rection of flue, which commences at the 
back of the furnace and makes a spiral cir¬ 
cuit around the boiler and enters the chim¬ 
ney below the coping (nee dotted lines); 
Fig. ;S is the elevation; Fig. 4, a section at 
the line A, B, in Fig. 2. 
With this boiler the Scotch farmer has 
hie horses in good condition all the year 
round. The top of the boiler is finished 
with a out stone coping, about three inches 
new grape—the Ray's Victoria—which he 
claims is adapted to all latitudes, localities, 
climates and soils. No other variety can 
compare with this, as it yields equally well 
in Northern or Southern exposures, in the 
bottoms or on the hills, upon sandy or clayey 
soils. This Is what is claimed. But we have 
no evidence that it has boon sufficiently 
tested to warrant such commendation for 
all localities. 
COOKING FOOD FOR STOCK 
P0M0L0G1CAL GOSSIP 
I see farmers are complaining of their 
stock getting poor, and discussing the pro¬ 
priety of giving them cooked food ; but the 
question don’t seem to be decided, whether 
it would cure the evil or not; and the more 
sensitive question, “will it, pay?” is the 
drawback in trying experiments. Now, as 
every civilised nation has its own way of 
treating this subjoot, it may not bo unac¬ 
ceptable to you if I state how they meet 
this question in Scotland, where the science 
of chemistry is made the slave of agricul¬ 
ture, and has wrenched results from a cold 
and sterile soil which would be considered 
magnificent in the virgin soil of some of 
the older States of the Union. 
Every farmer there knows, from experi¬ 
ence, that to keep his stock in good order 
For Maryland the following were recom¬ 
mended:— Bartlett, Belle Lucrative. Doy¬ 
enne d’Ete, Flemish Beauty,Seckel, Beurre 
Bose, Howell, Beurro d f Anjou, Beurre 
Clairgeau, Beurre Dell, Duehesse d’Angou- 
leme, Lawreuoe, and Sheldon. The forego¬ 
ing were recommended for Maryland as of 
great Superiority and value; the following 
were recommended for general cultivation, 
but as not possessing equal merits with the 
foregoing; — Bloodgood, Buflutn, Kiugsess- 
iug, Rostiezer, Urbaniste, Beurre Deil, 
Doyenne Boussock, Onondaga, and Louise 
Bonne d’ Jersey. 
For Pctinsylvania the following were 
recommended as of great superiority and 
value:—Kingsessltig, Howell and Lawrence; 
and the following for general cultivation: 
Kingseasing and Seckel. 
For New Jersey the following were re¬ 
commended:— ♦Bartlett, Seckel, Buerre 
Bose, * Beurre d ’A njou, Beurre Deil, 
♦Duehesse d’Angouleme, Lawrence, and 
Beurre Clairgeau; those with * receiving 
the highest commendation. 
BOTTLING GRAPES 
In our issue, March 23, page 197, we gave 
an English Gardener's testimony as to the 
advantage of cutting grapes grown in cold 
graperies when they are ripe and bottling 
them, thus keeping them (in a dry room) 
from October to march. The room in which 
grapes are kept, must he guarded against 
damp, frost and artificial heat. In good 
weather fresh air must be introduced, and 
light as often as possible. In cold weather 
the room must be so nearly air-tight as to 
exclude frost without em- , 
ploying artificial heat,. We 
copy from the Cottage Gar¬ 
dener. 
the accompanying 
illustrations showing how 
the grapes are stored. Fig. 
1, is a standard, 6)4 feet 
high, 2 inches square, into 
two sides of which alter¬ 
nately are set brackets 1J£ 
inches thick 
Fig. 3.—Feed Boiler. 
thick, with an inch and a-half of projection, 
and a drip cut underneath, to clear the 
water off the brick work. An ordinary 
bricklayer can build one in a day. 
Fig. 1. — Ffed Boiler. 
he must raise turnips to feed them during 
the winter. A farmer with 150 acres, raises 
from 25 to 30 acres of turnips, which are 
used in the following manner: Those ani¬ 
mals that are to be fattened for the butcher 
are tied up and fed wit h as many sliced tur¬ 
nips (which are cut with a revolving ma¬ 
chine) and as much oat and barley straw as 
they can use; also a piece of rock salt, which 
they lick at, pleasure. In two months, the 
fattening process is completed, when they 
are sold. When they want to hasten the 
manufacture of beef, they, in addition, give 
them bean Hour. The cows are also tied up, 
and receive turnips in losser quantities than 
those that are to be sold. The calves of tlio 
previous summer are likewise tied up, 
which keeps the larger ones from abusing 
the smaller ones. The two-year olds are 
allowed to run about in an open court, 
which has an open shade which forms, gen¬ 
erally, t hree sides of a square. The roof is 
wat er-tight, and the sides are built of stone. 
