Dr. Atwater, one of the oldest citizens, is still 
alive, though very infirm. 
Mr. CnKEHBRO, father of the accomplished author¬ 
ess, was supposed to be near his end, carefully 
nursed by his daughters. 
Miss Urn am, the veteran “school ma’am,” is in 
the full bloom and beauty of her age, attended by 
her neicc, wife of our lamented friend, Jons Hates. 
As I walked up and down the streets of the beautiful 
village, I thought of the change that death had 
wrought since my sojourn there. The venerable 
form of Judge Howell, the dignified and manly 
Gkeio, the genial and talented Wim.sosr, the couitly 
and accomplished Ifciuutu.s, the eloquent EiulbT, 
the worthy matron Mrs. Jackson, no longer grace 
these streets, — they arc gone to even fairer Beenes 
and a happier life.—u. t. b. 
WESTERN EDITORIAL NOTES. 
THISTLES! 
What a sibilant sound that is! Wo is me, that 1 
am compelled to writ* it in connection with Western 
agriculture — that there is any reason why I should 
point it with an exclamation. But I am compelled 
to do it. And I wish my pen were a pointed pole of 
indefinite length, or a galling goad, or some, other 
equally irritating weapon with which I might stir up 
some of the western men 1 have seen, who permit, 
thistles — big bull thistles and Canada —to run ram¬ 
pant, and mature and scatter their seed by millions, 
borne on the prairie breeze. 
For the first time in my western experience, T have 
fount! Canada thistles this season. I have written of 
one patch before; I found another which happened 
to have an inveterate foe in its owner; and yet 
another and larger one than both the two first, which 
is extending its borders without hindrance. This 
last, named is in the midst of a very fine farm in one 
of the best counties in the Htate, and in the midst of 
one of the best neighborhoods i have visited. It is 
on the farm of an old neighbor, whose experience 
with these pests ought to induce extra effort to exter¬ 
minate them. But, I am sorry to say, he thinks bis 
neighbors ought to help him. It Is true they had 
better do so at once, if he does not take the measures 
necessary to suppress them. 
There is more than one important reason why this¬ 
tles, especially Canada thistles, should not be per¬ 
mitted to get a footing here; but there is one which is 
so important that, attention is called to it right, here. 
We grow and ship East a great deal of grass seed 
timothy, red top and clover seed. Western seed is 
held in high repute in the Eastern markets. It yields 
the West a large annual revenue, and yet there are 
men who, by their carelessness or shiftlessncss, peril 
the reputation of Western seed, and will, if let alone, 
sacrifice this revenue. For the reason why seed 
grown in the West is preferred, is because it. is 
clean—because the seed of foul, noxious weeds is 
not found iu it. Aud this reputation is worth 
making much effort to retain, 
But the big bull thistles are getting an alarming 
bob! in the pastures of many of the farmers of 
Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. They are 
easily killed, and we know of no excuse which can 
be accepted from a farmer who allows them to 
occupy his entire farm. It lias been a question seri¬ 
ously entertained whether it would not he a benefit 
Bo U.c country, ami lg nnnvdr- iron*MUu.r, \f 
a list of the this*' 1 * of the country, giving names 
and plaees of residence, were published. It seems 
to the writer that such a man ought to be marked 
at once and made notorious. 
IS THERE A NORTH-WEST 
I have this moment read, in the Rural of Sept. 
21st, the list of American Commissioners to the 
World's Fair at London, next year. The first, ques¬ 
tion I ask is, lias President Lincoln forgotten that 
the center of bis realm lies i vest of any of the Stales 
represented by his appointments? There ought to 
be a Western man appointed, and Western Indus¬ 
trial interests ought to be represented at this great 
fair of all nations. The different State governments 
ought to take some action in this matter. It. will 
pay them all to do so, inasmuch as they are to 
receive the surplus population of Europe. Let our 
Western readers agitato this subject. The time is 
short in which to act- perhaps before this para¬ 
graph readies the reader, it will be too lute to apply 
for space iu this exhibition. But this should not 
deter our manufacturers and inventors from exhibit¬ 
ing and transporting for exhibition sudi articles as 
are UBod successfully here. The great North-West 
cannot afford to lose this opportunity of being repre¬ 
sented at this grand re-union of Nations in an Indus¬ 
trial fete. Let the appointments bo other than pre¬ 
ferred politicians. 
A MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Among the Rural’s readers are many inventors 
and manufacturers of and dealers iu agricultural 
implements and machinery. These comprise a large 
and influential class, representing a large amount of 
capital and enterprise. There is another class of 
readers, still larger, who me agricultural implements 
and machinery, and arc compelled to purchase and 
pay for the same. Of necessity, these interests are 
co-operative and to a certain extent co-equal. I 
have something to say of interest to both classes. 
It is well known that, at our State and County 
fairs, the mode of making awards on machinery is 
hut little, if any, better than a broad farce—that 
premiums are awarded to different classes of farm 
implements, in each of which there is a large num¬ 
ber of competing machines, without any test, or trial 
of the same whatever. The award is made by a 
committee compelled to determine the merits of the 
machine by its inanimate nppearanco—to depend 
upon their practical knowledge, prejudices, or on 
the reputation of the respective machines. The 
award thus made may be just; but it is not always, 
or even often, the case that it is. There is no oppor¬ 
tunity given for comparison. No standard has been 
fixed, except that which may exist iu the minds 
of the members of the committee, and each oue, 
respectively, may have established a different stand¬ 
ard— and imue of them may be correct — none of 
them such as any competitor would be willing bis 
machine should be judged by. It is plain the awards 
in such cases are unjust to the parties who make 
them, and unjust to the owners of the machines. 
But a still greater injustice is done to those who buy 
and use said machines, for they are too frequently 
misled by such awards. The fact that such decisions 
are heralded through the country as belonging to tli 
reputation of any implement, is proof that the 
be used, and are valued by those who secu 
as a powerful aid in the disposal of a 
implements. Knowing the manner in 
awards are secured — the basis upon w 
given—the inventors or owners of mer 
meats cease to risk the reputation oft 
or machinery in competition with tha 
inferior. They prefer to rely less upon the prestige 
of such an award, and more upon the reputation 
which the classes who use their machines give them. 
To illustrate this matter more clearly, allow the 
writer to cite two instances furnished by documents 
which happen to be before him. The Wisconsin 
Agricultural and Mechanical Association, which held 
its fair at Milwaukee the week commencing Sept. 2d, 
offered SI5 in cash for the best reaper, and $10 
for the second best; the same sums for the best and 
second best mower; and again for the best combined 
reaper and mower. The Illinois State Agricultural 
Society offered its grand gold modal as a premium 
for the best reaper, the best mower, and the best 
combined machine respectively. Now, it is a fact, 
that these awards were made in each of these cases, 
without any trial of these machines by awarding 
committees at all. There was not even a team 
attached to any one of them, to show its motion. 
The awards may have been just, for aught the writer 
knows, but no one knows them to bo so. There are 
no data by which the work of these machines can 
be compared. In the case of the Illinois State So¬ 
ciety, this is inexcusable; it is reprehensible; it is 
unworthy the name and fame of the Society*, and 
unjust to the farmers of the State. It were far better 
for both the Society and the people, if no premiums 
had been offered. The grand gold medal ought to 
mean something when it is awarded, and its meaning 
ought to be written in detail on the records of the 
Society. 
The reader will understand what is meant by these 
strictures. It is not Intended to reflect in any way 
upou the character of the machine receiving the 
award; but T do intend, as much aH in me lies, to give 
such awardB their true significance and value—to 
show that so far as the public is concerned, so far 
as fanners are concerned, they are of no sort of value 
or significance whatever in establishing any point 
of superiority. 
Now it is well known that the folly of this farce 
of making and receiving awards on machinery in 
this manner, has been again and again protested 
against ; that the project of organizing an association 
by which exhibitions of machinery exclusively, and 
trials of the same, coaid be made, has long been 
talked of among the exhibiting classes. This talk 
has ripened into action. At the recent State Fair iu 
this city (Chicago) there was a meeting of exhibitors 
to talk over the feasibility of making a test exhibition 
of implements the coming season, or perhaps a series 
of such exhibitions. As the discussion progressed, 
the importance, use and practicability of snch a 
project became more and more apparent, until it 
resulted in a resolution to take measures at once to 
secure, such an exhibition or scries of exhibitions. 
