PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES, 
A True Sketch— Is that entitled “TnE Rural 1 
Or, How 1 Became Rich,” given on our last page. 
It is from a Club Agent of the Rural, and shows 
what may lie done by a little timely effort. The 
truth ol' the sketch is verified by the writer in a 
note to us, which we subjoin— omitting date and 
signature: 
Mr. Mookk —Dear Sir: Tales Ural are told in ths 
most elegant language, or wriUoti In the most per- 
toet chirographjr, hare not the greatest, claim to 
attention if the narrator has drawn on the liimg.na¬ 
tion for Urn essential frame work nr details ot Ills 
i-torr Tlie inclosed sketch, though unadorned L«v 
attractive pen-work, besides being blotched .miii im¬ 
perfect. tins at least the merit of truth, and is a 
plain, unvarnished tale, hastily unit Imperfectly 
told "--being prompted by the perusal of Tin; 
Ul'HAL; Or, How I Came to be a farmer a Wife,” 
given in a late number of your Journal. 
cation, we shall, with the liberal advertising 
patronage received, be enabled to make still 
further improvements In the paper. Such is the 
“situation," and our view I hereof—briefly and 
frankly expressed. The question is whether the 
numerous ardent friends aud supporters of the 
Rural New-Yorker, all over the land, will 
kindly lend their influence in behalf of its cir¬ 
culation until the desired aggregate shall be 
reached. A tittle timely, earnest effort —now. 
and Ju the fall aud winter —on the part of the 
mil friends of the Rural and its objects, will 
answer our conundrum favorably. How many 
of our Agent-Friends will continue and augment 
their efforts? —and how many or the tens of 
thousands of our readers, uow only high pri¬ 
vates, will become recruiting officers for the 
glorious old Rural Brigade? 
—Jii conclusion, wc* tender grateful acknowl¬ 
edgments to our host, of generous and Influen¬ 
tial Agcut-Friends—many of whom have sent 
us larger lists this year than ever before—and 
also lo Correspondents and others who have in 
any wise contributed to the successor this Jour¬ 
nal. Appreciating the kindness of all, we shall 
strive to render the Rural still more worthy 
the favor of its numerous aud zealous friends 
all over the country. 
up last spring are growing well, and seem to be 
rather early. If the growers of hops do not re¬ 
alize better prices this, there will be no yards left 
to grow next year. Apples did not blossom very 
full; peaches arc loaded with fruit; cherry trees 
have scarcely any fruiton them, and whntlitti e 
there is of sweet kinds seems to bo strong. 
Strawberries are plenty but small and imper^ 
feet.— p. g. 
Lymlonville, Vt„ June 19. —Yesterday was 
rainy, the first real rainy day for four weeks. 
The spring was unusually dry, and the weather 
for the most part was cold and windy, so that 
vegetntion, with the exception, pei'hnps, of 
grass, exhibited rather slow growth. Such was 
the greater part of the mouth of May. June, 
thus far. has been more merciful, although we 
had quite a frost on the morning of June 17th. 
Beaus and tender vegetation in some places 
were considerably injured. But as n general 
thing, the crops at the present time are looking 
very well. The hay crop will not be heavy; in 
some localities quite light, in consequence of 
the-want of rain during the earlier part of the 
season. Beef dull; early mutton Iambs In de¬ 
mand. Heady sale for horses at remunerative 
prices. Wool in demand, and sales quick at 45c. 
for washed. Maple sugar plhutiful; price from 
10c. to 13c. Large quantities of maple sugar 
were made Ju Northern Vermont the past sea- 
sou, and that of the best quality. From 3 to 5 
Ibe. to the tree wag no uncommon yield ; and 20 
lbs. were reported it, some instances.— t. w, s. 
\V«-»tport, Conn., June 17. —The weather is 
rather cool for this season or the year. Spring 
was unusually dry and cold ; some frost as late 
as the 10th of May; strawberries somewhat 
damaged; plenty of cherries on the trees but 
the crop will lie very poor; trees are full rtf lice. 
Corn is looking very well, but ralber small. 
