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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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with complete success each year. The last sea¬ 
son it yielded fifty bushels to the acre, weighing 
sixty-six pounds to the bushel. It Is remark¬ 
able for its hardiness and earliness. I sowed it 
September 27.1870, and it ripened June 1,1871, 
full ten days sooner than Lancaster.” Who 
among our readers have grown it this year? 
What can they say about It? It was sent out by 
the Department of Agriculture a year or two 
ago. 
Apple Pomace ae Manure. 
A correspondent having asked if apple 
pomace from a cider-mil], thrown in a manure 
heap, would lessen or increase the value of the 
manure, was answered by Mr. IT. E. Colton, a 
chemist, as follows:—Apples usually contain 
about 82 per cent, of water and 1*4 per cent, 
of acids. In making older it is generally the 
above and a small proportion of grape sugar 
whicli Is extracted by the pressing. There would 
be left fiber, starch, and gelatine, amounting to 
about 10 per cent. This contains matter capable 
of providing nitrogen, and if composted with 
ground plaster could be made of some value. 
Muck will also be a valuable addition to the pile. 
The pomace would not be worth a groat deal to 
purchase, but a6 a waste article It would pay to 
save it in this way. If dried very quickly or if 
taken immediately from the press, a very good 
jelly may be made from the pomace, with less 
sugar t han I'rom the original apple. The prin¬ 
ciple upon which Aldert's Jelly is based is that 
the starch of the cores and skins is converted 
some literary notable to address farmers at Fairs. 
It is all well enough if Fairs are to be only social 
re-unions, whereat agriculture Is to be tabooed; 
but if Fairs are for profit, and the meeting of 
farmers there Is to both gain and give Informa¬ 
tion relative to their vocation, then there ought 
to be some reform in the matter of selecting 
speakers. No society ought to go outside Its 
own membership for such purpose. This is 
suggested by a remark made hy a correspondent 
of the N.E. Farmer, writing of theFranklin Co., 
Vt., Fair, who says:— “C. C. CofftnoI Boston 
delivered the annual address. As is usually the 
case, it was n very pleasant thing to hear, but 
the average farmer did not get an idea from it 
worth carrying home.” And yet Mr. Coffin, 
in his place and vocation, is an able man. 
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Farmer Garrulous’ Relative in Michigan.— 
Referring to Farmer Garrulous’ talk about 
his strawberry and cherry friends in Rural 
Nkw-Vorker of July 6, R. H. R. writes 
“Farmer Garrulous has a brother or half 
brother, or a 17th or 18tl> cousin away down 
here In Michigan, who don’t raise strawberries 
and cherries, but who has sonic 730 pails, and 
makes maple sirup and sugar in Spring. lie 
has one of Cook's evaporators, evaporates the 
sap, it passing in at one end and out at the other 
end sirup. Mrs. Shukupukknosb often v isits 
liiin there; not only she, but the Misses Sticks 
and ail the young Stick, Stack, SiDCKSpourln 
In multitudes, all anxious to learn the whole art 
and of good varieties—from Ellwangeb & 
Barry, Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y. These 
gentlemen know how to grow pear trees that 
will produce pears; and they know how pears 
should be produced; and they do both and then 
remember tlioir friends. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
The Rural New-Yorker is always glad of 
practical correspondence. This answers R. P. 
B's inquiry. 
Noi John P. S. is informed that our politi¬ 
cal preferences are not to bo expressed in our 
columns, nor those of any other man. 
IrM. Hall had read the Rural New-Yorker 
C which he has taken twenty years) he would 
have learned how to grow mushrooms. Let 
him look on page 375. Rural, June 8, 1872, for 
information. 
The Watertown Reformer asks ns to prove 
that it steals. In a recent, number of that paper 
(don't rememper date) appeared as an original 
contribution to It an article entitled’* Starting 
in Married Life,” first published in, and con¬ 
tributed to, the Rural New-Yorker. How 
did it get it if it did not steal it ? 
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now having good weather for sowing wheat, 
digging potatoes, and drying up the corn. The 
corn crop is good; potatoes good; hay injured 
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SATURDAY, OCT. 19, 1872. 
NEW YORK FARMERS’ CLUB. 
Hungarian Crass. 
