JUNE K 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Iptftlkitms. 
VAN’S VIEWS 
On Milch Cows. 
We have been in the butter business for sev¬ 
eral years, supplying private families in town, 
delivering it either once each week or every 
other week. We have always got the top 
price and had no complaints. The demand 
was greater than we could supply, and we 
often had to send our customers to others. 
Last year there was a change. We lost our 
best customers. I did not believe there was 
a better butter maker than mother in the coun¬ 
ty, and I don’t believe it yet. 
I discovered the secret very soon : the man 
who cut us out of our trade had a herd of Jer- 
geys aDd their grades. His butter is better 
than ours. I own it and our own family all 
own it. If Jersey butter cuts us out in the 
local market, how long wiU it be before it 
will cut out other butter in the general mar¬ 
ket ? We have a class of enterprising farm¬ 
ers in the butter business in this State, as New 
York men know to their cost. They will soon 
take advantage of the fact that Jerseys make 
the gilt-edged butter. 
But cheese ? You have me there, you think ? 
Well I nevei made cheese ; but one who has 
and still makes thousands of pounds per year, 
writes me that “ the more Jersey cream and 
the less Aryshire. gristle you have, the better 
will be the quality of your cheese.” 
But I keep forgetting! it is milk you are 
after. 1 would extend to you the advice my 
father gave me some years ago. “ When you 
buy a cow, buy one that gives milk , it is much 
easier to pump water into your pail than it is 
to draw it from a cow’s bag.” If you consider 
that Jersey milk is in danger of hurting your 
customers' stomachs by its richness, do as 
the proverbial milkman does. Is it more dis¬ 
honest to water after it leaves the cow than 
before ? 
Fodder Corn. 
My back aches and my hands are stiff from 
finishing sowing my fodder corn. It is a fa¬ 
vorite crop with me, and I believe—I have no 
means of weighing and cannot tell exactly 
I can raise seven tons per acre. I use Pratt's 
Early sweet corn and drill with a Planet Jr., 
in rows two and half feet apart. Cut when it 
silks out and tie in large stooks and leave till 
wanted for use : what is wanted for use while 
green, is cut and allowed to wilt a few hours 
before feeding “When my ship comes in” 
I mean to have a large hay cutter with a 
to cut the throat of each individual caterpillar. 
If I had been as good a student as I should 
have been, I would have known how to find 
them before they hatched out, and by destroy¬ 
ing them then have saved much trouble. 
We need rain the worst way in the world. 
Wheat looks thin, oatB are yellow, corn can 
hardly stand alone and my plum orchard I 
have just set out, looks as if it didn t like 
things very well. 
Brown Co., Wls. 
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SHEEP vs. DOGS. 
Dogs ! dogs! At last I am disgusted. On 
every side we meet a dog. People who are so 
poor that they can hardly get enough to eat, 
must have at least one worthless cur and often 
two or three, notwithstanding the tax which 
they must pay; but the tax is not half high 
enough. It should be so high that a poor man 
who has no earthly use for a dog, would kill it 
rather than pay the tax ; and if a man has a 
good dog and a use for him, he can afford to 
pay a higher tax than fifty cents. 
In some places sheep husbandry has been 
nearly abandoned on account of these worse 
than worthless dogs. Now, I claim that it 
costs no more to keep a sheep than to keep a 
dog, and if the dogs were disposed of and their 
places taken by sheep, some profit could he 
had. In the rural districts at least, any one 
who keeps a dog could keep a sheep, and if 
this change were made we should hear far less 
of hydrophobia and its terrible results, to say 
nothing of the many accidents caused by 
horses getting frightened by a dog running out 
and barking at them. 
Perhaps I may provoke the ire of some 
reader, hut I can’t help it- It can not be dis¬ 
puted that there are far too many dogs, and 
many evils in consequence, and I say let the 
number be reduced- f. h- 
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CATALOGUES, &c., RECEIVED. 
Mr. Peter Leclair, of Winooski, Vt., sends 
us pedigrees and particulars of bis herd of 
pure-bred Jersey cattle, imported from accli¬ 
matized English stock. Mr. Leclair believes 
this stock to be superior because it is from fine 
Island cattle in the first instance, that have 
been imported into England, and there care¬ 
fully bred and improved by experienced and 
intelligent breeders. 
The annual meeting of the American Nur¬ 
serymen’s Association will this year be held in 
the new court bouse at Cleveland, Ohio, com¬ 
mencing June 18, and continuing three days. 
Schedule of Premiums op the Virolnia. 
State Agricultural Societt, at its Nine¬ 
teenth Annual Fair, to be held in Richmond, 
to commence Oct. 28, 1879. W. C. Knight, 
Sec. and Treas. 
Quarterly Report of the Chief of the Bu¬ 
reau of Statistics relative to the imports, ex¬ 
ports, immigration and navigation of the 
United States for the three months ending Dec. 
