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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JUNE 26 
THE TWO VILLAGES. 
Oyer the rlrer on the bill, 
Lieth a Tillage white and still, 
All around it the forest trees 
Shiver and whisper in the breeaef 
Over it sailing shadows go 
Of soaring hawk and screaming erow, 
And mountain grasses, low and sweet. 
Grow in the middle of every street. 
Over the river, under the bill, 
Another village lieth still; 
There 1 see in the cloudy night 
Twinkling stars of household light, 
Fires that gleam from the smithy’s d©«s 
Mist* that curl on the river shore; 
And in the roads no grasses grow 
For the wheels that hasten to and &*. 
In that village on the hill, 
Never is sound of smithy or mill; 
The houses are thatched with grass and Sowers; 
Never a slock to toll the hours; 
The marble doors are always shw*, 
You eannot enter in hall or huts 
All the villagers lie asleep; 
Never a grain to sow or reap; 
Never in dreams to moan or sigh, 
Silent, and idle, and low they he. 
In that village under the hill, 
When the night is starry and still. 
Many a weary soul in prayer 
Looks to the other village there, 
And weeping and sighing longs to go 
Up to that home from this below; 
Longs to sleep by the forest wild, 
Whither have vanished wife and child, 
And hearetb, praying, this answer fall— 
“Patience! that village shall hold ye alL” 
WHEAT OR TARES. 
“Wheat ob Tabes — which are you sowing, 
Fanny dear, in the mind of this little fellow?” said 
Uncle Lincoln to his niece, Mrs. Howard, and he 
lifted a child, not beyond his fourth summer, upon 
his knee, and laid one of his hands amid the gold¬ 
en curls that fell about his neck, and clustered 
about his snowy temples. 
“Wheat, I trust, Uncle Lincoln,” replied Mrs. 
Howard, smiling, yet serious. “It is the enemy 
who sows tares—and I am his mother.” 
There was a glow of proud feeling in the coun¬ 
tenance of Airs. Howard, as she said, “I am his 
mother.” 
It was Mr. Lincoln’s first visit to his niece since 
her marriage and removal to a city some hundred 
miles away from her old home. 
“Even a mother’s hand may sow tares,” said the 
old gentleman. “I have seen it done many times. 
Not of design, but in thoughtless inattention to the 
quality of seed she held in her hand. The enemy 
mixes tares with the wheat quite as often as he 
scatters evil seed. The husbandman must not only 
watch his fields by night and day, but also the 
repositories of his ground, lest the enemy cause 
him to sow tares as well as wheat, upon his own 
fruitful ground.” 
“Willie,” said Mrs. Howard, speaking to her 
little boy, about ten minutes afterwards, “don’t 
upset my work-basket, stop! — I say, you little 
rogue!” 
Seeing that the wayward child did not mean to 
heed her words, the mother started forward, but 
not in time to prevent the spools of cotton, soissors, 
emery cushion, &c., from being scattered about the 
floor. 
Willie laughed in great glee at this exploit, 
while Airs. Howard gathered up the contents of the 
work-basket, which she now placed on the shelf 
above the reach of her mischievous boy. Then 
she shook her finger at him in mock resentment, 
saying: 
“You little sinner! If you do that again, I’ll 
send you off with the milkman.” 
“ Wheat or tares, Fanny?” Uncle Lincoln look¬ 
ed soberly at his niece. 
“ Neither,” replied Mrs. Howard, smiling gayly. 
“ Tares,” said Uncle Lincoln, emphatically. 
“Nonsense, Uncle!” 
“The tares of disobedience, Fanny. You have 
planted the seed, and it has already taken root.— 
Nothing will choke out the wheat sooner. The 
tares of falsehood you also throw in upon the newly 
broken soil. What are you thinking about, my 
child?” 
“The tares of falsehood, Uncle Lincoln! What 
are you thinking about?” said Airs. Howard, in 
real surprise. 
“ Did you not say that you would send him off 
with the milkman if he did that again? I wonder 
if he believed you?” 
“ Of course he did not.” 
“Then,”said Uncle Lincoln, “he has already dis¬ 
covered that his mother makes but light account 
of truth. Will his mother be surprised if he should 
grow up to set small value on his word?” 
“ You treat this matter too seriously, Uncle. He 
knows that I am only playing with him.” 
