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THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
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ground has great advantages, because experience 
has taught that atmospheric drainage is an im¬ 
portant matter as well as drainage of the lands. 
Timber belts planted on tho sido of the cold 
winds, are a protection when they are not too 
thick so as to keep the air from moving, in which 
case danger may ho apprehended from late 
frosts in the spring.” He then speaks of the 
advantage of a snow covering. 
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SEEING AND HEARING. 
It is really wonderful how mauy people are 
more or less defective in vision or hearing with¬ 
out even themselves being conscious of it. The 
injury comes on by such slow degrees, that, like 
the growth of a child to its mother's eye, its pro¬ 
gress is imperceptible, and it is only on special 
attention being called to it, either by examina¬ 
tion or contrast, that one realizes that his eye 
and ear are not quite so keen as his neighbor’s. 
Usually, the commencement of the evil occurs in 
early years, and a little care and precaution then 
would, in most cases, prevent years of subsequent 
inconvenience and misery. We are, therefore, 
glad to notice that considerable attention lias 
recently been given in this neighborhood to tho 
examination of tho eyes of school-children and 
students in high schools and colleges, and 
heartily wish that similar precautions were taken 
throughout tho land. 
Tho result hero shows that a very large pro¬ 
portion aro near-sighted, or in some way afflicted 
with defective vision. It has also been shown by 
facts that the percentage of imperfect i-yps in¬ 
creases with the timo spent in study. For exam¬ 
ple, in the New York College tho proportion of 
myopic eyes was found in tho first three classes 
to bo 29.40, 34.75 and 53 por cent, respectively. 
In tho Polytechnic Instituto of Brooklyn, only 
10 percent, wore near-sighted, in the aeademio 
department; while 28.5 per cent, were so afflicted 
in the collegiate department. 
Dr. 11, G. Aunbw, one of the most skillful 
oculists in this country, in commenting up¬ 
on these facts and others of a similar kind, ex¬ 
presses tho opinion that the damage done to the 
eyes in the process of education is to betaken as 
an indication of the injury done toother portions 
of tho body, and that all this can by judicious 
arrangements bo avoided. Tho child would grow 
stronger and better in all his faculties during the 
period of hi* education, if all his organs were fully 
exercised in the right direction. Tho chil¬ 
dren's position in the school with reference 1o 
tlie light admitted, should receive more attention, 
and greater care should ho taken at home lest 
they injure their eyes by unwise application to 
reading or study immediately after meals, in a 
recumbent position, or an imperfect light. Tho 
acquisitions made at the cost of permanent dam¬ 
age either to sight or hearing are dearly pur¬ 
chased ; and it is the duty of parents to prevent 
their children from thoughtlessly indicting a 
lasting injury on themselves. 
REVACCINATION. 
The vexed question as to how often vaccination 
is needful is again discussed by the London Lan¬ 
cet, the best English medical authority, which 
distinctly deprecates the frequent repetition of 
revacoiiialloii as being useless and tending to un¬ 
settle the minds of people in regard to its pre¬ 
servative power. It states that revaoeination, 
once sufficiently performed at or after puberty, 
need never bo repeated. Tho nurses and other 
servants of tho London small-pox hospital, 
when they enter the service, aro invariably sub¬ 
mitted to vaccination, which in their case is gen¬ 
erally revaccination, and is never afterwards re¬ 
peated ; and so perfect is the protection that, 
though tho nurses livo in the closest aud most 
constant attendance on small-pox patients, and 
though also the other servants are in various 
ways exposed to special chances of infection, 
the resident surgeon of the hospital, during his 
forty-one years of olfice there, has never known 
small-pox to affect any of these nurses or serv¬ 
ants. 
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RHEUMATISM AMONG FARMERS, 
Tukuk is a great deal too mnoh carelessness 
generally among farmers with regard even to 
ordinary precautions for the preservation of their 
health, and yot after all, there is scarcely any 
class to whom sickness or disease is more irk¬ 
some and inconvenient. Rheumatism is fre¬ 
quent among them because they wear wet 
clothing, heat aud suddenly chill tho body, 
over-eat after very hard work, and because they 
do not keep the skin in a clean and healthy con¬ 
dition. If farmers would avoid suddenly cooling 
the body after great exertion, if they would bo 
careful not to go with wet clothing and wet feet, 
and ir they would not over-eat when in an ex¬ 
hausted condition, and batho daily, usiug much 
friction, they would have less rheumatism. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
L. /I, 11, Amboy, Id —Will you please inform 
mo if RusflBLb & Co., No. 37 Bond Street, whole¬ 
sale dealers in watches and jewelry are all right. 
