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should have been classified as non-edible and 
tree of duty. Experts, called on the side of 
the Custom House, testified that beaus are 
garden Heeds. liable to 20 per cent. duty. In 
accordance with the Judge’s directions, the 
jcrv found that beans are vegetables, dutiable 
at 10 per cent., and gave Mr. Walteman a 
verdict for only half the sum claimed. 
a creamer has become a necessity, where much 
butter iamade. and it will be advisable for all 
interested to Bend for these circulars, which 
will give some good ideas in butter making. 
Address Win E. Lincoln Co., Warren, 
Mass., or Loudon, Out., Can. 
that cows are fond of bones for the lime they 
contain ..... 
Tub Chemist of the Colorado Agricultural 
Department places Alfalfa next to corn as 
fattening food for animals Hogs w nter well 
on the green, fresh looking foliage, and thrive 
on it- all Summer. 
All honest in«u will bear watching. It is 
the rascals who cannot stand it, says the Bos¬ 
ton Saturday Night ... 
So long as the people allow money to buy 
Renatorsliips. thev must expect the Senate to 
represent monopoli-ts instead of the people, 
says the Madison (In.) Democrat. 
A frf.k pass—a reminder that you have 
formally consented to remain silent while a 
wrong is done to society, says the Chicago 
Express . 
Have we one law for the rich and another 
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, 
A marvelous State is Kansas! A farmer 
in the eastern part missed a couple of cows 
some time ago, and a diligent search and 
notices in the country papers failed to bring 
them to light. The other day, however, while 
in the field, he noticed a hole on one side of a 
pumpkin, and on getting a lantern and going 
in he found the lost cows quietly eating pump¬ 
kin seeds aud getting fat. The hole in the 
Legislation Against Alien Landlord¬ 
ism. —Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the Public 
Lauds Committee, hag reported a Bill in the 
House to prohibit aliens and foreigners from 
acquiring or owuing lands within the United 
States. Mr. Oates said that the committee 
have ascertained That, certain noblemen of 
Europe, principally Englishmen, now own in 
the aggregate about 21 000,000 acres of land in 
the United States, as stated editorially months 
ago in the Rural, The quantity owned by the 
untitled aliens cannot be exactly determined; 
nor is it so important as it is generally held 
tin smaller bodies This alien nou-residen 
ownership, if permitted, is likely in the course 
of time to lead to a system of landlordism here 
as oppressive as that which has produced such 
a world of misery and discontent in Europe 
The abolitiou of landlordism, at least in the 
present oppressive form, is inevitable in the 
United Kingdom in the near future; why 
should wo permit the odious system to be 
transplanted to tills country ? 
The National Swme Breeders’ Association 
has decided that there is no need to ask Con¬ 
gress for an appropriation to “disseminate 
literature concerning the health of the Amer¬ 
ican hog.” Of course there isn’t. That noble 
animal is “salubrious;" but no amouut of 
“literature” addressed to prejudiced Europe 
would secure for him an invitation to the 
tables of several countries In the Old World 
It is the knowledge of his pre-em'nenl- merits, 
and of the futility of competing with him 
with borne raised porkers that riles Alphonso, 
worries Bismarck, troubles Ferry, and nou 
pluses so many other European potentates and 
niagnutes. 
AviTAV Kc.S'* 
Buff'Apple. From'Nature. Fig.'OS. 
for the poor? asks the Kansas Anti-Monopo¬ 
list. If you have 5,000 head of cattle, you can 
remain in Oklahoma and graze them undis¬ 
turbed; but if you have only a yoke of oxen 
and a milch cow, you must “git ” . 
Mr. W. J. Fowler expresses the belief, iu 
the Cultivator, that good farming will pay 
better this year than it. has since 1878 . 
Our friend Mr. B F Johnson predicts, in 
the same join mil.that we may count with cer¬ 
tainty upon a pelmaneot advance in wheat.. 
Mr J 8 Collins of Mooresown. N. J., an 
cording to the Farm Journal, has 30 acres of 
the Kieffer Pear. Among the pear trees there 
are 25 acres of the m-w blackberry Early 
Cluster. He has 2.1X10 Niagara O'ape-vines. 
In hit fruit-retarding house were 8.500 baskets 
of apples and pears. The temperature of the 
fruit was caused by the rapid growth of the 
vines, which had dragged it along over the 
ground for hulf n mile This must be “sober" 
truth, as it is related by the Kansas Teetotaler. 
