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should bo gathered just before the plant is in 
full bloom, and put aside in & shady place to dry 
slowly. It is used for seasoning dishes. 
Miscellaneous. 
8. 8. V C , Rrieville, N. Y. , has a horse that 
“ interferes ” badly, lie oannot get any black¬ 
smith to shoe tho animal so as to prevent this 
fault, and ho inquires whether the new horso 
shoe with continuous calk, advertised in the 
Rural, would be likely to effect a cure, and 
whether it is really what it pretends to be. 
Ans.—W o cannot speak of our own knowl¬ 
edge, but we have seen very strong letters that 
havo been sent to tho company in which special 
reference is made to tho fact that the use of the 
shoos not only prevents interfering, but eradi¬ 
cates tho habit. We have found by aatual trial 
on onr horses at tho Experimental Farm, that 
in other respeots tho shoes do what is olaimod 
for them. As our horses did not interfere, tho 
shoes of course, could not bo tested on that 
point. 
XV. U. R., llubbardsville, IT. Y., asks 1. where 
the Herald’s Almanac can ho purchased and its 
price. 2. The name of some reliable commission 
house in Boston and Philadelphia. 3. Where 
can he get a horse-hoe adapted to hill land, 
which will do good work there. 
Ans.— 1. New York Herald office, this city. 2. 
We arc not sufficiently acquainted with the com¬ 
mission houses of either of those cities, to guar¬ 
antee the reliability of any of them. 3. Write 
to R. H. Allen & Co., New York City. 
J. IF. D., Grand, Rapids, Mich., asks for in¬ 
structions on the cultivation of Cranberries. 
Ans. —A lengthy article on this subject was 
published in our issue of Dec. 22, last, and a 
shorter one among Answers to Correspondents 
in Rural for July 6. A full account of the 
matter will again be given so Boon aa the present 
calls upon our columns shall have relaxed aome- 
what. 
JB. P. Moon, Osioego Co., IF. 1'., wishes to 
know where he oan procure a kind of corn for 
field culture that wo could mention. 
Ans. —Try Chester Co. Mammoth, probably, 
of D. Landreth A Sous, Phllu,. 
II. M. Stowe, lola, Allen Co., Kansas, asks 
the name of Borne manufacturers of good wind¬ 
mills. 
Ans.— U. 8. Wind Engine and Pump Co., Ba¬ 
tavia, I1L; Eclipse Wind Mill Co., Beloit, Wis. 
Comm on io ations received for tub week ending 
Saturday, Novkmber 16th: 
C. L. T.-J. B. L.—.1. T.—thanks—J. H. C.—J. 
M. C.—O. B. M.—II. K.—J. T. L.—F. V. B.-G. A. 
L. -J. B. M.—thanks—S. P.—L. B. A.—B. A. W.— 
S. G.—M. L.—W. H. M.—I. J. B.—L. B. A.-T. II. 
H.—V. D. C.—S. U. M.—E. K.—W. C. L. D.—E. 1*. 
S. -J. G. K. K.-J. L. N.-J. M. V. A.—M. B. I*.— 
T. H. H.-A. C.-B.-S. W. J.—G. L. S.-G. G.- 
K.—S. A. R.—G. M.—E. P.—E. H.—F. H. D.—D. C. 
H.—M. W. F.—thanks—M. R. J.—V. S. G.—II. B.— 
C. W.G. —J. G.-S. A. M.-.J. T.-thanks-J. E. 
M. C. 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Grand iufids, Mich., Nov. 4th, 1878. 
In the Rubai, of Nov. I, under the head of 
“Sanitary Arrangements for tho Homestead,” 
fixed tubs in the kitchen are described. I, too, 
believe that no kitchen should be without them, 
and have put in three sets by using wash-tubs 
for tho purpoao. Take as many tuba as you 
want of the Bize you may desire. Fasten to the 
bottom of each a board just thick enough to be 
flush with tho rim, so that in placing the tuba 
on a bench tho boards as well as the rims may 
touch it. This arrangement will cause the tubs 
to stand more fiwnly, givo a greater thiokness 
through which to screw them to the bench, and 
through which to make the outlet for refuse 
water. Let the tubs project over the bench in 
tho roar, and through the part thus projecting 
boro a hole to lot off tho soiled water. For stop¬ 
ping this hole, I have used a plug and chain, 
such aB plumborB use for the same purpose. If 
a wooden plug is used, the water should be 
drawn off from the front instead of from tho 
rear of tho tubs, so that tho projecting end of 
the plug shall bo out of tho way of the wash¬ 
board. I use a ooYor just like that dosoribed in 
the article referred to, but without hinges. Let 
the bench lie open underneath, for in truth “ no 
sink should be closed in.” 
