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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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he never enlightens them as to his error. 
They rnnst find it through some other source. 
Now be wants to have a say as to the hardi¬ 
ness of Johnson Grass. We may inform those 
of bis readers who may see this, that our 
patches of this grass grow in a fully exposed 
positiou in a clay soil, and that not one root 
was injured during last Winter. This did not 
occur on Long Island, as the Sun editor states, 
but within two miles of the sandy, bottomless 
soil of the place where he professes to have 
experimented, “more or less,” with the John¬ 
son Grass. 
Broad and Narrow-tired Wagons.— Mr. 
J. W. Sanborn, of the Missouri Agricultural 
College, has. with usual good, common sense, 
been making some experiments to demon¬ 
strate the value of good roads and broad tires 
on road and farm wagons. He savs that the 
condition of the country road is one of the 
surest indications of the civilization of the 
people. The trials were made with a carefully 
test°d dynamometer: the loads drawn were 
8,665 pounds each, and the felloes and tires 
were 1V£ inch and three inches, respectively. 
The first test was on Blue Grass sward some¬ 
what moist, though it had not rained for two 
weeks. The average draft of the narrow- 
tired wagon was 439 pounds, while that of the 
wide tired was 3)0 pounds—a difference of 
over 41 per cent, in favor of the wide tire. 
Assuming the wagons to weigh 1.000 pounds 
each, the same team could draw 3 248 pounds 
on the wide tire as easily as 2,000 pounds on 
the narrow, and, besides this, the wide tires 
did not cot through and injure the turf as the 
others did. In a further test, on a partially 
dried dirt. road, the broad wheels showed a 
draft, of 871 rounds to 441 for the narrow, 
being 13.7 per cent, in favor of broad tires, so 
that with the same wear and tear of team, 
the broad-tired wagon could carry 881 pounds 
per ton load, more than the other. Although 
these differences disappear on hard. well, 
made roads, be concludes that every farm 
should have oue or more broad tired wagODS, 
aDd savs the teamsters on the College farm 
always prefer such for use about the farm. 
We have long known the value of a broad 
tire for farm wagons, and have such a one 
for all work on raw ground or meadow land. 
It costs very little, if any, more, and soon 
pays for itself by saving the team. 
WIDE-AWAKE ITEMS. 
The new dwarf varieties of okra are far 
more desirable than the taller kinds, being 
immensely prolific, and occupying compara¬ 
tively little space .... 
Among onions the Queen and Pearl are 
said to be the earlies*. though they failed with 
us. Yell )w Denver, White Portugal, and 
Large Red Globe are as good as anv for the 
chief crop; though the Portugal does not 
keep well. Sown very thick, the White Por¬ 
tugal is best for pickling. The Southport 
White Globe is of mild flavor and a good 
keeper, but it is too late noith of Southern 
New York and Michigan. We have not tried 
the novelties among onions, and cannot speak 
of them from experience..... 
The common or plain-leaved parsley is best 
for flavoring; the fern leaved for decorating 
dishes..... 
Of peas, the Rural New-Yorker is as early 
and prolific as any. This grows 3^ feet high. 
Of the earliest dwarfs American Wonder and 
McLean’s Little Gem are as good and sweet 
as any. Hight about one foot For interme¬ 
diates, do not fail to try Carter's Stratagem 
and Prince of Wales, which grow two feet 
high, and for late Telephone, which grows 
about. 2]^ feet high. 
Mayor Pratt, of Worcester, Mass., as re¬ 
ported in the Ploughman, says that he has 
raised as high as 30 colts in a year, and that 
if he raised a Morgan colt up to six years old, 
he could always sell him at a good price. He 
thinks Morgan colts are less liable to be un¬ 
sound than others; their feet are tougher and 
bold out better.... 
Mr. Benj P. Ware said that the Morgans 
seem to fill the purposes aud objects for which 
farmers keep horses, satisfying the farmers 
wants better than any other breed He thinks 
the idea of farmers attempting to raise fast 
horses is a terrible mistake. He does not 
think it profitable for farmers to raise their 
own horses anyway . .. 
Mr. Russell, the Secretary of the Massa¬ 
chusetts State Board of Agriculture, says 
that a horse will do lietter if feji four times a 
day, and should not be fed less thau three 
times. He says the horse is differout from any 
other auiuuil in that he has the smallest 
stomach in proportion to his size. 
Mr. Russell thinks that there are few 
farmers’ horses which are not overfed. A 
neighbor stopped at his house one day aud 
wanted to have Mr. Russell look at his horse. 
The horse had shrunk away until he looked 
like the celebrated cross between a clothes- 
horse and a night-mare. He was all frame. 
