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of climate than do others of the fruits. In 
former years, Mr. Hawden says, the peach 
was exclusively grown from the stone, and en¬ 
grafting was not practised; the trees were 
not. only free from disease, but withstood the 
vicissitudes of climate and produced abun¬ 
dant crops, and the life of a peach tree was 
often 50 years; and by cutting back to the 
ground and allowing it to sprout, n much lon¬ 
ger period. But when the nurseryman began 
to prolong the existence of approved varieties 
by budding, not many years elapsed before 
the loss of its original stamina and hardiness 
became apparent, and by 1811< that destructive 
disease, the yellows, crept in, and was very 
soon found contagious. This disease has con¬ 
tinued in the northern sections of the country 
and consequently peach-growing, always pre¬ 
carious, now seems utterly ruined. 
Can the peach be restored? Evidently not 
until the budded trees are thoroughly extir¬ 
pated, root and branch, and we must resort to 
the custom of our ancestors, of growing fruit 
from the seed, which should be procured from 
sources where disease is unknown in any 
form. We may then hope for another period 
of healthy trees and luscious fruit with a rea¬ 
sonable degree of certainty. Many varieties 
of peaches reproduce their like from the pit; 
these fixed strains should 1 m* encouraged, and 
painstaking cultivators could impregnate the 
blossoms with pollen of good sorts and by sav¬ 
ing the stones would increase their chances of 
success in producing now and desirable va¬ 
rieties... 
President T. T. Lyon, of South Haven, Van 
Buren County,Micb.,doubts the relative profit¬ 
ableness of the summer and autumn apples, 
and be therefore names Baldwin, Northern 
Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Golden Russet 
and Stark as most profitable. Baldwin is 
hardy enough, but if omitted for lack of 
hardiness lie would add Hubbardston at the 
foot of the list-,,.,,.,.... 
Waldo F. Brown, of Oxford. Ohio, says, 
in the Albany Cultivator and Country Gentle¬ 
man, that in the future he proposes to sow 
oats as early as possible. The first day that 
the ground cau lie worked, he intends to sow. 
He has been many years reaching this conclu¬ 
sion and has grown some poor crops from late 
sowing... 
Last spring. Mr. Brown says, was back¬ 
ward. He sowed his oats on March 18th and 
had a heavy crop. His next neighbor sowed 
a month later ami the crop was not worth 
harvesting. 
FrvK years ago Mr. Brown bought a disk 
harrow, and later an Acme. He has since put 
in all his oats without plowing and has had 
heavy eropR. He seeds either on corn or 
potato land and finds that he can get the land 
in much better condition than if ho plowed it. 
Tn 1885 ho sowed liis entire crop while the 
ground was still frozen solid below, and only 
three inches had thawed on the surface. The 
oats had yielded nearly 70 bushels to the acre. 
He harrows first with the disk and thou cross- 
barm ws with the Acme—then sows and covers 
with a plunk drag. He is convinced that the 
lighter the covering the better... 
Major AlvORD says he has known a herd 
of horned cuttle to be changed to polls by per¬ 
sistent. removal of incipient horns from the 
heads of the calves. There are two reasons 
for such an occurrence. It. is a well-estab¬ 
lished fact that accidental deformities or 
marks are sometimes transmitted from parent 
to offspring; although the number of such 
cases is extremely small in comparison with 
those in which such accidental blemishes are 
not transmitted. Then again when the horns 
from any cause are prevented from growing, 
the hone which would have gone into them is 
transferred to the top of the skull which is 
considerably more prominent in polled than 
in horned cattle... 
Mr. A. J.Caywood doesn’t Uko Everbearing 
Black caps because the second crop conies 
when there is a rush of other fruit and the 
black-caps will not sell. This ho states iu the 
Orange County Farmer. 
In the same lively journal. Mr. E. J. Brown- 
oil, well-known for the potatoes he has origi¬ 
nated. says that he has given the level culture 
of potatoes a Lair trial beside those hilled up 
and find# the results in favor of level culture, 
“always and every time.” His method is pre¬ 
cisely that which the Rural hit upon years 
ago and 1ms since advocated, viz., trenching, 
covering the seed-pieces with soil, then sowing 
fertilizers, etc. We think that Mr. Brownell 
might well have mentioned the R. N.-Y. in 
this connection since he will do us the justice 
to grant that the origin of this method and its 
popularization may be traced directly and 
squarely to the Rural’s Experiment Grounds. 
Flat cultivation of potatoes and of corn 
has been practiced by some, more or less, for 
many years; but trenchiug, treueh-fertiliziug 
and level culture were first advocated by the 
H. N.-Y. so far as we are aware... 
It is certainly as Mr. Brownell states, more 
trouble to harvest the crop by this method. 
But the objection made by some that the \m- 
tatoes sun-burn more, does not exist in fact 
according to our experience. 
An eleven-foot pole is handy to measure 
small plots of ground. Three lengths make 
two rods, says the Press. That is true. With 
such a measuring stick we may readily lay 
out plots .'18 feet square or one-fortieth of an 
acre...... 
