CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
“PROCRES8 AND IMPROVE WENT.’ 
lien ai. —Collage* for WorklrtK Moo (111 UltraWd}) 
CbtAp Hrlck Wall* ....**»*.. ... 
About tut South* - lAiwt* In OiorgU... ,Wi 
Fn,i> CH<>n».—-Cora Culture—Hoar Largo Profit* arc Realized In 
Npw York htale.*. m 
SliBKP iUmz*vDKV. —Stale fcb$*p Fair; Rural Wool Ratiort* ; 
h.unj.l.-K of Wool; Wool MarkoU and LottOf fchaeii In Ohio} 
Thu Winter and tH* hi Michigan ; Rat India Wool CIm 
rlttriitino . Dwrijillou wfllfeed* of Sh*ap | !#|»ort*tlpB w CoU* 
wold*. ... 
Titr Haicttraaw. Working- Bull*: To I>o*trojr l.im on Cattle* 
Hollow Horn In CultU -Provnutm j Cura for CUoktd OatUe *1W9 
The Swim* Sv» in«-BrnoA* and ; Turnip* for 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AS ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conducting Editor ajx*l l^ropriotor. 
Thk A pi a itt an, Raiiioviug llooey Rose*; Transferring Rene; 
hlrulnlng Honey ... . ....'*•»..263 
The ViNHVAUD. In the Yiiwynnl - Piantl g Grape VJnt* ; Grape 
Synonym*, ...... * 
The fiAKUtvtft. — In tbo O&fdeo Making Cutting*, Hoot Cut- 
ting*, Spring Budding. .....20* 
Flokicultuiu. rfoU*a on Flowwriug JTuiL® - Summor Flowering 
Jin 11>%; Flora of Central Illinois....«•«*»••••. ....261 
Paiky HuiiiAarmv.—AU- nt Mill* Houses. Carting Cream ; The 
Country Market; Abortion In Cow* ; Feeding for Milk.?07 
PouoLoaicAt. - The Goodata Pear ( Ulustnvt*) i) The Miami 
Kn'intiorrv . Tin* Lm’«io .. Peach Notneiulature j Train 
Jng Kio*pV„.f • ... nnd BlieiWrki; Hunt'* RneM*t j Reapherrv 
to Plant: "S*uR*li Or.-un Cup M Kaipbcrry i Ohio Red ClumR 
Apple; Fig*In PcimiylTania. .... 
AiiaontcuLTuaa. - A “ Motiegm's ** Blood Stirred Wbat he 
ha* iJ me, u»4 lf>vr he l>’<i Hie Tree Planting ; Pl.'uiilng IfPCh* 
nrds ; How Out Ori hnrd li Trwlelj While Willow for 
nrua ; uuw uiih i/r- itrer'i n i hum-i , *» • ■. 
Making I Tree Root/ . Treatment of True* In Orchard I too we I 
Cnrcullo Remedy ; Mrtntr* for ml Orchard ; Tgaa*planMng IumI 
Cedar. . ....265 
DiNCUHetOAH. \*w Tori Kunnw** Club Rrorm Corn t ulture, 
Red Top for lfa> V.’Ut C*kr*,fe<iWMj Com for Fprage, Making 
‘ Rutter from On* Cow, I'rufiU of Fowl*, N>*rw*y Orit*, Si raw 
burry Bozee, Preparing Hoc Laud* for Small l 1 nut*, Rnglian 
Sparrow*. Poullf* ppiflu, ClluiaU fur liY'popUct.Cur* for »J"g 
Cindcrn, rnHlu<*t]v*ni«u ,*f Nclmuki Ntvbine for Sowing 
Pl.mtor, On- Tln»u*and Hem t-ih, Ao«, Pickling CncuiftDfrs, ^ 
A (pieeUog of Pfivilqg*, A* ftrindlgg . . .. • • ■?<*.. 
