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insect plant was found by the Rural, some 
e ight years ago to be quite hardy at the Ru¬ 
ral Grounds. The flowers are bright in vari¬ 
ous shades of rose and red, and as large as 
single asters. Seeds are offered by many 
seedsmen.* 
Ricinus Cambodgensis is a castor-oil plant 
that has stems and leaf stalks which are near¬ 
ly black, and it grows about five feet high. It 
is a fine thing for tropical effect. The rici- 
nuses bear their male and female flowers sep¬ 
arately, and it is a very easy matter to cross 
the varieties.* 
The Double White Phlox Drummondii is 
said to come quite true from seed. No doubt 
a considerable proportion will be single, how¬ 
ever... 
Mr. Hoard thinks that cob-meal (corn¬ 
cobs) should be finely ground. 
Mr. A. W. Cheever (farmer-editor and a 
good man besides) says that the profits, pleas¬ 
ures or discontents of farm life depend very 
much upon the ability and tastes of the farm¬ 
er and his wife. If they like the business 
hey will generally succeed in it. There is no 
place equal to a country farm house for rais¬ 
ing and educating children. In no other place 
can they so early learn to be useful. If they 
drop the seed and pull the weeds they feel 
rightful ownership in the crop. The city 
child sees things sold and bought for money. 
The country child sees things produced. 
Storks, Harrison & Co., of Painesville, 
Ohio, say in their new catalogue that “of the 
many good things introduced from Japan 
none is more worthy than the Japan chestnut. 
The tree is decidedly ornamental, hardy and 
productive, of dwarf habit, bearing extremely 
young.” They catalogue grafted trees at 60 
cents each, or two dollars for four. Seedlings 
are lower. If the grafted trees are of the best 
kinds we should greatly prefer them. 
The above firm advertises the Lemon Peach 
among novelties. It originated in Ohio, is 
very hardy. The name is appropriate since it 
is almost of lemon shape, being longer than 
broad and of a pale lemon color. It is of large 
size, excellent quality, and ripens after the 
Late Crawford. The tree is said to be im¬ 
mensely productive. 
Golden Drop, another new peach, is said 
to have a transparent, golden appearance 
rendering it very attractive in the market. .. 
The “New and Rare Fruit Collections” 
offered by Storrs, Harrison & Co., at reduced 
prices (see their catalogue, page 129), are well 
worthy of examination. . 
A writer tells the Chatham Courier about 
his way of husking and shelling corn. He 
simply runs it through his thrashing machine, 
husking and shelling it at the same time. It 
is one of the most satisfactory pieces of work 
he ever did by machinery. He could husk 
and shell about 100 bushels of corn per day ; 
it would husk every ear, small nubbins aud 
all and it shelled perfectly clean. He had no 
trouble with the corn or stalks. After trash¬ 
ing, the corn kept better than it had formerly 
on the cob. 
Mr. E. F. Ladd, Assistant Chemist of the 
N. Y. Ag. Ex. Station, made many analyses 
of Timothy hay in order to ascertain whether 
it is of more value to cut it when in bloom 
or to wait until after the seeds have formed. 
The evidence is very positive that from a 
chemical point of view, it seems preferable 
to- cut it for feeding at the period of full 
bloom. 
As all its older readers know, the B. N.-Y. 
has grown Prickly Comfrey in a small way 
for about 12 years. We have said that the 
plants are tremendous growers and will bear 
cutting back three or four times each season.. 
We ha ve discouraged its cultivation because 
until of late no animals that we had tried 
seemed to relish the large, coarse prickly 
leaves. Last summer one of our horses was 
fed the Comfrey every few days during the 
summer, and he ate it with evident relish aud 
a growing appetite for it. Now, in justice to 
the other side of the question, we must again 
allude to what Dr. Henry Foster, of Clifton 
Springs, N. Y., says of it. Under date of 
Sep. 21, he wrote to the N. Y. Station as fol¬ 
lows: 
“We have been using the Comfrey five 
years, and we think more of its value this 
year than in any previous year. We are now 
cutting the fifth crop grown this season. My 
foreman says that it will average ten tons to 
the acre for each crop, making 50 tons to the 
acre for the season. Of course, to get such au 
enormous yield it must be thoroughly culti- 
, vated between each cutting and top-dressed. 
We use for dressing nothing but stable man¬ 
ure, put on immediately after cutting, before 
cultivating. We have no forage plant that 
compares with it in producing quantity and 
quality of milk.” 
Now in the light of this testimony, as well 
as that given by the Station’s analyses and 
several years’ trial of Prickly Comfrey, the 
Station report says; “From a chemical stand¬ 
point, we have in Prickly Comfrey a promis¬ 
ing forage plant for those interested in soiling, 
and we would recommend its careful trial by 
the farmers of our State.”. 
Look before you love... 
The N. Y. World says that the steadily in¬ 
creasing coi sumption of agricultural chemi¬ 
cals and commeroial fertilizers for supple¬ 
menting farm manures is a gratifying in¬ 
dorsement of the good service done to agri¬ 
culture by scientists. 
The Chatham Courier says that thousands 
of dollars ought to go into the pockets of 
farmers annually from- the creamery, and 
will if they take hold of the system and sup¬ 
port it heartily and intelligently. 
The Wapping Creamery of Connecticut, 
says the above paper, has returned to its 
patrons over 25 cents per pound on the average 
for their butter since June 1883. The report 
shows that “where farms were at first only 
able to carry five or six cows, they now keep 
from 12 to 15. The skim-milk is mostly kept 
at home and fed to calves and hogs, aud the 
manure piles have correspondingly increased, 
which in time has increased the crops to a 
remarkable extent, two or three tons of hay 
being raised where one ton was all that could 
be harvested per acre before”. 
ABSTRACTS. 
Puck: “The Right Bower: Home.”- 
Farm Journal: “Mortgage and misery begin 
with the same letter.”-“A lead pencil is 
one of the best of farm implements for winter 
evening work.”-“Let there be light, good 
light, and plenty of it, every evening in the 
most cheerful aud pleasant room in the house. 
There’s more attraction for the boys in a 
good lamp than many people think.”- 
The Iowa Homestead: “So well are the pro¬ 
tective effects of groves understood by old 
and experienced farmers that they would 
prefer to have their cattle behind a grove 
alone than in a stable on a wind-swept prairie 
without groves. Public interest and private 
profit alike demand that tree planting be 
general and abundant next spring.”-Mr. 
Geo. M. Whitaker before the Mass. Hort. 
Society: “Many a farmer who calls himself 
enterprising and who does raise good crops 
forgets that with a few hours’ work he could 
plant a dozen trees that would greatly enhance 
the value of his estate, aud yield blessings of 
beauty long after he has passed away.”- 
“If the father cannot spare a little land for a 
lawn, or a flower garden, if he cannot give 
the boys a little time and some encouragement 
thrown in, to care for them and add to the 
looks of his home, if he thiuks of nbthing but 
the cows or the cornfield, ho must not be sur¬ 
prised at being left alone in his old age.”- 
M. B. Faxon: “A family of 10 persons will 
consume 50 bushels of potatoes in a lyear.” 
-Puck: “Time is not always money to 
him who trusts.”-Tennessee Farmer: “A 
Michigan girl who has found over 2,000 four¬ 
leaved clovers is not yet married.”-Far¬ 
mers’ Review: “Why not understand that 
it is cheaper, healthier aud more sensible for 
the farmer to grow a few fresh vegetables and 
fruits for his own table, than to run up a gro¬ 
cer’s bill or live on hog aud ham, with an oc¬ 
casional fried chicken for the preacher and 
company?”- 
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