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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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soak it. The feeder must feed to avoid 
scours and thumps, which are caused by too 
rich food, and too much of it. I do not 
keep my pigs' till they reach the weight 
named, but from the weights I have made 
I feel satisfied that they can be reached. I 
do not feed cooked food, but in cool weather 
I warm the slop by addiog warm water. 
I know of better weights being made by 
the line of feeding here indicated. 
PRAISE FOR THE FARMERS’ 
ALLIANCE. 
The real sensation of the year 1890 is the 
advent of the National Farmers’ Alliance 
and Industrial Union, said Dr. Dixon in 
his last week’s sermon. It is no mushroom 
growth. It is here to stay. It is the re¬ 
sistless movement of millions under the 
oppressions of centuries. Its motive power 
is social, economic, religious and political. 
It is the beginning of a revolution that will 
shake this continent and move the world. 
The first time they gathered around the 
ballot box was November 4 last. They 
polled between two and three million votes, 
elected the governors of three States, sent 
40 men to Congress and scared the life out 
of hundreds they did not send. 
MORAL MEANING OF THE MOVEMENT. 
What is the moral meaning of this great 
movement ? 
First—It is the protest of the patient 
burden-bearers of the world, who have 
toiled through weary years struggling be¬ 
neath the wrongs of economic and political 
superstitions. In America the farmers 
have literally become the beasts of burden 
of the nation. Their business has been to 
feed over 65,000,000 people, together with 
the hosts of the Old World, with the prod¬ 
ucts of the year’s work, and then through 
the winter eke out a miserable existence 
wrestling with their mortgages, cyclones 
and floods. The question is whether these 
men, the freest of the free, the authors of 
this country’s liberty, shall assert their 
rights and obtaiu justice or degenerate into 
the condition of tenants and serfs. 
THE EDUCATION OF THE FARMER. 
Second—This movement means the edu¬ 
cation of the masses as masses—of the 
farmer as a farmer. It means the asser¬ 
tion of the manhood of the yeomen of the 
nation. 
The farmers are learning and teaching it 
to their children in this organization that 
the work of the farm is as sacred, as noble, 
as honorable as that of any sphere in life. 
MARRIAGE NOT A FAILURE. 
A reporter once asked an old farmer in 
the West what he thought about the ques¬ 
tion, “Is Marriage a Failure?” He re¬ 
plied, “ What, marriage! Well, let’s see. 
There’s Lucindy gits up in the rnornin’, 
kindles the fire, milks six co.vs, starts four 
children oil to school, tends to three others, 
skims 20 pans o’ milk, feeds the hens, like¬ 
wise the hogs, looks after some motherless 
sheep, gits breakfast, washes up the dishes, 
gits dinner, etc. Why, mou, do you think 
I could hire anybody to do all that for 
what she gits? Not mucu 1 It's a great 
success, sir.” 
Third—This movement means coopera¬ 
tion as against competition. It is in this 
principle of socialism that the order has its 
strongest foundation. They are pledged 
to cooperate with each other in the produc¬ 
tion of economic goods, and not only so, 
but to cooperate in the distribution of these 
goods. 
Fourth—The organization means brother¬ 
hood. It is a fraternal and benevolent 
order, with principles of love and frater¬ 
nity wide as the world, universal as the 
race. 
A MANIFESTO OF FREEDOM. 
The fifth and sixth articles in their St. 
Louis Declaration of Purposes, a second 
declaration of independence, read thus ; 
Fifth—To constantly strive to secure 
harmony and good-will to all mankind, and 
brotherly love among ourselves. 
Sixth—To suppress persoual, local, sec¬ 
tional and national prejudices, all un¬ 
healthful rivalry and all selfish ambition. 
An ideal as high as heaven—au echo of 
the life of Jesus of Nazareth. They pledge 
themselves to alleviate suffering and pain, 
to care for the widows and educate the 
orphans of their dead. This is climbing 
the heights of life. This is pure religion 
undetiled. They have gone into politics not 
because they are a political organization. 
