May 2 
3(2 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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“PLAY BALL ! " 
The voice of the umpire has been heard in the 
land, and thousands of men and boys who find it 
too hot to work, have started for the field to play 
a game of ball. The national game is all right so 
long as it is honestly played in hours that are not 
stolen from regular duties. It is a good thing for 
young farmers to take half a day, now and then, 
and limber up their joints on the diamond. And not 
only is the physical exertion a good thing for a 
man, but the mental trainingof baseball will help 
him in his farming. 
Here you are going to bat this season in the 
hope of running up a good score in the nine in¬ 
nings before January!. Jack Frost is the first 
pitcher you will be called upon to face, and some 
of his curves will be likely to strike you out unless 
you watch things like a hawk. May will “ knock 
Jack out of the box,” and then Pitcher Bug will 
send you some slow twisters. You must be pre¬ 
pared to step up to the plate with a spray pump 
for a bat, and make a home run that will turn 
Mr. Bug green (Paris) with sorrow, and put a 
bone in his arm at once. Then the captain of the 
other nine will put Pitcher Drought into the box, 
and you will be in bad shape unless you have 
such heavy batters as Soiling Crop, Surface Culti¬ 
vation and Mulch on your side. It will be a thrill¬ 
ing moment if Isaac Irrigation comes to the bat 
in this inning with two men on bases. lie will 
moisten up his hands, get a fresh grip on bis 
section of water pipe, and catch one of Drought’s 
slow out curves on the end of it. That ball will 
go sailing over the outfield until it looks as small 
as a marble with Burned Pasture and Dry-as- 
Dust in hopeless pursuit. There will be three runs 
chalked up to your credit. 
Ol), dear ! It’s going to be a great game this 
season, and you must make a good score. Here’s 
one nine we suggest : 
Frank Farmer .Catcher 
Goon Management .Pitcher 
Queen Cow .Short Stop 
Isaac Irrigation .First Base 
Balanced Ration .Second Base 
Clover or Peas .Third Base 
Soiling Crop .Left Field 
The Business Hen .Center Field 
Ham Fat Hog .Right Field 
Maybe some of you will substitute Handsome 
Horse or Simon Pure Sheep for some of these 
players. That is all right, only make the best 
nine you can. Now, then, get the butter off your 
lingers, and cultivate a “ good eye.” 
Play Ball! 
The game has begun with Farmer at the bat, 
and Good Management on deck. And by the 
way, there is another game that you might take 
a hand in. We need a few more runs to complete 
our list of subscriptions. Why can’t you bat a 
few runs in for us ? Your neighbors and friends 
do the pitching in this case. 
One man says, 11 Oh, I guess I don’t want the 
paper 1” That’s an out curve. 
Another says, “I’ve got more papers than I can 
read 1” There you have an inshoot. 
“Times are too hard!” There's a “drop”— 
and so on. Now, my friend, you take the bat of 
confidence in The R. N.-Y., step up to the plate 
and knock the tar right out of those curves. You 
can do it if you will only think so. 
To whine is to play bawl. We don’t want any 
of that, but we do hope that you will make a base 
hit or two when one of these excuses comes 
within reach of your bat. 
Why, see what this man, away down in Vir¬ 
ginia, says : 
“ I would almost as soon think of farming with¬ 
out plows, as without The R. N.-Y.” o. o. g. 
Aylett, Va. 
First thing you know, that man will have The 
R. N.-Y. playing on his nine. Keeping score is 
nearer our size just now, but we could stand a 
few innings anyway 1 
“ Play Ball!” Farmer to bat ! 
Efforts are being made pursuant to a resolution 
of the California Fruit Growers’ and Shippers’ 
Association, to have all the California fruit sold 
in a single auction room in each city, instead of 
having the shipments divided between different 
auction houses, as has heretofore been done in 
New York and some other cities. It has been ex¬ 
pected that receipts of fruit from the Pacific 
coast would be heavy this year, for not only Cali¬ 
fornia, but Washington and Oregon promised to 
send large quantities ; but recent heavy frosts in 
some parts of California, the thermometer at 
Fresno going to 27 degrees after an unusually 
warm period, have seriously damaged most of 
the fruits. It is to be hoped that first reports will 
prove to have been exaggerated, for the Cali¬ 
fornia fruit growers have been none too well re¬ 
munerated in recent years, and can ill afford a 
serious loss. 
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