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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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rigid-branched Sugar Maple, or a heavy Horse 
Chestnut is seen between two sprawling 
Silver Maples. 
I M - — 
FINALLY. 
Mr. Terry states, in the Albany Cultivator, 
that Matthew Crawford, who can be depended 
upon, says he knows a woman over 60 years old 
who grew one-fourth of an acre of strawberries 
last season, which brought her $145, besides 
furnishing enough for family use and a good 
many for friends A woman, mind you, did 
this; but a man might, perhaps, do nearly as 
well if he went to his wife for advice. If he 
could, and had the market, a quarter of an 
acre would not only furnish the family and 
be a matter of pleasure, but it would pay large¬ 
ly in dollars and cents. At any rate says, Mr. 
Terry, do not fail to set out ten square rods for 
home use. 
There is no doubt, says Henry Stewart, that 
the retailer of milk, and indeed, of all other 
farm products, gets the lion’s share of the 
profit, the farmer usually picking the bones. 
As regards miik, the farmer gets three cents 
a quart in return for providing all the capital 
required for farm, cows, feed, utensils, and 
his personal labor ; the retailer gets about as 
much for the simple labor of distributing it, 
and the consumers pay eight or ten cents a 
quart, of which only three cents go to the 
farmers who have certainly the most to do in 
affording the supply. 
Among muskmelons, Bird’s Cantaloupe is 
much prized. It grows to a large size and is 
productive though it needs a warm exposure. 
Among the best muskmelons are the Surprise 
Hackensack, Christiana and Emerald Gem 
The last is small but of excellent quality.. 
Among watermelons, try the Boss Phinney, 
Cuban Queen, and Iron-Clad. 
We have had repeated inquiries as to the 
value of the so-called “Cape Gooseberry.” 
A. S. Fuller, in the N. Y. Tribune, pronounces 
it the old, very old, Peruvian Ground Cherry, 
no better than any of the dozen native species 
of the Physalis found m almost all parts of 
Ihe country. It belongs to the Nightshade 
family, closely allied to the tomato. It is a 
worthless fruit growing in an inflated pod 
and not larger than an ordinary cherry. 
Sec. E. Williams mentions, in the Press, 
the following grapes for Northern New Jersey 
as his cnoice: Moore’s Early, Lady, Worden, 
Brighton, Delaware, Wilder, Niagara and 
Empire State . 
ture ten to twenty degrees higher in a stable 
that is protected by a good windbreak than in 
one that is exposed to the sweeping blasts. 
A windbreak yields comfort and safety 
when a blizzard rages; it is a protection to 
stock, haystacks and buildings; it saves feed 
and fuel in winter; in summer it furnishes a 
harbor for insectivorous birds; it enables the 
farmer to grow vegetables and fruits that 
would perish if exposed to the bitter drying 
blasts of winter and the scorching winds of 
summer. It is an ornament to the farm, and 
its true value in our variable climate can not 
be reckoned in dollars and cents. 
DIRECT. 
J. H. Hale: “The revision and proper ad¬ 
justment of the tariff is not a party question, 
and should never be considered as such; both 
of the great political parties by action of 
their last national conventions are pledged to 
it. Let us urge upon our Congressmen, regard¬ 
less of party or party ties, to consider this 
great business question as becomes business 
men and patriots, and so readjust the tariff 
that our labor interests be protected, and the 
benefits and burdens be so distributed as to 
fall justly upon all. There is a fair and hon¬ 
est middle ground on which all true statesmen 
can meet and settle this great question.”- 
Holmes: “Sin has many tools but a lie is the 
handle that fits them all.”—— N. Y. Times: 
“Are experiments wholly useless unless car¬ 
ried out in cultivated fields and under the 
ordinary methods of farming? This is decided 
in the affirmative by the retired Director of the 
New York Experiment Station in his last 
annual report. If this is so experiment sta¬ 
tions are mere playthings, and all the fifty 
years’ work of that grand one at Rotharasted 
in England, under the care and guidance of 
that eminent experimenter, Sir J. B. Lawes, is 
of no account or value. To say this requires a 
vast amount of hardihood and a remarkable ob¬ 
liquity of mental vision. How can there be any 
difference of results in the growing of a crop 
under certain circumstances upon a ten-acre 
field and under the same circumstances pre¬ 
cisely upon an acre or a half or a quarter acre? 
