7 2? 
i89o 
The difference in the time of ripening was 
about one month in favor of the trans¬ 
planted onions, making it possible to use 
them for bunching, also to market the crop 
at an earlier date than could be done with 
those in the open ground. The yield of the 
transplanted onions was about double that 
of the others, in most cases, as the follow¬ 
ing table of some of the leading varieties 
will show : 
Name of Variety, 
Traps- Not Trans¬ 
planted. planted. 
Bushels. Bushels. 
Giant Rocca. 1,106 
Mammoth Pompeii. 1,428 
Spanish King. 1,3'.9 
White Victoria. 1,179 
Yellow Danvers. 594 
Red Wethersfield. 779 
596 
606 
751 
502 
399 
560 
The advantages of transplanting onions 
may be enumerated as follows : 1. The 
greater probability of securing a good 
stand of plants. 2. The saving of labor at 
the most critical period. 3. Advance in 
time of maturity. 4. Increase in the crop. 
5. Improvements in appearance of crops, 
enhancing the market value. 6. The ground 
is occupied for a shorter period, making it 
possible to use the land for some other crop 
the same season. This plan may not be 
feasible for those who grow onions on a 
large scale, but it can be followed to ad¬ 
vantage by gardeners who do a general 
market garden business, and who have the 
necessary hot-beds or greenhouses. It 
should be remembered that the foreign 
varieties with which the above results 
were obtained are not such good keepers a? 
the varieties commonly grown. 
On a comparatively small capital the 
Ohio Experiment Station has been doing 
some very sound, useful work. Study it, 
good Dr. Collier. _ 
Potato Rural New-Yorker.— Here is 
a strong word of praise for our No. 2, which 
appeared in a late number of the London 
Garden : “ About two years ago I received 
a single tuber of this variety of potato from 
Messrs. Thorburn, of New York, and hav¬ 
ing given it a good trial, I can confidently 
state that it deserves all that can be said 
in its favor. The tubers are not only large 
and very even, but of first rate quality. 
This year I planted the stock I had on a 
piece of light, stony soil, without any 
manure, and the season proving very wet, 
this was rather advantageous than other¬ 
wise, as I find that the soundest crops this 
year are where little if any fresh manure 
has been applied. I lifted the crop in the 
middle of September. There were scarcely 
any small tubers, but any number over one 
pound each, and many over one pound four 
ounces, and when freshly dug they proved 
of better table quality than any other sort 
I have tried, for, as a rule, the heavy rain¬ 
fall has been against high quality. I do 
not know if this variety has been widely 
distributed, but perhaps some readers of 
The Garden can state how it has turned 
out with them. My own idea is that it will 
prove a first-rate main crop sort. The very 
largest tubers I had were by no means 
coarse or ugly in shape, but as even as the 
medium-sized ones. Now that the potato 
rot is occupying a good deal of attention, 
it would be well to note what varieties are 
resisting the disease and what are falling 
victims to it. james groom. 
Gosport. ”_ 
SHORT STORIES. 
In general, it is probable, says Prof. S. 
W. Johnson, that 99 per cent, and more of 
the soil, exclusive of water, does not in the 
slightest degree contribute directly to the 
support of the present vegetation of our 
ordinary field products. 
The Indiana Experiment Station cautions 
farmers against buying the “ Red Star 
Ferric ” and the “ Western Reserve Fertil¬ 
izer.” Both are worth less than $6 a ton 
and cost between §20 and $30. 
Quite a number of station bulletins tel¬ 
ling of their wheat experiments, come to 
us after it is too late to sow wheat this 
year. 
The London Agricultural Gazette says 
that the general failure of the potato crop 
this year, especially in Ireland, is a calamity 
to be deeply deplored. In 1847 Ireland was 
first visited by the terrible scourge, and the 
people were brought to the brink of starva¬ 
tion, nay, many actually died from sheer 
hunger. The latest reports from that un¬ 
fortunate country state that not since 1847 
has such a general and complete failure of 
the crop been experienced. Not only is 
the disease prevalent in Ireland, but in 
England and Scotland it is also to be 
found. 
