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NOV. 27 
THE BUBAL, MEW-VOBIER. 
his house, and money laid up and iB already 
beginning to talk of buying a small larm. He 
thinks, however, that, he Is worth nearer $2,- 
000 than $1,000 His business has increased 
so that he keeps considerable hired help, on 
which he is making a profit, and he is known 
and respected by the entire community, The 
writer concludes, if he had spent a hundred 
dollars the year ho worked for him. ho doubts 
if to-day he would have been doing business for 
himself. 
Iodine has been recommended as a substi¬ 
tute for quinia by good authorities. The dose 
for adults is 10 drops of the tincture in one- 
third glass of sweetened water, thrice daily. 
For children, proportionately less. Wo find In 
the Druggist’s Circular an essay read by F. 
Grinned, M. D., on the value of iodine as a 
remedy for malarial diseases, from which we 
make a few quotations:—“At that time," the 
Doctor says, ** 1 treated 135 cases of intermit¬ 
tent fever, 74 being males and 01 females; 
these included children and in some instances 
infants. The quotidian and tertian types of 
the fever were the forms principally present¬ 
ed. I also treated four eases of diarrhea and 
eight eases of neuralgia, each of malarial ori¬ 
gin, using the same remedy, only adding as¬ 
tringents or opiates us Indicated. One hun¬ 
dred and forty-seven cases were thus treated 
with the iodine, and the results wer e fully equal 
to those treated with the su lphate of quinia. The 
remedy seemed to act almost as by magic ; in 
many iustanceB the paroxysms were not re¬ 
peated after the medicine was given, though 
the doses were repeated for a day or two after 
the cessation of the fever. Iu cases of enlarged 
spleen there was a more speedy reduction in 
the size of that organ than when the sulphate 
of quinia was used.” The fact that the cost of 
iodine is so little in comparison with quinia, 
especially renders it a boon to the poorer 
classes, who can ill afford to purchase quinia. 
and the physician who treats them and fur¬ 
nishes the. remedy finds hie bill toy drugs not 
an insignificant item of his expenses, with lit. 
tie to show in return. The fact that iodine ex¬ 
erts such a pronouuced effect upon those very 
glands which appear to harbor the malarial 
poison seems to render its great value in those 
cases quite philosophical. It only seems strange 
that in the settling up of our great West, with 
malarial poison over opposing the onward 
march of civilization, aud the great scarcity 
and high price of quiuia. the value of thiB 
remedy bad not been earlier and more gen¬ 
erally appreciated. 
Ka.kmpfek’S Plants.— At the British Muse¬ 
um the other day—that is, in the New British 
Museum at South Kensington—we (Londou 
Chronicle) had an opportunity of seeing the 
herbarium made by Engelbert Kaeiupfer iu 
Japan in tlm last years of the seventeenth cen¬ 
tury, hard upon two hundred years ago. It 
was interesting to see among them the camel¬ 
lia, the aueuba, the seiadopitys, the maples, 
the weigola*. the retinosporas, the azaleas, 
and a number of plants now familiar in onr 
gardens. Some of these were figured and 
many described in Kaempfer’s Amwnitates, 
published in 1712. Others were published by 
Sir Joseph Banks, in 1791. In his u Incones ,Se- 
lecke. PlaiUarum quas in Japonia colie jit el Ue- 
lineavil Enqelbertus Knempfer." 
Smoking Orchards Unsuccessful.—A wri¬ 
ter in the Kura] World describes an unsuccess¬ 
ful attempt to keep off the eurculio, by 
smoking his trees, fifty in number. A band 
of coal tar was bought, aud several holes dug 
six inches deep through the orchard. (Jorn 
cobs were dipped in the tar, placed in the holes, 
and set on fire. The operator says that he 
“got a nice smoke.” aud had his holes to suit 
the wind. This work was repeated three 
mornings in each week for a month. The 
whole process did no good, the young fruit 
being badly stuug- As this remedy, comments 
M.r. J. J- Thomas, is frequently recommended 
by those who have given It little trial, such 
failures as this are worth recording. The jar¬ 
ring process, properly conducted, is easier, 
cheaper and more efficient; if not properly 
applied, it is of little use. 
