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THE RS3BAL WEW-VOMER. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Pority and Vitality of Seeds.— Bulletin 
No. 59 of the North Carolina E. S., has an 
article describing some tests made to deter¬ 
mine the value of seeds sold in N. C. Here 
are a few of the conclusions reached by the 
Director of the station. 
“ Except in regard to the larger sorts of 
seeds, such as cotton, corn, peas, etc., the 
seeds of field crops are rarely sold entirely 
free from an admixture of weed seeds. In¬ 
deed, most of the weeds now so troublesome 
in our cultivated fields are European plants, 
which were originally introduced and widely 
disseminated in packages of i moor ted seeds. 
“While the entire exclusion of weed seeds 
from packages of clover, grass and small 
grain seed is not to be expected, the farmer is 
justified in demanding that the real worth of 
the seeds he purchases shall come up to a 
reasonable standard. A number of samples 
of grass and clover seeds recently tested at 
this Station fall so far below such a standard 
as to convey the impression that they have 
been adulterated, with fraudulent intent, by 
the seed growers. 
“The seeds of no two species of plants are 
exactly alike in size and weight; and, since 
manufacturers now supply automatic clean¬ 
ing machinery of very great perfection, 
there can be no excuse for putting upon the 
market such seed, for instance, as a sample of 
Red-top examined, which contained 37.50 per 
cent, of impurities; and of the pure seed only 
53 per cent, were capable of sprouting; or, in 
other words, in the sample there were only 
44.92 per cent, of pure, vital seed. 
“Carelessness on the part of the grower, and 
a desire to furnish cheaper seeds than com¬ 
petitors, have much to do with the marketing 
of such impure and semi-worthless seed. The 
seedsmen are, however, not wholly to blame in 
this matter. 
“So long as farmers and gardeners demand 
cheap seeds, regardless of quality, just so long 
will persons be found to cater to the demand, 
even though they are obliged to debase the 
quality to make up for the low price. Very 
cheap seeds should be always viewed with 
suspicion. They are usually the most ex¬ 
pensive things that the farmer can buy.” 
It is stated in the bulletin that the following 
standard of purity and vitality of agricultural 
seeds has been established by the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society of England; English seeds¬ 
men are required to guarantee their seeds in 
accordance with this standard. 
1. “That 95 per cent, by weight of the seeds 
shall be true seeds of the species claimed.” 
2. “That of the pure seed not less than 90 
per cent, shall be capable of sprouting in the 
case of the clovers, the cereals and Timothy 
grass. Of Foxtail grass not less than 20 per 
cent., and of all other grasses not less than 
70 per cent.” 
Methods of Analysis of Commercial 
Fertilizers, Cattle Foods, etc., etc.— 
Bulletin No. 19 of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture is issued under the above title. It 
contains the report of the meeting of agricul¬ 
tural chemists held last August. 
Peach “Yellows.”— This is to be the sub¬ 
ject of a bulletin now being prepared by the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. It is to 
certain 200 pages with 40 illustrations. All 
horticulturists who want it, should send their 
names to Commissioner Colman at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 
Alabama Experiment Station. —Bulletin 
No. 2 is devoted to the record of some experi¬ 
ments with wheats. A list of the trees of 
Alabama is also given. Why do not some of 
our Southern stations do something about 
classifying varieties of cotton? 
The American Magazine.— This excellent 
magazine is published in this city. It ranks 
with the very best in quality while its price 
is below the others. Those who examine it 
will find an excellent chance to secure a set of 
the complete works of Charles Dickens. 
Poultry Food. —Canned goods have long 
been used in the family, but it is a new thing 
to put up canned meats for poultry. The 
Hollis Dressed Meat and Wool Co. 20 North 
Street,Boston, Mass.,put up a good quality of 
fresh meat, carefully cooked, ground fine, 
seasoned, hermetically sealed in tin cans of 
convenient size. The meat is ground fine and 
can be readily mixed with soft food. It is 
sold at a reasonable price and is likely to have 
a very large sale among the better class of 
poultry raisers. Send for circulars, etc. 
THE POST OFFICE CLUB. 
