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AL NEW-YORKER. 
•rinttifir autr Istful. 
NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EXPERI¬ 
MENT STATION. 
The following analyses are those of different 
fertilizers which have been sent in to the Sta¬ 
tion at the close of the present season. 
Samples 71. 73 and 73 are of the 6ame brand 
as 5S, 59 and flO of bulletin VIII. A second set 
of samples has been analysed, as Mr. Pancoast 
was not satisfied that those first made fairly 
represented the stock. 
1.—BONE MANURES. 
Nitrogen in organic mat¬ 
ter.. . 
Total phosphoric acid_ 
<•79 2.12 .3.83 3.88 3.01 
15.69 15.74 21.54 20.51 14.84 
Estimated value.$36.41 27.28 40.01 36.79 27.89 
Cost in market.$38.00 33.00 ' 2.60 36.00 27.00 
03. Ground sing. Manufactured by the 
Elizabeth Glue Co. Sampled by Chas. E. Lit¬ 
tle. Elizabeth. This is the bony subBtance of 
horn cores, ground. 
71. Raw bone. Manufactured by Thompson 
andEiwaid-% Chicago, Ill. From stock of I. 
W. Pancoaet, Sharpstowo, Salem Co. Sampled 
by Je6se Lippincott, Woodstown. 
75. Ground bone, Manufactured by Harri¬ 
son Brothers & Co., 105 S. Front Street, Phila¬ 
delphia. Sampled and sent by Joshua Wad- 
dington. Salem. 
77. Paterson and Jones raw bone. Sampled 
by Joshna Waddington, Salem. 
S8 Ground bone. Manufactured by the Pres¬ 
ton Fertilizer Co., Greenpoint, L. I. Sampled 
by C. C. Van Doren, Franklin Park. 
8.—Superphosphates of lime with potash. 
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£ S F 
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2 o 2 
2 c B 
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£ 8Is h h 3 8 : 
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S 818 S S K is ; 
“ S8 I U H It U . 
£ 31 hi 8 8 13 g : I 
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£ 81 £ S3 s : £ : I 
09. Chemical fertilizer for wheat. Manufac¬ 
tured and sampled by E. VV. Lanuing, Ewing- 
ville, Mercer Co. Home-made fertilizer. 
70. Pure bone fertilizer. Manufactured by 
I. S. Yarnall, Media, Penn. Sampled from 
stock of Chas. Darnell, by Henry I. Budd, 
Moont Holly. 
76. Smith's raw bone phosphate. Manufac¬ 
tured by J. J. Smith & Son, New Windsor, 
Maryland, from stock of J. W. Smith, and 
sampled by Joshua WaddiDgton, Salem. 
78. Ammonlated hone superphosphate. Man- 
ufaetnrtd by E. Frank Coe, No. 16 Burling 
Slip, N. Y. Sampled by J. B Johnson, Perry- 
ville. 
83. Soluble marine guano. Manufactured by 
J. J. Allen’s Sons, 134 8. Delaware Avenue, 
Philadelphia. Sampled by Clayton Conrow, 
Cinnaminson. 
83. Fish and potash manure. Manufactured 
by James E. Otis, Tuekerton. 8ampled by 
Joshua Forsyth, Pemberton. 
3.—superphosphates without potash. 
73. Ammoniated superphosphate. Manu¬ 
factured by Thompson <fe Edwards, Chicago, 
111. Sampled by Jesse Lippincott, Woodstown, 
from stock of I. W. Paneoast, Sharn6town, 
8alem Cc. 
73. Dissolved bone meal. Manufactured by 
Thompson <fc Edwards, Chicago, Ill. Sampled 
by Jesse Lippincott, Woodstown, from 6tock 
of I. W Pancoast, Sharpstown, Salem Co. 
84. King Crab fertilizer, from stock of Na¬ 
than Pancoast, MooreBtown. Sampled by Geo. 
L. Gillingham, Moorestown. 
87. Ammoniated bone superphosphate. 
Manufactured by Preston Fertilizer Co., Green- 
point, L. I. Sampled uud sent by C. C. Van 
Doren, Franklin Park. 
Geo. II. Look, Director. 
New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 16, isso. 
BRIEFLETS. 
The double lilacs—who has them for sale 
in this country?.The California 
Privet, as it is called in some catalogues— 
Oval-Leaved Privet as it is elsewhere and more 
properly called, its botanical name being 
Ligustrum ovalifolium, is everywhere liked. 
