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THE NEW GRAPE ‘'PROGRESS.” 
We received July 25 from A F. Rice, of 
Griswoldville, Ga,, a box containing a bunch 
of grapes named "Progress.” This is said to 
be a new sew! ling, a hybrid between Black 
Hamburg and a hardy native—we should 
judge Concord from the appearance, though 
this is not stated. It is said to have originated 
iu South Weymouth, Mass., where it is said 
to have fruited two years and to have now 
fruited two years in Georgia. The cluster 
was of the size and shape of an ordinary Con¬ 
cord cluster, though perhaps a little more 
shouldered. The berries were about the size 
of Concords, and of a dark red or maroon 
color; skiu quite thick, and rather tender; 
quality fair; quite pulpy, with considerable 
juice between pulp and skin; not bigh- 
flavored. Not. as good as Agawam. There 
are to each berry three to fi ve very large 
seeds, which separate very freely from the 
pulp. We know nothing of its leaves, hard¬ 
iness or manner of growth or earliness, having 
seen none of the plants or leaves. Judging 
entirely from this cluster, we can see no qual¬ 
ities that would justify adding it to the 
already too numerous list of varieties. 
Sntmsl’l Societies, 
GEORGIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
The tenth anmial meeting of this society 
convened in Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday, 
July 29th, at 11 a. m., President P. J. Berek- 
mansiutbe chair. It was especially notice¬ 
able, from a large display of fruits, and the 
equally large attendance of ladies. President 
Berckmans soundly and very justlv berated 
the Legislators of Georgia, the Empire State 
of the South, for their disgraceful neglect to 
provide for the proper maintenance of her 
industrial educational institutions. He said 
horticulture, as understood at this day. is a 
pursuit iu which to be an adept requires one 
to be versed in more branches of knowledge 
than arc needed in any of the so called profes¬ 
sions. In the latter, one needs to be proficient 
in but one brauch of science to be skillful, 
while in horticulture one must understand veg¬ 
etable physiology, chemistry as related to 
plant food, geology, entomology, rural archi¬ 
tecture and landscape ornamentation which 
embraces geometry. These necessarily make 
one familiar with many other branches. He 
thinks the elements of a horticultural educa¬ 
tion should be taught in our schools and in the 
home training, and that agriculture conducted 
on an intelligent basis, aided by horticulture, 
is the happiest and most satisfying of all 
human pursuits. 
Prof. Willett, of Macon, in a paper on the 
enemies of the Grape and Pear, numbered 17 
fruits, and said these had to contend against 
413 different species of insect enemies. In the 
afternoon and eveuing of the first day, Prcsi 
dent Beifkmaus had the whole association at 
his home at Frualands, and entertained them 
with a banquet of the choicest fruits and 
other dainties. The old officers were re-elected, 
P. J. Berckmans being made President, Presi¬ 
dent Berckmans, Dr. Samuel llape. Dr. HJ 
H. Cary and Mr. S. H. Humph were elected 
delegates to the meeting of the American 
Pomologioal Society, at Grand Rapids, Mich , 
September 91 b. Many interesting papers 
were reud, which were each discussed, but 
want of space will not permit us to give more 
now. Fort Valley was selected as the place 
of next meeting. "m.” 
The Third National Convention of 
Stockmen, to be held in Chicago under the 
the auspices of the National Cattle Growers’ 
Association, will convene on Tuesday, Novem¬ 
ber 17th, 1335, during the continuance of the 
Eighth Annual Fat Stock Show. It will bo 
composed of delegates from the various Cuttle 
Growers’, Breeders' and Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tions, State Boards of Agriculture, Agricul¬ 
tural Colleges and the Agricultural Press of 
the United States, Canada and Great Britain. 
The object of this convention is to induce the 
freest discussion uf the various interests of 
tattle and kind red industries, and the consid¬ 
eration of the important problems connected 
with the cattle business, including the best 
methods of breeding,maturing aud marketing 
neat cattle, and their several products. A very 
attractive programme has been prepared. 
Some of the most prominent cattle men of this 
country will be speakers on very important top 
ics. Among others, we notice the names of 
Judge Curey, of Wyoming, John D. Gillett, of 
Illinois, Dr. D. E. Salmon,of Washington.Maj. 
H. E. Alvord, of Houghton Farm, N. Y., etc., 
etc. All societies and associations above 
mentioned, are invited each to send two dele¬ 
gates duly authorized to represent them in 
such convention. This is a very important 
meeting, and as we have not space for the 
programme in full, we invite all to send to E. 
W. Perry. Assistant Secretary, Chicago, for 
full particulars. 
