known of the so-failed difference, should 
have called them all the same. I procured 
my seed from Mr. Geo. Campbell himself, 
so there could uot be any doubt but I got the 
genuine. I would like to get what mine have 
cost me, and let all Late Roses in future go by 
defualt. 1 will say that I have tried nearly 
all the new sorts of potatoes, and have been 
bt..l bag Peruvian guano. 103 lbs. at 
$O.Ui. 
Aug. 0,187;?.—6. John Moore, 191! Front St., 1 bair 
guano, loi lbs., ^ 
Aug. 0, 1S73,—7. E. A. Reeves, 58 anti 00 Court- 
laudt S^.^bag No. 1 Peruvian guano JOT lbs., 
July3& JS73.—S. JEt, H. Allen & Co., 189 and 191 
t i 1 hiX S guano, 170 lbs., at 4c., *0.80. 
July 18 t 2.— 9. Chapman & Van AVyck, 170 
front st., 1 bag No. 1 Peruvian guano, 168 
to compare the results above-given, and 
that it is not intended by your committee 
to assert that the assumed standard of values 
or method of computation is correct—still less 
that the figures given represent the true or 
even the approximate value.to the farmer of 
the several samples. 
John Stanton Gould, ), 
Isaac H. Cocks, j t ' om - 
WEIGHT OF PIGS, 
I butchered, on Dec. 12, five pigs (Chester 
stock) that averaged 186 pounds net. They 
came on the loth of last June, which 
makes them 180 days old. consequently they 
have gained over one pound per day. Can 
this be beat * A Subscriber. 
Bridgeport, O. 
THE LATE ROSE POTATOES. 
I.v the Rural New-Yorker for Jan. 11th 
you publish the experiments of T, C. W., W. 
R. Skeels of Jefferson Co., N. Y., and of S. 
A. Felton, Sauk Co., Wis., with Campbell’s 
Late Rose potato. Having planted 4 lbs., or, 
rather, what Mr, Campbell sent me for 4 
lbs., (being a little mure than 3j< lbs. of pota¬ 
toes, the balance being material used in the 
package in which they were sent,) 1 will send 
you my success with them and their table 
qualities as developed on my soil, etc. They 
were cut to single eyes nud planted In the 
field with the. other sorts, on ground that had 
been manured broadcast the year previous, 
and planted to corn ; the ground was conn 
parativeJy new, as it had been tile-drained a 
few years since, and not plowed since it was 
cleared, till 18. >9, when a crop of corn was 
taken off, then a, crop of oats and wheat fol¬ 
lowed ; since then it had laid in grass, as also 
previous. .Since it was cleared all the crops 
mentioned were good, and some of them, es¬ 
pecially since draining, were remarkably so- 
so much so, that farmers came from a dis¬ 
tance to see the result, which was astonishing, 
especially the corn and oat crops, and also 
the grass <: rops that followed. The corn crop 
in 1871 was a heavy one, and a large crop ol 
potatoes was expected tlie year past, from 
the condition of the soil and previous crops, 
Mr. Campbell’s statements were very flat¬ 
tering as to their yield und quality, In re¬ 
gal’d to their yielding properties he said they 
would yield twice as much as any other va¬ 
riety, not excepting the Peerless, On one 
side of them I planted a seedling potato sent 
me by Mr, N. 1’. Burpee of N. B. ; on the 
other side the Lapstone Kidney, while the 
Peerless and Thorburn’s Late Rose were 
planted adjacent, in a plot of two or three 
acres. In regard to their growth I t hink- 
nothing will stop that but the frost in this 
latitude, as the tops were rank and green till 
frost killed them the Kith of Oct., which wus 
much later than is usual here. The result 
was i had, when dug, about % bushels of 
the meanest, most scraggy potatoes that 1 
ever saw dug, and 1 have seen them dug and 
have bundled them for the past 00 years ; 
while the seedling of Mr. Burpee gave me 
fully double of fine, smooth potatoes; also 
the Lapstone Kidney did the same. 
When harvested, then comes the test of 
eating qualities. From what was said of 
them by Mr. Campbell, 1 supposed that they 
at least would be fair, if nothing more ; but 
after the testing, by boiling, we (that is, all 
the family, including hired help) decided that 
the quality for the table was very poor ; in 
fact, they are absolutely rank to the taste. 
