by the careful judgment of men who peek to arrive 
ax I lie truth rather than to wl) strawberry plants. 
We have the “ Mexican Everbtvirlng’’and the Alpine 
growing side by side ami hope next season to satisfy 
ourselves, at least, If they are equally poor, or which 
Is the more worthless of the two. 
Kate Field’s Lecture. —Kate Field “ lectured” I 
before a New York audience the other night, 
recounting her experiences in the Adirondack^ 
the past summer. Wo never knew, before, that 
bo much affected and pointless humor and sense¬ 
less twaddle could be uttered, as a lecture to an 
intelligent audience, in an hour’s time, by any 
woman pretending to possess conimnn sense. 
We must express our astonishment, therefore, 
at the discovery. Tbo Rural is read by many 
lecture-goers, and it is proper that we should 
prepare our readers who may have opportunity 
to bear Miss Field for the “ treat” that. Is before 
them. We have no sort of scruple about punc¬ 
turing pretensions of this sort, that arc designed 
to attract the attention, consume the time, and 
draw upon the purses of our readers, no matter 
whether they appear In the shape of male or 
female lecturers, if their reputations are purely 
factitious and fictitious. 
Kate Field has mistaken her mission, if the 
matter of this lecture and t he manner of its de¬ 
livery is any indication whatever. The matter 
is such as any ordinary boarding-school Miss 
might write to her dear and bosom female 
frleud. The effort at. sentiment in it. is strained, 
philosophy is winning, and there Is no evidence, 
that we could discover, that, the woods inspired 
poetic thoughts of especial merit. Even the 
“beautiful tribute to John Brown," as a con¬ 
temporary calls it, was a far-fetched, incongru¬ 
ous, monotonously delivered rhapsody which, 
though Intended to he profoundly impressive 
and dramatic, was in effect simply ludicrous. 
Evidently Mias Field has a high opinion of her 
humor. She seems painfully conscious that her 
“lecture” is a well-filled string of good things. 
This consciousness is apparent, in, and affects, 
her style of delivery. When she is about to re¬ 
cite one of her “ ton mots” site puts on an “air" 
equivalent, in saying, "Now listen and bo aston¬ 
ished at what I can do!” Wo listen. The words 
are uttered us if she supposed her audience were 
Incapable of perceiving the point of the Joku 
without Its being pointed out to them; ut tered, 
there is a painful pause which means “Now 
laugh and applaud, or you are stupid fools." 
We think it quite time that Journalists ceased 
covering up the short-comings of people who 
choose to glean the lecture fie ld for a livelihood. 
We do not. like to be deceived, nor are we willing 
our friends and renders should be by this Jndis- 
erlminato bc-puffery, no matter if the lecturer 
is “ a good fellow," or “ only a woman trying to 
make a living."_ _ 
The Country Cheese Market. — There was a 
dull market at Little Palls for the week ending 
Nov. lath, with a light delivery of farm dairies, 
and no transactions in factories, The weather 
has been bleak, with storms of snow and sleet, 
which was doubtless the cause of the small 
quantity of farm dairies in market. The num¬ 
ber of boxes on sale from farm dairies was about 
000, and prices rauged from 16 to 17Jie. The 
factories were pretty well represented, notwith¬ 
standing the inclement weather, but there were 
op transactions or any nccount in this class of 
goods, t he factorymen declining to make sales 
at the prices offered. Prices In til© country, 
the it- fore, remain tho same as in our last week’s 
quotations. 
We have advices from abroad to tho last week 
in October. In Liverpool fine factory is quoted 
at 68s. to 69s.; second quality, 65s. to 6“s. Tho im¬ 
ports into Liverpool, from October 1.5 to October 
22, were 44,435 boxes. The total imports into tho 
game port from June 1 to October 23 were 621,306 
boxes, and for the same time last, year, 626,199 
boxes. The total exports from New York to 
Great Britain, from May 15 to October 9, have 
been 740,306 boxes. For the weekending October 
2 the exports from New York were only 6,000 
boxes. 
Our London correspondent, under date of Oct. 
