400 
THE BUBAL HEW-YOBKEB. 
FEB 46 
with me it is nearly as Arm as the Wilson, and 
seems to stand shipping as well. It has larger 
berries, some of them measuring 4^ inches in 
circumference. It is a heavier yielder, and 
nearly as dark in color as the Wilson. I had 
last Summer 1^ acre of mixed Wilson and 
Crescent set in the proportion of four rows of 
Crescent to two of Wilson. I gave them or¬ 
dinary field culture. The Crescent yielded 
double the yield of the W ilson to the row; the 
fruit was even-sized and was borne up better 
on the vines. p - T - 
Plainfield, Wis. 
•ftliscflUiifous. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
SEEDSMEN, NURSERYMEN, ETC. 
W. W. Hilborn & Co., Arkona, Ontario. 
Canada. Annual descriptive catalogue and 
price-list of small fruits. 
William Bull, 530 King’s Road, Chelsea, 
London, S. W.. Eng. Catalogue of select 
flower and vegetable seeds, lilies, gladioli and 
bulbs in general. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. 
Supplementary list of novelties and specialties 
.among apples, pears, grapes, peaches, straw¬ 
berries, blackberries and roses. A valuable 
list. 
Joel Hosier & Son, Merchantville, N. J. 
A pleasing catalogue of grapes, raspberries, 
strawberries, etc., illustrated with wood cuts 
and four colored plates. The new Atlantic 
Strawberry, a specialty. 
Henry A. Dreer, 714 Chestnut St., Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. Garden Calendar of 138 pages 
and many illustrations. Select lists of vege¬ 
table, flower and grass seeds, bulbous roots, 
plants and small fruits, and a long list of new 
or rare plauts and seeds. 
Cole & Brother, Pella, Iowa. Seed cata¬ 
logue and guide to the flower and vegetable 
garden. Full lists of farm seeds. An excel¬ 
lent selection of seed potatoes. American 
Triumph and Welcome Oats are offered; mil¬ 
lets, grass seeds, Rural Branching Sorghum, 
etc. 
Alfred Bridgeman, 37 E. Nineteenth 
Street, N. Y. Full lists of all seeds for the 
flower and vegetable garden and farm, with 
many excellent illustrations. There is no 
seeds firm we take more pleasure in commend¬ 
ing to the favorable consideration of our 
readers. 
E. A. Reeves & Co., 68 Cortlandt Street, 
New York. A full} 7 illustrated catalogue of 
70 pages of all kinds of seeds. The new “White 
Plume” Celery, Salamander Lettuce, Boss 
Watermelon, Golden Dawn Mango, Essex 
Hybrid Squash, Cow Peas, etc., are especially 
mentioned. Very full lists of all staple va¬ 
rieties are presented. 
D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. A finely 
illustrated catalogue of 136 pages, with 
several colored plates. "Extra Early Lima” 
Beans, many new kinds of potatoes, tomatoes, 
cabbages and peas are mentioned among the 
novelties. This catalogue also offers many 
fruit and ornamental tree seeds about which 
we have many inquiries. 
Benson, Maule & Co., 129 and 181 South 
Front Street, Philadelphia, Pa. A catalogue 
full of illustrations, prizes, enterprises, novel¬ 
ties and long lists of all the standard seeds for 
the garden or farm. Twenty pages are de¬ 
voted to an illustrated price-list of thorough¬ 
bred stock of all kinds. A supplement is added, 
of a two-feet illustration of Welcome Oats, 
which are said to be “the best and most won¬ 
derful oats in the world.” 
Hiram Sibley & Co., Rochester, N. Y.— 
An illustrated catalogue of 130 pages of seeds 
of all kinds. Sibley’s Imperial Barley, Sib¬ 
ley’s Pride of the North Corn, Waushakum 
Corn, American Triumph and Welcome Oats; 
Pride of the Market and Stratagem Peas, first 
tested by the Rcral; the Dakota Red Pota¬ 
to, of which we have heard good accounts; 
the Rochester Tomato; Sibley’s Mediterrane¬ 
an Hybrid Wheat are among the new things 
offered by this well-known firm. 
B. K. Bliss & Sons, 84 Barclay Street, New 
York. A richly illustrated catalogue and 
hand-book for the farm and garden of 140 
pages. One of the most artistically executed 
colored plates we have ever seen in any cata¬ 
logue is that of six typical pansies as a frontis¬ 
piece. A new watermelon, the American 
Champion; the new peas. Abundance and 
Everbearing; new potatoes; the Rural Thor¬ 
oughbred and Heavy Dent Corns, a new 
rhubarb, new wheats, and many new strains 
of flowers are among the extended lists of 
novelties. 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Here is a catalogue of 120 pages that sparkles 
with novelties, and that must be examined to 
be appreciated. We have first a very clever 
colored plate of the new Cardinal Tomato, 
and further on colored plates of single dahlias 
and cannas. One thousand dollars in cash are 
offered in premiums for the largest water- 
melons, potatoes, com, beets, tomatoes, etc. 
