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1888 
THE RURAL WEW-YOBKEJI. 
as soon as freely used become common ones. 
For example, the words telegraph and tele¬ 
phone are technical words that sounded 
strange to us when we first heard them, but 
frequent use and constant repetition have 
made them a part of our cfaily language, and 
we no longer regard them as mysterious or 
unusual. If agriculture is to make any great 
advances in the future there will be. of neces¬ 
sity in its development, new words introduced 
which sound strange to us and have an un¬ 
known meaning at first. To close our ears 
and refuse to know anything about them 
would be an act of stupidity and unworthy of 
the cause .. 
Pkof Henry incidentally remarks in the 
article above quoted that there is great need 
in the West of a word which shall mean stalks 
of corn from which the ears have been re¬ 
moved by husking. Farmers in the East use 
the word “sfo-uer” to express this meaning, 
and he earnestly recomrn ends the adoption of 
the word at the West. If we employ this 
word for the purpose we then have left the 
words “corn-fodder” and “fodder-corn” 
which can apply strictly and only to grown 
corn plants from which the ears, if any, have 
not been removed.. 
If cattle relish tomatoes, says the Kansas 
City Live-Stock Indicator, there is no reason 
why such an addition should not be hailed 
with great pleasure by those who are specially 
engaged at present in preparing show herds 
for the fairs. There is nothing at present 
known that has such a beneficial effect on the 
dyspeptic that suffers from a sluggish liver as 
tomatoes, and, properly handled, there is no 
reason why they should not be a veritable 
boon to cattle, not so much, we think, as food, 
but as a corrective and alterative. 
Spiraea. Bumalda. —The London Garden 
says that all that has been written in praise 
of this new Japanese shrub is thoroughly 
merited, and it has no hesitation in saying it 
is one of the prettiest dwarf shrubs of July. 
It is evidently only a variety of the variable 
S. callosa (or what shou’d be more strictly 
called S. Japonica), as it is like it both in 
growth and foliage. It does not grow much 
more than a foot high, and its slender stems 
spread widely. The flower clusters are broad 
and flat, of a delicate pink color, and so 
numerous are the flowers that the whole bush 
is a mass of color. The Rural’s specimen 
was sent to us by John Saul, of Washington, 
D. C. The leaves are variegated with yellow, 
a sport, no doubt, which while it does not add 
to the beauty of the little hardy shrub, 
scarcely adds much to its appearance. 
Mr. T. B. Terry tells, in the Albany Culti¬ 
vator, of the great benefit received from a 
slight spread of straw over a part of his 
wheat field. The straw was spread just be¬ 
fore winter set in. He also found that there 
was a heavy rank growth of clover from seed 
sown in the spring on the mulched land and a 
very feeble and thin growth on the rest. 
J. J. Thomas, in the above journal, says 
that the Le Conte pear is remarkable for its 
rampant growth and productiveness at the 
South, and for the worthless quality of its fruit 
at the North, and is found by Samuel Miller 
of Missouri to be quite liable to the blight. 
Shoots that are fruiting this season, he states, 
are blighting badly. However popular, there¬ 
fore, it may be in the Southern States, it will 
be hardly worth while for cultivators at the 
North to take much trouble to procure it. It 
ripens at Midsummer there, and in October 
here.. 
Several rules which Mr. Thomas observes 
in setting new orchards are : 1. The main 
portion of the new orchard should be planted 
with well tested and approved varieties. If 
practicable, select such as have done well in 
your particular locality, and plant very few, 
by way of experiment, of new, lauded, and 
untried sorts, most of which will eventually 
prove of little value. 2. Choose young and 
thrifty trees, instead of large ones, the young 
trees being dug with better roots, costing less 
on the railroad, being more easy to set out, 
and starting sooner into vigorous growth, than 
large trees with mutilated roots. 2. Make 
it a condition with the nurseryman that he 
shall give ample and uninjured roots, which 
will hold the tree when transplanted without 
bracing or staking. 4. Autumn transplant¬ 
ing should be performed only on quite hardy 
kinds, and in places where the trees are not 
exposed to sharp wintry winds. The heads of 
the trees should be shortened in and made 
lighter by cutting back the season’s growth, 
or by cutting off the longer shoots at a fork. 
