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A New Seedling Grape. 

 Mr. Robert L. Dorr, Dtmsville, Livingston conntj^, N. Y. — " Four 

 years ago I planted two hundred and fifty seeds of the Delaware 

 grape. One plant proved a remarkablj^ vigorous grower, making 

 about six feet that season. I transplanted it next spring, and it 

 made fifteen or twenty feet that season and bore fruit, ripening 

 with the Delaware. It continues to prove hardy and vigorous as 

 the parent, but produces berries of much larger size. As I received 

 the seed from Charles Downing, I propose to call it the Downing 

 Seedling. I send by express a box of these grapes for exhibition." 



Aldrich's Patent Fruit Ladder 

 Was exhibited to the club and well approved. It is made' in 

 four parts, the two longest portions forming ladders from the 

 grouud up' to the two shorter parts, upon the top of which is a 

 platform, and the whole so movable upon the joints that it can be 

 shifted into any position and at various heights. 



Hen Lice. 



Mr. W. S. Lunt, Fostoria, Ohio — "I have found sulphur 

 sprinkled in the nests, over the floor or ground, and along the 

 sides of the buildings where fowls are kept, never fails to make 

 lice entirely disappear." 



Mrs. J. D. G., Leroy, N. Y. — •" After having the hennery thor- 

 oughly cleaned and whitewashed, sprinkling lime on the floor, I 

 gave corn meal and sulphur — two tablespoons of sulphur to two 

 quarts of meal — to twenty-five hens three times a week; also 

 rubbing a mixture of lard and sulphur under their wings. They 

 like the sulphur, and it won't hurt them. In one week the lice 

 were all gone, and stay gone." 



Mr. P. M. Varney, Brant, says: "Sassafras poles for roosts, or 

 sassafras roots or bark scattered in the roosts will keep it clear of 

 the pests." 



Mr. J. M. S. Hopewell, Ontario county, N. Y. — " Dry unbleached 

 ashes always ou hand for hens to wallow in will keep them clear 

 of lice." 



Corn Cobs for Feed. 



Mr. S. S. Coolidge, Bellows Falls, Vt. — "A diversity of opinion 

 exists among the farmers and feeders of the Valley of the Con- 

 necticut, respecting the value of cobs, when ground with corn, for 

 feeding stock. Are its qualities nutritious ? Do they aid diges- 

 tion ? 