Fa mm Economy*.—F arm Fenre* fniOAtfut^d, Concluded}) Turkojn 
v». firiUMdinpjwr*; Till Ken t law* of Mttedurl.....VoG 
The Poultry Yard. Poultry MiMftfplfMlit - A Ohoap Hen 
Hou***, Th* «»»i»w In Ch<rT-n»; To Keep Fowl* Healthy ; V*i 
toning Poultry in Prum -, A Sat Hug R,m*u*r, Ciapie In thicken i.?05 
The ll'VfcKe^Aa.- Hid** Memoranda -Rarlay Slraw for Horse*, 
8wrM*nlu,T<» Prwvmt a M*ri. Aliorllng,Colt with a tfseWtf* Lip.266 
Uyuirsio Imoii —Sioucnabla Suggestion* -Chronic. New- 
rulgiri A Qtt..ry; Sum Cot* fora Felon or any bad Swelling 
rm n fton*i : To Cure VN art*, Cough M»?dW inr; Reovedy for 
Rtirn* and .V*ld» Itrk Prevuntivi*; Dry ICorth for Picon .,,.266 
Domestic Economy.—G ood Bread , Pudding » Y*n*t Cake*.287 
fsCMNrmc AM* l.’azepl.. 5$oun>laof ’!>t*/rar»li Wine; Tnlareet- 
Jng /'.xpurhiiunU fn lUeclrtcUy; A \. w Cement for Botllu*: 
Power ol the gun's Heal; A flaka Wanted. ...............267 
EoiToniAi.*, Etc. - Cvunmlsiiouof of Agriculture . Parra Studies; 
Rural anil Qparim Obituary. A Model Lesture, Change 
nt 1mm, Tim Eon-Inti <*m|w, Hlf*omy Picture of Oregon, The 
‘Netherlands Eihthitlon, Pern Plowing. Personal* Road the Ad- 
ver«*oment*, A Hum Fa r. English Spvrows, The Seawm, In- 
duRtrial BoeleUe*...**.,*. .... .268 
M<«i>ku anb MAHNnna.—A Talk with the Cable—Answers to Cor- 
rospondente ; Riding HutdU ; Juwclry. ...............769 
Tiik Naturaukt. —Thu Crowned Gouru Pigeon (flUistratod) .,. Vftf* 
Thk RavtawKK.—Now Publications Reviewed.. ..............969 
Story an post Ri uai.ikts. Her Victory; An Every Day Story. 269, 270 
Without an Eniuay... .. ...270 
Am and AitTitTH. lnteroat ng Art G<»»ulp...270 
Ladiik’ Pout Patio. To Mary A. E. Wagur (Poetry ;*) For Yon 
(Poetry j) Woman In Office j Wedded Love; About Hands; Past 
TnivkU.......271 
CitotcK Mimcxi i.avv. Between My Dreams tPoatry 0 Cleverna® 
nnd Mitoliueo k A Sud Te*tin|*»ny; Thu Curlaltiui OSDtli'lOftn » 
Living and Hating; Sand wi-hi**; Purity ol Character; Dry ItalRl 
Saumath Rkaoivu. - My Hoim> fPootty ,) Looking ioJeaus; To 
l>u I lappy; T reaiuros nt J ieavan .... .271 
Kaw.«* o* thk IViu, Doracetlc New* Including Now* from 
Washington, Naw York, Malrm, New IJ(Vroj»blrr*, MxnaacliusotU, 
bo Ilappy; Trcasuros ni)ieavan . ..271 
Kawa nr ms lVm, Doraestlc Ncwv Including N*w» from 
Washington, Naw York, Maine, New HamiMhiro, Ma*»arhtisotU, 
Connecticut, Nitw Jitney, Paflltaylrania, Maryland, Virginia, 
Fan lit tmroliim. DfOigla.^AiUlsIulia, Mluoiavlppl, Tmno****, Ohio, 
Illinois. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lown, Mi»- 
souri, Texas ; Foreign News—including News from Cuba. .273, 273 
Thk M auk Km,—Block mid Money; Produce mid Provision*; 
Live Stock ...274 
r k kfioa a i. Item*. LoUraftlng Personal brevities. ..,,,,..,.,..274 
Nkws and Novki.tmv* .-Containing Twonty one Item*.274 
Tim Nkw* Cor t>RNaEit.—Over Suty f^t# Interesting Brov1tl(»s.275 
For Young pMirrs, — A ftnyk Ode U > Swrlng (Poetry;') Bovs 
Wanted...276 
Tiik Puzti.Kii.—Rsdraa, Kuigmw, McLgruru, Klo.......276 
Wit and Huaioi:. Puimiitg mi af»ravo Subject (Poetry ;) AHOC- 
doto of Sidney Smith , WotildflR| Stir a Step.. ....276 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
A COMPLEXION FRESH AND SPOTLESS. 
