THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOOL 
MANUFACTURERS. 
The U. S. Convention of Wool Manufactur¬ 
ers which, met in Springfield. Mass., on the 5th 
of October last, re-assembled at the same place 
Nov. 30th. One hundred and seventy-five gen¬ 
tlemen were in attendance. T. S. Faxton of 
Utica, N. Y., was called to tlio Chair. The 
Convention organized itself into a permanent. 
National Association, and adopted by-laws for 
its government. By these, every member, ex¬ 
cept corresponding and honorary ones, is re¬ 
quired to pay an admission fee of $25, anti an 
annual assessment of the same smouut. Every 
new candidate for membership must he pro¬ 
posed by a member in writing to the President 
or Secretary, and he cannot be admitted if five 
negatives are given against him. Besides the 
officers, four Standing Committees are ap¬ 
pointed, viz., on Finance, Statistics, Machinery, 
and Haw Materials. The annual reports of 
these Committees are to be printed and for¬ 
warded to each member. There is an annual 
meeting, and provision is made for special 
meetings. 
By the report of the proceedings given in 
the U. 8, Economist > it appears that the subject 
of publications was considerably discussed, and 
that “ a supplementary article relative to them 
was passed.” But we do not find that “ supple¬ 
mentary article ” in the report. 
E. B. Bigelow of Boston was chosen Presi¬ 
dent; T. S. Faxton of Utica, Tiiko. Pome¬ 
roy of Pittsfield, and Samuel Bancroft of 
Media, Pa., Vice Presidents; T. Q Bowx of 
Boston, Treasurer, and the Secretaryship was, 
in pursuance of the by-laws, left for the selec¬ 
tion of the Board, or “Government.” Forty- 
eight directors were also chosen. One hundred 
and eighteen persons signed tbe list of members 
for themselves or the firms they represented. 
Tbe aunual assessment is in addition to the ad¬ 
mission fee and must he paid in advance—so 
should no other members sign, the Society has 
already a fund of nearly $G,(KH). (We hope our 
Wool Growers’ Associations in New York, Ohio, 
Vermont, Wisconsin, etc., will take example 
from this liberality.) 
We predicted that this meeting ©f Manufac¬ 
turers would not, as expected by many, do any¬ 
thing to inaugurate a tariff agitation. We can¬ 
not, in the Economist's report, discover any 
trace of its having done so, or of its having 
prepared the way for doing so in the future. 
That this organization will be an exceedingly 
powerful one for the benefit of its own members 
cannot be doubted. It embraces great business 
talent, enormous aggregate wealth, and it is 
cemented together by a compact identity of in¬ 
terests. It brings all the leading business men 
in one of the great industrial interests of the 
United States into counsel and concert with 
each other. It enables them,to act as one man 
for themselves, and against other interests with 
which they are brought into collision. In all 
legitimate aims, we wish it well. And we will 
not believe that it will entertain illegitimate 
ones, until we see the proof of it. Should it 
sink into an interested combination, seeking to 
regulate the prices of wool, making itself felt 
in politics, besieging the lobby of Congress and 
attempting to control the tariff legislation of 
the country for its own benefit, then it will 
become a scourge to all the other woolen inter¬ 
ests of our country, and will invite a struggle 
differing essentially from preceding ones be¬ 
tween the same interests. Heretofore the wool 
growers have been a mob against a phalanx. 
Hereafter it will be, if at all, organization 
against organization. If the wool growers are 
ever again forced into such a struggle, they 
will attempt to make their voices heard as 
loudly in Congress and elsewhere as their oppo¬ 
nents ! And the wool growers are cot true to 
themselves if they do not keep up well organ¬ 
ized and vigorous associations in all the leading 
wool-producing States, to protect their own in¬ 
terests. 
While we feel bound to say thus much, we 
again aver with perfect sincerity, that we do 
not believe that the sound, able and experienced 
business men, who constitute the majority of the 
National Association of Manufacturers, will 
embark that Association in any aggressions on 
other industrial interests. 
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CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEMS, &c. 
Members op the N. Y. Sheet .Breeders’ and 
Wool Growers’ Association. —The following per¬ 
sons have transmitted their names and membership fee 
us, since the organization meeting of the Associa¬ 
tion:— Erastus Corning, Albany; Wm Chamberlin, 
Red Hook; -John M. Pcrcey, Loan Burgess, George W 
Ostrander, Elon Perccy, N. Burgess, .1.-., Garret Hollen- 
back, George Chase, North Hoosick, Rensselaer Co.; 
I. V- Baker, Jr., K W. Harrigan, Andrew Clark, M C 
Kingsley, Cemstock’s Landing, Washington Co. 
