Concord, for black; Lady, Martha, Hayes, 
Pocklington, for white; Brighton, Delaware, 
Vergennes and Ulster, for red. 
Peaches in Succession.— Wilder, Early 
Louise, Mountain Rose, Foster, Oldmixon, 
Stump the World, Crawford’s Late. 
Peaks. —Summer Doyen ittqGiffard, Clapp’s, 
Bartlett, Boussock, Sheldon, Howell, Ononda¬ 
ga, Coinice, Anjou, Lawrence, Dana’s Hovey. 
APPLES. —Yellow Transparent, Primate, 
Red Astraelian, Oravenstein, Fall Pippin 
Fameuse, Hubbardston, Rhode Island Green¬ 
ing, Baldwin, Roxbury Russet, American 
Golden Russet, Sweet Bough, Pound, Tal- 
man and Lady’s Sweet; crabs, Montreal, 
Hyslop. 
Plums. —Reinc Claude (now called Bavay’s 
Green Gage), Imperial Gage, Pond’s Seedling, 
Lombard, Smith’s Orleans, Quackcnboss, Law¬ 
rence, Favorite, Shropshire, Damson. 
Cherries. —Gov. Wood, Downer’s Late, for 
red; Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, Bigar- 
renu, Coe’s Transparent, Early Richmond, 
Montmorency Ordinaire. 
Currants. —White Grape, La Versaillaise, 
Cherry, Fay. 
Hardy Mulberry.— New American. 
Quinces. —Orange, Champion, Meeeli’s. 
For one fall apple, Gravensticn; for two 
winter apples, Rhode Island Greening and 
Baldwin; for one spring apple, ltoxbury Rus¬ 
set; for one fall pear, Bartlett; for one win¬ 
ter, Anjou. For a strong border at the south 
wall of a building, plant the Catawba Grape 
aud Isabella, as they keep well into winter 
and are of excellent quality. 
Moore’s Arctic Plum.—T he N. E. Home¬ 
stead prints an article setting forth the merits 
of this plum and comments as follows; 
•‘The Rural New-Yorker printed a cut, 
from Mr. Sharp’s catalogue, of a branch of 
this plum with the fruit, and because the 
fruit was so numerous, denounced the variety 
and Mr. Sharp as frauds. Experience is 
proving the Arctic; to ba one of the very best 
plums for the geuoral market, and extraor¬ 
dinarily prolific. We have ourselves seen it 
bearing much more heavily than it was pic¬ 
tured iu the Rural, and Friend Carman 
should make honorable amends to Mr. Sharp 
for the injustice done to him.’’ 
We are only too glad to make amends when 
we have done injustice. The cut in question 
was published on page 657 of 1884. We did 
not denounce the variety as a fraud, hut the 
cut. We said of the plum that it was a very 
fair, smallish plum, neither very uew nor any 
better than a score of others of about the same 
size nr season. We also said that it was not 
* ‘curcuBo-proof,” as claimed. We condemned 
the cut us ignoring nature entirely. The 
stems of the plums were shown us growing 
directly out of the main branch wi thout spurs, 
buds or loaves. The price charged was #2.00 
for each tree. Kllwanger Ac Barry’s cata. 
loguc, issued a few months later, gives the 
price as 75 cents. We are glad to make the 
fact known that the “Arctic is proving to bo 
one of the very best plums for the general 
market and extraordinarily prolific.” We 
cannot see that our main charges, viz., that 
the cut was au absurd picture, that the plum 
is not cureulio-proof aud that the price was 
too high, need any modification. 
POINTERS. 
Accord i no to Real’s book of grasses, Prof. 
Win. Brown, of Ontario, Canada, prefers for 
rotatiou, hay and pasture, to sow 15 pounds 
of grass and eight pounds of clover seed per 
acre... . ... 
Danjel Batchelor, of N. Y., recommends 
a bushel and a half of Orchard Grass aud 
half a bushel of Tall Oat Grass, A heavy but 
not wet clay loam devoted to meadow, should 
be sown with Timothy, Tied Top, Fowl Mea¬ 
dow, Rough-stalked Meadow, and Italian Rye 
Grast at. the rate of about six pounds of each 
to the acre in a mixture. To this may he 
added three pounds of medium clover. 
