JULY 46 
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tsttllaufiras. 
RUSAL BBIEFLETS. 
Cut Hungarian GraBB as eoon as it is fairly 
headei out. 
Sow buckwheat—generally three bushels to 
the acre............ 
Garden ground tnay be cleared of early 
peas, spinach and potatoee, and swedeB be sown. 
Sow in drills three feet apart. 
Plant beans for pickles. Some of the 
stringless Golden Wax Beans are excellent for 
pickles, though Refugee is generally planted 
for that purpose. 
The Green Flageolet, a new variety, we 
should think would prove valuable for pick¬ 
les since even after cooking or when quite 
ripe they retain the green color. 
We have this season for the first tried 8wiss 
Chard for greens and find them in tenderness 
better than other beets sown for this purpose. 
The last planting of sweet corn may now be 
made. Such early kinds as Early Minnesota. 
Moore's Early Concord or Early Narraganaett 
should be selected for this climate.. 
Ab soon as the gladiolus shows the flowering 
stalk it is best to pro vide light supports. Very 
thin, light sticks suffice. When the bulbs or 
corms are planted deep, support is scarcely 
needed except in case of high windB... 
The Japan lilies should also be supported 
before they bloom... 
Move the vines of Bweet potatoes frequently 
Sift upon the young squash, melon and cu¬ 
cumber vines fine (sifted) coal ashes mixed with 
a little hellebore, aloes or snuff... 
Train and tie to the poles Lima beans when 
necessary. Pinch the ends when the vines 
are four or five feet high.... 
Attend to thecionsof grafted trees. When 
growing too freely, support them by tying to 
other branches. 
Pinch out the growing shoots of raspber¬ 
ries and blackberries. 
See that the cattle and farm stock in gen¬ 
eral have fresh water and plenty of it. Trite 
advice ? But hundreds of farmers do not heed 
it. 
Remove all garbage from the dwelling. 
Whenever a disagreeable odor is perceived, 
ascertain whence it comes. Pure air is one of 
the safest guards against sickness, as foul air 
is one ot the most prolific causes of disease. 
Arbor-yit-e hedges may now be cut back. 
If confined in yards, give the poultry plenty 
of fresh grass and clover. Give them pounded 
shells, bone flour or slaked lime. Whitewash 
the houses and remove the droppings frequently. 
Kerosene the roosts—and. "don’t you tor- 
get it.’’..... 
The aphis, or green fly, seems to be growing 
more and more abundant upon fruit trees 
from year io year. Cherry, pear and apple 
trees—young ones especially—have been so in¬ 
fested with them of late years that in many 
instances the leaves are entirely killed. The 
production of a new set weakens the tree, of 
course, and the young wood so made is gen¬ 
erally killed by the following Winter. It is a 
troublesome Insect to deal with and the only 
effectual remedies—tobacco water, snuff or 
whale-oil soap—require so long in their ap¬ 
plication as to render them impracticable. 
We have of late tried London-pnrple in water, 
applied with an old whisk broom, but although 
the twigs, stems and leaves were well sprinkled, 
the aphides were not appreciably lessened in 
number. 
Mb. J. B. Alcott says that, like a woman 
or man, the ogricnltural journal needs to be 
loved to do its best—which ie very true. If 
we were not impressed that the Rubai. Nbw- 
Yobkbb were all the while gaining m the af¬ 
fections of its readers, we should not care to 
continue its publication. We might continue 
it as a matter of business or profit—but not 
as a work of love. 
KINDLY WORDS APPRECIATIVE OF THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
I find the Rural an excellent medium for 
advertising and a most excellent paper to have 
in the family. G. 8. Wales. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
This makes three new subscribers I have 
sent you this year with no effort - further than 
showing a single number of the Kubal in each 
case. Had I not been pleased with it, I would 
not have done even this little. Every man 
who loves a cabbage, or a rose, or a glass of 
good milk, whether farmer, merchant, manu¬ 
facturer, banker or laborer, ought to read the 
Ritual on account of its high moral tone lu its 
every department. 0. J. Spaultiinq, 
Jefferson Go., O. 
