Visit your friends, invite them to enjoy 
your hospitality, play with your children, 
lighten the cares of your wife, help a neighbor 
out of distress, beautify your home. A selfish 
man secures little enjoyment. The happiest, 
man is the one who makes others happy. If 
you have vainly sought for comfort try this: 
Help some man who has treated you desper¬ 
ately meanly. Do him good service iu his dis¬ 
tress. It will give much more satisfaction 
than helping some one who has helped you. 
greater per acre, and this fact would no doubt 
compensate for the less proportion of cane 
sugar to grape sugar contained in them. An 
analysis of the Chinese cane seems to indicate 
that it would be unfit for the production of 
crystallizable sugar. 
Robert C. Reeves, 185 and 187 Water 
Street, New York. Descriptive catalogue (52 
pages) of seeds of all kinds and agricultural 
implements, 
Hiram Sibley & Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Pamphlet, 24 jmges. Flax Culture for the 
Seed and the Filler, in the United States. Price 
ID cents. 
F. R. Pierson, Tarry town, N. Y.—Illustra¬ 
ted catalogue of seeds, plants and garden sup¬ 
plies of all kiuds for country homes. 
T. C. Robinson, Owen Sound. Ontario, Can. 
Illustrated catalogue of small fruits and 
grape-vines. Two colored plates. 
Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.—Price list of all kinds of ornamental 
trees and shrubs; also fruit trees. 
P. J. Berckmans. Augusta. Ga. Catalogue 
of greenhouse, bedding and new plants—24 
pages. A trustworthy house. 
E. S. Miller. Wading River, N. Y.—Cata¬ 
logue of bedding, green-house and hardy plants 
—50 pages, illustrated. 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y.—A valua¬ 
ble list of grapes. Headquarters of the Pren¬ 
tiss white grape. 
Ellis Brothers, Keene, N. H.— Catalogue 
of plants, seed, grape-vines, potatoes, small 
fruits, etc. 
Practical Hints on Rifle Practice with 
Military Arms. Ain. News Co., New York. 
Coe A Converse, Fort Atkinson, Wiscon¬ 
sin.—Pricelist of Small fruits; seed potatoes. 
Annual Reiobt of the Connecticut Agricultural 
Experiment Station. New Huron. forlS82—HO pages. 
All who have chemical fertilizers to purchase should 
examine this work. Hrof. 8. W. Johnson Is Director 
Premium List of the First Annual Fat-Stock Show 
to he held at Rtvcrview Park, Kansas City, 5To„ No 
vember i to », 1SS«. Address Edward Hareu, Sec., 
Kansas City. Mo. 
Edward Gillette, south wick, Mass.—List of North 
American plants, orchids, shrubs, climbers, alpine, 
at)untie and bog plants, ferns, etc. 
Isaac Hich» So.se, Old Westbury P. 0., Long 
Island. N. y.—Descriptive catalogue of fruit and or- 
uamentnl trees; ‘Hi pages. 
Eleventh Report of the Board of trustees of the 
Illinois Industrial University, l r bans, Champaign 
Co.. IU.—Sm pages. 
if. M. Tuomi'SijS ,v Son. St. Francis, Milwaukee Co., 
W’ls. -Wholesale orb e list of forest, ornamental and 
fruit trees. 
A. It. Whitney, Franklin Grove. Lee Co., I1L. estab 
Halted 181.3. Catalogue of orchard anil nursery stock. 
K. Y. Ti; VS. Dunrelih. Jnd. Catalogue of pears, 
quinces, grape*, small fruits, etc. A) pages. 
J. C. Fu mu a son, Milton, Wisconsin.— Price list of 
ornamental and trull trues: eight pages. 
der in the very grant to these savage hordes of 
stated territory in which to follow their sav¬ 
age instincts, fattening on Government rations 
and clothed by the Government, to make a 
raid, whenever a lot of young bucks got bold 
enough, on the peaceful pioneers, their flocks 
and herds and families. It was a mistake iu 
policy and about the nature of the savage. 
Instead of shutting them up in a territory 
entirely their own. to pursue their nomad life, 
they should have been looked upon and dealt 
with under the level -beaded policy of General 
Miles. He strips them of their squadrons of 
ponies and sets them down on family patches, 
with rations enough to carry them to the next 
crop, and then says to the noble Indian. “Now- 
root hog or die.’- This tames down the Indian 
to the civ ilized basis of getting bis own grub. 
But the great point which makes it appro¬ 
priate for the Rural to discourse thus is that 
by the adoption of this policy the whole laud 
gains wealth and peace of industries, quiet 
homes aud flocks uud herds at home, with no 
wild Indian around to Stampede and butcher. 
