MOORE’S RURAL WIW-YORKER. 
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“ PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1872. 
OUR SPRING CAMPAIGN! 
A NEW QUARTER! 
The Spring Campaign of the Rural New- 
Yorker opens with March, and wc desire every 
Agent, or other friend of the paper who can do 
so, to “pitch right in ” and make additions to 
present Clubs, or form new ones—for wldeb we 
Offer and Pay most Liberal Premiums. 
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE THAT 
Post-Masters and others will find it for their 
interest to add to present and form new clubs— 
for our inducements arc so substantial that every 
one will be richly rewarded. Show the Bubal 
to your friends—take a copy to the polls on Elec¬ 
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and " don’t forget to remember ” to tell every¬ 
body you meet that this is the paper for them¬ 
selves, their families and friends. 
By proper effort, everybody can 
MAKE MONEY IN MARCH! 
For it Is a good month to “March On to Victory," 
by filling up or forming clubs. As Spring oomeR 
on, thousands, in both Town and Country, want 
the Rural, because it tells them all about Gar¬ 
dening, Floriculture, ArboriOulture, Etc., aswell 
as Farming, Stock Breeding, Sheep and Dairy 
Husbandry, &e., Ac. 
A NEW QUARTER. 
A New Quarter of the Rural begins April 6— 
a good starting point for new subscribers, re¬ 
newals, etc. New clubs, and additions to pres¬ 
ent ones, are also in order. Good Friends I please 
note this and ask your neighbors to subscribe. 
We can supply back numbers from Jan. 1st, so 
that new subscribers can begin then, in April, 
or at any time desired. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Rural Club Dinner. —Saturday evening, March 
9th, the Rural Club met in its parlors at the 
Grand Central Hotel. President Horace Gree¬ 
ley’s benignant face shone upon the members 
like a full moon. At dinner ho presided with 
dignity and grace, and commented most happily 
upon the impromptu speeches—for there were 
none others—made after t he cloth was removed. 
Vice-President Ely rollected the complacent 
satisfaction on the face of the President, from 
the opposite end of the tahle. There were 
speeches by Mr. Greeley, in which brief tribute 
was paid to the late Joseph B. Lyman, who was 
present at the last, meeting of the Club. At Dr. 
IIexamer’s suggestion, Messrs. Wells, Wil¬ 
liams and Crandall were appointed a com¬ 
mittee to prepare a memorial and resolutions 
relative to Mr. Lyman's life and death, to be 
presented at the next meeting. John Hender¬ 
son, the florist, talked of the growth of the 
flower trade in and about New York city, and 
asserted that the trade in cut flowers in New 
York exceeded that of London or Paris; but 
the same could not be said of the plant trade. 
Window gardening is not understood so well 
here, nor are growing plants deemed so essential 
in the homes of the humbler of our citizens as 
they are in those of the working people of 
foreign cities, n, T. Wilma ms l old again the 
story of the Influence a single flowering plant 
had exerted in extending the cultivation of 
flowers in one neighborhood, and of the mani¬ 
festly increasing desire among the people — 
especially among women and children — for 
instruction in practical floriculture. 8. R. Wells 
had seen, high up on the sides of the Rocky 
Mountains, in the windows of the hardy pio¬ 
neers, flowers filling the homely homes with 
fragrance, and, on inquiry, had found that these 
rough though refined natures had clubbed to¬ 
gether and sent to New York seedsmen for pack¬ 
ages of seeds wit h which to garnish their homes 
with flowers, and remind themselves of the old 
homes where they first learned to love and 
think. Con. Hprlburt paid eloquent tribute to 
the influence of flowers upon home life, and, 
with a refined builder’s taste, urged the frescoing 
of public and private halls with the green garni¬ 
ture of vines and the radiant beauty of flowers. 
He had seen halls so decorated—festooned with 
tvy from the historical shrines to which travel- 
era pay tribute in Europe. And he suggested 
that, In place of gliding and paint, it be made 
fashionable to fill our homes with Jiving beauty. 
Patrick Quinn had had a dream—which he 
told—concerning a woman's rights meeting, at 
which Mrs. White Oak presided, and of which 
Mrs. StlBLLDAltK Hickory was Secretary. It 
was attended by such distinguished persons as 
Mrs. Burk Oak, Mrs. Pin Oak. Mrs. Black 
Oak, and others of the Oak family; Mesdames 
Elm, Chestnut, Mauls, Pink, Fir, Birch, 
BiiF.cn, &c., Ac., who insisted in entering pro¬ 
test against the wanton war made upon their 
right to live and influence the rising generation. 
They resolved against the cruelty and short¬ 
sightedness of mankind generally. Bachelor 
Quinn spoke with groat eloquence In their be¬ 
half, and It was whispered, maliciously, tiuti lie 
was thinking of pear-ing with some one of them. 
