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■3X ANTICIPATION OF THEIIl NEW CATALOGUE TO BE ISSUED DURING JANUARY, OFFER TO THEIR 
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Per lb. Per oz. 
..Jersey Wakefield Cabbage.f 4.00 .40 
liHItrovcd Early' S>uniiiier Cabbage_ 4.00 .40 
Early Suowball Cauliflower. f.I.OO 
“ Erfurt SO.OO 2.50 
'Perfection Heartwell Celery. 8.00 .75 
American Wouder Peas. 
Per lb. Per oz. 
Forcing Golden Stone Head Eettuce.. 2.00 .20 
Gulden Netted Gem Melon. 1.50 .15 
Sweet Golden Dayvii Pepper. 5.00 .50 
Freucli Breakfast Ifadish.60 .10 
Eivingston’s Favorite Tomato. 3.00 .80 
.35 cents per quart; $6.50 per bushel. 
Small Mr. H. E. Prindle, CIcyo- 
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TNcw sfylo fruit or po?k- 
rl knifr, 
r-.p .vitli R 50c. order. 
lOvolvflnrd.S Choice Chromos, your name in 
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gold edge cards, lOc. Hidden name 
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Vain* IVaniiP In Script Type on 40 New Artistic Gold 
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fcJQr We offerSlOOforapackof cards 
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ITnAfa Rroe Northford, Ct.. ofler an assorted pack of 
il UWfC U8. 59 Elegant XXtra Chromo Cards with 
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— 
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50 
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ASM & HAeaMES BRAND 
TO FARMERS.-a 
is important that the Soda 
or Saleratus they use 
should be white and pure, in 
common with all similar gub- 
Etances used for food. 
In making bread with 
yeast, it is well to use about 
half a teaspoonful of the 
‘‘Arm and Hammer” Brand Soda or Sal¬ 
eratus at the same time, and thus make the bread 
rise better and prevent it becoming Bour by correcting 
the natural acidity of the yeast. 
DAIRYMEN and FARMERS should use 
only the ‘‘Arm and Hammer” brand for clean¬ 
ing and keeping milk pans sweet and clean. 
To insure obtaining only the Arm and Ham- 
& SALERATUS. 
‘•Diminutive Cows” can be obtained. 
Xlie New Yoi'lc Taiiciers’ dick.— 
This association of poultry breeders will hold its second 
annual exhibition in New York City during the last week 
of January and tho first week of February. 
Old Ensilage.—Dr. J. M. Bailey informs us 
that he is feeding all his live stock at “ Winning Farna,” 
Mass., on ensilage made in 1882, and has enough of this 
crop to last another year. Dr. Bailey has no trouble ia 
keeping ensilage for any length of time. 
To Gel ISid ol* si Isis' Stone. —E. Mc¬ 
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a stone that cannot bo readily drawn out by his horses 
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use this might be broken up by a blast. 
Cosil Aslies uiid Muck for Ever¬ 
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would answer to mix with swamp muck to make a fer¬ 
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the muck alone. Coal ashes contain such a slight amount 
of plant food that they are liardiy worth handling, save 
for their ameliorating effect on heavy-soils. The best 
use fur coal-ashes is to make paths or roads with them. 
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ESun^'iii'iaii and. Nlillot. —J. 
M. Marshall, Somerset Co., Pa.—Hungarian grass and 
Italian, German, and Golden millets are muclt alike, and 
if grown for hay or green fodder, there is little difference 
in their value. The millets have much larger heads of 
larger grain. Neither would be a suitable crop with 
which to sow clover and timothy, as aside from growing 
too closely, the Ilungarian-grass, etc., should not be 
sown until the soil is well warmed, while clover and 
timothy need the cool weather of early spring. 
Viiltte «1‘ I.aiid Pisjsler. —Mr. G. W. 
Quigley, Rock Hill, Mo.—Plaster may be applied to 
clover at any time during the early growth of the crop. 
Clover, and other liguminous plants, like beans, peas, 
etc., respond much more quickly to plaster, than does 
timothy and other true grasses. Land Plaster (gypsum), 
is composed of lime and sulphuric acid, chemically 
united, and furnishes food both directly and indirectly 
to plants. It will not make a barren land fertile. There 
arc tlie so-called “Potato Manures,” but potatoes are not 
so different from otlier field or garden plants as to need 
a special manure. The amount and quality of any ma¬ 
nure should be determined more by the conditions of 
the soil, than that of the crop to be grown. 
SI J^iiccess, —The thirtieth Bul¬ 
letin of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Shition 
gives the results of experiments with sorghum for tho 
season of 1883. The plots selected were of uniform qual¬ 
ity, and had been in grass for three years. Tho ground 
was prepared as for corn, and the fertilizers were spread 
broadcast and harrowed in. Phosphoric acid was sup¬ 
plied in bone black and superphosphate, nitrogen in ni¬ 
trate of soda, and potash as muriate and sulpliate. A 
study of the table shows that with one exception (land 
plaster) potash was applied in all cases, when the yield 
of sugar was over four thousand pounds per acre. Potash 
developed more sugar than any other single fertilizer, 
and when combined with nitrogen, gave the highest 
yield. Potash sulphate surpassed the muriate. The 
superior value of the sulphate for sugar beets and pota¬ 
toes is an old fact. At the Rio Grande (N. J.) plantation 
the plots having phosphoric acid, matured their cane 
earliest, which corresponds with the results in sugar 
beet culture. It was found that the quantity of cane is uo 
index of the yield of sugar. One plot gave three tons 
of cane per acre more than another, but yielded be¬ 
tween three and four hundred pounds less sugar. Tlie 
yield of pure, dry sorghum seed was found to \ai-y 
from twenty-five to thirty-nine bushels per acre. This 
is regarded as about equal in feeding value to corn. 
