4889 
427 
will be revered after be is gone, and if there is 
any trust in the belief that the good-will of 
those left on earth will benefit those who have 
gone, his path through eternity will be madeas 
smooth as good wishes and friendship can make 
jb and his act go far to atone for wrong¬ 
doings. 
The Garden, through Mr. William Fal¬ 
coner, gives a very interesting practical note 
respectin g relery. Mr. Grant, of Mamnroueck, 
grows celery in the good old English way, 
two rows to the ridge. Late in the fall he 
banks them up high, and on the tops of the 
ridges lays a ^-shaped hoard can to throw off 
rain and snow water, and over all a th’ck 
mulching of salt hay. In digging out celery 
he brings in a month’s supply at a time and 
stores in a frost-proof shed. Celery kept in 
the ridges in this way is never apt to damp or 
rot off in winter, as is often the case with 
celery that has been lifted and stored in 
trenches. But, then, while we can get along 
very well with this method in a moderate 
way, it would be impracticable on a large 
scale. Mr. Grant is emphatic in praise of 
Major Clark’s pink celery, and declar. s that 
it surpasses in quality any other variety he 
grows. Mr. Falconer, too, hears testimony 
to its excellence, for he has grown it for years; 
indeed excellence of quality is pecular to all 
our red varieties of celery. But many people 
object to the pink tinge in the leaf celery 
on the table, and to the dark color of pink celery 
when it is cooked. Appearance goes a long 
way in vegetables, as well as in fruit: in¬ 
deed, the tiuest-appeanug of all celeries—the 
self-blanching ones—are, Mr. F.thinks, the 
poorest in quality. 
It is not unlikely that there will be a good 
European market for American wheat in July 
and August if not earlier. 
Prof. A. J. Cook believes when we take 
expense and all into consideration, buckwheat 
will pay a better profit than will wheat. But, 
aside from this direct profit, buckwheat has 
an iudirect value. It is an excellent honey 
plant,and thus its pi oduction adds to the pro¬ 
fits of the bee-keeper, and just so much to the 
wealth of the country. 
Japanese buckwheat is just now at¬ 
tracting much attention, aud many are 
inquiring as to its value. The past season 
Prof Cook tried it, and recommends it very 
heartily. He has stated in the R. N. -Y. and 
also to the same effect in the Albany Cultiva 
tor.that the berry is very large, and the plant is 
astonishingly productive. All who have ex. 
amined the plant say that they have never seen 
anything to compare with it. 
To add to the value of his experiment he 
sowed one half of his field the first of June 
and the balance the first of July. Thus he 
prolonged the season of bloom, greatly to 
the advantage of the bees. He could see no 
difference in the productiveness of these two 
pieces. The early sown filled as well as that 
sown late He also noticed that the bees 
not only worked on it continuously, but all the 
day from morning until night It is a well 
known fact that bees do not usually work on 
common buckwheat after noon. Whether 
this peculiarity was ow'ingto the variety or to 
the season, he does not know. He has tested the 
Japau buckwheat for griddle-cakes, and pro¬ 
nounces it supero. 
A Plan of blackberry growing which Mat¬ 
thew Crawford says, in the Michigan Farmer, 
is very extensively practiced in the West, is to 
give the new plantation cleau culture the 
first year, and seed to clover the second spring. 
This makes its growth before the berries are 
formed, and it draws lightly on the soil in the 
summer when the perries need all the mois¬ 
ture. It prevents a late growth of the canes 
and causes them to ripen thoroughly. The 
fruit is always clean and there is no growth 
of weeds. Mr. Crawford thinks that with 
pretty close pruning this method might work 
well anywhere. 
The American Garden lias the following: 
“The Coming Potato —The Rural No. 2 
potato, which yielded at the rate of over 1,000 
bushels in the famous “ Rural Potato Con¬ 
test ” of last season, deserves a thorough trial 
by every potato grower. The phenomenal 
yield in itself, on the very rich soil of the test 
plot, may not be conclusive evidence of its 
phenomenal prolificacy, and the variety may 
not rise more prominently among our general- 
purpose varieties than did the Green Moun¬ 
tain, which a few years ago on the same plot 
yielded at the rate of more than 1,300 bushels 
per acre. But we have really made so little 
progress for several years in the improvement 
of potatoes, at least so far as vaiietiesof the 
general adaptability of the Early Rose, Bur¬ 
bank, Whito Elephant aud White Star are 
concerned, that every grower should be on 
the lookout for the “coming potato,” may 
this be Rural No. 2, Monroe Seedling, Crown 
Jewel or any other not yet named. By the 
THE RURAL HIW-Y0RMER, 
way, is the Bural No. 2 potato going to carry 
that euphonious name all through its life? 
