THE RURAL W1W-Y0RKER. 
can affect the yield now. The best conclusions 
are that we have one-third of a crop. I have 
examined many fields, and also many speci¬ 
mens of corn prepared for the fair, and it is 
wonderful how well the crop has done through 
such a drought. The ears are short hut well 
filled—whero it escaped chinch bugs—and well 
matured. There are through the fields a 
great many stalks that never made any ears 
at all. A great portion of the crop in this 
country will be cut and shocked, I notice 
some sloughs on which a team could not get to 
cut the grass three years ago. They were 
tiled and the corn on them is the best in the 
country. I have seen that tiling will pay. We 
have had of late light showers which have 
done much to cool the air, and render life 
more endurable and to start the Blue Grass 
for fall pastures. If wo could only have a 
little 11101*0 rain our pastures would soon be 
green again. Our late potato crop is past all 
hope, being the poorest ever grown. Oue man, 
the most extensive grower of late potatoes in 
the county, said to me this morning that a 
large portion of his crop would not be worth 
harvesting. We have grasshoppers and 
chinch bugs plenty yet, though they can not 
do much harm now. Water still very scarce. 
The grape crop is large and fine grapes are a 
drug on our market at four cents per pound. 
Our State fair, which opens to-day, promises to 
be the best ever held in the State. The weather 
is fine for the fair, and the grounds are in ex¬ 
cellent condition and water and food in abun¬ 
dance for man and beast have been provided. 
The entries so far are large. F. s. w. 
Sibley, Osceola, Iowa, Sept. 2.—A heavy 
rain is falling, the first to soak the ground for 
a year. The snow water ran off while the 
ground was frozen; nevertheless the crop will 
average as well as in any previous year. All 
early-sown grain is very good. Timothy not 
over a quarter crop. Wheat is yielding from 
12 to 28 bushels per acre; oats 25 to 75; barley 
25 to 40. Potatoes, a fair crop. Corn extra. 
G. s. D, 
New Hampshire. 
South Sutton, Merrimack Co., —All 
grain crops are only about one-third of an 
average. Apples scarce. Potatoes rotting 
and worms working in places. A very heavy 
hay crop. Corn promises well. Plums are 
rotting badly. Half my Lombard and Gage 
plums are spoiled. Grapes, a full crop. 
n b. c. 
Dover, Stafford Co., Sept. 5.—August 
was a wet and warm month, and many 
farmers are only just done haying. As a con¬ 
sequence the hay harvested is of poorer quality 
than usual. The potato crop is tnueb injured 
by rains, rust and rot doing much damage. 
The crop will not be more than 75 per cent, of 
last year's. Corn will be an average. Ap¬ 
ples, a very light crop—more so than for 
many years. Fields and pastures never 
looked finer at this season. j. m. h. 
New York. 
South Apalachtn, Tioga Co., Aug. 27.— 
Crops are looking fair. Potatoes will be 
three-quarters of a crop. Oats a fair yield, 
but very light in weight. Rye and wheat 
good. Hay light. Corn looking fine. Hops 
good. n. k. s. 
Lawrenceville, St. Lawrence Co., 
August 20.—The Rural seeds were extra 
good and we are enjoying the fruits thereof 
with much relish. The flowers are the admi¬ 
ration of all, especially the poppies. 1 put 
some around my onion bed, which was near 
the cucumber patch, to keep the bugs away, 
and not a striped bug has come near them. 
T7e have seven large melons growing, and 
have just tried a squash and found it excel¬ 
lent. Last year’s corn yielded well, and we 
plauted it this year for our field crop. Father 
is an old farmer—SO—and thinks the Rural 
indispensable and the seeds unrivaled, k.e.h. 
North Carolina. 
Henderson, Vance Co., N. C., Sept. 1.— 
We have had an excessively wet summer, 
Every crop harvested that water could injure 
has so far boon nearly ruined —wheat, oats, 
hay and fodder. Cool this week. M. b. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
C-ablton, Mercer Co.—Wo had a very dry 
summer until Aug. 5th, when we had a terri¬ 
fic thunder storm. Since then we have had 
plenty of rain, which has started the pastures 
nicely and made a great growth of buck¬ 
wheat straw, but as yet very little grain. 
