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somewhat in manner of growing. The qual¬ 
ity of the former is far superior to that of the 
Rural Blush. We do not claim that they are 
one aud the same variety by any means; but 
in our description we say one resembles the 
other, which is true with the tubers which we 
have grown for two succeeding years. 
R. N.-Y.—We received the Dakota Red for 
trial before it was introduced. In quality, it 
is, as grown with us, quite inferior, while the 
Blush is one of the best potatoes we know of. 
We are in hopes it will be found that Prof. 
Johnson has not the true Blush. 
When to Mow Grass.— Farmer Cheever, 
of the N. E. Farmer, says that the best time 
to mow grass is in the afternoon after four 
o’clock. Dew will never injure unwilted 
grass, and will drj off from mown grass in 
much less time than from grass that is standing. 
Grass cut in the early morning while heavy 
with rain or dew may require most of the 
first day’s work to get it free from the water 
upon it. Grass cut when free from outside 
moisture will often dry as perfectly in one 
day as wet grass would in two. Moisture is 
being constantly expelled from standing grass 
by evaporation through the leaves, aud is 
pumped up from the soil through the roots. 
Grass cut and left in swaths with the dew on 
is something in the condition of cut flowers 
with their stems set in damp moss or a dish of 
water. Grass cut between four o’clock in the 
afternoou and dark will begin to dry the fol¬ 
lowing day if fair, soon after sunrise; if 
stormy it will not suffer till the storm is over. 
Mr. Cheever says that the man who is in a 
constant worry for fear of bad hay weather 
to-morrow, is pretty sure to let his grass.stand 
till overripe before cutting it; he is likely to 
cut his grass in clear weather and have to 
make it into hay as best he may in cloudy. 
Grass fully grown and past the bloom, if cut 
with the dew off and frequently stirred with 
the tedder, will dry sufficiently in the forenoon 
to begin to cart immediately after noon. 
If hay is put in a little too green so it heats 
more than it should, tread it down as solidly as 
possible to keep the air out. We fork over 
manure to heat it, but tramp it down with 
hogs or otherwise to prevent heating. Heat¬ 
ing in the mow is a drying process, and if the 
heat is kept moderate by hard treading the 
hay will dry without injury. 
SAMPLES. 
Mr. Gould says, in the Weekly Press, that 
stagnant water and swamp water are both 
teeming with microscopic life, and also bad 
forms of vegetable growth, and so tenacious 
are many of these forms that they are not ex¬ 
terminated by passing through the digestive 
apparatus of the animal and actually go into 
the blood, and thence to the milk, which is 
only blood slightly changed by divesting it 
of color, etc. Professor Babcock, late of Cor¬ 
nell, found on examination that these spores, 
ound in some bad cheese, rendering it worth¬ 
less, were identical with the germs of spores 
in stagnant water which the cows were in the 
habit of drinking .. 
Improve the dairy, continues Mr. Gould. 
Clean up the old barn and stable, whitewash 
the stalls, keep lots of litter and a sprinkle of 
land plaster—don’t use lime—to keep the stable 
sweet and odorless. Drill in lots of fodder 
corn. Take care of it, aud feed it through 
the later Summer. Feed some bran all the 
time, to help make lots of good blood out of 
which to form milk. Treat the cow kindly 
every day in the year. Try and raise some 
good Guernsey, Jersey or Holstein calves. 
Raise some oats on which to feed then. Don’t 
feed them corn meal. Make the stable warm 
and comfortable. Commence now to do 
those things. Keep right on two years and 
then see if dairying don’t begin to pay!. 
One farmer of Michigan, as he states before 
the Webster Farmers’ Club, cuts clover hay 
when in full bloom, draws it as soon as it will 
answer, packs it closely and excludes all the 
air possible from the barn. He cuts Timothy 
before it blossoms to avoid dust. 
Prof. Sanborn repeats, in a recent lecture, 
that to delay in cutting grass is in the interest 
of poverty, a wrong to our families in robbing 
them of the means of advancement, rest and 
culture. j’Better two days too early than two 
days too late.” Never allow the seed to ma¬ 
ture. He who waits for the seed to mature 
before mowing, throws away the most concen¬ 
trated part of the plant and takes the husk... 
Mr. Haaff, the popularize! - of dehorning, 
takes Prof. Plumb of the Tennessee Agricul¬ 
tural College severely to task for his method 
of dehorning and for several statements made 
in his account thereof. He says, in the Breed- 
TME BUBAL MEW-YORSCIB. 
er’s Gazette, that it is unfair to judge of the 
pain a bovine suffers in dehorning by its bel¬ 
lowing. It is just as likely an evidence of 
fright as of pain. He says that if cows are 
accustomed to stanchions there is usually no 
bellowing at all. 
