ESTABLISHED IN 1850, 
SOUTHERN EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
WESTCOTT’S ADJUSTABLE DASH CHURN, 
AS RECENTLY IMPROVED. 
Thi8 Churn, heretofore illustrated and cle- 
Bcribed in the Rural, (see our issues of March 
10 and May 26,) has recently been greatly im* 
proved, rendering it more convenient and 
durable. Having examined a churn with the 
late improvements, we are convinced that Mr. 
Wbstcott has greatly perfected his invention, 
so that It will prove still more acceptable and 
popular. The Seneca Falls Churn Manufactur¬ 
ing Co., send ua the accompanying Illustration 
and description af the new improvements: 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WRKKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Cotton JttzMnrj Depends upon Fertilizers — Their Im¬ 
portance to the Planter— Credits necessary; Safety 
of Credits — Prompt Payment of Fertiliser Bills — 
What the Planters need. 
At the close of the war I took great interest, 
in ttoe Agriculture of the South, lor it is only 
through a prosperous Agriculture that its vast 
resources will be made available for its early 
regeneration. It long fcluee became an cs 
tablished fact, fully recognized by the planter, 
that upon the liberal use of special manures, 
like the Superphosphate of Lime and Peruvian 
Guano, the cotton plant can be successfully cul¬ 
tivated over a large portion of Southern cotton 
growing lands. Hence the demand for these 
fertilizers is an index of the breadth of land 
being planted, and the prospect of the crop 
indicated. 
During the Bpring, and while orders were 
coming forward for fertilizers to be used in 
planting, I was often in the counting-room of 
my friends, B. M. RnonBs & Go., the largest 
manufacturers of the Superphosphates of any 
house in the Union. Indeed, at the South, 
“Rhodes’ Standard” haB become In truth the 
standard manure. It was really painful to read 
the letters and hear the pleadings of Southern 
men for a few tons of the fertilizer. They had 
no money to pay, and must have time for the 
crop to mature. Men ho, before the war, bad 
been in the habit of ordering and using hun¬ 
dreds of tons, now timidly asked to be trusted 
for Jive, Un or twenty tons, saying without that 
they could do nothing, but must suffer for even 
the common necessaries of life. 
• 
Mr. Rqodkb made strong efforts here In 
the great bead - quarters of the trade, and in 
Philadelphia and New York among financial 
men, to induce liberal advances to these really 
Buffering people who were willing to work and to 
pay, if they could only have the means to make 
their labor sure of its reward. Nobody but 
him seemed to have confidence In the value of 
the securities offered. One radical error made 
EDITED BY HENRY 3. U AN DALE. EL. D, 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. PIOORE, 
With a Corps of Able Assistants and Contributors, 
THE WOOLEN TARIFF IN DANGER, 
Some weeks since we informed our readers that it 
was expected among business men and other well 
informed persons in the East, (hat the tariff bill of 
last winter wonld pass the Senate c trly In the pres¬ 
ent session. The N. Y; Economist, the organ or the 
free-trade dealers and speculators in wool, also an¬ 
nounced that fact, and its patrons acted on it by 
making largo importations in anticipation of such an 
event. Put for the astonishing depression in woolens 
those importations would have been enormous. 
But a change has come. Secretary McCulloch is 
opposed to the duties necessary to protect American 
industry. Bo fs Commissioner Welles, who watt ap 
pointed both by the Secretary of the Treasury and 
the Senate Finance Committee to prepare Lhe pmjet 
of a tariff to be submitted at the present session of 
Congress. And recently, wo regret to say that relia¬ 
ble advices from Washington lead strongly to the ap¬ 
prehension that Mr. Fessenden, Chairman of the 
Senate Finance Committee, t» disposed to adopt the 
same conclusions. Of Mr. Fkssknden's views In 
regard to protecting heme industry we have nothing 
here to Bay, except so far as the duties on wool and 
woolens are concerned. If they are correctly repre¬ 
sented on this subject—and the report of them comes 
from them who have personally conversed with him 
—the looole* tariff iff last winter is in very gnat danger; 
and the chancea are that it will be lost unless the 
most strenuous exertions are Immediately made by 
its^supporters. 
What kind of exertions are called for ? At the period 
of the meeting of the National Wool Browers’ Asso¬ 
ciation at Cleveland, in November, the impression 
prevailed that oil was safe if we remained united, and 
that the resolutions passed by that body, anil by the 
State Associations, would bo sufficient. Uni it te now 
apparent that they will not be sufficient, Wc mustyw- 
lllion Congress. Thla was our grout weapon last win¬ 
ter. Its effect on the House was most striking. We 
were present som« week* of the session and know. 
No easily available form of popular expression comes 
home no directly and effectively to tbo representative. 
We grant that individual letters from constituents 
are more effective that individual signatures to a peti¬ 
tion. But most persons are unfortunately too modest 
thus to address their public servants. But try all 
means let those write who will. Thirty letters from 
voters at home contain more moving logic to the ears 
of an M. C. than thirty Coogrcuftional rpeecbes. 
