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THE BUBAL fiEW-¥@BKEB. 
PERSONALS. 
General Harrison has a brother named 
Carter B. Harrison, who is a farmer at Mur¬ 
freesboro, Tenn. He is a Union veteran. 
The widow of Kaiser William is named 
Augusta, the widow of Kaiser Frederick is 
named Victoria, and the wife of the present 
Kaiser is known as Augusta Victoria. 
Mr. Blaine will sail for home August 1, 
having engaged passage on the City of New 
York. This will allow 10 days longer in 
which to prepare for the big reception. 
Mrs. Senator John Sherman is a devoted 
student of horticulture. She said recently to 
a friend that she envied the President of the 
United States none of his possessions or per¬ 
quisites but the free will of the well-equipped 
greenhouses of the White House. • 
Mr. Frederic Coudert, of the well-known 
firm of French lawyers, has a farm at Me- 
t ucben, New Jersey, where he raises Alderney 
rattle. Mr. Coudert says that he finds much 
more pleasure in going over his farm than he 
does in going over law papers. There is cer¬ 
tainly more health-giving pleasure in the 
former pastime. 
Claes Spreckels is said to have bought 
up .50,000 tons of Manilla sugar, anticipating 
the partial failure of the European beet-root 
crop, and the Sugar Trust of San Francisco 
having sold heavily of refined sugar, cannot 
get enough raw sugar to supply the refineries. 
A corner is expected, and prices have ad¬ 
vanced 1% cent a pound. 
The general manager of the San Francisco 
Breeder and Sportsman is Miss A. L Wilson, 
of Cyuthiana, Ky. She is reputed to be one 
of the best-informed women in America on 
the pedigree and history of trotting horses. 
There are quite a number of women on the 
agricultural press, and really some of them 
are very handsome, and few are old-maidish. 
The defect in the arm of Emperor William 
II. is authoritatively described thus; The left 
arm is not deformed, but withered, or rather 
dwarfed; the nerves which vitalize it were 
subjected to great and prolonged pressure 
during birth so that their power was destroy¬ 
ed. Hence the muscles of the arm were par¬ 
alyzed and became wasted from want of use, 
and the limb did not grow with the rest of the 
body. 
Josiah Wilder, who took his own life in 
Cincinnati the other day, was noted as a 
friend of dumb animals, and towards the 
close of his life his sensitive concern lest they 
should be treated cruelly became almost a 
mania. His case recalls that of a wealthy 
young Boston entomologist who committed 
suicide about a year ago, because of an insane 
delusion that in every bug which he killed he 
had destroyed an immortal soul. . . . 
The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 
says Harper’s Bazar, who is now 61 years old, 
makes her home at El Mora, a suburb of 
Elizabeth, N. J. She lives in a pretty red 
cottage surrounded by trees on the outside, 
and filled with rugs, old furniture aud books 
on the inside. Mrs. Blackwell spends the 
most of her time in her study, where she does 
a great deal of writing. It was her pen, it is 
said, that built this attractive little home in 
New Jersey. 
General Sherman believes that city-bred 
men make much better soldiers than country¬ 
men. He says that this was proved beyond a 
doubt in the late civil war. The soldiers re¬ 
cruited from the city were used to the irregu¬ 
larities of city life, and they could stand any 
amount of hardship without going under, 
wlide those brought in from the iurms were 
accustomed to regular living, and tne hard¬ 
ships of war killed them off by hundreds. 
The farmer lads were physically stronger, 
but they were not as tough as the city boys. 
Mr. William Rockefeller, head of the 
Standard Oil monopoly, who has his home at 
Greenwich, Connecticut, is said to be one of 
the few millionaires who make farming pay. 
The farmer from whom Mr. Rockefeller 
bought the farm barely made a living out of 
it. Off of eighteen acres of land the present 
owner has this summer taken 80 tons of 
hay. Mr. Rockefeller’s farmer says that his 
employer brings the same business principles 
to bear on his larm as characterize the cor¬ 
poration of which he is head. Every morning 
at five o'clock Mr. Rockefeller is up aud 
about. 
General Sheridan’s new cottage at Non- 
quitt, Massachusetts, is finished ou side in 
natural wood, heavily oiled, with a wide terra- 
cotia-colored strip about the base. It is pro¬ 
vided with ample piazzas that look out upon 
Buzzard’s Bay. The large square entrance 
hall is finished throughout in California red¬ 
wood. The parlor is a large oblong room j 
lighted by long windows aud a bay-window 
luinished with cushioned seats. A big red¬ 
brick fit eplace adorns one end of the room, 
General bhendan has a private office opening 
out of the dining-room. The entire house is 
furnished in willow and rattan, and the floors 
are covered with bright-colored mattings. 
