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MOORE’S RURAL WEW-YORKER 
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Triomphe de 1’ Exposition. Rich deep 
red, shaded with crimson; flowers in large 
clusters. 
Sydonic. Light pink ; very large and full; 
fine in Autumn. 
Perpetual White. Pure white; blooms 
in clusters. 
All but the last of these are Hybrid Per- 
petuals, a class blooming at intervals, from 
June to November. The last is a Perpetual 
Moss, a class that is also hardy, blooming at 
intervals through the season. Those who 
wish to add to this list another Perpetual 
Moss, will find Salct a good one. Those who 
wish Climbers will find Baltimore Belle and 
Queen of the prairies, the best of the class. 
And those wishing a yellow rose will find 
Persian Yellow the best of that class. 
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FLORICULTURAL NOTES. 
Amaranths in Texas.—I want to tell 
you about an Amaranth 1 raised this year, 
and see if yon think, like me, that it is 
pretty good “ for high.” It was eight feet 
and a few inches high ; the main spike was 
over thirty inches long, and yielded nearly 
a pint of seed. Besides this, there was a 
lateral at every leaf, each bearing a. spike, 
the longest of which was sixteen inches, 
and the shortest six inches—in all nineteen 
side branches, t he seed of which would have 
Pleasured as much as the main spike, 1 
don’t know the variety; it is probably a 
Celosia. I obtained the seed from a Chick¬ 
asaw Indian. — Dick Hopson, Shennau, 
Texas. 
We think if any one beats this Amaranth 
they will have to go further South than 
Texas. ___ 
Leaf for Name.—1 have a plant that 
came from seed this year, and has grown 
about t wo feet high. The seed looked like 
Hollyhock; so did the first leaves resemble 
those of that, plant; but this appears to be 
a shrub—not herbaceous. The inclosed leaf 
is a specimen of its foliage. Can you name 
it ?—A Rea men. 
It is probably a species of Mallows, really 
related to the Rose of Sharon, but we can¬ 
not give the name without seeing a flower 
as well as leaf. Send us both when the 
plant blooms*. _ 
Balsams. —C. J. S., Fowler, N. Y. The 
flower you sent us is a single balsam, and 
not camellia flowered. 
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JONATHAN APPLE IN THE SOUTH. 
Hr. Swasev, in Rural Southland, says:— 
“The Jonathan Applo is a marked illustra¬ 
tion of the general distrust with which all 
Northern emanations are received, however 
much their intrinsic excellence may entitle 
them to our esteem. We have been practi¬ 
cally acquainted with this variety for a quar¬ 
ter of a century in the South, and have stud¬ 
ied its character closely ns developed in 
other sections, and have yet to see or hear 
the first objection made to it as a Fall and 
early Winter fruit. So far as a large and 
long experience goes, we believe it suc¬ 
ceeds just as well in the South as it does in 
the West, and better than it does in New- 
York, where it originated. Of course it rip¬ 
ens earlier here—in September, or about the 
time of the Roxbury Russet , llubbardson, 
Nonsuch, and Taunton; and, like the first 
two, requires good soil and culture to bring 
out all its good qualities. One chief reason 
of its unpopularity, no doubt, is that in the 
nursery the tree is a miserable grower; but 
in the orchard it makes a line tree, and bears 
large crops of sound, handsome, long keep¬ 
ing (after gathering) fruit, which for quality 
is excelled by no other variety with which 
wc are acquainted.” 
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POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 
Packing Choice Pears.— The Garden¬ 
er's Monthly gives this advice in the pack¬ 
ing of choice pears for transportation:—A 
pear should be put in clean paper and then 
iaid in dry moss. An inch at least of thick¬ 
ness of moss should be between each pear, 
and after the pears are. all in, then the box 
filled tightly with moss. If one decays then 
the moisture is quietly absorbed by the dry 
moss, aud the others are uot affected. Be¬ 
sides, the moss gives an elasticity—breaks 
the shock of the blows of the baggage smash¬ 
ers, who seldom deliver a box without first 
‘ knocking the spots’ out of it.” 
