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WiXGRICULTURf 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, .JUNE 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WKKKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
our attention. Farmers were watching it lift. 
One farmer objected to it because it required a 
horse to operate it. Another insisted he could 
pitch two forkfuls to its one, and he would not 
Wo will wager 
r read an agricultural paper in his 
Wantage 
of time and labor, which results 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
OIIAULES II. UK AGIM>N, AhkooIuIo Editor. 
[ have such a concern about him. 
that man neve 
life. And if our readers knew the a< 
and savin 
lrom the use of these forks, there would be such 
a demand for them this season as could not be 
supplied. Indeed, every man who can possibly 
use one, should have a mower, a good horse- 
ralce and a good horse pitch-fork. He may then 
snap his lingers in the faces of men who ask 
“ h >gh wages in hay-time,” and tell them to go 
and help Quant on die Chickahominy. 
And we entered the large hall devoted to- 
let us see, what teas in it ? Two ileeces of wool 
very neatly wrapped up, a half dozen crocks of 
butter, two samples of maple sugar, one of 
maple sirup, a bell of some sort, and a single 
round hand boquet. We didn’t dip into the 
sugar, sirup, butter, nor cheese. Wo did smell 
of the flowers and mentally thanked the owner 
of the fair hand that arranged them, for thus 
giving us pleasure. And there were motherly 
matrons and peach-cheeked maidens under the 
shelter of that roof evidently employed as 
received letters from farmers who have pur¬ 
chased this binder, unsolicited by us. fully 
establishing all that we wrote concerning it and 
Mr. Si! KKWOOD on page ISO. And further, we 
are in no wise interested in decrying this imple¬ 
ment beyond the general good which may 
result to the greatest number, by placing it in 
its proper position. We have no favorites ex¬ 
cept such as may be successful and economical 
aids to the farmer. And with the present cost 
of wire it is seriously doubted if there is a 
binder so perfected as to be an economical aid. 
We have grave doubts if there is. 
5. The result of our interview with Air. S. is, 
that we did the farmers more justice than we 
did him and liis machine injustice, by wliat we 
"rote on page 150—that wc have no reason 
whatever to change the advice then given, viz.: 
Do not contract for this machine until you have 
seen it in operation on a reaper like your own. 
or on one that you think proper to buy. 
And this leads us to remark further, that 
farmers should apply this rule to all machines 
about which there is any doubt. The amount 
of money American farmers invest annually in 
farm machinery is enormous; and it is a part of 
their duty to be cautious in their investments. 
A good machine will win its own way rapidly. 
There is no danger to it when demonstration is 
required. And an inventor or agent who has 
any confidence in his implement win afford the 
farmer the largest opportunity to learn of its 
merits before he asks him to purchase. 
HENRY S. RANDALL. LL. D„ 
Bdltor Department of Sheep Husbandry. 
z? HUSBANDRY 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS: 
P. BARRY, C. DEWEY, LL. D., 
H. T. BROOKS, L. B. LANG WORTH Y. 
THE PRICE OF WOOL IN 1864. 
the RURAL Xftw-Yoi’.KKit is (lesljzned to he unsur¬ 
passed hi Value, Purity, and Variety or Contents, and 
unique and beautiful in Appearance. it s Conductor 
devotes his personal attention to the supervision of its 
various departments, and earnestly labors to render 
the It nit a l an eminently Sellable Guide on all the 
Important. Practical.SeleutUlc and other .Subjects Inti¬ 
mately connected with the business of Uiose whose 
Interests It zealously advocates. As a Family Journal 
It Is eminently Instructive aud Entertaining— being so 
conducted Uial it ■ :<n he safely taken to Uie Homes oi 
pewple of Intelligence, taste and discrimination. It 
embraces more Agricultural. Horticultural, Scientific. 
Educational, Literary and News Matter. Interspersed 
with appropriate Engravings, than any other journal,— 
rendering tt the most complete agricultural Litk- 
hary and Family Newspaper in America. 
Rvery circumstance would seem to show 
that wool must bear higher prices this than it 
did last year. Xothing has occurred, or islikely 
to occur, to diminish the consumption. First, 
our own great civil war continues to rage — 
expanding rather than contracting in the mag¬ 
nitude of its operations and consequently in the 
employ mont of men. The most sanguine have 
ceased to anticipate its termination before the 
close of 1804. Foreign wars have not dimin¬ 
ished, and there is a strong probability that they 
will increase. And while the extra demand for 
woolen clothing will thus he kept up. the ordi- 
uary demand will be promoted by the fact that 
there is less than the usual surplus of woolen 
elothing left over from last year, in the posses¬ 
sion of consumers. During the high prices of 
L s t3G. a disposition was manifested, throughout 
the World, to economize m its purchase. Even 
in our own country, where there is less provi¬ 
dence in such matters in proportion to means 
Mian in any other, there was an obvious re¬ 
trenchment in this particular. Accordingly 
The Lowest Subsciption Price of the Rural is 
Two Dollars a Year. For particulars see last page. 
