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SVtOOBE’S BiJfJAL NEW-YORKER 
«3AN, « 
“ PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT." 
MOORE’S RURAL'NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL. ILLUSTRATED 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
C’ondtvotDlg Ifiditor and UuDliwJior. 
0HA8. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
A MHOolatn JCditora* 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y„ 
Xr*iTOH oir tmk DiriliTMtKT or Sloitr Hvniian»j<y. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y„ 
Kl.lTott or Tll> Dltl'AUTMBNT Of DaIKV I IVXIANPUV. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland. Ohio, 
CuKiiMii-oiionro icmrou. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
Subscription.— Single Copy, *2.50 per Yeur. To 
Clubs:—Five Copies, and one copy free to Agent or 
getter up of Club, for 112.50 • Seven Copies, and one 
free, for *10: Ten Copier, and one free. (»)—only *2 
per copy. Am we are obliged to pre-pay the American 
postage on paper* moiled to toreign countries, Twenty 
Cent* houlO be added to above rates for cacti yearly 
copy mailed to Cnnudn, and One Dollar per copy to 
Europe. Drafts, Post-OfficeMoney Ordersand Regis¬ 
tered Letters may be mailed at our rick, f ff~ l.lboral 
Premiums to all Club Agents who do not take free 
conies. Specimen Numbers, Show-Mils, Ac., sent tree. 
ADVERTISING RATES: 
Inside, lUll and 16th pages (Agate spare), We. por I 
" :>th, ?th and Wlp pages. 1 . 1*1 " 
Outside or last page.. 
Ml ty per cent, extra for unusual diMpluy. 
Special Notices, loaded, by count.2.00 
Business " 2.50 
Reading " -5.1)0 
i ff~ No advertisement inserted for less than *5. 
line. 
PUBLICATION OFFICES: 
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Buffalo Sired, Rochester, N. Y. 
WESTERN BRANCH OFFICE: 
Ho. 75 North Side ol the Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1873. 
THANKS AND A REFERENCE. 
Thanks arc duo and cordially tendered to its 
Agent-Friends, all over the land, for their kind 
and successful efforts to increases and widen t he 
circulation and usefulness of the Rural New- 
Yorker. Though the limes are hard, and 
money scarce, our frlonda are doing noldy, hav¬ 
ing already sent in largely increased lists from 
munv localities. Rending In grateful acknowl¬ 
edgement to Agents and others who are sec¬ 
onding our efforts—and promising to do our 
host t o render the Rural continuously worthy 
the substantial appreciation it is receiving we 
respecl fully refer all our friends to Publisher’s 
Notices, Ac., on page SO, and to Premium List 
(headed ‘‘Good Pay for Doing Good!") on page 
38 of this paper. 
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DOLLARS AND CENTS. 
Where bo much happiness hinges on the pos¬ 
session of dollars and cents, it docs not answer 
to attempt to underrate their value nor the im¬ 
portance, not to say necessity, of acquiring 
thorn. But the method of acquiring and the 
manner of using them may bo discussed and 
ought to bo studied by every’man and woman. 
There is no method of acquiring to bo tolerated 
in any such dlsoussion, that Is not an honest 
one. Yet, with t lie present adopted system of 
flnaneinl ctliliv, it Is not easy to make a teat of 
honesty for methods which shall prove infallible 
at, least fix upon a standard below which en¬ 
tire classes of business men will not fall if it is 
applied to them. * 
The gambler calls his game an honest one, 
albeit lie takes t he hint dollar from his antago¬ 
nist’s pocket without returning him any equiva¬ 
lent. The gold and stock broker on Wall stroot 
may have an honest reputation anti yet. rob his 
next door neighbor of his money and his In> 010 . 
