CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
Pus*. 
Pmnologlciil. —’The H&lem Drupe (Illustrated:) 
The Colfax Strawberry (I I lust rated :j Apple Talk 
Apples In Minnesota, Georgia lied; Doctor 
Heeder Dear.149 
InitiiKfrial Topics. Our Farmor*' Homes and 
Their Sons; He.ienee with Practice; Mineral 
Compared with Organic Manured; Adulteration 
of flood*! Soil Robber* not Wanted Went; Sur¬ 
prise Oat*..150 
The Vineyard. -Grape Growers Meeting; Pro¬ 
pagating from Cutting*: Grape.. Seed I lugs of 
the Concord; Grape C'lie vlttnation : Scuppernong 
Winn.... . .152 
Floriculture. — Cattleya M'«»ir (Illustrated;) 
Fuchsia I'ulgen*; Layering Hose*; Bust Chry¬ 
santhemums: t«eui of the Prairie Hose; New 
lt".sc-for US$48.. .152 
Vegetable Garden. — Togo table* In N. V. Mar¬ 
ket.. . 152 
Cultivating the Onion; Tomato Sugar.162 
l.nmlMtmpe Gurtlciiiiig. Ittiml Decorations...153 
IHmciimhIoiim. Now Vork Parmer*' Club—Fruit 
Boxes, Siiiiihc, Bees and Kaspborrie*. Size of 
Apple Barrel*, A Good Harrow. <kmuitock'* no¬ 
tary Digger. New Vork State Poultry Shew, The 
Doolittle HuHpbnrry for Drying, Poultry Man¬ 
agement, Itofrlgorutor Car*. A llroud Cast flood 
Sower. Tapping Maples, Beat'*Tree luvlgorntor, 
A Potato Digger...153 
Tlin Kwine-1!er<l. Maiiugemenl of Pigs; A 
Hog Jack, (Illustrated); Neponset IIog«; Hog 
‘ liolera ; Chester Whim Pigs; Mamiguiuent of 
Sow*.. 164 
The Herd*mail. - Mississippi Cliarbon.154 
Nrw 1 nveulioiiK, Ac. - Pin Manufacture; 
Sharpening Sickles; How to Cutch Mice; Syeee 
silver: An Electric Cana.154 
The Iloi‘Hctii:<n.-Foundering llorsns; Walking 
Horses; Wrinkles Showing the Age of Horses; 
Brittle Hoofs. 151 
The A pin rluu. - Fi-ijJBig Bees; Using Chloro¬ 
form ; Transferring Bees.154 
lin try 11 ii-ha ml ry. - North-western Dairy¬ 
men Third Annual Meeting of the Illlnoi* and 
Wisconsin irmy Association. Speech of Judge 
Wilcox. Animal Address by Mr Willard of New 
York, The Discussions of the First Day, Cooling 
ami Preparing Milk for the Factory or the Mar¬ 
ket f The Country < 'Iicchq Market.,.155 
Moiiiesrle F-COUOIIIV. Sunday Dinners; Paste 
for Scrap-Book*; Spool Holder (Illustrated).155 
Hygienic fnrormnl inn. Seasonable Sugges¬ 
tions—How to give Medicines....,155 
Editor in!*. Etc. Spring Style* for 1S69; Kiiral 
NiiUih and Items; Including A Weed Catalogue, 
The Advont of Spring, Culm und Domestic 
Honey, Improved Htook Sales, The Rural tlldl*- 
penslDIS, Season In Ohio, Tree Peddlers in tile 
West. Merchant's Gargling Oil, Pay lor Agricul- 
lural Student's Labor, Appreciation. Ventlla- 
liug the Soil. Agricultural Patents, Machine- 
Made Horse Shoe Nalls, Good, Ashes or Plaster. 
T'hc Portable flieatn IGriglrio, A Model School 
Waiitod, Side.fill) and Flutland Steel Plows. 
