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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 4 
The Time is Half Up 
for our present subscription contest, but practically all the work remains to be 
done. We have nothing new to report this week. The $1 rebate goes out every 
time an agent sends in a club of five new names. We would like to be obliged to 
send more. Perhaps we shall, this month. We certainly should. Every name, 
new or old, short or long, counts for the 
$ 1 , 000.00 
premiums, January 15. We expected this to be the best subscription season that 
we have ever had. We think yet that it is going to be. 
The single subscriptions are coming right along, but our club-raisers have not 
got to work yet. If any one had started in six weeks ago, he would now be in 
the lead for the first premium of $200. But no one made the early start. It may 
be as well, because December is the best month, and all will have an even chance 
now. We hope to see several agents at work now right away. Are you one who 
can do something ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
HOME STUDY IH AGRICULTURE. 
Some of the agricultural colleges are ever on 
the lookout for ways and means of helping the 
farmer. A course in a good agricultural college 
is of Inestimable benefit to young farmers. But 
not all of these are able to take such a course, 
and there is a large class of older men and 
women who are precluded from personal attend¬ 
ance. 
For several years, the Pennsylvania State Col¬ 
lege has had a Course of Home Study in Agricul¬ 
ture, but students who were most active in tak¬ 
ing up the work demanded more attention from 
the college than it was able to give except by 
outlining a systematic course of study. The Col¬ 
lege has, therefore, prepared lessons for the use 
of students in the Chautauqua Course on sub¬ 
jects treated of by the following oooks: Plant 
Life on the Farm, Soils and Crops, Manures and 
Manuring,Tile Drainage,Stock Breeding, Poultry 
Culture, Propagation of Plants, Swine Hus¬ 
bandry, The Fruit Garden, and Insects and In¬ 
secticides. These lessons are designed to be 
used in connection with the books of the course, 
to give new matter or, in other words, to bring 
the book up to date, to make suggestions for 
study, and to give page references to the book. 
Each lesson is accompanied by questions which 
the student is requested to discuss or answer. 
When satisfactory answers are received from the 
student, succeeding lessons will be sent. 
For the present, these lessons will be sent free of 
cost to all students who desire to take up this uni¬ 
versity extension work at their own homes. A col¬ 
lege certificate will be granted to those who com¬ 
plete the study of 10 books. Any student desir¬ 
ing to receive lessons or to secure further in¬ 
formation should make application, by postal 
card or letter, to the superintendent of the 
course, Prof. G. C. Watson, State College, Pa. 
The necessary books will be provided by the 
College at greatly reduced prices. 
We have received from Prof. Watson several 
specimen lessons with the examination questions 
accompanying them. Following is one set of 
questions: 
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE. 
Chautauqua Course of Home Study in Agriculture. 
“ Poultry Keeping.” Question Paper No. 3 
“ Students will discuss freely the following 
topics, not confining themselves to the lesson but 
use information gained from other sources. Write 
freely on the questions as topics for discussion 
rather than questions to be answered briefly. 
“Send answers to the superintendent as soon 
as completed, when other lesson sheets will be 
forwarded. In no case will a succeeding lesson 
be sent until the questions of the previous lesson 
are answered. 
“ 1. The importance of selecting a breed for a 
particular purpose ? 
“2. Describe the characteristics of breeds noted 
for egg production. . 
“ 3. What breeds are noted for meat production, 
and how do they differ from the ‘ non-sitters ’ ? 
“4. For what purposes are the Plymouth Rock 
and Wyandotte fowls particularly adapted ? 
“5. Name several breeds of fancy fowls and 
discuss their most valuable points. 
“6. (a) Discuss the vigor and hardiness of the 
Black Spanish; (b) Of the Leghorns. 
“ 7. For what purposes are the Asiatics best 
adapted 't 
“ 8. Write a short essay on your favorite breed, 
giving reasons for your choice.” 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
Bulletin 38, from the Maine Station (Orono), 
deals with fertilizer inspection, and gives a list 
of the fertilizers sampled and sold in Maine. 
The Nevada Agricultural College, at Nevada 
Experiment Station (Reno), sends Bulletins 31 
and 32. The first discusses Texas Fever, giving 
history, symptoms and treatme nt. No. 32 gives, 
in some detail, a report of the experiments with 
sugar beets in Nevada. 
Bulletin 143, of the North Carolina Station (Ra¬ 
leigh), discusses feeding experiments, milk rec¬ 
ords and other dairy matters in an interesting and 
instructive way. We are often receiving questions 
from farmers asking what condi tion powder or 
stimulant they should keep before their pigs. 
Prof. Emery, in this bulletin, describes the fol¬ 
lowing mixture which, he says, has given good 
results: one peck hard-wood ashes, one pint fine 
salt, two pounds copperas, one-half pound black 
antimony, one-balf pound sulphur flowers, one 
peck charcoal. 
The Nebraska Station (Lincoln) issues Bulletin 
50, which contains notes on pruning by Prof. 
Card. This gives, in a simple and straightfor¬ 
ward manner, some excellent advice about when, 
how and where to prune fruit trees in the West. 
Particular attention was paid to painting wounds 
made by pruning, with various substances such 
as grafting wax, shellac, varnish, white-lead 
paint, pine tar and coal tar. Prof. Card con¬ 
cludes that, “ Taking all things together, nothing 
seems to be better for covering the wounds made 
in pruning than common lead paint, which is 
closely followed by grafting wax. The wax is 
superior to paint in the matter of healing, but 
does not last as well, and is not so convenient 
to apply, although in warm weather, when it 
works well, there is little trouble in this regard. 
