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THE 
DAL NEW-YODKER. 
now command a price from ten to fifty times as 
high as twenty years since. 
PLANTING APPLE TREES. 
Prof. Beat, gives us some good thoughts con¬ 
cerning orcharding, which 1 can indorse from 
observation. There is one thing more I would 
have desired him to notice : What influence has 
our present mode of planting upon the increase 
of the depredating enemies of orchards and their 
products ? Does it not invite, and furnish a most 
tempting nidus for, the most destructive enemies 
to plants ? Would it not be better to set the 
trees so far apart as to completely isolate them ? 
VAN'S VIEWS. 
One of the most promiueut things just now is 
our weather. - It is English pure aud unadulter¬ 
ated,—fog, mud, rain, and profanity. We have 
not had cold weather enough to freeze the 
swamps, and no oue can get out any wood, logs, 
or other products of the forest with which we 
were in the habit of helping to make the two 
ends meet. As a consequence, many of the 
farmers on new clearings are having a very hard 
time to raise their taxes. It is, however, not 
without its benefits, for it enables some of our 
farmers who are fortunate enough to have a 
good manure pile, to get it on their fields ready 
for spring. And I notice that there is a great 
change gradually coming over our practice of 
applying manure. Formerly if manure was 
hauled in the winter, it was piled in heapB in 
the held and in the spring it was spread ; thus 
making a second handling necessary. Now our 
best farmers prefer to spread it directly from 
the wagou (or sleigh) aH it is hauled. I will not 
enter into a di.-owt.sion of the merits of either 
method but merely give the facts of the case. 
Another effeot of the mild winter has been to 
set our farmers at work in their stumpy fields 
and, next season, we shall probably have double 
the amount of ground over which the mower 
aud reaper can run that wo had last. After a 
field has been chopped over six or eight years, a 
team will pull out most of the stdmps, if you 
take a soft time for it. But six or eight years 
is a long time to wait for them, and much time 
is lost in plowing, cradling and mowing around 
them, but. to poll sound stumps with any stump- 
puller wo have at present, costs more than it 
comes to. Have any of your readers tried blow¬ 
ing them up with dynamite ? We have thought 
of trying it, but the fear of getting blown up 
ourselves has held us baok. 
Daring the past fall, an unusually large 
breadth of rye was sown hereabouts. With our 
variable winters and wet soil, it is hardly worth 
while to grow winter wheat, but rye is a very 
sure crop and it is a hop ful sign to see its in¬ 
crease. Another hopeful Hign is the number of 
clover haliers being bought in the State. Oue 
agent told me last fall that he had sold seven¬ 
teen of the “ Birdsells," that year. Seventeen 
Birdsells will hull a great deal of clover, 
and clover means more stock and loss ex¬ 
clusive grain farming. But if we must stick to 
our grain farming, wo can very profitably use 
clover. One man who took a farm in 1863 
when it yielded, on an average, thirteen bushels 
per acre, has brought it up in 1877 to an aver¬ 
age of thirty-four bushels per acre on ninety 
acres of wheat. Ho hn,B always sown plaster 
aud clover with wheat, even when the land was 
to be sown with wheat the next year. 
Our horses are just now laid up with what is 
called “ mud-fever,” a swelling of the legs which 
makes them as useless as did the “ epizootic.” 
It is said to have passed off in five to ten days 
in other places where it has been prevalent. 
Fort Howard, Wls. 
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TRICKS OF TREE PEDDLERS. 
In reading an article in the Rural of January 
26th, by 8 . B. Peck, on “ Thoso tree peddlers,” 
I am reminded of the way myself and neighbors 
have fared at thoir hands, and thinking my ex¬ 
perience may be of benefit to some fellow mor¬ 
tal, I will relate it. 
An agent for a certain firm who represent 
themselves us nurserymen (and are of the kind 
who have no nursery or a single tree growing, 
but are merely peddlers of trees aud as l have 
been told, sell what purchasers want, and deliver 
what they can buy cheapest, rogardless of kind) 
called at my houso and insisted on selliug me 
some trees. After showing him those I already 
had, we agreed on price for a lot of dwarf pears, 
he agreeing they should bo as large as a certain 
tree we specified. Soon another tree man came. 
I showed him a list of the trees I had ordered, 
told him the price, aud that they were to bo 
as large as the tree we made the bargain by, 
which measured 4% feet. He told me that 
tree man No. 1, was not responsible, and had so 
swindled his customers that ho did not pretend 
to go into tlio districts where ho had sold trees 
five years ago ; that 1 would not get the kinds 1 
agreed for, nor as largo as I expected. There 
was also a Champion grape in the list. I asked 
No. 2 what the Champion grape was. His reply 
was, 11 It is good for nothing; yon would not eat 
one after a Hartford Prolific ripens, and yon 
know you would not eat them after yon can 
get others." I told him this waB a poor re¬ 
commendation for a grape he had sold at the 
rate of two dollars for a two-year old vine, but a 
month or two before. 
