MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER; AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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Arrival of the Hermann and America. 
The steamer Hermann arrived at New York, 
and the America at Halifax, July 5th, bring¬ 
ing European dates up to the 23d of June.-— 
The news is scanty in detail, owing, among 
othe r things, to the telegraph being in gov¬ 
ernment hands ; but what has been made 
public is highly exciting and important, show¬ 
ing that the Allies in the Crimea have met 
with a disastrous and terrible reverse. 
On the 18th of June a combined attack was 
made by the French and English forces, the 
former assaulting the Malakoff, and the latter 
the Redan tower. Both assailing parties were 
repulsed with great slaughter. 
The following are the only official notifica¬ 
tions of the repulse on the 18th June : 
‘ ‘ Lord Fanmure regrets to have to an¬ 
nounce that he has received information that 
the English troops attacked the Redan, and 
the French the Malakoff towers, at daylight, 
on the morning of the 18th, without the success 
which has hitherto attended our efforts. Both 
the French and ourselves have suffered con¬ 
siderably. The names of the officers who 
have fallen will be forwarded immediately, 
but it will be impossible to receive complete 
returns of all the casualties before the 30th 
inst. (June) at the earliest.” 
The Moniteur announces that the govern¬ 
ment has received two despatches from Gen. 
Pellissier—the first, dated the 17th, informs 
of operations concocted between the general 
and his allies, and that the Turks and chas¬ 
seurs made a reconnoisance toward Aitodar, 
General Bosquet occupying the Tchernaya.— 
The next day, at daybreak, the French and 
English were to attack the Malakoff Tower. 
The second despatch, dated the 18th, announ¬ 
ces that the attack had failed, and that, al¬ 
though the troops had showed the greatest 
ardor, and gained a footing in the Malakoff 
Tower, General Pellissier was obliged to or¬ 
der their retirement into the parallel. This 
was effected with order and without molesta¬ 
tion from the enemy. 
Private accounts published in the London 
Standard say the loss of British officers, in 
killed and wounded, amounts to no less than 
seventy. Among the killed and wounded are 
General Sir J. Campbell, Col. Yea and Col. 
Shodforth. From the obstinacy and courage 
with which the combat was maintained by 
the British at the Redan, and the necessity of 
eventually retiring from the attack, the 
slaughter on all sides has been immense, and 
if the information be correct, the loss, in kill¬ 
ed and wounded of the British alone, amounts 
to very little short of four thousand. The 
greatest portion of the loss was experienced 
in a ravine, where a powerful and unexpected 
battery was opened on the troops. There is 
reason to fear that the loss has been very 
great, but Lord Palmerston said on Friday- 
night no additional information had arrived. 
The allies lost terribly by the Russians spring¬ 
ing a mine, and during the confusion, they 
(the Russians) recaptured the Mamelon tower. 
The correspondence relates horrible atroci¬ 
ties perpetrated by the French and Turks at 
the capture of Kertch. A boat expedition is 
rumored to be preparing to enter the river 
Don, but the Russians have the entrance de¬ 
fended by twenty-seven gun-boats. General 
Adujanow, Vice-Hetman of the Cossacks of 
the Don, has issued an address for their gene¬ 
ral enrolment as militia. 
The Baltic.— Admiral Banes, with a squad¬ 
ron of 17 steamers, has left Kiel for the Bal¬ 
tic. On the 5th of June a boat’s crew, bear¬ 
ing a flag of truce, which was sent on shore at 
Hango, were massacred by the Russians.— 
Great excitement has been caused in England 
by this outrage, and Admiral Dundas has de¬ 
manded redress. It is supposed, however, 
that the Russians labored under a mistake as 
to the nature of the boat’s mission. 
Liverpool Breadstuff Market. — Fine 
weather kept the market very quiet, but 
prices were steady except for corn, which de¬ 
clined Is 6d. Western canal flour 41s; white 
wheat 11s 9d a 12s 4d. Red 10s a 11s 6d ; 
w-hite corn 51s a 51s 9d ; mixed 49s 6d. 
Arrival of the Northern Light. 
The Northern Light reached New York July 
8, bringing California dates to the 16th. She 
had 457 passengers, and $889,000 on freight. 
Among the passengers was Col. J. H. Wheeler, 
the American Minister to Nicaragua, who 
brings important treaties. 
The affairs in Central America are in a more 
disturbed state than heretofore, Col. Walker 
having received a reinforcement at Realej’s, 
landed at Pinto, about 14 miles north of San 
Juan, on the 27th, with 375 men, and is re¬ 
ported to have taken Rivas. He then entered 
San Juan and carried ofl' the arms and ammu¬ 
nition there, without opposition. If he is 
successful in a few engagements, the war will 
soon terminate. The town of San Juan del 
Norte has again been organized under the 
late Mayor, E. J. Wasten. 
