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OOKE’S RURAL MEW-YORKER 
“PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conduotins Editor and. Proprietor. 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
A*HOoiate Editors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Emtoit or tmi> Dspah»mKNT of Siikkf Hi'Siunpby, 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y„ 
Editor op tub DtPifttrSKT or Dairy J1IM 1 AN DRY. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
CouiisMroNDiiso Editor. 
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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1872. 
NEW HALF-YEARLY VOLUME. 
THE TIME TO RENEW AND SUBSCRIBE! 
All Our Readers are advised that Vol. 
XXVI. of the Rural New-Yorker will com¬ 
mence J uly 0, and close with December—com¬ 
prising Twent.v-Six Numbers. And will they do 
us and their neighbors and friends who don't 
(but ought to) talcs the Rural, the favor to an¬ 
nounce this fact ? Note, also, that Single and 
Club Subscriptions are now in order and re¬ 
spectfully solicited from all parts of the Union, 
Canada, &e, Our Inducements for clubbing are 
the same as last Winter. Those forming clubs 
for the New Volume will receive specillc premi¬ 
ums, or free copies, etc., in the same proportion 
as for yearly subscribers—two six months (or 
volume) subscribers counting for one yearly. 
Clubs may be composed of part yearly and parr 
half - yearly subscribers, at convenience of 
Agents. To aid those forming new clubs, or 
making additions to present ones, specimens, 
premium lists, etc., will be sent free. 
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NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS. 
We havo perused with considerable care the 
various reports of the proceedings of this “ Con¬ 
gress " recently held at St. Louis, and have failed 
to Hud in them anything said or done which is 
likely to materially and immediately affect the 
interests of agriculturists. What our friend 
Corbett said ubout its having “resolved and 
resolved we find to be true. These resolutions 
may be summarized as follows: 
The formation of agricultural clubs was rec¬ 
ommended. Theiuonihly reports of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture were declared unreliable, 
ns a forecast, and County Boards of Agriculture 
were requested to co-operate to furnish the 
Commissioner with crop prospects, which he is 
urged to publish as soon as possible. Congress 
was urged “ to reserve six sections of timber in 
each Congressional township (what is a * congre6-» 
sinual township?’) of the present Government 
lands covered with forest," In order to prevent 
drouths—all of which is as clear as mud. But we 
are glad to see this important subject was re¬ 
ferred to a Committee on Agriculture, who w ill, 
doubtless, relieve it of its opaqueness. Another 
ambitious delegate tried to make Frederick 
Watts a cabinet officer. Fortunately, he hasn't 
done it yet! Another resolution asks Congress 
to admit, free of duty, Nitrate of Potash, Nitrate 
of Soda, Salt, Gypsum, Sulphate of Ammonia, 
German Salts of Potash, Potash in any form, 
and Sulphuric Acid, in aid of Agriculture. 
Maury’s plan for Crop and Meteorological re¬ 
ports was indorsed. The people were urged to 
plant trees, the State Legislat ures in establish 
State nurseries, and Congress to require all per¬ 
sons receiving the beneflt of the Homestead 
and other acts donating public lands, to plant 
with timber trees one-tenth of the land so do¬ 
nated. 
Several elaborate and valuable papers wore 
read, but In what shape they will reach the peo¬ 
ple we arc not Informed -probably through a 
volume of transactions which few will take the 
trouble to read, much to their own loss. The 
following arc the officers elect for the ensuing 
year: 
President,— John P, Reynolds of Illinois. 
Secretary—C. W. Greene, Jackson, Tenn. 
Treasurer— Lee It. Shryock, St. Louis, Mo. 
Vice-Presidents C. C. Langdun. Mobile, Ala-; 
O. If. Jonec, Atlanta G : 
Ill.; F. C. Johnson. New Albany. Ind.; Dr. J. M. 
Schaeffer, Fairfield, la ;G. T. Anthony. Leaven¬ 
worth. Kail.; Jits. H. Moore. Harrisburg. Ky.; J. 
