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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER. 
pounds annually. No other people use as 
much as we do, which is an average of more 
than half n pound weekly for each individual, 
including infants, and much more would be 
used if it could be produced more cheaply 
The average yield of butter is 100 poimds per 
cow annually. If owners of cows would set 
to work to improve their stock it would not 
bo long until the average product could be 
doubled. The cost would remain the same, 
very nearly, for 2(H) pounds as for lun, ao that 
it. could be sold for 15 cents a pound and' the 
dairymen do as wel/as now. This would 
enable every poor person to have his just 
share, and drive the bogus substitutes out of 
the market. 
PITHS AND REMINDERS. 
American Land-owners.— Jones of Bing¬ 
hamton, in the Husbandman, quotes Lord 
Coleridge as saying: “But it seems to mo that 
America’s crowning glory is, that it is a 
country of homes. Thesolid content aud satis¬ 
faction bred by the fact that the farmer’s 
lands are his own, the merchant and the pro¬ 
fessional ruau generally own their own houses, 
and the cottage of the artisan belongs to 
him.” Nothing truer could lie said: “A 
country of homes.” In this lies the secret of 
our prosperity as a nation. We are all mem 
here of the firm, and have an interest in the 
welfare of our country that no tenant 
can ever feel. IIow long this condition will 
remain, and we shall be secure against the 
encroachments of monopoly and rapacity of 
corporate greed, will be governed entirely by 
the action of these same home owners who 
have at command the ballots that can stop the 
march toward consolidation and the ruin of 
republicanism. 
Advantages of Herefords for the 
Plains.— The breeders on the Western Plains 
find that the II ere fori Is have hardy constitu¬ 
tions. are covered with thick hides aud good, 
warm, soft coats of hair; they hud the strong 
constitutions of the Herefoi-ds make them 
good travelers, so that they can go long dis¬ 
tances from water to good grass aud back 
again without liecoming tired, says the 
Breeders’ Journal. This strength of consti¬ 
tution enables them to Btand the hardships of 
a life out-of-doors, Summer and Wiuter, 
with not a particle of artificial food, better 
than any other breed of cattle. Combined 
with these desirable characteristics, they tind 
Hereford cattle will mature at two years old, 
will fatten early in the season on grass alone, 
and will go to market and sell for more per 
pound than any other beast. If the Hereford 
steer is placed in the feeding barn, he will ful¬ 
fill the most sanguine expectations, and will 
make more llesh on the same feed than other 
steers. 
The Head-Light of Neosho Co., Kansas, 
says that broom-corn has been a mighty crop 
in that, vicinity, averaging about a third of a 
ton per acre, the poorest yielding not less 
than a quarter of a ton per acre. The quality 
is the finest, far superior to that raised in Illi¬ 
nois, and it sells this Kail for from $80 to $90 
a ton. To « stranger it would appear ns if 
folks thereabouts had a broom-corn craze. 
Remedy for Choking Cattle.—M r. E. N. 
Hawley, like a great many good farmers, 
dreads the apple season with cows, remarks our 
friend, the New England Homestead. Should 
a cow become choked, he has a t'^-inch rubber 
hose, about five feet long, which is pushed 
down the animal's throat until the obstruction 
is forced into its stomach. If the hose is not 
very stiff, a stick may be put inside to give it 
the required tension. The rubber being 
smooth, causes the animal uo pain. This is an 
improvement on a stitf rope, which has la'en 
previously recommended for this purpose. 
Shearing Twice a Y ear —In a paper read 
at a meeting during the recent New York 
State Pair, Professor William Brown, of the 
Ontario Agricultural College, advanced the 
idea, says the Breeders’ Gazette, that the 
practice of shearing both lambs aud mature 
sheep twice a year, might be successfully 
adopted if accompanied with high feeding and 
good care. He illustrated his opinion with a 
supposed case of a lot of Shropshiros, and it is 
possible the Downs would be better for this 
thau wo ild either the loug-wools or the Meri¬ 
nos. He would shear in August, and again 
quite early in Spriug, giving shelter to the 
newly-shorn ewes for a few days. Ho esti¬ 
mates that a Shropshire lauib may shear a 
fleece weighing three pounds aud a-half aud 
eight, inches loug, on August 1st, and a good 
fleece in the following April, besides having 
grown more than if it had not been shorn. 
This double shearing lie commends to brooders 
of loug—wools, believing that, in the present 
condition of the wool markets, the shorter 
lleece would sell at 20 per cent, advance. 
from impurities. Better have no ice than im- 
-- pure ice. 
