contrary, it rq^v resuJt in social evils still worse. 
Economically viewed, such colonization would 
be a direct lots* to every farmer. It is far easier 
for farmors to leave their respect!ve boinos to 
meet each other one© or twice a week, than to 
be compelled to do the dally travel which such 
colonization would involve. Rut there is no 
trood excuse for the Isolation which obtains in 
too many agricultural districts. Farmers should 
meet each other regularly at least once a 
week. This (gathering together will bo not only 
of social, but of pecuniary advantage. Let us 
sum up some of the advantages we conceive 
would grow’ out or, say. a Farmers' Exchange 
in a neighborhood, once in seven days: 
1. Farmers thus brought together w ill talk 
they will ex- 
a national reputation through the advertising 
such sales. The advantage© are manifest. Not 
only Is the stock sold generally, but it is sold at 
home. Those who attend such sales go for the 
purpose of buying, and prepared to pay for 
whut they purchase. They arc Judges of stock. 
They can see the stock they are bred from, and 
Judge of the manner In which It has been kept. 
The testimony of the brooder’s neighbors Is 
available as to his own trustworthiness. They 
know, therefore, what they purchase, and no 
risk of dissatisfaction between buyer and seller 
Is taken- as is too of ten the ease when stock is 
ordered and forwarded, the buyer trusting to 
the seller's Judgment and tho validity of his 
warranty. Nor doe* the seller take tho risk al¬ 
ways involved in shipping, e\eu if C. O. D., re¬ 
sulting from the carelessness of expressmen or 
the mishaps often all coding transportation. He 
delivers hiBBtock to the purchaser at home, and 
Is paid for it without further risk. There is 
every reason, therefore, to commend and en¬ 
courage this mode of disposing of stock. Where 
one breeder in a neighborhood has not slock 
enough to warrant such an enterprise, two, 
three, or more may combine; and finally we 
may expect to hear, as in England, regular 
stock-market Fairs in every important stock 
growing district. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
CHAB. D. BBAGDON, ANDBEW 8, FULLER, 
ZVeaooiate JiitHtorn. 
HKRKY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, ft. Y., 
Emtoc or n> Dtr,utu*«? <>» Basur HcMii»,ai. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. Little Falls, N. Y„ 
Ksitoi o» rut DiPi*vu*x» or Daikt fii.hiM'tr, 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
CoanuroNDiMa Kditok. 
upon topics which interest them 
change opinions and detail to each other their 
practices; thus tho wisdom of each becomes 
the common capital of the whole. The ideas 
that the most intelligent may have, and the 
projects conceived as likely to benefit the whole 
neighborhood, if put in operation, are forced 
upon the attention and discussed by each Indi¬ 
vidual interested. 
2. Thought begets thought. The discussion 
of any measure in which the interests of a 
neighborhood, or class, are involved, results In 
a critical examination of that measure and in 
suggestions by all interested- Thus, co-opera¬ 
tion may result, by which the entire neighbor¬ 
hood, or class, may profit. An idea is of no 
value unless it is used. A spade may be a good 
one, but utterly valueless until some one comes 
along to dig with it. Tho isolated farmer, sit¬ 
ting by his fireside, may evolve plans and pro¬ 
jects that, if executed, would increase the 
value of hi* own and his neighbors' prop< rty 
twenty-five or more per cent.; but so long as 
the plan and project remain where they origi¬ 
nated, they are inoperative and void. He needs 
his neighbors’oo-operation, nnd to got it must 
oomniunlcat© with them. He mo t force others 
to think as he does, or allow them to modify 
his plans until they uro perfect, and secure 
their aid in carrying them out. 
3. Such association is a stimulus greatly 
needed by tho farmer. It begets a spirit 
more in accord with that which is operative in 
other branches of business. It begets enter¬ 
prise. 11 force* observation. It renders a man 
more critical and analytical, because what he 
learns and imparts he knows will be subjected 
to critical analysis by his follows. It makes 
him more charitable and subordinate and less 
egotistic; because he learns, much to his aston¬ 
ishment sometimes, that there arc other people 
iu the world as smart us he la; and he also 
learns a still more important lemon,tewit: that 
his neighbors aro as kindly disposed, charitable, 
honest and accommodat ing ms he is. 
1. And finally, wo urge effort to break up tills 
isolation this Winter. Tho long evenings arc 
at hand. One a week will not bo unprofitable 
spent if farmers and their wives will only meet 
for social and business purposes. Farmers' 
Clubs, Granges of Patron*) of Husbandry, or 
simply neighborhood sociables, without any 
formality whatever. If organized, will break 
up (his isolation which rusts those who indulge 
in It, and by friction will polish and brighten 
life on a farm to such u degree as few who have 
not witnessed its effects can dream of. Even 
the social effects of such gatherings, provided 
no practical co-operation Is attempted, will 
render tho life of the farmer and his family 
vastly better, more tolerable and elevated. 
