and principles of government must give 
place to enactments bearing upon the every¬ 
day life and progress of the citizen. The 
pressure of public opinion, through an em¬ 
phatic expression thereof, should be brought 
to bear directly upon our public servants. 
No uncertain sound should bo uttered. 
Economy in public expenditure and the root¬ 
ing out of incompetent business agents should 
be required. Mon ■who bold sinecure posi¬ 
tions in the pay of this government should 
be beheaded (politically) summarily. The 
same action which is adopted by a careful 
business man when oppressed with debt, to 
recover himself, should obtain in the man¬ 
agement of the public, business under like 
circumstances. Individual economy all over 
the country and by every person in it should 
be supplemented by the most rigid public 
economy. 
GONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER, 
Cortland .\ornml School.—At the recent organ¬ 
ization of the Board of Trustees of this institu¬ 
tion, the Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL. D., was 
unanimously chosen President. The Standard 
remarks that " Dr. It. is better qualified by edu¬ 
cation and practice for that position than any 
other citizen of Cortland," and that “ the Board 
is composed of good working men, and their 
determination to ignore totally al! sectarian 
feeling, both religious and political, augurs well 
for the future of the School.'’ The Democrat 
also speaks in high terms of the President, his 
remarks and appointment of committees, add¬ 
ing “Under so auspicious an opening, we con¬ 
fidently look forward to a high and continuous 
career of prosperity in the affairs of the institu¬ 
tion.” The Board of Trustees, as officially au¬ 
thenticated by the Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, consists of Henry S. Randall, R. 
Holland Duell, Frederick llydc, Horatio Bul¬ 
lard, Henry Brewer. Charles C. Taylor, Norman 
Chamberlain, Arnold Stafford, lVm. S. Newkirk. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES 
rage. 
Aborlcnltiire.—Plant Forest Trees—An Appeal 
to Farmers’ Boys ; The Sycamore for Shade; The 
Scotch Pine... S3 
Industrial Topics. - The South Should North¬ 
erners Kmigniut to the South; State Agricultural 
Society. 54 
Field Crops. Wheat—Its Present and f uture 
Production: Varietiesof Potatoes; The Surface 
of (trass I .ands. 54 
Tlie Apiuriitn, Bee Experiences — Lessons 
Learned from the Uoes ; III Havered Honey; Life 
of Queens. 54 
Sheep IIiimImi uilrv. —Use of Shoddy In Kng- 
larxl: Spanish Merino Sheep— Early Importation 
Into Seneca Co.. N. V.; Imports of Wool; Death 
of Mr. Attleck; A Noted Wool Grower; Correc¬ 
tion.... 55 
Farm Economy. Crain Bins; O! For a Corn 
Dusker. ,, 
J’oinologicnl. — New Peaches Notes on New 
English Seedlings; The Kurinv Apple: Crab Ap¬ 
ples—III.—Fruit for the Extreme Northern Lati¬ 
tudes—Tire Pyrus batata, or Crab Varieties; 
Farmers und Fruits; Pouiologieal Gossip Hy¬ 
brid Grupex the Adtrondac, Iona and Israel lit 
Grapes in Gn., Apples In Jowu, Strawberries In 
Ga., Black Knot In Plum Trees, Joplin's Peaks 
of Otter Grapes. Superiority of Kwnsas Fruits, 
Manufacture ol Native Wines, (’berries lor Kan¬ 
sas. fi (5 
Veirerahle Harden.—The Lima Bean—How to 
Grow and Cook Them. 56 
Forcing Lettuce; Cold Frame*. 57 
The Vineyard. Propagating Vines by Eves; 
Howto Graft Grape vines. Grape Sales —Cor¬ 
rection; Pruning Vines. 57 
Hygienic Infonnatiun. — Physiology and Hy¬ 
giene 111. General Slrnoturu of Luo Human 
Body; Seasonable Suggestions — How to (Jet 
Good Sloop,... 57 
Discussions New York Fanners’ Club—A New 
Apple Wanted, Poling Hops, Tin C». Coal Ashes 
for Pear Trees. Farm House, Keeping Sweet Po¬ 
tatoes, The Mercer Potato, Deep vs. Shallow 
Plowing, A Non-Explosive Lamp, An Emigration 
Stock Company....... . 67 
The Poultry Yard. -The Prove coeur Fowls; 
Value Of Poultry Breeding; Fresh Eggs; Guinea, 
fowls. 58 
Tlie Herdsman. The Texan Cuttle Disease - 
Curative Measures, Prevention; Smutty Corn 
Affecting Cattle; Ringing Bulls. 58 
New Inventions, Etc, Mixing Mortar—New 
Method ; Cheese Preserving Safe; Paragraphs on 
New Things - Nine Items.. fig 
Dairy Husbandry. Seasonable Stiggestiona— 
Bad Influence of Cold and Storms upon Milch 
Cows; Animal Heat in Milk Advantages In Cool¬ 
ing It, Temperature when Ferments are Active, 
Freeing Milk of Bad tutor. Best Temperature for 
Rising the Cream, New Devices ['or Butter 
Makers, fee., Ac.; Coloring Cheese —The Dim of 
Amiotto In the Dairy ; The Country cheese. .Mar¬ 
ket: Thu Amorloun ColUBQbarlan Soelety. 5 ‘,l 
Domestic Keonomy.—Philosophy ot Food.59 
Editorial-, Bt.e, A New Finance Bill; Planning 
for the future; Deop vs. Shallow Culture; Rural 
Notes and Queries, including. The Rural a Pay. 
