THE BUBAL MEW 
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The Souhegan and Tyler are, without ques¬ 
tion, he says, the most valuable of the early 
sorts for general culture, either for market or 
the home garden. A wonder of productive¬ 
ness, of fair size, very black, of good quality 
and hardy... 
Let us hear from you, Mr. J. H. Hale. Are 
the Carman and Souhegan the same? If so 
let the public know it at once and squelch the 
new name. To us- they do not appear the 
same. 
The editor of Orchard and Garden also 
speaks of the Hansel as suckering too 
freely, as bearing light canc-s, characteristics 
already noted by the R. N.-Y. He pronoun¬ 
ces the Cuthbert the best red raspberry and 
corroborates the Rural’s estimate of the 
Marlboro as it grows in New Jersey. He says 
the Earhart Everbearing is of little value ex¬ 
cept for variety. He has pronounced this the 
same as the old Ohio Everbearing. We 
should be pleased to have him hold to this 
conviction, or accept the R. N.-Y.’s proof that 
he is for the once in error. 
Again, is the Springfield the same as the 
Davison’s Thornless?. 
While at first somewhat skeptical concern¬ 
ing the “wonderful merits of the Jessie straw¬ 
berry,” Mr. Lovett now considers it, without 
doubt, a promising novelty. 
The prediction of an important future is 
made for the Thompson’s Early Prolific red 
raspberry. It is said to be earlier by a week 
than the Hansel; large, bright in color, firm 
and excellent. 
Mr. J. M. Smith says in the Cultivator (Al¬ 
bany) that the Ancient Briton is altogether the 
most successful blackberry in Brown County, 
Wisconsin.. 
Good Mr. J. J. Thomas, the veteran horti¬ 
cultural editor of that paper, speaks of an 
orchard of Bartlett pears that was sprayed 
three times with Paris-green, the rains partly 
interrupting its action. The result now is, 
that the heavily loaded trees are bearing 
scarcely a defective specimen, while a tree, 
likewise heavily oaded, growing forty rods 
distant in a garden, has nearly every pear 
more or less distorted and disfigured by the 
coddling worms in the calyx and core, and by 
the curculio at the sides. 
Michigan Agricultural College ex¬ 
periments with wheat show that salt les¬ 
sened the yield of wheat, 150 pounds being 
sown to the acre. Prof. Johnson inclines to 
think that 1 % bushel of seed gives the 
best yield. The old Clawson seems to retain, 
in good degree, those qualities w'nica have 
made it popular for a longer term of years 
than most ott.er varieties. 
The New Jersey pear crop, says good Sec¬ 
retary Williams in the Weekly Press, is nearly 
a total failure this year. One of the three 
largest pear growers in Essex County re¬ 
marked recently that while they usually ag¬ 
gregated about 6,000 bushels annually between 
them, if they harvested 200 bushels this season 
it would be all he could expect, and they were 
so scattered that the gathering would cost 
more than they were worth. This means a 
good market and better prices for more fa¬ 
vored localities. The cause assigned is unfa¬ 
vorable weather at the time of fructification. 
The trees are getting a rest that may prove 
beneficial. 
Colonel Ccrtis, of Kirby Homestead, 
New York State, advocates the establishment 
of dairy schools in different parts of the State, 
to be supported by the State, and made strict¬ 
ly free to boys and girls, where all the prac¬ 
tical and scientific knowledge pertaining to 
dairying in all its branches shall be taught.. 
Prof. Stewart states in the Albany Cul¬ 
tivator that pea vine hay, when cut at the 
right time, makes an excellent milk-producing 
food. It the peas are not allowed to ripen, 
but only reach the full blossom, and it is well 
cured at this stage, it is equal to the best clover 
hay. If the peas ripen for use and the vines 
are to be fed as hay the crop should be cut 
while the pea is yet soft, or in a dough state, 
and then the pea will not be injured and the 
vines will be of good quality. . 
