THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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apples, pears cherries, peaches, etc. The cat¬ 
alogue opens with several instructive articles. 
J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, Monmouth Co., 
New Jersey. Supplementary illustrated lists 
of the new Strawberry " Parry,” with history 
and discription, and of the Hausell Raspberry 
with a wood cut two feet long by one foot 
wide, with many testimonials as to the value 
of the Hansell. 
MOORE'S EARLY GRAPE. 
We think the Moore’s Early will succeed 
wherever the Concord will do well, and we 
consider it a valuable early market grape. 
While in quality it is not first-class, it is yet 
very much superior to the Hartford, Champi¬ 
on and suchlike, it must evidently give good 
satisfaction in the Northwest, as we notice a 
large and constantly increasing demand for 
plants from that section. 
Bush berg, Mo. bush & son & meissner. 
Moore’s Early Grape has given better 
satisfaction this season than heretofore. The 
clusters and berries have been larger, which 
would seem to indicate that it improves with 
age. It is one of the few that have been able to 
hold their foliage throughout this very trying 
season. In quality it is much like its parent, 
the Concord. It is hardly equal to the Wor¬ 
den or Cottage, but it is one of the few kinds 
that may be confidently relied on for fruit, no 
matter bow precarious the season. Its earli- 
lasses cast coy smiles, besides any number of 
older farmers with their wives and children, 
a good sprinkling of city people, who ate lun¬ 
cheons from hampers on the seats of tall 
coaches or silver-mounted carriages, and a 
number of industrious pickpockets and police¬ 
men, who were supposed to counteract each 
other, but didn’t. To these should be added 
several score of amusement fakirs, who were 
busy all day gathering in the pennies of the 
country boys. There were snake charmers 
literally ad navstnon; there was a Sullivan 
slugger, a wheel of fortune, a museum with a 
wild girl, a leopard hoy, and the only mag¬ 
netic girl. There was an establishment where 
the youth of New* Jersey might throw rings 
over jack knives, but never succeed in secur¬ 
ing any, and there were at least 50 temporary 
beer bars erected ail along the base of tbe hill 
that encircled the racetiaek, besides numer¬ 
ous ice cream booths, toward which the gentle 
maideus might be seen leading the bashful 
youths.” _ 
Keeping Grapes.— Fussing up grapes with 
cottou, sawdust, paper, wax and so on, to 
keep them into the Winter, is all nonsense, 
says the Farm Journal. Let the grapes ripen 
perfectly, uud then carefully pick into shal¬ 
low boxes, or baskets, and, without changing 
or disturbing, keep them in the coolest place 
3 ou can command. That’s all there Is of it. 
The cooler, the better, so the}' don’t freeze, 
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GOOSEBERRY. (From Nature.) Fig. 399, page G82. 
Next year, as early as possible, the early 
sweet corn will be planted on warm ground, 
and the larger kinds afterwards. There 
should be three kinds, with the Stowell’s Ever¬ 
green, to cover the season. The early kinds 
will be ready for use the middle of July, and 
the 8 to well's Evergreen cun bo used till Octo¬ 
ber or later. Here is food for hogs, cows, or 
anything. There are pork, rnilk, butter, and 
beef in it. Figs may be shut up in pens as 
soon as the sweet corn is ready to cut, and if 
fed all they will eat, they will futteu on it 
ulone—that is, on my kind of stalks. 
There is one thing it seems impossible to do 
—to make sheep do well in a stable in tbe 
summer time. They will gain very fast at 
pasture, with a little graiu. lu Winter they 
eat better, and with some roots, hay and 
grain.they will gain rapidly. Instead of selling 
my surplus sheep at a low price, 1 am going 
to feed them. I do not much expect to get 
any profit on the food, only enough gaiu to 
pay for it. The advantage will be in the fine 
lot of manure to be made from such food, 
this will puy for all of the trouble, and the 
grain goes into u home rnurket. This idea of 
a home rnurket in their own homes, is just 
w hat never enters the beads of most farmers. 
How much more wisdom there would be in tne 
plan to look around ami get some animals to 
fatten, and so keep the grain at home, than 
to take it, uway to murkel, and there compete 
with other farmers, who cun raise it at so 
much better advantage. 
The Bartlett Pears had a light-colored rust 
on them this year, which I never saw before. 
In some cases it extended over half a pear, and 
sometimes only iu patches. The pear did not 
grow out plump and full where the rust was. 
In no cases were the pears cracked, like the 
Flemish Beauty or Virgulieu. 
Wild carrots are spreading all over the 
Country. A few years ago there was scarcely 
a specimen In this vicinity; now whole fields 
are covered. There is no other way to keep 
clear of them except to pull them up where- 
ever found; to leave them along the roadside 
with the hope that they will stay there, will 
prove a delusion. They impoverish the laud, 
and, worse than all, nothing will eat them. 
