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FEB. 44 
THE BUBAL 
HEW-YOBKEB. 
to realize that it is more profitable and more 
wholesome to purchase such hatter for all 
the uses of their familie 0 , instead of buying a 
pound or two a week of bntter no better for a 
dollar a pound, and using very inferior quality 
for cookiug. thus injuring their food and 
stomachs, it will come into the market in 
sufficient quantities. As it is, the customers 
who will buy cheap butter are so numerous that 
it is no wonder the markets are Hooded with 
that country-store mixture called •• Irish but¬ 
ter,” and that “ oleomargarine," which if 
properly made is far more healthful and less 
nauseous to smell and taste, largely usurps its 
place iu public estimation. 
Whilst the farmers are being taught in public 
prints, and at International, State and county 
dairy associations and fairs, how to make good 
butter, aud all the secrets of science aud the 
ingenuity of man are disclosed and employed 
for their beuefit, and they are deluged with 
pamphlets aud prospectuses enforcing upon 
their attention the new projects, creameries, 
implements and processes, it is but fair that 
the much larger number of people who con¬ 
sume their products, should be made to realize 
that butter-makers, as well as milk-producers, 
have to live by their calling, and that they can¬ 
not work day after day to produce a uniform, 
cleanly aud superior article, without a corre¬ 
sponding return for their labor. The art and 
processes for superior butter-making are the 
possession of a limited uurnber, and those that 
do put ou the market an article which com¬ 
mends Itself to all who test it, are deserving of 
at least u pecuniary reward which will enable 
them tocoutiuue to make and sell what all 
want but few are williug to pay for, 
Yokun Farm, Lenox, Mass. 
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A GOOD MILKING-STOOL. 
There is nothing about the dairy barn 
harder to keep in order than the milking-stool. 
The common form in use is a low, three-legged 
stool that, after having been used a while, is 
MILE STOOL.—FIG. 47. 
sure to have the legs dry up so that they will 
not stay in the sockets. The consequence is 
that the stool about one half the time has but 
two legs, aud consequently is perfectly useless. 
The common substitute is a small box, and this 
has to be picked up and set down several times 
while milking one cow and disposing of her 
milk. All this trouble is avoided by a device 
of the Swiss milk-men. They use a stool with 
but one leg properly braced to keep it from 
dropping out of the seat. This is cut iu the 
shape of a quarter moon ; at each end of the 
seat holes are cut, and a stroug leather strap 
passes through them. When the milk-man 
enters the stable, he takes tins stool down 
MILK STOOL IN DSB. — FIG. 48. 
from a nail where it has been hanging, fits it 
to his seat aud buckles it firmly around his 
legs. With this he walks about, or sits down 
at plea&ure, with no further thought or trouble 
about his milking stool. The bucket he holds 
between his knees when milking, aud there is 
a spike iu the one leg to keep it from slipping. 
L. S. Hardin. 
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WARM COWS. 
I want to give my experience in trying to 
carry out an adage which has crept from agri¬ 
cultural journals to journals of agriculture 
for about a year past, and which has brought 
me to grief. The adage says, “ The warmer 
stables are kept, the less food is required for 
the stock." I at once got out my multiplica¬ 
tion table, and having found that the average 
temperature of stables in winter was 32 deg. 
(according to the number and size of the 
cracks), I tried to solve the question:—If an 
uncertain degree of cold caused a cow to oat 
her head off in six months, what positive de¬ 
gree of heat, according to the aforesaid 
“adage," would enable her to live without 
eating altogether, and thus keep her head in 
proper place, “ agin grass come ?" Experiment 
only could decide this question; so I firBt tried 
pulse warmers, with no perceptible effect; 
then I had made a red flannel sack embroider¬ 
ed with green silk to represent Uraminia 
gracilis, but her appetite ouly increased. A 
neighbor proposed a self-heating rotary grate 
furnace, which at odcc showed signs of do'mg 
some good; she soon got into a profuse per¬ 
spiration and refused food altogether. We 
kept up the fire, aud she lolled out her tongue, 
which shed a copious stream of water, proving 
that she was not thirsty. Continued this 
course for a week, when she laid quietly down 
and made no sign. Sent for a vet. M.D., who 
thought we had been too sparing of fuel, aod 
by his advice, put some of her flesh ou to boil, 
and at 212 deg. Far. solved the problem. Cows 
kept in Btables warmed up to that degree re¬ 
quire no food. Q. E, D.—Now, who wants to 
pay me for that cow ? Stamps taken. 
8 . Rufus Mason. 
Jtcli) tops. 
THE COW-PEA IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
Though this southern Cow-pea requires and 
also receives less cultivatiou than any other 
crop, it is grateful for any extra attentiou iu 
the way of fertilizers or stirring of the soil. 
