red over all the rest, and eaten by the children 
without satiety when they have lost relish for 
all other kinds. This, too, is found to be the 
case with sick persons for whom grapes have 
been recommended by physicians. And to 
show that the Iona is beginning to be appre¬ 
ciated in the markets, I will state that the 
past month I sent about a ton of this fruit to 
Columbus and Pittsburg, where it is sold free¬ 
ly at ten cents a pound when Catawbas would 
only bring eight cents.” 
We rejoice at Mr. Bateham’s success with 
this grape. It shows either a superior knowl¬ 
edge of culture which some good vignerons 
may question, or a peculiar adaptation of his 
soil to the vine. The general record on all of 
our Lake Shore, however, even to the Berlin 
Heights, the supremacy of it heretofore, is 
that, while it is a first class grape when well 
ripened, it does not as a rule ripen in the gen¬ 
erality of soils and ordinary cultivation. The 
Cleveland market, although surrounded with 
at least ten thousaud vines of beating age, of 
the Iona, have hardly had a thousand pounds 
offered for sale, and so far as we have met 
with cultivators who paid their hundreds of 
dollars for its vines, they arc disposed to erad 
ieate it. Wo like our friend’s enthusiasm on 
this variety, for it. undoubtedly once paid him 
well, and at the same time we give him due 
credit for the following caution taken from 
his article in the Ohio Farmer -.—“The vines 
by shaded lines,) and bolted fast to the same, 
allowing the reach to pass between, and is 
secured by a bolt with thin nut ; thus the 
space between the sleds can be shortened or 
lengthened in a moment’s time. 
Perhaps this way of coupling sleighs is fa¬ 
miliar to all, but I hardly think so; and if 
any one tries this method and is disappointed 
in its working to perfect satisfection, they 
may console themselves with the thought that 
it didn’t cost them anything. I think it can¬ 
not be beat; if it can, I should be very happy 
to see it. 
The drawing is made to represent tia- 
vois,” a kind of sled universally used in this 
section, the runners being about five inches 
tween round and oval in shape, and red in 
color ; it was distributed very evenly on the 
vines.' A correspondence developed the fact 
that the gentleman who sent it had for the 
past three seasons been testing it side by side 
with other standard varieties, and found that 
it ripened six to ten days earlier. This fact 
may be in part accounted for by its having 
been grown for years in a Northern latitude, 
while the utmost care had always been used 
in the selecting of seed stock. 
the; trophy tomato. 
■ ■- 
As frequent allusion has been made to the 
Trophy temato as being a late variety, and 
inclined to rot before the fruit was fully ripe, 
I will give the result of my experiments with 
it the past season, The seed was purchased 
of Geo. E. Waring, aud sown thinly in boxes 
in the house the 33d of February. Seed of 
the Gen. Grant tomato was sown at the same 
time, the soil used being a compost prepared 
the previous Autumn, of about, equal parts of 
garden soil, decayed sods and leaf mold from 
the woods, together with a small quantity of 
old manure, flue as powder, and a few hand¬ 
fuls of sand ; after the seeds were sown, a 
piece of old cotton cloth was spread over the 
soil, which was well moistened with warm 
water, the boxes covered with shingles and 
placed on the top of a cupboard, near the 
kitchen stove. 
In a week nearly every seed was up ; the 
covering was removed, und the boxes placed 
in a south window, where t he young plants 
grew apace ; the Gen. Grant taking the lead 
at first, though the Trophy made a vigorous 
growth when fairly started. 
On very cold nights they were stored in a 
novel greenhouse (a large wash boiler) behind 
the stove 
TRANSPLANTING GARDEN PLANTS. 
A gardener of experience says :—In trans¬ 
lating tomatoes, cabbages and tobacco 
They were transplanted twice 
while in the house, setting them a little deeper 
each time, and the first of April were removed 
to a cold frame on the south side of the house. 
Here they were inured to the sun and air, 
and by the 10t,h of May had outgrown the 
frame so that the sash could not be closed at 
night, bttt the weather was still too cold to 
trust them in the open ground ; so the sash 
was raised with blocks, while the friendly 
shield of an old quilt kept them safely on 
frosty nights. The last, of May a dozen 
plants were set out in the garden, two inches 
deeper than they grew in the cold frame. 
No manure was used in the hill, the ground 
having been well mulched the previous year ; 
but the gravelly loam was thoroughly pulver¬ 
ized, the roots of the plants were well water¬ 
ed, and the tops tied to small stakes. Green 
hemlock boughs were placed entirely around 
each plant to protect it, for a few days, from 
the sun and wind, and at night were drawn 
together at the top bv a stout cord, forming 
a good protection from several slight l rests. 
Not a leaf w ilted, and the fibrous stems were 
soon hardy enough to be trained in the way 
they were to go through the Summer. 
Various devices were used to support the 
vines, the most satisfactory being a stout 
stake from the woods, with several branches 
left on, to which the vines are tied. The 
ground was hoed often, and occasionally sup¬ 
plied with water left in the barnyard after a 
rain. If the weather had been favorable for 
transplanting earlier in the season, 1 think J 
should have done much better ; but the first 
ripe (Gen. Grant) tomatoes were picked the 
2dt.il of July, and the first Trophy the. 3d of 
August, aud from that time till the 15th of 
October, we had an abundant supply of to¬ 
matoes for a large family, besides some for 
less fortunate neighbors. 
