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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Connecticut Report above alluded to 
says that repeated trials have shown that old 
corn of the best quality weighs from 58 to 59 
pounds per struck bushel, while a bushel of 
the best new corn weighs only 50 to 52 pounds. 
The valuation of the new corn is about $1.45 
per ton less than that of old corn, which rep¬ 
resents a difference of four cents per bushel; 
and this seems to be about the difference made 
England Homestead, that “corn is a great sur¬ 
face feeder and for that reason the fertilizer 
should not be plowed in deep but applied near 
the surface. Professor C. V. Mapes, in the 
American Agriculturist, says that “if the fer¬ 
tilizer is kept too near the surface , notably 
with corn, the roots will be developed near 
the surface, and their presence there will pre¬ 
vent surface cultivation, so necessary during 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER. 
PARALLEL LINES. 
in dealers’ quotations. a dry season, without damage by cutting the 
roots. High-grade, complete fertilizers, as a 
Peter Henderson, in alluding to the fine 
effect that the past mild, bright winter has 
had in strengthening liot-house plants, in 
preventing mildew and damping off, says, in 
the American Florist, that the nearer we can 
get the roof of a green house to an unbroken 
sheet of glass the better; that the glass should 
be kept clear from snow, dust, or anything 
that will obstruct light, and that the roof 
should be placed—if the crop ot fruit, flowers 
or vegetables is to be forced in winter—so that 
it will get the greatest amount of the sun’s 
rays. 
The question as to the best time to prune 
fruit trees was discussed at length at the 
meeting of the Iowa State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety two years ago, and a resolution was 
passed by unanimous vote favoring the idea 
that the best time to prune fruits is when the 
leaves are about two-thirds grown in spring. 
So says Prof. J. L. Budd, in our esteemed 
contemporary the Farmers’ Review. Mem¬ 
bers seemed to unite in the opinion that the 
wounds male at this time would heal rapidly 
and perfectly, and that the vitality of the 
tree is lowered less than at any other time. 
But the pruning in orchard and nursery can¬ 
not all be done in one da/, so in a general way 
we can say, prune lightly at any one time 
from the time when the leaves have attained 
nearly full size to the completion of the first 
extension of growth in early June. 
Hungarian Broome-grass— Bromus iner- 
mis. This is one of the most promising new 
grasses in the garden of the Connecticut Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station. It produces an 
abundance of tender foliage, spreads quite 
rapidly by stolons, comes up quickly after 
cutting and, last winter, was perfectly hardy. 
It is said to grow on very dry soil. Hard 
frosts do not kill 
rule, should be well broadcasted and harrow¬ 
ed in, after plowing, and worked in to the 
depth of five or six inches, so that the root 
development of the crop will extend from 
each plant as far as possible in every direc¬ 
tion ”.-... 
The R. N.-Y. would say, if it might venture 
to speak in such distinguished company, that 
if the fertilizer is harrowed in two or three 
inches, the early and usually abundant rains 
of spring would hardly fail to carry the solu¬ 
ble constituents down where they would best 
feed the plants, and that by the time the 
roots take possession of the land, the fertilizer 
would have very little effect to induce a 
growth dangerously near the surface. 
You can buy one dozen mixed gladioli 
corms for 40 cents . 
Try the new double white Phlox Drum- 
mondii. 
ABSTRACTS. 
_American Florist: “Some little Bantam 
fowls bad the run of the rose houses. ‘Capi¬ 
tal things they are too. They don’t do any 
harm, but they do a great deal of good in 
p'cking up grubs and other vermin.’ So says 
Mr. Thorpe.” 
_“Siebrecht says ‘of all orchids, either 
for private or commercial purposes give me 
first, cattleyas; second, phalamopsis; third, 
odontoglossums.’ ” 
_New York Herald: “‘Curious,’ said 
she, musingly, ‘that agricultural editors are 
generally such young men. The Ag. Ed. 
ought to be Ag-ed, you know'.’ ” 
-If you would get the cream of the R. N.- 
the foliage. | y., don’t skim it. 
-Vermont State Journal: “What we 
need most is not larger farms, but larger 
farmers. Has any man a right to more land 
than he knows how to farm to profit ? Has he 
a right to misuse and depreciate that by 
which the nation must live ?” 
