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CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
C. F. Illick, Waterloo, X. Y.—Circular 
and price-list of choice seed potatoes. 
L. M. Goodkll, Amherst,Mass. A catalogue 
of seeds with a colored plate of pausies. 
A. M. Purdy, Palmyra. N. Y. Descriptive 
catalogue of all kinds of small Iruits, fruit 
trees, etc. 
E. Y, Teas, Duureith, Henry County, Ind. 
Catalogue of fruits, shrubs, trees, etc. Catal- 
pas a specialty. 
H. S Anderson, Union Springs, N. Y. 
Descriptive illustrated catalogue of small 
fruits, grapes, apples, pears, peaches, etc., as 
well as shrubs and trees. 
Joseph Hauris, Moreton Farm, Rochester, 
Y.—An illustrated catalogue of field, gar¬ 
den and flower seeds. The catalogue is made 
interesting ami instructive by Mr. Harris’s fa¬ 
miliar talks. 
Vix, morin, Andkieux & Co., 4 Quai de la 
y isserie, Paris, France. An illustrated 
catalogue of 200 pages of seeds of all kinds. 
This Ann is one of the largest in the world. 
Our readers may apply for this as for Ameri¬ 
can catalogues. 
Porter Blanchard’s Sons, Concord, N. 
H.—Circular of the Blaucbard Butter-worker. 
Among the many letters of praise, we note one 
from Henry Stewart, who says that it is more 
easily operated than any he has ever tried, 
and he has “ ‘tried all that are in the market.” 
Geo. W. Campbell, Delaware, Ohio. Cata¬ 
logue of hardy grape-vines, fruit trees, small 
fruits, etc. The lists of grapes are specially 
well chosen. Mr. Campbell speaks of the 
Early Victor (Burr) as one of the hardiest, 
healthiest and most productive varieties 
grown. 
John S. Collins, Moorestown, N. J. — Il¬ 
lustrated catalogue of grapes, and small fruits 
of all kinds. Besides a list of fruits in general, 
specialties are made of the Eai’ly Cluster 
Blackberry, the Hansell and Marlboro Rasp¬ 
berries and the Kieff er Pear, of which a color¬ 
ed plate is given. 
Wm. H. Smith (late of the firm of Henry A. 
Dreer) 1018 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Illustrated seed catalogue of 10<J pages. The 
lists nr* long ,.ud full. A colored plate of the 
Dakota Red Potato, White potatoes are uow 
the fashion. Red potatoes will have their 
turn again before many years. 
William Rennie, Toronto, Canada.—Illus¬ 
trated catalogue of seeds, etc. Mr. Rennie 
offers such kinds of Indian corn as Canada 
Y ellow, Compton’s Early, etc. We do not be¬ 
lieve that the Rural Union iDeut) Corn will 
ripen in Canada, and we do not advise our 
Canadian subscribers to try it. In this cata¬ 
logue the Rural Blush Potato is offered. 
The Field Force Pump Co., Lockport, 
N, Y. — Illustrated circular of cistern and 
force pumps. These pumps, it is claimed, will 
throw a stream 60 feet, and the smaller sizes 
are especially adapted for spraying fruit 
trees and sprinkling poisonous liquids on 
plants. An attachment for hose comes with 
every pump. The circular should be examined 
by those wishing pumps. 
James M.Thorburn A: Co., 15 John Street, 
New York City. Catalogue of seeds, garden, 
lawn, farm and nursery. This is a very plain 
catalogue of 100 pages, and as trustworthy in 
every way as any published. The Early May¬ 
flower Potato is made a specialty. It is said 
to be as early as the Early Rose, and the best 
keeper ever introduced. The originator 
claims to have kept them in his cellar a year 
with quality nearly unimpaired. 
Price & Knickerbocker, SO State Street, 
Albany, N Y. Illustrated catalogue of 65 
pages of gardeu, field and flower seeds and 
cultural details. One of this firm’s specialties 
is the new- Early Sunrise Potato which, it 
is said, has produced tubers fit for the table in 
50 days. That it is a very early potato our 
readers are already aware from the Rural’s 
tests. Caution is gi veu that another potato 
called “Sunrise” is offered. It is claimed for 
their new Peeand Kay Sweet Corn that though 
very early the ears are very large. For other 
specialties the catalogue must be consulted. 
The Dinsee and Coxard Co,. West Grove, 
Chester County, Pa. An illustrated catalogue 
of roses, and guide to their culture, with two 
colored plates. All needed instructions as to 
tlie cultivation of roses, whether in the house 
or open• ground, will he found in this inter¬ 
esting treatise. This company offer the largest 
stock of roses in America, and their dealings 
with patrons are ever of the most liberal kind. 
