JULY 34 
THE BUBAL UEW-YOBKER. 
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gratuitously. We don’t suppose 'they will be 
acted upon.—Norristown Herald.New 
way to “Know all about tbyself." Get a 
Presidential nomination. ..... Dr. J. A. 
Llntner has been appointed N. Y. State Ento¬ 
mologist, and the appointment is a good one. 
.W. I. Chamberlain, our excellent con¬ 
tributor. “ without intending to do so," blows 
the bugle for our contributor, B. F. J., reson¬ 
antly, in the Country Gentleman. He says 
“He is regarded by the heavy grain buyers of 
Chicago as a power—a power, too, honestly, 
but not unfairly, on the side of the farmer.” 
We do not think Mr. C. could have paid B. F. 
J. a handsomer compliment. 
WHAT OTHEKS SAY. 
Mr father purchased an Acme harrow this 
Spring on the recommendation of the Rural ; 
it is better thau your recommendation said. 
We lent it to a neighbor to use it on freshly 
broken Timothy-sod for corn; he says it was 
worth a dollar an acre to him on his 15 acres. 
The corn has the best stand in the neighbor¬ 
hood, it being over three feet high on July 1. 
I think it would be a good machine to use on 
Western prairie-sod, where the sod is 60 tough 
that they have to replow it in the Fall two or 
three inches deeper than it was “broke” to 
obtain a soil sufficient to put their crops in. 
GoiDg over twice with the Acme harrow will 
pulverize sufficiently for any crop. j. o. 
Fremont, Minn. 
Prof. Sheldon believes that on almost any 
land, of whatever kind or quality, it will pay a 
man to use grain to his cows—that ie, the cows 
will be all the better for a little dry concen¬ 
trated food along with the bulky succulent 
grass; they will bo the healthier and stronger, 
and so will give more and richer milk. And 
the more grain or cake a man uses, within lim¬ 
its, the more cows he may keep, and the richer 
his land may become year by year. There is, in 
fact, no better way of improving grassland than 
by consuming cake upon it. It may be true that 
nothing is equal to grass of good quality for 
producing milk; but. even of a good thing it is 
possible to have too much, and a change of 
food—even a change of pasture—gives, as 
every intelligent dairy-farmer knows, a fillip 
which is found in the milk-pail. Try it. Prof. 
Sheldon says he cau recommend it. 
Again he says in the Live Stock Journal, 
from which we quote the above, “I have an 
Ayrshire cow, a capital milker! Her daily 
yield of milk is 30 to 24 quarts, and she is in¬ 
creasing in flesh all the time. At the last 
churning time her 1L days' yield of butter was 
33 pounds, an average of two pounds per diem. 
Pretty good this, as we consider it. But in ad¬ 
dition she keeps the family—a small one--in 
milk and cream. Twice a day sho comes to 
the shed to bo milked, and each time receives a 
couple of pounds or so of decorticated cotton- 
cake or linseed cake mixed. The cake costs 
less than u penuy a pound, and as without it she 
would most probably yield three or four quarts 
less of milk per day, there would be several 
pounds less of butter per week, and the cow 
herself would not be in such good condition.” 
A remarkable case of animal electricity i6 
given in the current number of the Veterinary 
Journal. It is reported by Mr. W. Woods, F. 
It. G. V. 8., Wigan, and 16 as follows: 
“On the 2lst of February last 1 was request¬ 
ed to visit a dairyman's eow which had calved 
the previous night, the owner stating that he 
did not understand what was the matter with 
the animal, as every time he touched her a 
trembliDg sensation ran up his arm, and he in¬ 
voluntarily twitched it away. He 6eemed per¬ 
fectly astouuded, and kept impressing it on me 
that he was not afraid, of the cow, hut he could 
not help shaking when he touched her. I vis¬ 
ited the cow, and when I placed my hand upon 
her I received a perfect electrical shock, the 
animal evidently receiving the Barne, for as 
often as she was touched by any one she bel¬ 
lowed, and iurnped forward apparently terri¬ 
fied. The pulse and temperature it was per¬ 
fectly impossible to ascertain. The owuer was 
unable to milk her, as shu weDt almost wild 
when touched, but was perfectly tranquil 
when not meddled with, with the exception of 
a wild look about her eyes. No matter how 
many timc6 the animal was touched, the sume 
result followed. With great difficulty I ad¬ 
ministered a strong saline purgative, combined 
with 15 croton beans, followed in a few hours 
by a pint of linseed oil, containing 3 bb. 
