Meramee, Mo., Hort. hoc,— This Society elect¬ 
ed the following officers, Dec. 6,1871: Frets.— T. 
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MOOBE’S BUBAL 3SEW-Y0BXER 
“PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT,” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
RURAL, LITERARY AM) FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conducting ILditor and Proprietor. 
PUBLICATION OFFICES; 
No. 5 Beekman Street, New York City, and No. 82 
Buffalo Street. Rochester, N. Y. 
WESTERN BRANCH OFFICE: 
No. 75 North Side of Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
VS“ Subscriptions, Advertisements, Ac., re¬ 
ceived,—and Specimens, Show-Bills, Prospec¬ 
tuses, Ac., delivered, —at either of the above 
Offices of this Journal. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
Subscription. Single Copy, *2.50 per Year. To 
Clubs: Five Copies, aud one copy free to Agent or 
getter up of Club, tor *12.50: Seven Copies, and one 
free, for *16; Ten Copies, and one free. *20-only *2 
per copy. As we ore obliged to pre-pay the American 
postage on papers mailed to foreign countries, Twenty 
Cents should be added to above rates for each yearly 
copy mailed to Canada, and One Dollar per copy to 
Europe. Drafts. Post-Other Money Order- and Regis, 
tered Letters may be mailed at our risk. ZTT Liberal 
Premiums to all Club Agents who do not. take free 
copies. Specimen Numbers. Show-Bills, Ac., sent free 
Advertising. — Inside, Vf, cent! pci line Agate 
space: Outside. *1 per lino,cacti Insertion. Fur Ex¬ 
tra Display and Cuts. « price and ti-lnilf. .‘•pedal arid 
Business Notices, fl.tf)and *2 a line. No advertise¬ 
ment inserted for loss than *5. 
SATURDAY, J ANI 
BRIEF BUT HEARTY GREETING! 
For days, wc have been, and are now. far too 
busy to think of anything formal in the shape 
of a New Year's Introductory to this Volume 
of the Rural New-Yorker. We write with 
the rustle of leaves (leitens) that are steadily 
falling (from every State in the Union end the 
Canadas' upon our table, —the serateliing of the 
pens of our Subscription Clerks,—the calls for 
copy,—the requests to decide this or that point 
as to the mechanical details of the new- 
style Rural,— the importunities of Advertising 
Agents, who want all the space, for their own 
use, and-well! with all this melange of de¬ 
mand, and the genera! noise and non fusion of 
preparation for the Campaign, wc sit down to 
very hastily say (for the last page must close for 
the press in two hours) that we wish you all a 
Happy New Year, and to promise -nothing! 
The regular, reliable and able members of our 
Editorial Staff who have aided us to make the 
Rural New-Yorker the “Best, Cheapest and 
Most Popular Journal of Its Clasts in the World"— 
Braodon, Fuller, Junn. Randall, Willard, 
Harris, Riley, Lewis, Wager, and the steady 
old, practical and talented Contributors, too nu¬ 
merous to mention (in our limited space)—are 
still with and for MOORE’S Rural, and its fast- 
augmenting parish of readers. There is to be no 
insist, not only as a matter of courtesy, but as a 
matter of mutual interest, that our calls shall be 
returned. We want to talk over with and learn 
from our friends the way they do things and 
what they learn in the doing. If they discover 
any errors in their practices that it will benefit 
Others to avoid, we want to know what they arc; 
or any good growing out ot their experiences 
that others may legitimately share, of course we 
want to know it, for it is our well-known pur¬ 
pose to act us a -ort of intermediate and garru¬ 
lous gossip between our friends, taking care, so 
far as possible with our garrulousness, not to 
make mischief. If Jus Brown wants to know 
how Jim Smith doca a tiling, or what he would 
do under certain circumstances, wo want to ask 
J iM about it and tell JOI;: it would be a great 
pleasure to ils. Jf Sally Sorrowful desires 
Betsev Brightness to tell her any of her se¬ 
crets, we offer our good services to get Betsey’s 
secrets from her. 
Ho you see we’re fixed up and ready to bo the 
confidante and confidential adviser of all upon 
whom we call. That Is Just it: and we shall al¬ 
ways expect a pleasant, cheerful welcome and 
flic most intimate relations with every member 
of the families w may visit during the year. 
Wc don’t intend to intrude, nor to bo regarded 
obtrusive. Wc shall cease calling upon the first 
intimation that our company is not desirable; 
but wo are bound to make it desirable if we can. 
