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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Waldo F. Bbown offers a sensible sugges¬ 
tion in the Farmers’ Review. It is that the 
end po3ts, which must bear the strain of 
stretching the wires, be set with concrete. It 
will take but a few cents’ worth of cement to 
a post, and will make it perfectly firm at the 
bottom, and also more durable than if set in 
the clay. It is almost impossible to set posts 
firm enough so that they will uot yield to the 
strain when the land is wet and soft, but by 
digging a hole fifteen inches square and 
pounding it full of coarse cement grout 
around the post it will give base enough to the 
post to keep it in place. 
Before the meeting of the Market Garden¬ 
ers’ Association, as reported in the Massachu¬ 
setts Ploughmau, Mr. Crosby remarked that 
system is needed upon our farm?; some farm¬ 
ers now work their men only 10 hours per 
day, others still demand 15 hours; when we 
can offer our men the same wages for the 
same hours that are offered by other trades, 
aud a steady job by the year, we will 
lie able to get as good men as ever, and as 
many as we want, and we shall also be likely 
to keep more of our young men upon the 
farm. If the farmer demands 13 hours of 
labor for the same pay that is given for the 
10 hours in other trades, then farming must be 
a poor business;so say the young men aud the 
laborers, and this is why we cannot keep 
them. 
He further said that Messrs. Budlong & 
Son, of Providence, It. I., the largest market 
gardeners in New Eugland, work their men 
only 10 hours per day. If it is necessary to 
get the men out at 5 A. M., give them two 
hours at noon or quit at 5 P. M. or give them 
better pay. 
A GOOD man who works with a will and 
has his employer’s interest at heart can earn 
as much in 10 hours as an indifferent or care¬ 
less man in 13 hours and in order to get the 
best service we must use our men well and se¬ 
cure their good-will.. 
A Member was asked what were his objec¬ 
tions to a wooden silo. He replied that rats 
were liable to destroy it. One memoer esti¬ 
mated that it would require 12 tons of silage a 
year for each cow—about a ton a month. 
The silage has kept bettor in the silos made 
from lumber than in those of concrete. Mr. 
Bullard says that they feed twice a day regu¬ 
larly, morning and evening, in addition to 
this the cows get, morning and evening, 
mixed with the silage, three or four quarts of 
grain. The grain that satisfies best is made 
up of half bran, one-fourth chop, aud one- 
fourth oil-meal. For cream and milk it gives 
the best results. 
Last March (1888) 100 prominent men of 
Wisconsin were written to who had built and 
tested silos. All expressed themselves in fav¬ 
or of the silo aud satisfied with their success 
in raising the fodder and feeding the silage. 
No less than 2000 silos, as the R. N.-Y. has 
noted, were built in Wisconsin last year. 
Mr. J. J. H. Gregory, before the same 
meeting, said that he had used three manure 
spreadeis and found them very useful tools. 
They have been much improved of late. The 
Meeker harrow was also a very useful tool; 
he used it in preparing land for small seeds, 
and estimated it saved him the labor of 18 
men with rakes in preparing land for onions. 
It will not work well on land that has many 
stones as large as the fist, but on good loamy 
laud is invaluable. For spreading fertilizers in 
the drill aud mixing with the soil he used the 
Spangler Spreader, and a machine made at 
Taunton for broadcast spreading of fertilizers. 
This machine drops the fertilizer so near the 
giouud that it does uot get blown away by the 
wind. 
Mr. Gregory stated tbatthe manure spread¬ 
er would put on about four cords per acre at 
one application. If more than this was needr 
ed he applied fertilizers Mr. Sullivan said 
the Meeker harrow did not work well on the 
stiff soil of Revere. Mr. Rawson said he bad 
discontinued using a manure spreader because 
he could not apply enough at one application 
and in going over a second time the wheels 
would clog. He preferred to use two carts. 
He used the Meeker harrow and liked it for 
sowing fall spinach on ridges. He also used 
it somewhat in spring. It is a good tool. He 
preferred the Cutaway harrow to the Acme; 
it clogs less and will work on sod. Mr. Greg¬ 
ory said the Kemp manure spreader will work 
any manure except long straw fresh from the 
stable . Brick-bats do not generally clog it, 
but Roinetimes are thrown at the driver by 
the machine. He had spread 65 loads m a day 
with two spreaders and a man to help load. 
