THE RUSAL HEW-Y0R5CIR. 
ries to be built next year will have a capacity 
of not less than 250 tons of cane per day, and 
will work the cane from 1,800 to 2,000acres of 
land. Such a plant would cost from #80,000 
to $125,000, exclusive of the grounds, depend¬ 
ing upon the character of the buildings, etc, 
Mr. Parkinson has made sugar for the past 
six years—formerly at a loss, now at a good 
round profit. They have simply found out 
how to do it. They have the cheapest plant in 
the world, considering its seed aud the other 
by-products from its manufacture. Their 
process is not perfect, but it is very simple, 
cheap, certain, sufficient, perfect to make su¬ 
gar in any place in Kansas at a profit—to make 
sugar in successful competition with the other 
sugar-producing sections and countries of the 
world. 
It seems that there has been nothing phe¬ 
nomenal or peculiar in the work or the crop of 
the past season. The cane was below the 
average, both in tonnage and sugar content 
The hot winds of summer and the warm rains 
of early fall, producing suckers or second 
growth, gave the most unfavorable conditions 
for sugar making. But a fair amount of 
sugar was there, as it always has been wheu 
grown on Kansas soil. They have the proper 
machinery for extracting it from the stalk, 
and from long study of the difficulties, discip¬ 
lined by disasters aud discouragements, they 
learned howto treat the juice when extracted. 
That is all there is to it; they know how and 
can do to-morrow and next year and every 
year the same thing under like conditions. 
We have every reason to expect more favora¬ 
ble conditions—better machinery, better help, 
richer cane and a greater stock of knowledge. 
In other words, the question of successful 
sugar making in Kansas and from Kansas 
cane is settled conclusively and for all time. 
Thrashing Corn.—A correspondent of the 
Ohio Farmer, learning that oue of his neigh¬ 
bors had thrashed his corn, called upon the 
neighbor aud engaged the thrashers. Tney 
thrashed out 231 bushels in three fourths of a 
day, giviDg entire satisfaction. It h aves the 
fodder, he says, in the best kind of shape for 
feeding. One of his neighbors thrashed over 
200 bushels of shelled corn in half a day. 
They set the machiue outside of the barn aud 
rau the fodder into the mow. The fodder 
cau be carried in a bushel basket He is well 
pleased with thrashing corn. Six or eight 
neighbors who thrashed their corn within the 
last week all speak in the highest praise of it. 
He is satisfied that it wifi pay well to run the 
fodder through the machine after it has been 
busked. The machine used was a common 
traction thrashing engine aud an old Vibra¬ 
tor thrasher that had been laid by. 
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. 
Mr, E. S. Goff says, in the American Gar¬ 
den, that a careful study of the garden lettuce 
makes it appear certain that at least 05 dis¬ 
tinct varieties are at present grown in the gar¬ 
dens of the United States aud Europe all of 
which come true from seed. A similar study 
reveals 84 apparently distinct varieties of the 
heading cabbage, 50 of the onion, 98 of the 
pea, etc. 
Mr. Goff further says that to Dr. Sturte- 
vant, Director of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment Station, is justly due the credit of 
having organized aud prosecuted the first sys¬ 
tematic attempt at the classification and de¬ 
scription of vegetables ever made in this coun¬ 
try. Under his direction a garden of nearly 
four acres m extent has been devoted almost 
exclusively to this work during the past five 
years. 
A readkr of the New England Farmer, 
who tested Prickly Comfrey upon a rather 
large scale a few years ago in Massachusetts, 
and for a time was quite elated over the pros¬ 
pect, is now thoroughly disgusted with it, and 
is diligently tryiug to exterminate it from his 
laud, which is not an easy thiug to do . 
A correspondent of the Florida Dispatch 
says that the Chiuese quince, as to the tree, is 
hardy in the South, and is a rampant grower 
and makes a large tree in 12 or 15 years. He 
has one -80 feet high, 12 years old. It gives an 
abundant crop anuuully of large, handsome 
fruit. As to the quality of the fruit he thinks 
there are better quinces for table use, but he 
has been unable to get them to grow and give 
enough fruit to pay for the care they require 
iu the Southern climate. The Chinese quince 
is very much like the Le Conte pear; while it 
is not the best iu the wide world, lie can get 
10 bushels of it before he can get one of the 
others.. .... 
Hoard’s Dairyman says that Mr. C. P. 
Goodrich of Wisconsin hopes this year to ex¬ 
ceed the butter yield of his herd of Jerseys, 
which was 800 pounds to the cow during I88<>. 
He has but 15 cows aud gets more clear money 
than thousands of “general purpose” dairy¬ 
men who have 20 to 30 cows aud raise the 
male calves for steers. 
Mr. Hoard thinks that the secret of Mr. 
