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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
lived in Boston, Mass. Her son-in-law, Thomas 
Fleet, collected and published the melodies 
under the title, “Songs for the Nursery ; or, 
Mother G-oose's Melodies for Children. 
Printed by T. Fleet, at his Printing House, 
Pudding Lane, (now Devonshire Street) 1710. 
Price, two coppers.” 
A OKANBERKY BED. 
s, II. B. Higganurn, Conn.— At an original 
cost of $250 an acre your cranberry bed ought 
to pay. Of course, you have provided means 
for flooding the bed in Winter, so as to kill 
injurious insects, and protect the plants from 
the effects of frost. Good drainage also for 
12 inches belovr the surface is essential, either 
by tiles or open ditches. W ith a depth ot seven 
to ten feet of muck, a good depth of it could 
be profitably spared for application to the 
neighboring fields alter it has beeu properly 
weathered or composted, as a depth of two oi 
three feet of muck is ample for a cranberry bed. 
By removing some of the upper layers flood¬ 
ing would be rendered easier. Five inches of 
sand should be about enough, though the depth 
will depend on the loose or compact nature of 
the muck, ranging from two to eight inches. 
The Bell is the favorite variety, and then 
come the Bugle aud the Cherry. We ha^e no 
copies of the Rural containing “ All About 
Cranberry Culture.” 
FEED FOR A BURL. 
J. K., Franklin Square, Ohio.— What 
should be the feed of a bull to keep him in 
good condition? 
Ans.—A bull can have uo better feed thau 
that given to the cows. Cut hay or corn fod¬ 
der with four quarts daily of mixed feed of 
oats and corn ground together, or with bran 
added to it, aud a ration of loots of some kind 
given at noon, with a little long hav, would 
keep a bull in the best order. 
Miscellaneous. 
‘ 1 A New Subscriber.”—1 . What is the differ¬ 
ence between old an 1 new-process oil meal ? 2. 
Is either suitable feed for milch cows where 
butter is the object? 3. Is artificial coloring 
of butter proper? 4. In starting a quince 
orchard, caunot grafts be used to produce 
trees? 
4^s._1. The old-process contains from 10 to 
tS per cent, of oil ; the new process has none. 
2. Neither is a desirable feed for butter. 3. 
We can see uo objection on the score of health 
or morality to the use of good coloring matter 
to give to butter the hue the public demand. 
The demand in the markets is for highly 
colored butter,and so long as nothing injurious 
to health is employed to impart the shade 
demanded, there can lie uo wrong in produc¬ 
ing it. 4. Yes. 
F. W. S„ Sheboygan, Wis.—l. What is the 
address of a firm that buys ground bones aud 
dried flesh as f ertrlizers2 Has the RcR al tested 
ground bone? What is the price of dried 
flesh per 100 pounds? 
Ans.— 1. We don’t know of any manufactur 
era of fertilizers who purchase ground bones; 
but all of them buy wh'le bones to grind for 
themselves to sell. Every dealer in fertilizers 
buys dried flesh to mix with superphosphate. 
The value of ground bone as a ferti lizer re¬ 
quires no test; it has been quite sufficiently 
tested. It is as staple and valuable a fertilizer 
as barn-yard manure, from which it differs 
only in containing no potash, but very much 
more phosphoric acid. It is worth from $1.50 
to $2.25 per 100 pounds, according to the de¬ 
gree o 1 fineness. 
P.L.N., Lanrsboro, Pa. —1. What kind of fer 
tiiizer and how much of it should be applied 
to sod broken last Fall for cabbages and corn 
—soil a sandy loam, slightly clayey and in 
fairly good conditions? 2. Which would be the 
better plan—to sow cabbage seed in a seed-bed 
and transplant, or sow it where the plants are 
to grow? 
AKS.—1. Without further data to guide us 
we should use the fertilizers put up by fertiliz¬ 
er manufacturers for those crops. You could 
buy the bone aud potash and mix for yourself 
and save something perhaps. Finely ground 
raw bone and uuleaehed wood ashes would 
answer perhaps better than any other fertil¬ 
izer. 2. We prefer to sow in seed beds and 
transplant. We have tried both ways. 
N. D. B , Burlington, N. Y.— The Laval 
Cream Separator Company, 32 Park Row, N. 
Y., claim to sell a machine that will separate 
cream from milk just as soon as it ironies from 
the cow, getting 1G per cent, more than if the 
cream were allowed to rise in the ordinary 
j can this be done? It is also claimed that 
butter made from such cream fetches a higher 
price than butter from ordluary cream; is 
that so? 
Ans.— The muehine may be useful in large 
dairies where sweet cream is wauted; but as it 
requires a steam engine to work it, its use is 
not available for small dairies. The claim 
that it gets 10 per cent, more cream aud the 
cream makes better butter, than the ordinal j 
method, we think somewhat doubtful. 
