E6c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
711 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
That Lone Goose. —You will Tomom- 
ber that lone goose we raised last year 
and the suggestion that it might raise 
the mortgage yetV Well, it may. honest 
enough ! It seems to be a very fine goose 
and has laid some 2S eggs already and 
still lays every other day. Had we sold 
them all they would have brought .$7, and 
more if we wanted to ask it. There seems 
to be a tremendous demand for goose eggs 
in this seetion. Turkeys are so high and 
scarce that people want to raise a goose 
for Thank.sgiving. There is no doubt but 
that a good big fat goose next Fall will 
V be worth a five-dollar bill. 
Don’t He Netti-eu. —The Parson will 
never again let the nettles nettle him. 
There is a group of them out by the big 
clothes pole and another small group 
over by the iee bouse. The Parson has 
tried his best to kilt them out, but to no 
use. They thrive under abtise, and for¬ 
tunately, for now they are the most cov¬ 
eted thing on this farm. I asked a good 
Pohemian woman down over the hill what 
she fed young goslings and she said. “Net¬ 
tles and bread.” Of all things! To feed 
nettles to those baby geese. Put as this 
woman sold .$00 worth of geese in Hart¬ 
ford last Fall at one time, he took her 
word for it. We have seven little gos¬ 
lings. We keep them at the end of the 
cow stable where it is warm, and they 
get some sun from the window. You must 
always pen in a gosling or it wdl'l wander 
right off. It cares nothing for the cluck 
of a ben. 
.It'RT THE Tiiixc.—.\nd those young 
fresh nettle tops cut up fine seem to be 
just the thing. How they do cat them! 
As it rains every day. they grow up over 
night and just about keep up the supply. 
They seem to like this food ii great deal 
better than fresh grass. It will not do to 
feed them meal in any form. ’I'he Par¬ 
son bought a loaf <tf bakers’ bread for 
them, as they do not thrive on Hoover 
bread. This is out up with the nettle 
leaves. They certainly love it and do 
great on it. 
A Goon Gkop.—W e all love our geese 
and think them a fine thing to rai.se if 
one is situated for them. It is almost a 
necessity if you have many to have run¬ 
ning w’ater. Then, too, one must have 
plenty of pasture for them. They eat a 
tremendous lot of grass and weeds. They 
will clean \ip common house plantin in 
great shape. After they get started they 
need little or no grain, and they get start¬ 
ed on nettles! They arc the easiest thing 
to fence in on the farm. Anything a foot 
high will generally stop them. The big 
snow-white 17-pound gander makes a 
stately appearance as he stalks about, call¬ 
ing to his mates. They certainly are 
knowing birds, and how they do talk to 
each ohier. The boys and the Parson 
would not bo without them. 
No Ducks. —We have made a pretty 
fair trial of the duck busine.ss, and, for 
us, never again. A duck has to have 
grain, and how ho will eat it! A woman 
down country raised 204 last year and 
seemed to make good. She fed them 
chopped weeds and bran; common rag¬ 
weed, mo.st of it. Put this takes much 
time, and unless one has it to spare, it is 
doubtLil if ducks can be made to pay. A 
goose is goose enough to go out and get 
his own weed.s, and they do not have to be 
flavored with expensive bran. Goslings, 
like ducklings, have to be kept very dry 
and warm. It pays to carry them all back 
in the barn when a rainy spell comes on. 
Potatoes. —The Parson was over to 
Storrs College the other day and attended 
a lecture about potatoes. lie learned 
something, too. He had always wondered 
why it was necessary to be forever getting 
seed from the North. Did the North, as 
we know it, go still farther north to get 
their seed? And, did the first batch of 
seed have to come from the North Pole 
itself? As a boy he cannot recollect the 
Vermonters having to go to Canada for 
their seed. 
Why It Is. —The professor claimed 
that a potato in Vermont or Maine gener¬ 
ally, not always, grows till the frost kills 
it. Cold weather comes right on and the 
potatoes keep in a slightly unripe or 
growing state for some time. It might 
be called a maturing potato, and the cold 
Winter w'eather, if it does not freeze it, 
keeps it in a maturing state, or at the 
height of its vigor, without becoming a 
little overripe, or as one might say, stale. 
In warmer regions, like Connecticut or 
further south, the potato gets dead ripe in 
the ground, and even overrii)e, and the 
strength of its vitality begins to decline. 
CoT.D Cmmate Pest. —He showed how 
potatoes grow wild in suitable climates 
without ever changing seed. In an aban- 
done<l mining camp in Colorado potatoes 
were found growing and doing w’ell where 
the little ones had been thrown out 10 
years before. They had never been culti¬ 
vated, or had the seed been changed in 
all that 40 years. It was at a high alti¬ 
tude, and the climate cold. In regard to 
the seed freezing, he said that if a i)otato 
was frozen, but was thawed out very slow¬ 
ly, under just right conditions, it might 
still grow. 
