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all, or about; all, raised in Europe, and it is 
difficult to get seed of the “ New Queen ” that 
will vegetate much over 50 per cent., while 
those of some of the mammoth varieties are 
apt to fail in making well-formed, hard bulbs. 
It is better, as a lule, he says, to raise them 
from sets. In his experiment grounds, last 
season,where 4(5 varieties of onions were grown 
side by side, the great superiority of American 
varieties raised from home grown seed was 
strikingly apparent. 
Forty varieties of sorghum were grown 
at the Kansas Experiment Station. Those 
called Late Orauge, New Orange, South Car¬ 
olina Orange and Early Orange gave the 
highest per cent, of sugar. 
The noted Russian writer Count Tolstoi, 
in his Sociology, as reviewed by the Christian 
Union, comes to the conclusion that for the 
evils of poverty the rich are responsible. 
They are responsible because they are evading 
God’s law; “In the sweat of thy face shalt 
thou eat bread.” The idle rich man violates 
this law, and makes other meu provide bread 
for him. This is a curse to him, because it 
brings him and his children up in idleness; it 
is a curse to the poor, because it throws on 
them a double burden. 
The Count says that the Russian preachers 
pretend to instruct in religion; but, in fact, 
they are wholly separated from the working 
classes, do not know their life, do not mingle 
with them, do not instruct them The sci 
en’ifie men are laboring with their intellects; 
but their labor is of small or no profit to the 
men who are battling with nature, and pro¬ 
ducing corn for lazy men |to eat and wool tor 
them to wear, and houses in which they may 
live.... 
Count Tolstoi’s remedy for all this is 
very simple. He would have us all become 
band laborers. He would abolish the newly 
discovered and overpraised “division of labor;” 
he would have brain and brawn unite in the 
same worker. As the result, he would sim¬ 
plify life; return to natural conditions; scat¬ 
ter the denizens of the town in the country. 
Above all, he would have all brain workers 
recognize the fact that there is no possible 
way of serving society by mental labor with¬ 
out self-sacrifice. 
The Editor of the 'Western Rural calls the 
attention of young readers upon the farm to 
the peace and safety they enjoy in what 
may sometimes seem to them a monotonous 
life. They are surrounded by no such temp¬ 
tations as abound in the city. They are liv¬ 
ing within their means and their conscience is 
clear. It is every one’s duty to live within 
his income, and it is easier to do it on the 
farm than it is amidst the excitement and 
temptations of the city. 
Our respected London contemporary, the 
Live Stock Journal, does not believe that ttie 
“ constitution,” so to speak, of carefully bred, 
and suitably reared, domesticated animals is 
below that of their relatives in a condition of 
freedom. It no more believes the common¬ 
place on this head, i e., about the unsound con¬ 
dition of our herds and flocks, than it does the 
conventional assurance of pedigree “Short¬ 
horn cows which cannot give milk enough to 
rear their own calves”. 
Where it is found (and in some cases it is 
found) that animals reared in a wild state 
survive hardships of winter or summer 
drought—when similar animals of domesti¬ 
cated origin succumb—the survival of the 
former is not realty due to greater constitu¬ 
tional strength, but to intelligence more high¬ 
ly developed in certain directions. The bison 
survived the blizzard, while the ranch-cattle 
perished, not because it endured more cold 
or more privation, but because the bison re¬ 
tained certaiu traditional instincts—how to 
behave while the storm was raging, aud how 
to seek food during the intervals . 
This inherited faculty the ranch-cattle 
never had; and this is what there is no means 
of communicating to them, the Live Stock 
Journal goes on to say. It is quite possible 
that an infusion of bison-blood might make 
the cattle in the Far West more clever at 
taking care of themselves in winter; but it is 
not in the least likely that a dash of wild 
blood (from any source), would make cattle 
and sheep more hardy for the purpose of 
meeting the difficulties of farm life . 
Wealth, ancestry and braius are seldom 
combined in one person . 
