JUNE 42 
llistfllaitious. 
WHAT OTHEKS SAY. 
Colorado Potato Bug Destroyer.— We 
find tlie following in Cornell and Wood’6 
Parmer’s Guide'Take Mandrake roots (easily 
gathered) dried for a week or more in the 
shade; put one-quarter bushel in a barrel (one 
head being removed), fill with water and 
let stand for two days, stirring now and then ; 
strain the liquid through a cloth into a garden 
sprinkler; sprinkle toward sunset only those 
plants on which the young brood hatch and 
before they scatter to adjacent plants. This is 
an entirely safe remedy and just as effective 
as Paris-green and is leBS difficult to apply. 
Temples of Roses— Mans- Weeping Trees, 
etc. —We have seen at flower shows ill- 
directed attempts to build temples of roses, 
and sometimes they have been made into the 
shapes of human beings, eagles, flags, etc. 
The mind at once revolts at the sight of Bolid 
and massive structures attempted with so fra¬ 
gile and delicate materials as flowers. Nearly 
as unfit is the attempt to build solid gateway 
arches of delicate foliage. There is another 
practice, much less objectionable, but still 
earned too far—the abundant planting of 
weeping trees. These are mostly* unnatural 
to some extent, and if employed at all, the 
most graceful should be selected, and sparing¬ 
ly introduced. They sometimes assist in the 
variety of a sky outline. Many of them came 
in the first place from an unnatural twist of a 
branch, propagated and continued by grafting. 
The above iB from the Country Gentleman. 
We would make one suggestionNo matter 
what the size of the grounds—unless a grave¬ 
yard is included—one Weeping Willow, at 
most, iB enough. 
Common sense is defined by Prof. Huxley to 
be science exactly in so far as it fulfills the 
ideal of common sense—that )6, sees facts as 
they are, or. at any rate, without the distor¬ 
tion of prejudice, and reasons from them in 
accordance with the dictates of sound judg¬ 
ment. And science is simply common sense at 
its best; that is, rigidly accurate In observation, 
and merciless to fallacy in logic... .The course 
of nature aB it is, as it ha6 been, and as it will 
be, is the object of scientific inquiry; what¬ 
ever lies beyond, above, or below this, is out¬ 
side science. 
as advocating an easy good nature, which lets 
everything take its own way, without caring 
particularly. Such cheerfulness as that is the 
direct outgrowth of laziness, and will be sure 
to result in ruin. Be cheerful with your em¬ 
ployes ; it brightens them up, and they will 
work all the better for it. Be cheerful with 
your customers, and they will like you the 
better, and you can hold their trade. A man 
who is cheerful is generally a man who is 
good, and he inspires confidence. Don’t stay 
up until the “wee sma' hours,” for if you do 
you will find it impossible to be cheerful. A 
man can’t smile when he has a bad headache, 
and a headache is a necessary concomitant of 
late hours. “Don’t cry over spilt milk,” is a 
good maxim. If anything has gone wrong, 
don’t make it worse by getting mad, swearing 
and kicking up a row generally, but go to 
work to remedy the evil. All the swearing 
and fu66ing in the world w on’t help you when 
a barrel of flour has broken, or any other acci¬ 
dent happens in your store, and the time you 
spend in getting mad might be much more 
profitably spent in doing something else. Mis¬ 
fortunes always come easier to a man with a 
cheerful spirit. 
The Wheat Crop of the World.— The 
wheat crop of the whole world for 1879 shows 
a deficiency of oyer 375,000,000 bushels, nearly 
300,000,000 bushels of the deficiency falling to 
Europe. The following table, compiled from 
the Bulletin lies Balks el Marches , by the Sci¬ 
entific American, shows the yield for each large 
wheat raising country compared with the 
average yield :— 
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERI¬ 
MENT STATION. 
BULLETIN 43.— MAY 29, 1880. 
FERTILIZER ANALYSES. 
United States. 
.Average yield. 
Bushels. 
. 337 5(H) (Km 
Yield for 1879. 
Bushels. 
France. 
Russia. 
.23 n ,l72,U(K) 
172,125,000 
Germany. 
.ft),000,000 
Spain. 