chloroform. At night the cow was consider¬ 
ably better, and the following morniug I was 
pleased to find her quite convalescent." 
“We buve received a long account of the 
achievements of • the Chicken King,’ Mr, W. C. 
Baker, of New Jersey, which we hope to find 
room foi lu our next. It is said that Mr. Ba¬ 
ker expects to raise 350,000 chickens this year 
by artificial incubation. He is reported to 
have speut £16 000 in experiments, aud he is 
now eulargiug hib yard to accommodate 8,500 
laying hens. His gtoss income is estimated at 
4:16,000 per annum. This Is poultry fanning 
ndeed." We copy the above from the London 3 
Live Stock Journal. We believe that Mr. Ba- c 
ker’s success must be better known aibroad t 
than at home. t 
Gen. Divbn, in the course of his recent ad- * 
dress before the Farmer’s Club, asks: “ Did it 
ever occur to you, my fellow farmers, that you 1 
of all men have the deepest interest in c 
the pro=perity of this country, and in the gov¬ 
ernment and laws that are to contribute to 1 
such prosperity ? This is your country, not 
only in the sense in which it is the country of 
every citizen, but it is your country because 
you own it in fee simple, that is, absolute 1 
ownership ot the soil ? 
The editor of the Mark Lane Express thus [ 
infers to an article ou m-and in breeding, by 1 
Mr. Mathews. He has sh<*wuvery conclusive- 1 
ly the loss of fecundity which has attended the ' 
system of in-and-in or “line” breeding, iu the 
case of the Duchess tribe of Short-horns, aDd 1 
I 1 
pointed out very forcibly that in-aud-in breed- 
ir.g, when practised in the later stages of 1 
the development of a breed of animals, is es- 1 
sentially a different thing from the close inter- 1 
breeding which is neeessary to form a distinct 1 
breed. In the one case the ancestors of the ( 
animals are closely related, whereas in the 
other there is no consanguinity in the material i 
to be operated upon. Mr. Mathews’s carefully 
arranged facta will speak for themselves, and 
we take them to be a strong confirmation of 1 
the opinion so frequently expressed iu this * 
column to the effect that the breeding of “ 
“ fancy ” Short-horns has resulted in injury 
rather than benefit to the stock of the country. 
Fanciers have bred their Short-horns for pedi¬ 
grees of theoretical purity; and these they have 
obtained at the expense of fertility, constitu¬ 
tion aud corporeal excellence in tne animals 
themselves. The “fancy" has had its day, 
and the mania has almost died out; fictitious 
values are very nearly at an end, and the 
*• bottom of the Short-horn humbug” has fairly 
“dropped out." So much the better. Those 
who breed Short-horns to sell to laruiers will 
henceforth have to study the improvement of 
the animals, not merely the concentration of I 
blood; and in a few years’ time we hope to 
see all that is good in the various tribes aud 
families of Short-horns united by “ mixing 
sorts " into one sort—and that sort a good one. 
"There is another point," said Pres. Hayes 
in his speech to the Aluinui of Yale College, 
“ to which I wish to allude, and yet it is not a 
point, for it has length aud breadth and depth 
and thickness. There is an old saying, “ you 
may lead a horse to water, but you cannot 
make him drink." Kuowing the character of 
the American people, and knowing that they 
desire as their representatives men of the high¬ 
est moral as well as mental character, I looked 
about long to find a man who could suitably 
represent our nation at the court of our great 
sister nation, England. Agaiu in my emer¬ 
gency I turned to Yale, aud found just the 
man. I reversed the old adage in this case, for 
1 brought the water to the horse, but President 
Porter wouldn't drink. [Long-continued up. 
plause aud cheers.] And he was altogether 
right in refusing to accept the position tender¬ 
ed him. Any administration aud any country 
is more indebted to the rnau who is engaged iu 
educating the people, than it is to those who 
are its executive and administrative officers. 