James Watson writes of tho productiveness 
and other advantages of Arkansas. Before any 
man migrates there, however, ho should inquire 
about tho educational facilities — particularly 
what proportion of the children there attend 
sobool. Why do not papers givo tho P. 0. ad¬ 
dresses of their correspondents ? [Because many 
correspondents prefer that they Bhouid not do 
so.—E db.I 
An “ Old Subscriber ” in “ Notes from Central 
Illinois,” recommends sweet corn as food for 
hogs. One of the milkmen of our city keeps 126 
cows and feeds them largely with sweflt corn, 
with such satisfactory results that he intends to 
increase tho amount hereafter—he feeds stalks 
and oorn together. s. l. f. 
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to do without the RURAL for 1879. 
Lakned, Kansas, Nov. 7,18T8. 
Three years ago the buffalo and the Indians 
traversed these prairies ; now I oan stand at my 
door and count over 100 houses. I am located 
ten miles from Lamed, the county aoat of Paw¬ 
nee Co., which is a It. It. station on the Atchi¬ 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe It. It. All tho govern¬ 
ment land around here is taken and all R. R. 
land is sold. The wheat crop looks good. So 
far we are needing rain very badly. There is a 
heavy immigration to this part of Kansas this 
fall, as there was last spring. The people come 
from all over the country. Every State is repre¬ 
sented here. I have neighbors from N. Y. City. 
The climate is healthy and tho water good. It 
is a flue wheat country. Some raised 30 bushels 
to the acre on the wild sod, and they will do bet¬ 
ter when the land is cultivated. It is also a good 
stock country. ar. f. r. 
chenanoo Falls, Broome Co., N Y., Nov. st.h. 
The past season has been one of unusual pros¬ 
perity for farmers in this part of the country. 
Though prices are low for what wo havo to sell, 
a little money will procure a great deal of what 
we have to buy. Corn is worth about 60c.; oats, 
25o.; apples. SOo.; potatoes, GOc.; butter, 18@ 
20o.; oheeBO, 6@12o.; eggs, loo.; hay, $0(5)7, and 
everything olse in proportion. 
We pay from 8 to lOo. for sugar; and from 6 
to 10c. for calico and the prices of sheeting, and 
other things whloh we have to buy, stand in 
about tho same proportion. 
October was a very fine month in whioh to 
harvest crops, and all within my knowledge 
are housed in good order; but November has 
come in cold aud snowy. To-day it has snowed 
nearly all day, and there are about eight inches 
of snow on the ground. h. e. 
Indiana Co., Pa., Nov. 12,1S7S. 
This has been a beautiful fall for doing up 
work. It rained laBt night, but it is oloar to¬ 
day. Corn is mostly up ; it was a light crop 
owing to unfavorable weather. Oats proved a 
good crop; wheat was about half a crop. Pota¬ 
toes were very small. The Fly is hurting the 
wheat that is sown. Wheat, 85o.; corn, 40e. ; 
double bushel; oats, 30o. ; rye, 45c. ; flags, 
P 6r pound; cattle, $2.75 per 100 
pounds; sheep, 3J^o. and scarce. Butter, 17o. 
per pound; eggs, 16o. per dozen. Wages, 
thrashing, 75c, per day ; other work, 60o.— 
Thrashing wheat, 4c. per bushel; thrashing 
oats, 2c. per bushel. J. Gilmore. 
CLEARFIELD CO., Pd., NOV. 11, 187S. 
Considerably more attention has been given 
to agricultural pursuits in this county in the 
last two years than ever before in the same 
length of timo. In former years nearly the 
whole attention of tho county was turned to 
lumbering, but tho Pino being nearly exhausted, 
the land is being cleared np for farms. We 
miBB tho good apples this county is famous for. 
The late frosts in tho spring killed nearly every¬ 
thing in the fruit line. Wheat is selling at one 
dollar per bushel. Corn, 60c. Potatoes GOc. 
h. f. s. 
