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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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omy, and use soiling crops so far as it is 
necessary to keep up the flow of milk. The 
cows should stand in the stanchions every 
night in the year. They should be fed 
twice a day and watered once. The owner 
should spend money to keep the barn warm 
rather than in warming the water. The 
feed should be healthful, the animal should 
be comfortable. He who will carry out 
these details, and bring in his work the 
business methods and care used in other 
occupations, will never complain that 
“farming does not pay.”. 
feed a couple of nights, then makes an¬ 
other mess in the same barrel (after empty¬ 
ing the first lot) in the same place, but 
makes this almost all water. When one 
jumps in, down he goes and the next, not 
knowing his brother’s bad luck, follows 
suit. In the morning the barrel will be 
full, if the rat supply holds out. 
It seems to the R. N.-Y. it would be well 
for the first trial to add to the surface en¬ 
ticing bits of cheese, meat, etc. 
The Early Puritan Potato is praised in 
England.<. 
-Iowa Homestead : “No man can im¬ 
prove his farming without improving him¬ 
self, and making himself a better member 
of society. There is a close connection be¬ 
tween good farming, good society and good 
morals.” 
-Hoard’s Dairyman: “We find in 
Wisconsin that the quickest way to enrich 
the soil is to enrich the mind of the owner 
with more and better knowledge—know¬ 
ledge that fits the necessities of to-day. 
In order to diffuse that knowledge, agita¬ 
tion, discussion, and co-operation must be 
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Milk at a temperature of 63 to 65 degrees 
will produce the largest amount of cream. 
It should be kept at 65 degrees 36 hours or 
until it becomes slightly acid. 
Much is said about abandoned farms in 
New England, Prof. Brewer remarked ; but 
we must, go a great ways to get beyond aban¬ 
doned farms ; it is the presence of the peo¬ 
ple on the farms that gives value to the 
land. He gave a case of a man who bought 
a farm and paid $20 per acre for it. Some 
years after he was offered $300 per acre and 
refused it: after his death it was sold for 
$250. The man who bought it sold it for 
$100 per acre, and it was finally sold for $12 
per acre. Why this change? It was just as 
near the city : it was in men, in the sur¬ 
roundings. 
If we accept the Mosaic account of the 
origin and early history of the human race 
we learn that the sentence “In the sweat 
of thy face shalt thou eat bread” was a 
part of the original penalty for man’s dis¬ 
obedience of the law to which he was subject. 
From that day to this there has been a con¬ 
stant struggle on the part of many to evade 
the requirement and escape the infliction. 
To live upon the labor of others is the aim 
of a great body of people who have a strong 
distaste for the required sweat of the face.. 
We hear a great deal about the oppression 
of the laborer, says the Journal of Com¬ 
merce, and loud calls are made on every 
side for united action on the part of work¬ 
ing men to free themselves from the 
tyranny of capital (whatever that may 
mean) and to “secure their God-given 
rights.” Going behind these high-sound¬ 
ing phrases and coming to the root of the 
matter, we find the aim to be a full larder 
with little sweat in the face. In plain 
terms these reformers desire to come as 
near as possible to the ideal conditions of 
full pay and no work. All experience has 
demonstrated that happiness in this world 
is never obtained by direct pursuit, and 
that whatever may minister to peace and 
content can be found only in the way of 
obedience. Those who have the most con¬ 
stant occupation and fill up all their tvak- 
ing hours with useful service will secure 
the largest measure of enjoyment. 
The American Agriculturist’s first prize 
for the largest yield of oats on one acre was 
awarded to R. W. Strickland, Albion, Or¬ 
leans County, N. Y. White Bonanza was 
the variety of oats, so called and introduced 
by John A. Salzer of LaCrosse, Wis. This 
variety closely resembles Schoenen or White 
Eureka which are essentially the same in 
appearance. The yield was a fraction over 
134 bushels, 32 pounds to the bushel. 
The second prize was awarded to B. F. 
Chestnut, Transfer, Mercer County, Pa. He 
raised 103 bushels. Variety White Dutch. 
The third prize was taken by John Miller, 
Mongolia, York County, Ontario. He raised 
07 bushels with Vick’s American Banner. 
The fourth prize went to Joseph A. A. 
Bunot, Echo City, Summit County, Utah. 
The yield was 96 bushels with the “ Com¬ 
mon ” variety—whatever that may be. 
The R. N.-Y. does not see that there is 
anything to be learnt by the methods of 
Mr. Strickland, the first prize-taker. The 
soil was from previous showings, peculiar¬ 
ly adapted to oats, being level and moist 
yet well drained and rich. Two and one- 
half bushels were sown by hand on the 
acre, April 27. The seed was covered 
about inches deep by harrowing with a 
smoothing harrow. 
