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Take it all in all, for hardiness and rapidity 
of growth, for the power to adapt itself to the 
dirt and smoke, the dust and drought of 
cities, for the ability to thrivy in the poorest 
soil, for beauty and for usefulness, this tree, 
which the Abh6 d’Incaville brought back with 
him from China more than a century ago, is 
one of the most useful which can be grown in 
this climate. 
Sowing Mixed Wheats.— M. de Vilmorin, 
says the Mark Lane Express of England, ad¬ 
vances some cogent arguments in favor of a 
practice seldom followed in wheat cultivation 
in England, the sowing of mixed seed. He 
observes that it has been established by nu¬ 
merous experiments that the sowing together 
of two distinct kinds of wheat, gives almost 
invariably a better yield of grain than would 
have been obtained from the same total quan¬ 
tity of either kind sown separately; and, 
speaking of France, he says that skillful cul¬ 
tivators often employ mixtures of seed corn. 
In support of this practice it is remarked that 
each variety of wheat differs from all others 
not only in its external characters, but, to 
some extent, in the manner of its nourishment, 
in its special needs, and in the proportions of 
the materials it draws from the soil—slight 
differences, it is true, and yet sufficient to ex¬ 
ercise a distinct influence upon the yield. It 
has been truly observed in criticism of too 
thick seeding, that the most powerful enemy 
the wheat plant has to compete with, is 
the wheat plant itself; this is particularly 
the case if the plants which find themselves 
in strife, belong to the same variety, for the 
roots of each plant are continuously in con¬ 
tact with those of adjacent plants, which at 
the same time and at the same depth, are 
seeking in the soil precisely the same food If, 
however, two different varieties have been 
sown together, the competition will be less 
severe for each. Another advantage of sow¬ 
ing mixed seed is that it yields in general, a 
a grain of better appearance, and this is es¬ 
pecially the case when a white or yellow grain 
is sown with a red one, or a soft-grained vari¬ 
ety with one of which the grain is horny or 
polished. In this way is obtained what is 
termed upon the markets wheat panacM (t.e., 
variegated or mixed); ordinarily, these sam¬ 
ples sell better than those of pure wheats. 
Henry L. de Vilmorin, the author of the 
handsomest and most comprehensive work on 
wheats that has ever been published, is the 
head of the world-renowned Paris firm of Vil¬ 
morin Audrieux, & Co. It is said that he 
possesses at Verriesiferes the most complete 
collection of wheats our world has ever seen. 
It was commenced 80 years ago. 
FINALLY. 
If a really good whole-milk cheese could be 
always had, the consumption of cheese would 
treble in a single year, says the O. C. Farmer. 
We have growled at poor cheese for years, 
but it has been unavailing, we can get no 
other. The rising generation are growing up 
in utter ignorance of what good cheese really 
tastes like. They eat the miserable stuff dealt 
out at our grocery stores, assume it to be a 
fair article, and conclude that they want but 
little of it. 
—Waldo F. Brown announces himself a con¬ 
vert to the value of corn-cob-and meal says the 
Kansas Gity Live-Stock Indicator. From ac¬ 
tual experience he says he is prepared to believe 
that the 12 or 14 pounds of cob when ground 
fine, are worth as much as the same number of 
pounds of corn. In stating this he keeps 
in mind the fact that the cob possesses less nu¬ 
triment and much less intrinsic value,yet feed¬ 
ing—which is the true test—shows that what 
the cob does furnish is what the cattle need to 
balance the ration. Mr. Brown has so far 
experimented with this meal for cattle only, 
but intends to try it on horses and swine. 
A Golden-tinted variety of the so- 
called California privet (Ligustrum ovali- 
folium aureum) is quite as vigorous in 
growth as the green-leaved type, entirely 
hardy and very attractive in appearance, 
says Josiah Hoopes in the N. Y. Tribune. 
