HE RUSAL MEW-YOR 
SEPT. 4 
illustrations, especially the leaves of the Japan 
Maples, are true to life. 
Samuel Kin'set, Kinsey’s Station, ucar Day- 
ton, Ohio. Wholesale price-list of fruits, etc. 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y. Wholesale 
price-list of grape-vines, fruit trees, etc. Also 
circular with colored plate of the Prentiss 
colored plate of the Prentiss .The 
“Emerson says hia orchard has paid him 
better than his literary works.”—Scribner. . . 
- - . The Western Rural says that it does ii‘o t 
believe there is a genuine case of pleuro-pneu- 
monia in this country, and if there is any way 
to muzzle the scribblers who are writing about 
something that they know nothing of, the man 
who can suggest it will bo a public benefactor.” 
Grape, with testimonials from many of our 
first pomologists as to its value. 
List of Premiums and Rules and Regulations 
of the Ninth Annual Exhibition to be held at 
Rochester, N. Y., on the grounds of the Roch¬ 
ester Driving Park Association, Sept. 28 to 
Oct. 1 inclusive. H. A. Kingsley, Secretary, 
118 East Main Street, Rochester. 
Peter Henderson & Co., 3.5 Cortlandt 
Street, New York, Circular of Pot-grown 
Strawberry plants. Also pot-grown grape¬ 
vines. A colored plate accompanies this cir¬ 
cular showing that Mr. Henderson has changed 
his views somewhat as to what varieties make 
up “the cream of the strawberries.” He now 
names Glossy Cone, Sharpless, Jucunda, Har¬ 
vey Davis, Selh Boyden, Pres. Lincoln, Black 
Giant, aDd Monarch of the West. The pic¬ 
tures are handsome, but far from portraits. 
Dr. Ryder’s American Fruit Drier or Pneu¬ 
matic Evaporator. New Principles of Fruit i 
Evaporation by the American Drier Company, 
Chambersburg. Pa. Those interested in this 
subject should send for this treatise of 24 
pages, which is fully illustrated. The sum of 
6225 is offered for the best exhibits of fruit 
dried by their evaporators. 
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BRTEFLETS. 
Prof. Burrill (Illinois University) has in¬ 
oculated sound pear trees with the bark of 
stems that were blighted. In this way the dis¬ 
ease has been conveyed, the same as yellows 
in the peach tnay be conveyed by pruning a 
healthy tree with a kuife that has bceu used 
upon one having the yellows.Prof. 
Budd, of Iowa, mentions OUlenburgb. Alexan¬ 
der, and Constantine (Russian apples) as 
among profitable market sorts.Mr. 
Potter calls liquid manure "the wine of 
the barnyard.”.Some women were 
evidently "born to blush unseen,”at least they 
were never seeu to blush—Cincinnati Sat. 
Night ...... It will soon be time for the 
papers to annouuco that they give themselves 
away.A farmer 70 years of age re¬ 
marked to the writer, while plowing under an 
oat stubble rank w T ith weeds, using a Syracuse 
chilled plow to do the work: "1 would not 
take 650 for it if I could not get another". . . . 
Bicycle races are to I c a grand feature at all of 
the forthcoming fairs .... It is time to pre¬ 
pare the ground for new asparagus beds .... 
The Nation refers to farmers as simple-minded 
but sagacious men.Gov. Furnas pro¬ 
nounces the Prentiss, as to q lalily, the finest 
surpassing advantages which 
our "first-class Summer resorts ” present as 
the best teachers of " decorous dissimulation" 
is pretty well understood by those who fre¬ 
quent them.Soft soap is recommended 
as a cure for ivy poisoning.Under the 
title " Impressions of America,” we find in the 
Hour the following remark: "American 
women seem to have only one necessary 
thought when they see a new man: ‘IIow 
much is he worth ?’ Such thoughts deform 
and harden the most handsome faces.” ..... 
The Ohio Farmer offers this bit of advice to 
those who attend agricultural fairs: “ Do not 
hang around the race track all the time, and 
then blame the Board for encouraging horse 
racing.”.It is to be hoped that thoBe 
who attend fairs this season will resolve be¬ 
forehand not to find fault with the awards of 
prizes. Judges are not paid for their services, 
and, as a rule, they award prizes, according to 
the merits of exhibits as they seem 
to them. There is, no doubt, favoritism 
sometimes. But it is the exception. ..... 
WHAT OTHERS SAY. 
The Prairie Farmer remarks that it has of¬ 
ten been said—and is worth repeating because 
it is an important fact—that our Fall fairs 
have been of great benefit to the cause of ag¬ 
riculture. They are really institutions of 
practical information—schools for the farmer 
and his family, where object lessons meet the 
eye on every hand which may be, and are, 
turned to good account. Contact with others, 
a comparison of results in the production of 
crops, or stock, and other things on the farm, 
or iu the dairy, in the orchard or in the vine¬ 
yard, cannot fail to be of advantage to an in¬ 
telligent observer. 
