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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Geneva when Dr. Collier went there, are 
now conspicuous by their efforts at rival 
institutions. Director Collier pleads that 
he didn’t have money enough to pay the 
salaries offered elsewhere, yet his station 
has enjoyed $28,000 to $50,000 a year, more 
than any like concern in the country. In 
view of these facts, and especially as the 
State Station at Geneva is so near the 
Cornell Station at Ithaca, which last is 
supported by $15,000 annually from the 
Federal government under the Hatch Act 
and is doing good work, the time seems 
ripe for consolidating the two. Let the 
State put its moneys in charge of Director 
Roberts, with instructions to make use of 
this Geneva plant so far as may be prac¬ 
ticable, and then to establish branch sta¬ 
tions in different parts of the State, includ¬ 
ing one on Long Island. With $25,000 
from the State, Prof. Roberts (who knows 
enough to get good workers and to get lots 
of work out of them) ought to be able to 
give New York farmers three times the 
benefit they derive from the Geneva Station 
under its present management. This is a 
business-like plan that will doubtless be 
indorsed by the Grange and League 
throughout the State. 
TRUE INWARDNESS. 
Mr. Green of the Ohio Station condemns 
Michel’s Early Strawberry as a variety that 
Northern growers have no use for. Plants 
set last spring at the Rural Grounds were 
productive, of excellent quality and exceed¬ 
ingly early. We must not judge a berry 
from its first fruits. 
Mr. Green will be much surprised if 
Shuster’s Gem does not become a general 
favorite. With us it is soft and of poor 
quality. We have no hopes that it will be¬ 
come a favorite. 
Mr. Green says that while the Gandy 
ha« grown in favor during the past season, 
we ought not to plant it too largely. We 
would also caution our readers in the same 
direction. It is a late berry of no remark¬ 
able value in any way. 
Mr. Green says of Enhance that it is to 
be sent out next season. It was praised at 
the meeting of the State (Ohio) Horticul¬ 
tural Society by many, while a few spoke 
against it. We may repeat that it is ex¬ 
tremely productive of large, ill-shaped 
berries of vile quality. The plants are re¬ 
markably hardy and long-lived. Remem¬ 
ber our estimate, friends, of the Enhance... 
Send for the R. N.-Y. wheats, good 
friends. You are welcome to our samples. 
But we shall expect you to report upon the 
comparative yields and values of the six 
different kinds in due time. The R. N.-Y. 
makes this offer for the reason that it de¬ 
sires to ascertain whether these cross¬ 
breeds and hybrids are better or poorer 
than the wheats now in cultivation. 
The president of the Farmers’ League, 
Geo. T. Powell, in an open letter to the 
Evening Journal, charges that the New 
York Experiment Station is conducted ex¬ 
travagantly and unsuccessfully. With an 
annual appropriation of $28,000, $30,000 and 
now $50,000 for the work of the station, 
farmers have the right to have as good 
work done in this State as is done in any 
State in the Union. Yet on comparison 
with other work done in other States, with 
about one-fifth of the amount of our appro¬ 
priation, there would seem to be pretty 
large room for criticism of the manner in 
which money is expended in New York.... 
“ Ohio, for several years,” continues 
Pres. Powell, “ with less than $5,000 appro¬ 
priation, has done vastly more and better 
work for her farmers. In 1889 the Ohio 
Station sent out not less than eight bulle¬ 
tins, and so far in 1890 has sent out four, 
while New York, with $30,000 for station 
work, sent out three bulletins in 1S89, and 
with $50,000, not even one bulletin has ap¬ 
peared yet in 1890. The little State of Con¬ 
necticut, with $7,500, New Jersey, Maine 
and several Western States, with very 
moderate appropriations, are leaving the 
station of the great Empire State sadly 
eclipsed, with her $50,000 appropriation, in 
the judgment of many intelligent and 
practical farmers, on comparison of work 
done by bulletins sent out.”. 
Pres. Powell has been at the station at 
two or three different times, and he says, 
frankly, that a somewhat careful observa¬ 
tion does not reveal the work that ought to 
be forthcoming from the amount of money 
at command. 
The plea that other stations call the best 
men of the New York Station away at ad¬ 
vanced salaries is not satisfactory, so long 
as money enough is appropriated to pay for 
the services of valuable men higher salaries 
than any other State in the Uniou. Why 
are not bulletins issued on poultry after it 
was proposed, at least two years ago, to 
conduct experiments in the business ? 
Why not on swine '< Why not on orchards, 
especially for insect and fungoid troubles, 
and other important operations on the 
farm ? Such bulletins farmers have a right 
to receive, but they do not. 
That a farmer, provided he knows 
something besides the details of managing 
a farm, is as proper a candidate for Con¬ 
gress as a merchant, or a lawyer, or a doc¬ 
tor, will not be disputed, but that every¬ 
body else must step to one side when the 
farmer appears is absurd. Such clannish¬ 
ness as this has no proper place in the 
country; and if the Alliances insist on 
maintaining it, it will surely drag them 
down to the dust. So says the N. Y. 
Times. What they should do to solidify 
and utilize their power, it continues, is to 
secure the nomination of good, able men 
who will study their interests, and a clever 
lawyer, or doctor, or merchant will serve 
them much better in Congress than a stupid 
farmer. 
Replying to the above, the O. C. Farmer 
says that it is not necessary that we should 
select clever lawyers, doctors or merchants 
to represent us any more than it is to call 
on a stupid farmer for a like purpose. We 
have plenty of farmers who are educated, 
practical, common-sense men, who are per¬ 
fectly competent to fill all such places. 
