of each other and get hot and steaming, and 
when they come out of the nest are iiable to 
take cold. Pigs are liable, under such cir¬ 
cumstances, to be affected with rheumatism, 
quinsy, and also inflammation of the lungs. 
They should be allowed to sleep in a warm 
building iuto which the wind cannot pene¬ 
trate, and to have a dry bed with sufficient 
straw to make thorn comfortable but not 
enough to burrow in so they will he too hot. 
aforesaid. The large hole was then closed by 
stitches and the cow got u p and began chew- 
her cud,” But where did she get any cud 
to chew, when her stomach had been emptied ? 
y , and in a temperature of some 55 degree * 
If any of your gloxinias are sprouting 
strongly and you wish for early flowers, you 
may repot them, and keep them in light, 
warm quarters, but water them very spar¬ 
ingly for a time. In watering your cycla 
mens do not pour the water into the middle 
of the plants, else you will be apt to rot off a 
good many of the flower buds. Sprinkling 
your plants overhead through a water pot 
fine rose or syringe or by means of a whisk 
broom does them good. 
* * 
If insects attack your plants, wash off the 
little pests. Fumigating with tobacco smoke 
will kill aphides, but so far as window plants 
are concerned, fumigation, no matter how 
often it is advisid, is almost impracticable. 
Dip the tops of your plants in warm water, 
say at a temperature of 130 or 125 degrees, a 
little more or less according to the toughness 
of the plant operated on, then with a sponge 
you can easily remove any depredators that 
still stick to their prey Scales, thrips and 
spiders have to be washed off, and mealy bugs 
brushed off 
read (he first news 
01110 
THE TRUTH ABOUT IT 
(True object of articles under this heading 1 r not so 
mucn to deal with •'humbugs” as with the many un¬ 
conscious errors that creep into the methods of dally 
country routine life.—E ds.1 
THE KIEFFER PEAR. 
I think the Rural will not regret its con¬ 
servative course in relation to the Kieffer. It 
is far better that the indorsement should fol¬ 
low a trial than precede it. A friend informs 
me he had put out 500 trees and was going to 
put out as many more. “What fori” I asked. 
“To make money,” he replied It may be, 
but I think the money was made by the party 
who sold him the trees. I have been charged 
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BROWNELL’S BEST. (FROM NATURE)—FIG. 4 .—SEE PAGE 2 . 
orker. It is by all aood hereafter in the management of young pigs 
culturists the accepted me- when milk and other light food is notavailable. 
duction of all new plants To carry out this mode of treatment in the 
most successful manner, a field should be pro¬ 
vided which it is intended to plow up, as they 
will spoil a green-sward. The rooting in the 
ground seems to be necessary for their heallh, 
or, at all events, it does them a great deal of 
good. They eat the angle-worms which, I am 
inclined to think, Nature has provided, in 
part, at least, as food for pigs. They un¬ 
doubtedly feed also upon the roots of the 
grasses and upon the ground itself, which acts 
as an antidote to the effects of the corn and 
keeps them healthy. I noticed them to-day— 
A large and valuable (money considered) 
importation of Jersey cattle bas recently ar¬ 
rived. It consists of over 100 head and it is 
quite safe to say, knowing the feeling of Jer¬ 
sey breeders (?) here, that still larger prices 
will be obtained for the animals than ever be¬ 
fore. And to quote the words of a Jersey 
speculator aud “leading breeder” on the island 
of Jersey, “ the expected fall in prices of 
Jerseys seems at present further off than ever.” 
This was precisely what was said by the Short¬ 
horn breeders in the midst of their craze. But 
the business collapsed and fell, “and great 
was the fall thereof.” 
(TJ)c Sunuc-i)fvi) 
A DISCOVERY IN THE TREATMENT 
OF YOUNG PIGS. 
COL. F. 0 . CURTIS. 
I have made a discovery of great import¬ 
ance to me. I had a lot of young pigs about 
ten weeks old, which it was necessary to wean 
Since writing the above note I see in an 
English paper the following pithy sentence in 
relation to a recent sale of Jersey cattle— 
noted at the time in the Rural New-Yorker 
—and also referring to the above-mentioned 
importation. The paper says, “No sooner was 
this sale over than Mr. Cooper, determining 
to make the best of the madness prevailing, 
crossed the Atlantic to pick up every descend¬ 
ant of Coomassie he could lay hands on.’’ 
Mr. Cooper evidently follows the advice of 
the poet Pope who recommends us to “shoot 
folly as it flies,” and I try to do the same, but 
not so profitably as Mr. Cooper is doing. 
