THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
with one horse will bale from six to nine tons 
in ten hours; with two horses, eight to 10 tons. 
A machine, for making ties is sent with each 
press without charge. The pamphlet will be 
of interest to all who handle baled hay. 
Brown’s Fence Builder. —Circular from 
John P, Brown, Rising Sun, Ind. This ma¬ 
chine is used in making a picket fence, which 
is greatly praised for its durability and cheap¬ 
ness. The pickets are held n place by twist¬ 
ed wires fastened at intervals to posts. The 
builder runs easily and smoothly along on old 
boards laid on the ground, and works with 
such rapidity that a rod of strong fence can 
be built in eight minutes. Any kind of cheap 
material can be used for pickets. There are 
no nails to get loose. Boys or hunters cannot 
climb over it easily, as there is no support for 
the feet in climbing. xYll kinds of stock from 
chickens to cattle are kept out. The fence 
makes a good appearance. Send for the cir¬ 
cular. 
Victory Corn .Jill.— Circular from Tho¬ 
mas Roberts, Springfield, Ohio, Four sizes of 
these mills are Thsbe, ranging in weight from 
1,450 pounds to 75 pounds, and in price from 
$60 to $12. The larger sizes are designed for 
grinding feed, coru-and-cob meal, etc. The 
smaller size. No. 4, is designed for hand or 
machine power, for grinding corn, wheat, 
coffee, etc , etc. By its means meal can be 
ground for table use, and a good quality of 
Graham flour prepared. It is also useful in 
preparing food for poultry. These mills are 
highly praised by those who have used them. 
Mr. Roberts also manufactures stationary 
engines and boiler's. 
The “Cyrus Roberts’ ” Shuck-Corn 
Shellkr, Cleaner and Separator. —Circu¬ 
lar from Roberts, Throp & Co., Three Rivers, 
Mich. This corn sheller husks, shells and de¬ 
livers the corn at any elevation. The corn 
can be run into a wagon or into bags as de¬ 
sired. The cobs are taken from the husk anil 
delivered at one side, while the husks are blown 
out at the rear of the machine. Some remark¬ 
ably strong letters of commendation are print¬ 
ed from those who have used the machine. 
Farmer’s Poultry Raising Guide.— 
Pamphlet from I. S. Johnson & Co., Boston, 
Mass. Though intended primarily to adver¬ 
tise Sheridan’s condition powders, this little 
pamphlet gives much information regarding 
poultry raising. Pictures of the various 
breeds are given. Hints as to the feeding 
and handling of poultry are made a special 
1 feature of the book. Aside from a tendency 
to unduly enlarge upon the profits of the poul¬ 
try business by printing statistics and large 
“hen stories,” the book contains much filter¬ 
ing matter. 
Ladies’ Home Journal punished at Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. A very bright and readable pa¬ 
per which the ladies w ill surely enjoy. The 
stories are pure in tone, poor jxjetry is conspic¬ 
uously absent, and the various departments 
devoted to the home are seusible and helpful. 
It is surely a Home Journal—one that will do 
good. 
Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Marion 
County, Indiana. A catalogue of fruits and 
ornamental plants. We notice the Lucretia 
phate into the hill on all the field but a strip 
at one side. In that I only put half the usual 
amount. When the corn got almost ready to 
tassel I put the rest of the phosphate at the 
foot of the stalk in the strip of ground I had 
left. This was easily done by sevapiug a little 
dirt away with the foot, dropping the phos¬ 
phate and covering it with the other foot. 
The jmrt of the field thus treated produced by 
far the best corn. The ears were larger and 
better filled. The part that received all the 
phosphate at first made the best start, but the 
other beat it iu the end. That is the way I 
shall manure my corn hereafter. R. T. p. 
Passaic Co.. N. J. 
in the drill on good land, for either grain or 
forage purposes, and also on thin land, if for¬ 
age mainly is desired. The first seed-beads 
form at the top of each stalk, and as soon as 
these show the grain well, the joints next be¬ 
low the top send up shoots which yield the 
second, third and often fourth seed-heads. If 
grain chiefly is desired, these heads may be 
all allowed to mature on the stalk, and then 
the whole stalk may be cured into fodder; for 
it is not, even then, so bard but that it will be 
easily cut up, and well eaten by cows and 
mules. But if the crop is wanted mainly for 
fodder, it is recommended to cut down the 
whole stalk when the first seed-heads come in¬ 
to bloom, at which stage it cures admirably 
and makes excellent forage. The second 
growth spr ing ing at once from the roots, will 
still mature a full crop of grain and a second 
full crop of forage lief ore the middle of October 
—that, is in Georgia. 
