tion) by the Chicago Are. He reports his loss as 
very heavy and solicits correspondence with 
such entomologists ns may have duplicates 
which they would like to exchange for European 
specimens. He may be addressed at Station D, 
New York city. 
PROGRESS AND IMFRO VEIVIENT.” 
Not n Candidate.—The Sun daiiy newspaper’ 
which “ Shines for All,” recently beamed upon 
our Editorial Staff in this wise:—“Last year 
Hiantv S. Randall of Mooiik’b Rchal. New- 
Yobkkii was elected to the Assembly on the 
Democratic ticket from a Republican county. 
This year David W, Judd of the same news¬ 
paper, though a Republican, Is elected to the 
Assembly from n Democratic county. Next year 
Mr. Moore himself might run on an independ¬ 
ent ticket for Governor, and wipeout both the 
Democratic and Republican candidates.” 
— “ Once on a time,” when wo retired from an 
ofllce (expensive In both time and money,) we 
announced, in this Journal, that wc had gradu¬ 
ated from office and proposed in future to at¬ 
tend to the business ot D. D. T. MoonE. As yet 
wo have had no occasion to change that determi¬ 
nation. If, however, an honest and straight¬ 
forward on n d i date for G o vornor can not be fo 11 nd 
elsewhere, there are several gentlemen, (aside 
from the writer)competent to “All the bill,” ou 
the Editorial Staff of the Rurat. New-Yorker. 
change, or “New Departure,” is highly ap¬ 
proved by nineteen-twentieths of all who 
have expressed an opinion upon the subject, 
and that we are confident of a very large 
increase of circulation during the ensuing 
six months. Of course we cannot please 
every one, blit believe all of the “ upper ten 
hundred thousand” who are intelligent and 
discriminating will indorse the new size and 
style of the Rural New-Yorker. 
Ijc publisher’s fjeslt 
NEW CLUBBING ARRANGEMENT! 
TIIE GREAT ILLUSTRATED 
MOORE’S RURAL AND ARTHUR 
Catalogue* Received,— From Geo. W. Camp¬ 
bell. Delaware, O., Descriptive List of Hardy 
Native Grape Vines,Small Fruits, Plante, Bulbs, 
etc., for 1871-72.... From Thomas Lang & Co., 
Ballarat and Melbourne, Australia. Catalogue of 
Plants for sale. It is an Interesting publication. 
....From M. G. Reynolds, Rochester, N. Y-, 
Floral Guide and Gardeners' Manual for 1872. 
This is a very neat, comprehensive, useful cat¬ 
alogue. Mauy of Its illustrations are excellent,. 
Vert many of oar readers will want a Literary 
Magazine, or a Children's Magazine, to make up their 
assortment of family reading. Now here ts a plan 
that will Just suit them. We have arranged with 
T. S. Arthur & Sons c>f Phtla., for clubbing the 
Rural New-Yorker a Ith their publication?, con¬ 
sisting of Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine and 
The Children's Hour. 
The Horae Magazine is now In it* 38th volume, and 
is known the whole country over as a repository of 
pure and entertaining llteratuve for family reading. 
The Children's Hour is a magazine for the little ones, 
filled with the choicest Juvenile Tending, and illus¬ 
trated with elegant engravings to match. Both these 
magazines are especially adapted to the tastes and 
wants of Rural Readers, for which cause we have 
selected them for clubbing with the Rural New- 
Yorker, and Mr. ARTHUR pays us the high compli¬ 
ment to select the Rural as the only paper with 
which he will club his magazines. 
TERIVIS OF CLUBBING. 
Rural New-Yorker, prlae for one year..f2.50) 
Arthur's Lady's Horae Magazine, do.... 2.00) 
Doth tlin nbivve for one year.S3.50 
Rural New-Yorker, one year.) 
Children's Hour, do. . 14>S 
Both the ttbovc for one year.S3.00 
Ituvnl New-Yorker ami both IMugn- 
zincs for one year................84.50 
Subscriptions for these Clubs must commence on 
the first of January, 1873, and be for one year, at the 
above rates. 
