MOORE’S RURAL J3EW-YORKER. 
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MARCH SO, 
“ PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORES RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
BOEAt, LIIEEAEY AMI MIL)’ HVSfAPlL 
D. B. T. MOORE, 
Oonduotiiijf Kdltor and i J roprietor. 
PUBLICATION OFFICES: 
No 5 Beekman Street, New York City, and No. 82 
Buffalo Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
WESTERN BRANCH OFFICE 
No. 75 North Side or Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
Subscription. — Single Copy, per A’ear. To 
Clubs : — Five Copies, and one copy free to Agent or 
potter up of Club, fur $12.60; Seven Copies and one 
froe, for $t«; Ten Copies, und one free, $20—only $2 
per copy, a* we are obliged to prc-ptiy the American 
postage on iMtppr* mailed to foreign countries, Twenty 
t.enta should be added to above rates for each yearly 
copy mailed to Canada, and One Dollar per copy to 
Europe. Drafts, Peat-Office Money Orders and Regis¬ 
tered Letters may l>o mailed at our risk, tjr Liberal 
Premiums to ail Club Agents who do not take free 
copies. Specimen Numbers. Bhow-BUla, &c.. sent free. 
The Rural New-Yorker Is sold by Nows Deal, 
ors generally throughout the United States und 
Canada at Six Cents. The Trade is supplied by the 
American News Co.. 119-121 Nassau St.. New York. 
Advertising. —Inside, 76 cents per line. Agate 
space; Outside, f 1 per line, each insertion. For Ex¬ 
tra Display and Cuts, a price and a-half. Special and 
Business Notice*. »1.60 and *3 n lino. No advertise¬ 
ment Inserted for less than 13. 
and experiences of the past. During a not very 
Jong life, we have witnessed many of these revo¬ 
lutions in business these epidemic changes 
from one specialty to another—and we have 
found it to be infallibly true, that the diversion 
of labor und capital from one channel of pro¬ 
duction to another, enhances the inurket value 
of the lower product, and depreciates that of the 
higher; and the depreciation in price of butter 
and cheese is not yet so great us to destroy all 
margin of profit to the producer thereof. 
We have said this much In reply to “A Young 
Farmer '' who asks us if wc would advise him 
to stock his newly purchased farm with sheep or 
oows this spring. Our rule would be, always, to 
buy live stock, of whatever character, when it 
1b low, and sell it when it is high — If wo sold at 
all. For. while the aggregate receipts from such 
an investment may not he ns lurge, the per cent, 
of profit wiil bo likely to be greater; for the 
man whoso cows cost him $50 each, can sell 
cheese for less money than he who pnya $100 
each for his herd. Doubtless there will be 
money made in the sheep miriness; but every 
dollar and every hour's labor diverted from the 
dairy business, will enhance the value of dairy 
products; for not a whit, less butter and cheese 
will be eaten and less will be made —all such 
changes involving a decrease of production. 
together, 4,000 to 5,000 women and children find 
I employment in this fancy trade. It whs once an 
unhealthful business, because Of the poisonous 
substances used in coloring; but since the intro¬ 
duction of anal I ne dyes, this objection has ceased. 
The average earnings for first-claas hands is 15s. 
per week. Some talented artist* get £100 to £150 
per annum. Second-class hands average 10s. 
per week. 
Warren’* Patent Cooking Pot is one of the 
most perfect cooking conveniences lately intro¬ 
duced. In it meat is cooked by its own Juices 
without access of water, thus preserving the 
natural flavor und making a large saving, — for 
there is no waste or loss in cooking when this 
article is used. Wo have tested it. and know I 
whereof we affirm. By its use meat, a pudding. 
RURAL BREVITIES, 
Via plants, Sarah W. C. Is informed, ran be 
obtained of almost any plantsmau. 
The St. Louis. Mo., Poultry Association issues 
a monthly called the American Poultry Gazette. 
TtiKass^ed vahie of horses in Ohio in 1*70 
is stated to be $o7,559,410—$ 93,542 less than in 1809. 
