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THE RUBAI. H1W-Y0BKER 
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rye, and potatoes are good. Very little barley 
is grown here. This is comparatively a new 
country, especially for cultivated fruits; but 
wherever there are orchards old enough to 
bear they are heavily loaded. I have an 
orchard of about 500 trees—apples, pears, 
plums, and cherries—and nearly all are loaded 
with fruit. Wild fruits, such as blackberries, 
raspberries, and whortleberries, are in great 
abundance. w. c. 
Mo., Springfield, Greene Co., Aug. 1—For 
some weeks just ended Greene Co. has had it 
warm and dry. Our farmers worked right on 
thrashing, haying, etc.; but were getting a little 
apprehensive for the corn crop. All is right 
now, however; it has rained finely and still 
rains with a fair prospect of more. Already 
the laud is pretty thoroughly wet, making a 
sure thing of a good corn crop. Farmers are 
now happily furnished a good season for turn¬ 
ing over the land for wheat, sowing grass, tur¬ 
nip seed, etc. It is a good time, too, for setting 
new strawberry beds. We shall now have fine 
pasture till Wiuter. Sheep, cattle and other 
stock are quite healthy here. Large numbers 
of cattle have died recently in Jasper and Bos¬ 
ton counties, 00 to 75 miles west of us, their 
deaths being due, it is said, to “ Texas fever.” 
It is said 400 head died on one farm. The dis¬ 
ease, like “ hog cholera, "is unmanageable and 
incomprehensible. Jot. 
N. C., Park Hill, Burke Co., July 31.—The 
Ennobled oats are conceded by all who have 
seen them to he superior to any in this section. 
The harvest is about over. Fall wheat will 
yield from 25 to 35 bushels per acre—Clawson 
and Scott being the principal varieties sown. 
H ry is an average crop. Oats are rather above 
an average. Of peas none are sown on ac¬ 
count of the bug. Roots good. Fruit much 
scarcer than last year. r. j. k. 
N. Y., Hornellsviile, Steuben Co., July 28. 
—At present the prospects for us in this and 
ten or twelve or more surrounding towns, in 
Steuben, Alleghany and Livingston counties, 
are not quite so encouraging as at my last re¬ 
port about Juno 24, and some modifications are 
necessary. Since that time we have had but 
slight showers and are now suffering I think 
from the worst drought iu the growing season 
for rnauy years. Winter wheal has been good 
aud was gathered in fine condition. Hay is 
nearly all in, and is of good quality and in fine 
coudition, but light. Spring wheat is very 
light, hardly an average piece is to be seen. 
Barley is fair to good. Oats are a fair crop— 
straw short, but heading out well and begin¬ 
ning to turn while a few early fields are cut. 
Potatoes must be a light crop; early oues are 
now being dug for market being probably the 
largest we shall have. Corn is suffering badly 
from the dry weather; the leaves are rolling 
up in the day time and there is not dew enough 
to cause them to unroll during the night. 
Fodder corn could not make a growth. Hun¬ 
garian grass, when sowed to eke out a scanty 
hay crop, utterly refuses to come forth, and 
buckwheat when it has started commences 
to blossom when only three or four inches 
high. AppleB are dropping to a great extent 
aud this will materially lessen the expected 
crop. Meadows, when cut, have mostly turned 
brown; pastures are drying up badly and it is re¬ 
ported in many instances dairymau are feediug 
hay. Water grist-mills are much troubled, for 
the “ sound of the grinding Is low” and we are 
passing through a first-class drought with 
streams, wells, springs, and cisterns ju per¬ 
fect sympathy. Formauy days we have been 
looking to the south and west for the ” windB 
likely to bring rain," but so far see nothing 
but billowy clouds like huge dry sponges roll- 
ug over our heads after all their moisture 
has been squeezed out over the prairies of 
the West. Even the moou has goue back on 
us—one hundred miles east she has given her 
votaries a firmer faith than ever in her influ¬ 
ence, and to those one or two hundred miles 
iu our rear she has, according to her “signs 
aud changes," proved to bo a true prophet¬ 
ess, but to us, alas! only a gay deceiver. 
