THE fiORAl. NEW-YORKER. 
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exit species of roses, and has seedlings, but we 
do not yet know that the hybrids are fertile 
or sterile.” We had already stated that Mr. 
Saunders told us about Ids hybrids some two 
years ago; but for this wo should probably 
never have tried to hybridize them. We have 
heard nothing of them since, however, though 
we have asked for information in these col¬ 
umns. 
Thrashing Corn.— A writer in the Ohio 
Fai'raer, who appears to run a thrashing ma¬ 
chine, says that last fall he got four cents per 
bushel for thrashing corn, but this fall he is 
charging $1 per acre, or per day. The 
grain is cleaned perfectly by using the oats 
sieve in the upper groove. He also uses a 
sieve made out of heavy sheet-iron punched 
full of half inch holes, in the third groove. 
He has the machine so arranged that the corn 
runs into the measure and Hie cobs come out 
at the elevator spout and drop on t he ground. 
It is evident that if the corn is not all shelled 
from the cobs, they can be fed to the hogs 
and none will Vie lose. One farmer, to whom 
this writer can refer, baa had his corn-fodder 
thrashed for the last 15 years, and will con¬ 
tinue to do so as long as he raises corn. He 
lives in Albion, Mich. lie stables all his stock 
and when tbrashiug corn he salts the fodder. 
It is then eaten up so clean that he has hardly 
enough left from feeding 2(1 head 1 wice. to bed 
one cow. The fodder will keep out-of doors, 
as it will shed rain about as well as a pile of 
clover chaff. When thrashing corn he feeds 
it into the machine butts first, as the stalks 
are then cut or broken up much finer. 
TITHS AND REMINDERS. 
Thk World justly commends the Virginia 
Fringe Tree. In years past we have illustrat¬ 
ed its leaves nud flowers which, as Downing 
says, are like snow-white filaments, hanging 
in loose racemes about four inches long all 
over the tree. It is perfectly hardy at the 
Rural Grounds, though ofteu injured further 
north. When confined to a liitle tree 10 or 12 
feet high, there are few more desirable sub¬ 
jects for the door-yard... 
Prof. Swenson, in charge of the sugar 
works of Fort Scot, Kansas, says, in the Ru¬ 
ral World, that their cane is getting better 
if anything as the season advances and he 
does not apprehend anything but success to 
the end. They will have finished at about 
the end of this week.. 
The Farmers’ Review has never claimed 
that an animal naturally without horns or 
one that has been deprived of these weapons, 
is therefore uot dangerous. But there is a 
vast difference in the ability to do harm of 
the bully with a revolver or other weapon 
in his hands, or with only his naked fists. 
So of the animal with or without horns. Of 
the two, wo should expect the unimal that 
has been dehorned would be less dangerous 
than one of the polled breeds. The former 
knows he lias lost bis weapons of offense, and 
conducts himself accordingly.. 
The sorghum peopleof Fort Seott.aecording 
to Mr. Dening in the Farmers’ Review, give 
credit for the final success of the industry, in 
great, measure to Messrs Parkinson & Swen¬ 
son and lesser credit to Stewart, Collier, Web¬ 
er and Seoville. To Dr. Wiley the country 
is indebted for the application of diffusion to 
sorghum, without which successful sugar pro¬ 
duction from sorghum is not possible.... 
TriE Orange County Farmer says that the 
business of making beef iu Chicago from cat¬ 
tle fed almost exclusively on distillery swill, 
is going on again ns rapidly and extensively 
as ever. Beef produced in this way is always 
diseased and is never fit for food. By-and- 
bye we shall have another pleun? pneumonia 
outbreak and another bawl for a big appro¬ 
priation to “stamp it out.” If the people of 
Chicago should stamp out these distillery 
swill stables, we should have loss cattle dis¬ 
eases nud far better beef. These establish¬ 
ments are a disgrace to our civilization. 
Prof. Henry says that we do uot appreci¬ 
ate the value of tne Indian corn crop. The 
silo has been the means of opeuing the eyes of 
many to its possibilities. Not detracting one 
iota from the value and importance of the 
silo, he affirms that most of the credit given 
it by many is due rather to the grand coni 
crop put into it.. 
Following the favorable showing made at 
the Fort Scott, works a fever is now raging iu 
almost every Kansas community for the es¬ 
tablishment of sorghum sugar works and the 
raising of cane to supply them. The Live- 
Stock Indicator ventures to whisper in the ears 
of its readers to go slow in this enterprise of 
which they know practically nothing. 
The thoughtful and outspoken editor of the 
Indicator says it Is one thing to borrow money 
or go in debt to build factories of this sort (as 
yet mere experiments) but quite another to 
profitably conduct them, and we seriously 
doubt if there is one man in ten who in the 
next 12 months puts money into this business 
that will not in less than three years curse the 
day he was persuaded to do so.... 
