sighted for ft man with the excellent reputation 
Mr. Deitz has to send out anything not equal to 
the representation, that I tun disposed to liellevd 
the fault does uot lie with him. If is a risk to 
send young pigs in winter; and the fault may 
lie with railway officials. Mr. Gregory recol- 
locted that this was not the first complaint, that 
had come before the Club concerning Mr. 
Deitzh transactions with his customers. Mr. 
Bragdon said had Dr. Hkxamkk been, an editor 
the past eighteen months, ho might think differ¬ 
ently of Mr. Deitz’s reputation. We have re¬ 
ceived, during the past year and a-hnlf, a sooro 
of letters, more or less, complaining of Mr. 
Dettz's treatment ol' his customers, anil these 
complaints were accompanied with such evi¬ 
dences that something Is “rotten in Denmark,” 
that ill is quite time ventilation should begin. 
These complaints not only relate to swine, but 
to seeds—seeds sent out ns pure and superior 
proved to he mixed and inferior. Samples of 
such seed have been received and examined by 
us: and while 1 am Inclined to bo charitable to¬ 
wards all men, 1 have no scruple In exposing 
and denouncing men who prey upon and profit 
by the credulity and enterprise of fanners who 
arc willing to spend money to obtain that which 
is new and good. Such men do more to discour¬ 
age such enterprise and create a distrust of 
whatever is good than it is possible to do by any 
other inode. Having suffered by such rascality, 
I know how others feel when they suffer, and I 
propose to lift up my voice against such men 
whenever thoir is cause and opportunity; and it 
is the duly of the press of the country to do the 
same thing. Kittutinny Williams said In: had 
known Deitz by reputation a good while, and 
had never known any good of him,and indorsed 
what Mr. DRAGOON had said of tlio duty of all 
men to exposo such swindling practices. Dr. 
IIexamkr disclaimed any purpose to i liuiupiwn 
Mr. Drit?.; hud no acquaintance with him, and 
only suggested the charitable view of the ease, 
because ho know how liable accidents me to 
happen, and how prone people are to think evil 
of a man when t heir expectations arc not met, 
whether they are Just or not. 
Crib-BUing llornr*.—W. II. GAGE, Fayetteville, 
N. Y„ asks for a remedy for crib-biting horses. 
Mr. Gregory said ho had seen It stated (bat 
smearing I lie manger with castor oil would pre¬ 
vent. it. Dr. Tiumule did not think it would, 
and knew of no remedy eneept to fill the wood 
of the manger with nails. 
To Destroy the Apple Worm.— Mr. Gage has 
used kerosene, as recommended by some, for 
keeping off the apple worm, but has found that 
wherever it was applied to the limb of a tree, it 
killed the limb ns well as the worms, lias found 
the application of st rongsoap suds equally effect¬ 
ive, without endangering the tree. 
Buffalo Beer front the Plains,— Mr. T. L. RAN¬ 
KIN of Kansas was invited to tell the Club some¬ 
thing concerning his car for tho transportation 
of meal from the plains to Dus city. Mr. Dan- 
kin explained that the refrigerator cars hitherto 
used had not proved successful; that llie pres¬ 
ent mode of transporting beef was profitless 
that, the lapse of fourteen days on flm road with 
fifteen changes of ears, and the maltreatment 
animals received, rendered, with tlio prices 
ruling for beef hero, the drover’s vocation worse 
than profitless—disastrous. The great problem 
W stern stock growers and drovers aro seeking 
to solve is Whether meat can bo transported 
from tlio plains to Eastern markets rapidly, 
cheaply, anil without depreciation in quality, 
and pay a profit. No mode has yet succeeded In 
producing these results. Whether his own 
wo- 'd, is yet problematical; but if lio did uot 
epcceed, perhaps the next man may. It is well 
known that in the dry trnosphoro of tlio Iloelcy 
Mountains meat hung up twenty feet from tho 
ground In the sun, will keep sweet a long lime. 