Surprise Data Tobacco Culture, Universal Ex¬ 
position ul Vienna, Weather anil Crop Items; 
Industrial Societies... . , .I6C 
F.ducnliniinl. Geometry and Kuelhl; The Eaat- 
ern Black Cuckoo III lustra ted;) Reading.157 
Hiortc* l«r U iirnliHiK, Pauiml A True Story 
of Rural Life, (concluded.),.157 
Choice Miscellany.—’The Old Orchard (Poetry;) 
Crowded (hit,; About Parrots; Thu Newspaper 
in America . 158 
LadieH' Port-Folio. The Lost Gift, (Poetry;) 
A Winter Morning; “ Not at Home;" Invention 
of Lithography; A Beunlil’nl Compliment; Too 
Mufih Voice; Flirting a Fan.159 
Modi'* und Mnnnei-H. Fasldon Chit-Chat — 
Dresses lor the Rich,New Fabrics and New Stylos 
for Spring and Summer Wear; Politeness anil 
Manners... I&I 
Snhhnth Rending.—A Twilight Thought (Po¬ 
etry;; *' And ThenSubduing Sm; Sentiment*. 159 
New* of Clio Wrrli. DempHl io News—Dielud¬ 
ing News from Wiisblngon. New York, Maine, 
100 
Foreign New*. -Great Britain, Cuba, Spain,... . 101 
The HI n rket*.—Stock and .Money; Produce and 
Provision*; Live stuck. .nil 
PitmoiiuI Item*. - luturoM.lng Personal Brovl- 
lllos- ... .. . 1112 
News ami Novell lo*. Timely Paragraphs . 102 
Now* floiideiiM-r.—Qvor Sixty News Brevities.. 103 
For Vmuiiii People. Boyish Ambition : Warn¬ 
ing to Young Men , The Rural Four-Voar Olds.. .104 
The Puiw.lor.— Enigma*, Problem, Rebus, Ana¬ 
gram, &e...104 
“PROCRESS IAND IMPROVEMENT." 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conducting Kclltoe am) Proprietor. 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, G. F. WILCOX A. A. HOPKINS, 
ASSOCIATE ElJlTOItS. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., 
Editor or thk DerAK.TMii.NT nr Sump Hubbasdrv. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M„ 
Editor optuk Kkpa irrMKvr or iGmv Husbandry. 
DANIEL LEE, M. D., 
Or Ten.s rsark, SucnisaN Cpuiuruamiia Eiutob. 
Special Foutribuior* : 
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II. T. BROOKS, 
J. It. DO DOE, 
F. R. ELLIOTT, 
J. II. ORISUOM, M. D., 
• I. STANTON GOULD, 
“NOW AND THEN,” 
T. C. PETERS, 
CHAS. V. RILEY, 
E. W. STEWART, 
JAMES VICK, 
J. WILKINSON, 
MRS. E. I”. KLLET, 
MARY A. E. WAG lilt. 
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SATURDAY, MARCH fi, 1869. 
“SPRING STYLES FOR 1869.“ 
In the Broadway windows the above label 
on goods stares at us every time we travel 
that way. We’ve been thinking about, the 
spring styles on the farm. What are they to 
bcY Is there to be any change this spring, 
fellow farmer? Have you studied, during 
the winter, with a view to any progress and 
improvement over old practices? We do 
not ask these questions because our egotism 
leads us to suppose that we are wiser than 
you. We ask because we want to know— 
because we want to record such progress and 
improvement, if it is to lie made. No man 
can improve upon anything unless he has 
some conception of what such improvement 
should be. 
fte publisher's* iDcsli. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 
The large and rapidly-increasing circulation of the 
Iii'iiAi. New-Yorker lenders it necessary to put 
the form* to press earlier than heretofore;— lienee 
to aeonre insertion advertisement* for the inside 
should reach Ilia Now York office on Friday morn¬ 
ing. and for the outside pages on Saturday morning 
of tlin week prectfMmo publication. 
Oar Pn iiiinniH. — Agents entitled to Premiums 
are requested to designate what they prefer (in ensws 
where they have u choice) and notify us hew and 
whrrr to .send whether by Freight ur Express, and 
the name of Station or Office. Wo are now forward¬ 
ing Premiums as rapidly a* possible to all who bare? 
given iis proper Information, and whose luvonuts 
show Unit they are entitled to the articles requested. 
Agents, and all disposed to form dubs, are referred 
to article headed “ Our flock and WatOh Premium!*, ' 
on page 102 of this tmmbur. We intend to give, fcn 
future miming-*, an enumeration of other equally 
Valuable Premium*. There Is plenty of time to win 
them by forming new or making additiqus to present 
club*. 
