betterment of our existing tariff laws. Pro¬ 
ducers, dealers and manufacturers are dis¬ 
posed to coufer w ith each other about the 
matter—something which would, no doubt, 
have been productive of good long ago. The 
subject of framing satisfactory legislation is 
now attracting very general attention, and 
men of brains are giving it their best thought. 
If the law demanded should be practically 
the old law of 1867, all the better; and the 
nearer it. eau be brought to that basis the more 
satisfactory it is likely to be to the greater 
part of those concerned. With a House of 
Representatives constituted like the present 
one, however—more than half of the mujority 
being advocates of the abolition of import 
duties on raw materials—nnless our wool 
growers are emphatic in the expression of 
their wishes, there will be small chance of 
favorable legislation. 
SAMPLES AND COMMENTS. 
Tmpom.ka Box a-Nox.—W hat’s the use of 
nicknaming this grand old plant—I. noetiphy- 
ton or I. uoetillora—asks William Falconer in 
the American Florist. Isn't the proper name 
(I. bona-nox) good enough ?. 
Hungarian Grass may be sown the first 
of June and cut in early August. The usual 
direction “sow one bushel to the acre" is about 
right, though in poorish laud we should sow 
more—though Hungarian ought never to lie 
sown on poor laud. We have read the cruises 
heaped upon this grass for years and have 
tried it fairly at the Rural Farm without be¬ 
ing able to see why it is praised. Uuless the 
land is thoroughly prepared, o le need not 
look for a large yield. It should be cut when 
the heads appear and the grain has not passed 
the milk stage. .. 
In reply to our remarks regarding the Arc¬ 
tic Plum, the N. E. Homestead says that the 
stems of the plums grow “directly out of the 
main branch without spurs, buds or leaves.” 
The Editor of t he Homestead has **seeu the tree 
iu fruit, bearing much more heavily' than as 
pictured.” "The Rural h charge that the cut 
"as a fraudulent representation is a manifest 
injustice which the Rural Editor would not 
make if he had seen the fruit in bearing.” If 
the originator will kindly send us a branch of 
the fruit at maturity, we shall be glad to 
place before our readers as correct a portrait 
as can be obtained. 
Whkn cabbage worms and squash bugs ap¬ 
pear, a writer in the N. E. Homestead dis¬ 
solves a tftblespoouful of saltpeter iu a pail of 
tepid water and gives the plants a goodsprink- 
liug. Tlie worms, he says, disappear speed¬ 
ily. His melons, squashes, and cucumbers are 
never troubled with the striped bug. He plants 
a circle of beans six inches apart around the 
outer edge of each hill. The bonus come up 
first and the bugs “never molest the vines”... 
Judge Buell, once said, remarks Mr. Poore 
in the Boston Cultivator, that if a well-kept 
kitchen garden is not an infallible proof of 
thrift, when seen near a farmhouse, it is a 
pretty certain indication of comfort and good 
sense....... 
A writer in the Weekly Press says that he 
can break the crust on an acre of garden 
with a hand cultivator iu two hours, but it 
would take two or three men a day with hoes 
to do it. When one of these implements is to 
be used, everything must be planted iu rows 
the length of the garden . 
Pick out for breeders, says the Farm Jour¬ 
nal, the pigs with long bodies, broad backs 
and deep, round hams. Select a breed which 
has hair on it. A good coat of hair eouuts on 
a hog as well as any auimul. It is a protec¬ 
tion in summer and in winter. 
Here are a few signs we have noticed 
tacked over street fruit stands; “Sweet Pe- 
uots 5 cents a Pekog.” “Sickle Parcs one 
cent.” “Ice creem 3 scuts.” “Swete Baru- 
naneys.” The Italians who display these 
signs may not be well versed in the English 
language, but. they make a good living out of 
American horticulture. 
A writer iu the N. E. Homestead has 
found potato bugs in the crop of a hen. It 
has always been supposed that hens would not 
touch these bugs. We have often tried to in¬ 
duce the hens to cut them without success. 
Turkeys as well as ducks are said to cut bugs. 
A \\ isCoxsiN duiryman, as wo learn from 
Hoard’s Dairyman, is so well satisfied that 
warming the water for milch cows pays iu 
winter that he proposes to try warming tbo 
summer drink. Wo are inclined to think that 
cool spring water is tho best summer drink 
cows can ever find... 
tii’KAKiNu of butter colors, the sumo paper 
says that while there may bo no iniquity in 
using sonic artificial coloring matter, tho fact 
i cumins that it is often used to hide the pov- 
oi ty of the butter that is made from the milk 
of half-starved cows, fed on poor and unsuit¬ 
able food.. 
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railroads and large land owners. The poor 
deluded immigrants that have been pouri ng 
into the Suite will find that in most cases 
the climate is all there is here aliea l of condi¬ 
tions in the Eastern States. The fact is that 
land here, without water to irrigate it, is a 
worthless desert and most of the available 
water is utilized. There are iu this section, 
thousands of acres of first-class hay, grain and 
fruit lands that can be pre-empted for $1.25 
per acre,but which are worthless for the want 
of water. Persons that are fuirly fixed iu the 
East had better stay there, although a trip 
to this State will repay them if they have 
plenty of money. Tho poor eau do better 
there than here, aud my advice would bo to 
stay East, if one has no money to buy well- 
irrigated land. l, h, 
Petaluma, Sonoma Co., May 10. Crops 
look extra well here, though grass has not boon 
so good as usual, owing to the winter having 
been ratherdry; but dry .winters (so-called) are 
always beneficial to grain in this country. 
