s MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY ANB FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
KEEP COOL! 
Keep cool! the secret of success In life 
lies not in haste, excitement, bustle, strife. 
This “ bolting dinners,” hurrying to and fro ; 
Keeping up one continued, constant “ go 
Taking your pleasure jaunts at railroad speed, 
And never stopping aught to see or heed ; 
This going to China just to havo a chat, 
Taking but one clean dickey in your hat 
Theso are the features of the times I own, 
That give to modern life its zest and tone ; 
But do they bring us real, genuine joy, 
True happiness, unmixed with base alloy T 
Keep cool I don’t strive for sudden wealth too fast; 
Fortunes, quick made, are seldom known to last; 
Like wat’ry bubbles that in air revolves, 
A breath but makes them and a breath dissolves ; 
Write letters, if you’ve any time to waste, 
But don’t, I pray, subscribe youself “ In haste;” 
Men have been known their hopes in life to kill, 
By heedless scratching of some wayward quill; 
And e'en our generals see their fortunes droop, 
When trusted to a “ hasty plate of soup.” 
Be wise, discreet—of dangers take good heed ; 
Be cautious, and you cannot but succeed ; 
Shun all rash acts,—let moderation mark 
Each enterprise on which you may embark ; 
And from your minds ne’er let there be effaced 
The old yet sterling proverb, “Haste makes Waste !” 
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MRS. MERRILL’S GARDEN. 
BY ESTHER. 
“ 1 suppose I should scold if my wife should 
set such things as these so near the house,” 
said a fine portly-lookicg neighbor to Mrs. 
Merrill, as they were both looking at some 
vines which she had that day planted. 
“ Why so ? They will be pretty and shady 
by and bye, when they begin to climb around 
the door.” 
“ Well, they will spoil the paint, and I 
should care more about that than 1 should 
about the shade.” 
“ My husband has not objected to them on 
that account. We had them round the door 
of our old house, and never found that they 
injured the paint in the least. If they should 
do so, even, we could afford to put on an ex¬ 
tra coat of paint once in a few years, rather 
than do without shade. A vine adds more to 
the beauty of a place, by making it look neat 
and homelike, than all the white lead in the 
country.” 
“ It’s strange what ideas some people have. 
For one, I like to see a handsome house, and 
not have it all covered with bushes and vines. 
You will get so many here by and bye that 
you can’t look through them to see who is 
passing.” 
“You remind me of a neighbor we had, 
when we lived over the river, Mr. Mills. She 
was a fine woman, and a lady in manners and 
appearance, but somehow’, she had no eye for 
any kind of beauty, except that of person, 
dress or architecture. When she came to see 
us, she alw’ays remarked that we had a very 
pretty place when one got inside the trees. 
She used laughingly to threaten to send some 
one to cut down the trees in the night, that 
she might see our house, and have it look de¬ 
cently, like other people’s dwellings. It was 
strange we wanted to live in the woods, like 
the Indians.” 
“Well, she was a sensible woman, but I 
don’t see, Mrs. Merrill, how you can have pa¬ 
tience enough to get so many roots and 
things together. They don’t do any good, 
you can’t eat, drink or wear them.” 
“ How can you have patience, Mr. Mills,” 
6ald Mrs. Merrill, laughing, “ to make so 
many sashes and doors ?” 
“ Oh, because they bring in something, and 
do some good in the world. But these flow¬ 
ers and bushes are useless things. I say as 
Mr. S. does, that I had rather have a hill of 
potatoes in my yard than a rose bush.” 
Mrs. Merrill did not think it best to discuss 
the relative merits of roses and potatoes, and 
they bade each other good evening, each feel¬ 
ing glad that the world was large enough for 
each one to work in according to his own in¬ 
dividual taste, without any one molesting his 
neighbor. Mr. Merrill had the year before 
removed from his old home, where his wife 
and children had a pretty yard with abund¬ 
ance of flowers and shrubbery. When the 
place was sold, Mrs. Merrill desired the privi¬ 
lege of transplanting whatever she wished into 
the garden of her new home. 
