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everything properly, found she con¬ 
stantly had soft butter. After careful in¬ 
vestigation, the source of the difficulty was 
discovered. She stripped her cow (the 
milk is then a' out 98 deg.) and for three 
days, nights and mornings, put the strip¬ 
pings into the cream which was ripening, 
thus raising the temperature of the cream 
up to 80 degrees or so, six times before 
churning (she churned twice a week), 
whereas it should have been cooled down to 
55 deg. before being putin with the cream. 
When put in the cream it should be thor¬ 
oughly stirred. This stirring should be re¬ 
peated at least three times a day.”. 
On a small plot of the field corn—say 
one-tenth of an acre—sow 50 pounds of a 
high-grade commercial fertilizer. Do this 
now and cultivate. 
Decomposition is the prevailing condi¬ 
tion of nature, remarks Henry Stewart in 
theN. Y. Times. A man himself is always 
decomposing and reforming, and the food 
he eats decomposes in his system before it 
«can replace one single cell of his body that 
has served its purpose and passed into de¬ 
composition. This should all be under¬ 
stood, and then the word will not be con¬ 
founded with rottenness; and then, too, all 
cause for conflict of words in regard to the 
changes which cream and butter undergo, 
and which are desirable and not otherwise, 
will disappear forever. 
And so the advocates of sweet-cream 
butter who believe that the aroma of butter 
is due to decomposition of the fats, and that 
all decomposition is a “ moist, unpleasant” 
condition of a body, still insist upon their 
little foible, although the proofs to the 
contrary are overwhelming and un¬ 
answerable. If cream is ripened for churn¬ 
ing, and then makes most excellent, sweet, 
fragrant, and palatable butter, this ripen¬ 
ing is a process of decomposition in which 
some of the sugar of the milk is changed to 
lactic acid, and by which some of the butter 
fats are changed to volatile, fatty acids 
which give the piquant, pleasant flavor to 
fine butter. What matters it whether this 
flavor is contributed by a process of decom¬ 
position in the cream or in the butter it¬ 
self made from cream that has not under¬ 
gone this ripening process ? Decomposi¬ 
tion is not necessarily rottenness, as is 
alleged, any more than the small lapses 
from perfect goodness which are common 
to our race are utter depravity. 
OOR respected contributor, W. G. War¬ 
ing, Sr., says, in the N. Y. Tribune, that in 
the long, warm, stimulating days of June 
(and what is said applies to July and Au¬ 
gust, also) we are apt to feel some exhaus¬ 
tion, and very apt to take wrong means of 
relieving it. A brief rest is what is usually 
needed, but in our impatience to keep pace 
with the rapid growth of all around us, in 
garden and field, we too commonly try to 
maintain strength by bolting down into 
the stomach some extra-strong food, or 
some temporary and treacherous stimulus. 
This is ruinous. The stomach partakes of 
the general weakness, and needs its term 
of rest, too. 
The two scapegoats of lazy farmers are 
bad luck and bad help. 
Agricultural Correspondents.— The 
National Stockman says that among its 
regular contributors is one who never for¬ 
wards matter for publication without giv¬ 
ing it the most careful revision. As a re¬ 
sult, his manuscript is clear and pointed, 
and never lacking in valuable suggestions. 
Among regular writers for the agricultural 
press there is a growing tendency to spread 
over too much ground. It is only reason¬ 
able to say that a man who writes for a 
dozen papers is going to do work of a 
poorer quality than if confined to two or 
three. We have noticed with regret that 
several men whose writings were of de¬ 
cided value to every reader a few years ago, 
have so extended their field that what they 
now say carries little weight. Some of 
these names have been eliminated from the 
columns of leading journals and The R. 
N.-Y. predicts, with the Stockman, that 
more of them will be forced into retirement 
at an early date, if they do not confine 
themselves to a volume of work which they 
can perform well.*. 
Mr Greiner says, in the Farm and Fire¬ 
side, that the question whether the potatoes 
Stray Beauty and Bliss’s Triumph are the 
same is not worth discussing since they are 
of little value whether cultivated under one 
name or the other. 
Every dog should be shot on sight, when 
found on a farm, unaccompanied with its 
owner, and if we owned a farm, no gunning 
tramp should scour our place with his dog, 
breaking down fences and driving away or 
killing all the birds. In villages the curse 
of dogs is not less than in the country. 
They run through our gardens and break 
down our plants, until we get our gun and 
pepper their miserable hides with small 
shot. We are sometimes vindictive enough 
to wish their owners had a similar dose. 
Such dogs and such dog owners are a nui¬ 
sance alike. We differ from our respected 
contemporary, the Orange County Farmer, 
from which the above is quoted in just one 
thing : We would hold the owner responsi¬ 
ble first. He is the one that should pay the 
penalty for the depredations of the irrespon¬ 
sible animal. 
If we were to determine the finest hybrid 
perpetual rose by our present collection of 
about 150 popular varieties, we should, 
without much hesitation, mention the 
Earl of Dufferin. We have but one plant 
(sent us on trial by Ellwanger & Barry), a 
novelty of 1887. The growth is very vigor¬ 
ous, with large leaflets of firm texture and 
dark color. It is an early bloomer, and is 
said to be, as well, a continuous and late 
bloomer. The flowers are of large size and 
perfect symmetry, very double and cup¬ 
shaped, the outer petals beiDg broad, re¬ 
curving, and of a darker color than the 
others, being a dark crimson shaded with 
maroon, while the interior petals are a 
lighter crimson. The fragrance is pro¬ 
nounced and delightful. It will probably 
rank as the best dark rose yet produced.... 
