WHEN YOU BUY A BUGGY 
BE SURE IT HAS THE 
WHEEL 
THE STRONGEST AND BEST WHEEL MADE 
swindle of New York. 1 know some people 
who would be better off if they had not dealt 
with that firm. A. s. 
K. N.-Y-Tho “marriage insurance” swindle 
has been denounced several times by the Eye- 
Opener. Tt isof the same stripe as the “grave¬ 
yard” insurance humbug. Laws have been 
passed in several of the States making both 
illegal, and providing punishment for those 
who engage in them. To the wise a word is 
enough; a sermon would be wasted on the 
foolish. 
of Trade. The cultivation of politics can be 
carried on without saddling its with any such 
sham. Cartoon it down. Devote the R. N.- 
Y. more and more to rigid investigation and 
the science of agriculture. Teach the people 
that, what we need is intelligent application of 
industry. Strengthen and encourage the ag¬ 
ricultural colleges. They are the right 
things; only as yet they are not complete in 
development. The farmers are most of all in 
need of general and broad information on the 
progress of horticulture and agriculture. 
Any rascal of a peddler can swindle them with 
a book full of pictures of imaginary fruits. 
In this county alone I estimate that the an¬ 
nual loss to farmers from not knowing any¬ 
thing about trees, plants, fruits, berries, etc., 
and yet buying on the representations of 
scamps, is $15,000. In New York State the 
yearly loss is not less than ($500,000, I mean 
the actual loss from the. purchase of worthless 
trash at four or live times the price of valua¬ 
ble stock bought of legitimate dealers. 
The work of enlightening has gone on 
grandly; but by whom has it been done ? The 
agricultural colleges, the agricultural press 
and the honest nurserymen. These last flood 
the land every spring with catalogues that are 
a growing marvel for the amount of valuable 
information they contain. But. the most we 
get from Washington is—seeds—and seeds— 
and polities. e. p. powell. 
Oneida, Co. N. Y. 
I HAVE an acre of the Deihl-Mediterrauean 
Wheat from the Rural’s distribution. 
It looks much better than the Fultz The first 
year I got eight pounds and from that 92 
pounds, which produced this acre. c. a. l. 
C'ochrauton, l’a. 
The different opinions of a new fruit ex¬ 
pressed by good men are often perplexing. With 
some it is a humbug, others strongly indorse 
it. My experience with fruits prompts me to 
be very charitable in such eases. Take the Marl¬ 
boro Raspberry. It seems to be a success ou the 
Hudson River and in many other places; but 
here it does not promise well. I believe that 
raspberries, like the Antwerp, that have 
foreign blood in them, will succeed only in 
localities where their foliage will stnnd the 
climate. I would likoto hear more about tho 
Rancocas. 1 think it is going to do here, and 
if as early ns represented, will fill a gap in the 
market. Nothing beats the Cutbbert with us, 
hut it is somewhat late. t. a. 
St. Joseph, Mich. 
PRAISE FOR thk sicicos.—The seeds received 
from the Agricultural Department are good, 
clean, and unmixed, and they always grow if 
treated rightly, and are always thankfully 
received by me and 20 others, whose names I 
might mention. c. M. r. 
Parachute, Colorado, 
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The first consists of discharging water upou 
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numerous small rivulets which spread aud lose 
themselves iu a broad layer that waters the 
soil; the second, by stopping the gate of the 
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gathered to the depth of a few iuehes, when it 
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on each only long enough to saturate the soil, 
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may lie irrigated in succession, one after the 
other for u night, or a day and night, as the 
cose may be, aud when the supply of water is 
limited. In the first case the surface of the 
meadow would appear somewhat as shown 
in Fig. 153. The slope is divided into sections 
i tried Mr. Woodward’s plan of shearing 
lambs last winter. My neighbors laughed at 
me aud said the lambs would surely die. 1 
said T’d try it anyway. To-day these shorn 
lambs are the best iu the lot. I prefer South 
Down bucks for raising lambs for the New 
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POLITICAL FARMING, 
There is uo doubt about the telling quality 
and the ti-uth implied in tho Rural’s cartoon 
on the Agricultural Seed Bureau in tho Ru¬ 
ral of March 12. But do you go deep 
enough? What has tho Department ever 
amounted to? AVhat has it done* of common- 
sense value? .The Rural New-'Yorker’s ex¬ 
periments aud reports are incomparably more 
valuable than all tho gush that conies from 
Commissioners of the ruling Order, To say 
that their speeches on farm topics are windy 
would be to put it mildly. Ouo, at least, of 
the number I have known, who was a firm be¬ 
liever in the moon theory with regard to 
planting. His average intelligence was of 
the same sort. The whole affair is a system 
of political farming. They grow politics suc¬ 
cessfully and disseminate polities as freely as 
they disseminate seeds— equally to the advan¬ 
tage of the farmer. 
How will il be gith the new Cabinet office? 
Already Column and Hatch are by the ears, 
ami others are jumping In to secure the posi¬ 
tion on the score of political influence aud 
ability to run the office fur tho party. How 
happens it that such men us wo would select 
to place ut the head of our agricultural col- 
legs are not considered available? The plain 
reason is that Dr. Sturtovaut does not grow 
politics at Geneva; Prof. Rudd grows no poli¬ 
tics In Iowa; Caldwell is at work on other 
crops at Ithaca. We don’t need a Cabinet 
Oflicer who can- make stump speeches, 
grow impossible silk-worms, plant tea 
and coffee in Georgia, instruct us on the 
value of mad-stones, aud dig artichokes 
in the full of tho ntoou. What we do 
want at Washington is a farmers’ univer- 
sity, a branch of the Smithsonian Institute; 
thoroughly scientific and therefore thorough¬ 
ly practical—a university that will not sow 
any politics, or grow auy politics or buy votes 
with buggy peas uud fraudulent oats. By a 
university 1 do not mean another college at 
all. Wo have them in the States and there they 
ought to do their work; but I mean a Depart¬ 
ment of the Smithsonian devoted to inves¬ 
tigations strictly in the interests of agricul¬ 
ture its there is a Bureau of Entomology, etc. 
15 y what possible logic can farmers persuade 
themselves they can be benefited by a Cabinet 
( fillcer? The same reasoning would require a 
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by furrows in which the water flowing from 
the main channel at the top of the slope, is 
collected and re distributed. This prevents 
danger of tho water gathering force in its 
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