The honorable grain dealer on the Chicago 
Exchange, whoso paper has never gone to pro¬ 
test, may bet on the price of corn and pocket 
his thousands without owning or giving an 
ounce of grain therefor. “Comers'* may bo 
made In gold, stocks, grain, pork, beef, sugar, 
potatoes, cotton, or silk goods, and t hose in the 
corner may make millions of dollars and ruin 
hundreds of fir 9, and take the money out of 
the purses of consumers of products, without, 
giving any equivalent In return, and yet bo 
called by modern societ y bonest men, and their 
mode of doing business “ perfectly legitimate,’' 
Stock companies may bo organized to develop 
some mine or promote some enterprise, the or¬ 
ganizers of which take the stock holders' 
money, giving In return certificates of stock, 
which never realize the holders five per cent, 
i per decode on tlicir investments -the organ¬ 
izers never expected it would -and yet this is 
called “legitimate.” 
Financial agents may tell half t he truth con¬ 
cerning the value of railroad stocks or bonds, 
and secure a large per cent, of commissions for 
t he money thus secured the corporation, while, 
if the other half of the truth had been told, no 
man would have been stupid enough to invest — 
and yet sucli financial agents do a legitimate 
and honorable business, and command the con¬ 
fidence of t he community I 
Hut the catalogue of such would too quickly 
exhaust our space If we were to attempt to 
complete It. Now, what is an honest method of 
acquiring money ? Wo know of only one. It. Is 
to earn it by labor and skill by giving for It 
something that Is of equivalent, value to the 
person of whom it I* received. When money is 
acquired by any other means It. is not, In our 
opinion, honestly acquired. Of course capital 
docs, or should, represent such labor and skill: 
and the use of accumulated capital, no matter 
how employed, if only productively, is entitled 
to compensation. 
There is nothing that we know of to-day so 
demoralizing in its influence upon American 
character, nor which is more potent in influ¬ 
encing our young men to abandon honest, In¬ 
dustrial pursuits, than the toleration with which 
modes of obtaining money similar to those 
catalogued above are looked upon, and the 
positive applause glvon to those who arc suc¬ 
cessful in obtaining it., by society. There ts no 
agency so destructive to morality, to nobility of 
character, to honesty of purpose, to purit y of life, 
to the happiness of homes, t o the development 
of general intelligence and solid acquirements 
among and the general elevation of the masses 
of the people, its this loose conception of what 
is legitimate and honorable-os (his false and 
pernicious definition of success. 
It Is this which leads to t he misuse of money, 
to the abuse of the power which it confers nit¬ 
on its possessor, to the oppression of the poor, 
to prostitution of public offices, corruption of of¬ 
ficials, unscrupulous legislation, consolidations, 
cninhinnt bum, eounter-combinal ions, strikes, 
labor riots, confusion, anarchy, terrorism, and, 
finally, revolution. Wo do not seek to be known 
as alarmists—w« have no greed for such fame ! 
hut we believe that ours is not, n far-fetched 
deduction, nor the result of an over-wrought 
imagination. We commend the subject to all 
thoughtful readers. 
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HOW PEOPLE AFFORD IT. 
The article In our issue of Dec. 36, entitled 
“ Can 1 A fiord II /" related how one farmer, ni; 
shown by Ids wife, made orsaved $313.60by tak¬ 
ing the Rim A i, Nevv-Yorker lost year. Since 
then we have received many let ters from people 
who have found it has paid them to take this 
paper, and who are evidently of the decided 
opinion that they cannot afford to do without 
it in future. Vide these extracts: 
Mr. M. 1). Warner of I’iket’o., Mo.,saysmucl> 
in this brief wise:-" Find Inclosed $2,60 for the 
Rural for 1673. It, ha* bean worth more than 
one hundred times that, to me alone during the 
year that is now nearly gone, to say nothing 
about the rest of the family, who arc all Rural 
hungry when it arrives.” 
Mr. N. W. Hiker, n New York business man, 
who resides in the country, writes so forcibly 
about the Rural, a fine section of New Jersey, 
and one of its railroads, that we give Ida “first 
rate not ice ’’ of cadi entire“ I was very;much 
amused by reading, In your last, number, the ac¬ 
count of the farmer’s wife who thought, her hus¬ 
band could not do without the Rural. I am 
about like the farmer; t think I cannot afford 
to do without, the RURAL for many good reasons 
—the strongest one,however, is that I am about 
to build a house In t hat beautiful region of New 
Jersey, tho town of Westfield, on tho Central 
Railroad of New Jersey, (which, without over¬ 
stating, is the Rost run, the hast stocked, and In 
every oilier way tho best railroad in America). 
