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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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all persons interested In forestry. Referring 
to the increasing number of abandoned 
farms and uncultivated, apparently value¬ 
less lands,which in the older Eastern States 
reduce the tax-paying capacity of the town¬ 
ship, he suggests that by planting these 
waste, non-producing lands to forest a 
revenue might be produced from them. 
‘ A man,’ the writer says, ‘ may not live to 
grow trees for a crop—a town can, because 
it is itself immortal. Why, then, should 
not a township grow timber ?’ 
The suggestion, not novel in itself, is a 
good one, and should command careful con¬ 
sideration, not only by the friends of a 
rational forest-policy, but by every citizen 
who is interested in the prosperous condi¬ 
tion of the town in which he lives. If every 
community will concern itself in the 
rational use of the land within its borders, 
if every town and every county will give 
profitable occupation to its waste lands by 
utilizing them for forest-growth, the 
movement would not only increase the 
financial prosperity of each community, 
but the efforts of those who work for a 
rational forest-policy in the country at 
large would be subserved by every com¬ 
munal forest established. In fact, no better 
method of forest reform could be suggested 
than by beginning forestry in each town, 
which as a part of the country at large, 
will influence the movement of the whole. 
As to the desirability of communal forests 
—of which we have an example in the first 
town forest in the United States, at Lynn, 
Massachusetts—there can be no question. 
In Germany I know of communities where 
not only all taxes are paid by the revenue 
from the communal forests, but every 
citizen receives a dividend in addition. 
The town of Gorlitz, in Silesia, is an ex¬ 
ample; also the town of Miinden, where one 
of the Prussian forest-academies issituated. 
The town of Goslar, in the Harz Mountains, 
derives from 7,500 acres of forest an annual 
revenue of §25,000 to $30,000, and it may be 
of interest to American farmers to note 
that it receives the highest prices for its 
wood products on account of the excellent 
roads which facilitate transportation. The 
capital invested in making and keeping in 
order these roads is calculated to yield 20 
per cent, yearly on the investment. 
From excellent reports of the forest- 
master of the City of Zurich (Switzerland), 
which give the history of the city forest, 
going back to the fourteenth century, it 
appears that the revenue derived from its 
less than 3,000 acres averaged $15,000 annu¬ 
ally during the decade from 1800 to 1870, 
and $18,600 during the next decade. How 
forest-property under management appre¬ 
ciates in value appears from the following 
table, which shows in the forests belonging 
to the canton of Zurich, and comprising 
about 82,000 acres, during a period of 50 
years, almost a threefold increase both of 
yield and value. 
The figures as to yield, expenses and 
valuation are for a siugle acre. 
Decade. 
Gross 
yield. 
Outlay. 
Net 
yield. 
Capital^ 
value. 
1880 to 1840.... 
.... $8.25.. 
.. $0.85... 
$2.40 
.. $60.20 
18-10 to tOSO... 
.... 8.50. 
.. 101... 
. 2.49. 
... HI.90 
1850 to I860... 
.... 4.59 
.. 1.02... 
. 8.57. 
... 89.24 
I860 to 1870... 
.... 7.09. 
.. 1.29 .. 
. 5.77. 
... 141.48 
1870 to 1880... 
.... 8.84 
.. 1.87... 
. 6.97. 
... 174.83 
The price now is nine to 12 cents per 
cubic foot, and 60 to 70 cents per day for 
wages. 
While, then, no move in forestry reform 
could be more promising than the establish¬ 
ment of commuual forests; while eventually 
these forests will be profitable and sources 
of handsome revenues, we should not ex¬ 
pect the impossible from the forest-com¬ 
missioners and foresters who shall be called 
to inaugurate the movement.” 
Money in tiie Country.— How many 
people know how much there is in this 
country of what people call “ money,” how 
much in gold and silver coin and how 
much in greenbacks and other paper cur¬ 
rency bearing the stamp of the United 
States Government ? Very few. Inquiry 
at the Treasury Department, says the 
Washington Critic, discovers the fact that 
there is, all told, just a little over two 
billions, or between 30 aud 40 dollars apiece 
for every man, woman aud child in the 
United States. Of this a little over one 
half is in gold and silver coin and a little 
less than one-half in paper of various 
kinds. Of the metal money about two- 
thirds are in gold and onef-third in silver. 
Ot the paper about one-third is in United 
States notes or greenbacks, one-fourth in 
silver certificates, one-sixth in gold certifi¬ 
cates, one-fifth in national bank notes and 
the remainder in various denominations. 
But the $2,000,000,000 of the United States 
currency are not all in circulation among 
the people. More than one-third is locked 
up in the Treasury building, and that is 
the normal state of things. One-half of all 
the gold and three-fourths of all the silver 
is locked up in the Treasury. The circulat¬ 
ing medium in use among the people is 
three-fourths paper, the largest volume 
being in greenbacks, with silver certificates 
next, then national bank notes, then gold 
certificates. But we would not be doing 
gold justice if we did not say that there 
was more gold in circulation than of any 
one kind of paper. What a disproportion be¬ 
tween the amount of wealth and the 
amount of money in the United States 1 
All the money in the country, including 
what is locked up in the Treasury, would 
not be sufficient to buy the real estate and 
personal property in the city of Washing¬ 
ton. Americans are not in the habit of 
carrying all their wealth in their pockets, 
and that is why American money is worth 
cent per cent, all the world over. 
