1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8i9 
FARMERS’ CLUBIDISCUSSION. 
(continued.) 
the large, wide-spreading roots which 
are characteristic of these varieties, and 
which are well calculated to develop 
their vigorous, spreading tops, while 
varieties like Caleb and Jefferis will 
have an abundance of fibrous roots, and 
be prepared to sustain the numerous 
buds which are produced on these varie¬ 
ties. When we wish to produce a budded 
tree to meet the requirements of the 
trade, we cut a one or two-year grafted 
tree, according to the variety, back to 
the ground, and allow one shoot to grow, 
producing the bright, straight stem of 
the budded tree on roots calculated to 
provide for its future needs. 
Big Yield of Plants. 
J. B., Marlboro, N. Y.—In the sum¬ 
mer, I wrote about a seedling straw¬ 
berry plant that came up from seed last 
spring, and said that, if it continued to 
grow as it had done, it would make 50 
plants by frost. The seedling and its 
runners number just 60, all rooted fast 
to the ground, and a runner about one 
inch long, which, I think, will be rooted 
fast before spring. The plants look 
like the Sharnless in color and size. 
Have any of Tjue Rural readers ever 
heard of its equal ? Sixty rooted straw¬ 
berry plants all from one seed in one 
summer? Another seedling of the same 
age growing in the same soil, 10 inches 
from it, has not made a runner, or a sign 
of one, and is no larger than one of the 
tip-end plants of the other. 
More About McIntosh Red. 
C. J. S. H., Berlin, Mass. —The McIn¬ 
tosh apple, with me, has proved to be 
first-class, i The location of the tree and 
the kind of soil have a great deal to do 
with the quality of the fruit. My trees 
are in a rich, sandy loam on high land. 
The trees bear a good crop, well-colored, 
spicy, rich, juicy and not coarse in tex¬ 
ture. They sold for the same as my 
Gravensteins in the Boston market—$2 
a barrel. It is a good keeper, free from 
specks. The season of ripening is Octo¬ 
ber and November, according to the 
place stored. There are not many good 
apples in the market at that time of 
year. I agree with II. E. Van Deman 
that we should get the best fruits in 
the hands of the people. 
Cow Peas in West Virginia. 
S. C., South Side, W. Va.—Last sum¬ 
mer, at your suggestion, I sowed a 20 - 
acre field with cow peas—Black, Clay 
and Wonderful. They all did well. The 
Black and Clay both ripened a heavy 
crop of seed, or would had I left them 
long enough. I cut them while the pods 
were yet green. The hay is good, and 
all kinds of stock seem to like it. It 
made from 1 % to 2 tons per acre, on 
land that would, probably, have made 30 
bushels of corn. The roots were very 
long, and had many nodules on them, 
some the largest I ever saw, quite as 
large as sparrows’ eggs. I never before 
saw still clay ground left in as fine con¬ 
dition. 
Carman Potato in Canada. 
C. J. F., South London, Ont. —I see by 
The It. N.-Y. that reports of Carman No. 
3 vary somewhat. In my neighborhood, 
it has proved a great success. On leav¬ 
ing my farm last spring, for London, I 
handed my seed potatoes over to my son- 
in-law ; he planted two bushels of No. 
3, and dug 50 bushels of first-class pota¬ 
toes. One of the best of our farmers 
planted one bag, and he told me that, 
out of several varieties, No. 3 turned out 
the best. Both parties claim that they 
are excellent cookers, and they find no 
hollow ones. I grew a few in my gar¬ 
den. In comparison with No. 1, I find 
No. 3 more even in size and shape, but 
when it comes to decide which is better 
for the table, I think that No. 1 has a 
slight advantage. Both are first-class 
potatoes, and should be largely planted 
by our farmers. What is now wanted is 
a really first-class early potato ; by early, 
I mean a potato that will be fit for use, 
at least, eight or ten days before the 
Early Ohio. There are many so-called 
early, but when we come to grow them, 
we find them maturing all about the 
same time. 
The Carman No. 1 Potato. 
T. M. R., Fairview, Pa. —Have I made 
it pay me to pay §1 a year for The R. 
N.-Y. ? Three years ago, The R. N.-Y. 
sent me a small piece, about one ounce, 
of the Carman No. 1 potato, which I cut 
into small bits and planted in the spring 
of 1894, getting five stalks or hills from 
the piece. The product from the five 
hills I cut to one-eye pieces, and planted 
one eye to the hill last year. What grew 
from that planting, I cut to one-eye 
pieces and planted again this year, one 
eye to a hill. This, the third crop from 
the one-ounce piece planted in 1894, pro¬ 
duced over 200 bushels of potatoes, aver¬ 
aging large and nice, from soil of only 
medium fertility, without manuring. Is 
it a success ? 
Low-Down Wagons. 
N. C., Waterloo, N. J. —I think that 
I can materially help H. L. R., of Mil¬ 
ford, N. J., who is looking for the best 
kind of low, stout wheels for his farm. 
I bought or had bent felloes four inches 
wide, one-half-inch thick; tires one- 
quarter or three-eighths inch are thick 
enough. It takes a good smith to put 
them on right. I then had my old-fash¬ 
ioned, high, narrow-tire wheels cut 
down to three feet for front wheels, 
and 3 % for hind ones, and now I have a 
grand, stout, low-down, handy wagon. 
The R. N.-Y. tells of the metal wheels 
breaking. There is no break to these 
with their short, stout, wooden spokes 
and hubs ; they will last forever if kept 
in the dry. What a pleasure to go about 
with such a wagon, compared with the 
narrow, cutting tires. If a machine 
were made on purpose to cut up our 
roads, it could not beat these. There 
should be a tax on them to exclude 
them from all public roads. Most of 
the hardware stores keep the bent tires. 