Ho hero we are! What do you say to the proposal ? 
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EUKAL NOTES AND QUEKIES, 
The RumI'h New Departure ” In Form and 
St i le may not please everybody,—we do not ex¬ 
pect that, — hut, we think people of good taste 
and judgment will say the change is a decided 
improvement. Such is the verdict of a good 
many level-headed Journalists who have seen 
proofs oi pages, the new vignette heading (which 
is pronounced unequaled) and other items. This 
number Luis been gotten up in great haste, and is 
necessarily Imperfect —ibut. wc won't stop long 
to apologize, inasmuch as the proverb says “ He 
that excusoth accuse!h")—especially as a rush of 
advertisements has greatly interfered with our 
wishes aud arrangements. Moreover—but the 
new-style Rural is before you, Reader; exam¬ 
ine and give your verdict -Guilty or not guilty ? 
I’ollttcnl Reform. Our article on this subject 
in a recent number, has called out a number of 
strong indorsements from readers in different 
parts of the country. For example, « gentle¬ 
man from Wen ham, Mass., writes 
“ Having read in the Rural New-Yorker, of 
the ltstb Inst., your article headed “ Political Rc- 
tonn," and presuming you would like some en¬ 
couragement from your readers, J take this op¬ 
portunity to give you niy sentiments on the sub¬ 
ject in a few words. The opinions advanced In 
tlm article I cordially approve, and It appears to 
me (in the present corrupt and venal condition oi 
aur country's affairs) that all neutral or indepen¬ 
dent journals should agitate the matter of Po¬ 
litical Reform in all Its bearings, to the utmost, 
in order to stir up the honest people oi the coun¬ 
try, of all parties, to unite and rise In their 
might, to sweep the present corrupt mass of of¬ 
ficeholder, 1 ; from their positions, and put in their 
places men of ability and honesty, and by so doing 
save our Government and Country to future 
generations. Hoping you will continue to agi¬ 
tate the matter In the same calm tone and inde¬ 
pendent manner. I remain,” Ac. 
Canandaigua Lake. — Elsewhere we give an 
illustrated article descriptive of this beautiful 
lake and its surroundings, from the pen of ex- 
Senutor Williams of Yates county —being the 
first of a series on the Lakes of Western New 
York. We think these articles will prove of 
general interest and value to thousands, while 
retrograde. It is our purpose, and will be our I the illustrations must render them attractive. 
effort, to improve. Neither labor nor expense 
will be spared to render this year's issues more 
attractive and useful than those sent forth in 
any preceding tweivomonth since the establish¬ 
ment of the Rural New-Yorker. 
And pray is that not enough to say, especially 
as we arc in a hurry and constantly interrupted? 
Nay; we must, and do most cordially, thank the 
Rural’s hosts of friends for their continued 
evidences of friendship, manifested in many 
ways—for the good words they write and the 
generous deeds they are doing in its behalf. 
Bowing respectfully in grateful acknowledg¬ 
ment, we give as a sentiment a paraphrase of an 
old one“ Here’s to your health and your fami¬ 
ly’s : may you all Uve long and prosper 1" 
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OUR NEW YEAR’S CALL. 
It is well for each man and woman to have a 
good opinion of him or herself. In fact, it is 
necessary to success. We want it distinctly 
understood, therefore, that we conscientiously 
strive to merit our own good opinion. We speak 
now as a Journal and not as an Individual. We 
think we have some reason to do so; for. leav¬ 
ing our own judgment on t Q f the question, wo 
have Cumulative and substantial evidence iliut 
a great many other people think that we arc 
entitled to such an opinion of ourself, And 
now that the New Year has dawned and we 
have put on our new dress— from head to foot 
rule —we respectfully submit whether wc- have 
any reason to reverse the high opinion we hove 
hitherto cherished concerning the Rural New- 
Yorker ! 