B. S. W., Lodi, Texas.— I. How long must 
hens be kept away from cocks of other breeds 
to insure pure varieties from their eggs? 2. 
Where can I get paper fruit boxes and at what 
price? 
Ans.— 1. Breeders differ in opinion in re¬ 
gard to distinct varieties roaming together at 
pleasure; some believe that when once crossed 
the stock never becomes pure. We are of the 
opinion that fowls should be mated and sepa¬ 
rated at least one month before the eggs for 
hatching are laid, if pure stock is desired. 2. 
Write to Roberi Gair, lid Chambers Street- 
New York City, and tell him what you wish. 
We know of no one outside of New V ork who 
manufactures paper boxes. 
E. D. E., Long Pine, Neb.— Can 1 get the 
Agricultural Commissioner’s report and some 
information about forestry’ from the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture, and should l forward 
postage? 
Ans.—A ll the reports and other books 
printed by the Government are to be obtained 
by application to Congressmen. Each person 
should write for what he wants to the Con¬ 
gressman for his District, or one of the Sena¬ 
tors for his State, preferably the former. No 
postage is required, as Congressmen en¬ 
joy free postage, aud books printed by the 
Government pass through the mails without 
charge. 
J. D. S., Bowling Green, Kg— Who is a 
trustworthy dealer in Red Polled cattle, anil 
how do they stand for l>eef and milk? 
Ans. —G. F. Taber, Patterson, N. Y.; L. 
F. Ross, Iowa City, Iowa; Mead & Kimball, 
Raudolph, Vt.; W. D. Warren N Co.. Maple 
Hill, Kan. The Norfolk and Suffolk Polled 
Red cattle are fair milkers and good 1 Kiefers. 
Like the milking strains of Short-horns, they 
give good messes of milk and lay on flesh 
readily when turned off for the butcher. 
They have uot. quite so high a reputation as 
the Galloways and Aberdeen Angus Polls for 
beef; but their reputation us milkers is much 
better. 
O. S. E., Little Falls, N. J.—What is the 
best variety of trees to plant for durable fence 
posts aud wind-breaks, that w ill make rapid 
growth? Is Cfttalpa speeiosa suitable lor such 
purpose? 
Ans,—F or your locality the chestnut will 
make the best posts. You caunot get any 
kind of a tree that will make rapid grow th 
aud a good wind-break. Spruces aud pines 
make excellent wind-breaks. The Osage- 
Orange can be grown successfully iu New 
Jersey, audit niukesa fine hedge; iu fact, it 
will make the best. The Hardy Catalpa makes 
excellent posts, aud is a rapid grower. 
5. L., Sharon Center, N. Y.— Which is 
the more convenient, all things considered, 
the rectangular or barrel churn? 
Ans, —The barrel churn is merely a poor 
imitation of the rectangular. The motion of 
the cream in the rectangular is quite different 
from that in the barrel churn. The rectaugu 
larhas eight corners aud six sides, and in re 
volving it the cream is dashed from one side 
to another and from one corner to another of 
all these; while in revolving the barrel churn 
it is merely dashed from one head to the other. 
This makes the one chum so much more effec¬ 
tive than the other. 
S. A. A., Beverly, Mass. —1. In grafting 
grapes at the Rural Grounds late in March, 
does not the stock bleed profusely, aud when 
should the operation be performed here, uear 
Bustou? 2. Cau the Rural supply me with a 
cuttiug of the Vergennes Grape? 
Ans.— 1. No, it does not bleed at all. The 
grafting should be done before the sap begius 
to move. You might graft at any time be¬ 
fore, if you have soil to cover up the 
stock and oion. 8. We have but one vino of 
the Vergenues, aud that was pruued in the 
Fall. Nurserymen can supply cions. 
G. C. S., Quincy, Minn.— 1. What is the dif 
ference in value between boiled, steamed aud 
raw oats and barley for feeding fattening 
hogs? 2. Who breeds Holstein cattle Iu this 
section? 
Ans.— 1. If the oats and barley are coarsely 
ground and steeped in boiliug water and fed 
when cold, they will be just as good as if boiled, 
aud probably one-fourth better than if fed 
dry. 3. A. Vellis, Austin, aud Jere Allis, 
Isinour’s, Minn. ; 8. Aikiu. Decorah; T. B. 
Wales, Jr., Iowa City, and C. Grasper, Cres- 
co, Iowa. 
j, F. S., Pauli, Ind.— I. In applying ferti¬ 
lizers on potatoes, how much should be put on ? 
2. Whose make is the best? 3. Where cau it 
be bad, aud at what price? 