But no limbs of more than one season’s 
growth should be taken off, as large wounds 
make the trees tenderer and more liable to 
injury by winter. 
Late October is perhaps the best time for 
planting hardy bulbs, though the R. N.-Y. 
bu& bad a flue display from byaciutbs which 
were planted iffJanuary, during a warm spell. 
If, however, we would have such bulbs at 
their best, the beds should be of rich soil, 
mellowed by spading a foot in depth. 
As to the culture of hyacinths in the open 
ground, J. M. Thorburn & Co., give explicit 
and sensible instructions. They advise plant¬ 
ing in October and November, but they can 
be set out at any later time, as long as the 
ground is open and the bulbs remain sound. 
The best compost for their culture is the fol¬ 
lowing: One-third river or sea sand, one-third 
well rotted cow manure, and one-third good 
garden mold, or, where the soil is naturally 
light, well rotted cow manure liberally inter¬ 
mixed is all sufficient. The beds composed of 
the above compost should be well dug to a 
depth of 14 inches, and raised from two to 
four inches above the level of the walks. The 
bulbs should be planted evenly about six 
inches deep (to the bottom of the bulbs) and 
from five to six inches apart; if planted at 
uneven depths, they will not bloom at the 
same time, but irregularly. Care must be 
taken not to press the earth too firmly around 
and over the bulbs; some successful gardeners 
follow the plan of setting each bulb in a 
handful of clean sand, which insures proper 
drainage. After planting, rake the bed or 
border smooth, and after the ground has 
frozen tolerably hard in early winter, cover 
with a few inches of dry litter, leaves, ever¬ 
green boughs, or coarse manure. If this 
covering be applied before freezing weather, 
it renders the bulbs liable to the predations 
of field mice, which will be likely to burrow 
in it. The culture of tulips is essentially the 
same as that for hyacinths, except that they 
should not be planted so deep. 
Given a good animal to start with, can you 
change its essential qualities by care? asks the 
Weekly Press. No doubt this is possible to a 
certain degree. Education, training, will do 
much for man or animal. But, as Francis 
Galton puts it: “Nature is more important 
than nurture.” One would have trouble in 
training a bulldog to point a partridge. Just 
so it would be impossible to rear a Holstein 
heifer so that her milk would be as rich as 
that of a Jersey. The modifications in physi¬ 
cal and mental qualities that care and train¬ 
ing will effect are not to be compared in vital 
and dominant force with those inborn quali¬ 
ties that are inherited. The foundation or 
framework you have to work upon, the orig¬ 
inal personality of the animal determines its 
quality and destiny to a greater degree than 
any of your nursing or schooling or feeding. 
In this sense Breed is more important than 
Feed; Nature more potent than Nurture. 
Dorset-Horned sheep, remarks the Breed¬ 
er’s Gazette, are being bought by American 
importers to a limited extent this summer. 
Those shown at the American Fat-Stock Show 
certainly made a favorable impression upon 
breeders contemplating the breeding of spring 
lambs for early market, and as mutton-grow¬ 
ing rather than wool-culture seems almost 
certain to be the “straight tip” for the future 
of the sheep-breeding industry, we should not 
be surprised to find the Dorsets well liked 
where given a fair trial. They are scarcely 
as handsome a sheep as the neater and thick- 
fleshed “Downs,” but they are a novelty and 
attain good weights at an early age—points 
which are unquestionably in their favor. 
“ The potato crop in some localities is suf¬ 
fering from the attacks of the flea beetle—in 
some places the crop is almost ruined. Raris- 
green, buhach, hellebore nor any other known 
insecticide seems to have any destructive effect 
upon them. The jirolificacy 0 f these insect 
pests is marvelous. 
Western Rural: “The young man with a 
slender salary should choose for his wife a 
young woman of small waste.”-J. H. 
