IIexamer, Now Castle, N. Y.,) made a large 
exhibition of strawberries, and was called 
upon to talk thereof. He said there was 
very little he could add to the essay of Mr. 
Williams. Of course some varieties are 
better adapted to certain localities than to 
others; and culture must depend upon soil, 
locality and variety. Blit in general terms 
the essay was excellent and practical. He 
grows strawberries for profit., and for no 
other reason. The fruit on exhibition was 
grown with that purpose, aud are fair sam¬ 
ples of what he sends to market, lie finds 
that the better and more carefully he culti¬ 
vates, the greater the profit. It. costs a great 
deal to secure success iu the small fruit busi¬ 
ness. It had cost his firm ten times the 
amount he had anticipated when they start¬ 
ed. The paper just read is what we want.; 
it is just such as would have greatly aided 
me at the start. But each cultivator has got 
to learn for himself. The belter his obser¬ 
vation and the sounder his judgment, the 
greater will be his success. Mr. Williams’ 
selection of varieties for culture cannot, be 
improved. Soils nnd local markets will 
cause it. to vary somewhat, hut not much. 
Tin- Wilson 
is the berry for the people. True, it is sour; 
but other varieties greatly praised ami sold at 
$5 per dozen are sourer. 11 grows everywhere, 
under any culture and sells well. Its chief 
demerit as a market fruit, is that, it turns dark- 
colored and dingy after it has been picked 
awhile and exposed. But if market men 
would turn it out of one basket into another, 
inverting the berries after they are discolored, 
they will find them to look as bright as if 
freshly picked. Discoloring does not affect 
their quality, only their looks. But. for this 
characteristic it. would be a perfect berry for 
market. 
T I'Ll in plir tie Gaud 
on our heavy soil is more profitable than the 
Wilson, because in this (N. Y.) market it 
brings three or four times the price of the 
latter on account of its looks alone. When 
the Wilson sells at 25 cents the basket, the 
Triumplte will bring seveuly-llve cents., lie 
lias contracted his whole crop of TViontphcs 
at 40 cents per quart, net—no freight nor 
commissions to come out. We have been 
able to make such arrangements by being 
Jwnest. It is difficult to gut, a good reputa¬ 
tion in market, and it. is more difficult to 
keep it, because of the temptation to neglect, 
after reputation is once made. Has a de¬ 
mand tor three times the fruit he can supply. 
The Triomplie is the most, solid berry lie 
knows of, ami is, therefore, the most profit¬ 
able. No fruit is lost. Rains do not soften 
if as they do the Wilson. We often pick it, 
Saturday and keep it until Monday before 
putting it. on the market. It goes there as a 
fresh berry and is fresh. Dr. 1 i. exhibited Ko¬ 
rney n with Triomplie. Said if llmchtb could 
distinguish between them he could not. The 
foliage. habit of growth, fruit, time of ripen¬ 
ing and productiveness arc too nearly alike 
to distinguish between them. If it, is aseed- 
ling it is so nearly like its parent that it has 
no claim to distinction as a variety. 
J iicii ikIii. 
is not of so good a quality as 1 lie* Triomplie. 
It is softer; keeps about as well as the Wil- 
litrhctm*. 
GARDEN NOTES. 
Hark lied Early Egyptian Beet. 
At the Bliss exhibition of fruits and 
vegetables, June 15-16, Thomas K. Rich¬ 
ards, Newark, N. J., exhibited specimen 
beets of this new variety, which deserv¬ 
edly attracted a good deal of attention. 
Mr. Richards said lie was sorry he 
had not planted more of the variety, 
for his experience with it. had satisfied 
him that it is the most profitable early / 
beet to cultivate, being at least, a week A 
earlier than the Early Flat Bassano l>- 
It is said to have been introduced from 
Egypt, is quite distinct, very deep red? 
tender, excellent in quality, of the shape V 
of the fiat Dutch turnip. We give, 
herewith, an illustration showing its 
form. 
Salt fov Cpblmsci 
A CORRESPONDENT of the American 
Agriculturist considers salt, quite neces¬ 
sary to the development, of cabbage, es¬ 
pecially in places far from the coast. A 
few days after setting out. the plants, 
when t hey are damp after rain or dew, 
he sprinkles a pinch of fine salt, on the 
center of each plant. When the central 
leaves begin to form the head, he re¬ 
peats the process, scattering salt over the 
leaves. A quart of sail, is sufficient for five 
bundled plants in a season. Plants that 
seems diseased, or do not. appear to head 
well, he salts liberally, with the most satis¬ 
factory results. 
