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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[August, 1881. 



and activity. If the weather be cool, a littje pepper 

 may be ftiven, but ilo not give too much to hens that 

 are laying ep:ss for batchiner. In that ease tliey are 

 apt to be unfertilized. Before doctoring ailing fowls 

 be certain of the difficulty, as much damage is done 

 by administering doses for a disease that may not 

 exist at the time. — Country Gentleman. 



About Chickens. 



Summer is the time when chickens are more or 

 less troubled with parasites, usually owing to the 

 condition of the poultry-house. If the floor is well 

 scraped and the interior three or four times each 

 year thoroughly whitewashed, vermin of no kind will 

 find lodgment. The most common variety found on 

 chickens, which attaches itself often to the heads of 

 chicki-ns, is the elow-moving parasite known as the 

 " cliickeu-louse," which if allowed to multiply will 

 dwarf the growth of the chick and reduce it greatly 

 in flesh. A little lard or petroleum rubbed on the 

 head and neck of the fowl will have the desired 

 effect. Coops infcoted with that minute species 

 known as the " red mite," can be got rid of by a 

 thorough whitewashing. If a pint of petroleum and 

 a small quantity of carbolic acid are mixed with a 

 bucket of whitewash before applying, the destruction 

 of vermin will be more thorougli'aud certain. 



Poultry Notes. 



PonLTRT well cared for will always pay and give 

 satisfaction, while they will afford much pleasure. 



Dust baths are necessary in every fowl house, and 

 are conducive to the health and thrift of fowls. 



Leg weakness is not a common thing among fowls 

 accustomed to free range, but it is difficult to cure 

 permanently. Better decapitate at once unless the 

 bird is a valuable one. 



Fowls have a fancy for tender grass, hence, with 

 a good chance, they will speedily ruin a newly-seeded 

 lawn or grass plot. 



Ip every poultryman applied to the roosts and 

 walls of his poultry-house more whitewash, more 

 sulphur and more kerosene, he would have more 

 cackling liens— consequently more profit. 



CuAUKED corn, fed in limited quanities, is excel- 

 lent for laying hens. 



Literary and Personal. 



Rules and Pkemium List of the "Ninth Cincin- 

 nati Industrial E.xposiliou," of Manufactures, Pro- 

 ducts, and the Arts.— A beautilully embellished royal 

 octavo of over TO pages, with diagrams and plans of 

 the various departments on the first and second floors. 

 The Exposition opens Wednesday, August 17th, and 

 closes Tuesday evening, September fith, 18S1. We 

 observe that few money premiums are ofiered, except 

 in the Horticultural department. It does one good 

 just to contemplate an exposition of this character — 

 and feel that it is to occur in " our own, pur native 

 land." There is one premium of ?500 in gold ; 

 five of $100.00 and eight of SoO.OO. Then we have 

 sixty gold medals and six hundred and forty-six silver 

 medals, besides tMO hundred and sixty -four certificates 

 of honorable mention. In Horticulture, Arboriculture 

 and Floriculture, there is 07ie premium of $1.00 ; eight 

 of $2.00 ; eleven of $3.00; thirty-tico of |.5.eO; two of 

 ?6.00; one of $8.00; thirty-eight of $10.00; one of 

 $12.00; thirly of $1.5.00; thirty-one of $20.00; nine 

 of $25.00 ; fifteen of $30.00 ; one of $3.5.00 ; three of 

 $43.00; thirteen of $50.00; three of $60.00 ;/om)- of 

 $75.00, and three of $100.00. Natural History and 

 Educational Appliances are amply recognized by 

 silver medals and honorable mention ; the latter often 

 more creditable and more valued than either medals 

 or money premiums. There are ni»e departments — 

 designated alphabetically from A to I— and eighty- 

 nine classes. The arrangements, in all respects, 

 seem as perfect as human ingenuity can make them, 

 and are the results of experience. 



Annual Catalogue of C . Aultman & Co., Canton, 

 Ohio, l.'-Sl, 132 pages square octavo, and 49 illustra- 

 tions of mowers, reapers, threshers, engines, horse- 

 powers, etc., etc., with an almanac, historical 

 sketches, incidents and hundreds of testimonials, all 

 relating to the different kinds of goods they manu- 

 facture, interesting to read and ponder over, even if 

 you never need a " machine." 



