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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
at eight inches. Of course they pushed 
again and late in the fall I trimmed the 
laterals to about seven inches. They 
were kept tied to the trellises all the win¬ 
ter. .Last summer they were a sight to be¬ 
hold. They were covered with fruit from 
the top to the bottom of the trellis. They 
do not take up as much room by one-half 
as grapes do, and they were acknowledged 
by all who saw them to be a perfect suc¬ 
cess. Of course there is no disputing about 
the fine size and quality of the fruit. 
SWEET AND SOUR SILAGE. 
H. S. W., Oconomowoc, Wis.—A. T. T., 
on page 854 of the R. N.-Y, for ’89, in giving 
his description of the way he made the sil¬ 
age which produced objectionable milk 
from cows fed on it, as stated in his former 
articles, fully verifies what I inferred in 
my remarks on page 822, viz. that ic was 
made from green fodder put rapidly into 
the silo and weighted, and of course it was 
sour silage, a fact which was emphatical¬ 
ly the cause of his trouble, and doubtless the 
cause of the trouble the condensed milk 
factories found, which induced them to re¬ 
fuse milk frcm cows fed on silage, which 
he uses as an argument to fortify his posi¬ 
tion that “ there is a deleterious principle 
in silage manifested in milk from cows fed 
on it,” an assertion which I claim has no 
foundation in fact if the silage is what is 
termed sweet. I do not mean by that that 
it would be found by chemical analysis ab¬ 
solutely devoid of acid, but that it has no 
sharp, acrid taste or smell to taint the milk 
of cows fed on it. It is simply the product 
of well-matured fodder properly cured in 
the silo. 
S AUNT E RINGS. 
Abandoned Michigan Farms A Mich¬ 
igan correspondent of the Michigan Farm¬ 
er, in speaking of the abandoned farms 
in New England, says that probably it is 
not known that in the newer parts of Mich¬ 
igan the same state of things exists. In 
his school district there are 10 farms open 
to the commons. In fact there is not one 
left of those who were there when he went 
there 15 years ago. It is those who settled 
on the light sandy soils he alludes to: others 
are cutting the hard woods, and expect to 
make farms some time or other. On the pine 
plains beyond him a worse state of things 
exists. Now, how much of human misery, 
of loss and discouragement, could have 
been avoided had the public only under¬ 
stood that in this generation of cheap pro¬ 
ducts and high-priced labor, it is the worst 
kind of folly to undertake making homes 
where Nature herself in her soil is so pov¬ 
erty-stricken? Wbat a grand work the 
Michigan Experiment Station might do by 
planting a mile square of White Pines on 
those plains. The whole United States 
would look with interest on the experiment 
as a most prominent one for future ages to 
copy from... 
Attention farmers. The results of one 
season’s trial at the Cornell University Ex¬ 
periment Station seem to show that horse 
manure thrown into a loose pile and sub¬ 
jected to the action of the elements will 
lose nearly one-half of its val noble fertil¬ 
izing constituents in the course of six 
months; that mixed horse and cow manure 
- in a compact mass and so placed that all 
water falling upon it quickly runs through 
and off is subjected to a considerable, 
though not as great a loss, and that no ap¬ 
preciable loss takes place when manure 
simply dries. 
The amount of solid and liquid excre¬ 
ment voided in 24 hours by a horse, as 
found by the Cornell professors, is but a 
little less than 57 pounds. The horses 
weighed about 1,300 pounds each and were 
fed liberally of oats and hay. 
The Astraclian, says Dr. Hoskins in Gar¬ 
den and Forest, is a most remarkable fruit, 
in the fact that it is equally at home, 
valued and productive in Canada and Lou¬ 
isiana, and from the Atlantic to the Pa¬ 
cific. 
Buy a few papers of the fiuest pansy seeds 
and sow them now. They will begin wink¬ 
ing, smiling and making every sort of face 
at you early in the spring and will keep it 
up until after frost in the fall. Pansy 
plants if protected during the first winter 
will give larger flowers the second spring 
Hiul sumjpevthan thfl Jirst.... 
Director I. P. Roberts is doing a good 
work in showing farmers that they cannot 
afford to expose a ton of manure worth 
82.50 in open sheds to the rain, wind and 
air until it is worth only half that amount. 
Lady Rusk is the latest of the new 
strawberries we have heard of. 
The “ Holiday Number ” of the Ameri¬ 
can Garden marks an advanced step in 
horticultural literature. The size of this 
monthly is reduced to that of the literary 
monthlies—Harpers or the Century—and 
the pages are increased to 95 including about 
30 pages of advertisements. The type is 
bright and clean, the paper of a quality 
that will do justice to the finest engrav¬ 
ings. Now, success to you, Mr. Libby, in 
this brave, commendable undertaking, and 
thanks to you as well, for your earnest en¬ 
deavors to provide a refined, high-class 
journal which, we trust, will, in due time, 
receive a hearty recognition from the pro¬ 
gressive horticulturists of the country. 
We hear the opinion expressed by those 
who have tried the variety, that Brownell’s 
Winner will take the place of the old 
Peachblow. We should like to have our 
readers try the Winner in a small way. It 
is a late variety..... 
