26c.; eggs, 24c.; dressed hogs, $6 per hundred 
beef, $5 to §5.50 per hundred, dressed. 
Then repeat the process by plowing and sow¬ 
ing. In this way an Illinois farmer has 
greatly improved his orchard.. 
The farmers who make money are those 
who cultivate no more land than they can 
work in the best manner. 
Mr. Albaugh, of Miami Co., O., says that 
a grower there sowed oats among his grapes 
every spring, to prevent rot, and considered 
it a success. Mr. Miller (also of the Summit 
Co. Hort. Society) sowed copperas—about a 
pound to a square rod—in his vineyard early 
in the summer and again later. No rot has 
appeared since this treatment....... 
A writer in our esteemed contemporary, 
the Pacific Rural Press, says that physicians 
do not preach sanitation as they ought. They 
live on the follies of their patients. Parents, 
who are so solicitous that their children should 
be trained iu all the ’ologies, quietly see them 
ruined by candy. 
The Weekly Press does not observe that the 
scientists of the country are disposed to credit 
Dr. Taylor, of the Agricultural Department, 
with having added much to the sum total of 
human knowledge. 
Waldo F. Brown is familiar with the 
farms of Ohio and adjoining States, and 
Speaks from personal knowledge when he says 
that it is a very rare exception to find a farm 
with good walks to the barn and outbuildings. 
Look at the first page of this issue of the 
R. N.-Y., Western readers, flow long be¬ 
fore the “Spirit of the Land" will appear to 
you and say: “I cannot stand it any longer.” 
You are not greatly interested in chemical 
fertilizers or manure of any kind just uow, 
but your children, may be, will have occasion 
to wish you bad been. ... 
Mr. Peter M. Gideon, the originator of 
the Gideon, Wealthy and other fine apples, 
says that it is a notorious fact that tree 
agents have sold 10O trees of the Gideou at one 
dollar each, where he has been able to sell one 
at 25 cents. Farmers, he thinks, have been 
swindled so often and paid so dearly for it, 
that they have come to love to have it so. 
There is no more reason, says the Orange 
County Farmer, why the public should be 
taxed to bury Congressmen than town consta¬ 
bles—indeed, there is less reason, as the Con¬ 
gressman gets well paid for his work, while 
the reverse is the case with the constable. 
Heuee the bill of Congressman Oats, of Ala-' 
bama, which proposes a change, should pass. 
‘Every improvement in the garden, says the 
Orange County Farmer, reduces the demand 
for the doctor’s services. Let fruits do away 
with the demand for drugs of all kinds, and 
excellent vegetables in part replace the exces¬ 
sive use of animal food . 
A writer in the N. Y. Times affirms from 
a long and intimate acquaintance with cows, 
and the experience of thousands of other 
farmers will, he says, sustain him, that an 
average well selected herd of native cows, 
profanely called “ scrubs,” will equal in pro¬ 
duct an average herd of pure-bred cows of any 
breed in the production of butter, upon the 
same feeding, and upon ordinary roughness 
and hay without auy meal the natives will 
beat the pure-breds.. 
After many experiments, it is pretty well 
demonstrated, Mr. Gould says, in the Ohio 
Farmer, that where several skimmings of 
cream are mixed and immediately churned 
there is an almost total loss of the “youngest” 
skimming. It has had no chance to get into 
uniform condition, and so needing u special 
longer time to come, as well as a different 
temperature, it fails to arrive at the butter 
stage with the older cream, and all but a small 
part goes off in the buttermilk. This often 
causes the good wife to remark that “the but- 
tei'uiilk looks very rich,” and it explains why 
it takes so much solid cream to make a pouud 
of butter often... 
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Seedling Apples have been the hobby of 
Peter M. Gideon, of Excelsior, Minn,, State 
Pomologist, for the last 16 years, and the suc¬ 
cess attained gives him liopo that not far in 
the future the cold Northwest will be one of 
the leading apple-growing districts of North 
America. Twenty-three years ago he planted 
a few'cherry crab seeds, obtained of Albert 
Emerson, Baugor, Maine, and from these 
seeds he grew the Wealthy Apple. In seven 
years it fruited, and that fruit convinced him 
that the true road to success was iu crossing 
the Siberian crab with the common apple and 
on that lino ho has operated ever siuce, with 
results surpassing his most sanguine anticipa¬ 
tions. Last fall the seed of over 100 bushels 
of choice apples were planted in the State 
orchard to grow trees for trial purposes. 
They have thousands of choice trees on hand 
for distribution to those who want one, two, 
three and four-year-old trees from seed. Those 
who dig the trees will get them free of cost; 
others will have the cost of digging and pack¬ 
ing to pay. And, unless other wise instructed, 
they will ship them free of cost, except as 
above stated, to auy one in the Northwest who 
may so order. The great bulk of the trees are 
two years old. The cost of digging, boxing 
or bundling would be about one dollar per 100. 
All who get trees will be expected to take good 
care of them until they fruit, and if any prove 
of extra value, so report, but the trees aud 
the profits thereof belong to the cultivator. 
Mr. Gideou, as the Superintendent of the 
State Experiment Fruit Farm, only asks the 
report that he may note the progress. The 
trees which produce poor fruit can be top- 
grafted with any good variety that the owner 
may select, aud thus make permauent trees 
of value. Those who want large trees had 
better do their own digging and thus save a 
arge bill; the trees are large for their age 
and a more promising lot of seedlings Mr. 
Gideon never saw. 
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puuish Jay Gould, then Government is a 
farce aud anarchy is already established, 
bravely speaks the Western Rural. It is pro 
posed that the press and the public push this 
plunderer to the wall aud into a prison dun¬ 
geon. How many of the people will stand by 
in inaugurating proceedings that shall lead to 
the conviction of Jay Gould for bus high¬ 
handed crimes?. 
The property that he possesses belongs to 
other people. He does uot own even the shirt 
upon his back, and yet with this practical 
communist levying his assessments upon our 
industries, aud upon men, munen, widows aud 
orphans, every day ami every hour, the coun¬ 
try is permitting him to go unwhipped of 
justice while it is demaudiug the execution of 
seven men in Chicago who preached what Jay 
Gould practices. 
A writer iu the Cultivator quiets a kicking 
cow simply by putting a strap iu her mouth 
and buckling it tightly behind her horns. 
The Ohio Farmer thinks that there is reason 
euough for the endless ridicule directed a- 
gainst. the Washington seed business. 
The N. Y. Tribune alludes to Washington 
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The Cross calls attention to the fact that a 
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