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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 6 
The Rural New=Yorker. 
THE BUSINESS FARMERS' PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes 
Established i860. 
Elbkbt s. Cabman, Editor-In-Chief. 
Herbert W. Collingwood, Managing Editor. 
John J. Dillon, Business Manager. 
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able 40 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1896. 
The new and fashionable game of golf consists in 
knocking a little ball about the field with a stick. 
When the writer was a boy, and Satan evidently had 
some mischief for him to do, ne was put out into the 
pastures and meadows with a long-handled mallet, 
and told to knock the hard clumps of manure into 
pieces. That seemed like hard work in those old 
days. It is a pity that we did not know the rules of 
golf, for then it would have been as good as a play ! 
© 
Some time when you have nothing better to do, go 
and smell of a milk can as it is sent back, unwashed, 
from the city. You won’t do it the second time from 
choice. When that goes back to a farmer who has 
not the conveniences of steam, or an abundant supply 
of hot water, you can imagine how long the next 
lot of milk that goes into it will keep. The Board of 
Health ought to compel all dealers to rinse and steam 
empty cans before they are returned. There would 
be a great improvement, even though they simply 
rinsed the cans with cold water. 
© 
Mr. Silas Betts, for six years President of the 
American Guernsey Cattle Club, and one of its orig¬ 
inal organizers, died at his home near Camden, N. J., 
May 21, in the 68th year of his age. He had resided 
on this farm for a quarter of a century, and was the 
first to introduce the Guernseys into the State. He 
has been foremost among the lovers of this breed in 
furthering its interests, and with voice and pen has 
done much to popularize it. He has been in poor 
health for many years, but in spite of this, did not 
cease his labors until within a few days of his death. 
© 
Prom the question asked on page 373, last week, it 
appears that there may be parts of the world where 
the sunflower may take rank as an important food 
for dairy stock. The seed has nearly the same com¬ 
position as oil meal, and in parts of Canada, and in 
the treeless regions of the West, the sunflower will 
yield a large crop of seed. If this seed can be used to 
supply the pure fat needed by calves and cows, it will 
prove of considerable value in regions where corn 
does not mature, and where oil meal is too expensive. 
Prof. Robertson, of Canada, has shown that ensilage 
containing a fair amount of sunflower heads, is valu¬ 
able for all kinds of stock. He is now feeding hogs 
on a ration composed partly of sunflower heads. Our 
experimenters may well take this matter up, and give 
it a fair investigation. 
© 
New York State has a new law compelling rail¬ 
roads to carry bicycles free, the same as other bag¬ 
gage. The railroads fought this law hard, but were 
beaten. The wheelmen were strongly organized, and 
their demands could not be denied. Two things are 
suggested by this matter. There are, probably, 50 
farmers in the State of New York for every wheel- 
the 
25 at iHA bacH.^^Pvery spokejn f. b.icycle W^eljs l5W 
# 3 ?e?t sjpol^synan for fti y<^ ^ 1 ^H 4 u alw^y 4 ( sup- 
P° r L a i.«&k te : ^hy, 
receive,tlxe^^ause they are not or&^ized,.. 
fe tbeir ,6mP tiPWVa,<& 
being wield^KUeAMg^' & M 
setter, i$pp a ^mW. s -u AP 
railroads t^qai-ry bicycles tfc 
scatter into a thousand splinters. it will cost the. 
railroads more to carry bicycles free, than it would to 
Numbers apparently count for 
man. 
. v, ^ ^ L » 0 C» 
issue 1,000-mile tickets at reduced rates to farmers ; 
yet the State forces them to handle the wheels, while 
it permits them to evade the law in the other case. 
The other point referred to is the fact that railroads, 
like the Erie, which run through New Jersey and 
New York, have now two rates for carrying bicycles. 
In New Jersey, a wheelman is obliged to buy a bicycle 
ticket costing 15 cents or more. This carries the 
wheel to the New York State line, after which, accord¬ 
ing to the new law, it must be carried free. Wheel¬ 
men must see to it that similar laws are passed in all 
the States. 
© 
Tuberculosis has been found in the herd at the 
Michigan Agricultural College. Instead of slaughter¬ 
ing the affected animals, the authorities have put them 
in a separate building, and will make certain experi¬ 
ments with living animals. It seems to us that such 
work is just what we need. The tuberculin test is 
very exact. Many animals respond to it which, after 
death, are found so slightly affected that it is reason¬ 
able to suppose that they might have been cured, or 
practically so, by the best sanitary treatment. We 
are not, by any means, convinced that it is a wise 
plan to slaughter every animal that responds to this 
test. The Michigan Station will do farmers a great 
service by studying the disease in living animals, and 
attempting a treatment for them that will, at least, 
show us what is wrong with our stables and barns. 
0 
Agricultural Commissioner Wieting is making 
many changes in his department. So far as we can 
judge, most of his appointments are influenced by 
political considerations. It is evident that a man 
must be an active politician in order to stand much of 
a chance for office under the new administration. 
