The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1101 
and small firecrackers. . The boy is blow¬ 
ing down the old distinctions of class and 
privilege much as his ancestors under 
Charles of Sweden when he marched into 
Russia ! There they stood in the subdued 
light—patrician, peasant, freed man, pa¬ 
triot—meeting on common ground at last, 
and all showing in their faces the glory of 
that great thing we call Americanism! 
What does it mean—this breaking down 
of old social distinctions? Will the negro, 
the serf, the peasant and the laborer ab¬ 
sorb along with their new opportunity 
something more of patience and self-re¬ 
straint? Will the “pure bloods,” de¬ 
prived of more and more of their exclu¬ 
siveness, become sullen and less fit for 
leadership? What does it all mean? 
What does it all portend? These young 
people have no fear of the future, and I 
remember that 50 years ago the old peo¬ 
ple were sure the young generation was 
leading to disaster. I think that older * 
woman on the court house steps that 
night had something of that feeling, but 
her daughter would gladly have join'd 
the dancers in the street. Who can tell? 
1 saw a soldier with the Cross of War on 
his breast stumble and fall. He went 
through the awful drive at the Argonae. 
yet right, here in the home town, in try- | 
ing to dodge a baby carriage, so as not 
to hurt the baby, down he went! And so 
we were all tired and thoughtful when at 
last we gathered our company and the 
truck started its snorting way up the 
hills toward Hope Farm. The little girls 
went to sleep on the way, hut all except 
Rose woke up to help finish the sand¬ 
wiches. We rolled into the yard at about 
11. tired, but all glad we helped cele¬ 
brate. Now for the sweet corn, and no 
paper peace with the weeds. ir. w. c. 
Fruit Notes from Missouri 
We are having a rainy season here in 
Southern Missouri that is seriously re- I 
tarding corn planting and other opera¬ 
tions that demand soil in good workable 
condition. However, fruit of all descrip¬ 
tions has been tremendously- benefited. 
The abundant water has plumped out the 
berries and pushed tree fruits fast along 
their way, while the roots have profited 
to send up a fine, vigorous growth of cane 
and wood for another season. Never 
have I seen fairer prospects for rasp¬ 
berries and blackberries. The bushes are 
loaded with fruit, and the new canes have 
attained a most unusual height for this 
date. The cabbage leaves have reached 
across the rows, and scarcely a bit of 
earth can be seen among them. Already 
heads were sent to market, as well as new 
potatoes, while it was yet May, something 
unusual for this latitude. The seed pota¬ 
toes were little ones that had been culled 
out last Fall and had sprouted badly, too 
badly to plant, but we ran out of seed 
and used them anyhow. The result was 
that these email sprouted tubers gave us 
potatoes two weeks or more before the 
Northern purchased seed with dormant 
eyes. Of course we were careful not to 
break off the sprouts, but many of them 
were of the long white brittle kind that 
had to be handled carefully. Some of 
them even had small potatoes developed. 
I certainly learned something from this 
demonstration, that potatoes with sprouts 
of any description, not necessarily of the 
short, green, tough kind, will develop mar¬ 
ketable tubers far ahead of unsprouted 
seed, and that sprouting the seed before 
planting should be considered indispens¬ 
able. 
We hurried the gooseberry picking to 
get it over before the cherries, and know¬ 
ing that early picking strengthened the 
bushes for another year and that the ber¬ 
ries would be of better quality. We have 
found that late picked gooseberries are 
too strong in flavor either for canning or 
preserves. A bush originated by Dr. 
Van Fleet by crossing an English and 
wild variety lias made the most prodigious 
growth T ever saw. Tt is over six feet 
high, and at least 10 feet in diameter. 
Tt is so much of a hybrid that it does not 
pollinate perfectly, but its crop this year 
is very respectable, nevertheless. Some 
branches are quite full, and the berries 
are to be found distributed all over the 
great bush. If it bore as heavily as the 
Oregon or Houghton it would have no 
rivals. The berries are between the 
Houghton and Downing in size. The 
young Chautauquas have a few immense 
berries. The Geneva Experiment Station 
informs me that for several seasons past 
they have had no mildew on their goose¬ 
berries, and I hear that the Chautauqua 
is being grown successfully for market 
in New York, but some years ago when 
I tested this sort my single bush mildewed 
•very badly both on the leaVes and on the 
berries. Is it possible that a variety can 
grow more resistant to disease? Close to 
the Chautauquas the new Doorman bushes 
all show mildew, the only kind that does. 
Strawberries, scarce from last Sum¬ 
mer's drought, sold at from MO to *25 cents 
per quart, with a full crop and fine ber¬ 
ries. Gooseberries brought 50 cents per 
gallon; cherries began at 50 cents and 
rose to 60 cents per gallon, with a short 
crop. We found grocers were selling new 
cabbage and potatoes at 10 cents a pound, 
but not offering more than four or five 
cents. We have the recourse here (and 
use it) of going straight to the consumer 
and underselling the grocer if he refuses 
to offer what .we consider a fair price. I 
must admit that if is not usual for him 
to covet such a margin of profit and that 
we usually keep on very good terms. 
t. ft- JOHNSON. 
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