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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
793 
MULTUM IN PARVO. 
Tub Nuts of the United States.—T ho 
Department of Agriculture is in receipt of 
reports from different parts of every State 
and Territory concerning the production 
of wild and cultivated nuts, and will em¬ 
body the information in a bulletin soon to 
be issued by the Pomological Division. 
The extent and possibilities of nut culture 
are by no means generally understood. In 
Central California almond orchards of from 
2,000 to 5,000 trees are not unusual, and in 
the southern portion of the same State the 
Madeira Nut, or English Walnut, as it is 
more commonly called, is cultivated in or¬ 
chards of from 100 to 1,500 trees. From 
most of the other States, also, the Madeira 
is reported to be grown for nut production. 
On Staten Island the same nut is marketed 
green for pickling and for catsup. The 
pecan is grown in orchards and groves in 
the South Central and Southwestern 
States; while the pinon, or pine nut, though 
quite unknown to people east of the Missis 
sippi, is marketed in immense quantities in 
the cities of the Pacific slope. By selection 
and culture, nuts are found to improve al¬ 
most as readily as fruits. Thin shells and 
increased size are the most common results 
of improvement. 
Our Grange Homes says that a man who 
will draw the head of his horse into an un¬ 
natural position with an overdraw check, 
ought to work one day with his head drawn 
backward so he could not see where he 
stepped. 
L. B. Pierce, in the New York Tribune, 
says that an Ohio amateur put his Gandy 
Strawberries in new baskets and sold them 
to an eating-house keeper on the Erie Rail¬ 
way, who set them on his lunch counter 
and sold to train passengers for 25 cents per 
quart. They were beautiful and novel, 
and, compared with 10 cent oranges and 
five cent bananas, as sold on the train, not 
dear. A Western New York berry-grower 
put his Bubach, Strawberries into paste¬ 
board trays, such as are used by grocers 
for butter, lard, etc. He had them sold on 
commission by a confectioner and realized 
15 cents net per plate of 2$ berries. A Fre- 
donia, N. Y., grape grower had some five- 
pound baskets carefully packed with black, 
red aud white grapes and stenciled “ fancy 
packed.” In some markets they brought 
50 cents a basket, and, in a crowded market, 
netted eight cents a basket more than the 
same varieties packed separately. Mr. 
Pierce got $4 a bushel for Erie Blackberries 
when his neighbors raising the Snyder got 
but §3 a bushel. The former were larger 
and finer and were sold to grocers who 
wanted a good article or none. Thus, now 
and then, one can get extra prices by putting 
superior fruit in first class shape and look¬ 
ing up a special market... 
A. A. Crozier, of Michigan, last year 
made three sets of strawberry crosses to de¬ 
termine whether the pollen affects the 
shape, size or quality of the pistillate. He 
concludes that no appreciable influence is 
exerted upon the character of the fruit by 
the foreign pollen. 
A PAMPHLET from the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture says that reports 
received from various sections of the coun¬ 
try indicate that nuts may be best prepared 
for market by being immersed iu boiling 
water for about 10 minutes as soon as 
gathered. Wormy nuts will float on the 
surface and may be removed; all eggs and 
larvae of insects will be destroyed; and the 
condition of the meat of the nut will be so 
changed that it will not become flinty by 
further curing for winter use, and still be 
in no wise a “ boiled chestnut.” The nuts 
may be dried in the sun or in dry-houses 
after being placed in sacks in such quanti¬ 
ties as to admit of their being spread to the 
thickness of about two inches, the sacks 
being frequently turned and shaken. 
Dried by this method they remain quite 
tender, retain for a long time the qualities 
that will make them desirable in the fall, 
aud may be safely stored; but, of course, 
will not germinate. 
In July, about the middle, T. T. Lyon, of 
South Haven, Michigan, who may be con¬ 
sidered our best straw’berry authority, wrote 
the following: “ Our strawberry season is 
now past. The Parker Earle has out-yielded 
everything else among the 90 or more vari¬ 
eties fruited on my grounds this season. 
It also takes a leading position as to quality, 
beauty aud even size. Though not the 
largest, it is large enough. 
A GENTLEMAN who is well known aud 
highly respected as a gentleman, a stu¬ 
dent and a teacher and who has long held 
one of the highest collegiate positions in 
this country, writes as follows: “Is not 
The R. N.-Y. a little severe on Dr. Collier ? 
He is a very intelligent and well-trained 
man, and is doing, I think, all possible with 
the tools he has. I have been on the ground 
and know something of the difficulties one 
has to grapple with in such a position.” 
The R. N.-Y. is pleased, in all cases, to 
present both sides of all questions it dis¬ 
cusses. Personally it has naught but good¬ 
will toward Dr. Collier. 
The Country Gentleman never tires of 
telling its readers that we do not realize 
how far the roots of fruit trees extend. It 
mentions one Instance of an apple orchard 
but 14 years old in which the trees are 33 
feet apart. It was found that the roots 
met and crossed each other. 
CAN a man be a Christian and a poli¬ 
tician ?. 
T. V. Munson, of Denison, Texas, now 
offers, for the first time, two of his new 
grapes, viz.: Brilliant and G. W. Campbell. 
As we have before advised our readers, 
they are varieties well worthy of trial. 
Two others, named by Mr. Munson Rom¬ 
mel and Hermann Jaegar, are also offered 
for sale. We do not remember as to the 
quality of these, though we have been fav¬ 
ored with specimen bunches. They are 
highly praised by Mr. Campbell, T. T. 
