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MOORE’S RORAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WKKKLT 
KU1UX, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOOEE, 
With an Able Corps of Assistants and Contributors. 
thistleB, Ac., should be exterminated, “root and 
branch,’' at this season. Underdraining is now 
in order, and would pay on many a farm where it 
is supposed to be unnecessary, 
ainco the warm weather it begins to fetch up, but 
will be no great crop. The oats are heavy and 
tall, but seem to be weak in the straw, and a good 
wind and rain would lodge them terribly. Wheat 
is better than for some years past, but nothing 
like the wheat twenty-live years ago. Insects, and 
weeds, and bad seasons are so common, that 
farming is a very uncertain business. Parmer 
B., with even more real cause of complaint* 
sees nothing to complain of. Fodder held out 
nicely -just enough to carry him through the 
winter. The hay crop was Talr. Corn is coming 
in beautifully of late, much better than he bad rea¬ 
son to expect. Oats aie magnificent. Wheat 
better than for many years before. The “good 
times’' he has been looking for have arrived, and 
he is delighted and grateful. 
The season for holding our State, and County, 
and Town Fairs is at hand. They are designed 
for the pleasure and profit of the farmer and his 
family. A few may bo mismanaged so as in a 
great measure to defeat this laudable objeet. We 
must not expect perfection even in the best, tho 
this should he the aim of the managers. Scarcely 
a Fair tukeB place that gives universal satisfaction. 
Some are displeased and make bitter complaints 
of the officers. Prom the President to the gate* 
keeper, all arc at fault. Overlooking the onerous 
unpaid labor, the exertions to have everything 
satisfactory and pleasant, they see nothing but 
negligence and want of good management. The 
beauty and value of the exhibition—all its in¬ 
structive lessons—are lost sight of, while the 
foolish side-shows, tb^fat women, and the tamed 
snakes, and the two-headed calf, fill the eye, and 
are constant sources > f annoyance and unhappi¬ 
ness. The labors of a t.-ore of candid, careful 
while swamps 
aHd low grounds should now be ditched, and the 
grubs und stumps “extracted.” See to the old 
Tkb Rctux Nkw-Yokrbr is designed to be unnnrp&«sed 
in Value, Purity, CWuluew! and Variety of Content.*, and 
unique and beautitul iu Appearance, lie Conductor devotes 
his personal attention to the supervision of it* various de¬ 
partments, and earnestly labors to render the ft ok At. an 
eminently Reliable Guide on all the Important Practical. 
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leave a recess of one inch on the inside. Then 
refuse boardB, nailed perpendicular upon the ribs, 
will make an even surface for lathing and finish¬ 
ing the inside. The outside covering hoards 
should bo planed in a planing mill, which will 
leave them of even thickness. Tho battings will 
lay smooth and make the tightest and most dura¬ 
ble covering used, and when well done will muke 
a neat and handsome finish, and at less expense 
than any other covering equally as datable. The 
chimneys should he built from the cellar. This 
will make it convenient for placing a Htove in the 
cellar in cold weather or for other purposes. 
This design will require some brackets and trim¬ 
mings around the verandah, and brackets under 
....a uuu six-Hiueu nouses we were 
never much pleased, and never recommended 
such to our readers. They require more labor in 
their construction than square buildings of tho 
same dimensions; and it is difficult to i >range 
the rooms in a desirable form without loss of 
space. A correspondent furnishes us with the 
acoompanying. which is, perhaps, one of the 
best plans for this class of houses : 
Eds. Rural Nkw-Yohkkr:—T he drawings for 
a farm house, which I inclose yon, were made and 
the honse built for Edgar A. Phillips, Esq., of 
this village, in the year 1854. In tho drawings, I 
have made some alterations in the rear part, so as 
to he more convenient for a farm house. 
AUTUMNAL NOTES AND THOUGHTS. 
The Fall Campaign of the Ruralist opens with 
September. 