The meeting appointed a committee of live, whose 
duty it is to set about, tills work at once. The names 
and address of the members of this committee are: 
D. .1. Powers, Madison, Wis., Chairman; .John P. 
Manny, Freeport, Ills.; Wm. Duane Wilson, Des 
Moines, Iowa; J. R. Mofpitt, Piqua, Ohio; and 
Horace L. Emery*, Albany, New York. 
It is made the duty and will be the effort of this 
Committee — 
1st, To secure the co-operation of all inventors, 
manufacturers, dealers, and buyers of farm imple¬ 
ments and machinery. 
2a, To establish a standard or scale by which each 
kind or class of implements shall bo tested. To Jo 
this, it is necessary that all manufacturers interested 
should furnish the Committee with the different 
points of merit in their respective implements or 
machines, and their views in detail as to the charac¬ 
ter of the tests which should be made, and best modes 
of applying them, in order to get at the real capacity 
and true merit of the machine. 
3d, To provide for a thorough, impartial, and scien¬ 
tific, trial of snob machines or implements as may 
enter into competition with each other, at such times 
and places as such tests can be best prosecuted. 
4th, To provide for a grand exhibition of machinery 
(exclusively) at. the close of the season, at which the 
capacity and work of each machine, And the awards 
made and the reasons therefor, shall 1 a published. 
This will involve a good deal of labor, and may at 
first seem impracticable. But this node of doing 
business has been adopted with sncc-ss in England 
and on the Continent; aud no agricultural population 
in the world have greater interests involved in the 
acquirement of the kind of informat on this organi¬ 
zation is intended to elicit, than have the agricul¬ 
turists of the WeBt. The statistics which may be 
arrayed to establish this fact., showiuj the amount of 
capital invested and employed in the manufacture of 
implements for the North-West, would astonish those 
most familiar with their use here. 
Bnt. this article is already too long- Those inter¬ 
ested, who are willing to further till* project and 
desire to communicate the information the Committee 
ask, may forward the same to the address of any 
member of the Committee, or to its noting Secretary, 
Chas. I). Braiidon, Box 8,!H)7, Chisago, Ill. 
JOTTINGS FROM THE WEST. 
County Fairs — Illinois and the War — C' om and Hogs ,— 
Horses and Mules — The Weather, etc., etc. 
Here in the West, all true friend.-* of agricultural, 
horticultural and stock-raising process, find great 
cause to regret that — as a consequence of our Na¬ 
tional troubles—at least two-third*) of the hitherto 
quite prosperous “County Fairs” were postponed 
for this year. As an apt illustration, the Adams 
County Association have held some seven or eight 
successive annual meetings here in Quincy; and as a 
gratifying reward for their expenditure of money, 
time, Ac., the numerous stoekholik-' rs were enabled to 
assure their more timid friends--timid and exces¬ 
sively cautious when solicited to materially aid in 
pushing forward a new and untried enterprise — that 
the doubtful experiment (as quit® too many meu are 
apt to term all really progressiv e undertakings,) was 
steadily growing in public fu-vor — that the great 
benefits resulting from their annual exhibitions were 
beginning to largely affect the entire faming 
interests of tha county. T’aese promising results 
were particularly noticeable ' during the years ’50 and 
•(10. But failing to hold a Fair this fall will serve 
measurably to break-up the auspicious train ol pleas¬ 
ing events connected therewith, bo completely as to 
render a new beg nping n. ot only an Inevitable neces¬ 
sity, but_a noli tie mov c. And what renders these 
he more to be regretted, 
re far better prepared 
nificent display, of 
cultivated skill 
1 true friends 
ingress hope 
e County 
ather 
the 
growers, etc., will not suffer a greater loss, in this 
connection, than a year or two of peace and pros¬ 
perity shall suffice in completely restoring. 
Now, in all kinds of grain, cattle, horses, hogs, 
etc., up to children, Illinois has long enjoyed the 
highly creditable name of being one of the most pro¬ 
lific States in the Union. Bat the crop of soldiers 
for lkfil, which Illinois designs as positive workers 
on the South part of Uncle Ram’s still undivided 
farm, bidB fair to greatly exceed all previous yieldB. 
