and therefore disposes of it, making a heavy loss 
between purchase and sale. 
The general practice, as above described wo 
believe to be all wrong, and that better results 
would be obtained by putting at least a portion 
of the animals in flesh and flttiug them for the 
shambles. It seems a great waste to kill an ani¬ 
mal poor in flosh. If dairymen would engage 
more generally in growing roots, turnips and 
mangolds, the animals could be fattened with¬ 
out any great outlay for meal, and a considerable 
profit would bo obtained from this branch of the 
business, instead of the loss which is now made. 
Much of this stock is yielding little or no milk 
by October. If they were at once dried oiT and 
fed a little meal with pumpkins, turnips and other 
available food from the farm 
Ibe roof may be covered with good slates, or 
shingling, and finished with a spire. The rustic 
work is supposed to be made of red cedar. 
The entire cost would not exceed sixty dollars 
and this expense could be greatly reduced iu a 
neighborhood where red cedars are in abund- 
anco. Certainly, vines, such as Honey-mickles, 
Wistarias, Rosos, etc., should be planted around 
, would provo m almost every instance, unsatii 
* Tbo re * J question to bo answered it 
1 v * ra } to mako “7 ttose vigorous an 
beautiful without supplying the needs of 
healthy existence ?” 
An acquaintance of the writer, while sufferin 
from a painful disability which had been induce 
by a somewhat too generous course of living 
was obliged to seek the services of a dootoi 
You must first,” the doctor began, -‘give 
the use of liquor and tobacco JJ<> uo. 
broke in his patient. “I could cure myself ii 
that way. I want you to cure mo and yet per 
mit me to live as I have always lived,” a domain 
which was quite beyond that or any other doe 
tor’s skill. 
THE SEASON 
for this locality has been everything that could 
have been asked, from opening spring until 
now. We have escaped that usual period during 
mid-summer when the grass is gray and parohed • 
when the loaves are dusty ami curled ; when 
, patbH envelop us iu a cloud of dust as wo 
walk over thorn and we gaze pityingly upon the 
poor man or boast that must need expose liim- 
solf to the blistering, stilling heat of the sun. 
It is thou that one actually tiros of summer and 
though but a month previously deploring its 
briefness, is now ready to welcome fall and even 
to think pleasantly of winter’s roaring winds 
and luting cold. 
Iiut, every part of this glorious summer lias 
boon all .too short. The grass has remained 
velvety and groon, and has needed the lawn- 
mower weekly. Many deciduous trees and 
shrubs have made a second growth equal to their 
first, ami many evergreens are now hroaking the 
bods which should remain dormant until another 
Hpnng. In the vegetable garden, strawberries 
transplanted m summer are uiakimr 
| the animals 
would be in good order by JJecomber, and could 
be sold at satisfactory prices. And this would 
be especially the case with young, thrifty stock, 
which liavo uot proved profitable in milk. There 
are many accidents that occur iu the dairy, such 
as defective udders, the loss of teats, thefailing 
to come in calf, which render it desirable to turn 
animals that are young and thrifty and which 
wonld take on flesh rapidly with a little extra 
feeding. It is poor economy to sell stock in the 
fall, when it is out of condition, because it will 
uot bring anything like its real value. 
English dairymen always mako a point of fat¬ 
tening all stock to be turned and thoy thus real¬ 
ise a profit from their animals. Wo believe the 
same system can bo carried out here, and with 
tho prospect of an increased demand for good 
beef. Dairymen will do well to give the matter 
attention. 
Tho Pall Mall Ga/.etto in a recent article refer- 
ing to the importation of American meats and 
cattle to Scotland says : “ Last week 121 cattle 
were sold at Glasgow and brought in an average 
■CJ3 ($150,) each. 
In tho oourso of a month or ho the impor¬ 
tation of livo eattle will geano for the winter, 
but arrangements are being made for increasing 
-X;. •-V'-V*;-' 
FL a //, 
SUMMKg HOUSE. 
shade since its merits became at all known in this 
ve and country, and are pleased that onr praises which 
looted seemed somewhat extravagant in the beginning 
__ ,u ;° f,llly J '‘Milled by all, so far as we are aware 
who have cultivated it. 
THE ZEBRA STRIPED EULALIA. 