The Grangers of the United States will 
bold their Twelfth Annual Inter state pic nic 
at Williams’9 Grove, Cumberland Co.. Pa., 
commencing Augnst 81, and lasting to Sep¬ 
tember 5, 1886, Williams’s Grove is near 
Mecbam'csburg. We have no doubt that a 
good time will be enjoyed by those who go. 
The secretary is J. H. Thomas, Mechanics- 
burgh. Pa 
MARKET TALKS. 
Two gentlemen stood in the center of 
Washington Market, the principal meat and 
fruit market of the city, examining the vast 
piles of fruits and provisions waiting for cus¬ 
tomers. One was an old market man; the 
other a farmer The market-man was giving 
his friend a little information. 
"It has always seemed strange to me that 
you gentlemen do not come hpre oftener and 
look about. It would pay you to see what other 
people are doing. Yon could see how fruits 
and vegetables,come iu aDd what arrangement 
seems to suit customers best. Such goods as 
yonrs have a mighty short "life.” It pays to 
take special pains with the appearance of such 
perishable articles, I can tell you. When you 
get a few cents extra per pound, box or barrel, 
you will find that it is generally paid for those 
clean, neat, tasty in appearance. You mu.4 
bit the eye of a customer. You toss large and 
small, good and fair, all together in a heap, 
and they don’t look well. Take onions or 
carrots, for instance. Some bunches are 
tight and shapely, while others seem to be 
just thrown together; which do you suppose 
are left over? Then again, if there are fruits 
or vegetables that can be sent to market a 
week in advance of the old sorts, farmers 
want to have them. The early vegetable 
catches the early price every time. I have no 
doubt you could pick out varieties of potatoes 
here that are wav ahead of those you are 
planting. I don't know anything about 
farming; hut I do think I could tell you 
farmers something about your husiness, 
after all. You mnst aim to satisfy the 
public and not yourselves entirely. Tf the 
people want a certain kind of fruit, prepared 
in a certain way, it will be sharp common 
sense for you to take the hint, and not. try to 
educate them up to your Ideas. The best 
classes of city people have, ns a rule, almost 
as much fruit as their country cousins. It is 
always easy to procure fruits and vegetables 
here at fair prices;. City tables are generally 
pretty well supplied. In the country, fruit 
gets to be an “old story,’’where there Is plenty 
of it, aud you will often find farmers who 
do not raise enough to supply themselves. 
Look at those nears there! Every one wrapped 
up in paper as tenderly as oranges might bet 
All that sort of thing will be dropped when 
the great loads begin to come in. It just 
shows how much more money there is iu the 
early lots of fruit There is a large class of 
customers that always pick out the largest 
fruit they can see. They will take the big 
strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, and 
let the smaller ones go. Perhaps they think 
they are getting more for their money! 
Then again, something odd in the way of 
color, shape or packing, if not too much out 
of the wav, seems to attract attention. A 
great many farmers send live poultry in here. 
Some arrangement for supplviug them with 
water ought to be made. The poor birds 
sometimes come iu here just gasping for 
breath. Such treatment is not only cruel but 
it injures the value of the birds. The docks 
must have plenty of water to drink, they need 
lots of it. There is a great waste in sending 
live chickens in the ordinary coop; sometiiuas 
they are huddled iu together aud when their 
food is I brown in they are sure to trample on 
it, and in jure part of it. Some shippers have 
a very simple arrangement for a trough, that 
works like a charm. Two small pieces of V- 
sbaped wood are fastened to the outside cor¬ 
ners of the coop. Two light pieces of board^- 
one next the lath aud the other at the outside 
of the Y shaped pieces—form a shallow feed¬ 
ing trough. The chickens put their heads out 
through the lath openings, aud cannot get at 
the food to trample on it. 
At this moment the market-man was called 
away, and the farmer started on his tour of 
examinations. "market boy.” 
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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
E. W. Ross & Co., Springfield, Ohio, form¬ 
erly of Fulton,,N. Y„ a finely illustrated cir¬ 
cular of the Ross silage and fodder cutters, 
from their mammoth No. 26. A., with its 
knives 26 inches long and capable of cutting 
more silage in a given time than can be got. 
to it, and with its adjustable and reversible 
carrier for disposing of the silage after cut¬ 
ting, to the little hand No. 5 cutter, designed 
for cutting for ouly a few head of cattle or 
horses. All these cutters have a changeable 
cut from one-fourth to one inch in length. 
