THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ability anrl earnestness. “Knowing wlmt 
they are about,” it is hard to believe that 
they will reject the Ritual's well meant, 
criticism as “captious” or “dishonest.” If we 
are wrong, let them show it and they'will see 
with what alacrity the Rural will publish its 
errors. The directors and officers of such 
stations, if they arc working for the public 
good, will invite criticisms. They are work¬ 
ing for new truths, and any one that can 
help them in this work should be accepted as 
a welcome co-laborer. 
“The Ohio Stat ion does not fool away its 
time crossing rye and wheat,” etc. 
The Rural New-Yorker has unquestion¬ 
ably devoted lots and lots of time to experi¬ 
ments that proved to he quite valueless. AVe 
thought that that was the ease with all experi¬ 
menters. Hasn’t the Ohio Station “fooled 
away” any time in other experiments? Or 
have all its experiments hit the nail exactly 
on the heud? 
Prof. Lazenby, during a late call at the 
Rural Office, expressed, with all apparent sin¬ 
cerity, n deep interest in the outcome of our 
rye-wheat hybrids? Does our contemporary 
set its judgment above that of the Director of 
the Ohio Station that so well “knows what it 
is about?" 
Rut, granted that we have in nil cases fooled 
away our time in making valueless experi¬ 
ments—who pays for this foolishness? if a 
fellow tries to do good, spends his own money 
in the efforts and-fails, who is to reproach 
him? Is it the Editor of the Ohio Farmer, 
who never, so far as the writer of this is 
aware, carried on a series of farm experiments 
in his life? Is he aware, as he ought to be, 
that the R. N.-Y. was among the very first to 
establish nu experiment station m this coun¬ 
try—the very first and perhaps now the only 
one, among agricultural editors? Is he aware 
that good and competent men that could be 
mentioned by the score have encouraged the 
Rural in its self-imposed work end have spok¬ 
en unreservedly of its value? Again, isbeaware 
that most of the experiments made at the 
Ohio Station have also been made at the 
Rural Ex. Grounds with the advautage to the 
latter of a poorer and more uniform soil? 
But lie chooses to single out the our experi¬ 
ment of “crossing wheat ami rye,” alluding to 
it as if it were a fair sample of the worthless 
character of our experiments in general. 
Even m this case, however, how does our 
friend know that these “hybridsure worthless 
to the world?’ lias ho seen them? If not, bow 
can lie judge of their value better tlmn those 
who have seen them; better than those who 
are patiently working to (lud out their value? 
Are our cross-bred wheats to tie placed in the 
same box by this same experienced judge? It 
strikes us that in point of fact the Ohio 
Farmer is itself the “captious critic.” It 
wanted to sneer at the Rural, and our well- 
meant suggest ions to the Ohio Ex. Station 
were hit upon for a provocation. 
We trust that some of the results of the 
Rural’s foolish experiments may soon show 
themselves in a practical way, and that our 
cruel contemporary will hereafter confine its 
attention to the work of those stations which 
are supported by the State or send some 
“practical” fanner to the Rural Grounds and 
let him write up for the benefit of its readers 
wlmt is really going on there. 
If even a part of what has been set forth 
is correct, is it not high time we turned our 
energies toward bettor methods .' To do this 
calls for higher thought, better care, but he 
fully believes no extra outlay of money; 
rather, he believes, we can feed hogs'more 
profitably by rational methods than by the 
unscientific and shiftless ways now only too 
common. First of all, we must see to it that 
breeding sows are fed a proper ration in which 
protein compounds form a liberal share. The 
young pigs must likewise have a goodly al¬ 
lowance of protein, while the mature hogs, 
when fattening, can be fed a large proportion 
of carbohydrates, especially if we whh to make 
a large proportion of lard. The food articles 
at our command which are rich in protein are 
skim-milk, buttermilk, shorts, bran, peas, 
gieen Clover and the like. No farmer can 
afford to manage his farm with a minimum of 
these muscle-making foods: they should lie 
supplied abundantly and at a reasonable 
cost if we will only study to do so. Shull 
we raise loss corn? No. We do not want 
less corn, but we want more clover, more 
shorts, more bran, more peas and more skim- 
milk to briug the highest results. Without at¬ 
tempting to give any exact rules for guidance, 
the following statements may not be out of 
place: During gestation, breeding sows should 
have only a small allowance of corn, the fi-ed 
being mainly that which will go to give her 
young good sound bodies. Such feed would 
be shorts (middlings or ‘-hip-stuff). bran, skirn- 
milk, butter-milk and clover. When suckling 
her young, of course milk is one of the best 
articles at our command. When weaned the 
pigs may get, say, two parts of milk by 
woight, uno part of shorts aud one part of 
corn meal. A run on good clover would go 
fur to make a good frame. When nearing 
maturity the ration can be changed more ami 
more to the carbonaceous, and for the last two 
months, when fattening, the feed can be large¬ 
ly com, if one desires fat pork; but if lean, 
juicy meat is desired, the muscle-making 
foods must be continued. 
sippi Grass and Hay Association was organ¬ 
ized last year and is now in condition to take 
advantage of the failure of the hay crop in 
the West. Members are specially urged to 
put Japan Clover and Bermuda hay on the 
market that dealers may be able to class them 
properly.'.. 
It has been claimed by some that after 
several years of irrigation in Colorado, the 
amount of rainfall will be increased. Prof. 