The great joke of the speculation and the 
clear folly of it is, that the bull of the lot, 
Khedive's Primrose, which Mr. Cooper has 
just paid $5,000 for, cost the seller one year 
ago only $80!!_ 
And now geese culture (I think I have men¬ 
tioned it before, and that the promoter is ap¬ 
propriately named Gosling) is receiving atten¬ 
tion. Mr. Gosling says 100 geese kept on SO 
acres of grass land properly supplied with 
springs, will return $1,200 annually clear 
profit, thus: A goose may be plucked 
twice; (some geese have been plucked a score 
of times and will be plucked some more) and 
will pay with her feathers all the cost of her 
keep. She will rear 10 goslings and will con¬ 
tinue to do this for 80 years—being of octoge¬ 
narian tendencies. Ten goslings at 50 cents 
each only, or about seven cents a pound, in 
September, will produce $5; 250 geese at $5 
each equal $1,250. How simple and how easy, 
and yet how beautiful and how true! 
NEW CONQUEROR (FROM NATURE)—FIG. 5 .—SEE PAGE 2 . 
rs, and they were accord- it being mild—roaming over the field, work- 
pen. There was not milk ing at the frozen ground and digging in the 
nd to all the pigs, and these snow with they- snouts. It is evidently pretty 
isively on grain. They did safe to let animals, especially pigs, follow 
mfloed. with the solid food their instincts. I have no doubt that the ex¬ 
bey lost their appetites and ercise w bich these pigs take has had much to 
It has been asked, “ What sort of animals 
are Shropshire sheep, of which one smgle ram 
is rented for a season for stock purposes for 
the sum of $6301” There is nothing wonder¬ 
ful about this. Breeders in England pay ex¬ 
traordinary prices for stock animals because 
Americans who have more money than they 
know what to do with pay such extraordinary 
prices to them for the produce of those ani¬ 
mals. When Americans go about bidding 
unheard-of prices for foreign stock we can 
believe one of two things: either they don’t 
pay any such prices, or get an enormous dis¬ 
count on the sly, or it is done wholly for 
effect bo as to sell them here at still larger 
prices by virtue of the boom they themselves 
get up. But as for the ram, $630 is a very 
small price for the use of a ram; many years 
ago Mr. Bakeweli was paid 6,500 guineas— 
$32,550—for the use of one of his Leicester 
rams, and Jonas Webb received $10,000 for 
the use of one of his South Downs. 
RURAL WINTER HARD AUSTRALIAN WHEAT- 
FIG 7.—SEE PAGE 2. 
want to see more merit in it than I have yet 
been able Co discover. 
Mr. Barry, at the Boston meeting of the 
American Pomologies'll Society, asked if it 
was as good as a good Duchesse. He was an¬ 
swered in the affirmative, and replied if that 
was so it was good enough, and so say I; but 
I have not yet happened to taste one that 
would approach a fair Duchesse,to say nothing 
of a good one, and 1 have sampled quite a 
number. I have wondered how Mi*. Down¬ 
ing, Mr. Meehan aud others could have cred¬ 
ited it with being of such good quality as 
they are said to have done, and can only ac¬ 
count for it on the hypothesis that they have 
had remarkably good specimens to taste of, 
while I have had quite the reverse. Two 
years ago I obtained a flue-looking specimen, 
which I ripened uud had sampled by the fam¬ 
ily, aud not one had a good word for it My 
own impression was that it was about midw ay 
between u pear and a quince, if, indeed, there 
was any semblance to the former save in 
looks. But the fault must be mine in not 
getting a better sample; for Mr. Meehan says, 
P.M-Y- - 
ST. PATRICK (FROM NATURE).—FIG. 6.—SEE PAGE 2 . 
■ating corn, which they the cold all the time, but rather to allow 
’hey soon began to thrive, them to follow their inclinations and go out if 
lai kably w ell ever since— they want to. They can also be made too 
ct the attention of visitors warm by giving them too mueh bed, when 
<ir fine appearance, being they will burrow in it, especially if the bed is 
h as porkers. When cold exposed to the wind or currents of cold air. 
- m sleeping-place was pro- When this is the case, they will crawl on top 
“ A Kentucky cow got into a corn field and 
ate six bushels of corn which caused her to 
sw ell to a dreadful extent. Fearin g she would 
die, the owner consented that her stomach 
should be opened and the corn removed. 
This was done to the extent of six bushels 