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French Exposition of In sects.—From Oct. I to 
Oof. 15 there was, in Paris, under the patronage 
of the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, 
an exhibition of useful insects and their pro¬ 
ducts, and of noxious insects and their ravages, 
organized by thcConfcral Society of Agriculture. 
It comprised collection# of silkwormsof all spe¬ 
cies, with samples of silk, raw and twisted, or 
chewed, with apparatus and fixtures lor culti¬ 
vating the silkworm: apparatus and fixtures 
used In agriculture, and the products of bees, 
both in a crude and manufactured state, also 
formed a purlieu of the exposition ; collections 
of noxious Insects, with contrivances for their 
destruction; collections of auxiliary Insects, or 
insects that assist in the destruction of noxious 
insects ; and collections of insectivorous mam- 
mifers, birds, and reptiles formed a third fea¬ 
ture. This conic Idea, in a more modest and 
personal way, has been developed at some of 
our State Fairs by one or two practical ento¬ 
mologists; hul It never received the encourage¬ 
ment its importance deserved. The work of 
entomologists, however, in this country should 
be rendered as practical and .educational in Its 
infiuencG as passible; and the exhibition or ar¬ 
rangement of insects In public and school mu¬ 
seums should bo made with this view. The 
Paris exposition suggests the method wo would 
bo glad to see generally adopted. 
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SATURDAY, !NuV. id, 1872. 
Japan and American Short. tlora*.—Do our 
readers know what a field is opening in this 
country for Short-Horn breeders? We say 
opening, it is already open. No breeder that 
wo know of who has made a specialty of any 
ono breed of stock, and pursued it with integri¬ 
ty and intelligence, but lias made a fortune at 
it. Japan has been importing Short-Horns from 
Illinois; England from Canada, New York and 
Kentucky. The recent sales of this class of 
stock, and the prices obtained, show how highly 
they are valued. The field is a great one for a 
young farmer. Begin moderately, and within 
your means. Post yoursedf thoroughly as to 
the history and character of tho breed; fix upon 
a standard of excellence to be reached; com¬ 
prehend the true theory of breeding, and mus¬ 
ter the practical details, and sueorws is sure. 
This answers tho questions of “Young Breed¬ 
er,’’ P. W. F., arai C. S. K.—young men who 
want to know what we “ think of the future of 
Short-Horns in this country.” Wc think the 
BOSTON BURNING. 
Such was the cry of tho newsboys through 
our streets all day Sunday: such the exclama¬ 
tions ol 1 citizen.-, to cash other, accompanied 
with the remark, “Another Chicago." Hut, 
bad as it is—and we give the gist ol tho facta 
and a map of the burned district on another 
page — it is not “another Chicago.’’ II has 
burned out a section of tho most substantially 
built part of tho city — occupied by wealthy 
lirmB whose ability 1o withstand and recover 
from such losses is ample. Few homes, com¬ 
paratively, have been burned, and there are 
not 100,000 people without shelter. 
But we aro not underrating this terrible ca¬ 
lamity to Boston, Thousands of people will be 
thrown out of employment; the effects of the 
fire go beyond tho homes of those who have 
suffered direct losses. It will cause a panic 
about riuuiv hearthstones where the daily food 
is horn of daily labor. It should and will awak¬ 
en the sympathies of all citizens, as did the 
Chicago thro <»1 a year ago. it will stir up the 
better impulses of those who have plenty, to 
aid those who have a Jong and bleak New Eng¬ 
land winter before them with an almost hope¬ 
less prospect of employment. Wealthy ns Bos¬ 
ton is, mid able as she is to recover from tills 
destruction, it cannot bo hoped that her own 
poor will be ton tenderly cored for; and every 
one who cun should help Hit* brethren in dis¬ 
tress. 
RURAL NOTES AND OUEltlES 
Cost of Establishing Oranges of Patrons o( 
Husbandry.— The Grand Deputy of the Nation¬ 
al Grange of Patrons of Husbandry has been 
talking with the Editor of the Western Farmer, 
who says“ As there has been some confusion 
In Statements as to the cost of establishing 
Granges, Mr. Abbott makes tb e f ol I owing state¬ 
ment There must be at least 30 charter mem¬ 
bers, one-Uiinl of whom may bo women. The 
fees for these are $3 for the men and tlfty cents 
for the women. To the National Grange #15 is 
paid, to the Deputy such sum as may be fixed 
by the State Grange; in Iowa he receives $3 a 
day for the necessary time spent, and ids ex¬ 
penses. For all mem bora subsequent to this the 
fco is $5 for men and #3 for women. There are 
somo additional expenses for regalia, blanks, 
cards, etc., but these are not very groat. The 
cost of establishing u Grange of 1(10 members— 
70 men and 30 womeu—would probably not ex¬ 
ceed #400.'’ 
dueed in that new Plate. There is no doubt 
about the resources of Kansas; so little doubt 
is there ihat to outsiders who aro not interested 
in Kansas lands, or tnose of any other State, 
tills eternal advertising of Western lands (at the 
Club meetings we wished it understood) has be¬ 
come an insufferable nuisance. 
