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THE RUSAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV 1 
To make such long experiments as I de¬ 
scribe, Is almost a life’s work, and the bene¬ 
fits an* likelv to fall upon future generations. 
Few are prepared for them, or patient enough 
to consummate them. Let those who are in¬ 
clined to such work preserve the following 
table, and thus save long years of labor in se- 
L.—Labrusea, such as Concord. Ives, Martha, etc. 
Rip.—Ripariu. such as one parent of Taylor and Clinton, and those 
early grapes which grow wild along overflowed banks of 
Western streams. 
Rup.—Rupestris, ol which there is no representative in general cul¬ 
tivation. The Bush, or Sand Grape. West. 
vEst.—JEstivalis, such as Norton, Hprbemont, Le Noir. etc. 
Can.—Candicans, the Mustang of Texas and adjoining territory. 
Fruit very large and pungent. 
leafing and ripening can also be obtained. 
For the information of those unacquainted 
with the specific botanical names, let me 
state—the genus Vitia, (the Grape) bas been 
divided into species according to peculiar 
characteristics belonging to every plant in 
each group or species, thus;— 
Cord —Cordifolia, the wild pungent Frost or Winter Grape. 
Cin — Cinema, the wild vinous Frost or Winter Ashy leaved. 
The two last are usually thought to be one species, but they are 
very distinct. 
Rot.— Rotundifolia, Scuppernong Grape of the Gulf region, in river 
bottom*. 
Vin._Vinifera, foreign or European, descendants probably of several 
species, and all absolute failures east of the Rocky Mountains in 
open vineyards. 
curing the facts it contains. The varieties 
are named in the order in which they bloom, 
excepting some of my seedling* whose time 
has not yet been observed. The date of bloom¬ 
ing was taken when the kinds were fairly 
started in blossom. The table will be valu¬ 
able for any section, as from it the order of 
NAME. 
Common. 
Tiusb, or Sarnl Beach Grapes. 
River ride Grape. 
Hybrid, “NooVungent”. 
Clinton. 
Bacchus.. 
Hybrid, Bed Ktvor. 
Bercvinan'8. . 
Mustang. 
Secretary —. . 
Champion iTnlmnm. 
Colden Gem .. 
Waverly. 
Elvira. 
tEIvlra Seedling, 
"Ruby," 
No. 1. 
2. 
S. 
4. 
it a 5 . 
“ “ “Superior,” all”!!!! 
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Perkins. 
Telegraph. 
Hart ford... 
Brighton.... 
Lady. 
Martha... 
Moore’* Early... 
tMoore's Early Seedling, No. 1 — 
a •* *• 2.... 
Agawam 115). 
Concord . . 
Mrs MeCinro . 
Ariadne... 
Early Victor. 
Noah . . 
♦ Prentiss—Hudson. 
Pockllngton .. 
Walter . ... 
Irvin* . 
Lady Washington. 
Eumelan.. .. 
Botanical. 
Holmes .. 
Mo. Ret din*. 
White Ann Arbor. 
Piznrro.-. 
Salem «22).. . 
Wilder i4). 
Llndley IP.- 
tLlndley Seedling, No. 1 .. 
•< « 2.. 
•• “ 8 .. 
« « 4 _ 
II h 5 
Goethe (1)............ 
Delaware. .. 
tDelaware Seedling, No. 1.. 
•• •< 2 . 
Essex Ml) .... 
Peter Wylie.... 
Catawba... 
Doehossc. ... 
Roeers’s «2 . • 
Black Eagle . .. 
+BI«ek Eagle Seedling (l!...- 
•• " “ (2>. 
Cl 
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Vergennos .. 
Jefferson ... 
Triumph . 
tTrlumph Seedling (1).. . . 
“ “ (21 .. 
« « (8). 
Montgomery.. 
Zlnfandel . .... 
“Lucky Kind" Post Oak. 
Mission..... 
Neosho.... 
Racine... ... 
Hopklus—Post Oak. 
Winter Grape .. . 
ExeeKlor. 
Cyothlsnn .. 
Norton's Va. 
Cvnthlatia Seedling Hi. 
McKee, ) very similar, f. 
TTpson. { or . 
Herbemont, ' nearly identical f. 
+Herbemonl Seedling ill .. 
•• “ <2i. 
<• “ (81. 
“ “ Ml. 
“ « (5). 
“ “ (8). 
“ “ (7). 
“ “Exquisite.” (81. 
