834 
DEC. 6 
With All Her Faults We Love Her 
Still. 
J. Dennis, Ontario, Can.— In The R. 
N.-Y. of October 25, page 726, I notice a let¬ 
ter from H. T. Lawson, Ontario, Can. I 
want to correct some of his misstatements. 
We can buy good sound barley here for 56 
cents per bushel, while Western corn costs 
80 to 85 cents. If Mr. Lawson is so opposed 
to Canada and so much in love with the 
United States, why doesn’t he go over 
there ? I have lived 10 years in the United 
States, and have traveled extensively over 
the country, but I never saw any part of it 
that could compare with the same area in 
our own Canada. The Pacific Coast, which 
I know intimately, is good enough for fruit 
and wheat, but as an agricultural section 
it cannot, any more than the most favored 
parts of your boasted country, compare 
with the average of our Ontario farms. 
You Americans are the most egotistical 
people under the sun. You really believe 
that there is no country on the globe to be 
compared with yours, and you think that 
we Canadians are anxious to be annexed to 
you; but let me here say that you entirely 
mistake the sentiment of this country in 
arguing thus. 
R. N.-Y.—Wehope we are not too egotis¬ 
tical. We do believe that “ there’s no place 
like home,” and our friend evidently be¬ 
lieves the same thing. When we can both 
point to the same country as home, we 
can have no chance for argument. 
“Conveying Water a Long Dis¬ 
tance.” 
E. N. H., Watsonville, Pa.— I think 
that C. E. C., of Stephenson, Va., who 
writes on page 773, should procure 1%-inch 
iron pipe and either bury it just deep 
enough to avoid the plow, or if it does not 
pass through plowed ground, make a box 
and put it on the surface as follows: use 
pieces 2x4 for the bottom and 1x6 boards 
for the sides and top. When you lay the 
pipe in the box put an inch piece under it 
every few feet, and then fill up with saw¬ 
dust or manure and put on the top board. 
If there is a fall of 15 or 20 feet any little 
bends or depressions will not do any harm, 
provided there is a constant stream. I have 
my own spring fixed in the above way, 
only I use one-inch pipe, and it has been 
running now for four years and is just as 
good as ever. 
Females Stronger Than Males. 
A. Donald, Chemung Co., N. Y.— The 
Rural asks which asparagus plants are 
stronger—the male or female. I have been 
cutting all the plants bearing seed in one 
acre, and have found the seed-bearing 
stalks the stronger in all the field; indeed, 
they are not only stronger, but less ripe 
and dry than the male plants, and I think 
a like rule proves good in all created 
things. Give the females the same chance 
as the males and at the same age they will 
retain more vitality than the males. 
R. N.-Y.—Vitality and strength are not 
synonymous, and weaker beings often have 
more of the former than those that are 
stronger. We are more than ready to give 
every chance for excellence, or even superi¬ 
ority, to the female sex; but the idea that fe¬ 
males excel males in strength goes against 
nearly all experience. Surely both sexes 
have had an even chance among wild ani¬ 
mals, yet in all but a few exceptional cases 
the males are the stronger. Physical 
strength, of course, is meant. But, per¬ 
haps, after all, the females didn’t have an 
equal chance with the males at the creation 
or during the early development of the vari¬ 
ous races. 
“Come Back to Your Mother.” 
James E. Cole, Steuben County, N. Y. 
—It is a mystery to me why so many intel¬ 
ligent men of this country seem determined 
to spend their lives in the cities and towns 
working almost night and day in order 
that some great corporation may grow 
richer from their labor, whereas by using 
the same exertions in the country they 
could buy and pay for a home they might 
call their own, and where they could enjoy 
the profits of their labor. Thousands of 
men are to-day toiling in the shops and 
offices of overcrowded cities, who might 
make good farmers if they were only will¬ 
ing and had the determination to succeed 
—a determination to roll out of bed at 
five o’clock in the morning and work in¬ 
dustriously and faithfully, except an hour 
for dinner, until six or seven in the even¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ing, learning to drive work instead of let¬ 
ting work drive them, respecting the Sab¬ 
bath, but pushing work every other day in 
the week; ready to do any kind of neces¬ 
sary labor from cleaning a pig pen to driv¬ 
ing to church with one’s own team. Any 
man who has good health, with a good 
wife to help him, with the same intelli¬ 
gence and industry that he would use to 
get a living in the city, can become a suc¬ 
cessful farmer. Let him take some good ag¬ 
ricultural piper like The Rural New- 
Yorker, read it in the evenings and select 
such items as he knows will be useful 
to him. Let him observe what other 
farmers are about; how and when they 
do their work, and what the results 
are when the crops are harvested; in 
short, “cut and try” is a good rule to 
follow in search of success. I would 
not have any reader think for a moment 
that a farmer’s life among the green hills 
or on the prairies is all sunshine or ease, for 
there isn’t a shadow of doubt that a lazy 
farmer is liable to suffer for want of bread 
and butter. Eighteen years ago I left office 
work at $75 per month, feeling that I was 
only the hireling of a corporation to do 
their work like a machine. I went on a 
farm, contracting a debt of $3,600. To-day 
I am out of debt, with more than 300 acres 
of land and a pretty good bank account be¬ 
sides. I have earned this on my own ac¬ 
count without assistance. I do not hold 
that all can do as well, but from experience 
1 do say that any man with ordinary intel¬ 
ligence, good health and habits can pay for 
a home of 50 or 100 acres, and if he has 
$2,500 or $3,000 co begin with, he can soon 
have a comfortable home. There are hun¬ 
dreds of farms in Western New York that 
can be bought and paid for from the pro¬ 
ducts of the land, although some people 
claim that “farmin’ don’t pay.” 
The Numbo Chestnut is a Foreigner. 
