1877.] 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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93 4-10 in the staiiJard of 100. The great 

 hiiulraiice to the cotton crop seems to be the 

 catcrjiiU,ir, inul if tli;it pest could be entirely 

 destroyeil, there is no knowing; how nuich 

 cotton' the Southern Stales coulil jiroduce. 



Poiatiics have produced well, on an average, 

 the entire crop Ix in?; lO.'i ; that is o dvcr llie 

 standard of 1(10. Xew .lersey is the highest, 

 being 11"), whilst I'enn.svlvajiia is 11(1. The 

 quality is generally good, but the aggregate 

 result in bushels is nm given. 



The average of Timniliy Haij is said to have 

 been fidly 100 ; but the yield of the genrral 

 hay crop has not been deiinitely reported, but 

 the indications are that it has buea tolerably 

 abundant. 



Tobacco is reiiorted favorable— from SI? up 

 to 110, and will average 100 ; quality good, 

 but the result in (piantity cannot yet be given. 



Bucku'hculjhr the Slates retninrd, averages 

 98. The Si-ii-(ili 1(1)1 crop is rei)oited favorably, 

 the average lieing i(3, yielding about 100 gal- 

 lons of rich syrii]) per acre. 



Bice, promising, where it is cultivated. 



Crdulurrks .suffered .some from '' scahl." 



IJnp.i, prospects were good in Wisconsin, 

 but in New Ilanip.sbire they were eaten up 

 by "worms," said to be cabbage worms, but 

 we think this a mistake, for we have special 

 hop caterpillars in the United Stales belong- 

 ing to the genus Vaaissit or Gi-apta. 



.(■Ipp/w generally .scarce and jioor in quality. 

 and therefore good fruit will be high priced 

 before the season is over. Kansas aloin3 

 seems to have had an abundant crop. 



SPECIAL PREMIUMS FOR 1878. 



Club Rates— No. i. 



To any one, within the county of Lancas- 

 ter, sending us a club of Ji re new suliscrihers, 

 accompanied hyfotir dollars, we will send Jirc 

 copes of The F.vioikk, to any address, for 

 one year, from the lirst of January next, and 

 <»co copies of ".Jenkins' Art of Tropagation," 

 a beautiful octa.vo of 32 pages, and 2.^ line 

 embellishments, which sells readily at ."JO cents 

 per copy. To any one out of the county, for 

 Jive dollars, five copies and two books. 



No. 2. 

 For six subscribers, accompanied hy five dol- 

 lars, we will send si.c copies of The Faumetj, 

 as above, and one copy of the "Life of 

 Charles Dickens," by Mrs. llanaford, or 

 "Driven to Sea," by Mrs. Coupples, or "The 

 Presidents and their Administrations," or 

 "The Declaration of Independence." , These 

 are royal 12 mo. volumes of about 400 pages, 

 handsomely illustrated, and sell for .fl.50. 



No. 3. 

 For ten subscribers, and ten dollars, ten 

 copies, as above, and one box of "Kunkle's 

 Uelobrated Perfumes." These boxes contain 

 six bottles of perfume, the regular retail price 

 of which is oue dollar per liottle, or "The 

 Century of Independence," price .S2..50— very 

 .desirable premiums for local lady canvassers. 



No. 4. 

 Tor fifteen subscribers, and fifteen dollars, 

 wc will send su/ceii copies of The P.MniEi! 

 and a $l().Ot) order on Peter Ilender.son, good 

 for twentjl-Jour i-lum-e flnweruuj green-house 

 jtlantK, twenlii packages of flower seeds, and, 

 twenty jyai'kages of vegetable seeds. Peter Hf-n- 

 derson is knoicn all over the Union, and there- 

 fore nothing need be said about the quality of 

 his goods. 



No. 5. 

 For tiveiity subscribers, and eighteen dollars, 

 twenty copies of The Faumeu, and one copy 

 of "Science in Story," consisting of a series 

 oi five illustrated sipiare 12 mo. volumes of 

 232 pages each (IKiO pages). Please see our 

 literary columns for a more full description of 

 this desirable series. 