The potatoes are highly colored on the out¬ 
side, and the coloring matter pervades the 
fleshy part of the potato, so much that it 
does uod disappear in the cooking, conse¬ 
quently it is not so white as the Peach Blow, 
nor nearly so good. The specimens I have 
grown have the color, only darker, that the 
old Merino Potato had yearn ago when that 
sort was common ; also the same red streaks 
through the potato when cooked, us also the 
rank, smarting taste of that variety, and I 
should say that, if it is a seedling of the Early 
Rose, as is claimed for it, that it must have 
been fertilized by some rank, late-growing 
sort 5 at any rate the deep color, and lateness 
of the potato, will condemn it us a cropper, 
even if the quality should improve, as 1 do 
not believe it will; and my advice to the 
readers of the Rural would be, to give | 
Campbell’s Late Rose a wide berth, as 1 be- j 
lieve it to be another bug of the Ramsdell 
Norway Oats style. 
The soil was a clayey loam, with clayey j 
subsoil; the season very wet and warm, j 
planted on ground where corn had been grown 
the previous year, well manured with green 
manure plowed under five inches deep; 
plowed eight inches deep in the Spring be- C 
fore planting potatoes, what could haveeaus- ° 
ed the difference in yield, and especially in 11 
quality ? T. C. W. don’t tell us the soil or S 
when he grew the potatoes. S. A. Pelton’s £ 
soil was similar to mine, but the result wide- -A 
ly different. . 
A 
Thorbum’s Late Rose I consider vastly su¬ 
perior to Campbell's ; in fact, Thorburn’s and A 
Early Rose were so near alike that had 1 not A 
very often disappointed, no one of them fill¬ 
ing the advertiser’s bill as to yield und quali¬ 
ty. The Excelsior stands at the head of the 
list as a table potato ; it has some defects. 
The Early Rose is the best yet for an early 
potato, taking into consideration all its good 
qualities. 1 might tell of thirty or forty va¬ 
rieties more as tested by me, but why say 
more. Jonathan Talcott. 
Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y. 
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ORCHARD GRASS AND ALSIKE CLOVER. 
In answer to an inquiry, the editor of the 
Mass. Ploughman says♦.—We have tried 
orchard grass pretty thoroughly and have 
come to this conclusion. If most of the other 
grasses on the farm are late, that is if they 
are mostly Timothy, red top, etc., we would 
sow orchard grass, because it is desirable to j 
have some fields that can be cut earlier than 
others. That is a great advantage and coun¬ 
terbalances some of the disadvantages of 
orchard grass, such as its tendency to grow 
in bunches, and its hard and wiry nature, if 
not cut early, etc. If orchard grass is sown 
alone, or only with clovers, we should use at 
least two bushels of seed to the acre. With 
timothy and other grasses that ure late, it 
does not do so well, because it is lit to cut at 
least tliree weeks before Timothy, but with 
clover it is oven better than Timothy. If we 
were going to mix any natural grass with it 
we should get a little perennial rye grass. 
But orchard grass may be sown thickly with 
red and alsike clover, say five pounds of red 
clover seed and five pounds of alsike. If 
only red clover seed is used it ought to be at 
least ten pounds to the acre, and fifteen is bet¬ 
ter. But alsike seed is much smaller than 
mi clover seed and you get a vastly greater 
number of plants. Alsike will not show a 
great deal the first Season. If you sow red 
cliiver it ought to give a fair crop the first 
year and when it begins to disappear the 
second year you will find the alsike. The 
lat ter is a perennial, and it will last some 
years unless it is killed out by the severity 
of the Winter. Tt does not seem to be per¬ 
fectly hardy. Tt will sometimes got killed 
out, but it ought to remain several years. 
