CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
of men who feel most grievously the bur¬ 
then of taxation eoubl direct the disburse¬ 
ments from the Treasury, we fancy that 
sundry sinecure positions would he abol¬ 
ished and that there would be a speedy cut¬ 
ting down of expenses. And no man who 
sought an office, as for hidden treasures, 
would get. one. 
It, has become too much a profe°sion—this 
office seeking If it is to be regarded as a 
profession, it, ought, to rank among vocations 
with pocket picking, loafing and confidence 
operations generally. And the man who 
devotes himself and his life to the struggle to 
get into office and to avoid getting out, 
ought to he regarded as a lunatic, and sent 
by the people to some Asylum for Egotistic 
Fools. 
quote English Cheddars, Sts. to 96s. per cwt. 
Wiltshire double, 72s. to 82s.; Cheshire, 72s. to Sts. 
American extra, 768. to 80s.; pood, 70s.to 7is. 
Butch cheese Edams 00s. to 67s,; Gondas, 50s. 
to fitts.; Derby shape, 58s. to 62s. 
PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT, 
never be any high civilization where the diet of 
a people is limited to a few kinds of staple food, 
no matter how favorable these may be for es¬ 
tablishing what la called a condition free from 
disease. 
Bln# Monday ; Pnti- 
<*ln*.! 
Sctfktjfic A*r» Uwroi.-Chi¬ 
cago Eqnatorinl TeJetcope; 
Hot Spring in Nevada; Or- 
. niunenU ofBpun j Prt-.p- 
arntjon of 6{yf«ftjiC; Cam p- 
| lulkon ; linformeobI•» Ce¬ 
ll merit; IketU Oil. i 
KofTontata, Ejc.-Fatl Onih* 
#r!i>r; To Hr |n or Ool; Ru¬ 
ral Not** and Qoeri«N. —Our 
1 IJJuitritlon '•( f'r'c' Poultry, 
Norway Om$. Tho 
A n?w«-r*»l f |.inr»i- f i>.in»trial 
Unlrtfill;, Ttn Cvantry 
rbe«40 Market, Adulteration 
of 8r»cd*, Sowlnsr Timothy on 
t’nhrfilvt] Prairw, Improved 
Sale*. »N mu tier of Clo¬ 
ver Seed# Mi a liusJ»ol. Radi¬ 
cal Dortrinn* ftusy to 
Hot Nuw SuO*rrtU#n», The 
Ht»t l"lore to Buy, Improv¬ 
ed fitotx Sa)m lil M»»a- 
cbua#tU r P«'t»*nal, in 
St, Luw»encu Co,, and 
rivlUjtitlon, Aa Kx-i*dimr'a 
Opinion, T r-.i.il# wRli V'cr- 
henns. SubuituLo for Pollen, 
Cyrn arid Cco Meal for 
Horse*, To I imfctov Plant 
Lice, Onto? Cul*. »<r*, Cure 
thi> itcAvet. itlaiid Clover; 
IndiiftVrUI f^wei-elifrv...22 
EfM.cATjo.NAL. Mutio in 
Sobovl* ; SuirffMttaDe 
1'/iiMr]i#rii — Gtuuittiar anti 
Arifhtoei'Ci Touch Good Eo- 
glnli ; A CHamcUriaiic Al- 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL. LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
An Ex-Editor'* Opinion. —A ret ired gentleman, 
formerly Editor of a leading Agricultural jour¬ 
nal writes us in this wise: 
•‘The Rural Is a marvel to me for Its size, beswitv, 
and excellence of matter and arrangement. I will 
not boro yon with compliments, but must say vonr 
tact .mo enterprise are remarkable. I am especially 
surprised that you could sreure the services of so 
able a corps of Editors and Special Contributors. " 
Easy to Get Yew Subscriber*.—Tho universal 
testimony of its Agent-Friends is that, since its 
enlargement, it is far easier to obtain new sub¬ 
scribers for the Rural than ever before. Many 
write that they form clubs in half the time it re¬ 
quired in former year?; and the fine lists of new 
subscribers we are daily receiving prove that 
clubs are easily and speedily formed. One agent 
tellaof procuring nine subscribers in a half day- 
after he had made tip hi? club and started for the 
bank to purchase a draft. Another say? lie pro¬ 
cured twenty subscribers (most, of them new) in 
a single day, and thinks the premium worth two 
weeks of as hard work a? it required. Mr. Syl¬ 
vester LnuMA.N of Sharon, N. Y„ who sends a 
club of twenty, (13 of them new.) write.?: —* l I 
have got up clubs for tho Rural for about fifteen 
years, and never before bad so little trouble in 
proc u ri n g new a ubseribers.' 
