The flesh is solid throughout, and of a butter- 
yellow color, and the rind quite thin. But no 
matter how delicious this melon may be, the 
popular watermelon must have red flesh and 
black seed. Kolb’s Gem is such a melon. It 
was exhibited, cut open, alongside of Green 
and Gold. The Hackensack was shown as the 
standard green-fleshed muskmelon in the 
neighborhood of New York, and so it is. It 
is a large-fruited variety, rather coarse, but 
of good quality. The vines are vigorous 
growers, and bear a heavy crop of large, 
even-sized fruit, and it shows less tendency to 
premature decay than any other variety. 
Among salmon-fleshed varieties, Emerald 
Gem has no superior; indeed, it is as good in 
quality as the much-lauded European varie¬ 
ties grown in warm green-houses there, but 
which cannot be grown satisfactorily out-of- 
doors in this country. It is not a large melon, 
but its flesh is exceptionally thick, sweet, but¬ 
tery, and ripens up to the thin rind. Indeed, 
Emerald Gem as a red-fleshed, and Hacken¬ 
sack as a green fleshed melon, are our stand¬ 
ard varieties around New York. 
A green plant of the new Dwarf Sieva 
Bean, already alluded to in the R. N.-Y., was 
shown full of seed-pods. In its line it is a de¬ 
cided acquisition. With it we can enjoy 
these delicious beans without the bother of 
poles. The Dwarf Lima Bean was also ex¬ 
hibited full of green pods. A really dwarf 
Lima will be one of the most desirable vege¬ 
tables ever introduced. We cannot reasonably 
expect to gather as heavy a crop of Limas 
from dwarf as from pole plants, nor that the 
dwarf plants would continue as long in bear¬ 
ing green beans; but for many amateurs these 
dwarf Limas will be valuable, because they 
will do away with the annoyance of getting 
and keeping and setting up bean-poles.. 
Hoard’s Dairyman says that all over the 
country are found farmers who will patiently 
and sacriflcingly raise a scrub steer until it is 
two or three years old and sell it for $30 to 
$40. The Christian patience and resignation 
of these men in thus punishing their pockets, 
themselves and their families with never a 
word of complaint, beats the world. And 
there is another class that will raise a scrub 
heifer where not one in a hundred will ever 
yield over 150 pounds of butter a year, and 
then milk her for years. Just think of it. 
The first class get rid of the steer some time. 
The latter stay right by their misfortune for 
years and you can hardly drive them from it. 
We have heard that a horse can hardly be 
driven out of a burning barn; but he is only a 
horse you know. But that an intelligent, 
thinking farmer should of choice buy a scrub 
or grade male, and thus keep at the work of 
diluting instead of strengthening the blood of 
his herd, beats the frightened horse all 
hollow. 
In connection with the subject of trusts, 
the Mark Lane Express “ calls attention to the 
fact of the ‘ maize speculation ’. in Austria 
having become a little too heavy a burden 
for local “ operators” to carry. Consequently 
more capital has to be taken in and the en 
gineers’ office is to be, for the time being, in 
London, and ultimately in New York. The 
sooner it gets there the better, for that ap¬ 
pears to be the national home for the * busi¬ 
ness ’ which had its origin in the United 
States. America, however, will be tolerably 
busy with her own maize crop without hav¬ 
ing to ‘handle’ that of Eastern Europe.”. 
Ex-President Stockbridge, of Amherst, 
who hasspentthe bestyearsof hislife in teach¬ 
ing young men the principles underlying farm 
practice and whose sympathies are always 
with intelligent and ambitious young farmers, 
tells young men, says the N. E. Farmer, that 
if they will completely master their business 
he cares not how extensive their farming ope¬ 
rations are. Let each man, said he, manage 
just as large a farm as his ambition and skill 
will warrant. We have heard him say that 
were he a young man and could get a few 
others to join him he would buy up a few 
scores of the adjacent neglected farms in 
some of the New England towns and turn 
them into stock rauches. He believes large 
farming can be profitably carried on here in 
New England and with as much promise as at 
the West, but the investors must know their 
business and like it. 