Why not call it Contest or Carman? No. 2 is 
too suggestive of second-grade, when we 
want A. No. 1.” 
The R. N.-Y. No. 1 was sold to a seeds¬ 
man several years before the No. 2 was sold. 
But the next season it developed faults and, 
with the seedman’s consent, was given up. It 
was very early. The No. 2 was so named as 
being an intermediate. No. 3 not yet intro¬ 
duced, is later and No. 4 is late. It is a nota¬ 
ble fact that the Nos. 2, 3 aud 4 are all from 
the same seed ball. No. 2 is the shapeliest, 
but Nos. 3 and 4 were, two years ago, the larg¬ 
est yielders, in our rich soil plot, we have ever 
seen. Last year they faded on account of the 
injury inflicted upon the vines by the flea- 
beetle. The R. N.-Y. has determined, though 
well knowing the objections thereto, to intro¬ 
duce not only its potatoes, but its wheats 
under number-names. 
A Recent decision of the New York City 
Court is to the effect that no recovery 
can be had even by a bona-fide holder, upon 
a note, check or draft which has been fraudu¬ 
lently altered by increasing the amount. 
Not only is this frequently done in notes given 
by farmers to various kinds of sharpers; but 
often the whole body of the note is fil'ed in. 
Such notes, it seems, should never be paid 
without recourse to the courts . 
“ What has become of the 4 blue’ gladiolus 
that was said to be in possession of Monsieur 
Lemoine, at Nancy, France, some time ago? 
Are we to have the real 4 blues’ in gladioli and 
roses or not?” asks the editor of the American 
Garden. Several blue gladioli have been 
originated during the past 10 years. But the 
corms do not propagate and dwindle away 
and die.. 
All things considered, we should choose 
Moore’s Early for the earliest black grape.... 
Mr. Paddock, in Hoard’s Dairyman, says 
that when he has sufficient cream gathered 
for churning, he heats it to nearly blood heat, 
stirring it occasionally while heating, so as to 
mix it thoroughly; then he sets it away to 
cool and lets it stand until the next day; then 
he warms it to about (55 degrees and chut ns. 
As soon as the butter begins to show like 
grains of sand he cools It at once, by putting 
a little cold water in it. For several years his 
wife has followed this plan, and the butter 
generally comes in pieces the size of a small 
pea in about ten minutes, seldom 15. He 
fiuds the butter much better than when he 
churned 30 minutes or more. 
John Boyd says that refrigeration prevents 
the formation of acidity in the cream, especial¬ 
ly if submerged; while stirring merely in¬ 
terrupts and retards, but does not prevent 
acidity. In fact the bad effects of stirring 
are so apparent that it astonishes him to hear 
men advocate the practice who claim to be 
not only practical, observant workers, but who 
lay claims to be in the first rank. It makes 
him think their butter-making is based more 
on theory than on actual work. This excess 
of theory has been the curse of the dairy 
business for years. 
Mr. Rawson says that onion seed should 
be thrown into water and that only those 
which sink are fit to sow. 
We would respectfully inform our later 
friends (the older ones are familiar with the 
fact) that the R. N.-Y. offers nothing what¬ 
ever for sale except the paper itself. The R. 
N.-Y. No. 2 potato was disposed of over two 
years ago (a single bushel} and is now in 
seedsmen’s hands .. 
DIRECT. 
-N. Y. World: “The Commissioner of 
Agriculture at Washington in a recent report 
declares that a well regulated system of public 
roads throughout the United States is daily 
becoming a great necessity aud merits the 
earnest attention of Cougress, aud that while 
our railroad system has become the most 
perfect in the world, our common roads are 
inferior to those in any other civilized country. 
The road-tax system is characterized as a 
relic of feudalism, borrowed from the ‘statute 
labor’ of England, and its evil results are 
apparent in the neglected aud ill-conditioned 
common roads of the couutry.” 
-Western Rural and Stockman: “If the 
whole people could be made to realize the fact 
that there is the largest sum of money in 
the hands of our government that was ever 
seen on earth, or probably ever will be seen, 
there would be au inquiry-into our financial 
management that would come with the force 
of a cyclone.” 
