Crnttf |lra#rat. HELLKPONTK, l'A. NEWS, kIATB AM) BIHHiEtJTIONH. tut TttT • TUt XATInSAL wtcLFttt IK Tilt IST SIM uttct AXD rautrttiti or tut (Aitu. Evrry farmer in Ait annual experience discovers something of mine. Write it and triii/ it to the "Agricultural Editor of the DKUOI'KAT, licllefonte, I'rnn'n," that other farmert may hare the benefit of it. Let communication be timely, and be sure that they are brief and well pointed. THE importance of good, fronli, pure seed for nil our firm and garden crops is generally admitted, and farm ers, as a rule, take pains to secure the best. The business of growing and selling seeds, mainly for the garden and "truck-patch," has, of late years, assumed great propoitions; and as the profits are large, unscrupulous jiersons have been attracted to the trade, who, by their more than doubt ful practices, render the purchasing of seeds from them a somewhat risky venture. We are glad to believe, however, that this does not apply to the trade in general, and we know that there are among the seedsmen many of entire reliability. Promi nent among these stands the old house of 11. K. Bliss k Sons, ill Bar clay-st., New York. For ten years past we have regularly purchased our supply of seeds of them, and in the many dozens of packages which we have in that time received from them wc have not had a solitary disnp ! pointment. Their seeds have always, I with us, proven true to name, pure ( and fresh, and, witfi careful planting, never fail to germinate. We know of no seeds which we can recommend ' with more confidence than those sold by B. K. Bliss k Sons. In addi tion to their annual catalogue, which is issued without charge to all cus- '< toniers, or U> any one who will apply by postal card, they publish and sell fof thirty-five cents, an annual called 1 the Amateur's Guide, of over 200 pages, wiuch contains as much in formation as any one dollar book on gardening wc ever saw. How to Make a Nest Properly. Nothing is more provoking tlinn fo go to the trouble and expense of sending a distance for a sitting of eggs of some improved and desirable breed of fowls, and after patient waiting for three weeks have a large porportiou of them fail to "hatch." No doubt carelessly and improperly inade nests are often the cause of poor results. We are indebted for the following good advice on the subject to the handsome circular of i Mr. Geo. 0. Brown, proprietor of the Montvuc poultry yards, Brookland villc, Md.: Is essential to success in setting eggs, ami improperly made nests are often the cause of poor results. A box suftic I iently large enough to allow the ben to turn nround without crowding against the sides, with the nest made in the centre, as follows: First put in the box three or four inches of fresh earth, rounding out to projwr shape, then oat or other abort, broken straw, which after fixed in, sprinkle a handful of sifted ashes, and the nest is ready for the eggs. If in the early part of the season, from nine to eleven eggs are plenty, for it there are more the outer ones become chilled., and as the hen turns them often, in time the eggs in the centre also get to the outside and nearly all become chillod. Should an egg get broken, they should all he carefully washed in warm or tepid water, and clean straw re place the other. Feed and water at a certain hour each day, and keep your setting hens where other fowls cannot molest them. Always have a dust liath for them. Horse Baring at Fairs. A correspondent of the Elmira Farmer's Club bandies this subject without gloves, and wc pass his opin ions along for the judgment of our Centrc county farmers, llowcver much we may agree or disagree with him wc must admit that he puta his side of the case pretty strongly : "Can county agricultural fairs be run success fully without the horse race V— is the question of one of the corre Kndenta of the Club. I answer— y must be, or fail. Our fairs, as usu ally conducted, are a stench in the nostrils of a large clam of farmers ; and this class is just the one we most need, and the one we must have or fail. Good, staid, square-dealing, matter of fact farmsrs will not take their massive short-horns, their aristocratio Hare fords, their golden fleeced Merinos, or epicurean Devon*. their pair of majestic cart and plow horses, or their sleek brood mares, their wealth-bestowing Jerseys, or their best stock cows to the fair, and play second fiddle to some no body with a long whip and jocky cap who usurps all the best places, and re- *l the best prises, and whose ( only claim is that he represents an ani- mal of no practical value, but which in some way succeeded in getting a "re cord j" and the proprietor walks proud ly up and down the track in front of the judges'stand followed by the groom leading the old rip by the bit, with two or three blankets upon his arm, and in one hand a sponge, ostensibly to wipe the old horse's nose, but really to signi fy that the whole thing from beginning to end is a "sponge." But here wo are met by tho trustees with the old excuse, thut we must have tho race to draw the crowd to pay tho hills. That, brother Secretary, is one of the many commonly received errors that art) accepted without examination. It is false. \Vu ure not obligi dto run a jocky club nor countenance a gambling enterprise in order to hold a successful fair. If we wore, then I would say let tho fairs die. Tlio debasing and de moralising influences of a horse race, patronized