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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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up the cans with boiling water, stirring with 
a thin stick till the air is all out. Then put 
on the rubbers and seal tight. Put back into 
the hot water and boil an hour and a-half. 
Then remove to the table and tighten every 
cover, and continue doing this until they are 
nearly cold and see that they stay tigh*, and 
if the cans and rubbers are perfect, 1 think 
success is nearly certain. I can string beans 
in the same way; also corn; but the latter does 
not shrink so that there is no need of put¬ 
ting any water in. One must put more hot 
water in the boiler as it boils out while the 
peas are cooking. Pumpkins can bo canned 
by stewing and sifting the same as peas; then 
filling the cans full and putting them in a 
boiler or kettle and heating them long enough 
to be sure that each can is hot clear through. 
I have never lost a can since I began to prac¬ 
tice this method. Seal the cans tightly be¬ 
fore putting them over the Are. 
WESTERN FARM MORTGAGES. 
H. P. N., Nichols, Conn.— I see by a late 
Rural there is to be a great panic in West¬ 
ern farm loans within five years. What is to 
cause this great panic? Are Western farms 
about to shrink in value more than 50 per 
cent. ? If this is so the sooner Western farm¬ 
ers turn their farms into cash the better for 
them, and the great loan companies which 
have hazarded their capital on the safety of 
Western farm loans are not very wise. It 
seems to me that many who decry Western 
loans may have an object. It is very desir¬ 
able for those East who wish to borrow money 
to make Western loans appear at a disadvan¬ 
tage, thereby enabling them to borrow from 
our savings banks and others at five per 
cent, or less, and, moreover, all money or at 
least much of it invested at home increases 
the amount of taxable property, while much 
invested in the West avoids taxation or be¬ 
comes invisible. Will he who prophesies an 
early “panic” prove it and state what facts he 
has to justify such an opinion. 
R N.-Y.—If our friend had carefully no¬ 
ticed what he read he would have seen that it 
came under the caption “ W hat Others Say, 
and that it was given merely as the predic¬ 
tion of a New England financier engaged in 
making loans in various parts of the country. 
The Rural is not responsible for the different 
opinions given in that department nor does it 
indorse all of them. It merely gives them as 
matters worthy of consideration. There is, 
however, little doubt that mortgaging farms 
has been greatly overdone in many parts of 
the West. 
FASTENINGS FOR COWS IN STABLES 
H. A. W., Erie, Pa.— I think it a barbar¬ 
ous practice to place cattle in stanchions and 
confine them for any length of time. I have 
for years found that cattle having a free use 
of their heads have thriven better on less feed 
than those coufined in stanchions. A strap 
having a large snap on and buckled around 
the horns—a rope three feet long fastened to 
the manger in such a manner that the cattle 
could not get their feet over it, and on the end 
a swivel to receive the snap—makes the best 
fastening I have ever seen. The trouble of 
fastening is very slight, and this gives the 
head freedom. This is essential to health and 
thrift. The less worry the cattle are sub¬ 
jected to, the greater the profit from the feed 
consumed. In T. B. Terry’s article on clover 
hay in a late Rural, he failed to tell us just 
how he cured it. For many years I have 
found that clover should be cut as soon as it 
is in full bloom. As soon as it is nicely 
wilted, put it in cocks of about 100 pounds, 
and if the weather is fine, leave it until it is 
well cured and when it is thoroughly dry, 
draw it to the barn without exposing it to the 
sun’s rays any more than possible. This will 
give as fine a quality of hay as can be made. 
R.N -Y.—In the Hay Special, to be pub¬ 
lished in a few' weeks, Mr. Terry will tell us 
all about his plan of curing clover hay. 
ROOT-GRAFTS FOR THE APPLES. 
I. J. B., Titusville, N. J.—A great many 
apple trees are grown by taking seedlings up 
from the seed-bed or nursery row, and whip 
or splice-grafting them and then setting them 
out in the nursery row. It is a practice to 
make from one to three grafts from each 
root. The last or tap-root graft will grow 
thriftily in a nursery one or more years. My 
experience is that such grafts never make 
trees of any value in the orchard unless the 
graft sends out roots. I think the proper way 
to grow the apple by this mode of grafting is 
to make only one graft from a seedliug stock. 
With more than two aud sometimes with 
more than one graft the bottom graft will 
make comparatively few roots, aud these go 
downwards. We have two rows of Baldwin 
trees, one budded about six inches up from 
collar of the tree; the other root-grafted. It 
may be that the soil is better in one row than 
in the other; but for years there was appar¬ 
ently no difference in growth or crop. The 
trees have now been 25 years planted and 1 
think the difference in favor of the budded 
trees is apparent in size. 
