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are strong grounds for such an assumption. 
It is a seedling, (grown from seed of the cur¬ 
rant the Rural refers to, of very choice se¬ 
lection), and it is far more productive than any 
thing before known. Although to the casual 
observer the leaf is similar to that of its 
mother parent, it is not of the same shape, 
and part&Kes much of the texture as well as 
color of the English Red Currant. We have 
been unable to germinate any of the seeds 
from the Crandall as yet, and when the fruit 
is cooked they almost entirely disappear, 
showing that they are imperfect, indicating 
its hybrid character. All who have eaten of 
the Crandall, including the United States 
Pomologist H. E. Van Demau, say that it 
is more acid, larger and more productive 
than any of the varieties of Ribes aureum 
they have ever known. We do not say that 
it is a hybrid, but the above, together with 
the fact that the parent seed grew near Red 
Cherry Currants, are very strong “reasons for 
assuming that it is a hybrid.” 
R. N.-Y.—We noticed a difference between 
the leaves as stated, but not more than is lia¬ 
ble to occur between any seedlings, as it seems 
to us. So far as quality is concerned, we 
could not tell one from the other eating the 
berries alternately of the Crandall and the va¬ 
riety alluded to as growing at the Rural 
Grounds. 
BUTTER-MAKING, 
W. E. R., Dover, N. H.—The weather 
for the past few weeks has been bad 
for butter making. We use shallow pans, 
and have not been able to get all the 
cream, and have to churn oftener. When a 
creamer is used there may not be so much 
trouble in hot weather; but from what I can 
find out, I am in doubt as to which is the bet¬ 
ter way, all things considered. If the cream¬ 
ers are so much better than pans, as the mak¬ 
ers claim, why is it that so many large butter- 
makers use pans? About a year ago, the 
Rural gave the methods used by six large 
dairymen whose butter was sold in New 
York. 1 thing every one of them used pans. 
Not long ago I had a talk with a man who 
has a Cooley Creamer, but who was not then 
using it. He could not tell me that he had 
obtained any more butter by means of the 
creamer; but he said he bad secured more 
cream; but it was thinner than that raised in 
the pans. I took a can about the size of a 
Cooley can, and put it in an ice-chest of water 
the temperature of which I kept at 40 degrees. 
The can was not submerged or covered. Tne 
cream rose very slowly and I did not get as 
much as from nans. Can the Rural or any 
of the readers give us any information on this 
subject? If, all things considered, the cream¬ 
er is better than pans, I want one; but at 
present I am in doubt, and as I get more for 
my butter than many who use creamers get 
for theirs, I shall continue to use pans. 
DOES THE WORLD OWE ALL AN OPPORTUNITY 
TO EARN A LIVING? 
C. W. W., Norwalk, O.—I have seen, in 
one of Henry George’s pampnlets, the state¬ 
ment that “ the reason why the poor have so 
little is because the rich have so much ” I 
never could believe this doctrine, and I think 
it as incendiary as it is untrue. I should be 
sorry to say it myself. The condition of 
things revealed in the Rural’s Eye-opener, 
page 535, is terrible. That people, able and 
anxious to work for their living, should be un¬ 
able to find an opportunity to do so, and that 
in such numbers as to make profitable the 
establishment of bogus employment agencies 
to rob these unfortunates of the little they 
have, is a condition of things to which the 
people should not submit for a day without 
making it their main Dusiness to seek and ap¬ 
ply an eff-ctive remedy. They should never 
rest until this condition of things has ceased 
to exist, and it prevails in the country as well 
as in the cities. That the world should deny 
a man an opportunity to earn his living, and 
then condemn him for idleness, and despise 
him for poverty, is every whit as bad as mur¬ 
der. 
CHURNS AGAIN I 
J. M. C., Hopkinton, N. H.—In the R. N.- 
Y. of August 3, I replied to some objections 
of P. C., of Milford, N. H., against the 
Blanchard Churn on the score of its iuadapti- 
bility to the grauulation of butter. P. C. now 
desires to know how to manage the cream 
that adheres to the floats and the inside of the 
cover. When thick cream is thinned down to 
a proper consistency, there will be no trouble 
about its adhering to the floats of any churn. 
Thick cream gathered from the open pan, 
whether large or small, is not fit in thatcondi- 
tion for churning in any churu, whether it 
has floats or not. If one desires to have the 
butter come in a granular form or in such 
condition as to admit of proper washing for 
the removal of all objectionable sub¬ 
stances, the cream should be about the con¬ 
sistency of that raised by the Cooley process, 
THE BUBAL MEW-YORKEfi. 
in order to perfect the granulation and pre¬ 
vent adhesion to the floats or other parts of the 
inside of the churn. 
