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MAY 24 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
An Evil Without a Remedy. 
A friend writes us from Van Wert, Ohio : 
“ I would like to ask how farmers near to cities 
and towns can prevent persons, both those 
grown up and children, but especially the lat¬ 
ter, from traveling over their fields. I am pes¬ 
tered too much with people gathering grasses, 
hunting flowers and birds’ nests, shooting, hal¬ 
looing on Sundays, getting dirt for flower 
pots and rambling through fields and woods for 
no purpose whatever but to while away the 
time and amuse themselves. They frighten my 
stock and keep them on the move by throw¬ 
ing at them. Now what shall I do! I appre¬ 
hend that it would displease many to prevent 
them from going where they choose. Is there 
a remedy?” 
Remarks. —We cannot give one. Many such 
trespassers do not regard polite requests not 
to do so, and their offenses are scarcely of such 
a character as to he stopped by legal proceed¬ 
ings, We have at Ihe Rural Farm many 
causes of such complaints, and patience is often 
tried beyond endurance. Bat we have found 
no effectual remedy. 
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Most profit is found in growing tobacco on 
farms where the business is carrried on to a 
small extent, and where great care is exercised 
tocnconomize fertilizers. A few aerc6 of the 
best part of the farm devoted to this crop with 
garden culture and such care given the crop 
as will produce the largest percentage of the 
best leaves, will doubtless prove profitable. 
The Warden’s dam was the Marquis of Lon¬ 
donderry, prize mare ••Blossom.” She was 
got by a celebrated horse. “ Prodigy” by " Sam. 
son,” winner of first prize at the Royal Asri- 
cnltnral Society’s Show at Shrewsbury iu 1845, 
first at Leicester and first at Newcastle in 184(5 
The Warden’s grand dam was by the famous 
‘‘Bay Wallace"(38). winner of the premium at 
the Highlamhand Agricultural Society’s Show at 
Berwick in 1841, and he traveled the Cumber¬ 
land district for a premium four years in succes¬ 
sion. He by '• Old Bay Wallace" (572), winuer 
of the Dumfries premium in 188L, 
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How TO Prevent Horses from Chewing 
the Bridle or Harness. —Referring to an 
inquiry on this subject in a late Rural, a 
triend in Middle Tennessee 6ends us a plan 
upland rice is beginning to attract more atten¬ 
tion in Georgia, and quite a large area was 
planted; 35 bushels of rough rice was the aver¬ 
age per acre, though as high as 100 bushels are 
reported when the conditions were veiy favor¬ 
able. S weet potatoes averaged L10 bushels per 
acre, but the humid weather was unfavorable 
to keeping and large quantities were lost. The 
yield of sorghum was (58 to 88 gallons ; ground 
peas, or peanuts, 23 tmahels; chufa6, 35 bush¬ 
els, and hay about two tons. Tnere was a 
slight increase in the amo aut, of pork cured. 
The American Hereford Record. Vol. I. 
Compiled by the Breeders’ Livestock Associa¬ 
tion, Beecher, Ill. This handsome volume of 
384 pages 8 vo , contains 2 915 entries of Ameri¬ 
can-owned Herefords, the descent of all of which 
the greencastle grajn drill.— Frcin a Photograph.— fig. 263, 
Jntuistrial Jnijjltmrnts. 
The Greencantle Grain Drills. 
These drills, a cut of one of which is given 
herewith, have been in general use for the last 
25 years, and are built at Greencastle, Penn., 
ly J. B. Crowell & Co., who are devoting their 
entire attention to machinery for seeding pur¬ 
poses. While building plain drills for sowing 
grain and grass eetcT only, they also make a 
specialty of a combined drill that sows phos¬ 
phates, guano, or any of the properly prepared 
commercial fertilizers that are found in the 
market. The latest improvement connected 
with this implement is an Automatic Cnt-off, 
which at once shuts off the flow of the fertil¬ 
izer, when the hoist lever handle i6 raised, thus 
saving, as is claimed, an amount equal to 15 
or 25 per cent, of the cost of the drill alone 
each year. 
By using fertilizers the wheat can be sown 
somewhat later so as better to avoid the attacks 
of the fly, and yet enable the plant to form a 
good root and thus withstand the freezing out 
that Fall wheat is often subject to. 
The simplicity and durability of the drill 
built by J B. Crowell & Co., at once com¬ 
mend it to the farmer. There is no change of 
gear whtelB to regulate the quantity sown, 
and the spring hoes which are attached to all 
their No, 1 drills, enable the farmer to pass 
over ordinary obstructions without breaking 
pins, and theu stopping the team to replace 
them. Immediately upon passiug over the 
obstruction the point finds its way into the 
soil, and commences planting the seed in the 
farrow, causing no '* skips.” 
