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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER- 
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floor with a sigh of regret that the grain is 
wasted is out of his sphere and should 
change his vocation. 
The dairy cow calls for high discrimina¬ 
tion and intelligent supervision, and no 
animal on the farm responds so generously 
to little attentions as she. The function of 
milk-giving is maternal and is influenced 
by every surrounding as well as the condi¬ 
tion of the animal herself. While the steer 
that is gorged with corn and is piling fat 
under his sleek hide may stand consider¬ 
able cold in winter without loss and with 
apparent satisfaction, a cow that is giving 
milk is susceptible to every change of 
weather and keenly feels the cold. Not 
with her as with the steer; instead of pil¬ 
ing the surplus fat about her bones she is 
pouring it forth at the milk pail, and each 
day we take from her as milk what was her 
food yesterday. This constant depletion 
accounts easily enough for the sensitive¬ 
ness of the dairy cow, and no one should be 
so thoughtless of the cow’s comfort and 
careless of his own profits as to have this 
animal feel a single want. The manage¬ 
ment of cows calls for much patient, in¬ 
telligent labor, such as is given in all dairy 
countries, notably Holland, Denmark and 
the Island of Jersey. 
SHORT STORIES. 
During the season of 1882 the White Ele¬ 
phant Potato was planted in trenches nine, 
six and four inches deep in a light soil. At 
the rate of 600 pounds per acre of Baker’s 
Potato Fertilizer was strewn in the trench¬ 
es. The yield of the nine-inch trenches 
was at the rate of 475.34 bushels to the acre 
and there were, counting large and small, 
68,410 tubers to the acre. Five of the aver¬ 
age largest potatoes weighed four pounds 
four ounces. The tubers formed so deep in 
the trenches that it was difficult to dig 
them. 
The six-inch trenches yielded at the rate 
of 310.42 bushels to the acre—large and 
small 65,340, the five average largest 
weighing but 2% pounds. The four-inch 
trenches yielded at the rate of 423.50—large 
and small 79,860 to the acre. Here we have 
a larger yield than from the six-inch 
trenches and about the same size of tuber ; 
a smaller yield than from the nine-inch 
trenches and smaller potatoes. 
Eggs if kept in a temperature of from 50 
to 60 degrees and turned twice a week will 
hatch as well when five weeks old as when 
newly laid. So states the Poultry Keeper. 
Roses and tansies ; what two classes of 
out-door plants give more delight than 
these ?. 
The New York Times says that when 
mankind enter upon a war of extermina¬ 
tion against any animal, there is danger of 
disturbing what is called the balance of 
nature. All the predatory animals live up¬ 
on each other, from the greater and strong¬ 
er down to the lowest and weakest. When 
carnivorous birds are destroyed, grain-eat¬ 
ing birds increase and the crops suffer: 
when insectivorous birds are killed, insects 
appear in vast numbers and ravage the 
fields and orchards. When hawks, owls 
foxes, and skunks are reduced in numbers, 
then rats, mice, and other vermin abound, 
and do millions of dollars’ worth of dam¬ 
age to farmers. In the grand and wise econ¬ 
omy of the creation, everything has its use 
and value, and extermination of any race 
brings disaster in an unlooked-for direc¬ 
tion . 
Dr. Peter Collier says, in the Elmira 
Husbandman, that the intellectual activity 
which has been aroused among our agri¬ 
cultural classes during the past 10 years 
has been astounding, and in every direc¬ 
tion the people are reaching out for help to 
enable them more intelligently to conduct 
their affairs. Now-a-days thousands of 
farmers are discussing the problems con¬ 
nected with the feeding of their crops and 
stock in terms which were to them without 
meaning, an unknown tongue, less than 10 
years ago. 
Attend to the hot-bed. It will soon be 
time to sow the seeds of tomatoes, egg¬ 
plants, early cabbages, cauliflower, etc. 
