deal  and  that  this  has  added  very  much  to  the  feeding'  The  style  of  architecture  is  medieval.  The  undressed 
value  of  the  whole  mixture.  For  horses  I  would  feed  and  moss-covered  stones  of  the  lower  story  give  it  a 
it  alone  and  as  soon  as  taken  from  the  silo.  tone  of  rusticity  very  grateful  to  the  eye. 
The  first  story  is  built  of  field  stones  of  all  sizes  and 
shapes,  many  of  which  were  brought  and  put  in  their 
places  by  the  people  of  the  town.  Each  family  have  a 
group  of  stones  to  which  they  “  point  with  pride.” 
This  unique  collection  comprises  almost  every  variety 
of  stone  found  in  the  State,  and  includes  several  grind¬ 
stones,  heirlooms  of  the  days  when  Governor  Bradford 
and  Roger  Williams  virtually  owned  the  Providence 
Plantations. 
The  first  floor  contains  the  town  clerk’s  office,  the 
town  council  room,  the  library,  reading  room,  room  of 
the  antiquarian  society  and  such  smaller  rooms  as  are 
needed  in  connection  with  those  named.  The  second 
floor  contains  the  main  hall  with  ante-rooms,  stage  toing  the  bill,  and  was  forced  to  confes 
with  dressing  rooms,  etc.  The  high  school  rooms  are  those  reasons  were  forcible  enough  to  b< 
in  the  south  end  of  the  building  and  are  fitted  up  with  many  cases  too  true  to  be  controverted, 
a  laboratory,  etc.  The  building  is  140  feet  long  by  County  Agricultural  Society’s Constitutio 
about  40  wide.  The  second  story,  dome  and  parts  says:  “  Its  objects  shall  be  the  advancen 
of  gables  are  framed  with  chestnut  timber  filled  in  terests  of  agriculture,  horticulture,  mam 
with  plaster.  The  gables  and  roof  are  covered  with  mechanic  arts  and  household  industry.” 
shingles.  j.  n.  g.  is,  or  should  be,  how  best  to  accomplish  i 
R.  N.-Y. — The  average  rural  public  building  is  a  very  Take  the  breeding  of  live  stock,  for  e? 
poor  affair.  In  the  writer’s  township  a  room  in  a  beer  cheap  grade  male,  with  no  merits  to  c 
saloon  called  a  “  hotel  ”  is  hired  for  meetings  of  the  prove  as  valuable  a  sire  as  a  thorough br« 
town  committee  or  for  voting  purposes.  Many  town-  the  best  families?  If  so,  then  why  try  ti 
ships  have  a  so-called  “town  house” — a  rough  little  farm  stock,  by  purchasing  the  best  of 
building  that  is  neglected  and  abused.  It  would  be  an  males?  The  idea  is  too  absurd  to  be  ai 
It  would  not  do  to  feed  excellent  thing  if  every  township  could  have  a  good  practice  it  is  carried  out  by  our  society,  £ 
more  right  to  State  appi’opriations  than  Cayuga  ?  Let 
the  State  take  care  of  but  one  institution,  and  then 
see  that  the  money  is  judiciously  expended  ;  look  after 
its  officers ;  take  care  that  all  places  are  filled  with 
competent  men  regardless  of  their  politics ;  make  each 
man  responsible  for  the  duties  of  the  position  he  holds, 
and  compel  him  to  render  a  strict  account  to  his 
superior  officer. 
Every  fair  that  receives  aid  from  the  State  should 
make  to  the  State  a  detailed  report  of  its  expenses,  so 
as  to  let  the  people  know  what  becomes  of  their  money. 
It  does  not  come  easily  enough  to  be  thrown  away  or 
provide  fat  places  for  a  few  men,  and  should  therefore 
be  strictly  accounted  for.  A.  d.  baker. 
How  Does  it  rate  in  Value  with  Clover  Hay? 