But then! W e want to respect those whom we 
meet weekly. We want them to feel that we re¬ 
spect them. Out of respect to them do we not 
make our New Year's Call in our best “ bib and 
tucker ? " Are wc not deferential ? A re we not 
amiable and polite? Don't we want to keep up 
a regular railing acquaintance during the year 
1872, ami all the- years thereafter? But wc must 
— For courtesies, and aid in procuring photo¬ 
graphs, sketches, etc., of scenes on Canandaigua 
and other lakes, we arc indebted to J. J. Mat- 
teson. (editor of the Repository and Messenger,) 
Wm. Hildreth, (Deputy U. 8. Marshal,) aud 
M. Finley & Son, (Photographers,) of Canan¬ 
daigua, and also to A. E. Beers, (Photographer,) 
of Rusbville, 
Plowmen's Club.—Talking of the luck of good 
plowmen in the country, un old farmer said to 
us something ought to be done to improve the 
character and q uahty of this work. We suggest¬ 
ed that it would bo an excellent plan for plow¬ 
men in a neighborhood to organize in clubs, 
meet, with their teams and plows, und compare 
their implements, modes of adjusting aud using 
them, and learn of aud stimulate each other. 
We once knew such a Club which met one after¬ 
noon each week; and the improvements made 
in the neighborhood plowing thereby was most 
striking. 
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A Word to Advertisers. —Our advertising 
space is over-flooded. “ and more too." We were 
compelled to refuse advertisements proffered 
some days before going to press. As it is, In con¬ 
sequence of a miscalculation as to the elasticity 
of our forms, we arc compelled to leave over 
several columns. The only apology wc can ren¬ 
der advertisers whose favors arc deferred is that 
we had rather apologize to them than to our 
readers, upon whose rights wo hav e already en¬ 
croached and of whom we bog purdon. 
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” Brondlands," the former 22,000 acre farm in 
Champaign Co., III., first owned by M. L. Sulli- 
vant and later by John T. Alexander, is now 
reported to have again changed hands, having 
been purchased by four parties for *450,000. It 
is to be divided into small farms and again sold. 
This is the way all large farms must go, sooner 
or later, ill this country. There is no law of en¬ 
tail to prevent It. thanks to the good sense of 
the American people. 
i RURAL BREVITIES. 
Don’t run in debt this year. 
Something to save!—manure! 
Fill up the ioc-houses early. 
The Massachusetts Ag. College’s next term 
commences Jan. 11. 
Three hundred thousand tea plants in Cali¬ 
fornia are doing well. 
Firry years ago there was not a pound of fine 
wool grown outside of Spaiu. 
Milk slightly turned sour is a common cause 
of diarThru in children and infants. 
Peter Henderson scuds us. an elaborate and 
complete catalogue of seeds for 1872. 
Does farming pay ? What docs your latlance 
for the year answer to that question ? Tell us. 
Top many fall and too few winter varieties of 
apples, it is asserted, are plank'd in Wisconsin. 
Windmills for pumping water for stock grow 
more and more popular when the snow Hies. 
Colorado is importing a large number of 
Short-Horn bulls for the improvement of its 
berdB. 
It is stated that a Californian has lost nearly 
1,700 sheep, by poison which he had prepared for 
squirrels. 
The Maine Agricultural and Mechanical Col- I 
lege has more students and better accommoda¬ 
tions than ever before. 
English grocers are finding great fault with 
Normandy butters because there is so much 
water (not brine) in them. 
Cmas. Lee, North Blandford. Ct.. grew un acre 
of corn for soiling, which averaged ten feet high 
and weighed, cured, ten tons. 
A correspondent is informed that wc know 
of no way to make any kind of business pay, 
permanently, without hat'd work ! 
In New Hampshire a mine is being worked 
which yields u fertilizing substance known in 
market as Stevens' Mineral Fertilizer. 
John Harold sends us the Thirtieth Annual 
Report of Ihe Queens Co., N. Y., Ag. Sue. It is 
u live Society and hue a live secretary. 
Vick's Catalogue of seeds for 1872 is the big¬ 
gest work of art the year Is?I has produced in 
the catalogue line, so far as we are posted. 
At the Union meeting of formers at Manches¬ 
ter, N. H„ l>c<c. 12, 1871, potatoes enough were 
exhibited " to dine a regiment of Irishmen." 
A. M. Burns, Man hat fan, Kan., Is writing a 
book on grape, blackberry, raspberry anti straw¬ 
berry culture, designed for the inexperienced in 
the West . 
At Windsor, Conn., tobacco growers are sell¬ 
ing their tobacco growth lor 1871 at 18c. per lb. 
for wrappers, 10c. to 20c. for seconds, and 5c. to 
10c. for fillers. 
We acknowledge un invitation from E. 8. 
Ralphs, Cor. Sec'y Western N. Y. Poultry Hoc., 
to attend the annual show of the Society, Jan. 
