eggs become so firmly imbedded in the lim 
that it is frequently difficult, or even impossi¬ 
ble, to take them out; and as there is no ad¬ 
vantage in using a large quantity of lime, for 
the water can take up only a certain propor¬ 
tion, it is found preferable to simply drop the 
eggs into lime water such as would be made 
from a mixture of n good handful of linn; to a 
gallon of water. One other system appears to 
succeed. It is that of packing the, eggs in 
sweet bran in boxes which are turned once 
every week. In some instances sawdust is 
used for packing eggs which have hceu dipped 
iu some preserving composition, but although 
they are preserved, a flavor is conveyed to 
the whites corresponding to that of the mater¬ 
ial iu which they are packed. 
Un fermented Wine.— A writer in Pacific 
Itural Press in giving his method of wine 
making says that in the first place he stems 
the grapes and presses out the juice into a 
tank, letting it stand over-uight to settle. In 
the morning ho rakes it off and then filters, 
thus rendering it free from nil vegetable mat¬ 
ter. He also takes a quantity of black grapes 
and pubs them in a. boiler, lotting them come 
to a boil, in order to produce a dark juice. 
This juice be also filters. Now, by blending 
these juices, any shade of wine desired is pro¬ 
duced, from a light pink to a deep claret color. 
He then puts the wine in a boiler (which 
should be of copper, with a faucet at the 
bottom for convenience in bot.'ling), and lets 
it come to a brisk boil, skimming what rises to 
the surface, it ia now ready to draw off in¬ 
to bottles, which should be standing in hot 
water to prevent breaking on the introduc¬ 
tion of the hot juice. When the bottles are 
filled, they should he corked immediately, 
and tbeu dipped into melted resin, which 
seals them air-tight.. He thinks that wine 
made in this way and brought into notice 
would soon become the most popular bever¬ 
age used, taking the place at dinner that cof¬ 
fee does at the breakfast tabic. 
Maturity of Ensilage Corn.— John 
Gould says, iu the Press, that the maturing 
of ensilage corn has been carried to its farth¬ 
est point in Ohio this full, and that not until 
September 38 was silo pitting fairly under 
way. This gave the fodder a chance to ma¬ 
ture more fully than ever before. The ex;nic¬ 
tation from this venture is that the silage will 
prove superior to auy previously pitted. He 
noticed that many of the ears of corn had 
even passed the cooking stage and had become 
hard and even deuteil. and yet the stalk main¬ 
tained its dark and lusty green. The value of 
such silage cannot be doubted, whatever may 
have been charged against the half-grown, 
graiuless fodder cut iu August, which was 
once considered proper practice. The slower 
filling gives the silage a chance to settle, iu 
which it is aided both by its owu weight and 
the heating, the latter appearing very h* lp- 
ful in the close and solid massing of the fodder 
to the exclusion of air. This air exclusion 
seems to be the important poiut iu sweet si¬ 
lage making, and numerous are the ways now 
devised to accomplish this, and avoid the 
greater cost of stone and cement silos. This 
season the silo men are all shortening up the 
cut of their machines to one-third and one- 
half inch lengths, and by this finer cut the si¬ 
lage settles faster and takes on beat more 
readily. The more mature the fodder the 
slower it develops beat, and this tardiness is 
nearly overcome by finer slicing. 
A Glorious People !—L. F. Allen, of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., writing to the Agricultural Ga¬ 
zette of London, says that in America every 
man who is able and willing to work has all he 
can do, and with the cheap living at hand and 
with proper economy, may support himself and 
family in comfort and pit my. The occasional 
strikes of laboring men, always disastrous in 
the end to themselves, as well as to their em¬ 
ployers, are originated by a class of unprinci¬ 
pled foreigners, who are Anarchists, Socialists, 
Commuuists—unprincipled always—doiug no 
labor themselves and subsisting on the plun¬ 
der they get from the unfortunate fools who 
listen to their brawlings. Mobs, riots, and 
outrage on the communities with which they 
are cursed are the results, and our dilatory 
law proceedings only tolerate their violence. 
A vigorous system of gallows punishment is 
needed. The masses of our native as well as 
foreign population are orderly and industri¬ 
ous, and could we only shutout the disorderly 
miscreants who tumble in upon us in such 
numbers, we should be, comparatively, a 
happy people of nearly 60,00U,000 of humanity. 
