Cincinnati's Lite Stock Trade, —In liis 
annual address to the Pork Packers’ Associa¬ 
tion of Cincinnati, Sidney P. Maxwell, secre¬ 
tary, presented the following synopsis of the 
live stock trade of that city during the past 
year: 
The shipments from the city in the past 
year aggregated of hogs 215,025 head, com¬ 
pared with 257,0S0; of cattle, 71,060. in com¬ 
parison with 58,585, and of sheep, 582,988, com¬ 
pared with 378,128 Of these there were 
shipped from the Union yards, of hogs, 182,085, 
in comparison with 124,220; of cattle, 50,755, 
compared with 89.550, and of sheep, 848,891, in 
comparison with 332,238. 
The not receipts, which are the only measure 
of manufacture and local consumption com¬ 
bined, show a considerable increase in both 
cattle and sheep, little change having occurred 
in hogs. The net receipts of hogs were 504,931 
bead, compared with 500.052 in 1884-85, and 
550,851 in 1888-84; of cattle, 127,738. in com¬ 
parison with 111.502 in 1884-85 and 125,452 in 
18^3-4, and of sheep 182,279, compared with 
107,154 in 1884-85 and 147,550 in 1883-84. The 
consumption of hogs shows no material 
change in three years; that of cattle makes 
the largest exhibit in the same period, and a 
marked increase over 1884-85, while that of 
sheep is the iargest iu the history of the city. 
Tlic weight of the different kinds of stock 
received, as indicated by such as were weighed 
at the Union* yards, which are fairly repre¬ 
sentative of the whole city, shows a slight in¬ 
crease iu hogs, but a reduction in both cattle 
and sheep, the gross weight of the hogs having 
been 289.17 pounds, in comparison with 237.14 
in 1884-84 and 228.In in 1883-84; of cattle 
980.04 pounds, compared with 987.33 in 1884-85 
and984.68 in 1SN3-S4. and of sheep 78.18 jjounds, 
in comparison with 78.59 iu 1SS4-85 nud 80.50 
in 1883-84. the average weight of fcho sheep 
haviug been the smallest in eight years, the 
weight of hogs in the past year having been 
2.03 pounds greater, and of cattle 7.29 pounds 
less than the preceding year. 
A Correction Corrected and an Absur¬ 
dity Exposed.— 
“Wc observe that some papers speak of the Martin 
Amber and Landreth wheats as being the same, or 
very similar. The editor who makes such statements 
kuows nothlngobout thetwo varieties of wheat. They 
are very distinct from each other la growth, in straw 
and grain, ami while the Landreth is an old variety 
under a uetv name, the Martin Amber is a new vurieti/, 
and Iu many respects entirely different front any other 
sort, in tact, It is more distinct from other varieties 
than any niher sort originated In many years." 
The above statements, which we find in the 
Epitomist, published by the seedsmen J. A. 
Everett & Co., of Wateontown, Pa., are essen¬ 
tially untrue. The Rural New-Yorker is 
the ‘‘some papers" alluded to. “Tbe editor,” it 
says, “that makes such statements knows 
nothing about the two varieties.” W« have 
three times raised the Martin’s Amber beside 
the Armstrong or Landreth, a d find them in 
all respects the same. Therefore it is untrue 
that "they are very distinct in growth, in 
straw aud grain.” “The Landreth is an old 
variety under a new name.” How does the 
Epitomist know that! Merely because the 
R. N.-Y. has talked of the Armstrong for 10 
years or thereabouts. But when was the 
Armstrong disseminated? Not until a yearor 
so previous to the so-called Martin's Ainber, 
and then it was called Landreth. If the orig¬ 
inator of the Armstrong chooses to allow the 
Laudreths to call it “Landreth,” that is its 
proper name, since it was not generally known 
as Armstrong. It is not an old variety any 
more than Martin’s Amber is an old variety. 
