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saw them in use, and I cannot see how granu¬ 
lated butter can be made with a Blanchard 
churn; but the granulation was perfect with 
the Stoddard. I told the man who had the 
Blanchard churn that I did not want one, and 
I never have changed my mind. I bought a 
Stoddard for making granulated butter: it is 
good enough for me and it is certainly easier 
to clean, and any one making a trial of the 
two will chose the Stoddard every time if he 
wants granulated butter aud a churn that is 
easy to clean. 
MORE ABOUT FLEA-BEETLES. 
S. F. B., Pataha, Washington.— Here is 
my experience with flea-beetles. Last July 
they came in such swarms as to cover my gar¬ 
den. All the radishes, turnips, cabbages, etc. 
were black with them. I did not know what 
to do, but commenced experimenting. First, 
I dusted the plants with hard-wood ashes; 
then wet them and put on more ashes, then 
lime, then salt water, several kinds of insect 
powder, snuff aud tobacco water, but all of 
these they seemed to like. The only remedy 
I found was to dust the plants with fine road 
dust. In that way I saved a few turnips, but 
perhaps the pests found something more to 
their liking. Yesterday I found them swarm 
ing over my mustard and turnips. Many 
thanks will be due to the Rural if it suc¬ 
ceeds in finding a remedy for this pest. This 
is a warm, dry month and acres upon acres of 
grain are burning so that farmers are turning 
stock upon it now. Water is getting low 
even in streams that have never been known 
to be shallow. If this weather holds a few 
weeks longer, many farmers will be in great 
need, for in this section there are hundreds 
who depend solely on wheat growing. This is 
not a fruit-growing region, but what orchards 
there are, are loaded with fruit of a flue 
quality. 
ASHES AND SOOT FOR THE FLEA BEETLE; 
BUSH LIMA BEANS. 
H. L. N., Newbern, Virginia.— The 
flea-beetles have appeared regularly on my 
potatoes for quite a number of years back, 
but never, except once, in such numbers as to 
threaten the destruction of the crop. On that 
occasion I got rid of them by the application 
of unleached hard-wood ashes. Two applica¬ 
tions caused them to disappear. The beetle is 
the same which destroys young cabbage 
plants. These plants could not be grown 
here if they were not kept dusted with soot 
or ashes. 
A note in the R. N.-Y., of June 8th says 
the new Bush Lima liean furnishes the start¬ 
ing point for a dwarf variety of the old Lima. 
The Rural has failed to notice that a dwarf 
variety of the Large Lima quite different 
from Henderson’s Dwarf Sieva, was offered 
this spring in the catalogue of the Northrup, 
Braslan & Goodwin Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 
The bean is claimed to be three fifths of an 
inch long, one-third of an inch broad and one- 
sixth of an inch thick, and cream yellow in 
color. The pods, containing from five to 
seven beans, are produced in clusters. 
R. N.-Y.—This is not a bush bean with us. 
in favor of agricultural colleges. 
C. F. O., Darien, Conn.— I am glad to see 
so many of the R. N.-Y. readers speak a good 
word for the agricultural college. I am not 
a college-bred farmer, I am sorry to say, but 
I would advise all young men who contem¬ 
plate following the farm for a living, to take a 
college course if possible. Let them learn all 
they can before they settle down on the farm; 
they will find plenty to learn afterward. 
While Professor Porter may be in a sense cor¬ 
rect when he says that a college education is 
not necessary foi a man to become a practical 
farmer, surely what is learned at the college 
will do no harm, aud 99 times out of 100 will 
prove of great beuefit, even if the student 
does not follow the farm at once for his liv¬ 
ing. While I am a young man aud am learn¬ 
ing all I can that pertains to agriculture, both 
from practice aud from the experience of 
others, still there is scarcely a day that passes 
without my seeing that those who have had a 
college course, have the advantage over me 
in many ways. So my advice to young men 
is to take a college course if they can. They 
will never regret it. 
