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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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A  Gleaner’s  Notes. 
It  may  not  be  necessary  to  remind  farm¬ 
ers — but  we  will  do  it  anyway — that  they 
should  plant  liberally  for  their  hog's.  Re¬ 
member  the  best  and  cheapest  meat  is 
not  made  with  corn  alone.  Rye,  barley, 
sorghum,  pumpkins,  sweet  potatoes.  Je¬ 
rusalem  artichokes,  peanuts — hogs  are 
omnivorous,  will  eat  almost  anything, 
and  almost  anything  will  do  them  good 
and  make  them  profitable  to  their 
owners. 
TheVe  is  a  worid  of  good  sense  in  the 
above  from  the  Texas  Fai’m  and  Ranch. 
Swine  growers  of  the  West  and  South 
have  relied  so  exclusively  on  corn  that 
they  have  broken  down  the  constitution 
of  their  stock  and  made  them  an  easy 
prey  to  disease,  besides  depreciating  the 
quality  of  their  pork.  No  animal  on  the 
farm  needs  grass  and  vegetable  growth 
generally  more  than  the  hog. 
Dogs  are  all  right  in  their  place,  but 
they  are  very  liable  to  get  out  of  it.  If 
you  want  poor  sheep  hire  a  lazy  herder, 
and  give  him  a  smart  dog. — Texas  Wool 
Journal. 
The  trouble  is  to  find  out  where  their 
place  is.  To  our  way  of  thinking  the 
best  place  for  99  out  of  every  100,  would 
be  about  four  feet  under  ground.  Doubt¬ 
less  there  are  dogs  of  value  to  the  farmer, 
but  they  bear  a  very  small  proportion  to 
the  other  class.  Some  one  has  cutely 
said  that  the  rich  man  has  one  dog,  the 
poor  man  two  and  the - poor  man  three 
or  four.  So  it  seems. 
The  Watsonville  (Cal.)  Rustler  states 
that  1,600  acres  of  sugar  beets  have  been 
contracted  for  by  the  Western  Beet  Sugar 
Co.’s  factory  of  that  city,  the  price  to  be 
paid  being  85  per  ton,  delivered  at  the 
factory.  The  prospect  is  that  at  least 
2,000  acres  will  be  planted  to  this  crop. 
Some  years  ago  parties  were  at  differ¬ 
ent  points  in  southern  New  York  talking 
of  sugar  beet  growing  for  making  sugar. 
At  that  time,  farmers  were  offered  only 
82.50  per  ton,  and  naturally  they  declined 
to  enter  into  contracts  to  grow  and  sell 
beets  for  that  price.  In  a  dairy  section, 
they  are  worth  more  than  that  to  feed  to 
cattle. 
A  Rochester  (N.  Y.)  commission  mer¬ 
chant,  addressing  the  Western  New  York 
Horticultural  Association  on  “  Points  in 
Shipping,”  said  that  if  growers  would 
sort  each  100  barrels  down  to  75,  they 
would  receive  just  as  much  money,  and 
save  the  extra  barrels  and  freight. — 
Exchange. 
If  he  had  gone  further,  applying  his 
words  to  the  average  fruit  shipper,  and 
said  the  amount  could  be  safely  reduced 
to  60  barrels,  he  would  not  have  been 
wide  of  the  mark.  We  believe  that  half 
of  all  the  apples 'sent  to  the  New  York 
market,  if  only  the  best  were  sent,  would 
bring  as  much  money  as  the  whole  does 
to-day.  It  seems  a  hard  lesson  for  some 
farmers  to  learn. 
What  is  home  without  a  garden,  with 
flowers  as  a  part  of  it? — Farm,  Stock  and 
Home. 
A  mighty  poor  affair,  we  should  say,  in 
comparison  to  those  homes  where  a  really 
good  garden  is  always  maintained.  It  is 
really  amazing  to  see  how  many  farmers 
neglect  this  important  factor  in  domestic 
economy. 
It  may  be  difficult  to  prove  the  exist¬ 
ence  of  combinations  and  collusions  of 
railroad  and  elevator  rings  to  fix  the 
prices  of  wheat,  but  they  exist  just  the 
same.  Many  a  murderer  has  failed  of 
conviction. — Farm,  Stock  and  Home. 
It  will  not  be  hard  to  find  an  elevator 
ring,  if  our  esteemed  contemporary  will 
go  to  Buffalo.  With  30  or  40  of  them, 
eight  or  ten  do  the  work  and  pay  divi¬ 
dends  on  the  stock  of  all.  It  is  simply 
infamous. 
Functional  disturbances  of  the  liver, 
gallstones,  renal  calculi,  diseases  of  the 
kidneys,  dyspepsia,  headache,  fits  of  ill 
temper  or  blues,  irritability  and  general 
absence  of  the  joys  of  life  are  largely  due 
to  the  excess  of  meat  and  other  highly 
concentrated  food.  What  shall  we  eat  ? 