A movement is making in Indiana to call a 
Convention of the Short-Horn breeders of the 
^announced that California lias hired a 
expenses e ' I antGr Mt “ C ° St ° f * 15 ’ 000 a year and 
The Western Farmer says but little Wisconsin 
Jbbacoo has been sold yet. Some sales at Isolde. 
.. t -u ,,!U ' or> Quotations fin reply to I. Cole) 
and two kinds of vegetables may bo cooked at of^isn '.a Bhallquote the crop 
once, with no more fuel than Is needed to keep ’’ * ln Api *• 
two quarts of water at the boiling point. This a* , f'f, r ' REyo V out tlie Rural New-Yorker take 
is a convenience in winter, but an absolute com- back, if y^tThave^filfffoHt. 8CW U d ° WD th ° 
two quarts of water at the boiling point . This 
is a convenience in winter, but ari ubsolute com¬ 
fort ln summer. Besides this, the worst, cook 
cannot spoil the dinner, nor the host one im¬ 
prove the condition of tho meat cooked in the 
Warren Pot. The Newport Lead Works of New¬ 
port, K. T„ have done tbc country a service by 
introducing this very convenient and necessary 
addition to our kitchen appliances. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
George C, Braodon of the Financier, has 
been invited to deliver the Poem before the N. 
■wr -Editorial Convention, which meets in 
vVatertown in June. 
Southern planters are agitating the organi¬ 
zation of co-operative purchasing companies. 
They are sometimes a source of profit and some¬ 
times of loss to members. 
, A ,;, ( "2 ,UUN ' J r ;> New York, has purchased of 
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1872. 
A NEW QUARTER, 
AM) A GOOD STARTING POINT 1 
Agents and others interested, are re¬ 
minded that a New Quarter of the Rural 
New-Yorker will begin next week—April 
6—affording a good starting point for all 
who wish to take the paper. We hope that 
not only all our Club Agents, but every 
Subscriber also, will bear this in mind, and 
kindly see what may be done toward in¬ 
creasing our circulation among those who 
would be benefited by faking the Rural. 
The season is at hand when thousands who 
do not now take it will want to oonsult the 
pages of this Journal concerning operations 
in Garden, Orchard and Field, and we ask 
those who know its value to introduce it to 
notice and support in their respective lo¬ 
calities. Those formiug new clubs, or mak¬ 
ing additions to oid ones, will be entitled 
to the same Premiums offered in January— 
so that all aiding the Rural will not only 
have the consciousness of doing good to 
others, but be liberally rewarded therefor. 
CHANGING BUSINESS. 
One of those periodical rushes—out of one 
business into another— is at hand among farm¬ 
ers. We see the indications of Jt, hear and read 
of it, and know the tendency of munklnd well 
enough to know it Is to be. We do not depre¬ 
cate it as much as we might, did we not know 
that while one class loses another gains; and 
that, ln the aggregate, so for as consumers are 
concerned, there Is little loss. The wool dip of 
1872 is being oontraoted for at 05 to 75 ceuts. and 
many growers expect to realize no cents and $1 
per pound. Cheese and butter huvo been com¬ 
paratively low. The rush into the dulry busi ¬ 
ness, and the abandonment of sheep husbandry, 
have conspired to produce this result. The con¬ 
tract prices of wool named above are quite 
enough to sot the unstable husbandman crazy 
for change. Thousands will abandon the dairy 
for wool growing. They will not resist, tho 
fomptati on. They will sell their oows this spring 
for what it has cost (or less) to winter them, 
their dairy utensils at a sacrifice, and buy sheep 
of those who have had the pluck and good sense 
to keep them through the past years of wool de¬ 
pression, at round prices—sufficient (with toe 
appreciation in the price of wool) to cover all 
the past losses of the plucky shepherds. 
What then ? Those who cling to their dairies, 
and strain every nerve to produce cheese and 
butter of the best quality, largely, will reap a 
harvest in consequence. For when there is a 
rush out of any specialty in production, (as we 
have often said before in these columns,) it is 
the time to go Into It. Ret young farmers, who 
can, buy cows cheap this spring—buy them 
rather than sheep at high prices. Sell sheep 
when they are high, and buy cows while they 
are low. Our word for it, the gain wifi be sure. 