They have been forced to go into politics 
because their principles were social, econ¬ 
omic and religious. All social and economic 
questions, have become political ques¬ 
tions, and all political questions are 
religious. The political arena is where all 
the great questions of to-day and to morrow 
must de fought and settled. 
TRUE INWARDNESS. 
Prof. Storer takes the view that the 
old notion that those manures are best 
which make themselves felt through a 
long series of years/ is now recognized to 
be an error. The adage that “ one cannot 
eat his cake and have his cake ” is conspicu¬ 
ously true in agriculture; and just as it Is 
the part of prudence in household or mari¬ 
time economy to abstain from laying in at 
any one time more provisions than can be 
properly disposed of in a year or during a 
voyage, so should the farmer refrain from 
bringing to the land an unnecessary excess 
of plant food. Such food is liable to spoil 
in the soil as well as other kinds of provi¬ 
sions that are kept too long in store. 
In general terms, it may be said that an 
enduring manure is enduring only in so far 
as it is inaccessible to the crops, excluding, 
of course, the case where so much manure 
has been applied that the crops cannot pos¬ 
sibly consume the whole of it. 
It may be accepted as a truism that, if 
the farmer will use artificial fertilizers suc¬ 
cessfully, he must be at pains to have them 
prepared properly, and so to dispose them 
upon his fields that he may get back in the 
crops, in the shortest possible time, not 
only the interest of the money that has 
been expended in buying the fertilizers, 
but the principal itself. 
W. F. Massey, of the North Carolina 
Station, says that the R N.-Y. No. 2 Po¬ 
tato is early and more productive than 
other varieties. “The tubers,” he adds, 
“ are particularly smooth and handsome.” 
The latter statement Is true of this potato 
everywhere. But here it is late in maturing. 
When a high priced manure is applied to 
the soil it is a necessity tuat a quick profit 
must be returned. No one can afford to 
allow a large amount of money to lie idle 
without paying interest. 
The enterprising Ohio Farmer welcomes 
W. I. Chamberlain, as well it may, back to 
the State. One of his reasons for resigning 
his position as president of the Iowa Agri¬ 
cultural College, is that the trustees did 
not give him, as president, the degree of 
leadership in the internal policy and gov¬ 
ernment of the college, which is essential 
to the best success. In other words, as 
The R. N.-Y. would put it, politics ruled.. 
The Lovett Raspberry (blackcap) is the 
latest novelty announced. It is said to 
bear berries as large as those of the Gregg, 
without the latter’s objectionable bloom, 
while it is said to be as early as the Doo¬ 
little and in quality sweet and high- 
flavored. The canes are said to be hardy, 
vigorous and very productive. According 
to announcement, the ideal raspberry has 
come. 
Fully 250 varieties of Russian apples 
have been brought over; but until the 
present year but few of them have been 
fruited at all in the cold North and of the 
later importations scarcely anything can 
yet be known. Even those who have had 
the best opportunities to learn something 
about them, hold most of them yet under 
trial, and do not undertake to assign to 
them any relative, much less any absolute 
position, as compared with the well known 
sorts. Yet, says Dr. Hoskins in Orchard 
and Garden, there are those who are 
bruising their shins and almost breaking 
their necks in their haste to condemn these 
new comers as being all poor in quality, 
and worthless as keepers. 
The following words from Professor San¬ 
born’s article in last week’s R N. Y. might 
well be committed to memory : “ I wish 
particularly to call attention to the fact 
that no feeling of uurighted wrongs should 
for a moment tempt farmers to demand a 
whit more than absolute equity. If moral 
rectitude is not a sufficient force to control 
actions, then it should be fully understood 
that nothing but justice is profitable. This 
being true, farmers need demand nothing 
unfair, nor need they feel fear of anything 
but their own errors.”. 
The first prize in last year's potato con¬ 
test, inaugurated by the American Agricul¬ 
turist, was awarded as we have stated, to 
William T. Sturgis of Buffalo, Johnson 
County, Wyoming. He raised 974>^ bushels 
on a measured acre. We are glad to kuow 
that the R. N. Y. Potato No 2 was one of 
the varieties planted. The others were 
Manhattan and Early Vermont. We shall 
hope that Mr. Sturgis may favor us with 
the yield of each kind.. 
