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THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKCB. 
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Goff is growing this year for the first time. 
Roots of the white variety may be obtained 
from lakes and ponds, and it is said that the 
plants may be grown from seed. 
Thrifty Agriculturists.— The parish of 
Sabine, in the western part of Louisiana, is 
the banner parish of that State in point of 
the thrift and solid prosperity of its people^ 
says the Baltimore Sun. Its population num¬ 
bers quite 15,000 persons, largely engaged in 
agricultural pursuits, and not a single home¬ 
stead is mortgaged or otherwise seriously en¬ 
cumbered with debt. This fact is shown by 
the parish records, and it is a remarkable 
one. It tells of independence and good man¬ 
agement, of comfort and prosperity that any 
people might envy. It is doubtful whether 
this exhibit has a parallel in any section of 
the country of equal population. 
Fighting Rose-bugs. —Col. A. W. Pearson 
favors Garden and Forest with his experience 
in fighting rose-bugs upon his grape-vines dur¬ 
ing the past season of rose-bugs. To make a 
long story short, he tried about everything in 
the way of insecticides and he seemed to have 
worked in a thorough manner. Among the 
insecticides were London-purple, Paris-green, 
“ bug powders ” of various kinds, the various 
copper-sulphate solutions, etc. He exhausted 
his knowledge of chemistry and the toxicolog¬ 
ical pharmacopoeia in attempts to combat this 
insect. No benefit came from anything tried. 
When the rose-bugs were done not a 
grape was left. 
The vines which he saved (and they are sev¬ 
eral thousand, now loaded with fruit, and 
which were infested with rose-bugs) are 
trained on a single wire trellis. When the 
bugs pervaded these vines he sent men, 
armed with broad wooden paddles made of 
half a barrel-stave, along the rows. A sharp 
tap of the paddle on the underside of the wire 
would cause the bugs to fall to the smooth sur¬ 
face of the ground beneath ; another sharp 
stroke of the paddle disposed of them finally. 
In this manner they daily went over some 
10,000 vines for two weeks and killed rose bugs 
by the bushel, and in this way he considers he 
has saved the crop. This bug killing can only 
be effective in the early part of the day, say up 
to 9 A. M. Disturbed suddenly in these early 
hours they will fall to earth and lie still; later 
in the day they will take wing. 
We beg Col. Pearson’s attention. The 
Rural Grounds were infested with rose-bugs 
the past season as never before. Before their 
advent in force was scarcely known a majority 
of the blossoms of our 60 vines were dis- 
troyed. The rest were saved by Buhach. 
“What,” the Colonel will ask “are 60 vines 
compared with the thousands of vines in my 
vineyard?” One man with an assistant to 
pump, can spray 50 vines in an hour easily; 
so that in a working day of 10 hours, two men 
could spray 500 vines twice—once in the 
morning, again in the afternoon. Could 
Col. Pearson afford to do this as well as to 
employ men in killing the insects in the way 
he describes, viz., with the halves of barrel 
staves? Rose-bugs sprayed with Buhach 
water, two heaping tablespoonfuls, and 
probably less, to two gallons of water, 
and placed in tomato cans immediately after 
receiving the spray, do not recover in 24 
hours, while many die. In the open air they 
recover sooner, but not, we think, in less than 
from five to 10 hours. Granting that Col. 
Pearson’s vines were infested with greater 
numbers of rose-bugs than our vines, we do 
not see any difference, since the entire vine 
must be sprayed, and what will kill one rose- 
bug, will kill a million. 
Our own vines were sprayed but once a day, 
and this served our purpose quite well. Two 
sprayings a day would have served it per¬ 
fectly. 
POINTERS. 
the past six years he has used fertilizers only, 
experience having shown him that there is 
nothing better for this crop or any need of 
barn-yard manure in combination with it. 
The profit of onion seed, of course, depends 
upon the general supply. Last year the seed 
brought one dollar the pound and it has varied 
during recent years from 30 cents to three 
dollars. Five hundred pounds to the acre is 
considered a good crop; so if last year’s prices 
are maintained and no misfortune comes 
within the six weeks which come between the 
present and harvest time, the Connecticut 
Farmer estimates that Mr. Wells may hope 
for an income of §3,500 or thereabouts from 
his seven acres... 
A correspondent of the Albany Cultivator 
says that he purchased 40 acres of farm land 
in Connecticut, at $7 per acre. One field of 
four acres, soil yellow loam, not sandy, was 
thoroughly exhausted ; it would not produce 
a crop. This field was plowed, and half a ton 
of bone, and half a ton of muriate of potash 
were applied to each acre, and thoroughly in¬ 
corporated in the soil by harrowing. It was 
planted to corn, which was carefullv weighed 
when harvested, and the yield was 55 bushels 
to the acre of sound corn. 
