LEAVINGS. trifling trouble in comparison with a con 
Miss Canada Talks Back. —Reading flagration in the barn. o. k. lane. 
the lines “ Uncle Sam to Miss Canada,” 
set me thinking, and now 1 add a botani¬ 
cal invitation on behalf of Miss Can¬ 
ada, to The Rttral’s E. S. Carman, for 
no one deserves more than he the 
most hearty thanks for aT the labor, 
deep thought and untiring perseverance 
in giving to us new and valuable cereals, 
vegetables, fruits and flowers : 
Come and see us at our cotl 
Come, I pray, deny us not. 
Here each flow’ret richly blows. 
Some In clusters, some In rows. 
Subtle odors fill the air; 
Fresh and vivid colors glare. 
Would you search with curious eye ? 
Here, at hand, the objects lie: 
From the first (Monandiia) class 
To Cryptogamla with your glass 
You may. with botanic skill, 
Scrutinize, and take your fill, 
Con amort , when you will. 
Here 1 count each stamen, crown’d 
With anthera, which around 
Pollen scatter when the sun 
(Oh, what rules thro’ Nature run !) 
Has from flaming Leo sent 
Heat to burst the tegument, 
While the pistils (female part) 
With unerring, wondrous art, 
To dissolve and catch the dust, 
Moisture on each stigma thrust. 
This solution, well 'tls known, 
Thro’ the tubular style flows down; 
Where It then, we likewise know, 
Impregnates the germ below, 
Into fruit the gerinen swells; 
Fruits yield seeds In various cells, 
Seeds, by hand as well as winds, 
Propagate their sev’ral kinds. 
•* Florida Two-cent Pork. —As specu¬ 
lators seem determined to make bacon 
eaters pay more tban they ought, the 
best and cheapest plans for hog raising 
should be adopted by farmers to avoid 
helping the gamblers. For myself I shall 
try this plan; I have four lots of three 
acres each: on March 10, I’ll cut off rye 
and put in cow peas, and in June I’ll turn 
hogs in; in the second lot I’ll put in peas 
and on May 1, turn in hogs. Every two 
months I’ll sow peas. After this year I 
shall have cassava, keeping till April in 
the ground and yielding three times as 
much as sweet potatoes. It is good for all 
kinds of stock and poultry. I plant arti¬ 
chokes, pindars, chufas, pumpkins, ruta¬ 
bagas, German clover and mulberries, all 
to feed hogs from January to June. From 
June to July they’ll get cow peas. In Flor¬ 
ida two or three crops of peas can be raised 
on the same land. Pork here is made 
chiefly from pindars (peanuts) and chu¬ 
fas, and the expense is two cents per 
pound. By the above additions hogs 
can be fattened all the year round, in¬ 
stead of being rambling razorbacks— 
squeezing through fences. c. m. c. 
Hampton, Fla. 
''jpHE increased yearly sales of 
Bradleys Fertilizers 
for the past thirty-two years, A 
since 1861, are illustrated 
by these triangles. The . 
sales of 18(>1 being rep- ^A 
resented by the smaller 
triangle. The larger 
triangle represents 
the sales of LSD'*. 
Come and see us at our cot 
Come, I pray, deny us not. 
Delaware. 
MISS CANADA, 
Help for that Persimmon Tree.—I do wno a y ear a £f° were clamoring fo 
not agree with the answer to F. C. in a legislation to benefit farmers, l 
late Rural regarding his worthless per- Government loaning them money a 
simmon tree. While it is true, as we are or no Merest or security. Ther 
told, that the Japanese persimmons are more reason why the government 
not hardy, yet we have native varieties interfere because an over-produc 
that, though not so large as the Japanese, s ^ ver causes its price to fall be! 
are fully as good in quality, and of these ^° 8 *' °t P ro luction, than there is 
F. C. can procure grafts to work his tree interference with the productio 
over with. I have a great many such sa * e wheat, corn, cattle or ] 
trees that bear excellent fruit which sells Should bullion go up to double its j 
readily in the market at good prices. At re- value, as hogs have doubled valu 
quest Mr. H. E. Van Deman, Pomologist, y ear > how would it affect free coi 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, ^hy should not the Governmen 
D. C., will send scions of some of the revenue from its stamp on silver a 
best native varieties. I find that bark as on P a P er ? If the governmei 
grafting is the only successful method. m ake a good time for the produ 
To do this, secure the scions and keep s ii yer > let it pass it around to 
them dormant until the bark will peel who produce wheat or iron and all 
on the stock; then cut the stocks or productions. 1 hose that are enga 
branches off square, slit down one side, s ’lver production knew what go’ 
make a sloping cut in the scion as in t ^ ie va * ue °f the industry whei 
whip or splice grafting, and push the engaged in it, as did those enga; 
graft down between the bark and wood °^ ier industries when they star 
as in budding ; tie and wax as in ordin- theirs. Anything that would unb 
ary grafting. I have found this method our m oney system would be an inj 
of grafting excellent for everything ex- many, and ought not to be 
eept grapes. e. a. r. force by the government even the 
benefited the few. o. e. fre 
Fire ! Fire ! ! —I went to paint a roof Iowa, 
for a farmer who said: “I will get a 
lamp and go up with you, otherwise you Long Island Fruit Notes. —Th 
can’t find the scuttle hole.” There were Elseagnuslongipes bore fruit at my 
three painters with paint, one with a last summer, and it answered the d< 
bucket of ice-water to drink and the tion given of it by Joseph Meehan, 
farmer with his lamp, which “in the its time of ripening, size and fo 
shuffle ” of opening the scuttle, came in growth. Probably to those who 
contact with the heavy masses of cob- plenty of better fruit, none of this 
webs, and these instantly ignited. The of trees will be of much value, b 
blaze ran along the rafters faster than a ornament and affording a pleasii 
squirrel. We dashed the ice-water on it. riety, they are entitled to a place 
No use ; and we were nearly smothered have had in our garden a dozen c 
with smoke before more water could be Triumph gooseberry plants about 
brought up three flights of stairs. The more years, and they have been er 
house and its contents burnt as quickly free from mildew, and been reguh 
if they had been coal-oiled. Here is prolific bearers, of excellent flavo 
where the defective flue or chimney spark superior to the much-lauded Ind 
puts in its first work. The lamp had not and larger and more prolific tha 
exploded; the heat of its chimney started Downing. Why they are not mor 
the cobwebs which burnt like tissue tivated and better known I cannot x 
paper. Cobwebs, like silk or cotton fiber, stand. Our Botan or Abundance 
are almost explosive near sparks. Then trees have borne two years, and w« 
the lint from the carpet sweepings great hopes that now we can h 
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^“We manufacture fertilizers- of all 
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the lowest prices are absolutely un¬ 
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