Nomenclature ok Fruits.— "The follow¬ 
ing item taken from the Cultivator and Coun¬ 
try Gentleman of Oct. 6, explains itself: 
"Our valued contemporary, the Hu is At, Nkw- 
Yorkkr, Speaking of the paper on this sub¬ 
ject read at the recent meeting of the Ameri¬ 
can Pomologieal Society at Boston, says there 
was nothing new elicited, but that it was sun- 
ply an indorsement of the reform inaugurated 
by the late President Wilder six years ago. It 
may not be out of place to state that the 
Country Gentleman furnished Mr. Wilder 
most of the leading ideas and facts on the sub- 
ject, which he amplified and brought promin¬ 
ently before the Society. By turning to this 
journal for 1888, page 520, the Rural New- 
Yorker will find the subject fully presented to 
the public, nud from these remarks, and frpm 
private correspondence, Mr. Wilder intro¬ 
duced the matter into his address some months 
afterwards. Home other journals have made 
the same mistake, and have not given the 
Country Gentleman the credit properly due, 
the subject having been introduced by it on 
several other occasions.” 
Wind-mills. —The Husbandman says that 
a very common mistake in selecting wind¬ 
mills is to get those that have not enough 
power iu light winds—the diameter of the 
wheel being too small. It is always better to 
have a little more power than is needed, for 
that, will obviate many disappointments with 
very little extra cost. Manufacturers usually 
sell their mills guaranteed to perform a cer- 
taiu amount of work, but a mill that does not 
have to be put to full performance will last 
better than another straiued to its limit, and 
will be also less likely to get out of repair, 
a great annoyance to farmers wbo have not 
much mechaui al skill. There are instances 
of mills that have rim several years with no 
farther attention than occasional oiling. 
Others, not well constructed, have become 
useless in the first year of service. 
SAUNTERINGS. 
Professor Lazenby, of Ohio, says that 
killing birds or robbing their nests should 
be punished by fine or imprisonment—one or 
both. We should like to see the experiment 
tried for two years or so. 
The N, Y. Tribune insists that the apple- 
worm should be called "eodlin," not "cod¬ 
dling” or " codling” moth. A codim or cod¬ 
ling is nu immature apple, according to Web¬ 
ster. The verb " coddle” comes from a Latin 
word signifying to cook, bake or burn, and 
this is, in a sense, just what the apple-worm 
does to the apple. We shouTd prefer the 
“ Coddling” Moth. But *’ apple-worm” is bet¬ 
ter than either, since the moth merely deposits 
the harmless egg which hatches into the de • 
structive worm.. 
The silo put into use in the West, says Dr. 
Stewart, would save at a small cost all the 
millions of tons of corn-stalks now left to 
waste, which would provide acceptable and 
nutritious feeding for the winter, instead of 
being a source of disease and loss of thou¬ 
sands of cattle which have little or no other 
subsistence... 
"In wbat quarter of the moon do you plant 
your potatoes?” asked one farmer of another. 
"1 plant my potatoes in well manured and 
well plowed soil, and not in the moon at all 
or any part of it,,” he replied. "So I sow ray 
clover seed in well manured land and expect 
my crop from the rich soil and not from the 
air or auy mysterious sources at all, and I 
never yet grew a crop of clover iu any other 
way.”..... 
OUR agreeable frieud xhe Canadian Horti¬ 
culturist, speaks of the Simon s Plum. The 
Rural’s only specimen bore quite a little 
crop of fruit which gave us the chance to 
judge of its quality. It has rather a peach-pit 
than a peach flavor, or, if one were to mingle 
small pieces of peach leaves with a plum- 
its peculiar flavor would tie imitated some¬ 
what closely. The leaf resembles a peach-leaf 
as much as a plum leaf and the pit is corru¬ 
gated. We can not raise the finer plums at the 
Rural Grounds on account of the cureulio. ex¬ 
cept by diligently jarring the trees or raising 
them in small ben yards. 
A prize was offered some time ago by the 
Royal Agricultural Soeiety of England for 
the best essay on the subject "Profitable 
Farming for Bad Times.” One of the best 
suggestions of the prize essay is that "every 
farmer should grow his owu feeding stuffs 
upon his own farm.” Commenting upon the 
above, the Times says that "feeding stuffs” 
include the necessary supplies for the farmer’s 
family .. .... 
The first requisite for profitable manage¬ 
ment of a farm, and for any business in fact, 
is to reduce the outlay for expenses, and when 
a farmer buys Ids flour, butter, and meat, 
instead of producing them, and having a sur¬ 
plus of them to sell, he neglects this primary 
principle of good farming. Farmers of 40 
years ago, and some of the present day, sup¬ 
plied their households with wool and flax for 
domestic use as well as with their flour, vege¬ 
tables, honey, fruit, viuegar, butter, cheese, 
pork, beef aud mutton. The well stocked 
cellar and larder, with the well furnished 
closets, showed that, the cardinal principle of 
prosperity "to grow his owu feeding stuff’’ 
was not neglected.• • * •. 