Therefore, without detracting one particle from the 
truly Hublime patriotism of the other Free .States, all 
unprejudiced men must admit that Illinois — the 
Sucker State — has nobly earned the title of “ The 
War. Horse of the Union l” This same sucker ( alias 
Union-succoring) State, lias sent regiment after 
regiment of her gallant sons into the tented field, 
until the people of other States, and especially of 
Missouri and Kentucky, are beginning to ask the 
question, Vhile wonder and astonishment arc depicted 
in every feature, “ from whence corne all these hardy 
prairie warriors?” At this moment onr so prover¬ 
bially prolific State has forty-eight regiments on 
duty in the South-West,—while Governor Yates, 
assisted by a large and efficient, force of prominent 
civilians and experienced military officers, is now 
rapidly organizing thirteen more regiments. Ere 
another month passes away, this State will have sup¬ 
plied the Government with sixty thousand brave, pat¬ 
riotic soldiers. Has any other State furnised the 
same per centage, as compared with its population? 
Owing to their having a large quantity of last 
year’s corn crop still in crib, and the overabundant 
yield of the present season, coupled with the now 
almost certain probability that pork will remain low 
during the ensuing winter, onr farmers are in some¬ 
thing of a quandary as regards feeding their hogs 
for market this fall, or holding both corn aud hogs 
over and waiting for the rise of prices consequent 
upon an early close of this war and a removal of the 
present river embargo. With corn at fifteen cents 
per bushel, while all prospects of an advance seem 
quite slim — taken in connection with the unpromis¬ 
ing likelihood that fattened hogs will scarcely reach 
three dollars per hundred this full and coming 
winter — it is not “passing strango ” that our 
farmers have found themselves involved iu something 
of a quandary. 
The old aphorism has it, that “it is a poor wind 
that blows nobody any good,” and the farmers 
throughout all this section of Illinois, in particular, 
are now realizing fits truthfulness to some extent; 
inasmuch as, while all kinds of produce, hogs, Bheep, 
cattle, Arc., have fallen down to ruinous prices, the 
large Government orders for cavalry horses and draft, 
mules have so enhanced the value of these animals as 
to partially compensate the farmers for their losses 
otherwise. 
During the past two weeks we have had a “ glori¬ 
ous spell ” of weather, which perhaps the ww-unison- 
ons word “betweenity” would more intelligibly 
describe than any other known to cant phraseology 
hunters, —that is to say, the weather regulator has 
sorely tantalized poor, non contented human nature, 
in these regions, with chance gleams of bright, genial 
and all-cheering sunshine between “ spells” of gentle 
rains, of “right smart olntneo” rains, of copious, 
flooding and perfectly deluging rains! Possibly, all 
this excessive dampness may Jjiive been sent as a wild 
picom-uov of ihn cguioj-cjlii’ arpnv, — although I can’t 
well imagine how thlwrafny ^ojtysm could well* lie 
rendered more profusely aquilrinidike; or, perhaps, 
it, is the virtual djumox in all its liquid glory and 
windy power? If so, then we may soon hope to wit¬ 
ness the incipient dawniugs of that, delightful epi¬ 
sode— that most lovely gem in the year’s parure — 
that rarest and sweetest bud iu the year’s bouquet— 
Indian Summer. But, it is too soon to write of that 
magnificent asteroid of glorious old Autumn, A few 
weeks later aud then I hope to pay my best respects 
to that most perfect product of year making. 
The prevailing low prices of wheat in the Quincy 
market have not deterred our Adams County farmers 
from sowing a much wider breadth of that all-import¬ 
ant cereal this fall than ever before. As a rule, our 
wheat growers have adopted the plan of early sow¬ 
ing,- a most Judicious plan for this singular climate, 
as innumerable experiments have proven. In a ride 
of some ten miles to-day, l saw no less than seven 
fields in which the tender wheat spears were begin¬ 
ning to shoot above ground, with a most cheering 
promise of a firm root-hold long before the rigors of 
winter arrest its growth. 