18-23d, ut Buffalo. 
Frank w, Tyler wants to know the price of 
farm lands in Southern Indiana, and what in¬ 
ducement; it offers to men of small means who , 
desire to engage in farming. 
JUDSON'8 Branching Com is pulled and hauled 
by those who have, und who have not, been suc¬ 
cessful with it. The secret probably is that there 1 
has been too much swindling in s«‘ed. 
Hon. James Brooks, speaking of Japanese 
agriculture, says;—"Proud as I am of the arts, ' 
sciences and marvelous doings ot my own coun¬ 
try, 1 blush when 1 compare American farming 
with this I" 
The Rural Farmers' Club, Eufield, Conu„ 
have been discussing this resolution Besolixd, 
That the raising of tobacco by- farmers is im¬ 
moral.'’ The discussion was decided to be “ a 
drawn battle." 
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
North Worcester, Moss., Ag. Soc.— Officersfor 
1872; Pres.— John H. Lock ey, of Leominster. 
nce-Prn.—Leonard Dowue. Fitchburg; Joseph 
Cozzcnft, Leominster. See. and Dm.-Dcorge 
8 Houghton, Fitchburg. Captain E. T. Miles 
was chosen a member of the State Board of Ag¬ 
riculture for thre years. 
Brown. See. and Trcas.— John Fraser, Pacific 
City. Mo. L’r. Com.—C. Whitsell, G. Paul. Dr. 
Gamy. 
Patrons or Husbandry.— The National Grange 
of this Order meets in Washington, Jan. 3. m 
1870 88 new Granges, and in 1871 131 were organ¬ 
ized, Iowa is the strongest hold of the Order, it 
haring 92 Granges. 
South Seavtlle, N. J-, Formers’ Club— Officers 
elect: Pres— Georoe M. Post. Bee. Sec.—F, S. 
Townsend. Cor. See,—T. E. Van Gild. 1 nan.- 
David Townsend. Librarian. —Daniel M heaton. 
Meets every Monday evening. 
The Delaware Poultry Soe. holds its .Second 
Annual Exhibition at Wilmington. Del., Jan 11 
17. W. D. Bush. Bee. Sec. and Treat.. v\ ilining- 
ton, Del., will furnish Premium List. 
The Michigan State Poultry Ass’u holds " a 
grand National and State Exhibition of Poultry," 
fit Detroit, Jan. 25-30- Competition open to the 
world. 
The Iowa State Hort. Soc. holds its sixth an¬ 
nual meeting at Des Moines, Iowa, commencing 
Monday evening, January 15. 
The Northern III. Hort. Soe. holds its annual 
meeting at. Princeton, III., Jan. 23-26. It’s a live 
organization. 
The South Mis*, and E. La. Ag. Ass’n holds a 
meeting and market fair at Osy-ka, Miss.. Friday-. , 
Jan. 26. 
The Missouri State Hort. Soe. holds its 13th 
annual meeting at Kansas City, Jan. 9-12. 
bj Jttblrsljcr’s gcsL 
We prim One Hundred and 
fifty Thousand Copies of the 
l’irsl. Edition of this issue of the 
Rural New-Yorker. 
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RICH HOLIDAY PRESENTS 1 
All the actual or intending Agents of 
the RURAL NEW-YORKER who wish 
to make their friends handsome or use¬ 
ful Holiday Presents, should hurry up 
and send in Clubs (or parts of large. 
Clubs) soon as possible, selecting the 
Presents from our Premium List. We 
can send most articles promptly — by 
first return Mail or Express. Our de¬ 
sire is to make happy as many people as 
we can during and after the Holidays. 
*** See Premium List in Rural Oct. 28. 
A Vote of Thank* Is hereby tendered to old anil 
new Agcnt-Frtenda for the liberal manner in which 
they are dubbing uv from alt parts of the country! 
Though our receipts have thus far greatly exceeded 
oar anticipations, we will endeavor to bear the in¬ 
fliction. While old Agents are doing better than 
ever before, scores of new up.i- ure doing DObly—sev¬ 
eral having sent us over $100 cm h, for new clubs, 
during the past two weeks. Go on. Friends, old and 
new, near and distant, and yon will not only get 
" Good l’iiy tor Doing Good,” but have the conscious¬ 
ness of benefiting your fellow citizens. 