Wuat we like best about the Rural is the 
purity of its contents audits valuable informa¬ 
tion ; but we would like it better if lts bright, 
piquant face would appear dally. The Beauty 
of Hebron is worth the subscription price, so 
we get the best agricultural paper free. d. h. 
Primrose, O. 
The Rural improves, 1 had nearly said, 
with every number, and it must be considered 
the model agricultural journal. Its influence 
for good I know is very great. 
Prof. E. M. Shelton. 
Kansas State Ag. Coll. 
Right worthily is the Rural leading all its 
contemporaries in enterprise. May it continue 
long to bless our farmers and others with its 
ennobling advice and instruction. 
Nelson Slater. 
Congratulations on your success. I am 
always glad to know of deserved success. 
Cornw8ll-on-Hudson. N. V. E. P. Roe. 
I mubt say my advertisement of the Wooster 
Creamery in the Rural New-Yorker for the 
past year has been money well invested. L 
would recommend the Rural to all advertU- 
ers. M. D. Chapin. 
Poultney, Vt. 
I am much pleased with the Rural. I think 
with it as a guide, we farmers need not be 
humbugged by worthless fruits and vegetables. 
Fayette Co., Ia. J. A- Rice. 
Allow me to add a note of appreciation of 
the Rural. Some have spoken of the seed 
distribution as a premium. While the seed 
distribution is of great value, the Rural needs 
no “ premium it is a " premium ” of itself, 
the money paid for it is but a trifle compared 
with the value of its columns, Long may it 
11 wave!" m. 
Sim’s Store, Ky. 
I am very much pleased with the Rural. 
Cannot possibly imagine how it could in any 
way be improved. Horace C. French. 
Chemung Co., N. Y. 
We enjoy the Rural very much. 'Tis a 
welcome visitor. The Specials are gaud. 
Ottawa Co., Mich. N. W. Bacon. 
I am pleased more and more with the Rural ; 
it teaches me in many ways. 
Williamson Co., Tenn. W. H. Chappell. 
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An Appreciative Criticism. — We were 
very much pleased with, and interested in, the 
Rural's Cattle Number, and think it must have 
been equally interesting to all of your readers 
who are concerned with such matters. The 
frontispiece, " Netherlaud Queen, from a pho¬ 
tograph,” was particularly flue—the finest, we 
think, we have ever seen from a photograph. 
You are entitled to great credit and congratu¬ 
lations for the attractive and interesting man¬ 
ner in which you have presented this impor¬ 
tant subject to the public. Permit ns to add 
ours to the many which yon will undoubtedly 
receive. Smiths & Powell. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
BOOKS, CATALOGUES, ETC. 
Gardner B. Weeks, Syracuse, N. Y. Il¬ 
lustrated and descriptive price list of Grap¬ 
pling Hay-forks and Railway Hay Conveyors. 
Premiums and Regulations for the 32d 
Annual Fair of the Ohio State Board of Agri¬ 
culture, to be held at Columbus, August 30th— 
September 2d next. 
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Secre¬ 
tary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture. 
A very valuable work of 500 page6. T. S. 
Gold, Seeretaiy, West Cornwall, Conn. 
Garden Annual, Almanac and Address 
Book, published under the direction of W. 
Robinson, F. L 8., the "Garden” office, 3? 
Southampton Street, Covent Garden, Loudon, 
W. C., England. 
The Lincoln Patent Can Creamery. Six¬ 
teen sizes for all classes of dairies. An illue - 
trated pamphlet of 12 pages. Address for 
copies William E. Lincoln, Warren. Mass., 
mentioning the Rural New-Yorker. 
Transactions of thk Indiana Horticul¬ 
tural Society, for 1880, being the Proceed¬ 
ings of the Twentieth Annual Session, to¬ 
gether with reports from local societies, es¬ 
says, papers, etc. W. H. Regan. Secretary, 
Clayton, Ind. 
Commercial Relations of tue United 
States. No. 7. May, 1881. This pamphlet 
of 161 pages coutain6 reports from the United 
States consuls on the commerce and manu¬ 
factures of their respective coneular districts, 
and forms part of a aeries now being issued. 