Dr Ward, a distinguished New Jersey 
fruit-grower,finds that the Minuowaski black 
berry ripens witfi him as early as the Wilson. 
The plant is hardy aud prolific, fruit large 
aud sweet. Mr. J. H. Hale, the well kuowu 
Connecticut fruit-grower, suggests, in the 
Hartfort Couraut, that this" blackberry being 
hardy in JNew Eugland, is likely to prove to 
be the early sort for which they have been so 
long looking. 
The Agricultural Gazette of London 
ii authorized to state that Her Majesty, the 
Queen, has been pleased, as president of the 
Royal Agricultural Society, to express her 
intention of bestowing champion gold medals 
for the best stallions and the best mares ex¬ 
hibited in the horse classes, and for the best 
animals of each of the 15 breeds of cattle for 
which prizes will be offered at the Society's 
Jubilee exhibition to be held in Windsor 
Great Park next June In addition to the 
above, a gold medal will be given bv Her 
Majesty to the first-prize winner in the cham¬ 
pion butter-making competition to be held in 
the show-yard. These medals will raise tbe 
total value of the prizes offered in connection 
with this meeting to £12,000, or about §00,000. 
A Writer in the above journal, speaking 
of “chi led” p'ows, points out that notwith¬ 
standing the unblushing assertion of a cer¬ 
tain A me lean manufac Hirer, (the name is not 
given) instead of the invention having cross¬ 
ed the Atlantic from west to east, the passage 
was in the opposite direction .. 
W. Atlee Burpee speaks very highly of 
the Red-caps. From four years’ exper ence 
he recommends them as bo' h excellent, large 
and splendid table fowls. This breed has 
just been admitted to the Standard. 
Prof. Cooke (Vermont) believes that a 
dairyman should not be satisfied witn any¬ 
thing less than 200 pounds of butter per cow 
jier year, aud that even that is too small. 
Don't have your standard at less than 20". 
In Vermont there are many dairies contain¬ 
ing over 20 cows each that produce 300pounds 
each per cow per year. If every dairyman 
in New Hampshire would weigh the milk of 
every cow he owns, both milkings, for a year, 
it would be found that one-third of the cows 
in the State were not worth keeping. 
W. D. Baker who, according to the Mirror 
and Farmer, received the first prize for but¬ 
ter fi om the N. H. Dairymen’s Association, 
says that he believes in a cross of pure-blood 
Jersey and Holstein. The result will be rich 
milk and a good deal of it aud aa animal bet- 
t-r adapted for the farms of New Hampshire 
than either of the pure-bloods. 
The Farmers’ Review says that the 
weighing system of live stock freight was put 
in operation January 3, by Kansas City r 'ads. 
The rate to Chicago has been fixed at 27^ 
cents, and to St. Louis at 18% cents. Three 
sizes of cars have been recognized aud a min¬ 
imum weight fixed for each. For the small 
cal's the smallest amouut that can be shipped 
is 20,000 pounds; for the medium nothing less 
than 21,500 pounds, and for the care 33 feet or 
more in length the minimum weight is fixed 
at 23,000 pounds. The Western roads have 
not yei fully fixed their rates, but will have 
the tariff prepared so as to fo'low the action 
of the other lines within a few days . 
Landreth & Sons record their pro¬ 
test against the name “ Irish” potatoes, the 
plant be ng a native American found growing 
wild from Arizona to Chili. 
Dairy Wisdom From an Institute.— At 
one of the New York institutes it was said that 
silage or roots as aids to digestion were nec¬ 
essary to obtain the cheapest effective ration. 
The ration of Mary Anne of St. Lambert 
in ber gr- at butter test was given as 25 pounds 
of oat-, six of oil-meal. IT o pea-meal and two 
of bran. Fats in food all have to change in 
the animal to butter fats, etc. Many experi¬ 
ments were stated to have showm that the feed 
increased and decreased the yield of butter, 
according to the quality of the food. 