25. reports cheese in that, market as very firm 
and irnneactJons large. The London quotations 
arc as follows:- American extra fine. 72 to 75s.; 
fine,70s. Tho several description* of English 
and Dutch cheese are as follows:—English Ched¬ 
dar, 86 to 94s.; Wiltshire double, 68 to 77s.; Che¬ 
shire medium. 60 to 66s.: fine, 74 to 84s,; Scotch, 
72 to 80s.; Dutch cheese—Edams, 50 to Site.; Gon- 
das, 46 to Ms.; Derby shape, 50 to .56s. Extra 
Normandy butter is quoted at 136 to 142s. per 
ewt.; Corks, 133s.; Canadian butter, 112 to 118. 
The corresponding prices lust year in London 
for butter aud dices© at same date were lor 
American cheese 70s. per ewt.; Irish butter. 
Corks, 138a. 
The fields in Herkimer county are now covered 
with a light snow, and the ground la slightly 
frozen. The cows have been put in winter 
quarters, and are giving but very little milk. 
Factories are winding up operations or ore re¬ 
ceiving milk only once in two days. The stock 
or cheese In the country is light for tiie season, 
ami many factorymcn are disposed lo hold, or 
ship in their own names to New York—to hold 
il’ prices are not satisfactory at this market.—x. 
A. W- ___ 
“Mexican Everbearing."—The Michigan Far¬ 
mer re-asserts its misstatements concerning the 
impression this fruit made and the character of 
tiie discussion concerning it, at Philadelphia. 
Since we were at Philadelphia and tiie Editor of 
the Michigan Fanner was not, (unless, indeed, 
Mr. Whiting, the "Everlasting Strawberry” 
man, is its Editor,) we feel tolerably confident 
that we know what we arc talking about, quite 
as well as the said Editor. To show that we are 
not alone in our assertion of the falsity of that 
paper's statements as published in our issue of 
Oct. 30, we copy the following from the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist for N ovember: 
The strawherrv now called “Mexican Everbear¬ 
ing “ mid formerly the Maximilian, was exhibited at 
ilio meeting of the American Homological Society. 
In regard in this, the Michigan Farmer, of Oct. 9to, 
gays Lii.it out! of the editors of the Agriculturist 
(CiultnR him ny munc)“and nther sr.iantiriomen gave 
Hie stranger their critical attention, ami wo believe 
all were obliged to admit that the plant was not the 
Old Bed Alpine, but that it was a variety distinct 
and new. with valuable properties of growth and 
production that made it different from any straw¬ 
berry known to members of the Convention.’' In the 
same article it is stated that -Mr-1 OELEH ivas obliged 
U)“ succumb to the pressure of the combined facts 
with which lie was met,' and more of the same sort. 
Mr. Fuller is abundantly able to take care of nun- 
soif, and we will merely say that IlCdtil no such thing 
as “ succumb.” A* to the edit ir of the Agriculturist 
referred to. he would sav that the statements hi re¬ 
gard to him are unqualifiedly false He expressed 
no opinion in public but if he hurt done SO, it. would 
have been to the effect that he could see no dinet- 
euee between the plants shown as Mkjriean Lver» 
bearing and those ns Alpine, except that one was 
grown in good soil nnd had been watered and wired 
for. and that the others were neglected plains from 
poor Mill, and evidently selected wltbavfowlu make 
the contrast as strong as possible. W© do 'raj,*' 1 /?,' 
whether this precious report originated w1th the 
Michigan Farmer or those interested la the sale of 
rho •' Mexican Everbearing strawberry. It will riot 
help the sale of the- so-called variety, or advance the 
i ,r,' ro ^tsi of pomology, to put forward statements 
which have not the slightest foundation in truth. 
