until now it is all that skill, good material and 
experience can make it. Particulars are to be 
obtained by addressing the maker. 
came, and every available dish was heaped high 
and stored in the cellar, which was steeped in 
their perfume, while the ground was yellow, in 
spots, with the over-ripe berries that had fallen 
olT. lly Monday they were too soft to market, 
and still tiie fruit ripened, and the children with 
Fr.r.ui'iTE returned to their picking. What should 
I do? The question puzzled me for a while, 
when the happy thought struck me. Why not 
make vinegar, or rather white raspberry shrub ? 
a summer beverage which, when made of the 
dry. The sprinkling should be commenced just 
as soon as the young beetles or larvic make their 
appearance, and if they come again after one 
sprinkling, the work must be douo over again. 
We kill squash-bugs in the same way. 
Is it hard work ? Of course it is ; all work is 
hard. John Rusticus. 
Freedom, Wls. 
ally the bulb decays and. in common phrase, the 
lily lias run out. 
If, so soon as the signs of trouble lirst appear, 
the plant is sprinkled with flour of sulphur, 
the effect will lie perceptible ami even when ap¬ 
parently in its last stages the sulphur will often 
produce an almost, wonderful effect. Two ap¬ 
plications of the Rulphur are usually all that is 
necessary. It can be applied by moans of any of 
the patent bellows arrangements, that can he 
purchased from druggists or seedsmen at a good 
AN IMPROVED SEED PLANTER 
It is now about conceded that drilling grains 
has manifold advantages, ajid it would be mere 
repetition to givo the details of recorded experi¬ 
ments. The best means to accomplish the end, 
however, have been the subject of more or less 
argument. We have recently examined an im¬ 
plement made by Mr. O. If. 1\ Cornell, proprie¬ 
tor of the Albany Agricultural Works, Albany, 
N. Y., that is admirably adapted to the uses for 
which it is intended. This planter has been 
favorably known for some time, but this season 
it has been improved in many essential points, 
and, it seems to ns, is likely to add materially to 
its past fame. By its use accuracy is secured, 
while the cost of planting Is lessoned, and tho 
value of the crop enhanced. 
The coat of tho Planter is within the means of 
most farmers, and this cost iB more than recov¬ 
ered the first season. It will plant various seeds, 
including corn, beans and peas, whilo turnips are 
more easily and quickly manipulated by its use 
than by tho old method. At one process the 
Planter opens its furrow, gauges, drops, covers 
the seeds and rolls them down, while at the same 
time it marks off the distance for the next row, 
or drill. It is adjustable from one to 72 inches, 
and the changes are made very quickly and with¬ 
out inconvenience. 
A good feature of the instrument is its con¬ 
vertibility into a horse hoe by removing the seed- 
box and attaching hoo points, which the strength 
and compactness of t he Planter allows. 
We give two illustrations of the Planter, show¬ 
ing it as a planter and hoo. These illustrations 
give a better idea of the capabilities of the im¬ 
plement than mere description, and a practical 
farmer will see at a glance what are its possibil¬ 
ities. 
Tho reputation of Mr. Cornell's works are a 
guarantee for tho superior mechanical contrac¬ 
tion of the Planter, and those who can use it to 
advantage should give it a trial. Circulars con¬ 
taining all necessary information may be obtain¬ 
ed by addressing tho manufacturer. 
HILL-CULTURE OF WHEAT 
We have always been an advocate of high-cul¬ 
ture with all kinds of crops, instead of tho cheap 
and slovenly systems practiced by nine-tenths of 
our farmers. Any man who cannot raise twenty 
to forty bushels pf wheat, or fifty to seventy-five 
bushels of corn per acre, had bettor own up at 
once that he is not fitted to be a farmer, and re¬ 
tire, taking up some other occupation. 
Blessod with a Bplondid soil aud climate for 
raising grain of all kinds, wo produce a less 
average per acre than in countries where the 
cereals aro cultivated under anything but favor¬ 
able conditions, and all because our farmers fail 
to adopt the best aud most scientific system of 
culture. 
Where droughts are likely to occur, deepening 
and uuderdraining of tho soil must be resorted 
to in addition to highly manuring, and, in Bomo 
localities, irrigation may ho added to produce a 
largo and profitable yield ; but these are only a 
few of the points worthy of attention to fully 
meet the requirements of a progressive and in¬ 
telligent. system of farming. 
The old method of sowing whoat and other 
similar grain broadcast, and half covering with a 
harrow, must lie abandoned, and drill-culture 
adopted, and then have the grain hoed and cul¬ 
tivated in summer, as is now practiced with corn 
and potatoos. 
Perhaps wo may have to go a little further 
than this, and plant in hills, forsomo late exper¬ 
iments in raising wheat in this way seem to indi¬ 
cate that the system is not wholly impracticable, 
oven where labor is rather dear. 
