DEC 8 
805 
THE RURAL WEW-YOBKIR. 
horns at Holker, and by the very much 
lower prices that were obtained than was the 
case at the previous periodical sale of the 
surplus animals of that celebrated herd. To 
the Duke of Devonshire, indeed, a heavy de¬ 
preciation of value in Short-horns is a matter 
of small fiscal importance, or perhaps of any 
other importance; but, to brooders of limited 
means, a restoration of practical and intrin¬ 
sic values, which may bo taken as evidences 
of diminished popularity and of waning be¬ 
lief, such depreciation is a matter of very 
great concern. It will, no doubt, if it con¬ 
tinues, bring these high-bred animals within 
the reach of a very large number of practical 
farmers who cannot afford fancy prices, and 
while the few suffer loss in this way, the 
many will reap advantage. Here, in fact 
the Short-horns are in the country, great 
numbers of them, and, whether or not they 
regain their fancy value, their blood will go 
on disseminating itself throughout the land. 
It might well be, indeed, that a general and 
permanent fall in the value of these cattle 
would do great good in the country, in the 
way of raising the average quality of bovine 
stock; but I myself do not expect any such 
considerable and permanent depreciation of 
values for the simple reason that it caunot be 
—so long os the country goes on prospering. 
The depression under which agriculture in 
the British Islands has been so long laboring 
has, no doubt, bad the effect of lowering the 
value of high-bred Short-horns, and of causing 
the somewhat violent fluctuations of recent 
days. We ha ve not done with the depression 
at present, though the seasons are again im 
proving, and its influence in the future will 
probably have a sobering influence over 
Short-horn transactions, inasmuch as the 
memory of these times will remain long after 
they themselves have passed away. An 
effect of them will be to prou ote the cultiva¬ 
tion of the more practical properties of 
Short-horn cattle, and w r e shall require the 
useful in combination with the ornamental. 
durance in all essential particulars The 
organization is intended to be national, and 
attho election of officers Daniel Dunham was 
elected president, J. H. Bowman, secretary, 
with vice-presidents from the several States. 
The American Pereheron Stu 1-book was 
recognized as tbe authority of the Associa¬ 
tion, and all Pereheron breeders were recom¬ 
mended to record their stock therein. The 
States were asked to promptly enact laws to 
prevent the adulteration of lard, and against 
the buying and packing of any but strictly 
pure and sound pork products to be sold for 
food. If they had asked the legislatures 
already having such laws to provide for their 
careful execution, they might have reached 
the difficulty. The passage of laws is one 
thing: their evasion is another. The prompt 
enforcement of laws would bring some sharp 
Chicago speculators to grief. The profits on 
adulterations of food enable men to be 
skipped around the sharp comers. 
JONATHAN PEBIAM. 
tee recommend that the fees and rales as pub¬ 
lished for volume II be adopted for volume 
/ III. The Executive Com¬ 
mittee was authorized to 
make arrangements for 
holding annual exhibi¬ 
tions of Clydesdales in 
connection with State 
fairs. The Association 
will again convene at the 
time of holding the next 
Fat Stock Show in Chi¬ 
cago. 
K the NORMAN HORSE 
I \ BREEDERS. 
||v At this meeting, which 
jj |k was largely attended by 
| j lll lly prominent breeders, the 
|!| k members had an enjoy- 
.ii/i|'ij|||k able time, interspersed 
!|| I I 111 III with earnest work in the 
| interests of the. heavy 
jj llj j!! I'X wing of the French horse 
| V question, and at the con- 
i!ll Ilk elusion they enjoyed a 
; | banquet. The menu card 
|||' had a Norman charger 
11 ) depicted thereon rushing 
j | 11 ! ‘ ‘up grade, ” the center of 
I the table being orna- 
jjl tnented with a huge cake, 
I I surmounted with a typi- 
l jj|T|f 7 cal Norman horse. 
1 1 1 ||| Ia The more important 
| | MBy work accomplished was 
perfecting the organiza- 
II in * I tion under the laws of II- 
P |ry linois ; also the passage 
fv' of a resolution request¬ 
ing the officers of all ag¬ 
ricultural fairs to require 
Pitmaston Duchesse Pear.-From Nature. Fig. 002. all full _ bred draft horses 
publishers were directed to admit only such to be registered before, being eligible to 
imported horses to registry aftrr this year as prizes. 
shall have been admitted to registry in the In relation to the breeding of the horse 
Pereheron Stud Book of France. Duke of Normandy, represented by his 
the cl\ descale horse ASSOCIATION. owner, Mr. Becket, as a pure Norman, the 
The Ch’desdale breeders in session during committee disagreed with the record as shown 
the Fat Stock Show were numerous, and their by Mr. Becket, Rnd are of the opinion that 
meetiug largely attended by prominent im- the animal is a Shire horse bred in England, 
porters and breeders. That they are “well In explanation, Mr. Becket stated that his 
heeled,” as a society, the balance in the clerk made the entry, and the clerk admitted 
treasury— 81,975—shows. The members are it It was ordered that the by-laws providing 
resident; in Illin'ds, 44; Canada, 28; Iowa, for the expulsiou of a member misrepresent- 
15; Indiana, 11 ; New \ork, 5; Pennsylvania, ing a horse for the purpose of registrv or 
5; Wisconsin, 5; Scotland, 2: Michigan, 2, sale, should be enforced. 
unc cuts 
THE EYE-OPENER. 