This is a very desirable feature, as the only 
kind of silage fit for cattle to eat is the sweet 
silage, and the fineness of cutting has much to 
do with the preservation of the fodder. We 
are firmly of opinion that the time will come 
when silage will be so put op and bandied, as 
to come out perfectly sweet, and with such 
food we shall be firm advocates of silage as a 
stock food, as all our experience teaches us 
that stock, to do well in Winter, must have 
plenty of succulent food. There are some 18 
or more points wherein this circular claims 
the Ross cutters are superior, and as every 
man should have the best, we advise our read¬ 
ers to send to E. W. Ross & Co.. Drawer A. 
G., Springfield, Ohio. Don’t forget the 
Drawer A. G., and don’t forget to ask them 
for their treatise on ensilage, which will be 
gladly sent, and which discusses the whole 
subject. 
Annual Report of the Minnesota State 
Horticultural Societv for18&5, contain¬ 
ing transactions'of the last annual meeting; also 
the proceedings of the annual meeting of the 
Sorghum Association. Minnesota has a wide¬ 
awake horticultural society, and it has a live 
secretary.who has managed to work up a very 
interesting and valuable report. Bat from 
tbe correspondence in this volume, brought 
well down into this Summer, we are sorry to 
note the wide-spread destruction to the fruit 
trees by the past very severe Winter. R_ C. 
Judson is the secretary, with post office at 
Farmington, Minnesota. 
The Foos Manufacturing Co., Spring- 
field, Ohio.—Illustrated catalogue showine the 
Scientific Griudiug Mills; the Scientific Port 
able Forges, seven different styles; drills; 
presses; combination anvil and vice: also a 
whole set of tools. These would enable any 
farmer so happy as to own and know how to 
use them, to do nearly all his own blacksmith- 
ing, and thus save many hours’ time and his 
horses many miles in travel. All who have 
work of this kind to do should not fail to look 
up these tools by sending for this catalogue, 
mentioning the Rural. 
Report of the Professor of Agricul¬ 
ture of Kansas Agricultural College 
for 1884.—This is a pamphlet of about 45 
pages, containing detailed statements of the 
experiments of Prof. Shelton in the feeding 
of pigs and steers on corn meal in competition 
with those fed on meal made by grinding corn 
and cobs together. Here it is shown by care¬ 
ful observations that the combined eorn-aud- 
cob meal produced results fully equal to those 
produced by the feeding of an equal quantity of 
pure corn meal. Every farmer should read 
this report. 
The Tenth Annual Report of the Mon¬ 
treal Horticultural Society, H. S. 
Evans, Secretary. This is a full report of the 
annual meeting of this society for 1884. and it 
also contains several interesting papers there 
read. We were not a little surprise.! to see 
Owasso claimed as a new grape, when our 
Michigan friends, among whom it should be 
well known, claim it to be nothing but Ca¬ 
tawba under a new name. 
Biennial Report of the State Board of 
Horticulture of California, A H. Wells, 
Secretary.—This is a pamphlet of 116 pages, 
containing proceedings of the meetings of the 
Board for 1838 and 1S84, and is worth a care¬ 
ful perusal by every one thinking of making 
that fruit growing State his home, or who 
cares to be posted on what they are doing 
over there, 
John R. Whittemore, Chicopee Falls, 
Mass,—Illustrated circular of the Champion 
Double-spring-tooth riding harrow, potato 
Jigger and corn hoe combined—a unique tool 
sold on its merit. Send for the circular, men¬ 
tioning the Rural. 
Planter’s Hoe Co., Troy, N, Y.—Illus¬ 
trated catalogue of the Herrington patent 
Potato digger. By sending for this catalogue 
and reading it carefully, you will get a good 
idea of a successful potato digger, and how it 
is made. 
Fred. Ward is the name under which a 
‘sawdust swindler,” or a rascal who seeks to 
swindle rogues under the pretext of selling, 
them counterfeit greenbacks, is sending abroad 
circulars to those who, he hopes, will turn out 
to be such arrant fools and dishonest rascals 
as to b 0 beguiled by his offers. Of course no 
one but a rogue would handle such stuff, and 
thus cheat his friends and neighbors, so that 
these “sawdust swindlers” virtually say to 
each one to whom they send their circulars, 
“I hope you are mean, treacherous and dis¬ 
honest enough to bite at my bait; and if you 
are, you contemptible hound, you deserve to 
be swindled, and I’m the man to do it.” And 
of course, the "contemptible hound” who deals 
with such a rascal is invariably swindled. The 
modus operandi has been explained so often 
here, that this caution ought to be sufficient at 
present. 