II. Stevens, Minneapolis, Minn.; Dr J, Worden, 
Terry.Miss.; A. LL Barrett. St. Louis, Mo.; W.F. 
Kornegay. Goldsboro ugh, N.C.; N. S. T< iwnshend, 
Ohio; A. u. Hamilton, Harrisburg, Pa,; W. H. 
Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.; Com. M. F. Maury. 
Lexington. Va.: W. F. Lawton. Charleston, S. C.; 
Mr. Poor, Maryland. 
STANDING COMMITTEES. 
Meteorology — Com. M. F. Muury, Virginia; 
Prof. J. B. Turner, Illinois; Rev. A. Means, 
Georgia. 
Forest Culture— R. S. Elliott, Kansas Pucillc R. 
R. Co.; Dr. J. A. Warder, Ohio; W. C. Flagg, 
Illinois. 
lirpenmenta! Agriculture — C. W. Spalding, 
Missouri; Gen. W. II. Jackson, Tennessee; C. 
A. Bailey. 
Agricultural Education — Col. R. E. Withers, 
Virginia; H. N. Me A I lister, .1. K. Hudson. 
Grasses L. D. Morse, Missouri; Mr. Williams; 
O. H. P. Lear, Missouri. 
'l'tamymtlatinu anti Commerce— Oen.J.S. Mnr- 
mudiikc, Missouri; (leu. W. I). Wilson, Iowa; 
It. M. Patton, A lubainu- 
FertUizers- Prof. Jameson, Missouri ; F. Fon¬ 
taine. Georgia; J. t.\ Burroughs, Illinois. 
Labor anti Immigration W. M. Liwton, South 
Carolina; Judge G. Edmunds, Illinois; E. B. 
Whitman, Georgia. 
Live Stock —I>r. K. J. Spurr, Gen. O. H. Jones, 
D. B. GiJlman. 
Horticulture—E. S. Hull, F. H. French, J. C. 
Ratcliff. 
We have no word of discouragement to say 
■with regard to such gatherings. They help to 
let each know what the other Is thinking about 
and desiring. And the exhibit made helps to 
discover the paucity of real practical material 
there is embodied in such a Congress mid its 
barrenness of practical ideas; and all this helps 
to revision and Improvement. It may be 1 hut. 
some future session of this Congress will develop 
the latent power which ii contains. We hope 
so. Meantime let us “ labor and wait! " 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
Division of Labor.—In answer to a correspond¬ 
ent, A. R. F., we do believe in the proper divis¬ 
ion of labor. We have no objections to farmers 
(or any other class) buying where they can buy 
the best, cheapest. If they can do this by em¬ 
ploying a paid agent at a salary, to deal directly 
with manufacturers, we say do so. We are op¬ 
posed to extortion in any shape; but our obser¬ 
vation and experience have taught us that, as a 
rule, extortion or extravagant prices beget com¬ 
petition, and competition destroys monopoly. 
Vet there are “ rings." combinations, that seek 
to grasp all that cun be got ; and we recognize 
the fact that combinations of those upon whom 
they prey must be made in order to counteract 
the vicious action of greed. Commercial resolu¬ 
tions are as important and healthful as political 
resolutions. They are as much the result of nat¬ 
ural law as the growth of trees. They are born 
of the instinct of self defense in man, and are 
not to be laughed at 'nor denounced. Lot those 
who suffer from them learn why they suffer, and 
remove the causo. 
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The Rural ft’ew.Y’orker i* Profitable to hosts 
of its subscribers, as the many letters we receive 
to that effect abundantly testify. For example, 
here is a straw in that direction. Under date of 
June 10,1872, Mr. W. II. Ferguson of Albany 
C®, N. Y„ writes:—“Being well pleased with 
the Rural New-Yorker,! send you the names 
of some friends to whom you can forward 
specimen copies, if you will be so kind. The 
hints and suggestions contained in the Rural 
were worth $100.00 to me a year ago, against 
$2.50 subscription. The names are as follows." 
— If all subscribers who find that the Rural 
pnjyei than - whether in money, knowledge or en¬ 
tertainment—will tell their friends about it, or 
send us names for specimens, its circulation may 
be materially Increased during the e arly weeks 
Of the volume which begins in July. 