To secure such an atmosphere iu a ear has licen 
Mr. Rankin's effort. To tills end he luis built a 
caruir-tlght, in which he hangs his incut. Tho 
roof of this ear inclines four inches to the foot, 
from ouo end to the other, and is concave, so 
that any vapor which may bocondonsed there¬ 
on will not drop down into the car, hat run off 
ut one end Into a trough and thence through a 
tube out of the chamber, Tho meat is hung up 
in tills car, which is closed air-tight, and tlio 
condensation of vapors la secured by ice I» an¬ 
other air-tight chamber, above meat and cover¬ 
ing t lie whole ooi ling of the car. This layer of ice, 
of any desired thick ness, is laid in, and over it aro 
put followers which (It. in air-tight, (by the uso 
of rubber edges,) and are of sufficient weight to 
hold the ioo iu place, no matter how much it 
may melt. Thus tho vapor from the cooling 
meat ami from t he atmosphere la condensed on 
tho colling and runs off, constantly increasing 
tliu dryness of the meat chamber mid securing a 
temperature therein of about 03% M* tit. was 
carried in this manner from Junction City, Kan¬ 
sas, to Chicago, last. July and August, with the 
thermometer on the plains iu tlio time of kill¬ 
ing at 103”, and sold on Kinzle street, Chicago, 
with the thermometer at 90% ns sound, sweet 
meat, butchers commending It highly in cutting 
it up. Tho proposition is to start from Kansas 
a Meat Express, which shall bring dressed beef 
through from tlio plains in seventy or eighty 
hours, and put It on tho market lime at ten to 
twelve cents per pound. Mr. Rankin's success 
here with his carload of buffalo beef was satis¬ 
factory. ft was ilie best meat of this kind ever 
brought to tills market, being chiefly that of 
cows and cubs. 
The Twenty I’er Cent. Duty mi Imported Slock. 
—Mr. Curtis culled the attention of the Club to 
the fact that a commit lee was appointed by tho 
Club a year ago, to petition Congress for tlio re¬ 
peal of the twenty per cent, duty on live stock. 
The Farmers’ Club led in tiiis movement, and 
other organizations followed. The duty was 
repealed, and to-day (Jau. 24; Mr. Wt t.t.ta v &to- 
zter of Long Island received five Berkshire pigs 
from England duty free, the tariff on which 
would have been #130 in gold had not tlio duty 
been removed. These are tho first animals re¬ 
ceived since the removal of Die duty. 
Peed for a Young Cull. -G, F. Smith, Charl¬ 
ton, N. Y., asked the best feed for U colt seven 
iiioni.lisold. Mr. CtfHTis said well cured rowen 
(aftermath) bay is the best food for colts; if ho 
has not got. this, let him feed the best, liny ho 
has, carrots or sweet apples, (earnits best,) and 
not more than t wo quarts of outs per day. Few 
know how to take good care of a colt through 
the winter and keep him growing. Mr. Germs 
is wintering one fa thorough-bred) successfully. 
Re does not eul carrots well, anil ho feeds liim 
hay and two quarts In bulk of tho following: 
Half oats, and the other half wheat bran and 
oil meal, equal parts. Has never had a colt do 
better. 
stock is no better housed ; we have as few 
diseases, as few fevers and colds ; consume 
less fuel , and our houses arc just as warm as 
theirs. Now, then, where does the “ advan¬ 
tage” come in, of having screens, or forest 
belts, or even a wilderness of piue, and fir, 
and cedar, &c., to westward, or northward, 
or in any other direction ? 
It is quite easy to speculate and theorize, 
when one’s imagination is very active. More 
than this. I have witnessed the trail of the 
tornado, or liurricaue, through these vast 
forests of gigantic oaks and pines, and have 
nor do they resemble our sassafras, but are 
low, herbaceous plants, growing from three 
to six feet high. We do not know to what 
particular plant the learned Doctor refers, 
and it is quite probable that he is quite as 
ignorant upon this point as ourselves. 
rbnrintltmrc 
isatssions 
AMERICAN INST. FARMERS’ CLUB, 
THE GLYPT0STR0BTJS, 
Note* of Discussion*, Extract* from I.et 
ter*, «fcc. 
To tho many beautiful and rare trees 
figured and described in our columns, we 
add another this week, which cannot fail to 
attract the attention of our readers. The 
Glyptostrobus pendulus is one of the most 
magnificent of all our deciduous cone-bear¬ 
ing trees, even excelling the larch in its 
graceful habit and feather-like foliage. The 
name of the genus is derived from glyph ), 
embossed, and strobus , a strobile or cone, and 
the specific name pendulus refers to the lit¬ 
tle drooping spray or branclilets upon the 
large and somewhat horizontal branches. 
