1886 
THE BUBAL WEW-YOP.KER 
seeds of the F. S. D. can be distinguished only 
by their color and general appearance. 
DISCUSSION. 
BOILED TO DEATH. 
T. H. H., Newport, Vt.—Recently in re¬ 
plying to tbe question of a correspondent in 
one of our Vermont hill towns, where hay 
can often be bought in the held for six or sev¬ 
en dollars a ton, while stable manure cannot 
be bought at all. and commercial fertilizers 
have to be hauled long distances, I said that it 
was more profitable for such farmers to buy 
hay. aud feed it to dairy cows, than to buy 
fertilizers. The Homestead boiled this advice 
(which was given with reasons at some 
length) down to a stickful, omitting the 
qualifications. The R,ural evaporates the 
Homestead’s concentration to dryness (and 
falsity) by baldly stating that “Dr, Hoskins 
insists that it is cheaper to buy hay than man¬ 
ure.” Allow me tosay, Messrs Editors, all. that 
you are running this business of “boiling 
down” into the ground. No man can live, 
physically, on beef extract, neither can the 
human mind be nourished on evaporated facts. 
The facts escape in the process, and naught 
but a worse than worthless residuum remains. 
MULLEIN rOR COLDS, ETC. 
C. W. B., LOS Angeles, Cal. —Ashorttime 
hack I noticed a clipping from the Rural 
New-Yorker, speaking well of mullein for 
consumption. Here is my experience with it: 
In 1882 my wife was afflicted with a very bad 
cough. It got worse and worse, and no medi¬ 
cine I tried afforded any relief. At last, hear¬ 
ing of the good effects of mullein and rock 
candy, I went into the fields atui pulled up a 
lot of young mullein plants, washed the roots, 
placed thorn with the tops in the kettle, pour¬ 
ed water over them, and boiled the whole 
down to a sirup, which I put in largo bottles, 
adding rock-candy and brandy enough to keep 
it from spoiling. My wife used it as medicine, 
and iu oue week was well aud sound. I have 
no doubt whatever that medicine of this kind 
will have excellent results in ordinary cases of 
lung troubles, colds, etc., whatever be its 
effect in cases of pronounced consumption. 
R. N.-Y.—A decoction of mullein has long 
been used iu domestic medicine to allay 
couglis and other irritations of the air 
passages and vessels, and externally as an 
emollient for relieving soreness, inflammation, 
swelling and pain in case's of tumors, piles, etc. 
On account of its use in lung troubles of cat¬ 
tle, one of its common names in England is 
bullock’s lungwort. Roek-caudy has often 
a soothing effect in colds. Instead of keeping 
the mixture “from spoiling.” many would 
think it would be “spoilt” by the addition of 
brandy; but, like several other “poisons,” 
brandy is often Iteuelieial taken medicinally. 
FLAGEOLET BEANS. 
C. E. P., Queens, N. Y.— In the Rural for 
April 17th, 1 notice an article on the Flageolet 
Beans, and as it may possibly lead to a decided 
increase in their cultivation, I desire to offer 
a few remarks regarding tiieir projier table 
use. I have at oue time or the other grown 
most, if not all, of the different varieties of 
dwarf or bush beans in cultivation, and as far 
as my experience has extended, 1 have found 
that all of the varieties known as Flageolets 
are entirely unfit for use as a snap or string 
bean, being tough, stringy und inferior in 
quality. As a shell bean used in either the 
green or dried state, t hey deserve all that can 
be said iu their praise. 1 consider the Green 
|Ui^cUanjcou,3 
Dyspepsia 
Does not got. well of itself; it requires careful, 
persistent attention ami a remedy that will assist 
nature to throw off the causes and tone up the 
digestive organs till they perforin their duties 
willingly, A mong the agonies experienced by the 
dyspeptic, are distress before or after eating, loss 
of appetite, i iregularities of the bowels, wind oi 
gas ami palu iri the Btomaeli, heart-burn, sour 
stomach, etc.,causing mental depression, nervous 
irritability and sleeplessness. It you are dis¬ 
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saparilla. It bus cured hundreds, it will cure you. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
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lOO Doses One Dollar 
Q. What is the opinion of standard med¬ 
ical authorities on kidney disease? 
A. That the blood vessels and tubes of the 
kidneys have become paralyzed by repeated 
and long neglected congestion ami, having no 
nerve power to control their action, the albu¬ 
men, th*' life of the blood escaytos, while the 
uric acid aud waste remains in and destroy the 
blood. This sometimes results in dangerous 
blood poisoning; the only true scientific blood 
tonic, before which these symptoms aud dis¬ 
eases rapidly flee away, is Warner's safe cure. 
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In minting 
Invention la used 
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lint Little Credit to the Profession. 
Detroit, Mich., Nov. G, 1885.—Three years 
ago, I suffered much from enlarged prostrate 
gland. Had to have my water drawn. The 
more I doctored, tho worse I got. Was com- 
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Flageolet the best of all for amateurs to culti¬ 
vate. I also think Dreer’s Improved the best 
of the Limas for general cultivation. I tried 
the Challenger Uma last season, and was very 
much disappointed with it. Not only did the 
flowers sot very sparingly, but in most cases the 
pods contained only one or two beans. 
L. M. M , N. FiciuuaBUKGH, Vt.—W hen a 
small boy I watched one season 20 robbing’ 
nests, and only in two or three were the young 
raised. Having often noticed the conflicts be¬ 
tween the robbing and the crows, I concluded 
that the latter were the cause of the destruc¬ 
tion". 1 found that tin* ground sparrows and 
other field bulls suffered equally. Would not 
the little birds that are thus destroyed, if they 
were allowed to live, have benefited farmers 
more than the crows? iu u short plea for the 
crows in a late Rural, we are advised to 
scatter a little corn for them, Yes, let’s do 
so; but i>ut a little strychnine in it. 
Communications Heckivkd row tiik Week Ending 
A pril !M, 1886. 
O. W.T. G. W. S., plants received.—R. J., plants 
received.—D. 0. A,-s. Frogaer, potatoes received.—G. 
W.T.-0.1I. A.-J. R.-J. A. B.-W. H. B.-D.R.T.- 
P. H. J.-J. J. H. Cl.-H. R, H.-T.W. L.-G. S.-John 
McLean, corn received, thanks.—S, M. T.—G. II. J.— 
Win. Murray, potatoes received.—W. H. Byram, pota¬ 
toes received. S. C. Ashland, raspberry received.—F. 
H. C.-A. P. P.-E. A. Y.-F. E. S.-H. A. 0., plants re 
eelved, W. T. J. K. If, T T I W 0. B. McE. 
B. J. Er. K. w. s. ,i. B. a., thanks, B. a BL-H. R. 
II.-J. O. O. H. s. F. G. -B.W. G. 1. 8. N. C.. thanks 
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