This Important olomnnt. of bounty depends upon 
the condition of the blood, and tho rigor with which 
it circulates. If Hio vital lluid, meandering through 
the auiall veins which Immediately underlie tho cull, 
tie, is of a rich red color, nnd flows freely under tho 
toini-lransparont exterior euvelopo, the ooniplexion 
Will be rosy, pure nnd brilliant. STAFFORD'S Iron 
and Bii.i'iii i! I’owincits, by toning tho circulating 
vessels, and depriving the blood of any Impurities It 
may contain, soon remove ptmplna, blotches nnd 
every species of discoloration or eruption trora the 
lace, arms, bosom or any part of the body, and ren¬ 
der the ootuplnxiim as free from blemish as a cloud¬ 
less sty. Taka the powders dry on the tongue. 
Sold by Jirnggtrl - 1 Package, It’ Powders, fl ; li 
Packages, 7.1 Powders, $7. Mailed Free. 11ALL A 
ItUCKISL, SIS lireenwicli Street, New York. 
GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
True business of this enterprising Company, (whose 
central houses are at. 31 and .Ci Vo.ey street in this 
city, and whose advertisements have appeared from 
tune to time in the Christian Advocate,) lias already 
become immense, and is yet constantly Increasing, n 
fact which speaks most Couiplimenlarily of its man¬ 
agement, and commends it still more widely to the. 
oonlidence of tho public . — Christian Advooai«, New 
York t il u- 
INTERESTING TO LADIES. 
IIy Grover & Baker Machine has been over ten 
yearn in steady family use, and has never neoded 
anything in the way of repairs; nnd it. seems Mkely 
to answer us well for the next ten years. 
R. ROOD®, Lexington, Ky. 
FRAGRANCE OF THE BOUQUET. 
Colgate & Co, have boeu completely successful 
in imparting to their Toilet Soaps tho frugrance of 
the bouquet.—! Nashville. Union and Times. 
TO REMOVE MOTH PATCHES, 
Freckles and Tun from Hie face, use Perry’s Moth 
andFkix ki.k Lotion. Prepared only by Dr. li. C. 
Perry, 49 Bund street, New York. Sold by Druggists 
everywhere. 1004-13t 
$5 WILL SECURE THE RURAL 
One year and 25 Kittatluuy Blackberry Plants, deliv¬ 
ered at your nearest, post-office. Get the best, lint 
tbe GENUINE. K. WILLIAMS, Montclair, N. J. 
THE PUBLISHER TO TEE PUBLIC. 
The New Quarter opens troll. We are receiving 
new clubs (ami additions to clubs) from all parts of 
the country — together with very complimentary lct- 
t: In regard to the Rural a* enlarged and Im¬ 
proved. Thanks, Good Friends! If you "keep the 
ball moving" weshall soon be enabled to make still 
further Improvements in the favorite Rural, Liter¬ 
ary and Family Weekly. 
A ildilionM to C'luli* are always in order, whether 
lit ones, twos, lives, tens, orany other number. Many 
agents,after sending one club, form others, and thus 
secure additional or larger promt a ms, A host of 
people are dropping other papers about those days — 
many have already changed to the Rural—A nd our 
Agont-l riouds should improve every occasion to 
secure such as recruits for tho “ Rural Brigade.” 
Iiotv to Remit.—The best way to remit for clubs, 
us we have often stated, is by Draft. If $20 or over, 
send by draft, as there is no risk. For smaller 
amounts it Is best to send by P. 0. Money Order,—but 
if you cam' it do that, send in Registered letters. 
See Publisher’s Special Notices on page 274. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
Subscription —Three Dollars a Year. To Clubs 
nnd Agents, Five copies for $14; Seven, and one free 
to club agent, fort Ik; Ten, and one free, for $25—only 
$2.50 per copy. A « wo pre-pay A merlcan postage, $2.70 
IstheloweM flub rate to Canada and ih.&Oto Europe. 
The best way to remit is by Draft or Post-Office 
Money Order,—and all Drafts and Orders made pay¬ 
able to the Publisher NAY BE MAILED at mu risk. 
Advertising — Inside, 75 cents per line, Again 
vpaec; Outside. $1 per line. For Kxlru Display and 
ruts, a price and a half. Special and Huslncss Notices 
charged according to position. No advertisement in¬ 
serted for less than $3. 
The large and ropidly-lnereasIngclrcuUitlon of the 
Rural New-Yorker renders it necessary to put 
the forms to press earlier than heretofore;- lienee 
to recur* Insertion advertmernents for the inside 
should reach tho Now York Office on Friday morn¬ 
ing, and for the outside pages ou Saturday morning 
of the week preceding publication. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1809. 