“He knows that you are telling him what is not 
,true,” replied Air. Lincoln. 
“ It was only in sport,” said Fanny, persistently. 
“But in sport with sharp-edged instruments — 
playing with deadly poisons.” The old gentleman 
looked and spoke with the seriousness that op¬ 
pressed his feelings. “Fanny! Fanny! Truth and 
obedience are good seeds; falsehood and disobe¬ 
dience are tares from the Evil One. Whatever you 
plant in the garden of your child will grow, and 
the harvest will be wheat or tares, just as yeu have 
sown.” 
Airs. Howard did not reply, but her countenance 
took on a sober cast. 
“ Willie,” said she, a few minutes afterwards, “go 
down to Jane, and tell her to bring me a glass of 
water.” 
Willie, who was amusing himself with some pic¬ 
tures, looked up on hearing his name. But as he 
did not feel like going off to the kitchen, he made 
no response, and let his eyes turn to the pictures 
in which he had become interested. 
“Willie!” Airs. Howard spoke with decision, 
" did yon hear me?” 
“ I don’t want to go,” answered Willie. 
“ Go this minute 1” 
“lam aft aid.” 
“Afraid of what?” inquired the mother. 
“ Afraid of the cat.” 
“No, yon are not The eat never h*rt you or 
anybody else.” 
“I am afraid of the milkman. Year Eaid he 
would carry me off. a . ^ 
“The milkman is not down stairs,” said.Mrp. 
Howard, her face beginning to crimson; “he only 
comes in the morning.” 
“Yes, he is. I heard his wagoD a little while 
ago, and he’s talking with Jane now. Don’t you 
hear him?” said the little fellow wiih remarkable 
skill, having all the resemblance of truth in his 
tone and expression. 
Mrs. Howard did not look up towards her Un¬ 
cle; she was afraid to do that. 
“Willie,” the mother spoke very seriously, “yon 
know the milkman is not down stairs, and yon 
know that you are not afraid of the cat. What yon 
have said, therefore, is not true; and it is wicked 
to utter a falsehood.” 
“Ho! ho!” laughed out the bright-eyed little 
fellow, evidently amused at his own sharpness, 
“ then yon are wicked, for you say that which is 
not true every day.” 
« Willie I” , 
“The milkman has not carried me off yet* 
There was a world of meaning in Willie’s face 
and voice. 
“ Yon haven’t whipped me for throwing my cap 
out of the window.” 
“Willie!” ejaculated the astonished mother. 
“ D’ye see that?” and the young rebel drew from 
his apron pocket a fine mosaic breast-pin, which 
he had positively been forbidden to touch, and 
held it up with a mingled look of triumph and 
defiance. 
“You little wretch!” exclaimed Airs. Howard, 
“this is going too far;” and springing towards her 
boy, she grappled him in her aims and fled with 
her struggling burden from tbe room. 
It was a quarter of an hour before she returned, 
alone, to the apartment where she had left her 
uncle. Her face was sober, and her eyes betrayed 
recent tears. 
“Wheat or tares, Fanny?” said the old gentle¬ 
man, in kind but earnest tones, and his niece came 
back. 
« Tares,” was the half mournful response. 
“ Wheat were better, Fanny.” 
“ I see it, Uncle.” 
“And you will look well in future to tbe seed in 
vour band, ere you scatter it upon tbe heart of your 
child?” 
“ God helping, I will, dear Uncle.” 
“Remember, Fanny,” said Mr. Lincoln, “that 
truth and obedience are good seed. Plant them, 
and the harvest will come in blessings.” 
BIOGRAPHY^ OF A GENIUS. 
“ What faios impose, that man must needs abide ; 
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.” 
What planet was in the ascendant on the day of 
my nativity, I am not able to say, whether tbe crab 
or dog-star; all 1 know is, that by common con¬ 
sent, I’m considered a genius. 
While yet in petticoats, not properly watched, my 
precocious curiosity led me to take my Dutch 
uncle’s French watch to pieces, and put it together 
again—the pieces at least Thus early genius, like 
murder, will out, there is no hiding it; curiosity 
is the desire to know, and that leads to knowledge: 
“How miry a noble art, now widely known, 
Ow es its youn^ impulse to this power alone!” 
