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APRIL 8 
SEND FOR PAMPHLET. 
• I |i These Tanures are the richest fertilizers l| 
• i now manufactured, anti the best substitute '| 
. for, and costing much less than guano, ,1 
jjjii which is now practically out of the market. 
Unlike guano, they are not stimulants and l| 
1 ' exhaustive, but permanent and Luting, || 
(till being composed of bone, potash, etc. You | 
Thl8is a, true bone superphosphate, and 
may be used on any cron, In tho hill or drill 
or broadcast, either with or without manure, 
arid will produce a much earlier and Larger 
croi). In tho Report of tho Mnr*. lurpector 
of Fertilizers. Its valuation Is irmn sn to 
510 per ton lilgher than other Phosphates 
which sell at the same price. Thu past 
year over 3000 tons worn sold Against 100 
tons three years ago, showing that it is 
liked by the farmers. If there is no local 
agent near you, send to us. 
Also for s;' OCKBRIDGE MANURES. 
ORKER. 
Hefting for tic fTmtitg. 
FARMING BOR B0Y3 AND GIRLS-NO. 17. 
HXNBY 8TKWABT. 
The Use of Artificial Fertilizers. 
Manures and fertilizers are food. They supply 
plants with nourishment. But this food muBt be 
given tn a rational manner or it may do harm. An 
animal may he injured by improper feeding, and 
so may a plant. It la necessary then that we 
should use caution In the use of manures, and 
more especially In the application of the common 
artificial fertilizers, because these are too strong 
to come Into close contact with the tender root 
fibers. 
Common yard manure even may be used so as 
to Injure plants. For Instance, In tbe attempt to 
make a piaot grow very quickly, one may put a 
quantity of fresh manure in a hill and plant some 
seeds, such as beans, cucumbers or melons, direct¬ 
ly upon the manure. This soon heats and forces 
the seeds to Bprout; but tbe young sprout Is Im¬ 
mediately killed by the excess of beat and if the 
hill be examined the seeds will be found dead and 
rotten. A similar mistake la often made In the 
attempt to make a hoc bed of fresh manure and 
sowing the seeds too soon. The bed heats too 
much for the seeds and the young plants are de¬ 
stroyed. This mistake la often made by old gar¬ 
deners and farmers; and sometimes experienced 
persons have overlooked tuts danger, and have 
had all their labor lost In this way. This, how¬ 
ever. can scarcely happen in field work, because 
manure Is used there only In small quantities and 
Is soon mixed with the soli. But when usmg the 
stronger artificial manures It is often the case 
that a handful of It Is dropped In a hill and the 
seed, either corn, beanB, melons, or even young 
cabbage plants, are placed lu contact with the 
fertilizer and so destroyed. So that It 1 b necessary 
to be very cautious in this respect and take eare 
to mix the fertilizer with the soli tor Borne dls once 
from the seed or the young plant. There Is then no 
danger, for tne moisture in tne soli soon dissolves 
the fertilizer and holds it tn solution and spreads 
It through the soil where the roots reach It and 
are able ro dispose of it with advantage. 
Many farmers are In the hi.bit of drilling fertili¬ 
zers with wheat or rye, and no doubt there are 
cases In which some of the seed ts injured, more 
especially In a dry season. This danger would be 
avoided It the fertilizers were mixed with earth 
so that H could be sown by the drill with the same 
ease as If unmixed; but the safest way is to scat¬ 
ter the fertilizer broadcast over the soli and har¬ 
row It in at least a day or two belore the seed Is 
sown. Borne fertilizers are strong poisons and 
contain the most corrosive acids, and it. has some¬ 
times occurnd that animals nave been poisoned 
by merely licking the empty bugs or by drinking 
the water or brooks or ponds, in which the bags 
have been plaoed to Boak or be washed. This is 
another way la which caution should be observed 
in regard to these fertilizers. 
On account ot this peculiar character of these 
usemi substances, It is advisable to apply mem 
either when rain is expected or after it h«s fallen. 
Tills la necessary when they are used for growing 
crops, as atop-dressing for grass oryoung grain In 
the Spring. The failing ruin or a heavy dew even 
will dissolve them and dilute or weaken them, so 
that when carried into the sou they will be ren¬ 
dered harmless. 
