MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
SEPT. 18. 
THE FIRST DISAPPOINTMENT. 
BY MRS. II. J. BKVERISSB. 
I s aw a youthful mother, 
Once on a summei’e day, 
Set down a bd iling infant 
To watch its frolic play; 
It gamboled on the flowers 
That decked the carpet o'er, 
And seemed, with childish wonder, 
Kach object to explore. 
A Bomething on the mutant 
Ite glad career arrests, 
And earneslly it gar.es where 
A golden sunbeam rests; 
While on the new-found glory 
It fixed its wondering eyes, 
And trustingly reached forth its hand 
To seize the glittering prize. 
And now its tiny fingers clasp 
The treasure rich aDd rare, 
Which in its baby innocence 
It surely thought was there. 
But, ah! that band uncloses, 
And to its earnest gaze 
Reveals no gem of beauty— 
No bright imprisoned raysl 
And then the first of many tears 
Fell on the cherub face— 
The first sad disappointment 
In life’s uncertain race! 
And thus it has been with us all, 
Who its dark game have played— 
We've sought to grasp the sunshine, 
And only found the shade. 
[AT. Y. Ilrnnc Journal. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MY STORY. 
My Story is about Alice Grey. When I first 
knew her she had numbered nearly forty years, but 
was still treading the quiet path of maidenhood. 
Why she was unmarried I never ascertained. Some 
imagined that Death, perchance, bad claimed the 
object of her early love; others praised the filial 
heart which had led her to devote her life to her 
widowed mother; while others, still less charita¬ 
ble, said they “ guessed she never had an offer.”— 
All agreed, however, that Alice was a model old 
maid. Cheerful and content she trod her solitary 
way, and if, in earlier days, thoughts of husband 
and children had made pleasant maiden reveries, 
such dreams had long ago been dismissed from 
her heart. 
But there was ono who was beginning to plot 
against the “ quiet tenor of her way.” A year be¬ 
fore, Eaq. Moreford bad buried the wife of his 
youth. In his desolate farm-house were four 
motherless children—dependent upon hirelings for 
the care a tender mother had always lovingly given 
—and feeling, at length, the necessity of having 
some one who should have more than a hireling’s 
interest in his home, he began to look around in 
search of such an one, and his eye rested on Alice 
Grey. Death had been in Alice’s home, too, and 
when tho worthy suitor came to woo, he found she 
could be won; so, as widowers’ courtships are 
usually short, Alice was soon introduced into a 
new path in life. Alas! she found it a path of trial 
Filial, and loving, it had been easy to discharge a 
daughter’s duties, but those of wife and mother 
were new to her and all untried. It had been more 
than twenty years since she was “little Alice.”— 
No little ones had played about her hearthstone, 
and so she had become a stranger to children’s 
ways and children’s hearts. Carefully she abstained 
from everything unkind, but there was a want of 
sympathy between her own and her children’s 
hearts. She entered into none of their childish 
plans; they did not tell her of their childish joys 
or griefs; and very soon they began to regard her 
with suspicion, and even with dislike. At length, 
Charles, the oldest child, who could not help con¬ 
trasting this state of things with the sunny home 
his own dear mother made, felt that it was a home 
no more for him. So, one night, leaving tearful 
good-bye kisses with his sleeping brother and sis¬ 
ters, he stole softly down the stairs, and went out 
to be a wanderer. The earliest gleaming of the 
morning found him sobbing by his mother’s grave, 
and the first tidings of him were that he had gone 
to sea. 
Then Gracie, the youngest of the household, 
was taken sick, and in her delirium she cried—“Go 
away naughty woman! I want my own dear mama! 
Come mama and kiss Gracie 1 Come sweet mama!” 
and in a little while the plaintive voice was hushed 
forever. 
Alice Moreford was very, very sad, as she sat 
alone in her room the night after Gracif. died.— 
One of the children to whom she had come to fill 
a mother’s place was away on the stormy sea.— 
Death had claimed another; and she felt that 
neither from the absent ones nor from those still 
left to her care had she won a mother’s share of 
confidence and love. Long time she sat and 
thought; then long aDd fervently she prayed that 
God would teach her. When she arose from prayer, 
it was with a new light in her heart, and on 
her face. 
