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ter, it is evident that if this can be accom¬ 
plished with a reasonable outlay of labor, it 
will have been profitably expended. As I 
have been successful for several Winters in 
doing this in a climate whore the mer¬ 
cury frequently falls to 20 degrees below zero, 
ami this too without any superior facilities as 
to warmth of building, perhaps my method 
of management as to care, feeding, etc., may 
interest some Ri'rai, readers. 
Let no one think that without extra care 
hens can be expected to lay during Winter, 
for such a person is sure to be disappointed; 
but as with most farmers the Winter is a sea¬ 
son of comparative leisure, this extra care can 
be usually given without inconvenience. 
The toys and girls can often be interested in 
this work by giving them a share iu the profits. 
Hot food in some form every day is of prime 
importance. I have frequently given, twice 
a day, for several days in succession, hot pud¬ 
ding as thick and dry as it can lie stirred, 
made of corn meal and wheat shorts or mid¬ 
dlings mixed without any whole grain, with 
excellent results. I depend largely on the 
above mixture as a main feed for fowls, vary¬ 
ing it by giving frequent feedings of oats, 
buckwheat, wheat, com, etc.; iu fact, any¬ 
thing for variety. Two or three times at 
least each week during Winter, give a feeding 
of some kind of green feed, which may con¬ 
sist of cabbage leaves, turnips, carrots, pota¬ 
toes, apples, etc., chopped fine. Give also oc¬ 
casionally scraps of meat or something of 
that nature. Furnish constant supplies of 
clean, fresh gravel—an essential to health. 
Give pleuty of shell-forming material, which 
may be pounded bones, claiu or oyster shells, 
etc. Provide good dust baths. Use lime aud 
sulphur freely about the hen-house, applying 
kerosene often to the perches. Give daily 
fresh water slightly warmed, aud if you are 
not rewarded by a good supply of eggs during 
the Winter, I should advise you to change 
your breed of fowls. k. j. bkownel.jl. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
ijarikiilinrfil. 
CUCUMBERS FOR PICKLES. 
In a late Rural it was stated that the Tail- 
by Cucumber (grown for pickles) is not a pro¬ 
ductive variety; while Gregory, in his cata¬ 
logue, says it i* enormously productive. Last 
season we grew 25 acres of cucumbers for 
pickles, and the coming season we expect to 
put in as many more, and as our stock is sold 
“by count.,” we wish to get the greatest num¬ 
ber of thousands per acre, and at the same 
time combine firmness, freedom from seeds 
aud large size, es(>eeially in length. We have 
never tried Tailby’s, but have grown Long 
Green, White Spine, Green Prolific, Boston 
Pickling and Early Frame. The factories 
here pick out Long Green every time, as it is 
much larger and firmer than the other sorts; 
they prefer White Spine next; hut neither is 
profitable to the grower. The Long Green 
is anything but productive. Boston Pickling 
and Green Prolific, both very productive, are 
not very desirable, us they are stubby ami 
pot bellied, unless picked when quite small, 
aud factories do not want small cucumbers. 
A cucumber as productive as the two latter 
kinds and as firm as the Long Green would be 
a godsend. Does the Tailby supply the desid¬ 
eratum? 
(We tried the Tailby when first introduced. 
It is about perfect iu every way as a cucum¬ 
ber, but it was not a prolific variety as growu 
at the Rural Grounds. — Eds.] 
A HARDY BLACKBERRY. 
In 1852, wh .ui I was a gay sailor boy of Id, 
and spant the Summer in the arctic regions, I 
was on shore a number of titn.-s an 1 found a 
very nice creeping blarkb.-rry rip • iu August 
to the south of Behring’S Straits, in the neigh¬ 
borhood of the bay where the old Euglish ship 
Plover wintered in 11S52 and 185:5. Th * grass 
was six or eight Inches high in a perfect mat, 
and tha vines grew over th • top of th > grass. 