“ You may have everything here but the 
currant bushes, for all I care. 1 don’t want 
the flowers and nick-nacks, they don t help a 
man live,” was the good natured reply of the 
excellent farmer who had purchased their 
property. 
The first season after their removal, noth 
ing could be done to make the place look like 
home. The year was devoted to building and 
finishing, and carpenter’s chips, split stones, 
bricks, lime-casks and ladders mingled togeth¬ 
er harmoniously, and the appearance of the 
grounds might have satisfied the most rigid 
utilitarian. Scarcely anything green dared 
lift its head above the medley of useful things. 
A solitary gooseberry bush battled mightily 
for a time, with adverse circumstances, and 
contrived to maintain an independent exist¬ 
ence, but it was at last forced to yield to a 
knight of the stone hammer. Mrs. Merrill 
mourned its loss, for at the time it seemed the 
only link between her and the vegetable world. 
From childhood she bad an ardent love for 
the beautiful things which God had created 
to adorn the earthly habitations of his crea¬ 
tures. I say love, for it was not mere admi¬ 
ration which she bestowed on the simple ma 
rigolds, hollyhocks and bachelor’s buttons in 
the little c irner of her fitter’s garden. They 
were her friends and companions, cherished 
and petted like her little sisters, not. only talk¬ 
ed to as living things, but speaking themselves 
to her heart, of heaven and its angels. This 
love had grown with her years, and mingling 
with her love for the human blossoms spring¬ 
ing up in her path, each had been strengthen¬ 
ed by the blending. The season of buildiDg 
and confusion had passed away. The snow 
again melted from hill and valley, the robin 
was out with his cheerful song, buds were 
bursting on the trees, and Mrs. Merrill’s en¬ 
ergies were aroused to co-operate with the 
coming spring, and bring some kind of beauty 
out of the chaos of the preceding year. Ine¬ 
qualities must be smoothed, chips raked off, 
and however unfeminine it may appear, she 
engaged in these preliminaries with pleasure, 
and felt animated and invigorated by the ex¬ 
ercise. Now came the labor of transplanting 
shrubbery, collecting roots and sowing seeds. 
“ Mrs. Merrill is out doing men’s work,” 
says a neighbor. “ I wouldn’t do it if I never 
had a garden. Her husband helps her all he 
can, but he has something to do of more con¬ 
sequence. Flowers look pretty enough, but I 
have no time to attend to them. 1 think ev¬ 
ery woman has enough to do in the house if 
she does her work as she ought to. Mrs. 
Merrill does not call herself healthy, but she 
must be strong to work out doors as she does. 
It would kill me.” 
Another says, “ I wonder what Mrs. Mer¬ 
rill wants of that snow-ball. I should think 
we had snow enough last winter for her boys 
to make balls of, without taking so much 
pains to raise a tree for it. She had better 
put in a few turnips.” 
“ If I had those lilacs,” says a third, “ I 
would cut them up and fling them away.— 
Everybody has lilacs. They are so common 
I wouldn’t give a cent for them.” (As though 
the glories of nature could be tarnished by 
being looked at by common eyes) 
“ What do you want of that blue flag ?” 
says another, as she saw a root of fleur de lis. 
There is plenty of it down by the mill-stream.” 
“ I cannot conveniently go dowD to the 
mill-stream to look at it. This flag, as you 
call it, came many jears ago out of my fa¬ 
ther’s garden. It was cultivated there by my 
two youngest sisters, one of whom now sleeps 
among the spring blossoms. After my father’s 
death and the removal of the family, I went 
to the desolate garden and took this root with 
some others from among the weeds which 
sprung up around them. It has since then 
been tended carefully, and I shall try to keep 
it while I live.” 
“ I don’t blame you,” said the kind-hearted 
woman, “ but I never thought it was pretty.” 
