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DAILY RURAL LITE. 
From tlie Dinry of a (icnllinnaii near Sew 
York City. 
June 12.—A splendid shower this morn¬ 
ing, putting a cheek upon weed killing, but 
affording a good opportunity for transplant¬ 
ing tomatoes, cabbages and similar vegeta¬ 
bles. Dr. Squelch of New York, who has 
been spending the Sabbath with me, went 
home this morning. lie is a splendid fel¬ 
low in appearance, hut 1 am quite sure that 
there must be a weak spot somewhere in his 
cranium, <>r he would not have remained 
single. The old bachelors may quote St. 
Paul ill justification of their conduct, but 
it is unnatural and an insult to nature for 
either man or woman to remain single. Of 
course, there are exceptional cases; and l 
am also willing to admit that some married 
folks insult nature to fully as great an extent 
us the unmarried. But as all members of 
Hie animal kingdom were created in pairs, 
those belonging to the getiue homo ought to 
take the hint and remember that neither sex 
is complete in itself. When 1 go to Con¬ 
gress, 1 shall introduce a suffrage bill, to 
wit., that no man shall be allowed to vote 
until lie is married and supports a wife. 
When a man lives to be forty years old 
without, being married, it’s a bad sign. 
June 18.- -The ground being too wet for hoe¬ 
ing, 1 have had my apple, trees examined for 
borers. Few were found, and those quickly 
destroyed by cut ting out with u .sharp-point¬ 
ed knife and a small gouge. Suckers had 
started around some of the trees, and these 
were pulled off, not cut. off above ground as 
practiced by far too many farmers. Many a 
good orchard has been ruined by allowing 
suckers to grow up unchecked from the base 
of the stems. 
June 14. — Have been to a strawberry 
show, held at Elizabeth under the auspices 
of the New Jersey State Agricultural Society. 
It seems to me that the usefulness of such 
exhibitions is Confined to a very small circle 
of men Who have some new sort of fruit 
which they wish to introduce to public 
notice without expense lo themselves. There 
were plenty of line strawberries on the 
tables, hut it was quite apparent that they 
were specially prepared for the occasion 
without regard to expense of production. 
There are thousands of men in New Jersey 
who grow strawberries for market, but not 
one of these men exhibited fruit, or put in an 
appearance at ibis show ; consequently if 
they get swindled with new prize sorts, they 
have no one to blame but themselves. 
June 15.—Last spring I received a plant 
from bnva, which was said to lie a new va¬ 
riety of Callirrhai involucnUa, It came into 
bloom to-day, and is just, what it was repre¬ 
sented to he, namely, a pure while variety of 
the above named species, which has deep 
crimson or reddish purple flowers. A white 
caMnlltt is quite a novelty, and will he high¬ 
ly prized, as it adds one more to our already 
extensive list of hardy herbaceous plants. 
C. involuemta is a unlive of the plains of Ne¬ 
braska, and is a low, trailing plant with 
flowers two inches in diameter. This new 
while sort resembles the species in every 
particular except in the color of its flowers. 
June 1(5.—A few of the Davison Black- 
Cap raspberries ripe lo-rlay. This is the 
earliest of the many varieties that I have. 
From present appearances the Doolittle will 
he next in order. The lair abundant sho wers 
will materially help the raspberry crop, 
June 17.—Mowed lawn and cleared lip 
walks. This is our Saturday work generally; 
far to have a good lawn, frequent mowing 
is necessary. Once a week is my rule. 
)f SUiine-ijfifi. 
PIG-PEN PAPERS. 
About llri'i'lltiiK from Sotvs. 
A. C. Moore, the most extensive breeder 
of Poland China hogs in Ibis conn try, allows 
his sows to have hut one litter a year, that 
to he dropped in April, May or June. Eight, 
months is as young as he allows pigs to cop¬ 
ulate. He thinks in-and-in breeding very in¬ 
jurious. 
t orlubire ami Chester Whites. 
Tint: Practical Farmer says:—“One of 
our correspondents and subscribers in 
Montgomery couuty inquires of us about the 
propriety of crossing the pure Yorkshire 
swine with our White Chesters. Since our 
lsl °f the Yorkshires, we felt satisfied 
Jhat this was just the change of blood that 
R * " k ‘ le Chesters would be improv'dl by • 
a " d wc ,1,illk '» skillful hands, a greatly im- 
P'oved breed can be established between 
mem, making beyond competition a farmer’s 
ilieir main points are not much at 
variance; the cross, in our opinion, will re- 
*-" t m a better animal than either is at 
present.” 