Just at this writing, our city is literally thronged 
with fruit growers, eagerly seeking a market for that 
proportion of their most abnndant crop deemed too 
perishable to admit of much dolay. Although the 
fruit yield is large, still 1 am sorry to say that its 
quality seems markedly below that of many former 
years. Occidental. 
Quincy, III., Sept., 1861. 
spirit of tfo* 
To Hold n Ilnril-lirildcd llorse. 
N. P. Blakesj.ee, iu the American Agriculturist, 
describes the following simple method of holding a 
fiery, hard-bitted or run away horse. Put the buckle 
or snap of the rein through the bit ring, and fasten it 
to some part of the bridle between the ears and 
mouth of the horse. The advantage of this easily 
and quickly made arrangement is two-fold: 
1st. It draws the bit into the corners of the mouth, 
whatever be the position of the horse’s head. 
2d. The force exerted on the bit in this manner by 
the same power at the end of the rein, though not 
quite doubled, is very much greater than when the 
rein is attached simply to the bit. By this means, I 
have seen the most fretful and ungovernable animal 
immediately converted into a serviceable plow-horse, 
while my eased limbs and shoulders gave direct 
testimony in favor of the diminished labor of man¬ 
aging the team. 
The arrangement is also convenient in driving an 
ill-matched team, one horse being a fast, and the 
other a moderate traveler. Arrange the reins as 
directed for the fast horse, leaving the others in the 
common way. _ 
Task- of Garlic Iu fflilU. 
In answer to a query in the Farmer and Gardener 
upon this subject, a correspondent says:— “I do not 
know that I can prescribe the best method, hut a very 
effectual remedy is fouud in saltpetre. Place a 
lump, from the size of a pea to a hickory nut, in the 
bucket before commencing to milk. The saltpetre 
will thus become thoroughly dissolved and diffused 
through the milk before stri ining. 
It is advisable, whe 1 . u can be done, to remove 
the cows from the gari ! cky pastures five or six hours 
before milking. A large portion of the garlic will be 
expelled in the exhalations — consequently less salt¬ 
petre will be required, and there will be less danger 
of the latter being detected in the taste of the bnt- 
j\ When everything is kept perfectly sweet and 
clean, there need be no fear of the butter tasting old, 
if churned several days before it is destined for use, 
provided it be immediately well worked. Indeed, 
where it is necessary to use this salt as a corrective, 
the batter is improved by a week or two of age. 
“Saltpetre will, to a considerable extent, also 
remove the taste of bitter weeds, turnips, and rank 
clover from milk and butter. Whether it will 
interfere with the ‘fine flavor'' imparted to ‘Phila¬ 
delphia Juno butter’ by the Eweet scented vernal 
grass, 1 have no means of knowing; bnt this I do 
know, that I have often sold buiter treated in the 
above manner to some of your city connoisseurs, 
who invariably praised its good qualities, especially 
for keeping free from rancidity.” 
Galled Shoulder* in Horses. 
As making bavelocks for the protection of the 
neck is now all the fashion, saya a correspondent of 
the Germantown Telegraph, I have concluded to send 
you an account and directions for making, some 
which I have in use, and like very well indeed. Rome 
say that if a collar fits a horse as it should, he will 
never have sore shoulders. Now, I do not think 
that this is the case, for I have a pair of horses who 
could not be worked at plowing or harrowing for a 
week without having sore shoulders, yet their col¬ 
lars lilted them well. It seemed that one hide had to 
be rubbed, and as that of the collar was the hardest, 
the consequence was that the horses’ hide got the 
rubbing. The galls I could soon cure, but if the 
horses were worked I could not prevent them. 
Chancing one day to take hold of an English agricul¬ 
tural journal, the first thing which I noticed was an 
editorial proposing that a piece of leather should be 
laid on the horses’ neck under and disconnected from 
the collar. I saw that the theory was good, aud con¬ 
cluded that as one hide had to take a rubbing, the 
collar and the leather might settle it between them as 
best they could. Ro having procured paper and 
scissors, I cut out a pattern for my havelock. I cut 
the pattern so that it conld be sewed together on top 
of the neck and in front of the breast, and at the 
same time fit the neck neatly without creasing. They 
were made considerably wider than the collar, say 
from ten inches to one foot. I then applied my pat¬ 
terns to a piece of leather, and cut out their counter¬ 
parts and sewed them together, and after soaking 
them over night, I applied them to the horses’ neeks, 
taking care to keep them smooth and nice. Rinoe 
then my horses have never had sore shoulders; and 
any oue seeing the bavelocks after three months’ use, 
would not wonder that the horses’ shoulders were 
not sore. I have cured the shoulders of horses with 
the following compound:—Good brandy, one quart; 
one half pound alum powdered. 
