ICE »N0 ROLLER 
would be willing to rctwh'a hunlljr of hoys or girls a 
part of the tiny or evening; could make hliusclf very 
HARNEY*BERRY 
lias any for sale? 2. From the California nur¬ 
series. Write to J. B. Armstrong, Cloverdale, 
Cal. 
./. W., Port Jackson, N. Y .—Of whom can 
I obtain, separately, the ingredients of super¬ 
phosphate? 
Ans.—F rom A. L. Sardy, 10 Burling Slip, 
N. Y. 
M. M. 1.)., Dick, Pa .—Where can I get 
Cheviot sheep? 
Ans.—O f Win. Curry, Hartwick, N. Y. 
Mr. Edmund liirtsKY, of Massachusetts, has 
carried on a series of experiments with pota¬ 
toes for several years. He arrives at some con¬ 
clusions which are at a variance with the con¬ 
clusions of Rural Grounds experiments. “The 
form of n potato,” he says, “can not, as a rule, 
be changed by the selection of any particular 
form.” Thismay be true as to well established 
varieties. But it is not true as to the selection 
of the tubers which true seed produces. We 
have repeatedly selected differently shaped 
potatoes produced by the seedling plant and 
established varieties widely differing from 
each other in shape. 
Again ho says: “The seed-end of a potato 
is better to plant than the stem-cud, because 
the plants start, with more vigor and produce 
larger and more potatoes.” Yea, the seed-end 
does start earlier and morB vigorously than 
the stem-end. Our readers will remember our 
reports to this effect, which have been made 
for five or six years. It is true also that seed- 
end pieces will produce more potatoes than 
stem-end pieces—but they are smaller. The 
greater the number of eyes planted, the greater 
the number of sprouts and, consequently, the 
more potatoes are formed. But they are ne¬ 
cessarily smaller. He further says that “two 
distinct varieties will not mix in the hill.” 
This is a postulate and scarcely needs to bo 
stated. There will always be farmers who be¬ 
lieve that potatoes do mix in the hill as well 
as farmers who believe that wheat, changes to 
chess, oats to barley, etc. But until absolute, 
proof of such change's has boon furnished, we 
must be guided by what we know of the laws 
of plant growth. 
SHORT AND FRESH. 
Mit, Pearsall, of the Mich, Hort. Society, 
would set Spitzenberg apples were he to plant 
an orchard to-day..... 
Apple trees in Michigan had been sprayed 
with Paris-green and London-purple the past 
season and the apples wore nearly free of the 
codling moth, and more perfect thau for 
years. A heaping teaspoonful of Paris-green 
to two gallons of water is the right quantity.. 
As to the Marlboro Raspberry, opinions 
varied. Generally it was said that it does not 
show the promised vigor. The Lucretia is the 
best dewberry that Pres. Lyon knows. The 
Niagara Grape was said to rot when the Con¬ 
cord rots... 
Belmont Strawberry was well spoken of. 
The Golden Queen Raspberry is of a flue yel¬ 
low color—quality of its parent the Cuthbert. 
Hilborn black-cap less seedy thau others. 
Do not locate any well where it will have 
soaknge from low ground, barnyards,cesspools 
or privies, is the good advice of Mr. Brooks, in 
the N. Y. Tribune. 
Joseph Harris's article in this issue w ill 
show market gardeners and others how they 
may raise larger crops with less farm mauure. 
The thing is to supply the nitrogen in an avail 
able form just when the plants need it, and in 
abundance... 
A writer iii the Scientific American men¬ 
tions that, young snapping turtles, as soon as 
hatched out., seek by direct lines the nearest 
body of water, though it may be a quarter of 
mile distant..... 
A writer in the Gardener’s Magazine tills 
her vases for cut Mowers three parts full with 
clean silver sand, and keeps it regularly moist 
by pouring a little water over it every other 
day. Thus the Mowers are kept in an erect 
position..... 
A whiter in Home and Farm (Louisville, 
Ky.,) says that the Japan Clover which is now 
talked about a good deal, salivates horses and 
mules...... 
Prop. J. L. Burnt, of the Iowa Agr’L Coll, 
says, in the Orchard and Garden, that he has 
grown tile Worden Grape for 18 years in Iowa. 
It always colors fully one week in advance of 
the Concord, he says, and is in prime condition 
for dessert, use when the Concord is still sour. 
Ho says, also, that hub year with another it 
produces more pounds of grapes to the vino 
»»d that the clusters are larger and better 
shouldered, the berries will average larger and 
the pulp is more tender, sweeter, and richer 
flavored than the most perfectly ripened Cou- 
coids grown on the same soil. 
Prof. Budd further says that the Rural 
New-Yorker’s estimate of the Worden has 
often been expressed by Eastern growers. 
Ben Pkrley Poore in the Cultivator (Bos¬ 
ton) talks of eats. He admits t hat a cat is a 
great, addition to a farm house if it will haunt 
the barn and catch mice. But the cat is in¬ 
capable <)f any strong attachment to persons, 
and always retains its perfidy and cruelty. 
Cats are powerfully armed with sharp, retrac¬ 
tive claws, which when at rest are raised up¬ 
wards and close within the toes by the action 
of elastic ligaments, so that when the possessor 
walks or runs they have no chance of being 
worn or blunted. 