Hale in the Courant: “Last year I made up 
my mind that Bubach was the best market 
strawberry in America and now I know it— 
not that it is perfection; for it is not of very 
high flavor and is of only moderate firmness, 
yet the plant is perfect in health and vigor, 
strong as Sharpless and almost as free a 
runner as the Crescent, fully as productive, 
fruit of extremely largo size, bright scarlet 
color, and one of the earliest to ripen, good as 
the Crescent in every way and fruit more 
than double in size.”-Here are a few of 
Dana’s maxims, which, if followed,would serve 
to elevate farm as well as political journalism: 
“ Copy nothing from another publication 
without complete credit. * * * Never print 
a paid advertisement as news matter. Let 
every advertisement appear as an advertise¬ 
ment—no sailing under false colors. * * * 
Never attack the weak or the defenceless, 
either by argument, by invective, or by 
ridicule, unless there is some absolute public 
necessity for so doing. * * * Fight for your 
opinions, but don’t believe they contain the 
whole truth or the only truth. * * * Above 
all, know and believe that humanity is advan¬ 
cing and that there is progress in human 
life and human affairs, and that as sure 
as God lives, the future will be greater 
and better than the present or past.”- 
London Agricultural Gazette : “Whatever 
else may be said of Americans [and a man, 
who is not a dunce, must have many tributes 
of admiration to offer] this must be said : 
‘He is Boss-advertiser of Creation.’ We are 
not sure that advertisements, in print, origi¬ 
nated in America; but it was the United 
States that first realized what help the Press 
might render in the way of advertising; and 
they have, more than any other country, de¬ 
veloped the idea.”-B. F. Johnson in the 
Chicago Times : “When a hog with acorn- 
fed ancestry, and itself fed on corn till be¬ 
coming a mass of fat he can eat no longer, is 
slaughtered, the blood is so thick and dark 
and in so small a quantity it can scarcely be 
made to flow from him by the most skillful 
handling. When the carcass is cut up there 
are five to six parts fat to one of lean, that 
shrinks to a scrap in the pan and to a mass of 
jelly in the pot, while the lean is dry, tough 
and tasteless, and the lard resulting from the 
whole at a common summer temperature a 
good deal like oil. Originally the Short-horn 
cattle and the Berkshire hogs, the parents of 
three-fourths of the good stock now offered on 
the public markets, were justly celebrated for 
having a large development of lean in propor¬ 
tion to fat in the mass of the meat, both races 
have been so long and so highly corn-fed and 
bred from over-fed parents they have become 
little more than well-proportioned frames to 
hang great masses of lard and tallow upon.-- 
Pittsfield Advertiser: They won’t marry to 
get a home.—While driving on the road from 
Skowhegan to Hartland, with my son, we 
counted n ne ladies driving two-horse mowers 
and seventeen young ladies driving one-horse 
rakes.-Garden & Forest: “Through¬ 
out a considerable district in New Jersey the 
potato tops have been dying before they 
reach maturity and many fields of late varie¬ 
ties will not yield half a crop. The Editor of 
the Rural New-Yorker has found that the 
destruction is caused by the Cucumber flea- 
beetle, an enemy easily overlooked on account 
of its small size, and ODe, too, not suspected 
of being capable of causing so great damage.” 
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate 
The above from the Orange Co. Farmer is 
the first notice we have seen, outside of the 
R. N.-Y.’s columns, of the depredations of 
this terrible pest. If not a mere repetition as 
an item of news, we would be pleased to learn 
from our esteemed contemporary if it speaks 
of the ineffectiveness of the insecticides men¬ 
tioned from its own experience, that of others, 
or both, as a corroboration of the results of 
our own experiments. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
N. Y. Herald: “Buy your coal now.”- 
For the Tired Brain 
from over-exertion. Try it.-^dv. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
S HERIDAN’S CONDITION POWDER is absolute¬ 
ly pure and highly concentrated. It is strictly 
a medicine to be given with food. Nothing on earth 
will make hens lay like it. It cures chicken chol¬ 
era and all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mail free. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for 
26 cts. In stamps. 2J<-lb. tin cans, $1; by mall, 
*1.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $6. 
LaJQhnsoa fc Co., P. O. Box 3118 . Boston. 
A DOUBLY GOOD WORK. 
All people who eat are indebted to the 
Royal Baking Powder Company, not 
more for having perfected and prepared a 
leavening agent that is pure and wholesome 
beyond a question than from its exposures, so 
boldly made, of the numerous impure, adul¬ 
terated and injurious articles that are sold 
under the name of baking powders, bread 
preparations, etc., in this community. In 
making these exposures the company has, of 
course, made itself the target for all sorts of 
counter attacks, but the animus of these at¬ 
tacks has been perfectly understood by the 
general public, and by their very virulence 
have served to more prominently call attention 
to the good work of the “Royal” Company. 