The executive officer is but the figure-head at 
best. The government are the men who, fig¬ 
uratively speaking, ruu the engine and boilers 
of the government. The head of such an in- I 
stitutiou as this, where moral and intellectual 
culture are combined, Is the mau who forms 
men who control not onty the figure-head but 
control the nation. I wish here publicly to re. 
turn tbauks to the mau who had the judgment 
to give such an example to the nation. [Ap¬ 
plause.] Whether Yale’s sous guide or act as 
figure-heads of the nation, 1 know they will be 
au honor to yon. Any administration that is 
a good one, or desires to be a good one, muBt 
ever be grateful to such an institution as this." 
[Long-continued applause.] We take the 
above from the Inter-Ocean’s report. 
We copy the following from the Loudon 
Livestock Journal. “Good grass land is a 
good property. Like the lilies ot the field, it 
may be 6 aid to toil not; like Mrs. Stowe’s 
Topsy. it simply “ grows ’’ without extraneons 
help, aud throws up a perennial soil ree of food 
for stock. It is more productive, and, at the 
same time, lees cosily than arable land ; it is 
subject to fewer casualities, and re|uires a 
smaller amount of direct supervision. Oue 
acre of really good grass luud will produce 380 
pounds of beef or mutton during the course of 
the Summer, if grazed. If under dairy-cows, 
it will yield 400 gallons of milk, 168 pounds ol 
butter, or 400 pouuds of cheese, as the case 
may be. If mown, it may be expected to yield in 
hay and alterwatb au equivalent to two tous of 
prime hay. The produce will be seen, ou eal- 
eulutlug out the result, to be worth from £10 
to £ 12 per acre, without the outluv necessary to 
obtain crops of similar value from arable land- 
Good indeed must tillage laud be whjcli will 
year by year, give such a result. The two 
cases may appear to have been put very favor¬ 
ably for the grass land, but we feel confident 
that when we are dealing with really good 
grass, the profits are larger than can be looked 
for in the case of any arable land ; chiefly be¬ 
cause the landlord ar.d tenant are enabled to 
divide such profits without the intervention of 
laborers, manure merchants, and implement 
makers. 
“ I believe,” Dr. Tanner, the fasting man, 
said to a friend, “that many persons are bur¬ 
ied alive. We have had a couple of instances 
of mistakes in regard to the presence of death 
lately. Only a short time ago a child was dis¬ 
covered to be ulive white it was lying on a stab 
iu the New York Morgue. Once I wrote a 
letter to a newspaper on the subject, and after¬ 
ward a reporter in St. Louis interviewed the 
person who had charge of the removal of all 
tIre bodies in oue of the city cemeteries. He 
learned from this person that there were evi¬ 
dences that iutbiBone cemetery fifty persons 
had been burled alive. Only the annals of 
eternity can tell us how many persons have re¬ 
covered after they have been supposed to be 
dead. I am opposed to forcing people to eat 
when they don't want to. I want to show that 
it is safe to go without food. Once physicians 
were committed to the doctrine of depletion. 
They starved patients and let their blood. Now 
they arc at the opposite extreme. If a patient’s 
stomach is not fitted to receive food they force 
it down. The cry is, * Give lots of nourish¬ 
ment.’ “ I believe,” he 6aid further, “that a 
human being can hibernate just as well as a 
bear. Almost any animal can hibernate. Up 
in Jo Daviess County in Illinois hogs were 
forced to hibernate one Winter. The snow fell 
so fast and so deep that they were buried. I 11 
the Spring they came out alive and fat. It is a 
mistake to suppose that bears are lean when 
they come out in the Spring. The Indians 
know better. They think that a bear shot just 
after he leaves his place of hibernation in the 
Spring, is a great prize. The truth about this 
matter is that his fat is of such a nature after 
his hibernation that it disappears in a few 
days, owing to some chemical change that I do 
not understand. I myself have caught opos¬ 
sums late in the Spring in their places of hiber¬ 
nation. and I have found them fat.” 
