NOV. 23 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
common or china eggs for a couple of days to 
learn if she means business. Sprinkle the whole 
nest with sulphur and dust it among the hen’s 
feathers and under her wings, to prevent the 
spontaneous generation of vermin and to kill 
any lice that may have escaped observation. All 
fowls will generate lice if they do not take a dust 
bath often or if they are not protected artifi¬ 
cially. Do not use coal oil, as any grease will 
smother the chick germ—the embryo likes air 
in oommon with other animals, and the shell is 
porous to let it in. 
Do not disturb the hen, but some Asiatics re¬ 
quire to be lifted daily off the nests for food, ex¬ 
ercise and duBting. In lifting, place the hands 
under the wings and separate the feet, to free her 
from the eggs. If the weather is hot, do not 
worry about her staying off two or three hours. 
It is a good plan to set two hens at the same 
time and then give all the chickens to one to 
raise. Fresh eggs hatch in 21 days—stale eggs 
take a day or two longer. / 
Leave the hen and chickens alone for a day, 
unless all the eggs are hatched. The absorbed 
yelk affords sufficient nourishment to the chioka 
for 24 hour9. Chickens need drink before they 
need food. Feed them the first day on the 
had few responses to the advertisement, inquiry 
was made as to the reason, and he was told that 
"Golden” millet was the kind wanted—that 
they did not care for the common variety. 
The fact is that the new variety—which was 
first grown to any extent in Tennessee, and 
thence has been used muoh throughout the 
heard of its injuring cattle. I believe, how¬ 
ever, that Hungarian can be grown and used in 
such a way as to be a safe food for horses. I 
have no authenticated case of injury caused to 
animals by the use either of common or Ger¬ 
man millet. j. F 
Terre Haute, Ind. 
manioa: Dr. Gnay thinks that Golden millet and 
Hungarian grass are, at most, only varieties of 
one species and not distinot species; that is, 
that they are as much like each other as are 
Clawson and Gold Medal wheat, or some large, 
yellow Dent corn and white Dent corn. The 
numerous specimens which I have seen show so 
many intermediate forms, that I confess my in¬ 
ability to define them all, and therefore made 
no attempt. The specimen from which my 
drawing was made in a late number of the Ru¬ 
ral, was what I supposed to be a good form of 
German millet. 
SALTING WHEAT-LAND 
Agricultural progress is made mainly 
through disooveries by experimenting and by 
scientific researches, and whatever tends to ad¬ 
vance the farmers' interests and help them to 
overoome the obstacles against which they have 
to contend,‘should be made public. The sage 
remark that 11 he who makes two blades of grass 
chopped yelk of hard-boiled eggs mixed with 
milk. Then with oat-moal, pounded pop-corn, 
to grow where but one grew before, is a public 
benefactor,” is applicable to the progressive 
stale bread-oruwbH and sweet milk. Do not wet 
corn-meal too much; it is better boiled and mix¬ 
ed with boiled potatoes. After a few days, 
cracked com is good food, Milk is always good, 
whether sweet or sour. Give pure water, pure 
air, feed often, and keep everything clean, dry 
and comfortable. J. H. Campbell. 
Lucas Co., o. 
farmer wherever he may be found. 
Experiments in farming are not always suc¬ 
cessful, and many of them are attended with 
loss and vexation to the txperiirenters; but 
occasionally something useful is found out that 
amply repays all past expenditures and trouble. 
Such has been the case with some people of late 
in the experiment of salting wheat-land. 
Last spring Mr. Joshua Knight, of Ogle Co., 
Ills., sowed 13 barrels of salt on 20 acres seeded 
to wheat, and left a strip in the middle of the 
piece without salt. The ground on which he 
sowed the salt produced over eighteen bushels 
of good spring wheat per ac^e, while that on 
which there was no salt was hardly worth cut¬ 
ting—the wheat being badly shrunken, injured 
by rust, chinch bugs, etc. 
I consider this a fair test, and it has never 
before been published, though 1 deemed it of 
sufficient importance to report it to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. A similar experiment was 
tried in Iowa last spring, and the result was 
published in the Iowa City Rspublic&u, as fol¬ 
lows : 
" *-oe. of Cedar County, tried the expe¬ 
riment of spreading three bushels of salt broad¬ 
cast over two acres of his wheat-field. The 
yield was forty bushels per acre, while the rest 
of the field gave only nine and a half bushels 
per acre. The slraw was brigut. not home- m. 
