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THE BUBAL NEW-YOBWEB, 
•JULY n 
good. Corn is being laid by, and the prospects 
are very fine. Stock is doing well, and land 
is on the boom, worth from *5 to $50 per acre. 
B. F. T. 
Peoria City, Franklin Co , June 25.—We 
had a backward Spring, but we have nice 
growing weather now, and crops look well, 
but small. M - y . *• 
Maryland. 
W estover, Somerset Co , June 20 —Since 
mv last report corn has improved much in ap 
pearance and growth. Wheat is about all 
harvested; so is the hay crop. Oats will be 
short. Corn ts worth here 60c.; oats, 45c. and 
50c.; wheat. *1,1* and *1.20; butter. 25c. and 
30c ; eggs, 15c. During the past two weeks 
we have had a good supply of rain. At the 
present writing we arc having a cold north¬ 
east storm of wind and rain, a supplement to 
the one we had two weeks ago. Stock is look 
ing well, arid most crops are making a good 
growth. c - 
Michigan. 
MApt. ETON, Grand Traverse Co., June 23.— 
The past Winter was severe. Peach buds were 
nearly all killpd. Apples and pears came 
through all right, and bid fair to yield a good 
crop. Considerable damage was done by the 
late spring frosts, followed by dry weather. 
The hay crop will be light: wheat and oats 
will also be light, unless we get rain soon. 
Strawberries almost a failure. f. e. b. 
OsilTKMO, Tvalamazoo Co., June 20.— Rain, 
rain is the order of the day. F.very day it 
rains, and the temperature is high, or has been 
lor u week —hot nights uud hotter days, 70° to 
75° all night, and *0" at sunrise, 90° to 95° at 
noon. Of course, corn is getting along speed¬ 
ily: go are weeds. . Com is further along than 
it was last, year on July 20. Wheat has got 
along bettor than I have ever scon it. since the 
first of May: but too much rain may bring dis¬ 
appointment at, the harvest, as much Ls laid, 
and with r.Ris hot, rainy weather some of it 
must, get damaged Oats are very promising, 
and so is grass on heavy lands; on light soils 
sorrel has taken the field. Potatoes aro look 
ing well, and the bugs are lively and in force; 
the rains ure in their favor. Peaches, none; 
apples not as promising as at the blossoming 
time; Home kinds half a crop, and the Bald 
wins perhaps a full crop.. Small fruits an 
abundant crop. The Rural New-Yorker Pea 
was tit to eat 57 days from planting, and ripe in 
04 days. Landreth’s Extra Early, planted the 
same day, ure just in condition to eat. Of the 
Rural Corn 1 have 154 plants growing, and 
they look very promising now, and are waist- 
high, and every cue puts forth from two to 
four suckers to u stalk. On the whole, the sea¬ 
son is very remarkable: from present appear¬ 
ances there w ill be no lack of abundant, crops, 
unless these rains continue another week; in 
that case the out look may be serious, Tboouly 
drawback in making good our last year's losses 
w ill be low prices, and this we feel in case of 
the first, commodity we offer this year; wool 
17c. to 20c. per pound will not pay. and yet 
“Stockman” thinks it but just to admit wool 
duty free. Dues the Rural indorse that? 
[No.— EPS.] T. P. D. 
Minnesota. 
Bkavek Cheek, Rock Co., June 25.—Flax 
is the crop in which farmers have the most 
money in South-western Minnesota. The ear¬ 
liest sown is first-rate, but that is not 10 per 
cent, of the crop. The latest sown—and that 
isone-tbird of the whole—has not, half growu on 
account of dry weather; the rest is very weedy 
and will probably yield half a crop. The late 
sown is not likely to be worth harvesting. 
