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heavy an application was made as that given 
in the Rural’s new plot. 
Mrs. B. W. M., Fredonia N. Y.—I wish to 
join the Ladies’ Potato Contest, but, like the 
lady who wrote the piece in a late Rural, I wish 
to do all the work except plowing, and hardly 
think it fair to compete with other women’s 
hired men, though, like her, I expect to be 
beaten and left entirely out of sight. I also 
think it better to work for the prizes than for 
medals as one man suggested. I would not 
give a cent for a dozen medals. Give us some¬ 
thing that will do some good like the lawn- 
mower. for instance. That is what I am in¬ 
terested in. 
Mrs. L. F. A., East Pepperell, Mass.— 
I agree with your correspondent in the Rural 
of November 24, in regard to the Women’s 
Contest. I think the first prize and highest 
honor should go to the woman who does all of 
the work (excepting plowing and harrowing) 
on her plot and obtains the largest yield; be¬ 
cause she has earned it by hard work with 
her own hands—not her husband’s or her 
brother’s. 
Tell N., Dutchess Co., N. Y.. that Law- 
ford’s cold-water dip is a most excellent in¬ 
secticide—the very best I ever tried for fleas 
on a dog. 
Brown Schwytzer race of cattle in 
Switzerland is believed to be co existent 
with that of the present race of people, says 
the Farm Journal. A few specimens were im¬ 
ported to the United States in 1881 and 1882, 
and recently a number have been brought to 
Philadelphia. 
These cattle vary greatly in size, the stand¬ 
ard weight being from 1,200 to 1,300 pounds. 
The color most esteemed, as indicative of 
pure blood, is a duu or mouse color, fading to 
gray upon the back, and a stripe of light gray 
or nearly white along the belly. The body is 
plump and compact, the back straight, the 
legs round, firmly set, and well muscled, 
with small black hoofs. The mountain-bred 
Schwytzer cattle climb like goats, and thrive 
throughout the year upon grass and hay 
alone. 
Trustworthy statistics show that a well-kept 
Schwytzer cow fed on cut grass or hay, with 
plentiful pure fresh water, will yield an aver¬ 
age of 10 quarts of milk daily during the en¬ 
tire year. At Cham, the 0,000 cows whose 
milk is condensed by the ADglo-Swiss Com¬ 
pany, yield 5,315 pounds, or 9 8-10 quarts each 
per day during the milking season, and these 
are only ordinary animals of the Brown 
Schwytzer race. Choice herds, carefull y ke pt, 
average at the best milking age, during April. 
May and June, 12 quarts daily and even high¬ 
er. The milk is of excellent quality, from 25 
to 30 quarts of it yielding a pound of butter, 
and from nine to 10 quarts a pound of cheese. 
The merit of this breed is such that the Farm 
Journal feels itself warranted in the belief 
that further importations will soon be made, 
and that there is a possibility, if not a proba- 
ability, that the Brown Schwytzer is the “ com¬ 
ing” breed of cattle. Those interested will 
make a note of it. 
WHICH MAY REMIND YOU. 
Visiting a poor laborer, who raised two 
pigs every year, Mr. P. H. Jacobs, as the 
Weekly Press tells us, asked: “ Do you make 
a profit on your pigs, Mr. Leary?” “No,’’ 
said he, “ but it pays me to raise two pigs 
every year.” Ithenasked: “ Will you please 
explain to me the problem ?” “ I will,” he re¬ 
plied. “ When I keep a pig or two I am com¬ 
pelled to save a few pennies here and there 
and scrape up whatever I can get to feed them, 
and, with the buying of the food in small 
quantities and the grass and weeds collected, 
I find at the end of the year that I have a 
certain quantity of pork, whereas, without 
the pigs, I would have neither the money nor 
the pork.” Here was a solution of the prob¬ 
lem—the pig was a savings bank. 
The Breeder’s Gazette says that any 
one who knows anything about a steer knows 
that he prefers whole corn to corn-meal and 
ear corn to either. It costs an eighth of the 
corn to grind it and another eighth to take it 
to and from the mill. Why not feed ear corn 
at once to the cattle, even if a fourth of it 
does nothing but find its way into the manure 
heap? But no such loss need be incurred. 
