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nobody knows how long. Among t,ho winners 
was her Majesty the Queen, who took first 
prize with Fanciful in the class for yearling 
heifers. 
The Sussex display was excellent, the aver¬ 
age quality of the exhibits being high. As a 
beef breed, this has many supporters; but in 
view of the excellence of the Short-horns, 
Hereford* and Devons in the same line, the 
Sussex is not making much headway Outside 
the county in which it originated. 
Guernseys have hardly been treated fairly 
at Royal Shows. Though specially a dairy 
breed, just as much as the Jersey, the only 
class for cows was that for "Cows or Heifers 
in-milk or in-Calf," calved in 1883. Thus 
adult cows are excluded from the show. This 
blunder gave rise to so much just complaint 
that it is hardly likely to be repeated in sub¬ 
sequent shows. Most of the animals exhibited, 
especially the hulls, were fine specimens of the 
breed. 
In view of the fact that the show was held 
at the other side of the kingdom, the exhibi¬ 
tion of black Welsh cattle was very praise¬ 
worthy. While matured stork of this breed 
look well, young animals are very ungainly. 
There are several local breeds of cattle in the 
different counties in Wales, and a good deal 
of paius has lately been bestowed on their im¬ 
provement, with promising results. 
In the class for ‘‘Other Breeds,'’ considerable 
trouble must have been found in awarding the 
pi lzes, as it included beef and dairy breeds, 
natives as well as foreigners. The English 
Aberdceu-Angus breeders contributed 10 of 
the .80 entries, and bore away all the first 
piizes. I here were some splendid specimens 
of this breed, some of them 
frequent prize-winners at 
other shows both 
land and Scotland, 
thought that the 
polled cattle 
in size the 23cl of the States in the Union. Tn 
the Kingdom of Prussia one of the provinces 
bears the same name, bping the original nu¬ 
cleus around which later additions accumu¬ 
lated. This has an area of 24,114 square miles, 
and had in 1874 a population of 8,137,540—a 
much denser population than that of Ohio. 
But this Province must not by any means be 
confounded with the Kingdom. 
Cost and Value of Some Ffutilizers,— 
According to recent valuations of fertilizers 
sent to the Connecticut Experiment Station, 
Peter Cooper's pure bone dust, which cost §32, 
was estimated to be worth §42. James Green’s 
(N, Y.) Common Bone, which cost §35 per ton, 
was valued at but §12.90. Quinnipiac bone 
meal (New London, Conn.), which cost§38, was 
estimated to be worth over §39 per ton. Here 
is a further list of those fertilizer which cost 
over §8 per tou more than they ought to cost: 
Cost Valu- 
probably the best agricultural paper in 
America—published in its number of June 5th, 
a portrait and autobiographical sketch of 
Mrs. Mary-Wager Fisher. The editor takes 
advantage of this occasion to pay a fitting 
compliment to the lady, who has been a valu¬ 
ed correspondent from the time she was a girl 
15 years of age.". 
A bill now before Congress—but which can 
hardly pass—provides that ranging cattle is 
unlawful, and that if cattle ranging on the 
public domain trespass on the unfenced land 
of settlers, the owners of the cattle shall be 
liable for such damages as may be done. 
All stock driven into Her Majesty’s domin¬ 
ions of the Northwest must cross the line be¬ 
fore Sept. 18, or pay a duty of 20 per cent_ 
A company has been incorporated at St. 
Paul, Minn., with a capital stock of §1,000,000 
to build stockyards, sheds, etc., for the feed¬ 
ing and slaughtering of eattie, sheep and 
swine. It will be known as the St. Paul 
Union Stock Yard Co. 
Kansas City beef sells in New Mexico for 
25 cents a pound, alongside of beef of local 
production at 15 cents. The Socorro Bulletin 
says; Well, the fact is that the average of 
Now Mexico beef from range is poor, thin and 
lean. But when fat, the beef is just as good 
and juicy and palatable as Kansas Citv beef. 
The trouble is we do not produce enough of 
fat beef. It looks as though, in many instan¬ 
ces. the ranges are overstocked. ' In any event 
there is money in raising Alfalfa and other 
grasses, and establishing feeding farms. We 
Kinds of Grass Suitable and Unsuit¬ 
able in Kansas.— In his late report Prof. 
E. M. Shelton, of the Kansas Agricultural 
College, says that in general, it may be said 
that no grass or clover cau be permanently 
successful in Kansas that has not the ability 
to withstand high temperatures and droughts 
as well as severe freezing. Such peculiarly 
Southern sorts as Johnson Grass and Bermuda 
Grass are totally worthless in Kansas, because 
if not wholly destroyed by the severity of the 
Winters, they are so completely crippled as to 
be of no practical value. In the course of a 
long experience with tame grasses in Kansas, 
the idea has steadily grown with Prof. Shel¬ 
ton that Orchard Grass is generally the best 
and most useful grass, and that for mixed 
pasture and mowing ground Orchard Grass 
and Red Clover have a position in Kansas as 
permanent as that held by Timothy and clover 
further east. Alfalfa is also same to be a 
favorite with Kansas cultivators, although a 
wider experience is needed to determine accu¬ 
rately its place. Of the mauy other sorts 
favorably known in different localities, and 
which have been the subjects of persistent 
trial upon the College Farm, not much needs 
to be said. Timothy, though uncertain, fre¬ 
quently gives a large yield of valuable hay. but 
it suffers from dry weather and insects (partic¬ 
ularly chinch-bugs), and it gives no pasturage 
Attains & Thomas’ (Springfield, Mass.) Mar 
ket Bone.: 
Victor Phosphate A 1 (Waterbury, Cl. 
