THE RURAL HEW- 
rate late autumn and early winter variety. 
Clairgeau sells well on account of its beauty 
of appearance. The reason why Mr. Thom¬ 
as’s fruit was so fair the past season was the 
spraying with Paris-green given to the whole 
orchard when the fruit was as large as peas.. 
A writer in the London Garden makes the 
statement that the strongest and most robust- 
growing rose seedlings are, as a rule, worthless. 
We see a good deal in the society columns 
of the daily papers about the use of the Puri¬ 
tan Rose in every social event, but in point of 
fact, says Miss Taplin in Popular Gardening, 
this flower does not take at all; it is a great 
disappointment to the growers. Pew of the 
new roses of the past year seem likely to 
amount to anything of importance, and the 
growers who invested largely in them are 
feeling more thau sore on the subject. 
The Chinese Yam, now prominently adver¬ 
tised as the Cinnamon Vine, is well worthy of 
cultivation. Its blossoms are fragrant of 
cinnamon and the vine thrives with little 
care. As we said last week, the long club- 
shaped tuber is very hardy and when once 
planted, will reproduce itself, sending up 
vigorous vines yearly. We find the tubers 
and bulblets offered in W. W. Rawson’s cata¬ 
logue (Boston Mass.). 
Prof. Armsby believes that the source of 
quality in milk is found in the breed. A cow 
which naturally gives rich milk will still con¬ 
tinue to do so even on poor feed, though in 
much smaller quantity; while a cow that nat¬ 
urally gives poor milk, could not be much 
improved, even by the addition of rich food.. 
The American Swineherd alleges that the hog 
and hen are a source of greater profit to the 
farmer for the amount invested than anything 
else on the farm. Yet they are frequently the 
most neglected. It will pay to improve and 
expend greater care upon both. 
Experiments with wheats at the N. Y. 
Station give strong evidence that compacting 
the soil aids the plants to resist winter-killiug 
and favors increased yield.. 
Large oats and small oats were carefully 
selected and planted in separate plots. The 
crops showed an appreciable gain, in every 
way, of the progeny of the large over the 
small seed in per cent, of vegetation, rapidity 
of development of plant, yield of grain and 
straw and weight of seed. Plaut selected seed 
for improvement. 
Oats have been planted at different depths 
from a quarter of an inch to seven inches. 
One and one half inch seems to be the best 
depth in order to secure permanent moisture 
to insure early vegetation. 
Thirteen different varieties of so-called 
winter oats were sown in the fall. All were 
dead in the spring. 
Experiments with sowing oats seemed to 
show that there need be little hesitation on 
the part of the farmer to sow in late winter 
or early spring on land where some fall-sown 
crop has made a failure. 
At the present time the New York Station 
(Geneva, let it be borne in mind) has about 
two acres in Alfalfa, and although it may 
fairly be said that the seed is expensive and 
large vegetation not certain after sowing, 
the five years’ experience certainly indicates, 
if not proves, that Alfalfa will thrive and do 
well in that climate, and where good seed- 
ings are secured will yield a large aud valu 
able crop, especially during dry weather. 
fruit, of strong growth. 
The Industry Gooseberry mildewed badly. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
J. J. H. Gregory: “The Ne Plus Ultra 
corn has a very peculiar appearance, the 
kernels being irregular in shape and distribu¬ 
tion on the cob. In the matter of sweetness 
and tenderness,—which, after all, are the spe¬ 
cial points with the gardener—it has never 
been surpassed, if indeed equaled. The ears 
are rather below medium size, but as an offset 
several grow ou each stalk.” This is much 
the report which the R. N.-Y. made of this 
corn some six years ago. It is a rather late 
variety.-Robert Douglass: “Goldenever¬ 
greens should be planted in full sunlight”.... 