It will thrive in all sorts of soil—on gravelly 
hills—on lake-sides. The leaves are broad, 
thick and shiny and the bushes are symmet¬ 
rical, green and beautiful. They are often 
cat back by Winter’s severities, but their 
growth is so strong that they quickly recover 
in the Spring. For hedges, for parts of the 
garden of secondary interest, for school yards 
and church yards, for parks and city gardens, 
this shrub is just the thing.Mr. C. M. 
Hovey remarks in the London Garden to which 
he contributes some very interesting Ameri¬ 
can horticultural notes: *‘It has surprised 
me that in the profusion of donations which 
Harvard University annually receives, there 
should not be found one single giver who puts 
any interest in, or careB anything about a 
garden.” Possibly those who might make 
liberal donations are, as Mr. Hovey seems to 
be, more interested in English horticulture 
than in that of their own country. 
The Prairie Farmer refers to the pleasant cir¬ 
cumstance recently noted in thess columns 
that ex-Gov. Furnas has been “caned.” And 
he deserved it too!.It seems to us 
that the quality (flavor) of tbe Niagara Grape 
is very like that of Mr. Campbell's Lady. But 
tbe Niagara has the stronger skin and does not 
crack.The engraving of tbe Lady in 
Mr. CampbeH'6 catalogue iB one of tbe few 
that does not in any way exaggerate its actual 
appearance.St. Louis, it appears from 
Column's Rural, Is Chicago’s chief outlet for 
its cabbage crop. St Louie consumes it in 
kraut-making and pays an average of six 
dollars per 100. We wish Long Island could 
be assured of such a price. Cabbage-raising 
would take the place of wheat and corn. 
We learn that several seedsmen and nursery¬ 
men are at work upon catalogues for the 
Spring which shall be more accurate and elabor¬ 
ate than any they have previously issued. We 
are glad to hear it and shall take special pleasure 
in calling tbe attention of our readers to all 
that concerns them. If the Rural New- 
Yorker gives us pleasure more from one 
source than from others it is that we know it 
is exerting a wide and lively interest in new 
fruits and plants of special merit.For 
those having small greenhouses or window 
gardens, It is well to keep on hand a qaart 
or eo of pure liquid manure from the stable. 
Add lime to neutralize the odor. Use a table¬ 
spoonful of this to a gallon of water for the 
plants, to be used every two weeks during the 
Winter.AtnoDg the very best of plants 
for the Winter garden are geraniums, carna¬ 
tions, fuchsias, justicias, bouvardias, ivy ger¬ 
aniums. vincas, lobelias, camellias. These 
will all do well in a cool temperature—say 
60 degrees.It appears from the Cali¬ 
fornia Horticulturist that the Cuzco Corn 
from which so much was expected in that 
climate, has disappointed the many who 
planted it. “ Ab a rule no startling success 
has been anywhere obtained.” It is suggested 
by a Frenchman that one canse of failure is 
that the female flowers are not ready to re¬ 
ceive the pollen until the males ones have 
dried up.One of our friends who has 
been reading a good deal about the adultera¬ 
tions of all sorts of foods, comes to the con¬ 
clusion that “ this world is a very dangerous 
place to live in.” .... The editor of the 
N. Y. World says that “ the. time has come 
when quality is exacted rather than size and 
that many prefer to have served on their 
tables two ti rkeys of moderate size than one 
of extra-large proportions.A poem in 
Harper's for September closes thus: 
What compensation has a man 
Who earns hie bread by sweat of brow. 
If home is made a battle-g-round, 
And 111 • one long, eternal row ♦ 
Cuttings of many hardy plants may now be 
made. Select stems of the past season's 
growth—that is, growth of the Summer of 1880. 
Make them from six to 10 Inches long, the 
lower end being cut off just beneath a bnd. 
Currants, gooseberries, grapes; many kinds 
of hardy shrubs, such as honeysuckles, vibur¬ 
nums, spiraeas, weigelaz, elders, dentzias, lilacs, 
<fec., may thus be easily propagated. .... 
Such cuttings may be placed in narrow trench¬ 
es of mellow soil only permitting the upper 
end to appear above the ground. Then cover 
with bay, straw or long manure, In the 
Spring they may be set where desired or in 
nursery rows for future use. Such cuttings 
may be stored in boxes of sand in tbe cellar, 
but care must be taken that they be kept suffl- 
ciertly moist to prevent shriveling and not wet 
enough to induce decay. . . . Whether they 
be planted separately or in iowb, the ground 
should be rich, mellow and well compacted 
about the lower end. Such plants as the black¬ 
berry. many of the raspberries, the Great 
Panicled Hydrangea, Sweet-scented Shrub, 
ornamental quince, and many others may be 
propagated from root cuttings. They should 
be two or three inches long, a quarter-inch 
thick. Pack these in boxes of sand and treat 
them as recommended for stem cuttings. 
