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MOORE'S RORAL NEW-YORKER, 
As food for hogs, wo consider a bushel of peas 
ranch superior to the same amount of corn. We 
hare never had hogs gain faster than during the 
past tliroo months, when fed entirely on peas; 
(since they have become dry enough we havo had 
them ground.) Wo have not made any close ex¬ 
periments, but should judge that onr peas, when 
fed to hogs, must make about fifteen pounds of 
pork (live weight) per bushel, which at present 
prices would equal seventy-five to eighty-two 
cents. This we consider a pretty fair price for 
peas, better than we could get by selling them in 
Rochester. 
We merely throw ont these suggestions for the 
benefit of wheat growers. Those whose farms are 
large enough will and should continue to raise 
cattle and other stock; but for that large class 
whoso farms are not large enough to do this ex¬ 
tensively, and still sow as much wheat ns they 
wish to, wo hope these suggestions may provo 
of some practical benefit, by showing them how 
they can still raise wheat without entirely aban¬ 
doning the raising of stock. 
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EGYPTIAN CORN - HUMBUGS, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: —Pursuant to a call in yonr 
journal for the result of experiments with the Egyptian 
Corn, I would state that, noticing an advertisement in 
the RURAL of the Egyptian Corn, and believing if the 
statements thurein were half true, it would bo worth 
cultivating, I sent to Mr. M. E, CRANDAT. for a package, 
together with three of my neighbors, about thu first of 
May. In duo time wo received it, containing one hun¬ 
dred and eight kernels of small white (what the circular 
called} corn, which waft equally divided. 
I planted my portion about the middle of May, ou good 
ground, and after a while eight small blades made their 
appearance, and grew lr» the form of a tree, because it 
grew up. but their spreading bramihe* did not retard the 
growth of anything that grew under or about. 1 took 
good care of it, and in doe time the ears made their 
appearance—and such tremendous ears, there was neither 
five nor twouty-two on a tree. 
Welt, the last of September I harvested the wonderful 
corn, and obtained nineteen nubbins, sound and unsound, 
from one and one-half to four and one-half inches in 
length. My com is both while and red. My neighbors' 
crops were not as large as mine. It is nothing new here 
—nothing more nor loss than pop or rice corn, so called. 
Any one wishing to try the wonderful corn, can obtain 
ft package, pure, by addressing the subscriber at Water, 
town, JelT. Co , N. Y,, not at the 11 remarkable low price 
of one dollar,” but by eeudiug postage stamps for return 
postage, I think Mr. C. hard up for funds. —II. LkaCH, 
Pamelia, tf, Y , 1800. 
Ess. Rural Nkw-Yorkeb:-You ask for the experi¬ 
ence of those who have raised the world-renowned 
Egyptian Corn. I give you mine cheerfully. Last 
spring I sent one dollar to M. E. Crandall, Sandwich, 
111 , and received in return, promptly, one hundred ker¬ 
nels or genuine pop corn by wall-wild corn, for all the 
world, being exactly like the pop corn which I raised last 
year. My neighbors laughed at me, but I told them to 
held on, for autnmn would develop the “Egyptian’' 
part, and moreover asserted that I had been into the 
Egyptian Museum, In New York, and all antiquity could 
not be a humbug! 
Well, I planted the corn; fifteen kernels ont of the 
hundred grew; and four quarts of third-rate popcorn 
nubbins comprised the harvest t Glory to humbug, 
thought I—where is my old hat?—C randall is entitled 
PORK RAISING IN WESTERN NEW YORK. 
Ttt.i, within a few years, farmers of Western 
New York, especially of the wheat growing region, 
have not been disposed to eater largely into the 
raising of stock of any kind. So long as wheat 
succeeded, that was unquestionably the greatest 
and most profitable crop of the Genesee Valley 
and it was fonud, or supposed, more profitable to 
dispose of the coarser grains at the nearest market, 
without waiting to manufacture them into pork, 
beef, Or mutton, in which it was not sufiposed we 
could profitably compete with the Great West. 
