THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
highl of six inches. This experiment fully 
confirmed my former opinion of the folly of 
sowing worm-eaten peas. Clinton. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
Is it wrong to color butter if the coloring is 
harmless? . . . Salt in small quantities is 
good for poultry. . . . There is nothing 
better than straw as a winter covering for 
sfratcberry plants. . . . The markets are 
now full of Sheldou pears. . . . The Chi¬ 
cago Live-stock Journal 6ays that the small 
Yorkshire is the linest-boned, smallest-eared, 
shortest-headed, most dish-faced, shortest- 
legged aud most easily fattened pig in 
existence. . . . Wolluey has showu that 
dark-colored soils are warmer in hot weather 
and cooler iu cool weather than light-colored 
soils; that is, they absorb as well as radiate 
heat faster. . . . Wilder, Rogers’s 22, is 
one of the largest black grapes, . . . Moore’s 
Early seems to be ten days earlier than Con¬ 
cord, but the fruit is inferior in llavor and the 
vines less vigorous. , . . The Niagara is a 
beautiful new white Grape of fine promise. 
. . . The Lady is fulfilling our prediction, 
made over two years ago. It thrives iu many 
parts of the country, is earlier and better than 
Concord. Buuchos small, compact, white. It 
is a pure Concord seedling. . . . Josiak 
Hoopes says, in the N. 1'. Tribune, that the 
cracking of pears has been cured iu its worst 
form by merely incorporating a liberal supply 
of unleached wood-ashes iu the 6oil. . . . Mr. 
Meehan thinks the »St. Michael d’Archange the 
best early September pear for his section (Phil¬ 
adelphia). . . Prof. Loomis’s machine for 
prepariugfiber from Palmetto, is working satis¬ 
factorily iu Florida. . . . Pres. Wilder says: 
"Plant the most perfect and mature seed of 
our very best fruits, as the means of more 
rapid progress, to cross-fertilize our finest 
fruits for still greater excellence.” . . . 
Baldwin apples of oue grower bring two to 
three dollars per barrel, while his neighbor’s 
bring but one dollar. This is owing to selection 
and packing. . . . According to Mr. Hub¬ 
bard, the Talman Grape, which had been re- 
ckriBtcned Champion, is now again named 
Beacousfield iu Canada. . . . Elvira and 
Noah arc said by Isador Bush to be the best of 
the new varieties of Grapes for Missouri. 
Noah is also valuable iu Kansas aud in lower 
Iowa. . . . T. 8. Hubbard was awarded 
the Wilder Silver medal for the largest and 
best 'collection of grapes exhibited by an in¬ 
dividual. . . . Mr. Wm. Saunders thinks 
that the days of indiscriminate pruning of 
orchard trees would some day be considered as 
the barbaric age. . . Evidence accumulates 
that the Japan Persimmon is not hardy north 
of Washington. . . . Mr. M. B. Batch am 
thinks that grape-rot is caused by damp 
weather and a consequent plethora of sap. The 
watery portion of sap cannot escape in moist 
weather, hence fungns growths, rot, mildew 
and blight. It is a time when all human dis¬ 
eases. too, increase. . . . Mr. Campbell 
says that the Delaware is exempt from grape- 
rot; we have so found it. . . . Mr. Purdy 
thinks the Gregg Raspberry is the best Black¬ 
cap in cultivation. He deems it identical with 
the Great Western. . . . Mr. T. T. Lyons 
thinks MouLelair a line Raspberry—he is right. 
Mr. J. J. Thomas says it is good and hardy. 
. . . Mr. Strong deems Pride of the Hudson 
worthless in Massachusetts!; Mr. Purdy (Roch¬ 
ester) says it is worthless with him. Surely a 
new fruit of any kind has a cruel gauntlet to 
run—>nd, so, indeed, it ought to have. . . Sny¬ 
der Blackberry is very much praised. ... It 
is asserted by a French agricultural journal 
that whenever angle-worms become trouble¬ 
some to pot plauts, they may be killed by 
watering the plants with water in which a 
quantity of finely-crushed hoise-che6tnuts has 
been soaking for some time. The nuts con¬ 
tain a principle that is poisonous to the worms, 
and these will immediately come to the surface 
and die. Even dried horse-chestnuts preserve 
their poisonous qualities for angle-worms. 
THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST IN ENG¬ 
LAND. 
Landlord (to tenant who had given up farm¬ 
ing at the end of his lease, to await better times.') 
“ Well, Jackson, how do you like living on 
you i capital ?" 
Farmer .—"Not too well, my lord; but I 
find it cheaper than letting you live on it!” 
How Long Pat Wore his Shirt.—A n officer, 
who was inspecting his company oue morning, 
spied one private whose shirt was sadly be¬ 
grimed. 
"Patrick O’Flynn ! ” called out the captain. 