This remurk has aroused the Editor of the 
Kansas Farmer, who perpetrates a column 
article upon it as a text, the point of w-hioh. so 
far as it relates to this journal, falls to the 
ground when we state that we referred only to 
members of the Farmers’Cinli who uro not in¬ 
terested In land sales, as the “outsiders” who 
regard this species of “ax-grlndlng” in the 
Fanners’ Club an Insnffcrublonuisance. Kansas 
is not to blame for using the (’lull’s grimlatouu 
whenever it gets a chance; but the fact is a 
large proportion of tho Club’s time the past 
three years has been consumed in listening to 
loiter* or speeches advertising some locality 
where somebody Iiuh land for Bale; and, so far 
as l he West is concerned, each successive speech 
or letter Is mainly but a rehearsal of what has 
been said or written before; and members have 
got tired of listening to, and the papers of print¬ 
ing, such letters and speeches. The biggest joke 
our Kansas contemporary over conceived is 
that involved in a remark suggesting that the 
Ritual Nkw-Yokker Is Jealous of Kansas! 
It's a Joke that ought to be patented at once, 
neighbor! 
ISOLATION OF FABMERS 
Onk important bar to agricultural progress 
In this country is the voluntary isolation of 
farmers and lack of neighborhood co-opera¬ 
tion, Perhaps no class of Americans, who see 
60 little of it, are better inlormod as to events 
transpiring in the outside world; but this 
know ledge is not rendered available and opera¬ 
tive, because there is too frequently no associa¬ 
tion on the part of farmers for utilizing it. 
Then ibis isolation makes no u distrustful of 
each other. Co-operation seems Impracticable, 
nay, Impossible, to the farmer whoa© world is 
the boundaries of his farm, and whose social 
relations are limited by hi* own family, his im¬ 
mediate relatives, his blacksmith, siorekeeper, 
postmaster, shoemaker and brethren in the 
church, and whose social duties aro discharged 
in a way l est indicated by t he relations named. 
It is common lor such men to got a morbid 
idea that every man is his enemy, frying to 
overreach him, and io be watched as such. 
This is all wrong. The colonizing of farmers 
Into villages tor social purposes whence to ra¬ 
diate daily on to their farms, is recommended 
as a means of correcting the evil. We do not 
regard it us an effectual corrective. On the 
Shipping Colton Direct from W ilmington, N. 
<!.—The Wilmington papers are congratulating 
the people of the South upon direct shipments 
Of cotton from that port, which is justifiable. 
Hut w© hope to live long enough to know that 
not a pound of cotton unuuinufuclured is 
shipped from this country, but that it is all con¬ 
sumed by American mills, operated by people 
who will help make a home market for our 
food products and thus keep the mouoy in the 
country which now goes abroad to pay foreign 
labor. 
Animal Stock Sales are becoming important 
features of modern American husbandry. Kales 
of horses, cattle, sheep and swine uro now held 
by uearly all the prominent breeders of these 
classes of animals, and many who have not been 
known as “prominent breeders,” are attaining 
The Foot-niid-.’VIonth Disease among cattle 
in some counties of England is decreasing, 
while in others it is seriously increasing. There 
is reason for continued vigilance on the part of 
those who may desire to import stock. 
— 
NOV. 48 
THE SEASON. CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Lrun luiid. Oat., .w. 6.— Have had a very dry 
Summer and Fall thus far, with only an occa¬ 
sional light shower since the 13th of last June, 
when we had very heavy showers. Crops in 
general arc turning out badiy. Full wheat av¬ 
erages 8 to 15 bushels per acre, but iu some in¬ 
stances a yield of about 20 bushels pdr aero 
is reported; oats, from 15 io 20 bushels; barley, 
not much sown; potatoes, generally a very 
poor crop; corn, only middling, very little 
planted ; field bonus, also a light crop on account, 
of dry weather. PricesWheat, red Fall, *1.18 
<8-1.20—white, $1.3%I”5 : oat.*, 40c.; potatoes, 45 
<e50c.; corn in ear,30c.—shelled,05.>70c.; beans, 
$1(7<>1.12 in retailing them a low hero and there; 
peas, iKlTjt'.- u. o. r. 
