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space, four times more with this, at intervals 
of ten days. The few stray weeds and thistles 
were cut or pulled out. This year, August 
8, rye was sowed in the standing corn, and 
most of it was covered by running the culti¬ 
vator once in each space. This will furnish 
a little fall pasture and conserve the nitro¬ 
gen, and prevent the soil from washing in the 
Spring before it is plowed for oats. The corn 
is now—August 0—in silk, and bids fair to 
yield from 85 to TO bushels of shelled corn 
per acre, even if the latter part of the Sum- 
ings in July and August, yet there are several 
pieces of really good corn in the county, that 
are forward enough to mature by the middle 
of September, which would have failed to 
mature had there been poor soil and if treated 
in a bap-hazard manner. 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
ter-killed, and every variety rusted. This 
agniu confirms my opinion, that there is uo 
such thing as a rust-proof wheat. The Mar¬ 
tin's Amber, Hybrid Mediterranean, White 
Lovett, Winter Pearl and New Reliable, as 
well as Lund reth, were less affected by rust 
than others. Emporium Scott was scarcely 
affected at all. I have boon experimenting for 
years, and L consider the above wheats a sure 
list for every farmer to grow. They are hardy 
and prolific, and much ahead of Clawson, 
Fultz, etc. I have found a wonderful differ¬ 
ence in varieties of wheat taken from a dis¬ 
tance and sowed here alongside of some kinds 
grown here. It has proved conclusively to 
me that farmers cannot over-estimate a good 
both be Brunton. I have no doubt they are 
so, for I know that a very prominent nursery- 
man sent ont Brunton for Early Harvest. I 
was victimized in that way, hutbnvesinoe got 
the genuine Early Harvest, and have rooted 
out and thrown away the Brunton. The two 
sorts are readily distinguished by the heavier 
and more crimped foliage of the Early Har¬ 
vest. Mr. S. says i-Hernlalo was a failure. 
I grew a few (ileudales for several years with 
rather unsatisfactory results; but this season 
I hud two small patches of different varieties, 
one of which had been allowed to run wild for 
two years and the other for one year, and the 
Glendale gave a full crop of the largest and 
finest berries of the season. 
THE CROSS-BRED DIEHL-MEDITER¬ 
RANEAN WHEAT. 
There is no other wheat that has been so 
long in cultivation aud so universally popular 
as the Red Mediterranean, and this because of 
its extreme hardiness, its power of enduring 
bad harvest weather uninjured, and its 
superior milling qualities. Itsonly defects are 
its open, loose heads and its weak straw, 
making it very liable to lodge” on rich 
ground, or in weather favorable to a rauk 
growth. Tn the Cross-bred Diehl-Mediterra- 
neau, we have a wheat the result of a cross 
between the old White Diehl as male, and the 
Red Mediterranean as female plants. Ar will 
be seen by Fig. 353 ( a C ut 
representing the actual size 
of a head, and another 
Ishowing a side view of the 
same head with the beards 
removed), we have in this 
•' wheat the compact head, 
->^2® wltl» close chambers or 
breasts, of the Diehl, to- 
Z'." getherwith thoreddish chaff 
an,i stravv a,Kl the beards. 
as wel1 aa tho amber color 
•1 ;a,ul superior quality of 
grain of the mother plant. 
I 11 ori Kiuated in Monroe 
LCounty, N. Y., and has ul- 
^ ways showu the broad 
leaves, vigorous growth 
and extreme hardiness of 
the Mediterranean, with the strong, upright 
straw of theDiehl, than which It is uo more 
likely to lodge. During the pust Summer, while 
Clawson Wheat was badly prostrated by the 
storms just before harvest, this wheat by its 
side, though much thicker and larger, did not 
"lodge” at all. Though the heads are shorter 
than those of the Gold Modal. Clawson, Lan- 
dreth. or Mediterranean, an examination will 
show more "breasts,” or chambers, and more 
kernels to the head; and its greater thickness 
insures a greater yield than that of either, 
while it is amoug the earliest wheats grown. 
Those people who have tested it with other 
wheats and reported to us, are much pleased 
with it; and those millers who have tested its 
milling qualities report it to be superior eveu 
to Mediterranean, which insures for it the 
highest market price. 