LIME FOR THE HAY MOW. 
At a meeting of the Elmira Farmers’ 
Club, President Hoffman presented samples 
of hay, timothy and the finer grasses mixed, 
and called the members to examine and pro¬ 
nounce on the quality. Two packages were 
called good and well saved, and the third 
injured in the mow. The first two were 
bright and fragrant,green in color, and with¬ 
out fault. The last was dull brown, of an 
old odor and plainly not well saved. He de¬ 
scribed the curing and care of the samples 
as follows: 
These three packages were cut in the 
same field, at the same time, and treated 
alike until drawn in the barn. All were 
moist, in fact too moist, The two packages 
with the bright, appearance arc taken, one 
from the side and one from within a mow, 
of fifty-two feel length, eighteen feet width 
and fourteen feet bight. Tim injured lot 
from a mow fourteen feet by twelve feet, 
and seven feet, high. The smaller mow was, 
of Cmtrse, more aired, and it. is reasonable to 
suppose should have dried out more thor¬ 
oughly, ami so saved the wet, hay better. 
The difference in treatment, is, the large 
mow was lined, and the small one was not, 
Three or four quarts of fresh slaked lime 
were scattered over each load of, say a ton, 
after it was slowed in the mow. For three 
weeks after these mows were put up they 
were examined every day. The. small one 
showed much moisture and much heat, 
while the large one, although moist, was 
cool. This hay has not. been tested by feed¬ 
ing, but all the appearances indicate great 
benefit from t he use of lime. 
ECONOMICAL NOTES. 
Clod ('ritftli<!r. 
I ENCLOSE you a sketch of a clod crusher 
which does better work and easier than any 
invention 1 ever saw. It is not indented and 
not of my invention; I made il. from the de¬ 
scription of one of my neighbors-; lie had 
seen one at work. Take two pieces two by 
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gill 
six or eight and round the end of each with 
your ax ; nail boards six feet long on the 
bottom (A A); bore, two holes (B B) with a 
halt inch bit; lake eight feet same sized rope 
and lie loop in middle; put, ends through 
holes and tie knot in each to keep it there. 
Hitch your team to it, jump on yourself and 
drive ahead Once going over will be suffi¬ 
cient. Your laud will he finer than .you 
could harrow it in a week. It. is heller than 
a roller, for it levels the land, does not pack 
it, and draws easier than either harrow or 
roller, and can he made by a boy ten years 
old in half an hour’s time.— J. 0. Hawkins, 
Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 
Tlnio to Cut Timber, 
A correspondent of the Southern Cul¬ 
tivator, in com mm Heating the following ex¬ 
periments, remarks that the best time to cut 
timber is when in full leaf—July and August, 
—and that the knowledge would have been 
worth thousands of dollars to him had he 
possessed it years ago: 
Lot No. 1 was cut in July, 18(50—house 
logs to put up cabin ; red oak. They were 
put up, but not covered; been exposed 
the whole time; still sound. 
No. 2 was square timber for gin bouses, 
of red oak, post oak and over eup, was got¬ 
ten out in December, I860; piled and cov¬ 
ered with plank till 1863 ; exposed since that 
time: sound on the outside about two inch' 
cs; perfectly rotten in the heart; red oak 
the worst rotted. 
No. 3 was of same kind of timber; sub- 
jeci to more exposure ; gotten out in June, 
1861; much sounder than No. 2 ; green lim¬ 
ber in July. 1851; subject to same exposure 
as No. 2; still quite sound. 
Mixed Fnrminir. 
I he Farmers’ Herald (Chester, England,) 
forcibly says: — “Mixed husbandry is need¬ 
ful to realize the full amount of profit; which 
the farm, properly managed, will yield. 
Every year t he price of farm products varies 
—some will be high and some low, and 
thus i lie farmer catches good prices for a 
pari, if not all; whereas, if he is wholly de¬ 
pendent upon one kind of crop, he may be 
wholly disappointed. A little sold of every¬ 
thing makes a muckle, and if one tliiug does 
not pay, another will. 
To (Jet Kid of Articlioken mul Horse 
Kndihli. 
A Subscriber at Clyde may gel rid of 
artichokes as J did of a bed of horse radish 
best summer, by cutting off’ the tops just 
below ttie ground, and treating each one 
with a little kerosene from the mouth of the 
can. Only a few feeble sprigs appeared 
this year. I wish we could get rid of the 
currant worm and eureulio as easily.—M rs 
S. 0. 0., Penn Tan, N. Y. 
BLUE GLASS; 
Effects on Animal anil Veaetnble Life. 