-Hoard’s Dairyman; “There are some 
things, about farmers’ institutes .in Wiscon¬ 
sin,—they can’t be any more lively, unless 
they run wild—which would be a bad thing to 
do; and they can’t be any larger in most places, 
unless there is a general enlargement of public 
halls.” 
- Fuck: “Whence does the Trust derive 
its power? Mainly from the Senate of the 
United States. It is in that body, forbidden 
by the Constitution to originate measures 
affecting the revenue,that the customs tariff of 
the nation is practically shaped. There it is 
that « hatever the House of Representatives 
may offer in the way of legislation is trimmed 
and clipped ani cut and changed end for end, 
if need Le, to suit the demands of the Trusts 
which have seized upon the business of the 
country. In that body, which was once sup¬ 
posed to represent the conservative sense of 
the nation, every measure designed to for¬ 
ward the prosperity of the people is turned 
into a law for the benefit of the Trusts” 
“More honored in the breeches than in the 
observance—Slim Calves.” 
Mr. Band: “Grow less, but grow better.” 
- 4 Confine your efforts to a few varieties 
sui’ed to your location; exercise skill to bring 
them to perfection; put them on the market 
at the proper time, honestly assorted in clean, 
neat packages, with the name of the variety 
and producer, so that the buyer will not only 
be attracted by the appearance, but educated 
as to the quality, and your success is assured 
not only from a money point, but from the 
greater and higher mental satisfaction result¬ 
ing from your lators.” 
-“From personal observation I do not 
doubt that the income from our orchards could 
be doubled by better management, and this 
consists chiefly in better cultivation, more 
manure, spraying, with arsenical poisons, care¬ 
ful pruning, and, above all, placing the fruit 
on the right market at the proper time.” 
-Hoard's Dairyman: “One reason why 
there is so much truth in the oft-reiterated 
remark ,— 4 Farming don’t pay,’—is, that 
there is not another business on the face of 
the earth that, in proportion to the number 
engaged in it, supports so many incompe 
tents ” 
—-Colman’s Rural World: “Tnere is no 
freedom on earth equal to that of a man in 
this country who owns his farm and is out of 
debt.” 
-Life: “We have said that if all Amer¬ 
icans were consistent in their American, 
ism, we could not be conceited enough; but, 
as Mr. Howells has pointed out, we are a race 
of mobs. We all have yet a sneaking rever¬ 
ence for rank and title, although we have 
demonstrated to the world that only where 
rank and title do not exist may the highest 
plane of manhoed be reached.” 
-N. Y. Herald: 44 A State Dairy School 
to instruct young men and women how to 
produce milk? Watertown would be an ap¬ 
propriate location for it.” 
As a Nerve Tonic 
Use Ilorstord’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. S. L. Williams, Clarence, Iowa, says: 
“I have used it to grand effect in a case of 
neuralgic fever, and in uterine difficulties. 
Also, in cases where a general tonic was 
needed. For a nerve tonic I think it is the 
best I have ever used, and can recommend it 
most confidently.” 
Pi.srfltatRousi 
Purify the Blood. 
We do not claim that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the 
only medicine deserving public confidence, but 
we believe that to purify the blood, to restore and 
renovate the whole system, it is absolutely 
unequalled. The influence of the blood upon 
the health cannot be over-estimated. If it be¬ 
comes contaminated, the train of consequences 
by which the health is undermined is immeasur¬ 
able. Loss of Appetite, Low Spirits, Headache, 
Dyspepsia, Debility, Nervousness and other 
“little (?) ailments” are the premonitions of 
more serious and often fatal results. Try 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists- $1; six for $5. Made 
only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass- 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
MAKE HENS LAY 
S heridan s condition powder is absolute¬ 
ly pure and highly concentrated. It is strictly 
a medicine to be given with food. Nothing on earth 
will make hens lay like it. It cures chicken chol¬ 
era and all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mail tree. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for 
25 cts. in stamps. 2Vlb. tin cans, $1; by mail. 
$1.20. Six cans bv express, prepaid, for $5. 
I. S. Johnson <fc Co., P. O. Box 2118, Boston, Mass. 
FENCE MACHINE FOR CIO 
Freight paid. Guaranteed. Hundreds in u.t*. All 
CirvuUrs free. 8, II. Garrett, Mansfield, O. 
fatten, get&n amt 
and 'most I Shrubs, Evergreens, 
complete > Roses, Pseonies, 
ftocITh! \ Hardy Plants, 
the u. s., of J Grapevines, Small Fruits, 
etc., including many Novelties. Catalogues giving 
information indispensable to planters, sent to all re¬ 
gular customers Free; toothers: No. 1. Fruits, 10c.; 
No. 2. Ornamental Trees. Ac., illustrated. 15c.; No. 3. 