No. 6. 

 For twenty-five subscribers, and twenty-four 

 dollars, twenty-fire copies of The Faiijiek 

 and one of "Peck's Celebrated Atomizers," 

 worth $1(X00 at least. This is the Ijest ma- 

 chine ever invented for tlu'owing licjuid solu- 



tions and decoctions on in.sect-infested plants. 

 For an illustrated deseriiition of this machine 

 see the May (1870) ninnber of The pAit.MKi:, 

 page 00. 



To clubs made up beyond the borders of 

 Lancaster county the cash amount recpiired 

 will lie greater, proportioned to the dillerence 

 in i)ul)lished terms, as to home and foreign 

 sidiscriplious. Our canvassers can ujake these 

 calculations upon the basis of our lirst propo- 

 sition. 



We are making arrangements for additional 

 inducements to sub.scribers, which, if accom- 

 plished, will be annomiced in our December 

 number. We also intend to increase our 

 ninnber of desirable illustrations for 1878, and 

 add other end)ellishmeuls, as fa.st as our 

 means will allow, and we respectfully ask the 

 public to help ns make The Lankastek 

 Faiimei! a credit to the "great county," and 

 the people aminig whoiv it is located. Our 

 tenth voluMie should be the crowning volume 

 of the series — so wo desire. 



MONTHLY REMINDERS. 



AH vegetables not secured for storing away 

 should now be attended to. .Spimiach, lettuce 

 out-of-doors, fetticus and out-of-doors onions 

 should be iirotected by coverings of .straw, 

 salt hay or cedar brush. Sbort bor.se dung is 

 best for onions. Clear up and dig all the 

 ground as the crops are taken off, as it pre- 

 vents delay in commencing in spring. Put the 

 aslies on such cold frames as have been tilled 

 with cabbage or lettuce plants, giving air 

 freely by taking the sashes entirely off 0:1 mild 

 or sunny days. Dicks' Vegetable Garden. 



Fall 2)1 owing of garden .soil is worth, in most 

 ca.s<'s, a good deal more than it costs. 



7>') not neglect to plant a bed of violets this 

 moulh, for bouquets in next March or April. 

 Set in a sheltered place, in rich soil, and cover 

 with glass in severe weather. 



Fruit trees for spring planting can be bought 

 now and buried with earth — both roots and 

 branches. They will bo in prime condition 

 for setting out in April. Trees set out last 

 month may have the earth banked up arountl 

 them six inches or so before the freezing of 

 the ground. This may be removed when 

 spring opens. — Farnws'' Journal. 

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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL CONVEN- 

 TION. 



This society, organized in 1848, held its 

 sixteenth Inennial convention in Baltimore on 

 the 12th, Kith and 14th of September, 1877. 

 The fruits contributed were exhibited in con- 

 nection with those of the Maryland Horticul- 

 tural Society. In consequence of the general 

 failure of fruit the display was not so good 

 and full as it would have been in a fruitful 

 season ; yet, withal, it was much better than 

 could have reasonably been expected, but 

 what lacked in the exhibition was made up in 

 the di.scussions and energy in the develop- 

 ment of American ))omology. On account of 

 illness President Wilder was prevented from 

 attending, to the great disajipoiutment of all 

 present. His address, however, was read be- 

 fore the convention, and was a very able and 

 excellent document. He recapitulated the 

 labors of the society and the progress of \w- 

 mology in this country. He also pointed to 

 the wide Held open for still greater achieve- 

 ments ill this branch of industry, and closing 

 in the following lofty strain : " Let us coni- 

 mence the new century in the history of our 

 Republic with increased enterprise and zeal 

 for the promotion of our cause; and should 

 any of us be called from our labors on earth, 

 let us feel assured that others will continue 

 the work we have begun and carry it forward 

 to still greater perfection. Let the success of 

 the past stimulate us to greater exertions in 

 the future. Let us work on, full of hope, re- 

 gardless of all obstacles, still achieving, still 

 pursuing, until we shall reach that better 

 land where the garden shall have no blight, 

 fruits no decay, and where no serpent lurks 

 beneath the bower— where harvests ai-e not 

 ripened by the succession of seasons — where 



the Joys of fruition shall not be measured by 

 the lapse of time." 



