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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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flat as possible, and secure with a shawl strap 
It will hold much or little, is durable, extreme¬ 
ly light, protects its contents from ordinary 
damage, is cheap, and when not in use cun be 
made to do duty iu more ways than one, be¬ 
sides taking up no room Cor storage. 
West of the Missouri River, bnggnge is 
weighed and what is over 150 pounds, exclu¬ 
sive of hand baggage, must bo paid for. The 
best truuk for lightness and durability, is the 
basket trunk, covered with strong canvas,and 
lined with linen or oil cloth. For about seven 
dollars iu gold, I bought one in London in 
1873, which l took everywhere with me dur¬ 
ing a sojourn of two years abroad, and upon 
every journey 1 made in succeeding years; and 
1 brought il. to the Pacific (Joust and I expect 
it will hold together for the return journey. 
I ran lift it when it is packed, and it is never 
so full butit will hold more. Just before leav¬ 
ing home, 1 bought n larger one in Philadel¬ 
phia, which cost me $14, and it reached Bitu 
Francisco intact, while Anaximander’s costly 
trunk of sole leather, not holding nearly so 
much, was in a very demoralized eomiition. 
English people often travel with simply the 
rattan hamper, uncovered and fastened 
with a rod at the top. Any and every 
trunk should be secured with a strong rope or 
strap, and persons who wish to protect the 
corners of their trunks lay over the top, so 
that it. will fall over the corners, a piece of 
carpet, burlap or canvas, before adjusting the 
straps or cord. When my trunk is checked; 
I like to make sure that the cheeks are dupli 
cates, us I once sufiVred great inconvenience 
from having the check put on my trunk one 
number, uud the check given to me another. 
It, resulted in tin exchange of trunks, and it 
was some time before 1 recovered my own. 
A charge of ten cents a day for storuge is made 
now at, all ruilway centers for every piece of 
baggage left at. the stutiou beyond the 24 hours, 
but unless one is to stop for several days in a 
town, it is cheaper to pay the storage than the 
charge of conveyance to and from hotels. 
It will readily be seen that much luggage 
is a snare and delusion, and to dispose of it,, 
so os to be free from the burden of it, requires 
a continuous outlay of small change. It is 
better not to have everything you want- than 
to be overburdened. A little experience will 
convince you with how little one cau be en- 
tinly comfortable and respectable while 
en voyage. A dressing-gown or wrapper, of 
“skimp’’ cut, of tine material and with no 
trimming, so as to be put into the least pos¬ 
sible bulk, will serve a lady in many ways. 
If you wish t.o see the country, you will not 
travel at night, and hotel lodgings will not 
be much greuter than the cost of a “sleeper.” 
Inexperienced travelers usuully desire to sit 
by an open window in ear-riding in warm 
weather, a habit that rarely has anything to 
commend it. If you are alert, it isa pleasant, 
ami often a profitable change, to get out of 
the cars whenever there Is a halt, from three 
to five minutes. For a long journey an “un¬ 
limited” through ticket is the cheapest in the 
end, us it permits the holder to stop off as he 
pleases, and is good until used. There is no 
economy in wasting one’s money on poor 
hotels or restaurants because they are “cheap.” 
Fresh, wholesome food and dean, comtort- 
able beds are always worth paying for, and 
these can often be hud at, second class hotels. 
But it is well worth one's money, if he has it 
to spend, to stop at hotels noted for their ex 
celleoce und patronage, for it is a feature in 
the education of travel. Buy the newspapers 
of the cities you visit and read everything of 
local interest, including the advertisements. 
Carry a note book with you und jot down 
things as they occur. You cau read them 
months afterwards and enjoy the journey 
over again, perhaps better than at first. The 
question of money supply is always an im¬ 
portant one, as nobody cares to have much 
money on his person when traveling; but u 
certain amount, is necessary, and it is often 
difficult, unless one has acquaintances, to get 
a check cashed at, a bank ut which one is a 
stranger. A good plan is to buy drafts on 
some well lcuowu Eastern banking bouse (New 
York is best) and huvo them cashed as re¬ 
quired, as ouo can generally muster some¬ 
body, or something to establish bis identity. 