TucnK is hot a moment to lose, Sir. Weu.zb’ 
report will soon bo before Congress, and Mr. Fxkhbh- 
okn’b will undoubtedly be commenced, even before a 
popular expression on the wool tariff can make itself 
audible. Mr Fessenden is an experienced and able 
statesman. If he errs in the premises It is Tor the 
want of full Information. It la the bnslncea of the 
wool growers and manufacturers of the United States 
to fnrnlah him that information. The manufacturers 
are doing eo. It is lime for the producers to act. Ev¬ 
ery friend of the wool and woolen interest in or out of 
Congress, in Washington, concurs in the immlnency 
of the danger. Wc call npon the Boardmaus, Flints, 
Dinsmores, Abbots, Nye9, Westons, Johnsons, Trasks, 
Wassons, Gilberts, elc., or Mr. Fessenden’s own 
State or Maine - upon all tbo leading wool growers of 
the Eu*tem, Middle and Western States —lo write 
personally, and at once, to their senatorial and district 
representatives in Congress. He who fails to do this 
will have to feel, if the woolen tariff jb lost, that he 
might have done more to save it. 
To those un used to writing their Congressmen on 
public matters, we will take the liberty of saying: 
let your letters be short and nakedly to the point. A 
distinct expression of individual opinion that as high 
a rate of duties on wool and woolena as that contained 
in the bill which passed the House last winter is nec¬ 
essary to ensure a fair and reasonable degree of pros¬ 
perity to the wool grower - and that rach is the opinion 
and testimony of all experienced growera —Is the 
main thing. 
As regards petitions, the mere form matters little. 
Nor is Hof the least consequence that they be printed 
or uniform iD their language, Lee every friemt of the 
Cauije immediately write a petition and circulate it 
among his neighbors. Let him give a day or more to 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL, D., 
Editor ol the Deportment of Sheep Husbandry, 
HON. T. C. PETERS, 
Late Pres’t N. Y. State Ag. Soo’y, Southern Cor. Editor, 
The Bubal N*w-Tobkbb Is designed to be unsur¬ 
passed In Value, Purity, and Variety ot Contents. Its 
Conductor earnestly labors to render the Rum r„ a Kell- 
able ffnuio on all the Important Practical, Scientific and 
other Subjects connected with the business of those 
whose Interests It zealously advocates. As a Fawtlt 
Jouunal it is eminently Instructive and Entertaining— 
being so conducted that It can be salely taken to tho 
Homes ot people ot intelligence, taste and discrimination. 
It embraces more Agricultural, Horticultural, Scientific, 
Educational, Literary and News Matter, interspersed 
with appropriate engravings, than any other Journal.— 
rendering It by far the most complete Aobioultubal, 
Lutkrakt and Family NawspArxs in America. 
id Fob Tbbms and other particulars see last page, 
THE BUBAL TO ITS BEADEBS, 
ON THE CLOSE OF ITS SEVENTEENTH VOLUME 
This number closes the seventeenth Year and 
Volume of the Rural New-Yorker, and with 
its issue terminates our engagements with the 
great majority of its supporters,—all whose 
subscriptions now expire. Amid the haste and 
preparation incident to closing one volume and 
beginning another—accompanied with an entire 
change of type, the receipt of numerous well- 
lined letters, and the performance of much ex¬ 
ecutive and other labor —it is a difficult matter 
to collect our thoughts sufficiently to indite an 
article appropriate to the occasion, and hence 
what we have to offer must be written hurriedly, 
without study or reflection. But hastily and 
impulsively as we may write, while discharging 
the incumbent duty, it will be our aim, as ever, 
to be frank and straightforward—expresslDgour 
honest sentiments and convictions without 
“ fear, favor, or the hope of reward.” 
We close Volume XVII with mingled feelings 
of pain and pleasure, though the latter predom¬ 
inate ;—of pain for our shortcomings during the 
year and that we must part for aye with Eome 
of our reader#, and of pleasure that this journal 
has had an increasingly successful career, while 
tens of thousands of friends are with us, in both 
spirit and action, in promoting the cause of 
Rural “Progress and Improvement.” In re¬ 
viewing the labors and events of the past year, 
(as well ns those of its sixteen predecessors,) 
many pleasant reminiscences are brought to 
mind, and we feel profoundly grateful for the 
favor bestowed upon ns and the good we have 
been enabled to accomplish in what is regarded 
as an important and highly useful sphere of 
journalism. Our constant aim has been to dis¬ 
charge our duty with fidelity to individuals and 
community;—how well we have succeeded in 
this earnest endeavor the contents of' the volume 
now terminated will best enable the discrimina¬ 
ting reader to determine. 
