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have three quarts each—very excellent peas. 
Of the beaus I have four quarts. The toma¬ 
toes and flowers were fine. Crops here were 
good. Wheat, 25 bushels per acre, worth 85 
cents; oats, 50 bushels, worth 80 cents; corn, 
80 to 120 bushels, worth 25 cents; potatoes, 
100 to 480 bushels, Worth 85 cents, Stock in 
good condition. Sheep are being picked up 
close, worth 81.50 to $4.00, Cattle are ueg- 
ected. Hogs worth £4.00, dressed. w. a. c. 
* Montana. 
Philbrook, Meagher Co.—The Stratagem 
aud Prince of Wales Peas were splendid; 
pods very full; peas quite sweet. The beans 
and tomatoes were killed by frost June 14th. 
The Johnson Grass did not come up well and 
did not grow very fast; it spreads out on the 
ground too much. The Rural corn came up 
nicely, but the seasons are too short here for 
corn to do any good except the earliest kinds. 
On the Rural corn there was not a single set¬ 
ting when the frost came. The Gardeu Treas¬ 
ures were satisfactory. tr. m. 
Xr\\ lliiitqisliirt*. 
Nashua, Hillsboro Co.—The Rural seeds 
came up aud did well. The tomatoes were 
beautiful, and we also had a lot of the Flageo¬ 
let Beaus. We are uew beginners in farming 
and are anxious to make the business a suc¬ 
cess, and could not get along without the 
Rural. j. p. d. 
New Jenny. 
Orange, Essex Co.—The Rural Peas were 
fine and the beaus were most prolific. f. j. o’N. 
Xew York. 
Afton, Cheuaugo Co.—Rural peas quite 
satisfactory. The I teans did very well, though 
the season was too wet to give them a fail- 
chance. The tomatoes grew nicely and bore 
well; but didn’t ripen ditto, and rotted badly 
on account of the excessively wet weather. 
T. H. 
Benson, Hamilton Co.—I harvested a quart 
each of the Thousand-fold Rye and Diehl- 
Mediterranean Wheat—both first-class. The 
cross-bred corn grew well; but most of it is 
too late for this section. The peas very fine. 
Flageolet Beaus didn’t do well. Gardeu 
Treasures nice. D. w. c. 
Peconic, Suffolk Co.—On the win>le, I have 
had very good luck with the Rural seed. 
Some I have given up, because I had better of 
the same kiud; but the good ones have more 
than repaid me for the trouble and expense 
for all. Of the last Distribution, for instance, 
the Thousand-fold Rye was first rate: but the 
corn ran too much to stalk. As we use the 
stalks for fodder, we waut leaves, not cord- 
wood. w, a. h. 
Ohio. 
Fremont, Sandusky Co.—Owing to exces¬ 
sive wetness of the ground, most of the Ru¬ 
ral wheat wVs winter-killed; what survived 
did well. So did the rye, The King Hum¬ 
bert Tomatoes were late; the Bi-eolors were 
nice. The Flageolet Beaus yielded well. 
What peas came up well, -were good, The 
Rural Corn is not as well adapted to this 
section as some other sorts. Gardeu Treas¬ 
ures very satisfactory. The Beauty of Heb¬ 
ron has been the favorite early potato with 
us ever since we obtained it from the Rural. 
J. D. M. 
Hillsboro, Highland Co., January 81.—The 
Rural Peas were splendid, especially the 
Stratagem. The tomatoes did not amount to 
much—too small. Rye and wheat nice. Flag¬ 
eolet Beans not extra. The Gardeu Treas¬ 
ures were very fine. We had a very open and 
delightful Winter until after New Year’s. The 
mercury then fell to 18 degrees bel< >w zero. 
Times dull and money scai'ce. St ock and pro¬ 
duce are low, but the outlook is somewhat 
promising. Corn was a good crop. Wheat 
was almost a failure. Wheat that was sowed 
looks very well. Success to the Rural! n. b. 
Springfield, Clark Co. —The Rural Toma¬ 
toes did not prove desirable. The Kiug Hum¬ 
bert was very little or uo improvement, on 
Nesbitt’s Victoria. The Stratagem aud Prince 
of Wales Peas were fine, but of the two I pre¬ 
fer the Stratagem which is very fiueand large. 
The Flageolet Bean did well. The Sorghum 
halapense, sown in May, came up well aud 
grew from four to five feet tall. 1 did not out 
it, but sa ved some seed. The corn was planted 
in a square plot in a field of Clark County 
White and Golden Beauty Coni, so it was well 
mixed; but I did not consider it of any special 
value. The season is not long enough here to 
grow the heavy-yielding varieties, such as 
Golden Beauty, Chester County Mammoth, 
etc. Learning does well Henry Ward Roecher 
was light when he said: “To have the Rural 
once is to want it always.” N. w. l. 