Orchard grass will bear the shade and a rich 
soil. It grows more rapidly after being cut 
or led off than any other grass we know, but 
the second crop does not send up dowering 
stalks, and does not, therefore, grow ,so tall 
and imposing as tin-first crop, but it grows 
tun ic and makes a bulky, though not so very 
heavy a burden. Sowing it very thickly 
prevents it from growing- so much in clumps 
and gives it a fiuer grow th. Two bushels of 
seed to .the acre is little enough and more 
would be better. With orchard grass, clover 
and alsike the cost of the seed will be rather 
greater than Timothy and red top, but if you 
have never grown this grass we advise you to 
try it. JSow it as early in the Spring os you 
can, give it a good chance and you will see 
how you like it. But. do not make up your 
mind till the second year, when you will like 
it, we think. 
dfiitjnt (iq'oncmy. 
GUANO-AS SOLD IN NEW YORK, 
To the Executive Committee of the New York 
Stale Agricultural Society: 
The undersigned having been appointed a 
Chemical Committee under the resolution of 
the Executive Committee passed May 4, 1872, 
and instructed to obtain samples of Guauos 
sold at retail in the city of New York, and to 
have, them analyzed by Mr, William M. 
Habirsuaw (analyst to the chemical trade of 
that city), who had offered In's services to the 
Society for this investigation, respectfully re¬ 
port : 
That they caused to be purchased of each of 
the dealers and ii ims named below, one bag 
of guano at the dates and prices below stated, 
and numbered the same as below, the same 
numbers being referred to in the analyses 
given in this report: 
Aug. 9,1872—10. George E. White, 160 Front St., 
1 bag No. 1 Peruvian Chincha, 180 lbs., at 4c., 
$7.30. 
That these purchases were all made by Mr. 
Cocks of your committee, and shipped to his 
farm at Old West bury, L. T., by railroad. 
That, for purposes of comparison, your com¬ 
mittee obtained of Messrs. Hobson, Hurtado 
& Co., the agents of the Peruvian Govern¬ 
ment in New York City, a bag of Guanape 
Guano, numbered 11, and of the Manhattan 
Manufacturing and Fertilizing Company, n 
bag of their nitrogenized superphosphate, 
sold under the name of Phosphatic Blood Gu¬ 
ano, numbered 12 in this report. 
That the severul bags so purchased were 
conveyed to t he residence of Mr. Cocks as 
speedily and directly as possible, and there 
carefully sampled by your committee, the 
samples put into sealed glass jars and num¬ 
bered I to XU (1 to 12), as above, and deliv¬ 
ered to Mi - . IIabirshaw for analysis. 
That on t he 21st day of October they re¬ 
ceived the report, and analyses of the said 12 
samples from Mr. Habirshaw, as given in the 
accompanying table, dated New York City, 
Oct. 10, 1872. 
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" liter St., 1 bag guano. 170 lfis., $6.37. 
Aug.y. mii-s i; H. Kevees & Co., 184 and 195 
V\ atrr Mt.. 185 iba. guano. $6,94. 
Aug. 6,1873.—3. Decatur &• Cuxe, 197 Water St., 
179 lbs. guano. 3-iiC.. *6.72. 
Aug. 9, 1872. 4. Geo. Ricardo. 195 Water St... 1 
bug guano, r,K His. at $6.67. 
Aug. 6, 1872 —6. Vanderbilt Brothers, 23 Fulton 
For the purpose of showing how largely the 
several samples vary in value, we append the 
following results of a computation in which it 
was assumed that the vttlue of nitrogen is 17 
cents in gold per lb., and of phosphoric acid 
10 cents in gold per lb., and that no other con¬ 
stituents should be taken into account. The 
values were thus computed for each of the 
samples I to XI, per ton of 2,000 lbs., and are 
(in gold) as follows : 
No. of sample. I II HI IV V VI 
Value....$32.97 $24.78 $83.28 $33.56 $69.00 $65.99 
No. of amnple, VII vm IX X XI 
Value ... 42.35 54.44 54.60 31.74 66.75 
We desire to be dearly understood that 
these results, as regards mauurial values, are 
given merely for the sake of enabling persons 
who may take an interest in the suhieet 
SUFFOLK SWINE. 