This firm is now selling Yankee Prolific Oats 
at a high price, though it should know that this 
is an “o/d variety,” viz., the White Russian. 
The same firm now offers a new wheat uuder 
the name of “Everett’s Iiigh-grado,” and the 
stateinent is made that it is u cross of “Mar¬ 
tin's Amber on a number of other varieties!” 
This crossing was begun only four years ago, 
according to the statement, aud although the 
cross was made upon “a number of different 
varieties” it has been fixed and offered for 
sale at $8.50 per bushel iu four years! If the. 
firm really knows anything about crossing 
wheat it would know that this statement is 
simply absurd. Wo dislike very much indeed 
to call attentk n to such matters, more especi¬ 
ally in the present instance, since J. A. Everett 
& Co., are advertising patrons and friends of 
the R. N.-Y. 
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BOILED DOWN AND SEASONED. 
Prof. Shelton says that com fodder to be 
valuable must be cut whileit is yet bright aud 
green. 
t^TuE Farmers’ Supply Association is the title 
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THE BUBAL HEW-V0BKEB 
of an organization of farmers, recently formed 
in Scotland to purchase agricultural supplies, 
especially fertilizers, from first hands at 
wholesale rates. This is the right way to pro¬ 
ceed,says the Vermont Watchman, Co-opera¬ 
tive buying for cash in large quantities does 
away with middlemen and enables manufac¬ 
turers to sell on the closest possible profits- 
Mr. W. H. Rand tells the American Car¬ 
den how the Marlboro Raspberry behaves in 
Vermont. With ordinary care it made the 
strongest growth for the first season that he 
ever saw. while the few berries which he al¬ 
lowed to mature were of large size aud fine 
flavor. Naturally he looked forward to the 
next, season’s fruitage with much pleasure. 
But the plauts seemed “suddenly to develop a 
decided antipathy to Vermont soil and treat¬ 
ment and were apparently tired of living. 
The few berries produced were of ordinary 
size aud quality.” Again he says: “So fart la- 
plant seems entirely hardy”.. 
Mr. J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, 
Conn., speaks emphatically in favor of the 
Lucretia Dewberry,in the New England Home¬ 
stead. He is convinced that it is a vigorous 
healthy plant, as hardy as the Taylor Black¬ 
berry, as productive as Snyder, as large ns 
the Lawton and the best in quality of any of 
the blackberry family, and the earliest of all 
to ripen. He does not see how it is possible to 
produce a better fruit of its class... 
In Ohio the Lucretia is planted iu rows 
eight to 10 feet apart and four to five feet 
apart in the rows,forming a thick matted row 
or bed four to five feet wide. They throw up 
fruit spurs a foot high. 
Another writer in the same good journal 
condemns for one reason or other the follow¬ 
ing summer pears: Kir timid, 0.-1 land's Sum¬ 
mer, Bloodgood, Clapp’s Favorite, Madeline 
and Rostiezer. He com men Is instead of them 
the Summer Doyenne, Gifford, Manning’s 
Elizabeth, Tyson, Margaret aud Bartlett. 
Webb & Sons’ (England) farm-seed cata¬ 
logue just received, gives an engraving of t heir 
Yellow Globe Mangolds, several of which 
weigh from 41 to 47 pounds. 
W. P. Atherton states that there arc 3,500 
named varieties of the apple; only 390 are in 
genera] cultivation, and of this number not 
over 50 potass any special value. 
Mr. H. B. Curler, the eminent dairyman, 
is an advocate of winter dairying, says the U. 
S. Dairyman. He claims that by changing 
from summer to winter dairying he bus 
raised the average net profit on forty cows 
from $15 to $40 per head. His winter ration is 
early cut clover and Timothy, with equal parts 
by measure of wheat bran and corn meal. 
One Winter his milk suddenly shrank from 
855 to 750 pounds, and on ascertaining the 
cause he found that late had been substituted 
for early cut hay. The above agrees with L. 