We  reply,  “Eat  more  fruit.” — Medical 
Classics. 
Our  contemporary  is  right.  Fruit  does 
not  enter  half  as  largely  into  our  bill  of 
fare  as  it  should.  Too  many  eat  it  as  a 
luxury,  a  tidbit,  a  something  to  be  eaten 
between  meals — something  which,  like 
Rip  Van  Winkle’s  drink,  “  does  not 
count.”  Classics  is  wrong  is  one  respect 
— meat  is  not  a  highly-concentrated 
food,  but  it  is  a  stimulating  diet,  and  so 
creates  an  undesirable  condition  of 
affairs  when  it  enters  too  largely  into 
our  daily  bill  of  fare. 
In  the  last  number  of  Insect  Life  we 
find  a  report  of  a  new  branch  of  ento¬ 
mological  commerce  which  has  just  been 
started  by  a  French  firm — that  is,  the 
sale  of  culture  tubes  for  the  destruction 
of  the  white  grub.  The  circular  which 
the  firm  sends  out  explains  that  there  has 
been  discovered  a  specific  vegetable  para¬ 
site  which  destroys  this  grub.  Following 
the  methods  of  Pasteur,  the  firm  have 
undertaken  the  artificial  production  of 
this  parasite,  and  they  offer  to  sell  tubes 
containing  the  spores.  They  guarantee 
their  cultures  to  be  capable  of  communi¬ 
cating  the  disease  to  several  hundred 
worms.  They  are  then  taken  out,  one  by 
one,  and  placed  six  or  eight  inches  in  the 
ground  in  different  parts  of  the  infested 
field  and  gently  covered  with  earth. 
These  grubs,  inoculated  with  the  disease, 
will  communicate  it  to  the  others,  and  if 
it  spreads  as  rapidly  and  proves  as  deadly 
as  the  malady  which  has  destroyed  so 
many  silk  worms,  it  may  prove  the  most 
effective  means  of  warfare  against  the 
white  grub. — Garden  and  Forest. 
At  last  the  disease  “  culturists,”  these 
scientific  propagators  of  “germs,”  have 
found  their  proper  sphere.  So  long  as 
they  went  about  the  country  inoculating 
to  cure  or  prevent  diseases,  they  were 
spreading  the  diseases  they  were  trying 
to  suppress.  Now  they  are  consistent  in 
their  work.  They  are  inoculating  or 
spreading  the  disease  for  the  purpose  of 
killing  the  things  infected.  That  is  all 
right. 
A  WRITER  in  the  New  York  Tribune, 
from  Texas,  tells  how  he  drove  of  the  cur- 
culio  and  grew  good  crops  of  plums,  by 
washing  the  trunks  of  the  trees  with  a 
mixture  of  soft  soap  and  sulphur.  The 
man  who  trusts  to  such  a  preventive  will 
not  keep  off  the  curculio.  He  has  applied 
it  to  his  trees,  had  a  good  crop  of  plums, 
and  jumps  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
wash  kept  away  the  insects,  when,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  it  had  nothing  to  do 
with  the  matter. 
The  successful  dairyman  of  the  future 
will  be  a  specialist,  either  a  butter  maker, 
a  cheese  factory  patron,  or  a  city  milk 
seller.  The  cow  does  not  exist  that  can 
be  profitably  used  for  all  three  of  these 
demands. — People  and  Patriot. 
When  all  milk  is  sold  for  its  butter  fats 
— that  is,  when  the  price  is  proportionate 
to  the  proportion  of  butter  fats  in  milk — 
we  see  no  reason  why  a  good  cow  may 
not  be  successful  in  all  three  of  the  de¬ 
partments  named.  The  Lyon  Brook 
Cheese  factory  in  this  State  bought  its 
milk  the  past  season  on  this  basis,  and 
numerous  butter  factories  did  the  same. 
Now  let  us  have  milk  for  the  city  trade 
sold  in  the  same  way. 
Farmers’  Bulletin  No.  7,  just  issued 
by  the  United  States  Department  of  Agri¬ 
culture,  treats  of  the  practice,  methods 
and  effects  of  spraying  fruit  trees  for  in¬ 
sect  pests  and  fungous  diseases.  The 
subject  of  spraying  is  presented  in  the 
bulletin  in  a  practical  manner  for  the 
information  of  the  orchardist  and  fruit¬ 
grower,  and  special  attention  is  given  to 
meeting  the  objections  now  being  raised 
in  Great  Britain  and  other  countries 
against  the  use  of  fruits  produced  in  the 
United  States.  The  facts  brought  to¬ 
gether  show  conclusively  that  the  spray¬ 
ing  of  fruit  trees  does  not  injure  the 
fruit  or  make  its  use  dangerous  to  con¬ 
sumers.  Readers  of  The  Rural  who 
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often  ends  In  Consumption.  A  slight  Inflammation 
of  the  lining  of  the  wind-tubes,  the  usual  symptoms 
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