Mr. RusseJl asked; “What have you done with 
your horse?” He answered: “How much do 
you think I am feeding him?” “Well,” said 
Mr. Russell, “I don’t know. He doesn’t look 
as if he bad very much.” Said he. “I am giv¬ 
ing him 12 quarts of meal a day.” “Twelve 
quarts a day?” “Yes.” “Well,” said Mr. R., 
“it seems to me that you have turned your 
horse ibto a fertilizing machine, and are run¬ 
ning him over bis capacity.” He advised him 
to reduce the feed gradually until he got four 
or five quarts of meal with 10 or 13 pounds of 
hay a day. He did so, and brought his horse 
around immediately. 
Mr. Russell believes that horses need very 
little water. He has kept horses for the most 
of a week without water. He believes in giv¬ 
ing cows, especially if you are selling milk, as 
much water as they can take. That is a mat¬ 
ter of profit and policy. But horses generally 
do not require as much water as people usually 
give them.. 
The Philadelphia Weekly Press says that a 
bad road is a bad introduction to any neigh¬ 
borhood .. 
The only true kinds of ever-blooming roses 
are the monthlies, and, remember, they are 
not hardy in the North without careful pro¬ 
tection, and not always with it. The hybrid 
perpetuals, moss roses and climbers, are the 
only hardy roses, and these bloom fully but 
once in a season . 
Our correspondent, Professor Sheldon, the 
great English dairy authority, says, in the 
North British Agriculturist, that his impres¬ 
sion concerning butterine is that it will be 
made each year to a greater extent, until the 
limit is reached in the supply of raw materials 
—a limit which, he thinks, is very far from 
having been reached at present. Improved 
processes, too, will admit new sorts of raw 
material, so that the possibilities of butterine 
cannot easily be gauged.. 
In another part 0 / Prof. Sheldon’s article, 
reference to which is made elsewhere, he says 
that butterine has survived all the tales, true 
or untrue, that have been told with the view 
to discredit it in the regard of the publi *, and 
this result may be accepted as a proof that it 
has a good deal of intrinsic merit, and that it 
meets an existing aud growing demand. It 
has, in fact, run the gauntlet which lies in the 
path of most new ideas which interfere with 
vested interests, or with ancient institutions 
of any kind that were more or less monopolies 
in days gone by. As distasteful as it mav be, 
we may just as well look the fact straight in 
the face. All we can do is to make a good 
article of butter and to insist that the bogus 
article be sold under its true name . 
The Press of Philadelphia says that the 
notion that a Cabinet office would be suitable 
“recognition of the importance of agricul¬ 
ture” is puerile People who urge this view 
are ignorant or insincere... 
Gardening Illustrated is of the opinion 
that in nine cases out of ten mischief is done 
by removing the smaller stones from the soil, 
because they act as a mulch and, by their 
slow disintegration contribute to the replace¬ 
ment of food extracted from the soil by the- 
roots of plants ...... 
Wolff estimates that potatoes are worth 
$1.50 per ton for manure; carrots. 80 cents 
per ton; parsnips, $1.14 a ton; mangels, $1.C7; 
pea-straw, $8.74. Mr. Harris remarks that 
when the peas are not allowed to grow until 
dead-ripe and when the straw is carefully 
cured, it makes capital food for sheep. 
Science is good, but it will never help us 
to raise better crops without industry. 
Mr. Harris thinks that the most self satis¬ 
fied critics are the men who never have done 
anything or really tried to do anything them¬ 
selves ... 
Vick’s Monthly gives a colored plate o* 
a new gladiolus named “Innocence,’’ which is 
white. The Rural editor was among the 
first to import the unproved gladioli 15 years 
ago Many so-called white gladioli have 
since been offered, but most of them would 
show a colored blotch in the throat. An en¬ 
tirely white gladiolus flower is valuable only 
for its novelty. 
The exposure of cattle upon the plains to 
all the inclemencies of the weather is one of 
those untold miseries which the domestic 
animals suffer from the inhumanity of man.. 
Read the catalogue notices, and look over 
the advertisements. Now. while farm wor 
does not press, we should prepare for the bus 
season... 
The agricultural editor of the New York 
Times “heartily indorses” our favorable opin¬ 
ion of the following evergreens: Eugelmauu’s 
Spruce, A1 cock's Spruce, the Umbrella Pine, 
the Weeping Hemlock and the Tiger-tail 
Spruce. They are hardy at the Rural 
Grounds, and very distinct and beautiful. 
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It is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to 
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It does not injure the teeth, cause headache.or 
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It enriches and purifies the blood, stimulates 
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