B. Allen's practice. 
Milk, it says, is a very necessary and nu¬ 
tritions art,it-h- of human food, but unless pro¬ 
duced from healthy cows, maintained under 
proper sanitary conditions with air and exor¬ 
cise, andprovidod with sound and wholesome 
food, there is probably no other article of food 
so full of danger and so liable to disseminate 
diseases of various kinds. 
The Paris cows (25,000 in number) have been 
found a prolific source of pulmonary con¬ 
sumption, it is said... .. . 
A writer in the Dakota Farmer says that 
a few months since he visited a dairyman in 
New York, who had for years kept good com¬ 
mon cows. Four years ago hit bought a flue 
pure-bred Holstein bull and crossed upon his 
cows. Last year his two-year-old heifers gave 
double the quantity of milk liis common cows 
did. 
English cattle sales are well mixed up with 
oratory. At a recent Short-horn sale one 
speaker quoted a collier who said he must 
keep a bull-pup because “a man looks so 
stark-naked without a dog.” In the same 
way, the speaker said every farmer ought to 
buy a good Short-born because a farm will 
look so stark-naked without one. Another 
sj>eaker suid liis cattle were descended from 
the stock of an old clergyman, consequently 
they were the most orthodox cattle in the 
kingdom... ... 
Even in Colorado farmers are taking steps 
to provide more fodder for the winter-feeding. 
There is serious talk of utilizing straw and 
stalks. We have seen tons of straw burned up 
to get it out of the way. Even during the 
burning farmers were complaining of bard 
times and taxes.... 
See that the onions are dry, says the Farm¬ 
er. Let them freeze solid. Then the tiling is 
to keep them frozen till wanted. They must 
bo well covered to keep them from thawing... 
Proi'. SaNBORN, of the Missouri Agricultu¬ 
ral College, estimates that the demand of sheep 
for food exceeds for each 1,000 pounds of live 
weight, that of cattle by 25 to 35 per cent. 
It must be remembered, however, that the 
sheep not only produces mutton, but a fleece of 
wool at the same time, while the steer converts 
its food into meat only. In another way the 
sheep is more economical than the steer. It 
feeds largely on what is rejected by the steer, 
nud would otherwise go to waste... . 
Randall tells us, says the National Live 
Stock Journal, that in trials as to the relative 
shrinkage from cooking between mutton and 
beef, the result was in favor of the mutton. 
Prof. Sanborn makes comparisons thus: 
“Given 10(1 pounds each of live steer and sheep 
at. four cents a pound, live weight, if we sub- 
straet eight pounds of wool at 20 cents a pound 
from cost, of the sheep, the dressed carcass of the 
steer at 00 per cent, shrinkage, will cost 0.00 
cents per pound; the dressed carcass of the sheep 
will cost 4.0L cents a pound; or the former 
costs 42 per cent, more than the latter.” It 
would seem, from all the evidence, that there 
can be no doubt of the greater economy in 
growing mutton than ingrowing beef. 
About the last man to trust, says our Iowa 
contemporary, the Homestead, is the fellow 
who has left the farm years ago, has lost its 
habits, tastes, and instincts, and has no visible 
interest in it, aud who is always putting him¬ 
self forward as the f riend of the farmer. This 
class of farmers will bear close watching. 
The true friend of the farmer, says Edmund 
Hirsey.in the Massachusetts Ploughman, is not, 
so anxious to circulate- information that will 
encourage ©very one to go Into the business of 
tanning, as he is to better the condition of 
those who are already in the business. 
WITHIN tbo lust five years L. F. Allen has 
adopted the progeny of tliorough-brod Guern¬ 
sey bulls on his herd of high-grade Short-horn 
cows, thus producing a Itetter class of milkers 
for butter- making, the Short-horns not being 
always up to the required standard for that ob¬ 
ject. Thus he writes to the Agricultural Ga¬ 
zette, of England. 