Ill health has prevented us from corrcspcmnding ex¬ 
tensively with the sheep breeders and wool grower* of 
tbe State since the organization of the Association, 
and we have not as yet been enabled to adopt any sys¬ 
tematic measures Tor calling their attention to It. Will 
some friend of the cause, in every town in the State, 
send ns the names and post-office addresses of thelcnd- 
ing sheep breeders in his town? 
Hoop Rot. — J. Healy, South Dansviile, Steuben 
Co., N. Y., sends us an interesting record of his many 
yeara experience with hoof rot; and we wish vvehnd 
room to give Ida paper entire. He discovered by many 
years of trial, that doctoring “none bat the disea.-,d 
sheep, and turning the flock back on the same pastures, 
would never entirely exterminate the malady; but 
that ‘doctoring’ every foot in the entire flock, whether 
soond or unBonnd, after thorough paring, four different 
times, at intervals of five days, keeping the sheep in a 
dry place for a few hours, and then turning them on 
pastures where no diseased sheep have run that season, 
will effect a sure and permanent cure.” Mr. Healy 
uses no application but a hot saturated solution Of 
blue vitriol applied with a swab. He recommends very 
thorough paring, but properly cautions against causing 
the feet to bleed. He believes the disease is only com¬ 
municated by the virus (contagious matter) from a dis. 
eased foot; and that “ this virus will retain its vitality 
in summer for weeks or months in pastures where dis- 
pov Sheep have ran.” He states that he has cured 
t. . i',ock in the way he mentions, and wc observe that 
Ltm remedy was applied when he put his sheep into win¬ 
ter quarters. 
Mr. U salt’s experience so far ns it coes fuM anual¬ 
ly accords with portions of our own recorded in the 
Practical Shepherd- We have twice, at the beginning 
of winter, cured a flock by one soaking of the feet—soak 
lng them from ten to twenty live minutes—in a hot 
saturated solution iff blue vitriol. (For particulars 
see Prac. Shop. p. 36S.) The disease is, we think, un¬ 
questionably communicated by the contagious matter 
(nil, on the grass: but wc cannot convince ourselves 
thru it can remain there “ weeks and months " through 
ruin storms which would certainly detach It from tho 
irass, and probably dissolve and convey it into the 
ground. Many persona believe it al ways “stays in the 
ground’’ until a winter has elapsed—others Imagine 
Ihat one winter is not sufficient to “rid the ground of 
It.” This certainly is sheer nonsense —a delusion 
occasioned by the remarkable tenacity of the disease 
when not properly combated, and the necessity of find 
ing an excuse, for, or explanation of, that tenacity. 
Is French Blood Distinguishable 7—L. S. P. says 
that sheep have been driven into Iowa, this past sum¬ 
mer, that “ he strongly suspects have French blood in 
their veins, though they are eold for pure Spanish,” 
and he asks for “ the mark's by Which tho French blood 
can be detected.” The French Merino is much larger, 
Donior and coarser built than the American Merino, 
aud its descendants crossed with the latter are apt to 
show out some or those traits, through a number of 
ordinary crosses. Some of the animals picked out In 
France for the American market had also more corru¬ 
gated hides than most American Mrripos, and tins trail 
too disappears slowly from tbdr descendants. But 
there is In reality no sure mode of de eding by- fnspec 
Uonof the animal, in all instances the presence of a 
slight admixture of French Wood—or even, say, as 
much its one-sixteenth—provided the American crosses 
have been the best that can be made to breed out 
French characteristics. 
A very close judge of Merino sheep, however, if he 
cannot decide absolutely that French blood is present, 
cau al least generally say that the animal so crossed 
does not meet the best American Merino standard in 
all particulars. Tne French size and coarseness may 
be gone The excessive corrugation may bo gone, or 
not equal that now becoming common on the sheep of 
a certain class of American fancy breeders. If nothing 
revealed itself in these characteristecs, a close jocko 
would examine Ike quality aud style of the wool It 
is rare that a French giade can be made to exhibit that 
mist, silky feeling, and that fashing brillianoj which 
chantcUrb.es high bred Amcricin Merino wool. The 
surest test of all would be found, wc think, In breed¬ 
ing. We should erpect that a ram or ewe tinctured 
with French blood, whatever its own individual quali¬ 
ties, would oecasially breed back to some extent-to a 
perceptible extent—toward some of the French char¬ 
acteristics. 