As an indication of what may bo accomplished 
in hill-culture of wheat, wo copy a report of an 
experiment made iu California, by a Mr. D A. 
Bisskl, of Modoc Co., which was published in 
tho Bidwell Herald. Ho says : 
Owing to an accident to about one-half the 
ground planted, it yielded only about CO bushels 
per acre ; but the balance of the piece yielded a 
little over SO bushels per acre, f should have 
planted it a little thicker, but I wished to plant 
but just ono pound to the acre, and am doubtful 
if it would have yielded more if it had been 
planted thicker. I planted but ono seed in a 
place, 37 by 10 inches apart. There was a time 
in its stooling when it gained live Hpears a day, 
as counted by neighbors ; yet most of it headed 
as even as an ordinary field, but a few spearB 
would continue to come later. Irrigation by 
Hooding is ruinous to some land, mine especially, 
so 1 use a small ditch, ruunuig a little water oc- 
casioualy, as I think it needs it. Some laud 
needs the ditches once in five or six feet, other 
land from ono to two rods, and still others inter¬ 
mediate. I do not consider irrigation as essen¬ 
tial in tho Atlantic States as here, but would try 
it if convenient. All climates and soils are not 
alike; also cultivation, irrigation, and manure 
cause a rank growth, which in some places in¬ 
duces rust, so that. I would advise all persons to 
try on a small scale at first. 
I would cultivate with a two-horse walking 
cultivator, with a reversible shovel, cultivating 
both sides of the row at once, turning from tho 
row the first time, and to the row afterward. 
One great object of cultivation is to keep the 
ground free from weods, as well as loosening the 
Boil. And here I wish to correct an erroneous 
opinion, that thickly-sown grain will Rhade the 
ground sooner, and consequently stand drought 
better than thin. 
I have proved by actual experiments that 
thinly-sown grain will stand drought, better than 
thick. L have for three successive years tried 
thinly-sown wheat., without cultivation -the first 
time on two acres, in drills; tho others on one 
acre, each suwri broadcast, one peck to the acre. 
They heat, successively 20, 25, aud 75 acres ad¬ 
joining, sown with from ono to ono and a half 
bushels to the the acre, by about one-third. I 
should have long since sown the whole place 
with only from 15 to 30 pounds to the acre, hut 
have been renting to men whose grandshes did 
not do that way. I attribute a great deal of my 
success iu that expet imeut to a careful selection 
of heads from year to year. Some think you 
should not cut the roots for cultivation. I think 
if you cut one, three come in its placo. We 
know we cannot cultivate corn without cutting 
the roots. I think wheat, sovvu iu tlio fall, would 
bo better in many places than if sown iu the 
spring. 
IMPROVED HORSE HOE 
wild red berry, is quite fashionable with country 
housekeepers. No sooner thought of than done. 
I lost no time in procuring white sugar and a 
seven-gallon demijohn of imported French vine¬ 
gar, clear and pure as water, and of extra 
strength. It is uot within the province of this 
article to encroach upon tho department so ably 
conducted by Mrs. Rustic and other notable 
housewives, by giving my rocipa for the manu¬ 
facture of tho “ shrub but when it was tasted 
and pronounced very good by competent judges, 
I proceeded. One evening, to simmer and strain 
it for the last time, according to directions. In 
order to have the amber fluid perfectly transpar¬ 
ent, f decided to fill a stone Jar and my vinegar 
demijohn, that night, and bottle the next day 
into white glass bottles which I iuteuded to for¬ 
ward to a prominent city grocer for sale. I filled 
my stone jar as I calculated tho profits of the 
transaction. “Twelve gallons to spare—worth, 
at least, two dollars a gallon : sugar and vinegar 
deducted would leave me"-crack weut the 
demijohn at tho bottom—it was glass -and be¬ 
fore I could collect my scattered senses the 
precious liquor was all over the floor. The 
“guidmon,” who was tranquilly reading, throe 
rooms off, hearing my exclamations came to the 
rescue, hut his sympathy I indignantly rejected. 
It was help l had wanted, and ho tells me, to 
this day, as we laugh together over tho mishap, 
that I lectured him soundly for not being on 
hand iu timo to prevent the accident. 
So tho grocer never had a chance to sell my 
orange raspberry-shrub ; tho floor of the kitchen 
boro tho mark of the stain for many a day, in 
spito of all scrubbing, aud the other jar was 
placed in a dark cupboard of tho collar, where it 
remained for two years until 1 could look at it, 
with a secret amusement as my friends declared 
they had never tasted so delicious a drink. Age 
only improved its rich, delicate flavor, but I have 
never made a second attempt, aud can sympa¬ 
thize, ever since, with the milkmaid, known to 
fame, whose hopes, like mine, were so cruelly 
price, or just as effectually and at less expense 
by putting it in a bag made of a woolen stocking, 
and shaking it on, which process lias not, we be¬ 
lieve, been patented at this writing but is quite as 
convenient aud effectual as any other wo know. 
