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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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destined to make it famous. With more funds 
it can do more and better work. Farmers 
throughout the State will therefore see the 
importance of using their influence with their 
representatives in the Legislature in behalf of 
the station. 
Spring tooth Riding Harrow. Send for th 
circular and see what these machines are 
worth to you. 
Ellis Brothers, Keene, N. H.—A cata¬ 
logue of plants, such as geraniums, chrysan¬ 
themums, carnations, coleus, bouvardias, 
roses, etc., etc., together with a list of flower, 
ornamental grass and vegetable seeds. Grape¬ 
vines, strawberrries and potatoes are also of¬ 
fered. 
Frank Ford & Son, Ravenua,Ohio.—Spring 
catalogue of strawberries, raspberries, black¬ 
berries, grapes, currants, huckleberries, etc. 
A specialty is made of the Early Colton Ap¬ 
ple, also of potatoes and sweet corn. Free. 
Pressey Brooders. G W. Pressey, Ham- 
monton, N. J.—A circular giving full infor¬ 
mation about this brooder will be sent free to 
all applicants. 
Agriculture op Pennsylvania, containing 
repoitsof the State Board of Agriculture, 
State Agricultural Society, State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association, State Horticultural As¬ 
sociation, and State College, for 1884. 
We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. 
A Treatise on the Effects of Chemical 
Fertilizers on Potatoes and of the 
effects of chemical fertilizers in general. 
This is a work to which we would call the 
particular attention of our readers, cne and 
all. Those who are using concentrated, arti¬ 
ficial, commercial or chemical fertilizers (as 
they are variously galled) may study it to 
their great benefit. Tbe treatise is named 
“Potatoes.” An epitome of the subject- 
matter may in part be given as follows: 
When fertilizers exhaust the land: Fertilizer 
tests on worn-out Roil at tbe Rural New- 
Yorker Farm; Comments thereon by Sir. 
J. B. Lawes, Prof G. C. Caldwell, Dr. Hex- 
atner and others Never has an experiment 
been made better calculated to show the 
effects of the separate constituents of which 
concentrated fertilizers are composed on a 
worn-out soil. A hundred times we have 
cautioned our readers against judging the 
effects of a single plant food, that is, of par¬ 
tial or incomplete fertilizers, where perfect or 
complete fertilizers are probably needed. The 
worn-out soil of the Rural's tests tells us 
as plainly as if it were spoken in so many 
dime. An engraving of chrysanthemums 
well shows the types of this popular and hardy 
flower. Flower seeds, vegetables, potatoes, 
etc., complete the catalogue. A special 
pamphlet of “dollar collections” is issued 
with it. 
Hale Brothers, South Glastonbury, Conn. 
—A catalogue of small fruits, carefully se¬ 
lected from au extended experience with all 
kinds. Mr. Hale mentions the following 
strawberries as the largest: President Lin¬ 
coln, Sharpless, Manchester. Longfellow, 
Cornelia, Daniel Boone, and Daisy; and the 
following as most productive: Manchester, 
Mrs. Garfield, Windsor Chief, Crescent, 
James Vick, Miner, Daisy, Cornelia, and 
Daniel Boone: and the following as best for 
market; Manchester, Mrs, Garfield, Wmdsor 
Chief, Miner. Piper, James Vick, Crescent, 
Daisy, Cornelia, and Daniel Boone. We 
think that our readers dealing with Hale 
Brothers, will be fairly treated. The catalogue 
will be sent free to all applicants. 
Johnson & Stokes, 1114 Market Street, 
Pkilauelpbia, Pa.— Tbe enterprise of this 
firm is shown in its interesting catalogue of 
50 pages filled with illustrations. One thou¬ 
sand dollars are offered in cash prizes. Won¬ 
der of France and Challenger Lima Beans; 
several new kinds of cabbage, celery, sweet 
corn, lettuce, watermelon, onions, peas, may 
be found in the novelty list, while the selec¬ 
tion of potatoes is excellent. It also offers 
many new kinds of field and sweet corn, oats, 
sorghum, Johnson’s Grass, “ Millo Maize” 
(Rural Branching Sorghum), Teosinte, Broom 
Corn, etc. A short list of flower seeds aDd 
strawberries ends tbe catalogue. It will be 
sent gratis to all who apply to tbe above firm. 
J. W. Penfield & Sons, of Willoughby, 
Lake Co., Ohio, send us their illustrated cata¬ 
logue of clay-working machinery and brick 
machine. After giving a description of their 
machines and telling wherein they claim them 
to be superior, thev give the cost of making 
bricks; also much useful information for brick 
making, showing a convenient yard, good 
sheds for drying, and giving hints on howto 
handle and treat the clay and dry the bricks. 
They also show by colored cuts the various 
styles ol bricks which their machines will make. 
Eveiytooy interested should send for and 
study ibis catalogue, which can be obtained 
as above. 
