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TWO DOLLARS A. YEAR.] 





"PROGRESS A2*X> fMI'EOVKMENT." 





[SINGLE NO. FOUR CENTS. 



VOL X. NO. U 



ROCHESTER, S. Y., 



— FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 1 



, 1859. 



i WHOLE NO. 469. 



MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 



umoDtnmu, raom ira hbh mwaPAPtt 



••Ymwiii i» deslmiid I 



r Aeriniltunil, lliiniiuliunil. . k 



TENTH VOLUME WTKODUCTORY. 



In entering upon the labors of a new year aud 

 volume, tin- first duty incumbent upon 

 which we discharge with alacrity, is to tei 

 found und jiiiiicdil acknowledgments to tl 

 of ardent and substantial friends of'tlio Rural 

 New-Yohkisk — to all who have in any manner con- 

 tributed to its marked success and prosperity, and 

 thereby enabled us to present the Tenth Volume in 

 niiue -n tasteful unil becoming, with Contents so 

 diversilied and valuable. This duly performed, 

 allow us lo speak briefly of the Past and Present, 

 nud allude to the proliL ■. . Future of this Journal, 



The Tenth Itii ili-Dny of the Rubaz Nbw-Yorkeii 

 is, to us, an eventful mid long looked-for period — 

 i itb far more than common interest in 

 many respects, and which awakens emotions and 

 ■ of iki ordinary character. On such 

 uii occasion a brief retrospective glance at the 

 early history und progress of the paper is appro- 

 priate, if oot expected — nnd therefore we unlit. 

 wbatfollowcth. When the first number was issued, 

 scarcely any one believed such a journal as we pro- 

 posed could be established upon a perniunent basis. 

 Many wUh*d it success— some boldly and genc- 

 rottslj lent their aid to the enterprise — but the 

 almost unanimous sentiment was that the People 

 and the Country were not prepared to appreciate 

 and sustain u weekly of the character announced, 

 and hence the achievement of success, eicn after 

 we should have expeuded much time, labor and 

 money, was pronounced an impossibility. This 

 wn- the inner.il and often "penly -expressed opini 

 of the great majority, while the best friends of 

 cause of Rural Improvement eutertained simi 

 views, though their kindness and sympathy induced 

 different speech und action. Thi 

 were considered, if not voted, a visionary and 

 enthusiast, and more than one well-meaning frifm) 

 fi.iilidcviinillv inluniited that the result would hi 

 in accordance with the trite adage, "a fool aud hi 

 monc} lire WOO parte. 1." Vet, strange to say, W» 

 judged differently, and were always sanguine o 

 (aye, determined to achieve: success. , v,ii„;tlh 

 the only i|ucyii, in being one of time and the con 

 line^Uetcs of eircumstanci-s, fiu we heheved thai 

 Hght iutcntions, well-directed industry und 

 gelic perseverance would accomplish mnr 

 pvater won tiers than the most subtle arte of the 

 necromancer. True, we did not expect to succeed 

 in i«wk, nionili or year, but thai yeatl ttl "p..ti.-ui. 



■iiinniT labur would bo 

 ■OComplish ,i„r object. Hence it w.. 

 told We dim r,„/_th n t wo had coi 

 paper ten yean ,„ advance of the period for such 

 id enterprise- »e replied Uut, if life and health 

 .,n l T>-d,partmls l ,cr^Wouldc I -,„v,,.„ 1 ,ell'.-rt- 



In reviewing the past hist.n y of the Uukai., we 

 might perhaps be permitted such latitude as to 

 speak somewhat definitely of matters connected 

 therewith, yet will not obtrude upon the render any 

 special details of business or personal experience. 

 Suffice it, that during the nine years past our best 

 endeavors have been devoted to the promotion of 

 the cause espoused — that we have labored zeal- 

 ously and constantly, regardless of personal ease, 

 treasure or recreation, — in order to furnish a 

 journal which should bxcsl iu all the essentials of 

 a combined Anruci iti iui., Hoiiticoltubal, Litk- 

 rahv and Famil* NftVBPAPSB, Tbut wo have not 

 fulled is manliest ed by its present enviable position 

 and wide popularity. Though errors may have 

 been committed in its pages, we trust the Rural 

 hos thus far accomplished its mission worthily— 

 has performed its duty to readers and the public in 

 an honest, independent, straight-forward manner. 