Spado vs. Subsoil Plow. 
Rufus Pekt writes us that lie has effec¬ 
tually tested the subsoil plow in the garden, 
and in his judgment it is better than the 
spade. So we think, unless a man knows 
well how to use the latter implement prop¬ 
erly, which few Americans do. 
DTakitur mi Asparagus Bed in July. 
A correspondent of the Country Gen¬ 
tleman says an asparagus bed ran be made 
nt any time up to the middle of July. Cut 
off the tops or growth of this season, shorten 
the roots lo four inches, and the plant will 
spring out of the ground as freely as at any 
lime, and do as well. 
8u u a sites in Spile of Burgs. 
E O. II., Canandaigua, N. Y., writes:— 
They have never been able to raise 
squashes on this place, on account of ihe 
striped bug. 1 am going to succeed by 
pinching and covering them. But neither 
tomato nor radish plants around aud among 
the li ills amount to anything as a preventive 
season they came up, were transplanted to a 
hank in the hedge-row, one foot from a wall. 
During the thirteen years intervening it has 
berm cut a few times, to get it into shape, 
and is now a thick hedge, about, eight feet 
high, and so close at the bottom that a hen 
cannot get through it. It, does not sucker 
at all. Shoots start just above the surface 
of the ground, but not, a sucker from the 
root. The best time to sow the seed is ns 
~ .. - - 
- ■ ■ .x 
> : • 
eSESV 
DARK RED EARLY EGYPTIAN BEET. 
soon as it is gathered. If sown to trans¬ 
plant, it should be in rows two feet apart, 
and as thickly in the rows as you sow peas. 
hscussiotis. 
AMERICAN INST. FARMERS’ CLUB. 
_ 
Noti'M of Discussions, Extracts from Let¬ 
ters, &c. 
About Sait nnd Plaster and Soil Analyses.— 
.Toiin P. Sims, Greenland, N. H., writes that the 
host article lie has read upon the use of salt as a 
manure is to he found tn a work called I lie New 
England Farmer published in u a thinks 
that if gypsum will do all that. Mr. G rebury and 
Mr. Dickinson think it will do It is cheap at. $10 
per toil. Mr. Gkeeuky to the contrary notwith¬ 
standing. Ho has a neighbor who plows in his 
manure for com and puts a spoonful or plaster 
in each hill and covers it up. Mr. Kims thinks 
piaster so disposed of iaof about us much benefit 
to corn as so much gravel. Prof. Vantusiiweyuk 
(»r some snob name) urged t hat fanners would 
be heller off If they wore in analyze their soils 
or procure a na.yses of I hem. It is u very simple 
matter to find out. whether certain essential 
elements are wunting in soils; and young far- 
mers should be taught at school how to do i!. It 
is difficult to say upon whafc soils plaster mwiml- 
od without analyses or experiments. In Holland 
the salt marshes are drained and allowed to re¬ 
main exposed for ten years before any crop is 
put, on them. Then they make most excellent, 
meadows. 
PROF. James A. AV hit me v snld:—Twenty years 
ago it was thought that tlm chemical analysis oi 
soils would indicate atomic I ho causa and euro of 
barrenness; but tlio Idea. Js now exploded and I 
hopo thm. no farmer will bo misled into follow¬ 
ing ii. It is i me than if repeated analyses show 
lhat. some element of plant food is absolutely 
Wanting, wo may presume that by .supplying 
that element tiro land will be made, fertile, fsny 
repeated analyses, because no uuaiysisof a single 
lorsttmtit. 
son. It is showy, sells as well ns Tiiomphe, of the ravages of lhe bugs. There seem to 
and fUmblies a larger proportion of large 
berries the season through than any other 
variety. About, three fourths of its crop is 
large, marketable fruit, while only abnutune- 
half of the Triomplie is first-class as to size. 
If it was as hard as Triomplie, it would lie 
more valuable for market. Triomplie is 
more profitable if the season is wet and un¬ 
favorable; Imt in a dry season the Jueunda 
is ahead. It, costs about fifteen cents per 
quart, (including interest on the land, labor, 
freights, &c.,) to raise and put the Jueunda 
and Triomplie on the niardct. 
