i89o 
should be drawn off and cold water put In 
its place. 
From all the experiments Col. Curtis 
has made for two years in diluting the milk 
under all sorts of conditions and circum¬ 
stances, he feels assured that the method 
can be worked to advantage where the 
facilities are not complete for raising the 
cream. The water put into the milk must 
be pure, or the cream will be tainted by it. 
It may be urged that the milk being 
diluted is not fit to use for animal food. 
Col. Curtis admits it is reduced in value 
according to its volume, but it has suffered 
no loss of its nutrients. The calves and 
pigs must be fed oftener. If they were fed 
eight quarts with two feedings, give them 
16 quarts with four feedings, and they will 
get as much nutriment and it will De more 
evenly divided than before, and no doubt 
they will do better. A better plan, so far as 
the pigs are concerned, is to give them the 
same amount of the diluted milk as of 
the whole milk, and put with it some 
wheat middlings. This would be utilizing 
the milk to better advantage than to feed 
it alone to pigs. Prof. Ladd’s comments 
on this matter will be found on page 527. 
How Goes it, Farmers ?—A leading ed¬ 
itorial in the N. Y. Times alludes to the 
fact that already a deficiency in the in¬ 
come of the Government is within sight 
and an increase of taxation seems unavoid¬ 
able. Every tax must be a burden on the 
people, and the farmers, who represent 
about one half of the population, must bear 
their share of these burdens. Is there such 
a probability that these great expenditures 
for agricultural colleges will ever repay 
the cost to the farmers as to make these 
new demands upon them justifiable ? As 
the Washington Department of Agricul¬ 
ture has assumed a certain degree of direc¬ 
tion and supervision over the experiment 
stations, so, in time, we may expect that it 
will undertake some sort of control over 
the colleges. Then we may look for the 
entrance of politics and patronage into 
these institutions, many of which are in a 
condition of dry-rot and constitutional decay 
already from this cause, due to the States’ 
management of them. Then the end will 
be worse than the beginning. More appro¬ 
priations will follow; more good money 
will go after the bad, and the foul odor of 
corruption will arise from the rotten re¬ 
mains of what might have been useful and 
profitable educational institutions under 
different management. It is simply the 
carrying out of unlimited protection to its 
inevitable results. The protection of one 
industry induces jealousy and envy in 
others, and thus the sap is distributed all 
around the circle. But there must be an 
end to it in time, for the system must 
topple over by its own unbalanced hight 
and weight and the weakness of its foun¬ 
dation. 
If Cruelty be Necessarily associated 
with sport, sport is unworthy of men and 
gentlemen,says the editor of Harper’s Maga¬ 
zine. It is undoubtedly the order of nature 
that stronger animals prey upon the lower. 
Indeed Swift says that a flea has smaller 
fleas that on him prey. Is that the reason 
for bringing a fox from one part of the 
country to loose him to be chased and ter¬ 
rified and killed in another part ? It is 
true also that man is a carnivorous animal, 
and feeds on flesh. But butchers and fish¬ 
ermen are provided to supply the market. 
Is the carnivorous formation of man a rea¬ 
son that boys should stone birds or men 
shoot deer, that we should bait dogs and 
shoot scared pigeons, not for food, but for 
fun ? Greatheart was entirely right. If it 
be fair and decent and honorable for sport 
or pleasure to hunt a frightened fox brought 
for the purpose of being hunted with dogs 
and killed, it is equally decent and becom¬ 
ing for a man to shake a frightened cat 
from a tree to be torn and devoured by 
dogs. The romance of the hunt is undeni¬ 
able. It is breezy and fresh and exciting, 
and its horn winds far and sweet in story 
and song until it becomes the born of elf- 
land faintly blowing. Foxes may be a pest 
that should be exterminated, like bears in 
a frontier country. But when a country 
is so far advanced in settlement and civili¬ 
zation that prosperous gentlemen dress 
themselves gaily in scarlet coats and buck¬ 
skin breeches, and ride blooded horses, and 
follow costly packs of hounds across 
country hunting a frightened fox, the fox 
is no longer a pest, and the riders are not 
f routiersmeu and honest settlers ; they are 
butchers, not for a lawful purpose, but for 
pleasure. The law solemnly takes life, but 
the judge who should take life for sport—! 
If a fox or any other auirnal destroys your 
poultry, you will justly destroy him if you 
can. Or if you catch a thief prowling about 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
531 
your house, you will deal with him in the 
most summary manner. But if you care¬ 
fully import a thief, and turn him loose on 
your silver closet for the purpose of shoot¬ 
ing him, you ought immediately to be 
made to choose between the lunatic asylum 
and thejgallows. 
WIDE-AWAKE ITEMS. 
The Jersey Bulletin says that Orchard 
Grass is the worst for the lawn. It is not 
so bad as Velvet Grass. 
A Herald correspondent says that there 
are three amateur farmers among the fash¬ 
ionables of Newport—Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
Moses Taylor’s son (Henry Taylor), and 
Ward McAllister—but to Mr. McAllister 
alone does the high distinction belong of 
having made farming pay, an achievement 
of which he is pardonably proud. 
Mr. Vanderbilt’s cabbages, they say, 
cost him $1 ahead ; while potatoes from the 
Taylor farm are as valuable as jewelry. 
August Belmont tried farming at Newport, 
but he found it considerably more expen¬ 
sive than keeping up a racing stable; and 
there are several other wealthy men among 
Newport’s summer residents who have 
spent a great deal of money to find out 
that farming is a costly amusement. 
