jf A TU R E 
ffiXGRICULTURF^a 
ROCHESTER N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 27 , 1865 , 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NKWSPAPBR, 
things at the present day; and if low and un- 
woi thy notions of life were engendered by the 
imperious material necessities of earlier times, 
there is no reasou why higher and better ones 
may not now take their place. In short, there 
is an available remedy for the evils we have 
depicted, and our remarks have already sug¬ 
gested it. 
The lirst thing to be done is to impress upon 
the minds of our farmers, so far as we can reach 
them, the great fact that should be impressed 
on all minds, viz., that neither work nor its mere 
material results constitute the true end of life, 
but only a mcan9 of reaching something higher 
— Individual development and social progress 
and happiness. It is a matter of small moment, 
and scarcely a subject for congratulation, that 
our crops of corn are growing heavier from year 
to year, under Improved methods of cultivation, 
while the crops of men und women, left without 
cultivation, are rapidly deteriorating. 
With correct ideas of what it Is to truly live, 
the farmer will 
winter hare- footed, bare-headed and bare-legged; 
no sickness, nor a doctor within ten miles ; but 
when corn bread becomes unpopular see the pale 
faces and hectic checks, sotely from the intro¬ 
duction of luxuries and the abandonment of 
plain, simple, and nutritious food. 
But nevermind, reader; Lfyoucannotordonot 
wish to introduce corn bread on your table, and 
prefer superiine, white (lour and chicken fixings, 
why so be it—yet raise a good crop of corn. 
The pigs wont tnrn up their noses at it nor the 
cows, horses or poultry; nor will your wal¬ 
let lose its rotundity when you take a load to 
market. * 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
SPECIAL CONTHIBUTOH3 i 
P. BARRY, C. DEWEY, LL. I),, 
H. T. BKOOKS, L. B. LANGWORTHY, 
T. C. PBTBKS, EDWAKD WEBSTER. 
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Practical, Be leu tine aud other Subjects Intimately 
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ADVICE TO THOSE WHO NEED IT, 
*‘My brethern, these things ought not so to be.” 
Y\ hat things ? Many things that wo are con¬ 
stantly compelled to witness around almost 
every farm-yard we visit. Who cau tell me the 
amount of money wasted annually in this vast 
and wealthy country of ours, by the neglect of 
farmers and mechanics in the proper care and 
housing of tools and machinery ? How much is 
wasted annually in the small item of the neglect 
to house wagons, buggies, sleighs, sleds and 
cutters ? How much iu the rust and rotting of 
plows, drays, Am? Ail these cause the thought¬ 
ful person food for thought. I well recollect 
a day’6 ride I hod In my cutter the very last of 
sleighing. 1 rode thirty-two miles, and it was 
through a wealthy and flourishing agricultural 
district. Curlo^t • induced me to count the 
7XX & A ; l jjH A9 
standing iu :kc a'fiVpws, 9 drags or harrows 
by the roadside, $ mowing machines where they 
were last used, 5 horse-rakes on or in the 
corners of the fences, aud many sleds, sleighs, Ccc 
Now, “Brethern, these thiugs out not so to 
be.” Con we count these meu economical, 
thrifty farmers? Where is the man with the 
patience to pull one of those rusty and perhaps 
rotten-handlod or rotten-beamed plows from the 
furrows, and do the lirst half day’s work with it 
this spring, without committing sin in thought, 
word or deed ? Patience is a great virture, but 
I believe it is a great sin to throw temptation 
before it enough t,o crush it. I believe it was 
see the necessity of mental cul¬ 
ture, social recreation, and the elevating and 
refining influences of books, and thoplastic arts; 
and, depend upon it, he will find means to secure 
these elements of development and progress. 
He will discover that it Is his own fault that his 
life is a mere round of drudgery—that his slavery 
is voluntary, and the result of his false notions 
of the real meaning of life. 
