1876.] 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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It is still better to heap up the eartli arouiul 

 the liHse of th(^ trees, to make llieni .sure 

 aj.;aiiist tlie depredations of tli(! iiiiee ; iuid 

 afso ridibing the liark of the yoiiiii; trees wilii 

 a Viaeoii skill, in nider lo prevent tlic .Vdiiiifj 

 ralibits from gnawiiiLt olV tlie Itark. It is true, 

 there may lie some ulijeelions to this i;reasiiif{ 

 ])rocess, in that it may be an additional in- 

 ducement for the mice to allaek them ; but if 

 the grass and nibliish are carefully removed, 

 the mice are not likely to harbor there. Another 

 good remedy to prevent rabbits from skinning 

 trees, is to prune them, and let the branelies 

 cut off lie on the i;n)uiid tor winter feed Ibr 

 the rabbits. If thisKreasiiij,' pi-oeessis applied 

 to voun_u: trees infested with the "hark louse," 

 in the fall, the fdllowint; spiiii<; would show a 

 cleaner, fresher and hardier .set of trees than 

 where they are left an undisturbed prey to 

 these lice. 



If these precautions are carried into elTeet 

 durini; the month of November, and the early 

 part of December, it would save an immense 

 amount of mortilieatioii ne.xt spring. ^i. S. li. 



snouts; broad, lengthy and extra deep bodies, 

 very straight, .square backs, the linest hams 

 imaginable, and very small line legs, set well 

 a|iart; are full in the Joint, with good breadth 

 of chest, and have a remarkable capacity for 

 taking on tlesh. Their skin is line; bones small. 

 They po.ssess an extra abundance of muscle or 

 lean nieat, and hence appear fat when in real- 

 ity they may be nearly starved. They are very 

 quiet and docile, and can be fondled by ast ran- 

 ger, and thus they wa.ste no food in tlie build- 

 ing up of worthless iiarts, nor in wild, useless 

 exercise. IIoi;s must be looked upon as ma- 

 chines for the convirsion of grain, &c., into 

 ])ork, and the breed which will giv(; the most 

 and best pork from a given amount of Ibod 

 should cany olf the palm. Siieli is the well- 

 bred Knglisli Yorkshire of to-day. 



Harris on the Pig, on page (ili, says: "No 

 animal of the pig siiecies carries so great a pro- 

 jiortion of tlcsh to the quantity of bone, or 

 tlesh of sii luie a (piality as the small Yorkshire; 

 or can be raised at so small acost per])ound;" 

 that this is undoubtedly the case cannot be 

 denied upoa au examination of fine specimens, 



clean warm bed, anJ tliis inoniins: I have given them 

 a good scrubbing Willi soapeude. They seemed to 

 like it real well. The e.vpross companies toolc ex- 

 cellent caiT of them ; look them out of the box every 

 nitrlit Ironi ('oriiiiie, Utah, up. At Missoula, the 

 merchants and lawyers, and everybody else eainc to 

 see them, and most everybody wanted theui. They 

 seemed to will all hearts. One man there wanted to 

 jiay me $1(10 Ibr the boar alone ; anolher olVcred me 

 a ^^ofid horf.!' for him. One tillered to deliver 100 

 bushels of good clean wheat at tlie mill lor him. 

 But I would not part witii either of them ; although 

 they cost me $120. 1 have no grumbling lo do, 

 but thank you as,'aiii for semling them." 



Mr. I', paid us $:W ; the express comiianies 

 $110. They bad to go live liun<lred miles by 

 stage. We lind a great demand fur thorough- 

 bred stock this fall, espi^-ially hogs and poultiy. 

 Farmers are beginning to realize that good 

 stock is money in their pockets, and the best 

 ])anacea for liard times. — Benson & Burpee, 

 I'hitfuldphia, yov. 11. 1870. 



Mr. Wm. AVeidle has again laid us under 

 obligations for some luscious specimens of 

 lieurre D' Anjou, and Beurre Diel Pears. 

 We saw some very extraordinary One pears at 



'BENSON & BURPEE'S ad QUEEN OF YORKSHIRE." 



For TiiK Lanc.\ster Farmeh. 

 YORKSHIRES. 