mg Investment, Dearth hi Wisconsin, Cortland 
Normal Suhoo|. Lands in N. VV. Missouri, The 
Wants ot our Headers, Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, Norway Oats, Crops and Prices In Illinois, 
Cereals for Analysis, Connecticut Board of Agri¬ 
culture, About Pigs. Scotch Larch : Personal, 
Appreciative: Industrial Societies, including 
not ices of officers elected and of Meeting to be 
held.......GO 
Historical. The Mnrmofly Pend) Sketches Il¬ 
lustrating their Early H 1 stury II . (!] 
KtovicH for liurnliNlx The Vincents, or the 
Mystery at tlie Blue Springs iContlnuod). .ill 
Bln net Moore; The Puzzled Canary; Plodders.. 62 
1.tidies* Porl-l olio. Lips that Kissed Me Long 
Ago (Poetry l; Tim Girl of Ibe Country; Female 
Friendship: Japanese Ladies as Painters;Well 
Paid; Improve Opportunities; a Beautiful 
Ohio State Board of Agriculture.—The annual Pa 
O hio State Agricultural Convention was held at 
Columbus, Jan. 6, eixty-onc County Agricultural yY) 
Societies being represented tjy delegates. Among Xa 
the resolutions adopted was one requesting the /» 
Board to offer liberal premiums for the best and j? 
second best crops of wheat produced on any 
number of acres, not less than live, grown in the 
State, to lie awarded at. the State Fair in 1870- 
competitors to furnish a full report of culture, 
soil, variety, expense, etc. Also that “it prize 
be given for the best and most practical paper 
on diseases and causes that, injure wheat, and 
the best rotation of crops"—to be sent to the 
Board by NOV, 1.1860, A resolution adverse to 
tlie re-enactment of the Canadian Reciprocity 
Treaty was adopted. The Convention also re¬ 
solved “to urge upon members of the Legisla¬ 
ture the necessity of enacting such laws as are 
necessary for the protection of the cattle inter¬ 
ests of the State against the introduction of 
Texas cattle, and the disease known as Texas 
Fever; also, all other Infections and contagious 
diseases amongst all domestic animals, especi¬ 
ally hogs and hog cholera.” The Convention 
concluded its labors by electing officers, so that 
the Ohio State Board of Agriculture for 1869 is 
constituted as follows;— President. James Full- 
lv oton of Union; Treasurer, James Bucking¬ 
ham of Muskingum ; Member*, N. J. Turney of 
Pi Otway; 1>. McMillan, of Greene; W. B. Mc¬ 
Ginn;? of Miami; J. W. Ross of Wood; J. P. 
Alexander of Summit.; N. S. Towushend of Lo¬ 
rain; W. Lang of Seneca; I>. C. Richmond of 
Erie. J. II. Klippurt and H. S. Babbitt, of Co¬ 
lumbus, were continued as Secretaries. The 
next Stale Fair is to be held at Toledo, at such 
time as the Board shall designate. 
TO THE PRESS.—As* otir principal office is 
now In New York, ull periodicals desiring an 
exchange with us will please address “Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker, .New York.” 