The Champion Grape was designated by a 
member of the Ontario Fruit Growers’ So¬ 
ciety, as “good for some one else to eat.” There 
are many such grapes among the later intro¬ 
ductions. Moore’s Early was deemed by one 
member not productive enough. Brighton 
is his favorite early grape. 
One thing, says the Times, may be done at 
this time, viz.: to remove from every stalk of 
corn, which has not pushed forward ear-sets, 
the tassel, which will otherwise shed its im¬ 
perfect pollen upon the silk of the perfect 
plants. It is the habit of corn as of all other 
living things, to reproduce its kind: “like pro¬ 
duces like, : ’and as a corn plant, without an ear 
is a male plant solely, and therefore barren, 
it is as desirable to prevent it from impreg¬ 
nating other plants by which male-producing 
seed may be grown, as it would be to take from 
a herd of cattle a bull whose calves are found 
to be all males. This is a very important 
point in the cultivation of corn. The R. N.-Y. 
has advocated this for many years, and has 
practiced it too on a little plot upon which we 
raise our seed corn. In a large field it does not 
pay at all. Every stalk must be examined, since 
the sets on many plants have scarcely appeared 
even when the pollen is being shed. This ex¬ 
amination of thousands of plants takes a 
great deal of time.-. 
A. farmer near Lansing Michigan, made a 
trial, as he states in the Michigan Farmer, of 
fiawson, Velvet Chaff and Champion Amber 
wheats during the past season.. About 12 
acres were sown. The Champion Amber 
yielded 21 )4 bushels; the Velvet Chaff yielded 
18 bushels and the Clawson yielded 25 2-3 
bushels, per acre.... 
The strongest point in favor of the Clawson 
was that two-thirds of the field had been 
cleared of stumps, and being determined to 
give the new seed the best possible chance he 
placed it on the cleared ground, leaving the 
Clawson to take its chances among the 
stumps. 
Mr. E. W. Reid says that the Carmichael is 
some 10 days later than Gandy, which is itself 
a late strawberry. 
Mr. Wm. Laverick of Auburn N. Y., writes 
that Manchester, Sharpless and Carmichael 
are the three best berries for his land out of 
30 different kinds. He further says that a 
three-year old bed of Sharpless gave more 
berries the present, than in any preceding 
season,. 
DIRECT. 
Farm and Home joins the R. N.-Y. in call¬ 
ing upon all friends of temperance to see that 
the fair grounds in their respective localities 
are liberally supplied with good drinking 
water for man and beast, and an abundance 
of iced tea, coffee, lemonade and other tem¬ 
perance drinks. The want of such a supply at 
a low price has caused many a farmer’s boy 
to take his first drink of something stronger 
at the fair, with disastrous after-consequences. 
If our temperance friends will take advantage 
of the opportunity, they can do much prac¬ 
tical good in the manner above suggested. It 
is not pleasant to refer so often to this iniquity 
of liquor selling at fairs, but we feel it a duty 
owed to the agricultural public. In Illinois, 
New York, New England and several other 
States, the Legislatures have wisely decreed 
that State aid shall be given only to such fairs 
as are free from gambling and liquor selling... 
The Connecticut Farmer says that one S- 
M. Wells, of Wethersfield, Conn., has a seven- 
acre lot of onions and they have been raised 
op ibis field for 50 years consecutively. For 
* * “With the first indications of scours in 
hogs, give them in their swill ten drops of 
carbolic acid. Repeat this every day. This 
is the best cholera medicine.” * * * * 
“Will making the heretofore “Commissioner 
of Ariculture” a Secretary, make the seeds 
distributed by his Department any the more 
reliable as seeds, or less sought after by im¬ 
pecunious Congressmen as vote-catchers?” * 
* * * “The bill seeking to appropriate 
$150,000 for the promotion of silk culture, is 
by no means the biggest steal attempted by 
Congress, but it has about the thinnest, 
flimsiest and meanest disguise that can well be 
imagined.”-Northwestern Agriculturist: 
“ It shows more refinement for a lady to make 
pets of flowers in preference to a dirty and 
measly lap-dog.”-—Chicago Tribune: 
“ What is so rare as a properly cooked steak.” 
-Husbandman: “A small evaporator is 
a valuable addition to the farmer’s outfit, and 
will save several times its cost in one season. 
Apples, berries, sweet corn, and tomatoes can 
be dried for market or home use, and it is 
wonderful how much nicer fruit and vegeta¬ 
bles can be preserved by drying in the evapor¬ 
ator than the common way of drying in the 
sun, or around the kitchen stove.”-N. Y. 
