THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
wrong time of tho year. It was a mistake to 
rush it in in November and December, when 
prices were always very low, while from March 
to October prices wore much higher. He said 
that wheat middlings cooked made line fat hogs, 
and for making poilc wore worth more, ton for 
ton, thau corn-meal. 
President Smith said that ho thought the 
manure from his pigs was worth more than the 
pork ; that they paid for themselves in working 
up gardon waBte into excellent manure. He was 
now feeding his pigs boiled potatoes with a little 
corn-meal on them, and asked if he could use 
turnips iu the placo of potatoes. 
Mr, Van Auken, of Ashwaubeuon, said he 
could, and that the best and most satisfactory pig 
and chiekon-feed ho had ever teen was made by 
boiling a kettle of potatooa or turnips, and, 
while hot, mashing them and mixing with them 
one-half bushel of corn and oat-meal and one- 
and a half bushel of wheat bran to each barrel 
of potatoes- 
Mr. Bonnot said that when he was a boy his 
work was feeding the pigs ; his folks boiled a 
kettle of roots or potatoes and put some pump¬ 
kins in with them; when boiled,soft those were 
emptied into a trough and mashed. When they 
first began to feed in the fall, but little meal was 
used, but as they drew near the cud it was in¬ 
creased, and each hog had eaten duriug fatteu- 
ning perhaps three or four bushels of corn- 
meal. 
Mr, Lyon, of Ft. Howard, Baid that in his 
younger days he had charge of a large llouring- 
rnill inPenua., and it was with some difficulty 
that they disposed of the bran. One spring 
when they had a largo amount on their bauds, 
the proprietor asked him if hogs could be fat¬ 
tened on bran; he said they could, and some 
time iu .May they bought six good, fair shoats 
which were put in a grass plot of about ouo- 
eighth acre in extent, which had a spring brook 
ruuning through it. At a point where tho fence 
crossed tho brook ho Bet sovon barrels; into 
each barrel ho emptied a bag of bran, and on 
Monday filled ono with water ; on Tuesday he 
filled another, and so on. Ho found his six pigs 
would eat or drink ono barrel per day, and that 
it would reach tho sweet stage of fermentation 
in about seven days. This was all the feed they 
had, wheat bran and spring water, and when 
killed in December they were fat, and were a 
very nice lot, weighing from 275 to 325 pounds. 
This, at that time (1845), was considered a very 
heavy weight for hogs. 
Mossrs. Smith, Burden, Campbell and Van 
Auken agroed with Mr. Beunet as to tho proper 
timo of selling pigs, and cited several instances 
iu snpport of their view. 
Mr. Potter, of IhtufiulJ, asked about the com¬ 
parative value of corn-meal and meal of the corn 
and cob ground together. 
President Smith replied that when com was 
new. it paid to have cob and corn ground togeth¬ 
er, but when it was dry, the corn had drawn ail 
tho nutrimunt out of tho cob. 
Stephen k Burdeu, of Howard, s>ii.l that for 
three years he had not had a pig on his place, 
but had bought his pork iu tho city, believing 
that was the cheapest way he could got pork. 
Crop. 
HOW NINETY-SEVEN BUSHELS OF COEN 
PEE ACEE WEEE EAISED. 
Duriug the week before last I finished gather¬ 
ing my crop of ten acres of Kotina's New White 
Field Corn. The yield was 1,-157 bushels of ears, 
aud as throe half-bushels of oars shell one 
bushel of corn, the product is 117 bushels of 
shelled corn por acre. The past su nmar has 
been so dry aud otherwise uutavorablj to the 
growth of corn in this part or our State, that uot 
more than a half crop of this cereal has been 
produoed; and, notwithstanding all this, I 
think I have succeeded in getting tho largest 
yield ever made in Lycoming County. 
The soil ou which this crop was grown is a 
sandy loam, resting on creek gravel. lathe 
summer of 1877, throe tons per acre of clovtr 
hay wore cut from this tou-acre field. In the 
autumu two and oils half bushels per acre of 
clover-sood wore gathered from the •’amo. As 
soou as the olover-soo! was removed—which 
was douo by the last of September— I eonmiouecd 
hauliug barnyard manure, and spread it on the 
surface as fast as hauled at tho rate of ten two- 
horse loads per aero. No stock was allowed to 
pasture on tho field and poach the life out of 
the soil during tho wet autumn months. The 
laud was plowed about ton inches deep from the 
middle to tho last of April. It was harrowed 
three times botweonthe first an I tenth of May ; 
ou the 11th it was marked out ono way, three 
and oue-half feet apart; on the 11th it was 
marked across, tho same d’stauce apart, and 
two kernels—no more and no less, according to 
my instructions to tho droppers—were dropped 
aud oovoml abont ono aud oue-half inches deep 
at each intersection. The com was cultivated 
four times between tho first and last of June. 
At the bogiuuiug of July ii was plowed with 
a double corn plow, aud the ground between the 
furrows was loosened with a narrow cultivator. 
ThiB was intended to be “ the finishing touch,” 
ns 
but a few days afterwards a heavy rain and hail The grains are abont as deep, but the ears have 
storm beat down the soil bo solid that I concluded not grown quite so long. Many ears have grains 
it would bo better, as soon as dry enough, to three-quarters of an inch deep, 
run through both ways with a cultivator and Experiments in 1877 on different distances 
loosen the surface once more. The result of apart, with one to four kernels in a hill, shewed 
tributed the twenty-six bushels that grew from 
it among my neighbors, and now it is the prin¬ 
cipal wheat grown in this vicinity. It has spread 
equally fast in Orange, Washington and Essex 
counties, where the other packagos from Mr. 