Address D. D. T. MOORE, 
5 Uceknnin 81., Now York City. 
3>. D. T. m OORE, 
Conducting Editor and Proprietor 
C. D. BBAGC0N, A. S. FULLER, D. W. JUDD, 
A.sHOoiate Editors*. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Cditqk of rim Dkpa uimkm or Siiurp IJu»i»am»ky. 
X. A. WILLARD. A. M„ Little Falls. N. Y., 
EDITOR or TMK Dftt'AItTMKNT VP fiAtftV Hl>DANDKY. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
TkaYBUNG Conur-AHONDINC I'.DfTOJt. 
T. HART HYATT, San Francisco, 
Conductor ok in* Pacific Si-or* Dkiahtmknt. 
CHAS. V. RILEY. St. Louis, Mo., 
Conductor or tiif IIvtomAloo^al Department. 
MARY A. E. WAGER, 
Eciitob of Tine Dominic Kcoxomv Dipubtmknt. 
Our Publication Office*. — The Rural New- 
Yorker is published simultaneously at No. 5 
Beckman St.. New York, and 82 Buffalo St., 
Rochester, N. Y. Copies are a I ways ready for 
delivery at our Rochester ofllce as early (and 
often earlier) than we deliver them from our 
New York office. Our Rochester head-quarters 
ore In command of Capt. John G. Williams, 
who 1ms hud charge thereof over a dozen years. 
Our new Brunch Office, at Cleveland, (noticed 
elsewhere,) is under ihe supervision ol Col. S. D. 
Harris, who, like Capt. Williams, will serve till 
the Rural'S friends promptly und with courtesy. 
Call and see them 1 
— The Rural will probably roach CLweltiud 
in time to be delivered two days before Us date. 
Jnme* l icit has, we learn from a Rochester 
paper, been elected a corresponding member of 
the Royal Horticultural Society of England. 
This honor is worthily bestowed and will prove 
neither a discredit nor disadvantage to the 
Society conferring It. 
Ventilation In Cheese Cnr*.—The Utica Dairy 
men’s Board of Trade recently adopted the fol¬ 
lowing resolutions: 
Resolved —That the President of this board is 
hereby Instructed to communicate with the 
general freight agents of i he foil owing railroads, 
viz: New York Central and Hudson River rail¬ 
road, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail¬ 
road, Utica and Black River railroad. Oswego 
and Now York Midland railroad and mo Utica, 
Clinton imd Binghamton railroad, mid request, 
said companies to niter their ears during Ihe 
winter, so that proper ventilation can at all 
limes he given to Hie cheese while in transit, 
mid the hoard would suggest that said veniila- 
1 ion be irunic by boles out- in the sides of each 
cai and covered by wire cloth* as a protection 
1 'rntiJ fire. 
Resulted-Tlmt the Boards of Trade of the Lit¬ 
tle Fails and Fort Plain markets, and all other 
cheese markets in this and other States, he re¬ 
quested tu lake action mi ihe above resolution, 
and that they concur in Inducing their railroad 
companies to make the said alterations. 
Moore’s Rural mill Arthur’s Magazines.— The 
attention of nil our readers Is directed to the 
announcement (at In ad of next column) relative 
to clubbing Moore's Rural and Arthur's 
Magazines; also to ihe advertisement of the 
publishers of said Magazines, on page 351. 
The K tn-iil New-Yorkor I* sold by News Deal¬ 
ers generally. The Trade Is supplied by the NEW 
York News Co., No. 8 Spruce St., New York. 
The New Discovery In Gunnery, advertised 
under tlio head of Special Notices in this paper, 
is apparently valuable to sportsmen and others. 
We know the advertiser to be reliable and re¬ 
sponsible. 
-- *** - 
Inquiries for Advertisers.—L. H. THOMAS asks 
where he can find a pure blood Suffolk boar and 
sow, not related. 