The Agricultural Editor of the N. Y. Times 
says that the farm wife has been the drawer 
of water, the hewer of wood—in actual fact, 
very often—and the servant of all, evtn of the 
hired man ; to cook, mend and wash for him, 
to wait upon him, and to do all this at times, 
for several of them. 
We know this to be true in certain cases. 
But how is it with the city wife ?. 
The Kansas City Live stock Indicator says 
that many cases have come to notice of pigs 
being born with what are known as “mule- 
feet, ” i. e. with a solid hoof. Now it notices 
a breeder up in Iowa who is offering this 
breed (?) of swine for sale. They are called 
the Aristotle hogs, and the breeder claims for 
them immunity from disease?. 
Garden & Forest says that the cultiva¬ 
tion of hardy spring-flowering bulbs is one of 
the most delightful as it is one of the most 
satisfactory of all forms of gardening. Many 
of the plants classed under this head yield 
flowers which no inhabitant of the tropics can 
excel in delicate charm or in gorgeous splen¬ 
dor. No plants are more easily cultivated 
and none give so much pleasure for the small 
amount of money they cost. Many of them 
increase and multiply without care, beyond 
the first planting, and, .once established, go 
on flowering year after year almost indefi¬ 
nitely.... 
John Gould, who always writes forcibly 
and instructively, upon dairy topics says in 
the American Agriculturist that the cow 
should be treated and cared for as a mother, 
and fed a mother’s food, not the food of 
bullocks. This feeding and care should 
commence with the calf. The stunted calf 
that has been obliged to rob its bodily growth 
to keep from freezing, or spend its summer 
fighting the “ gaunt wolf,” has had its 
energies misdirected and in after life it will 
rarely ever pay to try to make a profitable 
cow of it. 
The calf that is raised for a dairy cow 
should be abundantly—not lavishly—fed on 
good grass, clover-hay, oats, bran and other 
protein foods. Corn meal should be discarded. 
Milk-giving is a function separate and apart 
from beef-making, and to first introduce the 
beef habit by feeding fat formers, like corn- 
meal, is to train the heifer in that way, and 
at last, when a cow, and you wish to “ feed 
her up,” the extra food will go to four-cent 
beef, instead of thirty-cent. butter, and a big 
loss is met with; for the food that is turned 
into butter is sold every day, and there is only 
one sale for the beef.......... 
Our heifer calf, concludes Mr. Gould, 
should be well fed, well housed, and kept 
warm in the winter, for in a stable of good 
light and pure air, she will develop the kind 
of hardiness that dairy cows need, the oats 
and bran will give solid bone and strong 
muscle and nerve, and also build up the 
embryo life that she must otherwise rob her¬ 
self of to supply, or leave incomplete. Then 
our heifer, if milked as long as possible the 
first year of her dairy life, generously fed to 
make good, rich blood, out of which to make 
good milk—for milk-giving is first blood 
secretion governed by nerve force—we shall, 
as a rule, find we have a profitable dairy cow. 
This cow should be retained as long as she 
profitably pays her keep, then sold as a 
“sausager” lor what she will bring; for he 
holds that no man ever fattened an old dairy 
cow to a profit. Better by far put this food 
into a cow that does give milk, and get pay 
for food consumed.. ... 
Sow a little Blue-grass seed upon bare 
places of the lawn and walk over it or press 
it in with a light roller . 
Why does the farmer go to the agricultural 
fair? To see, to instruct, to be instructed? 
Why does he take his wife and children? 
There may be many good reasons for it. 
Watching horse-racing, gambling devices and 
other low and demoralizing entertainments 
are not among them. The agricultural fair 
is what the farmer makes it. 
Sec’y E. Williams says, in Garden & 
Forest, that the Primate, in perfection, is un¬ 
questionably the best early apple we have. 