Having by accident one day, broken ike leg of a 
pet duck, I was caught splicing it; the duck said 
“quack,” though oiliers dubbed me doctor. 
Titles came not single; my ability to plead and 
make out a case of not guilty, when complaints 
were lodged against me, was evidence of such 
genius, as to entitle me to the name Lawyer; my 
Dutch uncle unfortunately pronounced it Liar, but 
meant much better than he expressed himself. 
“ Lifted up so high 
I scorned subjection, and thought one step higher 
Would set me highest." 
The arts and sciences lay before me. Drawing, 
painting, and rhyming became my favorite pursuits. 
Paper by the ream and ink in pools were in de¬ 
mand. The market rose, my uncle’s brows lowered 
His eye was on economy, mine on fame. A lecture 
on extravagance followed; the genius of my muse 
took fire, and would indite, for the obedient hand 
to write, and thus she sung: 
“ Now it’s rather bard to abtis« 
An humble bard—to accuse 
Him of wasting ink ; 
Merely for a liumeiouscaper, 
Scribbling numerous sheets of paper; 
Yet ’tis none of yours l think.” 
He read it, but whether its sublimity or imperti¬ 
nence struck him most, I can’t say, only by his ex¬ 
pression. I feared he might strike me, and give 
me a “striking likeness of his dislikings.” As to 
my doting faiher, he made me do just as I pleased, 
always providing I pleased to do right, and attend 
to my business. Well, ue always do what is right, 
if we know what that is, a species of knowledge 
hard to learn, blinded by self-love and high aspi¬ 
rations. 
Music claimed my attention next, as a branch of 
the fine arts, bef.>re I could claim to be a son of 
Apollo. No sooner thought than done; a clarionet 
suited my taste if not that of others, with which I 
set the old people’s teeth on edge, and cured my 
maiden aunt of the nervous twitches, by complete¬ 
ly unstringing them. 
Having accomplished so much in doors, my 
genius, or evil geni, urged me to give all out doors 
the benefit of my music; if a false note occasion¬ 
ally made my uncle think the geese were in con¬ 
cert with me, no matter. 
“ This must be tbe music” said he, “ of the spears, 
For I’m blest if each note of it doesn’t run ihrough one.” 
Yes, like that of Orpheus, it attracted the very 
stones about me; a family council was convened, 
when it was resolved that I should not play in con¬ 
cert, nor distuib nature’s repose, and the inertia of 
matter by my strain at melody; they advised me 
to play solo c.n the flute, so low indeed as to dis¬ 
turb no one, lest I bhould be hound over to keep 
the peace. 
Tastes differ, alas! for a single genius in a fami¬ 
ly ! There is none to sympathize with him. I read 
Pope, but I hate Popes and potentates. I don’t 
agree with Pope. He says: 
“ One science only will one gening fit, 
So vast is art, bo narrow human wit.” 
I am an exception, for I am just as bright in one 
as the other of the varied sciences; only like the 
man’s farm, I can’t get at it, because another man 
has his on the top of it. But I’ll dig down and un¬ 
dermine it, or be buried in the ruins. Away with 
misgivings: 
“ Half of the ills we hoard within our heart#, 
Are ills because we hoard them.” 
A genius, like other folks, can’t etherialize the 
realities of life, and the necessity of going into 
business was forced'upon me. I preferred partner¬ 
ship, and therefore sought one, verifying the adage, 
“they that seek shall find.” A man of such varied 
capacities was considered adapted for keeping a 
variety store, and a country store was just the 
thing. Though no capital in hand, every one 
agreed that I was a capital hand to go into it, and 1 
went Though my Dutch uncle told me “to go where 
I went, and went where I will,” (when means were 
wanted,) I followed his advice, and went on my own 
hook, which, by-the-way, was soon straightened out, 
and let me down gently. 
But all this is owiDg to phrenology, because a 
fellow told me my hump of benevolence was too 
large, and my acquisitiveness too small, and that 1 
had a conscience, and such stuff. Be that as it 
may, my shelves were empty, though my hooks 
well filled. I collected my accounts, but as I could 
not alter my head, I changed my business. That 
there was something wrong somewhere was cer¬ 
tain; so I felt my head, but there was nothing in 
that, nor phrenology, though I felt the fellow’s re¬ 
marks: 
A drug store was Dext entered upon; here was a 
chance to dabble in unguents and tinctures, pow¬ 
ders and pills, and all the ills that the genus homo 
is heir to. Having, unfortunately, no taste to take 
medicines myself, my plaguey conscience, or some 
thing else, prevented me from forcing it upon 
others. But what I failed to do, doctors and prin¬ 
ters did for me, and customers were not wanting. 
