Tt.M-Y 
The same. Cross Section. Fig. 458. (Seep. 822. i 
a method which might be called a modifica¬ 
tion of the common way of puddling, and 
which has all the ad vantages of the practice 
and few of its objectionable features—dip 
the roots in water and sprinkle them with dry 
soil or dust, thus protecting them from dry¬ 
ing and yet keeping the rootlets opart. 
Monmouth Co., N, J. T. greiner. 
not a stone iu it and a good quantity of fertil¬ 
izer. Several loads of sand and muck will not 
hurt the best one in town. 
(drubbing out stumps is costly; blow them 
out with dynamite, at 10 cents apiece. Dyna¬ 
mite is exploded with a blow. Large rocks 
are treated in the same manner. If you can¬ 
not blow them up bury them two feet below 
the plow. You cannot afford to plow round 
them. 
Never plow close to a tree, whether an orna¬ 
mental or a fruit tree: the tree is worth more 
than wbatyou will get from under it. and af¬ 
ter it is fairly started it is wicked to mar it. 
You cannot afford to raise your kindling 
wood in the orchard or fruit garden. Trim off 
the surplus limbs while small. Do not let the 
worms eat the foliage of fruit trees; leaves are 
the lungs of the tree, and to have them lacer¬ 
ated destroys the fruit. 
Insects that arc pernicious, ought to be de- 
destroyed in the egg, do not, let them multi¬ 
ply. A stitch in time saves ninety-nine. Ten 
cents’ worth of hellebore will save a bnshel of 
currants. Commence very early with the 
hellebore; hardly one in ten is quick enough. 
Do not plant corn in the Old Moon, but iu 
the field that you have expressly fitted for it, 
ami when you are ready plant without regard 
to the moon or other planets. Corn is not a 
lunatic. 
(let your seed from a colder climate, if it 
has matured, and to be sure that it will germ¬ 
inate; try some of it before you want it. Put 
enough iu the hill for all competitors. To 
keep the crows from pulling the corn, be there 
first, and assert your rights. 
Wash your sheep this year better thau ever 
before, because the buyers have you on the 
hip. They will assert that the tariff has 
knocked the wool market down 10 or 15 per 
cent., and how arc you going to disprove it? 
They always have their own weiyh. 
Put your wool up in the best condition pos¬ 
sible, have it cleau, the fleeces in good shape, 
not too much string, and place it where it can 
be seen to the best advantage. This is your 
duty, and you have the right to make it look 
just as good as you can. 
Do uot despise little things. The success of 
the railroad is iu the tlango on the wheel, the 
success of the drill iu the little wooden pins, 
and the mowing-machine on the reciprocating 
motion of the knives. The squall of a goose 
saved Rome. 
It is of no benefit to fence a field unless it is 
fenced completely, To leave the bars down, 
is as bad as uo fence. After a field is sown to 
clover, a little plaster may save the seeding. 
A single load of manure, rightly applied in the 
Spring, where some wheat is being killed with 
frost, pays for itself, ten times. 
Have a time and place for everything, and 
at the time have everything in its place. 
This a good adage, but it is not true. There 
is no time for idleness, otphtcr fora shirk. 
There is always time to study and a time to 
think. He knows most who has thought most. 
He that can appropriate the t houghts of those 
with whom he comes in contact and utilize 
them, becomes wise. 
Do not go after foreign fertilizers until you 
have used all that you have at home. To pay 
10 dollars, or 80, for the plaster that you get 
in many of t he commercial fertilizers is “pay¬ 
ing too dear for the whistle.” Make your owu 
fertilizers, and save the profit, or the trans¬ 
portation. Either will pay. 
Try suit as a fertilizer in combination with 
muck, marl, lime, plaster or ashes. It maybe 
soda that you want ami uot phosphate. The 
soil may need lime, or sulphuric acid, or a 
mechanical loosening, and the effect may be 
just as good us with a costly foreign product. 
Never attempt to mow with a dull scythe. 
It is time and strength saved to have it sharp. 
It is equally true with the mower. The guards 
want to be sharp us well ms the knives. It 
take's two blades in shears to cut well and the 
same iu a machine. 
Have plenty of help in the meadow or har¬ 
vest field, and if any one looks on lot it be 
yourself. You are then ready to leud a help¬ 
ing hand to him that needs it, and the busi¬ 
ness does uot have to stop even if t he constable 
should come and summon a man ou a jury. 
Have your tools in the beet order possible. A 
dull knife can cut butter, but uot without 
greasing it. 
It is wisdom to know, that yourself does not know. 
And In knowing to know that you know what you 
know. 
HOMER I). E. SWEET. 
PUDDLING AND WATERING. 
Mr. Edwin Taylor, of Kansas, in the Ru¬ 
ral of November 18, reports that his practice 
iu this matter is somewhat at variance with 
some of my positions on transplanting, as ex¬ 
pressed in an essay read before the American 
Horticultural Society at Cleveland, Ohio, in 
September. These “•positions” wore bai-e state¬ 
ments of the results forced upon me by actual 
experiments, made, it is true, within the limits 
ot what might lie termed a rather good-sized 
village-garden, and in a season which could 
have been much more unfavorable for trans¬ 
planting; but they were repeated in several 
series, and with all possible care. The out¬ 
come was the same in every instance, showing 
me that a reasonable amount of moisture al¬ 
ready in the soil makes success in transplant¬ 
ing much more certain than an even larger 
amount of moisture artificially applied after¬ 
wards. If the soil is very dry and parched, 
water, iu some way or other, must be applied, 
or failure will be the result. 
