£I)C Sunndjcr'D. 
PIG DIET. 
that F. M. Lupton, - of this city, has not 'for¬ 
warded books for which he received money. 
He says he is a trifle behindhand, as he cannot 
get the works ready fast enough: but that he 
will satisfy all claims before long. . . . We 
do not recommend the Renner M’Fg. Co., 
Philadelphia. Pa. . . We do not recommend 
the Home M’Pg. Company, of Boston. It 
offers to send 100 pictures and materials for 
coloring 500, with brushes, etc.. for si. and to 
pay #2 per UK) for the colored pictures. We 
have exposed several humbugs of this sort 
both in Boston. Philadelphia. Cincinnati and 
Chicago. We have received a multitude of 
complaints of such concerns, which make big 
profits in selling outfits, and always make an 
excuse for failing to carry out their engage¬ 
ments. The investment at first asked is so 
small, that many in need of home employment 
send on the amount; but in most cases more 
money is then demanded for other articles 
" necessary to success.’' A few pictures may 
be bought back at low prices, to be sold at 
high figures to fresh applicants, and then 
come complaints and refusals to purchase. 
^tisecUrtm'OUS. 
WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICUL¬ 
TURAL SOCIETY. 
We are in receipt of the programme of this 
oldest of horticultural societies. The meeting 
will be held on Wednesday and Thursday. 
January 27 and 28, at Rochester. The list of 
subjects for discussion contains many of great 
importance to the horticulturists and. in fact, 
to all fruit eaters as well, Several essays have 
been promised, and all that can attend may 
Ik? sure of a feast. The Secretary. P, C. Rey¬ 
nolds, Rochester, N. Y., will send the pro¬ 
gramme. 
for Women. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS BAY CLARK. 
A WOMAN'S TRIP TO LONG PEAK. 
(Continued.) 
After about a mile of this steepest of riding, 
they turned to a little spring which trickled 
down the mountain-side, and halted. Here 
they unsaddled their horses, and left them to 
feed ou the grass growing around the little 
rivulet. 
The climbing was uow to bo ou foot. Before 
them aud ou either side as far as one could see, 
st retched the Boulder Field. This is accurate¬ 
ly named, for not a bit of soil of au\ kind can 
be seen on it—nothing but immense boulders 
piledjiu magmficent_confusion,^.After 
County, Ohio, alone, farmers are reported to 
l>e #200,000 out of pocket by the latter fraud, 
which is still worked vigorously. Many of the 
officers of the various associations made quite 
large fortunes out of the fraud. Although we 
have explained the modus ope ra nd i several 
times, we repeat it once more for the benefit 
of our host, of new subscribers: A sleek, glib- 
tongued agent urges the farmer to buy a cer¬ 
tain number of bushels of oats at #10 per 
bushel. The farmer very naturally objects to 
pay such a preposterous price. “You won’t 
have to pay a cent down” says the sharper. 
“Just take. 20 bushels and give me your note 
for #200. Out of the first crop we will buy 40 
bushels at the same price, and give you a bond 
to that effect, aud the note will not be pre¬ 
sented till the bond is lifted,” The prospect of 
thus doubling his money is often irresistible 
to the farmer, who signs the blank note pre¬ 
sented to him, receiving, in return, a bond 
signed by the agent of the associat ion. In all 
nothing to do with such associations either as 
swindlers or dupes. 
J. Coy, Hoosick Falls, N. Y., is evidently a 
cool sharper. He claims to be a partner in 
two large drug stores to open on January 15, 
one at Dallas and the other at San Anto¬ 
nio, Texas, and he advertises for help, and 
writes,to an applicant in this city, for a deposit 
to the amount, of *200 to #500 as security for 
a situation worth #75 a month. It is a com¬ 
mon trick of sharpers in cities to obtain a de¬ 
posit from greenhorns as security in a situation 
and then to clear out; but this is the first occa¬ 
sion of which we have ever heard where the 
fellow had the assurance to ask that the 
cash should be forwarded to him. 