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
Telegrams to tho daily papers state that 
President Grant is considering his nomina¬ 
tion for Commissioner of Agriculture. If 
111 is statement means that lie lias decided 
upon substituting somebody for Horace 
Capuon, we hope it is untrue. We trust 
there will be no change. Gen. Capkon took 
charge of the department when it was in a 
demoralized condition. Every change he 
made, eo far as we are aware, lias been de¬ 
cidedly for tho better. He has made very 
few mistakes. The administration of the 
Department has been executed with economy 
and good judgment. As rapidly as possible 
inefficient pets Of politicians, holding sinecure 
positions and who were mere dead weights 
upon the Department, have been removed 
and working men have been substituted. 
More radical changes for the hotter would 
have been wrought could the services of men 
qualified to devise and do tho work of the 
Department have been commanded ; but the 
largest salaries Gen. C apron could offer 
were loss t han the same men could command 
elsewhere. 
Wo do not know that anybody is actively 
seeking to supplant Commissioner Capuon. 
We do not know that President Grant has 
any intention to remove him. Rut, we do 
know that there are men in the country 
holding high position as agriculturists who 
sneer at the Commissioner whenever Ids 
name Is mentioned; yet we never could elicit 
any adequate reason for their sneers. We 
know of uo man — and we have some ac¬ 
quaintance with prominent agriculturists — 
whom we could name who would have so 
steadily, wisely,and unostentatiously redeem¬ 
ed the Department from the disrepute into 
which it had fallen, and retained for it the 
respect and confidence of the best informed 
men of the country. And we can name no 
man to-day to succeed Horace Capkon 
from whom we could hope a better direction 
of the* work of the Department. We know 
that no man can labor more conscientiously 
to promote the industrial interests of the 
country and to deserve and win the confi¬ 
dence and co-operation of the class be re¬ 
presents than Horace Capron has done. 
If we did not believe that any change in¬ 
volving his removal would ho an injury — a 
positive damage to the interests the Depart 
partment is designed to subserve, these words 
would not have been written at this time. 
FARM STUDIES. 
American farmers study how to “ make 
Doth ends meet,” generally. But. too many 
do not go beyond this necessity in their 
studies. Too many fail to succeed in making 
both ends meet because the scope of their 
study is not broad enough. Farmers plow 
their land, fall and spring, for crops. They 
study how they may plow it easiest and 
quickest. Too few stop to inquire the best 
mode of preparing the soil and adapting it 
to the needs of the crop to be grown. It is 
the old roundelay — the sing-song refrain of 
thoughtlessness—plow, plant and harvest, 
fret, fume and complain of the season, and 
then denounce the impositions and oppres¬ 
sions of other classes of men who succeed 
in other business tv bile the fretful farmer fails. 
All this is most unmanly and unnecessary. 
It is spleen born of thoughtlessness, mental 
indolence, and lack of comprehension of 
one's own business. Wo have no sympathy 
with such croakers and croakings whatever. 
We set such men down as out of their 
sphere; and if we were going to advise 
them, would urge them to join the army of 
useful men who dig canals, make railway 
excavations, pound stone, Ac., and complain 
not. The fact is, they would make more 
money earning day wages in this manner 
than they ever will off their farms. And we 
arc not sure hut they would win greater con¬ 
tentment and more, happiness; for their 
cares and responsibilities would end with 
their day's work; and such men do not carry 
care with ease and comfort. 
What, do we mean by farm study? We 
mean that the elements which enter into the 
phenomena of production should be studied 
and, so far as it is possible for finite minds to 
do so, comprehended in their relations to 
each other. We know this is laying out a 
broad field for culture. But we do not ad¬ 
vise any man to attempt to cultivate the 
whole at once. We do urge, however, that 
the farmer walk li is fields with his eyes open 
and his faculties awake, his mind active and 
inquiring, and with the purpose to solve 
such problems as Suggestion shall bring to 
his notice. The resources of a farm to the 
farmer do not consist alone in the dollars 
and cents he can make out of his crops. Un¬ 
til men understand and feel this, the ideal 
farmer will not have made his advent. Cul¬ 
ture of soil should be contemporaneous with 
the culture of one’s self. The riches of the 
particles ol matter the farmer manipulates 
in the shape of manure and earth should not 
be estimated in results to the purse alone, 
but iu the wonderful stimulus and enjoyment 
which is yielded to the inquiring mind. Some 
men will call this twaddle. We pity such 
men. They ought to be put in a treadmill. 
Their lives are doubtless little better than 
that of the dog who furnishes power for the 
churn. 