The question eff the identity ofThe fruits referred 
to i* not to be nettled by advertising editorials, but 
so confidently, clone at liome to distinguish 
himself from LLs neighbors ? Does the old 
farm show any marks of his enterprise, taste, 
and sagacity ? Or is lie that sort of an idle 
dreamer which some simple and silly folk 
suppose to be and call a genius? If the lat¬ 
ter, he is the very last man we would recom- 
inund for any position higher than a boot¬ 
black in the Park. lie probably lets not 
force enough to make a respectable cockney 
coachman, aud lacks backbone enough to 
wear a coachman’s livery down Broadway 
gracefully. lie might possibly develop into 
a first-class loafer and pimp, and graduate 
as a vagrant in the Police Court. AVc Lave 
never yet known or conceived a place where 
an honest, industrious, common-sense man, 
with a will to do what be finds to do with 
his might, could bo so cramped as not to be 
able to elbow bis own way out of it; nor do 
we expect ever to live to see or conceive 
such a place. 
PROCRES8 AND IMPROVEMENT 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
iNDl’fTfMAii Mr*.—Kminwil Hurllculturitte—II.—Cbarlf?* Dowu^ 
lag (lltucUaUxl).. .. 
Thk AriAKiA*. - The Cut Bird nnd The Honey Crop ; B*ie* 
in Connecticut....... 
FlKi.n Crop*, -Orchard Criu* ; Potato Experience ; Sweet Pot*- 
Uit* on Prntrlr* ; Kurly iio** Product,-,..— * 
1*m wtKiAL Tone*. I •■bar (or U-* tymth ; Doe* It Pay to Talc* 
a Paper ...... .... • • .. 
Tit* IlmtotMAV,—Buffalo Hunting; Short-Ifcm byJame* 
M. Brown’* So«a, Barilo, 111.; Com fetching Thcmnelvea. 
8»IItKi- lit mean out'.- How Shull irit Winter *nr Sheep—'Thr. Sit¬ 
uation ; Tifti* and Mode of Coupling ; Broken Mouthed Sheep ; 
Corn Stalk* lor 81»**np..... 
Farm Economy,—-E ither Pilot or WMtfwaah truce* in Mk- 
aouri; Portable Mill...... ... ... 
Scientific avd Upkhtju —Tanning Fur* and Skins, Spectrum 
©fthe Aurora.,.... .. 
IViMoumicAL.— Di»r*i«*iou •*!* Plum*; PU*n**i*m on Cherries ; 
Stormy Day h’ok*. Foote'* }kck»l F*»»r(¥ illustration* ;) (*ar- 
den K.'.yal Apple (Illustrated ;) PartilutiiOA Culture. 
Thk (*AKf>ENKt«.—Th- Alton XuIum'k Melon 1 OwHrnilliff in the 
South ; Salnds ; Heollutw D'ivsplglie; Pen* in l- lull ; Mold and 
Bulbs ; Storing Celery j Mole*. ... 
AiinoiticuLTL n* Aincrl* an Hidden Arbor Vila* ( H lustra ted ;) 
The CoHonwooit , Til# Bucltnr* id Pwir Tree* j 1 *k Heud or 
Plant* ; Tree Planting Society.......... 
DiM< u*a<ilNM. — Is'yw York I nrm* »V Club To Prevent Mice 
Gnawing Tre*%, Treating Bog l-and, Potuto Story, To <nAm 
Calcined Pla^Urlug. Kern ring Bridge* against P’|©<*1*, Alligator* 
for Mnnuru, Fruit* in , To Bwln-v tbc Crub, TO l>e 
nlruv " Butte* aud F-guV Plowing iJtwjiuti the lT*tlrio*. roraat 
Tree* for K*n*a*i Angh Wurm* in Gardens, Grafting Ola Or»p© 
Vine#, A Show of Grapes, JnjolU Pear, flrfurru tTAnjou Pear, 
Damp Cellar* Again, Sawdust l*r *.n»pc Viiu>, Barberry for 
1 ledges, Bob In Horsna, Ibitatr Mill Lime v«- Avr Slaked Lima. 
AN OHIO INAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
D. D. T. I7XOORE, 
Conducting Editor nnd l J roprietor. 
THE SEASON, 
[Wic desire to receive Items concerning the season 
crops and crop prospects, with market prices of farm 
produce, from all parts of the country for publica¬ 
tion under this head.—Bus. RURAL. 
