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pects to save 60 tons of hay in this way thi s 
year. He is putting them up iu stack which is 
pressed down by means of chaius.The 
British brewers contemplate doing without 
the hop merchant, so that the factors will be 
the only middlemen. The curtailment of 
middlemen would be a blessiug everywhere. 
.Agents of English grain merchants, re¬ 
porting on the quality of spring wheat in 
widely separated parts of Dakota and Minne¬ 
sota, say it is of superior quality — berry 
plump, very bright, free from foul seeds, and 
very hard. Even sections that usually pro¬ 
duce soft wheat, produce hard this year. 
Owing to its excellence for milling it is 
thought that an unusually small proportion 
will be permitted to leave the country as grain; 
as the millers will prefer to yield a point to 
retain it for flour.Cork, Ireland, has al 
ways been famous for butter; but so bitter is 
partizan feeling just now, that Orange Major 
Sanderson said in the House of Commons the 
other night, that the butter is only fit for adul¬ 
terating butterine-Last month 500 Guern¬ 
seys were imported into Ireland Accordiug 
to the Mark Lane Express, these are supposed 
to be the first pedigree Guernseys ever intro¬ 
duced iuto the country. 
SAMPLES AND COMMENTS. 
Mr. Browning says that the lawyer and 
the doctor have most to do with the pound of 
cure; the farmer is most interested in the 
ounce of prevention.,. 
“The hope of America is the homes of Amer¬ 
ica,” says Dr. Northrup. When every citizen 
is stimulated to make his own grounds and 
wayside neat and attractive, the whole town 
becomes inviting. The homes of any people 
plainly tell their state and traits, their thrift 
and ambition, or sloth and improvidence. 
Dr. Northrup bus worked as earnestly as 
any man we know of to improve the homes 
and home life of the American people, and to 
help in the practical realization of the cardinal 
truth that the chief privilege and duty of life 
is the creation of happy homes. The multi¬ 
plied ministries of Nature. Providence and re¬ 
ligion, center iu the maintenance of happy 
homes. The higher aim of the industries of 
life, aud the end for which government itself 
should be sustained, is that men may live iu 
happy homes. When such is one’s ideal, and 
his home is his pet aud pride, life has new sig- 
ni ficance and value. Such an ideal brings new 
cheer aud inspiration for one’s daily duties- 
Don’t give the horse-race character by at- 
taehiug it to the agricultural lair, says the 
Orange Couuty Farmer. It is a parasite aud 
like all parasites injures or kills the object to 
which it clings. 
It is a peculiar fact, says Mrs. Annie L. 
Jack, before the Montreal Hor. Hoc., that 
even farmers’ daughters who feed calves aud 
make butter—doing the churning and milking, 
besides the arduous kitchen work of a farm¬ 
house-are proud to say they “ do not work 
out of doors,” aud affect to despise this health- 
giving labor. But Mrs. Jack has never yet 
found a girl who, if once interested in the 
pleasant occupation of fruit and flowers, was 
willing to give it up aud return to the labors 
of the kitchen stove, the wash-tub and the 
ironing table... 
W here the trunk of a fruit-tree grows near 
the boundary of a field and the branches hang 
over another mau’s land, Mr. Browning of 
the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, decides 
that the fruit all belongs to the owner of the 
land where the trunk grows or enters the soil. 
He says that no one has a right to appropriate 
the fruit because it falls on his laud. The owner 
of the tree may pick up the fruit on the neigh¬ 
bor’s land if be cause no damage iu so doing. 
The neighbor bas a right to cut off the over¬ 
hanging branches even with the line. But if 
he allow them to remain and the fruit to 
ripen and drop, they are uot his. 
As the land will not give us full crops un¬ 
less supplied with every kind of plant food 
needed by those crops—so hens in order to lay 
well, should be fed all the material for form¬ 
ing eggs..-. 
There is a growing partiality for white 
fowls, says the Vermont State Journal. The 
reason is plain. A white fowl is easier plucked, 
the pin-feathers uot being so easily discerni¬ 
ble, while the skin and legs are usually of a 
golden yellow... 
Everybody likes to be posted. To this end 
it is desirable that every reader should send 
for the new Rural poster and post it up in 
his barn or carriage-house. .. . 
The Weekly Press says that in spite of the 
accepted opinion that grass is the foundation 
of successful agriculture, farmers generally 
know less of the various species of available 
hay and pasture grasses than they do of any 
other plants on the farm. 