Gen. Pleasonton, at a meeting of the 
Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, 
recently read an essay on the use of blue 
glass in the development of vegetable and 
animal life, in which be gave, the results of 
experiments during ten years. He gave an 
account of an experiment of bis own with 
a grapery eighty-four by twenty-six feet, 
and sixteen feet in bight at the ridge. Into 
the glazing of tlic grapery, at every seventh 
row of while panes, a row of violet panes 
(blue not being at the time procurable) had 
been introduced, alternating on opposite 
sides of the roof, so that a violet beam 
might fall eventually on every leaf in the 
grapery. The cult,ings planted had grown 
very rapidly. The gardener was kept busy 
daily in tying up new wood which the day 
before he had- not observed. In a few weeks 
after planting the walls and the inside of the 
roof were closely covered with luxuriant 
foliage. A distinguished seedsman lmd 
borne his testimony that lie had never seen 
any vines that equaled those thus treated. 
The vines were planted in April, 1861. In 
1862 they bore a wonderful number of 
hunches, It was found that the building, 
small as it was, contained no less than 1,200 
pounds of grapes. In 1803 the amount of 
fruit was quite as large as during the pre¬ 
ceding year, and so it lias continued season 
afier season without abatement, the vines 
seeming to require no lime to rest. 
The next experiment, was with the pig¬ 
gery ; a glazed roof half white and halt 
violet, was placed over the building, and 
similar results were obtained, the animals 
thriving beyond expectation. An Alderney 
calf, so puny and feeble that its life was 
despaired otf, was placed in a pen tinder 
violet glass. In twent v fourhonrs a marked 
change had occurred. The calf rose to its 
feet, walked about, the pen, took its food 
from the linger, and manifested great vi¬ 
vacity. In a few days its feebleness had dis¬ 
appeared ; il, began to grow, and ils devel¬ 
opment was marvelous. “ If,” continued 
General Pleasanton, “ by the combination 
of 8UH light, and blue-light from the sky you 
can mature quadrupeds in twelve months, 
its these experiments have proved, with no 
greater supply of food thnji would he used 
fora miniature animal Tit the same period, 
you can scarcely conceive of the value of 
this discovery to an agricultural people.” 
The same principles have been applied to 
the raising of poultry with the most remark¬ 
able success. In regard to the human family 
its influence would be widespread. You 
could invigorate the constitutions of invalids 
and develop in the young physical and ill 
tellectual vigor. 
USEFUL AND SCIEN TIFIC ITEMS. 
Term Cotta in Georsia. 
A correspondent informs the Scientific 
American that terra cotta of the finest 
quality is found near Atlanta, On., and is 
now being worked info drain pipes, chim¬ 
ney tops, building ornaments, flower vases, 
garden statuary, fountains, etc. 
Silver Snap lilt Cleaning Silver mid Brit- 
tumiiii. 
One-half pound of soap, three table- 
spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine, and half 
•x tumbler of water. Let it, boil ten min¬ 
utes; add six tablcspoonfuls of spirits of 
hartshorn. Make suds of this and wash 
with it. 
Vegetable Carbolic Acid. 
We read that a plant called the the An- 
(h'omeda fjCecIusnauM, growing in the Neil- 
gherry hills in India, has been found to yield 
carbolic acid. Mr. B no coition, the Gov¬ 
ernment medical officer for I lie district, re¬ 
ports that it is far superior in purity to the 
ordinary product of coal tar, being less de¬ 
liquescent and free from any admixture of 
noxious concomitants. As its cost is far 
above that of the mineral product, and as 
the latter can he chemically purified, the 
discovery has no economical or commercial 
value; but it is interesting as a botanical 
and chemical fact. 
Lonsr vs. Short Lamp Wicks. 
A correspondent of Hie Scientific 
American says i— “Allow me to give your 
numerous readers the benefit of my experi¬ 
ence with long wicks. 1 cram all the wick 
that 1 possibly can into the lamp, fill yp the 
interstices with sponge, and saturate the 
whole thoroughly with kerosene. 1 have 
always found the supply sufficient for the 
longest winter’s night; as long as any oil 
remains in the wick, the lump keeps burn¬ 
ing. 1 have, had this fairly tested. One of 
my little ones—a two-year-okl—contrived to 
unset a small table supporting a lamp. With 
tlioexception of breaking llieglass, no further 
damage was done, not even soiling the car¬ 
pet. In fact, my plan was brought about 
from a similar accident, and a narrow es¬ 
cape from serious damage. As the wick 
burns away I keep filling up with sponge, 
and I think I have the nearest approach to 
a safety lamp.” 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
BY C. V. RILEY. 
