MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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“PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A national illustrated 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conductin'; Bditor 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. 
Subscription* Advertisement*, Ac.. received,— 
and Specimen*, Show-Bill*. Prospectuses, Ac., deliv¬ 
ered,- at either ol the above office* of this Journal. 
sheep, swine, implements, etc., etc. Men ask ns 
to name some reliable dealer, whom wc can 
recommend. They seem to forget that we have 
few mom facilities for obtaining’ this Informa¬ 
tion than they. There are many men who ad¬ 
vertise witli us who, in all their business rela¬ 
tions with us, are strictly honorable, prompt and 
reliable. But we do not know, and cannot 
know, of the quality of what they soli —of the 
purity of the blood, and the care taken in breed¬ 
ing of the stock offered for sale. In many cases 
we do not have an opportunity to examine 
their herds. We can only Judge of them from 
our standpoint, which is not always, we are sor¬ 
ry to say, a safe one for our readers. Purchasers 
must exercise business caution and protect 
themselves by references and guarantees. And 
we shall always be prompt to do wha t we may to 
protect our readers from deception and fraud. 
Don't Invest In Vermont Gold Mine* — For 
that whereas Dr. Cutting, State Geologist, 
lately averred, in a paper read before the Board 
of Agriculture, that almost every week brought 
him parcels of worthless sand, containing yel¬ 
low or white mica, or white and yellow pyrites, 
supposed by the deluded senders to be precious 
gold. Dr. C. wishes it to be distinctly understood 
that there are no metallic ores la Vermont 
which are worth working. For that the rocks of 
the State an- too old and compact, or too nearly 
connected wlfh the glacial drift. The yields of 
marble and slate, however, are very good. Those 
invited to invest in Vermont gold mining stocks, 
will please remember Dr. Cutting’s statements 
and govern themselves sensibly. 
‘•When May I Kill Woodcock l ” asks Sam¬ 
uel 8. C. of Cayuga Co„ .V S'. “ A gentleman 
told me I lie other day that f could not shoot them 
now according to law. Can you tell me? " Yes i 
The law provides that you shall not kill or ex¬ 
pose for sale or have in your possession after the 
same baa been killed, any woodcock between 
Feb. 1st and July 4th, under penalty of $50 for 
each bird. 
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Broadway, New York, at $5 a year. The con¬ 
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appropriate to the objects announced in the title 
of this new recruit in a peculiar and important 
sphere of journalism. We trust the Financier 
will prove a success—financially and otherwise. 
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The AdvertUer'* Mngneinr is the name of a 
new and handsome publication just started by 
Messrs. S. M. Pkttengill ft Co.. 37 Park Bow, 
New York. It Is devoted to the interests of 
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journals, with their circulations, etc. 
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THE SEASON. 
Decatur, Iowa, Jon. 20.—Winter dry and 
pleasant, thermometer has not marked zero for 
five weeks. Wheat, $1 per bushel: corn, 20c.: 
potatoes. 30c.; sheep, $3i£4; hogs, n. a. 
Dunlap, Iowa, Jan. 2A.—Finest winter I ever 
saw. Wheat, $1; oats, 30c.; corn, 18c.; potatoes, 
40c.; butter, 20c.; egs, 20c.; pork, 4c.; cows, $205/, 
30; Oxen, $70^*100; horses, $100@150.- a. n. r. 
Saluhtirg, Indiana Go., Pa.. Jan. 22. —Very 
little snow: weather very changeable; coldest 
day, 16° below zero; business dull; little money 
circulating. Wheat, $1.35@1.40; oats. 45c.; hay, 
$16 per ton- w. r. u. 
Rcallsvllle, O., Feb. 1.—Corn, the past season, 
averaged 50 bushels per acre; wheal 10 to 15 
bushels; oats, 20 bushels. Peach t>uds were 
killed by one or two cold days last month. 
Wheat, $1.30; eorn, 45e.; oats, 35c.; buckwheat, 
$1; butler, 15c.; eggs, 30c.; chickens, 20c. each. 
No sale for hay.— e. m. 
