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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Utsrfilatiwns. 
BRIEFLETS. 
O. Judd “ has been appointed an Indian 
commissioner.” This was a surprise to “ O. 
J.” He accepts it, however, believing that it 
presents a much wider and more congenial 
field of usefulness than he has heretofore oc¬ 
cupied. .'Tin the last rose of Summer," 
Is what the suu said when ho got up on the 
thirty-first of August.—Boston Courier. 
. After suitable soil, we do not believe there 
Ib anything that better insures the health of 
fruit trees; that more effectually prevents 
blight, borerB, yellows, etc., than washing 
them twice or thrice from April till October 
with a mixture of lime, potash, hellebore, aloes, 
salt, carbolic acid, etc. Lime ana any one 
or all of the others may be used. 
Mr. Page of London thinks that Cos Lettuce 
is the only kind fit to be eaten.Ex¬ 
tremes Meet.—A young girl and her lover were 
accustomed to meet on an unfrequented half- 
mile, circular race-course. When questioned 
as to the reason for choosing this particular 
locality, Bhe bluahingly replied, “ Oh, some¬ 
times we are interrupted; and then John 
walks off in one direction and I in the other, 
and meet on the opposite side. .... There are 
many reasons why it is well to raise peaches 
from pits. The seedlings will usually bear in 
three years. There is a very good chance of 
the seedlings coming true to seed. They are 
veryeasily raised. As soon as the pits are saved, 
they should be buried. Then in the Spring plant 
the pits where the trees are to grow and fruit. 
.Because General Hancock doesn't 
sit on a dry-goods box in front of corner 
groceries and tell the neighbors how to save 
the nation, some country editors speak of him 
contemptuously as “no statesman.”—Cincin¬ 
nati Saturday Night. ..... Clara Louise 
Kellogg has declared for Hancock. 
"When music, heavenly maid, was young, 
Ere yet in early Greece elio sung.” 
Oh, Clara Louise! Oh! Where are now the 
hopes we cherished? Thou has learned to 
love another. Ah. false one, vote for Garfield 
and Arthur.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. . . 
Mr. A. B, Or and ell remarks : The sentiment 
against horse-racing at agricultural fairs is 
gaining strength year after year, as the im¬ 
mediate harm and evil tendencies of the sys¬ 
tem are more clearly seen. It is a rare instance 
now to find any farmers’ journal defending 
it, but nearly all unite in saying that unless 
these exhibitions can be maintained without 
help of thf> fast element, ‘ and all that that im¬ 
plies,’they bad better be abandoned.”. 
Headers, begin thus early to form your plans 
for another year. Study how you may im¬ 
prove your crops by a change of seed—by se¬ 
lecting new kinds, or varieties different from 
those you have been sowing. Pray do not 
jump at the conclusion that your kind of corn 
or wheat or oala is the best that can be ob¬ 
tained. We have often thought so aud found 
ourselves, by experiments, vastly mistaken. 
Prepare for future work, and to make that 
work more profitable to you and to your family 
with the same expenditure of time and labor. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Oak Tau Bark Ashesu. a Fertilizer, 
J. W. U., Williamsport, Pa,, asks whether 
the aBhes of oak tan bark would be a good 
fertilizer to drill in with wheat; and, if so, 
what quantity can be used per acre. 
Ans.—T he potash contained in fresh un¬ 
leached ashes is caustic and there is no more 
destructive Bubstance to tender vegetables, or, 
in fact, to any organic matter, such as a young 
sprout from a seed, than caustic potash. Al¬ 
though the strength of the potash in this re¬ 
spect depends upon its freshness, yet unleached 
ashes are at any time dangerons to nse near 
the seed. It would therefore be safe to spread 
the asheB, any qaantily up to 50 bushels per 
acre, broadcast, and then drill the Beed, or, if 
sown broadcast, to harrow both in together. 
This would mix the ashes with the soil so as 
to render them innoxious. The only safe fer¬ 
tilizers to be drilled with the seed are fine bone 
dust and the best grades of superphosphate 
that are free from free sulphuric acid. 
E. 1. II. Easter Pa., referring to the Rural 
experiments with seeds, asks which are the 
best and most productive varieties of wheat, 
corn and potatoes. He has just thrashed 
wheat that yielded 40J bushels per acre. 