The mail steamer Golden Gate left San Fran¬ 
cisco for Panama on the 16th of June with 
$1,063,500 in freight. 
The most important item of California news 
is the confirmation of Barrow’s claim by the 
Land Commissioners. It embraces some 13,- 
500 acres, lying mostly within the corporate 
limits of San Francisco and covering the whole 
southern part of the municipality. The land 
is estimated to be worth $40,000,000. Pal¬ 
mer, Cook & Co. are the principal owners of 
the claim. 
The burning of the town of Auburn entailed 
a loss of a quarter of a million. 
Trouble with the Indians in the neighbor¬ 
hood of Greyno river is anticipated. 
A new gold quartz lead mine and a silver 
mine had been discovered in Tualumne Co. 
There are stated to be 54 flour mills in Cali¬ 
fornia, supposed to be able to turn out 10,000 
barrels of flour per day. 
The set tlers were holding frequent meetings 
to concert measures for redressing their griev¬ 
ances. A settler party was to be organized 
throughout the State. 
The Know Nothings have been defeated in 
Oregon. Gen. Lane, Dem., has been elected 
Delegate to Congress by over 200 majority.— 
Tho returns as to the propriety of forming a 
State Government were uncompleted, but 
enough had been received to indicate that it 
had been determined that Oregon should cease 
to bo a Territory. 
The mines were yielding abundantly, and 
the production for 1855 bids fair to equal if 
not exceed any previous year. The branch 
mint was coining at the rate of $100,000 daily. 
The Harvest and its Effects. 
Under the above heading the Cincinnati Co¬ 
lumbian of a late date discourses as follows on 
a topic of universal interest to all classes of 
community. The subject is well and sensibly 
handled. The writer does not, however, give 
due credit to New York, and some other wheat 
growing States, in his estimates — sections 
which will, in the aggregate, produce largely 
this season, though it is yet too early to count 
upon the actual result: 
We have watched with much interest the 
condition of the crops, and the probable ef¬ 
fects to be expected from the coming harvest. 
We have now information from all parts of 
the country, and can form a pretty correct 
estimate of what the wheat crop is likely to 
be. Two facts may be regarded as fixed : that 
the growth of the wheat crop has been re¬ 
markably good, and that in the large wheat 
States the breadth of ground sown is not as 
much as usual. These two facts must be 
taken as counterbalancing one another—the 
result will probably be a full average crop.— 
We see that many persons expect more than 
this, and are looking out for an enormous 
wheat crop. Such expectations will hardly be 
realized. 
Most persons have not considered where the 
great localities of wheat are, and v/hat is the 
relative proportions of the several States.— 
We hear, for example, that the wheat in 
Georgia is admirable, and that the fields of 
Illinois are teeming. But it must be recol¬ 
lected that Georgia produces very little wheat 
and Illinois only about half as much as Ohio. 
The great wheat States are Ohio, Pennsylva¬ 
nia and Virginia. If there be an averrge 
crop then these three States will produce 
about the following amounts : 
Ohio. 22,000,000 bushels. 
Pennsylvania - - - 17,000,000 “ 
Virginia. 14,000,000 “ 
Aggregate - - - - 53,000,000 “ 
Now this is nearly half the crop of the 
United States. If, then, there be a serious 
falling off in these States, it is obvious that 
most abundant crops in the Southern States 
will scarcely make it up. Now, in Virginia 
and Pennsylvania, the crop is not more than 
average, and in Ohio, the breadth of ground 
sown is rather less than usual. Surveying the 
whole field, we come to the conclusion that 
there will be an average crop, but hardly 
more. 
Oats will be most abundant. It is on the 
whole the best crop of the season. 
Corn cannot be judged of at this time. It 
depends upon the weather of July and Au¬ 
gust. It is not probable that we shall have 
such a drouth as last year. 
Potatoes are most abundant, and it is pro¬ 
bably the best season for that article we have 
known in many years. 
Notwithstanding there will be enough and 
to spare, we think the effect on the market 
price somewhat exaggerated. There are other 
things than the abundance of a single crop to 
be taken into view which affect the market 
price of articles. In this case there are two 
facts especially to be taken into view. 
First, there is a vacuum in tho country, as 
to all grain. Exportations of wheat and flour 
to Europe ceased long since. The enormous 
price of these articles this spiing proves there 
was a deficiency in the supply. This vacuum 
must be filled up. The great cities must be 
fully supplied before the price can fall to a 
low point. Secondly, there is also another 
regulator of price, viz: the foreign demand. 
War is now raging in Europe, and one of the 
greatest wheat districts—that around the 
Black Sea—will not furnish its usual surplus. 
