its effect will be utterly lost be¬ 
fore fall. The bone and potash may well 
be sown in the fall and the nitrate the next 
spring. The advice to use superphosphate 
instead of the bone-dust is bad also. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-N. Y. Times: “ One of the professors in 
the Missouri Agricultural College, in the 
pursuit of science and useful knowledge, 
labors to the extent of a column of print in 
an effort to show that ‘ milk cow ’ is bad 
language and incorrect English. He strives 
to show that such a cow must be made of 
milk, and that milch cow should be used. 
fis being strictly correct. If a milk cow is 
to be considered as a cow made of milk, 
then a saddle horse must be made of saddle, 
a cart horse or a road horse similarly made; 
and so a short or long wool sheep must be 
made of wool, and a butter cow consist of 
butter ; a milkman too would also be com¬ 
posed of milk, and a cotton or silk factory 
of cotton or silk. The professor is clearly 
hunting mares’ pests when he undertakes to 
dispute the common usage of this term, so 
well understood by all concerned.” 
-Christian Union : “ Our friends are 
those who make us do what we can.” 
-Milwaukee Sentinel: “ The preacher 
who bears down heaviest on our neighbors’ 
failings is the one who will get the largest 
salary.” 
-Ohio Farmer: “ By all means let the 
farmers unite and send true men and good 
to Congress now.” 
-" We care not what party a candidate is 
a member of, or whether he is a member of 
any party, so that he is a true friend of the 
farmer, and is honestly endeavoring to pro¬ 
mote his interests.” 
-Life : “ The world is a fair enough 
place if you play fair and pay attention to 
the rules.” 
-“Even though you might have been 
richer if you had never been to college, 
your chance of having fun is better as it is. 
A Bachelor of Arts who cannot have a 
better time on £5,000 a year than an average 
self-made millionaire can have on $50,000, 
has misused his time.” 
-“ One point where you ought to beat the 
self-made rich, is in the ability you should 
have already acquired to command play¬ 
mates. You probably start out with a 
much better assortment of pals than the 
average nascent millionaire had at your 
age, and your chance of affiliating with 
congenial companions all your life through 
is better than his ever was. That is one 
thing that college should have done for 
you, and another is that it should have 
helped you to make companions of books. 
Pleasant people are the pleasantest things 
in the world, and pleasant books are the 
next pleasantest.” 
-Statesman : “ A farmer should besure 
he is right and then follow his knows.” 
-Prairie Farmer : “ Dear friends, I 
was born on a farm, and, as the Irishman 
said, if I live, I will die on a farm.” 
-Farmer’s Review: “As a general 
rule, the most worthies* citizens in any 
given farming community are the owners 
of the most useless and vicious dogs.” 
-Connecticut Farmer: “I believe a 
man will have to give account of how he 
treated the animals under his care, and to 
a certain extent his servants.” 
-Prof. Paul Wagner: “A thorough 
and reliable experiment costs more for 
farmers to make than the value of the re¬ 
sults, and a superficial and careless inter¬ 
pretation of results leads to very serious 
errors.” 
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from manufacturers' prices. We have no use for 
them aud the prices named ought to take them off 
our hands in short order 
A Weed Sewing Machine, Boudoir Cabinet of 
Black Walnut. Manufacturer's price $75. We will 
sell I*. New York for $30—a rare bargain for some 
one. 
A Wheel Hoe and Cultivator; retails for $6. 
Our price $3. 
Several Curtiss’s Improved Needle Hay 
K.nives, chisel edge teeth. Retail price $1.25 each. 
Our price only 75c. each. Order at.once. Address 
N, Vy PPLbOWS. Pon 4. Tenafly, N.IJ, 
