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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 6 
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" MEMORIES 
When Decoration Day was first sug¬ 
gested, there was immense enthusiasm 
over the new holiday. Its sentiment 
fitted in with the great wave of patriotic 
feeling that had been rolled up by the 
War, and it seemed then as though 
public interest in this beautiful cere¬ 
mony would never die out. I can re¬ 
member when thousands of people turned 
out to see the old soldiers deck the 
graves of their comrades. Now all is 
changed. In our town, this year, a mere 
handful of gray-haired veterans marched 
quietly to the graveyard, unaided and 
unattended by the crowds of younger 
men who filled our streets. The day 
had lost its old significance. The stars 
and stripes fluttered from many houses, 
but where 10 men stood by the soldiers’ 
graves, 100 attended the baseball game. 
I could see that the old veterans were 
sad and discontented at this state of 
affairs. War was a real act to them, 
and Decoration Day brought old mem¬ 
ories back. Old faces looked out of the 
mist of the years, old forms moved into 
view from the shadowy past. It was so 
real and so true to them, that they could 
not understand why it meant so little to 
younger men and boys. It grieVed them 
to think that the youth of this age care 
so little for their country’s history. You 
see, they could not realize that, while 
they were looking hack into the years, 
the boys were looking ahead into the 
future. The latter will not be able to 
realize what Decoration Day really 
means until they are called upon to make 
some great sacrifice for liberty. You 
see, it is experience and really living 
through these things, that brings them 
home to us so that we see things about 
them that others overlook. 
I have read a story of a German who 
came to this country before the War to 
make his home here. When the War 
broke out, he enlisted and fought all 
through it till he loved the old flag with 
every atom of his being. After the War, 
he got news from Germany that some 
one had died and left him property, lie 
went back, and though he loved to be 
known as an American, it seemed best 
for him to remain, so he married and 
settled down. Then the French and 
German War broke out, and he enlisted 
and fought through it with great dis¬ 
tinction. 
private's uniform—no gold on it, and no 
style ! ” 
We can imagine only a part of the feel¬ 
ing that rose in that soldier’s heart at 
those words. Money could buy the 
officer’s uniform, but the private’s coat 
of blue was priceless. It gave him many 
a bitter hour to think that Americans of 
a younger generation had forgotten (or 
never learned) what they owed to the 
volunteer soldier who gave all he had— 
his life—for a principle that has uplifted 
the human race wherever man feels the 
faintest longing for freedom ! 
That is all, this week ! I shall leave 
the thought with you like a bit of yeast 
to “raise” the dough of every day life. 
Others may not think as you do. Be 
patient with them ! Show them the 
truth by example, as well as precept, 
and they will come more to your way of 
thinking. Stand by the old flag forever. 
It is a sacred thing, this old “Star Span¬ 
gled Banner.” For a century it has 
floated—a beacon light for the poor and 
oppressed of every land. Let us respect 
the lessons it teaches—not only on the 
battle field, but in the workshop and the 
home as well, in the quiet walks of life, 
where true American citizenship is man¬ 
ufactured out of the trifles that make up 
our daily round of toil! 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Erik County, N. Y.—The weatheiqis very dry, 
but the grain is looking well, and promises more 
straw than last year. Wheat is heading (May 
24), and we are just planting corn. g. t. li. 
Genesee County, N. Y.—It is now phenomenally 
dry here. Corn, bean and potato planting is in 
progress. Much of the seed will remain in a dor¬ 
mant condition until the proper conditions of 
moisture exist. Grave fears are entertained that 
our newseedingof clover is again to be a failure. 
Apples promise an abundant crop. Spraying is 
generally practiced, mainly for the destruction of 
the Codling moth and Canker worm, more espe¬ 
cially the latter, which is making sad havoc in 
many of the orchards in this locality. i. d. c. 
Fruit Prospects in Wayne County, N. Y.— Last 
summer and autumn were very dry, no heavy 
rain till December. Last winter was the coldest 
winter we have had in years, the thermometer 
going as low as 26 below zero. There will be no 
peaches and quinces, and but lew cherries, pears 
and grapes this year. Many peach trees, quince 
bushes and grape vines are killed entirely. Apple 
trees have bloomed full, and give promise of a 
full crop I sowed Crimson clover in corn at the 
last cultivation, July 4. The ground was dry. 
