1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
835 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
Continued. 
eluding the prosecution of violators of 
the laws for the protection of consumers 
of dairy products. With such a depart¬ 
ment having the appointment of the dep¬ 
uties and detectives, we would he pretty 
sure of having officers selected for their 
fitness, and retained only because effi¬ 
cient. Such a department would cost no 
more than the present, and I am very 
sure it would be much more satisfactory 
to the people. It would have a further 
tendency to strengthen and build up the 
county agricultural societies. Why not 
work on this line ? 
Effect of Heavy Manuring:. 
E. S. F., Hamburg. —Some of The R. 
N.-Y.’s correspondents question whether 
five loads of manure a year would be bet¬ 
ter for five consecutive years than 25 loads 
for one year. In the spring of 1891 I 
drew 50 cart-body loads without side¬ 
boards on one acre of land so poor and 
gravelly that it would not cut 10 hun¬ 
dredweight of daisies. I planted it with 
corn and pumpkins. I husked 75 bushels 
of corn and had 2% tons of pumpkins 
from that acre, and that in a very dry 
season. In the spring of 1892, I carted 
on 40 loads of horse and pig manure, and 
planted with potatoes, using five bags of 
Stockbridge potato fertilizer. Two very 
hot weeks in July hurt the crop so that 
I got only 150 bushels of marketable 
potatoes. I then plowed tve piece and 
sowed one bushel of rye and one 
bushel of Timothy seed. The rye was 
fed down in the fall very close, but 
in July of this year I had to mow it, 
as it was too heavy to work a grain 
cradle. I have just had the rye thrashed, 
and it cleaned 2G bushels. I pressed the 
straw, which weighed 2 tons and 300 
pounds, and now I am expecting a heavy 
crop of hay next summer. Another ques¬ 
tion was : “ Can wild cherry be grafted 
with plum ? ” I have grafted wild cher¬ 
ries with plums for three years, and my 
experience has been that the grafts would 
sprout and grow until from 12 to 15 
inches in length, but for some reason I 
never bad one of ti e grafts live the sum¬ 
mer thiough, but have had them grow 
very thriftily until July. 
Why Chnrn So Long: ? 
H. G. H., Glens Falls, N. Y.—Churn¬ 
ing, at Ihe best, is business. For that 
reason dairymen whose butter doesn't 
come in a reasonable length of time 
would better take chances on spoiling a 
few batches of cream in experiment. I 
noticed in a recent R. N.-Y. that there 
was a case of this trouble, and that but¬ 
ter makers were invited to “ come to the 
rescue.” I venture the opinion that the 
cream in this instance was not sufficiently 
ripened and was also too cold. 
I make butter the year ’round from 25 
Jersey cows, for a special trade, and have 
had many things to learn. I use the 
deep-setting, submerged system, using 
ice when needed. I skim at 12 and 24 
hours. Keep the cream in one end of 
the creamer until enough is collected for 
churning, usually 15 gallons. At this 
time of year trouble began, and I had to 
churn from one to three hours before the 
butter appeared. Iu several instances, 
after all-day twists, I gave it up. I use 
the barrel end-over-end churn. As the 
result of experiment, I now, at this sea¬ 
son, warm the cream, the day before 
churning, to 70 degrees, and set it in a 
warm room, adding sufficient buttermilk 
as a starter to make it of the consistency 
of molasses at the end of 24 hours, when 
it should be churned; delay will en¬ 
danger the flavor of the butter. 
For churning, the cream must be 
warmer from cows long in rrilk than 
from fresh ones. I use five-gallon pails, 
and heat in warm water on the kitchen 
stove. The churning to-day came in 25 
minutes, the one before in 20 minutes. I 
heated the cream for the churn to 72 
degrees, from old milk mostly. After the 
butter is nicely separated, so that the 
buttermilk will run off clean, I draw off 
all possible, and then add cold water, 
letting the butter stand a short time to 
cool and harden. I use several waters, 
being careful not to churn too much, 
thus breaking the granules. 
I use a wooden shovel or ladle and give 
time to harden. I salt in the churn to 
the taste of the customer. The proper 
amount may be guessed at near enough 
by measuring the cream instead of weigh¬ 
ing the butter. After the butter has 
stood a half hour, or thereabouts, to dis¬ 
solve the salt, I shovel it into the worker, 
being careful to stop working when it is 
ready for the printer or jar. I)o cot spoil 
the grain by overworking. This butter, 
thus handled, is selling as fast as I can 
furnish it at 35 cents per pound. 
