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AUG. 23 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Publisher s Desk. 
There is no Genius like Hard Work. 
The fir3t of our series of Fair Numbers 
will be issued next week. Just before 
starting with its wife on the fair circuit, 
The R. N.-Y. takes occasion to repeat that 
it hopes to meet all the folks and to make 
a good many new friends. Our family is 
not large enough yet to suit us. If all our 
folks will only give us the proper introduc¬ 
tion to their neighbors and friends we will 
try to increase the family. We are all 
ready to pay our way and we will pay for 
introductions too. That is to say, we will 
pay reliable men good wages to take sub¬ 
scriptions for The Rural New-Yorker 
and The American Garden. We can also 
help those who have something to sell, as 
we are ready to take their business cards 
along in our trunk and hand them out to 
those we meet. Remember, we are going 
to the fairs to make a business of becoming 
acquainted with the best farmers in the 
country. Agents and advertisers take 
notice. 
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, tne 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. 
Johhson.—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 83 feet square, or one-fortieth of 
an acre. Make the drills a foot apart and 
plant a single seed 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 hinds and their com¬ 
parative merits as nearly as may he. 
EACH VARIETY. 
will be put up in a small 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. 
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. 
The Queen of England is a breeder of 
Dorset horned sheep. 
Jersey Cattle are to be well taken 
care of at the Connecticut State Fair this 
year. 
A Dairy School will be held at the 
Geneva Experiment Station, on September 
2, 3, 4 and 5. Instruction will be given in 
churning, butter making, treatment and 
care of milk and cream and milk testing, 
Mr. John W. Akin of Scipio, N. Y., will 
arrive at Elmwood Stock Farm about Aug. 
20, with a new importation of French stal¬ 
lions and mares. Mr. Akin was one of the 
earliest buyers in France this year, and has 
the finest selection of these grand horses he 
has ever imported. 
Sheep and The Hessian Fly.—T he 
Kentucky Experiment Station has the fol¬ 
lowing in its latest bulletin : “Pasturing 
with sheep in autumn can evidently be of 
service only when carried on before the 
eggs hatch, as after that the maggot is 
below the surface of the ground. Pastur¬ 
ing in spring, to be effectual, must be after 
the eggs of the summer brood have been 
laid, as spring pasturing cannot either des¬ 
troy the flaxseed in the wheat or the adult 
fly.” Who has ever tried this ? 
A Milking Hereford.— The Live Stock 
Indicator says that they are milking a 
Hereford cow at the Kansas Agricultural 
College, that gives 56 pounds of milk each 
day. She has to be milked three times a 
day. News of this kind is a terrible slap to 
those breeders who declare that beef and 
milk qualities do not go together. For the 
information of this class, it is stated that 
this fine Hereford cow is a perfect model of 
a beef type, with a wealth of flesh on her 
back, and though she has no feed except 
good pasture, yet her form is such that she 
would place many fat-stock show steers ir 
the shade. 
C. E. Morrison of Londonderry, Pa., 
says in his circular " Never before, since 
I made Chester Whites a specialty, have I 
been so well fixed to supply my customers 
with stock as now. I give my entire time 
and attention to my hogs and customers, 
and it is an honest fact that I have never had 
enough hogs to supply my trade. In select¬ 
ing my herd I have tried to get a hog to suit 
and please all. My type is as follows : 
short, heavy nose, dished face,wide between 
eyes and ears, ears drooping, wide across 
loin, heavy hams, a short, strong leg. I 
ay considerable attention to head and 
ams, for the head is the first part you look 
at, and every person wants it perfect: then, 
the ham is the best meat and sells for most 
money in the market.” 
Texas Screw Worm.— The Veterinarian 
of the Texas Experiment Station, M. Fran¬ 
cis, M. D., contributes the following infor¬ 
mation regarding a dangerous pest: “ The 
name * screw worm ’ is applied to the larva 
of a dipterous insect (Lucilia macellaria) 
when parasitic on man or domestic ani¬ 
mals. The fly is abundant here in Texas 
during the summer months, and loses very 
few opportunities to deposit its eggs in all 
sores, wounds, or even in the natural open¬ 
ings of men or animals. The eggs hatch 
into larvae or ‘worms’ that at once begin 
feeding on the animal tissues, causing open 
sores that are constantly bleeding. As a 
rule, we find the worms in wounds such as 
from horn thrusts, barb-wire injuries, cas¬ 
tration, branding, spaying, and the burst¬ 
ing of ticks turgid with blood. The writer 
has also seen them in the vulvas of mares 
and cows, especially after giving birth to 
young; in the mouths of calves, causing 
the teeth to fall out; in the navels of young 
calves,and even In the stomachs (rumens) of 
calves. In about a week the worms reach 
maturity, fall out of the wounds into the 
f round, and there pass their pupa stage 
atching out as flies in from nine to 12 
days. There are usually deposits of fresh 
eggs about the edges of sores, and these 
hatch, furnishing a constant supply of 
young larvae. The sores are sometimes very 
extensive, and sometimes involve some 
vital structure, with painful results. The 
treatment varies with circumstances. Cat¬ 
tle with their rough tongues seem to lick 
the worms out if the sores are accessible. 
Hogs usually care for themselves if they 
have access to a mud hole. Stockmen 
usually destroy the worms with cresylic 
ointment, calomel, or chloroform, and 
daub the sores with tar to ward off the fly.” 
Questions for Dairymen.— The Secre¬ 
tary of the Columbian Dairy Association 
issues a circular to the dairymen of the 
country. They are requested to send him 
answers to the following questions regard¬ 
ing the exhibit at the World’s Fair. Ad¬ 
dress W. H. Morrison, Madison, Wis.: 1. 