It  is  not  of  the  same  class  of  foods.  It  is  a  carbohy¬ 
drate  and  should  be  compared  with  Timothy  hay.  I 
consider  three  tons  worth  fully  as  much  as  one  of  the 
very  best  Timothy  hay  and  that  2J£  tons  are  worth 
more  than  a  ton  of  ordinary  Timothy  hay.  It  is  sup¬ 
plemental  to  clover  hay  and  they  should  always  be 
fed  together  when  possible. 
Some  people  claim  that  they  feed  40  pounds  of  en¬ 
silage  and  8  pounds  of  clover  hay  per  day  with  grain 
to  cows.  I  cannot  get  mine  when  eating  40  pounds  of 
ensilage  with  a  liberal  grain  ration  to  eat  more  than 
three  to  five  pounds  of  clover  hay  at  their  best. 
I  years,  are  nothing  more  than 
“  agricultural  horse  trots,  ” 
while  the  managers  run  them 
for  the  money  there  is  in  them. 
As  a  rule,  they  are  to  amuse 
rather  than  to  instruct.  The 
Governor  acted  wisely  in  veto¬ 
ing  that  and  the  canal  appro. 
The  money  could  be  used  to  better 
the  public  roads,  provided  the  next 
give  us  a  better  system  of  work- 
I  do  not  think 
one- 
Town  Halt,  at  Barrington,  R.  I.  Fig.  17(5. 
priation  bill.  2, 
advantage  on 
legislature  will 
ing  roads  than  the  one  we  now  have, 
that  I  exaggerate  when  I  say  that  not  more  than 
half  the  tax  is  worked  in  this  town,  South  Livonia, 
N.  Y.  There  are  too  many  bosses.  i>.  g.  f. 
The  Bordeaux  Mixture  for  Potato 
Blight. 
Last  week,  on  page  3(57,  we  gave  a  few  extracts  from 
Bulletin  28  of  the  Vermont  Experiment  Station.  This 
station  has  done  excellent  work  in  studying  the  dis¬ 
eases  of  the  potato  plant.  This  is  well,  for  dairying 
and  potato  growing  are  two  important  Vermont  indus¬ 
tries.  This  week,  at  Fig.  175,  page  378,  we  give  a  view 
of  a  potato  field  owned  by  Mr.  J.  E.  White,  of  Chitten¬ 
den  County,  Vt.  The  experiments  were  conducted 
by  L.  R.  Jones,  of  the  experiment  station.  In  this 
field  of  late  potatoes,  the  vines  remained  green  and 
.thrifty  up  to  August  20,  when  the  weather  became 
warm  and  muggy  and  blight  began  to  show.  On 
August  26,  eight  rows,  through  the  middle  of  the 
field,  were  sprayed  with  Bordeaux  mixture,  and  again 
on  September  8.  The  picture  shows  the  field  at  the 
middle  of  September,  the  sprayed  rows  at  the  left,  the 
unsprayed  being  black  and  dead.  On  September  23 
Mr.  White  wrote  : 
The  potatoes  are  all  dug  and  under  cover.  We  measured  those  In 
the  rows  that  had  been  treated  with  the  Bordeaux  mixture  and  those 
alongside  In  the  immediate  vicinity  which  had  not  been  treated.  We 
found  that  the  sprayed  rows  yielded  20  to  25  per  cent  more  than  the 
unsprayed.  There  were  no  more  tubers  where  sprayed,  but  the  tubers 
were  larger  and  there  weie  no  small  ones.  If  the  eight  acres  of  White 
Stars  could  all  have  been  treated  at  the  right  time,  and  the  treatment 
been  followed  up.  I  think  It  would  have  Increased  the  yield  100  bushels 
per  acre,  and  instead  of  200  bushels  per  acre  I  got,  there  would  have 
been  300  bushels  per  acre.  We  have  dug  and  put  Into  the  cellar  over 
2,500  bushels. 
The  actual  yields  were  313  bushels  per  acre  where 
sprayed  and  248  bushels  where  not  sprayed.  Mr.  Jone* 