The price in Europe is not likely to fall ma¬ 
terially. For several months the Liverpool 
price of Ohio flour has been 42 shillings per 
barrel, or about $10,40. Between Cincinnati 
and Liverpool, the cost of freight and com¬ 
mission cannot be far from $2. Flour, there¬ 
fore, will fall below $8 per barrel only as it 
falls in Liverpool The price of corn will, of 
course, be kept up, till near the harvest of 
the new crop. 
There is another element of the wheat and 
flour market, which is not considered as much 
as it should be. It is constantly taken for 
granted that because this country can raise a 
great surplus of wheat, therefore it does.— 
This happens not to be a fact. Three or four 
States, such as Virginia, Ohio, Illinois and 
Wisconsin, have raised large surpluses; but 
the United States, in the best of seasons, 
raise but a comparatively small surplus. Half 
the States, such as those of New England and 
the South, raise but small quantities, and buy 
of the others. More than a million of bar¬ 
rels of Western flour are consumed in New 
England. In the largest crops we have heard 
not more than twenty per cent, could be spared 
to go out of the country. The immense emi¬ 
gration of this country annually consume a 
crop they do not raise. Then, when the crops 
fall short, we find in one or two years such a 
state of things as we have just passed through 
—a positive deficiency of grain. The bounti¬ 
ful supply of the minor grains and vegetables 
will this year add greatly to the general 
abundance, and have a strong tendency to 
diminish prices. 
There is another point of view in which 
even average crops will have an immensely 
beneficial effect upon the country—it will 
greatly increase the business of railroads.— 
With this increase of business will come in¬ 
creased profits. Then their stocks will rise, 
and there will be a general rise in the price 
of property. 
While, therefore, we think the crops will 
not be so enormous as many suppose—and 
while we doubt whether prices will fall as low 
as some imagine, we yet believe the coming 
harvest will be attended with a highly favor¬ 
able effect on business and property. It will 
give, what in the past year has been wanting, 
food and income. The gold of the fields, 
grown in the rich earth by the labor of man, 
is at least the only valuable gold for use. It 
is what man wants—as he looks upon the 
golden harvest his heart gladdens, and he re¬ 
joices in tho blessings and bounties of God. 
Five Generals recently sentenced to death 
in St. Domingo for conspiracy, were pardoned 
just as the soldiers prepared to execute the 
sentence. Francisco Ruiz, one of them, rose 
from his knees an idiot, his nervous system 
having given way under the horrors of the 
moment. One of his daughters had previous¬ 
ly lost her reason upon learning that he had 
been condemned to death. 
Rural New-Yorker Office, 1 
July 11, 1355. f 
The tendency of the wheat market is downward, and 
particularly so for Western and Canadian grain ; Flour 
from the latter selling here at $10 to $10,50 per barrel. 
Genesee wheat is worth $2,50 to $2,62% and little offered. 
Butter and Chee3e are both lower, the former bring¬ 
ing 14 to 15 cents, and the latter 8 to 9 cts. ^ pound. 
The price of wool is unchanged in the street, but it is 
proper to say in expiantion, that the best grades and the 
large lota are not usually sold in this way. These al¬ 
ways find buyers who come to the farmer’s own door 
and generally pay two or three cents advance over 
street prices. We remarked to a dealer to-day that we 
thought his quotations rather low, whereupon he exhib¬ 
ited his books ; and the highest price paid, on a single 
lot only, this year, was three shillings. The average 
was not over thirty-one cents, if it reached that. Many 
large and choice lots, such as are raised in Richmond, 
Ontario Co., will bring at home three shillings, and much 
of it i3 bought in at that price. Such lots are worth it 
when the ordinary run of wool would be a drug in the 
market at thirty-one cents. 
ROCHESTER WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Flour anti Grain. I Fruits and Roots. 
Flour, bbi_$11,26/2)11,50 j Apples, bush.$1 
Gen.Wheat, bu. $2,50(2)2,62 | Do. dried ..$1,88/2)1,50 
Corn...$1,00 | Potatoes.62%c,2$l 
Oats.V.58c Hides and Skins. 
Barley.4.no sale. Slaughter.6c 
Buckwheat..—c Calf.10c 
Beans.$1,15/212.00 Sheep pelt3 75c©$l,50 
Meats. Lamb do.25(2)50c 
Pork, mess bbl.$18/2)19 Seeds. 
Do. cwt.$6/2)7,00 Clover, bush.$7 
Beef, per cwt.. .$6,00/2)7,00 Timothy.$3(2)4 
Spring Lambs, each . .$1.50 Sundries. 
