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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
APRIL 18 
Publisher's Desk. 
Be Wise In Time. 
POTATOES. 
A THOUSAND BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
If you want to grow a profitable crop, 
don't fail to read these expert opinions of 
Mr. Carman’s new booli. 
No agricultural booh ever met with a 
more hearty reception or was more enthu 
siastically indorsed by practical men. 
READ AND SEE. 
Extensive experiments in potato culture, 
performed during the past 15 years by 
Elbert S. Carman of The Rural New- 
Yorker are reported in detail in “The 
New Potato Culture.” Questions have 
been submitted to practical trials, and if 
any other person has given the subject so 
thorough a test, we have not met with the 
results of his labors Mr. Carman has 
conferred a very great benefit on the com¬ 
munity by his efforts in thus introducing 
the subject to public attention, and in 
exciting the interest which has shown that, 
under favorable conditions, a thousand 
bushels may ba raised on an acre.— The 
Country Gentleman. 
We regard this book as the most Import¬ 
ant single contribution to agricultural 
knowledge ever made in America. The 
farmer who fails to send 75 cents to the 
Rural Publishing Company, Times Build¬ 
ing, New York, for a copy of it, will show 
a woeful lack of business sense. He might 
easily spend a thousand dollars In home 
experiments without getting half the in¬ 
formation here to be had.— Dr. T. H. Hos¬ 
kins, in Vermont Watchman. 
There is little doubt that Mr. Carman’s 
“ New Potato Culture ” is destined to up¬ 
set the old methods in much the same way 
that 12 or 14 years ago his published views 
respecting the cultivation of Indian corn 
wrought a radical change in the methods 
popular at that time. He was the first to 
insist that maximum yields of corn could 
be produced only by (1) drilling in the seed, 
(2) surface manuring or fertilizing, and (3) 
level and shallow cultivation. By this 
“triplicate” system (as he called it) 130 
bushels of grain per acre were produced on 
six acres. The yield was estimated by a 
committee, of which the agricultural edi¬ 
tor of the World, Dr. F. M. Hexamer, Dr. 
Habirshaw, Secretary E. Williams and W. 
E. Dodge were the chief members. 
This potato book is in nowise a record of 
theories or the practices of others. It is In 
the main a record of actual experiments 
made with the sole view to answer the 
problem, “ How may we increase the yield 
of potatoes without proportionately increas¬ 
ing the cost of production ? ” It does not 
matter whether the little family garden plot 
or acres are considered, the answer is 
made in a convincing way, and there need 
be little doubt that the “ New Potato Cul¬ 
ture” embodies the way which will be 
adopted by all progressive farmers in the 
near future. These experiments are by no 
means the work of a single year or of two 
or three. They have been carried on for 15 
years in a thorough, painstaking, accurate 
manner, and the results will not fail to 
impress the intelligent reader with their 
intrinsic value. All sorts of manures were 
tried; all sorts of fertilizers, that is, the 
constituents of commercial or concentrated 
fertilizers used separately and in every 
possible combination. Seed pieces were 
planted at depths of from two to ten inches 
year after year. Stem ends, seed ends, 
whole potatoes, half potatoes, one-eye to 
four-eye pieces were tried season after sea¬ 
son. Fertilizers were repeatedly used, 
varying in amount from 400 to 2,000 pounds 
to the acre. Mr. Carman’s trench system, 
by which over 1,000 bushels of potatoes 
to the acre have actually been harvested, 
is fully described. 
It is a book that ought to be in the hands 
of every potato raiser, as, in The World’s 
opinion, it is by far the most valuable trea¬ 
tise of the kind that has ever been pub¬ 
lished. The price is made as low as pos¬ 
sible, viz.: 40 cents paper, 75 cents cloth.— 
Agricultural Department, New York 
World. 
During the last 15 years, Mr. E. S. Car¬ 
man has been devoting much of his time to 
potato experimentation and is the origina¬ 
tor of the trench system of culture by 
which he has secured great results. As his 
experiments have been carried on from year 
to year, the plot yielded in portions at the 
rate of 1,000 bushels per acre, while certain 
hills yielded at a rate of over 1,500 bushels 
per acre. His experiments have been pub¬ 
lished in detail in a neat, readable volume 
of 158 pages, to which is added a copious in¬ 
dex. Any one interested in potato culture 
will want to have this book and also to 
study it, as many profitable hints can be se¬ 
cured from it.—New England Farmer. 