R. T. Woolman, Sulein Co..N. J., sowed Hun¬ 
garian millet the 20th of July, and in one month 
it was out in head aud has been growing thicker 
ever siuee, new heads constantly coming up. 
He asks the righr lime to cut it lor liny. He 
was advised to cut it when iu bloom, which the 
Rural New-Yorker pronounces a correct an¬ 
swer. For hay, If cut when In bloom, before 
t he seed develops, it is a most profitable forage 
crop. 
Apples Crafted on White Oak, etc. 
A week or two since it was stated that a gen¬ 
tleman—Mr, Chas. FAiucntLD—at Westport, 
Conn., had succeeded in grafttng apples on 
White Oak, Birch, Buttonwood and Black Al¬ 
der. and producing fruit thereon. Dudley P. 
Ely, Mayor of Norwalk, Conn., was requested, 
by the Chairman of the Club, to visit Mr. Fair- 
cniLD aud ascertain the truth. He wrltos the 
Club: 
Yesterday I went to Westport, Conn., and saw 
Mr. Faircbild and hl8 apple trees, Dial have 
caused some interest in your Club. Mr. Fair- 
child is an old and very highly respected resi¬ 
dent of Westnort. and his statement I have no 
doubt is strictly true. He showed me in his 
orchard four apple trees, all grafted, be said, 
by himself some twenty years ago, one each in 
White Oak. Birch, Billion Ball, and Black Al¬ 
der—nil grafted in the root. These trees, to all 
appearance-were ordinary apple tree*, six to 
eight inches through the body. The fruit on 
these trees had all been gathered, except that 
on the Black Alder. Some apples from this tree 
I picked and now send them to you for exami¬ 
nation by vour Club if they desire to. Mr. 
Fairchild did not know the proper name of 
these apples, and I would suggest ihey be called 
the Apple of Discord. I thought there might 
be a possibility the grafts themselves had taken 
root, but Fairchild was confident they had 
not. 
Mr. Ely’s theory that the grafts themselves 
had possibly taken root, is doubtless correct. 
Worms on Evergreens. 
A. T. Blauvelt, Roclriaud Co., N, Y„ writes: 
“I keep a nursery about twenty-live miles 
north of your city, and have been troubled this 
Fall with a small green worm about one inch 
long, which makes great destruction among my 
evergreens, mostly the pines, commencing gen¬ 
erally at the top aud rating tbo leaves or spines 
entirely off, leaving the tree completely naked; 
and thus they go through my rows stripping 
everything. I have never seen anything of the 
kind before, and do not know what to do: have 
been shaking them oil aud killing them, but 
they seem to come the faster." If Mr. Blau¬ 
velt will send some of the worms, alive, to the 
Rural New-Yorker Office, he may possibly 
learn more about them. We Uopehe will do so. 
Touzelle Wheat. 
W. W. Alexander, Culpepper, Va., says of 
this wheat, which we have seen repeatedly 
commendedI have tested it three years 
into grape sugar by his process of dehydiatiug. 
Packing Apples. 
A correspondent inquired if lio should pick 
his apples, put them in barrels and head them 
up at once. He wns advised to pick them and 
put them carefully In barrels, leaving the latter 
open a few days until tlio fruit ceased “sweat¬ 
ing," then head them up and keep (if intended 
for Winter use) in as cool a place as possible 
without allowing them to freeze. 
Kansas Fruit anrt Fruit Crowers. 
Dr. J. Stayman, Col. J. C. Vincent and Dr. 
Wm.M. Howsley. a Cmnmittee’of the Kansas 
Horticultural Society, are in town exhibiting 
Kansas fruit at the American Institute Fair. 
They were present at the Club’s meeting, and 
Dr. Stayman spoke of the fruit producing 
resources of Kansas in the highest terms, hav¬ 
ing, Id back his statements, fruit actually pro¬ 
duced in that new State. There is no doubt 
about the resources of Kansas; so Utile doubt 
is there that to outsiders who are not interested 
in Kansas lands, or those of any other State, 
this eternal advertising of Western lands has be¬ 
come an insufferable nuisance. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Poultry at the Ktnte Fair.—We beg leave to 
inform you that the show of poultry at the 
State Fair was not poor. Perhaps you will not 
gain anything by trying to run the Stole Fair 
out. Yours, Bon dwell Brothers. 
