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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
to live. The productive wealth of the land is 
being poured by the cities through their sew¬ 
ers into the sea, for the want of which the 
land is becoming a desert. So says Mr. Olcott, 
in his address before the Connecticut Board of 
Agriculture. 
familiar with it. The cobs must be taken 
when fully grown, but quite unripe. Remove 
the sheath and fibers, and plunge into boiling 
water with salt, and keep boiling for UO min¬ 
utes; then try them, and if not done, give 
them another 10 minutes. When sufficiently 
cooked, drain and serve on toast with a tureen 
of melted butter. The flavor is peculiar, and 
by some is likened to that of asparagus.’ 
“Labels for trees are best and most dura¬ 
ble made of zinc, and written on with a com¬ 
mon lead pencil. The zinc most be wet before 
writing, and the label fastened to the tree by 
diffused through the butter that not a drop of 
water e ven can be detected, but only a very 
finely granulated and fibrous appearance. 
Every grain and fiber are surrounded by a 
film of brine clear and transparent. This can¬ 
not occur unless* there is water enough left in 
the butter to dissolve the salt completely. In 
the first working of the butter, the great point 
is to get rid of every particle of milk, and the 
next point Is to leave enough clear water in 
the butter to dissolve every grain of salt in the 
12 hours before the next working. To effect 
this, the salt should be very finely ground. 
which are three or four times as great in bulk 
and weight as the quantity of tops at any 
time. 
Experiments in Hog Feeding. —From 
Bulletin No. 10 of the Missouri Agricultural 
College, we learn that Prof. Sanborn has been 
conducting some more experiments in pig 
feeding to ascertain the relative value of 
whole corn, corn meal and ship-stuffs as meat 
producers, and as flesh and fat formers as 
well. Three lots, of four shotes each, were se¬ 
lected and weighed March 15th, 1883, and con¬ 
fined in pens, each lot being under the same 
conditions. The first were fed whole corn for 
03 days: ate 687 pounds, and gaiued 80 pounds. 
The second lot were fed corn-meal; ate 850 
pounds, and gained 110 pounds. Lot three 
were fed ship-stuff; ate 808 pounds, and gained 
188 pounds. Their food was then changed, 
and in 51 days; lot one were fed corn-meal; 
The N. Y, Times makes the sensible sugges¬ 
tion that if the farmer will just now wend his 
way to the store and procure three yards 
of factory cotton for each of his cows, and 
Orchard Grass.— Mr. Stewart further re¬ 
marks that. Orchard Grass has done well 
with him the present season, and the crop 
of hay has been abundant. The earli¬ 
ness of this grass is one of its especially 
valuable points, for it rarely suffers from 
a dry season, being out of the way before 
it can be hurt. A crop cut for hay the 
present season bv Mr. Stewart, has aver¬ 
aged 08 inches in bight, with much of it 
nearly 70 inches. From Kentucky, where 
this grass is largely grown and a good 
deal of seed is produced, stalks of 87 inches 
in length are reported. Grass that was 
cut for hay the first week in June, was fit 
j. for pasture July 1st, notwithstanding the 
« heat was unusually severe for the season, 
jjn and there was little rain. As the seed 
promises to be cheap this year, many 
Sb farmers might do very much worse than 
fyh to seed down a few acres early in August 
lor fodder or pasture next season. 
“Good Editor Carman of the excellent 
Rural New-Yorker has associated with 
him Mr, J. S. Woodward, the well known 
horticulturist of western New York. 
With such able assistance, the Rural 
will doubtless be even better in the future 
than it has been in the past. This is say¬ 
ing a good deal for a. journal that de¬ 
servedly stands at the head of the horti¬ 
cultural publications of the day.” 
iug to our experience, there are three mis¬ 
takes:—!. The zinc does not need to be wet at 
all. 2. The wire should be copper. If Iron 
wire is used, the rust from the wire in a year 
or so covers the zinc and obscures tbe writing. 