The parrot has been listening carefully. 
He took it all in. Last night he delivered 
his opinion. 
He mounted the top of the stovepipe. It 
would be too hot for him there but for the fact 
that the thick layer of dust is a poor conduc¬ 
tor of heat. We got the condensed opinion as 
follows: 
“Farmin’ don’t pay!” 
There were several men who were all ready 
to applaud this sentiment, but the minister 
got in ahead of them. 
“Why, my very dear friend,” he said, “you 
are surely misinformed. The power for good 
that lies in agriculture is simply unbounded. 
The farmer feeds the world. Civilization 
dates from the farm. The farmer stands as 
the great balance wheel in public affairs—the 
conservator of morality, sobriety and order.” 
The parrot listened attentively to this elo¬ 
quent outburst. He put his head on one side 
and croaked, 
“Farmin’ don’t pay!” 
“Don’t pay, eh?” said John Cheeseton, 
“That’s where you make a fool of yourself. I 
make it pay. I keep a dairy herd. My wife 
makes the best butter in this country and I 
can sell every pound of it at 30 cents a pound, 
summer and winter. I have paid my mort¬ 
gage and made a good start. I use the best 
cows and the best tools I can get. ’ 
The parrot did not seem to feel insulted at 
all. He merely scratched his beak with his 
claw and croaked, 
“Farmin’ don’t pay!” 
“Of course it don’t pay as you farm ” said 
Jot. Go-ahead. “You sit here and croak and 
mutter over this stove till your muscles all get 
tired. What business ever pays till you get 
out and push it. You are like a man stuck in 
the mud. He stays on the seat and groans. 
He won’t get out till he puts his shoulder to 
the wheel and pushes the wagon out of the old 
rut. “Farmin’ don’t pay?” 
“No,and it never will as you do it. You keep 
on croaking and scratching yourself. You 
can’t scare anybody that has got good sense.” 
And the parrot could only say— 
“ Farmin’ don’t pay!” 
SMALL PICA. 
and giants. 
trom R.OnO OHO people believe that it 
* ’ nays beet to buy Seeds 
of the largest and moet reliable house, and they use 
Ferry’s Seeds 
D. M. FERRY A CO. are 
fey acknowledged to be the 
Seedsmen 
In the world. 
D M. FekbyACo's 
I llustrated Descrip¬ 
tive and Priced 
SEED ANNUAL 
For 1889 
Will be mailed FREE 
to all applicants, and 
„ to last year's customers 
without ordering it. Inmlu. 
Earliest Cauliflower j 
In existence. I should send for it. Address 
D. M. FERRY & CO., Detroit. Mich. 
S EEDS.— 10 pkts Vegetable, 25c, 8 Flower, 10c, « Fine 
lionet; Plant*, 85c. All for 50c. Catalogue ami spicy 
Floral |>nper free. A. C. Anderson, Leigh, Nebraska. 
HOMPSON’S 
CLOVER 
A k™d, I and grass 
for Use. 
SEEDER 
Indispensable 
Sows Clover,for sowing in 
Timothy, FJl\i windy weather. 
Red Top, and all kinds of \j \ ISendfor circular 
Grass Seeds, any quantity to'Or - 
the acre, as evenly and accurately as the Best grain 
drill. Sows ao to 40 acres a day. Manufactured by 
O. E. THOMPSON, YPSILANTI, MICH. 
JERRARDS 
SEED POTATO 
CATALOGUE 
Seeds “Pl'fromt^eBol^ 
names Social Iamb Freights and describe 
MI (lister a new potato of finest quality 
two weeks earlier than any other. 
It tells how to Raise Potatoes and 
a Carden. Sent Free. Address. 
GEORGEW. P. JERRARD, CARIBO U, MAINE, 
O UR parrot has been putting in double 
time of late. The end of the year is 
always the time for settling matters. It is 
like a traveler on a strange journey pausing 
to get his bearings. Life is a journey. We 
are all moving on. Some are pushing bravely 
ahead, lending their best energies to the task 
of working out some settled purpose. Others 
are simply drifting with the tide. Some of 
the folks in our neighborhood seem to have 
fallen behind the tide a little, but still they 
move. The seasons change us. Each one 
brings something and takes something away. 