 It has called things by their right names, and fre- 

 quently exposed nnd condemned the hums and 

 speculations by wliieh sharpers sought to deplete 

 Rural Population— and, while keeping pace 

 with the progressive spirit of the age, has at the 

 e been sullicienlly conservative to avoid 

 endorsing the visionary schemes so often com- 

 mended. Of course we have not expected to please 

 nil, but sought to do right whoever might feel ag- 

 grieved, without special regard to consequences— 

 j shall be very likely to pursue a similar 

 in future. -Hosts of friends have joined our 

 standard,— and are imw nobly aiding the Ri ii.vl all 

 hind. Uut its sin el. s has produced rivals 

 mid enemies -il-o and u host of imitators, Ihoiigh 

 many of the hitter arc extinguished. Wi loo- well 

 to all cotemponirics who tabor for the [.mod of the 

 cause, however, the RuitAjj will continue to pursue 

 ■ 



Progress and Improv 



In presenting the initial number of Volume X, 

 id addressing a larger parish of readers than 

 ■er before, we cordially greet the numerous 

 friends who have already renewed their fellowship 

 tti the Ui'UAi,, ami heartily welcome the thou- 

 sands who now, for the first time, take it to their 

 ides. Whether residents of Country or City- 

 located in the East or West, the North or the 

 South, — wc trust they will find it, ever aud always, 

 interesting, instinctive, pme ami entertaining— an 

 appropriate and valuable, and ere long highly es- 

 teemed weekly visitor to their hearts and homes. 

 As wc have said on a similar occasion, our honest 

 eudeavor will he to return subscribers far more 

 (hiin "value received" for their investments — to 

 furnish an eminently Instinctive, Entertaining and 

 Valuable journal — such un one as will enhance 

 the interests ami promote the welfare of Individ- 

 uals, Families and Community. Our earnest desire 

 has ever been to make it an independent, reliable 

 and useful Rural, Literary axd FaUIH News- 

 paper — correct in its teachings on Practical 

 Suhj.vt-. instructive ami entertaining lo members 

 of the Family Circle, and of high moral tone. — 

 Such is our platform for the year and volume upon 

 which we now enter — ami, wishing all our readers 

 a thrice " Happy New Year," we ceuae promises 



is clear against its claims, then "away with 

 proclaim upon the house-tops, or rather, in a 

 modern and cffei tual way, lh rough the Agri- 

 cultural Press, that it "•ill net pay 



Wc doubt, however, whether there is n paying 

 op now cultivated, or a system of culture uow 

 generally approved, that has not at some time been 

 condemned by the many u« unprofitable. Indeed, 

 a now candidate for the favor of the agricultural 

 world, like a candidate for political favors must 

 receive many hard knock*, whether deserved or 

 ■ : n 1740, that he conld 



not. Jethro Tin 



remember the time when, if a farmer was advi 

 to SOW Clover, the almost nil unable I cply Would 



••</■ iillmuii might sow it it tin \ pleased, \i\.\\f,ir» 

 m\i*t (tiki i'iir< <iiel j)<iy tli.tr r,i</." Now, elm ■■ 



great aid to Hie farmer iu making hi.- tent; 

 his living, the world over. We often hear a 

 mark, somewhat smuliu, now. that such a cot: 



i ay be well enough for gentlemen fa 



they will not pay the piaQttftil farmer, who works 

 for a business and a living. These remarks, doubt- 

 less, are often just, but they are sometimes made 

 inconsiderately, as a few years experience proves. 

 The lessons of experience in Agriculture are 

 Nature gives us but one lesson, 

 seriesof experiments each year Still, much 

 can be done by practical men to elicit truth, and 

 something we are now doing. Let the wheat be 

 .fted from the chaff, but in the anxiety to get rid 

 f the chaff, be Careful not lo lose the grain, for 



wtneli tanners im«iil a-|, immseivcs more lre- 

 iiucutly than tbey do, with great advantage. It is 



more important, we thitikj rj the quest pre- 



»»o,."»ryc<vn.-id red | definite uosnrfcr, 



aud this answer is all important. It is simply. 

 "Does it pay t" To aid any of our readers who 

 may for the first tiuio make up their minds to ask 

 this question in a sensible, practical way, we will 

 give a lesson or two, showing the manner nt which 

 il should be done. 



