fHI BUBAL W1W-Y0BKIR. 
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as a general rule, a line of “dunghills” or 
mongrels. 
The Farmer's 1 Advocate says that among 
the many vicious practices which we see 
creeping into our leading exhibitions may be 
mentioned the growing habit of permitting 
cows to remain unmilked from ‘24 to 3(1 hours 
before leading them into the ring to be 
judged. Under all circumstances the objects 
are mercenary, and the agony inflicted upon 
the victims is often intense. It Ls one of the 
basest forms of cruelty to animals, predispos¬ 
ing the sufferers to 'many forms of disease, 
and condign punishment should be meted out 
to the own*-rs . ... 
December 11,1886, the Rural gave a true 
illustration of a chestnut burr containing five 
large nuts. It was received from II. M. Engle 
&. Son, of Marietta, Pa. This variety is now 
offered for sale. Our readers who can afford 
to pay f 1/25 for a tree four feet high should try 
it. The nuts are large and of fine quality. 
How far north it will prove hardy is not 
known. Tt is called the Paragon . 
Prof. Failyer says, in the Industrialist, 
that for toilet use, there is probably nothing 
equal to aqua ammonia for softeuing water. 
Only a small quantity is required; and that 
ordinarily retailed should be sold in quantity 
at 25 cents or less per pint. It' no great ex¬ 
cess of ammonia has been added, the water 
may be used without the least injury to the 
most delicate skiu. There is no objection, un¬ 
less it be that of cost, to using ammonia in 
water intended for the laundry. 
In the same journal we find that Prof. 
Sbelton speaks in high praise of kohl rabi. 
The crop of less than half an acre on the Col¬ 
lege farm (Manhattan. Kansasl, which has 
been the- object of very favorable comment by 
many farmer visitors, was harvested two 
weeks ago in very satisfactory condition. The 
surprising fact about this plant is its wonder¬ 
ful droiight-resistiug ability. During the en¬ 
tire summer, when for weeks at a time the 
grouud was as dry and hot as road dust, when 
the heaveus seemed to be of brass, and the air 
like the breath of a furnace, the kohl rabi ap¬ 
peared to suffer no particular discomfort, 
thriving and growing without much apparent 
difficulty. The yield seems to have been near¬ 
ly or quite 20 tons per acre—he has not yet 
measured the ground—of handsome, ejean 
bulbs which tu appearance he has uever s»en 
excelled by anything in the turnip line. Of 
the nutritive and keeping qualities of kohl 
rabi Prof. B. is not advised. He only knows 
that the cattle, when once accustomed to them, 
eat them greedily and thrive amazingly on 
the diet..... 
Prof. AYalley, a veterinarian of high 
standing in Scotland, disapproves of the in¬ 
discriminate practice of dehorning bulls. Bad 
results of mauy kinds often follow.... 
Mr. Thom as, of the Albany Cultivator, says 
that the results of repeated experiments show 
that the practice of laying down or protect¬ 
ing half hardy vines and shrubs, is uot suf¬ 
ficiently adopted in the colder States, and 
even such vines as may be reputed quite 
hardy are improved by the operation, and 
start sooner in spring and grow with more 
vigor trom^such protection, especially after 
uuusally severe winters. A viney an list show¬ 
ed Mr. Thomas the fine condition of Ins vines 
of hardy American sorts, which had been 
simply prostrated and held down by placing 
common fence rails upon them; and he found 
the grapes to ripen about one week sooner 
the following season than on vines which, had 
been entirely exposed ... . 
Dr. Hoskins says, in the Mirror and Far¬ 
mer, that in the twentieth century the agricul¬ 
tural colleges will have developed as have the 
literary schools in the nineteenth, and jieople 
will speak of the croakers of these days as 
almost forgotteu evidences of the stupid con¬ 
servatism of old times. 
A late Ohio Farmer, alluding to cur criti¬ 
cism of the oat tests of the Ohio Ex. Station 
says: 
“We believe the Editor of the R. N.-Y. 
to be au honest, well-tmuniug man, but he is 
uot infallible. Ho can make mistakes, and 
these mistakes sometimes lend him to unwar¬ 
ranted conclusions, as in this oats question. 
We have watched his experiments with some 
interest, and so lar from saying that he has 
‘fooled away’ his time all of them', we 
now say that he has done some excellent work 
in this direction, especially in testing varieties. 
But we see no reason, after reading his ‘criti¬ 
cising of a criticism. 1 to change our mind in 
regard to the question between him and the 
station. The station is clearly right and the 
Rural is wrong.” 
So then we will in a friendly way “agree to 
disagree" for the present. Another season’s 
trial of the oats in question by those who are 
interested in know ing whether they are the 
same or different, should settle the question. 
“The Survival of the Filthiest,” Is the title 
of au article ill a late Yale Rev iew. . 