A NEW FINANCE BILL 
Senator Siierman, of Ohio, of the Senate 
Finance Committee, has reported a new bill 
designed to regulate the currency and finan¬ 
ces of the United S ates. This being so vital 
a matter to tbe country, and one which in- 
■ volves every individual interest, we give the 
following brief summary of its provisions: 
1. It legalizes contracts specifically for the 
payment of coin, except contracts for the 
borrowing of currency, or in renewal of ex¬ 
isting contracts which do not call lor coin. 
2. The sum of $140,000,000 in coin is an¬ 
nually set apart for the payment of interest 
on the public debt and tlie reduction of the 
principal. As this interest is now $120,000,- 
000, the surplus applicable to principal will 
be $20,000,000. 
3. The issue is authorized of ten - foil,y five 
per cent, bonds in exchange for legal tender 
notes at par. The principal and interest of 
these bonds are to be expressly made payable 
in coin, and are to be exempt from all taxes, 
except such income tax upon the interest as 
may lie laid upon all incomes. 
4. Tin; Secretary of the Treasury is author¬ 
ized to issue notes, expressly payable in coin, 
to an amount not exceeding tbe coin and 
bullion in the Treasury. These notes are to 
be received in payment of duties the same 
as coin. The national banks are also au¬ 
thorized to issue similar notes to the extent 
of 05 per cent, of the bonds deposited by 
them as security for the same. The Secre¬ 
tary may issue his coin notes in redemption, 
by purchase in open market, of the out¬ 
standing six percent, bonds, to an amount 
not exceeding that of the new five per cent, 
bonds sold. 
5. All restriction upon the amount of cir¬ 
culation allowed to the national banks is re¬ 
moved, provided their circulation is made 
redeemable in coin as above provided. 
We are gratified at the tokens we discover 
that our representatives arc realizing the ne¬ 
cessity for devoting their abilities to other 
than mere partisan pursuits. The necessities 
of the poop I A, and tlie burdens they do and 
are likely to feel from fixation, is going to 
result in rooting oul mere weeds from our 
legislative bodies. Men of brains, lofty pur¬ 
poses, and comprehensive statesmanship are 
and w>ll be demanded ; and tliefoUl'-COniered 
politicians and “good fellows” whose capac¬ 
ity to drink whisky is their chief commenda¬ 
tion to public favor, will retire to the slums 
where they belong. 
Land* in X. w. Missouri. — John M. Miller, 
Hamilton, Mo., writes Jan, H, 1869“Here in 
Northwest Missouri we have an upland soli of 
unsurpassed fertility—a deep loam, which, in its 
natural state, produces equally as -well as the 
manured fields of old states. Its staple products 
are, wheat, corn and oats; all kinds of fruit do 
well. There is also un abundance of woodland, 
ehlelly oak, walnut and hickory. ’Dio climate 
is mild and healthful. Wild laud contiguous to 
railroad stations can be bought for ten or twelve 
dollars per acre; improved farms are worth 
from eighteen to thirty-live dollars. By going 
into the interior land Is much cheaper. The 
country is filling up rapidly with Eastern people 
and many more will be made welcome. There is 
an abundance of room, and J can safely say that 
all who come with the right ideas of industry, 
and no view to speculation, cannot fail of soon 
securing good homes in the very center of the 
United States.” 
DEEP vs. SHALLOW CULTURE, 
Farmer’s Club in this (New York) city. 
There are valid arguments on each side of 
the question, and facts enough to sustain 
each, provided conditions of soil, locality 
and the nature of the plant to he grown ure 
taken into the account. It is absurd to de¬ 
nounce deep culture; and equally absurd to 
assert that shallow culture is always ruinous. 
Circumstances must be regarded. 
The advocates of deep culture claim an 
increase of food supplied to the plant, more 
certainty of uniform moisture and less lia¬ 
bility to injury from winter frosts, as among 
the benefits of their mode. On the other 
hand tlie shallow or surface root culture is 
claimed to be more akin to nature; to de¬ 
velop an earlier season’s growth, and thus 
insure a ripening of wood, as well as more 
sugar in the fruit. Both advocates have their 
seasons when Ibe results seem to favor the 
radicul views entertained, and vice versa. 
