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stalks with an ax. The crushed stalks 
were placed in a boiler, and water added 
and boiled so as to wash out the juice, 
which was then strained, clarified as 
well as I could do it and boiled 
down. My apparatus sprung a leak at 
a critical time, and as much as half the 
lot was lost, as nearly as I could tell. 
The rest made something over half a 
pint of syrup, remarkable for being in¬ 
tensely sweet, and the vilest tasting sub¬ 
stance that can be found. At least, this 
was the verdict of those who tried it. 
The dry pith of these stalks now seems 
to be entirely free from sweetness, and 
I would like to have some one who knows, 
and if any there be, explain where this sugar 
has gone. The stalks of this Evergreen 
corn. I think, lose more than those of the 
smaller varieties. 
Poor Luck with Government Seeds. 
H. C., McKean, Pa.—Last spring, I 
got some government seeds, with the 
request to report, etc., which I will do 
to The li. N.-Y. The first was spinach. 
This is a plant which, I understand, is 
for greens. It was little stuff, went to 
seed before it was six inches high, 
would have requix*ed a half acre to pro¬ 
duce a mess for a good sized family. The 
next were peas, White Sugar, edible 
pods. These did well, are an excellent 
variety, and were truly commendable. 
The third was a tomato, Livingston’s 
Early. We had all the tomato seed we 
wanted, but sowed some of this, and set 
out some of the plants. I think we had 
kinds that were preferable. The parsnip 
seed failed to germinate, with the excep¬ 
tion of a few plants ; the consequence is 
that we are without parsnips this win¬ 
ter. Lastly, turnips—Flat Whites. These 
were the worst stuff of the whole lot. I 
sowed a few in the garden ; the rest I 
mixed with a couple of papers that I 
bought at a country store from a reli¬ 
able seed house. The few that grew in 
the garden were the worst things I ever 
saw. From the two papers, costing eight 
cents, and the paper of government seed, 
I got 31 bushels. I could tell them apart, 
and 1 don’t think one-half bushel was 
from the goveimment seed. 1 was mad 
to think I had mixed the government 
seed with the other. I would rather have 
the eight cents’ worth that I got at the 
country store, than all the turnip seed 
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L. H. C., Alger, (). —On page 810, The 
It. N.-Y. asks its readers to name a bet¬ 
ter pear than the Anjou, and on page 731, 
it answers the question by naming Dana’s 
Ilovey. When I read the R. N.-Y.’s 
opinion of Dana’s Ilovey, I booked it for 
next spring's order for fruit trees, as I 
thought the Anjou was the finest pear 
of all of its season ; if The It. N.-Y. 
had found a better pear, I wanted it. 
What says The It. N.-Y. now? I have 130 
pear trees, and 25 of them are Anjou, and 
1 have been grafting Anjou in other 
trees that I thought were inferior to it. 
In regard to the oriental plums, 1 set 
four of the Abundance in the spring of 
1889 ; they are all dead but one. One 
died last winter, and 1 think they froze 
to death. The Abundance, Burbank and 
Satsuma, are all tender on my land, a 
black, loose clay, with a sticky clay sub¬ 
soil, well under-dx-ained. My Abundance 
plums have bloomed several times, but 
never set a plum. I think these plums 
will grow where peaches grow, but we 
can't grow peaches or Abundance plums. 
I have the Botan, Ogon and Simoni, that 
have gone through three winters all 
right, and seem to be perfectly hardy ? 
What can 1 do to check the growth of 
these plums, so that the wood will i-ipen? 
I fertilize my land, tx-ees and all, with 
stable manure and wood ashes. I grow 
small fruits in my pear and plum or- 
chai'd, and 1 use lots of fertilizer, as it 
doesn't cost anything bxxt the hauling. 
R. N.-Y.—We can only suggest the xise 
of less stable manure for a time. Use 
wood ashes alone this year. 
Where Does the Sugar Go ? 
G. S. P., Winslow. Me. —John Gould 
is quoted in the agricultural papers as 
saying that the fodder of yellow corn is 
preferred for the silo, because it is 
sweeter than that of sweet corn. This 
must be a mistake, or his sweet corn 
must be of a diffei-ent make up from 
ours. This fall, finding the pith of the 
heavy butts of the Stowell’s Evergx-een 
from an inch to an inch and a quarter in 
diameter, full of rich, sweet juice, I 
experimented a little. Taking two dozen 
ordinary stalks, equal to five or six hills, 
I removed the leaves, and crashed the 
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