The ue w Ironclad Watermelon herein offered is 
said to grow to a larger size than any other.and 
to possess qualities quite superior to auy other. 
One hundred dollars are offered for the best 
specimens. A specialty is made of Burpee s 
Welcome Oats, and $600 worth of prizes are 
offered for the iargest yields. The catalogue 
ends with an illustrated list of sheep, swine, 
poultry, etc. 
IMPLEMENTS, MANURES, ETC. 
Sandwich Enterprise Company. De¬ 
scriptive catalogue of machinery for culti¬ 
vating corn, cotton, etc. Circular of “Little 
Jokers” Climax Riding Cultivator. 
The American Dairy Salt Company, 
Syracuse, N. Y. Manual of Onondaga salt. 
There is some valuable information in this as 
to the uses of salt, to relative purity of the dif¬ 
ferent salts, etc. 
The New 'Y ork Plow Company, 55 Beek- 
mau Street. New 7 York. Illustrated cata¬ 
logue of steel plows, harrows, rollers, cultiva¬ 
tors, feed cutters, root cutters, mills, horse¬ 
powers, Bteam engines, corn planters, dump¬ 
ing carts, trucks, etc. 
Gere, Truman, Platt & Co., 23 and 25 
Merwin Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Circular of 
the Whipple Spring Tooth Sulky and Float¬ 
ing Harrows, cultivators, etc. These imple¬ 
ments should be studied by all farmers who 
need them. They are in some respects un- 
equaled. 
The Mapes Formula and Peruvian 
Guano Co., 158 Front street, N. Y. Circular 
(12 pages) of the Mapes complete manures for 
oranges, tropical fruits in general, vegetables, 
sorghum aud sugar canes, etc., presenting 
many testimonials from Southern growers as 
to their value. 
H. A. Moyer, Syracuse, N. Y. A beautiful, 
illustrated catalogue of carriages, platform 
spring wagons, pleasure aud business carts. 
All who need anything of the kind should ap¬ 
ply for this catalogue, which shows the vehi¬ 
cles offered for sale, by fiuely-exeeuted wood- 
cuts in every detail. 
Kemp & Burpee Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, Syracuse, N. Y, A catalogue of Kemp’s 
Patent Manure Spreader, now well known 
over the country. Illustrations fully explain 
the construction and method of using this val¬ 
uable labor-saving machine. We have yet to 
hear of a farmer who has used the spreader 
that does not speak well of it. 
J. B. Sardy & Son, 141 Water Street, New 7 
York. Catalogue of Sardy’s Phospho-Peru- 
vian Guano, Ammoniated Superphosphate, 
Alkaline Phosphate, Acid Phosphate and 
Pulverized S. C. Phosphate. Mr. A. Rose, of 
Peun Yan, Yates County,N.Y., testifies under 
oath that he raised upon one-half acre of land, 
manured with Sardy’s Phospbo-Peruvian 
Guano, 416 bushels of potatoes—that is, 832 
bushels per acre! 
. miscellaneous. 
Ready Reference List for Agricultu¬ 
ral Advertisers, prepared by Tracy & 
Dietz, Philadelphia. Pa. 
An Essay on Insects Injurious to Vege¬ 
tation, and How to Get Rid of Them: by 
Dr. C. A. Greene, of Harrisburg, Pa. 
Report of the Entomologist of the 
Department of Agriculture, Charles V. 
Riley, M. A., Ph. D., for the year 1883. Gov¬ 
ernment Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 
U. S. Department of Agricdltube, Di¬ 
vision of Entomology, Bulletin No. 2. Reports 
and the Chinch Bug. Government Printing 
of Observations on the Rocky Mountain Locust 
Office, Washington, D. C. 
Quarterly Report of the Chief of the 
Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Depart¬ 
ment, relative to the imports, exports, immi¬ 
gration and navigation of the United States 
for the three months ending September SO, 
1883. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Di¬ 
vision of Entomology. Bulletin No. 1. Reports 
of experiments, chiefly with kerosene, upon 
insects injuriously affecting the orange tree 
and the cotton plant. Government Printing 
Office, Washington, D. C. 
United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 
8. Reports of observations and experiments 
in the practical work of the division, made 
under the direction of the entomologist. 
Washington, Government Printing Office. 