“ That blush rose, cut yonder, came like¬ 
wise from father’s place. I never look at it 
without thinking of the first time I went there 
after all were gone. It was a clear, sunny, 
July morning, but we went into the yard with 
hearts full of gloom. I could think of noth¬ 
ing but death and desolation. I imagined 
everything speaking of decay, and was not 
prepared for the luxuriance and bloom which 
appeared all around me. You cannot think 
how that rose bush smiled upon me. It was 
rich in blossoms, and their beauty spoke to 
my heart. I no longer brooded morbidly 
over death, but the goodness of God and His 
care for all He had made, filled me with feel¬ 
ings of praise. I went over the grounds and 
fluDg open the doors of the house, with a sort 
of joy. I often look at that bush since it was 
transplanted, and recall the morning when it 
spoke to me in such sweet and soothing lan¬ 
guage. Mrs. 0., we always acknowledge that 
flowers were given to us by God, but we do 
not always realize the value of the gift.” 
“ You like them so well, I am glad you can 
have them. I should like them well enough 
if I had time to take care of them, but I have 
more than I can do. Making that bed-quilt 
will keep me busy all the spring. Every 
square has thirty pieces in it, and it will need 
a great many squares. I suppose you have 
quilts enough now, and can see to your garden 
as well as not.” (Poor woman ! what a pity 
that she cannot believe in nature’s influences, 
and find something to ble^s a life of toil and 
care!) 
Mrs. Merrill’s garden improves daily. Sun 
and showers have alternately assisted her ef¬ 
forts, and now the place shows unmistakable 
signs of future prosperity. 
“ What a fine place you and your wife have 
made here,” said Mr. 1)., a few days since, to 
Mr. Merrill. “ I shouldn’t have believed it a 
year ego. Why, it would sell for a great deal 
more, now you have smoothed it down so 
nicely, and got so many things growing.— 
They said Mr. Pratt gave two hundred dollars 
for the bushes in old Mr. Parker’s front yard. 
His wife being a woman from one of the old 
States, wanted something to look pretty, and 
Mr. Pratt was silly enough to buy that old 
run down farm, and give a high price for it, 
just because the ya.d had lilacs and posies in 
it. I suppose you will sell your stand by and 
bye for a hundred dollars more than it is 
worth on the same account.” 
“ No,” said Mrs. Merrill, who was standing 
by, “ we are preparing it for a home. We 
wish our children to cultivate a taste lor na¬ 
ture’s beauties, and have them every clay look 
on and see her miracles. They will remember 
the trees around their home until old age, 
and think upon them with more true pleasure 
than they would upon gold even, were we rich 
enough to leave it to them.” 
“ Well, give my children the money, and 
yours may have the flowers and bushes in 
welcome.”— Portland Transcript. 
A Contented Wife. —It is a blessed thing 
for a poor man to have a contented, loving 
wife ; one who will not wish to live in a style 
beyond her husband’s income, just because her 
next door neighbor does ; one who can be 
happy in the love of her husband, her home, 
and its beautiful duties, without asking the 
world for its smiles or its favor. 
If a man does not make new acquaintances 
as he advances through life, he will soon find 
himself left alone A man should keep his 
friendship in constant xepair.— Johnson. 
LIVING BY ONE’S WITS. 
FROM THE GERMAN, BY MRS. ST. SIMON. 
Nine persons sailed from Basle down the 
Rhine. A Jew who wished to go to Schal- 
ampi, was allowed to come on board aud 
journey with them on condition that he 
would conduct himself with propriety, and 
give the captain eighteen kreutzers for his 
passage. 
Now, it is true, something jingled in the 
Jew’s pocket when he struck his hand against 
it; but the only money there was therein was 
a twelve-kreutzer piece, for the other was a 
brass button. Notwithstanding this he ac¬ 
cepted the offer with gratitude; for he thought 
to himself, “ something may be earned, even 
upon the water. There is many a man who 
has grown rich upon the Rhine.” 