Tnose young persons who like to work in the 
garden, among vegetables and flowers, will find 
these fertilizers, more especially guatio, to be of 
great value In forcing a strong and rapid growth. 
But they must remember how highly concentrated 
a food for their plants they are using and that a 
very small quantity—a teaspooniul even—will 
usually contain In that small space as much of tho 
fertilizing elements as a large forkful or the best 
manure. They will then feed their plants very 
sparingly, because too much may easily be worse 
than too little and if it does not kill the plants 
outright It may stunt and retard the growth In¬ 
stead or encouraging and hastening It. A safe 
mode of applying any artificial fertilizer In the 
garden Is by dissolving It in water and watering 
the earth—not the plant—with the solution. An¬ 
other method equally sure, and easier, is to scatter 
.asmall quantity, as a teaspoonful, around the 
plant ror a distance of at least six inches In every 
direction and then hoc It Into tho loose soli. The 
first shower will dissolve It and carry It into the 
soli and the plant will soon show by Its deep green 
oolor and Us iresaened vigor how grateful It la for 
the needed lood. Such an application may be re¬ 
peated two or three times during the season and 
when plants are grown for exhibition, and large 
and fine specimens are desired, it may be repeated 
weekly, but copious watering will then be needed, 
or tne plant will not be able to make use of the 
food supplied to It. 
These directions should serve as a general rule 
for application in atl cases. It Is necessary for 
every rarmer and indeed every other person to 
think and to act reasonably. Then knowing the 
nature of those things we are using tor our pur¬ 
poses, and wn&t dangers are to be avoided In their 
Uses, we can apply them with safety and benefit. 
LETTERS FROM THE C0USIN8. 
Dear Uncle Mark :—My father Is a subscriber 
to your paper, so I thought I would writ© and ask 
you to enroll my name on your llstof Rural Cous¬ 
ins. T am very much interested tn the cousins’ 
letters, and have often thought, about writing to 
you. We live on a pleasant farm about four miles 
w6:t of Sprlngfiald. My father owns three lime¬ 
kilns and a atone-quarry. lie burns lime part of 
the time and carries on farming to a certain ex¬ 
tent. I had a garden last year and 1 intend to 
have one next Summer, I nave a brother thirteen 
years old and two little sisters, one aged seven 
years and the other three, I am ten years old 
myself. I wish more of the oouslns would write. 
I would like to hear from them very much. 
Your niece, Edith Holcomb. 
Springfield, Ohio. 
Dear Unclh Mark: —I am a girl fourteen 
years of age. Last year I had a garden of ray 
own and had quite a variety ot vegetables and 
flowers. I often thought I would write to tell you 
about It but I failed tn do so. In my garden I had 
roses, verbenas, asiera, phlox, snapdragons, toma¬ 
toes. watermelons, musk-melons, cabbage, cucum¬ 
bers, peas, beans and beautiful gladioli. 1 did not 
give them as much care as was necessary, but 
they did very well. Mother has a great many 
flowers In the house this Winter, end has quite a 
number In blossom. I always wanted to Join the 
Horticultural Club and now with your leave I will 
ask adml-slon. We have a great variety of shrub¬ 
bery and small fruit., therefore your special notice 
of them Is very satisfactory to os. 
Racine, Wls. Maria V. Sheldon. 
Unclk Mark:—I am a little girl ten yearsold, 
and would like to Join your club. I have three 
brothers and one sister. My papa takes the Ru¬ 
ral and I like to read the oouslns’ letters. My 
mamma has a good many house plants, among 
them Is a large oalla lllly, a heliotrope, a large 
fuchsia, two large pinks, a great many geraniums 
and many other plants, I have a little toad cac- 
tu?, which has tong, round leaves covered with 
prickers. My papa has a groat many strawberries 
and several kinds of grapes. I had A little flower 
garden last Summer aud I mean to have one again 
this Summer, so when you send seeds again please 
remember me. Your niece, 
Hartford, Conn. Bertha S. Ghidings. 