If there Is any law to be deduced from the facts 
Tried and A pprovrd.— 'The New Style and Im¬ 
proved Form of the Rural New-Yorker has 
now been before tho public for three months, 
and tho almost universal verdict Is fri its favor. 
Of the hundreds of notices we have received 
from exchanges, not one lias been unfavorable, 
while many speak In the highest term* of the 
Change. Our letters from the people are nearly 
as unanimous in approving tho change, though 
a few prefer the old form, and one subscri¬ 
ber don't like the Rdral s new vignette head¬ 
ing! Two or three object to the large pictures 
given, and one wiseacre thinks they are put in 
to fill space and save cost! The fact is that such 
engravings as we usually give cost more than 
ten times the expense of type-setting for tho 
space they occupy. Ix is possible, however, that, 
we Imvc given “too much of a good thing," in 
the way of illustrations, during the past few 
months,—but if so, wc can reform in t he future 
and save considerable by too operation. One 
man, who subscribed for toe Rural because we 
reduced the form, wants u» to make toe page 
half tbc present size-making tliirty-two instead 
of sixteen pages. 
Wish wc could please everybody, but the truth 
is that toe Rural, as now issued, is so generally 
and highly approved by most ;>eoplc that we 
reckon It will .jot pay to try. And yet, we hope 
to make some Improvements as we advanoe— 
such as will be recognized and appreciated by 
all who aro intelligent and discriminating. 
Business L»w.—Read and keep toe following 
summary of business law. It is the gist or kernel 
of n vast amount of verbiage; 
i whs thinking there was such an one published 
by Barry ; ir so. please give price, or that of 
any other good work on same subject.—A St’ b- 
SOBIBKR, Junction City , Kan. 
There is no one book published that treats 
thoroughly and fully on all the subjects you 
name, but “ Barry's Fruit Garden,” and "Thom¬ 
as’ American Fruit Cuiturist," will assist you 
much. The former is out of print; the latter is 
for sale at this office. 
Sugar Cane Sccd.-S. L. R., OoffoyBViUe. Kan., 
asks where bccan get Southern Sugar f ane seed, 
and says:—" I wont to make some sugar, If 1 can 
get the seed. I have the seisl to make molasses." 
Southern sugar canc ISacharinum offleinarum) 
is not propagated from seed, but from cuttings. 
Wedonol know of whom the eutlingscan be 
obtained, but advise you to write to the Editor 
of the Rural Southland, New Orleans, La., for 
such information. 
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The Hop Crop or IH72—Our advices indicate 
that there is to be a lively stir this year among 
hop growers. We caution against increasing toe 
acreage cultivated. The present high prices can¬ 
not bo maintained unless the English and Ger¬ 
man crops fail; for with the area cultivated in 
bops, the homo demand cun be met, and some¬ 
thing left for export. Such 1 b the testimony of 
men well posted in the business. 
X. A. Willard's Address Before the Ohio Dai¬ 
rymen’s Ass'n is published by the Association, 
ami we loam that:},000 copies have boon printed 
for distribution nmong Ohio farmers. 1 1 may be 
had by addressing the Secretary and Treasurer, 
, It is not legally nocessary to *ay on a note “7 urn secretary and Treasurer, 
“tor value received." A note on Sunday is void. '--OX. b. D. Harris, Cleveland, O., or the Corre- 
OonlraelR mado on Sunday cannot, be enforced, spoil ding Secretary, Anson Bartlett, West 
A note by a minor is void. A contract made Jefferson, 0- 
with a uunor is void. A contract tnu.de with a -•♦*- 
lunatic is void. A note obtained by fraud, or 
from h person ln a state or intoxication, cannot 
be collected. If u note is lost or stolen, it does 
not release tho maker; ho must pay it, if the 
consideration for which it was given, and the 
amount, can be proven. An endorser of a note 
is exempt from liability, if not served wit h no¬ 
tice of dishonor within twenty-four hours of it« 
non-payment. Notes bear interest only when 
so stated. Principal* me responsiblefot tbeuets 
of their agenls. Each individual in u partner¬ 
ship is responsible for the whole amount ol the 
debts of the firm. Ignorance of the law excuses 
no one. It is « fraud to conceal a fraud. The 
law compels no one to do impossibilities. An 
agreement without consideration is void. Sig¬ 
natures made with a lead pencil are good in law. 