Griffin, Ga., Nov. ll, 1ST6. 
We havo here, in middle Georgia, the best 
fruit country to bo found east of tho Rocky 
Mountains, with an altitude of 1,000 feet, pure 
air and pore water—at a distance of only two 
days’ railroad travel from New York. But wo 
want a few thousands of live Yankees to help us 
develop the resources and possibilities of the 
country. w. w. w. 
Warren Co., N. O., Nov. 11. 
We have lately had some cold weather here¬ 
abouts, causing the hohiud-class of farmers to 
hurry up cotton-pioking, though the price is 
now so low—eight cents for lint—that it will not 
pay cost, Tho fields are almost aa white as 
snow, and many a back-ache and cold set of 
fingers are in store for some folks. Corn and 
cotton excepted, crops are all secured. 
m. b. p. 
Piedmont Co., Va., Nov. 13, 1878. 
WnEAT is looking well hero, and is worth 00c. 
por bushel; corn, 45c.; potatoes, 50c.; butter, 
16540.; eggs, 15o.; hogs, gross, $3 per 100 lbs.; 
beef, gross, $3(5)3.25 per 100 lbs.—sales slow. 
Wo have had a good many heavy frosts here this 
fall aud a little ice; but very few cold days up to 
this time. p. 
A subscriber writes ns that having seen by 
tho Rural Special Reports that potatoes were 
considerably below the averago yield, this year, 
he bargained for a large amount in his neigh¬ 
borhood, and since thou the price has risen so 
much that ho has cleared $100 on his surplus 
stock. Thoso reports aro not only interesting 
and instructive, but may also bo often easily 
made a source of profit to tho intelligent reader. 
Tho number, published some weeks ago, con¬ 
taining special orop reports from a largo number 
of different places in thirty-four out of tho 
thirty-eight States iD the Union, might well have 
been a source of as muoh profit as pleasure. 
The following are among a few of the recent 
notices of the press of the United States. 
Tub Rural New-Yorker has been enlarged 
and Unproved, If that be possible. It stands at 
the head of tho strictly agricultural and horti¬ 
cultural periodicals or t he country .—Philadelphia 
Germantown Telegraph . 
Tub Rural New-Yorker, so long and favora¬ 
bly known, seems determined to give Its read¬ 
ers the beneilt ut whatever Increased prosperity 
It secures. It has now. the best list of contribu¬ 
tors or auy weekly agricultural paper in the 
country, aud 13 doing a noble work—Boston scien¬ 
tific Farmer. 
Tho editors or the Rural Nbw-Yokkkk now 
use a portion ot their rami tor experimental 
purposes in raising seeds tor their subscribers. 
Their fan a, which by the way is one of the best 
on the Island, Is admirably adapted tor such 
experiments. The Rural is one of the best of 
agricultural papers.— 8. s. observer, long island. 
The Rural New-Yorker.— We are glad to note 
by an Increase of size tn the Rural New-Yorkkr, 
substantial signs or prosperity. The Agricult¬ 
ural Press of the country lias severely suffered by 
the general depression of tho last few years, and 
It is pleasaut to note this nrst step in prosperity, 
especially as the Rural New-Yorker deservos 
all the success It seems to gain.— Gardena's 
Monthly. 
The trouble Is that if you take It one year you 
will like It so well that you will take It every 
year .—Korth Missourian. 
We regard the Rural New-Yorker as the champ¬ 
ion weekly paper of .America, ror the farm and 
family circle. While it la especially Intended for 
Rural Homes, there Is no fireside that will not 
be greatly benefited by tho Rural New-Yorker’s 
weekly visits. It, gives you more for your money 
than any agricultural publication ot wblcb we 
have knowledge.— Democrat, Coshocton, Ohio, 
Wk arc glad to receive assurances from bead- 
quarters that this excellent paper was never in 
such a promising condition as It Is now, cither 
financially or editorially, since Its removal from 
Rochester. “It does not owe a dollar, aud has 
half a million at Ua back." Good enough! but not 
better than it deserves.— Rnflaio weekly Express. 