The record is never left even. About New 
Year’s time we hear it all. 
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Sample Styles of Hidden Name and 
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roKinmmkr. HOMJS AND VOITU. CADIZ. OHIO, 
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Speakers, Dialogues,Gymnastics Fortune Tellers, 
Dream Books, Debates, Letter Writers, Etiquette, 
etc. Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann St., New York. 
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really a book of 140 pages, size 9 x 11 
inches, contains three colored plates, and 
illustrations of all that is new, useful and 
rare in Vegetables, Flowers, 
Fruits and Flants, with plain direc¬ 
tions “How to grow them,” by 
This manual we mail to any address on 
receipt of 25 cents (in stamps). To all so 
remitting 25 cents for the manual, we will 
at the same time send free by mail, in addition, 
their choice of any one of the following 
Splendid Novelties, most of which 
are now offered for the first time, and the 
price of either of which is 25 cts.: 
One packet of .1 utnmnKiug Cabbage, or one 
pkt. of YosemiteMammoth Wax Bean,or one 
pkt. Delmonico Mask Melon, or one pkt. 
, or one pkt. Scarlet Triumph Aster (see illustration), or one pkt. Sunflower, 
Gold,” or one plant of the climber Blue Bairn Flower, or one plant of the 
White Mixmflower or one Bermuda Easter Lily — 011 the distinct understanding, however, 
that those ordering will state in what paper they saw this advertisement. 
PETER HENDERSON & GO. 
35 CortlandtSt., 
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loO-O 
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of the following NEW AND IMPROVED SEEDS, aud one medium* 
aized tuber of HOLEY’S GREAT NORTHERN SPY PO¬ 
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VVIlHon’* Early Riood Turnip Beet, earliest and best. Batt- 
tiun'rt Half-Loin; Winter Boot, best variety. WU*on’* Bent 
of All Pole Roans, good for snap-shorts in winter. WlNon’* 
Beat of All Bunch Bean*, rich, tender, and buttery. Early 
Advance Cabbajec. best and earliest. VYUhoii’h Premium 
Flat Dutch Cabbage, best late variety. Early Green 
CluKter Cucumber, best for table use. WIIaoiTh Long 
Green Cucumber, best for pickles. New Cory Sugar 
Corn, the earliest in the world. YVHhoii'# Large Ever¬ 
green Sugar Corn, sweet and delicious. California or 
Golden Pop Corn, best variety. New Self-Blanching 
Celery, extra quality, needs no banking up. Wilson’s 
Extra Early Lettuce, heading sort. Jordan's Cray 
Monarch Watermelon, very large, sweet, and sugary. 
Miller's Cream Nutmeg Melon, best flavored in cul¬ 
tivation. Improved Round Yellow Danvers Onion. 
NEW SPANISH KING ONION, 3-pound onions from 
seed first rear. Abbot's Improved Sugar Parsnip. 
Ruby' King Pepper, finest, largest, sweetest pepper.ever 
seen. JUMBO, of CALIFORNIA, the largest pumpkin 
in the world; has weighed 400 lbs. Early Rosy Gem 
Radish, best and earliest. New Chartier Radish, best 
summer variety. White Pineapple Squash, good for pies, 
keeps all winter. Early Summer Butter Squash. Tur¬ 
ner’s Hybrid Tomato, best and finest ever introduced. 
NEW ZEALAND FIG TOMATO, excellent for preserv¬ 
ing: cured and dried, equal.to the best fig*. Munich Strap- 
Leaf Turnip, tender, sweet. Golden Globe Ruta Buga* 
best for table use. VEGETABLE PEACH, easily grown from 
seed first year; make* pies or preserves equal to the best peaches. 
Sample packet of Wilson’s True Learning Corn, the earliest 
and best field corn in cultivation. New Mammoth Zinnia, double 
as a Dahlia, bright as a rose. Washlntrton Asters, very large all 
bright, beautiful colors. Giant German Pansies, best mixed, in all 
O FULLSIZED PACKETS, with DIRECTIONS FOR iS*4 AA 
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