Farmers' Club Discussion. 
( Continued .) 
That “ Clover Seed Poetry.” 
J. J. P., Warsaw, Ky.—T he number 
of The Rural for February 28 was re¬ 
ceived yesterday, and to-day while in 
the presence of a crowd of farmers one 
old “know-it-all” farmer while on the 
fertilizer question, remarked that he had 
intended to sow a quantity of clover seed 
this spring', but nobody would catch him 
paying $10 a bushel for it. A thrifty 
farmer spoke up and said that he had 
just bought $80 worth and thought it 
money well spent even at the high price. 
I pulled out The Rural and read, 
“ Clover seed is awful high, it’s ’most a 
cent a seed.” T thought it so appropriate 
to the occasion that I could not help 
reading it. I believe that farmers as a 
rule are more ignorant as a class in 
regard to their own business than any 
other on the face of the earth. Why, I 
don’t believe there is a single farmer in 
this county who can tell the three prin¬ 
cipal ingredients of plant food, and lots 
of them are worth from $25,000 to $50,000. 
They don’t know the ABC, of agricul¬ 
ture. How many subscribers are there 
for The Rural in the county ? I doubt 
if there is one. My own business is that 
of growing fruit of various kinds, and 
what little I have learned through hor¬ 
ticultural papers and rural books has 
caused me to thirst for more. I believe 
it would do me good to attend the short 
course in agriculture at Cornell, and I 
think of doing so next winter. In regard 
to strawberries, I have tested about 60 
varieties, and Bubach No. 5 stands at 
the head with Parker Earle as a fertilizer. 
I have ordered a dozen Timbrell this 
spring. 
When To Poison The Cnrcnllo. 
C. C. P., Pultenet, N. Y.—Let G. R. 
W., page 127, wait until he can see the 
bite or puncture made by the curculio, 
and then spray and wait a week or 10 
days and spray again, doing so three or 
four times in all unless it should be rainy, 
when he will have to use his own judg¬ 
ment. All the work done and the poison 
used before the plum is stung are thrown 
away. One may paint a plum with Paris- 
green until it is thickly coated, and the 
little Turk will drive his gouge through 
the poison and deposit the egg in the 
flesh of the plum. The egg hatches and 
the worm works his way to the center of 
the plum out of the way of the poison ; 
hence one should wait until the gouge is 
made, fill this with an insecticide and 
the first bite the worm takes will be his 
last. I have worked four years on this 
line and do not believe a wormy plum 
can be found among a hundred in my 
orchard. 
Best Winter Layers. 
Harry Carew, Ohio. —In The R. N.-Y. 
for February 11, a subscriber asks which 
are the better fowls, White or Brown 
Leghorns, and then asks which is the 
best of four, White Leghorns, Partridge 
Cochins, Plymouth Rocks or Langshans. 
The editor has given his opinion, and I 
think it a pretty sound one, but as he, 
like all good editors, does not arrogate 
to himself all wisdom, and is very nice 
abeut allowing people who disagree with 
him to have their say on any matter, I 
thought that my experience might, pos¬ 
sibly, be something added to the general 
fund which belongs to all who read The 
R. N.-Y. 
Twelve years ago I began to breed 
Brown Leghorns, and I am breeding 
them yet, because I want to keep the 
very best hens I can get for eggs. I hope 
no one will think that I do not know 
anything about any other kind, for 
during the time I have been breeding 
Brown Leghorns I have tried about all 
the breeds in the Standard, hoping to 
find something that was superior to them, 
but at this writing I have not found any¬ 
thing that leads me to change breeds. I 
tried White Leghorns, but they did not 
seem to be as hardy as the Browns,'and 
a whole summer’s test developed the fact 
that they were not as good layers. Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Langshans, 
Cochins and Hamburgs have come and 
gone in my yards without leaving behind 
any regretful memories, except in those 
instances where the feed bill was largely 
in excess of the income from eggs. All 
this time the Brown Leghorns have been 
making money for me in a very gratify¬ 
ing way. I have no sentiment in this 
thing, for I am free to confess that the 
Leghorn hen is altogether too fond of all 
sorts of garden truck, and is too free in 
the use of her wings, and if she is not 
well fed she takes the liberty of hunting 
food everywhere, instead of sitting down 
in despair as some of the heavier breeds 
There is a certain uncertainty about v 
some Sced 9 , but not about RAWSON’S; 
they are always certain to grow. We test 
them ourselves; we know their worth, 
and can guarantee them second to 
none. Our extensive trial grounds, in 
addition to the ten acres under glass, 
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for testing the germinating quality of 
the Seed, but of seeingthem come to ma¬ 
turity. Our illustrated Catalogue for 1893 
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I am going to admit another thing : A 
flock of Plymouth Rocks will lay more 
eggs in winter than one of Brown Leg¬ 
horns if neither is half cared for, but if 
both receive the best possible care on 
any farm the Leghorns will do the best 
work in filling the egg basket. Fowls 
of neither breed will pay for the feed 
they consume if allowed to roost in the 
apple trees, but under such circumstances 
the Plymouth Rocks will come out ahead. 
To the readers of this paper this is a 
matter of no importance, for all of them 
give their fowls good care. It’s the 
“other fellow” who neglects his flocks 
and swears that chiekens don’t pay. 
I have 35 Leghorns, mostly pullets, and 
none over two years old. They are kept 
in a house made of six-inch oak boards, 
lined throughout with paper. This has 
been practically frost-proof this winter, 
and none of my hens have been frozen 
at all. They are fed on corn, wheat 
screenings and buttermilk from the 
creamery, and have access to clover hay 
that was cut green and nicely cured. 
Sometimes they are fed a few pounds of 
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