Cats dislike to wet their feet, Mr. Poore 
says, but have been known to dart into shal¬ 
low streams and catch fish. They are averse 
to many scents, but are passionately fond of 
the smell of valerian, catnip, nud pennyroyal. 
The sight of a sleek, beautifully-coated cat, 
purring by the kitchen fire, is always pleasant, 
but to pet or form any attachment for so per¬ 
fidious a creature is wasted affection that 
could bo better bestowed. Selfish persons are 
notoriously fond of cats, and make pets of 
them in preference to children or dogs, who in 
being cared for require some sacrifices. 
The editor of the New England Farmer 
writing from Chicago, says that the cattlemen 
of the stock yards look upon veterinarians as 
a class of unscrupulous quacks who are seek¬ 
ing to feather their own nests. Later, he says 
that the cattlemen at the spick yards have 
modified their attitude towards the veterina¬ 
rians ... 
President Cleveland, in his message, 
says that none labor harder or more continu¬ 
ously than farmers. No enactments limit 
their horn's of toil and no interposition of the 
Government enhances to any great extent the 
value of their products. And yet for many of 
the necessaries and comforts of life which the 
most scrupulous economy enables them to 
bring into their homes, and for their imple¬ 
ments of husban Iry they are obliged to pay a 
price largely increased by an unnatural profit, 
which, by the action of the Government, is 
given to the more favored manufacturer. 
Howells, in Harpers,’says that the one vvlio 
buys sin or shame or corruption of any sort, is 
as guilty as the one who sells it. 
A South Down showed the least percentage 
of offal compared with live weight at the late 
Chicago Fat Stock Show, and the winner of 
the carcass prize as one-year-old was also a 
South Down. 
rilE Michigan Farmer speaks of a tendency 
towards a “sheep famine” in the near future 
that will make the wool crop exceedingly 
short in Michigan... 
The workingmen say that the rule of the 
capitalists and monopolists is a kind of 
despotism, and they will not submit to it any 
longer. That is good, says the Herald. No 
man has a right to “boss” another man. 
Bossism is ti hateful thing under the best, of 
circumstances, iu business, in the church, and 
in politics. But here is something which 
bothers us. When a strike is ordered, isn’t it 
generally ordered by a boss? And don’t the 
workingmen obey as implicitly as though they 
were the rank aud tile in a regiment?. 
Prof. Shelton, us we have already stated, 
has tried carp in the pond connected with tiie 
Kansas Ag. College. He began in the Spring 
of 18sl with MM young fry and no experience. 
He has now some choice experience but no 
carp. During the summer of |ss:j they multi¬ 
plied enormously. Then ho quadrupled the 
capacity of his pond by connecting it with a 
neighboring creek. The result was that the 
suufish, muskrats, minks, “shiners,” etc., de¬ 
voured both eggs aud carp. His carp were 
therefore “marketed” before they could be 
gotten out of t he pond. Now he wants some 
kind of a fish that will eat "shiners" and sun- 
fish, and is not made altogether to La' eaten... 
The above we find in the Kansas Farmer, 
though we have published it before either 
from Prof. Shelton direct or from some other 
paper. The Rural’s experience with carp has 
already been stated. Thirty-two of various 
sizes were placed in the Rural lake three 
years ago. We have never seen one. But 
the lake is full of turtles, “shiners,” suufish 
etc., to which reason, as in Professor Shel- 
tou’s case, we must attribute the loss of out- 
carp.... 
Mr. J. Talcott, of Rome, N. Y., says, in 
the Cultivator, that ho has bred the Silver 
Gray Dorking for a number of years. It is a 
bird of good size; the chicks feather out early 
ami grow finely. By some they are consid¬ 
ered us the best fowl for the table. They lay 
large eggs aud are good layers, careful sitters 
aud mothers. An objection is the extra too 
and the large single comb which is liable to 
be frozen in winter unless the fowls are 
warmly housed. The cocks are fine, beau¬ 
tiful birds. 
PROF. Arnold relates an instance — so says 
the Dairyman—of a cow that was tethered to 
the leeward of a lot of onions. In a short time 
her milk tasted so strong of onions that it was 
unlit for use. Cows should breathe pure air.. 
The White Minorcas, a new breed of poul¬ 
try in this country, resemble the Black Min¬ 
orcas iu all except color. A writer iu the 
Poultry Keeper says that the chicks are very 
strong and that pullets often begin to lay when 
18 weeks old. The egg is large and white, 
one dozen often weighing one pound and 14 
ounces from young birds,and two pounds from 
mature hens. These White Minorcas are not 
unlike the White Leghorns in color, shape 
aud general appearance, though somewhat 
larger.. . 
IV e learn from the American Garden that 
mushrooms are being grown to perfection in 
ordinary greenhouses at Houghton Farm. 
We also learn, through the same channel, 
that E. S. Goff, of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment .Station, has made across between 
the French Upright and the Alpha Tomato. 
The French Upright, grows in an upright bush 
form, as shown in the R. N.-Y. several years 
ago. The fruit ripens late. Mr. Goff now has 
the upright form and earliness of fruiting 
combined. The tomatoes are of perfect form. 
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