Secretary Williams, in the Garden, 
which is published by Mr. E. H. Libby of New 
York, speaks very favorably of the new Tri¬ 
umph gooseberry as the largest of all ho has 
ever tested; as equal in size to any foreign 
variety .. 
Mr. Tdell says, in the same excellent 
monthly, that the pear market opened this 
year with Southern pears, of which Le Conte 
took the lead for quantity and demand. Its 
price was from $4 to $fi per barrel for the best. 
The best Bartlette later sold for about $2.50 
per barrel There are few people who would 
care to eat a Le Conte immediately after a 
Bartlett.... 
Dr. Hoskins, in the same journal, says that 
Scott’s Winter apple, with the exception of 
the Bethel, is the only true “iron-clad” that is 
a long keeper. It is also an early and prolific 
bearer.... ... 
Mr. A. S. Fuller’s statement that the 
huckleberry, when cultivated, will thrive as 
well as most of the small fruits, is termed by 
another writer as “pernicious.” “These wild 
fruits on limestone soils, and where water is 
hard, will be sure to make a failure.”. 
Mr. Libby mentious as among the very best 
conifers of Mr. Eliwanger’s choice the Nord- 
mann’s Spruce Is there such a spruce?. 
There is scarcely a farmer, fruit-grower, 
dairyman or gardener among our subscribers 
that does not learn a thing or so every season. 
The Rural wants that "thing or so,” even if 
stated in two lines. 
The Press, in commenting upon the experi¬ 
ments of Prof. Henry and Prof. Sanborn, 
which show that the ratio of lean meat 
to fat in a given animal can be in¬ 
creased by the food given, says the sum 
of the matter is, that if we will rear 
sound, healthy hogs aud not a race gradually 
deteriorating in stamina, vigor of vital or¬ 
gans, and strength of frame; if we are to 
have pork with a fair proportion of lean meat 
to the fat we must feed a ration with a larger 
proportion of nitrogen than is contained in 
corn alone. Grain, clover, skim-milk, peas 
and bran and middlings are all ricb in protein, 
the nutriment that makes muscle, and, there¬ 
fore, they should be used in connection with 
corn.... 
For some years Professor Sanborn has fed 
two lots of pigs: one with a corn diet mainly, 
that is,a ration largely carlmnaeeous; and the 
other with wheat middlings and dried blood, 
which contain a much larger proportion of al¬ 
buminoids. The results were that the car¬ 
casses of one lot. excluding bone, were more 
than half fat,, and the others wore more than 
half lean. The corn-fed pigs hud one thin! 
more external fat than the other lot, although 
the total weights of the two lots were about 
equal. There were also striking differences in 
the size of the kidneys, spleen and other vital 
organs, as well us in the hair, while the hones 
of the lot fed on corn, which contains little 
lime, were smaller than those of the lot fed 
on middlings. Upon the whole, Prof. San¬ 
born concluded, after three years’ work, that 
from 40 to 50 per cent, variation iu fat cau be 
made in the composition of a pig by varying 
the character of its food. 
Professor Morrow, also in the Weekly 
Press, says that very many farm horses in 
Central D linois have never been shod. A phy¬ 
sician in large practice near him drove a pair 
of mares for years without shoeing, except 
when there was much ice. On the Universi¬ 
ty farms they have at this writing but one 
horse shod. This is the one used for light 
driving. He has driven horses more or less 
every day for weeks without having them 
shod. A high-grade draft-mare, purchased 
when three years old, after having been shod 
for a year or two, had very poor feet. She 
has not been shod for six years, ami her feet 
are iu such a shape that any reasonable use on 
earth roads does not injure them. 
One of the most injurious obstacles to the 
education of farmers in scientific agriculture 
is the publication and dissemination of erro¬ 
neous information and erode opiuions half 
formed from experiment stations. The most 
conspicuous offender in this way has been the 
New York State Agricultural Experiment 
Station, from which weekly bulletins were is¬ 
sued relating the experiments made ami the 
results attained. One to the effect that the 
grains from the top ami middle of the ear 
of corn were most valuable for seed aud those 
from the butt the least so, and recommending 
farmers to thus choose their seed, is coming 
to the front now that the coni is being gath¬ 
ered. This statement was afterward corrected 
by a later bulletin, but the error, like seem, 
floats on the surface hither ami thither, while 
the correction is not noticed, says the Times.. 