No oil penetrates wood so well as crude pe¬ 
troleum, none is so cheap and none so effec¬ 
tive as a preservative, says the Cultivator. It 
is especially valuable for baskets which occa¬ 
sionally become wet from their contents or by 
exposure to rain. Fill a tub with the oil and 
dip the baskets in it. 
Copper wire is more flexible than any an¬ 
nealed iron wire, and may be used for repair¬ 
ing any tools for which cord is commonly 
employed... 
An authority in the Maine Farmer says that 
a hen that is in thin flesh and improving will 
always lay. Poor, neglected birds never 
will, neither will those over-fat. The great 
study is to keep the hens actively at work, 
healthy and hearty, and this should be accom¬ 
plished without resorting to condition pow¬ 
ders, egg feed, or any forcing material which 
iu the end will surely work injury to the 
flock.... 
Too many agricultural journals, says Mr. 
Cheever, in the N. E. Fanner, have en¬ 
couraged the idea that one could not make a 
mistake in buying pure-bred stock, while the 
truth is that one-half the stock recorded in 
the herd books ought never to have advanced 
beyond the veal stage. The temptation of 
possible high prices has saved thousands of 
animals for breeding purposes that should 
have been condemned to the oveu or the soap 
kettle as early as they could be made fit. 
W hkn merit is recognized as it should lie by 
breeders, it will not injure the character of 
tiie best pure-bred stock, but due credit will 
be given to choice animals, or families of ani¬ 
mals not pure bred... 
The Times of Los Angeles (Cal.) says there 
is more money to be made in growing cabba¬ 
ges than oranges... 
One writer in Orchard and Garden, resid¬ 
ing in Somerset County, N. J., planted some 
pecan nuts in 1840. The body of one of these 
trees is now 151 inches in diameter and about 
60 feet high. It bears every other year. 
D. B. Weir, in the same paper, has knowu 
pecan trees to stand as low a temperature as 
36° below zero (in Marshall Co., Ill.) and to 
bear a second crop of nuts the next summer.. 
The day of horned cattle is gliding swiftly 
by, says the Live Stock Indicator—horns 
must go. . 
Here are some of Puck’s definitions: A 
matter of time—a promissory note. All brok¬ 
en up—New Year's resolutions. A white lio— 
city milk. A bail end—the end of a mule_ 
Mu. O. B. Hadwen, of Worcester for many 
years an extensive breeder ofJeisey cattle, 
recently stated, os we learn by the N. E. Far¬ 
mer, that the time may have gone by for breed¬ 
ing pure breeds. The time is coming he said, 
when cows will be sold on their merits. He 
had been badly disappointed, not to use a 
stronger term, iu the stock he had bought, bas¬ 
ing his expectations on the purity of the 
blood. Helms introduced Guernsey blood into 
his herd, and with such promise of good re¬ 
sults that he is beginning to favor stock hav¬ 
ing a mingling of blood in its veins. He finds 
that the English breeders with a much larger 
experience than wo have had iu this country, 
have for a long while advocated an oc¬ 
casional cross to improve their stock. 
The above journal states that by the use of 
mowing-machines and horse-rakes and a horse 
hay-fork, two boys in Connecticut last summer 
cut, raked and helped to Stow away 100 tons of 
bay, while their father was disabled from work 
by illness. Under such conditions a farmer is 
apt to feel like blossing the man who in¬ 
vents labor-saving machinery. 
Tin* Pcreheron or the Clydesdale colt, says 
Dr. Bowen, of Woodstock, Conn., will, if well 
treated, pay his way on a farm after he is two 
years old. A hundred might not. because the 
farmer would not have work for that number, 
but the farmer that keeps one or two good 
brood mares can find work for one or two 
three-year-old colts. Better feed out the hay 
at home than sell it to the cities.. 
Peter Henderson & Co. offer, in their 
catalogue for this year, a new rose culled 
“Dinsmore.” It is claimed that this rose is 
ever-blooming and yet “entirely hardy.” It 
was raised by Mr. Geo. Wainright, of New 
Jersey, it is said to bo “richly fragrant, of 
good form and size, of a rich shade of crimson 
and unequaled in the profusion of its bloom¬ 
ing.” ... 
Care for the Children 
Children feel the debility of the changing sea* 
*8oii8, even more than adults, and they become 
cross, peevish and uncontrollable. The blood 
should be cleansed and the system Invigorated 
by tbo use ot Hood's Sarsaparilla, Give It a trial. 
” Last spring my two children were vaccinated. 
Soon after, they broke all out with running sores, 
so dreadful I thought I should lose them. Hood's 
Sarsaparilla cured them completely, and they 
have been trial thy ever since. I do feel that 
Hood's Sarsaparilla saved my children to me.” 
Mas. C. L. Thompson, West Warren, Mass. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1 ; six for §5. Made 
only by <J. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
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37 En.t 19th Street. New York City. 
—I HAVE 
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$3T Catalogue free. .Mention this paper. 
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POTATO last Season, yielding at the rate of 
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Send postal to originator for New Potato Cata¬ 
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E. D. COPI, Clifton Springs, N. Y. 
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_ Beauty Tomato and Chart In’s 
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