THE RURAL MEW-YQRKER, 
silo with clover last year and that a large 
part of it was as nice feed as one would wish 
to put before his cows. They would eat it 
greedily in preference to any other feed put 
before them. He says it is heavy stuff to 
handle, and he is satisfied that it can be part¬ 
ly cured, say, fairly wilted, so it can be easily 
handled and still retain moisture enough to 
pack closely and make all the better feed. He 
thinks that the silo is going to so cheapen the 
food for our store hogs that they may be 
wintered and come out ready for the clover 
field the second summer with profit. He 
knows several parties that have wintered 
their bogs exclusively on silo feed the past 
winter, and they are very much pleased with 
it His brother living in Jefferson county, 
Wis., wintered bis hogs in this way. He com¬ 
menced supposing the silo feed would not be 
enough aud so he fed two ears of corn to each 
hog, but he soon saw that they were getting 
too fat, especially the breeding sows, so the 
com was left off and only the silage fed. The 
silnge was made from matured corn, and the 
corn and all put in, but ouly as much fed as 
they would eat up clean, and he says he never 
bad better success with pigs even in summer 
when they were out to grass. 
Rust ox Grasses.— J. B. Oleott says, in 
the Courant, that wo hear of rusty straw¬ 
berries, rye and wheat, but we do not often 
hear of rusty Timothy. He would like to ask, 
however, when you come to examine it 
closely, if there is a more general rust-ridden 
plant in existence { Look at those yellow 
leaves and brown stems in t he crop you are 
handling, or in the baled hay in market. A 
microscope will show forests of rust there. 
The growth of this fungus eats all the fine qual¬ 
ities out of the fodder aud makes the dusty 
hay which some unreflecting people charge to 
the horse-rake. Forty experiment stations 
and StK) hay-fever conventions may be needed 
to show exactly how commerce is spreading 
these rusts and corruptions. But half an eye 
for what is going on under our noses will see 
the t rouble coming upou our lauds in manure, 
and farmers are observing from the difference 
in their crops that rust must be carried with 
the seed of Timothy us well as with wheat or 
oats. _ 
Water-free Butter.— John Gould says, 
in the Phil. Weekly Press, that no one dis¬ 
putes that if the water could all be expelled 
from butter it would keep ns well as lard, 
whose keeping properties are due to this fact. 
Butter dried water free, keeps a long time, 
but so far this eauuot be done without undue 
heat, which is fatal to fine aroma and perfect 
gram. Water readily dissolves sugar and 
casei no, both of which can be found in small 
amounts in the best of worked butter, and air 
aud water together produce the decomposi¬ 
tion of the caseine. The antiseptic influences 
of the salt, no matter how great the amount, 
cannot prevent this, and butter soon begins to 
lose flavor aud later on comes rancidity The 
only check yet found for this is cold storage, 
because the oxygen of the air is nearly inert 
in low temperature: but when the butter is 
brought in contact with the warmer air once 
more it goes in a hurry, just as cold milk, 
when raised iu temperature, quickly sours and 
gets bitter. _ 
Oleo Makers. —The report of Internal 
Revenue Commissioner Miller of the last fis¬ 
cal year will show that in November last, when 
the $500 tax had to be paid by all oleomar¬ 
garine manufacturers, there were 87 ot them 
in this country, distributed as follows: Colo¬ 
rado, 2; Illinois, 11; Indiana, 1; Kansas, 2; 
Massachusetts, l; New' York, *5; Ohio, 4; Penn¬ 
sylvania, 5; Rhode Island, 5. In May, when 
the special tax was levied, there wore fouud 
to be only 24 manufactories, distributed as 
follows: Colorado, 1; Connecticut, 1: Illinois, 
7; Indiana, 1; Kausas, 2; Massachusetts, 1; 
New York 1; Pennsylvania, .‘5; Rhode Island, 
4, Connecticut took its place among the 
oleomargarine districts, but the number of 
manufactories iu all the principal oleoruarga- 
riue-producing districts decreased. New 
York aud Illinois lost five. 
BY THE SHORT WAY. 
J udicious resting stives time, says the Farm 
Journal . 
It also says that the best price for pork is 
the early price. 
If the garden eau not be kept in good order 
it is too largo... 
It is strange that, people will continue to 
empty their sink spouts into the ground near 
their wells and then wonder at the providences 
of God that are iu fact the improvidences of 
man. Mr. Atkinson has no doubt been im¬ 
pressed with the Rural’s last cartoon. 
