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SHORT STORIES. 
Experiments with Fertilizers on To¬ 
bacco. — A series of experiments was last 
year carried on at the Kentucky Station 
with a view to studying the following 
questions: 
1. The effect of the leading elements of 
plant food on the production of tobacco. 
2. Will it pay to use commercial fertil¬ 
izers to raise tobacco on such a soil as ours? 
3. In what form should nitrogen be ap¬ 
plied ? 
4. In what form should potash be ap¬ 
plied ? 
5. The amount of nitrogen required per 
acre. 
6. The amount of potash required per 
acre. 
From one year’s experience the conclu¬ 
sions reached are as follows: 
1. That commercial fertilizers materially 
increase the yield and improve the quality 
of Burley tobacco. 
2. That the increase is obtained whether 
potash, phosphoric acid or nitrogen are 
used separately or in various combinations. 
3. That potash and nitrogen in combina¬ 
tion seem to be required to produce the best 
results. 
4. That there is a handsome profit by 
using fertilizers in the best combinations 
5. That the effect was the same whether 
potash was used in the form of muriate or 
sulphate. 
t$. That nitrogen in the form of nitrate of 
soda seemed to produce the best results as 
•to quality. 
Excluding Inferior Foreign Horses.— 
A writer in the Breeder’s Gazette thinks 
the time has come for prohibiting the im¬ 
portation of inferior horses. He would in¬ 
voke the aid of our protective system to 
bring about this desired end. He says we 
have now in this country a great number 
of draft mares of excellent quality working 
at heavy draft work in our large cities and 
in the logging and lumber business—mares 
which if put in “ show condition ” would be 
formidable rivals of many imported mares, 
and they would make a very good founda¬ 
tion to build upon with good registered 
stallions. Now living under a government 
which holds to the principle of protective 
tariff,why should we not have some protec¬ 
tion in this line ? Let us have an import 
duty on horses for breeding purposes of, say, 
$500 each. If there are any horses over the 
water good enough to be needed here we 
would willingly pay the extra cost, and 
those which would not bear the duty had 
better stay where they are. This would 
give some benefit of protection to a class who 
have been bearing its burden without the 
benefits. 
At the Rural Grounds, Parker Earle, 
among the new strawberries, still stands at 
the head. Pearl ripens early ; berries con¬ 
ical, between crimson and scarlet, quite 
firm and of good quality. Peduncles not 
very strong, so that the berries are not 
held up very well. Plants medium as to 
vigor and fairly productive. Pres. Harri¬ 
son does not develop any astounding char¬ 
acteristics of any kind. Vines and berries 
much like those of Pearl. Standard merits 
scarcely a passing notice. Berries irregular 
and of medium size. Louise (June 6) ripens 
a few berries, large in size, regular in shape, 
of fine quality. Viola not prolific. Berries 
of the Sharpless type. Mary bears berries 
of the largest size and of a notably regular 
shape (heart-shape), considering the size. 
Quality fair only. Cloud’s Seedling is of 
the Crescent sort. The plants of Crawford 
are low-growing and not over-vigorous. 
The Peduncles are slender; fruit crimson, 
of good shape and quality. For small 
vines they are well supplied with berries... 
“The Insect Powder Plant (Pyrethrum 
roseum) has proved entirely hardy on our 
grounds this year,” says Popular Garden¬ 
ing. It has proved hardy in the Rural 
Grounds for eight years at least. 
It is not too late to train a tomato plant 
up the barn, or arbor or summer-house. 
Pinch out the laterals. Support the stem 
as it grows, and you will have a vine 10 to 
12 feet high by September. It is a good 
idea to set two plants together, yellow and 
red varieties. 
Agricultural Science quotes the Jour¬ 
nal of Chemical Society recording experi¬ 
ments made by A. Muntz to ascertain 
whether salts of ammonia could be utilized 
by the roots without first beiuK co»Yt?rtvfi 
I HE RURAL NEW-VORKER. 
into nitrates. Sulphate of ammonia was 
used. The plants grew well and assimi¬ 
lated all the nitrogen required, showing 
that nitrification is not essential. 
An Australian correspondent of the Syd¬ 
ney Mail writes of a curious experience 
seen on some farms under maize. Before 
late rains had set in the stalks were well 
grown and only just beginning to form the 
grains on the cob. The dry weather ar¬ 
rested the growth; then when the rains 
fell, unusual moisture was drawn up, 
which caused abortive cobs to spring out 
beneath the previous ones. These generally 
shot out in clusters of three or four, all 
growing together on one stem, taking all 
the nourishment from the upper and true 
cobs. Naturally, as these abortions could 
never come to anything, and absorbed the 
whole of the ascending sap, the promising 
cobs had become worthless, not one in 
some dozen stalks being fit for anything... 
DIRECT. 
-Emerson: 
“ If I could put my moods In song. 
And 'ell what’s there enjoyed, 
All men would to my garden throng, 
And leave the cities void.” 
-Fruit Growers’ Association of On¬ 
tario: “It is entirely unfair for ringed 
grapes to compete with those in their 
natural condition. People who go to fairs 
to select varieties, see those ringed grapes 
and order them.” 
