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feet high at present. The Rural New-York¬ 
er Pea was very early. I have saved all the 
seed for another year; large, full pods, strong 
and healthy vines. Horsford’s Market Harden 
Pens have rather small pods, with a fair quan¬ 
tity of seeds. Champion Black Oats havenot 
grown very fast, being not over eight inches 
high at present. The Oarden Treasures are 
looking nice. Tomato seed all germinated. 
1 had about 275 plants about a foot high, when 
the frost came and killed all but 14 or 16plants 
1 consider the Rural New-Yorker the best 
farming paper out; would not be without it. 
A. H, 
Nebraska. 
Blair, Washington Co., July 16.—Wheat 
harvest commencing this week; straw short 
and thin; heads of fair length, well filled. 
Oats very light.; from one-half to two-thirds 
at a crop; will be ready to cut next week 
Corn very extra in appearance—just tasseliug; 
stand generally very good. Much caie was 
taken in selecting seed. Fruit now looks well, 
and quite plentiful, especially plums. Heavy 
rain to day. K. 8. 
New Hampshire. 
Wkare, Hillsboro Co., July 22.— I can beat 
“C. F. P.” with my K. N.-Y. Peas. I sow'ed 
them May 81, and they were ready for the 
table J uly 9. Does anyone boat that for time? 
If so, let's hear from him through the Rural. 
The vines were heavily podded, aud nice, large 
pods they were. This must he a very valua¬ 
ble, extra early pea. The Rural Union Corn, 
planted May 27, stands four feet high, making 
a stout, heavy growth. My tomato plants are 
making stout and heavy vines—tomatoes 
formed as lurge as hens’ eggs. The Garden 
Treasures came up with perfect satisfaction, 
and some of them areiu blossom now, aud are 
handsome. Crops are looking fine. My held 
corn, planted May 26, is silking out now. 
Grasshoppers are greatly injuring pastures. 
G. F. M. 
New York. 
Wright’s Corners, Niagara Co., N. Y., 
July 21.—Since the bountiful rains of July 4, 
6 aud 6, we have had very cool weather. There 
bus been scarcely a day in which oue could 
not very comtortably wear a coat, and he 
would certainly need it mornings and even¬ 
ings. Still, the corn is doing very well and 
looking first-rate; only it is a little late. There 
never was better harvest weather; at least, 
never better weather for working teams. I 
have my wheat now nearly all cut, and as I 
come to cut the different varieties, the Diehl- 
Mediterranean shows it.s superiority more 
thHii ever, standing up wall, with fine heads 
and well tilled. I shall sow my entire crop to 
this splendid wheat this year. I am also more 
than ever convinced of the desirability of 
making the ground rich and sowing less seed 
per acre; IK bushel I* giving me my best crop, 
aud one bushel is doing better than two, aud 
if my land were still richer, I am sure one 
would give a better crop than more. 1 am 
satisfied that the Rural's advice is sound, 
and have picked enough model heads of the 
D.-M. to sow a breeding plot for next year. 
The heavy rain and the cool weather since, 
have been the salvation of the barley crop. It, 
now looks splendid, but will not bo ready to 
cut for over a week yet. We have bad a very 
strong wind for two days, and it bus blown 
off many apples; the crop will bo only mode 
rate. The clover midges seem to have greatly 
decreased in numbers, and clover fields are 
showing a good bloom, it may be we shall 
yet get some seed. We need rain badly again 
about now, h. m. j. 
Blodgett Mills, Cortland Co., July 18.— 
Winter wheat is splendid. Owing to a dry J une, 
oats, barley, spring « heat and potatoes will 
be light crops. Hay is good in old meadows; 
new seeding very light. Corn was growing 
nicely; but it has grown but little for two 
weeks past, as the weather has been so cold. 
The prospect for buckwheat is good. Apples 
will be a fair crop. h. c. k. 
Naples, OntarioCo., July 19.— Justatpres¬ 
ent we are having just enough raiu to keep 
coru growing; have had some dry weather. 
Corn, wheat, barley, etc., are looking well. 
Gruss generally is a light, crop. Raspberries 
are a good crop. Grapes injured quite badly’ 
by M ay frosts. Harvest has commenced iu 
loea'ities. Wool is only bringing from 28c. to 
26c.; eggs, 14c.; butter, ISc. Hard times; 
everything dull, “ c. 
Ohio. 
Mendon, Mercer Co., July IS.—The Rural 
Union Coru is doing well; oats, nice; peas 1 
never saw better. Some Garden Treasures 
are iu bloom and nice. Tomatoes just coming 
into bloom. L H., SR. 
Wisconsin. 
West Salem, La Crosse Co., July 14.—Fall 
wheat is good; oats, light; coru, fair; pota¬ 
toes, fair. Rural seeds grow pretty well. 
w. J. 