Tho RURAL, some time ago, had n villa plan, de¬ 
signed by James N. Carpenter, which suits me 
belter than any 1 have seen elsewhere, ami I 
have looked at more than a hundred, and un¬ 
less Mr. V. can send you somet hing better of 
about that stylo, I think I shall, with a few al¬ 
terations, adopt that design. If I should, the 
price of the Rural for the next twenty-live 
years would be saved; so I heroin Inclose $3.50 for 
next year’s paper, which please send to West- 
field, ur, before directed, and oblige," etc. 
Mr. Carer Westoott, a merchant of Kent Co., 
K, i„ writes'“Inclosed please find $2.50 for the 
Rural for 1873. ! had tho paper given me for 
the year 1872, and think I can well afford to pay 
for it this year. I t hink tho number that told 
about, doctoring I he horses saved mo more than 
$250, for 1 had two horses Bick (one very sick), 
and 1 carried them i hrough all right and 1 am 
convinced that keeping them In (out of bad , wot 
weat her) was the main thing. Two of my neigh¬ 
bors each lost a homo, and they were men who 
thought they knew all about doctoring horses. 
♦ ♦ * If you will send mo a poster, I will put 
it up in my store and may get a few names.’’ 
Mr. H. 8. Gilbert of Franklin County, 
Penn., in remitting for a club, writes“ When 
calling on ono of the above gentlemen to renew 
his subscription for tho Rural for *73, ho re¬ 
plied money was scarce, but a* lie had made 
about $200 by following the advice about sowing 
corn, in an article In the Rural, ho would go In 
another year.” (And wo think he could afford 
the luxury.) 
— We have many letters like unto the preced¬ 
ing, but. must close with ono from Dr. A. H. 
Brantley of DeKalb Co., Gn., who writes us in 
this rich and racy wise:— 4 ' I have been without 
tho Rural New-Yorker this whole year, but 
I can't stand it any longer, my wife says she 
wont stand it any longer, and the children one 
and all pipe the same note. Why, I verily be¬ 
lieve that I have been iazicr, my wife more 
wretched, my babies crossor, rny farm shabbier, 
nnd my stock meaner this year than wo have 
all together ever been in our earthly pilgrimage. 
1 tell you, Mr. Editor, I feel as if some sneaking, 
omnivorous epizootic had swooped down upon 
me and paved with encaustic tiles of bitumin¬ 
ous Ignorance the whole fabric of my mental 
Schneiderian. Now, since you know how a fel¬ 
low feels, (and whole families of us feel Just so,) 
please send along your Premium List with some, 
specimen copies, and I’ll try to send you a Club 
as heavy as the one with which Barnum killed 
Captain Cook on the Island of El Dorado. 
“ Inclosed 1 send you tho roqulslto amount of 
Spinner Autographs, ($2.50,) and hope Uncle 
Ham’s Postal Plenlpotentlarial servants will 
permit it to reach you, for which please send to 
me (address given in full below) tho Rural ] 
New-Yorker for one year, beginning with the 
first No. of 1873, nnd you may from this date set 
me down as a life subscriber. I would also like 
to have tho premium Engraving you offer. 
Please pardon me for having taxed your time to 
read what 1 might have written in twenty words. 
" My Jt'Mi A Happy New Year, and many 
returns of the same, to all tho ‘Press-Clang* of 
t ho Rural New-Yorker, from the great Chief 
to the Printer's Devil, is the hearty, earnest 
wish of a Georgian.” 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
To a Young Farmer, who asks, “Are agricul¬ 
tural papers more useful to a young farmer than 
agricultural books, as a means at getting knowl¬ 
edge of use to him aa an agriculturist ?" wo 
reply no, but that they should go together. 