Hams, smoked.ll(2)12c Wood, hard.$5(S5% 
Shoulders.9/2)10c Do. soft $3/5)3,50 
Chickens.10/2)llc Coal, Lehigh, ton $9,50 
Turkeys.10®llc Do. Scranton. 6,50@6,75 
Dairt, 40. Blossburg.$5,50 
Butter.14/2>15c Do. Char.8(2)10 
Cheese, new. 8/2)9c Salt, bbl.$1,50 
Lard, tried.10,<2)110 Hay, ton. $8/2)14 
Do. leaf.—c Wool, ft.20/2)35c 
Tallow.12%c White fish, bbl $10/2)11 
Eggs, doz.16c Codfish jg. quinta!.... $4,75 
Candles, box.14/S)15c Trout, bbl $10/2)ioj50 
THE LATEST WOOL MARKETS. 
New York, July 5.—Demand quickening with upward 
tendency. Sales of 30,000 fts. Lancaster fleece at 32/2) 
34c. for poor ; 38/2)41c. for good medium; 42/2>43c. for 
fine. Pulled is scarce; sales part Saxony at 42c. Lambs 
35|®36c. 
Boston, July 5.—In Fleece and Pulled Wool there is 
very little change. The stock of fleece is very small, but 
supplies of new clip are soon expected. The sales of 
the week have been 30,000 fts. at full quoted prices :— 
Saxony fleece $ ft. 46(2)60c; Am. full blood, 42/2)45c; 
Am. X blood, 37 / 2 > 40 c; Am. X blood, 33/2)35c; common 
to X blood 28(®30c; Pulled, extra, 39/2)43c; do. Super- 
flne33(2)36c; do. first quality 25(2>30c; do. 2d. do, 10/2)20. 
Pittsburgh, July 3.— The receipts of wool continue 
heavy, part on account of dealers here and part for di¬ 
rect shipment east—but little is offering for sale in the 
city, and dealers are mostly engaged in receiving the 
purchases they have made in the country. Sales from 
28 to 43c.; the prevailing rates for ordinary qualities. 
Albany, July 7.—The new clip continues to be brought 
in and is readily taken by dealers at prices ranging from 
26 to 37c., as in quality. 
NEW YORK MARKET—July 9. 
Flour —Market for medium grades of Western firmer, 
with a fair eastern and local trade demand. Other kinds 
firmly held, but are without change in prices. Sales at 
$8 37%(®8 75 common to straight and choice State; $8- 
75/2)9 extra State; $3 87%’5)9 50 mixed to fancy Western: 
$11/2)12 50 extra Genesee. Canadian less freely offered 
and firmer. Sales at $10@10 87% inferior to choice 
brands ; bulk of sales at $10 37%/2)10 50. 
Grain —Wheat, with a pretty good milling demand and 
a small supply, may be quoted a shade better. Upper 
Lake held at $2 05/2)2 15 ; sales new red and mixed 
Southern at $2 40; prime white Michigan held at $2 45. 
Rye a shade firmer and in fair demand ; sales at $1 55 
(2)1 56. Corn market firmer, with a fair demand for the 
east, export and filling contracts; sales at 91/393o com¬ 
mon to Western mixed; 90@91 white Southern. Oats in 
bettor supply and lower; sales at 58/2>62c for State and 
Western. 
Provisions —Pork without important change, and de¬ 
mand limited. Sales at $19 25<gl9 37% new mess; $19 
(a) 19 13% old do; $16 37%(2)16 50 for prime. Lard in 
moderate request; sales at 10%©llc. fair to prime.— 
Butter and Cheese unchanged. 
ALBANY MARKET.—July 9. 
Flour and Meal —The market opened quiet, and up to 
noon remained without animation. There is no change 
to notice in the value of either State or Western, and no 
now feature to notice in the receipts. Sales at $8,50/2) 
9,50 common to good Western and Canadian; $9/2)11,50 
common to extra Ohio, and $10,50/2)12 extra Genesee.— 
Rye Flour quiet at $7,25@7,50 tor fine, and $8,25©8,75 
for superfine. Corn Meal selling at $1,81/2)1.94 ]6 100 fts. 
Grain —Wheat continues dull, with several parcels of¬ 
fering and no sales. Corn is firm and in good request— 
sales Western mixed at 90/2)91c. but mostly at the inside 
figure. Barley quiet. Rye selling in a retail way at $1- 
55/2)1,60. Oats lower and rather more active, with a 
fair shipping demand; sales 7,300 bush. Chioagoat 59 % 
/2)60c. weight. 
BUFFALO MARKET.— July 9. 
Flour —There was a pretty fair demand for Flour on 
Saturday for the home and interior trade, and in part 
for through shipment. Sales Iowa and Illinois at $9,50 
l® 9:75; Michigan at $9,37%. and Wisconsin at $8,75/2)9- 
23 good and fancy brands; $9,75/2)10 extras. Rye flour 
at $7,25. 
