I could fill your paper with similar testi¬ 
mony, which 1 am receiving nearly every day 
from all parts of the country. But the above 
It* deemed sufficient to show that the reputa¬ 
tion of Campbell’s Late Rose does not depend 
Upon my statements ; and though Mr. Tal- 
cott may have failed with it, it is. in the 
hands of others, entirely satisfactory, and re¬ 
garded as a very promising and valuable late 
potato. Geo. W. Campbell. 
and am satisfied it is far ahead of any iron 
plow in use. It will not clog in black muck; 
it holds easy, draft very light, turns a good 
furrow, and does its work very nicely. I can 
heartily recommend it to any one., and I 
would further recommend that they get one 
as I did. L. L. Coe. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
CAMPBELL’S LATE ROSE POTATO 
BOYNTON’S LIGHTNING SAWS 
My attention has been called t,o the article 
m- Mr. Jonathan Taloott, iu the Rural 
New-Y oitKER of Feb. 8, wherein he makes 
out a pretty bad oftSg xor Campbell s Late 
Kose potato, as grown by him. Mr. T. is a 
stranger to me, and, so far as i know, has 
cause for misrepresentation, though he finds 
nothing good iu the potato, and seems to have 
no patience with those who do. 
I do not question Mr. T.’s right to relate 
his experience, and to enlarge with evident 
delight upon tho “mean and scraggy” re¬ 
sults he has aeluaved ; but when he assumes 
t hat he lias been the vict im of misrepresent-a- 
tion, and, ignoring the statements of others, 
undertakes to advise the readers of the Ru- 
kae “to give Campbell's Late Rose a wide 
berth,” us “another bug of the Ramsdell 
Norway oats style,” I think lie passes the i 
bounds of fairness and justice, and states con¬ 
clusions not warranted by the truth. 
II Mr. T. has been growing potatoes for 
fifty years, he ought to know that their, is no 
vegetable more liable to be affected, both iu 
A year or more ago we noticed the won¬ 
derful performances of Boynton’s Cross-Cut 
Saw, from personal observation, and since 
then have been still more impressed with the 
fact tlwt the invention is one of those which 
saves labor, time and hence 
BINDING ATTACHMENT TO REAPERS, 
SILVER-HULL BUCKWHEAT 
H. Cf. F. is informed that we have never 
seen one of these attachments to Wood’s 
Reaper, but know that it, is highly spoken of 
by those who have seen it. As we under¬ 
stand it, it consists simply of a box into 
which the gavels of grain are deposited by 
the self-raker, whence they are taken by two 
men riding on a platform, and bound, after 
tho manner of the Marsh Harvester. It is 
asserted that one active binder will do the 
work of five men following the reaper in the 
usual wav. 
money. In ad¬ 
dition to what was then stated, we think the 
‘Lightning .Saw” entitled to further men¬ 
tion, and therefore notice again. 
Ordiuary saws cut only one way, have 
teeth »o near together that they clog with 
wood fiber, while the angle of the teeth is 
far too acute, being about CO degrees. Great 
and practical improvements have, of late 
years, been made in raw s, with a saving of u 
vtirt, amount of time and hard labor, as well 
as superseding, to a great, extent, the use of 
the ax, which is a very wasteful instrument 
when applied to the cutting of wood. Mr. 
LBEN M. Boynton of No. 80 Beckman St., 
New York City, has taken out four patents 
for improvements on saws. 
The most important of the characteristics 
ol Mr Boynton’s inventions are the substitu¬ 
tion of an M shaped tooth, with an open inter- 
j val of the same width as the tooth, for the 
old-fiushioiiej eontiunous V-shaped tooth. 
This kind ot saw in well named the “Light 
i ning Saw, on account of the rapidity with 
which it performs its work. Thin peculiarity 
is attribufnldc to three, causes—first, the 
’n Rural Nkw-Yobkkr, Feb. 15, under 
tlie *aption of “Silver-Hull Buckwheat,” 
- ou ash “who of your readers got any of 
that, buckwh*m,t t” I am one of the fortu¬ 
nate ones, if fortune it be, in having some of 
that excellent article. T^st Spring I received 
two quarts from the Department of Agrieul- j 
tore Which 1 sowed .Juiy 5th. ,,.,sl at. that 
time an unusual drouth set in, and it. was a I 
)mg time before Jt came—in fact 1 had 
almost despaired of its ever doing so. At last 
the “rains descended,” and it put, up an 
appearance, grew luxuriantly, and thorough¬ 
ly ripened bcloie frost, yielding me two 
InuShels of the finest grain j ever saw. It is 
A MUCK PATCH 
yield and quality, by the nature </ the soil, 
and by favorable or unfavorable seasons, 
than the potato; and. t hat varieties w hich 
under favorable conditions and good culture 
may possess the highest excellence, may, 
under other and adverse circumstances, be 
nearly worthless, if f am to judge- the Early 
Rose by its character as grown here the past 
season, I could, with entire truth, make a 
worse showing than Mr. T. makes for the 
Late Rose ; for its yield has been scarcely 25 
bushels to the acre, and its quality so poor as 
to lie unfit for use. But I hardly 
should increase mj reputation wi 
readers for either intelligence, or horn 
should, on account of my failure, 
that the Early Rose could be no b 
other hands and other eii 
undertake to denounce it a 
unworthy of cultivation. 
