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MAY 25 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
promises a fine yield; corn about all planted. 
Corn worth 25o.; wheat. 85c.; potatoes, 20o.; 
stock hogs, 2c. per pound; fat cattle, $3 25; 
cows and calves, $‘20@25 ; land from $1.25 per 
acre to $15; eggs, 5c ; butter, 10c. Season at 
least one month ahead of last season. 
j. w. w. 
Rural Farm, Long Island, May 16. 
Frost has destroyed all beans both bush and 
running. Tomatoes were much harmed. Com 
is badly bitten but will probably recover. Po¬ 
tatoes were harmed. Perhaps one-fifth of the 
vineB are blackened. Spring Wheat and Oats 
are very fine. Potato beetles in abundance and 
a larger deposit of eggs than we have ever be¬ 
fore noticed.__ 
Cobleskill, N. Y., May 13. 
It is very cold here to night; heavy frosts in 
Utica, Little Falls, and St. Johnsville; ice in 
the hills at St. Johnsville. We had quite a 
heavy snow storm this morning. There iB ev ery 
prospect of ice making here to-night, as it is 
clear and cold. H> N * 
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Flushing N. Y., May 16. 
The frost made a clean sweep of onr grapes 
destroying half an acre. The seemingly delicate 
foliage of the Japan Maples was not harmed 
in the least. 8 - 
Albany, N. Y., May 14. 
It is a little warmer to-day. As far as I can 
hoar the frost through Central New York has 
done but little If any damage. w. h. k. 
flairs Ijusbauki). 
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“ I suppose, chemically speaking, there are 
differences between these brands of salt, but, 
practically, the only point I can see that should 
be watched by tbe butter dairymen is to soe that 
the salt is white, dry and free from lumps and 
trash of every laud. The chemical distinctions 
are beyond our ken, and as long as we cannot 
see them, there is no need of looking for thorn.” 
The above is the closing paragraph of an arti¬ 
cle, by Mr, L. 8. Hatdin, descriptive of a salt 
test, in which tbe writer, as tbe few lines quoted 
would indicate, failed to detect any difference in 
samples of buttor from a single churning, salt¬ 
ed, respectively, with Ashton’s, Higgins' and a 
“mongrel” brand. Ido not propose to enter 
into a controversy with Mr. Hardin upon the 
merits or superiority of any brand of salt, but I 
must mildly protest against his assertion that 
there is no need of looking for thiDgs which we 
have reason to believe exist but which, on a cur¬ 
sory examination, we cannot see. It would be 
unjust to Mr. Hardin for us to accept his own 
words as indicating a real indifferenoe on his 
part to the hidden mysteries of his profession. 
He has been too keen and studious an investi¬ 
gator of all that relates to the practice and sci¬ 
ence of dairying, to merit the reputation which 
he would give himself, of being a man content 
with more “ surface indications,” and before the 
ink was dry on the article from which I have 
quoted, 1 wilt venture to say he had conceived 
some more searching tost by which he might 
determine the chemical differences which he 
feigns to ignore. 
In any event, it is dangerous for the dairyman, 
or for tbe farmer in any other branch of his call¬ 
ing, to content himself with a Bapertknal knowl¬ 
edge of his work or of the manifold methods and 
materials which enter into it. The chemical re¬ 
searches of Liebig, of Johnstone, of Sturtevaut, 
of Arnold and of others who have labored iu the 
field of agricultural chemistry, havo helped to 
make the studious American farmer, and above 
all the \morioau dairy farmer, the leader of his 
class throngbout the world. It is not,appointed 
unto overy farmer to be a chemist, but agricult¬ 
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in others or the journals which devote them¬ 
selves to this great work, is brought w ithin “ the 
ken” of every man, and bis practical knowledge 
should enable him to apply it profitably in the 
tilling of his land, tbe raising of his herds and 
the manufacture of his products. 
I agree with Mr. Hardin that there aro chem¬ 
ical differences in dairy salts, and while his tests 
have failed to develop them, equally simple tests 
that I have witnessed, have shown most plainly 
that these differences may be detected by very 
simple tests, involving no other chemical pro¬ 
cesses than are at the disposal of every dairy¬ 
man. A glass of water and a few ounces of salt 
will afford means for a test which haB convinced 
me of some differences in dairy salts. Moreover, 
I have seen differences in just such tests as Mr. 
Hardin made, result in clearer evidences of the 
chemical differences than he was able to obtain. 
I cannot, however, pretend to settle this point, 
but should prefer leaving it to every dairyman 
to make Ins own tests, cautioning him, mean¬ 
while, that nothing that he may even suspect is 
so far “ beyond his kon” as to warrant him in 
remaining iguorant of its actual existence and 
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OATS AND BARLEY HARVESTED SUCCESS¬ 
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