But somebody, 1 think it is the pitiless 
Daily Tribune, »ays, “ It has been part of the 
farmer’s nature to grumble and to predict rum 
to himself ever siuce the dayB of Cain, tcho 
was the Jirst of them all Now, as a farmer, I 
don’t want to hit back, but we have it on good 
authority that the Devil had a good deal to do 
with the first pair of farmers in the Garden of 
Eden and that ho has kept it up ever since, 
and if he was the means of bringing more upon 
poor Cain and his descendants than they could 
well bear without grumbling, the reproof 
surely should not come from a printing-office, 
where of all places, we know he is perfectly at 
home and a not uuimportant adjunct. But 
let that go—as farmers we will not be ruined 
this year. Wheat is good; hay, oats aud barley, 
fair; fiuits enough and some to spare; plenty of 
everything to eat; plenty of work for those who 
wish to work at good wages; good prices for 
all that a larmer can raise, and this brings 
money to pay his work hands, with a generul 
contented feeling among laboring classes; still 
why may not a farmer speak of facts and not 
be termed a grumbler, when he fodders his 
cows in July, drives them half a mile to water, 
with a poor prospect of buckwheat and Johnny 
cakes of his own raising, and is pretty certain 
of having to eat small potatoes for the rest of 
the year! c, t. r. 
N. Y., Madison Co., July 30.—We had a se¬ 
vere drought here in May and June, so the 
hay crop will be 50 per cent short. Spring 
grain is looking well. Corn is looking fine; 
if nothing happens to it there will be a large 
yield. We shall need all the coarse fodder to 
keep our dairies through the Winter. Pota¬ 
toes are going to be a large yield, if they don't 
rot. Apples promise a fine crop. Some Win¬ 
ter wheat is raised here, and it is all harvested: 
very nice but not a very heavy yield. The 
great pests here now are the grasshoppets; 
they are eating almost as much as our cattle and 
are stripping onr oats and buckwheajt clean. 
My Ennobled oats are looking fine aud my 
cow-peas are growing very nicely. The beet 
seeds from the Rural all came up nicely and 
they are growing very fast. The tops are 
enormous, so I think there must be some bot¬ 
toms. I sowed some Pearl millet on the 10th 
of June and it all came up. Now it is two feet 
high, and I have counted as many as 20 stalks 
iu one stool. I think it will do well with me 
this year. I tried Early Amber sugar cane 
and it looks fine; it is three feet high and 
keeps up with my corn. I planted some of 
Blount’6 corn again this year, and it is looking 
well; 1 think 1 can get it acclimated to this 
section. I prefer it to the Western corn ior 
fodder. I thiuk it is as good as evergreen 
sweet corn. Aly cattle ate it last Fall all up 
clean and the stalks were as large as my ai m 
and 14 feet long. s. J. v. c. 
N. Y., Paris, Oneida Co.—On the whole 
the season has been favorable for vegetation, 
aud crops are generally looking very well, 
with the exception of hay, already gathered, 
which has turned out about half the u&ual 
yield per acre, except in a few favored locali¬ 
ties; but with a good growth of straw and 
plenty of sowed corn, and economy in the use 
of fodder, we expect to carry stock through 
the Winter without auy great difficulty, l. r. 
Ohio, Bristol, Trumbull Co., July 31.—The 
season here was pretty dry through the latter 
part of May aud the fore part of June, but 
since then it has been very wet. Wheat was a 
good crop, with but few exceptions, but wet 
weather has damaged it considerably. Some 
of it is sprouting in the shock. Com is look¬ 
ing very well but it has been too wet lo allow 
us to work it properly. Oats, too, look fine in 
places, but in others they have been badly 
lodged by the wind and rain. More wheat was 
raised iu this township the past season tliau in 
any previous one—Democrat the leading vari¬ 
ety. Fultz, however, is grown by some and 
promises well. j. s. b. 