Advertising. — Inside, 76 cents per lino, Agate 
space : Outside, $1 pur line, each Insertion. For Ex¬ 
tra Display and Cut*, a price and u-lmlf. Special and 
Businim Notices. *1.60 atnl $2 u line. No advertise¬ 
ment Inserted for less Hum f8. 
American Museum of Natural History.—Wo 
have before us the Second Annual Report of 
this New York Institution. Its officers are: 
Fries.— JOHN David Wolfe. I 'ice- / *res't$. — Rob¬ 
ert L. Stuart, William A. Haines. See.— 
Theodore Roosevelt. Treas.— Howard Pot¬ 
ter. Ex. Co )7i« — WM. A. Haines, D. Jackson 
Steward. Andrew II. Green, a. G. Phei.ps 
Dodge, William T. Blodgett. We have also 
tin advance sheet <>r the Third Annual Report, 
from which we learn that, during the past, year 
the remainder of the Verreuux Collection, pur¬ 
chased In Paris, has been received ; that a speci¬ 
men of the Great Auk, a bird now extinct, has 
been placed In tlio Museum; also, other valua¬ 
ble donations. That this Museum Is a great 
popular educator is proven by the fact that 
since the 27th day ot April it has been open to 
the public, and on many days Hie Attendance 
has numbered at least 10,000 persons. Now, Mon¬ 
day and Tuesday of each week is reserved for 
the Cmnmissionera of Parks, Trustee- of the 
Museum, all persons contributing Or desiring to 
contribute money or specimens, those wishing 
to examine the Museum specimens for the pur¬ 
pose of special study, the teachers and pupils of 
public schools and the intitules of charitable 
and benevolent institutions ol the city — the 
admission on these days to he by tickets, to bo 
obtained at the Deportment of Public Parks, 
205 Broadway, or of the Secretary of tho Mu¬ 
seum. 'Tints the work of practical education in 
Natural History is to be encouraged by this 
Museum. 
Willard’S Dairy Dook,—All interested in this 
work—and especially those who wish to act as 
canvassing agents for it—tiro referred to an¬ 
nouncement, comprising a Synopsis of Con¬ 
tents, &c„ on page 356. 
THE SEASON. 
Corvallis. Oregon, Nov. ] 5.—I think no coun¬ 
try can be prettier than the Willamette Vnlley 
in Oregon. The winters are warm and wet; the 
summers cool and dry; no thunderstorms; no 
worms In fruit or any kind: nocurculio. Fine 
vegetables and good markets. Wheat, $1.10; 
oats, S0e.: barley, £1-25: bay. $20 per ton; butler 
37^'c.; egg8.25c.-n. m. 
Denver, Buy < «., Midi.. Nov. 14. — Weather 
tine; ground very dry—almost impossible to 
plow, the ground is so hard. We have had a 
very dry summer. Crops not very good; nil 
kinds of produce high. Huy, $23 per ton ; corn, 
8 )c.; potatoes. $1; wheat, $i,45; oals, 60c. Fire 
all out in the woods. Wages, $30©i35 per month 
in the lumber woods and very few men to bo 
had at that price.-M. 
Johnstown, Fulton Co., N. Y., Nov. 18.—The 
month of November Ims been cold. Wo had about 
fotirorflvoiochesol'Hnow thefiistof themonth, 
and the ground froze three or four inehesdeep; 
at present the frosL is all out ot the ground, 
snow all gone, and It is mild atld warm. Farm¬ 
ers commenced feeding stock very early this 
full hay was a poor crop; it Is worth $20 $ ton. 
Many farmers are selling their cows, which only 
bring $12@20—the very best at the latter price.— 
Reform. 