A receipt for money is not always conclusive. 
The acta of one partner bind all the rest. 
Wheat Turning to Che**.—We are receiving 
correspondence which attempts to prove that 
wheat will, or will not, tutu to chess. We can 
use our columns to better purpose than to print 
it. There is no argument or statement of facts 
that will prove to some people that wheat does 
not turn to chess; and nothing but an actual 
demonstration will satisfy other people that it 
does. So, what’s toe use of spending paper and 
ink upon what many honest and intelligent men 
can Only be satisfied about by experiment for 
themselves? During tho past twenty years, we 
have seen arguments, pro and con; but wc have 
no more light on the subject than we had then; 
and wc have never seen any actual proof that 
wheat does turn to chess in that whole time. 
.May be it does, but we don’t believe it, and do 
not care to discuss the question. 
Buying and Distributing Home-Grown Seeds 
free, on toe part of the Department of Ag¬ 
riculture, ought to cense. There Is neither ex¬ 
cuse for it nor sense ln it. If, through Govern¬ 
ment agents abroad, the Department can secure 
new seeds or plants, not heretofore Introduced ln 
this country, and which have, or are supposed to 
have, a distinctive or especial economic value 
here, tjielr introduction and dissemination Is ex¬ 
cusable. But there is no excuse for toe policy 
which buys new seed oem, wheat, or potatoes of 
domestic growers, and distributes It free to the 
few who may be favored by toe Department. 
Artificial Florists In London.—From a recent 
English paper, we learn there are about 170 firms 
of artificial florists in London—one-half of whom 
are manufacturers. Of the latter, ten houses 
employ 300 hands each; ten more, 100 each. Ai- 
Short Stories.— 1 The serial story which we con¬ 
clude this week has occupied much more space 
than we anticipated. In future wc shall aim to 
give shore stones, generally such as ran be pub¬ 
lished entire in one paper. This we think wifi 
be more satisfactory to rcuders, and enable us to 
furnish a greater variety. 
THE SEAS ON. 
Ilnlf-Dny, 111., March 3 .—Old wells are playing 
out, and cisterns are “just holes in thegrouud.” 
We hope for better days.— j. c. l. 
Areola, Douglas Co., III., March 12.—Fruitall 
I right; wheat and rye backward. Winter has 
been cold, dry; snowing all day to-day. Times 
hard; money scarce; 6tock low.— Bagdad. 
Margir, Wood Co., O., March 1.5—Stormy 
weather; snow the 14th. Stock looks well; 
wheat badly; many fields will be plowed up and 
sown to oats. Wheat, $1.40; com, 30c.; oats, 32c.; 
hay, $8; eggs, lOe.; butter, 16c.— r, w. 
William otown, Mom., March 10 _Very cold; 
no sap weather yet; snow all in heaps. A year 
ago I commenced planting potatoes on St. Pat¬ 
rick’s day. and now the very- place is several feet 
under snow. Water very scarce; stock suffers. 
—L. A. V. O. 
'Vest Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., March 7.— 
Sleighing very good. Pleasant winter, though 
somewhat cold; business lively. Butter, new, 
dull at 20c.; fall butter equal to demand, at 25®. 
28c.; cheese, new. plenty at IJQIOc.; potatoes 
plenty at $1@1.25 .—q. c. e. 
South Trenton, OnetdaCo., N. Y.. March 19.— 
Winter came on us with swamps, wells and the 
lower springs nearly dry. Now, springs that 
never, within the memory of the oldest inhab¬ 
itant, failed before, are entirely dry. Cattle are 
driven miles for water, and some families aro 
obliged to melt snow for stock.—e. b. 
Spann, Hancock Co., Ga., March 16_Weath¬ 
er rather cool. Planters very much behind with 
their work, the winter has been so very cold and 
wet; the coldest ln a great many years—sixteen 
at least. Provisions low and plenty, but money 
very scarce. Spring backward by at least three 
weeks; not a peaoh bloom to be seen yet; plum 
blossoms just opening; peas and Irish potatoes 
about all that are as yet planted In gardens. 