Form New flub*. It Is not too late to start 
new club* for our present volume, as some suppose. 
n«r to make additions to those already formed. 
We can still supply hack numbers, and shall be able 
to do so for we.eks to come, a* the early numbers are 
eleetrntyped. Those who have received a premium 
for one club, can secure another for n new club or 
additions to the old one. So please keep the ball 
moving until all are supplied with the indispensable 
ItPUAL. Specimens,Show-Bills, Premium Gists,Ac., 
sent fl ee to all disposed to act us Agent-Friend*. 
Addition* to Flub* are always In order, whether 
in ones, twos lives, tens, or any other number. Many 
agents, all sending one club, form other*, and thus 
secure u litional or larger premiums. A host of 
people arc dropping other paper* about these days¬ 
man}’ have already changed to the Rural- and our 
Agent-Friends should Improve every occasion to 
secure such us recruits for the “ Rural Brigade.” 
How to Help the Rural.—There aro numerous* 
ways in which Its friend* can mil In circulating the 
Rural. First, show the paper, or talk to your 
friends about it, or both. Get up a club, or aid some 
friend to do so—or induce your P. M. to act asagent. 
Our premiums are liberal and sure. 
For Other Notice* sec page 1(52 of this No. 
The farmer who does not study, calculate 
and invent, cannot improve. This involves 
figures. They should be his agents in arriv¬ 
ing at conclusions. Will it pay, in dollars, 
to change any practice in farm economy? 
Will it pay, in dollars, to adopt any new sys¬ 
tem of husbandry? Will it pay, in dollars, 
to make a new fence, plant trees, shrubs and 
flowers where none have ever grown before? 
Will it pay, in dollars, to make the farm and 
farm labor more attractive to his sons by the 
expenditure of money in improved imple¬ 
ments and farm adornment? Will it pay, 
in dollars, to sanctify his home by the con¬ 
tinued and contented presence of his fair 
daughters, secured by providing them with 
modern conveniences and accessories to 
pleasure inside the farm house? Will it 
pay, in dollars, to lengthen the life of the 
farmer’s wife, by adopting every available 
device to relieve her (Yum care and labor, and 
enable her to adorn and enrich her own and 
her family’s every-day life by devoting time 
to mental culture and lesthetical pursuits ? 
In solving these questions, the farmer 
should forecast the future. He should not 
look for immediate returns. He should re¬ 
member that some of these provisions will 
only save money in the end. His balance- 
sheet at the close of the year may not show 
Jiytnr* in his favor; but before a decade rolls 
around a comparative statement and inven¬ 
tory of resources will show that he has 
acted wisely and well. 
Let the spring style be determined upon 
without delay. This is the first month of 
Spring, and the style which is to govern the 
season should be adopted at the opening. It 
should be an improvement on last year’s 
fashion if possible. If it is to be a radical 
change the expense involved in making it 
should be well considered, and certainty of 
the result aimed at well assured. What is 
to be your style the coming season ? 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The Advent of Spring. In New York City on 
this first, day ol‘ March, the weather is “clear hut 
cold,” with only a slight covering of snow on the 
ground, and even that is a rarity, for very little 
has fallen since December. But in Central and 
Western New York, Canada, and many parts of 
the West, an abundance of the “ fleecy element ” 
has fallen and made good sleighing for weeks in 
succession, and which still continues. Though 
the sky is clear, the atmosphere is the reverse of 
balmy, and, with a considerable depth of snow 
on the ground over u large extent of Country, 
wc apprehend that Winter will “linger in the 
lap of Spring" for some time to come- which 
may prove beneficial to winter grain, fruit, etc. 
Meantime we note the advent, of Spring (or the 
time it should make its advont) according to the 
almanac, wishing all our readers, neat' and dis¬ 
tant, a pleasant and prosperous season. 
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Cuba nnei Domestic Honey. One of Olir COrres- 
rcspondent-8 wants to know why Sou them honey 
is quoted higher in New York than Northern. 