Times: “The month of August is the time to 
cut timber, and, moreover, the trees cut should 
not be trimmed until the leaves are dead and 
dried. Not only is the layer of new wood of 
the tree mature and ripe at this time, but the 
leaves draw from the timber all the sap, and 
so remove a very easily fermentable and de¬ 
composing element from it. Timber thus 
treated seasons very rapidly, and is the most 
durable for use.”-“ For posts, rails, and 
other uses on the farm the timber should be 
cut from this time until September.”- 
Mark Lane Express: “ ‘ What is the best time 
to put dung on the land,’ ” asked a young 
beginner of an old farmer. “ ‘ Put it on “ all 
the year round,” was the reply, “ be always 
making a mixen, muck’s the mother of 
money.’ ”-Puck : “A thing that is light 
passed over just now is the fence surrounding 
a watermelon patch.”-N. Y. Herald : 
“The Rev. Samuel Jones, who is a kind of 
religious blizzard, is very level-headed on the 
subject of matrimony. He remarked in a 
recent sermon that—‘ The best thing on this 
earth is a happy marriage and the worst thing 
an unhappy marriage. Whom God hath joined 
together let no man put asunder. But whom 
the devil has joined let them go to Chicago.”’ 
-National Live Stock Journal : “ In a 
city like Chicago there are all the while a vast 
number of boys and young men looking for 
situations, who would live much more com¬ 
fortably on a farm.” 
A QUESTION OF HEALTH. 
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate 
• Makes Delicious Lemonade. 
A teaspoonful added to a glass of liot or 
cold water, and sweetened to the taste, will 
he lound refreshing and invigorating.— Adv. 
This plain question comes home to every 
house-keeper. We all desire pure and whole 
some food, and this cannot be had with the use 
of impure or poisonous baking powder. There 
can be ho longer a question that all the cheaper, 
lower grades of baking powders contain either 
alum, lime or phosphatic acid. As loath as we 
may be to admit so much against what may 
have been some of our household gods, there 
can be no gainsaying the unanimous testimony 
of the official chemists. Indeed, analysts seem 
to find no baking powder entirely free from 
some one of these objectionable ingredients ex¬ 
cept the Royal, and that they report as chem¬ 
ically pure. We find some of the baking pow¬ 
ders advertised as pure,, to contain, under the 
tests of Professors Chandler, Habirshaw and 
others, nearly twelve per cent, of lime, while 
others are made from alum with no cream-of- 
tartar. This, we presume, accounts for 
their lack of leavening power as sometimes 
complained of by the cook, and for the bitter 
taste found in the biscuits so frequently 
complained of by ourselves. 
But aside from the inferiority of the work 
done by these powders, the physicians assure 
us that lime and alum taken into the system 
in such quantities as this are injurious. Their 
physiological effects are indigestion, dyspepsia 
or worse evils. 
The question naturally arises, why do these 
cheap baking powder makers use these things ? 
Alum is three cents a pound, lime still cheaper, 
while cream of tartar costs 35 or 40. The reason 
for the chemical purity of the Royal Baking 
Powder were recently given to the New York 
Times in an interesting description of a new 
method for refining argols, or crude cream of 
tartar. It seems that it is only under this pro¬ 
cess that cream of tartar can be freed from the 
lime natural to it and rendered chemically 
pure ; that the patents and plants for this cost 
the Royal Baking Powder Company about 
half a million dollars, and that they maintain 
exclusive control of the rights. 
Professor McMurtrie, late Chief Chemist of 
the Departments of Agriculture, at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., made an examination of this pro¬ 
cess, and reported upon the results attained in 
she refined cream of tartar. The following ex¬ 
tract from his report would seem to answer 
the question repeated at the head of this article, 
and which is so frequently propounded by the 
housekeeper: 
“I have examined the cream of tartar used 
by the Royal Baking Powder Company in the 
manufacture of their baking powder, and find 
it to be perfectly pure and free from lime in 
any form. The chemical tests to which I have 
submitted the Royal Baking Powder prove it 
perfectly healthful and Ffree from every dele¬ 
terious substance. The Royal Baking Powder 
is purest in quality and highest in strength of 
any bakiDg powdernf which I haveknowlege.” 
The 18 items following are from the 
August Farm Journal: “ Stop the hired girl 
from throwing the dish water out of the 
kitchen door. Get a portable cask for her to 
put it m if you have no good drain.” * * * * 
“ Good woman, have only a few kinds of 
food on your table—a plenty of each kind and 
of quality the best.” * * * * “As to 
breeding: Do not use old ewes.” * * * * 
‘‘A South Down cross with the native ewe will 
fatten more rapidly, though it may not gain 
so great size as the Cotswold.” * * * * “A 
cross of South Down on Merino makes the 
best market lambs.” * * * * “A cross o^ 
Cotswold on Merino gives a larger but looser, 
bodied and more bony lamb.” * * * * 
“Merino ewes will take the buck earlier in 
the fall than the English breeds of sheep.” * 
* * * “A grade Merino ewe will give a 
arger lamb and more milk than a pure-bred.’ 
* * * * “ As to the buck: In selecting a 
ram for early lambs remember that great 
size and early maturity are seldom found in 
the same animal.” * * * * “ Never select 
a ram of the larger breeds with a big head 
This has much to do with safe lambing.” * * 
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