332 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 25 
TABLE OF OOHTEUTS. 
325 
practical Departments 
TiB«r, The (llhutrated),. 
Rotation of Crop*; (tome Benefits of—W. H. 
White. 3>6 
Notes from Mnplewood Farm—Hector Bertram 
(Illustrated). . 326 
Potato Prospect, The—Win. J. Fowler. 326 
veRetublcn nt Fairs, Exhibiting — Prof. W. J. 
Beal. 326 
Woolen Interests, The. 327 
CiituloQnee. Etc., Received... 327 
Flowering Slirutw. Handsome—'William Falconer 327 
Floweriup Plants for KoorHS-Jnmcs TnpUn,.. 327 
Quinces, rwo New Japan—Samuel Parsons.327 
CurrAat-Worm ,saw.Fly. The- li. ptekwan Mnnn JH8 
Starch, M me factor! tig Potato. 328 
Sh",.!.ru r llni-SC“ — EWd. 0- Kingman. 328 
Popular Fallacies—T. T. I,yon.323 
ters upon the under part of the leaves. 
They will hatch out in a few days and 
then their work of destruction begins. 
THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. 
The international Exhibition opened 
in Paris on the first of May, is at once a 
convincing proof of the marvelous re¬ 
cuperative power of the French nation, a 
powerful evidence of the pacific dispo¬ 
sition of the most belligerent race in 
Europe, and a strong testimony to the 
a | , l . f«TUll>.... -V'M A M *1 P Al , m ,- ** - 
Hog cholera and Government. 328 stability of the newest republio in Christ' 
<‘Unstffttea). 322 findfim >Ttdo C r,r,n, -*l.„t _,i 
Tile Mill. The Phronlx (Illustrated). 329 
Mower. The Direct Draft Eureka. 329 
Organ, The Prince. 329 
Portable House. The HoiTmlre .. 329 
Bradley A Co., M*rnr.s. 329 
Stearo Jhiutue, Wood, Taber & Morse. 329 
What They Say of It. 329 
Answer# to Correspondents : 
Milk for Market, A Uniform Flow of.... 
Potatoes, Socdlng. 
Gapes in Chickens. Etc., Remedies for. 
Paris-green, How to Use. . 
Cow 1,caking her Milk, To Prevent. 
Cattle, Amiiirc 
330 
330 
380 
380 
339 
330 
Boyas. Treatment of. . " 330 
Miscellaneous Answers. , 330 
Everywhere: 
endom. ’Twas only yesterday that battered 
France lay prostrate at the feet of arro¬ 
gant Germany, her government over¬ 
thrown, her industry disorganized, the 
remnants of her once invincible armies 
prisoners in Germany, exiles in Belgium 
and Switzerland or demoralized bauds 
struggling vainly though desperately 
against overwhelming odds on her own 
devastated soil—the proudest people in 
Europe so utterly crushed and humbled 
aB to draw forth the warmest sympathy 
of friends and even the pity of national 
foes. She rose exhausted with her efforts, 
weighed heavily with a load of debt 
purposely placed upon her with the de¬ 
sign of keeping her down for a generation 
at. least; but resolute, self-reliant and 
still full of spirit. In a few short years 
she has cleared off' her indebtedness, 
organized a free and stable government, 
so thoroughly restored her industry as to 
be able to challenge the world to compete 
with her, reformed her •armies, so as to 
place her once more in the foremost ranks 
of European nations, and now while the 
whole neighboring continent is groaning 
klr ...... . under the burden of warlike preparations, 
How tcrtlo n Doit he* li ea ring vbur! !!!'!"!. ?§ France calmly invites her admixing friends 
to 
of 
330 
330 
330 
330 
380 
830 
331 
381 
331 
331 
Rural Grounds. Notes from the 
New Market, Va. 
Linden. N. J. 
Corry, Pa. 
Hunter’s Bottom, Ky. 
Warsaw, Mo. 
Rural Farm. N. V. 