Beginning to feel uneasy about my tree order, 
I began to inquire further about my peddler and 
found that he had sold one of my neighbors a 
bill of over thirty dollars' worth of trees about 
B. Peck, and many others. "We hope the meet¬ 
ing will meet with the success this wide-awake 
Society so richly deserves. 
James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, MasB. 
This well-known establishment offers its cata¬ 
logue free to all. It contains 52 pages, 10x8 
inches iu size, many illustrations, both of veg¬ 
etables and flowers, aud all needed instructions 
to the amateur. 
Mr. Gregory carries on one hundred acres in 
annual tillage, on which he raises about one 
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four years ago, the larger part of which died 
and the balance are diseased and worthless. An¬ 
other neighbor bought seven dollars’ worth at 
the same time, not one of which is living to¬ 
day. Feeling sure that I was “ sold" I thought 
that I would write to the man and make him an 
offer to release me, telling him his agent had 
agreed that trees should be as large as one ti.at 
measured 4)4 feet. In reply, I got the most 
abusive letter ever put on paper. He told me 
that instead of being 4)4 feet, they were to be 
three feet, that he should furnish trees that 
size and expect me to take them and pay for 
them, that I was a fool, aud if I did not know 
any more than to let some irresponsible person 
who could not get any trade without slaudertng 
him, influence me, I ought to be put under a 
guardian. I am willing to admit I was a fool, 
but am a wiser man to-day. 
I concluded the best way to “geteveu” with 
him was to sell trees myself and so much cheaper 
than he did that he cannot sell another bill of 
trees in our town. I ordered 150 Pears, 125 
Roses, 25 Grapes, 500 Asparagus, besides some 
Peaches, Quinaes and shrubbery direct from a 
reliable nursery at wholesale prices, and sold 
them among my neighbors, supplying them with 
reliable trees at about half the price they had 
been paying for trees hawked about the country 
by these peddlers : moreover, I have a margin 
left to pay me for time and trouble. If some 
good man in every town or district,, would 
call round among his neighbors and take their 
orders for whatever they needed in the nursery 
line, and order the trees direct from some re¬ 
sponsible nursery, he would do bis community 
a great favor by furnishing them trees at 
one-half the money they have paid for what 
they know nothing of, moreover he would find 
the business quite brisk, for low prices and re¬ 
liable trees would induce those to buy who were 
too sharp to buy of peddlers. 
Jamestown, R. I. J. J. W. 
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CATALOGUES, &c„ RECEIVED. 
The winter meeting of the State Pomological 
Society (C. W. Garfield, Sec’y.) will be con¬ 
vened at Allegan, Mich., the 13th, 11th and 15th 
hundred and fifty varieties of the vegetable seed 
contained iu this Catalogue. He guarantees 
that tlie seed shall be what it purports to he, in 
so far as to refill the order anew, gratis, in other 
seed, should the first prove at all defective. 
The proprietors of the Rdral offer the most 
ingenious, taking little gem ever before offered, 
to any subscriber who will send them two new 
yearly subscribers at the usual price. It is in¬ 
tended as a near approach to a valuable uncon¬ 
ditional present See page 107. 
Ahgdst Rolrer & 8ons, 44 Dey Street, New 
York, will send their catalogue of flower, field 
and garden seeds free to all applicants. Messrs. 
Rolker & Sons are sole agents for several hor¬ 
ticultural firms of France and Germany. 
John Saul, the distinguished nurseryman and 
florist of Washington, D. C., offers to send his 
new oatalogue which contains a number of plants 
offered for the first time in this country, with a 
colored plate, free to all his customers. To 
others he makes the nominal charge of ten 
cents. A plain copy free to all. 
At the annual meeting of the Chautauqua 
Couuty Agricultural Society held at the Feo.'e- 
tary's office in Jamestown, on January 28th, 
1878, the P flowing officers were elected for the 
ensuing year :—President, John T. Wilson ; 
1st, Vice-President, J. H. Russell; Secretary, 
L. W. W* Me ; Treasurer, Geo. S. Gifford. Di¬ 
rectors:— M. Prendergast; Wellington Wood¬ 
ward. It was decided to hold the next Fair of 
the Society at Jamestown, N. Y., Sept. 10, 11, 
12, and 13, 1878. Yours truly, 
L. W, Wiltsie, Sec'y. 
A MODEL PIGGERY. 
The reoent inquiry of 8. Lehman, and the 
similar wants of hundreds of your readers 
prompt me to offer the following cheap, con¬ 
venient, and eminently practical piggery as fill- 
ing the bill very nearly, if not quite. It has the 
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interfere or offend. It has a water-tight, shal¬ 
low cellar beneath it for making and saving ma¬ 
nure in, which is part and parcel of the pen. 