Mu. Petek Renders jn presented us with a 
— . "I'ocimoii of this pretty grass last winter. It 
in ft three-inch pot and a foot iu bight, 
ing very little of the transverse variegation 
i 11 nil . A i • . ^ 
1) it nil .SU'flntfcturf 
IRON BIRD-HOUSE 
THE PETS OF OUR VEGETABLE GARDEN 
The accompanying sketch represents the iron 
bird-house referred to iu last week’s Rusal as 
placed upon the top of the arbor, of which a 
plan is therein presented. It is as wo thou stated, 
HY EPICURE. 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
September io. 
HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA AGAIN. 
From the different accounts wo'read, it would 
seem that this Hydrangea, like //. hortensig 
must vary in color aceoidiug to locality or soil 
or else the various shades attributed to it. exist 
only in tho fancies of those wlm write about it. 
Tho panicles, when in full bloom, uro of a 
| leaning-conical form, opening first, at the base 
of course, as early as Aug. 10. The apex of 
tho cone all the while elongates as the opening 
proceeds upwards, so that the panicle is not in 
Dili bloom until about September 15, when it 
has attained its greatest size. The florets, when 
they first expand, are of a light pea-green color 
which changes to white when fully developed, 
thus up to September 1, tho lower part of the 
panicle is white, the uppor part light-green. 
Ah soon as the nights grow cool, or after tho 
first frost, if ever so slight, the lower florets 
change to a rose color which soon spreads over 
the entire inflorescence. Rut this seems rather 
the effect of decay than of a proper change of 
color—the same as the leaves of trees assume 
different shades at this season after their 
functions in the tree economv have c<mund 
to determine, though I can tell hotter after it 
ripens and appears upon tho table. It is cer¬ 
tainly making a better yield and finer growth 
than tho reliable old Hubbard, which, under the 
same circumstances, will not mako half a crop 
with mo this Season. The Gocoauut Squash, 
despite its fascinating name, is lit for nothing 
hut. an ornament. The name is well calculated 
to deceive those unfamiliar with it into tho idea 
l hat it is, par excellence, Hie squash. 
Tomatoes. —“ Tho Hundred Days" I have 
grown this year from “Department” seed, and 
I honestly believe it is all that is claimed for it 
by Mr. Footk, its originator, in the way of being 
productive and remarkably early. While I have 
not tried it side by side with others, yot 1 have 
closely watched my most enterprising neighbors, 
who Lave been making great efforts to beat 
their friends, and I led them with early fruit 
from the “ lOOdays,' 1 by over a week, though wo 
had planted about tho same time, gome com¬ 
plain of its boing so rough and unsightly, but 
without reason, inasmuch as it is not represent¬ 
ed by Mr. Foote as a smooth tomato. If by 
planting it we can get tomatoes a week, or even 
only tineo or four days, earlier than wo can with 
other sorts, wo can afford to put up with its 
irregular fruit. 
Sweet Corn.— The earliest sort we have ever 
raised is Pratt's. Of about fortv cataloeiien La- 
-b.ueon inctios high and twelve in diameter. 
hey are sold by several leading N. Y. Seedsmen, 
and the price is about four dollars. The bottom 
the bird-house is an iron tube, into which a 
Pole or wooden upright of any kind may easily 
and securely be fitted. 
A RUSTIC SUMMER HOUSE 
fiVL. E. GRAETHER, c. ENO. 
tive V , ati0n i8 here offored of a very attrac- 
lz 5ir t r Uommma ■“““»•«win 
Place y - J 1 tu the erabelll * hm ent of any country 
of a on, 7 y HCrV ° a8 Wel1 for tLe Protection 
treason 77 ** U wUI for a <luiot a,ul oool re- 
Zjt °“ a hot summer day. 
feet 77 f °™ 3 a re ^ llar ootagon, being 8 
erected TU f bniIdin 6 supposed to 
floor 1 T a r0Ugb > stone foundation; its 
t^r2t°V,T h&a ^ tUe HUrf “ e o' 
roof and fl,\ ruatic P osts support the 
filled in in °f '’° Umg8 between those posts are 
namentai wo7 TheT^ 8tl0 ' VQ ’ ^ ° r ' 
thc eaves of th« 7 hlght from the floor to 
vos of the roof is suDDOserl h, h. 
r -- 
it must bo either very scarce or little known. Wo 
bail it on the table by tho 4th of July, which is 
two or three weeks earlier hero than lias ever 
been known. Although it should not he tho 
case, yet farmers never succeed in raising early 
corn, as early as market gardeners do so that 
corn on the 4th of July with ns must ho seen 
to bo believed; faith beiug altogether insuffi¬ 
cient. 