The Trophy was only four days later than 
the Gen. Grant, and until late in the season, 
bore enormous clusters of large, smooth, well 
ripened fruit ; and for the first two weeks, if 
I would have spared them, the tomatoes 
would have readily sold for fifty' cents per 
dozen at our door. The largest perfect one 
only 7 weighed eighteen ounces ; but there 
were very few 7 that were uot entirely 7 smooth 
and line to the stem. Ruth D. 
TO PREVENT CATTLE FROM HOOKING 
FENCES. 
Pt, BOB SLEDS, 
wide and one and a-quarter thick ; undci 
side of this, in the center, is a strip one and a- 
quarter inches wide (or one inch, just as wide 
as the iron shoe you wish to attach) and one 
aud a-half inches in thickness. This tapers 
gradually, and terminates at B ; thus, on 
well trodden roads, this only comes in con¬ 
tact with the snow ; but it roads arc soft, 
this will settle It, but only to the second run¬ 
ner, winch is plated on each side of the nar¬ 
row strip with band iron. 
Lewis Co., N. Y. A. G. Miller. 
plants, prepare a tub of manure wutei, aim 
thicken it to the stiffness of mush by stirring 
in rich garden mold ; dip theroot. of the plant, 
in this paste before setting in the ground ; 
press the earth firmly around the l'oot, anti 
sprinkle with manure water. 
TriE readers of the Rural New-Yorker 
will find the mode herewith illustrated a sure 
cure for cattle that hook, or put their heads 
through fence. Take a >,-ineh annealed wire, 
ten inches long ; make a ring in one end, (an 
inch and a-half,) grind the other end sharp, 
to punch through the gristle in the nose. The 
animal’s head has to be fastened securely in 
the stanchions, in order to bore the holes 
through the horns, which should be done 
with a ; c-inch bit; then punch the wire 
through and make the same sized ring in the 
sharp end ; now take a cord that will run 
easily through the holes in the horns, und tie 
one end to the ring on one side and pass the 
cord through the holes in the horns to the 
other ring ; the wire should be bent up above 
the nostrils to prevent the breath from rot¬ 
ting the cord ; the cord should not be very 
tight when put on, for the reins will tighten 
it enough. 
To keep a bull from jumping and hooking 
fence, put ou the above, and a poke with the 
MARBLEHEAD SQUASH 
This is a new squash, said to have a more 
flinty shell than the Ilubbard, and is of a dif¬ 
ferent color and shape, being flatter at the 
stem end. It lias greater specific gravity, 
combines sweetness aud dryness more, and 
keeps longer than the Hubbard. It resem¬ 
bles the Hubbard in size and yield, and is re¬ 
markable for its purity. 
RACKING WINE 
an article ou Racking Wine, read before the 
Nauvoo Wine Growers’ Club. It contains 
some good advice, and some, I think, will 
uot hold good. Every 7 person knows that 
has handled wine, that even two rackings are 
uot sufficient, especially such wines as Dela¬ 
ware and Norton’s Virginia, as they contain 
even more lees than Ives, Martha and Ca¬ 
tawba, and that class of grapes, i he article 
says, “Never rack turbid whies, as you pre¬ 
pare vourself the trouble of another racking.” 
Now," my experience is, nothing will clear a 
turbid wine so quick as bringing it in contact 
with the air. I even use I). Hennue’s Patent 
Air Treatment on obstinately turbid wines 
which will uot. come bright and clear with 
any' lining that 1 can use. Again ; I most al- 
wavs rack nay wine within two weeks aftei 
CANADA VICTOR TOMATO 
Mr. James J. H. Gregory furnishes us the 
following history'of this new tomato :—“Last 
season a gentleman residing in Canada sent 
me a glowing description of a new tomato. I 
wrote asking for a pinch of seed that. I might 
test it in my experimental garden. I planted 
these on my ground, anticipating the usual 
result, a tomato with some very good char¬ 
acteristics, but on the whole not superior to 
some kinds already before the public. About 
the time the plants were put out, left for 
Europe ; when I returned my foreman called 
my special attention to this new tomato, 
which had ripened its fruit several day's eai- 
lier t han any other kind of the twenty-fire 
varieties 1 was growing scattered over my 
different farms. On examining the new sort 
I saw at n glance that, hei-e was a decided ac¬ 
quisition. The fruit was not only the earliest 
of all, but of large size and exceedingly sym¬ 
metrical and handsome, while in x ipening it 
had no green left around the stem, a great 
fault with many kinds otherwise good. The 
fruit was heavy, full-meated and rich, be- 
sworil or arm running through a wire i*ing in 
the nose, long enough to keep the arm from 
bearing ou the wire, and the animal is at 
home all the time. No patent, but true, not¬ 
withstanding. J. G. Lamson, 
COWS FOR DAIRIES 
I would advise G. E. Blackburn, ov an 
means, to get only a blooded bull of Ayrshire 
and cows of our selected common stock, with 
good long teats, as the great trouble with 
Ayrshire is short teats. By so doing he will 
increase the size of his cattle and very much 
impi'ove his milkers. Or I would advise a 
cross with Devons in preference to full-blood 
Ayrshire. I also advise him to go to the man 
in Watertown that you named for his bull, tin 
VALUE OF THE IONA GRAPE. 
The intelligent and capable Secretary of 
the Ohio State Horticultural Society 7 , M. B. 
Bateham, once an editor, now a quiet fruit 
grower, gives in the Oliio Farmer the state¬ 
ment that he places “the Iona at the head of 
all his assortment both for quality and profit . ’ ’ 
He also says: 
“ In my family of ten persons, it is prefer- 
