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AUG. 9 
Publisher's Desk. 
Opportunities Improved are the 
Gold Mines of Life. 
ACCORDING TO PROMISE. 
Two years ago we promised to distribute 
among our readers certain varieties of The 
R. N.-Y. wheats as soon as the supply 
• should enable us so to do. It may now be 
announced that we are prepared to fill all 
applications received before September 15, 
inclosing two two cent stamps. The var¬ 
ieties have been named as follows : 
Willits.—This is a rye wheat hybrid, 
though resembling wheat in every way. 
The heads are beardless, inclined to club- 
shape, white chaff, medium-sized amber 
kernels—four to a breast. It is nearly as 
early as rye. 
Roberts.—This is also a rye-wheat hy¬ 
brid by parentage, though resembling 
wheat in all essential respects. The heads 
are bearded, the kernels large and of amber 
color—three to four grains to a breast. It 
is very early. The stems are tall and strong. 
Stewart.—This is a pure wheat cross. 
It is late in maturing. Heads very long, 
averaging four inches, nine breasts to a 
side, heavily bearded—three to four grains 
to a breast, of medium size and amber 
color. Stems tall and strong. 
Bailey.—A pure wheat cross. Early. 
Heads average three inches, somewhat club- 
shaped, seven breasts to a side, chaff white, 
beardless. Generally four grains to a 
breast, medium to small in size, hard and 
of an amber color. 
Beal.—Pure wheat cross. Medium to 
mature. Stems pink. Heads average nearly 
four inches, breasts crowded, often 10 to a 
side; chaff very clear and white, heavily 
bearded—four grains to a breast, fair size, 
amber color. 
Johnson.—Pure wheat cross. Medium 
to mature. Heads average nearly four 
inches, eight breasts to a side, chaff white, 
heavily bearded, three to four grains to a 
breast, of fair size, and bright amber color; 
hard. 
A REQUEST. 
We have to request that all applicants 
will prepare a plot six-fortieths (3 20) of an 
acre in area. Divide this into six plots, 
each one 33 feet square, or one-fortieth of 
an acre. Make the drills a foot apart and 
plant asingleseed every foot in the drill, an 
inch deep as nearly as may be. So soon, in 
the fall or early winter as the soil is frozen 
hard enough to bear, mulch the plots with 
an inch of well-iotted horse or farm 
manure. 
INASMUCH 
as it is desirable that the real value of these 
wheats should be made known to the 
wheat-growing public as early as practi¬ 
cable, it is first of all important that they 
should be tried in every portion of the 
country adapted to winter-wheat culture, 
and second, that our readers should report 
to The R. N.-Y. next summer, the yields 
of the six different kinds and their com¬ 
parative merits as nearly as may he. 
EACH VARIETY. 
will be put up in a bmall envelope with the 
name printed thereon, and theentire collec¬ 
tion, under the cover of a strong envelope, 
will be mailed, as has been stated, to every 
applicant who incloses two two-cent stamps. 
AN EDUCATED YOUNG FARMER. 
WIIAT HE THINKS OF THE COLLEGE EDU¬ 
CATION. 
We print herewith an extract from a 
private letter, written by a recent graduate 
of the agricultural department of Cor¬ 
nell University, to one of his former 
teachers in the College of Agriculture. It 
needs no comment, but merits the care¬ 
ful attention of our young readers : 
“.Although I have been through the Univer¬ 
IHE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
sity, I feel as much a farmer as I did before 
entering, and I am certain that I am a 
very different farmer from what I would 
have been had I never entered. To verify 
what I have said, I wish to tell you what I 
have been and am doing. I have been home 
only one month. I have over 7,000 cab¬ 
bages, early and late, that are doing nicely, 
and 1,200 tomatoes, mostly Early Advance, 
although I have about 50 Ignotums. I 
have early potatoes, beets, squashes, 
cucumberp, etc. 
The market I think is a little above par. 
We have a new ‘sanitarium,’ opened 
in June, and this alone will consume the 
truck from a considerable garden ; besides, 
we have a town of 3,000, with no truck 
farms in the immediate vicinity. The 
town has five hotels, three of them exclu¬ 
sively summer houses. Our vineyards are 
looking well, considering the difficulty w r e 
have had in working them, owing to ex¬ 
cessive rain in the early part of the season.” 
Watkins, N. Y. L. C. C. 
AT THE FAIRS. 
Numerous applications have been re¬ 
ceived from our friends to represent The 
R. N.-Y. at the fairs this fall, but there are 
plenty of chances for more, and we shall be 
glad to correspond with all who have any 
desire to earu a few dollars in this way. 
FOR INTRODUCTION ONLY. 
We will send The R. N.-Y., 
or The American Garden 
from receipt of order to 
January 1, 1891, to any new 
subscriber for 75 cents, as a 
means of introduction to 
new readers. 
Live Stock Notes. 