Grain —Wheat dull and market quiet; sales Upper Lake 
at $1,70, and some small lots in bags at previous rates. 
Corn quiet and holders are generally above views of 
buyers; sales at 78c, 79%/2)S0c. At the close buyers 
were offering but 78c. Oats in moderate demand and 
market hardly so firm; sales to arrive in a few days at 
56c, delivered at 56c. 
Provisions —Mess Pork is selling moderately at $19.— 
Smoked hams at 10/2)10%c.; do, shoulders'at S%c.— 
Lard at 10/2)10%c. 
CHICAGO MARKET.—July 7. 
Flour— No. 1 City Mills, extra superfine $9,75; No. 2 
Family brand $9,25; No. 3 middlings $8,25(2)8,50. Coun¬ 
try brands range from $6,50(©8,75. 
Grain —Wheat, sales common spring at $1,50; choice 
milling do, at $1,56/2)1,58; warehouse at $1,50/2)1,55, 
and milling at $1,55/2)1,60 ; winter $1,65/2)1,80, Corn, 
sales at the depot at 70c. per 60 fts. Oats, sales in lots 
at 44/2)46%c to warehouse; 46(2)47c to retailers. Rye, 
sales at 90c/2)$l. Barley, sales at 75(2>95c. 
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET.—July 3. 
Beer Cattle.— Extra quality, $ 100 ft<., $12,50; good 
do., $10(2)10,60; common do., $9/2)9,50 ; inferior do., 
$8,50. 
Cows and Calves —Extra, $75; Good, $3o@50: Com¬ 
mon, $30/21-15. 
Veals —Extra, 6c.; good, 5c., ordinary, 4(2)5c. 
Sheep and Lakhs— Extra quality, $8,25. 
Swine —Gross, $6. 
Total Receits for the week, Beeves, 2,445; Cows and 
Calves, 161; Veal Calves, 515; Sheep, 11,858. 
ALBANY CATTLE MARKET.—July 2. 
W. W. Woolford’s Bull’s Hoad, Washington street. 
Beef Cattle —At market, 634. Prices—Extra, gross, 
$6,00; first quality, $5,50; second, $5,00; third, $4/2)4,50. 
Cows and Calves— But 5 in market. Prices range from 
$25, 30/2)45. 
Sheep and Lambs —1,122 in market. Prices range at 
from—Sheep $1,75/2)3,50; I.anibs. $2@3,50. 
Swine —260 in market. Prices—Fat, gross weight, $6. 
CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET—July 6. 
Beef Cattle. —The sales have been quite large of Beef 
Cattle the past week, footing up about 1,100 head, all ta¬ 
ken for city use. Prices average $3,50/2)4, live weight. 
Veal —Is worth from 4/2)5c per pound, live weight, or 
6(3 7c nett. 
Hogs —Are selling freely at $4/2)4,50 live weight. 
Sheep —Sell slow at $2,50/2)3,50 live weight. 
CAMBRIDGE CATTLE MARKET.—July 3. 
At market 184 Cattle, "about 'all Beeves, no Stores 
consisting of Working Oxen, Cows and Calves, Yearlings 
2 and 3 years old. 
Market Beef. —Extra, f cwt., $10,00; first quality, 
$9 50 ; second, $8.75 (39 ; third, $8.25/2)8,50 ; ordinary, 
$7,50; hides, cwt., $6(2)6,50; tallow, $9/2)9,25; pelts, 
50/2)1,00; calf skins, 12c. ’P lb.; veal calves, $5, 7(2)9,— 
248 at market. 
Stores. —Working Oxen—No sales. Barrelling Cattle— 
No quotations. 
Cows and Calves— $36. 38, 40, 45, 50/2)72. Yearlings, 
none. Two years old, $28, 30, 32, 35, 38, 40(2)42. Three 
years old, $40, 42, 45, 48, 50/2)62. 
Sheep and Lambs— 1,328 at market. Extra. $7, 8/2)10, 
by lot $2. 2,25, 2,50, 2,75, 3/2)4,50. 
Swine—About 1.200 roasting pigs. 
BRIGHTON CATTLE MARKET.—July 5. 
Receipts —At market 500 Beef Cattle, 30 Working Oxen, 
65 Cows ami Calves, 2,400 Sheep, and 900 Swine. 
Beeves —Extra $10/2)10,25; first quality $9,25(2)9,75 ; 
seccond $8,50@9 ; third, $7,25(2)8,25. 
Stores—W orking Oxen—No sales. 
Cows and Calves —$25, 30, 33, 40, 47, 66/2)60. 
Sheep —Sales $2,50, 3,50, 4,25, 6/2)8,50. 
