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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 25 
" MAKING THINGS COUNT.” 
Last week, our little girl appeared 
upon the scene clad in a new gingham 
dress. She was as proud as a little pea¬ 
cock over it, and went about saying, 
“ pitty dwess ! ” and stroking it down 
with her little hand. The baby’s mother 
made the dress, and the material for it 
cost just 15 cents. Perhaps, if you deduct 
15 cents from the cash price of a ready¬ 
made dress, you would not be able to 
figure very large returns for the mad- 
ame’s time; but I’m giving you exact 
figures. Anyway, if you are going to 
try to figure out the cash value of her 
time, you must also give a cash valuation 
to the satisfaction of feeling that she 
had decked out the baby with her own 
hands. On Sunday, the madame her¬ 
self came forward clad in a new, Sunday- 
go-to meeting dress, the material for 
which cost 69 cents. To my eye, she 
looked as well in it as she did in her 
wedding dress—better, for she made it 
all herself. 
Now, I am not ready to admit that I 
have a 69-cent wife and a 15-cent baby, 
unless I can set the c omparative standard 
of value to suit myself ; and if I did that, 
some other wives and babies would fall 
to a valuation of 50 and 10 cents. I 
wouldn’t amount to much if I didn’t 
claim that my folks are on a constantly 
appreciating standard of value. If the 
madame and the baby are worth but 84 
cents together, then there is but one 
other similar combination of mother and 
daughter that I would give even 83 cents 
for, and that is the madame and the 
baby’s grandmother. But that is not 
the point at all. I just wanted to show 
that this is an age of cheap raw material, 
and in such an age, those people succeed 
who have the skill to turn that raw 
material into the highest type of a fin¬ 
ished product. 
I once knew a school teacher, graduate 
of a college, who was married to a 
farmer. She said: “1 am supposed to 
have an education, and that ought to 
enable me to do something besides mere 
manual labor. If there is anything in 
theory, I ought to be able to do work 
that will pay well enough to enable me 
to hix-e the harder work done.” She 
tried it and succeeded by putting cheap, 
raw materials into choice, finished prod¬ 
ucts that commanded high prices. The 
madame took a dollar bill, bought the 
material for two dresses, and had 16 
cents left to pay on the mortgage or to 
buy some other useful thing. 
There is a thought under this that we 
wish to leave with you. The army worms 
have eaten into our space this week by 
occasioning so many reports, so we can¬ 
not go on and explain the whole thing 
out; but the point is that, in these times, 
we must look to little things for help. 
We, certainly, believe in that sort of a 
“ clipped dollar ” that saves a few cents 
by judicious buying. The 16 cents 
clipped out of that dollar for dresses, 
doesn’t hurt us a bit, and, if by wise 
planning and skillful buying, the cost of 
the two dresses could be reduced to 53 
cents, while a less careful person spent 
a dollar, we wouldn’t say a word about 
“repudiation” or 50-eent dollar, except 
to say that is just the sort of a 50-cent 
dollar we like. We wish that we had 
space to go on and elaborate this idea ; 
but now we must turn to another side of 
it. Here is a man from Missouri : 
Inclosed find $1 for a renewal of my subscrip¬ 
tion for another year. That is the price here of 
six bushels of x>otatoes, five bushels of corn, two 
bushels of wheat, 14 dozens of egg's, 10 pounds of 
butter or five dozens of cabbage ; but I couldn’t 
get along without your paper if it cost three times 
as much. o. H. J. 
Missouri City, Mo. 
See that! There is no clipped dollar 
about that, for this man feels that 52 
issues of The R. N.-Y. will do his farm 
more good than any of these articles 
kept at home. To take the information 
and facts in The R. N.-Y., and apply 
them, is just like the madame taking 84 
cents and making two dresses. Now, 
take this man in Ohio : 
We received The Rural sewing machine in due 
time. My wife is not only fully satisfied, but is 
truly delighted with it. It is as finely made, as 
handsome, and in every way as good as my 
mother’s $55 Domestic, so far as we can see. We 
thank you for helping us to get so much for our 
money. F. H. ballou. 
Now think of that! There is a big 
saving, right there. A dollar saved in 
that way is not a dishonest dollar, and 
The R. N.-Y. is not a “revolutionist” 
by putting such chances in your way. 
Now one more and we are done. Here is 
what a clergyman in New York State 
says : 
I am in the habit, on Sunday mornings after 
service, of distributing my copies of The R. N.-Y. 
to different farmers, in the hope that they may 
get alive to the advantages of being subscribers. 
