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CORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
of a dark brindled color, with white breast 
and face. No. 18.—Major Arbuthnott’s mas¬ 
tiff, “ Vrillthe first of his class and quite 
deserving the honor. No. 19.—Another of 
Mr. Gresham’s splendid St. Bernards. No. 
20—Mr. E. Brown’s bloodhound, “Brenda.” 
No. 21.—Mr. J. Martin’s black-and-tan ter- 
rior, “ Pink.’ 
HULLES8 0AT8, AND OTHEE THINGS. 
I don’t propose to say much about the 
“Hulless” oats. Mr. Boutelle doubtless 
was familiar with the great Ramsdell oat 
humbug, which succeeded so well for one or 
two seasons and then, with its great popu¬ 
larity, piles of money and rich proprietors (If) 
“stepped down and out,” and will be wise 
enough not to pursue the subject to the little 
end, aa did the proprietors of the Norway*. 
I had cultivated the Hulless oats as a curi 
osity long before Mr. Boutelle found that 
one grain. I have also distributed it as a 
premium for subscriptions to the Rural 
New-Yorker, but never in a larger quantity 
than one ounce, and never recommended it 
as a field crop. It ripens unevenly, and, 
therefore, must of necessity waste much in 
harvesting. That a bushel of llulloss oats 
(“skinless,” I call them,) is worth, as much 
as three bushels of ordinary oats cannot be 
doubted. A gentleman in Canada sent me 
a sample of these oats and wished me to sell 
for him ; said there were 3,000 bushels of 
them among a few farmers, and 2,000 bushels 
were sold at $5 per bushel. 
While reading “ Diary of a Ruralist,” in 
No. 18, I was reminded of the new variety of 
wheat exhibited at the Agricultural Rooms 
a few yeans ago and mo Id alt $1 per quart. I 
think it was called Egyptian, or Mummy, or 
something of that sort, with a mysterious 
origin—having very large, branching heads, 
short, plump, white berry. This same wheat 
my father grew over fifty years ago, in 
Schnectady (Jo., this Slate, Its true origin 
in this country was this, beyond a doubt, 
viz :—A gentleman took the fresh grain from 
the crop of a w ild goose which he shot on 
Lake Champlain ; hence it was called then 
“ Wild Goose Wheat,” and “ Champlain 
Wheat.” It was what we (rail Spring Wheat. 
We grew it only a few years and discarded 
it as unprofitable ; but a few sheaves were 
suspended from the miters of the corn-house, 
where it must have beeu hanging about 
twenty years, when I brought some of the 
heads with me to Western New York, and 
for two or three years tried every means to 
uoax a little of it to germinate, but without 
success. 
Another instance is found in the Mexican 
Wild Potato. Some one introduced it as 
new, under another name, and found pur 
chasers at fabulous prices, who had the se me 
thing to sell at 50 cents per bushel. 
’ Tis true a rose is just as sweet under 
another name,—and so are all the articles 
above referred to just the same in fact, 
though they may be called a new discovery 
and introduced under a new name a dozen 
times. Whatever the “Gentleman Near 
New York City ” may concede on seeing a 
specimen of the “ Agricultural Wonder,” 1 
cannot discover any difference in all the 
samples I have seen ; and if any render of 
the Rural Nkw-Yorkkb still desires to test 
this matter for himself, a single three-cent 
stamp sent to the Rural Empire Club, West 
Macedon, N. Y., will insure, by return mail, 
a sample package of the genuine' Ski nless or 
Hulless oats. 
A Friend of the Old Rural. 
West Macedon, N. Y., May 5,1875. 
corn is then ready to supply the silk, and the 
filling is completed.” He says nearly all the 
abortive ears, so common in all corn crops, 
ore caused by the want of pollen, and he has 
known ears to double their size in this second 
filling. 
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SEEDS PER ACRE. 
The following table from the seed cata¬ 
logue of D. M. Ferry & Co. of Detroit shows 
the quantity of seed recommended by them 
to be sown per acre of the different grains, 
grasses and vegetables. Such tables are 
valuable, although circumstances must vary 
the quantity best for a crop in different lo¬ 
calities : 
Broad¬ 
cast, 
Drills. 
Barley, bush.... IX to 
Beans, bush..-.... 2 to 
Broom com. 
Buckwheat, buib. X to 
Beets, lbs.-. 
Carrots, lbs. 
