CORRESPONDENTS’ VIEWS. 
Cast summer somebody wrote to the Ru¬ 
ral about Morgan horses. He wondered 
what had become of them, and thought they 
must bo all gone, as the blood was all on one 
si le. I know there are some good ones still 
left. We have a stallion here thattracas back 
to Justin Morgan. I have used him two sea¬ 
sons and have a colt eight mouths old that is 
hard to beat. I hope to have a mate for him 
in May. The mother is dark brown, nearly 
hi hands high and weighs about 1,050, I re¬ 
member »s a boy seeiug Green Mountain Bull 
and Plying Morgan at the Vermont Fairs. 
This colt of mine shows the same style, color 
and action as 1 remember in them. s. h. c. 
Keesville, N. V. 
1 ske that the farm papers mostly advise 
farmers to save all the old bones they can pick 
up and reduce them. Putting bones into a box 
with unleaehed ashes and keeping them wet 
reads like an easy way to make a good fertil- 
iz t, hut it doesn’t work so well with me. 
From my experience, I am inclined to think 
that- Dr. Hoskins is right iu burning bones as 
the cheapest ami easiest way to get the good 
out of them. I wish fanners who have re¬ 
duced bones with ashes—if there are any such 
—would toll us how long it, took to do it. I 
naver could make it pay, but if others have 
done it, I wautto know how. ,j. p. k. 
Hillsdale Co., Mich. 
\Vk should have a duty and further restric¬ 
tions ou animals imported for breeding pur¬ 
poses, This I claim for the following reasons. 
1 . We now have foundation stock enough, of 
the best breeds. 2 . While we import stock we 
also import all the stock diseases of Europe. 
We have diseases enough of our own now, M. 
There is too much speculation in the business 
of importing. Most of the importers care more 
for the money than they do for the improve¬ 
ment of the breed. 4. Novelty stock attracts 
I co n really good and tried stock, like Short¬ 
horns ,to the disadvantage of old breeders. 5. 
The mixing up of so many strains will result 
iu a mongrel breed, much like the natives. 
Carlton, Pa j. a. h. 
People are talking about yields of pota¬ 
toes. Here is mine: From six acres of ground 
planted to Late Hebron, L dug l,fifiO bushels, 
1,850 of them large enough for market. They 
were planted in hills .82 inches apart each way, 
and lulled up with shovel plow. The land was 
soil with 15 loads of stable manure, spread in 
winter uud plowed under in the spring. No 
other fertilizer was used. e. d. p. 
Hermitage, N. Y. 
My Langshans are like the Rural’s in col¬ 
or, but there the resemblance ends. Mine are 
short-logged and squarely built. Pullets 
hatched last April will weigh from five to six 
pounds and roosters of the same age seven to 
eight jrounds. I have 14 April pullets. About, 
the first of September they began to lay, and 
by t he oud of the year had laid 50 dozen eggs. 
They went to the crib uud hog pen and picked 
up all the whole corn they wanted. That was 
all the feeding they had. c. c. k. 
Rock, Kansas. 
1 am after information ou the wire-worm 
question too. I plowed up last spring 17 
acres of old sod aud planted corn and sowed 
peas on it. When we plowed it up in the 
fall we fouud lots of wire worms. I wish some¬ 
body could toll us how to fix the seed so these 
worms will not eat up the oats that 1 sow upon 
the land. C. H. H. 
Norwich, Ontario. 
1 notice that some people ask how leaves 
can be made to stay where you put them in 
the “valley mulching” of potatoes. This is 
the way 1 treat them. I rake them into large 
heaps aud let them decay for a year aud use 
them the second year as a mulch aud they 
do well. e. h. c. 
Euclid, Ohio. 
Kerosene on Trees.— On page 74 of the 
Rural you speak of using kerosene ou apple 
trees. Bettor let it entirely alone. A tree 
agent told a man in this town a few years 
since, that it would kill the borers and the 
man tried it on one tree. A neighbor hearing 
of it applied it. to his whole orchard—a tine, 
young orchard just commenced bearing—and 
it killed every tree it was applied to. There 
are safer aud better washes for trees, such ns 
soap or weak lye diluted with water j. r. c. 
Angelica, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y. If it is used as an emulsion as fre¬ 
quently described by Professors Riley and 
Cook aud ourselves in these columns, there is 
no danger of injuring the trees with kerosene. 
