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PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.’ 
and co-operation of agriculturists? How Inti¬ 
mate are its relations to the local Industrial 
Department distribute a few hundred Perehe- 
ron or Clydesdale stallions? It would be a big 
Mfinnco mini I lirill unni/rn -, ”— ."“ A , “ uuouml urn uruyucsaaic stamons? it would be a big 
lYlUUnL 0 HUnAL NEW-YORKER or e ar > lza,ioi ; 8 °' tbeStato? Outside its annual thing? Why don’t the stock growers of the 
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meeting nt Albany, and the discussions two or 
three evenings during the State Fairs, has it 
attempted to develop any expression of expe¬ 
rience ami practice among the formers of the 
| State? 
Contrast Its position In this respect to-day 
with the State Boards of Agriculture of Maine, 
Now Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts, Con¬ 
necticut, Illinois, Missouri, and other Stales. 
In the States named, we believe, the Boards of 
Agriculture have provided for holding Farmers’ 
Conventions, or Institutes, In different loca¬ 
tions, fur the discussion of t opics and measures 
which affect their prosperity and progress. 
These meetings are found exceedingly profit¬ 
able. The farmers are set thinking. They are 
shown the necessity for action and taught Jiow 
to act and the means available to secure desired 
results. Not only arc topics relating to practi¬ 
cal husbandry discussed, but equally Important 
topics relating to the disposal of these products 
afc considered. 
The impetus which these gatherings of farm- 
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tive departments, cannot he overestimated. 
They open the eyes of the blind, disarm them 
of unfounded prejudices, reveal to them the 
real cause of complaint nr of failure, and sug¬ 
gest at once the lino of policy and the practice 
to be pursued, tc» correct whatever affects the 
general prosperity unfavorably. 
Is the New Y'ork Plato Agricultural Society 
going to continue its old fogy policy so Jong as 
ono of the “old guard” remains to perpetuate 
its iraditiops? Is there not enough young and 
progressive blood In this Stale to redeem it 
from its •fossilized condition? Oris this young 
blood to be alienated from it and find expression 
in the Dairymen’s Association, local and Ktute 
Horticultural Societies, and County and Dis¬ 
trict, Agricultural Societies, which already rival 
the State Society with some of their exhibi¬ 
tions, and more than rival It In the wide-spread 
influence they exert upon the different classes 
of husbandmen ? 
Jf wo seem to be chronic fault-finders will) 
this old and respectable State Society, it Is be¬ 
cause there seems to us to be a chronic cause 
for such strictures. The manner in which offi¬ 
cers arc. elected, the protection which those 
who have controlled the Society have built up 
about themselves against, innovations, make 
the task of reform and regeneration the more 
difficult, If not hopeless, so long as enough of 
I them live to retain the power they have got. in 
their hands. It is only by the fullest and frank- I 
with the spirit of Agricultural Progress which 
inspires their brethren in other Stat es. 
What may wo hope or expect? 
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THE GOVERNMENT SEED STORE. 
SATURDAY, JAN. 18, 1873. I them llve lo retain the power they have got in 
— - -their hands. It is only by the fullest and frank- 
__ cst CX p reMlt , n r ,f dissent that wo '■on hope L 
TO ALL OUR READERS. I break the crust of conservatism and penet rate 
_ * t he den of fogyUm in which the Society seems 
to us to be hibernating and by giving (his cx- 
Agents, Subscribers, and indeed all who read presslon such utterance that. it. will arouse the 
this, are reminded that the present is a most pride of the farmers of the State to demand 
favorable season to obtain subscribers for the fil,ruo,,| ing better and more nearly in accord 
Rural New-Yorker. While Agents are form- ^the splrft °f AgricuRun. 1 Progress which 
M * In inspires their brethren in other Htates. 
mg or adding to clubs, we hope othors-especial- What may we hope or expect? 
