The Country Cheese Market. —The market at 
Little Falls for the week ending Oct. 16th was 
brisk, with sales of about 1,800 boxes farm dairies 
and considerable transactions In factories. 
The advance In prices over the week previous 
was \c. to lc. per pound. The best farm dairies 
sold readily at 16Xc., and from 15 to 16c. were 
quite freely paid for good useful lots of a quality 
below fancy. 
We give quotations of factory as follows:— 
Xcwville, 17’* c.; Avery & Ives, 17!*c.; Peeks, lie.: 
Old Fairfield. 171*0.; State Hill, 17c.; Cherry Val¬ 
ley, 17c.; Beans, 17,t*c.; Zimmerrrtjn Creek, 17c,; 
Fry's Bush, 17c.; Palatine Union, 17c.; ,1. Harris, 
lGVc.j Fairfield Association, 17c.; J. D. Ires, 
173*e.; Mother Creek, 17c.; Middleville, 171*.; 
Bates & Snell, 171*c.; Ford's Bush, 17!*c.; Smith 
Creek, 173*-: Hopson's Cold Creek, 171*0.; Eaton- 
vllle, 17c.; Snell's Bush, 17J*e. On latter part, of 
the week ending Oct. 9th a number of factories 
were sold at the following prices’.—Kenyon. 
15.1*c.; J. I). & H. Smith, 16c.; Hessvillc, 16c.; 
Fry's Bush, 16c.; Stnrkville, 163*c.; Union, 10c.; 
Wsilcrvillo, 16c.; Buell. 16c.; Argusvillc, 16c,; 
Flat Creek, 103 *c.; Van Hornsvlllo, 181*0.: Bud- 
lorig. Jfic., 10>,c. and 161* c.; Oneida National, 
165*e.; W. II. A C. H. Brown, 161*0.; Tanner, 
I0?*C.; Smith Valley, 10c.; Starkweather, 16c.; 
York Factory, 16 <c.; Chenango Valley, 163*c. 
Butter now begins to eotue into the Little 
Falls market. There was only a moderate de¬ 
livery for the week ending Oct. 10. at prices 
ranging from .’18 to 39e. $ It>. 
We. have advices from abroad to the lust week 
in September. Our Liverpool correspondent 
says there baa been more inquiry all through 
the week, and shipments having fallen otbabout. 
ouc-half, prices have advanced Is. cwt. En¬ 
glish make is now coming out freely and com¬ 
peting strong!j T with American. Fine factory is 
quoted at Liverpool nt 62 to 64s. "fR cwt.; very 
good, 00 to 61s.; very good farm dairies at 57 
to 59s. 
Imports into Liverpool from June 1st to Sept. 
J7th, 187,850 boxes. From Sept. 17th to Sept. 
211h, 18,880 boxes, making a total of 506,745 boxes. 
For the same time last year the Imports were 
481,681 boxes. The total exports from New York 
to all ports of Great Britain from May 15th to 
Sept, lith have been 611,892 boxes. 
The exports from New York for the week 
ending Oct. 5th were 27,000 boxes, x. A. w. 
