MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
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FRUIT PICKER. 
The aQj|iexed cuts represent one o?^ffo 
latest and nest fruit pickers m usu. 
It is formed of a strong wire frame, so 
constructed that when a kind of lioop is 
drawn down from the top, the sides of the 
frame close, the bottom being open, and the 
whole firmly attached to a handle. A 
cloth tube of sufficient length and size to 
convey the fruit to the ground, is inserted 
through the bottom of this frame and up 
to the hoop, which is made fast, thus form¬ 
ing a kind of bag with the mouth open,— 
The operator simply reaches the mouth to 
the fruit, so that it is well into it, when, by 
pulling' slightly upon the cloth tube, the 
hoop is drawn down the wire frame, closing 
it over the fruit, when it is detached and 
comes safely down the tube into the hand 
or basket, as is desired. The above figure 
represents the instrument Avith the mouth 
open. 
Fig. 2 shows the same with the mouth 
closed by pulling on the cloth tube. [We 
copy the cuts from the Catalogue of Eme¬ 
ry & Co., of Albany, who have the picker 
on sale.] 
For high topped trees, of which there 
are many in the country, though an injudi¬ 
cious shape, (and which cannot in grafting 
old trees be very well avoided,) this fruit 
picker is one of the most de.sirable opera¬ 
tions that can be conceived of—as the fi¬ 
nest fruit is always found in the top branch¬ 
es where it gets fine light and air; and be¬ 
ing beyond the reach of hand picking, by 
ladder or climbing, tho.se nice in fruits will 
at once appreciate the invention. 
FAILURE OF THE APPLE CROP 
Cause doubtful — Difference in resisting disease 
—Safest varieties—Attacks fine, fruit—lilight 
on quinces and pears — Natural enemies. 
. Many persons attribute the failure of the 
apple crop to the same causes that affect¬ 
ed the peach, but we think without proper 
consideration. The disease of the peach 
has been noticed as increasing for several 
years; while the apple did not fail till bust 
year, and that year the peach was produced 
in its usual abundance throughout the whole 
peach growing district. 
There is quite a di-.-ience in the apple, 
as resisting disease, and in their producing 
ability while others fail. The lialdwin, 
Esopus Spitzenburgh and Rhode Island 
Greening are decidedly safer bearers in bad 
seasons than any other varieties we have 
noticed. The fact, relating to the Baldwin, 
was remarked last year by several of our 
correspondents. 
As a general rule, the fine and cultivated 
apple is more subject to failure, than the 
natural fruit, which seems to be more hardy 
and less subject to the eontingencies of the 
season. The same rule applies to the blight 
on the pear; it seldom attacks the natural 
Avild tree. 
The blight of the leaves and limbs of the 
quince has been more prevalent in this re- 
gioffthe present summer, than during any 
year since our knoAvledge of the eountry, 
and is doing considerable damage among 
pears. 
Every plant, and fruit and flower, man 
and animal, has its diseases and enemies.— 
“ All *that’s bright must fade ” is true to 
the letter. 
The Best IIedoe in the United States, 
says the Genesee Farmer, extends about a 
rade along the highway, on a plantation of 
three hundred acres, near Augusta, Geor¬ 
gia. ft is the Cherokee ro.se, which is now 
in full bloom, presenting a magnificent flo- 
nil spectacle, and filling the atmosjphere 
with delicious perfume. No animal without 
Avings, can get over it or through it. Hav¬ 
ing stood forty or fifty years, it still prom¬ 
ises a good fence for a century to come. 
FAILURE OF THE PEACH CROP. 
Curl of the leaf—Probable cause — Effect — Vari¬ 
eties not affected—Importance of observation — 
Disease, local—Plums and airculio. 
If the disea.se which has attacked the 
Peach in this region, is to prevail, it will ef¬ 
fect a great revolution in our pro.spects rel¬ 
ative to that delicious fruit. It has shoAvn 
itself more or less, for four or five years past, 
but never to the extent it has this season. 
It has been aksigned to various causc.s, 
but from close and constant observation, we 
are satisfied that atmospheric influence is 
the sole cause, and probably from a sudden 
decrease of temperature, in some way con¬ 
nected Avith its electrical state. 
By a failure of the vessels in the petiole, 
or stem of the leaf, to return the sap sent 
up, an increased growth is produced of the 
fle.shy, pulpy covering of the leaf—it increa¬ 
ses, thickens, bends and curls—becomes 
mildewed and falls off, leaving the tree no 
lungs to breathe and carry on elimination 
—and when there are nodormantbuds ready 
to reproduce leaves, the limbs gum and die 
—the fruit almost entirely fails Avith the fall 
of the leaf, and the croj) is lost. 
