YORKER. 
644 
Downing says (3rd Appendix) “Flesh whitish, 
half-flue, tender, juicy, sprightly sub-acid, and 
of good quality” It is valuable as extending 
the season of the Duchess with a fruit certain¬ 
ly not inferior. 
THE BERKOFF APPLE. 
This is also an apple of the Duchess type. 
I have twice attempted to grow the French 
or Globe Artichoke, with partial success. The 
plants make an excellent growth during the 
Summer but are quite apt to winter-kill. About 
half of the plants perished in this way the past 
Winter, though they were protected with a 
light covering of straw. The yield of flower 
inches for the ends, and 1x8 across the bottom, 
fastening the end frames together. The rod 
or roller, on which the wire spool hangs is 
made of wood, or au iron bar may be used, or 
even a piece of a fork handle. The rack may 
be fastened to the bottom of the wagon by 
screws, or by a single bolt through the for¬ 
ward piece. 
RYE STRAW FOR STOCK FEED. 
There will be a big rye crop in this part of 
the country. The price for straw will be way 
down. If I can’t get five cents a bundle, I 
shall feed my straw out. I can get five cents 
out of every bundle of it for feed and manure. 
It will be worth almost that much to chop up 
WAGON JACK. 
The wagon jack shown at Fig. 368, may 
not be new to our readers, but it is simple and 
easily made. A a is a plank two feet long, 
T f two inches thick by 
— ’ — G jl ’ eight inches wide. JB 
• is an upright piece 2x4 
P and two feet six inches 
long, and is nailed and 
braced to a a. C is an 
/—-—\ -p iuch piece four inches 
Fig [369 ~ w ide and three feet 
long, and works on a 
bolt in the upright b. D is a chain fastened to 
A and hooking on to a nail in lever c. The 
dots indicate holes in the upright, b, which 
allows the lever, c, to be raised or lowered to 
suit the bight of wagon or buggy. 
AUTOMATIC GAMBREL. 
The device shown at Fig. 369 is so plainly 
drawn that but little explanation will be 
needed. Such an arrangement will be very 
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AUTUMN. Re-engraved from The Queen. Fig. 372 
almost identical in form and color, but very 
much better in quality, being a mild sub¬ 
acid, spicy and soft-fleshed apple—a true des¬ 
sert Duchess. The tree is a handsome, spread¬ 
ing grower that will require little pruning 
and promises to be a good bearer. 
Orleans Co., Vt. 
heads, which is the part used, on the surviv¬ 
ing plants has been abundant. I fail to see, 
however, what there is in this plant that makes 
it so popular in France. Surely we have many 
vegetables that are more delicious. 
N. Y. Ex. Station E. 8. GOFF. 
and put back of the stock to hold the urine. 
Rye makes a better feed than most people 
think. I have fed hogs on cooked rye meal 
with fine results, but 1 don’t think rye is best 
£ftrm 0conoim 
CORN SHELLER ATTACHMENT. 
I have been bothered by corn coming out 
of my sheller with the cobs and being tramp¬ 
led on and wasted, so I hit upon the device 
shown at Fig. 870. It is made of any kind of 
light wood. The top is covered with a piece 
of wire cloth, with %-inch mesh; this the com 
goes through, while the cobs roll over. The 
Another season further attests the folly of 
using single eyes of potatoes for seed in heavy 
soil. The shoots mad ± a slow, feeble start; the 
beetles ate them back; they started again; 
the drought came; result, a very small yield. 
Whole potatoes on scarcely better soil have 
given a good crop. 
The Industry Gooseberry is very promising. 
The fruit is very large and the past season 
was free from mildew. The plant promises to 
be productive. 
Among strawberries, nothing tested has sur¬ 
passed the Slmrpless for size und productive¬ 
ness. The Crescent yielded more berries in 
number, but less in measure. James Vick, 
with very high culture, gave an immense 
crop, but with ordinary culture the yield was 
quite inferior. Legal Tender did well and 
promises to be a valuable variety for our soil. 
The Prince (of Berries) surpassed all in rich¬ 
ness of flavor, but was only moderately pro¬ 
ductive. 
