PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT." 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
IDEAL, URIAH AK1I MUM KIWSPAPER. 
I pi>pr Sandusky, O., July fi. — Season dry; 
wheat light; hay crop medium; corn fair; oats 
good; apples will be a fair crop if the season 
does not remain too dry.— v. b. 
Morgan Station, Pendleton Co., Ry., June 32. 
—Crops are generally better than expected. 
Wheat damaged by the cold winter, and will 
make two-thirds crop; oats, corn and grass look 
promising; fruit is plenty, except peaches—on 
low bottom land they have winter-killed.— 
R. >t. R, 
Savannah, Butler Co., !*. V.. Jnlyt.— We had 
a, very wet Spring and rather cold, especially the 
month of May. Wheat and oats look exceed¬ 
ingly well, and the prospect is that we shall 
have a very large yield of sin till grain. Corn 
came up well, but was very backward until the 
warm weather; to-day the prospect is that wc 
shall have a very good crop of corn.—j. w. 
Artexin, Lon tide* Co., Mi**., July S. —The 
season has been good, t hus far. for com and cot¬ 
ton ; and, as a general th Ing, crops arc fine. We 
have had plenty of rain until now, but in some 
parts of the county it is now much needed. 
Most of the corn and cotton is “laid by." Those 
of us who have sweet potatoes have them to 
work again and more vines to set out, from 
which we get our best seed potatoes.—R. s. s. 
me tmik product; wool, peas and beans, grass 
arid clover seed, hops, flax, etc.—all of which 
Maine produces. Nor have we taken into ac¬ 
count the enhanced value of lands thus rendered 
more productive; nor the diminished chances 
of loss from total faflure of crops_on ac count of 
drouth. Those arc to be considered. For lands 
Quickly double in value when the season enu be 
so controlled os to make a crop certain and the 
profits of lhe husbandman sure. 
This illustration has been taken at random 
that Is, we have no especial purpose in selecting 
Maine. And we want to show the probable re¬ 
sult of associated effort. Wc know that Irriga¬ 
tion is not practicable iu nil, and would not, 
therefore, be profitable in many, localities; but 
wc do know there are hundreds of neighbor¬ 
hoods tn which a score or a hundred farmers 
might unite and secure water enough to insure 
each against drouth and add largely to the pro¬ 
ducts of their respective farms as well. 
Sectfonnl Difference* nn<! Jenloiodeg in In¬ 
dustrial matt ers should not be allowed to obtain 
footing among industrial men. Wc regret to 
see the controversy now going on in somcof the 
journals relative to the merits and demerits of 
Allen's American Short-Horn Herd Book. Wo 
do not see that any good is likely to come of 
such discussion. If the book has faults it is not 
astonishing. But who can or has made a better 
one in this country? The way to correct the 
discovered faults, if any, is to call the atten¬ 
tion of the author to them, directly, and not en¬ 
ter into a discussion that only breeds acrimony 
and begets distrust of the motives of the critics. 
The long-winded stories that some of these 
garrulous and prolific breeders get off are terri¬ 
ble doses for renders in dog days. 
ConductiiiK Editor and X^nDlialier 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER 
AsBooiate Editors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL. LL. D„ Cortland Village. N. Y. 
EDITOR OR Till) nKPARTMUHT OR SlOWt HUSBANDRY. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M. Little "alls, N. Y., 
Editor or th* DkP 4 .fttM*Mr or Oauiv Hubbandrv. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
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RURAL NOTES AND OUERIES, 
The Bar to Agricultural Progress.— A con¬ 
temporary saysAgricultural progress finds 
Its greatest impediment in the difficulty of giv¬ 
ing to observed facts their true meaning.’' To 
a large extent this is true. But there are too 
few facts observed. And the observation is not 
systematic and intelligent. The truth is agricul¬ 
turists are not taught to nor bow to observe. 
