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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
shriveling. Yellow corn has the most oil and 
a large per cent, of gluten. The hard or 
flint kinds contain the most gluten and the 
soft the most starch. Small kinds contain 
the most oil. 
How many corn plants in your field do not 
bear ears?. 
With the wheat crop there is no alterna¬ 
tive but to haul it to market, and take what 
it will bring: while with corn the farmer is 
more nearly master of the situation, for if 
the market price does not suit, the thrifty 
farmer will find a way to feed it at home, and 
market the proceeds in a concentrated form.. 
Manuring in the hill is a trifle like heaping 
manure about the stem of a fruit tree. Better 
spread it out as far as the roots extend. 
The R. N.-Y. once raised 90 bushels of 
Longfellow 'flint) corn on a measured acre. 
It was not planted until June 8th. 
In drill planting, there are some of the roots 
—those running lengthwise of the rows—that 
are never broken by cultivation. 
Don’t allow the corn field to become hide¬ 
bound . 
Is It sensible to cut and slash the roots, de¬ 
priving the plants of their mouths by which 
they feed, or to confine them to a narrow 
strip of soil two feet wide? If so, cultivate 
deep.... 
Those readers who may refer to files of the 
R. N. Y. of 1879, 1880 and 1881, will see that 
the impetus given to corn culture and the 
revolution of methods since are largely due to 
its efforts. In like manner, it may be said, 
that owing to the R. N.-Y.’s potato investiga¬ 
tions of late years, and the great yields it has 
shown to be practicable, this great industry 
is receiving an amount of attention and in¬ 
telligent investigation which might, other¬ 
wise, have been delayed for years. 
If you propose co use chemical fertilizers on 
corn, apply not over 500 pounds to the acre at 
first. It is not well to stimulate the young 
plant to a too luxuriant growth. Later give 
it another dose, and a third and last just be¬ 
fore the sets appear. 
Mr. Henry Talcott, Assistant State 
Dairy Commissioner of Ohio, finds his silage 
an excellent feed for his horses, which eat it 
in preference to hay and thrive thereon, the 
only precaution necessary being to begin 
feeding gradually. As mentioned in the 
Farmers’ Review, corn silage is proving a 
most sat sfactory food tor horses in the sta¬ 
bles of Mr. M. W. Dunham, Wayne, Ill., and 
it seems very probable that it will soon be 
widely used in wintering horses in the West. 
Silage being succulent, seems to successful¬ 
ly take the place of roots, which are so bene¬ 
ficial, to growing colts in particular, and can 
be supplied at much less cost. 
Corn plants have been known to grow 28 
inches in a week.. 
The average shrinkage of corn in a year is 
about 25 per cent. It would, then, be as 
profitable to sell corn at 75 cents per bushel 
after harvest as at one dollar the next sum 
mer. 
First fertility, then seed, then cultivation. 
Does over-manuring diminish the crop ?... 
How much more valuable is one kind of 
seed than another ?. 
Dr. E. L. Sturtevant says that so far as 
his personal knowledge goes, silage adds no 
nutritive of material value to ensilage. 
Those who have relied upon silage as the 
main food, and who have fed little else, have 
often found failure; those who have fed sil¬ 
age in moderate quantity in conjunction with 
other food, have almost to a man reported 
favorably of its effects. To get the best 
effects from feeding silage, therefore, from a 
theoretical as well a3 practical point ot view, 
one must teed it in such a quantity that the 
animal shall be able to consume sufficient 
weight of dry food and albuminoid to supply 
the demand for maintenance and product.. 
If acid be fed under trial, give the pickle, 
but because one pickle is good, says Dr. Stur¬ 
tevant, do not assume that a bushel of pickles 
at a feed would be better, and two bushels 
better still. It requires brains to feed prop¬ 
erly as in every other act in life, and brains 
have to be fed on experience in order to be at 
their best. 
Mr. J. J. H. Gregory favors the Stock- 
bridge theory: Feed the plauts what they 
need, just as you feed animals according to 
their needs. Young,growing animals require 
different food from mature animals kept in 
idleness. So squashes require different food 
from beans. He uses fertilizer for squashes, 
that contains from nine to 12 per cent, of 
(iminonia, wbjle bean inauure is better with 
but two per cent. Beans manured like 
squashes would grow leaves and vines but 
not many pods, while squash ground manured 
for beans would grow little worth harvesting. 