It is an old maxim that “ unless the gard¬ 
ener has control of t he roots of his trees and 
plants he cannot be certain of success;” and 
tbe experience of nearly all successful culti¬ 
vators is, that such control by means of 
shallow cultivation and a frequent stirring of 
the ground for aeration, as well as the absorp¬ 
tion of moisture, is more essential than great 
depth of soil. 
Our own practice on clay and on sandy 
soils, has certainly been in favor of the shal¬ 
low culture and the caring for surface roots, 
rather than deep trenching, underdraining, 
deep planting and corresponding deep after 
culture. And while we would advocate the 
deep working of the soil, as well as under- 
draining, to a certain extent, before pl an tin e 
tree, vine or seed,'as items beneficial in ihe 
end, yet we would never discourage planting 
because the ground was not so prepared. 
For we believe that really more depends 
upon the annual care and culture than upon 
the original condition of the soil. 
We have now good trees, vines and small 
fruits growing on poor clays, xvit bout under- 
drainage, or even a first deep plowing; and 
we are willing to show them in competition 
with those planted at the same time on 
ground of similarcharactCT, but thoroughly 
underdrained and well ’manured. Our suc¬ 
cess has resulted, wc think, from our annual 
late fall,rough plowing; by attention to free 
and rapid surface drainage and by constant 
repeated stirring of tlie soil all the growing- 
season at depths never exceeding three 
inches. 
Vermont State Ag. Soc. — The annual meeting 
of this Society was belli at Bellows Falls Jan. 
5. The following officers were elected for 1869: 
PrcsUlent, Henry Keyes, Newbury; Vice-Presi¬ 
dents, IL. G, Root, Bennington; H. S. Morse, 
Shelburne; W. H.Sanford, Orwell; Crosby Mil¬ 
ler, Pomfret: Secretary, Henry Clark, Rutland; 
Treasurer, J. W.Colburn, Springfield; Directors, 
Edwin Hammond, Mlddleliury; Elijah Cleve¬ 
land. Coventry; George Campbell, Westminster; 
Henry Haywara, Rutland; John Gregory, North- 
field; N. B. Safford, Hartford; Henry B. Kent, 
Dorset; Lawrence Brain or rl, Jr., St. Albans; Da- 
\ id Goodell, Bruit leboro’;Edwin S. Stowell, Corn¬ 
wall : James A. Shedd, Burlington; Henry Chase, 
Lyndon ; George A.Merrill, Rutland; C. Horace 
Hubbard, Springfield; S. G. Holyoke, St. Albans; 
L. S. Drew, Burlington. 
Edwin Hammond was elected member of the 
Executive Committee of the National Wool 
Growers' Association of Vermont. An address 
was delivered by the retiring President, Hon. 
John Gregory of Northfield. 
The Wants of Our Readers.—-We publish the 
inquiries which come to us from our renders for 
fowls, stock, seed, machines:, &c.. in order that 
business men may profit thereby; bin no buxi¬ 
nes* man will attempt to smuggle into our read¬ 
ing columns an announcement of a machine in 
answer to Such inquiries. We do not propose to 
so wrong our advertisers as to announce gratui¬ 
tously the wares of men who must lack common 
sense, or they would know that we have neither 
tlie time nor the disposition to forward letters to 
inquirers, nor the consummate verdancy with 
which they seem to credit ns. Business answers 
to business inquiries must appear in our adver¬ 
tising columns, and be paid for. 
Department of Agriculture. The Monthly Re¬ 
port. of this Department for November and 
December contains John G a moll's “ brief pre¬ 
liminary report on the contagious lung discuses 
of cattle.” This report purports to be devoted 
“ to t he general history and the best menus of pre¬ 
venting the disease,” fri accordance with the 
instructions of Commissioner Capkon, “ to con¬ 
dense In a short memoir the facts and sugges¬ 
tions best calculated to insure the adoption of 
rational means for the complete extinction.on 
American soil, of a disease that is entirely of 
foreign importat ion.” This report will be sought 
for by herdsmen, and deserves careful perusal. 
Thorn Hill (A. Y.) Farmers’ Club. —At the an¬ 
nual meeting of Thorn Hill, Onondaga, Co., N. 