Hon. Gko. Gun oks of Onondaga Co., won ap¬ 
plause by talking of the progress uf American 
Agriculture. In the parlors, after dinner, the 
Club resolved itself into conversational groups, 
which only separated at a late hour, after a most 
enjoyable reunion. 
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Agricultural Book-keeping. — P. H. Wright 
asks us to give “ the latest and best style of Agri¬ 
cultural Book-keeping.' 1 There is no later nor 
better style of keeping farm accounts than that 
known as Double-entry Book-keeping—precisely 
such as every man engaged in manufacturing or 
mercantile pursuits adopts. The adaptation of 
forms and titles of accounts will, of course, in- 
varied; but the man who understands double- 
entry bookkeeping will have no trouble what¬ 
ever in so recording his bustnO-'-Vu lie may 
know, any hour in suiy day, what l»c is doing, 
what he pays fordoing it, and what profits uc- 
erue lnthecnd. The business education of farm¬ 
ers should be like that of men engaged in any 
other pursuit; and it should be regarded as es¬ 
sential that the farmer’s boy, and girl, should 
haveathorough knowledgeqf book keeping, and 
the forms of business transactions, as that they 
should know bow to add, subtract and multiply. 
There is nothing so mysterious about keeping 
books by double-entry that it is not possible to 
teach its principles and practical work to an in¬ 
telligent man in two days. We have done that 
thing ourself, aud know men who have kept their 
own books tor years, after two days’practical 
instruction from UBr— and they doing an involved 
business, also. We do not mean to be under¬ 
stood, however, that we can teach all there is to 
learn in two days; nor can we ex plnifi t he rn othod 
In our columns; wc have not. the space. Every 
teacher of a district or public school should be 
able to teach, and every boy and girl should 
learn, book-keeping. 
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Aniertcon Short-Horn Herd Book. —The elev¬ 
enth volume of this standard authority—“ con¬ 
taining pedigrees of Short-Horn cattle, with in¬ 
troductory notes by Lewis F. Allen "—comes 
to hand while we arc closing this paper for the 
press. It is a large and handsome volume of 
1,100 octavo pages, contains 8,300 pedigrees, and 
about fifty fine lithograph portraits of flrst- 
eias8 animals. The volume appears, from a cur¬ 
sory examination, to be an improvement upon 
its predecessors in several respects. Of course, 
we need not commend this work to breeders of 
Short-Horns—tbe simple announcement, of its 
publication being all that most of them desire. 
The price of the volume is $10 per copy, by ex¬ 
press, or $10.70 by mail, post-paid. Address 
Lewis F. Allen, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Trade Mnrh on Fruit.— We see from our ex¬ 
changes that the South Haven Pomological Soci¬ 
ety «f Mich., lias established a trademark which 
represent* the credit of the society, and war¬ 
rants the package, to which it is attached, to 
contain fruit of the first quality of that variety 
in every respect, and to be uniform throughout 
the package as it appears on the surface. Every 
man who ships produce should labor to make 
his name on a package mean the same thing. 
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture on 
the Dlscnses of Cuttle.— T. G., Gorham, O., writes 
us that he has written the Member of Congress 
from his district for one of these reports, and re¬ 
ceived reply that “they had noneon hand now." 
T. G. asks where they can be obtained. When 
the report was first made, it was published—how 
many copies, we are not aware. But JunoS,1870, 
a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress 
provided for the publication of 6,000extra copies 
— 1,500 for the use of the Senate, 1,500 for the 
Commissioner of Agriculture, and 3,000 for the 
House of Representatives. If there are none of 
these 6,000 copies obtainable from either Sena¬ 
tors, Representatives, or flic Commissioner of 
Agriculture, we do not know how they may bo 
obtained. It is probable that many of them will, 
if they have not already, appear for sale in the 
old, second-hand bookstores of this city. Wc 
Judge only by the fate of many of these Govern¬ 
ment publications. 
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James Stewart <V- Co., Kcnnett, Chester Co., 
Pa., who have been advertising live stock for 
sale In our columns, are, if we may judge by an 
exposure found in the Weekly Loader of March 
0, 1872, published at Kcnnett Square, Pa., a 
swindling firm, or person, of the first water. 
The Weekly Leader says: 
“We learn at the post-office that this scamp 
has been recelvlug mall at the Kcnnett Square 
post-office lor six weeks, and that it has been 
forwarded to Westchester, Contesvillo, Down- 
ington. Lancaster and other places, where he 
calls for it. He Is evidently swindling people 
who send him money tor stock. Let the post¬ 
master look Out. for him. and have him arrested 
at once—he will smcwtfi the Chester White pig 
busluess." 