Calenuar of New England Conservatory and 

 College of Music, or Boston University, Music Hal 1 

 Boston, Massachusetts, lh'81-2 ; 4S pages, square 12 

 mo., contains a world of useful and interesting lore 

 to the patrons of music and musical instruments. 



New Mexico, Bureau of immigration. Report on 

 Bernalillo county, Wm. C.Hazledine, Commissioner, 

 Albuquei-que N. M., ISSl. IS pp., 8 vo. Containing 

 a brief history of the mines, horticulture, agriculture, 

 towns, distances, climate and other matters useful to 

 the emigrant or resident. 



Rocky Mountain Minino Review, Denver, Col. 

 16 pp., royal quarto, historical and advertising 

 medium. Specially devoted to mining interests. 



Travelers' and Tourists' Guide. — The hand- 

 somest and most characteristically illustrated little 

 publication that has come under our observation the 

 present season is the " Travelers' and Tourists' 

 Guide of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and 

 Branches." It is a large 12mo. of 80 pages, and 

 contains 80 expressive illustrations, besides a rail- 

 road map of the State, including parts of New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Also a list 

 of all the hotels and boarding houses along the 

 Central Railroad of New Jersey, and its branches — 

 together with the name of the houses, the proprie- 

 tors' names, the capacity of the houses, and the 

 price of board per week and per day. Abont 500 of 

 these hotels and boarding houses are arranged in an 

 alphabetical table. Among the illustrations arc 

 many picturesque land and water views, and all is 

 executed in the highest style of typographic art. 

 Copies of the Onide may be obtained gratis by ad- 

 dressing H. P. Baldwin, General Passenger Agent, 

 No. 119 Liberty street. New York. 



St. Louis Public School Library Bulletin. 

 100 pp., royal octavo, from January to AprilJ 1881. 

 Contains an immense amount of matter relating to 

 school literature, with the authors' names. 



The Journal op Forestry and Estate Manage- 

 ment. A magazine about trees, and all subjects 

 connected with management of estates and rural life. 

 For country gentlemen, foresters, land stewards, 

 estate managers, and lovers of trees. London : J.& 

 W. Rider, 14, Bartholomew Close, E. C. Monthly 

 Price, one shilling. 80 pp.', 8 vo. The July number 

 of this excellent publication which is the 51st of the 

 series is especially a good one, being appropriately 

 illustrated. Among the illustrations is a view of 

 Windsor Castle from the Thames; then a view c)f the 

 same from the " Great Park." Heme's Oak, as it 

 appeared in 179^, and when it was blown down in 

 1863. Queen Elizabeth's Oak ; William the Conquer- 

 or's Oak ; Evergreen Oaks in the " Home Park ;" 

 Luther's Beech; Windsor Castle, from "Queen 

 Adehaide's Tree ;" Cedar of Lebanon, In Goodwin's 

 Park, planted in 1761; Araucaria imbricata, at Drop- 

 more, 61 feet high. This is the " Chili Pine," from 

 the Andes of South America, and is one of the hand- 

 somest of the genus. The article on Windsor Forest 

 and Great Park, is interesting reading, possessing all 

 the romance of fact and history, from which we learn 

 that the first plantation of forest trees in England, 

 was made at Windsor Park, in the reign of Queeu 

 Elizabeth. Subsequent plantations were made at 

 different times, and the present generation are enjoy- 

 ing the pleasures and the uses, wisely provided by 

 their predecessors. 



New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Bulletin 15.— This is a tabulated analysis of 

 commercial fertilizers, giving their compositions and 

 values, as well as the recognized names of the differ- 

 ent brands, by whom manufactured, and where and 

 by whom kept for sale. These matters in New 

 Jersey, as now, also, in Pennsylvania, are regulated, 

 or profess to be regulated, by law— a law, which, 

 according to this bulletin, has brcn " very well ob- 

 served," only a few cases having been noted in 

 which manufacturers have failed to make good their 

 guarantees. As we have, in the present number of 

 the Farmer, inserted the analysis of the Chemist of 

 the " State Board of Agriculture" of Pennsylvania, 

 in which our farmers are most interested, we defer 

 any publication of the formulated tables in this re- 

 port to future numbers, if on further examination it 

 becomes manifest that they contain practical in- 

 formation which it would be important for our far- 

 mers to know. This pamphlet, being a ten-page 

 octavo, and the 15th of a series on the snbject, if 



even the whole were' republished, could only be a 

 partial presentation of the subject. Custom House 

 attaches state that at no former period were there 

 more fertilizers imported into the country than at 

 the present time, and we have wondered whether 

 these were subjected to the same ordeal as the do- 

 mestic kinds. 