Their straw is put hi a rack which is erected 
the entire length of the walls, and t he tur¬ 
nips are simply pitched down to them in 
their entire state along the base of the wall. 
The bedding is particularly attended to, 
not only for the comfort of the animals, but 
for the purposo of making manure. 
Scotch farmers are very particular to have 
their stables warm, well ventilated, and 
with plenty of light, to enable the animals 
to see what they are about. It is a fixed 
thing with them that it takes a certain 
amount of food to sustain animal heat.; ad¬ 
ditional food goes to build up the super¬ 
structure; consequently, they must have 
their stook kept warm and clean. By fol¬ 
lowing out these principles, they possess the 
exposing, 
when adjusted, VxJ inches 
by 3)£ Inches of surface. 
Fig, 2 is the bottle recepta¬ 
cle which is laid on the 
brackets In Fig. 1. They 
are t,o rest, perfectly level, 
and are made fast, with a 
screw nail driven through 
the underside of the brack¬ 
et into the underside of 1 ho 
bottle receptacle. A light 
facing of wood, fitted on 
the front of the standard ' 
rests upon the receptacle. 
Apples for Maryland.—A correspond¬ 
ent in Baltimore Co., Md., asks us to “ furn¬ 
ish ” a list of twenty-live apple trees (nam¬ 
ing them according to merit and number 
of each), for home use, whose characteristics 
shall be hardiness, quality and size, and the 
best for keeping.” Our knowledge of the 
fruits that thrive in Maryland is so limited 
that, we can do nothing more than name 
the apples recommended by the representa¬ 
tives from Maryland at the meeting of the 
American Pomological Society at Richmond 
last September. They were: — American 
Summer Pearmain, Summer Queen, Caro¬ 
lina Red June, Summer Sweet Bough, Caro¬ 
lina Greening, Cannon Pearmain, Nicka- 
jack, Pryor's Red, Gilpin (on rich soil), 
Wincsap, Rawles’ Janet, Maiden’s Blush, 
and London’s Pippin. 
NOTES FOR HERDSMEN 
To Fasten Cows Tails when Milk¬ 
ing:.—I have a method of fastening cows 
tails at milking time, which 1 never saw in 
use except by myself, nor described in 
print. It. is thifi :—Take a No 13 or 1 1 wire 
and pass it. through staples driven into the 
braces or joioe over, and a little in the rear, 
of the cows, the whole length of the stable 
or milking barn. On this wire, as you put. 
it up, place two or three small iron riugs 
Figure l 
Figure 3. 
and fits under each bracket, thus prevent¬ 
ing the receptacle from rising up behind, 
and giving the whole a neat and finished 
appearance. Each pair of standards has 
seven 10 -feet lengths of bottle receptacles. 
Impuisable Strawberry isthosome- 
what singular name of a new strawberry 
obtained by M. MABTLLEof Limoges (IIaute- 
Vienne) from the seed of the strawberry 
Ananas du Chili, crossed with Trollope's 
Victoria, which is described as “a large 
continuously-bearing strawberry, which 
produces fruit as large as the English or 
American kinds, and continues to bear up 
to the first frosts.” Ed. Andre, in L'Il¬ 
lustration Hort/tcolc. says:—“We do not 
hesitate to strongly recommend it, not only 
for its intrinsic value, but because it will, 
without doubt, prove the parent of large 
fruited and really continuously-bearing va¬ 
rieties superior to itself.” 
Fig. 4. Feed Boiler. 
between each two staples, and to them at¬ 
tach cords of sufficient, length, which, with 
a hook made of the same 6 ized wire, will 
raise the cow’s tall on a line with her back; 
fasten the hook in the brush of the tall, and 
you can milk without having a cow's tail 
whisking about your face in fly time, or at 
any other time. Each milker should have 
t wo of these fixtures, so as to fasten up the 
tail of the cow behind him, if the animals 
remain in the barn till all are milked.—H., 
Turin N. V. _ 
Cow h Bag “ Sprung.”—I have a fine 
cow, which 1 expect will have a calf some 
time this spring, but do not exactly know 
the time. One quarter of her bag has 
“ sprung,” and the milk flows as freely from 
it as that of a cow which has just had a calf. 