Samuel C. Moon, Bucks County, Pa.— 
In an article on chestnuts in The Rural 
of October 25, page 721, I notice that the 
writer is misinformed as to the origin of 
the Numbo variety. It is a purely Euro¬ 
pean sort, and is either an imported seed¬ 
ling or the offspring of an imported tree 
raised by my father, Mahlon Moon, about 
40 years ago. It is now a fine tree 50 feet 
high and 2X feet in diameter, a typical 
tree of the habit of the European species. 
This year it bore over 100 quarts of nuts. 
The name Numbo belongs to this variety 
in particular and not to any class or 
species of chestnut in general, as suggested 
in the article alluded to. Any nurseryman 
who sells Japan chestnuts or any kind of 
seedling chestnuts under the name of 
Numbo is dishonest, if he knows the truth, 
and deceives his customers just as he 
would by selling a crab or seedling apple 
tree under the name of Baldwin. 
The name Numbo originated in this way: 
When my father first commenced to graft 
chestnuts he labeled this variety Magnum 
Bonum, to distinguish it from numerous 
other varieties with which he was experi¬ 
menting. When we had secured a stock of 
grafted trees and were ready to offer them 
to the public, in order to satisfy the popu¬ 
lar demand for short and simple names for 
new fruits, it was thought best to abbrevi¬ 
ate Magnum Bonum, which was done by 
uniting the two middle syllables, making 
Numbo, and under that name this variety 
has been extensively advertised for the last 
12 years. 
I also differ with the writer of the article 
in the belief that the Paragon is of Japan 
origin; in my opinion it exhibits the habits 
and characteristics of the American species 
much more than those of the Japan ; but 
whatever its parentage, it is a fine chestnut. 
There are many fine varieties throughout 
our country which might be introduced to 
public notice with advantage, and I hope 
The Rural will keep this subject stirred 
up and teach people that there is much 
both of pleasure and profit in chestnut 
culture. 
Waiting on Ohio Cows. 
W. H. S., Lucas County, O.—I follow 
the system of partial soiling. As soon as 
corn is fit to feed in August, I give my 
cows all they will eat, twice a day. We 
always feed and milk in the stable. As 
dry weather or frost shortens the grass I 
commence feeding bean and oil-meal mixed 
equal parts by weight, as they require 
something of the kind to keep them doing 
well. As soon as cold weather and bad 
nights occur in September, I leave them in 
the stable in the morning until they are 
through eating; and also keep them in in 
stormy weather. I put up ensilage enough 
to last them until the first of June. One 
pit is smaller than the others and that is 
filled first. I cover the ensilage as soon as 
I can and let it cure, while I finish the 
others. A late variety of corn which is 
green after the silo is full I keep cutting, 
feeding it to the stock until frost has dried 
it. Then I open the small pit and feed 
from that—generally about the first of 
October. As soon as I can get buckwheat 
shorts I mix equal parts by measure, with 
bran, and feed about eight pounds at two 
feeds, mixed with ensilage. My stables are 
warm and the cows are kept in until about 
10 o’clock on pleasant days and until noon 
in other kinds of weather. Then they are 
turned out, the stables are cleaned, and if 
the weather is good, they remain out until 
night. As the days get colder, they are 
let out only to drink warmed water. They 
are fed at noon dry fodder of some kind. 
Clover hay is best, but I do not always have 
enough of that so I give corn-stalks and 
straw. When the ensilage is gone summer 
soiling begins, first with rye then with 
clover. As soon as the latter is fit to be 
put in the silo, I fill the small pit, and feed 
that until corn is mature enough. Through 
fly time, I put my cows in the stable at 
noon, and give them all the clover ensilage 
they will eat until after we have milked 
them at night. The stables are kept dark, so 
the flies do not trouble the cattle much. 
Lath on a Barn Door. 
T. B. Terry, Summit County, Ohio.— In 
one corner of my shop room, up-stairs in 
the tool house, are several bundles of lath 
and a bunch of shingles. These quite fre¬ 
quently come handy for various purposes. 
It was one of these laths that I picked up 
and gave the carpenter to be put in above 
my barn doors, when they were being made. 
But I did not stop to explain fully every 
step, as I supposed that most people would 
know how to make a lath thinner than the 
regulation thickness. It is particularly 
surprising to me that a carpenter, like Mr. 
C. M. Lusk, page 742, could not understand 
this. I am glad to explain it fully to him. 
As I picked up the lath I laid it on the work 
bench and with a plane dressed it down 
about naif, before handing it to the carpen¬ 
ter. This is a very practical way, friend 
Lusk, of making a lath thin when you need 
one less than three-eighths of an inch thick. 
Try it. I suspect the reason why Mr. Lusk’s 
doors sag is that he uses hinges different 
from mine. I use only heavy T-hinges, 
three on a door. My barn was as well built 
as the house. I would allow no careless 
fitting. The doors were made to fit exactly 
and they have not sagged a hair’s breadth. 
They fit at the top exactly now. Although 
this exact,accurate fit looks nice, keeping it 
up is often a bother and I intend to get a 
carpenter to take the doors all off and saw 
uniformly three-sixteenths of an inch off 
the tops. This done, I will have 23 barn 
doors in perfect condition; every one can 
be quickly and easily fastened open or shut. 
Call and see me, Mr. Lusk, and learn how 
to build barn doors that will not sag and 
without “ standing on your head” either. 
Continued on next page. 
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replies and right treatment. 
That Tickling 
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constitutional disease the ordinary cough medicines 
all fall to hit the spot. What you need Is a constltu 
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bull Hug up the general healtn, and expelling the 
scrofulous taint which is the cause of catarrh and 
consumption, has restored to perfect health many 
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hold. Many unsolicited t stlmonlals prove that 
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