raised here, and as this is mainly a lumbering 
section tnesov are consumed in the country, 
Lumbering has absorbed nearly all other 
interests around the Bay ; but back among the 
hills are extensive sheep ranches and dairies. 
On the river bottoms the soil is inexhaustible ; 
wheat averages 40 bushels per acre, and it has 
been known to yield 1115 bushels ; [ !.—Eds.] 
Oats yield 75 bushels to the acre and potatoes, 
10 tons. Farm hands got from ?2U to $40 per 
month. Woodsmen get from $85 to $80 per 
month. This is the country for poor men— 
plenty of work and good pay. It is raining 
now and very likely will keep at it till the 
first of April—just what we want. Success 
to the Rural 1 h. s. 
Canada. 
Melville Cross, Cardwell Co., Ont., Dec. 
20. — My White Ele¬ 
phant had 13 eyes. I 
split three of the eyes 
! ■-' v into 10 pieces and plant- 
ed one piece in a hill, 
v making 10 hills out of 
\ the three eyes. The 
other ten eyes I planted 
one eye in a hill. They 
1 all grew and made a 
very strong growth. I 
had over 100 pounds of 
tubers from the 20 hills. 
The 10 hills from the 
n three eyes grew as 
\ strong ns the others and 
yielded as many po- 
tatoes. Some of them 
weighed over a pound 
each. I sowed the sor- 
ghum about the 10th 
of June; it only grew 
about three feet high 
If (friz but 1,ranchec * a £ reat 
ytLy deal I do not think, 
however, it is of any use 
1 here, as our climate 
is too cold. We never 
—— grow corn here as a 
crop—only a little for 
‘f/yyr-l boiling. TbeWashing- 
ton Oats did not amount 
- to anything. The as¬ 
paragus grew well, but I 
^ cannot tell whether it 
will be any better than 
what we have at pres¬ 
ent, ns it takes three 
years to grow before it is fit to use. The car¬ 
nations and picotees have made a tine growth. 
The package of carnations was mixed with the 
Chinese Pinks; they came up about half car¬ 
nations and half Chinese Pinks. I think that 
is the reason why some report the onruations 
as flowering this year. But the paper of Chi¬ 
nese Pink seed was the best of all. I took 
first prizes with them at all the leading exhi¬ 
bitions in this Province: first at the Industrial 
Exhibition at Toronto: first at the Provincial 
light, thin manilla paper, which he has found 
more desirablo thou thicker paper, and sets a 
smart boy covering it with pure boiled 
linseed oil to which some ordinary drier has 
been added. He does this with a brush the 
same as painting. The oil passes through the 
sheet on which it is spread, so as to partially 
c wer the one beneath. These two sheel s are 
laid aside, with the one containing less oil on 
toj. The next oiled sheet is laid on these, thus 
besmearing the third sheet perfectly, thus the 
pile increases When all are oiled the sheets 
aresoieadon poles or strips of boards where 
they will not touch one another, until perfect¬ 
ly dry. If at all sticky they must lie kept 
apart, l >ne boy will prepare a vast amount 
of paj er in one day. It is as well not to pre¬ 
pare too much at once, as sometimes the sheets 
his overcoat in-doors and taking it off when he 
goes out in the open air.” We cannot agreo 
with the above, from our respected contempo¬ 
rary, the Michigan Farmer. The simile is 
not a good one. Houses are warmed artifi¬ 
cially, How are we to keep the stable so 
warm in very cold weather that the horses 
mav be comfortable without blankets! The 
exercise from traveling in the coldest of 
weather keeps a liorso sufficiently warm. It 
is better to have an extra blanket or an extrn- 
heavy|blanket to cover him while standing out- 
of-doors. 
arring the trees. The Rural has tried al¬ 
most every supposed remedy to drive away or 
kill this pest, and, although we have thought 
that some success has attended some of these 
experiments, later observations have proven 
them practically ineffectual. If you want 
plums you must jar the trees. Ellwanger & 
Barry, of Rochester, N. Y., raise plums in 
large quantifies, and plums that usually take 
premiums at all the fairs where we have seen 
them on exhibition. They keep one man, as 
we learn, whose exclusive business it is to at¬ 
tend to half an acre for two months. He 
spreads cloths under them morning and eve¬ 
ning, and a sudden blow on the tree with a 
mallet jai’s the curculios down on the cloths, 
when they are gathered up and destroyed. 
In Mr. Russell’s paper, read before the 
Mass. Hort. Soc., he says that the cactus is 
always present in Central America—some¬ 
times inconveniently so. It forms a positive 
Pumpkins & Squash- 
ES. —An excellent ar- -—-v'- 
tide on pumpkins and 4 * 
squashes is given in — ' ?» 
the Now York Times, 'Wl'. 
from which we make a •• 
few notes: The pump- 
kin is an undignified ^ 
vagrant product, of the fc; 
farm. It is a sort of a 
hanger-on, taking the 
leavings of the first ta- 
ble, the scraps, ns it 
were, which a re cast out 
and become the inher¬ 
itance of the casual 
tramp. For as no one 
ever thought of prepar¬ 
ing a pet meal for a 
wandering tramp, so no 
farmer ever thinks of 
providing a special plot 
or 3eld and manuring 
it for a crop of pump¬ 
kins. This slighted 
and ill used vegetable is 
made a mere parasite ^ 
of the corn crop. This 'ys 
is unjust to the corn 
and unfair to the 
pumpkin, because the 
corn is robbed and the 
pumpkin is stinted, if ' v 
not starved. It becomes 
a quest ion in such a case 
if anything is gained; 
if the pumpkins pro¬ 
duced are grown at the 
expense of the corn, and if the corn is not 
mulcted of precisely what the other crop has 
procured—if, in fact, we have not merely 
“ robbed Peter to pay Paul.” ..... A 
neighbor once proudly pointed out to the 
writer a vine that had run over 40 feet. Here 
was an extraordinary vine. That was true, 
but it was nothing but a vine, with no pump¬ 
kins whatever about It. It had plenty of 
small blossoms on the v iuo; in fact, it was gor¬ 
geous in that, respect, but in respect of fruit it 
was a complete failure. It is a habit of this 
SHORT-HORN BULL, PRINCE ALFRED. 