This is not the ease; tins para graph he sends us 
refers to the gold prices per gallon, not pound, 
for Cubit and St. Domingo. Nort hern strained 
honey is not quoted by l lie gallon, and in fact 
the supply has never yet been in sufficient com¬ 
mercial quantity to require it. The branches of 
trade, which include druggist-; and those who 
prepare certain patent medicines, have, up io 
tills time, mainly depended upon such strain¬ 
ing as they could procure from broken and 
unsaleable comb. These seldom exceed lar¬ 
ger parcels than kegs, while foreign arrives 
chiefly In ban-els and tierces. The consumption 
of comb honey yearly exhibits a decided in¬ 
crease, and is rapidly becoming less regarded as 
a Juxuary in table items. Still there is a, largo 
number of medium grocers who sell to a class 
of customers who will not pay for elegance In 
Die shape Of glia-' boxes and the supposed waste 
in wax. Those dealers supply themselves almost 
exclusively from the West Indies, ihoqualily of 
which compares very unfavorably with homo 
production. Manufacturers who require honey 
in a large way are sometimes compelled to add 
twenty-five pounds of sugar to ono hundred 
to pounds of imported, in order to give it tho 
body of one hundred pounds of Northern. 
We mention these fuels lo show that there Is 
an abundant field open to the enterprise of 
straining honey for this market. Prominent 
dealers express an earnest wish for the success¬ 
ful development of the centrifugal method of 
obtaining liquid honey, (described and Illustrat¬ 
ed In Hie BubalNew-Yorker, No. 1, Vol. SO,) Or 
any process that will fill our growing want of 
pure honey* The season is about over for •do¬ 
mestic comb; the balance of the stock has been 
In Die hands of retailers for several weeks. A 
few lots from the interior are seeking a place, 
hut we arc close upon the maple sugar season, 
and large dealers and commission men object to 
take hold of them. There arc no settled rates 
for Cuba and HI. Domingo, owing to the revolu¬ 
tion i* the former island, but prices are advanc¬ 
ing in sympathy with sugar. A small lot recent¬ 
ly brought $1.38 per gallon, but most of the sales 
are on private terms. The duly on foreign 
honey is twenty cents per gallon. When reduced 
to pounds, Imported has ranged two to live Cents 
below the value of domestic. 
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Improved Block Hole*. — H. Q. WHITE, South 
Framingham, Massachusetts, lias sold to D. S. 
Pratt, Brattleboro’, Vt., tiio following Short- 
Horns:—9th Duke of Thorndalo, 0(109; Ueorgi- 
anna by wt.h Duke of Thorndale, 8609, dam Gov¬ 
erness 4-th by Duke of Orleans, 8817; Hope 10l.li 
by Monitor,8019, dam Dope by imported Usurp¬ 
er, .852;?; Daphne by 9th Duke, 5809, darn Dawn 
2d by Monitor, 5019; Aurelia by Marmadukc, 
5935, dam Aurora 2d by Matadore. 3002; Lady 
Susan 3d by 9th Duke, BOW*, dam Lady Susan 2 d 
by l'homdalo, 0249; and Carlisle Maid by 9th 
Duke, 5009, flum Ymieo 36tb by 2d Earl of Car¬ 
lisle, 2804. 
Mr. A. O. Brace of Herkimer Co., N. Y., has 
lately sold to Colonel Taylor of London, Onta¬ 
rio, the two Short-Horn cows: 2d Duchess of 
Portland, got by Duke of Richmond, 3880, datu 
Duchess of Portland by imported Lord Dneie, 
602; and Duchess of Winfield, got by Duke of 
Cornwall, 3854, out of Duchess of Portland, by 
imported Lord I)ucic. Lord Ducia was imported 
by Dr. Wendell of Albany. 
A. E. Tkabue, Hannibal, Mo., sold, February 
9, to F. B. V*aitgHAN, Martinsburg, Mo., the red 
Short-Horn bull eolf Douglas 3d, born May 38th, 
out of Blanche 2d; pedigree page 208, vol. 7th, 
A. H. B. Also to the same parly, same day, Jer¬ 
ry, a roan Short-1 lorn bull call' born May 3d, 
1868, out of Louan 41st. She was out of Louan 
11th by Duke of Airdrie, 2743; he by the Duke of 
Airdrie 12730. 
