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“PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORES RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
RURAL, MTKMI1Y AND FAMILY MffSfAPR 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1872. 
STIMULANTS. 
There is no class of men who need to nsc stim¬ 
ulants more than farmers and horticulturists. 
We make this assertion deliberately and with 
the profoundest conviction ol’ its truth. The 
nature of their vocation, and their relations to 
nature, prove it. 8ti mutants produce heat; 
heat is a means of motion; motion Is essential 
to growth; growth is essential 1o production. 
No one will suppose, we hope, t hat when we say 
farmers need to use stimulants, we mean they 
need to pour them down their throats. Wo are 
led to commend stimulants in agriculture, be¬ 
cause a gentleman said to us the other day that 
something ailed hissoil; it seemed dead; did not 
appear to have vital force; was inactive; did not 
produce. We told him it needed stimulating. 
“StimulatingV said lie; “liow is that done?" 
Firstly, drain it; then plow it deeply, turning 
under active, unfermented manures. It, will 
lose its inertness, will exhibit vitality, will ger¬ 
minate seed and produce a crop. He had never 
heard of stimulating soil before! 
Another friend of ours had been, stimulated 
by something he had seen or r ead, to save all the 
manure made on his farm, and get all he could 
elsewhere. He told us after his first, year's ex¬ 
periment that it had astonished him to find so 
much material that had before gone to waste. 
The very process of sa ving and applying had not 
only benefited his farm, but acted as a stimulaut 
to himself. He had learned that with a bank of 
stimulating material to draw from, he could 
make every nook and comer of his farm pay. 
He did not confine himself to a crop of wheat, a 
field of corn and a patch of potatoes—leaving 
bis meadows and pastures In take care of them¬ 
selves. Now, added to excellent staple crops, ho 
produced early and late peas, heaps, and roots 
of all sorts : in fact, he did not cease to plant 
and sow from April 1st to August 1st. The 
swcot herbs he grew in out-of-the-way nooks, 
paid for his magazines, papers and books for the 
year. His pea crop fattened his hogs; his pump¬ 
kins and sowed sweet corn made his beef; Ids 
sowed corn kept up the milk of his cows during 
drouths, aud his sugar beets and parsnips kept 
it up late in Winter; his melons, grown in fence 
corners, gave his boys all tlie pocket money they 
needed; his turnips, grown in his conh fields, 
kept thirty sheep through the Winter, with a 
very little hay and corn meal added: his crop of 
saffron bought the women their bonnets and 
shoes; he sold his neighbors spring and fall 
bulbs enough to pay for his two girls’ ward¬ 
robes; ho grew evergreens and young maples 
enough between his orchard rows to pay for his 
hired help; he always has seed corn, seed wheat, 
strawberry, tomato, pepper, celery, etc., plants 
to sell. And so be went through the list. Of 
course the production of all this involved labor. 
But it paid him to hire and pay good wages. 
And this was all due to stimulants! He did 
not hesitate In buy ashes, leached or unleached, 
lime, refuse salt, livery-stable manure, coal ash¬ 
es, bones, shells, etc-, etc., wherever he could 
find them. He never went to town but he carried 
something to Bell; he never left town with an 
empty wagon; he would not waste the lime of 
traveling homo unloaded. If his clays needed 
sand, lie drew sand and mixed with them; if Ilia 
sand needed muck, muck was incorporated with 
it. As soon as one crop was oil he had stimu¬ 
lants to apply to the land, and planted it with a 
crop that he knew it would mature. In this 
complex husbandry he found not. only profit, 
but the greatest pleasure- He said it was as 
good as a variety theater to him to watch these 
various crops grow; and as delightful a stimu¬ 
lant to his mind and body as any drinking bout 
could be to a bummer. 