ly new subscribers, and those receivingtho paper -*.*-«. _ 
at post-offices where but one or two copies are THE GOVERNMENT SEED STORE. 
taken — will kindly endeavor to augment our - 
c irculation. Many of our readers are so situated We notice a paragraph In the Washington dis¬ 
til. -it they can readily form ur add to clubs, and patches 111 11 la ^sorted that the usual 
, , , struggle over the appropriations for the Agri- 
wo Shall bo prompt in recognizing and reward- cultural Department resulted In the Increase of 
ingall such efforts. the Hem for the purchase aud distribution of 
Back numbers of this volume supplied to now see ^ s Irom $ 00,000 to $75,000. This is the work 
_ of the House in Committee of the Whole. The 
subscribers, unless otherwise ordered. Reader, 8pei . ul pleading of the Commissioner of Agri- 
ploaso refer to Publisher’s Notices, Ac., (under culture In his last *' Report' -which, by the way, 
heading of “Publisher’s Desk,”) on page 52, and was no report whatever, but stinply his deflni- 
to Premium List, (headed “Good Pay for Doing t,on ° r ' vh;u llj0 different Divisions of the Do- 
Good ! ’’) on page 64, and t hen see if It will not pw ?^ nt , ehouhl do ~ I 'f bought (bis fruit, 
ami the lax-payers of the country are to pay 
pay you to act in accordance with above re- $75,000 Tor the purchase of seeds from Tom, 
quests and suggestions. Dick and Harry, and their distribution 
count ry make some demand on the Department 
in their own behalf ? Jt is qui'e time. Tf this 
seed business is going to be a feature of the 
| Government, why should it not undertake the 
! free distribution of live stock for the benefit of 
Agriculture? 
Seriously, it, Is quite time this outrage was 
suppressed. Our farmers arc talking against 
monopolies, combinations, extortions, with 
great denunciatory force; but they overlook 
the Insidious wastefulness and extravagance of 
politicians In Congress, wljo, under the guise of 
“promoting agriculture,” are appropriating 
money worse than wastefully. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Ohio Agricultural College_The Board of 
Trustees of tho Ohio Agricultural College, at 
Columbus, belt! a meeting during the first week 
in January and elected a corps of teachers, as 
follows:—Agriculture and Botany, Dr. Norton 
P. Tow.nsiie.vd of Lorain; Geology, .1, Orton 
of Antioch Collegei Chemistry, P, Norton of 
Cincinnati; Physics nnd Mechanics, T. C. Men¬ 
denhall of Columbus; English Literature, 
Joseph Millikln of Hamilton; Languages, 
prof. Williams of Delaware College. At a 
meeting hist season the Trustees elected Sena¬ 
tor Patterson of Now Hampshire to the Presi¬ 
dency of the College, who will also fill the chair 
of Mathematics. President Patterson’s quali¬ 
fications are considered first-class, and If all the 
other newly-elected faculty accept their several 
positions, it will make an excellent array of 
varied talent. Dr. Towkrhknd’8 heart has been 
very much in the cause. Prof. Orton was for a 
lime on the Geological Survey of the State, and 
was last Summer elected to the Presidency of 
Antioch College, at Yellow Springs. Mr. Men¬ 
denhall Is Superintendent of Public Schools 
nt Columbus. Joseph Mii.i.ikin isaveryprom- 
lslng young son of our great-hearted friend, 
John M.Millikin of Butler Co. Profs. Norton 
and Williams are gentlemen of excellent re¬ 
pute. The College edifice now in process of 
building will bo a very handsome and commo¬ 
dious structure, but not ready for occupation 
for some time yet.—s. d. h. 