It came up well. The corn was heavy, and the 
clover made no growth, and when winter set in, 
there was not much of it left. I sowed it in beaus 
about July 15. It came up nicely. It was so dry 
that it grew slowly, and when winter set in, was 
small. During the winter, it was partly protected 
with snow. It came through in good shape, and 
is now* in bloom. I think that it will stand our 
winters all right, and shall sow more. f. w. n. 
At heart, however, he was still an 
American, and when, one day, he heard 
that a party of American tourists had 
come to his town, he hunted them up 
and brought them to his home. 
“Now then,” he thought, “I will show 
them the best thing they have seen this 
side of the ocean.” 
He took them into his own room, and 
there, on the wall, hung the old, blue 
uniform he had worn in America. It was 
rusty and faded, but think what it meant 
to him ! Over it, between two little flags, 
was a picture of Lincoln. The German 
had thought to please his new friends. 
To him, the old uniform represented the 
best part of his life ; but the Americans 
were mostly young people—thoughtless 
young women and pleasure-loving men. 
They simply glanced at the uniform, and 
shrugged their shoulders. Out in the 
parlor, the German’s wife had hung up 
hifl tmifdrm £6 a H'eTtn'atr officer. It wafe 
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Eastern New York Fruit Notes. —With no rain 
of any amount since the snow left us, the ground 
is very dry, so that we have been able to set only 
a part of our strawberry ground, and one-half of 
the plants have died. One plot of 7,000 plants took 
3,500 to reset, and if we get no rain, most of these 
must die. Our two-year beds are looking much 
better than last year’s setting. There is a fair 
setting of fruit, but rain must be had to grow it. 
With grubs last year that left ruin in their course, 
an open winter with extreme cold and the early 
heat and absence of rain, we are in a critical 
state in respect to berries. Yet my blackberries, 
blackcaps and red raspberries never looked bet¬ 
ter than now, but water must be had, and that 
very soon. The Crimson clover in our vineyard 
survived the winter, but the March weather killed 
most of it. Another piece sowed on old straw¬ 
berry ground last July, looked very fine until 
March weather killed that, also. I shall sow it 
again wherever I can, when the time comes to do 
it. Currants are dropping from the stems, and 
many bushes have nothing but bare stems on 
the inside. I understand that this is the case 
across the river in Ulster. Walter f. taber. 
Some Ohio Notes.— I have never raised any 
winter oats, but some of our neighbors sowed 
about two acres a .year ago last falk Theyicame 
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Timothy-.meadows,-fthinly «et-iwith grass, and 
even large spots wbere there I is not a spire of 
grass, ;iy5till.theo,wnera twill leave them and mow 
over-, them.-ory.prohobiy, mow arouud them and 
let the weeds fcakethem.wiThm is a great:, waste. 
A good way to fix,these meadows, is to .sow with 
a spring-pressure drilhonei tousbehof oats to the 
acre- without harrowing the, -ground, and ■ re-sow 
Timothy, , -iThe. old Timothy and oats ,together 
make good crop of-Cixeeilent hajiil. Oats sowed 
very.-thick and cut Justs - when t ini the milk, and 
either cured or .put -up for ensilage, make excel- 
very thick and cut just when in the mill,, and 
cum r cur ad or put up lor , m.iUt! uru 
lent feed. I visited Mr. J. E. Wing recently, and 
was very favorably impressed with his shredded 
corn iodder; I shall try some this fall. If it prove 
wnat I think it will, it will make a revolution in 
feeding. m. c. t. 
Kye as a Green Manure.— I have used rye to 
plow under for several years, and think that 1 
get sufficient benefit to repay the cost and labor 
It is the only sure winter blanket, and as good 
as we have in this section of the country to pro¬ 
tect the soil from the winter changes. If plowed 
under early, it gives a great amount of vegetable 
matter to the soil, and unless sown very late in 
fall, should not be turned under later than May 1, 
to get the best result. It should be turned under 
as soon as it begins to joint. If at this time you 
pull up a plant of rye, you will find that the roots 
average six to eight inches long. When beaded, 
the roots will not average two inches long, while 
the stalk is in a woody stage. At the full ripened 
stage, the roots are all absorbed, the head being 
supported by a stalk of woody fiber as hard to 
rot as so much basswood, requiring an immense 
amount of moisture and time to do so,whereas, if 
it bad been plowed under when it commenced to 
joint, it would have been a mass of watery, vege 
table fiber tliat would break down at once, fur¬ 
nishing moisture and humus to the soil instead 
of subtracting from it. v. 
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