1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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the other hand, nine other samples of 
ground bone had an average intrinsic value, 
as shown by analysis, of $21.69, while their 
average selling price was $41.78, or 47 per 
cent, in excess. It will be seen, therefore, 
that upon the average those farmers in New 
Jersey who bought their ground bone from 
the last lot of nine samples, paid 85.2 per 
cent, more for the same amount of fertiliz¬ 
ing material than did those who bought 
from the first lot of 10 above mentioned. 
Again, if we consider the so-called complete 
fertilizers analyzed, we shall find differ¬ 
ences almost as great. For example, six of 
the number had, upon an average, an in¬ 
trinsic value per ton of $31.88, while the 
average selling prices were $30.08—that is, 
they were, upon an average, worth six per 
cent, more than their market price. Twenty 
other samples had, as shown by analyses, 
an average value of $34.80, while their aver¬ 
age selling price was $37.60, or eight per 
cent. more. Again, 50 other brands had an 
average value of $26.69, while their average 
market price was $37.69, or 41.2 per cent, 
greater. In other words, the New Jersey 
farmer who is so unfortunate as to buy 
some one of the 50 complete fertilizers men¬ 
tioned, will pay, upon an average, 49.6 per 
cent, more for his nitrogen, phosphorus and 
potash than does the fortunate farmer who 
buys from one of the six first mentioned, or 
if one of the 26 first mentioned is bought, 
there would be an average saving of 34.4 
per cent, over what would be paid for one 
of the last 50 mentioned. 
Sulphur as a Disinfectant.— The value 
of sulphur as a disinfectant should be well 
known, says Henry Stewart in the Times. 
By burning it, the sulphur is oxidized and 
becomes a most acrid and poisonous vapor 
known as sulphurous acid. This acid quick¬ 
ly destroys all kinds of germs, whether of 
mold, mildew, and other kinds of minute 
fungi, or of those organisms which cause 
disease in plants and animals. The germs 
of all the contagious diseases of farm ani¬ 
mals are destroyed by exposure to the 
fumes of burning sulphur, and wherever 
these diseases have appeared, or are ex¬ 
pected to appear, they may be avoided by 
closing the buildings and fumigating t hem 
with sulphur wrapped in paper moistened 
with kerosene oil to make it more inflam¬ 
mable, screwing up the paper and lighting 
one end. The papers, for safety, should be 
put in an iron pot or pan. One ounce of 
the sulphur will be sufficient to fumigate 
and disinfect a small poultry house, and a 
pound will serve for a large stable or barn. 
The building should be tightly closed to 
retain the fumes, the cattle, of course, being 
removed meanwhile, and the sulphur 
should be burned in several places over the 
floor so that every part of the building 
may receive a full share of the disinfectant. 
As the salt known as hyposulphite of soda 
consists of sulphurous acid united with the 
base, it is a useful internal disinfectant, and 
as its action on the internal organs is safe, 
it is usually given as a preventive to the 
animals which have been exposed to infec¬ 
tion or contagion. 
POINTERS. 
Peter Henderson says that the business 
of market gardening, though healthful and 
fairly profitable, is exceedingly laborious, 
from which any one not accustomed to 
manual labor would quickly shirk. The 
labor is not what might be called heavy, 
but the hours are long—not less than an 
average of 10 hours a day for both summer 
and winter. No one should engage in it 
after passing middle life, neither is it fitted 
for men of feeble constitution, for it is em¬ 
phatically a business in which one has to 
rough it, and if it is to be prosecuted suc¬ 
cessfully the owner must put his shoulder 
to the wheel at least as strongly as his 
roughest employee. 
A LONGER trial of the Red-caps does not 
change the opinion previously expressed 
that they, are less profitable thau better 
known breeds. Their eggs average one more 
to the pound than those of Wyamlottes and 
they are lighter in color—nearly white. But 
they are small iu body and the big comb is 
a decided objection. 
The Patagonians are an interesting lot. 
The race is so little fixed as not to be enti¬ 
tled to a name at all. They seem to be a 
mixture of Houdans and Games, and possi¬ 
bly other breeds. They are hardy, plump, 
medium-sized fowls, eonteuted and quiet. 
Their eggs average as large as those of Wy- 
andottes, varying iu color. The small top- 
knot is no objection; the small comb is in 
their favor. Among our pullets is a pure 
white Patagonian. Others are black ami 
variously mixed. 
The R. N.-Y. was probably the first of 
the stations or journals to try the Wyan- 
dottes both dark-colored and white. As 
to the first, we have merely to repeat the 
opinion expressed in these columns several 
years ago, viz., that they should be ranked 
as among the very first all-purpose breeds. 
There is but one objection to them—a rather 
inferior-sized egg. The White Wyandottes 
come true to color. They are plump, early- 
maturing, full-feathered fowls, quiet, and 
desirable in all ways. 
OUR Andalusians were condemned on ac¬ 
count of small bodies and large Leahorn- 
like combs. Crosses of Andalusians and 
Wyandottes, however, have given us some 
of the mo c t perfect individuals we have 
ever seen in so far as shape, markings and 
feathers are concerned. 