Keeping Them. —He confirmed what 
the Parson had heard somewhere, that 
old barrels were a most excellent thing to 
keep [)otatoes in, in the cellar. This gives 
them air enough and good ventilation. It 
will help some about their freezing. A 
sack or bag is the worst thing to keep 
them in. They will stand a temperature 
of 28 degrees above for a while, but not 
very long. From .‘12 to 28 degrees is 
about right to keep a potato good. It 
should always be dark where they are 
wintered. Northern seed can be used 
two years; it being, on the whole, bi'tter 
the second year than the first. After the 
second year it is better to change if i)oS' 
sible. 
Good Ye.vr to Pt.ant. —The I’arsou 
thinks this is a good year to ])lant po¬ 
tatoes. Many lost money last year and 
will go easy this yeai*. It wa.s said at 
Storrs that potatoes had been selling in 
Maine for iit) cents a barrel, or less than 
25 cents a bushel. The seed stores rejjort 
almost no sale for seed potatoes here in 
Connecticut. Seeing the markets full of 
potatoes for much less than they paid for 
the potatoes they are eating will <-ause 
many to go slow about putting in a great 
quantity in the cellar this Fall, especially 
if half they did put in, froze. Potato 
wmek has been good thing h<‘re, and, for 
the first time in m.-iny months, the gro¬ 
cers arc asking if you have any potatoes 
to sell. They bring .$1 quick enough, aTid 
I guess .$1.2.’). 
Pykox. —The Parson bought his Pyrox 
the other day, as he will need it for the 
corn, to keep away crows and blackbirds. 
It is the best thing he has ever tried. A 
little stirred right in the corn, till green¬ 
ish, and then allowed to dry, will do the 
busine.ss. The seed can be planted in a 
hand planter or any other planter with¬ 
out sticking. 
The Home Dressmaker 
(('onlinued fi'om jiage 70 () 
hat worn with this girlish frock is 
smoothly covered with white organdie 
and trimmed with a wreath of pointed 
leaves made of organdie folded stiffly, and 
including several different colors. 
An Gkg.andie Gown.— The third figure, 
at the right, shows champagne-colored or- 
gandie, with in.serted bands of brown 
oi gandie. The straight-gathered skirt wa.s 
laid in two box pleats forming a front 
panel, three bands of the brown organdie 
were let in the skirt, coming under the 
pleated panel, but not crossing it. Two 
bands of the brown were let in the three- 
quarter lengthy bell sleeves, and two 
bands were let in the waist, going all the 
way round under the arms. The narrow 
shawl collar, going all the way down to 
the girme, is double, the under section 
being the lighter color, the upper part 
brown. This outlined the vestee, which 
buttoned down the center with small 
hrown buttons. The girdle was tied in 
the back in. a bow with sash ends. The 
hat IS covered with champagne-colored 
organdie, and trimmed with a wreath of 
liat nhie satin flowers. 
Ideas in Mieltneuy.— The organdie 
bats referred to above are a new and 
pretty fashion showing a decided popu- 
The organdie is stretched 
smoothly over a wire frame, the brim 
being faced witH. it. Poth white and col¬ 
ored organdie are used. Organdie or silk 
flowers are used for trimming, or there 
may be merely a scarf of colored organdie. 
Some of the wreaths of organdie flowers 
are very pretty, being made much as the 
silk flower.s are. Perhai)s we are going 
to see a revival of the lingerie h.nt, which 
has been out of style for a number of 
years. One hat seen was of white or¬ 
gandie, the brim being covered with an 
organdie ruche laid flat, while the crown, 
covered with white organdie, had another 
ruche standing up all around it like a 
fence, and a narrow tie of old rose rib¬ 
bon. There is akso a revival of lace hats, 
both black and white, .some of them show¬ 
ing wide brims and full tam-o’shanter 
crowns. Wide-brimmed hats always hold 
their popularity, but with the usual per¬ 
versity of fashion, now that bright, 
warm days have come, there seems an 
increasing taste for small hats, and all 
sorts of toques and turbans are very poj)- 
ular. Some .show very little trimming, 
while others display regular aeroplane 
wings of ribbon or feathers. 