During the first part of the voyage, the 
passengers were very talkative and merry, and 
the Jew, with his wallet under the arm—for 
he did not lay it aside—was the object of 
much mirth and mockery, as, alas! is often 
the case with those of his nation. But as the 
vessel sailed onward, and passed Thurrington 
and Saint Yeit, the passengers, one after the 
other, grew silent and gazed down the river, 
until one spoke out. 
“ Come, Jew, do you not know any pas¬ 
time that will amuse us? Your fathers must 
have contrived many a one during their long 
stay in the wilderness.” 
“ Now is the time,” thought the Jew, “ to 
shear my sheep 1” And he proposed that 
they should sit round in a circle, and pro¬ 
pound very curious questions to each other, 
and he, with their permission, would sit down 
with them. Those who could not answer the 
questions, should pay the one who propounded 
them a twelve-kreutzer piece ; and those who 
answered them pertinently, should receive a 
tw’elve-kreutzer piece. 
The proposal pleased the compaEy, aud 
hoping to divert themselves with the Jew’s 
wit or stupidity, each one asked at random 
whatever entered his head. 
Thus, for example, the first one asked : 
“ How many soft-boiled eggs could the 
giant Goliah eat upon an empty stomach?” 
All said that it was impossible to answer 
that question, and each paid his twelve kreut¬ 
zers. 
But the Jew said, “ One ; for he who has 
eaten one egg cannot eat a second on an empty 
stomach.” And the other paid him twelve 
kreutzers. 
The second thought, “ Wait, Jew, and I 
will try you out of the New Testament, and 
I think I shall win my piece.” “ Why did 
the Apostle Paul write the second epistle to 
the Corinthians ?” 
The Jew said: “Because he was not in 
Corinth, otherwise he would have spoken to 
them.” So he won another twelve kreutzer 
piece. 
When the third saw the Jew was so well 
versed in the Bible, he tried him in a different 
way. “Who prolongs his work to as great 
a length as possible, and yet completes it in 
time ?” 
“ The rope-maker, if he is industrious,” said 
the Jew. 
In the meanwhile they drew near to a vil¬ 
lage, and one said to the other, “ That is Bam- 
lach.” 
Then the fourth asked, “ In what month do 
the people of Bamlach eat the least ?” 
The Jew said, “ In February, for that has 
only twenty eight days.” 
The fifth said, “ There are two natural 
brothers, and still only one of them is my 
uncle.” 
The Jew said: “Theuncle is your father’s 
brother, and your father is not your uncle.” 
A fish now jumped out of the water, and 
the sixth asked, “ What fish have their eyes 
nearest together ?” 
The Jew said: “ The smallest.” 
The seventh asked: “ How can a man ride 
from Basle to Bern in the shade, in the sum¬ 
mer time, when the sun shines?” 
The Jew said: “ When he comes to a place 
where there is no shade, he must dismount and 
go on foot.” 
The eighth asked: “ When a man rides in 
the winter time from Bern to Basle and has 
forgotten his gloves, how must he manage so 
that his hands shall not freeze?” 
The Jew said: “ He must make fists out of 
them.” 
The ninth wa3 the last. This one asked: 
“ How can five persons divide five eggs so 
that each man shall receive one, and still one 
remain in the dish?” 
The Jew said: “ The last must take the dish 
with the egg, and can let it lay there as loDg 
as he pleases.” 
But now it came to his turn, and he deter¬ 
mined to make a good sweep. After maDy 
preliminary compliments he asked, with an air 
of mischievous friendliness,— 
“ How can a man fry two trouts in three 
pans, so that a trout may lay in each pan.” 
No one could answer this, and one after the 
other gave him a twelve kreutzer piece. 
But when the ninth desired that he should 
answer it himself, he frankly acknowledged 
that he knew not how the trout could be fried 
in such a way ! 