The eiuulsiou, however, must be thorough. 
Free kerosene, that is, kerosene not thoroughly 
incorporated with the soap-suds or milk is 
sure to harm the tree. 
Every little while we hear of farmers being 
swindled at an old, old game. They sign their 
names to some paper or petition, and the first 
they know it turns up as a note to be paid. 
This thing ought to be stopped. At our far- 
mers’clubwe passed a resolution informing our 
Representative that we expected him to sup¬ 
port any measure which should kill off swind¬ 
lers. We demand that any persou who offers 
n note for sale, who shall make a false or 
fraudulent statement, or give any deceiving 
answer regarding the origin of such note, shall 
be considered guilty of a crime and rendered 
liable to a term in the penitentiary. We pro¬ 
pose to discuss the “Washington Seed Store” at 
our next meeting. r. w. k. 
Highland. Ills. 
R. N.-Y.—Every farmers’ club in the coun¬ 
try should discuss the “Washington Seed 
Store” and talk it out of the world. 
f HAVE a plan of my own that I menu to 
practice on my raspberries and blackberries 
this spring. I lost 1,000 quarts of Cuthberts 
by keepiug the ground clean and letting the 
vines get too near the ground. My soil is rich 
and it is impossible to keep the weeds down in 
picking time. I propose to sow oats between 
the rows and plauts, mow when we come to 
pick and either feed the hay or let. it stay un¬ 
der the plants for a mulch. I tried it on a 
small scale last year, and it worked well. I 
sowed the oats thickly and they kept all 
weeds down. We could easily mow them, 
and they kept the berries clean and saved 
much labor after picking. 1 don't see that 
the oats will take any more from the soil than 
the weeds would. a. l. herriok. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
Mr. Gregory tolls us that after drying some 
fresh horse manure he could find nothing but 
some fragments of hay and a slight color. 
But we can't deceive nuture by chopping up 
hay and coloring It a little. It pays to make 
a study of manures. A chemist may toll what 
there is in a manure, but he can't tell how to 
go to work to change the plant-food into a 
marketable product without seeiug tin- soil 
and the way the manure is handled. This a 
fanner can do. and oftentimes he comes 
nearer the real value than the chemist, ever 
could. ,r. p. 
Kingston, N. J. 
I had tiie same trouble with my Jewel 
Strawberries that others have spoken of. My 
plants were put out in a rich sandy loam, that 
is always moist, but most of them failed to 
start a single runner. bert tiet. 
San Juan Co.. W. T. 
As far as political influence is concerned, 
the farmer doesn't care a cent for the seeds 
sent out by the Washington Seed Store. They 
seldom grow and if they do they are gener¬ 
ally worthless. I have had them myself aud 
know it to lie so. .?, r, c. 
Angelica, N, Y. 
Do not put yourself out by fancying Canada 
wishes to join the U. S. A few might, and of 
such a character that they would not be missed, 
and you are welcome to have such ou your 
list. No; Canada is happy and in spite of a 
few fish that come within the limit, I think 
both countries can rise superior to a little 
buncombe, and remain friends as all nations 
should. C. H. 
Delaware, Canada. 
The picture you gave of Gros d’ Agen 
Plum last fall, brought letters from every¬ 
where. We did not care so much about sell¬ 
ing stock as to show what this part of the 
country can produce. When we get ready to 
sell, readers will And our “ad” iu the Rural. 
This fruit is not all our folks can show. We 
have others here that have got to be recog¬ 
nized some day. Our Territory is bound to 
come to the front, and iu spite of political 
rascals at Washington, the State of Washing¬ 
ton will be with you before you know it. It’s 
coming, sure. J. m. ogle. 
Washington Ter. 
Some people have trouble iu getting a cow 
to “clean" properly after calving. My plan 
has never failed with me. When the calf is 
satisfied with his first meal, 1 milk almut a 
quart of milk from the cow aud stir into it a 
teaspoonful of gunpowder which has beeu 
well pulverized. L’ul this mixture before the 
cow and she will lick the pail out clean aud iu 
a few minutes the after-birth will surely pass 
This works like a charm with me. When the 
calf is weak or chilled, I always help it to stand 
up, and see that it sucks the cow. 
Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. a. g. k. 
A Rural correspondent writing from the 
southern part of this State, says that plowing 
was done during Christmas week. Here, no 
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