The brandy and ahm) should be placed in a bottle, 
and when used should be well shaken. The mixture 
shonld be rubbed on with a sponge, and a pud (an 
old stocking leg stuffed with straw) should he placed 
below the gall, and I will insure a cure if the collar 
is as soft as it should be. I have cured shoulders 
with this mixture even when the skin was broken, 
without taking the horse from his work. But use the 
bavelocks, and you wen’t want the mixture. 
Handling and Training Steers. 
An Illinois correspondent of the American Stock 
Journal says iu training steers the following labor 
should bo performed: 
1. Accustomed to ymr presence. 1 
2. Trained to be yoked,—to travel in the yoke, and 
turn right and left at command. 
3. Trained to work. 
The first should be accomplished long before 
“breaking,” as it is termed; if, however, it is not, it 
may be very easily done by handling the animal — if 
it must be by force, handle, always being deliberate 
and careful iu action, and never be thrown off your 
guard so much as to Btriko or kick. The creature 
will soon learn lie lias nothing to fear. Now let him 
know he lias something to gain, by giving him a 
nubbin of corn, or scratching bis neck, back, etc. 
Whenever you undertake to handle an animal, accom¬ 
plish what yon undertake; and if you have any 
doubts as to the result, do not begin until you have 
force enough to be sure of success. If you do begin 
and fail at first, persevere until you finally conquer 
that’s the word, conquer. Any animal is a Jong time 
forgetting a triumph. 1 had rather teach ten wild 
steers to handle that have never been tampered with, 
than one that has once come off “ best.” The most 
skillful man we ever saw at handling cattle, did it 
with the least expense of feeling to them, and yet, 
when they refused to perform, he used the niOBt 
imperative force to compel obedience. An animal 
came from his hands tamer and more gentle than 
from one who resolves not to force. Use, then, force 
enough,— do what you attempt, but be always mild 
and gentle—show no temper. 
Training to the yoke. This is easiest aud best done 
in the barn yard. Drive them quietly around for 
considerable time—mind, you drive them; if not, 
they run aud scamper wbire thoyjike, without per¬ 
ceiving that you are master. After half a day of 
such driving many steers will submit to be yoked by 
the driver alone, and wild ones can soon be so 
wearied as to be readily yoked. In this regard you 
have to judge whether best to yoke by calling in 
help, or keep them going until yon can yoke them 
alone by yourself. When you have them yoked, be 
gentle with them,— let them know you are master,— 
keep them going until weary, and but very little 
after. It is easy to learn steers to turn right and 
left, when you have them in the yard under your 
control. Touch the near one when you wish them to 
go to the right,—the off one when to the left; or if 
you wish them to turn about, start one ahead quickly 
by a touch, while you motion the other back at the 
same time. 
Training steers to work. This is by far the most 
critical part of “breaking steers,” and should be 
accomplished by gradual approaches, being careful 
not to worry nor weary them. Suit their tasks to 
their strength arid endurance, and have patience 
now, that when they are fully grown, they may not 
he prematurely “old cattle.” How many pairs of 
so-called old, slow cattle, are really so? They arc- 
old in appearance, and slow, because when young 
their spirit was destroyed by over-work. Cattle are 
more unfitted than any other animal to severe labor 
before attaining their full growth and constitutional 
development. 
In breaking steers, bear in mind that yon must 
subdue their will, but maintain unimpaired their 
natural animal spirits. 
One year ago we trained two pairs of steers. One 
pair was wild and bad to he caught with the “ lasso.” 