The season being rather dry, the field 
was rolled when the oats were four inches 
high. “This,” says the report, “seemed 
to retain the soil moisture and keep the 
crop in good shape until rain came.” We 
should have supposed that this rolling in a 
dry time would have facilitated evapora¬ 
tion instead of conserving moisture. If 
any good were accomplished by the rolling 
it was probably due to the fact that many 
plants were destroyed by the horses’ tread, 
which thinned out a stand too thick from 
over-seeding. 
To RID his barn of rats an Albany Culti¬ 
vator correspondent fills a barrel one-third 
full of bran and water, mixed stiff enough 
to hold a rat op it, .ftp ]p{,« the VOdeiffa 
“ Ariel ” is the latest “ Tufted ” pansy, 
a beautiful colored plate of which appears 
in the London Garden of November 2. The 
color is a delicate blue with the lower 
petals shading into white. The stems are 
long and the flowers durable.. 
Every garden should have at least one 
specimen of the hardy St. John’s-Wort 
(Hypericum kalmianum). It is a blaze of 
yellow in July and August, the numerous 
stamens forming the chief part of the tas¬ 
sel-like flowers. The leaves are narrow, 
leathery and nearly evergreen. It thrives 
well in shady places. Try a single speci¬ 
men. It is a shrub of medium proportions. 
H. CALYCINUM is a lower-growing St. 
John’s-Wort with larger flowers. It is 
commended by the London Garden as a 
good substitute for ivy and periwinkle for 
carpeting under trees. 
A writer in the American Florist gives 
his testimony as to the superiority of evap¬ 
orating tobacco water to burning the tobac¬ 
co for fumigation in greenhouses. He al¬ 
ways keeps a barrel full of tobacco stems 
soaking in water and has a tin pan 2x3 feet 
and four inches deep. He fills the pan 
about half full of tobacco water and then 
puts in it three or four red-hot fire-bricks. 
It kills greenfly very quickly and never in¬ 
jures even the most tender plants. 
Charles W. Garfield takes the R. N.¬ 
Y.’s view as to the distance apart at which 
asparagus roots should be placed. He ad 
vises that the distance should be three feet 
by five. In four-feet rows it will take about 
3,000 plants to the acre. Two men can 
plant an acre in half a day. 
Probably the first printed description of 
the best of the late T. B. Miner’s grapes ap¬ 
peared in the R. N.-Y. of September 30, 
1876. The varieties described were: Vic¬ 
toria, Augusta, Beatrice, Eugenie, Ida, 
Carlotta, Amanda, Lexington and Madi¬ 
son. An illustration of the Victoria was 
presented. 
ABSTRACTS. 
- Vermont Watchman : “ Inefficiency 
will live longer on a farm than anywhere 
else, but it is bound to have hard times 
anywhere.” 
-Hoard’s Dairyman: “We have not a 
particle of hesitation in saying that if we 
were in an emigrating condition and mood 
and wanted a farm, we would * go for ’ 
some of those New England farms at from 
$2 to $10 per acre long before we would go 
West the same distance to get lands for the 
occupancy. What the live farmer boys 
who live there are thinking about, that 
they turn their backs on such chances and 
certainties and strike for homes near the 
Rockies, passes our comprehension. We 
opine their chances will soon be fewer.” 
-Dr. Hoskins : “As for the fondness of 
city people—especially Boston people—not 
only for oat-meal, but for pork and beans, 
it is well indicated by their sallow com¬ 
plexions and ill-developed forms. Only 
vigorous constitutions, developed in coun¬ 
try air and by country labor, can success¬ 
fully ‘ get away ’ with such hearty food as 
beans and oat-meal. The less people of 
sedentary habits have to do with either of 
them the better.” 
-In a communication to the Rural 
New-Yorker Dr. Collier says : “Recent 
careful experiments at the station show 
the average market value of the phosphor¬ 
us, potash aud nitrogen in the solid dung 
of the cow, fed upon a mixed ration, to be 
nearly four cents per day, while the value 
of the liquid manure was over six cents a 
day, and together they were over 70 per 
cent, of the market value of the food fed.” 
In this one sentence is food enough for a 
whole winter’s thought. 
-T. H. Hoskins in Orchard and Gar¬ 
den: “The new Green Mountain seems 
likely to prove a first-rate early white 
grape.” 
-“The Delaware, Adirondac, Moore’s 
Early, Brighton, Salem, Hartford, Eum 
elan and Israella, ajl succeed wpU with IRC 
(Newport, Vt.)” 
had. It has become patent to the Wiscon¬ 
sin farmer, if not to the Vermont farmer, 
that the methods and understanding that 
would bring a fair degree of profit 40 years 
ago will not do it to day. The philosophy 
of our whole community-life, as a nation, 
has changed in 40 years.” 
-Dr. GOESSMANN: “Eight quarts of 
milk per day or the butcher block.” 
-Dr. Collier : “ If we compare the 10 
New York counties of Wayne, Genesee, 
Steuben, Tioga, Otsego, Gates, Broome, 
Schuyler, Erie and St. Lawrence, which 
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