They tell a story of Senator Evarts which 
is a good illustration of the usual experi¬ 
ence of the fancy farmer. He once showed 
a party of friends over his farm in Ver¬ 
mont. The day was hot, and after a tramp 
over the fields under a midday sun to see 
the Senator’s fancy cows, the visitors, with 
a fine thirst, came indoors for something 
cooling. Senator Evarts, while his thirsty 
friends looked on in a state of pleasant ex¬ 
pectancy, placed a half dozen bottles of 
champagne on one side of the table and a 
big pitchtr of milk on the other. Then, 
pointing first to the “phiz” and then to 
the milk, the Senator said: “Help your¬ 
selves, gentlemen. Take your choice; they 
both cost the same.” Ward McAllister isn’t 
that kind of an agriculturist. He owns a 
farm of 67 acres a few miles from Newport, 
which is, in a small way, a model of suc¬ 
cessful management and is well worth a 
description. 
The good Dr. Hoskins says, in a reverent 
way, tnat God is tired of manuring our 
land free. American farmers expect it, 
and are continually fleeing from soils they 
have robbed to other soils they still can 
rob. But the days of this robbery are well- 
nigh ended; and our task, how to get a 
living from worn land, will be in itself a 
liberal education. We are at the bottom of 
the hill; there are hights before us to be 
scaled that must brace up the character 
and enlarge the minds of those to whom 
the task falls. With the education thus 
attained a new generation of farmers will 
be more capable of assuming that political 
position to which their numbers entitle 
them. And there will be time enough for 
it. Sooner would be worse. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-T. B. Terry in Ohio Farmer : “ We 
depend solely on clover to keep our farm 
up; if you will add good tillage, the return 
of the wheat straw as well as the manure 
from what clover is made into hay. If 
we had known as much about clover, and 
how to use it so as to make it pay 20 
years ago as we do now, we might have 
got out of debt and had more of the com¬ 
forts of life much sooner than we did. We 
were too crazy after stable manure; but 
little A by little the wonders that could be 
done with clover were found out.” 
-Farmers’ Review : Sulphur for Potato 
Scab.— “A contributor to The Rural 
New-Yorker writes: ‘I have tried the 
Rural’s “ sulphur remedy” for tne potato 
scab and found it to be exafctly as recom¬ 
mended—a success. I made a test plot by 
planting every other hill with a tea-spoon- 
lul of sulphur sifted in planting time. The 
potatoes in the sulphured hills came out 
perfectly clean, while those in other hills 
were badly scabbed.’ ” 
- Harder’s Magazine : " But the human 
relation to domestic animals and animals 
that serve us isstill barbarous. No man can 
see what treatment a noble horse, straining 
and struggling to do his best, often receives 
from his owner, without wincing at the 
fate that abandons so fine a creature to so 
ignoble and cruel a tormentor.” 
-N. Y. Times: “If a dog were held to 
be fera natara (a wild beast) when off his 
owner’s premises, ail the present troubles 
and causes of complaint would cease at 
once, and shepherds would have far more 
certain protection than any so-called pro¬ 
tective tariff on wool would afford them.” 
-Farm Journal : “ A pennyworth of 
love is worth a pound of law.” 
“Sow turnips in the corn for the pigs, 
and, finally, sow turnips ’most everywhere 
for the pigs and sheep.” 
“ Give all the hogs shut in pens some 
grass, clover or green corn. Store hogs 
will live on this sort of food and do well. 
The green corn with the ears on will fatten 
them.” 
“ Probably no other name in the annals of 
American pomology is more widely known 
or universally esteemed than that of P. 
Barry, and no one could have gone from 
among us whose loss will be more generally 
deplored. Truly he was ‘ One of Nature’s 
noblemen.’ ” 
-N. Y. Herald: “ Everything is going 
to the dogs ? You long for the good old 
times ? We are rushing at headlong speed 
to eternal smash ? Bah, man, there never 
were such good times as these, never more 
philanthropy, charity, good will, courage, 
generosity, manliness or womanliness.” 
“You maybe sick, but the world is all 
right. It is a tip-top world, full of grand 
scenery, overhung with the unfading blue, 
soaked in opportunities if we have sense 
enough to see them, invitations to enjoy¬ 
ment, laughter, contentment and happiness 
in every breeze. If you are crazy you may 
be excused for moaning; if you are sick we 
can forgive your mental writhings, but if 
you are well, sound in mind and limb, a 
gloomy view of life is simply criminal.” 
“ Brace up, dear boyl do something worth 
mentioning and you will not be forgotten. 
Don’t be a tramp and then growl because 
your genius is unrecognized. Hitch your 
wagon to a star—there are plenty of stars 
waiting to be caught and harnessed—and 
then make good time in the general race. 
Our word for it, you will lose your taste for 
Byronic melancholy and want to live forever 
on this rumbling, strong-gaited, laughter- 
loving and happiness-giving planet.” 
“ This is the time of year when city folks 
write to their country cousins in terms of 
warm and disinterested affection.” 
-Christian Union : “ Play prepares for 
work or it fails in its purpose.” 
-John Morrison, Jr. : “ In all your 
work never carry too much sail for your 
ballast. Do not try to work a 100-acre 
farm on a capital sufficient only to do jus¬ 
tice to a 50-acre farm.” 
-Galveston News: “Castles in the 
air do not bring in any rent.” 
-Denver Road: “A cheerful old man 
or old woman is like the sunny side of a 
woodshed in the last of winter.” 
-N. Y. Herald: “All flesh is grass. 
Perhaps that accounts for the proneness of 
flesh to get hay fever.” 
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