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THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
moistened thoroughly and covered with earth 
about six inches thick. It should be kept 
moist by the addition of water poured in at 
the top. After throe months the bones will be 
<|iiite soft, and the whole heap maybe shoveled 
over together and well mixed, and will make 
a perfect manure, containing all the valuable 
elements of barnvard manure. 
PRESERVING MOLE SKINS. 
./. P. C., Yellow Springs, Ohio .—How can 
mole skins be preserved ? 
A ns. —Stretch the skins upon a smooth 
board, scrape them on the flesh side. Make a 
paste of two parts of alum, one part of salt 
and one partof rye flour. This is spread over 
each skiu and the skins are laid in pairs, flesh 
sides together, and pressed lightly for three 
days. They are then shakeu clear of the paste 
ami the process is repeated. They are then 
stretched, rubbed with a piece of chalk and 
pumice-stone until dry and smooth and then 
pulled gently and stretched with the Angers 
until soft. They make beautiful linings for 
gloves or ladies’ muffs, when thus preserved. 
Miscellaneous. 
D. B., Adrian, Mich. —1. Would it pay to 
haul sawdust two miles for bedding stock 
when it can be got for the hauling? I can 
haul 200 bushels per day. 2. Would it be more 
profitable to haul straw the same distance at 
50 cents a load? 3. Would the sawdust be 
decomposed more quickly by using it as bed¬ 
ding? 4. Does the Shoe-peg Corn prove a 
success at the Rural Grounds? 5. Would un¬ 
leached wood ashes at five cents per bushel 
be as cheap a fertilizer as could be procured 
for potatoes? I would have to go amoug the 
farmers to buy it. whereas I cau get barn¬ 
yard manure at 50 cents a two-horse load. 
A ns.— 1, Yes. 2. Get the straw in prefer¬ 
ence to the sawdust. But if possible, get 
both; and feed the straw with some bran and 
a little corn meal, aud so make more manure 
to mix with the sawdust. If the sawdust is fine, 
use straw instead of it; fine sawdust is excellent 
bedding, but is objectionable in the manure, 
as it is too dry and light. 8. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. 
Yes; but by all moaus get all the manure you 
can. too, at the price. With wood ashes aud 
manure at this price, you ought to get rich 
with wheat at a dollar, and corn at 50 cents a 
bushel. 
A. J, P .. Johnstown, X. I*.—1. What is the 
best book on bee-keepiug, and its price ? 2. 
Will bees do well as far north as this place ? 
3. Which is the best hive ? 4. Can a person 
learn from books how to keep bees profitably? 
5. Why insert J. B. Alden’s advertisement 
after what has been said of his failure as the 
American Book Exchange? 
Ans.— L The Bee-keeper’s Guide, by A. J. 
Cook, price $1.25, to be had of Prof. A. J. 
Cook. Agricultural College, Lansing. Mich. 
2 Certainly, if there are hooey plants enough. 
Bee-keeping is profitably followed much far¬ 
ther north than your latitude ? 3. We must 
refer our friend to back numbers of this year’s 
Rural, in which this question has been several 
times discussed at length by Prof. Cook. 4. 
Yes, if one begins on a small scale, and sup¬ 
plements t he information he gains from books 
by the lessons of experience. 5. We have 
never found fault with Mr. Alden’8 books, 
and know not why the Rural should reject 
his advertisement. Moreover, we learu that 
his present business is conducted on a plau 
very different from that on which Ins former 
business was carried on. 
F. IV. E.. Carlisle , Mich. —1. Is Chamber's 
Encyclopedia, with its American Notes, suffi¬ 
ciently modern to satisfy the need for infor¬ 
mation in these duys? 2. Has the Rural seen 
the edition of 12 volumes offered for $U? 
Ans —1. An edition of Chamber’s Ency¬ 
clopedia was issued a few years ago in Great 
Britain and this country, and the latest infor¬ 
mation on the various topics discussed, was 
given therein. For the Old Country, Cnamber’s 
Encyclopedia is second only to the Ency¬ 
clopedia Britaunlca,thi> eighth edition of which 
is now iu course of publication. The latter 
work is bettter than Chamber’s for this coun¬ 
try also; and so is Appleton's Cyclopedia. 
Both of these, however, are much more ex¬ 
pensive. For the price Chamber's is the best 
published. 2. We have not seen the work re¬ 
ferred to. 
J F. O , (Xo address .)—On killing some of 
my young chicks for table use, I noticed that 
some of them had from two to six lumps on 
the heart, as large as two pin-heads, while 
others wore larger. On cutting them open, 
they looked, both In color aud substance, like 
parts of t he heart. The chickens were fat aud 
healthy, and the other organs were in a natu¬ 
ral condition; what caused the lumps? 