Clover, red. lbs. 10 
Clover, white, lbs. 4 
ciovor.Luceme or Alfalfa, lbs. 0 
Clover. Alslku, lbs. C 
Cucumbers, lb*.. 
Fla*, bush . 1 
Grasses— 
Mixed lawn, lbB. 25 
Blue irruas. Iba. 10 
Orchard.20 
Perennial rye, lbs.10 
Hed-top, lbs. 7 
Timothy. lbs. 16 
Iluueurl&u Brass, bush. X to 
Hemp, hush. 1 to 
Indian corn. hu»b. 1 to 
Millet, bush.. ... Xto 
Melon, water, lbs. 
Out?, bush.... 2 
Onions, lbs.. 
Peas, bush. 2 
Potatoes, busb. 
Hye, bush. 1 
Turnips, lbs. 2 
Wheat, bush. 1 
2 
3 
IV 
IV to 
V to 
to 15 
to 0 
to 10 
to 10 
to IV 
to 30 
to 15 
to 30 
to 15 
toll 
to 32 
IV' 
IV 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
IV 
to 
tori 
to 
*to 
FIELD NOTES. 
A Case of Thick-Seeding .—In the spring of 
1872, says a Maine Farmer correspondent, 1 
sowed six acres of land to oats and grass 
seed. The season was very dry and when 1 
harvested the oats, there was no grass to be 
seen, although 1 put on sixty pounds of 
clover, three peeks of timothy, one-half 
bushel red top and one-half bushel foul 
meadow grass ; but, supposing that 1 should 
get no grass from that seeding, the next 
spring as soon as the knolls beguu to show 
themselves, 1 sowed OU 48 pounds clover, 
three pecks herd’s grass, and about the first 
of September, mowed the most part of it, 
getting about one (on per acre. It was just 
beginning to tlirow out the heads and it was 
about the best seeded piece that I ever saw 
and 1 really believe that, both seedings came 
and grew, It was so thick. 
In Planting Sorghum, it is the practice 
with man 3 r planters to mix our Indian corn 
with the seed in order that the rows may be 
discovered and cultivation to keep down the 
weeds begun before the sorghum seed starts : 
for it germinates more slowly than corn. 
(Jaijur <£ionomt). 
HOW TO MAKE FARMING PAY. 
GOLD-DUST FROM ALD. MECHI. 
A DISCOVERY ABOUT CORN. 
A writer in the Western Rural says An 
intelligent and reliable neighbor of ours, who 
ha9 for years been making experiments with 
corn, has discovered an importance and value 
in replanting corn, which is quite novel and 
worthy of publication. We have always 
thought replanted corn was of very little con¬ 
sequence, but this gentleman says “ it is of so 
much consequence he replants whether it. is 
needed or not—or rather, he plants two or 
three weeks after the crop is planted a hill 
ever fifteenth row each way.” He says: 
“If the weather becomes dry during the 
filling time, the silk and tassels both become 
dry and dead. In this condition, if it should 
become seasonable, the silk revives and re¬ 
news its growth, but the tassels do not re¬ 
cover. Then, for want of pollen, the new 
silk is unable to fill the office for which it 
was designed. The pollen from the replanted 
Mr. Mechi, in a very excellent address be¬ 
fore the Midland Farmer’s Club in England, 
the other day, on the subject of “How I 
Make Farming Pay,” said, among other 
things : 
“ Importance of Soiling .—Bean and pea 
straw I take as much care of as hay or straw; 
keep it dry and ready for cutting up through 
the chaff-cutter. It is very valuable food for 
our ewes. For our cattle we generally soften 
it with hot water. It should never go under 
foot. The chaff-cutter is, in fact, with us 
one of the keys of the position. In a dry 
summer an acre of podded green beans 
passed through the chaff-cutter gives abund¬ 
ance of food. With only six acres of perma¬ 
nent pasture and some other green and root 
crops, I manage to keep 200 sheep and a lot 
of cattle and yet sell plenty of clover hay and 
straw; the st raw makes paper and the clover 
goes to London. Take to the cutting up and 
pulping principle, and do away with the 
roamiug-at-large plan, and you will be sur¬ 
prised by the economy of food.” 
I fully agree with the alderman in the 
v alue of straw and the chaff-cutter. It is in 
truth the “ key to the position.” Any farm¬ 
er who will try it “ will be surprised by the 
economy of feed ” that he will experience. 