He believed in Agricultural Stimulants. So 
do wel 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The National Swine - Breeders’ Convention, 
called to meet in New York city May 14, did meet 
and was organized by the selection of Henry 
Stewart for Chairman, and Chas.D. Bragdon 
S ecretary. Col. Frank L>. Curtis, on behalf of 
the Committee appointed by the Farmers’ Club 
to Inaugurate the movement, stated its object, 
read letters from prominent breeders in various 
parts of the country, endorsing the object, some 
Of whom recommended the adjournment, of the 
Convention to a point more central 1o the mass 
of swine-breeder*, and to a time late in the fall, 
when it. would be more practicable for them to 
attend. The propriety of so doing was appa¬ 
rent. Col. Ct.'iiTis moved that a Committee of 
five, in eluding I lie Chairman and Secretary of 
the Convention, be appointed to seleet and mi me a 
Committee of three for each breed of swine bred 
in America—the duties of these respective Com¬ 
mittees to be b, report al lhe adjourned meet¬ 
ing of this Conv ention upon the history, char¬ 
acteristics, and a settle of points for the respect¬ 
ive breeds: also to name a Committee of three 
to report at the same time on the question, 
“ Wind constitutes thoroughbred swine.” Col. 
Curtis’ motion was adopted, and Messrs. Cur¬ 
tis, Chase and Weld were named. This Com¬ 
mittee was also Instructed by the Convention to 
consult wllh breeders generally throughout the 
country, and to call another Convention, not 
earlier than November, at such point as may 
seem most agreeable to the majority ol ihose 
interested. 
It will he seen by the foregoing that, the selec¬ 
tion of Committors to report upon “the Lifi.to.-y, 
characteristics and points of excellence " of the 
vanouB breeds, is the work the Convention has 
provided lor accomplishing. This work, if done 
as it should be, involves the selection of the best 
posted and most impartial breeders of the dif¬ 
ferent breeds of swine as committeemen. To 
make this selection is the duty of the Commit¬ 
tee named, and said Commit tee desire the co-op¬ 
eration and counsel of all intelligent breeders, 
in order that the Convention, when it meets In 
the fall, shall hare acquired, through the agency 
of these Committees, material upon which to 
have discussion and action, and from which may 
be erystalizcd information that shall be a pro¬ 
tection to both breeders and buyers of swine. 
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Horn nisi or the Department of Agriculture,— 
Mr. Swank, who runs the Department of Agri¬ 
culture at Washington—Mr. F. Watts drawing 
salary as Commissioner—has at last succeeded in 
finding some one to accept the position ol' Bota¬ 
nist. We see by our exchanges that Dr. George 
VASEY of Illinois has been offered the appoint¬ 
ment. Should Dr. V. take the position from 
which Dr. Pa ntty was ejected with so much in¬ 
dignity, it will tie a source of regret to his botan¬ 
ical friends. We can only suppose that he is not. 
aware of the circumstances of Dr. Far ay's re¬ 
moval.- tharth and Home. 
We do not regard such talk as very wise. A 
Botanist is, or is not, needed in the Department. 
If one is needed, the country's interests are par- I 
amount to the feelings of Dr. Parry's “botani¬ 
cal friends." We do not see that Dr. Vasey, in 
accepting the position lately held by Dr. Parky, 
is doing anything that ho ought not to do. Here 
is an opportunity’ for him to be useful to the 
country and earn his daily bread, It is plain 
that, under the present administration of the 
Department, Dr. Parry eanuot re-occupy that, 
position. If it is important, it should be occu¬ 
pied ; why not by Dr. Vasey? If it is not im¬ 
portant, why should Dr. Parky ever have been 
put there, and why should his friends have la¬ 
bored to secure his re-appointment? Why 
should public interests suffer because of person¬ 
al qtuirreis? 
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Veterinary Vandalism.—There is a class of 
men who travel through the country professing 
to be Veterinary Surgeons, who are unknown 
and not likely to be known Jong in any locality. 