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Our contributor, Prof. I. P. Sheldon, thus 
wrilot. to the Loudou Live Stock Journal: 
We are decidedly in favor of legislative action 
being taken in this country to demand that all 
artificial butter shall be sold, whether by whole¬ 
sale or retail, under a designation that is not 
misleading. There is at present a larger quan¬ 
tity of this nefarious stuff on our markets than 
the public are aware of, and too m any retai 
customers get hold of it under a loud delusion 
tbai they have a bit of butter straight from the 
dairy. It is, of co irse, only the retailers who 
have the chance of palming off this doubtful 
compound for genuine butter; they, as buyers, 
are not imposed on by the manufacturers. A 
great deal of the melted intestinal and other 
animal fat which is used in the manufacture of 
butterine is sent over from America to Holland 
in an unfinished stale, and our Dutch friends 
finish it off for us. To Hamburg. Bremen, and 
other German ports it is also sent, after which 
it comes to us having the form of butter. 
About 3.000,000 lbs. per annum are thus ex¬ 
ported from the United States. There are, 
however, butterine manufactories iu our own 
country, in the neighborhood of London, and 
Canon Bagot tells us of a large factory in his 
own neighborhood, in County Kildart. It is a 
growing industry, this artificial butter making. 
The profits on it are too good to be easily relin¬ 
quished. Much of the waste fat which has 
previously gone for soap making is now turned 
into butter, and sells for twice or thrice as 
much a pound, the public swallowing that 
which was previously used for purposes of 
outward cleanliness. Yet it is not true that 
Thames mud is turned into butter—the process 
would be too expensive. 
Some of Ibis butterine is a clever imitation 
of the real thing, and in certain cases an ex¬ 
pert would be required to detect it. But the 
greatest danger does not lie iu the cleverness 
of the Imitation ; the closer the copy, in fact, 
we may assume the better article tbe counter¬ 
feit will be. The well-made, cleverly-imitated 
article, is presumably produced from materials 
to which, iu themselves, no exception cau be 
taken; they must, in the first place, be the 
best of their kind, clean and wholesome, and 
they are manipulated by clean and thorough 
processes, and with the most approved ma¬ 
chinery aud utensils. Butterine of this grade 
we have now aud again seou, and we rather 
like it for what it is. But there is a groat deal 
of execrable stuff on the market. Not ull the 
fat of animals is healthy food; diseases kill 
many of them, and others are slaughtered “ to 
save their lives iu some of them exist para¬ 
sitic diseases, which are easily transmitted in 
the process of consumption; and it is asserted 
that the mode of making butterine is not such 
1 as will destroy these parasites, supposing them 
to exist in the fat of which th<} butterine is 
made. 
For some time past, the American press, and 
through it the American dairy farmers, have 
been greatly exercised on account of oleomar¬ 
garine—artificial butter, or butterine, as it is 
variously termed—aud they have at length 
lashed themselves into a fury about it. It is 
ruining the dairy interest, they say. bv being 
sold under no designation and with no brand 
which declares its real character. Being essen¬ 
tially au artificial aud an imitative thing, every 
device is used to make it counterfeit real but¬ 
ter as closely as possible, and while the law 
permits the sale of it under any name which 
tbe retailer may think fit to employ, it is clear 
that the public will be the chief sufferers by 
the swindle, while the dairymen of the eonntry 
are having their trade sadly curtailed and slan¬ 
dered. Such are a few of the milder id--as pre¬ 
vailing on the other side of the Atlantic with 
ngardto “Brnmmagen” butter. It is satis¬ 
factory to 6ee that bills are being introduced 
into the State Legislatures to compel the sale 
of this spurious article under a fitting name— 
every cask of it being so branded in large let¬ 
ters, and every customer being made aware of 
what he is buying. 