There may be hall as much gross on old meadows 
us there was last year; I do not believe there is 
any more. Pasture land is about, ns hare of 
grass us it ought to be in September. Old 
meadows are entirely run out, and will not bo 
good again until they arc plowed up and re-seed¬ 
ed. Rye lias made a good growth of straw; 
some of it I should think was between seven and 
eight feet high. Potatoes came up rather 
spindling, hut look ns well ns could be expect¬ 
ed. Wc have hud considerable rain within iho 
past week, and some hail, doing considerable 
damage in some places. The ice was about t wo 
incites thick in some places after the shower. 
Apples will not be very plenty; the trees are 
covered with lice, so much so that a great many 
of the branches arc dead. Currants bid fair to 
be line ; in some places thoworma have sn ipped 
the leaves almost entirely off the bushes. Grapes 
are setting very well. Peaches look hard: trees 
were very much injured lust year by the borer; 
I look over forty out ol one tree this spring. 
Raspberries are looking very well. Eggs are 
worth 22c. per dozen. Butter about 30e. per lb. 
—a. s. N. 
Lou I„Imi rg, Franklin Co., IV. <1., June 20.—We 
have had very heavy washing rains this spring. 
Wheat poor, harvest nearly over; oats common ; 
prospect tor oorn and cotton good. Corn, $1.25 
per bush,; forldcr, (hay), $1.25; wheat, $1.50; 
bacon, 10.Vj(j!>12o. Labor, 50c. per day. Much 
land in original forest. We are noxious to re¬ 
ceive immigrants to clear, as w oil as to purchase 
this land, preconceived Northern seniiumut to 
the contrary notwithstanding. Land, $5 to $10 
per acre; good land.— l. 
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The United States Fish f onmiisslom-r. — Pro¬ 
fessor Spencer F. Baird of the Smitlisonlaa 
Institution, who was appointed by President 
Grant last spring as Commissioner to carry in¬ 
to off cot the Jaw for the protection and preser¬ 
vation of food fishes in the United Stales, it is 
announced will visit, tlio Western lakes ami 
rivers during the present season. He is to re¬ 
port to Congress what protecting measures 
should be adopted in the premises. Prof. Bauid 
is entirely competent, to do this work; aud it is 
one of no small magnitude and importance. 
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far and near, as vnu think will or might to take the 
RURAL, and we Wilt mail them Specimens, etc. 
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let us know amt they will be forwarded. 
Short Band System,—A correspondent at Ac- 
cotiuk, Vii., asks if a certain Professor's “sys¬ 
tem of short hand is a good one or not, and 
whether it can be learned in four weeks, as he 
says." We do uot know anything about the 
system spoken of, but do know enough about 
stenography to know that no system that will 
enable pupils to compete with good stenograph¬ 
ers cau be mastered in four weeks; and the man 
who pretends it can, has not. got a “system" 
worth leuraiug. or he is deceiving. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
The Index to this Volume is the most copious 
aud complete thing of the kind we have ever 
given. It cost a vast amount of labor, and we 
hope our readers will appreciate its real, practi¬ 
cal value. It doubles, nay, It increases ten-l'old, 
the value ol the Rural New-Yorkeii to every 
reader who hussuvod his papers—fur it furnishes 
access to a library of practical information that 
would otherwise be inaccessible. Every reader 
should preserve it ami use it Tor reference. 
The hulc.r to the Advn lixements is also very 
full, sind will prove of value to purchasers nil 
over the country. It is a feature (first inaugu¬ 
rated by the Rural) which ought to pay adver¬ 
tisers. nnd must be a great convenience to their 
customers. Those in want of any article likely 
to have been advertised during the past six 
months should look over the Iudex to Adver¬ 
tisements. 
THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED 
Beet Sugar In MnxxnchuHCtiN.— Fivo acres of 
lurid on tlie Massachusetts Agricultural College 
Farm have been sown lo Sugar Beets. Outside 
parties in the vicinity are also growing some of 
the beets, so that one hundred tons are expeelcd 
next fall. Machinery for manufacturing sugar 
will be put upon the College Farm this summer. 
