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Editor seems to be made.of the right stuff to 
accomplish what others try in vain); but it is 
still much more difficult to avoid all the acci¬ 
dents which may prove to be the ‘slips ’twixt 
the cup and the lip ’—and nere his otherwise 
well-directed efforts failed. The devastations 
of the Cucumber Flea-beetle were the cause, 
and the only one according to the judges’ re¬ 
port, that brought the average yield of the 
test patch below the promised 700 bushels per 
acre. The magnificent result on a part of tho 
field,which yielded at the rate of 1,076 bushels 
per acre, was more than overbalanced by the 
comparative failure of another part, which 
gave a 276 bushel rate, and the judges conse¬ 
quently had to certify to the (quite respect¬ 
able) average of 583 bushels per acre. 
“We recognize in this result a magnificent 
achievement. If this be a failure, where is 
the limit of success? If this be the result ob¬ 
tained under unfavorable conditions, what 
may we expect as the result of the same skill¬ 
ful management under favorable circum¬ 
stances? 
“The editor of the Rural New-Yorker at¬ 
tributes a large share of these heavy yields 
to the Rural trench system. We can not 
agree with him in this, or in some other points. 
Our experiments last season have proven to 
our satisfaction that the labor employed in 
preparing trenches according to that method, 
is thrown away, as the yield was in no case 
larger than that obtained by planting in fur¬ 
rows as commonly made. Neither have we 
seen a single case where deep planting induced 
the formation of tuber-forming stems “ from 
several different planes or stories.” The tub¬ 
ers in our soil have always formed directly 
above the seed-piece. Still the Rural New- 
Yorker raises crops at the rate of upwards of 
1,000 bushels per acre, to back up its doctrines, 
and we must declare our inability (so far as 
our soil and opportunities are concerned) to 
equal them. The editor, in spite of this fail¬ 
ure, is going to try again next season, and he 
is going in to win.” 
If the above article was written by Mr. T. 
Greiner, the editor of Orchard and Garden, 
its views are as much entitled to consideration 
as anything that the Rural may say editori¬ 
ally, for the reason that Mr. Greiner has 
made the cultivation of potatoes a special 
study and his experience has extended through 
many years. The labor required in prepar¬ 
ing trenches, however, is not so great as he 
supposes. The use of the trench plow renders 
the labor scarcely more than that required in 
turning two deep furrows with an ordinary 
plow. If there is anything in this trench busi¬ 
ness, there is no doubt whatever that an im¬ 
plement will be manufactured fully suited to 
the work required of it. In fact, the winged 
shovel plow answers fairly well. A toothed 
attachment to scarify and pulverize the bot 
tom of the trench, as suggested by Dr. Hos¬ 
kins, would prove a helpful and labor-saving 
addition. 
TRUE INWARDNESS 
Experiments conducted at the Penn. Ex¬ 
periment Station indicate that soiling rye 
obtained from very fertile soil, when cut at 
the period of development when the head is 
about forming, possesses not only a much 
larger proportion than was formerly supposed 
of material in such condition as to be available 
to the animal for milk production, but also 
that the constituents are prestnt in such rel¬ 
ative quantities as to fit the fodder for such 
use without the addition of other more con¬ 
centrated nitrogenous fodder. 
There are men, says the N. Y. Times, who 
live in an atmosphere, so to speak, of mistakes, 
blunders, stupidity, and forgetfulness, and 
bring continual trouble upon themselves and 
their employers. This is all avoidable. Every¬ 
one should cultivate a habit of thoughtfulness 
and foresight. When anything is to be done, 
what will necessarily or possibly follow should 
be thought of when the thing is being done. 
The first lesson might be to get a habit of put¬ 
ting things in their place, and, in spite of 
laziness—the worst of all vices on a farm—to 
do it on the moment when it should be done. 
Several swindled fanners condemn the seed 
wheat sent out by one H. A. Winters as 
“dirty” and “lacking vitality”.The Ohio Far¬ 
mer investigated the matter and pronounced 
the wheat “unfit for seed.”. 
The O. C. Farmer reads with unfeigned re¬ 
gret, that some of the leaders of fashion are 
working to again make feather and bird 
millinery fashionable. If successful, it means 
the destruction of millions of our song birds, 
and mainly of the insectivorous class, the 
most useful to mankind. We hope that all 
good, humane women will frown upon this 
cruel and destructive fashion. 
Place the chestnuts in boxes of sand, first a 
layer of chestnuts, then of sand, Bury the 
boxes a foot deep in the open ground in a dry 
place. Thus they may be preserved fresh 
until Spring. Or the boxes may be lifted as 
the chestnuts are wanted... 
On a recent trip to Niagara Falls the Editor 
of Orchard and Garden noticed, about three 
miles below the falls, on a bank of the river, 
a pecan tree nearly or quite 50 feet high, 
laden with fruit. 