Ifoi.< it. /iui/ to take down and put up bars from 

 three hundred and sixty-live to u thousand times 

 every year, when in the tune wasted at this work 



in, I c 



uld 



l-llks 





PAYING FARMING. 



r i'n make farming vi\ should be the great object 

 of the farmer. It is bis profession — his business 

 by which ho earns his livelihood — the menus 

 feed, clothe and educate his children llv it 

 gains not only the necessaries —just sullieieut 

 keep soul and body together — but the COUifor 

 the luxuries and the elegancies of life — the men 

 to purchase books and papers, and the time 

 edncate, enlarge und adorn his mind. li> forming, 

 Mb, he gams goods and money to bestow on the 

 poor and needy — to feed the hungry ami clothe 



iked, or else he must be deprived of ibis, 

 the greatest privilege accorded lu man by Him 

 who declared il was " more blessed to give than 



:eive." Thereto*), it is not strange that the 



former should bo anxious lo make everything 



:h he undertakes pay. It is not surprising 



that the first question, on proposing any thing new, 



should be, " Will it pay/ " ll is reasonable und right. 



hist a score of years, to bsj iii 'tin ii 

 standing, doing nothing, I - ■■ - n 

 myself, at work at the bai s t Tin 

 are left down, for it does seem 

 could never Icai u to put up bars. 



DoiK it pay me to rake and seiuleh over so much 

 ground for such small crops, when some farmers I 

 know of get much larger products from less land and 

 less labor? Wouldu't it pay better to pi » deeper. 

 manure heavier, cultivate cleaner, midget the same 

 produce from one-half the quantity of land? I 

 have thought that as I have the laud, I might as 

 well cultivate it all with my present help, but dot* 

 it payt Hud I not better lay a part of it down to 

 gross, which will not require much labor, and what 

 I pretend to cultivate, do fur more thoroughly? 



Docs it pay to let those sheep and cattle get so 

 miserubly poor in the full, by depending on that 

 dry and frozen pasture for sustenance, eating up 

 the very roots, in a vaiu endeavor to appease their 

 hunger? Wouldn't I gain by commencing to feed 

 earlier, and so have them iu better condition when 

 winter sets in? I have always been (aught to 

 economize feed, for we don't know how long and 

 severe ihe winter may be; but there is no use of 

 starving animals in the fall, for fear they will have 

 to go short before spring — a contingency which 

 may never arise, and which, perhaps, I can provide 

 against iu some better way. That is something 

 like the plan of the miser, who denies himself the 

 comforts of life from his hoarded millions, for fear 

 nmetimeiu the future he will conic to poverty. 

 So he brings upon himself now the evil which he 

 much dreads iu the future. A plan, certainly. 



i, and m i.„ 



itwtalbti or Kft y TuouBaDdi Tbi. 



the height 



prediction was of tours* pron(, u , 



M how has it -**u f„i t iii ci Vwh*i' is" 

 the result? Months and years u r h%H Ubof fol 

 lowed,- the trials and struggle ,> f wiljA wjl| 

 never br forgotten, though wc forbew fcte^nting 

 fiUiese pages, — and year after yen- X),,. llo per 

 irrr * iu favor, circulation and influence. And now 

 e Tenth Year and V#*ume *u\ „ 

 *ana JU< t.ltii» n of OMT /^iry 7%ovar>J~ ih, 

 Scoal having at tui ued, during the nine rears of m 

 I circolktion far exceeding that of any I 

 journal in the World! | 



"ft wm'tpagf" is an exclamation we oftvii hear, 



question We have no objection to itn use, for if t 

 thing mm 7 pay, the sooner we moke the discovery, 

 Ud the quicker we spread the information, the 

 better. But we fear it ii often u*vl without proper 

 reflection — rashly. Everything new that prom: 

 to be of advantage, that conws decently red 

 mended, or with the least jhow of reason for 

 claims, deserves a fair tc«t — a regular jury trial — 

 and after tho erMecicm on all sidea hare been ex- 

 amined, if the jury cannot agree, on accouut of the 



siksa, to another trial. But, if the evi- 





I pay. 



