THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB. 
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more fruit, not to disgust them with good look 
and poor quality. It is time we had done with 
such foolishness. 
Connecticut gives a State bounty of ten 
cents for any person planting, protecting and 
cultivating elm, maple, tulip, ash, basswood, 
oak, black-walnut, hickory, pear or cherry 
trees, not more than <>0 feet apart, for three 
years, on any public highway. 
Be reasonable with incubators, says the 
Homestead. These machines are not alive. 
There is something to be done besides buying 
them and giviug them a start. You must 
learn all the patience, common sense and in¬ 
genuity that the hen commonly assumes. 
The most favorable sign of Irish agriculture 
lies in the fact that, as compared writh 20 years 
ago, Ireland has diminished her potato crop by 
one-fourth and increased her live-stock by one- 
third... 
A “boot market” is a feature of many 
English market towns. Roots are brought in 
THE JAPAN CHESTNUT. 
(Continued from page 119.) 
Japan, which is perfectly hardy here and, 
indeed, further north. Possibly confusion has 
arisen in this way, and that the Spanish has 
growing flowers are especially vwavun, 
worst of all, they are sure to come home to 
roost.....*. 
Florists complain about the competition 
coming from men of wealth who have made 
their money in other lines of trade, and who 
have now built vast establishments for the 
production and sale of cut flowers. But, pray, 
who is responsible for this, if not the florists 
themselves? Would these men have iuvestod 
their money in greenhouses if it were not for 
the extravagant and absurd stories about the 
business and its profits which these same 
Self-Fertilization ok Corn. —Our es¬ 
teemed friend, Prof. I. P. Roberts, made a 
careful experiment to ascertain the effect of 
self-fertilization on corn. A plant was inclosed 
partly with glass, partly with muslin, so as to 
admit air, light and sun; but so as to keep out 
foreign pollen. Pollen in the greatest abun¬ 
dance was produced and covered the leaves, 
ear and ground with a thick, yellow dust. The 
ear, however, contained no kernels. This. 
Prof. Roberts thinks, points strongly 
towards the incapacity of the corn 
plant to close fertilize. We beg to 
think otherwise. We have studied 
this matter for a number of years and 
have found that, in some seasons, the 
pollen would mature and fall before 
the pistils (silks) ware receptive, while 
in others the reverse would occur, 
while in still others the maturity and 
fall of the pollen and the receptivity of 
silk were simultaneous. We also found 
that such differences change or may be 
reversed according to the season from 
year to year. Observations one year 
were made upon 20 kinds of sweet corn. 
In most of them the silk was receptive 
during some part of the time that the 
pollen matured. 
Japan Chestnut. Fig. 75. (See p. 119.) 
been mistaken for the Japan variety, for 
botanists view these different kinds as of the 
same species. 
The matter is an important one. The true 
MULTUM IN PARVO, 
Mr. James Hunter, of Massachu¬ 
setts, writes us that the Flageolet Wax 
Beau bears the longest pods of any of 
the wax beans. He does not believe M 
there is a finer wax beau in cultivation. -$| 
He says; “Try it if you want some¬ 
thing nice.”..... 
PUCK calls New York milk “a white 
lie.”...,... 
Never insure your life so much that 
you will be worth more dead than 
alive. 
Ma ny of the seedsmen’s catalogues 
advertised in the R. N.-Y. give in¬ 
structions as to the formation and care of hot¬ 
beds and cold frames. 
The Farm, Field and Stockman says- 
Don’t be fooled into sericulture by some man 
who has mulberry trees to sell.. 
The Drovers’ Journal says that a single 
London dealer last year sold nearly 800,000 
tropical birds of gay plumage for the trim¬ 
ming of hats and costumes. Is not that quite 
too bad ? 
The New York Tribune remarks that Pro¬ 
fessor Arnold has found four parts of 
brail, two of corn meal and one of 
linseed meal “very satisfactory” as a 
grain food for milch cows.. 
After the hams are smoked, place 
them in boiling water for half-a-miu- 
ute, then cover with sacks of any kind, 
which have been boiled in uuslaked* 
lime. Prof. A. J. Cook makes the 
above note in the New York Tribune.. 
Children leave the farm, says Mr. 
J. J. Thomas, because it is not at¬ 
tractive. 
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* A-.V I V.v.'t- - 
GARETT’S SEEDLING PEAR. From Nature. 
Fig. 78. 
florists have invented and circuiaiea, iuiu 
which the daily papers in their turn have 
spread tiefore the public?. 
Stop the food of a fattening animal, subject 
it to extreme cold, and it at once begins to 
feed upon itself. It consumes its own flesh 
and fat and loses weight... 
Goon rules for the dairyman:—Low feed for 
teu days before the calf is dropped, fair feed 
for ten days following, and then big feed for 
ten months. 
Japan(?) Chestnut. Fig. 77. (Seep. 119.) 
fruiting within from three to five years from 
nursery trees, if not from seed in all cases, and 
valuable for the size and quality of the nuts, 
and, finally, for the hardiness of the tree. 
RURAL SP ECIAL REPORTS. 
(ianuda. 
Delta, Ont.— Most of the Rural seeds did 
well. Maggots injured the melons while they 
were getting along finely. Some of the wheat 
was killed out, but I got a quart of seed. I 
have 40 bushels of Blush Potatoes, though 
owing to ill-judged plauting, 1 nearly lost all 
lust year. Corn nearly all too late; but one 
yellow flint kind will do for this section. 
Garden Treasures fine. L - 
Listowel, Ont., Feb. 4th.—We are just 
uow experiencing our cold snap with the mer¬ 
cury below zero. Spring wheat was a failure 
—only lit for chopping. Fall wheat fair, but 
not much of It, and the price is low—72 and 78 
cents per bushel. Rough grains are also 
cheap, and hay only worth #7 per teu; and the 
low price of cheese was much felt, as this is a 
great dairy section; still it wus as profitable 
as anything else. The farmers are turning 
their attention to !>ees, aud have formed an 
association among themselves, aud meet to 
discuss subjects of interest in connection with 
the little workers. A poultry association es 
tablished here is also creating a greater inter¬ 
est in fowls and the supply of winter eggs is 
now about canal to the demand. The favor 
He suggests that less money 
be spent on buildings and more on 
grounds.... 
Mr. E. W. Wood thinks that hillsides 
can be more profitably planted with 
apple orchards than with forest trees. 
The former would bring quicker re¬ 
turns. 
Mr. C. L. Allen, of Long Islaud 
(N. Y.), says that a friend of his had 
a farm of 240 acres, 140 being rough 
land, from which he cleared ull the 
growth, except the chestnut, and 
planted locust. This is now the 
most profitable part of bis farm. 
Every farmer can have a little for¬ 
est of his own on land now useless, says 
Marshall P. Wilder, of Massachusetts. 
We should have health preserved 
and homes fit for civibzed, human 
beings. Forestry strikes at the root of 
the whole of it. savs H. W. Fuller 
Same as above. Cross Section. Fig. 79, 
Mr. Josiah Hoopks, in the Philadelphia 
Press, thinks the “Reading,” which originated 
near the city of that name in Pennsylvania, the 
finest of mid-winter pears. It is medium in 
size, yellow in color, and so attractive in ap- 
pearunCe that, were it worthies* for eating, it 
would be desirable for decorative purposes. 
We are tired of seeing varieties of fruits 
recommended for good looks alone. All such 
fruits are a positive injury to the fruitgrower. 
What we should do is to teach people to eat 
