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land-holder to overshadow a part of his do¬ 
main with nature’s leafy canopy. 
"A neighboring wood born with himself he sees, 
• And loves his own contemporary trees.” 
Disadvantages op Transplanted Trees. 
—Dr. Loring is of the opinion that while we 
can transplant trees for permanent growth, 
yet a tree that occupies the land on which it 
was planted, and has never been transplanted, 
will grow much better than a transplanted 
tree, the same as corn and wheat and other 
crops that are planted in the ground. This is 
true, not only on account of the economical 
process by which the trees are started in the 
soil, but, also, of the remarkable fact that a 
tree springing from the ground will make 
more wood in 10 years than a transplanted 
tree will make in 15. If any one is in doubt, 
says Dr. Loring, let him select on his own 
place an elm tree that has sprung from the 
ground and compare it with a tree that has 
been transplanted. He will tind that the tree 
that has sprung up on uis farm, and has stood 
in the same spot all the time, has made more 
wood in 10 years than the transplanted tree 
has made in 12 or 15. 
Laws op Heredity. —The Canadian 
Breeder, in discussing this subject, says that 
offspring, in general, derive from the male 
parent external structure, outward charac¬ 
teristics, locomotive system and.uaually,color. 
The internal structure, vital organs and, in a 
great proportion, the constitution, temper 
and habits, come from the female parent. If 
one parent is of purer blood than the other, 
this purity will prevail Tne mark of the 
first male is frequently left upon subsequent 
offspring. Transmission of disease of the 
vital organs is more certain from the side of 
the female, and disease of the joints from the 
side of the male. 
Hen Manure Overrated.— J. J. H. Greg¬ 
ory, in a lecture before the Mass. Agricultural 
Society, stated that hen manure is often great¬ 
ly over-valued, as when newspaper men tell 
their readers that the manure from 50 hens 
will manure five or six acres of corn, The 
actual value of clear hen manure is not over 
20 cents per bushel; and as a hen will eat only 
the equivalent of some two or three buahelsof 
corn per year, and as there can be no plant 
food in the manure, that does not go into the 
hen as food, it is easy to find the possible value 
of the one by the other. The plant food in 
two bushels of corn can be replaced for 88 
cents. From this, are made the eggs laid, and 
the feathers grown, which will take one half. 
Then, as the manure is largely wasted, except 
by night, the annual value of what is saved 
cannot be placed above 10 to 12 cents. 
Early Cattle Importations.— The Orange 
Co. Farmer notes some curious facts in con¬ 
nection with the history of horned cattle in 
this country. Columbus brought the first 
herd on his second trip in 1498. Other Span¬ 
ish navigators brought small herds from 
which the wild cattle of the West and of South 
America descended. In 1558 the Portuguese 
took cattle and hogs to Newfoundland and 
Nova Scotia. The Canadian cattle were in¬ 
troduced iD 1608, In 1620 Virginia had 500 
head of cattle. The most stringent laws were 
passed, prohibiting the killing of any domes¬ 
tic animal. In New England, cattle were 
introduced in 1024. It is said that for a time 
price was regulated by color, a red calf being 
cheaper than a black one because it was more 
likely to be mistaken by the wolves for a deer, 
and killed. 
BRIEFS. 
The bloom of the great rose William Fran¬ 
cis Bennet disappoints many who have seen 
it. Others are vociferous in its praise. The 
open flowers are nearly single, haviDg but 
three rows of petals. 
Mr. Peter Henderson, during his late 
trip to Europe, visited the Edinburgh Bo¬ 
tanic Gardens, as we learn from the Ameri¬ 
can Florist. W bile among the * ‘insect-eating’' 
plants, he asked the superintendent, Mr. 
Lindsay, if Mr. Darwin’s views could be in¬ 
dorsed? Mr. Lindsay replied that he nad 
been experimenting with the plants for four 
years and that he had as yet arrived at no 
definite conclusion. 
The editor of the Orange County Farmer 
puts it thus: “The imitation butter sold In 
our markets to day is unspeakably vile, and 
is exceedingly dangerous as an article of 
food.’'..... 
The estimates of raspberries in the late 
report of the New York Experiment Station, 
are somewhat different from the Rural‘8. 
For instance, Highland Hardy is said to be 
“very sweet and delicate.” The Thwack is 
rated as sweet, rich and quite firm. It is 
firm, certainly, but as insipid as a raspberry 
well can be. The Henrietta is rated as “iD- 
sipid.” This Is the Belle de Fontenay, which 
is so far from insipid that it Is rather too 
acid.. 
The Poultry Keeper says that the average 
number of eggs from any breed of hens—no 
matter what—is rarely over ll)0 in a year. 
And we guess the estimate is nearer right 
than those of the farm papers that claim from 
125 to 175 . 
The value of Red Cedar depends upon the 
thickness of the red wood. The sap or white 
wood of this tree soon decays, leaving the 
red. Value this wood, then, as Mr. Fuller 
advises, in the N. Y. Tribune, according to 
the thickness of the heart wood. It is not, in 
fact, a cedar, but a juniper—botanically 
Juniperus Virginiana. 