REMEDY FOR LICE ON CATTLE. 
F. W. V., Springfield, Canada.—As 
many herds of cattle are troubled with lice 
at this season of the year, I can from personal 
experience recommend the following remedy; 
To a gallon of soft water add one pound of 
soft soap and one pound of washing soda. 
Bring the mixture to a boil, and wh°n cool 
enough to allow one to keep the hand in it, 
saturate the affected animals. It has the ad¬ 
vantage of being cleaner than greasing, and 
it will not loosen the hair, as may be easily 
done with petroleum. It is also death to 
sheep ticks. 
J. A., Vincennes, Ind.— A short time ago 
an article in the Rural denounced the burn¬ 
ing of straw as an act of folly. I wonder if the 
writer ever worked on a straw pile, or whether 
he ever saw a crop of wheat the straw 
from which was so abundant that the owner 
and his hired men,helped by all the neighbors, 
could not take care of it. Most farmers in 
this section do save some of their straw, and 
to condemn a farmer because he is compelled 
to burn most of it, shows ignorance of farm¬ 
ing on a large scale in a section where popu¬ 
lation is thin and hired help scarce. There 
are many sections in which the labor requir¬ 
ed to take proper care of straw is worth more 
than the straw would be worth for any pur¬ 
pose. As a rule, the practice commonly fol¬ 
lowed by intelligent farmers in any section 
is the best under the conditions prevalent 
there however unwise it may seem to wise¬ 
acres in another section where the conditions 
are entirely different. 
W. L. B , Faulkner, Ind. —Perhaps some 
one would be benefited by learning bow to 
get rid of the common caterpillar. My way 
is to destroy all the eggs I can find in the fall 
and winter. When the eggs of the others are 
hatched, with a bottle of coal oil and a 
feather or stick having a rag on the end, I go 
around and dampen the nests and the pests. 
The latter will be dead by the time they get 
to the ground. This mode of treatment cleans 
the limbs off entirely and does no injury as 
burning and other ways do. I use py rethrum 
or insect powder for currant and gooseberry 
worms. It will also kill cabbage and parsnip 
worms. I did not take the R.N.-Y. last year, 
but concluded I could not do without it this 
year. 
W. R. W., Wilmington, Ohio —On page 
237 of the Rural I see an article on the sub¬ 
ject of “ wearing out seed.” I certainly think 
that the writer is correct in saying; “ Intelli 
gence and careful cultivation and the proper 
selection of seed will keep up any variety, 
etc.” In proof of the truth of this theory I 
will say that I am raising the old White Ne- 
shannock potato still, a variety that had 
almost become obsolete. Last year on the 
same kind of ground.and with the same culti¬ 
vation, I had Early Rose,Burbank and Early 
Ohio. The Neshaunock was by far the most 
productive. This year I shall plant for late 
crop only the White and Blue Neshannoeb. 
Horslord’s Acid Phosphate, 
Make* an Invigorating Oriuk 
with water and sugar only. Delicious.—Adt). 
Itti.scfUattCoujsi gUMtiitfittg. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
This successful medicine is a carefully-prepared 
extract of the best remedies of tho vegetable 
kingdom known to medical science as Alteratives, 
Blood Purifiers. Diuretics, and Tonics, such as 
Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock, Stillingia. Dandelion, 
Juniper Berries, Mandrake, Wild Cherry Bark 
and other selected roots, barks and herbs. A 
medicine, liko anything else, can bo fairly judged 
only by its results. Wo point with satisfaction to 
the glorious record Hood’s Sarsaparilla lias en¬ 
tered for itself upon tho hearts of thousands of 
people who have personally or indirectly been 
relieved of terrible suffering which ail other 
remedies failed to reach. Sold by all druggists. 
^1; six for £5. Made only by C. 1. HOOD & CO., 
Apothecaries, 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 hook by 
mail free. Sold everywhere, or sent by mall for 
25 cts. in stamps. 2Jtf-lb. tin cans, $1; by mail. 
$1.20. Six cans hv express, prepaid, for $6. 
L S. Johnson <S* Oo., P. O. Box 2118, Boston, Masa. 
FENCE MACHINE FOR 
Freight paid. Guaranteed. Hundreds in use. 
Circulars free. 8. H. iiurrett, Mansfields U. 
FEMALE FARMERS. 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER. 
Will the coming young woman be a farm¬ 
er? 