Conducting Editor and l-*roprietor 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER 
Associato fOdilOtx. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y 
Emrou th* JIisi'AKTUKST or Sminr IIumianoi'.v. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y„ 
EdITgK Ilf 7 Ilk Djtf’AltT.MfcMT t>F Oa|»;Y 11 fsll A Nl'lt V, 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
Tiuvrmva Cohimsi'gndimj El,m,u. 
T. HART HYAjfiT, San Francisco, 
CONI.UcroK or 3IIB I’ACtriO St-Ori DbJaKTMENT. 
CHAS. V. RILEY, St. Louis, Mo., 
COKDUCTOR 0» TUB EnTOMOI.UGICAI. DbI'A BTMKNT. 
MARY A. E. WAGER, 
Editoh of tint DoMBurio Kco.somv I.'AfAnTM 1 ,NT. 
Wantx lo learn Gardening. LOUIS MUNDE¬ 
LEIN, 113 West 31st street N. Y. City, who says 
he is poor but honest, wants to learn gardening. 
There me plenty of gardeners in all directions 
about tlie city of whom the trade can doubtless 
be learned by a young man willing to learn it. 
Practice nnd Science,—“Tuilungof gnus," said 
Professor Squelch, as ho came into the sanc¬ 
tum with a big blue umbrella in his hand, 
and a straw bat large enough for a hay enp on 
his head, “reminds me (hat, there needs to bo 
soma common sense used in all the transactions 
of life. A mau with a little know ledge and no 
Common sense is a duugerous animal. What 
wo want,sir,” turning to Uncle Oatstraw (who 
came In then, moving as if the day was uot hot 
and he kuew nothing of changcof temperature) 
“ what we waul is more science lu our practice 
and more practice in our science. We want to 
make Lite principles of soieuoeso familiarto our 
children and ourselves that they and wo cun 
make no mistake in tbelr application. Take, 
for Instance, chemical combinations in their re¬ 
lations to vegetable life, 
Dwight, Livlagxton Co., III., June 19.— Season 
favorable so far for all kinds of crops. The 
chinch bug has made sad work in oats, wheat 
and barley, lately, in some localities. Corn looks 
fine aud promising. Large amount of all kinds 
of grain plnuted ami sown. Corn sells at 45c., 
wheat, $1 ; oats, FiOc.; land, $20®5(). a.g. c. 
Atnrxlilleld, Wo Inner Co., .Mo., June IG — Our 
crops of grain and grass this year are good. 
Wheat, bariey and oats will give a good yield. 
Apples, peaches, pears and grapes promise well. 
Lands are Cheap. A large emigration from the 
Eastern and Middle Stales is constantly pouring 
in. Our schools are good. Church and other 
social privileges are as good as iu the East 
nearly.— a. n. c. \ 
Hprfngfirjd, Ve., jam* 15.— Our prospect for a 
hay crop was never so small ut Ibis time of year 
since my remembrance. There is uot one-half 
of the grass Oil the ground there was a year ago 
at this time. Corn has come very uneven on ac¬ 
count of drj weather. Trees have set well for 
fruit. Pears and grapes look well, but the in¬ 
sects have, nearly destroyed our apple crop. 
Pears right by the side of apple trees not bitten 
Hi all.—T. F. B. 
J\o, I’nniliriilge, \ t., June 19.—The early part 
ot the month was quite dry, but for the last few 
days plenty of rain has fallen. We shall un¬ 
doubtedly have a short hay crop, in consequence 
ot the early dry weather this season ami drouili 
last year. Corn crop looks rather slim this cool, 
wet weather. Early sown oats look well later 
sown not so promising. Butter, good quality, 
25@27e.; lair do., 23@24c.; potatoes selling readi¬ 
ly at Railroad at 65®70e.; oorn, $1®1.25; oats, 05 
®T5o. -E. P. m. 
Meshoppen, 1* o., Wyoming Co., Pn., June 17. 
—Very dry here; we had a good rain May 2 and 
3; had no more until June 10, then jost enough 
to moisten the lop of Ihe ground; oats aud 
grass very poor; corn camo up badly; some 
hills are now ten inches high, others just sprout¬ 
ing and about two out worms to each hill of 
corn. Sheep are scarce and high; cows $40 to 
$00per head; butter 20©30e. per lb; eggs 10c. 
per doz.; wheat $1.50 per bush.; corn and rye 
75c.; common farm labor ?1 per day; by month 
$ 18 ®2(1; farm lands per acre $30000.— s. b. v. 