Nearly every planter will plant largely, n cotton, 
and yet censure his neighbers for not planting I 
les6 cotton and mere corn and grain.— h. a. *. | 
' The College Term of tho Iowa Agricultural 
College commenced March 6. The buildings ac¬ 
commodate 250 pupils, und every room is en¬ 
gaged. hi id many applicants have been refined 
■ admittance for want of accommodations. 
Tut: next: volume or Transactions of the Illi¬ 
nois State Horticultural Society Is to contain ;t 
steel engraving of Cyrus H. Overman, one of 
i 1, Pioneers and most enthusiastic workers in 
Illinois horticulture. 
A Road StbaNRR is being built :n Philadel- 
to? a ’ w P icb l bo manufacturers are confident is 
adapted to travel on common roads, and that will 
be useful for all the purposes for which traction 
engines are needed. 
H P. Patterson, San Jose, Cal., writes us of 
a beet grown by Z. M. Brown, near San Jose, 
which weighs 175 pounds, measuring six feet 
long (tops and roots) and three feet in circum¬ 
ference. It grew within twelve months from 
seed, with irrigation, but without manure. 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
" Time Up”—New Quarter, Arc.—All our read¬ 
ers whose subscription* expire tins week will and the 
No. of the paper (U67) printed after their names on 
the address label. Wo trust that all such will at once 
renew, if they desire the uninterrupted visits of tho 
Rural. And a* a New Quarter begins next week, 
now Is not only the time fur renewals, but for people 
to subscribe. Reader, please note this, und invite 
your frieuda accordingly, 
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The Scholarship Premiums. - Those of ernr 
young friends who have formed clubs for the Rural 
and competed for the Extra Premiums, (Scholarships 
In the Claveraek College and Hudson River Institute.) 
will please gtvo us their agea, and also state how 
muny subscribers they remitted for previous to -March 
1. It will be remembered that our offer was to persons 
under 21 years of age. and in order to make the awards 
properly those competitors who have not given their 
ages should do so at once. 
Additions to Clubs are always in order, whether 
In ones, twoa, lives, tens, or more. A host of people 
are subscribing for paper# about these days, and we 
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. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ADVEETISERS. 
INCREASE Or RATES. 
After April 1, 1872 , the Rates for Advertising 
in Moo re’8 Rural New-Yorker will be as 
follows: 
Inside. 14th and 15th pages (Agate space)..30c. per line. 
oth, 7th, and 12 pages.I.CO “ 
Outside or last page...j.aO •* 
_ Fifty oer cent, extra for unusual display! 
Special Notices, leaded, (by count)..2 00 
ffuMnes* “ . o iq .. 
Iteudlng “ .!..'im 
All orders for Advertising received at the 
New York office on or before April 1st will be 
charged at present rates only. For at least one 
cogent reason for our ad vance, or " New Depart¬ 
ure," ln Advertising Rates, see Rural Feb. 24 . 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
DR. STRONG’8 REMEDIAL INSTITUTE, 
Saratoga Spring#, N. V., unsurpassed In the treat¬ 
ment of Lung, Female and Chronic Diseases. Turk¬ 
ish, Russian, Electro-Thermal and Sulphur-Air Baths. 
Hydropathy. Vacuum Treatment, Movement Cure, 
Oxygen. Calisthenics, &c. Terms lowest in win¬ 
ter. Send for aCircular. Endorsed by Bishop Janes 
Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D. D„ and Tayler Lewis, LL. D. 
The Lungs are Strained and Rocked by a 
persistent Cough, the general strength wasted, and an 
Incurable complaint established thereby. Dr. Jayne’s 
Expectorant Is an effective remedy for Coughs and 
Colds, and exerts a beneficial effect on the Pulmonary 
and Bronchial Organs. 
HOW TO OBTAIN A “COLLINS” 
Solid Oast Cast-Steel Plow for $6. For particulars, ad¬ 
dress COLLINS & CO., 212 Water St., N. Y. 
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