J. H. G., Queens County, L. I.—I recently 
took dinner at one of the best hotels in New 
England. The fruits were bananas and 
oranges. In sight of the dining tables were 
hills literally covered with blueberries and 
blackberries rotting on the bushes because 
they would not bring enough to pay for the 
picking. With blueberries at eight cents per 
quart and bananas at 15 cents per dozen, the 
hotel proprietor took the bananas. Is not 
this evidenco of the onesidedness of the 
American system of “protection.” The poor, 
miserable, pale-faced children who work in 
the factories aro “protected” and their wages 
are presumably made higher by a tariff, whilo 
the money which, on the same principle, should 
go to the farmers’ sons and daughters is sent 
to the slave owners of the tropics. 
G. R. W., Lyndon, Ky.— Prof. Maynard 
certainly has not the Eldorado Grape, which 
is one of Ricketts's Hybrids. The R. N.-Y. is 
right: it is as early as Moore’s Diamond and 
its equal in flavor. The vine is a good, strong 
grower with healthy foliage. The fruit is of 
a yellowish, transparent color and of a rich, 
pleasant flavor. It suits my taste exactly. It 
should be grown by every one who likes a 
good grape. 
PITHS AND REMINDERS. 
Hoard’s Dairyman’s advice to every dairy¬ 
man in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern 
Iowa, where the corn crop is very backward, 
is to build a silo. Unless the frost holds off 
until well into the fall, it will be quite difficult 
to secure a crop of corn. The real practical 
question will be how to save the largest 
money value in the corn. A crop of soft, 
half-ripe corn is of no account to put in the 
crib and if carried along until it can be cut 
and husked, the frost will have destroyed 
more than half the feeding value of the stalks. 
Just as soon as the ears have reached the 
glazed period, it is at the top notch of com¬ 
bined value of stalk and ear for feed. Why 
not cut it then and put it in the silo and thus 
save all the feed value it has, and save the ex¬ 
pense of husking. 
Ik you have more of such food than you 
have cattle to consume it, slip out and buy 
a lot of thrifty yearling steers and heifers or 
thrifty sheep and put them on that silage. 
The sheep wifi be' ready for very fair mutton 
by spring. Good silage, Mr. Hoard says, is 
the Quest feed in the world to make winter 
mutton. There are lots of turns that can be 
made to make late corn of some account and 
thus not lose your summer’s work. But the 
first thing is to save the feed and put it where 
it can be mado use of at aoy time, and the 
silo is the only safe plan. 
There must De more butter made in Janu¬ 
ary and only half as much as now in June 
aud July. The market taste is now for fresh, 
newly-made butter. Packed stock is not 
wanted. Why will people persist in laying 
down summer butter to sell four months 
hence, only to scatter poor butter all through 
the season?. 
The New York Tribune says that lard 
softened with kerosene until it will just flow 
in summer heat makes as good oil for mowers, 
etc., as that sold by dealers at 100 per cent, 
profit—much better than some of it. 
W. Brazelton tells in Hoard’s Dairyman 
how he kills the horns on his calves. He says 
get a stick of caustic potash, then when the calf 
is, say, 10 days old, take it by both ears, stand 
straddle of it, then let an assistant have a little 
water, wet the place where the horn would 
come, then after wrapping a rag around one 
end of the caustic, rub the otner end on the 
horn spot. It being wet will dissolve enough 
of the caustic to cause a dry scab to form. 
If thoroughly rubbed for, say, a minute, one 
operation is all-sufficient. Mr. Brazelton’s 
calves six months old thus treated have not a 
sign of a horn. 
The American Farmer urges upon its 
farmer readers the importance of carrying a 
small life insurance policy. Thousands have 
died when their little farms were only half 
paid for, and in cases where the husband had 
his life insured the widow was enabled to lift 
the mortgage aud retain the farm for herself 
aud children. Otherwise she was left desti¬ 
tute aud thrown upon the charities of a not 
too charitable world. It costs but a trifle to 
take out and maintain a small policy, say 
f1,000, and the husband and father who does 
not do so is sadly neglecting his duty to his 
family. 
For Seasickness 
Use Hnrsiord’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. W. W. Blackman, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
says: “I am very much pleased with it in 
seasickness. Several cases have been brought 
to my attention where it afforded prompt 
and entire relief.”— Adv. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Breeder’s Gazette: “ For 40 years and 
more American molders of the races of 
swine have been breeding out the bristles, and 
it is much to their credit that this by-product 
of swine husbandry is no longer secured from 
their hogs in sufficient quantities to meet the 
trsde demands. It does not pay to raise hogs 
for their bristles. In this instance at least it 
is not well to encourage ‘ home production.” 
-Phil. Weekly Press: “ Whatever may 
be said against the silage practice, this one point 
is a bard one to get over, the fact that the silo 
is a practical insurance against had weather 
in the storing of crops. Hay, and fodder as 
well, must be made while the sun shines, but 
there is always an opportunity to put the 
crop into the silo.” 