Vv *^ 



PREMIUM KARM tlOTTSE. 



prepared lo sup- 



Creasing class of 

 I'lirroers, who-c R el! 

 demands of social life winch their growing children 

 iiuik.', prompt then i to replace the "old house" by 

 coiiunoihou-.e-vvi ■ ■ 



A tasteful 1 m, spacious enough to accom- 

 modate the entire family with due regard to the 

 separate duties of life aud the requisite individual 

 offer that wide hospitality which so 

 he country, is a better investment 

 than bank stock or fertile acres, If it doe* nothing 

 ■ than keep the children beneath the home 



mid make lli-'ir associations "!' home ph.-a-imt, 



and theireujoyments pure, it will be an incalculable 

 blessing to them, while at the same time it will 

 prove a source of serenes! joy to sweeten the decliu- 

 ; years of the parents. In this house there are 

 apartments for show, merely, but all are arrang- 

 with reference to economy of labor, where the 

 stress of the house has rarely any other assis- 

 than her own daughters can render. 



papers, specimens in natural history, Ac. If both 

 sides arc not needed tea books, One side can befitted 

 jr lounge, thus affording 



]!,n* it pay to leave those loose boards hanging 

 barn, Happing about with the wind, si 

 the horses can't sleep? And those open spaces 

 between the boards, and the holes where so 

 them «re broken, how much cold, aud wind, and 

 snow passes through them, and how the cattle und 

 horses have to eat to keep warm? Several of 

 stones are gone from ihe foundation wall, and 

 wind has a tine sweep under the floor. I guess it 

 will pay to patch them up immediately, though it 

 should have been done before. 



Dot» U pay to raise hair a ten or so of hay to the 

 acre, in that young orchard of mine? The trees 

 look stunted, and make but little growth. They 

 cost the cash, besides the trouble of setting; but 

 more thon that, I want the fruit. 



Ever)- thinking man will find occasion, almost 

 every day, tw ask himself the important question, 

 "/ta.. it pAy r " That these inquiries may be often 

 asked and properly answered, is our most earnest 

 desire, end we hope to be instrumental, during the 

 year just commencing, in aiding our readers to 

 arrive at correct conclusions. 



front, extending so thai its roof f. 



the bay-window, giving access to 



which seems roomv enough, OS ihe 



recess at the further end. There is eta© «P«» for 



a cloak closet under the stairs. The hall givee 



access to the three principal 



the left a livine-room on the rrghi. which mny also 



be used os a dining-room, which bee a bay-window, 



and an alcove showing through an arched opening, 



fitted up with book shelves on each side. The 



shelves should have gla*ed doors down 



height of ■ 



and below, cloiet- loi 1. 



The chamber pi "' '■ 



K. Bed 



P. Ued Boom, 13 ;; 24 



II. Dre-'-lne Room. 7 » 3. 

 L. L. Closets. ' 

 In the rear of the alcove is the kitchen, which 

 as a china-close!, n pantry, and a door leading '° 



ie hack -tan- \ bed-room comm a 

 ie kitchen, having a closet and o - 

 Kim for children heMi.nl. whir). nl-<> '•■•- « cloM't. 

 n case but one of the bed-rooms is needed, the 

 oil q be need for a library, when a door from 



mil could be made. 



buck-kitchen is p.....ded '" 'he wing, having 

 ■ to ihp ihiiiv I'.ll.ir, noo'lshed and veranda, 

 plica-four large bed-rooms 

 ■ 1" them having a window 

 seat formed bv u projecting closet, and another, a 

 I fl itb closets. A bath-room is placed 



above the ball, lighted by a small octagonal win- 

 dow or he an enameled door. Two large sleep- 

 [,,,,-rooiu- arc shown over the back-kitchen and the 



\ similar amount or aoo i 

 ear. alM be furnished in the attic, if neCCSMrY. 



The house can be bmlt either of wood, brick or 

 Itona; but in either case, the v.-rp. -I- 

 das, 4c, should he made durable and plain ill 

 ornamentation beyond what is strictly characteris- 

 tic and suggestive of country simplicity, has no 

 place upon it. We have endeavored in our per- 

 spective to give it an unpretending, rural a* per'. 

 with enough of dignity to mark it us the residence 

 of a family of refinement and taste. If bnUt of 

 •Mod, in a plain but thorough manner, it could be 

 erected in most part* of the country for about tho 

 thoi'Oaxd dollars. The remaining details of cou- 



, ,,,,„ llL . „ 1C |, aaare familiar to most perilous. 



and especially to masona and carpenters, sod need | 

 not be discuised here. \V\ 