Cot<le«JUn. N. Y. 
Flushing. N. V. 
Albany, N. V. 
Shall Dairymen investigate?—J. M. Peters.331 
DomeaUc Economy: 
The Washing of MuBlins, Cambrics, Woolens, 
Etc. 336 
Cleaning Beds .... . 336 
Kerosene Lamps, The Care of..336 
Domestic Recipes.. 
Markets...,...... 
Editorial Pare: 
Pans Green and the Potato Beetle. 332 
Change in the American Agriculturist . 332 
Notes 011)ril!s ..832 and foes to her beautiful capital there 
all witnesB a grand display of the arts 
Literary j 
P oetry 
peace. 
cora y ;: ■ • •.. 8 *“*J 8 j! 
Recent Litemture. m2 
Bric-a-brac...'..’.’.'.I.i 
Extracts from “Wife Torture in England*”— 
Frances Power Cobbe. 335 
Items for Correspondents... 335 
Napoleon and Mme. tteeamier. £33 
Newsol the Week. 333 
Reading for the Young ; 
Pocket-Money for Young People: No. 3—M. B. 
Prince. 303 
Education. 333 
Letters from Boys and Girls. 338 
The Puzzler...”' 33 ^ 
Sabbath Reading: 
Sinai. 333 
Personals. -,30 
Wit and Humor. 3)0 
Advertisements.331,'337! 339 , 3 i 0 
THE 
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TUBIST, 
AGRICUL- 
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Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1878. 
PARIS GREEN AND THE POTATO BEETLE. 
From letters received we find that there 
are localities to which the Potato Beetle 
has been a stranger until now. We find 
also that there are many who now pro¬ 
pose to use Paris-green who have 
Doubtless it is “ a matter of regret to 
the friends of The Country Home tha.t its 
publication should be indefinitely post¬ 
poned. ” We had proposed to give it an 
immense welcome. It waB to have been 
a glorious journal—printed upon highly- 
oalendered paper, beautifully illustrated 
and ably edited. It was to have been 
the Rural New-Yorker inspissated, re- 
fiued, perfected 60 far as we could judge 
from what we heard audread. The price 
was to have been $3.00 and the size that 
of the Christian Union. At the eleventh 
hour the managers discovered what seemed 
to them a better opportunity of “expend¬ 
ing their energies,” than that of a “ new 
and untried enterprise notwithstanding 
their faith in its ultimate success. ” The 
managers trust that this “combination” 
(if the word oau be used to express the 
adding of something which was to have 
existed to what does exist) will be as the 
‘ * engrafting of fresh and vigorous cions 
upon a sturdy tree, still in full vitality 
and that the product will be acceptable 
to all who shall gather the fruit.” 
Mr. Orange Judd remains as President 
of the Company but he will be relieved 
from the “brunt of the work.” Dr. Geo. 
Thurber also, the new managers think, 
“has nobly earned the partial relief 
which comes to him at this time.” We 
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posed its use before, and finallv that there are r) Sht sorry that The Countiy Home 
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are many who are not familiar with the 
best methods of mixing and using it. The 
topic is timely and we will therefore re¬ 
peat in brief what we have said at length 
many times before. Some prefer to miy 
the Green with water—others with flour 
or plaster. Either is quite effectual In 
the one case a watering-pot that will hold a 
pail of water—in the other a sieve of some 
kind is needed. Any tin vessel with 
holes punched in the bottom will serve. 
A flour-sieve with a covering of muslin or 
paper tied about it answers well enough. 
To twenty parts of cheap flour or plas¬ 
ter, add one part of Green and mix thor¬ 
oughly. Sift this upon the leaves before 
sunrise while they are filmed with dew. 
It is labor and material lost to wait until 
the dew has been in part or wholly evap¬ 
orated, since there is nothing to hold the 
dry powder and the first breeze blows it 
away. We find even now that there 
is an impression that the contact of PariB- 
green with the beetle or its larva is 
necessary to kill it. Contact however 
does no harm. In eating the leaf a. 
minute quantity of the poisonous powder 
is eaten and the bug is thus destroyed. 