Apple Twin Racer. 
We have boon examining our apple trees, and 
And small holes bored in the forks, as like the 
specimens inclosed. I can ttml no insects in 
them. C. W. G., Clark Co ., Mo. 
. . \ The insect which bored 
' K) les is the common 
yyVv T) Twig Borer, ( Ifos/richus 
y i 7y J tnca.adnt\is— Bay). It, is 
Ujx very common the present 
a. b. year, and the subjoined 
letter, also asking for a name through the 
Rural New-Yorker, conveys a correct, 
idea of the manner in which it works: 
Inclosed, I solid you an Insect. I wish to know 
if it is known, and if so, its name anil the best, 
method Of proven tins: its ru vanes, ft. is Dm (Inst 
Insect that 1 find lime at work in the spring. It 
bores a hole into the tree between llu» limbs, 
noil in down in the fork, it Imries itself about 
an Inch, cuttlug out the heart of the yotiinr 
tree; then il pomes out; the hole is left open, 
and il cutcfms water and causes an unsound 
place in tlm tree. I f ii dopositsan can. that egg 
is so smalt Unit 1 cannot discover it with the 
eye.—N. (!. Haunts, Wliitanlorn, Tr.rax. 
Both the male and female beetles bore 
these holes, and may always be found in 
them, head downwards, during the winter 
and spring months. The holes are made for 
food and protection, and not for breeding 
purposes. Indeed, common as this insect is, 
its preparatory stages are entirely unknown, 
and that person who will ascertain its larval 
history, will rotifer a favor on the communi 
ty. I have bred a very closely allied species 
( Sino.ri/lon fa Milan x, Say,) from grape canes, 
which the larva much injured by boring tin 
tier the. bark ; and our Apple Twig Borer, in 
accordance with the habits of Ihe family, 
will be found to similarly hove .sonuakiml of 
tree, Our figures represent, the male at /> 
and female at, </, ihe former differing from 
Ihe latter in having two little horns project¬ 
ing from the hind part of ihe wing covers. 
Tho entrance which the beetle makes is seen 
at i\ and the usual length to which it. bores 
at d. The color of the beetle is dark Ixrown. 
I have never known this insect to bore 
more than one and a-balf inches into the. 
twig, and ihe holes are generally made 
downwards and in wood of the previous 
year’s growth, though I have seen them ex¬ 
ceptionally bored upward and in three- 
year-old wood. The beetles seem to prefer 
some varieties such us Benoni and lied June 
to other varieties of the apple, and though 
they likewise occur in grape, pear and 
peach stems, 1 have never found them in 
those of the crab apple. 
The only way to get rid of them is to cut 
off the infested twigs in early spring and 
burn them. When we know the larval hab¬ 
its, wc may he able to manage tbe rascals 
differently. 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
PolNimitiff l»- Colorado Potato IIuk. 
The Klkliom Independent gives an ac¬ 
count of a severe ease of poisoning of the 
right arm of a young girl who was picking 
Colorado potato beetles, She had a slight 
sore on her finger, and il is thought qnilc 
conclusive that the poisoning was caused by 
the beetles. But, wc doubt it. 
MimviIum tor Out*Worms. 
A correspondent of the St. Louis Jour¬ 
nal of Agriculture has discovered that a 
handful of sawdust placed around the root, 
of a plant will effectually protect, it from cut¬ 
worms. His experiment ing was on a pretty 
large scale, and in not. a single instance was 
there a failure. Hodoes not state what kind 
of wood the sawdust was from. 
The Tobacco Horn Worm. 
The Tobacco Plant says:—“ Every per¬ 
son who lives in a tobacco country knows 
bow troublesome to planters the horn worm 
is, and what labor it requires to destroy these 
insects, and so prevent them from riddling 
the tobacco leaves ns they ripen on flic hill. 
Some of our North Carolina neighbors, we 
leaijn, have of late adopted an easy method 
of protecting their tobacco crop against this 
worm. They simply use a composition of 
cobalt (or flystono), to lie bad nl all drug 
stores, which destroys the tobacco fiv that 
lays the eggs that, hatches the worm. The 
common Jamestown weed, which vegetates 
everywhere, is allow < d Co grow in limited 
numbers in Ihe tobacco ground;., and in the 
fence corners, and tbe cobalt in a powdered 
state, mixed in a solution of honey Water, is 
dropped in the blossoms of the plant. As 
the tobacco flies feed IVoill the flowers of this 
weed they imbibe the poison, which kills 
them almost instantaneously. We are told 
that where the specific is used the dead flies 
may be seen laid out on the ground far and 
near. Of course, the fly being dead, the egg 
is not laid, and the worm is not hatched.” 