An Illustrated Catalogue of Steam 
Engines and Boilers —Each year people 
are substituting steam power more and more 
for horse power, and it becomes almost the 
duty of the farmer to study this matter of 
steam engines. This firm has been making 
engines for a third of a century. Send for 
their fine circular and see what they have to 
say about engines and their manufacture. 
Write to Wood, Tabor & Morse, Eaton, Madi¬ 
son Co.,N. Y. 
Was there ever a boy whose heart was not 
set on owning a scroll-saw, and when we look 
at the beautiful things that are manufactured, 
can any one blame him? Every one of our 
boys who reads this should send to Edward H. 
Moody, Hartford, Coun., aud get one of bis 
illustrated catalogues of scroll saws, etc., and 
scroll saw material. We are sure they will 
learn enough from it to pay for the trouble. 
Alfred Bridgeman, No 37 East Nine¬ 
teenth Street, N. Y.—A descriptive catalogue 
(60 pages; of vegetable, grass aud flower seeds 
It is arranged m the plainest manner, printed 
in clear, bold type on fine heavy paper, and in 
actual value and trustworthiness is equal to 
any of the many catalogues we have occasion 
to notice. It will be sent, without charge, 
postpaid, to all applicants. 
H S. Anderson, Union Springs, N. Y.— 
This is in the mam a small fruit catalogue of 
new and select kinds. It also offers grapes, 
apples, pears (among which we notice the Le 
Come and Souvenir du Congres), and finally 
roses, clematis, and ornamental trees and 
shrubs. It presents a colored plate of the 
Niagara Grape. Free to applicants. 
Joel Horner & Son, Merchantville.N.J.—A 
descriptive catalogue of grape-vines and small 
fruits. Engravings of Moore’s Early, Lady, 
Niagara, Poughkeepsie Red, Prentiss. The 
Ulster Prolific, and F. B Hayes, and a colored 
plate of tbe Niagara are presented. The list 
of uew grapes is well chosen. The Rancocas, 
Marlboro and Hansell Raspberries are also 
illustrated. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Mount Hope Nurse¬ 
ries, Rochester, N. Y.—This is a descriptive 
catalogue of fruits; that is, apples, pears, 
plums, etc., as w T ell as all small fruits, except 
strawberries. Tbe lists are probably the most 
trustworthy published in any catalogue. 
Circular of C C. Brooks' Swivel Plow, 
from B- & J. W. Belcher, Chicopee Falls, 
Mass., setting forth the advantages claimed 
for this plow, and also describing other imple¬ 
ments of their manufacture. This circular 
will be sent free to all applicants. 
Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes.— Tbe 
New England Farmer reports Dr. Twitehell 
as having said that the Plymouth Rocks aud 
Plan of Basement. Fig. 75. (Seepage 119.) 
Wyandottes are new American breeds, not 
yet fully established, but promising to be bet¬ 
ter suited to the wants of the American people 
than any of the older native or foreign breeds. 
Great improvements cau be made in any 
breed by judicious selection of breeding fowls. 
There are, in every flock individual hens that 
are better layers, better sitters, or better 
mothers than their companions, and by con¬ 
tinued selection of eggs from these best fowls 
one can mold the breed accordiug to his own 
tastes or desires. The sitting or non-sitting 
propensity can be bred in or out of any breed 
by judicious crossing and selection. 
Misrepresentation About a Fertilizer. 
—A oilcular advertising the “Excelsior Fer¬ 
tilizer” was shown to the Associated Cran¬ 
berry Growers of N. J., in which the manure 
vvas commended highly for cranberry bogs by 
certain growers who had tried it. These 
growers were written to and the letters were 
returned with “not found” stamped on them. 
The recommendations were pronounced bogus. 
Farmers inclined to purchase this fertilizer, 
made by Carey & Bro., Lumberville, Pa., 
are advised by the Philadelphia Press to have 
a sample analyzed by the State Chemist be¬ 
fore investing largely. 
A Tennessee Barn, 
H. A. Chase for the fine book containing some 
GOO pages, filled witli good things from end to 
end, among which are—We set out to partic¬ 
ularize and point out some of its best things, 
but we find it so utterly deficient of a good 
index that the busy life of an editor would 
not afford time to look them up. We suggest 
to the various secretaries aud compilers that 
one of the chief points of value in a good 
book, to the busy man, is a copious index, in 
which he can find just where, to look for what 
he wants. 
words: “I need every sort of plant food; I 
am worn out, and unless you supply my 
needs. 1 will not give you good crops ” Next 
we have the KURal's diagrams illustrating 
tbe above; How money is thrown away by 
farmers; Large yields ot potatoes on 16 acres; 
Scientific testimony upon tbe permanence of 
fertilizers; Sustaining the fertility of the land 
without farm manure; Some objections to 
complete manures well founded; Sir J. B. 
Lawes on complete manures on potatoes; 
Continuous growing of potatoes for eight 
years on two acres, showing larger yields 
from complete, soluble, concentrated fertili¬ 
zers than from farmyard manure, and the 
failure of special or incomplete fertilizers; 
Scab, wire-worms, etc., etc., etc. 
