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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
that is without nitrogen. The amount with 
purely nitrogenous manure is not so great as 
that with purely mineral manure. But with 
both nitrogenous and mineral manure (“com¬ 
plete”) the quantity of starch is raised to an 
average of about 3,400 pounds, or about \)4 
ton per acre. * * * 
As, then,the root-crops are essentially sugar 
yielding crops, so the potato is essentially a 
starch yielding crop; and it is seen that, pr i- 
vided the mineral constituents are not defi¬ 
cient, the produce of both sugar and starch 
is greatly increased by the amount of nitro 
gen available to the plant within the soil, 
whether derived from previous accumula¬ 
tions, or from nitrogenous manuring. * * 
The United States, with nearly four timef 
the area under the crop, but only about 1\ 
time as much aggregate produce as Greal 
Britain, yields an average of less than tw< 
tons per acre, or less than one-third as much 
as Great Britain. 
Here, then, of 13 countries where the pota¬ 
to is largely grown, their aggregate area 
under the crop being about 21 million acres, 
and their aggregate produce about 61 million 
tons, there is not oue that reaches the average 
produce, per acre,of Great Britain. Norway, 
Belgium, and Holland most nearly ap¬ 
proach its yield, and it is of interest to ob¬ 
serve that these, and Denmark, are the coun¬ 
tries that most r early approach the United 
Kingdom in yield per acre of wheat and bar¬ 
ley also. 
It is, then, only the countries of small total 
area, and of small area under the crop, that 
at all nearly equal England in yield per acre; 
and among them Belgium and Holland,the sec¬ 
ond and third on the entire list, more nearly 
approach it than any other,in density of pop¬ 
ulation, and in the amount of live stock kepi 
per acre , and consequently in the supply of 
manure. Both these countries, too, have 
good home markets, besides their exports of 
agricultural produce. 
Western Farm Loans —There appears 
to be a growing distrust of the safety of West¬ 
ern farm loans among conservative monied 
men and institutions in the East. While the 
savings banks of some of the New England 
States have lent a great amount of money on 
Western farm mortgages, the saving in¬ 
stitutions in Massachusetts are not allowed to 
invest in such securities. The trust compan¬ 
ies, however, have the privilege; but all except 
two of the large number have purposely re¬ 
frained from exercising it. Bradstreet’s says 
the president of one them before a committee 
of the legislature, said last week that “within 
five years there will be one of the biggest pan¬ 
ics in the Western farm securities, that we 
have had for a long time.” Meanwhilp, how¬ 
ever, private capital is going West on 
farm mortgage loans in increasing amounts, 
as the interest is much higher than Eastern 
rates. The Massa husetts savings bank com- ! 
missioners hold that the tru-t companies as , 
well as the banks should be forbidden to make 
such investments. A telegram to Bradstreet’s 
from Kansas City announces that some invest¬ 
ment loan companies are withdrawing from 
Kansas as the rate of legal interest has been 
reduced there, and the laws of the adjoining 
States are more satisfactory to them. 
FINALLY. 
Professor Goff tried the new tomato 
Ignotum of Prosessor Bailey. Some of the 
tomatoes were all that could be desired for 
quality, but others were too small to be of 
value. The variety is not yet well fixed. 
Stachys tuberifera, the new vegetable 
illustrated recently in these columns, bore 
tuners at the New York Experiment Station 
carcely larger than acorns. 
A chemical dehorner for cattle is being 
widely advertised of late. We also notice the 
statement that “ a single application of 
caustic potash will prevent the growth of the 
horn.'’ Get a five-cent stick at the drug-store 
and keep it in a corked bottle so it will not 
“ air-slake.” On the arrival of a calf which 
you wish to be hornless, wrap a piece of paper 
around one end of the stick of caustic, and 
with it in one hand, take the calf between 
l your knees, wet the hair over the “horn 
^spots,” rub the uncovered end of the caustic 
Yell on the spots, let the calf go, and ac¬ 
cording to the Maryland Farmer, it will grow 
up a polled Jersey, Holstein, or scrub. f 
Plant peas—the earliest kinds. Farmers 
as far north as Long Island were planting 
them two weeks ago. 
Plant asparagus sets. 
Take cuttings of grape vines and place 
them in the soil at an angle of 45 degrees, 
firming the soil shout them. 
Prepare for sweet corn—Let the harrow¬ 
ing be thorough. Spread your fertilizer 
before the last harrowing. Plant earliest, 
intermediate and 1 ite varieties at the same 
time. . Reserve the intermediate kinds for 
later planting. 
The open'season has given us muddy roads 
during a greater part of the past winter. 