The Plain*, Fauquier On., V«., Jan, 29,—To¬ 
day Is extremely cold ; mercury at about zero ; 
high N. W. wind. So far a very open winter; 
but little ruin or snow; plenty of ice. Growing 
wheat looks badly, so much freezing and thaw¬ 
ing. Wheat, $1.50 per bu.; corn, 50e.; oats, 45c.; 
apples, $1; pork, $5'iD6 per cwt,: beef, $6@8 per 
cwt. 4. s. 1*. 
Oak Grove, H U., Jnn. 16. An equable win¬ 
ter, with plenty of snow; business dull; prices 
low: wheat $1.10® 1.15; corn, 50c.; oats, 30c.; 
barley, 50c.; potatoes, 50c.; apples, 75c.; butter, 
J8t\; pork, $4®4.50; hay, $10 and not very plenty; 
sheep scarce and high, and will be until after 
shearing. Considerable wheat in the hands of 
farmeis unsold; will be held until spring. The 
crop verj light.—u. w. 
Hull's 1’orncra, Dm. t'o., A. V.. Jan. 29.—The 
coldest day ol the month, so far. Thermometer 
C J below zero at sunrise; 10° above at noon, and 
now, 8 P. M„ nearly down to zero, with a strong 
wind from the West by North all day. Yester¬ 
day was mild and pleasant. There have been 
several car load* of apples shipped from this 
station, Northern Central Railroad, South, this 
month, buyers paying $3:0*3.50 per bbl. But 
little snow as yet; sleighing poor, but wheeling 
prime. A good winter for sheep, so far; mutton 
sheep worth 6c. per lb and upwards.—p. r. a. 
Enel Jnffrny, N. H-, Jnn. 23.—We are having 
a mild, open winter, favorable for hay and 
grain. Have four inches of snow and ice; good 
sleighing. Have had 13 snows, all light ones—38 
Inches in all. No extreme cold weather; 12° be¬ 
low zero the coldest. Money easier and business 
reviving. Pork, 7c.; beef, 7(ic. per lb. in bulk ; 
corn, Northern, $1.(6; Western, 85c.; rye and 
barley. $J; butter, 35o. per lb., potatoes, 50®75o.; 
apples, Western, per bbl., $4(5.4.-50. Everything 
favorable for a crop of fruit next season, thus 
far— l. l. p. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
A correspondent asks some of our readers, 
having experience, to tell him the best way to 
make a surface cellar—frost-proof—and if they 
can be made of wood. 
C. S. Rust Is informed that wc do not know 
that the Self-Acting Portable Fountain, illus¬ 
trated in Rural New-Yorker of Jan.27,isfor 
sale iu this country. It ought, to be. 
A CIRCULAR received at this office announces 
that a “ Second Ohio State Fair is to be held at 
Tiffin, 0., June 4, 5, b and 7 at which $20,000 is to 
bo expended in premiums and expenses.” 
The Foot-and-Mouth disease among cattle 
does not disappear from the herds ot Great 
Britain, and is extending in the French herds, 
according to last reports. Let those who im¬ 
port stock to this oountry look out. 
BUSINESS INFORMATION. 
Chesapeake and Ohio R. R. Company. —We 
Judge from present appearances that the $15,- 
000,000 gold loan of this Company, which was in¬ 
troduced to the market by FIs k <fc Hatch, and 
by them recommended as a first-class security 
for investment purposes, will be shortly clos¬ 
ed. A few weeks since loss than $2,000,000 re¬ 
mained undisposed of. and large sales were re¬ 
cently made at H4 and interest, a part of which 
were taken for foreign shipment. The high rep¬ 
utation of the financial agents, together with the 
well-known integrity of the managers of the 
Company, naturally attract the attention of In¬ 
vestors to these securities, and this fact will ex¬ 
plain the rapid distribution of the bonds. Messrs. 
Fisk & Hatch have always confined their efforts 
to enterprises of undoubted character, having 
been prominently Identified as agents for the 
sale of Government loans, and subsequently of 
the Central Pacific Railroad bonds, which now 
sell above par. The Chesapeake and Ohio road 
is geographically a counterpart, of the Central 
Pacific, leading inland from one of the best har¬ 
bors on the Atlantic const,as the Central Pucific 
terminates on the finest portion of the Pacific 
const; and added to which is this greut advant¬ 
age. that the Chesapeake line has tributary to it 
unsurpassed rich coal and iron beds, which are 
being rapidly developed. As Is well known, the 
Control Pacifies are already favorites in both 
home and foreign money centers, and the finan¬ 
cial management of the Chesapeake and Chios 
being essentially the same, it Is safe to presume 
that these bonds will share Hie same popularity. 
