THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
izcr experiments, aud being a liglit, sandy 
loam, droughts of greater or less severity too 
often interfere with experiments which are 
conducted in asmall way. The Rural (.rounds 
proper iu New Jersey consist of a fraction 
over two acres, given up chiefly to fruits, orn¬ 
amental plants, etc. Near us, however, are 
three more acres which are owned by an asso¬ 
ciate editor of the R. N.-Y., a larger part of 
which is devoted to experiment The acre to 
which Mr. Oleott refers as hired of a neighbor 
was selected because it is rema rkably udupted 
to experimental purposes, as the laud is level 
and free of stoues, and is that kind of a mellow 
loam which, having been cropped for many 
years without the addition of much manure, 
res|Mimls in a telling way when plant food in 
any available form is applied. 
Lawnh. —Professor Luzouby, of the Ohio 
Experiment .Station, says that where part of 
a lawn was seeded with Timothy in the mix¬ 
ture and part without, that containing the 
Timothy was invariably the better. And there 
is some reason for this. The seed of Timothy 
is without the chair adhering, as in most 
grasses, and it Is therefore easier to estimate 
just bow much seed is being applied; audit 
can be put on more evenly. It starts quickly 
and grows rapidly, soon making a good shade 
for the finer and weaker grasses. But after 
all get a good start and the lawn is mowed 
frequently, the Timothy is injured the most, 
and soon gives place to the other aud more 
deslrublu grosses. He can’t help but feel that 
those who have criticised the mixture because 
of the Timothy have done so from purely the¬ 
oretical grounds. Timothy alone would make 
a very poor lawn, but a small quantity of 
Timothy seed ought to be used in every mix¬ 
ture of lawn grasses. 
Dot>s Professor 1., know that the absolutely 
clean seeds of both lted-top aud Blue Grass are 
now offered by seedsmen i The price is higher 
of course. Timothy starts no quicker in our 
soil than Red-top, as we have shown, and the 
latter covers the lawn as quickly. Does it re¬ 
quire the "shade of Timothy?” Why not as of 
old, sow oats for this particular purpose? The 
“Timothy soon gives place to the better 
grasses.” True. But why add a poorer grass 
to a better grass if the former starts as soon 
and covers the lawn as soon. “Theoretical 
grounds?” No, the R. N.-Y. has sown the 
seeds of each side by side and the Red-top 
(pure seed) gave the fuller stand. We beg to 
usk Professor Lazcnby if he has done this? 
And we ask for information, and in no spirit 
of criticism or irony. If lted-top sprouts as 
soon as Timothy and carpets the soil with 
green as soon, we ask Professor L. why “Tim¬ 
othy seed ought to be used iu every mixture 
of lawn grass?" 
M». Stiles, of the Weekly Press, says that 
“a combination of seeds seems to make the 
finest award, each variety having its peculiar 
advantage, one feeding deep, another shallow; 
* one loving sunshluc, fiuother shade; one start¬ 
ing earlv, and auothur holding out late. In 
the struggle which each makes with the other 
for a place every vacant spot is occupied.” 
Again Mr. Stiles says: “On experimental 
plot.s where Red-top had been sown alone, the 
lawn appeared to lack "liody,” owing to the 
hair-like fineness of the young grass. Time, 
however, would correct this ” 
Aud this may bo the right view to take of 
the business. But here we have u lawn of a 
particular soil ami exposure. If Red-top 
thrives upou it, why sow other seed suited to 
other soils or exposures? If the lawn were 
shaded or damp, we should choose, as Mr. J. 
B. Oleott suggests, Poa trivialis or Rough 
Meadow Grass; if the soil were high and dry, 
Poa eompivssa (Flat Stem or Wire Grass) and 
soon. Oue thiug seems plain, the grass that 
is best aduptod to the situation and soil will 
ultimately take possession, and what we want 
to find out is, what that grass is aud sow the 
seeds. If they are slow to start, like Blue 
Grass, then it would certainly be well to sow 
some quicker-growing suitable variety iu 
order to secure a green covering sooner if so 
desired. 