Peter Henderson says that peat moss, 
now being used in the cities for bedding, is 
likely to be of great value to the market 
gardener if it can only be had in sufficient 
quantities. He has had it in use in his own 
stables for about two years, and finds it not 
only more economical than straw for bed¬ 
ding, but its absorbing qualities make it of 
great value for fertilizing purposes. He 
can buy ordinary straw manure in his vicin¬ 
ity for $1 per team load; but he is buying 
all he can get from stables where the moss 
is used at $2 per team load, believing it to 
have twice the value of ordinary straw 
manure. It is claimed that the source of 
supply of the peat moss in Europe is almost 
inexhaustible, and it is now offered by 
three or four firms in New York at prices 
ranging from $12 to $14 per tun, and it is 
hoped competition will bring it yet still 
lower. It is now used exclusively as bed¬ 
ding by some of our largest horse-car stables 
and express companies in New York and 
vicinity; and one of our largest livery stable 
men in Jersey City, who has been using it 
for two years, says he would rather use 
peat moss for bedding at $14 per ton than 
he would straw for nothing, so much more 
satisfactory does he find it in all respects 
for his horses. There are, no doubt, many 
swamps in the United States composed of 
peat moss, which may some day prove gold 
mines to the discoverers, as these deposits 
in Germany .must now be proving to their 
owners. 
Mu. M. Murray, of Centre, Ohio, claims 
that the new seedling potato, “Ross,” is 
better in quality than the Rural New 
Yorker No. 2. 
DIRECT. 
-Life: “If we can love our neighbor 
the world is bound to be interesting to us. 
Don’t doubt, don’t forget it. If you love 
no oue, you are a wretched failure, a poor 
old machine, the parts of which are wear¬ 
ing out without anything to show for their 
activity. If you love your friends there is 
hope for you ; you must be getting some 
comfort out of life. If you love your neigh¬ 
bor, that is the fulfillment of the law. 
Great is duty, and it pays to do it, for that 
makes life sweet. But if you love your 
enemies, that, brethren, is the fulfillment 
of the Gospel. If you can do that the true 
Christmas spirit must be in you. Let it 
out, comrade, let it out; it is rare in the 
world. Not every one knows that it exists, 
but you, who have felt it, know that it is 
the golden key to life.” 
-The Art of Making Gifts. “In select¬ 
ing an arm chair for papa seek one that 
will match his temper rather than his com¬ 
plexion. 
Girls over 20 are likely to feel in¬ 
sulted if presented with wax dolls. 
If your husband smokes, insist that he 
shall use the box of cigars you gave him at 
Christmas. This may cure him of the 
habit. 
If you have a neighbor whose love of 
music keeps you awake o’ nights it will be 
a polite tribute to his taste if you send his 
small boy a drum. 
Your mother-in-law will be intensely 
gratified if you give her—her own way. 
A few sheets of postage stamps may be 
gracefully offered to struggling genius. 
Your sweetheart will probably be as much 
pleased with an engagement riug as any¬ 
thing else you can give her.” 
-Dr. Talmage : “ I would not take up 
smoking again for all the surplus iu the 
Treasury.” 
-Rev. R. Heuf.r Newton: “I can 
scarcely fancy myself seeking spiritual con¬ 
solation from lips whence issue the odious 
fumes of nicotine.” 
-Rev. Thomas Armitage : “ There is 
something so unclean, morbid and adverse 
to the, daily life of the Lord Jesus in th e 
practice of smoking, chewing or snuffing 
tobacco that the very thought of associating 
tlie Son of God therewith would be scouted 
by the slaves of these practices as savoring 
of blasphemy.” 
——Rev. Tho’s. K. Beecher : “ Tobacco 
has its uses no doubt. He is a rare man 
who learns to use it usefully.” 
-Popular Science News: “The treat¬ 
ment of pneumonia by chloroform inhala¬ 
tions is reported upon by Dr. Theodore 
Clemens, in Alleg. Med. Central Zeitung. 
During 42 years’ practice he has treated 
all cases of pneumonia, severe or mild, 
with chloroform inhalations, and has not 
had a single fatal case. To the chloroform 
he adds alcohol, saturates some cotton 
twisted into a ball, covers it with some 
loose, dry cotton, and holds this to within 
an inch of the patient’s mouth and nose. 
He thinks that the chloroform spirits are 
taken by the blood, completely changing it 
in the lungs, and, by defibrinating, pre¬ 
venting its hepatization.” 
-Tennessee Experiment Station : 
“Considered as a food the strawberry 
would hardly be rated as very nutritious. 
The small amounts of food constitutents 
present are so diluted by the ninety per 
cent, of water, that to sustain life a very- 
large quant ity would have to be consumed.” 
-London Live-Stock Journal: “We 
regard* in fact, the American people as be¬ 
ing distinctly an assistant and ally in the 
battle of life—and not an enemy. When 
we read of what it has done and is doing, 
and see what it has let us have and is likely 
to forward, we think this island has been, 
and is likely again to be, altogether a gain¬ 
er by any prosperity- which may befall the 
Greater Britain beyond the sea.” 
pi.sccUatteou.s ^dvertteing. 
Rheumatism 
We doubt if there is. or can be, a specific 
remedy for rheumatism; but thousands •who 
have suffered its pains have been greatly ben¬ 
efited by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. If you have failed 
to find relief, try this great remedy. It correct: 
the acidity of the blood which is the cause of the 
disease, and builds up the whole system. 
“ I was afflicted with rheumatism twenty years. 
Previous to 1883 I found no relief, but grew worse, 
until I was almost helpless. Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
did me more good than all the other medicine 
I ever had.” II. T. Balcom, Shirley Village, Mass. 
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