A writer in the same journal gives his 
testimony as t© the clover field beiug the 
farmers’ national bank, whence he can draw— 
it he has deposited liberally—without fear of 
“ protest.” He has corn that i6 a foot taller 
than he can reach with his cane, in which a 
horse would be hid at two rods' distance, on 
land where five years ago bis eon said the corn 
did not pay for cultivation. Cause, a good clover 
and Timothy sod turned under last Fail. We 
can get this sod on any of our prairie soil. 
Of course a little manure will help it aloug, 
and when we have a good sod, who does not 
know we can raise anything we choose. 
Rollers. —Mr. Geddes spoke of the economy 
of buying sections of old steam boilers for 
farm rollers, which can easily be fitted with 
ekeletou heads, and etui be bought cheap and 
bauly white grape he has ever tasted. auswer the purpose. Mr. Geddes related his ex- 
almost anything else, her silver mines, per¬ 
haps, excepted. The common name of the 
insect has called the attention of uot only the 
people of the Eastern States, but those of all 
European countries, to the region whence the 
pest came, and from looking up its location on 
the map it is but natural that a person should 
seek further information in books and periodi¬ 
cals, all of which has been a standing adver¬ 
tisement for Colorado, and has helped to bring 
her what may be termed good luck. A million 
of dollars expended in advertising would not 
have kept the country so constantly before the 
people as the Colorado potato beetle and what 
has been written about it by entomologists and 
correspondents of the agricultural press.” 
Under the circumstances, we should think 
Colorado could afford to pay the other States 
for some of the damage which the potato bee¬ 
tle every season perpetrates. 
“ Up to the time I was 40 years old I put forth 
all my efforts to increase my income. Since 
that time I have been equally careful to de¬ 
crease my expenses.” It strikes us there is 
much of wisdom in this plan, and that a care¬ 
ful examination will reveal the fact that it is 
excess of expense rather than want of income 
which keeps farmers poor. Waldo, of the 
Ohio Farmer, suggests, then, as a fruitful 
theme for correspondents, "How can we lessen 
the expense of farming?” 
Mr. Bateham.— W. 1. Chamberlain, Secre¬ 
tary of I he State Board of Agriculture, was 
invited to speak at the funeral of the deceased. 
This he did in ft very earnest and sympathetic 
manner, remarking truly that, “not an or¬ 
chard or grain field in Ohio but has felt the 
influence of his labors for the improvement in 
varieties cultivated and in modes of culture." 
He was always a constant attendant at all the 
important meetiugs of the State relating to 
agriculture and horticulture, and his face and 
voice will be sadly missed iu the future. 
We have a flue white mulberry tree iu the 
[ iawn that bears a bountiful crop every year. 
To my eye the tree is a most pleasing one- 
very symmetrical, graceful, and of great deli¬ 
cacy of form, but strong and vigorous. It 
reminds me in appearance of a gentle and 
well-bred lady, and I alwaya like to look at it 
at ail seasons of the year. Why do not people, 
especially, farmers, make it a point in their 
tree-plan tine, to include oue or two of the 
mulberry tribe? The fruit ripens early, at a 
time when fresh fruits are scarce, and although 
very sweet, the berry is liked by most persons, 
especially when eaten from the tree.—Mary 
Wager-Fisher in N. Y. Tribune. 
New Jersey Cranberries.— Prof. Cook 
says: New Jersey produces about oue half the 
cranberries grown in the United States. The 
yield last year was 75,000 bushels, but there 
are now indications of a failure in the crop in 
some quarters. The fruit scalds. We are at 
work to discover the cause. 
they eat it with avidity. New York has made 
an appropriation for experiments ; if these are 
properly carried out it will be of great benefit 
to our farmers, not only in this State, but in 
the whole country. 
Gambling at Fairs —Mr. Slossom expresses 
himself as follows in the Western Rural: “The 
State fairs can stand up under a heavier load 
of wickedness than county fairs, because their 
back is stiff, by reason of patronage from all 
parts of the State. Looking at (he programme 
of our next State fair, we see there are seven¬ 
teen hundred dollars devoted to the heels of 
fast horses, and all the demoralizing influ¬ 
ences of these performances are thrown in to 
lead astray our sons instead of teaching them 
lessons of usefulness in their calling. The 
managers make pretence of great morality, 
and take great pains to exclude common 
gamblers from the grounds, but when you 
come to the speed of horses gambling is ram¬ 
pant, but it is on the speed of that noble aui- 
mal, the horse, instead of on the dice board. 