The practice of Mr. G. Twisdale, one of the 
most successful growers in this county, is, 
first, plow the land in April; then, about June, 
first run off the rows with a plow, about 2 to 
2J feet “apart; drop five to seven pea6,15 inches 
apart, in the row; cover with a cotton coverer; 
work once with a horse. Except a few saved 
for 6eed, the whole crop is fed by hogs. Iu 
answer to inquiries. Mr. T. says : “Iplant less 
than one bushel per acre. Have tried many 
varieties, and prefer the blacks. I consider 30 
bushels per acre a good crop. Can make more 
pork from peas than from the same field in 
corn, with one half the labor, besides leaving 
the land in much better condition. I feed them 
to my horses without any ill effect.” The 
writer, from experience, agrees with Mr. T. in 
regard to peas as food for horses, though the 
popular notion is that they are prolific of colic. 
As probably many Ruralists will try the Cow- 
pea tbiB year for the first time, a few hints as 
to the cultivation may not be amis6:—Early 
planting is to be avoided, the usual time of 
planting beans iB a fair time for planting Cow- 
peas also. Plant them in poor soil; if light 
aud 6audy, so much better. If growth of vines 
is desired, the soil cannot be too highly fertil¬ 
ized. Like English peas, they can hardly be 
planted too deep, especially in light soil. They 
germinate very soon. With the soil in proper 
condition as to heat aud moisture we sometimes 
have them showing their vinelets above ground 
in three days. With suitable soil and climate 
there is no more desirable crop. Give them 
half a chance, and they will look oat for num¬ 
ber one. There are almost numberless varie¬ 
ties, the cnlef distinction being in the size, 
form and color of the ripe grain. The growth 
of the vine is more dependent on the soil than 
on variety. m. b. p. 
Warren Co., N. C. 
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“And Now Conies California.” 
In “Brevities” for January 3, the Rural 
states that a premium was awarded by the Ter¬ 
ritorial Fair Association of Mod tana for the 
best acre of wheat,to a yield of 102 bushels, and 
iuquires whether any oue ever heard of a 
larger yield—outside of Munchausen Land. It 
6ays it hasn’t. 
On page 235 of the Report of the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture, for the year 1871, is the 
following: —*• Wheat In California.—Mr. Rafael 
Piuto, of Watsonville, California, states that 
in 1871 he raised 800 centals of wheat ou 14$ 
acres—an average of 92 bushels per acre—and 
that many acres in Pajaro Valiev gave a much 
larger yield. Two acres, cultivated by Mr. 
Dauiel Tuttle, of Watsonville, produced 12,360 
pouuds of English club wheat, or 103 bushels 
per acre, which was sold on the ground, with¬ 
out sacks, at two and a half cents per pound, 
returning $154.50 per acre.” 
Who can beat this in the way of a wheat 
story ? h. l. w. 
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TnE Bloomsdale Swede Turnip. —In 1878 
I received from the Rural, a package of the 
Bloomsdale Swede turnip seed, but neglected 
to sow them until the past season, when the 
result was au agreeable surprise. Myself and 
family unhesitatingly pronounce it the best tur¬ 
nip for cooking that has ever come under our 
observation. The flesh is a rich yellow, the 
flavor fiDe, and, besides, it yields well. n. r. 
<£bc flinrprU. 
THE EUMELAN GRAPE. 
This Grape was found in a private garden 
at Fishkill. N. Y., where it had been grown a 
number of years, without attracting much at¬ 
tention, by Dr. Grant, of Iona and Israella 
fame, and introduced by him and his success¬ 
ors, Hasbrouck & Bushnell, with the same 
high eucomiums that attended those varieties, 
and it has come about as near realizing the po¬ 
sition claimed for it as they have. Where it 
does succeed, it ripens before the Hartford, a 
black grape of full, medium size, of excellent 
quality. Belonging to one of our native spe¬ 
cies (iEstivalis) it ought to be hardy and 
healthy generally, but proves so only in iso¬ 
lated localities, like its predecessors, Iona and 
Israella. Some reliable authorities give it a 
character for strong growth with thick, firm 
foliage, but with us it is a feeble grower and as 
subject to mildew as fully as, or more than, 
the Iona, Israella or Delaware. Whether this 
is due to an impaired constitution induced by 
excessive or doubtful methods of propagation, 
or to an inherent lack of vigor in the variety, 
I am not prepared to say ; I only know that 
we have never yet been able to make a respect¬ 
able vine. 
Mr, Bush, of Mo., says; "Perhaps with no 
other variety is it so important to set out only 
good and strong plants in the first place, as 
with this oue, and I think that the great di¬ 
versity of opinion now existing in regard to 
this Grape is due to fhe fact that a large num¬ 
ber of the vines of this variety sent out have 
been poor aud feeble plants, which have never 
come to any good thereafter, and never will.’’ 
e. w. 
Inhstnal $m$lfrarnts. 
THE ACME STEEL PULVERIZING HAR¬ 
ROW. 