Illinois Crop Reports, being the consoli¬ 
dation of reports returned to Che State De¬ 
partment of Agriculture to June 1st, 1881, a 
condensed summary of which has already ap¬ 
peared in the Agricultural News of the Rural 
New-Yorker. S. D. Fisher, Sec., Spring- 
field, Ill. 
Silver & Deming Manufacturing Co., 
Salem, Ohio. A beautiful catalogue of 115 
pages of pumps, hydraulic machinery, car¬ 
riage-makers’ tools, butchers’ tools, feed cut¬ 
ters, tfcc., manufactured by them. Finely il¬ 
lustrated with 200 or mom wood engravings 
For coplus apply to the above firm. 
Agriculture of Pennsylvania, containing 
Reports of the State Board of Agriculture, 296 
pages; the State Agricultural Society, 198 
pages; the State Dairymen’s Association, 64 
pages; the State Fruit Growers' Association, 
74 pages ; and the State College, 30 pages, for 
1880. Thos. J. Edge, Sec., Chester, Pa. 
Twenty fourth Annual Catalogue of 
the Officers and Students of the State Agricul¬ 
tural College of Michigan, for 1880-1881. From 
this we learn that this model agricultural col¬ 
lege had 321 students during the season insf. 
closed, including 33 seniors. 33 juniors, 53 
Bophomores. 90 freshmen and L2 specials. 
The Shepherds’ National Journal —This 
is the first Issue of a proposed quarterly pa¬ 
per on sheep industry, edited and owned by E. 
J. Hiatt, and published at Chester Hill, Ohio, 
price $2 per annum. It contains 32 pages of 
matter copied almost entirely from other pa¬ 
pers and publications, In addition to the reg¬ 
ular quarterly issue, a weekly supplement is 
promised during the wool-selling season, con¬ 
taining the wool markets and movements, 
prices of mutton sheep, etc. We wish this 
new venture all the success it may deserve. 
Transactions op the Iowa Hcrt. So¬ 
ciety for 1880. This handsome volume of 
616 pages contains the proceedings of the Fif¬ 
teenth Annual Meeting of the State Society, 
together with those of the Eastern Iowa Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, as well as those of the West¬ 
ern Iowa Hort. Society and of other local socie¬ 
ties for 1880; embracing essays and discussions 
in all departments of scientific and practical 
horticulture, with lists of trees and plants 
adapted to tbe several fruit districts. The 
work Is well edited by Prof. J. L. Build, of 
Ames, Iowa, Secretary of the Society. 
American Pork. —This pamphlet of 49 
pages is the result of an investigation made 
under the authority of the Department of 
State, into the subjects of hog cholera, trich- 
iise, and the manner of raisi ng and disposing 
of swine in the Uoited States. The investiga¬ 
tion was instituted in consequence of the 
highly unfriendly action of France in peremp¬ 
torily forbidding the importation ot American 
hog products on February 18, last, and it 
clearly demonstrates that there was no valid 
ground for this hasty action. The pamphlet 
is published ly the Department of State, 
Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 
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BEAUTIFUL IOWA. 
MESSRS. HOLMES AND SWEET LAND. 
[Special Correspondents of the Rubai. New-Yokkeb.) 
Beloit Is in tbe extreme southwestern corner 
of Lyon Co., on the Big Sioux Klver, and on tbe 
Sioux City and Dakota division of tbe Chicago, 
Milwaukee and St. Paul Hallway. It baa a popu¬ 
lation of about 260, four ebureb societies; (two ed¬ 
ifices), a public school, a Lutheran Theological 
College, just removed here from Wisconsin, hav¬ 
ing for a faculty, a president and three pro feasors 
a local newspaper, and the usual quota of business 
for such a town is well represented. The town was 
named by lion. E. E. Carpenter, who removed 
here from Beloit, Wla., In 1S73, and Is now doing 
enough business almost to JusUfy running him by 
steam power; a flouring mill, woolen mill, grain 
elevator, More, and dealing in real estate requir¬ 
ing his dally attention. He will answer ail letters 
addressed to him about either his town or county. 