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HUSK IN A HEIFER. 
E. J. G.. Weldon Creek, Mich .—After a 
yearling heifer has beeu driven with the other 
cattle to pasture about half a mile, she will 
6tand and pant, and dmle, and cough as if 
something tickled her in the throat ; tho spell 
lasts about half an hour. She also coughs 
when turned out iu the morning. Mhe has 
been ailing about a week, and is losing flesh. 
How should she be treated? 
Ans, This trouble is due Id a disease kuown 
as husk, and is caused by the presence in the 
throat and air passages of a small thread¬ 
worm— Mtrongylus Maria, This parasite is 
quite common, end affects calves, sheep, lambs, 
and chickens among our domestic animals; 
and deer, hares, partridges, or quail and 
grouse, with others among wild animals. It 
is, therefore, widely extended, and deserves 
the notice and attention of farmers, shepherds, 
and poultry men. The worm is small, white, 
and like a piece of cotton thread, and is gene¬ 
rally found gathered in musics of mucus or 
froth iu the air tubes of the throat and luugs. 
It causes wheezing, coughing, choking, and 
great weakness, with a pale and bloodless ap 
pcarance of theskln.especially in lambs, among 
which it is known as the pale disease, auo-mtft, 
or pining. The remedy is to give smull doses 
of turpentine in milk or linseed oil: foralumb, 
oue teaspoouful of the turpentine iu four times 
as much oil, for u calf, a small tablespoonful, 
aud for a sheep u full one, in a proportionate 
quantity of oil. These worms are taken into 
the animals either in the form of eggs or iu an 
immature state with the grass, or upon the hay, 
which becomes infested from the excrements 
of other and older animals, from whose intes¬ 
tines they are voided, or from whose throats 
they are coughed up aud ejected. Lambs and 
calves and chicks as well can be saved from 
the pests by keeping them from ground so 
fouled. 
FRUITS IN NEW MEXICO. 
./. G. K., Durango, Col.— What fruits would 
be likely to thrive on our ranch on the Las 
Animas River, New Mexico. Climate very 
dry, irrigation needed from May to October; 
mercury ranging between I10 v -' in the hottest 
days of Mummer, and 20 s * below zero in the 
colder days of Winter. 
Ans. —Wc think apples, pears, plums, peach¬ 
es and grapes would all do well whh you, but 
as to to the varieties of each advisable to plaut, 
no “feller” can tell till the experiment bus 
been tried; and the American Bornological 
Society’s records give no information on the 
point. Any one similarly situated can prob 
ably aid you; if no one can do so, we would 
advise pluming quite a variety of apple, jiear, 
and plum trees, and as soon as you know which 
is best, you eau work tne others over by bud¬ 
ding or gratting, ami uot lose much time. 
Some useful hiuts may also lie obtaiued from 
the article, “Fruits iu Colorado,” elsewhere 
in next issue, as the coudilious iu Colorado 
approximate those in New Mexico Peaches 
grow quickly, and with the cold as intense as 
you mention, they would lose the fruit buds; 
so you hail best try them moderately. The 
great grape of New Mexico, farther south and 
along the Rio Grande Valley, is the Mission; 
but we hardly Hunk it safe to plant any of the 
foreign varieties where the mercury goes so 
low as 2t“ below zero. Concords would most 
likely flourish, as would Worden and many 
of the newer varieties of Northern and 
Eastern grapes. 
CHICKS DOCTORED TO DEATH. 
IF. P. W ., Minneapolis, Minn.— What ails 
my chickens? Two or three days after hatch¬ 
ing, they grow blind aud dwarfish. Soon after 
they emue from the shells, 1 rubbed them 
with lard on the head and under the wings; 
uow the body under the wings is raw. 1 led 
them ou com meal, hard boiled eggs aud 
wheat, and there is plenty of sulphur about 
tbeir nests. 
A .ns. —These chickens are fed aud doctored 
to death. Sulphur given to excess is exceed¬ 
ingly injurious, and it has been given to ex¬ 
cess iu this case, especially for young chicks 
two or three days old. They have also been 
overfed, which is very easily’ done with small 
chickens. Hard boiled eggs are not at all a 
natural food, and are hard to digest even by 
a man at times, and while a very little of 
such food may be given for au early feeding, 
too much will produce the ills complained of. 
1 f the chicks are lousy, that should have beeu 
looked to before they were hatched. They 
were not hatched so, but get the vermin from 
the hen; and a poultry keeper who permits his 
breeding hens to be lousy will never have 
“good luck” with his chicks. 3. Study the 
columns of tho Rural for bints as to the pre¬ 
vention of vertniu upon fowls, and feed the 
chicks very moderately; but often. Cracked 
wheat and corn meal and bran wetted, but 
not so as to be mushy, with waste bread from 
the house, are all the food that young chicks 
require, and dosing with sulphur should be 
avoided. 