Italy. 
Austria Hung-ary... 
Great Britian. 
. 94,600,000 
.Ktt 
78,760.0i'0 
87.500/00 
63,000,000 
Turkey. 
Roumania. 
Belgium. 
. 19,160,000 
Portugal. 
Algeria. 
Canada. 
Australia. 
. T . 13,600 000 
13,500.000 
Egypt. 
., IftrUMIOftO 
1 “ |W\',UW 
Netherlands.. 
Greece. 
Servia. 
Denmark. 
3,375.000 
3,376,000 
2,812,600 
2,25(1,000 
The Mass. Ploughman thinks that when the 
consumers are really in earnest to get good milk 
and are willing to pay for it, no doubt a way 
will be found to supply it, Already a plan has 
been adopted by at least one party that pre¬ 
vents milk from being tampered with while in 
transit; namely, that of locked cans, the key 
being in the keeping of the lady in whose fam¬ 
ily the milk is to be used. 
"I honestly believe,” says the New England 
Farmer, “ that the farmer who will work hi6 
brains until noon, and his hands the balance 
of the day, will outstrip him who rises at five 
and toils until nine at night.” 
The Grocer thinks that if the dairy interest 
continues to increase as it has been doing here¬ 
tofore, in a lew years hence no other country 
need make butter and cheese, as thi6 country 
will be able to supply the requirements of the 
world at a lower rate and of a better quality 
than they can make it themselves. 
Major Fkeas thinks that of late years it is 
generally noticed that both apples and nears 
are more perfect than formerly, being less in¬ 
jured by insects; and he has not a doubt but 
this is owing to the incessant labors of the im¬ 
ported house-sparrow. Those who become es¬ 
pecially observant of their industry for a single 
season must be convinced of the fact. 
Again the Editor of the Germantown Tele¬ 
graph says they are always present in his own 
garden, among the fruit at all stages, yet with 
the most careful observing he has never seen 
or known them to touch any kind of fruit 
whatever. They eat Insects only, and they are 
the most industrious and efficient insect-de¬ 
stroyers we have—better than any native bird. 
It is true, he says, that before the appearance 
of insects they will subsist upon vegetable mat¬ 
ter, and this food may be the blades of grass, 
any winter garden crop, the tender foliage 
upon trees, etc., but this is the extent of their 
offending. The charge that they sometimes 
eat the young fruit-buds is not sustained. [We 
would remark that we have seen the spar¬ 
row eat the grains of sorghum, nearly destroy, 
ing the panicles; have seen them pull open 
the ends of the husks of corn and eat the ken. 
nels as far down as they could reach, and we 
have seen them eat strawberries.— Eds.] 
Be Cheerful.— An ill-tempered, gruff, glum 
man, cannot keep friends, and without friends 
it is impossible to succeed in business. We do 
not wish to be understood, says the Grocer, 
A Proposed Agricultural College near 
New York City. —At a meeting of the Farm¬ 
ers Club on the 1st inst., at their rooms in 
Cooper Union, this city, it was proposed to es¬ 
tablish an agricultural college somewhere near 
New York city—perhaps on Long Island—in 
which to teach the science and practice of farm¬ 
ing and gardening to young men, free of charge. 
As an initiatory step a large committee on or¬ 
ganization was appointed. The following are 
some of the gentlemen on this committee, 
nearly all of whom are from New York or its 
immediate neighborhood : A. 8. Heath, M. D.; 
Nathan C. Ely, Robert J. Dodge, Richard 
Felly, Hon. John Jay. Edward Schell, Hon. 
James W. Covert, Erskine S. Bates, M. D.; 
Lawson Valentine, Wm. H. Gedney, Thomas 
Kinsella, James D. Hopkins, D. V. 8.; Henry 
E. Pellew, Dr. Albert R. Ledonx, Col. F. D. Cur¬ 
tis, Thomas G. Knight, James Wood, Col. F. 