They can be pulled up readily after a rain. 
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1 feel quite proud of one of my delaine Merino 
ewes. She is only a yearling, and, last Spring, 
sheared 13 pounds of unwashed wool. Besides 
this large fleece, she baa dropped a fine ewe 
lamb. Neither has a wrinkle on it except a 
small one in connection with the dew lap. Here 
is my style of a Merino—a large, smooth body; 
no wrinkles, and long, white wool. 1 urn going 
to make a combined mutton and wool breed 
out of these Merinos. Mutton Merinos 1 There 
is no reason why the meat of Merinos should 
not be good; the trouble is, there is not enough 
of it; the carouse is too thin and small. More 
bod}- is needed. Breeders have beeu trying for 
years to see how much weight of fleece they 
could get on the smallest carcass. Now I 
want to see how much weight, of wool (not 
oil) 1 can get on tbe largest carcass. I wish 
others would try the same thing, aud let us 
have a IJg-bodied Merino with a large fleece 
of wool. 
The Merinos are hardy, and when they cau 
be made to unite a good mutton body, aud a 
salable fleece, they will tase the front rank. 
They are better suited to rough and hilly 
lauds, to poor pastures uud poor shelter thau 
any other breed, and so they are better able 
to adapt themselves to climate and other con¬ 
ditions. 
There have been more grubs this year than 
1 recollect to have before seen. About forty 
years ago, I um told, they were so thick that 
they ate even the buckwheat on the dry 
knolls. This is not usual, as I do not remem¬ 
ber to have observed grubs eating buckwheat 
before this year. It is likely they will pass 
uway this Winter, having lived their time. 
The grubs which are doing tbe mischief are 
the white ones with red heads. 1 believe it 
takes them four years to mature, aud this 
year must be their last, Summer-fallowing 
will rid laud of grubs, and so will hogs. They 
will root them out. 
Some farmers pick ali their apples at one 
time; this is u mistake, some kinds should be 
gathered before others. The Greenings are 
the first fruit we gather. If not gathered 
early in September, they will drop or blow off 
with a slight wind. Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
iiliscdUnccrus. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Green's Nursery Co., Box 5t52, Rochester, 
N, Y. Illustrated catalogue of small plants, 
ness adds much to its value. Champion is 
earlier, but much inferior in quality. 
Montclair, N. J. e. williams. 
Abuses at the New Jersey State Fair. 
—We were asked why the Rural New- 
Yorker was not represented at the late New 
Jersey State Fair held at Waverly. Well, 
our answer may be guessed at, perhaps, after 
reading the following account of it, as pub¬ 
lished in the New York Times. It has been 
the same for years. The Rural has pro¬ 
tested against it iu all earnestness, and finally 
ceased attending the fairs, at which respect¬ 
able, order-loving people cau scarcely be ex¬ 
pected to feel at home. The Times’ account 
says; “There were more pretty and rosy- 
cheeked country girls than Waverly was en¬ 
titled to. and there were sturdy aud hearty 
young farmers who had driven in from the 
surrounding country in brightly-painted wag¬ 
ons, upon whom the rosy-cheeked country 
Some grapes won’t keep any way; don’t fool 
with them. Try the thick-skinued ones. 
Diana, Catawba, Isabella and Salem have 
good reputations as keepers. 
Are These Wastes on the Farm Pre¬ 
ventable? —Is neglect to save wood-ashes a 
waste, when such neglect compels the pur¬ 
chase of phosphates? asks Oar Country Home. 
Is the growth of weeds a waste, when it takes 
nitrogen from the crops? Is permitting weeds 
to cast millions of Seeds a w aste, when burning 
will destroy them ? Is n broken fence a waste, 
when it causes loss of time in running after 
cattle, loss of milk, and loss of feed? Is going 
to market with $10 worth of produce a waste, 
when your team will easily draw $25 worth? 
Is the rotting of a barrel of apples a waste, 
when they might bring $1, and cost 75 cents 
to market? Is feeding 10 tons of hay with 
grain tosix cows a waste, when four better cows 
would eat but, seven tons aud produce more 
milk? Is a 100 -bushel crop of potatoes a waste, 
wbeu another variety might yield 200 bushels? 
Is the working of two acres a waste, when 
the same mauureaud less labor woald produce 
as much on one acre? Is it a waste to pay 
taxes aud interest ou 50 acres, wbeu you use 
only 25? Is a 100-foot barn floor a waste, 
when a square barn with a shorter floor would 
cover your cattle and fodder? Are these and 
other wastes on your farm preventable? 