The R. N.-Y. was the first of the farm 
press to oppose the grossly exaggerated cuts 
and descriptions of many of the seedsmen’s 
and nurserymen’s catalogues. Our esteem¬ 
ed contemporary, Farm and Fireside, in a 
late issue, says that public sentiment is at 
length arouse I against this exaggeration 
in engravings, colored plates and descrip¬ 
tions of horticultural novelties. It is a 
hopeful sign when a noted artist and en¬ 
graver, whose art has been misused in the 
production of this exaggerated work, is 
forced by the strong drift of popular senti¬ 
ment to disclaim all responsibility for his 
partin the abuse, by publishing in his latest 
catalogue a card, in which appears the fol¬ 
lowing: I am opposed to making exaggerated 
cuts of horticultural subjects, and such cuts 
are never made by me unless especially or¬ 
dered. I would much rather engrave direct¬ 
ly from photos or drawings true to Nature. 
The evil, indeed, has become so great that I 
have been obliged to refuse such orders at 
a pecuniary sacrifice.”. 
It is indeed a good sign. The engraver 
protests against the character of the work 
which his patrons offer. The R. N.-Y. 
hopes that its readers will not order seeds 
or plants of any kind from such catalogues 
bearing in mind the Latin proverb “ Falsus 
in uno falsus in omni.”. 
Dr. Beal, the Botanist of the Michigan 
Experiment Station, ends up a late bullet¬ 
in (No. 54) in this wise : “ Finally, do not 
place too much confidence in some of the 
suggestions here made, as future experi¬ 
ments may show them to be ill-advised.” 
It may be true, but we wish that all who 
are workiug for the good of agriculture 
were possessed of Prof. Beal’s painstaking 
care in experiment and his caution in form¬ 
ing conclusions therefrom. 
It appeal’s from a late bulletin from the 
Kansas Experiment Station that smut in 
oats can be entirely prevented by soaking 
the seed 15 minutes in water heated to 132 
degrees. This will not interfere with ger¬ 
mination . 
It appears from the Cornell University 
Experiment Station that the greatest loss 
from the leaching of farm manure occurs 
in potash. 
The best and sweetest silage ever pro¬ 
duced at the Kansas Agricultural College, 
says Prof. Shelton, was taken from a “hole 
in the ground ”—the green corn having 
been sunk in a pit and covered with earth. 
It had kept perfectly. 
A WRITER in the Pacific Rural Presskeeps 
table grapes for several months in a per¬ 
fect condition by putting them in boxes of 
perfectly dry, sharp sand in a cool, dry at¬ 
mosphere, the bunches stems up and not 
touching each other. Fine charcoal he pre¬ 
fers to sand but the sand is cleaner. He 
says that saw-dust is the worst material 
that can be used. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-Ex-Secretary Norman J. Colman 
“ About the only kind of farming that is 
now profitable in England is the raising of 
mutton sheep.” 
-O. C. Farmer: “Keeping cows 12 
months of the year for seven mont hs’ milk, 
when butter is worth only IS cents a pound 
must be a losing business.” 
-Weekly Press : “The Keiffer and the 
Le Conte Pears can be increased by cut¬ 
tings. jn the South the I‘3 Conte is propa¬ 
gated entirely in this way. Last season’s 
wood should be made into lengths of about 
one foot and buried in earth until planting- 
time comes in spring.” 
-“ When setting out wistarias, as they 
are generally called, it is well to remem¬ 
ber that, while the Chinese has the larger 
raceme of flowers, the American blooms 
later; hence is valuable on that account.” 
-Weekly Press: “The man who tills 
too many acres will till none of them profit¬ 
ably.” 
-Industrialist : “ Prof. C. C. George- 
son, recently appointed to the. Chair of Ag¬ 
riculture in the Kansas Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, is a graduate of the Michigan State 
Agricultural College in the Class of ’78, 
and received the degree of Master of 
Science from the same College in 1882. He 
was for two years associated with the edi¬ 
torial staff of the Rural New-Yorker, 
from which place he was called to the Pro¬ 
fessorship of Agriculture and Horticultuie 
in the Texas Agricultural College. The 
past three and a-half years he has spent in 
a similar chair in Japan. Prof. Georgeson 
was born in Denmark, having come to this 
country while a youth, and here he earned 
his way through college and into positions 
of usefulness by bis own unaided efforts.” 
-Farmers’ Review; “Mr. Milton 
George, proprietor of the ' Western Rural.’ 
has generously donated his farm of 300 
acres, in the town of Bloom, Cook County, 
Illinois, to the Illinois Industrial Training 
School for boys. The school will be a free 
institution, reformatory in its character, 
devoted to training boys in agricultural 
and other industrial pursuits.” 
-New York Ledger: “A fax-mer read 
in an agricultural journal: ‘A side win¬ 
dow in a stable makes a horse’s eyes weak 
on that side: a window in front hurts his 
eyes by the glare ; a window behind him 
makes him squint-eyed ; a window on a 
diagonal line makes him shy when he 
travels,and a stable without windows makes 
him blind.’ The farmer has written to the 
editor of the agricultural paper asking 
what effect a window without a stable 
would have on his horse's eyes.” 
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the acidity of the blood which is the cause of the 
disease, and builds up the whole system. 
“ I was afflicted with rheumatism twenty years. 
Previous to 1S83 I found no relief, but grew worse, 
until I was almost helpless. Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
did me more good than all the other medicine 
I ever had.” H. T. Balcom, Shirley Village, Mass. 
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