“ Ellerslie,” the just-completed country 
home of the Hon. Levi P. Morton, at Rhine- 
beck, on the Hudson, was originally the old 
Livingston manor, and the manor house was 
built by Maturin Livingston in 1814. This 
Mr. Morton has torn down, and built on its 
site a modern stone mansion of eighty rooms, 
lighted throughout by electricity, and con¬ 
taining every modern appliance for conven¬ 
ience and labor saving. The former owner 
of the place, William Kelley, is said to have 
refused §350,000 for it from the late William 
B. Dinsmore, but after his death it ran down, 
and Mr. Morton bought it for $80,000, but he 
has spent $500,000 on it, including the new 
house. 
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CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
The Jacii Pine Plains. —Bulletin No. 37 
from the Micigan Agricultural College is is¬ 
sued by the Chemical Department. The 
northern counties of Michigan contain a 
large amount of light sandy soils which are 
supposed to be almost useless for agricultural 
purposes. Many persons have settled on these 
lands for homesteads and after a few years have 
abandoned their claims and gone elsewhere for 
permanent homes. The hundreds of abandon¬ 
ed homesteads give sad evidence of misdirect¬ 
ed labor and disappointed hopes. There is 
not a State in the Union that does not con¬ 
tain tracts of lands occupying about the posi¬ 
tion agriculturally that these light Michigan 
lands occupy. People still go there for homes. 
After a few years of farming with the methods 
and the crops they would have employed on 
other soils, they are obliged to give up what 
seems to be a hopeless struggle. Dr. Kedzie, 
of the Michigan College, has always been de¬ 
sirous of determining by real scientific exper¬ 
iments if these lands can be made, by any 
practical system of manuring, to provide a 
farmer’s living. We believe he has faith in the 
future of these lands. The Hatch bill gave a 
chance to carry out this project. A farm of 
some 80 acres has been located in this region, 
aud various forage crops have been started. 
A systematic effort is to be made to bring up 
this soil by means of green manures and marl, 
plaster and salt, the only economical fertilizing 
agents to be found in the neighborhood.. This 
bulletin details the preparation made for 
this interesting experiment. 
Well Sinking Machinery. — Catalogue 
from Goulds & Austin, Chicago, Ill. This is 
a very attractive publication iu which the 
story of well machinery is plainly told. The 
following statement forms a basis for the ef¬ 
forts made to advertise and do business on the 
part of this house : “The art of well sinking 
has left the cradle of its infancy, and can now 
fairly be considered one of the important in¬ 
dustries of the country. The rapid settlement 
of the West by agriculturists; the increasing 
demands of cattle growers for a large supply 
of water, and the late development iu the nat¬ 
ural gas interests, have made the business of 
well sinking a very profitable one. The past 
dry seasons have fully demonstrated that as 
the country becomes longer settled and better 
drained, the old-style dug and shallow wells 
cannot be depended on for a permanent water 
supply.” To support this statement a list of 
well machinery is presented that will well 
repay a careful examination on the part of 
those who think of going into the well-driv¬ 
ing business. We cannot begin to name the 
many tools that are illustrated here. The 
catalogue must be seen to be fully appre¬ 
ciated. 
Ohio Experiment Station. —Bulletin No. 
4 sent from Columbus, Ohio, deals with Ex¬ 
periments in Preventing Curculio Injury to 
Cherries and The Chinch-Bug in Ohio: Mid¬ 
summer Remedies. Here are the conclusions 
reached in the cherry experiments : 
(1.) Three-fourths of the cherries liable to 
injury by the plum curculio can be saved by 
two or three applications of London-purple in 
a water spray (in the proportion of one ounce 
to five gallons of water) made soon after the 
blossoms fall. 
(2.) If an interval of a mouth occurs be¬ 
tween the last application and the ripening of 
the fruit no danger to health need be appre¬ 
hended from its use. As a precautionary 
measure, however, he would advise in all cases, 
and especially when there are few rams dur¬ 
ing this interval that the fruit be thoroughly 
washed before it is used. 
