i WHOLE NO. 167 . 
VOLUME IV. NO. 11. 8 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.~ SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1853 . 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER : 
A QUARTO WEEKLY 
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ITW" For Terms, &c., see hist page. * 
Ultra! 
Progress and Improvement, 
SAVE THE FRAGMENTS. 
Certainly, gather them up — the little 
things, the remnants — that nothing be lost. 
IIo who was more than mortal — having 
miraculously fed the multitude, ordered the 
fragments to he gathered and saved. So 
should the farmer learn frugality, so take 
heed and save all the bits — the odds and 
ends. We know that “great streams from 
little fountains flow,” whilst the continual 
drippings, though each in itself insignificant 
will wear away the rock. So it is that drib¬ 
lets fritter away a fortune. 
So simple and insignificant an action as 
the picking up of a pin, was onco the occa¬ 
sion, to an unknown youth, of a situation 
that opened to the honorable acquisition of 
groat wealth and honor. Little acts givo 
better indications of character than great 
deeds. So reasoned ho, who had turned 
away the application of the poor youth, as 
ho saw him unobserved, from his window, 
stoop to perform the littlo saving action.— 
A note to the rejected, the same evening, 
announced the desired situation. 
A spirit of frugality doos not indicate 
illiborality, nor a sordid selfishness. It is 
for saving, “that nothing bo lost, — “a 
gathering up” that the fragments may sorve 
somo useful ond, or praiseworthy purpose. 
Yes, yos, lot the farmer, especially the 
young farmer, bear the injunction in daily, 
active remembrance, and be suro to gather 
up the fragments. Let us itemizo a littlo 
in one particular. In the case of food for 
stock there is much to ho gathered up and 
saved. In the season of laying in the win¬ 
ter’s store, savo it all and save it well, for 
there may be, not only a “ gathering up ” 
in quantity, but in quality. A pound of 
fodder well cured and well saved, is worth 
three pounds but half cured and half saved : 
so there is a trebled “gathering up” in this 
respect. Don’t waste any of the coarse 
fodder. Bean and pea vines are excellent 
tor sheep, while most individuals of the 
horned stock have a relish for them too.— 
Buckwheat straw, voted by the majority a 
nuisance, it well secured is worth quite as 
much as tho best of any other straw. If 
stowed away in good condition with somo 
salt scattered on it, stock will relish it quito 
as well as first quality Oat straw. So they 
will tho chaff of Buckwheat. 
But wo might go on at length, and enu¬ 
merate articles that by many are need¬ 
lessly wasted, which if suitably cared for and 
looked aftor, would add much to tho farm¬ 
er’s profits in the item of feed alone. And 
it would most certainly add to tho comfort 
ot his animals, and givo a greater surplus 
for those who have to purchase. Savo, then, 
tho fodder, and having saved it, continuo to 
gather it up as you food it. Don’t throw it 
and your time away, by flinging it out in 
the mud to bo trampled upon by your cat¬ 
tle. Here again is a chance that your sav¬ 
ings shall bo doubled again, or rather what 
the “ slack hand ” horo scattereth, is more 
than at first thought it seometh to bo.— 
Gather up more of the fragments, then, by 
feeding in racks and boxes. Those who can, 
may have their straw-cutters, &c., and still 
keep saving the “ waifs and strays.” Thoso 
who have not got them, may soon do so by 
saving all tho fragments thoy can. 
Give your animals warm shelter, and 
make yet another important “gathering up.” 
There is no senso in burning out fuel to keep 
tho unsheltered system up to a comfortable 
warmth, when less food will do it better 
under a warm shelter. Just as well thrust 
tho human family out in tho bleak field by 
a burning log pile to keep comfortable.— 
Another consideration—for whilst you are 
making these savings, there are others sure 
to follow closo on in tho wake,— your ani¬ 
mals return high interest, and make rich 
doposits, which, if you aro thoughtful to 
make the most of, your increased crops will 
make you rub your hands for joy as you 
gather them in. 
Tho practice of “gathering up,” when 
well acquired will make you far more at¬ 
tentive to business ; and holding all taunt, 
you will bo looking around for all the frag¬ 
ments legitimately your own Hence as a 
result, your lands will grow fat, your cattle 
becomo sleek, your granaries overflow, your 
orchard bend with fruit, your purso pleth¬ 
oric, your wife gracious, your sons and 
daughters wise and good — and yourself a 
generous benefactor to the poor and unfor¬ 
tunate. 
You will wonder, when you come to think 
of it, how many fragments there are going 
to waste. Everything that will lessen labor, 
or bring greater returns, or add to real and 
substantial improvement, whether in the 
method of clearing tho land, constructing 
the fences, eradicating the weeds, cultivat¬ 
ing and securing tho crops, erecting build¬ 
ings, &c., is such a gathering up of frag¬ 
ments as will in tho aggregate make a telling 
account in tho footing up of the profits. 