It is true, remarks Mr. Gould in the above 
paper, that good butter makers are somewhat 
rare, but it is equally true that there are dif¬ 
ferent ways to make equally good butter. One 
maker will succeed by one plan and absolute¬ 
ly fail by attempting to copy the successful 
mode of another..... • • 
Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural College is in favor of sowing wheat, 
when it seems best, to sow, the laud having 
been properly cultivated and manured. This, 
he thinks, is the best way to meet the Hessian 
fly. A healthy plant, he says, will stand 
some injury aud send up fresh shoots vn the 
place of these injured. 
The most unsatisfactory crop of wheat the 
the Rural has ever raised was sown Septem¬ 
ber 25, in a dry time. The wheat sprouted 
but was too much injured by the continued 
dry weather. 
The Dairy says that milk varies very much 
iu its quality for butter-making. The cream¬ 
eries make a pound of butter from thirty 
pounds or fourteen quarts of milk, but they 
do uot skim it closely. A fair, ordinary qual¬ 
ity of milk will make a pound of butter for 
each twelve quarts. The best it lias heard 
of is a pound of butter to four quarts; but 
that, was an extraordinary’cow. A good cow 
should make a pound of butter from seven 
quarts. 
TitK Dairyman says that the use of brine 
among butters is much more popular than it 
used to be. It is now used by many iu wash¬ 
ing butter, aud some salt their butter only by 
brining it. If brine is used iu washing, and 
fresh water is uot subsequently used, brine 
saltiug will make the butter as salt as it ought 
to be, or as most people like it. 
From the fact that sweet aud sour cream 
require different temperatures for churning, 
the above journal states that the two should 
never be mixed. They cannot be churned 
together without loss. At least twelve hours 
should intervene between the churning and 
the last addition of cream, that the whole 
mass may become in the same condition. 
Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, of Breslau, has dis¬ 
covered a new disease in potatoes. The stalks 
begin to turn down from the roots upwards, 
aud the leaves fall away aud wither. On ex¬ 
amination it will lie fouml that the stalks 
have been hollowed out, and the hollow filled 
with a rotten substance. Cohn found in this 
hollow the larv;e of a fly which had eaten the 
stalk. These larvie are footless, ringed, 
round, yellow, with the posterior end round¬ 
ed, and the anterior end pointed aud black. 
The aisease appears iu only some sorts of 
potatoes. . .. . 
A. J. Caywood. the veteran fruit-grower of 
Marlboro. N. Y., says, in the Orange Co. Far¬ 
mer, that he was astonished to see a certain 
horticultural editor (doubtless referring to the 
R. N -Y.i assert that one hill of the Lucretia 
Dewberry will occupy as much ground as 
throe or four hills of standing blackberries, 
while the facts are that two hills of Lucretia 
VS ill occupy about the same ground as one lull 
of a large-growing standiug blackberry. 
Mr. Caywood bas quite a large patch of 
this ruuniug berry plnutod for market four 
feet apart each way. and keeps them uuder 
better control than standing berries can be 
kept at the same distance. A person of his 
acquaintance scouted the idea of planting a 
dewberry, but after seeing how Mr. Caywood 
had them arranged, concluded to plant uu 
acre. Mr. C. says he was never more enam¬ 
ored of a fruit than with the Lucretia on its 
first bearing . 
Well, the R. N.-Y. bas this one word to say 
iu reply: We hope we were wrong. 
Puck asks if the old saying “what will cure 
oue will kill another” applies to the curing of 
hams?....*.. •• 
Seedsmen are now ready to deliver all sorts 
of hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, etc , for fall 
planting. Even a little bed, say five feet in 
diameter, is a delightful sight in early Spring. 
One of the finest plants we know of is the 
old Trumpet Creeper trained in tree form, as 
alluded to by the Gardener’s Monthly. Plant 
a stake near the young Trumpet Creeper and 
when it reaches the top cut it off. Remove 
also all side branches as they appear from the 
stem as high up as desired. In u few years it 
assumes a beautiful weeping-tree form, while 
the stem or trunk will have grown large 
enough to support it by the time the stake 
rots... 
Mark all lawn trees now that are interfer¬ 
ing with each other, that the least valuable 
may be transplanted or removed during the 
Winter. One flue specimen is worth more 
thau two poor ones. 
Mr. S. B. Parsons says, in the Gardeners’ 
Monthly, that his Weeping Beech is 60 feet 
high and 50 feet broad, with a living house for 
its interior. He praises the Weeping Sophora 
as a graceful, feathery mass of the softest fo¬ 
liage; the Weeping Hemlock as resembling an 
evergreen fountaau. The Weeping Silver Fir 
and the Weeping Norway Spruce have each 
their own merits and give that variety of form 
which, with variety of color, makes the pictur¬ 
esque lawn which all admire. 
