THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB. 
horror at dehorning, and by a few Prof. Hen¬ 
ry lias been fulled hard names and threatened 
with prosecution for cruelty to uni trials. But 
he believes we can save an immense amount 
of suffering in our stock by dehorning calves 
and so preventing goring and lighting in the 
herds, and can save many human lives now 
lost by vicious bulls.. 
Phof. Hknry concludes his remarks as fol¬ 
lows; “ I can say from experience, use the saw 
fearlessly, sawing close to the skull; if in sum¬ 
mer put on something like tar to keep off Hies; 
if in winter use nothing at all. Further, don’t 
form an adverse opinion until you have a 
right to do so by a study of the operation and 
its effects ..... 
A. \V\ Chiebvkk, of the New England Far¬ 
mer, hus raised Orchard Grass for 20 years in 
succession. Tie sows about two bushels of 
Orchard Grass and one bushel of June 
Grass (Poa pratcnsls). The Orchard Grass 
must he cut when it shows its lirst bloom or 
the hay will be Injured. He knows of no bet¬ 
tor grasses for a second crop than the above.. 
STILL, in a majority of eases, New England 
farmers who have given Orchard Grass a fair 
trial prefer Timothy (Herd’s Grass) or Blue 
Grass .... .................. 
Dr. HOSKINS finds the •‘Dewing” the best of 
the various strains of the Blood Turnip Beet. 
It grows so entirely under the ground that its 
earliness is often overlooked. 
We doubt if there is a better tomato than 
the Optiruus, though the Beauty, Purugon, 
Perfection, Mayflower and Rochester are all 
good smooth kinds and much alike. 
TnE K illir Corn is a sorghum which ill the 
South may be cut so as to give a good crop of 
foider an 1 yet continue to grow and mature 
seals. We have given its entire history. It 
may be worthy of trial in the North.. ....... 
Many of the readers of the R. N. -Y. do not 
know that the hollyhock may be induced to 
flower from seed the Urst Summer. Sow the 
seed in a hot-bed in February. Prick out the 
plants to a cold-frame as soou as they show 
the second or rough leaves, and then trans¬ 
plant to the open ground in early May, cov¬ 
ering at night when the weather is cold. 
They will bloom in early September.. 
A COLORED plate just received represents 
the new Jessie Straw berry its sometimes meas¬ 
uring nine inches around. It is much the 
shape of the Sharpless..... 
Mr. Falconer gives a description of Dc 
Forest’s greenhouse at. Summit, N. J. iu a late 
number of the American Florist. There are 
two acts of greenhouses, a few hundred yards 
apart; one is heated by steam (three of Morse’s 
steam boilers set alongside of each ot her), and 
the other by hot water, Mr. De Forest great 
ly prefers the steam-heaters; they are very 
efficient, quick to act, easy to regulate, easy 
to stoke, and so far 08 fuel is concerned, uy far 
more economical—eight tons of coal in the 
steam-heaters giving the same results as four¬ 
teen tons m the bot-water apparatus. The 
steam heat has no injurious effect whatever up¬ 
on the plants.. 
Among the newer roses grown by Mr. De 
Forest, one which is his favorite was sent to 
us by the Storrs, Harrison Co., of Puinvsville, 
Ohio, hist year. It is Madame Gabriel Lui/.ot, 
a Hybrid Perpetual. The buds are broadly 
conical, with lohaceous sepals of the calyx, 
bornu on heavy peduncles. The color of the 
flower is rose. The outer petals often open 
in n delicate way, still leaving a beautiful 
conical bud. It is delicately fragrant. 
Alluding to the Hatch Experiment Sta- 
tion Bill, Our Country Home says that every 
State is able to take care of itself, and this 
"chipping in” of taxes of all ihe people, iu or¬ 
der to divide the same amount agaiu, Is like 
changing a pile of bricks from one place to an¬ 
other, buck aud forth. 
Pock remarks that the tilth, the horrors, 
foul and shocking sensations (so-called; which 
have lately made our newspapers unfit read¬ 
ing for respectable poople, need neither de¬ 
scription nor comment. ... ... 
What the American people have never 
been able to understand is the secret of Sena¬ 
tors becoming millionaires upon $o,000 sal¬ 
aries, says the Western Rural and Stockman. 
Looking to spring aud transplanting, we 
say, first dig your holes and supply mellow, 
ricu soil iu place of all the poor soil that comes 
out of them. Years ago, wuen the Rural 
Grounds were planted, muck from what is 
now the lake was the soil used to fill in the 
holes. Tnero is muck aud muck, no doubt. 
Bui a thriftier lot of trees, both evergreen and 
deciduous, Chun we have is rarely to be found. 
The roots of young lives soon grow out of the 
hole prepared lor their reception, but a good 
start m tlie case of a tree is more important 
and helpful than in the ease of u corn plant... 
A writer in the London Garden says that 
evaporutiny the juice of tobacco stems is 
better and safer limn the usual way of burn 
ing the stems for fumigating greenhouses.... 
