THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
743 
1889 
facts regarding the weight and daily con¬ 
sumption of silage by cattle, placing the 
weight of the cubic foot of silage at 40, 
and the daily consumption of silage per cow 
at 50 pounds. Of course there is silage and 
silage, and the Kansas College experiments 
of last year made with very great care gave 
figures considerably lower than these. The 
corn silage last year weighed exactly 34 
pounds to the cubic foot, and the average 
daily consumption of silage by each of 60 
head of cattle, one year old and upwards, 
fed exactly four months, was 34 pounds. 
The largest and most greedy cows were un¬ 
able to consume much more than 50 pounds 
of silage daily, a slight increase on this 
amount being almost invariably followed 
by purging and like unfavorable symptoms. 
Dr. Miles discourages the thick seeding 
of corn designed for the silo because of the 
feeble, immature, and watery character of 
the plants thus grown. It is doubtless 
generally true, as Dr. Miles remarks that 
“ Indian corn will yield a greater aggregate 
of valuable cattle food per acre under good 
farm management than any other crop.” 
although Prof. Shelton is inclined to think 
that, for Kansas, sorghum is a serious rival 
of the great staple for the purposes of the 
silo. 
Japans we have seen raised in this country. 
An engraving of one of them will appear 
later. The quality of the Paragon is nearly 
as good as that of our largest American 
chestnuts, without the astringent skin of 
the average Japan. The R. N.-Y.’s oldest 
Paragon is two years from the nursery. It 
has made a short growth as, we fear, the 
soil and situation are not congenial. three feet below the surface, loosely placed 
in bottles and buried about 20 inches below 
the surface. During the past summer the 
class room. At least this is what his 
friends expect, and confidently predict. It 
is a happy omen that he comes with the 
hearty support of all who know him and 
love the institution.”. Their plans 
lx the autumn of 1879 Dr. Beal buried 
bottles of seed of 21 kinds of plants. The 
seeds were mixed with sand taken from 
A writer in the London Garden men¬ 
tions several rose authorities that pro¬ 
nounce Marshall P. Wilder and Alfred 
Colomb the same in every respect. The 
R. N.-Y. has had a good chance to compare 
these roses for three years past as a speci¬ 
men of each has been growing side by side. 
The result is that except the Wilder has 
borne a few more roses and a little later, 
seeds with the sand were removed to the 
botanical laboratory and kept moist for 
some time, when some of the seeds of Pig¬ 
weed, Black Mustard, Shepherd’s Purse, 
Pepper-grass, Mayweed, Evening Primrose, 
Smartweed, Purslane, Pigeon-grass and 
Chickweed produced good seedlings. 
we cannot tell the one from the other. Nearl y four y ears a S° be buried ! ome black 
walnuts and acorns in well-drained sand, 
A Good STORY, which illustrates some 
modern business methods, is told by the 
Butchers’ Live Stock Gazette : 
Mr. Jones sold a bullock to Mr. Lazarus 
for $16, to be taken and paid for when fat. 
When Mr. Lazarus came for the animal 
Jones said he would like to have a fore¬ 
quarter for his own use. Mr. Lazarus will¬ 
ingly accepted the order and, after,the bul¬ 
lock was slaughtered, delivered the meat. 
A few days later Jones went to town, called 
on Lazarus, and, as a preliminary to a set¬ 
tlement, asked for his bill. “Dot’s all 
right, Mr. Jones I haf the bill already 
made out. Here you are” Mr. Jones read. 
MR. JONES, DR , TO JACOB LAZARUS— 
To ono quarter of beef, 185 lbs. at 10 cts.t'8.50 
By credit one bullock.16.' 0 
Balance due...$ 2.50 
“ Good heavens, Lazarus, you get three 
quarters of the beef, the hide, tallow, and 
offal, and bring me in debt $2.50. How’s 
that, old man ?” 
“Ah, Mr. Jones, that beef vas slieap at 
10 cents a pound.” 
“ But, Lazarus, you only gave me $16 for 
the whole bullock.” 
“Ah, but, Jones, dot’s pizness, pizness, 
do you see ?” 
“ Well, Lazarus, next time I have a fat 
bullock I’ll kill it myself, use one quarter 
and throw away the rest, and then I will 
save $2.50. You see ?” 
“ Ah t ah ! but dot’s not pizness ; farmers 
should not be butchers—dot’s bad.” 
SAMPLES. 
Secret. Pears are small and poor this 
year, as judged by those in the New York 
market. 