Putting on Roofing Paper. 
J. B., Marlboro, N. Y.—I have been 
having quite a job laying a Neponset 
paper roof. I got it nicely laid but not 
fastened down, when a wind and rain 
storm came and blew it up in every direc¬ 
tion, twisting some of the strips and 
crumpling others. I had boards on every 
strip to hold them down, yet only one 
strip was torn, and that was only about 
one inch on one edge. After the storm 
was over, I wet it as one would wash 
oil cloth, then rolled each strip up on a 
piece of three-inch gas pipe to smooth 
it out again. I got it down in good shape 
after all, and finished painting it. I run 
the strips up and down, not across as 
the manufacturers direct. By laying as 
they direct, it would be punched full of 
nail holes at the edge and middle of 
every strip. As I put it down, there is 
nothing to hinder water or ice from run¬ 
ning off quickly from top to bottom, over 
a smooth, solid surface. There are no 
nail holes except under inch strips of 
pine that cover the lap, and down the 
middle of the strips of paper, and they 
should be made tight with paint. I put 
the edges of the pine strips even with 
the edges of the paper, then the nails 
go through both parts of the lap, and the 
paint can be worked under the edges to' 
make tight joints. 
‘* Milk Fever," so Called. 
W. O. E., Whitby, Ont. —What my 
cow died of (page 741), is, of course, not 
a matter of general interest. It is, how¬ 
ever, of some importance that a disease, 
or diseases, of cows, liable to occur soon 
after calving, and of such great severity 
as very often to cause death, should not 
be known by such a misleading name as 
“ milk fever.” Whether the cow had, or 
had not, any increase of temperature, 
I do not positively know. I believe 
that she had, but the temperature was 
not taken, and I cannot, therefore, say, 
The case did not at all resemble apo¬ 
plexy in the human subject. The fact, 
granting it to have been a fact, that 
there was no increase of temperature, 
would not quite dispose of all ground 
of suspicion that the essential cause of 
the disease entered her system from 
without through the breach of surface 
left by the separation of the afterbirth 
It is a universally accepted conclusion 
that tetanus is a disease of microbial 
origin. The specific microbe that causes 
it requires some breach of the surface 
to enable it to obtain access to the 
blood. Tetanus resembles parturient 
apoplexy, in that it is a disease without 
fever, very fatal, and one that selects 
the nervous system for its special field 
of destructive operation. Further than 
this I cannot speak with assurance. 
The fact that milk fever attacks only 
after calving goes a long way to prove 
that parturition or changes resulting 
therefrom, are intimately connected 
with its specific cause. If it were in 
any distinct sense a disease arising from 
plethora, we would expect to meet with 
it under other circumstances. Fat cat¬ 
tle, even, might become victims to it at 
times. The condition of the mammary 
gland affords no evidence of its being 
the seat of the disease. If there remain 
something to clear up in relation to 
these diseases of cows, if veterinarians 
have been laboring under some miscon¬ 
ception concerning the pathology of 
parturient apoplexy, no surprise need 
be felt on that account. The doctors 
for a long time, finding no better ex¬ 
planation of the nature, or pathology of 
what was called phlegmasia dolens, at¬ 
tributed it to metastasis of the mam¬ 
mary secretion, and so it got the com¬ 
mon name of milk-leg. It is now known 
that neither the milk nor the condition 
of the breasts has anything to do with 
it. It may very well be that the state 
of a cow in high condition somehow 
renders her more liable to attack. 
There would be nothing in that fact 
inconsistent with the theory that the 
disease is of microbial origin. We know 
that, in all diseases of this kind, the 
liability to attack is influenced greatly 
by a variety of circumstances. 
The subject is one worthy of more 
consideration and investigation than it 
has yet received. That is all that I de¬ 
sire to impress on the minds of readers. 
Being a physician, I am, on that account, 
particularly interested in everything 
that relates to disease. The diseases of 
the lower animals will often, by the ob¬ 
servations and experiments made upon 
them, their causes, effects, treatment, 
etc., throw much desired light upon the 
subject of human disease. 
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One little runty pit? crawled through a rail fence 
from the highway, meandered up around the barn, 
sneaked through Hie gate and introduced Hog 
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New York. 
THE YEAR 
-we have been urging Asthma and Ilay Fever Sufferers to begin the 
constitutional treatment that brings not only relief, but a Cure that Stays. 
Hundreds have done so, and here’s a letter from one of them : 
Dear Doctor Hayes; Brewster, N. Y., September 14.1S96. 
I am satistled your treatment has been very helpful and beyond my expectations. The catarrhal 
symptoms havo been much lighter and not of as long duration, and as for Asthma, the etTeet of 
the medicines is marvelous. Togo to bed and sleep all night is for me, at this season of the 
year, something I have not been able to do for 30 years. Now 1 sleep all night,, and In the morning 
I am free from the cough that is so weakening and depressing. When I compare myself with 
others about here who have Hay Fever, and are not taking your treatment, I am away ahead of 
them. Perhaps 1 am too enthusiastic, but when one has had this terrible disease forever 30 years as 
I have, and had given up all hope Of u cure, how can one help being enthused. I haveone regret - 
having known of your treatment so long that I should be so incredulous as not to be willing to try It 
till this year. Yours truly, BENJ. D. EVERETT. 
ASTHMA SUFFERERS 
write at once for particulars and escape your winter of distress. Hay Fever sufferers make 
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for them. Address !>K. ilAYiCS, Buffalo, N. Y. 