Ans.— 1. If the laud is already rich, 100 
pounds to the acre. According as it is uot 
rich, we should use all the way from 400 to 
800 pounds to the acre. 2. We cun only an¬ 
swer, buy of well-known Arms. Never buy 
of unknown dealers or of those who profess to 
sell under the market price. Examine the 
guaranteed analyses. 3. $50 per tou. 
H. S., Larchwood, la.- 1. What raspber¬ 
ries, blackberries, currants aud gooseberries 
would be likely to do well in prairie land 25 
miles northeast of Sioux City ? 2. How should 
they be set out? 3. Can the Rural supply 
all the bark numbers for 1883? 
Ans. —1. Raspberries: Cuthbert,Turner, Han 
sell,Gregg. Blackberries: Kittatinny, Taylor, 
Snyder. Currants: White Grape, Fay’s Pro¬ 
lific. Gooseberries: Houghton. Downing. 2 
We must refer to back numbers. 3. No. 
W. R M., Vanceport, Pa.— My old and 
young Cuthbert Raspberry vines are affected 
with a species of fungus excrescence on the 
roots, and especially just at the top of the 
ground, while Philadelphia, Turner, Superb 
aud Hansel],planted close by, are free from it; 
what is it, and. is there a remedy? 
Ans.— It is probably the work of a gall in¬ 
sect. Send specimens to H. F. Bassett, Bran 
son Library, Waterbury, Conn., who is mak¬ 
ing a special study of the gall family. 
J. P., Ellendale, Del— What varieties of 
grapes would l>e best here for early, and what 
would be the best distance apart and the best 
trellis? 
Ans.—W e mention Moore’s Early for earli¬ 
est black, aud Lady for earliest white. Plant 
10 feet apart. Our frieud is referred to the 
Rural New-Yorker of February 18 for the 
best trellis. 
E. S. S., Eagle Harbor, N. Y— Where can 
1 get a seed drill that will distribute beet seeds 
evenly ? 
Ans. —Auy one of the baud seed drills can 
be used for sowing beet seed. There is very 
little choice between them; all that is re¬ 
quired is to use them carelully; four acres a 
day cau be sown with one of these drills quite 
easily. 
W. E. S. r Kewanee, III — Will salt sown 
upon the ground be an effective means of ex¬ 
terminating the white worm which has beeu 
so injurious to the coru crops of Illinois for 
some years. If SO, how much i>er aero should 
lie sown, when aud how; 
Ans.—W e do uot think that salt would dis¬ 
turb them unless sowu in quantities injurious 
to vegetation. 
I. S„ No Address .—Where can 1 obtain 
good work on farm drainage? 
Ans.— Wc had a most excellent series of ur 
tides ou drainage, covering the ground fully, 
iu the Rurals of last year. French’s Farm 
Drainage, $1.50; Khppart's ljuid Drainage, 
$ 1 . 75 — to be obtained of the American News 
Co., New York City—are good works. 
J. T. If., New Lisbon, Ohio —Where cau 
I procure Wild Rice for a carp pond? W hat 
other kinds of plants are good for a carp 
pond? 
Ans.— Of D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich 
or Hiram Sibley & Co., Chicago, Ill., and 
Rochester, N. Y. Water Lilies,Pickerel Weed, 
etc. 
Q. W r ., Table Chore, III.— What works 
treat on Window Flower Gardening? 
Ans.—H einrich’s Window Flower Garden, 
price 75c.; Williams’s Window Gardening, 
price $1.50; E S. Rand’s, The Window Gar¬ 
dener, price $1.25. To be obtained of Robert 
Clarke & Co., 61, 63 aud 65, W. Fourth (Street, 
Cincinnati, Ohio 
B. M., Waukesha, Wm—W hat is a good 
work on orchard aud small-fruit culture? 
Ans.— Barry’s Fruit Garden, price $2.50; 
Fuller's Small-Fruit Cltlturist, price $1.50; 
Roe’s Success with Small Fruits, price $5. To 
be obtained of George W. Clarke & Co., 61, 
63 aud 65 W. Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
G. W. A,, Jr., Orange, N. J. — l. Where 
can Pea-fowls or eggs be purchased? 2. Can 
Pea-fowl eggs be hatched by common poultry? 
3. How can the fowls be raised 
Ans.— 1. From W. Atlee Burpee & Co., 
and Benson Mnule & Co., both of Pblladel 
phia. 2. Yes. 3. The same as other fowls 
T. E. McC., Keyser , W. Fa.—Where can 
wire be obtained for the vineyard, and w hat 
is the best number for wiring? 