Some persons put too disparaging an estimate on 
French cross breeds. Wc certainly prefer the pan- 
American Merino—that is, the pure blood descendant 
Of those Spanish Merinos, the last or which were In 
trodneed here more than half a century ago The best 
American Merinos have, comparatively speaking, 
reached the goal, and the best French and American 
cross-breeds have not reached it. But. their approach 
1 h near enough to render them very valuable for wool 
growing purposes — much better sheep than many 
American (locks claiming purity of blood, and which 
arc certainly free from all French admixture. 
Soee Lire.—L. W. Swan, Geneva, Ashtabula Co , 
0 , writes us that two or three weeks since he discov¬ 
ered that the lips of bis sheep were bo much swollen 
that some of them could not eat unless the grass was 
long. The Ups were inflamed, sore, and those of rnauy 
of them covered with scabs. Tne couscsof tius mala¬ 
dy are some what discussed in the Practical Shepherd, 
page 271 Rubbing the Ups with tar, render* d t Lin 
by butter, aud mixed with a little sulphur, is an ef¬ 
fectual remedy. We have known pot -grease arc! sul¬ 
phur to cure them—but would ptc-l'er to have tar or 
turpentine one of the ingredients of the application. 
We saw a number of cases of sore lips in this region, 
too, this fall, before the sheep were taken from pa-ture 
Climate of Enqi-and.—O ne of those broad dis 
Unctions between the English and American climate, 
which affect the physical development of men and 
brute animals, wc take from an old return ol' observa¬ 
tions made at tbe British National Observatory at 
Greenwich, on the Thames, quoted in the Edinburgh 
Review, •* On an average of the whole year 1810, during 
day and night, seven-tenths of the sky were always 
cloudy;” and the Review adds: “the night on tbe 
whole is clearer than the day. The forenoou horns arc 
the most cloudy, the evening least so.” 
Communications, (Etc. 
FARM BOOK-KEEPING, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:—I have occa¬ 
sionally noticed in your excellent paper inqui¬ 
ries and suggestions as to the propriety and 
best mode of keeping farm accounts. I do not 
think that I have a manner of doing it ■which 
is superior to any other. But I do know that 
there arc, I may say, thousands of farmers in 
this country—and they are considered intelli¬ 
gent farmers, too—who do not keep accounts at 
all, unless it be some slip-shod way of doing it 
with their neighbors. And there are other 
thousands who do keep correct and intelligible 
accounts with other ineD, but who are utterly 
unable, at the end of the season, to give even a 
tolerable estimate of the cost, yield and profit 
of that field of corn or that “patch of pota¬ 
toes;” when with a very few moments spent 
every evening, and with a little thought and 
care in the field, every farmer who can write, 
and figure in simple addition and multiplica¬ 
tion, might know the exact cost, yield, and 
profit or loss of every crop he raises. My ob¬ 
ject will be to show that such farmers may be 
as systematically successful in conducting their 
business as the most successful merchant is in 
bis, and without involving themselves In the 
minute, abstract details of, what they may 
term, the merchant’s complicated manner of 
book-keeping. The process is very simple, and, 
if farmers will only think so, and set them¬ 
selves about it, the wealth that will accrue to 
the country will be immense, as the result. 
These farmers will soon learn from the balauoe 
of their accounts, which crops are the most ' 
profitable, and will govern themselves accord¬ 
ingly,— and they who soonest commence the 
practice will have that proportional advantage, 
over their neighbors, on the road to wealth. I 
propose, therefore, to give you my experience 
in this matter, not because it is the best form, 
but because it is belter than none. Nor do 1 
wish to convey the impression that farming is 
so different from every other kind of business 
as to require a different manner of keeping its 
accounts. On the contrary, I believe that the 
requirements of skill and practical business 
education are just as important and necessary 
in farming as in trading: hence the farmer who 
has the most thorough practical knowledge of 
book-keeping, other things being equal, pos¬ 
sesses the same advantages, in farming, over 
other farmers, that the merchant, who has the 
same degree of knowledge, does in his business. 