What are we doing about it ? Are our 
far mers wide- awake to this great need ? Do 
we see them interested in their common 
schools, anxious to employ the best teach¬ 
ers, and to furnish them with good school- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
houses and efficient means for thorough in¬ 
struction ? Is the state o l our schools the 
common topic of discussion at every farm¬ 
ers’ meeting ? Are we ready and willing to 
be taxed, and sharp to see that the taxes 
are expended in the most effective manner 
to make our children better scholars than 
we are ourselves ?. 
There seem to be solid reasons why 
potatoes should not materially decline in 
price. The American crop is short and the 
foreign crop as well. 
IE you have no Fay Currants, try a few 
plants. The R. N.-Y. was the first paper to 
describe and illustrate this, and we have 
never had occasion to take any part back. 
Ask Mr. Josselyn, the introducer. 
Several varieties of potatoes are thus 
early sprouting at the Rural Grounds. 
MR. T. B. Terry, as he tells the Ohio 
Farmer, is now confident that varieties of 
potatoes will run out, even though the seed 
be selected with every care. It may be so, 
but we should like to have a trial of the 
experiment of selecting the seed from the 
most productive hills and the shapeliest, 
most solid and best formed tubers in those 
hills, from year to year, through 20 years or 
more. 
Dr. Hoskins, our valued Vermont cor¬ 
respondent, has used a new potato digger 
which pleases him better than any other. 
It is of simple construction and low cost 
and does its work right well. 
P. M. Augur & Sons, of Middlefleld, 
Conn., introduce a new strawberry named 
after the place of its birth. It was sent to 
the Rural Grounds August 24, 1S87, as 
No. 70. It is a pistillate variety, with large 
leaves borne on long stems. It produces 
runners freely and berries abundantly in 
mid-season—say June 20. The color of the 
berry is scarlet; heart-shaped, nearly per¬ 
fect. The quality is excellent. The R. 
N.-Y. commends a trial of the Middlefleld 
for home use. It is rather soft for long 
shipment. 
Wm. Parry, of Parry P. O., New Jersey, 
sends us a single chestnut from the “ Japan 
Giant,” which measures just two inches 
through its widest diameter. The skin is 
puckery, and the flesh not so sweet as that 
of the smaller variety known as the 
Paragon. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
- Cor. N. Y. Tribune : “ Solomon says : 
‘ He that is slow to anger is better than the 
mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he 
that taketh a city.’ All the learning of the 
schools, all the wealth of the opulent 
would be worth less to a man than the self- 
command that would save him from hot 
and hasty speech and rash, ill-considered 
conduct, which eventuate in quarrels, 
assaults that call for the intervention of 
the police, difficulties among neighbors, 
the litigation that fattens lawyers, 
judges, sheriffs, crowding the lower and 
higher courts till they have to be multi¬ 
plied and enlarged. Most of all this might 
be avoided by self-government, with benefit 
to public morals and great relief to tax¬ 
payers.” 
“ In a discussion of the general subject of 
medical profession by The South’s Com¬ 
panion the rapidly growing tendency of the 
profession to eschew drugs in their practice 
is pointed out; indeed, ‘ none have less con¬ 
fidence in the power of medicine to cure 
than our best physicians,' and one prom¬ 
inent in Boston wishes inscribed on his 
tombstone, ‘ Here lies a doctor who never 
gave medicine.’ This matter is especially 
appropriate to the columns of agricultural 
papers for the reason that farmers’ families, 
and other rural people, are proverbially, 
victimized by the drug delusion.” 
- College Record : “ God holds us 
accountable not for the original endow¬ 
ment so much as for the acquired in 
crement. He asks no pigmy to be a giant, 
but only a respectable pigmy. Woe to the 
man whose grave is no larger than his 
cradle.” 