Ohio, Ashley, Delaware Uo., July 30.— Har¬ 
vesting is mostly over and thrashing is going 
on lively. Wheat is not turning out as good as 
last year. Oats are a poor crop on account of 
rust. Corn is very uneven; but looks well, 
considering the backward Spring. No barley 
or rye is raised here, aud very little llax. Ap¬ 
ples are about half a crop; hay hall a crop—too 
cold and wet in the Spring. We have pleuly 
of rain aud pasture is doing well. Wool has 
mostly gone to market; and the highest price 
was 40c. v. m. 
Ohio, Roseoe, Coshoctou Co., July 80.— 
Wheat is not quite as good as last year, but 
is a good crop. Until the last few days it was 
very dry, but the wet weather siuce makes 
corn look promising. Oats iu some places 
are good, aud at others, are not fit to cut on 
account of the rust. Early potatoes are good. 
We have plenty of apples and peaches on high 
ground; but a late frost killed nearly all on low 
grounds. Grape vinos are loaded with fruit. 
c. mc’c. 
Wis., Spafford, La Fayettte Co.. July 81.— 
Wheat, less than half a crop (harvested). 
Oats, good; very good; never better. Corn 
promises an abundant harvest. Of barley aud 
rye but little is raised; the latter, however, is 
good—what there is of it. Cow-peas or beans 
are growing well, but are not yet in bloom. 
The man-root, as now growing, is closely allied 
to the cow-pea; in fact, I can see no difference. 
Mold’s Ennobled oats are growing finely, but 
are ouly just heading out, other oats being 
now ripe. 1 think they will be quite an 
acquisition, as by sowing the early sorts, in 
part, aud Mold’s Ennobled, the harvesting will 
not be so driving, as Mold's will still be green 
when the others are ripe enough to cut. w. s. 
ewes or bucks that have had the blind stag¬ 
gers, do to breed from. 
Ans. — 1, Sturdy or staggers in sheep is a 
species of vertigo, induced by the Ccenurus 
cerebralis, which is the larva form of the tape¬ 
worm called the “ Tamm ccenurus." The vic¬ 
tims of this disease are generally under one year 
old. as sheep above two years old are rarely af¬ 
fected. Doga become infested with tape-worm 
in consequence of the introduction into their di¬ 
gestive organs of the larva forms of parasites 
which exist in the brain of 8h ;ep, given 
to them or placed within their reach as a part 
of their food. Wherever the infested dog , 
wanders and passes excrement per anum, 
there he distributes the ova, which are taken 
up by the grazing sheep aud passed into the 
circulation, where by virtue of some selective 
capacity they seem to locate in the brain of 
their host. Prevention is better than cuie; 
keep diseased meat away from the dogs, or if 
these are already infested with tape-worms 
give a vermifuge to expel the parasite (areca 
nut) before allowing them to run on sheep pas¬ 
tures. The areca nut is administered as fol¬ 
lows: Previously, one scruple of jalap, for a 
dog of 20 to 30 pounds in weight, should be ad¬ 
ministered, aud a brisk action of the bowels 
set up. This may also be procured by giviug 
the dog a quantity of butter or any of the com¬ 
mon purgatives. Immediately afterwards half 
an ounce of the powder of areca uut is to be 
given in pills or in some acceptable food 
Some locks of tangled wooldipped in grease or 
melted fat are given at the same to be swal¬ 
lowed. The worm is killed or paralyzed by 
the areca nut, is entangled iu the wool, aud all 
together are expelled by the purge. The mass 
6liould be immediately burned or buried at a 
perfectly safe depth in the grouud. Applied 
to every dog at intervals of three months, this 
treatment will free them from tape-worms, and 
prevent danger ot the sheep becoming infested 
with them. As to the treatment of affected 
sheep, it consists in an operation by which the 
skull is pierced and the bladder punctured, 
when the water in it escapes and is absorbed, 
leaving the worm to perish. The pressure aud 
irritation upon the skull cause some absorp¬ 
tion of its substance, and a soft spot is caused 
over the bladder. This may easily be felt by a 
pressure of the finger. A curved awl may then 
be inserted through the skull and the bladder 
pierced; or by means of a tabular saw (or tre¬ 
phine), a round piece of bone is cutout of the 
skull, a flap of the skin first being laid back, 
und the bone being lifted, the Madder ’6 laid 
bare und removed. The 6kiu is relaid and held 
in place by a stitch or plaster, aud the wound 
heals. No other remedy than these is safe or 
certain, and these frequently fail. But perma¬ 
nent cure is rare, and knowing this the farm¬ 
er consults his own interest by sending the 
animal to the butcher as soon as the disease is 
confirmed. 