If you travel with children, bewar,o of the 
train vendors of nuts, candies, tigs, etc.: keep 
the little people to regular hours of eating so far 
as convenient, as continuous munching is even 
worse in travel than at home. This suggestion 
also includes the tanks of ice water. Children 
very readily accede to parental advice, if care 
fully informed before-bn ml what, Is expected of 
them, and made to understand the ill effects 
that result from imprudence. Above all 
things, keep iu good humor, and remember 
that,courtesy and politeness never pay better 
than when traveling. Accept Unavoidable 
discomforts as a port of the experiences of 
“seeing the world,” and bear iu miml that you 
left, home for a “change,” and that adisagree- 
able one is better than none at all. 1 always 
think that SO long as we keep well, we shall 
be happy, no mutter what happens. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Canada. 
Nanticokk, lialdimaml Co., Out. May 15. 
—We have had a backward ami cold Spring; 
but it has been warm and seasonable for three 
or four days. Fall wheatdoesnot look as well 
now as it did when the snow went off; there 
tins been but little growth of grass yet; hay ih 
getting scarce. J. L. 
Illinois. 
Stark, Stark Co., May 17.—We have about 
half done plowing for corn. Wbat oats are 
up look well where not ou wet laud: they are 
badly killed ou wot ground. D. w. H. 
Hannan. 
Parsons, May 9.—For the past six months 
the weather has been very unusual. The Win¬ 
ter was cold and protracted. The SprlDg w as 
(or is) late. Rainfall lias been heavy; as much 
as seven inches fell in 24 hours on one occa¬ 
sion. This is the latest season since 1875. 
Tout season was not thecause of the late pluut- 
ing. The young grass hoppers destroyed every¬ 
thing green, and after they went away to the 
North west, on the 27th of May, farmers com 
uienced planting again,and the result was the 
greatest crop of corn per acre ever raised. 
Much corn is uugathered, the weather having 
rendered the fields iuipassublo. Not 10 per 
cent, of the corn is planted, uud this portion 
is rolled. Potatoes have suffered also from 
cold and wet. Pastures are trumped and sour 
and sudden from the same cause. The apple 
crop seems to promise very well. Most of the 
other kinds of fruit will be indifferent. Wheat 
about half a crop. J. B. 
Maine. 
Caribou, Aroostook County, May Kith.— 
V’ery little farming has been done as jet in 
Northern Aroostook. The deep snows have 
been wholly gone from our fields ouly a few 
days, and the tee iu some of the streams lias 
not yet broken up; but there is no frost in the 
ground, and a few days’ more favorable 
weather will find us bnsy planting and sow¬ 
ing. The first wheat sown hereabouts was on 
Monday, the 11th inst., scarcely early enough, 
we fear, to escape the ravages of the “midge,” 
which is more to lie feared in Northern Maine 
than all the other enemies of the wheat crop 
combined. Fall sowing is not much prac¬ 
ticed, for the plants are too often winter¬ 
killed. The spring varieties most grown are 
Lost Nation and White Russian. The Bus 
katehewan is being sown for the first time. 
We raise from 2U to 40 bushels of spring 
wheat to the acre iu favorable seasons. 
Our principal crop is potatoes, which areship- 
ped from this locality in immense quantities, 
and hundreds of thousands of bushels are 
manufactured iuto starch. We shall begin to 
plant potatoes next week. The yield is from 
100 to 500 bushels per acre. Varietie-, Beauty 
of Hebron and Etul v Vermout for early, and 
mostly lor shipping; Burbank and Brooks’ 
Seedling for late and the starch factories. 