But I maintain, that a farmer would better 
begin in a plain, simple way, rather than not to 
begin at all. 
I have only one book—a common ledger—ex¬ 
cept a pocket memoranda, which I seldom use, 
only when away from home, then, I always 
carry it. This ledger, with care and taste, may 
be kept just as neatly as it would be were it 
filled by posting from a day-book, as iu a trades¬ 
man’s counting room. With careful thought in 
the cultivation of memory, any one can retain 
in the mind the most minute transactions and 
occurrences through the day, and enter them 
all at night after the work is doue. T open an 
account with every crop raised, with my team, 
tools, cows, hogs, and with everything which I 
wish to keep distinct in learning its exact profit 
or loss. 1 do not keep an individual account 
with every cow or with every horse, as does 
Mr. Sullivant, of Champaign Co., Ill.,—I 
think I have seen a statement to that effect, 
perhaps in the Rural. I think when a man 
knows the exact profit of a team, or a number 
of cows, if he has good judgment he can easily 
learn whether each cow or each horse is profit¬ 
able, without opening an account with each, 
which might be no little inconvenience on many 
farms, such as are found In Illinois and other 
portions of the country. Still a man may do so 
ir he thinks it will pay him. With cows on a 
dairy farm it would bo impracticable. With 
horses, there might, perhaps, be an advantage 
in it. Besides those accounts, 1 open an account 
with cash, bills receivable, bills payable, family 
expense, profit and loss, and tho personal ac¬ 
counts, as occasion may require. And I open 
other accounts of minor importance, such as 
tax, interest and discount, literary, benevolent, 
traveling, Ac. These may be considered op¬ 
tional. The others I would insist on as branches 
to be kept separate. Having opened my ac¬ 
counts, I proceed to make the entries as the 
work goes on. I will make “corn crop” « 
sample for crop accounts. I will say, for con¬ 
venience, that I own land, loam, tools, Ac., but 
hire a man, John- .Tones, to work them. I 
pay him $20 per month aud board. 1 set him 
to work plowing April 5th, At night, how 
shall I make the entry t I find that 1 can hire 
Mr. Jones boarded at $2.50 per 1 week, but I 
choose to board him myself. With half a mo¬ 
ment’s figuring, I see that I must pay him at 
the rate of 77 cents (nearly) per day with board. 
The board equals about 35 cents per day. To¬ 
gether, I find that he is costing me $1.12 per 
day. rejecting very small fractions. Now I 
make the entry: 
Dr. Corn Crop. Cr 
1864 
Apr. 5 To John Jones, 1 day_$112 
Apr. 5. To team, plowing. 1 5J 
Then I immediately turn to the account of 
John Jones, and make the entry: 
Dr. Joint Jotree. Cr. 
1801. 
Apr. 5. By coin crop.$1.12 
(plowing 1 day) 
Then to team account, describing it if I have 
more than one, and enter in: 
Dr. Team Account (Dark Bay.) Cr. 
1854. 
Apr. 5. By com crop. $1 50 
(plowing 1 day) 
In that way I proceed until the work Is done 
and crop gathered. Then I charge “corn 
crop” with the interest and taxes on the land, 
with any other expenses that may properly be¬ 
long to it, and credit “corn crop” by the num¬ 
ber of bushels harvested, at the market price; 
if sold for cash, credit by “cash,”—if for a note, 
credit by “ bills receivable,”— if fed out to 
cattle or team, credit by “cattle” or “team 
account;” making, in turn, one of those ac¬ 
counts, whichever it may be. or all, perhaps, 
debtor to “ corn crop.” And now when I come 
to pay Mr. Jones, 1 do not of course pay him 
in cash for all that he has credit for as the ac¬ 
count stands. But I make him debtor, on tbe 
account, to family expense, for the amount of 
his board for the number of days he works. 
Then the account will show just what I owe 
him, and just what he has been doing with me 
every day, without the use of any diary, day¬ 
book or journal. To be sure my ledger does 
not look quite so clear and open as a merchant’s 
ledger where the ledger account is formed by 
posting from the day-book or journal. But I 
save the expense of a day-book—a small item 
compared with wbat is better, in saving the 
long and tedious operation of posting, and what 
is better still, in having the original account, 
with the whole account, all presented to the eye 
at once. 