That is seed sowing for you ! All such 
little things help us more than you can 
imagine, and we will stop right here by 
saying that we shall be delighted to 
have each reader of The R. N.-Y. put in 
one minute or more per day in explain¬ 
ing to some neighbor, friend or relative 
what this paper is, and why it is useful ! 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Crimson Clover Sown in Spring.— Last sum¬ 
mer, I sowed some Crimson clover, and this sea¬ 
son, I have nothing to show for it—not a sprig. 
This season, in April, my neighbor sowed a field 
to Crimson clover, and now has a good harvest 
in prospect. G. P. 
Townsend, Mass. 
No Crimson Clover Seed in Delaware.— Very 
little Crimson clover seed is saved on this penin¬ 
sula this year. I save none, clover being all re¬ 
quired for the silo. My second cutting of Alfalfa 
is ready, and heavier than the first. The mower 
is now in it. My silo corn is immense—cow peas 
promising. e. h. b. 
Delaware. 
Crimson Clover in Illinois.— Crimson clover 
did well with me. I sowed the last week in July. 
I plowed the ground, harrowed and rolled it, then 
sowed the seed and harrowed aud rolled it in. It 
came up well, a first-class stand. It stood the 
drought extra well; the drier the weather, the 
greener it got. We had an extra-hard winter, 
on clover—it was freeze and thaw all winter— 
with very little snow, and I don’t think a plant 
was killed. I cut part of it for hay, the rest I 
thrashed for seed, and got 18 bushels of the finest 
seed that was raised, from a little over two acres. 
Vermilion County, Ill. E. K. 
Crimson Clover and Rape.— Crimson clover 
went through the winter with, practically, no loss. 
With the unusually moist, warm spring, it had 
attained a growth of 18 to 20 inches, and was 
headed in time for plowing under for corn. Plants 
that, last fall, were eaten close off to the roots by 
sheep, made a good growth this spring. Plants 
left for seed have filled well with a fine quality of 
seed. Seed is smaller and of a lighter color than 
that grown farther south. Crimson clover thinly 
sown this spring, just ahead of the drill, with bar¬ 
ley and oats, has made a fine growth, some heads 
showing, to-day (July 10); five acres sown on 
ground plowed and especially prepared for it 
alone, about May 20, have not made as good a 
growth. Still, it nicely covers the ground, and we 
anticipate that it will well repay labor and ex¬ 
pense, as green manure plowed under next month 
for wheat. We have five acres of Dwarf Essex 
rape alongside of this Crimson clover, sown at 
the same time, and for the same purpose. 
It has made a good growth, and looks very 
much like an immense crop of rutabagas. 
We shall watch with interest the effect of these 
crops upon the following wheat crop. Along¬ 
side of the rape, is a meadow stubble which 
will be plowed and sowed to wheat with the 
clover and rape. w. H. 8. 
Climax, Mich. 
Army Worms in Western New York.— A dark 
cloud is seen in the horizon; the bright prospects 
for a boutiful harvest which the agriculturists of 
this locality had only a few days ago, are threat¬ 
ened by one of the worst of the farmer’s foes—the 
army worm. They are here, and from reports at 
hand, they extend over a wide extent of country ; 
from the border of Pennsylvania come reports of 
whole fields being destroyed by them. A farm 
near Jamestown, N. Y., was the first place on 
which they have congregated in numbers suffi¬ 
cient to organize for a march, where they stayed 
two or three days. They then crossed to another, 
where they are represented as covering the fields 
by millions, attacking a field of oats and leaving 
nothing but the bare stalks ; the grass seeding 
being taken first. Oats in some localities, are 
being cut green to save them from the worm. At 
my own place, they were seen three days ago, 
although they were, probably, here before. On 
picking up a board that had been laid down on 
the grass, I found the underside covered with 
worms ; at first sight, I took them to be cut¬ 
worms, which they resemble very much ; but the 
cutworm is rather larger around. The army 
worms are not uniform in color ; they vary from 
nearly black to a light green, and are marked 
with two distinct lateral stripes; the first nearest 
its legs is very bright, of a yellowish shade 
tinged with pink; the upper one is reddish-brown, 
having a white line or border on each Bide. Under 
the lens,short, scattering hairs are seen, those on 
the head being the longest. They have 16 legs, 
six near the head which terminate in the form of 
claws, and 10 abdominal legs, two of which are 
at the extremity of the body ; these have a black 
spot on the outside. A fully matured worm 
measures from 1 to 1 Vi inch long. Up to this 
writing (July 13), no very serious damage has 
been done to my own crops ; but I fear that the 
0 Continued on next page). 
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