THE RURAL HEW-V0RK1R. 
feet. The people out here belong to a good, 
honest class that don’t let work trouble them 
very much. There never was a finer climate; 
Winters very mild with little snow. Sum¬ 
mers very pleasant. Game is very plentiful 
—deer, antelope, bears, wild turkeys, rabbits 
and quail. All domesticated fowls do well 
here. This country is not very well watered, 
but what water there is, is clear, cool and 
good. All streams of any size have fish in 
them, but of a very poor quality. Hops grow 
wild here in abundance, and they are as fine- 
looking as those cultivated. Wild flax grows 
plentifully on the mountain sides, and the wild 
flowers are the most beautiful I have ever 
seen. e. h. 
Connecticut. 
Hartland, Hartford Co., Nov 25 —Crops, 
as a general thing, are good. We do not 
raise much corn-to sell; crop good both in 
quality and quantity. Potatoes a fair crop; 
some complaint of rot. What little small 
grain was raised is good. Fruits of all kinds, 
except peaches, were the biggest crops in the 
memory of the oldest inhabitant. Prices are 
about as follows: Corn, 70 cents; potatoes, 50 
cents; oats, 55cents: rye, 70 cents, and apples 
are bringing 75 cents per barrel, deliverf d at 
tbe railroad station. Tbe Prince of Wales 
Pea did very well; have saved them all for 
seed. The Stratagem Pea and Johnson Grass 
did not come up. The Rural corn grew from 
six to 10 feet high, but none ripened—too late 
for us. Tbe tomatoes were first-rate. The 
Flageolet Beans did very well. The flower 
seeds were extra good. e. a. c. 
Dakota. 
Alexandria, Hanson Co.—Last Spring I 
adopted the Rural plan of raising potatoes, 
except the use of the special fertilizers, think¬ 
ing this prairie soil might not ueed them, and 
doubting whether the price realized’here on 
the tubers would be sufficient, to pay the extra 
cost; so I plowed some land just as deep as we 
could set the plow; furrowed out and mel¬ 
lowed tbe bottom of the furrows, and covered 
deep. We kept the patch clean, and all Sum¬ 
mer passers by were filled with admiration as 
they looked on the beautiful patch. This Fall 
we dug 350 bushels, while my neighbors on 
much smaller patches only got at the rate of 
90 to 150 bushels per acre. 1 have to hire all 
my work done, and this patch of potatoes 
sold at present prices, would give me more 
profit than 30 acres of flax, 17 of wheat or24 
of oats. Thanks to the R. N.-Y! x. h. y. 
Indiana. 
Salem, Washington Co.—Cleveland’s R. 
N.-Y. Pea is, with me, six or seven days earlier 
than the Earliest of All and three or four 
other earlies. It is also very prolific. The 
beans this year yielded well, and were all 
saved for seed. King Humbert should be 
called King Hutnbng. It certainly is prolific, 
but too large for preserves and too small for 
general use, and it cracks badly. Carter’s 
Stratagem and Prince of Wales Peas will 
receive better notice and comparison next 
year; but they showed up well this year. The 
Rural Bicolor Tomato failed to show its colors, 
though I set out over 260 plants. The Paragon 
has not yet been equaled in my experience. 
From noticing reports in this column, I think 
the little packet of Garden Treasures are 
shamefully neglected by many who receive 
them. Every seed is worth special care. Corn 
about here is much under an average oDtil 
bottom land is reached, and the general com¬ 
plaint is that one-eighth to one third is mil¬ 
dewed and rotten on tbe stalk—something 
very uncommon. Potatoes were an average. 
I tried the Rural mode, and think I can, 
another year, double my crop by it. I raised 
00 varieties this year. The Empire State pro¬ 
duced well, is a beauty, and cooks to please an 
epicure. Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron and 
Burbank yielded as well as any. Price now, 
40 cents per bushel in market. Q. e h. 
Michigan. 
Bradley, Allegan Co., Nov. 24.— I do not 
consider tbe Rural’ 8 50 crosses of Indian 
corn worth anything. Think the Flageolet 
Beans are more white than green. The seed 
I received was green and rich looking, but 
the beans 1 have raised are as white as any 
ordinary beaD. My turkeys destroyed most 
of them, and I saved but few. The King Hum¬ 
bert Tomato is nice to look at. Rural Bicolor 
Tomato did not show up to any extent, and 
thoee that did show were w orthless. Of Prince 
of Wales Peas but few germinated, and those 
that did were not good bearers. Carter’s 
Stratagem grew well, but were of such poor 
flavor we could not eat them. Condition of 
crops and stock is satisfactory, except corn, 
which is poor. None but ihe earliest varieties 
ripened, such as Pony Dent, Pride of the 
North, and the flints. The yield is consider¬ 
ably below the average. Yield and quality of 
wheat the best for three years; worth about 
So cents. Oats, yield good—45 and 50 bushels 
per acre. Hay good and selling at $7.50 to 
$8.50. It is baled and sent east to Boston and 
New York. This is a good dairy country. 