Then it was maintained that this was un¬ 
fair in the Jew ; but he stoutly affirmed that 
there was no provision for it in the agree¬ 
ment, save that he who could not auswer the 
question should pay the kreutzers, and he ful¬ 
filled the agreement by paying that sum to 
the 9th of his comrades who had asked him to 
solve it himself. But they all beitg rich 
merchants, and grateful lor the amusement 
which had passed an hour or two very pleas¬ 
antly for them, laughed heartily over their 
loss and at the Jew’s cunning. 
The great moments of life are but moments 
like the others. Your doom is spoken in a 
word or two. A single look from the eyes, 
a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it ; 
or of tLe lips, though they cannot speak.— 
Thackeray. 
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SMALL LOAVES. 
The high price of flour, of late, has caused 
the bakers to diminish the size of their loaves 
considerably, but those in New Brunswick, 
N. J., seem to have reached perfection in the 
article referred to, as the following extract 
from an exchange will show :—A baker of 
that place in going his rounds to serve his 
customers, stopped at the door of one and 
knocked, when the lady within exclaimed, 
“ Who is there?” and was answered, “ the 
baker!” “ What do you want ?” “ To leave 
your bread!” “ Well, you need not make 
such a fuss about it; put it through the key¬ 
hole!” 
A Fair Hit. —A young deist, on one oc¬ 
casion, in a promiscuous assemblage, sought 
to make merry at the expense of Scripture, 
alluding in particular to the story of David 
and Goliah, and urging the impossibility of a 
mere youth’s being able to sliug a stone with 
such force as to sink into the giant’s forehead. 
At last, he appealed to an elderly personage, 
who was somewhat apart, and had not before 
taken any part in the conversation, to know 
what he thought of the probability of such an 
occurrence. “ Indeed, friend,” replied the lat¬ 
ter, “ I do not see anything unlikely in it, if 
the Philistine’s head was as soft as yours.’’ 
“I like to see the dear little creatures 
amusing themselves,” said Mrs. Brown, when 
her elder boy took a visitor’s new bonnet and 
affixed it on to the tail of his kite. “ Never 
fear,” said the good matron to her visitor, 
when she saw her bonnet in the air, “ as soon 
as the kite comes down, he will give it back to 
you.” 
The Worcester Evening Journal has been 
discontinued. The proprietor, in announcing 
it, says :—“ nathway Brothers & Co. have 
taken the best picture we ever saw. It is a 
likeness of ‘ the last fool that undertook to 
make a third daily live in this city.’ It bears 
strong resemblance to the editor of this paper.” 
“ W hat is the chief use of bread ?” asked 
an examiner at a school examination. “ The 
chief use of bread,” answered an urchin, appa¬ 
rently astonished at the simplicity of the in¬ 
quiry, “ the chief use of bread is to spread but¬ 
ter and molasses on.” 
Conscientiousness —“ I shall prevent the 
use of ardent spirits,” as the innkeeper said 
when he watered the liquors. 
Weight. —“I feel the weight of your re¬ 
sentment,” as the man said when his wife beat 
him with a broomstick. 
HARVEST GLOVES! THISTLE PROOF! 
Long-wristed and short—Wholesale and Retail! 
Merchants in the country and farmers, who have any 
mercy on their own Angers or their boys, will please 
call oarly at M. STRONG & CO.’S Glovo Store, 78 State 
St., Rochester, N. Y. 288-3t 
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. 
KETCHUM’S PATENT MOWING MACHINE. 
Kktchum’s Mower for 1855, with wrought iron frames 
and finger barn, improved guards and pitman, knives of 
superior quality, the adjustable boxing to keep the gear¬ 
ing in its proper mash, a good ea?y spring seat, and the 
substantial manner in which every part of the machines 
are made, makes them the most simple, durablo and per¬ 
fect machine in the world. 
The weight of the machine has been lessenod. 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. Wo have a Reaper 
Attachment on an entire new principle, which doe3 not, 
in any manner affect the perfection of the Mowor, for 
which Fifteen Dollars Extra will be charged, or if so or¬ 
dered, the machine will be sent so that the Attachment 
can he had hereafter. The machines are sold, and war¬ 
ranted to be well made, and capable of cutting from ton 
to fifteen acres of any kind of grass per day, whether 
heavy or light, wet 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. 
lhe above warranty will be strictly adhered toby us, 
if directions for use are followed. 
