THE AURAL NEW-YORKER 
■ 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
The managers of the Dubois Agricultural 
Fair [Pa.] recognize the fact that there is 
not much money to be made at such an exhi¬ 
bition. The profit is to come in the awaken¬ 
ing of a “spirit of progress,” which will 
change the whole country for the better. This 
idea is correct. It is poor policy to run a fair 
simply for the purpose of making a few hol¬ 
lers. At the Dubois fair everybody is invited 
to come forward and help to make the meeting 
a success. Anarchists and dynamiters are ex¬ 
cluded from this 
invitation. We 
should be better 
satisfied if rum- 
sellers had been 
placed in the ex 
eluded class. 
necticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illi¬ 
nois, and the Province of Ontario. Resolu¬ 
tions of sympathy with the family of the late 
secretary, J. Y. Murklaud, were adopted and 
spread upon the minutes. The postage and 
tariff questions were discussed at length. The 
committee appointed last year to wait upon 
the Secretary of the Treasury, and present the 
views of the Association in regard to the want 
of uniformity in the collection of duties, made 
its report. The question of valuation was also 
discussed. It was shown that too much lati¬ 
tude was allowed the collector. The law seems 
clear enough, but some of the collectors base 
their assessments upon what they deem the cor¬ 
rect value, in some cases going naek to a time 
six mouths before the crop was‘grown.] |Homo 
through the tempting offers made by the pa¬ 
pers themselves, came in for a share of the dis¬ 
cussion. The convention will meet in Phila¬ 
delphia in .Tune, 1887. _ 
At the Wisconsin State Fair held at Mil¬ 
waukee, Sept. 20-24, premiums of $50 each are 
offered for the l>est milk, butter and cheese 
cow respectively, Auy breeds may bo en¬ 
tered, but no cow can compete for more than 
one of the premiums. All food given during 
the test and for 12 hoars before will be care¬ 
fully weighed. The cows will be milked 
twice daily for two consecutive days, and the 
milk weighed. The chemical composition of 
the milk will be determined by chemical anal¬ 
ysis. The scale of points to decide the contest 
will be as follows: 
There is a grow¬ 
ing tendency to 
offer better pre¬ 
miums for graded 
cattle at the agri¬ 
cultural fairs. 
This plan is a good 
one. Graded cat¬ 
tle must,for many 
years yet, make 
up the bulk of 
farm animals. 
Breeders of thor¬ 
oughbreds will 
help themselves 
greatly by encour¬ 
aging prizes to be 
given for the best 
speci mens of 
grades of their 
own stock. 
A CONVENTION 
of the Northern- 
born residents of 
North Carolina 
will be held at 
Raleigh during 
October. It is de¬ 
signed to show 
what part North¬ 
ern persons are 
taking in the devel¬ 
opment of the 
South. No doubt 
advantage will be 
taken of this meet¬ 
ing to push the ad¬ 
vantages which 
the State offers to 
immigrants to the 
front. 
The managers 
of the Indiana 
State fair have set 
apart Sept. 28 for 
Children's Day. 
All children un¬ 
der 12 years old 
will be admitted 
free, and special 
arrangements will 
be made f o r 
their entertain¬ 
ment. The dog 
and pony shows 
will be of special 
interest to the lit¬ 
tle people. This 
idea is a good one 
and might well be 
followed by other 
societies. 
Some 
county 
of the 
agricul¬ 
tural associations 
have continued the 
old plan of adding 
reading matter to 
the usual list, of awards in the premium 
list. YVe lind some of them partly tilled 
with essays and communications from 
farmers. The practice is not a bad one if the 
matter can be well selected. These premium 
lists are well read and studied. Where there isa 
live farmers’ club in connection with the fair 
association, it might be wise to have a portion 
of the pamphlet given up to selections from 
the best essays read during the season. It is a 
fact that some of the most practical and ra¬ 
table agricultural information comes from 
these farmers’ clubs. The premium list made 
into the form of a report could be made very 
interesting. 
At the recent meeting of the American Seed 
Trade Association held at Niagara Falls, dele¬ 
gates were present from Massachusetts, Con¬ 
THE CARMAN BLACK CAP RASPBERRY. 
First Season’s Fruit. 
(See Page 631.) 