— Those who wish to be liberally rewarded for 
a little effort, should form a club for the Rural 
and secure a premium, See notice headed “ Tn u 
Rural's Spring Campaign,” on our last page. 
2>. D. T. MOORS, 
Condunting Editor and Proprietor 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
Subscription —Throe Dollars « Year. To Club* 
and Agents, Five copies for $14; Seven, and one free 
to club agent, for $19: Ten. and one free, for $25—only 
$2.50 per copy. As wr pre-pay A rnerlenn postage, $2.70 
is t he lowest Club rate, to Canada anil $0.50 to Europe. 
The best way to remit la hy Draft, or Post-Office 
Money Order,—and all Drafts and Orders made pay¬ 
able to t he Publisher at a v be MAILED AT ms bisk. 
Anna: using — Inside, 75 cents per line. Agate 
space; Outxide, $1 per line. For Extra Display and 
j Cuts, a price and a hair. Special and Hu dues* Notices 
j charged according to position. No advertisement ln- 
! sorted for less than $1. 
Tjtk large and rapidly-increasing circulation of the 
Rural New-Yorker render* it necessary to put 
the forma to press earlier than heretoforehence 
in secure insertion advertisement* for tho inside 
J should reach die New York Office on Friday morn¬ 
ing, and for tho outside page* on Saturday morning 
of the week preceding publication. 
Trouble with Verbenan.—I have in a green¬ 
house over three hundred v-rbenas, some of 
which are in three-inch and some more in five- 
inch pots, t'p to about, eight or ten days ago 
you could not. wish for a more healthy lot of 
plants; they were all that could be desired, and 
seemed to be doing so nicely; but lately, the 
leaves began to get margined with white, almost 
like some of the variegated geraniums; in a few 
days tnore'a great many of them were covered 
with white spots, und now the white is changing 
to a brown color, and the plants look as if they 
had been burnt up. Will you. or some reader of 
the Rural, explain the nature of this disease? 
Wliat is the cause of it, and what shall I do to 
remedy it ?—C. D., jVeieport, Ky. 
Jituipk Co. Kin# AppU; 
" Curccllt* hi Ar*j 1«* Wild 
G<X*-o l Ju*r»; lUIu'fi Early 
F#4rh Thn ftcbftCCA Grape 
for Market ; Bril Current# 
for fivrklrsirr £o., !s\ V.; 
Upland Ctttnb^rr$ ; Stmw- 
hurrim for North JI Itoolt; 
Piaiut for Wi«coniin ; Cher- 
Dm for WltcwxftU ; Crun* 
btrrj VJnef ...532 
Afckoktu «TUHt: TreePUnl* 
tnv — Allim v*. (}tto\ty } 
Tjftt for lurwil Planting in 
N.llhooli; Krerirrann’IuOru 
or tturuitijf brush * JMinure 
for Pouch Mini 1 ’oar Trsu* * 
Tree Uuni ; Ornamental 
Hltrutm for North Illinois... .282 
Tnr f«»nar*ityi, Marling 
Cuhhuy:*' Plant* j Planting 
Piriu ; LmWII (ffd-* ; Mot 01 H 
and Cutumhem in tho Wo*t 282 
Terr VoxvAltf}.—Ornpr Prun 
In;* ; ) Ltirjfe 
Grip; Vino* ..233 
DrwtJ**ia*¥. N*#w York Fnr- 
Fn#r,‘,‘ Club—I'UiUiiii? J'rcct, 
A Flump Puller, The Pro- 
fev«>r rtf Agriculture, Coal 
Aahe< for Hen, K§ri? Pkint 
Cull a re, I)omo*tio*iinsf Buf» 
fiJun, Curt-ul j iiwmodv. 
Coal ,N*W on lf«avv Bolu, 
Cot) A#hr*» And ll>*n Ntrinurc, 
Btvrlwy Afmr Corn, Grain in 
Butler, Eiuuiol ar.i., Mivh., 
Valor* nnd M«n MCtmont of 
Boni»*, Ajiplr T'r•#. , Borer,The 
Y. Suit# Poultry Kxh(- 
Mtion. ’J’lmher for TuacloK, 
Wh#r« and How to Bow 
Clovrr.. 