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The New Composite, Sanitary Mater Pipe, 
which is only two-t hirds the cost of lend, stronger 
and Just as flexible, and free from all deleterious 
influences, is worthy the at tention of our readers. 
Professors of chemistry have indorsed this pipe. 
Those who would escape nil risks of lead poison, 
will be glad to know of this pipe. It is manu¬ 
factured by the N. Y. Lead Co., 65 Center street. 
|i?c publisher's Jpesh. 
The Rural New-Yorker is electro- 
typed, and henee Back Numbers can 
always be supplied. Copies for sale 
by all News Dealers; price Bix Cents. 
Additions to Clubs are always in order, whether 
In one*, two*, five*, ten*, or more. A host of people 
are subscribing for pupera nhoiif these days, and wo 
hope our Agent-Friends will give everybody an oppor¬ 
tunity to subscribe for the best. 
Show Dills, Specimen Numbers, Etc., ol the 
Rural New-Yorker sent free. 
SIX PER CENT. BONDS 
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, 
having still twenty-eight years to run, with Interest 
payable May 1 and nov. 1, both principal and interest 
payable In gold coin in the city of New York, are re¬ 
commended by u* for safe and permanent investment, 
for the following reasons, vir,: 
1. T)ay ore thoroughly tec tired. 
2. lAke the Ventral Pacifies, they will he widely known, 
very popular, and alum ye marketable. 
3. They will he dealt In at till the prominent Stock Ex' 
changes in title country and Europe, and Unite the 
advantage Of hath a home unit a European market. 
4. They should largely advance from the present price of 
ninety-four and accrued intercut, when all sold by 
the Company, u* Central Paciflci have done. 
They are in denominations of $100, $500 and $1,00Q 
Coupon or Registered. 
The Cur.sAeK.vKK AND Ohio being under able and 
honorable management, partly Identical with that of 
the Clmthai. Pacific, their Securities should take 
equal rank In popularity and market value. 
For exchange of Five-Twenties or for new invest¬ 
ments, wc cordially recommend either the Central Pa¬ 
cific or Chesapeake and Ohio Six Her Cent. Gold Bonds. 
We continue to deal In Government Securities, buy 
and sell Investment Stocks and Bonds at the Stock 
Exchange, open uccounts with depositors, upon which 
we allow interest at the rate of four per cent., make 
collection* in all parts of the country, and transact a 
general Banking business. 
FISK & HATCH. 
Harvey Fisk, / 
A. S. Hatch, i 
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NOTICE TO CONSUMERS. 
The increasing popularity of Dooley’s Y’f.ast 
POWDER has induced a certain firm who manufacture 
a Baking Powder to copy verbatim our advertise¬ 
ments, simply substituting their name In phieo of 
ours. While this prove* thestandurd excellence and 
worth of our Yeast Powder, it is calculated to deceive 
the consumers, and reflects the character of the par¬ 
ties as well as the good* which they are endeavuring 
to force upon the unwary. Be sure that you call for 
Dooley's Yeast Powder, and take no other. 
Dooley & Brother, Proprietors, 69 New Street, New 
Y'ork. 
DR. STRONG’S REMEDIAL INSTITUTE, 
Saratoga Springs, N. \\, is unsurpassed in the treat¬ 
ment of Lung, Female and Chronic Diseases. Turk¬ 
ish, Russian, Electro-Thcrmul and Sulphur-Air Baths. 
Hydropathy, Vacuum Treatment. Movement Cure, 
Oxygen, Calisthenics, Ac. Terms lowest in win¬ 
ter. Send for a Circular. Endorsed by Bishop Janes, 
Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D. D., and Tavler Lewis, LL. D. 
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While Waiting lor a Cough "to go as it 
came,' - you are often sowing the seeds of Consump¬ 
tion. Better try at once Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant, 
a sure cure for all Coughs and Colds. 