3. Copper wire Is perhaps five times more du¬ 
rable than iron wire. It is only necessary to 
put the wire through the hole in the „ - 
zinc twice and draw tbe loop tightly, vs 
so that the label can not move on the 
wire. _ W 
Road Making.— At a meeting held # 
lately by the Pennsylvania Board of 
Agriculture, tbe evils of the ordinary 
system of road-making were presented * ft' 
system of road-making were presented 
forcibly and clearly. Chester County, 
for example, has in the last 10 years 
spent $377,000 on her public roads, and 
since that, county was organized $2,- 
000 ,000, or about $2,000 per mile, have 
probably been spent in patching up in 
the usual lazy’, shiftless way, the high¬ 
ways, to their injury rather than to their 
benefit. “It is fatal to good and economical 
road-making to allow the persons taxed to 
work out their taxes,” is the conclusion 
reached. The same rules should govern tbe 
building of country roads that govern rail¬ 
roads; the location should lie made with refer¬ 
ence to the least draft and not with reference 
to the least cost of the land. Don’t run a road 
over a hill simply because the laud costs noth¬ 
ing. It is cheaper in the end to build a road 
well at first, even at a large expenditure. All 
the main roads of a township should be sub¬ 
stantially turnpiked at first. The work of re¬ 
pairing should be put iu the hands of a com¬ 
petent road engineer, who should be allowed 
to select his tools and working force. W ider 
rims should be required on all wagons used 
for hauling loads. W ide tires roll a road, while 
narrow ones rut it. 
Daisy Miller. Fig. 339. 
ate 762 pounds, and gained 134 pounds: lot two 
were fed whole corn; ate 552 pounds, and 
gained 8-1 pounds; lot throe were fed ship- 
stuff; ate 718 pounds, and gained 04 pounds. 
The total amount of whole corn eaten iu the 
116 days was 1,239 pounds; the total gaiu 164 
pounds. Total corn-meal eaten, 1,612 pounds; 
total gain, 2.50 pounds. Total ship-stuffs eat¬ 
en 1,524 pounds; total gain, 252 pounds. Corn 
required for one pound of gain, 7.5 pounds; 
corn-meal required for one pound of gain, 6.4 
pounds; ship-stuff required for one pound of 
gain, six pounds. He found that two pounds 
of food were required for each 100 pounds of 
live pig per day as mere maintenance fodder, 
and that each two pounds thereafter, produced 
one pound of growth. For instance, takinir 
those fed on corn-meal, their average weight 
was 112 pounds for the 116 days duriug which 
they were fed; as this would require 2.24 
pounds each per day for maintenance without 
growth, then for 116 days the four pigs would 
We prize the above notice because it 
appears in the New England Homestead 
—a paper that isn’t too bigoted and mean 
to recognize merit in ite contemporaries. 
The success of the Homestead should 
teach other New England farm papers a 
thing or so. 
Early Eight Rowed. Fig. 245. 
have it cut to fit, the back so as to form a well- 
fitting sheet which can be fastened around the 
neck and drawn close under the belly, but 
leaving the udder free, he will enjoy blessed 
peace when he milks the cows. And tbe cows 
will have equal peace in their safety from the 
persistent flies which annoy them ut milking 
time. And if the hay is in danger from a 
sudden storm, a dozen or two of those sheets 
Methods of Preserving Eggs.— At a re¬ 
cent poultry show in Birmingham (England), 
prizes were awarded for the best dozen of 
preserved eggs. They were sent in two 
mouths before the date of the show, a short 
time to test any preserving process thorough¬ 
ly. The eggs were tested by being boiled both 
soft and hard (that is, for u miuute and a half, 
and for 10 minutes,) and thou tasted by the 
judges. Those that gained the first prize 
had been simply packed in common salt. 
They had not lost sensibly by evaporation, 
had good consistent albumen, and were of 
the best flavor when boiled. Those that 
received tbe second prize were but. slight¬ 
ly inferior to the best; and the process 
of preserving is thus described: Melt one 
part of white wax to two parts of sper¬ 
maceti, boil and mix thoroughly; or two 
parts clarified suet to one of wax, and two 
of spermaceti. Take new-laid eggs; rub 
with antiseptic salt, or fine rice-starch. 