Study ! Why, dear sir, what do you know 
of the tilings about you? You tread the 
grass and weeds, but do not even know the 
names and nature of the commonest plants 
you tread upon. You don't even know what 
they indicate concerning the soil in which 
they grow and upon which they feed. Thou¬ 
sands of insects make music iu your ears of 
a summer day, fill the air with their flitting, 
and affect the results of your labor, but you 
know nothing about them, and lump off the 
whole marvel of success or failure, and call 
it “ a Providence !” Bali I God gave you 
something to think of and study, but you do 
neither. He punishes you for your indiffer¬ 
ence to His wonderful works and you com¬ 
plain, but grow none tho wiser. It is His 
great goodness, loving kindness and tender 
mercy which permits such stupids to live ! 
Why do we write thus? Because we be¬ 
lieve with the utmost faith that the Mil¬ 
lennium of Labor will only dawn when 
farmers’ eyes are educated to see, their ears 
to hear, their minds to comprehend, and 
their hearts to appreciate the womlerfhl 
wisdom which has made what is as it is. 
And we should like, ere the season is over, 
to ho able to record the evidence that there 
are farmers in this country who have got 
out of the grooves of selfish, thoughtless in¬ 
difference to God’s works, and have learned 
to live a higher and nobler lift; than the 
mechanical, plodding, and barren on© which 
begets nothing elevating whatever. If this 
article lifts one farmer into a new life and 
adds to his enjoyment during the season now 
opening, it will have accomplished its pur¬ 
pose. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
ObRunry.—Col. Benj. P. Johnson, for nearly 
thirty years the able and widely known Coitcb- 
pondinff Secretary of the New York State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, died at his residence in Albany, 
on the ]2th Just., in the 70th year or in;* urt. 
Thousands of our readers, no doubt, have kindly 
remembrances of Col. Johnson, and will, with 
us, regret his decease. In r brief sketch of his 
corewr an Albany paper says Col. J. was agradti¬ 
me of Union college, a lawyer by profession, 
and was a member of assembly for Oneida 
county in 1827. 1828 and ls;M. In 1845 he was 
elected President, of tho State Airricultiiml 
Society, and on the 5tM of January, 1847, was 
chosen Secretary of the Society, which position 
he hold up-to Iho time of ills death. Reserved 
as one of the Commissioners ut the g-reui Exhi¬ 
bition in London, boi hr selected to represent our 
Government, and was one of the most prominent 
of the many distinguished gentlemen present. 
His report to t he authorities at Washington was 
n very interesting paper, receiving the jurist 
fluttering mention at tho time of its publication. 
Up to within a year he bad enjoyed very good 
health, and he was a mun of wonderful energy 
and endurance. 
Mr. Wm. It. Prince, long known as a horticul¬ 
turist, florist and botanist, died at his residence 
in Flushing, N. V., on tho 28th ult., in tho 
seventy-fourth year of his age. Mr. P. was the 
author of several works pertaining to horticul¬ 
ture, among which wo remember t he ” Trea¬ 
tise on the Vine,” the “Pomoiogieal Manual—a 
Treatise ou Fruits,” and the ” Manual of Hoses.” 
He was for a long scries of years proprietor of 
the Linmmn Nurseries at Flushing, and though 
eccentric in some respects—professing, of late 
years, to carry on his horticultural labors under 
the direction of his father’s spirit—he possessed 
rare Information and experience. 
A .Model Lecture - Appreciation — Reform.— 
Tlie recent delay of the Rural, (explained in 
our last issue,) has elicited a good many letters 
from Agents and Subscribers. Though sonic of 
these are severe, it is consoling to know that all, 
tirst or last, speak in high terms of the Rural. 
In fact, but for the provoking delays and a anoy¬ 
ances |.o which wo liave of lute boon subjected 
we should never have known how highly our 
hebdomadal is appreciated, nor, perhaps, have 
resolved upon the thorough reform which is 
about to be instituted in our printing and mail¬ 
ing departments. Suffice it that the recent delay 
was unavoidable, and that a vow has been regis¬ 
tered to provide (D. V.) against contingencies of 
it similar nature in future. We have been moved 
to this reform by sundry appeals, but by none 
more than tho reading of tho following model 
lecture from Mr. Wm. A. Connell, an efficient 
Agent-Friend of the RURAL in Ououdaga Co., 
this State: 
THE SEASON. 
“Mr. l», H. II IN shell Is an old subscriber, and 
constant reader of the rural New-Yorker. He 
*ajrs ho can't keep house without it, and won’t try. 