Thus far, his short experience favors the 
Guernsey over either Ayrshire, Jersey or Hol¬ 
stein. He prefers them to Jerseys for their 
greater size and hardihood, robust forms, car¬ 
rying more flesh and equal quality aud quanti¬ 
ty of milk, according to size. 
Mr. Allen intends, as time progresses, with 
a continuous use of thoroughbred bulls, to 
breed the grades still higher, it haviug been 
fully proved with those who have long used 
both Guernseys and Jerseys that well-graded 
Cows of those bloods give as rich milk aud as 
high a quality of butter as thoroughbreds, at 
much loss cost of purchase than they. 
Mr. Allen sajs that we see occasional ac¬ 
counts of enormous American weights of but¬ 
ter in a seven days’ trial of both Jersey and 
Holstein cows, the example being one cow se¬ 
lected from 50 or 100 or more, at au extra ex¬ 
pense of food, oftentimes detrimental and 
sometimes fatal to the animal; but the tales 
reserve the average yields of the herds from 
which they are selected, which, if fully stat¬ 
ed, would give us a much truer value of them. 
“ Home people's geese are always swans.” 8o 
it may he with the owners of these extraordi¬ 
nary cows. It may be that the regular quan¬ 
tity of butter given by these 25 to 40-pouud 
butter cows iu a single week’s trial might not, 
on the same rations as other cows get, amount 
to over seven or eight pounds per week during 
the milking season of eight, nine or ten months. 
The proportion of different seeds which 
Mr. Allen has adopted is as follows: Six 
quarts of Timothy, four quarts of medium red 
clover and two qua rts of Alsike Clover jht 
acre. The smaller size of Alsike seeds makes 
them equivalent in number to the double qu • 
tity of the red, giving an equal number ot 
shoots with the other.They come into full bloom 
about the same time, when the Timothy is just 
bouding out, aud when cut together at that 
period make, he thinks, the finest quality of 
stock hay for cattle, horses, or sheep. 
Mr. Charles Gibb, of Abbotsford (P.Q.), 
Canada, says, in the report of the Montreal 
Horticultural Society that for general plant¬ 
ing there is no evergreen like the Norway 
Spruce. It is cheap, transplants easily, grows 
quickly, and forms a large,beautiful tree. For 
wind-breaks and shelter bolts it is the best ever¬ 
green; for hedges he prefers the native Arbor 
Vitse, which makes a good hedge in less time. 
With our 13 years’ experience with ever¬ 
greens, we should greatly prefer “for general 
planting,” either the Oriental, White or Ad¬ 
cock’s Hpruce. 
Eng elm ANN’S Spruce he says is a beautiful 
evergreen, perfectly at home in his climate. 
A specimen he has is remarkably glaucous. 
In Spring it is the color of frosted silver, not 
green at all. Nordmann's Fir is a beauty of a 
different typo. Its long, dark, shining, rich 
foliage is very striking, but it is not hardy 
above the snow line. Eugelmatm’s Spruce is 
is now known as Abies pungous. It is certainly 
the roost silvery evergreen at the Rural 
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Grounds and as hardy as any conifer ever 
grown there. Nordmann’s Fir is indeed a 
grand tree, but even in this climate it is liable 
to be severely injured by peculiar Winters, 
though generally it escapes without the least 
harm.-. 
Mr. Gibb 1ms a variety of our White Spruce 
(A. alba ererulea) nearly as silvery ns Eugel- 
manu’s, but bluish. It- is a dwarf and has 
borne its second crop of seed though the trees 
are not more than three feet high. The Siber¬ 
ian Fir (P. pi elite) is remarkable for its re- 
f resiling green color, and such specimens as he 
saw in Russia showed no signs of early decay, 
as is the case with our native balsam. The 
Tiger’s Tail Spruce of Japan (A, polita) is, he 
thinks, hardy or nearly so. It has stood the 
tost of about five winters, but is small and of¬ 
ten covered with snow. Its leaves are as sharp 
as pins. There is a dwarf form of our beau¬ 
tiful hemlock (Tsuga Can. macrophylla) a 
foreign-looking, compact shrub, just the thing 
to decorate a well-kept lawn with. 
