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United States have ever succeeded in arti¬ 
ficially hybridizing or cross-breeding wheat, 
but in one or two cases the result has been 
highly satisfactory.” We publish the 
above without comment. Does it need 
any ? 
A Great Practical Interest to 
Northern Farmers.— While the increase 
of the world’s population is demanding 
more cotton each year, the supply is likely 
to grow less, says J. J. H. Gregory, in the 
N. E. Farmer. Just at this crisis a great 
practical discovery has been made by a dis¬ 
tinguished inventor, whereby flax can be 
made to take the place of cotton and woolen 
in many textile fabrics. The two barriers 
to the utilizing of flax for this purpose have 
heretofore been the long time required to 
bleach it, and the impossibility of reducing 
it to a fiber sufficiently fine to be worked 
by existing cotton and woolen machinery. 
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been 
spent in experiments in Europe in the en¬ 
deavor to attain these ends. The gentleman 
by his new process can both bleach it and 
reduce it to a fiber as fine as the best sea 
island cotton within a couple of hours and 
put it on the market at the price of cotton. 
His discovery is accepted by the papers de¬ 
voted to the textile industry as a success. 
Now as flax can be raised throughout the 
North and will be used in almost unlimited 
quantities, it looks as though the future 
might seethe North sharing with the South 
in producing raw material, and thereby 
help solve the problem now so much agi¬ 
tated : “How can we make our farming 
profitable ?”__ 
RURAL LIFE NOTES. 
It is reported that Mr. W. A. Burpee re¬ 
fused $25 for one setting of eggs of his Indian 
Game fowls. 
All land not in sod might well be plowed 
this fall. Is it so .. 
The nitrogen in cotton-seed is lower than 
the nitrogen in nitrate of soda at present 
prices. The cotton-seed also contains about 
three percent, of phosphoric acid and two of 
potash and may be bought for about half 
the price of the nitrate. 
The United States Pomologist tells the 
Rural World that, having traveled over a 
considerable part of the country, he finds 
that in a few localities there will be apples 
enough for home use, and, very rarely, 
there will be some to sell, but it is his 
advice to the growers of winter apples to 
set their prices high and to be very wary 
about selling on contract to those who are 
about the country endeavoring to engage 
apples. Kansas and Missouri are perhaps 
better supplied with winter apples than 
any other States in the Union. During a 
trip he made from Washington to Chicago 
he did not see a peck of apples, all told, on 
the trees. In western New York there are 
almost none. The case is very much the 
same in New England. Michigan has a 
few, especially in the northern part of the 
State, and western North Carolina has a 
moderate crop. A irginia, Pennsylvania 
and Ohio have almost nothing. 
A recent bulletin of the N. J. E. S. shows 
that where farmers know what they want 
and unite in purchasing car lots, there is 
a decided saving in the cost of plant-food. 
Of 178 samples of complete fertilizers 
examined by the N. J. Ex. Station in 18S9, 
in nine only did the commercial value ex¬ 
ceed the selling price, and the average 
selling price exceeded the average station’s 
valuations by $5.76 per ton, or 19 per cent. 
Of 7S samples already analyzed this year, 
but four exceeded in value the selling 
price, while the average selling price per 
ton was $7, or 26 per cent, greater than 
the average station’s valuation. 
The Best Early Varieties.— Dr. Hos¬ 
kins, among the first pomological author¬ 
ities of to-day, says, in Orchard and Gar¬ 
den, that beauty in fruit is more important 
than size; but he thinks beauty and size 
are more important than very high quality. 
It is not often that all three can be found 
together. He feels sure that there can be 
no mistake in planting the Yellow Trans¬ 
parent as a first early, followed by Early 
Strawberry, Sops of Wine, Williams’s 
Favorite, Primate and Early Joe. A little 
later is Garden Royal, perhaps the best of 
them all in quality, and inferior to none in 
attractiveness. Porter is a fine apple for 
September, and Gravenstein follows it ad¬ 
mirably. 
M. Crawford, the strawberry authority 
of Ohio, is pleased with the Parker Earle. 
The color, he says, is a bright, glossy red, 
the texture firm, and the quality good. The 
trusses are large and spreading, the bios- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORK'ER. 
soms bisexual, and the plants dark green, 
strong, stocky, and perfectly healthy. 
Lady Rusk does not come up to his ex¬ 
pectations. Neither does it to The R. 
N.-Y.’s. Mrs. Cleveland he speaks of more 
favorably than we may, though another 
season may tell a different story. Michel’s 
Early was four days ahead of any other 
kind on his grounds. Our report was that, 
judged by its first season, it was the earliest 
berry we have ever tried. Lovett’s Early 
may prove its equal. “ Crawford,” all 
things considered, was the finest variety 
on his place.'.. 
F. C. Miller places the Eureka at the 
head of the list, and says that it is the most 
productive of all ; and T. T. Lyon, John 
Little and others are enthusiastic in its 
praise. Judged thus early at the Rural 
Grounds, we cannot speak very favorably 
of it. 
The Jessie is immensely popular in many 
parts, while in others, as at the Rural 
Grounds, it does not amount to much. A 
friend in Massachusetts writes Mr. Craw¬ 
ford that the Jessie and Bubach filled his 
pocket-book. He sold 22,000 quarts at an 
average of 13 cents a quart. That was 
good. 
