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ping from the Seattle Weekly Press describing 
a potato on exhibition there, weighing nine 
pounds four ounces when dug, and asks 
whether we have ever seen such a tuber. 
A ns.—I f the potato is a perfect potato, then 
we have never seen or heard of one so large. 
By perfect , we moan a shapely potato—not a 
compound potato made up of a dozen smaller 
ones united. The Rural, has shown an illus¬ 
tration of a shapely potato weighing five 
pounds. This is about the largest we have ever 
seen. 
W. M. D. H ., Greenville , Vt. 1. Will it 
injure a mare or colt if the colt suckles a 
mare with foal? 2. Is Green’s Nursery, 
Rochester, N. Y., trustworthy? 
Ans,—1. The usual time for weaning the 
foal is about the end of six months, that 
time being selected because the dam is gener¬ 
ally about “half gone” with the next foal, 
and cannot bear the double strain upon her 
system. Little or no harm is done to either 
foal or dam before that time, but if the foal 
sucks after thar, the dam and fmtus both suf¬ 
fer , while the foal gets little benefit from the 
milk after that age, as the teeth and stomach 
are quite strong enough to eat and digest 
other food. 2. Yes; quite trustworthy. 
G. W. AT, Saltsburg, Pa .—Last season I 
grafted a Wild Goose Plum with a Green Gage. 
The graft grows too fast for the cion; is there 
any way of keeping it back? What will be 
the result? 
Ans. —There is no way of preventing the 
difficulty referred to. The result will be to 
shorten the life of the tree, though it may 
live and bear many years. If the graft is 
near (he surface of the ground, you might 
draw the earth up around the graft, and thus 
get the Green Gage on its own roots. 
•/. .S'. 11., Fayetteville, N. C. —1. Jsitpossible 
that the Japan Chestnut, can be successfully 
grafted upon Chinquapin roots? 2. How are 
Kieffer, Bietigheiracr and Nelis Pears pro¬ 
nounced ? 
Ans. —We have no experience in grafting 
the Japan Chestnut on the roots of Chinqua¬ 
pin, but presume it can be done successfully. 
The only way to find out is to try it. Kieffer is 
pronounced Keefer; Bietigheimer, Beetighy- 
mer; Nelis Nnylis. This is a French pcarand 
the French pronunciation is Naylee. 
W. L. />,. Faulkner , I ml .—When does the 
peach tree borer lay its eggs ? 
Ans.— l. The moth appears in the Northern 
States and Canada from the middle of JuJy to 
the end of August, and in the South it appeal's 
much earlier—in some places as early' as the 
latter part of May. Shortly alter its appear¬ 
ance the female—which is much larger than 
A farmer writes from Lockesburg, Ark.; 
“ I am feeling better and clearer of pain 
than for years. I can plow all day.” 
A lady writes from North Waterford, Me.: 
“ My mother, although 81 years old, feels as 
well as she did when 40 years old. She walks 
around the bouse spryly and does considerable 
work. She is living, she says, a new life.” 
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A special coonter has 
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DISCUSSION. 
SOUTH CAROLINA FLOATS AND CANADA PHOS¬ 
PHATES. 
J. S. W., Lockport, N. Y.—1 think the 
answer in F. C., page 771, to W. L., regarding 
Canadian phosphate entirely wrong inasmuch 
as it is said that “the South Carolina phosphate 
js a better material originally.’’ It may be 
more easily soluble by the actiou of the soil, 
but certainly not for this reason. The floats 
do not contain, on an average, over (?) per 
cent, of phosphoric tricalcid, while the Cana, 
dian contains as much as 85 per cent. I would 
advise W. L. to procure some of the finest 
ground rock jtossible, and compost it with 
stable manure, by first putting a foot of man¬ 
ure over a space larger or smaller according 
to the quantity to be used. Over this scatter 
foui- inches of the ground rock, and on this 
spread six inches of manure anti again more 
rock until the pile is made as high as desirable 
and contains all the phosphate he wishes to use, 
being careful to have a coat of manure on top. 
After lying a couple of months, fork it over 
thoroughly, mixiug in a little fresh manure to 
again start fermentation, and again in two 
months repeat the forking. All this time the 
heap should be sufficiently moist so as not to 
burn, but not so moist as to stop fermentation. 
This heutiug and fermenting of the manure 
will act rapidly on the phosphate, and I have 
no doubt he will find great benefit from its 
use. These Canadian deposits are wonderful 
both in extent and richness, and some who 
have used the raw rock simply ground very 
fine report good results. 
R. N.-Y.—The advice concerning experi¬ 
ments with Canada phosphate is excellent, aud 
jn accord with our frequent suggestion that 
such is the only way to learn whether this 
phosphate can be used in its raw condition with 
profit. But it canuot be denied that the ex¬ 
periment will be of little value unless the 
same crop is treated on another adjoining part 
of the same field with the stable manure alone 
carefully rotted in the same manner. It goes 
without saying that any manure so treated 
will of itself produce good crops; that it will 
produce any better crops with the phosphate 
added is contrary to the results of many care¬ 
ful experiments of a like nature, with phos¬ 
phate of a similar character. 
We are a trifle surprised that our esteemed 
friend should deny, if we understand him cor¬ 
rectly, that “South Carolina phosphate” is a 
better material originally for direct use as a 
fertilizer because “ it may be more easily sol¬ 
uble by the actiou of the soil.” If it is not 
better for this reason, then one of the funda¬ 
mental principles of agricultural chemistry 
must be abandoned. Concerning the compar¬ 
ative richness of South Carolina floats aud 
Canada phosphate in phosphate of lime, we 
have few analytical data from impartial 
sources. In the last annual report of the New 
Jersey Experiment Station two analyses are 
given of the floats, one of them of a first-grade 
urtiole showing 88 per cent, aud the others of 
a second grade sample showing 57 per cent. 
We have uot seen any Experiment Station 
analyses of the Canada phosphate. For aught 
that we know at present there may not lie 
much difference m the average richness of the 
two kinds of phosphate. 
G. F. T., Poplar Hill, Kan. —lu a recent 
statement, that was attributed to Professor 
Shelton, of this State, it is said that “in 
Kansas bumble-bees are almost unknown;” 
and in spite of their absence it was said that 
clover thrives excellently. Now, we have 
lived iu Kansas eight years, and for the last 
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