The Committee on Suffolks made the fol¬ 
lowing report to the late National Swine 
I Breeders’ Convention, which will answer 
e many inquiries, though it may provoke dis- 
II sent from breeders. The Committee reported 
a as follows: 
Mr. Sidney saj-s ; Yorkshire stands in the 
1 ‘ first rank as a pig breeding county, possessing 
the largest white breed in England as well as 
' an excellent medium and small breed, all 
s white, the last of which transplanted into the 
‘‘ South, has figured and won prizes under the 
*' names of divers nobleman and gentlemen, and 
in more than one county. The Yorkshires 
are closely allied with the Cumberland breeds, 
and have been so much intermixed that with 
- the except ion of the very largest breeds, it is 
~ difficult to tell wheru the Cumberland begins 
e and where the Yorkshire ends. It will be 
. enough to say, for t he present, that the mod¬ 
ern Manchester boar, the improved Suffolk, 
the improved Middlesex, the Colt-shill, and 
the Prince Albert or Windsor, were all found¬ 
ed on Yorkshire-Ctunbcrland stock, and some 
of them are merely pure Yorkshire's trans¬ 
planted and re-christened. 
Speaking of pigs kept in the daii-y district, 
of Cheshire, he says, “ white pigs have not 
found favor with the dairymen of Cheshire, 
and the white ones most used are Manchester 
boars, another name for the Yorkghire-Cum- 
berland breed.” He says in another place, 
and all the authors who have followed him, 
down to the latest published work on the sub¬ 
ject, occupy space in describing various coun¬ 
ty pigs, which have long ewu-cd to possess, if 
ever they possessed, any merit worthy of the 
attention of the breeder. Thus the Norfolk, 
the Suffolk, the Bedford, the Cheshire, have 
each separate notice, not one of which except 
the Suffolk, is wort hy of cultivation, and the 
Suffolk is only another name for a small 
Yorkshire pig. 
Characteririicst. —Head, small, very short ; 
cheeks, prominent and full; face, dished ; 
snout small and veiy short; jowl, flue ; ears,' 
short, small, thin, upright, soft und silky ; 
neck, very short and thick, the head appear¬ 
ing almost as if set on front of shoulders, no 
arching of crest; chest, wide and deep—el¬ 
bows standing out; brisket, wide but not 
deep; shoulders, thick, rather upright, round¬ 
ing outwards from top to elbow ; crops, wide 
and full. Sides mul flanks, loug ribs, well 
arched out from back, good length between. 
Shoulders and hams, llank well filled out, and 
coming well down at ham ; back, broad, level 
and straight from crest to tail, no falling off 
or down at tail ; hams, wide and full, well 
rounded out, twist very wide aud fuff all the 
way down ; legs small and very short, stand¬ 
ing wide apart, in sows just keeping belly 
from the ground; bone fine; feet, small, 
hoofs rather spreading ; tail, small, long and 
tapering ; skin, thin, of u pinkish shade, free 
from color; hair, fine and silky, not too thick ; 
color of hail- pale yellowish white, perfectly 
free from any spots or other color ; size, small 
to medium. 
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PIGS DISEASED. 
I have a fine litter of pigs about five weeks 
old. Two days ago I noticed one of them 
breathing hard ; at noon it was worse, and 
kept getting worse ; at night could scarcely 
breathe (could hear it ten rods away) ; found 
it dead the next morning. I opened it and 
found the lungs a dark color and quite rot¬ 
ten ; also some pus in the windpipe close to 
the lungs. To-day had another one taken 
the same wav ; it was so near dead that even¬ 
ing that I killed it, opened it, and found about 
three-quarters of the lungs diseased ; the oth¬ 
er one-quarter looked healthy. Am afraid I 
■shall lose all of them. Have beeu looking 
over my old Rural* but fail to find any¬ 
thing like it. Can you or any of my Rural 
friends tell me what ails the pigs and what to 
do for them t e. a. s. 
Hudson, O. 
--♦♦♦- 
AHEAD ON PORKERS. 
I THINK Fulton Co., N. Y., is ahead on pork¬ 
ers ; for James Hale of tins County fed three 
pigs one year old and butchered them in Dec. 
last which weighed as follows :—78fi, 633 and 
572 lbs. respectively . or an aggregate of 1,935 
lbs. The breed was Chester Whites with a 
cross of Suff olk. Who can beat this i 
n a Af 
ivl©ORE’S BUBAL WEW-Y0BKE1. 