When it is considered-that seedsmen charge 
nearly double the price for “lawn mixtures” 
that they do for single varieties, the question 
is oue of some importance and we should like 
to be better informed if our experience has 
led us astray. 
WORTH NOTING. 
KblLooo & Co., the New York cattle-sales¬ 
men, so the Farmers’ Home Journal says, now 
claim that in Jerseys “blood no longer sells 
high unless the animal indicates by individual 
quality that the blood has told.” Then iu- 
deed, comments the Live stock Indicator, it 
has come to pass that no louger can traders 
and skinners expect long prices for worthless 
stuff, meritorious only for pedigree. 
HOARD’S Dairyman says that Mr. V. E. 
Fuller keeps his service bulls iu o(>en barred 
stalls so that they shall be able to see what is 
going on. His idea, and wo think it is a good 
oue, is that shutting a bull up, away from all 
sights aud contact, aggravates his temper. 
The temporary defeat of the Jerseys, says 
the Bulletin, will awaken some of our Jersey 
breeders from their lethargy to a knowledge 
that the Holstein cow is no mean enemy. 
They are universally acknowledged as the 
largest milking breed, and where there is so 
much milk, it follows that some butter ingre¬ 
dients are contained therein... 
An unusual operation was performed by a 
veterinary surgeon of Pontiac, Mich., at Hin- 
iiian’s Cress Brook Farm, says the Live-Stock 
Indicator. A brood mare which had been 
turned loose with some strange horses in a 
field was kicked and so badly injured that she 
hod to he killed. She was bled to death, and 
as she lay bleeding the thought occurred that 
possibly the colt, which had been sired by 
Detractor, might lie taken from the mare 
alive. The colt was sired 11 mouths and 15 
days previously, and in the natural order 
would have been foaled iu 15 days. No time 
was to be lost, and two men set to work to 
perform the 0 [x.‘ration. It took about 15 min¬ 
utes, and the colt was carried away alive and 
kiekiug.. 
Col. Curtis tells the Husbandman that he 
makes his Duroc-Jerseys partners in ridding 
the farm of weeds, and enriching the fields in 
turn. It is obvious that the little puggy 
breeds are not adapted to the killing of 
weeds. There is no work in them. A hog 
should earn a part, at least, of its living. Why 
not ? If, while it is earniug a purt of its 
food, it is at the same time a factor for the 
good of the farm, why, so much the better for 
the hogs aud the farm. Put them in the fields. 
The pig-sty and the hog-yard are behind the 
age; they are not the means to be used iu these 
days to make bogs profitable... 
Mr. T. B. Tkury expresses the hope, in the 
Cultivator and Country Gentleman, that 
farmers will try sowing rye in their stubbles 
this fall, and growing a sod that costs almost 
uothing. He writes in gtxxl season, so they 
can make their arrangements if they feel so 
disposed. On warm, drained soil, iu his lati¬ 
tude, rye can be grown from two to four feet 
high, iu time to turn under for either potatoes 
or coru, except for very early potatoes. He 
has had it four feet high by the first week in 
May, when the spring was very forward. On 
colder land it would not do ns well. Any one 
who had rather have a good sod than bare 
stubble to plant ou next spring, bad better 
look out for some seed rye..... .. 
The late Mr. Poore says, in tbe Cultivator: 
“ How few of our farmers, it has been well 
said, comprehend the pleasures of a sweet 
home. Trading, selling and roving are Am¬ 
erican characteristics. But few buy with the 
determination of making it their homes for 
life aud for their children. They buy with 
the iutention of improving and taking the ad¬ 
vantage of the advance in price, then sell aud 
seek new pastures. Tbe result is, there is not 
that ornamentation which men and women 
can aud do make ou the home they love. Rov¬ 
ing and moving westward with the tide of em¬ 
igration, have deprived us, as a nation, of that 
sacred love of home which sanctifies some 
other uatious. ”.... . 