Do you think it practical to continue the 
exhibition of dairy cattle during the entire 
six months of the fair ? 2. Should exhibits 
of dairy stock be unlimited as to number 
and quality, or restricted by the Com¬ 
mission ? 3. Can you give me an estimate 
of the dairy cattle, either by cattle clubs or 
individuals, that will probably be exhib¬ 
ited? 4. Do you or do you not think it 
would be for the interest of the breeders of 
dairy cattle to exhibit such cattle in con¬ 
junction with the general dairy exhibit 
rather than with the general live stock ex¬ 
hibit ? 5. Will you give me your judg¬ 
ment as to the best method of exhibiting 
dairy cattle ? 6. Shall we have a working 
dairy during the entire fair ? ” 
Smiths, Powell & Lamb send us the fol¬ 
lowing note: “ Mi’. Powell, of our firm, 
who has been spending the last few months 
in Europe, after visiting England, France 
and Germany, to study the various breeds 
of coach horses, selected 12 young stallions 
and a few mares of the French Coach 
breed, which have arrived in very fine con¬ 
dition, and are decidedly a choice lot. His 
long and extensive experience with road 
and coach horses especially qualified him 
to select such as are required by the best 
breeders of this country. It is seldom that 
such a uniformly choice lot can be seen. 
All are bays and browns, of large size, fine 
quality, and unusually stylish and with 
superior action. This makes our stock of 
Clydesdales, Percherons, Coachers and 
standard-bred trotters very complete, and 
we are prepared to fill orders for any of 
these breeds with the best specimens and 
at prices which must be satisfactory to the 
purchaser.” 
Good Demand for Herefords.— Thomas 
J. Higgins, of Council Grove, Kansas, 
writes, regarding his herd of Hereford 
cattle: “ Trade with the ranchmen this 
season has been greater than it has been 
for the past four or five years; in fact I 
have sold all my bull calves over eight 
months old. The demand has been so good 
for Hereford bulls that a number are buy¬ 
ing the young bull calves, so that they will 
be sure of them another season. I do not 
think there was half enough Hereford bulls 
this season to fill the orders. I have a 
large trade in Texas, New Mexico and 
Arizona. Cattlemen from the latter buy 
calves six to eight months old, as at such 
age they acclimate better than when older. 
New Mexico wants 15 to 18-month-old bulls. 
Nearly all are buying pure bred bulls, as 
they see the difference in the calves of these 
and of grade bulls. I look fur a good de¬ 
mand for pure bred bulls for a number of 
years, and now I am having some inquiries 
for heifers. It looks to me that from now 
on the ranchman is going to make more 
money than he has had for some years past. < 
Everything is pointing to a bright future. 
I have orders for two car-loads which I can¬ 
not fill. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. 
There is reduction in condition of all 
cereals, as reported by the Statistician of 
the Department of Agriculture. The de¬ 
cline from the 1st of July to the 1st of 
August is from 93.1 to 73.3 in corn ; from 
94.4 to 83.2 in spring wheat; from 81.6 to 
70.1 in oats; from 88.3 to 82.8 in barley. 
Condition of buckwheat is 90.1, and of 
spring rye, 86.8. Condition of Irish pota¬ 
toes is reduced from 91.7 to 77.4. 
A fall of 20 points indicates the disaster 
which has befallen the corn crop within 30 
days. The cause is the abnormally high 
temperature of the central maize districts, 
with insufficiency of rainfall. The returns 
of drought, which cover a broad area, and 
the severity of effects produced, are more 
general and depressing than the signal- 
service record of temperature appears to 
indicate. One factor in the blighting of 
vegetation is evidently the hot winds that 
have scorched the lower basin of the Mis¬ 
souri Valley and the Ohio Valley. The 
change from drought to daily saturation 
by repeated and heavy showers has been 
too sudden and extreme in those regions 
where drought has been relieved by seasons 
of moisture. The crop is late in the New 
England States, and will require a long, 
warm season to mature it. In the Middle 
States the high temperature has advanced 
growth in the northern distiicts, and in 
the more southern there has been some in¬ 
jury from drought. The South Atlantic 
States report local droughts, with subse¬ 
quent rains and comparatively good though 
somewhat reduced condition of corn. Some 
counties in Mississippi have suffered ma¬ 
terially from absence of seasonable rnois- 
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19 lbs. and 18 have averaged 24 lbs. ol 
butter per week. In which 96 Cows 
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PURE BRED 
Suffolk Down Sheep. 
Three Buck Lambs, and two yearling Bucks (im¬ 
ported) for sale. Read article in Rural of June 7. 
Price, $S0 to $40 each. Will show at State Fair. 
M. B. STREETER, 113 Hooper St., Brooklyn. N.Y. 
SHEEP SHROPSHIRE,’ LAMBS 
COTSWOLD. OXFORD DOWN AND MERINO. Bred 
from highest class prize winning stock. Lambs 
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A number of prize winners ready for shipment about 
the middle of October. 
YORKSHIRE PICS. 
JERSKY REDS. CHESTER WHITE, POLAND 
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prices. W. Atlee Burpee. A Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Oxford Down Sheep. 
Some very tine Buck Lambs and three imported 
yearling Bucks; also a few Ewes lor sale. Purely 
llock book bred. Price, $15 to $40 each. 
S. S. STREETER, Westbury, L. I., N. Y. 
P IGS, Chesters.Berkshlres, Polamis. Fox Hounds, 
Reagles, Collies, Setters W. GIRRONS <4 CO., 
West Chester, Pa. Send stamp for Circular. 
J ASON ELLABS, BOOKWALTER. OHTO, has 
for sale Registered Berkshire Pigs and South¬ 
down Sheep that are tlrst-class. Reasonable prices. 
YOUNG 8MALL AND MEDIUM 
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