which, excludes women from any State or 
educational institution open to males. And 
we are equally opposed to the creation of 
educational institutions of any character 
whatever exclusively for females. They are 
equally unnatural and vicious in their ten¬ 
dency. _ 
NEWSPAPERS AND FARMERS, 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
Page 
Fi.OKIffj-Ti'BJt.—Cunpannl* or Boll Flowrr fnin«trnt»4;) Fine 
BhImiih . Dttnlhii.ar Fink (illnrlret^d j) Annual* fur Cloinp- 
i'.,; ; A tSrillinnl Flower Uun ; Hj'ftdnlh* In Uliaous; Aroplug 
Taucrute Bulb, ; Mow C'hf.veantbomuinr,,..... ..677 
Uu j:al A r.« eliTZvruXK.—Corn Crib* Again (8111 uUmtlon,;) Point¬ 
ing an Old Jlalldlug. .677 
Fie It. CnOca.—SesAtfiJC with ilnui; About Been* ; Socond Crop 
Potato*, Tbr Freon Blow Potato.... .€78 
Tn* Ari*«i*i*.—Bun* In tho Nwlli.....678 
Fakv Economy.—F arm Wnoon*—luiprovcinonti Treatment of 
Haleb Soil.... ,....1)8 
Shiiki- Hl.iianmiv.- Improved llrreda—Tlnur TwiHwy to D<- 
penerate ; llom* and tl.rd of the Mefino Wrinkl** ; Sl*. it 
Hairing In MifHiiraij.it.; I.Iiuotr Wool Grower,* Aaeoelatlon ....678 
SciitMmc am* 1' anrl'l,—It in Crutlnge ; Creftil and Srimtific 
Item* — I 1 t.anfo Kerorone, Drtir ef lr»u Ball iQgi, To Prererve ^ 
a Bonifuei, Prvw-rving Bodier, an...............679 
Emomolou ica i, —Tim Tomrto Worm j -Striped Bug Remedy-679 
Lam. Dil'AnTMitM.—Bantu National Lnnd Co.....679 
PoMOLOOIC a1.. Now York Slate Grape |*alr—The IWnniaaKMia; 
Tbr Seueroiua Giope (Illnrlratod j) Training ttUrk-Ciu.r . bvl 
YMter Apple ; To Make p.arrSmoolb ; Griipee for Middle Geor¬ 
gia : Kntoelnn Grape ; Keeping C ran tier r in* ; A Swaar Apple 
Tree In lllnuotu; Elruge NecUrlne ; Mulch for Strawbarnei.. .68U 
We find in the genial and courteously con¬ 
ducted Now York Evoning Mail tho following 
extracts from an Address delivered by Clark 
Bell, Esq.,—one of tho Mail's most valued con¬ 
tributors upon practical topics, at the Steuben 
County Fair, recently. It is a worthy recogni¬ 
tion of tho practical influence of the papers 
named; and the list might have been justly ex¬ 
tended. Here are the exl rads: 
*' No one can too highly estimate the value of a 
good newspaper In it family of ehUdren. and I am of 
the opinion that if one Is taken constantly in a fami¬ 
ly that it will be impossible for the children to come 
tip without becoming intelligent upon all the current 
questions r.f the day. 
"Everyhousehold should bring Intlie newspaper, 
then, as an absolute nnd indispensable necessity. 
“ The farmer should, of all other men, take a good, 
reliable atuR-allanil paper. 1 defy any farmer to try 
it for a year nnd then tie able to say it has not paid 
and been in every way for his good, J am not a 
newspaper agent, and I do not wish to interfere with 
any man’s choice of Ills newspaper; hut who can 
properly estimate the good that has been done to tho 
farmers as a class and to benefit the cause of agri¬ 
culture by that staunch paper, the .New York 
Tribune? I spualc in no partisan sense, but only bear 
witness to its nsofnlncss to the farmer and not of its 
political teaching*. 
“ How can 1 speak high enough or Its younger and 
more ambitious aspirant- for place as an agricultural 
sheet, the New York Sun, which, under Its present 
management, is winning its way to high rank and 
place as a reliable sheet which shall, indeed,’shino 
for all.’ 
"The Country Gentleman nnd the Agriculturist 
both deserve tho highest praise for the use of tho 
class for which they arc designed. Without naming 
many other Journals of excellence or merit, or with¬ 
out. Impressing upon you in uddition the value and 
Importance of sustaining and with a strong hand 
your local nnd country press, but as a purely ngi ieul- 
turnl paper a paper f. r the farmer one that la In¬ 
valuable and unexcelled, I verily believe, In the 
world, is Moo iik s Rural NEW-YORKr.it. 1 do not 
know Its editor personally, hut I do know that It Is 
worth twice its cost on a farm, and I should bn glad 
if it was taken on every farm in the State, as it Is 
especially adapted to farmers us n clnss.nnd is largely 
devoted to agricultural and horticultural topics. 
“ THE BEST JUVENILE MAGAZINE 
Ever Published in Any Land or Language 
Ol’It YOUNG FOLKS. 
J. T. TBOY7BHLDGIS and LnCY LARCOM. Editors. 
The Publishers of Ora Yot'N'O Folks, availing 
themselves of the best literary talent In the country, 
and adopting new plans suggested by the experience 
of the past four years, have made r.uch arrangements 
that the magazine is not only more attractive than 
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Comprehensive aud practical in Its seopoand char¬ 
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The following are the principal features of the 
present volume of "OCR Young Folks,” which 
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and the charming style of the writers : 
1 . The Story 0 / a Bail Butt- Hy T. II. A i.dkich. The 
best and most popular story for young folks ever 
published In America. Fresh, natural, healthy and 
manly in tone, graphic’, and full of stirring incidents. 