After making Mr. Jones debtor to family 
account for the amount of his board, I must 
turn immediately to “family account” aud en¬ 
ter the amount on credit side. Of course if I 
board him, family account ought to have credit 
for it. And with every item I enter I turn to 
the corresponding account, and make that ac¬ 
count debtor to or credit by (as the case may 
be) the account In which the item was first 
entered. Thus the farmer who never saw a 
book-keeper in his life, if he uses care and 
thought, will be keeping bis accounts by double 
entry before he knows it. And that in my 
opinion is the ouly way to keep accounts prop¬ 
erly and accurately. For if I hire a man, and 
work my team, to plow my corn-field, that 
corn-field is just as much Indebted to me 
for the use of the man and team as my 
neighbor would be, if the land that was plowed 
was his, instead of my corn-land. And the 
man and team ought to have just as much credit 
for plowing it as my neighbor would have if he 
should plow it. 
t might extend my thoughts in further ex¬ 
planation, hut I have extended already further 
than I intended. But in closing I will say, 
when I commenced keeping my accounts I felt, 
doubtless as many others do, that it would be a 
mere waste of time and material so far as the 
profit is concerned, and I did it more for the 
purpose of acquiring and retaining in practice, 
a simple system of convenient book-keeping, 
complete in itself for such use. Now, were I 
to say notklug of the discipline and pleasure 
derived from the practice, and were I to con¬ 
tinue to raise farm crops, you could not any 
more induce roe to neglect keeping an account 
of those crop®, than you could persuade an 
liouest commission merchant not to enter in 
account his receipts and sales. And further, I 
might say that I do yet consider the time used 
in posting as so much wasted, aud with many 
the complication and trouble of keeping two 
books would deter them from keeping any ac¬ 
count at all. j, b. c. 
Bloomington, Ill., 1851. 
Remarks. — Our correspondent is right in 
saying that the ordinary farmer need keep but 
one book,—the ledger,—dispensing with the 
labor of posting. It will of course depend upon 
the nature and extent of his farm operations. 
There is one advantage in keeping a journal— 
for a journal and ledger are all that Ls necessary 
—and that is the record in detail of transac¬ 
tions, accompanied by observations. A man’s 
pocket diary may be all the journal necessary: 
but there are advantages in keeping it. Again, 
the farmer who keeps his accounts as our cor¬ 
respondent does, by double entry, if he keeps a 
journal or diary of transactions, may teach his 
boys and girls book-keeping quickly, by requir¬ 
ing them to make the entries in the ledger from 
the diary. This will not only be a valuable 
lesson to them, but will soon become a pleasure. 
We thank our correspondent for his communi¬ 
cation. It is sound. 
HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN BEE-KEEPING. 
Let Rural readers purchase all the patent 
complicated contrivances and honey-persuading 
bee-hives, that peripatetic peddlars may hawk 
about the country. 
Allow every knowing (?) bee-man that travels 
to divide jour stocks, make artificial swarms 
and put things generally about your apiary, 
“to rights.” 
Be sure to locate your hives as close together 
as possible, making them look as like as so many 
peas, so that when the bees or young queens 
return from flight they will enter the wrong 
hive and be destroyed. 
Let them swarm five or six times and if they 
“ wont” do it without, divide them. 
Take every particle of nice honey you can 
find about the hive for your own table. Learn 
your bees to live without eating. 
In eold climates, let your bees stand exposed 
to all the rigors ot the climate in thin, leaky, 
rickety hives without any protection for winter. 
Don't meddle with the millers or worms, but 
furnish them auy quantity of nice cracks, cosy 
nooks and sly places, that they may breed 
ad libitum 
Turnover the hives in the hottest weather 
aud bend and break down tho combs, or leave 
them exposed to the hot sun to melt down. 
Change the location of your hives as often as 
convenient, especially during the honey season. 
Make jour hives so small that the queen will 
not have room to deposit her eggs. 
When bee forage is scarce leave your hives 
open and exposed, that the strong stocks may 
rob and destroy the weak ones. 1 f this docs 
not succeed, set out plenty of honey, sirup, or 
sweetmeats, where your bees can have promis¬ 
cuous access to it. 
Brimstone, or sell all the heavy stocks and 
keep all tho light ouph. 
Shut up the hives, air-tight, in the winter, to 
keep out. the cold and frost. 
By following faithfully one or more of these 
rules, you will have no cause to complain of 
successful bee-keeping. L. L. Fairchild. 