_Western Rural and Stockman: “Con¬ 
gressmen want more money. They say that 
their salaries are not sufficient to enable them 
to live in Washington. Gentlemen, the most 
of you get a good deal more than you are 
worth already. Some of you get just five 
thousand dollars more than you are worth.” 
-Nfav England Farmer: “If you would 
dry your soil, stir deep and often; but if you 
would retain its moisture, stir only the sur¬ 
face.” 
A marsh grass, Phalaris arundinacea, or 
Reed Canary Grass.has grown very vigorously. 
The Striped Grass of gardens is only a variety 
of this. On low, swampy land this may be a 
very valuable grass. It is rather coarse, but 
is relished by cattle, comes quickly after cut¬ 
ting and is not killed down by frost. It is 
easily propagated from the stout under-ground 
stems. On cultivated land it might become a 
pest. 
The teniency' of the times is toward the 
cheapening of everything consumed by man¬ 
kind, says Dr. Hoskins, in theVermont Watch¬ 
man. The farmers caunot escape this ten¬ 
dency. They demand cheapness in what they 
buy, and those who buy of them naturally 
make the same demand. It is inevitable. It 
behooves every man to understand this truth. 
Only by understanding it can we prosper. 
Our safety' is in learning how to produce 
everything from the farm as cheaply as pos¬ 
sible. We must not expect, either, that all 
we save by these methods we can always 
keep. Those who “catch on” eurly will make 
money; but in the long run the public will 
get the benefit of all improvements. Yet we 
have to goon improving, or be crushed. 
Great Gracious, Mr. Harris! one ton of 
fertilizer to the acre for asparagus and, then, 
the next season, 700 pounds of nitrate of 
soda ? He might just as well have recom¬ 
mended 700 pounds of the nitrate every 
spring, for the reason that little of it would 
be left from year to year. 
Mr Harris, wisely as we think, advises, 
in the American Agriculturist, that the 
plants be not set closer than three feet by 10 
inches. 
Dr. Thurber having tried many of Rog¬ 
ers’s hybrids, concludes nfter bis years of ex¬ 
perience that Goethe is the only one that with 
him still holds out of value. It is strange how 
two experimenters, having no other motive 
than that of serving the public, may arrive 
at opposite conclusions. The Goethe at the 
Rural Grounds (seven miles from Dr. Thur- 
ber’s) is, in three seasons out of four, of no 
value at all. The bunches are loose, the berry 
tart and late In ripening. 
Eckford’s new sw r eet peas are probably the 
finest strains of this interesting flower. The 
flowers are nearly twice as lurge as those of 
any of the old kinds, w'hile the combination 
of colors aud the beautiful markings render 
them of the first value as cut flowers. 
“Brilliant" is advertised as the first 
|eally fine fed jiapsy,. 
JPfesfdpfl Vf. fj. jipwker says, in the .New 
For Nervous Debility 
Use Horslord’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. H. T. Turner, Kasson, Minn., says: “I 
have found it very beneficial in nervous de¬ 
bility, from any cause, and for indigestion.” 
— Adv. 
PisccUatteouj* gtdmtteittg. 
Every student knows that in close reason¬ 
ing parallel lines of thought are laid down 
and deductions educed. 
It is not our purpose at this time to enter 
into a learned discussion, and we have drawn 
the above visible lines simply to bring them 
prominently before your eye and to ask what 
they represent to you. 
A railroad man to whom we showed them 
said: “To me those four lines represent a 
double-track railway.” 
A doctor replied to the same interroga¬ 
tory: “The lines are to me the large arteries 
and veins lying alongside each other in the 
human body.” 
As will be observed the same lines to either 
gentleman suggested different lines of thought, 
as both looked at them through eyes accus¬ 
tomed to see only that which for the most 
part occupied their attention. To the writer 
both answers put an old truth in a fresh and 
original light. 
As every intelligent man or woman knows, 
the blood of every living person flows with 
almost railroad speed through the arteries, 
forced by that wonderful engine, the heart. 
From the arteries it is side-tracked through 
the capiliaries and veins, and every drop of 
blood goes through the kidneys for puri¬ 
fication no less than 2.500 times every twenty- 
four hours. If the kidneys be diseased the 
impurities of the blood containing the worn- 
out tissues, and deleterious acids are not 
drawn out or excreted as nature intended,but 
continually pass and repas3 through every 
fiber of the system, carrying death and decay 
with every pulsation. Unless remedied the 
heart becomes weakened, the lungs trying to 
do double work break down, the liver becomes 
congested, the stomach refuses to digest food 
aud the result is a general break down. 