Spring hoc drills are now largely used in the 
rocky, limestone districts of Pennsylvania, 
Maryland aud Virginia, and their sale is being 
rapidly extended throughout North Carolina 
and Tennessee, as well as throughout the 
Western States, where they have been recently 
introduced. All applications for circulars or 
for further information, which will be prompt¬ 
ly given, should be made ly our readers to 
the aboye address. 
Dorsraan. 
The Warden. 
This fine bay Clydesdale stallion with black 
and white points, is one of the importations of 
Mes6r6. Powell Brothers, Springboro, Pa. He 
was foaled May 19, 187(5, and won first prize 
in a class for yearling stallions at Castle Eden 
Show, open to the United Kingdom, in August, 
1877. Agaiu, as a two-year-old, he was placed 
second in a large class of stallions at the York¬ 
shire Show, at Northallerton in August, 1878. 
He was sired by “ The Swell" (870) winner of 
the Castle Eden premium of £50 ($350). He 
by “Farmer’s Fancy" (803) by “Lofty" (455) 
winner of first prize ana silver medal at Glas¬ 
gow. He by "Fanner's Fancy" (298), winner 
of first prize at the Highland Society's Show at 
Glasgow in 1844, and second at Dumfries in 
1845. He by "Clyde alias Glancer" (153) by 
“Broomfield Champion" (95) by Glancer 2d, 
(337) winner of second prize at first show of 
the Highland 8 >ciety helu in 1830. He by 
“Glaucer 1st (885) ly " GUueer alias Thomp¬ 
son s Black Horse’ (335) that was foaled about 
1810. aud was the most noted of all the great 
founders of the Clydesdale breed. 
which has there always proved effectual in the 
worst cases. A goodly quantity of Cayenne 
pepper is mixed with a lot of grease and the 
mixture is liberally applied to the parts of the 
bridle, harness or other object the brute is ac¬ 
customed to bite. A few trials of the stuff are 
generally quite enough for the most Inveterate 
harnes £ -biter. 
Ulistfllaitfous. 
A Protection Against Rabbits.—A cor¬ 
respondent writing from Fredericksburg, Va., 
says that he has found by experience that if a 
plank not less than two feet across, is white¬ 
washed on both sides aud fastened in the 
ground, rabbits will not come within 20 yards, 
or more, of it. 
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Protecting Trees from Rabbits.—A friend 
writes us from Mount Pleasant, Mo., that he 
lately saw a very neat way of doing this, which 
was new to him. The trees were small and 
were protected by corn-stalks tied closely 
around them, the stalk having been split open 
and the pith removed. 
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BOOKS, CATALOGUES, ETC. 
Annual Report of the Commissioner of 
Agriculture of Georgia—J. T. Henderson. Ac¬ 
cording to this report the year 1880 was not 
propitious to grain crops, and wheat, oat6 and 
rye were almost entire failures. In South 
Georgia particularly were the crops very poor. 
The corn crop was short, the average yield per 
acre being only 9 7 bushels. In cotton the 
yield was very satisfactory, the condition of 
the crop being reported 104; the average yield 
per acre was 541 pounds of seed cotton, or lit¬ 
tle over one-third of a bale of lint- The yield per 
plow was five bales of 470 pounds each. Sugar 
cane also did well, 190 gallous of sirup being 
tbe average yield per acre. It must be remem¬ 
bered, however, that in Georgia all the cane 
juice is made into sirup. The cultivation of 
is traced back through the ten volumes of the 
English Hereford Herd Book. Fifteen pages 
at the end of the work give a brief sketch of 
the history of the Hereford breed both in Eng¬ 
land and this country. As the first of a series 
the compilation of this book must have cost a 
great deal of labor and lesearch. A second 
volume of the Record has already been begun, 
for which 1,000 entries have been received. 
These will be issued in book form under paper 
covers, without waiting for the completion of 
a full volume. The charges for entries for the 
present work have been, for each animal to be 
entered. $2; for animals to connect with the 
English Herd Book, 50 cents each. We sup¬ 
pose the same charges will be made for the 
entries in the second volume. 
The Ayrshire Record, New Series, Vol. 
Ill; American and Canadian Record (old se¬ 
ries Vol. IV) published by the -Ayrshire Breed¬ 
ers’Association. John Divis French, Editor. 
North Andover, Mass. This Association now 
numbers 119 members, and the number of 
entries in the old and new series of Heid 
Books is 5,470 bulls and 2.535cowa—total, 7 995. 
These figures do not include those in the regis¬ 
try of "cattle not tracing directly to importa¬ 
tion,” which has been discontinued. The 
North American Ayrshire Register has been 
consolidated with the Record, so that here¬ 
after there will be only one Ayrshire Herd 
Book, which will be published under the title 
of Ayrshire Record; Dr. E. L. Sturtevant here¬ 
after working in harmony with the Associa¬ 
tion. 