There is something radically wrong about 
the Southern plantation system with its one 
great mansion house and fifty or a hundred 
negro huts, remarks Editor Cheever. There 
is also something wrong about the bonanza 
wheat farms of Oregon and California, and 
peach farms of Maryland, where at certain 
seasons of the year tramps go out to work a 
few months, coming from no one knows where, 
and going at the end of the season nobody 
cares where. With such a system of agricul¬ 
ture there can be no permanent homes, no 
good schools, no church or society organiza¬ 
tions worthy the name.... 
Prof. W. A. Henry says, in the American 
Agriculturist, that boys, colts and calves need 
the most attention at a period when their per¬ 
sonal attractions are the least. As calves pass 
out of their babyhood and assume a languid 
indifference to all about them, but flies and 
grass, they are apt to be neglected; if they 
are, the loss is irreparable. A calf that has 
not made a good start by fall had better be 
disposed of at any price, while having made a 
good start, it must be kept constantly gaining, 
at any cost within reasonable limits. The 
important point in stock feeding is to con¬ 
stantly bear in mind that a young animal 
gives better returns for feed consumed than 
an old one. A pound of meat or a pound of 
hay adds more to the weight of a calf than to 
the same animal when grown......... 
For making thrifty calves.in his experience, 
oats come next to milk, either ground or 
whole, but preferably ground, for young 
calves, since they will learn to like them 
quicker and masticate them better. To get a 
calf while yet on skim-milk to eat oats, it 
should be tied up; and as soon as fed milk, a 
handful of oatmeal, or whole oats even, put 
in its mouth; at first it will dislike the treat¬ 
ment, but soon it will get the taste and readily 
dispose of a half-pint, placed in a little feed- 
box conveniently located in front. Hay and 
grass follow naturally, and later, bran can be 
used.... 
In Prof. Henry’s experience a calf born in 
fall or winter is worth two born in the 
spring for profit. A spring calf is so young 
that it gets little good from pasture the first 
season, for by the time it can fight flies suc¬ 
cessfully and crop grass enough to really aid 
in nourishing it, winter is at hand and it is 
placed on dry feed.. 
DIRECT. 
N. Y. Sun: “A Potato Contest. The Edi¬ 
tor of the R. N-Y. sets out to raise 700 bush¬ 
els of potatoes to the acre. He fails, but only 
by 117 bushels, and the cause of the "failure 
was the Cucumber Flea-beetle.”-Husband¬ 
man: “The flood-tide of fortune has been 
long delayed for farmers, but there are signs 
now of its coming.”-Agriculturist: “On 
the farm, as elsewhere, misfortune is the 
shadow of carelessness.”-“Many men 
wear out a dime’s worth of shoe leather to 
obtain from a neighbor the gift of five cents’ 
of grindstone.”-“It is not what we pro¬ 
duce, but what we utilize that makes the 
profit.”-Hoard’s Dairyman: “There is a 
motley brood of half political papers, publish¬ 
ed in the country, that are masquerading un¬ 
der the name of agricultural journals. We 
believe in good agriculture, and good politics, 
too. So we believe in fine hair and pure but¬ 
ter; but not on the same platter.”- 
Farm and Fireside, (Toronto, Can.) :— 
“Lives of milkmaids oft remind us 
That it’s but a little jump 
From a quiet, docile Jersey 
To the old familiar pump.” 
Truth: “Stern and commercially respected 
and successful parent to his young son: ‘ My 
son, you are about to enter life. Remember 
what I say to you now. Let it be buried deep 
in your heart. Be honest. Cheating may pay 
for awhile, but in the end honesty is the best 
policy.’ ‘Father, I think as you think.’ (Sol¬ 
emnly) : ‘Think, my boy! I know—tor I 
have tried both.”-N. Y. Herald: “Well, 
we are likely to have plenty of potatoes, any¬ 
way. That is a great comfort, for without 
this democratic esculent and succulent, break¬ 
fast would be a nightmare and dinner the de¬ 
lirium tremens. There are many people in 
the world who seem to get along passably 
without religion, but there is no one who does 
not yearn after the potato. Certain expert 
agriculturists have discovered, as reported 
elsewhere, a method by which the crops may 
be doubled, trebled, quadrupled. They assert 
that a potato is an extremely sociable vegeta¬ 
ble, and thrives best in large communities. 