Feeding Beks in Winter.— Prof. Cook 
writes to the N. 'i. World on this subject as 
follows; After an uupropitious season bees 
are apt to go into winter-quarters ill provided 
with stores. Well informed and cautions api¬ 
arists. aware of this lack, feed weak colonies 
during the Fall sufficiently to supply the need. 
It is never desirable to teed liquid stores, 
either houey or sirup, in Winter, and not well 
to feed at all uulesa positively demanded. The 
be6t way to feed, if we must, is to put candy 
made from granulated sugar on the frames, 
ust above the cluster. This will be kept warm, 
and can be taken, and will disturb the bees so 
little that, if it must be done, it will generally 
succeed. If the bees can pass the Wiuter until 
March—and the stores needed during the cold 
Wiuter are very light, compared with those 
consumed later ufter brood rearing commences 
—then we may; feed either honey or sirup. 
Then the bees can fly occasionally and will re¬ 
ceive no harm from liquid food. This food, 
too, will stimulate brood-rearing, and thus 
work a double benefit. The feeder will need 
to be so constructed as to keep the food near 
the cluster or the bees will not appropriate It, 
because of the cold. 
No one should fall to use a division-board in 
Winter and Spring. Keep the bees crowded 
on to so few frames that all will bo covered, 
and Spring dwindling will do little harm. 
A Hktfrk with a Wooden Leg.—A valua¬ 
ble heifer belonging to a farmer near Northal¬ 
lerton recently broke its leg, and it had to be 
amputated. Truth (London) says that the ani¬ 
mal has Bince been fitted witb a wooden leg, on 
which it moves about, with the utmost ease, 
“which proves the absuidity of ba tily order¬ 
ing the destruction of animals that meet with 
such accidents.” 
JAMES VICK’S NEW BUILDING. 
Among our seedsmen we know of no one 
that holds a higher place in the esteem and 
confidence of plant-loving people than James 
Vick, of Rochester, N. Y. He has earned thiB 
place by fair aud liberal dealings with his 
patrons through many years. Whether Mr. 
Vick, by a life-time of hard, unremitting labor, 
has been prompted merely by a desire to estab¬ 
lish a large and remunerative business, or 
whether a love of creating an appreciation of 
the floral treasures of the world has been the 
stronger incentive, it would be difficult to 
judge, for he has been eminently successful in 
both respects. 
To meet the requirements of his increasing 
business It liaa been necessary for Mr. Vick to 
increase the area of land under cultivation and 
to erect new buildings. The most conspicuous 
of these latter is one built last Summer about 
two miles from the heart of the city, an en¬ 
graving oi which is herewith presented- It is 
one hundred and sixty-fwo feet frontand fllly- 
four deep. Here Mr. Vick has his packing 
and shipping rooms, jjrinting office, bindery 
and business office. Convenient to the grounds 
and green-houses, his artists also find in it 
convenient and congenial headquarters. Easily 
accessible by horse-cars, which leave the city 
every few minutes, Mr. Vick designs to make 
these grounds worthy the visits of friends who 
pass that way. 
dpijfrgajrm. 
NOTES FROM WESTERN KANSAS. 
1 could write an article on Kansas lor the 
Rural aud make the whole State, lrom north 
to south aud from east to west, a Paradise lor 
the new Bottler, and verify every statement of 
enormouB production by the affidavits of good 
men. 1 could make the climate delightful and 
the rainfall abundant, and support the state¬ 
ments by the records, On the eoutrary, I could 
write an article, supported by affidavits of good 
men, that neither Kansas nor any part of it is 
a desirable place for the immigrant; that the 
climate iH detestable, the soil poor aud the 
rainfall totally insufficient to insure fair crops, 
and support the statements by the records. I 
can go into the neighborhood of orchards that 
produce thousands of bushels of the finest ap¬ 
ples and pears and peaches in the world, 
and I can get the statement of men near-by 
who “han’t got" any orchards, that fruit 
won’t grow in Kansas ; and so on through the 
whole catalogue. Now can’t you see where 
the truth comes iu ? The same set of men that 
are “starving" in Western Kansas to-day 
would have starved In Central Kansas five 
years ago, or iu Eastern Kansas 20 years ago ; 
and they would starve in Queens County or 
Orange County, or in any other county of New 
York or New Jersey or Pennsylvania if they 
settled there under like circumstances (were it 
possible) In any year. There is a great deal of 
this starvation going on every year on the 
frontier, but it won’t pay to get it prominently 
before the public, except about once iu five 
years. Kansas has had four eras of it now; 
one more, possibly two , and then the western 
line will bo passed and Kansas be freed Isom 
this disgrace. 