The best time to transplant in the Fall is 
just as soou as the leaves begin to change 
color or to wither. If we wait longer, the 
transplanted tree 1ms the less time to recover 
before freezing weather sets in. If the soil is 
very dry, fill the hole with water and throw 
in soil until it is filled with mud. As this 
sinks, throw in more soil and water until the 
hole is nearly tilled. Then finish with dry soil 
aud cover the ground about the tree or shrub 
with leaves, straw or something of the kind... 
Mr. Meehan says that many now-a-days 
who waut to plant trees in the Spring, buy i n 
the Fall, and plant, all temporarily thickly to¬ 
gether, no matter if the stems are a foot or 
more deep iu t he ground, in some uook shel¬ 
tered from drying winds. Here they remain 
till Spring, sheltering one another, as well as 
being sheltered. The advantage is that the 
wounded roots heal over, and when replanted 
in Spring, push into growth a couple of weeks 
before those then freshly taken up. Besides 
this, there is the great advantage of having 
them on hand to plant just when you are 
ready, instead of having them rushed in just 
as something else is sure to demand immedi¬ 
ate attention.. 
The IT. S. Dairyman says jlrnt the cry is 
that honest dairymen cannot compete with 
men who use cheap fat in making bogus but¬ 
ter. In the same way how can honest milk¬ 
men who feed pure, sweet, grain, hope to com¬ 
pete with those who use rotten refuse or 
swill? This is a fair question and fairly put; 
the miserable goods of dishonest aud incompe¬ 
tent dairymen have furnished the defenders 
of counterfeit butter with many of their t>est 
arguments.... 
The above, journal quotes a contemporary, 
without giving its name as it should do, as 
saying that it is strange that people still think 
that they can strain filth out of milk. 11 can’t 
be done. Filthy milk will be filthy to the end 
of the chapter, aud all the straining in the 
world will not make it pure. When a cow 
steps into the pail she steps into the butter 
plate ..... 
An interesting experiment, showing the in¬ 
fluence of electricity on the growth of roots, 
has been made iu Germany by Professor 
Holdefleiss. Plates of copper were thrust up¬ 
right iuto the earth and connected by wires 
with similarly placed zinc plates about 100 feet 
distant—an electric buttery being thus formed, 
with the earth between the copper and zinc in 
the circuit. Both potatoes aud beets planted 
between such plates gave au increased yield— 
beets 15 per cent., potatoes 25 per cent.— as 
compared with other ports of the same field .. 
Contagious pleuro-pueumonia having late¬ 
ly broken out in Forfarshire, Scotland, the 
inoculation of the affected animals was advo¬ 
cated by the local authorities charged, with 
the treatment of the disease. Several in¬ 
stances were mentioned where, after such 
treatment, the disease was stopped without any 
loss from milk or otherwise, except that the 
cows operated on lost their tails more or less, 
as the operation had to be performed in the 
lower joint of the tail... 
We want apples aud peas and peaches to 
grow bigger downwards in the l>ox, basket or 
barrel. We want to find the bottom berries 
of rasp, black and straw the best iu the box. 
Then we want to know who puts up fruit in 
that way and to encourage him by asking for 
his fruits aud showing a readiness to pay for 
them. ...... 
Do you need a complete or partial fertilizer 
for your land? If oue element exists in the 
soil in excess, that element may bo omitted. 
How can you find out what elements are in ex 
cess? Only by trial... 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Illinois. 
Champaign, Champaign Co., Sept. 8.—Wea¬ 
ther dry and warm, if not hot; regular fly-bit¬ 
ing, corn-ri|x*ning, south-windy weather. 
East of the '.Kith meridian and to farther 
Eastern Indiana the corn crop is on immense 
me; west of it and to the mountains of Mid- 
tile Colorado there is scarcely corn enough for 
seed and bread. B. K. J. 
Indiana. 
Pendleton, Madison Co., September 4. 
—Wc have uniformly good crops iu this part, 
of the State. Wheat is an average of fully 20 
bushels per acre, and the quality is good. Our 
lauds are generally tilcdraiued, which has 
proved an antidote to blight aud rust, aud a 
good insurance against freezing in Winter and 
drowning out at auy season. It lias also added 
25 per cent, to the comfort and health of our 
rural population. Much more time is devoted 
to preparing the grouud for wheat than for¬ 
merly, and the increase in quantity has more 
than compensated for the increased labor. It 
is well plowed, aud then harrowed aud rolled 
until there are few clods. The drill is then 
used, which completes the ©iteration. Our 
best funnel's have an a verage of 25 bushels per 
acre; our worst 10 bushels, with a slow but 
steady increase from year to year. Corn, oats, 
rye, barley, buckwheat and potatoes will aver¬ 
age 100 as compared with last year or a series 
of years. s - w - H - 
Kentucky. 
