FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 20,1864 
1 WHOLE NO. 762 
MOORE’S EUEAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
CHARLES D. 
SAVE YOUR OWN SEED, 
aavertea to m this paper. We conceive them 
to be the collection and dissemination of knowl¬ 
edge tending to the improvement of Sheep Hus¬ 
bandry in all its different branches, and in all its 
connections with other branches of husbandry 
with manufactures, and with trade. Similar 
societies have already been established in sev¬ 
eral other wool 
a sprinkling of thistles and tares, docks anc 
daisies, you can have them to your heart’s con¬ 
tent, but if you wish to avoid them, you are 
master of the situation and can do so. 
I felt compelled, during the extreme pressure 
of the recent harvest, to put a man to digging 
\\ bito Daisies, Johns wort and YeUow Dock in a 
field recently stocked with purchased seed, and 
which must have contained these foul pests. 
I might, with little or no additional expense, 
have saved seed of good quality on my own 
farm. Clean, late cut hay may be pounded a 
little with 3 flail, as it is fed next winter, and 
the seed saved. The true wav is tn i 
worth half as much —it would not be to us. 
There is no farm building— not even the dwel¬ 
ling— on which if we were going to put a wood 
siding, we would put clap-boards. Even if we 
were going to consult good taste, we would not 
do it. But when, added to good taste, we take 
into the account economy in construction, and 
durability afterward, cost of keeping in repair, 
sttength, lice., &c,, the advantages in favor of 
board-and-battens entirely out-balance aU that 
can be said in favor of clap-board siding. 
We should use inch-and-a-quarter boards — 
pine, spruce or hemlock — clear, or at least 
sound, of uniform width —say one foot —and 
batten with a three-inch batten, beveled. A 
house well made in this manner will last 
generations. This 
BRAGDON, Associate Editor. 
heephusFandry 
growing States, and they have 
uniformly met with decided 
assemble ; 
and in connection with 
tate Agricultural Societies. These 
re-anions as useful as 
they are agreeable, of sheep breeders and 
other persons interested. The members bring 
together and compare the experiences of each 
year-discuss important questions connected 
with the husbandry — and take all feasible 
measures for its advancement. Some of the 
Societies appoint committees and persons to pre¬ 
pare repor.s and essays to be read at subsequent 
meetings. In short, they aim to do more spe¬ 
cially and extensively what State Agricultural 
Societies already are doing for the promotion of 
the interests of wool growing and sheep breed¬ 
ing, except in holding fairs for the exhibition of 
animal.?. It is felt that, on many accounts, this 
last can be more advantageously attended to by 
the latter Societies. And in other particulars, 
the State Wool Growers' Association could not 
desire to exclude the State Agricultural Socie¬ 
ties from any field of labor now occupied bv 
it_ m. _ _. . _ * * 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS 1 
P. BARRY, C. DEWEY, ] 
H, T. BROOKS, L. B. LANGV 
success. They 
!, in an cases, we think, biennially, 
- .tj, or at the same times 
with, the ~ 
meetings constitute 
WOOL GROWERS’ STATE CONVENTION. 
The Wool Growers of the State of New 
York, and other persons interested, are re¬ 
quested to meet at the City Hall, (Court 
House,) in the City of Rochester, on Wednes¬ 
day, the 21st day of September next, at ten 
o dock A. M., for the purpose of organizing a 
State Wool Growers’ Association, and adopting 
such other measures as may be deemed ex¬ 
pedient. August 15, 1864. 
A. B. ALLEN, . 
HORACE ALLEN, 
LEWIS F. ALLEN. 
RICHARD H ALLEN, " 
ALEXANDER ARNOLD. 
E. ADLLS. 
ALLEN H AVERY, 
T C BAILY.. 
LUTHER BaKER. 
WILLIAM BEEBE! 
8. m. barker,. 
L. B. BLOOD. 
E. E. BROWN, . 
H T. BROOKS.. . 
CHESTER Baker, 
L. BRADNBR,. . 
A B CONGER. . 
ELON COM STOCK! . 
CHARLES COOK. 
sam uel cheever.:;::: 
EDMUND O. CI.APP 
K. G. COOK. 
W« CHAMBERLAIN, ' 
EZRA CORNELL, 
A U. CLAPP,.. . 
WM. OOCKBURN, 
S W, COLE.. 
N M DART.. . 
JAMES M ELLIS...'. 
ELIJAH ENNIS, 
THEODORE S FAXTOn! 
GEORGE GEODES,.. 
JAMES GEODES. 
WM. H. GLEASON,. 
OSCAR GRANGER, 
NORMAN C.OWDY, . 
BENJ - 
a dozen 
is not guess-work, nor the¬ 
ory — we have seen the matter demonstrated in 
respect both to relative cost and durability. 
