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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSION. 
(continued.) 
it to roll the leaves into compact pellets, 
convenient to swallow, no bad effects 
will be noticed. For several years, I 
was a great sufferer from its effects 
(having to work where it abounded); 
but after taking the remedy which was 
advised by an old California miner, I 
have never felt the slightest incon¬ 
venience, although 1 have frequently 
handled it. For those who are afraid to 
swallow the leaves, the best application 
I ever tried was volatile liniment, two 
or three parts olive oil to one part spirits 
of ammonia, the stronger the better, if 
the parts affected are not too tender. 
Apply every hour. But a little bit of 
prevention is worth a heap of cure. 
Great Success with Millet. 
A. L. W., Corky, Pa.—I have had no 
experience with barley, but have often 
sown German millet after July 4, and 
secured a good crop. I have also found 
that it made excellent ensilage when cut 
into the silo, but does not pack closely 
enough when put in whole. Last sea¬ 
son, 1 mowed what grass there was on a 
six-acre piece, made hay of it, then 
plowed and got a good crop of millet, 
and no better feed grows than that, if 
cut, before it gets too ripe. I sow three 
pecks to the acre. 
Killing Young Horns. 
S. P. K., Brusiiton, N. Y.—Punch a 
round hole in one edge of the top of a can 
of Babbitt's potash and get out enough 
to make a paste as large as a flve-cent 
piece. Shear off the hair over the horn, 
and put the paste on; no horn will grow 
and one can’t tell them from mulleys. 
Whittle a plug of pine, and plug up the 
hole, and the potash will be all right 
for another year—or use it to make soap. 
The Carman Peach —Again Mr. J. W. 
Stubenraucli sends us a box of the Car¬ 
man peaches. They were shipped from 
Mexia, Tex., on June 20 and reached the 
writer July 1. Every peach was ripe 
and perfectly sound. There were up¬ 
wards of 50 in the box, the average cir¬ 
cumference being 1)4 inches either way. 
They were beautifully colored and of 
excellent quality for so early a peach. 
Mr. Stubenrauch writes : 
This peach is apparently indestructible. They 
received first, a sound thrashing with hail a few 
days previous to the Sherman cyclone ; and we 
have had no rain, with weather unusually hot, 
for over six weeks. This is the fifth regular crop 
which the original tree of this kind is bearing. It 
is maintaining its characteristics as from the 
first, ripening with Early Rivers ; in fact, we 
have this day some Alexanders yet on trees. The 
only change, and this is but slight, from what the 
fruit appeared at first is, that it now inclines 
more to the round and not so much to the oblong 
shape, which you will readily perceive by exam¬ 
ination. 
On June 26, we received from Wm. 
Parry, Parry, N. J., a Koonce pear, well 
colored with red on a bronzy-yellow 
ground. In size, it would equal a Seckel 
at its best. The pear was overripe so 
that we could not judge of its quality. 
It is not claimed that it is of high quality, 
except as it is compared with the quality 
of earliest pears like Lawson. Mr. Parry 
has testimonials from good men to the 
effect that the Koonce is a first-rate 
shipper, and in quality and appearance 
the best of its season. It is claimed that 
the tree is free from blight, comes into 
bearing very early, and is immensely 
productive. 
L)r. Van Fleet, of Little Silver, N. J., 
sends us (June 26) two berries of the 
Logan raspberry-blackberry. In size, 
they were as large as a Kittatinny black¬ 
berry, though more conical. The color 
was a dark red. The flesh to our taste, 
was distinctly that of the raspberry— 
somewhat acid, but agreeably so. With 
sugar, used as with strawberries, we 
think it would be a very palatable fruit. 
Maturing nearly with Nott’s Perfec¬ 
tion (June 26), is Burpee’s Quality 
pea. We tried this and Burpee’s Quan¬ 
tity in 1888, when first introduced. 
The vines grow two feet and over in 
height, and are vigorous and branching 
like Bliss’s Everbearing and Abundance, 
which were tried at the Rural Grounds 
in 1884. This variety is thoroughly 
selected—not a rogue appeared in our 
trial row. We know of no other kind 
that will give a larger quantity of pods, 
but the pods and peas are small. It is 
fine for home use, as the peas are tender 
and sweet and the vines need no support, 
but it is not a valuable market pea. 
Carter’s Up to Date (Gregory), is 
evidently some other variety as the 
vines are at least four feet high. The 
pods are as large as those of Stratagem, 
straight, the seeds large. First picking 
June 26. Mr. J. J. H. Gregory says that 
the vines grow with him but 15 inches 
high. The Duke of York begins to 
mature at the same time. The vines are 
not quite so tall, but fully as prolific. 