Every man, in locating ou a farm, should 
be so careful in the selection as to adopt it for 
a home for life. Then he should direct his 
judgment and energy iu making such valuable 
improvements by skillful culture, good fruits, 
ornamental shrubbery and pleasant surround¬ 
ings, that no amount of money would tempt 
him to sell. Put down the stakes for life, and 
cluster around it so many ties that it could not 
lie parted with until he is called to the better 
laud .... 
Mr. J. T. Brooks assumes that a railroad 
pass given to a public officer is a bribe—the 
equivalent of money. Passes are granted to 
Government officers to influence their votes, 
The influence is blighting in every direction.. 
Mu. Brooks further remarks that the res¬ 
ponsibility of the [>a»i system must be divided 
between the railway companies and the pub 
lie. If giving a pass is a mild form of briliery, 
the man who receives it is as guilty as ho who 
gives. Those who {five are servants of a cor¬ 
poration. Those who take are servants of the 
people. The people and the companies must 
unite to extirpate the evil. It is tbe interest 
as well as the duty of stockholders to instruct 
their officers to issue no passes to any man ou 
account of public office. It is the duty and 
should be the pleasure of every railway offi¬ 
cer, whether such instruction be given or not, 
to recall every pass now held by the servants 
of the people, and to withhold them from such 
in the future. 
That the American Cattle Trust constitutes 
auy sort of a menace to the interests of people 
not connected with it, the Breeders’ Gazette 
is unable to discover . 
Cultivate the corn—but so as to mellow 
the surface soil, kill the weeds aud not cut the 
roots. Try this: Cultivate one part of a field 
deep, the other shallow and let us know the 
result. 
Waldo F. Brown says, in the Press, that 
we have two classes of farmers who run to 
extremes. The first sneer at book farming, 
and imagine that they have mastered the en¬ 
tire science of agriculture, and look with 
contempt upon any suggestion which comes 
from the laboratory or student. The other 
class accepts, without question, any statement 
which conies labeled scientific, and think 
farming is to be guided entirely by manifes¬ 
toes issued from the chemist aud college pro¬ 
fessor...... 
He further says that in feeding stock most 
farmers of his acquaintance feed that which 
is most convenient, and in the way that will 
require the least labor rather thun that which 
will produce the best results. 
We have heard Hiram Smith say often, re¬ 
marks Hoard’s Dairyman, that iu undertaking 
to make a first-cluss butter-maker he had 
rather a hundred times over take a young man 
or woman who never saw a pound of butter 
than some farmer or his wife who had made 
butter all their lives m their own way. It is 
this stubborn prejudice and unwillingness to 
learn of others a 1 letter way that keeps thous¬ 
ands of farmers at the foot of the ladder. 
The Turf, FrEt.D and Farm says that 
horses are more intelligent than some of their 
owners. They associate men with different 
tasks and act accordingly. The driver who 
does the slow jogging does not excite the horse 
when he gets up behind him. But the moment 
the driver who does the speeding takes the 
sulky seat, the horse, if of a nervous tempera¬ 
ment, quivers with emotion. He knows from 
experience what is to come aud is all aglow. 
Dexter, for instance, would jog as quietly as 
any one could wish when Conover hell the 
reins, but when Doble took the seat the white¬ 
legged king was difficult to restrain. He had 
the sense to understand that he was on the eve 
of a race, with all its fierce excitements, as 
soon as he felt the touch of Doble, and he 
dropped his sober and sleepy ways. The horse 
may l>e quieter under his jogging groom than 
his head driver, but it does not follow that the 
groom can out-drive the master of the estab¬ 
lishment when it comes to a race.. 
Dr. Goessmann, in a late bulletin, as a 
caution to farmers, says that cotton seed hull 
ashes ought to tie sold only on a basis of a 
guaranteed composition. He gives four anal¬ 
yses with the following valuations per ton: 
#•1*3.78, #'30.70, #82.70 and #40.83, a maximum 
difference of over #10 per ton. 