There is quite a difference in the degree 
in which different varieties are affected.-— 
Crawford’s Early Yellow sUinds the disease 
better than any other variety cultivated in 
this region—the Early Purple, an early and 
mildewing kind, next—and some of the late 
cling.s, and those uncultivated, resisted the 
disease, while many other highly esteemed 
varieties Avere left entirely naked. 
If this affliction is to prevail, the Early 
Crawford, a large and very showy peach, 
though notof the'most choice and tasty kind, 
Avill become a very important article to 
cultivate. 
Others undoubtedly possess the same 
powers of resistance to the predisposing 
cause, and the observing and noticing those 
varieties will become extremely important 
in peach growing districts. 
This disease, if disease it may be called, 
has not extended to the Jersey and DelaAvare 
orchards; for peaches are s<ud to be so 
plenty in New York and other sea board 
towns, as not to bring the price of cartage 
from the country to the city. 
Plums lu’c almost a total failure, from the 
extreme east to the Avest, in this latitude; 
and we predict a great crop next year, .so 
far as the ravages of the curculio will affect 
it, as they have not been able to propagate 
their species, from the want of the proper 
nidus for tlicir eggs. 
•- FRESH AIR, 
Man acts strangely. Although a current 
of fresh air is the very life of his lungs he 
seems indefatigable in the exercise of his 
inventive poAvers to deprive himself of this 
heavenly blessing. Thus he carefully closes 
every cranny of his bed chamber against its 
entrance, and he prefers that his lungs 
should receive the mixed aflluvium from 
his cellar and larder, and from a patent lit¬ 
tle modern aquarius in lieu of it. Why 
should men be so terrified at the admission 
of the night air into any of his apartments ? 
It is nature’s overflowing current, and nev¬ 
er carries the destroying angel Avith it. See 
hoAV soundly the delicate wren and the ten¬ 
der little robin sleep under its full and im¬ 
mediate influence, and how fresh and vig¬ 
orous, and joyous they rise amid the sur¬ 
rounding dew-drops of the morning. Al¬ 
though exposed all night long to the air of 
heavef), their lungs are never out of order, 
and this Ave know by the daily repetition of 
their song. Look at the newly born bear 
Avithout any nest to go to. It lives and 
thrives, and becomes strong and playful, 
under tlie unmitigated inclemency of the 
falling dews of the night. I have here a 
fine male turkey, full eight years ©Id, and 
he has not passed a single night in shelter, 
lie roosts in a clierry tree, and is always in 
the primest health the year throughout— 
Three dunghill fowls, preferring this cherry 
tree to the Avarm perches in the hen house, 
took up their airy (piartcrs with him early 
in October, and have never since gone to 
any other roosting place. 
The cow and the horse sleep safely on 
the cold damj) ground, and the roebuck lies 
doAvn to rest in the heather, on the deAvy 
mountain top. I myself can sleep all night 
long, bare-headed, under the full moon’s 
watery beam, without any fear of danger, 
and pass the day in Avet shoes without 
catching cold. Coughs and colds are gen¬ 
erally caught in the transition from an over¬ 
heated room to a cold apartment; but there 
would be no danger in this movement if 
ventilation were attended to—a precaution 
little thought of now-a-days. — Watterton's 
fJssays on Natural History. 
Ip you would know the value of money, 
go and try to borrow some, for he that goes 
borrowing goes sorrowing. 
fflftljniiit Irte ^ Icifiitt. 
LIST OF PATENTS 
IS3UKI> FROM THK UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
Eor the week ending Sejjtember 10, IR.'iO. 
'J’o.IiOuisa Bali.s, of Oriskaiiy, N. Y., for im- 
provciiiont in ladies’ slays. 
To W. IL Billings, of riastport. Mo., for im¬ 
proved mode of representing musical scales. 
To Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Ct., for improve¬ 
ment in revolving chambered fire-arms. 
To W. W. Draper, of Grcenfiehl, Moss., for 
improvement in paint mills. 
To S. S. Jlemhert and J. Prescott, of Memphis, 
Tonn., for improvement in_picking cotton from 
the bowels in Iho field. 
To Melchi Scott, of Claysville, Penn., for im¬ 
provement in smiths’ strikers. 
To W. C. Sha<v, of Philadelphia, Penn., and J. 
Stalcup, of Wilmington, Del., for improvement 
in camp beadslonds. 
