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Bounties;—and they will not find this difficult, 
for thousands desire the Hun At. as the vernal 
season approaches, many requiring hints and 
suggestions about garden, orchard and Held 
operations. For particulars as to our induce¬ 
ments see “ A JStg Bonus,” on last page. 
wheat either by the Mississippi or railroad. I 
am taking several papers, yet I think the Rural 
the cheapest and most interesting of any of 
then*.— d. h. t. 
Vittorin, Norfolk Co., Out., Fell, 8 —We have 
had some very cold weather, the thermometer 
indicating as low as 21" below zero at London ; 
we did not, however, have it so cold along the 
shores of Lake Erie. There was sleighing for 
two weeks at the beginning of the year, tint that 
went off and left the best wheeling I oversaw 
since. Stock wintering well, but will eat up 
coarse feed very close by spring. Hogs are 
plenty and are declining in price; in the fall 
pork sold for Sc, now it is worth 5>i'c. Grains 
have advanced in price nearly 30 per cent, in the 
last three weeks. Wheat is worth $1.40; corn, 
75e.; oats, 50e.: barley, Boo.; buckwheut,55c., and 
rye 75c. Clover seed is a good crop and is worth 
$4.50 per bush.; timothy very scarce and worth 
us much as-clover.—p. g. 
Montrose, Sasijuclinnnn Co., Pa., Feb, 8. — 
Sleighing has been very good since about tho 
middle of January, with very light fall of snow. 
On the 5th inst, the thermometer marked 14" 
below zero—said to be lower than reached be¬ 
fore at this place for several years. The drouth 
still continues, and water is very low. Many of 
the mills run very little, if any at all, for the 
streams contain hardly water enough to give 
them motion, although the January thaw re¬ 
lieved springs and wells some. Corn is selling at 
90c.; oats about 60c.; bay, $W?9 per ton, in barn, 
considerably less than at the first of' December, 
owing principally to tho “miners’ strike." Coal 
is selling for $10©.ll per ton, an advance of 
about $1.50 per toil, and very limited supplies to 
be laid at any price. Money is very close.— 
H. N. T. 
TITE GREAT ILLUSTRATED 
Catalogue*, Etc,, Received.—From Briggs & 
Bros., Rochester, X, Y., their Illustrated Cata¬ 
logue ol Flower and Vegetable Seeds for 1871—a 
beautifully illustrated pamphlet of 112 pages, 
embracing everything really worthy of cultiva¬ 
tion. From Hooi’Bg, into. & Thomas, Cherry 
Hill Nurseries, West Chester, Pa., their SOmi-tin- 
uual trade list tor the spring of 1871- embracing 
Fruit, Deciduous and Evergreen Trees, {shrub¬ 
bery, Climbing and Hedge Plants, and young 
stock for nurserymen.—From Ellwanukk & 
Uarrv, Mi. Hope Nurseries, Rochester, X. Y., 
their Descriptive Catalogue of Plants, including 
Green and Hot-house, and select bedding plants, 
Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, and hundreds of 
other varieties. The catalogue is elaborate and 
complete. Also from the same firm, their De¬ 
scriptive Catalogue of Fruits, including Hints on 
Transplanting, a table of tho number of trees on 
an acre at various distances, illustrations of tho 
forms of trei-s usually sold from a nursery, and 
a complete descriptive list of the most desirable 
fruits,—From Hovkv A Co., Boston, Mass., their 
Illustrated Guide to the Flower and Vegetable 
Garpen, Catalogue of Seeds, embracing a select 
assortment ol the best American and European 
varieties, all novelties, bulbs of all sorts, horti¬ 
cultural Implements, Ac.—about 125 pages of 
condensed information.- From J. T. Smith St 
Sons. Brentwood, N. IT., their Descriptive Cata¬ 
logue of Flowers and Vegetable Seeds, embra¬ 
cing all the choice varieties of their own growth, 
with a selection from the best English and Con¬ 
tinental llorists. 