Kaffir Corn is said to be as quick and early 
in its growth as the Minnesota Early Amber 
Cane—maturing seed about the same time. 
It is, therefore, reliable in any latitude in 
which the Amber Cane has been found useful 
as a forage plant, and by reason of the dose 
massing of plants upon the land, and the wide 
and ample foliage, the yield of forage is equal 
in quantity and superior iu quality to any of 
the later and taller-growing sorts, as the Rural 
Branching Sorghum, etc. The seed-heads of 
a friend or neighbor. Never do It. It is hard 
to refuse sometimes, yet every man owes a 
solemn duty to his family. What is his is 
theirs, and he should run no risk of ruining 
them. R. c. 
Orange Co., Vermont. 
KAFFIR CORN. 
This is not a coni, except as all grain is 
called “corn” in some countries. It is a sor¬ 
ghum that, will easily mature its grain as far 
north as Canada and probably in the southern 
part of that country. It will be remembered 
that the Rural New-Yorker introduced the 
Rural Branching Sorghum year-; ago. It is 
now generally called Millo Maize in the South 
for the reason that some enterprising individ¬ 
ual by the name of Millo advertised it and 
distributed it over the South by that name. 
As a northern plant we know of no other that 
will yield a larger amount of succulent, sweet 
leaves aud st alks. It may be cut to the ground 
iu midsummer,aud it will not only continue to 
grow, but two or three stalks will start from 
the stump where one grew before. The trouble 
is that it will not with any certainty mature 
seeds north of North Carolina aud Tennessee. 
We have now the Kaffir Coni, which, again, 
is merely one of the hundreds of different 
kinds of sorghum. But it is worthy of consid¬ 
eration by out - northern as well as our south¬ 
ern growers. We have not as yet raised this 
Kaffir Corn, shown at Fig. 404. Seeds have 
THE PRESS APPLE. 
This lot of apples was received August 26. 
Our illustrations, Figs. 402 and 403, show the 
the shape. The color is a bright red streaked 
with darker red, sometimes like the Duchess 
PRESS APPLE. From Nature. Fig. 402 
of Oldenburg. A very showy apple. Flesh 
tender, white, juicy, sprightly; agreeably sub- 
acid. We know of no better apple ripening at 
its season. It is well worthy of introduction. 
F. L. Press, of New Providence, Ind., who 
sent us the specimens, says that about 12 years 
ago his father grafted several Early Harvest 
trees, one of which failed “to take" and sproutr¬ 
ing up from the roots produced the tree that 
bore these apples. It has borne a full crop 
four times in the last five years. Its season is 
about with the Itambo or Seek-no-Further, 
October to December. Our readers should al¬ 
ways bear in mind that engravings which are 
of the exact size of fruit always appear 
smaller iu print. 
Kaffir are well eaten by all farm animals, 
and no harm has been found to result from 
continuous liberal feeding on both the grain 
and the whole plaut, green or dry. 
The Kaffir keeps green, ami the stalk is juicy 
and brittle to the last, aud is not a hard and 
cane like growth as other sorghums usually 
are found to be. Its low aud manageable 
growth, ease of cultivation and harvesting, 
are points distinctly peculiar to it, und it 
leaves no troublesome stubble behind, as most 
of the sorghums do. Therefore, it is a desir¬ 
able variety as a general-purpose plant, for 
green feed, grain, and dry forage on every 
farm, and for ensilage it should prove very 
valuable. Flour from the Kaffir grain has been 
found more nearly analogous to wheat than 
any other grain of its class. It is darker, of 
course, but is of like texture in the dough and 
in the cooking. For batter cakes, muffins, 
Kaffir Corn. 
been sent to us by Mr. J. H. Alexander, of 
Augusta, Georgia, who furnishes the following 
account of it: 
This grain was distributed in small quantity 
from the Georgia State Department of Agri¬ 
culture in 1878, aud in the hands of Dr. J. II. 