IwM*anu*LToric«. -Manuroa 
—From Mineral amlUr^nnie 
Sourcy*.234 
Tjik HgnnflMAN. — Keeping 
Stock—A Conundrum (!on- 
rcrn'n '4 the Value of Slump 
Miumro...234 
ENlftMotooirAT..— Inquiry An. 
itvcrfel—K jcjcm of Ihii \Unt a 
or Kcer-liOraO ( llluetratod ;) 
Canker Worm, .. ...234 
Farm Egonomv. - MapJo Nu- 
yir Mviiiifartiua ; M.*aa irlnjf 
liny ; l lukler on Dry, Handy 
T.o«Tn; Fotioe Mntarlnl; Aj*»- 
ply.njc r> ulnarhed AatiM 10 
CrA-M Laiiil.... v.*g| 
Daiht Hi uoamihv. — North- • 
weateirn J)«lr>luK •Foodltijr 
tliHStock, The M.tnnrca, C*U 
of Taltiuu Cur»i of Slock,The 
llojn nun Their ^'uir tvm.Thn 
En^ioa, Ollier Buildings Tho 
M«m, Ct#l anti ProBt>. Tho 
A't|Olu!ti« Farm : Tax on 
Cbrc/ic S«)m llemovcd.288 
Domicmtic ISconomv. — Cook¬ 
ing BnaTiR (Poetry;) Sunday 
l>»m»ar$ ; Apphu for Desoert: 
Sunday PIodcm ; Pickled 
Walmitaj Brown Bread; 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Our Illuotratlon* nf Prize Poultry. — The en¬ 
graving portraying the Prize Fowls at the recent 
Exhibition of the New York Kudo Poultry So¬ 
ciety, given on our first page, will attract atten¬ 
tion. Poultry fanciers, especially, will admire 
the benuty and t ruthfulness of the portraits, in 
contrast with the caricatures published in the il¬ 
lustrated papers journals that claim accuracy 
and style In their representations. We are great¬ 
ly surprised that, Harper's Weekly should give, 
ns an illustration of fowls at this New York Poul¬ 
try Miow, u picture published in tho London 
Illustrated News of Dec. 12th, 18<W, representing 
the prize fowls at the Birmingham and Midland 
Counties Show, England! Those who are curious 
can compare the two pictures—in the News and 
Weekly -and sec how much was “sketched by 
Stanley Fox” at the New York Show. The 
truth is that the illustration was mainly trans¬ 
ferred from the London paper mid used here as 
original and representing birds at our Poultry 
Show! It may be a cheap way of producing 
picture?, but i? certainly unworthy the name and 
1'ame of a leading American publishing house. 
-The illustration we give is from careful and 
laborious Studies of t he prize birds, made at the 
Show by Mr. Edwin Forbes, and engraved by 
Mr. E. Sears of New York. We.are assured 
that, our engraving is the best representation of 
fowls ever made in this country, and we know 
that it is original and will boar criticism. 
Adulteration of Heed*.—The Itoyal Horticul¬ 
tural Society of England has been investigating 
the charges of adulteration of seeds. They 
quietly bought up packages from the leading 
wholesale bouses, and had the packages tested, 
publishing tho proportion of good seeds to bad 
from each package from each house. In many 
cases only ten per cent were good, and very few 
went over fifty per cent. The most common 
form? of trickery appear to be that, when tho 
stock on hand is short, and the demand good, 
some worthless kind Is roasted enough to de¬ 
stroy the germ, and mixed with a few of the 
desired thing, which, of course, is the only lot 
(hut grows. The purchaser gets his “pound of 
seed," but only an ounce or two comes up. 
These mbiIterations are defended on the ground 
that the public will have the lowest price seeds, 
and that all have to do “what the other? do,” in 
order to be able to sell at all. There are a few, it 
appears, who sell good seed, and these have, 
after a struggle at first, found that “ honesty is, 
after all, the best policy.” 
AitiPBaY- 
Substitute for Pollen.- Mrs. Srattuck wishes 
to know what to feed her bees as a substitute 
for pollen. Use finely ground, unbolted rye 
meal. Put it in large shallow boxes, and set it 
in a sunny corner in the apiary, where the wind 
will have but little effect. PUT a few drops of 
anise oil in it to attract the bees, and they will 
soon be at work.—WM. Harrison, IlopcdaZc, O. 
imi’» K»#*(Po»lrr;) Grand- 
fat her'a Story ; To Young 
Men,. m 
Lantita' Pout Folio- — Joal- 
mmy tFootry;) The Woman 
Qu<‘«lion ; Mittrh- Making ; 
Little Null; Our Spite Box.230 
Modi* aMakviiui. Fa*b- 
inti CHlti-hai - Wh.it the Gen¬ 
eral 0J)«in;ngft Dir Irani, One 
Wrj| 1 
Cron fiat Nit-.. Wr Ajr* in Gen- 
mrtl, Jravfiini: 'iloni- 
in>; Dui*a, CuHdroft’** Snlla, 
Apron*, J'uratoi*. Japanese 
Gootlk.. 