But there is another sort of fragments, 
the gathering up, and the right use of which, 
is of infinite importance ; that is time — a 
capital without which man is utterly and 
everlastingly bankrupt. Precious moments, 
golden sands, worth vastly more than ingots 
ot lucre. For it is hereby wo may improve 
human nature, give food to tho living prin¬ 
ciple within, and increase its capacity for 
good. 0 that we may not also increase it 
for evil! Gather up, then, tho fragments 
of time, and improvo each momont to some 
useful purpose. So shall your harvest be 
rich for the great granary horcaftor. 
POULTRY. 
FOREIGN VARIETIES — DOUBTFUL BLOOD. 
That there will bo multitudes of eggs and 
chickens, of tho foreign breeds of fowls, 
offered for sale the coming season, is to be 
expected. Tho subject of improvement in 
this item of domestic economy, has taken 
such a wide and deep hold upon tho public 
sentiment, that in tho anxiety and eagerness 
of the people to accomplish tho dosired 
purpose, many persons, not thoroughly in¬ 
structed, will bo liable to grovious imposi¬ 
tion. There is reason to believo that many, 
very many, of questionable character as to 
genuineness and purity of blood, will be 
bred and sold as pure and genuine, by per¬ 
sons, either wanting in regard to integrity, 
or destituto of correct, reliable knowledge 
of tho subject. There may bo thoso of good 
standing abroad, whore they aro known 
only by their published noticos, whoso word 
at homo would not bo worth a shilling, any 
farther than tho value of thoir statements 
could bo known and sustained by collateral 
evidence. There are also those of loss 
notoriety, whoso self-confidenco is such, 
that thoy lack tho scrutiny needed to ac- 
quiro corroct information. 
A single fact boaring upon this point, 
where producing and soiling wore contem¬ 
plated, will illustrate this position. An en¬ 
quiry was made in regard to tho hons. 
“ Thoy, too, aro pure,” was tho prompt re¬ 
ply- 
“ From what importation aro thoy de¬ 
rived ?” 
“ Don’t know.” 
“Ilavo you not a statement of thoir 
origin ?” 
“Didn’t want any.” 
“ How do you know then thoy are pure ?” 
IMPORTED AYRSHIRE BULL “DANDY.”—Prize animal at the N. Y. State Fair, 1849. 
For Portrait ot prize Ayrshire Cow, and an interesting article on this valuable improved breed of cattle, see next page. 
“I know from their looks;—they can’t 
cheat me.” 
They might have boon perfect for aught 
that appeared, but the certainty vif tho fact 
was merged in these four significant words, 
—“thoy can’t cheat me.” Ana^tho value of 
this short phrase, to a cautious, intelligent 
purchaser, can easily bo estimated. 
In respoct to none of tho varieties can 
the hazards of mistake, from design or from 
ignorance, be greater than in regard to tho 
Brahma Pootras. No breed can bo so easily 
counterfeited, and none furnish so groat in- 
ducomonts. Thoy are tho most rare, the 
most costly variety. But they can bo man¬ 
ufactured, we are assured, from tho product 
of the Gray Shanghai pair, whoro tho shades 
of color happon to bo satisfactory;—and 
also from the Grey Shanghai cock, and the 
largo plump common hen, where the tinge 
of plumage happens to bo right. It also 
accords, we aro told, with tho “ mysteries of 
the trado,” to have a genuine pair by 
their presence, cover with thoir mantle, 
and give name, character and value to 
young birds, who so resomblo them as to 
seem related, but are not pure and genuine, 
nor worth comparatively moro than the 
price of a Bantam. Disappointments from 
deficient knowledge, or deficient integrity, 
may also bo anticipated, in regard to the 
other varieties. 
Now, to tho ordinary farmer who rears 
fowls for his own domestic use, with no de¬ 
sign or desiro to cultivate thorn for sale, it 
may not bo so essontial that ho should 
know as to tho purity of his stock. But to 
tho farmer of taste and enterprise, the man 
of progress and improvement, it is indis¬ 
pensable that he should know, wlion he pays 
largo mdneys for fowls, that thoy are in all 
respects gonuino. Of tho genuine bird 
alone, can ho expect to bo able to maintain 
and improve, by careful culture, its original 
excellence. Tho Hybrid, in its propoga- 
tion, will as often exhibit tho imporfections 
of tho inferior, as the perfections of tho 
superior species. Nono others than gon¬ 
uino, therefore, are worth tho notice of an 
intelligent purchaser. And to ensure safety 
in regard to this point, it is not only neces¬ 
sary that tho breeder be a person of stand¬ 
ing and character, but that ho should be 
able to trace his stock through careful, re¬ 
spectable cultivators, back to tho stock of 
tho bost importations. This can easily be 
done by all who merit tho reputation of 
correct dealers. I would not purchase a 
bird, or an egg at any prico, tho purity of 
which could not bo thus traced and verified. 