Tho reason is that 1 received notice from the 
Finance Committee of tho Louisville (Ky.) Lot¬ 
tery Association, stating that thero was $91,000 
left, and theyhf d invested the same with Russell 
& Co., and had a drawing, and that I had drawn 
a gold watch and chain, valued at $130, and that 
I should send $15 for the same. 
Tho circular purports to oome from Louisville, 
Ky., but is mailed In New York. Pioaso write on 
roceipt of this. 
Ans.—W e have investigated this matter as 
thoroughly as timo and opportunity would per¬ 
mit, and think wo may safely urge both voursolf 
and any reader who has received a circular, not 
to avail themselves of tho offer. Ruhselt. A 
Co. aro dealers in a certain kind of jewelry, and 
represent that they honor all “coupons” ema¬ 
nating from this lottery concern when they aro 
accompanied with $15. They frankly stated to 
tho writer that the watch said to bo worth $150, 
they would willingly retail at $40, aud if the 
watch shown the writer was, as stated, tho stylo 
used for “ coupon " orders, it would bo a very 
dear thing oven at $40. Oroide chains attacked 
to so-called gold watches are not quite what is 
considered good value for $150. 
Besides, tins firm could not satisfactorily ex¬ 
plain how circulars purporting to come from 
Louisville were mailed in New York. Tho 
writer doubts the legitimate existence of this 
Lottery Association in the first place, and its 
manner of sending circulars broadcast containing 
what is tho grossest misstatement, even according 
to its confederates, is certainly suspicious. We 
therefore warn our readers to let the “ coupons ” 
severely alone. 
G. L. Hinds, J)avenport .—"Will you pioaso 
inform mo through Rural what I shall do to get 
rid of the green lice on my cabbage ? 
Afra.- Tobacco water applied warm is as good 
as anything wo know of. Sulphur mixed with 
lino coni ashes is good. 
A. G, W., Jingo, 111 .—1. What strawberry 
shall f got to raise the largest specimens from, 
provided suitable soil is furnished. How is 
Croat American? 2. Has Rural tried in its 
Uxi'Eiti men i al Grounds the Compton Corn, and 
is it a humbug or success ? 
Recollect, I am perfectly ignorant, and will 
need the most fundamental or simplest rules for 
crossing flowers to obtain seed fertilized with 
desirable sorts. [Seespecial answer under “Hor¬ 
ticulture.] 
Ass.—(1.) Tho Groat American and Lincoln 
are tho largest Strawberries of which wo have 
any knowledge. 
(2 ) In the advertisement, a crop is referred 
to as having ripened in just Boventy-six days 
from the timo of planting, three weeks earlier 
than the old sorts. It will not do that in this 
climate. There is a good deal of this corn on 
trial, and wo shall soon bo able to report definite¬ 
ly as to its value. So far, accounts aro favor¬ 
able. 
TV B. P .—We have a Tomato patch growing 
beside a quarter-acre of Potatoes upon neigh¬ 
boring land. The Potatoes are alive with tho 
beetle. We have never seen one upon the To¬ 
matoes. Potato leaves are their iirst choice. 
Mrs. G. Me G. , Roscoe, Coshocton Co.. Ohio. 
—(1) Can any of the horticultural friends tell 
mo where I can get roots for this fall’s planting 
of tho Lady Grape and if they will ripen in 
Augiiot ? Ans.—Latter part of A ugust or early 
September. Geo. W. Cam i-js ell, Delaware, 
Ohio,— A. Han ok A Son, Red Bunk, N. .J. 
(2j My quilled Marigolds which were so nice 
last year that I saved seed from them, are every 
one single this year, and my Balaams are the 
same. A friend told mo after planting time, to 
plant in the full of the moon to have double 
flowers. Can any one tell me if ibis is so ? 
Ans. —Your Marigold and Balsam experience 
is not unusual. All you can do is to save seeds 
from those flowers which are the most double. 
.Seeds from fine, double flowers of Balsam we 
have know n to produce all single flowers, while 
seeds saved from these have the next year again 
produced double flowers. It is not known that 
tho moon has any such influence as that your 
friend attributes to it. 
(3) I have two grape-vines which are three 
years old which have never borne any fruit but 
are now full of blossoms. Can you tell me the 
reason for such late blossoms ? Ans. —We can 
not. 
II. E. 15., New York .—Will you please tell mo 
the name of enclosed plant. I got the seed 
from a friend some timo since; he says it will 
grow into a large tree. I grew this with four 
others in a flower-pot in my window ; I like its 
aromatic smell very much. Ans. —It is Eucn- 
byptus globulus. 