FIGHTING THE POTATO BEETLES OUT 
WEST. 
Having had some ten years’ experience in 
fighting potato beetles, I will toll you how wo do 
it. Tho first thing, after they make their ap¬ 
pearance in tho spring, which they do as soon as 
the potatoes are out of tho ground, is to hand¬ 
pick tho “seed-hugs," as we call them. This 
aand-pioking is done very readily by the chil¬ 
dren when the potatoes are small, and very thor¬ 
oughly, too, if they are paid for the work at a 
fixed price per hundred a cent a hundred will 
do when the beetles aro thick, counting cooll 
nest or cluster of eggs iih one beetle. After 
they are picked, they are scalded or burned. An 
old oyster or fruit can is used for holding them, 
the beetle hunters carrying the oau in one hand 
and picking the posts with the other, just ns 
you would pick berries, going over the field as 
often as there are any beetles to be picked. If 
this picking is thoroughly done, wo do not begin 
to use Paris green until the potato-tops are 
nearly grown, or uutil the young beetles begin 
to hatch. 
With regard to the manner of using Paris 
green, after trying every known method, 1 find 
the easiest, quickest, and safest way is to mix 
it with water, in the proportion of a tablcspoon- 
ful of Paris green to a pailful of water. 1 use a 
brush, or swab made by tying a baud fill of line 
corn-husks on the end of a stick two or three 
feet long. Take the pail in one baud and the 
brush in the other ; give each hill a thorough 
A WOMAN’S ACRE 
BY MRS. ANNIE L. JACK. 
RASPBERRIES. 
For delicacy and richness of flavor, we place 
the Brinkle’s Orange raspberry after the straw¬ 
berry, although its extreme softness renders it 
difficult to carry to market, and for this reason 
it is not so profitable as other fruits. It is true 
that customers who have once used the berry as 
a preserve or table fruit, are always anxious to 
order it again, but the condition in which the 
fruit arrives, after a journey of a few miles, is 
anything but inviting, consequently it cun bo 
recommended only for home use, or for those 
who aro near market, aud able to supply them¬ 
selves every morning, in broad, flat boxes, so 
that tho berries can he kept from the mossiness 
otherwise inevitable. My first full crop was so 
marvelous, and holds so exceptionable a place iu 
my memory, that I will givo an account of it in 
detail, not for the profit it brought me, but as 
proving the truth of the old Baying about the 
“ slip ’tween the cup and lip.” 
The plants being in rows about five feet apart, 
were easily cultivated lengthwise, with a little 
plow or cultivator, but the hoe was necessary 
around the plants which grew strong and stocky 
and were trained over cedar stakes, in semi-circu¬ 
lar form. The canes, when lifted in tho spring, 
were passed through a hole iu the stake near the 
top. which kept them finuly in place after leaves 
were formed, and left but little need for tying, 
while it sustained them from injury iu case of 
high winds or rain storms. The cost of staking 
is not heavy, as a girl or boy can do the work 
easily, and after fruiting, when tho old canes are 
removed, the supports can be put away for an¬ 
other season and in tliis way will last for years. 
During the summer of which I write, we had 
contented ourselves with hoeing over the ground 
soon after the canes were lifted, aud covered the 
space between the rows with some swamp hay 
that was useless for any other purpose. At this 
time the raspberry borer, or the formidable saw 
fly, since so very destructive, had not found its 
way to our plantation, and the heavy mulch 
caused the flowers to set aud form fruit to such 
an extent as to overwhelm mo with astonish¬ 
ment. 
The first few days’ picking I have always found 
firmer and more perfect than those ripening later, 
and many customers wore glad to obtain a supply 
of this, to us, rather rare fruit. Friday came, 
and we picked unmeasured quantities ; Saturday 
SEED) I’EANT EIR. 
ried sprinkling, stirring the water from the bottom 
for of the pail occasionally, as tho Paris green set¬ 
tles. Take two rows at a timo. This is a man’s 
work; but if be is spry lie can go over a pretty 
good-sized potato-patch in a few days. For 
early varieties of potatoes one thorough sprink¬ 
ling is sufficient, if the Paris green is good. As 
the water dries away it leaves the pure Paris 
green adhering fast to the plants, and a very 
small dose of it will turn up a potato beetle to 
LILY BLIGHT. 
We hoar complaints from readers in every part 
of tho country that they cannot succeed with lilys 
as formerly; especially with the Candidums. 
They start well but before blossom the leaves 
grow brown, the stalk loses its vitality, and fin¬ 
Sow Carrots. —There aro often many small 
plats of waste or vacant ground on tho farm, 
after the general crops are put. in, which may bo 
utilized iu raising carrots; tho seed may be sown 
much later than ordinary kinds of spring grain. 
