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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 
Graftlne Abundance Flnm • 
D. L. B., Nunda, N. Y.—Have any of 
Thb 11. N.-Y. readers had any experience 
in {grafting the Abundance plum on other 
plum stock ? I have tried it for two 
years, but out of over 40 scions set, only 
one grew. I commenced grafting when 
I was 14 years old, have followed it more 
or less ever since, and am now over three 
score years and ten. I have always con¬ 
sidered the plum one of the easiest fruits 
to graft, and have different kinds grow¬ 
ing, but the Abundance has beaten me. 
A Bug Trap. 
P. H., Stratford, Gown. —The follow¬ 
ing which I have found excellent for 
keeping borers from quince and apple 
trees may benefit some reader, and 
it is better than printers’ ink to pre¬ 
vent canker worms from crawling up 
trees : One quart bright, not white, var¬ 
nish, one-half gill sulphuric acid, one gill 
lard oil ; mix the acid and varnish first 
—it makes a thick paste, and the addition 
of the lard oil thins it. Apply it thor¬ 
oughly from one foot above to two inches 
below the surface of the soil around a 
tree. I believe it is a sure preventive. 
I apply it higher for v-or ms. It takes 
about six to eight months to dry and it 
never lets up on a victim. I have used 
it three years and never knew it to fail. 
Dishorning: Experience. 
J. S. W., Niagara County, N. Y.—I 
bad heard so much for and against dis¬ 
horning, that last fall I determined to 
know “ how it was myself so I cut the 
horns off a part of the cows put in for 
milking and fattening. The proper 
place for cutting is below the shell close 
down to the head. All cows’ heads are 
not alike, but if made close down to the 
head, the cut will be below any pith and 
very little blood will fiow. I doubt if 
the fiow of blood is any injury to the 
cow, but it looks bad; if one does not 
like to see it and will have a wide¬ 
mouthed bottle (a small fruit jar will do) 
in which is a strong solution of sulphate 
of iron (copperas) and by means of a swab 
on the end of a stick apply to the cut as 
soon as the horn is off, it will stop all 
bleeding instantly. A weak solution of 
muriate tincture of iron will accomplish 
the same thing. I consider it a barbarous 
practice to cut off a lot of cows’ horns 
and turn them out into the cold. Many 
will have cavities in the base of the horns 
as large as small eggs, and to put such 
out where the cold wind will strike them 
is inhuman. I would advise the use of 
some sort of plaster or covering for the 
wound—tar is good. A salve made of 
resin, three parts, and tallow two parts, 
is equally good, and this may be spread 
on old pieces of cloth or on soft leather. 
For dishorning, I prefer the clippers, 
as they do the work so much quicker, 
although 1 believe there will be no dif¬ 
ference in the healing of the cuts. Some 
of our cows’ heads suppurated a little, 
but I noticed that these had the larger 
cavities, and I attribute the suppuration 
to the granulations which were necessary 
to fill up these cavities. As for its being 
painful, I carefully watched the cows 
and there was not one that appeared to 
suffer any pain a moment after the end 
of the operation, but every one went to 
eating as soon as returned to her stall. 
What was more, they did not seem to 
know for some days that they had lost 
their horns, as they would stiike at the 
next cows just as fiercely as before dis¬ 
horning, and at first the next cow would 
dodge the same as before. But both 
animals soon learned that there was no 
weapon there to harm or to fear. The 
cows that were dishorned in my stables 
are doing much the best, and next win¬ 
ter every animal will be dishorned as 
soon as they come home. It will pay me 
and pay them, and then there is no 
danger of their attendants losing any 
eyes. 
Ifew Use For The R. N.-Y. 
“ Farmkr,” Milt.rrook, N. Y.—Your 
paper becomes more useful, as the days 
go by. I study it more. There is some¬ 
thing in it which invites reflection. 
This week, I had my maps at hand, 
looking up the places mentioned in the 
Farmers’ Club. I noted the analyses 
of fertilizers, etc., but did more; I 
looked up the places from which the 
correspondents wrote. You would be 
astonished to see how much 1 was in¬ 
formed, pleased, and set to thinking. 
Take one or two examples : There was a 
letter from “ Ten Mile Bottom.” I dis¬ 
covered the county and its position in 
Pennsylvania. I have been through 
there and have some idea of the lay of the 
land. But the question arose : How does 
it occur that a spoke factory has ashes 
for sale ? I know of another such factory 
in Chester County, Pa. You may rely 
upon it, some farmer in that county will 
go at once to it, to see if he can get ashes 
so cheap. There was a letter fr«m Salem 
County, N. J. That lies southwest of 
Philadelphia, pretty close to it. I asked 
the question : Why is this farmer buying 
manure from New York when Phila¬ 
delphia is so close at hand ? So you see 
I was set to thinking. I got some valu¬ 
able information about the place of 
every correspondent, by looking up the 
locality on the map. This has led me to 
a suggestion. It is true I have traveled 
some, and I want to suggest the pro¬ 
priety of farmers doing more of it. I 
wonder why a farmer does not set aside 
$50 each year for traveling expenses. 
Let him go off for a couple of weeks 
with his wife. Put up at a hotel, pay 
out the money willingly ; and go about 
some new locality to see the different 
conditions under which farmers live and 
work. It would do him a world of good. 
Or let him go to some large city—stay a 
week—visiting the worst and best parts 
of the town. Let him not visit friends, 
but pay his own way. Let him see how 
people are suffering from deserting the 
farms—how dreadfully every city is over¬ 
crowded. Let the farmer get out of the 
rut. He can do it. He is rich if he only 
knew it and believed it. His wife de¬ 
serves $50 spent this way. Then open a 
department where these farmers can tell 
what they have seen and how they felt. 
Vetches for Feed. 
.T. S. W., Lockport, N. Y.—When in 
England, I saw hundreds of acres of 
vetch growing and being fed off by sheep. 
It makes there a wonderful growth, and 
is accounted among the best of all foods 
for this purpose. But it was always fed 
as a green crop. Pens were made with 
movable hurdles, into which from 50 to 
100 lambs were placed, and these changed 
about the second or third day into new 
pens on the fresh feed, and about the 
same number of wethers being fitted 
for the block, were put into the pens 
from which the lambs had been removed. 
These, in turn, were followed by the 
breeding ewes, and when these went out 
there was not a vestige of the vetches 
IN writing to advertisers please always mention 
fHl BUKAL. 
Tired, Languid, Dull. 
The depressing effects of the warm weather are 
due to the weakened condition of the body and 
the Impoverished state ol the blood. Tht-y are 
quickly overcome by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which 
makes pure, rich, healthv blood. This Is why 
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Hoo(l’.s Hills cure Constipation. 25 cents, 
left, but the ground was covered with a 
fine coat of manure and was rich enough 
to grow almost any crop. 
Of course, if they were cut and re¬ 
moved from the land, not much would 
be left, as the roots do not develop a 
deep growth, I doubt whether we could 
cure them as a forage crop for winter 
use. I have great faith in the vetch for 
sowing in orchards, and shall try it this 
summer. I also saw there a winter vetch 
which was used for early feeding, and, 
if that will stand our winters, it will 
prove of great value for early feeding 
and soiling. 
Straw and Celery. 
S. E. H., Grkeley, Col. —Last fall we 
tried to blanch a portion of our celery 
with straw, doing it as nearly as possible 
as directed in The R. N.-Y. It was not 
a success. We thought it would be, so 
we chose the best growth of plants. The 
celery took on an exceedingly bitter 
taste—absorbed, we judged, from the 
straw. Possibly it was packed too closely. 
That banked in earth was sweet and nice. 
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