Neosho Falls, Woodson Co., Knnsns, Xov. 5.— 
Wo are now having Indian summer here; the 
latter part of the season dry and pleasant. Crops 
have yielded well except fruit, though I have 
soon some remarkably fine and largo apples. 
Sweet and Irish potatoes have grown the largest 
I ever saw. Immigration still continues lively; 
business brisk, railroads building, Sx. Kansas 
is coming out.— D. Dell. 
Watertown, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Nov. 7.— Wind 
north, and thermometer at It)' below freezing at 
sunset to-day. First snow foil Oct. 2-5lh, seven 
inches deep in southeast part of county. Ilttd a 
week of sharp, winter weather, when tbo snow 
gradually disappeared, and now we are having 
winter again. Last week, probably onc-half tlie 
corn and apples, nnd about one-quarter of the 
potatoes in the county was not harvested. All 
crops except Corn have been good. Wchavehad 
a very cold, wet, backward season. Potatoes in 
some localities were rotting badly before being 
harvested. Have had a heavy crop of bay, good 
pastures, nnd tha result is a good yield of butter 
and cheese. Cheese is scarce at 10c. for farm 
dairies, and 17c. for factory'; butter is more plen¬ 
ty, and sella at 37to40e.; spring wheat, $1.23 to 
$1.30; winter wheat, $1.30 to 1.50; barley, $1; oats, 
50c.; beans, $1.50 to $2; potatoes. 25 to 35c.; eggs, 
25 lo 30e.; pork, in hog, per hundred, $11 to 
$12.50.-8. 8. Gardner. 
New Richmond, I ml., Nov. 1. This part of In¬ 
diana was visited with a very heavy fall of snow 
on the night of the 23d of October. 1 measured 
seven and a half inches on u level. Previous to 
tho commencement of the snow. It raided a little, 
which caused tho snow to adhere to everything 
on which it fell. The damage done to orchards 
is Immense; it also caused great destruction to 
timber, breaking down a great deni of young 
timber, nnd large limbs from the old. The fall 
of snow was followed by i* few days of quite 
cold weather; u great many apples were still on 
t he trees, and frozen. The ground was covered 
live and a half days, and at this writing some 
snow is lying on the north sides of the fences. 
1 have lived in ibis locality forty-one years, aud 
have never experienced any weather near ho se¬ 
vere iis this so early in the season.—C. G. Kirk¬ 
patrick. 
Crow land Township. Welland Co., tint., Nov. 
1.—We have had a very wot summer and fall. 
Hay crop good but there is only u very litllc 
first quality hay. Wheat averaged front twenty 
to thirty-live bushels per acre; c its, thirty to 
forty bushels; corn, better than was expected at 
one time; very little planted in this townshtpl 
potatoes, a good crop but they are rotting very 
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THE AGRICULTURAL LESSON, 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 18G9 
great agricultural lesson ot the season incul¬ 
cates the necessity of draining and thorough 
culture. 11 is not an exaggeration to estimate 
the reduction tins season, from the alternate 
drowning nnd scorching of farm crops, at 
$200,000,000.” We do not know of a season 
since we can remember wherein, this lesson 
has not been UugUl— perhaps not so cm- 
phatically as tiie present, but still w ith em¬ 
phasis. In this lesson is involved another— 
that wc must either diminish tbc; number of 
acres cultivated or increase the amount of 
available labor. We must invest less money' 
in extending the area of out landed posses¬ 
sions, and employ more in insuring the crops 
we do cultivate against the vicissitudes of 
the seasons and ourselves against the Joss of 
what ought, to he tiie legitimate results of 
our investments. This involves the question 
of relative profit. Is money more profitably 
employed in securing the ownership of lands 
constantly appreciating in value, taking tin- 
risk of loss of crop, or not? Is our aggre¬ 
gate production, so large that there is equal 
risk of loss from over production ? If Sta¬ 
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appreciation in value of the unproductive 
lands, held by American farmers, the past 
year, wc should be wiser than we are, and 
be better able to appreciate the importance 
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COUNTRY vs. CITY, 
A young man asks us;—“ Why should I 
not go to the city ? T feel that I am cramped 
here on the farm—that 1 am capable of fill¬ 
ing a larger place in the world than I now 
do.” A prominent horticulturist said to us 
the other day :—•** One of your citizens told 
me that the country blood, vigor and enter¬ 
prise was pushing city-bred people out of 
business. The ambition, practical knowl¬ 
edge, and fertility of resource of the former 
balance the capital and experience of the 
latter.” Horace Greeley advises country 
hoys to “ stay at home and work the farm." 