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New Hampshire Women Horticulturist*.—We 
arc inclined to chronicle all attempts on the part 
of women to practice horticulture with a view 
to profit. Franklin, Merrimack Co., N. H., 
boasts of a Mrs. Stephen Kknku k, of whom it 
is said that she “ probably has the finest varieties 
of pears, plums and grapes to be found in that 
county. She does all the grafting and pruning 
herself, without any aid from outsiders, and al¬ 
ways has a tine display of fruit. Then, in the 
same town it is reported there i6 Miss Annie E. 
Nesmith, who has bought an acre of land which 
she has been reclaiming by under-drainage for 
♦frawherry culture. A quarter of it is in straw¬ 
berries in fine condition ; nearly the whole of 
the balance is under cultivation and will soon 
be in strawberries. She manages it wholly alone, 
hires the heavy work done, but superintends 
every item of labor herself. She is said to have 
expended $1,000 in improvements on this single 
acre. We shall be glad to know that her ex¬ 
penditure yields a profitable return, and that 
her management results in proving that women 
can make money as horticulturists. Will she 
not toll us if she makes any money ? 
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Must Have the Rural.—And How to Get It.— 
Almost dally wo receive letters from people 
whose subscriptions expired some weeks or 
months before, but who find they must have the 
Rural again. Most of these send (lie money to 
renew, bul Some arc “short " and propose to 
form clubs, and thus secure the paper. For ex¬ 
ample, a friend in Ellis Co., Texas, writes in this 
earnest wise: 
“1 write to you for some specimens of your 
‘dear old Rural.’ fori ean not possibly do with¬ 
out it. Ever since it ‘quit coming’ we have 
been ‘in the dark' about everything. I am go¬ 
ing to try my best to get tip a club for it here, 
and want you to send rne your prospectus, pre¬ 
mium list, posters, and some samples to dis¬ 
tribute. 1 would have sent for It Jong ago if I 
could havo got the money to spare, but now I 
am going to get a club if I can —enough to 
secure me a copy a year anyhow. If no more; 
lor 1 like dm Mural better than coffee or tobac¬ 
co—indeed I have no use for any such ‘weeds,’ 
but I know what I have a use for, and can't do 
without, and that is Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker." 
— To all in the position of our Texas friend— 
as well as to Agents and readers generally—we 
would suggest that, inasmuch as a new volume 
of the Rural commences next month (July 8) 
the present is the right, time to subscribe and 
form clubs for the ensuing six months, or year, 
as preferred. Of course we will cheerfully and 
promptly furnish specimens, posters, premium 
lists, etc,, to all disposed to atrl In extending our 
circulation. Non-subscribers who wish the 
Rural regularly can secure a free copy (or a 
valuable book or other premium) by forming a 
club. 
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A Botanical Garden I‘reposed.—Several gen¬ 
tlemen ol New York city have projected the 
establishment of a Botanical Garden on Madison 
Avenue—the erection of a substantial and ornate 
glass and iron structure for the reception and 
exhibition of plants from all part* of the world. 
It Is proposed to make this not only a perpet ual 
plant exposition, and honce a place of public re¬ 
sort, but to establish in connection therewith a 
School of Botany. The aim is to make it a 
means of instruction as well as a place where the 
senses may he gratified by t he sight and smell of 
beautiful plants and ilowern. 
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Inquiries for Advertiser*.—J. S. B. asks whore 
Sorghum or Sugar Cane Mills can bo obtained 
.Five or six inquirers ask where AIslkeClover 
seed can be obtained, and at what price; also, 
Lucerne or Alfalfa seed “ Subscriber," at 
Tarboro, N. writes“ Where can I got a 
Laugstroth Moveable Comb Hive, and what, is 
ihe price?" — W. R. F. asks where he can buy 
ferrets—I’. M. Briggs ask* it any of our read¬ 
ers have yearling Ayrshire Bulls, pureblood, tor- 
sale. 
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Personal.—As our Corresponding Editor, Col. 