£XCEI.SI0£, 
Riley on Grupe Deterioration.—CHAS. V. ltl- 
LKY’8 three articles on this subject in recent 
numbers of the Rural New-Yorker are at¬ 
tracting tho attention of grape growers and en- 
tonomologists ihey deserve. Coltnan’s Rural 
World copies them in its Vineyard Department, 
edited by Geo. Husmann, who says:—“We 
copy the tallowing from the RuualNev -York¬ 
er, mid think It one of the most interesting pa¬ 
pers we have read for a long time—one that will 
be of more use to the vintner in his selection 
of varieties, and throw more light on the dete¬ 
rioration of formerly healthy varieties than 
anything that has been said or done lately. The 
grape growers of the country owe Prof. Riley 
a debt of gratitude lor bis thorough and scicn- 
titio investigation of this subject, and wc may 
well be proud that he is “one of us,” and be¬ 
longs to our State.” 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1871 
OUR REDUCED RATES. 
NOTICE TO AGENTS, SUBSCRIBERS, ETC 
OUR NEW WESTERN AGENCY. 
Moore’s Ittirnl New-Vorlier will hereafter be 
furnished at the following Reduced Rates: 
single Copy, $2.50 per Ycnr. To Clubs:-Five 
Copies, and one copy free to Agent or getter up of 
Club, for $12.50: Seven Copies, and one free, for $16; 
Ten Copies, and one Tree, for $20-«mly $2 per copy. 
As we are obliged to pre-pay the American postage 
on papers mailed to foreign countries, Twenty Cents 
should be added to above rates for each yearly copy 
mailed to Canada, and One Dollar per copy to Europe. 
Draffs, Post-Office Money Orders and Registered Let¬ 
ters may be mailed at our risk. 
Liberal Premiums to all Club Agents who do 
not take free copies. Specimen Numbers, Show- 
Bills, &c„ sent free. 
How to Help the Bural.-There are numer¬ 
ous ways In which its friends can aid in circulat¬ 
ing the Rural. First, show the paper, or talk 
to your friends aboutit, or both. Getupaclub, 
or aid some friend to do so-or induce your P. 
M. to act us ogent. 
We have long recognized the fact that 
the West is a “ Great. Countryand the 
West lias, \vc are gratified in saying, most 
subslaniiully recognized the Bubal Nicw- 
Yorker as a “Great Institution.” This 
luuUial recognition lias resulted in I ho loca¬ 
tion of a Branch Office at Cleveland, Ohio, 
and in placing it, with our interests in Ohio 
find adjacent Slates, in charge of that hand¬ 
some, hide and hearty veteran of the Agri¬ 
cultural Press, Col. S. D. Harris, (late 
Editor of ihe Ohio Funner,) whose head is 
level all of the time, and whose words mean 
truth whenever uttered. 
From the following notices it appear? 
that the Cleveland papers are ahead of us 
in making the above important announce¬ 
ment : 
[From the Cleveland Leader .] 
Rural New-Yorker in Ohio.—C ol. 8. D. 
Harris, the veteran Agricultural Editor of 
Ohio, who Inis been traveling for the past yenr 
ns Corresponding Editor of MooRE’8 Rural 
New-YOrkEr, has been permanently engaged 
to superintend a Western Branch Office of that 
paper at. Cleveland, and has opened rooms for 
that purpose mi the north side of the Park, next 
to tlio rooms of tiic Young Men's Christian As¬ 
sociation. Everybody in this region knows 
Col. Harris, and will be glad to learn thut he 
is to remain among us, 
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.'] 
Comi: Back to Stay.— The many friends of 
our long-time fellow citizen, Col. 8. D. Harris 
of the Agricultural I’reos. who has been travel¬ 
ing in behalf of tho Rural New-Yorker for 
the past year, will be pleased to leant that lie 
hits been permanently engaged to superintend 
a Western 11 ranch Office of that publication at 
Cleveland, for which purpose lie has taken rooms 
al No. 75 north sida of Hie Park, where he will 
bt; glad to see all persons who take an Interest 
In rural affairs. 