CURRENT TOPICS DISCUSSED, 
About Buying Farm Implements. 
Ox page 150, current volume Rural, we 
said something concerning the reputation of 
Siierwood s drain Binder. Since writing 
that article we have had an interview with 
Mr. S., which interview suggested what we 
now write: 
Mr. Sherwood thinks we did him ami his 
machine injustice. lie brings us certificates of 
men whom we know to be above reproach, to 
prove that it is a practical machine — men who 
say they have seen it operate in (he field. Mr. S. 
claims that if properly attached to a reaper uml 
properly operated, it will do all that he says and 
lias ever professed it will do. But be concedes 
that it is much more easily attached to some 
machines than others; and that there are few 
farmers who can or do properly attach it. He 
only warrants it where properly attached to do 
good work. Ho concedes that some of the ma¬ 
chines sent out were imperfect, for he showed 
us a circular issued subsequently, in which he 
oilers to replace those machines with an im¬ 
proved machine, in order to he as concise and 
distinct as possible, we will stato the result of 
this interview with Mr. S. so far as lie made any 
sweet breath summer exhales in the country. 
And we confess we were somewhat elated 
with anticipation; for were wo not attending 
the first June fair the first agricultural fair we 
had ever attended in the .Month of Roses ? And 
\ i-ions of fresh butter and choose, sleek young 
calves and motherly kine, sheep and -kipping 
lambs, fleeces sheared and unsheared, mowers 
and reapers, planters and cultivators, horse-hoes 
and shovel-plows, spades, shovels, hoes, hooks, 
rakes, forks and garden tools, peonies aud 
“ P'Jsies ” of all sorts, got mixed up in our mind 
in a tangle. But, strange to sayl we never 
thought ot a horse — didn’t dream wo were to 
sec one! 
Now. we’ll let you see, reader, how suddenly 
and easily we got out of the tangle into which 
sve hail imagined ourself. \\ c arrived at the 
fair grounds at a quarter to 12 A. M. precisely, 
aud began to look around. We found first, a 
corn-planter with tto one to show it and talk 
about it! Perhaps it was too late i.. n,„ 
t. it is evident trout Mr. 8.'s statements, 
tliis binder may operate if properly attached 
to the right reaper—say J. U. Manny’s —in 
tbo hands of a trained agent or man with 
considerable mechanical gumption. But it is 
not evident that farmers may buy it safely, 
attach it to the reaper themselves, and hope 
to make It either labor or money saving. Some 
“aydo it; the majority may not. 
-• Mr. s. warrants it. to do good w ork if prop- 
cl ’ly attached and operated: hut his warrantee 
does not specify w hat good work 1-, nor what is 
meant by properly attaching it: and if it did, 
Alice he concedes t hat there are few farmers who 
Cun attach it, aud few machines that it can be 
properly attached to, it seems plain that if he 
ttflls it indiscriminately, he sells farmers who 
bl jy it> as well as his machines. 
3 * Mr. Sherwood assorts that he has made no 
money by his machine- that he has not entered 
the field at the various public trials in the West 
anil elsewhere, because he has been unable to 
meur the expense attending such trials, in some 
instances, aud from other given causes in others. 
Hence, it is plain Mr. Sher wood’s respond- 
"htj, pecuniarily, is not such as to render his 
warrantee of any particular value. 
L Mr. Sherwood conceded to us that he had 
ecome f ul ‘idled that he must confine his effort 
0 ‘ ubl Pting and attaching his machine to some 
° Ue roi ‘P el ‘> a nd seuding it out in complete w ork¬ 
ing order; or that he must himself, or through 
“agents, see that each machine is attached 
11 k set to work in the hands of the farmer. To 
Total. 
21,000,100 
11,nOOl W0 
2l.U0n.0c0 
3,000.000 
750.000 
750,000 
3 500.000 
1,500.000 
3,600,000 
1,000,000 
Milking Heifers before Calving. 
W. S. Walker, Oak’s Corners, X. Y., 
writes:—‘‘1 would say to ‘Young Farmer/ 
that he should milk heifers before calving, or 
they will suck themselves. I have tried a great 
U nuuv plans to break 
them of it. I will 
give you the best:— 
Get some Xo. 3 wire, 
bend on each end to 
form an eye, then bend 
so as to place an eye 
in each nostril, (the eye keeps the wire from 
hurting the nose,) then fasten a short piece of 
wire to the ring, and they can not suck, and will 
soon forget it.” 
Europe,... 
i'ape of Good Hope,. 
Buenos Ayres, Ac ,.. 
Russia.. 
East India and China,_ 
Spain and Portngal,... .. 
Turkey,. 
Mexico,. 
Chill,. 
Various places, small parcels, 
37,500,000 37,500,000 
It will thus be seen that the two countries— 
Buenos Ayres and the Cape of Good Hope (or 
Southern Africa)—which Mr. Bond says will 