G. Wentworth. Wm. S. Schermerhorn, Col. 
Wm. Crozier, L. 8. Hardin. In a speech on 
the subject, Dr. A. R. Ledoux, formerly of the 
North Carolina Experiment Station, said: 
“Let us select LOCK) acres of good laud within 
an hour’s ride of the city and stock it with 
model honses and tools. Let there be a practi¬ 
cal dairy, conducted on the most approved 
plan, a model barn, greenhouse, museum, etc., 
etc. Let there be free instruction in farm and 
garden; in the care of stock and in dairy work. 
Let there be furnished rooms which students 
of agriculture may occupy and pay for by 
work. Let there be established in conjunction 
with this field work, but in the city, free 
evening lectures by the most eminent Profes¬ 
sors on the Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Ento¬ 
mology and Physiology of the farm work and 
farm life. Let these also be supplemented 
by lectures on agriculture, etc., and to these 
lectures let all be invited. 
Wliat will be the results P An establishment 
entirely divorced from literary institutions; 
where the home-spun of the farmers’ boy need 
not feel ashamed beside the broadcloth of the 
collegian; the opening of a door to the honest 
mechanic and laborer of this crowded city, 
through which he can enter an honest, health¬ 
ful calling and in time secure a home and a 
livelihood; a place where our farmers' sons 
can see the most approved machinery, meth¬ 
ods and systems; a place where we all can go 
and learn something new and useful. Thiough 
the chemical analyses of the "Station,” we 
can be protected in our purchase of fertilizers, 
and can learn the quality of our soils, marls, 
peats, waters, feediug-Btuffs, etc., etc. 
Establishing, one by one as we are, Experi¬ 
ment Stations in our Slates, we shall soon, I 
trust, be on a par with Germany with her 75 
Stations and numerous agricultural schools, 
and nothing in this or any other land has been 
attempted more pregnant with great and price¬ 
less possibilities for good to the farmer and the 
laborer than this College and Station of which 
we have been told this afternoon." 
h Canada Ashes. 
400. Ashes from stock of W. W. Cooper, 
u Sutfield. Sent by R. E. Pinney, Suffield. Cost 
8 35 cents per bushel of 42 pouuds. 
y 401. Canada Leached Ashes from stock of 
° James A. Bill. Sent by Otis Snow, Rockville. 
* Cost 21 cents per bushel. 
•i 4o0 4ul 
f |.Tss "use 
a 1.20 .64 
I.Uno..... 34.02 24.37 
Maim os) a... 2 41 2 43 
Iron oxide and alumina. 1.41 2.13 
? Phosphoric acid... 1 19 1 26 
.. Sulnhurio acid. 93 'in 
Carbonic acid. 19.25 H 99 
r Silica and sand. 11.11 
Charcoal.. 6.86 3 it 
1 Water at 1WJ degrees. 13.42 32 !02 
Combined water and loss. 3.52 2.06 
1 100.00 100.00 
3 Sample 400 is apparently unleached ashes 
and the analysis closely resembles in most 
i particulars one made at this station last year 
on hickory ashes. The sample has evidently 
been exposed to wet and may have lost a por- 
3 tion of alkali. Reckoning in it the potash at 
1 71-3 cents, lime at 1-4 cent (cost at kiln in 
' Haven), magnesia at two cents, phospho- 
> ric acid at seven cents and sulphuric acid at 
1 one-half cent per pound, the estimated value 
of 100 pounds is $0.57 1-3, while the cost is 
' S3- Allowing lime to be worth at Suffield 
: one-half cent per pound, to cover transpor¬ 
tation, would raise the valuation to $0.66. On 
the other hand, considering the potash worth 
no more than in muriate (4 1-3 cents) would 
reduce the value 14 cents per 100 pounds. The 
ashes are really worth about 50 to 65 cents 
per 100 pounds, the former price for ordinary 
crops, the latter for tobacco where muriate 
of potash is objectionable. The valuation of 
fertilizers like this sample is less exact than 
in case of superphosphates, etc., because the 
Ingredients, like lime which make up a large 
part of its weight, have variable commercial 
values, according to locality and state of mar¬ 
ket. 
401 has essentially the composition usually 
found in leached wood ashes. It contains, in¬ 
deed, more sand and silica than the average, 
but also more potash, while lime and phos¬ 
phoric acid are up to the average. 
