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the foregoing is perhaps sufficient to indi¬ 
cate the quality of the article. A simple 
statement of these propositions ought to be 
their all-sufficient refutation. The true 
interests of the farmer are not to be advanced 
by such wild and unreasonable talk. In¬ 
deed, the greatest danger which menaces 
the present hopeful movement of the farm¬ 
ing class for better conditions, is that 
which arises from following unwise leader¬ 
ship into extravagance of language and 
action. Mr. Smith says: “Money, rail¬ 
roads, telegraphs, lands, national banks, 
public debts, coal mines, oil wells, gold 
mines, silver mines; all these are run in the 
interest of a class.” It is undoubtedly true 
that the different lines of business indicated 
in this curious list, are all run in the inter¬ 
est of their owners. In the same sense the 
statement would be true of farms. Perhaps 
Mr. Smith intended to include farms under 
the title “ lands.” 
It is all right that it should be so. As a 
general rule, private enterprise and public 
interest are in harmony, and the general 
welfare of the country could receive no 
more damaging blow than would result 
from the stilling of private enterprises. In 
cases where the public welfare is in conflict 
with private interest the supremacy of the 
former is well settled in principle and far 
advanced in practice. Our circumstances 
do not call for another French revolution. 
We have no justification for imprisoning 
and plundering the rich. The possession 
of wealth does not establish a presumption 
of dishonesty. It is true that a man can¬ 
not become “possessed of great wealth by 
his own labor.” But a man can “ honestly” 
become possessed of great wealth by wisely 
directing the labor of others. There is a 
sense in which it is true that “ labor is the 
foundation of all wealth,” but it is also 
true that labor may be entirely wasted or 
utilized in either a low or high degree. 
The men who can so combine and direct 
labor as to make it highly profitable, are 
not very plentiful. If they are able to do 
for the workman better than he could pos¬ 
sibly otherwise do for himself, and at the 
same time accumulate wealth for them¬ 
selves. by what principle of justice are they 
to be adjudged dishonest ? We farmers 
would do better to imitate them than to 
denounce them. 
“Abnormal Growth of Corn Plant.” 
E. P. Powell, Clinton, N. Y.— A recent 
note in The Rural with regard to an ab¬ 
normal growth of corn, reminds me to re¬ 
port on a fixed variety that I have secured. 
It was a result of cross-breeding pop-corn 
and sweet corn. Three years ago my whole 
crop—30 or 40 hills—bore its seed on top in 
large bunches of small ears so heavy as to 
break off the heads in many cases, or 
weigh them down to the ground. I planted 
last year some of the resulting seed and it 
came true for the most part. This year I 
was crowded for room for my experiments 
and did not plant. Is not such experience 
normal rather than abnormal as The 
Rural calls it P That is, the fruit In this 
case appeared with the flowers, and not 
separated as in our cultivated corn. I 
shouid say it was a case of atavism or 
reversion to the primitive type of this 
family. 
“THE RURAL NEW-YORKER POTA¬ 
TO NO. 2.” 
We have received the following instruc¬ 
tive and interesting letters from subscribers: 
“ The small potato, sent me by The Rural 
two years ago, was planted and yielded me 
16 pounds of fine potatoes. They kept well 
and I planted them the 9th of May. I 
prepared a plot of gravelly ground, 60 by 21 
feet, by plowing under one load of stable 
manure, and harrowing until it was 
thoroughly pulverized. I furrowed out 
according to The Rural trench system, 
making the rows 8X feet apart. In the 
four-inch deep trenches I scattered and 
thoroughly mixed with the soil ‘Stock- 
bridge’s Potato Manure’ and a little sul¬ 
phur. The potatoes, which I cut into one 
eye pieces, 1 placed in the trenches, flesh 
side down, 18 inches apart, covering them 
two inches deep. In 10 days they were up 
nicely; now I scattered on more fertilizer 
and filled up the trenches. After another 
10 days I sowed broadcast between the rows 
more fertilizer, thus using it at the rate of 
1,000 pounds per acre. I kept the ground 
free from weeds and frequently cultivated 
until the vines covering the ground made 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
it impossible without injuring them. The 
potatoes were dug September 4, yielding 15 
bushels, or at the rate of 564 bushels per 
acre. There were very few among them as 
small as the one I received from The R. 
N.-Y. Many large ones weighed nearly 
two pounds each. They were shapely and 
free from scab. As they laid on the 
ground, an old farmer passing by said it 
was the greatest sight he ever saw. 
C. H. FLETCHER. 
Chautauqua County, N. Y.” 
Report of Potato, R. N.-Y. No. 2.— 
Despise not the day of small things. On© 
year ago last spring I received three of the 
most diminutive specimens of the potato 
tribe I ever saw planted. They were not 
larger than good-sized seed balls. I placed 
them in moist earth to sprout, then di¬ 
vided them into eight pieces. One failed 
to grow, leaving seven plants that grew; 
from these I dug 20 pounds of potatoes 18 
pounds of which were of merchantable size. 