Thus, no doubt, I should have gene on and pros¬ 
pered, had it not fallen to my lot to have a “bubly- 
jock.” If you wish to know what that is, consult 
Sir Walter Scott. We call it a hobby. 
I had a peculiar propensity of wandering out 
into unfrequented paths, accoutred with a tin box 
and a small hoe; thus I’d wander through dark 
swamps, and climb the rugged hill-side, in quest of 
plants aDd flowers, insects and objects of natural 
history, and on such occasions enjoyed serene and 
refreshing contemplation, for 
“ Nature hath made nothing so base but can 
Bead some instruction to the wisest man.” 
These rambles excited suspicion in the villagers. 
The more wise shrewdly suspected that I went out 
“ prospecting,” or in search of the philosopher’s 
stone; if not for an herb to make a universal 
panacea that would renew to old age tbe vigor of 
youth. 
Aly Dutch uncle became curious, and when on 
my return he saw my collection, and heard the 
hard names I gave them, he looked puzzled, until 
one familiar to him arrested his attention. 
“And what do you call that?” he asked. 
“That is the 1 Aristalochlit Serpentariaf ” said I. 
“The Aristo what? I know better,” said he; “it’s 
the Snake root” 
“Yes,” says I, “but that name is applied to a 
dozen plants, belonging to as many genera—and 
by no means proper to use.” 
“ I know better, I have used it, and know the use 
of it, and assure you it is nothing but snake root 
What’s the use to give it such a name as you have? 
—it’s enough to choke a man,” said he. 
“Uncle, you are joking now,” said I, laughingly, 
j and continued my work. 
In time, by perseverance, much can be accom 
plished. A room set apart for the purpose, became 
a queer looking place to the uninitiated; boxes 
with clay, and pet caterpillars, jars, bottles with 
snakes and the like, and rows of insects stuck upon 
pins in motley groups. 
This was my private sanctum, into which my 
uncle had not yet penetrated, until one day he 
came in “ sans ceremonie,” his eyes dilated with as¬ 
tonishment, and then softened into a look of pity. 
“ Surely,” says he, “ you must be crazy; this is why 
I have seen you run like a fool after bugs and but 
terfiies, to torture the poor creatures and pin them 
down in boxes.” 
To conciliate him, I exhibited to him the larva, 
cocoon, chrysalis, and perfect insect of a male and 
female sLlgeria exilosa, assuring him that they had 
been taken from the base of his favorite peach 
tree, and then gave him a history of its progressive 
changes, illustrated by my drawings, laying before 
him a realm of unlaid, sized foolscap, bound into a 
book, with other drawings and manuscripts. See¬ 
ing the interest he manifested in the history of the 
borer of his favorite peach tree, I felt encouraged, 
especially as he turned the leaves and examined 
my drawings, that he would approve of my labors, 
for which I had pecuniary, I mean peculiar, rea¬ 
sons to desire, and left him in his cogitations un 
disturbed. 
Still water runs deep. All this time, instead of 
admiring my labors, he was calculating how much 
time I had spent and paper wasted during the last 
twelve years, and summed up by informing me, 
that it was no wonder I could not get along in bu¬ 
siness, for the time and labor thus wasted, applied 
to getting property, would have enabled me to have 
a home of my own and all the comforts of life 
around me, and no favors to anybody. 
“ Well, but, uncle, it is creditable to be a natural¬ 
ist!” said I, beseechingly. 
“ You are a natural fool, just as I always believed 
you would be. Who is going to pay you for all 
this?” was his reply. 
“Oh! what a fall of hope!—it sank to zero.— 
Why was I not born an idolator of tbe mighty dol¬ 
lar, instead of A Genius. 