Swine —Lots to peddle, 6%/2)7%c.; old hogs, 6@7c.; 
spring pigs, 8/a)9«. At retail from 7%@8%c; pigs 12%. 
PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET, July 3. 
Beef. —Demand good. Prices ranging from $8,50 to 
$12,50, latter for prime lots only. 
Cows and Calves. —Good inquiry at former quotations. 
Hoos.—Trade brisk at $7,75/2)8 ^ cwt. 
Sheep. —Sales at $2,50/2)4,50, as to quality. 
A CARD. 
KETCHUM’S MOWING AND REAPING MACHINE. 
The manufacturers of this celebrated machine, Messrs. 
Howard k Co., of Buffalo, have this year made several 
very important and valuable improvements. 
The frame is made entirely of wrought iron, and there 
is no wood about the Mower, except the pole, and the 
seat which is placed upon a spring. This renders the 
machine strong, compact and durable, and exactly fitted 
and secure in all its parts. 
The cutter bar or beam is made of wrought iron, and 
combines the greatest strength in the smallest space, 
prevents warping and shrinking, slides easily over the 
ground, cuts lodged grass more readily, and prevents 
clogging from the cut grass hanging upon the cutter bar 
or beam, as it is narrow, leaves the grass evenly spread 
for curing, without piling it up, renders the draught of 
the machine much easier, on account of the more per¬ 
fect working of the gearing, and the whole machine is 
more durable. 
The Mower is changed to a Reaper in a very simple 
manner, by adding a platform and enlarging the drive 
wheel about twelve inches, by adding four circular sec¬ 
tions, which raises the cutters from the ground and les¬ 
sens their motion, as less motion i3 required for cutting 
grain than grass. The draught of the machine is al30 
diminished, by increasing the size of the drive wheel 
and lessening the motion and power of the knives. 
There i 3 no change of gear, and no reel is required, 
which always adds to the complexity of a machine, ren¬ 
ders it liable to get out of repair, and is in the way of 
raking off by hand. 
In cutting grass, the height of the cut is very quickly 
and easily regslated, perfectly to suit the ground, by 
placing a wedge under the pole where it is attached to 
the machine. 
At the trial of Mowing Machines, in Westchester coun¬ 
ty, the Mower was drawn easily by a pair of horses 
which weighed only 1,845 pounds. We understand that 
at all of the trials of Ketchum’s Mowing Machine this 
year, it has not clogged in a single instance. 
^dbeHisetyeiDs. 
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insertion —in advance. Brief and appropriate announce¬ 
ments preferred, and no Patent Medicine or deceptive 
advertisements inserted on any conditions. 
The circulation of the Rural New-Yorker largely 
exceeds that of any other Agricultural or similar journal 
in America or Europe.—while it is from 15,000 te 20,000 
greater than that of any other paper issued in this State, 
out of New York City. 
Advertisements should reach the publication office as 
early as Tuesday A. M., to secure insertion. The large 
edition we are now printing, renders it necessary to put 
the paper to press earlier than heretofore. 
HARVEST GLOVES! THISTLE PROOF! 
Long-wristed and short—Wholesale and Retail! 
Merchants in the country and farmers, who have any 
mercy on their own fingers or their boys, will please 
call early at M. STRONG & CO.’S Glov9 Store, 78 State 
St., Rochester, N. Y. 28S-3t 
200 BUSHELS CHOICE BUCKWHEAT for Seed, 
for sale, at $1.50 per bushel. All orders promptly at¬ 
tended to. BLOSS & ADAMS. 
288-3t 76 Main St., Rochester. 
msm'3£g& 
KETCHUM'S PATENT MOWING MACHINE. 
Ketchcm’s Mower for 1855, with wrought iron frames 
and finger bars, improved guards and pitman, knives of 
superior quality, the adjustable boxing to keep the gear¬ 
ing in its proper mash, a good easy spring seat, and the 
substantial manner in which every part of the machines 
are made, makes them the most simple, durable and per¬ 
fect machine in the world. 
The weight of the machine has been lessened, which, 
with the improvements made on them, makes their draft 
very much less, so that one span of horses can easily 
cut from ten to fifteen acres per day. We have a Reaper 
Attachment on an entire new principle, which does not, 
in any manner affect the perfection of the Mower, for 
which Fifteen Dollars Extra will be charged, or if so or¬ 
dered, the machine will be sent so that the Attachment 
can be had hereafter. The machines are sold, and war¬ 
ranted to be well made, and capable of cutting from ten 
to fifteen acres of any kind of grass per day, whether 
heavy or light , u-et or dry, lodged or standing, and do it as 
well as can be done by scythe. They will also cut the 
same amount of grain per day. 
