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NEW-YORKER 
mate is not so changed, our comparatively 
regular seasons of the past ten years 
prove to be a terrible misfortune. - 
shall have such a season as t~ 
there are at least six 1- 
pie living where then not over 
resided on soil where nothing grew 
very cattle perished, what cau l 
relieve those 30 thousand was a 
and those who saw some c. — 
the river from the Arkansas 
levs, never cau forget the sight. 
- 1 will 
• * 1 —For, if we 
-T that, of 1859 while 
hundred thousand peo- 
thirty thousand 
- r aiu \ the 
be done ? To 
l>ig job then, 
of them coming over 
and Kaw val- 
We are a 
During the 
ast four years we have had crops uuequaled 
ud have by legislation compelled low prices, 
nd Lrefole immense exports. Soon we shall 
ave inflation and high prices. But not a 
bing is laid by for the years of famine. More 
lVer we have crowded our population into 
onions having climates different from the 
avored portions from the Atlantic toMissourj 
-regions subjected to such seasous of droug i 
tud visitations from locusts, as maBtieave the 
icople literally nothing to eat. And atm, the 
jjgbty tide of emigration pours westward. 
Lf 0 the climate has not been changed (or in- 
toed if we shall have a?ocust visitation), some 
day we shall see millions of people occupying 
a vast region suddenly made as imsuppoitmg 
as Central Sahara. Would it not be Wise, m 
view of such an event, to make some piepu a- 
tion for the year of famine that seems ine\ lia¬ 
ble ? Oue thing is certain ; if this drought o 
two months lasts several more, we are going 
to have an experience we are not Ukely t 
forget. 
Maryland, Brighton, March 28 -Withiu the 
memory of some of our youngest farmers the 
dairy has become a branch of the mixed hus¬ 
bandry always followed by men m our section, 
and owing to our nearness to Washington, 
isnow the leading interest, returning more 
profit to the farmer than any other branch. 
This interest has been fostered by the intro¬ 
duction of the Jersey cattle, and since the 
eral iufusion of Jersey blood 
in our section, the butter pro- 
rom about 150 pounds per cow 
i. Until within the last 
best brands have been 
realizing fifty cents 
round; but the last sum- 
able to maintain this price, 
while the bulk sold for 
that the thoughtful 
- \ to have the 
Bale wheu there is the most 
October to May. With 
present prices (bay, $10 per 
■ less aud corn 50c. per bushel), 
commence the winter, a man 
moderate profit at even 40c. 
well known 
commanded 
much 
than would be 
r dairy, leaves 
i to attend to his harvest, 
his cows will require the least 
sw ideas as being the result 
and doubtless they would 
l thus relieve our markets 
through June and July, 
forced oil the market than 
time wheu most 
cooler 
eent March 14, by W. J. Jennings, President 
Green’s Farms Farmers’ Club 
44 0 29.U 39.0 
Water. 49 4.1 2.4 
Nitrogen... t'n trace 2.8 
Phosphoric acid.• •••.ig.w * 14 .# *12.41 
Estimated value, per ton. -••• 1550 *14.00 17.00 
i’est.... ,_rn-notm- 
and science most fully agree as to tne vamty 
aud folly of such attempts. Special Manures 
for particular crops are, in fact, least heat d 
of where agriculture is guided by the clearest 
light of science aud the widest range o expe 
rience. 
Biennial report of the State Agricultuial 
College, Manhattan, Kansas. In this report 
Professor Gale says: “The tree planters of the 
East are lookiug to as for results ; and 1 w 
be wise in all our plaus for the future to re¬ 
member that we are located almost in the mid¬ 
dle of the great central region where forest- 
culture, upon as grand, a scale as the wor 
has ever known, must some time .be accepter 
as a necessity. In recognition of this fact, 
Prof. Sargent, of the Harvard Botanical Gar¬ 
dens, has forwarded to us about oue hundred 
species of trees and shrubs. These have been 
planted out and the results will be carefully 
noted. We should accept it as a fact, that ex¬ 
periments undertaken here in forestry ami 
r»ror>8 it WUI not 
again’now. Plow or spade the land 
and dress it evenly with a rake, ^plants 
are then set in rows three feet apart, a 
to eight inches apart in the row. Plant th 
like cabbage, with a dibber or pointed 
and pack the soi*- closely about them. 1 lant- 
w firmly is of importance during warm 
g y - - in all out-door planting, 
the plants from drying out so 
• ’ , and only a few 
set out, it will pay to give 
This will settle the soil 
them moist for a couple 
formed. 
