OCT.46 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ing the past season, yet these enterprising 
manufacturers filled every one they re¬ 
ceived. Their Gilpin Sulky plow, which we 
lately noticed as the only one used on the Dai¬ 
ry mple farm, attracted a great deal of atten¬ 
tion. These plows have been in the market for 
the past five years, and 40,000 of them are now 
In use. They are celebrated for their lightness 
of draft and general durability. The tact that 
of the large number sold there has not been a 
single complaint shows that they are all that the 
manufacturers claim for them. 
Messrs. Chandler* Taylor, of Indianap¬ 
olis, Ind., made a very handsome display of their 
Eureka Drain Tile Mills, Mulay Saw Mills and 
Phoenix portable engines in full operation. 
Their 6aw mill attracted a great deal of atten¬ 
tion. They showed practically that it could 
be run with their ten-horse power engine with 
ease, leaving power to spare. Their new Eure¬ 
ka Tile Mill has proved itself to be all the man¬ 
ufacturers claim for it, and its work on the 
grounds making tiles from 2$ to nine inches in 
diameter, and also a fine quality of brick, 
proved to the satisfaction of the spectators that 
it could do the work. w. w c 
it when sold in the shape of a fat bog. The 
nsnal way is to buy up good stock hogs, and 
then feed and fatten them for market. It is 
calculated that for every five pounds of corn 
one pound of pork can be made, and with corn 
at 30c. a bushel, and hogs at $4 per hundred, 
It pays well to feed the corn to hogs in place 
of selling It. 
Different farmers, however, have different 
ways of feeding. One of these which I think 
very extravagant is what is called “turning 
in that is, turning the stock right in to the 
field of corn and letting them eat it np. The 
land here is mostly in what we call patches, 
so that if a man has 40 or 50 acres of corn, 
it may be in eight or ten different pieces, and 
he turns his bogs into one at a time until they 
are fat enough for market. Of coarse, it saves 
some trouble in gathering and feeding, but I 
think the saving is more than lo6t in what is 
sure to be wasted and trodden down in the 
field. It is only practiced to a small extent 
and as pork is high and corn rather Bcarce this 
year the practice will be followed less than 
ever this Fall. N. J. Shepherd. 
Miller Co., Mo. 
bound in cloth, and we propose further to add 
(to the three highest winners), a duplicate 
bound volume of our journal at the end of the 
fir.-t year.” 
Soon after this Mr. Strong wrote to me 
saying, “I have received the first three copies 
of the Business Farmer: also the book and 
have read them with great interest. I think 
that every farmer in the land should have them, 
and I thank yon for your geneiosity, etc.” 
Thus it appears that Mr. Strong clearly ac¬ 
cepted the decision of the Company by making 
a courteous acknowledgment without any hint 
of dissatisfaction. Conrad Wilson. 
The Niagara Grape. 
Mb. J. S. Woodward, Lockport, N. Y., 
kindly sends us a basket of this grape, which 
is now, we believe, for the first time offered 
for sale. These grapes had been handled at 
the N. Y. State Fair, where they were exhib¬ 
ited. Nevertheless they were received at this 
office in perfect order, not a berry having 
dropped from the bnneh. The skin of this 
grape is firm, though thin. B .tween the pulp 
and the skin the flavor iB agreeably 6weet. 
The pulp itself, if broken, is rather acid. Bat 
this is not perceived as grapes are ordinarily 
swallowed. The berry is large, of a pea-green 
color, ripening with the Hartford. The 
bunches are long, compact and showy. The 
quality seems to us better than that of the 
Concord, while its splendid shipping qualities 
and, as we learn, the vigor and fruitfulness of 
the vines must secure it a ready sale. 
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERT 
MENT STATION, 
BULLETIN NO. 47, SEPT. 31, 1880. 
Fertilizer Annlyncn. 
450. Bridgeport Ground Bone (dissolved). 
460. Manhattan Blood Guano. 
Both the above were made by the Manhattan 
Fertilizer Co , New York and Bridgeport, and 
Bent to the Station by F. C. Stickney, Bridge¬ 
port. 
476. Matfleld 8pecial, for corn, sampled and 
sent by C. E. Lord, Chester. 
468. Tankings, sold by S. E. Merwin & Son • 
New Haven, and sent to the Station by J. d! 
Sage & Sons, Long Hill, Ct. 
483. Nitrate of Soda, sold by Sisson & Butler, 
Hartford,, sampled and sent by T. N. Bishop, 
Plainville. 
The Best Wheats for Ohio. 
Our heaviest-yielding wheat in the past three 
seasons has been Silver Chaff. Golden Straw 
ranked next this year with ns, and went ahead 
on the black sands of Erie Co., near the lake, 
The Book Premium.—An Explanation. 
Mr. G. W. Strong, who took the 3d prize in 
the Rural competition, inquires through theRu- 
VERMONT STATE FAIR 
(Rural Special Report.) 
The aunual show of the Vermont State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, at Montpelier, during the 
third week in September, was much interfered 
with by bad weather, and was consequently 
not pecuuiarily very successful. Ou the last 
two days, however, the attendance was large, 
and the exhibits themselves were nearly all of 
a high class in each department. Every pop¬ 
ular breed of cattle. Jerseys, Ayrshlres. De¬ 
vons, Short-horns, Guernseys and Dutch, were 
represented in the 6talls by excellent herds, 
some of which are of long standing, and nearly 
all in the hands of practical men, who know 
how to maintain them at a high standard of 
excellence and make them profitable. The 
greatest falling off was in the Short-horns, and 
this, notwithstanding the existence of 6ome of 
the finest herds in America within the State. 