BlrchrunvHle, Chester Co., Pu., Jane 1 
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How many know that 
lime and n-lies mixed With manure liberate the 
very elements most, desirable to retain. Lime 
is not u bud thing to put In a coarse manure 
heap, provided you have absorbents enough to 
take up the ammonia as last as it is liberated by 
this more rapid process of decomposition.” 
The writer of the “ Diary of a Ruralisl" had 
just set a basket of roses within the sanctum 
door, and bearing tlie last remark said, with his 
cheery voice:—" Yes; I knew an editor of u 
paper Lhal ‘shinesfor all,’ who had a quantity 
of heu manure which ho was going to‘com¬ 
post.' He spread it on the bnrn floor and drew 
all his ashes thither aqd set his men to mixing 
the ashes aud lien manure. The result was like 
pouring out four hundred barrels or hartshorn; 
it drove the men all out of ihe barn, and the 
editor came over to mu to tell me of the' strength 
ot his manure!' I told him lie was losing by the 
process just what no needed to save, and no 
wonder it drove him out of his barn. It was 
much like a man l worked for iu the West years 
ago. I was young and of nu inquiring turn of 
mind, and talked science and scientific farming 
rather glibly, I suspect. This old farmer al¬ 
ways laughed at what he called * tny nonsense,' 
but nevertheless, son o’ half listened. One day 
I was a wav Hr* had heard me talk of salt as a 
manure. I came back ami his wife said, * You’ll 
Catch it now, sir.’ ‘ Why, what is the matter?’ 
‘ O, Blank has gone into book farming; he heard 
you say that salt was a good fertilizer, and he 
lias been using the brine out of his pork barrels 
to fertilize Ins cucumber vines. Of course, his 
two or three hundred hills are duly dead!' 
•What, did lie do that for? I did not tell him 
salt was good to pour on cucumber vines. If he 
had taken his brine down to that weedy onion 
bed ami poured it over the weeds nnd onions, it 
would have killed the weeds without harming 
tlie onions. Now, if this man bad known tlie 
chemical nature of salt better, aud its effect 
upon vegetable growth, he would not havedono 
bo foolish a thing." “And my good old moth¬ 
er,” said Pro l'e&sov $QUELCH. “would not have 
destroyed the foliage on her plum trees by gut¬ 
ting up early in the morning while the dew was 
on, nnd spriukJing foliage and blossoms with 
salt,because she had read that it w r ould keep off 
tii« curcullo. She wanted to surprise some one 
with a big crop of fruit; but she did not." This 
“ Diary” writer, who often visits our sanctum, 
MONEY AND TRADE AFFAIRS, 
Saturday, June 24,1371. 
The Wall street nun kets have been enlivened ibis 
week by a gram! explosion in one of the permilleul 
Stock speculations. A prominent uperaim* under¬ 
took to advance the Stock of the Hock Island Hoad 
to fabUlouM prices by enormous bur Chases at 120 to 
130 per cent, on ilm calculation of forcing thrshorls 
or Jieur party in the stock to nett 16their con!iacts on 
still higher terms. Hi* parch,i»cx urn *sn<l to Jutve 
niiioiinti'd to over AHi.ffxl atones, or W.U00 shares in 
excess ol the will,lo Capital, in'- mistake «as hi uot 
providing tlie cash means to lake up his purcbiises 
us the> tell due. as on Wednesday last lie inude an 
out- and out failure, carrying d*ovn several or bis 
broker* gn the precipitate bill of the $toel; fmni 130 
to DO per cent. This event demoralized the whole 
Railroad market for u day or two, nod (lie fluctua¬ 
tion In prices from hour to hour were 2<a3 per rent, 
ft lad need, however, a more active business ut the 
lower llgures noted in our table below. 