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE. 
Is there a young man or woman in the 
country who is impatient to have a comfort¬ 
able home, kind and true friends and means 
of gaining a livelihood—to travel to the city 
ill quest of grander opportunities — some 
place where their love of display and excite¬ 
ment can be gratified, instead of plodding 
along in the seclusion of the country ? 
We would say to him or her, do not eomo 
with too sanguine hopes of success. Good 
situations do not. go a begging, and coming 
without money or friends in search of work 
is oft, attended with sufferings in mind and 
body. 
In the great, bustling city nobody cares 
wliat becomes of one stranger, and you 
might, walk from morning till night and 
scarcely receive a kind word of encourage¬ 
ment. People are intent upon their own 
pursuits, and have so many applications for 
work and help for the needy, that the addi¬ 
tion of one more to the number of suffering 
ones is not lelt by anybody. Not that every¬ 
body in town is selfish and uncharitable. 
Many a kind-hearted man or woman 
WOUld give you money for a night’s lodging, 
or to buy something to eat; but. you are no 
beggar—you ask for work, and arc too proud 
to receive charity. They have no work for 
you, and perhaps you may go hungry many 
a day before you find a place, and then, in 
desperation, accept a situation you would be 
too proud to take, in the country. 
Working on a farm is much easier than 
the. life of a city clerk, who must work 
t welve, fourteen often sixteen hours a day, in 
close, dark rooms, year in and year out, al¬ 
ways the same drudging life. 
You long to see life ! Stay where you are, 
even if you imagine yourself very miserable. 
Such misery is joy, compared to the strug¬ 
gles, privations, desperations and crimes, 
which wear and weigh upon the darkened 
spirits of multitudes who have come before 
you. . 
You might succeed, be very happy, and 
make a great fortune ; but, dependent, upon 
your own efforts, all alone, unaided by the 
counsel of kind parent# and the companion¬ 
ship of friends, the chances are decidedly 
against you.- FJm, Orton. 
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FEMALE MAGNETISM. 
A. commander in the Royal mail service 
found his steamer some thirty miles out of 
her course. He was sorely troubled, and 
could not account for the local attraction 
that had sent him so far out of the way. In¬ 
struments and calculations appeared equally 
faultless. Sorely troubled, from having pass¬ 
ed a sleepless, watchful night, the captain 
went on deck after breakfast. Seeing a lady 
sitting (as was her custom) and working 
near the binnacle, it occurred to him that 
probably Hie scissors were resting on the 
ledge of it. Defecting nothing of the sort, 
and bent on closer investigation, lie discov¬ 
ered that her elinir lmd an Iron frame. It 
also, quite reasonably, flashed across him 
that the lady’s ample crinoline was extend¬ 
ed by steel hoops. So, mustering all his 
faculties, he exclaimed, with as much for¬ 
giveness and ns little reproach in his tones 
as possible, “ Madam, you have, by your 
local attraction, drawn my ship some forty 
miles from Imr course!” 
SANDS OF GOLD. 
TnK road that ambition travels is too nar¬ 
row for friendship; too crooked for love; 
too rugged for honesty; and too dark for 
conscience. 
The tears of beauty arc like clouds float¬ 
ing over a heaven of stars, bedimming them 
a moment that they may slllne with a 
brighter luster than before. 
With love, the heart becomes a fair and 
fertilegarden, with sunshine and warm hues; 
and exhaling sweet odors; but without it, it 
is a, bleak desert covered with ashes. 
Life is divided into three terms: that 
which was, which is, which will be. Let 
us learn from the past to profit by the pres¬ 
ent, and from the present to live better for 
the fttture. 
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it 
with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; 
and we make up our minds every night to 
leave it early, but we make up our bodies 
every morning to keep it. late. 
An honest reputation is within the reach 
of all men : they obtain it by social virtues, 
and by doing their duty. J’his kind of 
reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor 
startling, but it is generally most couducive 
to happiness. 
The common course of things is in favor 
of happiness as the rule, misery the excep¬ 
tion. Were the order observed, our atten¬ 
tion would be called to examples of health 
and competency, instead of disease and 
want. 