S A lift A Til 
SATURDAY, APRIL 10,1869, 
Pern and Cob Monl for Horse*. —One of your 
correspondents asks if corn and cobs ground 
together will injure horses. I think not, if not 
red in too large quantities. Horses will eat cobs 
and all without grinding, if a little hungry. I 
think it better, if chopped up for them. Corn 
cob meal should be ground very fine. — H. K. 
Mench. 
FACT GATHERING 
Tnr, stubbornness of a fact is proverbial; 
but it is the chief constituent of its value. 
The value of a rock as a foundation stone 
depends upon its impcrviability — upon 
whether its texture resists all influences, at¬ 
mospheric and otherwise, which operate to 
effect its disintegration. The value of a fact 
depends upon its place in generalization. It 
is always an integer; but its economic value 
depends upon its relation to other facts — 
upon the use that can be made of it. 
A realized fact, one which is revealed to a 
man through his senses, by his experiences, 
his observation, demonstrated to him in ma¬ 
terial shape, is always more powerful in 
influencing his action than that class of facts 
which tic only acquires through books. In 
the first case lie always comprehends a fact 
which is demonstrated, and lie bases his ac¬ 
tion upon it with confidence: in the second 
case there is always a chance for a doubt to 
exist, and that doubt renders him timid. He 
reads formulas and believes them; hut his 
abiding fail It in them is not born until he tins 
tested their validity. 
Thus much preliminary to saying that the 
season for fact, gathering has begun. Every 
day develops phenomena which the out-of- 
door man may profit by observing. The 
sun is setting in motion all the: hidden forces 
of Nature. It is heating the great boiler, 
and behold the whole complex machinery 
of this marvelous manufactory is performing 
its functions with the accuracy born of fixed 
laws. These laws we should study. These 
functions wc should comprehend. This ma¬ 
chinery we should know how to use for our 
own benefit. Tho opportunity is before us 
—from the date of this paper until snow 
falls God’s Great Engine will run for us, 
and the power thus afforded us free may 
be used as we will, limited only by our 
knowledge and skill, provided we disobey 
no natural law. 
Begin the harvest then. Gather the facts. 
Hunt for the causes. Trace them from their 
effects. Jump at no conclusions. Remember 
that a tree is known by its fruit — not by the 
color of its bark, por by its shape. Facts, 
like men, originate in one great Cause, 
They are begotten by law. They are related 
to each other. They are parts of a whole 
system. That system is what we should study. 
Every fact gained and comprehended is a 
boll thrown back in the lock which shuts us 
out from the comprehension of the grand 
Economy of God. 
Rkaduyo, — Over 
Mild Or nr Again ( For try ;) 
Lay lYnachliig , Tint Lunuli- 
h«m of Ghriti 
N’kwm nvTtiK W kmc,—D omes¬ 
tic Niavj - Incluiiim- Nt'\v» 
from Washington♦KW York, 
Now H.»mji*hir.., Vi*rmnnt, 
■ 
lVii n # y t v hi ii • i. Ma r >• land, V i r- 
*>3f« 
•To De*troy Plnnt Lirr. Geo. F, Eelley : You 
can destroy plant lice by furatgathur the plants 
with tobacco smoke. We have seen it asserted 
that the fume? of resin will also destroy them. 
Syri ngi nsr plants with a mi Id deooet ion of tobac¬ 
co is generally an effect,mil remedy. 
ronnrylVHm'.L.ALirvlati'l, V»r- 
f ltnlft, North CartjlTfn, Uouh** 
nn«, MiMiMijijv., Tniinojtoo, 
Ohio. liiditwiH, llltniiA, Alin* 
nfftotn, Michigan, MU*ourl, 
Nnbrmk*, Kmiwm, AU».kn., 
Dominion of Catuuln, Nova 
fcVoti-i; Foreign Novra In¬ 
cluding New* from Japan, 
i Fhlnn, Gn nl Britain, Spain, 
j Cubit, BiiYftri*. ...240, 241 
Tub Maiikrtv - Stoek and 
' Money j Frodaco oiid Fro- 
vUionK ; Li vo Stork, ,.. ...241 
Puiftav a t. Irinm,—Ivrl.irr-Bng 
| Foiioual Brwitliuk.242 
j XKW* AND NoA’KLTIM.— Con- 
talnlnc 'J'wolve lt<*m* * t Th* 
! Nvw I'okUgr* Slainpr.?42 
TuxN tw$ (!'ix of hht it —Over 
Sixty LaDt I u to reali tig Jln«v- 
1th-. 24S 
Wrr aad Hirvon.—A H«ml- 
niBccnr* of the Stngo , A 
MmvMrJ<ol BarAhnatlr* (lllua- 
trated ; Cliiiipset of Gtiruui.24d 
The Ftt7TLVR. MctaKrnm, 
Kebiu, Knigma, Ctc ., ,,..244 
Sowing Timothy on Unbroken Prairie, — A cor¬ 
respondent of the Kansas Farmer runs tame 
grasses into prairie and wild grasses out. a> fol¬ 
lows “Bow one btishel of seed on five acres of 
land, with heavy grass, in September, ant! 