Thebe are many persons who have heard so 
much of family government that they think that 
there cannot be too much of it. They imprison 
their children in still rooms, where a fly is a band 
of music in the empty silence, and govern at morn¬ 
ing, and govern at night; and the child goes all 
day long, like a shuttle in the loom, back and for¬ 
ward, hit at both ends. Children, subjected to such 
treatment are apt to grow up infidels through mere 
disgust 
REGULARLY SOLD OUT. 
fuHrrtisstauntjs. 
Doting the month of January, 1850, while stop¬ 
ping at the Sutter House, in Sacramento city, Cali¬ 
fornia, I accidentally overheard a conversation 
between two gentlemen, one of whom was from 
New York city, and had been in the country nearly 
a year, and the other had just arrived. 
The new comer was lamenting his condition and 
his folly in leaving an abundance at home, and es¬ 
pecially two beautiful daughters, who were just 
budding into womanhood, when be asked the New 
Yorker if he had a family. 
“ Yes, sir; I have a wife and six children in New 
York, and I never saw one of them.* 
After this reply, the couple sat a few moments in 
silence; then the interrogator again commenced: 
“Were yon ever blind, sir?” 
“No, sir.” 
“Did you marry a widow, sir& 
“ No, sir.” 
Another lapse of silence. 
“ Did I understand you to say, Bir, that you had 
a wife and six children living in New York and 
had never seen one of them?” 
“Yes, sir—I so stated it” 
Another and a longer pause of silence. Then 
tbe interrogator again inquired: 
“How can it be, sir, that you never saw one of 
them?” 
“ Why,” was the response, " one of them was born 
after I left” 
“Oh! ah!” and a general laugh followed, and 
after that the New Yorker was especially distin¬ 
guished as the man who “had Bix children and 
never saw one of them.” 
Fbightfully AIysterious. — A gentleman so¬ 
journing at a fashionable watering-place hotel, and 
whose sleeping apartment was next to that of two 
young ladies, overheard the following conversa¬ 
tion, one morning:—“Aly dear, I cannot find my 
bones; and how can I go down to breakfast? I 
shall look as if I had fallen to pieces.” “I will 
lend you my skeleton, dear, if it will fit you.”— 
“ Ob, thank you—how kiud!—yes, exactly.” Only 
one young lady appeared at breakfast. What was 
the condition of the one who lent the skeleton? 
Look at Home. —“John,” said a clergyman to 
his man, “you should become a tetotaller, you 
have been drinking again to-day.” “ Do you never 
take a dropyousel’, meenister?” “Yes John; you 
must look at your circumstances and mine!”— 
“ Verra true, sir,” says John; “ but can you tell me 
how the streets of Jerusalem were kept so clean?” 
“No, John, I cannot tell you that!” “Weel, sir, 
it was just because everyone kept his own door 
clean.” 
“AIary, do you remember the text this morn 
ing?” “No, papa, I never can, I’ve such a bad 
memory.” “Alary,” said the mother, “did yon 
notice Susan Brown?” “Oh, yes. What a fright 
She had on her last year’s bonnet, done up, a pea- 
green silk, a black lace mantilla, brown gaiters, an 
imitation Honiton collar, her old ear-drops, and 
such a fan! Oh, my !’* “ Well, dear, your memory 
is improving.” 
Mbs. Fly was asked if she kneaded her dough 
or beat it up with a stick. “If you can find any¬ 
body that needs the dough more than I do,” said 
she, “ pity take mercy on ’em.” 
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yon will confer on them a favor, and shall l e lewarried hv toe sub¬ 
scriber. Said Parkin-on resided in CleTeland abor t ! S3'nnd fol¬ 
lowed tire dr ay ing business. Address E. O. DAVIDSON, 
A41-2t MeriBt Vernon, Ohio. 
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KETCHUM'S R EAPE R AWD MOWER. 
R. R. HOWARD’S 
Cask Premium List for 1858! 
T. C. PETERS, DAKIEN, GENESEE COUNTY, N. Y„ 
UMPIRE, TO AWARD PREMIUMS. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
$150 00 
100 00 
100 00 
50 00 
25 00 
SUl'KKIOR LAND PLA8TKR! 
1 J1RENCH A CHAPPELL, 69 Exchange St. (Successors to 
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nse, Garbutt’s Celebrated Land Piaster. One Dollar invested 
in Plaster returns Fifty to the Farmer. 
ty SOMBRERO GUANO, a superior article, for sale in any 
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I am composed of 25 letters. 