Col. Cheency Strawberry.— We no¬ 
tice Mr. Purdy commends this highly, say- 
j U g_“ a more valuable variety we have 
never yet known, judging by two years’ ex¬ 
perience.” Is it as good as the Colfax com¬ 
mended by the same gentlemen—which was 
good for nothing? 
(Jiflrt djyflps.' 
TOBACCO VS. THE FARM. 
Although the experiment proves that 
wheat does well when it follows tobacco, yet 
the latter is, unquestionably, a violent ex¬ 
hauster. The reasons for wheat succeed¬ 
ing well after it are patent. The laud is 
generally well manured for the tobacco, and 
shows the effect the second year. The 
ground is well prepared by plow and hoe 
for the tobacco, and all land well broken 
shows the effect of thorough preparation. 
Again, the grass and weeds are kept down 
until it is too late for them to attain much 
growth, and the broad-leaved and low 
plants shade the ground. The suckers, 
which grow up after the main plant is cut, 
afford considerable manure as a green crop, 
sinco they are plowed under, generally, 
when they are In a green, fresh state. But 
it is doubted whether any well-informed 
person would contend that the little that is 
taken up from the air by these suckers, and 
returned to the soil, will equal or bear even 
a respectable ratio to the entire mass of nu¬ 
triment which the crowded main plants 
have extracted from that soil. 
Let it be noted that only a very small ex¬ 
tent of land can be well cultivated in to* 
bacco—since not more than from eight to 
fifteen thousand hills, say from two to 
three acres, can be attended to by one la¬ 
borer, when the other common crops are 
carried on. Hence, in ordinary tobacco 
farms, very limited territory can be put. in 
wheat after tobacco. 
Bui. the main effect of “the weed” on 
t he farm is not to be sought in its influence 
On the spot that, produces it. It is areal 
despot among the several crops, whenever 
it is made aud sold with success. It is Of 
so precarious a nature in several respects, 
and is so liable to various injuries at the 
several stages from kindling the fire at the 
plant-bed to the. final delivery in market, 
that it is the virtual master of the planter 
and plantation. In consequence it inter¬ 
feres seriously with the interests of the 
farm in every other branch. In the Winter, 
when others are cleaning up and making 
compost or Winter-plowing, it must be 
watched, fired, stripped, taken down, hung 
up, and is sure to be hurt somehow in the 
great majority of oases where the attention 
and handling are not skillful and indefat¬ 
igable. 
After Christmas the new crop enters the 
lists—beds to be burned and sown—and as 
soon as the plants are up they must be 
watched and nursed till large enough to be 
transplanted. Then, if it. rains, there is a 
rush, and if it doesn’t, there is the trouble 
of watering and planting. It clashes with 
the oats aud the corn and the wheat and 
the cotton. It engages the laborers in the 
season of Summer and Fall plowing, as it 
needs to be “ suekered" and “primed” 
and “ topped ” and kept free of worms, and 
all cut before the frost. 
Thus the great crops of grass and weeds 
that ought to be plowed down are suffered 
to dry up and and spirit t he substance of 
the fields away—the fences and stock go 
from bad to worse — the labor, always 
tedious and particular, often needs to bo 
hasty and ufllictiugly irregular, while the 
exacting product keeps up its perennial de¬ 
mands upon body and mind, lapping the old 
crop over the new so that there is no abso¬ 
lute freedom to its raisers at any season. 
Few who cultivate it do so from choice. 
They do so because they esteem it the best 
means of making money. a. w. m. 
Greensboro, X. C. 
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DON’T SOW CHESS THIS FALL. 
I CLAIM that chess was, in its original state, 
not hing more nor less than an annual grass, 
growing from seed every season; but by 
coining in contact with wheat or rye, this 
grass lias been fertilized by the grain and 
produced the well-known grain called chess. 
I am inclined to believe that the grass that 
fli’st produced chess, is not a native of this 
Continent, from the fact that I have seen 
chess sown by itself, both on wet and dry 
ground, but. am yet to see the first patch of 
ground produce a crop of chess without, the 
aid of wheat or rye. It has been tried 
faithfully in this country aud failed every 
time. Furthermore, 1 tried sowing wheat, 
both on wet and dry ground, three years in 
succession, and never raised a grain of chess 
on any of my experimental grounds, hut at 
the same time had chess in my general 
crop, grown alongside of my experimental 
grounds. 
