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entire body of the large and middle manufac¬ 
turers of the United States. They were, by a 
formal vote of the Government of that Associa¬ 
tion, sent to Syracuse for the express purpose of 
treating and entering into arrangements with 
the Growers on the subjects which were brought 
Their action therefore 
depths, the desired article needed in the repair of 
the various farm implements. 
The economy qf having an “ old iron chest,’’ so 
strongly commends itself, that no farmer should 
let another mouth pass without providing a de- 
postorv for such worn, broken and surplus arti¬ 
cles as are not wanted for immediate use. 
Rolling Prairie. Wis. L. L. Fairchild. 
GIVE THE BOYS A WORKSHOP 
Every farmer who has boys, should provide 
them a workshop. It should be neatly made, and 
pleasantly situated, for it should be attractive to 
those for whom it is intended. It should be 
tight and comfortable, furnished with a small 
stove, so as to make it warm in winter. It should 
he provided with a workbench and vice, a shav¬ 
ing-horse for using the drawing-knife, and per- 
hajis u email foot-latbe, which is very couven- 
ient, but not essential, however. The other IooIb 
should be t wo or three planes, augers of different 
sixes, a few chisels, a bit-stock with bits, drawing- 
knife, saw and hammer. For those who cannot 
afford the whole, a small part of these would 
answer, and to those who can, other tools may bo 
added—the cost of the tools would be but a trifle 
compared with the advantages one would derive 
from the use of them. The greatest is the assist¬ 
ance it will render the cause of practical education. 
It has been said that “the best inheritance any 
man can leave his children, is not wealth to sup¬ 
port them, but the ability to help and take care of 
themselves." 
A young 
RESULTS OF THE SYRACUSE CONVENTION 
before the Convention 
| was that of plenipotentiaries having full power 
I to bind the body they represented. 
And we will do these plenipotentiaries the 
justice to declare that the above admission was 
not extorted from them, or made the price of 
any counter concession. We stand ready, on all 
occasion*, to testify that even before the Con¬ 
vention was organized, we were shown by the 
leading otfleers of the National Manufacturers’ 
Association, a draft of such declarations as it 
would be their choice to have made by the Con¬ 
vention, in the form of resolutions — and that 
this draft as distinctly admitted the principle of 
equal protection to the Grower and Manufac¬ 
turer, as do the resolutions Anally adopted. 
We have been asked if the Manluetiirer* will 
put the same construction on the words “ equal 
management and protection” with the Growers, 
when the practical details of a woolen tariff are 
being settled in Congress. A suspicions Grower 
reminds us that “ word* are not things.” We 
trust that both sidu will try to live up to the 
spirit of the compact. Neither has the right to 
lancing aoont Breeding fowls, a writer in 
Wilkes’ Spirit says I am a great advocate for 
choosing young birds for this purpose and re¬ 
commend that early pullets be selected cverv 
year for stock the following season, and put with 
two-year-old cocks for instance. Pullets hatched 
in May attain their growth and become perfect 
in shape, size and health, before the chills of 
winter. They should be put with cocks of two 
years old, when they will lay on the first appear- 
man, whose natural ingenuity is so 
developed by practice that he can at any moment 
mend a rake, fit a helve in an ax, set a clock in 
running order, mend a broken harness, give 
edge to a pair of shears, mend tin-ware, repair an 
umbrella, white wash a ceiling, paper a room, 
make a bee-hive, bottom a chair, or mend a bro¬ 
ken rocker, and do a hundred other little jobs, 
will puss through the world more comfortably to 
himself, and profitably to those around him, 
than the one who is obliged to send fora mechanic 
to do such litfip jobs which he is too helpless 
to perform himself. 
disclose a breach of faith. But should either 
party attempt, in defiance of its agreement, to 
secure an advantage over the other, we do not 
believe that it will be permitted to succeed, at 
least for any considerable period, for we believe 
that Congress and the country will approve of 
the principle established between the parties, 
and not permit either of those parties to recede 
from or contravene it. 
The discussion in the Syracuse Convention 
on the subject Of mutual grievances was both 
instructive and amusing? It was frank, mascu¬ 
line and outspoken —exactly as it should have 
been — but without any display of temper. The 
explanations on the question of washing or 
not washing, on the “one-third shrinkage rule,” 
on the mode of doing up, tying and sacking 
wool, &c., Ac., made it apparent not only that 
there were just causes of complaint on both 
sides, but that a good deal could be said in 
extenuation on both sides, in some important 
particulars, where each had before believed the 
other to be totally and willfully in the wrong. 