“Here, yourbouor!’’ promptly responded 
Patrick, with his hand to his cap. 
“How long do you wear a shirt! ” thundered 
the officer. 
" Twenty-eight inclies J ” your honor. 
An English visitor at Peskawur sends home 
the following inscription copied by him from a 
tombstone In the English graveyard there: 
"Sacred to the memory of Rev. Blank Blank, 
A. M., who spent seventeen years as a mission¬ 
ary among the Afghans, and translated the 
Holy Writ into their language. He was shot 
by his attendant. ‘ Well done, thou faithful 
servant.”’ 
A physician should know something of the 
human heart. Mine, de C- sends for her 
medical adviser, aud as soon as she sees him 
she bursts out with—" Doctor, I am ill; my 
nerves are out of order—I feel melancholy—1 ” 
-The doctor, interrupting her: "The fact 
is you want a change.” "Just so.” "Well, 
then, send your husband to the country.” 
A little religion is a dangerous thing. That 
was well illustrated in the case of the fire-eat¬ 
ing Virgiuian, who, while returning from a 
camp-meeting, held out his hand to an old 
enemy aud exclaimed: "Give me your hand, 
Sanders ; I’ve got religion, and I feel mean 
enough to shake bauds with a dog .”—Oshkock 
Chnstain Advocate. 
Geokok Is five years old. His mother had un¬ 
dressed him tor a bath before putting him to bed. 
As soon as he stood before her he said: " Now, 
mamma, I'm a kid.” “ Yes, dear," said she. “ You 
know what kind of a ktd I am, mamma?” “No, 
darling.” "Well, na-kld.” His mother thinks 
that Is good for a kid of his age. 
He had an auburn-lmired girl, aud promised 
to take her out ridiug. She met him at the 
door wheu he drove up, and he exclaimed: 
"Hello, Ready?" She misunderstood him, 
and they dont’t speak now. 
" I would rather,” says the editor of the 
Okolona States, " be a living ass than a dead 
lion.’’ Nature haviag gratified him in this 
particular, what in the world is he growling 
about ? 
A muscular girl at Wabasha 
Wub insulted one day by a " masher 
He appeared, when she’d done, 
As though he’d been run 
Through a mower and reaper and thrasher. 
"Woman is a delusiou, madam, exclaimed 
a crusty old bachelor to awitty young lady. 
" And man is always hugging some delusion 
or other,” was the quiet retort. 
The old story of Romulus and Remus being 
raised by a wolf is outdone every day in Ken¬ 
tucky, where men are raised by mules, some¬ 
times fatally.—[St. Louis Times-Journal. 
Father (to sleepy boy)— "Come, James, you 
ought to be up with the lark on such a beauti¬ 
ful morning.” Matter-of-fact boy—" All right, 
but how’m I going to get up there ? ” 
Does a standing joke ever require a seat. 
Woriu-Eateu Peas. 
I desire to add my testimony to what has al¬ 
ready been said iu the Rural in regard to the 
worthlessuess of worm-eaten peas for seed. I 
recollect that, when a small boy, I frequently 
heard it stated, with much positiveness, that 
the insects did not injure the peuBatall for 
seed. I doubted the truth of the assertion even 
at that time, and have always made it a rule to 
reject such samples as were much affected, 
wheu selecting peas for seed. Indeed, I did 
not suppose that iu this enlightened age there 
could be any difference of opinion upon the 
subject. But it seems from what has appeared 
iu the Rural, that I was mistaken. I therefore 
concluded to try an experiment for myself,and 
accordingly, on the 15th of July last I selected 
35 sound peas, and an equal number of those 
that had been worm-eaten, but were otherwise 
apparently just like the first. I plauted the 
two samples, side by side, on the same day and 
both with equal care. The result was such as 
I had anticipated. While of the 35 sound seeds, 
23 came up promptly, the plauts being strong 
and vigorous, of the 25 unsound seeds plauted, 
but two ever showed any sign of germination, 
and of those two, the plants never gained a 
The False Notions 
Exist in the minds of many otherwise Intelligent 
people as to the requirements of a disordered 
stomach or liver. The swallowing of nauseous 
and powerful drugs la the way to encourage, not to 
cure dyspepsia and liver complaint. Nor can a 
constipated or otherwise disordered condition of 
the bowels be remedied by similar treatment. 
That agreeable and thorough stomachic and 
aperient, Hostetler’s Ritter*, which Is the reverse 
of unpleasant, and never produces violent efTects. Is 
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to. It infuses new vigor into a falling physique, 
cheers the mind while if strengthens the body, and 
institutes a complete reform in the action of the 
disordered stomach, bowels aud liver. Appetite, 
and sleep are both promoted, uterine and kidney 
affections greatly benefited by Its use. It Is In¬ 
deed a comprehensive and meritorious preparation, 
free from drawbacks of any kind. 
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