Dear Uncle Mask :—I call you so because 1 am 
anxious to be adopted into your family and be¬ 
come one of tbe Rur al cousins. My sister and 1 
nice the leitere published from the cousins ever so 
much, My father takes six weekly papers but we 
like the Rural best of all. 1 am 10 years old and 
my sister ts 12. We live on a fruit farm and I In¬ 
tend to be a fruit grower when I am a man. Fath¬ 
er gave me two rows of grape vines In one of his 
vineyards last year, which I attend to, myself, and 
when the fruit was marketed I received |B1. for it, 
with which 1 Intend buy a new variety of grape 
root 8 and set out on land my father has given me. 
I have a oolt, a calf, a dog, four cats and two 
canary birds. Your nephew, Max Fat. 
Portland, N. Y. 
Dear Uncle Mark i—I would like to Join your 
Club, If you will take a little Rocky Mountain girl 
for one of your nieces. My pa takes the Rural 
and thinks he could not do without it, The mangel 
seed we got from the Rural last Spring we plant¬ 
ed, and when pa pulled the mangels he thought 
there was a wagon load of them. Our Cow-peas did 
not amount to anything. I must tell you what we 
have growing In our lot. Three apple trees, three 
crabs, two plums, two cnerriea, and, on the north 
side, three or four dozen gooseberries and currant, 
bushes, and, last but not least, a nice bed or straw¬ 
berries I love a nice garden and plenty or flowers. 
Boulder, Col. Ida m. Davidson. 
Dear Uncle Mark :—We have taken the Rural 
for so many years that It seems Indispensable to 
the family. I am very fond of flowers and would 
like to become a member of the Horticultural Club. 
We have a hydrangea 16 years old. It ha* every 
year over a hundred blossoms ot a beautiful pink 
color. I have a canary and two tame fishes. One 
Is a chub and the other a Burnish. I have them 
out of doors in Summer and In the house In Win¬ 
ter. I have two tame chickens; the hen I call 
Biddy, 1 he rooster I call Dick. I have read with a 
great deal of interest the letters from the cousins. 
Valatle, Columbia Co., N. Y. Rural Girl. 
fttgler. 
HIDDEN PARTS OF TREES. 
1. Robert run keenly. 
2. Selim blew his horn. 
3. Caleb ran cheaply. 
4. IIow pale a fever leaves any one. 
5. Direct to It. Bascomb, Arkansas, 
a In the pit. he fell. 
7. is Lero other than he seems ? 
8. Is a potato an esculent 7 
9. He is temperate. 
10. Ha. ha, that wig was rich. 
11. Gablo s , some one Is coming. 
12 Tom, wltn a wisp, routed the mosquitoes. 
13. Enos hooted the Idea. 
14. Nebu danced the hornpipe. 
15. Did you see Denis. 
16 . it uul irles he It succeed. 
17. Herman uttered a fib. 
18. Mrs. C., I once loved In vain. 
19. What a big raft. 
20. Cyrus P. ilglaly refused. 
21. lbo! Ugh, Is au Indian grunt. 
22 . This talk Is foolish. 
tw* Answer In two weeks. Little One. 
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SQUARE WORD. 
l. A mark used In printing. 2. A weed that 
grows among grain. 3. The superficial contents 
of any figure. 4. Genuine. Gus. 
Answer la two weeks. 
CHARADE. 
The first of dinner is a part. 
The next in hands or ladles seen. 
Third to guess this If you can. 
The whole has oft In battle been. 
tsr Answer in two weeks. o, 
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For sinking spells, fits, dizziness, palpitation 
and low spirits, rely on Hop Bitters. 
SECOND TO NONE. 
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» Soluble Pacific Guano. 
|||. Sale in 1865 . 754 = Tons. 
jgf “ 1880 - - - 4 = 4=,700 
- ' -iglfegSl Tllls Fertlllzer > which was at first sold almost entirely to 
' 110 Southern States, has ot late years become so deservedly 
popular tn the North, for the cultivation of alt Farm crops, that 
Company have enlarged their works especially tosupply the- 
'■ - v Nothern demand, and we are now in a position to fillorders- 
~promptly. Pamphlets containing testimonials and other lnfor- 
' ' matlon furnished by our local agents, or on application to 
GUiXDDEN & CURTIS, 
GENERAL SELLING AGENTS OF PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY 
Boston, Mass. 
Carpeting?*. 
2£ttfclUatiott;g. 
n i DDF rp O F0R sunda y schools. 
bHilrii 1 b. ihe Beacon Light. 