Ollier Varieties. 
lie more plants where these hugs are. 
JuIrormtUttrc. 
ARBOEICULTURAL NOTES. 
The Siilix Linn-Holla. 
Among all of the willow family none 
make more beautiful trees when clipped in 
form than tlio laurel-leaved. Its foliage is 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Remedy for Colic. 
A writer iu the Southern Cultivator gives 
the. following as a remedy for colic in a 
horse:—“ Give a toacupful of wheat Hour in 
a black bottle, filled wilt# water; dissolve 
the flour by shaking the bottle, aud drench 
the horse. It, will generally cure in live to 
ten niiiiiil.es.” Jie adds that a tablespoon fill 
of Hour iu a tumbler of cold water will prove 
an effective remedy for a man. 
Save the Iloixe Hides. 
N. B. of Lee county, says in Prairie Far¬ 
mer:—“1 have seen a great many dead 
horses hauled out for the dogs to eat, but 
never saw but one in Illinois that had been 
skinned, and that was mine. 1 lost, a colt 
and a mule; I skinned them and dressed 
their hides with the hair on, and would not 
give the mule skin for any buffalo robe of 
tlio sa me siz e I Jmve won. Th e bid e of a 
colt m lias ‘ inuoul.*~ali winter has a t.hide, 
heavy coat of fine .liaju: on it, and, if well 
For an early variety for home use, none is large, deep rich and glossy green, and if cut taunCt U 'n.-ikcs a good robe, Buffalo robes 
lint do°for l( m-In-p? w k i»7« H wil ! back each . V0IU ’> *> a » to make it form a bush :u ' c becoming scarce, and the time is not far 
quality, not prolific. Boston Pino is°a ffiLh: or round-headed tree, it is one of the best of when something must be substi- 
latcr, but more prolific; soft, but hardy onuimeil tal trees for lawn, or small grounds. lutc(1 - __ 
everywhere. French’s Seedling | 3 prolific, -— Fast Trout..* by l'ocnl,omits. 
nearly hard enough for market Imt haft «n suckers mound Trees. ,, 
flft vor. Downer is an excellent, prolific There is no better time to destroy the p , J . V" -• v.hikut Bonners mure, 
early fruit. Nmanor is valuable; it ripens sucker sprouts that sometimes spring up troUoG it nnio on the Fashion 
.lust before the Wilson. It. promises this from the'roots or from the collar Aft het’teeb Col,rsc » wllUout a 8,< T or break, in 2:18, 
year to become a profitable variety. The on which Mm i i„ n ,ri i n " - ^ which is the fastest time ever made by any 
first year he grew it was not favorably in.- " dl UlL tl f ,s S 1a,led .now, just { ia h (>Xf , , D . SI * * 
pressed with it, which goes to show that one as ll, o trees are forming their terminal buds , • , ,, ' . .' 
s«Mouhi test taBotest at all, for weather has ami beginning to return food to the roots w A "j l " m> f 
and lay era of expansive growth along the 
hotly, Cut smooth and clean to the body, 
and nine times out of ten, the wound will 
all heal over this present season. 
much to do with the productiveness of any and layers of expansive grow 
hint. It, just at the height of blossoming |,otlv ' Out smooth nnd 
season, a cold, heavy rain sets in, the pollen "7'. . ' " 0 , n, ‘ ,T c,ea 1 
does not form and will notlly,and frail does ant 111110 IUK ’ 3 ,ul °* fon,the 
u,.i f,.lit'., Ti ? . _♦ , i J \ - . . . oil L/...1 tf ,. . i 
not fructify. It is with si raw berries, iu this 
respect, as with apples. A series of years is 
required to establish the merits, in any local¬ 
ity, of any fruit. The Ida is an early, pro¬ 
lific variety, but cannot recommend it for 
cultivation. Lady of the Lake changes 
color, like the Wilson, after being picked a 
fby Is not favorably impressed with 
Barnes’ Mammoth the present season. Ag- 
i icoil tiiri,,t js not worth talking about. Bov- 
den s No. JO is too much like the Agriculturist 
tobeol much value; has too long a neck and 
is too soft for market. It is better th voml 
than the Agriculturist, and more prolific. 