“We now send small packages of evergreen 
trees, by mail, to Europe in perfect order, 
and have sent Catalpa trees to the East Indies 
400 miles inland to Calcutta, and all lived 
and were in leaf in 10 days from planting. ”- 
Dairyman: “Mr. Philbrick, an experienced 
dairyman of New Hampshire who produces 
milk for the Boston market, feeds his cows a 
half pint of cheap molasses every day. He 
states that this addition has run his milk from 
12 to 14 per cent, solids.”-Director of the 
N. Y. Ex. Station: “The demand for analyses 
of fertilizers comes more largely from agents 
for their own private benefit than from the 
farmers themselves.” This is not as it ought 
to be.-B. A. Elliot & Co.: “The great 
beds of coleus and alternantheras, etc., to 
those who have never seen them, are consid¬ 
ered wonderfully beautiful, but each subse¬ 
quent visit lessens admiration until finally they 
attract not at all. Hardy plants, on the con¬ 
trary, do not put on all of their attractions at 
once, but are ever varying.”-“Thou wilt 
not love to live unless thou live to love.”- 
Holmes: “Whenever the wandering demon 
of druukenness finds a ship adr’ft—no steady 
wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing 
its course—he steps on board, takes the helm, 
and steers straight for the maelstrom.’'- 
Suggested by Life: “I think, my dear,” said 
a young wife to her husband, both of whom 
were starting out in farm life, “that we had 
better subscribe for Ex. It seems to be more 
quoted than any other farm paper.”- 
Weekly N. Y. Tribune: “That organ of the 
cow-doctors, ‘The Breeders’ Gazette.’is sharply 
reproved by ‘Farm and Fireside’ for advising 
the sale for the shambles of cattle suffer¬ 
ing from tuberculosis (consumption), use of 
whose beef is believed by excellent au¬ 
thority to be a prime cause of con¬ 
sumption in the human race.”-O. S. 
Bliss, in the N. Y. Tribune: “A larger 
proportion of the eggs will be fertile and pro¬ 
duce healthy chicks where 20 hens run with 
a single cock than where there are only 10. 
Forty-two to one are the most I have 
ever kept, and that season the eggs 
hatched as well as ever I knew any. 
I have long been satisfied that the great¬ 
est bane of the flock is often too many roost¬ 
ers, but I never realized the extent of the evil 
till I made it a subject of special experimenta¬ 
tion.”-Holmes: “The world has a million 
roosts for a man, but only one nest.”- 
“No man is so old but that he fancies he may 
live at least one more year.” 
i0jc*ltau*0u# (tmtigiinn 
Experiments to show whether anything 
is gained by exposing the cut seed potatoes to 
the air and light as compared with planting 
the cut pieces as soon as cut, seemed to show 
that exposing the cuttings to the air of a mod¬ 
erately dry room for a week or 10 days before 
planting is detrimental neither fo their vege¬ 
tation nor productiveness, while the tendency 
may be toward a slight increase of yield. A 
longer exposure than 10 days, however, is in¬ 
jurious. 
A solution of nitrate of potash was used 
upon cabbage plants to see what effect it would 
have upon the cabbage maggot. Air-slaked 
lime was also used. Those so treated suffered 
more than others which received neither the 
one nor the other . . . 
It was found that one part of Paris-green 
or London-purple suffices for 150 parts of plas¬ 
ter, when well mixed together, to kill the po¬ 
tato bettle. One-half pound of either poison 
suffices for five gallons of water.. 
The R. N.-Y. has thoroughly mixed one 
pound of Paris-green with an entire barrel of 
plaster and found it effectual in killing potato 
beetles. 
The Station considers Taylor’s Prolific the 
most productive variety of blackberry there 
tried. Wilson Junior winter-kills, Stone’s 
Hardy is very productive, Stayman’s Early 
winter-kills, fruit small and of very poor 
quality. Early Harvest partly winter-killed; 
Early Cluster, poor flavor, moderately pro¬ 
ductive; Agawam bears tbe best flavored 
Beauty 
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POTATOES. 
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Clod Crushers, Double Flexible Gang- 
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Works the entire surface of the ground. No 
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Sent 
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on 
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