without loss have be“n struck with surprise at 
the results obtained. Had these same parties 
grown an equal crop of fodder corn and saved 
it without loss by drying and kept a careful 
account of the milk and butter made from it 
they would have been surprised at the results. 
After stating wherein the true economy of 
the silo exists which we have already pub¬ 
lished, Prof. Henry appeals to all farmers 
who every fall drive the wagons through the 
fields of ripe corn, “snapping” the ears, and 
who then turn the cows into the “stalk field” 
to ramble at will, along with the north wiud, 
in search of nutriment from the tattered, 
bleached leaves that rattle on the frozen stalks, 
he appeals to these to try in a small way tho 
silo. 
Large Potato Yields. —Prof. Henry says 
in tho Farmers’ Review that an “enthusiastic 
editor of one of our Eastern agricultural jour¬ 
nals a couple of yea rs ago discovered a method 
of cultivation by which he had produced 
over 1,000 bushels of potatoes per acre and he 
promised * to do it again,’ but be has not ful¬ 
filled his promise up to date. Time and ex¬ 
perience show us, one and all, that, we are very 
liable to be mistaken in this world.” Assum¬ 
ing that Prof. Henry alludes to the Editor of 
the R. N.-Y., we beg to say that we have 
never ruised 1,000 bushels of potatoes on an 
acre of laud, aud that wo have never prom¬ 
ised to do so. We have repeatedly raised in 
small plots at tin• rate of 1,000 bushels aud 
over per acre. The method of cultivation 
which Prof. Henry refers to is probably that 
which we have called the Rukal’s trench- 
mulch system. Two years ago we prepared a 
half acre of poor land and formed the trench¬ 
es, fertilized heavily and planted and mulched 
—all without the least regard to cost, hoping 
to raise a remarkably hu ge crop on the half 
acre. It was found, though not until too late 
to remedy the misfortune, that most of the 
seed had been frost-bitten in its passage from 
the North to the Rural grounds. The season, 
too, proved cold and backward and the result 
was that most of the seed rotted in the 
ground. The uttempt was a failure and we 
Ireely stated so in these columns. It has not 
since been convenient to repeat the experi¬ 
ment except in a small way whi^h we have 
done every season for the pust five years. 
BOILED DOWN AND SEASONED. 
The Devon, says Prof. Brown, of Canada, 
in the Homestead, is a distinctly intermediate 
breed—a milk aud beef combination: none 
make better calves, few are so content and 
hardy, and but one breed is richer in dairy 
products. The Devon has not held the world's 
patronage because of undersize, aud possibly, 
also, because of moderation in maturing and 
tu tullking quantity, but it is difficult to cou- 
eeive of a more desirable cow on upland rangy 
pastures for the butter factory. 
There is nothing that sets off a handsome 
bovine quite so nicely us a pair of beautiful, 
waxy horns of medium length and graceful 
curves, says the Edinburg Farming World... 
The National Live Stock Journal, of Chi¬ 
cago, asks for information respecting Prickly 
Comfrey. The Rural has raised it for 10 
years and may say that it gives the largest 
amount of leaves and stems of any plant we 
know. We cut ours back about three times 
each scusou, aud still it grows luxuriantly. It 
will bloom profusely if allowed, but does not 
seed. Most animals do not take to it at ouee, 
but we find that they may be educated to like 
it moderately well. We have now two horses 
that relish it in small quantities. The roots 
are entirely hardy. 
A root the surest way to spoil a spirited 
horse is to urge him by frequent taps or words 
until lie finds that lie can never satisfy his 
driver, than he will always remain a slow¬ 
poke, says the Husbandman. 
It may hurt the cow some to cut off her 
horns, says the U. S. Dairyman, but so do her 
horns hurt others when she goes at them full 
drive. It is doubtful if the pain of dehorning 
is greater than the hurt of haviug a pair of 
sharp horns ruu into the side. In ease of de- 
horning there is only one hurt; but there is no 
end of hurts from hooking when the horns are 
loft on.,....... ... 
Again our contemporary remarks that a 
heavy milker should be provided with all the 
food aud drink that she will cousurae. Even 
theu she may become poor, for some cows so 
“run to milk,” as the expression goes—that is, 
hive such u proclivity for secreting milk— 
that they cannot eat and drink enough to sup¬ 
ply the milk material and at the same time 
replace the waste of the body. This is why 
good milkers are apt to be thin in flesh. 
Mr. E. Y. Teas, in the American Florist, 
speaks of several now trees which he saw in 
Europe last summer. One was Acer Guinala 
(Acer Tartaricum ginuala?), which, he says, 
has the same delicately-tinted aud finely-cut 
foliuge as the Japan Maple, and unother is the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Variegated-leaved Tulip Tree. Both of these 
plants have been for sale in this country for 
four or five years at least. The Rural Grounds 
can show a fair specimen of each. 
Mr. Teas Speaks of a Purple-leaved Beech, 
with the leaves finely bordered with a bright, 
rose-colored band. He saw it iu France. 