then cut the grass, and leave it- as it falls. 
This will give a partial set, which should be 
mulched the same way next fall. But to insure a 
full set tit. ouce, scatter an abundance or barn 
litter regularly over the ground, during the fall 
and winter after sowing, i know u pint, of 
ground perfectly *ol with timothy and clover, 
simply by throwing upon it. stable litter from 
where these grasses had been fed. It was prairie 
that had not been grazed or trampled out." 
Onion Culture.—A Subscriber wants the ex¬ 
perience of practical onion growers as to the 
best kind to plant, amount of seed per acre, dis¬ 
tance apart to plant, average crop with good 
culture, etc. 
Norway Oat*.— We have published articles 
pro and con with reference to these oats. A mis¬ 
laid letter dated Feb. 10t h, ha? just turned up. 
It is from J. IJ. Gabber, Columbia, Pa., who 
writes us ho sent to New York for two quarts 
thereof. To test their weight, ho measured the 
“twoquarts" found that, i here were two quarts 
and three-fourths of one pint. Weighing 1 hem, 
he found they weighed cxnetly orjc pound and 
thirteen ounces sack included- Calculating what 
one bushel would weigh wit h three-fourths of a 
pint to every two quarts, additional, wo would 
have just twenty-four and eleven-nineteenths 
pounds per bushel instead of thirty-two pounds, 
the standard weight. Mr. Guni,a adds:— “ We 
have jnsi been informed by a neighbor, who also 
Invested a dollar, that on measuring tho quart 
hiS Yiad m arly a pint move, besides, ho informs 
us that, on critically examining it. he found seeds 
of that worst of all weeds—the Canada Thistle! 
The ten dollarsn bushel to be paid for these oats 
is a mere trifle compa red with tho incalculable 
injury that farmers will sustain by the introduc¬ 
tion of this pest on their farms. Will those who 
have secured these oats please weigh and mea¬ 
sure their samples — and see how facts and ad¬ 
vertisements agree?—and search closely for the 
seeds of weeds also? My neighbor says he will 
commit his sample to the flames, and advises mo 
to do the same." 
To Cure the Heaves.—A. P. B. asks if any of 
our correspondents can give him a sure cure for 
a horse “ just coming down with tho heaves.” 
A Dike Clover.— A correspondent flsks for ac¬ 
tual experience with Alsike Clover. Who will 
give it? 
Improved stock Pale*.—Dr. A. D. Newell, 
New Brunswick, N. J.. has recently sold to J. E. 
Ashcroft. Rt. l>ouis. Dio., the Jersey heifers 
Adelaide and Bessie, and to F. A. Potts, Potts- 
Pivm, N. J., the Jersey Daisy. Also, to L. E. 
Rice. New York, the Ayrshire bull Angus, and 
to Prof. Cook of the N. J. State Agricultural 
College Farm, the Ayrshire bull .Sir Laddie. Dr. 
N. has also purchased three Jersey cows of 
At,van ADAMS, E q.. Boston, Mass. 
Messrs. J. M. & 0. F. Aldrich, Weathersfield. 
Vt-.. have sold to B. H. Catlin. Plainfield, N. H„ 
the four-year old Short-Horn boll Apollo, 5325, 
got by Oneida, 4205, out of Pride ©f Autumn by 
Earl of Warwick. 465. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
p.lic ^ublisbcr a ;Dcsh 
South Wisconsin State Fair_A Fair with this 
name is to be held at Janesville in September. 
The directors offer the following liberal pre¬ 
miums oti field crops, for which six entries will 
be required and ten per cent, of the premium 
for an entrance fee. It is also required that a 
; ample of not less than fifty pound? shall be ex¬ 
hibited at the Fair, the samples to be retained 
by the Society until their uunual meeting, the 
last. Saturday In December, when the number of 
acres and the quantity per acre shall be stated 
under oath. Entries to be mad- as soon as .1 uno 
15th, I860. 