The paths and carriage-way of the Rural 
Grounds have been a puddle of mud so nea r 
ly impassable that the grass margins have 
, been selected for passage to and fro, much to 
\ their injury. We are now macadamizing a 
1 portion of the road and paths as an experi 
Iment. They are dug out a foot deep; earth 
jis then spread over the stones an inch or so 
lleep and over this two Inches of the maea- 
llam finish the job. The macadam consisting 
(of a yellowish stone in part broken into small 
(bits and in part almost a dust, is brought 
three miles by rail and one by hauling. The 
cost per 100 feet (10 feet wide) of the entire 
work is found to be $40 . 
Success of Sorghum-Sugar in Kansas. 
—The sorghum-sugar works at Fort Scott, 
Kansas, are said to have cleared $30,000 net 
profit in six weeks’ work last year. The scale 
of operations at the concern’s works at Fort 
Scott and Topeka are to be greatly enlarged, 
and three large new mills are to be con¬ 
structed in the Southwestern part of the 
State—one at Meade Center, another at Arka- 
low, and the third at Liberal on the borders 
of No Mau’s Land. The surrounding country 
at each place is particularly well adapted for 
sorghum growing. A wet or dry season 
makes little or no difference on sorghum-sugar 
making. A number of U. S. Senators inter¬ 
ested in the business are urging the retention 
of Ex-Secretary Colman by the new Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture to take charge of the 
sorghum-sugar industry, for the advancement 
of which the last Con tress appropriated $85,- 
000. The National sorghum experiment sta¬ 
tion at Fort Scott w'as discontinued some time 
ago owing to the dispute between Professor 
Magnus Swenson, Chemist of Parkinson’s 
sugar works, and the Government about the 
owuersmp of the patents taken out by Swen¬ 
son for a method of making sugar which he 
discovered and patented while in the employ¬ 
ment of the Department of Agricul'ure. It 
is claimed that bis discoveries should be 
public property as they were made at public 
cost; but they are being used by the Parkin¬ 
son sugar works for their own private profit. 
There are two National Sorghum Experiment 
Stations in Kansas, however, oue at Conway 
Springs, amt the o’her at Douglas, and it is 
proposed to start three more, and divide the 
entire appropriation of $85,000 among them. 
Evidence accumulates that the new Erie is 
the old Lawton blackberry—a fact, if it be 
a fact, that the R. N.-Y. could not have dis¬ 
covered, because it had never cultivated the 
Lawton until it tried the Erie. 
Samuel Miller says, in Popular Garden¬ 
ing, that the pecan does not succeed on the 
hickory. 
Mr T. Greiner says,in Popular Gardening, 
that the Ironclad is a wonderful grape. At 
its home in South Jersey it ripens about the 
last week of September, but colors early like 
Ives. One tea-spoonful of its juice in a tum¬ 
bler of clear water colors it a deep purpl'sh 
pink, two tea-spoonfuls give it a most beauti¬ 
ful royal purple. The vine seems to be dis¬ 
ease-proof, as there is no identified case of the 
Ironclad being affected by rot. The R. N.-Y. 
would be glad to secure a vine of the Iron¬ 
clad. 
The gopd Mr. P. Barry shows his interest in 
the Western New York Horticultural Society 
in a valid way. He presents it with $2,000... 
The Sibley squash is praised on all hands.. 
The R. N.-Y. deprecates the necessity of 
spraying apple trees with liquid poisons. 
Will the apples thus raised pay for the prob¬ 
able destruction of the birds?. 
The Green Mountain is mentioned as the 
best early white grape. 
The R. N.-Y. ventures to predict a very 
dry season—for the East at l*a s t. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-N. Y. Herald: “The Shad in Ska 
son —The fish was delicious, and the two 
epicures relished it to the fullest extent, but 
he of the pessimistic turn remarked:— 
1 Shad always suggests to me the idea that 
nature was iu a hurry when she got to that 
part of her work, took a lot of excellent mater¬ 
ial and just piuned it together.’ 
‘Ah!’ said the optimist, ‘you can’t have 
seeu the poetical version of the matter.’ 
Then he recited: 
■ When the angels made shad 
The devil was mad, 
For It seemed such a feast of delight; 
So, to ruin the scheme. 
He jumped Into the stream 
And stuck In the oones out of spite. 
When the strawberry red 
First Illumined Its bed 
The angels looked down, and were glad. 
But the devil, -tls sold, 
Fairly pounded his head, 
For he’d used all his bones on the shad.’ ” 
-Correspondent in Popular Garden¬ 
ing: “The common water lilies may be 
grown in any door-yard to perfection. I 
have a neighbor, a lady of great taste, Mrs. 
Owen Root, who has them in profusion. You 
must first secure a few tubs that will not leak, 
and will hold half a barrel, plant them in the 
ground nearly or quite to the top. Place in 
each tub six inches of soil or any good garden 
sod, plant in this a large piece of lily root, 
hen fill up with water. Keep the tub full as 
c evaporates, and you have nothing more to 
o. In the fall lift the tubs and store in a 
liar where they will not freeze. You can 
ur off the water and leave the roots nearly 
ry all winter; when a tub is crowded with 
oots divide, but they blossom best with the 
ubs well filled.” 
