$cal 
doing well, but he fears the young branches 
will not cover up the old limbs and unite well 
and strongly, 
Ans. —We prefer grafting in the bark. By this 
method the cion will unite as lirmly with the 
stock as by cleft grafting. See answer to C. 
T. in last issue; and also Rural of March 15, 
1878. 
M. M. 8., Big Valley. Briber Co.. Cal., asks 
whether we cau procure for him aud forward 
seed of the forage parsnip, an account of which 
is given in the Rtjral of March 15. 
Ans. —As yet the parsnip haB not, so far as 
we know, been imported into this country, 
though some seeds taken to England, are re¬ 
ported to have done well there. There is no 
purchasing agency connected with the Rural 
New-Yorker. 
J. I).. Brooklyn L. I.. who in our issue of 
the 5th, inquired where 6eeds of Hyacinthus 
candicans could be obtained, is hereby inform¬ 
ed by L. A. O. that they can be procured from 
Hovey & Co., 16 South Market St. Boston, 
Mass. This variety is a Cape bulb, and throws 
up a 6tcm three feet high with white flowers ; 
said to bloom the second season from seed— 
in midsummer. 
It. S. P., Bolster's Mills, Me., asks whether 
the corn sent out by the Rural would do well 
“away down in Maine,” and in the northern 
part of it. at that. 
Ans.—P robably not. 
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66 VIBRATOR ” 
THRESHING MACHINERY. 
W E are sometimes asked why the prices of our 
goods are apparently higher than some others 
Ot inferior make, and we avail ourselves ot this op¬ 
portunity to place the matter in its true light 
O UR "Vibrator” Threshers and Portable 
Engines embody the best results of our experi¬ 
ence and study during our long business career. 
Whatever would add to their durability,efficiency, 
and solid excellence, in any particular, has been 
eagerly seized upon and utilized without regard 
to Tabor or expense. 
I N this connection it will be pertinent and timely 
to warn the public against Cncutp Threshers and 
Cheap Portable Engine- The superiority ot 
our machinery, in all particulars, i- now so gener¬ 
ally acknowledged that our competitors have no 
resource but to present the nit tact ion of low prices 
and long credit Their goods being inferior, they 
have to sell them for what they can get. Times 
are hard; and purchasers, without fully consider¬ 
ing the subject, will sometimes allow a lower price 
to decide them. Manufacturers of " cheap’’ ma¬ 
chines are so »et on carrying out competiou to ils 
utmost—competition of Cheapness, not of Kx 
ceilence—that they meet “bargain hunters” half 
way, and furnish them cheerfully with inferior nts 
chines at the cheap rate they ate asked for. 
W E are much mistaken if this is what the public 
wants or expects of us. Good machinery can¬ 
not he made when neither workman nor employer 
has pride in hinoccupation; interest and pleasure in 
the work arc both wanting, and both are essential 
in making good machinery. 
O UR mission and business is, to build Threshing 
Machinery or the Highest Excellence, 
whatever the cost, and, holding firmly to this single 
purpose, wc have added improvement after im¬ 
provement, until the reputation of our Machines 
has become co-extensive with the grain-raising re¬ 
gions of ihe continent. 
NOTES FROM CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 
How to Grow Nice Sweet Potatoes.— 
Sweet potatoes are easily £rown when once 
the method of their growth is understood. I 
have had a good deal of trouble in their culti¬ 
vation owing to their growing iu the shape of 
long strings instead of tubers, and it is only of 
lute I have learnt the cause of my failure. I 
chose good, light, sandy soil ; worked deep, 
cultivated well, and yet got strings. An ex¬ 
tensive grower tells me he formerly had a like 
dilllculty in securing good sweet potatoes, but 
after years of experiment, ho is now able to 
grow a largo crop with the same certainty as 
corn. As he took the first premium for that 
crop at the Chicago Exposition, I believe he Is 
right, although liis practice is opposed to my 
old theory which insisted on working the soil 
deeply. lie claims that the sweet potato is a 
gross surface feeder, and adapts his culture 
to this characteristic. Having chosen suitable 
soil, he scatters well rotted stable manure, 
broadcast, on It in February or March, and 
when lie is ready to plant the potatoes, he 
plows very shallow , leaving the subsoil undis¬ 
turbed, and then he works and pulverizes very 
finely the soil thus turned. In this, he claims 
the plant feeds, and when, on reaching the 
subsoil, it meets with resistance, it at once 
hegins to develop nice tubers. If the soil is 
pulverized deeply, he says, long, rambling 
strings, instead of tubors, are the result. 
Tub Defiance Wheat was counted, to get 
the number of grains, then mixed in a tine leaf 
mold aud Baud, in a box, and then sot out 
to freeze and thaw, takiug the weather as it 
came. Meanwhile, in the second week in 
March we had sonic nice days, the soil work¬ 
ing well, and a plat was prepared largo enough 
to plant the wheat one foot apart, in rows two 
feet apart. As 6oon as it sprouted, it was put 
in and is now up—most of it. This locality 
has not proven well adapted for spring wheat; 
but I believe if the seed were prepared as above, 
it would do a great deal better, but would have 
to be sown before sprouting much. 
Covering Vines. —All my briers were laid 
down last December and covered. Owing to 
this precaution, they will not only escape being 
winter-killed—a fate that, has befallen all oth¬ 
ers here—but they will have a good crop of 
ljornoB. About the middle of March the Snyder 
Blackberries were fresh and green. This seems 
wonderful, since all the exposed briars of 
Dorchester, Wilson’s Early, Lawton, and Klt- 
tatinuy.were killed and black to the very crown. 
Taylor’s Prolific came out all right. 
Du. A. C. W. 
--— 
Indiana, Roanoke, April 7. — Rain, snow 
and ice alternately; some line, warm days; 
many frosty nights. Our Peaches and many 
of our Cherries have been killed. Trees, 
shrubs, Raspberries and Strawberries are com¬ 
ing out of the hard winter looking well. 
A. C. H. 
(See page 248 for continuation of Everywhere.) 
T HRESHING machinery cannot be made for 
nothing, even with the aid of machinery. Our 
prices arc as low as they ought to be, and, without, 
doubt.as low as they ever will be. Un not be de¬ 
ceived with mere shea onus:. —Quality always 
descends faster than price. Low pi ice, 
especially in Threali<:r% ;tml "Portable Engines, 
means Low Quality, with Low Per¬ 
formance and High Repairs. 
NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., 
Battle Creek, Mich, 
NEW BUCKEYE 
LAWN MOWER. 
The lightest and cast, .-t running Mower in the mar¬ 
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VERBENA BASKETS, BERRY BASKETS, 
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ARTIC HOK ES. 
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Trumpet Creeper or Bugle Vine. 
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•\TEW ROCIIF.LI.E AND CAROLINE - Two now 
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QTRICTL.Y I<IHST-CLASS 
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Seeds and Seed Potatoes. 
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Sharpless Strawberry. 
The Largest, Best Flavored and Most productive, 
Berries grow with ordinary culture, 6 to 12V inches 
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214 Bushels of 
CORN 
TO ONE ACRE. 
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