For a wet, peaty, black soil. Rough-stalked 
Meadow, six pounds; Red Top, eight pounds; 
Meadow Fox tail, four pounds; and Alsilce, 
six pounds, would be a good mixture per acre. 
For land much shaded the following mix¬ 
ture is excellent; One bushel of Chvburd 
Grass, one ol' Meadow Out Grass, and five or 
six pounds of Wood Meadow Grass to the 
acre....... 
Prok, Beal quotes a. W. Cheovor as 
roccommending the following for New Eng¬ 
land: Timothy, sown alone, a bushel of seed 
is not too much. Of Red-Top sow at least two 
John J. Thomas says that the most rapid 
way of obtaining a grass crop is to sow the 
grass seed alone without any grain. If done 
early in the spring, on clean, well-prepared 
ground, we may get a cut of hay the same 
year, usually about two-thirds of a full 
crop, aud a heavy one the second year. It will 
make a vast difference whether we sow plenty 
of seed or only a small quantity... .... 
Professor. E. M. Shelton, of Kansas, ad¬ 
vised, years ago, in the R. N.-Y., to sow one 
bushel each to t he acre of Orchard Grass and 
Kentucky Blue for pasturage, to which six or 
eight quarts of medium Red Clover might be 
added....... 
Professor Geo. E. Morrow, of Illinois, 
says that on the prairie soils heavy seeding has 
not been found necessary. It is aimed to sow 
a bushel of Timothy seed to four or five acres, 
with a bushel of clover seed to eight or ten 
acres. When clover is sown alone, he would 
sow about one peck per acre. 
WHETHER it. will pay to give a farmer’s hoy 
a collegiate education or not depends upon 
the boy, says Professor Roberts of Cornell. 
It will not pay to give a 50-eeut boy a #500 ed¬ 
ucation.......". 
A writer in the Kansas Farmer, quoted by 
the Weekly Press, wishes that his brother 
farmers would adopt his creed, viz.; That veg¬ 
etables are better than drugs. Spinach has a 
direct effect upon complaints of the kidneys. 
The common dandelion, used as greens, is ex¬ 
cellent for the same trouble Asparagus pur¬ 
ifies the blood, Celery acts upon the nervous 
system. Tomatoes act upon the liver; 
beets and turnips are excellent appetizers. 
Lettuce and cucumbers are cooling in their ef¬ 
fects upon the system. Red onions are an ex¬ 
cellent diuretic. White onions eaten raw are 
recommended as a remedy for insomnia. 
Raw or cooked they are a splendid tonic. 
Farmers, plant a garden, and plant it now’.. 
Clover, after all, is a sort of rich man’s 
friend. It certainly is true that clover will 
not grow upon poor land. It will make a fine 
crop on rich soil, but refuse to “catch” where 
the poor fanner most desires it. For keeping 
good aud fertile laud in fine condition nothing 
surpasses clover, says H. Rtewart. “To him 
that hath shall be given” applies to such laud, 
but to the poor farm the reverse applies...... 
To the question, “what may be added to fish 
and potash to make it a more complete fertil¬ 
izer for rye which has suffered from waut of 
stiffness in the straw?” Prof S, W. Johnson 
answers: “Try lime in some form—oyster 
shell screenings or cheap lime of any kind—20 
or 30 bushels to the acre may be used. Old 
wall plaster or common mortar crushed, or 
leached ashes, which are mostly carbonate of 
lime, would do as well. 
It is well to bear iu miud, as the Farmers’ 
Review suggests,that corn after being planted 
in a moist soil must do either one or the other 
of two things, rot or germinate. 
The influence of the mare in transmitting 
hereditary qualities is, as a rule, greatly un¬ 
derestimated. The female pedigree of a horse 
is almost entirely lost sight of, while the male 
is given special prominence. The best breed¬ 
ers agree that the mare exercises as potout an 
influence over the progeny as the stallion. 
Especially in the matter of soundness should 
the breeding mare be unobjectionable. 
Stallions are usually greatly superior to 
mares or geldings in courage. It Is a rare thing 
to find a stallion that is “skittish” or easily 
scared. In this respect castration produces a 
great effect on most horses. The horse that, 
as a stallion, was not afraid of anything, could 
not be ftightened, and was never known to 
shy or run away from any object, often be¬ 
comes u timid, flighty creature when gelded.. 
