JAN 42 
THE RURAL NEW-YORMIR. 
out on the stem, the leaves, the ear and the 
blossom of the tassel. It is thus seen that the 
whole plantis diseased. The disease no doubt 
has its origin in the seed or the soil. A grain 
of wheat has a quantity of down or fuzz at 
one end. and smut, spores are held by this, 
and are thus gown with the seed; or the soil 
may have been infected by smut falling upon 
it from a previous crop. All wheat alike is 
infested by this parasite. The remedy is to 
sow clean seed. This can only be done by 
cleansing the seed by the use of some strongly 
corrosive liquid which destroys the smut 
spores. Lime, salt, caustic potash, and sul¬ 
phate of copper have been used for this pur¬ 
pose with good effect; but the copper snlpbate 
(hlue vitriol) in solution is considered the 
best; four ounces of crystals are dissolved iu 
one gallon of water for every five bushels of 
seed. The seed is put into a heap on a barn 
floor or into tubs, and the liquid poured over 
it so as not. to wa te it, and the grain is thor¬ 
oughly starred until every seed is cleansed. 
Seed thus treated generally produces grain 
free from smut; it soon dries and can besowu 
by a drill. 
COLIC IN A HORSE. 
(}. IV. D,, Danvers, Mass .—After a journey 
of 10 miles a horse of mine bad an attack of 
colic; how should he be fed to prevent another 
attack, and what should be done iu case he 
has another? 
Ans.—W hole grain and dry feed are apt to 
produce colic when anything occurs to produce 
indigestion, and much more so than meal or 
ground feed fed with cut hay moistened. 
Some horses that bolt tbeir food are liable to 
this trouble, and watering after feediug or 
after a journey, aud when warm, is a fre¬ 
quent provocation. A horse subject to colic 
should lie fed on cut feed in moderate quan¬ 
tities, aud watered only before feeding. A 
good remedy for spasmodic colic is a pint of 
oil with one ounce of sweet spirits of niter. 
Injections of warm water are also useful. 
“CENTRAL PARK” LAWN GRASS. 
E. M. C., Pella, la .—What is the recipe for 
“Central Park” lawn grass? 
Ans. —The foliov. iug are the grasses and the 
proportions: Kentucky Blue Grass (Poa pra- 
teusis), one bushel -14 pounds; Red Top 
(Agrostis vulgaris), one bushel =14 pounds; 
Rhode Island Bent (Agrostis eaniua), one- 
half bushel =5*^ pounds; Sweet Vernal Grass 
(Anthoxnnthum odoratum), one-lmlf bushel— 
five pounds; White Clover (Trifolium repens), 
five pounds. Quantity for an acre, 4 '■% 
pounds. If the lawu is much shaded by trees 
take oil four pounds of the Kentucky Blue 
Grass, and the same quantity of Red Top, and 
add eight pounds of Wood Meadow Grass (Poa 
uemoralis). 
Miscellaneous. 
./. P., no address. —1. Is there any machine 
by which ice can be profitably made in small 
quantities for use in a dairy? 2. Cows here 
drup rapidly as Summer advances. Is this 
due to thcdrviug nr of the grasses, and would 
dry food, such as corn and cotton-seed meal, 
improve the milk yield? 3. By what treat¬ 
ment can a heifer with her first calf be per- 
raanently made a good milker? 4. Is it abso- 
lutely necessary that rye, millet aud such 
small forage should be cut up before being 
placed in a silo? 
Ans -1. There is no machine yet made for 
the purpose mentioned; there are maehiues 
made which make ice for about *8 a ton, but 
only in large quantities; but as these machines 
are also used to cool air as well as to freeze 
water, it is obvious that it is far more conve¬ 
nient to use cold air than to handle water aud 
ice. At present these machines are too costly 
for use in dairies, but in time there is no doubt 
they will be brought. Into use for this purpose. 
2 Where grass dries up. the growth of some 
green crops is requisite to keep cows in full 
flow u( milk; if the climate will not, admit of 
such crops, im doubt, the use of such foods as 
bran and corn meal would be a great help. 
Alfalfa is a green fodder crop that is well 
adapted for dry climates, as it remains green 
after all other green herbage has dried, d. It 
is advisable to have a heifer with her first 
calf milk ns copiously and as long as possible, 
as this forms a fixed habit, with her m the fu¬ 
ture, which is inherited by her calves. This 
is the manner in which dairy stock is chiefly 
improved 1. It is not absolutely necessary, 
but is desirable that even rye aud millet 
should be cut up small for ensilage. No doubt 
uuder your special circuiuStauces ensilage 
might be of great value. 
