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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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chief. It might be a good scheme for some 
of the officers to turn their attention to the 
hunting down of these four footed crim¬ 
inals that are doing so much damage and 
escape so readily. 
A Lottery Craze.— A Danbury corres¬ 
pondent of the Hartford Courant writes 
that that Connecticut city is at present 
well nigh demoralized by a lottery craze. 
It seems that an operative in one of the hat 
factories drew a big prize in the Louisiana 
Lottery recently, and a large proportion of 
the 5,000 operatives in Danbury have been 
buying lottery tickets ever since. The 
craze has gone to such an extent that bus¬ 
iness is interfered with. Families Buffer 
and storekeepers complain loudly. All the 
working people are talking lottery, and it 
is not the poor alone who buy tickets. It 
is estimated that Danbury has lost more 
money in this manner than from all other 
calamities put together for a long period. 
There is reason to believe that the prize re¬ 
ferred to was allowed to go to Danbury to 
revive drooping interest, as it is openly 
charged that the lottery managers shrewdly 
drop a prize in communities and among 
classes of workingmen where it will excite 
the gambling instinct. Not long ago a 
prize was drawn in this way, doubtless, by 
a Boston barber, and it is said to have been 
the worst thing that ever happened to 
barbers in that city. The gambling in¬ 
stinct is strong in human nature, and an 
institution which panders to that instinct 
and provokes it where it would not other¬ 
wise be aroused is a curse to the whole 
nation. Our Government ought to be suf¬ 
ficiently paternal to prevent the ignorant 
and credulous from being victimized in 
this way. The business is largely done 
through the mails. 
The Peanut and its Uses.—A recently 
published book relating to the peanut and 
its uses, gives some information about 
the making of oil from peanuts. At 
present prices of the nuts, the manufac¬ 
ture of oil might not prove very profitable, 
but In case of au over-supply, it would fur¬ 
nish means of disposing of the surplus, a 
very troublesome question nowadays. A 
bushel of peanuts, 20 pounds in the hull, 
when subjected to hydraulic pressure, is 
said to yield nearly a gallon of oil. The 
yield by cold pressure is from 40 to 50 per 
cent, of the shelled kernels, though if heat 
be used a larger quantity of oil but an in¬ 
ferior quality is obtained. The best peanut 
oil is nearly liquid with a faiut, agreeable 
odor and a bland taste, resembling that of 
olive oil. It is more limpid than olive oil 
and becomes quite thick when exposed to a 
temperature a few degrees below the freez¬ 
ing point of water. During the late war 
peanut oil was extensively applied in the 
Southern machine shops, and was regarded 
as superior in its lubricating qualities to 
whale oil. For burning it is highly es¬ 
teemed, but the chief use to which the oil 
is put at the present time is in making 
soap. There was imported into Marseilles, 
France, in one year, from the west coast of 
Africa, nearly $5,000,000 worth of peanuts 
to be used in the manufacture of soap. 
The oil-cake is highly esteemed as food for 
cattle. 
FINALLY. 
One of our best dairy authorities says, in 
the N. Y. Times, that another fad, recently 
introduced into the dairy, has perished of 
its own inherent weakness and inconsis¬ 
tency.- ' This is brine salting of butter, a 
troublesome but useless practice, which 
has at last proved to its advocates that it is 
a roundabout way of arriving at an end 
fully secured by the common practice of 
salting with dry salt. To salt butter suffi¬ 
ciently with brine one must incorporate 
with the butter just so much water and no 
more as will dissolve half au ounce of salt 
to the pound of butter. But the butter, as 
it comes from the churn, washed free of 
the milk, already contaius more water than 
will make a saturated solution with this 
quantity of salt, and consequently it is 
clearly impossible to get salt enough in the 
butter by brine salting without leaving too 
much water in it. 
One OUNCE of the fluest dry salt well in 
corporated with a pound of butter, will 
draw the excess of water from it, leaving 
half au ounce of the salt in every pound of 
it. 
IT is by neglect long continued that 
those wretched animals, the “scrubs” so 
called, are made, and it must be by long- 
continued care and generous feeding that 
they must be redeemed from their low es¬ 
tate. So it is with the best bred stock, 
which will deteriorate faster than the com¬ 
mon because they have tu° re F°°W to 
fall, unless carefully kept up to the highest 
point of thrift. 
Industrial Revolution in the South. 
—Our long-time and valued corespondent 
Henry Stewart, who at present owns and 
works a large farm In North Carolina, says 
that the industrial revolution in the South 
would amaze Northern farmers who have 
long supposed that the Southern farmers 
were but little above aborigines in their 
methods of farming. But when they learn 
that farms of 300 acres only are plowed by 
steam : that tobhcco plants are set out by 
machines on fields of 30 acres : that single 
farms have $40,000 breeding horses and $9,000 
jacks, and that a dairy farmer plants—also 
by machine—40 acres of cabbage for his 
cows every year; that a farmer has over 
$9,000 to the credit of his tobacco crop in 
three years after paying for costly curing 
houses and improved implements; that 
stacks of reapers, self-binders, mowing 
machines, hay-rakes and hay-loaders are 
to be seen along the railroads, while a bale 
of cotton—thanks to the reorganized rail¬ 
roads—can be taken from the farm to the 
shipping port for 33 cents, against $2.35, the 
former charges, and that the credit system 
is in course of abolition by the banks 
which loan at 10 per cent., so that the 
farmers can buy for cash, pay wages in 
cash monthly, and sell for cash, and pay 
their loans promptly, the Northern farmer 
will begin to think that the slow turtle is 
beating the hare in the race. 