2. The World We Lire On, A vnltinblc and delight¬ 
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posits, Coral Animals nnd the Islands they build, 
Earthquakes, Ac. Prof. Agassi/, takes deep inter¬ 
est in these articles, and carefully examines all of 
them. 
;i. ffoie to Do It. A very charming and Instructive 
■o’rles of pnpers by Edward Kvkhett Hale, giving 
most valuable suggestions, How to Talk, How to 
Rend, How to Write, How to Travel, How to Act In 
Society. How to Work. 
4. Human firm. Articles on Important and curious 
brunches of industry, such ns Conl-Mlning, Glass- 
Making, Ship-Building, Ac.. byJ.T. TROWBRIDGE. 
5. Biographical Sketches of great Navigators and 
Discoverer?, by JAMES PAR TON. SW A very valu¬ 
able series, conveying much geographical informa¬ 
tion in a style to make tt remembered. 
6. Articles on American History Dialogues, Decla¬ 
mations, Short Stories, and other attractive matter 
by the best writers, nil profusely Illustrated by the 
most skillful, artists. 
The Publishers will spnrc no pains or expense to 
make "OUR Young Folk*" both Instructive and 
entertaining, a perfect MauuHnc.for Hoy* and Girls. 
Tf.rms : $2.00 a year. A copy gratis to the person 
pending ten subscriptions and Twenty Dollars. Spec¬ 
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FIELDS, OSGOOD A CO., Publishers, 
J2I Tromont street, Boston, Muss. 
IS FARMING DISHONORABLE? 
At a recent discussion among farmers, one 
is reported as saying, “ There is an impres¬ 
sion that farming is dishonorable. This is 
not so, but too many act on their farms as 
though it was so. There is too much hold¬ 
ing back from actual labor on the farm.” 
We laugh, as other people will, at the idea 
that any one should regard funning dis 
honorable; and yet it is so regarded by 
many farmers. Witness the fact that when 
they talk of their own sons, or those of their 
friends, who have entered and succeeded in 
professions, they account, them smart nnd 
the social position they have acquired some¬ 
thing higher than any the farmer may at¬ 
tain. It is this subtle influence of words 
and sentiment, exerted, it. may be, uncon¬ 
sciously, by parents, which drives their am¬ 
bitions sons from the nobler and more com¬ 
plex pursuit of agriculture to seek livelihood, 
position and success in the crowded profes¬ 
sional field. 
We do not belong to the class who affect 
to think that every farmer’s son should bo a 
farmer aud every farmer’s daughter a farmer’s 
wife; hut we do belong to the small class 
who believe that there is a day coming 
when the successful farmer will rank among 
men as men of science and culture now do 
—when to be known as a successful agri¬ 
culturist. will be synonymous with being 
known as a man of learning and skill, a 
philosopher and scientist. Wo await the 
day with confidence—with the greater con¬ 
fidence because every year makes Agricul¬ 
ture more and more a business involving the 
skillful aud systematic use of capital, a 
thorough knowledge of natural elements and 
the laws which control them, and a power 
of generalization and observation which in¬ 
heres only in the best, and most active minds. 
DlPCUtttltars. New York F»ron»r*‘ CItiw — Keeping Njuimx** in 
Winter, la T«ix%> h*f»- for .Northern Mon, Cooktn* Kpod for 
Swim, Thomiaon't iWlIng Orapr*. Ontor, for Knrai.-, Pork 
tn tho West, 10 Keep Cooll(|nw«r *, M. Louis V Itriucift' Club 
Fill ........4. .... 
Dai nr lluMiAvuitv. -Th* Dairy In St. Law tun to County. .N. Y.| 
I- r un Mitjvr II. T. HrooU-Tbi: Dairy Id Alleginv nnd \V rowing 
Count!o*- ...* • 6 1 ..... 
