THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
The Norway Spruce.— Here'is an item 
from the September Century which supports 
the view which the Rural lias somewhat 
pressed upon the public regarding the Norway 
Spruce. “The Norway Spruce (Abies 
exoetsa), all through the Northern ami 
Eastern States has been planted in such 
numbers for so many years that it can surely 
be said to have been fairly tested. It is a 
most remunerative tree to nurserymen, and a 
most tempting one to planters—easily raised 
and tran solan tod, and growing with remark¬ 
able rapidity and great beauty of form while 
young. But in tho pamphlet just quoted, 
Professor Sargent says that its general intro¬ 
duction into our plantations 1 must, neverthe¬ 
less, be regarded as a public misfortune . . . 
In spite of its early promise, it must be 
acknowledged to be a complete failure in 
eastern America. It has pissed its prime 
here and is almost decrepit before it is half a 
century old; it will never produce timber 
here, aud it becomes unsightly just at that 
period of life when trees staouli be really 
haudsotne in full and free development.’ The 
most cursory glance at the condition of this 
tree in the neighborhoo i of New York will 
prove that it is not unsuite 1 to the climite of 
Massachusetts only. The Central Park is 
disfigured by hundreds of half-dead speci¬ 
mens which are not. yet half grown; and even 
where the soil is better, ragged, blackened 
forms almosG invariably prove n want of 
health and vigor. Again, Mr. Robert Doug¬ 
las, of Waukegan, Ill., ono of the oldest and 
most widely-known nurserymen in the coun¬ 
try. writes that he has never seen a Norway 
Spruce iu the East, 50 years old, that was 
not failiug in its upward development, or one 
iu tixe West40 years old; aad that when he 
went purposely to Canada to exatniue a large 
number which he had seeu planted 40 
years before Relieving tb it they might have 
done especially well iu a northern climate), he 
foual that nut one was living, and that many 
which had been planted iu later years were 
already fading. Ail he alls that he speaks 
with a sense of responsibility, as he has 
‘grown in ire Norway Sprures than any man 
in Arnarica aud than ull other men iu 
America. 1 ” 
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FULL AS A TICK. 
The Boston Herald suggests co-operation iu 
the employment of physicians. The idea is 
not new but is certainly sensible, writes the 
N. E. Homst-ad. Suppose a number of fami¬ 
lies pay a Used sum per annum for the servic¬ 
es of a doctor in whom they have confidence. 
This action on their part assures Him a steady 
income and makes him interested in ke piug 
them well and hearty. He may call on them 
often iu a friendly way, and offer suggestions 
and counsel without laying himself open to 
the imputation of wanting to “run up a bill.” 
If a family thus provided for should have a 
good deal of sickness, the doctor would earn 
his salary from them twice over; if, through 
his kindly offices they should have none at all, 
they would ull the more readily pay for the 
great boon of health. The plan is by no 
moans chimerical; it could easily he put iu 
practice with benefit to both healer aud 
healed. 
A writer in the American -harden says that 
a tomato vine “ can be made to clamber to a 
hight of eight or 10 feet.” Yes, wo have trained 
them up the barn, confined to a single stem, 
which reached the hight of 14 feet. ... 
What time shall wheat be sown ? l’rof. 
Lazenliy, of the Ohio Ag. Ex. Statiou, sowed 
Velvet Chad at various times and the yields 
were as follows : 
Aug. 23 . 
Sou. 15. 
.28 
“ 13. 
.31 
ti 
“ 20. 
.‘28 
II 
u 27 
.215 
Cl 
Oct. 4. 
.33 
(1 
“ 11 . 
ti 
“ 18 . 
. 21 
ii 
« OJ> 
. 19 
Nov. 1 . 
41 
The weight of a 
bushel varies as 
follows : 
Aug. 23—01 pounds 
; Sep. 0—59 pounds ; Sep. 
27 — 01 pouuds ; Oct. 18 — 80 pounds ; 
Get. 25— 
59 pounds ; Nov. 1- 
-57 pounds . 
« . 