But the failure of the wheat crop, from the at¬ 
tacks of the midge, a few years since, rendered 
some change of programme necessary, in order 
to dispose of the larger quantities of corn, oats, 
Ac., which were then raised, and rnauy farmers 
found the raising and fattening of pork and beef 
unexpectedly profitable—according to some, 
much more so than any other method of dispos¬ 
ing of these surplus prodnets. This feeding the 
products of the farm on the farm, had at least the 
advantage of restoring the elements of fertility, 
and preventing the farm from becoming exhaust¬ 
ed, or “rundown” as it is termed. Now that 
wheat raising has again become a possibility, a 
great many farmers do not want entiiely to 
abandon the raising of stock, as, however profit¬ 
able (?) that course might prove at first, it must 
ultimately destroy the fertility of the farm. Be¬ 
sides, the wheat crop, though succeeding well 
this year and last, is still liable to failure, at any 
time, from the wheat midge, and it is never best 
for a farmer to risk the entire profits of a year 
upon any one crop—especially one so precarious 
as wheat is at present. 
It seems to us, in the present position of affairs, 
that the raising and fattening of pork can, more 
than any other thing, be profitably combined with 
the culture of wheat. Hogs are stock which can 
always, at short notice, be profitably converted 
into cash, which, as too many know to their coBt, 
cannot always be said of sheep, cattle or horses, 
especially the latter. Besides, all other stock re¬ 
quire a much larger area for pasture in summer, 
and the production of hay and other forage for 
winter feed, and this is an item not to be over¬ 
looked. Unless the farm is unreasonably large, 
counting its acres by the hundred, it is almost 
impossible to keep a large herd of cattle or horses, 
and still sow a great deal of wheat, because the 
land cannot be spared for that purpose. But the 
keeping of hogs does not ordinarily interfere 
with this. Wheat may sometimes be sown after 
corn, though this is not often advisable, except 
on rich soil, and where the corn has been taken 
off early, but peas, which are the best and cheapest 
food for hogs, furnish the best possible prepara¬ 
tion for wheat. They do not seem to exhaust the 
soil in the least, and when sown either on sward 
ground or on corn stubble, they leave the ground 
light and mellow, almost if not quite equal to a 
summer fallow. 
DESIGN JVOIJ A. SXJIJUTiYtAISr COTTAGE 
All the readers of the Rural are not farmers, 
nor can all live in farm houses. We have many 
subscribers who live in the large cities, and 
yet who lovo rural life, and are looking forward 
to the timo when they shall have a pleasant home 
in the country, away from the turmoil of city life; 
then we have many more who live in the suburbs 
It. in designed to bt> built of wood, and covered 
with plank put on in the vertical manner, and 
battened. Trie roof is to lie covered with cedar 
shingles; part of them pointed at the lower end, 
ami laid ou in the lozenge or diamond pattern, 
and the rest put on in the usual manner. 
The exterior is somewhat ornamental in its 
character, and great care should he taken in 
building, that, the trimmings havo a solid, 
substantial appearance, the verge boards more 
particularly. For a cottage of this size, the 
plank from which they are cut should never 
be less than two inches in thickness, but 
oftentimes thicker than that The bay win¬ 
dow and verge boards form the prominent 
features of the front, while the entrance door 
_is shielded by a veranda eight feet wide, sup- 
TT ported on heavy posts and guarded by a 
balustrade. The upper panel of the front 
door is glazed, to admit light into the hall. 
— This hall is GJ foot wide and 13 feet long — 
contains a flight of stairs to the second story, 
the only chamber flight in the bouse — and 
opens into the several rooms. 
The parlor is 11 feet by 15 feet 8 inches, 
and is lighted by the bay window in front, 
and two single windows on the sides. It also 
contains a closet on the side of the chimney 
breast 
The bed-room is 0 ft by 11, and is famished 
with a large clothes press; a flue runs from the 
room through this closet into the chimney. 
The kitebeu measures 13 feet by 14 feet C 
inches, and opens into the pantry, which has on 
the left side a pump and sink, with a closet under¬ 
neath, and is fitted up with shelves for stores; it 
opens out upon a platform, from which steps de¬ 
scend to the yard. Under this platform is an en¬ 
trance to the basement, which may contain a 
cellar kitchen with oven and boiler, closet3, store¬ 
rooms, and fuel rooms. 
On the second floor are three good-sized cham¬ 
bers, well lighted, and supplied with closets. 
second floor. 
The height of the first story is 10 feet G inches, 
and that of the second is 4 feet at the eaves and 
10 feet in the center of the rooms. 
This cottage could be built for about $1,500. 
