AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The largest importation of pure-breed draft 
horses ever made into this country arrived here 
on the steamer City of Limerick, on Aug.' 25 , 
amounting to 200 puro-bred Poreherons, the 
property of Mr. M. W. Dunham, of Wayne, 
DuPage Co., Illinois. One-tenth of all the 
Percherons that have ever crossed the Atlan¬ 
tic were included in this large shipment. A 
special train of 80 cars was engaged to 
cany the horses to their dual destination, and 
on their arrival there Mr. Dunham tells us he 
will have on his two farms—one of 000 and 
the other of 2,000 acres—one-fiftli of all the 
Percherons ever brought to this country. In 
the last 17 months he lias imported 360 head of 
this distinguished breed, aggregating more 
than all the importations of all other draft 
horses combined, There is no breed of draft 
horses that has met with greater favor than 
Percherons in this country, especially in the 
West. They are from 15 to lb hands high 
and weigh from 1,500 to 1,800 pounds. For 
heavy farm and road work, the city dray or 
truck, no horses over imported ha ve been sup¬ 
erior to the larger class of this remarkakle 
breed; while those of medium size are equally 
admirable for the express wagon, the omni¬ 
bus or the street car. 
The Cal. Silk-Culture Association (San Fran¬ 
cisco) is pushing the raisi ng of si Ik worms by dis¬ 
tributing mulberry seeds, pamphlets, etc.. .The 
Chilians have just discovered two valuable de¬ 
posits of guano—one on the Tortugas Islands, 
estimated at about 60,000 tons; the other in 
Ferrol Bay, about 40,000 tons; both first-class 
and worth about $ 6 , 000,000 .The Omaha 
Bee urges the passage of a law prohibiting the 
killing of prairie chickens for the next ten 
years. They are now being rapidly exter¬ 
minated and tiu> enormous increase of nox¬ 
ious insects in the West is doubtless greatly 
due to reckless pot-hunters....The Illi¬ 
nois and Mississippi River and Canal Improve¬ 
ment Co. , met at Chicago on August 25 and 
appointed a Committee to memoralize Con¬ 
gress in behalf of the construction of that 
canal westward from Hennepin, Ill., to the 
Mississippi. Hearty sympathy was unani¬ 
mously expresed for the objects of the St. 
Louis River Improvement Convention which 
meets Oct., 26 _The N. Y. Canal Hoard pur¬ 
poses so ri“impose tolls on West-bound freight 
—a project that excites bitter opposition 
from shippers in this city.Many Portu¬ 
gese laborer’s have been put to work on 
Louisiana plantations and a systematic elfort 
is being made to induce immigration from 
Spain, Portugal and Italy to the Gulf States. 
Owing to scracity of labor, wages there have 
already risen and threaten to go much higher 
unless more laborers can be ‘obtained from 
somewhere.The Iowa Farmers’ Protec¬ 
tive Association, which is contesting the 
validity of the barbed-wire-fence patents, is 
encouraged by the discovery of a home-made 
barbed-wiro fence put up, on the farm of 
Samuel Freeman, six years before the wire 
fence patents were obtained. They must not 
be too elated, however, as it has been decided 
that priority of invention does not invalidate 
a patent unless the invention has been intro¬ 
duced to public notice. 
The recently appointed Treasury Cattle 
Commission have just issued a circular ad¬ 
dressed especially to the governors of the 
States and Territories west of the Alleghenies, 
in which they call attention to the danger to 
which herds in those States and Territories are 
exposed from the traffic in diary calves brought 
from the infected district on tho Atlantic 
coast, which the circular states extends from 
New York south to Washington. Those to 
whom the circular is addressed are requested 
to use their influenced in securing legislation 
forbidding or discouraging traffic in cattle 
from any where near the infected regions_ 
_One of the largest importations of Channel 
Island Cattle ever made, has just been brought 
here by Mr. Burnett. Southboro, Mass., con¬ 
sisting of 174 Jerseys and 18 Guernseys. 
At the same time Mr. Cooper, of Coopersburg, 
Pa., brought over 175 Oxford Down Sheep, 
among which wore three pens that took prem¬ 
ums at the Royal show at. Derby this year.... 
-William E. Fliun’s ranch, near San Diego, 
Cal., boasts a grape-vine which bore five tons 
of grapes last year and broke down an oak, 
two and a-half feet in diameter and sixty feet 
high, which supported it. 