In this connection we quote from a corre¬ 
spondent of the Wet® JSngland Farmer, who 
says, “ the most important thing for the protec¬ 
tion of all buildings is a good roof.’’ This is true; 
and to get a good roof, it is important the 
“pitch " should be greater than it generally is 
on I arm buUdiugs. The correspondent adds:_ 
“I have never yet seen anything except slate 
or shingles that was worth half the cost of a 
trial. Of these two, my preference is for the 
latter for farm buildings, when not exposed to 
fire from others, as being the most economical 
if pioperlv put ou. I have noticed recently 
that the opinion has been gaining ground, 
that it is better to use a medium quality for 
shingles, for the reason, as many say, that 
we talked the almost any shingles will last as long as they can 
k > asked we be kept on a roof with any nails that can be 
the amount of bought. This is partly true, and 1 think partlv 
oportion as we a mistake. Most of the ordinary shingle nails 
g stock ? and if sold at the stores in the country, will not last 
We spiled more than from ten to fifteen years, and almost 
'* On the con- any shingles will last that leugth of time, but 
ore land ihere nails made of Swedes iron are said by men of 
be more grain experience to last more than twice as lomr. and 
sons raise can’t hardly get up a seed. I teU you 
plainly that we have got to plow less* and 
manure more. 
A great deal of foul seed is sown with our 
wheat, oats and other grain, and that without 
excuse. It is a desperate ease if we can’t find a 
place where we can raise enough clean grain to 
sow. certainly, if we can't raise clean seed we 
should spare no pains to buy it. 
The seat of the terrible malady I would 
guard against is indifference or inattention to 
the manifold mischiefs perpetrated by these foul 
weeds. There are ways to get them out and 
keep them out, if we cun /ire the, popular heart, 
awaken the public conscience, and convince the 
understanding of the necessity of the work. 
Does anybody know to what extent the “ chil¬ 
dren's bread " is given to these « dogs ?" Does 
anybody know how much of our land is occu¬ 
pied and appropriated by what yields no re- 
Tue ScmscitiPTioN Trice of the Kcral i 
annum. For particulars as to Terms see last 
N. Harpersfield. 
.Syracuse. 
.Palmyra. 
.Utica. 
. Fairmount. 
. Fairmount. 
Sajj Harbor. 
. Saratoga Springs. 
.Lowville. 
Rome. 
Greenwich. 
South Dansville. 
New Lebanon. 
Monticello. 
Hawleyton. 
Albany. 
New York. 
Geneva. 
N HUNTINGTON, 
WM M HOLMES,... 
I. HEAt.Y... 
CHARLES H. HULL,"!" 
C. HATCH,. . 
uus II my menu deters had made a survey of 
the weeds of Ibe State, he would have found 
one-half of the pastures of New York doomed 
and devoted to them to a large extent. This¬ 
tles, daisy, buttercup, dock, Johns wort, sorrel, 
millions, Ac., Ac., occupy from one-fourth to 
three-fourths of their entire surface! Once es¬ 
tablished, they double the cost of cultivation, 
making twice the amount of hoeing and culti¬ 
vating necessary in order to get a crop. Com- 
p.ue the labor of tilling a field of corn here and 
in Illinois —but let the West take heed; the 
weeds are after them. 
I don't doubt but the weeds of the United 
States cost every year half as much as the war 
does for the same period. Beware, n 
JAMES.? HAWLEY, 
BENI p. JOHNSON. 
ORANGE JUDD, 
JOHN JOHNSTON." 
WILLIAM KELLY, . 
JOHN A. KING. ... 
L B LANG WORTHY 
ROBERT M. I.YON, 
A. LA It ROWE, 
CHESTER M 181 & 
OTTO K. MARSHALL! 
Rhine beck. 
.Jamaica. 
.Rochester. 
.Bath. 
. Wheeler. 
.Marcel] us. 
.Wheeler. 
. Rochester. 
.Montgomery 
.Wheeler. 
-Albany. 
.Darien. 
. Naples. 
.Newark. 
.Herkimer. 
North Hoosick. 
.New York. 
.Cortland Village. 
.Penn Van. 
.Geneva. 
■Be Raj ter. 
. Lowville. 
. Auburn. 
.Newark. 
Italy Hill. 
.Plattsburgh. 
.Ontario. 
Caienovia. 
Syracuse. 
Fayetteville. 
Keeseville. 
Italy Hill. 
Clarkson. 
D D. T MOORE, ’ 
D A MORRISON,"""'' 
FRANKLIN J. MARSHALL 
EZRA P. PRENTICE, 
T C PETERS.. 