“ROYAL Havering 
West—has been called German millet from the In refen 
beginning. It ia for sale by all seed dealers in which we 
Nashville, Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati and says: “ Thi 
St Louis, under that name and by no other, so and the be 
far as I am aware. At laBt it reached the East, learn. On 
and in some way the name Golden was attached gave the sci 
to it. These, then, are the three varieties in German mil 
THE BEST BREED OF FOWLS ] 
A correspondent from Batavia, N. Y., refer¬ 
ring to an article about the merits of Leghorn 
Fowls, that appeared in the Rural of Oct. 26, 
claims that the Leghorns are the best egg-pro¬ 
ducers. He has had ample experience in breed¬ 
ing choice poultry and maintains that the Leg¬ 
horns are prolific layers of good-sized, very rich 
eggs. Moreover, the birds are very handsome, 
their bright yellow legs and snowy-white plu¬ 
mage forming a very beautiful contrast. The 
chicks, too, are very hardy and oan be easily 
reared. He has a hen six years old that lays as 
well now as she ever did (!) aud she has never 
wanted to sit. The combs of the fowls of this 
breed, however, are so largo that they require a 
warm place in winter to prevent these appenda¬ 
ges from freezing. Iu his opinion, the Biaok 
Spanish rank next to the Leghorns. Of all 
breeds they lay the largest eggs. They are non- r 
sitters. Tney have a large icd comb, a large: 
white faoe and glossy biaok plumage, bo that hB } 
considers them very showy fowls. 
EXCELLENCE OF SOUR MTT.ir 
A correspondent writes from Otsego Co., 
N. Y,, that he has found a sure preventive of 
gapes in ohiokens in his method of feeding 
them. He feeds corn and oats, ground and 
mixed, and wetted with sour milk; with the ad¬ 
dition of some curds, when the chioka are quite 
young, and plenty of Boar milk to drink all the 
season. He thinks the latter a sure preventive 
of gapes, and if that could not be bad, he would 
fall back upon water as next best- 
He has also fattened three pigs on sour milk 
exclusively, (Two were half-bred Berkshires, 
and the other a cross of white breeds. One of 
the former was killed when seven months cld, 
and dressed 207 pounds. The white one met its 
fate when It had enjoyod life and sour milk for 
Beven months and sixteen days.; aud it then 
dressed 214 pounds. The other half-breed when 
eight months and five days, dressed 235 pounds. 
Tney were fed five or six times a dty, shut in a 
small pen, and had no food, except milk. Of 
course, he does not consider the weight remark¬ 
able, but he had met with poorer success when 
he had fed less frequently. 
“COUNTKSS ” 
oommorce—Common millet, German or Golden 
millet and Hungarian-grass. The German pro¬ 
duces much larger heads, more seed and more 
grass to the acre than the common. The Beeds 
of these two varieties are alike in color, but the 
German is nearly round, while the oommon is of 
an oval shape and more glossy. The Hungarian 
MILLET AGAIN 
The new method of treating Bubjeots in tho ; 
Rural New-Yorreb is a great advance on tho g 
old way. The articles an Strawberries, Rasp- H 
berries and Grapes, were especially valuable. | 
The subject of Millets, however, ia lacking to ™ 
some extent, particularly the article of Prof. 
BeaL Either he Is not acquainted with the dif- 
ferent speoies of millet iu oommon use, or else '1 
he is not dear in his statements. The follow- $ 
ing is a sample: " Besides the oommon name of ^ 
Hungarian-grass, It is also orten oaUed Golden 2 
millet, Oat-tall millet, Italian millet, etc.” 
There are three kinds of millet well known to 
all dealers in the West, under their proper uames, 
but I have notioed that seedsmeu and editors 
in the East have not yet learnt the distinction 
between them. A year ago a Western seeds¬ 
man advertised Gannon millet iu an Eastern 
agricultural paper, putting its price at about 
half that charged, by Eastern dealers. Having 
JOTTINGS AT KIRBY HOMESTEAD, 
COL. F. D. CUBTIS. 
We must m&ks nioro nio&t. Every farmer 
should inscribe thlB sentiment over his barn-door, 
and when he goes in and when he comes out, he 
should study upon it until every mouthful of 
food produced upon the farm is utilized to the 
best possible advantage. Even a turnip leaf 
has its value, and can be transformed Into milk 
or meat. Tf into milk, it is in the best form to 
make pork. An ear of corn may be made to 
count two ; first, In the form of muscle and fat; 
and then as food for another ear, and by bor¬ 
rowing a little from the soil and air, it will count 
for a hill and be multiplied four-fold- If the 
turnip leaf is allowed lo dry up or to go to 
“DUKE OB' WET HER.BY 
is shaped like the common, hut it is of two 
colors—yellow aud dark-brown—and in the Chi¬ 
cago market, that containing the most brown 
seed, is rated best. 
As to effect on Btock: it is undoubtedly true 
that Hungarian has killed many horses. I never 
5TH, (31.033)—Hollcer. 
About other specimens which I had before 
me, I admit that they were unlike those whioh I 
oalled Hungarian-grass. Tney answered well 
the description of what many oall dot aria Ger- 
manica, German or Golden millet. Now comes 
the question as to the characters of Setaria Ger- 
