1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
787 
FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSION. 
(CONTINUED.) 
out, wliat prevented it from being over¬ 
worked, and presenting that salvy ap¬ 
pearance which all good buttermakers 
try to avoid ? 
At our State fair, which closed October 
3, the dairy exhibit was a most interest¬ 
ing feature. The superb refrigerator, 
20 feet long, and holding 500 exhibits, 
keeps the butter in excellent shape. It 
was filled to overflowing with first-class 
butter. The judge who scored the but¬ 
ter at the World’s Fair, declared it to be 
the finest display of butter he ever 
scored. 
I am glad that people are taking a 
stand against “side shows” and the 
like at fairs. It is a good thing ! Push 
it along ! 
Incubators Are Not Toys. 
J. B. P., Northvillk, Mich. —I noticed 
an artice on page 667, by Mr. Moss, in 
regard to regulators. lie claims that 
the expansion of liquids, such as alcohol 
and mercury, is worthless under all ordi¬ 
nary conditions, and cries, Beware of 
them ! I do not like to dispute with 
Mr. Moss, but I fail to find the trouble 
Mr. Moss states. I find them easy to 
control, and the temperature alike in all 
parts of the machine. There are more 
poor hands that run incubators than 
there are poor incubators. Some men 
can’t run a wheelbarrow. Incubators 
are not toys, and are not to be used as 
such. 
Lumbago and Similar Ailments. 
W. O. E., Whitby, Canada. — Such 
troubles as “ a stitch in the side,” “stiff 
neck,” etc., are all forms of neuralgia 
affecting different muscles, or parts im¬ 
mediately contiguous thereto. They 
may all be recognized by the one symp¬ 
tom—pain upon motion. In a severe 
case of lumbago, while the pain when 
at rest, lying down, sitting down or 
standing erect, may be slight, any at¬ 
tempt to change the position, will cause 
such a sudden and acute pain as to 
check the attempt on the instant. Pain 
unattended with fever, affecting the 
limbs or back, may be pretty safely set 
down to this form of trouble. The gen¬ 
eral terms, or names, by which it is 
called are myalgia, and muscular rheu¬ 
matism. It is often brought on by expos¬ 
ing the particular set of muscles in¬ 
volved to a draught of chilly air, more 
especially when these muscles have been 
exhausted by recent exertion. The at¬ 
tack is usually sudden, often indeed, 
instantaneous. The exposure to cold is, 
probably, however, only an exciting 
cause. It seems as though there must 
be a condition of the general system to 
suffice for its real cause. While there is 
other evidence to justify this opinion, 
the single statement that it is almost in- 
variabiy relieved by a month or six 
weeks’ course of cod liver oil, would 
seem to be sufficient. 
Now, don’t be misled by a fling at the 
doctors which you may have lately 
read, in which it was said that cream or 
butter will fill the place of cod liver oil. 
The statement is a purely theoretic one. 
It is quite useless to oppose a fact es¬ 
tablished by a long and wide experience 
by any such theory. Butter and cod 
liver oil, though in some respects simi¬ 
lar, are yet two different things. I have 
no theory to offer in explanation of the 
benefit to be obtained from the use of 
cod liver oil. I know that it will cure 
such cases, and more than that, the 
patient so cured will be a physically 
better man for a year thereafter. 
Some New Tomatoes. 
J. W. Adams, Mass. —We have been 
trying some of the new tomatoes, get¬ 
ting the seed from the originators. 
Dwarf Aristocrat is not as good as 
Dwarf Champion, for the reason that it 
cracks about the stem of every fruit, 
though the tomatoes do not incline to 
rot. The New Stone is so nearly perfect 
in size, shape, color and quality, that we 
should grow it in preference to any 
other if in the market garden business. 
Mb. Henry Bell, of King William 
County, Va., kindly sends us a box of 
second-crop Concord grapes. The vine 
was cut back in the spring and bore its 
first crop which ripened about August 
1. We have had vines at the Rural 
Grounds bear a second crop, though none 
of the berries matured. The first blos¬ 
soms were killed by frost and the second 
crop was borne by latent buds which, 
probably, would not have developed 
until the next year, had it not been that 
the first blossoms were destroyed. 
The results of our tomato crossing, 
begun about 10 years ago, and continued 
every year since, were more interesting 
last season than ever before. It was 
six years ago, we think, that our first 
crosses were made with the little Cur¬ 
rant tomato, using the pollen of the 
best varieties then known. The Currant 
tomato, which bears its fruit in racemes 
of a dozen or more, the individul berries 
being scarcely larger than Cherry or 
Fay currants, was the mother at first, 
and its progeny always thereafter. That 
is to say, pollen of the Currant progeny 
was in no instance used upon the other 
tomatoes. The first hybrid seeds gave 
tomatoes varying from half an inch to 
an inch in diameter, still borne in 
racemes. The foliage was slightly 
changed, and the habit of the plants 
somewhat less sprawling. We need not 
dwell upon the changes from year to 
year as a result of continued crossing. 
Last summer, many of the plants bore 
tomatoes as large as those borne by ordi¬ 
nary plants. Some of the plants were 
more heavily laden than any we had 
ever seen or raised. But the tomatoes of 
these extra prolific plants were, for the 
most part, under size, though as round 
as an orange, ripening perfectly and 
uniformly in all parts, free from rot, 
firm and excellent keepers. Such a 
strain might prove of some value for 
canning purposes. 