Mr. James Russell said this machine works 
well and will spread anywhere except down a 
steep hill. Tne improved machine will apply 
12 cords per acre by lapping half way. 
Pnov. 1Ik\ry, of the Wisconsin Agricultural 
Experiment Station, says experiment silos 
open in a very satisfactory manner this year, 
and some of the silage shows only a trace of 
acid. The first crop of clover silage was very 
satisfactory and he thinks more interest will 
be taken in it in the future. The feeding 
experiments are not yet far enough along to 
warrant much being said regarding them, 
but thus far they have got rather more milk 
and more butter by several per cent, from en¬ 
silage than from fodder, although the fodder 
is unusally tine. He sees nothing wrong with 
the milk, or its keeping qualities, whether 
from silage or fodder. 
DIRECT. 
-Peter Hentkrson: “Above all, be 
careful not to to attempt the cultivation of 
more land than your capital and experience 
can properly manage. More men are strand¬ 
ed, both on the farm and garden, in attempt¬ 
ing to cultivate too much, perhaps, than from 
any other cause.” 
-“ The dried peat moss, now being used in 
the cities for bedding, is likely to be of great 
value to the market gardener, if it can only 
be had in sufficient quantities. We have had 
it in use in our own stables for about a year 
and find it not only more economical than 
straw for bedding, but its absorbing qualities 
make it of great value for fertilizing pur¬ 
poses.” 
-Massachusetts Ploughman: “One of 
the surest roads to success on a small farm is 
promptness. I know of nothing that causes 
more failures than the want of it.” 
- “Many think the sods must remain on 
the farm. I have only one son, and he is not 
adapted to farming. I don’t want him to stay 
on the farm, for I don’t think he is adapted to 
the farm. Some boys do not like farming 
aud they will not succeed.” 
-“ I Have been an overseer of the poor at 
Peabody for 35 years aud not a single farmer 
has ever crossed the threshold of the Poor- 
house. ” 
•• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; 
Let fortune’s hubbies rise and fall; 
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, 
Or plants a tree, Is more than all ” 
- Husbandman: “If the'new Secretary of 
Agriculture wants to get very close to the 
people his Department is intended to repre¬ 
sent he cannot do better than to call to his 
aid men who have made farming their chief 
business and tried to elevate the industry by 
securing for it the recognition it deserves as 
a most honorable calling.” 
--“A man who has a business capable of 
yielding 20 per cent, annual profit and has 20 
per cent, of mistakes to correct in its manage¬ 
ment may look for great egress through the 
little end of the horn, so to speak.” 
- Col F. D. Curtis: “Give the hog some 
show. Pigs always kept in a pig-pen are not 
healthy food,aud the man who eats them eats 
his own pig-pen.” 
-N. W. Agriculturist: “If farming 
does uot pay it is easier to put enough energy 
and brain work into it to make it pay than 
to enter upon the fierce struggle for life that 
is going on in all cities. There are nine 
chances to win on a farm to one in a city.” 
Horslord’s Acid Phosphate, 
Beware ol Imitni ions.—Ade. 
Pi.srrUattCoujsi 
Scrofula 
Probably no form of disease is so generally dis 
tributed among our whole population as scrofula. 
Almost every individual has this latent poison 
coursing his veins. The terrible sufferings en¬ 
dured by those afflicted with scrofulous sores 
cannot be understood by others, and their grati¬ 
tude on finding a remedy that cures them, aston¬ 
ishes a well person. The wonderful power of 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
in eradicating every form of Scrofula has been so 
clearly and fully demonstrated that it leaves no 
doubt that it is the greatest medical discovery of 
this generation. It is mado by C. I. HOOD & CO., 
Lowell, Mass., and is sold by all druggists. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
MAKE HENS LAY 
S heridan s condition powder i a 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 
mall free. Sold everywhere, or sent by mall for 
25 cts. in stamps. 2,V-lb. tin cans, $1; by mall, 
$1.20. Six cans bv express, prepaid, for $6. 
I. S. Johnson & Co., P. O. Box2118, Boston, Mass. 
FENCE MACHINE EOR(f|n 
Freight psid. Guaranteed. Ha ad reds iu use. will 
CtrouUi. free. S. II. Garrett, NUu.lloM. w. YfI V 
THAT OFFER OF $5,000. 