Goodrich’s success is that he uses his pencil 
and figures ahead. He don’t think it is good 
sound business sense to keep three cows to 
produce 300 pounds of butter when he can get 
one cow that will do it. No one could induce 
Mr. Goodrich to keep three hired men to do 
the work of one. He tries to keep constantly 
posted on all matters pertaining to the keep¬ 
ing of cows and is always on the lookout for 
good, sound ideas .. 
Mr. Hoard knows of many farmers in his 
own county who sneer at all this. They 
sneer at good dairy reading; they sneer at the 
Jersey cow; they sneer at conventions and in¬ 
stitutes; they sueer at men who have been 
steadily at work for years trying to help the 
farmers to be more prosperous by adopting 
better ideas. 
An illustration of improving the butter 
yield is given in the case of the veteran dairy¬ 
man, Hiram Smith. He had some old grade 
Ayrshire cows that had been in bis herd for 
years. These cows were giving a beauti¬ 
ful mess of milk and paid their way, making 
about a pound and a quarter of butter a day. 
He put a thoroughbred Jersey bull at the head 
of his herd, and now has grade Jersey heifers 
from these same cows, that are yielding him a 
pound aud three-quarters a day. These heif¬ 
ers, by virtue of the improved butter qualities 
they had received from their sire, are turn¬ 
ing out half a pound more butter a day and 
consume less food to do it unth . 
C. C. Georgeson, for several years an asso¬ 
ciate editor on the Rural’s staff, is now a 
Professor in the Imperial College of Agricul¬ 
ture of Tokio, Japan. He contributes to the 
last number of Agricultural Science, edited by 
another ex-associate editor of the R. N.-Y., 
and Professor of Agriculture in the University 
of Tennessee, an interesting scries of experi¬ 
ments which show that the temperature of soil 
manured at the rate of 80 tons to the acre, av¬ 
erages over three degrees warmer than soil 
not manured... 
Co operation and the working classes in 
Germany continue to get along very well to¬ 
gether Official statistics show that at the 
close of 1880 there were in existence 4,438 co¬ 
operative societies against 4,1 TO in 1885. They 
are divided thus; 2,135 credit companies, 
compared with 2,118 in 1885; 1,573 producing 
societies, against 1,337; 090 provisioning so¬ 
cieties, against 682; and 35 cousi ructive so¬ 
cieties, against 37. The Germaus are more 
thrifty than we are; there is no other reason 
apparent why co-operation should not succeed 
as well in the United Slates. 
In an able and beautiful address by Mrs. G. 
A. Tryon, read before the Miss Valley Hort. 
Society, she says: “The sacred writers and 
Christ himself were students of nature. Most 
of their illustrations were drawn from the 
spreading tree, the cultivated field, the sower 
of seed, the household garden, the ripening 
fruit, the teuder vine. The sweet singer of 
Israel seems to have found the highest place 
iu the heart of nature.” His sou—the wisest 
of men—wrote of every tree aud plant, from 
the Cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows 
on the wall..... 
During a late meeting of farmers iu Boston, 
the germ theory of disease was discussed. Mr. 
Cheever said that he was aware that if we 
wanted a corn crop, corn must be planted. 
We need not expect a crop without first sow¬ 
ing the seed. He asked Dr. Cressey, who 
delivered the leading address, if diptheria, 
hog cholera, &o., can be produced in new 
places without the seeds having first been plant¬ 
ed in that spot. He replied, according to the 
Massachusetts Ploughman, that it is now con¬ 
ceded that all infectious maladies have a con¬ 
tinuous existence like the succession of organ¬ 
ized bemgs, ani that they arise from the dif¬ 
fusion of these living germs Throughout the 
vegetable world, each seed produces its kiud, 
and the acorn never contains the germ of anv 
other tree but the sturdy oak. So in accord¬ 
ance with the germ theory, as recent investi¬ 
gation has shown, each contagious disease has 
its own specific virus, which can induce no 
other malady than the one from which it was 
derived. Thus every disease genii must come 
from pre existing cues, and consequently the 
spontaneous origin of any transmissible mal¬ 
ady is quite as untenable in the light of 
modern scieuce as the equivocal generation 
of plants and auimals. 
Zebra Striped Zinnias are an improve¬ 
ment upon the old kinds of solid colors. At 
least they are curious aud we need something 
out of the usual way to keep up one's interest 
in this somewhat dull-looking class of flow¬ 
ers ..... 
A beautifully executed portrait of Mr. S. 
B. Parsons, the venerable nurseryman of 
Flushing, Long Island, N. Y , appears in the 
number of the Gardeners’ Monthly for Decem¬ 
ber ... 
Sir J. B. Lawes, at the close of a most in' 
terestiug article in the Albany Cultivator, 
says that no one need hesitate to accept as a 
well established fact that the atmosphere is 
the source of carbon in plauts. 