A heaping tablespoonful of Paris-green 
may be stirred into a pailful of water in 
quantity and applied as we have above 
indicated stirring it the while as the Green 
is not soluble in water. 
The present beetles will effect compar¬ 
atively little injury to the vines but each 
of the females will lay perhaps a thousand 
eggs. These may now be found in olus- 
was not born. But we are glad that the 
suppressed embryo is, as it were, dis¬ 
solved and injeotod into the veins of the 
old Agriculturist. “ Mr. E. Libby takes 
the position of managing editor of The 
American Agriculturist and Mr. Beck¬ 
with that of Treasurer of the Company. ” 
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HOW TO CONTROL THE BEARING YEAR. 
Every strong man is capable of doing 
a limited amount of hard work. An y 
work beyond his powers of endurance 
however, exhausts him and a longer peri¬ 
od of rest is required than usual to restore 
his wonted physical powers. The same 
as he is capable of a certain amount of 
work, he iB benefited by a certain 
amount of food. If less than enough, his 
strength is impaired. If more, the func¬ 
tions of his system are harmed by surfeit 
Is the analogy good if applied to fruit 
trees ? It appears that the tendency of 
bruit trees is to overtask themselves. 
They are taxed too heavily one season_ 
they recuperate the next. How can we 
treat our apple trees so that their work 
shall be distributed evenly from year to 
year? If the soil affords an abundant 
supply of food we have only to regulate 
their work. We have to deprive them of 
the means of exhausting themselves so 
that they shall perform just the amount 
of work of which they are capable with¬ 
out exhaustion. If the soil does not 
naturally supply a sufficient quantity of 
food, we must enrich it so that it will. 
H it is true that if the vitality of an apple 
tree is so impaired one year by bearing 
an excessive crop that it*fails the next, it 
would seem to follow, supposing the tree 
derives from the soil in which it grows 
suitable and sufficient nourishment, that, 
if in the bearing year it were deprived of 
half of its fruit as soon as it had formed, 
it would be in a condition to mature a 
crop the next year also. 
HILLS OR DRILLS. 
One of many experiments tried at the 
Agricultural College farm of Kansas in 
1876 sets forth the comparative merits as 
between the old method of planting com 
in hills and that of planting in drills. 
Four plats were laid off across a portion 
of a field quite uniform as to the charac¬ 
ter of its soil. Each contained four rows 
of com, the rows being three and a-lialf 
feet apart. In the first plat the corn was 
planted in drills; in the second in hills, 
after the usual way ; again, the third was 
planted in drills, and the fourth in hills. 
When the corn was about six inches high 
the drilled plants were thinned out, leav¬ 
ing the stalks as nearly as possible ten 
inches apart in the rows; the plats in 
hills were likewise thinned out, leaving 
the same number of stalks in every plat 
throughout the experiment. In cultiva¬ 
ting the plats care was taken to give each 
the same treatment, and beyond thinning, 
hoeing once and cultivating twice, no 
special treatment was given the plats. 
The corn was husked November 11th, 
and the weighings showed for the drilled 
plats a yield of 71 bushels per acre ; for 
the plats in hills, 62£ bushels per acre— 
an advantage in favor of the method of 
planting in drills of 8j bushels per acre. 
liaising- Corn.—Among the contro¬ 
versies of the Ohio Farmers’ Club, it is 
stated that “it don’t require any scien¬ 
tific attainments to raise good com, if 
the land is good, but it does require 
some practical common sense and some 
industry.” If science is anything it is 
knowledge — it is truth ascertained. If 
common sense means anything in particu¬ 
lar, it means a certain amount of intelli¬ 
gence which enables one to perform cer¬ 
tain simple acts as they should be per¬ 
formed. But how was that “certain 
amount of intelligence” obtained ? Was 
it inherited ? Did it come without inves¬ 
tigation ? The best methods of the pres¬ 
ent which may have been handed down 
from generation to generation are not the 
less due to science because they were dis¬ 
covered centuries ago. All who intelli¬ 
gently observe and investigate are scien¬ 
tists to that extent, and every discovery 
that flows therefrom is due to what w 
termed science, call it by whatever other 
name we will. 
