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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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in Massachusetts to get during the year so 
many eggs of such fine quality as his, from 
the same number of fowls, by any other 
system of feeding. He says his fowls lay 
better and longer than upon other food, 
and that his eggs cost him but five cents a 
dozen. There is an almost endless variety 
of both food and condiment in city swill, 
and no one acquainted with its make-up 
will doubt its high value as poultry food 
when proper care is taken to separate the 
real food from the excess of liquids. So says 
a writer in the Weekly Press of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
From the vigorous growth of stray aspar 
agus shoots year after year in hedges, along 
roadsides and in uncultivated fields, it 
would appear that the old way of stuffing 
the soil with manure for the family plot is 
a somewhat wasteful method of raising this 
everywhere prized vegetable. 
The N. E. Farmer says that the best time 
to draw manure to the fields is when there 
is some to draw, when the weather and 
roads are favorable and when there are 
fields to be manured. The best way to dis¬ 
pose of it in the fields is to spread it evenly 
over the ground whether bare, frozen or 
covered with snow. The only exception 
would be in case of snow on a steep side 
hill. 
J. H. Hale, in the Hartford Courant, says 
that a gang of men have located at Hart¬ 
ford, and “ propose to thoroughly canvass 
the county ” for the sale of nursery stock ; 
they are making a specialty of peaches, 
“seedling trees,” that will reproduce them¬ 
selves from the pits “absolutely hardy,” 
as the kinds they sell “ bloom without 
opening the blossom,” and so no “ frost can 
get at them “ will fruit every year ” and 
“do best when neglected and allowed to 
grow in turf.” They are selling the trees 
at $10 per dozen. It is odd that such a lot 
of frauds could find it profitable to tell such 
tales in Conuecticut. 
Nitrate of soda for potatoes does not 
help the potato crop of the Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station. Neither does sulphate of 
ammonia. So says Mr. Green in the Ohio 
Farmer.. 
Pehaps the great secret of the success of 
the Ayrshire as a dairy cow, says C. M. 
Winslow in the Country Gentleman, is that 
her digestion enables her to extract and 
turn into milk and butter the largest pos¬ 
sible amount of return for the food con¬ 
sumed. They are like a healthy working¬ 
man when he sits down to dinner—all the 
food is good and tastes good. An Ayrshire 
cow does not stop to find out the quality 
of the hay placed before her—she eats with 
a relish good hay and poor. Of course she 
does not return to her owner as much milk 
from his poor hay as from his good, but 
she eats it with nearly as good relish. She 
is hardy, healthy and strong—always 
hungry and eats heartily. 
At the Marathon Farmers’ Institute, 
Col. Curtis said that the mau who keeps 
the wool on his sheep till June or July does 
so to get gain in the weight of the fleeces. 
He may do this by an increase of dirt and 
the secretion of oil; but while this is true, 
the sheep grow poor and they do not go out 
into the sun to eat, and will not with such 
heavy coats on. For these reasons they do 
not eat enough, and the lambs get a short 
supply of milk. Nothing is therefore 
gained, but there is a positive loss. 
Speaking of the necessity for some cheap 
and simple means for the determination 
of the fat in milk, Prof. E. F. Lisdd said, at 
the last meeting of the N. Y. State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association, that taking the results 
of the dairy conference of last year, he finds 
that in some cases less thau 13 pounds of 
milk was required to produce a pound of 
butter ; at other conferences, as high as 32 
or 33 pounds were required. Suppose these 
farmers were taking milk to the same but¬ 
ter factory, each cow averaging 3,000 
pounds per season, or 30,000 pounds of milk 
for 10 cows. By the present method of 
paying for milk at factories, each man re¬ 
ceives an equal amount. By paying for 
milk according to the fat, A.’s milk would 
produce 2,353 pounds of butter; which at 20 
cents per pound would amount to $470.(50, 
and B.’s milk 931 pounds of butter at 20 
cents per pound, $186.20. But instead of 
this each receives $328.40 or A. gives B. 
$142.20. These are the extremes, but such 
cases are found at every creamery. 
Waldo F. Brown, says, in the Ohio 
Farmer, that the best way to handle milk 
undoubtedly is in deep, water sealed cans. 
He used such cans 15 years ago, and yet he 
has been threatened with a suit for in¬ 
fringement of a patent because he has 
written that he to using them. The cans 
may be bought of the man ufacto rer'who 
owns a patent and the trouble and annoy¬ 
ance of a law suit be avoided, but he would 
want a guarantee that he could use them 
and be protected in their use, for he had 
bought his from the patentee as he 
claimed, and yet another firm claimed to 
own a patent which covered the water-seal¬ 
ing principle. 
Mr. Henry Hales, a poultryman of 
much experience, tells the Rural New- 
Yorker, says the Farm Journal, that the 
old garden plant rue, is a specific for 
cholera He chops the leaves and mixes 
them with oat-meal gruel, adding a few 
drops of carbolic acid. Just enough of the 
latter should be added to make the mix¬ 
ture taste of it. Mr. Hales does not state 
the exact quantity, but we should think 
five to 10 drops to a pint would be enough. 
Give each sick bird a tea-spoonful or two 
daily until they are able to eat. While Mr. 
Hales attributes the cure of his fowls to 
the rue, we think the carbolic acid was the 
efficient remedy in the compound. Let our 
readers try the combinations, but if they 
have not the rue let them use the acid 
alone. Remember that it is a corrosive 
poison, and use it very sparingly. 
DIRECT. 