Important practical consequences will grow out 
of this ventilation of these subjects. For exam¬ 
ple, wc look to see the National Association of 
Manufacturers 
AX LXPKNSIVK IMTROVKKENT. —BETTER PAPER — 
Last week it was stated that better paper than that 
hitherto U9ed had been ordered ;for this volume of 
the Rural, but the manufacturers “ 
failed to con¬ 
nect, compelling the use of an inferior article for 
most of that week's edition. Though so great an 
improvement as we expect has not yet been secured, 
this number is printed upon much better paper than 
that formerly used. Wc trust the improvement will 
be appreciated by our friends, —for such paper as 
that now used will cost us, during the year, about or 
over three thousand dollars more than it would to nse 
that of former weight and qnality ! This is only one 
of several items of our increased expenditures for 1866. 
Were we to give our readers the estimated cost (at 
present prices,) of the paper for printing ottr present 
volume, many would probably be astonished and 
others incredulous—for we are amazed at the figures. 
Another Iniportunt advant¬ 
age afforded by such a workshop is its moral 
Influence furnishing pleasant employment to 
boys during stormy weather, or other leisure 
hours, und lessening the temptation to frequent 
tavernl, and to attend places of diversion—which 
often lends to the most pernicious habits. 
Almost every Yankee boy has a longing for 
the use of tools, from the moment bis hand 
grasps a jack-knife «ud he begins to whittle. 
Provide cheering work for your boys, something 
that will be relaxation from the drudgery of the 
plow toil, and the composite health, something 
that will satisfy their longings for progress, and 
open to them new realms of thought. If they 
urc not skilled with the mallet and the chisel, the 
saw and the plane at home, they will quite likely 
become adepts at the pipe and the bottle abroad. 
Napoli, Catt. Co., N. Y. 8 . 
State Associations, prepare those interrogatories 
properly and by proper authority. 
The jury does not bring in its verdict first and 
hear the testimony afterwards. The physician 
does not administer medicines before he exam¬ 
inee his patient. Yet the reverse of this action, 
in either case, would not be more absurd than 
would have been the action of the Wool Grow¬ 
ers and Manufacturers, under the circumstances 
we have stated, had they attempted, at'Syracuse, 
to prejudge and decide the very questions in 
regard to which they were avowedly taking 
testimony. 
What then were the objects of that Conven¬ 
tion 1 We will 6tate what we suppose to have 
been the leading ones. First: men on both sides, 
of enlarged views, believing that neither of the 
interests can flourish unless both flourish, and 
that this unity of interest should produce unity 
of action, sought, as a first- step, to obtain an 
agreement between them as to wliut ought to 
constitute their relative claims to Governmental 
protection. Without au agreement of this kind, 
there could not of course be any agreement or 
co-operation in respect to the provisions of u 
woolen tariff, but the first time that subject 
should be agitated, both parties would go before 
Congress as heretofore, each seeking to advance 
its own immediate Interests without reference to 
the other, and without reference lo the great 
ultimate fact that, (he destruction or even decay 
of the one involved the destruction or decay of 
the other. Secondly: there were practices on 
each side in regard to wool and the wool trade, ' 
which were causes of dissatisfaction to the other, ' 
and which it was believed might be corrected \ 
after being frankly pointed out, and the objec¬ 
tions to them clearly stated. Thirdly: it could ' 
not but. be expected that a meeting between 
liberal and intelligent men on both sides, and u 
friendly and candid interchange of views, would 
of itself be productive of great benefit in ameli¬ 
orating past prejudices and removing past 
Winter at Last!— The weather has changed, and 
Is now bo seasonable that we have no longer occasion 
to speak of balmy air, bright sunshine, etc. For the 
past throe days (we write on Monday, 8th.) the 
weather has been Severely iclntry.—the coldest of the 
season, with sleet, enow and high winds. Four to 
six inches of snow; sleighing fair, bat not good. In 
discountenance, by some 
to obnoxious “one-third 
shrinkage rule," and also all efforts to prevent 
unwashed wools from finding hs ready sale and 