Conducting Editor nml Proprietor 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
Associate Editors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village. N. Y, 
Editor or tick Detaftmuxt or &fft¥r Ul-siia.m»ky. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editor op tiik Dfc.rAKtMK.vr or DnJJtv Husbandry. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
TfiATRiro (at nBF*jI'L'.VDING EDITOR. 
T. HART HYATT, San Francisco, 
Conductor or thk Pacific Slops Dcr aktmknt. 
CHAS. V. RILEY, St. Louis, Mo., 
Conductor ok t»«k Entomological D/U'artmknt. 
MARY A. E. WAGER, 
Editor or th* Doxiwtk Kcoxomt Department. 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS. 
t. r. peters, 
ANDRE POKY, 
W. STEWART, 
,tAMKS VICK, 
.1. WJI.KINKON, 
MADAME Lit VERT, 
JULIA COJLUAN. 
P. BARRY, 
}I. T. BROOKS, 
,1. R. DODGE, 
F. R. ELLIOTT, 
HORACE GREELEY, 
J. STANTON GO trim 
"NOW AND THEN," 
Terms, -Only 81.50 per V lutiio of fill numbers, 
or 83 per year of ,3*2 numbers. To Clubs—per Vol¬ 
ume: Five copies for ft; Seven, and wki free to 
agent, f«r $9.50: Ten, and one free, for $12.50. Per 
Vtar: Five copies for $11; Seven, and one free, for 
flfl; Ten, and one free,, for £25—only $2.50 per copy. 
The lowest Yearly rate to Canada is $2.70, und $3.50 
to Europe. Drafts. I’. O. Mouey Orders aud Regis¬ 
tered Letters at oar risk. 
Advertising. Inside, 75 cents per line, Agate 
space; Outside, ft per line, each insertion. For Ex¬ 
tra Display anti Cuts, a price and a half. Special and 
Business Notices, $l.f>0 and $2 a lino. No advertise¬ 
ment inserted for less than $3. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES, 
1*1 ID to Prevent Abortion in Cows.—A St. 
Lawrence Co., N. Y„ correspondent writes us 
that a blind neighbor of his, a wealthy man who 
has hud, at times, over sixty cows, besides other 
stock, is manufacturing pills to prevent abor¬ 
tion. lie,says each pill is an Inch in diameter, 
and arc sold at $1.25 per 100—about ten cents 
profit, per 100, if given thirty-live or forty 
hours before the accident would otherwise 
Occur, no cow aborts her calf. Unless in cases 
of severe sickness, one ball per animal, every 
other day, will do to keep n cow healthy and 
safe. Tho blind man feeds his cows two bails 
each per week as Jong as he feeds hay. We 
have not tho name of tho blind man, nor do wo 
give flic address ol our correspondent, for the 
reason that, wc don't know that lie wants to be 
overwhelmed with letters from our readers. 
Bill It the blind nmn has ns good a tiling ns this 
testimony indicates, it will pay him to charge 
more lor his pills am) advertise t hem. 
Poultry Convention,—At tho annual meeting 
of tlie New York State Poultry Society in Janu¬ 
ary hist, a convention was Called to which dele¬ 
gates from all the Poultry Societies in the coun¬ 
try were invited “to discuss and revise the pres¬ 
ent scale of points and adopt mi American $1an- 
dard of Excellence." 'J'ho Convention thus 
called met in Xew York city February 15th. S. 
J. Bkstou of Connecticut, was elected Presi¬ 
dent, and A. M. Halstead of Xew York Secre¬ 
tary. The different breeds of tow Is \vt re taken 
up seriatim. the points discussed fully, and a 
standard adopted by vote. The Hi; rad Ni;w- 
YomtEit has taken measures tu ensure a very 
full report of the doings of the ('(invention, 
which will be published at an early day. 
Lnrnin Tu,, \g. Sot-.—At the annual meet¬ 
ing, held .Ian. 28th, tho following officers were 
elected: Pres. — L’HAH. 8. Mills. Vice-Prcs — 
Richard Baker. Directors (two years; — L. M. 