Rolling Prairie, Wis-, Dec., 186-1. 
WINTERING BEES. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— The best way 
I ever wintered bees, was to put them In a 
dark, dry still, but not too warm cellar. I use 
the Langstroth hive, have two li inoh ventila¬ 
ting holes in the bottom, covered with wire 
cloth, remove the cap covers, put some scant¬ 
ling on the ground for tbe bottom hive, and 
then pile the hives top of each other as high as 
desired. The cleats on the ends of the honey- 
boards makes a space between the hives suffi¬ 
cient for ventilation. Close the lines in, and 
they will not consume one half the food they 
will out of doors, and will commence laying 
brood and making brood comb iu Jauuary, be 
very strong in the spring, and cast two or three 
good early swarms. Dr. H. N. Miner. 
Hemetite, Mo., Nov,, 1854 
LARGE YIELD OF POTATOES. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Last spring I 
received from a friend three Prince Albert po¬ 
tatoes. I cut them, leaving one eye on a piece, 
and planted in drills in the garden. The ground 
was manured broadcast. I did nothing to them 
during the summer except to hoe enough to 
keep them free from weeds. They produced 
this fall three and a half bushels of fine potatoes. 
T. M. Williams. 
Brookfield, N. Y., Nov., 1851. 
Rural Notes anit (EHucties. 
Wintry. — Last week the weather changed from 
mild to severe — followed liy a enow storm which 
spread over a wide extent of country. Though but 
little snow fell hereabouts, the sleighs were out and 
belle jingling on Saturday. Monday ol’ this week was 
a very tedious day—cold, with high winds and some 
snow—similar to lust New Year's Day. The weather 
lias now (18th) moderated, the huh shines, the Rlcighs 
are swiftly passing to and fro, and Winter seems to 
have been fairly Inaugurated. 
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Permanent Location ox tub State Faib.—Wc 
find the following announcement in the last number of 
the Journal of the N. Y. State Ag. SocietyWe no¬ 
tice iu some city papers that ‘the State Agricultural 
Society intend to purchase grounds for the purpose of 
permanently locating tho State Fair Grounds.’ It is 
proper to state that no such action has been taken by the 
State Agricultural Society.'' 
Empire Wikd Mill.— While we were reading proof 
of the advertisement of this mill, given in this paper, 
a gentleman called and inquired where he could obtain 
the best wind-mill within oar knowledge- Wc unhes¬ 
itatingly referred him to the advertisers, (Mills Bbo’p, 
Syracuse, N Y.,) and so do we all others interested— 
because we firmly believe theirs the best, wind-power 
for the purposes to which it. is adapted. 
Rochester Express.—Wc take pleasure in direct¬ 
ing attention to the prospectus of the Daily and Week 
ly editions of this (as Us proprietors justly tern it,) 
“loyal, high toned, tamily and commercial newspa¬ 
per.” It is a spicy, spirited and enterprising journal. 
Established upon a permanent basis, under great diffi¬ 
culties, by men of tact., brains and indomitable piuck 
and Industry, it merits the success it is achieving 
— .— 
Devon Stock.—' We learn that Stephen Leggett, 
Esq,, of Henrietta, this county, has recently purchased 
of Walter Colb of Batavia, tbe prize Devon bull 
“ Empire,” bred by Josei-h Hilton of New Scotland, 
Albany county. This purchase will make a valuable 
addition to Mr. Leqoett’s herd of Devons. 
The Ohio Sorgo Association is to bold its next 
Annual Convention At Gill's Agricultural Hall, Colum¬ 
bus, on tbe 3d of January, 1865. The attendance of all 
lnteiercsted in the Northern Cane Enterprise is earnest¬ 
ly solicited in a call signed by Wm. Clough, President, 
and John L, Gill, Jr., Secretary. 