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Patrons of' Husbandry in Maine, — There is 
ono farmer in Maine who does not “take to” 
the Patrons of Husbandry. Wiiether his head 
is level or not, there maybe two opinions. He 
“regrets that there are men in the go-ahead 
wldo-awake Western States so narrow In their 
views as to imagine they can defend themselves 
CSt expression of dissent that wo -an hope to 7 V , ' ’-a.M.cienu 
break the crust of conservatism and penetrate ' n\ *JV J ' rh cla ^lC ajf P* tWs 
the den of fogy-ism in which the Society seen,, ? rd °? W0 i , IT " **** fl 1 ’» «*<»>' 
NEW YORK STATE AG. SOCIETY. 
By reference to the department of Industrial 
Societies, it will be seen that this Society holds 
its annual meeting Jan. 22 for tho election of 
officers, and a programme for discussion is 
given. This meeting is annually held in Al¬ 
bany. The farmers of t he State who desire to 
benefit by the papers then nnd there road, and 
the discussions then nnd there held, must an- 
fnually make a pilgrimage thither to hear tho 
wisdom which may be served up to them. Thero 
is no doubt, that many wise tilings are said and 
done at this annual meeting of the State Socie¬ 
ty ; that at It gather together as many men, 
wlso in their own conceit, as are often met with, 
in one body, in tho .State. The papers read and 
(he discussions are sometimes published in tho 
Journal of tho Society, which goes only to Its 
members The balance of the agriculturists 
are rarely the wiser for the utterance of this 
agricultural wisdom. Finally, these papers arc 
recorded in the Volunfe of Transactions of the 
State Society, which is also sent to members 
and reaches a few editors outside the member¬ 
ship, sometimes within a year after they are 
read. 
It is ungracious—at least It may seem so—and 
never pleasant to find fault with one’s own State 
institutions. But wo cannot help contrasting 
the position the New York .Stale Agricultural 
Society held ten or fifteen years ago relat ive to 
other similar societies, with that it occupies to- 
j We notice a paragraph In the Washington dis¬ 
patches in which it is asserted that the usual 
struggle over the appropriations for the Agri- 
- cultural Department resulted In the increase of 
the Hem for the purchase and distribution of 
. seeds from *50,000 to $75,000. This is the work 
of the IIoubo In Committee of t he Whole. Tho 
i special pleading of tho Commissioner of Agri- 
• culture In his last “ Report ” which, by t he way. 
was no report whatever, but, simply big deflni- 
, Honor what the different Divisions of the De¬ 
partment should do has brought ibis fruit, 
ami tho tax-payers of tho country are to pay 
$75,000 for the purchase of seeds from Tom, 
Dick and Harry, nnd their distribution 
through the Department to t he constituents of 
Congressmen, who thus hope to find faVor in 
the eyes of the husband men I There is not a 
more useless expenditure of public money made 
than this same seed business by I lie Department 
of Agriculture. It is only because the Depart¬ 
ment buys its seeds of prominent seedsmen, 
who make ft* much profit on them as ou any 
seeds they sell, that this class do not unite in 
emphatic protest against it. Sometime ago we 
were expressing our surprise to a prominent 
seedsman of this city, that he, with others, did 
not protest against this infringement upon 
their business by the Government, when he re¬ 
plied, “ Why, my dear sir, we had as soon sell 
seeds to tho Department of Agriculture as to 
anybody!" 
Of course 1 And the tax-payers are willing to 
pay for seeds to distribute free to t he friends of 
politicians, we suppose, whilo they, t lie tna- s 
jority, are compelled to buy and pay for their 
own seeds besides 1 If we are going to buy and 
distribute seeds in this manner, would it beirn* 
proper to ask some Senator or Congressman to 
see that the Department buys and distributes to 
us a few Ayrshire, Holstein, Alderney or Short- 
llorn bulls and cows?—also a few Improved 
Cheshire, Essex, Victoria, Berkshire orheapoli- 
1 tan pigs?—also a few Houdan, Grove Occur, Brah¬ 
ma, Guelder, Dorking or Cochin fowls?—also a 
stock of Cote wold, Leicester, Merino or South 
Down sheep, and a few Augora goals, &c., &c.? 