Look over our book list and select such works 
as treat upon topics in which you are most in¬ 
terested such as you think would servo you 
best iu your special field of husbandry, and buy 
end master them that is, buy one at a time and 
comprehend it, or try to do »o. It will probably 
add to your ability to buy and increase your do- 
elro for other works. But such books cannot 
be regarded substitutes for good agricultural 
papers ; for each week brings out new facts and 
(experiences from farmers which find record in 
t liese papers: and these facts and experiences arc 
to v aried that It would bo strange if you did not 
find among them something specifically appll- 
< able to your own practice, the adoption of 
which would make your road to success shorter 
and surer. You cannot, as an enterprising 
farmer, afford to forego such aid; and you can 
Just as properly do without standard agricul¬ 
tural works ns n lawyer can practice law without 
law authorities in his library, or a physician 
medicine without, medical authorities. 
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\n Improvement. — The Tinted Cover given 
with hist week’s Rural was much admired and 
pronounced a decided Improvement, as It not 
only appeared well but enabled us to furnish 
imeh more reading matter In the body of tho 
paper. We shall not give tho cover every week, 
.at present, but probably once a month, or a* 
often ns there may bo occasion to prevent ad¬ 
vertisements from infringing upon reading 
departments. It will bo observed that we give 
more reading matter than usual t his week, and 
we shall endeavor to keep our advertising friends 
within bounds in future—adding a, cover when¬ 
ever there is an unusual demand upon our space. 
We trust this course will meet tho views and 
wishes of both Subscribers and Advertisers. 
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European Salmon Eggs for American Waters. 
—Prof. Baird, United States Commissioner of 
Fish and Fisheries, has Just, been informed by 
telegraph t hat 750,000 salmon eggs will bo shipped 
from Bremen by the steamship America on tho 
Uth of January, and will, consequently, bo due 
in New York about tho 25th. They will ho in 
charge of Rudolph Hls.sll, un eminent Ger¬ 
man fish culturlst, and <>n their arrival will bo 
distributed in greater part, to the State Commis¬ 
sioners of Fisheries for introduction luto tho 
waters of the great lakes and the Atlantic, coast. 
One-third of these eggs nro a present from the 
German Government; the remainder were pur¬ 
chased In Freiburg. 
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Women Should Attend Agricultural Meet¬ 
ing*.— A lady writes: “I boo no good roason 
why tho meeting* of farmers’ clubs should not 
bo attended and participated in by farmers' 
wires and daughters; do you?" No I wo do 
not. On the contrary, there are many good rea¬ 
sons, wo think, why fanners’ wives should do 
so. We believe tho farmer's wife should bo aa 
familiar as possible with farm economy, for she 
may have occasion to use such knowledge her¬ 
self In tho case of the death of her husband. 
But domest ic economy is a branch of farm econ¬ 
omy, and should find a place in the discussions 
of farmers’ clubs, the wives having an opportu¬ 
nity to detail their needs In order to make it 
the mosi effective aid to the general prosperity 
of the farther. By all means lot farmers' wives 
havo voice in discussion at farmers’ clubs; es¬ 
pecially induce them to attend the mootings as 
a stimulus to tho best efforts on tho part of 
formers to say or do somethingworthy their ap¬ 
plause. 
An Acceptable Present.—Any Subscriber wish¬ 
ing to send the Rural New-Yorker for 1873 to 
:i friend, as a present, can do so on paying or re¬ 
mitting the cluli price —only $2. And any one, 
whether a subscriber or not, can have (for him¬ 
self or a friend) the Rural a year, and a pre¬ 
paid copy of our Premium Engraving, for only 
$!.60. Home present ono to a friend and keep 
the other. The Rural will make your near or 
distant, relative or friend glad fifty-two times a 
year, and the Engraving, properly mounted or 
framed, will prove a perpetual pleasure in any 
family of taste. 
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Interesting to Inventors, <fco.—It being a 
well-known fact that many people in various 
parts of the country are in possession of valu¬ 
able projects or inventions which, for the want 
of capital or other Influence, they are unable to 
push to a successful termination, Mr. L. IV. 
BriOUS of No. 18 Wall street, this city, holding 
relations with capitalists on the otic side, pro¬ 
poses now to enter Into communication with 
all persons on tho other side who may address 
him relative to any of the matters indicated. 