Baker’s (N. Y > Complete Potato. 
Bowker’s (Boston) Ammonlated Bone Su¬ 
perphosphate. 
Stoekbrldge Vegetable Manure tBowker & 
Co.). 
Bradley’s Patent Superp. (Boston). 
E. Frank Coe’s High-grade Aminonlat' d 
Superp.. 
Common-sense Fertilizer No. 2 iBoston. 
Mass. I. 
Cecrops or Dragons’ Troth Fertilizer 
(Newton & Ludluin. N. Y.i. 
Cereal Fertilizer isamet. 
Cooke's Blood Duano (Rend & Co. N. Y.I.. 
Charter Oak Fertilizer ip. Thomson. Hart 
ford, Ct.).. 
Quinnipiac Fish and Po<ash—crossed fish 
es brand—(New London, CM. 
Wilkinson’s Patent Ammonlated Super- 
phos. (N\ Y.)... 
Sllvir Ki ' ! 1 " 1 1 ' 11 1 1 i 
Short-horn cow received the - " 
prize (£25) for the largest RED POLLED BULL FA I,STAFF. Re-engraved from the London Live Stock Journal. Fig. 323, 
yield of milk—18 quarts 
t>110 i>i m f in a day, with pj ]i pare, mage of 
s, ’h'G- i lie '''•■'Mini prj,:e ( *;i:,i v. as awarded 
il h’p'l I '* 1 1 led Itei [er. u h tolt yielded 1 .‘u pin ids 
tmd I ml!' a gill M milk, » itl, Id.:!:! per emit, nf 
Sl 'l ' 1 G l’l '< '['!> i -! tile I 111!,,] Slat, .'Tent IV 
midm rat ■ (lie s'm » t-li. >rn a - a .la i r\ ,-v,. Here, 
" Gme her many merits ha', e I ieeli de\ e|,.j,ed. 
die i- : lie dai r \ e,e.v „. v . J nmli-li 
tarmors are quite Well aeuiia inleil with I he 
worth mentioning. Kentucky Blue Grass is a 
persistent grower in Kaiisas under almost 
every circumstance of climate aud soil. It 
will in time drive almost every other sort from 
the soil in which it gets foothold. Despite 
these good qualities, it is, except for lawns, of 
little use to Kausas farmers. It yields no hay, 
of course, and the amount of pasturage yielded 
b.Y it is inconsiderable. Perennial rye-grass 
(Lolium perenne), although repeatedly tried, 
often with good prospects of success, has never 
survived the second winter. Tall Meadow Oat- 
Gruss (Arena elatior] is, on many accounts, a 
useful grass. It gives very early and excellent 
pasturage, and a stand with it is easily ob- 
taiued, but the yield of hay is light and ap¬ 
parently not very palatable, and it suffers 
greatly from “dry spells.” Common White 
Clover starts early in the Spring, and for a 
time makes abundant pasturage; but as the 
Summer advances, it fails rapidly, frequently 
perishing, but re-seediug and almost certainly 
reappearing the following Spring. A stand 
of Red-top has proved quite difficult to secure 
doubtless on account of the smallness of its 
seeds. Except in swales, or other like moist 
situations, this is not a promising sort. Many 
other sorts might be referred to, but the list 
given embraces nearly every kind that is likely 
to be the subject of trial in Kansas. 
Prussia.— Prof. Budd, of Iowa, says that the 
farmers of America are not educated to the 
point where they appreciate the value of agri¬ 
cultural education, The little kingdom of Prus¬ 
sia lias 68 technical schools, and there are open¬ 
ings for all the graduates. The editor of the 
Review notes that Prussia has a population 
less than that of the State of Ohio; but this is 
a gross mistake. According to the census of 
187.8, the population of the “little kingdom of 
Prussia” was even then 24,603,497; while that 
of Ohio, according to the census of 18.su, was 
then only 3,198,062. The ami of the “little 
kingdom of Prussia" is 184,493 square miles; 
that of Ohio is only 30,964 square miles, being 
No Hardy Blackberry.— Pres. Lyon says, 
in the Michigan Farmer, that the most popu¬ 
lar so-called hardy blackberries, Snyder, Tay¬ 
lor, Stone, and others, failed of a crop last 
season, from injury by the previous winter's 
cold, while those who relied upon the confess¬ 
edly tender Lawton and Wilson, hy protect¬ 
ing the plants at a very slight expense, reaped 
a heavy aud highly remunerative crop. From 
this ami other experience he has become thor¬ 
oughly convinced that a strictly hardy black¬ 
berry is yet unoriginated, if not in fact un¬ 
attainable, and that the sooner we abandon 
such expectation the better for all concerned. 
RURAL LIFE NOTES. 
Wk learn by the College Speculum (Michi¬ 
gan Agricultural College) that our associate 
editor of several years ago, C. C. Georgeson, 
has arrived iu Japan and entered upon his 
duties as Professor of Agriculture, and likes it 
much thus far.. 
Prof. Arnold says that the best way to re¬ 
move grubs from a cow's back in Spring, is to 
enlarge the opening made by the grub enough 
to admit of pulling it out, and then draw it 
forth with a small book'such as mieht 