Nicholasville, Jessamine Co., Sep¬ 
tember 4.—We have had the best season aud 
consequently the best crops we have had for 
36 years. D - w - A - 
Michigan. 
Cambria, Hillsdale Co., September 6. 
—Crops are good. Some yields of wheat as 
high as 35 bushels per acre. Corn a little 
shortened by drought, but uot as much as hay 
and potatoes. Recent rains have made the 
pastures green. Apple trees are breaking un¬ 
der their load and other fruits, except peaches, 
have been abundant. Wheat, 75 cents; corn, 
45 cents; oats, 80 cents;potatoes, 85 cents; but¬ 
ter, 13 cents and eggs, 12 ceiits. v. J. mcd. 
Nnw York. 
Utica, Oneida Co., Sept. 13.—The market 
for butter is firm. Brices are a little ad¬ 
vanced. While some good dairy butter is 
bought for 18 and 19 cents, the bulk brings 
20 cents., aud good creamery 21 and 32 cents. 
Thirty packages were bought to-day at 21 
cents. The number of packages bought dur¬ 
ing the week was 105 at prices as stated. A 
prime article is said to be scarce. Little Falls 
sold dairy at 18 to 20 cents, and creamery at 
21 cents. The Cheese market opened a little 
dull, but toward the end displayed consider¬ 
able activity and closed firm and strong. 
Prices will hold this week, and the indications 
are for a still better market. The Board sales 
were as follows: 900 boxes at 9% cents; 4,438 
boxes at 9 % cents; 700 at 9.K cents; 1,400 
boxes at '.Di cents; 878 boxes at 9 % cents; 
1,890 boxes at 10 cents; 84 boxes at 10!., cents; 
358 boxes on private terms and 210 boxes on 
commission—total. 10,852 boxes, ruling at 9K 
cents, which is one-quarter cent higher than 
last week. Little Fallssold 7,746 boxes to-day 
at 9% cents. The cheese men held back for 
the higher terms aud the market was slow. 
The hop market has seen a slight change in 
the last week aud the hops being about picked, 
where there are any, there have been a few 
sales. Those heard from in this county have 
been worthless as a base for prices. They 
have merely been sales of hop refuse. About 
10 bides were sold the other day in Clinton for 
IS cents a pound. They were in bad shape 
and certainly not worth any more than was 
paid for them. Some good hops have been 
sold at 86 and 40 cents in small quantities. In 
Chenango County the crop is reported better 
tbau expected, but the acreage in this county 
is small. There have been one or two good 
yards in Otsego County, In some districts 
the presence of a small worm at the roots of 
the vine is reported, and it is feared that the 
plant will lie destroyed. Lewis County has 
400 bales agaiust 5,000 last year. R. L. 
Tcnneimee. 
TULLAHOMA, Coffee Co., Sept. 4.—Crop 
outlook very promising: wheat was more 
than an average crop, and has boon put 
upon the market at 65 to 75 cents. Com is 
selling at 50 cents; oats, 30cents; rye, 75 cents; 
potatoes (new) 00 cents per bushel. Stock of 
all kinds low. Apples plentiful at 30; peaches 
au entire failure in this section. c. L. N. 
Texos. 
Medina, Bandera Co., Aug. 30.— On the20th 
we had a most terrible storm. It be¬ 
gun in the morning aud lasted for about 
seven hours. It started from the north, from 
which direction it blew for three hours, in¬ 
creasing iu force all the time until it carried 
everything before it. Thousands of bales of 
cotton are beaten into the ground and farmers 
iu Western Texas are greatly discouraged. 
Corn was a failure on account of drought; 
the cotton crop, too, was cut short. It would 
have averaged K of a bale per acre, or five 
doll ire, which would not have paid for the 
work expended. Now even that, is lost, for 
the ram beat the cotton into the ground, 
and it is now sprouting. Such is 
the dark side of farming. But the 
rain has started the grass, and if we have 
smile more rain wo will probably have a fair 
Winter range for our cattle. Most of them 
would have died from starvation before Win¬ 
ter, were it not for the rain. 1 have been feed¬ 
ing my cows for about six weeks, but to-day 
they refused to eut coru fodder, because they 
gota taste of green grass. Times are hard.prices 
are very low; cattle uo sale. Hogs, tat, fJ.oo 
nor hundred. Com, which we have to buy, W 
60 cents per bushel, while some farmers sold 
theirs two months ago at 30 cents. I fed mine 
into hogs which I cannot sell without losing 
money. w - s ' 11 ’ 
Vermont. 
Newport, Orleans Co., September 6. 
We have a large crop of apples this year.^ 