If the big farming bonanzas, so celebrated 
of late in the Rural, do not at ouee gather 
greatness, small farms, the glory of a free land, 
will spring Up in the valleys aud on the prairies 
and teem with life and happiness. Such are 
the foundations of a free republic. Protect 
aud faster them everywhere! 1 have no more 
faith in bonanza farms than in bonanza mines 
as the ground-work or to hold together the 
structure of a nation. Bonanza funnel's don’t, 
go into new and unexplored territory. They 
are not the pioneers any more than they are 
the restful basis of empire. They are well enough 
as a feature of the times and the opportunities 
of the day. But they are a poor reliance in the 
hour of trouble,and, as a rule, do wasteful work. 
While it is true that silk-worms fed on the 
leaves of the Osage Orange produce a very 
fair quality of silk, there is uothing to be 
gained iu usiug tliis kind of food, because, as 
the New York Sun suggests, the mulberry is 
the natural food of the worm, and it will grow 
wherever the Osage thrives. There is one 
great objection to the Osage Orange, which 
should not Ik? overlooked by those about to 
engage iu silk culture, aud that is its sharp, 
needle-like thorns scattered all over the plant, 
even to the young and tender shoots, which 
make the gathering of t he leaves anything but 
an agreeable task. It is usually expected that 
women aud children will become the gatherers 
of leaves for feeding the worms, and unless 
inclosed in a coat of mail they would be likely 
to suffer much in coming in contact with a 
thorny shnib like the Osage Orange. 
Mistakes and Hopes of Silk Oultur- 
ists. —A correspondent of the New York World 
says that many American writers exaggerate 
the profits to be derived from mulberry trees 
and the silk worms raised thereon. State¬ 
ments tending to mislead the beginner are of 
frequent occurrence in our exchanges. The 
illusion consists in believing that one ounce of 
eggs cau produce 1,000 pounds of cocoons, 
when 100 pounds are considered a rich average, 
and that those cocoons sell for $2.50, when 
their price is only $1,20 dry and 40 to 50 cents 
fresh for the first quality and lower for infe¬ 
rior breeds. The encouragement is that we can 
give the names of breeders having averaged 
for one ounce. 148 pounds; for five ounces, 571 
pounds; for 10 ounces. 1,021 pounds; for 12 
ounces, 1,210 pounds, of very nice cocoons, 
classic breeds, selling at 50 cents per pound 
fresh—say an average of 000 pounds of cocoons 
or $300 per acre. Almost all the errors com¬ 
mitted in silk culture arise from one big one, 
which was engendered by ignorance; it was to 
believe that the mulberry tree and its cater¬ 
pillar. the si lie-worm, originated from a mild, 
Southern climate. The fact is that the coun¬ 
try, China, where the Morns alba and the silk¬ 
worm are seen yet in their wild state, is be¬ 
tween the 85th and 50th degrees of latitude, the 
same climate in Summer and Winter as we 
have here from Tennessee and South Carolina 
to Maine. Wisconsin aud Dakota. 
Prof. Budd informs us, through the excel¬ 
lent Iowa Homestead, that 04“ below zero has 
not injured young plants of the Russian Mul¬ 
berry. He thinks in the dry Summer air of 
Iowa it will make the best feed for silk-worms. 
He thinks that cm a large scale the rearing 
and management of silk-worms might not 
prove profitable on account of the high ju ice 
of labor and the fact that reeled silk is now 
imported free of duty from portions of Europe 
where six cents per day are regarded u fair 
price for female labor, but the home produc¬ 
tion of the cocoons aud even the reeling will 
prove profitable to our hundreds of citizens 
who have had some prior experience, and the 
one expert iu a neighborhood will soon de¬ 
velop others. 
John Saul. Washington. D. C. Catalogue 
of new and rare plants—crotons, draeamas, 
iKnivardias, clematis, gesuerias, geraniums, 
fuchsias, dahlias, ferns, cacti, phloxes, gladi¬ 
oli, vines, grasses, etc., etc. A beautiful 
colored plate of the beautiful hybrid per¬ 
petual rose A. K. Williams. This catalogue 
comprises 104 pages and will be sent, gratis to 
our renders who apply to Mr. Saul. 
Also a descriptive catalogue of a selection 
of roses—10 pages. 
Pure Austrian or German Carp, by 
l ‘harles S. Medarv, Passaic Valley Carp Fish¬ 
eries. Little Falls, N. J. This is a neat little 
pamphlet of 28 pages, containing a good deal 
of useful information ubout carp, their habits, 
breeding, value for food, mode of constructing 
IVtids, manner of shipment, etc. It answers 
many questions about which those contem¬ 
plating earji culture should be informed. It 
will be sent gratis to all applicants. 
H. J. Baker & Bro., 215 Pearl .Street, New 
York. Pamphlet of 40 pages, gratis. “Facts 
for farmers regarding the use and results of 
fertilizers. 1 ' We often have inquiries as to 
what fertilizers should be used for certain 
crops. This pamphlet will answer such in¬ 
quiries. giving the price of each. The fertiliz¬ 
ers of this firm are, according to many analy¬ 
ses, just what they purport to be. 
Truck-farming at the South; a guide to 
the raising of vegetables for the Northern 
markets. By Dr. A. Oelrner. Price $1.50. 