by our boys and girls, is 100 groat a price to pay for even a " success ful" fair, brother farmers, the excuse for the race is not valid. Ierience in litis line leads me to the conclusion that evnpnr atom, on a small scale, or, what tnay he called, farm evaporators, will not meet the exjiectations of those wtio invest in thein. The expenses of running what are colled farm evaporators are propor tionately greater than those of larger size. The evaporated fruit is not so uniform in quality and the opportuni ties for selling small or family lots at satisfactory prices limited. The super iorty of evaporated fruits consists in their being left in such condition that when the water expelled is restored, little difference can be detected be iween them and the fru:t in their nat urml state. To accomplish this all the pniceases must be as rapid as possible without injury to the fruit, as chemical changes and decomposition set in at once after the preparation la made. To secure the best results it requires skill, experience and close attention, such ss farmers as they are usually situated can not individually well give. 1 think the belter way would be for tho farmers of a neighborhood to adopt the cheese factory plan, by uniting in the purchase of an evaporator of sufficient capacity to work up the fruit of the entire neigh borhood, and place the management in the hands of one of their nuaiber who can devote his entire time and thought to it while in operation ; or sell their fruit and let the business pass into the hands of those who will give it their undivided attention. This subject is one of importance to many of the farmers and fruit growers of this Stale. With them the question of profit or loss for the year de|>ends largely upon a favorable disposal of sur plus fruit, especially the apple crop. The last year's stock of common dried apples has brought only three cents per pound, while evaporated have brought three or four times that sum. Three cents per pound is equal to fifteen cents j*r bushel for apples in a green state, with all the wear and tear and labor oi drying thrown away, as it takes on an average four and one-half bushels of green apples to make one of dried. My experience has been with an evan orater called the "Automatic." It seems to combine all the desirable qual ities that can be expected in an evapor ator. His comparatively cheap, sim pie In construction, easily managed, utilizing all the heat and turns out fruit of the best quality. Many have par taken of our apples when cooked and supposed they were eating groen fruit. This evaporator consists of a furnace, a hot-air reservoir containing a gover nor to distribute the heat evenly upon the trays, and a series of twenty five trays four and one-half inches deep resting upon the hot air reservoir, and 0 constructed that wnen placed one upon the other they form on air tight shaft, except at the top which is open for the escape of moisture. The fur nace is placed in a basement, or cellar, and reaches to the floor alrove. im mediately over the furnace and upon the floor the hot air reservoir Is placed and the trays in line above this and reaching into the story above. The fruit is put In at the bottom of the shaft, and by an ingenious application of crank or lever power, the whole abaft ii ruined wlntn the fienh (rny in put in und tlia fruit in tliin manner gradually elevated until it reaches the top when it in removed. When tho shaft in lilled a tray of evaporated fruit come* off at the top an often aa a frenh one in put in at the bottom. The capacity of a three feet mpiare tray evaporator of thin kind in about thirty five bunheln of borrien or lifly bunholn npplen (green fruit) in twenty four bourn. If fruit in plenty, larger trays would be preferable, an the capac ity in in proportion to the air.c ol the troy. The work in quite lively and re quire* nimble linger*. The apple in firnt taken up by the parer who, with a lew turimof a machine specially adapt ed to thin purpono, paren, cor en und nlioen it into a continiioun ring, and handn it to the trimmer who removes any remaining piece* of nkin.all bruin t-d or defective npotn, and with one ntroke of the knife cut* tho continuous ring into ningle one.n the ni/.e of tlu apple, and pan.se* them to the tray where they are placed one layer deep over the galvanised wire that consti Hi ten the bottom. On an average in four minute* from tho time the apple in token from tho banket by the purer, ii in in the eva|Mirater, and ill two hour* and one-half the proem* i* complete and the fruit ready for market in the best possible condition. From thi* brief description it will be neon that thin uio !