The different species of Glyptostrobus were 
formerly placed among the 'Taxodimns , and 
nearly related to our Southern Cypress; but 
Endliciier and other scientific botanists 
have decided that they are sufficiently dis¬ 
tinct to form a separate genus. 
Until the past few years, the young plants 
were scarce, and commanded a far too high 
price for purchasers with limited means, but 
they are now abundant iu our larger nurse¬ 
ries, and fair specimens can be had for $1 to 
$:j each. Our illustration was made from 
one of the many fine specimens in the 
grounds of Messrs. Parsons & Co., and we 
may safely conclude the species under con¬ 
sideration will prove perfectly hardy in near¬ 
ly all of the Northern States, It is a rapid 
and vigorous grower, and soon attains the 
bight of twenty or thirty feet. 
It is a singular fact in the history of this 
genus, that although it is now found only in 
Northern China and Japan, there was a time, 
many hundreds of centuries ago, when it 
flourished all over this Continent, and in the 
northern portion of Europe and Asia, but 
became extinct, ouly a remnant remaining 
in the regions named. 
Wo do not suppose that human eye ever 
saw the forests of American Glyptostrobus, 
but fossils found, belonging to the Miocene 
period, show quite conclusively that they 
once existed. Those persons who have a 
penchant for collecting data to prove that 
both genera and species of plants are likely 
to run out ami deteriorate, should make a 
note of this peculiar instance of longevity, 
and ask themselves the question, “ IIow long, 
oh, Glyptostrobus, have you, and will you, 
thrive upon this changeable planet?’* 
ARBORIOIJLTTJRAL NOTES, 
Sheep and Dog*.— A. Reeder, Rlilnoiieck. N. 
Y., asks whether tho keeping of sheep is a gooff 
investment, taking the risk of bavinjr them de¬ 
stroyed at any time—with hay at #30 per ton 
and land #100 per acre. Ho assorts, “We find 
dogs arc superseding sheep In tills couuty of 
About Pruiiiua- 
We find the following quoted paragraph 
in several exchanges, and do not know its 
origin;—“An experienced pear culturiat 
Duchess, It not, throughout the State, and we 
come to you for help.” Ho further expresses 
tho opinion that, a much larger tax should bo 
imposed, and that now levied scarcely pays tho 
expenso of collection. Shallow and silly at¬ 
tempts at, wit on (ho part, of members followed 
the Introduction of this matter of importance 
and grave concern to the sheep growers of the 
country. 
Ncliruskn Note*. -C. J. Lamh, Dryden, Jeffer¬ 
son Co., Nebraska, write* of that locality:— 'Vo 
have sufficient timber, line water, building 
stone, &c. There is almost, any amount of va¬ 
cant Government laud yet. Our soil is a rich 
black loam, generally three feet deep, but vary¬ 
ing from one to forty feet, Good water is found 
by digging from twelve to sixty feet, usually 
about thirty-two feet. Tho surfae varies from 
rough and hilly to level, usual I- nicely rolling; 
so any one can bo suited. Settlers mostly from 
the Eastern States. But few foreigners. Loeat 
in Nebraska or Northern Kansas, where you can 
get 160 acres of land for $14.50. Consumptiv * 
get well hero. Remember—the Republican 
River, Northern Kansas. If you think f taking 
a homestead anywhere, sond to the Lund Com¬ 
missioner, Washington, D. C., for a copy of the 
law. 
A Clerk In Poor llenltli who went in Farming,— 
A. 1), Oarlock, I’omhontns, Iowa, wrote: Four 
years ago l was n clerk in a store, where I had 
been for twelve years. My health was very 
poor, and falling, when I took your advice, and 
went to work on a farm. It worked liken charm. 
