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THE RURAL WEW-Y0MER. 
age was of excellent quality. The partition 
is useless and a nuisance. The best silage 
has no unpleasant odor. Silage has not 
proved a good f^od for pigs . 
Horns and Milk. —Prof. Law, of Cornell, 
says, in the Weekly Press, that the growth of 
the horns coincides with an abundance of 
rich blood, thus making the same requisites 
for growth of horn and for flow of milk. 
But it is folly to say that the removal of 
horns will stop the forming of an abundance 
of rich milk. When the horn is not required 
to be nourished there should be more blood 
for the secretion of milk. The horn itself 
contains no nerves and cannot exert a refl x 
influence. Horn is made of gelatine, the 
same substance making hair and a part of 
the bones and sinews. Large bones and sinews 
are certainly not required for good dairy 
cattle. Nor is long hair a requisite of a good 
cow. In autumn aod winter is the greatest 
growth of hair, but the greatest flow of milk is 
in the spring . 
A Paper called the Agricultural Epitomist, 
published at Indianapolis., Ind. byJ. A. Ever¬ 
ett & Co., prints the following: 
“Some paid-for (at 20 cents a line) New 
York dailies say of'the Rural New-Yorker: 
‘It has done more to promote the interests of 
agriculture in its experiment grounds than 
all the experiment stations put together.’ 
We do not begin to believe any such stuff.’' 
The same paper also publishes the following: 
“ Carman, of the Rural New Yorker, to 
use a Western expression, is a ‘ slick’ citizen, 
when it comes to a potato contest. The turn¬ 
ing point in the same seems to be to ‘ blow 
the horn’ of his No. 2 potato.”. 
In introducing the novelties originating at 
the Rural Grounds, whether they be potatoes, 
cross bred wheats, hybrids between rye and 
wheat, hybrid roses, blackberry hybrids, or 
anything else, the R. N.-Y. looks for com¬ 
pensation in but one way, viz., an apprecia¬ 
tion ou the part of the people of its earnest 
endeavors to promote the interests of agricul¬ 
ture and horticulture. 
The Rural lias shown that J. A. Everett & 
Co., advertised and sold the Armstrong or 
Landreth wheat as “ Martin’s Amber;” that 
they advertised and sold Russian White Oats 
under the name of “ Yankee Prolific,” and 
that during the past year they have falsely 
assumed to be the head quarters for the new 
and promising variety of wheat called “Gold¬ 
en Cross.” Possibly iu this fact may be 
found the animus which prompted the false¬ 
hoods above quoted. 
In renewing your subscriptions, readers of 
the R. N.-Y., add a line or so telling us 
wherein you conspicuously failed or were 
successful last year; if you have any new 
ideas, tell us what they are; if you would 
have the R. N.-Y. talk less or more upon any 
subject, let us know about it. So shall we help 
one another. 
An engraving in a late bulletin N. C. Ex¬ 
periment Station., gives illustrations from 
nature of Lucerne or Alfalfa plants. The re¬ 
port says that most of the root system was 
within 10 inches of the surface. The plot was 
two years old. The crop was cut three times 
last season, and on Dec. l,was in good shape to 
give a cutting on March 1. The soil is a com¬ 
pact, red clay. It was so hard that a spade 
could make no impression on the ground, and 
a mattock had to be used to loosen tho soil, 
even on the surface. Under the most favor¬ 
able circumstances a well established Lucerne 
meadow will yield 15 to 20 tons of green fod¬ 
der, equal to four or five tons of dry hay, 
per acre. Under such circumstances the dura¬ 
tion of the meadow is indefinite, but under 
favorable conditions it will yield well for 10 
or 15 years. 
There seems to be an irreconcilable differ¬ 
ence between farmers as to the best way of 
sowing Lucerne seed. Some declare for drills 
14 to 18 inches apart; others are as strougly in 
favor of broadcast seeding. Upon one point, 
however, all authorities agree, namely, the 
absolute necessity of having the seed-bed 
finely pulverized and iu good heart. For 
those who cau afford to weed the crop three 
or four times during the growing season, the 
safest plan is to sow iu drills 14 iuches apart 
and cultivate with a hoe, The plauts should 
be allowed to ripen seed in the fall and the 
spaces between the drills should be seeded 
down. Lucerne does not sucker from the roots, 
and hence can be increased ouly from seed. 
If seed is sown iu drills; use 15 pounds to 18 
pounds per acre; if broadcast, use 25 pounds 
to 30 pouuds—the larger amount ou the poor¬ 
er laud. 
The North Carolina report says that Lu¬ 
cerne seed will not sprout if covered deeper 
than a quarter of an inch. The R. N.-Y. 
thinks this must be a mistake. The seed of 
the Rural plot of a quarter-acre was drilled 
in at least lmlf-an-iuch and the stand was very 
gootl The greatest care should be exercised 
in selecting seed. The vitality of Lucerne 
seed is so low that seed over one year old is 
scarcely worth sowing. 
