-Agricultural Societies. 
For the man who had a 
good animal or herd of any of these breeds 
named, had only to Show it at one of these fairs 
In order to sell at extra prices all the progeny 
ho could produce. And his success and pros¬ 
perity stimulated others to Import, improve and 
compete with him. And the livelier and closer 
such competition, the greater the demand from 
those cognizant of it and the greater these men’s 
prosperity. 
So of American sheep. The present high 
standard of American flue wools, tlic liigh posi¬ 
tion of American Merinos, thchigh prices which 
have been and are to-day (wit h t he present de¬ 
pression of the wool business) paid forthose ani¬ 
mals, are duo almost entirely to the InHuonee of 
competition at fairs. Edwin Hammund buo- 
i coeded because bo led at. those exhibitions and 
because tils flocks were directly or Indirectly 
represented at every important exhibition in 
tho country. Ho of other shepherds who have 
succeeded. Fairs have been both advertising 
agencies for whatever a man had to sell that 
was excellent, and demand-creating agencies; 
for when men see that some one else has some¬ 
thing that is better than theirs, u dosiro to have 
It is created. 
We need hardly go outside of the marked Im¬ 
provement of tho stock of tho country to show 
BUSINESS INFORMATION. 
uating, if not. justifiable, circumstances, war¬ 
ranting acquittal of any organized intention t-o 
disturb public peace or interfere with the rights 
and safety of person and property. Mr. Barry 
h; a too intelligent, honest and impartial ob¬ 
server not to give a disinterested opinion in this 
matter. Ho does not speak so hopefully of the 
material prosperity of (ho people, and says there 
is much cause for the depression anti discourage¬ 
ment which widely prevails, judging by tbo evi¬ 
dences wbieh come to us. 
Hon. Gkoiujr Geodes of Onondaga Go., N Y 
has gratified u« with the light of his counte¬ 
nance attending the first regular meeting of 
• ic Mural ' lull, April H, and dispensing of his 
large accumulations of practical wisdom at the 
last session of lint Farmers’ Club of the Ameri¬ 
can institute. Successful as a farmer, the em¬ 
bodiment of practical, solid good sense, he eon- 
tin ties to add to his worthy record of usefulness 
wherever lie goes. We wish there were more 
Delaware Stale Poultry Koclrtv. — March U 
this society elected the following officers : 
tt'URCHMAN. Vhrr-lvr/ B M 
Gor Vr A M U S«.-W,«ltcr D. Bush: 
abm-ci o 1 , - antil L K *- Com .—(including 
aiKnet-fc.. D. Jennison, Thomas Mitync. lleiirv 
Morrison and Joshua Bowers. lenry 
Hlororoonieai Society of IIIHmln.-The fol- 
h 'll? <*»?“** Of tl.K Society for 
ISjU-.I: Prra.— H. W. Fuller. Fira-Pmi'is-ft 
A. Ilriggs and H. A. Johnson, M. D. Sec- (has’ 
Adams. < fuxScr. Charles Biggs. TVr/w — G M* 
BtiW' L ’ w “Sra.B. H. Sargent; 
D. 1LS. l ' Mycrson, and W, W, Allport, 
Meeh*'sm* 1 *!’fr''* ,,,oro "k 1 ’ If. H„ Ag. n „d 
ussssf. 
lohnson. W(mI'p TtY/iJt i*' n \*, ».n - ■., * 
TUB GKKAT ILLUSTRATED 
SuT-TT „“T r "*- We <lrf »PP^ in upon 
Smith, Clark & Powell or Syracuse, in the 
rush of the troo-packing season, and such anoth- 
cr busy set it would be hard to find-outside of 
Urn nursery business in packing time. You 
might as well Invade the kitchen ou a washing 
day, as to look for the attention of ft nursery¬ 
man then. Just think of a nursery of five hun¬ 
dred and fifty acre?, and a rural army of two 
hundren and nrty men, mined to the elbow with 
spades, knives and such-Jiko formidable weapons 
of oflense I Mr. Smith is the old king bee of the 
Syracuse nurseries- a small, qulck-sfoppmg man, 
In pliiin dotin g with a very satisfactory bank 
account. Mr. Powkll is Mr, Smith’s son-in- 
J:i\v, which is « jfood thing to bo in such a fa mi- 
l.v. Pears are a great specialty in these nurse¬ 
ries, but they have everything in the nursery 
line, and all well grown.—s. D. h. 
