ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1866 
ESTABLISHED IN 1S50 
tine speeches and theories count nothing, minus 
the time they use up. Before adjourning, select 
subjects ior consideration at the next meeting. 
Instead of an entrance fee, or any thing of that 
sort, for the purpose of raising money, it is 
better to appoint a Committee to make out a 
bill of the necessary expenses, and then defray 
them by voluntary contribution. 
There ought to be a Farmers’ Club in every 
town, and there might be one in each school 
district. Their advantages would be great. 
Aside from the direct information they would 
elicit, through them farmers might make com¬ 
bined cflorts in furthering certain objects. In 
employing help, for example, a standard rate 
might be fixed, and one farmer would not pay 
several dollars per mouth more than his neigh¬ 
bor. Other advantages resulting from combined 
effort, will readily suggest themselves to every 
reader. 
operations, wo are sorely feeling the need of 
something to help us along in this business, and 
wc hope that as these Conventions assemble, the 
Solotts will devise some plan to express the 
juice from cane, without paying from $200 to 
$•100 for three small cast iron rollers, and a rick¬ 
ety horse power. 
We by no means undervalue the utility of 
Conventions to promote important Agricultural 
interests, but deprecate the influence of those 
who sometimes, by heavy wind work, manage 
to control them, solely to advance their own 
selfish purposes. Farmers here entertain the 
opinion that unless the cost of manufacturing 
Sorghum can be reduced, it will not pay to 
raise it. Uncertain as the crop appears to be 
iu this region, it remains doubtful, with other 
circumstances favoring it, whether it is destined 
in Wisconsin, to ultimately prove profitable to 
fanners.” 
MOORE’S RURAL KEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY ^ 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
With a Corp* of Able A»M«tnnt» and Contributor*. 
HENRY 6. RANDALL, LL, D. t 
Editor of the Department of Sheep Husbandry, 
S3f~ Fob Teems and other particulars see last page, 
VARIOUS TOPICS DISCUSSED 
The Value of Com Cobs. 
It is a vexed question about which much 
has been written and said, pro and con, whether 
it pays to grind and feed the cob with the grain 
to stock. While some feeders argue that there 
is great profit in feeding the cob and com com¬ 
bined, others contend that the cob is positively 
injurious to cattle. There is doubtless some 
nutriment in the cob. The juices that make the 
Bolid grain all puss through it; aud in unma- 
tured crops, there is probably richer substance 
remaining in the cob than when the corn is 
sound aud well ripened. Hence, we should infer 
that it would pay better to grind unsound, or 
unmatured com and cob together for feeding 
purposes, than Bound and fully matured. 
Our processes for preparing food for stock 
are not yet so perfect that we can hope to 
utilize, with profit, all the nutriment in our 
crops. There is some iu the hard huts of 
Sorghum in Wisconsin. 
Mb. B. F. Adams, writing from Door Creek, 
Dane County, Wisconsin, gives us the following 
interesting account of last year’s results in 
growing Sorghum in that locality, together with 
the conclusions which himself and brother far¬ 
mers formed, respecting the culture of this 
staple: 
“ The spring of 18G5 opened among many 
farming communities in Wisconsin with a Sorg¬ 
hum excitement. The wise men among us said 
that something must be done to retrieve the 
great loss of the wheat crop the previous year, 
caused by chinch bugs, and Sorghum was the 
crop to try. Get pure seed, and plant it exten¬ 
sively, said they. Well, we paid enormous pri¬ 
ces for what was declared to be pure seed, and 
planted from one to twenty acres, according to 
our faith. We went iu also for all the extra 
varieties — the Chinese — the Black Impbee and 
White Imphce — the Otaheltuu — the Liberian, 
and the Little Giant or Mexican Cane, which we 
were informed by the vender, was discovered by 
Gen. Taylor, on the high table lands of Mexico. 
These lust named kinds proved to be the least 
valuable for this region. The Liberian (recom¬ 
mended to stand tornadoes) was not up high 
enough from the ground by the last of August 
to be noticed by the winds, but they played 
smash with the Little Giant. The season was 
too wet, and we only had half a crop of cane, 
and scattered through our fields also grew some 
tall specimens of brown corn and hybrid canes, 
indicating that the seed planted was not pure. 
