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BOILED DOWN AND SEASONED. 
One of the new things which W. H. 
Bowker saw at the late exhibition of the 
Royal Agricultural Society as the New 
England Farmer states, was a steam milk¬ 
ing machine which was shown in practical 
operation each day of the fair. It milks 
from ten to twelve cows at a time. The 
milk was drawn from the cows by suction, 
the operation of the engine being to ex¬ 
haust the air from the tubes, the receivers 
and the connections. The milk can be run 
at once into a separator operated by the 
same steam engine. 
The R. N. Y. will not present any ex¬ 
tended raspberry report this season for the 
reason that there is little to be said that is 
new. The Cuthb rt is the best late red— 
the Marlboro the best early red, though it 
does not succeed everywhere as does the 
Cuthbert. There is room for a better early 
red. Hansell is a feeble grower in most 
places and of indifferent quality. Ranco- 
cas is about the same. Turner is of fine 
quality and early, but too soft for market. 
Shaffer’s Colossal is the best purple berry. 
It is really of high quality though usually 
spoken of as too acid. It is acid, but not 
sour. We mean that it is rich in the real 
raspberry flavor. Golden Queen is simply 
a yellow Cuthbert. 
Among blacks, we commend Palmer, 
HU born and Lovett’s Early. 
The American Florist says: “John 
Lewis Cnilds’s libel suit against The 
Rural New-Yorker for $75,000 is now in 
full swing in the New York courts. The 
charges and answers are very voluminous 
and as Mr. C. is said to be thoroughly in 
earnest, a precedent will doubtless be es¬ 
tablished in the upper courts as to what a 
man may say in a catalogue and to what 
extent an editor may reflect on the mo¬ 
tives of the catalogue man.” Yes, let us 
hope that more than that will be estab¬ 
lished. We want to know whether bold¬ 
faced, conscienceless seedsmen, nursery¬ 
men and florists may steal millions of 
dollars from the public without being le¬ 
gally responsible to those they bamboozle. 
The question “ to what extent editors may 
reflect on the motives of the catalogue 
man” is of little moment. It would ap¬ 
pear that liberal advertisers need not fear 
any adverse criticism from most of the 
newspapers 1 The American farm press is 
too big-hearted to that class of people. 
The largest advertisement in the world 
is that of the Glasgow (Scotland) News, 
cut in the shape of flower beds on the side 
of a hill back of Ardenlee, Scotland. The 
words “ Glasgow News ” can be seen and 
plainly read at a distance of four miles; the 
length of each letter is 40 feet, the total 
length of the line 333 feet, and the area 
covered by the letters 14,845 feet. 
Mr. Erastus Wiman, in the July North 
American Review, gives reasons for tnlnk- 
ing that the farmer’s hard times are over, 
and his year of jubilee is at hand, when 
“ every farmer’s wife will be able to afford 
a silk dress; every farmer’s daughter will 
have an elaborate trousseau. From plows 
to pianos, from buggies to books, a ranch 
will include all articles for farm life, for 
which a new demand will be stimulated by 
a new ability to buy and to pay.”. 
The grounds of his hope for this mil- 
lenial condition, comments the Christian 
Union, are the facts that the population of 
the cities has grown 45 per cent, while the 
farming population has increased only 14 
per cent; that the arable lands in this coun¬ 
try are nearly all taken up; taat the bread¬ 
eating populations of Europe are also in¬ 
creasing more rapidly than the bread- 
producing populations; that for these 
reasons the demand for farm products will 
now begin to increase, and the supply to 
diminish; and that, as a consequence, “the 
possibility of prices remaining at a low ebb 
is past,” and “ the farmer, hereafter will 
realize a fair proflo upon his operations.” In 
this agricultural millennium, when prices 
of breadstuffs rise and arable lands are all 
taken up, what will be the condition of tne 
men and women who have hitherto de¬ 
pended on cbeap breadstuffs for preserva¬ 
tion from starvation? Mr. Wiman’s article 
does not indicate his answer to this 
question. 