The Lawrence is a late autumn and 
early winter pear, of fine quality, though 
not equal to the best and only partially 
melting; but it has the good quality of 
never becoming scabby ; is always fair, and 
the tree holds its foliage late in autumn 
until the fruit is well matured. It is a good 
market variety. Thus speaks the veteran 
pomologist, J. J. Thomas in the Country 
Gentleman... There never was 
Among all the introduced climbing flow¬ 
ering shrubs says Garden & Forest, few 
have proved more satisfactory than Loni- 
cera Japonica, var. Hallii. It differs from 
the typical L. Japonica chiefly in being 
practically ever-blooming, and from June 
until after' severe autumn frosts its frag¬ 
rant white and yellow flowers are continu¬ 
ously produced. It is becoming well-known 
and commonly planted. The well-known 
and very fragrant Dutch Monthly Hon- 
ey-suckle (Lonieera Periclymenum) also 
has a few flowers at this season, 
but they are very apt to be unpleas¬ 
antly infested Ly aphides. This is a de¬ 
cided objection to it. At theRural Grounds 
not less than six frosts have occurred that 
froze water from an-eighth to a-quarter of 
an inch deep. The foliage of Hall’s Honey¬ 
suckle is as green and fresh as ever and 
flowers are still in bloom here and there. 
If we could have but one climbing shrub it 
w'ould be Hall’s 
Don’t you know what to plant ? Consult 
the American Pomological reports. Con¬ 
sult your nearest neighbor that is posted as 
to fruits. Consult the nearest honest nur¬ 
seryman. If, without more definite infor¬ 
mation you care to make selections try, 
among strawberries, Parker Earle, Down¬ 
ing, Cumberland, Crescent. Among ap¬ 
ples try Baldwin, Yellow Transparent, 
Gravenstein. Among grapes try Moore’s 
Early, Eaton, Brighton, Niagara, Colerain, 
Berckmans, Ulster, Antoinette, Worden. 
Among plums try Reine Claude, Bradshaw, 
Imperial Gage. Among currants try Fay 
and White Grape. Among gooseberries try 
Downing, Houghton. Among cherries try 
Black Tartarian, Coe’s Transparent, Gov. 
Wood, May Duke. Among raspberries trv 
Cutlibert, Golden Queen (a yellow Cuth- 
bert), Turner, Hilborn, Springfield. Among 
blackberries, Minnewaski, Kittatinny, 
Snyder. Among pears try Idaho, Tyson, 
Howell, Sheldon, Anjou, Bose, Bartlett and 
Seckel. Among peaches try Good, Lovett’s 
White for late, Troth, Crawford’s Early, 
Sal way, Stump. 
There is a widely prevalent idea that 
even a very ignorant person can make a 
success of farming. This opinion says 
student J. W. White in the Speculum, a 
monthly published by the students of the 
Michigan Agricultural College, is held not 
only by many town people, but by a large 
class of our farmers, especially those who 
have become wealthy without the aid of an 
education. 
By looking over the history of our own 
country we may better understand why 
this idea has gained so strong a foothold. 
a nation better supplied 
at depths varying from a few inches to 
about three feet. At the end of two years 
some of the acorns and walnuts planted 
near the surface were found to have come 
up the summer after being olanted, while 
those buried from eight inches to two feet 
below the surface had all decayed. All the 
walnuts deeply planted had decayed, but 
some of the acorns buried from two to three 
feet were alive. be appreciated- 
___ _Popular Gardening: 
-Chas. A. Green: “While there are 
many honorable real estate men in the 
West, there are many who are human 
sharks, seeking whom they may devour. 
are often well laid to deceive 
the most wary. No one should go West on 
the representations of strangers, and above 
all, should never engage to buy land that 
he has not seen. I was shown lands in 
California, Oregon and Montana, that had 
been advertised and sold as the best fruit 
lands in the world, that were not worth 
one cent per township, on account of loca¬ 
tion or barrenness.” 
-“While I might criticise the business 
men of the West as having too much en¬ 
thusiasm, I own that Eastern men have 
not enough. Instead of Eastern men going 
West why do they not make more of their 
opportunities in the East ? The East has 
advantages that the West has not. Why 
not make more of them ? Why not make 
a plunge for success here ? The answer is, 
it is so much easier to plunge where all are 
plunging. It is hard work stirring up the 
dead. As a Western friend remarked: 
‘ Eastern people are asleep and they don’t 
want to be waked up. All a live Eastern 
man can do is to come West where he will 
WORD FOR WORD. 
The Sheldon, Mr. Thomas says, when 
well grown under good cultivation is 
scarcely equaled for delicious flavor and for 
its excellent melting quality. Its rounded 
form and dull russet skin do not make it 
particularly attractive to one unaccus¬ 
tomed to its delicious character. The tree 
is not so reliable a bearer as some other va¬ 
rieties, and it is more subject to the blight. 
If the fruit is not well grown and well 
ripened it is poor euough. esteem. 
Moore’s Arctic Plum is rapidly grow¬ 
ing in popularity along the northern bor¬ 
der of plum culture, says Dr. Hoskins, in 
Orchard and Garden. Its vigorous growth, 
precocity in fruiting, hardiness, and resis¬ 
tance to the curculio, all commend it to 
growers; while as a market fruit it has 
many merits, and finds a ready sale. 