Keep wont. Crops have neon reported of from 
twenty-five to fifty bushels from ono sown. Of 
course, like all new things, it has probably had 
extra care, but all agree as to its hardiness, its 
productiveness, the excellence of its flour, and 
its quality of giving a full crop even when sown 
as late as June 1. As I am not a grain farmer, 
haviug got it started, I have not sown any the 
past season, hut I continue to receive favorable 
accounts. 
A FEW WOEDS ABOUT PEAKS, 
GEN. WJI. II. NOBLE, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 
difficuity of condensing the subject. 
It is always hard work to cramp & largo sub¬ 
ject into a little space. It is no easy task to 
write a brief article on pears. I am such a zealot 
about the fruit that when once my pen or 
tongue gets running on its kinds, qualities or 
culture, I hardly know when to put down the 
brakes. Tbeu it needs a pretty cool head to 
steer through the “many men of many minds,’ 
such unlike tastes, such a host of kinds. 
How are you going to make an article brief 
about so many varieties of real excellence; so 
many only kept on the lists or in the garden, be¬ 
cause no one is bold enough to doubt their 
merits? There are so many finer than tho old 
list-keepers, lo which we are accustomed and 
therefore plant; so many, which though superb 
in your ground, are good for nothing in some 
near-by county or State; so many that crack 
and wither iu the Eastern States, or New Eng¬ 
land, that iu I’emisylvania’d deep clays, and 
other places, arc. joyons companions at the dos- 
serfc. Then so many are puffed as “ great acqui¬ 
sitions " which, after you plant them and pick 
their fruit, you find to be very tame and insipid. 
How are you to pack the essence of all this into 
“flLfi.5 ’J_ f L □ □ R — 
the space of a very “few words ?” 
I have often tried earnestly to toll briefly what 
the pub ic ought to kuow about the choice and 
this operation was to pull down the furrows 
that had been thrown against the corn with the 
plow, and loave the surface nearly flat. By this 
time the corn had grown nearly as high as the 
horse's back, and its shade, together with the 
loosened surface ef the soil, contributed to keep 
the ground in fair condition fov the growing 
that three and one-half feet each way, with two 
kernels iu the hill, gave the most satisfactory 
returns. Daniel Steok. 
Lycoming Co., l J a. 
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LOST NATION SPKIKU "WHEAT. 
With regard to this viriety of wheat, Dr. 
— ^lcdisId 
crop, though but little rain fell during the re¬ 
mainder of the summer. 
The ears are uot quite so large this season as 
last, I suppose owing to the unfavorable corn 
weather. Last season many of tho oars shelled 
one full quart each ; three-quarters of a quart 
■ft about the [most the best will make this year. 
finsL^- 
Hoskins, of Orleans Co., Vt., writes us: "I 
was ono of tho very first to plant it in 
Vermont, having, with three others in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the State, four years ago, 
received a quart of it from Rev. Marcus It. 
Keep, of Dalton, Aroostook Co., Me. I got 
a bushel from that quart, sowed it all, and die- 
care of fruits. Bat I fail every time. What 
may be very plaiu to one, those not used to 
kind and their culture take in but slowly, No 
short hand method will do ; your dwarf, in spite 
of yon, will swell iuto full stature and bulk. Be¬ 
sides, yon have to combat from the start all 
sorts of tastes, whims, and old-time notions, 
both among those who know little, and those 
posted about fruit. 
THE BARTLETT PEAR. 
Right here, the Rural New-Yorker, whioh is 
supposed to spoak from a largo trial of kinds in 
its Experimental Crounds.offers a case in point. 
A while since, in oue of those “brief articles” 
struck out from the editorial mind, the Rural 
sentiucod the Bartlett iuto outer darkuess as 
insipid, and suggested that it should give place 
to its betters. This banishment accords neither 
with the public souse, nor with the taste of the 
most of those who are familiar with a large 
range of fine pears, nor with a just assay of the 
merits of the Bartlett. Now the Bartlett is the 
most popular of pears. II the great 1'ublic 
could have but one pear, aud vote their choice, 
the Bartlett would boat the erowd. There are 
lota of good reasons to back their ballots, though 
the pear is not one that i fancy. I suppose, as 
with the Rural, that its spicy, musky, vinous 
flavor and lack of sweetness, do uot suit my 
taste. 
But I speak for the masses. With them it’s 
the choice, because it is of uniform and reliable 
quality. It has no “off” years, but puts in a 
crop to every harvest. It is always fair, and of 
good size. It etauds hard usage, and answers 
quickly aud largely to good, high culture. It 
ripens iuto eatablencss, all the way from wind 
falls to its plumpeBt growth. It keeps well, and 
“does up” well. It’s flesh is melting and 
juicy. Whon grown in the full sunlight, and 
ripened carefully in the house, it colors into the 
golden glory of tho dessert—the very “form 
and fashion of a pear." 
Then the Bartlett markets a large, juicy, but¬ 
tery pear, which fills tho bill and stomachs of 
the mass. Nor docs it meet with much neglect 
from those who know pears. At my table, 
which, dmiug tho season of this fruit, gets a 
taste of Borne hundred and fifty of its varieties, 
no pear vauiHhos more quickly than prime Bart- 
letts. Besides ali, it is ,not like some, a local 
pear. It is cosmopolitan. Throughout the 
sea board, all through the South, where the 
pear will grow, and along to and at the golden 
gates of the Pacific, tho Bartlett holds loving 
friendd, aud repaj s wide culture. It’s not go¬ 
ing to vanish right off into dim distance with 
the “innumerable caravan” of old-choke, 
worthless aud insipid pears. It will hold on to, 
aud be held close by, the friends throughout the 
land, whom it has won by Bolid and lasting traits 
of excellence. 
Look, now, at the space that the Bartlett's 