Mr. O. W. Hill, of Iowa, says that his ex¬ 
perience has been that altogether too little at¬ 
tention has been paid to grade stock at our 
agricultural fairs, and yet on two occasions, 
at shows where there were excellent exhibits 
of pure bred stock, the biggest crowds.and the 
heat lesson in improved stock breeding, were 
to be found at pens in which grade stock were 
shown.. 
The wisest thing for the man who is start¬ 
ing in stock-raising who has never handled 
Short-horns or thoroughbred cattle of any 
kind, is to keep his little herd of fair common 
cattle, buy the best made bull he enu find; and 
put him upon his common cows. In two 
years he will have made four times the cost of 
the bull if he has only twelve cows to use him 
upon. So remarked Mr. Campbell before the 
last meeting of the Iowa State Breders' Asso¬ 
ciation... 
He says that such fancy breeds as Kirk- 
lea viugton, Wild Eyes, Duchess, are not the 
thing for the beginner. Get good plain 
cattle, and don’t make a fool of yourself 
about the color. 
Shady places for poultry now; plenty of 
fresh water; clean yards and houses. Kero¬ 
sene the houses and nests.... 
“No fact in the cheesemaker's art,” says 
Prof. Arnold, "is better established than that 
cheese is best cured in an even temperature, 
aud is always injured when it varies, aud 
the wider the variations the greater the 
injury”.. 
“Another deadly blow at the state of the 
art,” Prof. Arnold says, "consists in the faulty 
preparation of rennet. Those only who travel 
much among cheese factories can appreciate 
the extent of this evil.” In illustration he 
gives an actual fact in his experience as a 
dairy inspector: He had occasion, not many 
summers ago, to visit and give advice in SO 
factories iu one locality, and he wrote out in 
his diary a full statement of what he found in 
each factory and what was done in it. When 
through with the work he found, by reference 
to his diary, that in (50 out of the SO fac¬ 
tories, rennet, in an actual aud offensive state 
of putrefaction, was in daily use, and had 
been all the season. Tin* remaining 20 were 
using either good rennet or rennet extract. 
Nearly the whole of this misfortune comes 
from the bad practice of soakiug rennet iu 
whey instead of a saturated brine. 
Judge Ngursk advises beginners not to 
mortgage their farms at 10 per cent., in order 
to buy high-priced Short-horns. 
Prof. Sargent condemns the Scotch Pine 
and Norw ay Spruce as timber trees in Mas¬ 
sachusetts Robert Douglas says, iu the 
Weekly Press, that he has yet to know of a 
place in this country where they are worth 
planting for that purpose. 
That something should be done, and must 
be done, to take a few of our big monopolies 
by the throat, aud teach them deceut man¬ 
ners, is us plain as the nose on a man's face, 
says the Herald...... 
That the originators of the American Cat¬ 
tle Trust Co. may over reach themselves in 
t heir gigantic undertaking is, of course, within 
the range of possibilities, says the Breeders 
Gazette; but us it is simply an effort on the 
port—chiefly of raugemen—to save the pro¬ 
ducers some of tin* largo profits heretofore 
going into t.lie {wickets of brokers and dressed- 
beef magnates it cannot understand why it 
should be condemned by any save such Stock- 
Yards interests as may be unfavorably affect¬ 
ed by its operation.... 
Here is a statement made in the N. E. 
Homestead, by a correspondent of that Jour¬ 
nal: 
"The most effectual agent to destroy the 
potato beetle is one (wmml of Paris-green 
mixed with 10 pounds of sifted plaster. This 
makes a poison sutficientiy strong to kill the 
iwetles aud not injure tin* plants. It can be 
applied just where the bug is eating, making 
no waste. Bin, the plaster through a (iue 
sieve into a flour barrel, add the green, mix it 
thoroughly with a hoe handle and it is ready 
to use. It takes a heavy rain to .wash the 
mixture off from the vines.” 
We have never tried so small a quantity of 
plaster with so large a quantity of Paris-green; 
but we have tried an equivalent quantity of 
Paris-green to a larger quantity of plaster, and 
found that it destroyed the leaves at once. We 
are now using one pound of Paris-green to a 
barrel of plaster, and it kills the beetles just 
the same as the larger quantity of the poison 
to the same quantity of plaster. We now be¬ 
lieve that a pound of pure Paris-green, if 
thoroughly mixed with two barrels of plaster 
would also prove effective and practically uon- 
poisouous. A good article of plaster certainly 
needs no “siftiDg through a fine sieve.” It is 
already as fine as it needs to be. It does not 
seem to us practicable to mix the green and 
plaster “thoroughly” in a barrel by the aid of 
a hoe handle.... . 
Pres. Chamberlain declares in the Albany 
Cultivator that the people of Iowa do not 
mean to have agriculture and the mechanic 
arts the mere tail to the kite of a so-called 
university, the bulk of whose work shall be 
given to the high-toned callings.... 
He further says that the drought is now 
most distressing iu Iowa. In thirteen months 
the total rainfall at the college in Ames has 
been less thun eleven inches . 
Prof. Halstead, of the Iowa Agricultural 
College, tried last season some interesting ex¬ 
periments resulting from excluding the pol¬ 
len from squash and cucumber dowel’s. The 
belief is current that various species of the 
melon family will mature fruit when the 
female flowers do not receive pollen. Prof. 