There is great dissatisfaction over a report that 
Assistant Commissioner Van Valkenburg of this city 
has been asked to resign. Mr. Van Valkenburg is an 
able and honest man, who has done excellent work in 
enforcing the dairy laws. No sound reason can be 
given for his removal. We are not offering advice to 
Commissioner Wieting—he seems to have political 
advisers who are directing his movements—but there 
is such a thing as carrying this work too far. If Mr. 
Van Valkenburg be forced out, the dairymen of this 
State “ will know the reason why !” 
© 
The “Filled Cheese” bill has fallen upon evil days 
in the United States Senate. Last Monday, a com¬ 
bination of Senators succeeded in tacking on to it a 
section imposing an additional tax of 75 cents a barrel 
on beer, ale and porter. The effect of this will be to 
delay the bill and, possibly, defeat it, since some 
members who favored the restriction of bogus cheese, 
may not favor this beer tax, and they cannot now 
support one without the other. The object of this 
move was professedly to provide increased revenues, 
since this tax will amount to $25,000,COO per year. It 
is significant that all the enemies of the bill voted in 
favor of adding this beer tax to it. It is a shame that 
these conflicting political interests should be per¬ 
mitted to play football with a measure that is clearly 
in the interests of farmers. In such a game, the ball 
alone is hurt, and no one cares for it after the game 
is over. Later the Senate changed its action, and de¬ 
feated the taxing amendment. The bill is now left to 
itself, and will probably pass, though no one can tell 
what will be done with it next. 
© 
Some readers may have wondered w hy The R. N.-Y. 
stands by Crimson clover in the face of many reports 
of partial or complete failures. One reason is that 
we have often observed the marvelous ability of this 
plant to stool or spread out when once started in the 
spring. We have seen half a dozen fields that seemed, 
on Api*il 1, to be entirely killed out, start suddenly 
into such a rapid growth that, by the middle of May, 
the ground was well covered. Last week, Mr. L. D. 
Gale, of Chautauqua County, N. Y., made a quite unfav¬ 
orable report as to Crimson clover. Here is his final 
report, which we print here in full, as it is in line with 
the position The R. N.-Y. has often taken : 
I mpst adniit that a few strugglingCrimson ployjer .jRqpJs.vWiU 
‘ f && & i d v°u Tuey can 
spreau out equal to a bautaui hen ou a sitting of eggs. Where I 
i&dtfAJPt^KnB^WWafe tl&efbVW 
<■ ‘OihJtfay M fr.^liWebfcaurf&Pt tfe sfed+Stf Rnf&r&ve'tfWfJ 
that 1 tuey wbhta &aa i Watity to toe' btrtfqfiet* m •w v g&thdrEa i 
aiMUput' thfein with otliEr {lowers: 1 Wliat wh^ our^trrprihd'to firul, 
i'n fdut- or-ftvfe hats; thAt the eiOver liitd g'fONvn 1 Ao ad almost‘tb 
hide tstreother ffotveiA: YEry •fdw'hohey- bees’ Were Seen 1 At "this 
time. A l flhe tolu badk-omE dtr toe Mbotfay f 0 11 owing. (Tt J had been 
rather too dry here). 1 ifHii'd hot'sE'e’the^eld agAin 'utuiLMay ^l',’ 
livedAya later, When I \^eht tti ■thfe' held' to plott-it: 1‘wtto sur¬ 
prised agUih j'Aduieof ‘it’ was'sd ttiiCk' and heavy that it bothered* 
ihe l tO turn it adder. The blbsSoths 'Were dllire ‘with bees', and I 
almost believe that*the 1 whole working* fbrcfe of 'utp ldO cdlorries of 
bees Were upon the’ W-ld 1 ; they fairly tumbled dVerEAch other. I 
never 1 saw them thicket-Upon baSSwood bloom. AftEr gdihga'fe•w 
ll.tuio^t believe mat the whole woraiug force of uiy loo colonies of 
bees were upon the held; they t'airiy tumbled over each oilier. I 
uc.ver vv tutnu toleuer u^ou basswood Oiuoiu .liter goiu^ a lew 
times around, I stopped the teams, went to the apiary, and found 
the bees capping section honey. I put the teams at work in an¬ 
other field, and as long as it yields honey at that rate, it can 
stand there. I think the rain caused the flow of honey. The 
Medium clover is keeping up. I feel certain that where Crimson 
has proved a failure, the Medium will be a success. I do not in¬ 
tend to have any more bare floors in my corn field when I can 
carpet them so cheaply with clover. I shall give my preference 
to the Red clovers—Crimson second place. 
Our opinion is that some of our friends who plowed 
up the clover in disgust, a month ago, would have had 
a similar statement to make if they had let it alone. 
Q 
In the recent articles on ice cream making, the point 
was made that Mr. Manchester uses nothing but abso¬ 
lutely pure cream, just as it comes from the milk. In 
most of the so-called “ice creams,” you will find corn 
starch, or even flour, eggs and other substances. In 
fact, much of this so-called “cream” is more of a 
frozen pudding than anything else, and so far as actual 
“ cream” is concerned, is as inferior to the substance 
sold by Mr. Manchester as “oleo” is to fine butter. 