The Warfield’s great beauty, firmness, 
good flavor, productiveness and vigor, com¬ 
bined with good size, make it exceedingly 
popular wherever it thrives, which it does 
not do with The R. N.-Y. The Haverland 
succeeds everywhere, Mr. Crawford says. 
For vigorous growth and great productive¬ 
ness it is probably not excelled. 
We have faith that the yield of potatoes 
may be much increased by selecting seed 
potatoes from the most productive hills. 
By this selection a farmer near the R. N.-Y. 
farm, on Long Island, has been enabled to 
use his own seed of Early Ohio for upwards 
of 20 years, and the crops are larger now 
than when he first raised the variety. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-G. E. Meissner: “When I see catalogues 
and circulars announcing that trees and 
stock will be ready for shipping by Sep¬ 
tember 20, from sections where the first 
light frosts can hardly be expected before 
the middle of October, or even later, I can¬ 
not help having grave doubts as to the 
success of stock, which must be dug a 
month or more too soon in order to have it 
ready for shipping by the time announced. 
And what is most to be regretted, it seems 
that this abuse, for I cannot call it other¬ 
wise, is growing worse from year to year, 
and I think it high time that a halt should 
be called and a stand taken against a prac¬ 
tice which can ultimately result only in 
ruining our fall trade entirely.” 
-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in The 
Forum: “ Let us have done with playing 
about the fire, and call a low thing low, and 
out with it. Face the truth. An im¬ 
modest dress does not cover a modest 
woman. If your costume is coarse and 
vulgar, you can blame no voice or pen which 
calls you coarse and vulgar too. The 
woman who dresses indecently—never mind 
who, never mind where, never mind why— 
is indecent. The woman who dresses with¬ 
out shame is shameless.” 
“To be rich and fashionable—does this 
give one the privilege of being immodest 
and respected ?” 
“Make it fashionable to be decent and 
the day is won.” 
-F. K. Phoenix in Popular Gardening: 
—“ Few fruit seeds grc w more readily than 
pear seeds from the fruit, stuck right in 
the ground, covered an inch or less with 
lively, rich, sandy or coal ash soil that can¬ 
not bake, and then covered over-winter 
with two or three inches of grass, hay, 
straw or leaf mulch, to be removed early in 
spring.” 
-American Garden:—” Do you wonder 
that ambition and inspiration flee from 
bigotry ? Farmers are fond of telling us 
that the farm supplies the intellect that 
moves the world, that it furnishes the cities 
with its sturdiest men. This is the saddest 
commentary that can be made upon farm¬ 
ing. A calling that gives its best away, 
that retains the poorest for itself, can never 
thrive.” 
“ The man who cannot see beyond the 
mere testing of varieties certainly lacks the 
mind and temper of an investigator. Such 
a man is simply a tester, not an experimen¬ 
ter. Merely, testing varieties because they 
are put upon the market, like analyzing 
commercial fertilizers, is not a true experi¬ 
ment. It is simply discussing what another 
has done, unmixing what another has 
mixed. It is investigation which follows 
rather than leads. The stations which lay 
most store upon this sort of work will every 
year find themselves where they were the 
year before. Their bulletins serve but an 
ephemeral use; they pass away as varieties 
pass away. They record no real progress.” 
“ But varieties must be tested, they tell 
us. Yes ; but make such tests a minor 
feature. Never let the impression get 
abroad that the stations are created for the 
purpose of watching scoundrels, or for do¬ 
ing work which must go down with the 
sun. It is said that the people demand it, 
but they do not demand that nothing else 
shall be done! And much of this demand, 
perhaps most of it, is a reflex from the sta¬ 
tions themselves.” 
-Massachusetts Ploughman : “ There 
is but one righteous inducement to get 
wealth, and that is to do good with it to 
others. But farming, wisely and diligently 
pursued, is a calling worth any sensible 
man’s ambition, and will bring competence 
and much pleasure. The disabilities that 
surround it have come chiefly through neg¬ 
lect of farmers to use their political powers 
judiciously. They supposed that the poli¬ 
ticians who sought their votes would look 
after their interests; but they don’t—not 
much.” 
-New York Tribune : “ Mr. S. Rufus 
Mason emphasizes this bit of homely 
philosophy, not new, but worth repeating: 
1 Never grumble at what you can help ; 
that’s your own fault. Never grumble at 
what you can’t help ; that’s not your fault. 
Ergo: Never grumble.’ ” 
-Denver Road : “Sin has many tools, 
but a lie is the handle that fits them all.” 
- Arthur Bryant : “ The chestnut does 
not appear to grow more rapidly in the 
richer soils than on the poorer lands. 
Lands utterly worthless for cultivation 
may be made to yield an income by plant¬ 
ing them with chestnuts.” 
-S. C. Moon, in Orchard and Garden: 
“Although chestnut orchards that have 
come into bearing are few as yet, still the 
experiments that have been made are en¬ 
couraging and indicate that they will be 
quite as profitable as any other fruit 
trees.” 
“ There are no other trees as well ad¬ 
apted for avenues, that will at the same 
time yield profitable returns, as our native 
nut-bearing trees, and none more suitable 
for shade and ornament about farm build¬ 
ings, along farm lanes or in pasture fields.” 
“ When the culinary uses of chestnuts 
are more generally appreciated in this 
country, as they are in Europe, the de¬ 
mand for those of large size will be 
greatly increased. When they are boiled 
alone, or shelled and boiled with Lima 
beans and properly seasoned, they make a 
delicious dish. European cooks know how 
to utilize them in a variety of ways.” 
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