-Bulletin Michigan Agricultural 
College : “ That the English sparrow is 
rapidly overrunning the country is a well- 
known fact. Darwin states that newly in¬ 
troduced species, either of plant or animal, 
will always outstrip the natives. This fact 
is exemplified by the English rabbit in 
Australia, and the cabbage butterfly and 
English sparrow in America.” 
-“Where sparrows abound in large 
flocks, no fruit, grain, or vegetable is ex¬ 
empt from their attacks. The kinds of 
grain preferred are wheat and oats, which 
suffer the most at the time of harvest. Tn 
France it is estimated that 10,000,000 bush¬ 
els of wheat are destroyed annually.” 
-“ Without question the English spar¬ 
row protects more insects than he destroys, 
by driving away insectivorous birds. That 
these foreigners drive away familiar native 
species there can be no doubt. Even the 
robins and pigeons cannot withstand 
numbers, and are obliged to vacate, leav¬ 
ing their eggs and young to be thrown out 
of the nests and killed.” 
-“ IN a Bulletin issued by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture in 1889, on the English 
sparrow, it is shown that a single pair of 
these sparrows may produce in 10 years 
275,716,983,698.” 
-“ The alarming rate at which the spar¬ 
rows have increased during the past few 
years, shows only too clearly that some ac¬ 
tion is necessary. No doubt a bounty helps 
to lessen their numbers: but it is a ques¬ 
tion if this is the best way to exterminate 
the English sparrow. This method has 
been employed in Michigan since 1887, and 
has been found an expensive means of 
lessening their number. The greatest ob¬ 
jection—that other species of birds are 
killed by careless persons for English spar¬ 
rows—would apply as well to any other 
means of destruction. The scheme for 
offering liberal prizes for the greatest num¬ 
ber of birds killed in any given territory is 
worth considering. If the prizes are suffi¬ 
ciently large many persons will compete, 
and great destruction to the sparrows 
will result. No one should receive spar¬ 
rows on a bounty or prize, who has not 
thoroughly studied the bird. Far too 
many of the town clerks in Michigan do 
not know the English sparrow’s head from 
that of a linnet or thrush. As a result, a 
great many birds that have been sent in for 
a bounty, are our most beneficial birds.” 
-N. Y. Farmers’ Institute: “It is 
time to lay aside our prejudices and edu¬ 
cate our girls for the farm, as well as for 
other stations in life. You may as well ex¬ 
pect perfect fruit from a tree untouched 
for 20 years, as a perfect character without 
daily cultivation. The world will march 
past the weary housewife, who knows 
nothing but her work.” 
-“ So long as a woman is required to be 
cook, laundress, dairymaid, sewing-girl and 
gardener, so long will she remain a mere 
drudge. The truest domestic economy con¬ 
sists in furnishing conveniences for the 
wife and housekeeper, that she may save 
her own strength.” 
-“ * Man does not live by bread alone,’ 
aud high thinkiug aud plain liviug are bet¬ 
ter than high living and plain thinking. 
We often see lavish expenditure on things 
to satisfy for a season, while that which 
ministers to the higher interests to with¬ 
held or grudgingly given. Too much for 
show—too little for soul. Completely fill 
the home with satisfactory interests, and 
there will be no room for discontent. Open 
your minds to the influence of everything 
that can improve your condition, and be 
proud of your vocation.” 
- Cor. Country Gentleman: “To dry 
up the cows use a dog and the average boy. 
This is a good way to make blue milk.” 
-“ My best foods and the cheapest are 
silage and clover hay. These I can pro¬ 
duce at the lowest co«t of any foods. 
Hungarian Grass is richer in nitrogen, and 
a good food. I got 12 tons of this cut green 
per acre. Rye cut green makes excellent 
food. It is a good food to make milk, and 
when cut green it will sprout up again and 
make a second crop for feeding.” 
- Pres. Hyde, of Bowdoin College,in N. E. 
Farmer: “A thorough education will make 
pupils realize that honor is proportioned 
to the difficulties overcome, the energy dis¬ 
played, and the service rendered in any call¬ 
ing, and will lead them to see in the inde¬ 
pendence, the invention, the strength, the 
manliness developed by hard outdoor work, 
the true dignity of man. Manual training, 
systematic physical exercise, the study of 
morals and political economy in the schools, 
and everything that tends to make study 
practical and the student systematical, will 
help to bring about the recognition of the 
dignity of manual labor, and lead the 
youth to choose the free, natural life of the 
farm to the cramped, artificial, muscle¬ 
weakening, nerve-destroyiDg machine life 
of the desk and the counter.” 
“ The annual visits of thousands of weary, 
unnerved denizens of our over-crowded 
cities to the open air of the country in 
search of what the city does not give, re¬ 
minds us that there is no place where man 
can enjoy more, and for that matter achieve 
greater success than on a well managed 
farm.” 
Cor. American Florist : “ I hold that 
a man has no more right to attach a false 
name to a plant in order to raise money on 
it than he has to attach a false name to a 
check.” 
-Maine Farmer: “ The things difficult 
to do are the ones that pay the best. Just 
here is where knowledge and skill are a 
power.” 
-New England Farmer : “ The demand 
for really good things will never long re¬ 
main much below a normal condition.” 
-Prof. S. W. Johnson : “ Other quali¬ 
fications being equal, the more advanced 
and complete the theory of which the 
farmer is the master, the more successful 
must be his farming. The more he knows, 
the more he can do. The more deeply, 
comprehensively and clearly he can think, 
the more economically and advantageously 
can he work.” 
-N. Y. Herald: “While men persist in 
thinking there is nothing to fear; it is 
when men cease to think that we predict 
disaster.” 
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