The N. Y. Tribune says that we last year 
paid Canada $2,00(1,000 for 11,500,000 dozen 
hens’ eggs, notwithstanding “hard times” and 
lack of “employment for women, invalids 
and children.”. 
In the same journal Prof. L. B. Arnold 
wisely remarks that the nutrient properties 
in the grain of corn are passed to the grain 
through the cob. When gathered in an im¬ 
mature state, the cob is loaded with nutritious 
matter on its way to the kernels of grain, just 
as the straw of otner grains in its green stage 
is loaded with nutriment destined for the 
grain, but its passage is arrested and it re¬ 
mains in the straw when the latter is cut 
green. The cobs of soft corn may therefore 
be classed with other green herbage near the 
time when the seed is filling. 
Prof. Arnold further advises us not to 
drop out one of the milkings and milk only 
once a day when cows give but little in the 
latter part of the season. The milk is not so 
good when drawn but once a day as when 
drawn twice a day, and under once-a-day 
milking cows shrink very rapidly and dry up 
entirely very soon. It is better to milk twice 
daily as long as the milk is saved for use. 
The value of a small mess of milk: is not to be 
measured solely by the quautity. The super¬ 
ior richness of a small yield should be taken 
into consideration in estimating its value, 
and if this is done the propriety of prolong¬ 
ing even a small flow muse be apparent...... 
The Philadelphia Press says 800 bushels of 
apples have been marketed in Niagara Co., N. 
Y. alone. We guess there have, brother. We 
had over 8,000 barrels—9.000 bushels—and 
probably one-third as many more sold for 
canning and drying. We guess you mean 
800,000 barreL as mentioned the other day in 
our Agricultural News, and even that is 
below the mark..... 
The N. E. Homestead is pleased to note the 
increasing use of mutton os food on the farm¬ 
er’s table. It is a most healthful meat, and 
when as cheap as it has been at wholesale dur¬ 
ing the past two years, and as it still is, there 
is no reason why it should not be more eaten 
by the farmer’s family. Belling live beef, 
pork, or mutton at almost ruiDous rates to 
butchers and speculators, and then paying the 
highest retail prices for a supply drawn 
wholly from the local meat cart, is unwise 
and unprofitable. Now that colder weather 
is upon us, when meats can be kept for a long 
time, it is a good season to stop this great leak 
on the farm.... 
Maj. ALVORD.in his address before the Bat¬ 
ter, Cheese and Egg Convention, speaking of 
the needs of more careful farming, said the 
exhaustion with wheat is 10 or 12 per cent, of 
the value of the crop, while with butter it is 
about 1-10 of one per cent., and the part of 
the proceeds received by the producer is much 
greater with butter than with wheat, beef or 
cheese........ 
Mr. J. M. Stahl says that the child whose 
parents read, will learn the multiplication 
table or the difference between a verb and a 
noun in half the time required by a child 
whose parents do not read. 
A writer in Farming World advises farm¬ 
ers to get small pails, make a good, even 
grade of butter, put name and the name of 
dairy on each pail and ship to some reliable 
commission merchant on trial. In a few 
weeks, if yon produce a really meritorious 
article, there will be a demand for all you can 
produce, and it will pay, too. 
The American Dairyman does not think 
much of Guenon’s theory of judging cows, 
saying if you want to get a good, profitable 
animal, you had better first see that she gives 
a large mess of rich milk, and then, having 
first secured this point, indu’ge your fancy 
for soft hair, dandruff, quirls and yellow 
grease in the skin, loug horns, slim tails, 
smooth hoofs, big belly veins, and all the 
other fancies that fashion loves to revel iu. 
Prof. W. J. Beal says that washing the 
grain of seed wheat in blue vitriol to prevent 
rust, is no more effectual than smoking cigars 
to cure coru 9 on the feet. Rust and smut, 
however, are very different things. 
Is it possible that there are brutes enough 
left in the world to render this dialogue pos¬ 
sible? Husband: “If you get out our way, 
doctor, I wish you’d stop and see my wife. 
She ain’t feelin’ well.” Physician: “What 
are some of her symptoms?” Husband: “I 
dunno. This mornin’, after she bad milked 
the cows, an’ fed the stock, an’ got breakfast 
for the bands, an’ washed the dishes, an’ 
built a fire under the soap kettle down in the 
lane, an’ done a few chores about the house, 
she complained of feelin' kinder tired. I guess 
her blood is out of order and she needs a dose 
of medicine.”..... . 
pttottUatuau# gulvcrtloittfl. 
In Harper’s Magazine for January, 1886, 
MR. W. D. HOWELLS 
OPENS THE “EDITOR’S STUDY.’’ 
This Number also contains an article by the late 
GENERAL McCLELLIN 
ON 
THE MILITIA AND THE ARMY. 
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Frontispiece. From Drawing by E. A. Abbey; 
Winter iu Devonshire. 
By Lucy C. Lillie Illustrated by Alfred Parsons, 
C. S. Khinehart. and H. M. Fault; 
Christmas-tide with the Germans before 
Paris. 
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