The price of Gold has been steady iliroutdi the 
week nt Il2‘£(y 112H per cent. The speculators in (he 
Gold Room havenot been so active as In the previous 
week, bat owing to tlie com para lively light supply 
outside llie Treasury they have had no difficulty in 
sustaining the recent udvance. The export di-round 
for Gold is not over a million ol dollars per utek. 
The demand to pay for Customs duties Is about two 
and a half millions per week, which more than over¬ 
balances the sales of the Secretary, which were two 
ruillioua last week and one million this week. 
Exchange on London IsllOLii 1104; percent in Gold. 
TJio pur of Exchange is KfJ), per cent, so that the 
present rate afford* some prone to tlie Banket in 
shipping specie. We believe we have hot heretofore 
explained why tlie par of Exchange is 109,q per cent 
lor more exactly, 103.23 per eeiit\ between New York 
und London. The English £ sterling, or Gobi sove¬ 
reign. is culled conventionally, 4 dollars 44 cents and 
4 mills. At our Mint however, (lie English Sove¬ 
reign iBritish Gold! weighs at least 4 dollars 81 cents, 
and 19 so received 111 pay meat of Customs. The dif¬ 
ference l* 9.23 per cent. 
The L'. 8. Stocks arc firm, at prices nearly equal to 
the pftr in Gold- The last purchase by the Secretary 
of tlie Treasury foi the sinking Fuad was $ 1 .( 100 ,00U 
ul 111.lie per Cent, while Gold was U2.37 per Cun! 
Money Is easy to the Stock Brokers, on call lontl, at 
4:i6 not cent, but on all time negotiations tlie rates 
are Lii7 per cent pci annum, 
Thu guliural trade of the week is over tlie usual 
June average. Tile exports of Produce from New 
York amount to $5,000,000. The Import9 of Foreign 
Merchandise are $8.400,000, though of tliDBtini’ieui ly 
two millions weDt into Bonded Warehouse (u await 
a better market late in the Summer season. The 
excitement in the Colton market run pretty logit 
early in the week, but at the close the price was 
eusier as well in Liverpool us iu New York. 
The following is the present City Bank movement: 
in Capital, National and Local. $38,569,600 
Loans and Discounts. ... . 298.134, 53 2 
Gold Notes aud Greenbacks .— 85.168,874 
Deposits, all classes.. 243 .^.is 0 
National Bank Circulation. 30 , 662,098 
&CfLSlQy 
CLOSE OF VOLUME XXIII. 
value of the volume uow closed it does not per¬ 
haps become us to speak, aud we must allow 
others to determine. To those who look over 
ihe indices of the various departments, however, 
it will be apparent that tlie present volutno con¬ 
tains a vast quantity and variety of Reading 
Matter and Illustrations. Indeed, wo think it 
will be found that since the great enlargement 
ol' this Journal (in Jan., 1809,) each semi-annual 
volume of twenty-six numbers has contained ns 
much reading, and a greater number of illustra¬ 
tions, than \ve lormerly gave in an annual vol¬ 
ume of fifty-two numbers. Aside from tlie 
News aud minor articles and Items not indexed, 
it will be seen that the volume comprises a large 
amount of Practical, Scientific, Literary nnd 
Miscellaneous Reading, interspersed with many 
appropriate and expensive Engmvfugs—Buch as 
would cost, in books or ordinary periodicals, 
ninny times our subscription price. Hence we 
conclude that Subscribers have no cause of com¬ 
plaint, whatever may be the case with the Pub¬ 
lisher’s exchequer. Aud this brings us to a point 
worthy of a new paragraph. 
The high character and large general circula¬ 
tion of the Rural New-Yorker render it tho 
most populurnnd useful journal in its important 
sphere now published; and j et such Is tlie great 
expense of issuing the paper in its present style 
and huge form that we derive no profit from its 
aggregate subscription. Thefact is Hint wegive 
too much for tlie price asked —in vulgar pm*- 
lanoe, “loo much pork for a shilllna-.” Warn 
Have 
had a dry spring from April 1 to present date. 