Wi hhogu to follow, ear corn can ba fed with 
actual economy besides the saving in labor 
and experiments carefully condqoted show 
Probably meal will finish pp a steer 
THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
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better than ear corn, but tor the bulk of the 
feeding there are no trials to which we can 
point that show in favor of meal over whole 
corn. A step still further in the right direc¬ 
tion is to feed unhusked corn-fodder and all 
to the cattle. 
Our distingui-hed Euglish correspondent 
Prof Sheldon, holds that litter, generally 
speaking, is a superfluity and a waste. He 
knows from experience that pigs do not need 
it, if only they have boards to lie on; the 
same is just as perfectly true in reference to 
horses, if their stalls are well planned and 
drained. For his cows of all ages he has 
never used any litter at all; the stall is 
smoothly paved with freestone, and there is 
no need whatever for litter. 
Beurre d’Anjou is one of the few varieties 
that merit, the appellation of cosmopolitan, 
says Mr. Hoopes in the N. Y. Tribune. 
It possesses almost every attribute of a profi 
table market frui'—flue size, handsome when 
well grown and ripened, a regular and abun¬ 
dant bearer, and mostly healthy and vigorous 
in growth. 
Speaking of such a coarse fruit as the Cat- 
illac, it must be borne in mind that it is 
worthless for the table. The tree, however, 
succeeds so well, and the fruit under high 
cultivation is so immensely large and hand¬ 
some, that it not only pays for market, but 
furnishes a delightful dish for the dessert 
when properly cooked . 
Although not universally fine in all loca¬ 
tions, Sheldon, continues Mr. Hoopes, may 
with safety be planted where the pear proves 
successful. Where it does thrive, it is one of 
the most remunerative of our autumn varie¬ 
ties, of fairly large size, pretty russet color, 
very juicy, sweet and melting in texture. 
The tree is fine for the orchard, growing 
strongly, and is very hardy. There is no 
pear in Downing’s admirable work on fruits 
more highly eulogized than Urbaniste, and 
yet it is not always satisfactory. In the 
majority of instances, however, it is profitable 
as a market fruit and one of the most delicious 
of autumn pears for the table. It is not a 
strong grower, nor is it au early bearer, but 
after attaining productive age the crops are 
regular and good. This leads us to remember 
that no pear will stand neglect, but all should 
receive the best of care to insure satisfactory 
results. This is imperative.. 
Henry Stewart says, in the Rural Home, 
that there are only a few points to be observed 
in the whole process of buttter making, but if 
one fails the end fails. These points are as 
follows: 
1. The entire absence of all foreign and in¬ 
jurious matter in the milk, from whatever 
causes these may come. 
2. The observance of the exact tempera¬ 
ture in the various parts of the process. 
3. The proper degrees of acidity in the 
cream when it is put in the churn. 
4. The stoppage of the churning when the 
butter is in the form of small grains no larger 
than grains of buckwheat. 
5. The complete freedom of the butter 
from any trace, even of the buttermilk. 
0. The mixture of the right proportion of 
perfectly pure salt in butter. 
7. The perfect working of the butter to 
make it compact and to secure the even mix¬ 
ture of the salt with it. 
If these points are perfectly secured the 
butter will be good; if one fails the butter 
will be faulty; but if all fail, as is the case in 
the majority of cases the butter will be bad or 
worse. 
The Alabama (Auburn) Experiment Station 
plauted wheat from one to six inches deep, 
two kernels being dropped six by 12 inches 
apart. The results are contradictory. If 
they show anything it is that from one half 
to one inch is the best depth. 
Two plots of wheat (planted in drills 12 
inches apart) were treated differently. One 
was cultivated, the other not. The first 
yielded at the rate of 39 4-5, the other 36% to 
the acre—not enough difference to pay for 
the cultivation. 
Some of the tables in this report are next 
to useless because the print is too fine and 
the lines too close together. 
The Breeder’s Gazette throws a good deal 
of ridicule ou a St. Louis controller of sex in 
domestic animals. He offers to send to a 
number of gentlemen prominent in live-stock 
breeding circles sows bred by himself and 
warranted to produce litters, all the animals 
in which shall be of the sex specified by each 
of the gentlemen in his order. Truly a light 
and easy task to which this gentleman, learned 
above all others in Nature’s secrets, has set 
his hand; ..... 