All parties Interested are referred to Mr. B.’b 
announcement on our last page. 
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Onr Premium Picture 1* Kent. Promptly. 
For evidence read what-nn old Agent-Friend in 
Cortland Co. says in a let ter with it lint of sub- 
acrlbers:—“ I remitted you last Friday for two 
ItUliALS and tho Engraving, and Monday on 
came the “ Birth- Day Morning,” which we think 
is very fine Indeed and pleases us much, I was 
pleased to think it. carnc so soon after sending, 
and 1 guess you ‘mean business' In the Rural 
<«fIbo." | Y re, Sir, ire do, every time. Our article, 
out I tied "TV i Whom It May Omojii," in Rural 
of Dec. 28, more than Intimates that.] 
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American Devon Herd Book.—Vol. Ill of this 
KIcrd Book, by II. M. Sessions, Springfield, 
Moss., I* lieforo us. It is a volume of 220 pages, 
containing the names and pedigrees of Devon 
Cattle, tho prizes they have gained, with tho 
names of their breeders ami owners. Prlco 
:J3. The fourth volume ts to bo published in 
1875. We give the author’s address, that all let¬ 
ters of inquiry (with stamp Inclosed) may bo 
directed to him. 
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Season, Crop*, Ac. For items under this 
heading —and also notices of Industrial Socie¬ 
ties see page 30. Wo are glad to receive such 
reportft and notices at all seasons. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
P. R. Newton is informed that Rome became 
the seat of the Papal Government about tho 
year 800. 
Mrs. Mary J. Holmes of Memphis, Tenn., is 
a candidate for the office of School Visitor In 
that city. 
P. P. C. asks where ho can get Cow-horn 
turnip seed. Probably of any seedsman adver¬ 
tising in our columns. 
A Farmers’ Convention is to be hold at Win- 
tbron, Me., January I I, 16, 1(5 and 17, under tho 
auspices of the Maine state Board of Agriculture. 
Photozincography, “ Young Rurallst” lain 
formed, i* a process by which photographs arc 
transferred to zino plates, widen maybe printed 
from. Wc believe it was first made known 
about 18<X). 
Kitts W., i* In Conned that Macadamizing 
road* is so called because t he system was de¬ 
vised by John Macadam, a Scotchman of Ayr¬ 
shire. His essay on the subject was first pub¬ 
lished In 181K. 
THERE are about 700 women in tho postal 
service of the United States, and Postmaatei- 
Oeuernl (’reshwell writes the Prussian postal 
authorities that 1 lu > discharge the duties of 
thoir respective positions to the general necept- 
taneo of tDo Department. 
N. B. G.. Smyrna, N. Y., Is informed that wo 
do not know “where tho host and cheapest 
Commercial Collego is located;’’ nor whether 
thorn i* one in Syracuse or not. Address u let 
ter to the Post-Master at Syracuse, asking him 
to forward i) to any commercial college that 
may be there, for terms, etc. 
Rev. W. F. Clarke, formerly editor of the 
Canada Farmer, and lately elected President of 
the North American Bee Keepers’ Society, haa 
assumed editorial .’hargo of the American Bee 
Journal, which is hereafter to be published at 
Chicago, Ill. Mr. Clarke is an experienced bee 
ltoeper and well qualified for this work. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
AGENTS 
May learn something greatly to their advantage and 
obtain specimens and full particulars free, by ad¬ 
dressing WOOD’S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
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HORSE EPIDEMIC. 
A physician, In n communication to n Buffalo 
paper about the Horse Epidemic, saysExter¬ 
nally I used and would recommend Dr. Trask’s Mag¬ 
netic Ointment to the throat, uround tho cars and on 
the forehead. Thai ointment contains tobacco nnd 
lobelia, and operates upon Lhc mucous glands of tho 
head and throat by causing tin Increased flow of secro 
lion from them, at the same time by Its relaxing effect 
removing tho stricture and giving utmost. Instant re¬ 
lief to the cough and breathing." It Is kept by all 
Druggists. 
THE WAKEFIELD EARTH CLOSET. 
Get Descriptive Pamphlet at 30 Dey Ht., New York. 
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