Tiir IIfcKtsnu ax.-A bortion In Cows , .682 
7 ’tne Poif lthy-Yaud. About Fnnry TMo-eona—II.—'The Carriers, 
The Huot 1’lceonfr, ‘Che Doyi»-Huu** Pigeon ; Fattening Fowls 
for Market — Mode of FnUeultig, Feeding Houtft; A Question ; 
Crua* of SpiiiiUh null Brahmas . 4 ... .....&£<? 
Annual Fain* -New York fttnl* Fair—^The Employment of 
Fapital in Farm In p, F.te. ; The llaiiiwondBport, N. Y.» Fair; 
hi. Louis Agricultural and McchitUca) fair -.. . 
Do*a»tte Economy. •• rapej r»n»l Wine* ; Contributed ForttKM 
Baktsl Tomatoes. Graham Bread, Tn try Fork, Tmualn 
How to Fickle BldCkWfloij To Color n Superior Black.693 
Editorials. Etc.— Horticulture for Women; fa Farming Pi*- 
honomhh . Rural Not«* and Qnfrioa—Knruna Fruit, Corn and 
Tubers, New York Fruit riniwirm' Cluf>, Copyright, Tho Conn 
trv ( bocM Market, Bet r 1>|| I’onre, 'lo Destroy Canada 
Tnlstlos, Now York Stn • /‘-Miltry NdiiiUy, Where to OliUin 
Einjtlnvninnt, 'fp»at Cuttla, IVn-iiml, Niul a NurMfyiBlo or 
True Vanilar, Sowing Applo Seeds, Muck. Newspaper* 
and Farmers ; The ... ....684 
FiKLD ftror.Tf- -Snipe Shooting (Illustrated)..^84 
Morura a\r* Man KBits. Fall i aehlons Something of Clonks, 
High Waist with Medlrf* Collar (llltutrnled,! Apriuia, l)«M'ri|t> 
11 qq of Cblldrflp'l Cvslmi'iss, The Millimry Drpatluicnta , So 
pmrfldOUl Hnir .— - - . . 4 ... 1 ... 11111 n 1 ■ 1 ’.nr*. 
Srofiiaa rnii RtrrcAi.mre.• -Botwoao Two l‘wlli-1* flc Worth 
Saving (Continued ;) Sitting to Sunshtne. - hha, 056 
LAOifji’ P 0 RT-For.ro. — Front a Husband (Poetry;’) Women as 
Farmers; Miataken { Old Women, Corrert. 1 enrhiilg; (Joaslpy 
Parngmphs... . ......657 
CnniUK Miarai.r.Arrv,— A»lop( Poetry j Evnry-Day Life; Biding 
Our Tittto ; Buluitluy Night, Bandwlchcs .. .687 
Sa hrAiii lUAt»ra«A.-I C.vmiot Count my Life a (Poetry;) 
Christian AmunemeuU ; fc?o*.tarmi»lsm ; Cure for Anger.687 
Nbws or Titr Witjrac. — -Domestic and Foreign.688 
Tub Majikstv Money and Stock; Produce nnd Provisions; 
Live Stock ; Buffalo Live Stock .. .689 
PBtikonAt. Itr.tAS,— [ritfrostliig Personal Brevities.,...690 
Nkws amu N6vai.Tiaa,—ConUinlui! Savan Items..890 
Thr News Coam.aMMt.—Siaty-eighl Late Lilcrtmlliig Bruviliet.69) 
Fok Young PeorLK.—Lullaby (Poetry;) “ PontoRural Four- 
Yunr-Olds. 092 
Wit ani> Humor.—A Point on Female Suffrage (Illustrated;) 
GliiiipDCe of Genius.692 
The Pi/z/i.ku.—K ebiis, Enigma, Problem, Anagram, Etc..692 
THE SEASON 
iicurrc Drii Pear*.—So much has been said 
and written about tho Bartlett pear, that it 
seems to rank as the prince of pears tn this 
Country; but wo Imvo two trees in our garden 
which bear pears so much superior, in every 
quality, to l be Bartlett or any other pear I ever 
saw or beard of, that I cannot refrain from send¬ 
ing you si small box of them. Pipings examine 
them and tell us if you have ever Been the va¬ 
riety, and If so, what It is called. They arc not 
so large nor well flavored as usual this season, on 
account ot our cold, wet summer. They were 
brought from a farm iu Lancaster Co., Pa., 
about 1840 or 1845. They arc yellow and soft. 