ANOTHER GRADE JERSEY TEST. 
E. C. G., Penn Yan, N. Y.—Here is the 
result of a week’s test of my three-quarters 
Jersey two-year-old heifer. 
Total weight of milk 104 pounds. 
A verage per day 23}£ “ 
Total weight of cream 23 “ 
Total weight of butter 11 pounds, 10 ouuces. 
Fourteen per cent, of the milk was cream. 
This heifer had given milk about six weeks. 
For four weeks preceding and during the 
test she had no grain of any sort, only good 
pasture, salt, and water, and she wes confined 
in the barn-yard every night. The cream was 
churned in a Davis Swing churn at a temper¬ 
ature of 04 degrees for 30 minutes; the butter¬ 
milk was drawn off, and the butter washed 
in cold water till the water ran clear. It was 
then salted, one ounce to the pound, while 
worked in a Lilly butter-worker. Age and 
feed considered, who can beat this record? 
Let me say a word for the Davis Swing 
churn—ours has been in use six years and we 
consider it perfect in every way. 
Potato Seedlings.— Our friend “Joseph,’ 
in our esteemed contemporary Farm and Fire¬ 
side, h8S the following: 
“It is the simplest thing in the world to 
produce a lot of potato seedlings from the 
seed (provided you have it). The seed sprouts 
very readily, and makes strong plants that 
can be transplanted with the greatest ease. 
But now the trouble begins. The potato-bee¬ 
tle is very fond of the young aud tender fo¬ 
liage. This pest has just ruined a patch of 
seedlings for me, and not a single plant es¬ 
caped—all met the same fate. Fortunately, 
I have plenty more seedlings in the frame, 
and when I set them, which will be in a few 
days, I shall cover each with one of my un¬ 
patented plant pots, and dust them thoroughly 
and often with peroxide of silicate. I feel con¬ 
fident this treatment will insure their safety, 
and when the protection has to be taken away 
from them, the Paris-green remedy, I think, 
will keep them from very serious harm.’’ 
The R. N.-Y. was the first of the rural 
papers to raise potatoes from seed in so far as 
the writer is aware. This was some 12 years 
ago. We have, since that time advocated 
seedling potato culture without much letup. 
Our view has been that farmers may raise 
seedlings that will be found to be better 
adapted to their farms than any of the hun¬ 
dreds of kinds offered for sale. Then again 
in the case of a lucky hit, the variety might 
be sold to some enterprising seedsman for a 
price that would well repay the producer for 
all his time and trouble. As “Joseph” says, 
the seeds will sprout about as readily as to¬ 
mato seeds. Again, as he says, the trouble 
begins when the little tender plants are set 
out in the open ground. The beetles attack 
both leaf aud stem and destroy them in a few 
days. The seedlings can not be saved by any 
application of arsenic or other poisons. The 
leaves and stems which the beetles or grubs 
will eat before they are killed will destroy 
the vines. Besides, they are so tender that they 
cannot even stand the application of plaster 
alone—much less of poisoned plaster. We 
will guarantee, friend Joseph, that you will 
kill every vine to which you apply peroxide 
of silicate. Kindly let us know the result of 
your trial. 
The R. N.-Y. method, and it is a successful 
one, is to thump the plants from the little 
pots aud set them a foot apart in rows three 
feet apart.. 
Mosquito netting, one yard wide, is then 
stretched lengthwise of.the rows aud support¬ 
ed above the vines by sticks placed at inter¬ 
vals of four feet, thus like the rafters of a 
double pitch roof, and the peaks are con¬ 
nected by horizontal sticks tied to the peaks, or 
where the two sticks meet, giving all needed 
support to the netting above, while the edges 
on either side are held in place below merely 
by covering them with an inch of soil. We 
have now a mosquito two-pitched covering 
which is quickly made aud at merely the cost 
of the netting. This protects the vines 
thoroughly until they fill the triangular space 
when they are large and strong enough to 
stand poisoned plaster, and the netting may 
lie removed to be used a second time the next 
season. 