aa favorable price* a* washed wool*. And, on 
the other hand, wc look to see every wool grower 
of respectability not only set his face against 
all such miserable frauds as putting dead wool 
into fleeces, unwashed tags into washed fleeces, 
rolling up fleeces with a quarter of a pound of 
twine each, Ac-., Ac,, but to act ns a missionary 
araoDg his neighbors, in these matter*, if they i 
this city the mercury mark.-d 4 below zero yesterday, 
and this morning It was still lower. On the 6th and 
7th it. ranged from 9 to S3 betow in various places 
eastward—being 16 at Utica, 10 at Albany, 9 at New 
York, illi at Burlington, Vt., Ac., Ac, 
FALL PLOWING FOR CORN. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker 
In your paper 
of Nov. 25, I noticed inquiries and remarks on 
the subject of fall plowing for corn, and without 
criticising or calling in question the correctness 
of those remarks I would like to give you my 
experience for five or six years past, 
Ours Is a stiff clay soil, with a substrata of 
hard-pan at the depth of about two feet, and that 
rests on a bed of sand or gravel, and has been 
covered with old, thick sod of June grass. We 
have plowed as late in the fall as we could before 
freezing, usually in December, and as deep as , 
we could plow with four horses. During the 
Lake Ontario 
so influences the temperature of this region that wo 
are much mon-comfortable during the “cold snap” 
Uiun folk In the eastern part of this State and In New 
England, yet it is quite cold enough hereabouts. 
frost .—Ohio fanner. 
Roots and Stock Raising, 
The Canada Farmer 6ajE—It is impossible to 
keep stock advantageously without root*. This 
fact, aud the fact also, that roots play such an 
important part In a judicious rotation, ought to 
induce more attention to them. Turnip culture 
ha* been pronounced the sheet anchor-of British 
agriculture. It has wrought little 6hort. of a revo¬ 
lution in farming matters in the old country,’ 
and it will do the same here, if it cau be made 
general Turnips do not require to be sown 
until the hurry of spring work is oyer, and thus a 
season ofcomparative leisure may be appropriated 
to tbis important crop. They are a pretty sure 
crop, and, on good land, highly productive and 
remunerative. In this country they cannot, as 
in Britain, be fed on the ground, but require 
storage. They, however, stand a considerable 
degree of cold, and keep well either in pits or 
moderately well protected cellars. 
Kink Fa km for Salk—Going South.— The home¬ 
stead farm of Hon. T. C. Peters, President of our 
State Agricultural Society, located In Darien, Gen¬ 
esee Co., is advertised in this paper. In soil, condi¬ 
tion and location this is one of the best farm* in the 
region. Mr. P. has purchased a largo aud excellent 
farm in Howard Co., Md.—twenty-seven miles from 
Washington, and a less distance from Baltimore— 
where we believe he purposes to reside in future. 
We trust his homestead will full into good liandB, 
and that our long-time friend and contributor will 
never regret his change from the Eden of America 
(Western New York,) to one of the finest sections Of 
the South. 
—Mr. Peters will continue hi* contributions to the 
pages of the Rural, and furnish some interesting 
notes relative to the soil, climate, farming, etc., of 
the region where he has located. 
To Correspondents.—W e have some excellent 
communicat ions on hand which we wish to publish 
entire, and which we are therefore reserving until 
the matters being discussed in our Wool Grower*’ 
Meetings are disposed of. As these last hear upon 
questions which will soon be brought before Congress, 
they demand precedence. We hope, also, our private 
correspondents will pardon ns for a want of punctu¬ 
ality which, “though we say it ourselves,” is not 
habitual with us. The collection and preparation of 
information for theU. S. Revenue Commission, and 
the discharge of official duties, at present, consumes 
all our t ime. 
1 he Rural at the South.— We are both gratified 
and surprised at the number of subscriptions we art- 
receiving from the Southern States. Every mail 
brings us rccralts from old and new friends, and the 
prospect is that the Rural will have a far larger 
circulation in the South this yt-ar than ever before. 
Wc not only have the favors of former subscribers in 
that region, but those of many intelligent and enter¬ 
prising Northern men who have lately removed to 
the South, 
Bedding and Ventilation for Stock. 