The above Station has done some splendid • 
work. The energetic, studious Dr. Sturtevant 
ehese his co-workers wisely; but his craze for 
formulating theories carried him away. He 
made lots of blunders in the face of remon¬ 
strances from bis assistants. Wherein ne 
most signally failed was in not promptly and 
fully contradicting his mistaken conclusions.. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
Husbandman: “I say now to every one 
instead Of paying a lawyer ten dollars for his 
one-sided opinion, buy a copy of the laws of 
the State in which you reside and read them 
for yourself. If you do not know who pub¬ 
lishes law books write to the State-printer, or 
Secretary of State, or the State Treasurer 
and inquire of whom law books can be ob¬ 
tained.”-“I say to every citizen get some 
law books and study the laws of your own 
State. I have just procured a valuable and 
low-priced book “Talks About Law” of 
Houghton. Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass., and 
also New York City which is written for the 
people. It is as full of valuable information 
to every citizen as a porcupine is of quills.” 
-Hoard’s Dairyman: “ There is nothing 
that will lessen the flow of milk quicker than 
the chilling of the cow. Farmers talk about 
a cow drving-up in the Fall. Hair of the time 
she freezes-up.”-Ohio Farmer: “There 
is uo pure milk without pure water.”- 
“ The Press has feared that the experiment 
stations under the Hatch bill might do 
more barm than good, because there are 
not enough capable men in the country 
to take charge of so many stations ”- 
The Toledo Blade mentions among “Things 
You will Never See” the following: “A lady, 
who learned to play on the piano in order to 
make herself attractive to eligible young men, 
play for her husband after she has caught, 
him.” “A young parsou who does not beiieve 
all the girls in the congregation in love with 
him ” “A young doctor who does not use all 
the technical terms he can think of.”- 
Orange Co. Farmer: “ Ifauy one can give a 
reason for the idea which seems to prevail so 
largely, that milk or slops intended for hogs is 
better after it has soured, we should like to 
hear it.”-Chatham Courier: “Mr. Waldo 
F. Brown, who has buried potatoes each fall 
for a quarter of a century says he never lost a 
bushel by covering too deep; but many went 
to waste on account of insufficient earth to 
keep out frost. He adds: ‘Don’t you put the 
tubers iu too large a bulk.'-Prof. Henry: 
“Surely we have data enough before us to 
warrant the statement that that there is a pos¬ 
itive loss in cooking food for fattening hogs.” 
-Editor Meehan: “We believe the Idaho 
Pear is one of those exceptionally good fruits 
that deserve to be welcomed.”-Garden¬ 
er’s Monthly: “Mr. Bennett says in crossing 
roses, he is satisfied that the male parent or 
pollen decides the color of the seedling.” The 
color of the flowers is referred to it is pre¬ 
sumed. One of our hybrids between Rosa 
rugosa and Harrison's Yellow—the first being 
the mother—bore four flowers this fall The 
Color was precisely that of the mother, 
though the flower is semi-double. The 
foliage is unlike either-Mr. Terry, 
in the Alliany Cultivator: “I keep seed 
potatoes in barrels, covered, aud invari¬ 
ably the top bushel is sprouted more than the 
one in the bottom of the barrel. From this I 
have always thought that the less change of 
air tbity bad the better.”-R. N.-Y.: Will 
seed potatoes keep as well in bags as in bar¬ 
rels? If not, why?-New York Herald: 
“As a Broadway man sa» 1 yesterday after a 
visit to Arizona: ‘It is worse than robbery to 
sell Tortilita stock to country farmers, who 
are ignorant of its bunco character.’”-‘A 
uian iu the Indian Territory was shot for re¬ 
fusing to take a drink.'—Omaha Republican: 
Any one who has tested Iudiau Territory 
whisky and survived knows why he preferred 
that fate.”-Goodal'sSun: “It is the ‘still’ 
sow that gets the most swill.”-Drovers’ 
Journal: “When prices for cattle are very 
high fools go iuto the business. When prices 
are low t he fools can uot get out of it quick 
enough. Hence the adage: ‘Fool and his 
money soon parted.’ ”--Iowa Register: 
“Dehorn all of the bulls. There have been 
enough precious lives sacrificed by those sav¬ 
age instruments of war, the horns.”-Prof. 
Bailey : “Few people areaware of the beauty 
of many of our forests trees when grown as 
shrubs; that is, wlieu young trees are cut off 
near the ground aud t he sprouts encouraged. 
If the root is some years old and has secured 
a thorough hold upou the soil, and if the soil 
is rich, the growth of shoots will be dense and 
vigorous. ”-The Earhart Ever bearing 
blackcap—that marvel of productiveness—is 
proving very short-lived at tho Rural Grounds. 
-Beecher: “A cow is the saint of the 
barnyard. She could be fat if she would only 
be selfish. But she economizes beauty that 
she may be profuse in milk.” 
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