tm RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
of Top-Over corn, made three years ago, that 
it has uo partictilar advantage to the grower. 
The topi of the cob is almost always covered 
with the kernels and the stem is very small. 
But the ears are also small. The Report says 
that, “The Angel of Midnight variety was 
forever condemned when that name was given 
to it by some witless party." The name, 
however, should not, condemn a variety of su¬ 
perior merit. It might well be called “Angel” 
or “Midnight” com... 
Of the Hint varieties the Station considers 
Waushnluun and King Philipas standards.... 
Of some 40 different varieties of potatoes, 
4 Thorburn,” it says, “leads the list of newer 
kinds for desirability of shape, size and 
flavor.”... . .. 
This Chiswick trial of tomatoes in England 
found that Livingston’s Perfection, Living¬ 
ston's Favorite, President Cleveland, Cardinal, 
Mayflower, Optimus are all the same. By the 
same trial Acme, Early Essex and Livingston’s 
Beauty arc the same.... 
The Husbandmau (Elmira, N. Y.) says that 
it would be a small loss if many Helds of pota¬ 
toes were not dug. The best reported yields 
arc 200 bushels to the acre for which the 
owner will get twice the profit usually ob¬ 
tained from the same quantity. 
The lesson taught to those farmers who 
failed is obvious, the Husbandman says: It 
is in the thoroughness of cultivation—not 
costly labor, but. abundant cultivation—that 
kept the ground loose and moist, weeds sub¬ 
dued, growth supported, the potatoes thrifty 
during all the season of growth, and, as a re¬ 
cult, the crop very satisfactory in amount and 
kind, while other Helds of like soil and condi¬ 
tion, except cultivation, gave less than one- 
fourth us many bushels to the acre and the 
potatoes so small, most of them, that they 
will uot tempt buyers .. 
Some of the farmers will buy potatoes for 
their own tables—some of them have not got 
in their crops half as much seed as they plant¬ 
ed, and every bushel they have dug has cost 
its full market value in the work of digging 
alone, to say nothing of preceding loss charge¬ 
able to neglect; loss of labor, because more 
labor was not expended. 
If every voter, sufficiently intelligent to 
know that the virtues of the people are the 
only safe foundation for our free institutions, 
will go to the polls and vote for the best men, 
parlies will at once be shattered to unrecog¬ 
nizable fragments....;..... 
The Wisconsin Ex. Station is well satisfied 
that dehoruiug bulls aud steers is a valuable 
operation and productive of much good. At 
the same time it is an operation that can lie 
performed by any one or ordinary intelli¬ 
gence. We have before spoken of Prof. Hen¬ 
ry’s advocacy of dehorning. He deems it a 
merciful operation instead of a cruel one. 
The bonis of six stttCTS were cut off in 15 miu- 
utes by actual test..... 
With calves the Station's operations have 
not been so satisfactory, some of the horns 
making an imperfect growth. They operated 
with the gouge or nippers made by Mr. llaaff, 
also that made by Mr. Miles Rice, Milton, 
Wis. While the horns that grew in these 
cases would be harmless, they are unsightly, 
and it will be necessary to find n more perfect 
method of procedure. They have dehorned 
calves at from two days to two months of age. 
The calves do not appear to suffer greatly 
from the operation, and do not lose a feed or 
shrink any in weight thereby. 
It was remarkable, says Prof. Henry, to 
see how the steers were changed in actions. 
They hail two feeding rooms, each. 25x:2li feet 
outside measurement; in each of these were 
six steers. Though these creatures had ruu 
together from calves, no sooner were they in 
these comfortable quarters than they began 
hooking and pushing until the weaker ones of 
both lots might have starved while the bosses 
would have gorged themselves ou the feed 
rightfully belonging to their more timid 
mates. In a couple of days after dehorning, 
the weaker ones learned that they could not 
be hurt, and crowded up to the troughs for 
grain, to got their full share. From that 
date they were like a flock of Merino sheep. 
the nutriment of the cob, but because the 
cob, being a coarser and a spongy material, 
gives bulk, and divides and separates the fine 
meal, so ns to allow a free circulation of the 
gastric juice through the mass in the stomach. 