, e Jim lies Downing is one of the most 
"valuable varieties xvc have—good flavor 
shape, hardy and productive. The Lady’s 
t tiger is excellent for drying and preserv- 
It rdnine iteforat preserved. Green 
i I'ohfic is loo soft. Lmmig’s While is an ex- 
e cut I a'lay, high flavored, and if it were a 
little more prolific it would be very desira- 
wmi 11 Sfown in hills, it produces verv 
u-'fllax is the meanest ami poorest 
vL7i Rlh] * 20 r™ plants a 
v * u Rgo, and would gladly sell the whole 
<>t lor twenty-five cents, 'notwUhetaiuling 
sc ’, un d of triimpot with which it 
• s ushered upon the pomological world. 
1 eaiiiK.t sell the fruit, it is not worth sell- 
iJSL ban hurd y get buys to pick it to take 
v-uleti. 11 18 the very meau «st of mean 
I‘i'ost nml C!u I'lt'd IiDul' on Fcacbos. 
I live in the foothills, about 1,200 feet 
altitude above the Sacramento Valley. Our 
peaches suffered this spring from a late frost. 
L have heard that iron, in the shape of horse 
shoes or anything in the way of old iron 
hung in the trees, would protect them from 
frost. Did you ever hear of such :i protec¬ 
tion? It so, please let ua know. Gdu you 
say anything about, curled leaf m peach 
trees? It would interest us. Do peach 
trees in your part of the country suffer from 
it, or is it peculiar lo this climate.—S. O. p 
Shingle Spring*, Out. 
Iron will not prevent frost. Curled leaf, 
it is believed, is produced by an insect— 
Aphis perftim. Some think it due to a sud¬ 
den change of 'weather—warm days suc¬ 
ceeded by cold ones, a cold storm accompa¬ 
nying it. Syringing the foliage with to¬ 
bacco water and strong soapsuds is recom¬ 
mended. 
Bni-berry for Hedges. 
“ Mumford,” Whittonsvilla, Mass., writes 
that in the fall of 1857 a quantity of bar¬ 
berry seed Avas sown in a bed. The next 
For a hedge, when two years old, transplant wun P tp "*»•» no number oi analyses to determine 
to a single row, lhe plants six inches apart tb ® u r a slniriaoloiiieiit will aufflcc. For 
"> r, rr 11 m:ikcs a i,sef " 1 zzstj sra 
mental hedge. flecked, here and there,'with ashes where—when 
--- the ground was deared—the firo hud followed 
Arlioriculmrol liinuliies. E. S. IIuUN aslcs 'ho roots Into the earth. A liaadful of mnk' 
somo ono to Rive a remedy ("or black knot, on t ’ l ‘ 0,n ° ,lrj ,:,i BWso spots would have shown nr 
cherry trees.- N. II. Prescott asks tlio best time "hunduuco potash, white nuother from i lie 
of Hie year to cut AViilows so as to kill them, surface nrculd have indicated very little, aud 
Must they bo cutubovc the ground oi dug up by n <nfcuor 0110 would tlinto been any index to Iho 
the roots /—T. H. Chapman asks the best moth oil real va me. of the land; because it fs the ctinrnc- 
of taking the seed of t he “ Honey Locust ” front tor of LllQ average soil of a field and not that of 
their pods. exceptional portions upon which the growth ol’ 
, nn. , .. i n ... I he crop depends. Wo may, of course, analyze 
a largo nimrtcr of samples, and by taking Ihe 
c4/.*' mean resufls appmxlmato a ceri cct estimate, 
Mi’ll C If S nr^rmit ll butthowsi: of lilteca or twenty analyses forany 