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A heavy iron roller has been used at the 
Rural Fann for four years, at first upon 
sowed grain, but latterly before the grain is 
sown, the land being fitted for seed when 
sown broadcast by ban-owing after the roller. 
We are of tho opinion that the best use to be 
made of such rollers is to break up the lumps 
and pulverize the soIL A roller is a compan¬ 
ion implement to a harrow, rendering its 
work three-fold more effectual. But. the har¬ 
row should begin and end the work. 
There can be little doubt, that wheat drilled 
in is less liable to winter-kill than if sown 
broadcast. The seed is jilaced deeper and 
more uniformly so. 
“Allow me to congratulate you on your har¬ 
vest reports. Netvspnprr men agree that they 
are more reliable than those of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. To think of private en¬ 
terprise. beating Uncle Sum / ” 
T. II. Hoskins, M. D., 
Ay. Jul. Vermont Watchman. 
FOR 
Cheese Factories, 
Creameries, 
and Dairies. 
t^“Send for circular. 
JOHN S. CARTER, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
LINCOLN PATENT’ 
CHANNEL, CAN CREANEItl. 
It calls for less than the Icc ! 
Deep-netting perfected. Get* alt tlie Cream 
in less than ten honra with ordinary well 
water, or with lee* ta»" one-fourth the ten 
called for by any other process. Owe ton of 
JOB WTLLGIVli MO It I'. LIDTTKFlTIUN you can 
«et with fivk tonb of ip® in any other 
dreamery. Special attention given to fit¬ 
ting u v large Creameries.. Agents wanted. 
Rend for circular. 
WM. E. LINCOLN, Warr en, IWnm. 
BADGER STATE 
Butter Color. 
Received the only honorable nienl lor granted toany 
Butter Color at the Internationa] Dairy- Fair of 1S79. 
If not for sale by your dealer. Send for circular, tic. to 
the manufacturer, E. SHELDON, Fort Atkinson, 
Wisconsin. 
DAIRY ENGINE AND BOILER. 
Simple, Reliable and Economical. 
We sell axwo-iioRSK tower en¬ 
gine and BOiLER.like engraving, for, 
churning pumping water, grind¬ 
ing cutting or steaming feed, at 
$195, complete and ready to run. 
Boiler made entirely ot Wrought 
Iron, and tested to' i ? o pounds 
pressure to the square inch. 
Larger sizes at equally low 
prices. Send lor illustrated 
price list. 
CHAS. P. WILLARD & c O., I 
LA SALLE STr, CHICAGO. \X\ 
MAKERS’ 
SUPPLIES 
AISTD OUTFITS. 
For the best goods and lowest prices, address 
CHARLES MILLAR & SON, 
Utica, 1ST. Y. 
We shall continue to make and furnish the square 
top and the I MPEG VED round top. as may bo desired. 
BLESS JONES 
T71AXRBANES and his agents do not bless JOSES, be- 
J? cause .Tones sells ami warrants fur live years a 
better 5-ton Hav Scale for $iiO—and Jokes he pays the 
freight-—than old " Genuine ” ever made. Equally low 
prices on every size Seale. Send for free book. Ad¬ 
dress 
Jones of Binghamton, 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
Our churns received the HIGHEST PREMIUM at 
tho International Dairy Fair in New York City in 
1879 , in competition with all the leading churua in tho 
market. 
Nine sizes made, churning from one to one hundred 
gallons. Warranted to be exactly as represented. 
Send toany dealer in really tiret-elans Farm and 
Dairy implements for a descriptive circular of 
“The New Blanchard Churn,” 
Or to the Sole Manufacturers, 
Porter BlancMs Sous, 
Concord, N. H. 
CHEESE AND BUTTER MAKERS’ 
SUPPLIES 
And Complete Manufacturing Outfits. 
Hansens 
DANISH LIQUID 
BUTTERCOLOR 
\HANSBfTSL iquid cn£E5ecqujB\\ 
Liquid extract ofrexnet, 
m wtftmnvMft or rcpackis Or ROT¬ 
TENCANAffOfiO TCNFSUCT THESE DAN- 
MBRTPAMTmS-emMSStS.Stlf 
BAHPABWS CREESE HGOPS.ANNAWNE, 
ANNATTB. RENNETS, SCALE-BOARDS. 