I well recollect with what avidity I hunted 
for the berries after discovering them. The 
vines would stand our Winters; but would 
they bear the heat of our Summers? Who 
will lie the first to get and test them? 
Salt Lake City, Utah. dr. wm. h. g. 
Jkm illogical. 
TWO FINE PEARS. 
About a month since, we received from 
Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, N. 
Y., specimens of the pears which are illus¬ 
trated iu this issue. Duhamel dll Mouecuu (see 
Fig. 101, with cross-section at Fig. 102, p. 108) is 
described iu their catalogue, under “Pears of 
Recent Introduction,” as being large, long- 
pyriform ; skin rather tough, nearly covered 
with brownish russet; flesh melting, juicy, 
with the flavor of a Winter Nelis. It is a 
delicious pear. The tree is but a moderate 
grower. The pear is in me from November 
until January. Our own notes, taken at the 
date of its reception, describe it as of line 
flavor, melting, juicy, very rich and excellent, 
very little russeted, with a fine red cheek on 
the sunny side. It is not only an extremely 
handsome pear, but its goodness is fully equal 
to its beauty. John J. Thomas describes this 
pear as “large, long-pyriform, light yellow, 
partly russeted, flesh melting, juicy, excellent. 
Early Winter. French.” 
President Mas (see Fig. 105, with cross- 
section at Fig. 104, p. 1(58) is descrilied as a large, 
obovate-pyriforru pear. The skin is yellow; 
flesh melting, juicy, slightly vinous. It is a 
handsome pear of fine quality—December to 
January. A moderate grower. The specimen 
sent us was over-rip j, so that we could not 
properly judge of its quality. Charles Down- 
iug calls it a Belgian variety. He describes it 
as follows; Fruit large, oblong, obovate, ob¬ 
tuse pyriform. Skin greenish-yellow, with 
some patches and traces of russet. Flesh yel¬ 
lowish-white, fine, juicy, melting, buttery, 
sweet. December, January.” 
Pi,srcUanrou,$ ^Umtteing 
More Dressed Beef.— The telegraph tells 
us that the Marquis de Mores and the North¬ 
ern Pacific Refrigerator Car Company have 
sold all their plant on the line of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad to the Northwest Dressed 
Beef Company of this city. The capital of 
the company is $2,000,000. The Marquis de 
Mores will remain in the West os vice-presi¬ 
dent and general manager, and the company 
will operate the large plant on the Northern 
Pacific and ojien in New York 100 retail 
butcher shops. Oliver Sumner Teall, the 
president of the compauy, is also president 
of the National Consumers’ Meat Company, 
the Western Dressed Beef Compauy, the 
Southwest Dressed Beef Compauy, aud viee- 
president of the Lyons & Campbell Ranch 
and Cattle Company, which owns a ranch of 
over 2,000,000 acres and a large herd of cattle. 
The National Company owns and is operating 
12 retail shops in Baltimore. The Western 
Company is shipping dressed beef from Kan¬ 
sas City, and building there a plant capable 
of killing (100 beeves a day. The Southwest 
Company is duplicating the Kansas City plant 
iu Silver City, New Mexico. The companies 
will own the slaughtering anil refrigerating 
establishments in the West, the ears used in 
transportation, and the retail shops in the 
East. 
Temperance Figures. — A good temper¬ 
ance lecture is contained iu the figures 
recently printed by the Milling World. The 
total corn crop of this country for 1884 was 
about 2,000,000,000 bushels. Of this, hut 18,- 
927,082 bushels, or less than one per cent, were 
used for dust illat ion. Calling the grain worth 
$9,000,000, when turned into spirits, it en¬ 
tails an exjienditoure of $900,000,two. A bushel 
of eorn costs 80 cents and is turned into 17 
quarts of intoxicating drink. The distillers 
receive 40 cents a gallon for converting it into 
whiskey. It thus represents the original 30 
cents aud 81.10 for the distiller, making its 
value at this stage $2. Then tho government 
tax of 90 cents a gallon adds $3.85 to the value, 
swelling it to $5.85. By the time it has reach 
ed the retailers it has boon “reduced ” iu 
strength and increased in quantity by the ad¬ 
mixture of water aud some more harmful sub¬ 
stances, so that its measure has at least l>een 
doubled and the corn, when it begins to drop 
into the drinkers’ glasses on the bar, repre¬ 
sents about 8 l gallons of drink. Allowiug 00 
drinks to the gallon, the official bar average, 
the bushel of corn will furnish 270 drinks, 
which, atan average of 15 cents to the drink, will 
take $40.50 from the pockets of the consumers. 