To George Shield, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for im¬ 
proved exhaust passages for steam cylinders. 
To Smith Spencer, of Angelica, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in mortising machine. 
To John Shellenberger, of Indianapolis, Ind., for 
improvement in machines for scribing lumber. 
To Robert Stadden, of Milton, Penn., for im¬ 
provement in clover hullors. 
To J. B. Stoner, of Southampton, Penn., for 
improvement in plow clevises. 
To J. M. Totten, of Peoria, 111., for improve¬ 
ment in friction rollers. 
To David Warren, of Gettysburgh, Penn., for 
improvement in plow cleaners. 
To Wj W. Allen, of Bordentown, N. J., for 
improvement in tailors’ measures. 
To Aaron Palmer, of Brockport, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in the seeding roller of a seed planter. 
ADDITIONAI. iMI’ROVF;MENTS. 
'J’o Bradford Rowe, of Albany, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in apparatus for splitting and stretching 
leather. Patent dated April 30, IH.'iO. 
To Amos Stocker, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., for 
improvement in tailors’ measures. Patent dated 
May 28, IB.M); improvement added Sept. 3, 18.')0. 
KE-ISSUE. 
To Wm. IIowo, of Springfield, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in the manner of constructing the truss 
frames of bridges, and other structures. Patent 
dated August 3, 1840. 
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO EUROPE. 
It is Avell 'known tliat vtirious projects 
have been proposed for ti Transatlantic Tel¬ 
egraph ; this will be no ea.sy matter, owing 
to the length of wires required. In the 
present state of Electric Telegraph science, 
it is impossible, owing to the distance of 
such a length of wire between the batteries. 
Between Ctilais in France, and Dover in 
England, the distance being no more than 
25 miles, the project of an ocean telegraph 
is not only feasible, but the construction of 
one is id actutil opt^ration to unite France 
and England. The Telegraph ie to be on 
Bain’s principle, now so Avell known in Amer¬ 
ica. The telegraph, like steam navigation, 
will bo the means of spreading rapidly the 
arts and sciences of civilized nations among 
all lands. The Dublin University Magii- 
zine stiys: — 
“When the poAvers of this improved tel¬ 
egraph .shiill be brought into full ojteration, 
and Avhen the mode of intercommunication 
shall be available by the ])ublic in all parts 
of Eurojie, great changes in the social and 
commercial relations of the centres of com¬ 
merce and population must be witnessed.— 
Hitherto, the use of the telegraph has been 
limited to the Government. The public htus 
been altogether excluded from it. Such a 
system, however, cannot be of long duration, 
and the precursors of a speedy change arc 
already apparent. A project of law has 
been presented to the Legislative Assembly, 
by the French Government, to open the 
telegraph to commerce and the public.— 
Lines of electric telegraph have been con- 
struct(;d, and are iilready in operation, along 
the principal lines of railway in France. A 
commission has been appointed, by the Bel¬ 
gian Government, to report upon the means 
which ought to be adopted to construct lines 
of electric telegraph throughout that king¬ 
dom. Lines of considerable extent are in 
operation in the Prussian States, and still 
more extended systems are in preparation. 
Measures are in progress (or the establish¬ 
ment of lines of electric telegraphs in the 
territories of Austria, Stixony, Bavtiria, Wir- 
temburg, Baden, tind all the lesser States of 
Germany. The Emperor of Russia has is¬ 
sued orders for the construction of lines of 
telegraphic Avires to connect St Pet(ir.sburg 
Avith M 0 .SCOW, and with the Prussian, Saxon, 
and Austrian linos of telegraph.” 
Improved Candlestick. —Mr. James 
Manning, of Middletown, Conn., has invent¬ 
ed a very useful improvement on Candle¬ 
sticks, for Avhich he has taken measures to 
secure a patent, and Avhich Avill be found 
to be exceedingly useful. It is a small top 
plate Avith an eliptical hole in it, and this 
slides round, so as to bring the greater or 
less diameter of the hole of the plate in a 
line with the opening down in the shank. 
To look at the candlestick it Avould not be 
noticed as differing in any manner from 
those in common use, but it can firmly re¬ 
tain candles of any thickness, the long 
eights and short sixes equally well. It is a 
very good and simple improvement on can¬ 
dlesticks. Messrs. W. & B. Douglas, of the 
above place, are the assignees.— Sci. Am. 
DANIEL’S PATENT PLANING MACHINE. 