This pair we had gentle and tractable in one week, 
and yet one of tneru possessed an almost unconquer¬ 
able will. In getting him home we yoked him with 
his mate and could not drive them. We then hitched 
a strong pair of oxen ahead and drew hiui — he part 
the time sliijing ou the ground and part the time 
pulliug back all ho was able — we were all this time 
gentle and careful, bnt firm; and in one hour he was 
subdued, and we had no further trouble with him. 
In traiuing steers use all the force necessary to 
bring them under your control; then gentle them by 
being mild and gentle yourself. No animal thinks 
less of you for conquering, if you do not abuse your 
superiority. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Seedling Stocks— Bristol & Williams. 
Pat riotic Packet* of Union Stationery and Portraits of Presi¬ 
dents— B. Haskins k Co. 
A Donation Reception for Industrial School—C. E. Perkins. 
Improved Stork—Thomas Aston 
A Good Small Farm for Sale — C H, Marsh. 
Peach Trees, &e„ for Sale —P. Bowen & Co. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
The Metropolitan Gift Bookstore — J F. Hone. 
Rural Notes anh 3tcms. 
Tub “ Seasonable A vnounckmicnt ” on last page is some¬ 
what more conspicuous than we designed—our printer-in-chief 
being fond of displaying good things (to say nothing of the ela¬ 
tion caused by a recent addition to his family)—and perhaps it 
is unnecessary to Invite thereto the attention of the reader. 
Yet we are naturally solicitous on the subject, and desire the 
friendly co-operation of every one who approves the course 
or this journal—all who believe it calculated to enhance the 
welfare of Individuals, Families and Community. To such we 
would fain present the claims of the psper in such manner as 
to secure their bind offices in its behalf at a season when 
effort* to extend its circulation will prove most timely and 
BneeewfnI. While we are endeavoring to maintain and 
increase the interest and value of its pages—augmenting its 
expenses at a time when many contemporaries are lessening 
theirs—we Irust the friends of the Rcral will second our 
efforts to render it still more useful by giving it a more gen¬ 
eral circulation. Agent-Friends and Subscribers can greatly 
aid in promoting this object, by seasonable action among their 
neighbors and acquaintances,—for “words fitly spoken,” and 
an exhibition of the paper, on their pnrt, proverbially leads 
to successful results in obtaining new subscribers. 
— Many persons, who never acted io its behalf, are kindly 
volnnteering their aid in extending the circulation of the 
RUSAL. We are receiving from this clasv numerous requests 
for specimens and bills to bo used in forming clubs for the 
next volume. Among the trio.-d recent of these, is one from 
Harrison Co., Ohio, which reads in this encouraging wise: — 
“ Please send me some specimen copies of the Rural, with 
Foster, fee. I wish to act as Agent, and extend its circulation 
in this community. I never saw persons better satisfied with 
any paper, for the amount invested, than the present clnb. 
I think I can secure most of the old subscribers, and perhaps 
a good many more.” 
DisT/NGUisnEU Arrival.— Emulating some modern briga¬ 
diers, Gen Jack Frost has been very tardy this season, and 
did not arrive in our region until Monday morning last. True, 
be bad sent skirmishers in advance, but they only recon¬ 
noitred the outposts, and retired without causing damage. 
Meantime our forces (crops) got out of harm’s way, so that 
when the w hite plumed, withering devastator reached us, 
there was little of value which bo could blight, or destroy. 
Indeed, the corn Crop being out of danger of “ confiscation,” 
Jack can do no special harm, but rather prove beneficial in 
ripening buckwheat, and bringing about other natural and 
seasonable “evolutions” in field, orchard, and garden. 
His delay was very fortunate this season—iu saving our com, 
especially,— still, as he had an important mission to fulfill, 
we say “better late than never,” though none too late for 
those unprepared for his advent, and that includes a large 
number of worthy people who are not in the habit of being 
fully “ up to time” in their operations. 
Prindls’s Agricultural Cauldron and Stramrr.— We 
are informed that this new apparatus, which has recently 
been exhibited in this State, at most of the Western State 
Fairs, and at several local exhibitions in New England, 
receiving the highest premium in every instance, is meeting 
with great favor among practical men. Wo hear of sales 
already being made in this aud distant States and Canada. 
