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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 18 
" KNOW HOW/’ 
The Mark Lane Express tells the story 
of an English clergyman who was com¬ 
fortably settled in a country parish. 
Like many wiser, if not betcer, men he 
thought it necessary for him to pretend 
that he knew all about farming. lie 
wanted an old city friend to visit him, 
and so, in writing up all the attractions 
of the country, this clergyman wrote : 
As an additional attraction, I may tell you that 
there are three acres of pasture, and I have deter¬ 
mined to have a }>air of sheep, so that we may 
have fresh kidneys for breakfast every morning. 
Now you see, this man evidently 
thought that kidneys and eggs are very 
much the same. Hens lay eggs, and 
kidneys come from sheep. If two hens 
could give him two eggs a day, of course, 
two sheep would have no trouble in pro¬ 
ducing a pair of kidneys every 24 hours. 
There’s logic for you, based on certain 
facts. A man with such a fund of agri¬ 
cultural information ought to come to 
this country and get into politics. He 
would, probably, be appointed commis¬ 
sioner of agriculture in some State of 
this great and glorious Union. 
We mention this to call attention to 
the class of men who, sometimes, pose 
as teachers or leaders of thought. They 
are plausible, well-worded fellows, with 
“ logic ” as square as a cube and as clear 
as a bell. The trouble is that they don’t 
know the facts, for if you trace their 
arguments back, you will run up against 
a guess. Advice built upon a guess is 
worse than a house built upon the sand. 
Down it goes when the test comes. This 
man, who talked so glibly about a pair 
of kidneys every day from a pair of 
sheep, didn’t know that he was making 
himself ridiculous, because he didn’t 
know what a kidney is; but he was 
ready to go right ahead and lay down 
the law to others in spite of his ignor¬ 
ance. We often read books and articles 
that seem to be written by just such 
men Of course they don’t make such 
bad mistakes as this clergyman did, but 
it is easy to see that what they say is 
based upon a guess rather than upon a 
fact. If they would label what they 
write, “ suggestions,” instead of “ad¬ 
vice,” it would be much better ; but they 
don’t do it, and those who follow them, 
simply take a risk in what they do. 
Now we hear some one starting up to 
say: “Do you mean to say that The 
R. N.-Y. never mixes up kidneys with 
eggs ? ” 
We are not saying a word about The 
R. N.-Y. When that paper is to be dis¬ 
cussed, we call upon others to do the 
talking. Most of our readers remember 
Wm. Wylie, “The Actor Farmer.” This 
man is an actor who passes the winters 
on the stage, and farms during the sum¬ 
mer. Some five or six years ago, he 
heard of an “ abandoned farm ” in Mass¬ 
achusetts, and after a visit to the place, 
he bought it. It was then in awful 
shape, and since then, he has worked 
away at it through the summers, making 
a living and a little besides, and gradu¬ 
ally making the farm more productive 
This year, for various reasons, he found 
it necessary to sell the farm, and this is 
what he says about it. 
We bought the farm, an abandoned one, for 
$800. We subscribed to The R N.-Y. from the 
start, and at the end of five years, we had made 
so many improvements on the place, all learned 
from The R. N.-Y.’s teaching, that we sold that 
abandoned $800 farm for $2,700, including stock 
and tools worth about $300, leaving $2,400 for the 
bare farm, or $1,600 gained by studying The R. 
N.-Y. I am on the lookout for a smaller place 
nearer a big town, about 10 acres, and will buy 
one at the first chance when I find one suitable, 
and then I will take up The R. N.-Y". once more. 
And, from my past experience, I know that I can 
make a good living and lay up a little against the 
rainy day we hear so much about. Wishing you 
the success you deserve, I remain, 
WM. WYLIE, (THE ACTOI! FAUMElt). 
Now we claim that it isn’t necessary 
for us to try to crack up The R. N.-Y. 
after such a statement. We didn’t tell 
this man that he could get a pair of kid¬ 
neys each morning from a pair of sheep. 
Not a bit of it. We told him that when 
he took the kidney, he took the life of 
the sheep, and that, when he took a big 
crop out of the soil without putting some¬ 
thing back to pay for it, he took the 
kidneys out of that soil. 
Don’t try to get something for nothing. 
Breed up the best and care for it! 
Save steps ! 
Cultivate a market ! 
Get out of the old ruts ! 
Sell water! 