The improved implements, the labor-saving 
machinery, and the more scientific methods of 
culture of the present day, enable all who choose 
*r — -- - 
the amount of manual labor required to produce 
a given result. By taking science and machinery 
in bis service, working a little more with his 
brain, and a little less with his hands, and con¬ 
ducting the whole business of the farm more 
(systematically, the agriculturist will soon over¬ 
come the unfavorable conditions under which 
he now labors,— elevate his noble calling above 
the mere mechanical drudgery which now de¬ 
bases it,—and iu his own person, and those of 
his sons and daughters, show us liner specimens 
of vigorous, symmetrical and beautiful man¬ 
hood and womanhood than the world lias yet 
8c en. Jaquks. 
mr. o. cutting’s ram “addison chief.” 
lit For Torrna and other particulars, gee last page. 
is known as Consternation, and is owned by R. R. 
Drake of Savona, N. Y. 
This horse was sired by Burnett's imported 
Consternation, ami his almost perfect resem¬ 
blance to bis sire first called our attention to 
him. He has the same long, graceful neck, line, 
thin head, small cars, and small, bright, round 
eyes, which readily betoken mettle, while in 
dappleSrcMS. r ^'\!^1fst\lhiiiiUu 
from England in 1815, and is now owned at 
S’ raeuse, N. V., by J. B. Burnett. He was on 
exhibition at the Rochester State Fair some 
years ago, and took the first premium, as he has 
done elsewhere. A description, with a portrait 
of this stallion, appeared in the Rural some 
time ago. 
Drake's Consternation was bred by the late 
Dr. Carr of Canandaigua, a gentleman who 
bred some of the best horses of the State. Sired 
by Imported Consternation, this horse lias in his 
immediate ancestry some of the best English 
turf horses, among them Sir Peter Teazle, King 
Herod, Hjghflyer, Flying Childers and English 
Eclipse. His dam was sired by Henry Clay, 
grand dam by Black Hawk. He will weigh 
1,250 pounds, is sixteen hands, and a fine trav¬ 
eler. His owner informed us that ho was 
awarded the first premium and diploma at the 
Steuben County Fair last fall. He certainly de¬ 
serves it, and would rank with anything at the 
State Fair last season; and we hope Mr. Dkakb 
will enter him for competition, next fall, in 
order that he may bo better known through¬ 
out the State. Phillipus. 
Lancaster, Erio Co., N. Y., 1SC5. 
AMERICAN FARM LIFE 
MERINO FLOCK OF THE MESSES. CUTTI 
TN thoo«y, . 1 . i_ ik.-kl_4._!_J, 
ennobling of all human employments. In no 
other occupation can the conditions of health 
and perfect physical development be readily 
secured, and the causes of disease and deformity 
so completely avoided 
Messrs. David and German Cutty w 
! ftjffUYjJle, Vermont, furnish us with the 
I 1S41 they t>6u^t i *a^&tTC"t f igfeTy* - ewes ' - 
rams of John M. Okmsbee of Sho , aud '7° 
Mr. Ormsbee bought them in If JJ 6 , ’ Vt ' 
Murray and Augustus Munget !. EnER 
Vt. These gentlemen pnrehased ^hiting, 
or about the same year in Rhod< t , ^ 5ame 
Buffum, George Irish, Wu °* Davtd 
Rouse Potter of Newport, n-y, ' ULEY an<i 
ers of the highest standing JlZ* ^ 
State. They sold the she. n f T timC in that 
hay as ft* blood -Uerb uo r^X E : itMUR ' 
chased his stock of IV „ ' . f T ’ M pnr ' 
Merinos directly from s oain ’ p u mporWd 
Richard Crowinsh J^L hi * of 
_ , . ikld, also an importer • Mr 
B*,L E T obtained b rt „ Co ,. Hrai ^' “ 
Mr. Irish bough -t with the other8- Th f 
are derived fro* - mem ™ aus 
, r .. * memoranda of David Buffum 
Stepan ' f “ Messr8 - Ct,TTraQ ^ught a ram of 
Stephen Atwood of Conn., and used him two 
years, and to gomc estent afterwardg Jn JS48 
lL > bought a ram of George Atwood (son of 
^ TWOOD ' an U used him several years. They 
ajso > to some extent, used Old Black,* an At¬ 
wood ram belonging to Messrs. Hammond & 
Sanford. In 1350, 1851 and 1853, they sent 
ewes to the Wooster ram,* getting about fifty 
lambs from him. From this period they princi¬ 
pally used rams of their owu raising. ' One of 
these, got by Wooster ram out of a ewe of their 
breeding by Old Black, proved an animal of 
great value to them. He was of good size, low 
and stocky, and heavily wrinkled His second 
fleece weighed 21 lbs., and his third one 33^lbs. 