There are four cheese factories within five 
miles from here. Cows net from $35 to $55 
per head for the season at factories. Average 
store sheep are worth $1 50 per head. Fat 
wethers, $2.50. Dressed pork is worth $4 to 
$4 50. Wheat is in better condition tban a 
year ago. Are having a wet Fall but not 
much cold weather yet. Potatoes yielded 
well, and few are rotten; selling at 30 cts. for 
shipment to Ohio. Apples goed and sold at 
$1.25 per barrel. Keep on making the Rural 
a plain, practical paper for the farmer. I 
shall want it next year. t. c 
Ovid, Clinton Co.—In the Fall of 1884, I 
sowed three quarters of a bushel of Shumaker 
Wheat, and harvested 23 bushels. I also 
sowed one bushel of Fultzo-Clawson, from 
which I received 34 bushels hy measure. Of 
Diehl Mediterranean I had 160 grains, which I 
planted one foot apart each way; there were 
160 stools, from which I thrashed, with a flail, 
20 pounds of clean wheat. From the same num¬ 
ber of grains of tbe Surprise Wheat, planted 
in the same way, I received 16 pounds. Both 
wheats were sown again this Fall, and are 
looking splendid. I have also 15 pounds of 
the Thousandfold Rye, which was forgotten 
until too late to sow this Fall; but I will keep 
it until another season. a. 
New York. 
Watertown, Jefferson Co.—I am very 
much pleased with the seed distribution of 
1886, and especially with the Angel of Mid¬ 
night Corn, which is just my idea of a perfect 
corn for this section. The varieties of corn 
you sent out in 1884-5 proved to be too late 
for up. Tbe Rural tomato seed last year 
was good, but the bell-shaped variety proved 
to be more ornamental tban useful. Of course, 
you can not please all with all kinds of seed 
you send out; but I would not take the price 
of the Rural for my package of seeds for 
next year. w. M. 
North Carolina. 
Walnut Cove, Btokes Co.—Tbe Rural 
trench system for potatoes was a failure with 
me. 1 didn’t get more than twice as many 
tubers as I planted, although the vines were 
tbe finest I ever saw, some of them being six 
feet long. I expect I used too much high- 
grade ammoniated fertilizer. The peas, both 
kinds, were very good, but I noticed during 
two or three days’ rain at any time the vines 
would die. 1 do not consider them valuable. 
The Flageolet Beans are all right. 1 think 
more of them than of anything else I received. 
I have more than a gallon of nice seed. They 
are prolific. Some of the Johnson Grass grew 
more than seven feet high, and I have saved 
about two gallons of seed from it; it certain¬ 
ly produces seed beads enough for the seed to 
be checked. R. l. mcn. 
Ohio. 
Defiance, Defiance Co., November 12.— 
Wheat looking fairly well. It was put in 
late to escape the grass hoppers and crickets. 
Damp Fall bad on corn—late husking, wet 
corn, too damp for cribbing. Roads bad and 
times rather dullish. I. t. o. 
Middle Bass, Ottawa Co., Nov. 21.— The 
grape crop of this group of islauds, with the 
exception of Concords, did not amount to one- 
tenth ofaerop. Catawbas, constituting more 
than half of all grown, have not made an 
average yield for past three years. The yield 
this season was the poorest, not averaging 
over 200 pounds to tbe acre. Last Winter was 
very severe on most of the hybrids and on 
every thing but iron clads. Concord, Worden, 
Bacchus, Elvira aud Noah came through in 
perfect condition. Tbe Fall has been splendid 
for ripening up the wood. On only one day 
so far this Fall has the thermometer been be¬ 
low freezing. o. M. H. 
Shelby, Richland Co. —The Rural crosses 
of corn all matured; I have selected a num¬ 
ber of ears which I propose to test next year. 
The beans, peas, aud tomatoes, all did well. 
The Diehl Mediterranean Wheat stood the 
Winter well, and produced line heads, I think 
it will be a good wheat for this State. Wheat 
and oats were good; corn did not come up to 
expectations. Potatoes were damaged by the 
rot; crop short, and quality poor. Apples 
scarce and worth $1 per bushel in the mar¬ 
ket. w. .1. H. 
Liberty, Montgomery Co., November 24. 
—The growing wheat looks fine. Corn the 
best crop since 1875; not all busked yet. Po¬ 
tatoes, turnips, cabbage, and pumpkms plenti¬ 
ful. Prices low; apples three-quarters crop. 