Seven’ successive kiuds of wheat have been 
sown on the same plots. Witter gave the best 
yield, viz. : 40 bushels to the acre ; Royal 
Australian, 09; Farqubar, 37; Hungarian, 37; 
New Monarch, 3(3 : lied Fultz, 35, nud so ou 
down to 10 bushels to the acre. As wo have 
had occasion to notice before, those plots must 
vary iu natural fertility. For instance, Finley 
yields *.37 bushels t o the acre; Rocky Mountain 
23. Both are the sa ne wheat. Martin’s Am¬ 
ber yields 21 bushels, Laudroth 32. Both arc 
the same, lied Fultz yields 35 bushels, Poole 
25. Both are the same... 
(4. H. & .1. H. Hale, of South (Hastonbury 
Ooun , have 12,000 peach trees in their several 
orchards, and a crop of 6,000 baskets is esti¬ 
mated for this season. The best peaches are 
Oldmixon and Stump-the-World. The Pratt 
is also a favorite with the Hales. 
A whiter in the Husbandman says that 
Hallock & Sons, of Orient, Long Island, N. 
Y., raised upon 12.'J' acres of land 3,8)0 bush¬ 
els of Early Ohio potato3S. This is over 30) 
bushels to the acre, and we can scarcely credit 
the statement. Early Ohio is about the ear¬ 
liest potato we ha ve tried—but it is never a 
heavy yielder. 
The statement is made in the Jersey Bulle¬ 
tin by one of the largest milk dealers in Phil¬ 
adelphia that during 1886, he had, ia the course 
of his business, aaMyzed about 1,45) samples 
of milk os shipped to his firm from 63 herds, 
as follows: Thirty Jersey or Guernsey herds, 
*27 herds of grade Jerseys or Guernseys, aud 5 
herds of common cows, The sampliug was 
nearly equally distributed throughout the 
year. The average of the Jerseys or Guern¬ 
seys was 14 5J per cent., for, tha grades 13.71 
per cent, and for the common stock 12.91 per 
cent, total solids.. 
A correspondent of the Mirror an! Far¬ 
mer of Verm nit, says that on the 25tb of last 
April he dishorned his bull, two vicioui cows, 
the terror of the herd, three yearlings and 
four calves. Tney showed signs of very little 
pain, aud when iet loose, went to eating and 
directly to chewing their cuds. The cows 
were fresh iu milk and did not shrink iu the 
quantity at all as he could see; but their spir 
its were broken aud they were quiet and in¬ 
offensive. The bull ba i the conceit all taken 
out of him; he is no longer a man killer, but 
is driven by the cows not yet dishorned, but 
which will be before winter sets in . 
The Kansas City Live Stock indicator has it 
that Gen. L. F. Ross declares that the com- 
ingdairy cow will be a *• muley.” Long be¬ 
fore the close of this century the dairy men of 
this country will know the great advantage of 
having hornless cattle. The dairy cow then 
will be a “general-purpose cow;” will give a 
quantity of good, rich milk, rear calves that 
can be readily turned into first-class beef, an 1 
when too old for the dairy, can be easily fat¬ 
tened for th.* butchex’. She will be a purely 
red cow. .The dairyman of the 23th century 
will, of coarse, have a cultivated taste and an 
eye for the beautiful. All such will, if they 
can get them, have red calves. 
There is uot now, aud probably will not be 
for years, enough high-grade fancy butter 
aud cheese iuthe world’s markets to material¬ 
ly 1 >wer tlr- prices willingly paid for them, 
says Dr. Hoskins iu Couutry Home. But to 
reach this pinnacle is just as easy, and no 
easier, than it is for a first-class merchant, 
lawyer, preacher, scientist, or statesman, to 
attain the goal of his ambition . 
The Dutch belted cattle have a place, says 
Col. Curtis in the above monthly. They are 
not quite so large as the Holsteius, but better 
calculated for rough lands. They will rival 
the Ayrshire for hardiness and ability to live 
and do well on scanty pastures and where ex¬ 
posure is practiced. Tney have a thick coat 
of hair, are jot black, except a belt of white 
which extends all around the body from the 
front of the udder to the hind part of the 
forelegs. They give good milk, and the 
males make stroug and hardy oxen. 
of the Agawam blackberry is soft, and must be 
picked daily. It is very fruitful, however. 
He says that the Wachusett Thornless satis¬ 
fies him. It is perfectly hardy. The berries 
have no core aud it is a good shipper. It has 
the reputation of not being productive. 
Mr, Sampson says it is a good idea to 
plant gooseberries among the rows of cur¬ 
rants. The currant worm will always prefer 
the gooseberry, and the latter bushes alone 
ueed be treated to hellebore ... 