Avhen ripe.— 8 . B. Stephenson, Mercer , Pa. 
The pears received were, with one exception, 
we thiuk, lieurre Deil. There was one which we 
called Bello Lucrative; it seemed to be distinct 
from the others. 
THE SECRET OF BEAUTY 
I.if. 8 in the use of lingua’» Magnolia Balm for the 
Complexion. 
Roughness, Ucilness, Blotches, Sunburn, Freckles 
nnd Tan disappear where It is applied, and a beauti¬ 
ful Compiaxioa of pure satln-llke texture Is obtain¬ 
ed. The plainest features are made to glow with 
Honltliful Bloom and Youthful Beauty. 
Remember Hagan's Magnolia Balm Is the thing 
that produces those effects, and any Lady can secure 
it for To cents ut any of onr stores. 
To preserve and dress tho Hair use Lyon’s Ka- 
thairon. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES 
Osseo, Minn., 0«. 10.-We have continued 
wet weather. Floating Imystacks are every¬ 
where to bo seen. A great deal of grain has 
grown in stack. Hay is worth |25 per ton ; 
wheat a»@& r >e. per bushel; oats, Mjr$50c.; butter, 
80@35c.-M. s, d. 
Kiri land, Lake Co., Ohio. ,S. Edson writes us 
that the blight anil rot will greatly diminish tho 
yield of potatoes in that locality, as compared 
with that of J868, and asks that our correspon¬ 
dents in (heir season reports be specific concern¬ 
ing the crop elsewhere. 
Hulo, Hichardsou Co., Neb., Oct. I.—Weather 
through August, and September wed and warm. 
Frost Oct. 1st and 2d, without doing damage. 
Wheat is poor; corn good and ripe; oats better; 
potatoes best and without rot. Wheat brings $1 
per bushel; corn, 40c.; oats, .'10c.; potatoes, Irish, 
40o.; sweet, $1.25; pork 8c. per pound; butter 
30c. per pound.— g. w. s. 
Falrvtew, Po., Oct. I 4.-The first half of tho 
season was wet aud cold. Wheat and oats arc a 
heavy crop, secured in good condition; corn 
about half a crop; potatoes good, with n vary 
little rot; apples, very light crop; peaches, a 
good crop; Hartford Prolific and Concord 
grapes n fine crop, and ripened well; tho Dela¬ 
ware, Isabella. Catawba and Iona arc doing 
badly; these will none of (hem ripen, as the 
leaves are not healthy, and they are late by at 
least two weeks. Tho Iona, in my vineyard, is 
the furthest from being ripe of any of the above 
varieties.—j. e. 
Jamestown, Howard Co., Iowa, Oo(. 5.— It. is 
something unusual lor farmers in this part of 
the world to be stacking grain in October, but 
such isthc ease with some. Harvest begun about 
the 9th of August, and we have had from one to 
two rains a week ever since. Mostjor the grain 
was cut before the harvest rains came on, but 
the ground got very soft toward the last. Home 
few pieces ivero not out at all. But the worst 
has been in stacking. Some groin has grown in 
the shock, and more would, had it not been un¬ 
bound and dried. But, after all, the largest share 
will be saved in fair condition, wilh the excep¬ 
tion of blacking. Some have done their thrash¬ 
ing, and the yield is very heavy. Wheat from 
twenty to thirty-five bushels, and oats thirty to 
sixty bushels per acre. Wo have had several 
frosts,—the first on the 26th of September. Corn 
wits somcAvhat injured, and will be very light. 
Potatoes good unless injured by the wet. No. 1 
wheat is worth 87c.; oats, 30c.; barley, $1; butter, 
22 to 23c. per pound.— B. St. John. 
Belvidere, Hooue 1H., Oct. t .—The season 
hero has been quite wet, especially the fore part 
of it. The crops as a whole are rattier light; 
wheal, on an av erage, about twelve bushels per 
acre; oats, forty bushels; rye, fifteen; barley, 
twenty; onmabout two-thirds a common crop, 
though there is some as good corn as 1 ever saw. 
Prices commenced low and have declined ever 
since thrashing commenced. Wheat, No. 2, 90c.; 
oats, S5c.; barley, 35 to 70c.; corn, old, 55 to G0e.; 
pork, ?><, to BMC.; beef, 3 to 6c. per pound; but¬ 
ter, 25 To 35c.; cheese, 15 to 17c. The upland hay 
crop was splendid and mostly secured in fine or¬ 
der; it is worth from $fi to $8 per ton in t«wn. 