Wheat is short, thin, and of poor color, owing 
to dry weather at the last of May and first of 
June. Oats are fair, but not so good as last 
year or the year before. Burley Is short, and 
thin. Corn is vary good, but not half the 
usual urea was planted. Tame grasses are 
light. We had a shower on the 22d and an¬ 
other ou the 25th; but they came too late to 
make the crops mentioned as good as last year 
or the year before, except the corn. Very 
large wheat crops with very small prices, 
make very sick farmers and farmers 1 sons. 
L. D. M. 
Missouri. 
Bloomfield,S toddard Co.. Juno 1*—South 
eastern Missouri bos very much to commend 
it, to those wnn'ing a mild climate, rich land, 
excellent water, fine timber, bcs.des great 
mineral wealth, and it is also a splendid fruit 
country. I thiuk if its merits were fully 
known, we should get much of the Western 
immigration. m a b. 
New York. 
Royai.ton, Niagara Co.. N. Y., June 25.— 
Crops look well Grass lms grown rapidly all 
the season, and farmers are soon to begin hay¬ 
ing. The midge is injuring the clover. Corn 
is growing fast. For several days the ther¬ 
mometer has stood at 88**, and yesterday it 
stood at 90° on the north porch a little after 
noon. A shower this afternoon has cooled the 
air somew hat. 
A. S. B. 
PA IKY QUERIES; MANAGEMENT OF MANURE. 
A. L. 8., Hickory, N. C.~1. In building a 
spring trough for a milk box. which would be 
the best material to use—brick laid in cement, 
rock laid in cement, or oak plank? No ice is 
to be used, as a constant, st ream of pure spring 
water will run through the milk box in which 
my milk and cream will be set. 2. Will it be 
advisable to keep the milk in running water in 
Winter as well ns Summer? If not. how can 
I use the spring house in Winter and main¬ 
tain the right, temperature? Would it be ad¬ 
visable to use one of the patent creamers under 
such circumstances? I would like to employ a 
medium system of setting—neither deep nor 
shallow —what pans would suit best? 4, What 
should Ik? the width of cow stalls feet 
long? What is the easiest way to fasten cows 
in their stalls without the use of stanchions? 
5. Should cow manure bo stored under a abed, 
or spread on the fields while fresh. 6. Which 
pays the better—to sell Jersey milk at 20 cents 
a gallon, or Jersey butler at 25 cents a pound? 
ANSWERED BY HENRY STEWART. 
1, If you have brick, build up a foundation 
of solid stone, about 1* inches high; on this 
spread w ater lime mortar or cement, made of 
one part of cement and two of fine sand, about 
two inches thick. Then build a brick wall 
around this, laying the bricks flat lengthwise, 
to make a wall four inches thick, and raise it 
one foot high. As the wall is built, plaster the 
Inside with the cement one inch thick; also lay 
the bricks in the cement, soaking them in 
water before laving them. Then smoothly 
plaster the whole, inside and out, with clear 
cement. Fit a wooden cap-frame around the 
extreme top us u protection, with n two-inch 
molding inside uud outside, and puiut it. 2.This 
makes un excellent, milk cooler, and when the 
weather is too warm, a cover may i-e fitted 
over it to retain the coolness; but this is 
scarcely needed excepting in very warm 
weather, as the cream is all the better to bo 
exposed to an atmosphere warmer than the 
water. When there is danger of freezing or 
of too low u temperature, ttn? water may bo 
stopped and the pots set in the empty trough. 
In this case the cover may he found neelul, or 
a fire may be kept, in the milk house. 8. For 
such an arrangement, as this, one may use the 
earthen war.-? milk pots holdiug about six or 
eight quarts; those are about 10 inches deep, 
and about eight, inches across the top tttid four 
across the bottom, and made of the red clay 
with glazing inside Such pots as these are 
common In the fine dairies of Pennsylvania, 
and are very cleanly, durable, and entirely 
unobjectionable. If you cannot find them in 
your locality, a substit ute can be made of tin 
of a similar shape, with ears ou the sides to 
lift them by. These are set down in the water 
about as deep as they arc filled with milk. 
