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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
203 
while chemical analyses may yet fail to de¬ 
tect the difference. So savs Prof. C. V. 
Mapes. Chemical analyses may, therefore, 
show the strength of fertilizers in all cases, 
but not in all cases can they show their full 
value to the farmer..*..... 
With oats at 40 cents, corn at 50 cents and 
wheat at 90 cents how well will potatoes pay 
us comparatively at 40 cents per bushel?...... 
The National Stockman says that there can 
be no doubt whatever that a number of the 
leading agricultural papers of this country 
are now carrying column upon column, and in 
some cases page upon page, of advertisements 
of what they know, if possessed of an atom of 
UmijUments and parftitterg 
they are of all bedding plants, the best 
adapted to half-shady places. 
Oliver Gibbs, of Lake City, Minnesota, 
says that the Yellow Transparent is the best 
summer apple yet fruited in that State. 
When the Gregg Raspberrry was first in¬ 
troduced. we said it was not hardy at the 
Weren't we right?.. 
CENTENNIAL 
Rural Grounds, 
Seventy five tons of farm manure to the 
acre must be given, if you would succeed as a 
market gardener. In addition to this, 200 
pounds of sulphate of potash and raw bone 
flour would give paying results.. 
Mr. Roe says that a young man is far on 
the road to ruin when he loses faith in wo man. 
It appears that Northrup, Braslan & 
Co., of Minueapolis, Minn., were the 
first to advertise the Saskatchewan 
Fife Wbeut. 
The Rural is going to tell about 
carp when it can get a chance to 
breathe..... 
The Agricultural Gazette is respon¬ 
sible for the statement that Hampshire 
lambs dropped January 15, weighing 
16 pounds, will, with proper looking | 
after, weigh, June 30th, 150 pounds, 
being a gain of 134 pounds in 106 days, 
or about .8 pound per day. We think i 
theEaglish sheep keepers must here- ■ - . 
markably good either at feeding sheep ($&[ 
or telling stories. ££j|| 
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Mr. Monroe Morse, of Medway, Moss, 
raised a lot of Rural Blush Potatoes, yielding 
440 bushels to the acre. The rows were 27 
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apart in the row. The cultivation was flat. 
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which bears evidence of crookedness clearly 
stamped upou its face —the prevailing style of 
which is to excite the cupidity of the reader 
by offeriug him dollars’ worth of merchandise 
for cents of purchasing money. * * * The 
only explanation is that the publisher cares 
more for the paltry dollars of a disguised 
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F. D. Cobcrn says that the Agricultural 
College, at Manhattan, Kansas, with an en¬ 
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best securities; with buildings worth $100,000, 
on a 270 acre farm, herds of thoroughbred 
stock, 17 professors, and 400 young men and 
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Has any one ever devised a better grain 
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CAIiXPORNIA’S FAVORITE, 
AND THE FAVORITE OF EVERY ONE WHO HAS SEES OR USED-^IT 
money than by purenanng low-pnceu 
fertilizers. Good fertilizers, except by |J 
mistake, are never sold for a “low 
price.”... 
The Kansas Industrialist speaks of a | <| 
gentleman who lately saw, further 
West, over 100.000 head of cattle / \ 
“snow-bound, with notbiog to eat and / 
almost on the point of starvation.” ^ 
Among them he noticed several dead / 11 
ones. Who’s to blame for such horrid / | | 
suffering and cruelty?... j \ 
Another Western paper, quoted by _■ 
the Industrialist, reports that a cattle / 
owner “just up” said he could “walk /a* \ \ 
on the dead bodies of cattle strung f I L WtpU 
along a wire fence for miles.” The | / || \ 
grass •‘was under the snow, the water £ f ' J - / 
under the ice,” Now that slavery is \ | f J 
wiped out, we have here auother ini- \ | p / 
quitytofill the place of the missing \ y , y 
member of the “twiu relics of barba- \ 
The Minneapolis Messenger says that 
the heu is one of the best friends of the -^ 
farmer. She is unquestionably the The Hoskins Pear. Half Section 
most neglected,. 
Suit Thompson, of the Kansas Agricul¬ 
tural College, is of the opinion that somebody 
has got to provide for the family, If the 
husband fails to do so, who is left to do it uu- 
less it be the wife? She cannot cast him off 
as a poor investment.. 
Mr. Kern suys that, we live to enjoy happi- 
uess, und that the happiness of living neces¬ 
sarily depends very much upon what degree 
of convenience, comfort and eujoymeut the 
place where we live will afford... 
One form of insoluble mtrogeu, or of phos¬ 
phoric acid or potash, may be worth to the 
farmer six times as much as other forms, 
\nv man can take a set of Irons and build a mlU at any place. Irons sold and p 1aus furoUbcd to those> out 
side of Iowa. The Turblue Is all under cover and completely protected from weather and wl 1 Ian a lifetime 
For Pumping Water, Grinding Feed, Sawing Wood, etc., etc, 
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For U9e with ordinary Pumping Mills (Turbine). 
A. II. ^FTHWK K, Patentee, Des Moines, Iowa, 
tV Special Discounts during winter months on Iron Work. 
oatmeal mixed, asks a writer in the Albauy 
Cultivator, commented upon by the Dairy¬ 
man? The grinding, he says, can be economi¬ 
cally done at home by purchasing one of the 
many good farm mills at a cost of about $50. 
These mills, grind coru aud oats mixed, in a 
thorough mtiuuar, at the rate of twelve to 
flfteeu bushels per hour, representing for the 
team a traveled distance of about three miles 
for each fiftceu bushels, and with far less 
draft than drawing a big load of grain to the 
mill four or five miles distance. “For 
twenty years my mill has saved me all trips to 
the public mill and seems good for twenty 
years more.”...*. 
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C. W. DORR, Manager 
RUNS WITH LIGHTER WIND 