Why? 
Because the kidneys, the sewers of the sys¬ 
tem, are foul and stopped up, and the entire 
blood becomes nothing more nor less than 
sewage. 
Now is it not criminal, nay, suicidal, to 
allow such a state of things to continue when 
a simple remedy is within your reach, known 
for a certainty to do as represented, which will 
open the closed pipes of the kidneys, allow the 
effete matters to escape, relieve the over¬ 
worked heart, lungs aud liver, cause a 
healthy appetite, put the bloom of health in 
your cheek, the dove of hope in your breast 
and the light of life in your eye? 
You already have divined the remedy we 
have reference to: its praise is universal, its 
influence world-wide. Do not allow prej¬ 
udice to blmd you to your best interests, but 
to-day procure Warner’s safe cure and be put 
ou the straight road to rude healtn aud cor¬ 
rect living. 
Our parallel aud closing Hues to you are, 
take our advice and your experience will justi¬ 
fy you in thanking us for briugiug under 
your notice a remedy without a parallel. 
IMPROVED EXCELSIOR INCUBATOR 
Purify the Blood. 
We ilo 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. It 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 aud other 
“little (?) ailments'' are the premonitions of 
more serious aud 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 
$20 
'I 
Will plant Field and Ensilage Com, Beans. Peas and 
Beet Send In hills, drills and chechs-ln hillsup 
to 45 inches; in checks from 86 inches up to any dis¬ 
tance desired. Will distribute all Fertilizers wet or 
<irv. Farmers, send for circulars. 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER CO., 
Enfield. Grafton Co.. New Hampshire. 
Simple, Perfect a»il Self-Regulating. Hun. 
m successful operation. Guaranteed 
io hatch larger percentage of fertile eggs 
Cireu I U at less cost than any other hatcher. Send 
Ian freof 6c for Ulus Caur. fihO. H. STAHL, quioej.lll. 
G 
RfXWKR*? AND DEALERS IN SWEET 
CORN, ATTENTION! Genuine Connecti¬ 
cut grown Stowell’s Evergreen Sweet Corn by ex 
press, *2.25 per bushel, *1.23 per half bushel, 75c. peck. 
C. K. CHAPMAN, Westbrook, Conn. 
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 aud all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mall free. Sold everywhere, or sent by mall for 
25 cts. in stamps. 2V-lb. ttn cans, $1; by mall, 
$1.20. Six cans bv exoresa, prepaid, for $6. 
I. <3. Johusou St Co., P. O. Box 211B. Boston, Mass. 
FENCE MACH I INK FOR 
Freight p*i«l. (Juutuntetul. Humirotln in u»«. 
piroulRfo free, H. II. liurrett, VUuotteliJ, 
_ VINES 
Hectsr.Woodfufl.Eaton.andall the 
best varieties. Gandy and other Straw- 
__ . berriei. Blackberriet, Ritpbtrriei, Won- 
derfut Peach, and other nursery stock 
^olEL^UO^tNEK^A^bONl^ilelalr^Camden^Co.*.''^'! J* 
'EG^TABLE PI,4 NT**— Standard Sorts, at 
reliable rates. Send for Price List. 
1H. GAR RAH AN. Ktugston, Pa. 
FOR SALE CHEAP! 
3 n ml 4-Venr-Old Apple Trees. List of Va¬ 
rieties and prices on application. 
GRA V BROTHER.**, New Canaan, Conn. 
Strawberry Plants For Sale. 
Haverland and Burts, *1.25—160: *8—1,000; Warfield, 
75c.—10*i; *5—1,100; Jesste and Bnbach. 75c.—100; S4 — 
1.000: Gandy. *i 50-100: *10-l.«H0: Hampden *150— 
100: Summit and Monmouth. SI—100- by freight or ex. 
Jnnies Llppincott, Jr., Mount Holly, >. J. 
Ready for planting. Send for prices. Address 
JOHN. 9. BARNHART. Denton, Md. 
Clover, Timothy and Alsike. 
Write to S. S. READ. Toledo. Ohio, for prices. 
RAPE VINES! 