Grass crops will be very lighi; pastures and road¬ 
sides have a parched, brown appearance; oats 
very sliort; corn also. Wheat will be ready for 
the reaper by the 25tli; hardly an average crop; 
very much affected with mildew, which ripens 
it prematurely. Apples would have been a fair 
crop but for 1 lie curcuiio ; the young fruit cov¬ 
ers the ground under tlie peach and apple trees 
—the effects ol this terrible pest. Vegetables in 
gardens on hillsides are literally burning out for 
the want, of rain.—c. k. s. 
Keene, Cheshire Co., IV. II., June 19.—The 
season has been exceedingly dry. and much fear 
was entertained in regard to the hay crop, but 
timely showers of last week and the heavy rains 
of Sunday have done much toward removing 
our fears. Crops oil low lands are looking well, 
and late fruits promise well. Strawberries are 
mostly a failure; have begun to ripen some; 
bring from 30@45o. per quart; potatoes, 90c.@ 
$1.10; corn, 80@85c.; oats, 05®70c.; butter, 30® 
40c.; cheese, 15@18c.; flour (good), $9.25; com¬ 
mon labor, $1.75®3.25 per day. Tho above ure 
retail prices.— a. e. m. 
Dover, Del., Jane 10.— The season lime far 
rather dry lor spring crops aud grass. Wheat in 
the vicinity of Dover is a lair average crop, 
quality first rate. Harvesting the wheat, eom- 
lust volutno of the American Entomologist, 
which were going to the book-binder. He said 
be was sorry the publication lmd been discon¬ 
tinued, for Mr. Riley furnished just Hie kind 
of information that enabled him to identify in¬ 
sects. For instance, lie tells where, and on what 
and when an insect is found. These entomolo¬ 
gists who are content, with simply classifying, 
naming and describing, with scientific formula, 
inseets, lail lo encourage the unlearned to in¬ 
quire. Take galls tor instanceWorks pub¬ 
lished by iho Smithsonian Institution on galls 
contain long lists of names; but when he want¬ 
ed to identity u gall fly found on an Oak the 
other day, he found to his dismay, that of the 
long list described, not one word was said where 
any of them ure found- whether on an oak, 
grape, or where. Professor Squelch said: 
" Exactly; aud what is the use of such science if 
it caunot bo used? It is like knowing that a 
pumpkin is a pumpkin without knowing that 
it is edible, and starving to death with a knowl¬ 
edge of its name alone.” 
PRICfi OF STOCKS AND BONDS. 
N. Y. State 7 s. .t:i 1 Virginias, old. 68 
Missouri 6 s . 96 ',4 Do., new. • • 7 s h 
Tennessees. 71 % North Carolinas, old. 47/2 
Soutli Carolinas. 62 ^ 4 1 Louisianas — • • 67 
Central Pacifies.... 102 ft N. Y. Central Scrip.. 92 
Union do. 91 J 4 Do. Stock. . 97/4 
Missouri do. 90 ft Erie. -ift 
Union Pacific Stock.. 30 ft Rock Island.. 11 J 
Reading.. 1 t 65 s Lake Shore uzA 
N. West. Preferred.. 88,4 Ohio and Mississippi 45 7* 
Do. Common. 74 H St Paul, Preferred. 78/2 
Wabash. $<>X Do. Common. <» 
Western Telegraph.. 58 ^ Adams Express. *2 
Pacific Mail . . 41 R American Express. . 5 ' 
Canton Company .. 80 A United Slates Exp s.. 52 
Yiituriu.Oiit., Luanda, Jane 20.—The weather 
for the last ten days has been quite wet. and 
rather cold, with two slight frosts in the time; 
but there was no apparent damage done to 
crops. Before then it was very dry, since early 
in thespriug, and, in consequence, crops will be 
light, especially hay. Oats and barley arc very 
much hurt witli the drouth, and in some places 
late sown grain did uot come up on account of 
its being so dry when sown. Wheat will be 
rather short, and early sown winter killed pretty 
badly by having too much top in the fall. Corn 
and potatoes promise well, and there is a large 
breadth of laud planted to them; the Colorado 
bug has uot made its appearance here vet. It is 
thirty miles west of us. Turnipsnearlyall plant¬ 
ed ; farmers are seeing the necessity of raising a 
large crop to meet the deficiency of the hay 
crop. The few hop yards that were uot plowed 