(futrimium. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Ark., Greenwood, Sebastian Co.—Farmers 
are jubilant. The crops are magnificent, finer 
even than last year. The corn crop is safe. 
The cotton stand is splendid. Fruit is abun¬ 
dant, and all other crops turn out well. Hap¬ 
py Arkansas! Peace and prosperity reign, 
and immigration is pouring iu at an increased 
ratio. Verily. Western Arkansas has a glori¬ 
ous future before it. My Blouut corn, planted 
March 30th, is nearly matured and a success. 
The Rural seeds thrive well here, especially 
the Telephone Peas, Mold's Ennobled oats, 
Golden Ovoid mangels, and the Southern cow- 
pea. R. R. 
Cal., El Dorado, Eldorado Co.—The wheat 
harvest will be aboa'„ 70 per cent, of a full crop. 
North winds have materially decreased the 
yield; some damage has resulted from other 
causes, but not to a great extent. The corn 
harvest can hardly be stated as yet; but a full 
crop is expected. Oats, rye and barley are 
giving in most localities full crops, lu some 
sections the crop will be short but not to an 
extent great enough to reduce the yield as a 
whole. Sorghum is grown in very limited 
quantities; in fact, in this section it is being 
experimented with this season for the first 
time. Iu fruit, the apple, pear, cherry and 
quince will yield full crops; peaches about 
three-eighths of a crop (curl leaf very bad); 
plums, about three-quarters of a crop. Small 
fruits will be full crops aud never better fruit 
grown. This is the best crop of ehenies we 
have had for many years. w. 0 . l. d. 
Cab., Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co.—The 
harvest in this county will be one of our be6t 
for many years: 100,000 acres in wheat will 
yield 600.000 centals, and will bring iu over 
4sl,000,d00 new money, establishing the fact 
that southern California is a wheat-growing 
country. The last of the orange crop has just 
been sold, aud our ten-year-old orchards yield 
a net profit per acre of $500. Last year’s grape 
crop netted to the raisin maker from three- 
year-old vines $70 per acre, and from five-year- 
old vines as high as $140 per acre. Grapes 
for wine making are giving a net return of $35 
to $60 per acre. Our Northern fruit crop looks 
exceedingly fine and the yield will be good, 
prices high, and the demand far more than 
can be possibly delivered iu the market. Our 
climate is as fine as ever and hundreds of inva¬ 
lids from various sections of the world come 
here and regaiu their health. g. it. 
Cal.. Sau Juan, San Benito Co.—Wheat, 
corn, oats and barley are much above the 
average hereabouts. No rye or sorghum. 
Peaches are scarce ; pears below the average; 
other fruits good. Late apples are the most 
profitable. Plums are very prolific, but yield 
too much for our murket. Cherries were ex¬ 
tra-fine this year. The varieties of wheat are 
mainly Australian. Sonora and Propo. The 
remainder of the couuly will have about one- 
tliird less of wheat thau expected on account 
of hot weather. The hay crop is immense. 
Comparative acreage—wheat, one-half: barley, 
3-16; oats, 3-16; corn, 1-16; potatoes, 1-16. 
Much less land in beans this year than usual. 
J. B. H. 
Canada, Ont., Glenmorris, Julv 8.—Farmers 
are busy hay-making. The past week has 
been very wet, and has delayed the haying 
considerably, so that the Fall wheat will be 
ready to cut before the hay cau be gathered iu. 
Fall wheat will be above an average crop and 
considerably earlier than usual, some having 
1 been cut the last of June. All kinds of Spring 
I crops look well. Fruit will be a fair crop, I 
am trying a few hills of Blount’s Prolific corn, 
• and it is doing finely so far, and also a few 