‘ T 1L.l.i n il._^ .A _ 
We have now open for inspection and 
for sale a line of the choicest CARPETS 
ever offered in New York, of the latest 
and most desirable colorings and pat¬ 
terns. 
WILTON CARPETS at $2.25, 
full five-frame, and equal in quality to 
anything offered in this market at $2.75 
or $3 per yard. 
AXMINSTER and MOQUETTE 
Carpets from $1.50 to $2.50. 
Best BODY BRUSSELS Carpets, 
$1.25, $1.40, $1.50 and $1.60—the latter 
for the choicest patterns. 
TAPESTRY CARPETS—We 
have opened a full line of 300 pieces at 
75 eta. per yard. They cannot be had 
elsewhere in this city. We have other 
grades at 85 cts. and $1 per yard : 
We have also on exhibition a superior 
TAPESTRY CARPET, equal in 
Texture and Quality to anything made 
either here or in Europe. 
INGRAINS—We have of the best 
Extra Superior Grade a very full line 
from 75 ots. to 90 cts. per yard. Also, 
a line a grade lower at 65 cts. to 75 ctp. 
—all wool. 
If yon want Carpets call and see what 
we have. You will get Reliable Goods 
and save money by purchasing from 
J.&J. DOBSON, 
CARPET MANUFACTURERS, 
40 and 42 WEST 14th ST., NEW YORK. 
John Van Graasbeek, Manager. 
‘•The true Light, which ligliteth every maiituat com- 
eth into the world.” 
Tlie Beacon Light in an unusually attractive and 
beautiful Sunday School Bono Book, by J. II. PEN¬ 
NED and Rev. E. A. HOFFMAN, who have had a very 
successful experience as sorg writers anil compos¬ 
ers. Their book la one of the best ever made. Thb 
Beacon Light hae many noble hymns, and the 
sweetest of melodies. Hpocimeu copies mulled for 30 
cenis; Liberal reduction tor quantities. 
flantetco Choirs and Societies will do well to end 
daHl/ctl/cto. the musical seai-ou by performing eith¬ 
er a Sacred Cantata, mb Buck’s Wtk /‘mini, (.HI.) or 
Chad wick's splendid Joseph's Boiutaae, 081 ./ or Hut- 
ti rjistU’s Belshazzar, nisi. ■ or try the very cary Esther, 
0>ii cts.) or Root's always popular Haymakors, ($1.) or 
Buck s classical Don Mo mo, ($1.50.1 
Tlie Emerson Method for Reed Organ. 
($2 50 ) By Emkuson and Mathews, is among tho 
very best, and has a good collectkm of Instrumental 
and vocal miibic. 
Any book mailed peat free for retail price. 
OLIVER IJITSON dc CO., Hoeton. 
C-H- ^ 1T80 S & co - J - E - DITSON & CO, 
843 Broadway, New York. 1228 Chestnut St., Phila. 
M Folt. thonM .-n<t » thre* c/nt Y1 A r XTCi 
stwi»p for a trje book of nenrlv I Jill I 1/ ml 
trsIi(l],j\\ 
Foote, liiv ftuibor of v/.UHk/ 
MEDICAL COMMON SENSE MO PUIS HOME TALK, 
on Scrofula, Dunum of Mrn 
lYTYTTI'Fl and Women, aud all chronic TNA Alf 
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To every farmer sending ub iiia .mmol V- 1 - 
we will send free The Clover Leaf, a 4 page, 28 column 
farmers’ paper, full of valuable information on the 
culture ana harvesting of clover for seed. When 
you write pay where yon saw this notice, Address 
SfRDBELL MANTTFA0TURIN3 CO., Sooth Bend, Inch 
HOPE ; DEAF 
Garmore’s Artificial Ear Drums 
PERFUCfLYRESTORK TIIF. IIF,A KING 
uxid pM'l'nnc tn« week uf the Niiltiral Drum. 
Always in petition, but InviHlhlc to other*. All 
Conversation and even wlilepern heard distinctly. W» 
refer to tho no using them, Send for desert ntl v» cirenlar. 
UAJOIOUK A ttlu, 
Ik W. Osna-r ilk As Race SI*., Clucluii&tl, O. 
B ek it y bahketh.-bf. 
Circular N. L. BATTERS 
CHEAPEST. Free 
. Buvxal*, N. Y. 