Coal tar is useful in preventing the wood from 
checking, but appears to be a positive hindrance 
to healing, so that, in spite of the fact that it 
stays well, there is little to recommend it. Pine 
tar is no aid to healing, being, apparently, a 
trifle detrimental, while it helps only slightly in 
the matter of checking, and does not last well; 
therefore, it has nothing to reeommend it. Shellac 
is a failure. It does not last, and neither aids 
the wound in healing nor, in any appreciable 
extent, prevents it from checking.” 
The Florida Experiment Station (Lake City) 
issues Bulletin 43, which is a bulky volume giv¬ 
ing a chemical study of some typical Florida 
soils. In addition to these analyses, you will 
find in this bulletin a good deal of valuable in¬ 
formation regarding the composition of Eoils, 
and some of the best plants for use in providing 
humus or organic matter. Two plants little 
known at the North thus far, but which have 
been of great service in the South, are the-beggar- 
weed or Florida clover and the Velvet bean 
(Dolichos multiflorus). This latter plant has 
been very highly spoken of by Prof. Stubbs, of 
Louisiana, and we have secured a cluster of its 
pods for engraving in a future issue of Tue R. 
N.-Y. Those who have tried the Velvet bean in 
the South are quite enthusiastic over it, and 
some of them go so far as to say that they be¬ 
lieve it will fully take the place of the cow pea. 
This bulletin also gives some good advice as to 
how to conduct field experiments with fertilizers. 
On the whole, it is well worthy the study of south¬ 
ern readers. 
The Kansas Station (Manhattan) issues Bulle¬ 
tins 69 and 70. No. 69 discusses the following 
SELF-ACTING 
SHADERDUIRS, 
NOTICE 
JL& ■ LABEL 
• -• - - 
THE GFNUINE 
BRONCHIAL CONSUMPTION. 
From Dr. Hunter’s Lectures on the Progress of 
Medical Science in the Treatment of Lung 
Diseases. 
Of the many forms of bronchitis the 
one most alarming of all is that in which 
the symptoms closely resemble con¬ 
sumption, and hence called consumptive 
bronchitis, or bronchial consumption. 
You must not, however, understand 
from its name that it is really tubercu¬ 
lous in character, or produced by the 
bacilli which cause true consumption. 
In all lung cases I require a portion 
of the expectorated matter coughed up 
by the patient to be brought to me, or 
sent in a small bottle by express, before 
giving a definite opinion of the disease. 
If, on examination, I find the tubercle- 
bacilli present, the case is Consumption; 
and if no bacilli—Bronchitis. A large 
percentage of those who die of lung dis¬ 
ease, supposed to be consumption, are 
really deaths by chronic bronchitis re¬ 
sembling consumption. 
A remarkable instance in verification 
of this recently occurred. A lady was 
brought to me in what appeared tbe 
last stage of consumption. Her physi¬ 
cians had told her husband that she 
couid not live a week. She had a bad 
cough, puriform expectoration, night 
sweats, and was wasted almost to skin 
and bone. Judging by her symptoms 
and appearance, it was impossible not 
to fear she had come too late. On 
sounding her chest, however, I was sur¬ 
prised to find no solidification by tuber¬ 
cles, and on examining her sputum a 
total absence of the bacilli. The his¬ 
tory, too, of her sickness revealed that 
it had followed an attack of whooping 
cough and grippe. So, although her 
pulse was 120 a minute, and so feeble as 
to be hardly perceptible, and the wasting 
of her body so extreme that she could 
not stand without support, I did not 
hesitate to pronounce the disease bron¬ 
chial and give it as my opinion that, if 
we could sustain her strength long 
enough for remedies to act, she would 
be saved. She was immediately placed 
under medicated air treatment, with 
tonics to impart appetite and digestives 
to help the enfeebled stomach to trans¬ 
form nourishment into chyle and blood 
Within a week she showed signs of 
amendment. Her progress was neces¬ 
sarily slow, as the healing powers of 
the body were nearly exhausted before 
the first inhalation was given, but she 
gradually acquired more and more 
strength, and within six weeks was 
able to take short walks in the open air 
She recovered perfectly in about six 
months, and is alive and well to-day. 
This case shows the importance of a 
correct diagnosis and proper adaptation 
of the treatment to the conditions to be 
remedied. Had the true nature of her 
disease not been discovered just when 
it was, she would have lost her life 
through wrong treatment, and been 
recorded as another death by consump 
tion. 
In these bronchial cases we sometime! 
have a false membrane form on the in 
side of the tubes, just as false mem 
branes are formed in the throat in diph 
theria, and in the larynx and windpipe 
in croup. I have recently had a case in 
which the patient, while recovering 
coughed up a hollow cast of the right 
bronchus, with casts of several smaller 
bronchial tubes attached. It came up 
out of the lungs looking like the branches 
of a tree. 
Every form of bronchitis is curable bj 
local antiseptic and healing remediei 
applied directly to the lungs by medi¬ 
cated air inhalations, but none of then, 
by stomach treatment. The stomach it 
not the part affected. The air tubes and 
cells of the lungs are the seat of every 
bronchial disease, and unless remedies 
capable of changing their bad secretions 
and healing the inflamed tubes are ap 
plied to them, cure is impossible. Tc 
treat bronchial and other lung diseases 
through the stomach, and hold out a 
hope of cure by that treatment is mal¬ 
practice, and ought to be punished as a 
crime against the sick. 
(Signed) Robert Hunter, M. D., 
117 W. 45th Street, 
Dec 2, 1897. New York 
Note.—Readers of The Rural New 
Yorker, interested in Dr. Hunter’s re¬ 
searches and treatment of lung mala¬ 
dies can obtain his Book free by writing 
to him at the above address.— Adv. 
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