To Several Inquirers. — Pulvemacher's 
galvanic belts arid bands are as good as any we 
know of; but, like other advertisers, the con¬ 
cern is very likely to exaggerate the merits of 
what it has to sell. . . . We do not recom¬ 
mend E. W. Marshall, of this city, who adver¬ 
C'OL. F. D. CURTIS. 
Barley and wheat as feed; wheat, middlings; 
bran; pasture; food and manure; need of 
individual attention. 
MAGAZINES. 
Overland Monthly for January promises 
to be a number of special interest. “For 
Money,” a new novel of California life, by 
Miss Helen Lake, will commence with rhis issue; 
“Golden Graves,“a Christmas store,by Leonard 
Kip, a story of the mines, at Lower Bar: “An 
Autumn Ramble in Washington Territory,” 
“Mr. Grigg’s Christmas," by Kate Heath, a 
sketch full of love and pathos; Hon. A. A. 
Sargent, will write again of the “Chinee Prob¬ 
lem these with other stories, also poems, book 
reviews, etc., all combine to make this a grand 
number. 
Harper's Magazine.— This number opens 
with a very interesting paper by Mrs. Lucy C. 
lillie, entitled “Winter in Devonshire," and is 
followed by “East Angels,” Part XIII. which 
is one of the best of novels. “Domestic and 
Court Customs.” S. G. W. Benjamin, has ltJ 
illustrations. "A Lampful of Oil" is a well 
written article about the first discovery of 
coal oil, and presents many facts of interest on 
tlie subject; is also fully illustrated. “ludian 
Summer." Part VII. W. I). Howells. “The 
Militia and the Army,” Maj. Geu’l. Geo. B. 
McClellan. These, with Editor's Easy Chair; 
Editor's Drawer; make up the contents, it is 
richly illustrated. 
The Century has for a frontispiece a por? 
trait of Guiseppe Verdi. “The city of Teheran,” 
S. G. W. Benjamin, is concluded. "The 
Crickets in the Field,” Anthony Moorehead; 
“The Bostonians," Henry James; "Feathered 
Forms of Other Days,” R, W. Shufeldt; "Typ- 
k uI Dogs—Painters,” John 8. Wise and John 
W. Munsoipa finely illustrated article!; "The 
Cloverfield's Carriage,” Frank R. Stockton, a 
story of Southern life; "Spiritual Preaching 
forlOur Times," Edward Hunger ford: "The 
Second Battle’ of Bull Run.” Gen. John Pope; 
are some of the ■•ontents of tlii- mutsuullv bril¬ 
liant number. There also are poems, the 
“Open Letters,” “Brie a Brae.” and “Tqpies 
of the Time.” 
KEURUE FOUQU ERA Y PEAR. Fig. 18 . 
cases the note given is negotiable, aud is 
readily discounted by “note shavers,” 
and having passed into “innocent hands” it 
must be paid. The agent, however, seldom 
complies with the bond by buying double the 
quantity of the farmer. This is occasionally 
done to gull more simpletons, or because oats 
uro required to carry on the fraud. Just as 
in the grave-yard insurance swindles, a num- 
lier of [K-oplo of good standing in various 
sections have been tempted to engage 
as officers ot the various associations. 
We have before us those of the Western New 
York, aud the Northwestern Central Ohio 
Associations and t he Bohemian Oat and Cereal 
Company, of Kenton, Ohio. There are a doz- 
eu other companies in Northwestern Ohio 
alone, besides a large number of others in 
most of the \\ ostern Htates. \\ every earnest- 
ly urge upon our renders tv have absolutely 
tises, both in the press aud through the mails, 
employment for women in making worsted 
work and laces, the materials for which, to¬ 
gether with an “outfit,” the workers must first 
purchase from the concern, which offers to 
buy at a fair figure the manufactured goods. 
Judging from the advertisements, one would 
imagine the firm a large and highly important 
one; but it really occupies only a small hall 
room on .Sixth Avenue. The stock ou hand 
would be dear at #100. It makes a very 
large profit on the materials and outfits it 
sells, and pays very little for the work done. 