The wood-work is raised out of and above the 
penetrating moisture and destroying influences 
of contact witn the excrements, aud is thus pre¬ 
served as much aB possible from decay. The 
floor and sides of each pen, firmly cemented for 
some three feet upwards, present an indeBtruc- 
table surface to the gnawing, chawing, tearing 
propensities inherent in swine generally. It 
makes the pens warm in winter and cool in sum¬ 
mer. 
The pens communicate with each other and 
with the walk, affording conveniences for ingress 
and egress of swine, Ac. Each pen has a win¬ 
dow, and the four corner cues have two each. 
These corner pens would afford good breeding 
places and could be mado a little larger than the 
others. 
1, 2. 3, 4. 5. 6, storage bins. Boiler in the ex¬ 
tension. Walk, through center from which each 
pen can be supervised. Feed spouts communi¬ 
cate from walk to the feed troughs. Divided 
into nine apartments. If division is made across 
large pens where the dotted lines are, there will 
he eleven apartments all easily reached and con¬ 
trolled. 
The buildiug should be fifty feet long by twen¬ 
ty wide. Extension 26 by 20, both six feet 
posted; roof flat pitch ; ventilator in center of 
roof; walk the whole length, 4 feet wide. The 
foundation may be sunk two to three feet in the 
ground, walled up and thoroughly cemented, the 
whole forming a tight, shallow cellar, the walls 
coming two feet above the surface of the ground. 
In this cellar there can be no leakage of manure 
either solid or liquid, and if kept well supplied 
with litter, as it should by all means be, there 
will be large amounts of the richest compost 
formed annually. The absorbent litter can be 
supplied by the windows, which should be so ar¬ 
ranged as to slide horizontally out of the way 
and come low down. These slide windows can 
be left partially open in warm weather for ven¬ 
tilation. The manure can be readily pitched 
from each pen into carts or sleds through these 
same windows. In the extension the food is 
prepared by means of boilers Ac. Convenient 
bins are prepared to hold, in bulk, roots, grains, 
meal, etc., etc. The w - hole structure is sur¬ 
mounted by a vane in the shape of the owner’s 
ideal pig, and toward which—both model and 
vane—he should continually aspire. 
Waldo Co., Me. J. W. Lang. 
MODEL PIOCERY-GROUND FLAN. 
insts. A feast of good things is announced in merits of being most compact and complete in 
the way of papers and discussions. Addresses itself. Being of this kind, it may be so located 
will be delivered by our correspondents. Prof. W. with reference to other buildings, that neither the 
J. Beal, Pres. T. T. Lyon, Prof. A. J. Cook, S. odor, squeal nor grunt of the bristly beauties oan 
ALDERNEY CATTLE IN SHROPSHIRE, 
ENGLAND. 
One of the oldest established herds of this 
beautiful and highly-prized milking breed, was 
founded in the year 1830 by its present owner, 
the Rev. John Hill, at The Citadel, situated in 
the picturesque park of Viscount Hill, near 
Shrewsbury, in the county of Shropshire. Mr. 
Hill’s herd new consists of thirty head of 
which sixteen are in milk : they have been most 
carefully bred from Fowler’s imported oattle, 
and strict attention has always been paid to 
their milking properties—some of them yielding 
twenty quarts and mere per day. During the sum¬ 
mer of 1S76, trials were made and as much as 
175 quarts per week were measured from a cow, 
which milk produced 322 onnees of butter, or 
nearly 1)4 ounces per quart. The farm on 
which this herd is kept is light land and the 
grass of very moderate quality and no artificial 
food is given during the summer months. All 
the herd are of the fashionable dark, self-color, 
and are especially beautiful in their deer-like 
appearance, having elegant heads, small well- 
shaped horns and skins like satin. The bull 
now in service is of a rich, dark gray aa nearly 
as I can describe it, with perfect points, and all 
his stock are of one uniform color, the whole 
herd, in fact, possessing that family likeness 
which is only attainable after years of patient 
perseveranoe and strict attention to breeding. 
Mr. Hill has never used bulls except those 
directly imported from the Island, or bred from 
the best of his own cows. He has never exhib¬ 
ited but once, when he took the silver cup given 
at the North Shropshire show for the best 
Channel Island cow. They are thoroughly 
acclimatized and hardy and live on little food, 
and are eagerly sought after by all who know 
them; as they iuvariably improve when taken 
to richer and better pasture. To all those who 
may be interested in Alderney cattle, this herd 
is well worth inspection, and visitors will be well 
repaid for spending an hour or two in looking 
them over, and will get many a useful hint in 
farming matters iu general, from a walk over 
the farm which is a pattern of neatness and per¬ 
fection. An English Courespondent. 
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According to the census of last year Switzer¬ 
land has 593,000 cows, 10,000 bulls, 313,000 
| calves, 67,000 covered heifers aud 53,000 bullocks. 