Mr. Henry T. Brown, Providence, R. I., has 
added to his herd of Ayrshire.? the line two-year 
old heifer HarriotOth, from Mr. Dresser's stock 
of South bridge, Mass. 
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The Rural Indispensable.—We often receive 
letters from people who affirm that they “can¬ 
not keep house without the Rural,” and persons 
>vho have substituted another paper -h thing 
our subscribers rarely do generally return to 
their first love in a few weeks, acknowledging 
the mistake. Vide this note from H. M. Berk- 
lev of De Kalb County, Mo.:—“We took the 
Rural New-Yorker lust, year, but when the 
time was out concluded we would take an agri¬ 
cultural paper nearer home. Wearenow taking- 
two substitutes, but they do not fill the place of 
yours—so we most have Mooue’s Rural, and 
here goes £3 more for papers. I very much ad¬ 
mire your cuts of line stock, but those of the 
old fogy's stock are never seen by the proper 
persons; so give us the fine ones instead.” 
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The Season in Ohio. —A lerter dated Toledo, 
Ohio, Feh. 25, says: — “ We are having beautiful 
sleighing now; snow 15 inches deep, and prospect 
of more, and just, cold enough. Some expressed 
fears that the fruit and wheat would be injured 
by the mild weather about the middle of Feb., 
but I think their fears were groundless. The 
frost was out of the ground only a very lew 
days, but not enough to start the buds. The 
lowest the thermometer has been this winter 
was December 20, six degrees below Zero. Last 
Winter, February 3, it was 21 degrees below.” 
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Tree Peddlers in (he West.—At a recent meet¬ 
ing of horticulturists in Illinois it was stated 
that a tree peddler engaged in selling trees for 
an Eastern firm sought to make sales by assert¬ 
ing Die utter worthlessness of Western grown 
trees for orchard planting, they being rotten- 
hearted, etc. Thereupon an indignant member 
said “that the easiest way to get rid of the as¬ 
sertion was to call the man a liar, aid If he want¬ 
ed to fight it out on that line, he could have the 
privilege of doing so." It is doubtless a fact that 
peddlers for Eastern firms lie with great ease and 
success; but we happen to know that peddlers 
lor Western firms have also learned how to do it 
with the greatest facility. 
Merchant's Gargling Oil.—This valuable article 
is increasing in popularity as its merits become 
more widely known. The Detroit Commercial 
Advertiser says:—“The celebrity of Merchant’s 
Gargling Oil, and its efficacy in all eases where an 
external application would seom to be required, 
arc now unquestioned. It has proved itself, by 
tlie sure test of experience, to lie emphatically 
“good for man and beast," and is the best.lini¬ 
ment in the world for the purposes for which it 
is advert ised. Thousands of testimonials, dating 
from 1838, have been received by the manufac¬ 
turers* testifying to the almost marvelous cures 
wrought by it. Our Western readers know its 
merits too well to render anything from us 
necessary. Mr. John Hodoe, Secretary of tbo 
Manufacturing Co., Loekport, N. Y., stands high 
in the esteem of the community where he 
resides, and has also won the confidence of our 
merchants and dealers, by the fairness and 
liberality of his dealings.” 
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Pay for Agricultural fltuilents' Labor.—A cor¬ 
respondent of the New England Farmer asks 
that paper to “inform all who have sous at the 
Ma--melm?i lt.s Agricultural College who are try¬ 
ing to work their way through that institution 
single handed, why t hey are paid only ten cents 
an hour for their labor on the farm, while other 
help receive three dollars per day for the same 
labor. The Farmer answers that the true answer 
to the question is vaults of funds. Much of the 
labor of the students Is probably'expended upon 
the improve merit and preparation of the land 
and premises, from which no immediate cash re¬ 
turn is received; ami it calls for some on© to step 
forward and give the College an endowment the 
interest, of which shall be devoted to paying the 
Students hotter prices for their labor. 
Appreciation. — A correspondent, G. S. L„ 
writes in this wiseThere are two articles, 
entitled “National Morals" and “Republican 
Simplicity," found on page seventy-six of Die 
Rural of Jan. 30th, which have done me more 
good to read that) all the political harangues I 
have read in other papers for the last two yours. 