CoA ° (so * one elcmenf, Avbiufi would bo required to give 
___F degree of certainty for a single one, Avould 
-—froquentry he morn tfiftp tlio entire value of the 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. lnml - More tlmiUhls-thoraarc about a dozen 
_ mineral substances that, enter into the composl- 
Rcimuly for Colic ,lon 01 l ,lunlB ,u greater or loss proportions, and 
A writer miii»q.n.iw., , d’ono of thoso ts absent, no matter botv small 
A A\ ri i idtmtlu, Southern Cultivator gives the quantity required, the fertility of the soil 
die following as a remedy for colic in a will bo very much reduced, if not wholly de- 
lorse:—“ Give a toacupful of wheat flour in m - vcd - This la shown by the well known ey 
t hlttek bottle, filled wilV water; dissolve P^I'Honto of HomfflMAB. Heg. 'uw nuts on dif- 
|, H i... u l..,l,;. fereni kinds of soil, from ouch of which one of 
' I V, bottle, and drench Ihe elements of plant nutrition waa ahslnictcd 
ne Horse. 11, will generally cure in live to Without silica the grain came up, but H was 
en minutes.” ) le adds t hat a tablespoon fill I’ 11 ' 1 'color; did not grow and was too weak to 
iHlour in a tumbler of cold wider will prove stuntl alo,w,; 'vftboul lime it died before ilm 
tn effective rentedv for l mm, lflaf ' va » WeU developed ; with no potash 
unxiiAc lemcciytota man. and soda it stopped at ihrce Inches high; the 
,, .... want of magnesia imirto It incapnl.lc of support- 
at r> c ,ho IlolH,! ingitHclf; without phosphoric acid n was spln- 
JN. B. ot Lee COUnl.y, says in Prairie Far- tiling and unable to mature iho kernels; and 
nor:— 11 1 have seen a great many dead very similar results canro from the absence of 
torses hauled out for the dogs to eat but 8U i l p huri0 / l0l ‘J- 
lever saw hut ono in iiUnn'a ti,,, i n ,i i 18 uot Bufttefont, therefore, toanalysfla soil 
eui saw inn. one 111 IIfttftes that had been for one element, but for many. And for each 
kinnetl, aild that was mine. 1 lost a colt one avo must Imvorepeated analyses. And there 
nd a mule; 1 skinned them aud dressed is more behiod nil tbts; the condition in which 
heir hides Avith the hair on. and would not. ? ct J nH,l " ,0,,t ot plant food exists has very much 
•ivr* tlif. r.tr:. ft. 1 1 i tO CIO Wit U US 0|l|CttCy 111 JM’Oinfll illLflfl’OWth, ilfH 
V , rmilo skill (or any bullalo robo of we know from the relative action Or simple 
lie sa me siz e 1 h av e seen. 'I’lr c h j d« of ;t phosphate and superphosphate, or of coarse 
oil tlmL lias fo-unout’ all win ter has a'thick, bone and bone dust. Their conditions also vary 
eavy Coat of fine luiui on it, and, if well wlt)l i tllP character of thosotl. For example, sir, 
aimed nvikott n „.. irw i m.n'.i,. „ a soil rich in organic matter, producing much 
■lunul, makes a O ood lobe. Buflalp robes mi-bonlo achlj.lm ptiopphates potaah,&c., will 
re becoming scarce, and the time is not far dissolve much faster than ill one having less 
istaiit Avhcn something must be substi- humus. In like manner, a soil holding iu it, ctm- 
uted.” sidcralilc ammonia will dissolve the phosphates 
--- more readily than ti soil poorer fn ammoniu. 