BRIEFS. 
Professor Budd of Ames, Iowa, deems the 
Downer’s Prolific still the best strawberry 
for home use. 
A writer in the American Florist gives a 
description of a visit to the island-home of 
C. A. Dana. He takes occasion to speak of 
Mr. Dana’s accomplished superintendent as 
follows: 
“Mr. Falconer is an enthusiast, caring noth¬ 
ing for labor so that his eyes and heart may 
be gladdened by the vigor and beauty of the 
plants he delights in. His knowledge is gained 
by the most careful aud thorough study. For 
lf> years it has been his habit to collate 
all the facts that can possibly be known con¬ 
cerning the innumerable plants of which he 
has had charge.” 
There is no other writer upon horticultural 
topics in general whose articles are more 
highly prized than those of VV illiam Falconer. 
Well they may be. He writes from exper¬ 
ience gained by a thorough early education 
in the pursuit of his choice. 
William Falconer mentions, in that ex¬ 
cellent journal the American Florist, that of 
his collection of lilacs he prefers Marie Le- 
graye. Not only are the panicles of immense 
size, but they are produced in extravagant 
abundance, and the plant is a capital grower. 
The new climbing Perle des Jardins, Miss 
Taplin says, in the same journal, is a beauti¬ 
ful rose that will naturally excel the old fav¬ 
orite, Niel, in its constant blooming. 
Miss Taplin also remarks, while speaking 
of the R. N.-Y. Rosa rugosa seedling, that 
there is no doubt it will be an admirable out¬ 
door rose; its vigor, hardiness and incessant 
blooming are the qualities that will make it 
popular. 
The reason why more men do not make 
dairying pay, says the Dairy World, is be¬ 
cause they refuse to believe that there is any 
study or investigation needed in regard to 
the care, treatment and management of the 
dairy. If they chance on a success, they call 
it luck: and if they fail, they never investi¬ 
gate the matter to see wherein they fail, so 
as to steer clear of a repetition. Success in 
the dairy depends entirely upon the dairy¬ 
man. A good dairyman, first of all, will 
see that he has the necessary appliances to in¬ 
sure success—good cows, suitable feed and 
buildings, and the proper utensils and know¬ 
ledge for turning out a first-class product. In 
fact the intelligent and enterprising dairy¬ 
man would be satisfied with nothing less. 
Remember to try Japanese buckwheat. 
“Do all fine butter makers follow essen¬ 
tially the same rule?” is a question answered 
in the Ohio Farmer by a noted dairy author¬ 
ity. They do not, he says. No two exactly 
agree, and some show wide variance, but, 
after all, a similarity runs through all the dif¬ 
ferent makes. Milking a good cow, gen¬ 
erously fed, well housed and kindly treated, 
milk set as quickly as can be after milking, 
cream taken off before the milk sours, and 
churning at a pleasant acidity, are the rules 
with 99 out of every JX) fancy butter 
makers. They wash out the butter-milk with 
water. Most of them use weak brine. They 
use less salt, about an ounce to the pound, in 
the wet butter, which leaves a half ounce or 
less of salt to a pound of finished butter. No 
butter maker of great reputation holds butter 
for a better price, but sells as fast as made. 
This is now substantially the royal road of 
the butter makers, and he doubts if any one 
to-day is getting top market prices for butter 
made by the methods of 20 years ago. 
“The farmer’s dollar is heavy,” says Em¬ 
erson, in one of his admirable essays; “it is no 
waif to him. He knows how many strokes 
of his labor it represents. His Dones ache 
with the day’s work that earned it. He 
knows how much land it represents—how 
much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows 
that in the dollar he T gives you so much dis¬ 
cretion and patience, so much hoeing and 
thrashing. Try to lift his dollar, you must 
lift all that weight.”. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Puck: 
“Country And City: Miss Sheafe.— Ah, 
look at that wheat rising and fallinglyonder 
in the breeze! How beautiful! 