And we want them so filled. There is no 
reason why this part of the world, where 
agriculture in some form is the predomin¬ 
ating interest, should be represented in the 
legislature and in Congress by lawyers 
and others. Let us have a farmer for Con¬ 
gress, a farmer for the legislature, and 
farmers generally for positions of trust. 
We have had a surfeit of the others. 
The Country Gentleman, in answer to a 
request to mention nine of the best straw¬ 
berries, mentions the following as having 
been cultivated in different States, and met 
with wide approval although not always 
succeeding: Of the older ones. Crescent, 
Kentucky. Windsor Chief, Cumberland, 
Charles Downing and Sharpless have 
nearly always succeeded. Later, are 
Bubach, Haverland, Warfield and Pearl. 
Parker Earle, it says, has received much 
commendation in portions of the West. 
And it might have added the East as well. 
The R.N.-Y. was the first to test, report 
and illustrate it. It is one of the most 
promising berries ever tried at the Rural 
Grounds. 
The Wineberry or Rubyberrv goes out of 
fruit, not until blackberries are abundant. 
We have criticised some of the statements 
of Mr. J. Lewis Childs and his method of 
introduction, but we must all the same 
acknowledge our indebtedness to him for 
bringing the beautiful plant under our 
notice. We have little doubt that it will be¬ 
come a favorite wherever it thrives as it 
does at the Rural Grounds. 
A new strawberry, named Lovett’s 
Early, is announced. It is said to be very 
early, firm, of fine quality and productive. 
Our plants were set last spring and we 
have hut a feeble right to express an 
opinion. It seems to be of regular shape, 
(ovate-conical) of fine quality, early, firm, 
and, in short, promising in every way. 
We find the new Paris Pickling Cucum¬ 
ber (Burpee) to be exceedingly prolific. 
The vines are fine and healthy. This cu¬ 
cumber grows long and thin like the frame 
cucumbers, is very crisp with few seeds.... 
The Wineberry, Mossberry, Ruby berry 
(take your choice of familiar names) is 
worthy a place in every garden, as much 
for its beauty as an ornamental plant as 
for its bright, diaphanous, beautiful berries 
which are juicy and refreshing. Rubus 
phcenicolasius is the botanical name. It is 
a strange thing that it has so long escaped 
the popularity which is richly its due. 
A GOOD TIME to make cuttings of goose¬ 
berries and to plant them is right now . 
Farmers, why don’t you tell us the gist 
of your failures and success ? Or are not 
you interested in the advancement of agri¬ 
culture in general ?. 
The New York Tribune says that tests 
at the Ohio Experiment Station led to the 
conclusion that in very many, if not the 
majority of cases, neither wheat nor corn 
will return sufficient increase of crop to 
cover cost of any artificial fertilizer, at 
present prices of grain and fertilizers re 
spectively. This, comments The Indiana 
Farmer, is about the result arrived at by 
the experimenters at Purdue. 
On the other hand, President W. I. 
Chamberlain says, after harvesting the 
wheat on his Ohio farm, that superphos¬ 
phates are not mere stimulants, whisky, to 
the soil. They are plant-food for soil that 
needs them (chiefly clay soil). But they 
should be followed always by clover, and 
each farmer should experiment and know 
whether, with his soil and crops and care, 
they will pay. He says he can’t afford to 
experiment further and not ^use super¬ 
phosphates with wheat on his land, except 
by single drill widths. Thus testing it in 
1888 and 1889 it was clear that without phos¬ 
phates, with the soil as it was, he should 
also have been without wheat. In 1890, 
with soil in better condition, each $5 worth 
of phosphate gave him $10 worth of wheat, 
and far better clover and Timothy seeding. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Press: ‘‘The prayer that is spoken 
lifts up your heart; the prayer that is 
acted elevates your soul.” 
-Scranton Truth : “ There are dull 
times on the farm when the boy has to turn 
the grindstone.” 
-Dallas News : “There is no sense in 
weeping over spilt milk when it is two- 
thirds water.” 
-“Even the patent, labor-saving, self¬ 
binding reaper goes against the grain this 
hot weather.” 
- News : “ Wee Wife—Love you ? Of 
course I do. You dear, blessed old peach 
crop. Big Husband (loving but luckless)— 
Great Scott 1 Why this new title ? W. W. 
—Because you are such a perpetual fail¬ 
ure.” 
-Christian Union: “The employer of 
one or of a thousand men will do a prudent 
as well as a benevolent thing if he ‘ pastes 
in his hat’during August the legend * Go 
Slow,’ and allows it to influence his deal¬ 
ings with those who work for and with 
him, as well as his own activity, in these 
days of heat and humidity. To go slow for 
a few weeks in midsummer will in most 
cases mean a great acceleration of speed 
when the bracing air of early autumn be¬ 
gins to take effect.” 
-Express : “ You are a man after my 
own heart,” said the water-melon to pur¬ 
chaser. 
-Century Magazine:—“ It is better to 
be a lion born of an ass than an ass born of 
a lion.” 
“ Shallow water and shallow people must 
keep muddy if they would appear deep.” 
“ In taking a stranger’s intellectual meas¬ 
ure it is not necessary to give him your own 
dimensions.” 
“ Every man has his faults is a poor ex¬ 
cuse for retailing scandal.” 
“ The shelter of fortifications may make a 
coward of a brave man.” 
“ The smart men of the world are those 
who put the shoulders of other men to the 
wheel.” 
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