TiHE BUBAL WEW-Y0BKER. 
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SOME SILO CROPS. 
O. T. B., South Euclid, Ohio.— I have 
never put oats in a silo, but I have fed oats and 
peas sown together to milch cows with good re¬ 
sults. In 1888 I filled two pits with clover put 
in whole so that they were about four feet 
deep when they had settled; they were covered 
with loose straw and rails. The silage did not 
keepwell; it dried out about half way down, 
not being compact enough to exclude the air. 
It came out musty, or covered with white 
mold, as seen in mows where clover has been 
put in too green. The bottom part was very 
fair. If I had put it all in one pit there would 
have been only one top and only half as much 
damage would have been done. Cows ate the 
whole with good relish. I would not recom¬ 
mend clover as an ensilage crop; I would pre¬ 
fer to cure it as bay and feed it in connection 
with corn silage. I put six loads of millet 
that had been billed by frost on top of corn 
silage, covered it in the same way as the 
clover, and opened it in three weeks. It made 
fair silage; but it was not equal to that from 
corn. I had trouble from the milk souring 
while I was feeding it. Corn is the stuff for 
onsilage. 
BUTTER COLOR FROM ANNATTO AND GRASS. 
W. P. W., Monroe, Wis.—T n the Rural 
of July 27, under the head of “ Brevities,” ap¬ 
pears the following astonishing assertion. 
“ The dairy-worker who colors butter in the 
churn works on the principle employed by 
the one who depends upon green grass for a 
color. They both aim to get vegetable (?) 
coloring matter into the product. In one case 
the cow does the work, and in the other the 
dairy worker does it.” That is “bosh” and 
wholly unworthy of a place in the Rural. 
The dairy-worker who uses dyestuff to color 
butter for sale, perpetrates a fraud, and in¬ 
tends to cheat when he does it. There is no 
demand anywhere from consumers for an- 
natto-colored buttor or cheese. The demand 
for these is wholly cod fined to the producers 
and sellers. 
insecticides; a mixer. 
C. D. W., Grand Bay, Alabama.—I was 
not much surprised at reading the editorial in 
the Rural of July 13 on insecticides; but I 
wou'd have been surprised bad I read it in 
any other journal with which I am acquainted. 
It shows so clearly that the intere.-ts of its pa¬ 
trons are not subordinated to its advertising 
columns. Now fora good mixer; take for a 
pattern a barrel churn, only run the axis 
through the heads, with a crank on one end, 
and a piece of a stave cut out for a hand hole; 
fill half full; put in a few stones as big as your 
fist, if you like, and the thing is ready. 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, 
Conn. —We hardly think the Rural’s test of 
the Yale Strawberry is sufficient t j judge 
of its success in the Rural Grounds yet. It has 
been one of the worst seasons for strawber¬ 
ries on record. Ours did not do half as well 
this year as they did last. 
Soiling and Exercise: The Jersey and 
Guernsey cows, Henry Stewart remarks, are 
types of the most profitable of all dairy ani¬ 
mals. These animals for many years past 
have been fed on the soiling system. Pastur¬ 
age is clearly impossible upon an island of 
only 45 square miles or less than a square of 
seven miles each way, with only 4,000 acres 
of pasture and 75,000 or 7(5,000 cows, so that 
the cows pre kept in confinement almost 
wholly, and in pasture are tethered within as 
narrow bounds as will afford the single meal 
only at one time. But under this system the 
Jersey breed of cattle has been brought to tho 
highest point of product and profit, and has 
been always free from the common diseases of 
cows. No one hears of tuberculosis or pleuro¬ 
pneumonia in that pleasaut and densely-pop¬ 
ulated island. To take American instances, 
we shall find that the highest and the most 
healthy cows are found where soiling is prac¬ 
ticed, and whenever a test has been made of 
soiling, that is, feeding in yards or lots and 
stables on green fodder, cut and brought to 
the cows, as against pasture, the soiling, 
with its restfulness, quiet, aud economy of 
food, has always given at least 25 per cent, 
more product with less consumption of fodder 
SAMPLES AND COMMENTS. 
The Western Rural says that every 
farmer who provides himself with a beautiful 
home, surrounded by green lawns and wind¬ 
ing paths, a well cultivated farm, and all that 
makes life pleasant, is a blessing to any 
neighborhood. Were there no shiftless farm¬ 
ers, or tramps, or paupers; if all classes 
could in some way be induced by proper train¬ 
ing to become self-reliant citizens, the millen- 
ium would be on its way hither. 
One’s Whole Duty to oneself, is one’s 
first duty to his neighbor. 
The Massachusetts Ploughman remarks 
that the Champion Quince is said to be pref¬ 
erable to either the Orange or Rea’s Mam¬ 
moth. It may be in the South, but those who 
act upon the above well-meant advice will, in 
the R. N.-\ .’s estimation, have occasion to re¬ 
gret it. The Champion is too late for the 
North. 