The other parts of her bag remain unchang¬ 
ed—she giving from this one quarter more 
than from all the other three teats. If any 
of your subscribers can tell me the reason 
of this, ami will kindly do so, I shall be 
obliged to them. Let me add that she al¬ 
ways milks up to the time of calving, and is 
giving at present about two gallons of milk 
a day.—D. C. R., Atchison, Kan. 
the same distance as that at which the 
standards are placed, and bound together 
by means of an iron spike which passes 
through the holes. Fig. 3 gives a full sec¬ 
tional view of t.he receptacle containing the 
bottle. The testimony seems to be that 
pure rain water and charcoal are the best 
mixtures with which to fill the bottle, close 
to which the stalk of the bunch of grapes is 
placed, as shown in Fig. 3, 
John Potts says the grapes should be 
cut as they ripen, and not taken off all at 
once, irrespective of their exact condition. 
Ten or twelve days before he cut any 
bunches, he went over all the vines in 
the Muscat house, when the foliage was 
perfectly green and healthy, and se¬ 
lected forty to fifty ripe hunches, the 
shoots of which he shortened to two 
eyes above the bunch, at, the same time 
letting remain what small laterals there 
were attached to these eyes. By thus 
cutting back the shoots ten or t welve 
days before taking the bunches to the 
store-room, the use of sealing wax, or 
any other material, is dispensed with, 
ns the shoots become perfectly hard 
and dry, and will neither take in nor 
give off moisture. He has the bottles 
prepared before hand, and after cut- 
—j ting the shoots off at the second eye, 
beneath the bunch, if possible, he car- 
^ ries the bunches with all the green 
foliage untouched, to the store-room 
and plroo them in their respectiue po¬ 
sitions. The foliage should be all wed 
to die off of its own acccord, after which it 
must be carefully removed. 
Straw berries in Rooms.—We saw. the 
other day, in the window of a lady’s sitting 
room, four or five pots of strawbery plants, 
with fruit set, and blossoms upon them. 
She took young plants from the garden bed 
in October, put each in a 10-iuch pot tilled 
Fig. 2. —Feed Boiler. 
power to control the condition of their 
stock, just as you can control the heat of the 
room you sit in. 
Cooking on a largo soale is rat her expen¬ 
sive. It must be done with steam. The ap¬ 
paratus costs too much for most farmers. 
Still it is done on a great many model farms 
in England and Scotland. 1 have enclosed 
a rough sketch of a boiler which is used by 
every farmer in that country. 
Tliis boiler is used by farmers in Scotland; 
also by every well-to-do family, iu the wash¬ 
house, for boiling clothes. Once, as a farm¬ 
er’s boy, I attended to them, and since I 
have been a mechanic, I have built probably 
one hundred of them. Twenty minutes of 
a good lire will set it boiling. This sketch 
represents one about three feet I 11 diameter, 
capable of cooking a supper for eight horses. 
It is charged in the following manner: — A 
layer of chaff, bran and grain, and a layer of 
roots, alternately, until it is full; a little 
salt is added. Figure 1 is the ground plan; 
Fig. 2 shows the furnace placed and the di- 
Cows with Caked Bags.—As the sea¬ 
son is at hand for new milch cows, and as 
there is more or less trouble in regard to 
their having caked bags, I thought that 1 
would send you a remedy which we have 
used for many years, and have never known 
it to fail, in a single instance, of producing 
the desired effect.. It is simply common 
soft soap applied to the parts affected, and 
ohoroughly rubbed in with the hand. My 
father has used this remedy for many years, 
and generally found one application suffi¬ 
cient.—H. F. Woodward. 
Figure 3. 
with good garden soil, watered them (oc¬ 
casionally with liquid manure), and will 
soon have a crop of strawberries of her own 
arising. They wereTriomphes, and she will 
triumph with her early strawberries. 
Lice 011 Animals.—The best extermina¬ 
tor of lice on any kind of animal, is lino 
sand or road dust put on the back from the 
head to the tail.—I. G. L., Half Dan. IU. 
Old Concord Wine.—A correspondent 
of the Rural World, having tested Concord 
wine of the vintage of 1895, says it had lost 
its foxiness, much of its color being now 
brownish yellow—bright, clear, smooth, 
agreeable, mellow. 
Ray’s Victoria Drape.—Mr. W. R. Sam¬ 
uels of Clinton, Ky., iu Nashville Union 
and American, claims to have originated a 
Devon Stock.—Where can Devon stock 
be found ? I don’t see it advertised.—c. r. r. 