I found out-door work and sunshine tho best 
medicine I ever took; have not seen a aide day 
for three years; am now as hardy as most farm¬ 
ers, and am contented. Two years ago I came 
to North Weston, Iowa, and look nte a home* 
stead there, sixty miles from a railroad. This 
year the Dubuque ami Sioux Gity Railroad was 
built through our township. There is now no 
Government land here, but there are a good 
many claims Tor sale cheap, as many came here 
and took homesteads, and had no money to im¬ 
prove with, Sonio will manage to get along, 
while others will sellout and go back. A man 
should have from $600 to #1,000 to commence on 
a homestead wil.li. This is a good place for a 
poor man to get a farm; the climate is good, 
fuel plenty, (coal,) no timber, lumber reasona¬ 
ble, and a fine dairy country. If any one should 
want any iu formation of mo In regard to the 
country, anything l can inform thorn, I shall be 
willing to do so, provided they send me stamped 
envelopes with their addresses and wants, and I 
will answer to the best of my ability, t have no 
land for sale—have nono but my homestead. 
With my best wishes for your prosperity, and 
may you long continue doing tho good work. 
Wheat v». Corn. — 0- K- Marsh, Marshnll- 
towu, Iowa, asked whether wheat exhausts soil 
more thau corn or not. Mr. Crane said yes. 
Prof. Squelch said yes, of certain coustltueuts, 
and uo of others. 
Geo. A. Deitz’* Pig*.—S. J. Riley, Lima, Ohio, 
wrote the club:—“Some two months since I 
ordered a pair of pigs from Georqe A. Deitz 
of Cbarnbersburg, Pa., forwardiog $40, which lie 
had previously named as their price. When the 
pigs arrived, they were iu very poor condition, 
oue having a very severe diarrhea, and looking 
as though it never had been lu good condition. 
I think it must have been taken from the dam 
at three or four weeks of age. I have taken 
good care of it, but its joints aro getting at Ilf. 
Each shoulder has swollen to almost twice its 
proper slzo. Its skin is covered with red spots 
and lumps, lrs breathing is labored and short. 
I would like to know what I must do for it— 
whether it has some disease common to the hog 
family, whether it Is the necessary consequence 
of buying plgswltlioutseeingthem,and whether 
It Is common for people to ho swindled in this 
manner. The pigs were represented to bo 
thoroughbred and in good condition, but they 
are neither. Can tho Club recommend sonio 
trustworthy and reliable dealer iu thorough¬ 
bred sl ock and farm seed ? It is not very pleas¬ 
ant. to pay extortionate prices for Inferior 
articles when one can get good articles for rea¬ 
sonable rates.” 
Dr. Hexamer said it seemed to him so shoi't- 
F0RESTS AS A PROTECTION. 
At a meeting of the Rochester (N. Y.) 
Farmers’ Club, recently, a member expressed 
his disbelief in ihe generally accepted opinion 
that forests of timber mitigate the severity 
of the weather. This may be set down as 
an open question,requiring careful scicutiilc 
and philosophical experiment and observa¬ 
tion, in order to determine it properly and 
truthfully. As to myself, I must confess to 
a considerable skepticism in the belief that 
forests, or artificial wiud breaks, have any 
perceptible effect upon the country, or locali¬ 
ty thus “ protected.” (?) 
I am governed in my opinion by a close 
observation of the effects produced by the 
removal of large bodies of timber from cer¬ 
tain localities; and I cannot, for tile life of 
me, discover (lie slightest effect upon the 
state of the thermometer, or any difference 
in the yield of crops before and alter the re¬ 
moval of ihe forests. 1 have uot observed 
this matter in a single isolated locality only, 
but in many localities, and to a large extent 
in diversified soils and climates. Hence, I 
infer, that when differences are observed in 
the production of crops and the average 
state of the weather, these results must be 
traced to different causes Ilian protection or 
non-protection by forests, wind breaks, or 
timber belts. 
Who has not observed the severity of 
winter in vast mountains and forests? where 
one would think the ground, the crops, the 
stock, and the people themselves, would find 
comfortable shelter from the blast, sur¬ 
rounded as they are by hundreds of miles of 
dense and almost impenetrable wilderness, 
with mountains all around, covered with 
pine, fir, and oilier kinds of trees which are 
supposed to be the best of all kinds of trees 
as a means of shelter. If vast forests of tall 
trees have any tendency whatever to miti¬ 
gate the rigors of winter, why is it that in 
many such places the thermometer marks 
from five to twenty degrees below zero ? 