If one knows not the condition of his soil he 
should apply a complete fertilizer suited to 
the crop to be grown. 
Fertilizers can not be used in place of 
manure for indefinite periods, as soils need 
humus to keep them in good condition. Mr. 
J. J. H. Gregory has grown onions on the 
same ground on fertilizers till the humus was 
all consumed, leaving the soil hard and diffi¬ 
cult to cultivate. Rye or some other leafy 
crop should be grown occasionally and plowed 
in to keep the ground light. . 
Kainit is unsafe to use for its potash, 
because it contains so much common salt that 
seeds are destroyed. It is also a dear form of 
potash, as the freight is the same as on the 
more concentrated forms. All fertilizers ap¬ 
plied liberally in the hill or drill should be 
well mixed with the soil or the crop may be 
lost. This is especially true of nitrogenous 
fertilizers. South Carolina rock must be dis¬ 
solved before application or it will do the 
crops little good the first year. Undissolved 
fine bone may be used for laying down grass 
land and it may be used liberally with perfect 
safety. Small doses of fertilizers where large 
ones are needed do but little good. Applica¬ 
tions of 200 or 300 pounds on his land would 
be lost. The prices of commercial fertilizers 
are as low as they can be under the present 
system of long credits. Competition is keep¬ 
ing the prices down and two large firms have 
come to grief recently. If farmers would 
club together and pay cash it would be better 
for all parties. Take no stock in cheap fer¬ 
tilizers offered, as they will disapppoint every 
time Allot which, Mr. Gregory, is, in the 
R. N.-Y.’s humble estimation, good, true 
advice. 
Plant in drills and cultivate close up to 
the young plants. The increase from drill 
planting of fodder alone, even if nothing is 
gained in ears, is enough to commend it. But 
the increase in grain ought to be at least 20 
per cent... 
Every farmer should experiment for him¬ 
self. Because farmer Brown raises 125 bushels 
of shelled corn per acre, it is not wise for 
farmer Green to assume that he can do the 
same by the same methods. Different soils, 
seed, climate, and manure are to be con¬ 
sidered . 
Test the vitality of seed-corn. The R. N.- 
Y. finds that a considerable part of its Ches¬ 
ter County Mammoth is worthless for seed. 
It has been kept in a crib. An unusually 
warm, damp fall and winter is supposed to 
be the cause. 
How to test it. Pry out kernels from the 
ear with a small knife-blade. Place these be 
tween folds of heavy porous or blotting 
paper. Keep the paper constantly moist and 
warm. All the sound kernels will sprout in 
a few days. 
Pride of the North or Queen of the Prairie 
(they are the same) is probably the earliest 
variety of yellow dent corn. The R. N.-Y. 
was instrumental in introducing this variety 
some nine years ago. 
The R N.-Y. again reminds those of its 
readers who are looking for the best ensilage 
corn to try the Rural Thoroughbred Flint. 
Several leading seedsmen offer it for sale. As 
already stated, it will not mature with any 
certainty north of Southern New York. 
The ears often grow to the length of 13 or 
14 inches—eight rows. The plants in rich 
soil grow to the bight of about eight feet. 
The joints are rather close together; the 
leaves very broad. Each kernel sends up 
from three to five stalks all of which grow tc 
about the same bight. The R. N.-Y., beyond 
having introduced it a few years ago, has no 
interest in it. 
Subsoiling for com has never been shown 
to pay by trusty experimentation. 
We repeat a question which the R. N.-Y. 
asked in 1879; “What good does it do to hill 
up corn on a well-drained soil!”. 
Should the rows of corn when drilled in, 
run north and south or east and west ? 
Most farmers will answer north and south. 
The R. N.-Y.’s rows of Blount and Chester 
Co. Mammoth,which gave one of the heaviest 
yields on record, w ere east and west. 
All the manure in the world will not pro¬ 
duce good corn if the plant cannot draw 
breath while feeding. 