They sold him to A. L. Bingham, who subse¬ 
quently sold him to James Slocum of Pa. They 
next used the Saxton ram. He was bred by 
N. A. Saxton of Vergeuues, Vt, and got by 
Wooster ram out of a ewe .... 
The farmer’s vocation 
supplies him with the most varied and salutary 
bodily exercise in the open air, where his lungs 
are constantly expanded by the pure breath of 
heaven; an abundance of wholesome food is 
almost always within his reach; he is seldom 
necessarily exposed to an injurious extent to the 
inclemencies ot the season; bis brain is not 
overtasked by his business ; and he is compara¬ 
tively free from the liarrassing cares and anxie¬ 
ties which in some callings make men prema¬ 
turely old. 
Ideal farm life is a life of healthful activity, 
rational enjoyment, ami constant development— 
a continuous and beautiful growth. Whenever 
tho real approaches tho ideal, as it. sometimes 
does, the most eloquent tongue or pen cannot 
too highly extol it. But real farm life, as it 
exists in actual experience of a majority of 
American farmers U, alas! quite another thing - a 
mere round of working, eating and sleeping, 
with no higher end iu view than the accumula¬ 
tion of material wealth, tho Increase of acres 
and crops, or the multiplication of cattle. 
We have alluded to the effects of tho exhaust¬ 
ing labor which is commonly, but not necessarily, 
one of the conditions of farm life. Connected 
THE CORN CROP: 
culture of the crop — its importance and 
VALUE AS FOOD —EASK OF PRODUCTION, 40. 
The season bos arrived when preparation must 
bo made for the production Of this all-importaut 
crop. Almost any amount of coni may be pro¬ 
duced aud uot interfere with any other labor 
required on the farm, except at the time of the 
second hoeing, which, if the crop Is planted on 
green sward, may be omitted if not convenient 
—especially by giving a good and thorough 
dressing the first time and faithfully using the 
cultivator the second. 
If green sward or clover is turned over, espe¬ 
cially with the Jointer or Michigan Plow, and 
planted Immediately, before tho grasses cun 
start, a cheaper and better crop can be procured 
than by any other process, except by heavy 
manuring. Manure cau bo used with great 
advantage on sward land. House ashes arc a 
valuable application, as potash is the only sol¬ 
vent orsilex, which constitutes the entire glazing 
of the stalk and leaves of tho corn plant. If 
plenty, they may be sown broadcast, mixed with 
plaster. 
The corn crop is important for fattening and 
feeding purposes, both as fodder and grain, and 
equally so for human food. Our country does 
not use one half it should in domestic cooking. 
As tho Wheat crop is a precarious production 
aud com meal is cheaper and more nutritions, 
und produced wlttiiu our owu means, there is 
certainly a fault somewhere. It is uot good 
husbandry nor teijery. We should like to know 
what is a better bread for breakfast than a 
good raised Johnny-cake or Jbtu, or for dinner, 
than a baked Yankee Indian Pudding, or even a 
boiled suet pudding or dumplings, or mush and 
milk or fried mush iu the morning. But It 
Wont answer, for thousands would be ashamed 
to bo caught with only a vulgar Johnny-cake 
on the table. “ What would Mrs. Grundy 
FROM ILLINOIS-SEASON, CROPS. &c 
mean in its aims. The results we have already 
Indicated. Now, wo beg our readers of tho 
fanning communities of America to look theso 
fActB , which uo sane man will attempt to call iu 
question, boldly iu tho face. If we have placed 
them in a »lrong Ught, it is because we have tho 
elevation of farm life, and the wclfure of tho 
farmer and bis family at heart, und not through 
an unfriendly or hypercritical spirit, 
Although wo cannot shut our eyes to the evils 
•o which wu have alluded, and will not attempt 
t,J conceal them from tho eyes of others, we are 
l ' y no means discouraged by the contemplation. 
