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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
759 
SHORT AND FRESH. 
Our readers will be pleased with the 
tomato obtained by 13 years of careful 
selection, seeds of which we propose to send 
to applicants early in the New Year. We 
will give due notice wnen applications will 
be in order. 
Prof. Stoker says that, some years ago, 
Indian corn which had been made to sprout 
in a flower pot, that was “watered” with 
milk, had white leaves. “ It would seem,” 
he says, -“that the minute particles of 
solid matter in the milk must have en¬ 
tered the plants though it is possible that 
the whiteness of the leaves may have been 
due to chemical action.” We certainly do 
not beljeve the white leaves were due to 
the milk color, and one is left to wonder 
why so thorough a scientific man as Prof. 
Stoier would draw such a conclusion from 
a single trial. 
Some three years ago, not less than 25 
per cent, of the young corn plants in an 
experiment plot were white, and occasional 
white plants occur In every farmer’s ex¬ 
perience. What causes these albinos no 
one presumes to guess. 
It may interest our readers to know 
that in the above plot all the white plants 
were marked. Most of them dwindled 
away and died. Those that lived became 
wholly or mostly green. 
An illustrated article in the October 
American Garden on Cape Cod cranberries, 
says that the Dennis, a bugle-shaped berry, 
is a favorite because of its good size, pro¬ 
ductiveness and bright scarlet color. The 
berries are picked late in September and 
early in October... 
The common favorite is the Early Black, 
valuable for its earliness, coming in three 
weeks ahead of the medium sorts. On the 
Cape Cod bogs they begin to pick the first 
of September. 
The McFarlin, an oval, dark-red berry, 
is probably the largest late berry grown. 
The Gould is a productive, pear-shaped 
berry, of medium season, of a bright purple 
color. Lewis is probably the most bril¬ 
liantly colored of the cranberries. A new 
variety is now being cultivated of great 
value. It originated with Mr. Makepeace 
of Cape Cod. The berries are unusually 
large, cherry-shaped, a little later than 
Early Black and a bright rose purple color. 
It is probably the largest early berry. 
Prepare a little plot now, Rural 
readers, for a few of each of the bush Limas 
to be planted next spring—especially you 
who have small gardens and no poles. 
A WEALTHY farmer who made his money 
in the carriage business in New York, has 
just seeded a lawn about a new country 
cottage he has built. He bought “lawn 
seed ” from the village grocery. It cost 
him at the rate of §10 a bushel. Blue 
Grass or Red-top would have served him 
better... 
OUR readers should feel an interest in Dr. 
Gibier's success with the Pasteur method 
of preventing hydrophobia. In 130 cases in 
which it was demonstrated that the bites 
were given by rabid dogs, the treatment 
was successful, as all the persons are to-day 
enjoying good health. 
AN editorial in the Country Gentleman 
says that the American passion for settling 
and “developing” the country, which is 
the mainspring of the extravagantly liberal 
—not to say the recklessly improvident- 
policy that has so long held rule in the 
managementof our national domain, comes 
doubtless chiefly by inheritance. Emigrants 
of all classes from Europe, experienced in 
the disadvantages of over-populated coun¬ 
tries, and half intoxicated with the idea 
that there is still very much land to be 
possessed here, quickly catch the infection; 
and the general result is that the average 
American is strongly under the sway of 
wbat we have called a passion—that is to 
say, a blind impulse, not based on reason, 
hardly subjected to serious thought as to 
the wisdom of indulging it—for filling up 
the whole country with people, good, bad or 
indifferent, to its very utmost capacity, at 
the earliest possible moment! Our priceless 
inheritance burns our pockets, as they say 
of a spendthrift’s money, and it seems that 
we shall never be satisfied till we have 
squandered the whole. 
If there is any one useful special fertil¬ 
izer in use, it is lime, says H. Stewart. 
When lime is used in its common form, as 
air-slaked quicklime, it furnishes the 
lime in a soluble condition, and, so far as 
it goes, provides a needed plant tood. 
But it is one of the most active of chemical 
agents. It attacks the inert organic mat¬ 
ter in the soil and develops nitrates from 
them, which furnish nitrogen. It makes 
the various silicates in the soil soluble to 
some extent, and thus releases potash, 
soda, magnesia, and phosphoric acid from 
their combinations and makes them avail¬ 
able. Thus, it provides all the elements 
which are required by the crops and 
rarely disappoints the farmer. But it is 
easily seen that it adds nothing to the soil 
but itself, and as it draws the others from 
the soil it will in time rapidly exhaust it 
unless these others are returned. 
The Journal of Commerce says that if 
human nature were not infirm it would be 
r 
impossible to account for the fact that so 
many intelligent, thoughtful men become 
the slaves of party, and obey, without seri¬ 
ous question, the behests of party leaders. 
The party man will go to the polls, and no 
matter with what inward disgust, will 
give his ballot for the unworthy nominee 
on his ticket. The party leaders know that 
party chains are stronger with their fol¬ 
lowers than the sense of right and justice.. 
All plants, trees and- shrubs known as 
nursery stock must now pay a duty of 20 
per cent, ad valorem. Previous to the 
passage of the McKinley Bill they were all 
free. 
Food, Home and Garden says that war 
will never be abolished while humans are 
so inhuman as to slaughter dumb, innocent 
brutes and to feed upon tbeir dead and de¬ 
caying bodies. It is easy to obtain from 
eggs, butter and milk and farinaceous, 
vegetable and fruit foods all that is desir¬ 
able for even a person accustomed to mixed 
diet. 
If a man is not punctual in keeping his 
first positive engagement with you, never 
wait for him again. 
