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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 20 
A “Phospliate” On Potatoes. 
C. S. Rice, Lewis County, N. Y.—The 
phosphate applied to the land on which 
L he Carman potatoes were raised as re¬ 
ported in The R. N.-Y. of September 29, 
was Bowker’s Hill and Drill phosphate, 
said to contain two to three per cent of 
nitrogen ; eight to ten per cent soluble 
and available phosphoric acid, and actual 
potash two to three per cent. The term 
phosphate is used by farmers when 
speaking of nearly all the commercial 
fertilizers sold in this vicinity. It is no 
more indefinite than the term manure as 
applied to that farm product. One 
sample of manure may contain two or 
three times as much plant food as some 
other sample, but both are properly 
called manure. A ptiosphate, as the 
term is used among farmers, may be 
a superphosphate and may contain 820 
or 840 in value of plant food to the ton ; 
but it is bought and sold under the gen¬ 
eral name of phosphate. 
If a large crop has been raised in this 
year of long-continued drought, it may 
be of interest to know whether barnyard 
manure or phosphate was used in its pro¬ 
duction. In my garden, a fine crop of 
onions, cabbage and sugar beets was 
raised on ground fertilized with phos¬ 
phate the same in amount and quality as 
applied where the potatoes were grown. 
The beets yielded at the rate of 37 tons 
to the acre. The foliage remained green 
until they were harvested. An old bed 
of strawberry plants kept stri ;tly in hills 
on account of a troublesome weed, had 
the foliage all removed soon after the 
picking season was over, and received a 
good application of phosphate and un¬ 
leached ashes well worked into the soil. 
The surface has been kept mellow. The 
plants are vigorous, and no one would 
suppose that they had made their growth 
during a severe drought. Sweet corn, 
nearby, manured with stable manure 
early in spring, suffered for want of rain, 
and gave only two-thirds of a full crop. 
Results indicate that phosphate was the 
better fertilizer this season. Of course 
The Rubal is right when it holds that 
the grade of fertilizer used should be in¬ 
dicated as well as the amount, in all re¬ 
ports of large yields of farm crops. In 
the case above stated, ashes had been 
applied in previous years, and no large 
amount of potash was required. The 
soil was already in good condition. 
Destroying Stumps. 
E G P., Doveb, Del. —Make the hole 
under the stump with an iron bar. In¬ 
sert a small stick of dynamite with fuse 
attached, tamp properly, touch a match, 
and git. Result, stump instantaneously 
blown out—body and roots, and gener¬ 
ally split fine enough to be readily 
hauled. Expense need not exceed 10 
cents per stump including cost of mater¬ 
ial and wages of operators. It is dan¬ 
gerous business for amateurs, however. 
Better emp.oy experts at reasonable 
wages, which may readily be done. 
The Next Wheat Crop. 
Fred Grundy, Illinois. —This is one 
of the great winter wheat sections of the 
United States, and the crop harvested 
this year was excellent in both quantity 
and quality. By reason of the low prices 
prevailing, most of it was thrashed from 
the shock, and sold at once for 40 to 48 
cents per bushel. A few farmers, how¬ 
ever, are holding all, or part of the crop 
for higher prices, or for feed. If corn 
goes higher than wheat, the latter will 
be fed to stock and most of the former 
sold. One would naturally think that the 
low prices, and somewhat gloomy pros¬ 
pects, would deter many farmers from 
seeding much land to this crop this fall, 
but such is not the case. Seed is cheap, 
and they are sowing a laiger area, even, 
than last year. The chief reason for 
this is that winter wheat is a crop that is 
comparatively easy to grow. The prep¬ 
aration of the ground and seeding come 
at a season when the f trmer is not rushed 
with work, and it ha sheen amply demon¬ 
strated that if the soil is thoroughly well 
prepared, and the seeding done at the 
right time, the crop is about as certain as 
any that can be grown. After seeding, 
the crop requires no further attention 
until harvest time the following June. 
Then, with the improved implements we 
now have, harvetting is quickly and 
easily done, and in a week or so the 
powerful steam thrasher, with its auto¬ 
matic straw-stacker and grain-weigher 
comes, sacks are hired for half a cent a 
day each, the* grain is knocked out at a 
tremendous rate, hauled right to market, 
and in a few hours the farmer has the 
money in his pocket, and all that remains 
to tell the tale is a straw stack 20 to 30 
feet high and a hire stubble field. 