Prepare the seed boxes. Let them be 
about three inches deep. Bore holes in the 
bottom, and cover each with a flat stone or 
piece of flower-pot. Let the soil be rich and 
mellow and do not fear a liberal proportion 
of sand. 
The Garfield (intermediate) and State 
of Maine (medium early) are potatoes that 
we recommend—a trial at any rate. 
Potato seeds (true seeds) should be sown 
as described two weeks ago for pansies. 
The 1st of February will be time enough. 
Seeds are offered by several of the seedsmen 
whose catalogues have been or will be duly 
noticed. 
Dr. Hoskins recommends a moderate 
dressing of hard-wood ashes with a little 
nitrate of soda for lawns, the latter applied 
two or three times. Probably sulphate of 
ammonia would answer rather better than 
the nitrate, being somewhat less soluble... 
It seems that the new and promising rose 
Souvenir de Wootton, under general culti¬ 
vation, is thus far a disappointment. It is 
hoped that it will prove more satisfactory 
later... 
The new chrysanthemum Mrs. Benjamin 
Harrison, bears flowers sometimes as large 
as seven inches across. It is pearly-white 
in color, the inner petals verging upon 
straw-color. 
California’s new rose “.Rainbow ” ori¬ 
ginated with John H. Sievers of San Fran¬ 
cisco. Its variegation is said to be very 
distinct. Its value will be for cut flowers. 
The Early Sunrise Potato was first 
tried at the Rural Grounds in 1882. We 
noted it as being a good keeper for an early 
variety, the quality mealy and good. It 
was planted April 23 and the vines were 
dead August 19. 
It is interesting to look back through 
the reports of hundreds of new potatoes 
tried during the past 10 years and to note 
how few are known to-day. 
J. J. Thomas says, in Green’s Fruit¬ 
grower, that the Wilder Pear must ripen 
somewhat after Summer Doyenn6 and a 
trifle before Rostiezer. It is hardly equal 
to the last named in quality but more uni¬ 
form in flavor. 
The Early Telephone Potato was 
first tried at the Rural Grounds during the 
season of 1883. So also were O. K. Mam¬ 
moth, Late Beauty of Hebron, (White Ele¬ 
phant) North Star, State of Maine, Vick’s 
Prize, Garfield, Queen of the Valley, Jor¬ 
dan’s Prolific, Rosy Morn. Jewel, Wall’s 
Orange, Tyrian Purple, Rubicund, Jumbo, 
El Paso, Vermont Champion, Dunmore, 
Corliss’s Matchless, Bliss’s Triumph, 
White Star, Dakota Red, Clark’s No. 1 and 
many others that have not since been 
heard from. 
Hoard’s Dairyman has the data for say¬ 
ing that a few of the butter extractor ma¬ 
chines are running in the factories of Swe¬ 
den, and'such is the tax on those few for 
results that they are kept steadily running 
12 hours per day, and that as they annihi¬ 
late all the difficulties of churning, includ¬ 
ing the unchurnability of a portion of all 
cream in churns, it has been found they 
make a liberal yield over separated and 
churned cream, that if it holds good in reg¬ 
ular practice will astonish us all. It is 
thought that a number of the extractors 
will be in operation in this country in the 
course of a month. 
We see by the 1890 catalogues many in¬ 
teresting flower novelties. A double Corn 
Flower (Centaurea cyanus) is described as 
resembling in its bloom Gaillardia Lor^n- 
ziana. The colors are rose, red, blue, white 
and striped. 
Crozy’s mixture of canna seeds is an¬ 
nounced as consisting of new strains of this 
popular plant. The seeds should be sown 
in February, and, if well cared for, they 
will make heavily foliaged plants which 
will bloom in August, continuing until 
frost. 
Among new asters we must call special 
attention to Comet, light blue and dark 
rose ; Triumph, scarlet and white. 