It takes 3% acres to keep a cow in New 
York State, aud she gives 125 pounds of but¬ 
ter, on au average. With the silo one acre will 
keep a cow. One silo man now keeps 100 cows 
on the same ground on which he formly kept 
25. The old way must go. Stowell’s Ever¬ 
green Corn is best for silage. Cover with 
tarred paper, with little or no weighting. 
Silage if fed exclusively to milch cows will 
affect the milk. So will any other suhsiauce. 
The cow giving most solids in her milk, aud 
not the largest quantity, is the best. 
Hair and horn are made up of the same 
elements as milk, and the large t flow of milk 
is when the growth of hair is least. Breeds 
with large horns are small milkers, while 
small horns and fine hair are familiar chat ac- 
teristics of the noted butter breeds. Dehorn¬ 
ing changes the disposition from cross or ner¬ 
vous to genriene-s and qui tness. The only 
function ot the horn is as a weapon of defence. 
grand scheme of a circulation of hundreds 
of thousands 
—LondonLive-Stock Journal: “It seems 
astonishing that well-bred British ponies do 
not command the attention of foreign buyers 
which they really ought to do. Some of the 
ladies of London society are the wives of 
wealthy Americans, and we all know that to 
have a beautiful matched pair of British ponies 
has always been the desire of society ladies in 
London.” 
- Garden and Forest: “The Revue Horti- 
cole reco r ds t he fact that a nectarine tree at 
Montrouge, near Paris, bore the past season a 
crop of peaches, but no nectarine 0 . This is 
not the first time that this has been observed, 
and it is not unusual to find an occasional 
peach among nectarines, a fact which seems 
to point pretty clearly to the varietal origin 
of this fruiL” 
—Vermont Chronicle: “Nothing but his 
ruin, which is sure, will stop the career of a 
fast-horse fanatic.” 
—N. Y. Tribune: “The sad fact is noted 
that while the cyclone often clears a man’s 
land of house and barn, it has never been 
known to blow off the mortgage.” 
—A. W. Cheever: “The crying need of the 
Western fanner is more stock to consume his 
was’e fodder. Beef raising pays something, but 
dairying, well managed, pays much better.” 
—London Agricultural Gazette: “We 
can assure our readers that there is no more 
useful reading than honest narratives of suc¬ 
cesses won, uoless it be equally honest descrip¬ 
tions of good intentions, which, for some 
cause or other have ended in at least tempo - 
rary or apparent failure. There is an almost 
insatiable aDpetite for facts about farming.” 
—Farmers’ Review: “There are dairy¬ 
men who are now getting 40 cents per pound 
for butter and have plenty to sell; there are 
others who are getting but 20 cents and have 
very little to sell. The former have butter 
cows, fed with butter-making feed, the milk 
is set in deep cans in cold water, the cream rip- 
eped properly, tested with a thermometer 
before it is put into a revolving, dashless 
churn, the churn stopped when the butter 
granules are the size of No. 8 shot, thebutter- 
milk drawn off and the butter washed aud 
salted with brine, lightly worked, and ex¬ 
changed for greenbacks at the rate of 2% 
pounds of butter for a dollar greenback.” 
-“You will agree that it doesn’t pay to 
handle a heavy hoe in the corn-field merely' 
because it will be strong enough to grub with 
and has enough metal in it to sell for a few 
cents when worn out. But when you want to 
buy a butter cow you pursue a different course 
of reasoning; you hunt all over the country 
until you find a big, beefy animal, and you 
actually' examine her beef points the first 
thing. If the beef points are all right you 
will buy her sure, as you, in your wisdom, 
look forward six or eight years to tbe day 
when you will sell her for old cow beef. Aud 
you carry the beef idea clear through your 
dairying, in your feed, in your treatment, in 
scant preparations for butter-making and in 
your rest during tbe winter. ’Howdolknow 
aH this?' By the 20 cents you get for your pound 
of butter; by your saying that dairying doesn’t 
pay; by your frantic efforts to raise a three- 
year-old steer, and then sell him for less than 
the cost, and by the fact that you are eternally 
sneeriug at ‘fancy stock' and ‘fancy farmers’ ” 
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