Mead of the Colorado Agricultural College, 
in a recent bulletin, makes the following state¬ 
ment: “That any increase of the irrigated 
area will result in an increased raiufall for 
that area, is not to be believed, as owing to 
winds, rains seldom or never fall where their 
moisture is collected. Whatever change may 
he produced will be most likely to itffeet the 
country to the east of us, owing to the preval¬ 
ence of western winds.” .. 
TnE Rural Canadian tells of a pig that was 
lying by the side of the road. On the other 
side was a man. The pig. was sober, the nian- 
was drunk. The pig bad a ring in his nose, 
the man bad a ring on his finger. Some one 
passing exclaimed, so that the pig heard it, 
“One is judged from the company he keeps.” 
Instantly the pig arose and went away. 
Robert Buknktt says in the American 
Dairyman that he has always endeavored to 
keep up with the times in all dairy matters, 
and has closely watched with great interest, 
the development of ensilage. From close ob¬ 
servation and after consultation with many 
prominent butter dealers iu Now York and 
Boston he has come to the conclusion that 
butter made from cows fed entirely on ensil¬ 
age did not produce the best, results, or bring 
the highest market price. Fed judiciously 
with some English bay and grain, it is not 
only economical, but makes a fine dairy pro¬ 
duct, although he does not think it surpasses, 
or even equals, well cured clover hay and good 
corn meal in producing a superlative butter. 
He believes if fed iu moderate quantities si¬ 
lage takes the place of roots, and in winter 
greatly improves the general condition of the 
COW......... 
Mr. Massey of Virgiuiu, tells the Press 
that he lately met a large farmer in lower Vir¬ 
ginia who said he had cut 4$0 tons of cow- 
peas for ensilage this season. He packed them 
into the pits without cutting them, and in¬ 
tends to get out the silage by cutting it 
down vertically with a hay knife. He hopes 
he may fiud it a success, but he would have 
preferred to cut the peas before packing. The 
most interestlug part of his statement was 
that after mowing the jieas they made a very 
strong second growth, and by the first of Oc¬ 
tober were again knee high all over the field, 
furnishing a splendid mass to turn under this 
fall for a corn crop in the spring. This same 
farmer stated that oneof his neighbors mowed 
150 acres of peas last year for hay, and kept 
all his mules and other stock on it iu as good 
order as any hay he ever used. 
Hoard’s Dairyman says that the best cow 
for a scrub dairyman is the scrub cow, a regu¬ 
lar “rustler.” Take her on her “uative 
heath” where the owner does nothing and the 
cow doe's everything aud gives but very lit¬ 
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We find the following in the New York 
Times: 
“Some interesting experiments have been re¬ 
cently made by Dr. A. B. Griffiths, of the Lin¬ 
coln (England) School of Science, and the 
results are now published. Dr. Griffiths has 
bppn specially experimenting with sulphate 
of iron (the common copperas) as a fertilizer 
applied to grass, mangels-, beaus, potatoes, 
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With Without 
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Hay, 6,994 pounds. 3,360 pounds per acre. 
Mangels, 32 tons. 26 tons per acre. 
Beans, 50 bushels. 30 bushels per acre. 
Potatoes. 9 tons. 6 tons per acre. 
The bay grown with the sulphate was of 
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ehlorophyies in tho leaves, aud to which the 
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The Rural read about this sulphate of iron 
business last year and concluded to use it upon 
several pilots of potatoes and corn. The re¬ 
sult, as we shall show in due time, is that the 
yield was reduced in each one of the three 
trial cases. _ 
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swarming with lice, deprived of water or 
drinking the drainage of the manure piles; 
fed with insufficiently nutritious food, aud 
wlieu, consequently, troubled with the various 
ailments known as chicken cholera, dosed with 
alum, copperas, camphor, castor oil, oak-bark 
tea, sulphur, eayeuue pepper, patent pills, 
pain-killer, condition powders, soot, ashes, 
soft soap and other “physic,” they lie down 
in despair aud die. Alas! how many good 
gifts of nature are spurned by the impatient 
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Experiments in Hog Feeding.— Prof. W. 
A. Henry, of the Uuiversity of Wisconsin, 
has been carrying out a series of experiments 
upon hogs by feeding some to produce fat and 
others to produce lean. Ho claims that the 
experiments show that when we feed to our 
hogs a ration rich in carbohydrates but lack¬ 
ing in protein, like corn meal, we will find: 
1. That there is au excessive development 
of fat not only on the outside of the muscles 
and beneath the skin, but also among the mus¬ 
cles. 
2. That the muscles of the body fall to de¬ 
velop to their normal size, especially some of 
the most important ones, as those along the 
back. 
8. That an abnormally small amount of hair 
and a thin skin result. 
4. That while the brain, heart and lungs do 
not seem to change in weight, the spleen, liv¬ 
er and kidneys are unusually small. 
5. The amount of blood in the body is great¬ 
ly reduced from the normal. 
6. The strength of bones may be reduced 
one-half. 
It would seem that we may conclude that a 
system of feeding which robs the hog of half 
his blood aud half the natural strength of his 
bones, and produces other violent changes, is 
a most unnatural one, and must, if persisted 
iu, end in giving us a race of animals which 
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From parents thus weakened must couie de¬ 
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dmvu w hen attacked by disease? Nor is this 
all; tho meat from such animals can hardly 
bo of flavor and composition satisfactory to 
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