Of the Importance of Food he said :—“ The 
necessity for food as a primary condition of 
our existence was fully appreciated by the 
late worthy and able Richard Cobden. To a 
letter in which I expressed the imperative 
necessity for increasing and cheapening our 
food, he replied, concurring with my views, 
and added, ‘ I was once vulgar enough to say 
that a full belly and a whole pah’ of breeches 
must be the beginning of all religion and 
morality.’ No doubt if the question arose 
whether we should go without our food or 
without our clothing, the manufacturers 
would go to the wall. Cobden was right, we 
cannot be religious or anything else without 
food, and we cannot be moral without 
clothing.” 
And on the Care of Animals he remarks : 
“ I am decidedly of opinion that what is 
good and necessary for human beings is also 
for animals—good and sufficient food prop¬ 
erly prepared, of various kinds, intermixed 
and regularly administered ; warmth, sheWbr 
and a dry bed; free access to water at all 
times. All these matters greatly affect farm 
profit and prevent disease. It is a great mis¬ 
take to expose hairy animalH to climatic 
vicissitudes during the seven or eight cold 
and wet months. Sheep, having woolly 
jackets are, in this respect, exceptional, but 
there are times when they should have shel¬ 
ter and a dry bed at night, especially after 
parturition. Similar causes produce similar 
results, both in animals and human beings, 
but there are many farmers who do not 
think bo. 
“The feeding question has now become 
one of the most important in mode: n agri¬ 
culture. The consumption of meat in this 
country is enormous and rapidly increasing, 
and the question of producing it most per¬ 
fectly and economically greatly affects agri¬ 
cultural profits. The manufacture of arti¬ 
ficial feeding stuffs from a great variety of 
vegetable substance, has opened so wide a 
field for deception and plunder that we re¬ 
quire to have frequent reference to the ana¬ 
lytical chemist to prevent our being imposed 
upon. One of the most necessary and prof¬ 
itable implements of agriculture Is a pair of 
steam-driven mill-stones ; iron substitutes 
are invariably a failure, You are thus en¬ 
abled to proportion and mix together the 
various kinds of grain and of oleaginous 
seeds according to the recommendation of 
your analytical chemist. For thirty years I 
liave fouud mill-stones indispensable in stock 
feeding. Equally necessary is the steam- 
driven chaff-cutter, which converts into chaff 
all hay, straw and green crops, while the 
pulper prepares the root crops.” 
What He Thinks About the. Value of Root 
Crops.— And herein he fully expresses my 
views and experience. As compared with 
sowed corn for a fodder crop, they are vast¬ 
ly inferior and much more expensive : 
“ I am of opinion that root crops, especial¬ 
ly when succulent and amply developed, arc, 
if unmixed with dryer products, improper 
foe d for stock, as they contain from 88 to 90 
per cent, of water. I never give roots to 
cattle or sheep unmixed with other food, and 
then only in moderate quantities—say SO lbs. 
for each bullock and a proportionate quan¬ 
tity for sheep.” 
What Landlords are Doing to Increase 
the Productive Power of the Land:—'‘The 
Duke of Sutherland is reclaiming his 1,250,000 
acres of waste in Sutherlandsliire at a cost 
of £25 per acre, and Is doing so at the rate 
of 1,000 acres annually. It will, even at this 
grand rate, take 1,250 years to finish the job ! 
The present rent of the whole property is 
under Is. per acre. To complete the im¬ 
provement, the landowner’s cost is admitted 
to be £25 per acre, equal to the multiplica¬ 
tion of the lee-simple value by 25, The ten¬ 
ant’s rent and his capital will no doubt be 
also increased 25 times on the completed im¬ 
provements on reclaimed farms. This is 
indeed, a grand practical illustration of the 
powers of will, skill and capiital brought to 
bear on the multiplication of human food. 
Here we have at last hope and comfort for 
the ever-craving British stomach.” 
T. C. Peters. 
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KEROSENE OIL FOR MILK FEVER. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker I have to re¬ 
port for the benefit of your thousands of 
readers a highly important cure of a large, 
fine cow of mine, which calved last Wednes¬ 
day and was apparently in uncommon fine 
condition, but was in twenty-four hours 
from that time prostrated with what I be¬ 
lieve to be milk fever, which ends in apo¬ 
plexy, and is very dangerous and 9eldom 
cured. 