fence, fulfilling the requirements of the West¬ 
ern man who wanted a fence “ horse high, hull 
strong, and pig tight.” No animal ever bites 
a cactus; sometimes they bloom magnificent¬ 
ly, and some of the species bloom at night. A 
species of upright, columnar growth is used to 
make corrals for cattle, and in an incredibly 
short time the stems crowd together, formiug 
a solid wall a foot or two in thickness. If it 
is too high, the tops are cut off, and then the 
plants bloom all over with gorgeous scarlet 
flowers. 
become glued together if stored in too large 
bulk. 
.Mr. Steams, of Michigan, has 
perfect success in keeping celery by placing it 
in boxes, first a layer of roots and then of 
moss, alternating until Hie box is full, then 
standing tha box on end, roots down. Prof, 
Beal indorses this method as a perfect success. 
This we learn from the excellent Michigan 
Fanner.. 4 Worry is the mi'dew 
of life;” and “This world belongs to the ener¬ 
getic,” are two good aphorisms to bear in 
mind.Voltaire, who is not al¬ 
ways to be trusted, spoke of a physician as “a 
man who poms drugs of which he knowsliI tie 
into bodiesof which he knows less.” .... 
Dr. Sturtevant should not think very lightly 
of the wild blackberry. He owes the first 
mention of his name in print to the editor of 
1 he Farm ington (1 azotto, who con nnented u pon 
some wild black l errios sent to him by the 
Doctor, m 'asurin" three and one eighth inches 
long.. Mr. Curtis thinks 1 hat it 
docs not take a provision dealer mori than 
forty-eight hours lo find out whether a partic¬ 
ular mark means good or poor fruit; and, 
while the good is engaged two days in ad¬ 
vance, the poi r will remain piled up waiting 
for the hawkirs. Ihe taste of thj people is 
being educated. ..... Col. John B. 
Moore does not pity any man who loses peach 
trees from borers. He used to hav* many, 
but now scrapes away the earth from the roots 
and puts on whali'-oil -oap in the Spi ing, and 
again the first of Jtdy. ..... The 
venerable M. P. Wilder carries nil the time 
two camel's-hair brushtvr n his pocket so as 
always to be ready to ti ansf rrtho pillen from 
the flowers of one plan h to 1,1 tose of r nother. . 
. . . . During a ioso discussion at the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Foeiety, Mr. 
Wilder was designated l y «■ x-President Hayes 
as himself a jwpetuul blooming ro?e. 
Col. Wilder says that the Buffum Pear 
should bo picked early. It was pronounced 
by A. J. Downing nearly as good as the 
Scokel. Col. Wilder has trees of the Buffum 
that produce on an average not less than five 
barrels, and one tree has borne 32 bushels. lie 
thinks the Crescent Seedling Strawberry 
pretty good when one can get no other. . . 
. . . Mr. Moore thinks that if he were 
planting only six kinds of pears, Dana’s Hovey 
would be one.Mr. Hovey thinks 
there are few' pears equal to the Sheldon. . . 
. . . . Mr. Hunt says that on a hillside he 
never fails to get a crop of raspberries, al¬ 
though this berry fails on low luuds. . . . 
. . President T. T. Lyon (Michigan) names 
the following as the best strawberries:—1st, 
Bid well; 2nd, Cumberland Triumph; 3rd, Sen 
eca Queen; 4th, Shurpless; 5th, Miner’s Great 
Prolific; 0th, Champion, or (which is the same) 
Windsor Chief. 
Dr. Jlexamer (New York) gives the follow¬ 
ing list:—Most productive: Crescent, Cham¬ 
pion, Captain Jack, Cumberland Triumph, 
Miner's, Glendale. Largest: Sharpies®, Pres¬ 
ident Lincoln. Best quality: Black Defi¬ 
ance, Lennig’s White, President Wilder, Her- 
vey Davis, Marvin, Cumberland. 
Mr. W. C. Barry names Sharpless, Nicanor, 
Cumberland Triumph, Wilson or Crescent, 
Kentucky cr Windsor Chief, and Charles 
Downing. 
The above lists are furnished to Green’s 
Fruit Grower. 
Mr. C. A. Green remarks, with truth as 
applied to many, that the nurseryman is ever 
a busy num. IIis werk is never done, and his 
pillow often supports a weary head, on which 
very likely curses hav t fallen for which lie is 
not responsible, for but few of the musses who 
buy his trees know how to care for them, and 
many who do know how are too lazy. 
California* 
Eureka, Humboldt Co., Dec. It.—Anun- 
usally prosperous year is t Rawing to a close 
with us in North* rn Califoi nia. Farmers are 
feeling well both! n spiriis and pocket. Good 
crops aud good times—iiicnyy In abundance 
makes good prices for prodl ice. 1'etatoes, ap¬ 
ples, barley and buy are ti e principal crops 
“Stables should be warm enough so that 
horses may bo comfortable without blankets; 
then the blankets will do good service as cov¬ 
erings when the animal is left standing out in 
the street. The practice of covering a horse 
with a blanket in the stable, to be removed as 
soon as he is taken out, is like a man wearing 
To prepare the oiled paper for protecting 
plants sent by muil, Mr. Green purchases very 
