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THE BUBAL WIW-YOBKEB. 
patience with this disease theory. It is a 
humbug pure and simple. The old bugs die a 
natural death; the young bugs are killed by 
the wet. 
REMEDY FOR A KICKING COW. 
J. B. K , Portland, Oregon.— The arti¬ 
cle on page 459 of the Rural, entitled the 
“ Kicking Cow,” and the title-page illustra¬ 
tions of that terror of the milking yard re 
mind me that I have a remedy for treating 
the vicious brute. I have used it for a dozen 
years with perfect success. I have never seen 
it in print. It is very simple, easy of ap¬ 
plication, does no injury whatever to the ani¬ 
mal and is perfectly effective. I have never 
known a failure: Take a small rope or cord 
about the size of a clothes-line; make a loop in 
ODe end; hold the loop end in one hand; drop 
the other end over the cow’s back; pick it up 
and nass it through the loop: then slip it back 
just behind the hips, bringing it underneath 
just forward of and close to the udder, adjust¬ 
ing it so that the loop is near the back-bone. 
Now draw the rope through the loop tightly 
and fasten it, the more tightly the better if 
the animal is very vicious. On the first ap- 
plicat on, she will jump and try to kick and 
perhaps bellow; but let her kick, she will 
soon get tired of doing so. Now you can sit 
down aud milk without the least daDger. 
You can hardly provoke her to kick. If she 
should still try to kick, tighten the rope and 
continue to do this till she gives it up. Three 
applications in succession will cure the worst 
case I ever saw. Treat her kindly and gently 
all the time without the least excitement. 
BLUEBERRIES. 
P. C., Milford, N. H —Where there are no 
blueberries perhaps it may pay to try to cul¬ 
tivate them; but I know of one bush set out 
over 20 years ago that never had a crop until 
this year. It has not been cultivated for 
years, but it is in a cultivated field. This year 
there were between six and eight quarts on it. 
Here the blueberry is abundant and the 
women and children get the most of their 
money picking berries. The price this season 
runs from 14 cents per quart down to five 
cents. Where people do not own pastures 
they pick and take two-thirds; the owner has 
one-third. Our family of four—three child¬ 
ren and their mother; two of the children less 
than 10 years of age—picked over $50 worth 
this season, aud on account of the rains there 
are hundreds of bushels not picked. I saw 27 
bushels put on the train on August 3d and 
some days from 100 to 150 bushels are shipped 
on the different trains. We are 54 miles from 
Boston and there is no transfer. The expres- 
sage is 25 cents per bushel on an average. 
Crates are returned. The best way here to 
cultivate them is every two or three years to 
mow and burn the vines. The berries will 
then be larger and it will be easier to get 
around to pick them. 
CATTLE ON A VERMONT FARM. 
E. A. F., Hancock, Vt.— My tarm com¬ 
prises about 300 acres. It is the same on 
which my father settled in 1800—when this 
section was an entire wilderness. It is mostly 
cleared land now. The wood-land is mostly 
spruce and maple. I have one of the Quest 
mountain pastures in the State. My cash 
crop is pasture. I have summered 105 head of 
stock this season; not so many as usual though 
feed is very good. The average number of 
Btock I winter is eight cows, a team, 30 sheep 
and a few head of young stock. 
PITHS AND SUGGESTIONS. 
Take a Cooley can or any other can in 
general use in creameries, says George Parr 
in the Farmers' Review, till one with warm 
milk just drawn from the cow with the an¬ 
imal heat in it, submerge it in ice-cold water, 
and fill another can and allow the animal heat 
to escape, say 30 minut°s before submerging 
it, let both cans stand for 24 hours. On the 
majority of the cans that he has seen in gen¬ 
eral use, the lids are not constructed to be 
submerged, but this makes no difference. 
Cover one tightly, so that there is no ventila¬ 
tion, aud allow the other can to remain un¬ 
covered until the milk becomes cold before 
putting the cover on and let them stand in ice- 
cold water up to the rim for 24 hours. When 
the cream is removed, if there is not a dis¬ 
agreeable taste and smell to the cream taken 
from the can that was not ventilated, then 
the professors ynd hundreds of others are 
wrong, ajid Mr. Hiram Smith is right in his 
assertion that aeration before submersion is 
tPt’ H©ce6§ary., ? p, 
The short potato crop in the' East will be 
more than counterbalanced by the unusually 
large yield in the West.-. 
John Gould says, in the Weekly Press, 
that a cow will consume easily 100 pounds of 
the best lawn mowings in 24 hours and main¬ 
tain her flow of milk. Dry these 100 pounds of 
clippings into hay and it weighs from 12 to 14 
pounds. Put the same cow upon this dry 
food, the same in original amount that she 
found to her satisfaction. How long will the 
same cow t rive and give full pails of milk on 
12 pounds of dry hay? Give her 24 pounds of 
this hay and she will do better, and yet more 
satisfactorily upon 36 pounds, the product of 
three days’ rations in its succulent stage. 
Now, can we afford to feed in the winter on 
hay that at least represents twice the food 
needed wnen this hay was grass?. 