Rent, 20 acres of corn.$50 00 
Best 10 “ “ 25 00 
Best 5 “ " 10 00 
Not less than 60 bushels to the acre. 
Dost 10 acres of tall wheat. 20 00 
Best 5 “ “ . 10 00 
Best t " ” . 5 00 
Not )e*» that 30 bushel* per acre, 
Spring wheat suine a? la.l wheat. 
Be-t lOaures of barley. 15 00 
Best 3 “ “ ., . 8 00 
Not less than 45 bushels per acre. 
Best 10 acre? of rye.. 15 00 
Best 5 “ “ .. 8 00 
Not less than 25 bushels per acre. 
Best 10 acres of oats.. 10 00 
Best 6 “ “ ... . 5 00 
Not less than 60 bushels per acre. 
Best 1 acre of potatoes... 10 00 
Best U " •* ... 5 0U 
Not less than 250 bushels per acre. 
Best, 10 acres tame huy. . 10 00 
Best 6 “ “ 5 00 
Not less than 2,w tons per acre. 
A Request.- All non-subscribers into whoso hands 
this number of the Rural ruay fall are requested to 
cxainfne it carefully, noting its Size, Style, Contents, 
&e„ and then decide upon the mm:it? of our claim 
that It is the Lamest, lie si and Cheapest Journal Of its 
Class in the World, And all Interested in its subjects 
and objects are invited to aid in promoting t bo caus c 
of “ Progress and Improvement’ by becoming sub¬ 
scribers and contributors, nod Introducing It to tho 
notice uud support, of oilier sensible people. 
The New Quarter opens well. We are receiving 
now clubs (and additions to clubs) from all parts of 
the country — together with very complimentary let¬ 
ters in regard to the Rural ns enlarged and im¬ 
proved. Thanks, Good Friends! If you " keep the 
ball moving" we shall soon bo enabled to nmkn still 
further Improvements tn tho favorite Rural, Liter¬ 
ary and Family Weekly. 
Premium#.— Our rule is to pay all Premiums us 
promptly as possible, after those entitled to them 
designate what, they want (in case* where they have 
a choice of articles.) and advise ns how and where to 
forward. We have sent, premium* to over a hundred 
club agents during the past week, but there are a 
few instances in which wn must, wait for specific di¬ 
rections, or for accounts to bo posted — which latter 
is being done as rapidly us possible. 
Free Copies. —Those who Rake free copies for 
forming clubs are not entitled to Premium*. This 
matter is plainly spool Hod <n our Premium List, yet 
some cull for both free copiesand premiums. Road 
our offers, w hich are really more liberal than can bo 
afforded, und govern yourselves accordingly. 
Address to No. 11 Pnrk It«w. New York.— 
Though tile Rural Is published in both New York 
City and Rochester. X. Y,, the principal printing and 
mailing offices are in New York, and hence all agents 
are requested to address 
if. it. r. .voon jf, 
T\<i. 41 Park Rote, New York, 
Show Bills, Specimen Numbers, &c., sent 
free to all applicants. If you want such documents, 
let us know and they will be forwarded. 
Number of Clover Seed* in n Bushel.— One rainy 
day a correspondent of the Country Gentleman 
counted the number of clover seeds in a cubic 
inch, and estimated that if he had counted a 
whole bushel the number would have, equaled 27,- 
000,000. As there are 43,500 square inches in an 
acre, lie found that one pock would furnish over 
one seed to each square Inch of ground. His es¬ 
timates showed that: a trifle over one pint of seed 
to an acre would give ten plants to the square 
foot. In seeding his land he waits until all dan¬ 
ger from freezing and thawing is passed, and has 
had good success with less than four quarts per 
acre, sown after May 1. 
The Question An*wered.—The question “ Why 
new land does not produce as well a? when the 
country was new,” has oft en been asked through 
the agricultural Press, and as often answered 
many theories given, though not Hie right one, 
in my opinion. The irue reason, I think, is sim¬ 
ply this:—When the country was new wood and 
lumber were so plenty that all the forest trees, 
except the choicest, were burned in the fallow, 
leaving the ashes upon the land. Most of the 
substance which passed oil’ in the air in form of 
heat and smoke would settle ro earth again with 
dews and raiu, leaving the accumulated products 
of centuries upon the soil. Now a far different 
course is pursued. All trees til for lumber are 
taken to the saw-mills all fit forties to some 
railroad station, and nearly ail that, is loft fit for 
stove orcord wood, and Unit too is either taken 
off or sold, leaving nothing but brush to burn. 