Wrap each egg in tine tissuB-paper, put¬ 
ting the broad end downward; screw the 
paper tightly at the top, leaving an inch 
to hold it by. Dip each egg rapidly into 
O l the fat heated to 100 degrees. Withdraw, 
SS? and leave to cool. Pack, broad end down- 
wal'd, in dry, white sand or sawdust. The 
London Agricultural Gazette adds: The 
gjffJ eggs so preserved were admirable, and, 
probably, had the contest been for a 
longer time, would have stood first. But 
it is exceedingly useful to kuow that eggs 
may be preserved udmirably for two 
months with no more trouble than putting 
them in common salt. The other plan 
was superior iu one respect; on stripping 
off the waxed paper, t he shell was as pure 
and clean as when first laid; iu fact, the 
eggs might have sold as being fresh, if 
not as newlaid. 
Mu. Ratcliff, a Colorado cattle man, said 
recently thut he raised side by side on 
the Divide, Short-horn calves and Here- — 
fords—treated just alike—and the Here- J* 
fords beat the Sbort-borns as rustlers all * 
the time. As cattle for a high altitude, yjSr 
the Hereford* are 50 per cent, ahead. 
The locating and successful running 
of the alpaca factories at Jamestown, & *e 
N. Y„ has created a lively demand for 1 
u class of combing wool, which has been fypjffiukv 
found to be supplied by crossing the 
Cotswold ou the large, long-wooled 
Merino, aud the offspring of this cross 
are being very extensively bred aud 
raised in Chautauqua County, N. Y. 
It has been found, however, that the 
breeding together of these animals, is 
not so reliable as is the first cross; so 
says the correspondent of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture from that county. 
Hons, and they are a Irightlui source 
of disease. He thinks the great mis¬ 
takes farmers make are, eating too 
much and too rapidly, and taking too 
little rest, and that there are four plain 
specifics for most of their complaints 
—pure air, proper food, suitable exercise, and 
rest. 
It is a mistaken notion that growing plants 
are unhealthy in our living rooms, especially 
at night. Air iu which plants are growing 
vigorously and remain healthy, is always a 
pleasant- air to breathe, and a healthy one in 
which to live. 
Prince of Berries. Fig. 240, 
require 1,039 pounds of tbe meal consumed to 
maintain existence, leaving only 573 pounds 
used in growth, which produced 258 pounds. 
The light gain of all the lots was the result of 
small consumption of food. These results 
should teach farmers the folly of feeding fat¬ 
tening stock with a scrimping hand, and they 
completely upset those theories that claim 
that greater comparative profit is made by 
moderate feeding. 
Gradually, remarks the N. Y. Tri¬ 
bune, the truth is made plain that this 
outcry in Europe against our meat and 
cattle is merely an echo of the equally 
interested and unfounded outcry at. home, 
against equally imaginary disease here. All 
that is wanted to complete the case is evidence 
of collusion, and there is some reason to be¬ 
lieve, at least, that this even will be exposed 
in time, as the true inwardness is turned out. 
The following note, from the London Gar¬ 
den, will show how little Indian com,and how 
to eook it, are known in England: 
“Maize.— Corn cobs, or Indian maize, is a 
comparatively unknown dish in this country, 
but is much esteemed by the few who are 
Triumph, 
The Roman Empire impoverisnea cue sun 
less in 500 years, with its slow hauling with ox 
teams, than we have in 50. with our far-reach¬ 
ing railway arms and quick-moving trains. 
In land-butchery and starvation, the Yankee 
nation is at the head. By the Census reports 
the average yield for whole States that are 
comparatively uew States is, of wheat nine 
bushels, aud of rye seven bushels. This means 
that some people get much more than that, 
but that others must get as much less; which 
means that many have a very hard scrabble 
PITHS AND SUGGESTIONS, 
may do useful duty as hay-caps to protect ft 
from the rain. 
Streaky Butter. —Those batter-makers 
who are troubled aud annoyed by tlie streabi- 
uess of their butter may rest assured, Dr. 
Stewart thinks, that it is due to over-careful 
working out of the water from tbe butter pre¬ 
paratory to salting. The finest quality of 
butter shows no solid salt whatever under the 
microscope, and yet there is plenty of salt in 
it. The salt is in solution, and is so evenly 
The Daily Republican of Wilmington, Del., 
states that our friend, Dr. Greenleaf. sowed 
one quart of Diehl-Mediterranean Wheat to 
half an acre, aud that it will yield more, than 
would a bushel of the old Mediterranean 
sown upon the half acre.* 
The N. E. Homestead, referring to the fact 
that all liquor selling and gambling devices at 