City people rush to the country as soon as 
they have filled their purses, settle down to 
enjoy the simple and natural life they have 
never enjoyed and can never find in the 
city. 
We can sympathize with Horace Gree¬ 
ley when he advises young men not to come 
to the city. True, he came and succeeded. 
Others come and succeed. Thousands of 
others come and fail. . Horace Greeley is 
doubtless besieged daily by young men from 
the country, self-confident and anxious to 
enter his profession and win high place In it 
as he has won it—men who did not clearly 
see, before they came hither, how the world 
would get ulong another decade without they 
got into the elevated groove they fancy 
themselves fitted to fill. Horace Greeley 
doubtless lias to do wbat hundreds of others 
do, give these self-confident, and ambitious 
men money to keep them from starving 
w hen they get here and to get out of town 
with when they learn that they are not, ab¬ 
solutely Indispensable here. He knows how 
broad and fertile is the field of usefulness 
outside the cities; how serene and peaceful 
life may he there, aud yet earnest, absorbing 
and even exciting to an active-minded, am¬ 
bitious and energetic man. And he knows 
how certain and satisfying are its compen¬ 
sations compared with the glittering bubbles 
which daily dazzle and burst in tbc city. 
Young men from the country can and do 
succeed here. But their life here is, and 
must he, at the first, and all I he while, labo¬ 
rious, plodding, patient and often painful. 
The men who fail are generally those w ho 
are not content with a slow, natural growth, 
but become hot-house plants, stimulated by 
undue heat; there is no toughness to their 
fiber, and the first rude breeze snaps the 
stems. They seem to lose common sense 
and reason, and become bewildered with 
the brilliance which surrounds them. They 
seek to reach the top of the ladder at a leap, 
and neglect to see that its base is secure. 
The ladder falls from under them, and their 
financial resources and reputation are hope¬ 
lessly maimed by the fall. 
When a young man writes us that he feels 
cramped on a farm, we feel morally certain 
he will find himself in a straight jacket when 
he gets into the city and tries to help himself. 
Ill nine cases out of ten tho men who suc¬ 
ceed in the city arc men who are called 
hither in cousequcuce of some signal ability 
developed to succeed out of it, aud which 
has attracted attention. The man who at- 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
New York Stnte Poultry Society’s Fair,— Tho 
ftecond Animal Exhibition of tho N. Y. btatc 
Poultry Society is to bo hold in the Empire City 
Skating JUnk Building, Third Avenue, Sixty- 
third and Sixty-fourth streets. Now York City, 
the first nine days of December, ensuing. The 
show of this Society, in March last, was tho 
largest and finest ever hold in America, and wo 
have reason to believe that Its second exhibition 
will be superior in many respects. In addition 
to the usue.l display of Poultry, tho owning Fair 
will comprise Pisciculture, (live fish, and tiie 
modes of generating ancl hatching.) Dogs, Ponies, 
Song and Cage Birds, und various other pet ani¬ 
mals, tv it It appurtenances for keeping, feeding, 
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imported fowls than were ever shown at an ex¬ 
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being represented. From the stand lug and char¬ 
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useful and triumphant future is assured. 
