the rural hew-yorker. 
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C. F. V., Darien, Conn.— The two horse 
pictures lately published by the R. N.-Y. 
when placed side by side need no further ex¬ 
planation. Their appearance speaks louder 
than words. The contrast makes one think, 
not only of the abuses many horses suffer.but 
also of the unnecessary hardships endured by 
stock of all kinds. There is evidently some 
difference in the ages of these two horses; but 
this brings out more forcibly the fact that the 
older the animal the more subject it is to 
abuse and neglect. Care and kindness will 
produce more flesh and work from the horse 
than roughness and neglect with twice as 
much grain and hay. This also applies to 
oxen, and milk or butter from the cows; also 
to the growth and appearance of the young 
stock. Brother farmers,don’t let us treat our 
stock when alone with them as we would not 
treat them when friends arid neighbors are 
about. Don’t let us allow cruelty from the 
hired help either. 
ashes for currant worms. 
F. D. C., Charlton. N. Y.—White helle¬ 
bore is the common remedy for the worms on 
currants and gooseberries. There is no doubt 
of its being effectual when thoroughly ap¬ 
plied. 1 found my gooseberries and currants 
- covered with worms, a few days ago, and in 
some cases they had about eaten up all of the 
leaves on the gooseberries. The pests vyere of 
all sizes. There was no hellebore at hand 
and something must be done at once Pai s 
of water and wood ashes were brought. 
With a watering pot the bushes were 
thoroughly wetted and then the ashes were 
dusted over them. The next day not a worm 
was to be seen. This is a cheaper destructive 
agent than hellebore, and something a farmer 
always has on hand. My success in saving 
these berries has pleased me so much that I 
hasten to tell the Rural readers of it. 
At The Vermont Experiment Station 
last year a test was made of the different 
methods of planting that are possible, with the 
Eclipse corn planter. The field was heavily 
fertilized with chemicals, 200 pounds per acre 
being put in the hill or drill with the machine 
and the rest scattered broadcast. The rows 
were each 36 inches apart. The first two 
rows were planted with the planter set to 
drop five kernels in a hill,36 inches apart; the 
next two rows with the machine set to drop 
tb ree kernels every 24 inches: the next two ro ws 
two kernels each 12 inches and the next two 
rows were intended to be one kernel each six 
inches Then the whole set was repeated and 
then repeated again, making six long rows for 
each of the four methods of planting. It is 
not to be understood that these kernels were 
planted exactly as they were designed, for on 
rough ground the planter varies slightly in the 
number put in a hill, and sometimes scatters 
between hills. The trial was with the planter 
just as it would be used in ordinary farm 
P The six rows ol each of the four methods 
were weighed separately after the corn had 
stood several weeks in the shock and vas 
quite well dried. 
Method of W’q’t of 
Planting kak corn. 
Hills 36 in apart. S 90 
i« •* " 343 
4. *• M 303 
.I g ** “ 224 
W’O'TOF TOTiLW’O'T 
STOVER. OF CROP. 
1003 1393 
10'5 1858 
980 1283 
1819 1513 
It will be noticed that the two extremes did 
better than either of the meaus, the one ex¬ 
treme excelling in ear corn and the other in 
stover. Tnis would seem to indicate that for 
ensilage and fodder the greater weight can be 
obtained by quite close planting, yet as no an¬ 
alyses were made it is not certain that the 36- 
inch planting did not give more real animal 
food than the 6-inch, since it grew a much 
larger amount of grain, and a pound of its 
more fully grown and perfected stalks was 
probably worth more for feeding than the less 
mature and more watery stalks of the closely 
plauted rows. 
BY THE SHORT WAY. 
« >J« HB R. n.-Y. ventures to predicta very 
dry season, for trie East at least. Come now, 
Brother R. N. -Y„ please quit that. The Farm 
Journal knows nothing about future weath¬ 
er, neither do you, nor is your guess worth 
more than ours, which is nix.” 
We don’t profess to know anything about 
“future weather” either. Nevertheless, the pre¬ 
diction is somewhat more than a mere guess. 
Fortwo seasons in succession we have had con¬ 
siderably more than an average rainfall. 
During the past winter the rainfall was ex¬ 
cessive. This therefore, brother F. J., is why 
the R. N.-Y. predicts tor the East a very dry 
season. The prediction is reasonable enough; 
isn’t it?. 
In the same issue the F. J. tells us how we 
may cure biliousness and dyspepsia: 
“A milk diet, with a little lean meat and 
two vegetables for dinner, and brown bread 
at each meal, continued for three months, 
will often cure a bad case of dyspepsia.’ 
Will our much esteemed friend tell us ivhat 
two vegetables? Two potatoes, two heads of 
lettuce, two green peas, two cabbages? Or 
shall we be allowed one green pea and one 
potato; one head of lettuce and one cabbage; 
one onion and one tomato, etc. ?.. 