The very useful creamers arc* designed for 
use where there are no such facilities as you 
possess, or for use ID. larger dairies where 
economy of space is au object. 4 See late Ru¬ 
ral's for full information on these topics. 5. 
It is quite immaterial what is done with the 
manure so long as it gets on the laud without 
waste and in the most convenient, manner. 
When* there is a manure cellar, it Ls best to 
leave it, there until it is wanted in the field; 
where there is none, it is best to pile it in fiat, 
heaps in the yard, using plenty of litter to ab¬ 
sorb the valuable liquid. The rain will not 
hurt it. if the yard is not flooded from the 
roof. Other manure should be mixed with it, 
if possible. W hen it can be used at, once, it 
may just as well be carried out to the land, as 
it gains nothing by keeping, and if not well 
kept it will lose, fi Jersey milk ut 20 cents a 
gallon is about the same as butter at 25 cents 
a pound, not counting in the skimmed milk 
But where valuable calves are reared, the 
skimmed milk may be worth a good deal. A 
calf five days old may be fed on skimmed 
milk, if it is wanned the same as new milk, 
and is quite sweet., and as good a cow can be 
thus raised as ou new milk. This is the com¬ 
mon practice now in the best dairies, and even 
with the fanciest of the Jersey herds. My 
cows have all been reared in this way. 
TROUBLE WITH FRUIT TREES. 
J. B. W., Charlton Depot , Mass.— 1. I in¬ 
close some leaves of peach trees; what ails 
them? 2. Something cuts off the ends of the 
young growth of my currant bushes a short 
distance from the end; w hat is it? 3. I have 
some young apple trees sadly infested with 
ants, which sreiu to eat out the terminal buds 
of the shoots: how can I get rid of them? 
Ans. — 1. The leaves were badly dried when 
received, and it was very difficult to judge 
from their condition, what was the trouble 
with the trees. We are of the opinion, how¬ 
ever, that the trouble is due to the curl-leaf. 
This is very prevalent this year in all peach 
orchards, and sometimes gets so bad as to 
cause all the fruit to drop from the trees. It 
is supposed to l»e caused by cold northeast 
winds, and the trees recover after the settled 
w arm weather of Summer has time to develop 
a new growth. One of the leaves had the ap¬ 
pearance of yellow’s; but a person can easily 
tell the presence of this plague. If it is the 
yellows, there will be, all along the larger 
branches, manj fine shoots growing, with long, 
narrow leaves; these are an almost constant 
accompaniment, of the yellows when far 
enough advanced to show much in the leaves. 
2. From the very meager description, we 
should charge the damage to some species of 
climbing cut-worm. The best thing to do is 
to look the bushes over after dark by the aid 
of a lantern, and catch and kill the pests. 3. 
The ants do no harm whatever to the trees; 
they are there merely after the aphides which 
probably cover the young growth, and which 
cause the damage which you charge to the 
ants. Spraying the branches with the kero¬ 
sene emulsion or with Buhach solution, or 
with whakvoil soap-suds, will entirely destroy 
the aphides, and the ants will not visit the 
trees when their food is no longer there. 
CATARRH OF THE AIR-PASSAGES IN A HORSE, 
ETC. 
M. S. If., Maryville, Mo .—My horse has 
had a cough for about eight months, with a 
running at the nostrils, and occasionally ho 
coughs np a mucous phlegm. The matter from 
the nostrils is thick, the color of straw. He 
eats well, and his hair looks well. He has 
always been sore in the shoulders, but appears 
to be getting worse of late: how should he be 
treated? 2. Would it pay to use commercial 
fertilizers here? Wouldn’t the freight eat up 
all the profit? 