You wbolove roses should send for this cata¬ 
logue: you who do not appreciate them, 
should likewise send for it. It will perhaps 
set you to questioning yourself how this could 
possibly have bam 
Joseph Breck & Sons, 51, 52 and 53 North 
Market Street. Boston, Mass. A handsome 
catalogue of 110 pages of everything for the 
field and garden, including plows, rakes, cul- 
vators and other implements. Among the 
specialties is the Pearl of Savoy Potato, which 
the}' claim is the earliest potato in cultiva¬ 
tion. It is said to be a cross between Clark’s 
No. 1 and the Ex. Early Vermont, and to be 
15 to 20 days earlier than the Early Rose. The 
sum of $200 is offered for the largest yield 
under conditions which the catalogue ex¬ 
plains. The catalogue presents several col¬ 
ored plates and a loDg list of rare seeds, etc. 
Diseases and In.turirs of the Horse.— 
This work of 332 pages is a compilation from 
various other works on veterinary science and 
practice, principally the latter. It is designed 
chiefly for the non professional public. No 
originality is claimed for the book, as the 
greater portion of it is made up of extracts 
taken verbatim from the works of Gen. Fitz- 
wygram, Prof. Williams and Prof. Robin¬ 
son, as well as from those of Pereivall. Gam- 
gee, Hayes, Youatt, Maliew and others. It is 
copiously illustrated with four colored plates 
and 108 wood engravings, but the illustrations 
too are familiar, having been copied from 
other works. We can hardly approve a patch- 
work of this sort, but as technicalities are 
mostly avoided and considerable judgment 
exercised in compilingit, it would no doubt be 
very useful to horse-owners who are not al¬ 
ready supplied with a work on diseases of the 
horse. It is edited by F. O. Kirby and pub¬ 
lished by William Wood & Co., New York. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
(Every query must be accompanied by the uame 
and address of the writer to Insure attention.) 
GRASSES FOR PERMANENT PASTURE, ETC. 
C. L. F., Naples, N. Y.— 1. How should I 
take a car-load of sheep to New York to be 
fairly dealt with? 2. Would the Rural 
Thoroughbred Flint and the Waushakum 
Coras ripen here? 3. What grass and clover 
seed mixture should be sowed with rye next 
Spring for a permanent pasture? 
A ns.—L It would not be judicious to send 
the sheep until arrangements are made with a 
commission agent in the market. The princi¬ 
pal sheep market is at 60th Street, N. Y. 
Once an arrangement is made with a respect¬ 
able agent, stock can be shipped afterwards 
without difficulty. 2, It is doubtful as to the 
first: probably the second would mature. 3. 
Mixi>d grasses for permanent pasture should 
not be sown with a grain crop. The prepara¬ 
tions require to be made with the utmost care; 
the rye stubble should be plowed and harrow¬ 
ed in the most thorough manner and the seed 
sown alone as early as possible. It would be 
useless to try to get permanent grass on any 
but highly manured or naturallv rich soil. 
The mixture may be as follows: 10 pounds of 
Red Clover, 12 pounds of Orchard Grass, eight 
pounds of Meadow Oat Grass, eight pounds of 
Meadow Fescue; six pounds of Meadow Foxtail 
and five pounds of Timothy, If the weather is 
dry at the sowing, the ground should be well 
rolled. 
Miscellaneous. 
C. M. P. No address .— 1. How is Khedive 
pronounced? 2. Can a person of ordinary 
strength plow a gardeu with a hand-plow? 3. 
Is there a hand planter that will plant corn 
in hills or drills? 4. How should lately cut 
chestnut posts be treated to prevent them 
from splitting? 5. Will a one-horse Acme 
Harrow pulverize plowed laud enough for 
seeding to oats? 6. Would the Acme be 
harder for one horse to draw than the com¬ 
mon A-barrow with nine teeth? 7. Does the 
Acme tear the turf or break it down? 
Ans.— 1. Kay-dee or Ked-deevc. 2. A good 
haud-plow will turn a light soil live inches deep; 
half au acre a day can be plowed by a stout 
man in 10 hours. 3. There is a hand-planter 
in the market but it operates no quicker than 
one cau drop by hand and cover with the toot. 
An objection to it is that one cannot see the 
seed drop. 4. If the posts are as solid as they 
should be, there is no reason to fear they will 
split. It would be entirely safe to let them 
season slowly under cover liefore setting them. 
5. Yes. 6. Yes. 7. No. It presses the sod 
down ami covers it with loose soil. 