Colonel Curtis says that butter may be 
made in the summer in a small dairy and 
packed away for winter’s use if it is properly 
made The cream should be churned at least 
within three days after it is taken from the 
milk. The flr 3 t two days it should be kept in 
a temperature not above 55 degrees. The 
butter milk should be well worked out, and 
the butter packed in glazed stone jars and then 
covered with brine and set in a dry,cool place, 
where there are no bad odors. The cream 
should be taken from the milk within -4 
hours after setting. If left longer it will 
be damaged. The jars may be small. The 
sooner the jar Is filled and the brine put on 
the better. 
We need not look for large grapes and large 
bunches if the vine be permitted to bear all 
that set, assuming the vine to be a heavy 
bearer. Thin out the bunches so that each 
shoot shall have ODly its share. A good way 
to ruin a grape vine for years or forever is to 
let it bear a fufl crop. Confine spring-set 
plants to one or two shoots. In older vines, 
pinch out all but one shoot proceeding from a 
single axil. To protect the bunches from rose- 
bugs,etc., it is well to bag them as soon as the 
berries set. If bagged while in bloom, many 
berries will fail to set. 
The simplest way of making the kerosene 
emulsion is that, advocated by Professor A. J. 
Cook. Soft soap, one quart, or hard soap 
one-fourth of a pound; two quarts 
of hot water and one pint of kerosene. 
Stir or shake these until all are permanently 
mixed. Then add 10 pints of water. This 
will make just about two gallons in all. Is 
not that right, Professor Cook?. 
The Minnesota Experiment Station burnt a 
part of a plot of Orchard grass, while a thick 
mat on the other portion was left Decided 
injury to the burnt half was noticed during 
the entire season. Not only was the first crop 
thinner, six inches shorter, and of a somewhat 
sickly color, but the second crop also plainly 
showed the bad effects of the burning. 
“We have just learned that the Cucumber 
Flea beetles, which cut down the potatoes on 
the R. N.-Y. famous contest patch of last 
year have again been devouring the tops of 
the early potatoes in the corresponding plats 
this year. We are informed also that none 
of the remedies tried have been successful yet, 
and that so many have been used that it is 
feared they have injured the foliage of the 
plants. Here is a case in which one would 
have supposed the grower would have bem 
forewarned and forearmed. But, really, all 
the men of science reported that the insects 
were not likely to be troublesome a second 
year. And, again, the beetles last year did 
the damage before it was known what the 
plague really was, and perhaps the R. N.-Y. 
thought that if it watched and detected the 
beetles in the act it could defeat them. But 
in this it seems to have been mistaken. The 
moral of all this is, that even when we exer¬ 
cise all due caution some tiny insect will blast 
all our hopes.”. 
The above is from our respected contem¬ 
porary the Philadelphia Press. Yes, we were 
forewarned and thought we were forearmed. 
We were told bv at least four persons that to¬ 
bacco water would kill or drive them away 
It was the first remedy tried. Then we tried 
tobacco soap. Then both together. It didn t 
discomfit them in the Dast. It is true that 
the application of so many repellents and 
poisous has injured the vines. Those o one 
trench, it was thought were so injured th«t 
they would probably die. They were pulled 
up and another variety planted. These last 
will stand a poor show since, it is feared, the 
rows on either side will meet before they can 
get a good start. As was stated two weeks ago, 
unleached wood ashes seem to repel this per¬ 
nicious insect. We poison the ashes, instead of 
plaster as hitherto, with London-purple or 
Paris-green. Why is not it a good plan?There 
is no better fertilizer for potatoes than ashes 
if we add nitrogen in some form. 
Cut the Orchard grass before it blooms. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
will soon learn what food is most profitable 
for him.” 
_Washington Critic: “It is about time 
now to turn the hoes on the corn-field’. 
_.“But the tongue can no man tame; it is 
an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” 
_ John Minnet, in Farm Journal: 1 No 
corn or corn meal should be fed to the sow for 
several days after the pigs are born? Bran 
and water are all the food required. If this diet 
be had for a week before the pigs are due it 
would be better. 1 
_“The sow with a litter of new-born pigs 
should not be disturbed for 24 hours. 
In a natural state they will not leave the nest 
for two or three days. The placenta furnishes 
the needful food.” 
_««A little bed is best for the breeding 
sow. The new-born pigs get tangled in the 
straw when there is too much, and they get 
under it and the sow lies on them. They 
should always be in sight. A dry,hard bed is 
best.” 
_“It is possible to rear pigs so as to to have 
75 per cent, of lean meat in them. This can 
be accomplished by feeding bran, middlings 
and skim-milk, or bran and middlings. Hogs 
need salt as much a3 any other animal.” 
_“A ten-hour husband ought not to have 
a sixteen-hour wife. Reform, brother, at 
once.” 
_.“Fine wire netting will not ‘kill three birds 
with one atone,’ but it will keep three pestifer¬ 
ous enemies from young fruit trees if proper¬ 
ly applied: Get a roll of such as is used on fly 
screens, and cut into strips eight or ten inches 
wide, and as long as the roll is wide, and wind 
them the long way around a broom handle to 
give them the proper ‘set.’ Spring one of 
these open and let It coil itself around each 
young tree. It will ‘give’ with the growth of 
the tree, and neither mouse, rabbit, nor borer 
can get through it.” 