A Working Dairy.— Mr. Wm. M. Re¬ 
gan, Manager of the Great Northwestern 
Exposition, which opens August 27 at 
Minneapolis, Minn., sends the following 
note : “ Mr. Charles Le Vesconte has been 
appointed superintendent of our working 
dairy exhibit for this year’s Exposition. 
Not only do we contemplate having a work¬ 
ing dairy in the Exposition, actually mak¬ 
ing butter every afternoon and evening 
under the most modern process, but we 
also are prepared to devote considerable 
space to the exhibition of dairy appliances 
and articles of every kind in any way con¬ 
nected with the dairy business.” 
Sale of Holstein-Friesians. — Jere 
Allis, of the Reliance Stock Farm, Isin- 
ours, Fillmore County, Minn., writes : “ I 
shall hold a public sale of Holstein-Friesians 
on Friday, September 5, at La Crosse, Wis., 
during the week of the Inter-state Fair. 
My stock will embrace a draft of the very 
choicest animals from my herd, compris¬ 
ing cows with large milk and butter records, 
and of the best breeding and individuality. 
This will be a good chance to get founda¬ 
tion stock of the Tritomia, Netherlaud, 
Clothilde and Aaggie families.” 
Dairy Manager.— How long will it be 
before we can chronicle concerning an 
American girl, an item like the following, 
which we find in an English paper ? “ Miss 
Evans one of the prominent pupils of the 
South Pembrokeshire Dairy School, has 
been appointed dairymaid to the Duke of 
Newcastle at a salary of £51 per year, with 
house rent free and various perquisites. 
Miss Evans is only 21 years of age, and was 
very highly commended at a recent dairy 
competition held at Pembroke.” Have we 
no American girls capable of handling a 
large dairy 1 What a seuselesss question ! 
Of course we have. 
Some Dakota Holsteins.— The Dakota 
Valley herd, owned by I. C. Wade, of 
Jamestown, Dakota, was very successful at 
the fairs last season. A local paper speaks 
of their appearance at the Minnesota .State 
Fair : “ There in the ring for dairy breeds, 
with five States competing and six differ¬ 
ent breeds, being the largest ring ever led 
out at a State fair ground, as all known 
dairy breeds were represented, Secretary of 
Agriculture, Jerry Rusk himself, picked 
out the herd and the best cow, giving this 
herd the grand $300 silver plate prize, and 
Alrnee the single L cow prize, and also a 
prize as the best Holstein on the ground, 
the Honorable Secretary remarking that 
she was the finest Holstein he had ever 
handled. This shows the head of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture knows his busi¬ 
ness. for the judges hud made their de 
cision, unknown to him.” 
More “ Record Breakers.”— The Hol¬ 
stein cow, Parthenea 9597, has recently 
completed a seven days’ milk-and butter 
test. She gave 548 pounds three ounces of 
milk which made 38 pounds 8% ounces of 
butter, or five pounds 8% ounces of butter 
per day. She was pastured and received a 
daily grain ration of 27 pounds of ground 
feed consisting of oats, bran, oil-meal and 
corn. This cow is owned by R. S. Stevens, 
of the Maplewood Stock Farm. Another 
Holstein cow, Natsey, owed by Ehrich & 
White, of Colorado, gave, in seven days, 
548% pounds of milk, which made34 pounds 
nine ounces of butter, and, in addition, 
about one quart of cream was spilled. The 
cow was fed ground corn and oats, wheat- 
bran, ertton seed meal, oil meal, Alfalfa 
and green clover—all the Alfalfa and clover 
she would eat. She had no drink except 
what she obtained from the water troughs 
in the yards. The Holstein cow r . Pauline 
Paul, owned by J. B. Dutcher & Son, of 
Pawling, N. Y., finished the fifth month of 
her butter test on July 7, having made 613 
pounds and 14%' ounces. 
Dairy Exhibit at the World’s Fair.— 
A meeting of representative dairymen was 
held in Chicago, July 16, for the purpose of 
preparing for a suitable dairy exhibit at the 
“Columbian Exposition.” Themeetingwas 
well attended by representative men. The 
following officers were elected: President, 
W. D. Hoard, Secretary R. Lespinasse, 
Chicago, Ill. The following resolutions 
were adopted: 
Whereas, The dairy industry of the 
United States is of such vast magnitude, 
reaching in annual increment an aggregate 
of $640,000,000. giving employment to hun¬ 
dreds of thousands and representing a cap 
ital of over $2 000,000,000; and 
Whereas, It is of great importance 
that this vast interest should be adequately 
represented at the Columbian Exposition of 
1893, this convention representative of dairy 
oiganizations, desires to give expression to 
the following resol tions; 
Resolved, That the World’s Fair Directors 
be urged to provide buildings suitable for 
caring for dairy cattle,milk, butter, cheese 
and machinery, adequate to keeping work¬ 
ing dairies on exhibition each day of the 
fair, that it may be educational as well as 
artistic; and that commissioners be ap¬ 
pointed to visit every section of Europe 
having dairy interests and solicit exhibits. 