That is to say, when planted a few in a hill, 
and the hills four feet apart, the potato grows 
sullen and soggy, makes no effort at multipli¬ 
cation and is languidly satisfied with the re¬ 
production of three or four big fellows and 
six or eight no larger than your thumb. That 
is because their social instincts, their nobler 
ambitions are not appealed to. If, however, 
they are planted in trenches, so that they can 
have a chat with each other now and then, 
talk about the tariff, the latest thing in bon¬ 
nets, one of Mayor Hewitt’s letters, or the 
yellow fever in Florida, they are happy and 
grow to the extent of six or eight hundred, or 
even a thousand bushels to the acre. The 
truth is the potato has a good deal of human 
nature in it and needs to have its high¬ 
er aspirations carefully cultivated.”- 
Farm Journal : “Paint put on this month 
will not be stuck full of flies, nor cracked by 
the sun.” * * * “ Pack chestnuts in boxes 
or kegs with sand, and bury in a ‘ hole ’ in the 
garden, just as you would potatoes, and see 
how nice ai d fresh and soft they will come 
out at Christmas or even later.” * * * 
“ Old hogs will fatten on the green stalks of 
sweet corn.” * * * “ The more cold a cow 
takes in, the less butter she will give out.” * 
* * “ Now, if we had lots of sorghum how 
cheap we could make pork and beef !” * * * 
“ The evidence increases that corn and filth 
are the biggest causes of hog cholera.” * * * 
“Mixed corn and oats ought not to be 
given to a horse. The oats being finer 
than the corn hinders the mastication.” 
* * * “ The trouble is that the next 
generation and those following will profit 
more by our wise liberality in providing 
for these experiments than we will.”- 
Hoard’s Dairyman: When I feed I look at 
the coiv just as I would any machine if I was 
feeding it. You want to watch the machine 
and not the feed. It is a mighty easy thing for 
a farmer to get stingy in feeding a cow and 
beat himself out of dollars in trying to save 
cents. ”-Mark Lane Express (England): 
“ The latest thing in ‘corners’ is a reported 
attempt to control the value of salt. It ap¬ 
pears that the scheme for the amalgamation of 
the salt industries of this country, promulated 
four years ago by Mr. H. E. Falk, presi¬ 
dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Cheshire 
and Worcestershire is now being accomplished. 
All tue brinelands and salt mines of Cheshire, 
which produce over three-fourths of the salt 
of Great Britian, have been secured, and with 
the rest material progress is being made. The 
requisite capital is guaranteed, and more than 
a million sterling has already been subscribed 
in Lancashire and Cheshire alone. The im¬ 
portance of this movement may be measured 
by the fact that salt is a necessary element in 
most of the processes of the great chemical 
industries, and also provides over two million 
tons of export cargo annually to all parts of 
the globe. Owing to the monopoly thus 
created, it is expected that the price of com - 
mon salt, now 2s. 6d. a ton, will rise to 10s.” 
-Mr. W. J. Harris (England): “If the 
Emperor of Russia were to-morrow to pro¬ 
hibit the export of corn, with the view of 
exacting the utmost price later on, we should 
have bread at 2s. a loaf, and possibly a 
revolution. If the American operators suc¬ 
ceeded in cornering wheat, the result 
would probably be the same”- 
Mark Lane Express: “The American Society 
of florists are supposed to be on the look-out 
for such an emblem, and to be in favor of the 
sunflower, 1 because it is ‘ big, hardy, reminds 
one of gold, and thrives on any soil.’ For 
my own part, I don’t think a better 
could be found. It must be neat, as it is 
all of one color, yet its brightness makes it 
gaudy enough to satisfy the tastes of those 
who live in the‘hub of the universe’; further, 
its flowers increase in size on a scale that 
would enable it to fit out an entire family 
from one plant—from the youngest girl up to 
the old man. And then, last but not least, its 
seeds are ‘ mighty good victuals for hens’.” 