.-Country Gentleman: “It costs a 
farmer, so disposed, nothing to take his own 
team and all his household and visit some 
interesting spot and picnic a day. Hitch the 
• horses in a cool spot where they too can en¬ 
joy the scenery and take their lunch with 
them, all in one group, and they will be 
happy with the family, and all go home re¬ 
freshed and invigorated. This pays, and 
few city people could afford such a treat. 
Such outings have a large paying value, and 
with pruning in somethingsand sweet fruit 
in others the farm is the best.” 
-Prof. Roberts : “ Half of the money 
expended for tile drainage is thrown away 
just because the farmer does not know the 
difference between drain and conduit.” 
-“ Every 1,000 pounds of horse is produc¬ 
ing 50 pounds of manure a day, and every 
1,000 pounds of cow produces eight pounds. 
In nine-tenths of the barn-yards in this 
country there is a waste of 50 cents to$l 
per day in manure. I have known a man 
to wade through a barn-yard two feet deep 
in manure 50 years and never see it. He 
wore rubber boots. Sell your rubber boots 
and buy rubber pocket-books.” 
- Maine Farmer: “What have those 
who so readily sneer at the idea of the in¬ 
troduction of natural sciences into our 
common schools, to say to the fact that 
throughout France gardening is practically 
taught in the primary and elementary 
schools? There are about 28,000 of these, 
each of which has a garden attached to it, 
and is under the care of a master capable 
of imparting a knowledge of the principles 
of horticulture.” 
- Vermont Watchman: “The Ameri¬ 
can Dairyman’s editor says that he has 
churned sweet cream 200 times and sour 
cream the same number, as an experiment, 
and failed to find any regular difference in 
the yield of butter. Will this change the 
opinions of the talkers and writers on the 
subject who have never made any compar¬ 
ative tests ? Some of them seem to be like 
the Dutch justice, who didn’t like to hear 
the evidence on both sides, because it con¬ 
fused him so.” 
“If there are any people left (and we 
know there are some) who still want their 
sons to spend three years in school and 
four years in college learning a little Latin 
and Greek (and few of them ever learn 
enough to write a grammatical letter in 
either), we have no objection. But what 
the plain people are wanting more and 
more for their sons is a knowledge of 
things, instead of a mere knowledge of 
words.” 
- Southern Farm : “ Fathers, encourage 
your boys to be smart, and be kind to them; 
because I know encouragement helps me 
along a heap.” 
- N. Y. Tribune : “ Highwaymen who 
present pistols and demand your purse ; 
petty thieves who steal your hens and 
hams ; manufacturers and merchants who 
make you pay for the worthless and damag¬ 
ing materials with which they adulterate 
their goods; milkmen who water and chalk 
their milk ; farmers who sell balky, broken 
winded horses for sound ones ; fruit-grow¬ 
ers wb° put fiefrctiYe apples and pears in 
the middle of the barrel aud take pay for 
first-class fruit—all of these alike belong 
to the fraternity of thieves ” 
“ If farmers who complain of ‘ middle¬ 
men ’ and low prices would raise the 
varieties preferred and put them up prop¬ 
erly, their fruit would be in much better de¬ 
mand at much better prices. They could 
ship to some trustworthy agent, who would 
dispose of it for a moderate commission; 
their names on the packages should be sure 
guarantee of quality; whoever bought once 
would buy again, satisfied to pay a good 
price: thus a large demand would be 
created at remunerative prices. But fraud 
is death to the fruit business.” 
-Popular Gardening : “A Living In¬ 
sect Trap.— -Not a single creeping, crawl¬ 
ing or hopping thing is to be seen in our 
tomato hot-bed of four sashes, except one 
toad, which in reality is nothing else than 
a wandering (bopping) insect trap, that 
gobbles up every small creature that gets 
near it. Of course we make a pet of our 
living insecticide, and have almost learned 
to admire its handsome color, and intel¬ 
ligent eyes. Sometimes we give it an es¬ 
pecially dainty morsel, such as a large May 
beetle, or even a potato beetle, a centipede, 
etc. Our guest takes them all with equal 
gratitude and appetite. There can be no 
doubt that toads may be colonized and put 
to good use in cucumber, melon, and 
squash patches. At any rate we intend to 
assign to them the duty and responsibility 
of keeping the vines free from bugs this 
year, and believe thatit will be safer to trust 
to their watchfulness than to depend on 
poisonous applications.” 
“Root Grafts and Whole Roots.— 
There is a great deal of humbug about this 
cry of whole roots, and some of the travel¬ 
ing tree peddlers have been using it as a 
means to rope in many well-read and intel¬ 
ligent people. This I state on Prof. Budd’s 
authority. A Duchess Pear or any other 
absolutely hardy variety, he says,will make 
a good tree if grown from a cutting,and when 
grafted on a short piece of root it is prac¬ 
tically a cutting, as the piece of root only 
starts it, and roots are thrown out always 
from the cion. Fully 90 per cent, of our 
three-year-old apple, pear, cherry and plum 
trees are on their own roots if they have 
been grafted with a long cion on a short 
root and set deeply. Yet the crown graft 
is the best, and nurserymen could afford to 
make only one tree from one seedling.” 