Orchards badly winter-killed; pears a full 
crop; peaches none; aoms plums; cherries a 
good crop. Tobacco crop the best for ten or 
twelve years; large growth and fine qual¬ 
ity; not much stripped yet; none sold. 
G, H. G. 
Pennayivania. 
Chambersburg, Franklin Co.— King Hum¬ 
bert Tomatoes were very fine, so were the 
others—have picked out the most distinct for 
seed. I think every seed germinated. King 
Humbert is entirely distinct from the old 
Pear-shaped which I have had many years. 
The Johnston Grass did fairly well; will be 
hardy, I think, in S9° 54" north latitude. The 
Stratagem and Prince of Wales Peas were 
hurt by drought. The Flageolet Beans I 
injured badly by applying too much phos¬ 
phate; still, I saved seed. As to the mixed 
corn, I had white, red and yellow of all sizes 
from pop-corn up to some huge-grained sorts. 
All ripened perfectly. Market prices here 
are:—Wheat, lightest crop for many years, 
selling for 90 cents a bushel; coru, fair crop, 
although hurt hy drought, selliug for 45 cents 
per bushel; oats, fair crop, 30 cents a bushel; 
Potatoes, hurt badly by drought, selliug at 45 
cents a bushel; hay, very poor, not more than 
half a crop, $15 to $18 a ton; Western baled 
hay selling here at $15 a ton; rye, 60 cents a 
bushel; butter, 13 cents a pound; eggs, 22 
cents per dozen. Apples, medium crop. 
Peaches and grapes very good; no rot 
or mildew the season through, d, g. 
Tennessee. 
Russellville, Hamblia Co., Nov. IS.— 
Farmers are generally up with their Fall 
work; wheat sowed, and corn about all gath 
ered. Owing to there being so nearly a 
total failure last harvest with broad¬ 
casted wheat, the wheat this Fall has 
been put in much better than I ever 
knew it. Every one that could do it, has 
drilled and fertilized. We have had quite a 
wet November, but there have been enough 
dry days to get in the corn and fodder. 1 do 
not remember to have ever seen as fine a corn 
crop—large acreage and big yield. Feed of 
every kind plentiful. 1 had from the Diehl- 
Mediterranean Wheat about one pint; from 
the Thousand-fold Rye one-half gallon, 
which l sowed five or six weeks ago. Farm 
products all very low: corn, 30 cents; oats, 
30 cents; wheat, $1; 800-pound steers, three 
cents to three and one-half cents; fat hogs, 
three cents to three and one half cents, r. o. 
Sunbright, Morgan Co., Nov. 23.—The 
fifty crosses of corn were superb; some ma¬ 
tured in 80 days, and all within 90; but early 
varieties are not so much of an object here, 
as the seasons are long enough to ripen most 
large and late varieties. The Prince of Wales 
Pea is the boss. Our cook took one mess 
from the vines, and all pronounced them just 
splendid. Crops of all kinds on the Cumber¬ 
land plateau, particularly in the Counties of 
Fentress and Morgan, have been very good. 
Corn was ripe a month or more before any 
frost; hay was good; clover and timothy do 
well; all kinds of fruit good and large crops, 
peaches especially, which seldom fail. All 
kinds of fruits do unusually well here and pay 
a big interest on the investments. Irish pota¬ 
toes usually do well, but are not as good as 
usual this year; but sweet potatoes are very 
fine, reaching three,' four, and even five 
pounds, and they are of better quality than 
the Jerseys or Delawares. Our county is set¬ 
tling up quite fast with Northern people, and 
will settle much faster when the climate is bet¬ 
ter known. Last Winter during our coldest 
weather, the mercury registered only five be¬ 
low zero. To the invalid from the frozen re¬ 
gion of snow and ice this section is a haven of 
rest and recreation. Our Winter really lasts 
only three months. In March farmers begin 
plowing for early crops. People are setting 
fruit trees, and doing up tbeir late fall 
work. I have yet to plow twelve acres of 
new land, and to set one thousand raspberries. 
O. M. G. 
Texas. 
Bennett, Red River Co., Nov. 22.—The 
Rural seeds were very good. Some of the 
corn was very early but small; while some 
was late and very large. The Stratagem and 
Prince of Wales Peas were very fine. The 
Garden Treasures were excellent. Flageolet 
Beans tbe very best. Tomatoes good. Tbe 
Rural deserves much praise for the good It is 
doing in sending out such valuable seeds. 
8. M. R. 
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REARING PIGS “BY HAND.” 
Miss E. S. L., Hohnen, Wia .—I have been 
presented with five two-weeks old pigs of the 
best strain; they are weaned and eat well, 
and seem thriving. I feed them new milk: 
direct from the cow six times in 24 hours;, 
now can I by good care and plenty of work, 
without much outlay of cash, winter these- 
little ones without a mother? 