The Holies iu the abovo note arc as under¬ 
scored tu the letter. We have to say in re¬ 
sponse : 
1. That our information was obtained from 
two or three disinterested gentlemen—mou in 
no wise interested in depreciating any feature 
of the Fair, and tuning no connection with, or 
relation to, breeders of fowls. They spoke of 
the exhibition aa a whole and (so did we) with 
no attempt or disposition to depreciate individ¬ 
ual exhibitions, or wltb anypretenoe that there 
were not goad fowls there. 
2. We are uot trying to “ run the State Fair 
out.” We simply purpose to tell the truth con¬ 
cerning It, so far as we may be able to glean or 
know it. We never did gain anything by sup¬ 
pressing the truth, nor do we ever expect to 
do so; nor have we ever intended to suppress it, 
however grateful some people would he if we 
did—especially some of the members of the 
State Agricultural Society. We owe the Soci¬ 
ety nothtng except commendation when it is 
apparent that it is laboring for the highest in¬ 
terests of the Agriculturists of tbo State; and 
we are more than ready to honor any draft 
made upon our columns when such is the case. 
Wq do not even owe it ill will; for wo have no 
personal ambition to gratify nor any personal 
wrongs to revenge in our relations to tt. 
3. Confirming rather than condemning our 
statement as to the character of the Poultry 
Exhibition at the N. Y. State Fair, we copy the 
following from tlio Country Gentleman of Oc¬ 
tober 10: 
The entries for poultry were very numerous, 
but the exhibition was conspicuous by the ab¬ 
sence of many entries, some of the parties seem¬ 
ing to choose this as an honorable way for free 
advertising. * * * The accommodations for 
poultry were superior- aud while the show was 
very creditable, it is a matter for serious regret 
that so many stalls were vacant, when tlio pur¬ 
chasers of catalogues would naturally expect a 
larger exhibition. 
The American Rural Home, Oet. 12, says: 
“ We are not prepared to say that the show of 
poultry was equal to that at the Western New 
York Fair, taken as a whole.” 
We knotv there were good birds there, by ex¬ 
hibitors of reputation; but we have only the 
testimony of the above firm to prove that for a 
State Fair the exhibition of poultry was not 
poor. We have no evidence that it teas good, 
except that of the Country Gentleman that it 
was “ very creditable,” which may mean little 
or much, as one chooses to interpret it in con¬ 
nection with its other language. 
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Literary Men as Agricultural Speech-Makers. 
—We have repeatedly protested against the 
practice of Agricultural Fair managers who seek 
of evaporating the sap and tasiiug and testing 
the sirup.” 
Doubtless. 
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Sprues for Agriculturists. — A correspondent 
of the Rural New-Yorker suggests that the 
name Agricultural Pairs be changed to “ Agri¬ 
cultural Sprees,” and that all attempts on the 
part of farmers and gardeners to exhibit their 
products thereat, be discontinued, since Fairs 
are little more than days of recreation and 
amusement—And no amusement whatever to 
exhibitors, who, at large expense and at the oost 
of much discomfort, take their products to these 
Fairs for exhibition. Wo fully sympathize with 
our friend, The spirit which once begat Agri¬ 
cultural Fairs has departed, and tve doubt if It 
ever returns. Time and the tastes and the pro¬ 
gress (?) of the people have modified most of 
their features. 
The Horse Disease iu Toronto. — In New 
York, a year or two ago, a disease appeared 
among the horses of the omnibus and city rail¬ 
way companies, which carried off scores of 
valuable animals. A telegram from Toronto, 
Ont., announces that tills disease is prevailing 
to such an extent in that eity that the street, 
railway companies are unable to run more than 
half the usual number of cars, that merchants 
are unable to got their goods carted to and from 
the depots, and that carriages can with difficulty 
be hired at any price. Don’t we need, and will 
Ave not soon have steam on the city railways, 
and steam wagons for hauling goods? It seems 
to us feasible aud probable. 
Importation of Steam Plows Duly Free.—Ail 
Illinois correspondent asks if steam plows can 
lie imported from England, duty free. He has 
heard it bo stated, but has seen no intimation of 
the fact in the Agricultural papers. Iu response 
to Ills inquiry we may say that in the new tariff 
act, approved July 8, 1872, section 7, it Is pro¬ 
vided “ that for the term of two years from and 
after the passage of this act, and no longer, 
steam plow machinery, adopted to the cultiva¬ 
tion of the soil, may be Imported by anyperaon 
for his own use free of duty, subject to such 
regulations ef the Secretary of the Treasury as 
before provided." 