Sl’EOiA I. C’ONTRI DUTOItS, 
r. liAnnv, 
II. T. HIlOOICS, 
J. It. DODGE, 
F. It. EM.IOTT, 
IIORACE OHLKLKY. 
J- STANTON GOULD, 
“NOW AND THEN,” 
T. C. I'ETKRS, 
AND It It DOE Y, 
K. W. STEW AllT, 
JAMES VICK, 
J. WILKINSON, 
MADAME 1,15 VEHT, 
JULIA COLMAN. 
Inquiries r„ r Advertisers.—F, j). Kline asks 
where he can get- genuine Hurl Broom Corn 
seed. We presume of any of the seedsmen adver¬ 
tising In our columns; by writing them ho will 
be aide to learn the price also; wo should have 
to ask In order to know.— (’has, K. McQueen 
has hoard of engines run by heated air, and asks 
where such may bo had and of what power. 
C aloric engines are made of, wo believe, eight to 
ten or fifteen horse power, and where small 
power is wanted are said to ho economical. We 
do not know who manufactures them. 
ie which answered bis 
d: —** Don’t you take 
Don't you read it?" 
Don't you remember 
seeing this urUole?" “Yes, I do now; and 1 
thought I bad seeu something in the Rural on 
the subject; but thofaot is tho papers get scat¬ 
tered. you know, and I can’t always refer to 
them Just when I want to." “And so you have 
spent a day’s lime, paid at least *1 railway faro 
to goL information you might have obtained at 
home in ton minutes had you kept the Mitral 
filed for reference.” 
Now, it Is because wo know tbo Mural New- 
Yorker. contains facts and experience which 
render it more valuable for reference, to the 
practical man and woman, than for casual tran¬ 
sient reading, that we urge our subscribers riot, 
to throw ft way a large proportion or tbo beno- 
Jlts to be derived from it simply by neglecting 
to preserve and refer to It. 
Tei’inOnly S1,50 per Volume of 1£0 nitmtiers 
or S3 per your of ,»* numtiers. To Clubs—per Voi- 
vmr ; Five copies for *7; Seven, and one t ree to 
I'gcnt, for (If,50; Ton. and one free, for $| 2 ,.'i 0 . Per 
1 car . 1 Five copies for fit; Seven, and one free, for 
Ton, and one free, for *25-on)y *2.50 per copy. 
The lowest Yearly rate to Canada la $2.70, and $3 so 
to Europe. Drafts, I*. O. Money Orders and Xtegis- 
tcred Letters at our risk. 
Tlic Mural New-Yorker Is sold by News Deal, 
ers generally. The Trails ts supplied by the New 
YORK Nlwi$ Co., No. H Spruce St., Now York. 
Advertising. —Inside. 75 cents ner lino a»»i« 
.. .” ujiiuuiico muse societies have exert¬ 
ed to render Northern agriculturists more pros¬ 
perous and progressive; for with improved stock 
ouniG improved culture. To keep good stock 
one must cultivate well; and the increased num¬ 
ber of herds added to tho ability to improve 
lands. 
Wo know that dwellings, barns, out-building*, 
door-yards, gardens, fences, tools, carriages, 
household Implements and conveniences, dairy 
utensils—indeed everything relatirur toD A/lAlt 
n :\"* HnUt ° r The announcement of 
Gol. L. G. Morris, on page 293 of tills paper, of- 
lei liig over thirty thorough-bred horses at auc¬ 
tion on tho 10th of May, is worthy the attention 
of breeders ami others interested. 