If so, why so ? 
We need animals to consume our forage plants 
more than we do seeds? We need Improved 
day. What is it doing for agriculture in New ; catt le, sheePi 8win0 and fowls more than we do 
York? To what extent has it tho sympathy ! vegetable and grain seeds? Why cannot the 
to acknowledge he has not captirlty enough to 
manage his own affairs, it is absurd lo pay $15 
[OrderTeel for the purpose of advertising it. to 
'lie world." He recalls the furor some years 
since of Farmer" Union Stores, ami how they 
failed for want of proper business management, 
I and finally makes the wholesome suggestion— 
at. least it might be much worse—to wit" Tho 
surest and wisest way to keep clear of swindlers 
is, with the new year to Invest the amount re¬ 
quired for membership in the Order [$15] in 
good, reliable papers, both news and agricul¬ 
tural.” 
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Horse Trots at Agricultural Fairs.—At a re¬ 
cent meeting of tho State Board of Agriculture 
of Now Hampshire, the chairman of the Board 
read a paper on this subject which elicited lively 
discussion, but received the indorsement by vote 
of the farmers present. He Is report ed its saying: 
He did not believe it good poMcyto encourage 
horse trot s at our agrlculturaludr*. Would not 
recommend farmers to go into raising fast 
horses. Gave facts lo prove that there was not 
one chance io thirty to raise a fast trotter; 
would recommend the raising of good family 
horses. The raising of fust horse* demoralized 
our boys, by creating a desire to own fast horses. 
They may bo found at the track with u cigar in 
their mouth, betting on this or I hat home. He 
would not. however, exclude horses from our 
agricultural fairs. The first in importance was 
ihe good work horse; the next, tin; roadster, 
which of course, required speed and endurance, 
and to decide this each horse should be tried 
alone. 
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A Printers’ Statue of Greeley Is proposed, to 
be composed of old type metal to bo contributed 
by the printers of the United States. This 
statue is to be erected in Greenwood Cemetery 
in (ho lot where his remains are interred. New j 
York Typographical Union No. fl, or which Mr. 
Greeley was the first President, approve the 
plan, and :isk their fellow craftsmen to set up, 
ou Monday, Feb. 3,1873, the G.’il anniversary of 
Ills birth, one thousand urns, and give tho re¬ 
ceipts of the same to be expended in making 
and erecting the statue, the money to bo for¬ 
warded to the President of Typographical Union 
No. 6, 32 Duane St., New York City. 
How Agents Can Help—Is told by Mr. G. A. 
Jeffries of Columbiana Co., Ohio, who, like 
many Agents during these hard times, gener- j 
ously advances the money for subscribers who ! 
are “short.” Ho writes:—“I have paid for two- 
thirds of the subscriptions out of my own 
pocket. Some will pay mo in one month and 
some in two. J had to do this as money is very 
scarce here, and they say, * Well, I have not got 
the money or I would send.’ I then propose 
Bending for t hero, and they consent. Thus you 
see what an Agent can do if a little accommo¬ 
dating." Agents who are thus accommodating 
help both tho Subscribers and the Rural, and 
their kindness must be appreciated. 
Something that is True.—The following ae- 
g counts for “ hard times ’’ about as truly as any- 
e thing we have seen lately, and embodies some 
it stubborn facts t hat cannot bo too frequently rc- 
is poated. We do not know its paternity, but 
o commend It to our readers all the same“ We 
e are fast becoming a nation of schemers to l.vo 
■f without genuine work. Our hoys are not learn¬ 
ing trades; our farmers’ sons are crowding into 
a cities, looking for clerkships and post-office*; 
t hardly one American girl in each one hundred 
li will do housework for wages, however urgent 
k her need; so we are sending to Europe for 
f workingmen and buying of her artisan* millions 
f worth of products that we ought, to make rot¬ 
s’ ourselves. We must turn over a new leaf.” 