The head from which our illustration was 
made, was a selected head as grown by us, 
and was a fair average of the bent. While we 
have some better, we do not wish to have any 
one expect the average of the Held to bo nearly 
as largo. If any hoped for this, they would 
be disappointed. Those to whom we sent tills 
wheat in our last Free Seed Distribution, can¬ 
not be too careful in selecting good ground 
ami planting it; oue seed in a place, six 
inches apart, iu rows 15 inches distant, from 
each other and not over oue Inch deep, and on 
the approach of very cold wuather give it u 
slight covering of broken or cut straw, or, 
better, of coarse, barnyard 
manure; do tins, because this 
method of growing wheat is 
V much more trying than ordfn- 
V ary field on 1 tore, and because 
* Yy^ ou w ' s *’ t0 Secure the largest 
possible yield—which, we 
'SjSSS&i thiuk * - vou can readily make 
exceed 2,000 kernels for each 
! < g|K--'£j!S*«® one planted. Those boys who 
• ' j‘ are sufficiently wide awake 
iff ?and energetic to secure a bush 
—more or less—in payment 
for a club, should make the 
ii&wS&r ground very rich (as is shown 
iu the Fair Number), and sow 
not thicker than a half-bushel 
per acre, mulching on the ap¬ 
proach of Winter, as described, and they can¬ 
not fail of gettiug from 50 to 80 bushels for 
every one sown; or if they should plant and 
care for it in rows, they can cover more ground 
aud secure much larger returns. 
Remember, boys; only five subscribers give 
you a half-bushel; nine, a full bushel, free at 
the express office or depot, in a new bag; ami 
we are quite anxious to see how large u yield 
some of you will secure. In sending names, 
with every letter please mention that they are 
for the wheat premiums, as this will save us 
much trouble. Remember, further, this offer 
is not confined to boys of any particular age 
I notice, in what appears to ho an editorial, 
some rather sneering remarks about the At¬ 
lantic, and it is there stated that it was intro¬ 
duced “two years ago, aud that the berries 
aro often hollow.” There must be some mis¬ 
take in the variety, for the 
Atlantic was uovor sent out at 
• all until last August—One year 
ago—and 1 have never yet 
l seen a specimen of this variety 
that was hollow, and the ltu- 
1 ual'h eut is not an accurate 
'vS&f/* representation of Atlantic. 
{?.. f [Our plants were received 
yS-'^Ofc) August 2-1 of last year from a 
%■ friend, who received them 
\ the your before.—Eos 1 
1 v>.£> 
|V- Wvy Have the 1 liaison River plum 
i&f ** growers persistently cut out 
all black-knots from their 
trees in the Summer, while yet green ( Seve¬ 
ral years since this disease,as a fungus,attacked 
tin ■ee cherry trees ou my place—-Early Rich¬ 
mond, Late Duke and Royal Duke. 1 care¬ 
fully cut out all I could find, every Autumn, 
and burned every vestige, with no success at 
all, for two or three years, until l tried the 
plan of cutting out ns soon as the green swell¬ 
ings could be seen, ami I at once got the better 
of the trouble, and have had none of It since, 
although trees on other farms within 100 rods 
are dying with it. 
Hammonton, N. J. w. f. b. 
Orange Earlt. Fig. 350. 
change of seed, and especially from a northern 
locality. 
Hensall, Ont. rob’t bell, jr. 