G l--- 
My specialty for 32 years. Over 1OO best new and 
old kinds: 'Empire State, Diamond Jewel, Eaton, 
Moyer. Niagara, Witt, Woodruff Red, Moore s Ear¬ 
ly, Nectar, Brighton, Pocklington, Delaware, Catawba, 
Elvira, Ives, etc. Nice, medium 1 year Concords, *10 per 
1000. Also, Strawnerries, Raspberries, Blackberries, 
Gooseberries and Currants. Best Plants. Low Prices. 
Catalogues free. GEO. W. CAMPBELL, Delaware, O. 
IaV 
POMONA NITRf'ERTES. 
1S3S FIFTY YEARS18S9. 
Trade mark label ot •* Wonderful 
.Prach.” None reliable without it. 
\Large stock of Raspberry. Straw¬ 
berry & Blackberry Pl’ts, Niagara, 
/Moore’s Early, Diamond. Eaton & 
'otherGrapes Kieffbr & Leconte 
Pkars. Spaulding & Japan Plums. 
All the worthy old and promising 
new varieties. Catalogues free. 
\VH. PARRY. Parry. N. J. 
FRUIT TREES 
to destroy injurious insects 
is recommended by all experienced 
^ Horticulturists and by this system onlr 
^ can perfect fruit be secured. For full direc- 
^ tions and outfit for hand or horse power, address 
rovrt f>ritP CO. v r 
rfj-g PER SETTING, from Pure FELCH 
3* * Btrgs—Light Brahmas. ^ 
Box 106. C . J. S P A L OIN G, Greenville. Conn. 
A LL Kinds ot GROCERY. GRAPE and 
BERRY BASKETS, BOXES, GOT 
aud RETURN CRATES Cheap. Address 
JAMES T. ROBINaON. 
Basket Manufacturer, Willoughby. Ohio. 
E GGS—Black Minorca*. S'J per 13? S5 Per 
89. Wyandotte and Pekiu Duck, $1 25 per IN: $3 
per 89. G. W. THOMPSON, Red Hook, N. Y . 
E pe P. Rocks, L. Brahmas and W. Leg- CCC * 
UO _ horns, *l per 13.80 for *2. In new 1 «« • 
baskets, safety guaranteed. Flue stock. Address 
Savbroos ValLky Poultry Yards, Oak Hill. N. Y. 
C. s. Cooper, 
SCHRAALENBURGH, N. J. 
Breeder of P. Rock, White P. Rock. Laced and W.Wy¬ 
andotte and Patagouian. Eggs $2.u0 for IS; *S 00 for 26. 
('ll IK .II1VG NO V KLT Y .-Lamp shad» m the 
form of Toy Buildings. Landscapes with illuminated 
cottages. Price, t'-'c. each: 10 shades, *1.25. $'-’; carriage 
free; payable In advance iu -tamps or money orders 
of any eountrt. IOO shades. $4.50. including packing, 
taken at factory. lit Hdays more than 10.000 were sold. 
H. KU.H8S, Warmhruttu, Silesia. Germany. 
PROFIT FARM BOILER! 
Willi Dumping Caldron, emp¬ 
ties its kettle in one minute. The 
simplest ami best arrangement for 
cooking food for stock. Also make 
It a try unit Laundry Stoves, 
Water and Steam Jacket 
Kettles, Hog Sculders, Cal¬ 
drons, Etc. Send for circulars. 
D. R. SPERRY &, CO.j 
n utaviA s ILG 
Stippllo®. 
Such as Ground Beef Scrap, Granulated 
Bone. O. Shell. Bone Meal. Annual Meal, 
etc. For pi Ices and particulars seud for m.v circular. 
"endefug Works and Mlll8 - C Y A^^ARTLETT, 
IjOOK 
HERE 
PEERLESS DYES 
x re the BEST. 
n SHS 
AGENTS 
and farmers with no experience make S'i.50 an 
hour during spare time. J.V. Kenyon. Glens Falls, 
N. Y.. made SIS one day, S7H.50 one week. 
So can you. Proofs and catalocue free. 
J. K. Shkpard A Co.. Cincinnati. O. 
Contentment passes wealth. You are sure 
to be contented with the use of 
Warner's Los Cabin EXTRACTS 
for external and internal pains. This is bet¬ 
ter than to employ a physician who cannot 
do more for you if you bad the wealth of 
Croesus. Two sizes, SQ cents and 81. 