C. M. Hovey says that of all the flowers , *\ A t NSaS is to be the sugar State of 
of the garden the rose is pre-eminent: of all !‘ ie Union ’ and the,e 18 room for a thousand 
the flowers of the conservatory the camellia fJ" tbe £ ulIetin ' SuC(:esa P a ’ 
is. and ever will be, unrivalled.. tien £ “ detatl fi able Kaasa **. 
And now New Yorkers have the Chinch r ‘ B ^ rba PS * ri too much to expect that a 
Bug, and Prof. Lintuer thinks the new-comer Leglslatu ^ llUJ : ted f length of session and 
will be a permanent institution of the State. con, f ,Pllsat '° a sb ™ ld had time to turn its at- 
So he states in Science. He recommends that teUt,0n b ° the P ubhc - scho01 WBtem, when such 
it be fought with that valuable insecticide kero- a f^tion is before it as the adjust- 
sene oil, emulsified and diluted. If this be of the apportionment so as to meet the 
generally used next Spring, he has great faith 3™ n c f '% of eacb 9°agressional aspirant. ” says 
in its proving efficient..... Prof - Lantz m the Kansas Industrialist. 
The agricultural editor of the Sun gives his „ p ex P erbneu t conducted in the ponds 
readers some sound advice as to stocks for fruit tie Kansas Ag, College (Manhattan) by 
trees. The best stocks for pears are ruised b lo ^‘ Shelton, is a success. T. p to date the 
from the seeds of wilding trees, as the seeds car P seem fu have done all that was claimed 
from improved varieties are less likely to give f ° r f em iQ mpid growth aud increase ia 
pears, stocks of the Augers Quince are better Fhe coUege doe8 not intendto offer car P for 
than those of our garden varieties, such as sale* hut it does offer a number of choicely 
the Orange or Rea’s Mammoth... bred Berkshire and Essex pigs at “reasonable 
For standard apples, seedling stocks raised • •• • • ■ • ....• * *. 
from the poorer varieties ore best, because \ Hh Garden of September 32 pre- 
they are generally more hardy and healthy seuts a bne <-o ure< Plateof the Camellia, “C. 
The larger part of the apple seedlings used by ^ ? y ’” P roduced by Mr - Hovey 
our nurserymen are obtained from the cider Ma f- ^om seed sown m 1M). It first bloomed 
mills where wildings and superior kinds are ! Q 84Ifc 18 a beautlful red ’ double and 
all ground up together. Suckers should never 1,nl,n <‘.-ited. 
be used upon which to graft or bud pear or ~ 
apple cions. 
For apples root-grafting is now generally VI Ity l j V K V ♦ 
practiced, because it can be done at any time ___1_ 
duriug the Winter, and the young •* worked” ~~~ ~ "- 
plants can be set out hi the Spring. Tbecions L SP ECIAL REPORTS. 
of the desired varieties are whip-grafted upon Cana ta. 
thecrowns of the seedling stocks. But nur- Calton , Elgin Co^AU kinds of corn are 
serymen, to increase the number of trees from failures here this vear. The first part of the 
a given number of stocks often cut up these sea , on was wet and eold , ai l the last 
long roots of seedlings into three or four „ . ,,, ’ 
, , . 6 part verv drv. All crops are poor, w, h c 
pieces, and put a cion on each, and in this , ' F 
way make one original stock serve to produce Halt, Waterloo Co., Ont.—Our wheat crop 
several trees. This practice is not to be com- in this county 1 don't believe is over one-third 
mended... an average. It both winter-killed and rusted. 
For certain soils, plum stocks upon which Particularly the white wheat was bad. The 
to bud peaches are better than peach stocks, amber ftnd red wheats are the only kinds 
as the roots of the plum will thrive iu a colder that have giveu man - v farmera their seed and 
and heavier soil than the peach root. The bread - Hay is good. Bai ley fair, Oats 
plum on the peach stock, however, gives a above the average. Turnips not over half a 
short-lived tree.... crop. Potatoes not over half a crop, aud a 
There is an advantage, but only to tlie good mauy badly rotted ' particularly in low 
nurseryman, in the use of jieach stocks for g rou nd. Our Fall wheat is only looking poor, 
plum trees. In the first place, peach pits are owin ^ fco lack of warm weather. Very little 
more abundant nnd far cheaper than plum, corn is S rown in this county. r. b. 