Halstead covered mauy female flowers before 
they opened, with cloth sacks. The ovaries 
soon dried up and dropped off. 
It is well known that the horseradish does 
not produce seed, it propagates itself so readily 
underground that it finds no need of seeds. 
Prof. Halstead finds that the reason why it 
does not seed is the almost complete failure 
of the stameus to produce potent pollen . 
He found that the growing tissue of the 
corn plant is at the base of each leaf and that 
the blade is pushed up fully formed. This 
probably bolds true among all grasses........ 
Suppose the grasshoppers come? Suppose 
the drought should come? If so, you lose your 
farm. Suppose that sickness should come? If 
so, you lose your homo. Suppose that death 
should come? If so, your widow is turned out 
of doors aud your children are homeless. 
Tbut is what a mortgage is, as Judge Nourse 
defined it before the Iowa Breeders Ass'n.... 
The great curse of this country to-day, the 
Judge says, is that when our young people are 
married and start out in life they must fit up 
their homes with the elegance of those who 
have for 10 years been struggling and earning; 
they want an outfit that they ought only to 
have after they have been married a quarter 
of a century... 
Whenever a debt really troubles a man 
from the time he contracts it, until he pays it 
off, and he has it, iu mind from day to day, 
and he remembers with the tickiug of the 
clock that every tick! tick! makes that much 
more interest, that much more self denial, 
that much more from the revenues that should 
go to make his family comfortable; whenever 
that is fully impressed upon his mind and his 
conscience, that man is sate, concludes Judge 
Nourse. But it is recklessuess, indifference to 
debt, that is ruiuing so many hundreds aud 
thousands... 
The Chatham Courier reminds its readers 
to buy apple barrels now. 
Hilling potatoes, says the painstaking Ag¬ 
ricultural editor of the World, has been prac¬ 
ticed from time out of date, and represents to¬ 
day the most popular mode of culture for the 
tubers. Iu the face of this widespread prac¬ 
tice, however, some of our most trustworthy 
and careful experimenters claim that fiat cul¬ 
ture, under ordinary conditions, gives tho best 
results. Prominent among the advocates of 
flat culture uot only for potatoes, but forcoru, 
is the editor of the Rural New-Yorker. In 
a recent issue of the Country Gentleman, the 
World says, is given the report of a thorough 
trial of the hilling and flat inodes of culture, 
in which it is stated that fiat culture gives 
from 15 to 20 per cent more than the hills, 
Among cultivators who have corroborated 
the above Opinion is Mr. T E. Platt,, of Fuir- 
tield Co., Conn., who experiments annually 
on some three hundred varieties, aud who 
states that he finds the crop much larger with 
flat culture .. . 
The National Live-Stock Journal says that 
a calf that is uegleeted and stinted in its food 
during tin* first months of its life, will almost 
always show the effects of it ever afterwards, 
and seldom recover even under the best of 
core, so a-s to reach the size aud weight that 
it would had it received proper treatment at 
the outset Better sell the ealf for veal than 
attempt to raise it without giving it the care 
it needs ..... 
Mr. Ware, of Massachusetts, says that 
butter made from his silage iu winter is 
yellow without auy coloring matter, and 
seems as if it caine from Juue grass ... . 
According to a short-band report in the 
Massachusetts Ploughman, of a discussion 
of farmers about ensilage, Mr. Forrestall, 
who has had six years' experience with ensil¬ 
age, sail! that he plants 11 quarts of seed to 
the acre, the variety being Learning Corn, 
which grows with him 14 or 15 feet high. It 
is hard for the R. N.-Y. to understand why 
such tall-growing corn is preferred toother 
kinds which sucker more: the Rural Thorough¬ 
bred, for instance. Here we have many largo 
leaves and less stalk... 
Mr. Forrest all’s silo is 50 feet long and 
23 feet deep, divided in the middle. He fills 
it as he finds it convenient. He cuts iu Sep¬ 
tember and begins to feed in January. Ho 
cuts it up about 1% inch long. The quality of 
his milk is good, aud above the standard in 
specific gravity. Mr. F. has fed silage for 
nearly .six years. His corn last year averaged 
28 tons to the acre, and he estimates a ton of 
Timothy to be worth three tons of silage. 
In other words, an acre should produce 
seven tons of English hay. In addition to 
silage, he feeds two quarts of cotton-seed 
meal and six quarts of fine feed to each grown 
animal iu full milk... 
Mr. Forrestall keeps eighty cows. He 
has lost but one during the past five years. 
Mr Chamberlain’s view is quite different. 
It is that the cost of silage, as compared with 
that of hay, is such that we cannot afford to 
raise it. Milk can be produced from grain 
or hay, he says, for 97 100 of a cent per quart ; 
but when a sufficient amount of silage is fed, 
the cost is over two cents a quart. 
An economical idea, as presented by Puck, 
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bats and boards on the beds; order salt pork 
and beans; keep the mail two or three days 
before delivery to me, and pull up the shades 
and let the sun’s glare shine in all it wants to. 
I am going to enjoy the comforts of the 
country without goiug there.”. 
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