Sandusky, Erie Co.—I think my seeds 
worth all the paper cost last year. I planted 
one bushel of Blush Potatoes and got 25 bush¬ 
els. Not auy Johnson Grass came up. The 
Flageolet Beans all blighted. The peas did 
well; my wife had some splendid flowers 
from the Garden Treasures. The Humbert 
Tomatoes were very poor. w. r. c. 
4Vest Point, Columbiana Co,—The Diehl- 
Mediten aueau Wheat was entirely destroyed 
by the Winter, not a single stalk remaining. 
Nearly all the wheat hereabouts was muter 
killed. Wheat is worth 81 per bushel; corn 
50 cents. Prices of most products are low. 
m. e. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Corry, Erie Co.—The Gardeu Treasures gave 
such satisfaction as to compensate for the 
failure of some of the other seeds. The tomatoes 
looked nice, but the frost caught them. Peas 
good, but did not yield as well as some other 
kinds. w. o. P. 
Lackawanna Co.—The Stratagem Peas are 
an acquisition, although the Prince of Wales 
yielded the most seed owing to so many of the 
former fading to germinate. The King Hum¬ 
bert Tomatoes were great yielders if numbers 
count anything. Don’t, thiuk they would be 
missed Was in hopes the Flageolet Beans 
would be what were wanted, as I am very 
partial to Limas, but the} - don't come within 
talking distance of the good, old-fashioned 
Limas, so will have to cut poles a while longer. 
The Horsford Market Garden Peas yielded well 
aud wepe of good quality, but won’t take the 
the place of the American Wonder. The Gar 
deu Treasures were fine. m. c. 
New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co.— 
Whoever saw the plants from the Rural seeds 
last season, said they alone were worth the 
price of the paper. Here the Flageolet Beans 
will take the place of the Lima, as they are 
more easily cultivated aud finer in flavor. 
The Prince of Wales and Stratagem were of 
extraordinarily largesizeaud of goodquality— 
certainly first-class gardeu peas. The King 
Humbert Tomato has been so derided every¬ 
where, that in pity I shall not say a single 
word about it. Some of the cross-bred coi n 
ripened and will gel another chance. The 
Garden Treasures del ghted us during the en¬ 
tire Summer. h. m. f. 
Texas. 
Mercer’s Gap, Comanche Co.—The Rural 
Corn would have done splendidly were it not 
that the hogs took such a fancy to it that 
they stole it all. The tomatoes did well. 
Everybody likes to get some of the seed. The 
Flageolet Beau did finely. j. h. w. b. 
VYaxIilnj'imi Territory. 
Coin, Whitman Co. — I have about, six 
quarts of the Diehl-Mediterranean Wiieat. 
The tomatoes were nice. The (x'a.s did well. 
I have about a peck each of the R. N.-Y. and 
Market Garden Peas. The oats did pretty 
well. The Garden Treasures were not as good 
as usual. w. a. j. 
Pomeroy, Garfield Co,—The cross-bred corn 
is of uo account in this country. The King 
Humbert Tomato is a humbug, us it is the old 
Pear Tomato re-named. The Flageolet Beans 
are not adapted to this climate and soil, hence 
they were i>oor. The peas were all that was 
claimed for them. The Diehl-Mediterranean 
Wheat was all that was claimed and produced 
more than a gallon, which will be sown. The 
Thousand-fold Rye was not sown till last 
Spring, and hence is not matured. The Black 
Champion Oats do not promise much thus far. 
The season was too dry for the Garden 
Treasures. a. o. h. 
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CEMENT WATER-PIPE, 
W. B. //., Como, Montana. —1. 1 wish to lay 
a pipe for water from a sitring to a house from 
800 to 350 feet distant; the head will l>e about 
10 feet. Iron pipe costs, for 1inch, 25 cents 
per foot; can I use cement of any kind? 2. 
What should be the proportion of cement to 
sand, ami what would be the proper thickness 
to sustain the pressure? 
Ans. —1. Cement makes a capital pipe for 
such use, and when once laid lasts forever, un¬ 
less destroyed by frost. 2. If the cement is 
good and the sand clean (free from dirt or 
loam), one part of cement to two of sand will 
be ample, and with this mortar, when mixed, 
half as much more coarse gravel tnaj r be 
worked in. Mulct- the pipe two inches inside; 
have a stick turned true and six foot long, ami 
a half inch larger at one end than at the other, 
for a core to be used in forming the pipe or 
bore, and thoroughly soak it in linseed oil and 
< dry it before using. Dig the trench deep 
enough to be below frost aud six inches wide 
at the bottom. Commence at the upper end; 
throw in two inches of the cement aud be sure 
that it is compacted^ so a-s to have no air holes 
in it; on this in the center, place the stick for 
a core, large end down. Apply enough of the 
cement to fill the trench to a depth sufficient 
to cover the core two inches deep, working all 
down until solid aud free from air-holes. 