I experimented with rye in Connecticut, 
before coming to this State, aud never 
raised a grain of chess on my experimental 
grounds. I have tried five years of my life 
to raise chess without planting the seed of 
chess, and have never been able to produce 
one grain of chess yet, any more than I 
could grow a crop of corn without planting 
corn. My advice to farmers is, clean the 
chess entirely out of your wheat before 
sowing, and sow on clean land, and raise 
more and better grain per acre, and of such 
a quality that you may realize the full 
value of your crop when put iu market. 
Thousands of bushels of wheat are sold an¬ 
nually at very low prices, carried away from 
where it is grown, cleaned from chess, the 
wheat ground into flour, shipped back, sold 
to the producer to make his bread, and 
claimed to be made of superior wheat, and 
the chess is sold to distillers to bo distilled, 
and the producer reaps no benefit what¬ 
ever from his labor and capital invested.— 
Onarga, Til. I- F. C. 
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FIELD NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Preparation of Beet Leaves for Fod¬ 
der.—M ehay maintains the entire success 
of his method of so preparing the leaves of 
the beet as to render them capable of pres¬ 
ervation for several months as fodder, and 
at the same time greatly improving their 
qualities as food for cattle. The method 
consists simply in placing them iu baskets 
and immersing them in a tank containing 
diluted hydrochloric acid of 4 of Beaume. 
The result, of this is to greatly condense the 
volume of the leaves, and to render it nec¬ 
essary to add more fresh ones to fill up the 
basket, which has to be again immersed, 
and finally allowed to drain off. The leaves 
may t hen be placed in beds, in dry earth, 
and kept until needed for use. According 
to a report of a committee who examined 
the results of this process, domestic ani¬ 
mals become exceedingly fond of the leaves 
thus prepared; and, indeed, milch cows fed 
with them are said to give a large increase 
of milk, with a decided improvement in the 
quality of the butter. The tendency to di¬ 
arrhea iu cattle produced by the fresh beet 
leaves seems not to be developed by this 
prepared fodder, and for this and many 
other reasons it is stronglyrecommendedto 
agriculturists. _ 
Potato, Corn and Oat Experience 
Wanted,—W. II. asks the experience of 
our readers with the Peerless potato, Ches¬ 
ter Co. Mammoth corn, add White Norway 
oats. 
PIG-PEN PAPERS. 
White Hogs iu the South.—B. Y. 
Roots, Perry Co., Til., writes the Prairie 
Farmer:—Five years ago I sent to my son in 
Arkansas, eleven very fine Chester white 
shouts. For about two years they did well, 
but subsequently they did poorly, and al¬ 
though receiving good care they have near¬ 
ly run out. I visited Hie State last Summer. 
1 conversed with stock raisers of that State, 
Tennessee, and all of the Gulf States. With¬ 
out a single exception, all agreed that in 
those latitudes, white hogs did not do well; 
that black hogs did much better. My at¬ 
tention having been thus turned to the in¬ 
quiry, I have called to mind, as far as pos¬ 
sible, the incidents of my own experience, 
running thirty years, of hog raising here in 
latitude 3iT. I have also conversed with 
others of large experience here, and I am 
confident that any good variety of black 
hogs is better here than any variety of 
white hogs. _ 
White and Yellow Corn for Chick¬ 
ens.—I remember there was a discussion 
last Spring in Rural New-Yorker as to 
whether pigs knew any difference between 
white and yellow corn. I cannot say as to 
pigs, but I know that we used to have a 
Bantam chick that know the difference very 
well. We used often to mix white and yel¬ 
low corn in our hands and call her to eat. 
She would pick out every white kernel and 
throw them awaj r aud then eat the yellow. 
—Mrs. A. A. Ovitt. 
Scurvy Pig. — A correspondent has a 
scurvy pig, four mouths old. The hair 
“stands on end.” Although it has been 
washed repeatedly, in four or five days after 
washing, it is as scurfy and black as ever. 