The best of the barley is No* 2, as it was stained 
before If was harvested. As far as t know this 
will apply to Northern Illinois and Southern 
Wisconsin. Horses—small horses, from nine to 
eleven hundred pounds, uro a drug at any price, 
while large ones from twelve to lourteeu hun¬ 
dred pounds weight arc in .good demand, and 
bring a good price. We have had uo severe 
frosts yet,—B. f. j. 
Trenton. Todd Uo., Kv., Oct. 8. — Tobacco 
crop will not be very heavy. Since August 22 it 
has grown rapidly, and will be leafy enough, 
but it has been cat. before maturing, which will 
cause it to weigh light and be dark colored. Corn 
averages twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre, 
and is worth $1 per bushel. Potato crop light. 
Labor $16®$20 per mouth and board, and $1 per 
day.— j. a. c. 
Kansas Fruit, Corn and Tubers. — We are in¬ 
debted to Mr. II. T. Human, Secretary of the 
Shawnee Co, (Kansas) Ag, Society, for specimens 
of Apples. Corn and Potatoes grown fii that 
county. Tho apples—including Holland Pippin, 
Northern Spy, Taimnn Sweet, Roxbury I(asset, 
Red Gilliflowcr, etc-.—arc much larger than fruit 
of the same varieties grown In this Slate, and 
their appearance* in.size, shupcand color, so dif¬ 
ferent os to render it eomewhat difficult to 
recognize them hy ihe eye. They me all un¬ 
usually fair and large—tho Talinan full twice 
the size of those grown hero—indicating that 
they came from n fine fruit, growing region. 
Also, samples of yellow dent, white gourd seed, 
aud eight-rowed yellow corn- all fine nnd well- 
ripened—mid two varieties of sweet and.several 
Irish potatoes. The sweet potatoes are large and 
well matured. Judging from the size and quality 
of these fruits of mother earth, we reckon t here 
Is no immediate apprehension of a famine In 
Kansas. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1869 
be publisher’s 
To Destroy Uanadn Thistles. —A correspondent, 
Goshen, hid., writes In July or August (Au¬ 
gust is the best) I cut with a hoe, made for the 
purpose, about two inches below The surface, 
gather up all the tops and burn them to get them 
out of tbo way of the Stock; then I salt the 
roots well—say one-half peck to the square rod. 
I then allow l bo hogs and sheep to dig for the 
salt. 1 thoroughly cured a patch in this way by 
two applications. A neighbor did likewise with 
like success. 
HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN 
Horticultural schools for women are 
urged. We do not object to woman’s learn¬ 
ing horticulture; on the contrary, we gladly 
encourage it. We know many most skillful 
women-horticulturists. But wc sec uo good 
to grow out of Schools of Horticulture for 
women; for we take it such schools are to 
be employed to teach horticultural practice. 
We have plenty of such schools now, where 
woman may acquire practical knowledge if 
she chooses. There are large propagating 
establishments, nurseries, fruit farms and 
gardens, where almost any woman can learn 
the practical details of the profession ; nnd 
we should as soon think of Starting an Edito¬ 
rial School for Women, with the thousands 
of newspaper establishments there are in the 
country open to them, as Schools of Horticul¬ 
ture, One class is quite as much needed ns 
the other, aud neither are in any sense a 
necessity. 
If those who so loudly proclaim the. 
wants and wrongs of women would insist 
upon 1 heir sisters doing well what they 
attempt to do, and that they should occupy 
well the fields of labor which have been al¬ 
most exclusively their own, it would be bet¬ 
ter for all concerned. There is too much 
declaiming and denouncing and too little 
good sensible work done by women in behalf 
of themselves. The way to get horticultural 
knowledge is not. by talk, nor by attempting 
to start schools of horticulture; but by en¬ 
tering tho schools already established and 
obtaining knowledge already available to 
every sensible woman who will work to ac¬ 
quire it. 
