SUPPLEMENT Id THE RURAL NEW- 
CORRESPONDENTS’ VIEWS. 
(Continued from page 656.) 
Mantthf. in this Winter.— I wish to Impress 
upon farmers the importance of applying 
stablo manure broadcast in Docombor and 
January. With me this plan is very success¬ 
ful. Tt is ono of my most profitable farm op¬ 
erations. The soil in the spring Is in splendid 
condition for plowing. Try it. Wo must all 
experiment more or loss. What would an¬ 
swer 50 years ago won’t answer now in many 
operations. I use the Kemp manure-spreader 
and consider it one of tho greatest labor-sav¬ 
ing inventions of the age. J. J. mitchell. 
Morris Co., N. J. 
“The Coming Fowl.” —I only keep poultry 
as an adjunct to the farm, and have a very 
poor opinion of its profits and pleasure. I 
would not go into the business if a party 
would stock up completely and give it to me. 
It is worse than taking care of twins. Tho 
only fowl that I find pays is tho “ Downy,” a 
brood that, I have been six years brooding to 
fix their pooulinrities short wings and downy 
feathers. I have them so that they cannot 
(ly over a common stone wall. I was in Put¬ 
nam County, last week, at the Rey. E. B. 
Allen’s. 1 let him havo some last year, and I 
found his Brown U-ghornsand Plymouth Rocks 
shut up while the Downies ran at. large and 
ho told mo that they had not gotten into his 
garden once thus summer, though it was en¬ 
closed only by a low stono wall. How w that 
for tho coming fowl? j. v. H. N. 
Kingston, N. Y. 
Cauk in Feeding Cotton seed Meal.— It 
appears that great care should be exercised in 
feeding cotton-seed meal to cows. To exceed 
two quarts a day is to tread on dangerous 
ground. Home cows may stand more without 
injury, but this amount is tho limit of safety. 
Too heavy feeding also injures the quullty of 
the milk product. Cotton-seed meal is a very 
highly nitrogenous food, its nutritive ratio be¬ 
ing about ono part of nitrogen to two parts 
of carbon, or about twice as strong as a prop¬ 
erly balanced ration should be. Hence the 
danger in feeding it in large quantities. It 
should be fed in conjunction with some bulky 
and highly carbouaceous food like corn-stalks 
and straw. T. d. curtis. 
Down with Butter Coloring.—T he South¬ 
ern butter makers don’t use coloring; they call 
colored butler “painted butter” and they are 
right. Lot tho next dairy show insist on per¬ 
fect purity in the butter offered for competi¬ 
tion nod set a flinty face against adulteration. 
Dairymen i out your hay in its first bloom, and 
your corn fodder before the chlorophyll is de- 
comjioscd by frost or ripening, and the bciuiti- 
ful yellow oil of it is destroyed. Grow man¬ 
gels or carrots and use these foods in tho win¬ 
ter and fresh green pasture or fodder in tho 
summer, and you will not need to “paint your 
butter.” H. s. 
I cannot tell how much I havo learned 
through the Rural New-Yorker. Tho in¬ 
struction given by Dr. T. II. Hoskins cannot 
be prized too much. I would like to express 
in some way my thanks to him, and have 
even thought of writing him to do so. I wish 
ho would toll us about the Arctic apple, I 
can have a few cions of it next spriug, if it is 
nice for home use. Most Canadian fruits do 
not do well that I have tried. I think those 
readers of the Rural who follow it year after 
year, find it a necessity to them, and respect its 
editor and all those who havo contributed val¬ 
uable instruction to us, until their names be¬ 
come familiar and dear, like those of old 
friends. I find the Ru RAL the best adapted to 
my wants in all branches of farm life that I 
find among ull tho best agricultural publica¬ 
tions. 1LATTIE B. COLBY. 
Merrimac Co., N. II. 
As a member of I', of H., please accept of 
my thanks for the frontispiece of April 9. I 
hope the fraternity will acknowledge such a 
gift in n handsome manner. Such pictures 
should find a place on every Grauge Hall 
walls in the country and every farmer’s homo 
in tho land. a. w. saundkrs. 
Plamvillo, Conn. 
I wish to say right hero that I prize you 
practical , sensible paper highly, and watel 
for its coming impatiently, and devour it 
contents greedily. It is just the paper for th 
masses. West as wall as East. p. A L 
Odell, 111. 
I nAVK taken tho Rural New-Yorker fo 
iJO years, besides other agricultural papers, 
have always found its advice souud, its rend 
ing high-toned, and I cannot see how a farme 
who is on the lookout for hia own interest 
can afford to do without it Bo loug as 1 liv 
ou a farm I intend to take it. w. D. D. 
Tpeuar, Ohio. 
W,R &C0’S 
IMPROVED 
BUTTER 
COLOR 
DAVI SWING CHURN 
Takes ^ 
the lead r 
butter. ^ ..... .. 
Better than a Barrel Chum. 
I like the "Dftvls Swing Churn" mnoh better than a barrel chum for several reasons. Convenience of tilling, 
case In working, no stopping to draw vent plug, with consequent spuUerlun of cream, convenience of drawing 
off water and buttermilk, ami its being as handy as a butter bowl In which to salt the butter. 