Camp Meetings.— Doubtless much of the re¬ 
proach which has been cast upon the morality 
of camp meetings is underserved, remarks the 
Hour, A comparatively small number of 
offenders are able to bring any assembly' with 
which they are associated into disrepute. The 
world is always eager to detect flaws iu char¬ 
acters or institutions that make professions of 
godliness. It is, in fact, the assumption of 
superior fervor and piety by the leaders of 
these assemblages which has tended to excite 
distrust of their methods and results. The 
emotional appeals which aro the staple of 
camp-meeting exhortations are apt to be de¬ 
ficient in common sense. They inflame the 
feelings, but do not convince the reason. 
Their influence iB, therefore, not only likely 
to be transitory in its effect, but tends to foster 
an illibeiaiily that shuts the door of muoeeDt 
amusements. This religious asceticism is re¬ 
sponsible for a good deal of the dissipation 
which has of late years made camp meetiugs 
fall iuto disrepute among many truly devout 
people. Such dissipation is the not unnatural 
reaction from a too rigid formalism. 
Speaking of the Ohio State Fair, Secretary 
Chamberlaiu remarks iu the Ohio Farmer: 
The railways intend to give the same exceed¬ 
ingly liberal excursion rates to our State Fair, 
and to run special trains for the fuller accom¬ 
modation of the public. The attractions at the 
fair, too, are even greater than last year, and 
with favoring 6kies we hope for the same 
immense throngs of visitors, and the same re¬ 
markable financial success we had a year ago. 
Every dollar of surplus will be faithfully used 
in promoting the best agricultural interests of 
our State. 
Readers are requested to note how well or how 
ill our summary of " What shall the Harvest 
bo," coincides with the facts which are now 
appearing. They will the better know another 
year how much confidence to place in our 
Special Crop reports.Many of our 
farmers who were visited by the Army worms 
iast season fear that they will reappear next 
season in still greater numbers. But there is 
room to doubt that such fears are well ground¬ 
ed. Their 6nddeu disappearance is more easily 
explained than their sudden appearance. They 
have many enemioe among birds and parasiies 
which, during seasons when the worm is abun¬ 
dant, seem to give themselves up to their 
destruction.It seems that there never 
has been so large a demand iu St. Louis as at 
present for cider mills.. . The Cultiva¬ 
tor, commenting upon our remarks as to the 
Turner and Cuthbert Raspberries and the Sny¬ 
der Blackberry, says of the latter, there is no 
other to approach it for hardiness, and it is 
profusely productive. The size of the berry is 
the only drawback.Mr. S. Miller-of 
Missouri, tells the Rural World that the new 
Black-cap, Hoosier Mammoth, is larger than 
the Gregg and of fine quality as well as more 
productive.A friendly contributor 
suggests that it would be a good idea to pub¬ 
lish a comic paper with an Agricultural De¬ 
partment.“I never see,” says Mr. 
Robinson of the London Garden, " half enough 
of pinks, carnations or pieotees in gardens.” 
The same thought has often occurred to the 
writer of these notes. We do not think of any 
other plant that is, in all respects, more satis¬ 
factory. ..... There are few yellow flowers 
that at this time would make a better show in 
garden borders than those of lettuce. The 
variety with crimson or bronze leaves would 
add attractive foliage also.If you 
have any real greatness you won’t go far be¬ 
fore the world will find it out. Small men in¬ 
sist that they are great, while great men 
can afford to keep still. The Talmud says 
that “all kinds of wood burn silently 
except thorns, which crackle and call 
periodce in rolling wheat on certain soils con¬ 
taining clay, where Fall roliiug causes the 
formation of scale that eventually kills the 
wheat. On sandy or light soils Fall rolling is 
generally advisable. A roller is a dangerous 
tool in inexperienced hands. He gives the 
following rules: Roll soil that you wish to 
compact, but if not, let it alone ; never roll in 
wet weather. Clay soils may be rolled in the 
Spring but not in the Fall.—Syracuse Journal. 
Mr. Charles A. Green, our valued correspon¬ 
dent at Clifton, N. Y., writes to the N. Y. Tri¬ 
bune of a factory in which sour eider i6 stored 
in a tall tower and made into vinegar during its 
twenty-four hours’ passage to the ground floor. 
Clematis lanuginosa.— Notwithstanding 
the many fine varieties of clematis that have 
been raised und distributed during the past 
few years, the species above named is quite 
unrivaled for the great beauty and substance 
of its magnificent flowers, the color of which 
is of a rich delicate azure bine, and the size as 
large as or larger than that of any variety extant. 
It is one of those real good things discovered 
and sent home by the late Mr. Fortune, who 
found it growing on the hills of Che-kiang.— 
London Gardener’s Chronicle. 