They do swindle farmers—there is no doubt of 
it. Our stock interests are becoming of such 
magnitude, and the diseases which effect stock 
so common, that nearly every thousand farmers 
who breed horses, cattle, sheep and swine,ought 
to support a skilled Veterinary Surgeon. There 
is need of such aid in domestic husbandry. But 
we ought to have laws which will properly pun¬ 
ish mal-practice in the treatment of domestic 
animals as well as humans. This sort of protec¬ 
tion should be afforded by law. Until it is, these 
itinerants Will thrive on ill-gotten gains. It 
seems to us that country physicians ought to 
find it profitable—and it certainly would not be 
undignified—to combine with their practice for 
the salvation of human life, veterinary practice. 
There is a rich and useful field open before them 
in this direction; and the knowledge of the laws 
governing human health arc not inapplicable in 
the treatment of dumb brutes. 
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Onr Premiums nre Appreciated— As is sbown 
by the acknowledgments we are almost dally re¬ 
ceiving from Agent-Friends of the Rural New- 
Yorker. To show how highly our Premiums 
arc prized, and that they are, as we claim, genu¬ 
ine and valuable, wc quote from several letters 
lately received; 
U. M. Scott of Montgomery Co., Ind., Gius 
tersely acknowledges and reports:—“The Bos¬ 
ton Premium Organ came to-day. It is a much 
finer organ than I expected to get. Accept my 
thanks for the same. 1 shall still continue to 
add to my list of subscribers to the Rural. 
Dell Morgan of Eric Co., N. Y., thus closes 
a business letter:—**I have received my premi¬ 
um, (lie Regulator Seed Drill, and am very much 
pleased with it. Please accept my thanks. I 
never did any work that paid hotter than gov- 
ting up a club for the Rural New-Yorker. 
Austin Jackson of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y ., 
writes; — “ Please receive my thank* lor a very 
nice Watch which I have just received ns pre¬ 
mium for obtaining subscribers to the Rural 
New-YohkjSr far DV2. Also a half dozen Dessert 
Knives. This is the eleventh year that I have 
acted cither directly or indirectly in circulating 
what I think the bust family paper that f ever 
saw. I am thankful for die many substantial 
presents which you appropriately term’Good 
Pay for Doing Good.'' 
Frank Batchelor of Allegan Co., Mich., 
writes“ My premium tone dozen hard-rubber 
handle dinlng-kmvcs) arrived safely, and unme- 
diaiely idler being ordered. In regard to them, 
1 cun onlvsny that they, like everything else 
from tho Rural office* ate first class, and Ju-d; 
what they were represented to bo. Let me one** 
more extend to you my t hanks and assurance 
that hero ihr* Rural New-Yorker basil warm 
friend and ati earnest worker. The IncreasM 1 or 
my club overfortner years is the strongest proOT 
I can furnish you of iho appreciation ot your 
late improvements in the Rural.” 
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strike Against Gang Flow*.—The Yorkshire 
(Eng.) farm laborers have in several cases re¬ 
fused to work t he two-furrow gang plows, which 
are drawn by three horses and controlled by one 
man, and t hus save one man’s and a horse’s lal >or 
to the farmer. We suppose that this is an illus¬ 
tration of the intelligence of the English farm 
laborer, and it is a sample of the reasonableness 
of strikes in many cases. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Imloystown, Monmouth Co., IV. J., May 8.— 
Weather warm arid dry. The 4t.h was very cold 
and blustering. Fruit trees ail out in full 
bloom. Winter wheat and rye look bad. Grass 
short ; two week* behind time. Oftts all sown. 
Com planting going on Wheat, $1.00; corn, 
75c.; potatoes, 80e.; oats, 40e.; hotter, 25c, l>. R. 
Butler Co., Pa., May 3. —Morning frosty; 
1 P. M., cold rain falling; all out-of-door busi¬ 
ness Stopped; poor fall crops all over the county; 
laud bare all winter, with very little snow or 
ruin. Rain t his week; grass starting in pastures. 