Prof. S. W. Johnson makes the valuable 
note, in a bulletin just received, that the fer¬ 
tilizing value of fine bone is much greater 
than that of coarse bone. The latter may lie 
in the ground for years while very fine bone 
is readily decomposed and taken up by plants. 
The improved condition and increased value 
of our bone-manures are to some extent results 
of the action of the Connecticut Station which 
in the year 1879 first carried into effect the 
method of valuation based on the mechanical 
as well as the chemical analysis. Nitrogen in 
the finest bone is now worth 16J^ cents per 
pound, while that in the coarsest bone is 
valued only at 8J^ cents, aud phosphoric acid 
is valued at seven and four cents in the two 
grades respectively. Very finely ground bone 
is, at present, one of the cheapest sources of 
quickly available nitrogen aud phosphoric 
acid. 
Again he says that the price of castor po¬ 
mace has advanced $5.00 a ton since last year, 
and in consequence it has become one of the 
most expensive sources ot nitrogen, while last 
year it was one of the cheapest. Cotton-seed 
meal has also advanced in price but still re¬ 
mains the cheapest source of available nitro¬ 
gen. 
As an illustration of the long time chess 
seed will lie in the ground dormant, a member 
of the Elmira Farmers’ Club mentions in the 
Husbandman, the removal of an old barn 
which had stood on the ground 40 years. The 
same season a luxuriant growth of chess 
sprang up and covered the unoccupied land. 
Had this particular piece of land been sown to 
wheat, many farmers would have considered 
it a convincing proof of wheat turning to 
chess.. 
Something New in Roses: We find the 
following in our lively contemporary Popular 
Gardening: 
“The Editor of the Rural New-Yorker 
has bad remarkable luck in hybridiz¬ 
ing roses, according to his report. A cross 
ascribed to Harrison’s Yellow upon Rosa ru- 
gosa has brought out a new rose with flowers 
so much like those of the famous General Jac¬ 
queminot as to deceive good judges. The fo¬ 
liage, however, is different, being more like 
that of the Rugosa parent, and, ibest of all, it 
is less subject to the attacks of insects chan 
anything in its line we now have, for this one 
is a perpetual bloomer. Notwithstanding Mr. 
Carman’s reputation as a careful hybridizer, 
the question will naturally arise in the minds 
of many as this new-comer is compared with 
its assumed parents, which so widely differ 
from it, whether there may not be some mis¬ 
take as to the parentage. However that may 
be, such a rose as Mr. Carman describes is a 
welcome addition to our all too meager list of 
hardy, vigorous, handsome, perpetual kinds.” 
It is not wise to be positive as to many 
things, but there is no room to bo anything 
else in the case of our rose crosses. We have 
never raised a rose from any seed except from 
Rosa rugosa. That, it will be admitted, set¬ 
tles any question as to the maternity of the 
seedlings. The rose ia question was produced 
by using pollen from Harrison’s Yellow upon 
R. rugosa. No other pollen up to that time 
or during that season had been or was used. 
As self-Rosa rugosa seedlings come nearly 
true from seed it will not be questioned that 
the plarn in question is a hybrid. If so, Har¬ 
rison’s Yellow is the male parent, since every 
bud of Rugosa operated upon was carefully 
emasculated before the anthers were ripe, and 
carefully covered with fine tissue-paper until 
the pollen was applied. The tissue-paper in 
all cases was then at once replaced and not 
again removed until it was seen that fruit 
formed or failed to form. 
The next year pollen was used from Hybrid 
Remontants upon R. rugosa that happened to 
furnish it when needed. The male parentage 
of this second year’s batch (or what is left of 
them) is therefore unknown. Four or live 
have bloomed,showing them to be rather more 
interesting as curiosities than valuable for 
any other purpose. The third season’s batch 
originated in the same way as the second. 
There are about 40 of them. They have not 
as yet bloomed. The foliage of these as of all 
others, varies indefinitely—not one having 
that of R. rugosa and yet as they grow older, 
all showing some trilling resemblance—gener¬ 
ally in tho texture and venation of the leaf. 
The present year we have used chiefly the 
pollen of Teas and Hybrid Teas upon R. rugo¬ 
sa. The result thus far is that we have not less 
than 250 plump heps each one of which will 
give an average of 50 seeds. It will be seen 
that the R. N.-Y. is making a pretty thor¬ 
ough trial of R. rugosa hybrids which in¬ 
volves an amount of painstaking labor that 
we should be foolish to undertake without the 
absolute knowledge that they are really hy¬ 
brids without the shadow of a doubt. Our 
good friend the Editor of Popular Gardening 
is cordially invited to come and inspect the 
results of our work for himself.. 
The Orange County Farmer is glad to note 
an increasing interest in that part of the 
world in the matter of breeding draft horses. 
The farmers of Orange County and vicinity 
have tried the trotting horse business and 
have never made it profitable, but there is no 
hazard in tho draft horse. He is ready for 
market at three and four years old, always 
commands a fair price, little blemishes do not 
a ff ect his sale and he is as easily raised as^. steer. 