Iu Autumn, Die Sorghum harvest arrived, 
and we found ourselves situated from oue-hull' to 
six miles from a mill, and the price charged for 
manufacturing molasses, thirty to forty cents 
per gallon. On expostulating with the mill 
men against these charges, we were enlightened 
by the statement that their mills, fully equipped, 
cost them several hundred dollars. Labor wa6 
high, wood $1 per cord, and one cord would 
make only one hundred gallons of syrup. The 
coopers told us that we must pay them $2 for a 
barrel, holding U0 gallons, and the cario grlndurs 
fixed the price of molasses at 75 cts. per gallon. 
All things in readiness for us, we went gt the 
Sorghum harvest with zeal. During those fine 
autumnal days, we slashed the cane leaves, cut 
up and bound the canes, hauled them from one 
to six miles, and piled them at the mills, till an 
unseasonable October snow storm, of great 
violence, utterly extinguished our ardor. The 
cold weather froze our cane standing in the 
fields, and also that piled at the mills. A day or 
two later, the fanners could be seen wading in 
the snow to view their cane fields; the warm 
sun had again made his appearance, and taken 
the stiffening all out of the frozen canes, and 
they lay sprawled in the snow, a tangled mass of 
i — and the most of it still lies 
as it fell. The harvest was over. Some under- 
Whenevcr half a dozen practical men meet at took to revive it by pawing a few loads out of 
a stated place and time, for the purpose of the snow, but thus work incurred so much wear 
discussing subjects pertaining to Farmers’ inter- and tear of body and soul, that it was soon 
cats, you have the materials for forming a abandoned iu disgust. We realized a yield of 
Farmers’ Club. Choose one of the members from 50 to 70 gallons per acre, Chinese cane. 
Chairman, to preside during that meeting, and Our conclusions up to this date, are as fol- 
if you wish to preserve a report of the proceed- lows : First, we planted too much for new 
iugs, induce some ready penman to act as Score- beginners. Second, unless a mill is near at 
tmy. This is a sufficient organization for a club hand, it will certainly he a losing business to 
oi bL x or sixty. Choose a subject for discus- plunt any. Third, pure seed is a scarce article, 
tion, and let the members address the Chairman Fourth, Chinese cane produces the largest yield 
briefly on the points under consideration. Ono per acre here, but the White Imphce, a greatly 
member should not occupy too much time, superior article of molasses. Fifth, and lastly, 
unless by special consent of ibe Club. Let the the profits of the Sorghum business here are 
discussion take the form of conversation, so yet pretty much all realized by the venders of 
that no one will feel embarrassment iu stating Sorghum machinery. They are now busy, blow- 
lacts and experience he may possess. Remem- ing their horns "for Sorghum Conventions, 
her, the object is to elicit facta aud experience,— While we meditate on our last year’s Sorghum, 
AMONG THE STUMPS, 
Having some loose acres of land in Southern 
New York, where I am engaged in business 
requiring for a while my personal attention, I 
propose to write semi-oeeasionally to the dear 
people who read the Rural, respecting matters 
hereabouts of interest to such as cultivate land, 
burn fuel, or indulge in the use of food. 
I am now some twelve hundred feet nearer the 
sun than the Mayor’s office in the city Rochester, 
and yet I am in a elimute unmistakably cooler — 
from which 1 deduce this self-evident truth: 
The sun in the yreat fountain of front J T draw 
this logical conclusion meiaiy «o show that a sun 
theory may be started, quite' as plausible, and 
half as absurd,as the most popular moon theories! 
Coming hack to this planet, and to these 
parts, I find myself among the stumps, the trees 
for the most part having migrated, or fallen vic¬ 
tims to the fell spirit of “Improvement” that 
sooner or Inter sweeps with fire aud axe over 
every new country. How much better If people 
would enlarge their “settlements” a6thcy need 
timber, none going in advanee to pick out choice 
localities, and cut and slush generally; but let 
the population flow gently forward, improving 
all the land as it goes, and taking, on its slow, 
westward march, all the arts, comforts, religious 
and educational privileges of a well ordered 
community. Dan. Boon, and all that class of 
scoundrels, ought to be hung if taken alive, and 
given to their favorite wolves when dead. What 
on earth docs It profit to scatter people over a 
hundred times as much territory as they can 
decently occupy ? Is it nothing to run roads, 
dig canals, keep up military stations, and carry 
the mail wherever these hair-brained adventur¬ 
ers may choose to go ? 