The New York Sun took us to task for Btating 
that the Japan Persimmon would not fruit in 
Ibis climate. Now this paper Btates: “We 
doubt whether this fruit can be produced in 
the North.” Had it been better informed, it 
might, perhaps, have saved its readers a penny 
or so.We want all of our readers 
to read the articles under Farming for Boys 
and Girls in the Youths' Department. Moat of 
our readers, whether old or youDg, will find 
that there is something in each one worth 
reading.“ During the three seasons 
in which we have now grown 8ilver Chaff 
Wheat," Bays Mr. Thorne of the Ohio Univer¬ 
sity, “ it has given proof of being a most valu¬ 
able variety." See his article in another col¬ 
umn. .... It is suggested that a suita¬ 
ble opening for many choirs would be, “Oh, 
Lord, have mercy on us miserable siugers.” . 
. . . . One of the best traits of the Niagara 
Grape Is that it will hang upon the vine for a 
long time if ter it iB ripe without being ii jured 
in any way.The farm tool-boiiBe 
should never he without a coil of copper wire. 
. . . . Clear np the cellars. Allow not one 
particle of decayed vegetable or animal matter 
to remain. Then whitewash every part that 
can be whitewashed.All shrubB or 
trees about the house which have not made a 
satisfactory growth the past season should now 
have a dressing of manure. If trowing in sod, 
bone flour and wood aehes or fine manure may 
be used. .... Remember that the best 
feeding roots of plants are not those near¬ 
est the stem. The best feeding roots are 
oftenest those farthest from the stem. 
Spread the fertilizer accordingly. 
“Any good shootiug on your farm?" asked 
the hunter of the farmer. “ Splendid," replied 
the agriculturist, “ there’B a drive-well man 
down in the clover meadow, a clo*h peddler 
at the house, a candidate out in the barn, and 
two tramps down in the stock-yard. Climb 
right over the fence, young man, load both 
barrels and sail in."—Burlington Hawkeye. . . 
. . . The girl who can climb trees can gather 
the prettiest Autumn leaves, but it is the 
smart girl who takes a young man along to do 
the climbing.—Phila. Kronikle-Herald. 
Mr. Mapes remarked while husking Blounfs 
Corn the other day, “I’d rather do this than 
to see Sarah Bernhardt.”.To what ex¬ 
tent the fertilizer used upon Blount’s Corn 
made the husking more entertaining to Mr. 
Mapes, it would be cruel to surmise. Our own 
opinion is that Mr. Mapes either likes to husk 
corn as an amusement or that, for some rea¬ 
son, he does not like Bernhardt.The 
Michigan Farmer deems that man happy who 
eats home-made butter. He alone can be sure 
he is not lubricating his bread with lard, 
tallow, suet or soapstone.The Mill¬ 
stone, the first journal of its class in this 
country, copies from the Fair Number our arti¬ 
cle on Wheats with illustrations. We are 
much obliged for the Millstone’s very compli¬ 
mentary allusions to the work of this journal. 
.... Autumn leaves—after November. . . 
. . . Archdeacon Denison thinks that the arti¬ 
ficial drying of cheese, and, indeed, all fac¬ 
tory processes, are to be abhorred. He de¬ 
clares that a real Cheddar should not be eaten 
under 18 months or two years from the date of 
making.There is no better time of 
the year to drain land that needs to be drained 
than now.Rainy, squally, snowy, 
stinging weather may be looked for at any 
time—hurry up corn husking. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Ensilage of Green Corn, from the French 
of Auguste Goffart, with the latest facts con¬ 
nected with this system. By J. B. Brown. 
Published by the New York Plow Co., 55 Beek- 
man St., New York. While we commend to 
onr readers this book which contains all need¬ 
ed Information upon the subject, we believe 
that the advantages of the system have been 
greatly overestimated and that it will never be 
popularly adopted in this country. 
Price List of Hardy Grape-vines, etc. Geo. 
W. Campbell, Delaware, Ohio. We find in 
this Ricketts’s Jefferson, Lady Washington, El 
Dorado, Highland and Welcome offered. It 
was our impression that Mr. Burrow as yet 
controlled the sale of the Jefferson. 
WHAT OTHERS 8AY. 
Wheat Yield Declining in England.— 
Commenting upon the wheat reports tbe Live 
Stock Journal of England says: “ A third and 
disagreeable fact which appears loo clearly, is 
that the “ average" crop per acre is sensibly 
diminishing, in spite of more expensive meth¬ 
ods of cultivation. In' 1870 It wm reckoned 
at 29$ bushels, on an average of the then 
past five years. But in the last ten years the 
average has been only 25J bushels, and during 
the last six years it has been only 2411 bnshels. 
