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THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
P ROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN 
FORESTRY CONGRESS.—The re¬ 
port of the meeting held at Atlanta, Ga., 
last December, makes a pamphlet of 55 pages. 
All who are interested in forestry will find 
something to interest them in this pamphlet. 
Minnesota Experiment Station.— Bulle¬ 
tin No. 7 of this institution contains a number 
of interesting articles. This station seems 
to be doing good work. Its bulletins are al¬ 
ways readable and plain. Some experiments 
have been made to try to determine the best 
varieties of corn for ensilage. This is an im¬ 
portant matter in a State like Minnesota 
where the silo is becoming a recognized feat¬ 
ure of stock farming. Most of the silo advo¬ 
cates have urged farmers to plant the large 
Southern corn for ensilage. Because this corn 
gave a large, fine-looking stalk, it was sup¬ 
posed to be superior to local corns for the 
silo. Last year Prof. Porter of the Minnesota 
Station,conducted some experiments that went 
to prove that flint corn, such as was ordi¬ 
narily grown in the State, gave more value in 
silage than the larger Southern corn. This 
year’s experiments, quite elaborately con¬ 
ducted, indicate the same thing. The fact 
seems to be that the local corn that gives best 
results for grain and stalk in any given local¬ 
ity is also the best ensilage corn that 
can be found. This has been shown 
at other stations and it seems pretty well set¬ 
tled. Some experiments with warm water 
for cows show the same results as those of last 
year. There was practically no difference in 
effect from the warming of water to 70 de¬ 
grees or cooling it to 82 degrees or ice-cold 
when given to cattle which were comfortably 
warm at the time. There is quite an inter¬ 
esting article on cross-fertilizing corn, which 
the R. N—Y. will refer to at a later date, as 
also an illustrated article on washing and salt¬ 
ing butter. Some drawings of different 
methods of constructing greenhouse walls are 
very well done. As a result of his experi¬ 
ments, Prof. Green remarks that probably the 
cheapest warm wall for general farm pur¬ 
poses is one made of wood with a four-inch 
air-space which is filled with dry sawdust or 
some other good non-conducting material. 
When a hollow wall is to be filled with saw¬ 
dust or similar material, it is all-important 
that the material should be dry when put in 
and then be so protected that it cannot get 
wet either from water coming in at the top or 
the sides. 
In making a dead-air space the sides of the 
wall should be tight both inside and out, in 
order to prevent any circulation ot air and to 
have it a true dead-air space. Dead air is 
the best of non-conductors, but its efficiency 
depends to a great extent upon the number 
of times it is broken up and multiplied. 
While dry sawdust gave very excellent re¬ 
sults as a filling for walls in this case, it is 
probable that dry chaff, cut straw or hay 
would answer nearly as well for the same 
purpose. 
Alfalfa.—Its Growth, Composition, 
Digestibility, etc.— This is the title of Bulle¬ 
tin No. 8 from the Colorado Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, lort Collins, Colo. It seems hard for 
C olorado people to say too much in praise of 
Alfalfa. Many Eastern farmers have tried 
the plant, with varying success, but after 
they have said all they possibly can in its favor, 
the fact remains that Alfalfa attains its high¬ 
est state of perfection in the dry, hot regions of 
the West. Nature designs this wonderful 
plant to fit in where other plants might fail. 
This being the case, it is right for the Colorado 
fetation to seek to determine the best modes of 
culture and handling. We give below the 
substance of what the station has determined. 
I or hay use 20 to 25 pounds of seed; for seed, 
12 to 1(5 pounds. For hay on sandy soil, sow 
the seed alone; on cloddy or clayey soil, sow 
wheat, oats and barley in small quantity. 
Timothy and Orchard graisuvu witu Alfal¬ 
fa, keep it from lodging, and become a prevent¬ 
ive of hoven in the feeding of cattle and 
sheep. Sow with a drill, as soon as all fear 
of frost is gone. Cut just before bloomiug— 
somewhat earlier than Red clover. When 
slightly wilted, rake into windrows and then 
put in small cocks to be cured. Alfalfa is a 
dangerous pasture for cattle or sheep. When 
fed green or wet it seems to have a greater ten¬ 
dency to blout cattle and sheep than any 
other forage. 
Some experiments were made to determine 
the comparative chemical value of Alfalfa 
and also its digestibility as compared with 
other food8. Here are the conclusions: 
1. The quantity produced by the many cut¬ 
tings make it much more valuable than the 
other clovers or grasses. 
2. It is as digostible as clover hay, constit¬ 
uent by constituent. 
o. Its chemical composition shows that it is 
a rich, strong food, when properly cured. 
4. Its feeding qualities are excellent, being 
relished by all farm animals. 