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Advertisers, and others who occasionally inquire 
where the Rural New-Yorker eirc-.iilftt.es, we 
state that it. lstakou in ovary Muteund Territory 
of the Union, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, and 
also has subscribers In Europe. India, Cldnii, 
Australia, &c. ltut of course the 3 greater por¬ 
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For example, the Rural has In this Slate 31,610 
subscribers; in Pennsylvania, 4,979; In Oil to, 
6,175; Michigan, 6.490; Indiana. 2,719; Illinois 
3,550; Iowa,2,204; Wisconsin. 3,970. And in la< H 
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Alabama, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, 
Nebraska, California und Oregon, it Inis an 
averagenf overlive hundred subscribers,some 
of thorn running as high as fifteen hundred. 
In Canada wo have over one thousand mail 
subscribers, exclusive ol' exchanges, express 
packages, etc. The Rural's circulation in (lie 
Southern and Pacific Stales is very good and 
rapidly increasing. From present indications— 
subscript ion receipts, requests for specimens, 
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anticipate a very large increase of circulation 
during the ensuing three months, in both near 
aud distant, regions. Reader, with your assist¬ 
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— Since the above was written we have re¬ 
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(and postage,) to be mailed to “ JOHN SEEHUSEN, 
Autvorkov, Slagelse, Denmark.” 
Vermont Stale Dairymen’* Association,— On 
the 27th of October a number of the leading 
men In Vermont, interested in the dairy, held a 
meeting at Montpelier for tho purpose of organ¬ 
izing a State Dairymen’s Association. The pro¬ 
ceedings of the meeting have not as yet reached 
us, but wo are informed that the Association 
was duly organized with E. D. Mason, Esq., as 
President and 0. G. Bliss, of Georgia, as Secre¬ 
tary. Mr. Mason is largely engaged in cheese 
dairying, being one ol the most extensive dairy 
farmers in the Stale. Mr. Buss, we believe, has 
charge of the agricultural columns or the Ver¬ 
mont Transcript. He Is a gentleman well ac¬ 
quainted with the agriculture of the State and 
its needs, and there arc few men better calcu¬ 
lated to organize an Association of this kind and 
carry it forward successfully. Ho is a forcible 
writer, aud, with his large acquaintance in New 
England, we may expect tiie Vermont State 
Dairymen's Association to do good work, and 
be of important service in developing the dairy 
interest in Vermont and the adjoining Eastern 
States. We shall hope to bear from the Secre¬ 
tary and report the doings of the Society from 
time to time. 
Knox Co., Til., Ag. Soc.— 'The officers recently 
elected by this Society are Preefdcnt— M. P. De. 
Long; Vice-President—T. L. Gilbert; Treasurer— 
C. H. Arms; Secretary—A. W. Martin; Executive 
Committee— G.IF. Dunlap, M. L. Overstreet, A. N. 
Phelps, A. F. Ward, J. II. Summer. 
The Kansas Stole llort. Soc., holds its annual 
mewing at Leavenworth December 8th and 10th 
inclusive. The pomological reputation Kansas 
has won by its exhibition of fruits the past sea¬ 
son warrants us In anticipating lor those who 
attend a live und profitable meeting. 
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Miss Wager has returned from the West, 
after five months’ absence, und will next week 
resume tho conduct of the Domestic Depart¬ 
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campaign, has accumulated much “ material of 
war." and asks the co-opera t inn of Rural read¬ 
ers in her offensive movements upon errors and 
utilises and her defense of domestic rights and 
privileges, _ _ 
Strawberry Culture. — KNOX of Pittsburgh, 
plants strawberries in rows two feet apart, and 
the plants one foot apart in the row; keeps 
off the runners and cultivates by band. After 
trying other modes, he is satisfied this is the 
most profitable. 
Calvert Co., Md. Ag. Soc.—The following of¬ 
ficers were recently elected -.—President, Dr. G. 
W. Dorsey. Flee - PresHlents , John Parrau, 
James Bond. J. F. Ireland. JW®" (/-Secretary, 
0. IL Belt. Conesponding-Sccrctarv, 8. Cornelius. 
The American Institute Fair, recently closed, 
we learn, from the reports of receipts and ex¬ 
penditures which have appeared in the daily 
papers, cleared, net, $31,000. 
For Prospectus of Vol. XXI., for 1870, see last 
page. 