The largest weighed 1% pound, 20 largest 
nine pounds. I gave to friends about half- 
a-dozen good-sized specimens, and planted 
the remainder last spring, cutting the seed 
to one eye as nearly as possible, planting in 
drills 3% feet apart, and the pieces two feet 
apart. I have dug from these seven bushel 
baskets well heaped and more than I 
planted besides. I never saw a heap of 
seven bushels that would average so large. 
The largest weighed one pound and five 
ounces; 12 weighed 14)^ pounds. The soil 
was a sandy loam cleared of timber 16 
years ago. It had never been plowed until 
last year and was then planted to beans. 
No fertilizer was used. Out of 11 varieties 
tested these are ahead. I think it a re¬ 
markable yield, as potatoes are nearly a 
failure here this year. h. h. Chamberlin. 
Hudsonville, Ottawa Co., Michigan. 
Adulterated Cotton-Seed Meal.— The 
Director of the Connecticut Experiment 
Station sends us the following communica¬ 
tion :—“A sample of decorticated cotton¬ 
seed meal, recently sent to this station for 
analysis, contains only 5.65 per cent, of 
nitrogen, equivalent to 35.3 per cent, of al¬ 
buminoids, instead of 7.00 per cent, of 
nitrogen, equivalent to 43.75 per cent, of al¬ 
buminoids, which is the average obtained 
in pure decorticated meal. This makes a 
difference of 84 per ton in valuation. The 
color of this meal is rather lighter than 
that of pure cotton seed meal; but other¬ 
wise it is quite like it In appearance. 
Microscopic examination shows the pres¬ 
ence of rice starch, and by careful sifting 
fragments of rice kernels and hulls may be 
identified. Whether this form of adulter¬ 
ation is extensively practiced is not de¬ 
termined ; but purchasers would do well to 
be on their guard. With special reference 
to this adulteration the station will very 
promptly examine all samples of cotton¬ 
seed meal sent by citizens of Connecticut, 
provided the name of the dealer and the 
price per ton are given by the sender, and 
mail or express charges are prepaid. The 
package should bear the name of the 
sender, or some other distinguishing mark. 
From half a pint to a pint of the meal is 
enough to send.” 
A one-cent postage stamp will 
carry this paper to your friend by 
mail after you have read it and 
written your name on the corner 
of the wrapper. 
BRIEFS. 
Dr. T. H. Hoskins, the agricultural 
editor of the Vermont Watchman, says 
that the present condition of American 
agriculture is not a permanent one. It will 
not be long before we shall have a home 
market for all farm products, and shall 
cease sending off the fertility of our farms 
to Europe in grain, meat and cheese. The 
immense extent and native productiveness 
of our lands will make food plenty and 
cheap in America, while the ingenuity and 
enterprise of our mechanics will equally 
cheapen all that farmers have to buy. We 
are to manufacture not only for ourselves 
but for the world; and it will soon be found 
that our natural advantages are so great 
that no foreign couutry can compete witn 
us in any of the leading industries. 
But for the surly, discontented farmer, 
wno sulks because the progress of the age is 
leaving him behind, tossing helplessly in 
the wake of the great steamsnip of prog¬ 
ress, there is not a very hopeful outlook. 
Progress is as remorseless as war. It is in¬ 
deed a warfare of ideas, a revolution of 
thought, aud the men and women without 
thought, without intelligence aud skill, in 
some gainful industry, will necessarily 
suffer. 
One of the wonders of the next century 
will be the slowness of these times to ap¬ 
preciate the necessities which so closely 
press upon us. Nothing is surer than the 
fact that a good education in the practical 
parts of the sciences of nature—of the soil 
and the crop and the feed and the fertil¬ 
izer—is absolutely necessary to success in 
the farming of the times to come. 
Prof. E. S. Goff of the Wisconsin Ex¬ 
periment Station says that the finest crops 
of blackberries he has ever seen were on 
the grounds of Mr. H. C. Adams of Madison, 
the variety being Stone’s Hardy. Although 
the plants were not protected during the 
winter, many of the canes were unable to 
support the immense crops that formed 
upon them and broke down in consequence. 
We have had this variety growing for a 
number of years but it has never borne 
much fruit. 
During the past week the men on the 
Fordhook seed farm belonging to W. Atlee 
Burpee & Co., of Philadelphia, have been 
gathering tomatoes and extracting the seed. 
The tomatoes are first ground and then 
placed where the mass is allowed to ferment. 
It Is then put through a washer, allowing 
the pulp to float away, while the seed set¬ 
tles at the bottom of the machine. The 
work is done on the margin of a small 
brook which empties into a pond frequented 
by a handsome flock of White Pekin ducks. 