- When Mr. Adams put his clover into the 
silo he covered it with a layer, two and one- 
half feet in thickness, of freshly cut Prickly 
Comfrey. This covering, weighing when put 
in over two and a half tons, subsequently set¬ 
tled down five feet with the clover, and until 
the layer of comfrey itself was only eight 
inches in thickness. Mr. Adams is quite 
pleased with the success of his experiment and 
says that a recent examination of the silo dis¬ 
closes the fact that clover is in a perfect state 
of preservation up to the covering, there not 
beiDg a particle of mold even where the clover 
came in contact with the comfrey. The 
broad leaves of the comfrey in wilting be¬ 
came so compact aud are so thoroughly inter¬ 
laced and woven together that it would seem to 
make a most excellent covering for silos. Of 
course, this is but a single trial and must not 
be accepted as conclusive, but the fact so far 
as we have been able to go seems to indicate 
that the future covering for silos should con¬ 
sist of some green material instead of a light 
and porous protection.” 
-Kansas City Live-stock Indicator: 
“ Prof. Sanborn has been endeavoring for 
several years to secure justice for the Missouii 
Agricultural College, and because of his 
efforts in that direction, he has been set upon 
by those interested and made to appear as the 
guilty party.” 
- —-Puck : “ The dogs we are warned to look 
out for always seem big enough and ugly 
enough to look out for themselves.” 
“ When a woman is unsuccessful in scaring 
a hen out of the garden, it is probably because 
her shoos are only half-souled.” 
“ Health makes wealth—and there is more 
demand for the finished article than the raw 
materiaL” 
- London Garden: “There are about 
5,000 roses planted in beds in the garden of 
the Trocadero, at the Paris Exposition. The 
summer beiDg hot, few flowers appeared. 
-N. Y. Herald: “Flowers express the 
tenderest emotions of the heart, a generous 
pity for suffering. They are the eloquent 
messengers of faith, love and hope. 
The man who has butchered his wife In cold 
blood and is condemned to die therefore is 
not a fit subject for such gifts. 
Crime should be faced with the frown of a 
righteous indignation. To send the murderer 
a wreath of roses indicates a maudlin senti¬ 
ment and total misapprehension of the true 
relation of things.” 
- Hoard’s Dairyman: “For a*[test;j;we 
once kept several cans of milk submerged in 
ice-water for 72 hours, and then made a good 
sweet cheese of it, the milk and cream having, 
seemingly, become emulsified in the cheese 
vat, as completely as when set. Hard cream 
raised through open setting, unless melted or 
strained, will not be incorporated in the 
cheese. But submerged cream, not having 
had access to air, does not go in clots.” 
-“ If we mistake not, it has been shown 
that the corn-stalks wasted in Missouri every 
year, would, if siloed, feed more cattle than 
the State contains. So the waste would go on, 
unless the silo comes iu to arrest tho destruc¬ 
tion.” 
-Dr. Collier: “None are to-day more 
hopeful than chey who have thus far failed of 
financial success in the sorghum-sugar indus¬ 
try, and simply because none know so well as 
they that their failure resulted, not from any 
inevitable condition, but wholly from pre- 
veutible causes which in many cases even or¬ 
dinary foresight would have obviated.” 
-“ The cost of cultivation of the sorghum 
is practically identical with that of corn, but 
if a quarter more labor were given to it, the 
improved character of the crop would justify 
the additional expense. The grain of sor¬ 
ghum may be prepared for market or for 
feeding at an expense no greater than attends 
the cost of harvesting corn. The average of 
seven extended estimates as to the yield of 
sorghum, and one of these estimates included 
returns from 21 States, gives an average 
yield of 29% bushels of seed per acre. We 
may, then, safely conclude that inasmuch as 
it pays to grow corn in this country for the 
seed alone, so too will the seed of sorghum 
pay all the expense in the cultivation and har¬ 
vesting of the crop. Indeed, there is abun¬ 
dant testimony to prove that such is the case.” 
-Messenger of Peace: “A certain man 
named Smith came to a farmer named Jones, 
wishing to buy a pair of oxen, and said: 
‘Those red oxen of yours suit me, and I will 
give you $120 for them.’ Jones replied: ‘That 
is $30 more than they are worth.’ Smith 
looked wonderstruck at this remark. The 
farmer said: ‘ I know the value of,those oxen 
better than you do. One of them is a little 
‘breachy,’ and the other one cannot bear the 
heat so well as some oxen, and yet there are 
many good qualities in them. But, all things 
considered, $90 are all they are worth, and 
you may have them for that price.’ Smith 
gladly took the oxen and said to a man on 
his way home: ‘It beats all what a difference 
there is in the religion of men. Now, there 
is old James Clark, my near neighbor; I have 
heard him make many a long prayer. If he 
bad owned those beautiful oxen be would have 
asked me $130 or more for them, and he would 
have called them a great bargain at that, and 
he would not have said a word about one of 
them being inclined to be breachy, and the 
other not very tough in hot weather. I do not 
know anything aoout religion myself, but one 
thiDg I know as well as I know where the sun 
shines on a bright day, and that is, there is a 
mighty big difference between Jodcs’s religion 
and Clark’s religion.’ ” 
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or salt rheum, you should take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, 
which Is the best blood purifier known. It effects 
wonderful cures where other preparations utterly 
fall. Be sure to get Hood’s. 
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