There are many things to be said in favor of 
this branch of farm work. 
The Western Rural is of the opinion that 
for areal bright,Pilgrim-pure, clear-cut, finan¬ 
cial idea one should go to a New England man. 
It says that one has just advised a young 
man who has two thousand dollars, and 
wishes to buy a farm to loan the two thousand 
to some farmer and go to work for him by the 
month. The writer thinks the youDg man 
will own the farm in due time..... 
For Sleeplessness 
Use Horstord’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. C. R. Dake, Belleville, Ill., says: “I 
have found it, and it alone , to be capable of 
producing a sweet and natural sleep in cases 
of insomnia from overwork of the brain, 
which so often occurs in active professional 
and business men.”— Adv. 
be used in favor of administering chloroform 
to animals are precisely the same as those for 
its use for the human subject—first, that all 
pain is avoided; and secondly, that the still¬ 
ness produced in the animal tends to increase 
the ease and safety of the operation to be 
performed.” 
-Josh Billings: “We are so avarishus 
that even when we trade with ourselves, we 
go for getting the best end of the bargain.” 
--Hoard’s Dairyman: “ If there ever 
was a man whose stingy avarice beats the 
very breath out ot himself, it is the man who 
will undertake to make a cow really profit 
able without feeding her liberally, of good 
milk-producing food. The punishment goes 
a step farther. Even aftePhe gets converted 
to the gospel of liberality, he is beaten, un¬ 
less he i3 just enough to himself to get a good 
cow into which he pours this liberal supply 
of feed.” 
-“ The prayer of every dairyman should 
be, ‘ O Lord deliver me from the folly and 
certain punishment of being stingy to my 
own cows.’ ” 
-Vermont Watchman: “The future of 
farming will be revealed when the cities fail 
to be able to absorb nearly all the rising 
talent and energy of our people. When that 
time arrives (and it is near), we shall see fine 
agriculture begin to take gigantic strides. 
The field is boundless; the opportuniti r s are 
rich. All that is waited tor * men! It makes 
the soul sick to see how the opportunities and 
possibilities of farming in New England are 
overlooked.” 
-N. Y. Times: “ A farm is always worth 
more than it will sell for. The farmer cannot 
live on the proceeds of the sale without 
spending his principal, and risking the chance 
of poverty or dependence, should he live 
longer than his probable term.” 
DIRECT. 
-N. Y. Herald : “ A curious discovery 
shows that cider is a dangerous beverage, for 
it propagates typhoid fever.” 
- Troy Press : “ The man who ought to 
listen and learn usually does most of the talk¬ 
ing.” 
-O. C. Farmer : “ This talk about fancy 
prices is, to say the least, misleading. Be¬ 
cause one man happens to get a private cus¬ 
tomer who is willing to pay a fancy price in 
order to secure a regular and uniform quality 
of butter, is no proof that his butter is any 
better than that of some of his neighbors who 
must be content with the market price. Some 
men are fortunate enough to get special cus¬ 
tomers and prices. But there are not enough 
such customers to go around. The bulk of 
the product must be sold at market prices.” 
-Prof. I. P. Roberts : “ Why put ma¬ 
nure on your fields in the spring ? Is that 
the way the Lord manures His farm ? Is that 
the way He has reared these great oaks and 
chestnuts and pines ? No : He raises a plant 
to feed an animal to make fertility, and He 
always spreads manure in the fall.” 
- Prof. Henry, in the Western Farmer: 
“I should say that a common two-strand, gal¬ 
vanized barb-wire, well put up, is superior to 
many of the rods as put up by “agents” at 
great cost. If one intends to use barb-wire it 
would be better to twist half a dozen strands 
into one than to use a single wire. Having done 
this, bury the lower end of the wire in moist 
earth, digging if possible down to water; or, 
all the better, running the wire into a well or 
cistern below the water. Without a good 
ground connection the wire may be more than 
useless. Having the wire properly “planted,” 
attach it firmly to the building overy two or 
three feet by common staples, just as you would 
to the posts when using the wire for fencing. 
The common practice of using glass thimbles 
for insulators to keep the rods away from the 
building is altogether wrong; agents no doubt 
use this plan to add to the expense and mystify 
people. Carry the wire to the highest points 
of the building, and let it rise several feet 
vertically, supported by a staff nailed to the 
roof. The wire may be supposed to insure 
safety for a distance in every direction equal 
to its hight above the building. Thus, if it 
rise eight feet above the peak of the house it 
guards a circle sixteen feet in diameter.” 
-“Of all humbugs, the lightning rod man 
is usually the greatest, aud if we had all the 
money he has taken out of the pockets of 
Wisconsin farmers, without proper equival¬ 
ent, we could put a fine library into every 
Grange hall in the State, and have enough left 
to pay the expenses of a few hundred young 
men up at Madison this winter to attend the 
short agricultural course.” 
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