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Give your hens (those confined) exercise by 
sprinkling a little wheat among straw of any 
kind.... 
Tite 1885 Report of the Connecticut Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station (Prof. S. W 
Johnson. Director), says that the best cotton¬ 
seed meal is that which is ground from the 
decorticated seed. It contains neither hull 
nor fiber, and has a nearly pure yellow color.. 
Damaged cotton-seed meal, originally good 
but injured by wet and mold, or ground from 
damaged seeds, often gets into the market at 
low rates, but is valuable only as a fertilizer.. 
C’otton-seed meal made from the entire 
seed, after the removal of the cotton fiber as 
far as practicable, is another inferior grade, 
and may lie recognized by the dark particles 
of hull it contains. A sample of this was 
analyzed by the Station and found to contain 
but 2,1 per cent, of protein, while the best de¬ 
corticated seed meal contains 42 per cent, of 
protein, and is therefore worth nearly twice 
as much..._. 
Cotton-seed contains considerably more 
nutritive matter than new-process linseed- 
meal, and is, therefore, much cheaper if 
the price of each is the same. The very con¬ 
centrated nature of cotton-seed meal renders 
caution necessary in its use. 
Cattle can stand only small quantities of 
it without digestive disturbance . 
Cotton-seed which is not perfectly sweet, 
is entirely unfit for food. Prof. Johnson 
thinks it not unlikely that the albuminoids 
which make up about half of the dry sub¬ 
stance of cotton-seed meal, when they begin 
to decompose on account, of dampness, may 
give rise to poisonous alkaloids similar in 
nature to those formed from uitrogeueous an¬ 
imal matter under like circumstances. 
Prof. Cook (Director of the N. J. Station), 
said, at the last meeting of the Horticultural 
Society, that in his experiments ho could see 
no difference between the muriate and sul¬ 
phate of potash. He has been trying these 
experiments for 12 years, and he doesn’t see 
why we should pay seven cents a pound for 
potash in sulphate when we cun get it for 
three cents a pound in muriate. 
Several experiment stations make no dis¬ 
tinction between potash as a muriate, and 
potash as a sulphate, and yet it is well known, 
says Mr. Mapes, that the muriate of potash is 
worse than worthless on tobacco. He also 
states that the potash in the high-grade sul¬ 
phate is commercially (aud also agriculturally 
on many crops) worth some TO per cent, more 
than muriate of potash. 
Mr. W. H. Bowker, at a late meeting of 
Massachusetts farmers, as carefully reported 
by the Mass. Ploughman, remarked that the 
curse of every business to-day is the credit 
system... 
Mr. Bowker further said that fertilizers, 
as a rule, are sold delivered all over the coun¬ 
try. It seems a law of railroading that the 
longer the distance the )ower the rate of 
freight. He can deliver ferfcilizei's in Ohio as 
cheaply as ho can iu Springfield, Mass., aud 
that is how he can sell delivered in various 
parts of the country at about, the same prices. 
Mr. Bowker, in another part of his address, 
said that there is no farmer to-day who will 
not admit that in raising a calf, if it is stinted 
for the first six weeks of its existence, it is 
stunted for life; so if a crop is stinted for the 
first 30 or 00 days, it is stunted for the rest of 
its growth. That being the case, it. seems to 
him we should have plant-food in the most 
favorable condition, so that if the weather 
shall be right the crop will make the best pos¬ 
sible growth during the first few weeks. This 
should be one reason in favor of commercial 
fertilizers. 
Speaking of S. C. rock, he said that, it is 
urged by many that we apply South Caroliun 
rock, in a fine ground condition, directly to 
the soil, and it will give good results; but he 
thinks that after a long trial the leading ex¬ 
perimenters have come to consider that it is 
far wiser to dissolve it, esjieoially for hoed 
crops, than to apply it in its raw state, for 
nearly all hoed crops make the greater part of 
their growth in 00 days, and plant food, to be 
of uny value to these crops during this period, 
must be in a condition ready for them to al>- 
sorb..... 
Mr. Curtis (Gliddeu & Curtis) said that he 
had the idea that the greatest usefulness of 
commercial fertilizers was when employed in 
connection with baru-yard manure. Where 
baruyurd manure is applied, it Is necessary to 
cultivate the soil thoroughly. It is so done 
aud the soil is very carefully pulverized. It 
is natural to suppose that if chemical fertiliz¬ 
er is used after that careful cultivation of 
the soil, it will have a grant deal more effect 
and a quicker effect than if it is put upon soil 
that is not so carefully cultivated.. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS, 
We do not claim that Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the 
only medicine deserving public confidence, but 
we believe that to purify the blood, to restore and 
renovate the whole system, it is absolutely 
unequalled. The influence of the blood upon 
the health cannot be over-e.eimated. If it be- 
comes contaminated, the train of consequences 
6y which the health 13 undermined Is immeasur* 
Able. Loss of Appetite. Low Spirits, Headache, 
Dyspepsia, Debility, Nervousness and other 
"little (?) ailments” are the premonitions of 
more serious and often fatal results. Try 
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Sold by all druggists. $1; six for §5. Made 
only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass, 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
Flnridn. 