Fig. 255 shows us a solid, heavy to¬ 
mato with few and small seeds, while 
the pulp in which they are imbedded 
takes up but a small portion of the fruit. 
The proportion of solid flesh to pulp is 
as great as that of Ponderosa, and the 
quality is of the best. 
Whether these hybrids are fixed or 
not, we may not say. We began last 
season for the first to select the finest 
specimens from the thriftiest and most 
productive plants, with a view of im¬ 
proving and fixing them, if possible. 
Fig. 256 shows a remarkably dark- 
colored Currant hybrid. The color of 
the flesh is a darker red than that of any 
tomato we have seen, and the quality is 
superb. The tomatoes are of perfect 
shape, the skin is of a brilliant crimson; 
the flesh about the stem ripens with the 
other parts. Could we preserve these 
qualities and breed out the cavities or 
air spaces between outer and inner 
flesh, we should regard it as an almost 
perfect tomato. 
We have kept up our crosses with the 
Peach tomato begun many years ago. 
From these Terra Cotta sprang, and was 
introduced some four years ago. It is 
certainly different from any other to¬ 
mato in shape, color and quality. Bub 
it does not seem to have received a dis¬ 
concerting amount of praise. Many of 
last season’s varieties showed none of 
the peculiarities of the Peach, and we 
made several selections that may prove, 
some day, worthy of introduction. 
Up to this time, the tomatoes which: 
have originated at the Rural Grounds 
and have beeu introduced, are Long- 
keeper, Lemon Blush, Terra Cotta, Auto¬ 
crat and Democrat. 
November 10. Still our California 
violets are blooming, and the fragrance 
as sweetly violet as ever. 
Me. W. Atlee Burpee hopes to have- 
a sufficient stocknof his pink Cupid pea 
to introduce in 1898. 
Paradise Dwarf Apples. —It is more 
than 22 years ago that we planted in the 
Rural Grounds one tree each of the 
following varieties of dwarf apples, 
that is, apples grafted on the so- 
called Paradise stock. The Paradise 
tree, though variable, may be de 
scribed as a bush rather than a tree, 
growing only three to four feet high, 
and reduces the apple worked upon it 
to six or eight feet. The varieties we 
purchased were as nearly as we can now 
recall, Alexander, Porter. Gravenstein 
and Baldwin. They were planted in 
holes dug in the lawn, and some of 
them began to bear the second year; 
others the third and fourth year. We 
remember that the Alexander bore so 
many apples one season that it was 
necessary to prop up the branches, and 
they were large and beautiful, too. 
Later, 17 years ago, we planted a little 
orchard at the Rural farm of these 
trees. The orchard was really an ex¬ 
periment poultry yard. The little trees 
were protected by laths nailed together 
so as to form a skeleton platform about 
the trunks, lying flat upon the soil 
The laths were nailed so close together 
that the hens could not scratch the soil 
away from the roots. In this little 
orchard we added, Oldenburg, Lady 
apple, Northern Spy, Twenty-Ounce 
and Wagener to the several mentioned 
above. All of them grew thrifty, several 
bore early and were much admired by 
our friends. From that time until now 
we have, from time to time, advocated 
the planting of these dwarfs in gardens 
and limited grounds. We have further- 
advocated planting them in large or¬ 
chards between the standards, the same 
as we have advocated dwarf pears, to be 
destroyed when the standards come into 
bearing or need the entire field to them¬ 
selves. 
Notwithstanding our advocacy during 
all these years few of our readers have 
said much about dwarf apples, and we 
now call upon them to favor us with 
their experience. 
Bulletin No. 116, issued by Cornell Ex¬ 
periment Station (Ithaca, N. Y.), is writ¬ 
ten by E G. Lodeman. It tells us about 
dwarf apples, and it tells us about them 
in a most interesting and instructive way. 
The summary of evidence that Mr 
Lodeman has gathered is that these 
dwarfs have been so little and so care¬ 
lessly grown that no definite evidence of 
their value can be obtained. All seem 
to agree that they are unprofitable for 
commercial planting, although all admit 
that they may be satisfactory as single 
specimens, or as ornaments in the garden 
Generally it is admitted that the apples 
grown on Paradise stock are handsomer 
and of better quality than those grown 
as standards. Dwarf trees may be 
planted as close as eight to ten feet 
apart. They can be easily sprayed and 
cared for, and the fruit can be properly 
thinned out. Mr. Lodeman estimates 
from the information he has gathered 
that a mature dwarf which has been 
well grown, mav average two to three 
pecks of apples each year. 
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hundred feet ahead of your smartest 
horse. When you want the very best 
Driving Lamp to be had, ask your 
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We issue a special Catalogue of this 
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after night-fall, it will interest you. 
’Tis mailed free. 
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^ Established in 1840 . ^ 
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Send for Illustrated catalogue. 
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Our Fair Exhibits. 
With five car loads of wild animals, we have 
given free shows at the leading State and District 
Fairs. We thus furnish instruction, amusement, 
and proof that the Page Is the best. Several 
applications are in for next year's exhibit. 
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“ This is one of the happiest summers 1 
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good good appetite, and work hard—why 
not be nappy after so many years’ suffer¬ 
ing with that terrible asthma? My family 
doctor says, ‘ What a miracle ’ i ” 
THUS. J. BRADBURN, 
Rose, N. Y. 
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