Watkins, of Palmetto, Campbell County, Ga., 
it. has been preserved, aud fully developed, 
aud was first brought to public notice through 
him in 1885 
It is distinctly different iu habit of growth 
from all other sorghums with which we are 
acquainted. The plant is low, stocky, per¬ 
fectly erect, the foliage is wide It does not 
stool from the root, but branches from the top 
joints, producing from two to four heads of 
grain from each stalk. The heads are long, 
narrow and perfectly erect, as shown in this 
illustration, and well filled with white grain, 
which at maturity is slightly flecked with red 
or reddish brown spots. The weight averages 
about (Ml pounds per bushel. The average 
higbt of growth on good, strong laud is 5K to 
six feet, on thin land, 4‘< to five feet. The 
seed-heads grow from 10 to 12 inches in length, 
and the product, of graiu on good laud is said 
to reach 50 to 60 bushels per acre. It. has the 
quality common to all the sorghums of resist¬ 
ing drought. If the growth is chocked by 
want of moisture, the plant wuitsfor rain, and 
then at once resumes its processes, and in the 
most disastrous seasons has not failed so far iu 
the South to make its crop. On very thin aud 
worn lauds It. yields paying crops of grain and 
forage, even in dry seasons in which corn has 
utterly failed on tin? same lands. The whole 
stalk, as well as the blades, cures into excellent 
fodder, and in all stages of its growth is avail¬ 
able for green feed, cattle, mules and horses 
being equally fond of It, and its quality not, 
surpassed by any other variety. It cut down 
to the ground, two or more shoots spring from 
the root, and the growth is thus maintained 
until checked by frost. 
The Kaffir Corn may be planted in the lat¬ 
ter pai t. of March, or early in April, in Mid¬ 
dle Georgia. It bears curlier pluntiug than 
other millets or sorghums. 11.should be put iu 
rows not over three feet apart, even on the best 
laud, and it bears thicker planting than any 
other variety of sorghum; it should lie massed 
White Huckleberries Scarce.—A Rural 
reporter says in the issue of (September 11 that 
he understands 20 bushels of white huckleber¬ 
ries have been picked on the East Knob, Pike 
County, Pa. He must be able to make both 
news and huckleberries. I live within a mile 
of the East, Knob and have picked over aud 
around it for 10 years. 1 have never been 
able to find more than a handful of white ber¬ 
ries at one time, and old berry pickers laugh 
at, the idea of finding more than a quart. The 
writer must have mistaken the locality. 
Blooming Grove, Pa. r. h. 
A patent is pending for a new bug or in¬ 
sect catcher. This machine is mounted on 
four low wheels und runs astride of the row. 
The front is arranged so that the tops of pota¬ 
to vines are gathered in a bunch. At the 
back are two curved plates which strike the 
vines and are expected to knock the bugs into 
hollow cylinders where they can be caught 
and destroyed. 
PRESS APPLE. Cross Section 
etc., it is excellent, huving a slightly sweetish 
taste, otherwise not, distinguishable from 
wheat; and for buckwheat cakes it is esteemed 
by many who have eaten of it, as an improve¬ 
ment on the original. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Whitman’s Continuous Hay and Straw 
Press.— Pamphlet from the Whitman Agri¬ 
cultural Co., 8t, Louis, Mo. This press is 
furnished with a new concentrated double¬ 
acting power, which is fully protected by U. 
8. patents. This new power is guaranteed to 
Lie fully one-third more powerful than the one 
used lust season. The press as it now stands 
is claimed to be the most powerful, simple and 
rapid press iu the world. Three sizes of presses 
are made which turn out bales 14x18, 16x18 or 
18x22 of variable lengths. The 16x18 press 
HOW A FINE CORN CROP WAS PRODUCED. 
My corn is extra good this year. I plowed 
up a clover sod that was not quite so good as I 
wanted, and put on a fair dressing of barn 
manure. Besides this, I used 800 pounds of 
phosphate per acre. The quality of the crop 
is the best seen from the price I got for it. I 
got $44 pier acre for the standing corn, the 
buyer to do the cutting, husking aud handling. 
The corn was worked with the horse four 
times and hoed twice. Can carry all the 
weeds on an acre in one hand. I put the phos- 
Feeding Sheep. —Jonathan Talcott’s time 
of feeding, so he states in our esteemed 
contemporary, the Albany Cultivator, is ut 
four to five o’clock iu the afternoon for sheep 
or lambs that he wishes to fatten this 
season. That is a good time for the 