“ Farmin’ Don’t Pay ! ’’—Five hand 
rakes in one wagon !! On the 5th of July I 
saw a farmer with the above number of 
rakes, says Mr. L. W. Curtis, in the New 
England Farmer. Mr. Curtis, by the way, 
lives in a part of the country where farms 
are being “abandoned.” He was going to 
commence haying July 7th in good earnest, 
as the number of rakes indicated. For 
three days he has seen three men working 
in a four-acre lot and it is not done yet, 
“though they got in some yesterday” (Sun¬ 
day.) It is all mowed and raked by hand, 
cocked up at night, opened the next day, 
turned before noon, again raked by hand, 
and the scatterings are also raked in the 
same way. This is only a specimen of 
what Mr. C. sees many times a day in his 
rides through the country. Is it any 
wonder that a majority of farmers do not 
make money when they follow the old ruts 
their fathers followed 50 years ago ? The 
man mentioned above could not mow his 
field with a machine, but he has a meadow 
nearer his house, which can be easily 
drained, on which, if properly tilled, he 
could cut more grass than he now does on 
his whole farm, and he could get it at one- 
sixth the cost. When will farmers do a 
little more thinking and use their muscles 
less ? 
BOILED DOWN AND SEASONED. 
Carry in one of your pockets a quantity 
of colored cord or kite-tail rags. As you 
pass through the corn field, tie dhe of these 
about the stalks that suit you best—those 
that “silk” first, that sucker least, that 
carry the sets lowest, etc. 
CUT OFF the tassels of barren stalks. 
Insist that the children shall speak 
kindly to all the animals raised on the farm. 
One of our subscribers favors us with 
the following bits of advice : “ Do not 
scold your wife. Do not ill-treat your help. 
Do not abuse your horses. Do not quarrel 
with your neighbor. Keep the briars, 
thistles and weeds in general from the 
farm. Keep up your line fences. Pick up 
the rubbish. Be temperate. Be honest. 
Be kind. Serve God. Take The R. N.-Y. 
Read it carefully. Use judgment in fol¬ 
lowing its advice-and, be happy !”. 
W. W. Cooke, of the Vermont Experi¬ 
ment Station, finds that while the cost of 
the raw materials of fertilizers to the 
manufacturers has decreased, yet these 
manufacturers have so lowered the quality 
of their goods as to make the farmer pay 
about $1.50 more per ton than last year for 
the same amount of plant food. 
T. B. Terry tells the readers of the 
Ohio Farmer that if they have not a barrel 
or two of plaster to use in their stables this 
summer they are making a great mistake. 
It is a comfort to man and beast, and will 
save ammonia enough to more than pay 
for itself besides. A single pint of plaster 
in each horse stall, each day, keeps Mr. 
Terry’s stables entirely free from all foul 
odors during this hot weather. Try it once, 
he says, and you will never do without it 
afterwards. 
If you would have hollyhocks bloom next 
summer, sow the seeds now. 
A. E. Blount of the Colorado Agricul¬ 
tural College and Experiment Station, has 
been elected Horticulturist of the New 
Mexico Agricultural College and Station. 
THE R. N.-Y. congratulates the Colorado 
Agricultural College and Experiment Sta¬ 
tion and extends its sympathy to the New 
Mexico Agricultural College and Station.. 
Dew is deposited upon the grass aud soil 
when they become cooler than the air above. 
So, too, condensation may occur when the 
temperature of the air is suddenly lowered. 
Fogs and clouds are caused by the cooling 
of the air, which is charged with vapor. 
Sudden cooling causes rain,. 
If we would have a dry cellar, open the 
windows at night and close them in the day¬ 
time provided the air of the cellar is cooler 
during the day, or warmer or of the same 
temperature at night. The vapor of the 
warmer outside air condenses when it finds 
its way into the cellar, the same as it con¬ 
denses upon an ice-pitcher. 
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- Mrs. Annie L. Jack : “Regularity in 
eating, sleeping and working, with inter¬ 
vals of recreation, is the secret of a sturdy 
manhood. Overwork draws upon the prin¬ 
cipal of one’s resources.” 
“ Many minds are like hard-shelled seeds. 
It takes a winter’s frost—need or adversity 
—to bring them out.” 
“ Do you want to teach the youth of to¬ 
day to respect the farmer and hanker after 
the farm ? Then influence the literature of 
to-day. Let it cease to caricature the farm 
and the farmer.” 
-H. A. White: “Many a farmer has 
failed of success who would have been a 
prosperous man if his wife had known just 
how he stood.” 
“ The farmer’s gain is no man’s loss.” 
“We naturally entertain respect for a 
man who mikes money by farming and 
improves his farm at the same time.” 
- Carlyle : “ The smile is the visible 
joy of the heart, mantling the face. In the 
smile of some men is the cold glitter of 
ice.” 
“ Words have weight when there is a 
man back of them.” 
- Dr. E. E. White: “Practical facts 
must be applied by an intelligent mind.” 
“When an act repeats itself, unless re¬ 
sisted, habit is formed.” 
“ A virtuous and true life is an ascent, 
and every step upwards requires the put¬ 
ting forth of a new energy. Vice, on the 
contrary, is a descent. Every step adds to 
the momentum of its victim.” 
“ Man sows a desire and reaps an act; he 
sows an act and reaps a habit; he sows a 
habit and reaps a character; he sows a 
character and reaps a destiny. Thus, in 
four sowings, a wrong desire may end in a 
fearful destiny.” 
“The grandest result of human life is 
manhood, and the regal fact of manhood is 
character. A noble character is at once 
the joy and victory of life.” 
- Philadelphia Record : “ A man 
cleared his house of rats by trapping and 
chloroforming one, wiring a small bell to 
its neck and letting it go.” • 
- Garden and Forest : “ Patrick Barry 
was honorable in business, liberal in chari¬ 
ties, consistent in his religious profession, 
he won the hearty affection of those who 
knew him intimately and commanded the 
respect and confidence of the entire com¬ 
munity. 
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