Full cultural directions are given iu this work 
of 270 pages, for raising all kinds of garden 
truck ‘‘ down South,” as well as descriptions 
of the best methods of packing aud shipping 
produce to Northern markets. Address the 
American News Company, New York. 
Johnson & Stokes, 1114 Market St,, Pliila- 
delpliia, Pa.—Implement catalogue of 40pages, 
fully illustrated—rollers, lawn-mowers, land- 
cultivators. churns, farming-mills, mole-traps, 
butter-printers and workers, hay and straw- 
cutters, cider-mills, etc., etc., free to all apjili- 
cants. 
Forest Protection and the Tariff on Lum¬ 
ber. A pamphlet of 35 pages giving the edito¬ 
rial comments of several leading dailies on the 
important questions of the preservation of our 
forests and the lumber tariff. The name and 
address of the publisher are not given. 
Irving Allen. Springfield, Mass. Cata¬ 
logue of small fruits. Specialties are made of 
Fay’s Prolific Currant, the Prentiss Grape 
and HanseU Raspberry, of which colored 
plates arc presented. Free. 
Geo. S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y. De¬ 
scriptive catalogue and price-list of American 
grape-vines, small fruit plants, trees, etc. 
Headquarters for Fay’s Prolific Currant. Free. 
Cereals of Europe, India and Algeria. 
A report from U. S. Consuls in answer to a 
circular from the Department of State. No¬ 
vember, 1882. Washington, D. C. 
J. M. McCullough & Sons, 18(5 Walnut St., 
Cincinnati, <Catalogue (75 pages, well illus¬ 
trated) of garden, field aud flower seeds; grain, 
onion sets, implements, etc. 
SHORT AND FRESH, 
remama period in a mu room, removen tnence 
into a cold room, and then undertake that it 
should hatch all right. <>r lie w ould start it and 
leave it to itself for I lie whole thrri* weeks. 
That’s the sort of incubator we need here..... 
Mr. Parnell w rites in the American Gar¬ 
den that the Alpha potato is the earliest va¬ 
riety in cultivation maturing its crop in from 
55 to (50 days. He also agrees with the Rural 
in saying that the Early Ohio is earlier than 
the Early Rose and more productive. 
The general excellence of the Early Ohio 
seemed to have rested with those who culti¬ 
vated it until the Rural by its tests, made 
it known. 
S. Reynolds Hole says: “ He who would 
have beautiful roses in his garden must have 
beautiful roses in his heart... 
At the Michigan Ag. College they have 
tested and wintered the famous Bermuda 
Grass and the equally praised Johnson Grass. 
Sorghum lialcjiense. Both are liable to be 
winter-killed. .Johnson Grass has ripened 
seeds freely for two years past. 
Thk Scientific American says that paste for 
labels is made by soaking glue in strong vine¬ 
gar, then heating it to boiling uud adding 
flour.... 
The Mass. Ploughman reminds its readers 
that to attempt to raise early chirks without 
good, warm quarters is to invite failure. 
April will be early enough to set hens. 
Iris about time to cut cions of cherry and 
plum trees. Apple and pear cions may also 
be cut, but later will answer. Place them 
in dampsand, each kind marked. 
A MEMBER of the Cortland Funnels ('lub 
finds that the White Jumbo yields one-third 
more than the Peerless upon poor soil. One 
member objected to the White Elephant as 
havingu “ strong flavor”. 
W. H, Underwood raised ICO different 
kinds of potatoes and settles upon the White 
Whipple as the best. 
Mr. Hovey says that the wild strawberries 
are always best where wood has been burnt off. 
which shows the'value of ashes. 
He further says that the James Vick Straw¬ 
berry is “ no doubt remarkable.”. 
Orange or Early Amber Sugar Cane were 
produced on good prairie soil upon which corn 
had been raised for several years. It was 
planted iu hills three-and-a-half feet, apart, 
each wav. cultivated with an ordinary two- 
horse corn cultivator, the hills thinned out by 
hoeing to four stalks. The Orange averages 
about seven feet iu higlit: the Amber, nine. 
Prof. Morrow mentions that the Amber, 
nevertheless, averages a quarter of an inch 
less iu the diameter of the stalk at the base. 
At the Illinois Industrial University a good 
experiment was made to ascertain the ertect 
of manure upon the sugar product of Northern 
sugar cane. A field was selected which had 
been used u.s a barn-yard for several years. A 
port, of the cane was planted directly on the 
rotten manure pile. Au analysis was made of 
a sample taken from this part of the field, as 
well as of a part away from a manure pile. 
The seed in each case was in the “hardening 
dough.” The following is the result of the 
analysis; 
Manured—Sp. gr„ 1,063 Grape sue.. 2.65 Cane sue., 10.80 
__I 11-1 “ *f •>«-, “ “ 13.87 
Variety of Cane.— It appears from the 
University’s investigations that the Amber is 
the best, adapted for the production of cane 
sugai*. The Orange and Liberian cau also be 
employed advantageously in the latter part of 
the season, as they mature later. Their yield is 