A whiter iuthe Husbandman, whose farm 
is at Tioga Centre, N. Y., says that he has 
been raising Alfalfa or Lucerne for 12 years. 
On good land it will make from four to five 
cuttings. It does the best with him on rough, 
stony laud. The trouble is to get it over the 
first winter. The plants will winter-kill if not 
strong. He prefers to sow the seed in the 
spring on rich land. He sows 20 pounds to the 
acre, brushes it in and then rolls. It cannot 
be pastured. Cattle kill it. No grass cati 
be sown with it . .. 
All over the West, says the Orange County 
Farmer, the directors of agricultural socie¬ 
ties are awakening to the fact that the horse 
race is not promotive of the interests of an 
agricultural community ; and fair after fair 
announces the abolition of this feature. Let 
the good work go on ... 
A correspondent of the Jersey Bulletin 
asks : “Does a yellow skin on a Jersey denote 
richness?” The answer is yes, for it is very 
generally accepted as a fact that a yellow¬ 
skinned cow’, with orange color in her ears 
and golden colored udder, is a rich cow. No 
doubt there are exceptions, but any good Jer- 
seyrnan in buying a cow would rather see yel¬ 
low than white as above mentioned. 
Prof. Johnson, of the Michigan Agricnl. 
tural College, reports the highest yield of 
wheat ou the college farm as 24 bushels; 
variety, Champion Amber. The lowest, Zim¬ 
merman, was 18. Diehl-Mediterranean yield¬ 
ed 21 bushels. Three acres of Clawson, with 
different amounts of seeds yielded as folows: 
75 pounds seed per acre, yielded 24 -i 
bushels; 120 pounds seed per acre, yielded 
24 L* bushels, and 90 pounds seed per 
acre yielded 13 bushels. The yield from 90 
pounds of seed per acre, he says, is hardly a fair 
test, on account of the peculiar location of 
that acre, so that it suffered from the severe 
and loug-extended drought more than the 
others... 
Uncle Esek’s wisdom in the Century gives 
us the following four paragraphs: 
You can restrain the bold, guide the im¬ 
petuous, aud encourage the timid, but for the 
weak there is no help; you might as well un¬ 
dertake to stand a wed string up on end. 
There are lots of things in the world that are 
like molasses candy iu one respect,—half of a 
stick is sweeter than the whole. 
Fashion makes fools of some, cowards of 
many, aud apes of all. 
Whenever I read a pompous and abstruse 
sentence, I find the idea iu it weak; it is al¬ 
ways safe to trust a strong thought to simple 
language. .. 
PiUttUawous ^dvnrtijsitig. 
A farmer who has had much experience 
with drains tells the Farmers’ Review that 
the laud is looser, and more friable, it plows 
more easily in the wheat stubble, and is not 
so cloddy as where it is uot drained. The 
corn has a better color and has eared better 
right over the drains, than at a good distance 
from them. Where the laud is drained he 
finds that it takes less rain in a dry time to 
penetrate the soil and do good, than where it 
is not drained, as it does not “bake” so badly, 
aud the rain can soak down iuto the soil, 
whereas, where it is not drained, the water 
lies ou top, and the suu evaporates it, and it 
does not penetrate to the roots unless it is a 
very heavy and continuous rain. 
According to Dr. Nichols, of the Science 
News, ba'dness is uot caused by wearing bats 
or caps, nor by close clipping, nor by living 
iu hot rooms, nor by food, hut, in his view, 
by modern methods of treatment of the hair 
and scalp...... 
11k deplores the shampoo. “Let your hair 
alone,” is his advice. Keep away from the 
barber’s shop aud drug shop where oils aud 
alcoholic mixtures are sold for use upon the 
hair. “They are all pernicious.” The head 
aud hair may be washed occasionally with 
soft, tepid water, without soap of any kind. 
As a rule, the only appliances needed in the 
care of the hair are good combs and brushes; 
and they should not be used harshly,^ as to 
wound the scalp. Avoid all “electric” and 
wire-made brushes. No electricity can be 
Stored in a hair-brush; if it could be, it is not 
needed. .... ... 
Mrs. Sampson, of Bedford, Mass., says, iu 
the Massachusetts Ploughman, that the fruit 
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for ^V^ry forrr| of 
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This repeated dally, with two or three doses of Ccti- 
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