Pounds, M. II. Cunningham, H H. Poppleton, 
Jas. Vincent; (one year,) Edwin Foster. Mem¬ 
ber at Iji’Hii —W. A. Braman. See. and Trcas — 
Geo. Metcalf. Time l'or holding Fair, Sept. 
20th, 21st und 22d. 
Western Ni. V. Formers' Club.—At the annual 
meeting, Feb. 1, the following officers were 
elected : Prat.— Fked'k P. Root. Vicc-Prcs.— 
C. C. Holton. Sec. and TYeas.-Jolm R. Garret- 
see. 'flic Secretary holds one year; other offi¬ 
cers six months. 
OCfl.SlO^ 
ALICE CARY. 
Photographed by Rockwood from a Portrait by Carpenter, and Engraved Expressly for Moore’s Rural 
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1871 
SELLING BY WEIGHT, 
pioneer it, and it is safe to presume that the par¬ 
ties interested in buildiug this road have selected 
a route which will speedily become populated, 
when communication is once established with 
the outer world. Our readers desiring to invest 
money, are recommended to examine into the 
merits of the bonds of this roadasau Investment. 
BUSINESS INFORMATION. 
Every consumer of food in the land ought, to 
unite in a movement to compel by law Ihc sale 
of vegetables, fruits, eggs, and nearly every edi¬ 
ble article now sold by measure, by weight. 
There ought not to be any abandonment of the 
effort until this result is accomplished. It is tho 
only honest way of Inlying and selling. Tho 
swindling practiced now upon those who buy 
fruits, especially, by measure, 18 something hor¬ 
rible to contemplate, in view of flic possibility 
ot future punishment. The boxes in which 
fruits are sent are of nil .'1zos and shapes. They 
are filled In all sorts of ways. Cases ot the same 
number of boxes, from different producers, will 
differ from throe to six pounds in weight of 
fruit, though the quality thereof may be the 
same. Tho family who buys from one consign¬ 
ment gets more for the money paid than those 
who buy from another; tho producer who is 
most honest gets least. A premium is thus paid 
for deception, to call it by no worse name; and 
the worst of it is, tho consumer, in nine out of 
ten instances, does not know that he has been 
cheated. 
Apple and pear barrels are a? varied in size as 
clover loavos, A man who buys a barrel of ap¬ 
ples does not know whether he is getting two or 
three bushels. Few people stop to think about, 
i t. There is no law fixing the standard of a barrel 
of apples or other fruit that we know of. If a 
producer Is honest ooougb to send bis apples in 
barrels containing two and a-half to three bush¬ 
els, there arc plen ty of dealers dishonest enough 
to transfer them to barrels that contain but two 
bushels; and a barret of apples-tea barrel of ap¬ 
ples, no matter what its size. Either there 
should be n barrel standard fixed, or tho fruit 
should be sold by weight. 
Take eggs as another example. Sold by tho 
dozen, it is often the case that, the same person 
pays as much fora dozen small ns for a dozen 
large eggs —getting 111 the one Instance from 
one-third to onu-hulf less (actual weight) for his 
money than the other. This is not only unjust 
to the oousumer, but to tho poulterer who 
keeps large and improved breeds of chickens. 
True a dealer may charge more per dozou for 
tho large than for the small ones. Some retail¬ 
ers do; but the retailer pnys the commission 
merchant no more per dozen for a barrel of 
large eggs with the dozens it contains marked 
on it. than for small ones. Eggs packed in a bar¬ 
rel should be weighed before packing, and the 
net weight, marked on the barrel, so that the 
commission merchant may know what he is soil¬ 
ing and the retailer what he is buying. 
We might urge the same reasons for weighing 
vegetables of all sorts. There is a great differ¬ 
ence In the real value of bunches of asparagus, 
rhubarb, eclqry, radishes, &c., as put on the 
market. We understand what a difficult reform 
this is to accomplish—that it is an innovation 
which is revolutionary; but it is a revolution 
whiob ought to be undertaken, and may be suc¬ 
cessful. 