—Since writing the above we heard it an¬ 
nounced, at the Emit Growers’ Club in this 
city, that a German lady, who is interested 
in starting a School of Horticulture for 
Women in this country, had visited Cornell 
University, was kindly received by Mr. Cor¬ 
nell, who gave her land upon which to 
commence operations. Very well; now let 
her start a nursery, green and hot-houses, 
orchards, vegetable and flower gardens, and 
try to make it pay. If she is skilled iu hor¬ 
ticulture and capable of teaching it to women, 
she can do it; and let her employ only female 
help, if she chooses. If by Schools of Hor¬ 
ticulture is meant schools where women may 
learu the natural sciences relating to the 
propagation and management of plants, wc 
are wholly in favor of throwing open to them 
all public institutions in this country where 
such sciences tire taughl, and upon the same 
terms as they are now open to men. We 
have no sympathy whatever with any policy 
PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. ItflOORE, 
Conducting Kditor and Proprietor. 
The New York Stole Poultry Society an¬ 
nounces a second exhibition at the Empire City 
Rink Building on Third avenue, between Slxty- 
thiril and Sixty-fourt h st reets, New York, com¬ 
mencing Wednesday, December 1st, and closing 
December 9th, 1869. The premium list, rules, 
regulations, &e., will be published about the 20th 
of October, nnd may be obtained by addressing 
the Corresponding: Secretary, Daniel E. Davit, 
P. O. Box 150, Now York City. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCES 
SUBSCiumoN—Three Dollar* a Year. To Clubs 
nnd Agents. Five copies for 111; Seven, and one free 
to club agent, for f 19; Ten. and one (ren, for |25—only 
f2.50 per copy. As we pre-pay American postage, $2.70 
is the lowest Club late lo Canada and $3.5010 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 mav he mailed at his risk. 
Advertising — Inside, 75 cents per lino. Agate 
space ; Outside. $1 per line. For Extra Display and 
Cuts,a price and a half. Special and Business Notices 
charged aecrding to position. No advertisement In¬ 
serted for less than $3. 
New York Fruit Growers' Club.— If anyone 
can tell us why this organization is, and what it 
does that its members could not as well do in 
connection with the Farmers’ Clubof the Ameri¬ 
can Institute, we should be glad to be informed. 
A majority of its members attend, and talk at, 
the Farmers' Club. The same topics might lie 
(and often are) Introduced and discussed there. 
The only gain resulting from keeping up the 
organization is that it gives garrulous gentlemen 
who cannot talk enough one <lay in the week a 
chance to talk two, mul enables ax-grinders to 
grind before two audiences per week instead of 
one. it lacks the vivacity, vim, concentration 
in its discussions, wit, wisdom, science and non¬ 
sense of the Farmers' Club, tt is just about as 
necessary and useful to tho public as a trellis is 
to an oak tree. Tt is true, good things nro said, 
wisdom is uttered, practical ideas are spolcon, 
and ambitious and homely women air their 
rhetoric there; but it might be as well, or bet¬ 
ter, done under the parent rool as where it Is. It 
Is not half us Interesting as a funeral, generally 
speaking. 
Where to Obtain Employment,— WM. F. CLOSE, 
Walton, N, Y., twenty-eight years old, who has 
worked on a farm thirteen years with his parents, 
aud now “ contemplates going for himself," asks 
us to Inform him where he cau obtain employ¬ 
ment. lie is willing to work on a farm or at 
other active business. We advise him If he wants 
to get off the homestead to walk ten miles in any 
direction and lie will find farmers glad enough 
to hire him. 
The Rural's Agent-Friends throughout tho 
land—anil all disposed to become Recruiting Officers 
for the glorious old Rural Brigade -arc advised 
that our Premium l.isi for the FALL and WINTER 
Campaign will bc*a» Liberal aanuy yet Offered, 
It will embrace all the article* given last year, (ex¬ 
cept perhaps the Wheeler & Wilson Sowing Machine 
and tho Cush Commissions.) and many New and 
Valuable Attrnolinn*. Hence., our friends can 
begin their clubs for 18?) nt once, with the full assur¬ 
ance that they will be liberal 1 1 / rewarded for their 
efforts In support of the 1lest American Weekly. 