1 have very lit tlo to write or say about things of 
apolitical nature; but the pieces I refer to are 
something that concerns every man, irrespect¬ 
ive of party, who has any respect for his country 
or care for the rising generation. Thousands of 
men of every creed will thank you for thus 
boldly acting as a body-guard to our National 
honor." 
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Ventilating the Soil.— HENRY WARD Bebciter, 
writing the Ontario Farmer of tils mistakes In 
tanning, says;—“ If I were to take a new place 
my work should begin by a thorough ventilation 
of the noily for such I regard as the chief end of 
drainage.” He says in the outset bo was two 
penurious in making drams, used too small tile, 
and sunk the drains but half deep enough —too 
feet. And he committed an error In allowing 
someof his surface drains to communieate with 
tlie tile drains, thus ruining one of the hugest 
and most expensive of the latter. 
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Agricultural Patent*.—We gathered from the 
resolutions of the Poinologists, concerning the 
proposition to so amend the patent laws as to 
secure to the originators of new plants and 
fruits patent protection, that a bill was actually 
before Congress with this object. We had never 
seen such a bill nor any notice ol' its introduc¬ 
tion. Inquiries instituted in Washington, in 
our behalf, show that no such bill has been in¬ 
troduced, A petition for such action may have 
lieeu presented, but no formal, practical propo¬ 
sition has been submitted. 
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Machine Made Horae Shoe Nail*.— A subscri¬ 
ber writes:— It, is the general complaint of the 
blacksmiths that tbo nulls lor shooing which they 
buy, and which are manufactured by machinery, 
do not hold a shoo near as well as those manu¬ 
factured by hand by themselves — in fact that* 
the bought nails are not so good. The conse¬ 
quence is that they do not buy nearly so many 
nails its they otherwise would. They allege thut 
the deficiency lit quality is due to the use of an 
Inferior quality of iron. Cannot the manufac¬ 
tures obviate this defect and sell more nails ? 
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Good !—During a recent discussion of hum¬ 
bugs, in a public meeting, a gentleman, und u 
scholar we'll warrant, called attention to the 
fact that agricultural and horticultural periodi¬ 
cals usually exposed these bugs, and any per sou 
not taking an agricultural paper wus not worthy 
of sympathy if humbugged by any tree peddler 
or patent right man. Which is true. 
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Ashes or Plaster. — Chester N. Stilson, 
Ridge, N, Y., writes: — “ Which is the best when 
used alone on dry sandy loam, which is not rich 
with manure, ashes or plaster? Which will 
ashes benefit the most, clover, or Spring wheat 
seeded with clover? Will some one who knows 
please answer these questions ?” 
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The Portable Steam Engine, as manufactured 
for Agricultural Purposes, is becoming a popu¬ 
lar labor-saving Institution with many iarmers, 
and is commended to the attention of others. 
i8ce the statement of reasons for using it, as enu¬ 
merated in an advertisement on our last page. 
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A Model School House Wanted.— A corres¬ 
pondent writes: —“Give us a model of a $2,000 
country school house, to he built of brick, where 
brick are worth nine dollars per M. and lumber 
twenty dollara per M.” Who will send us such a 
plan? 
Side-Hill and Flat Laud Sleet Plow.—If J. M. 
Stoddard, Walworth, N- Y., will write Col B. P. 
.[(HINSON, Secretary State Ag. Soc., Albany, N. 
Y., he will probably obtain the Information 
asked for concerning such a plow on exhibition 
at Rochester, N. Y. 
- M » 
Surprise Oat*.—A correspondent of the West¬ 
ern Rural asserts that the Surprise are identical 
with the Potato oats, as anyone may learn by 
comparison. They may be, but we do not be¬ 
lieve It. 
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Tobacco Culture.—A Virginia correspondent 
asks practical tobacco culturists to give, through 
the Rural, information concerning the best 
mode of cultivating tobacco, curing it, and how 
to get rid of the worms. 
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Universal Exhibition at Vienna.—The Austrian 
Government has decided on organizing u grand 
international exhibition at Vienna. The site to 
be devoted to the purpose is a large park, which 
will afford accommodation for a building, with 
surrounding grounds, on a very extensive scale. 
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Weather and Crop Item*.—We are always glad 
to receive information from our correspondents 
concerning the condition and prospects of crops 
and the progress of seasonable work in their 
respective localities. 