Oats are alwaysa safe crop, wud we raise from 
25 to 00 bushels to the ucre, mostly of the old 
early White Russians Our seasons are too 
short, and cold for corn to be grown as a field 
crop, so that only an early small flint and the 
Marblehead Early Sweet are grown for use, 
greeu. Buckwheat, which is easily and abun¬ 
dantly grown, takes the place of corn for feed 
for swine and other uuimub, and for man as 
well. We sow buckwheat when danger of 
frost is over- about the Kith to 2bth ol June. 
We raise excellent crops of beaus, mostly of 
an early sort called the Aroostook Early. These 
we plant ubout the lOlh of Juue. The Yellow 
Eye also ripens with us in favorable seasons. 
Barley, spring rye and peas are very largly 
grown and arc safe crops,but the latter has been 
badly mutilated by the pea weevil of late years. 
All the root crops do well, and so do cabbages, 
onions, squashes, cucumbers, etc., but our sea¬ 
son is not adapted to melons of any kind. Hay 
is an indispensable mid usually abundant crop 
in Northern Aroostook. Our cattle uud horses 
come to the barn the first of November, and 
do not go to grass again until June, g.w.i-.j. 
Jl IlNHUch UNCI I H, 
East BhidgkwatkR, Plymouth Co., May 
18.—The Bpring is very backward in this 
section, and very little is planted yet. We 
bad a dry March and April, but since May 
came iu, we have had plenty of ram. Low 
laud is too wet to plant, for a week or two yet; 
but the high lund is iu good condition to plant 
now, and people have commenced to do so to 
a great extent. The prospect for fruit is good; 
there will be quite a full bloom on apples and 
pears; but we shall have no peaches. Small 
fruits look promising. c. u. n. 
Nebraska. 
Nhligh, Antelope (Jo, May 13.—A good 
share of the fall rye was winter-killed hero 
last Winter. The best way to put it in seems 
to be to sow it in the corn before husking time 
and cultivate iu with a one-horse cultivator. 
It will bo kept warm under the snow that the 
stalks will hold. There is a great diversity 
of soil in this region, iu u field of 30 or 40 
acres will be seen spots of clay, white sand 
and red sand. But it is mostly a good black 
loam that will raise 40 to 50 bushels of corn 
after back-setting the sod, und more as the 
soil gets mellow. When the prairie is burnt 
over anyone can have roast prairie-chicken 
eggs for the finding. Wheat., oats, barley and 
garden stuff are up and corn planting is in 
full blast. Grass is well started on account 
of plentiful rains. TIioRijrat, New Yorkkr 
is a good paper and worth ten times its cost. 
(Level head I— Edb.) a k. f. 
Texas. 
Foknv, Kaufman Co., May 17.—Whou I 
came here, some 10 years ago, everything was 
comparatively wild, and no one here knew, 
from his experience, what-this couutry would 
produce best. It was admitted that cotton 
would grow almost anywhere in Texas, and 
so it does; but that fruits would grow upon the 
black, waxy soil here no one believed, and 
when l began planting trees it, was freely said 
“a fool und his money will be soon parted,” 
Having inherited srme sense from my fore¬ 
fathers in Southern Pennsylvania, I kept set¬ 
ting out fruit trees und vines until 1 got my 
ground filled; and here L am, ahead of any of 
them in peaches, pears, applep, cherries, mul¬ 
berries, plums, olives, figs, grapes, and some 
other fruits. All these are a success here. I 
have been eating cberriis and mulberries, 
ripe, for the last 10 days; soon peaches will ho 
ripe—early kinds. This year pome of my trees 
started peaches iu nests of from two to six on 
a Ringle stem; but the wind has thrashed 
them off, so that there are now only from three 
to four in u nest. This is an extraordinary 
fruit seasou. .f I were down on the Gulf, 
south of here, I would add citrus fruits to my 
already large list,; and if Nature had placed 
a high mountain range from the Mississippi 
River west to the Rocky Mountains, naming 
near the south line of the Indian Territory, so 
as to beep those “northers"—winds from the 
Arctic regions—from us, we would have lied 
a climate equal, if not superior, tottiatof Italy 
or Southern California; and all of Texas, in¬ 
stead of, as now', only a part, would have been 
tropical in its climate and fi uits. The foreign 
varieties of grapes am not a success. We grow 
most of the varieties from the North and East, 
but they are not quite equal to our natural 
southwestern varieties; many southern hybrids 
are promising well: slid there is a feeling 
among our oldest growers that, the grape of 
the future for this couutry, is yet to Ire origin- 
ated. 1 have about. 30 variolic* now growing, 
and out of these I feel the Labrusca va¬ 
rieties will have to give place toothers. N. s. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
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nuking n quest;mi, please Bee If It Is not anpwereil In 
our advertising columns. Ask only u few questions 
at oue time.I _ 
RIDDING THE GROUND OF “CUT-WORMS.” 