A neighboring farmer gave me, in a 
few words, his reasons for sowing a 
larger area than usual this fall. “Wheat 
is considerably below par,” said he, “and 
1 had about decided to sow only 20 acres, 
but the soil was in such fine condition 
for working that I finally concluded to 
put in 60 acres. You see the facts are 
just these : After the crop is sown, it is 
out of the way till harvest time. It is 
the best crop we have with which to sow 
clover and Timothy; if it is thrashed 
from the shock, there is very little hard 
labor connected with it; a man with two 
good teams and a hand can manage 60 
acres about as well as 25, so in it goes!” 
Hundreds more think as he does. 
Campbell’s Early. —The following 
abstracts are taken from a letter written 
by our respected friend. Pres. Geo. W. 
Campbell, of Delaware, Ohio : 
“ I have great pleasure in saying to 
you that the favorable opinion you ex¬ 
pressed last year, has been more than 
confirmed by all who have tested my 
grape, after another season’s fruiting. 
. . . Mr. W. N. Irwin, the Assistant 
United States Pomologist, wrote me as 
follows, September 12: 
“ ‘ I must say that every one who saw 
and had an opportunity to test its fine 
qualities, was delighted with it. . . . 
I really believe you have the grape that 
has more good points than any other 
now in cultivation.’ 
“Prof. Heiges, Pomologist of the De¬ 
partment, wrote: 
“ ‘ Your cluster of Campbell’s Early 
was received September 5. The cluster 
was undoubtedly a very fine one, re¬ 
minding me of a small cluster of Black 
Hamburgh, as grown under glass. We 
found some of the berries to be an inch 
in diameter; the quality is remarkably 
fine, pulp sweet to the center, with 
small seeds, easily detached from the 
pulp; the skin thin, yet remarkably 
tenacious, making it a very valuable 
shipper. Color a beautiful black, with 
heavy bloom.’ 
“ Hon. Isidor Bush, senior of the firm 
of Bush & Son & Meissner, St. Louis, 
Mo., in acknowledging the sample of the 
Iir writing to »(lTertlBerB please always mentlos 
PHB RtJBAL. 
Are You Prepared 
For the approach of cooler weather ? 
Is your appetite vigorous, your diges¬ 
tion good, your blood pure ? You need 
Sarsa¬ 
parilla 
grape sent for testing September 19, 
wrote: 
“ ‘ Were I to write ever so much, I 
could not say half that I think and feel 
about your grape. It is the grape of the 
future, excelling all American grapes in 
its ensemble of qualities, and equal in 
beauty to the Black Hamburgh.’ 
“ I have not re-written the above for 
publication, but to show you how per¬ 
fectly your estimate of my grape has 
been confirmed by those quite competent 
to judge. When I sent it to you last 
year I was not certain that I should ever 
venture to introduce it. 
“ Campbell’s Early ripened this season 
about 10 days earlier than last year ; it 
began to show color the latter part of 
July, was fully colored August 5 to 10, 
and was apparently ripe August 15. 
Owing to a dry summer most varieties 
were much smaller than usual, and 
ripened from a week to 10 days earlier.” 
On September 28, Mr. Campbell sent us 
two bunches of the grape ; one of which 
had been three times packed and re¬ 
packed, traveled about 300 miles, and 
been on exhibition subjected to the ex¬ 
amination of a committee, and the hard- 
ling of scores of interested visitors. 
They were received, one in perfect con¬ 
dition ; the berries of the other had 
fallen from the stems. The following 
notes were made as the result of a care¬ 
ful comparison with Concords : Skin 
firmer and more tenacious ; more “ fat” 
under the skin : flash more meaty, more 
tender, less pulp ; scarcely a trace of 
acidity in the flesh about the seeds 
sweeter, richer. A decidedly better grape 
in every way. Mr. Campbell, last spring, 
sent an imnerfectly rooted cutting to the 
Rural Grounds. It was his only avail¬ 
able plant. He hoped, but scarcely ex¬ 
pected it to live. The plant lived and is 
now about one foot high. 
Mr. Campbell’s entire stock has been 
placed in the competent hands of Geo. S. 
{Contirmed on next page.) 
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
to defend you from 
the attacks of fevers, 
pneumonia and tie 
grip, by building you up and making you 
strong and robust. It makes good health 
certain and permanent. 
Hood’s Fills care liver Ills, constipation. 
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of low wheels to fit 
your wagon for hauling 
grain, fodder, manure, 
hogs, Ac. No resetting of 
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Weak Digestion 
strange as it may seem, is caused 
from a lack of that which is 
never exactly digested— fat. The 
greatest fact in connection with 
Scott's Emulsion 
appears at this point—it partly 
digested fat —and the most 
weakened digestion is quickly 
strengthened by it. 
The only possible help 
in Cotisuinpiion is the 
arrest of waste and re¬ 
newal of new., healthy 
tissue. Scott's Emulsion 
has done wonders hi Con¬ 
sumption just this way. 
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