Mh. G$QRQE Wylie, the Wisconsin swine- 
breeder, iu discussing swine-raising before a 
farmer^ jn.stjt.uta, declared; *‘{f yoq wa»t! » 
hog that is never satisfied with what you 
give it and is always looking around the fence 
for a hole to get out, get one with a long, 
sharp nose and narrow between the eyes.’> 
“ Never satisfied with what you give it” hits 
off the “ scrub ” hog very well indeed. 
The Chinese are the greatest egg-eaters iu 
the world,according to the New York Ledger. 
They raise more poultry than all the other 
nations of the earth taken together, and have 
a way of keeping eggs for forty years or more 
in sound condition. The older the eggs the 
more valuable they are, and it is a trick of 
the Chinese grocer to ring in fresh eggs on his 
customers whenever he has a chance to cheat 
them in that way. Our Government should 
at once iustrvict our consular agents in China, 
to discover what this valuable method of 
keeping eggs is, for the benefit of American 
poultry raisers... 
“ The advent of au American girl into Eu¬ 
glish society at first was a curiosity,” says the 
Fall Mall Gazette. “It soon became a portent. 
It is now assuming the dimensions of a menace. 
Before long it will be recognized as a calamity. 
Of all forms of competition there is none so 
deadly as this. We can stand our farmers 
beiug ruined by American corn. We can 
listen unmoved to the wails of graziers made 
bankrupt by the influx of American beef. 
But the American girl is too much”. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Dairy World: “The greater the mini 
her of persons contributing milk or cream to 
the factory, the less uniform will be the pro¬ 
duct unless the operator or' owner carefully 
inspects the herds’ stables and dairy houses of 
the patrons.” 
-S. S. Times: “Very little ability is re¬ 
quired to attract public attention. Very large 
ability is required to hold public attention. 
A man cau attract public attention whether 
he deserves it or not; but a man cannot hold 
public attention unless he deserves it.” 
-Albany Cultivator: “ Can any one 
contradict the statement that the rapid strides 
and the prosperity that have come within the 
past 30 years to American agriculture, are m 
large part due to the influence of the farm 
press aiding in a rapid dissemination of 
knowledge aod information, making possible 
a weekly interchange of thought aud experi¬ 
ence from Maine to California, aud giving no 
one section the monopoly of any feature that 
would be of value to the many?”, 
-Breeder’s Gazette: “ ‘How lucky some 
men are!’ is the almost envious comment of 
the hap-hazard farmer and stockmau as he 
contemplates the success of bis wide-awake, 
thorough going neighbor.” 
-Rev. B. B Tyler: “I mean to say that 
whenever aud wherever the conditions of suc¬ 
cessful marriage are not complete then mar. 
riage is a failure. Marriage is a failure when 
it is entered into merely as a civil contract. 
There are men who huut for wives as they 
would for cows, and there are women who hunt 
for husbands as they would for carriage horses, 
and when found it is merely a civil contract. 
It is a failure when it is merely a matter of 
convenience or for money or for social 
position. 
-A. B Allen: “No oue can go into politics 
and come out clean, and such beautiful and 
pure things as plants and flowers should 
never be contaminated by political influences.’ 
-N. Y. Herald. “What do American di¬ 
plomatists do anyhow?” 
-N. O. Picayune: “A man with anew 
idea cannot be too careful of it. It may get 
away from him and become original with 
some one else.” 
-Pioneer-Press: “Curses, like chickens, 
come home to roost, but it remained for an 
old, worn-out street car horse iu Peoria to es¬ 
cape from the stable, crawl to the residence of 
the president of the company and die iu his 
back yard.” 
- Farm Journal: “The man who never 
makes love to his wife will find furrows grow- 
iug iu her face that never can be smoothed 
out after she is dead." 
- Idem: “We think Norman J.Colman is the 
best Commissioner of Agriculture we have 
ever had. He is tip-top.” 
- Hoard’s Dairyman: “We do know 
that milk submerged in ice water at 45 de¬ 
grees for 10 hours will part with substantially 
all its cream. Does anybody know that it 
will do the same in au open pan in air at 45 
degrees? Because the whole dairy world 
knows it will not, is the reason why so many 
of those who want best results have discarded 
cold setting ju air, an<j qse the ice water 
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Dr. W. Graeves, Northfield, Minn., says: 
“I have used it incases of nervous prostra¬ 
tion, and also in combination with other rem¬ 
edies in indigestion, it has proved as satisfac¬ 
tory as could be expected.”— Adv. 
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