“The Company have receuly made great im¬ 
provements in the general construction of the 
churn, for which a patent was issued Nov. 13th, 
1866 —making three distinct patents that have been 
granted upon, this churn. These improvements 
consist in substituting a flat steel spring (which 
is not liable to break) to lift the dashers, in place 
of a coil spring—in making the cover of the chum 
in one piece, instead of two,—and in doing 
away with the screw cut upon the dasher rod 
for adjusting the upper dasher, which adjust¬ 
ment bad to be made inside the churn. The 
improvement allows this adjustment to be made 
outside the churn, and above the cover, by 
means of a slide attached to the upper dasher 
and held in any desired position by a malleable 
slide and set screw near the top of the dasher 
rod, (as represented in the cut.) The whole 
chum is now of a much better quality, more 
simple and easily managed, and Is also of the 
proper shape to produce the largest quantity of 
bntter from a given quantity of cream, and to 
effect this result in the shortest possible time 
and in the easiest manner.” 
The Company wish us to explaia to Rdral 
readers, from whom many applications have 
been received, why they have been unable to 
fill orders promptly during the past season. 
The reason 1 b that they were obliged, last sum¬ 
mer, to procure the cylinder or barrel part of 
their churns wherever they could get them, and 
then attach their patent adjustable dasher. Con¬ 
sequently there was some delay, and the churns 
sent out were not as perfect as they should have 
been either in shape or quality of workmanship. 
The Company have now completed and put in 
operation machinery for manufacturing their 
own barrels, (ub well as springs, dashers, &c.,) 
and are furnishing chums of a superior quality 
in every respect — all of them embracing the 
recent improvements. We learn that the Michi¬ 
gan Churn Manfg Co., located at Parma,— 
having purchased the right of that 8tate and 
erected an extensivemanufactory— will soon be 
prepared to supply the demand for the Adjusta¬ 
ble Dash Chnrn In Michigan. 
We expressed a very high opinion of this 
churn when it was first described in the Rubaa, 
and are glad to learu that it has been greatly 
improved and is meeting with much fayor in 
this and other States. The patent is owned by 
the Seneca Falls Churn Manfg Co., Seneca 
TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS, 
With this number close our labors ou the 
present, volume of the Rural. But there will 
be with us no cessation of work—only the open¬ 
ing, as it were, of a new book, the beginning of 
fresh efforts, the strengthening of our determ¬ 
ination to convey pleasure and instruction in 
the Future, as in the Past, to every fireside 
which the Rural shall be permitted to visit. 
In this work we have, heretofore, been gener¬ 
ously and efficiently aided by onr correspond¬ 
ent’. We are gratef ul for their ussis tance, and we 
believe we utter the sentiments of our readers 
in saying that from this source much and valua¬ 
ble instruction baa been gathered, while Thought 
and Labor have been stimulated to the achieve¬ 
ment of still greater results in the Future. 
We invite Farmers, Fruit Growers, and others, 
to continue the Correspondence which hereto-1 
fore they have so liberally bestowed on the 
Rural, and which has so much enhanced the 
vaiae of its Practical Departments. It is not 
the faultless style of composition, nor the per¬ 
fect sketch of an Implement, or device of utility, 
that is of the most importance—though wo 
recognize the value of these — but the practical 
ideas conveyed, and which we will undertake to 
put in such shape with the pen and pencil as 
We believe the pages 
of the Rural New-Yorker for 1866 will demon¬ 
strate tbat care, labor and expense have been 
judiciously bestowed to render the paper in¬ 
creasingly interesting and acceptable to its 
readers and the public —to enhance its intrinsic 
value and usefulness— and trust that when the 
results of our efforts are weighed in the balance 
they will not be found wanting. The index to 
the volume (though embracing only the most 
practical departments,) will give an indication 
of the labor performed upon :t. in the produc¬ 
tion a u d collation of a vast amount of timely, 
PAN FOR BOILING SAP, 
Jamkb P. Alley, Ind., suggests that, "for 
boillug the sap of maple trees, make a box 2% 
feet wide and 10 feet long; use poplar plank 1 
foot wide and 2 inches thick; insert the end 
pieces in grooves half inch deep in the sides of 
the box 4 Inches from the ends. On this nail a 
sheet of No. 16 iron feet wide and 10 long. 
The furnace should have a door and grates with 
a space of about 18 inches between the grates 
and the bottom of the box; this space should 
taper up to about 5 inches. The chimney should 
be 8 or 10 feet high. Tbis arrangement will 
lessen the amount of labor and fuel usually 
required in making maple sugar.” 
Warts on Horses.—A Rural correspondent 
gave a remedy for removing these blemishes on 
horses, which baa gone the roundB of the papers, 
but a neighbor suggests a simpler, lees painfal, 
and. an effectual treatment, which, by experi¬ 
ence, he knows will not fail. It ib simply the 
use of a rubber baud for cording the wart at 
its base. As the exeresence decreases in size, 
tighten the band, and in a short time it will 
wholly disappear without leaving a sore or scar. 
County ol-. bi»Us ot -, would respc-ct/nlly 
rvpresc't to your honorable body that w« 1i«I |mv that 
the tariff bill agreed upuu by the Joint Committee of 
Wool Grower* and Marmtacturnn,. nod wirfrh p»s-«d 
the House ot Ucprmntatiye# at Un last «r»»|on, w«* fair 
towards all other Interests and afforded no more than 
iO»t and equal protection lo the woolen Internets of the 
country, and that we therefore pray tot its immediate 
passage into a law. 