Anb.— We should like to know the variety of 
wheat which yielded you 40j bushels per acre. 
The results of our wheat experiments are in 
part described iD this week's Rural. Fultz 
and Clawson are generally recognized as our 
most productive kinds. We shall this Fall 
sow over 100 kinds ou trial, while we shall de- 
l>end chiefly on Fultz and Shumaker, for our 
main crop. The results of our experiments 
are given in foil in these columns from time to 
.time. We shall report our potato teste in a 
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few weeks. Blount's corn promises the best 
yield we have ever had. In fact, it seems to 
be the greatest yield we have any knowledge 
of under ordinary cultivation. This also we 
shall report as soou as the yield can be meas¬ 
ured. Chester Co., Mammoth has also done 
well; but the ears are so heavy and carried so 
high that many stalks break in two under their 
heavy load. 
T. T. 8., Tylersvilie, Conn., asks where seed 
of the Eucalyptus globulus can be obtained. 
Anb.—T horbnra «fe Co., of this city sell the 
seeds. But the Eucalyptus globuluB will not 
stand 25 deg. above zero, bo that they could 
not stand the climate of the above latitude. 
S. K., Voopertovm, W. Y., sends plant for 
name. 
Anb. —This is Plantago lanceolata—the Eng¬ 
lish Plantain or Rib-grass. 
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CHANGE IN FEEDING SWINE AT THE 
WEST-HOG CHOLERA AND OTHER 
D18EASES. 
It has been too much the practice hereto¬ 
fore at the West to keep swine in large num¬ 
bers in small, filthy, muddy ficldB or yards, 
destitute of pure water and fed exclusively 
on corn. No wonder that hog cholera should 
be prevalent under such circumstances, and 
thousands die annually in consequence of them. 
Now, we are rejoiced to observe a great 
change is rapidly taking place in the treat¬ 
ment of swine. They are given ample grass 
pastures and closer fields for range in Bum¬ 
mer, and partially fed on wheat bran, mid¬ 
dlings, or oatmeal well thinned with pure 
water and slightly salted, together with a 
small quantity of flaxseed or oil-meal, and an 
occasional dose ot sulphur. By this method 
swine grow rapidly, arc kept generally 
healthy, and are well prepared, when cool 
weather begins, to lie fattened on corn lor 
the Winter market. Earlier maturity and a 
greater growth and weight of flesh are obtained 
by this changed method of feeding ami ample 
range, and the pork and bacon are found of 
a superior quality. 
We have no doubt that trichina, measles, 
quinsy, lung fever, and all other diseases to 
which swine are now subject, may be generally 
avoided by a judicious method of feeding the 
pig from its birth till fully fattened for 
slaughter. a. b. a. 
TERMS NOT UNDERSTOOD, 
A fanner friend writes us: The great objection 
that, farmers have to agricultural papers Is that 
they use terms they cannot understand.”—Rural 
Brevities. 
The farmer is right. It is a great fault in 
agricultural witers who have received a liberal 
education constantly to use technical terms 
without explanation. This has been one of 
my greatest troubles as au agricultural editor. 
I have often solicited a contribution from 
some able writer on a special subject and re¬ 
ceived a paper well adapted for reading before 
a scientific society, but which might as well 
have been written in Greek, so far as the far¬ 
mers with a common school or even an Eng¬ 
lish high school education are concerned. 
This blunder was the rock upon which the 
otherwise admirable Scientific Farmer split 
and sank. In preparing such contributions for 
the printer I have made it a duty to place after 
each “ liurd word," its meaning in purentbesis. 
I have always done this in my own writing when 
compelled to uBe a technical term, and have 
frequently been thanked for it by my readers. 
1 suggest it to other writers as calculated lo 
make their writing more useful and popular 
and for its educative effect. A reader even of 
very limited educational training who secs the 
meaning thus following the “hard word,” soon 
associates the two together In his mind, and is 
bo far led out of darkness into the light. 
T. H. Hoskins, M. D. 
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Communications beckivkd for thb wkkk, 
P. H.—B. F. J.—L. E. R.—J. B.—A. W.—A. T.— 
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H. & J. H. n., fruit received In good order—thanks, 
—J. H. G., plants received.—G. A. B.. it la the 
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