The decided yellow stripes, lengthwise along 
the surface of the foliage, impart a peculiar 
golden tint to the mass, which contrasts prettily 
with other shrubs. The pretty Golden elder 
and Golden syringa, from which so much was 
expected, are not so reliable during the heated 
term as might be desired. The margins of the 
foliage burn, seem to turn brown, and finally 
curl up, at a time when healthy leaves are 
wanted. Still, the general effect of these 
shrubs is good, and they may be planted with 
profit to many groups. It has become the 
custom to employ colored foliage, as well as 
bright flowers, and with good results, too_ 
The Vermont Experiment Station has been 
experimenting with the so-called cow-pea. 
Seed was also sent to 37 farmers. Reports 
THE BUBAL HEW- 
718 
have been received from 30 of these, which 
show that the crop made a medium to good 
growth in 12 cases, and a failure in 12 cases 
the rest being undeterminate. Five only out of 
the whole number think there is a chance that 
it would pay them to raise it as a regular 
farm crop, while 11 farmers very strongly 
pronounce it inferior to corn as a fodder 
plant. This would seem to decide quite 
thoroughly, that the cow-pea is not a plant 
that will prove a benefit to the generality of 
farmers so far north as Vermont. 
The Cultivator and Country Gentle¬ 
man speaks of Pyrethrum, from which 
Buhach, Dalmatian Insect Powder, etc., are 
manufactured, as being poisonous. We fancy 
that there is nothing poisonous about it, 
eithe 1 * to man, beast, or insect... 
Mr. Williams mentions in Garden and 
Forest, the Maiden’s Blush, among Fall apples 
as a very handsome apple with a waxen skin 
and a blush that any maiden might envy. The 
tree yields well and is a good grower. The 
fruit is generally smooth and perfect. Tnis 
variety, according to the Am. Pom. Society’s 
Reports, thrives admirably in New York, 
Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Dela¬ 
ware, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, 
Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska 
and Indian Territory... 
Another fine autumn apple, Secretary 
Williams mentions, is the Gravenstein to 
which we have often referred in these columns. 
It is larger than the Blush and of higher qual¬ 
ity... 
The season of the Porter is from September 
to October. It is of excellent quality, of coni¬ 
cal shape and a golden color. This succeeds 
well in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Connecticut,New York, Michi¬ 
gan, and Kentucky. 
The Western Rural thinks that of all 
flagrant swindles the aggregate has not equal¬ 
ed in down-right, unblushing impudence, the 
Chicago Board of Trade. It is admitted that 
there is legitimate business transacted on the 
board. It is admitted that there are honora. 
able members; but when a man can run a 
corner on wheat and make $2,000,000, by prac¬ 
tically putting his hand in other people’s 
pockrts and abstracting their pocket books, 
the concern will pass as a first-class bunko 
establishment better than anything else. 
That is just what one man has done during the 
last few weeks, and while the men he has 
robbed mostly belong to his own class, and de¬ 
serve little sympathy, the transaction shows 
the Board of Trade to be a burning disgrace 
to us as a people. 
No Trimming for Raspberries.— Someone 
asks Rev. E. P. Powell if he does’ not trim his 
red raspberries at all?” He answers in Popu¬ 
lar Gardening “No sir, not at all.” It is all 
work thrown away. His Cuthberts stand six 
to eight feet high, are tied to wires—one wire 
stretched on posts, and are never cut. Of course 
the old canes are cut out and superfluous suck¬ 
ers are removed. Turners are tied in the same 
manner,and the suckers more closely removed, 
but no pruning. If any one can get better 
crops than Mr. Powell’s he will do well. 
Col. Curtis says in the Albany Cultivator 
that the common trouble, in starting a cream¬ 
ery in an old grain-growing district, arises 
from the fact that farmers have been in the 
habit of raising a little of this and that, which, 
as a matter of course, took up the entire time 
of all hands, and the cows were simply an ap¬ 
pendage. In other words they revolved 
around everything else. In a properly man¬ 
aged dairy, and where there is to be earnest 
work and success, everything must revolve 
around the cows. 
The Colonel thinks that at Kirby Home¬ 
stead they have been deprived of, or have lost, 
a great many pounds of butter by not invest¬ 
ing before in more bran, and by not using 
cotton-seed meal. It may be said, perhaps, 
one cannot lose that which he never had. 