Farther south, some complaint is heard of 
its dropping, but nothing of this is seen 
northward. It hears very young, and tends 
to overbear, even to suicide. It is not 
strictly iron-clad, yet is plainly the hardiest 
among the varieties of European origin, 
barring the Russians, of which we as yet 
know but little, though that little is en¬ 
couraging. 
H. M. Engle & Son send us fine Paragon 
Chestnuts as large as any of the seedling 
-YERMONT WATCHMAN: ‘‘Farming needs 
the whole man.” 
-Hoard’s Dairyman : “ There has been 
a greater per cent, of growth in the use of 
cream, in our cities, within the past two 
years, than in the consumption of any other 
product of the dairy. We predict its use 
Honeysuckle will increase ; for there are many finding 
out that cream is better and cheaper than 
milk.” 
-“After a while, if the butter extrac¬ 
tor succeeds, and supersedes, largely, pres¬ 
ent methods of making butter, the telling 
of how to treat cream and chum, will be as 
* stale, flat, and unprofitable,’ as to des¬ 
cribe the old match and flint-lock guns of a 
past age.” 
- Farm & Fireside : “ Catalogue mak¬ 
ers have gone about as far as they can pos¬ 
sibly go. The painter’s colors and the vo¬ 
cabulary of the English language have 
been drawn on until there is nothing left 
with which they can go further. It will be 
a good thing to see simple, truthful state¬ 
ments and natural illustrations and colors 
in common use.” 
-Poultry Monthly: “In ‘breeding 
for fancy points,’ the ‘ points ’ are made 
of more importance than the poultry.” 
-Western Rural: “The estimate of 
the value of Montana differs with different 
visitors. If anybody desires to know what 
the country is. better go and see it and take 
nobody’s word for it.” 
-Correspondent Ohio Farmer: 
“ Should the churn swing or revolve ? Both 
churns are operated to produce concussion 
upon cream. The one secures it by revolv¬ 
ing, and the cream falling down upon the 
heads of the churn, is thrown into ‘ tem¬ 
porary confusion.’ The other, by a quick 
swing and return, brings the cream into 
the end of churn and causes it to recoil back 
upon itself, and practically results in the 
same kind of agitation. In both churns the 
cream needs to be quite thin to get the best 
working. In the swing churn the washing 
and granulation of the butter can be carried 
on without a fastening on of the cover at 
each point of change. Both churns have 
their friends. Tf there is any point gained, 
it is in the salting process, the revolving 
churn giving the butter a little greater 
drop, may thus come a little nearer do¬ 
ing perfect work. So far as I can see all 
else is equal. I have both, so am not sup¬ 
posed to be partial.” 
-N. Y. TIMES: “A dairyman whose 
stupidity and obstinacy alone deserve the 
punishment is now in jail—refusing to pay 
a fine—for selling milk below the legal 
* Dead-set 
against filling the cellar under the dwell¬ 
ing with vegetables and fruits—that’s what 
I am.” 
-Albany Cultivator: “An experi¬ 
enced commission merchant remarked that 
if the Anjou Pear only had a fine red cheek, 
it would be the best of all market varie¬ 
ties.” 
-Credit Lost: 
“When usury presents a note. 
On which your autograph you wrote, 
Your heart within you rattles: 
You struggle In the days of grace 
To raise the value of Its face. 
Or get the sheriff on your pla--e. 
Then-goo 1-by goods and chattels.” 
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addition to crops produced, these lands 
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that large profits are realized from money 
invested in them. Many ignorant farmers 
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notion that an educatiou is of no practical 
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The above journal for October presents a 
photo-engraving of the new professor of 
agriculture, Eugene Davenport, well 
known to R. N -Y. readers as a frequent 
contributor to its columns. The sketch of 
his life is interesting. One cannot read it 
without feeling that Prof. Davenport is in 
every way well fitted for the position and 
that a more judicious selection could 
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standard of quality—viz., 12 per cent, 
of total solids on the ground that 
the milk sold was precisely as it 
came from the cow. There are poor 
cows which none but an ignorant or a 
stupid man would keep, and it is a benefi¬ 
cent law which compels dairymen to get 
scarcely have been made. rid of the unprofitable beasts or inflicts a 
“As A thoroughly practical man,” the 
sketch concludes, “Prof. Davenport will 
demonstrate in the field what he teaches in 
the class room. As a hard student he will 
give the pupils under his charge solid meat. 
As a courteous, genial gentleman he will 
attract all students to him. As one “ apt 
to teach” he will prove that the subject of 
agriculture can be made interesting in the 
fine as a punishment for keeping them. It 
is as dishonest to keep a cow for the pur¬ 
pose of selling her milk whose milk is 
known not to be up to a reasonable stand¬ 
ard equivalent to the price paid for it as to 
nut water in better milk and reduce it be¬ 
low the standard. The imprisoned dairy¬ 
man thinks he is auvartyr, but lie is simply 
a fool.” 
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