Robert Hale's patent fruit, flower, herb and 

 leaf gatherer, is certainly the most convenient little 

 implement that has ever been invented, and ought to 

 be in the possession of all pomologists and flo'-ists 

 who make these professions a matter of business. It 

 is manipulated with one hand, like a pair of shears, 

 and not only cuts off the fruit or flower, but also 

 holds it firmly until it can be deposited into any re- 

 ceptacle used in gathering. Hubbard, Spencer & 

 Co., of Chicago, Illinois, are the sole agents. 



Broom Corn, Castor Beans, Flax and Hemp 

 IN Kansas.— We are in receipt of the Second Quar- 

 terly Report of .the Kansas State Board of Agricul- 

 ture for 1881, a leading feature of which is valuable 

 papers by the most prominent growers in the various 

 counties on the raising, handling and marketing of 

 broom corn, castor beans, flax and hemp. These 

 crops, though formerly considered of minor impor- 

 tance, are found to be well adapted to Kansas soil 

 and climate, and owing to their comparative freedom 

 from insect depredations are especially likely to re- 

 ceive no small share of attention in future. To all 

 interested in a greater and more profltable diversity 

 of crops, this collection of information from men act- 

 ually engaged in their cultivation, will prove of great 

 interest in value. 



Besides the foregoing, the report gives the condi- 

 tion of grains, grasses, vegetables, fruits, farm ani- 

 mals ; statistical tables of population by counties, 

 and by cities having over 80O inhabitants; the acre- 

 age of principal crops for the year, with increase and 

 decrease ; also table showing the number of bushels 

 of old corn on hand March 1, 1880, and March 1, 

 1881,with increase and decrease in each county. Pages 

 74 to 88, Inclusively, are devoted to a paper by Dr. 

 Cyrus Thomas, of the United States Entomological 

 Commission, on " The Chinch Bug : its history, 

 characters, habits, and the means of destroying it or 

 counteracting its injuries." Pages 89 to 93, inclusive, 

 are occupied with an official report of the semi- 

 annual convention of the Kansas Wool Growers' and 

 Sheep Breeders' Association, held at Emporia, June 

 1st. Seven pages are devoted to meteorological re- 

 ports and data for the quarter, followed by a list of 

 Kansas State, District and County Agricultural So- 

 cieties, together with the names of the Secretaries, 

 their post-office addresses, and the time of holding 

 f.Tirs for 1381. The report contains 103 pages, and 

 can be .ibtained upon application, by enclosing two 

 three-coiit stamps to the Secretary, J. K. Hudson, 

 Topeka, Kansas. 



Dairy Farming.— Being the theory, practice and 

 methods of dairying. By J. P. Sheldon. Assisted by 

 leading authorities in various countries. Cassell, 

 Petter, Galpin & Co., 739 and 741 Broadway, New 

 York, publishers. Price 40 cents per part. The 25th 

 part of this ably conducted and finely printed and il- 

 lustrated quarto, has just come to hand, and from 

 the fact that it contains a copious general index to 

 the whole, a title page, table of contents, and lists of 

 colored illustrations, and drawings on wood, we 

 naturally may conclude that this part completes the 

 work, or at least the 1st volume. Our readers may 

 form some estimate of the work when we inform 

 them that it contains 570 quarto pages, 37 chapters, 

 25 full-page colored illustrations, 218 wood engrav- 

 ings, embracing 2d2 separate figures. This number 

 contains the conclusion of an able article on Swine, 

 and one on Poultry in their relations to dairying, and 

 also, one on the Commerce of the Dairy. Taking it 

 " all in all" it is more than 50 per cent, cheaper than 

 any other serial of standard literature, of a similar 

 quality, that has come under our observation. Such 

 a publication on any of the branches of natural his- 

 tory usually costs from $1.00 to $2.50 a part, running 

 up to $.0.00 or SiO.OO per volume, instead of $10.00, 

 whilst for general usefulness it is of far more impor- 

 tance to the public. 