The Brock Horae “ Bdward Ever 
of Mr. Bonner’s groat, trotting co 
(who trotted a mile when six 
A correspondent of the 2:18>tf,) and of Corn. Vanderbilt’s 
who suggests the policy Mountain Boy, isudvertlsed in this 
work,” as it. is called, as -- ■-—— - 
ing It at (ho right time, THE SEASON 
where labor Ib scarce, 
| know that it Is often, _ 
ahly, our experience has been such as to'niakc 
us willing to be content with mu- own help or 
such as we cun usually secure, pay nnd control, 
Ab 24 rule, those person* most anxious to ex- 
change days’ work with their neighbors, are the 
laziest farmers mid most shiftless executors of 
work, when they pretend to do any. in a neigh¬ 
borhood. They always profit by such exchange, 
while the faithful, thorough man loses. For 
ourselves, we never could keep up with some of 
our good neighbors In the business of shirking, 
nnd accordingly laid to do a large proportion of 
our own and their work, whenever such a com¬ 
bination of force was made. Hence we do not 
advise our correspondent to indulge ip sueti a 
speculation unless he la ft thoroughly educated 
Shirk. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
SATURDAY 
| or j ranger, will use every means In hi. power to 
avert it : only the Ignorant, obstinate an.) foolish 
u LT ta . ki,1K accessary precaution. Nations 
have been decimated t.y siaall-pox. but science, by 
us if this once dreaded scourge. Thousands of 
our ancestors have been poisoned by drinking water 
beer nod soda draw,, through leaden pip,'s amUrom 
tills cause numbers Buffer ucutely to this day—not 
realWtug , JlP t ,ms« ot ihew malady. Erntnent phy- 
p[ " m from 11,00 to t,rno have denounced Lead 
!1“ r: 1 " 0 at "*° ° ! dllwft86 “"<> death ! Shull 
m m ui ", ' 'xartling / Wo do trust them nn- 
Ibfb I, '" r M ,SU ' Why Unt al!, ° sub- 
mit to their guidance for prevention? American 
genius Juts per foe tod a Tin - Lined lxad Pipe 
through which water flows as pure as if ,ir, iw „ 
through stiver. Let ua adopt this important hygienic 
pime! 6 . mont l>y ir| HodiminH the Tin-Lined Lead 
J, C ^7/V'. e " in «- 8oIrt hy the COLWELLS. 
uJIAVN & WILLAltD M’F’G CO., No. 213 Center 
si 7 os et ’r‘ VeW i Y ° rk ‘ P,l0e 15 oent, ‘ a Pound for all 
sues. Circular and sample of Linn hem hv m ..n 
NO. 6 BEEKMAN STREET 
Will be the location and address of th« New York 
Publication Office of the Rural New-Yorker on 
and after May ist, 1871 . 
come up. Our lands are In the worst condition 
to produce good crops that I have known for 
years. Money Is scarce, owing to the hnv price 
ol cotton. Provisions are plentiful nnd reason¬ 
able. Corn, 70t&*0©.; wheat, $1.30@1.60; bacon, 
15c.; horses and mules 35 per cent, lower than 
bust year; cows and iialvos,*26®C0; sheep nearly 
all killed by hungry dogs; lands from $3 to £10 
per acre, ton to twenty minutes from railroads 
—K. I. C. 
Pittsburg, Pa., April 18.—The weather boro, 
tills Spring, has been very peculiar. Tbo early 
partot March was extremely warm-hot is the 
word; wo had summer beat. The latter part 
wur cold and Mustering. April came in smil¬ 
ing, and the fruit buds, whioh hud almost open¬ 
ed in March, unclosed rapidly. Then came cold 
nights, ice freezing oil tbo night of the fifteenth 
more than one-eight of an inch in thickness. 
Much of the fruit which blossomed early is killed 
or seriously injured. Apple* are still considered PRESERVING 
safe and in some localities much ot the more , 
ictnler kinds may still survive. It Is becoming so ,Sy and\T»raly 
5 " y ; !so , m,,1 ‘ -April brings us, thus far, and pliable with soon 
10110 of those lovely showers with which site is vents the leather hot 
wont to cheer tho earth.— l. h. d. Impure oils are oftet 
Manhattan, Han., April 10. -Weather very 
warm. Mercury yoRtordav fli In tv>« «t.„,t«. m oil Hi. 
INFLUENCE OF AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETIES. 
A court esdondbnt of the Rural New- 
Yorker, at Washington, Vtu, asks us to furnish 
him with fucts and “statistics" likely to sus¬ 
tain the argument that Agricultural Societies 
are conducive to tho agricultural development 
of the country." It is not easy to separate aud 
define the influence those societies have had 
distinctively and directly upon agriculture 
in tho Northern States. For Immigration nnd 
production. On tlie other band the Increased 
production resulting from competitive rivalry 
at fairs and the mingling of farmers with each 
other and their interchange of experience, has 
attracted immigration and stimulated internal 
improvements. So, as we have said, it is not 
an easy matter to give facts and figures Unit can 
bo regarded as illustrative, exclusively, of tho 
iufiucnoo of Agricultural Societies upon agri¬ 
cultural production and the progress tuid pros¬ 
perity of Agriculturists. 
But no Northom man, familiar with Northern 
agriculture Bince, say, 1810, as we have been, can 
place a low estimate upon such infiuenoe as af¬ 
fecting the Agricultural interests. Vivid are 
the remembrances of the impressions made up¬ 
on our neighbors and ourself by tho first, fair 
hold in our county; also by the first New York 
State Fair weovorutteudod. It was a new revola- 
tlon of tbo dignity and worthiness of our voca¬ 
tion about which we had repeatedly listened 
from the mouths of pleading partisans and 
ralavoring politicians. It was a lilting us out 
of the ruts of oominon drudgery to the seventh 
heaven of ambitious desire to bent souiebodv. 