Fust Trolling by Pocnlioiitns. Thceoconditlonaare, in thoir turn, moditlcil by 
Tixe 16th lilt,, Robert Bonner’s mare, tko looseness of thoagtl, its power of absorbing 
‘ocalionlas, trotted a mile oil the Fashion ,ini1 moistiin', am) even its color, hc- 
, . , cause these alleot the proportion of humus 
aiiirsc. Without a skip or break, in 2:18, xvliicb evolves Oftrbonfc acid by decay, and 
diieh is the fastest time ever made by any whieb in one way and another haa a most im- 
orsc in harness except Dexter. She was P 0l ' taut bearing on the retention of ammonia, 
riven by Ben Mace, and timed by Messrs I have made these, remarks without mentiou- 
V. A. Sam mis of Flushing, and ,11). Wat.- t ' x Ff 1 mo accun,,, y in »»«ku.g 
„r N,™ y. a r> i analyses ol this eliavacter. For scieotlflo pur- 
on ol Ncaa lork. I ocahontas is a hay poses, and In order to establish principles, avc 
Hire, fifteen hands high, with, a black flow- 0,111 afford lo lake much time, to bo very exact, 
lg inane and very long tail, fthe was sired ‘ted patient; but when il. comes to a matter of 
y El,hnn Allen, out of tlio liunoik. pacing business, such analysts would costTar more than 
lare bearing her own name. Mr Bonner the tanner would ho willing to pay. The avail- 
aid $65,000 fur her, the highest, price which n,jl ” soil Oil an acre of fairly fertile land may be 
0 has ever paid for any horse. Bhe is estimated t<> weigh one thousand tons, and in 
[even years old, a most beautiful aiitluul, this, at a rough guesB, there may bo it hundred 
11(1 so docile lhat she has been habitually P°ui"w l,f soluble potash. Distribute this 
riven in the Park by Mr. Bonner’s child- through the mass, aud imagine the delicacy of 
Hi. - “ the test required to show Iho quantity present 
rI , , , in a sample of two pounds. So, also, in tiro soli 
o Train a Horse to Stand. derived fTom two varieties of rocks which tonn- 
Fhe American Stock Journal contains the orly were not supposed to ooniaiti phosphoric 
•flowing directions:—Take your horse on add, but which nro found to show Its presence 
ic barn floor and throw a strap over his when more than a thousand grains, by weight, 
ick and fasten it to his right fore foot; lead ai ° operated upon ut once, 
i'll along and say “ whoa,” at the same For my own part ! would not give fifteen 
me pllll down the strap, which throws him Cd'ts tor an analysisof asoii asu tost of its for- 
i three (cut nnd makes him stop suddenly. Bllty. I do not. wish to reflect, however, upon 
his is the beat Avay known to teach whoa, ' ll0 great men wlio in times past have held to 
lough you can put on the war bridle, and the belief that a soil analysis was a lino guide 
y Avhoa, aud give him a sharp jerk that Jn ameliorating laud, buatra, and others like 
ill stop him about as soon as the strap to hlm - believed it earnestly until Iho experience 
s fool. Then put him in harness Avitli the ot l>racticnl ,nen an(1 tlio deeper rescarehesot 
ot strap, as directed to do under ’the head sllowcl1 lts t’affimy. 
' “ training to harness,” and drive him up u ,nay b< ? n8kcd ' vlu,t «*»’•* ' viM comment 
the door. The moment It© undertakes to “ nnly8 “ b ' 1 lp 11,0 farrnor - rt ' v,Ul,c . | P l,im 
ove, take his foot, and say Avhoa. Got in * rae * 1,1 »v poisonous sub- 
mr carriage and get out again; rattle the « a »'^, such as snJphate of Iron or copperas, in 
ills, make all i he noise getting in and out 80 "’ S "*T U ' r "/ ,,nw 8U4tabt « r " rn - 
,,, , i - , , ^ . ? , . , cdy—such as, m the case of copperas, ordinary 
^ al "^'• mLjo Ilm... II. b v»l„Xo M »w'v“„e 
11^1 ’’ l, 'i l '' I he nature ol' manui-osof all kinil, in wtilcli th« 
’ ,• J » “u ’ , iU 'r u .' tertili/.iiigsubstancesare concentrated,and con- 
.' , ,y°" can put the whole latm- sequcutly easily estimated; and it is useful in 
, ll | 1 -' *.? CiUlia » e aiu ^ he avou t stir out of ascertaining the truenutriUvevalueof different 
s trucks. kinds of food aud in numerous similar cases. I 
arc becoming scarce, and tlie time is not far 
distant Avhen something must he substi- 
luted.” 
Fast Trotting by Pooalioiitas. 
The 16th nit,, Robert Bonner’s mare, 
Pocahontas, trotted a mile on the Fushiou 
Course, without a skip or break, in 2:18, 
Avhieli is the fastest time ever made by any 
horse in harness except Dexter. She was 
driven by Ben Mace, and timed by Messrs. 
W. A. Samm is of Flushing, and J. D. Wat. 
ton of Noav York Pocahontas is a bay 
mare, fifteen hands high, with a black Aoav- 
ing mane and very long tail. She wan sired 
by Ethan Allen, out of tlio famous pacing 
I mare bearing her own name. Mr Bonner 
paid $65,000 Ibr her, the highest price which 
lie has ever paid for any horse. Site is 
eleven years old, a most beautiful aiitluul, 
and so docile Unit she has been habitually 
driven in the Park by Mr. Bonner’s child¬ 
ren. 