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Catalogues, etc., Received.— From WM. New- 
ton, Henrietta, N. Y., price list of farm and 
vegetable seeds; from S. B. Fanning, Jamcs- 
port, N. Y., <atalogueof choice farm and garden 
seeds; from W. E. Stitt, Columbus, Wis., caui- 
iogiio and price list of pure-bred poultry, also of 
choice seed corn. oats, wheat, etc.; from Pfiff- 
ner & Ma tty fakdt, Delaware, O., price list of 
grape vinesniiil small fruits; from YV. B. Wood¬ 
ruff, Westfield, N. J., catalogue of flower bed¬ 
ding and vegetable plants; from A. B. Allen & 
CO., New York City, descriptive catalogue of 
live stock—imported and home bred. 
(Shipping California Fruit East.— 1 The Califor¬ 
nia Farmer, Feb. 15, announces that the Union 
Pacific R. R. Co. lias decided to take no ears of 
fruit or perishable products by their passenger 
or fast trains, and it states—” This will be a seri¬ 
ous blow to California fruit shippers, as it will 
effectually stop the sending of all our early fruit.,, 
such as Strawberries, Blackberries, Peaches, Ap¬ 
ricots, Nectarines and Grapes, as these should 
go by the passenger trains." 
ComiiilwdnniTS of Agriculture for Tennessee.— 
Wc see it stated that commissions have been 
issued (by whom?) to the following gentlemen, 
appointed Jan. 5th, as Commissi oners of Agricul¬ 
ture, representing the three grand divisions of 
the State: Hunter Nicholson, Knox County: 
Tnos. Crotch field, Hamilton Co.; Rout, B. 
Hurt, Davidson Co.; A. B. Haynes, Shelby Co.; 
Wm. H. Jackson. Davidson Co., and J. It. Kill- 
ebrew, Montgomery Co. 
THE SEASON. 
Greeley City, Col., March 7tli, 1872. —This 
has been an unusual winter; the ground has 
been covered with snow from Nov. 17th until 
the last of February. 8tock men will lose to 
quite an extent, not only by death, but by the 
severe storms which wo have had, scattering 
their herds, causing their own ere much cost 
looking them up and separating them from buf¬ 
falo herds, with which they arc sure to mix. 
Farmers have commenced plowing, and sowing 
wheat. The prospect now Is that wo shall need 
no irrigation to bring up early-sowed grain. The 
colonists are in good spirits, and intend to culti¬ 
vate quite extensively the coming season.—V. 
DE. L. M. 
Winona, Minn., March H. Winter commenced 
with us uncommon curly—about the middle of 
November. With the exception of January 
it vvus very steady cold: not so much cold weath¬ 
er since 1857. Very good sleighing most of the 
time. No very unpleasant, weather except the 
storm of the 13th of February, The railroads 
have not been obstructed with snow any to speak 
of, except sonic in the Northern part of the 
State. The show iu the valleys mostly left some 
three weeks since and the constant freezing and 
thawing. I should judge, has used up a large 
share of the winter wheat, of which there was a 
good deal sown. But it was so dry last fall that 
it got a very poor start. We are having now a 
great snow storm with strong East wind. Mer¬ 
cury little above 20°. 
Lyndonvllle, VI., March 5.—To-day is one of 
the most severe days to be out in that we have 
had this winter. The thermometer vvus down to 
about 20 D below zero in the morning, and wind 
has blown a gale all day. The winter has been 
quite cold, on an average, and no t haws to speak 
of since snow fell, which was not far from the 
middle of November; since which time the 
sleighing has been very good with scarcely a 
day’s interruption. From two to three feet of 
snow at the present time. Stock is looking well, 
especially sheep. Horses are in demand and 
bring good prices-$150 to $200 for good work 
horses. Hay is scarce and will be scarcer if this 
weather continues much longer—$30 to $85 per 
ton. Western com can be bought at about 95c. 
per bushel, and will be used in considerable 
quantities by many Vermont farmers. The yield 
of oats was light the past season—affected more 
or less by the drouth; selling for 75c. per bush. 
Potatoes dull at 40c. per bushel. Wool high and 
store sheep in demand; very little wool in the 
country— i. w. s. 
Raleigh, IV. March 13.—The past winter 
here has been unusually severe. An old citizen 
remarked this morning. “ I am nearly eighty, 
and this is the worstwinter lever saw." The 
farmers have been unable to work much; the 
roads have been almost impassable at times; the 
frequent rains have kept the ground too wet for 
the plow, and the cold has kppt back vegetation. 
Jt is hard on stock. A gentleman writes that the 
cry is for “funds and feed," but loudest for the 
latter. Gardening was commenced during the 
few favorable days i n the latl er part of February. 
Ali who were wise and ready, put in potatoes, 
peas, onions, &c., then. Some potatoes are now 
up; so with garden peas. But the weather in 
this month continues rainy and cold, and while I 
write, the drenched earth drinks in the pattering 
shower. In this market, prices are ns follows: 
Wood,$4^4.50 per cord; flour, $h47rl2 per bbl.; 
com, $1 per bush.: sweet potatoes plentiful, 80c. 