Immigration often seems to move without 
judgment or adequate reasons, and until you 
can persuade the man who has worked on 
shares some of his “ wife’s father’s land ” for 
a few years, the shoemaker who knows more 
about farming than John Johnston, or the 
factory operative who knows more than the 
proprietor of Kirby Homestead, ftud the ma¬ 
chinist who kuows more than the Rural, that 
their very valuable services cannot be spared 
from the East; iu short, nntil you can sort out 
and fit each ouu to a proper and suitable place 
adapted to his or her capacity, means and pro¬ 
fession, and thou by some miraculous power 
hold each to his or her place, I don’t see how 
you arc going to do away with destitution and 
suffering on the frontier. 
As long as great railroad corporations subsi¬ 
dized aud pampered by government, have mil¬ 
lions of acres of laud to sell aud can make 
more money by Belling it to poor people thun 
in any other way (for as a rule they can sell 
it three or four timoB over on account of de¬ 
faulted payments, and get in the long run two 
or three prices for their land) ; just as long 
as Government by its land laws invites specu¬ 
lation in poor men's rights ; just so long will 
destitution and Buffering exiBt, and anything 
either I or you could write won’t check it, in 
my judgment. 
Given a steam engine: look at it: under 
the manipulations of its master, what a pow¬ 
er ! what a display of the ingenuity, skill uud 
work of man in its construction ! At the will 
of its master it cau walk, run, draw great loads, 
run factories, propel great palaces over the 
ocean, etc., etc. Well, right iu the mountains 
of Pennsylvania are the iron, the coal, the wa¬ 
ter, all the elements of this great power. Let 
the editor of the Rural go out on Long Islaud 
and on the Bouth Bide gather up the clam dig¬ 
gers. the fishermen, the coasters ; let him go 
into North Hempstead and gather up the far¬ 
mers who draw manure from New York City, 
and raise great crops of wheat aud Timothy 
hay and have great dairy barnB and feed 
breweiB’grain to cows and furnish the city 
with jmre milk ; let him go over to Oyster 
Bay and Little Neck and get the oystermen, or 
down to Flushing, Astoria and Flatbush and 
got the “truck”mou, aud then go about the city 
and gather up the stevedores, the draymen, 
the porters, the clerks and book-keepers; get 
them all together by thousands and show them 
the engine. Tell them there is nothing about 
it but iron, wood, coal aud wuter, and that all 
these exist in inexhaustible quantities down 
in the mountains iu Pennsylvania, aud that 
they can be had for almost nothing. ‘Let all go 
down there and go to making engines. 
Don't they know all about catching eels and 
porgies, bony fish and blue fish, sea bass and 
black fish ? Can’t they sail a sloop or scull a boat 
to perfection ? Don’t they know all about 
feeding brewers’ grainR, and raising and selling 
Timothy hay); how to raise onions, celery, Lima 
beans, radishes, cucumbers and cabbages; bow 
to load ships, draw boxes and barrels, lie up 
packages of dry goods and groceries, enter 
them on the books and foot up the ledger? 
Can’t they do these things and many more ? 
They are an intelligent, enterprising and go- 
ahead set of people, and. of course, they can 
make steam engines and run them, too, and 
they will. They’ve been fools to live as they 
have in such a humdrum manner, but now 
they will all make engines and every man of 
them will have one of his own, and be inde¬ 
pendent. 