To Train a Horse to Stand. 
The American Stock Journal contains the 
following directions:—Take your horse on 
the barn floor and throw a strap over his 
back and fiiHtcn it to his right fore foot; lead 
him along and say “ Whoa,” at the same, 
time pull down the strap, which throws him 
on three feet anti makes him stop suddenly. 
This is the best way knoAvn to teach whoa, 
though you cau put on the war bridle, and 
say Avlioa, and give him a sharp jerk that 
will stop him about as soon as the strap to 
his foot. Then put him in harness, Avitli the 
fool strap, as directed to do under tin- head 
of “ training to harness,” and drive him up 
to flic door. The moment he iiudcrlnkog to 
move, take Ids foot and say Avhoa. Get in 
your carriage and get out again; rattle the 
thills, make all ihe noise getting in and out 
you can ; give him to understand, by snatch¬ 
ing k'3 foot each time he moves, that, he 
must stand until you tell him logo; and af¬ 
ter a few times you can put the whole fami¬ 
ly in the carriage and he Avou’t stir out of 
his trucks. 
believe aa much ns any man that chemistry is 
(lesti nod to prove in I lie future, ns in tlio past, 
onu of tlio greatest helps to tlio fanner; hut 
there is no nectl of claiming for It more than It 
l '" n a °’ m,, l except under circumstances of 
purely scientific interest, tiro analysis of soils 
cannot lie recommended as of any practical 
value. With marls, manures, etc., as I have just 
hinted, the ease is quite different. 
Drink for Ilm Wen I her. AUGUl-Ttrs IlARNES, 
Moriinjjton, CJonn., say* nothing is equal to raw 
eat meal and cold water, sweetened or not, and 
AVell shaken before being taken. The Com¬ 
mander said he hud tried it, ami found i(, verv 
good. 
Goal Ashes for Earth CloHOt*,—A. It. A open. 
New Vork City, Avrfl.es:—For upwards of thirty 
years, whenever residing in the country, t have 
used a rude equivalent for tlm earth olusot, and 
always carefully saved Its becos by mixing them 
with somo foreign substance and applied I his 
compost with great, bone til. to iny crops. Vari¬ 
ous substances have long been iu use for the 
purpose of dessioaling and rendering the con¬ 
tents of the ciimmode inodorous -such aa plas¬ 
ter of Paris, charcoal dust, pulverized clay, lino 
dry garden mold, peat aud muck—all of which 
are thoroughly effect mil. Uutaa tlio annual cost 
of any one of these is considerable, nml often¬ 
times inconvenient to be obtained, particularly 
in large towns and clttos, I would suggest the 
use in these places of sifted anthracite coal 
ashes. Hum- used these in Iho earth closet I 
obtained of Hie Hartford company about ti year 
since, and find that they answer the desired pur¬ 
pose sufficiently well to warrant my eontinuu- 
lioit nt them. Mostol the houses of populous 
villages nml eli tes throughout, tlm United States 
abound with coal fishes; mid tn tlio Inttcr, espe¬ 
cially, are only got rid of at something of an ex¬ 
pense to transport, thorn from the premises. 
Now, if wo would take the very small troubleof 
applying our coal ashes to tlio droppings cf the 
oiirtli closet, we should lie quit nl once of nn in¬ 
convenience, and by means or these form a vul- 
mililo inodorous fertilizer, which, so far from 
costing a considerable sum annually to get. rid 
of in its separate elements, could bo sold for a, 
good price, and IIpmadd In Iho Jiiooiiie, instead 
Of the Outgo Ol' the householder. The care¬ 
ful saving and use of this rich fertilizer to our 
growing crops would add largely to the nat ional 
Avon 11 h, purify our promises, mid greatly lessen 
diseases, particularly the much dreaded and of¬ 
ten luiui typhoid fever, Avhieli seems alarmingly 
on the Increase lately throughout the land. 