(5> $1; bacon, 8@17c. per lb.; eggs. 25c. per doz.; 
pork, 9@10c. per lb.; beef on hoof, 7®8c.; dressed, 
10(5,150,; chickens,25to 40c. each; butter, 85@40c.; 
hay, 75c<@$l per cwt.; fodder, $L40@I-75; oats, 
85c. per bush.— n, c. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
T. G. S., Logan, O., asks where he can get a 
full-blooded greyhound. 
Henry Dickerman, Ottawa. Ill., wants to 
know where he can buy Shetland ponies. 
A correspondent asks where he can obtain 
Judhon’s Branching Corn. It. is advertised in 
this paper. 
Let the Norwich (Conn.) correspondent who 
asked for deer, address W. I. B., Box S7, Ports¬ 
mouth. Va. 
ORCTLvnn grass can be obtained of any seeds¬ 
man, probably, advertising in this paper. Write 
direct to the seedsmen. 
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture is to give 
a Trial of Earth-Working Implements at Spring- 
field, ()., commencing June 13tli. 
The Michigan State Relief Committe has con¬ 
tracted for ioo plows, to distribute among the 
destitute farmers of the burned regions of that 
State. 
The first shipments of spring clip of wool tin vo 
been made from Los Angelos Cal. Fine lots are 
contracted for on the ranches at 37 to -15 cents 
per pound. 
“ Waterwitchinq " ts now an important, 
staple for discussion in some of the Western 
agricultural journals. It scorns to be generally 
believed that “ there’s something in it. 
Dr. J. Dktmeus has resigned the Chair of 
Veterinary Surgery in the Illinois Industrial 
University, to accept a similar position in the 
Kansas State Agricultural College. 
G. D. Rood will need a force pump for his 
well. Kumsky & Co., Seneca Falls, N. Y., N. 
Page, Jr., Dunvere. Mass., and, wo think, others, 
huve advertised these pumps in our columns. 
Thf. aggregate or the wool product of Califor¬ 
nia for tin* last, year was 2.1,27a,253 pounds. I icing 
an increase of nearly 5.0UO.000 pounds on t lie pre¬ 
vious year. The clip this season is expected to 
be larger and of superior quality. 
Mrs Joseph B. Lyman, widow of Joseph B. 
Lyman, late Agricultural Editor of the Tribune, 
imposes opening useminary for young ladies at 
ler residence, at Richmond Hill, L. J. For this 
Mrs. L. is eminently qualified, both in respect to 
iho right conception of what education should 
be, and in ability to execute what she attempts. 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
March on During March !—Is what all our 
Agents, and others disposed to form Clubs, should 
do. It will not only pay to enlarge present Clubs but 
to form new ones. It is an easy matter to recruit for 
the new style Rural, and pays both Agent and Sub¬ 
scribers—and now is the best lime to do “ that same." 
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Additions to Chibs are always In order, whether 
in ones, twos, lives, tons, or more. A host of people 
are subscribing for papers about these days, and we 
hope our Agent-Friends will glveeverybody an oppor¬ 
tunity to subscribe for tbe best. 
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in Moore's Rural New-Yorker will be as 
follows; 
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Outside or last page...... 
Fifty per cent, extra for unusual 
Special Notices, loaded, (by count). 
Business " . 
Reading ” . 
Ali orders for Advertising received at the 
New York office on or before April 1st w ill be 
charged at present rates only. For at least one 
cogent reason for our advance, or “ New Depart¬ 
ure," in Advertising Rates, 6ee Rural Feb. 24. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
DR. STRONG’S REMEDIAL INSTITUTE, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Is unsurpassed In the treat¬ 
ment of Lung, Female and Chronic Diseuses. Turk¬ 
ish, Russian, Electro-Thermal and Sulphur-Air Baths. 
Hydropathy, Vacuum Treatment, Movement Cure, 
Oxygen, Calisthenics, Ac. Terms lowest in win¬ 
ter. Send for a Circular. Endorsed by Bishop Junes, 
Rev. T. L. Cuyler. D. D.. and Tayler Lewis, LL. D. 
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Rough, Wintry, Changeable Weather pro¬ 
duces Catarrhs, Coughs. Lung Disorders, &c„ which 
Dr. Jayne's Expectorant as promptly cures when 
faithfully administered. 
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HOW TO OBTAIN A “COLLINS” 
Sotld Cast Cast-Steel Plow for $5. For particulars, ad¬ 
dress COLLINS & CO., 212 Water St., N. Y. 
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Get Descriptive Pamphlet at 3(1 Dey St., New York. 
The Street, Fixed Oil of the Cocoanut is repre¬ 
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