Y., Farmers’ Club, the following persons were 
elected officers for 1869: President, Jon Harvey ; 
nec-Prcsidcnfs, D. 8. Church, John A. Hoxsie; 
Treasurer, Sidney Smith; Corresponding Secre¬ 
tary, 8. S. Knoeland; Recording Secretary, Allen 
Brown ; Librarian, E. Coming Cowles; Directors, 
Wm. Dormice, S. A. Wright, George B. Wiltsie, 
O. B. Morton, 8.11. Easton, Mortimer Mason. 
A. V. Nate Ag. 6oc. —The Annual Meeting of 
this Society Is to be held in the Assembly Cham¬ 
ber, Albany, on the second Wednesday (10th) of 
February, when officers will lie chosen Tor the 
ensuing year, followed by the usual Winter Ex¬ 
hibition in the Agricultural Rooms. Premiums 
are offered for Field Crops, Grain und Seeds, 
Dairy Products, Winter Fruits, and Statistics. 
For list of premiums, regulations, etc., address 
the Secretary, Col. B. 1*. Johnson, Albany. 
Norway tints. -WIH yon inform ns to the 
real value of the Norway Oate so extensively 
advertised? Tbe hundreds of farmers who tes¬ 
tify in their behalf are all stranger* to usnt the 
Pan Handle of West. Virginia; consequently I 
have no other reliable source to which to apply 
for information.—G ko. McWua. Hancock Co., IF. 
Fit. 
Wo have never grown these oats, and cannot 
speak of their value from experience. We have 
already published testimony pro and con. Their 
value depends largely upon locality and culture, 
as does that of any variety. I f our readers have 
been disappointed in their expectation concern¬ 
ing these oats, wo desire to know it. 
Officers Chicago Ilort. Stic. for 1809.—At the 
annual meeting, ihe 13th inst., the following 
officers were elected President, Edgar San¬ 
ders; Vici-Presideilt, C. W. Ross; Rccimling Sec¬ 
retary. R. A. Moors; Cot'resfsmding Secretary, W. 
J. Ellemvood; Treasurer, Daniel Worthington; 
Librarian, 11 . Lombard; Executive Ounmittcc, 
Andrew Miller, George Lambden, A. Morrison, 
F. Suiter and J. C. Grant. 
PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE, 
e JJuMbbers -pcsk 
Borrow no trouble about tlie future, but 
plan l,o meet its requirements. It is both 
prudent and wise lo determine upon a future 
policy suggested by past experiences and 
present necessities. And there is one grave 
oversight in all our planning, as a people. 
We plan to make. We vigorously apply 
ourselves to acquire. We aim to spread 
ourselves over great surfaces and produce 
sensational results. But wc do not plan to 
save. What we get, slips from us without 
thought of what to-morrow may bring forth. 
Wo too literally obey the scriptural injunc¬ 
tion— “Take no thought for the morrow.” 
But we have reached a point in our national 
history where we mast Stop to think. We 
must cease struggling to acquire and set 
about, taking care of and developing what 
we have. The same laws which regulate in¬ 
dividual success and prosperity apply to a 
people in the aggregate. Waste brings pov 
erty. Extravagance and indolence breed 
want. Production brings prosperity; and 
economy secures the rightful fruition thereof. 
We urge, therefore, that our readers set 
about planning to economize ihe coming 
year. There is a great national debt to pay. 
It must he paid out of our resources. Pro¬ 
duction must, be increased. Every available 
source of wealth must be utilized. Every 
leak in the ship must be stopped. Every in¬ 
dividual in the land has an interest in stop¬ 
ping it, I lis personal honor as a citizen is 
involved in the honor of his native or adopt¬ 
ed country. The Congress of the United 
Stales is a representative body. It represents 
Crops ami Prices in Illinois.—A. A. K. Sawyer, 
Hillsboro, DL, writes January 9: — Montgomery 
County has more wheat on the ground than ever 
before; anil it never looked better. Hogs sell 
at six and a half to eight cents, gross; wheat at. 
one dollar and one dollar and fitly cents per 
bushel; corn crop very light; cause, drouth; 
sells In town at, forty to fifty cents per bushel in 
the ear; none shipping. Butter twenty to twen¬ 
ty-live cents per pound; eggs Twenty- live to 
thirty cents per dozen. Times hard; money 
scarce. 
Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden (Mass.) Ag. 