Two Good Jerseys.— Miller & Sibley of 
Franklin, Penn., send us the following 
note :—“ We send you reports of two more 
daughters of our Jersey bull Stoke Pogis 
5th, 5987, that we have tested for butter, 
each with her first calf. These make 13 of 
his young daughters that have now full 
weekly tests. Sister of Charity 62453, of the 
age of two years and seven months, for 
the seven days ending June 13, 1890, gave 
174 pounds eight ounces of milk, which 
yielded 16 pounds live ounces of choice but¬ 
ter. Pretty Patty 44108, age three years 
and two months, for the seven days ending 
June 12, 1890, gave 228 pounds of milk, 
w’hich made 15 pounds 4% ounces of extra 
butter. In each case the butter was salted 
one ounce to the pound and worked and 
ready for market. The dam of Sister of 
Charity was Nell Pogis 31991; she by Litch¬ 
field of Lee Farm 8414, he a son of Litchfield 
674 and Victoria Guelph 3898. The dam of 
Nell Pogis was Nell of St. Lambert, which 
is a full sister of our bull Ida’s Rioter of St. 
L., 13656, their sire being Bachelor of St. 
Lambert 4558, and their dam Ida of St. 
Lambert 24990. The dam of Pret ty Patty 
is Yellow Lass 32603, by Yellow Boy 6381. 
a grandson of Eurotas. Thedamof Yellow 
Lass 32603, is that Lass O’ Lowries 9128, a 
daughter of Victor P. S. 148 on I. of J. 
Judging Poultry by Comparison.— 
Robert Colgate, President of the N. Y. 
Poultry and Pigeon Association, was asked 
by the stockholders to decide which system 
of judging—by scoring or comparison— 
should be used at the next poultry show. 
In his reply Mr. Colgate says: “That 
both methods are feasible is show’u from 
the fact that both are in practice in differ¬ 
ent places and answer the ends for which 
they are intended, and without doubt 
there is a great deal to be said in favor of 
each method, therefore, in rendering my 
decision I will be governed entirely by the 
experience gained at our show, held last 
February. At that show’ the only serious 
(Continued on next paye.) 
If you name The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
University of the State of New York. 
AMERICAN 
VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
13!) and Ml West r>4th St., New York City. 
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION 
Clruclarand Information can be hud on application to 
l»r. A. LIAUT ' BI). V. M.. Dean of the Faculty. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE 
DO YOU WANT THE BEST? 
Inen send lor a Catalogue ol the ohly 
herd in which 100 Cows have averaged 
11) ll*s. and 18 have averaged 24 lbs. of 
butter per week. In which 1)0 Cows 
have averaged 16,011) lbs. ol milk per 
year. 
HORSES, 
Clydesdale, Percheron, French Coach, 
American-bred Coach, Standard-bred 
Trotters, ol the best and most Popular 
Breeding. 
Also Berkshire and Cheshire Swine. 
Separate Catalogues of Horses and Cattle. Prices 
low for high quality of stock. (In writing mention 
this paper.) 
SMITHS, POWELL & LAMB 
8\ UACU8K. IV. Y. 
SHEEP SHROPKIIMIe! LAMBS 
COTS WOLD, OXFORD DOWN AND MERINO. Bred 
from highest class prize winning stock. Lambs 
ready for shipping August I : also a few choice Rams 
and Ewes. 1, 2 and 3-year old, of all the above breeds. 
A number of prize winners ready for shipment about 
the middle of October. 
YORKSHIRE PICS. 
JERSEY HKDS. CHESTER WHITE, POLAND 
CHINAS, BERKSHIRE. Spring litters rendy for Irn 
mediate shipment. Also several Rough Coated Seotcn 
Collie Bitches. I to 2 years old. Write at once for 
prices. \V. Alice Burpee As Co., Philadelphia, Pa 
Berkshire 
AND 
Yorkshire 
Pigs of oho'eo 
prize strains, 
cllgltdc to reg¬ 
istry. Pigs of 
different ages 
for sale. Prices 
reason'ihle.W. 
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P IGS, Chesters.Berkshires, Polands. Fox Hounds 
Beagles, Collies, Setters W. GIBBONS ft CO. 
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J A8f*!V EL LA Its, BOOKWALTER, OHIO, has 
for sale Registered Berkshire Pigs and South¬ 
down Sheep that are first-class. Reasonable prices. 
rt I I /'VI / '• U YOUNG SMALL AND MEDIUM 
1111/ 1 V.'JL YORKSHIRE PIGS at reduced 
prices to make room. Address W r . E. PENDLETON, 
Red House Farm, New London, Conn. 
JOHN DE WOLF, 
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will receive prompt attention. Address care of The 
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