Unless the fall is unusually favorable buck¬ 
wheat will be a failure. Much of the thrash¬ 
ing is done, and machine men report a very 
light yield in proportion to the straw. I ex¬ 
pected to have at least 2(KI bushels of wheat, 
and 700 bushels of oats, but t hrashed only 170 
bushels of wheat and 514 of oats, and the 
thrashers said mine were the best they had 
thrashed. Hay an average crop. Potatoes a 
failure. Corn average. Fruit light. 
J. A. J. 
West Virginia. 
Dulin, Wirt Co., Sept. 3. —We are having 
a terrible drought here. There will not be 
half a crop of corn and no late potatoes. 
G. w. MCD. 
“Against Oleo.” —The law against oleo¬ 
margarine was made more striugent than ever 
by the last N. Y. Legislature. Here is a new 
section:— 
No keeper or proprietor of any bakery, 
hotel, tavern, hoarding house, restaurant, 
saloou, lunch counter or place of public en¬ 
tertainment, or any person having charge 
thereof or employed thereat, shall keep, use 
or serve therein, either as food for their 
guests, hoarders, patrons or customers or for 
cooking purposes, any article made in imita¬ 
tion or resemblance of natural butter or 
cheese, * * * This section shall not be so 
construed as to require evidence of a wilful 
or intentional violation thereof. 
A violation of this section is declared a mis¬ 
demeanor. punishable hy a fine of not less 
than $50 nor more than $200, or not less that 
10 nor more than 30 days’ imprisonment for 
the first offense. For ever}’ - subsequent 
offense the penalty Is imprisonment for one 
year. The act further provides that an 
officer armed with a search warrant may 
enter any hotel, restaurant or boarding-house 
to ascertain whether the law is being vio¬ 
lated. 
Beet root Sugar Cultivation in the 
United States.— Mr. Claus Spreckels, the 
great sugar refiner, is reported to be con¬ 
templating the experiment of growing beet¬ 
root sngar iu this country in one of the Cen¬ 
tral Western States. It is claimed that the 
climate is similar to that iu Germany and 
Austria, where beet-root cultivation is a 
most important industry. As is well known, 
the cultivation of beet sugar has been very 
profitable iu those aud other European 
countries, where high bounties have been 
paid by the governments. If it is true as re¬ 
ported that such experiments are contemp¬ 
lated. the outcome of them will be closely 
watched. Whether under present couditious 
of low sugar prices it is possible to success¬ 
fully make this sugar in this country is an 
interesting question. In 1886, the total con¬ 
sumption of sugar of all kinds in the United 
States was 1,388,125 tons, of which only one- 
tenth was produced in this country. A tele¬ 
gram from Montreal last Monday says,that it 
had been decided to open a beet-root sugar 
factory at Berthier, Quebec, next summer, 
with a capitnl of $300,000. 
RURAL LIFE NOTES. 
The Michigan Farmer says that the Diehl- 
Mediterranean wheat, of which considerable 
was grown in that State the past season, has 
proved to be a valuable variety, and will be 
largely sown this fall. Had the year been a 
favorable one there would have been some 
phenomenal yields, as early in the seasou it 
was very promising. As it was it did better 
than most other varieties, and its flouring 
qualities are excellent....... 
John Burr, of Leavenworth, Kansas, who 
has origiuated a number of grapes that will 
become better known in the near future, 
writes ns that “a vine should never be left to 
overbear. More vines are ruined by being 
allowed to overbear than by any other cause.” 
A writer iu the London Garden says that 
Sir Rowland Hill deserves to bo noted as per¬ 
haps the bust purple hybrid perpetual rose in 
cultivation. The color is claret-purple. We 
believe it is not known here.. 
The wide-awake agricultural editor of the 
Press says: “We regret to see the editor of 
the Rural New-Yorker, who very justly 
insists upon botanical accuracy in others, 
oalliug our common hemlock Abies (Piceal 
Canadensis. Tsuga is the correct name." 