Soc.-*- Officers for I860 ; President, Mh.o J. Smith, 
Northampton; Vice-Presidents, Elnathail Graves, 
Williamsburg; Andrew T. Judd, South Hadley; 
Isaac Parsons, Southampton; Samuel L. Parsons, 
Northampton; Secretary, A. Perry Peck, North¬ 
ampton; Treasurer, H. K. Starkweat her, North¬ 
ampton; Ami (tor, Oscar Richards, Northampton. 
liosts of ardent friumls arc determined to double its 
subscription and usefulness. Go on, Good Friends— 
lor now is the season to make additions and form 
new clubs and >ve will do our utmost to render tbu 
Rural increasingly Acceptable and Valuable. 
The great and unexpected Influx of subscription* 
has rendered ii Impossible for us to fill all orders as 
prompt I v as desired, hut we are doing our best to 
supply the demand without delay, and soon all will 
be properly served. 
Notice to Advertisers.—Advertisements intend* 
ed for the inside l Uth and 15th pages) of the lttTJlAI. 
should reach the New York Office on Friday nf the 
week rnecoUwj date,—and for the outside (lStli, kith 
and Kith pages) on Monday morning of tlie week of 
publication. Considering it* large, wide and rapidly- 
increasing circulation, the ItruAi. nkw-Yorker is, 
nt its present rates, the best, and cheapest Adver¬ 
tising Medium of its Class, 
Addition* to ( lube aro always in order, whether 
in ones, tw os, lives, tens, or any other number. Many 
agents, after sending one club, form Others, and thus 
secure additional or larger premiums, A host of 
people aro dropping other papers about these days¬ 
man}’ have already changed to tlie RT'UAD-and our 
Agent-Friends should improve every occasion to 
secure such as recruits for the “ Rural Brigade.” 
Bnck Numbers of lliis Volume will be supplied 
to all new subscribers, unless otherwise Ordered, for 
some weeks t o come. As most subscribers desire the 
complete volume for binding, reference, etc., wo 
Continue our rule to send back numbers to all who 
give no special directions to the contrary — a course 
which has generally proved satisfactory. 
Address to No. 11 l’ark Row. New York.— 
Though t he HcKAL Is published in both New Vork 
City and Rochester. N. V., tlie principal printing and 
mailing offices aro In New York, and hence all agents 
are requested to address 
«. it. r. .venue 
N«. 41 Park Row, New York. 
How to Remit.— The best way to remit for clubs, 
as we have often stated, Is by Draft. 1 f $20 or over, 
send by draft, as there is uo risk. For smaller 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
Go reals for Analysis.—The Commissioner of 
Agriculture has issued a circular calling upon 
farmers and others to obtain and forw ard to the 
Department the corning autumn sum plea of uorn 
and grain grown in their respective States for 
the purpose of analysis, in order that the De¬ 
partment may “ascertain what differences cli¬ 
mate, elevation, latitude and metorological con¬ 
ditions have in determining their food value, 
and the relative variations of nutritious princi¬ 
ples contained as produced by such modifying 
influences.” 
The Rural n Paying Investment.—Many testify 
that the Rural pays them abundantly. We fre¬ 
quently receive letters from subscribers ac¬ 
knowledging the benefits derived from its peru¬ 
sal, and saying they would not be without it for 
five or ten dollars a year, if it could not be ob¬ 
tained for less. Here is an instance In which it 
paid many fold. In a letter inclosing' payment 
for a club, Mr. J. ('. Brainerd of Dodge county, 
Wis., writes:—“The Rural was worth more 
Ilian a hundred dollars to me last season, by in¬ 
ducing me to raise a'crop that I should not ot hoi - 
wise have raised. And the facts then learned 
will be •worth more to me anothor season, T 
Think, Than they were last. Success to the Ru¬ 
bai. New-Yorker!” 
May we not aslc all who are benefited by the 
Rural, and whoso families esteem it uu enter¬ 
taining and instructive visitor, to exhibit speci¬ 
mens of the new volume to their friends and 
neighbors, with a view of having them partici¬ 
pate in its benefit* by becoming subscribers? 
And how many who wish “success to the Rural” 
will manifest it as substantially as has Mr. 
Braineud, by forming a club ? Thousands, eon 
if they will, thereby promoting the success of 
the paper, and benefiting those to whom it is in¬ 
troduced. Think of this, appreciative reader, 
and remember that now is the best time to re¬ 
cruit for the Rural. And don’t forget that wo 
give ;d! who form clubs, "Good Pay for Doing 
Good.” 