Asks Rural readers to give a remedy. We 
have known swiue cured of scurf by giving 
them plenty of dry dust to wallow iu and 
feeding them a little sulphur aud ashes iu 
their feed once or twice a week. 
[pc jSientsntan. 
NOTES FOR HERDSMEN. 
Stock and Shade.— E. L. Lawrence, 
Champaign, Ill., writes the Prairie Farmer 
as follows on this subject, with which we 
should like to know if our readers agree: 
“Having for many years pastured where 
there was good shade, and for the past two 
seasons, where there was none, and ob¬ 
served closely the habits of cattle and 
horses, with regard to feeding, I have be¬ 
come satisfied that stock of any kind (ex¬ 
cept perhaps hogs) will thrive and do best 
where there is no shade at all, from the fact 
that without 9hade stock will feed several 
hours in the day that otherwise would 
be spent iu the shade lighting flies. Let 
any one in doubt on this subject, put 
horses and colts in pasture and allow them 
to run in and out the stable as they choose. 
It will be found that they will quit, their 
shelter scarcely at all between seven in the 
morning and five In the evening, and will 
grow poor on good pasture at this season of 
the year. On the other hand, if allowed no 
shade or shelter at all, they will thrive near¬ 
ly as well In July and August as in May or 
October. The same will be found to apply 
to horned cattle ami sheep, though perhaps 
the difference will not be so great.” 
Souqs on Cows’ Foot.—I ivish to inquire 
what the matter is with our COW. She has 
a son- come on t he top of her foot and part¬ 
ly between the claws, about as large as a 
cent; another on the underaml back part 
of t he foot similar to the one on top. The 
sores are dry and cracked open ; foot, swelled 
some above the daws and joint. 1 should 
not think much about it, but there are two 
other cases like it near here, and one has a 
sore on each of her feet; her legs are swelled 
to her knees; she cannot stand, and her 
owners have given up milking her. 
These sores are usually an indication of 
foul blood, and any remedy for them must 
include a treat ment of t he whole system to 
purify the blood and put the animal in 
healthy condition. For local treatment use 
a common sense application of cleansing 
the sores with emollient washes and heal¬ 
ing oils or oiutments. 
Cattle Sales in Ohio.—The August 
monthly cattle sales at Loudon, Madison 
Co., O., were held on the 15th iust., and 
were attended by a large crowd of stock 
buyers, stock sellers and spectators. The 
country had experienced a vast change 
since the last sales. An abundance of rain 
had brought on excellent pasture, while, the 
prospects for a corn crop were better than 
ever known before. About 600 head of cat¬ 
tle of various ages changed hands. One 
bunch brought over six cents per pound, 
but four aud a half cents was the prevailing 
price for good feeding cattle. 
Lame Cows. —About the first of Juno 
one of my cows was found to be lame in one 
fore foot, and shortly became lame in all 
her feet, one after another. She has fallen 
off iu flesh and the flow of milk has lessened 
very much. She walks as if foundered. I 
now have five affected in the same manner 
as the one l have described, and I can find 
no cause for it. Can you enlighten me on 
it and suggest a remedy? 1 have given 
them copperas, sulphur and saltpetre.— 
Lyman Shumway, Ashtabula Co., 0. 
'ifii.'ibandrn. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Dressing Mutton in Texas.—A Texas 
correspondent of the Mobile Register tells 
bow he dresses sheep for mutton :—“Hang 
the sheep by the heels and cut his throat 
thoroughly—wind-pipe, swallow, jugular 
Vein and all. He will die very quick. So 
soon as life is extinct, or motion ceases, re¬ 
move entrails with a sharp knife, opening 
completely from tail to tongue. This job I 
generally get through with in just about 
half a minute. I am satisfied that the pe- 
culiai 1 flavor of badly handled mutton, said 
to come from the wool, is due to the entrails 
lying too long in the animal. I pay no par¬ 
ticular attention to the wool other than is 
demanded by neatness. On the plan above 
named I frequently kill muttons four miles 
from home, tie them to my saddle, Lake 
them home, and even allow to remain over 
night, without skinning, and no woolish 
flavor l-esults. My mutton is proverbial for 
its delicacy aud sweetness, and now you 
have exactly how I manage it. 