San Antonia, Herraudo Co.,March 18. --We 
are now shipping some very elegant straw¬ 
berries, mostly Neunan Seedlings, not over- 
large, but quite a nice size. Last Winter 
froze nearly all of our oranges, but did not 
hurt any of the large trees, though it injured 
some very small trees and buds in the nursery. 
The orange trees are uow full of bloom, with 
every prospect of a large crop. All small 
lemon trees were killed to the ground There 
has been much improvement here in the last 
few years, with every inducement to stimulate 
labor. Crops are looking well. e. g. l. 
Illlnril*. 
Highland, Madison Co., March 14.—Gar¬ 
den Treasures very nice. Tomatoes good and 
very prolific; but those received the year lie- 
fore were better. Peas also good. The 50 
crosses were all eaten by chinch bugs after 
harvest; but the Rural Uuion Com is the best 
we have around here. Times are hard. We 
have had no good wheat crop since 1881. 
Last year this county—the second on the list 
of wheat-raising counties in the State—hardly 
raised enough for seed and flour. Wheat is 
worth now 85 cents; com, 20 cents; oats, 27 
cents; potatoes, 45 cents. a. z. 
Indiana. 
Greenfield, Hancock Co., March 18.—The 
Rural peas did well. The King Humbert 
Tomato is a humbug. Did not like the 
Flageolet Beans. The corn is too small for 
this country. Sorghum halapense has not 
put in an appearance yet. One melon was 
splendid. Garden Treasures admired by all 
that saw them. **x,” 
-Vw Jersey. 
Washington, Warren Co., March 19,— 
This county is quite a place for peaches. Of 
peach buds 80 per cent, are now good on high 
ground; but on low land the buds are nearly 
all dead. Wheat is looking better than last 
week. The best peach we have is the two * * 
Yellow, which ripens after the Crawford 
Late. l. w. g. 
ft'ew York. 
Cuba, Alleghany Co. —Many sudden and 
extreme changes of ■weather during the Winter, 
have been very severe on stock, winter grain, 
meadows, etc., yet all are, so far, in fair con¬ 
dition. Hay was agood crop, but much of it 
has l>een shipped, so that the price is likely to 
go up liefore grass. Now it brings $9 to $ 12 
per ton. Potatoes rotted badly; some pieces 
were not worth digging; good ones are worth 
60 cents per bushel. The Rural corn has all 
been too late for this section. Some of the 
Stratagem Peas bore very large pods, but mil¬ 
dewed somewhat. The P. of W, did better. 
The tomatoes were the best I ever saw, except 
the King Humbert which were not good. 
Flageolet Beans were prolific aud of fair qual¬ 
ity. Johnson Grass grew almost three feet, 
aud headed out, but didn’t form seed. Garden 
treasures fine. e. w. m. 
Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y., March 20.— 
Lambs are coming finely, and there are many 
pairs of twins. So far only one live lamb, 
w hen bom, has been lost, and that a twin, 
aud the cause, too much milk, and scours. 
Probably we fed the mother too much too 
soon after the birth of her lambs. The best 
pair of lambs we uow have are from a small 
ewe; but she eats wonderfully, and the lambs 
could soon be made fit for early market if 
that was our business. I have lately visited 
the Rural’s Western New York Farm, and 
seen the lambs there fitted for the New York 
market, the methods practised, etc. I had a 
good visit aud was well pleased with my recep¬ 
tion and what I saw there. j. t. 
West Sand Lake, Renselaer Co.—The Rural 
pens grew aud ripened well. Flageolet Beans 
great yielders—very fine for shelled beans. 
Tomatoes very productive; but the King Hum¬ 
bert doesn’t deserve a royal name. Corn ull 
stalk; too late for this section. The Rural 
seeds pay for the paper every year. f. h.h. 
Pramvlunli. 
Wolf Run, Lycoming Co—The Thousand¬ 
fold Rye did well. I had about a peck. The 
D.-M. Wheat came up well in the Fall, then 
rabbits ate it to the ground, but it started 
again and did finely. Very few peas and 
leans. Some of the com ripened. The King 
Humbert Tomato was uo better than varieties 
I already had. L. H. i\ 
Wisconsin. 
Lynxvtlle, Crawford Co., March 15.—The 
Rural wheat was splendid. If we had a 
spring wheat as good as the winter wheat 
sent out by the'RURAL, we wo uld have a var 
iety of which none could complain. The pota¬ 
toes too were deserving of great praise. The 
beans did well. The corn was in the form of 
roasting ears when frost came; but two ears 
were fit for seed. The Garden Treasures were 
delightful. Mold’s Ennobled Oats do splendidly 
here; I don’t intend to sow any others, w. D. 
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