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
North 111. llort. Society.— Officers elect for 1869 
are: President— J. W. Cochran, Blue Ishmtl. 
Corresponding Secretary — D. Wilmot Scott, Ga¬ 
lena. KetortUiig Secretaries— H. 1 ), Emery, Chi¬ 
cago. and C. C. Miller, Marengo. Treasurer — E. 
H. Skinner, Marengo. The following arc the 
Standing Committees: 
Meteorology in itx Relation to Horticulture — S. 
Brooks, Chicago; Thos. Hunt, Beloit: Jas. Crow, 
Crystal Lake. 
Geology and Mineralogy —James Shaw, Mt. 
Carroll; T. McWhorter, Aledo; E. H. Beebe, 
Galena. 
Ornithology— J. W. Robinson, Galena; Ira L. 
Bailey, Mt. Carroll; M. Z. Sims, Aurora. 
Entomology— B. D. Walsh, Rock Island; D. n. 
Shimer, Mt.Carroll; Dr. Mygatt, Richmond. 
Botany— H- H. McAfee, Freeport; Wm. Ilebb, 
Jr., Winnebago; A. Bryant, Jr„ Princeton. 
VtiM last At Bryant, 8tv, ’i. McWhorter, 
AJodo; E. H. Skinner, Marengo. 
Orchard * and Vineyards — S. G. Minkler, Os¬ 
wego; W. E. Lukcns, Sterling; Peter Inncss, 
Aurora, 
Ornamental and Useful Tree Plantations— D. C. 
Schofield, Elgin ; J. S. Shearman, Rockford, J. G. 
Buhaeh, Princeton. 
Vegetable Physiology—J. Periam, Champaign; 
D. B. Weir, La con; H. H. McAfee, Freeport. 
Mas*, and N. H. Milk Producers’ Association.— 
We learn from a Boston paper that this Associa¬ 
tion bus a membership of five hundred; Out! a 
good understanding exists between producers, 
contractors, peddlers and consumer* with refer¬ 
ence to Its objects; that 17.000 gallons of milk, 
transported by steam, are consumed in Boston 
daily; that milk in Boston retails at nine cents 
pei- quart; that the contractor gets one cent per 
quart for conveying it to the peddler, who gets 
three cents per quart for furnishing cans and 
delivering it. _ 
Grand Prairie, (111.; Hort. floe.— The officers 
elect of this Society for 1867 are President, E. 
Daogy, Tuscola; Vice-Presidents, G. T. Ewing, 
Decatur, L. T. Clark, Onargu, A. C. Hammond, 
Warsaw; Secretary, H. J. Dunlap, Champaign; 
Treasurer, G. B. Clark, Onargu; Executive Com- 
mitec , E. Doggy, H. J. Dunlap and T. Montgom¬ 
ery, Muttoon. The next Annual Meeting of the 
society is to be held at Mattoon, ut a date to bo 
determined upon by the Executive Committee. 
North Penobscot (Me.) Ag. Soc.—The officers 
elect for 1869 are: President—li on. Asa Smith, 
Maltawamkeag. Vice-Presidents—N. K. Huston, 
Lincoln; John Treat, Enfield; A. H. Lindsay, 
Carroll. Secretary —M. B. Pink ham, Lincoln. 
Treasurer, Collector and Librarian —Samuel 'J’ohie, 
Lincoln. Trustees — Wm. It. Ayer, Lincoln; 
Samuel Hall, Lincoln: Col. Shepard Bean, Lee ; 
Smith Gilman Jr., Enfield; F. A. Reed, Spring- 
field; II. S. Wing, Mattawmnkeug; Win. It. Her- 
sey, Lincoln. _ 
Louisiana State Fair.—'The third annual Fair 
of the Louisiana Agricultural and Mechanics’ 
Fair Association will be held at New Orleans, 
commencing on the Cth of April. Competition 
in all departments is open to sill parts of the 
country. The Secretary is Luther Homes, lisq., 
New Orleans, who will furnish premium lists, 
and other information pertaining to the exhibi¬ 
tion, upon application. 