F. D. Coburn says that those who feed bran 
to horses largely are most in favor of it. Oue 
of its advantages is in keeping the horse from 
becoming constipated ou dry feed aud gram. 
It is a cheap and valuable feed for horses at 
any time, aud esjieeially while changing their 
coats in the spring ... 
Prof. Oqessmaxn makes wheat bran for 
fertilizing puiqioses worth #14.24 per ton, ac¬ 
cording to the analysis of one lot, and #12.82 for 
another. He values pea meal at #12.31. In 
fresh muck he finds 89.89 per cent, of mois¬ 
ture and but one-quarter of oue per cent, of 
nitrogen. The dry matter was 10 per cent, 
and the ash three per cent., a considerable 
part of which was lime aud magnesia. 
The Mark Laue Express, England, iu com¬ 
plimenting our cartoon representing the farm¬ 
er “At Bay,” says: “Evidently American 
farmers consider ‘glucose’ a fraud on their 
industry, and wo take it to be not only equally 
so, but very much more so, on the native agri¬ 
cultural industries of this country”. 
The Scientific American advises those 
poisoned with poison ivy to bathe the affect¬ 
ed parts with a tablespoouful of sulphate of 
copper dissolved in a small teacupful of boil¬ 
ing water... 
The results of reduciug the tariff on wool 
are becoming very apparent. The following 
figures from the reports of the l)e[iartment. of 
Agriculture tell the story. In 1884 the number 
of sheep owned in the United States was 
50.ti2fi.fi20. In 1885 it fell to 48,322,331, and in 
1886 it still further decreased to 44,759,514, a 
loss of 12 per cent, in two years: and yet it is 
said an effort will be made to still further re¬ 
duce the wool tariff next winter, in order to 
get rid of some of the surplus.. 
Dr. Dankokd, of Loudon, has made au 
extraordinary statement apropos of the death 
by suffocatiou of a little child from being 
accidentally smothered in bed by its parents, 
declaring that he had hud over 200 such 
cases before him. A physiciau suggests a 
cot as au alternative, and sternly denounces 
the practice of babies sleeping with their 
parents....... 
Cumjfiiljfxc. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Hanna*. 
.Summerville, Ottowa Co., June 17.— 
Wheat in this county is an entire failure, 
average from one to five bushels per acre. 
One-third of the wheat area was plowed up 
and planted to corn, and now the chinch bugs 
are takiug the corn. They have destroyed 
probably one-fourth of it already. It has 
been dry all the spring, yet corn looks fine 
where the bugs have not niole-ted it. There 
are no small fruits here this season. Some 
few apples. Potatoes look well now. Oats a 
failure. F. K. 
North Carolina. 
Sonoma, Haywood Co., June 9.— This por¬ 
tion of Western North Carolina is, in my 
opinion, well adapted to dairying and cheese 
making. We have rich, cheap lands, on which 
clover and grass flourish luxuriantly. Cat¬ 
tle are remarkably healthy. There are plenty 
of pure springs aud running streums of water, 
clear as crystal, and not a cheese factory that 
T know of in this portion of the State. We 
have some fine milch cows, several different 
breeds, the best all-purpose cow being the 
Devon. These give a fair yield of milk which 
in richness is excelled only by that of the 
Jerseys, while they are the hardiest cattle 
on the continent. If some good, honest per- 
sou would coine down here from some of the 
chease districts of the North with money 
anougb to start a good business in that line, 
he would be welcomed and be sure to thrive. 
Our winters are not long and a cheese busi¬ 
ness could be run here much longer every 
year than in the North. This is a 
healthy country, no chills and fever ever 
known here, unless the person came here 
after taking it somewhere else. We have good 
people and don’t invite any other kind. Our 
Summer climate is as good as the best in 
America. w. s. T. 
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