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THE RTJRAE NEW-YORKER 
December 27, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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“TWINS” AND YOUNG STOCK. 
That is a good Connecticut quartet 
shown on our first page. The steers are 
twins, and when the picture was taken 
they were less than a month old. The 
boys who own them began early to train 
and handle these steers, so that by the 
time they are large enough to work they 
will know just how to get at it. There 
is probably nothing in the world better 
calculated to teach a good boy patience 
and self-control than the training of a 
yoke of young steers. It is probably bet¬ 
ter for this purpose than training colts 
or more intelligent animals, for in the 
case of the steers the boy is obliged to 
act as brains for the entire outfit to a 
large extent. These boys are Luther and 
William Martin, who live in Connecticut. 
They are not twins like the steers. At 
the time the picture was taken one boy 
was seven, and the other 10. These boys 
represent what we are sometimes pleased 
to call “the old stock.” They represent 
the fourth generation who have lived in 
the same house and on the same farm as 
their father, grandfather, and great 
grandfather. The house in which they 
live was erected early in the last cen¬ 
tury. The farm is not a large one, but 
has been kept up by good farmers. They 
sell the milk from about 20 cows, have 
oxen and horses to do their work, and 
as the other extreme from this yoke of 
tiny steers, they also have an automo¬ 
bile. As the result of good farming and 
good business management this family 
has accumulated property, ’ acquired a 
fine reputation for honest living, and the 
farm is probably in better condition now 
than it ever was before, and after some 
two centuries of cultivation the soil is 
without question more productive than 
ever. These boys attend the public 
school, and will doubtless be farmers as 
their ancestors have been, since their 
parents are bringing them up along the 
road which leads to satisfactory farming. 
Scattered through New England there 
are still to be found these “chips of the 
old block,” or specimens of what is known 
as the good old stock. They are quiet, 
orderly in their habits, without great 
bluster or bluff, but the finest of farmers; 
thrifty, enterprising and progressive, and 
all things considered, the best examples 
of true country living that this country 
can show. 
FRUIT GROWERS IN GEORGIA. 
I have a small apple orchard in Ra¬ 
bun county, Georgia. The trees are from 
one to four years old. According to var¬ 
iety it wjll be several^ years before they 
come into bearing. While they are com¬ 
ing on how would it do to set Concord 
grapes between the trees? The orchard 
is right in the Blue Ridge mountains, 
2,300 feet above sea level. I have owned 
the place five years, and a few grapes 
set there by the mountaineer from whom 
I bought it have grown five crops of 
splendid grapes, with no attention in the 
way of cultivation, pruning or spraying 
except once or twice while giving the 
apple trees their Winter dose of lime-sul¬ 
phur, the grapes have been given a casual 
spray of this material. They have never 
had a Summer spray and no other atten¬ 
tion whatever. The weeds grow almost 
as high as the grapevines. Notwith¬ 
standing all this neglect they have borne 
full crops of splendid grapes. They ripen 
the latter part of August and would come 
on the market ahead of the New’ York 
crop and it seems to me that they ought 
to be a paying proposition. I am also 
thinking of planting raspberries on a 
portion of the land. These berries, and 
in fact all berries grow to perfection in 
the Blue Ridge section and I am sure 
that there ought to be no difficulty in 
growing them. Would it be advisable 
to grow grapes and raspberries in the 
apple orchard? w. L. W. 
Commerce, Ga. 
As I have been in Rabun county, 
Georgia and know from personal examin¬ 
ation that the land and climate there 
are w r ell suited to the culture of apples, 
grapes, berries and about all ordinary 
kinds of fruit, I think it would be a 
mistake to do anything that would in¬ 
terfere with the proper development of 
the apple trees. Trees that are four years 
old should be already quite large and 
will soon begin to bear and if they are 
the proper distance apart they will soon 
need all the ground, but if they are far 
apart it may be advisable to grow berries 
between them for several years to come 
Of the small trees this is almost sure 
to be true. Raspberries would be very 
good for this purpose, and the blackcaps 
would be my choice, for they are natural 
to that whole Blue Ilidge country and 
flourish exceedingly well. The Cumber¬ 
land and Plum Farmer are tw T o excellent 
varieties. Of the red varieties the Cutli- 
bert is one of the very best. Raspber¬ 
ries will sell well in the markets where 
Summer visitors are abundant in that 
mountain section, such as Tallulah Falls 
and even larger places. Wild berries of 
some kinds are very abundant, but good 
raspberries will sell at good prices. 
Grapes are not suitable for intcrplant- 
ing wfith apple or any other orchard trees 
because they need trellis for support, 
W’hieh would interfere with cultivation, 
and besides, grapevines are as long-lived 
as apple trees and should not be dug out 
when they have but fairly begun to be 
useful. They grow there splendidly, and 
should be given all the space they need 
and the full benefit of all the soil and 
the sunshine in the tract devoted to 
their culture. The Concord is the most 
popular of all kinds for the Eastern 
States, is easily grown and the fruit sells 
at fair prices. Niagara is another very 
good variety of the same class, except 
that the color is green. Delaware is 
about the most delicious of all the red 
varieties that is easily grown. Lutie 
and Vcrgennes are other good red var¬ 
ieties. Campbell is a very early, large, 
black variety that grows thriftily and 
bears abundantly. H. E. VAN DEHAN. 
TESTING KEROSENE. 
What process is used to test kerosene 
oil? c. J. T. 
Scappoose, Ore. 
The usual tests for kerosene oil are 
the “flame test” and the “flash test.” In 
most States the details of the apparatus 
to be used and the results which must 
be accomplished are prescribed by law. 
The simplest form of apparatus consists 
of an open vessel of water which is 
heated. In this vessel is another smaller 
one which contains the oil to be tested. 
Thus the oil is heated up as fast as the 
water is. The water is kept stirred as 
is also the oil, in order that all of the 
water bath and all of the oil shall be at 
the same temperature. It is important 
that the water be kept stirred, but if a 
small amount of oil is used, say quarter 
of a cupful, the oil need not be stirred. 
The water should be in a thin metal ves¬ 
sel and should be heated slowly, while 
the oil should preferably be in a glass 
container. In the oil should be placed a 
sensitive thermometer and careful note 
should be made of the readings. When 
the thermometer registers about 90 de¬ 
grees Fahrenheit (the common ther¬ 
mometer) a lighted match should be held 
about half an inch above the surface of 
the oil. At regular intervals of one or 
two degrees thereafter a lighted match 
should be applied above the oil until fin¬ 
ally the flame spreads over the whole sur¬ 
face. If the match is applied only mo¬ 
mentarily, the flame will die out. This 
point where the flame spreads over the 
surface is the “flash point” and most 
States fix 110 degrees Fahrenheit as the 
temperature. Some States require as 
high as 130 degrees, but that seems rather 
absurd. Some foreign countries require 
as low as 73 degrees but that is altogether 
too low for safety. After the “flash” the 
oil is heated further and frequently a 
flame applied until finally the flame is 
such as to be continuous and the oil burns 
in the air. This temperature is usually 
about 20 degrees higher than the flash 
point, and is specified by the different 
States to be from 110 up to 150 degrees. 
About 135 degrees is a satisfactory point. 
B. P. C. 
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jf fare?” Waiter: “There was, sir 
but I wiped it off.”—California Pelican. 
“The equator is an imaginary line, 
running around the earth,” said the boy 
who likes to tell what he has learned at 
school. “An imaginary line,” repeated 
the great railway financier, absent-mind¬ 
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