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Montgomery Co. (Pa.) Ag. floe.— The officers 
elect for 1869 are: President — Wm. B. Rob¬ 
erts. Vice-President *—Sflmuctl Roberts, S. Powel 
Childs. Recanting Secretary — Lewis Styer. Cor- 
responding Secretary — S. L. Styer. Treasurer— 
Seth Lukins. Executive Committee —John Mc¬ 
Cann, Jesse Roberts, Sami. S. Smith, Septimaa 
Roberts, Elwood Thomas, Geo. Wolfe, George 
N. Heydrick. 
Schenectady Co. (N. V.) Ag. Soc.—Tlie officers 
elected for 1869 are: President —D. D. Camp¬ 
bell. Vice-Presidents — Jay Cady, A. J. Thom¬ 
son, Richard Rosa, Charles G. Ellis, William Van 
Vrauken, N. I. Seberiuerhom, Charles P. San- 
dei’s, G. L. Witbcck, John Marlett, Col. Jacob 
Deforest. Treasurer— Jas. W. Muirs. Secretary 
— E. Nott Sclierinorhorn. 
Massachusetts Cheese Manufacturers’ Ass’n. — 
At a meeting of this Association, held at Barre, 
Feb. 18, the following officers were elected for 
1869: President ,— Thomas P. Root, Barre. Vice- 
Presidents— Wm. A. Warren, Jr., Hardwick; 
Lewis Sanderson, Petersham. Secretary— N. S. 
Hubbard, Brimfield. Treasurer— B. F. Hamilton, 
New Braintree. 
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CATALOGUES, &c., RECEIVED. 
Arkansas State RKPOitTg-Of the Auditor; 
of the Agent for the Purchase ol Arms lor the 
State Guard: of the Commissioner of Public 
Works and Internal Improvements; of the Pres¬ 
ident of the Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute: of 
Die Trustees of the Blind Institute; of the Su¬ 
perintendent of Public Instruction and of the 
State Treasurer, Henry Page. 
The Prairie Farmer Annual and Agricul- 
turaland Horticultural Advertiser for 1869—con¬ 
taining Valuable Suggestions for Western Farm- 
era, Fruit Growers, mid Florists; together with 
a list of Implement Manufacturers and Dealers, 
Seedsmen, Nurserymen, Stock Breeders, &c., &c., 
Chicago: Prairie Farmer Co. 
J. M. Thorburn & Co.’s Annual Descriptive 
Catalogue of Vegetable and Agricultural Seeds: 
also, the same, of Flower Seeds, with Practical 
Directions for their Culture and Treatment. 
Jas. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. 
Hovey’s Catalogue and Guide to the Flower 
and Vegetable Garden for 1869. A finely illus¬ 
trated and copious catalogue of 198 octavo pages. 
Hovey & Co., Boston, Mass. 
The Grape Grower’s Guide.— A Plain and 
Practical Work upon the .Management of the 
Grape Vine. By J, Keech, Waterloo, N. Y. 
Knox’s Descriptive Catalogue of Garden and 
Flower Seeds, Seed Novelties, and Seed Potatoes. 
W. W. Knox, Seedsman, Pittsburgh, Pa.—1869. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
VALUABLE USES OF MAGNETISM! 
Dr. J. P. Bryant cures diseases of the Heart, 
t.ivorand Kidneys, easily uud quickly, without pain . 
or medicine, at 111* residence, No. 325 West Thirty- 
fourth Street. New York. Terms for treatment al¬ 
ways reasonable. Consultation free! 997-3t 
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THE EINEST TOILET SOAPS, 
Messrs. Colgate a Co,, New York, have long en— j 
joyed the reputation of being the manufacturers of ’ 
the Finest Toilet Heaps in the United States. 
A Weed Catalogue.-The Maine Board of Ag¬ 
riculture is preparing n Weed Catalogue for the 
State. It is designed to make complete lists and 
descriptions of the noxious weeds affecting the 
agriculture of the State, with notes in aid of 
their control or eradication. Whatever practi¬ 
cal results may tonic of it, such a list will be 
both an interesting and instructive study forth© 
Maine farmers and gardeners. 
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Correction.—In oim article on “ Wool Growers’ 
Associations" last week, last paragraph of first 
column, first line, for “attending” read “allud¬ 
ing;” in last paragraph hut ono of the article, 
fourth line, for “ political" read “potential.” 