Barley is not yet all in. Potatoes are being 
planted now, aud planters are in hopes the 
ram for the season is over, as rain on pota¬ 
toes after they are up, causes weeds to grow 
without benefiting the potatoes iu tho least. 
Haying has just commenced in some parts. 
All kinds of fruit promise quite well. c. N. 
Illinois, 
Chicago, Cook Co., May 24.—On Sunday 
aud Monday the important corn, oat aud 
grass areas of Northern Illinois were blessed 
wiili copious showers, and already tho good 
effects are visible. This condition of things 
exists for 150 miles south of Chicago. The re¬ 
mainder of tho State has had more rain than 
is needed. The crop prospects in the spring 
wheat area still continue good. On the loth 
and ltitli instant, in the northern portion of 
the Red River Valley, heavy frosts cut down 
iu some places the newly sown wheat aud 
garden crops. The damage to the wheat is, 
however, hardly worth mentioning. Recent 
heavy rains, followed by cool weather, give a 
very favorable and probably one of tbe best 
prospects at this stage of the season the North¬ 
west has ever seen, while the oat and grass 
crops are sbowiug improvement upon similar 
conditions. A week or Id days from the pres¬ 
ent will demonstrate more fully the benefits 
these crops have recently received. As to 
corn, there is no doubt that, taking the crop 
as a whole, from Nebraska to Ohio, from Ohio 
to Kansas, at this date its general condition 
was never as favorable as to-day. The long- 
continued dry weather in the corn belt gave 
every opportunity for the farmers to be ahead 
all the time with their work instead of behind 
and dragging. The corn fields are generally 
clean, in a great majority of cases have been 
worked once, and it does look that we ought 
to grow, without any accidents in the future, 
a big crop of corn. Its uses are so varied aud 
it finds its way into so many different chan¬ 
nels of trade, that we do not pile it up and 
hold it back for higher prices as is done with 
the wheat crop. In the more advanced areas 
of the winter wheat belt the crop is now com¬ 
mencing to h**ad out, and is from 12 to 24 
inches high. There is no question but insects 
are in the wheat; but so far, the ground hav- 
iug been so wet iu the winter wheat belt, they 
have been held back from doing any serious 
damage. With the present outlook, harvest¬ 
ing will commence all along from the 10th to 
the 2Uth of June, a little over three weeks 
from the present time. I think wheat has 
about held its own during the last week. If 
there is any change it is in Michigan, where 
are felt very perceptibly the effects of dry- 
weather. v n. w. 
,Yew York. 
Utica, Oneida Co., May 24—The butter 
market is dull and listless. The receipts are 
small, amounting to so packages, for which It) 
cents were paid, and which is selling at 20 to 
21 cents for dairy and 23 cents for fine cream¬ 
ery. The drought has affected the pasturage 
and tlio milk, consequently the quality of 
fresh butter just now is not of the best. This 
week does not promise much better. The 
cheese market is active, prices low. and will 
probably rule still lower. Tbis product also 
shows the effect of dry weather. The quota¬ 
tions on the Board were 300 boxes at iu. cents; 
202 boxes at i» : j; 3.747 boxes at •.>%; 1.152 box¬ 
es at „ 200 boxes at 10; 106 boxes on private 
terms; 1,984 boxes on commission; total, 7,731 
boxes, ruling at D&. Domestic receipts, 60 
boxes: sells at 11 to 13) cents. The hop vines 
are now from five to six feet high aud look bet¬ 
ter, although showing signs of weakness. The 
tyiug has commenced and strings are up in 
mauy yards. Complaints of lice arc frequent. 
Nothing in the local market. 
Ptmuav Irani*. 
Newcastle, Lawrence Co , May 12.—Wo 
have hail a good deal of ruin for the last 
mouth, it is delaying corn planting, part ic¬ 
ularly on clay ground. There are a good 
m my poor fields of wheat aud some fields that 
look very well. Peaches, pears, apples aiul 
cherries will not be full crops—too many last 
year. h. a. 
Wawa, Delaware Co., May 12.—A ride of 
4t> miles showed plowing for corn mostly 
done aud some planted. Most of the harrow- 
iug wus done with wheeled cultivators or 
spring-tooth harrows, and the marking with 
Dannell furrowers which also did most of tho 
covering, Wheat generally very poor; not 
more than two good fields'in the whole dis¬ 
tance: some being plowed up. OaL generally 
looking very well. i, p, 
Washington Territory. 
Oren, Kittalass t'o., May D. —Spring is 
backward. Small grains look as well as at 
the same time last year; the acreage is larger. 
We raise little else, except potatoes which 
have just been planted. We cannot complain 
of our crops here, w. R. c. 
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