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Rural Boys an*l Girlw m Work.—The Boys 
and Gu is are doing " right smart" in sending us Clubs. 
A goodly number have, already sent Clubs of from b 
to oO subscribers. iSee letters from Ulrlt> and Boys on 
bilge 27.) A letter just received front Wilber E. 
Jonks of Kalamazoo Co., Midi., unclosing {GO for 30 
Subscribers) Is so good that wo give this extract: 
" Thb: i- illy nrstt ,-wtenipt at get! mg up a club for n 
paper, aud 1 tlnnk that 1 have done wry well for u 
tamer boy of sixteen. My fatln-r tin; taken the Hi ¬ 
lliAI, for n good many years, and he lifts always saved 
them und sowed tile volumes t<rether, aud un ehll- 
tlren take pleasure in mating them out and looking 
them over, iu> we always |tn<| something new in them 
Mother says thut she had rattier have the Iff UAL 
Umn any I jtuiies' Magazine. For premium, please -end 
me, by express. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.'' 
Moore's Kura! and Arthur's Magazines.— 
Our readers are reminded of our offer to send the Ru¬ 
ral and ARTHUR'S magazines et low rates. As 
given In our Issue of Dec. 9. the terra* are us follows : 
For the Rural Xf.w-Youk in and Arthur’s Lady’s 
Home Magazine, one year, $3.M; for the Rural New- 
Yorker and Children's Hour, one year, $3; for the 
Rural New-Yorker and both of the Magazines, one 
year, $4 ."6, Subscriptions must, commence with .Tan.. 
1872, and be fur one year. Address LL D. T. MOORE, •> 
Beckman St., New York. 
The If urtil ns n Present.—Our readers are re¬ 
minded that in all rases where a Subscriber sends the 
Rural New-Yorker to a relative or friend, as a 
present, we only charge the lowest club-rate—$2 a 
year. Tlie lowest price for copies thus sent to Cana¬ 
da ts $2.2(1 and to Europe ?>. The RURAL Is a valua¬ 
ble gift, and one which reminds the recipient of the 
kind donor fifty-two times In the course of the year. 
Many order It r.-. a present to distant friends. 
Extra anil Specimen Copies of this number of 
the Rural will Le forwarded to our Agents and a 
good many other sensible people. Will those reeeir- 
ipg them do us and tlielr friends the favor to show 
and Circulate, with a view of increasing our circula¬ 
tion? We desire all to note Contents, Style, Ac., and 
then decide upon the merits of our claim that the 
Rural New-Yorker is the H>t and Cheapest. 
Weekly (:> itn sphne aj Journal'll m. 
Bound Volumes of the Rural Scw-York*r. 
—Back volumes of the Rural, handsomely bound, 
are constantly kept on bund at its Publication offices. 
Vol. XX. for 1869, containing 828 pages and over 800 
illustrations, SL The Seml-anuual Volumes, issued 
since Jan. 1, 1370. J2.50 each. The volumes being too 
heavy for the mail, are usually sent by Express or as 
F reight, subject to charges. 
Our Premiums Approved.—We ore in receipt 
of many letters from recipients of Premiums, prais- 
ing the articles they have secured—such as the U. S. 
Watch Co.'s Watches, Reed A Barton’s Plated Ware, 
Weed’s Sewing Machine, the Continental Washer, 
(very strongly approved,) Universal and Novelty 
Wringers, Ac., Ac. 
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How to Help the Rural.—' There are numerous 
ways in which its friends can aid in circulating the 
RURAL. First, show tile paper, or talk to your friends 
about it. or both. Get up a club, or aid some friend to 
do so—or induce your P. M. to act as agent. 
AdditioiiM to Clubs are always in order, whether 
in ones, twos, fives, tens, or more. A host of people 
are subscribing for papers ubout these days, and we 
hope our Agent-Friends will give everybody an oppor¬ 
tunity to subscribe for the best. 
Our Premiums.— Agents entitled to Premiums 
arc* requested to designate what they prefer and noti¬ 
fy us how und where to send—whether by Freight or 
Express. 
No Traveling Agents are employed by us, but 
any person so disposed can act as Local Agent, on his 
or her own authority, und secure premiums, etc. 
Show Bills, ^specimen Numbers, Etc., Eent 
free to ull disposed to form Clubs for the Rural. 
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All Remittance* by Draft, P. O. Money Order or 
Registered Letter are AT our risk. 