Tjhs machine is acknowledged to be su¬ 
perior for the purposes of dressing all kinds 
of Avood, and squaring up stuff for machine¬ 
ry. It is capable of dressing boards, plank, 
&c., of any required thickness or length, :is 
well as all kinks of Mill Work, Ship Tim¬ 
ber, Tackle Blocks, Railroad Car, planing 
iron, &c. The size suitable for one horse 
power, and capable planing 18 inches Avide 
and 9 feet long, is $!17(); and more or less 
according to size. They are used by near¬ 
ly all the Riiilroad Car and Coach man¬ 
ufactories and Government Workshops 
.throughout the country. 
For fiirther particulars, pricc.s, directions 
for running, or any other information, ad¬ 
dress Emery ife Co., Albany, N. Y., Avho 
have had them in operation for several 
years, and by Avhom any size can be 
furnished. 
A NEW PATHY. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the THbune announ¬ 
ces a new Fathy. It is pronounced Mechani¬ 
cal or Motor Medicine, and called Vinesi- 
pathy, or the Cure of Diseases by Specific 
Active Movements. The writer says: 
“ It has been practiced for 40 years in 
Stockholm and is this year, for the first time, 
becoming prominent in England. There is 
a good pamphlet on it under the above title, 
by Georgu. The method consists in apply¬ 
ing external motions, passive and active ex¬ 
ercise, &c., to the body; and in rendering 
these so special, thtit you can operate on the 
various inAvard organs, or on parts of these 
specifically. Friction, posture, percussion 
motion are all made use of; and the science 
has so far advanced that already as many 
as a thousand different mov'ements have 
been devised for the purpose of moving and 
jogging the failing parts and poAvers Avithin. 
Tliere arc thus languages of nudyes to re¬ 
mind brain, liver, spleen and neglected du¬ 
ties. The effects produced approve the 
plan, and stamp it as an art and science.— 
It is exercise, contact, admonition, pursued 
into details, Avhereby disease is literally for 
the first time handled. One important gen¬ 
eral truth which accrues from it, is that op- 
eratiens from without are propagatediuAvard, 
and th;it by scientific knowledge, you can 
send in messages to particular parts, Avhich 
are received and heard just where they are 
wanted, tind nowhere else.” 
FRAUDS IN VINEGAR. 
It is not genertilly knoAvn to Avhat extent 
the adulteration, or rather the counterfeit¬ 
ing of this article, is ciirried on in this city. 
Under the-name of deadly poisons 
are sold in large quantities, ’fhe mode of 
this dangerous swindle is to manufacture a 
spurious article from vegetable or mineral 
poisons, to wit, of Sulphuric acid, or of Ni¬ 
tric acid, or citric or Tartaric acids—a suf¬ 
ficient (quantity to give to a barrel of Cro¬ 
ton a sharp, pungent, acid taste. 'J’his col¬ 
ored with sour beer or burnt sugar, is sold 
for “ Cider Vinegar,” or is sold uncolored 
for “ White Wine Vinegar.” Sulphuric and 
nitric acids by their common names of oil 
of Vitriol and Aqiue Fortis, arc knoAvn by 
all to be deadly mineral poisons, and the 
.others, though to a less degree, highly in¬ 
jurious. A mock article called Vinegar, 
can be manufactured of any of these ma¬ 
terials at an expense of ten cents per barrel, 
exclusive of the cost of the barrel.— Farm, 
tic Mechanic. 
New Cement. —Remington, Avho invent¬ 
ed the bridge which bears his name, is also 
the inventor of a nCAv cement, which is de¬ 
scribed as being perfectly impervious to wa¬ 
ter, slightly ehistic, <ind a non-conductor of 
electricity, three qualities or properties which 
render it peculiarly fitU'd to the objects for 
Avhich it was intended by the inventor or 
discoverer, viz: the covering of houses, 
fences, Ac. It has been applied in that way 
in Mobile, and the cement becomes so hard 
that a blow of an axe will not separate it 
I AM BUT ONE, BUT I AM ONE.— Thcse are 
the words of a Christian minister. The 
whole of the sentence runs thus: “I am 
but one, but I am one. I cannot do much, 
but I can do something; and all I can do, I 
ought to do, and by God’s grace will do.” 
Imuorou g pub Iiiraging. 
AN EDITOR’S CALL, 
An editor out west thus elegantly ad¬ 
dresses those of his readers who don’t 
“walk up to the captain’s office and settle:” 
(7ornu back, yo wrotcliCH, moan and groedy. 
Rich or ragged, lean or fat— 
(Jorno, ])ay tlio mnns you owe iih apoedy 
For tlie I’rairie Democrat. 