POISONING FROM RETENTION OK AFTERBIRTH. 
M., Kalkaska, Mich— My four-year-old 
mare took sick about six weeks before her 
time of foaling. I supposed it was colic at 
first, but after floundering about, a good deal, 
she began straining to get rid of the foal. The 
colt was taken from her. She was as nearly 
dead as could be and live. She did not clean. 
The afterbirth has been rotting away from 
her ever since. She urinates almost constant¬ 
ly, She was in good condition, but. is very’ 
poor and weak now’. Her appetite has been 
good all along, but is at present failing. I fed 
her bran mash for a week, and oats and a little 
flaxseed and gruss since. It is about eight 
weekB since she lost the colt; what can I do 
for her? 
Ans —The mare is suffering from blood poi¬ 
soning by the absorption of the retaiued mem 
branes. This absorbed matter is being dis¬ 
charged through the kidneys, and produces 
disease of these organs and possibly of the 
bladder. The general health will suffer, and 
unless some immediate precautions are taken 
the mare may be seriously diseased. The treat¬ 
ment should be as follows:—Given pound of 
Epsom salts dissolved in warm water. When 
this has operated (if it has uot in two days, rc- 
peut it) give one ounce of hyposulphite of soda 
daily for some weeks in a bran mash. Give 
also daily, aud alternately with tho hyposul¬ 
phite, a drluk of slippery elm bark or linseed 
meal infusion, with a dram of pow'dered Peru¬ 
vian bark stirred in it. Feed grass, and a few' 
old, sound oats, and some carrots, but uo corn 
for several weeks, 
VEGETABLE IVORY. 
L. G. W., Bear Creek, Wis.—1. What is 
Vegetable Ivory ; and if a plant, where does it 
grow, and how? 2. Is the Rural printed in 
German? 
Ans.— 1. Vegetable Ivory is the nut of a 
tree (Phy telephas tnacrocarpa) growing on tho 
banks of streams in the northern part of 
South America, where it forms distinct groves. 
The stem proper creeps along the ground for 
20 or more feet, and then becomes upright, 
this portion being from four to six feet high 
and terminated by a crown of 12 or more 
leaves 18 to 20 feet long. The fruit grows In 
an immense cluster or pod, often weighing 25 
pounds. It consists of six or seven drupes, 
coutaining from six to nine seeds, or uut«, 
each; four or eight of these bunches are 
grown on each plant. The nuts are ovoid, 
about tho size of a hen’s egg, and at first the 
shell contains a clear, water like liquid, which 
first becomes milky and then gradually thick¬ 
ens aud hardens till nearly as hard as genuine 
ivory. When the nuts are iu a gelatinous 
state, they are surrounded with a similar sub¬ 
stance, and at this time the natives make use 
of them as food. When ripe they are gath¬ 
ered, and mostly sold to Americans, who use 
them to make various ornamental and useful 
articles, some of which are quite beautiful. 
2. No. 
TREATMENT OF HOG CHOLERA. 
“ B.," Boston, Mass.— What ails my pig? 
He acts as though bo hud chills aud fever, 
does uot eat, is very thirsty, lies down all the 
time, shivers continually; a rash started 
around his jaws, aud has extended all over 
him; his belly and sides are as pink as a lob¬ 
ster, rump purplish: his bowels move, but be 
is costive. The feed of two pigs daily has 
"been a water pail full of fine feed, made iuto 
a slop morning aud night, with the kitchen 
refuse. The pigs aud hens run together in a 
baru cellar aud yard, having plenty of air aud 
suulight. Have attempted to physic him with 
sulphur aud molasses aud compound licorice 
powder.but as yet have uot succeeded iu loosen- 
ing his bowels. Beeu sick a week, aud is now 
so weak we have to help him up to driuk. 
Ans. —The pig has enteric fever, or inflam¬ 
mation of the intestines, and lungs, too, prob¬ 
ably, This disease is the well known hog 
Cholera. You have been feeding too heavily; 
one-half the feed named would have beeu 
enough. If the pig is uot yet dead, inject with 
a syringe a quart of warm water us hot as the 
hand can bear comfortably, or about 100deg.; 
with 20 graius of subuitrate of bismuth aud 
sufficient gum-arabic to make it mucilaginous, 
or about one ounce. Give four uuucesof olive 
oil, aud when the diarrhea w hich may be 
looked for, sets in, give plenty of liu.-eed gruel 
made thin, with five grains of quinine and 
half a dram of powdered gentian root. 
PROPAGATING ROSES. 
A. B. C., Whitestown, N. Y. —How can I 
multiply tea roses by grafting, and what should 
be used for stocks. 