Ans.— Certainly; you have commenced 
right. Continue the milk for four or five 
weeks, when you can gradually substitute 
skim-milk, adding more and more until they 
have skim-milk exclusively. Also add a little 
wheat middlings to the milk when the pigs 
are eight weeks old, and gradually increase 
the proportion until, if necessary, when three 
or four months old, they can be fed entirely 
on wheat middlings, or ground barley and 
oats and water. Give also boiled potatoes or 
potato parings or apples or other vegetable 
food. It is a good plan to mix a little ground 
barley with the middlings—one-fourth barley 
and three-fourths middlings make an almost 
perfect pig feed. They are better if cooked 
or they may be mixed with kitchen slops or 
water, and allowed to ferment a very little. 
The pigs should be fed little and often, and 
should at all times have a dry aud warm 
place to sleep, and it would be better if th< y 
had a warm pen to run in, but if shut away 
from the ground, they should often be fed 
sodsanddirt, A little charcoal and asbesare 
also good, or even hard or soft coal ashes. If 
oats are fed, sift out the coarser hulls. Feed 
enough food to keep them constantly growing, 
and if they get constipated, add a little raw 
linseed oil; or if that isnothandy, give plenty 
of roots; or a little soft-soap mixed with tbeir 
food will effect a cure. If they get dirty or 
scurfy, wash them in warm soap-suds, rubbing 
them dry. If well cared for, they should 
make nice porkers by mid-summer, and at a 
good profit. Feed no corn or corn meal until 
fattening for slaughter. 
ANTHRAX IN CALVES. 
“ SubscriberRiverside, IV. T .—What is 
the matter with my calves? They have had 
good pasture on damp tide land. When about 
six months old they become sick, slabber at 
the mouth, droop tbeir ears, and along tbeir 
backs, from tbe hips to the noses, pimples al¬ 
most the size of a dry pea appear. Then they 
scour, discharging round lumps of clotted 
flesh; then get poor and die; what am I to do 
for them? 
ANSWERED BY F. L. KILRORNE, B. V. S. 
This appears to be a case of anthrax due to 
feeding on the damp, rich bottom land. The 
older cattle have gradually become unsuscep¬ 
tible, and only the young, rapid-growiog 
animals are attacked. At the advanced stage 
of this disease little or nothing can be hoped 
for in the way of treatment, so that the at¬ 
tention can more profitably be turned to tbe 
animals not yet attacked. Remove all tbe 
young stock to higher grounds, and shelter on 
cold, damp nights and from the fall storms. 
Give oure drinking water, acidulated twice or 
thrice daily with 15 to 20 drops of mtro-muri- 
atic or carbolic acid, and do not overfeed. 
With animals recently attacked, give one 
dram chlorate of potash and 20 drops nitro- 
muriatic acid morning and evening, and at 
noon 15 grains iodine, 10 grains iodide of pot 
asstum aud one dram bisulphate of soda. Dead 
animals aud tbeir products should be bandied 
with care by tbe attcudants, aud burned or 
deeply buried. Next year tbe young stock 
should he turned on to this low land 
only in the early part of the season, and then 
be removed to higher ground. 
VERTIGO—MEGRIMS-IN A MARE. 
T. B., Houston, Tejcas .—After working a 
couple of hours, my mare always stumbles, 
and sometimes falls down. What ails her? 
ANSWERED BY F. L. KtLBORNK, B.V.S. 
A definite answer cannot be given from so 
brief a description of the case; but it is prob¬ 
ably a mild case of vertigo or megrims, and 
most likely due to one of three causes; ple¬ 
thora, compression of the jugular veins by a 
tight-fitting collator disease of the heart. Give 
five or six drams of Rarbadoes aloes to unload 
the bowels, aud then three times daily for 
several days two drams of potassium bromide 
and chloral hydrate. If the animal is ple¬ 
thoric a restricted, laxative diet will be bene¬ 
ficial. Examine the collar to see that it does 
not press upon the great veins of the neck; it 
should be large enough to press well back on 
the shoulders. In case of heart disease little 
can be done except to feed carefully and 
avoid all violent exercise or overworking. 
The constant weuring of a large wet spoDge on 
the head between the ears when at work in the 
hot sun will aid in warding off the attacks. 
Whenever au attack occurs take the animal 
into the shade if possible, apply cold water to 
the head and wait until fully recovered be¬ 
fore again working. Frequent mashes, or 
feeding some roots or green feed will be ser¬ 
viceable by keeping the bowels open. 
FINE AND COARSE GROUND BONE, BTC. 
H. T , M., No. Hastings, Out., Can.— 1. I 
have a meadow of Timothy and clover three 