When about to take a long sleigh ride. Pop 
ulnr Science News ad vises that we make ready 
a piece of joist (or any kind of hard wood) the 
lengt h of the sleigh seat, and twice the thick¬ 
ness of a common brick; heat it on the stove 
or in the oven. It is surprising how very hot 
such a piece of wood will become without 
burning, and how very long it will retain 
heat" On such a seat, aud covered with a 
buffalo robe, people have ridden 7(1 miles 
comfortably, uml the wood was still quite 
warm at the journey’s oud.. 
Some one has figured out, Science News 
says, that the amount of liquor made and irn- 
The Proposed Cattle Trail.—A Bill in¬ 
troduced into Cougress by Senator Coke, es¬ 
tablishing a quarantine live stock trail, pro¬ 
vides for the appointment, of three commis¬ 
sioners to lav out and establish a public 
highway for the purpose of driving live stock 
to market, or from one nlnco to another, and 
also to establish at, convenient points on this 
highwav or trail suitable quarantined grazing 
grounds where live stock may be held and 
grazed for short period* duriug the drive. A 
Washington telegram says: This trail shall 
begin on the Red River, near the 100th degree 
of longitude; thence ruu a northwesterly di 
reetlon through the Indian Territory, follow¬ 
ing as far as practicable the Fort Orifllo and 
Dodge City truils to the south western corner 
of Kansas, and thence over the unappro 
printed lands of the United States in a 
northerly direction to the boundary line 
between the United States and Canada. The 
trail is not to exceed six miles in width, 
aud the quarantined grazing grounds shall 
uot exceed twelve miles *quare. The unap¬ 
propriated nubile lauds needed for the purpose 
of the net are to be withdrawn from settle¬ 
ment, aud set apart for the purposes of the act 
for teti years. The report, of the Commission 
era require* the approval of the Secretary of 
the Interior before the trail Is established 
Teu tbousund dollars are to bo upproprint<-d 
for the purposes of the act. The Senate of 
Kansas lias vigorously protested against such 
a measure, and nil the border States strongly 
object to it. ns it would injure their own in¬ 
terests for the benefit of Texas stockmen The 
stock owners of Colorado, Wyoming and Moa 
tana say the ruuges are eith°r already fully 
stocked, or will bo so, soon, so that there will 
he no need of “Stockers ami lenders" from the 
Lone Star State, while the cattlemen along 
the line of the proposed trail *av Texas fever 
is certain to be spread abroad trom it. There 
is no likelihood the proposed measure will 
ever pass through the Mouse and Senate, aud 
even if it did. Congress could douuto only a 
very small part of the laud required, as only 
very little of it belongs to the public domain 
and no State traversed by the trail will “eoti- 
doiun’' private property for its uso or appro¬ 
priate any public land for it. 
Buff Apple. Half section. From Nature. Fig. 00, 
ported iuto the United States iu 1882 would 
fid a canal 10 feet deep, ‘20 feet wide, and 7(1 
miles long. The money it represents would 
have built a thousand dollar house for the 
family of every mechanic in the land. 
The Western Plowtnun says that cleanliness 
of fat d, drink and quarters would do far more 
good than all the drugs over compounded for 
the cure of swiuo diseases .. 
A i tic no of cows having only a very pure, 
soft water to drink were seriously affected 
with the disease called Loons bone brittleness; 
when the herd was supplied with hard watei 
(liiuo) the dUcuso disappeared, but omy to re¬ 
appear when the cuttle were put hack on the 
soft water again. Prof. Caldwell mentions 
the above iu the N. Y. Tribune. Ho thinks 
fruit room was 88°. The water from the 
melting ice drips dowu on the fruit, which is 
thought to be au advautage—especially to the 
pears. The fruit house is made out of a barn 
that was moved dowu to the ice pond It 
was raised and a stone wall six feet high put 
under it. This cellar is the fruit-room. The 
upper part is lined with a layer of sawdust 
ouo foot thick, and on the ice above is placed 
a layer of boards, and ou these a foot of saw¬ 
dust. i he boards and sawdust follow the ice as 
it melts ...... 
The Farm Journal advises that wo keep 
cribbing horses loose in staples without man 
gers Let thorn eat off the flo jr. * * * Clap 
trap papers cannot push their enterprises so 
successfully when money, is scarce. * * * Make 
Didn’t Know Beans. —Herman sugar beans 
occupied the attention of Judge Wheeler und 
a jury in the United States Circuit Court, 
iu this city last Tuesday, A member of the 
Produce Exchange was suing to recover from 
the Government $1,700 duties which ho hud 
paid on bouus. His counsel thought they 
up your mind that every acre you cultivate the 
coming season shill be made to do its very 
best. * * * A b'vel-hpaded person will not try 
to maintain a $5.0f() appearance on a 8500 in¬ 
come. It can’t be done. * * * All of which 
is good ad vice... .. 