W k seem to have reached a potato crisis in 
this couutry, the Mass. Ploughman says. It 
is believed by mauy careful cultivators, that 
the chief part of the present general com¬ 
plaint is due to the free use of Paris-green, 
which has fatally affected the tuber and ren¬ 
dered it practically valueless. 
The K>lsey Japan Plum thrives in Florida 
it appears from the Dispatch of that State. 
Immense crops aro reported from trees 
planted in Baker county in 1885.. .. 
The late Mr. Jackman told a correspondent 
of the London Garden that he raised Clematis 
Jackmannii when he was a boy. His father 
so disapproved of his wasting his time over 
clematis experiments that he dug up his bed 
of seedlings: but Jackmannii, Star of India 
and Rubella, which he deems the best of all, 
were saved from the rubbish heap. 
Another correspondent of the Garden, 
speakiug of roses, says that the conditions of 
rose-growing in England and America are 
so little similar that nothing short of actual 
trial will prove the value in the one country 
of what are considered the greatest triumphs 
in the other and rine versa. .. .... 
Editor of the R. N -Y.:—On page 771 of 
the Rural for November ID, 1387, you take' 
especial puins to quote an article against the 
Station from the Times, not tsking the trou¬ 
ble and evidently not desiring to verify the 
correctness of the statement. I therefore say 
to you that the only statement in that article 
concerning my work—that in regard to the 
choice of seed corn—is false in every particu¬ 
lar. I would also say that in your craze to in¬ 
jure me and my work, you also are guilty in 
making a blunder. You say "he made lots 
of blunders iu the face of remonstrances from 
his assistants.” This is absolutely false. 
E. LEWIS STURTEVANT. 
Rural Yew-Yorker.— It is our impres¬ 
sion that Dr. Sturtevant does not sufficiently 
distinguish between the individual and the 
director. We have always respected him in¬ 
dividually as an accomplished gentleman. As 
a director too, he has shown much ability 
and energy. He should not assume because 
we have tried to point out what we believe to 
have been bis shortcomings that we have been 
anxious to injure him. Dr. Sturtevant for¬ 
gets the many kind words we have spoken of 
him and of his work iu general. 
A Hay Cocking Machine is described in 
the Scientific American. It is made in the 
form of a large box with au open top and re¬ 
movable back A rake projects in front, 
which gathers up the hay which is carried by 
a distributor up to the top where it falls into 
the box. There it is pressed down into shape. 
By means of a lever the back of the box is 
raised and the well-shaped haycock dropped 
to the ground. The machine is to be pulled 
by horses about as rapidly as a mowing ma¬ 
chine, saving rakiug and forking. 
ABSTRACTS. 
Popular Garden: “Plant vitality lost is 
hard to recover. . . . We say again, dirty 
Hower pots are abominable. . . A word on 
plant culture: Don’t over-water. . . . 
Crushed charcoal is .a good ingredient in 
potting-soil. . . . For root-pruning fruit 
or other trees, fall is the best season. . . . 
•‘Unscrupulous advertising can only be paid 
for at the expense of victims. ”-The North¬ 
ern Light Grape, according to the Horticul¬ 
turist, of Canada, originated on thebauksof 
the Ottawa, Canada. It is white, ripeus with 
Moore’s Early, sweet, pure.-Farm Jour¬ 
nal: “Less pork and more mutton on the 
tables of farmers would be au improvement. 
Pick out a sheep not needed for breeding, 
place in a small pen, give good hay, pure 
water, and all the corn it will eat until it has 
consumed a bushel. Then kill and hang up to 
freeze. ‘ . A correspondent of the N. E. 
Homestead who has spring water brought to 
bis dwelling in pipes, laid a branch pipe to his 
ice-house. This was carried up inside and pin¬ 
holes pierced iu it. When a cold snap comes 
the water is turned on and allowed to spurt in 
small streams over the tloor. In this way be 
gets his house filled with pure spring-water 
ice. . . . Let us all pay our bills as promptly 
as wo can. . . . The gods cannot help a 
man who loses opportunity. . . . Gentle¬ 
ness eaunot be kicked into animals,”- 
Hoard's Dairymau: “We fiud the following 
paragraph iu that excellent farm paper, the 
Rural New-Yorker: 
‘Even in our democratic New England 
tow ,s the accidental possession of wealth,and 
its manifestations in dress aud equipages.alone 
obtain for the possessor almost universal re¬ 
spect. But they who yield such respect, 
numerous ns they are, are so tar heathen anil 
need to have a missionary sent to them. 1 
There is a tou of truth in that little remark. 