Every fanner should sec to it himself; how¬ 
ever trustworthy may be his boys or other assist¬ 
ants, that his cattle, sheep, horse* and hogs are 
well bedded as well as well led and watered; also, 
that his barn or’barns, where his stock is kept 
and fed, is or are well ventilated. Domesticated 
animals, as well as man himself, need fresh air, 
and when compelled to breath a tainted and 
therefore an irrcspirablc atmosphere, it 1* at the 
expense or risk of health and the highest pur¬ 
poses which one has in stock breeding and keep¬ 
ing. Any observing farmer can tell on opening 
his barn in the morning whether the ventilation 
thereof is ample.—.Boston. Cultivator. 
Doings op Agricultural Societies, Ac.—The 
Annual Meetings of State and local Rural Societies 
are now 
in order, We briefly notice those already 
held, ho far as ascertained: 
Ohio State Board of Apiculture.— This body met in 
Columbus, last week, and elected the following offi¬ 
cers for 1S66: President— Wm. B. McLuno, of Troy. 
Treasurer— id Taylor, of Columbus. Secretary 
—John H. Klu-fart, of Columbus. 
Livingston Co. (.V. Y.) Agricultural Society.—hi the 
Anuual Meeting of this Society, recently held, officer* 
were elected for 1866 as follows: President—Cnnm 
W. Wadsworth, of Gent-seo. Vice President— W . II. 
Spencer, of Genesee. Treasurer— Kidder M Scott. 
ofGt-neseo. Secretary— Wm. a. Brodie, of Gcneseo. 
Directors —Aaron Barber. Jr., S. K. Winegai: 
The Onondaga Co. GY. Y.) Wool Growers' Associa¬ 
tion held its Annual Meeting Jan. 2.1866, and elected 
the following board of officers for the year: President 
— Allkn II. Avery, of Manlius. Vice Presidents— 
First. Davis Cossitt, of Onondaga; Second, Chester 
Baker, or Lafayette. Secretary— B. D. L. Sweet, of 
Syracuse, Corresponding Secretary—C. B. Thorne. 
of Sbaneiietles. Treasurer —AsKr. F. Wilcox, of De- 
Witt. Executive Committee— E, C. Cowles, of Mar¬ 
cella- ; Dor Austin, of Skaneateies; Rufus Sears, 
of VanBuren; Samuel H. Hixsdkll, of Camillas; 
David Collin, Jr,, of Fayetteville. The subject of 
reorganizing a County Agricultural Society was 
discussed, and generally considered desirable, but 
no definite act.ion taken. 
—Secretaries or State, County and other Agricul¬ 
tural Societies will confer a favor by furnishing ns 
the results of their Annual Meetings — especially 
namc-s of officers elected—for notice in the Rural. 
We have not space for the entire proceedings of 
each, but wish to give a synopsis. 
Prairie Sheep Husbandry.— D. C. Clark, Ben¬ 
to®, Yates Co., N. ^ .. wishes to know whether we 
would regard Texas or the North-Western States a? 
presenting the most favorable opening for sheep hus¬ 
bandry to a person with a capital of $2,000. Ottr im¬ 
pressions are that wool can he raised cheaper on a 
large scale in Texas that in the North-West. But 
under existing circumstances, and with so limited a 
capital, wc should advise the last-named location. 
A flock of sheep, if composed of any considerable 
number, can be driven more cheaply than "carved." 
Driving, after the gra*s has started well in the 
spring, costs very little beyond the time and board of 
the person having them in charge. The sheep had 
better lie bought up west of New York. 
Price of Wool in Kansas.—W. Howard. Burlin¬ 
game. Kansas:—The samples of wool you forward are 
worth considerably more in the eastern markets than 
you say you cau get offered at home. But your clip is 
too small to forward east by itself Keep it over, and 
join with your neighbors in making up a few sacks, 
and then forward it to some reliable manufacturer or 
wool broker in Ohio, or further East. We think 
Alton Pope, wool manufacturer, Cleveland, Ohio, 
would do the handsome thing by you. 
A CHEST OF OLD IRON 
Still Slop for Sheep.— H. B. Stone, Delhi. Iowa, 
states that he is feeding a few sheep still slops, and 
he wishes to know if it is healthy food for them. We 
have never tried it, or seen it tried, but sec no reason 
why it should not be. If any of our correspondents 
have tested it, we should be glad to hear from them. 
The Ohio Lamb Disease.—W e have a very clearly 
written article on this interesting enbjeet, from Hon. 
R. M. Montgomery, President of the Ohio State Wool 
Growers' Association. It will appear in a few weeks 
Deferred.— Over three columns of advertisements 
are deferred or declined for want of space. 