Causes aud Remedy for Cloasina. 
H. R. S-, Cincinnati, O ., asks for a remedy 
for cloasma, and the cause of it. 
^s.—Cloasma is a skiu affection, marked by 
broad, irregular blotches of a yellow or yellow¬ 
ish-brown color, occurring most frequently on 
the froul of the neck, breast, abdomen and 
groin. The forehead, eyelids, checks and up¬ 
per lip are sometimes affected, which then 
take a dark-brown color. In woman, iu addi¬ 
tion to the causes that produce it in man, it is 
also often associated with disorders peculiar to 
the sex. In males it frequently appears after 
protracted malarial diseases. Long-continued 
action iu the sun's rays, especially in a moist 
atmosphere ; many cutaneous affection- 1 ,as well 
as those geueraliug a bad habit of the blood, 
and disorders due to vicious practice?, also 
cause a pigmentary deposit. In many cases 
sulphur applied externally in any form will 
speedily remove the discoloration, and should 
au ordinary application fail, its use in the bath 
or fumigation is likely to prove inoie effica¬ 
cious. The removal ot the pigment is nearly 
always readily accomplished by any means 
that cause a superficial inflammation of the 
skin and the desquamation of the epidermis. 
Cover the affected part of the skw with a piece 
of linen accurately fitted, and keep it moist for 
three hours with corrosive sublimate (five 
grains to an ounce of water); keep the edge of 
the cloth constantly dried, otherwise the solu¬ 
tion will collect and destroy too deeply. A 
safer remedy, however, in ordinary hands can 
be found iu repeated applications of iodine or 
iodized glycerine. 
Information Wanted. 
ANSWER8 TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
[Every query must be accompanied by the name and 
address of the writer to insure attention.] 
iJliud Sluggers iu Sheep. 
J. W. L , Smith’s Grove, Ky. t asks, 1, what 
causes blind staggers in sheep; 2. what will 
cure the disease; will the offspring of either 
i2. L. B ., Lenoir, It. C., says: “I am en¬ 
gaged in manufacturing sirup from sorghum 
cane and during the season have an immense 
pile of crushed cane on hand. I have noticed 
that cattle are very fond of it when partially 
dried and when partially decayed. Now if it 
can be preserved in pits like green corn fodder 
ana the hard shell softened by the gentle fer¬ 
mentations of the silo it will be a bonanza to 
the sirup-makers. Will some one In your 
paper give his experience with it. The best 
of mills leave 25 per cent, of saccharine matter 
in the crushed stalks, and this I think must be 
valuable if it can be utilized in the silo.” 
Miscellniieou*. 
W. H. E., East Setauket, N. Y., asks, 1. is 
there any kind of rye that is likely to be more 
profitable for Long Island farmers than that 
cultivated there for the last 50 years; 2, Ho 
planted the Rural’s Beauty of Hebron by itself 
last year, on May 15, and got three pecks of 
nice potatoes; this year be planted all his seed 
on the same day alongside of the EaGy Rose ; 
the latter are dried up, but the Beauties look 
as green as if they might grow for the next GO 
days, and he asks whether the seed sent was 
the Late Rose or Hebron. 