The farmer, of all meu on earth, ought never 
to bend the knee that thrift may follow 
fawuiug, and we thank Heaven that very few 
of them ever do. Money should be sought as 
a means to an end, the same as the dirt in the 
fields. But to be a worshiper of men who own 
much, or of money, is disgusting. Gloat 
riches, as a rule, show great greed. When you 
see a poor man lavishing respect on a rich 
man because he is rich, you may sum up the 
character of both parties by the statement 
that it is a lean hog adoring a fat one. When 
the product of an ignorant, selfish passion, 
wealth is revolting to all finer sense of man¬ 
hood and manly courage.”-Prof. Morrow 
in the Weekly Press: “Whatever may have 
been true in the past, farming in (bis country 
already requires for its highest success the 
widest intelligence, the best judgment, the 
most careful training both on its producing 
and itscommercia* sides.”-Farm aud Gar¬ 
den: “It is less seeds—no seeds—Mr. Commis¬ 
sioner Colrnan, we want, not more. The 
fault lies iu the imposition upon taxpayers of 
the burden of an annual *100,000 collected for 
this hit-or-miss distribution to Congressional 
members.”-N. Y. Times: “At the recent 
English Dairy Show a Short-horn cow proved 
the champion milker and buttermaker. After 
224 days from calving, her milk yield amount¬ 
ed to 45'-., pounds daily, and her butter to 4 4 
per cent., equal to 2L pounds per day. The 
total solids in this milk amounted to L4.2 per 
cent, which shows that the cow was not only 
an excellent buttermaker, but exceptionally 
good for cheese. If there is a really good 
general-purpose cow, this is surely one.”- 
Rural World: “The great Northwest which 
usually crowds every market in the West at 
this time, has but Jittle to offer this year on 
account of the drought.”- -London Gar¬ 
den: “Bouvardia President Cleveland.—Those 
who desire brilliant-colored flowers in their 
greenhouses and conservatories should uot 
lack this variety; it is by far the richest col¬ 
ored form that, we have yet seen. It is very 
free-flowering even in quite a small ,-tate; the 
trusses are large, aud the flowers a rich deep 
crimson scarlet.”-Mr. Clare Se well Read, 
as reported in the London Ag. Gazette: “Of 
all the contagious diseases which afflict our 
stock, I have always been of opinion that 
pleuropneumonia was the easiest to get rid of; 
because, if it be true that when the animal has 
(tied it ceases to be a source of contagion thin, 
I say, it is simply a matter of expense. What 
we do now seems to be absolutely stupid. We 
go one step, inflicting a considerable amount 
of injury upon the owner of the cattle ; but 
we do not take the final step, which, in my 
opinion would rid the country of the disease; 
and I contend that until the Government are 
bold enough to say that all animals that are 
herded with diseased anitnalsshall be slaugh¬ 
tered, we shall never get rid of this most 
troublesome complaint”-Farmers’ Advo¬ 
cate: “Are model farms booms or boons?’ 
-N. Y. World: “Anarchy is a noxious 
weed of foreign growth. It has been brought 
hither from Russia, Germany and France. 
Every monarch in Europe finds the ghost of 
this ferocious conspiracy stalking at bis side. 
The shadow rests upon every throne. We 
hold it to beau exotic here.”-Epitomist; 
“Everything in a hen house should be as 
dry as a chip ”—except when it is kero- 
sened, we may add, which should be 
done ac least once a month in winter.- 
Tickle Me and I’ll Tickle You.—The fol¬ 
lowing is from the Agricultural Epitomist: 
’‘November Farm and Garden touches up the 
Rural New Yorker for neglecting to expose 
a certain fraud until ‘all its subscribers have 
lost mouey,’ and in the same issue strongly 
indorses the Mozart Importing and Publish¬ 
ing Company, which concern is advertising 
with them. Now, the Rural received in the 
same mail as Farm and Garden denounces 
this M. I. and P. Co., and says they are not 
known in their owu city, and its only recog¬ 
nized place of business is a post-office drawer. 
A little advertising patronage goes a great 
way toward scouriug editorial indorsement 
with some papers.”-Farm Journal: 
“Our friend, the Rural New-Yorker, is 
going to print the black side of the farmer’s 
life. We wish it wouldn’t do that. What’s 
the use?” R. N.-Y.: “Just for the same 
reason that instruction may be derived from 
telling our mistakes the same as from our suc¬ 
cesses.”-Farm and Garden “regrets to 
say that the religious papers in this country 
are almost all of them willing to help along 
frauds it they are paid for it,”-N. Y, 
Tribune: "Tbe home-made windmill swindle, 
which attempted to draw correspondence to 
Bloomington, III., has been traced to Rascal 
Bain, of Zanesville, Ohio, to whom the letters 
aud postage-stamps were forwarded.”- 
Western Rural: “We would much rather 
print an edition of one hundred thousand 
than of fifty thousand for then we would be 
doing more good.”-“Oue of the school 
directors iu a rural district in Cook County, 
HI , has just been convicted for selling liquor 
to school children—a fine school director.”— 
Idem, -Husbaudman: “Winter dairying 
is not more costly than summer dairying 
when butter is the product, but it may be 
much more profitable until the business is 
overdone and th^ttime is a long way ahead.” 
Beauty 
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