-“Some conclusions deduced from experi¬ 
ments made at the Wisconsin Experiment 
Station. Ensilage, vs. corn fodder for milk pro¬ 
duction : 1 The milk produced during the en¬ 
silage period was poorer in composition as re¬ 
gards total solids and casein, while the per¬ 
centage of fat in the milk was smaller in one 
case and larger in the other than was that 
produced in the corn fodder period. 2. 
The quantity of milk given, decreased during 
the ensilage period. 3. Considering the quan¬ 
tities of milk solids, milk fat and casein pro¬ 
duced by one pound of digestible matter in the 
ensilage ration and in the corn fodder ration, 
we find practically no difference in the nutri¬ 
tive effect of the two rations, only that the 
ensilage ration [produced a somewhat thinner 
milk.”-“ Water in the fodder is not the 
same as water out of the fodder. There is a 
difference, but as yet we are left in the dark 
as to the cause of the difference.” 
“ DOCTORING OLD TIME.” 
A STRIKING PICTURE—A REVIVAL OF OLD- 
TIME SIMPLICITIES. 
In one of Harper’s issues is given a very fine 
illustration of Roberts’s celebrated painting 
known as “ Doctoring Old Time.” It repre¬ 
sents a typical old-timer, with his bellows, 
blowing the dust from an ancient clock, with 
its cords and weights carefully secured. One 
of these clocks in this generation is appreciated 
only as a rare relic. 
The suggestive name, “ Doctoring Old 
Time,” brings to our mind another version of 
the title, used for another purpose—“ Old Tim 
Doctoring.” 
We learn, through a reliable source, that 
one of the enterprising proprietary medicine 
firms of the country, has been for years inves¬ 
tigating the formulas and medical prepara¬ 
tions used in the beginning of this century, 
and even before, with a view of ascertaining 
why people in our great grandfathers’ time 
enjoyed a health and physical vigor so seldom 
found in the present generation. They now 
think they have secured the secret or secrets. 
They find that the prevailing opinion that 
then existed, that “Nature has a remedy for 
every existing disorder,” was true, and, acting 
under this belief, our grandparents used the 
common herbs and plants. Continual trespass 
upon the forest domain, has made these herbs 
less abundant and has driven them further 
from civilization, until they have been dis¬ 
carded as remedial agents, because of the dif¬ 
ficulty in obtaining them. 
H. H. Warner, proprietor of Warner’s Safe 
Cure, and founder of the Warner Observatory, 
Rochester, N. Y., has been pressing investiga¬ 
tions in this direction, into the annals of old 
family histories, until he has secured some 
very valuable formulas, from which his firm 
is now preparing medicines, to be sold by all 
druggists. 
They will, we learn, be known under the 
general title of “ Warner’s Log Cabin Reme¬ 
dies.” Among these medicines will be a “Sar¬ 
saparilla,” for the blood and liver, “ Log 
Cabin Hops and Buchu Remedy,” for the 
stomach, etc.; “ Log Cabin Cough and Con¬ 
sumption Remedy,” “LogCabin HairTonic,’ 
“ Log Cabin Extract,” for internal and exter¬ 
nal use, and an old valuable discovery for 
catarrh, called “ Log Cabin Rose Cream.” 
Among the list is also a “ Log Cabin Plaster,” 
and a “ Log Cabin Liver Pill.” 
From the number of remedies, it will be seen 
that they do not propose to cure all diseases 
with one preparation. It is believed by many 
that with these remedies a new era is to dawn 
upon suffering humanity, and that the close 
of the nineteenth century will see these roots 
and herbs, as compounded under the title of 
Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies, as popular as 
they were at its beginning. Although they 
come in the form of proprietary medicines, 
yet they will be none the less welcome, for 
suffering humanity has become tired of mod¬ 
ern doctoring, and the public has great confi¬ 
dence in any remedies put up by the firm of 
which H. H. Warner is the head. The people 
have become suspicious of the effects of doc¬ 
toring with poisonous drugs. Few realize the 
injurious effectsjfollowing the prescriptions of 
many modern physicians. These effects of 
poisonous drugs, already prominent, will be¬ 
come more pronounced in coming generations. 
Therefore, we can cordially wish the old-fash¬ 
ioned new remedies the best of success. 
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