TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.] 
PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
[ SINGLE NO. FIVE CENTS. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY JOURNAL, 
America—-who have become so dazzled by 
“ six per cent,” that every dollar they can pos¬ 
sibly accumulate is hired out to some banking 
establishment, while their soil is, year after 
year, deteriorating,—becoming actually starved 
—yet their ability to furnish the pabulum for 
vegetable growth is undoubted. The true pol¬ 
icy to be carried out, is to increase the value of 
the land you till, to expend whatever surplus 
capital you may have in keeping everything in 
repair—when this is done, other channels for 
its profitable use may be employed. The 
farmer who deposits his wealth in his own soil, 
will receive greater dividends therefrom than 
were ever declared by an “ incorporated insti¬ 
tution,” that pursued a purely “ legal business,” 
and in addition, there will be no danger of re¬ 
pudiation. One share in a good farm, will often¬ 
times prove of more value than ten in even a 
“safe” bank—subject as the latter is to the ex¬ 
citements and fluctuations of the monetary 
interest. 
Many farmers seem to consider their occupa¬ 
tion as one of unceasing drudgery—that its 
prosecution requires no thought, no mental ac¬ 
tion, that a process, composed entirely of me¬ 
chanical routine, is the only requirement at the 
hands of the cultivator, and that the adoption 
of Agricultural pursuits is beneath the dignity 
of those possessing more than ordinary capa¬ 
bilities. They utterly refuse to look upon it as 
a science, and their influence is exerted to de¬ 
stroy a desiro for rural avocations. Take the 
family of one of this class, male or female, and 
how many of them will be found clinging to 
the old homestead. The professions open bril¬ 
liant spheres for the young men, and a city resi¬ 
dence, with available opportunities for display¬ 
ing a total ignorance of the life their mothers 
led, is the object most devoutly to be wished for 
by the young women. Such are the children 
that many a farmer is educating—leading them 
to look with contempt upon those who follow 
their father’s calling. The remedy for all this 
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H. T. BROOKS, Prop. C. DEWEY, 
T. C. PETERS, L. B LANGWORTHY. 
niRAM C. WHITE. 
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with the business of those whoso interests it adrocates. It 
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chanical, Literary and News Matter, interspersed with many 
appropriate and beautiful Engravings, than sny other paper 
published in this Country,—rendering it a complete Agricul¬ 
tural, Literary and Family Newspaper. 
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addressed to D. D. T. MOORE, Rochester, N. Y 
For Terms, and other particulars, see last page. 
Tiib course pursued by many farmers would 
seem to convey the idea that land possesses, of 
itself, some re-invigoratiDg power—that to sow 
and to reap were the ouly duties devolving 
upon the cultivator, and il these were complied 
with a bountiful crop would inevitably result. 
The fact that every crop taken from the soil 
reduces its standard of fertility, abstracts there¬ 
from certain properties which nature is incapa¬ 
ble of restoring, is not appreciated, or if it is, 
the every-day action of this class utterly dis¬ 
regards the dictates -of knowledge and sound 
judgment. Restitution forms no part of their 
creed, and sterility, sooner or later, is the fea¬ 
ture of their possessions. To render farms 
productive, to ensure a proper return for labor 
and time expended in the culture of any farm 
product, a certain condition of soil is necessary, 
and to keep lands in such state, a return of the 
elements of fertility is a matter oi prime neces¬ 
sity. The success of English farmers is often 
placed before their American co-laborers, and 
the question arises “ Why is this so ?—what is 
the secret of good farms, and great returns ?” 