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Farmers’ Wives’ Clubs.—Is thisa new name for 
the old-fashioned, scandalous Tea-table Talks? 
Or is it really one of the modern improvements 
in Rural housewifery; for we do hear of organ¬ 
izations with the above title, which meet of af¬ 
ternoons, pretend to discuss household affairs 
and domestic economy generally, and permit 
the husbands to come for them in the evening. 
Can any of our readers inform us whcthcrareal, 
bona Jute Farmers’ Wives’ Club, for practical 
purposes, is in operation? If so, please tell us 
all about it. 
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Gen. Horace Capron in Japan. —On the au¬ 
thority of the Japan Minister, Mori, at Wash¬ 
ington, the statement is made that the last 
accounts received from the Japanese Govern¬ 
ment, indicate satisfaction with the work Gen. 
Carbon and his confreres are doing in that 
country. This sets at rest the story (long ago 
denied in these columns) started by a Western 
paper, that the entire American Agricultural 
Commission had been discharged hy the Japan¬ 
ese Government, and the members thereof were 
on their way home. 
Personal.— In its Personal and General Notes 
concerning the great Exposition in that oity, 
the Louisville Courier-Journal saysColonel 
S. D. Harris, Corresponding Editor of the 
Rural New-Yorker, is one of the most indus¬ 
trious members of the press who have visited 
the Exposition. He has improved the time by 
writing full letters for his and other papers. 
After leaving us he will take a Southern jaunt, 
which we trust will prove pleasant and profit¬ 
able.” 
- Pears from Ellwuuger Barry. —The Rural 
New-Yorker acknowledges, with thanks, the 
receipt of packages of pears—excellently grown 
by wet weathur; wheat crop light; oats good ; 
fruit crop short. Corn is 43c.; wheat, $1.40©1.50; 
potatoes, 45c.; hay 4;14(&li3 per ton. Some more 
sickness than common. I would like to hear 
from my brother farmers in Michigan as to 
crops, prices, etc.—r. H. 
Princess Anne Co., Vn., Oet. 1. -We have had 
a very dry Summer, even up to this date. The 
heat iri the shade as high as 04°. Corn is the chief 
crop, but wc can raise anything else to perfec¬ 
tion, and supply the millions with “truck.” 
Lands are cheap—from £3 to $10 per acre for 
farms. Cattle arc fed two or three months, and 
do well in the woods during the remainder of 
the year. We do not have it very cold in Win¬ 
ter. Last Winter it was down to 10°, which was 
very cold for this latitude.- J. e. it. 
South Trenton, Oneida Co., AT. Y., Oct. 1. 
Meteorological observations for the month of 
September: — Thcrroometrical averages:— Tho 
highest point of temperature attained, the 7th, 
9°; the lowest, on the 21st, 34 s . Average tem¬ 
perature for the month, 55° and l.j'; average at 
7 A. M., 5P; al 2 P. M„ 87 r and 5'; at 9 P. M., 54° 
and 12'. Rain fell on 12 days; 2*4 inches of 
water fallen. Seven days of thunder; nine 
days of lightning. A slight frost ort the 21st; no 
damage to vegetation. The 20th and 27th a 
rapid change in the barometer denoted a gath¬ 
ering storm; tho 28th it came with furious 
winds accompanied with rain.— Storks Bar- 
rows. 
Lyndonvlllc, Vt., Oct. IO.—Weather warm, 
with frequent showers. On tlio evening of Oot. 
7 quite a heavy shower with thunder. The soil 
is thoroughly saturated with water in this sec¬ 
tion of the State. The past season will be long 
remembered for its heavy rains and succession 
Of freshets, doing more or loss damage to grow¬ 
ing crops of grass and grain. The hay crop was 
quite heavy, but uot secured In the best condi¬ 
tion. Grains very good. Potatoes light—badly 
affected by rot. Full feed excellent, and pas¬ 
tures at the present as green as they usually 
are in June. No frost as yet to kill the tender- 
est vegetation—something unusual in this lati¬ 
tude in Vermont. Flowers hardy, half hardy 
and tender, in full bloom out of doors.—x. w. s. 
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