Bummer, with its scorching aims, 
sultry atmosphere, long days, and atteodunt 
wearying cares and labors, having departed, the 
scene changes with the season, introducing the 
genial rays, balmy zephyrs and fruit-laden, varie¬ 
gated fields of golden-tinted Autumn. This 1 b the 
rhapsodizing season for poets and idealists, and 
the pleasant and profitable one for the Husband¬ 
man—wherein the products of field, orchard and 
garden are to be gathered, preparatory to the 
joyful celebration of the long-anticipated " Har¬ 
vest Home.” 
Ab we have said aforetime, the invincible Rural 
Army now enters upon the performance of the 
final act of the Drama of the Seasons. Enacted 
as its Spring and Summer scenes have been, by 
myriadB of intelligent, skillful and industrious 
cultivators in the great Laboratory of Nature, 
with Mother Earth for stage, various seeds, trees, 
dsmeBtic animals, labor-saving implements and 
fertilizers for properties and machinery, the sun, 
moon and stars for side and foot lights, the zenith 
and horizon for scene and drop curtains, the birds 
of heaven for orchestra, and the numerous habi- 
tans of mountain, plain and valley for audience. 
A1 « i* • - . 
GOOD AND EVIL. 
In this world of ours there is a strange admix¬ 
ture of good and evil. Nothing is so bad but in 
it the charitable and kindly disposed may discover 
EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 
The Potiuo I tinea ttv. 
The Potato Disease is again appearing in 
England, but most seriously in Ireland. The 
English papers Bay that the potatoes are showing 
disease in the haulm. The Irish Farmer's Gazette, 
one of our best foreign exchanges, of the first of 
August, first annouuced the appearance of the 
disease, as follows.—“There is little doubt we 
tirely free from evil. The Canada thistle fills the 
air with its delightful fragrance, and the rose 
bristles with thorns. The sun poors its direct rays 
upon the earth, the soil is parched, the atmosphere 
heated, the mill streams dry, but the corn revels 
in this little less than tropical heat, and the golden 
grain is ripened for the harvest. The heavens 
are opened and the rains descend upon the 
parched earth; all nature is revived, the birds 
resume their forgotten song, the trees put on a 
livelier living green, and the grass becomes luxu¬ 
riant in the meadows; but the lowlands are 
flooded, and the bridges over the small streams 
are carried away, causing a little evil and a great 
deal of complaint. Happy is the man who can 
enjoy the good and endure necessary evils with¬ 
out repining; still happier he who can see “good 
in everything.” Some are very expert in discern¬ 
ing the bad their eyes are like powerful lenses, 
magnifying microscopic evils into objects of 
giant proportions, completely hiding the good 
from view. An English statesman once said that 
the habit of looking at the good iu everything 
thus fur this absorbingly interesting and profitable 
drama has proceeded most auspiciously in almost 
every section of our widely extended and naturally 
fertile and productive country—even though the 
star actors were interspersed with the ignorant, 
careless and slothful non-progressives. 
This is not mere word-painting, or an attempt 
at the popular, magazine B},yle of writing—for the 
crops gathered and growing in the East, WeBt, 
North and South, demonstrate that the foregoing 
assertion embraces quite as much truth as poetry. 
Indeed, if what everybody proclaims, and the 
newspapers from various sections of the Union 
and Canadas assert, is true, or only half fulfilled, 
our candidate for the Chief Magistracy, General 
FIRST FLOOR. 
A, Parlors—13x15; B, Dining Room—14x17; C, Bed 
Room—9x14; D, Pantry—8x9; IC, Cook and Wash 
Room—14x14; l<\ Milk Room-9x22; O, Wood Honse- 
17x22; II, False Window; I, Hall— 9x18. 
I recommend a cellar, to be finished under every 
part of the house, for no foundation is as likely 
to stand as a good cellar wall, and every farmer 
can make a profitable use of all his cellar room. 