ANS.— This is a case of hypertrophy, or in¬ 
crease of muscular substance of the heart 
which is not uncommon in well-fed animals,aud 
is due to an increased circulation from good 
feeding. As the animals thus affected become 
ohler, this condition gives nay to fatty de¬ 
generation, which is accompanied by difficult 
breathing aud finally produces death, 
E. A., Aberdeen, D. T.—l. My hens get stiff 
in the legs and, after a few days, begin to 
limp. They eat and drink as usual and do not 
seem to be sick; what should be done for them? 
2. What will keep a horse’s hoofs soft? 
Ans. —1. The trouble is rheumatism. Get 
some camphorated spirits of turpentine and 
rub the feet and legs with it. Give a pinch of 
hyposulphite of soda, or if you cannot get itj 
of sulphur, every morning before the fowls 
are fed Keep them warm aud feed warm 
food. 2. Wash the hoofs with warm water 
night and morning, and at night wrap them 
in wet cloths tied around them. After soak¬ 
ing them well, rub them with glyceriue. 
T. II. O., Honey Grove, Texas. —1, What is 
the proper time to sow Orchard and Blue 
Grass and how much seed should be used per 
a-re? 2. Where can seed of both be obtained? 
3. Who keeps full-blooded Devon cattle? 
Ans. —1. We know not wby.in your climate, 
it should not be sown now. Not less than 
three bushels. It weighs only about 12 pounds 
to bushel. We should also sow Blue Grass 
now—trom one to two bushels to the acre. 8. 
Of any seedsman. 3. B. F. Peck, East 
Bethany, N. Y.; D. &; J Banker. Franklin 
Forks, Pa.; A. F. Bronson, Vernon, N. Y.; 
Ensign & Watson. Jeddo, N. Y. 
D. A*., Jordansrille, X. Y .—Where can a 
set of the cream-guages, mentioned in a late 
Rural be obtained ? 
Ans.— A set of these cream guages can be 
procured of Burrell & Whitman, Little Falls, 
X. Y„ for a dollar. They are of two sizes, 10 
inches deep and five inches. The five-inch 
ones will serve every purpose aud can be 
easily marked with a file in inches, and tenths 
of an inch near the top. They will then serve 
as accurate guages as the more costly ones. 
G. W. 1)., Cazenovia, N. Y. —1. If wild 
raspberries are transplanted will they amount 
to anything? 2. Will the Lawton berry thrive 
in this section ? 
Ans. —1. Very rarely. Out of a thousand 
you may obtain something worth having. 
Occasionally fine fruit is seen upon these 
wildings. It is well to transplant such. 2. 
We should prefer for your climate the Taylor 
or Snyder, or even Kittatinny to the Lawton. 
Subscriber, Detroit, Mich .—Who deals in 
Small Yorkshire swine iu Minnesota ? 
Ans. —The Small Yorkshires are hardly 
suitable for Minnesota, being more suitable for 
small, light pork for the city markets. They 
grow very quickly, but are too fat and smalj 
for the use of packers. The Poland-L'hina or 
Berkshire*; would be more suitable for your 
locality. We do not know of any breeder of 
this class of pigs in Minnesota or near there. 
E. A. S., Montague, Mich .—What ails my 
horse: he bleeds at the nose if worked hard: 
Ans.— The blciiiing is caused by compression 
upon the litugs produced either by a tight collar 
or over-exertion. The horse's lungs are weak 
and unless he is used with care, he may die 
some time from profuse hemorrhage. It would 
be well to give him an ounce of turpentine 
twice a day. 
A. H., Bayport, L. I .—How soon after 
going with the bull, can one tell whether a 
cow is with calf ? 
Ans. —The period of oestrum returns at in¬ 
tervals of 20 to 22 days, or three weeks. 1 f 
the period passes without any indication of 
heat twice, the cow may be considered in calf. 
Sometimes the first period passes uuuoticed 
but rarely the second. 
J. X. C., Guilderland, X. Y .—Where cau a 
milking tube to be used in drawing the milk 
from a cow one of whose teats is sore, be got? 
Ans. —From Reynolds & Co., surgical in¬ 
strument makers, 393 Fourth Avenue, New 
York price $1.10 each; or from Kolbe & Co., 
Chest nut Street, Philadelphia, price 50 cents 
each. 
'* Rondo," Mayrille , sendsa variety of wheat 
for name, aud asks whether it is hard or soft. 
Ans. —It looks like Fultz; but this is neces¬ 
sarily a guess. Soft. 
E. C. R.. Birch Run, Mich .—Where cau I 
get Paradise dwarf apple trees? 
Ans. —From Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, 
N. Y. 
R. G. H .—The monthly roses will need only 
enough water to keep the soil from “drying 
out.” 
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Saturday, Dee. 8. 
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