That plants, after being pulled up from the 
Self-husking Corn. Fig.451. (See 1st page.) 
seed-bed, should be carefully guarded against 
the drying influence of air and sun, hardly 
needs special mention. When many plants 
are to be transplanted at oue time, they may 
la' placed in a pail or pan partly filled with 
water, and thus kept moist. The boy who 
drops the plants should not go faster than the 
planters who follow him and set the plants. 
In this manuev the latter, or their roots, will 
£arm 0c.on.cnmp 
THRASHING CORN WITHOUT HUSK¬ 
ING. 
HOW IT IS DONE.—ITS ADVANTAGES AND DIS¬ 
ADVANTAGES. 
The new way of extracting the corn from 
the stalks with the ordinary thrashing ma¬ 
chine, mentioned in the Rural last year, has 
attracted so much attention and brought so 
many inquiries from those anxious to know 
more about the process, that, after fuller 
experiment and knowledge, I will say more 
about how to do it an 1 its advantages and 
disadvantages. The machine used may be 
any separator-machine, such as is used for 
grain thrashing, or au old superanuated ma¬ 
chine will do, providing it is strong and in 
good working order. To prepare it for corn 
thrashing the sections containing all the teeth, 
except two rows, should be removed and 
some hard-wood plank substituted in them 
place. The sections containing the remain¬ 
ing teeth should be “lowered” more or less 
according to the corn to be thrashed. The 
corn should be well cured and the stalks must 
be dry in order to keep well when put into 
mow or stack. It is fed to the machine 
“butts” foremost, and as fast as the mill will 
properly clean the thrashed corn or the eleva¬ 
tor will carry away the stalks. The better 
way is to thrash as fast as it. comes from the 
field, although if quite dry or a machine can 
not be obtained at the time, it may be drawn 
and piled upon the mow and thrashed from 
there. In order to bo easily bandied it should 
either have been bound in smallest bundles 
when being cut, or else have the “stoots” 
divided into them and be well bound before 
loaded upon the wagon for the barn. 
The Advantages of this method of har¬ 
vesting corn are rapidity in getting the corn 
under cover when in proper condition, thus 
enabling the farmer iu one or two days of 
good weather to house quite a large crop, also 
in separating the corn from the stalks. From 
400 to 000 bushels of shelled corn, or even 
more, may easily be thrashed in 10 hours with 
a good machine, and be cleaned free from 
leaf, silk or cobs. The stalks are put into bet¬ 
ter condition for keeping. The big “butts” 
arc so much torn and broken up and so thor¬ 
oughly mixed with the drier leaves and small¬ 
er portions of the stalks that when put into 
mow or stack there is little danger of mold, 
and if when being run through the machine a 
little dry straw be thrown upon the elevator 
with them, or if it be mixed with them when 
being put into the mow or stack, there will 
be no danger of injury, even wben the stalks 
are quite green. The stalks are taken from 
the fields with the com, thus clearing the 
ground ready for fall plowing, many days or 
weeks even in advance of wbnt can be done in 
the old way of band husking, enabling the 
farmer to have this important work done be¬ 
fore the disagreeable weather almost sure to 
come later in the Fall. 
The Disadvantage can all be covered un¬ 
der one head so far as 1 have been able to find 
them—the shelled corn is, of course, not as dry 
or thoroughly cured as would be needed for 
storing in bias or iu a very close barn, but this 
eau be easily overcome when one has plenty of 
barn-floor by spreading the corn not more than 
one foot deep over the floor and having it 
shoveled over once a day for a few iiays,at the 
same time keeping t he barn doors open and 
allowing a very free circulation of air, or if 
one happens to have a lot of old corn the two 
may be mixed together to the improvement of 
both, as the old corn will absorb some of the 
moisture aud thus become less hard and more 
easily masticated if to be fed whole, as it us¬ 
ually is to sheep. j. s. woodward. 
not be exposed to sun and air for more than a 
very few minutes. 
The objections to puddling arc so numerous 
and so serious, that I believe “puddling will 
have to go,” certainly with the progressive 
horticulturist. The only objpet of this prac¬ 
tice can be to keep the roots from getting dry 
and to form at once a close relation between 
the roots and the soil in which they are placed. 
Clean water will do this fully as well, without 
the inconvenience of lmnilliug muddy plants, 
and without the risk of having plants choked 
to death by a coat of clayey paint impervious 
to air and water. The gluing together of all 
fibrous roots aud rootlets, which is almost al¬ 
ways a consequence of puddling, and which is 
not beneficial for cabbage and celery plants, 
is especially objectionable for sweet potatoes, 
as the tubers, formed by the swelling of these 
bunched up rootlets, are very apt to lie 
crowded and often twisted together right in 
the center of the hill, when they might have 
grown considerably smoother aud larger if 
spread over a larger space. I do uot believe 
iu puddling, and waut none of it, and I find 
my views backed up by the experience of 
mauy of our most successful market garden¬ 
ers aud horticulturists. 
But if puddle you must, I would recommend 
Winter Feed for Milch Cotvs.— We 
believe iu Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn 
every time for a main crop of fodder. This 
we cut when the first lower leaves fire, tie in 
bundles with bauds of rye straw, setting six 
bundles iu a shock, aud binding the tops with 
another bond. This, in ordinary weather, 
will cure so thoroughly that it can be put 
away iu stacks or in a mow. We cut the fod¬ 
der and sprinkle the bran and meal on it. 
This, alternated with hay and roots, which 
latter \\ e chop with a shovel in a tub made of 
a eider barrel sawed iu two, makes our winter 
feed for dairy cows. Our bran is new pro¬ 
cess; our meal coru-aud-cob. A No. 2 scoop 
shovelful of bran with two to six quarts of 
Brazilian Flour Corn. Fie. 452. 
(See page 822.) 