When the cement has firmly “set.,” move the 
core slightly so as to looseu it, and after a little 
withdraw it, leaving about six inches of the 
smaller end in the cement already laid. Ap¬ 
ply another lot of cement as before, being 
careful to have it well joined to the part 
already laid, aud that all bubbles of air are 
worked out. When a day old, each part 
should 1x3 covered two or three inches deep 
with soil, being careful that no stones are 
allowed to fall ou,or crush it. At the lower end, 
connection should he made with the eemeut 
pi 1X3 by a lend pipe of the same size outside as 
the bore, havingtwu or three flanges Id inch 
larger than the pipe, and be sure that, the 
cement is packed closely all about them. In 
one mouth, let iu the water, and if all is 
sound, fill the trench, packing the earth solid. 
If well done, it will last longer than you and 
your children will live 
AN AILING HORSE. 
F. K., Rochester, X. Y. —1. After driving 
my horse three or lour miles, he acts as if he 
couldn’t go auy further. If I continue driving, 
he will sometimes stop very suddenly. His 
flesh on the hind-quarters twitches, ami if 
driven too lung without stopping, he some¬ 
times turns his head to one side, shakes it, aud 
nearly falls down. The spells soon pass off 
if he is allowed to stop aud then move slowly 
for a few minutes. They trouble him after 
traveling the above distance, and not at other 
times, and are least severe when he is ou pas¬ 
ture. What ails him! 2. What would be the 
fittest feed for him.* 8. What medicine does 
he need? 
ANSWERED BY F. L. KILBORNE, B.V.S. 
1. If the condition is due to heart disease, 
as is very likely the case, a cure cannot be ex¬ 
pected. 2. A laxative diet at all times. Dur¬ 
ing the summer months, it should consist 
largely of grass or other green food with 
graiu, according to the needs of the animal; 
in Winter, roots or vegetables with a moderate 
allowance of good huy and grain. Oil meal 
or cotton-seed meal will also be excellent. An 
occasional laxative—aloes or Glauber salts— 
may also be desirable during the Winter if the 
bowels do uot move freelj'. 8. Give five or 
six drams of Barbadoos aloes to unload the 
bowels; and then, thrice daily for several days 
or a few weeks, two drams each of potassium 
bromide aud chloral hydrate. Examine the 
collar to make sure that it does uot press upon 
the great veins of the neck. It should lie large 
enough to sit. well back ou the shoulders. In 
many cases of this kiud, medicinal treatment 
is of very little use, aud nothing can be done 
except to feed cautiously. Avoid all violent 
exercise or over-exertion, and give special 
attention to t he general comfort,of tlu; animal. 
ABOUT CALIFORNIA. 
W. K. (ad it reus mislaid). —1. Are there 
chills and fever in the Golden State; 2 How 
Mould poultry raising do there t 8. How 
about bees? 4. Is lumber cheap? 
Ans.— 1. There are nu chills and fever any- 
where M r ithiu the range of the sea breezes on 
the Pacific Coast—say 100 miles inland. 2. 
Fowls aud eggs bear a much higher price in 
California than in the Atlantic States. The 
prices of eggs range from 20 to 50 cents per 
dozen, and foM'ls sell for from $4.50 to $8.00 
per dozen. There seem to be as little risk 
and expense iu growing poultry there as in 
New York State. The high prices are a relic 
of the flush times of gold mining. 8. Bees do 
exceedingly well all over the State. Very 
large exports ol honey arc sent to the East 
every year. The favorite ranges are chiefly 
iu the hills covered with wild sage or chemi- 
sal, overlooking the plains. At. all seasons 
some portion of the bee pasture is good for 
foraging. With the early rains of Winter 
the face of the earth is carpeted with grass. 
During the Spring months—February, March, 
April aud May—the landscape is bright with 
flowers. Then the chemisal — made up of 
many sorts of shrubs, growing wild in dense 
thickets along the slopes—is a 1 newt continu¬ 
ously iu blossom. Honey made from these 
flowers is quite fragrant. We have seen as 
many us fid stands of bees iu one apiary iu Los 
Augeles County. 4. Yes; lumber is plentiful 
and cheap. Whether a man would succeed 
better there in poultry and bee raising and 
truck farming, than near New York City, is 
a question we don’t*care to answer. There is 
more in the man than in the laud. 
CHALKING OF QRAPES. 