The Largest Yield of Potatoes.— No 
farmer has yet learned what the largest yield 
of any crop may be, and few have learned 
how very largely the yields of our common 
crops may lie increased. The ag. Editor of 
the N. Y. Times says that he has grown over 
600 bushels of potatoes, 150 bushels of shelled 
corn, SO bushels of oats, 50 bushels of wheat, 
and five tons of hay j*er acre, and these large 
yields have been considerably exceeded by 
other farmers. The largest yield of potatoes, 
however, the ag. Editor of the Times goes ou 
to sav, deserves to be credited to the Editor of 
tne Rural New-Yorker, who, in his experi¬ 
mental grounds, has made the following 
yields: 524 bushels, 540, 514, 720, 877, 998, 
1,050, 1,075,1,189, and 1,391 bushels per acre, 
or at that rate per acre, in several plots, each 
of different varieties, besides many others 
varying from below 500 to above that num¬ 
ber, the largest, however, being 1,391 bushels. 
The ground was fertilized by a mixture of 
fertilizers only and no manure, and contain¬ 
ing every element of plant food, including 
salt, lime, potash salts, ammonia salts, super¬ 
phosphate of lime, bone flour, and others. 
The variations show satisfactorily that much 
depends upon the kind of potato grown. The 
above notes were not copied from the R. 
N.-Y., but are the result of the observations of 
the Ed. of the N. Y. Times, made at tbe Rural 
grounds. 
Worthless New Seeds.— The Industrial¬ 
ist, a weekly paper edited by Prof. E. M. 
Shelton, and published by the Kausas State 
Ag. College, says that it is frequently re¬ 
quested by seedsmen to notice the various 
novelties and specialties so prominent in seed 
catalogues and the advertising columns of ag¬ 
ricultural papers. This the Editor has uni¬ 
formly declined to do, knowing, as he does, 
that 99 per cent, of tbe new seeds offered are 
worthless to the majority of farmers, Dur¬ 
ing every oue of the past 10 years he has tried 
a greater or less number of highly-commended 
novelties in seeds, without discovering, as he 
now remembers, a single vuluable sort. This 
year he has cultivated some 12 new varieties 
of oats, not one of which is equal to the com¬ 
mon variety which has been grown upon tbe 
College Farm for a number of years. He 
has come to the conclusion that the only men 
really benefited by novelties in seeds are the 
advertisers of them. 
Whitewashing Poultry Houses.— Mr. 
Felch, recognized as one of our first poultry 
authorities,advises, in The Country Home,that 
if our hen houses have not been whitewashed 
this season, it should be done at once. But 
first smudge the houses faithfully by mixing 
carbolic acid, turpentine and sulphur, and fir¬ 
ing the same, confining the smoke for two 
hours. Then air and whitewash, and you will 
save the fowls from the liability to lice, save 
feed, get more eggs, and have a clear con¬ 
sciousness of duty done to your stock. 
“Luck” on the Farm —A Wisconsin dairy 
man uttured a great and pregnant truth when 
he remarked, at a meeting of dairymen, that 
“it was not by a special dispensation of Provi- 
deuoe that a certain farmer received $98 per 
head for the yearly product of his cows, while 
his next door neighbor received only $30 per 
head.” So it is not a special act of Provi¬ 
dence, remarks Mr. Henry Stewart, that on 
one side of a fence the corn yields 80 bushels 
per acre and tbe hay three tous, while ou the 
other side the produets are SO bushels of eoru, 
and barely a single ton of hay. An enterpris¬ 
ing farmer writes that he is “cutting a second 
crop of clover, which yields a full ton per 
acre,” and his neighbors wonder how it is. 
The secret is that this farmer used plaster ou 
bis clover, which made all the difference; and 
bis other crops are equally conspicuous and 
remarkable because he uses fertilizers liberally 
as well as manure. The rain falls and the 
sun shines on all alike; but the better farmer 
gets the most good from the rain ami the sun, 
because he prepares and enriches the ground 
better, aud so gives tbe natural elements bet¬ 
ter chances to exert their benign influences. 
WIDE AWAKE ITEMS. 
Farmer Butler (General Benjamin) ad¬ 
vises farmers uot to mortgage their farms in 
order to start them sous iu business in the 
cities. 
Mr. Robert Bonner, the owner of Maud 
S., while opposed to the trotting of horses or 
anything else involving betting for money 
does uot understand why there should be any 
opposition to the giving of premiums for trot¬ 
ting at fairs..... 
Commenting upon Mr. Bonner’s views, 
the Breeders’ Gazette says that the prejudice 
which still exists iu some quarters agaiust 
anything which savors of the race-track, is 
SCURFY BARK LOUS. Fig. 400, page 682. 
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