“Vulgar Errors.”— Under this head the 
Gardener’s Chronicle has the following; “It 
Is odd and not a little disappointing to see how 
people go on harping on old exploded preju¬ 
dices. The recent committee of the House of 
Commons on the potato disease affords an 
example. The committee is reported to have 
upheld the exploded fallacy that varities die 
out. Properly fixed and properly eared for, 
they do not die out. Th: old Aehtop Kidney 
is as vigorous now as ever under proper culti¬ 
vation, but it has been displaced by Myatt’s 
Prolific and other sorts.” 
Colorado’s Good Luck.— We take the fol¬ 
lowing from an editorial in the N. Y. Sun 
“ The so-called Colorado potato beetle has 
probably done more to advertise and make 
‘ We, too, are wood.’ ”. Colorado known as a Territory and State than 
Experiment Stations. —Dr. Ledoux, speak¬ 
ing of the New York Experiment Station, re¬ 
marked at the late mcetiug of the Board of 
Control that he felt embarrassed to speak of 
his own labors. The State of North Carolina 
has the most economical legislature—it has 
even taken away the Governor’s servant, so 
that his Excellency had to provide from his 
small salary, a person to light his fire, but it 
did uot refose to grant an appropriation for 
the Experiment Station. He had no doubt 
that it saved to the State 6250,000 a year. For¬ 
merly there were 1.08 brands of fertilizers in 
North Carolina. They have been examined 
according to law, and one was found that con¬ 
tained 80 percent, of sand. Others were so 
poor that they were condemned in Georgia, 
and then reshipped to North Carolina. He 
was satisfied that since the official investiga¬ 
tion, fertilizers are cheaper in North Carolina 
than they were before the tax was imposed; 
that they are better on the average, and as 
cheap as elsewhere. His experience is that on 
some soils great benefits are derived by their 
use, while on other soils no perceptible advan¬ 
tages are derived. He was desirous that the 
New York Experiment Station should suc¬ 
ceed. If these stations are multiplied through¬ 
out the States it will be impossible to estimate 
the advantages derived. 
Dr. F. M. Hexamer remarked that science 
and practice combined are the only way to get 
knowledge. Experiment stations will be of 
vast benefit to our farmers. He was glad to 
be present and witness the enthusiasm of the 
members. 
The Chairman asked Mr. O. B. Potter to tell 
about his experiments with ensilage. 
He replied that he had tried it thoroughly 
and was satisfied that it will be of immense 
benefit to our farmers. He cut up clover, 
greeu rye, green oats, millet, sorghum and 
corn stalks, in fact everything of a green 
nature fit for fodder. These he cut up in 
pieces, about one inch long, which were put up 
into Bilos, or vaults, built for this purpose— 
these undergo a certain fermentation. When 
these silos are opened and fed to his Btock, 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Canada, Mount Irwin, Ontario Aug 20.— 
Fall wheat is a total failure iu this township 
of Galway, but Spring wheat is a fair crop. 
Oats are splendid. My Mold’s Oats are ready 
for cutting, they have beat anything I have 
seen. 'They are about five feet high. Peas 
are a good crop and so is barley.* Hay was 
rather light on account of the clover ail being 
killed out. Potatoes were badly nipped on the 
night of Sunday the 15th when we had a frost 
unusually hard for this season. I am afraid 
the later 6orte will not be of mnch use ; but 
Early Rose are nearly ripe and are very good 
both in quantity and quality. 4 . r. 
Conn., Bloomfield, Hartford Co., Aug. 21._ 
I wrote the Rural before, my letter appearing 
in the iBStxe of Aug. 3, that the apple crop 
hereabouts was very large this year. The 
trees are overburdened, and while I have been 
writing a large branch of one close by, no 
longer able to sustain the weight of Ue fruit, 
has fallen with a crash. I cut a twig from a 
seedling tree standing by the road-side a few 
days ago, which had, on five inches of stem, 
nine apples. Anothor had set and commenced 
to grow, but being cramped for room, gave 
it up. The tobacco crop is now being gathered 
and is In good condition, being large and of 
fine quality. In a piece near-by leaves measur¬ 
ing over 40 inches in length are plentiful, as 
are also those from 20 to 24 inches wide. If 
the extreme length were with the widest 
leaves there would be some monstrous in size, 
but such is not the case. The amount of weight 
of plant that will grow in so short a time from a 
minute tobacco seed is wonderful. I bejieve 
it is conceded that more weight is made here 
by tobacco than by any other crop in the same 
time, and the growers are not ready to accept 
the theory that the plant takes no part of its 
sustenance through its leaves. I have been 
made glad by observing that birds are more 
numerous here than iu former years. It is to 
be hoped that farmers will finally be led to 
believe that birds do them more good than 
harm, and will aid in their protection, l, a. r. 