In sending lists of trees, whether fruit or 
ornamental, to nurserymen, specify that you 
want small, young trees. Remember what 
such men as Robert Douglas, Pres. Lyon and 
Prof. Budd, have said on this important sub¬ 
ject. As a rule, if you plant a spruce that is 
only a foot high, in 10 years you will have a 
finer, more symmetrical tree than if you 
had planted a spruce four feet or more high. 
The same principle is good for fruit trees.... 
Prof. J. L. Budd agrees with Pres. Lyon 
that the planter of one-year-old pear trees 
will, when they are at the usual age of bear¬ 
ing, have a healthier, more productive and 
profitable plantation than if he planted older 
trees. Beyond all shadow of doubt this is 
true, as it is almost impossible to secure de¬ 
cent roots ou two or three-year-old pear trees 
if worked on pear stocks. Prof. Budd says, 
in the Farmers’ Review, that he wishes also 
to extend this idea and include the cherry and 
plum. His experience during the past 25 
years favors the idea that, with the fair cul¬ 
ture the orchard fruits need during the 
first stages of growth, a larger proportion of 
the one-year-old cherry or plum trees will live 
and make thrifty growth the first season, and 
that at the end of three years they will make 
larger, handsomer and healthier trees than 
will two or three-year olds set at the same time. 
Prof Budd further states that he has 
found the cherry quite as easy to graft as the 
apple. The main requisite in top-working is 
really to have the cell structure of stock and 
cion in the same condition. 
Ou this same principle we can graft the 
cherry when the buds have started in the 
spring if we cut the cions as needed from 
trees about equally started. 
To illustrate: He was obliged to take up 
some valuable cherry trees of bearing size 
last spring in the college grounds (Ames, 
Iowa). Not wishing to lose the varieties, he 
cut off every cion when the buds bad begun 
to elongate and show the green point of the 
embryo leaves. He had some seedlings about 
equally started upon which they were at 
once grafted, and at the close of the season it 
was hard to find a vacancy in the two nursery 
rows in which they were planted, but they 
did not make as good growth as those grafted 
early in the winter and kept in a cold cellar. 
In speaking of the present system of edu¬ 
cation—now happily passing away for a bet¬ 
ter one—the Popular Science Monthly says 
that we want one man to be always tbinkiug 
and the other to be always working; and we 
call one a gentleman and the other an opera¬ 
tive; whereas, the workingman ought often 
to be thinking, and the thinker often to be 
working, and both to be gentlemen in the 
best sense. As it is, we make both ungentle, 
the one envying, the other despising the 
other; and the mass of society is made up of 
morbid, unhealthy thinkers and miserable 
workers. It is only by labor that thought 
can be made happy. The professions should 
be more liberal, and there should be less 
pride felt in peculiarity of employment, and 
more in the excellence of achievement. 
DIRECT. 
-N. Y. Herald: “Canada has a public 
debt of over two hundred millions. 
“ If Uncle Sam marries this maiden it will 
surely be for love, not for money. 
“ Afterthought—If Miss Canada should say 
“ ‘Yes!’ when UdcIc Sam ‘ pops,’ would she be 
influenced by bis strong box? 
“ Well, let that pass. She might promise 
to be a ‘sister’ to him, and for the present we 
ought to be satisfied." 
-Orange County Farmer: “At auy rate, 
we do not want Forrest E. Morelaud or Dr. 
Loring for Commissioner of Agriculture. To 
appoint either would be to slap every reput¬ 
able farmer in the country, full in the face.” 
-D. B. Weir, in Orchard and Garden: 
“The late Arthur Byraut found the pecan 
growing wild iu the valley of the Illinois, t>0 
miles above Peoria. At my old home, Lacon, 
Illinois, 30 miles north of Peoria, there were 
great trees of it, some over three feet through, 
and 80 feet high, that gave abundaut and 
regular crops of nuts. These nuts, from 
some trees, were larger than auy 1 ever saw 
from the South and were fine in quality,” 
-“ Mr. Peek, of Georgia, thinks that 
nursery grown pecan trees, two or three years 
old, are of a very suitable size for planting 
in groves, and if properly formed, can be 
transplanted about es successfully as any 
fruit tree of the same age.” 
-Husbandman: “Dr. Collier a man of 
brains, and of truth as well, said, years ago, 
that sugar could lie produced at a cost of a 
cent a pound and he was derided as a lunatic; 
but the foremost scientists of the age, iu.the 
light of practical results, say, now, that the 
cost need not exceed three-fourths of a cent a 
pound and the work is growing n practical 
reality.” 
-Prof. Henry: “Uncut corn-stalks make 
silage of the finest quality, but the labor of 
getting them out of the silo is too great. For 
a silo 1(5 feet deep, studs 2x9 inches should be 
used, and these should be bridged a few feet 
from the ground to prevent springing.” 