My manner of constnu-ting a frame for the cover¬ 
ing designed for this house, is first, to frame the 
posts, window, and door studs, and braces of 5 by 
10 for posts, and 4 by 5 for studs and braces, then 
with riba sawed 2 by 4, cut in between the studs 2 
feet apart Putting them even on the outside will 
I anor Chamber—13x16; 11, Parlor Chamber—13x15; 
C, Bed Room—12x14; D, Bed Room—9x14; E, Bed 
Room—9x18; F, Bed Room—14x15; Q , Lumber Room 
22x26; //, Hall—9x22; /, Three triangular closets 
have false windows. The front window aluo is false, 
the main cornice, which should project not less 
than 3 feet The posts, 21 feet, will finish the 
lower rooms 9 feet in the clear, the chambers 8 
feet 6 inches, leaving room for a proper finish on 
the outside. The posts in the rear part should be 
12 feet This house, when finished In a good loca¬ 
tion, will make a desirable residence for any 
farmer, at an expense (in this county) of SI,800. 
Lemuel Lewis. 
Coventry, Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Prosperity, (with Ceres, Pomona, Ac., for staff 
or cabinet officers,) is destined to be elected with 
great unanimity, at the close of the Fall Campaign, 
(about the period known among politicians as 
“ the ides of November,”) and the interests of ihe 
People will no doubt be vastly enhanced by his 
inauguration. If the General’s constituents only 
discharge their duty, all will (D. V.) result satis¬ 
factorily. No fear of his administration being 
other than “national,”—for with the staple pro¬ 
ducts of all sections of the Union at command, he 
may proclaim, in the tone of majesty, 
“ No pent up section contracts our powers, 
Por the whole boundless Continent is ours !” 
Put, though this is not intended as a practical 
article, Jet us bint that much depends upon the 
Rl>ill, judgment and industry exercised in perforin- 
ffig the various scenes of the last act of the labori¬ 
ous Drama of the Seasons—including the gather- 
113 g of maturing crops, husbanding or marketing 
the home of some poor cottager; while the man 
who found a shilling felt unhappy because it was 
not a quarter. Our happiness depends not so 
much upon circumstanced, our good or ill for¬ 
tunes, as our dispositions; and these dispositions 
are in a great measure, under our control, and 
may be curbed or cultivated. 
We delight to visit farms and farmers during 
the summer season, as far as our duties will admit. 
We find it both pleasaat and profitable; but sel¬ 
dom can tell much of the actual condition of the 
crops, without a personal inspection. Farmer A. 
sees and feels the dark side. The previous winter 
was unusually long and severe. If it had been 
any worse, stock must have suffered; aud as it 
was, they didn’t seem to come out in the spring 
in as good condition as nsual. Then the spring 
was rather dry and grass wsb slow. It began to 
rain soon after corn planting and helped the 
grass some, so that the hay crop was pretty good, 
after all, but the corn came up poor and sallow_ 
Borne of the seed must have rotted in the ground. 
are fonnd worthless for the purpose they were 
bred for, and these are expelled from the racing 
studs in disgrace, and they are sold for little or 
nothiug; some of them arc given away, und are 
much too dear even at that price. Thus, our 
country, once famed for the best breed of gaddle- 
horses in the world, is becoming overran with a 
lot of worthless, weedy, refuse racing stock, which, 
by many inexperienced farmers and breeders, are 
gradually being crossed with, and thus deterio¬ 
rating the breed of our short legged, decp-bodled, 
wide-hipped, strong loined saddle-horses, the lin¬ 
eage of which, in a few instances, we can still 
trace, by their compact forms, to the breed of 
race-horses encouraged by our forefathers, who 
distances, and not the spindle-shanked velocipedes 
bred by our turfmen of the present day, that 
break down after running a few furlongs with a 
baby on their backs.” 
TUo Ilarvc-t. 
Here, fine warm weather for harvest is the 
rule, and cold and wet, ruinous to the crops, the 
exception. In England, favorable harvest weather 
is the exception. Hence, the state of (lie weather 
at harvest time is watched with great interest, 
and a rain Btorm, or a few days of warm weather 
produces a marked effect upon the price of grain. 
Even the fall or rise of the barometer is a matter 
of no Brnall moment, and produces its effects 