Chinch bugs— 1,000 to the square inch of 
soil is what Pres. Chamberlain of Iowa 
found... 
The editor of the Orange Co. Farmer says 
that he grew the Turner Hybrid tomato, or, 
as it is called by some seedsmen, the Mikado 
in his home garden, for the second time this 
season. It was about the same as last year. 
Very little rot, but a very large proportion 
of the fruit was more or less wrinkled, some 
of it so much so as to be comparatively worth¬ 
less. In quality, it has no superior, for 
which reason lie proposes to continue to plant 
a few of them... 
The R. N.-Y. was the first to announce that 
the Turner aud Mikado were the same. It 
was also the first to state that, in its estimation, 
this new tomato is not worthy of introduction. 
We would ask the Orange Co., Farmer to 
raise the old Trophy aud Turner beside each 
other aud judge between them as to quality, 
shapeliness and production.... 
Why not buy your wife a portable cream¬ 
ery to set the milk in? asks Mr. Crosby in 
Hoard's Dairyman. It will pay for itself in 
two ways: by raising more cream for the 
same amount of milk, and by saving time and 
labor. Why not visit one of your neighbors 
who has a silo, aud see if you don't need 
a silo yourself? Why not granulate your 
butter and wash it in the churn with 
brine and for once in your life make some 
butter free from buttermilk? Why not take 
a step further and sale with brine? Then 
break a piece of the butter after it is pressed 
together and see if the fracture is not exactly 
like that of east steel. It will please yon. 
Mr. Cushman, of the Ohio Horticultural 
Society, had a word to say iu regard to the 
Early Harvest Blackberry that fully indorses 
all the Rural has said about it: 
"There is no other berry that can lie plant¬ 
ed in our section of the country that I think 
will bring as much money to toe grower as 
the Early Harvest B>ackberry. I was aston¬ 
ished last year to see how well my plants did. 
The berries were larger and hanilsom^r than 
1 had any idea they could be; and for pick¬ 
ing, they are the prettiest blackberry I ever 
saw. Y uu eauuot raise this berry where the 
mercury falls lower lhan L5° below zero, and 
have tuetn do anything Mine are all laid 
down aud covered With earth, and I expect to 
get some money from them next year.” .. 
Probably the best time to piune grape¬ 
vines is now.. 
Samuel Miller, of Bluffton, Mo., warns 
the readers of Colman’s Rural World not to 
buy Kelsey's Japan Plum as it will never ripen 
its fruit for that climate. In the Gulf States 
it will take a high rank as it is the largest of 
plums, of excellent quality aud can be shipped 
a thousand miles... 
What everybody echoes or in silence passes 
by as true to-day. says Thoreau, may turn out 
to be falsehood to-morrow; mere smoke of 
opinion which some had trusted for a cloud 
that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their 
fields..... 
Again he says: "No man ever stood the 
lower iu ray estimation for having a patch on 
his clothes; jet I am sure that there is greater 
anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or 
at least clean and unpatebei clothes, than to 
have a sound conscience.”. . 
Even in our democratic New England 
towns the accidental possession of wealth, and 
its manifestation in dress aud equipages alone 
obtain for the possessor almost universal re¬ 
spect. But they who yield such respect, nu¬ 
merous as they are. are so far heathen, and 
need to have a missionary sent to them. 
L. S. Dunham informs the Michigan Farm¬ 
er that he has made sheep raising a study all 
his life, and finds in the Shropshire just what 
is wanted for a general-purpose sheep. He 
has crossed them on grade flue wools for six 
years in succession, and produced lambs that 
would average 120 pounds at from 10 to 11 
months old, and which sold for six cents per 
pound each year at home market,. 
Professor Johnson says in the Albany Cul¬ 
tivator that he is aware that it has been 
tbou.ht. and still may be believed, that fish oil 
of itself is a good fertilizer. That, idea is 
probably based on observing the effects of a 
crude and highly impure oil, eoutainiug much 
suspended nitrogenous ma ter; but pure oil 
has been proved experimentally to have no 
power to promote vegetable growth, and so it 
is better out of a compost than in it, so far as 
the plant-feeding capacities of the latter are 
concerned..... 
J. J. Thomas says that land owners who 
are preparing to plant peach orchards early 
next spring, may profitably make provision 
during the present autumn by preparing the 
soil for mellow culture, and by avoiding 
the mistake which some make of sotting the 
trees in sod. The difference bet ween the two 
modes will be plain euough after they become 
bearing trees—the one will give large, brill¬ 
iant, rich, high-flavored peaches in abund¬ 
ance; the other few, small, badly ripened 
specimens, and of second quality in flavor.... 
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