Mr. Weetfit.—Ah, but you ought to see it 
rising aud falling in the Produce Exchange!” 
-Professor S. W. Johnson: “If you put 
potash or phosphoric acid on a soil of average 
quality, you need not fear that any surplus 
not consumed by the current crops will go to 
waste. The soil, if it be anything better than 
a sand pit or a gravel-bank, will retain these 
elements with a firm grasp. It is otherwise 
with lime, with sulphuric acid, aud especially 
with nitrogen. These substances are more 
freely soluble in water, aud are therefore 
liable to be carried down or away by heavy 
leading rains. To conserve them against loss 
is as important as to restore them when defic¬ 
ient, and amending the texture of the soil, in¬ 
creasing its water-storing power by suitable 
tillage, by incorporating with it porous vege¬ 
table matters in stable manure or buried 
green crops, is a necessary part of any ration¬ 
al system of treatment.” 
-Orange Co. Farmer: “Too many fields 
of buckwheat are destroyed by frosts. We 
think it safe to estimate that a thousand 
bushels are lost by early frosts for every 
bushel that is taken from the crop aggregate 
by too early plautiug.” 
-Colman’s Rural World: “The cream¬ 
ery boom has evidently struck the State of 
Missouri. From a number of points comes 
the information that contracts have been 
made with men in that line of business, and 
that thousands of dollars, generally six or 
seven thousand, are being put into a single 
plant.” 
-Kansas City Live-Stock Indicator: 
“No matter how much a farmer fancies he 
knows, while he breeds to a scrub or grade 
sire his progress will be like that of a man 
walking on keen ice, up hill, in comparison 
with that of an adept on skates.” 
-Western Rural: “Trusts are organized 
to steal other people’s money. They are a 
conspiracy to pick people’s pockets; they are 
operated upon the same theory that the high¬ 
way-man adopts. He puts his victim in his 
power and commands him toj deliver or be 
shot. He does not argue. His pistol does his 
talking. The trust does not argue. It comes 
with its sugar and demands your money, or 
you will drink your coffee without sugar. It 
comes with its twine and demands its price 
or you can go without twine; it comes with 
its oil and robs you because you must have 
oil. It is organized, systematic robbery, and 
it is done in the sacred name of law. That 
is the most galling part of it. A government 
of the people, by the people and for the people 
permits a few conscienceless plunderers to 
rob the millions, without so much as a remon¬ 
strance. A discussion has just been settled 
by a Chicago court that the gas trust is prac¬ 
tically legal. It sometimes seems as if govern¬ 
ment was expressly organized for the protec¬ 
tion and encouragement of the well dressed 
villains of society. 
-Life: “While Europe is industriously 
engaged in shipping her paupers and convicts 
to the United States, the United States is just 
as busy shipping her millionaires and their 
families to Europe. It doesn’t take a political 
economist to determine in whose favor is the 
balance of trnde.” 
-Insect Life: “We learn from the Cali¬ 
fornia Florist and Garden for March, 1889, 
that during the year 1S88 there were imported 
into the United States from Dalmatia and 
other places between 200 and 300 tons of dry 
pyrethrum flowers, while California’s product 
was 52 tons.” 
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. 
If you are Nervous, 
and cannot sleep, try it.— Adv. 
PisreHattMujei §(dv*rtis(ittg. 
Scrofula 
ProbaWlr 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 made by C. I. HOOD Jfc CO., 
Lowell, Mass., and is sold by all druggists. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
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Stops Pain, Cramps. Inflammation in body or limb, 
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35 eta. post-paid. I. S. JOHNSON CO., Boston, Mass. 
Beeeham’s Pills act like magic on a weak stomach. 