The remarks on tbe second page of the 
cover are, to the writer of this note, ex¬ 
tremely forcible and instructive. Farmers 
and gardners! we want you to understand 
about chemical fertilizers to tbe end that you 
may save money and at the same time raise 
larger crops. We want you to understand 
that chemical or concentrated fertilizers, 
when suitably and honestly compounded, are 
THE RURAL’S LUNCH. 
We are glad to see that there is a double 
Rosarugosa or Ramanas Rose,an engraving of 
which appears in some of the English journals. 
In buyiug cranberries, which would you 
choose—a heaping bushel or 32 heapiug quarts? 
The leek is very hardy. 8o w seeds iu April 
in seed-beds iu drills one foot apart. When 
six inches high, transplant. They should be 
set deep so tbut tbe soil may blanch them. Or 
if set ou the surface, the soil should be hilled 
up about them. Large Flag Winter, Large 
Roueu Winter aud Carenton Winter are the 
best kinds,...... 
Of lettuce, many uovelties are offered every 
year. We have tried them all, aud find that 
the differences are chiefly iu the names. White 
Forcing, Golden Stone Head, Early Curled 
Simpson, Tenuisball, or Boston, aud Black- 
seeded Simpson are the best for early. Early 
Curled Slinpson, and American Gathering are 
good for succession. Shot wed's Brown-head 
isgood for Fall. The new'Oak leaved Lettuce 
we have not tried. It is said to be free of 
bitterness and slow to run to seed. Another 
novelty is the Laciniated Beauregard which is 
praised as a “cutting” lettuce. The catalogues 
announce many other new kinds. 
Kale should be grown in rich ground. Sow 
the seed in seed-beds in April The plants 
will be ready to transplant iu June, and should 
be treated just the same as cabbages. They 
are hardy. Cottagers, Green Cui led Scotch 
are as good as any. A new kind “New 
Dwarf Early Kale” is announced among nov¬ 
elties. 
Kohlrabi, or Turnip rooted Cabbage, is 
midway between a turnip and a cabbage. 
Seeds may be sown iu Juno (for this climate) 
in rows 18 inches upart. it is better to sow 
the seeds thickly, and to thin out, as this plant 
does not transplant well. The Early White 
and Early Purple Vienna are the leading 
kinds. 
Of musk-melons (we are proceeding alpha¬ 
betically) there are many new kinds an¬ 
nounced. “New” musk melons almost inva¬ 
riably disappoint us—still we always try them 
in a small way. “Golden Perfect ion” is said by 
conservative seedsmen to be one of the best 
varieties ever introduced. It is spoken of as 
“highly perfumed, of exquisite flavor, sugary, 
small size, Hue-netted skin, aud golden flesh.” 
The ilaekeusaek, Christiana, and Surprise 
are good kinds. Goldeu Netted Gem is said 
to be early aud delicious. 
Among watermelons, the American Chain - 
The Massachusetts Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station —Director Goessmaun, of 
the Massachusetts Experiment Station, in his 
annual report, states that the main want of 
the station is an annual income of $10,000 and 
Plan of Ground Floor. Fig. 74. (See page 119.) 
a suitable building for laboratory purposes. 
The station was given $8,000 to equip itself, 
two years ago, arid has had $5,000 annually 
since. It has done much good work and de¬ 
serves a liberal support. Connecticut gave 
$95,000 to establish her station, and appropri¬ 
ates $10,000 annually for its support. New 
York Btarted its station with au appropriation 
of $40,000. and gives it $30,000 aummlly. New 
Jersey, with ouly 15 per ceut. of its popula¬ 
tion engaged in agriculture, gives $11,000 an 
nually to its experiment station. North Car¬ 
olina’s station has an income of $13,000. 
Certaiuly Massachusetts cau well afford to 
do as much for her experiment station. 
Moreover, as the New England Homestead 
tells us, the Massachusetts station is doing 
more than analyzing fertilizers. It has inau¬ 
gurated field and feeding experiments that are 
farmyard manures, and that, without tbe 
lightening effects of the latter, they will, when 
judiciously or intelligently applied, give the 
same results. This treatise, catalogue, or 
whatever name may best be given to it, is edit¬ 
ed by Mr C. V. Mapes. and will be sent, post¬ 
paid, to all Rural readers who may apply to 
the Mapes Fertilizer Co , 158 Front St, N. Y. 
Z. De Forest Ely & Co., 1132 Market 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa —A seed manual of 
100 pages. Au almanac aud hints for every 
month precede the usual lists. A number of 
excellent novelties are offered—among them 
the Prince of Wales Pea, offered in our pres¬ 
ent Seed Distribution. 
John R. Whittemore, Chicopee Falls, 
Mass.—We have a circular from this house 
describing their new Victoria Feed Cutter, as 
well as their Vegetable Cutter and Double 