For the once we th nk the Press editor hy¬ 
percritical. We don’t like to upset better- 
kuowu names for those uot so well known 
without pressing reasons, and we are, there¬ 
fore, slow, for example, to give up Abies for 
Picca and conversely. Haven’t we a right to 
follow Dr. Gray aud lots of other authorities 
instead of Carrif>re or Endlicher as to the 
Hemlock Spruce? The old botanists called 
the spruce /Vcea aud the fir Abies. Then 
Liiuumts changed these names, aud we believe 
Dr. Englenuinn was about the first to again 
insist upon the old botanists' names. But the 
change upsets nurserymen's catalogues and 
popular works and perplexes people not well 
posted in botany. The same may be said as 
to Tsuga. While we have flrstrate authori¬ 
ties who call the Hemlock Spruce Abies, we 
do uot see that we are wrong in preferring 
this name to that preferred by other author¬ 
ities. For the Hemlock Spruce we do not see 
why we may uot take Abies Canadensis after 
Miohaux, as well as Tsuga Canadensis after 
Carrifere. Or for that matter, we might call 
it Pinus Canadensis after Willd, or Finns 
Americana after Du Roi, or Abies Americana 
after Marsh, and so on ad infinitum —almost. 
According to Dr. Goessman, as quoted by 
the Weekly Press, carbonate of lime is often 
found in dairy salt in such quantities a - to itn 
pair its value. The practice of salting with 
brine enables the manufacturer to remove 
this and other insoluble foreign material. 
Even one-fourth of one per cent, of chlorides 
of calcium or magnesium gives a bitter, un¬ 
pleasant taste. Good salt can not improve 
carelessly made butter or cheese, but a lower 
grade of salt will undeniably destroy the 
keeping quality of good butter or cheese. 
Good dairy salt may become objectionable iu 
consequence of careless storing near strong- 
smelling substauces in barns.. „. 
“Cannot you two arbitrate.”’ asks Farm, 
Stock aud Home. “ Each of you choose one 
man and let them choose another and leave 
the matter in the hands of the three 
for settlement, after each has stated his 
side of ihe story. This will be a 'heap' cheaper, 
and probably a great deal more satisfactory, 
than to put it in the hands of the lawyers.”... 
The man who crosses his legs, says a Times 
editorial, in the horse-cars, deserved the at¬ 
tention of the authorities—the social authori¬ 
ties at least. Ladies hold back their dresses 
and try to walk around him without having 
to wipe his muddy boots with their skirts, 
while the men who are euough of high step¬ 
pers walk over him. He is a troublesome 
person. There are occasions when a man can 
indulge in the luxury of crossing his legs in 
a horse car, stage-coach or social gathering, 
but under ordinary circumstances the place 
for both of a gentlemau’s feet is on the floor. 
The fact that well-bred persons sometimes of¬ 
fend in this matter out of forgetfulness is no 
excuse for them or others. 
Prof. Atwater says, in the Century, that 
the heat generated in the body, by the com¬ 
bustion of food and otherwise, is continually 
given off by radiation. With plenty of 
clothing we can retain enough to keep our¬ 
selves warm even in a cold day. Too much 
clothing may so interfere with radiation as to 
make us uncomfortably warm, The amount 
of heat produced in the body is so large that 
it has been calculated that, if there were no 
way for it to escape, there would be enough 
iu an average well-fed man to heat his body 
to the temperature of boiling water iu 36 
hours...... 
Mortimer Whitehead says that the 
Grange has ever found the greatest opposi¬ 
tion from those who knew least about it. 
To reduce the live stock on the farm by 
reasonably prompt sales of all ready for 
market, and of all animals of such a poor 
quality as to be of doubtful profit; to keep 
the remainder in good condition, rather than 
to compel them to rely on the bare pasturage; 
to take good care of the straw from the small 
grain crops, and to make the most of the 
seriously injured corn crop by cutting much 
of it and carefully saving the fodder—these 
seem common-place suggestions, but they are 
the best, says Prof. Morrow, of Illinois, in the 
Breeders’ Gazette, that he can offer. 