Its season is in July and August, and it lasts 
four or five weeks. Its defects are extreme 
liability to insect attacks and its tendency to 
become watery. Its crisp, tender flesh and 
fine flavor, added to its earliness, render it a 
great favorite in spite of the above objections. 
If there are locations where it is exempt from 
these drawbacks it cannot fail to satisfy the 
most fastidious. It is also an early and regu¬ 
lar bearer.. 
The chief of the Pomological Division of the 
Department of Agriculture says that in his 
opinion this little favorite surpasses Carolina 
June, Early Harvest, and all other early 
apples. It is as early as any, begins to bear 
soon aftei planting, and seldom fails to carry 
a full crop, even when most varieties fail. 
The tree has a beautiful, round head, the 
branches are stout but not heavy, with very 
distinct gray dots upon the new growth. It 
is essentially a family apple, beginning to 
ripen with the very earliest, and continuing 
for about six weeks. It sells well in market, 
but is more especially a dessert variety. It 
originated in New Jersey. Size, small, two 
to three inches; shape flat to round, regular; 
surface, very smooth; color, white, with 
stripes and splashes of the most delicate tints 
of carmine; dots, very small; basin, wide, 
abrupt and rather deep, regular; eye, small 
and colored; cavity, narrow, regular, not 
russeted; stem, usually quite short; core, large 
closed, regular, meeting the eye; seeds, num¬ 
erous, short and plump, light brown; flesh, 
white, with rarely a tint of pink next the 
skin; finegrained, crisp, juicy, except when 
over-ripe ; flavor, sub-acid, very pleasant; 
quality, as good as the best of the early kinds; 
season, June to August, in the Central 
States.”.... 
The Germantown Telegraph knows 
of no better way to preserve cabbages through 
the winter than the one to plant or set them 
up in rows as they grow—that is, with the 
rooesdown—fill in with soil pretty freely, then 
make a covering by planting two posts where 
there is a fence to rest on, or four where there 
is not, allowing for a pitch to carry off the 
water; lay bean poles opposite the way of the 
pitch and cover with corn fodder or straw or 
boards. This is the successful method with 
slight modifications pursued by several farm¬ 
ers near the Rural Grounds. Some cut off 
the stems, lay the heads close together and 
cover with coarse hay. 
The Orange Co. Farmer makes the good 
suggestion that farmers will do well to pre¬ 
serve the pits from a basket of fine peaches 
and plant them in a protected spot this fall. 
They soon make trees and, in a majority of 
cases, when chosen from good fruit, will pro¬ 
duce fairly good, if not excellent, peaches 
without budding. It is but very little trouble. 
When they sprout in the spring, they may be 
transplanted to where you wish them to re¬ 
main, and Jhey will begin bearing in their 
third season, if all goes well. 
Pres. Phillips, of the West Michigan 
Fruit Growers’ Association, says that the 
Niagara grape bears abundantly (five or six 
tons per acre have been yielded successively, 
on heavy soil, and it does proportionately 
well on lighter soil). It bears early—the 
third year. He has seen in the vineyard of 
H. H. Hayes, in Ottawa County, 14 tons 
hanging on the vines of 24 acres, and not an 
imperfect bunch in the whole—that is, no 
loose bunches. The Niagara is at the head of 
the list for profit. 
He has in his vineyard 41 varieties of 
American grapes, but recommends only three 
or four for general cultivation, viz., Worden, 
Moore’s Early, Brighton and Niagara. 
Long Island to such an extent as will greatly 
reduce the yield.”-Orchard and Garden; 
‘ ' Blueberry ’ Staples of Michigan is now 
playing the role of the honest old farmer, and 
sends contributions to agricultural papers 
about the great merits of Everitt’s High Grade 
wheat, a sample of which he will send free 
gratis to any one sending stamp. Ob, you 
rascal!” —C. L. Allen, in Americau Agri¬ 
culturist: “There is scarcely a variety of 
flower or vegetable which cannot be further 
developed and improved by special effort in 
cultivation and selection. And there is not a 
seedsman in our country that would not pay 
a more than remunerative price for any well- 
defined type of vegetables or flowers that 
show merit not already possessed by others.” 