Light manufactories are needed here to utilize the 
water power of the Big Sioux, which can be ob¬ 
tained on favorable terms. 
At Orange City, the county seat of Sioux Co. we 
had the pleasure of meeting Hon. Henry Hospers, 
one of the early residents, who has been the main¬ 
spring of Holland Immigration from Holland. 
From him we gleaned these facie: The Holland 
colony was established In 1869, and then contain¬ 
ed some 60 families which have since been In¬ 
creased to aoo j there are 22 free sehoola, all 
English and three churches, Protestant-Retorm. 
The attention of this class of populat ion is turned 
to stock-raising and agriculture, their industrious 
and honest habits rendering them a valuable ac< 
cession to a new country. “ De Voliesorlend,” a 
Holland paper, Is published by Mr. 1L This, the 
shire town, la the largest In the country, (some 
400 population) two and one-half miles from the C. 
St. P. M. O. Ry. It has the court-house, a gener¬ 
ous supply of stores, business and professional 
men and a very desirable location. The Sioux Co. 
Herald Is a very creditable paper published here. 
We desire to thank Messrs. Pierce and Lewis 
(real estate). Bill and Leoocq (some), and C. W. 
Carter (same), for their very courteous treatment 
and commend Eastern readers to their care, From 
here we dropped down to 
East Orange, a brisk little town of 200 people, 
which has grown up around the station. There we 
found two vary neat churches—Reform and Cath¬ 
olic—a good school, and various business Interests. 
It is an excellent shipping point. From Beach 
Bros., who handle a large portion of the grain, 
we learn the shipments ot last season’s crop ex¬ 
ceeded 110 ,mOO bushels. D. Gleysteea (the senior 
of one of their large stores) la in Holland now, 
lookiug up among other interests the immigra¬ 
tion of that nationality. A ride ot 24 miles across 
the rich country we have spoken of, brought us 
to the southwest corner of the county, and we 
found 
Calliope with its 125 population—allegori¬ 
cally spreading its wings for an asceut. it is on 
the Sioux Falls Branch of the <’• M. & st. P. Rail¬ 
way, no.-tlliig by the Sioux River, which wlU be 
bridged here this summer. There is a tall of six 
feet to the temporary Ham, and a mill would he 
a ged-sendto them. There aie also oppoitunl- 
tles for drugs, a blacksmith, harness and other 
business Interests incident to a growing town. 
With a good newspaper and good school, there la 
no lack of the instructive element. We learn 
that W. P. Cutler, ot Marietta, Ohio, ownB one- 
half the town-site; and from him or of A. w. 
Heald, further Information can be obtained 
Taking the branch we next made Rock valley at 
its junction \\ tth the main line and I. and D. divi¬ 
sion C. M. & St. P. Besides being a junction this 
“healthy infant” (about too population, 3 Btorea 
and 2 hotels) la nearly In T,he center of tuts beau¬ 
tiful agricultural region, pouring Its ever increas¬ 
ing wealth Into lta coffers for shipment. It has 
a splendid water power, and a good mill will soon 
be built. There Is a school and two religions so¬ 
cieties will soon be organized. For this point 
we commend a correspondence with James E. 
Douglass (real estate). Burnell Bros, (general 
Btock) Richard L. Rowe (same, a new store) or 
Dr. E. O. Plumbe. 
Pattkrsontillb, nine miles east, on C. M. and 
St. P., is the largest railroad town In Sioux Co., 
being about 400 population. 'There la a good 
Methodist church, Catholic soon to he built, Con- 
gregatlonallst expected this Summer, a pithy 
local paper, a set of business men who have the 
go-ahead and push to make their town a good 
one. A bank will be started ere this article ap¬ 
pears, the second in the county. Civic societies 
are in flourishing shape; schools, well attended 
aDd ample for the populatl on, and this standing 
for a town of only two-and-a-half years of age. 
It la a marvel to the steady-going farmer of the 
East, truly. Beach Bros., of East Orange* have 
also a large business here. To these and the 
other gentlemen who tendered us their aid In 
eliciting truths for our correspondence, we sa 7 
many thanks. 