M. W. Dunham, Wayne, DuPage Co., 111. 
An elegantly illustrated catalogue of 150 
pages, of Percberon horses, with an instructive 
introduction aud history of the i ace. One of 
the many wonderful enterprises the greut 
West is noted for, and one which none fa 
vored with opportunity should miss seeing, is 
the great breeding establishment of “Oak- 
lawn," owned by Mr. Dunham, at Wayne, 
Ill., 35 miles from Chicago. His importations 
of Percberon horses from Fiance, to date, 
have aggregated the immense sum of $2,500,- 
000, aud at the present time at “Oaklawn,” 
500 head of the choicest specimens of that race 
can be seen, while on the Colorado ranges 
are 2,000 mares and 21 imported Percheron 
stallions in breeding. 
♦♦♦ 
AN END TO ONE MISCHIEVOUS 
MONOPOLY. 
One of the small but most exasperating 
monopolies in the country has been scotched, 
and will probably be killed very soou iu this 
State. It was small because it operated only 
over a few epunties; but it was excessively 
exasperating bocaase it was conducted by 
foreigners who came from England, and it 
was completely ruinous to the American 
farmers who, in pursuit of their birthright, 
were cultivating their owu fields aud farms, 
and making their living by their own indns 
try. The case, which is as follows, is one of 
exceedingly great and wide interest to Ameri 
can farmers everywhere. 
A number of English speculators aud capi¬ 
talists came to this country and secured pos¬ 
session of a large territory on the Yuba, 
Feather aud Sacramento Rivers, in which 
were large deposits of gold-bearing gravel. 
Down the rivers the lands were occupied by 
farmers, who were growing grain, making 
butter and rearing cattle, aud all this so suc¬ 
cessfully that the land was worth $100 per 
acre. Not content with the ordinary and 
safe, but slow, process of washing the gravel 
for the gold, these foreign vampires brought 
water in large quantities from the mountains 
in pipes, and with the great head thus ob¬ 
tained tore the gi*avel hills to atoms, and 
washed the mud down into the rivers by mil 
lions of tons. In a short time the river beds 
were filled and choked, and the muddy water 
overflowed upon the farms, and iu time cov¬ 
ered them witliearth fromtwo to ten feet deep. 
No less than 20,000 acres of the river farms 
on the Yuba have in this way been destroyed. 
The rivers were fast filling up; aud even the 
harbor of San Francisco was being injured by 
the earth washed down. The farmers applied 
to the courts and procured injunctions against 
the mining companies, A final decision has 
just been made by Judge Saw} er of the U. S 
Circuit Court granting a perpetual injunction 
against this wasteful and injurious kind of 
aiming and compelling the companies, if they 
want to get the gold, to do so without destroy¬ 
ing the farms and ruining hundreds of indus¬ 
trious farmers. The case is appealed to the 
Supreme Court for u final decision. The 
brazeu impudence of these foreigners who 
come to this country and attempt thus to 
monopolize the laud, although it may seem a 
small affair, is astounding. It may be a small 
affair but it is as great a disaster as it can pos 
sibly be to the farmers who are rqjued, who 
in their ruin,—to use the simile of the poet,— 
may each feel as great a paug as if the whole 
nation were injured aud destroyed. 
These California farmers should have the 
sympathy of the whole of the farmers of the 
land and the more so because they are the pi 
oneere in a life struggle which must inevita¬ 
bly engage, sooner or later, the whole agri 
cultural interest iu a strife to relieve them 
selves from the crushiug folds of this giant 
serpent, monopoly, which is squeezing the life 
out of them Let every farmer open his eyes 
to the condition of affaire, and study it, iu 
preparation for the time wheu he must make 
his legitimate influence felt upon the law¬ 
making power, which he creates by bis votes, 
aud can change iu the same way when he 
pleases. s - 
Sacramento, Cal. 
of the best managed Eastern dairying, pro¬ 
duces 27,000,000 pounds of butter yearly. The 
preseut product of Iowa, which is one of the 
newest of the Western dairy States, is 100,000, 
000 pounds yearly. The product has doubled 
in the past two years, and promises to double 
again in the next two years. Iowa has a live 
agricultural college, with which is connected 
a dairy experiment station—the only one in 
the whole country—which gives evidence of 
vitality. This is because it is a practical affair 
and deals with native American concerns, 
and is not a tail to the German “ kites” which 
are as unstable and uncertain as those frolic* 
some toys in the hands of children. The con¬ 
sequence is that Iowa butter has an estab¬ 
lished reputation aud market a broad or sells 
at home at nearly twice the prices at which 
Eastern butter is sold. Aud the reason seems 
to be that Western dairymen are wide-awake, 
while those in the East are sleeping. 