All letters of enquiry promptly answered, and orders 
filled same day as received. 
Xjgy- Price of Mower, $110—either wood or iron frame, 
(both have iron finger bars, aud all the other improve¬ 
ments.) .JSr HOWARD & CO., 
Manufacturers and Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y. 
KETCHUM’S MOWER, 
With Reaper Attachment. The most Perfect Com¬ 
bined Machine in use. 
Warranted to cut from ten to fifteen acres of Grass or 
Grain per day, as well as would be done by Scythe'br 
Cradle. The Mower is easily converted into a Reaper, 
by placing four wood segments upon tho driving wheel, 
and attaching a platform to the cutter bar,— all which 
can be done in ton minutes, as only eight bolts aro re¬ 
quired in making the change. Price of Mower $110 ; 
Combined $125. HOWARD & CO., 
Manufacturers, Buffalo, N. Y. 
JOHN RAPALJE & Co. 
At tho Genesee Seed Store and Agricultural Warehouse, 
65 Buffalo St., Rochester, N. Y., are exclusive Agents in 
Monroe and Livingston counties for tho sale of 
KETCHUM’S PATENT MOWING MACHINE, 
and CoMnisTD Mower and Reaver, manufactured by How¬ 
ard & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Price the same as at Buffalo, 
adding transportation. 
Also, a groat variety of Agricultural Implements, 
Seeds, &c., constantly on hand and for sale as above. 
288-2t. 
For Moore's Rnr&l New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 20 letters. 
My 1, 4, 7, 18, 13, 1 is a male tame. 
My 2, 19, 8, 5, 16 is a proportion. 
My 3, 6, 12, 9, 14, 15, 11 is a speech. 
My 10, 3, 19, 17 is a loud sound. 
My 20, 10, 19, 13, 8, 4 is an apparition. 
My 8, 4, 3, 15 is a pronoun. 
My 19, 10, 8, 4, 15, 17 is a male name. 
My 2, 15, 8, 4 is a female name. 
My 12, 19, 20 is a rule of action. 
My 8, 9, 10, 11 is a political party. 
My 14, 15, 19, 10, 8 is a measure. 
My 4, 15, 17, 18 is to throw. 
My 18, 11, 2, 19 is a constellation of stars. 
My whole will be of great benefit to the 
Empire State. G. b. n. 
Newport, N. Y. 
gfT Answer next woek. 
# _ 
CHARADE. 
My first is the last of a long race of kings ; 
My second, oh, that is the strangest of things! 
For ’ tis tip in the air and ’ tis down in the sea, 
It crawls on the ground, and ’tis over the tree. 
My whole is ubiquitous, all the world over, 
From New York to Liverpool—Paris to Dover; 
Is at Petersburg, Berlin, at Rome and Vienna, 
Perhaps was with Ceres’ daughter at Enna. 
For as still in remembrance of Enna’s soft 
bowers 
It has the same love and attraction to flowers; 
A Proteus, in changing position and shape, 
It reaches the Pole, and it doubles the Cape. 
’Tis proud and ’tis humble as peacock and daw, 
Is clothed in purple, or lying in straw. 
Capricious and sly, it all colors can show— 
Nor Cupid himself has more strings to his how. 
You love it so well, my dear Chloe, this minute 
Your tongue, head and heart are set on it or in it. 
gW” Auswer next week. 
UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS. 
Grfat Washington was number one 
Then senior Adams next came on, 
Jefferson mado the number three— 
Then Madison the fourth was he, 
Monroe the fifth just here came In- 
Then Biith an Adams came again ; 
Then soventh, Andrew Jackson camo ; 
And eighth we count Van Buren’s name. 
Then Harrison mado number nine— 
And tenth John Tyler filled the line. 