Mr. Talcott’s potatoes 
grown in uncongenial soil, 
and wet season, and 
The yield of one bushel to the pound 
I have a muck patch of about three acres ; 
it is a basin surrounded by good wheat land, 
the muck live or six feet deep; can run a 
stick that depth; it has been pastured for 
years, until last year planted to beans; had 
a good crop; it is drained so there will not 
any water stand w ithin ten or t w elve inches 
of the suface; I can darn it so as to Hood it 
all Winter. What 1 want to know is, will 
cranberries tin well on such muck ; if so, how 
much per acre w ill the plants cost, and how 
to cultivate ! Will such land be good for 
sugar beets and mangel wurzel, rutabaga or 
other turnips?— Quae k Patch, lialaria, N. 1'. 
Ik you can Hood your muck-bed in Winter 
• as you say, all that is lacking, apparently, to 
make it an excellent cranberry meadow is a 
top-dressing of two or three inches of sand. 
Cranberries will doubtless grow iu the muck 
as it is ; but they would thrive better if the 
surface was one-tliird to one halt sand. We 
cannot say whftt the plants will cost per acre ; 
and if our correspondent, has had no experi¬ 
ence in cranberry culture, it, will pay him to 
visit some one who has a plantation, or mail 
us 81.25, for which we will send him a work 
which will furnish him with details we have 
not space to publish. . 
Buch land us you describe will produce, 
doubtless, sugar beets, mangel wurzel, ruta¬ 
bagas and other turnips; but their quality 
and nutritive value will not be as great as if 
grown on a sandy loam ; you may get more 
bulk per acre from the muck : but we doubt 
if you get more value. 
w r ere evidently 
iu a very warm 
were never ripened. 
. _ l cannot 
bo called a bad one ; and their size and qual¬ 
ity are sufficiently accounted for by the un¬ 
favorable conditions under which they were 
sown. 
While 1 do not expect Campbell's Late 
Rose, or any other potato, to succeed equally 
well in all cases und under all circumstances, 
I do claim that hundreds of good cultivators, 
in all sections of the country, whom 1 have 
every reason to believe are Just ns disinter¬ 
ested, just as honest, just as truthful, and, 
if success is a measure of Ability, certainly as 
capable farmers as Mr. T., have found it en¬ 
tirely satisfactory, and all that has over been 
claimed for it, both in yield and quality. 
Gratifying as my own success has been— 
for, notwithstanding an unfavorable season, 
I raised, of my Late Rose, 250 bushels to the 
acre, where Early Rose adjoining gave but 
25—many of my correspondents report much 
larger results than I have ever attained. 
D. Auos. Vanoeuvkkr of Freehold, N. J., 
says:—“For the late or main crop, I have 
found, in my experience, no variety equal to 
the new seedling, Campbell’s Late Rose. It 
is equal to the Peach Blow iu quality, und 
far surpasses it in productiveness, and, 1 
think, will take first rank for a late crop. Its 
yield is larger than the Peerless, which has 
been considered the most productive potato 
grown. From a bushel and a half planted 
the past year I grew 05 barrels, or 18U bush¬ 
els, being an average of 120 lbs. from one 
planted, which 1 consider a very good yield 
for a poor season.' ’ 
M. K. Young of Glen Haven, Wis. 
2,750 pounds from 8 pounds planted 
the rate of 24354 lbs. to one. 
H. H. Bisskll of Madison, Iowa, reports 
five bushels from one pound, and “thinks it. 
a pretty good yield.” 
( A- D. Davidson, Balcm, Oregon, writes:— 
“ Your Late Rose does very well here. They 
are large, yield heavily, and are delicious 
when cooked. You deserve a monument fm- 
HARROWING WHEAT FIELDS 
The practice of harrowing wheat fields iu 
the Bpring before sowing clover seed, seems 
t/(> be generally advocated by agricultural 
writ ers. Will you permit me to ask. through 
your columns, whether it will do to apply the 
harrow in the Bpring when Timothy seed 
was sown in the 1 nil and of course got but a 
small start.Will it not injure the Timothy 
more to harrow it than ii will benefit the 
clover or wheat ? r would also like your ad¬ 
vice as to the beat artificial manure or dress¬ 
ing to apply at time of using the harrow and 
sowing clover to insure a good seedling.—C. B. 
W., (Jlenltam, Dutchess Co., A". I*. 