When we called to investigate, two women 
who had brought goods were bitterly upbraid¬ 
ing the young man who "runs” the concern for 
having swindled them. There are several 
ether concerns of the same stripe in this city, 
and Sixth Avenue is u favor ite loeatioAfor 
them. . , . We have had several complaints 
BEURRE FOUQUERAY PEAR. 
This is a new variety of pear which has just 
been put on the market in France. It was 
originated by M. Fouqueray-Gauton, a well- 
known horticulturist of Sonzay, iu the De¬ 
partment Indre-et-Loire, who has originated 
several other excellent varieties. This first 
fruited iu 1880, aud since then it has become 
very popular in that section owing to the 
beauty and high quality of the fruit. 
The Revue Horticole, from which our illus¬ 
tration, Fig. 18, has been re-engraved, says 
the tree is a very strong grower, with up¬ 
right, stout aud long branches. Leaves large, 
tough and a bright green; petiole strong and 
of medium length. Fruit large, from nine to I 
eleven inches in circumference, and from 
three-and-throe-fourths to four-and-one-half in 
length; stem short, strong,in a rather shallow 
cavity, the margin of which is somewhat un¬ 
even; calyx large, and regular; skin smooth, 
fine, a trifle yellowish on the side exposed to 
the sun; often reddish, especially in trees 
grown espalier fashion. Flesh white, mellow, 
very rich; juice abu ndant and sweet, with a 
very agreeable perfume. 
The Seneca Chief ami Red Line wheat 
swindles are oi precisely the same stripe as the 
Bohemian oats fraud. They have been started 
recently in several counties iu Ohio, Indiana 
aud Michigan, aud perhaps in other States 
also. The lot of the farmer who invests lu 
them>ill.certainly be like that of the dupes 
who invested in Bohemian oats. Iu Logan 
Mr. A. C. Clark, a model breeder and the 
originator and perfector of the so-called Che¬ 
shire hogs, told me a long time ago that the 
best food for sows when suckling pigs, was 
barley, ground entire, and mixed with milk or 
whey. Wheat is also excellent, and in these 
times a farmer can afford to save some to feed 
to his young pigs, especially when first taken 
from the mother. Probably there is no kind 
of grain which will come nearer to supplying 
the full ingredients of the milk. It must be 
fed carefully and but a little at a time. I 
should say a half gill would be ample for 
four hours' feeding with a gradual increase, as 
the animals show an inclination to eat and 
that it agrees with them. 
Wheat middlings are good, according to the 
quality. All bran, however, finely ground, is 
not just the thing. The farmer can, however, 
make it stronger and better suited to the wants 
of the pig by adding a pinch of corn meal or 
some coarse wheat flour. I should feed whole 
oats as a supplementary food to chink in and 
supply what the others lack. I am speaking of 
a uo-milk diet. 
When the pigs gel older, and the time comes 
to crowd them more, or to fill up the muscles 
and tissues with fat aud to make them grow, I 
mix wheat middliugs aud corn meal (two and 
one), and feed liberally of the mixture three 
times a day. They have the run of a good 
pasture aud a few apples. The pigs do well, 
and have a uniform apatite, which is an indi¬ 
cation of health. The old hogs certainly fat¬ 
ten very fast on this compound, and the best 
of it is, the meat will be more healthful than 
where the hogs have been stuffed ou dear 
com. They make twice as much mauure, aud 
the chemists tell us the pay for the middlings 
al! comes back in the manure. Of coui-se. we 
don't get in the manure all the fox! they eat: 
but what they do make is worth per pound all 
the middlings cost, weight for weight. 
I wish some of the experimental farmers 
would tell us just how much is returned out of 
the middlings fed, in gain and in excrement— 
the per cent, of the amount eaten. Prof. San¬ 
born is the man to do this, as he is one of the 
most pains-taking and the most practical of 
all the professors. A considerable share in the 
thrift of pigs will arise from the owners watch¬ 
ing things, to see how everything works. Changes 
must be made from time to time iu food and 
surroundings, and each pig should be looked 
after individually; a general look won’t do. 