“ Seedling (9). .. 
“ “ (ID). 
Le Nolr.. 
Harwood. 
Wm. Munson. . 
Afthv Grape ... 
Scuppernong, In Var... 
Vitls Ttuppstrls. 
“ HI part a . 
Elvira x Oandicans 
V. Rip. X V. Lab.... 
Place. 
V Rip. X V. Cand . 
Clinton x Delaware. 
V Caodlcuns. 
Clinton x Vinifera. 
Labrusea . 
Delaware x Iona. 
Clinton x I ( Muscat x. 
Rip x Lab { ( Via. . 
Rip. x Lab. .. 
Eiv, x Bacchus, 
x Lab .... , 
Elvira x Cyntiilana. 
“ x Goethe... 
x Triumph. 
Labrusea. .... 
Lab. x Vin.,Concord x Ham. 
Labrusea. 
x Vin. 
R'P. 
Ollnton x Vin. 
Lab .. ...... 
Rip. x Lab. 
Lab. x Vin. 
Delaware x Diana 
Lab. x Vin. 
x 2Est. 
x A3st. 
x Rip, 
Clinton x Vin. 
Lab. x Vin .... 
Lind, x Del . 
" x Brighton.... 
•• x D»l . 
“ x Elvira. 
“ x Martha . 
Lab. x Vin. 
Lub. x Vin. or 2Est 
Del. x Concord. 
Lab. x Vin . . 
i L. x V.) x (Del. x Vin.). 
Lab . . 
Lab. x Vin. 
B. E. x Del. 
“ x Rrtghton. 
“ x Post-Oak. 
“ x Martha .. 
Lab. 
Concord x Tons . 
ijib. x Vin. 
Vin. 
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x Elvira . 
Herb, x Triumph. 
x Martha. 
x Post-Oak... 
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♦Prentiss in its leaf, fruit, seed, seedlings and sickly growth, with me evidently indicates Viuifera blood. The evidence of botanical character¬ 
istics must stand ahead of advertising assertions. Mr. A. J. Cay wood wrote me, that after testing Prentiss by the side of the Hudson, (a hy¬ 
brid or Lab and Vin. of his own production) he could detect no difference. , . , 
+ I mention some of my seedliugs simply to indicate the direction of mv experiments. This after the first years fruitiug only. It is not in¬ 
tended to advertise them. With thorough testing, some of them may do to introduce, then only shall I advertise. SSo no one need now apply 
for any of these. 
•fttiscflUncous. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Thirty-Thihd Annual Report of the 
Indiana State Board ok Agriculture, 
for the Year 1888.—This is a well gotten up 
and bound volume of 850 pages, containing the 
proceedings of the annual meetiugsof the State 
Board for 1SS3; alsoreportsof tt e conventions 
of the cattle breeders, swine breeders, wool 
growers, and bee beepers of the State; together 
with the papers read and the discussions held 
at these different meetings. We are indebted 
for this valuable report to Mr. Alex. Heron, j 
Secretary, ludianapolis, Ind. 
The Second Annual Report of the Board 
of Control of the New York State Experi¬ 
ment Statiou, for the year lbbS —This volume 
of near 800 pages contains a complete record 
of the work at the Experimental Station, and 
cannot fail to be of much interest. It cun be 
had of the members of the last Legislature. 
Charles downing’s opinion of the quali¬ 
ty OF THE VICTORIA GRAPE. 
The bunch of Victoria Grapes was received 
iu due time, but a good deal bruised. Enough 
berries were sound, however, for testing. 
The seeds do not separate freely from the 
pulp; neither does the pulp dissolve, but re¬ 
mains hard, and is quite acid, and when this is 
the ease either the berry is not ripe or the 
quality is poor. If these were a fair specimen 
of the variety, I would not class it more than 
third-rate, and if I could not get any better 
grapes, I would go without. 
SOME PROFIT IN SHEEP RAISING. 
I have fed sheep in a small way for the past 
eight or ten Winters. My net profits have 
ruu from about one cent to one dollar per 
head. Last Winter I fed 125 head. Allow¬ 
ing the market value for the hay and grain 
fed, and offsetting the manure against the 
straw and labor, I still bad a prrfit of 75 cents 
per head. All things counted, it pays to feed 
sheep for a money profit of one cent per head. 
Willow Creek, N. Y. A. B. w. 