Well, then, one can lose the use of his machin¬ 
ery, and it costs him just as much to tend it, 
with much less returns. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-Chicago Market Review: “De¬ 
horned cattle have arrived at the yards in con¬ 
siderable numbers during the last few weeks. 
They were invariably in good flesh, free from 
horn-wounds or scratches; the hides were 
sound and the flesh not bruised. Many an 
honest cattleman has stood gazing at a pen of 
dehorned steers and become converted then 
and there. The cattle are better off—there is 
no boss, no discontent and unrest; they have 
nothing to do but eat and remain quiet for 
the fat to accumulate. Said one of the 
heaviest buyers of cattle, in the hearing of 
the writer: I would and do give 15 to 20 cents 
per 100 pounds more for dehorned cattle than 
for the same description of horned, simply be¬ 
cause I know their flesh is not bruised, and 
the hides are sound and all right.” 
-Live Stock Indicator: “Looking over 
my records,” says Prof. Alvord, “I find that 
with cows of like age and breeding, those 
which calved in September and October gave 
from 800 to 1,000 pounds of milk more per 
year, than those that were fresh in the spring. 
I also find that the winter milk is considerably 
richer than that made from succulent pastur¬ 
age of the spring and early summer, and from 
one to two quarts less of it is required to make 
a pound of butter. I estimate that two pounds 
of butter will bring as much money in winter 
as three pounds in summer. I can also show 
that cows fresh in the fall have a longer milk¬ 
ing period than spring cows, inasmuch as 
about the time they would naturally com¬ 
mence to fail, the fresh pasturage comes on 
and gives them a good send-off for the sum¬ 
mer.” 
-London Agricultural Gazette: “I 
always consider it one of the curiosities and 
unaccountable features of our boasted and en¬ 
lightened nineteenth century that we should 
give the best part of our wheat and bread to 
our pigs, while we eat the worst part ourselves. 
-Green’s Fruit Grower: “Taking it 
all in all, the new plum Saratoga cannot 
fail to please.” 
-Last year I gathered a lot of dry 
maple leaves, put a few in the bottom of bar¬ 
rels, then a layer of apples, and then a layer 
of leaves, and so on till the barrels were full. 
I then covered them with leaves and they kept 
nicely. 
-Orange County Farmer: “A writer 
in the Rural New-Yorker who visited the 
recent State fair at Waverly, N. J. counted 
26 places where intoxicants were sold, and 18 
devices for gambling, not counting the horse 
races. Such a fair is a disgrace to our civil¬ 
ization and a gross libel on all that pertains 
to agriculture. No reputable farmer should 
patronize it in any way.” 
-“Endeavor so to live that when you are 
yourself you will not be ashamed of your 
self.” 
-“How to get money without earning 
it.” Leave that problem for some one else to 
solve. 
- Dairy World: “The great trouble 
with two-cow dairies is to keep the cream 
properly until enough has been secured to 
churn. There can only be one way, and that 
is to keep the cream sweet as long as possible, 
and then add one-third water at 60 deg. to 
make up the difference in needed cream, and 
start the churn. 
-Husbandman: “At no other time of 
the year is liberal feeding for young animals 
more desirable than in autumn after the grasses 
have lost their freshness, and cold storms 
bring increased requirement for sustenance to 
maintain vigor and thrift.” 
-“Howard” in the Boston Globe: “We 
appear to have reached that cheerful point in 
life when everybody believes in the existence 
of a subtle motive for every action. If a man 
helps a struggling woman, he is supposed 
either to be in love with her, as the phrase 
goes, or to seek to take advantage of her. If 
he does any good act for a man, he is supposed 
to have done it for money. If he comes be¬ 
fore the public as a helper in any line, his mo¬ 
tive is instantly sought for. So extraordi¬ 
narily universal is this horrible feeling of sus¬ 
picion, that when some very rich man, no one 
knows who, ventured, in a modest and quiet 
way, to give $12,000 for the relief of the yellow 
fever sufferers in Florida, every newspaper in 
the city indulged in head-line spasms, every 
parson in town took it as a text, every gossip 
in the city rolled it over his tongue as a sweet 
morsel, wondering how it could be that a man 
could actually be humane enough to give from 
his abundance $12,000 to people who needed it 
and not let his name be known. For heaven’s 
sake, isn’t it possible, as we go along the high¬ 
way of life, to stretch out the hand of sturdity 
to helpless humanity without a motive be¬ 
yond that of comradeship? Have we got so 
far into the morass of distrust that we can’t 
have faith in anybody? Is everything rotten?” 