.1. F. M. —W’hat kind ancl sizo of drain pipe 
would you recommend to connect tho bottom of 
my cellar with a low place 200 feot distant. What 
is tho best pipe ? 
Ans. —Scotch is the best, costing, say $2 per 
foot; next Amc. Tile Pipe, say 60 cents per 
foot; Cement pipe, say 30 cents, all for 6 inch 
pipe. Four inches would answer, and the cost 
Avould be, say 10 to 20 cents less. 
Orlimilulm'c. 
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SEASON NOTES. 
Brigham’s, N. Y., Aug 1 .13, ’TT. 
The crops in this part of the country are not 
quite so heavy as they woro last season, but thoy 
wore harvested in a better condition. Wheat 
was a good crop, and what is highly important, 
it was harvested in a finer condition than for 
many yoors back. Oats will not be up to the 
usual standard, as nearly every field is more or 
less rusted except where planted with tho new 
variety, Andre's King, which is nearly free from 
tho pest. Potatoes are suffering from the 
drought, hut early planting, a larger acreage 
than usual, and a vigorous war on tho bugs, 
have insured a largo crop. There aro not many 
in the hill, but those there, aro of vory fair 
sizo. Pastures are badly dried up, and most 
farmers aro feeding their stuck. Applos will only 
bo from liyo to ten per cent, of a fair crop. Tliero 
is a good show for an average yield of corn, if 
we havo rain soon ; otherwise, it will dry up be¬ 
fore reaching maturity. j. ix. a. 
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Syracuse, n. Y., Aug. is, isn. 
Eds. Rural :—Tho editorial in the Rural of 
July 21st, in relation to tho Indians, reminds me 
of what I witnessed in 1850. A party of us 
crossed tho plains that summer and wo were 
joined at Council Bluffs by an agent, employed 
by the Government to pay off the hfioux Indians 
their bounty. Accompanying him were two 
traders, well provided with cheap, showy and 
trashy articles, such as beds, poor tobacco, pink 
calico, red ribbons, etc. We did not stop to see 
the end of the transaction, but from appearances, 
as well as by remarks that were indulged in, it whs 
easy to guess that it. was a very short timo after 
the Indians were paid, before the money was in 
vho bauds of these traders in exchange for their 
worthless goods. That they afterwards “ whacked 
up” with the Government agent, is easily imag¬ 
ined. I was at one time somewhat familiar with 
tho Western rod-men, and their surroundings, 
and am quite sure that they have suffered 
more wrongs from those in Government employ 
than at the hands of the settlors. n. r. 
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Montickllo, Wig., Aug. 10 . 
Farmers hereabouts have nearly doue cutting 
hay, aud commenced stacking crops. Oats yield 
a fair crop, but spring wheat is poor. Flax and 
barley threshed and being shipped ; the former 
has turned out an excellent crop. Corn is being 
badly injured by the chinch-bug. Tho only way 
the strike affected ns was by lowering the price 
of butter, as it pnt a stop to shipping tho article, 
which is a far more profitable way of disposing 
of it than selling it, at home. Labor is cheap, 
and the farmers are quite satisfied with their 
crops; and if tho prices hold up, there will be 
Joy all round. Shipping of grain has just com¬ 
menced. J. H. 
String Valley, N. J. 
Corn never better. Cannot be better. Pota¬ 
toes as good as they can be. For early, we pre¬ 
fer early Vermont on account both of their ma¬ 
turing earlier than any other, and for the reason 
that they are dry as soon as large enough to be 
used. 
Late Brownel’s Beauty is very prolific and the 
most beautiful potato that grows. a. v. 
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South Byron, Genesee Co., N. Y., Aug. 12. 
The harvests hero are very heavy in all kinds 
of crops. Wheat lias not been better for 
twenty years. It yields thirty-five to forty 
bushels per acre, as many have thrashed. Bar¬ 
ley, oats and hops are a largo crop. Apples are 
lew, but peaches, pears, ([unices and plums are 
abuudant. 2. w. 
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Newburgh, N. Y., Aug. IT. 
All old varieties of grapes mildewing and 
rotting everywhere. Tho worst-looking vines 
in my neighborhood are the Delaware and 
Diana. Evon the Ciiutou grapes are mildewing 
and rotting this year. J. h. e. 
Preble, Cortland Co., N. Y. 
Crops bountiful; weather fine; a little dry. 
Money scarce in country. Dairy products large 
and price low. .T. D. F. w. 
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