E. B. POTTLE, . 
A G. PERCY, 
GEORGE W PINK."*. 
D. W PERCY.. 
SOLON ROBINSON. 
HENRY S RANDAL!*:. 
WILLIAM T. KEMKK, 
JAMES O. SHELDON,. 
IRA SPENCER, 
M M. SMITH. . 1 . 
JOHN M SHERWOOD," 
LIONEL SHERWOOD, "" 
N. SQUIKR, . __ “ 
t. i. n. sajlly, * 
A TODD, Jr , .. , 
HENRY TEN EYCK. .*. 
CH ARLES TILLMAN,. 
A. F. WILCOX. 
WINSLOW C. WATSON, " 
J. WHITE... . 
IS AAC J WHITNEY,. 
LORENZO WEBBER,... 
is suu another reason why we should 
own seed. We may then have some 
ot its i puality. Garden seeds are \ cry 
, and frequently because they are old, 
ise worthless. In a great number of 
onions which our citizens patrioti¬ 
sm t0 ^‘Jve with the soldiers failed to 
and I am satisfied that in most cases 
consequence of the seed being okl or 
bad. A friend sowed a quarter of 
•'f ouion seed, aud not having quite 
0 bought a small paper to finish 
e small paper grew well, and the rest, 
the same land at the same time, scarce 
*• T be loss and disappointment from 
s very serious, and inieht and 
COARSE WOOL SHEEP AT THE STATE FAIR. 
The remarkable dearth of cotton and the 
increased consumption of wool occasioned by 
the ch il war, have enormously enhanced the 
demand for, and consequently prices of, the 
latter commodity, 
Orange. 
CALL FOR A WOOL GROWERS’ STATE CON 
VENTION. 
The high price of wool has 
naturally produced a corresponding effect on the 
prices of sheep and a prevalent desire to engage 
in breeding them. As a larger amount and value 
of wool for the amount of food consumed can be 
grown from the Merino than from any other 
breed — and as the Merino herds far better in 
large numbers than those improved mutton 
breeds which approach it most nearly as profita¬ 
ble wool producers—the extra demand tor sheep 
growing out of the circumstances above named 
has, until recently, been almost exclusively 
directed to the Merino and its grades. But the 
price of mutton has at length made an advance 
corresponding with that of wool: and in locali¬ 
ties and under circumstances where mutton 
sheep were more profitable than Merinos before 
the war, they have become so again. Those 
persons, in such localities, who have sacrificed 
well bred and choice flocks of mutton sheep be¬ 
cause they were temporarily less profitable than 
Seeding Marsh Land. 
L. M. Rose, of Hillsdale Co. 
says ho has good Timothy growing 
feet thick, where five years ago 
U*t the coarsest kind of “ sickle g 
‘ B 1 hail another marsh to sul 
proceed as follows 
water hut nothin; 
the land tc,oa r y, 
1 should mow i 
and then turn it over with a 
row' well and put on the seed 
If it could not be plowed, i •- 
do it, 1 would sow any kind or 
could get most easily, each spring 
ing and removing the £~ 
year imtil I got something better 
grass, • 
We have the pleasure of laying before our 
readers, this week, a call for a Wool Growers' 
State Convention, signed by a bodv of eminent 
sheep breeders farmers, agricultural editors, 
woolen manufacturers, wool buyers etc., scat¬ 
tered throughout almost every part of the State. 
No attempt has been made, or desire felt, to 
procure a large number of signers to this call. 
Only enough were wanted to represent fairly 
the different parts of the 8tate, and the differ¬ 
ent interests which it will be the object of the 
Convention to promote. A hotly of men em¬ 
bracing more prarri.al skin in their several 
callings, and ability in business —more respecta¬ 
bility and intelligence — more enlightened pub¬ 
lic spirit —never appended their names to any 
similar document. 
1 he objects of the Association which the 
Convention is to organize, have been already 
First. Draw off the surface 
g more. Deep draining leaves 
dry. Second. If it could be plowed 
■> it hi August, take »ff the grass, 
sharp plow; har- 
— pure Timothy. 
°r if 1 had net time to 
* grass seed that I 
J and fall-mow- 
grass aud Weeds each 
— —than sickle 
Slock ot all kinds should be kept off.’' 
lor Farm Buildings. 
“ ] Vovu > )'ou buy clap-boards for siding 
™-barn, or would you girt it and board it t 
1 down and batten it? There is little diffe 
hur ke , C08t at tbe present price of lumbe 
JR which is better?’’ 
t flunk the correspondent who asks th 
the , ' U | !S lldfdaken 118 to the relative cost 
Ivco2 ’ ? PCdal,y * be takes tut. tl 
ami at present nriep« r»r , v 
plow it better acd deeper. 