Our readers will doubtless call to mind the 
offer so widely advertised for the past ten 
years by H. H. Warner & Co., the proprie¬ 
tors of Warner’s Safe Cure and Warner’s Log 
Cabin Remedies, that they would pay $5,000 
to any person who would prove to an impar¬ 
tial referee that they had ever published a 
testimonial that was not genuine, so far 
as they knew. 
This offer had the ring of honesty about it, 
and as the matter has an especial interest just 
now, we give a copy of the offer as it appears 
in the Messrs. H. H. Warner & Co.’s pam¬ 
phlet: 
jgpAx Offer of §5,000.00.„^sI 
Every Testimonial published by us is Bona- 
Fide, and, so far as we knoiv, is absolutely 
true. To any one who will prove the con¬ 
trary to an impartial referee we will give 
§5,000. H. H. WARNER it CO. 
Rochester , N. Y., .January 2, 1888. 
We ask the reader’s careful attention to the 
following testimonials, as bearing on the 
offer, and their unbiased opinion of the same 
with reference to the §5,000. 
Iowa City*, Ia., June30,1888.—Some weeks 
since my daughter had a severe attack of 
Rheumatism. She was persuaded to take one 
bottle of Warner’s Safe Cure, and one of 
Warner’s Safe Rheumatic Cure, and has 
entirely recovered. We think it wonderful, 
as twice before she had been confined to her 
bed for months with it.— Mrs. Sylvanus 
Johnson. 
Camp Verde, Arizona, Oct. 27, 1888 — 
For nearly a year I suffered from Gravel, and 
was under the treatment of a doctor. I took 
a great deal of medicine, but it all seemed to 
fail. I then began with Warner's Safe Cure, 
and after using one bottle of it began to get 
better: got another bottle, and took half of it. 
The gravel stone left me, and I began to 
mend. I am now feeling as well as I ever did 
in my life.— Mrs. Dolly Mason. 
231 Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., No¬ 
vember, 1888.—In 1866 I was attacked witn kid¬ 
ney disease, and suffered for 20 years, ap¬ 
plying often for advice to medical men of 
high standing, without any apparent relief. 
In 18S6 I was advised to try Warner’s Safe 
Cure, and after having used fifteen bottles of 
it, I was completely cured, and am happy to 
state that I have never felt the disease since 
in any form.— P. B. McMullen. 
Newark, N. Y., June 20, 1888.—Last 
winter I was attacked with severe kidney 
difficulty, which incapacitated me for work, 
severe pains in the small of the back, attended 
with almost constant aching on the least exer- 
ion. I suffered much paiD, the passage of 
water was a severe trial, accompanied with 
much scalding and redness of the urine. I felt 
I was suffering from premonitory symptoms 
of Bright’s Disease. I procured a bottle of 
Warner’s Safe Cure, and after taking the 
first bottle I felt so much improved that I con¬ 
tinued to take it to the extent of four bottles. 
1 am now a new man, able to do a good hard 
days woi k, with no recurrence of any trouble 
with the kidneys.— Mandeville W. Plass. 
There is no getting away from such testi¬ 
mony as the above. The offer is genuine. In 
fact, Messrs. H. H. Warner & Co. have always 
requested that doubters should write direct to 
persons giving testimonials, (enclosing stamp,) 
and who are of necessity, in the great major¬ 
ity of cases, totally unacquainted with the 
firm. 
pr ffTfl 
CHARMING NOVELTY .—Lamp shade in the 
form of Toy Buildings. Landscapes with illuminated 
cottages. Price, 12c. each: 10 shades, *1.25, $2; earriage 
free; payable In advance iu stamps or money orders 
of any countrt. 100 shades, $4.50. ineluding packing, 
taken at factory. In S days more than 10,000 were sold. 
H. KCMSS, Warmbrunu, Silesia, Germany. 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER. 
Will plant Field and Ensilage Corn, Beans. Peas and 
Beet Seod in hills, drills and checks— in hills up 
to 45 inches; in checks from 36 Inches up to any dis¬ 
tance desired. Will distribute all Fertilizers wet or 
dry. Farmers, send for circulars. 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER CO., 
Enfield, Grafton Co., New Hampshire. 