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THE INSECT WORLD. 
Where do the*e Pests Come From, and Where 
do they go to J 
In Ontario County, N. Y., about the year 1856, I 
saw some currant bushes nearly denuded of their 
leaves by a loop, span, or measuring worm which 
showed Itself In great abundance In all Its various 
attitudes, l have never 3een a specimen of It 
since, or heard tidings ot It till a few days since 
when I found my half dozen gooseberry bushes 
plentifully infested by the same worm. I show¬ 
ered the pests and dosed them with ashes which 
simply disturbed them. Caring little for the 
gooseberries, which are more plague than profit, 
and fearing for the currants near-oy for which I 
have a profound respect, I placed paper under the 
former and set it on fire, pitching all I could see 
into the blaze. In a day or two I found them on 
the currants sure. By careful hand-picking we 
have greatly reduced their number, hoping to save 
some trult thereby, which we would not have 
dared to eat had we used poison. I find the same 
Insect oo my other garden half a mile off and one- 
fourth of a mile from any other currants or goose¬ 
berries, and I learned that this same worm ap¬ 
peared In the neighborhood last season. 
Learning from the American Entomologist (Vol. 
3 , page u > that this worm breeds but once In a 
season and that the moth leaves its eggs on the 
twigs and branches In July or August, to be 
hatched the next. June-, I conclude to wale till the 
eggs are deposited and, so far as the goose- 
berrtes are concerned, to cut them up and burn 
them. As the gooseberry seems to be its prefer¬ 
ence, 1 hope by this and other means to save some 
currants next season. This Is claimed to be a 
native American. As to this other green goose¬ 
berry and currant worm not a looper, claimed to 
be an importation and producing two generations 
tn a season, I encountered them, or they me, about 
15 years ago, and learning that their mother, the 
sawfly, remained in the pupa state In the ground 
under the hushes during winter, I ptugged them 
up there with a plaster of lime mortar of 20 or 24 
Laches diameter early in the Spring, and they 
have never troubled me since. 
The pear slug that has infested the pear, cherry, 
quince and mountain ash for the past few years, 
I have not yet seen this season. Neither have I 
found the green Uce on the currant, apple or plum 
trees, nor the small black Uce on the cherry tips, 
or on the grapes which they occasionally Infest. 
Are they yet coming ? Is a serious question. The 
thrip8, too—Tettlgoula vitts—that were here in 
destructive abundance the two past years, are at 
Least thus far delayed, though the Clinton, their 
special favorite, ha3 blossomed live days earlier 
than last year. If these tiny thrtps do not appear 
at aU, I shall not regret the preparation I have 
made for them and which was successful last year 
where thoroughly appUed. to wit, ten pounds of 
quick-lime and four pounds of sulphur slaked to¬ 
gether and put In 30 gallons ot water and applied 
on the upper and under sides of the leaves with a 
whisk or garden pump. Try it, you who are pes¬ 
tered with these little nuisances—I can conquer 
them with nothing else. 
The past has been a hard Wlnrer on this Lake 
Shore, and the lessons It has taught us are that It 
is unreasonable tor ns to expect but occasional 
success, even In this reputed peach belt, with any 
of the tender rmlta except in well chosen aspects. 
I have Just visited a twenty-acre Concord grapery 
with great masses of winter-killed wood with 
swarms of suckers and tittle evldeuoe ot fruit In 
prospect, and another piece of one and a halt acre 
Including the same variety, half a mile distant, 
where there were 35 varieties and all except three 
In fine condition with scarcely any dead wood. 
The soil was the same In both pieces, the differ- 
ence la the present appearance having been 
caused partially by the Fall or Winter pruning, 
hut mainly by the difference In aspect, the former 
being on a dead level and the latter on a slight 
inclination, l might tell the same story of peach 
orchards in the same neighborhood, the difference 
there, too, being caused by the same good and llt- 
ehosen or shaped grounds. All tree fruits bore in 
excess last year, and most of the trees showed 
blossom this Spring, but many failed to set fruit. 
Muskegon, Mich. S, B. Peck, 