Gracie’s funeral was over, and Esq. Moreford’s 
house had become as quiet as ever, and more 
cheerless than before. George was the second 
son, a lad of thirteen years. One night after he 
had gone to rest he heard a rap at his door. “ Who 
is it?” he inquired. “Mother! May I come in?” 
Half pettishly he consented, and his step-mother 
entered and sat down by his bed. She began talk¬ 
ing about Gracie; and then about his dear dead 
mother. She told him how anxious she was to fill 
that mother’s place; she spoke of the difficulties in 
her way; she assured him of her love for him and 
her desire to see him happy. Then she knelt by 
his bedside and prayed God to bless them and help 
them to love each other as they ought; and, kissing 
him, bade him a kind “good-night” 
Geoegik's proud little heart did not permit him 
to answer his mother awoid, but as soon as she 
had gone he began to think over all she had said 
to him. He remembered how kindly she had 
talked of his own dear mother, and Bobbed himself 
to sleep full of memories of that dead mother, and 
with kindlier feelings than he had ever had towards 
her who filled that mother’s place. 
Ellen, too, received a visit from her mother 
that night, and before they parted Ellen had told 
of all her longiDgs after love, and how she bad 
wanted to talk of her dead mother. They wept 
together and then the mother prayed. As Bbe 
gave the child her first good-night kiss, Ellen 
threw her arms around her neck and said, “ I love 
you, mother,” and from that time they knew and 
loved each other. In angry moods, Ellen would 
sometimes say:—“I wish a step-mother had never 
come to darken our home,” but in a very little 
time she would-come, in tears, to be forgiven. 
Georgie was not so easily won; but Alice was 
not discouraged. She sought his confidence in 
every way; interested herself in his plans, and 
he would find some nice little offering of her handi¬ 
work on his table, with a card attached, saying it 
was “ a little token of love from one who would 
be a mother to him.” Finally, she found, one 
morning, a little gift for her, with these words at¬ 
tached, “To my kind Mother”—“From George.” 
Then sunshine began to dance all over the old 
farm-house, to the sweet music of loving words 
and tones. Clouds came sometimes, but Alice 
prayed, and wore the same gentle look and smile, 
and they passed without a storm. 
Years went by. The sad news came that the 
bright eyed Charlie rested in an ocean grave.— 
George and Ellen grew to manhood and woman¬ 
hood and went to preside over homes of their own. 
Mrs. Moreford sat alone one evening awaiting her 
husband’s return from the village. As he entered 
he handed her two letters,—“from the children,” 
he said. 
With a fuH heart she read George’s letter. He 
had just been recalling the scenes of his child¬ 
hood, and gratefully and touchingly alluded to 
the time when she came to bless them. He as 
sured her that he had treasured in memory her 
years of unwearied love and kindness, and that in 
his devotion he always thanked God for giving 
him such a Btep-mother. 
Ellen’s letter was mostly filled with descriptions 
of a little wee stranger who had come to gladden 
her Western home. “ We call her Alice,” she said, 
“ and only hope she will be as good as the one 
whoEe name she bears.” Tearfully and gratefully 
Alice Moreford read those affectionate tributes to 
her motherly care and love. Then she complained 
of sudden faintness, and retired. Morning found 
her very ilL A physician was sent for, who came 
and pronounced her symptoms alarming. Day af¬ 
ter day passed, and she grew rapidly worse, and 
then the doctor said, sadly, “ I fear there is no 
hope.” George and Ellen were informed that 
their mother was dying. They hastened home, 
but arrived in time only to receive one of her own 
sweet smiles, and then the eyes which bad looked 
so lovingly on them closed forever. 
So Alice died—not unmourned. Still is her 
memory very sacred in the hearts of her bereaved 
husband and children, who, as long as they live, 
will bless God that she did not always keep her 
maiden name of Alice Grey. Nettie. 
Rochester, N. Y,, 1858. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
“SPEAK GENTLY TO THE ERRING ONE.” 