The above warranty will be strictly adhered to by us, 
if directions for use are followed. 
All letters of enquiry promptly answered, and orders 
filled same day as received. 
Price of Mower, $110—either wood or iron frame, 
(both have iron finger bars, and all the other improve¬ 
ments. HOWARD & CO., 
Manufacturers and Proprietors, Buffalo. N. Y. 
KETCHUM’S MOWER, 
With Reaper Attachment. The most Perfect Com¬ 
bined Machine in use. 
Warranted t o cut from ten to fifteen acres of Grass or 
Grain per day. as well as would be done by Scythe or 
Cradle. The Mower is easily converted into a Reaper, 
by placing four wood segments upon the driving wheel, 
and attaching a platform to the cutter bar,— all which 
can be done in ten minutes, as only eight bolts are re¬ 
quired in making the change. Price of Mower $110 ; 
Combined $125. HOWARD & CO., 
Manufacturers, Buffalo, N. Y. 
JOHN RAPALJE & Co. 
At the Genesee Seed Store and Agricultural Warehouse, 
65 Buffalo St., Rochester, N. Y., are exclusive Agents in 
Monroe and Livingston counties for the sale of 
KETCHUM’S PATENT MOWING MACHINE, 
and Combined Mower and Reaper, manufactured by How¬ 
ard & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Price the same as at Buffalo, 
adding transportation. 
Also, a great variety of Agricultural Implements, 
Seeds, &c., constantly on baud and for sale as above. 
288-21. 
FARM FOR SALE, 
Containing 207 acrea of choice farming land, 150 acres 
improved, the balance timbered ; located in town of 
Fayette, Seneca Co.,—3 miies southwest of Waterloo, 5 
east of Geneva,—with two good frame houses and barns 
and sheds sufficient for the farm. Also a good variety 
of fruit trees. One-third of the farm is sufficiently un¬ 
derdrained. It is a loam soil, adapted to all kinds of 
crops. Any person wishing to purchase, it is worth 
their time to call and view it, or address 
286 Ot G. YAN RIPER, Waterloo, Seneca Co., N.Y 
raPORT^NT' TO 
HOUSEKEEPERS AND FRUIT GROWERS, 
ARTHUR'S PATENT 
Air-Tight, Self-Sealing Can, 
FOR PRESERVING 
FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
This Can is constructed with a channel around the 
mouth, near the top, into which the cover fits loosely. 
The channel is filled with a very adhesive cement, pre¬ 
pared for the purpose, and allowed to harden. In order 
to seal the vessel hermetically, it is only necessary to heat 
the cover slightly, and press it into place. It may be epen ■ 
ed with as much ease as it is closed, by slightly warm 
ing the top. The ordinary tin cans used for the same 
purpose for which this is intended, cannot be closed, as 
is well known, without the aid of a tinner ; are difficult 
to open, and are generally so much injured in opening, 
as to be useless for future service. 
By this simple contrivance, the process of hermetieal 
sealing is placed conveniently within the reach of everv 
individual ; and ripe fruit, vegetab a,. &c., may be kept 
with their natural flavor unimpaired, for an indefinite 
length of time. 
These vessels were thoroughly tested during the past 
summer, and their contents, after the lapse of months 
found unchanged. ’ 
Te iinwny of Judge Meigs. 
All the articles in the Cans opened before the Club 
were found fre.rh and unimpaired. H. Meigs, ’ 
Secretary of the Farmers’ Club of the Am.' Ins. 
PRICES 
OF THE “AIR-TIGHT, SELF-SEALING CANS.” 
Pint size-$2 00 a dozen. Gallon $5 00 a dozen 
Quart size... 2 50 “ Pt. glass jars 2 00 <• 
Half Gallon.. 3 50 “ Qt. glass jars 2 50 “ 
Three quart. 4 25 “ 
Persons at a distance can be supplied by sending their 
orders, with cash enclosed, to 
J. ALLEN T & CO., 
286-4t 28 Beekman street, New York. 
HUSSEY'S PATENT COMBINED 
REAPER AND MOWER, 
Manufactured by T. R. Hussey & Co., Auburn, N. Y. 
and by them warranted to do good work, both in Reap¬ 
ing and Mowing, aud built of the best materials and of 
sufficient strength to do their work without breaking 
when used on ground suitable for working them, and 
with proper care. The superiority we claim for our ma¬ 
chine over all others is: 
1st. The extra amount of strength and durability. 
2d. The construction to work with a loose pole for 
mowing, to allow the cutter bar to run close to the 
ground in hollows as well as over knolls, and prevents 
the heavy weight on the horses’ necks that a machine 
working with a stiff pole causes. 
3d. The obviation of side draft by placing the gearing 
on one side of the road wheel and the cutter bar on the 
other. 