Nor would I purchase a bird or an egg of 
a vendor, unloss his word was altogether 
above suspicion. It is a thing perfectly 
easy, if at any time desirable, to ascertain 
with precision, tho degree of credit to be phenomenon, for which I could not account, 
attached to tho assurancos of a dealer upon And I should bo very much pleased if some 
this point. ! of our celebrated “Professors of Agricul- 
An old mercantile friend, of whom an I turo” would turn their attention to the sub¬ 
inquiry was once made by a young trader, | jeot, and inform us how we might secure 
in regard to tho standing of Mr. B., who j products of the same variety as the seed 
had applied for an invoice on credit, replied, which we sow, or plant. That we cannot 
—“ I don’t know Mr. B., sir !” Seeing his always do so, i3 satisfactorily shown by the 
young friend look in astonishmont, well j results in tho instances which I have given, 
assured that thoy had been long acquainted, A still more extraordinary instance will 
ho added,—“ When I am asked the stand- bo given in my noxt number, by which it 
ing of a man, and have nothing good to say will be seen that ivheat is no more to be re- 
about him, I reply, I don’t know him, sir. lied on, to produce its own variety, than po- 
Now, I don’t know Mr. B., sir! I don’t tatoes and corn. ’Hiel. 
know him. sir !” - - —-~ 
There will be many a vendor of young CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, 
birds and eggs tho present season, of whom 
intelligent, honorable men might say — “I „ 
don’t know Mr. B., sir ! I don’t know him, 
sir!” Verbnm sat. IIongKong. if 1 
MY EXPERIENCE-NO. 2, fc. 1 
Indian Corn. fe S 
In several instances I have known Indian 9 
corn to change from one variety to another, ' —===- ~ .la 
in a single season. Somo seven or eight -——--- idJ * 
years ago I had some “ Rico corn,” from Feeding Bos for Cattle. 
Michigan, which I planted in my garden, as Eds Rural ._i send you a sketch of a 
remotely as I could from my “ Sweet corn,’’ feeding boX) which j think an improvement 
which was tho only other kind planted on the one vou copy from the Gt neseeFar- 
thero ; or indeed within, probably, one bun- mei , In a box but six fcet square) the mas- 
dred rods. My Rico corn giew to moie fo r ca ^i 0 would frighten the timid across 
than twice its usual height, the stalks being tbc box> thoir heads being so near together; 
from six to eight ieet in length. It pro- an d, unless boarded up, calves or small stock 
duced ears of two or three times the usual ! might get caught bot ween the braces. This 
size,-and moro than nine-tenths of it had box ig 9 foot squarG) with posts 0 f 3 bv 4 
changed to a white, round-grained variety, i inch scantlhlg< 5 feet high . the sides board- 
unmixed with a single grain ot either the I ed< but without bottorn , so as to bo shifted 
“ Rico” or “ Sweet corn.” Some six or eight ; easily when the refuse fodder fills it, or any 
ears were somewhat similar to the seed j other cause makes such a couvso dosinib i e . 
plantod. but not a tenth pait of tho pro- , q’ be s j des aro only high enough to keep tho 
duce exhibited the least lelationship to the i ca ttle from getting into the box. and the 
seod, in term, or appearance, excepting that corners so low that thoy may easily disengage 
tho seod was yellowish white, and the pro- j themselves when hurriedly driven away, 
duco was purely white . No intoi mixture j t sbo uld be strongly put together, with 
with tho “Sweet coin, in the other pait ot | wrought nails or rivets through the braces, 
the garden could bo detected. j A supply in every barn yard would bo found 
A year or two after this occurrence I j very convenient and valuable.—I. Gillett, 
again tried to raise “Rice corn” in my gar- Stafford, Genesee Co., .V. Y. 
don; but, under similar circumstances, was - 
again unsuccessful — tho result being simi- Corn Shellers. Seed Drills, &c. 
lar to that in my first experience. I then Friend Moore :—Myself and one of my 
gave it up, satisfied that “Rice corn” would neighbors wish to purchase each of us a 
not “ produce its like,” in my garden. Corn sheller to be operated by hand power. 
“Egyptian,” or perhaps moro properly We wish to obtain tho kind that will shell 
“ Fodder corn,” had also been previously the most corn, and do it in the best man- 
tried, in tho same manner.* And a part of nor, with the least power. I presume tho 
that had also totally changed its variety thing we want may bo obtained in Roches- 
from white grains of fivo-oighths of an inch ter, but do not know, as I have not noticed 
in longth, having a husk enveloping every it advertised in the Rural. M e wish also, 
grain, to a round . white-grained kind, with- to know tho price of such machines, then 
out the least vestige of husk enclosing the we can calculate whether it will pay to pur- 
several grains. It was a singular, and, to chase one. 
me, very surprising exhibition of natural I wish also to know where I can purchase 