I was a strange girl always. Strange was my 
talisman, ever clinging to me like a darkening spirit, 
until I learned to hate, oh, how bitterly, that one 
word—strange. 
“Strange,” people would say, as they looked 
into my great large eyes—much too large for my 
thin, pinched face—shining with a wild, unsteady 
light “A strange, strange girl,” murmured my 
mother in an unloviDg tone, as I still persisted in 
some stubborn will — for my willfulness did not 
make me a favorite, and I was generally unloved, 
especially by my mother. “Strange! strange!”— 
I heard it in every motion, in every word I uttered, 
until I felt that “strange” was a part of myself—a 
part which I loathed as my evil genius. Yes, ever 
since the death of my father, I felt that I was loved 
by none, and the very knowledge of it made my 
willful nature more hardened and stern. 
Oh, how I loved my father! A love almost like 
adoration—and now that he was dead, I worship¬ 
ed his spirit, which seemed to hover o’er me in 
the floating clouds—his fond voice speaking to me 
in the winds and zephyrs. I say that I loved my 
father, perhaps it was because I knew that he loved 
me, although he never spoke or told me so. He 
was always very still and stern, at home and 
abroad—no one knew him intimately—and I often 
wondered why he never spoke or seemed to care 
for my mother; then, agaiD, I wondered why he 
ever married her, for, instinctively, I seemed to 
know there was no unison of taste or mind. These 
were my thoughts, many times as I sat in my 
father’s lap, neither of us speaking. These were 
the happiest hours of my life, for my father died 
when I was very young — young in years, but old 
in heart I did not weep when he died—no, I did 
not shed one tear when I stood by his grave and 
heard the cold, cold earth falling on his coffin. 
My mother said that I was a “strange child— 
nothing could touch my heait” Oh, she could not 
know there was a grief within, deeper than all 
others in its silent anguish, for I felt I was losing 
my only friend. 
For a year or two after his death, my life was 
almost a blank page; only a few words upon its 
surface, and these were—sorrow, sorrow. I had 
no friends or playmates as other children have, I 
shunned all those who dared approach me. I did not 
attend school—my mother’s attempts to make me 
go were all in vain. I feared to sit all day, with 
so many strange eyes peering at me in the school¬ 
room, and my mother, at last, left me to my own 
will. She did not love me, and it was to my stub¬ 
born heart almost a pleasure and triumph to dis¬ 
obey her commands. 
They buried my father near the house, in the 
shade of a few old pines. Most of my leisure time 
was spent by his grave, and many summer nights 
I have sat there until long past midnight, looking 
up at the vapory clouds, hoping and believing it 
was the spirit of my dead father, watching over 
his lonely, sinful child. Yes, I knew that I was 
very, very sinful, but there was no tender, gentle 
hand to guide my wandering footsteps, no mother’s 
loving smile to cheer me on in the path of duty. 
I had one sister, younger than myself—my 
mother’s favorite, loved by all. I did not wonder 
that one so beautiful in form and spirit shonld be 
so beloved. Her eyes were brown and softened in 
their light, and the loudest tone of her sweet voice 
seemed but an echo to my heart Borne voices 
are as soDgs—they quell the troubled spirit, so 
would her voice, yet I did not dare to love her. I 
only worshiped her as a summer flower, too beau¬ 
tiful to live. I did not think that one so pure and 
good could have one thought of love for me—I 
only thought as I sometimes found her mild eyes 
resting on me, that she pitied her poor, willful 
sister. 