FAIRBANKS' SCALES, FTC., ETC., ETC. 
fen 
Anti-Huff 
M EXTRACTS! 
skimmilkcheese 
TR-g 
Lapham’s Patent Seamless Bandages 
Saves Making Bandages, Less Expensive. No Waste, 
The Best Coolers or Vats for Raising Cream Guar¬ 
anteed. Illustrated circulars sent free. Address 
[WHITMAN & BURRELL, Little Falls, N. Y- 
MOSELEY’S “BUY THE BEST.” 
CABINET CREAMERY. 
"THE STANDARD," 
Awarded by the Penn¬ 
sylvania State Agricul¬ 
tural Society, at Phil¬ 
adelphia, September, 
1880, the only 
first Premium 
Lever given in America 
f as a resul t of A CT l ; A L 
TEST, in which the 
milk set ce consum¬ 
ed, and results ob¬ 
tained, were all care¬ 
fully WEIGHED and NO¬ 
TED by the committee 
making the report. 
The most popular Churn 
on the market. No floats 
or dashers inside. The 
cover removed in an in¬ 
stant, and replaced as 
quickly. Cork packing, 
that never leaks. High¬ 
est award, a 
SII. run MEDA L, 
at Philadelphia, 1880, at 
the largest exhibition of 
dairy apparatus ever 
made in this country, 
after an actual test with 
the leading churns man¬ 
ufactured, SIX SIZES 
made. Pulleys furnish¬ 
ed f r power if desired. 
Agents Wanted, 
Send for Circulars to the manufacturers, 
MOSELEY & STODDARD MF’G CO., Poultney, Vermont. 
$250.00 CHAEZEXOE $2X0.00 
We offer above to any color that will excel 
Mrs. B. Smith’s Butter Color. 
What we claim for our BUTTER COLORis : 
1, it has no taste or smell, and is as harmless as 
water. 2, it is liquid, is easy to handle, and is 
mixed In the cream before < horning. 3 , produces 
a color resembling golden June grass butter. 
4, it is the only at tide that will color the butter 
and not the buttermilk. 6, it gathers all the but¬ 
ter materials, and increases tho weight more 
than enough to pay tor the color used. 6, the 
color ot the butter never chang< In short, it 
is decidedly the best article for the purpose ever 
offered for sale. For sale by your druggist or 
country store. Manufactured and for sale by 
MRS. B. SMITH, 
xi ChcstnulSt., Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. 
Dairymen's receipts free. (P. O. Box 1954 .) 
CHEESE AND BUTTER 
APPARATUS AND SUPPLIES. 
Full Outfits furnished. Send for Catalogue. 
CHILDS & JONES, 
Successors to 
JONES, FAULKNER & CO. 
UITCA.N.Y. 
M. D. CHAPLIN, Poultney, Vt. 
Manufacturer of the Wooster Creamery and Surprise Churn. 
THE WOOSTER THE 
is perfect in principle 
and in operation* 
Can be used with LESS 
ICEand LABOR than any 
other CREAMERY in the 
market. 
took the Special Prize of 
$5>.oo at the International 
Dairy Fair, field in N. Y., 
Dec., 1879. It always takes 
the 
Highest Awards 
when on exhibition. Dairy- 
inn 1 give this yourattention. 
FULLY PROTECTED BY LETTERS PATE NT._ CIRCULARS FREE. 
St. Johnsville Agricultural Works, 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
Tread, Sweep and Steam Threshing Outfits, 
with the latest improvements , capacity and ease of running unequaled. 
mm 
total 
FOR FULL PARTICULARS ADDRESS, 
ST. JOHNSYILLE AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
ST. JOHNSVtLLE, Montgomery Go., N. Y. 
*ASK*F 0 H-fc 
PERFECTED BUTTER COLOR 
It Gives Butter the gllt-edgedcolor^thei year round. The 1 argest Butter Buyers recommend .JhauBe, 
Thousands of Dairymen say IT IS 
national Diploma at N. Y. Dairy Fair. 
It costs, whonsestt. whereto get It. 
Iho large-—— --- r . - 
tlBed byalltne best Creameries. Awarded the Inter, 
rogpi»tor mereImntfor11;or write toaaR what It la, what 
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A W^ScUAitli son"* oil' Ptauictsn, Kuril nrton. vt. 
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