5. It is also an excellent flesh and milk-pro¬ 
ducer. In general, it will do to say that it 
has about all the good qualities of a forage 
plant, with very few poor ones. It has shown 
a tendency to split up, or diverge into several 
well marked varieties, under careful cultiva¬ 
tion. 
American Veterinary College.— The 
catalogue of this institution, which is located 
at 139 and 141 West 54th. Street, New York, 
is sent by the Dean, Dr. A. Liautard. This 
is an excellent college, and its popularity in¬ 
creases year by year. Located, as it is, in this 
great city, it is possible for the managers to 
secure a vast number of sick or wounded 
animals for treatment, and this work, of an 
eminently practical nature, is made a very 
strong feature of the college course. The 
R. N.-Y. has frequently pointed out the pos¬ 
sibilities open to the skilled veterinarian. We 
can only say that this college affords excel¬ 
lent facilities for securing a thorough ground¬ 
work in the principles of the science. 
“ Murray ” Buggies and Harness. —Cat¬ 
alogue from the Wilber H. Murray Manufac¬ 
turing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Every reader 
of the R. N.-Y. ought to be interested in a 
good bargain. It is also highly probable that 
90 per cent, of its readers need a harness or a 
carriage of some sort. It naturally follows 
that this catalogue will be apt to give them 
about as much pleasure as any similar volume 
ever can. Farmers will be sorry if they do 
not look into this matter. The prices quoted 
for harness and buggy are certainly very lib¬ 
eral. The goods, as we are informed, are 
well-made and durable. “ No pool for us *’ 
is the firm’s motto. If these prices are the re¬ 
sult of that decision, what must be the profit 
on harness and carriages sola by others? 
Send for particulars to the above-named 
firm. 
Whitman Agricultural Co., St. Louis, 
Mo.—The new catalogue of this excellent 
house is an elegant affair. The fine hay 
presses for which the Whitmans are famous, 
would bring credit enough to any house, yet 
it appears that there are dozens of other im¬ 
plements made at St. Louis, the making of 
any one of which would afford business for 
an ordinary manufacturing company. Horse¬ 
powers, wood-sawing machines, corn-shellers, 
grinders, cider-presses, seed-sowers, harrows, 
scrapers, trucks, cars, cutters—in fact just 
about everything. There are 175 or more 
pictures of implements. This statement gives 
an idea of the wonderful business conducted 
by the Whitman Company. This is a fine 
house to do business with. 
The Greater Half of the Continent.— 
This is the title of an article originally written 
by Mr. Erastus Wirnan for the North Amer¬ 
ican Review. It has been reprinted in 
pamphlet form and quite extensively dis¬ 
tributed throughout the northern portion 
of the United States. Mr. Wiman, as is quite 
generally known, is an enthusiastic advocate 
of a “ commercial union ” between the United 
States and Canada. His object in preparing 
this pamphlet was to make a special plea for 
Canadian resources and possibilities, so that 
the “Yankees" might understand that the 
proposed “ commercial union ” would not be 
such a jug-handled affair after all. And he 
certainly makes out a very good case for Can¬ 
ada. Without Alaska, the United States in¬ 
clude 3,03(5,000 square miles. Canada fills out 
3,470,392 square miles! We think so much of 
our own country that we are apt to think 
of Canada as a narrow strip of laud along tho 
St. Lawrence river, forgetting all about the 
immense areas of undeveloped, yet wonder¬ 
fully fertile lands that stretch away to the 
north and west. Another popular Amer¬ 
ican idea, is the belief that Canada is a 
region of frost and snow—most of it a 
sterile and inhospitable waste. Mr. Wi¬ 
man combats this idea, and undertakes 
to prove that the Canadian climate has, on 
the whole, as few drawbacks as are to be 
found in any section. Between the lines of 
latitude which include the greater portions of 
the Dominion, he says the development in the 
United States has been most marked. Noth¬ 
ing in the history of the world can 
equal the development of the com¬ 
merce of the great lakes. Another 
test of climatic advantage is found in the 
ability of Canadian soils to produce wheat. 
The steady movement of the wheat-produc- 
iug regions of this continent has been to the 
north. Plenty of R. N.-Y. readers can re¬ 
member when the Genesee Valley in New 
York State was the great producing region, 
with Rochester as the “ Flour City.’’ The 
wheat region has moved. The nursery and 
seed business has made It necessary tor 
Rochester to spell her name differently as 
“ Flower City.” Minneapolis is now the center 
for wheat and flour, because the wheat-pro¬ 
ducing regions have moved north and west. 