One day, for some stubbornness of mine, my 
mother told me, in her usual cold, unfeeling tones, 
that “she did not love me— no one loved me, or 
ever would — I was such an ugly girL” Ob, she 
did not know that even then my heart was yearn¬ 
ing—craving love. She did not know that her 
cold reproofs were leading me further from the 
way in which I was to gain the love I so much 
sought Ob, how I loDged for some arm to clasp 
tenderly around me, as my father’s had clasped 
me—some hand to rest soothingly upon my aching 
brow, as his had done—and, more than this, to 
feel that some one cared for me, though, like my 
father, they spoke it not It was then that I 
thought of my sister—thought of the mild eyes 
resting pityingly upon me—theD, agaiD, I thought 
of my willfulself, and I shuddered as I seemed to 
hear the words, “No one loves you,” and a moan 
was wailing in my heart, though my eyes looked 
coldly and defiantly at my mother. That night 
when all was still, and the moon was drifting 
brightly through the silver clouds, I stole out to 
my father’s grave. As I neared the spot, I did not 
expect to see what I beheld—my little sister, her 
mild eyes raised to heaven, her little hands clasped 
in simple, earnest prayer. I had expected to 
breathe out alone, on my father’s grave, my heart’s 
deep anguish, but no. I was listening to my 
sister’s voice, breathing my name in her earnest, 
child-prayer — speaking of me — she, my pure and 
angel sister. Her soft voice ceased, and in the 
great agony of my heart, breaking through the 
coldness of my outer self, I knelt by her side, crying 
with the earnest wailings of my heart—“Love me, 
love me!” I felt the tears falling fast on my burn¬ 
ing forehead, and a soft voice answered—“Ido 
Jove you, my sister — my sister Hagar.” That 
night, when we went to our chamber, my heart 
beat freer, happier than it had done Bince I sat on 
my father’s knee—his arms around me. I could 
not sleep, but my arms twined jealously around 
my sister—almost fearing that I would lose my 
“new found treasure.” The moon climbed up in 
the sky, till its light came round in my chamber 
window. As it shed its full beams into our quiet 
room, it revealed to my restless gaze the placid 
features of my little sister, sleeping peacefully, 
calmly—yes, slumbering in the arms of Death. I 
saw this with a glance at her pale, fixed features— 
and the knowledge came to me stunning,—driving 
.back all my new found happiness. Did I deserve 
this new sorrow? Perhaps so. I did not weep, 
nor utter one moan. In the morning they fotffid 
me lying calmly by her side. “Strange I was so 
unfeeliDg,” they said, hut God and myself only 
know I had been praying that “ I, too, might die— 
might be called to dwell with my father and sister 
in the azure sky.” There was no one now to love 
me—no one to “ Bpeak kindly to the erring one,” 
and my heart cried out in its silent bitterness,— 
“ Oh, how long must this weary spirit wait!” 
Clay, Onon. Co., N. Y, 1858. “Bud.” 
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For Moore’s Rural New-Yorkar. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 64 letters. 
My 24, G, 25, 37, 31 is a town in Asia. 
My 27, 35, 30 was a king of Judah. 
My 7, 41, 21 is a verb. 
My 2, 15, 32, 40 is a town in Europe. 
My 8, 50, 13, 47, 61 is an animal. 
My 3, 62, 2G, 6 is a name mentioned in the Bible. 
My 36, 64, 43, 1G, 39 is an animal. 
My 45, 28, 20, 17, 49 is a plant. 
My 63, 14, 11, 22, 46 is a tree. 
My 4, 33, 38, 48, 44 is to slide through a narrow 
passage. 
My 9, 23, 19 is to clear. 
My 34, 1 is a conjunction. 
My 12, 18, 6, 10 is a nickname. 
My 42, 17, 29 is a measure. 
My whole is a portion of the Bible. 
Genoa, N. Y., 1858. H. W. G. & J. G. C. 
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ACROSTICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 26 letters. 
My 1, 4,14, 16, 1, 24 is a proper name. 
My 14, 8, 11, 24, 12, 23 is sometimes a relief to the 
broken-hearted. 
My 17, 24, 22 is a girl’s nickname. 
My 2 we are all acquainted with. 
My 10, 9, 0, 7, 4, 16 is a relative. 
My 20,18, 26, 21 many profess to be. 
My 14, 5, 23 belongs to ns. 
My 3, 19, 16, 7, 15, 24 is claimed by all, but pos¬ 
sessed by few. 
My 4, 25, 6, 13 is not very hard. 
My whole is three of the sweetest words in our 
language, and a portion of the Lord’s prayer. 
Titusville, Penn., 1858. J. M. Bates. 
JOst" Answer in two weeks. 
- - •+-♦■■■■ 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
PROBLEM IN ENGINEERING. 