Polk was the eleventh, as wo know, 
The twelfth was Taylor in the row. 
Fillmore, tbe thirteenth, took his plaoe— 
And Pierce is fourteenth In tho raoo, 
Now let ub stop until we eoo 
Who our next I’roEldent will he. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No. 288: 
I The latest neios from the Crimea. 
IMPORTANT TO 
HOUSEKEEPERS AND FRUIT GROWERS. 
ARTHUR’S PATENT 
Air-Tight, Self-Sealing Can, 
FOR PRESERVING 
FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
Tins Can is constructed with a channel around the 
mouth, near the top, into which the covor fits loosely. 
Tho 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 intendod, cannot be closed, a3 
is well known, without the aid of a tinner ; aro 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 hermetlcal 
sealing is placed conveniently within tho reach of every 
individual; and ripe fruit, vegetables, &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. 
n.limony of Judge Meigs. 
All the articles in tho Cans opened before the Club, 
were found fresh aud unimpaired. II. Megs, 
Secretary of the Farmers’ Club of the Am. Ins. 
PRICES 
OF THE “AIR-TIGHT, BKLF-SKAU.VG CANS.” 
Plnt8lze....$2 00 a dozen. Gallon.$5 00 a dozen. 
Quartsize... 2 50 “ Pt,glass iars 2 00 “ 
Half Gallon.. 3 60 “ Qt. glass jars 2 60 “ 
Three quart. 4 26 “ 
Persons at a distauce can be supplied by sending their 
orders, with cash enclosed, to 
J. ALLEN & CO., 
286-4t 28 Beekman street. New York. 
HUSSEY’S PATENT COMBINED 
REAPER AND MOWER, 
Manufactured by T. It. Hussey & Co., Auburn, N. Y., 
and by them warranted to do good work, both in Reap¬ 
ing and Mowing, aud built of tho best materials and of 
sufficient strength to do thoir work without breaking 
when used on ground suitable for working them, and 
with proper care. Tho superiority we claim for our ma¬ 
chine over all others is: 
1st. Tire extra amount of strength and durability. 
2d. Tho construction to work with a loose pole for 
mowing, to allow tho cutter bar to run closo to the 
ground in hollows as well as over knolls, and prevents 
tho heavy weight on tho horses’ necks that a machiuo 
working with a .-tiff polo causes. 
3d. Tho obviation of sido draft by placing tho gearing 
on one side of the road wheel aud the cutter bar on the 
other. 
4th. Tho opon wrought iron guard, which Is the only 
suro provontivoagaiu-t clogging. 
6 th. The raising or loworiug tho road wheel to cut 
thieo lengths of stubble—1st, two inches, for grass; 2d, 
five inches, for barley and oats ; 3d, eight inches, for 
wheat or rye. 
Cth. Tho construction of the apron for reaping, that 
tho grain can bo cast off in gavels immodiatoiy behind 
or at tho side; also the simple modeof changing from a 
Roaiicr to a Mower, or vico versa, which can be done in 
twenty minutes. 
Our machines cut a swath five foot wide, aud with a 
good team aro capablo of cutting 12 acres of grass in a 
day, or reaping from 15 to 20 acres of grain. 
Our price for a combiuod Reaper and Mowor at our 
I manufactory is $125, for cash or upprovod notes payable 
at some bank within throe months aftor trial of machine. 
Farmors wi lling a machiuo for tho coming season, 
would do woll to send in their orders soon, as our num¬ 
bers are limited. T. R. HUSSEY & CO., 
284 Auburn, N. Y. 
J. RAPALJE fc Co. Agonts for Rochostor nnd vicinity. 
OATS FOR SALK 
At tho rosldODce of tho Subscriber, 13 milos west of 
Pike Hollow, 1 m. South of Java lako. end 0 m. N. K. of 
Arcade, in East China, Wyoming Co., N. Y. 
5,000 Bushels of Oats, 
in quantities to suit purchasers. 282-tf 
PATRICK CORKY. 