The last important fact we shall gather from 
the interesting figures before us is the rapidly 
decreasing value per acre of tbe wheat crop. 
The decline here is the most startling of all, 
and though we have clearly shown it before, 
and endeavored to p;dnt out its inevitable les¬ 
sons, we are glad of another opportunity to 
put the facts in a striking light. For the five 
years ending 1870, with an average ®f 29$ 
bushels per acre, the average value of wheat 
to the farmer (after paying for seed) was £$ 
7s. lOd. per acre. For the last nine years it 
has been only £6 13s. 3d., and for the last five 
years only £5 18s. 3d. This was reduced by 
the small yield in 1879; bnt if the average price 
remains at 40s., even the better harvest of this 
year can only yield £5 10s. to £5 12s. 6d. For 
reasons we have given in past issues, we trust 
the average price will be a little better than 
this; but allowing, say, £6 per acre, it is im¬ 
possible to Bhow how wheat is to be grown at 
a profit at this rate, save, perhaps, on the large 
scale and the continuous system, as carried out 
at Woleton. On the ordinary arable farm, it 
clearly appears that wheat can at present only 
be grown at a loss. 
The moral is obvious, the Journal continues 
in another part. The pressing—the crying ne¬ 
cessity—is to find o general substitute for wheat 
as a straw orop .To make money by 
wheat is utterly hopeless for the present, and 
the want of the times is a system which will, 
without mjury to the land or other crops, 
throw wheat generally out of the rotation. The 
sooner this necessity is understood and faced, 
the Booner is farming likely again to pay its 
way. 
Watermelons in California.— The im¬ 
mense yield of the watermelon vine in certain 
parts of California, and the peerless quality 
of the product, are both well-known facts. 
The Pacific Rural Press says that the average 
melons weigh from 25 to 29 pounds each. 
There are large numbers left in the field after 
the marketing season, aud from these the seed 
is taken and sold at a fair profit- Growers have 
hoped and expected that their surplus might 
be turned to account in sugar making, but the 
analysis of Lodi melons made last year by 
Prof. Hllgard did not favor the project. 
. . This year fine handsome melons, of at least 
30 pounds’ weight, were sold some days as low 
$3 per 100, and retailed about 8an Francisco 
for five cents each. 
Pear Blight.—D. B. Weir has this to say 
upon pear blight, in the Prairie Farmer 
“For one, after having given the subject much 
study, 1 have no faith in finding any care fora 
cryptogaioic parasite that preys upon a vital 
part of auy vegetable, for many and good rea¬ 
sons, among which are these: First, in its in¬ 
ception it is generally entirely hidden from our 
view. We cannot see it or know of it practi¬ 
cally until it is too late to cure. Secondly, it 
kills and utterly decomposes as it pervades. 
The most skillful physician in the world can¬ 
not cure a man with a disease the most easily 
controlled, if he does not see him before he is 
dead ; no more can you cure a pear tree with 
its most vital tissues not only dead but decom¬ 
posed. Prevention then, eo far as pear blight 
is concerned, is all we have to study. Can we 
prevent it ? I am confident we can, to some 
extent, both by proper systems of cultivation 
and medication. These are points I do not 
wish to treat on at present, but will Bimply say 
that if I have learned anything about pear 
blight correctly, many of the things recom¬ 
mended by some in case of blight—such as 
cutting off diseased branches, slitting the bark, 
thereby making fresh wounds—are exactly 
wrong. My experience is that anything that 
wounds the bark or weakens the vitality of the 
tree renders the tree liable to blight. 
The most profitable orchard that the Country 
Gentleman ever saw, over twenty years old, 
was on a very fine piece of land, with deep 
and well drained soil, cultivated, and regular¬ 
ly and moderately manured. It occupied 
6even acres, and from it the owner paid tha 
heavy debt on bis hundred-acre larm, and 
placed several thousand dollars at interest. 
He could not have done this on a rngged hill¬ 
side. 
Hogs will pay, taking the years together, 
the Western Rural thinks. There is going to 
be a constant increase In the consumption of 
pork, and the increased demand must be sup¬ 
plied. If bad luck comes one year or two 
years, there is an aggregate of good luck 
awaiting you in the end. 
Phytolacca deoandra. —“A correspond¬ 
ent lately asked us (London Chronicle) if this 
singular and handsome plant, the berries of 
which are so conspicuous at this season, was 
poisonous. We presumed not, but had no 
certain knowledge. fcWe now find from an 