Adulteration of Lord. —A Canadian journal 
says that a lard tenderer confidentially imparted 
to it the information recently, that a common 
practice among lard dealers is to mix from two 
to five percent, of milk of lime with melted 
lard, in order to produce not only a pearly white 
product, but lo allow of the stirring in, during 
cooling, of twenty-five per cent, ot water. We 
Suggest to ChoftrilKp purchase lurd that they had 
better give their« rder«.,to honest people than to 
saoh whitewashing lard dealers. We should bko 
to be autocrat ol the United States long enough 
to apply a little power to the development of 
honesty In trade for a little while. 
Canada Thistles in Illinois.— Illinois is at last 
awakening to the necessity for doing what the 
writer recommended 6he should do some years 
since —take legislative action to prevent the 
spread of Canada Thistles on her beautiful and 
fertile prairies. We learn from the western pn- 
pera that a bill has been introduced providing 
foraCitnnda TblstloComralssloner in each town, 
whose business shall be to extirpate them in the 
roads, mid when he finds them growing upon 
any person's laud, to place the infected spot in 
quarantine immediately, and devise mesurcs to 
prevent the spread of this plnnf. The Chicago 
Tribune says this is a matter of very serious 
moment to the formers of the State, and may 
involve thousands, even millions of doilai's If 
the thistle is allowed to go on sowing itself un¬ 
checked. In one county alone there are two 
thousand acres of these noxious, purple-headed 
weeds; the flight ot their winged seeds tins fall 
will probably aifll further extend their area uext 
year, and choke out all useful vegetation. Tho 
Tribune is not Inclined to envy tlio Commission¬ 
er whose linos are cast where thistles are plen¬ 
tiful, His lot will bo ns thorny as that of The- 
ophilus Thistle, the successful thistle-sitter, 
whose mishap it has perplexed so ninny school¬ 
boys to pronounce. But Ins lot will he a happy 
one compared with the lots Infosted wiilt this 
noxious weed, Illinois farmers, and those of 
other prairie States ns well, will do themselves 
good service by refusing to wait for legislation, 
but pitch Into these thistles wherever found. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Greene Co„ WIs., Formers' Club.—This Club 
meets on the afternoon of the first Saturday in 
each month at Monroe, Wis. The following m e 
the officers elect: Pres.— T. H. Eaton. Ylcc- 
Pres.— Titos. Emerson. Ree. Sec.— J. J. Tsehudy. 
Cor. Sec.— A. W. Potter. Decs.—A. Ludlow. 
The Tangipahoa (La.,) Parish Hort. Sue., 
meets monthly at Amite City, La., and is re¬ 
ported to have Interesting and profitable meet¬ 
ings. Its officers are: Pres.- J. N. Alsworth; 
Vtce-Prcs.— H. N. L. Lewis; Ree. See. — .1. M. 
Hills; Cor. Scc.—S. S. Conner; Trios.—It. D. 
M turn fd. 
The. Penobscot, Me., Poultry Society recently 
held uu exhibition at Bangor, Me-, which is pro¬ 
nounced “as successful as was anticipated," 
such organizations “ way down East ’’ being In¬ 
novations. The officers ot this Society (char¬ 
tered by Ihe last Legislat ure) are: Pres— J. Win¬ 
gate C.Mtit, Sec.—Philip Coombs. Treas.— W. 
G. Huron. 
The Mississippi Valley Grope Growers' Asso¬ 
ciation holds os Fifth Annual Meeting nt St. 
Louis, Mo„ Dee. lff-21. Tho meeting will be 
mainly devoted to the discussion or subjects 
Connected with grape growing, wjno making, 
and tho extimiiiuiiou of wines. In addition to 
Other business and discussions, the following 
i'ssuj s are unnouiiccd ;-On “The Prosptels of 
tin Native Wine Trade." by Isidore Bush; 
“Have wen Whim Wine Grape ?" by J.E. Starr; 
“ Bringing out New Varieties of Grapes," by 
Charles Pen body : "Insects Injurious to the 
Vine,” by Chits. V. Riley. 
.Michigan State Poultry Ass'n.—A society with 
this name was receuty organized at Detroit and 
Hie following officers elected: Pres. — A. It. 