The answer is palpable— manure. The Mark 
Lane Express, in speaking of the farm of Rich¬ 
ard Dawson, in North Lincolnshire, remarks as 
follows:—“The farm of Mr. D. contains 2,700 
acres. This land was a few years back a wil¬ 
derness. One field of 352 acres was an old 
rabbit warren, when Mr. Dawson, Sr., entered 
upon the farm. We once counted 1,000 ewes 
in this field, with a lamb to each ewe, making 
together 2,000 head of sheep stock, with some 
young cattle and horses. Six hundred acres of 
turnips, and six hundred acres of clover are 
annually grown and consumed on the farm by 
FEMALE CASHMERE GOAT, 
The property of Richabd Raters, °f Atlanta, Ga., imported in 1849, from Turke 
Dr. J. B. Davis, of South Carolina. Live weight 102 pounds; weight of yearly fie 
The owner of the Cashmere Goats repre¬ 
sented in the accompanying illustrations, has 
furnished us the following descriptive and his¬ 
torical article on the subject. He has also fa¬ 
vored us with a sample of the fleece of a year¬ 
ling buck. It is i f a fine, silk-like texture, six 
inches in length, and similar to samples hither¬ 
to received from Mr. Peters and noticed in the 
Rural. Whether this race of animals can be 
successfully and profitably cultivated in this 
country is not yet fully determined, although 
the experiments of Mr. P.,whichhave apparent¬ 
ly proved satisfactory thus far, will probably ere 
long demonstrate the question.— Edb. 
cattle and sheep, which are allowed oil cake 
and grain in addition. 
Mr. Dawson and his 
father had proved that green crops were the 
main stay of all good farming; and that the 
more meat a poor-plowed-land farmer sent to 
Smitlifield, the more corn (grain) he would be 
able to sell per acre at Mark Lane. About ten 
thousand dollars are paid each year for artifi¬ 
cial manures. For twenty-two years in suc¬ 
cession, $7,500 per annum have been annually 
expended in the purchase of bones, besides 
large sums yearly for oil cake.” Here is the 
great truth, and it is as 
applicable to farming 
on this as on the other side of the Atlantic. 
The preservation of manure should become a 
cardinal principle of the American farmer. It 
is the basis of all his operations, upon it de¬ 
pends his success—without it, a total failure in 
every department of farm husbandry must 
ensue. 
The right application of capital is worthy the 
serious consideration of every agriculturist. 
Money, or the use thereof, is an important pos¬ 
session in the pursuit of any occupation, nor 
are farmers more likely to progress without 
a share of the “circulating medium,” than any 
other class of men. We read not long since in 
an Agricultural journal, a sentence which was 
given as the life-long experience of one whose 
judgment was considered good, and whose ad¬ 
vice was fully at par, to the effect that “ to farm 
successfully a large capital was necessary." 
Had the person referred to, given it as his 
[In the last volume we gave a dialogue about “ Corn,— 
Three Acres,—Dr.,” founded on fact, with actual figures 
and results. The following takes the same ground —re¬ 
porting on its crop for the present year.—E ds.] 
A. —How goes farming this year ? I dare 
say you have not forgotten our “ Walk and 
Talk” all about your Corn Field last season ? 
B. —No, verily ! Bat did I ever tell you I 
made $1,50 per acre, clear profit on the crop ? 
A.—Lucky fellow I How did you do it ? 
B —By “charging over” to next crop, $3 per 
acre, for manure. 
A. Will the “ next crop” stand “back char¬ 
ges, or do they “ eat up the freight,” as they say 
in transportation ? 
B. —You shall see. I wished to seed clover, 
and thought bailey would be a better crop for 
that than oats; as for spring wheat, I am sure 
I would not raise it. 
A.—Barley is called one of the best spring 
grains for seeding with, though on none will 
clover do as well as on winter rye or wheat. 
B- — You remember I expended $18 in 
Patent Office Report. —The Washington 
Star states that the report of the Agricultural 
operations of the Patent Office will probably 
be ready for distribution this month, and that 
the pressing demand for copies from all parts of 
the country will be promptly met. It is a little 
later than the mechanical part of the report, 
but the circumstances and contingencies con¬ 
nected with its preparation appear to have been 
such as to render this brief delay necessary. 
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