Mr. M. W. Dunham remarks, in the third 
edition of his catalogue, that with 13,000,000 of 
horses in the United States (at least three- 
fourths of which would be increased in value 
by increased size!, aud with no meaus of sup¬ 
plying ourselves with stallions best suited to 
the purposes of improvement, except by 
direct importation from France, we can 
readily understand the slowness of the pro- 
gressmade, and better realize the impossibility 
of over-production. One million five hundred 
horses must 1 *' produced every year in order 
to keep up the supply, requiring the services 
of at least 60,000 stallions: aud the records 
show that ouly 3,000 Percheron stallions are 
now alive and in service iu this country. 
The Farm Journal mentions chat when 
careless Tom last used the plow he hung 
the clevis ou the feuee. It took a man aud 
two boys two hours to find it when the wheat 
ground was to be harrowed. 
A writer says, that he picks off melons that 
set now to give the big ones a better ehauee to 
ripeu. The plan is good enough in theory, 
but doesn't pay iu practice. 
Save the largest, smoothest and firmest 
tomatoes for seed. Nothing is gained by sav¬ 
ing the earliest, regardless of size aud form... 
Hoard’s Dairyman notes that Prof. W. 
A. Henry, of the Wisconsin Station, last 
summer kept six cows, three by pasturing and 
three by soiling, having the quality of the two 
herds as nearly equal as possible. The result 
wasaproduct of 1,779 pounds of milk from one 
acre of pasture, producing 82 pounds of butter, 
while one acre in soiling crops gave him 4,782 
pounds of milk, which made 196 pounds of 
butter. The pasture was one of the best Blue 
Grass pastures, capable of carrying a cow per 
acre through the season under favorable 
weather conditions.... 
Try the Springfield Blackcap. It is nearly 
thornless, of good quality and fairly produc¬ 
tive. All other things equal, a thornless rasp¬ 
berry is to be preferred. It is a pity that 
little progress has been made towards a thorn¬ 
less blackberry . . 
Might it not be arranged so that our young 
chemists could spend their vacations on 
farms, and so go back to the laboratory in¬ 
fused with the energy of practical problems 
needing demonstration, asks J. B. Olcott?_ 
TnE Conn. Com ant says: “The last Rural 
New-Yorker has a-shocking full-page car¬ 
toon. showing grim death rising from the 
baru-yard, and clutching the farm-house. If 
this is true,—and it may be—it will surely call 
attention to our putrid streams aDd ponds, 
a city of sluggish sewers, reeking, must be re¬ 
garded as one immense barn-yard most diffi¬ 
cult to cleanse. Perhaps the next cartoon 
will exhibit the convolutions, mouths and 
vents of the city sewer-serpent, which bites at 
both euds, and often at bad joints in the mid¬ 
dle. Bui let ns thank the Rural New-York¬ 
er for bravely showing the hazard, in these 
times.”..... 
Waldo F. Brown states, in the Farmers 
Review, that he met, a few days since, a man 
who had doubled the productive capacity of a 
farm of 160 acres by thoroughly under-drain¬ 
ing it. and whose signal success has led many 
of his neighbors to thoroughly under-drain 
their farms, and he asked him what the effect 
of his drains had been in thi«, the driest of 
all the years on record during the third of a 
century. He answered most emphatically: 
“Good,’' said he; “I am now plowing for 
wheat, and I can plainly notice the difference 
as I pass over a drain, for the plow runs 
easier and the land shows more moisture.” 
Mr. Brown is not prepared to say that drain¬ 
age may not be carried to excess on the black, 
loose (perhaps peaty) soil of the prairies. He 
does say without hesitation, however, that on 
the clayey, limestone soil i of Ohio there is no 
doubt that it has a beneficial effect. 
Mr. James Potter, of Daviess Co., Ind., 
says, in the same journal, that he has had 
considerable experience with tile and made a 
thorough examination recently, and finds that 
the only com that will ear to any value is 
over the lines of tile, and a few rods from the 
lile on each side. Immediately on reaching 
the rises in the fields, he finds the com fired 
badly and no ears at all. He has been making 
inquiry of quite a number of farmers from 
different parts of the county where tile is laid, 
and has found the results the same as his own, 
hence his conclusions are that a thorough sys¬ 
tem of drainage is as profitable iu droughts as 
in wet seasons. 
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