J. K. Somerset, Ky — 1. Which should 
lie sown for fodder—Cauuda field peas or 
Southern cow peas? 2. In the absence of 
straw will sawdust do for ruulchiug straw¬ 
berries? 3. Last Summer my currants and 
and gooseberries were denuded of leaves by a 
small bug, like the male striped squash bug, 
except that the back was a light browu in¬ 
stead of being striped; what was it? 
Ans.— 1. Southern cow peas. 2 We would c 
not advise the use of sawdust as a mulch for 1 
strawberries. It is too heating and would 1 
probably cause the leaves to bum. Use leaf i 
mold from the woods, put on three inches 
thick, leaving the crowns exposed if applied , 
in the Spring. In Winter the crown maybe i 
covered and the mulch removed from around 
it in the Spring. 8. The Rose bug, for which ] 
so far as we know no practical remedy has 
been suggested. We have advised hand¬ 
picking. It is said that caustic lime applied 
to the bushes wheu the dew is on. will prevent 
serious damage, but we have not tried it. 
IF. S. R., No Address.— 1. Are apples on 
Paradise stock hardy and long-lived? 2. 
Which are the six best varieties of apples for 
family use? 3. What are three or four good 
varieties of plums for northern Indiana. 4. 
Wbat is the address of a strictly reliable nur¬ 
seryman? 
Ans. —1. They are perfectly hardy in this 
climate. We don’t know how long-lived they 
are. 2. It would be impossible to say that auy 
six were the best. Besides, what might be ex¬ 
cellent for one locality, might not give good 
satisfaction in another. The following are ex¬ 
cellent:—King of Tompkins County, Swaar, 
Winesap. Esopus Spitzenburgb, Lady Apple, 
Newtowu Pippin, and Primate. S. Coe’s Gold¬ 
en Drop, Jefferson, and Green Gage. 4. Any 
that advertise in the Rural are reliable. 
T. Q. V., Fort Scott, Kans.—l. Wbat varie¬ 
ties of potatoes would tie the most profitable 
for yield and quality, early, medium, and 
late ? 2. How would a rocky, limestone soil 
of a chocolate color do for potatoes ? 3. Who 
sells the best “ seed ” in this section ? 
Ans. —1. For late we should choose Late 
Beauty of Hebron or White Elephant; for 
intermediate. White Star; for early, Early 
Beauty of Hebron. We test mauy new kinds 
of potatoes every season, but it requires seve¬ 
ral seasons to determine the general value of 
a potato. 2. We can not answer. 3. We 
should order of any well known seedsman, 
such as the St. Louis Plant Seed Company, St. 
Louis, Mo. 
W. M. D., Joliet, III—Why did my celery 
all grow to seed-stalks last Summer, thereby 
proving useless? 
Ans.— We do not think that the quality of 
the seed had anything to do with causing the 
plants to run to seed. You may have sown 
the seed too early in the season, or else you set 
out the plants too early. One of these reasous 
is undoubtedly the cause of your failure. D 
you do not think so, let us know when and 
how you sowed the seed and your subsequent 
treatment of the plants, and then we shall 
know to a certainty the cause of your failure. 
J. H. L., Pawnee City, Neb.—I, Will the 
mixing of unleached ashes with stable manure 
injure the latter? Would it be better to sepa¬ 
rate the ashes and apply separately ? 2. Will 
cherries grow and fruit if grafted on plum 
(wild) stocks? 
Ans— 1. Yes. The potash of the ashes may 
set the ammonia free from the manure, audiu 
that way you may los« a valuable fertilizing 
element. 2. Yes. But why should a person 
wish to graft on plum stock when cherry is in 
every way superior? We would not advise it. 
A Subscriber , Norwich, N. Y. —How arc 
peas shelled in canning factories? 
Ans. —Peas are shelled by hand. Various 
machines have been invented to save this la¬ 
bor, but they have never proved successful, 
as the peas become injured by any contact 
with machinery that would have to exert a 
force hard enough to break the pod Some 
parties have attempted to use steam or hot 
water to burst the pod, but it has a tendency 
to shrink the peas or otherwise injure them. 
A. W.T, Wfihpeton, D. T.—l. In the Rural 
Seed Reports of January 19, W, R. A. says 
nine hills of Blush Potatoes yielded 25 bushels; 
should the word be bushels or pounds ? 2, 
Would millet do well so far north as this Red 
River Valley f 3, Where can I get Canada 
Flint Corn ? 
Ans. —1. Pounds. 2. We do do uot know 
as to millet. Hungarian Grass (a millet) will 
be reaily to cut w ith you in 70 dqys or less. 3. 