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The standard instructions for raiding the 
best of cabbages is to give them a rich, heavy 
loam. We have raised the very test of cab¬ 
bages on a rich. *andv or gnivelly soil For 
earliest, sow seeds of Early York and Early 
Jersey Wakefield. For a second crop, bow 
E arly Flat Dutch—improvements on which 
are offered under various names. For Win¬ 
ter. sow the Large Late Drumhead and the 
Flat Dutch For family use the Drumhead 
Savoy is much liked bv uiauv. . ... 
For the earlieetcauliflowers. we recommend 
Henderson's Eirly Snowball or the Extra 
Early Dwarf Erfurt. I be Algiers and Tbor- 
burn’s Nonpareil will be fouud the best for 
late . 
For celery the White Plume is still on trial. 
It needs to be selected for several years before 
it can prove as valuable as advertisements 
represent it to be. Our choice for family 
use is the Perfection Heart Well, a half dwarf 
kind which gives more tender stems to a plant 
than any we know of. The new Fern-leaved 
is a very distinct variety.and well named. It 
is for late use. The Rural has tried it for 
two yeara ... 
Among carrots, for the earliest sow the 
Early French Forcing or Golden Ball or 
Early Scarlet f'areutan. For the latest crop 
the Early French Forcing may ulso be used. 
The old Long Orange is probably best for 
cattle It is also good for table use. The 
Yellow Belgian is also good for stock Pro¬ 
bably the Danvers, which is an intermediate 
kind as to length and thickness, will yield as 
well as auy ..... 
Among egg plants, the Dwarf Purple is 
earliest, and the New York Purple the best for 
main orop. Many failures with egg plants 
occur because they are planted out too early. 
The seed should be sown in hot beds in late 
February, and the young plants transplanted 
to small pots later. About the middle of May 
they may be thumped out and placed where 
thev are to grow in the garden, two feet apart 
each way ...... 
Among the long lists of cucumbers we 
should choose for the earliest the Early Rus¬ 
sian and Earlv Green Cluster. For home use 
we prefer Tallby’s Hybrid first, and White 
Spine second For pickles, the Green Prolific 
is best. The new White Japan is nearly 
white Among novelties, the White German 
and Long Chiua are said to grow from 15 to 
20 inches long.... .... 
According to our tests made three years 
ago. the Marhleht-ad Sugar Coru is as early 
as any. though the ears are small, the plants 
not over three feet high. Then come the 
Minnesota and Crosbv’a Early Next as re¬ 
gards earliness, we mention Moore’s Early 
und Squautum For a general crop Triumph 
and Sto well’s Evergreen are best; and tor the 
latest No Plus Ultra aud Black Mexican. 
Among novelties Heodersou’s Sugar, which 
ripen* with Moore’s Early; Cory Corn (Greg¬ 
ory) said to ripen earlier than Marblehead 
Sugar. Early Geuesce (Maule) said to be the 
largest of curly varieties; Laudreth Sugar 
which is, according to our trials, early, pro¬ 
ductive and sweet while the stalk is short and 
often boars two ears—these may be tried be¬ 
side the older kinds .... 
For the earliest d »arf snap beans try Ne 
Plus Ultra, Black wax, Cleveland’s Improved 
Valentine. Try the White Wax, Golden 
Wax and Ivory pod Wax for later. AmoDg 
pole beans, try the Dutch Ca«e knife. White 
Algerian Wax and Yellow pod Black Wax 
for snap beans, and for soell beaus, try the 
Limas. Several new strains are offered—the 
Challenger, for lustance, sent out by the 
Rural several years ago ... 
Among beets if to be eaten wbeu young, 
try Bastum’s Red Turnip aud Early Dark 
Egyptiau. These are also as good as auy for 
winter use. Early Blood Turnip is ulso a 
favorite general crop beet . 
Among mangels the Kiuver Globe Yellow 
and common Long Yellow are used for cattle, 
though we should prefer the VVhite Sugar or 
Vilmorin’s Improved Sugar .. . .. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Arkansas 
Cauthron, Scott Co., Jan. 20.— For the 
past week, the weather has beeu very much 
like (hut cf March Although t ere has been 
some pretty cold weather for this latitude, 
there has beeu uo snow bore yet. I’m afraid 
Winter will lap over iuio Spring; aud give us 
a late, backward season. ^ Stock have needed 