Liberty. I'ltlon Go.. hid., \ov. 1. -The weath¬ 
er for the past two months has been most de¬ 
lightful for doing the Fall work. Tim past 
Summer has been exceedingly warm and dry. 
Wheat hardly half crop; outs heavy; hay toler¬ 
ably good: corn good iu some fields, while in 
others it. was almost entirely destroyed by the 
grubs. The growing wheat has not made as 
poor a show for many years, fly and grubs kill¬ 
ing it entirely. Coni, 40o.; wheat, *1.40; hogs, 
4c. per lb.; cattle, 4 <jo3c. per lb.; wages on tho 
farm, #1 per day. Business lively.—w, 
*it. t harles, III., INov. l. Yory line weather 
for doing up Fall work. Wages for hired help 
high; corn and oats cheap; water for stock 
scarce; hay, #10 per ton ; cows,#25; horses, *100 
to $300; hogs, $4@6 per owl.; cheese, 15c.; but¬ 
ter, 25c.; eggs, 25c.; other tilings in proportion. 
—H. If. 
BUBAL BBEVITIBS. 
T;; 10 , '“l*^onof 1872 is estimated to be 14,000,- 
(100 lbs., or 70.000 bales. 
Mas. J H. should addl es* B. IC. Bliss & Sons, 
New \ ork City, for the information she seeks. 
L. M. asks whore repairs for 
Giant Corn Aliil" cun be' ohtainod. 
know. 
the “Little 
We do not 
Tim Plantation, heretofore a weekly, pub¬ 
lished at Atlanta, Ga., lias become a handsome 
monthly. 
Thk farmers of Virginia and adjoining North 
Carolina, nr© telhold a convention at Peters¬ 
burg, V n„ Nov. 27. 
,,P B ’ ! f - A’ SwasbVs connection with the 
Rural Southland lias expired by limitation, and 
i r>ao ““Shed ^ls Valedictory as Horticultur- 
ill h'liLur. 
In tho Ritual of Nov. 2. some type dropped 
out. mid the address In Advertisement, of W. 
GonriAM s Linen Marker was rendered some¬ 
what Indefinite It should have boon, U School 
ol.* JJo^ton. 
Mr V f- A. Shkaiiman, of Hie Oberlln Tele¬ 
graph Institute, complain* that in our late no¬ 
tice we misstated the average number of his 
pupils, and added unnecessary letters to his 
name. \\ e hasten to apologise. How these er- 
Und our’ 1 ® " nW 0t tlu, " e " ho follow can 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES. 
TO EVERY READER! 
HINTS, BEQUESTS, SUGGESTIONS, ETC. 
“Our Premiums A ppreclaied.’’—All disposed 
to form Club* for the Ritual Nkw-Yobkek will 
please read column under above heading, on preced¬ 
ing page Wherein many Club Agents tell about the 
Value and Beauty of our Premiums. Also see our 
revised Premium List ou same page. 
“ Progreen and Improvement.’’ - Moorx’s 
R t H.u. for 1873 wifi be better than ever betoro iu 
both Contents and Style. It will appear in a 
Nxw Duksn of Clear anil Beautiful Copper-Faced 
Type, and present other Derided Improvement a. 
Agent* and subscribers will please note thin, and if 
they tell their friends, so much the belter. 
The Premium Picture I* sent to All who 
pity £2.50 for a copy of the Rural one year, and 
not. to those: who only pay the club rut*. Club subscrib¬ 
er* ran secure the Engraving, however, by adding 50 
cts, to the usual olub price (72.) Don’t forget this. 
Begin Clubs Now I—And to all Who want the 
paper from date, or either one year (ut 72.50) or 16 
months (at 7B) from Oct. 1. we will send the paper 
accordingly, with Premium Engraving post-paid. 
The whole elub can start at one time, or part Jan. 1st 
and part earlier. Note this fact. 
The Campaign Opened .’-Many Agents have 
already opened the Rural Campaign for 1873. while 
hosts are sending for Specimens. &c., probably with 
the view of starting on Election Day (a good time, 
by tlie way,) or soon a l ter. All right, friends ’-That's 
the way to win Premiums easy. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
H0BSE EPIDEMIC. 
A PHY8ICLAN in a communication to a Buffalo 
paper about the Horse Epidemic, says :—•* Exter¬ 
nally I used and would recommend l)r. Trask’s Mag¬ 
netic Ointment to die throat, around the cars and cn 
the forehead. This ointment contain a tobacco and 
lobelia, arid operates upon the mucous gland* ut tho 
head ami throat by causing an Increased tiowot secre¬ 
tion from them, at Hie same time by its relaxing effect 
removing the stricture and giving almost instant re¬ 
lief to the cough and breathing.” It is kept by all 
Druggtsts. • 
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