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BEFORE IT IS BORN 
SOME STARTLING STATEMENTS OF GENERAL 
INTEREST. 
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, on being 
asked when the training of a child should be¬ 
gin, replied: “A hundred years before it is 
born.” 
Are we to infer from this that this genera¬ 
tion is responsible for the condition of the race 
a hundred years from now ? 
Is this wonderful generation the natural re¬ 
sult of the proper diet and medicines of a hun¬ 
dred years ago ? 
It is conceded in other lands that most of 
the wonderful discoveries of the world in this 
century have come from this country. Our 
ancestors were reared in log cabins, and suf¬ 
fered hardships and trials. 
But they lived, and enjoyed health to a ripe 
old age. The women of those days would en¬ 
dure hardships without apparent fatigue that 
would startle those of the present age. 
Why was it ? 
One of the proprietors of the popular remedy 
known as Warner’s Safe Cure, has been faith¬ 
fully investigating the cause, and has called 
to his aid scientists as well as medical men, 
impressing upon them the fact that there can¬ 
not be an effect without a cause. This inves¬ 
tigation disclosed the fact that in the olden 
times simple remedies were administered, com¬ 
pounded of herbs and roots, which were gath¬ 
ered and stored in the lofts of the log cabins, 
and when sickness came on, these remedies 
from nature’s laboratory were used with the 
best effects. 
What were these remedies? What were 
they used for ? After untiring and diligent 
search, they have obtained the formulas so 
generally used for various disorders. 
Now the question is, how will the olden-time 
preparations affect the people of this age, who 
have been treated under modern medical 
schools and codes, with poisonous and injuri¬ 
ous drugs ? This test has been carefully pur¬ 
sued, until they are convinced that the prepar¬ 
ations they now call Warner’s Log Cabin 
Remedies are what our much-abused systems 
require. 
Among them is what is known as Warner’s 
Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, and they frankly an¬ 
nounce that they do not consider the sarsapa¬ 
rilla of so much value in itself as it is in the 
combination of the various ingredients, which 
together work marvelously upon the system 
They also have preparations for other diseases, 
such as: “ Warner’s Log Cabin Cough and 
Consumption Remedy,” “ Log Cabin Hops 
and Buchu Remedy,” “ Warner’s Log Cabin 
Hair Tonic.” They have great confidence 
that they have a cure for the common disease 
of catarrh, which they gave the name of “Log 
Cabin Rose Cream.” Also a “ Log Cabin 
Plaster,” which they are confident will sup¬ 
plant all others; and a liver pill, to be used 
separately or in connection with the other 
remedies. 
We hope that the public will not be disap¬ 
pointed in these remedies, but will reap a bene¬ 
fit from the investigations, and that the pro¬ 
prietors will not be embarassed in their intro¬ 
duction by dealers trying to substitute 
remedies that have been so familiar to the 
shelves of our druggists. This line of remedies 
will be used instead of others. Insist upon 
your druggist getting them for you if he hasn’t 
them yet in stock, and we feel confident that 
these new remedies will receive approbation 
at our reader’s hands, as the founders have 
used every care in their preparation. 
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PISTOLS 75e 
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OXFORD DOWN SHEEP! SSESttffi 
“ Ellenborough ” Flock makes another importa¬ 
tion necessary this season. Selections 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 
Smithlield, l.ondon, Fat Stock Show, Oxfords won 
champion prize for best mutton sheep at the show, 
and were considered the best, class at the last great 
“Royal.” Address F. C. GOLDSBOROUGH, 
Easton, Talbot Co., Maryland. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS. 
Cotswold, South-down, Oxford-down, Shropshlres, 
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 
