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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 13 
Those Sick Hogs. 
J. A. M., Gilbebtsville, N. Y. — On 
page 52., A. T. G.,of this county, speaks 
of trouble with his pigs ; I have had the 
same trouble. It appears under all con¬ 
ditions of keeping and surroundings. I 
had one last summer that had the run of 
a yard with a shed to lie under ; he 
could exercise all he wished. Sometimes 
the hind parts are affected, again the 
fore parts, and sometimes the trouble 
seems to be seated in the small of the 
back. Emaciation, I think, is another 
form of the same trouble. The only 
thiDg that helped mine, and it never has 
failed, is wood ashes, a handful for 
a 150-pound shoat, for about three days, 
skip three, continue as long as seems to 
be necessary. I discovered it when I had 
a sow so poor that I turned her out to 
die ; she got to a trough of ashes and 
salt, and soon recovered. I believe that 
the trouble is caused by worms. 
Early Blight of Potatoes. 
J. R. C., Newburgh, N. Y.—I have no¬ 
ticed that many correspondents, in their 
reports on the potato yields, mention 
more or less injury from blight. The 
term would seem rather indefinite when 
we are inflicted with, at least, three dis¬ 
tinct forms of it. Probably, early blight 
is the cause of the injury in most cases 
mentioned. In Bulletin No. 101, Febru¬ 
ary, 1896, New York Experiment Station, 
by F. C. Stewart, on potato diseases on 
Aside from my own disastrous experi¬ 
ence with this disease, until this past 
summer I knew of no one to suffer from 
it materially in this vicinity ; but from 
what I can now learn, it was quite dis¬ 
astrous and widespread in this section 
last season. This country being a very 
limited producer of potatoes, we natur¬ 
ally hear little of it, and, probably, very 
few that have suffered from it have any 
idea as to the cause of their failure to 
obtain a crop. Should this trouble ex¬ 
tend to the great potato-producing dis¬ 
tricts, it will surely prove a calamity 
indeed unless some means can be devised 
to overcome it. 
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Will begin to bear second year after planting. John 
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Long Island in 1895, there is a report of 
a stem-blight of potatoes. Mr. Stewart 
characterizes it as follows : First, there 
is cessation of growth. The topmost 
leaves take on a yellowish, or in some 
varieties, a purple color, and roll in¬ 
ward from the edges and upward, expos¬ 
ing the under surfaces. This condition 
is followed by wilting and complete 
drying up of the entire foliage, the pro¬ 
cess taking from one to three weeks. 
The tubers appear to be sound, but when 
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cut at the stem end, blackened fibers are 
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the tubers. The stem just beneath the 
surface of the soil shows discolored 
spots, and later becomes dry and shriv¬ 
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O. A. E. BALDWIN. V St, Bridgman, Mich. 
seems to be a clear case of strangulation 
caused by the attacks of some fungus 
just beneath the surface of the soil, that 
it will be a difficult disease to treat, 
and cannot be controlled by spraying. 
I first observed the disease in the sum¬ 
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which there were three varieties—Early 
Rcse, Beauty of Hebron, and White Ele¬ 
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In the spring of 1895, I planted about 
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I sent for Maine seed and used land that 
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