they could do in certain impossible circum¬ 
stances, and, keeping up their injured air, go 
on doing nothing. 
Tine editor of the Orange County Farmer is 
not as yet able to find in the market a cheese 
weighing from five to eight pounds. 
Our bright contemporary, Life, has the fol¬ 
lowing ingredientiul piece of poetry: 
’Tis an ancient saying with a truthful germ, 
That money makes the mar’ go; 
But ’tis plain, e’en to a pachyderm, 
That pork has made Chicago. 
SfTLLAS, crown imperials, iris, anemones, 
ranunculus, narcissus and crocus, hyacinths, 
tulips, lilies, jonquils, lily of the valley, snow¬ 
drops, may be planted now. 
Editor W. A. Stiles considers that far¬ 
mers conduct their business with as much in¬ 
telligence and prudence as do manufacturers 
and merchants as a class. They do the best 
they can, but they cannot fight hostile nature, 
Droughts aud floods and blights bring loss in¬ 
evitable, and loss euougb in many cases to 
swallow up more than the year’s profit. It is 
easy enough for some one who gets an assured 
living in other pursuits to scold farmers for 
improvidence and urge them to ‘‘get out of the 
rut.” But the chauces are that if one of these 
critics were t urned loose on a hundred acres 
of fertile, well-stocked farm land he would 
sturve to death iu half a dozen years if he had 
no oilier source of income than the soil. 
A writer in Hoard’s Dairyman says that as 
a general thing Holsteins arc kept for the pur¬ 
pose of selling their milk, and are fed for the 
purpose of producing quantity instead of 
quality, which makes a great difference. Feed 
them as you do Jerseys for butter, and you will 
soon see a great difference in the quality of 
the milk. He has grade Jerseys, Ayrshires 
and Short-horns; also thoroughbred Short¬ 
horns, Guernseys and Holsteins, and never 
saw young cattle do so well on the same 
amount of food as the Holsteins do. He pre¬ 
fers them to the Jerseys aud Short-horns, but 
thinks if be were to keep but one breed it 
would be the Guernseys, although he likes the 
Holsteins very much aud does not sell milk 
either.... 
A report comes from Osage County, Kan¬ 
sas. that, as a large herd of cattle were being 
driven to Mule Creek for water, 1-1 thorough¬ 
bred Short-horns dropped dead from the heat. 
The Editor of the Indicator discredits the re¬ 
port .. ....rC..... 
A correspondent of the Maine Farmer, 
deploring the present low price of beef, calls 
attention to previous ups and downs iu differ¬ 
ent agricultural products, says that periods of 
depression are always followed by periods of 
prosperity, urges farmers to pursue the even 
tenor of their way, and not he discouraged 
to abandon that which has paid them fairly 
iu the past, and will again pay thorn as well, if 
not better iu the future if they stay with it, 
and adds: “We ought to hold our position in 
this interest: it has cost us too dear to give it 
up just yet, and if we get out it will cost too 
much to get ba.-k.” To the above, the 
Breeder’s Gazette replies that now is the time 
when the cattle stocks can be increased to the 
full capacity of the farm, and now is the 
time, such as will likely uotagaiu occur in an 
ordinary lifetime, when herds of improved 
cattlp can be brought upon the farm at the 
very cheapest rate. A very moderate outlay 
will now stock up the farm with improved 
cattle which at other times would require a 
small fortune. It is the time of all others, to 
get into the cattle busiuess iu good shape. 
A mono vines Of late popularization, there 
is not one more beautiful thau Clematis cocei- 
neu, with its flowers of a rich scarlet color 
and harp shape. It is as hardy as any other 
vine... 
Fheesias are fine plants for forcing in the 
house. Their fragrance is delightful, and the 
blossoms, when cut, remain fresh in water a 
long time. Frocsta refractu alba is the best 
for forcing. This is white. F, Leiehtlini is a 
creamy white shading to yellow.... . 
The National Stockman says that, the rnati 
whose live cuttle go on Che wholesale market 
these day's at $4 50 per cwt. can feel as though 
ho had achieved something out of the usual 
line—for in these gloomy cattle times such 
sales are rare. Those same cattle get into the 
hands of the city butcher at a figure very 
little higher, and it is a prime lot of stock in¬ 
deed, which comes into the last bauds at 
$4.75. Could the farmer whose cattle are 
thus disposed of follow them on into the re¬ 
tail moat market, and see the prices which 
the unfortunate city consumers pay for what 
he feels that lie has almost giveu away, his 
eyes would bulge out with astonish meat. 