Now, shut, your eyes and dream out a few 
years’ existence with this motley horde of en¬ 
gine-makers ont in the wildorness of the 
monntaina-and they are forced, too, to get their 
! bread and butter at the same time out of the 
business—and yon will have a counterpart of 
this starvation horde in Western Kansas. 
Given a soil of incomparable fertility—proof: 
don’t the railroads and State fairs show the 
products, the great ears of corn, the large 
grapes, the plump wheat, the big melons, the 
enormouB potatoes, the luscious fruit? Yes. 
Don’t the records show rainfall, sunshine, 
dew ? Yes. Isn’t, the land that will produce 
all these things free to all ? Ves. Let all go 
aud take big slices and make farms aud all 
have big potatoes, golden wheat, fine cattle 
and horses and luscious fruit. The idea is a 
grand one, aud under it, gather up thousands of 
broken merchants and bankers, dilapidated 
preachers and lawyers, machinists, clerks, 
bookkeepers, draymen, sailors, railroad labor¬ 
ers, factory operatives and the men who 
worked their “wives’ fathers’ farms on 
shares,” with now and then a good practical 
farmer for Bpice, a few keen speculators aud a 
lot of young men just out of school to make 
advisory committees of; put them out here 
with little or no capital on the wide frontier; 
stay with them a year and then I think you 
could take in the situation. 
The two past seasons have not been pro¬ 
pitious, yet they are uot the cause of this des¬ 
titution, but they serve ub a pretext for getling 
it before the public aud soliciting aid. The 
real cause is behind, and is in the character of 
the immigration. Such a mass of helpless 
humanity thrown down together auywhore 
under the delusive idea that they can get some¬ 
thing for nothing, would be destitute aud 
suffering. It is just like the miulng mania. 
One in twenty who have no means or exper¬ 
ience “strike It rich the other nineteen drag 
their weary way back, it they can, to old homes 
and old-time ways of getting bread ; but the 
one successful one will be the “will-o-the- 
wisp ” that will lure 20 more into the same 
position in order to fiud out which will be the 
one successful man. They ure all that ouo til! 
the trial. 
So in the scttlemeut of these Kansas lauds 
the agricultural wealth is here, just as the 
gold is in the mountains, and as the years roll 
round It will be developed ; but of the develop¬ 
ers three-fourths will be stranded and wend 
their way back to the East. 
The Rural talks about “ emigration recoil¬ 
ing;" it has recoiled for twenty years, but 
every recoil creates an uuderlow that sweeps 
Lack more on to the great uncultivated area 
than the recoil bore from it. No doubt there 
is a vast amount of destitution in Western 
Kansas and also in other parts, but it came 
here from further East, and has hold its own 
remarkably well. Of starvation there is none, 
unless the folks choose Lo starve rather than 
apply for food through the regularly consti¬ 
tuted authorities. Every municipal township 
has its trustees, and every county its County 
Board of Commissioners who are authorized 
and compelled by law to relieve uud support, 
if necessary, every applicant who can prove 
his necessity, aud they can raise money by 
taxation, or bond the county, under limitations, 
for that purpose. ii l. j. 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Canada, Pembroke, Ont., Nov. 0 —We have 
an old and enthusiastic gardener here who 
gives the Rural seeds a thorough trial, aud 
under his care they have all done moro or less 
well, especially the Beauty of Hebron Potato. 
Thu shrub—whose name I know not—did not 
bloom with ub the first season, but, the present 
year it put forth a profusion of blossoms aud 
was the admiration of all. Please give us 
full information about it. [Our friend forgets 
that we have no means of knowing to which 
ho refers. Eds.] Some of the hollyhock Beeds 
produced plants with dowers nearly black. 
I inclose a leaf of ouc of the plauts which has 
grown with us for two years without produc¬ 
ing bud or flower—what is it?— t. a. 
[The leaves look like those of the deutzia 
seeds of which we eeut out two years ago. It 
will probably bloom next season. It ought to 
have bloomed last year.— Eds.] 