Ans.—1. We do not know of any. Rye is 
ODe of the cereals that need the attention that 
wheat is now receiving. 2. Unless by mistake, 
only the Beauty of Hebron was sent to our 
subscribers. 
M. R., Hull, Mass., askB, 1, at what time in 
the Fall can forest trees be transplanted in 
safety ; and, 2, if the roots are protected with 
straw or seaweed, will they be safe from win¬ 
ter-killing ; 3, if a tree is exposed ODly a few 
dayB in transport, is it necessary to bind up 
the roots in sacks aud moss. 
Ans.—1, Any time after the fall of the leaf; 2, 
there is uo danger that native forest trees will 
winter-kill whether protected or not, but, of 
coarse, they mast be in the ground; 3. it will 
depend to some extent upon the weather and 
the exposure to which the roots are subjected; 
the mots of transported trees should never be 
allowed to dry oat, and any measure that will 
prevent this will answer. 
J. M„ Nuncla, JV. Y.. has a mare that was 
kicked on the leg just below the gambrel joint 
last winter and the leg is enlarged from the 
fetlock to the gambrel. She Is not lame; but 
the appearance of the leg hurls her looks and 
value, If he blisters it, should he blister the 
whole leg to the gambrel or only the ankle 
where it is largest. The animal has had an 
enlargement of the ankle for two years due to 
a hurt when a colt. She is fleshy, handsome 
and high-spirited. 
An8 .—Treatment, we fear, in a case of such 
old standing would be useless torture to the 
beast, aud of no benefit to the owner. 
A. L. S., Cleveland, Ohio, asks certain infor 
mation regarding the Aeme harrow advertise¬ 
ment in our columns. 
Ans —Yes. we do recommend the Acme 
Pulverizing harrow, and we know whereof 
we speak. If 6d right, it needs the weight 
of a man to do its best work. Certainly it is 
easier for the man to ride than to follow the 
implement on foot. Timothy and clover failed 
on our Clawson wheat-field in consequence of 
the Spring drought. After plowing the field 
with a Syracuse Chilled plow, the Acme was 
used to prepare the land for again seeding to 
Timothy and clover. It performed its work 
in every way satisfactorily. 
Mr. John Williams of Gallatin, Mo., writes 
us "Inclosed I send you a new seedling peach 
which came from seed in 1S75, truited first in 
1878, and now stands very full and some of 
its ripe fruit was gathered on July 21. This 
tree has not been cultivated at all and its fruit 
is fully as large as that of the Amsden that 
grows in ihe same condition beside it. Ams- 
den, however, ripened this season July 1. Is it 
worthy of a name and propagation? 
Ans.— This peach is of medium size, brightly 
colored, sweet, juicy and quite worthy of a 
name. 
M. A P., Sterling Station, N. Y., asks, 1, 
which is the better for seed—last year’s wheat 
or this year’s; 2, whieh is the better variety, 
Clawson or Lancaster. 
Ans. —1. Good wheat one year old, is just as 
good for seed as good wheat of the current 
season. Which is the better will depend on 
the quality of each. 2, Lancaster makes the 
better flour, aud pleases the millers more; 
Clawson yields the larger crop and generally 
pleases the farmer more. 
A. E. K. Sear sport, Me., asks, 1, what is the 
best time to set out raspberries ; 2. what are 
the best varieties for that place; 3, how should 
the soil be prepared and what kind of manure 
is best. 
Ans.— We should prefer Fall here. Spring 
would be better for your eiimate. 2. Turner 
and Cuthbert for raspberries. Would recom¬ 
mend you to try Snyder aud Taylor for Black¬ 
berries. 3. Just as you would prepare for 
any other crop. Barnyard manure is best. 
L. T., Kings Co., L. I .—The plant is Cleorne 
spinosa- It is very showy, but somewhat 
coarse for the flower border. 
The Querist is a regular department of the 
Rural New-Yorker, and we do not think that 
i any persons whose questions we auawer are 
[ thereby placed under any obligations what- 
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