and the seedlings raised therefrom grow so Illinois, 
rapidly that they fan be readily budded in the Champaign, Champaign Co. , Oct. 25.—We 
Autumn of their first season, anti the follow- bad sharp freezing at the first of this week, 
mg season handsome young t rees of salable killing the sorghum and what corn had escaped 
size are obtained at one-lmlf the expeuse of earlier frosts. Fortunately most of the 
producing similar trees on plum stocks. sorghum crop here had been worked up, and 
The stock has much to do with the health that in the fields was not greatly injured, 
and longevity of all kinds of trees propagated With fair weather, not now probable, next 
by either budding or grafting, and farmers week will see the crop nearly all handled, 
who make purchases from tree peddlers or Broom corn, largely grown here, is not more 
nurserymen direct should be very careful in than two-thirds of a full crop; quality pretty- 
such matters, and if they a re not acquainted good. Much of our corn cannot be safely kept 
with what may be termed the “ tricks of the over the 'Vinter, yet prices of cattle, except 
trade,” they had better leave the selection of the highest grades, nnd of hogs, do not en- 
StOCk to some one who is. courage feeding largely. There is a good 
The Cabbage Worm was killed in an hour demand for young cattle. Prices for hay ure 
or goat, the New Jersey Experiment Station bv exceptionally low; pastures are good, so 
the application of holl-a-pound each of hard there is a strong inducement to keep stock, 
soap aud kerosene in three gallons of water.. g. e. m. 
A dog that kills sheep is as much a beast of Geneseo, Henry Co., Oct. 23.—This has 
prey as is the fox that descends on the chicken been the worst season for crops, corn iu par- 
roosts, and he should be just as promptly shot tieular, that I ever knew. Cold and wet up 
as the fox. says the Orange Co. Farmer.. to July 20; then no rain for 5$ days, which 
It seem that the New England Homestead made everything very dry, A great deal of 
has jumped, in five years, from a circulation Kansas and Nebraska corn was planted, and it 
of 1,500 to one of 15,000, When it (ell into the did not mature, having been killed by the 
hands of its present managers, the paper was frost of Sept. 9. Some corn is beiug shipped 
leading a “gusping existence.” Well, we read to this place from the West. Oats a fair crop 
this puper every' week, aud should judge that —25 to 50 bushels per acre. Hay a good crop 
it has well merited its success.... . and cheap. Potatoes ditto. From one peck 
Oi R friend the Iowa Homestead refers to of White Star I raised 12 bushels. Stock of 
coru, oats and grass as the Three Graces of all kinds health}'and in good condition. Com, 
American Agriculture....... . 45c.; rye, 48c.; uo wheat raised here; oats, 
Mr " . C. Barry speaks of the \\ eulthyAp- 25c.; potatoes, no sale; hay, five to seven dol- 
ple as an iron-clad, resembling t-be Jonathan. lars per toil. Success to the Rural. j m 
The flesh is fine-grained and the flavor very West j krsky , 8tark Ca> 0c t. gt-There 
go y,' ....... was an abundance of hay. Oats good both in 
** fUlbl * r rt -' 1L ’ a ’ ks that the Kieffer quality and quantity. Potatoes an extra- 
at the North and the Le Conte at the South large crop . Com not half an average yield, 
are the two varieties of pears which are now H E Mcr 
attracting most attention. Mr. Bcrckmans, Indiana. 
of Georgia, does not think the Lo Conte quite Dkminu, Hamilton Co., Oct. 20.—The season 
equal to the Kieffer in quality.. here has been cool and wet; corn a fair crop; 
He thinks Mr. Pringle's large, black grape wheat very uneven in quality and vield; some 
named the Vermont Giant not worth keeping. fields yielded but 12 bushels on an acre, but 
Mr. Pringle's Golden Drop has a rich, delicate many yields were far iu the twenties and 
flavor, but both vine aud fruit mildew. some in the thirties. All clover— sod flax and 
1* ROM Dr. Jessop's point of view, not only is oat stubble-growing were very good. Fall- 
tho present condition of England s rural labur- sown wheat looks fine: an average crop sown; 
ors distressing, aud even revolting; but their all smaller crops good. Apples are one-half a 
future is preguaut with danger to the whole crop; grass is good; hay plenty; hogs scarce; 
community.. pigs plenty and healthy, so far as I know. Fat 
It is the hopelessness of the farm laborer’s cattle mostly sold; stackers scarce, t. k. b. 
lot which chiefly produces his habitual air of low a 
depression, remarks the Mark Lane Express. Oskaloosa, Clay Co.' Oct. 24.—We had 
How should he be merry with the workhouse raiu all the time the first part of the Summer 
always in sight ! . into July; then wo had it dry till now, which 
We presume that Rural readers are a ware has left no chance for Fall wheat. Small 
that water, iu freezing, does not free itself < | grains have done well. Coru will be about 
two-thirds of a crop. Potatoes rather light, 
but there has been a large area plauted, and 
there will be plenty. There is a large crop of 
hay, with no Fall feed iu the pas ure. a. b 
Tipton, Cedar Co.—Oats a fine crop, aver- 
aging 40 bushels per acre; wheat good, not 
much raised; potatoes, an abundant crop: 
corn hurt by the dry weather and frost. I 
heard one of our stock buyers say we would 
have a half crop of corn. e. a. 