S. D. Harris, has arranged to be in our New 
York Office during J uly and August, he requests 
ail correspondence intended lor him to be ad¬ 
dressed here, instead of the Cleveland Office, 
during those months. 
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THE SEASON, CHOPS, PEI0ES, ETC. 
Lewiston, N. Y'., June 2.—This is a great fruit 
region, and there is a prospect of plenty of it; 
all tiro orchards are full of blossoms. Wheat is 
very poor.—i. w. 
Kenton, O., June 5.— Spring has been Cold 
and backward; but little min since snow went 
off until within two weeks, during which time 
have lmd sev oral fine showers. Cut worms doing 
much damage among corn. In some localities 
wheat is almost a failure, on account of drouth 
and cold winter. Oats not looking well.—w. g. v. 
Dwight, Livingston Co., III., June 9.—The 
Spring has been rather cold, so far, but crops 
look very well, especially oats and grass. Corn 
is backward, but has generally come up well. 
Potatoes will be a fine crop, if we can keep the 
Colorado bugs from them. Wheat, $1.25; corn, 
38c.: oats, 40c.; potatoes. $1.10; butter, 18c.; 
eggs, 12>4c.; good cow6, $40@50; farm labor, $20 
per month.—G. B. Calkins. 
Sterling, Cayuga Co., IV. Y'., June 3.—We 
have had a Cold, dry and backward spring, until 
a few days ago the weather ebunged and wo are 
having gentle rains. Wo had quite a frost on 
low land the night of June 1st, Winter wheat 
looks very poor, generally speaking, and musi 
be a light crop. Meadows and Spring grain arc 
improving since the late rains, and bid fair for 
an average yield, Corn planting nearly com¬ 
pleted. White wheat, $2; corn, 70c.; oats, 55@ 
00c.; butter, 21c.; potatoes, 40@i45c. Labor high 
and scarce. L. s. m. 
Rose, Wayne Co., JV. V., June II,—A cool 
and rather backward Spring, thus far; but it 
has been very dry. and the finest time for put¬ 
ting iu Spring crops (especially on low lands) 
that ever was known. All streams, canals, wells 
and cisterns were extremely low, hut recently, 
with daily copious showers, they are filled up, 
and it is almost impossible to work any kind of 
land. Vegetation has come forward rapidly— 
clover and grass especially. Wheat, being late 
Spring killed, will riot be more than half or two- 
thirds of the usual crop. Corn yellow, and two 
weeks later than usual. Fruit of all kinds blos¬ 
somed full, and gives promise of an abundant 
crop. Currant worms and cut grubs plenty. 
Cows, $4ff&55; sheep and hogs, lower; wheat, 
<3UNE 22 
$1.75@1.85; corn, 60@65c.; oats, 44@50c.; pota¬ 
toes were 5Q@0Oc., but recently the bottom fell 
out. and they are now down to 20@35c.; butter, 
30@23e.; eggs, 11<<M5 c. ; wages, $20 per month.— 
c. s. w. 
Johnstown, Fulton Co., IV. V., June 9.—The 
weather for ltic last two weeks has been very 
wet; it has rained some almost every day— 
sometimes cool and cloudy with light rain, and 
again clears off for a few hours, clouds up and 
rains o perfect torrent. The ground is very- wet 
and the roads are bad. Grass looks as well as I 
ever saw it at ibis time in the season. Hay, 
which a month ago was scarce at &MVVL15 per ton, 
is now dull at $15@2U. The hay crop is safe now 
for this season. Bui very few oats sown, and 
they do not look well. Corn very small; it has 
been too wet and cold for com and oats. All 
crops arc growing very fast-— Reform. 
Pittsfield, Merrimack Co., JV, II., June 5.— 
During the early part of Spring the season was 
backward, but warm weather so materially ad¬ 
vanced everything that planting was done about 
the usual time. Up to near the close of May it 
was very dry. Since then it has been corres¬ 
pondingly wet, and to-day more rain has fallen 
than during the entire first four and one-half 
months of ’72. Apple trees have bloomed very 
freely and continued on the twigs for a long 
rime. The outlook for hay has not been flatter¬ 
ing, but late and copious rains have greatly im¬ 
proved it.— G. R. D. 