0. K, Waldoborouflh , Me. — 1. A heifer 
makes a uoiBe in her throat wheu eating; 
why, aud how cau it. be prevented ? 2. What 
is the host washing-machine aud what the 
best butter-worker ! 3 vVhat doe.- iiu> Ru¬ 
ral think of “ Concentrated Feed” ? 
Ans. —1. It is impossible to say what is the 
matter with the heifer or what will prevent 
the noise when she is eating. 2 Reid’s butter- 
worker is considered u good one, but uuless 
the quantity of butter is large, a fiat, smooth, 
hardwood table and a common ladle make 
the best worker. Butter is best washed in the 
chum, by drawing off the butter-milk and 
putting in water until it comes off clea r. We 
have no knowledge of the concentrated food 
referred to. 
F. K. P., Delemn, Wis. —l. Wbat is a good 
force-pump or syringe for sprinkling nursery 
rows and orchard; one that will hold enough 
fluid to spriukle a long row ? 3. Is Poole’s 
Signal Service barometer reliable? 3. Will 
it pay so far inland to study mercurial aud 
aneroid barometers to foretell changes of 
weather ? 
Ans. —1. We kuow of no pump of this kind 
which will carry in the pump itself fluid 
enough to sprinkle a long nursery' row. We 
have used Page’s Portable Pump and Sprink¬ 
ler, the Excelsior Pump, and several others, 
but they all require a vessel to hold the fluid 
to be applied. 2. Not very. 3. Yes, but con¬ 
siderable study is necessary in order to under¬ 
stand just what the barometer does indicate by 
its movements. 
W. A., Indianapolis, Ind .—Where can 1 
obtain a book treating upon the raising of 
pigeons aud poultry' ? 
Ans. —We kuow of no one book devoted to 
rearing both pigeons aud poultry'. “Lewis’s 
Practical Poultry Book,” price $1.50, and 
“Wright’s Practical Poultry Keeper,” price 
$2, are good books on poultry. We know of 
no book upon pigeons. The Fancters’ Journal 
and the Homing Pigeon, price $1.50 per year, 
published by E. 8. Starr, 78 Cortland Street, 
New York City, is greatly devoted to pigeons. 
The books may be obtained of the American 
News Company, New York City. 
C. L. P.. Elhland, Pa .—In my garden were 
a row of turnips aud one of beets alongside; 
in cutting a turnip it looks as though it was 
about one-half turnip and beet—a streak of 
white and a streak of red. Will they mix ? I 
send a specimen. 
Ans. —The slice of beet certainly presents 
an appearance that would justify the sus¬ 
picion of hybridity if the affinities which gov¬ 
ern plant life be thrown out of the question. 
The beet belougstothe Goosefoot—the turnip 
to the Mustard family'. A cross is impossible. 
These patches of different color are not un¬ 
common in beets. 
H. H. W., Boston, Mass. —1. Is there any 
book, up to the times, on general farming in 
Southern California? 2. Is there a better 
work on grape culture for that section than 
Hyatt’s book? 8. Wha*. is the leading farmers' 
paper, general and horticultural, for Califor¬ 
nia? 
Ans. —1. We do not kuow of any. 2. 
Hyatt's, published in Ban Francisco, is a good 
work for that section. We would also recom¬ 
mend a work on grape-vine culture published 
by Meissner & Co., Bushberg, Jefferson C’o., 
Mo. 3. The Pacific Rural Press, price $8, Ban 
Francisco, Cal. 
E. E. H\, Freeman , N. Y .—What is the 
price of German Carp ? IVhen is the best 
time for stocking a pond ? 
Ans.—W rite to C. S. Medary, Little Falls. 
N. J. The IT. S. Fish Commissioners have 
been engaged in distributing them, but their 
present supply is about exhausted. They may 
be placed in the pouds, either in the Fall, or iu 
the Spring after the season for wash-out has 
passed, 
A Subscriber, McFatl, Mo .—Where can I 
get a feed mill that will grind rye, oats aud 
corn? 
Ans.— Several are advertised every week in 
our coluuius, to which we refer our inquirer. 
H. E. Dartmouth, A’. V, —1. Will the Ru¬ 
ral club with the Toronto Globe for 1884 on 
the terms of 1888 ? 2. Have the Rural Wheat. 
Prizes for 1882 been awarded ? 
Ans.— 1. Yes. -3. Yes. 
G. A. S. Lawrence, Mass .—Is it true that 
cherry trees, growing near apple tree?, poison 
the blossoms and prevent the apple trees from 
bearing fruit well? 
Ans.—N o. 
J. D. P., Ketchnm, H*#>. — Can the Rural 
give us some butter records of Holstein cows? 
Ans.—S ee article on this subject in the 
Dairy Department of this issue. 
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