(3.) Lime is not so certain iu its preventive 
effect as London-purple, saving in these ex¬ 
periments only forty per cent, of the fruit 
liable to injury. 
“Peerless” Traction Engine. — Cir¬ 
culars from the Geiser Manufacturing Co., 
Waynesboi’o, Franklin County, Pa. As related 
elsewhere in this issue, the traction engine is a 
very valuable and popular farm implement 
,n portions of Pennsylvania. The “Peerless” 
’s one of the best, and its popularity testifies 
to its merit. A steam plow attachment to go 
with the “Peerless” is also made by this 
house. 
Report of the Bureau of Statistics — 
The quarterly report is sent from the Treas¬ 
ury Department at Washington D. C. This 
pamphlet deals with the imports, exports, im¬ 
migration and navigation of the United 
States for three months ending March 31, 
1888. Now that the tariff is to be discussed 
so thoroughly, the facts contained in this 
volume will be of great interest to all who are 
interested in the matter, 
New Jersey Experiment Station — 
Bulletin No. 47, contains the analyses of 
the samples collected by the officir.s of the 
New Jersey Experiment Station, of the va¬ 
rious kinds of stock used to mix for making 
complete fertilizers or for use singly. The 
object has been to try and show farmers 
what they are called upon to pay per pound 
for the various fertilizing elements in standard 
fertilizers. Jersey farmers who use chemi¬ 
cal fertilizers ought to keep this bulletin. 
New Jersey Experiment Station.— The 
Eighth Annual Report is sent by President 
Wm. S. Tayler, New Brunswick, N. J. A por¬ 
tion of the Alfalfa experiment will be found 
on another page. The experiments with sorg¬ 
hum illustrated in a recent Rural are also 
given at length here. There are many tables 
and experiment records that will prove valu 
able in the library of any New Jersey farmer 
Chicago Veterinary College —Cata¬ 
logue of this institution which is located at 
2537 and 2539 State St. It appears that the 
school was established in 1883. There are 11 
members of the faculty. The fixtures and ap¬ 
pointments are complete and the course ap¬ 
pears to be practical and complete. 
POST OFFICE CLUB. 
This is the oil season. So many farm ma¬ 
chines are now being worked that there is a 
great demand for machine oil. In our neigh¬ 
borhood we consider an oil-cau a 
pretty good agricultural index. Wnen a 
man works a machine that creaks and 
cries for lack of oil, we put him 
down as a pretty poor farmer and this 
estimate is generally correct. Many of our 
farmers make their own machine oil by about 
this formula : Equal parts castor oil, hog’s 
lard and kerosene. Melt the lard and pour 
all together. This does well and stops lots of 
wheel-sorrow when applied in season. This 
does very well and a little time spent every 
day in using it will prove a good investment. 
Uncle Jacob believes in oiling. 
“ I rides out mit my vive last week,” he said 
at the last meeting, 4 ‘und ve vas pass mit a man 
dot vas drifing a vagon mit der wheels not 
greezed. Und dem wheels dey vas shust gry 
shust like a baby. Dey vas gry so loud dot 
dey vas shust discourage efferyting—der 
horses, der men und der hired man. Even 
der load mit der vagon vas so discouraged mit 
dot crying dot it vas settle down mit der 
vagon heafier dan effer. I says to 
my wive, dot man vas shust a goot 
sermon; here he vas, mit his own careless - 
ness make efferybody around him blue und 
sour ven shust a little greze mit dem wheels 
would make dem happy to turn around und 
dot happiness would gommunicate mit effery¬ 
body dot comes near dem. Der fact off it 
vas dot we takes a goot part off our char 
acter mit der objects dot we comes 
in gontact mit. Not only der beeble, but der 
animals und der tools. You vork mit a gom- 
blaining man day after day und you vas grow 
sour und bad-tempered yourself, in spide off 
efferyting you do. It vas der same vay mit 
vorking mit ugly animals und it vas more so 
dan effer mit vorking mit bad tools. You let 
der best-tempered man mit der world vork 
mit a machine dot vas shust cry out for oil 
all der vile, und I bate anytiug dot man vill 
grow ugly und cross mit his friends. As goot- 
nature vas make der vorld better und happier 
all der vile it vas der duty off effry man dot run 
mit a mashine to keep dot mashine veil oiled 
und greezed. Dot vas a duty dot he owes to 
morality. It vas von off der first brinciples 
off Christianity to keep der oil-can in goot 
shape.” small pica. 
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