If Government wasn’t an incorigable dunce, 
“ squatters ” would be squatted back to their old 
homes, and no laud would be opened to settle¬ 
ment till there was some shadow of an occasion 
for it. Have posterity no rights? — no claims 
to virgin soil, and woods fresh from the Crea¬ 
tor’s hand ? How came it that this generation 
owns all the pine,’and oak, and maple, aud hem¬ 
lock, and bass-wood and cucumber over all 
Christendom and the rest of the world, and may 
proceed to appropriate and destroy It, without 
leave from anybody ? No need of economy! 
Plenty as long as we live — “the d—1 take the 
hindmost”—generation. “Cut and slash” 
when you clear the land—“cut and cover” 
when you plow it. Room enough —what’s the 
For the accompanying excellent, plan of a 
Suburban or Farm House, (to bo constructed of 
either wood, stone or brick,) we are indebted to 
Mr. A. .J. Warner, architect, of this city. Wo 
think it will please and meet the wants of many 
Rdral readers: 
cess in bed room closet gives ample space for a 
wash stand or basin, aud should bo celled up 
around with matched boards to prevent staining 
the wails. The dining room has an outside 
entrance by the door opening onto piazza, and a 
window on each side. It will be scon that tho 
arrangement of doors in dining room are all 
symmetrical, leaving sufficient space for chairs 
and side board. The kitchen Iiub an outside en¬ 
trance onto piazza, and also through wood 
house; ft flight of stairs to second story and to 
cellar; a large pantry, and a sink close to pantry, 
which should be supplied with pumps. The 
wood house is intended to be six inches above 
the line of ground on outside, uut there will be 
a fliebt of cellar steps in :,ime. 
In preparing this design for the Rural uiy 
object was to convey to those who contemplate 
building, an idea how a Suburban or Farm 
House could be planned so ns to give all neces¬ 
sary conveniences In a Compact, square form, 
and still have the exterior present an irregular, 
cottage appearance. By tho Introduction of tho 
gable and porch on front, und the recessing of 
dining room, this irregular and picturesque 
effect has been produced, and it will he pleasing 
to all. 
Fanners’ Clubs. 
A CORRESPONDENT desires 
us to give some 
practical hints oil the formation aud manner of 
conducting Farmers’ Clubs. We published an 
article on this subject in the closing number of 
last year’s volume, but for the benefit of our 
new subscribers, we will briefly repeat the hints I defunct Sorghum 
therein contained. 
SECOND FLOOR. 
B, Chamber, M by 11, with largo closet. A, Chamber, 
11 by having two closets. I, Hall, V4 by 18. I), 
Chamber, 10 by 115. C, Chamber, IS by 15.' I, Hall, 
connect ing with front Hall. E, Store Room, 7 by 13. 
F, Servant’s Bed Room, 13 by 15, LI, Hall Closet, 
<\ C, C, Closets, connected with chambers. D, 
Attic Stairs. 
The second floor will be understood by the 
plan. The bed room, A, has two closets, so 
arranged as to present to the inside view the 
same us a hay window. There will be a garret 
of sufficient size to store sundries In. 
By the arrangements of rooms on first floor 
the chimneys can all bo located on the inside 
partitions, thereby saying considerable heat; 
and as they come out cm the highest part of tho 
roof a good draught may be always relied upon. 
This design Ss made with reference to wood, hut 
can be built of either stone or brick by making 
a slight change iu some of the details. 
Rochester, N. Y. A. J. W. 
PRINCIPAL FLOOR. 
P, Parlor, 14 by 18. 8, Sitting Room, 14 by 18. Front 
Hal!, 74 by 18 feet, with closet under stairs off from 
Sitting Room. F, Dining Room, 11 by 18. B, Bed 
Room, 13 by 15, Willi large closet, I.. aud recess for 
wash stand, connected with Bed Room. L, China 
Closet for Dining Room. K, Kitchen, 13 by ID, 
with stairs going to cellar and second floor. D. 
Pantry, 7 by 18, shelved on two aides and ono end. 
I, Siuk, with Pump on same. E, Wood House, 
witn a llignt of steps in same leading to collar. To 
be a Piazza in from of Dining Hoorn, and a Porch 
to front entrance doorway, 
The accommodations may be thus described : 
A bracketed balcony serves ns a porch to front 
door. The front hall gives access to parlor, 
sitting and dining room. By this arrangement 
the three main rooms can be reached without 
passiug through another room. The bed room 
is located adjoining the sitting room, and has 
connection by a door to dining room. The re- 
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