Scattered all over the broad prairies of the 
Northwest are hundreds of self-reliant, true 
blue young heroines, living in small, isolated 
cabins called shacks, proving up claims, en¬ 
tering homesteads and making money. 
It is lonesome, dreary business, this living 
alone on a wild, unsettled prairie, without a 
face or human form to welcome one or cheer 
one’s solitude, but there seem to be a good 
many young women who have the grit to 
bang to this solitary life long enough to prove 
up a claim at least. 
Four young ladies in Dakota last year put 
their heads together and hit upon an ingen¬ 
ious plan, whereby they could each secure a 
claim and yet all live comfortably together in 
one house and each be upon her own land. In¬ 
stead of building four shacks with one room 
each, they constructed one shack with four 
rooms, but so nicely planned that each room 
of the square building was on a different 
quarter section. Each had her own bed in 
her own room and in that way, each claim¬ 
ant at night slept upon her own land. 
Society ladies of the city will wonder, not 
so much how these young lady settlers get 
along without social privileges, as how they 
dared live so far away from the doctors. 
Why, bless you! they never thought of being 
sick. Doctors are not half so ranch of a house¬ 
hold necessity as city people are in the habit 
of thinking. 
For all the ordinary ills of life, the old- 
fashioned roots and her bs remedies are more 
effective, and much safer in results than 
modern doctors’ pills and potions. These 
latter are so radical io their effects that, while 
they ma/ better meet the modern desire for 
quick results, they frequently permanently 
injure the system, nature rebelling againt the 
uunatural methods employed. 
It is always safest to follow natural meth¬ 
ods in treating disease. The old-time roots 
and herbs remedies, which our good old log- 
cabin grandmothers knew so well how to pre¬ 
pare, were the best medicines the world ever 
knew, because they were nature’s remedies. 
The modern world needs them. In War¬ 
ner's Log Cabin Remedies, and especially 
such as Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparilla and 
Warner’s Log Cabin Cough and Consumption 
Remedy, the people of to-day have an oppor¬ 
tunity to secure the healthy medicines which 
our rugged ancestors used with such splendid 
results. 
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Great 
Will plant Field and Ensilage Corn, Beans. Peas and 
Beet Send In kills, drills and checks— In hills up 
to 45 Inches; in eheeks from 36 inches up to any dis¬ 
tance desired. Will disirtbute all Fertilizers wet or 
dry. Farmers, send for circulars. 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER. CO., 
Enfield. Grafton Co., New Hampshire. 
G rowers and dealers tn sweet 
CORN. ATTENTION! Genuine Connect! 
cut grown Stowell’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 
Nectar. WoodruR,Eaton, and all the 
best varieties. Gandy and other Straw¬ 
berries. Blackberriaa Raipberriet,Won¬ 
derful Reach, and other nursery stock. 
Instructiom/m-plantinglm 
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V EGETABLE PL * NTS—Standard Sorts, at 
reliable rates. Send for Price List. 
M. GARRAHAN, Kingston, Pa. 
Cold Frame Caftie Plaits. 
Ready for planting. Send for prices. Address 
JOHN. S. BARNHART, Denton, Md. 
Clover, Timothy and Alsike. 
Write to S. S. READ. Toledo. Ohio, for prices. 
PTSiFRUHIREES 
Liau oe destroyed by eprauug 
the tree* with Loudon purple di>- 
^ solved in water. For full direction! 
and improved outfits for Hand or Horse 
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A LL Kinds ol GROCERY. GRAPE and 
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and RETURN CRATES Cheap. Address 
JAMES T. ROBIN ON, 
Basket Maunfacturer, Willoughby. Ohio. 
BROWN SWISS CATTLE 
FOR SALE—My small but select Herd of BROWN 
SWISS, consisting of 12 Cows from S to 10 years old. 
and the magnificent 2 -year-old Bull Cicero Tell, also 
one Bull and two Heifer Calves All registered in 
Brown Swiss Herd Book. Would like fo sell entire 
herd to one party. Address H. W. WINDRAM. 
24 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mass 
H olstein-friesians— pin-rgrove herd. 
Newburv, Vt„ H. W. Keyes. Proprietor. 100 
Head of the Choicest Imported and Home¬ 
bred Stock of popular strains for milk and 
butter. Stock ol all ages and both sexes 
for sale. Visitors welcome. Correspondence 
solicited. 
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Write for Illustrated Circular to A. 
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for their Butter Valde. Send for full particulars to 
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ASK THE 
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Beyond a doubt is the easiest riding cart 
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liver affections. YYarner’s Safe Cure cures 
these affections by putting the kidneys in a 
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the system.” 