-“ The dairyman must study the market 
demand for his products, whether these are 
butter, cheese or milk and keep cows adapted 
for that want. It would be financial suicide 
to sell Jersey and Guernsey milk to the city 
milkman, when 12 per cent, of solids constitute 
‘good’ milk, or keep so called cheese cows 
from which to make butter.”-Vermont 
Watchman: ‘ 1 Cotton-seed meal at the present 
time is one of the cheapest sources of organic 
nitrogen.”-“ Three things that can be 
made to go well together, each increasing the 
chances of success with at least one of the other 
two, are fruit-growing, bee-keeping and 
poultry-raising.”-Michigan Farmer: “On 
the farm belonging to the agricultural depart¬ 
ment of the Illinois University, was this year 
grown a corn-stalk 16 feet three and one half 
inches tall.” --Miss Taplin, in the Ameri¬ 
can Florist: “ Talking of bctanical mistakes, 
a recent (and authentic) anecdote is of an En¬ 
glish orchid grower, recently arrived in this 
country, who was sent out in the woods of one 
of the Eastern States to collect Cypripedium 
spectabile. He wasn’t up in native flora, and 
he came nack proudly accompanied by a 
wagon-load of skunk cabbage 1 The comments 
with which he was favored are not given, but 
he is expected to recognize skunk cabbage the 
next time he meets it.” 
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needs one, while the man who needs one never 
deserves it. 
“Much as we deplore our condition in life, 
nothing would make us more saGisfied with it 
than the changing of places, for a few days, 
with our neighbors.” 
“All the nations of the earth praise liberty, 
and still they seem to be uneasy until they 
lose it.” 
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“How can we ask others to think as we do 
when to-morrow we probably shall think 
differently ourselves?” 
“With all her natural modesty, woman has 
less bashfulness than man.” 
“Justice is every man’s due, but would 
ruin most people-J. M. in Albany Culti¬ 
vator: “Talk about living well! Why, we 
who cultivate the soil might and ought to live 
like princes, and the first and foremost men of 
our land.”-Hoard’s Dairyman; “ It is 
the cold facts tested by the bank account 
that are making ‘ dead property.’ of dash 
churns, scrub stock, stupidly constructed 
creamers, open-setting of milk, weighted 
silos, sour silage, half-perished corn-stalks, 
poor hay, &c.”-Atlanta Constitution: 
“The farmers can whip the Bagging Trust if 
they try. To whip it may cause some trouble, 
but not half so much trouble as if they are 
whipped by the Trust.”-N. E. Home¬ 
stead: “Of what use are experiment 
stations if they do not get the farmers 
thoroughly interested in their work?”- 
Canadian Horticulturist: “ The editor of the 
R. NY. says: ‘ Our final opinion of the Lu- 
cretia Dewberry is that if we were obliged to 
have Lucretias, or go without blackberries, 
we should vote to go without.’ We do not 
feel prepared to sound the death warrant of 
the Lucretia quite so soon, although it may 
prove just in the end. Our hope was that its 
trailing habit would enable it to pass the win¬ 
ters uninjured, quite far north, and thus pro¬ 
vide the refreshing fruit where it would be 
more appreciated than in such a land of plenty 
as the neighborhood of New York City.”- 
Orange County Farmer: “ To feed oyster 
shells to furnish lime for egg shells is just about 
as sensible as it would be to feed a man carpet 
tacks to supply iron in his blood.”-N. Y. 
World: “Flea-beetles have devastated the 
potato fields in portions of New Jersey and on 
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“ EHenboroiigh ” Flock makes another importa¬ 
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black faced breeds (rams weigh 425 lbs,;, are heaviest 
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champion prize for best mutton sheep at the show , 
and were considered the best, class at the la*t great 
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