Of our agricultural exchanges none presents 
such a clear, crisp appearance, typographically, 
as the Rural New-Yorker. Speaking of it s con¬ 
tents, we are lea to use the most emphatic lan¬ 
guage. It Is edited with a precision unusual In 
agricultural Journals, aud a glance over Its Inter¬ 
esting “ Quest ions and Answers” columns discloses 
with what palnstaktng it, responds to requests for 
practical Information. It. is more comprehensive 
than papers ot lfs class, also, embracing a literary 
department that. Is again subdivided into minor 
departments, wbteh furnish excellent short aud 
continued stories, fashions and cutpaper patterns 
for the ladles. Religious intelligence, the news 
of the week, and a cozy nook for the young 
people. 
Its practical departments embrace articles by 
the foremost writers on agriculture, horticulture 
and kindred sciences, accompanied by Illustra¬ 
tions that increase the Interest of the text. In. 
short, the Rural Is Just such a paper as our people 
should subsbrlbe to. it Is broad aud national tn 
Its treatment of topics, and more than any other 
Journal, serves the farming and fruit growing In¬ 
terests of the whole country.— Dispatch, Live Oak, 
Florida. 
The Rural New-Yorker.— 1 This old and well- 
eatabUsUed weekly la one of our best agricultur¬ 
al and horticultural exchanges.— Phrenological 
Journal. 
Tiik Rural New-Yokkrk.— one of the oldest, 
most reliable, und most welcome or farm and 
household Journals published In America has been 
enlarged and otherwise improved. Its name has 
become a household word throughout the land, 
and we have yet to learn where the Rural 13 not 
welcomed by the family to whom it Is sent— 
Journal, Flint, Mich. 
The Rural New-Yorker b (he best, and most 
prominent agricultural and home Journal In the 
country,— Democrat. Davenport, Iowa. 
On receiving The Rural New-Yorker, we scare- 
ly recognized It, so greatly has it. been changed, 
for tne better.— Observer, EomnanviUe, ont- 
Thk Rural New-Yorker has been enlarged to 
the size of Harper’s Weekly, and otherwise great¬ 
ly improved, it is one of the oldest and best ag¬ 
ricultural weeklies in the country. Terms, $ 2.00 
a year.— Record, Vorkmlle. ills. 
Tux Rural Nkw-Yojikeb, one of the best family 
and agricultural papers in the land, has recently 
been enlarged, and its publishers claim that It 
has also been Improved; but we can’t see It, for 
the reason, we suppose, that our vision lsclouded 
with the long and fixed notion that there was no 
chance for bettering It.— Btrme and Farm, Louis¬ 
ville (A'V.) 
The Rural Xkw-Yokkkk, once published at 
Rochester, but latterly at New York, has been 
the most widely circulated of tho agricultural 
1 papers.— Times, Hartford, Ct. 
Rural New-Yorker.— That old reliable agri¬ 
cultural Journal, The Rural New-Yorker, renews 
its youth every year, and steadily improves with 
age.—IVesterti Homestead, Kansas. 
Thh Rural Nkw-Yorker has no peer as a 
family and tana paper.— Commercial, Mitchell, 
lnd. 
The Rural Nkw-Yorker has been enlarged 
aud improved, ahd Is now the best agarlcultural 
paper Issued lu the IT. S. We cordially recom¬ 
mend It to our farmers.— rimes, Fort nope, Out, 
Tue Rural New-Yorker, bo long and favorably 
known as a guide and representative ot the agrl- 
eultural Interests ot thu country, has been much 
improved la lls typographical “got up.” It 
would be hard to improve It otherwise. The Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker la a mine of Information tor far¬ 
mers, wherever located, aud amply repays pe- 
rttsaC— .Mil, Mail and Express Journal, 
The Ru kal New-Yorker, published at 78 Duane 
street. New York, is now the best agricultural 
weekly wu havo any knowledge ot.—Spectator, 
Ohio. 
Tiik Rural Nkw-Yokkkr.—’T his popular agri¬ 
cultural journal has recently been enlarged and 
typographically Improved, all ot which will com¬ 
mend It still more, U such a thing were possible, 
to its vast army of readers In all the walks of life. 
The Rural New-Yorker is the most popular agri¬ 
cultural paper published, and we commend It as 
the best to all wanting a paper devoted to that 
department. Insurance Herald. 
The Rural New-Yorker has made another en¬ 
largement, which makes the Rural the largest 
agricultural weekly published in this country.— 
Western Agriculturist. 