We do not mean to say that starch and eggs are not 
healthful. Their use, undoubtedly, enables the manu¬ 
facturer to turn out a firmer and harder cake ; but 
it is not cream, and in this fact, lies the opportunity 
of many a farmer to build up a trade in his market 
town. Use nothing but absolutely pure cream. Add 
nothing to it but sugar and the purest flavoring you 
can find, and freeze it so that it will stay frozen. Then 
go out and tell just what you have to sell, and don’t 
forget to point out the difference between ice cream 
and ice pudding. Come out squarely and claim that 
a dish of your cream is better, as a medicine , than 
five doses of cod liver oil ! 
© 
BREVITIES. 
There comes to mind a famous painting, named 
“ On Decoration Day”—a soldier’s grave— 
A baud of veterans, gray, crippled, maimed, 
And over them the flag they fought to save. 
By that low grave a sad eyed woman kneels ; 
Close at her side her son—and one may trace 
The heart-ache that the weary mourner feels 
In the expression grief brings to her face. 
Up to the flag their eyes go wandering— 
Up to the flag slow fluttering from its xnast, 
Yet to the mother’s heart that flag can bring 
Only the bitter memories of the past. 
Something to die for—that is what it means, 
But to her boy—viewed through unwilling tears, 
It brings a newer thought—to him it means 
Something to live for through the coming years. 
God bless our flag ! Old hearts and young unite 
Memory and hope on Decoration day. 
Beneath that banner for the truth and right 
Still let us march in hopeful, strong array. 
Keep the cat in the barn. 
We want to see the hay seed succeed. 
Bad outlook for the Eastern hay farmer. 
Give a good reason for using salt on asparagus. 
Try Mr. Senger’s plan of evaporating strawberries. 
Don’t add the vice of bad advice to all your other sins. 
The weeder is not the tool for a clay soil in time of drought. 
Thebe is no turning to the lane wherein one walks without his 
brain. 
How sick a strawberry plant does look when a White grub gets 
at its roots ! 
It’s worse than a waste—that part of your earnings the rum 
shop can taste. 
We believe in “saving at the bung hole” when the bung hole 
represents a rum hole. 
To make a fodder crop in time of drought, our friend, Z. Maize 
is just the best thing out. 
A young duckling will hold more solid food in proportion to its 
size than any other living animal. 
Maybe Chapman’s plan of plowing up the old Timothy meadow 
for a crop of fodder corn, is the best thing you can do. 
Don’t fall back on the acid pickle your fickle appetite to tickle, 
but take a dose of extra size made up of healthy exercise. 
The frost was able to throw out fence posts, and you cau hardly 
expect clover roots to stay in the soil against such lifting force. 
We have a friend who says that this spring found him with $100 
in cash, and $100,000 worth of courage. That courage is raw 
material—he will make it into a finished product. 
A Farmer’s Field Day will be held at the Maine Agricultural 
College on June 3. The notice states that “ beans and coffee will 
be served as refreshments.” There is New England stimulant 
for you. 
Our friend, page 387, says that he put Crimson clover ou the 
poorest piece of laud he has. Was that a fair trial 7 Suppose 
you tried a Jersey cow by feeding nothing but hay, and then 
judged the breed'by the results ! 
J t •/' .ciaU w l W .» * to. k. Mb IIX r f I* 
JESJba-ftl flan a picnic ride. A party of people 
lure the car for a day, and ride all over the lines, taking a luneh 
alAjflKdTi-jMi^ a rrfrcs tUe Poetic* ..t 
luiui: a troliey or electric c»r lor a puju c rule a party ot p» op • 
.SHSHP ituifortuiiaAe u^PPie w 4U uuot : qat.,styot yvllP*i'-. 
r jeif ■wit 1 4j0 1 ul. ,@u)Ieripg,£cpiqf,qutbAP.bi&r nausea or a light rash. The 
latest suggestion is for these people to use bicarbonate of soda in 
the!^ugArtlhat £6'es'6n th'e fi-tiit. 1 Try itt ’ ’ l ■ " ’ - 
nes wit Bout --u lie ring ft mu loolli mue. n i u - i.i nr u liohl i'ash.' T e 
.He^e Is a sensible idea from a pounectbcut farmer iu“ Saturday, 
Ifppn,,! usually knock Off, for,,a City, half holiday. Why should 
the city chaps have it all to themselves 7 ” That's right. You cau 
ku'dclroff w'orry and troa'ble at the'^athe tiirie. 1 
l u tifljly kuocK <‘ti for a city IImM . oltdaj 
In last week’s paper, Mr. Sarg intimates t^at^uiericau farmers 
are coming to the .point where it will pay them to keep cows for 
milk, meat and labor. We doubt it. Horses are too cheap in this 
countoy. RarmeW are more likely td iliake 1 Use df*Electricity." 
tkVti eomiu^ u> tue wari‘6 u will j>a»y them i<* euw iur 
uiilK, mea.< :*u<l i.tiioi*. YVe il. are lu.i ctin ip in tin-- 
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