F. T., Brantford, Conn. —1. Of ten varie¬ 
ties of foreign grapes I grow iu a cold grap¬ 
ery, the following cracked so as to be useless 
last season: Trebbiano, Chasselas Masque, 
Black Hamburgh, Muscat Hamburgh aud 
Muscat of Alexandria. They did well till the 
end of July, when six weeks of cold, wet 
weather set in: was this the cause of their 
cracking? 2. Would a boiler and hot water 
pipes be beneficial if put in early in the 
Spring? 
Ans.— 1. Without a more definite knowl- 
eilge of the condition of your vines and the 
circumstances of their cultivation, we cannot 
say definitely what causes your grapes to 
crack. An unusual aud long-eoutiuued soak- 
iug of the border, especially if succeed ing a 
dry spell, and at a time when the berries had 
about: attained their full size or were begin¬ 
ning to color, would be reason enough to 
cause them to crack. The evil lies, probably, 
iu an ill-drained border. 2. A hot-water heat¬ 
ing apparatus might not overcome cracking 
if the evil exists in the border, but it would 
help the grape crop in other ways. By a 
judicious use of it you could greatly assist 
your vines in breaking evenly, whou they 
would be iu flower, help them to “set” well, 
assist them through the “stoning” period, and 
when they begin to color, help them to rijien 
well and thoroughly, color well and assume a 
deep bloom: also iu the case of immature 
wood you can greatly assist in ripening it by 
means of lire heat aud ventilation at the same 
time. 
COW WEAK IN HIND PARTS, ETC. 
-1. L. 44% Liverpool, X. S. — 1. When my 
Cow lies down she has hard work to get up. She 
gets on her fore legs well enough ; but her 
hind parts fall over, so that often she has to 
1x3 helped to rise. The trouble seems to be hi 
her loins; wliat ails her? 2. What is the best 
work on diseases of cattle? 
ANSWERED BY F. L. KILBORNE, B. V. S. 
1. Without knowing anything of the con¬ 
dition of the oow, we cannot very well pre¬ 
scribe for her. If she is heavy with calf and 
very thin iu flesh, as is too frequently the case 
at this time of the year, probably all that is 
necessary is more generous feeding and a lit¬ 
tle extra care until after calving when, as the 
condition improves, the weakness will disap¬ 
pear. An excellent feed is made by mixing 
equal parts of ground oats and corn-meal, 
which may be added one-half part of w r hoat 
bran if you like ; feed four quarts twice 
daily aud as much good huy or corn fodder 
as the animal will eat; also a daily allow¬ 
ance of oil-meal or roots if convenient. See 
that the stable is clean aud dry, the floor laid 
so that the cow docs not slip backward in 
rising, and the animal made comfortable 
with plenty of beddiug. If the cow is in 
good flesh aud the condition is due to slipping or 
other injury, a mild blister of mustard and 
turpentine, applied to the loins, may prove ben¬ 
eficial. 2. The answer to this question de- 
pends somewhat, upon the special purpose for 
what the work is inteuded. For a farmer 
who wishes to make himself familiar with 
some of the more common ailments of his 
stock, together with their proper treatment, 
probably the best, work is the Fanner’s Vet- 
ei inary Adviser, by Dr. James Luw, of Cor¬ 
nell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Price $8.00, 
to be hail of the author. 
SWELLING OF HORSE’S LEG. 
S., Fort Howard, 147s.—Last harvest, 
one of the hind legs of a mare became so 
swollen that she became quite lame. The 
swelling at first reached only to the hock, but 
soon extended to the udder and along the 
belly. After treatment she got quite well for 
a time; but the trouble has returned. Her 
belly is hot and painful; she is crippled all 
over. When she walks, the stiffness becomes 
less: when she stands, it is worse. Her appe¬ 
tite is good. What should lie done for her? 
ANSWERED BY F. I,. KILBORNE, B. V. S. 
Bathe the swelling with tepid water iu 
which there is dissolved one dram of chloride 
of zinc to each quart of water. Internally 
give, thrice daily, two drams each of chlorate 
ol' potash and niter and oue-hulf ounce each 
Of powdered cinchona bark, gentian and gin¬ 
ger. If there is any costiveness, add one dram 
of Burbadoes aloes night und morning until 
relieved. The stable should be clean, dry aud 
w arm, but yet well ventilated. Allow a little 
moderate exercise daily whenever the weather 
is suitable and the animal has recovered 
sufficiently to be able to move comfortably. 
Unless the mure is in very good flesh, a few 
quarts of grain witli a pint of linseed meal 
daily wall also be beneficial. 
“STOCK” LEG IN A HORSE, ETC'. 
\V. T. 14'., Hags City , (Cans .— I followed 
the directions given in a late' Rural for the 
cure of "stock” leg in a horse; but the frogs of 
both liiiul feet are still ragged and split into 
scales; what should now be done? 2. On the lower 
point of the shoulder of one of my horses there 
was a swelling whi'-h I removed with a Una- 