No, chemical fertilizers alone will not bring 
a heavy crop. The same year that the R. N.- 
Y. raised its heavy yield of Blount and 
Chester Co. Mammoth, a near neighbor (a 
first rate farmer, too) applied 1,200 pounds of 
Lister’s fertilizer per acre besides “a handful 
in the hill.” His yield was about 75 bushels 
of shelled corn to the acre. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-E. W. Stewart, in the Albany Cultiva¬ 
tor: “The reason why corn-and-cob meal 
will produce as good a result in milk as pure 
corn-meal, is simply that the ground cob sep¬ 
arates the particles of meal and gives bulk to 
it in the stomach, making it porous so that 
the corn-meal is more perfectly acted upon by 
the gastric juice. But the same weight of the 
cob in short-cut oat-straw mixed with the fine 
corn-meal, will produce even a better result, 
because it has a greater bulk according to 
weight than the cob, and carries the meal in¬ 
to the stomach in a still more porous con¬ 
dition, and will cause the meal to be raised 
and remasticated by the cow.” 
-“ Feeders have been very slow to recog¬ 
nize the tact that nature feeds grain and 
stalk together. Animals in a state of nature 
eat whatever there is of grain or stalk to¬ 
gether. When the animal is placed under 
artificial conditions and the concentrated 
grain is fed separately, there follows a large 
waste of the nutriment in the grain. Western 
cattle fed upon com in the ear require three 
times as inuco grain to produce tne same re¬ 
sult as when the grain ground is mixed and 
fed with coarse fodder, and is raised with the 
cud and remasticated.” 
-N. E. Farmer: “Some of the papers 
speak of the Secretaryship of Agriculture as 
the least important place in the Cabinet. They 
may find themselves mistaken.” 
-Husbandman: “Mr. Rogers, of Bing¬ 
hamton, feeds his cows the year round. His 
silage is just as good in summer as in winter 
and is much preferred to green fodder by his 
cattle.” 
-“ There is a great saving in feeding cows 
in summer. They will eat silage before they 
will taste green corn fodder, and do not 
drink more than one-fourth as much water, 
Last year 1 had one acre of hay and one of 
Stowell’s Evergreen sugar corn in one field. 
The corn yielded six times as much in value 
as the hay.” 
-N. E. Homestead: “Corn may prove 
the salvation of Vermont agriculture. It 
should be raised for the silo on every acre of 
corn land that does not produce a ton of hay.” 
POOR PEOPLE’S CHANCES. 
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to look upon in its August glory. It re¬ 
sembles an army of tasseled knights, de¬ 
corated gracefully with ribbons, each member 
of which sports a silk handkerchief.” 
Some years ago a city missionary was 
crossing one of the parks in New York on the 
Sabbath day and said to a lad; “What are 
you doing here, breaking the Lord’s day? 
You ought to be at Church and worshiping 
God instead of breaking the Sabbath in this 
way.” The poor lad in his rags looked up at 
the city missionary and said: “ Oh, sir, it’s 
very easy for you to talk;that way, but Goa 
knows that we poor chaps ain’t got no 
chance.” 
The sentiment seems to be growing that in 
the United States the time has arrived when 
“the poor chaps don’t have no chance.” 
There is some truth in it. -The poor are not 
shut out from making a livelihood, but the 
gulf between riches and poverty continually 
grows more difficult to cross. As the country 
becomes densely populated keen business 
competition decreases the chances for accumu¬ 
lating wealth by ordinary business methods. 
But the same conditions vastly improve the 
chances for great success to those who can 
strike out in new paths, can,furnish something 
to the world that others cannot. 
True merit, in commodity or ability, will 
win easily and with grand results in this 
country, if the masses can be induced to recog¬ 
nize it. This recognition can only be ac¬ 
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thorough introduction to the world of the 
merits of that wonderful remedy for kidney 
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He concluded the world ought to know of it 
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His methods have been ingenious—some¬ 
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But, mark! he never would have secured a 
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j Ten years of increasing success of Warner’s 
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! Second, to the true worth of the remedy, 
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diseases growing out of kidney derangements. 
Mr. Warner has something the people want, 
tells them so, then proves it to their satis¬ 
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