The popularity of the Jerseys with the farmers, 
and the little general interest in breeds deemed 
too large for profit in a hill country like Ver¬ 
mont, seem to have the effect of discouraging 
breeders of this class of stock from exhibiting 
them. 
In sheep, there was a superb show of Mer¬ 
inos and Cotswolds, and an excellent one of 
Southdowns, the adjoining province of Que¬ 
bec competing with some fine flocks of the two 
last. Something over 800 sheep in all were 
shown. There was but a small show of swine, 
aad only a moderate one of work oxen and fat 
cattle. In poultry, the display was very large 
and generally excellent, nearly every variety 
of domestic fowls being represented in some¬ 
thing near 150 coops. 
The exhibition of vegetables, seeds, flowers 
and fruits, though moderate in extent, was 
superior in quality. The fruits, particularly, 
were very good, and compared with previous 
shows demonstrated a decided progress, which 
bids fair to continue and increase. 
Orleans Co., Yt. j>. n. h„ h d. 
Nitrogen 
Soluble plios. acid 
Reverted “ 
Insoluble” 
Potash 
Estimated value 
per ton, _ i 
Cost, S 
*—As muriate, 
nitrate of soda, 
loo lbs. 
+—Equivalent to 96.% per cent, of 
Estimated value, $4.13; cost, $4.6u per 
S. W. Johnson, Director. 
MONTREAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
[Rural Special Report.] 
The annual exhibition of this energetic 
association took place at the Victoria Rink, 
Montreal, Sept. 14, 15,16 and 17, and was de¬ 
cidedly the fullest and best made during the 
past four years. LaBt year (which was a good 
show) the entries were 1,000, this year 1,300. 
Some of the fruit was not unpacked, and 
many plates were deposited upon the floor for 
the lack of table room, although the hall is a 
very large one. The display of roots and other 
field and garden vegetables was extensive and 
remarkably good, while the floral exhibit was 
simply immense. Montreal has a large num¬ 
ber of good gardeners, both amateur and pro¬ 
fessional, and the rivalry in both classes was 
very close. 
The building was finely decorated ai d the 
band of the garrison artillery furnished bu- 
porb music. The attendance was all that could 
be desired in point of numbers, and the result, 
both financial and otherwise, cannot be other 
than highly gratifying to the Society, which is 
not only doing mneli to promote a taste for 
ornamental gardening and the culture of use¬ 
ful plants, but, by the information it is dissem¬ 
inating both by its exhibitions and its excellent 
reports, is vastly increasing the skill and suc¬ 
cess of the orchardists and other fruit-grow¬ 
ers of Canada. Already the stimulus given to 
the culture of the apple has been shown by a 
large area of new plantations, which are, in 
consequence of the information 
INDIGENOUS INDIAN TEA LEAF.— FIG. 329. 
where it made a fine crop, weighing 63 pounds 
per bushel. Velvet Chaff has ont-yielded 
Clawson for two successive seasons here, and 
also brings a higher price in market. Clawson 
seldom weighs more than 60 pounds per bushel. 
It is a bad wheat year if Velvet Chaff weighs 
only 60 pounds. Saudomirka continues to 
promise well, except for its lateness in ripen¬ 
ing, being several days later than Clawson. 
Zimmermann sent to us from the Missouri 
Agrl. College, promises well. I send you a 
package containing Golden Straw, Sando- 
mirka. Velvet Chaff and Zimmermann, as being 
the most promising of our varieties, next to 
Silver Chaff. The last two are old varieties, 
but are not widely known and may be new to 
you. C. E. Thorne. 
State University, Farm Dep’t., Columbus, O. 
ral if he did not also win the Book Premium, 
offered by the Farmer’s Pub. Co. through me, 
as their representative. The information asked 
for was duly furnished to Mr. Strong at the 
proper time. But as the Rural now calls on 
me to explain, I will most cheerfully respond. 
The decision of our Co., as already clearly 
stated and published, was as follows. 
“Although the prize-takers in the Rural 
Corn Trial of last season did not make separate 
entries or separate reports under the offers we 
made for the best weight of grain per bushel, 
yet we are so well pleased with the results 
they obtained in competing under a different 
offer, and regard their success as so deserving 
and creditable that we cheerfully accord to 
each of the first Bix winners a discretionary 
award, as a recognition of the merit and the 
intrinsic value of their achievement. 
We have therefore entered their names on 
the subscription list of The Business Farmer 
and Station Record, to receive the same pre¬ 
paid by mail, every month and every year, as 
LIFE SUBSCRIBERS, 
without any charge or cost. We have also 
mailed to each a copy of Chemical Farming, 
Wasteful Feeding. 
Here where land is cheap and whence corn, 
oats, or wheat have to be hauled quite a dis¬ 
tance to market, stock is the principal de¬ 
pendence for making money anil for getting 
the best price for our products. For instance, 
corn is worth, say 30c. a bushel in the market; 
but by feeding it to hogs one can get 40c. for 
derived 
through this society, of sorts thoroughly ad¬ 
apted to the climate and soil of the country 
and are under a Byetem of management which 
promises, and indeed has already achieved, a 
success which a few years ago would have 
been deemed impossible. H- 