-Life: “ ‘ I’m afraid you are going to be 
bad’ as the old hen remarked to the egg that 
would not hatch.” 
-N. Y. Tribune: “ Intermittent bad tem¬ 
per is an expensive as well as a waspish thing 
to carry about one’s person; but, says ‘The 
Western Rural,’ the farmer who is ‘ chronic¬ 
ally mad just throws away money.’ His 
hired help do less work; cows are afraid to 
give the most milk; horses jump when they 
hear him coming, and for every jump he 
must feed more oats.” 
-Philadelphia Press: “I can corrobo¬ 
rate Friend Ma ; sey’s statement that peas will 
bear a hard frost without injury. I always 
plant just as soon as the land can be worked, 
and almost every spring the ground freezes 
hard after they are up. I have known the 
mercury go to eight degrees when peas were 
showing in the row. Only once in 25 years 
have my peas been damaged by a freeze, and 
that was in April, 1883. The first week in 
that month the mercury reached 80 degrees 
on three successive days and on the 8th it was 
at 20. Peas were just blooming, and so ten¬ 
der on account of the unseasonably warm 
weather, that they were badly damaged, but 
not ruined.” 
-National Stockman: Alsike Clover 
—“It has proven the mo3t hardy of all the 
clovers. On rich, low, moist soils it yields 
an enormous quantity of hay or pasture, and 
may be cut twice each season. It forms a 
thick bottom, and when sown with oats in the 
spring very seldom fails to take firm hold. 
Almost all farmers keep a few stands of bees, 
and such will find the Alsike to be of very 
great value. Alsike clover is also of very 
great value to brood sows. In ordering seed 
be sure to ask for ‘extra cleaned.’ Sow at 
the rate of eight pounds to the acre. As hay 
for winter all classes of stock are fond of it, 
and as a green food for silos none that I know 
of can surpass it.” 
For Dyspepsia 
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. 
THE CAUSES OF DEATH. 
Our readers are doubtless all familiar with 
the Robinson poisoning cases, which have 
recently come to light in Somerville, Mass., a 
suburb of Boston. 
It seems that eight deaths have occurred 
from arsenical poisoning, seven in one family, 
and within five years. It is doubtful if the 
murderers would have been brought to jus¬ 
tice had not an organization in which the 
victims were insured began an investigation 
as to why so many persons had suddenly died 
in one family. 
But the sensation from a medical point of 
view connected with the case, took place in 
Boston at a recent meeting of the Massachu¬ 
setts Medico-Legal Society, when it was 
stated by Dr. Holt that there was general 
ignorance of the sypmtoms of arsenical pois¬ 
oning and because of such ignorance the Rob¬ 
inson poisoning cases had gone on without 
arousing the suspicion of medical men. The 
Robinson cases were all treated by regular 
phsicians, with correct diplomas, men sup¬ 
posed to know what they were doctoring for, 
and to know the effect of drugs on certain 
diseases. Yet in the five deaths from arseni¬ 
cal poisoning of which we speak, certificates 
of death were given for pneumonia, typhoid 
fever, meningitis, bowel disease, and Bright’s 
Disease. 
Such a commentary on the general igno¬ 
rance of the medical profession, made by one 
of its own number, we believe to be without 
a parallel. 
Is it any wonder that patients are losing 
faith in their doctors! Here were five able- 
bodied people slowly poisoned with arsenic 
before their very eyes, and yet these very 
wise medical men were doctoring them for 
pneumonia, typhoid fever, meningitis, bowel 
disease, and Bright’s disease. 
In the very same manner thousands of 
patients are being treated this day for pneu¬ 
monia, heart trouble, dropsy, incipient con¬ 
sumption, etc., when these are but symptoms 
of advanced kidney disease, which is but 
another name for Bright’s disease. The doc¬ 
tors do not strike at the seat of the disease— 
the kidneys, and if they did nine times out of 
ten they would fail—as they are on record as 
saying they can not cure Bright’s disease of 
the kidneys. Rather than use Warner’s Safe 
Cure, a well-known specific for this and all 
other forms of kidney disease they would let 
their patients die, and then give a death cer¬ 
tificate that death was caused by pericarditis, 
apoplexy, phthisis or cardiac affection. 
Is this not the honest truth? Do you not 
know in your own personal history very 
many instances where physicians doctored 
the wrong disease, and caused untold suffer¬ 
ing, and many times death? Which leads us 
to remark that very much can be learned by 
one’s-self by careful observation, and that 
the doctors are very far from having a 
monopoly of the knowledge of medicine or 
disease. 
Dr. J. J. McWilliams, Denison, la., says: 
“ I have used it largely in nervousness andf ^ 
dyspepsia, and I consider that it stands unpi- , 
vailed as a remedy iu cases of this kind. / L j 
have also used it in cases of sleeplessness, witlj; 
very gratifying results.”— Adv. 
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