-—Puck : “ Economy is wealth; but it is 
a kind of wealth that the rich man finds it 
hard to transfer to his son.” 
“ His religion is a sham whose trade is 
dishonest.” 
- Christian Nation : “ Teach boys and 
girls to avoid and detest the shams of 
* high ’ society.” 
-How Crops Feed: “The hay crop Is 
one that takes up and removes from the 
soil the largest quantity of mineral mat¬ 
ters (ash ingredients), but even a cutting 
of 2)^ tons carries off no more than 400 
pounds per acre. We may assume the 
weight of the soil upon an acre—taken to 
the depth of one foot—to be 4,000,000 
pounds. The ash ingredients of a heavy 
hay crop amount therefore to but one ten 
thousandth of the soil, admitting the crop 
to be fed exclusively by the 12 inches next 
the surface. Accordingly no less than 100 full 
crops of hay would have to be taken off to 
consume one per cent, of the weight of the 
soil to this depth.” 
- Life : “Among other odd developments 
which one hears of are countless stories of 
cures, well attested many of them, by 
various irregular and quasi-religious 
methods, which make some doctors smile, 
and others scold, others threaten the ter 
rors of the law, and others possibly wonder 
if the babes and sucklings of science may 
not sometimes stumble upon a sort of wis 
dom that is denied to the professors.” 
- New York Herald : “ If we could get 
on without any government at all, that 
would be admirable. Human nature, how 
ever, will not permit it; so we must do the 
next best thing, which is to have as little 
government as possible, educate the people 
to be their own rulers and keep the federal 
power within the narrowest limits.” 
“ Lay down one rule, and judge all new 
theories by it: The government must be 
kept in the background as much as possi¬ 
ble and the people always kept at the 
front.” 
- Ram’s Horn: “A lazy man never 
causes the devil much uneasiness.” 
“ The devil works hard, but he never 
asks for a vacation.” 
“ The devil can make almost anything he 
wants out of a loafer.” 
“ Evil thoughts are seeds sprouting 
which the devil has planted.” 
- Garden & Forest : “ A garden of 
Pampas Grass 10 acres in extent is one of 
the objects of interest to tourists who visit 
Anaheim, California. This year about 
40,000 plumes will be harvested, and the 
yield after the plants become fully estab- * 
lished will average 100,000 plumes. These 
plumes bring about five cents apiece.” 
-Orange County Farmer : “ Lazy man 
trying to be a dairyman ! Might as well 
try to make a trotter of a wooden horse.” 
- Ram’s Horn: “The woman who 
marries a man to reform him undertakes a 
job that will ruin her complexion.” 
-Jersey Bulletin : “ Some cows will 
eat profitably double the food that other 
cows can pay for.” 
- Texas Siftings : “ The quail has be¬ 
gun to respond to the toast of the season.” 
-Berkshire News: “The time to 
gather autumn leaves is before autumn 
leaves.” 
“ ‘I must tire you,’ said the blacksmith. 
‘ Well,’ spoke up the hub, ‘ wheel have to 
bear it.’” 
Pi.s'ceUattmt.s gLdmtissing. 
In writing to advertisers please alwa} s 
mention The Rural. 
Two Giants 
On the one hand—Scrofula, the ancient di-ease, 
known the world over, gnawing at the vitals of every 
nation, existing in the blood of nearly every family — 
descended to us from our fathers or acquired by our 
wrong habits and indulgences—powerful, obstinate, 
almost Im pregnable. 
On the other hand Hood's SarsapariUa, the mod¬ 
ern medicine, the great enemy of Impure blood, 
accomplishing the most wonderful cures of scrolula, 
salt rheum etc —the conqueror of disease, econom¬ 
ical, reliable, sure. Try 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six fo* *5. Prepared only 
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 
IOO 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. 25c. Five $1. 2 1-4 lb. can $1.20; 
6 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps or 
cash. Farmers’ Poultry Guide (price 25c. 1 free with $1.0* 
irders or more. I. S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
BEECH AM’S PILLS 
ACT LIKE NIA.G-IC 
ON A WEAK STOMACH. 