There is now, says the Maine Farmer, too 
much intelligence abroad to claim that 1,600- 
pound Qolsteins, giving throe or four pailfuls 
of milk a day, do not require nearly as much 
food as the small breeds of but little more 
than half the weight, and yielding far less of 
product..... 
The Breeders’ Gazette remarks that a farm¬ 
er can no more afford to feed good feed to in¬ 
ferior, unimproved stock than he can afford 
to wear a fine broadcloth suit into the field... 
It says also that while live-stock product¬ 
ion will continue to be the leading and by all 
odds the most profitable industry of the farm, 
it will demand more study and better manage¬ 
ment than heretofore, and only those will suc¬ 
ceed who provide them-.elves with good stock 
aud give it intelligent care. 
Mu. Burpee offers the Rural New-Yorker 
Pea iu his catalogue with the remark that 
•‘this new strain is very similar to other good 
stocks of extra earlies. It may be a few days 
earlier, but I can not see that it is distinct.” 
Quite true, Mr. Burpee, the Rural has never 
claimed auythiugelse. It is simply one of the 
be t of its class—an improvement by selection. 
The “Abundance” Pea is one that we cun 
commend to our readers as an intermediate. 
It is of the branching class and after a full 
stand is secured by close planting, the plants 
should be thinned out to six inches apart. 
They may bo grown without brush. 
Mr. Palmer states, in the Breeders’ Gazette, 
that he passes his ears of corn through a 
crusher, setting the mill so as to break every 
grain of corn passing through it, while some 
will lie as fine a* meal. He feeds the same 
quantity in bulk that he would feed of shelled 
corn. He finds that both cuttle and horses 
like it i>et.ter and that it greatly improves 
their condition. Fed iu this way the unimals 
digest nearly all the corn. He thinks there 
are nutritious properties in the cob which are 
very valuable.,.. . 
Mr Miller notes iu Popular Gardening 
that puncturing the skin of a grape with a 
needle or pin causes it to dry in less than half 
the time otherwise nwiled.. 
Some interesting and instructive figures are 
furnished by the Breeders’ Gazette, with re¬ 
gard to public sales of pure-bred stock lust 
year. From these it appeal's that 6,110 Short¬ 
horns in 171 soles, averaged $104.50 each. 
Jerseys numbered 1,348, and in 20 sales aver¬ 
aged #115 a head. Of Holsteln-Friesiaus 781, 
iu 14 sales, averaged $148.80; while 215 unreg¬ 
istered Holland cattle, in five soles, averaged 
only $00 each; of Herefords 570, in 28 sales, 
averaged $200.80 each. Of Galloways 127 were 
auctioned at seveu sales, and averaged $348 
each. Aberdeen-Angus, S3 in number, aver¬ 
aged $305.30 in six sales. The total of all kinds 
re; sir ted is 9,228, which averaged $110,30. 
Quite a number of sales last fall were failures: 
and others were not held as usual, as a 
slaughtering of prices was inevitable. The 
polls came out ahead. Ehf... 
There’s a general sentiment iu all the in¬ 
terested sections as to the imports nee of es¬ 
tablishing an Ohio Valley Cattle Growers’ 
Association. Hitherto such associations have 
beeu confined to the Plains, but they would 
eertafuly tie equally promotive of mutual in¬ 
terest iu other regions also. The more genu¬ 
ine farming organizations we have, the bet¬ 
ter. Live-stock organizations are always of a 
bona fide character. Would that the same 
could lie said of several long-named, big¬ 
headed, top-heavy “agricultural associations.” 
Line a Goralstein regimeut, some of these arc 
composed entirely of officers, with no rank . 
and file..... 
The press of the Plains is loud uud caustic 
against the abuses of the Chicago beef slaugh¬ 
tering and canning monopoly, and is strongly 
in favor of transferring the trade iu range 
cuttle to St. Louis. But what's to prevent the 
Chicago buyers from infesting the St. Louis 
market, as they are now controlling that at 
Kansas City and manipulating that at St. 
Paulf The dressed and canned beef trade 
now ubsorbs most of the offerings of cattle in 
the open market, and three or four of the 
largo buyers combined are depressing the 
prices of cattle aud raising those of beef. 
Enormous capital, individual, corporate or 
alio l, seems bound to be extortionate either as 
buyer or seller "What are you going to do 
about itf”. 
Many of the English agricultural papers 
strongly udvocuto u total ombargoon importa¬ 
tions of all kinds of live stock from foreign 
count ries. They allege that most, of the dis¬ 
eases among domestic live stock are imported, 
and that it is Hopeless to try to eradicate the 
plagues at home while fresh contagion is con¬ 
stantly coining in from abroad. That’s an 
excellent doctrine applied to this country, 
where the ratio of contagious disease to live 
stock is a mere bagatelle as compared with the 
ratio in England. There for the last decade dis¬ 
ease has been marc disastrous than, perhaps, in 
any country from which importations are 
made. Now that a vigorous effort to stamp 
out imported contagious live stock diseases 
seems probable here, we should, for a period 
at least, shut out all chances of importing 
fresh cases. We already have quite enough 
of choice European strains for breeding 
stock...... 