Don’t be lurking round the bushes; 
Perhaps you’ll find a hemp cravat! 
We know that conscience often puslies 
’J'hosc wlio cheat the Democrat! 
A Promising Widow, —Mrs. Prewett, 
who, since the death of her husband, has 
edited the Yazoo Whig—having received 
an oftensive note, replies as follows: 
“If the biped that sent us the anony¬ 
mous letter from Jackson, signed ‘ Churu- 
busco,’ Avill come to Yazoo City, and call at 
the Whig office, two noble little boys, one 
eight and the other six years old, shall tie a 
leather medal round Ips neck as a due-bill 
for a good flogging they owe him payable 
some ten years hence, with compound in¬ 
terest.” 
Heading an M. D.—“Doctor, pray what 
is it keeps the meat and drink apart in the 
stomach ?” 
“ I’ll tell you,” says the Doctor. “ In ev¬ 
ery person’s throat there arc two pipes and 
a clapper; now when you go to cat, the 
clapper shuts the drink-pipe.” 
. “ Yes, well, doctor,” replied the'patient. 
“ that clapper must play darned spry Avhen 
you eat mush and milk!” 
Sticking to it.— A rough old fellow was 
testifying in a horse case, before the court, 
’tother day, *luul said the horse Avas sixteen 
feet high. “ Sixteen hands, you mean,” 
says the judge. “Did I .say sixteen feet?” 
said he. “ Yes, you said sixteen feet high.” 
“Well, then, if 1 said so I’ll stick to it; he 
was sixteen feet high.” 
“ Pa, what makes the people go to hear 
Webster, if.they all have got to be put into 
irons ?” 
“ To be put into irons, Simon ? what do 
you mean?” 
“ Why, the papers say, that at liis great 
speech t’other day, the entire audience Avere 
enchained to the .spot.” 
“ Susan, put this boy to bed as soon as 
possible.” 
A Yankee editor says he “like to died 
a lariin’ to see a drinkin’ chap tryin’ to pock¬ 
et the shadoAv of a SAvinging sign for a 
pocket handkerchief.” 
A little girl visiting Niagara with her 
father, and seeing the foam at the foot of 
the falls, cried, “Pa, hoAv much soap it must 
take to raiike so many suds!” 
What letter in tlie alphabet would be of 
more service to ii deaf woman than a pat¬ 
ent ear trumpet ? The letter A, because 
it w.ould certainly mtike her hear. 
One of our young beaux says he likes all 
kinds of Anna, but Anna Mosity. He 
can’t bear her. He is a distant reititive to 
th? one Avho said Satan Avas ti femtile, Avith 
the original name of lAicy Fir. 
Why are the French the bitterest, while 
they are the gayest people in the world ?— 
Because they are livers in gtill (Gaul.) 
There is a hiAvyer down east so exces¬ 
sively honest that he puts all his floAver-pots 
out over night so determined is he that ev¬ 
erything shiill have its deio. 
Why is a hole torn in a man’s coat by a 
dog like a strciim of water? Because it is 
em'-rent 
The latest curiosity is a chicken grown 
from an egg-phint. We suppose it was 
hatched by the setting sun. 
THE MODERN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS, 
I visited, with etjuiil surprise and satis¬ 
faction, an Athenian school, which contain¬ 
ed seven hundred pupils, taken from everv 
class of society. The poorer oliLsses Avere 
gratuitously instructed in redding, Avriting, 
and arithmetic, and the girls in ncedleAvork. 
likcAvise. The progress which the children 
had made Avtis very remarkable; but what 
particularly pleased me was that air of bright 
alertness and gtx)d-humored energy Avhich 
made every task appear a pleasure, not a 
toil. T’he greatest punishment Avhich can 
be inflicted on an Athenian child is exclu¬ 
sion from school, though but for a day.— 
About seventy of the children belonged to 
the higher classes, tind Avere instructed in 
music, draAving, the modern languages, the 
ancient Greek, and geography. Most of 
them Avere at the moment reading Herodo¬ 
tus and Homer. 1 luu'c never seen chil¬ 
dren iipproaching them in beauty; and Avas 
much struck by their oriental cast of coun 
tenance, their dark complexions, their tlash- 
ing eyes, and that expression, at once tip- 
pridiensive and meditative, Avhich is so much 
more remarktible in children than in those 
of more mature age.— De Vere. 
What maintains one vice would train up 
two children. 
Beavare of little expenses — a small leak 
will sink a great ship. 