If ground for wheat has 1 icon proper ly pre- 
pared for seeding hi the Fall, and the seed 
has been drilled in, or if it lias not been sown 
too thicklv 
THE VICTOR HORSE HOE 
Every one knows the importance of thor¬ 
ough cultivation and keeping the weeds 
down so as to give the plant full possession of 
THE ANALYSES OF GUANO 
| to the Manhattan Manufacturing and Fertil¬ 
izing Co., which 1 think culls lor a feu- state¬ 
ments ol the facts of the case. As an official 
of “the Fanners’ Protective Union” of Long 
Island, 1 was desirous of knowiug if the 
“Blood Guano” was valuable to the farmer, 
as our business is to supply fanners with sta¬ 
ble manure, ashes, guano, &e., and we did not 
wish to sell, in fact we could not sell, to any 
L. I. farmer any fertilizer, except manure 
anid ashes, unless he was well satisfied that it 
would be beneficial to his crops, as they have 
been so often deceived that they have be¬ 
come very careful in the purchase of manure. 
This was my motive, and not the expectation 
of dividends, as I am not a stockholder in the 
“Manhattan Manufacturing and Fertilizing 
Co.,” but a stockholder and Secretary of 
“the Farmers’ Protective Union,” office 
Hunter’s Point, L. I. Isaac H. Cocks. 
Old Westbury, L. I. 
, we can see no advantage to re¬ 
sult from harrowing, if it is too thick on t he 
ground and itis desirable to thin it, harrowing 
may be the mode adopted for so doing, oth¬ 
erwise we see no, and never knew any, gain 
from harrowing Fall wheat iu Spring. On 
lands that are likely to heave by frost, we 
should rather apply a roller than a harrow in 
Spring. We should not harrow, anyway ; 
and we certainly should not harrow fields 
the soil. The above cut shows an implement 
which we tliink will do this work. This 
horse hoe possesses some novel and important 
features. The blades and standards are 
made from one steel plate, bent, at such an 
jingle as to give them the proper working 
position, (as shown iu cut,) and are tempered, 
which makes them 
very durable, and they 
will not break on the roughest ground. The 
blades thoroughly pulverize aud cut up the 
weeds; the rake works them out aud will not 
clog, but leaves them on the surface. The 
blades aud rakes can be adjusted to work at 
any depth, or in any width ; rows can be run 
very close to the plants without injuring 
them, and leave soil in splendid condition. 
It is also used to pulverize and level the soil 
for grain, root crops, etc.; has hilling plows 
that will do all that is required for hilling 
purposes. The horse hoe is of very- light 
draft and easily managed, is made in the 
most thorough manner and of the best mate¬ 
rial. Blades, plows and rakes are of steel, 
and sold at a very reasonable price. This 
hoe was awarded first premium (silver med¬ 
al) at the New England Fair, 1872. See the 
announcement of the manufacturers, (E. D. 
& O. B. Reynolds, North .Bridgewater, 
Maas.,) in this paper. 
FIELD NOTES 
raised 
or at 
meadows to aid the coming crop ; if so, how 
soon should it be sown t—u. m, If meadows 
are old, mossy, and tliin in grass, we certain¬ 
ly should advise sowing more seed, harrow¬ 
ing thoroughly this Spring, and top-dressing 
with lime and well composted stable manure. 
The seed cannot be sown too soon now. 
Potatoes in New Jersey—C. \V r . Wilson 
writes“ I raised lour varieties of potatoes 
last year. The Early Rose was a failure, and 
,tlie Peerless a grand success; and while I 
know that in this section of New Jersey the 
Early Rose has passed its day of profitable¬ 
ness, still I do not doubt Mr. Talcott’s hon¬ 
esty in saving they are “ still the best with 
him. ’ Let us encourage experiment, temper¬ 
ing our critieiems with the spirit of friend¬ 
ship. 
Hop-Plantiny. —Will some of your readers 
inform me the best time to set out hop roots, 
how far apart to plant them, and information 
as to best mode of culture.—W. E. Deegan. 
ECONOMICAL NOTES 
Superphosphate of Lime.—It W. T. A. has 
the Rural New-Yorker of March 2, 1872, 
he will find, on page 117, detailed answers to 
his questions. We may say, however, that 
50 to (50 pounds of acid are required to 100 
pounds of bone. If bone dust or crushed 
bones are used it should be diluted with two 
or three times its bulk of water; if whole 
bones are used, a dozen times it s bulk of water 
should be used. The finer the bones are bro¬ 
ken the better—the quicker and easier the 
manufacture. ( 
The Fresh Urine from a Cow (1000 parts) 
as analyzed by Sprengel, showed water, 
020.2 ; urea, 40.0 ; mucus, 2.0 ; hippuric and 
lactic acids, (5.1; carbonic acid, 2.1; ammo 
nia, 8.1 ; potash, (5.(5; soda, 5,5 ; sulphuric 
acid, 4.0 ; phosphoric acid, 0.7 ; chlorine, 2.7- 
lime, 0.t5; magnesia, 0.4 ; alumina, oxide of 
irou and oxide of magnesia, 0.1 ; silica, 0.4— 
total, 1000 parts. 
COLLINS & CO.’S STEEL PLOWS, 
I .saw in the Rural New-Yorker of Feb. 
22, an inquiry by C. B. Van Slyke in refer¬ 
ence to Collins & Co.’s Steel Plows. In 
reply, I would say I received one of these 
plows as a premium for a club for Moore? s 
Rural New-Yorker in the Spring of 18G9. 
I have used it in all kinds of soil on my farm, 