He taken tho Itt'KAi. tor several reasons: —first, be¬ 
cause it is inviiluublo to him ns a first-class farmer 
and cartienor; and, secondly, because of its highly 
moral and religions tone, benolitinc, interesting. 
and wieirnne so powerful an influence for good in 
the mind- of Ids rising ramlly of boss. For years the 
RURAL has in I'tinotfu furnished them, during the 
kit hal hn* tn nano i,/u furnished them, during the 
still and hallowed Sabbath hour*, with reading the 
most, useful. Instructive, fascinating—training their 
young minds to follow and adtnlri* the themes of 
truth and loveliness- Now, Mr. U. sajs the RURAL 
continues to com* laden with good things,—each line 
and column teeming with gems ,_>f thought, and 
great, good words of wisdom — but, the Quiet Katur- 
duy night rolls round with Its w elcome cessation of 
weekly toll, and tho children and every one watch 
expectant, each in innocent, rivalry ns to who ehall 
bo first lo grasp the paper; but—no uukal COD) os, 
as in days of yoro, to bless and Instruct, during tho 
relaxing hours of Hnhhat h. Monday morning come*, 
und so, ut length, comes the RURAL too. Now, how¬ 
ever, no one lots time to read ur ponder; labor Is nuw 
in order through the duy. the children are ulf to 
school; at evening they return, but the next day's 
lesson has tolro studied and learned, and so time 
pusses until Hattirduy evening again, ond than tho 
Rural is -tin old paper. Is there no remedy tor 
Mils? I* there not a balm inflllcad? If tt he possi¬ 
ble, do send us the dear ItritAi. so we ran get It ou 
Saturday, rend tt on Sunday, find ponder on Monday, 
Now, .Mr. Moore, i> 1> try and do something for 
Mr. HiNSDELt,, and all of iis, If possible; If not, all 
right we will read it when it comes, and take all 
the good wo can of it Ills good at any time, but ou 
Saturday night it is goodcr." 
Change at Iona —The Eumelnn Grape.— 
Readers of the Rural, who look over itts adver¬ 
tising column©—a© all should—will observe that 
Dr. C. W. Grant, of the celebrated Iona Island, 
(whence came tho Iona, Israoila, etc.,) lias trans¬ 
ferred his interest to Messrs. HA8DROVCK nnd 
IRirfinell, two competent cultivators and 
managers, (long engaged at tho establishmeut,) 
and that they propose to furnish the public a 
new grape, the Euindan- Under Dr. Grant's 
vigorous and careful management the nursery 
nt Iona has produced many choice American 
grapes. The Eumclan has been under his treat¬ 
ment for several years, und we are assured lie 
hits devoted much pains and time to securing a 
stock of vigorous vines—avoiding too rapid pro¬ 
ps gat Ion—before allowing them to be offered 
for sale. Dr. G. paid a large price for the stock, 
($1,000 for only twelve vines, we believe.) and 
bus since given much attention to its culture 
and propagation, expending a considerable 
amount to accomplish his object. We trust the 
grape will prove all that its propagator and ad¬ 
mirers anticipate. 
— While we regret that Dr. Grant’s health 
constrains him to give up business at Iona, we 
are glad to know that Ills successors are gentle¬ 
men qualified to maintain the reputation of the 
establishment, and wish them eminent success. 
Gloomy Picture of Oregon.—Wo find an article 
in the Williaraetto (Oregon) Farmer of March 1 
in which t he great want of Oregon is asserted to 
be a homo market, more consumers devoted to 
other than agricultural pursuits. Agricultural 
products yicid iff tie profit because they must 
seek a distant market at a heavy expense for 
transportation. The little encouragement the 
markets afford for stock raising causes the im¬ 
portation of buttor from New York, (since 
California is growing her own fruit, Oregon 
orchards are going to destruction. The richest 
farm lands In the world have only a nominal 
value. The same writer asserts that in mineral 
attractions, Oregon is not a whit behind Califor¬ 
nia, but the world does not know it, and that is 
what is the matter. 
The Netherlands Exhibition.—It is announced 
that the Netherlands International Exhibition 
of Domestic Economy, comprising plans of the 
dwellings for workmen, furniture, utensils, 
clothing, food, workmen's and gardeners' tools, 
books, music, indoor gymnastics, amusements, 
reports, stututos or, regulations of associations 
for promoting the well-being of tho working 
classes, which was to have been h«ld at Utrecht 
in March will take place at. Amsterdam at the 
close of next summer. The regulations for 
applicants have been forwarded to the Govern¬ 
ors of our manufacturing States. 