St. Albans, Vt, Juno 12, 1885. HENRY BABCOCK. 
Better Than a Barrel Chum or Any Other. 
I like the “Davis Swing Churn," purchased of yottr agent last spring. I have been In the business twenty 
your>., ami bnvo used the Hnnburn Chum, the Blanchard Churn, the Fyler Churn, and concluded to try others, 
and borrowed a barrel churn and a Davis Swing Churn of my neighbors. Tim barrel churn is a good churn, but 
upon trial I would ruther have my Davis Swing Churn at the List price ($15) than the barrel as a present If I had 
got to use It one season. K.A. NORTON. 
Glover, Vt., Jnly 27,1886. 
After a Year's Use Find It Best. Makes More Butter Than the Square-Box Churn. 
Being still urged br friends to put In a hundred gallon square-box churn, I did so, and have run It beside my 
NO. 9 Davis Swing churn. I have made repealed tests by mixing time-ream thoroughly and putting half Into each 
churn. In every Instance the Davis awing churn has made tne most butter. The square box churn Is now for 
sale. L. T. HAZEN, Proprietor Island View Creamery. 
Haven a Mills, N. H., Juno 7, 1886. (Mr. Hasen Is Pres’l ol the New Eng, Creamery Ass'n. 
The Best of Satisfaction in Factories. 
We commenced using two of your largest size "Davis Swing Churns" In December, ISfQ, and they have given 
ua perfect satisfaction In every respect. AMHERST CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY AS -’N'. 
Amherst, Mass., July 15,1885. P. P. Alnswokth, Tieasurcr. 
Easy to Fill and Empty. 
Wo are perfectly satisfied with the “Davla Swing Churn.” Can suggest no Improvement. Works well, Is 
easy to clean, rosy to fill and empty. LEBANON CREAMERY CO. 
Lebanon, Ct., July 20, 1885. E. M. Huuchakd, l’rcs. 
Produces the Nicest Grain. 
The "Davis Swing Churns” give us perfect satisfaction. They produce hut.er of the nicest grain and are 
easily cleaned. Ours have been in use upwards of two years, and havo never foiled to produce good butter. 
Wapplng, Ct, July, 184&. WAITING CREAMERY CO. 
Send for Illustrated circulars containing a full list-of dairy and factory supplies. 
VEltJnoXT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
r [HER MAD OR 
GOOD FOR MAN 
Inflammation of all kinds. Dlntherlu, Wounds, 
Bruises, Hurn.s, Sprains, Rheumatism, Sore Throat, 
Swelling of tho CilundM, Inflammation of tho Eyes 
Broken Breasts, Front Bites, ChlUhlalns, Piles. Boo 
Stings nnd all sores. 
GOOD FOR BEAST 
Fresh Wounds, Galls, Sprains, Bruises. Cracked, 
Heel. Ringbone. Poll Evil, Wind Galls, Spavins, 
Sweeney, Founder, Lampnonn, Sand Cracks, Scratches, 
or Grease, Mange, Horse Distemper, etc., etc. 
Cures Garget, Sore Teats and Bags. 
and all Souks axo SwkuJMos in Cows and Oxen. 
For more extended remarks and Tor a large number 
of tiwtlniouhd* voluntarily sent to us by the persons 
whose signatures are ai (ached, we refer you to our 
Circular Pamphlet around each bottle. 
We would say to Livery Stable Keepers make It a 
point never to be without thin great remedy. It Inn 
cheap, efficient and sou* medicine. With this “Der 
mador." there Is no such word a* "fail." It never 
blister*, but cools Price 35 and 50 cents. Sold by all 
druggists. I), RANSOM. SON CO., 
BUFFALO. N. Y. 
MARKS’ PATENTS. 
ARTIFICIAL LEGS AND ARMS 
WITH RUBBER FEET AND HANDS. 
The engraving Is front an In- 
ntantnimouH photograph of a 
man ascend lug a ladder. He has 
two artificial legs substituting 
hw natural ones, which were 
crushed by a railroad accident 
nnd subsequently amputated 
With his ruolM-r reel he Is able 
to ascend or rlecend a ladder, 
balance himself on tho mngH. 
nnd have his hands at liberty. 
He can earn a good day's wages 
At the bench, lie can walk an I 
mingle wp h persons without be¬ 
traying his loss; In met, lie is re 
stored to his f> Ttner self for all 
prnctlcul purposes. 
With the Old methods of com¬ 
plicated ankle joints ati unde.r- 
Circulars. 
WOOD BEAM 
REVERSIBLE 
THE 
AGRICULTURAL TOOL COMPANY, M 
CHICOPEE FAILS SlisVcaium 
taking of this kind would be at 
the peril of tile wearer, but with 
the rubber feet he ean venture 
Into all sorts of operations with 
safety. 
Over eight thousand In prac 
tlcal use, scattered in nil parts 
of the world, Many of these 
have been made from measure 
incuts without tlie preseuee of 
tho wearer. 
A largo Illustrated pamphlet 
will bo Bent gratis. 
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