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instrument 
Aly 2, 22, 6, 20, 3,1, G, 3, 4, G, 22, 9, 7, 1G is a city in 
Europe. 
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My 7, 21, 5, 23, 24 is what officers have. 
My 9, 22, 2, 12, 10, 3, 9, 4, 1G, 2, 10 is the name of a 
cannon that belonged to Queen Anne. 
Aly 15, 1, 3, 10, 23, 3, 22, 21, G is the name of a vil¬ 
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Aly 8, 18, 1, 3, 1G is a kind of stone. 
My 2, 19, 3, 14 are domestic animals. 
Aly whole should be remembered. 
Roberts' Corners, Jeff. Co., N. Y. N. C. Pit K 8 let. 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorksr. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.—ACROSTICAL. 
I ah composed of 15 letters. 
.My 1, 11, 11. 12 15 is a county in Ohio. 
My 2, 8,10,12, 15 is a lake in Canada. 
My 3, 2, 12, 15, 13,14, 15 is a city in New Jersey. 
My 4, 5, 6, 14, 15 is a lake in the United States. 
My 5, 3,1, 4 is a Territory in*r.he United States. 
My 6, 4, 14,15, 12 is a river in France. 
My 7,14,15, 13, 2, 12, 1,11 is a city in Canada. 
My 8, 14, 15, 8, 1 is a city in Alichigan. 
My 9, 12, 11, 4, 8, 1 is a village in New York. 
My 10,12, 15, 13, 14,15 is a village in Maryland. 
My 11, 8, 11, 11,12 is a city in France. 
My 12, 2, 8, 12 is a county in New York. 
My 13, 14, 2, 14,15, 3, 14 is a city in Canada. 
My 14, 4, 8,14 is one of the Uuited States. 
Aly 15, 8,11, 12 is a river in Africa. 
My whole is the name of one ef the signers of 
the Declaration of Independence. 
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For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
PROBLEM. 
Required the surface of a polygon of seven 
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First Premium, - - - 
Second Premium, - - 
Third Premium, - 
Fourth Premium, - - 
Fifth Premium, - 
I N order to advance the interests o r Agriculture more effectually 
than I can by spending money in attending public trialR, which 
often are very unsatisfactory to the public, I offer tbe following 
premiums: 
lst-ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS 
To tbe fanner who shall cut the greatest number of acres of grass and 
grain, in the shortest time, in the best manner, and with tbe least ex¬ 
pense, with Ketchum's Combined Machine, manufactured this year, 
during the ensuing harvest 
2d.—ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 
To the farmer who shall cut with any Ketehum Oomhined Machine, 
Dot lees than 81 ty acres o f grass and fifty acres of grain in like manner. 
3d.—ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 
To tbe farmer who shall cut ono hundred acres of grass, with any 
Ketehum Mower, hi like manner. 
4th—FIFTY DOLLARS 
To the farmer, who shall cut fifty acres of grass, in like maimer, with 
any Ketehum Mower. 
5 th.—TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS 
To the farmer, who shall harvest twenty acres of clover seed, with any 
Ketehum Machine, in like manner. 
The grass must yield not less than one and a half tons to the acre. 
The suid work to lie done with machines manufactured by the sub¬ 
scriber, at Buffalo, N. Y. 
Fanners competing for the above prominms shall forward an affida¬ 
vit or affidavits, setting forth tile facts, vis: the kind of land, crop and 
amount thereof per acre, the quality of work, length of stubble, time 
occupied, giving the hours, and the expense incurred for labor or re¬ 
pairs, stating each item and such other circumstances as may be 
proper, together with the number of the machine and the year pur¬ 
chased, to T. C. Peters, of Darien, Gen. Go., N. Y, before tbe 1st of 
September next, who shall have the privilege of making or having 
a personal examination made, or may require additional proof before 
making his award. 
I will furnish blanks for affidavits to any person, and reserve the 
privilege of publishing any of the statements and the awards in my 
next circular. Two premiums shall not be awarded to tire same [>erson. 