I live upon a high plateau, or table-land, 
where the wind has an unbroken sweep for 
miles around, on every side, and my ther¬ 
mometer invariably marks several degrees 
warmer than the same kind of thermometer 
exhibits in several distinct localities several 
miles from me, in the midst of an almost un¬ 
broken wilderness, where Hie trees are not 
only quite thick , but from ten to one hun¬ 
dred and twenty feet high. Besides this, 
crops of all kiuds—including large and small 
fri.its—yield fruit as regular!v and as ubund- 
THE BREAD FRUIT. 
ortsman 
Dr. Stevens of New York says:—“ I have 
seen the natives preparing the Dread fruit of 
Brazil for use. The plant, resembles very closely 
our sassafras; it has tho same rough bark and 
tiie stone palmate leaf. Tlio food 1* derived 
from the root, and R probably produces a larger 
amount of food from a given area of ground 
Ihim any other plant. A yield of .1,000, 4,000, or 
5,000 bushels to tho aero is nol uncommon, and 
tho cultivation is of the roughest kind. In fact, 
It lias nu cnltivniinii, except idunt.log, TLiuuni¬ 
versal South American knife, the machete, is 
used to OUt a hole iu the sod, the plant Is Insert¬ 
ed, and left to take its chance. It is sure to tako 
Us chance, however. It will root out all other 
plants, aud can not itself lie destroyed. The root 
is grated in mills, the milk flows away, and the 
pulp is dried for food. The milk 1 b wasted by 
the hogshead! I have seen a river while with it 
for a long distance below thogrnting mill. This 
milk Is poisonous, and it contains the sapona¬ 
ceous principle."— Exchange. 
W hen or how Dr. Stevens ever happened 
to write such a paragraph we do not pre¬ 
tend to know. It is, however, only another 
of tlie many thousands where the use of 
common names for scientific subjects have 
led to fearful blunders. The true Bread 
fruit grows upon a tree, known to botanists 
as Artocarpm, a name derived from two 
Greek words, signifying bread and fruit. 
There are many species; at least a dozen 
are found in South America aud the adjacent 
islands; others are natives of the East In¬ 
dies. Borne of the species produce fruit as 
large as a child’s head. The outer coat or 
skin is very rough, but thin, and easily peel¬ 
ed off. The eatable portion is that which 
lies between the skin and core, and is 
white, resembling new bread. The fruit 
grows upon a huge tree resembling the oak, 
but with larger leaves. Neither the roots 
or fruit is grated, but the former is prepared 
for eating by merely cutting into pieces and 
then roasted. 
We presume that Dr. Stevens, in the 
above paragraph, intended to refer to the 
Arrow root, {Marantu) or perhaps to Canon 
edulis, as both are cultivated in Brazil, aud 
other portions of South America, for their 
flesh roots. They are not trees, however, 
• A Fox Terrier. 
Herewith is given an illustration of 
what, is known as an English Fox Terrier, 
We learn that some have been recently im¬ 
ported into this country, but we have never 
seen one; nor can wo And anything in. any 
books at our command which gives any in¬ 
formation of value to our readers. This 
drawing is by Samuel Carter, an English 
artist of reputation, and we are bound to 
believe it a good one. Do our readers know 
any ting about this animal ? 
To Clean a Shot Guu. 
Among the sporting notes in the Rural 
New-Yorker, I have noticed several differ¬ 
ent ways of cleaning a shot gun. I will send 
you my way. I first take the barrels off 
from tlio stock ; then take vinegar enough to 
fill the barrels, and heat it. boiling hot, pour 
it into the barrels, aud let it stand until it 
stops foaming over at the muzzle, letting 
some run through the tubes; then take the 
cleaning rod and rub the inside of the bar¬ 
rels ; then take water, hot enough to warm 
the barrels, and rinse out until Hie water is 
perfectly clear; then, with the cleaning rod, 
wipe the gun out. perfectly dry, after which 
put a little sweet oil on a bit of cloth, and 
rub on the barrels, both on the inside and 
outside, and your gun is clean. The vinegar 
removes all stain and smut, and the water 
and oil prevent it from rusting, or hurting 
the gun in any way. —B. B. E., Franklin, Ct. 
Sportsmen’* Inquiries. T. Willard asks sonio 
of the boys to tell him how to make a squirrel 
trap.—“ A Sportsman” asks some one to tell him 
how to make gun cotton.—J. T. S. writes:—“I 
would like the readers of tho Rural New- 
Yorker to tell me how to trap the otter. 