JOHN SAUL’S 
Washington Nurseries. 
OUR CATALOGUE OF 
NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS 
for 1889 will be ready in February. It contains list of 
all the most beautiful and Rare Greenhouse and Hot¬ 
house plants in cultivation as well as all novelties of 
merit well grown and at very low prices. Every 
plant lover should have a copy. 
ORCH IDS,— A very large stock of choice Fast 
Indian, American, etc. Also Catalogue of Roses. 
Orchids, Trees, etc. All free to applicants. 
JOHN SAUL, Washington, D. C. 
VARIETIES OF 
FRUITTREES, 
VINES- PLANTS ETC. 
Apple, Pear. Peach.Cherry, Plum, 
S uince, Strawberry, Raspberry, 
laekberry, Currants. Crapes, 
Gooseberries, Ac. Send for Catalogue. 
J. S. COLLINS, Moorestown. N. J. 
FOREST TREES,; 
Catalpa Speciosa, ; 
White Ash, European 
Larch, Pines, Spruces, 
Arbor Vitas, etc., etc, 
Catalpa Speciosa Seed. 
Forest and Evergreen 
Seeds. 
R.DOUGLAS & SON. 
Waukegan, lit. 
G rowers and dealers in sweet 
CORN, ATTENTION! Genuine Connecti¬ 
cut grown Stoweil’s Evergreen Sweet Corn by ex¬ 
press, $2.25 per bushel, $1.25 per half bushel, 75c. peck. 
C. E. CHAPMAN. Westbrook, Conn. 
CRAPE VINES 
wm Nectar,Woodrut,Eaton, andallthe 
best varieties. Gandy and other Straw¬ 
berries Blackberries, Raspberries, Won¬ 
derful Peach, and other nnraery stock. 
Descriptive catalogue giving fnstructions/orp/anlinctnt 
JOEL llOKNEii A bOUTUelslri Camden Co.. Si. J. 
V EGETABLE PL*NT*5-Standard Sotts, at 
reliable rates. Send for Price List. 
ill. GARRAHAN, Kingston, Pa. 
FOR SALE CHEAP! 
3 nnd 4-Year-Old Apple Trees, List of Va¬ 
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GR A V' BROTHER!*, New Canaan, Conn. 
IT WILL PAY YOU 
-BEFORE BUYING YOUR- 
PRICE & REED, 
ALBANY, N. Y M 
For their NEW CATALOGUE. 
GOOD SEEDS, LOW PRICES 
Strawberry Plants For Sale. 
Haverland and Burts, $1.28—100; $8—1,000; Warfield, 
75c.—100; $5—1,(00; Jessie and Bubach. 75c.—100; $4— 
1,000: Gandy. $! 50-100: *10-1.0(0; Hampden *150— 
100: Summit and Monmouth, $1—100: by freight or ex. 
James Lippincott, Jr., Mouut Holly, N. J. 
Plants of Best Quality. 
Warranted True to Name. 
LOWFST Prices, and 
Largest Assort ment of 
old and new varieties. 
At dozen rates. Free by Mail. **P.eciaI atten¬ 
tion called to Promising Novelties Send for 
Price List. Address, 
BUSH & SON A- MEISSNER. 
Bush berg, Jefferson Co.. Mo. 
Ready for planting. Send for prices. Address 
JOHN. S. BARNHART, Demon, Md. 
Clover, Timothy and Alsike. 
Write to S. S. READ. Toledo, Ohio, for prices. 
PROFIT FARM BOILER! 
With Dumping Caldron, emp¬ 
ties Its kettle In one minute. The 
simplest and best arrangement lor 
cooking food for stock. Also make 
Dairy nnd Laundry Stove*. 
Water aud Sit earn Jacket 
Hetties. Hog Moulder*, Cal¬ 
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BATAVIA, i 
Wm. Roberts, M. D., Physician to the 
Manchester, Eng., Infirmary aud Lunatic 
Hospital, Professor of Medicine in Owen’s 
College, says: “ Gradual failure of strength, 
increased pallor or sallowness, aud disincli¬ 
nation for exercise is one of the prominent 
symptoms of kidney disease.” Warners 
Safe Cure is the only remedy that, is guarau- 
teed to curt kidney disease. 