Is W. H. Baird, Zanesville, Ohio, one of 
the numerous aliases, of J. M. Bain, the 
poultry fraud of the same thriving town? If 
not, be is closely related to that versatile 
rascal, if not in blood, at least in nature. The 
special form of swindle ho advertises is known 
as “Baird's Formulas,” which be offers to 
send for $2, and by which, he claims, any 
farmer, with “chemicals purchased at any 
drug store,” caD manufacture fertilizers at 
about one quarter to one half the cost of man¬ 
ufactured articles, and “just as good.” Briefly 
thedirpctions are as follows; Place 100 pounds 
of dry hones in a barrel or tub with 100 pounds 
of water,and 40 pounds of sulphuric acid, and 
stir daily’. When the bones have twen dis¬ 
solved to the consistency of a paste (which will 
be in from two to six weeks, the time de¬ 
pending on how fine the bones have been 
broken), mix with the pasto from two to 
four time its bulk of fine road dust. 
There is nothing new in this. Over and over 
again we have told inquirers, in our Farmers’ 
Club, bow to dissolve bones in precisely this 
way. We did not advise them, however, to 
adulterate the stuff with “road dust,” al¬ 
though it would have to be “ extended” with 
that, dry inuck or earth for easier applica¬ 
tion, “Baird” is simply humbugging those 
foolish enough to believe his nonsense. We 
have seen a large number of “fertilizer for¬ 
mulas” which, during the la*t, half dozen 
years, have been offered for sale for from 50 
cents to $5 each; but although each of them 
has been, like Baird’s, the “ greatest agricul¬ 
tural discovery of the age,” not one of them 
bus possessed any special merit: uny valuable 
feature in any of them, has been public prop¬ 
erty for year*; and in all cases, without a 
single exception, all the special features have 
been either usoloss. injurious or evidently 
intended to mislead and humbug the public. 
indeed any shrewd man must infer that the 
claims put forth in behalf of these “formulas” 
must be false. The main object they all pro¬ 
fess to accomplish is to enable the farmer to 
make fertilizers cbeaperihau I he large manu¬ 
facturers. Now, iu chemistry there are no se¬ 
crets unknown to these men and the experts 
they employ, whose special business it is to 
leurn the latest discoveries connected with 
their trade, aud to devise the cheapest methods 
of manufacturing goods The large manufac¬ 
turers are men o» extensive means and un¬ 
usual Intelligence Thtir capital enables them 
to buv in large quantities at the lowest rates; 
they have the very best machinery and other 
appliances for manufacturing: as their “plant” 
Is costly, they aim to make their business 
permanent, and even if tbey T were inclined to 
be tricky, they know well that, iti the long 
run, “hono-ty i* the best policy.” Accordingly 
tb«b fertilizers ure, as a rule, worth fully 
the price charged for them, which they would 
not be. if adulterated with from “two to four 
times” their bulk of “road dust,” or any such 
ingredient. It is simply preposterous to say 
that a farmer, with no special conveniences, 
can make as good an article as that turned 
out by these men. even at the same price. Of 
course, it is well that each of our friends 
should know bow to utilize the bones on his 
own farm; or those which be may get in bis 
immediate neighborhood; but our columns 
are alwajs ready to furnish the best informa¬ 
tion on this subject and as we have absolutely 
no object iu view beyond benefiting oui read¬ 
ers, what we may say will be free from the 
dap trap and bumbuggery that characterize 
every one of the “fertilizer formulas” we have 
ever seen offered for sale. 
To several inquirers: Wedonot recommend 
the American Chemical Works, of New Bed¬ 
ford, Mass ; or the Monarch Novelty Co., of 
Cincinnati, Ohio; or G. W. Foster, 21 Park 
Row, this city—second warning. The War¬ 
ren Manufacturing Co., of this city, is the 
same as Sizer & Co., whose name has appear¬ 
ed here several times. The Bohemian Oats 
ten dollars a-bushel swindlers are again going 
around seeking whom they can “take in.” 
Every year we have to warn our friends 
against this fraad. The B. O are no better 
than ordinary sorts. The Standard Silver¬ 
ware Co., Boston, Mass., is a humbug. Don’t 
have anything to do with the Standard Jew¬ 
elry Co., of this city. The Dayton Hedge Co.. 
Dayton. Ohio, is all right; so is the New York 
SJate Roofiug Co., Philadelphia, Pa. The 
New Ym-k Book Company, of this city, com¬ 
prising W. Moore and Isaac Wallenstein, bas 