Usury. —A pamphlet of 116 pages. This is 
an anomaly in the way of publications in this 
country, though in some of the European 
countries—Russia, for instance—its most chai- 
acteristic feature is doubtless often noticeable 
in works of a "compromising ” nature. It has 
ueither the name of the author, publisher or 
printer, a word of preface or a hint outside 
that in the text, as to its object, which from a 
very cursory glance, seems to be to show the 
worthlessness of usury lawst 
fig. 264. 
The Wisconsin Central Railroad Lands. 
—A pamphlet of some 60 pages descriptive of 
the lands for sale by the W. C. R. R., together 
with an account of various attractive induce¬ 
ments to purchasers. Sent, postage-free, to all 
applicants, by C. L. Colby, Land Commission¬ 
er, Milwaukee, Wir, 
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A CONTRAST. 
I have before me the Ulster County Gazette 
of January 4. 1S00, published by Samuel Freer 
and Son, at Kingston, N. Y., Volume 3. No 88. 
It contains four pages of coarse print, each 
page nine by sixteen inches inside the blank 
border. Two pages are devoted to the death 
and burial of ex-President Washington, to 
correspondence betweea the United States 
Senate and President John Adams, a poem on 
the occasion by “A Young Lady," some Lon¬ 
don correspondence, news from Holland and 
France, “ received by the British Packet, Prin¬ 
cess Charlotte.” These two pages are sur¬ 
rounded by black lines, nearly a quarter of an 
inch wide, and each colnmn by similar lines of 
less width. 
Forty-two letters are advertised as remain¬ 
ing in the Post Office addressed to persons 
living in thirteen diff-treat places: twelve 
sheriffs’ sales are advertised ty Peter Van 
Broech, Sheriff. There are eight advertise¬ 
ments of real estate for sale, in one of which 
is a sawmill, “also a stout, healthy, active 
Negro wench," four merchants’ advertise¬ 
ments, one of which is '■ dry goods and gro¬ 
ceries by Samuel Freer,” the above publisher. 
One man advertises his wife “ forbidding all 
persons from harboring, keeping or trusting 
her on my account.” There are two or three 
estrays, one of a red bull with P. T. B. branded 
on his horns. 
The correspondence between the United 
States Senate and the President is dated "Uni¬ 
ted States, January 10, 1799—no place named. 
There are no subscription or advertisement 
prices named. No doubt this was a very use¬ 
ful newspaper, well-adapted to the wants of 
the place and the times, forming a part of the 
history of both. 
In contrast with the above, I have before me 
the Rural New-Yorker of January 1. 1881, 
publishedSL years afterwards. Myobjectin this 
comparison re to show the progress that has 
been, in the meantime, made in this class of 
literature, as well as to excite the imagination 
of newspaper readers as to what 81 years 
more will accomplish. For, in spite of what¬ 
ever may be said against the indulgence of 
imagination, there is much of innocent pleas¬ 
ure and even profit in it, as witness the "Siege 
of Troy,” " Aladdin’s Lamp” and the “ Seven 
Voyages of Sinbad the S ailor the virtues and 
vices which are therein depicted have embel¬ 
lished the literature of all modern languages. 
In tbe Rural there are four times as many 
pages of about the same size, with at least six¬ 
teen times as much reading matter, with a 
Very great improvement in type, paper and 
mechanical execution. And as to the subjects 
of its contents, it requires very much more la¬ 
bor to descrif e them than to state what there 
is of use to the average man, woman or child, 
that It does not contain, if you are engaged 
in the raising of, or dealing in, horses, cattle, 
sheep, poultry or pigs, in it you not only find 
on the subject tbe concentrated wisdom and 
experience of the age, but pictorial illustra¬ 
tions of the most approved varieties: and so 
with fruits, grains and vegetables. And should 
you fail to dud in it everything that yoa wish 
to know, from the solving of a problem in 
Euclid down to ihe best pattern for a pig-pen, 
ask tbe editor and he will be most sure to en¬ 
lighten you. 
Not the least of the advantages to be derived 
from the possession of the Rural, is its record 
of its experiments made on its experimental 
farm of 80 acres, not for its special benefit but 
for years; for experiments are costly, and 
pay, in general, little or no profit above cost to 
the experimenter. I might also claim great 
merit for it for its donation of seeds, tubers 
aud plants to its patrons, of new or improved 
varieties for their (not its) special benefit or 
profit, it claims to be an agricultural paper, 
but the tnan of any profession or calling will 
surely find in it matter of more value to him 
than the money he pays for it, if the latter 
were invested in matters of mere ornament or 
pleasure. And the woman or child who takes 
pride or delight in floral ornamentation will 
find in it information of great advantage. 
V iellard. 
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Spuriou3 Butter. —The following is a ver¬ 
batim report of the speech on this subject by 
Dr. Lyon Playfair, M. P., in the House of Com¬ 
mons on April i, as reported in the Scotsman 
newspaper, as copied by the London Agricultu¬ 
ral Gazette. We confess to being heartily op¬ 
posed to oleomargarine in any shape or form. 