Michigan. 
Clare, Clare Co., Oct. 32—Coming from 
Pennsylvania’s sparsely-timbered hills to the 
heavily-timbered and level land of Michigan, 
one scarcely realizes that he has left any tim¬ 
ber or much land of value behind him. Al¬ 
though we have no California “ Big Trees,” 
still we have some monarebs—Basswoods six 
feet across the stump: also hemlocks nearly 
as large. Some I peeled this Summer were 
two feet through 100 feet from the ground. 
Sugar Maples grow very large; some of the 
finest sugar orchards are here that can be 
found anywhere. The land is a study; there 
are more different kinds of soil on 40 or even 
in 10 acres than in some whole States. We 
have sand of all shades -white, black, red, 
etc , mixed, We don’t consider light sandy 
lands good; but dark, heavy sand produces 
well. Our clay-loam is excellent. Winter 
wheat does very well. Potatoes are common¬ 
ly a good crop: hut when you talk of grass 
remember us. We have it heavy; two tons 
per acre, and a good second crop. Lots of 
feed for stock all Summer. A good market 
for Inmber and wood and all kinds of produce. 
The Isabella County Agricultural Fair is 
spoken of with praise. Short-horn and Ayr¬ 
shire cattle are here, as well as tine Poland- 
China swine. Prices of produce at present 
j are, 98c. for good wheat; 60c for corn; 65c. 
for potatoes; 5c. per pound for live hogs; 22c. 
for butter. p. m . l . 
Missouri. 
Eldon, Miller Co., Nov. 1 —Although wheat 
sowing was delayed until October on account 
of dry weather during September, yet it looks 
very well. It came up quickly and strongly. 
The warm, wet weather favored it materially. 
I hear considerable complaint about the rain 
damaging corn fodder. We have had a great 
deal of wet weather during October, and as it 
has been very warm at the same time, com 
has rusted badly. Stock of all kinds are in a 
first-class condition to start in the Winter. 
Prices for fattened stock are low, but those 
for young calves to winter over are very high. 
N. J. s. 
New York. 
Perry, Wyoming Co., Nov. 1.—Our first 
flurry of snow to-day after two weeks of fine 
weather. A frost on Sept. 40 destroyed three- 
fourths of our corn crop. Wheat looks fine 
in this section: some sown as late as Oct. 10 
has got a remarkable top for the limited time 
it has had to grow. f. h. r. 
Nebraska. 
Omaha, Douglas Co., Nov. 1.—This hazy 
Iudian Summer day, with the thermometer at 
65°, is one of those of which Nebraska every 
year receives her full share. Those who have 
lived here for 25 years, like the writer, have 
never known a failure. An abundance of rain 
during September—more than the usual sup¬ 
ply—has filled the ground with moisture for 
the crops of another year. Farmers are busy 
Fall plowing, for which the ground is in excel¬ 
lent condition. One-third more cattle are 
being fed ou well ripened corn, being grass- 
fed when grain feeding commenced. The four 
packing houses of this city commenced Winter 
pork packing to-day, and say the hogs are 25 
per eeut. better than in any previous year 
both in quality and quantity. The long con¬ 
tinuance of good weatlier has ripened most of 
the late-planted corn, and some of the western 
counties claim an average crop of fifl bushels 
per acre. Farmers are inclined to hold wheat, 
and a large proportion have not thrashed. 
Wheat to-day. No. 2, 75c.; coru. Sic,; oats, 
2T l .,c.; rye. 39b,e. (No. 8): barley, No. 2, 4S)^c. 
The stream of land-seekers is still full, and 
runs 300 miles west, while settlers are coming 
across the Missouri River daily with their 
white-topped wagons, followed by a few cows 
and young stock, the beginuing of a future 
herd. j, x. a. 
Oregon, 
Althouse, Josephine Co.—Wheat ranges 
in price from 75c. to $1.10 per bushel. Pota¬ 
toes not dug yet Fruit very scarce. The 
average weather of the season has been very 
dry aud warm. L s. N. 
Washington Territory. 
Ferndale, Whatcom Co.—Prices of farm 
produce are: Wheat. $1.20 per bushel; oats. 
$2 per 400 pounds; potatoes, $1.35 per 100 
pouuds; eggs, 55 eeuts per dozen; butter, 45 
cents per pound; chickens, from $6 to $9 per 
dozen; dressed beef. 10 to 11 cents per pound 
by carcass: mutton and pork same. z. h. r. 