Mr. Meehan speaks of an entirely new form 
of tomato to be sent out by the Landreths, 
called the Peach Tomato. These, he says, 
might as easily be mistaken for peaches as not 
so far as looks are concerned. 
Our friends of Orchard and Garden, print 
the following; 
“Lovers of the far-fetched, who do not ob¬ 
ject to a logical twist, may accept the R. N. 
Y’s ‘coddling.’ Many people still recognize 
Webster’s authority in such matters and will 
continue to spell it “codling” or “codlin.” 
‘Codling,’ as a whole, suits our purpose, and 
will be used in these columns.” 
Are not our friends wrong iD this? Webster 
defines“Codlin” or “Codling” as an “immature 
apple;” that is, a young apple. The word 
“Coddling” is derived from the verb coddle, 
which signifies to cook, bake, or burn. The 
Coddling worm doesn't cook or bake the apple 
but injuries or destroys it... .... 
ABSTRACTS. 
Am. Florist: “The last old plant now in¬ 
troduced as new is Transeantia aquatica, 
which, under the name of ‘Water smilax,’ is 
being vigorously boomed by one of our most 
enterprising dealers.”-Hnsbandmau brev¬ 
ities: “It is high authority that makes the 
borrower servant to the lender, but when the 
things borrowed are farm tools, most farmers 
wifi fare quite as well without as with such 
servants....When a man has agreed to do a 
certain thing h itself right he will have no 
settlement to make with his conscience if he 
does exactly that thing without wriggling out 
of its hardships.... The best improvement of a 
farm is that which increases its responsive 
power so that labor expended in production 
may get the largest returns If a farm will 
pay no more than legal interest how can a 
buyer who has to borrow the whole price ex- 
peettomeet the debt at last?”-B. F. J. in 
Albany Cultivator: “But suppose the opera¬ 
tion of dehorning successful, will it reform 
the tempers of the animals? Will not the 
fighting cow and the master steer still boss the 
weaker just as soon as sore heads Leal? I do 
not know that the polled breeds are deficient 
in fightiDg cows and master steers.”_ 
Weekly Press: “The Rural New-Yorker 
makes an apt reply to.some honest critic who 
inquires what it profits to report the yield of 
potatoes in rich garden land when farmers in 
general cannot command such soil. The edi¬ 
tor answers that it is worth knowing w'hat 
can be done on the best soil as an encourage¬ 
ment to farmers to improve their soils, espe¬ 
cially when it is shown that the increased crops 
more than pay for the cost of the improve¬ 
ment. Again, and this is an important fact, 
he finds as a rule that the varieties of potato 
which yield the best under this high pressure 
also yield the best under ordinary farm cul¬ 
ture; or, to reverse this statement, if you 
want to raise a big crop under the very best 
conditions, select a variety that does best un¬ 
der ordinary culture. That is, it will he more 
likely to pay if extra culture is given to a good 
than to an ordinary variety—just as it pays 
best to give extra careful treatment to the best 
animals.”--Puck: “We take no note of 
time—when we can get cash.”-Detroit 
Free Press: “This is a truth deserving of 
credit: The headlong man is not long-beaded." 
-Dr. Hoskins: “The American Pomo- 
logical Society, without a dollar of National 
or State aid, has done for Amencau pomolo¬ 
gy in the last. 25 years more than the Bureau 
of Agriculture could have done with $50,000 
a year.”-Provisioner ria Tribune: “I 
have a hired girl who gets up in the morning 
without being called.’—‘Impossible‘But it is 
true; she's in love with the milkman.' ”- 
Kansas Farmer: “The wastefulness of most 
Western farmers is equaled only by the per¬ 
sistence of dealers aud agents to supply the 
waste with costly materials. There is not a 
farm iu Kansas, if worth cultivating at all, 
that needs an ounce of commercial fertilizers* 
if the manure made on it were saved, yet the 
agent is abroad trying to sell stuff to the far¬ 
mers to enrich their lauds, wheu better mater¬ 
ials are being wasted by the ton.”-Cen¬ 
tury: “It is always much easiepto die for one’s 
country than to live for it.”-Gardeners’ 
Monthly: “Robert Douglas says that of the 
thousands of sweet chestnut trees planted in 
the \\ est only an occasional one survived. 
The black walnut thrives admirably.”- 
“A fouutaiu, a pool, even a little rill through 
a fern garden, will moke a spot almost barren 
of other charms seem almost a paradise. When 
a river or lake can be had there is no end to 
the pleasure a country home can give.”- 
Science News: “The common practice of rais¬ 
ing fainting persons to a sitting or upright po¬ 
sition is often sufficient to destroy the spark 
of life which remains.”-■ 
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