We want an early—very early—potato 
that is smooth and of fine form, that 
yields a minimum of Small tubers, and is, 
withal, an abundant yielder. 
The variegatedhop tree (Rtelea trifoli- 
ata aurea) stands more frost in fall, Mr. 
Trumpy says in Gardening, than any 
other golden variegated tree in the 
Kissena Nursery; after a sharp frost 
when other trees will have lost their 
foliage in one night, its leaves will re¬ 
main bright for several days. 
Many people believe that borax will 
kill or drive away roaches, Croton bugs 
and other insects that seem to prefer 
sinks and other damp places in the house. 
We were informed a few days since by a 
prosperous New York druggist that this is 
a mere fad. “Why,” said be, “this store 
a few years ago was overrun with roaches 
and Croton bugs, and one of their favor¬ 
ite resorts was the borax drawer, where 
they congregated in great numbers thriv¬ 
ing and fattening upon the borax. We 
sell immense quantities, he continued, 
“to people whose houses are infested 
with such insects, a matter of constant 
wonderment, knowing that it has no 
virtue whatever as an insecticide.” 
Have any of our readers positive infor¬ 
mation that may throw light on the 
question? 
not become more common in this coun¬ 
try.” 
“A shingle roof which had been put on 
53 years ago, was lately removed from a 
house in Nashville, Tenn. Four kinds 
of shingles were used indiscriminately— 
poplar, oak, chestnut and walnut. The 
poplar shingles led in soundness, fol¬ 
lowed in order by the chestnut, walnut 
and oak. The chestnut had simply worn 
away, the walnut had a dry rot on the 
un ler side of the exposed portion, and 
the oak had rotted. The shingles were 
rived and hand-drawn. It is not prob¬ 
able that a modern sawed shingle of 
either wood would have lasted half as 
long. Besides cutting across the open 
ducts of the wood, and affording inlets 
for moisture, the saw leaves a fuzz on the 
surface of the shingle which causes it to 
dry off more slowly after a rain.” 
Stockman : “ Don’t try to please your 
wife. Don’t appreciate one thing she 
does. Don’t ever plan your work so as 
to be able to take her to any entertain¬ 
ment. Don’t help care for the children; 
that is what you got her for. Don’t fail 
to ask your wife if she wants you to do 
all the housework when she asks you to 
put some wood in the stove. Don’t neg¬ 
lect asking what she has done with all 
the egg and butter money: for it will 
more than supply the table, help pay the 
hired man, get the children’s books and 
clothes, etc. Don’t wonder that your 
food has a peculiar flavor; for it is 
seasoned with blasted hopes, sighs of 
disappointment, etc. Don’t be surprised 
to read that the majority of insane women 
are farmers’ wives.” 
London Gardeners’ Chronicle : “ Mr. 
Andrew Carnegie sends a pamphlet on 
the subject of the ‘ Reunion of Britain 
and America ’ We cannot enter into the 
political or commercial reasons which 
might be cited for or against the pro¬ 
posal, but looking at the matter from a 
scientific and literary point of view, we 
have not, and do not, consider an Ameri¬ 
can a foreigner. We claim a joint in¬ 
terest in Asa Gray and Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, for instance, and are startled 
when we hear them spoken of as for¬ 
eigners.” 
Nothing in efficiency and freedom from 
all objections to its use in The Rural’s 
opinion, equals Buhach or a good article 
of pyrethrum powder by whatever name 
it may be called, as an insecticide for 
house insects of every kind. True, it 
does not kill them; but it drives them 
out of their hiding places, and finally 
stupefies them lor so long a time that 
they may easily be gathered up and des¬ 
troyed during the period of insensibility. 
One of the experiments contemplated 
for next year at the Rural Grounds is 
this : 
Lay out five equal-sized plots of poor 
soil, the first plot to receive no fertilizer, 
the second potash, the third phosphate, 
the fourth potash and phosphate, and 
the fifth potash, phosphate and nitrogen. 
All are then to be down to the annual 
clover, Trifolium incarnatum. The main 
question to be answered is this : Will any 
of the plots yield as heavily as the one 
receiving nitrogen? With potash and 
phosphoric acid supplied to plot No 4 
will the nodules supply the needed nitro¬ 
gen so that the yield will equal that of 
No. 5? 