Required to survey a lot of land with three 
straight lines and three corners, and each corner a 
right-angle-triangle. k. c. 
Onondaga Valley, N. Y., 1858. 
3SS' Answer in two weeks, 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, Ac., IN NO. 452. 
Answer to Geographical Enigma:—Pennsylva¬ 
nia; Harrisburg. 
Answer to Historical Enigma:—The Peoples’ 
College, Havana; Amos Brown. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma: — Thomas 
Hart Benton. 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem:—A, 40 acres; 
B, GO acres; C, 80 acres—all, 180 acres. 
453 2t 3t)8 Broadway, N. w York. 
BIOltK TO HE ADMIRED THAN THE 
RICHEST DIADEM 
EVER 
Worn by Kings or Emperors. 
What? Why a Eeautiful Head of Hair, 
B ECAUSE it is the ornament God I limn/ provided for all onr 
race. Reader, although toe rose may bloom over so brightly in 
infringements. Solo Wnol sale Atreois for the United States, 
JOHN DUNCAN Se SONS, 
41)5 Broadway, New York. 
A stock always in store. Also, orders received for direct shU ment 
from England. 45.>cowly 
KETCHUWl’S REAPER AND MOWER. 
R. L. HOWARD’S 
Cash Premium List for 1858! 
race. Render, although the rose m*y bloom over t?o t>ng&t>y in nlT ,Tmr ^-cniT-iDQ-r™ nrYmxTrrTv -*t v 
tho irio* ing chetk, the eye t>e ever bo npurkling, the teeth be thone ol T. C. PETERS, DARIEN, GENESES COUNTY, N. Y„ 
pearls, if ttie head ih bereft of its covering, or the hair be snarled and EMPIRE, TO AWARD PREMIUMS. 
shriveled, harsh and dry, or worse still, if sprinkled with gray, nature ---- 
will lose more than hair her charms. Prof Wood’s Uair Restorative First Premium - ■ - $150 00 
ifused two or tnree times a week, will restore and permanently secure Prptninni .... lOOOO 
to all such an ornament Read tee following and judge. The writer inn nn 
of the first f» the celebrated Pianist, Thalbera: Third Premium,.1UU UU 
Dr. Wood:- New York, April 19, 1858. Fourth Premium, - - - - 50 OU 
Dear Sir ,—Permit me to express to you tee obligations I am Fifth Premium, - 25 OO 
under tor the entire restoration of my hair to it* original color; aoout order tQ advauce ^ inter8sts of Agriculture more effectually 
toe time of my airual in too United , totes it was rapidly becoming j th(uj j can h mending money in attending public trials, whicu 
gray, but upon thr application of your Hair Restorative it boot ^ very unsatisfactory to the public, I offer the following 
recovered its onjr’nal hue. I consider your Restorative as a very i 7 
wonderful invention, quite eflicatious as well as agreeable. premiums. _ w 
I am, dear s r. y. urs truly, ^ 8 . THaLBERG. Igk—OISTE HUNDRED AHD FIFTY DOLLARS 
" D O c 5a'r Gwyliedydct” „ , Dr0 To the farmer who shall cut the greatest number of acres of grass and 
Welsh Newspaptr Oflice, 13 Nassau St., April M, 1858. Kra j n j D the shortest time, in the best manner, and with the least ex- 
PKOF. O. J Wood:- Dear Sir ,-Some month or six weeks ago i jj en6e _ wltb Ketohum’s Combined Machine, manufactured this year, 
First Premium, ----- $150 00 
Second Premium, - - - - 100 00 
Third Premium,. 100 00 
Fourth Premium, - 50 00 
Fifth Premium, ----- 25 00 
rN order to advance the interests of Agriculture more effectually 
L than I can by spending money in attending public trials, which 
(ten are very unsatistactory to toe public, I offer the following 
wonderful invention, quite efiicatious as well as agreeable. premiums._ 
I am, dear s r. y. urs truly, 8 . THaLBERG. 1st, —ONE HUNDI 
“Drych a r GivyUedydct” ..To toe farmer who shall cut 