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Acute A flections of the Lungs, Chest, Throat and 
Kidneys are easily cured by using White Pine Com¬ 
pound. For sale everywhere. 
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1872. 
KURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
A Wisconsin Farmer on the. Wool Tariff.—GEO. 
G. White, Dodge Co., Wis., writes:— “I don’t 
want you to crowd out the Sheep Department, 
but help protect the wool raisers. This Industry 
should be protected b.v all means. We don't 
want, the Eastern manufacturers to get the tariff 
repealed. They will humbug Congress if possi¬ 
ble. 1 have no faith In Yankee honesty. Every' 
agricultural journal should bo wide awake to our 
interests. Let the tariff stand as it is; it does not 
require patohlng up by free trade politicians." 
Well, wc do not intend to crowd out the Sheep 
Department often. Wc have faith, however, in 
Yankee or any oilier kind of honesty. Wc have 
no faith in dishonesty, whether Hast or West. 
We believe that every man will, us a rule, look 
after what he may deem his best interests. He 
may be mistaken in them, but nevertheless hon¬ 
est in adopting any specified course. But wc 
have fouud that no matter how honest and sin¬ 
cere lie may be, he is liable to be charged with 
dishonesty. If a man wishes to bo regarded hon¬ 
est himself, he must at least allow that there 
may be tin honest difference of opinion on the 
part ot others. W«. believe that the benefits to 
be derived from any tariff must depend upon its 
stability. And one of the strongest arguments 
against tariffs, and one of the reasons why they 
do not realize for the industrial interests of the 
country what, the believers in protection claim 
they will, is the perpetual tinkering to which 
they are subjected,rendering investments bused 
upon their existence and prospective continu¬ 
ance too uncertain. Tariffs once established, 
should he let alone. And if It could bo, they 
should always he understood as Inviolable for a 
specified time, at least until their utility could 
be fairly tested. 
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Oldliinry— Joseph II. Lymun.—The friends of 
this gentleman were shocked by the announce¬ 
ment of his sudden death in the morning papers. 
He was well known as the Agricultural Editor 
of the Tribune, ft was in this capacity we knew 
him as a vigorous, graceful and aide writer; a 
man of quick and usually accurate perceptions, 
zealous in the acquirement of facts bearing 
upon the industrial interests of the country, 
and scholarly and forcible in his presentation of 
them. His more intimate personal friends pay 
high tribute to his social qualities as a friend, 
husband and parent, and mourn his loss from 
their midst with unalloyed sorrow. He was 
bom in Massachusetts, graduated at Yule Col¬ 
lege, studied law and wont to New Orleans to 
practice ids profession. Boon after the com¬ 
mencement of the war he returned North, be¬ 
came Agricultural Editor of the N. Y. World, 
subsequently Managing Editor of the Hearth 
and Home, and finally was called to the position 
on the Tribune which ho filled at the time of his 
death. He died nt his residence at Richmond 
Hill, Long Island, Jan. 28. of small-pox, leaving 
a wife and six children to mourn the loss of a 
kind husband and father. All who know “ Kate 
Hunnibec” will feel for her a profound sympa¬ 
thy because of her bereavement. 
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To Inquirer* About ihe Best Place to Pur¬ 
chase.—We have repeatedly said, aud we reiter¬ 
ate the statement, that wo cannot undertake to 
advise our readers who ask us when and of 
whom it is best to purchase eggs, fowls, cattle. 
The Presidency of Brown University.— As 
briefly mentioned in our last, the Rev. E. G. 
Robinson, D.D., President of the Rochester 
Theological Seminary, and probably the ablest 
theologian of his (Baptist) denomination in 
America, was recently elected President, of 
Brown University. In noticing this election the 
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle says: 
** Brown University stands in the front rank 
ami among the most favored seats of learning 
In the country, being only less celebrated than 
Hat card and Yale. To be chosen its president 
Is therefore nn tumor of which any scholar might 
be proud. It will bo remembered that some two 
years since, President Anderson of our Univer¬ 
sity, was elected President of Brown, hut with 
sclf-suerifleing devotion to the college of which 
he is the head, declined to accept. Pre-eminent¬ 
ly qualified as Is Dr. Robinson from hut erudition 
and his ability to give dignity and respect to the 
presidency of t he greatest Baptist University 
In the country, we hope for the sake of Roches¬ 
ter Theological Seminary, that he will decline 
the position now tendered him. 