“ The New Potato Culture” is the title 
of a new and very valuable agricultural 
work, by Elbert S. Carman, Editor of The 
Rural New-Yorker. The volume is the 
result of 15 years of patient study and 
investigation, accompanied with repeated 
and constant experiments. The author 
proposes to be able to show how the grow¬ 
ers may increase the yield of potatoes three¬ 
fold without adding anything to the cost 
of production.—A T ew York Journal of 
Commerce. 
Want a Buggy ? 
Why of course you do. A moonllght.ride 
is enhanced a hundred fold if the Buggy is 
all right. Does the name Pioneer suggest 
anything ? The “ Complete Horse Book” 
tells you where to buy it. Sent for 10 cents, 
silver or stamps. Pioneer Buggy Company, 
Columbus, Ohio.— Adv. 
Live Stock Notes. 
After a long dispute in the Scotch 
courts of law, it has been decided that dis¬ 
horning is legal when “ performed with 
skill and without the infliction of unneces¬ 
sary pain.” 
IF Germany should take $16,000,000 worth 
of our meat and send us the same value in 
sugar, German soil would gain $2,000,000 
worth of fertility while American soil 
would gain 0. 
The Kellogg combination sale of Jersey 
cattle to be held in this city, April 28-30, 
will be a notable event in Jersey cattle 
history. None but superior cattle will be 
entered for sale, and some of the best herds 
in the country will send representatives. 
This will be a splendid chance for farmers 
and dairymen to secure good bulls to head 
their herds. They are sure to obtain valu 
able animals because no others will be 
offered, and the auction system will enable 
them to secure good bargains. 
Sidney Sprague, Falconer, N. Y., 
reports his Chester Whites In fine condi¬ 
tion and his young pigs unusually strong 
and vigorous. The orders he has hitherto 
received are very suggestive of a good busi¬ 
ness this year. Judglng from the amount 
of inquiries for stock, farmers are realizing 
the heavy cost of converting scrub stocK 
into pork at the present prices of feed. His 
spring pigs were sired by Harrison 1519 and 
Jewel 1717, which are of the best strains of 
blood and have repeatedly proved them¬ 
selves valuable sires. 
National Swine Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion. —The object of this organization is to 
promote the interests of the breeders, grow¬ 
ers and feeders of swine in the United 
States. The annual meetings have of late 
been held in Chicago, during the Ameri¬ 
can Fat Stock Show. The proceedings are 
always published for distribution among 
the members, that not only those who at¬ 
tend, but those who cannot be present, may 
have them in permanent form. The name 
of every member, with the breed he keeps, 
is given each year in the proceedings with¬ 
out extra charge. The membership fee is 
$1. Remit this amount to the secretary, 
and he will send you the proceedings of the 
last meeting, and place your name on the 
list for the next issue. Phil M. Springer, 
Sec’y, Springfield, Ill. 
Tariff On Geldings. — Mr. Burdett- 
Coutts, an English breeder of Hackneys 
and Yorkshire coach horses, in a recent 
speech before the Yorkshire Coach Horse 
Society, said that the McKinley Tariff Bill 
would affect only tne sale of English geld¬ 
ings. Stallions and mares, he said, were 
admitted free of duty to America if of good 
pedigree and registered in some authorized 
stud book. In admitting stallions and 
mares into America, we got the means of 
producing horses, but the closing of the 
market to geldings encourages the produc¬ 
tion of geldings in America. He was bound 
to say that he thought from the American 
point of view when they wanted to create a 
great horse production the McKinley Bill 
was an extremely far-sighted measure, for 
that bill only admitted free of duty to the 
States stallions and mares if they have a 
certificate of registry in a recognized Eng¬ 
lish stud. 
Sows Eating Pigs.— In a late Rural 
Dr. Kilborne, in replying to a correspon¬ 
dent in regard to sows eating their own 
pigs, has not answered the inquiry fully 
or satisfactorily upon the preventive side, 
which is the best “ remedy ” always. The 
facts are that a sow fed corn and water 
as a chief diet, becomes feverish and consti¬ 
pated before farrowing, and the blood be¬ 
comes thickened and disordered, and in the 
still more acute feverish condition incident 
to parturition, she devours her young as a 
remedy to relieve her own disorders. The 
sow scenting the blood, etc., is attracted to 
it, and her “ instinct ” tells her that herein 
is a remedy for her feverish condition, and 
the remedy Is extended from things inci¬ 
dent to the birth of the litter, to the litter 
itself. The remedy Is not to let the brood 
sows run with the stock hogs and shotes. 