Welsh Newspaorr Otece, 13 Nassau St., April 12,1858. . in shortest time, i: 
PROF. O. J Wood:- Dear Sir ,-Some month or six weeks ago I * wlth Ketohum’s Com 
received a bottle of jour Haii Kestom'ive and gave it my who, who thft firiBn i n „ harvest 
concluded to try It on her hair, little thinking at tee time that it would dunu « 
restore tee gray hair to its original color, but to her as well as my 2 d. UX4I5 L 
2d.—ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 
beautifying and thickening tee hair. I strongly recommend the above nurc rrTTTCmTJX'TJ nfiTTAUH 
Restorative to all persons in warn of such a change of their hair. od.-ON K HUN UllU) DULLAxtB 
CHARLES OARDEW. To the farmer who shall cut one hundred acres of grass, with any 
The Restorative is pu* up in bottlesof 3 sizes, viz : large, medium, Ketchnnl Mower, in like mariner, 
and small; the small holds %. a pint, and re'ails for one dollar a hot- 4th.—FIFTY DOLLARS 
t'e; the medium holds at least twemy per cent more in proportion , , ... .. , ... „j lv , 
than the small, retails for two dollars per bottle ; the large holds a To toe fanner, who shall cut fifty acres oi grass, in like manner, with 
The Restorative is pu* up in bottlesof 3 sizes, viz : large, medium, 
and small; the small ho’ds V a pint, and re‘ails for one dollar a bot- 
t'e ; the medium holds at least twemy per cent more in proportion 
than the small, retails for two dollars per bottle ; the large holds a 
quart, 40 per cent more in pioportioe, and retails for $3. 
O J. WOOD & CO. Proprirtors, 312 Broadway. New York, (in 
the great New York Wire Nailing Establishment,) and 114 Market 
street. St Louis, Mo. 453e3w 
And sold by all good Druggist* and Fancy Goods Dealers. 
THE BEST APPLE PARER IN THE WORLD. 
YVI1ITTKMDKK BUOTHKKB’ PATENT. 
A PPLES prepared for use by five revolutions of the crank. Irerit* v jt or affidavits, setting forte tee facts, viz: the kind of land, croj 
to fifteen Apples per minute Pared, Coreti and Sliced. Simple in amount thereof per acre, tee quality of work, length ef stubble, 
its construction and less liable to get out of erder than any other ms 
chine in use. and capabli of performing four times ns much labor. 
It is tho perfection of Yankee Ingenuity, and can be operated by * proper, togeteer with tee number of tee machine and tee year pur- 
child ten years of age and no family can atlord to be without one 
Inducements offered to Agents and Dealers. 
Price below competition imd within reach ot alL 
442 WHITTEMORE BROTHERS, Worcester, Maes, 
^ If 
A GIFT WITH EVERY BOOK, Hcnipulous accuracy of the features and capacity of the different niv 
phinM R. Ii. HOWARD. 
WORTH FROM 25 CENTS TO 8100,00. C Manufacturer of Ketchum’. Combined Harvesters 
O UR NEW DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of 6U octavo pages, Buffalo, May 21, 1858. 438 
embraces a larger collection and better variety of Standard His- _ — 
torical, Biographical, and Misot l!aneoas Books than that of any other ^ 
book selling establishment in the country; also, contains greater in- MAADUIO T)TTTl A 1 MT?W_VAl>IJT7TI 
ducements than ever before offered, mailed free to any address. Send MUUlllii 0 ilUllAL IN ill VV I URAJLIaj 
for a Catalogue. 
d. w. evxns, I EVANS & CO., Publishers, the leading weekly 
j. n. FKESTON. S [44S-131J 677 Broadway, New York City AgrfcHtural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
131 I C K. O K. 7 S IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY 
KEYSTONE CIDER MILL, d. d. t. moore, Rochester, n. y. 
Office, Union Buildings, Opposite the Court House. 