The third prize-taker, not alluded to in 
our last week’s report, was Philo H. Reed, 
Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine. 
He used 1,950 pounds of the Mapes fertilizer 
and the yield was 745.25 bushels. Variety 
Dakota Red..... 
The fourth lucky individual was A. M. 
Dudley, Mapleton, Aroostook County, 
Maine. He used 2,000 pounds of the Stock 
bridge fertilizer and his yield was 605 
bushels. Variety Dakota Red. 
“ When ue find a paper that has back 
bone enough to tell the truth, let us 
have backbone enough to help it along.”— 
L. W. LIGHTLY. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-McAllister: “ A gentleman can al¬ 
ways walk, but he can not afford to have a 
shabby equipage.” 
-N. Y. Herald: “All men may be 
liars, but some are more tuneful than 
others.” 
“Some preying souls regard the Bible 
as the sequel to the bank book ! ” 
“ The Indian revolt is the result of our 
own broken pledges. The Indians have 
been driven to fight by starvation. There 
is no game in the woods, fish are not plenty 
in the rivers. By solemn treaty we have 
agreed to supply them with enough to eat. 
We have not done this. We have grossly 
lied to them, cheated them out of their 
rations, though the land is filled with 
plenty, and because they take up arms to 
revenge the injustice shoot them down like 
dogs.” 
-P. H. Jacobs in The Rural Home: 
“ There is money in poultry keeping, but 
it is in the man as much as in the fowls. 
A mistake may cause loss. Lice may 
drive one clear out of the field. Roup may 
come along like a cyclone and sweep every¬ 
thing away. But the man who begins at 
the bottom round of the ladder, observes 
all that transpires, tries to learn, and is 
not afraid of work, will sooner or later 
surely reach the top.” 
- Journal of Commerce: “Specula¬ 
tion has led to more ruined hopes and des¬ 
olate homes than all the common ad 
versities of life.” 
- Storer-. “From a chemical point of 
view, nothing like rest can be conceived of 
In a mixture so complex as the loam of an 
ordinary field.” 
“ It is an instructive experiment to put 
a quantity of half dried garden loam in a 
bottle together with some liquor that has 
been drained from a dung-heap, to shake 
the two together, and finally to filter toe 
■mixture. If a proper proportion has been 
maintained between the amounts of loam 
and of liquid, the filtrate will be found to 
be mere water, almost completely colorless, 
devoid of odor, and well-nigh tasteless. 
This experiment is going on incessantly in 
nature. Drinking water, as it flows from 
springs or is drawn from wells, is a filtrate 
not much unlike that of the experiment.” 
- Robert J. Burdette, in The Ladies’ 
Home Journal: “ It doesn’t do to save all 
our charity for an annual deluge. A water¬ 
spout isn’t a good thing for a garden. A 
cloud burst destroys more crops than it 
helps. What blesses the land is not the 
thunder-storm advertising itself far and 
wide with noise and fire, cyclone, and light¬ 
ning, thuuder, roar and crash. The smil¬ 
ing farm and the dirty lane, the garden 
and the stony street laugh in gratitude for 
the commonplace, quiet, rather sleepy driz- 
zle-drozzle that comes down without at¬ 
tracting much attention to itself.” 
“Do not abate one jot of your holiday 
benevolence, but do not admit the firm of 
Mammon, Mammon & Mammon to your 
dealing. To whom are you most apt to 
send the costliest gifts ? Do ye uot lend 
to those of whom ye hope to receive ? And 
how often do we read that the employees 
of a certain house have clubbed together to 
present a gold watch to the boss ? 4 He that 
giveth to the rich shall come to want.’ ” 
“ 4 Love covereth a multitude of sins,’ 
sayeth the Apostle Peter, and of a verity, 
brethren, the little short lived love we feel 
for our neighbor at Christmas time is a gar¬ 
ment that is made to serve as a duster in 
July and an ulster in December.” 
- Orange County Farmer: 44 Never do 
we remember the time when sheep were 
as scarce as they are at preseut. We could 
fiud a ready market for 200 good young 
ewes at fair prices.” 
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