They should be kept by themselves in pens, 
and be well cared for, and there should be 
only two or three together in a sleeping 
apartment, though more may be together 
during the day, if pleasant, in a good, clean 
yard. The sows should have very little 
corn; their food should be of swill, quite 
sweet—milk, if at hand, and shorts. If there 
is no milk, the shorts should be steamed in 
water and some roots be added, and they 
should be fed three times a day. They 
should have what clover hay they will eat 
up clean. Succulence pays quite as well in 
a ration for a sow as in one lor a cow. Suc¬ 
cessful breeding of either depends on com¬ 
pliance with the conditions that Nature 
imposes, and succulent food, largely nitro¬ 
genous, is what she requires. Brood sows 
should at all times have plenty of salt and 
charcoal,where they can eat them at will. If 
some wood ashes and a “little” lime are 
added, all the better, and water should not 
be refused. Two or three weeks before 
farrowing, bran should be fed, and the 
farmer should see that the sow is not con¬ 
stipated. At least a week before farrow¬ 
ing, each sow should have a pen to herself, 
and as much short straw as she may desire 
to make her bed. Let her make the latter 
herself, she can do this better than any 
man. Treat the sow so kindly that she 
will have confidence in you, and will not 
object to your close approach, and then, if 
necessary, you can act as “midwife” if oc¬ 
casion demands. By this plan a sow will 
rarely, if ever, eat her pigs, although if she 
has once done so, there is no safety in 
trusting her too far. Do not feed the sow 
a great array of tempting food as soon as 
the pigs are born. Let her take charge of 
her own appetite. Feed, for three or four 
days, thin slops slightly warmed. As the 
pigs begin to draw more subsistence, as 
they will after three or four days, increase 
the strength of the ration, but do not feed 
sour food. By this plan, trouble arising 
from a greater supply of milk than is 
needed by the little pigs, is avoided, as 
well as an Inflamed condition of the udder, 
that often in the latter case makes the sow 
“ ugly,” and causes her sharp pain when 
the pigs are suckling. ,T. G. 
Portage Co., Ia. 
(Continued on next page.) 
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YOUNG DAUGHTERS of our bull 
STOKE POGIS 5th 598? have made 
from 14 lbs. 1)4 oz. to 22 lbs. 12 oz. 
butter in 7 days. We refused $15,- 
OOuforhim. He Is the only living brother of the ac¬ 
knowledged champion dairy bull, Stoke Pogis Sd 
(now dead) whose 27 daughters 
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Average Over 20 Pounds. 
Idu’s Rioter ol'Sst. L. 13656.-Son of Ida of St. 
Lambert 211)90, (cost $6,500 cash before she was 
tested), official butter test for 7 days.su lbs. 2 )4 oz.; 
milk record, 67 lbs. one day, 1891 lbs. one winter 
month. His four tested daughters average 20 lbs, 
10)4 Qz - hutter in 7 days. Several give on ordinary 
feed from 40 to 49 lbs. milk per day. He weighs 
1705 lbs. Our Jerseys are big. Our heifers not 
bred till 2 year olds. 
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(Address all Correspondence to 107 John 8t. 
Consignments of none but superior Cattle are en¬ 
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breeders, viz.: 
Miss E. T. Htntnrn, 
Jlwwrs. Froderle Bronson, 
W. C* Xorlon, 
S. IN. Burnham, 
A. H. Moorr, 
8. W. Bobbins, 
F.hritk Parmly, 
I). F. Appleton, 
Nathan Robins, 
Wm. P. Douglas 
J. F. Roberts, 
Wallace Barnes, 
Messrs. T. O. Bullock, 
T. S. Cooper, 
J. B. Morris, 
F. *L Prentiss, 
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A. C. Cooley, 
Lawrence Timpson, 
A. L. Thorne, 
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W. W. Darrah, 
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Several others have expressed an Intention to con 
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only such animals as may be debarred fr >m the regu¬ 
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