Tlie luwa mid Nebraska Lands offered by t he 
Burlington and Missouri River H. R. Go., on a 
credit of ten years, at six per cent, interest, will 
very naturally attract the special attention of 
those looking toward that favored region for 
term homesteads. The generous terms and 
liberal credits proffered must prove a great 
inducement and secure the rapid settlement of 
the desirable lauds of the Company. Indeed, 
the Land Coinmistjimer, Guo. S. H arris, Esq., 
may w ell lW pmlt UDSfifo* during tho first 
ten monIlia (from April 1, 1870, to Feb. 1,1871,1 
viz. In Iowa, 111,010 91-100 acres, lor $1,383,- 
365.18; In Nebraska, (15,801 81-100 acres for $(!li},- 
273.03— making :i total in both States of 170,905 75- 
100 acres for $1,970,038.81. These sales, we learn, 
were to actual settlers, amt the great majority 
of them on ten years’ credit at 0 per cent, inter¬ 
est. Only the interest is required for the first 
two years after purchase, the principal being 
payable thereafter, in nine annual and equal 
Installments. These* are certaiuly easy terms 
for farmers of small ready means to get a good 
start in the world. 
Homier on Dexter nud other Fast Nogs.—In a 
letter to the Boston Journal, Bonner, who 
owns Dexter and other celebrated trotters, says 
In regard to his special pet:—“I have hoard of a 
good many horses t hat were going to beat Dex¬ 
ter’s time. This one, that, and tho other were 
going to do it. Notwithstanding these porton- 
tions announcements, the simple fact, remains 
indisputable that at the close of tlie trotting 
season, apd in the closing month ot the year 1870 
no horse lias beaten Dexter's time. Let me pre¬ 
dict that if Dexter’s time ever Is beaten, it will 
lie by one of my own horses, 'Joe Elliott, who 
has made Hie fastest mile, with full weights, 
this season, and of whose breeding Commodore 
Vanderbilt hlioself thinks so highly." 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
The Eclecilc Oil, advertised by Wickes 
Brothers, must be a long sought desideratum, 
if it has the qualities stated, and is withal 
absolutely non-explosive. Combining bril¬ 
liancy and safety It cannot fall of becoming 
popular. 
HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH. 
FI3K & HATCH, 
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT 
SECURITIES, 
No. 6 Nassau Street. ( 
New York, February 3,1871. ) 
The Six Per Cent. Gold Bonds of the Central 
Pacific Railroad Company- have an established 
character which readers them especially desirublo 
for investments. 
They are bused on one of the most Important and 
valuable railroad lines in the world, fully completed, 
amply equipped,and already earning large revenues, 
which must increase enormously with the growth of 
the country it traverses and the development of 
trade with Japan, China and Australia, a largo por¬ 
tion of which must Bnd Its way across tlie American 
continent. 
Holders of Five-Twenty Bonds (which are liable 
to be funded at a lower rate of interest within a 
short time) may exchange them for Central pa¬ 
cific Bonds, bearing the same rate of interest, and 
save from 13 to 18 percent, for reinvestment, while 
their security remains as reliable as before. 
They urc dealt in at the New Yol-k Stock Exchange, 
and at several of the- more important Bourses of 
Europe, We have Introduced them into uur regular 
business, upon Ilia same basis as Government Bonds, 
and buy und sell them as trecly ttt curront market 
rates, and are prepared to luruisli them to Juvestors 
or others ut daily quotations. 
We buy and sell Government Bonds, Gold and 
Coupons, execute orders in miscellaneous securities 
at the New York Stock Exchange, make collections, 
receive deposits subject to check at sight, allow in¬ 
terest on balances, und do a general hanking busi¬ 
ness. t'ISK St HATCH. 
[Wk want information, l.tiafly, concerning tbe season, progress ol 
tho work, temporaluro, crops, pries of farm produce, stock, labor 
and lands, and calcful estimates of the amount of grain and number 
of animals on band for ante, as compared with previous seasons, for 
publication under ibis bead.—Eos. Rural,! 