FERTILIZATION OF STRAWBERRIES 
I have been growing small fruits for 30 
years; but notwithstanding my long experi¬ 
ence, i am still able to learn something every 
week from the Rural New-Yorker. It 
would be difficult to make t he paper more inter¬ 
esting and instructive. The Editor’s experi¬ 
ence In small fruit matters rarely varies from 
mine, and I always get more determined in 
maintaining my positions when iu such good 
company. Here is a paragraph from an essay 
of mine read at Anderson, J rid., last Spring, 
relating to the fertilization of pistillate varie¬ 
ties of strawberries which, 1 believe, accords 
with the Rural’s position; 
‘"In planting pistillate varieties, stnminate 
Or perfect sorts should bo planted iu every 
eighth or tenth row, for the purpose of fertil¬ 
izing the flowers ot the former. An Eastern 
grower claims that the color, shape, ilavor, 
etc., of fruit produced by a pistillate variety 
will be largely determined by 
the variety used in fertilizing 
it. 1 have used Lougworth’s 
Prolific, Wilson, Cumberland 
Triumph, and many other 
ip. sfcaminato sorts as fertilizers 
for the Crescent aud other pis- 
tillate kinds, but have never 
; seen the berries of the latter 
’ p vary a particle from their or- 
“ diuary fixed typo. When 
PB -j| fructified by pollen from 
Sharpless, I have never known 
j Crescent to produce a cox¬ 
comb-shaped berry; or Cham¬ 
pion to fail to produce Its usual 
vf proportiifh of fiat berries when 
fertilized by Cumberland Tri¬ 
umph—a variety whose berries are invariably 
conical. I have no doubt the necessity for dose 
fertilization is much exaggerated, as I have seen 
plants of Orescent loaded with perfect berries, 
which grew at least 50 yards from any other 
variety. All strawberry beds should be 
mulched with wheat or rye straw when frost 
begins to full in Autumn, which should be 
drawn between the rows on the return of 
warm weather—generally towards the end of 
May—for the purpose of keeping the ground 
moist aud cool. ” 
I have fruited Stone’s Hardy Blackberry 
twice, and am delighted with it. Snyder, 
Taylor aud Wallace have heretofore been my 
favorites, but Stone’s Hardy promises to equal 
Taylor in flavor, and any of them in hardiness 
aud productiveness. 
Delaware Co., 1 ml. o. 00 wing. 
Mammoth. Fig. 348. 
mer should be no brighter or warmer than the 
earlier. 
The yield given is only a fair one for the 
better farms, cultivated by the better farmers, 
iu a good seasou; but it is so much superior 
to the ordinary yield—being more than double 
the average which the counties of. Tompkins, 
Cayuga and Seneca will give this year—that 
it seems to deserve some special attention. 
And now, as to the principles of general ap¬ 
plication; First, an abundance of available 
plant-food. Second, early aud frequent cul¬ 
ture to destroy weeds, prevent evaporation 
of moisture, and warm the soil. Third, flat 
NOTES ON BACK NUMBERS, 
In a late Rural. A. Lb C. took exception to 
the Marlboro Raspberry on the score of ill ad 
aptation to the soil of New Jersey. We have it 
growing on much lighter soil than Mr. Parry’s, 
and it shows as much vigor as any variety we 
have ever grown, not excepting the Cuthbert 
and Turner, and it has been admired by all 
who have seen it. There is one point A. B. C. 
seems to have overlooked, viz., the foot that 
failure is not confined to varieties of fdirua 
blood; not one in IOC) of Strigosus blood will 
succeed bora. It has only been within the 
past few years that we have succeeded in get 
ting any satisfactory results from any of the 
red varieties, and why may we not have good 
te . . .. 
Potter’s Excelsior, 
reason to expect some good 
Ido-us varieties!” 
even from 
1 have been watching the Early Cluster 
Blackberry for several years, and I have great 
confidence in it. It is xr ery hardy, of good 
size ami quality, and I consider it sufficiently 
early for the main crop, aud it certainly is as 
productive as any variety I have ever seen. 
Perhaps A. B. C. saw it before it was quite 
ripe. It seems to have improved in size and 
appearance during the last two or three days, 
more than any other variety. 
culture. Fourth, shallow culture, when the 
corn is large, so as not to injure the roots. 
Fifth, late culture to hasten growth and de¬ 
stroy weeds. Last year, much of the corn in 
this vicinity was not worth keeping; the cold 
Summer retarded the growth so much that it 
was far from mature when the frost came. 
By a method similar to the one described, we 
secured upwards of 50 bushels of sound shelled 
corn per acre. This seasou has been as cold 
as last, and there has been less sunshine. Fire 
in the grate has been necessary many even- 
WINTER WHEATS IN CANADA. 
I raised, this year, about 30 varieties of 
wheat. Every variety was more or less win- 
THE MARLBORO RASPBERRY. 
In Rufus W. Smith’s article, he says his 
Brunton and Early Harvest Blackberries may 
It is seldom that a new fruit, on other than 