Hints about Insect Pests.—The 
white-ants, or termites, about which 
there has been a scare now and then, are 
justly feared. Remember that they are 
not ants at all, but get their name only 
from a very superficial resemblance to 
ants. The sexual individuals are already 
developed and will fly abroad in June. 
The oolonies live in damp, dead wood, 
such as stumps and the boarding of cel¬ 
lars. They will suddenly spread through 
the timbers of the house and reduce them 
to shells, when—down comes the house, 
with the people in it. For Aphides, when 
leaves cannot be washed, encourage the 
Syrphus (Gay-tiy), Coccinella (Lady-bee¬ 
tle), Chrysopa (Lace-winged fly), and dis¬ 
courage ants, which latter take care of 
the plant-lice and defend them from their 
enemieB. 
Alternation.—It is the undoubted 
fact that unmanured land upon which is 
grown the same kind of crop year after 
year, becomes “exhausted.” Will this 
same land nourish other plants without 
manure? If it has become exhausted 
for wheat will it grow rye? How is it 
with the forests ? Can they support, 
without any rest, the same trees for 
ages? Do the leaves which fall supply 
to the soil all that the roots have with¬ 
drawn? How can we explain then the 
fact that where once flourished Beeches, 
Birches and Oaks years and years ago,’ 
now we find Pines only, and, vice versa. 
the cities is the disease for the country. 
The country people have now to set 
about exterminating this disease for the 
introduction of which we have to thank 
our city friends. 
BREVITIES. 
Torchon lace is mncli used 
mowerB are not needed. 
on lawns. Lawn 
English Sparrows, —In connection 
with the English Sparrow, let us say : It 
was introduced to exterminate the inch- 
worm (popularly so-called) from the 
streets of some of the cities of this coun¬ 
try. It did exterminate it. We knew 
when the experiment was tried the low 
estimate in which the Sparrow was held 
in England. Our cities were rid of the 
inch-worm, — the country is alive with 
the English Sparrow 1 The remedy for 
The drat ripe strawberries in the neighbor¬ 
hood of the Rural Hort. Grounds (Bergen Co. 
N. J.) were picked the 18th iust. They were 
Wilson. 
The chief lesson which Mr. Mechi’s (England) 
last balance sheet gives is the policy of strik¬ 
ing out unusual lines of action for oneself upon 
the farm in bad times. 
Mr. Bateham says that 20,000 bushels of 
strawberries were grown about Cleveland in one 
season aud consumed by that city. The port of 
Norfold, Va., reported about 100,000 bushels of 
strawberries for 1877. 
The price of Asparagus has doubled owing to 
the frost which in many places killed the shoots 
to the ground. As we go to press (Monday) a 
warm steady rain is fulling and everything in¬ 
jured by the frost fast recovering, 
Michigan State Bornological Society. The 
summer meeting is announced by Secretary 
Garfield to be held in the city of Jackson 
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 18, 19 
and 20, commencing with an afternoon session 
at* 2 o clock on the 18th, and cloBing with a 
morning session on the 20th. The programme 
iB as nsual, attractive and practical. 
Mn. Henbv King, writing of “ Old-fashioned 
flowers” xn Tho Western Homestead, says: 
Let ua have them, then, in profusion. Land is 
plentiful, the seeds cost but a trifle and the air 
and sunshine will cheerfully do most of the 
gardening. The only thing in tho way is snob¬ 
bishness, for tho old flowers are the ones God 
gave to the world when the world was a para¬ 
dise ; and what was good enough for Eden is 
good enough for Kansas. 