Superphosphates, Etc, 
404. Lombard & Matthewson’s superphos¬ 
phate. 
410. Quinnipiac Fertilizer Go ’s superphos¬ 
phate. 
411. Fish and Potash, manufactured by the 
Quiunipiae Fertilizer Co., New London. 
412. Pine Island Guano, manufactured by 
the Quinnipiac Fertilizer Co. 
415. Bradley's Superphosphate. 
404. Sent by John D. Gaylord, Ashford. The 
others by S. R, Gridluy, Pres. Farmers’ Club 
Bristol. ’ 
410, 411, 412, from stock of S. A. Weldon & 
Son; 415 from stock of Wilcox & Judd. 
vr , 410 411 412 416 
Sa'sK?: is a a a 
imuiiubie .}g “ ;• 
Potash (ae ruuri- 1,88 2 - 47 
Estimated value"%? 2 06 1-22 4 - 60 tM 
Estimated value ' $ 4 "- w ? 
lmv 100 lbs... <*1 aj 
Cost per Lav. o.V^i 
Estimated value iff ®~ U0 $ 21 ° 
tag K>( 11 * 8 .,,...... 70 
Cost per bav of 167 > 
11,15 .*.- $ 8.00 
The ton price of same brand as 410 (at New 
Haven) was given in Bulletin 39 as $38; that 
of 411 as $34, and that of 413 (in Bulletin 42) 
as $40. 
Specials, Bone, Colton-Seed Meal. 
407. Stockbridge manure for corn, manufac¬ 
tured by Bowker & Co., N. Y., Boston and 
Rochester. 
409. Stockbridge manure for roots, manu¬ 
factured by Bowker & Co., N. Y., Boston and 
Rochester. 
413. Kitchen garden fertilizer, manufac¬ 
tured by Bowker & Co., N. Y., Boston and 
Rochester. 
The above are from stock of 8 . A. Weldon & 
Son and were sent by 8 . R. Gridley, Pres. 
Farmers' Club- 
405. Ground bone, manufactured by Lom¬ 
bard & Matthewson. Sent by Jno. D. Gaylord 
Ashford. ’ 
406. Ground bone, manufactured by Edmund 
Smith, South Canterbury, sent by B. Corbin 
Fair Haven. 
402. Cotton-seed meal, from stock of C. H. 
Carrington, Naugatuck, sent by M. 8 . Baldwin, 
Naugatuck. 
407 409 413 405 406 402 
N ltrogen us airnno- 
.,nu*. 1.58 1,40 
Nitroveu in organ- 
“ « 198 *•* « « 
ic acid.. 6.16 4.70 5.12 1 
Reverted “ 64 1.16 74 I 
Insoluble 42 63 86 21 06 20 ft) ft 4 Q 
Potiah afl Jlluriate. 6.76 8.08 9.82 ' 5*,5 1 
Calculated value W 2,87 , 
. $40.70 89.16 35.38 40.16 39.39 86.94 
. 4.00t 6.00t 8.001 32.00*3u.00*30.00* I 
*—+ Per 200 lbs. I per 100 lbs. * per ton. t 
fifSI $3 S- 81 $ 32 - 42 P9-«> $36-67 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
8-98 5.06 4.08 6.S 
6.12 
74 
86 21.06 20.99 8.4 
70 89.16 35.38 40.16 39.39 36.94 
l.OOt 6.00t 8.001 32.00*30.00*30.00* 
t per 100 lbs. * per ton. 
S. W. Johnson, Director. 
I Ala., South Lowell, Walker Co., May 25.— 
Wheat is badly rusted and is only about half a 
crop. Catting has begun. b. a. 
Conn., Columbia, Tolland Co,, May 31.—The 
season has been unusually dry thus far. In 
many cases corn has failed to germinate, and 
in others has dried up after the germinal shoot 
had started. Trees that have been set are 
likely to dry up, unless special care is taken, 
and careful mulching practised. The potato 
beetles appear in force and promise to need 
lively work in their destruction, or else the 
destruction of the potato cr<Jp is inevitable. In 
some instances garden vegetables have died in 
consequence of the severity of the drought. 