Fodder all gone. Hay sold at $20@,$25 per ton ; 
oats, flUc.; corn, 05c.; potatoes, $1(5:1.25. Stock 
healthy hut lean ; hired help, $1@1.25; oil labor, 
f2.50@5 per day—r. b. 
Frewsburg, Chant. Co., IV. Y., May 5.—This 
morning there was a very heavy frost, and 
yesterday morning the ground was white 
with snow. Wc have, however, had some fine 
weather, and a good many oats have been sown, 
and some potatoes, etc., put in the ground. 
Day is scarce, and worth from $ifi to $20 per 
ton. Young cattle, get n fair living In the pas- 
lures. but cows and working animate have to be 
fed. Butter is worth 28@30o. • farm hands get 
$18@83 per month and board. We have had a 
great deal of high wind this Spring. Fences 
hive been blown down, tunbe^uprooted, and 
some buildings unroofed.— a. n. a. 
Plninwell, Mich., May lO.—The Spring thus 
far has been very cold and backward, with ex¬ 
tremely ingli winds; however, we have had a 
few nice, warm days, which were duly apprC- 
' dated. Wheat was badly Winter killed, hut 
what is left looks finely. Oats are up and look¬ 
ing well. Corn is about one-half planted; the 
balance will be put in shortly. Apples, cherries, 
strawberries, currants, etc., etc., give promise of 
au abundant yield, but the peach trees look 
sorry enough, and there is a fair prospect of no 
crop at all. Wheat is worth $1.80: corn and oats, 
35@45e.; potatoes, $1; cows sell at prices all the 
way from $25 to $50— F, n. 
Pond <lu Lae, Wis., May 8—Spring very late. 
Wheat and oats all sown. To-day it is raining, 
for the first since Spring opened. Snow passed 
off without ntiu. Ground being dry, was well 
tilled. Having much cold weather; ice formed 
hall' inch thick the 1st inst. Am experimenting, 
or rather testing, Ramsdcll's Green Mountain 
Spring Wheat, and also White Australian. Quite 
healthy here, A few cases of small-pox and 
spotted fever in fiomo of the neighboring towns. 
Wheat bringing $1.30; outs. 35c.; hay, $10@12 per 
ton; potatoes, 90o.@$l; butter, 20c.; eggs, 10c.; 
good horses, $300@400 per pair; cows, $2fl@10; 
sheep, $4@fi, but none for sale, in consequence 
of the wool fever raging.—O. B. 
Wluslow, Stephenson Co., III., May 6.—We 
• have had a very backward spring. But very 
: little seeding done previous to April 15, and not 
much plowing, the ground remained so wet. 
> Farmers iu this vicinity are sowing more small 
- grain this year than last, and will plant less corn, 
; anticipating a cold, poor corn season; but I shall 
t plant as much as I had intended to, and let it 
-> take its chance. There are a great many oats to 
3 be sown yet. I finished rolling my small grain 
r the 4th inst. I think the use of the roller to be 
almost as indispensable as the use of the har¬ 
row, especially this Spring, as so much of the 
land was plowed pretty wet. and has dried out 
and left it- lumpy; but if it is rolled it is left 
finely pulverized and smooth for the reaper.— 
A. l. s. 
Lyndnnvilie, \ t.. May 10.— Season backward. 
The sugar season, which was nearly a month 
later than that of last year, ended about a week 
ago, with not over two-thirds the usual yield. 
Quality of sugar made this season not super-ex¬ 
cellent. Fanners just, beginning their Spring’s 
work ; very little grain sown yet. Notwith¬ 
standing the past Winter was unusually long 
and cold, the great depth of snow kept ihe 
ground from freezing, and grass is looking 
finely; no thaws during the Winter to cause It 
to winter-kill. Hay is scarce and brings high 
prices—$20 to $25 per ton. Considerable West¬ 
ern corn is fed to stock; in many instances it 
has been their chief reliance. Good horses sell 
at. sight, for remunerative prices. Beef cattle 
are doing hotter than during the Winter; and 
sheep—mutton and store—are in demand, and 
held at high figures.—i. w. s. 