V. II. II., Nashville , Trim ,— 1. My land is 
literally full of cut worms; everything I 
plant is cut down; the soil is a sandy clay; 
what makes them so numerous, and what can 
I do to destroy them? 2. I wish to set out an 
acre of cabbages, what can I do to protect 
them from the cut worms? 3. And what to 
save them from the cabbage-worms, without 
injury to the cabbage as food? 
Anh —1. These are the larva; of dome ouo of 
several species of night-flying moths. Theeggs 
arelaidin the Fall, and the larvm become full- 
grown and come from the ground as perfect 
insects from the midtUe of June to the end of 
August. Those pests may be dug up and 
killed, but by far the most effectual way we 
haveever tried isone recommended, some yours 
ago, by Prof. Riley: Take any leaves of 
which they eat—cabbage, young clover, etc., 
—and dip them in a mixture of Paris green 
and water, and then dust them with a mix¬ 
ture of one partof Puris greeu and 2d parts ol 
flour, and place them about the infested 
ground; the worms will be killed by thousands, 
and if this practice Is followed up, they will 
soon be extermiuated. 2. You eau plant cab- 
buges, tomatoes, or other plants with safety 
by wrapping the stem of each one, w hen put¬ 
ting it out, in a piece of strong paper, letting 
it extend from below the surface of the 
ground up as high as the leaves. 3. Buhach, 
or the California grown insect powder, will 
kill the cabbage-worm, as the RURAL has 
fully demonstrated, and was the first todoso. 
OIL-OAKK MEAL AND LINSEED MEAL. 
C. W. A., b'all Iliver, Mass. —1. What is 
the difference between oil-cake meal and lin¬ 
seed meal, and what are the merits of each? 
2. How should they be fed to cows? 
ANS.—1. Oil-cuke meal is the ground resid¬ 
uary cake left when oil is extracted from flax¬ 
seed by severe pressure. It contains, on an 
average, about 12 per cent, of frte oil or fat; 
30 per cent of nitrogenous compounds and 
37 percent., of carbohydrates. Linseed meal is 
the residuum where oil is extracted from the 
flax seed by means of naptha or benzene, the 
latter being expelled by high heat. It con¬ 
tains, on an average, about 2 5 per cent, of oil 
or fat, 3G per cent, of nitrogenous compounds 
and 34 per cent, of carbohydrates. In our ex¬ 
perience we prefer the ‘ linseed,” or new pro¬ 
cess meal, because of its lower oil and higher 
nitrogenous ratios. This will be treated 
more fully in our papers on stock feeding. 2. 
Either should bo fed in connection with 
other foods, such as middlings or corn meal, 
straw and Euglish hay. Unless the animals 
have plenty of some :ucculent food, the meal 
would be better if mixed with boiling water 
and allowed to stand a lew hours. 
TUB RIOUT OF SUFFRAGE. 
II. L., Newark, Ohio,— Who have the right 
to vote in this country? I'leaso state the 
matter In full to settle a dispute. 