Owegn, X. Y., Feb. 2.— Bearscau seetheirshad- 
ows to-day; consequently, six weeks more ol' 
winter. Tho good sleighing nearly spoiled.— 
t. t. c. 
Rolling Prairie, Dodge Co., Wis., Feb. 8.— 
Winter very fine and mild; not snow enough to 
make good sleighing; now snowing. Business 
quiet. Mouey rather close.— l. l. i\ 
Bolivar, Tuscarawas Co., O., Feb. 13.— Winter 
dry and cold; little snow, not enough for good 
sleighing; coldest weather in December; ther¬ 
mometer, 6‘below zero. But little gram mov¬ 
ing; wheat, $1.30@1.3O; corn, 50c.; oats,40o.— j.d. 
De Solo, Iowa, Feb. V.—Winter very mild and 
pleasant; no snow; roads good. Wheat, $1(5) 
1.10; corn, 30e.; cows, $255150. Lnud splendid 
and cheap; Improved, $15(5,10 per acre; plenty 
of timber mid excellent water.—MO. 
Oregon, Mo., Feb. 1.— Winter a moderate one. 
Wheat looks very well; but little winter killed 
yet. Peaches, in exposed places, were greatly in¬ 
jured by the severe cold in December, Wheat, 
spring, 75c.; winter, 95c.; corn, 35@40c.; oats, 
35c.; barley, 55e.; rye, 50c.; flour, $3.80 per cwt.; 
potatoes, 60e.; apples, green, $3 per bush.; but¬ 
ter, 30c. per pound: pork, $0 per cwt. (gross); 
beef, $3.50 do.; cows, $25(3,40; horses, $75®125; 
land, $15{2 k>U. J. w. M. 
Van Wert, O., Feb, 9.—A dry and pleasant 
winter so far; several snows, but little good 
sleighing. Fanners behind with their work; a 
great deal of corn still in the Held unhusked; 
wheat in the ground is good—better than for 
several years previous. Laborers scarce; wages 
about $20 per month. Greenbacks scarce. Im¬ 
proved lands worth from $30 to $50 per acre; 
unimproved, from $5 to $30, according to loca¬ 
tion.— j. R. G. 
Crowland, Welland Co., Out,, Feb. 15.— Wc 
had a fine fall. No sleighing of any account up 
to this date. Our crops iu general were very 
poor lust year. Wheat, on an average, yielded 
only llvo to eight bushels per aero; occasionally 
a farmer raised as high as fourteen or fifteen 
bushels per acre, hut very seldom. Oats a poor 
crop. Barley only middling. Potatoes a fair 
crop in general, rotted some. Corn a good crop, 
where planted. Iiay, $10 per ton. Prices of 
grain at present Wheat, red, $1.25;—white, 
$1.35; barley, 50@55e.; oats, 50c., scarce at that; 
peas, 75c.—G. r. 
Red Wing, Goodhue Co., Minn., Feb. 13.— The 
winter here has been the most pleasaut l have 
Been for tho past six years. But little snow, yet 
good sleighing. We have not bad those bad 
storms which have prevailed south and oast of 
us. Wheat is worth $l,aud is coming into town 
lively. Timothy bay worth $13; com, 45e.; po¬ 
tatoes, 90c.; butter, 25c.; eggs, file., wood, $3@4. 
This is a wheat county, yet the farmers are rais¬ 
ing more hay and grass seed — clover seed, es¬ 
pecially, paying much better than wheat. Tlie 
St. Paul and Chicago Railroad is finished from 
St. Paul to Ited Wing, and next summer it will 
be extended to Winona and Chicago. This will 
give our grain dealers tho privilege of shipping 
The Celebrated Chiswick Gardens are not 60 
well sustained as of yore. It is announced that 
the Royal Horticultural Society of England lias 
been compelled, by the pressure on its funds, to 
dispose of a part of Its gardens at Chiswick, the 
most, valuable portion of its property in a scien¬ 
tific point, of view, Among the articles sold 
were a number of fine trees, Pyramid Pears, 
Dwarf and Trained Apples, Filberts, Welling- 
tonlas, Cupressus, Piccas, Arucarias, &c., in all 
no less tliau 12,767 plants. The portion of the 
Gardens which still remains, covers about 33 
acres; and the orchard will be reorganized on a 
smaller scale, and the trials and experiments, 
practical and scientific, will still be carried on. 