Deep Plowing.—F. M. P. asks:—“Would you 
advise deep spring plowing on stiff clay soils 
which have always been plowed shallowV’ No 
—not deep trench plowing, inverting the sub¬ 
soil. Such plowing, if done at all on such soils, 
should be done in the full. But wo do advise 
stirring the ground deeply. We should do it 
with a subsoil plow. Turn t he surface, furrow 
tho usual depth, and follow tho surface plow 
with a subsoil plow, lifting thesnbsoi! tofts great 
a depth as you please, or as is practicable. Such 
deep plowing in spring will pay. 
Personal.—Dr. C. C. BRISTOL, formerly of the 
Buffalo Republic.and widely known throughout 
Western New York, as well as several clso- 
wheros, as a wide-awake, genial and humorous 
talker and ■writer, is now residing at Manchester, 
N.J. The Doctor Is one of the editors of the 
New Jersey Courier, and devotes special atten¬ 
tion to Agriculture and the New York Farmers’ 
Club. We believe the Doctor is also editor of 
Country Homes —a rural monthly —and officer 
of tbe Pilgrim Society, an honor which he beans 
with becoming dignity. 
Read the Advertisements. —We receive a great 
many inquiries which would never have been 
made had the advertising depurlment of tho 
Rural been as carefully read as it deserves to 
bo. W© do not Object to—OU the contrary we 
enjoy—receiving and answering inquiries; but 
we do not enjoy the conviction often forced 
upon us that some of those who ask questions 
are very careless readers or very stupid. 
A Horn Fair was recently held in Paris, con¬ 
tinuing opon several days. More than three 
hundred dealers, from Belgium, England, Ger¬ 
many, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, and from 
about forty of Hie French departments, were on 
1 he ground, exhibiting their wares, consisliug of 
bacon, pork, hums, sausages, &e. The fair was 
supplied with upwards of 300,000 kilos of eata¬ 
ble produce. _ 
English Sparrows.—A Western New York oor- 
respondent asks if these birds are in the habit of 
outing the blossom buds from fruit trees. A 
New Jersey gentleman asserted in our hearing 
the other day that he had seen them doing so, 
which is all we know about it. 
Fnirport, Monroe Co., IV. Y.. April 15.—Tho 
weather of the first half of April has been very 
like that wo ^ually have in March. Not much 
storm, however, but plenty of freezing and 
thawing, and cold northwest wind. March was 
easy on winter wheat., but April has been sav¬ 
age. This morning the thermometer stood at 
thirty degrees iu the shelter of a stoop, and 
probably at twenty-eight degrees outside. Snow¬ 
banks yet lie along the roads and against the 
fences of many fields. Clover roots have drawn 
out badly. There has been but very little plow¬ 
ing done, and probably no oats, barley or wheat 
sown. Fruit trees are not started in growth, 
nnd the prospect for fruit is good. Wheat is 
worth a dollar loss per bushel than last fall, po¬ 
tatoes have dropped from fifty to seventy-five 
eents per barrel. Barley is scarce and in great 
demand for seed. Huy is plenty at twenty dol¬ 
lars per ton. Taken altogether, farmers who 
sold their crops hist, fall hare little reason to 
grumble at the state of affairs now.—C uiel. 
Knox Co., Tenn., April 12.—Dr. Lee writes: 
Several sevoro frosts after our peach and plum 
trees were In blossom nnd some of the fruit set, 
have nearly destroyed our hopes of crops, often 
valuable as food for swine as well as man. Apple 
and pear trees are now la bloom, and promise a 
fair yield, although the danger of frost is not 
past. Wheat has come safely through the perils 
of winter, and we have JittJo to fear but possiblo 
blight from rust just before harvest. The high 
price of this cereal for t wo or three years led to 
the sowing of an unusual breadth of land last 
autumn, aud farmers look to their 'wheat fields 
with a good deal of interest. East Tennessee has 
not a little limestone land which is adapted in 
soil and climate to the easy production of this 
grain. It is ooramouly sown in standing corn, 
atul plowed in with a narrow plow. Our oats 
are up and growing finely. All land iu oats, I 
seed to Clover and English grasses, with a view to 
grazing purposes. 
Lyndon, VI., April 12. — Tho sugar season is 
unusually late in Vermont; very little if any 
sugar was made In the month of March. Tho 
month was very cold and stormy— more so than 
cither of the winter mouths which preceded it. 