Clubs for fifteen months (from Oct. 1,1S69, to 
Jan. 1,1871.) may be made up at 8' per copy.and count 
on premiums ; or for the year 1870 nt our usual club 
rate of $3.50 each for ton or more copies. Though wc 
expect to make a far better paper than over before, 
our Subscription Hates Witt remain unchanged —making 
Ihe Rural still more truly the Cheapest (as it is con¬ 
ceitedly the Largest and Tkst.l Newspaper in its 
sphere. A'oie is the Time far Action —to form clubs 
and secure the "Good Pag par Doing Good" which 
we offer to everybody. Who will enter the arena 
and Rrport Progress! __ 
Show Bills, Specimen Numbers, &c., sent 
free to nil applicants. If you want such documents, 
lot us know and they will be forwarded. 
Texas Cattle.— In answer to the inquiry made 
by your Western Virginia correspondent about 
purchasing Texas eat lie, 1 would say to him that 
Mr. L. Asn BROOK, a Kentucky drover, passed 
through here with Texas Oftttle that lie bought 
in New Orleans last spring. Flo brought them 
by steamboat to Kentucky, pastured them 
through the summer, and hy salting and good 
cure they became as manageable as other cattle 
and fattened well.— Leonard Crock kk, Buffalo, 
,Y. ) Got-.9, 
Copyright.—A correspondent at Uniontown, 
Pa„ asks whether any one has a right to copy or 
print in any form articles published in the Ru¬ 
ral without our permission?: and whether any 
person has a right, to copy without permission 
articles from any newspaper not copyrighted. 
In answer, no one has a right to copy any art icle 
in the Rural, that is not credited to some other 
publication, without pur permission; but some 
papers do so habitually and without giving the 
Rural credit, and arc legally liable to us for 
thus stealing out- property. Wo do not object to 
our contemporaries copying from us ir they will 
give credit; but we have n decided objection 
(and shall enforce it) if they do not credit. Any 
one lias a legal right to copy from a paper which 
is not copyrighted without permission of its pub¬ 
lishers; but he has no moral right so to copy 
without credit; and it is both unjust and unpro¬ 
fessional to do so. 
Another correspondent asks us to state the 
measures necessary K> be taken in order to 
secure a copyright. They are simply these 
Send the title in full of whatever you wish copy¬ 
righted to the Clerk of that United States Dis¬ 
trict, Court within whose jurisdiction you may 
reside, with tmo dollar as the regular lee and ten 
cents for stamps, and you will receive in return 
a certificate of copyright. As soon as your copy¬ 
righted publication is issued send a copy thereof 
to said District. Clerk, nnd within thirty days a 
copy must also bo forwarded to tho Congres¬ 
sional Library at Washington. It. may bo sent 
free by mail, addressed “Librarian of Congress, 
at Washington, D. C.,” and marked “copy¬ 
right matter.” 
Personal.— G. E. Morrow, Esq., lute of West¬ 
ern Rural, 1ms, with his brother, purchased the 
Western Farmer — tire Wisconsin Farmer—to 
which lie will hereafter devote his abilities. Mr. 
Morrow is a live man, full of vigor, and lias 
ability enough to make the Western Farmer a 
credit to, mid necessity in, Wisconsin. We wish 
him the greatest possible success. 
Not a Nurseryman nor Tree Vender. —Mr. F. 
R. Elliott, Cleveland, O., asks us to state that 
he neither propagates nor cultivates trees, 
shrubs and plants for sale, nor is lie the agent of 
any one who docs, lie writes pro bono publico , 
and his readers will oblige him by- remembering 
the above statement. 
Address lo No. 41 Fork Row. Nevr York.— 
Though t he Rural is published in both New York 
City nnd Rochester, N. Y.. the principal printing and 
mailing offices are in New York, and hence all agents 
are requested to address 
it. it. r. .intoiti:, 
No, 41 Park Row, New York. 
Our premiumK are liberal iind sure. 
Sowing Apple Seed.?.—J. GOEHRINQ, Kansas, 
asks tho best time and manner of sowing apple 
seed. Have the ground well prepared and sow 
any time in November, iu drills wide enough 
apart to enable culture with a cultivator. Cover 
lightly. _^_ 
t'slng Muck.—“Young Farmer," Mendon, N. 
Y.—Tho best use you can make of your muck is 
to mix it with your stable and barn-yard ma¬ 
nure as fast as it is made, and apply to the land 
in that shape. It will increase the value of both 
the stable excrement and the muck as fertilizers. 