Our respected contemporary the Orange 
Co. Farmer, says that if the country is to be 
prosperous the farmer must be made pros¬ 
perous, while if Wall Street were practically 
exterminated, no harm could come of it. 
The speculative class, who reap where they 
do not sow, who produce nothing, who con¬ 
tribute nothing to human comfort, have no 
excuse for living. They are the fleas and 
mosquitoes of the human race—they are 
parasites which serve no useful purpose. 
They stand like a highwayman between 
producer and consumer and levy their con¬ 
tributions on both. The farmer is just find¬ 
ing out the cause of his troubles. When he 
puts his demands in shape and goes to the 
polls prepared to euforcethem, he will “ get 
there,” as our Western friends say, “with 
both feet.”. 
Sheep which were given away two years 
ago for the value of the pelts are now 
bought back again for $4 to $5. 
Keeping sheep is not all that fancy paints 
it, says Henry Stewart. It is an easy and 
profitable industry when well managed, 
but no other is so easily and unprofitably 
brought to an untimely end for want of 
tact and skill or experience. It is not safe 
to listen to the voice of the charmer, whose 
occupation is selling fancy sheep at high 
prices. 
WORD frOR WORD. 
- Journal of Commerce : “ There are 
very few men in this world who can obtain 
out of it all to which they can lay a plaus¬ 
ible claim.” 
-N. Y. World : “ Over-production is 
caused solely by confining the consumption 
of a product to a house, a town, a county, a 
State or a country. Give it the world and 
the world’s markets, and over-production 
is no more possible than to arrest the stars 
in their courses.” 
-Colman’s Rural World: “We may 
meet, and talk, declaim and pass resolu¬ 
tions from now until Doomsday, but un- 
Jess we do our level best with what we 
work at, our wages will be cut down, and 
given to better men, or our farms be taken 
from us to be worked by others.” 
A WORD or CAUTION. 
“A wtee man lu the dark of night 
Will never try to smell a rose. 
For just as sure as he lacks sight 
He’ll get a thorn stuck In his nose.” 
—N. Y. Herald. 
-Life : “ We may live to see publishers 
join with grocers and dry goods men in ad¬ 
mitting that Honesty is the best Policy, 
after all.” 
- Journal of Commerce : “ If a given 
fabric can be bought at 50 cents a yard in a 
foreign market, and the duty is 50 per 
cent., it costa 75 cents to lay it down here, 
exclusive of other expenses. Suppose this 
puts up the price of the competing domes¬ 
tic product 20 cents a yard, the result may 
be a much heavier tax than is apparent on 
a superficial estimate. If 10,000,000 yards 
are imported, and 20,000,000 yards are made 
here, then the Treasury realizes but $2,- 
500,000 from Its tax, while the country pays 
$6,500,000 in consequence of it. That is, it 
pays 50 per cent, on the imported goods 
costing $5,000,000, and 20 cents a yard, or 
$4,000,000, as the extra cost of the 20,000,000 
yards produced here, We are not arguing 
that it Is not wisest and best—part of a 
sound financial policy—to pay so large a 
price to limit the importation of foreign 
goods and to encourage their production 
here; we are only showing the natural ef¬ 
fect of such a course, and the greatly in¬ 
creased volume of the tax where it is used 
for protective purposes. When it is laid 
on products all of which used in the 
country are grown or made abroad, the 
Treasury receives all that is paid : when it 
is laid on goods for the purpose of protect¬ 
ing a domestic product, the Treasury may 
receive only a small part of what is paid.” 
-The following poetical effusion against 
the Jerseys was perpetrated by an admirer 
of the Holstein Friesians in the Holstein- 
Friesian Register: 
Does the sweet little “ (Teeter ” 
Wish thp Holstein to meet her, 
By the meter to test which la best? 
The Holstein old meet her. 
And everywhere beat her. 
Perhaps ’twould be meeter 
To set forth in meter. 
Which breed the meter 
Declares the best. 
-Farmer’s Advocate : “No species of 
slavery is worse than the ‘ credit system.’ ” 
-Philadelphia Weekly Press: “As a 
rule farmers are as thrifty, as alert to take 
advantage of circumstances, as industrious, 
as frugal as are men of other callings. But 
among men of other callings, a large per 
cent, fail in business, and when such disas¬ 
ter comes, it is not generally attributed to 
freight rates or combinations or any other 
cause outside of the men themselves. They 
fail, we say, because they lacked business 
sagacity, or business habit Few farmers 
have failed although many complain. But 
would it not be wise now and then to use 
the same standards when judging ourselves 
which we use in judging other men.” 
-Garden and Forest : “ According to 
the Revue Horticole, the best new rose of 
the year which has appeared in Paris is 
the variety on which has been bestowed 
the somewhat cumbersome name of La 
France de 1889. It is a seedling from La 
France, with flowers equal in size to those 
of Paul Neyron. The color of the flowers 
is described as a soft rose-magenta, and 
they reach even on the young plants a 
diameter of six inches.” 
-How CROPS Grow : “ The energy with 
which vegetable matters imbibe water may 
be gathered from a well-known fact. In 
granite quarries, long blocks of stone are 
split out by driving plugs of dry wood into 
holes drilled along the desired line of frac¬ 
ture. and pouring water over the plugs. 
The liquid penetrates the wood with im¬ 
mense force, and the toughest rock is 
easily broken apart.” 
-How Crops Grow: “The roots of our 
root crops, properly so called, viz , beets, 
turnips, carrots and parsnips, when har¬ 
vested in autumn contain the elements of a 
second year’s growth of stem, etc., in the 
form of a bud at the crown of the root. If 
the crown be cut away from the root, the 
latter cannot vegetate, while the growth 
of the crown itself is not thereby pre¬ 
vented.” 
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