This, added to the $5.85 put into the corn up 
to the time of reaching the joblieiv, makiug a 
total of $40..'55, Subs tract the 80 cents, which 
the farmer received for the corn, and the 
balance, $40.05, will show the amazing profits 
made by those who do not till the soil to grow 
the corn, put who multiply infinitely by scien¬ 
tific means the mischievous powers of the 
grain, and who from this hurtful multiplica¬ 
tion reap easy, large and reliable profits. The 
original price of t he bushel of corn is contain¬ 
ed 155 times in the ultimate receipts from it. 
In this way the enormous wasting power of 
alcoholic drink can be easily understood. 
Political reformers and statisticians who talk 
so learnedly about “hard times” appear to 
(Continued on page 108.) 
Purify the Blood. 
Wo do not claim that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the 
only medicine deserving public confidence, but 
we believe that to purify the Wood, to restore and 
renovate the whole system, It is absolutely 
unequalled. The influence of (lie blood upon 
the health cannot be over-estimated. If it be¬ 
comes contaminated, the train of consequences 
oy which the health Is undermined is itnmeasnr- 
iible. Loss of Appetite, Low .Spirits, Headache, 
Dyspepsia, Debility, Nervousness and other 
"little f?) ailmems” arc tho premonitions of 
more serious and often fatal results. Try 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for .55. Made 
©uly by C. L HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. 
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The Best SIDE HILL PLOW in the Market 
warranted to do as good work as any 
PLOWIN' THE MARKET. 
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THE ASPINWALL POTATO PLANTER. 
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It Distributes Fertilizer! 
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Send for Circular to 
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The greatest Improvements ever made iu Harrows 
are embodied In die J. S. C, 
it is the most perfect working Harrow ever put into 
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Be sure and examine it and send for circular. 
Higganum M’fg Cor’n, 
SOLE MANUFACTURERS, lliggiiiiiint, Ct. 
CHAMPION HARROW 
A Corn <a It k va tor (cultivating two rows at once). 
Potato Digger, anil Spring Tooth Riding 
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bold on Us merits and is the cheapest made, 
. i \' v y.tetor Cultivator and Horse Hoe oom 
blued. Light and strong; easy to hold, and of easy 
draught. Six teeth. 
Agents wanted. Semi fur circulars. 
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, I’AllKR ORGAN. 
Latest Style; tine tone; made of best material, in the 
most substantial manner- Fully warranted. Send for 
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F reesampl Eim\ iIgreat 
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(Holds the Silver Medal.) 
Wooster’s Cabinet Perfection Creamery 
Before buying any milk setting or cream churning ap¬ 
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_ . North field, Vt, 
Dairy men will do well to heed this notice. 
THE “COMMON SENSE” MILK PAIL. 
4fe«v. This ts the only 
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* j There are no seams 
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iUrn Should the strainer 
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ijm ,.i^. with use, we can fur- 
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MILKING TUBES, 
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This is the best Tube In the market. Sent, post 
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Choice Ne w England Seeds. The very Best and 
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LOW ELL,, MASS. 
Plea se mention this paper. 
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CREAMERY 
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Agents wanted, latent applied for. 
SPAIN’^ StarCburua.Rapid IceCream Freeaors, 1m- 
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I I fUIIHIlU and REFRIGERATOR, 
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Patented March 23d. 1880. 
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