-Gov. Hoard, before the Dairymen’s As¬ 
sociation of Ontario: “ Our people are clam¬ 
oring, ‘ Why don’t you give us some cheese 
we can eat?’ I don’t think there is a set of 
people on God’s green earth who are so stupid 
as cheesemen. Now you have got it square 
in the teeth. I never saw a set of men that 
when a man asked for bread would give him a 
stone, and then damn him because he didn’t 
like stones, as cheesemen do with respect to 
this question of home demand,” 
- J. J. H. Gregory, in Farm and Home: 
“When we have a lot of cabbages that do 
not form hard heads, or immature cabbages 
that have just begun to turn the leaves in 
roundly, we plow a furrow seven inches deep 
and jam the roots ot the cabbages downward 
as close as they will stand, firming the earth 
about the roots and throwing what is dug out 
of the trench and more over the cabbages, 
piling it directly upon them to the depth of 
one foot. It doesn’t seem possible, but it is 
true that cabbages treated in this way will to 
a large per cent, head up finely and be fit for 
market inthespring. The good thing aboutthis 
process of winter growing is that this cheap 
class of vegetables that hardly pays for har¬ 
vesting in the fall, shows round profits when 
dug out of its burrow in the spring when cab¬ 
bage is high.” 
- Rural Canadian. “ The cherry is about 
the only fruit tree which can be recommended 
for shade in pastures along road sides, as the 
hardy varieties of cherries are not affected by 
the trampling of stock or passing of vehicles, 
which would prove injurious to most other 
fruit trees.” 
——S. S. Times. “Conservatism is all very 
well—when it is well ; but there are times 
when the truest conservatism is in smashing 
things. If you want to save the meat of an 
egg. you must break the shell. There is no 
getting at the kernel without crack ng the 
nut.” 
-N. E. Farmer “ A sheepman claimed 
to have an offer of 8500 for a ram, which in 
two years from the time he was glad to sell 
for 850. Another sheepman claimed to sell a 
ram for 81,500, and the check came for that 
amount, but part of the money was paid back 
on the sly. Money is sometimes hired for 
only a day or two, and for the purpose of de¬ 
ceiving some one by showing it. The follow¬ 
ing is a case in point: A young man hired 
8100 Saturday night to be paid Monday 
morning, for which he paid a good bonus, to 
show to bis girl on Sunday night as his own. 
Girls should be smart enough when a man 
shows them money to find out whose it is.” 
-Western Rural: “Weld & Co., nur¬ 
serymen of Lyudouville, N. Y., is a firm 
without means and without honor. It does 
not pay its bills and they cannot be collected.” 
-Prof. Lazenby in Ohio Farmer. “When 
will farmers and others learn that life is not 
for work, but that work is for life ? If our 
work adds nothing to the completeness of our 
lives, if it makes us no braver or better, if it 
contributes nothing to our well-being and 
happiness, surely such labor is in vain.” 
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If you want the best Garden you 
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Maule’S Seeds. 
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proves it, for I now have customers 
at more than 31,000 post-offices. 
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at any price. Over one-quarter of a 
million copies of my new Catalogue 
for 1889 have been mailed already. 
It is pronounced the most original 
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contains among other things, cash 
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$10 per 1,000. Fine Meeche’s Quince and Apple trees In 
abundance. West J krsey Nursery Co.,Bridgeton.N.J. 
Our sales in ISSS 
I double those of 1887. 
, Why? Because we 
? sell only the Best.&l 
Reasonable Prices. 
SEED POT AT OES .large stock, qreat variety. 
w Small Fruit Plants and Trees. Catalogue Free. 
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Vegetable, Farm, 
Flower Seeds, 
Besides alt the desirable novelties of last season, and 
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37 East 19th Street, New York City. 
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TREES 
ROOT GRAFTS -Everything ! No larger 
stock iu U. 8 No better, no cheaper. 
FikeCo. Nurseries. Louisiana. Mo. 
I roo If only a>'2 per 1 ,uo. Crescent .81 ; all varieties; 
uLoolk prices free. Slaymaker & Son, Dover, Del. 
Stayman’s No. 1 Strawberry. 
Large aud Fine, produced at the rate or 30,- 
OOO Quarts per acre. Price $£ per dozen; 
810 per IOO- 
.1 E W E L l he earliest ami best black grape known. 
Equal lo the Delaware in quality. Price, 81.50 
each. Send for testimonials. 
STAYMAN & BLACK, 
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. 
Beautiful Strawberries • the first time and only by 
us, the beautiful Eureka, and a strawberry that 
yielded at the rate of l\t7 Bushels to the acre at 
one picking the past summer—Mi other varieties; SO 
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Raspberry, the earliest of all: Palmer Rash, the most 
produetiveearly Black: Thompson’s Korly Mam¬ 
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paper we will send you Catalogue free, telling about 
these beautiful berries & others Everybody wants it 
CLEVELAND NURSERY, 
Lakewood, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio 