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Advance on Price of Flows, —A meeting of tbe 
North-western Plow Makers Society, recently held in 
Chicago, resolved that up to the 11th day of January, 
1865, (to which date the Convention adjourned,) the 
price of “all plows be advanced over present list of 
prices, not less than 20 per cent, and that clpcownt to 
the trade shall not exceed. 20 per cent for Cush, except¬ 
ing in cases of sdllDg to dealers, which buy to exceed 
$ 1,000 worlb at a tl me, and iu no case to exceed 25 per 
cent.” It was also resolved “ that all two horse culti¬ 
vators lie advanced ten dollars each over present pri¬ 
ces;” and the following scale of prices for shovel 
plows was adopted: 
Single shovel,.$8 50 Doable shovel eharea, $2 5(1 
Don hie " .... . Iff do Treble •' “ 2.00 
Treble “ . 11 oe For rolling cutter and 
Single “ share*, 4 fit clasp,. 7 60 
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Inventor of tub Uorsb Rake.— I see in the No¬ 
vember number of The Cultivatin', that a correspondent 
of the Rural New Yorker, asks the name of the in¬ 
ventor of the “ Revolving Horso Rake.” The first horse 
rake that was used in this town, was made by Ephraim 
Perkins in 1811. Mr. Perkins at that time owned a 
farm of nearly 400 acres, mostly in grass. The horse 
rake worked admirably, ranch In advance of the hand 
rake Yet Mr Perrins' energetic and go-ahead mind 
was not content with the Idea of stopping and backing 
up every time the rake was to be discharged, and he 
projected a rake to furn over without the horse stop¬ 
ping, and Charles Gouge made it the 13th day ol July, 
1811. .Tkuvis Phelps, a Yankee peddler who worked 
tor Mr Perkins, carried the model Id 1812, to Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Mr. Perkins sold his farm to Mr. Henry 
Rhodes, the present owner of the premises.—S tores 
Baebows, Oneida Co , At F, in Country Gent. 
Good Indications —The Three Dollar Rate Popular. — 
We have just been opening letters received by our last 
Western mail, aud were surprised at the large number 
of $8 remittance*—it having more orders for single 
copies, we are confident, than we ever received in one 
mail from any direction, when the price was $‘l Bnt 
that is not all; several of the writers speak ot the 
cheapness of the Rural at $3, and one remits $4 for 
one year—viz , Joshua Bowman of Columbiana Co., 
Ohio, who says: 
“Inclosed please find four dollars ($4) in green¬ 
backs, for which yon will please send me the Rural 
New-Yorker for one year, commencing with the first 
of January, 1865 ” 
We credit Mr. Bowman 16 months in advance Al¬ 
most the next missive wc opened was from II. C. 
Moses, of McHenry Co., III, who writes in this sensi¬ 
ble and logical style: 
Friend Moobk:—H ere are yonr three dollars, and I 
hope to say fifty-two times, here is my Rural for one 
of the weeks of 1865. i think you might afford the 
Rural for the old rates, to any man that, will afford 
you pork at tlie old prices. The paper is none too 
nigh, no matter how in my may grumble 
Tbe dime mail contained many other gratifying and 
well lined epistles—clearly showing that sensible peo¬ 
ple regard the Rural New YniiKEu as cheap at. $8 a 
year. And we have no objection to nil our subscribers 
following suit by remitting $3 each, instead of join¬ 
ing clubs. But we wtll not insist upon that. 
The First Essential to a Happy Home—Is the 
Bubal Nkw-Yorkkk, in the Of some sensible people. 
For example, a newly marriod man (recontly in the 
army) sends us $3 for the Rural for 1866, with this 
appreciative note: 
Dear Rural —We consider vou as Vue. first essential 
for bouse keeping for this “ bill ” stands next on the 
“cash book’ 1 to the marriage fee. During tho last 
three years your presence has been welcomed on many 
a battlefield, and in the hospitals; and we think It 
will be just as welcome by the fireside at home. May 
your Influence still befell by our brother soldiers In 
the army —j r. n 
—- — - • 
Swindlers — There is a firm advertising watches 
and jewelry under the name of T. A H. Gauoiian, 116 
Broadway, N. Y., who are tho same swindlers that ad¬ 
vertised last spring under thenamo of Hubbard Bros., 
189 Broadway, N. Y They have swindled me out of 
$ 185 , and huve swindled several others here. -James 
P. Alley, Mctamora , Ind , Nov, 2UA, 1861 
Tux Western Reserve Chkksk Vat— with Coop¬ 
er’s improved Heater aud Valves—is one of the “ in¬ 
stitutions” ot the country, aud worthy the special 
attention of cheese manulacturcrs. It ts advertised in 
this paper. 
Readers interested in the success of The Rural 
are Invited to aid in extending its circulation. Please 
pee Publisher’s Notices, &c, on pages 411-12. 