Pride of Waltham (from the same firm) 
is an introduction of 1883, also a hybrid re¬ 
montant. It is of a deep flesh color, or 
light pink, with broad petals, usually 
described as shell-like. The buds are large 
and the petals unfold as do those of Perle. 
The fragrance is much like that of the 
Teas. The peduncles are stout and long— 
the leaflets three to five, of a dark green. 
The bush is stubby and compact. 
Beauty of Stapleford (Storrs & Harri¬ 
son Co.) is a hybrid tea, produced by Ben¬ 
nett in 1879. The buds are long, large and 
conical, without being pointed. The petals 
are very broad and recurve decidedly as 
they unfold. The color is pink, inclining 
to violet—a charming and rare color 
among roses. 
We hope that our readers will bear these 
three beautiful roses in mind when they 
think of adding to their collections. 
DIRECT. 
-Josiah Hoopes in N. Y. Tribune : 
“June is the season for ringing the bark 
of branches of fruit trees to induce forma¬ 
tion of flower-buds, or for increasing the 
size of fruit. It is very effective in both of 
these lines, although, while enlarging the 
fruit, it does it merely by increasing its 
amount of watery juice—the flavor is al¬ 
ways somewhat diluted. It is generally 
injurious to the branch operated on, and 
therefore should only be applied to redun¬ 
dant branches which it is desired to prune 
away after they have been fruited. A ring 
of one-fourth the diameter of the branch is 
broad enough.” 
- Prof Beal : “ Those who vote to 
make Red Clover our national flower, vote 
to place a foreigner in a high and honored 
place.” 
-Gov. Hoard : “ What is it that a 
farmer has to sell ? Skill. If he does not 
sell skill, he sells to kill.” 
-Century Magazine: “I afterward 
saw the prairies of Illinois, and the vast 
level stretches of farming country of nor¬ 
thern Ohio and Indiana, but these lands 
were nowhere quite so human, quite so 
beautiful, or quite so productive as the 
Blue-grass region. One likes to see the 
earth’s surface lifted up and undulating a 
little, as if it heaved and swelled with 
emotion; it suggests more life, and at 
the same time the sense of repose is 
greater. There is no repose in a prairie; it 
is stagnation, it is a dead level. Those 
immense stretches of flat land pain the eye, 
as if all life and expression had gone from 
the face of the earth. There is just uneven¬ 
ness enough in the Blue-grass region to 
give mobility and variety to the landscape.” 
-Dr. T. H. Hoskins : “ There has been 
a good deal of talk, of late, about overpro¬ 
duction, and ‘hard times’ have been 
charged to this as a cause. There is, no 
doubt, an overproduction of tobacco, and 
of whisky and beer materials upon our 
farms, tending directly towards a general 
impoverishment, and consequent hard 
times. But of the useful products of the 
farm, suitable to the clothing of man and 
the feeding of man and beast, how can we 
reckon a great store of these a cause of 
complaint—provided that store, or its repre¬ 
sentative in cash, is the property of the 
producer ? What constitutes a rich farmer 
if it be not full barns and garners, large 
flocks and herds, that are his and not 
another’s ? 
-Century Magazine : “The last half 
of a religious controversy generally consists 
in concealing the fact that neither party 
knew what he was talking about.” 
-“ It has often been said that the world 
consists mainly of fools, and one proof of it 
is that each individual fool is eager to ap¬ 
ply the statement to humanity at large.” 
- Dr. T. H. Hoskins : “Think what we 
would do if the State were full of beasts 
as destructive to cows as dogs are to 
sheep 1 ” 
-Christian Union: “Men who never 
went to college are in large majority the 
most munificent benefactors of colleges.” 
-“ The first use of a college is to give the 
best instruction, and money to buy brains 
is to day much more needed than an endow¬ 
ment for new buildings ” 
-T. B. Terry in Ohio Farmer : “ I will 
never have a hired man get me to call him 
mornings. Give him his meals regularly, 
morning, noon and night. Never hire a 
whisky toper. There is no use for them on 
a farm ; they are only fit for professional 
lives. The great secret lies in kindness to 
them. *Be just and true to them in every 
respect. Pay them as you agree, feed them 
well, furnish plenty of good farm reading 
matter for them, and give them a good 
chance to read evenings. Then stay at 
home yourself instead of lounging around 
the groceries or bar rooms, and be kind and 
good to your wife and family as well as to 
the hired man.” 
-Break Your Wisdom to Him Gently. 
—“ If you happen to be a little wiser of the 
two and there is no mistake about it, take 
pleasure in kindly imparting useful infor¬ 
mation to him; it will cost but little and 
do you both good. A practical teacher 
learns while informing others.” 
-Prof. S. W. Johnson: “Cottonseed 
meal, of good quality, such as is used for 
cattle food, continues to be one of the 
cheapest sources of available nitrogen in 
our fertilizer market, and that which is “ off 
color ” supplies nitrogen at an even lower 
price—about 12 cents per pound.” 
- Western Rural: “Stop taking qui¬ 
nine. A quinine taker is about as badly 
off as a whisky drinker.” 
- Jersey Bulletin : “ A weary busi¬ 
ness man comes home from his office at 
night, nervous and out of temper. A glass 
of Jersey milk heated to about 90 degrees, 
sipped a little at a time, and no food taken 
with it, or at most only a little bread and 
butter, will do more toward restoring him 
to happy mind and good physical condition 
than all the tempting viands that can be 
placed before him.” 
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