Chrysanthemum multicaule, Thorburu 
describes as resembling the English Daisy, 
except that the color is a golden yellow. 
Seeds may be sown as late as mid-May and 
yet bloom from July until frost. The plant 
is but four inches in hight. 
Delphinium Brunonianum is a musk- 
scented larkspur, light blue in color. 
The promising Kumerle Bush Lima, 
owing to the partial failure of the crop, is 
not offered this year. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Farm Journal : “ There are oats in 
the curry-comb.” 
-“The most wholesome and the best, all- 
around pork, can be made by feeding the 
pigs all their lives on wheat middlings, 
with skim-milk if it can be had, or water. 
It should be mixed fresh at each meal. All 
of this time the pigs should have grass or 
clover pasture. This is the best single 
grain food; a quarter peck of linseed-meal 
mixed in,' will make a faster growth and 
cause the pigs.to eat more.” 
-Breeder’s Gazette : “ Men drop into 
farming like flies into molasses.” 
-“ There can be found in every commu¬ 
nity those who keep on raising crops year 
after year who get nothing for their work 
but the barest living, yet only death takes 
them out of the fields. It is not so with 
merchants or manufacturers ; men in these 
lines must run their business in a business¬ 
like way, else their factories and stores will 
be shut up and their occupation gone. It 
is conceded on all hands that in some way 
almost any one can make a bare living, 
though a poor one, at farming if he half 
tries, and it is the army of those who half 
try and but half live that keeps better 
minds and better farmers where they are.” 
-London Agricultural Gazette : 
“ True economy suggests that we cart our 
manure from where it is made direct to 
where it is wanted without intermediate 
labor.” 
-Connecticut Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station : “ This year (1889) the 
special fertilizers as a class have been 
higher-priced and more concentrated than 
the other nitrogenous super-phosphates 
and, if quality of the raw materials com¬ 
posing them is equally good, more econom¬ 
ical to purchase.” 
^UsTeUattCousi ^dvwtijsing. 
Rheumatism 
We doubt if there is, or can be, a specific 
remedy for rheumatism; but thousands who 
have suffered its pains have been greatly ben¬ 
efited by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. If you have failed 
to find relief, try this great remedy. It correct: 
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 1883 I found no relief, but grew worse, 
until I was almost helpless. Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
did me more good than aH the other medicine 
I ever had.” H. T. Balcom, Shirley Village, Mass. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. §1; six for §5. Made 
only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Low ell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
Highly concentrated. Dose small In quantity costs 
less than one-tenth cent a day per hen. Prevents and 
cures all diseases. If you can't get it, we send by mail 
post-paid. One pack. 25c. Five §1. 2 1-4 lb. can $1.20} 
5 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps or 
cash. Farmers’ Poultry Guide (price 25c.) free with $1.00 
orders or more. L S. JOHKSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
If you want the best Garden you 
have ever had, you must sow 
MAULE’S SEEDS. 
There is no question but that 
Maule’s Garden Seeds are unsur¬ 
passed. Their present popularity 
in every county in the United States 
proves it, for I now have customers 
at more than 32,500 post-offices. 
When once sown, others are not 
wanted at any price. My new Cata¬ 
logue for 1890 is pronounced the 
most original, beautifully illustrated 
and readable Seed Catalogue ever 
published. You should not think of 
purchasing any SEEDS before 
Sending for it. it is mailed free to 
customers and to all others enclosing 
10 cents in stamps for it. 
My Special List of Striking Specialties 
for ’90 mailed free to all tvho tvrite for it, 
mentioning this paper. Address 
WM. HENRY MAULE, 
nil Filbert St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
SEEDS 
Johnson 
& Stokes' 
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buge ever introduced iui -- 
and late, catalogue price of which alone is 20 cents. 
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Brimful of good things, 
crowded with illustra¬ 
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the choicest list of rare 
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is very earlv; color, 
greenish white; pulp 
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chat ranks first,both 
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