Food frauds of the usual class, such as wood¬ 
en nutmeg, chicory, coffee and watered milk, 
although they are swindles in a commercial 
sense, are often tolerated because they' do not 
particularly affect the health of the consumer. 
But when an article like baking powder, that 
is relied upon for the healthful preparation 
of almost every meal, is so made as to carry 
highly injurious if not rankly poisonous ele¬ 
ments into our daily food, it would seem to be 
the duty of the press as well as of the criminal 
authorities to take cognizance of it. 
In the fight for pure food made by the 
“Royal” Company some time ago, when its 
guns were particularly trained against the 
alum baking powders, it was noticed that the 
most trustworthy scientific authorities were 
emphatically upon its side. So in the recent 
contests with the lime and other impure bak¬ 
ing powders the result has proved that every 
statement made by the Royal Baking Powder 
Company, both as to the purity of its own aud 
the adulteration of other baking powders of 
the market, was fully authorized by the most 
competent chemical and medical authorities 
of the country. 
In this contest two facts have been pretty 
conclusively settled in the minds of the public 
—the first, that the Royal Company has found 
the means, and uses them, to make a chem¬ 
ically pure article of food, and the others that 
the average baking powder, no matter how 
strongly endorsed by “commercial” chemists, 
is an exceedingly doubtful preparation. 
Pure baking powders are one of the chief 
aids to the cook in preparing perfect and 
wholesome food. The recent controversy in the 
press has left it no longer a question with 
those who desire purity and wholt someness of 
food what baking powder they shall use. 
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■ Full treatise on Improved methods, yields, 
w profits and prices FREE. Lock Box 18. 
AMERICAN M’F’G CO.. Waynesboro, Fa. 
PRODUCE COMMISSION BOUSE 
ESTABLISHED 1865. 
S. H. & E. II. FROST, 
100 PARK PLACE, N. Y. 7 
Shippers desiring to favor us will be furnished sten¬ 
cils, shipping cards, etc., on application. Promptness 
guaranteed References Rural, New-Yorkkr, Irving 
National Bank, etc. 
OXFORD DOWN SHEEP! 
“ Ellenborough ” Flock makes another importa¬ 
tion necessary this season. Se'ections of yearling 
Rams and Ewes have been made by Mr. John Tread¬ 
well, the acknowledged leading breeder, and best 
judge In England. Oxfords are the largest of the 
black faced breeds (rams weigh 425 lbs,), are heaviest 
shearers, and will outlive “tree wool.” At the last 
Smithfleid, London, Fat Stock Show, Oxfords von 
champion prize for best mutton sheep at the show , 
and were considered the bes' class at the la>t area 
“ Royal.” Address F. C. GOLDSBOROUGH, 
Easton, Talbot Co., Maryland. 
Dehorning Cattle 5@%o?k «uS3BSS io a 
I. J. WICKS, Colorado Springs, Colo. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS. 
Cotswold, South-down, Oxford-down, Shropshircs, 
and Merinos, bred from our very choicest stock Write 
at once for our special prices for the fall; also Rough- 
coated Collie Puppies. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Philadelphia, Pa 
P 
TO GROW 
is the 
ROFITABLE 
PYLE’S RED WINTER APPLE 
a large, red, showy apple; good keeper, and 
abundant bearer. Price, first-class.trees, 75 cents. 
second class 50 cents, each. W 
GEORGE ACHELIS, West Chester, Fa. 
Write to 
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are manufacturing a most excellent Roof for 
$2 per 100 Square Feet, 
including nails, caps and paint for entire roof. We 
also have first quality sheathing for liutng lustde, 
at SI.50 per Roll of 300 Square Feet. 
Keeps building cooler iu summer, warmer lu winter. 
Indiana Paint & Roofing Co. 
Wasting the flavoring Oils of Butter, by overworking:, injures its keeping 
quality and market value. Use Higgins’ Eureka High Grade English Salt, 
It dissolves quickly and does its work completely* 
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“How to save re-shingling, stop 
leaks effectually and cheaply in 
roofs of all kinds, or lay NEW 
roofs.” Particulars free if you 
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I 43 Duane St., New York. 