Raising Sorghum.—Iu selecting the land 
for sorghum, as clean a place as practicable 
should be selected; not only cleau from weeds, 
stalks,'etc., but also from weed seeds, says a 
writer in the Iowa Homestead. He finds it 
profitable to take considerable time and pre¬ 
pared the soil before planting tbo seed, be¬ 
lieving it an economy of time aud labor iu 
cultivating and harvesting. His method is 
to soak the seed at least 24 hours before 
planting; lay off in rows four feet apart; 
run the seed as evenly as possible iu the row; 
cover lightly. Cultivation should commence 
as soon as possible after the cane can be seen 
iu the row. It grows very slowly at first, and 
needs all the coaxing possible. Keep clean 
even if you have to go over with the hoe: it 
will pay in the end. Clean cultivation aud 
frequent stirring of the soil wheu young will 
be the making of the crop. Wait until the 
seed is ripe before harvesting. It will not pay 
to work up before this time. If possible have 
the cane worked up as soon as it is cut aud 
stripped; save the seed, it is worth the trouble 
for feeding either to poultry, hogs or horses. 
FINALLY". 
Jones, of Binghamton, expresses the opin¬ 
ion in the Husbandman that strictly pure 
oleomargarine, made from beef tallow aud 
milk, has no very objectionable qualities, aud 
is one of the most harmless of adulterated 
food products, much less hurtful than the 
sweetening compounds sold as sugar aud sirup, 
made of glucose, barytes, sand, etc. Col, 
Piollet very tersely sums up the whole sub¬ 
ject of adulterations under the one head of 
counterfeiting, and relegates them all to the 
States’ prisons. This might seem a little 
severe at first thought, but wheu you come to 
realize that an article that is sold as butter is 
made from the fat rendered from horse grease, 
carcasses of hogs, cattle, cats and dogs, that 
have died from disease, you won’t waste a 
great deal of sympathy on the victim of an 
outraged public who huppeus to get his deserts. 
--- 
The New York Times notes as an instance 
of the exceedingly rapid growth of Western 
dairying, that Iowa is pre-eminent. Ver¬ 
mont, which has long been a typical instance 
Oh ! the catalogues. Rural readers should 
send for all of them. Each has peculiar mer¬ 
its. All are worthy of a careful looking-over. 
How to sow seeds, the construction and care 
of hot-beds and cold-frames are fully explain¬ 
ed iu many of them. Hence it is the Rural 
omits these matters. Why repeat from year 
to year what is so thoroughly set forth In the 
catalogues?. 
Prof. Knapp, of Iowa, says that two quarts 
of oats and two ears of corn twice a day are a 
liberal allowance for a young horse. 
If you want fine watermelons, use old farm 
manure aud sow potassic fertilizers and a 
little guano broadcast over the hills. Such is 
the practice of some. We know of cases where 
fine muskmelons are grown in poorisb, light 
soil with only a moderate amount of farm 
manure iu the hill.... 
H. W. Stearns, of St. Lawrence Co., N. 
Y., states that the new Early Sunrise Potato 
has proven itself the earliest of all with him. 
He justly praises the White Star. 
We 6 ee that W. Atlee Burpee & Co, offer 
eggs of the new Wyandotte fowls. It will be 
remembered that a picture of this handsome 
breed (American Sebrights) appeared in the 
Rural of March 10 last.. .. 
WHO has had experience with Black Suma¬ 
tra Games?... 
The “ r arliest Cabbage" of Johnson & 
Stokes is claimed by them to be 10 to 14 days 
earlier than any other cabbage.. 
J. J. H. Gregory announces the Race¬ 
horse Oats which, he says, came off with flying 
colore beside 19 other kinds in his experiment¬ 
al grounds...•. 
Peter Henderson gives an engraving of 
the new double Abutilon “Thomsonti plena." 
It is a sport of the old but beautiful Thotu- 
souii. Variegated plants bearing double 
flowers are rare... 
The best way to apply for catalogues is by 
letter, inclosiug a stamp. 
Cncnjtuljevc. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Colorado. 
Table Rock, El Paso Co., Jau. 26.— Iu this 
region the potato crop was very large aud 
consequently the price is very low. A good 
many have been sold as low as 80 cents per 
ewt. The acreage of grain sown was large und 
the crop would have been equally large only 
for the bail. Oats are selling now for $1.86 
per ewt.; wheat, $1.25 per cwt ; rye, 90 cents 
per cw t.; and barley $1.40, baled hay, $13 to 
$15 per ton. Winterwith us is very severe. 
Weather extremely cold. J. K - K 