31, 1878. 
Premium List of the Twenty-Seventh 
Indiana State Fair, to be held at Indianapo¬ 
lis, Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 1879. Alex. Heron, Sec., 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Itikslrial $mplratnts. 
THE NEW SHOPS OF JAS. LEFFEL & CO. 
AT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
The measure of the growth of manufactur¬ 
ing industries is clearly marked by the extent 
and completeness of the shops in which the 
business is transacted- Not often are spacious 
works and au expensive plant, among the first 
liabilities of new concerns, hence then, monu¬ 
mental establishments, as asserted, are marks 
of the rising tide of prosperity. 
We give, this week, a handsome illustration 
of the new works of one of the largest firms in 
Springfield, Ohio,—a place quite noted for its 
manufacturing industries. The structures 
cover several acres of ground. The main 
building is occupied principally by the machine 
shop, and the “L” contains the foundry. Be¬ 
sides these, there are large pattern shops, 
blacksmith shops, core rooms, and offices; as 
well as projected boiler shops, etc., which are 
detached from the main building. These works 
form probably the most extensive and thor¬ 
oughly equipped establishment in the world 
for the manufacture of water wheels. 
The heavy nature of much of the work done 
by the firm renders it desirable that most of 
the shops be on the ground floor ; a portion of 
the main building, pattern shops, etc.,—is, 
however, two stories high. All the depart¬ 
ments have ample capacity, are. conveniently 
arranged, and well lighted. There being no 
available water power suitably located, the 
power is furnished by an upright double en¬ 
gine. The works are furnished with unusually 
fine railroad facilities—much better than here¬ 
tofore possessed inside the city- The trunk 
line of the C. C. C. & I. Railway passes the 
door at one side, and the C. S. & C. Railway 
runs the full length of the shops on the other. 
a wide extent of territory. These new works 
with improved facilities, and the low price of 
the raw material, have enabled the firm to add 
to the excellence of their work, while at the 
same time reducing the cost. Price lists and 
descriptive matter maybe had by the interested 
reader. 
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DICKEY’S FANNING MILL. 
While some machinery is valuable because 
it economizes labor, there are other kinds 
whose use increases the value of the product 
treated. Fanning mills are included in the 
latter class. A good farm fan mill not infre¬ 
quently adds as much as five cents per bushel 
to the price of grain by putting it into cleaner 
and better shape for market. When the profits 
have to he calculated 60 closely as at present, 
the margin of gain may lie entirely In such 
saving. The farm fan illustrated this week, is 
made by Dickey & Pease of Racine. Wis. M. 
A. P. Dickey is a pioneer in this branch of 
manufacture and the works at Racine, which 
have just been enlarged to meet the extra de¬ 
mands made upon them, are among the most 
important in the country. The mills are made 
in nine sizes, adapted to all wants, and have a 
capacity of from 40 to 400 bushels per hour. 
Extras for cleaning 6inall seeds are supplied 
additionally. The favor with which this fanning 
mill is received may be judged by the state¬ 
ment that, in one week, orders were filled and 
skipped to nearly every Northern State, to 
California, Montana, Colorado, Texas and New 
Mexico, as well as to Scotland. But a short 
time since 26 were sent to Australia. For over 
forty years Mr. Dickey has been in this busi¬ 
ness, and it has grown steadily until at the 
present time, two hundred fanning mills per 
week are required to meet the demand. 
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The Lane and Bodley Co.’s farm Engine has 
many merits that strongly recommend it to 
farmers and thrashermen. The workmanship 
carrier, to run by horse or steam power and 
cut my fodder, mixing it with rye straw as I 
feed it in the machine, and hoping that so 
stowed it will keep safely. 
Tent Caterpillars. 
are a nuisance. I have been burning them 
out all the week, but they are “not all dead yet.” 
It is going to be “ war to the knife” if I have 
New Shops of Jas. Leffel & 
There will be interesting papers by well-known I 
men. and altogether a spirited meeting is an¬ 
ticipated. 
Twenty-First Annual Fair of the New 
Jersey State Agricultural Society, at Wa- 
verly Park, to commence Sept. 15, 1879, and to 
continue through the week. P. T. Quinn, 
Cor. Sec., Newark, N. J. 
Co., at Springfield, Ohio. 
In addition there are special side-tracks owned 
by the firm, all furnishing the most admirable 
facilities for expeditious loading and prompt 
shipment. 
This large area is dev oted mainly to producing 
the two notable products of the firm, the Leffel 
Turbine Water-wheel, and the Brookwalter en¬ 
gine, both of which are known favorably over 
is very 'thorough, and the design combines 
many good points. The maximum amount of 
power to be obtained by the least amount of 
fuel has been one of the chief ends of the con¬ 
structors. The engines are carefully tested 
before being delivered to purchasers, and the 
boilers are insured for one year. Their de¬ 
scriptive pamphlet will be sent on application. 