Sorghum is being planted mere extensively 
than ever before, and it is probable that large 
quantities of sirup will be manufactured. The 
same is true of onions ; but they are beiug in¬ 
jured by cut-worms. Batter is growing dull, 
and is in little demand, except what*is re¬ 
quired in local markets to supply customers. 
W. H. Y. 
Kansas, Council Grove, Morris Co., May 39. 
—Heavy rains fell all over this section on May 
25. While the dry weather had done consid¬ 
erable damage to wheat, coni and other crops 
have not materially suffered. The rain will 
cause the wheat to turn out much better than 
was expected, and other crops are in excellent 
condition. The prospect for crops in this part 
of the Neosho Valley is at present very flatter¬ 
ing. In fact, the condition ot crops will com¬ 
pare favorably with the best seasons during 
the past ten years. L n 
Kan., Republic Co., May 29.—The usual 
rains are a month behind, but they have come 
at last, and the drought is considered over. 
Crops will do a long time without more rain. 
Fall wheat will be short and thin on the 
ground, but the heads are of good length and 
well filled. Other small grains are late, but 
may do well. Com generally looks well. 
F. E. II. 
Mich., Watson, Allegan Co., May 32.—Corn 
planting is about half done in this vicinity, 
and wet weather prevails to such an extent 
that we cannot fiuish. Wheat looks well: 
grass, ditto, and there will be an abundance of 
fruit of all kiuds. As the weather is warm, 
everything that has been planted or sown is 
growing finely. It iB unusual for roBes to 
bloom here in May; but we have now some 
white 8eotch roses in full bloom. Never since 
my remembrance was wheat so forward at this 
6easonof the year as now. h. d. e. 
Mich., Lansing, Ingham Co., May 27.—It 
has been a very wet spring here. w. j. b. 
North Carollna, "In the Valley of the 
rryon," Folk Co., May 25.—Yesterday and the 
iay before we had most refreshing showers. 
Everything seems to be growing with great 
-apidity. The oat crop that was sown in Au¬ 
gust last is now fast turning in color and will 
soon be ready for the harvest. Wheat is gen- 
;rally cat and in the shock by Jane 10th. The 
irospeet now is quite encouraging for a good 
:rop of wheat. 
All kinds of fruit seem to be progressing 
yell, and we are likely to have a most abuud- 
mt crop. The summer travel to these moun- 
ains is now just beginning. It comes from 
Florida and all the coast regions of Georgia 
,nd South Carolina, and some from Alabama 
,nd Louisiana. Visitors come to avoid 
he “malaria” of their Southern homes, and 
o invigorate enfeebled constitutions by breath- 
ag pure air and drinking pure water among 
lie mountains—the highest in N. C. in the 
reat Appalachian chain. 
Prices of all kinds of produce rule high here, 
and one wonders why it is so. Com is worth 
to-day SO eents per bush.; wheat, $1.25; 
flour, $4 per cwt.; hay, $20 per ton at the rail¬ 
road station ; butter, 15 cents per pound ; eggs, 
10 cents per dozen; bacon. Western, $8 per 
cwt. The reason why all kinds of grain rnlo 
so high is to be found in the fact that from the 
southern slope of the mountains to lhe ocean 
the great bulk of the people grow cotton al¬ 
most exclusively; not that corn and wheat do 
not thrive well here, but cotton is, if not a pay¬ 
ing crop, a crop that commands the cash when¬ 
ever it is offered. There is always a market 
and a price for cotton. 
[We take the liberty of stating that the above 
communication is from Dr. McAboy, a clergy¬ 
man and a physieiun, who, though ot Northern 
birth and education, was induced to settle in 
the delightful Tryon Valley some ten years ago 
for the benefit of certain members of his fam¬ 
ily who were not in the enjoyment of vigorous 
health. The writer spent several weeks at his 
hospitable home. The doctor Is full of enthu¬ 
siasm respecting the grandeur of the scenery, 
the salubrity of the climate, the fertility of the 
bottom lands and the adaptation of the "Ther¬ 
mal Belt” to fruit growing in general, and, it 
is but fair to say, that visitors soon find that 
his enthusiasm is highly contagious. The doc- 