From Spring-set Plants. From Nature. Fig. 301. 
seed growers had been compelled to gc to other 
ports at great inconvenience and additional 
expense in order to get fair play. The only 
equitable mode of adjustment was tlutt present 
market price only should lx* considered at the 
ports of entry. A motion prevailed authoriz¬ 
ing the president of t he Association to appoint 
committees, as special cases arise, to whom 
tariff matters might be referred with power to 
act. A very clear and elaborate paper was 
presented from the seed trade of Boston, show¬ 
ing wlmt this Association is doing in the in¬ 
terests of its members, and ou motion it was 
ordered that the substance of the matter pre¬ 
sented bo embodied in the annual report of the 
Association. Agricultural newspapers which 
accept the money of seedsmen for advertising, 
and also devote their space and use their in¬ 
fluence to divert business from the seedsmen, 
For Milk: — 1 point for every 10 days since calving; 
1 point for every ounce of total solid matter produced 
In 21 hours. 
Foil Hcttkr:— 1 point for every 10 days since oalv- 
lug: .1 points for every ounce of fat produced In 24 
hours. 
Fou OttcitsK: i point for every 10 days since oalv 
lug; 3 points for every ouuce of protein produced In 24 
hours; If the amount of fat produced Is less than one 
ami-one seventh times the protein, deduct 3 points for 
every ounce deficiency. 
Such a contest ought to cull out good speci¬ 
mens of all the noted dairy breeds. 
ft newts. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Cincinnati Corrugating Co.— Catalogue 
of’this’roliable concern.—A .well \ Tinted and 
finely illustrated pamphlet. One is surprised 
to note the immense number of uses in which 
corrugated iron can be profitably employed. 
Its use is rapidly increasing, and we are confi¬ 
dent that it will become exceedingly popular 
when farmers take time to carefully examine 
the superiority over other building materials 
claimed for it. The pamphlet is well worth 
reading. The Cincinnati Co, have ample 
facilities and experience. They cau supply 
anything in their line promptly no matter 
what the size of the order may lie. Our readers 
may rest assured that they will receive the 
best of attention at the hands of this 
company. 
Economic Relations of Birds and Mam¬ 
mals.—T he Department of Agriculture has 
recently estab¬ 
lished a Division 
of Economic Orni¬ 
thology. Dr. C. 
Hart Merriam, 
Government Orni¬ 
thologist, has sent 
out a series of cir¬ 
culars which 
promise to lead to 
valuable results in 
determining the 
legitimate place on 
the farm of many 
of our common 
birds and small 
animals. Tbe cir¬ 
culars are entitled, 
‘‘The English 
Sparrow,” ‘‘In 
structions for the 
Collections o f 
Stomachs,” “The 
Economic Rela¬ 
tions of Mam¬ 
mals,” “The 
Food-habits o f 
Birds,” and a cir¬ 
cular to rice grow¬ 
ers. Each circular 
contains a num¬ 
ber of well select¬ 
ed questions relat¬ 
ing to the habits 
and destructive¬ 
ness of birds and 
animals. Tbe de¬ 
sign is to collect 
thousands of an 
swers to these 
questions, from all 
parts of the coun¬ 
try, and embody 
these answers in a 
general report. 
This work is one 
in which all farm¬ 
ers cau be of great 
service. It is well 
known that cer¬ 
tain birds destroy 
thousands of dol¬ 
lars’ worth of farm 
crops every year, 
while it is equally 
well understood 
that other birds 
by preying upon 
mice and other in 
jurious insects, 
preserve as much 
as the others de¬ 
stroy. Again,there 
are other birds 
which are looked 
upon as thieves 
ami rogues, while 
in reality they do 
far more good 
than harm. Crows, 
owls and hawks 
have both friends 
aud enemies 
among men. They 
steal corn and kill 
chickens, but 
they also destroy 
countless insects and mice. The evil results 
that always follow the wholesale slaughter 
of small birds, teach us that we must dis¬ 
criminate sharply between our friends and 
enemies. These questions, proposed by Dr. 
Merriam, intelligently answered, will go far 
towards balancing the good and evil qualities 
of our many feathered visitors. We need 
more light, *iml the farmers of the country 
should combine upon this question as upon 
auy other. There are many small animals 
like rats, mice and foxes, that need no investi¬ 
gation. They are enemies beyond all doubt. 
There are others, like moles and skunks, that 
render valuable service to the farmer. How 
far does this good service go toward counter¬ 
acting the damage done to lawns by moles, or 
to lessen the dreadful odor of the skunk? 
Questions like these are_well .worthy of atten- 