_Farmers’ Review. “In the official report 
of the State Board of Agriculture of Ohio for 
December, 1833. the analysis’of the Western 
Reserve Fertilizer. Jonathan Warner, Mineral 
Ridge, Ohio, is given as follows: 
Per cent, of ammonia. 
Total per cent of phosphoric acid.trace 
Per cent, of potash.’ ' 
Commercial value of potash .. 
Estimated value of fertilizer per ton ... 
SUCH is the commercial value of the con¬ 
stituents of a ton of this fertilizer as foundby 
the Ohio State Board of Agriculture in 1888^ 
A wagon load of earth from a corn field 
should show better than this, and a ton of 
leached hard-wood ashes would show much 
better.” 
_Henry STEWART:-“The farmer works 
less than the average business man in spite of 
the prevalent belief that he is a toiling slave, 
laboring ‘from sun to sun.’ This is a fiction 
of the imagination of people who know noth¬ 
ing of farm life, for a good farmer, even one 
who works up to the high pressure, has more 
leisure than a mercantile clerk or his em¬ 
ployer.” 
_“The great advantage of soiling cattle 
is that it is exceedingly comfortable for the 
cows, insuring full feeding with the best food, 
the largest supply of the best milk, and the 
ease and comfort of the owner. There is no 
driving of the cows, no wasted time of the 
owner, everything is done with ease and at 
the right time, and there is a certain rogu’ar- 
ity about the work which takes away all the 
laboriousness and worry from it.” 
_Talmage: “The trouble is,my friends, 
that the people do not understand the ethics of 
going in debt, and that if you purchase goods 
with no expectation of paying for them, or go 
into debts which you cannot meet, you steal 
just so much money. If I go into a grocer s 
store and I buy sugars, coffees and meats, 
with no capacity to pay for them and no in¬ 
tention of paving for them, I am more dis¬ 
honest than if I go into the store, and when 
the grower’s face is turned the other way.l fill 
my pockets with the articles of merchandise 
and carry off a ham. In the one case I take 
the merchant’s time and I take the time of his 
messenger to transfer the goods to my Inuse, 
while in the other ease I take none of the time 
of the merchant, and I wait upon myself and 
I transfer the goods without any trouble to 
him In other words, a sneak thief is not so 
bad as a man who contracts for debts he r ever 
expects to pay.” 
_Philadelphia Weekly Press: “Eve-y- 
body knows better than to eat in a hurry and 
without suffnient mastication. Everybody 
knows it is a crime to satisfy his aopetite and 
then to overload his stomach because some 
rich dessert is offered him. Everybody knows 
that food fried in grease is indigestible; that 
hot bread is less wholesonn than stale bread, 
and that tobacco is not a nutritious article of 
food. The farmer who is as careful about 
his own stomach as he is of his horse’s or cow’s 
_H. Y. Sun; “Dr. George B. Loring, our 
Minister to Portugal, has been commissioned 
by the New England Agricultural Society to 
try the experiment of grafting barbed wire 
on the cork tree with a view of producing 
cork-screws at reduced rates.” 
The American Agriculturist, speaking 
of rose-bugs, tells its readers that arsenical 
poisons, kerosene emulsions, pyrethrum pow¬ 
der and all the usual insecticides have proved 
powerless against this sturdy pest, which de¬ 
fies everything except actual capture y 
^ot so, friend. Buhsch, either the powder 
or water solution, will bring them down in 20 
minutes or less. If applied every day, during 
their short period of existence, all sorts of 
plants which they attack, will be effectually 
protected. The R. N.-Y. was the first to dis¬ 
cover this remedy, and the A. A. ought to tell 
its readers about it. The Bordeaux mixture 
is thought by Col. Pierson to be a remedy 
also 
••The office should seek the man, but it 
should inspect him thoroughly before taking 
him.” 
•‘Stilts are no better in conversation than 
in a foot-race.” 
The Good Samaritan helps the unfortunate 
way-farer without asking how he intends to 
vote.” 
‘•It is the foolish aim of the atheist to scan 
infinitude with a microscope.” 
“When poverty comes in at the cottage 
door, true love goes at it with an ax.’ —Cen¬ 
tury. 
For Nervous Exhaustion. 
Use Borslord’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. H. C McCoy. Algona, la., says: “f have 
used it in cases of dyspepsia, nervous exhaus¬ 
tion and wakefulness, with pleasant results. 
Also thins it of great service in depressed 
condition ot the system resulting from biliary 
derangement. ”— A.dv. 
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We do not claim that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is th* 
only medicine deserving public confidence, but 
wo 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. If it be¬ 
comes contaminated, the train of consequences 
bv which the health is undermined is immeasur¬ 
able. Loss of Appetite. Low Spirits, Headache, 
Dyspepsia, Debility, Nervousness and other 
“little (?) ailments” are the premonitions of 
more serious and often fatal results. Try 
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