This excellent implement, the invention of 
a man who is himself a practical farmer as 
well as a mechanic who had previously in¬ 
vented the revolving disk or wheel harrow, 
seems destined to win a wide popularity once 
Us many merits become known. On its be¬ 
half it is claimed that it will crush clods com¬ 
pletely, level rough land, thoroughly pulver¬ 
ize inverted sod without turning it, as well as 
soil that has become baked after plowing, 
save cross plowing, cover the 6eed to a uni¬ 
form depth, and do its work without packing 
the under soil. Moreover, as it is a pulverizer, 
clod crusher and leveler combined, it is very 
economical of labor, and as it is made en¬ 
tirely of wrought iron, steel and wood, it is 
strong, durable and light, weighing only 126 
pounds. Broad as are these claims, they arc 
strongly iudoised by a large number of prac¬ 
tical farmers who have tested it under various 
conditions of soil iu N. Y., Mass., N. J., Pa., 
Va., and other States. Among the long list of 
testimonials to its efficiency the names of 
Levi Stockbridge and J. J. Thomas, inventor 
of the Thomas smoothing harrow, will justly 
have great weight with farfners everywhere. 
As seen in the accompanying cut, it con¬ 
sists of a clod crusher and leveling bar or beam 
permanently secured to the tongue or draft 
pole, having under its rear a senes of steel 
spurs. This crusher which is provided with 
ten steel cutting teeth, serves to grind 
down aud force the clods under the coulter 
teeth which are bolted to % separate beam, or 
tooth bar, hinged to Ihe rear of the crusher. 
The tooth bar is provided with 12 curved steel 
coulter teeth which throughly cut, lift and 
turn the soil, so that it is successively sub¬ 
jects"to the operation of the leveler, the 
breaking spurs, and the steel coulters. A 
lever within reach of the driver enables him 
to control the position of the crusher and at 
the same time to raise or depress the coulters 
to regulate the depth of work, which varies 
from a light surface working to a complete 
pulverization to a depth ot three or fourinches 
In view of its durable construction, its com¬ 
pleteness and efficiency thisis certainly a cheap 
implement at $22. In a brief notice like this, 
its salient points only can be glanced at; but 
full information will be furnished by its man¬ 
ufacturers, Nash & Brother, 22 College Place 
this city. 
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THE I-X-L MILL. 
Of the advantages of grinding grain for 
stock so many proofs have already been made 
public that to speak of the mutter here would 
be superfluous. Up to the present time, how¬ 
ever, by far too little attention has been given 
to the great importance of grindiug the cob 
of corn with the grain for feeding purposes. 
The great advantage of this measure has been 
strongly set forth by some recent experiments 
in hog-feeding, made by a committee appointed 
by a couple of Conn. Farmer's Clubs, the re- 
THE I, X. L. FEED MILL. 
suits of whose experiments were given in full 
by Professor E. W. Stewart in the Rural of 
Feb. 7- From these it appears that very nearly 
as mnch gain was made in fattening hogs on 
corn-and-cob meal, as on dear meal. While 
it required 4 34 pouuds of clear meal to gain 
one pound in live weight aud 5 63 pounds for 
one pound dressed weight, it required only 
4 63 pounds of corn-aud-cob meal to make one 
pound of live weight and 5 93 pounds for one 
of dressed pork; or. reducing the quantity of 
corn-and-cob meal to clear meal, it will be 
found that 3 70 pounds make one of live weight, 
and 4.75 pounds one of dressed pork. The 
same saving must, doubtless, be made in feed¬ 
ing other stock, and the money saved in this 
way alone, would very soon pay for a mill on 
any farm where eveu a comparatively few 
head of stock are kept. Of the numerous ex¬ 
cellent farm mills offered to the publ’c we 
know of none more cheap, durable, simple, 
and efficient than that whose phonetic title ex¬ 
presses its claims—the I-X L. Two sizes are 
made: No. 2 weighs 150 pounds; grinds eight 
bushels of feed per hour and costs $50 No. 
3 weighs 175 pounds; grinds 10 bushels per 
hour aud cosls $60. Both, it is claimed, will 
turn outdouble the above quantity of cracked 
corn, and from half to owe--thirds of the quan¬ 
tity fine euough for family use. The mill is 
entirely of iron of the best quality, aud so sim¬ 
ple in construction that a man with ordinary 
gumption can put it together. It can be driven 
by horse-power, lever power orby an engine or 
a wind mill, aud occupies about a yard square 
of barn floor. This is the second j T ear siuce 
this mill was introduced to the public; it claims 
therefore to have the latest improvements, and 
its efficiency is amply indorsed by numerous 
trustworthy furmers who have used it in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the country. Full particulars 
as to prices of repairs, mode of operating, 
etc., etc., will be promptly furnished on ap¬ 
plication to the manufacturers, the United 
States Wind Engiue and Pump Co , Batavia. 
Ill., or by their Eastern agents, S. L. Allen & 
Co., 229 Market St., Philadelphia. 
Messrs. Gregg & Co. bring out this season 
their new Gregg Self Dump Rake. The prin¬ 
ciple ou which this rake works (the torsion 
clutch) has been thoroughly tested, and their 
new rake bids fair to prove a great success. 
It will ue placed on the market strictly on its 
merits, backed by the old reputation of its 
manufacturers. 