The Gardens were originally founded in 1831. 
Col. Weld In a New Bole.—A circular before 
us announces that Col. Mason C. Weld, late 
Associate Editor of tho American Agriculturist, 
and formerly Editor and Publisher of the Home¬ 
stead, at Hartford, Conn,, hasenteved the famous 
establish meat of Messrs. K. 11. Allen A Co. ns 
Consulting Agriculturist. As our readers are 
aware, tlie Messrs. Allen are manufacturers, 
wholesale and retail dealers and importers of 
Agricultural Implements, Seeds, Fertilizers, and 
Improved Live Stock. Col. Weld is to devote 
special attention to tho departments of Com¬ 
mercial Fertilizers and Improved Livestock, a 
role for which he ought to be admirably quali¬ 
fied, and in which we trust ho will win uew lau¬ 
rels. We congratulate Allen & Co., and tbeir 
hosts of customers, upon so valuable un aid and 
acquisition in their extensive business. 
Does Advertising in the Rural Pny ?~AS evi¬ 
dence bearing upon ihis point, E. I J. Wihtney, 
Cambridgepurt, Mass., writes us:—"The Rural 
is the best weekly agricult ural paper that I have 
advertised in, one advertisement last-year bring¬ 
ing me seventy-ono letters.” At the recent 
Convention of Poultry Brooder? of the United 
States, held 1m New York city, several gentle¬ 
men spoke in the highest, terms of the Rural 
New-Yorker ns an advertising medium, as 
Verified by i heir own experience. Presidents. 
J. Bestor of the Connecticut State Poultry So¬ 
ciety said;—"Of advertisements given iu several 
leading agricultural papers, the letters from 
those reading the Rural were as four to one of 
those from any oilier paper.” 
A STEAM ENGINE FREE ! 
Union Pacific R. R. Company's Lands.—Those 
of our readers intending to become actual set¬ 
tlers in tlie West will be interested in the offer, 
by O. F. Davis, I-aud Commissioner of the Uufon 
Pacific it. H. Co., of several million acres " of the 
best farming and mineral lands iu America." 
Mucli of this is choice farming laud, on the line 
of the road, in Nebraska und the Great Platte 
Valley. Young uion and others seeking home¬ 
steads at low rat es should read the advertisement 
on our last page. 
One of the celebruted dollar Steam Engines 
will be sent as a premium to every new subscriber 
to The illustrated phrenological Journal, 
that first-class Family Magazine. Price $8 a year. 
Or we will send one to any Buy wlm will send the 
name of one new subscriber. It sent by mail M cts. 
extra must be sent for postage. Specimen No's of 
the Journal FREE. Address all orders to 
S. R. w ELLS, <&) Broadway, New York. 
Pensions for Women.—"A Rural Reader”— 
probably a woman—properly urges that the 
women who spent two or throe years in the 
army as nurses, laundresses, Ac., ought to be 
regarded as being as much entitled to a Home¬ 
stead as a soldier. She says that many of them 
risked their lives, endured equal hardships and 
got less (and many of them no) pay—their work 
being performed from as patriotic impulses aud 
with as much sacrifice as that of any soldier. 
The point i« well taken, and tho member of 
Congress who perfects a bill that will insure 
justice to this class of National Defenders will 
secure ihc suffrages of women whenever they 
have a chance to vote—as they will. 
WANTED 
The address of every reader of the Rural New- 
Yorker, to whom will be sent, Free, a specimen 
Dumber of tlie Pictorial Phrenological Jour¬ 
nal, that first-class Family Magazine} or it will be 
sent "ON Trial' 1 six mouths to new subscribers 
lor $1. Subscription price $3 a year. Address 
S. K. WELLS, 889 Broadway, New York. 
New York Life Insurance Company.— The an¬ 
nual statement of this old and reliable institu¬ 
tion, given in this paper, is worthy the special 
attention of those interested in Life Insurance. 