 Y'orkshires are divided into three classes, 

 large, medium and small breed — all originated 

 in England. The large or mammoth York- 

 shires will eventually attain a weight of 1,0U0 

 to 1,'200 pounds, Imt are invariably hard to 

 fatten— in fact it is impossible to fatten them 

 young — they are long-snouted, have long legs, 

 thin on the back and small hams. Wo have 

 never seen one of this variety that we would 

 own. The medium originated by a cross be- 

 tween the large and small. The .small Iireed 

 English Y'orkshires are so called only to dis- 

 tinguish them from the unprotitable giants, 

 and are a hog of fair size. They are better 

 established, and breed more uniformly than 

 any other known breed of swine. Being the 

 "most thoroughbred Img known," they arc 

 the best to cross upon eonmiou stock, as they 

 will impress their good qualities very decidedly 

 upon their offspring. A litter of young pigs 

 of tirst-elass, jiure blood Yorkshires are all re- 

 markably perfect, and it is difficult to select a 

 poor or mistbrmed runt. They carry less offal 

 than any other hogs. They make the most 

 liork on the least amount of food. They often 

 keep fat on grass alone. They fatten most 

 readily at any age, and their meat is of the 

 finest iiuality. These points of excellence, .so 

 unusually developed, are setaued by the re- 

 markable perfection of form and the nature of 

 thisbreed. They have very short, deeply-dished 



such as visitors can see any day at our farm, 

 when a glance will show the extreme size and 

 fine shape of hams, shoulders, and chops, with 

 the ears, legs and tail incredibly small. We 

 have seen them crossed with good satisfaction 

 on a Chester White, and can recommend this 

 cross for farmers desiring large porkers with 

 superior hams. 



"Second Queen of Y'orkshire," whose por- 

 trait we give, is one of our finest sows — is now 

 three years old; her picture accurately repre- 

 sents her when under one year old. Out of 

 "Old Queen," by "Long" Back." "Old 

 Queen " was out of imported " Ro.se of Keil- 

 egh," by imported "Kettledrum." "Long 

 Back " was out of " Lady Douglass," by im- 

 ported "ISfajor IMiller." 



There are many inferior pigs— Yorkshires, 

 so-called, that are offered at "hard pan prices," 

 but such are the dearest in the near future, 

 when the corn is fed and the pork barrel nearly 

 empty. AVe will sell .sowsinjiigs, boars ready 

 for service, and stock of various ages at as low 

 prices as we can aflbrd to breed, and ship the 

 best stock. 



To show to what extent first-class stock is 

 apiuTciatcd in the far "West, we give you the 

 following quotation from a customer's letter, 

 Mr. Roswell Parkhurst, ^lissoula, Missoula 

 county, Montana territory, writes us : 



" I fiave tlic pigs liomc now and am delighted with 

 them. I tliiiik us much of them as I do of my girl. 

 I have given them a nice clean yard to run in and a 



the Centennial Pomological Exposition, and 

 we were also privileged to smdl tliera ; 

 but as tiistc has more weight at any time than 

 merely sight and smell, we are compelled to 

 yield an award to Mr. AVeidle's iiears, and if 

 the Centeunialists are not satisfied with this, 

 all they have to do is to aflbrd us the opportun- 

 ity for a more tangible demonstration of 

 quality. 



Beurre, according to the French Dictionary, 

 means "Butter-pear," and D' Anjou means 

 "of Anjou," a department of France ; there- 

 fore, the literal English would be the Butter- 

 pear of Anjou. So.w^henever the term"Beurre" 

 is used as an aflix, it means one of the buttery 

 kind of pears, and the sutlix is the person, 

 place or thing, after whom, when, or which it 

 is named. And, according to the description 

 of a very jiopular and distinguished character 

 in our juvenile days, these pears ''went down 

 as slick as goose-grease, and goose-grease is as 

 slick -dsbitUer, and butter is the slickest kind of 

 (/)-casc." 



For The Lanoasteb Fabmeb. 

 THE DISSEMINATION OF PLANTS. 



Two years ago I found growing on the road- 

 side, not far from the campus of Franklin and 

 Marshall College, a healthy, vigorous iilant, 

 which I at once jnonoimced a rerhnia. At 

 first I thought it must be a peculiar growth of 

 rer^ciia haatata, but ujion closer examination 

 it proved to be, withoutthc shadow of a doubt, 