In the ab.sence of the President, O. H. 

 Hovey, of Massachusetts, one of the Vice 

 Presidents, presided. 



The States were not so generally repre.sentcd 

 as at some of the previous meetings. The 

 leading cause, probably, was the convention 

 following so close to the great (entemiial, 

 where every .State (except Pennsylvania) put 

 its energies and resources in pomology lo its 

 full test. The general failure of the apple 

 crop caused a deliciency in that branch. 

 Amid all the croaking against the cureulio, 

 Kllwanger & Harry exhibit as line plums and 

 as perfect as could be desired. They had 

 some thirty varieties, some ol which they 

 fruit in large (piantities, as certain a.s any 

 other crop. For success they depend upon 

 the jarring .system. They do not believe in 

 pow- wowing the little Turk away. lA'tall do 

 likewise, and this luscious fruit may yet be- 

 come as abundant as others. 



The line, lu.scious hybrid grapes, (about 

 sixty varieties,) originated by Mr. Iticketts, 

 of Newburgh, Xcw York, comjiose a promi- 

 nent feature in any fruit exhibition. His 

 display at Haltimore was glory enough for 

 one man. The only objectionable feature (if 

 any) is, that he has too much of the good 

 thing ; in fact, enough to confuse any ordi- 

 nary pomologist. 



If this country will not- have as large a 

 variety of as line grajies as any other, it can- 

 not be said that Mr. Uicketts has not done 

 inoi'e than his part to achieve such a result. 



Some of the Soiitheni States were well 

 represented, and fruit culture in the South 

 seems to be looming U]), especially the i>each ; 

 and well it should, while the lirst peaches of 

 the sea.son will bring from six to eight dollars 

 per crate, a man wants no better business 

 than to have enough early peaches to ship. 

 The (earliest good peach is what the Southern 

 ))lanter is after now, as one of them remarked, 

 " Give me a peach that is three days earlier 

 than any other, and I can make money." 

 Freight by vessel from South Carolina and 

 Georgia to Philadelphia, New York or Bos- 

 ton, is less than fifty cents per crate. With 

 such protits peach-growing in the .South can- 

 not help Init become an important trade, as 

 they can be in market a month earlier, and 

 with late kinds a month later than those from 

 the Jiliddle States. Yellows are hardly known 

 in many sections of the .South. Their crops 

 arc also more certain on account of being 

 exempt from frost. With all these facilities, 

 what better business could a man with capital 

 desire y The feeling between the Noitliern 

 and Southern memliers was very cordial, but 

 this .seems to becharateristic withpomologists. 



The accommodations at the Carrollton 

 HoiLse (where nearly all the members of the 

 society put up) were all that could be desired. 

 The steamboat excursion and its incidents 

 Were given by oue of my colleagues in the 

 New Era. 



The next biennial convention is lo be held 

 in Nashville, Tennessee, where the largest 

 Southern representation is expected the so- 

 ciety has yet had. — 77. M. E. 



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HOW TO MAKE PARIS GREEN. 



A correspondent of the Towanda Journal 

 writes : The potato bug is no scarcity with us 

 at present, and upon inquiring at the drug 

 store the iirice of Paris green, and learning 

 that the popularity of the article as an exter- 

 minator had increased its price to about 

 the Talue of a crop protected by it, I con- 

 cluded to tell the people what 1 have long 

 known about making the article. 



Take unslacked iinie of the best quality, 

 slack it with hot water ; then take the finest 

 of the powder and add alum water as strong 

 as it can be made, sullicient to form a thick 

 paste, then color it with bichromate of potash 

 and sulphite of copjier until the color suits 

 your fancy. The sul]ibite of cojiper gives the 

 color a blue tinge, the bichromate of jiotash 

 yellow. Observe this and you will never 

 fail. 