<• of preparing fruit in a great improvement upon the old one of running the green fruit upon string*, or npreading upon boardn nnd exposing it to the air, the prey ol flies and other insects, until dried. It i ai ready revolutionising the entire Indus try bv causing common dried fruit, en peeinily apples, to be nob! no low thai tlieir preparation ha* censed to be r> muucralive. The consumers at houii and abroad demand abetter article unu appear willing to pay for it. There can be no doubt that any process on tin part of farmers approximating thin plan of systematic evaporation will result in tho improvement of their dried fruit but the same difficulties that now sur round them will still continue. The product* of different farmers or faun iiea will not be equal in quality. The lots will be comparatively *mn|l and will naturally go to the country or vil lage merchant, nnd by him be sold to larger dealer* and go to their final m ir kel an mixed lou at prior* that will not prove profitable to the farmer; while the larger Iot will bo uniform in quality, sought for by the vsholoah deulcr and exporter, and command prices in porportion as they establish and maintain the reputation of their respective brands. O. I>. II i!i a i.t v. The Long and the Short of it. The Sci'ntijir Farmer, in nn nib-r -esting article on the "Wastes of the Farm," given the following : While we are on ploughing, let u> mention another waste we frequently notice in our rides j this is the plough)g furrows of short lenght when it were as easy to plough longer ones. This is such a palpable waste that we would ol moat be ashamed fo dwell ti|on it, did we not know that it is so prevalent. The following table was drawn up from actual experience by the Karl of Mar in Kngland, and is well worthy of consid eration. The furrow slice in each case was eight inches broad ; * NAXDM of Fildfl. 9*>uth East lUrjwf- (bnlh Ism* DubUr. Islt hill. I'pKift Cmft L nfth uf rif£A 14* JJa. :0Q yU. l y bs. 274 yU. XhrwlUi l* flvtfto Mftt I*6 ft. '* ft. n ft. ft. AS ft. Nuntor of fhrmwi ia ma arr%. 179 147 I<® 103 70 Tim# taAfn ap In turning. ..*•. 4l> 3 *. Si. ."7m lb Pw. Ih 4-' m. Ih I u. Tim# tabvn up tn sUrrtng thr suit... Zb eelers" and the "fence scalers" of our [lens and pas tures, is not the way to show them oil' to a good ml vantage. The old breeds are tough, for the same reason which the Dutch farmer gave for his wife's resignation to die; ".Mine Gott," said hu "She hat to be!" Now the very methods taken to develop the profitable qualities of improved stock, —the liberal and var ied feeding, the rich pasturage, the warm stables—all have a tendency to lessen their power of resistance to extreme hardship. It is simply a question whether it is better to hove "tough" cows that will make 100 pounds of butter a year, or such as must have more care and lictter feed, but will return .500 pounds in the same time. Probably nine-tenths of the farm ers, even of New England, New York and Pennsylvania, have as yet little or no blood of foreign breeds in their stock. let they possess many liea*t* that arc goisl and profitable. Our "native" animals are as eastfy im proved by proper care, feeding and breeding, as those of any sort of the world. The judiciou* introduction of foreign blood w ill often hasten Uie development of desired qualities. Rut never, nrrrr NEVER will it do so unless, along with it, we take the methods that made it what it is. And uilh those methods it is simply a question of greater or leas time to make as good or latter thorougli breds ujMin the basis of our "native" animals. This is most important to le known. It is not yet by any means so well know as it ought to be. Self Milking Ocwg. The following method, recommend ed in the Triimnr some time ago bv E. Strang, of Kalamazoo, Mich., is one of the most simple and effective of the numerous devices employed as preventive of self-milking cows: Take a tough hickory *ti< k three feet long and one inch thick in Uie middle and tapering to a jioint at each end. By means of a couple of small holes through the slick and a couple of leather strings (not wire*, a* they will cut into the horn) tie the stick at its middle across the forehead of the cow close under the horns, and there is an end of self-sucking. Garden Track. Peas for seed that have been saved south of the St. Lawrence will at this season lie found pretty well filled with holes, in each of which the small |tea-weevil will lie seen. Put n table spoonful of turpentine in two quarts of water, stir nnd put the js a in the mixture, stirring them occasionally: after having soaked for fifteen or twenty minutes jiour ofT the water and spread out the peas to dry. Captain John 11. Moore, a well known and successful market garden er of Concord, Mass., and whose as paragus usually pays from SXW00 per acre, dares to maintain that the salt-dressing is of no value to the plant, and that the generally accept ed theory to the contrary is "a myth." A mixture of sulphur and plaster dusted iqion young cabbage plants will check the greenish black jump ing beetle, that sometimes attacks them. Dwarf celery is the kind to grow. There is much less labor in its cul ture, and the quality is much Autwr ior to to the tall kinds. Near New York city Mm dwarf bnudringhawi la mostly grown ; oat Boston, the Boston dwarf. For quality in peas, commend us to the champion of England. Lov ers of good pcaa must grow this kind or be behind the times. Tomatoes that have been trans planted Into flats or boxes, are helped by root pruning. This is done by drawing a knife through the soil, mid way between the rows of plants each wny. If litis is done two of three times, each plant will have its Com pact little hall of roots. \ctr Aitvertificmrnts. ItIOiTTTCTB POULTRY YARDS, VyTLL spare a limited number of T ' .lllln,. flow rhnto. Uybl Hi .Km**, fl-udana. OaaiM. Lrfhorna, XII|,TAXS, Pnlu*h. noantnlijnM, llami-nia" lUnicmv Tnrk-ya and Dark* Ilralu ml for alanu>. Atldrnaa URtt O. BROWN, IM* BssstLAasfiUA, X*. J JARDWARE. WILSON, McFAHLANE CO.' DEALERS IN STOVES AND RANGES,* PAINTS, OILS, (JLASS, RAKES, FORKS, CK/-A.I3XjES &c scythes. SOKK AOKNTB FOE si Ol I N\SO>J 'H T< A LSOMINIO. 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