Corn meal, when wet into plastic dough, is 
very solid and not easily penetrated by any 
liquid; aud when pigs are fed wholly ou com 
meal they often suffer with fever in the stom¬ 
ach, because the meal lies there too long un¬ 
digested ..... 
It is an immerse thing, the Husbandman 
says, for a fair committee to decide what lady 
has the smallest and most shapely foot. Proud 
day for the lady advertised to the world on 
the merits of her foot! .... 
The Husbandman also says that if Henry 
George would modify his theory of taxation 
in such a way as to put the entire burden on 
dogs, most farmers would like it better thau 
as now offered with requests for their votes.. 
Henry Stewart argues that one ton of 
clover hay contains nine or ten per cent, of 
albuminoids, while a ton of Timothy hay has 
only 5 14 per cent, of these valuable nutrients. 
Now,clover hay is always cheaper than Timo¬ 
thy, and usually 50 per cent, cheaper. But, 
further, if a ton of straw containing two or 
2% per cent, of albuminoids is mixed with a 
ton of clover hay, the mixture contains pre¬ 
cisely as much nutritious substance as two 
tons of Timothy hay. Hence farmers should 
grow Timothy for sale and clover for keeping. 
Clean out the well, says the Farm Journal. 
And the cistern, too. , . What is the good 
of making the jiigs so fat?. 
Ik you would best care for new harness, the 
Farm Journal advises, never take your girl 
out riding in the rain, and do uot let the har¬ 
ness hang in the stable. Hang it in a closet or 
cover with cotton cloth, if exposed to light 
and dust; oil twice a year, spring and fall. 
This is the way to oil: Take apart, soak well 
in warm water, scrub with a brush, and leave 
until dry ou the outside, but yet soft and 
pliable. Rub in thoroughly a heavy coat of 
genuine neat’s-foot oil, with a little beeswax 
and glycerine melted in it, aud enough lamp¬ 
black to color it. Let it dry in a cool, shady 
place, until the oil is all soaked in—three days 
is a better time than one—then rub off with a 
rag or sponge dampened with thick castile 
soapsuds. Never oil without having the har¬ 
ness damp, and never haug in the sun or by 
the stove to soak the oil in. 
A writer in the London Garden (England) 
mentions that with him the fruits of American 
blackberries are miserably small aud not 
worth eating—sour aud disagreeable. He 
says the nights are too cold..... 
The Market Gardeners About Paris, 
who have been a special aud distinct class for 
four centuries, are said to lie the most hard¬ 
working, thrifty aud least frivolous of all 
their countrymen. They marry early, and of 
necessity, the wife gathers and sells while 
the husband tills and produces. She is always 
the daughter of some brother gardener, habit¬ 
uated to the culture from babyhood. The use 
of glass frames and shades, and of many im¬ 
proved implements, is comparatively recent, 
although now universal there. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
The Fanner (Minn.): “We have been hu¬ 
miliated by the accounts of shameless gambling 
and other disreputable tricks counteuuueed 
and encouraged by fair managers.”-“Al¬ 
falfa is cut, cured and thrashed the same as 
red clover for seed. If the grower has no 
clover huller, a common thrasher may be used 
by running at a low speed.”-Garden 
(England): “I would from long experience, 
advise every sufferer from liver eoinplaints to 
eat tomatoes daily.”-“Desmodium pendu- 
liflorum should rank high amoug autumn- 
Howeriug plants. It dies down to the ground 
iti winter and starts agaiu vigorously in the 
spring from its hardy roots. The shoots are 
•long and slender Jive or six feet) aud crowded 
with racemes of rosy-purple pea shaped blos¬ 
soms.”-Thomas Meehan, of Germanto wn, 
Pa., is introducing the Weeping Wild Cherry. 