The old humdrum Idea that nothing Is education 
that ie not derived from books and their Inter¬ 
preters too generally obtains. The teaching 
should begin by directing observation and giv¬ 
ing the true scientific significance to facts. We 
must have un army of teachers to do t his. These 
teachers must be practical. Observing and scien¬ 
tific men. The best touchers we now have are 
practical men: and they should be called, the 
coining Winter, to t he Agricultural Colleges, to 
tlie lecture rooms, and to district school house* 
to tell what they know, why they know it, how 
they have learned it, and to point out the way 
by which those who listen may learn. The qual¬ 
ities needed in these pupils arc desire to learn 
because of the real profit that may be derived 
from it, and application and persistence in pur¬ 
suit of knowledge. 
RURAL BREVITIES 
i “A Rural Bkatikr," Arkadelphia, Ark., asks 
where he eon obtain Guelder fowls. 
Y. is informed that we do not know that anv 
coal fields have ever heen discovered in New 
York State. 
o. T m R s . l ' alter8 have purchased a plantation at 
ShelbyviUe, III., of 040 acres, for which they 
pant * 1 * 7 , 000 . J 
James Vick has seven acres of Phlox, five of 
Asters, five of Dahlias, four of Zinnias, three of 
' cibenas and i wo of Pansies. 
A. C, is informed that the host book on cro¬ 
quet that wc know of is by Mavm; Rjsid, and 
can be obtained at this office for 35 cents. 
Wool thieves are operating in Illinois. One 
‘f iner lost sixty fleeces, worth **.10, stowed in 
Ins barn. Better not have Hie wool in the burn. 
it. K. it, is informed that we do not know 
what the jewels of officers of the Patrons of 
Husbandry are, never having been inside a 
lodge. 
We acknowledge the receipt of the Premium 
List o< the Planters’, Manufacturers’ and Mc- 
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Hell out* Tor Builder*. -A “Young Mechanic” 
usks if there is any school in this country where 
a young man can be taught technically In the 
building trades, tVe do not know of any—at 
least not such art one os exists in the Polytech¬ 
nic University at Stuttgart, Germany, where 
young men are educated in the building crafts 
trained for master builders, constructors of 
public works, foremen of plasterers, tilers, roof¬ 
ers, joiners, carpenters, etc., etc. In this school 
SATURDAY 
IRRIGATION 
Refinement of Disease Fallowing Refinement 
ul < HvilizntJou. There seems to he ue< uinulat- 
ijig evidence that the aroa of disease in the hu¬ 
man system is extending that Is, that diseases 
are Increasing, new ailments affecting t ho organ¬ 
izations of men in proportion as men depart 
from the more primitive modes of life. The 
n ii mber of nervous diseases arc increasing- such 
as neuralgia, short-sightedness, diseases of the 
muscles of the eye-balls, etc., etc. These condi¬ 
tions of the modern human, as distinguished 
Algeria shall form a Postal Union. 2. That 
throughout tills Union there shall lie a uniform 
postal rate for letters of four cents per half 
ounce. .3. That newspapers, printed matter, 
patterns, etc., shall he conveyed for two cents 
per two Ounces. 4. That to all countries not in¬ 
cluded in the Postal Union double the above 
rates shall be charged. 5. The uniform registra¬ 
tion fee for all parts of the world shaJl be four 
cents, Commenting upon these propositions, 
t he Farmer’s Advocate of Ontario, Canada, says: 
“We want a Bismarck in Canada. Only fancy 
ten cents from Windsor to Detroit half a mile! 
Agricultural papers one cent in advance! Often 
letters between Canada and the U. S. cost be¬ 
tween one and two dollars. We have known 
to be paid! " 
Why don’t Canadians emigrate across the line, 
then ? 
l he death of W.m. Tart, Plymouth. Mich., is 
announced, Mr. Taft has been known as a 
prominent agriculturist, orehardist and experi- 
mentor. lor many years. 
The Cincinnati Industrial Exhibition mana¬ 
ger- have issued a very handsome list of premi¬ 
ums to lie awarded to Manufactures Products 
and Arts. Fair Sept. 4 to Oct. 4, inclusive. 