Word for Word. 
-Prof. Massey in Practical Farmer: 
“ No college can endow a man with 
brains, and the fact that a young man 
has spent a year or two at a good agri¬ 
cultural college, and has gained nothing 
of value, is usually no argument against 
the college, but an evidence of lack of 
ability, or industry, on the part of the 
student.” 
-Garden and Forest : “ The Oriental 
Spruce, so far as is possible to judge 
at this time, is one of the handsomest 
and most satisfactory of all the exotic 
conifers which have been brought into 
our gardens; it is surprising that it has 
Meehan’s Monthly : “ In orange cul¬ 
ture in Florida, it is stated that girdling, 
as of the grape vine, is becoming a part 
of general practice, and perhaps this may 
account for the enormously large in¬ 
crease of sour instead of sweet oranges, 
which is being poured into northern 
markets from that State.” 
-Henry Stewart : “ The soil will ab¬ 
sorb even the odor of a skunk. And the 
sharp odor of manure consists of its most 
valuable element. The moral of this 
faet is, get the manure into the land as 
sooa as may be; it will do the most good 
there.” 
-Lowell : “ There is always work, 
and tools to work withal, for those who 
will.” 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
Ths Rural Nkw-Yorkeh. 
IT COVERS A GOOD DEAL OF GROUND 
—Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery. 
And when you hear 
that it cures so many 
diseases, perhaps you 
think “it’s too good 
to be true.” 
But it’s only rea¬ 
sonable. As a blood- 
cleanser, flesh-builder, 
and strength-restorer, 
nothing like the “ Dis¬ 
covery ” is known to medical science. The 
diseases that it cures come from a torpid 
liver, or from impure blood. For everything 
of this nature, it is the only guaranteed 
remedy. In Dyspepsia, Biliousness; all 
Bronchial, Throat and Lung affections; ev¬ 
ery form of Scrofula, even Consumption (or 
Lung-scrofula) in its earlier stages, and in 
the most stubborn Skin and Scalp Diseases 
—if it ever fails to benefit or cure, you have 
your money back. 
.The worse your Catarrh, the more you 
need Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Its 
proprietors offer $500 cash for a case of 
Catarrh in the Head which they cannot 
cure. 
THE OLD RHYME SAYS: 
The North wind doth blow, 
And we shall have snow. 
But yon can't tell just how soon It will come. 
Be ready for It by ouying your Cutters now. 
Snow Always Comes in Winter. 
Be Wise and Buy Cutters early. 
The atnve la a cut of our No. SO Swell made 
In nigh grades or.ly. Dimensions and Trimmings 
in. at luxurious. Special Design of our own. Send 
for our Illustrated Catalogue, describing our No. SO, 
and Portlands, Russians, amt many other styles. 
CH1LDKKNM SLEDS ALSO. 
KALAMAZOO CUTTER and SLtIGH CO. 
KALAMAZOO, MICH. 
Please mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
The beginning and cud of the 
Horse Blanket question is 6/^, 
That mark lias the same signifi¬ 
cance on a horse blanket that the 
seal of the government has on a 
gold certificate—it’s an absolute 
guarantee of value. _ 5/^ Horse 
Blankets are made with a special 
view to strength, durability, and 
comfort for the horse. Once you 
get a S/a Blanket you will not 
need another for many years; per¬ 
haps not for a life time—your 
horse will last longer, too. Ask 
the dealer for a 5 /a and be sure 
the trade mark is in plain sight. 
Made only by 
WM. AYRES & SONS, Philadelphia. 
you CAN SELL 
SAP PAIL COVERS. 
We make a metal one cheap. 
Curtis Steel Roofing Co., 
57 SIGLER STREET, NILES, O. 
Fertilizers Unprofitable 
Very often on account of a deficiency of Potash. 
Farmers, avoid these and secure paying yields by 
selecting brands containing high percentages of 
Potash, or apply Potash Salts, such as Muriate of 
Potash, Sulphate of Potash and Kalnlt. For In¬ 
formation and pamphlet address 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., N. Y. City 
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GRINDER. 
Greatly Improved. 
SOLI) ON TRIAL. 
12 to 25 Bushels 
per hour 
of Ear Corn, dry or 
damp, and all small 
Crain, fine or coarse. 
ST A It MFG. CO., 
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