The weat her in April thus far is fine, affording a 
continual flow of maple sap for several days in 
succession. Sup is unusually sweet, and with an 
average season considerable sugar will be jnado. 
A great, depth of snow fell during tho winter— 
nearly four feet on an average; for the past two 
weeks It has been continually disappearing, 
although the sugar orchards are still over-bur¬ 
dened with It. Should tho present favorable 
weather continue, large quantities of maplo 
sugar will be made in Vermont, and that of tho 
finest quality.- I. W. SANBORN. 
Denison, Crawford Co., town, April 13. —tVo 
are having a very fine spring. Ou tho 22nd of 
March I begun sowing my wheat; sowed ninety- 
five acrus. On tho first day of April it snowed 
some; we then finished sowing wheat, making 
odo hundred nnd twenty acres, then began sow¬ 
ing oats; finished April 8th, forty acres. This 
county Is settling up very rapidly. Lands are 
cheap, from three to twelve dollars per acre for 
wild land. M r e raise from twenty to forty-five 
bushels of wheat to Iho 'acre; oats forty to sev¬ 
enty-five bushels; corn from fifty to one hun¬ 
dred. The land is easily worked, the soli being a 
deep black loam — W. A. McHenry. 
Flnt River, Vi. C)— A correspondent writes:— 
“Tho peaches were killed in the bud and 
bloom in at least part of North Carolina by the 
chill and frost on the night ot the 4th of April. 
The pears and plums were also injured seriously, 
particularly the former. The apples had not 
bloomed in tho sections where the cold was most 
severe, Tho loss of the peach crop will be sorely 
felt, us it. failed there lust year also. In the same 
part of the (state they have bloomed as early us 
the 22d of February, ami escaped the frost.” 
Frenchvflle, VVi»., April S. -Fall wheat has not 
looked bet ter for t he last seven years in Trompe- 
leau County, Wisconsin, than It does this Spring. 
Not a blade is killed as I can see or t urned brown, 
as usual.—.!. C. B. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Michigan Dec Keeper’s Association.— A perma¬ 
nent organization was effected with this name 
ut a convention held ut Jackson, Mich., April 
7th and 8th. Tbe following arc t he officers elect: 
President- E. Rood, Wayne Co. VUx-PreftUknta— 
J. If. Townley, Tompkins Co.; J. G. Postman, 
Dowagiue Co., und - Ifarwood. Secretary— 
8. S. Cook, Tompkins Co. Treasurer—3. G. 
McKee, Laignsburg. The next meeting is to be 
held nt, the same t ime und place of tho .Michigan 
.State Fair. 
Oswego Falls, IV. V., Ag. 8oc.—The following 
arc the officers elect for 1809 '.—President—3 no. 
11. Mann, Oswego. Vice-Presidents- A. F. Smith, 
Oswego, ami Abraham IIowc, Fulton. Secre¬ 
tary — Charles It. Smith, Fulton. Treamre/r — 
Robert C. Kenyon, Fulton. Executive Commit¬ 
tee— Elias Thomas, Volney; Thomas G. Somers, 
Granby; II. H. Merriam, Granby; Thomas 
Askew, Scribti; Thomas G. Thompson, Oswego. 
Universal Exposition of Industry in New 
York. —Congress lias adopted a resolution in¬ 
structing the Committee on Manufactures to in¬ 
quire into the propriety of rendering Govern¬ 
ment aid to tho project of the American Insti¬ 
tute to hold an International Exhibition of the 
Industry of all nations iu New York In 1876, tho 
centennial unniversury of American Independ¬ 
ence. 
Tlio Worcester Co., Mass., kiort. Society will 
hold its Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of fruits, 
flowers, plants and vegetables, at Horticultural 
Hall, Worcester, Mass., Sept, 21-24, 18(59. Tho 
society offers a piece of plate valued at twen¬ 
ty-five dollars “for a safe, certain and eco¬ 
nomical method, better titan any now known, of 
destroying tho currant worm, or preventing Its 
ravages.” _ 
Agricultural Convention nt Nasliville, Tenn.— 
The State Agricultural Society of Tout lessee has 
issued invitation to all the county Agricultural 
Societies of theStato to meet In convention at 
Nashville the first Wednesday in May to consider 
matters in which the Industrial classes of tho 
State are vitally interested. * 
Miami Co., O., Spring Fair.— The fifth Spring 
Fair of the Miami County Agricultural Society 
will be hold at the Fair Ground, near Troy, May 
28-’9, I860. This Fair is open to competition in 
the department of li ve stock, farm implements, 
machinery, carriages, etc. 