Mr. P. informs u* that he has made arrangements with the 
manufacturers in this city, whetoby he will lie able to supply 
the demand. The .Steamer is to be exhibited in operation, by 
me Jirieutoe, at Le Hoy, N. y., on eatnrday, the 20th inst., 
and at Batavia ou Monday following. An advertisement, 
receive!) too late for this paper, will appear in our next. 
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A Nnw Rakk I'OK A Reai-Kh.— Our Western Aid saw, and 
mentions as noteworthy, at the La Salle Co. Fair, a new rake 
which may bo attached to any reaper, which is simple and 
effective—the best self raker he has ever seen. The rake is 
suspended from an eccentric rod running the length of the 
platform, and is as long as the platform. This rod is made 
to revolve by bolt and pally, and thus the motion is given to 
the rake, which cleans the platform of the grain at a stroke, 
leaving it behind the reaper in the same position and condi¬ 
tion precisely as ft bad on the platform. John Taylor, of 
Winoua, 111,, Is the Inventor. 
Wkstkun Grain Si-routing.—M r. Uragpon writes us that 
the grain stacks of Southern Wisconsin, Northern and 
Central Illinois, are green, in many Instances, with growing 
grain—that much of the wheat has been poorly stacked, with 
the purpose of thrashing before the fall rains came on; but 
that during the entire month, to the date of his writing 
(October 7,) rain has fallen almost daily. Add the warm 
weather, and we have the cause for this loss to Western 
farmers—to the whole country. Ur. B. says this loss is great¬ 
er in extent, aud more serious, than is generally supposed. 
Thu Reward Ararian Houses.— At the last meeting of 
the Executive Board of our State Ag. Society, the committee 
on these horses recommended that they be separated for the 
ensuing year —the oldest (bay) to be kept In the Northern 
part of the State, and the youngest (sorrel) In the Southern 
tier. Arrangements were then made with Col. S. D. Hungkr- 
rORD, of Adams, Jefferson Co., aud Ezra Cornell, Esq., of 
Ithaca, Tompkins Co., to take charge of the horBes—it being 
understood that the terms of service be fixed by Messrs. 
Hungurvokd and Corn km.. 
Injury to the Bean Crop. — The heavy fall rains are 
said to have proved very injurious to the bean crop — in 
many Instances destroying large quantities after they were 
pulled. In some sections the weather has been so wet that 
the crop (especially of late varieties, or late planted,) has not 
yet been fully secured. On the contrary, the product of 
fields of early varieties, planted in season, are said to have 
been secured in good condition in many localities — a fact 
worthy the attention of growers. 
Flax Cotton Is already becoming an article of commerce. 
The Providence Journal states that considerable quantities of 
it are prepared, and find a ready market for various purposes, 
ehietly for mixture with cotton and wooL Although Inferior 
to cotton for most purposes, it is equal to It for many and 
superior to it for some. It has fairly taken its place among 
the textile raw materials, aud it will grow more Important as 
the supply increases, as the processes for its preparation 
improve, and the uses for it develop. 
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La Salle Co. (111.) Fair.— Mr. Bkagdon attended this 
Fair, and reports a meagre show in all departments, except 
farm products and fruit. He says the exhibition of grapes 
was large and fine, aud reports that he has visited the vine¬ 
yards where they grew, and taken full notes of what he saw 
and heard. The l air would have been a comparative success 
but for the wet weather — it having rained more or less — 
mostly more—each day of the Fair. 
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Is it a Truism?—A n exchange says:—“The Chairman of 
one of the Committees of an Agricultural Society in New 
Hampshire winds up liis report of the proceedings on the 
track with the following poetical truism: 
' Money makes the mare go; 
Trotting makes the fair go.’ ” 
— Though trotting at fairs may cause the temporary success 
of Ag'l Societies, it has proved injurious to some of the best 
in Western and Central New York, and elsewhere, as many 
of our readers can attest. 
N. Y. State Fair Awards. —We designed to publish a list 
of the principal awards of Premiums at the recent State Fair, 
but the crowded state of oar pages has precluded. The 
official list of awards is given in the October number of The 
Journal of the State Society , and we presume copies can be 
obtained of the Secretary—Col. B. P. Johnson, Albany. 