Surely tlio earnest, consideration of this very 
important, subject slum I d bo brought home to 
all; itideud, it ought to be a matter of municipal 
regulation. No householder should he permit¬ 
ted to have uuo!rail promises, any more than lie 
should be allowed to harbor tlio plague, or any 
other dire mid loathsome disease. Mr. It bade, 
in his essay before tho Club, went, into a oaleu- 
luttou. of the value of human solid mid liquid ex- 
cretnerits, Avhloh, ast ounding ns was the sum fig¬ 
ured up, I think Avtts much too low. Permit 
me, t lieroforo, to add something on this subject 
from that, e.miuent agriculturist and chemist, 
and profound writer, the Into M. BopastKaAui/r 
of France, whose authority la of the highest or¬ 
der. His average estimate from each adult is 
sis pounds solid and liquid excrements per mt- 
mtm, roiitainiug ltj pounds of nitrogen, a quau- 
iiiy sufficient to grow pounds cd' wheat 
(equivalent say to H', bushels.) Now, suppose 
AVO set. down the 40,000,000 of men, women mid 
children which uro now supposed to be in the 
Bnhod States unit Territories, equivalent to 
80,000,000 ol met). Suppose all tlio nitrogen 
which could lie obtained from this source ap¬ 
plied to the wheat crop, the product Avould be 
80a,000,000 bushels, wtirt.li at tho present low 
average price of Iho country at least £800,000,000! 
Ib this not a result wort by our earner;,, endeav- 
m-s to obtain, to say nothing of getting rid of a 
loathsome nuisance on our premises, and tho 
origin of many a fatal disease? 
An Apple Orchard in Trouble.—D. S. Baker, 
Adams, Pa., writes lie has mi orchard which is 
being destroyed. Il bus been planted nine years. 
Trees have boon thrifty until recently. Roots 
and trunks thereof look healthy, hut Ihe bark is 
spotted with scales, ami tiro foliage is not half 
tbo size It Ohght to be. The land has been de¬ 
voted to root crops, but is now seeded with 
wheat aud clover asks the Club to suggest a 
remedy. Dr, Trimiu.i-: thinks the trouble is too 
much double cropping. No ono should take 
two crops from laud devoted to an orchard. 
That is what is tlio matter with Ids trees. A 
friend near Newark, N. J., has a lino productive 
orchard. He plows in a dressing of immure in 
Ills orchard ovary year, arid mulches tlm entire 
surface heavily with salt, hay, and nothing but 
trees grow ou the soil. In tiro fall Ihe mulch is 
raked up In cocks, ami there remains until tiro 
land is manured and plowed under, when tiro 
mulch is again applied. The muimro Is plowed 
under about, three inches deep. Mr. Curtis said 
Dr. Tin mole's theory is all very well, but farm¬ 
ers will not practice it. They will not devote 
land to orchards alone. The great trouble is, 
they do not feed their orchards enough. They 
should be manured and given plenty of potash 
and lime. Mr. Lyman said Mr. Qux.v \ is a very 
successful pear eulturiat. llis practice is to 
plant, his trees sixteen and twenty feet apart. 
Iter six or seven years half of t his distance-say 
four foot each side the voav of trees-is culti¬ 
vated, kept eleatt, but no crop is grown. Tho 
intervening space is eulUvuted with cabbage, 
celery, potatoes, currants, tomatoes, egg plants, 
etc., until the trees grow bo as to cover the 
ground, when all cultivated crops arc aban¬ 
doned. Ho mulches heavily under the trees 
with salt hay. Ho says he has the largest crop 
of fruit the present, season he ever had. Ono 
row of thirty trees ho estimates will yield him 
<800 tha present year. He feeds the ground lib¬ 
erally so long as ho grows oilier crops ou tiro 
the Orchard. [The trouble with Mr. Baker’s 
trees probably is that they are lousy bark lice 
On them. Ho should stimulate them with ma¬ 
nure, wash tho trunks with strong soap suds, and 
givu the land under the troos a liberal top-dress¬ 
ing of aslros. Eds. Rural. 
Uixrnucd L'htctieiiM. — R. W. Bowman, Mifllin- 
villo, Pa., writes that a disease has appeared 
among his chickens which is very fatal. They 
are taken suddenly, mopo a day and then die. 
Hens lay to-day and die to-morrow. A neighbor 
has lost fifty honsln this way since lust February, 
tie asks for a remedy arid if the eggs laid as 
above described uro good to eat. Mr. Curtis 
thinks it a distemper, a sort of epidemic which 
has appeared in various parts of the country and 
for which he knows of no effective remedy! He 
Should get l id of fowls so diseased in the quick¬ 
est way and start anew. 