The second annual Bench Show, under the 
management of the Westminster Kennel Club 
was opened in New York on the 15th and con¬ 
tinued for three days. The large struoture, 
Gilmore’s Garden, was well filled with repre¬ 
sentatives of every valuable brood of dogs. Set¬ 
ters predominated. Toy dogs, such as Pugs 
Terriers, Dandie Dlnmonts, aud Japanese speci¬ 
mens, attracted the curious, whilo connoisseurs 
gathered about the Beagles, Pointers, Setters, 
and other breeds valuable for their useful quali¬ 
ties. The representation was large, and the 
quality above the average. 
The Agricultural Gazette of England gives 
the following curious manifesto issued by some 
agriculturists of the county of Essex on the 
state of thoir affairs and the low price of labor : 
“A Proclamation to our worthy laborers." _We 
tho neighboring farmers, deeply deplore our in¬ 
ability to continue the present rate of wages to 
our worthy laborers ; the fact is, we cannot af¬ 
ford it. Free trade has brought ns into close 
competition with foreigners, who pay so little 
monoy for labor, that dark-brown rye bread, 
skim-milk cheese, ana a few onionB, is (sic) all 
the men get. With these foreign serf 8, who are 
bought and sold with tho land, like cattle, are 
we now contending in our own markets. Much 
as we deplore it, wo are obliged manfully to tell 
you, that if we are to give you constant employ¬ 
ment, we cannot pay the present wages. Essex 
must come to what many other counties have al¬ 
ready oome—6« and 7s a’ week. We will give as 
much as we can, but it must bo in proportion to 
the prioe of corn; the money lost by farmers 
this year is dreadful. Down with the malt tax ! 
God save the Queen!—Billericay, March 14.” 
[1851] 
In the proceedings of the Miohigan Pomo- 
logioal Society, we commend the following re¬ 
marks of Mr. Thomas to some of our farmer- 
readers : “ I am a very plain man, and perhaps 
most of you would not think from a gaze at my 
exterior that I ain a passionate Jovor of flowers. 
But there is nothing In which 1 take greater de¬ 
light, and from long experience in farm-life I 
can say that, although I have given a great 
many hours to the cultivation of flowers, the 
time thus spent has been by no means lost- I 
am no poorer for my flower garden. I am richer 
in all that makes my life worth living for. And 
when any man excuses himsolf from assisting 
his wife aud children to arrange a flower garden 
because he lias no lime for such foolish things, 
I set him down aH one who does not take any 
broad ground in matters of real economy. I 
look upon economy as something that applies to 
more than a man’s pocket-book, It looks to the 
health and happiness of his family, and it is my 
conviction that there is nothing connected with 
farm life that has more elements of true econ¬ 
omy in it than the plan of spending time and 
thought among the flowers.” 
Mb. Hechi, a distinguished English farmer, 
to one who asks his advice, sayB:—“ Without a 
thorough knowledge of farming and suitable 
conditions, it is a business to lose money by.” 
Id conclusion, he says:—“I know some sharp 
men of business, not bred farmers, who make 
farming pay.” The inquirer replies to Mr. 
Mechi. from which we quote“ I know noth¬ 
ing of farming except from book reading. Well, 
nor did I of vegetable gardening; and yet I have 
succeeded very well in that line, going chiefly by 
book instruction and using such common sense 
and observation aB nature furnishes mo with." 
The editor of the Loudon Agricultural Gazette, 
in which tho correspondence is published, strong¬ 
ly dissnades tho inquirer from investing his cap¬ 
ital in farming and suggests that he had better 
deny himself enough to pay the annual premium 
on a life iusuranco out of his £300 pur year (his 
income) and leave the agricultural venture alone. 
But it is uu unfortunate fact that the advice of 
the most experienced men as to whother others 
should engage in this or that occupation, Is of 
little value. If the man who desires so to en¬ 
gage in any particular employment will take 
pains to ascertain what others have done, situ¬ 
ated substantially as he himself is, he is himself 
the best judge whether to engage in it or to let 
it alone. 