If you want high quality in the black¬ 
berry, plant the Agawam. It is hardy too. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Dr. W. J. Beal, of the Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural College, sends us the following 
slip cut from a Rural New-Yorker of late 
date: 
Wm. Falconer tells the readers of the 
American Florist about the Mosquito- 
Cstcher Plant—Vtncetoxicum acumina¬ 
tum. This mosquito catcher is a really 
hardy, herbaceous perennial and well worth 
having for its beauty as a garden plant. It 
grows about 18 to 24 inches high and forms 
a good bushy clump of somewhat slender 
shoots that have opposite leaves and axil¬ 
lary loose clusters of starry white blossoms 
that are borue abundantly in May and 
June and scuttering all the summer. In 
tne center of the fljwers in the clefts of 
the corona is secreted a viscid juice which 
is peculiarly attractive to mosquitoes and 
flies, but woe be to the unwary ; whichever 
of them dips its proboscis into the alluring 
liquid never draws it out again, for it is 
held fast, and no amount of tugging and 
plunging and buzzing will free tne insect 
from its cruel captor. Mosquitoes often 
live for two days or more in tnis trap, but 
once caught they never escape. 
“ The above reminds me,” remarks Dr. 
Beal, “ that some years ago I collected a 
large number of flowers—bell shaped, pink 
and white flowers of Apocynum andro- 
ssemifollum, Dog’s-bane. I sent a lot to 
Dr. A. Gray. They had one, and often two 
mosquitoes held fast to each flower, much 
after the manner described by Mr. Falconer. 
In a few instances small greenish hymen- 
optera known as sweat bees were like¬ 
wise captured.”. 
ABSTRACIS. 
-Correspondent American Florist : 
“White Yuccas and Scarlet Cannas—A 
bank of Yucca fllamentosa in full bloom 
with a broad belt of scarlet flowering dwarf 
cannas beside it is a very striking sight, 
and one I had not thought of when I planted 
the cannas. It was a happy accident.” 
-N. Y. TRIBUNE: “The status of the 
Missouri Agricultural College, so-called, is 
indicated by the fact that it graduated two 
agricultural students at the recent com¬ 
mencement. At the same time there were 
seven graduated in medicine and 25 in law. 
This is the way one of the many institu¬ 
tions endowed at immense cost of public 
funds ‘ for education in agriculture and 
the mechanic arts’ lives up to its obliga¬ 
tions.” 
“A humane Brooklyn woman recently 
bought all the orioles in a bird store and 
set them free.” 
“ The sympathies of The Farmers’ Re¬ 
view are with the dog-destroying shepherd 
every time. Sheep raisers in a Western 
State have formed an 4 extermination so¬ 
ciety,’ to kill every cur fouud on the prem¬ 
ises of any member. The Orange County 
Farmer suggests the multiplication of such 
associations and adds, sensibly: ‘ A so¬ 
ciety to exterminate cats would also be a 
benefit if it executed its mission faithfully, 
as the birds would then have a chance for 
existence. One little wren is worth more 
than all the cats that ever existed.’ ” 
-N. Y. Herald : “ California’s grapes 
and pears and plums are luscious enough 
to make the very mouth of the Mississippi 
water, and her raisins—well, language falls 
us in the attempt to describe them.” 
“ Robbers, like the rest of us, are con¬ 
stantly devising new methods of turning 
an honest penny.” 
“ We’re never too old to unlearn.” 
“ The man who has to hoe his own row 
is foolish to befoul the soil with wild oats.” 
“ It’s always more agreeable to tell the 
truth about one’s neighbors than one’s 
self.” 
“ Balaam’s ass showed wisdom in speak¬ 
ing, but supplied a bad precedent to his 
successors.” 
BLACK SHEEP. 
“ There Is no flock, however watched and tended, 
But one black sheep is there; 
There is no poker game, howe’er defended, 
That's always on the square.” 
-N. Y. Tribune : “ Why,” queries a 
Farmers’ Alliance orator in Iowa, “ should 
a hog weighing 300 pounds be transported 
to Chicago for $1, while I, weighing 160 
pounds, have to pay $8 ? Am I not as good 
as a hog?” 
- Root's Gleanings : “ Those who suc¬ 
ceed report promptly ; those who fail gen¬ 
erally keep still.” 
-Cassell’s Magazine : “ A man of a 
philosophical temperament resembles a 
cucumber, for, although he may be com¬ 
pletely cut up, he remains cool.” 
-Spurgeon : “ Drudgery grows divine 
when the motive is pure.” 
-United States Experiment Station 
Record: “ Certain it is that one of the cry¬ 
ing needs of the experiment stations of the 
United States is for thoroughly trained in¬ 
vestigators.” 
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