We would like next spring to have our 
friends sow a few seeds of Teosinte— 
Euchloena luxurians—in rich soil, so that 
they may know of the wonderful lux¬ 
uriance, and beauty as well, of this 
tropical plant. An ounce of seed will 
cost but 20 cents, and half a dozen plants 
would suffice for experiment. All stock 
is greedily fond of it, and the main stems, 
as well as the broad leaves, remain suc¬ 
culent and tender until frost. As an orna¬ 
mental forage plant, it is well worthy 
of trial. We would ask our friends to cut 
back to the soil some of their plants— 
say, in August. The number of new 
shoots that will at once grow, and their 
luxuriance of growth, will surprise them. 
These plants become bushes of thrifty, 
corn-like leaves, while the stems, having 
short joints and being slender, are con¬ 
cealed by the ample foliage. It is stated 
that in various parts of the country, the 
crop is enormous. For instance, the 
average annual crop for three years at 
the Kansas Station, was over 23 tons of 
green forage per acre. It is said to be 
of special value as green food when other 
forage is dried up, and this we would 
say from our own experience. It is about 
15 years ago that we first tried it, as The 
R. N.-Y. index of the time will show. 
We found that in long seasons, two crops 
may be cut; that it would not even begin 
the process of seed-forming, and that its 
thrifty growth was checked by early 
frosts. Were we to plant a larger area 
to Teosinte, we would make the drills 
four feet apart and thin the plants in 
the drill to about 18 inches. We are told 
from trials in the South, that the quality 
and quantity “ equal, if they do not ex¬ 
ceed, any other forage plant.” In its 
native country, South America, it is said 
to be perennial. 
One day last week, the writer asked 
Dr. Gunning—one of the best known 
physicians of New York—how he re¬ 
garded the new Anti-toxine remedy for 
diphtheria. He replied that he had no 
confidence in it whatever, and that he 
would by no means use it in his practice. 
“Have you no faith,” was asked, “in Pas¬ 
teur’s hydrophobia remedy?” “None,” 
he quickly replied. “The Pasteur rem¬ 
edy never cured a case of real hydro¬ 
phobia”. 
Mr. Ward D. Gunn, of Clintondale, 
N. Y., has a deal of confidence in his 
Alice grape. Under date of January 3, 
he writes : 
Some of the Alice grapes are yet in the cellar in 
good condition, and I intend to send you a small 
basket this week and another in February, by 
which you may be able to judge of their keeping 
qualities. Certainly, if I did not believe and 
know, that the variety has high market qualities, 
not possessed by any other variety now grown, it 
would be folly to introduce it at present, when 
the grape business is away down. But I have 
confidence in the staying qualities of the Alice, 
and when vineyardists recover from the present 
slump, they will choose the best market variety 
to plant—and the Alice will invite their attention. 
We received the basket mentioned on 
January 10. They were as fresh and 
sound as if plucked from the vine in 
October. The skin is thick and tough, 
which, we suppose, accounts for the long- 
keeping qualities. 
Saghalinor “Sacaline.”— Prof. J. L. 
Budd tells the Prairie Farmer that they 
(Iowa Agricultural College) introduced 
this tall-growing and really handsome 
member of the buckwheat family in 
1883, from Russia. It is a rank grower 
and is free from insects, fungi, and all 
troubles. He has not experimented with 
it as yet as a forage plant, or in using its 
succulent shoots as we do asparagus. 
He was told in Russia that it was equal 
in palatability, and superior to aspara¬ 
gus in nutritive value. It is having such 
a send-off that its value as a forage plant 
will doubtless be pretty well ascertained 
before the end of this year. What we 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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especially desire to know is wherein it 
is more valuable than the common Poly¬ 
gonum cuspidatum. 
Here is a novelty for you, to be intro¬ 
duced in 1896. “One dollar per seed 
would not buy a packet now.” Its name 
is Cupid. It is a sweet pea, the vines of 
which grow only five inches high. Dur¬ 
ing the blooming period, it is “a perfect 
mass of white, and the little plants re¬ 
main in full bloom two months longer 
than any other sweet pea.” Mr. C. C. 
Morse, of Santa Clara, Cal., is the origi¬ 
nator, and W. Atlee Burpee & Co., of 
Philadelphia, Pa., will be the intro¬ 
ducers . 
It appears that the fruit of “ Sing- 
Kira (Luffa acutangula) is eaten in 
China ” before it is mature, either sliced 
like cucumbers, or in soups, or cooked 
like the squash.”. 
Among first early smooth peas, try the 
Rural New-Yorker. Height, 2)4 feet. .. 
Mr. E. P. Powell, in the Prairie Farmer 
says that Rev. Henry Loomis, of Yoko- 
homa, Japan, writes him that he thinks 
he will be able to secure from Corea, or 
from northern Japan, varieties of the 
persimmon that will prove hardy in our 
Northern States. He has placed stock in 
the hands of Messrs. Parsons, of Long 
Island, to be worked up and tested, and, 
if it prove valuable, to be introduced to 
the American public. 
Experiments carried on by the Ohio 
Station during from four to six seasons, 
seem to show that the phosphoric acid of 
either basic slag or acid Carolina rock is 
decidedly more valuable than the phos¬ 
phoric acid of dissolved boneblack. 
DIRECT. 
-Prof. Morrow : “ You can’t put a 
big lot of corn around a small cob.” 
-Paul Janet : “ It is not always well 
to say what we think, but it is well to 
think what we may not say.” 
-Massachusetts Ploughman : “ In 
budding fruit trees, my idea is to cut the 
T upside down at the bottom and push 
the bud up instead of down. In this 
way no rain gets into the cut. When the 
cut is tied up the sap flows up just as 
well as when the cross is at the top.” 
-Prairie Farmer : “Ex-Gov. Robert 
W. Furnas, of the State Board of Agri¬ 
culture of Nebraska at Brownville, has 
gone heavily into persimmon growing. 
He has an orchard of 1,000 trees, besides 
a nursery stock of many thousands more. 
We believe that we are on the eve of a 
great demand for this fruit. We would 
not be willing to be without it in Novem¬ 
ber for any other fruit of the season. 
It dries readily into a sort of fig. Mr. 
Furnas has taken pains to select the 
finest varieties he could find. The possi¬ 
bility of new varieties of this fruit is 
unlimited.” 
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