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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ipearl, while the blade of the leaf is a carpet- 
work of brilliant color. Of the Braz'lian we 
ibave the Scarlet Veined, the Crimson Veined, 
and the Golden Veined. Then there are 
Dell’s Black, Ne Blus Ultra, and Victoria, all 
having ornamental foliage. These beets do 
not produce edible roots, but the leaves are 
u-ed as a spinach, and the fleshy ribs, prepar¬ 
ed like asparagus, make a very palatable dish; 
a happv combination of the useful and the 
beautiful. It is many years since the R. 
N.-Y. tried every kind of ornamental beet it 
could procure. The plants were used both as 
borders and in mass. They made a very in¬ 
teresting and pretty display. 
The Jersey Bulletin says that the best 
butter, sold at the highest price, is made in 
private dairies. The great value of the 
“creamery ''’ is that it is usually managed by 
a skdlful man, who has all of the improved 
appliances, and makes a uniform article of 
much higher grade than much of the stuff 
made in private dairies . 
Buy 200 pounds of nitrate of soda; 600 
pounds of bene flour; 200 pounds of muriate 
of potash. Divide each lot into three parts. 
Thus we have in each lot in round numbers 
67 pounds of nitrate, 200 pounds of bone and 
67 pounds of potash. On one plot of one-third 
of an acre sow 67 pounds of nitrate of soda, 
and 200 pounds of bone. On a second plot of 
one-third of au acre, sow 200 pounds of bone 
and 67 of potash. On the third, sow 67 pounds 
o f nitrate, 67 of potash and 200 of bone—a 
complete fertilizer. We have now 67 pounds 
of nitrate and 67 of potash left. Apply this 
to the fourth plot of one-third of an acre. 
Should the season be favorable and these plots 
need a special or complete food, the above 
trials will be very likely to give you the in¬ 
formation desired. 
There are many farmers who have the 
idea that when they buy high-priced fertil¬ 
izers of old, well-known firms they pay a 
fancy price; that they pay for reputation, as 
when jewelry is bought of Tiffany or ladies’ 
garments of Worth. The cases are quite dif¬ 
ferent. All the materials of which fertilizers 
are made can be bought and mixed as well by 
one intelligent person or firm as by another. 
The firm that values its good name and repu¬ 
tation most, is the one that will strive to sell 
the aiticle which will give the best satisfaction 
and thereby assist in maintaining thatreputa- 
tion.. 
Touching upon the above view ot the case, 
t he N. E. Homestead says that the average rost 
of 68 nitrogenous superphosphates as given 
by the Connecticut experiment station, Prof. 
S.W. Johnson, Director, is $34.55 per ton aud 
the valuation $23.70, an advance of 20.30 per 
cent, on cost. In the same maunor au ad¬ 
vance of 16 10 per cent, over cost of materials 
is made by manufacturers on special crop 
manures. Compared with these figures the 
Mapes special crop manures, as reported by 
the experiment stations of Connecticut, Mas¬ 
sachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania, net 
the manufacturers but 10.13 per cent, above 
cost. This profit has to pay all the costs in 
running the business. 
T. B. Terry says,in the Ohio Farmer,that, al¬ 
most without exception, the best corn-growers 
of Ohio say: “Work corn as deeply as possible 
at first; after that, not over two inches deep, 
ending up with eveu shallower cultivation, so 
as not to disturb the roots, ’’numerous ex¬ 
amples were given, at the institutes, where 
loss had come from deep tillage, particularly 
in a dry time, and where great success had 
come from shallow culture. This is in accord¬ 
ance with common sense, certainly, and if 
any reader has been in the habit of doing dif¬ 
ferently, he had better not be too sure he is 
right until he has experimented faithfully in 
the above way. 
The New England Homestead says good, 
vigorous, well-grown one year-old asparagus 
plants are better for planting than older 
ones, just as a small tree is better thau a large 
one for planting out. Capt. J. B Moore, one of 
the most successful asparagus growers, always 
preferred one-yoar-old plants for his own set¬ 
ting. 
Lime, says Mr. H. Stewart, in the Times, 
is one of the best preservatives for timber in 
existence. It neutralizes the acids in it and 
solidifies the albumen, thus preventing dec y. 
It is the best material for preserving shingles 
and fence posts from decay, aud also the sills 
of buildings and the walls and floors; it pre¬ 
vents wet rot and dry rot, aud if painted over 
the iron work of plows it will keep them from 
rusting. It should be used as a bedding for 
the beams aud floors of cellars when these are 
of wood, for it is destructive to all kinds of 
fungi, aud eveu (hat pernicious fungus which 
causes the rot of potatoes, and many others 
are prevented by its use. 
Fresh lime will absorb ore-third of its 
weight of water and will appear as a dry 
powdep, ponunonjy called air slaked lime. 
This water it will absorb from the air as fast 
as it comes in contact with it, and hence 
a damp cellar may be dried very easily by 
putting a peck or more of lime in a box in 
it. In a few days the air will be dry and the 
lime will be damp and will have gained more 
than one-third in weight. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Binghamton Republican “Queer about 
flowers, isn’t it ? They shoot before they have 
pistils.” 
-The Epoch: “Kentucky Constituent— 
How d’ye do. Senator? Can’t you get me a 
clerkship under the new administration ? 
Senator—I’m afraid not, Major. The fact 
is. you look too seedy. 
Kentucky Constituent—Then maybe I’d fit 
somewhere in the Agricultural Department.” 
-New York Herald: “There is no pro¬ 
fession which bears so great a responsibility 
or affords so many opportunities to serve the 
country as that of the really independent 
journalist.” 