West, Detroit. Vice-Pres'ts. — J. D. Yerkcs, 
Northvlllc: D. Junes, Teonmseh. Nee.—E. C. 
Skinner, Detroit. Treas.— J. G. Hawley, Detroit. 
Ex-Cotn —A. M. Randolph, Northville; James 
Brooke, Grand Itnpids; C- L. Knight, Lansing ; 
A. C. Baldwin, Pontiac; H. D. Taylor, Detroit; 
Mr. Batebellor, Ypsilaml; E. K. Shimmls. Nortli- 
vilie; W. R. Benet t, Jackson ; II. Allen, School¬ 
craft; Mr. Ferguson. East Saginaw. It is pro¬ 
posed to hold an exhibition In Detroit the com¬ 
ing winter: tune not yet fixed. 
The Ohio Dairymen's Association.—' The eighth 
annual coiivcniiou of lids Association will be 
held in Wellington, Lorain Co., on Wednesday 
and Thursday, .lan. 24th and 25th, 1872. X. A. 
Willard. Em}., of Little FuIIn N. 1'., will deliver 
the animal address. Dr. N. S.Towushftiid, Presi¬ 
dent J. H. Fairchild, and Hou. J. H. Dickson 
will also deliver addresses. Anson Bartlett, 
Esq., of Darby Side, West Jefferson, is compil¬ 
ing for tlio Association valuable statistical ta¬ 
bles touching the dairying interests of Hie State. 
Many oilier gentlemen and prominent dairy¬ 
men. both of this and other Stales are engaged 
to join in the discussions at the convention. All 
dairymen should come prepared to publish to 
the Association the new lessons of uuother year's 
experience. 
National Agricultural Association.—Tlio Offi¬ 
cers of this organization, which was effected at 
Nashville, tiro ns follows: Pres't — V. J. Lk 
Moyne of Pa. TTce-Pm’ts--Enoch Iinsiey of 
Tennessee: Oliver U. Jones. Georgia: F. C. 
Johnson, Indiana; John 8. Muntmdwke, Missou¬ 
ri; John M. Billups, Mississippi; GK C, Etsen- 
tnoyer, Illinois; It. M. Put toil, Alabama; Robert. 
Browder, Kentucky : Duncan F- Kenner, Loui¬ 
siana, and Gordan N. Perry, Arkansas. Seely— 
J. B. Kellebrew, Term. Treas.— F. 11. Fiertcli, 
Nashville, Tenn. The next meeting of this 
Congress is to be held at St. Louis the fottrili 
Monday in May. It is to consist of two dele¬ 
gates from each State and Territory, to be ap¬ 
pointed by Hie respective 8tute Agricultural 
Societies, where they exist, or by the Governors 
of States or Territories In which no Societies, 
State or Territorial, are organized. Added, each 
State Agricultural College, organized in con¬ 
formity with the law ot Congress of 1802. is fcn- 
litled to a representative; also, each regularly 
organized Agricultural Society of fifty or more 
members, which shall have contribuied to the 
funds ol' the organization in proportion to its 
representation, is entitled to one representative. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
gquenking Boot*.—Greu ter than tho annoyance 
of hearing others' boots squeak, is that of wear¬ 
ing a squeaking pair. With a most zealous dis¬ 
position to relievesuffei lug Immunity, we speed¬ 
ily place on record wlmt Jones (we, unfortu¬ 
nately, don’t know whether it Is John or Joe) 
has discovered. After trying all known rerae- 
•dics. he writes the Scientific American:—"At 
length a happy thought struck me. With a rag, 
I saturated ihe insoles with kerosene oil; and 
Eureka et glory 1 O hallelujah! the thinnest pair 
gave in at once, and ihe other pair al ter the sec¬ 
ond application." 
In compliance with Instructions irom um com¬ 
pany, the price >4 tho Chesapeake and Ohio 
Bonds, from this (Lite until further orders, will he 
94 and accrued interest. 