Of any seedsman. 
J. W. C., Groom's Corners, N. 1’.—1. Home 
say that potatoes should be planted in the 
“old of the moon.” Does the stage of 
the moon at the time of plautiug make any 
difference in the yield? 2. Which kind of 
harrow would be best for me to buy? 
Anh.- 1. We do uot think it makes any differ¬ 
ence. 2. We cannot advise—so much depeuds 
! upon your soil. We use Sulky Spring Har¬ 
rows, Smoothing Harrows, Disc Harrow's anil 
the Acme. 
A. IF., no address.— 1, How should cow 
[ stable manure that is heating, be treated? 2. 
i Should fatteniug cattle be fed in the middle 
, of the day ? 
Ans —1. Turn the manure over; it will not 
beat injuriously if it is mod© flat on the top 
of the heap and exposed to the rain. 2. Fat¬ 
tening cattle will do better if fed three or 
four times a day. A little and often, is far 
more effective than much and seldom. 
W. M B., Oarrolton. Mo.— Wbat is the 
matter with my Hydrangeapauioulata grandi- 
flora? When it first bloomed the petals w ere 
green; then they became white, and finally 
brown spots appeared on the white, the leaves 
turned brown and dropped off before bloom¬ 
ing was over. 
Ans.—T he trouble might have been due to 
drought. If not, the roots were injured by 
something. 
J. C. L Croswell , Mich,— What is the price 
of cotton seed meal, and where can it be ob¬ 
tained? What would be the probable cost per 
ton to transport it to Port Huron, Mich. 
Ans.— Of Hollister & Co., 20 Broad Street, 
New York City. It costs about *25 per ton, 
the price fluctuating more or less. It will 
cost in the neighborhood of three dollars a ton 
to transport it to Port Huron from New York. 
E. B., Paris. Ark.— 1. What sort of grape 
would be best for this section ? 2. Does millet 
hay injure horses ? 
Ans —1, We would advise you to send for 
the catalogue of Bush & Sou & Meissner, ol 
Bushberg, Jefferson Co., Mo. Examine this 
and you can judge for yourself better than we 
can for you. 2. No, if the millet has been cut f 
in the flower, as it should be. 
D. B. B., Amity, Pa.—Why can’t I raise a 
good crop of cabbage on very rich bottom 
garden soil, which produces fine crops of pota - 
toes, onions, beets, and tomatoes ? 
Ans.— Very likely the failure is due to club- 
roots, caused by planting cabbages too many 
seasons on the same land. 
C. /?., Detroit, Mich.—flow can cucumbers 
be artificially “fertilized?” 
Ans— Merely by applying the pollen from 
the male flowers to the stigmas of the female 
flowers. This will often insure fertilization in 
the absence of insects. 
F. B., Col. Co., N. Y., asks if it is better to 
burn ovster shells and bones or feed them raw 
to poultry. 
Ans.— It is better to burn shells. Feed the 
bones raw ground to the size of wheat kernels. 
H N, Anstead, IF. Va.— Where can I get 
Plymouth Rock chickens? 
Axs.-From A.P. or M. B. Rowe, Fredericks¬ 
burg, Va.; W. Atlee Burpee & Co., and Ben¬ 
son, Maule & Co . Philadelphia. Pa 
A. M Y. , Aqueboffue, N. Y. —1. Is the Cross¬ 
bred Diehl Mediterranean Wheat a Spring or 
Winter wheat? 2. Is the new rye a Spring or 
or W inter rye ? 
Ans.— 1 and 2. Winter. 
“ Subscriber ," Boston, Mass.— Of whom can 
I purchase genuine Shumaker Peach trees? 
Ans.— We see they are offered in the cata¬ 
logue of J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, Monmouth 
County, N. J. 
H. L. A., Garfield, Col— Wbat are the char¬ 
acteristics of the Langsban fowls? 
Ans —They are much like the Black 
Cochins in all respects. 
W. G. O., Poughkeepsie, N. F.—Where can 
I procure Pekin ducks? 
Ans.— L. Miller, Stockbridge, Mass. ; A. W. 
Watson, Perry, N. Y. 
S. M., Trenton, Tern.—How can a wart be 
removed from the upper eyelid of a heifei ? 
Ans.—B y tying a ligature tightly round the 
base of it. 
M. D., Gilman, III,— Wbat is the best Win¬ 
ter apple for this climate for long keeping? 
Ans.— Ben Davis. 
A. J. IF., Crawfordville , Ind .—Where can 
I get rock salt for stock? 
Ans.— Through the nearest grocer. 
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