He pmii. is for it as “good a ru 1 os there has 
been for the Kilmarnock Willow."- 
Speaking of the grand evergreen tree Sciado- 
pitys verticillata. so often alluded to by the 
R N.-Y., Mr. Meehan says: “A plant iu our 
nurseries is about six feet high and is the ad¬ 
miration of all. It is among the hardiest— 
not ajle&t has ever been injured.”-(Speak¬ 
ing of the new Weeping Dogwood, Mr. Mee- 
hand says? “It is remarkable. It has the pe¬ 
culiarity of making a straight, upright leader, 
while the side branches are gracefully pendu¬ 
lous. Then there are its large floral bracts 
iu early spring, its scarlet tie cries and its 
crimsou-eolored foliatze in the fall.”- 
Address of Robert Douglas (Ill.): “It will 
not require 100 years, or half 100 years, 
to place America far ahead of all the nations 
iu Eui’Opai.combined, as growers of artificial 
forests. Less than fifty years ago, you could 
not make one in ten of our farmers believe 
that either tame grasses or trees could be 
grown on our Illinois prairies." -— “There 
is a way in which the government might as¬ 
sist, and that is to compel lumbermen, when 
cutting down a forest, to reserve all trees un¬ 
der a certain girth, and to enact stringent laws 
to prevent forest fires, and to preserve our in¬ 
terests intact on the upper waters of our great 
rivers in the Northwest.”-Cor. R N.-Y.: 
“I find Mr. Wilson did not send me true 
Patagonian eggs. The chicks are more like 
Black Javas. I had occasion to buy more 
pullets. These answer to the description of 
the bird. They are more compact, have the 
descriptive crest aud feathered shank, black 
feathers and yellow skin.”-Sec. Geo. W. 
Campbell (Ohio) has a seedling of the Niagara 
Grape which is not foxy and is three weeks 
earlier than its parent in ripeniug.-N. E. 
Farmer: “ Poor apples will be cheap this 
year, good ones will be wanted at go6d 
prices.”-“ Apple culture in New England 
promises quite as well to those who will learn 
the requisites to success as orange growing 
in Florida or elsewhere.” ——“Mutton may 
be cured and smoked as venison, and is 
considered nearly equal to venison by 
those who have used it smoked.”- 
Rural Vermonter: “The farmers cannot give 
auy free, passes, hut this they can do, if they 
will take the pains to send the right men to 
the Legislature: they can put an end to the 
free pass altogether, and make it penal to give 
or take one. They can stop the judges and 
lawyers and editors and preachers aud politi¬ 
cal wire-pullers from riding about the State 
free, at the expense of those who pay their 
fares. Down with the free pass, in the 
first place.”-Thoreau: “In the long nm 
men hit only what they aim at Therefore, 
though they should fail immediately they had 
better aim at something high.”-O. C. 
Farmer: “We do not know of any deaths 
from rattlesnake bites, but have recorded 
many deaths from the popular rattlesnake an¬ 
tidote-whiskey.”-Mr. Arthur: “All this 
the customer 
keeping the oue 
tint shits 
Order on trial, address for circular and location of 
Western and Southern Storehouse* and Agents. 
P. K. DEDERICK &. CO., Albany, N. Y. 
50,000 ^WOOD’S 
CORN SHELLER FAM0US 
Will shell a 
Bushel of Corn 
in 4 MINUTES. 
Agents Wanted. 
flPLt 
LLER 
II Size, 
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e Size, 
-50. 
S TEAM! $ TEAM! 
We build Automatic Engines from 2 to 200 H. P., 
equal to anything In market. 
so-called ‘labor agitation' is baaed on the ut¬ 
terly untenable idea that the laborer is worthy 
of more than his hire.”-Puck: ‘•Organi¬ 
zation for the infraction of the laws and the 
ruin of trade must be met by organization for 
the upholding of constitutional rights and the 
preservation of prosperity. The workingman 
must understand that if he would exact jus¬ 
tice from his employer, he must himself be 
just." 
1 Large 1 ot of 1 ,3 and 4-H. Engines 
with or without boilers, low for cash. 
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Box 17 . Elmira, N. Y. 
BELLE CITY 
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CUTTER. 
Firman know that feeding F.n- 
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jberds and giants. 
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hints on Peach Culture, and 
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