The result of accurate trials of this kind, will enable the public to 
judge with more certainty of the value of Reaping and Mowing Ma¬ 
chines compared with the scythe and cradle, titan can be done at trials 
as usually conducted, for the reason that so small a quantity of either 
grass or grain is cut, that it is difficult for Committees to judge with 
scrupulous accuracy of the features aud capacity of the different ma¬ 
chines. R. L. HOWARD, 
Manufacturer of Ketchum’s Combined Harvesters. 
Buffalo, May 21, 1858. 439 
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A S A REAPER it is more simple, and less liable to get out of 
repair than any ether Self Raker,—is easier lor the team than 
any band-raker of equal width of cut—leaves a clean stubble of any 
desirable height Rakes off the grain better than is otdinarily dono 
by the best baud rakes. The size of the bundle is easily regulated by 
a slight pressure of the driver's foot, and is operated with the lo&J, 
possible amount of manual labor. 
The Self-Raker was awarded the First Premium at the National 
Trial in July last .. . 
Asa Mower, it is lighter In draught than many machines woich 
cut less width of swath .—leaves the cut grass in good c< ndiifon, and 
starts at any point without backing to get up motion of the knife before 
coming to the grass The motion of the kuite is changed from slow, 
for reaping, to fast, for mowing, by using different sized pinions—se¬ 
curing a iugh motion when necessary, aud avoiding it, aud the conse¬ 
quent loss of power and wear of the gearing, when unnecessary. The 
same cutter bar is used for both reaping and mowing, and the machine 
is easily and quickly converted to serve either purpose. 
For quality of material and workmanship, strength, durability and 
efficiency, it is, as manufactured by us, not excelled as a combined 
machine 
We manufacture two sizes,—one entting five feet, designed for two 
horses; tire other cutting six feet or more, designed lor tour horses, 
(may be used with two) Circulars containing price, terms, testimo¬ 
nials, blank orders, Ac . will be sent on application to us. 
SEYMOUU, MOHUAN A ALLEN, 
432tf Brockport.N. Y. 
KEUZIE’S WATER FILTER. 
rrtHE SUBSCRIBERS give notice that they have made, arrange- 
JL meets with Mr. Kedzik, the patentee of this celebrated Kilter, to 
manufacture, under his own supervision, and sell at former retail pri¬ 
ces. and discount to dealers as when made by J. E. Cheney & Co. 
Address only JAMES TERRY A CO. 
59 and 61 State St, Rochester, N. Y. 
431 the old stand of J. K. Chunky A Co. 
BLJlCK’HA WK, Jr., 1st., 
M AY BE FOUND at the Stable of the Subscriber, two milee 
east of Lockport, the coming season for the improvement of 
horses. Sire, Black Hawk; g. sire, Sherman; g. g„ Justin Morgan.— 
Dam, by young Hamiltonian by Bishop Hamiltonian, by Imported 
Messenger. Dam of Young Hamiltonian by I-eotiidas; g. dam by 
Bellfounder. Black Hawk, Jr. 1st is jet black, 15 hands high, 
weight 1,000 lbs. closely resembling his sue in style and action He 
possesses an excellent temper, is a pleasant driver and goes in good 
style He received the first premium at the Niagara Co. Fair in 1853 
when six years old-time, 2m. 55a Also the first premium at the N. 
Y. State Fair in 1857, beating Billy McCracken of Osltkosh, Wis.— 
His stock are good size, weighing from 1,000 to 1,200 Ibe In speed, 
style and docility they excel 
I have a uumber of young horses, stallions, mares and geldings o. 
his sire, for sale on reasonable tenna Persons in pursuit of choice 
stock sre invited to call and examine them, or address me by letter. 
426wetf N. FARNUM, Lockport, Niagara Co. N. Y. 
HUDSON RIVER INSTITUTE, 
A T CLAVERACK, Columbia Co., N. Y. Male and ftnuit. 
The very best and cheapest Boarding School in the laud—$40 
pays board, washing and Tuition in common English branches per 
term. Special advantages in French, Fainting, and Piano Music.— 
Ladies who complete the Course are furnished situations to teach at 
ealarivs from $200 to 500 a year. Experienced gentlemen Instructors 
at the head of each of the uine departments. Summer Term, April 
16th Write for a Catalogue Address 
421tf Rev ALONZO FLACK, A. M. Prtocipa 1 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Agricultural, Literary aud Family Newspaper* 
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