The figures showing Receipts, Assets, Cash As¬ 
sets, Divisible Surplus, &c., exhibit the sound¬ 
ness and prosperity of the Company in a lightso 
favorable ns to require no indorsement or com¬ 
mendation. 
THE CELEBRATED 
VACUUM OIL BLACKING is the best preparation 
in use for oiling Harness, and softening old, hard 
Leather of any kind. Sold by Dealers everywhere. 
EURAL NOTES AND QUEBIES, 
A it nutiful Flower-Plate—Is that issued by 
James Vick, Importer and Grower of Flower 
Seed, Rochester, N. Y. It is entitled, “Vick’s 
Flower-Plate for 1871," aud represents over 
thirty flowers, beautifully grouped and colored 
to nature. Every lover of flowers who secures 
it must consider tho plato a treasure. 
March Un !—March is n good month in which 
to form now clubs for the Rural New Yorker, 
and to fill out or make additions to those already 
started or completed. Remember that all are 
Rewarded for their Efforts, and that every name 
is counted in our Premium Awnrds —60 that the 
larger the list the greater will be tlie "value 
reoeived,” Therefore, fill up your Squads and 
Companies, Ladies and Gentlemen, until the 
Rural Brigade for3871 is full!—entitling your¬ 
selves to Generous BoimtloS for diligent and 
successful Recruiting I We have an abundance 
of Prizes yet, in store-such as Plated and Silver 
Wave, Gold and Silver Watches, Sewing Ma¬ 
chines, Dictionaries and Agricultural Books, 
implements mid Machines, Molodeons, Organs, 
Sec.,&Q. Though hosts of new squads are falling 
into line, we want all who can to form neiv ones , 
and participate iu tho beuefit of our Special 
Pontiry Importatlons.-GEO. H. Warner, New 
York Mills, N. Y., 1ms received from England 
two quartettes of fine Partridge Cochins, one 
trio or Dark Brahmas, and two trios of Ayles¬ 
bury ducks.— Isaac Van Winkle, Greenville, 
N. J., lias just received a White Cochin cock and 
three liens, from the celebrated stock of Lady 
Williamson ; also n fine lot. of Partridge Cochin’s 
and Houdaus, from Robert D. Wood of Wood- 
ham Ilall, in Staffordshire. 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES 
THE LOWEST CLUB PRICE OF THE RURAL NEW- 
YORKER is $2.50 per yearly copy to subscribers in 
the United States, and $2-70 to those in Canada— 
the extra 20 cents charged Canadians being for 
the American postage, which we are obliged to 
pre-pay. Any person offering [he RURAL for less 
than the above rates does so without our authority. 
»Vesl Wisconsin Knilwny.-The bonds Of this 
railway are on tho market, payable, principal 
and interest, in gold, predicated (it is said! on 
ample real estate security and the road's equip¬ 
ment. This loud starts from Toinab, Wis., and 
ruus northward aud westward, to St. Paul, Minn., 
beyond which place it contemplates connection 
with the North Pacific Railroad, now in process 
of construction. A good deal of the public at¬ 
tention is now attracted towards the Northwest. 
Railroads, which ouce followed population, now 
Addition* toCJubs are always in order, whether 
In ones, twos, fives, tens, or uny other number. A 
host of people are subscribing for papers about these 
days, and our Agent-Friends should improve every 
occasion to secure recruits for the Rural. 
Due Credit.— J. J. Thomas informs us that 
Charles Downing is tho author of tho Report 
on Native Fruits, published in the Rural New- 
Yorker, Feb. 38, page 108, and credited to Mr. 
Thomas, and that lie (Thomas) simply presented 
it to the Society at Mr. Downing's request. 
Show Rills, Specimen Numbers, Etc., sent 
free to all applicants. If you want such documents, 
let us know aud they will be forwarded. 
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