Judging by the New York market the 
Gravenstein Apple is every year becoming 
more popular—that is, the demand is all the 
while increasing. 
Sow pansy seeds in cold frames now for 
next year’s blooming. 
A TWO years' trial of the new fowls known 
as Red Caps convinces us that we have tried 
them quite enough. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-London Garden: “ BLmarck speak¬ 
ing of his own affairs says: ‘ I am so glad to 
get rid of the official harness and have time 
to reflect a little before I come to the end 
of my tether. Country life agrees with me. 
I have become quite a forester, and plant 
more trees than 1 cut down. I have 40,000 
acres of forest. It is more interesting now 
to be looking after them than fretting about 
State affairs.’ ” 
-P. T. Barnum: “ The best working years 
of a man’s life are usually between 26 and 
60; but much good work is possible long 
after the three score year mark has been 
passed. I can say for myself that every 
moment of my time is put to some definite 
purpose; and, though I have numberless 
calls and demands, I enjoy a reasonable 
recreation each day. Both work and rest, 
and joy also should make up the sum of a 
busy life.” 
- Prof. I. P. Roberts: “ Has it never 
seemed strange to you that men should 
ever have thought that ignorance is the 
safeguard of agriculture? And yet that 
day has only now passed into the twilight.” 
-Farmer’s Review: “ Alarming state¬ 
ments are rife to the effect that an exodus 
of people from the western part of Kansas 
is taking place on account of the crop failure. 
A great many are said to be leaving for 
Oregon and Louisiana. Neither Louisiana 
nor Oregon may prove any more of an El 
Dorado than has Kansas.” 
- Germantown Telegraph : “ Govern¬ 
ments have been overturned for less grave 
offences than we have already submitted to 
at the hands of Congress in regard to what 
was once the people’s land.” 
-Farm, Stock and Home : “ We laugh 
at the failures of moneyed men who take 
up farming as a means of recreation, and 
copy their successes.” 
-New York World: “An Unkind 
Application : Mr. Hafton (resignedly): 
‘All flesh is grass, my dear.’ Mrs. H.: 
‘ Well, don’t you think you’d better get 
yourself a lawn-mower ? ’ ” 
-Harper’s Weekly: “Sir Samuel 
Baker has, better than any one else, de¬ 
scribed the mouth of the hippopotamus. He 
calls it ‘an agricultural implement mouth.’ 
Here are grass cutters of splendid material, 
sharp as razors, and in the lower jaws 
incisors which will lift a stout-stemmed 
plant, roots and all, out of the ground. 
The flat teeth are great masses of solid 
dentine, having the triturating capabilities 
of millstones. The perfect hippo mouth 
then combines the mechanism of the sickle, 
the lawn-mower, and the harrow.” 
— Green’s Fruit Grower: “The sue 
cessful fruit growers and farmers of the 
future will be men who peddle, or employ 
men to peddle for them. There is no 
reason why the grocer and the commission 
men should take such a large slice off from 
our profits.” 
“ Dr. Collier is a man of undoubted 
ability. He came to the station with a 
national reputation. The worst insinua¬ 
tion we ever heard against him was that 
he enjoyed his ease or, in plainer words, 
was lazy, but this is not proved. Com¬ 
plaint is made that the station bulletins 
are not as instructive as those of other 
States. It would seem doubtful whether 
just comparisons can be made. Hasty re¬ 
sults are not desired, and we should not 
wish to see such rivalry between the sta¬ 
tions as would lead to sensational bulle¬ 
tins.” 
“ Members of the Board of Control of 
the Experiment Station are scattered all 
over the State, and have pressing affairs of 
their own to look after. It would be ex¬ 
pecting too much of them to hope that 
they would complain so long as the people 
appeared satisfied.” 
-Dr. Talmage : “ Farming is always a 
failure when a man knows nothing about 
it; if a man can afford to make a large 
outlay for his own amusement and the 
health of his family, let him hasten to his 
country purchase. But no sensible man 
will think to keep a business in town and 
make a farm financially profitable.” 
-Hartford Times : “ When the farmer 
has obtained all the help he can from 
science, he still finds it necessary to experi¬ 
ment for himself.” 
-Western Rural: “ ‘Woundeddignity ’ 
is a big thing. It is the man who runs 
away rather than precipitate an attack who 
is the brave man. This world would be 
much better off if it had less cowardly 
courage and more courageous cowardice.” 
-N. Y. Tribune: “ One of Charles 
Reade’s dogs, being ‘ a mixture of bark, 
steal and whine,’ was named ‘ Tonic.’ ” 
“ Plant roses, but not on your noses.” 
-N. Y. Times : “ As farmers have be¬ 
come addicted to the use of superphosphate 
alone, there is much disappointment in its 
use, and the expected benefits are not real¬ 
ized. 
“ The case of the New York State Exper¬ 
iment Station is an example of inefficient 
management by all in authority. The 
Board of Control, with more than ample 
funds supplied, congratulate themselves 
that they have hired their subordinates 
cheaply. While no charge can be nude 
that these cheaply-paid assistants fail in 
their work, but quite the contrary, it must 
be an injury to the morale of the staff that 
an inefficient Director is paid a very high 
salary while they are fully aware that 
their more valuable work is considered 
cheap.” 
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IOO Doses One Dollar 
Highly concentrated. Dose small. In quantity costs 
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cash. Farmers’ Poultry Guide (price 25c.i free witli $1.00 
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Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good, 
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PISTOLS 75c 
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Corrugated pan over firebox, doublin, 
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The Champion is as great 
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to the hand. Sample peg sent on 
receipt 12c in U. S. postage stamps. 
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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 reeeive prompt attention. Address care of The 
American Garden, Times Building, New York. 