-The Century: “Children are the cou¬ 
pons on the bonds of marriage ” 
-“White lies are the gentlemen ushers of 
the black ones.” 
-“Some people keep a friend as children 
have a toy bank into which they drop little 
coins now and again; and someday they draw 
out the whole of their savings at once ” 
-“It is only the unlucky who think fortune 
blind.” 
-Orange County Farmer: “ Noth'ng 
daunted by its failure last year, the Rural 
New-Yorker proposes to try again the task 
of raising potatoes at the rate of seven hun¬ 
dred bushels to the acre, by its trench system 
of culture. We hope success will crown its 
efforts. Even if failure again confront it, 
it will have the satisfaction of knowing it has 
done a good work and spread much valuable 
information among its readers. The Farmer 
has no petty jealousies in its make-up and can 
commend the good work of its contempor¬ 
aries as heartily as its own.” 
Thomas Meehan, in Garden and Forest: 
—“ When in the boyhood of the writer, some 
fifty years ago, the pansy came to be some 
three-quarters of an inch in width, and 
the florists gave the varieties distinctive 
names, it was regarded as a wonderful 
achievement of modern skill; But an old 
work on horticulture in Britain, called l Hor- 
tus Floridxis.' has recently been brought to 
light, issued two huudreti years ago, in which 
are pictures of pansies just as large and fine 
The query is, had the florists of those early 
times agents in their employ with exagger¬ 
ated picture-books, or were the pansies of 
those days as large and fine as those of our 
own time ?” 
A QUERY. 
what “subscriber” would like to know. 
We have recently received a letter from 
one of our well-known subscribers upon a 
subject which we prefer to publish for the 
perusal of our readers, anticipating that in so 
doing, some one will relieve us of the responsi¬ 
bility of answering “Subscriber’s” questions. 
Here is the letter: 
“Jfy Dear Editor-. For several years past 
I have been the recipient ot several pamphlets 
issued from time to time by Messrs. H. H. 
Warner & Co., of Rochester, N. Y., which, 
in addition to containing an extensive treatise 
upon kidney disease, its origin, usual symp¬ 
toms and growth, also includes numerous tes¬ 
timonials from parties whose fac-simile signa¬ 
tures are attached thereto, attesting the state¬ 
ment that they have been individually reliev¬ 
ed by the use of Warner’s Safe Cure, which is 
prepared by the above firm, for the use of 
persons so afflicted. Now, Mr. Editor, 1 would 
like to know if the statements made by those 
parties, who testify to the great good which 
Warner’s Safe Cure has done them, can be re¬ 
lied upon? They seem honest enough from 
the way they read. “ Warner’s Safe Cure 
saved my life after the doctors had given me 
up,” says John Doherty, 133 N. Main street, 
Concord, N. H. “I was given up to die with 
Bright’s Disease of the kidneys. The doctors 
said they could do nothing for me. A friend 
advised me to take Warner’s Safe Cure, and 
my family consider me as given back from 
the grave," says Mrs. Carrie A. Fry, of Watt- 
ena, Kan. Dr. L. B Rice, of Hanover C. H., 
Va., says that Warner’s Safe Cure cured him 
of Bright’s Disease. 
“Each pamphlet which I have received cor- 
tains a hundred or more testimonials, aud the 
same one does not appear in more than one 
pamphlet, so it seems that there are a good 
many who are being helped by lhat remedy. 
It strikes me that there is a good deal of 
sense in the claim which those parties make 
that the doctors are treating too many persons 
for wrong causes, and that oftentimes, people 
are treated for consumption, brain, heart and 
nervous disorders, when they are suffering 
from kidnev disease which should be treated, 
as they say, by the use of Warner’s Safe Cure 
and as a result, when disease is first removed 
therefrom, that which is supposed to be disease 
in the lungs or other organs, will disappear. 
Many of my neighbors tell me that this rem¬ 
edy has done much good for them—more good 
than their doctors. If kidney disease is the 
real cause of so many other diseases why, Mr. 
Editor, don’t the people who are afflicted 
with sickness, insist upon a more careful in¬ 
quiry being made, in order that the true cause 
may be ascertained, and the proper treatment 
given?” “Subscriber.” 
-Life: “It is when the Young Idea first 
begins to shoot that a little learning is a 
dangerous thing ” 
For Sick Headache 
l'*e Horslortl's Add Phosphate. 
Dr. M. W. Gray, Cave Spring, Ga., says: 
“ I have used it with perfect success in habit¬ 
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Dyspepsia 
Does not get well of itself; it requires careful, 
persistent attention and a remedy that will assist 
nature to throw off the causes and tone up the 
digestive organs till they perform their duties 
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of appetite, irregularities of the bowels, wind or 
gas and pain in the stomach, heart-burn, sour 
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Made 
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The late Dr. Austin Flint, professor in Belle¬ 
vue Hospital Medical College, Fellow of the 
New York Academy of Medicine, member of 
the State medical societies of New York, Vir¬ 
ginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, etc., says 
iu speaking of advanced kidney disease (or 
Bright’s) t “ Fatal termination is many times 
due to pericarditis (heart disease), apoplexy, 
difficult breathing, dropsy.” The foregoing 
are but symptoms of diseases. That being the 
case there is nothing absurd in the claim made 
by the proprietors of Warner’s Safe Cure that 
they prevent apoplexy and cure heart disease, 
etc., with Warnei’s Safe Cure. Why? Be¬ 
cause it removes the cause of disease, and 
when the cause is removed the symptom called 
fl. disease is cured, 