The scarcity of-and demand for, really deslriimo 
six per cent. goUi bonus for »olld and permanent in¬ 
vestments, are evinced by the tact that 
Fit e-twkntv Bonds ol ibc? tire soiling at.ns 
Central Pacific Bonds are selling at.103 
Chebafeakb and OHIO Bonds are selling at. 
Those bonds nil pay both principal and biterest in 
New York City,In United States gold com, and me 
equally safe for Investment, 
Tho roason why I ive-twenty Bonds are so high 
Is because no more can be Issued, and the outstand¬ 
ing amount Is being rapidly decreased by purchases 
by the Government from their surplus revenues. 
The reason why we think Central Pacific 
Bonds will in time advance to the price of l 1 lve- 
t wentles is because no more can he is-acd ; wlnlo 
the operation of their Sinking Fund will soon com- 
tnencb to deorcfts® the uoioum. 
The reason why Chesapeake and Oeio Bond- 
are selling so low, comparatively, while equally sale, 
is because the Company are selling Bonds to com¬ 
plete the roud. They will all he sold la a short time, 
mid In a few months the roud will be ilnlshed, when 
we have no doubt the same result will follow as with 
Five-twenty and Centra l Pacific Bonds, i he 
sinking fund of the Chesapeake and Ohio must go 
into effect withlD one year ufter the completion of 
the road. , 
rvv,.. Inrr'.AOrr „KT. AND OHIO BONDS tire ISSUCU 
Deep Culture Where Drouth lins Prevailed tho 
past season seems to have won wonderfully. A 
gentleman from Michigan said to us the other 
day:—“Tlio sub-soil plow you recommended 
and I got uml used last fall saved me. Every 
kind of crop on the soil, sub-soiled last fall and 
spring, did wonderfully well; on shallow plowed 
land crops in variably failed,” W fib next? We 
ask our readers in the districts of drouth for 
comparative Information concerning crops ou 
deep and shallow plowed lands. Otto thing is 
true, however, that there should be thorough 
after-cultivalJoit us well as deep plowing. 
Strictures on the Work of ihe Smithsonian 
Institution,—With no purpose of propagating or 
serving any personal spite agninst a great Insti¬ 
tution of which our people may be proud,we tuny 
ask If the folio whig position with reference to it, 
takeu by Coni. M. F. Maury, in a recent speech, 
is not well taken. After asking what good the 
Stnilh8onlun Institution has ever rendered the in¬ 
dustries of the country, lie says:—" For tny part 
I have ever regarded that institution as a hin¬ 
drance to science, an obstruction to physical re¬ 
search, and a misfortuno to the country. To 
this day, itstunds lit t he way of a National Acad¬ 
emy of Sciences, which, being governed and 
managed by the scientific men of the nation, 
would be ihe exponent of tholr views and truly 
represent American science. This institute does 
not, never did and never call, represent the sci¬ 
ence of this country. It is a close corporation, 
in the management of which the scientific men 
of the country have no more voice than they 
have in the Paclflo Railway. It is note member 
in the great republic of science as the scientific 
institutions Of the world ure. It is outside of 
them all.” 
NOT A RETROGRADE, 
Bat a Decidedly “Advance Movement." 
Do Forest* Increase the Ruin Full 1—All over 
the oouutry there is demand for forest planting 
with n prevailing popular belief that it will re¬ 
sult In increased ralu fall. Prof. Henry of the 
SttiiLlisniiiftO Institution, however, takes issue 
with tills belief that the removal of forests tends 
lo diminish Hie amount of tain. The observa¬ 
tion* of the Instil utlon fur twenty years have 
as yet failed to establish this theory and it must 
be regarded a gratuitous, hypothesis, unsubstan¬ 
tiated by fact. 