Tbe Victor Well Augur and Machine Com¬ 
pany, of St. Louis, is a swindle. Its advertise¬ 
ment was admitted into the Rural early in 
June; but as soon as its presence there was 
noticed, it was kicked out. 
Early last Mav we explained at length the 
mode of swindling practiced by the rascals 
who advertise "home work” through the 
mails or In newspapers, and who offer work 
in lace-making or crocheting. Since detail¬ 
ing the modus operandi of these meanest of 
fraud®, and thus putting our friends on their 
guard against tbe whole tribe of them, we 
have exposed seve-al bad cases bv name, and 
to this list we now add, "The Western Lace 
Manufacturing Co,,” of Chicago, Til. Here is a 
specimen of the ■circulars sent out by this con¬ 
cern:— 
Madam:—Y our letter received. Inclosed is sample 
of cord we are having crocheted Into sets of seven 
pieces, lambrequin, four tidies, two mats: pay S4 for 
mating set. Inclose also stamped pattern point lace 
we are havtnsr made Into slx-ynrd pieces: pay 87.50 
for making piece. We send all material, samples, 
patterns and instructions upon receipt of a deposit, 
which we return when you have done f worth of 
work. We furnish steady work, and pay for every 
lot when returned Bnlshed In crood order, and send 
more. All work Li sent by mall postpaid one way. 
Should you wish work, please say which you prefer 
to make, l ace or crochet, either betnit easily done by 
sample, etc. Respectfully, 
western Lace M’e’o Co. 
With regard to this concern, we have re¬ 
ceived a number of complaints of the same 
sort to which the dishonest conduct of the 
others has given rise. In all cases, the goods 
sent are of less value than the deposit re¬ 
quired ; fault is nearly always fonnd with the 
work done, and on account of alleged defects, 
either the goods made are not taken at all, or 
else only a small proportion of the promised 
price is paid for them. In some cases no 
"outfit” whatever is sent in return for the 
"deposit” made, and the letters demanding an 
explanation or the return of the money are 
either not answered at all, or draw forth the 
falsehood that the remittance has not been re¬ 
ceived, or tbat stress of orders necessitates de¬ 
lay. or that the goods have been gent, so that 
they must have been lost in transit, or some 
other excuse to put off the day of reckoning 
until the frauds have “cleared out.” to start 
in the same or some other swindle in the same 
town or elsewhere. In no case is the deposit 
ever returned. 
To Several Inquirers.— We do not re¬ 
commend the nostrums put up by M. D. Den¬ 
nis, of this eity, and which are widely adver¬ 
tised through the mails. Some of them 
doubtless do good iu particular cases: but so 
does every sort of medicine in a drug store. 
All these specially puffed nostrums are neces¬ 
sarily sold for prices extravagantly high 
when compared with the original cost of the 
ingredients, because the great expense of ad¬ 
vertising liberally in all wavs, must be got 
back in the price. It is claimed for most of 
them that they will cure diseases either abso¬ 
lutely incurable by our present medical skill, 
or curahle only bv treatment very different 
from that followed by the dupes who take 
these medicaments. How many infallible 
cancer remedies are advertised through the 
land; how many blatant cancer “doctors” 
and “doetressea” bray about their ability to 
cure all forms of tbat terrible malady; yet. 
dispite the best medical skill, not only of tbe 
United States, but of the whole world, Gen. 
Grant has just died from epithelial cancer, 
one of the mildest and most come-at-able 
forms of the disease. The eminent doctors in 
charge of the case lent t atient and considerate 
attention to all suggestions coming from any 
respectable source tbe world over; but the 
hero died in spice of all the suggestions. Will 
the cancer quacks be silent now l No, indeed! 
they will cackle louder tbau ever. 
STATE AND PROVINCIAL FAIRS. 
1885. 
Ohio. Columbus......Au*. si. Sep.. 8 
Doluware. Dover.... .Sept. 'JS, Oct. 8 
Illinois, Chicago...Sept. 14, IS 
Illinois Fat Stock, (lilcaito.Nov. to. is 
Indian i. In Mnnnpolls.Sept. 98, Oct. 8 
town, IV» Moines . Sept. 4. 11 
Kfinsa®. Lawrence. Sept. 7, ta 
KanKSN. Tonofca. .Sept 14.19 
Kentucky. I exlngton. Aug. 35. 29 
Massachunett* Horticultural, Rostou.Sept. 15, is 
Minnesota. 8t. Paul...Sept. 7, 12 
Minneapolis Industrial. .. Aug. 81. Sept.5 
Nebraska. Lin •nlu...Sept, ii, is 
New York, Albany.Sept 10, IS 
Ontario Provincial, London...Sept. 7,12 