A man who has three or four mares to breed 
seldom thinks of securing the services of more 
than one stallion, yet the mures may be en¬ 
tirely different, in style and conformation. 
Because a trotting horse is handiest, draft 
mares should not lie bred to him, says the 
National Stockman. Neither should light 
mares be bred to draft stallions because no 
light stallion is near. Out in Illinois, they 
are doing a good deal of this, however, and 
do uot at all complain of the results. 
The buyers will hunt the man who raises 
the right kind of horses; the fellow who raises 
the wrong kind will have to hunt the buyers.. 
Houses standing idle in the stable now may 
look sleek and fat; but without exercise they 
won't be fit. for hard work when wanted. 
A LAZY man has generally lazy horses. 
A man who mates his mares judiciously 
takes few chances of failing to get the kind of 
foal he wants .. . ... 
A little turpentine occasionally iu the slop 
The corn-fed hog of the West is a grease 
producer, whose meat “can’t hold a cau 
die” to that of the wheat-fed hog of Ore¬ 
gon or the mixed-ration-fed hog of any 
where ... 
Instead of feeding their bran, shipstuffs, 
etc., to hogs, as of old, millers nowadays sell 
all these bye-products to farmers whd make 
better than average pork of them . 
In 1850 we had 1.3 hog to every inhabi¬ 
tant; in 1884 we hud only .8 hog to each. 
Do we eat less i*>rk now than iu ’50 J We 
Certainly export much more. 
When a boar is seven or eight months old 
he can do u good amount of work if turned iu 
only ouce with each sow, and then kept quiet 
in his |>en. If liberally fed, but not to fatness, 
he may then serve two sows n duy, says J. B. 
Maxwell from personal experience. 
YOUNG brood sows shouldn’t, be less than 12 
months old when coupled with a boar the 
first time, says Dr. T. A. Simmon. They will 
then farrow at 16 mouths, and will uot be 
stunted in growth by gestation aud nursing. 
Many breeders couple young sows at eight 
mouths; but they often afterwards fail to grow 
out satisfactorily, and the pigs don’t grow up 
as well as those from older dams. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
This successful medicineb n. carefully-prepared 
extract of tlie best remedies of the vegetable 
kingdom known to medical science as Alteratives., 
Blood Purifiers, Diuretics, ami Tonics, such as 
Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock, BttlUngla, Dandelion, 
Juniper Berries, Mandrake, Wild Cherry Bark 
and othe.r sclented roots, barks and herbs. A 
medicine, Ilk® anything else, can ho fairly ,|edged 
only by Its results. We point with satisfaction to 
tlie glorious record flood’s Sarsaparilla has en¬ 
tered for itself upon the hearts of thousands of 
people who have personally or Indirectly been 
relieved of terrible suffering which alt other 
remedies failed to reach. Sold by all druggists. 
£1; six for Made only by C. t. HOOD .V; CO, 
Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
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is recommended ns “ an excellent preventive 
of disease in swine.”.. 
While fat in brood sows is a drawback, *a 
well-fed condition is an advantage. Sows 
bred low in flesh certainly cannot produce 
large, strong and vigorous litters, says the 
Natloual Stockman. 
The wool clip of 1886 instead of being 20 per 
cent less than that of 1885, us has lieeu gener¬ 
ally thought, is only 7,000,000 pounds, or 
barely two per cent, behind, according to Mr. 
Lynch, one of the highest "authorities.”. 
P. J. Sellers thinks grub-in-the-head in 
sheep, developed from eggs deposited in the 
nostrils by flies in summer, never produces 
any serious results iu sheep iu a healthy con¬ 
dition. He prefers to devote ids attention to 
intestinal parasites, for which he recommends 
the use of ashes, sulphur and copperas; but 
they shouldn’t be used too long at a time. 
In feeding sheep various kinds of food, for 
1<xi days, Dr. Voeleker lately found that sheep 
fed on lirseed cake gained 7.7 ounces daily; 
those on mixed linseed and cotton-seed cake 
gained 6.3 ounces; those on wheat. 7.9 ounces; 
on crushed oat.s aud barley, 0.1 ounces, and on 
crushed oats and beaus, 6.2 ouuces daily. The 
experiment is useful to ordinary sheep keepers 
only in as faras it indicates the relative values 
of the various rations. 
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OCCn POTATOES 
\llU AND SEEDS 
\^From the Famous AROOSTOOK. 
Tile great superiori¬ 
ty of true Aroostook 
grown potatoes for 
seed IS AVell known. 
Wherever planted, 
they > I.-Id large crops 
handsome tubers, 
notably tr. r fh>tn dis¬ 
ease. And the short, 
ck season of this 
north-east land 
makes all our seeds 
hardy, productive, 
and early. 
My IL I.CSTRATKI) 
Cat vi.uni k will ho 
ut i i: k k to all 
Write lor it. 
GEORGE W. P. JERRARD. Caribou, Maine 