__>tiling further to be 
--'i weeks than to keep the 
ater if necessary ; but at the 
t ill be in the first half 
should receive the first 
it be- done carefully- 
ug out considerably, 
r on the ground. Thaee 
L bunch, and the soil 
with the hands, so that 
But little soil should be 
- —a little, later, 
i to be used early in the fall, 
the full banking up, which must 
!, but what is to be stored 
be banked until 
the fit time for 
weather, and, indeed, 
as it prevents L _ 
rapidly. If the weather is dry, 
hundred plants arc i - 
them a good watering 
about them aud keep 
of days until new fibers are 
After planting, then 
done for about seven 
plot clean and to wl~ 
end of that time, which w 
of September, the plants t 
banking up. This must 
The plants arc spreadin 
some of the leaves resting 
must be gathered up iu a 
drawn up about them 
' they remain upright, 
heaped about them the first time 
the celery which is 
should receive t— 
be done with a spade, 
away for winter, should not 
the first of October. Of course 
tbis operation will vary with the locality where | 
hard frost sets in about the latter part Octobet 
the plants must be bauked up earlier, ihc 
old way of planting the celery in a ttenc^ to 
facilitate the blanching, has gone out of date 
since the dwarf varieties have become popu¬ 
lar. If the larger varieties are grown, they 
must either be planted five feet apart, to give 
room to bank them up. or they should be 
planted in a trench about eighteen inches deep. 
Storing. 
It must be understood that celery will beai a 
little frost-about 10 °—without auy injury 
but when the thermometer is disposed to sink 
below this, the crop must be taken up and 
stored for winter. The best way to keep it ib 
to dig a trench not over 18 inches wide and as 
deep as the celery is high. In this pack the 
plants closely, in an upright positiou as they 
stood in the ground, so that the tops will >e 
level with the surface of the surrounding earth. 
When wet or frozen, they should not be touch¬ 
ed, as handling them in that condition aceel- 
, prate, their decay. Here they remain till 
Plats. 
to from 200 to 300 pounds, 
two years, most of our L 
delivered to customers, 
per ponnd the year 
mer we were not 
many retailing at 40e.; 
30c. or less. 
It is in times like these 
man will so change his system as 
largest quautity for f— 
demand—say from 
farm produce at ] 
ton; bran, $15 or 
and fresh cows to tv 
can make a i- 
(wholesale), and brands that are 
have never in the laBt ten years 
less. This system, besides furnishing a 
larger amount of rich manure 
made by only running a suimner 
the farmer more time l. “ " ' ‘ 
as at that time l- 
attention. 
I throw out these few 
of experience here, an 
apply elsewhere, aud t! 
of the glut that occurs 
wheu more butter is f- 
cau possibly be used and at a 
.if the wealthy citizens are seeking a 
Plat A—natural... 
Plat B—Bucketed. 
Plat C—natural. . 
Plat D—suekered. 
Plat E-natural... 
Plat F—suekered. 
Plat G—natural... 
Plat H—suekered. 
There are two kinds ot ceiery in 
One, the most common, is grown for the lea - 
stalks, which are blanched and eaten. Ibe 
valued part of the other is the root, which 
enlarges after the manner of a turnip, aud is 
therefore called turnip-rooted celery. Each 
of these has again, a number of varieties which 
are more or less favored by cultivators. )f 
blanched celery, the large or giant varieties 
are now but little grown, as they need more 
labor, and are coarser than the dwarf varieties 
and not so delicately flavored. The engraving 
shows Early Dwarf White Solid, which is a 
favorite iu the market, as are also Boston Mar¬ 
ket and Incomparable Dwarf W hite. 
liaising the Plants. 
The seed should be sown in the open ground 
as early in the spring as the soil is fit to work. 
Choose a rich, loamy plot for the seed bed and 
pulverize it thoroughly with the spade and 
rake When uicely leveled, mark off a bed 
five and one-half feet wide, and as loug as 
needed, on which sow, rather thinly, six rows 
of seed nine inches apart. On a bed 10 feet 
long, may readily be raised 800 to 1,000 strong 
plants. The seeds are very small aud some¬ 
what slow to germinate and should therefore 
scarcely have any covering. It usually affords 
sufficient covering to pat the bed down with 
the back of a hoe or a shovel, after sowing. If 
the weather is dry, the bed must be kept moist 
hv watering. As soon as the plants put in 
In table No. 4 the yield of the suekered and 
grouped for coiupari- 
uatural plant belts are g 
son. 
TABLE NO. 4. 
Natural. 
Suekered. 
Increased yield of natural plats 
laid boards which will prevent um — 
percolating through to the plants. 
Turnip-Booted Celery. 
This variety is but little known iu this coun¬ 
try, but in Europe it is grown far more exten¬ 
sively and is considered of much more value 
in the kitchen than the blanched celery. Like 
the latter, the seed is sown in early spring, and 
the plants are set out in the latter part of June. 