These were a few of the things that 
we advised, and in order to obtain facts 
to which he could safely anchor, we went 
to dozens of different people. To answer 
two little questions asked by this man, 
we sent to California and to Germany 
for information—and obtained it, too. 
That is what we are here for—not to sit 
down and guess at facts, but to get out 
among the people and capture the facts 
themselves. A guess is likely to prove 
a counterfeit fact. The man who know¬ 
ingly passes a counterfeit, is a danger¬ 
ous citizen. 
A well-known Connecticut man who is 
on the road among farmers a good deal 
of his time, and is himself a good farmer, 
writes this in reply to a question about 
a crop there with which he has succeeded: 
Y r es,1 will gladly give details, thanks for your 
kind offer to print them. I am willing to do the field 
work and write facts; the printers must do the 
rest. Many printers will not print facts without 
pay; for cash they will print anything. In my 
half million miles’ travel in America—30,000 miles 
per year—among the farmers, I find The R. N.-Y. 
on file everywhere, for the reason that it contains 
facts. Hence, I feel that the details given you 
will be of service. 
We have never experienced any great 
difficulty in securing facts of value from 
farmers or scientific men. They seem to 
realize the fact that The R. N.-Y. doesn't 
like guesswork, and won’t have any 
kidneys passed off as eggs. If a mau 
likes kidneys better than he does eggs, 
he can have them every morning, if he 
will keep sheep enough. Some papers 
are like a hen—their “ fresh eggs ” are 
all laid by two or three writers, and the 
first egg a hen lays tastes almost exactly 
like the last one. The R. N.-Y. has a 
staff of writers large enough to furnish 
both eggs and kidneys in each issue, and 
that is just what we expect to do so long 
as we have any connection with The 
R. N -Y. We want to be headquarters 
for facts. “ If you don’t see what you 
want—call for it ! ” 
MAKING A SHEEP PASTURE. 
The time to begin work on wild land designed 
for a meadow or pasture, is in August. The con¬ 
dition of the brush and briers is then such that, 
if cut properly close to the ground, they will be 
pretty likely to die. If anything at all is left alive 
much above the surface of the soil, it is pretty 
surento spring into life the following season, and 
thus undo the entire labor expended. H., page 
478, would have done better to wait, at least, a 
month later in clearing up his sprout land. He 
is wise in arranging the brush so that the most 
of the ground will be burned over. All he needs 
to do now, is to leave -it there until about August 
1. it will then burn all the better, and, if he has 
already exerted extra pains in cutting the bushes 
close to the ground, whatever sprouts may chance 
to spring up during the next few weeks, will be 
burnt down to the quick. Moreover, in burning 
the bushes, the ashes left will, to a certain extent, 
enrich the soil. 
After burning, harrow the soil as intended, and, 
if possible, harrow it pretty thoroughly. The 
more the ground is harrowed, the better the grass 
seed will be likely to catch. If some kind of old, 
worthless straw be drawn and spread in a rather 
thin coat over the whole patch, the roots that 
have been exposed, which the fire did not injure 
in the least, will burn readily ; this second burn¬ 
ing will have a tendency to kill or stunt them so 
that they will give little or no trouble in the 
future. This accomplished, the ground is ready 
for seeding. 
In seeding, it would be well to brush the seed 
in by drawing over the ground a very scrubby 
sapling trimmed into shape desirable for this pur¬ 
pose. A little manure thrown over the ground 
late next fall, would protect the seeding during 
the winter, and help its growth greatly another 
spring. I would sow several kinds of seed. A 
good mixture would be six quarts of Timothy, 
two pounds of Red-top, one-half pound of White 
clover together with 1*4 pound of Crimson and 
one of Alsike clover per acre. If Kentucky Blue 
Grass thrives so nicely in an adjoining field, how¬ 
ever, it might be well to use that in place of the 
White clover. There would thus be a variety of 
grasses, upon which sheep or any other kind of 
stock will do better, as a general rule, than upon 
one kind alone. 
It would be a good plan to sow some rye with 
the other seeds, but this will not make so much 
difference if the above rules have been strictly 
followed in clearing up the land. Still, 17 or 18 
pounds per acre might be added to the foregoing 
mixture, with good results. It would be unadvis- 
able to turn in the sheep too early. Better wait 
until the grass has attained a good start, for then 
it will be all the better rooted ; while, as to the 
sprouts, I hardly think that they will make much 
headway in outgrowing the grasses for a spell, if 
the land is only dealt with in the first place as I 
have described. fred. o. sibley. 
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and the rest of it is 
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