Strawberries, No. 4, Wholesale, No. 6 , Roses, Free, 
ELLWANCER & BARRY, 
MOUNT HOPE I ROCHESTER, 
NURSERIES, * New York. 
Our illustrated Annual of Tented 
SEEDS, BULBS, TOOLS, Ac., 
mailed free to all .seed buyers. Two 
Colored Plate*. It tells all about 
■■ ■■ I I The best Guide. 
IJ L L U ll Price* Low. 
W hi &■ fc- W Seeds Reliable. 
Used by Thousands of Farmers and 
Gardeners and no complaints. Origi¬ 
nators of Paragon, Acme. Perfection. 
Favorite.Beautv and other Tomatoes. 
A. W. L1VUXGSTO VS SONS, 
P. O. Box 800, Columbus O. 
My Annual PRICED CATALOGUE is now 
ready and mailed free to all applicants. It con¬ 
tains all the leading and most popular sorts of 
Vegetable, Farm, 
-AND- 
Flower Seeds, 
Besides all the desirable novelties of last season, and 
nearly everything else in my line of business. 
ALFRED BRIDGED! AN, 
37 East 19th Street, New York City. 
worn 6.000.000 people believe that tt 
’ ’ nays best to buy Seeds 
of the largest and most reliable house, and the/ use 
Ferry’s Seeds 
i. M. FERrvi a, CO are 
acknowledged to be toe 
Largest Seedsmen 
1 In the world. 
D M. Fekby & Co’s 
Illustrated. Descrip¬ 
tive and Priced 
SEED ANNUAL 
For 1889 
Will be mailed FREE 
to all applicants, and 
r to last year’s customers 
_without ordering it. Invatu- 
r-.n... i ’able to all . Everyperson using 
Earliest Cauliflower G ar< i en Jftgld or Flower Seeds 
in existence. I should send for it. Address 
D. M. FERRY & CO., Detroit. Mich. 
D ON’T BUY YOUR SMALL FRUIT PLANTS.TREES 
or seeds until you get our Catalogue It will in¬ 
terest you. Send for one Free. 
COM & CONVERSE, Fort Atkinson, Win. 
FAXON’S Seed Specialties 
P* iirWUfr-'. . Asters, Pansies,Sweet Peas, Nasturtiums, 
v jrfflu \ Q and Danvers Onion. Essays.- —Annuals 
in 1 l 1111 r: and Their Cultivation, 10 cents. Garden 
UH I. L jAj) y Vegetables. lOcents. Both, and Catalogue, 
c C^&kmdP''‘S' 10 cents > if you mention this paper. 
MB.FaX0N.2I South Market StB0STDN.MA55 
c 
OLE’S TESTED SEED 
S 
POLE’S II.I.US. GARDEN AS- 
_ S EAL Free. Containing the Latest 
Novelties and Standard Varieties of Garden. Farm 
and Flower Seeds. Gardeners should have it 
nefore purchasing. Lowest Prices. Stocks 
pore and tVe*h. Address COl.E it BKO., 
Seedsmen, 1’F.l.l.A, IOWA. 
r VERY jF th PERSON 
who sends for my Catalogue of over 
500 Varieties. 1 of POTATOES 
will receive a new variety C D C C 
by simply naming this paper. I H L L 
G. D. HOWE, North Hadley, Mass. 
FREE 
Prettiest Illustrated 
SEED-CAT A LOGCE 
er printed. Cheapest 
& best SEEDS grown. 
Gardeners trade a spe¬ 
cialty. Packets only 3c. 
Cheap as din by oz. ifc lb. 
100 000 pk ts new ex eras free 
AY, Rockford Ill. 
600 ACRES. 13 CREENHOUSES. 
We offer for the Spring trade a large and fine stock 
of every description ot F RU ITandOr uamental 
TREKS, shrubs, Roses, Vines, SHALL 
FRUITS, Hedge Plants, Fruit Tree Seed¬ 
lings and Forest Tree Seedlings. Priced Cata¬ 
logue, Spring of 1889. mailed free. Established 1862. 
BLOOMINGTON PHdNIX NURSERY 
SIDNEY TITTLE A CO., Proprietors BLOOM 1M. TON. ll.L 