4th. The open wrought iron guard, which is the only 
sure preventive against clogging. 
5th. The raising or lowering the road wheel to cut 
three lengths of stubble—1st, two inches, for grass; 2d, 
five inches, for barley and oats ; 3d, eight inches’, for 
wheat or rye. 
6th. The construction of the apron for reaping, that 
the grain can be cast off in gavels immediately behind 
or at the side; also the simple mode of changing from a 
Reaper to a Mower, or vice versa, which can be done in 
twenty minutes. 
Our machines cut a swath five feet wide, and with a 
good team are capable of cutting 12 acres of grass in a 
day, or reaping from 15 to 20 acres of grain. 
Our price for a combined Reaper and Mower at our 
manufactory is $125, for cash or approved notes payable 
at some bank within three months after trial of machine. 
Farmers wishing a machine for the coming season 
would do well to send in their orders soon, as our num¬ 
bers are limited. T. R. HUSSEY & CO., 
284 Auburn, N. Y. 
J. RAPALJE & Co. Agents for Rochester and vicinity. 
OATS EOR SALE. 
At the residence of the Subscriber, 13 miies west of 
Pike Hollow, 1 m. South of Java lake, and 6 m. N. E. of 
Arcade, in East China, Wyoming Co.. N. Y. 
5,000 Bushels of Oats 
in quantities to suit purchasers. 282-tf 
PATRICK COBRY. 
ROCHESTER EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY. 
garajj. Or. Walker, Oculist and Aue-ist, (from London, 
England,) attends exclusively to the treatment 
of Ueafness anJ a11 diseases of the EYE and 
EAR. Constant and extensive practice enables 
Dr. W. to treat these cases with success seldom attained. 
tSSB=. Dr. Walker may be consulted daily, and testimo¬ 
nials obtained, at his office, No. 82 State street, Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. 280-8teow 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS AT PRIVATE SALE. 
L. G. Morris’ Illustrated Catalogue with prices attach¬ 
ed of Short-horned and Devon Bulls, and Bull Calves, a 
few Horses, South-Down Rams, Berkshire, Suffolk, and 
Essex Swine, will be forwarded by mail (if desired) by 
addressing L. G. Morris, Fordham. Westchester Co., N. 
Y., or N. J. Becar, 1S7 Broadway, N. Y. It also con- 
i tains portrait, Pedigree, and performance on the turf, of 
the celebrated horse u Monarch, ” standing this season at 
the Herdsdale Farm. 278-tf. 
1855. CUTLER & PALMER 1855. 
GENERAL FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 
Corner Lloyd and Canal streets, and Commercial Slip, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Nurserymen, Seedsmen, persons removing to the West, 
and others sending their property to our care, may rely 
upon its being handled carefully, and fbrwarded to its 
destination with dispatch, by the most reliable and direct 
routes, and the lowest rates of transportation. 
WM. K. CUTLER. [279-tf ] J. H. PALMER. 
IMPROVED PATENT SCYTHE SNATH. 
A New and Improved Patent Scythe Snath made from 
Wrought Iron. 
Light, Arm, and durable, and pronounced by very 
many who have used them for two season’s past, supe¬ 
rior to any other Snath. 
Manufactured only by Lamson, Goodxow & Co., (long 
known as makers of Lamsou’s Patent Wood Snaths.) and 
for sale at their Warehouse, No. 7 Gold St., New York, 
and by the Hardware and Agricultural trade generally, 
throughout the country. 27.7-13t 
KEDZXE'S RAIN WATER FILTER. 
Manufactured by J. E. CHENEY A Co., 
Rochester. N. Y. Patented January, ’54. 
These Filters have received the high¬ 
est commendation from scientific and 
medical men,and are in constant use,hav¬ 
ing given entire satisfaction to hundreds 
of families! n this city and other parts of 
the country within the last fifteen years. 
[They have been perfected in the fixtures 
within two years, and can now be trans¬ 
ported in safety.] We now make five 
sizes, which retail for five, six, eight, ten, and twelve 
dollars each. 
The most impure rain water is rendered pure, without 
taste, color or smell. They are portable, durable, and 
are net excelled by any filter known. 274-eowtf 
HENRY C. VAIL, 
CONSULTING AGRICULTURIST, NEWARK, N. J., 
Will visit farms, and give suitable advice for their im¬ 
provement, founded on an analysis of tub soil and a 
statement of its mechanical condition. Communications 
addressed as above, will meet with prompt attention. 
Inferences— Prof. Jas. J. Mapes ; R. L. Pell, Esq., Ulster 
Co., N. Y.; J. J. Scoffleld, Esq., Morristown, N. J.; Hon. 
John Newton Gould, Hudson, N. Y. 272-0t 