While it is the usual custom to castrate a 
colt when two years old, if it appears to be 
timid or skittish a greater degree of courage 
will be develojied by leaving it entire for a 
longer period. If It is inclined to be vicious, 
however, the earlier the operation is performed 
the better. Horses that, ns stallions were so 
vicious as to bo positively dangerous, usually 
become docile and obedient after having been 
castrated... 
Cucnjwljcrf. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
bushels. Of Orchard Grass sow two bushels 
and a bushel of June Grass with it.. 
Professor S. A. Knapp recommends for 
Iowa and similar soils and climates, for early 
aud late posture, the following mixture: 
„ lbs. lbs. 
Blue Gross. 8 Orchard Grass.. (> 
1 uuothy.. 0 White Clover.... 1 
Bor summer pasture: 
Timothy.« 
Orchard Grass.... 0 
lbs. 
lied Clover.. 4 
Illinois. 
Chicago, Cook Co., April 27. —Portions of 
Iowa and nearly all of Northern and the larg¬ 
est half of Central Illinois have not as yet re¬ 
ceived any rain more than to lay the dust. In 
Minnesota and Dakota, however, during the 
last ten days rain, and also snow, have been 
theord»r of the day, so much so t hat the seed¬ 
ing of wheat for the time beiug has been inter¬ 
rupted. At the same time the acreage which 
is now in the ground is large, and growing in 
such good shape that there is a general feel¬ 
ing of encouragement for the future. I think 
that at least two-thirds of the spring wheat in 
Minnesota and Dakota is now seeded, aud so 
far reports all go to show that the acreage will 
be fully as large as, if not. larger than in 1886. 
, A very large area of land last season was put 
into flax, which this season will go into wheat. 
Flax beiug an exhaustive crop, farmers sel¬ 
dom sow flax two years in succession on the 
same land. Notwithstanding I see a state¬ 
ment in some journals that Nebraska has 
seeded a large area of spring wheat this season, 
I do not think that statement is correct, for 
reports so far this season go to show that the 
Nebraska farmers do a great deal better with 
com, oats, and barley,wbieh they convert into 
stock, than by raising wheat and selling it at 
the very low prices which have been prevail¬ 
ing for the last two or three years. Missouri 
an«l Kansas seem also to have been wonder¬ 
fully blest recently with rain, so much so that 
the ground has been too wet to plow. Re¬ 
ports from Illinois, particularly the southern 
portion of the State where the great bulk of 
the winter wheat grows, show wheat doing 
better tbe last ten days than at any 
previous date this spring; but as to Ohio 
and Indiana while in some portions of 
these States the rains have of course been 
beneficial, yet the general tone of the reports 
is to the effect that a great deal of the 
wheat all over these States was winter-killed 
during March and April, I can say very lit¬ 
tle yet about Michigan, as she is the last State 
always to wheel into line, ODly this, that at 
present they are complaining of dry weather, 
and need rain. The corn lands of the North¬ 
west are all practically plowed and prepared 
and ready for planting. Corn is up and grow¬ 
ing in Kausas aud Missouri; Nebraska planted 
a little last week, but, the weather has been 
too cold, and the ground has not warmed up 
sufficiently for farmei*s to attempt, it yet in a 
general way in Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio 
or Indiana; but tbe growing season is now 
fairly upon us. For doing work it hus been a 
remarkable one; day iu and day out, aud 
week after week, ever since the first of March 
until very recently, farmers have not lost a 
day’s work, and the consequence is that the 
crops to-day, with the exception of winter 
wheat, are from two to three weeks in ad¬ 
vance of au average season. Rains have not 
yet, in those areas w T here grass is made a 
specialty, been sufficient to give it the moist¬ 
ure necessary to insure a bountiful yield at 
harvest. No crop depends upon timely rains 
so much as grass, and no matter how much 
rain we might have 30 days from now' it 
would have very little effect upon the out¬ 
come at harvest. N. w. 
Michigan. 
Freeland. Saginaw Co. —Spring is veiy 
backward here. No oats sown yet in this 
neighborhood and but little plowing done. 
H. B. 
New Jeraev. 