With me Henderson's New York Lettuce 
was the old Neapolitan, or Naples Cabbage 
known 20 years ago, and I know not how 
much longer. It is a good summer lettuce, 
but its color is too deep a green to suit many 
persons. The Tomhannock Lettuce sent out 
by Mr. Burpee, was the same as that which 
Mr. Gregory has been selling for several years 
uuder the name of Sugar Loaf. It is the 
largest-growing lettuce I know of, with per¬ 
haps the exception of the Bossin, and is ex¬ 
cellent for Summer. 
One advantage to be gaiued by bagging 
grapes, that I have not seen mentioned, is 
that the bags offer a eons iderable protection 
during hail storms. When such storms are 
very severe, much damage will, of course, 
result in spite of the bags; but in moderate 
hail storms, the kind we most often have, the 
to feed alone to horses or cows. I would take 
one-third each of rye, oats and corn and have 
them ground together. That makes about as 
Automatic Gambrel, 
handy at hog-killing time. The iron bars 
which hold the hog are one inch wide and 
half an inch thick. They are held by a stout 
bolt at the angles. Tne harder the rope is 
pulled the further apart the legs are drawn. 
The Japanese Snowball.— We copy the 
following from the Philadelphia Weekly Press: 
“The Rural New-Yorker wants to know 
who would have the old-fashioned Guelder 
Rose when he can get the Viburnum plicatum 
A good many pedple, we think. An old Guel¬ 
der Rose is one of the noblest of shrubs. We 
know a specimen by a cottage door, which 
tosses its snowballs fifteen feet in the air and 
covers a circle of nearly as great a diameter 
with branches arching to the ground on every 
side. The foliage is coarse, but of good color, 
and fades into attractive'tintsJin^Autumn. 
We know no specimen of the^so-ealled*'Japan¬ 
ese species that has attained [sufficient age to 
prove how it will then[appear. It is a good 
shrub, although we do not consider[the]hronze 
color of its leaves at the ends of the shoots a 
CORN SHELLER ATTACHMENT. Fi 
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UlMimib 'M ' ||{j| 
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bags will save a large proportion of the 
bunches from injury. I have tried using 
simple pieces of newspaper for bagging, 
or rather wrapping the bunches, with ap¬ 
parently good success. The pieces were cut 
about, six by eight, inches and were readily 
wrapped about the bunches and fastened by 
folding one corner over at the top and pinning. 
The sides were folded together, the bottom be- 
iug lef t.opeu. The wind and rain have disturbed 
these papers but little, and after a very severe 
hail storm, I find comparatively few berries 
injured on bunches thus protected. 
corn is received through the sieve into a small 
trough below, ami runs back into the large 
trough, and theuoe to the measure or bag. 
The trough to receive the coru from the shel¬ 
ler is made of ordinary boards, (mine are 10 
inches wide and %-inqh thick) and has a slid¬ 
ing gate at the end. My sheller is set upon a 
platform, 4 1 ± feet long, 2 ' a feet wide and 20 
inches high, so its to get a slope for the corn to 
run out, but it tuny be flat on the floor, aud 
then the corn can be taken out with a scoop 
shovel. E. A. B. 
Gurney’s, Va. 
tine a feed ns l want. Rye is a better crop for 
us to raise thau wheat. v. h. w. 
Passaic Co., N. J. 
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FRAME FOR FENCE WIRE SPOOL. 
The rack shown at Fig. S71 is to go iu the 
hind end of a wagon when maki ug wire fence. 
It should be as long as the wagon-box is wide, 
and high enough so that the arms of the wire 
spool will deal- the cross-pieces of the bottom, 
while the wire must] run clear.’of the wagon- 
box. The rack may.beJmade ]of lboards_lx4 
beautiful feature and we have noticed a dis¬ 
agreeable habit, iu some of the flowers in the 
ball browning or burning and thus spotting 
the snowy whiteness of the cluster. It win¬ 
ter-kills at the ends of the twigs in latitudes 
where the old speeies.never fails. By the way, 
is not our native Viburnum opulus, known as 
the High Bush’Cranberry, as good as either.in 
some situations? It has the advantage of 
showy fruit, which is not Inedible.” 
Some English hop growers, after gathering 
the bops, are using the vines for silage. One 
party tells the Mark Lane Express that he ex- 
