THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKIft. 
£ 1 )t ijerx15m.au. 
PRIZE-WINNING KERRIES. 
The hardy little Kerries, which, in propor¬ 
tion to their size and the amount of care and 
feed they require, are among the best dairy 
cows in the world, have been attracting an 
unusually liberal share of public attention in 
the United Kingdom of late. It may be that 
this is due in part to the fact that the Kerry 
is a strictly Irish breed, and matters strictly 
Irish have been engrossing an uncommonly 
generous amount of British attention of re¬ 
cent years. Then again, so much has been 
said of English, Scotch and Continental 
breeds of cattle in the late issues of the agri¬ 
cultural press that it is rather likely editors 
find a welcome variation in discussing the 
merits of a race which until recent times was 
little known beyond the bleak mountainous 
region ou t he western outskirts of the Old 
World, to which it was almost exclusively 
confiued. Whether the recent prominence of 
the breed is due to its intrinsic merits, or to 
either or both of the above mentioned reasons, 
or to all three causes, certain it is that within 
the last few years it has found an unusually 
conspicuous place in the agricultural papers 
of Great Britain. In the Rural of January 8, 
we gave a pretty full history of the race, and 
at Fig. 177, we present likenesses 
of two fine specimens of prize¬ 
winners of the breed, re-engraved 
from the London Live Stock Jour¬ 
nal. They are the property of Mr. 
James Robertson, of Malhide, 
County Dublin. Nectarine, in the 
background, was dropped in Au¬ 
gust, 1879, and began her career 
at the Royal Dublin Society’s 
show, in 1881, when she obtained 
first prize. Siuce then she has been 
well known as a prize-winner at 
the Royal Trish Shows. Vernal, in 
the foreground, wns calved in 1882, 
and obtained the first prize as a 
heifer at the Royal Agricultural 
Society's Show at Londonderry, 
and was second at the Royal Dub¬ 
lin Society’s Dairy Show. Both 
are considered excellent specimens 
of the breed. 
-o- 
Caj.k Feeders are praised by 
many. I do not. find them so val¬ 
uable. I do not have so much 
trouble in teaching calves to drink 
as many claim they do. I let a 
calf suck the cow just, once, then 
take it away and with very little 
trouble teach it to driuk. I think 
it is more trouble to clean out a 
feeder twice a day for several months than 
it is to teach the calf to drink. Then again, 
it is almost impossible to feed meal and bran in 
one of these feeders. The meal settles at the 
bottom and clogs up the teat. I can raise 
calves with less work by teaching them to 
dri nk out of a pail. Let us hear from other 
farmers. One of the most valuable features 
of the Rural is that it allows all sides of the 
question to be stated in short simple language. 
Let us have the facts on this calf feeder ques¬ 
tion. H. B. G. 
Morris Co., N. J. 
^UsaUanrcms. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Grasses of North America, by W. J. 
Beal, M. A , M. Sc., Ph. D., Professor of Bot¬ 
any and Forestry in the Michigan (Lansing) 
Agricultural College. Price 82.50, Published 
by the author.—The work is in two volumes, 
aud the second Volume is in preparation. 
Volume I. has 4*>7 pages j iuchos), 
with many carefully drawn illustrations. 
The first chapter trouts of the “structure, 
form and development of the grasses.” The 
second of the “i>ower of motion in plants.” 
The third of “plant growth.” The fourth of 
“classifying, naming, describing, collecting, 
studying plaute,” The fifth of “native graz¬ 
ing lands.” The sixth of “grasses for cultiva¬ 
tion.” The seventh of “early attempts to 
cultivate grasses.” Thu eighth of “testing 
seeds; some common weeds.” The ninth of 
“grasses for pastures aud meadows.” The 
10th of “preparation of the soil aud seeding.” 
The llth Of “care of grass lands.” The I2ch 
of “making hay.” The 18th “look the world 
over for better grasses and improve those we 
now have.” The 14th of “grasses for the 
lawu, the garden and for decoration.” The 
loth of the “pulse or pea family.” The 10th 
of “the enemies of grasses and clovers.” The 
17th of “the fungi of forage plants.” Then 
follow “Debris, Bibliography and Index. ’ 
Thanks first for the index, which is good and 
full; and thanks for the book itself, which, 
we fancy, will be readily accepted as by far 
the best of its kind. 
Prof. Beal may be said to have been prepar¬ 
ing this work for the best part of his life, 
though it has taken definite shape only with¬ 
in the past six or seven years. His own long- 
continued experimental work at the college 
with grasses lias enabled him to furnish a deal 
of practical information, while he seems to 
have studied and quoted from every good 
authority with that judgment and caution 
which characterize the man. If an author 
had set himself to work, as a first considera¬ 
tion, to write a book of this kind in the sim¬ 
plest, straightest, shortest manner, he could 
scarcely have succeeded better. It is senten¬ 
tious throughout and tells in the most matter- 
of-fact way whatever the author knows or has 
gleaned from others regarding the subjects 
considered. In the preface Prof. Beal says: 
“It is hoped that the farmer or general reader, 
who has never studied botany, will find much 
to interest aud help him; while, it is believed, 
the agricultural student will find still more.” 