Secretary E. Williams priuts an article 
iu the Press rather favoring the deep cultiva¬ 
tion of corn oven when in tassel. He thinks 
that careful experiments should be made to 
settle the question. -T!)P Rural has made 
several experiments of this kind, one of which 
was as follows: One-third of a two-acre plot 
of late field corn was cultivated deep and 
hilled up. The other portion was cultivated 
shallow and level—the corn in rows, so that 
the cultivation was confined to one way. The 
season was favorable for corn, except that it 
was rather dry at earing time. Without re¬ 
ferring to our report at the time for figures, 
we may say that the corn on the one-third 
poitiou turned yellow 10 days before the other 
part, and yielded considerably less in grain... 
Henry Watterbon says that “no man can 
mingle the busiuess of politics and journalism 
and remain an honest man”.. 
Hoard’s Dairyman says that the average 
amount of milk required to make a pound of 
cheese depends on the season aud also on the 
kind of cheese made. In a dry season like the 
present, and where an acid cheese is made, the 
average will be about nine and one-half pounds 
of milk to one of cheese. Where a soft, sweet 
curd cheese is made, containing considerable 
water, the averuge will run as low this season 
as nine pounds of milk to one of cheese. In an 
ordinary season the average is ten aud nine 
and one-half... 
Mr. E. Williams, of Montclair, N. J .tries 
nearly all the new kinds of straw berries. The 
past season the old Downing, so often recom¬ 
mended by the Rural, has done as well as 
any variety on his grounds. So he tells the 
Garden. 
Prof. Bailey, of the Michigan Agricultural 
College, grows 150 varieties, including all the 
novelties, yet of this number scarcely half are 
as g<xid as the old Hovey which is 50 years 
old. He meutiODs iu the above magazine that 
very few of the novelties are as good as old 
kiuds......... 
Mu. Wolverton, editor of the Canadian 
Horticulturist, of Ontario, Canada, says that 
the Marlboro Raspberry began to ripen its 
fruit July 7. He adds that “ it is quite reas¬ 
suring to find such stout canes, so well laden 
with large, bright, scarlet berries,” We are 
always pleased to hear well of this raspberry, 
for it is certainly a valuable kind where it 
succeeds... 
A. W. Cheeyer, who is an excellent dairy 
authority, says that among the many thou¬ 
sands of churns invented, there is a chance 
for choice. After using a number of kinds he 
prefers those that have neither floats nor dash, 
but “bring” the butter by the concussion of 
the cream falling against the sides or ends of 
the churn as it revolves or vibrates back and 
forth. Churniug can be doue a little quicker, 
as a rule, iu churns having floats, but time* is 
not of the first importance iu churning. 
Hoard’s Dairymau condemns a contem¬ 
porary because it is mainly made up of clip¬ 
pings from other papers, ^special care be¬ 
ing taken to omit the proper credit in most 
isntiirices. A paper, the editor adds, cannot 
long hold the respect of its readers, that pur¬ 
sues such methods. This ought to be true, 
but the unfortunate part is that the reader 
in most cases does not know that his pa¬ 
per is made up of such selections. An equal¬ 
ly culpable practice is becoming common with 
some papers, viz: that of appropriating parts 
of official station, society and agricultural re¬ 
ports, written by well-known men, just as if 
they were written specially for those papers 
and paid for by the publishers—a flagrant in¬ 
justice* to the authors, as well as to other pa¬ 
pers which habitually give full credit for all 
articles not especially written for them. 
SPEAK ino of speculators iu the year 178S, 
George Washington said: “I would to God 
that some one of the more atrocious in each 
State was hung upon a gallows five times as 
high as the one prepared for Hainan. No 
punishment, in my opinion, is too severe for 
the man who can build his greatness upou his 
country’s ruin.".... 
The bill which passed the English House of 
Commons demauds that butterine, etc., shall 
In? called “margarine;” whereupon Punch 
sings as follows: 
"Ah! toll uie uot they’ve changed thy name, so long 
a sweet decoy. 
By which I’ve made mv little game and palmed off 
the alloy. 
Ot chemicals and horses' fat. and things not nice or 
clean 
You were composed ; but what of that ?—you looked 
like butter In the j»at. 
Why eall you ’ Margarine’ ? 
Ah! why the public undeceive ? They bought thee 
with a will, 
And In thy virtues so tie I love that they would buy 
thee still.' 