St. Louis Trader-. “Those who go 
through the world by making the worst of 
it, work hard for poor pay.” 
|Ui.sceU;ittcau.$ gulmtiisiing. 
Advertisers treat all correspondents 
well if they mention the Rural New- 
Yorker. 
Weak 
and Weary 
In early summer the warmer wfather is especially 
weakening and enervating, and that tired feeling 
prevails everywhere. The great benefit which people 
at this season derive from Hood’s Sarsaparilla proves 
that this medicine “makes the weak strong.’’ It 
does not act like a stimulant. Imparting ftctltuoug 
streugth, but Hood’s Sarsaparilla builds up In a per¬ 
fectly natural way all the weakened parts, and puri¬ 
fies the blood. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists, f 1; six for $5. Prepared only 
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
EvER y Mo™ ER 
Should Have li in The House. 
Dropped on Sttgar, Children Lore 
to take Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment for Croup,Colds, 
Sore Throat, Tonsllttls, Colic, Cramps and Pains. Re¬ 
lieves all Summer Complaints, Cuts and Bruises like 
magic. Sold everywhere. Price 85o. by mail; 6 bottles 
Express paid, $3. L S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
'ITT' \ \Tr 1 1 TT 1 \ Experienced man and wife 
W .I .Hi I T. with few or no children 
to work and manage a Dairy Farm, carrying about 
50 cows and a Truck Garden. Will be required to 
board the other hired help and keep farm accounts. 
an must be a pusher as well as a good worker him¬ 
self. Wife must be a neat housekeeper and first class 
Dairy woman. Both must be well recommended, 
comfortable home for right persons. W rite fully, in¬ 
closing photographs, stating experience, waves ex¬ 
pected and quoting references. A. R. MACFARLANE, 
Duluth, Minn. 
PISO'S CURE FOR 
& 
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. 
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use 
>. Sold I 
in time. 
Id by druggists. 
CONSUMPTION 
PAINLESS. 
EFFECTUAL. 
WorthumeajaBox. 
FOR ALL 
BILIOU&NERVOUS 
DISORDERS, 
’Such is Sick Headache, 
Weak Stomach, 
Impaired Digestion, 
Constipation, 
Disordered Liver, &c. \ 
1 Arousing with the Rosebud of< 
>Health the whole Physical < 
^nersry of the human frame. , 
Beecham's Pills, taken as, 
1 directed, will quickly RESTORE < 
| FEMALES to complete health. 
SOLD BY ALL DRUCC1STS. 
Price 25 cents per Box. 
Prepared only by TIIOS. BEECHAM, ( 
I St. Helens. Lancashire. England. 
B. F. ALLEV CO., Sole agents for the < 
1 United States.365 A 367 Canal St..New York. , 
i Who (if your druggist does not keep them) K 
will mail Beecham’s Pills on receipt of price, ( 
• but inquire first. Mention this paper. 
mAST, FOOS & CO. 
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
MANUFACTURERS 
OF 
FQ0S 8 c coli tu r 
SPRINGFIELD Q THE 
TURBINE 
IRON 
WIND 
ENGINES^ 
Strong and Durable. Will not Swell, 
Shrink, Warp or Rattle in the Wind. 
DUCKEYE 
D FORCE PUMP 
sy, 
stream. Has Porcelain Lined and Brass 
Cvlinders. Is easily set. Is the Cheapest 
and Best Force Pump in the World for 
Deep or Shallow Wells. Never freezes 
in winter. Also manufacturers of the I 
BUCKEYE LAWN MOWERS, 
Buckeye Wrought Iron FENC 
Cresting, etc. Write for Circulars and 
GO 
!INC, 
Prices. 
DESKS, 
Chairs, 
Office Furniture 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 
k KILMER DESK CO. 
Salesroom,, 
opp. Lowell Depot, 
93 Causeway St., Bo (too 
Illustrated 
Catalogue 
free. 
“OSGOOD” 
U. S. Standard 
mrt/ 
3 Tny AftP Sent on trial. Freight paid. 
lUll \ Kn. Other sizes proportionately 
i 1 1 Wll Jllow. Fully Warranted 
OSGOOD & THOMPSON, Binghamton, N.Y. 
RARE BARGAINS 
USEFUL ARTICLES. 
In the course of trade we have obtained the follow 
Ing named articles which we will sell at a big discount 
from manufacturers’ prices. We have no use for 
them and the prices named ought to take them off 
our hands iu short order 
A Weed Sewing Machine, Boudoir Cabinet of 
Black Walnut. Manufacturer’s price *75. We will 
sell In New York for *So-a rare bargain for some 
one. 
A Wheel Hoe and Cultivator; retails for *6. 
Our price $8. 
Several Curtiss’s Improved Needle Hay 
Kuives, chisel edge teeth. Retail price *1.35 each. 
Our price only ,75c. each. Order at.once. Address 
>\ F, Tenafly. Pi. J 