Amity, Yamhill Co., Oregon.—Lafayette, the 
county seat of Yamhill Co., is situated on the left 
bank of the Yamhill River, 30 miles southeast of 
Portland. This county is claimed as one of the 
best grain-growing counties in the State. Land 
is worth from $15 to $20 per acre. Horses range 
in price from $35 to $40U; $175 to $250 the span ; 
milch cows. $15(5:20; two and t hree-year-old 
stock, $20WJ5; calves, $8(^12 in the fall, after 
weaning; common sheep, $2,507(4.50 per head; 
Imported sheep very high—some in our neigh¬ 
borhood being held at $180 each; chickens are 
worth $35'4 per dozen; turkeys, 50@75e. each ; 
labor, single men, $1@1.50 per day; wool, 45c. 
per lb.; wheat, 75c. per bush.; oats, $1; pota¬ 
toes, $1— r. n. 
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BUSINESS INFORMATION. 
Me notice that Messrs. IV in plow, Lanier & 
Go., 27 Pino St., New York, have joined Messrs. 
Leonard, Sheldon A Foster in the sale of the 
Canada Southern Bonds. First-class securities 
generally find first-class men to handle them. 
This Tact scorns very apparent in this connec¬ 
tion. Tills bond stand* high In the estimation 
of our best and most experienced railroad men, 
and is undoubtedly one of the safest securities 
offered in this market, and at the low price at 
which they are now offered must, aud we under¬ 
stand do, find a rartd sale. 
Electrotype* of Fine Portraits of the Cincin¬ 
nati and Philadelphia nominees for President 
and Viee-Prealdentr— Greeley and Brown, and 
Grant and Wilson— which we have had en¬ 
graved from recent photographs, will lie fur¬ 
nished to our friends of the Press at $5 each. 
The portraits of Grant and Wilson are given 
in this paper, (see next page,) and those of 
Greeley aud Brown in our issue of May 18. 
Electros of any other engravings given in the 
Rural New-Yorker will be supplied, blocked 
ready for printing, at correspondingly low rates. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
The commencement of the Vermont State 
Agricultural Colleges occurs the first week iu 
July. 
“A hoy subscriber" should address “Agri¬ 
cultural College, Annapolis, Md.,“ for an answer 
to the question he asks. 
We acknowledge the receipt of a basket of 
splendid Strawberries from S. G. Win ant, Ross- 
vilie, S. I., and P. Mekseles & Co., 76 Dey street. 
C. E. S. is informed that it will be easy to wash 
oft white hellebore from currants and gooseber¬ 
ries if any should remain on them when gathered. 
It is poison. 
See the advertisement of the Penn. Ag. Soc., 
which holds its next Fair at Erie, Pa., Sept. 17-20. 
Competition for its prizes are open to all the 
States and Canadas. No entry fee is charged. 
PUBLISHER’8 SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Additions to Cluba are always in order, whether 
In ones. two*, lives, tens, or more. A host of people 
arc subscribing for papers about these duys, and vre 
hope our Agent-Friends will give everybody uu oppor¬ 
tunity to subscribe for the best. 
Show Bills, Specimen Number*, Etc, ot the 
Rural New-Yorker sent free. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
MUSICAL. 
All who contemplate studying music, either as an 
accomplishment or a profession, should send imme¬ 
diately for a Circular uf the Lyons Musical Acad¬ 
emy— one of the best and most successful institutions 
of its kind. Address O. S. A HAMS, 
Principal. Lyons. Wayne Co., N. Y. 
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HOW TO OBTAIN A “COLLINS” 
Solid Cast Cast-Steel Plow for $5. For particulars, ad¬ 
dress COLLINS & CO, 212 Water St, N. Y. 
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THE WAKEFIELD EARTH CLOSET. 
Get Descriptive Pamphlet at 36 Dey St., New York. 
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Burnett’s Cologne VY’ater wins for itself a 
favorite place on the dressing table. 