We have had several complaints about the 
unsatisfactory character of a work called the 
“Poultry Adviser,” which is puffed up widely 
as containing full instructions for successful 
incubation. Tbe price is #2 and the work is 
merely a small, paper-covered phamplet of 
about SO pages, worth about 10 cents, as a re¬ 
hash of things better said in other works. It 
is published at New Concord, 0., and we 
would certainly advise our friends to leave it 
severely alone, 
“The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation,” 
is a humbug published by the Boston Insti¬ 
tute, another humbug. With regard 4 to both 
we urge our readers to adopt the best advice 
given by the writer of this 6 tuff: “Avoid all 
quacks, charlatans, empirics, pretenders and 
bogus medical institutions,” and then you 
wall have nothing to do with the “Boston In¬ 
stitute” or “The Science of Life.” 
A telegram from New Orleans last Tuesday 
savs that in the St. Louis and Chicago papers 
of recent date there appeared an advertise¬ 
ment for 100 carpenters for Louisiana ; 
“wages, $3 per day; free transportation if 
applied for before the 24th ; inclose $2, with 
full name and address, to E. Campbell, Ba- 
ronne Street, New Orleans.” A person in St. 
Louis having written a letter of inquiry, po¬ 
lice officers were sent to find the advertiser. 
They found him and & friend named Richard 
Tallman on Baronne Street, near Lafayette. 
They had just received a number of letters 
and were at the time burning their prolific 
correspondence in the fire-place. The person 
answering to the name of Campbell admitted 
inserting the advertisement, and the officers 
feeling satisfied that Campbell & Co. were 
not carrying on a legitimate business, arrested 
them. Campbell, at the station, gave his 
name as Charles Henry, 27 years old, hailing 
from St. Louis. Tallman is 85 years ■ Id and 
from Chicago. Both wore recent arrivals,and 
it was their intention to go to Mexico as soon 
as they had collected money enough. This 
sort of swindle is very common all over the 
country. All sorts of “ help ” are advertised 
for in city and country papers, but in all 
cases remittances tire solicited in advance, 
either in the advertisements or by letters in 
answer to applications for the positions. Often 
people are induced to travel from a consider¬ 
able distance at the cost of much inconve¬ 
nience and expense, to meet only disappoint¬ 
ment or greater lose. It would be a safe rule 
never to answer any advertisement where 
money is asked for in advance. 1 hese swin¬ 
dles are the meauet kind, for they are intended 
to rob those who can ill afford to lose. 
THE PITMASTON DUCHESSE PEAR, 
About the 1st of November we received a 
single specimen of the above pear from Ell- 
wanger & Barry, of Rochester, N. Y. This 
was drawn and engraved, and the portrait is 
shown at 1 ig. 692. Wo know nothiug of this 
new pear ourselves, ami therefore append the 
remarks of those from whom we solicited in¬ 
formation. 
FROM J. J. THOMAS. 
I have had but limited opportunity of know¬ 
ing this pear, and I think it has not yet bceD 
sufficiently tested to fix its position for value. 
I cannot make it quite so good in quality as 
others rate it. Tn texture it reminds me of 
the Howell, but it is hardly so good. On the 
other hand, its large size, hundsome form 
and fine yellow color, with its excellent tex¬ 
ture, may make it a profitable market sort, 
if always fair and productive. In that case 
the name will become simply Pifcmaston. 
Downing remarks that thd original appella¬ 
tion of “ Pitmaston Duchesse d’Augoul^me” 
is an “ unfortunate name,” which, however, 
we can easily reduce. 
FROM KLLWANGER & BARRY. 
We regard the Pitmaston as a fruit of large 
size and good form and color, while in quality 
it ranks as good to very good—somewhat vari¬ 
able with us. Some seasons it has come 
almost to boat. The tree is vigorous and sym¬ 
metrical. It succeeds well on the qumee and 
is fairly productive. 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED GRAPE-VINES. 
It appears that tuberous-rooted grape-vines 
have now been discovered in Cochin China. 
The stems are anuvA the same as the vines of 
the hop plant. The grapes (white an * darki 
are of an agreeable flavor and about the size 
of our Delaware, though the bunches some¬ 
times weigh as Liuch r>; eight pounds. No 
hope is held out, however, that they will ever 
prove of any practical utility to English grape 
growers. An engraving of the berry [natural 
size) and bunch (reduced) may be seen in the 
London Garden of date October 20. 
3ntmslr’l£»orifius 
CHICAGO 
The Pervhcron Horse Breeders' Meeting—The 
Clydesdale Horse Association—The Na¬ 
tional Swine Breeders, etc., etc. 
(Special Rorau reports.1 
EGGS \S. MEAT 
THE PERCHERON nORSK BREEDERS. 
Thh hl-aunual meeting of the Pereheron 
Horse Importers and Breeders was largely 
attended at the Grand Pacific, in Chicago. 
Besides the prominent breeders of the United 
States, there wore also present Minister Wash¬ 
burn and J. II. Sanders, of the U. S. Cattle 
Commission. Mr. Washburn, in his address, 
It would be wise to substitute more eggs in 
our daily diet, than we do, in place of meat, 
for they would be not only more palatable, 
but cheaper than beef. For instance, in the 
Summer when eggs are worth eight or 10 
cents a dozen and beef is worth from 10 to 12 
cents per pound, one dozen of ordinal y hens 
eggs will weigh one-and-ft-half pound, which 
at 10 cents per dozen would be six-and-two- 
third cents per pound against 10 to 12 for 
beef. Not only this, but there is more solid 
nutriment in the egg, there being no bones or 
tough pieces to go to waste. An egg is made 
up of one part shell, six parts white or albu¬ 
men, and three parts yelk. Tbe white of the 