Ans. —1. The trouble is catarrh of the bron- 
cbie or air-passages of the throat and lungs,and 
also of the nasal sinuses, probably the result 
of a severe cold or an attack of influenza. 1 he 
treatment should be as follows: Give one 
ounce of hyposulphite of soda daily for a 
month or two. Powder chlorate of potash 
very fine, and to one ounce of it add as much 
of sub nitrate of bismuth and powdered gum- 
arabic, mixing thoroughly. Take as much of 
the powder as will lie upon a dime, nud blow 
it through a small tube of paper, or a tin pipe, 
into each nostril. Stir the drinking water 
with a stick dipped in pine tar. Give also a 
bran uiaah warm every evening. Keep a 
close watch upon the Interior of the nostrils, 
and if leaden-colored patches or red sores with 
leaden-colorod rings around them, appear, 
consult a veterinary surgeon at once, and 
keep the horse by itself, as glanders may be 
feared. 2. You can procure fertilizers at St. 
Louis or Kansas City. Castor pomace cun be 
bought at the oil mills (Brown & Co.) of Bt. 
Louis for ** per ton, and is a remarkably cheap 
fertilizer. Bouo and blood fertilizers can also 
be bought in your State cheaper than in the 
East, and as the fertilizer is a small affair, 
they ought to be sold with profit. 
PILES IN pigs: bloating in cows. 
J. M„ Nichols, N. Y. —1. What is the cause 
of piles iu pigs, and what is a remedy? 2. At 
various times 1 have lost several calves that 
refused their regular feed, though they ap¬ 
peared iu good health, but in a few hours they 
became bloated and died: what ailed them? 
Ans.— t. Piles is caused by costiveness pro¬ 
duced by disorder of the liver. The gut lx*, 
comes irritated and congested, the circulation 
is interfered with; the blood is arrested iu the 
veins and smaller vessels, and the membrane 
and tissues are swollen and thickened, or 
rounded tumors are formed. Tbe cure is, to 
give linseed oil in two-ounce doses two or three 
times, and three grains of podophyllin, daily 
afterwards for several days. The swollen gut 
should be dressed with common cerate oint¬ 
ment. to which a small quantity of finely pow¬ 
dered sulphate of zinc is added. The food 
should be cooling and laxative; green clover, 
and boiled brau mashed with a little linseed, 
would be desirable. 2. Bloating is always 
caused by indigestion and fermentation of the 
food iu the stomach. To prevent it, the quan¬ 
tity of tbe food should be reduced one-hair for 
a few days; a dose of one tablespoonful of lin¬ 
seed oil should be given one hour before feed¬ 
ing in the morning, for three days. Overfeed¬ 
ing is the uotnmon cause of this complaint. 
Death occurs either by rupture of the stomach 
or by suffocation from pressure upon tbe lungs. 
HOUSING SHEEP IN WINTER, ETC. 
M. M. IT., Belle Vernon, Fa.—l. Will it do 
to dig potatoes the first of August for winter 
use to clear the land for turnips. 2. Would 
turnips, corn, oil-meal and bran, without 
mangels, be sufficient to keep sheep healthy 
in the stables all the time during Winter? 
Ans.— 1. Yes. Dry them thoroughly, and 
store them in a cool cellar in uot too large 
quantities, so as to avoid heating. Give plenty 
of air, but exclude the light entirely, or cover 
tbe potatoes with straw. Light will cause 
them to turn green. 2. Plenty of turnips will 
take the place of mangels, although they do 
not keep till late Winter nearly as well. Feed 
enough, so that the sheep will not got costive, 
and give plenty of water, and see that the 
barns are thoroughly ventilated. The great¬ 
est difficulty in keeping sheep constantly in the 
barns is the want of systematic ventilation. 
Mr. Woodward’s barns are supplied with trunks 
or boxes about 18 inches square on the inside, 
running from the sheep busements to the ridge 
of the barn, and these by opening windows on 
the lee side, remove nil vitiated air without 
strong currents blowing on the sheep. Good 
ventilation and plenty of succulent food, 
whether mangels, turnips, potatoes, or ensil¬ 
age, will keep the sheep healthy, and with these 
out-door exercise is a curse. 
POULTRY RAISERS, ATTENTION! 