What is the real difference whether all the trees 
are taken off and sold, or whether the land was 
cleared many years ago and all of its products 
taken off and sold ? Who can expect fert ile soil 
where everything ie taken off and nothing re¬ 
turned, and why discuss the question?— Myron 
A. Eddy, Hornhy , JV. Y, 
Radical Doctrine. V correspondent of the 
New England Farmer preaches this kind of gos¬ 
pel, to wit:—“A farmer can undoubtedly live 
without an agricultural paper. So also can he 
live and not grow a sheep, or a hog. or a horse 
if he keeps oxen, or without oxen if he keeps a 
horse. Yet good farmers do not believe they 
can afford to be without sheep, or hogs, or 
horses, or oxen. Nor do I believe they can affor d 
to he without an agricultural ntiOSjxtper any belter 
than without either of the above mentioned useful 
animals,” 
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The Best Place to Buy,— We are almost daily 
asked by our correspondents where is the best 
place to buy seeds, plants, trees, shrubs, ma¬ 
chines, &c„ of ibis, that and the other kind. Of 
course we cannot reply to all such inquiries ex¬ 
cept in this general way. Buy of those who ad¬ 
vertise what you want in the RURAL, and of the 
one who is located nearest you, other things be¬ 
ing equal. 
Mn?sachusettB Dairymens’ Association.—The 
annual meeting of the Massachusetts Caor.v* 
Manufacturers’ Association was held at Bane, 
February 18th, and was well attended. The ag¬ 
gregate amount of cheese produced by tbe eight 
cheese factories represented was, for the year 
1868, 1,020,015 pounds. The following statistics 
from the factories are reported: 
C<**t per 100 Net price 
Nemo of Factory. Lh«. of Mill? Ibr. lor ShIi-o 
per lb. ol cheese. tanking, per 100 lbs. 
P.arrn Central. 9.35 $2.27 $14.50 net 
Karre.10, uO 2.67 13.77 
Barre Soul li west.lO.'G 2.87)4 16.2(1 
Hardwick Center.y.01 2.34If 11.44 net 
Now Braintree.10.05 Not stated 13.60 
Petersham., 2.65 2.25 12.93 net 
Wilbruham.9.64 Not stated 12.97 net 
Worcester county. 9.76 2.25 13.05 
Illinois Imbed rial University,— The Prairie 
Farmer discusses the condition of this institu¬ 
tion in a recent issue and closes the two-and-a- 
hait column editorial with the following para¬ 
graph:—“Wo see no hope for the institution 
without a radical change; for, wherein does the 
‘Industrial University,' under its present re¬ 
gime, differ from tn se other institutions from 
which it was rescued a i , very beginning only 
by such determined and persevering effort? It 
is a school of learning by itself, it is true; but 
the agricultural department is only an attach¬ 
ment to a classical college, instead of the classi¬ 
cal department being an attachment to an 
agricultural college, a? its founders intended, if, 
indeed, they desired to have the classics studied 
at all." 
It is not an unworthy ambition to desire 
to serve one’s country, abstractly. But it 
is unfortunate for the country that so much 
lime and money are wasted in efforts to se¬ 
cure such chances, for the more a man 
spends to obtain office the more he expects 
to get out of the office as compensation. 
And tho industry of the country must pay 
these bills of indolent, ambitious and un¬ 
scrupulous politicians. This is becoming 
an onerous burthen. Young men are lured 
from legitimate business to struggle for place 
in the civil service of the nation. This de¬ 
ranges business, increases the proportion of 
consumption to production, and the taxes, 
directly or indirectly, of every laboring man 
and property holder. 
The spectacle at Washington of the army 
of hungry office seekers jostling each other 
and driving the heads of Departments into 
the incipient stages of insanity hy their 
clamor for place, is humiliating and sicken¬ 
ing. Tax gather'” r and tax consuming is 
w VJ o 
found easier than tax paying. If some 
means could be devised by which the class 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
Northwestern Manufacturer's Association.— 
The oflicors elect for 1809 are President— Geo. 
8 . Bowen. Vicc~Frrjiidents— F. K. Niekolls, Illi¬ 
nois; F. G. Gross, Ohio: J. C. Walters, Wiscon¬ 
sin ; A. T3. Gardner, .Michigan ; Joseph Shields, 
Iowa; T. V. Horton, Indiana; Mr. Gibson, Min¬ 
nesota; O. E. Crawford, Kansas; M. Ross, Mis¬ 
souri. Treasurer and Secretary— Jesse McAllister. 