The land should be rich and deeply pulverized, 
and as they require no banking up, the rows may 
be one aud a half foot apart, with oue foot be¬ 
tween the plants. Use the hoe vigorously be¬ 
tween the rows daring the summer, uud m the 
fall, when the. other celery is takeu up, this also 
should be lifted, the earth shaken off, the roots 
shortened and the outer leaves cutoff, when it 
will appear as in the engraving, ready for win¬ 
tering or for market. It may be stored in 
trenches, like blanched celery ; but it is more 
convenient to set it in moist sand, laid about 
six inches thick, in a cool but frost-proof eel- 
| lar. Here the plants are packed closely to¬ 
gether, with the tops upward, as when growing 
in the garden; thus they are handy at any 
time The roots are cooked in a score of ways, 
and for soups they are certainly far superior to 
auy turnip ever raised. _ 
ity of its soil. The result seems to show, How¬ 
ever, that the soil became progressively poorer 
from plat A to plat H. A glance at these tables 
will show that the removal of these suckers 
was a positive injury to the crop, and that, 
not in occasional eases, but uniformly through 
the series, there being only one exception to 
the rule of the experiment, that the ‘ natural ’ 
plat s yielded larger than either of the suekered 
plats adjoining. It would seem from this that 
the practice of removing the suckers from the 
growing corn is not well founded. 
Bergen Co., N. J., April a. 
three inches in depth last 
wing much to-day. Up 
been transplanting ever- 
ace to another. Oue ol 
Pine ten feet high aud 
ircumference at the base, 
received, for this season, our first 
of Pears. Awaiting a change in the 
•“3 covered with sand as ie* 
depth, where they will remain 
al dayB if necessary. The 
backward, which eapecial- 
we have as a good 
of fruit in abundance. But we find 
strawberry plants have su - 
* -> show itself 
ol our raspberry 
so that, iu so fai 
prepared 
greens lrom one pi. 
thCBe was a Scotch 
twenty-five feet in ci 
To-day we 
iuvoice 
weather, they were 
ceived. a foot in < . 
uuharmed for sever 
seasou is extremely 
ly in this happy valley 
promise 
that many of our 
fered by Wight, which only began to 
late last fall; that many cf 
canes arc killed to the ground 
as those fruits arc coneorued, We are _ 
for a light crop in Bpite oi a lute spring. J 
ciuths and Tulips are up two inches, an ^ 
they remain as if bewildered what to do tt 
Crocuses bloom here and there. S P 1U *S 
iu the ground is at a standstill, and Randal ( 
fSrool). imviug discharged W. «« 
has pat da « "T 
never finished winter employments, 
wood, leaking labels a»d ^ 
hen-houses. But the sun will shine to- ? 
and then we shall have two days of 
for every day that is lost now. Late »p » 
have their advantages aud their disadvuu g • 
Nebraska, Keene, Kearney Co.-Ht ^iheui 
West are thousands of acres ot wild u v 
which causes a loss of many thousands of u 
lars to the farmers iu short crops and ext 
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERT 
MENT STATION. 
BULLETIN 21. 
Fertilizer Analysis. 
243. Refuse from paper manufactory. 
From R. E. Piuney, Suffield. A wet, pasty 
mass. 
Water. ^ j 
Sand......*.o'.. 
Sulphuric Acid, Magnesia. Alumina aud oxide of _ 
iron.. 
100.0 
None of the ingredients of this refuse give it 
any value as a direct source of plant-food, ex¬ 
cept lime. Its uses for agricultural purposes 
are those to which lime is commonly applied. 
The carbonate of soda acts like lime, but more 
rapidly, and requires caution in its use. This 
refuse may be serviceable as a top-dressing on 
grass or to compost with swamp muck. Strik¬ 
ingly good effects rarely appear from lime un¬ 
til the second year. The commercial value of 
this material, as a fertilizer, is that of the 
equivalent amount of the cheapest lime. 
244. Animal scrap manure. 
245. Corena settlings. 
24tt. Rotted bone manure. 
Made by G. W. Baker, Williamsburgh, L. L; 
rural special reports. 
ouiii, Oregon, Holt Co., March 24. 
years ago the weather started to acting 
r as it has been doing for two months ; 
every time the signs of rain became im- 
d around whirls the wind to the north- 
m’d farewell all hopes of rain. During 
e had ho raiu from about Feb. 1st uutil 
Literally, nothing was produced oft 
ids save from those within eight or ten 
of the Missouri River. These lauds 
„nf«nin<rlv if uroDerly cultivated. We 
EARLY DWARF WHITE SOLID. 
Planting aud Blanching. 
Market gardeuers generally grow celery as a 
second crop; that is, on land on which have 
been raised early cabbage, peas, onions, etc. 
These crops will be cleared oft about the mid- 