Ans. —The stock on vvbich roses are mostly 
grown is the Mauetti, a species of quick-grow 
ing, healthy rose. The grafting is done in 
early Spring by any of the forms of grafting 
employed iu propagating other plants, cover¬ 
ing the place of union with waxed cloth or pa¬ 
per. But most of the growers now grow roses 
from cuttings, by the aid of bottom heat, thus 
producing plants on their own roots. It is 
probable that, grafting on the Manetti root, 
produces the most vigorous plants; especially 
is this the case with the weaker-growing sorts. 
But then It has this disadvantage—the stock is 
very liable to sprout, aud if oue is at all care¬ 
less and allows one of the sprouts to grow, it 
soon overgrows and starves the more valuable 
cion, which soon dies, and one has then only a 
wild rose. By giving good soil and high cul¬ 
ture, plants on tbeir own roots are sufficiently 
vigorous, aud by allowing and encouraging 
them to sprout from the root a fine branching 
bush is soon produced. 
EXTERMINATING WOODCHUCKS. 
C. W. Z., West Mill Creek, Erie Co., Pa.— 
How cau I kill woodchucks? 
Anb.— On light, deep soils, they are a great 
nuisance. They dig immense burrows, and 
eat large quantities of clover, beans, peas, etc. 
There are several ways to keep them in check, 
but to kill the last one is very difficult. A 
small quantity of sulphur burned in their 
holes will usually kill them. To do this effec 
tually, close all the openings but one; saturate 
and cover f ome scraps of cloth or some pieces 
of paper with melted sulphur or brimstone; 
place some live coals on a piece of board, and 
on these place the sulphured cloth or paper in 
the hole, and immediately cover over the 
orifice. The burning sulphur will extract all 
the oxygen from the air aud Dll the hole 
with sulphurous acid gas, which is deadly. 
There is no doubt but sulphide of carbon might 
be used for the same purpose, with equally 
fatal effect. To apply this the same plan 
should be followed, except that no fire would 
be needed. The sulphide of carbon could be 
poured into the deepest opening and all exits 
closed. 
LAYERING HONEYSUCKLES, ROSES, ETC. 
A. J. C., Listowell, On!,, Can,— What is the 
best time of year to layer honeysuckles, roses, 
etc? Should old or new wood be used? 
Ans.— It is now high time the plauts were 
layered. It would have been better if it had 
been done iu June. Most plants will root. 
Theliest wood is the one year-old wood, when 
it can be got to the ground; the under side of 
the shoot should be cut half off with a slant¬ 
ing cut from the root, splitting the wood for 
an iuch or more, and it is belter if tho tongue, 
or lip, is raised and a gravel stone put in so as 
to keep the slit. ojarn. Some prefer notching 
the upper side of the shoot by cutting out 
a v-shaped notch. Mhoota so prepared are 
beut down and fastened in tho bottom of a 
shallow trench, anil mellow soil is placed over 
them three or more inches deep, and this soil 
should be kept moist. If fair roots have been 
formed by cold weather, the plants can be 
severed, aud for the first Winter they should 
be kept in damp eSrth away from severe 
frosts, and be planted iu good soil the succeed¬ 
ing Spring. 
GRASSES FOR A RECLAIMED SWAMP. 
R. T. Md V. .Jackson, Mich —What is the best 
way to get a growth of valuable grasses on a 
marsh recently drained and which now bears 
sedge, weeds and marsh-grass, with some Red- 
top and June Grass coming in here and there? 
The soil is mucky; aud similar land, which 
has been plowed aud sowed to Timothy, pro¬ 
duces good grass. 
Ans.—E ither of two ways may be adopted 
with this reclaimed marsh with satisfactory 
results. First, mow and remove the grass, 
and then with a sharp harrow give the soil a 
good scratching up, so as to cut up the old sur¬ 
face pretty freely. Again, about September 
1, give it another good borrowing, aud sow 10 
pounds of Timothy and two pounds of Alayke 
seed per acre aud roll dowu smooth. Or, you 
may plow aud crop it with coru if sufficiently 
dry, for a year cr two, and theu seed to Timo¬ 
thy aud Alsyke with some spring crop, and in 
that case we thiuk the application of 20 bush¬ 
els of ashes per acre would pay. 
EXTIRPATING BLUE GRASS. 
c. E. M., Perrineville, N. J.— I inclos9 a 
sample of grass that infests all our soils and 
is very bard to kill; what is it, and what is 
the best method of killing it? 
Ans. —This is Poa compressa, or the North¬ 
ern inot Kentucky) Blue Grass. It is hard to 
kill by summer-fallowing, for it matters little 
how long it may be kept under, when turned 
up it will grow. Plow early, using a jointer 
plow; plow pretty deep, being careful that all 