Assistant Secretary— Mi*. Holla. 
The next exhibition is to be held at Cincinnati, 
and will commence the first Tuesday in August. 
WHY BE DISFIGURED 
With ulcers, erysipelas, sores, pimples, boils or any 
superficial eruption, when the vitiated blood that 
produces them can be cleansed and vitalized by 
taking Stafford's Jiion and Sulphur Powders. 
The metallic element of this Invaluable combi oat ion 
increases the vital force of the system, and tile sul¬ 
phur resolve* the venom in the circulation into a 
fluid which is expelled in the form of insensible per¬ 
spiration. In all ease* of cutaneous and ulcerous 
diseases, the pores tire In a torpid condition. The 
iron stimulates these vessels, and they rapidly dis¬ 
charge the contaminating humors which the action 
of the sulphur lias eliminated from the blood. This 
is the philosophy of the rapid cures of external dis¬ 
ease effected bv these Powders. 
Bold by Druggists, t Package, 12 Powders, SI: 6 
Packages, 72 Powders, $5. Mailed Free. HALL & 
RUC1CKL, -IS Greenwich Street, New York. 
Improved Stock Sales in Massachusetts. — Mr, 
R. Goodman of Lenox, has sold to W. E. Skin¬ 
ner, Hamburgh, N. J., the bull, Woodstock, got 
by 3d Earl of Carlisle, 2,804, out of Laura 5th by 
Brother Jonathan 2d, 2,570; heifers, Whitefaee, 
by Rosalie's Oxford, 0,138, dam Orange Flower, 
by Red Rover, 2,109 ; and Hytila, by Rob Roy, 
6,128, dam Eva 3d, by Red Duke, 4,295, 
The New England Agricultural Society has de¬ 
cided to have a trial of Mowers. Tedders, Horse 
Rakes, and Horse Forks on the Agricultural 
College grounds at Amherst. Mas?., commencing 
Tuesday, Junc 22, and continuing three days. 
Personal.— Jonathan Peri am. who has just 
resigned his place as Superintendent of the Illi¬ 
nois Industrial University Farm, goes, we learn, 
to Chattgworth in the employ of the Germania 
Sugar Boot Manufacturing Company. Mr. 
Pkriam has had large experience in “ truck ” 
fanning, and will be “at home" in sugar beet 
culture. 
The Country Cheese .Market.—There were no 
transactions in cheese at the Little Falls market 
for the week ending April 3d. The “ late ends'’ 
of dairies have been nearly all sold. There may¬ 
be a few lots back, but the roads in the country 
are extremely bad, and in some places almost 
impassable, on account of the deep snows which 
are beginning to thaw. We shall have no cheese 
market here of much account until the new 
crop of cheese begins to come in. Many of the 
factories have commenced operations. Cows in 
Herkimer have gen orally wintered wed L where 
abortions have not occurred, and we shall start 
with a fair make of early cheese. Spring butter 
sells at from 45 to 40c. 
Our advices this week from abroad state that 
cheese In London is firm, and stocks are low. We 
The New England Agricultural Society has ac¬ 
cepted the proposition of the Maine State Agri¬ 
cultural Society to hold a joint exhibition the 
coining fall at Portland. The date at which the 
Fair is to be held is not yet fixed. 
FRAGRANT AND PLEASING, 
Snow in St. Lawrence Co.— A letter from Ells¬ 
worth, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., dated March 22, 
says:—“Snow in this county is full four feet 
deep —tho fences being entirely drifted over in 
some places. It snowed eighteen days in succes¬ 
sion in February. Roads are perfectly awful.” 
Coloate & Co.’s Toilet Poaps arc widely 
known-Fragrant nn<1 pleasing—They have a soften¬ 
ing influence on the skin.-Plttsburgh Christian Adv, 
The Henry Co. (lil.) Ag. Sue. holds its 14th 
Annual Fair at Cambridge, September 7th, 8th, 
9th and 10th. 
Ontario Ag. Association. — Officers for 1869: 
President— Edwin Mallory. V. P-, L. E. Ship- 
ley ; Sec., H. C. Thompson; Trcas., G. Graham. 
$5 WILL SECURE THE RURAL 
One year and 25 Kittatinny Blackberry Plants, deliv¬ 
ered at your nearest post-office. Get the best. Get 
the GENUINE. E. WILLIAMS, Montclair, N. J, 
Food and Civilization. —The New York Tribune 
says it may be stated as a law, that there will 