Lyon and Mr. Jaegar. The fact that Mr. 
Munson sends them out is itself a sufficient 
commendation. 
Dr. Collier makes this statement in one 
of his addresses : “ At present 90 per cent, 
of our products are consumed at home, 
or 95 percent., not counting tobacco and 
cotton. It scarcely appears as a hazardous 
prediction that within five years, and per¬ 
haps even sooner, the home demand may 
fully equal the supply of our agricultural 
products, and then, if they are wise, the 
farmers of the country will be the masters 
of the situation, and these words of Napo¬ 
leon : * Agriculture is the basis and strength 
of all national prosperity,’ will be recog¬ 
nized as sober truth.” 
Will the Director of the New York Ex¬ 
periment Station tell us why the farmers 
of the country will be the masters of the 
situation when the home demand fully 
equals the supply of our agricultural pro¬ 
ducts ?. 
The Massachusetts Ploughman says that 
there is no better heating material to be 
had than a mixture of half and half fresh 
horse dung with the fallen leaves, working 
them oyer once before placing in the frame. 
They are certainly of value for this pur¬ 
pose . 
One cent will mail this paper to 
your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after 
you have read it and written your 
name on the corner. 
DIRECT. 
-Detroit Free Press : “ Every time a 
cow moves her tail to switch a fly she exerts 
a force of three pounds. In the course of 
the summer a single cow wastes 5,000,000 
pounds of energy. The cows of America 
throw away power enough to move every 
piece of machinery in the world. This is 
exclusive of kicking milkmaids off the 
stools.” 
-Harper’s Bazar: “The poet and the 
editor were playing tennis, and the latter 
was beaten. ‘ You serve well, but you can’t 
return,’ said the poet. ‘ Can’t I ?’ asked the 
editor. 4 Send me a poem and see.’ ” 
-Shirley Dare in The N. Y. Herald : 
“ There is room in the world for a new 
profession. If there were a class of saga¬ 
cious, educated men or women to go about 
and teach people in their own houses, and 
on their own grounds, what is essential for 
health, what is unwise in their daily prac¬ 
tice, and point out the risks to be avoided 
in the future, such wise men would be 
worth a heavier fee than was ever yet paid, 
a physician for cure after the evil had been 
done.” 
“Nothing more seriously affects a dis¬ 
abled heart than impurity of the atmo¬ 
sphere. A sleeper will often awake and 
remain sleepless hours, because the air in 
the room has become vitiated. Open the 
windows, air the room thoroughly, and set 
the ventilation right, and he drops into 
unbroken slumber.” 
“The risk of accident by train is not 
half so great as the certainty of imbibing 
virulent poison from one to two hours 
daily, iu unveutilated cars. A sanitary 
commission is needed to set the strict, un¬ 
biassed facts of the matter before railway 
managers.” 
“ How many persons in the cars are there 
whose breath you would care to take once 
in passing ? Yet by the daily practice of 
car management in cool or rainy weather 
we are compelled to breathe over and over 
the emissions of foul, uncleansed stomachs, 
of tuberculous lungs, of catarrhal mem¬ 
branes, and whatever canker or unwhole¬ 
some sore exists in the mouth and air 
passages. Is it any wonder that the full 
concentration sends the head swimming 
and the heart swooning with the mephitic 
gases ?” 
“It is no mere oblation to pride which 
ordains the perpetual polishing of silver, 
cutlery and cooking utensils. It is a pre¬ 
caution for health. Bright spoons, shining 
steel knives and saucepans are essential to 
safety of food. It is no imagination that 
rejects the taste of fish eaten with a steel 
knife, the action of fish juices on steel being 
instant and unqualified.” 
“It was a safe sanitary measure, un 
known as such, that led families a genera¬ 
tion past to insist on solid silver for good 
housekeeping. The cheap, worn plate seen 
on most tables is no less dangerous than the 
bad tin fruit can, while the plated caster 
bottle menaces life. I learned this in tak¬ 
ing off the screw top of one of those pretty, 
plated caster stands, which abound in 
fancy stores. It had been filled with salt 
for some weeks, in daily use, and the inside 
of the top was a collection of green salt, 
covered with verdigris from the metal. No 
wonder persons using it had been troubled 
with symptoms of gastritis.” 
-The Garden’s Story : “ A flower is 
essentially feminine, and demands atten¬ 
tion as the price of its smiles.” 
-Washington Gladden in the Forum : 
“ The demagogue politician who now at¬ 
tempts to array sectional prejudice in order 
that he may keep farmers equally divided 
on important questions, is admonished 
that he is about to confront a superior in¬ 
telligence that will soon convince him that 
his occupation is gone.” 
“The farmers’ movement is not, prob¬ 
ably, the deluge; but it will prove to be 
something of a shower—in some quarters a 
cyclone—and it will clear the atmosphere.” 
“The enormous tribute which the farm¬ 
ers of the West are paying to the money¬ 
lenders of the East, is one source of their 
poverty.” 
-Dr. Peter Collier: “Two of our 
leading New York dairymen secure practi¬ 
cally the same average product in butter 
from their herds, and their results are 
nearly three times the average results se¬ 
cured in the State. But one of these feeds 
a ration costing 14 cents daily per cow, the 
other, getting no better result, feeds his 
cows a ration costing exactly double, 28 
cents per day.” 
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