Keep it in mind, readers. “ The labor on 
the part of the farmer is increased as the 
grade of the fertilizer purchased and used de¬ 
creases' 1 .. 
The Rural New-Yorker is bitterly dis¬ 
appointed at the results of its potato experi¬ 
ments this season—but discouraged? No. 
We did our best, and there is a satisfaction 
in that. 
The results of the Women’s Potato Contest 
will unquestionably prove interesting, sug¬ 
gestive and instructive. 
As to harvesting and haying machinery, it 
seems to Pres. W. I. Coamberlain, as he ex¬ 
presses it in the Ohio Farmer, that no farm 
that has much grain and much heavy clover, 
Timothy and Hungarian, can afford to be 
without the best makes of the following im¬ 
plements: twine-binder, mower, hay-tedder, 
horse-rake and hay-loader, or rather pitcher. 
His team of 1,200-pound horses bandies a 
twine binder with ease, poking along and 
kicking flies as if the draft were no considera¬ 
tion. The ground was level, tile-drained and 
film. If soft or hilly, the draft would be 
heavier. It is a delight to sit on the high seat 
and simply drive and hear the machine click, 
click, click, as it kicks off the compact bun¬ 
dles, saving all the wheat. It cuts an acre an 
hour with a rather slow-walking team. It 
goes in at his barn doors for storage without 
folding, and takes up not much room with the 
tongue taken off. The back-aching labor of 
cradling, rating and binding has forever 
gone. 
The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage says a 
great many good things, but he also says 
some very foolish ones. In a recent sermon 
he tragically declared that “the Almighty 
will smite this people if they do not stop in¬ 
venting machinery to take work from poor 
people,-’ and he hoped that not another tool 
would be invented for 500 years! Mr. Tal¬ 
mage is like the cow that gives a three-gallon 
pail of milk and then kicks it over. The Ohio 
Farmer advises him to go to China, where 
they employ no machinery at all, but do 
everything by hand. The Flowery Kingdom 
would just suit him. They allow no modern 
innovations there. Even horses are rarely 
seen, and men and women are the beasts of 
burden as well as hewers of wood and draw¬ 
ers of water. 
Mr. M. J. Lawrence, of the Ohio Farmer, 
when a young man, was sent to Japan and 
China by one of the leading sewing machine 
companies, to introduce its machine. He se¬ 
lected the largest tailoring establishment at 
Hong Kong, set up the machine, operated it, 
and explained its advantages through an in¬ 
terpreter. He tried particularly to impress 
the fact upon the mind of the almond-eyed 
proprietor that with this machine one man 
would do as much work as nine men could do 
by hand. “Yes," the proprietor readily ad¬ 
mit ed, “but what would the other eight men 
do?” That was his knock-down argument. 
He would not buy a machine, and none of 
them could be sold in the kingdom. But un¬ 
fortunately for Mr. Talniage’s theory, the 
Chinese people are among the poorest and 
most wretched on earth The absence of all 
modern machinery does not make them richer 
or happier. The multiplication of machinery 
and devices for lessening labor aud decreas¬ 
ing cost of production is an absolute blessing 
to laboring men... 
“The Rural New-Yorker recently quoted 
from the Massachusetts Ploughman an article 
ou buuchiug asparagus, by W. J. Green, of 
the Ohio Experiment Station. That article 
was written expressly for the Ohio Farmer, 
aud if the Ploughman published it without 
credit the Rural is not to blame. The Farm¬ 
er always gives due credit, and insists upon 
being treated likewise. The official state¬ 
ments of the experiment stations are always 
published as such, and credit is given to the 
various bulletins issued. These are public 
property of course. But the articles over the 
signatures of the experimenters are paid for; 
they are our property, aud if used bv contem¬ 
poraries they ought to acknowledge the 
source.” 
The above is taken from the Ohio Farmer. 
It was tf) t)ie ploughman because it 
appeared in that journal as if written ex¬ 
pressly for it. The R. N.-Y. has never know¬ 
ingly copied an article without giving due 
credit to the publication quoted from. Our 
position is that any editor that will appropri¬ 
ate such matter will appropriate anything 
else, if he can do it with safety. In other 
words, an editor that will print without credit 
original articles written for other periodicals 
is simply a thief, and the editor knows it 
too. The only pity is that his readers for the 
most part are kept in ignorance of the fact... 
Prof. B. D. Halsted finds that the com¬ 
mon asparagus is heliotropic, i. e. follows the 
sun in its daily course. In early morning the 
shoots are nearly upright, but when the sun 
is two hours above the horizon the same stems 
lean unmistakably to the eastward. At noon 
the stems are leaning somewhat to the south¬ 
ward and at evening they point westward. The 
curving is most prominent with average-sized 
stems which have escaped the gardener’s knife, 
and are between one and two feet in hight.... 
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. 
For the Tired Brain 
lrom over.exertion. Try it.— Adv. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-C. L. Allen in the American Garden : 
“The finest show of flowers 1 have ever seen in 
the garden resulted from sowing a paper of 
single dahlia seeds in a hot-bed in April, trans¬ 
ferring the plants to the border in June. 