Knngerfleld, Oneida Co., IV. Y., May 13.—The 
Spring is very backward, especially the work. 
Farmers were fully one month later in com¬ 
mencing operations than in 1871. The ground 
has been frozen to an unusual depth—upwards 
of four feet in many places—the frost not all 
out yet. Many hop yards have suffered severely 
during the winter, full one-third of the hills 
having died out in some yards, besides a good 
many of those standing being materially weak¬ 
ened. The price of hop roots has varied from 
$2 to $5 per bushel, commencing with the latter 
price, and are now selling In some eases even 
less than $2. The majority of lliose sold in this 
vicinity have gone into Otsego Co. The acreage 
will be increased here, probably on account of 
high prices. Winter wheat, as a general thing, 
looks well; grass is backward on account of the 
absence of rain. We have not. had a good, soak¬ 
ing shower this spring, ll has been quite cold 
most of the time, a strong, northwest wind gen¬ 
erally prevailing. Oats are worth from (10 to 
65e. per brush.; corn, 85 to DOe.: potatoes, 50c.; 
hay from $15 to $30 per ton. Cows are worth 
from $40 to $00 per head.—c. G. 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
Milton Y. Hudson is informed that orchard 
grass will do well if sowed In the fail with winter 
wheat. 
P. F. Richardson is informed that it is decid¬ 
ed that after July 1. 18 * 2 , there shall be no im¬ 
port duties whatever on tea and coffee. 
We notice that, several Subordinate Granges 
of Patrons of Husbandry have recently been 
organized in South Carolina, and a State Grange 
in Mississippi. 
Potatoes and Seeds ore still needed by the 
sufferers by fire iu Wisconsin. Contributions 
may be addressed to Capt. A. .1. Langwortuy, 
Green Bay, Wis. 
We see it asserted that the town of Granby, 
Nicnlet Co., Mitin., has voted to buy $100 worth 
of strychnine, with which to poison its blaek- 
bi rds.‘ Wc can unt call that wise. 
We notice the announcement of the death of 
J B Skinner, Rockford, IJ)., the luventor of 
an excellent gang plow and a castor coulter for 
plows. Mr. Skinner was a useful man, and will 
be missed. 
be missed. 
A CORRESPONDENT asks if we would “ recom¬ 
mend n young agriculturist society, holding its 
ti,-at Fair, to offer prizes for fast trotting. ’ No¬ 
net if it wants to prosper esanavricMural socie¬ 
ty, distinctively. 
Seven hundred acres of beets have been con¬ 
tracted lor by the Fairnorr, IU., beet Sugar Fac¬ 
tory at. $t per ton, which, it is expected, trill 
i n mirth 50 tons per day forBOO days manufacture. 
The cost of tin- buildings and machinery for this 
factory is $150,000. 
Samuel Brannan, Calistoga, Cal„ has 8,500 
mulherry trees ready to Jumteb food lor si k 
worms, and offers 20 or 30 persons, skilled in silk 
worm culture, the free use of all his mulberry 
leaves, and to erect whatever burnings are re¬ 
quisite for the proper conduct Of the business. 
“ A Subscriber,” Berlin, Mich., says he wants 
150 buy raps- that he know*of many others who 
want more or less — and asks where they can be 
procured. We believe R. II. Allen & Co., of 
180 Water St., New York, supply hay caps, two 
yards wide, at $1 each. 
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HOW TO OBTAIN A “COLLINS” 
Solid Cast Cast-Steel Plow for $5. For particulars, ad¬ 
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Get Rid of a Cold at Once by using Dr. Jayne’s 
Expectorant, a certain cure for all Pulmonary and 
Bronchial Affections. 
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