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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
be seen in them, except in the case of Alfalfa, 
which will maintain the lead for some time.. 
Peter Cooper’s ground bone almost invar¬ 
iably shows by analyses that it is worth more 
than it costs. Being steamed in order to man- 
facture glue, there is no nitrogen in it. 
A farmer of Hutchinson, Kansas, says in 
the Western Stockman, that Johnson Grass 
makes a fine growth the first season, but is en¬ 
tirely killed by the Winter. 
Prof. Shelton, of the Kansas Agricultural 
College, says that there are thousands of cat¬ 
tle in every section of the W est, whose gaunt 
and emaciated frames have been the seat of 
numberless Trost bites, while the dry gangrene, 
superinduced thereby, runs on unchecked by 
the thin, watery blood, which feebly circulates 
through their veins. Soon these cattle will be¬ 
gin to “shed" tails, hoofs, oars and noses, and 
we shall again be in the midst of an epidemic 
of foot-and-mouth disease... 
Prof. W. J. Beal, of the Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural College, who has made a study of 
grasses for many years, says, in the Prairie 
Farmer, that he sees nothing promising in 
Johnson Grass for Michigan farmers. 
Josiah Hoopes, in the Philadelphia Press, 
says that for a few years after planting, the 
quince should have good culture and that 
thereafter mulching answers a much better 
purpose; that uo variety excels the old Orange 
or Apple as a paying quince when grown 
under the same treatment... 
Mr. W. F. Brown, in the Indiana Farmer, 
says the critical time with a corn crop is while 
it is small, and it will pay to work it frequent¬ 
ly until it gets a good start. Farmers cannot 
err by doing too much work among the corn 
while it is young; nor at ony other time 
provided it is not done deep enough to injure 
the roots........ 
Two-thirds of the orchards reported dying 
from old age are actually starving to death, 
seen in its influence on the students. There 
is to be found there no such thing as caste or 
aristocracy; all are on an equality; -‘Worth 
makes the man," and a degree of hearty good 
feeling and friendship existB among all the 
students, such as is found in few other colleges. 
L. F. Allen writes, in the London Agri¬ 
cultural Gazette, that the extreme severity of 
the Winter has been very destructive on the 
great—and barbarous—cattle ranches of the 
far Western States and Territories. He has 
great doubts of their eventual success........ 
Director Lazenby, of the Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station, finds that corn planted but one 
inch deep gives the b83t yield. For a sandy, 
loam soil, deeper planting would no doubt 
prove advantageous...... 
Few people are aware that, when they And 
a wall paper that suits them precisely, by 
having it properly varnished they can render 
it almost time-proof. It can be washed when 
it becomes dingy, and will last for many 
years....... 
The Agricultural Gazette says that children 
would rather eat bread and honey than bread 
and butter. One pound of honey will go as 
far as two pounds of butter, and has, besides, 
the advantage of being far more healthy and 
pleasant tasting. It always remains good, 
while butter soon becomes rancid. Honey 
eaten on wheat bread is very beneficial to 
health. It is a common expression that honey 
is a luxury, having nothing to do with the 
life-giving principle. This is an error—honey 
is food in one of its most concentrated forms. 
True, it does not add so much to the growth 
of muscle as does beefsteak, but it does im¬ 
part other properties no less necessary to 
health and physical and intellectual action... 
The Scottish Agricultural Gazette says that 
in consequence of the extraordinary scarcity 
of good dairymaids in Cheshire, the Cheshire 
Dairy Farmers’ Association propose to estab¬ 
lish a dairy school and farm of instruction 
and might be brought to a reasonable state of 
health and vigor by a generous system of 
feeding the soil every year, and would richly 
pay for all the manure applied; so says Josiah 
Hoopes in Philadelphia Press. 
In collecting seeds lin large quantities) of 
melon, squash, tomato, cucumber aud other 
plauts, Joseph Harris advises that we put a 
little brewer’s yeast in the barrel. The seeds 
drop to the bottom of the barrel, aud will be 
white, clean and entirely free from mucilage. 
“After you get started,” he says, “you can 
get yeast of your own from the barrel. 
The Michigan Farmer would not put any 
man in charge of roads who does not know 
the value of gravel.. 
Now scatter a lot of sifted coal ashes over 
the roots of currants aud gooseberries........ 
If you would hasten the bearing of grape¬ 
vines transplanted this year (or last), confine 
the new growth to a single shoot.. 
The general and seemingly sensible advice 
is to plant corn not until the ground is warm, 
as it is a tender plant. Nevertheless the best 
crops we have ever raised were planted on or 
before May Lst. 
Do not disturb the roots of strawberries or 
raspberries until after the fruiting season, if 
you would have a full crop of fruit... 
“For tree labels, use strips of sheet zinc, 
rust them with water or acid, write ou them 
with a common lead pencil when moist, and 
they will last and be legible half a century." 
The above is from the Albany Cultivator. 
We have been telling our readers for six years 
that one needs only to write upon the zinc 
with the pencil. No “rusting" or anything of 
the kind is necessary or of auy use. Come 
aud see the zinc labels at the Rural Grounds, 
if you doubt it. 
One of the most beautiful effects of the labor 
system in agricultural colleges, says the Spec¬ 
ulum of the Michigan Agricultural College, is 
for the county. They will take a pasture 
farm of about 200 acres, with convenient sur¬ 
roundings, where they will give lessons to 
pupils on in-door dairy practice, and out-door 
dairy farming. Judging from the quality of 
much of the butter in American markets, a 
practical school for the training of dairy help 
would be a very sensible thing in this country 
as well............. 
Mr. W. H. Huling, of Ohio, says he has 
kept 50 cows the year around in a barn with 
water-tight floor, with a gutter behind them 
24 inches wide aud eight inches deep, the ma¬ 
nure, liquid and solid, all being saved. The 
cows were fed the best of feed aud bedded 
with chaffed straw. From the lot he made 
1,200 loads of one ton each in a siogle yesr. 
This proves that Prof. Roberts’ statement of 
having made 100.27 tons from 47 cows in five 
months was by no means extravagant. 
The Kansas City Journal thinks there is not 
much difference in sex when we come down 
to the everyday trials and joys of life. Busy 
men don't gossi p; busy women don’t bear tales. 
Kind meu bind up wounded hearts, aud kind 
women heal them...»... 
Tub Live 8tock Journal remiuds its readers 
of the peculiar sensitiveness of milk to im¬ 
purity aud bad odor. Smoking where milk is 
kept must never be permitted, and yet not 
unfrequently the milk-room is invaded by a 
smoker, who perhaps (?) removes his pipe from 
his mouth, but will hold it smoldering in his 
hands, filling the apartment with an odor 
strong enough to carry the milk out-doors.... 
Should a cow be always milked by the same 
persou? A writer in the Agricultural Gazette 
says uo; the U. 8. Dairyman says yes. The 
latter proceeds to say that the man who can 
get a cow attached to him eau, in the course 
of a year, get a larger per centage from 
her than a constant chunge of milkers could 
accomplish, every word of which we believe 
to be “cow truth.”. 
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