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piswttawmtf gutvevtising 
r»E OLD RELIABLE HALLADAY 
warm, commoaious cuiutcn uuu=c, 
mou th Rocks vice common chickens. Well! 
“How came you to change so many of your 
old ways?” neighbors ask. Ans. By reading 
the Rural. 
Now let us balance books a little. "What has 
the Rural New-Yorker done for me? My 
Cuthbert Raspberry patch is worth $10 to me; 
my Miner’s Prolific Strawberry bed the same; 
ditto Sharpless. My neighbors have the old 
Black-captor raspberry, and a heterogeneous 
nameless mixture for strawberries. My 
Miner’s fruited for the first, time last season; 
some of the fruits were four inches in circum¬ 
ference. Every man who saw the fruit sub¬ 
scribed for plants, except one, and he takes 
the Rural, and has another large kind. He 
has the Acme Harrow. Chalk one there again 
for the Rural. 1 shall send this Spring for 
the Hanseli, Cuthbert, Caroline (Souliegan I 
have, but it has not yet fruited) and Gregg, 
also for the Snyder Blackberry. Think I wil 
try Moore's Early, Prentiss and Worden 
Grapes. I will send for about four Kieffers, 
and if I screw my head off making wry faces, 
I’ll not say you told me to try them. 
Warren Co., la. r. j. w. moork. 
Concord will do well in localities where otner 
vai*ieties will scarcely grow, and in such places 
I would certainly plant it more or less exten¬ 
sively. Indeed, it may be planted by almost 
all as yet, for I do not consider that more than 
a few of us have an almudant supply of this 
excellent fruit, and to all who have nothing 
better the Concord will prove very desirable, 
and at the same time it will lead to a desire of 
possessing something better, and thus open 
the way for a selection of the more choice and 
desirable varieties. 
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17 SUM T to 40 B. Power 
Adopted by U.S. gov¬ 
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After three veara of pritotteftl trial and public ou 
dors, numt. we otu r to Duirvmen aud to the Trade 
our hand BUTTER-WORKER, operating on the 
principle of direct and vowrful pressure, Instead of 
roUltiR, grinding. or sliding upon (lie butter. . . 
' WoSifim that It IB the ontu Butter Worker Which 
will ec.rtaln.lt/, i/aiekly and ntsUu, trike out ali tile 
buttermilk, nnd w blob dor* not aid ■ ;>>, injure the 
grnlu of the but ter, it works in the salt as easily and 
To those who contemplate planting the pear 
for home use, the list given by Mr. Charles 
Downing, on page 835 of last year’s Rural, is 
certainly very valuable. But I would say that, 
Dearborn’s Seedling, Petite Marguerite, White 
Doyenne, Gray Doyenu£, and Souvenir 
d’Esperen prove to be perfectly worthless when 
grown in this vicinity. Doyenne Boussock is 
very tardy in coming into hearing, while 
Frederick Clapp and Emile d’Heyst I have 
never tested. 
I would advise all persons who contemplate 
planting the Kieffer Pear, to turn to page 834, 
and to carefully read Dr. Hexamer’s notes 
thereon. By so doing they will save them¬ 
selves considerable disappointment hereafter. 
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BUSHBERG ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF 
American Grape Vines. Bush, Son & 
Meissner, Bushberg, Mo.—I was glad to see, 
in a late number of the Rural New Yorker, 
some extracts from this excellent work, ac¬ 
companied by illustrations of the most, ap¬ 
proved methods of grafting the vine, for this 
is probably one of the best and most practical 
articles on this subject yet published. I 
would like also to express my approval of the 
entire work, for it seems to have been writ¬ 
ten carefully and conscientiously, aud cer¬ 
tainly contains a larger amount of valuable 
infonnatiou in reference to American grape¬ 
vines than any catalogue I have ever seen. 
The Kieffer Pear is certainly very attrac¬ 
tive, and in the market would no doubt sell 
readily at a handsome price. But I do not 
think any one would purchase the fruit a 
second time, unless it was wanted for stewing 
or preserving purposes. Herein lies its great¬ 
est value. __ 
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The article upon the classification of Ameri¬ 
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growth, the unfolding of the leaves, 
wood-growth, aud the size, 
figuration of the seeds, is 
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the vine and upon injurious insects are full 
and contain the latest and most intelligent 
views upon those subjects. In the catalogue 
and descriptions of the great number of Am¬ 
erican vines which have appeared, the writer, 
who is understood to be the senior member of 
the firm, is doubtless influenced by his local- 
Begonia odorata is certainly a very de¬ 
sirable addition to any collection of this beau¬ 
tiful tribe of plants. When well grown, it 
flowers freely, and makes a very pretty speci¬ 
men plant. The flowers are produced in large 
trusses, aud, moreover, are quite fragrant. 
In fact, it is the only species of Begonia hav¬ 
ing fragrant flowers with which I am ac¬ 
quainted. It is an old species, aud was intro¬ 
duced into cultivation more than forty years 
ago. But why It should be introduced into 
cultivation, and described as a new plant 
under the name of B. rubra alba, is morethau 
I can imagine. chas. e. fabnell. 
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Farmers are sometimes severely annoyed by 
persons who are in the habit of passing across 
tneir fields, and who now and then leave a 
gate unlatched, or ajar. The device shown in 
Fig. 65 is intended to provide a remedy for 
this kind of nuisance. It is a light gate so 
swing to and fro between 
the fence, but which cannot 
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ing it back again, be can pass out. The forks 
are placed sufficiently near together, so that 
although a person may pass through with ease, 
a horse or cow cannot. It is intended to be 
placed at the end of the larger gate, that has 
been the source of the annoyance from being 
left open. A gate of this kind is also very 
convenient in places about house, or yard, 
where one needs to pass often, particulai ly 
where one frequently carries a load in the 
hands. The gate is readily operated with the 
foot rendering it unnecessary to set down the 
load. “ ELM '” 
ingly bad on apple trees in this part or tue 
country-the northeast of Pottawatomie 
County. By close observation in several 
orchards I find that it runs in streaks, some 
straight, some zig-zag, affecting nearly all the 
different varieties in the track, some worse 
than others, killing the young growth back 
to hard wood, then making vigorous growth 
afterward. I think it is caused by electric 
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SOME HARDY APPLES. 
I have an orchard consisting of 1,000 trees 
of 40 varieties, all of which were more or less 
hurt by the last Winter, except the following 
sorts- Duchess of Oldenburg, Red Astrachau, 
Alexander, Perry Russet, Yellow Bellflower 
Wittow Twig, Miukler, Wallbridge and 
Whitney’s No. 30. This list may be of use to 
those intending to set out apple trees in a 
climate like ours. T - H - H - 
Atlantic, Iowa. 
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