AN8.— Any male citizen twenty one years cf 
ago, uot having been convicted of felony, is en¬ 
titled to vote. If one is foreign-born tie must 
have been naturalized, but a declaration of in¬ 
tention to become a citizen is enough to ent itle 
him to vote iu Arkansas, Florida.Ueorgiu, Indi¬ 
ana, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi,Oregon and 
Texas. In Rhode Island he must have paid 
tax ou one hundred uud thirty-four dollais’ 
worth of property. In Massachusetts one 
must be able to read the Constitution and 
write bis name. In most, of the States oue 
year’s residence in the State is necessary, Lilt 
six months’ residence is sufficient in California, 
Couueetieut, lndianu, Iowa, Kansas, Nevudu, 
New Hampshire und Tennessee. In Kentucky 
and Rhode Island two years are necessary, 
and iu Muiuo and Michigan throe months are 
sufficient. Taxes must be paid up, in Dela¬ 
ware, Georgia und Pennsylvania. Thelengta 
of time one must have resided iu thoeoumy 
iu order to vote therein is never longer tnun 
half the time required in the State, and often 
it is much less tbuu thut. Paupers eaunot 
vote in Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire, or South Carolina. Duelling is a 
disqualification to vote iu Georgia, Kansas, 
Michigan and Virginia. 
A PIG-EATING SOW. 
G. II. W, Muskegon, Mich.—I have a Poland- 
China sow that has the had habit, of killing 
and eating her pigs, commencing when the/ 
are one week old; yesterdaj' she killed one 
fully two months old. Whai can f do to over¬ 
come the habit? The sow runs to grass. 
ANS.— The SOW is in some way diseased, or 
else her tcuts are very sore, (jive her some 
loosening food, like flax-seed tea or a gill of 
raw linseed oil each day; examino her udder, 
and if the teats are cracked and sore, grou&e 
them with salt pork fat; give her also euch 
duy for a week, if she will eat. it soloug, from 
a quarter to a half pound of raw, fat, suit 
pork. If this does uot eure her, bettor fatten 
and kill her. 
GRAPE-GRAFTING QUERIES. 
IJ. F. D., Tarlton , Ohio. —1. Where can Hie 
Wagner saw for grape-gruf ting bo obtained :2. 
Wbat is the object of the little chisel atlacntd? 
3 . Is it essential that the cions be iuserted in 
the kuuckle? 
Anh.—1. We ure not aware that It is for 
sale; each should make one for himself. 2. 
The chisel is for euttiug out the piece of w ood 
between the two saw kerfs, so us to make an 
opening large enough to receive the cion. In 
a small way, two cute could be made with a 
line saw, about one-eigbtli of an inch apart; 
the piece between to bo cut out with a narrow 
chisel or knife. 3. it may bo made at any 
place. The only advantage iu locating iu the 
knuckle is that in small vines there is here 
more room and more substance to hold the 
cion. 
DRAINING A HOLLOW. 
K II. it,, Fuyetlerille, B is. 1 have a hollow 
iu which water stands so that I can not raise 
a crop; in one end of the hollow, I have dug 
into the gravel, and into the hole the water 
runs very fast, but the sediment soon runs in, 
and closes the bottom, rendering it impervi¬ 
ous. Could 1 lay tile so as to obviate this 
difficulty? 
A ns, —If the capacity of the gravel is suf¬ 
ficient to carry away all this wuler, the whole 
hollow could l>« well underdrained, the outlet 
being a number of lateral drains iuto ibis 
gravel. The water thus running into the 
gravel, would carry no sediment, and would 
no doubt find a permuueut outlet. You - bould 
first be sure that the gravel has capacity to 
carry away ull the water. 
Miscellaneous. 
II Ij. 'I'., Columbus, Ark. —1. What is the 
best early aud medium-early strawberry for 
market? 2. Wbat is a good yield per acre? 
3. What is the best keeping potato and bow 