Tf we mistake not this Large-leaved Hem¬ 
lock originated in the grounds of S. B. Par¬ 
sons, of Flushing, Long Island. Our specimen 
is now about 12 years old and not over eight 
feet high. The leaves are twice as large as 
those of t he common hemlock aud the shrub is 
a lino plaut for the lawn ..... 
A delightful companion to the Large- 
leaved Hemlock (macrophylla) is the Small- 
leaved Hemlock (mteropbylla). Growing near 
together, we are reminded of brother and 
sister..... 
Extravagant statements do not deceive 
intelligent farmers; but there are some young 
men who know nothing about farming, and 
some old men who are about ret iring from 
business that catch at such bait, and are made 
to suffer by it. 
It appears to Dir. Hirsey that the time has 
come when this class of writers should be ban¬ 
ished from all leading agricultural papers, for 
they do a real injury without any correspond¬ 
ing benefit. What we want at the present 
time is facts fresh from the field of practice . 
We want to know what has been done, not 
what in our imagination we think might be 
done. Why should writers be continually 
trying to force everyone into the farming bus¬ 
iness by rose-colored statements. We already 
have farmers enough to grow all the grain and 
other products wo need, and a great surplus 
besides. Had we not belter turn our attention 
to the improvement of what farmers we have, 
so that they will be able to grow larger crops 
with the same axpeudituro of labor and ma¬ 
terial ..... 
Mr. Tucker tells the readers of the Farm 
Journal that his folks have all learned to like 
mutton. The children have clearer skins and 
the old folks less dyspepsia than when they 
ate lots of pork. The corned beef of the fami¬ 
ly is now corned mutton, having found out 
that there is no better meat for a change than 
a piece of mild, salted, fat mutton. 
Mr. Tucker thinks that grass seed is wast¬ 
ed by being covered too much, liis experi¬ 
ment of sowing it all on top of the ground 
worked well—not a miss on a single field. His 
oats sown in the snow March 22n<l on the 
wheat la id came on wonderfully just as soon 
as the weather was warm enough for auy thing 
to grow, and they ripened with the wheat- 
A writer in the National Druggist says that 
his son suffered with typhoid fever during a 
heated term, when the temperature of the 
room often rose to 90° or 95°, aud the patient’s 
temperature ran up to 105° F. and over. A 
number of tubs were placed in the room and 
kept filled with ice, and the doors kept closed. 
The temperature of the room sank to 80 w or 
less, an average uf 13° or 1 >' below the tem¬ 
perature of the other rooms in the house, and 
the cooler atmosphere not only added to the 
comfort- of the patient, but aided in keeping 
down the body temperature and materially 
contributed to a final recovery.... 
ReicLIMANN (Deutsche Med. Zeitung/drnws, 
from a number of experiments, the conclu¬ 
sions as to the relative digestibility of boiled 
ami unboiled milk; that boiled milk leuves 
the healthy stomach more rapidly than an 
equal quantity of unboiled milk ami thediges- 
tion of boiled milk is more rapidly accom¬ 
plished than that of unboiled milk. 
Bang, of Copenhagen, has expressed the 
opinion that milk taken from u tubercular 
cow is probably a fruitful cause of tuberculo¬ 
sis in children. lie declares that tuberculosis 
of the udder of milch cows is by no means a 
rare affection, ami is characterized l>y dif¬ 
fused, painless swelling of one, rarely of two, 
portions of the udder, proceeding without any 
constitutional implication. Boiling, he found, 
would destroy the bacillus, hence it is but 
prudent to resort to this process in every 
doubtful sample of milk. 
There is something very mysterious about 
the amount of medical knowledge possessed 
by old women, uneducated people generally— 