Cax.no, Warren Co.—I have thrash¬ 
ed 222 bushels of the Fultzo-Clawson Wheat 
grown from the little free seed packet sent me 
by the Rural. It makes very good flour. It 
Is likely to become the standard wheat in our 
section. j. u. v. 
New York. 
Utica, Oneida Co., April 20.— Receipts of 
butter have been fairly good, although the 
market is considered dull. About 160 pack¬ 
ages have been received, for which 22 anil 24 
cents are paid. Good fresh dairy soils for 23 
cents and good creamery for 25 to 26 ceuts. 
There is a fair demand for creamery butter. 
The coming week may see the market a little 
livelier. Delaware County butter is being 
sent to New York on commission, and buyers 
are not doing much with it in the county. It 
brings good prices and is mostly bought by 
regular customers. Some new cheese has been 
sent, in and sold, mostly in very small quanti¬ 
ties. Most of the jobbers are cleaned out aud 
some of the largest have not a cheese in stock. 
AM the factories are not open yet. The cheese 
market opened here high yesterday, with quo¬ 
tations as follow: 152 boxes at ll'i cents; 310 
boxes at 11’.; 130 boxes at II ,; 133 boxes at 
t2; 27 boxes at 12}*; 416 boxes at 12**- 38 
boxes at 12*^: 78 boxes at private terms; 201 
boxes on commission; total, 1,510 boxes, rul¬ 
ing at 12 V- This is a small market for the date. 
The State brand is favorably regarded by 
dealers. Little Falls sold 2,160 boxes at eight 
to 13 cents and nine packages of butter at 20 
to 213*. There is nothing new to report in 
hops, as all is at a standstill. There have 
been no State hops bought or sold. Dealers 
are looking for pointers on the probabilities 
of the coming season, aud are waiting. There 
is plenty of ’85 hops held. There is no soiling 
here just now of either Western or foreign, 
R. J, 
Washington Territory. 
Lynden, Whatcom Co., April 14.—Un¬ 
doubtedly stock raising in the valley of the 
Nooksack is destined to lie one of the most im¬ 
portant and profitable industries on Puget 
Sound, and especially in that particular por¬ 
tion of it denominated the Nooksack Valley, 
or the valley of the Nooksack River. A pecu¬ 
liar and happy combination of circumstances 
will contribute to bring about this result. 
Among these, I may mention, first, the im 
mense body of tbe very fine agricultural lands 
free from the rocky, sandy, sterile soil, by 
which most of the agricultural and grazing 
lands are more or less interspersed: second, 
the marvelous yield aud excellence of the 
grasses produced on the soil, affording the 
finest pasturage for summer, and an abun¬ 
dance of feed for winter, four or five tons per 
acre not being an uncommon or exceptional 
yield of Timothy, clover, and other tame grasses. 
Third, the great abundance of pure cold, soft 
water furnished by unfailing springs. Swift, 
clear brooks and creeks fed by the mountains 
furnishing an abundant, supply of the purest 
cold water even during July and August, 
when the streams in most, or at least many, 
localities become warm aud stagnant and un¬ 
fit either for man or beast. Wells of excellent 
water are procured with but little difficulty 
almost anywhere in this section of country, 
while perhaps a large majority of the quarter 
sections have the living streams to which I 
have referred flowing through them. Fourth, 
the shortness of the feeding season, a month 
probably covering the average time necessary 
to feed, although some winters, of course, 
they have to feed considerably longer. At 
the very longest it is very short as compared 
with the feeiling season in the East or in many 
portions of the West. Fifth, the almost com¬ 
plete immunity of stock, either cattle, horses, 
or bogs, from any of the many contagious and 
fatal diseases that scourge the herds of the 
East, such as murrain, dry or bloody, pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, epizootic pink-eye, hog cholera, 
etc. I have yet to hear of the first well au¬ 
thenticated case of either of these diseases in 
all this region. This happy combination of 
circumstances will make Puget Sound, and 
especially this valley where these conditions 
prevail to the fullest extent, the paradise of 
tbe stockman, and when the vast stock ranges 
of Montana, Wyoming and Eastern W. T. 
shall have become practically valueless for 
grazing purposes, the rich pastures and grazing 
lands of the Noosack will teem with almost 
countless herds of hogs, sheep, cattle and 
horses. X. D. P. 
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