Ans.—P atterson & Brothers, 27 Park Row, 
New York City. No. 10 annealed iron is 
about right, although No. 12 is strong enough, 
and will give many more feet to the pound, 
C. C. C. M., Spring Hill, Kansas.—Do mag¬ 
nolias, Akobia quinata, currants aud goose¬ 
berries grow from cuttiugs? 
Ans. —Currants aud gooseberries are propa 
gated by cuttings, but umguolias from seeds 
and layers, Akebiu quinata from seeds, cut¬ 
tings and layers. 
4 Reader, Gardener, III., and F. L. Camp 
bell, N. Y. —Where cau White Cochin eggs 
and fowls he obtained? 
ANS.—Of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., and Ben¬ 
son, Maule & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Eggs 
$3 per 13; fowls, $12 per pair. We know of 
no persons in the West dealing in this breed 
of fowls. 
G. L. H., Shell Rock, Kan.—l. Where cau 
I obtain Yellow-Wood seed? 2. Does freezing 
improve the vitality of seed coru ? 
Ans,— Of Robert Douglas. Waukegan, 111., 
J. M. Tboraburn & Co., 15 John Street, N. 
Y.; or Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
2. Not at all; it injures it. 
C. H. B., Adrian, Mich.—t. Where is a pa¬ 
per devoted exclusively to dairying published? 
2. Where is the Wester,tt “return” pail made? 
Ans.— 1. The American Dairyman,7 Murray 
Street, New York, weekly, price $1.50 a year, 
o Westcott Return Pail Company, Syracuse, 
N. Y. 
G. J.. Dailsvillc, Md.— Where can I get Rut¬ 
ter’s work on Peach Culture, aud what is its 
price; 
Ans.— It is offered for sale by C. IT. Marat, 
814 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, $1 in cloth; 
60 cents in paper. 
Colic.—F or colic in horse or man try a 
dose of kerosene oil; half a gill for a lioi se. 
one teaspoonful for a man. It is the best 
remedy I have ever tried, aud will give re¬ 
lief in 10 minutes. a. c. small. 
Langley, S. C. 
,/. D. T., Oak Grove, III— What should be 
the treatment for a sprained pastern joint in 
a horse ? 
Ans.— Apply cold water bandages, keep 
them wet and let the animal rest. Nothing 
more is required. 
R. K., Bethany, Can. — Where can I get a 
trio of Langshan fowls, and at what price? 
ANS.—Of w. Atlee Burpee & Co., Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., price $10 a pair, $15 for a trio; 
G. H. Pugsley, Brantford, Out. We do not 
know his prices. 
C. B. H., Hobart, X. Y.— Where can the 
Koran be obtaiuod, and the price? 
Ans.— Of any bookseller, or of the Ameri¬ 
can News Companv, New York City. There 
are various editions, costing from 30 cents up¬ 
wards. 
Several inquirers have asked for the issue 
of the Rural for December 1 last, containing 
• All About Cranberry Culture.” Our supply 
of that issue is exhausted, wc are sorry to say, 
and still several of the orders for itare un¬ 
filled. 
J. B. O., Ottawa, Arm. —Where stable 
manure can be hail for the hauling, what is 
the value of refuse from a soap factory as a 
fertilizer? 
Ans.—I t is of no value. Use the stable ma¬ 
nure. 
McK. M., Tunis Mills, Md.— Where cau 
Sebright Bantams be bought, and what is the 
price? 
Ans.—O f B. Perry, Woodbury, N. J. You 
can get the price of him ou application. 
C. B O., Ottawa, Kan .—Nurserymen ad¬ 
vertise the W ild-goose aud Miner Plums ou 
both plum and peach stocks; which is the bet¬ 
ter tree? 
Ans.— That on the plum by all means. 
E. G. S., Athens, Ohio .—What is the best 
fertilizer for sweet potatoes on very sandy 
land? 
Ans.—W ell decomposed farm manure with 
bone dust and wood ashes. 
J. II. Huntingdon.— W ill the new seedling 
gooseberries of Mr. James Dougal be offered 
for sale soon ? 
Ans.—We do not. know. Write to him. 
Windsor, Out,, Canada. 
II. G. P., Bl/nd Farm, Pa.— Where cau I 
get. the best hand cultivator? 
ANS.—It is difficult to say which is thebest. 
All those advertised iu the Rural are good 
S. W. //., Kent. City, Mich. —Where cau I 
obtain good seed corn ? 
Ans.—O f any of the seedsmen who adver¬ 
tise iu the RURaL. 
Inquirer, Lisle, N. 1.—How can Morning 
Glories aud Live-for Ever be eradicated? 
Ans.—R epeated plowing iu Bummer will 
kill both. 
S. T. S., Norway, la.— Arc Redding & Co., 
721 Broadway, New York, reliable? 
Ans.—Y es. 
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Saturday. Feb. 16. 
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