fHI RURAL NEW-YORKER 
ist that Mr. Wilson lias a new rose—a varie¬ 
gated form of Niphetos; not variegated 
floweis, like our old friend American Banner, 
but green and white (lowers, prettily marked. 
ANOTHER handsome variegated thing is 
Ficuselastica variegata. The marking is ex¬ 
tremely handsome, shading from pale yellow 
to green, and the general habit is as robust as 
in the plain green variety.... 
Miss Taplin further tells the Florist that 
mushroom-growing under the benches of 
greenhouses is a great success, according to 
Mr. Wilson, and a very remunerative crop, 
too. There is no reason why it should not be 
done in most establishments; after preparing 
and spawning the bed, it is darkened by a 
screen of shading put iu front, and there is 
very little furt her trouble. This utilizesevery 
inch of space iu a house, and produces a pay¬ 
ing crop above and below. 
Dksmodium pknduliklorum, Mi-. Falconer 
says, was in finest bloom with him from the 
20th of August till the 20th of September. 
About this time the whim variety began to 
bloom, and kept iu bloom till the 10th of Oc¬ 
tober. It dillcrs so much in habit, general 
appearance and time of blooming from the D. 
pendulifiorum that he is more inclined to 
favor the name D. Japonicurn, by which it is 
also known...... 
The Press says that the farmer is handi¬ 
capped who can not buy enough of the most 
approved machinery and hire enough labor to 
do his work in the best way and at the proper 
time. Hr should be able to get the advaulage 
of cash prices for what he must buy, such as 
seed or fertilizers, and be should lie above the 
necessity ol selling bis crops until he is assured 
that they are going to llio best market. 
M u. T. B. Tkrry gets knobby potatoes when 
lie plants them. It would be well for experi¬ 
ment stations to test this. 
Mu. Hoard l>egs his readers to think of a 
farmer trying to make money by taking milk 
to a cheese factory from a lot of cows that 
yield him only .‘1,1)00 pounds of milk a year, 
and he not knowing or caring anything about 
improving that yield by breeding in better 
dairy blood. ... 
Again, think of him making butter that 
costs him every bit of Ifi to IS cents a pound 
and swapping it at 10 to 12 cr ills a pound for 
groceries at the country store—paying high 
for the groceries and getting nothing for his 
butter.. .. 
Mr. GLIDDEN says, in the Albauy Cultiva¬ 
tor, that the cross-biod laiubcraze has readied 
its zenith. It is found that a good, strong 
Merino lamb feeds and sells us well, and selec¬ 
tions from the ewn lambs will keep the fiock 
up to the standard for wool, while the cross¬ 
bred lamb, kept over, is a kind of nondescript, 
in which there is a constantly decreasing 
value ... .... 
President Chamberlain has what he re¬ 
gards as conclusive proof that soils that need 
tile drainage for wet years, will resist drought 
better, and raise better crops iu dry yours if 
tile-drained than if uot tile-drained__ 
AVk believe w ith Mr. J. J. Thomas that the 
cheapest tree label may bo made of a strip of 
zinc half an iuch wide and several inches long, 
on one end of which the name is written with 
a common pencil, and the other end is coiled 
around the side limb, so that the name hangs 
down in full sight. The zinc must lx? rough¬ 
ened a little with rust., by exposure to moist¬ 
ure or salt w ater, so as to take a strong mark 
from the pencil. Such writing on zinc will 
last for a lifetime exposed to the weather. 
Mr. Thomas has seen it as distinct as ever 
after thirty years’ exposure. The coil should 
extend rather more than once around the 
branch, and as the tree grows, the zinc slowly 
uncoils and dots uot cut the bark. Scrap 
zinc will make them by the hundred for the 
mere labor, and they will be far better than 
any of the more expensive tags with wire 
loops... . 
Mu. A. Noyes, of Ontario, Canada, claims 
for a new grape called the .Jordan, that it is a 
first class red grape for the table, ripens ear¬ 
lier than Delaware, Is I roe from its defects, 
while possessing all its line qualities. 
Secretary T. S. Gold of Connecticut,does 
not advise those who handle apples iu a small 
way to ship them to Europe .. 
It is a great mistake when people write on 
farming matters, thinking their opinions to be 
true for all places and all times, says the Lou¬ 
don Agricultural Gazette. Dogmatism, how¬ 
ever, the vice of all teaching professions—edi¬ 
torial or other—is never less in place tbnu it 
is iu agriculture. We are so entirely deix'nd- 
ent on our circumgtauees— on the soil we 
tread and work, the climate which surrounds 
us, the markets for oyr produce, the condition 
of our neighbors—that it is very rarely indeed 
that farm guidance of any kiud should bo of¬ 
fered confidently. 
Professor L. B. Arnold says iu the New 
England Homestead, that it is a very common 
occurrence for the milk of one cow or more in 
a dairy to fail in having its cream come with 
the rest and to remalu in the buttermilk un¬ 
claimed, but so small a quantity of cream 
could not rise on the top of the buttermilk 
should the buttermilk be left standing tor it to 
do so. AVhen milk is Bet for cream to rise, 
everybody knows that the moment the milk 
begins to sour, the cream stops rising. The 
reason Of this is that as soon as the milk sours 
the caseine in the milk solidifies, whather it 
loppers or not. and exists iu the milk in very 
minute solid particles. The fat globules, iu 
attempting to rise, come in contact with these 
solid particles and stick to them and there 
remain.. ... 
No doubt, as the Rural World suggests, the 
success of the sorghum industry will create a 
heavy demand for sorghum seed. Seedsmen 
take notice... 
Senator Plumb of Kansas, says in a private 
letter published in the above paper, that as 
high as 135 pounds of sugar and 15 gallons of 
molasses have been made from a ton of sor¬ 
ghum cane—and this from hundreds of tons. 
The average will uot be so high, but it will 
not fall short of 115 pounds of sugar per ton 
of cane. The yield of cane per acre is from 10 
to 15 tons.... 
The State of Kansas, Senator Plumb says, 
has an accomplished chemist anil an experi¬ 
enced sorghum sugar maker ut the works 
commissioned to make a report. Ho agrees 
with all the rest as to the above results. It 
seems to him that the future of the sorghum 
industry is assured. Of couise, ample capital 
is yet to be enlisted, but that ought to be done 
without much trouble. 
safely planted in the autumn. This insures 
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values his own skin too highly. But they all 
make their living by telling ignorant meu that 
money can be made, and comfort secured, 
by other means than honest industry.”- 
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Orange Co. Farmer: “No farmer has a 
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fruits. It is really a grave, moral question, 
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Farm and Home; “l believe that apples are 
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