" 
They must go on in the same direction. Are 
the 4 4 British capitalists ” who are reported as 
buying up flouring mills foolish or do they 
know that within a few years the natural 
course of wheat culture will drive the 
profitable region over the Canadian 
line? Canada is dotted with lakes and 
streams. These tend to equalize temperature 
and at the same time provide an abundance 
of fish-food. The distance between Hudson 
and James Bays and the large cities of our 
Western and Northwestern States is much les3 
than that between these cities and the Atlan¬ 
tic ocean. The fish that fill these bays could 
be transported to the Western cities much 
more easily than they are now brought from 
our coast. Mr. Wiman finds an agricultural 
advantage even in the intense cold of the 
Northern Canadian winters. Ages of long 
winters have produced a frost line in the 
earth far down below the surface. During 
the warm Canadian summer, so Mr. Wiman 
argues, this bed of frost is turned, by the 
bright sunshine, into a well-spring of moisture, 
constantly exuding and supplying the deli¬ 
cate roots of the wheat plant with needed 
food and drink. Canada is also admirably 
suited for the production of barley for brew¬ 
ing purposes. As for timber, there seems ab¬ 
solutely no limit to the forests of pine and 
other valuable woods that await the wood¬ 
man's axe. And these forests are just as 
conveniently located as regards trans¬ 
portation facilities, as are those of Michi¬ 
gan or Wisconsin. And again with 
minerals, Mr. Wiman claims that no coun¬ 
try in the world possesses so much iron as 
Cauada, in no land is it so easily mined, and 
nowhere is it quite so easily accessible to man¬ 
ufacturing centers. Copper, nickel, gold and 
silver are also found, while thousands of 
square miles of coal deposits are known to be 
ready for the miner. Add to this the vast 
stores of mineral phosphates that Canada 
boasts and we have a dazzling array of min¬ 
eral wealth. 
Now, says Mr. Wiman, “What destiny 
awaits it allHis answer is summed up in 
a few words: 44 A political union, to those 
best informed, seems most difficult and dis¬ 
tant. To these, however, a commercial 
union which, so far as trade and commerce 
are concerned, would be just as advantageous, 
is among the early attainable possibilities.” 
In a recent address before the students of 
Colby University in Maine, General B. F. 
Butler discussed this question of a 44 commer¬ 
cial union ” with Canada, which is certainly 
the most important question of the day to 
those who live along the Canadian line. Gen. 
Butler referred to the surprise frequently ex¬ 
pressed, that Canada did not join with the 13 
American colonies in the War of the Revolu¬ 
tion. At that time Canada was no more a Brit¬ 
ish province than Virginia or New York. She 
had a large French population which fact 
would seem to make her hostile to England. 
Why did she not rebel? It appears that the 
Pope refused to allow the Canadian Catholics 
to take sides against England. His belief 
was that England would conquer America. 
Iu that case, those who remained true to Eng¬ 
lish interest would be surest of reward. The 
Pope was mistaken as to the result of the war. 
Suppose Canada had joined the 13 colonies! 
Would the history of this continent have been 
different* 
and bed-rooms in the second story. In warm, 
damp weather there is a sour, sickish odor 
coming from his pen, and when the windows 
are open it comes into my house. 1 have re¬ 
monstrated with him twice tor keeping his 
hens so close to my house, to the annoyance 
of my family, but he always gets mad and 
abuses me. The Board of Health claim that 
they have not the power to kill or remove the 
poultry or make him do so; they can only 
compel him to keep the pen clean. This they 
ordered him to do. Ever since he found out 
that I had lodged a complaint against him, 
he has been trying in every way to annoy 
me. Is that hen-pen a nuisance? If so, is 
it a public one ? If so, has the village a right 
to abate it? If it is a private nuisance, what 
is my remedy ? The hens are nearly as annoy¬ 
ing to other families on the street as to mine. 
Ans. —The hen pen appears to be clearly a 
nuisance. It is not a public nuisance, because 
that is one which arises from violation of pub¬ 
lic rights, and produces no special injury to 
one more than to another of the community 
If the fact of the nuisance can be established 
a court of equity will issue an injunction 
against its continuance, ora suit for damages 
may be brought in a court of law. 
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Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from 
Ignorance of Law." 
REMEDY AGAINST A PRIVATE NUISANCE. 
L. N. L., New York City. —I own a nice 
house iu a country village up in Connecticut 
within two hours’ ride of this city. My 
neighbor’s house adjoins mine, or rather an 
ell jutting off the back part of it. My 
neighbor keeps a lot of poultry, and close up 
to my ell, he has fenced off a hen-pen 30x50 
feet, and iu this he persists iu keeping from 
50 to (50 hens and four or five roosters. For 
about one-third of the pen he used the walls 
of my basement to the ell as a fence, so that 
his hens are directly under my kitchen, and 
but a short distance from my dining-room 
O A I P Weaners ami Sucking Caw Muz 
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