Officers Elect Maine Stale Vg. Soc. — President, 
Gen. Natt head. Backset; Secretary, Aaron 
Young, Portsmouth ; Treasurer, George W. Rid¬ 
dle, Manchester; Directors, Warren F. Daniel, 
Franklin; JamesXV, Cogswell, Gihnauton ; Jas. 0. 
Adams, Manchester; Virgil C. Gilman, Nashua; 
Alonzo Note, Farmington. 
Erie Co. (X. Y.) Ag. Sue—Officers elect for 
1869: Presklent, P. XV. Powers; Vice-Presidents, 
A. K. Dart, X'. R. Corey; Secretary, R. C. Titus; 
Treasurer, Robert B. Foote; Directors , James 
White, Peter K-ester, George A. Moore, Edwin 
XV right, Isaac Russel, William XVallis. 
Connecticut Board of Agriculture. — XX r e have 
from one of our correspondents an interesting 
report of the action and discussions of the Con¬ 
necticut State Board of Agriculture at Bridge¬ 
port, Jan. 13th to 14th Inclusive. He says the 
meeting “ Will long he remembered by the far¬ 
mers of tlial State as an exceedingly pleasant 
und instructive occasion." XVc shall find space 
for the notes sent us at an early date. 
Eric Co,, O., Ag. Sot*.—The officers for 1869 are: 
President— D. C. Richmond; Vice-President — Z. 
Phillips; Mo nape rs —C. Caswell of Margaretta; S. 
Bomis, Groton: It. Bcuschooter, Berlin; P. P. 
Cutherbaek, Vermillion; llomer Brooke. Flor¬ 
ence ; H. Miller, Peninsula. 
About Pigs. — XXRiat would a pair (male and 
female) of nigs cost ot the breed of those repre¬ 
sented on the first page of No. 0. Vol. NIX., of 
the Rural New-X 7 orker, imported either to 
New York or New Orleans; also a pair of Auge- 
ron (French) without the Sussex cross—i. e. Auge- 
ron, original, pure breed? — Jno. D. Thorne. 
We cannot answer these questions. 
Tlie American f'olunilmrinn Society of New 
York city recently re-elected the following offi¬ 
cers: President— William A. XVodti; Vice-Pres¬ 
ident— It. Colell; Treasurer— Geo. Purves; Secre¬ 
tary— C. A. Bussell. 
Western X. V. Hurt. Soe.— The winter meeting 
of this Society will be held in the City Hall, 
Rochester, N. Y., January 27 and 28,1869. Fruits, 
flowers, &e., will be exhibited. All interested 
are invited to be present. 
Scotch Lurch—A. Smith. Onondaga Co., N. Y., 
asks when Scotch Larch seed should be sown. 
We reply, in the spring after the ground gets 
warm. See article ort first page of this mnnber. 
Dearth in Wisconsin. — L. L. Fairchild, Rolling 
Prairie, Wis„ writes us under date ol Jan. 3: 
‘ The earth is getting dry t o a great dept h. There 
is a constant demand for digging and drilling 
wells deeper. Almost every day we hear of more 
veils giving out. A good many liavu been dry 
; ind drilled over several t imes. Those living near 
streams or largo ponds, haul ice und melt it to 
drink and use. Nothing like the present dearth 
has been known in 1 he State. The times are hard 
and money close; but. those willing towork can 
find employment at some price.” 
Grniul Prairie Ilort. Soc.—The second annual 
meeting of this Illinois society is to be held at 
Decatur. Ill., February 10, 11, and 12. The pub¬ 
lished programme gives promise that it will be a 
meeting of great profit and interest. 
Personal. — Edgar Sanders, the Chicago flor¬ 
ist, recent) j’ re-elected President of the Chicago 
Horticultural Society, gave the members thereof 
a banquet on the occasion of the annual meeting. 
Maine Board of Ag.—D. M. Tiling, Esq., has 
been chosen a member of the Maine State Board 
of Agriculture for the next three years by the 
Agricultural Societies of Kennebec county. 
Appreciation.—An I llinois editor writes ^“Al¬ 
low me to congratulate you on your paper, which 
I think the best and handsomest paper ever issued 
—in America at least.” Thanks, Brother P. 