The ducks have contracted the habit of 
coming up to the mouth of the stream and 
drinking the fermented juice of the toma¬ 
toes. They soon become drunk and stagger 
about in a most ludicrous manner. They 
have become so fond of the stuff that a gen¬ 
uine old spree is of daily occurrence. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Christian Union : “ For some folks it 
is easy to work and hard to wait. The 
strength of others is to sit still, waiting for 
something to turn up. The successful 
man works while waiting. It is well to 
work. There is sometimes an excuse for 
waiting without action. To work waiting 
is the rule of successful achievement. Tnis 
is a brief discourse, but it exhausts the sub 
ject without exhausting the reader—which 
is more than can be said of some dis¬ 
courses.” 
-Breeder’s Gazette : “ First Gun for 
the World’s Fair.— Mr. A. E. Mansell, 
of Shropshire, England, has notified Secre¬ 
tary Levering that he will offer a prize of 
£100 sterling ($500) for the best Shropshire 
ram (shearling or older) to be exhibited at 
the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. This is cer 
tainly a very handsome purse. By the way, 
is it not a little unusual for the English to 
thus get the start of the ‘Yankees ’ in such 
a matter ?” 
-Trot Press : “ Much of the charity that 
begins at home is too feeble to go visit¬ 
ing.” 
iHi.occUatteou.si Advertising. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural. 
Scrofula 
Is the most ancient a_d most general of all diseases. 
Scarcely a family ts entirely free from it, while thou¬ 
sands everywhere are Its suffering slaves Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla has had remarkable success In curing 
every form of scrofula. The most severe and painful 
running sores, swellings In the neck or goitre, humor 
in the eyes, etc., have yielded to the powerful effects 
of this medicine. Try It. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $l; six for $5. Prepared only 
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
I OO Doses One Dollar 
Highly concentrated. Dose small. In quantity costs 
less than one-tenth cent a day per hen. Prevents and 
cures all diseases. If you can’t get it, we send by mail 
post-paid. One pack. 35c. Five $1. 2 1-tlb. can $1.30; 
6 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps or 
cash. Farmers’ Poultry Guide (price 25c.) free with $1 00 
•rdars or more. I. S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
BEECHAM’S PILLS 
cure SICK HEADACHE. 
£25 Cents a Box. 
OP ALL DRUGGISTS. 
NEW KODAKS 
‘ ‘ You press the 
button , 
we do the rest. ” 
Seven New 
Styles and 
Seizes 
all loaded with 
Transparent 
Films.* 
For sale by a 
Photo. Stoek 
Dealers. 
TIE EASTMAN COMPANY, ROCHESTER, I, T, 
Send for Catalogue. 
FEMALES of the MER- 
CLDLS and NKTHKKLAND Families This Farm Is 
in Logan County, Ky.; is rich, well-stocked and con¬ 
venient to railroad ; excellent for Tobacco. Grasses 
and Grains. Imposing residence and beautiful 
Grounds. Dairy has yearly engagements for Butter, 
and a trade In the South and West for Surplus Calves 
Possession given at once. 
HORTr.NSE DUDLEY, Oakville, Logan Co , Ky. 
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ESTABLISHED 1859 
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u E-moiLAUt 
yniU FEED CUTTER 
The wide, open Throat and improved 
Feeding Device give our ma¬ 
chines larger ca¬ 
pacity than others. 
We are the 
nators of th> 
Fly Wheel, and have 
the best one in use. 
Catalogue of Cutters 
and Powers including 
Treatise on Ensilage _ 
and Plan for Silo. Free. ^ 
THE SILVER MANUFACT’G CO., SALEM, OH] 
ROUBLE 
Breech-Loader 
$ 6.75. 
RIFLES SLOP 
PISTOLS 7Se 
All kinds cheaper tliau 
elsewhere. Before vou 
buy, send stamp for 
Catalogue. Address 
POWELL & CLEJIENT, 
180 Main Street. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Ask Your 
Dealer for the 
American Corn Husker* 
It saves your hands, time and 
money, because it is Arm, easy and 
.a perfect fit on your hand, also 
over all kinds of the most service¬ 
able and comfortable protection 
to the band. Sample peg sent on 
receipt 12c in U. S. postage stamps. 
KAUFMAN BUGS. Bloomington, Ill. 
ITUthDEKIC E. W ARD, Produce Commission Mer- 
A chant,215 Duane Street, N. Y. Write for prices 
aud instruction forshipptng. Ceusigrmeuts solicited. 
P 1 
HSU’S REMEDY FOR CATARRH.—Best. Easiest 
to use. Cheapest. Relief is immediate. A cure is 
certain. For Cold in the Head it has no equal. 
CATARRH 
It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied 
to the nostrils. Price, 50e. Sold by druggists or sent 
by mail. Address, E. T. Hazeltine, warren, Pa. 