TnE lady who writes us that she regrets 
the proposed retrograde movement of “ the 
dear Rural," may spare ‘herself any mourn¬ 
ing. It is notour custom to make “ advance 
backward" movements, ns she and a myriad 
of other friends (and a few enemies, mainly 
jealous would-be rivals,) of litis Journal will 
probably discover, without the use of micro¬ 
scopic instruments, wllliln “ninety days 
from dale.” Now let us very briefly recapitu- 
iale a few of the points we have Promised 
and (D. V.) shall Perform: 
I. To make a Decided Improvement in the 
Form (page size) and Style of the Rural 
Nkw-Yorkkr for 1879—rendering it more 
convenient for preservation and binding, as 
well as additionally attractive in its Illus¬ 
trations, &c. 
II. To give more Reading Matter (in pro¬ 
portion to both Size and. Price) than now. 
[Tltis we shall accomplish hv using, in the 
principal departments, smaller bodied type 
than at present, (though jt will be clear- 
faced and as easily read,) and cither the 
omission of largely displayed advertise¬ 
ments or the issuing of Supplements.] 
III. To make the Heading Contents and 
Illustrations of the various departments of 
the paper more Valuable, Entertaining and 
Attractive , and hence more acceptable to our 
readers and I lie public generally. 
— It is proper lo add that our proposed 
Rice in Cnllforlnn.—A Georgian writes the Ru¬ 
ral Nhw-Y0 RKBR“I have seen a stray para¬ 
graph in a newspaper that among tho vailed 
products of California is rice. Can this be so? 
I did not know that that State had rice lands.”, 
California Inis swiimp binds on which two or 
three experiments in lice culture have resulted 
so favorably as to encourage more extended 
planting. The culture bus not been sufficiently 
extended in time nmhtren to determine whether 
there are serious drawbacks or not. 
An Example of Co-operation for our grum¬ 
bling and belligerent laboring classes, is found 
in a statement made by Mr. Nctall, a well- 
known leader of the Co-operative movement in 
England, at a recent meeting of the British 
Snead Science Association. He showed that in 
tho manufacturing borough of Oldham, with a 
population of sevenyy thousand, there were 
co-operative societies numbering seven thou¬ 
sand members. They laid a capital of eight 
hundred thousand dollars lit their six co-opera¬ 
tive stores, and a hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars Invested la other places. They had built 
seventy-five workingmen's houses in the Iasi 
twelve months. They have a corn-mill, large 
hulls, and five libraries, and consultation rooms 
where they meet weekly for discussion. They 
have ft capilal of fifteen hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars, invested in cotton mills and loans; and in 
one of these cotton mills, which represents a 
capital of half a million of dollars, nine-tenths 
of the shareholders are workmen. 
DOOLEY'S Yea bt POWDER bus Deco gracmauy ™ 
surely increasing in demand and public mvor lr 
Its well-known chemical purity and theanlform ®u 
cess which attends the making of good bread, > 
biscuits. Ac. It is an estatiRshcd fact that *«epoa“ 
of Dooley'S Yeast Powder will produce better re 
suits in the ctiHutuy department than double the 
quantity of the majority of Baking Powders In mar¬ 
ket. As it permits no waste of flour prepared with 
it it is the cheapest as well as the rest. Fa 
weight guaranteed. All Brst-eluss Grocers keep it. 
For COUGHS and Colds. Lung Difficulties, Pum 
in the Side, and Kidney troubles, tba'««« 
CoiiiDOtwid is unrivaled. It Is pleasant to t 
Olive* la the South.—To gratify several corre¬ 
spondents who ure inquiring, we shall be glad if 
any of onr readers in the Southern States who 
have expert moated in ihe culture of olives will 
give their experience. The olive crop of Europe 
this year is reported seriously injured. AVe 
know no reason why we may not produce our 
own olives. Wind lias California done this year? 
We shall bo glad of any information which will 
enable our readers to determine how they may 
profitably diversify their products. 
•The safest and best 
i place In th® family* 
The youth's Companion.—’ 
paper of Its class that, cun find a 
J. Q. A. M urrcn, who has been in the West 
the past season making entomological and cou- 
chological collections for exchange in Europe, 
lost all the results of his work (except such por¬ 
tion as happened to be at the Cincinnati Exposi¬ 