There are, we think, some objectionable features 
in this plan, the most prominent of which consists 
in the location of the kitchen. This, however, 
may bo remedied by an addition to the building. 
first floor. 
of the small cities and the beautiful villages scat¬ 
tered all over our country. To such we present, 
a tasteful design for a suburban cottage, designed 
by George E. Harney, of Lynn, Mass., and origi¬ 
nally published In the Horticulturist. 
generally finds no difficulty in getting the editor 
of Borne local paper, who knows nothing of the 
subject, and relieB on his word, to say just what 
he wishes said. 
AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT DISCUSSED. 
THE ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION. 
There is a very important fact* of great signifi¬ 
cance in its connection with all agricultural 
J production, that it is to a great extent ignored, 
not only by intelligent practical furmcra, hut also 
1 by those who furnish us with the theory of agri¬ 
culture. That fact iu:—No agricultural product, 
whether it be wool, milk, meat, grain, or vegeta¬ 
bles, can possibly be made out of nothing; but on 
the contrary is always an aggregation of elemen¬ 
tary matter, accomplished and effected in some 
natural laboratory. If this fact were more duly 
considered, and held In remembrance, it would, I 
think, very materially affect the range and aim of 
agricultural experiment. For instance, an Agri¬ 
cultural Society offers a premium to test whether 
a selected herd of Short-horn, or of Native cows, 
will yield the most butter in a given number of 
consecutive days; and MthCu the result is obtained 
it is triumphantly unuonne-ed a.-i the n<> plus ultra 
of experiment in thaMiroetion; whereas the fact 
in which tho farmei\ is chiefly interested, is not 
which cow will yieffl tho most butter, bat which 
cow tffll yield the largest amount from a given 
quantity of fdod consumed by her. One cow 
yields six pounds per week; another, it maybe, 
ten pounds. 5{ow, whence came the extra four 
pounds of butter? Undoubtedly it was made of 
ling per nubbin!—J. R. Hoag, Clarendon, N. 1', ISBO. 
Wk design to nuke the above a text for a few 
remarks, to which we call the particular attention 
of enterprising farmers, for these are the persons 
particularly interested. No class of men are 
more humbugged than wide-awake, enterprising 
farmers. Not a season passes bat some wonder- 
lul and unheard-of thing is advertised and pulled 
into an ephemeral notoriety, seeds of which can 
be obtained by forwarding to the advertiser the 
small sum of one dollar, more or leas. And this 
wc- are then told is done, not for the purpose of 
making money, but for the very benevolent ob- 
ject of furnishing farmers with improved grains 
or vegetables. One has a squash which he be¬ 
lieves, or pretends to believe, is better than any¬ 
thing known, and having a good quantity of 
seeds on hand, ho rushes into the seed business, 
and advertises his chuice seeds at an enormous 
price. Another has some wonderful skinless 
barley, or honey-grass, or Egyptian corn, or 
This is then cut ont and pub¬ 
lished in advertisements and circulars as the 
unbiased opinion of tho editor, and enterprising 
farmers, who are anxious to obtain everything 
new and desirable, send on their dollars. The 
next season shows that they have Rpent their 
money for trash, perhaps for something that they 
already have, or had discarded as worthless 
years before. 
Now, we think that farmers are principally to 
blame for this state of things, for they encourage 
the practice by making it profitable. Ab loug as 
people arc willing to send on their quarters and 
dollars to any unknown person who advertises 
seeds of an equally unknown plant, speculators 
will he found ready and willing to pocket their 
money. Never order seeds of one who has no 
reputation to lose, should he act dishonestly. 
Never purchase seeds of anything new, until it 
has been fairly tested and exhibited at one or 
more agricultural exhibitions, nor until you have 
seen the report of the committee in regard to its 
merits. This is jnat, both to the seller atad tho 
purchaser, for no man who cares for his reputa¬ 
tion should offer for sale articles that have not 
been fully tested by competent judges. Then, if 
they are found valuable, the report of these - 
Late sowing will prevent the 
Jh> working of the bug, though it is liable to produce 
T-C) a small crop, but very early sowing—in March or 
L p week of April—will almost insure a large 
yield, and (judgingfrom the experience ofseveral 
M farmers of our acquaintance, and our own, both 
flra* * aS * ^ ear ant * sccnre entire freedom from 
5 TY& the bug. 
IRVING. N Y 