25 Cents a Box. 
OF ALL DRUGGISTS. 
■ CTIinV Thorough and practical 
ftl(||M|li O I WU I instruction given by 
numb Mail In Book-keeping, Business norms. 
Arithmetic. Penmat.ship Shorth-nd 
etc. Low rates. Distar ceno objection CDeulars free. 
Bryant & Stratton, 415 Main Street, Buffalo N. Y. 
NEW PARLOR CAME 
ALL ACES ENJOY IT! 
This National Parlor Game is 
Perfectly Harmless and In¬ 
tensely Amusing. No better 
entertainment for the home. 
Crowing Children need it. 
Everybody needs it for 
Health and 
Amusement. 
Pat. Feb. 
19,1889. 
Mailed 
post paid. 
Nickel, SI. 
Bronze, 
75 cents. _ _ 
ELASTIC TIP 
Cor. Cornhill and Washington 
n f ntraarD ft ICHUP 
NEW KODAKS 
‘ 4 You press the 
button , 
we do the rest.” 
Neven !Vew 
Styles and 
Sizes 
all loaded with 
Transparent 
Films. 
For sale by all 
Photo. Stork 
Dealers. 
THE EUSTMAN COMPAHY, ROCHESTER, H. Y, 
Send for Catalogue. 
THE MARCHAL & SMITH 
|pianos ~*5d ~ organs! 
ESTABLISHED 1859 
INCORPORATED 1877 
v Yes, Ethel, my Marchal & Smith Piano Is 
5 beautiful Instrument. The tone is so sweet and a 
\ pure, the action so fairy-like, and the finish so ^ 
^ elegant that not another thing can I wish for. I ^ 
5> wrote to the factory,and told them just what 15 
S wanted, and they selected it, and sent it to me for § 
g trial, agreeing to take it back and pay all thefc 
^freights if I did not like it. But I could not beg 
S better suited if I had a thousand to choose from. 5 
S Mv dear, when you want a Piano or an Organ & 
^ send for their Catalogue. They have & 
$ PIANOS FROM $150.00 TO $1500, \ 
AND 
g ORGANS FROM $35.00 TO $500. 
g Write to 
_ 
Pisn® 6®., | 
235 East 21st Street, New York. 
THE IMPROVED ADJl'STABLE 
GOAT COLLAR SPRING, 
Cvcry man and boy should have 
me. They go under the Collar and 
keep the Collar and Front of Coat in 
perfect shape, without buttoning. 
Cannot blow open. Applied and re¬ 
moved instantly. Last a lifetime. 
2.JOO,imO in use. 25 cents each, or one 
dozen for $1 postpaid. BULLOCK 
C. C. S. CO., 33 Court Square, Boston, 
Mass. 
DOUBLE 
3rtech-Loadfr 
$7.75. 
RI FLES S2.00 
PISTOLS 75e 
All kinds cheaper than 
elsewhere. Before roa 
buy, send stamp for 
Catalogue. Addreaa 
POWELL A CLEMEST, 
ISO Main Street, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
JOHN DE WOLF, 
LANDSCAPE 
Gardener and Surveyor. 
Country Places visited and consultations for im¬ 
provements at small expense. No connection with 
any commercial establishment. All communications 
will receive prompt attention. Address care of The 
American Garden, Times Building, New York. 
P ISO’S REMEDY FOR CATARRH.—Best, 
to use. Cheapest. Relief is immediate. A 
For Cold in the Head it has no equal. 
Easiest 
cure is 
CATARRH 
It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied 
to the nostrils. Price, 50c. Sold by druggists or sent 
by mail. Address, E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa, 
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