Bnnfitrd lWn.-ln reply to an item in our last 
number, mainly commendatory ol this corn, lint 
stating that, according to some testimony it re- 
flulred a long season to mature, Mr. 8. B. Fan¬ 
ning ot Jamesport, N. Y., writes us:—“I have 
. < no! ved something over SOU letters from, those 
who tested the corn lost season, and inthatnum- 
Mw only three speak of B as being late to ripen, 
and in those wises it was planted late. In Maine 
Gannda, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and other high 
latitudes,, it 1ms not railed to ripen and produce 
supud corn. If necessary i can furnish you the 
proof.” 
REMOVAL 
OF THE RURAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE, 
un tnc first of May, proximo, the Rural New- 
Yorker Office will be removed to Nos. 3 and 5 Beck¬ 
man St., in the building formerly occupied by the 
Park Bank, between Park Row and Nassau St. Our 
Publication Office, and Agricultural Book Business, 
will be on the second floor, and will include the en¬ 
tire tront of the building. The Editorial, Composing 
and Engraving rooms will be on the third and fourth 
floors. The new quarters will be on a larger scale 
than those we now occupy-affording more spaco 
and greater facilities for transacting the several 
branches of our Newspaper and Book Publishing 
and Selling Business. The recent rapid increase of 
the last named department of our business has neces¬ 
sitated the change of location now announced — a 
change which we trust will redound to the con- 
veniencc and benefit of all who have occasion to 
transact business with this establishment. 
As our new headquarters are only half a block from 
the present—just around the comer—Agents, Adver¬ 
tisers, aud other friends having occasion to call, wi!\ 
have no difficulty in finding the Rural’s latch string. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Peraonala.-Hon. Marshall P. Wilder of 
Boston, the veteran Pomologlst, hnsl.ccn among 
011 rcallers tbo past. week. He lias ju B tdelivered 
his lecture on California before the Philadelphia 
Hoi tloullural Society,at whose hnnds.iuid those 
of tbo most distinguished Citizens in Philadel¬ 
phia, lie received, judging by tho accounts in the 
(lady papers, un ova l ion and attentions of which 
any man might bo proud, Mr. Wiuuyii 6 ) n ex¬ 
cellent health and is already preparing to mardli 
on Richmond In tho fall with a large New Eug- 
land delegation, where ho expects to meet the 
Pomologlcal Militia of the Middle, Western,and 
Souther 11 States. On tills lie has set his heart, 
and is breathing poaoe and good will to all who 
obey his mandate to join in this inarch, and 
threatening to frown upon that portion of the 
fraternity who ehooso to avoid this draft. He 
anticipates oYoolleut results from the groat 
hand-shaking ftt Richmond over the fruits of the 
country'. 
Our readers will also rejotee to know that the 
no leg* distinguished Pomologlst,?. Barrv.Eso 
Going Into nimlnrNg In Europe.—Mr. GEO. W. 
Waviie, for many years the partner of Mr! 
John Hooper, (in the laic (inn of John Hooter 
& Co.,) sailed for Europe tho 29th of April. Mr. 
Wavue takes an interest inn large manufactur¬ 
ing enterprise in England, which we trust, may 
prove as successful as that to which his business 
talents have contributed so largely in America. 
Mr. W. leaves in the United States a circle of 
warm friends, who will long kindly remember 
him for las social ns well as business qualities. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES, 
Poultry Coops nnd IVm.-Wo have at least a 
half-dozen inquiries for plans of coops and pens. 
Our columns the past two years have been pro- 
fusely Illustrated with such. The People’s Prac¬ 
tical Poultry Book (now ready for delivery and 
going "like hot cakes ") oontaius in compact 
lorm these illustration* Willi practical directions 
and experience, Unit will answer those inquiries 
in detail. 
Our Fortners’ Club Report..-The crowd upon 
our columns has compelled us to omit the usual 
report or the discussions of the American Insti¬ 
tute Farmers’ Club. But we do not intend our 
readers shall be the losers thereby; for what¬ 
ever appears in those discussions that is new 
and valuable, will find place in our columns 
sooner or later. 
11 1 * 11 *.?* k pecime n Numbers, Etc., sent 
free to all applicants, tf you want such documents, 
et us know and they will be forwarded. 