Again, Mr. Haaff says that the animals de¬ 
horned were all of them handled in a manner 
entirely objectionable. It took 20 minutes 
to dehorn the first steer, and 18 minutes to de¬ 
horn the second. If any man following 
proper directions were to occu py more than 
three minutes in securing aud dehorning an 
animal, Mr. H. would pronounce him a bung¬ 
ler . 
He further states that if the engravings 
published in Prof. Plumb’s bulletin and re¬ 
produced by a number of farm papers, are 
fair representations of the horns removed, 
every single animal of them will have stub 
horns even to the old ten-year cow. 
It is a truth, as old as it is deep-rooted in 
fact, that when the “crowd”—to use a com¬ 
mon expression—loses faith and abandons in 
despair any particular branch of farm hus¬ 
bandry, those who “hold their breath” until 
the strain is past, as a rule, come much nearer 
averaging up a profit in their business for a 
series of years than their easier stampeded 
neighbors who, like so many weather-cocks, 
change their practice with every varying 
wind that blows. The Breeder’s Gazette says 
that it holds out no false beacons of probable 
dazzling prices or profits to the breeders and 
feeders of cattle stock, but merely calls atten¬ 
tion to the old admonition that the time to 
buy and the time to hold fast is when one’s 
neighbors are losing confidence. No man 
who has the grass to carry the stock can lose 
by the purchase of pure-bred cattle for breed¬ 
ing purposes at the prices now ruling at many 
local sales. 
Waldo F. Brown tells, in the Philadelphia 
Weekly Press, of a device for protecting melon 
and cucumber vines, which is simpler and 
much cheaper than using boxes or frames 
covered with netting. Stick four stakes in 
the ground about the hill, inclosing a space, 
say, six inches square, the stakes being driven 
so as to stand four inches above the soil. Then 
cover these stakes with pieces of cheap muslin 
or netting so that the edges can be firmly se¬ 
cured on every side by the soil or stones. Mr. 
Brown says the protection is perfect. A man, 
he says, can carry in one hand enough covers 
for 100 hills, and when dried and put away for 
the next year, 1,000 of them can be stored in a 
box two feet square . 
Major Alvord said before the Conn. Board 
of Agriculture,that he is not among those who 
make serious objections to coloring butter. 
There are various preparations by which but¬ 
ter can be colored to any degree which is de¬ 
sired, and he does not see any objection to do¬ 
ing it, because it is merely coloring, as salt is 
flavoring. We have no use for salt in butter 
except to make it more palatable to us, and we 
have no use for color in butter except to make 
it more pleasing to the eye. Major Alvord 
prefers a cow that will do this for him, 
but if she doesn’t do it he does not hesitate 
to use coloring matter. 
Plumbago Capensis, planted out in a warm, 
sunny place, makes one of the prettiest aud 
fullest of summer-blooming plants, and its 
bluo flowers are very distinct from anything 
else we have in the garden. So says Mr. Fal¬ 
coner in the American Florist. The R. N.-Y. 
has used this beautiful plant in rockeries. It 
will stand heat and drought. 
He says that variegated funkias are as or¬ 
namental as fancy caladiums. Try a bed. 
Use F. ovata in the middle, F. lancifolia next, 
and border with F. undulata, of course the 
variegated forms only, and plant in rich, well- 
drained soil and where shaded from sunshine. 
A writer in Science makes the statement 
in a positive way that if a person holds his 
breath, bees, wasps, and hornets can bo hand¬ 
led with impunity. “The skin becomes sting- 
proof.”. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
Ohio Farmer: 
“What great difference can there be 
’Twixt prefix dis aud prefix de?”- 
From the last editorial written by Mr. Mor¬ 
ton, the late editor of the London Agricultu¬ 
ral Gazette: “1. The man who most of all 
needs to do his duty is the master! 2. Not 
being able to do all the work myself, I must, 
somehow, get those who can work to work for 
me— 
(a) intelligently, 
( b) energetically, 
(c) affectionately, 
(cl) confidently. 