Why have such meddling measures framed by legls 
lallon mean ? 
Alas ! thy origin’s proclaimed ; no more with butter 
art thou named, 
But henceforth ' Margarine’!" 
Considering tbo amount of wheat now in 
sight, there is small prospect of improved 
prices for the coming crop, says Mr. Stiles, in 
the Press. If wheat culture increased the 
fertility of the soil, or even kept it from de¬ 
creasing, (toes well-managed animal bus. 
bandry, there might be some consolation in 
the prospect. But when we remember that 
soil exhaustion accompanies the downward 
tendency of prices, the future of wheat-grow¬ 
ing in the West is uot bright. 
Careful experiments made at the Mass. 
Ex. Station seem to show that scabby pota¬ 
toes used for seed have nothing to do with 
producing scab in the crop. 
Experiments wore also made with ensilag 
ing apple pomace in casks. Two casks, of a 
capacity of from 50 to 00 gallons each, were 
used for the experiment. They were painted 
inside with a black tar varnish to render them 
air and water-tight. The pomace was 
stamped down solid, and subsequently covered 
with tar paper, which was held down by a 
layer of sand several inches In thickness, and 
some large stones. The casks, thus filled, 
were kept in a corner on the barn-floor until 
May 17. 1888, when they were opened to ex¬ 
amine tbeir contents. The material was found 
throughout apparently as fresh as when put 
up; neither mouldy, rotten, nor even discol¬ 
ored on its surface. It is highly relished by 
cows and swine... 
The Com. of Agriculture fiuds that proba¬ 
bly 20 per cent, of the farmers of Kausas are 
in debt beyond the amount of their credits. 
At least. 50 per cent, of the farms are mort¬ 
gaged, mostly to loan associations handling 
Eastern capital. Local banks and capitalists 
are largely engaged in making real estate 
loans. The rates of interest charged ou farm 
loaus range from six to 10 percent. On cattle 
loans the rates range from 10 to 18 per cent. 
Not more than 10 per cent, of farmers have 
property interests outside of their farms. 
Mr. Daniel Lee says in the Southern Cul¬ 
tivator that breeding mules and horses for 
cotton planters has been the best business he 
could do iu Tennessee during 25 years, and lie 
believes that any other farmer, by keeping 
five or six brood mares and working them 
enough to pay for their keep, might have an 
income of *500 or *1500 a year, and save the 
wages and provisions of two laborers. 
The Western Plowman takes a very sensi¬ 
ble view as to raising nut trees. It predicts 
that in the future trees good for nothing but 
wood will be grubbed out and walnuts anil 
hickories put in their place. Did you ever eat 
htokorynut or walnut cake? Did you ever eat 
bread slightly sweetened aud with the kernels 
of nuts forming quite a liberal iugnedieutIt 
is nice, palatable aud wanning iu the winter, 
and leaves the grease-saturated doughnut 
quite in the shade. While you are raising 
trees have useful ones that will give a valu¬ 
able crop every year, and wheu they get too 
old to bear will make first-class, valuable 
timber. 
T. B. Terry, in the Country Gentleman, 
suggests a new use for a cold-storage house, 
viz: that of keeping seed potatoes from sprout¬ 
ing. For years Mr. Terry has doue his best 
to keep his seed potatoes from doing this be¬ 
fore planting time. Whenever he failed he is 
sure that he lost by it after watching the crop 
grow. A cold-storage house would,he thinks, 
settle the matter satisfactorily.. 
Mr. Smeaton, Director of Agriculture of 
the Northwest Provinces of India, has issued 
a note on competition between Iudiau and 
American wheat. He says that India pos¬ 
sesses means to compel America to withdraw 
her hostile tariffs and open her markets to 
British industry, but is burdeued by higher 
railway freight charges, excessive handling 
and apparently (though not really) inferior 
quality. He advises Loudon merchants to 
use their influence with the railways. 
Mr. Crozier, of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture tells the Country Gentleman that he 
has found a field of Bermuda Grass with 
heads well filled with ripe seed, on stony, 
sandy soil ou the bank of the Potomac 20 
miles below Washington. Of over 500 ans¬ 
wers to a circular seut out bust winter by the 
Commissioner of Agriculture to farmers in 
the South, asking whether Bermuda had been 
known to seed, less tliau a dozen replied that 
they had found seed, but always iu small 
quantities.... 
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