The exoerienced Mr. N. Oehmer, of Mont¬ 
gomery"^ o., Ohio, has been very successful 
with pears. He ha3 now 3,000 trees. He 
planted 4,000, 25 years ago. He would not 
hesitate to day to plant an orchard of a good 
many thousand trees, but would only plant 
some half dozen varieties—the Bartlett, Flem¬ 
ish Beauty, Lawrence, Duchess, and the 
Louise Bonne. He would not plant dwarfs, 
except the Duchess. For a winter pear, he 
planted the Vicar of Wmkfield, but the 
blight took most of them. He has grown them 
to great perfection, beautiful in color, and 
sold them for high prices. He has tried the 
Sheldon. They are excellent. He has also 
tried the Swan’s Orange. It is a large, hand¬ 
some, round pear and will sell. The Tyson is 
very fine, but he would not plant many as 
they do not bear well. The Seckel, he pro¬ 
nounces the finest pear that grows. Right 
you are, Mr Oehmer. 
The veteran horticulturist T. T. Lyon, 
stakes his reputation, according to the Michi¬ 
gan Farmer, upon the assertion that, other 
circumstances being equal, the plenter of one- 
year-old pear trees will, when they are at the 
usual age of bearing, have a healthier, more 
productive and profitable plantation than if 
he planted older trees. 
A member of the Ohio Horticultural Society 
visited the celebrated Honeywell place, Bos¬ 
ton, in September. Southeast of the house 
there was an evergreen walk, 25 feet wide, of 
Arbor-vitm, 10 or 12 feet high, and eight feet 
apart, forming a long, irregular walk, made 
as a place to take exercise in the winter. If 
you were in that arbor, you would not know 
anything about the raw weather outside—it 
was almost like summer. There was a nurse- 
girl wheeling a baby in there, and very com¬ 
fortable and cozy, indeed,it was. 
- Husbandman: “Thanksgiving is one of 
our best national holidays. It is a day for 
thanksgiving and praise, a day of family re¬ 
union. The grown up children who have 
gone out into the world turn their faces home¬ 
ward, and the merry voices of the returned 
are heard beneath the sacred roof of the dear 
old home. The walls of the village church 
ring with the choral notes of gratitude and 
praise to the Giver of all that is good. The 
poor are remembered and cared for. All re¬ 
joice and are happy. This is the ideal Thanks¬ 
giving Day.” 
-“Really there is much to be thankful for 
in this country that has food in abundance, 
enough of material comforts, and, in the 
main, freedom from pestilence and horrors of 
war.” 
-“How many of the millions of ballots cast 
in the late election, had auy other direction 
than was imparted by zeal lor party suprem¬ 
acy?” 
-London Agricultural gazette: “High 
prices are scarcely probable, at any rate for 
some months to come, and all that farmers 
cau, in our opinion, expect is what we may 
now term moderate values—high in compari¬ 
son with recent standards, though low in pro¬ 
portion to those of the ‘good old times.’” 
-Massachusetts Ploughman: “The 
price of wheat is already too high; a re-action 
will soon take place. It is a good time now to 
sell any surplus that may be oh hand; we look 
for considerably lower prices before spring.” 
-Michigan Farmer: “The Massachu¬ 
setts Ploughmau is doomed to disappoint¬ 
ment before spring.” 
-Cor. Field and Farm: “Twelve of my 
thirty cows that were dehorned last winter 
aborted in the spring, and five out of the 
thirty died. Those that have lived are not 
worth more than two-thirds their former 
value. With as good and even better feed 
than last year, they do not give more than 
half their usual flow of milk.” 
-Dairy World: “We have fed tons of 
pumpkins to milch cows without removing 
tne seed and never observed any falling off in 
the milk.” 
DIRECT. 
-T. B. Terry, in the Ohio Farmer: “ Sup¬ 
posing I should feed our four horses each four 
quarts of oats at a time. It would take all 
the available plow laud we have, 12 acres, 
each year to grow the oats. Where would the 
$700 to $1,400 come from for which I have 
sold the potatoes, that grew on those 12 acres? 
To be sure, I could raise the potatoes and buy 
the oats; but of what use is it if the clover 
would answer and there is always an abund¬ 
ance of it? I raised some oats nineteen years 
ago; but not an oat since. I hung on to corn 
some years longer. I was poor and in debt 
and should have been so to this day if I had 
grown Timothy hay and oats for my horses, 
and a piece of corn. The horses would have 
eaten the oats; the cattle and hogs would have 
eaten the corn, and the income from them, on 
so small a farm, would have only made ends 
meet by close scrimping.” 
-N. Y. Herald: “Thecondition of Europe 
issummed up in the phrase, ‘ An armed camp’. 
This is the high-watermark of the civilization 
of the nineteenth century. Italians, French¬ 
men, Germans, Austrians—amiable, well- 
meaning, neighborly beings, who live, believe, 
love, toil, kneel before the same altar, and yet 
all of them busy in the fearful preparation 
for throat-cutting.” 
-Garden and Forest: “Certainly no 
really comfortable country home can exist in 
our land without a piazza. If we look at our 
best recent houses, we find that the main 
piazza is confined to one side, or, placed on 
a corner, partly encircles two sides; and there 
cau be few cases in which more than this is 
needful.” 
-American Agriculturist: “If the hogs 
to be slaughtered are fed within 12 hours 
of their killing, the food is wasted, the meat 
will b« mm-e disposed to sour, and it will be 
more difficult to remove the distended intes¬ 
tines and take from them the lard. Nor is it 
well to allow the swine to drink on the morn¬ 
ing of the day they are killed. Hogs cannot 
be killed too quickly.” 
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