hey arc not inherent in tho employment, but 
Ul ,° the outgrowth of circumstances connected 
with the settlement and subjugation of a new 
country, many of which no longer exist, at least 
111 the older States. Etfeots often remain long 
after tho causes which produced them have 
censed to qperatc. It bus been so In this case. 
unremitttng labor was necessary before the 
wilderness had been subdued, and the forces 
”t nature enlisted iu tho service of man, it is 
uot so now; ff tt sparse population, iulrequent 
opportunities for neighborly intercourse and a 
lunstant warfare with savage nature, rendered 
our rural ancestors somewhat unsocial and sel- 
m- 11 , there is no cause, except tho habit Inherited 
mm them, for the existence of the sumo state of 
preparing to plant corn. There is but very little 
wiuter grain grown in the northern part of 
Illiuols, ou account of the little snow and severe 
freezing in tho spring. Wiuter wheat is a very 
uncertain crop, and rye is but little more to be 
depended ou. Our spring grain has come up 
good and looks well. It. is rather a backward 
spring here, but we have sowed in hope and 
expect to reap if we faint not. All kinds of 
produce brings good prices now, and Illiuois 
stands as fair in regard to agriculture as auy of 
her sister States. She has done uobly in helping 
to crush tho rebellion, and as tho war is virtually 
ended her patriotic sons will return to help us 
at home. 
A good many ouions are raised for market in 
this section ; they brought a good price last fall, 
but we think that they will bring less the com¬ 
ing fall. Sheep are quite an item with us; 
some farmers keep several hundred, and make 
it very profitable. Fruit is almost a failhre iu 
this part of the State; the winters arc too 
severe, and none but the very hardy kinds will 
succeed well. Strawberries and small fruit will 
do better than plums and peaches. 
Barrington, 111.. May, 18 ( 15 . L. M. Holbrook. 
SAXTON ot Mr. Hammond. They then used for 
one > ear a ram bred by themselves, got by Woos¬ 
ter ram out of one of their ewes of half Atwood 
and half Rhode Island stock. They sold him 
when ,i lamb to Natuan Ct suing of Woodstock, 
Vt., who, after using him as a stock ram for some 
years, sold him to George Campbell of West 
Wcstmiuster, Vt., who also used him as a stock 
ram lor some, years. The Messrs. Cutting hired 
him of Mr. Campbell for a season. He yielded 
over 20 pounds of wool in his prime. In 1859, 
they took some ewes to Victor Wuic.nT’s, Cali¬ 
fornia. One ot his get, Monitor, out of a ewe 
got by their second Atwood ram (purchased of 
G. Atwood,) grand dam by their first Atwood 
ram, became their principal stock ram, and they 
used him down to and in 1868. He received the 
lir-t prize at the Vermout State Fair at Burling¬ 
ton when two years old. Iu the last named year, 
they also used a ram bred by Stephen Rkmelee 
oi New Haven. Their present stock ram Addi¬ 
son Chief, (a cut of which is giveu above,) 
wiis got by Monitor, dam a very superior 
* For mention and pedigree of these rams, see 
STOCK HORSES YOUNG "CONSTERNATION.” 
In a recent jannt through several counties of 
this State, we were gratified to observe the in¬ 
creasing Interest manifested among the farming 
class in reference to tho improvement of the 
stock of their horses, both In those designed for 
draft purposes and for the road. We had occa¬ 
sion to notice many fine stallions, aud wish to 
make particular mention of one wo saw at Bath, 
Steuben county, about which we were prompted 
to make a few inquiries, and from the facts thus 
obtained, wo were convinced that this is one of 
the beat stock horses in the State. This stallion 