MANUFACTURED BY THE 
EAGLE WORKS, HARRISBURG, PA. Office, Union BUllOUlgS, oppobuu tnc 
rriHIS sterling machine has within the oast year been put to severe - 
i actual tests, and been very much improved by tee addition of a TERMS, IN ADVANCE : 
22 inch fly-wheel, new gearing, joint bolts, and other minor improve- _ _ . .. _ ».rents 
meets, and is now offered to the public with the certainty that It is Two Dollars A Y eak— $1 for six months. To Clubs “ 
made in tee very best manner, and that it will grind and press easier ^ follows :— Three Copies one year, for $5 ; Six Copies (ana one to 
and fastor than any other Mill in tho market Dealers and others f C]ub ) for $!0 . Ten Copies (and one to Agent) 
Rnnnlipd on lihflral termH Where tn«r« ura na dAnlftrfl near farmors by » ,*i cn-». .anwi 
Burpri*e, after a few weeks’ trial it has performed that wonderful ef- To the farmer who shall cut with any Ketchum Combined Machine, 
feet by turning all the gray hairs to a dar.k brown, at the same rime n0l i esS than fifty acres of grass and fifty acres of grain in like manner. 
any Ketchum Mower. 
5 th.—TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS 
To the farmer, who shall harvest twenty acres of clover Beed, with any 
Ketchum Machine, in like manner. 
The grass must yield not less than one and a half tons to the acre. 
The said work to he done with machines manufactured by the sub¬ 
scriber, at Buffalo, N. Y. 
Farmers competing for the above premiums sliaU forward an affida¬ 
vit or affidavits, setting forth the facts, viz: the kind of land, crop and 
occupied, giving the hours, and the expense incurred for labor or re¬ 
pairs, stating each item and such other circumstances as may be 
_„ . chased, to T. O. Peters, of Darien, Gan. Co, N. Y , before the 1st of 
They can bo obtained of the principle merchants throughout ter September next, who s!ir11 have the privilege of making or having 
country, and of the Proprietors and Manufacturers at Worcester, a personal examination made, or may require additional proof before 
Mass,, who will give all orders careful and prompt attention. Large ma kiug his award. 
I will furnish blanks for affidavits to any person, and reserve the 
privilege of publishing aoy of the statements and the awards in my 
next circular. Two premiums shall not be awarded to the same person. 
The result of accurate trials of this kind, will enable tee public to 
judge with more certainty of tee value of Reaping and Mowing Ma¬ 
chines compared with tee scythe and cradle, than can be done at trial* 
as osuallv conducted, for tee reason teat so Bmal) a quantity of either 
grass or grain is cut, that it is difficult for Committees to judge with 
scrupulous accuracy of the features and capacity of the different ma¬ 
chines. B. L. HOWARD, 
Manufacturer of Ketchum’s Combined Harvesters. 
Buffalo, May 21, 1858. 
supplied on libera] terms Where there are no dealers near farmers, e , , , . i«i bo n «r codvI 
they will do well to order direct for $15. and any additional number at the same rate. <$' •»’ P<- r ®°PW 
We have now ready for exhibition and sale the be 9 t machine in the as we are obliged to pre-pay the American postage on papers sent to 
world for preparing corn stalk fodder, cheaply and in a superior man* British Provinces, oar Canadian agents and friends must add 1234 
nl 443-13t Addre68 Agent Fag]e vvorkH, Handshurg. Pa. cents per copy to the club rates for tee Rural The lowest pr.ee c. 
copies sent to Europe, 3c., is $2 60,— including postage. 
IMPORTANT TO FAKMER3 AND DAIRYMEN. * _ 
T WILL GIVE FREE TO THE FIRST A P PLICA NT—Farmer _ Brfef and appr0 priate advertisements will be 
I or Dairyman—resident in each county in the States of New York Advert K PP . . n „ va ble in ad- 
and Pennsylvania, (except Niagara Co., N Y„ and 20 miles around inserted at twenty-five eents a line, each insertion, paya 
Philade'phia,) a Right to build and use Schoolky’s Patent I' RE- vanc& Our rule is to give no advertisement, unless very linei, - 
servatory as a farm or Dairy appendage Parties will be required f C08gecutive insertions. Patent Medicines, Ac., are not 
to adhere strictly to clans furnished and to commence building with- “ 
in 90 days. [4461 J. L. A 1 .BKKG 1 KR, Buffalo, N. Y. advertised In the Rural on any condmons. 