If there must of necessity be such a difference, 
then there must be equally the same in a pint 
of milk taken from a pailful for experiment 
and investigation and the whole pailful.”- 
A veterinary surgeon says, in the Michigan 
Farmer, that he is thoroughly convinced that 
the operation of dehorning has no opponents 
except those who have not had practical ex¬ 
perience. Horns are a curse to the animals 
themselves, their kin aud all other domestic 
animals and to be feared by mankind. He 
believes it will pay on all classes of cattle; 
milch cows, stockers, and even steers pur¬ 
chased for feeding, will do enough better to 
pay, and vicious bulls it completely subdues... 
A Minnesota correspondent of Farm, Stock 
and Home, as noted in the above paper, 
proved by costly experience the untruth of 
the claim that cattle may be dehorned with¬ 
out danger in any kind of weather and need 
no extra care; “Five of the dehorned steers 
caught cold, and in a few days their horns dis¬ 
charged a large quantity of matter of such 
a disagreeable odor that he had to sprinkle 
the stable with carbolic acid. They were 
several weeks recovering, and each steer lost 
100 pounds of flesh.”. 
To raise Amaryllis from seed, Mr Falconer 
tells Popular Gardening to sow any time when 
you get the seed, providing you can keep up a 
minimum temperature of 60^. In sowing he 
sticks in the seeds edgewise; in this way they 
are less apt to rot than if they were sown flat 
on their sides. They germinate in three or 
four week. He gives them no rest at all the 
first winter, not until the second. Most of 
them will bloom when three years old. They 
are very easily raised from seed. He has some 
magnificent Amaryllises in bloom now, aud 
from seed sown in the spring of 1885. The 
seeds cost him five cents each. He wouldn’t 
sell the bulbs for a dollar each. 
Last fall Prof. Shelton, of the Kansas Ag¬ 
ricultural College, as stated in the Press, be¬ 
gan feeding almost the entire college herd— 
some fifty head—their grain ration mixed 
with three or four times its bulk of the best cut 
hay. The result has been entirely satisfactory 
and he doubts if he could ever again be per¬ 
suaded to feed clear meal. He considers that 
it is of great importance that the hay used 
for admixture with the meal should be the 
very best. He knows of no meaner or more 
wasteful trick in feeding than the attempt, so 
of ten made, to“sugar coat” cornstalk butts 
and unsound iunutritious hay with good meal. 
It is a fact which any man may easily 
verify, says another writer, that the natural 
heat of a few animals will raise the tempera 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Delaware. 
Dover, April 16.—March was a very cold, 
backward month. We also had our share of 
the blizzard. Very little work was done, so 
the first of April found us at least three weeks 
behindhand with our spring work. April, so 
far, has been unusually cold, but with the ex¬ 
ception of three days, good working weather. 
Every farmer is doing all he can to make up 
for lost time. Corn ground is about one-third 
plowed, and a few have got their orchards in 
order. Wheat looks fine. Grass has started 
slowly; it will be at least three weeks before 
pastures will be large enough for grazing. 
The amount of oats sown is small. Early 
truck and garden stuff are planted Peach 
trees are not yet in full bloom. Present indi¬ 
cations are good for a fine crop of fruit of all 
kinds. Corn aud wheat are unusually high, 
and the demand is above the supply Times 
have brightened up;as spring advances prices 
for all iarm produce are high enough for the 
mutual benefit of grower aud consumer. Feed 
will be scarce before pastures are ready. 
Sweet potato seed is scarce, and the price is 
exorbitant. Every one puts down his own 
bed—from one to 20 baskets, as the size of the 
plot to be planted may demand. Wheat, 90 
cents; corn, 60 cents; oats, 40 cents; butter, 
^5 cents; eggs, 15 cents; pork, 10 to 15 cents; 
potatoes, 80 cents to $1.45 per bushel; poultry, 
10 to 12 cents; wages on farm, $8 to $16 per 
month and found, or 60 cents a day without. 
a. G. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Bradford, Fayette Co., April 20.—Wheat 
came through the winter all right until the 
middle of February. It froze out badly, how¬ 
ever, in the latter part of February and 
March aud does not look like more than half 
a crop. The weather for the last week has 
been very favorable for wheat—cool and rainy 
every day. If it continues favorable ten days 
longer there will be three-fourths of a wheat 
crop. B. R. 
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