Pods large and well filled, seeds large to 
largest ; but the quality is not so good 
as Stratagem, Telephone, Nott’s Excel¬ 
sior, Quality or the Station, owing to a 
less tender skin..... 
Daisy, from James Vicks’ Sons is but 
a day or two later than Quality. Vines 
grow two feet high ; leaves large, pods 
large and broad and well filled with 
about eight large seeds. Vines produc¬ 
tive. We regard this as the best dwarf 
or half dwarf pea in our present collec¬ 
tion. Quality is less satisfactory on 
account of its small pods. 
The first ripe berries on the Gault 
Everbearing blackcap were picked June 
30. The plants came to us from The 
Storrs & Harrison Company, April, 1895. 
A peculiarity of this variety is that 
most plants have one or more broadly 
fasciated or flattened stems such as we 
often see in asparagus shoots, lily stems, 
etc. See Fig. 154. A side view would 
show the stem to be but one-quarter of 
an inch thick. 
June 30, the highest stems of Saghalin 
were seven to eight feet high. This is 
the second season, as will be remem¬ 
bered . 
We have this season about 30 different 
kinds of sweet peas. Blanche Ferry— 
seed from D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, 
Mich.—is by far the earliest of all. It 
began to bloom a week ago, the only 
variety that has bloomed up to this date 
—June 30. It is a wonderful bloomer. 
The flowers are rose and white, very 
sweet, and endure well after being cut... 
Last season, the vines of our best 
seedling potatoes were frequently dusted 
with Fungiroid. As the vines were less 
injured by the flea beetle than usual, we 
suggested that it might be owing to the 
Fungiroid. This season, we are using 
the Fungiroid with plaster and Paris- 
green. Perhaps it is owing to the Fun¬ 
giroid, perhaps to the cool, wet weather; 
certain it is that the vines are less punc¬ 
tured by this destructive insect than 
they have been in many years. 
Seeds of the American Wonder pea 
were given to us by the introducers, B. 
K. Bliss & Sons, in 1878, before the vari¬ 
ety was offered for sale, for trial and 
comparison with McLean’s Little Gem, 
one of its alleged parents. The Champion 
of England was the other. We reported 
to the firm that it was earlier than Mc¬ 
Lean’s Little Gem—then the favorite 
dwarf wrinkled pea—more prolific, and 
equal to it in quality. This surprised B. 
K. Bliss & Sons, and led them to adver¬ 
tise it freely. Probably no pea ever had a 
greater sale, or returned the introducers 
a larger profit. This was part of our re¬ 
port : 200 pods of McLean’s Little Gem 
gave (June 27) 720 seeds which weighed 
10ounces ; 200 pods of American Won¬ 
der gave (June 26) 954 seeds which 
weighed 10 ounces. We think that it was 
in 1882 that we imported several varie¬ 
ties from England that had not yet been 
offered by American seedsmen. Among 
them were Carter’s Stratagem, Carter’s 
Pride of the Market, Laxton’s Earliest 
of All, Dean’s Dwarf Mari’ow. Our notes 
indicate that we imported the Telegraph 
the year before, and that the Telephone 
was a selection from that variety. The 
Stratagem, which we distributed among 
our readers, is to-day the most popular 
of the varieties of its period of maturity, 
and we hear little of the Telegraph and 
Telephone. 
It may interest our present readers to 
know just how the Stratagem, Tele¬ 
graph, and Telephone compared as to 
number and weight of seeds, etc. Tele¬ 
phone, averaging 18 to 20 pods to a plant, 
(July 9) vines nearly four feet high, 200 
pods gave 1,320 seeds which weighed 28 % 
ounces ; Telegraph, averaging 16 to 18 
pods to a vine (four feet high), 200 pods 
gave 1,332 seeds weighing 28 ounces ; 
Stratagem, 20 pods to a vine, 2 % feet 
high, 200 pods gave 1,420 seeds weighing 
42 ounces, the average being over seven 
very large seeds to a pod. 
We received a plant of the new.spiraea 
Anthony Waterer, last year, from A. 
Blanc & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. It is an 
improvement upon Spiraea Bumaldi in 
one way, the color of the flowers. The 
corymbs are as flat as possible, varying 
from an inch to five or six inches in 
diameter. A plant cannot well be more 
floriferous. The bush is, as yet, but two 
feet high, and the top is a mass of bloom 
of a bright crimson—perhaps magenta 
would better describe the color. Spiraea 
Bumaldi bears flowers of a lighter color, 
a rosy pink. Both bloom at the same 
time (June 20), and both are perfectly 
hardy. 
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wide or narrow 
planting, as fast as 
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Extra tubes fur¬ 
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farmer having 
one or a hundred 
acres of potatoes 
tomatoes, tobacco 
or other crops. 
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