II. C. Robinson, Aiken, S. C .—Having in 
view the raising of poultry for market, I wish 
to become thoroughly and practically ac¬ 
quainted with the proper management of a 
poultry-yard, where tbe business is conducted 
on a moderately extensive scale, and for that 
purpose would like to spend several weeks in 
an intelligent neighborhood In Chester 
County, Pa., where I understand the raising 
of poultry is conducted very successfully and 
on quite an extensive scale. Could the Rural 
New-Yorker, or any of its readers, give the 
address of any party or parties engaged in 
successful dairying ami poultry raising iu 
Chester County, l’a., who would board a 
young gentleman (of the best references) fora 
few weeks during tbe latter part of tbe Sum¬ 
mer, so that be may become acquainted with 
tbe successful management of stock and poul¬ 
try, &c. 
STAGGERS IN A HORSE. 
E. E., Wakefield, A'ans.—One of my horses, 
while harrowing, suddenly wheeled short 
around, and falling on her side, lay struggling 
for about 10 minutes, being apparently un¬ 
able to rise. The muscles of the whole body 
twitched; could the trouble have been caused 
by having the hames strapped tighter than 
usual, and going up a slope on soft ground? 
She has been all right siuce. 
Ans. —This trouble might easily have been 
caused by a tight collar or belly-band, and the 
extra exertion of going up the slope on soft 
ground. It is known as staggers, uud is pro¬ 
duced by pressure on the brain; it Is, in fact, 
apoplexy, and may return again. Feed al¬ 
ways moderately, and never work after a 
hearty feed or with a tight collar, and never 
overwork or overdrive. 
DISEASE OF THE BLADDER IN A HORSE. 
IU. o. s., Bakersfield, Vt.— About a month 
ago my horse refused to eat hay, though he 
eats oats, potatoes, beets, and turnips: his 
urine is white, and his bind legs have begun 
to swell; what can lie done for him? 
Ans. —The horse is suffering from some dis¬ 
ease of the bladder, probubly catarrh, as in¬ 
dicated by the whiteness of the urine, and it 
may be that the stomach and bowels are in¬ 
volved in the disorder, as indicated by the ca¬ 
pricious appetite. Give a pint of linseed oil, 
and repeat it the second day. Then give one 
dram doses of chlorate of potash daily for 10 
days; teed at the same time bran aud linseed 
mash, with oue dram of powdered gentian 
root, or Peruvian bark. The swollen legs 
should be rubbed with a rough woolen cloth, 
and then with alcohol applied by tbe hand. 
POOR APPETITE in a horse. 
M. M., Medway, Mass —My horse is in good 
health in every way, except that his appetite is 
very poor. He will eat only about four quarts 
of corn meal, or six quarts of oats in a day 
with a little bay. After a few feeds of any 
kind of grain he will refuse it, and has to be 
fed something else. *\s he eate little, he can¬ 
not work much: how should be be treated? 
Ans.— Give the horse a dose of one pint of 
raw linseed oil. Then give him bran masb, 
sweetened with molasses, if he will not eat it 
without; but only sparingly at first; and give 
with it one dram of hyposulphite of soda; one 
of ginger, and one of powdered gentian root. 
Let him have a little salt to lick. 
TnAT KEROSENE EMULSION. 
There have been some complaints that the 
kerosene emulsion injured the plants. This 
arises from the fact that proper care is not 
taken iu preparing aud using it. Perhaps it 
is better to use one gallon of kerosene to two 
gallons of sweet milk. These should be placed 
in a jug and shaken until a complete union 
has taken place. After the water has been 
added—four or five gallons—it should be agi¬ 
tated again till it is thoroughly united, and 
should be kept so by stirriug or shaking, 
while it is beiug used. If it is allowed to sub¬ 
side, so that the free Kerosene comes on top, 
and this is applied to the plaut, it is sure death. 
Accordingly, all who attempt to use the emul¬ 
sion should be careful. 