During August, and until frost, the plants 
were a mass of bloom, all colors, from the 
purest while to the darkest maroon, pure yel¬ 
low, with some striped and variegated forms 
of surpassing loveliness ; about fifty plants in 
all, not one poor one, the whole costing 25 
cents.” 
-J. C. Vaughan in American Garden : 
“Rose, Madam Jamain (American Beauty). 
Why in the name of honest dealing should 
not the name American Beauty be dropped 
forever, instead of perpetuating the disgrace 
which certain florists of this country brought 
upon us by introducing this old sort under a 
new name.” 
For closing the ear "to a talebearer; 
For disbelieving ill reports; 
For being kind to the distressed; 
For being patient toward everything; 
For doing good toward all men; 
For asking pardon for all wrong; 
For being courteous to all.” 
-Philadelphia Weekly Press: “When 
the weather is wet, as it has been this sum¬ 
mer, tomatoes make too much branch and too 
little fruit. To get the latter, run a spade in 
the ground about them to cut the roots. The 
check advances the fruiting. ” 
-“ The purely-bred horse of the desert has 
good fe9t and legs, good heart and lungs, 
courage and docility. Such qualities are not 
bad for grafting on any stock.” 
-Vermont Watchman: “Is it not plain 
that the American farmer, and especially the 
New England farmer, needs to be a good deal 
of a man? He is a good deal of a man. 
When we see how comfortably many of them 
manage to live, and how much “ ahead of the 
world ” a fair proportion of them are able to 
get, there cannot be any doubt that the high 
personal qualities of hundreds of our New 
England farmers place them well up in the 
scale of absolute manhood. If the farming 
occupation is despised in the cities, it must be 
only by those who do not realize what it is in 
these days to be a successful farmer.” 
-“ But there are too few of whom this 
can be said, and too many among us are 
laboring under discouragements that kill out 
spirit and energy. They are doing a business 
which they do nc t sufficiently well understand 
to make it profitable. These are like the 
small store- keepers and manufacturers in the 
cities. The world seems to have got tired of 
them. There is no longer place for mediocrity 
in business—even the business of farming. 
This is what many think and hundreds say.” 
-Orchard and Garden: “We believe 
with the R. N. Y. that bananas and pine¬ 
apples possess such distinctive flavors and 
qualities from other fruit that a person who 
wants one will not take the other in its place.’’ 
-Mirror and Farmer : “ The possibility 
of cows pouring out such abundant quanti¬ 
ties of rich milk as our best herds are now 
capable of bas only lately come to be recog¬ 
nized. Truly, through human art, the cow is 
a transformed and to a large extent a man¬ 
made creature in this matter of milk pro¬ 
duction. 
Being so far an artificial production, it is 
only by art that the improved milch cow can 
be perpetuated. Therefore the high-class 
dairy cow pre-supposes and is based upon 
specialized skill in her human keepers. 
Dairying is an art requiring great intelli¬ 
gence and much acquired knowledge. 
- Husbandman: “ A farmer is a capitalist 
and laborer, and therefore wants labor and 
capital both justly treated in the administra¬ 
tion of laws.” 
-Farmers’ Review: “If Chicago wins 
the World’s Fair of 1892, let arrangements be 
made for the holding of a national tor inter¬ 
national) live stock exhibition which shall 
throw in the shade anything of like nature 
ever held in other countries.” 
-Popular Science News: “A curious 
experiment in osmosis.—Take two eggs of 
equal size. Carefully dissolve the shell of 
one with dilute hydrochloric acid, and im¬ 
merse it in pure water. In the course of a 
day or two enough water will pass through 
the outside membrane to cause it to nearly 
double its volume, as may be shown by com¬ 
parison with the second egg, which is used as 
a standard.” 
-“ Notwithstanding the wails of the 
pessimists, mankind are steadily improving 
in bodily strength and vigor. Even the im¬ 
mense consumption of patent medicines fails 
to stop the improvement—a fact which goes 
to prove the general absence of any medicinal 
qualities whatever in these preparations.” 
-New England Farmer: “ ‘I believe 
that a young man with business ability, in¬ 
dustry and a capital of two thousand dollars 
will be much surer of success in any one of 
several branches of farming, if he has a lik 
ing for the business, than iu a venture iu any 
other business.’ This is the opinion of Hon. 
W. R Sessions, Secretary of the Massachu¬ 
setts Board of Agriculture, a man who is a 
practical farmer, who has had a wide experi¬ 
ence and who has excellent judgment. Such 
testimony is very valuable.” 
THINGS NOT TO BE SORRY FOR. 
-N. Y. Herald: “ You will not be sorry 
for hearing before judging; 
For thinking before speaking; 
For folding ay angry tougqej 
That Tired Feeling. so oppressive, overpowS 
erlng and diffleu't to throw off. may be the warning 
of wearing out or breaking down of the system. It 
is entirely overcome by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, 
which gives great mental nerve, bodily and digestive 
strength. 
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