X. A. Willard of the Hutu I, New-Yorker 
lias been engaged to deliver the address at the 
Chenango Co. Ag. Fair, which is to be held at 
Norwich, N. Y„ Sept. 2t-2(i. The address will 
The Japanese Patent Low,—The Wisdom the 
Japanese exhibit in their policy of studying the 
laws and customs of the most civilized countries 
is worthy of attention and commendation. They 
are adopting and enacting such laws as will 
stimulate their growth in the industrial arts. 
They have notv a patent law which not only 
protects their home inventions, but Is Intended 
to protect foreign inventions as well. We ex¬ 
pect that Japan will yet contribute largely 
toward the reward of American inventive gen¬ 
ius, because American inventors will, to a great 
extent, occupy the rich field thus thrown open 
to them. 
Advice to a Bov Who Asks “ How to Get 
Along.”—“ a Farmer’s Son "writes us“ I wish 
you wouldgive directions how to get along. I am 
poor, my parents are poor; T have to work hard, 
and want do know how other boys do who suc¬ 
ceed." The only way wo ever found for getting 
along was to hcep stepping- that Is, don’t lose one 
moment’s time! We do not mean to say that a 
boy should take no recreation; but we do mean to 
say that no boy should take recreation thought¬ 
lessly. He should always learn something. But 
this getting along is a very simple matter. It 
means persistent labor—with hands and head. 
It means that so long as you can find anything 
to do you should do it—not blindly and mechan¬ 
ically, but thoughtfully, teaching yourself by 
experience what is the best thing to do, and how 
to do it in the quickest and best way. Loafing, 
lounging, idleness, dreaming, wishing and worry¬ 
ing do not pay. The more a man does, the easier 
he does it and the more he can do. Just get the 
steam up, get a good purpose in your soul, and 
then work to accomplish t hat purpose as if your 
life depended Upon your doing it in the best 
manner and shortest time. That is the only way 
we know of to “get along." 
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Chinese Labor.— In answer to R. P. Slosson: 
Chinese labor is not obtained much, if any, 
cheaper than any other, except by special con¬ 
tract made before John leaves his native place. 
The demand for good, intelligent, faithful labor 
is so great, and John Chinaman is so faithful 
that the demand for his services soon teaches 
him his own value, and he exacts It to the utter¬ 
most farthing. Ho is not anybody’s fool, and 
cannot easily be made a slave. This “ Heathen 
Chinee" can teach most of the Yankees tricks 
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BUSINESS NOTICES 
An Industrial .Museum is to be established in 
connection with the Georgia State College of 
Agriculture and Mechanio Arts. It is to em¬ 
brace models of improved agricultural ma¬ 
chines, implements, agricultural products, man¬ 
ufactures, minerals, ores, woods,plans and pho¬ 
tographs of buildings, etc., etc. This College is 
located at Athens, Ga., and contributions to the 
museum are solicited. 
MUSICAL 
i ne r.auoaiion oi Farmers' Rons is attracting 
the attention of British Agriculturists. It seems 
to be dawning upon their minds that education 
is as profitable to a farmer’s as to any other 
man sson; that the greater the intelligence, the 
more and better the productions of the soil; that 
ignorance has more to do with the thraldom of 
t he working classes than any other agency. We 
are glad to notice this kind of agitation among 
our Bfltish brothers; and we hope the time is 
speedily coming when our own common school 
system will be so revised, and the school districts 
so consolidated, as to enable every child in each 
mile square of territory to have the aid of intel¬ 
ligent, capable and progressive teachers, in place 
of the untutored and immature boys and girls 
All who contemplate studying music, either as an 
accomplishment or a profession, should send imme¬ 
diately for a Circular of the Lyons Musical acad¬ 
emy— one of the best and most successful Institutions 
of its kind. Address O. S. ADAMS, 
Principal, Lyons. Wayne Co., N. Y. 
i ue Hop i rop ot this State, according to 
Emmett Wells’ Circular, is suffering from 
the depredations of lice. The foreign reports 
are not favorable. From Wisconsin there are 
no unfavorable reports. Brewers are buying 
more freely of old hops, and the past week there 
husbeen a marked increase in the demand for 
1868e and '69s. 
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