Teuderloiu, sirloiu, aud porterhouse steaks at 
‘JO cents, choice roasts und rounds 15 cents, 
and common rousts at 12 cents, are current 
prices iu all city markets. These prices are, 
under the circumstauces, simply outrageous; 
ftud when it js yeme pihemj that the bulk of 
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[ All old and new va-i 
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.Low rales to dealers. 
the cattle slaughtered are bought at §4 per 
cwt. and under, the imposition is the more 
glaring. . 
Well, if the boys see the prospect of a 
pleasanter life away from the farm, I can’t 
blame them for trying it on. Can youl asks 
a writer in the Weekly Press, of Philadel¬ 
phia No, but the Rural would like to 
have them sure that they see the pleasanter 
life..... 
The same paper advises, when preparing 
ensilage this fall, not to overdo the wilting 
business. When the stalks are allowed to dry 
too much the fermentation is not sufficiently 
vigorous to get up the needf d heat—125 de¬ 
grees, say. A little wilting is good. The 
stalks are not so heavy and less water is 
stored. But do not allow the corn to lie more 
thau 24 hours before pitting. 
Mr. Russel says, in the N. E. Farmer, 
that we farm without enough capital, and 
that farmers lack confidence in their business. 
They can make no safer investment than in 
the improvement of their own farms—in 
smoothing rough mowings, in reclaiming low 
lauds, in buyiug improved labor-saviug tools 
and manure or standard fertilizers. No 
property in the country pays better than 
ruowiug laud—it needs no insurance, no man 
can steal it, and its interest is never defaulted. 
A hundred dollars drawn from the savings 
bauk, where it earns four or five dollars a 
year, aud invested in enriching two or three 
acres of grass-land, will double itself the 
third year in the hands of a good farmer. By 
tbe use of capital a man finds out what 
Mr. Russel calls the potentiality of an acre 
of land. Raising ensilage has largely taught 
that lesson .. 
A writer in the Homestead says that be 
has seen people dig potatoes in a hot sun in 
the foreuoon, and leave them until after din¬ 
ner, aud then pick them and throw them into 
a cart and at night dump them dowu tbe cel¬ 
lar window to sweat aud rot, and then com¬ 
plain about their rotting. 
He had a bin in the house cellar last year 
22 feet long, five feet wide, and six inches 
from the ground: he began to fill it in Aug¬ 
ust. By the middle of September it was from 
four to five feet high, and was so near the 
floor above that he could not empty any more 
into it. He took out the first load in Decem¬ 
ber and sold them as fast as a hotel wanted 
them, and the last load was taken out iu Ap¬ 
ril. There were uot four quarts of unsound 
potatoes in the whole biu.. 
After the potatoes are dug and a little dry 
oil top. he begins to pick them up and put 
them in bags or sacks and he lets them stand 
in the field until night, aud then carts them 
to the cellar and sets them on boards placed 
on the ground. He never empties the same 
day they are dug; if placed on the ground 
they will gather moisture in a very short 
time. Bo suit; and not leave a single one iu 
the bin that is not dry. 
Several letters to the Farmers' Review show 
that thoroughly tile-drained land promises to 
produce more corn than undrained land. 
Several writers say that just over the tiles, 
and for a distance on either side, the corn is 
green, while elsewhere it is fired. Another 
writer says that he has tile-drains in differ¬ 
ent kinds of soil, and he finds that in all cases 
wbeu the tile has been properly laid the crops 
show 25 to 40 per cent, over untiled land. 
“ Farmers are all satisfied.” he says. “ that til¬ 
ing is a [laying investment either in wet or 
dry weather . 
Another writer well says that the real danger 
iu tiling lies iu the use of big tiles. If small 
tiles are used, the laud, he thinks, will in all 
cases bo benefited .... 
It is certainly well, as a reporter in the 
Live-stock Indicator suggests, in working 
horses either single or double, to train them 
to mind by word Iu cases of not uufrequent 
emergencies much may be gained. 
Referring to Butterine vermis Margarine, 
the London Times, in a leading article, sums 
up the issue thus: ‘‘Imitation butter, if it is 
as wholesome and as pleasant to the taste as 
it is alleged to be, may be trusted to survive 
the ordeal of an honest name. ”. 
Importations of English Hereford cattle 
have of Into years been greatly checked by 
the rule adopted by the managers of the Here¬ 
ford Herd Book, of charging $100 for record¬ 
ing each imported animal, while only $2 are 
charged for recording animals dropped iu this 
country. This heavy fee for imported stock 
was imposed, partly to encourage the breeding 
of domestic Herefords by lessening foreign 
competition, but mainly to diminish the im¬ 
portation of inferior animals from England. 
During the bight of the Hereford “boom”this 
was a serious evil, as the name uloue sold any 
kind of beast at a high price. There is now a 
disposition to abandon this rule, aud Euglish- 
meu who fiaye Herefords for sale rejoice ac- 
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