The cow was down and though she made 
some attempts to get up, I soon saw it was 
impossible for her to do so. I called in some 
of my farmer neighbors, who at once said it 
must be “hollow horn.” As the Rural 
had long ago explained to my satisfaction 
that there was no such thing as hollow-horn 
as a disease. I paid no attention to the advice 
of my neighbors; but the question was, 
What shall we do f—the cow was going and 
no time was to be lost if I intended to save 
her. A lucky thought struck my wife, which 
was to search the Rural for like cases, and 
the cure therefor. In the file for 1872 we 
found, taken from the Ohio Farmer the 
following;—“At nine o’clock my cow was 
failing, at five the next morning she was 
broadside and could not hold up her head. 
As quick as possible one-third of a pint of 
common coal oil was poured down her. The 
gasses of the stomach immediately passed 
off ; her loins were then bathed in strong 
salt water and a blanket was thrown over 
her to sweat her. She lay groaning nearly 
every breath ; all that saw her 3aid she 
would surely die, but as the gasses passed 
off, I knew she would live long enough to 
let the coal oil work some time. She lay 
twenty-four hours before she could stand 
without help. The dose of oil was repeated 
the third time within two hours. She got 
entirely well. This remedy has been success¬ 
ful every time it has been tried.” 
I followed this treatment. In twelve 
hours I had (with the aid of hoisting tackle) 
ray cow on her feet, put the calf to her and 
freed her bag of milk. Twelve hours later 
she got up alone, but could not stand without 
help. In another twelve hours she was on 
her feet, chewing her cud as quietly as 
when perfectly well. Thus I saved a cow 
worth 8125 by having a file of the Rural 
which cost $2.50. N. W. Riker. 
Westfield Park, N. J., April 27. 
OPINIONS OF A JERSEY BREEDER. 
MEASURE OF A TON OF HAY. 
In Rural of April 3, I find the number of 
cubic feet given by the Maine Farmer for 
one ton of hay, and have read the article to 
srveral people who buy hay by the measure, 
and they 6ay the writer is in error about it, 
and that neither 270 feet of fresh hay nor 216 
feet of settled-down hay will make a ton ; 
they claim that 512 feet, or an 8-foot cube- 
say, 8x8x8=512, of settled hay is correct. 
Can you not throw more light on the sub¬ 
ject i— E. Mower. 
No 1 We can throw no more light on the 
subject. When we printed that clipping 
from.ithc Maine Farmer we expected de¬ 
mure to it, and are not disappointed. The 
fact is, we would uot buy or sell buy by 
measure, other than actual weight, any 
more than we would wheat, oats or corn ; 
for one or the other, either buyer or seller, is 
pretty certain to be cheated. 
A writer in the N. E. Homestead gives 
the opinion of T. W. Stoughton of Franklin 
Co., Mass., for twenty-five years a breeder of 
Jersey cattle as to the value of that breed. 
These opinions may be summarized as fol¬ 
lows : 
Jereeys are not especially desirable for 
beef, although the cows fatten readily when 
uot in milk, and make a superior quality of 
beef. They are not remarkable for quantity 
of milk, but sometimes give twenty quarts 
per day. A good Jersey cow will give us 
many pounds of butter per week as she gives 
quarts of milk per duy, They are not as 
hardy as native stock, but with good care 
there is no trouble in keeping them. The 
butter is hard and will bear transportation ; 
is high colored and has a high flavor. A 
J thoroughbred Jersey bull crossed upon native 
or Short-Horn Btock is of the very best. 
The quantity of butter would be greatly 
increased, and the quality fully forty per 
cent. The Jerseys are sharp feeders and eat 
a good deal of feed In proportion to their 
size. The cow* are precocious breeders. 
Grade Jerseys sell readily at an advance on 
the price of common cows. Grade two-year- 
old Jersey heifers not uncommonly make 
ten or twelve pounds of butter per week. 
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“CATTLE EATING MANURE LITTER. 
What is the cause of milch cows, and 
also fat cattle eating the litter, recently 
thrown out of the cow or horse stables into 
the baru-yard, as fit only fur the manure 
heap ? Our cattle are stabled, and well fed, 
on rneaJ, potatoes and hay ; and salted four 
or five times per week, with a little wood- 
ashes added thereto. But with all the care 
as above enumerated, they prefer the con¬ 
tents of the manure heap, from which they 
eat with avidity.— Farmer, Chester City, Pa. 
What is the cause ? We don’t know and 
do not know that any one does. There may 
be a thousand theories some of them more or 
less correct; but we have none that we dare 
say is the correct one. 
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