This is true enough. We commend the work 
to every farmer, to the officers of agricultural 
experiment stations, and as a class book to be 
used in our agricultural colleges. 
Syracuse Plows. —Circular and almanac 
from the Syracuse Chilled Plow Company, 
Syracuse N. Y.—The excelleut implements 
made by this reliable company are well des¬ 
cribed and illustrated. It is claimed that the 
Syracuse chilled plow is easier for the plow- 
uiau. aud easier for the team than any other, 
aud the most economical plow on the market. 
The Syracuse Sulky plow is meeting with 
much favor. It works well iu all land where 
a haud plow will work. The Hillside Sulky 
plow is an admirable implement for plowing 
hillside land. Vineyard and garden plows 
with both wood and steel beams are offered, 
as well as wood frame cultivators and shovel 
plows. The Syracuse road scraper is a good 
implement. Send for the catalogue. 
Wrought and Malleable Iron Fencing. 
—Catalogue from Mast, Foos & Co., Spring- 
field, Ohio.—This fence embraces some new, 
novel aud beautiful designs never before used 
in iron fencing. Smaller fences for erestiugs, 
railings, verandas, window guards, etc., are 
provided. There are lOspecial features which 
render the buckeye superior to other iron 
fences. These features are elaborated in this 
pamphlet, which should be studied by all who 
desire fencing of this description. Besides 
this fencing, Mast, Foos Cc Co. offer iron Tur¬ 
bine Windmills, Buckeye Lawu Mowers, 
Buckeye Force Pumps, Vanes, etc., etc., all 
of excelleut materials. 
Manual of Onondaga Salt. —Catalogue 
from the American Dairy Salt Co. (L.), Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y.—This excellent pamphlet coutaius 
much interesting matter. Here we have his¬ 
tory .chemistry,hygiene and political economy. 
Dairymen will be greatly interested iu the 
pamphlet. This salt has beau praised with¬ 
out stint by some of our leading dairymen. 
Prof. L. B. Arnold is quoted as sayiug that 
after years of critical and extensive observa¬ 
tion he finds uo salt better than the Factory 
Filled salt manufactured at Syracuse. Hiram 
Smith, the celebrated Western dairyman, 
says he considers the American Dairy salt 
fully equal to the best foreign salt. XV e com¬ 
mend the pamphlet to all our farmer friends. 
Bartlett & Dow, Lowell, Mass.—An illus¬ 
trated catalogue of vegetable and flower seeds, 
bulbs, farm implements. Agents for the 
Mapes’ fertilizers. Among specialties are 
Hammond’s Slug-shot, Waters’s improved 
tree pruner, poultry netting, ice cream freez¬ 
ers, corn planters, lawn mowers, coolers, 
creamers, milking tubas, wind-mills, force 
pumps, plows, harrows, etc. The new potato, 
Hampden Beauty, is offered as a fine yielder, 
a good keeper and unsurpassed as a fine cook¬ 
ing potato. It has “a smooth, white skin, 
somewhat russeted, few eyes, and is as early 
as the Beauty of Hebron ” The catalogue 
will be mailed free to all Rural applicants. 
Rossie Iron Ore Pain<f— Circular from 
the Rossie Iron Ore Paint Co., Ogdensburg, 
N. Y.—The color of this excellent paiut is en¬ 
tirely natural and has not been changed by 
heat or artificial means. It is a pure oxide of 
ii’on. When placed upon buildings, imple¬ 
ments, etc , it successfully resists all kinds of 
weather. Ou roofs it gives protection against 
sparks or burning cinders. It will stop leaky 
roofs and Ls as good as red lead for making 
joints for steam or gas pipes. In short, it Ls a 
durable and economical metallic paint which 
will be sure to please all who try it. 
Horse Breeding Recollections, by Count 
Lehudorff (Porter & Coates, Philadelphia Pa.), 
will interest all horsemen.—Count Lehndorff 
is the manager of the government stud of 
Germany. He has evidently made a thorough 
study of horse breeding, aud in this volume 
gives the results of many years of careful ob¬ 
servation, The agricultural press has for 
| years lifted its voice against scrub cattle. 
There has beeu less said about scrub horses, 
aud yet the country is full of them. The 
book under consideration is well printed and 
illustrated aud will prove serviceable to all 
horse breeders. 
Lower Meriox Lilies and other Poems; 
by Margaret B. Harvey, published by the 
J. B, Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
price #1.—This is a very handsome volume of 
129 pages, containing 89 poems of various 
lengths, by Miss Harvey, with whom many 
of our readers are well acquainted as a 
valued contributor for many years to 
the Rural New-Yorker. The volume 
takes its name from the first aud longest 
of the poems. Condensation renders parts 
of some of the longer poems a trifle ob¬ 
scure to the ordinary reader ou first perusal: 
but they will all repay for a second reading, 
and the shorter poems are lucid, graceful and 
touching. The work is elegantly bound in 
embossed cloth, and printed iu large type on 
finely calendered taper. It would be a hand¬ 
some present, and we can heartily recommend 
it to our readers, 
Garfield’s “The American” Hay Ted¬ 
der —Circular from the Ames Plow Com¬ 
pany, 53 Beekuiau St., New York.—The ted¬ 
der is an implement that few large farmers 
think of doiug without. It tosses and spreads 
open the hay, shaking out every little whisp, 
leaving it in the best condition for the sun 
and air to cure it. By the use of this imple¬ 
ment all extra help is dispensed with. The 
hay is cured in better shape than it ever can 
be when hand work aloue is employed in 
turning and spreading. “The American ' 
tedder is one of the best made. Send for the 
circular. 
Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries.— 
Catalogue from the managers of the above 
concern, Huntsville, Alabama.—An excellent 
list of pears, peaches, plums, cherries, quinces, 
grapes, strawberries, etc. We note illustra¬ 
tions of Yellow Transparent Apple, Le Con fc e, 
and Kieffer Pears, K jlsey’s J.ip.vi Pii u, 
Primus Simonii. The list of apples is very 
full indeed. XV. F. Heikes is manager of the 
nurseries. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. 
Among a lot of other bright things a writer 
in the XVashington Post asks how about the 
big rush hat—that conventional bit of uncon- 
ventionaiity—that elaborate piece of simplic¬ 
ity that has bung about my lady’s sitting-room 
for a year or more doing nothing that might 
be expected of a hat, and everything that one 
would not think of imposing on it i Is it weary 
of silks and worsteds and boudoir knicknacks 
and ready to apply for a new line of occupa¬ 
tion t It is possible if one has a piece of ribbon, 
to hang that hat from an easel, from the cor¬ 
ner of a bookcase, from a bracket, anywhere, 
with a bottle in the doubled-up interior, and a 
tulip or jonquil in the bottle. It would take 
a peculiar mental constitution to advise 
confiding womanhood actually to adopt such 
aline of procedure; for the hat, the bottle and 
the jonquil are all better somewhere else; but 
such is the latest drawing-room wrinkle, and 
to the hat, at least, after “fancy” work the 
posy may be something of a relief. 
Has the young woman painted on every ob¬ 
ject paintable? Verily, she has. 
Her brush has spared them not— 
no, not one. The single thing un- 
paintable, against which she lifted 
not her hand, was—it is notlouger 
—lace. This morning did she 
spread her colors over that, also. 
That which she will bring about 
is, once, a pretty bit of drapery 
or household decoration—ninety- 
nine times a successful riddance 
of her time. The hands of the 
young woman needs must be full— 
if not of the useful, of that which 
mortal wishes not. Truly, the 
young woman is industrious. Does 
she find in that the virtue’s own 
reward? 
The same writer says it is a curi¬ 
ous fact that just as we are doing 
our best to get sewing into the 
public schools, Mexico is working 
eveu harder to get it out. The 
Mexican seuorita is taught to em¬ 
broider a yellow-legged saint, with 
purple hair, oa fine linen, his hand 
resting on the peak of a crimson 
mountain while his head is among 
the branches of a blue tree. To 
get this monstrosity out of the 
class-room, and to get geography 
and arithmetic into it, is just now 
the educator’s chief end and aim. 
The order of the King's Daughters originat¬ 
ed in New York a year or so ago, I think, and 
it has grown and multiplied until it includes 
to day some hundreds of the Murray Hill girls 
and other hundreds of the tenement district 
girls. Outside the city it has spread across the 
river to Brooklyn, and out of the State to the 
students at Smith College, and the residents of 
half of the summer resorts where Fifth Ave- 
uue disperses itself in July. The Kiug’s 
Daughters have uever cumbered themselves 
with a constitution or by-laws, and their or¬ 
ganization, so far as they have any at all. is 
after the fashion of Edward Everett Hale’s 
Ten Times One clubs, with Henry X\ r adsworth's 
four mottoes, “Look up and not down, out 
and not in, forward and not back, and 
lend a hand.” The King’s Daughters wear the 
Maltese cross, lettered L H. N,, and there are 
tens that teach working girls to sew and to 
cook, tens that sing iu the hospitals, tens that 
visit sick children, tens that pledge themselves 
to say uo ill-natured things of their neighbors, 
and tens that interest themselves in almost 
every branch of philanthropic work in the big 
city. Each group marks out its programme 
for itself, and the only bond of union is the 
royal purple ribbon and the cross, “In His 
Name.” 
SOME XVAYS AND THINGS AT THE 
RURAL GROUNDS. 
ALICE BROWN. 
Indoors school is just dismissed for the 
day. Travie has put away his slate with the 
copy, “Egypt is in Africa” that he has beeu 
writing, anil is busy uow painting some little 
boats. Cerise has gone for a ride on Ruby’s 
back. But I am still pulling, mentally, at the 
tangle of school perplexities. 
Au enthusiasm for study makes a pleasure 
of what without it is a dreaded duty. To 
awaken enthusiasm aud inspire a real love for 
study in his pupils is the best return a teacher 
| can’receive for Jiis work. How to ,do this is 
J theiquestiou^he^wiU A anxiously.ask£over|and 
KERRY CATTLE. Fig. 177. 