In order that the “truth of history may be 
vindicated," wo are- constrained to make an 
amendment to this statement of our usually ai> 
ourate and Just, contemporary. It is true that 
President Anderson was, us stated, elected 
President, of Brown, but it is .equally true that 
such election did not occur until after Dr. Rob¬ 
inson had been chosen to and declined tho 
honorable position! This foot Is well known in 
Rochester, and we are surprised that the D. & C. 
should not have given Dr. Robinson at least 
equal credit with President Anderson for 
“ self-sacrificing devotion.” 
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The Adirondack*.—The Tribune says:—“ Here 
Is another clergyman lecturing on ' The Adiron¬ 
dacks ' the Rev. Mr. Wlnslow of the P. E. 
Church, who held forth on the subject in Bos¬ 
ton. Mr. W. should understand those romantic 
regions, for he has visited thorn no less than 
thirteen times, and may be considered a sort of 
j naturalized citizen of the wilderness. Pretty 
soon, wo solemnly warn all magazine writers 
and lecturers, the Adirondack* wjlj 1 give out’ 
as an attractive theme, unfl other lonesome and 
little frequented localities must be vlBlted for 
the purposes of inspiration and profit.** 
— All which may be true, but wo think there 
Is one gentleman who is more familiar with tho 
Adirondacks than any other person who has 
written or lectured upon the subject. Wo refer 
to Dr. W. W. Ely of Rochester, (author of an 
excellent Map of the Adirondack region, pub¬ 
lished by Colton,) who has visited the “ Great 
North Woods'' annually for fifteen years or 
more, and Is thoroughly acquainted with the 
topography of the country. Indeed, Dr. E. has 
made the region his study as well os recreation, 
and from his actual knowledge, us well as fine 
scholarship, is eminently qualified to do justice 
to the subject. Let Dr. Ely write a book >.n 
“The Adirondacks,'' and the people will learn 
tar more than has ever been told of that famed 
MuKRAY-and-Wixsi.ow-ized region. 
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The Disease* of t'nllle in the I niicil stales, 
—Congress, June3, 1870. passed a resolution pro¬ 
viding for the printing of 0,000 extra copies of 
this work, prepared under the direction of Com¬ 
missioner Capiion ; 1,500 copies of this report 
were to he nt the disposal of Senators; 3,000 
for members of the House of Representatives, 
and 1,500 for the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
We stale these facts that, those ot out renders 
Interested in the perusal of the Reports of Prof. 
Gamoee on the Lung Plague, the ill eff ects of 
smutty corn in the feed of farm animals, on 
the Splenic nr Periodic Fever of Cattle; and of 
Dr. J. J. Woodward on the pathological anato¬ 
my and history of the respiratory organs in 
pleuro-pneumoniaof cattle; of Drs. Billings 
and Curtis, giving the results of examinations 
of fluids of diseased cattle with reference to the 
presence of cryptogamio growths; of H. W. 
Ravenal on tho fungi of Texas, and of J. Ft. 
Dodge on statistical aud historical investiga¬ 
tions of the progress and results of the Texas 
cattle disease, may know tram what sou roes this 
costly and valuable volume Is obtainable. 
.Seed Cotalogncs Received.— The Seed Cata¬ 
logues come in so thick and fast, and each one 
possesses so many distinctive merits, that we are 
compelled to place them all on the same level 
and simply acknowledge their receipt; for our 
space does not permit us to say all that their re¬ 
spective and comparative merits might induce 
us, otherwise, to say. Since our last issue, Cata¬ 
logues have been received from E. A. Reeves, 
58 Cortlandt 8t., N. Y. City; 0. Burras, Nor¬ 
walk, O. ; Alfred Bridgeman & Son, 876 Broad¬ 
way, N. Y. City: James Fleming, 67 Nassau 8t., 
N- Y. City—an excellent Catalogue; Peter Hen¬ 
derson & Co., 85 Cortlandt St., N. Y. City, their 
Seed and Plant Catalogues for 1872—very com¬ 
plete and elaborate. 