War-time Calico. —During the Pevo- 
lution, and again during the Civil AVar, 
calico was a fabric worn by all classes 
of women. In the earlier period, silks, 
linens and woolens were so costly that 
quilted and padded calico took their place 
in Winter, while during the Civil War 
many a girl felt lu-ouder of a uew calico 
than her grand-daughter does of Georgette 
crepe. Now we are told that calico is to 
be revived as a fashionable fabric; some 
of the famous French dre.ssmakers have 
taken it uj), and a recent fashion exhibi¬ 
tion in New York displayed delicately 
patterned calicoes made up in styles sug¬ 
gestive of the Civil War period. These 
dresses have flowing sleeves, little fichus, 
looped-up sashes and gathered skirt.s, and 
are very quaint and pretty. The con¬ 
stantly incerasing price of linen, and its 
undoubted scarcity i.s making dress¬ 
makers turn to cotton fabrics, and cal¬ 
icoes have much to recommend them. 
They will probably take the same place 
as a novelty that ginghams did last year, 
though ginghams still hold favor, and 
other popular fabrics show gingham de¬ 
signs. Dimities in spots, stripe.s and 
flowered designs, and solid-colored organ¬ 
dies, dispute the long supremacy of 
voiles. Among “wool-saving” fabrics is 
silk corduroy at $1.25 a yard, which is a 
very smart fabric for suits, coats, sep¬ 
arate skirts and children’s dresse.s, in a 
great variety of colors. 
Childken’s Frock.s. — Among pretty 
styles noted are dresses of hiindkerchief 
linen, having deep hem, banding on 
sleeves and color of heavy French linen 
in contrasting color; for example, military 
blue trimmed with French rose. There 
are also some charming little dresses of 
candy-striped dimity. All little girls’ 
dresses for general wear are made bloom¬ 
ers to match, a very sensible fashion. 
Buffalo Markets 
The market situation improves steadily as 
the Spring season advances, though growth 
locally is still slow, on account of the lack 
of rain. This may be a good fault, W in 
recent Springs the rain has been so ex¬ 
cessive that field work could hardly be 
done. As it is, the outlook is good if the 
frosts hold off. Southern garden crops 
arc coming slow also, as i8 shown by the 
.scarcity of strawberries. ’Phey u.sed to 
be plenty before tbe tmd of April, but now 
the month has closed with 24-qt. or.ate 
wholesaling at .$8.2,5 and tbe retail ju-ice 
4()c per qt., Avhich is prohibitory as a rule. 
I’otatoes are 7.5e to $1 per bu. for home¬ 
grown and .$0.50 to $7.50 per bbl. for 
Permiidas and $.‘1.50 to .$4.75 for new 
Floridas. Apples have advanced to .$7..50 
for best grades and sell at $4.50 for the 
lower grade.s. Onions are firmer, at .$1..50 
to $1.7.5 per bu. for home-grown and .$‘2 
to $2.7,5 per crate for Texas. Sets are 
high at $.5 to $10 per bu. for home¬ 
grown. Southern sets are not favorites, 
and sell at $1 to $2 per bu. Pean.s hold 
their own at $8 to .$!) per bu., and are 
not likely to be lower till the new crop is 
ready. 
The vegetable situation is active and 
strong. Asparagus is plenty at $2 to 
$4.25 per case, most of it still coming 
from California. New beets are .$1.‘2.5 to 
.$1..50; new Florida cabbage, $1.2.5 to 
$1.50; cucumbers, $2.50 to $4 for Florida, 
all per hamper; lettuce, $1.40 to $1.00 
per 2-doz. ba.sket; parsnips, 7.5o to ,$1.2,5 
per bu.; parsley, 40 to 00c; sluillots, 40 
to 00c; radishes, 40 to 4.5c; vegetable 
oy.ster, 40 to 00c; i)i('i)lant, .50 to 80c, all 
per doz. bunche.'^; toniiitoes, $2..50 to .$4..50 
per Florida crate ; yellow turnips, $1.00 
to $2 per bbl. Honey is fairly out of 
market, at 20 to 20c, and maple sugar 
is scarce at 10 to 22c per lb., with syrup 
$1.,50 to $1.80 per gal. Maple .sugar is 
lower than early in the season, but honey 
continues to go up. 
Putter is* active and firm at about 
former jirices, 42 to 47c for creamery, 28 
to 40c for dairy, 25 to 20c for <‘rocks, 
and 20 to 21c for low grades. Che<!se is 
quiet, at 2(»c for fancy, 25c for fair old, 
and 24c for new. Fggs are plenty and 
weak, at .20 to 40c for fancy and 36 to 
,2Sc for storage and candled. 
Poultry is very .Scarce, offering mostly 
frozen at .22 to 28e for turkeys, 20 to 2.2c 
for fowl, 28 to .25c for roasters, 20 to 28c 
for broilers, 27 to 28c for old roosters, 
34 to 3Gc for ducks and .23 to 24c for 
geese. j. w. c. 
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