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The Burn! Pay* it* Hubm-rlbera Large Divi¬ 
dends, in many instances, judging from numer¬ 
ous letters received of late. Wc gave several 
f extracts last week, showing how people could 
t afford to take the Rural, aud have many more 
- °f like import, one of which we will append, 
j In remitting fora list of subscribers, Mr. Wr- 
j man Elliot of Hennepin Co., Minn., writes: 
j “This is my eighteenth year taking your paper, 
and I have received hundreds of dollars in in¬ 
formation from it. In many instances informa¬ 
tion from a single article lias benefited me more 
than the price of ten copies for a year. We wish 
’ you a Happy New Year, and many of them." 
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The New l orb Commissioner* of Fisheries 
" announce that they are ready to deliver free of 
charge, for use in public water*, the spawn and 
> small fry of Oswego rock and white bass, a lim- 
I it ed number of black bass, perch and pike, from 
r the hutching house at Rochester, any time 
i during \\ inter. Young white-fish arc in con- 
. dition to transport from Feb. 1 to 10; salmon 
I trout from Feb. 10 to 20. In ordering, the name, 
location, size and nature of the bottom of the 
water must be given. 
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Nepotism in tin* Department of Agriculture. 
Wo are informed t hat Chief Clerk Kliiwank (if 
1 hat is I he way the name is spelled) has been 
removed from his position as Cl tier Adviser to 
the Commissioner, and the son of that venerable 
official is put in Ills place, lie 1ms also another 
»on in tho Department. Wo do not complain of 
this. Probably st ill another son in t he place of 
the fossil father would be a good thing. It, 
couldn't be much worse. 
Transportation of Fruits_Wc commend to 
t lie at tention of all fruit growers an article un¬ 
der tills head in another page, from the pen of a 
gentleman well posted in all the details of the 
fruit trade. 11* exhibit of the manner in which 
tho business Is done ought to excite fruit grow¬ 
ers to prompt aud united action for 1 heir own 
protection. If there la any effort attempted, it 
should be thoroughly organized and include the 
Jarge body of those most interested. 
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Ten In Iowa. Wo sec it stated that tea has 
been cultivated in Crawford Co., Iowa, and tho 
product has reached 700 pounds per acre. It i - 
stated that the party trying tho experiment, 
after making experiments in other States, finds 
that the soil and climate of Iowa are best 
suited to tho plant, and that tho latter is hardy 
there. If this bo true, it would be interesting 
to know where it is not hardy. 
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New York Kinte Dairymen'* \«*ociatiou.— 
Wc have received from Mr. Wtlla iid an install¬ 
ment of his report of the proceedings of this 
organization held at Little Falls, Jan. 7 and 8, 
but too late for the present issue. We shall 
commence its publication next week. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
Granges of Patrons of Husbandry are multi¬ 
plying rapidly in the South. 
In latitude88 and Southward Dr. Jaques re¬ 
commends planting Irish potatoes from Jan. 10 
to Feb. 15. 
Efforts are being made in A’irginia to induce 
the Legislature to establish a State Board of 
Agriculture. 
Russia has conferred a diploma of honor 
upon Baron Liebig for tho application of his 
know ledge of theoretical chemistry to practical 
purposes. 
There were scarcely any English apples in 
market for Christmas, the supply being chiefly 
from the United Slates, except a few Lady ap¬ 
ples from France. 
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 a communication to a Buffalo 
paper about the Horse Epidemic, says“ Exter¬ 
nally I used nnd would recommend Dr. Trask’s Mag¬ 
netic Ointment to the throat, around the ears and on 
the forehead. This ointment contains tobacco and 
lobelia aud operates upon the mucous glands of the 
head and throat by causing an increased flow of seero 
tlon from them, at the same time by its relaxing effect 
removing tho stricture and giving almost instant re¬ 
lief to the cough und breathing." It is kept by all 
Druggists. 
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