I. Order is Heaven’s first law. 
II. Cleanliness is next to godliness. 
HI. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth 
doing well.”-E. M. Upson, of Dakota: 
“The natural breeding k time for the colt is the 
spring season, and to raise good colts success¬ 
fully I believe we must follow nature as close¬ 
ly as possible.”-Husbandman: “Theman 
who has two sides to his character is sure to 
be false in one of them, and almost as sure to 
be false in both.”-“Hard is the fate of 
the faithful labox - er who has gone to his tasks 
every work-day through 20, 30, or 40 years 
and has not saved something to support him¬ 
self and family in age, yet such cases are com¬ 
mon, simply because the habit of provident 
saving has not yet been established.”- 
N. Y. Times: “For the farmers to form a 
grand pool, or, as it is termed now, a trust, 
will be clearly impracticable from its inherent 
unwieldiness and want of cohesion. The best 
interests of the farmers always will and must 
lie in the highest cultivation of the land, in 
economical administration of their affairs 
and in wisely catering to the public wants by 
furnishing all desirable products of the high¬ 
est quality, and then in exercising their poli¬ 
tical rights and power to serve their own in¬ 
terests as well as they possibly can by united 
efforts.” . . . “A dairyman whose farm 
is devoted wholly to making butter, and who 
—if he is a wise and provident man—will 
purchase some of the cheap concentrated foods 
for his cows and will for the sake of essential 
cleanliness use a large quantity of litter and 
absorbents, cannot help but enrich his land 
very rapidly, for he is always adding to it 
and taking nothing from it. But the farmer 
who sells hay or straw or grain is part¬ 
ing with the vital energy of his land, and 
is rapidly reducing it to poverty.- 
0hcn]itiljcrc. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Dakota Territory. 
Alexandria, Hanson Co., June2.—I never 
saw it rain so continuously for a month or 
five weeks as it has done here since the last 
week in April—rain, rain, rain, until the 
ground is full and men who have dug wells 
100 feet deep and failed to get water find it 
now in making a post hole. Much corn has 
rotted in the ground, and what has come up 
looks as if it had the “yellows.” Many have 
planted large areas, and the outlook is sad 
enough. Some are sowing flax where they 
had planted corn. It has been so wet and cold 
that even the weeds have been unable to make 
a healthy growth. It has not rained for three 
days. Is warmer. Don’t say it cannot rain in 
Dakota! t. h, y. 
Kansas. 
Conway, McPherson Co., June 4.—My last 
report. May 1st, said my own corn was plant¬ 
ed; it is now plowed the second time. Corn 
generally is a good stand, and looks well and 
clean, though small for the season. Up to 
May 20 prospects were quite fair for all kinds 
of crops, since which time it has been too dry. 
Wheat began heading very low, and is now 
full of bugs, and without an excess of rain 
soon it will be ruined. Oats promised well, 
and grew very evenly, of a good growth; but 
early oats have been heading for a week past 
—too short to cut. Good rains soon would 
cause further growth. Late oats still of good 
color, but very short. Within the past five 
days there have been two showers, wetting 
oats and wheat ground about two inches each 
time. No bugs in the oats, but in some fields 
of corn where volunteer.wheat came up they 
are thick, and the young ones hatching out. 
The giving or withholding of rain within the 
next few days will determine the cereal crop. 
J. M. R. 
Topeka, Shawnee Co., June 9.—Several 
days on the railroad enable me to report that 
wheat prospects in this State are good, though 
the average is limited to a small area. Corn 
is also looking well, though short for June. 
Oats are heading out well, though almost too 
short for the reaper. Pastures are also short, 
and cattle thin. Rain is needed in many sec¬ 
tions. Farmers have a degree of anxiety in 
regard to their crops that amounts to mental 
distress. s. w. h. 
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A LIST OF ALUM BAKING POWDERS. 
The following are the names of some of the 
published by the public au- 
being made from alum: 
Davis, 
baking powders 
thorities as 
Kenton, 
Silver Star, 
Forest City, 
One Spoon, 
Patapsco, 
Empire, 
Gold. 
\ eteran, 
Cook’s Favorite, 
Sun Flower, 
Jersey, 
Buckeye, 
Peerless, 
Crown, 
VVIi eel er’s, 
Carleton, 
Gem, 
Scioto, 
Zipp’s Crape Crystal 
Geo. Washington, 
Fleur de Ids, 
Feather Weight, 
A. & P. 
Ilenkle, 
Ne Plus Ultra, 
Enterprise, 
Can’t Be Heat, 
Eureka, 
International, 
Puritan, 
Allmny Favorite, 
Golden Sheat. 
Burnett’s Perfect 
State, 
Silver King, 
Welcome, 
Old Colony, 
Crystal, 
Centennial, 
Gem. 
Windsor, 
Sovereign, 
Daisy. 
alum baking powder besides those so far ex¬ 
amined and named by the authorities. Most 
of the baking powders sold in bulk, by weight, 
and all sold with a gift or present, are said to 
be of this description. 
Prof. Wiley, Chemist in Chief of the De 
partmentof Agriculture at Washington, D. C., 
says: “The use of alum in baking powders in 
large quantity, in place of other acid salts, 
should be prohibited bylaw.” 
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