diverted from the production of food and yet 
remain paying consumers of it. If our wool 
and cotton, flax and hemp, Iron, copper and 
lead, etc., etc., were manufactured here and 
I only exported in the manufactured state, we 
would Boon be the richest country on the globe. 
If we only manufactured what would meet 
our own home needs, the amouut of money it 
would keep In circulation here, which now 
goes out of the country, thus placing us In t he 
power of foreign eapitalita and manufacturers, 
would make money both plenty and easy, and 
render farming more certainly profitable, 
> because It would not bo overdone. It would 
no'Injure railway corporator* so much a* one 
might think either, for It would Increase local 
traffic and travel. 
We are not sorry that our people arc begin¬ 
ning to realize the evils which llow from over 
production of food, which surplus must find a 
market fn competition with the products of Other 
countries; and at the same time with all the raw 
material wherewith to clothe and furnish our¬ 
selves with comforts, we are compelled to go 
Into foreign markets to buy them. This Is na¬ 
tional tlrianeial suicide. The sooner wo re¬ 
cognize tim fact and come to the evil the bet¬ 
ter ami it. is only when the screw is applied to 
the thumb that we feel the pain and seek relief. 
Farmers who per Hist In growing com, which pays 
them no profit, »ro foolish and short-sighted. 
We must diversify our productions until we get 
the supply of the great staples of food down 
to a volume more nearly equal to the demand, 
if we would make money out of such agricul¬ 
ture. We do not udvlso men to leave a good 
trade to indulge in rural pursuits, for the two 
reasons that, first, to succeed in any business, 
one must understand It. and, second, that there 
are too many food producers and too few 
manufacturers in t his country, now. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
and what Its relative success was, if it. was ever 
put In operation, we do not know. Our corre¬ 
spondent, who inquires, ’s Informed that we 
have known of several similar projects, but, wo 
do not know of one that has ever made any 
‘"noise in tho world"’ by any satisfactory results. 
If our readers are better posted, any of them, 
we shall be glad to be enlightened. 
The Hural dub of New York recently held 
its annual meeting for tho election of officers 
in the Astor House parlors, and elected the fol¬ 
lowing officers for tho ensuing year:—Pm.—S. 
B. Pahnons, Flushing, L. L; Vic©-/Vc*’ta. F. M. 
Hex am or, Lucius A. Chase, C. T. Huriburd. .Sec. 
-A. B. Crandall. Trta*,- II. T. Williams. Ex. 
Com,—F. D. Curtis, Andrew 8. Fulior, Samuel 
Sinclair and H. K. liiiss. 
The Club enters upon the third year of Its 
history wit h a large and Increasing membership. 
In a healthful financial condition, and with ex¬ 
cellent prospects of future Usefulness. Meet¬ 
ings are to be held more frequently the coming 
year, and excursions to suburban places worth 
visiting are projected during the Spring and 
Su m tner mont hs. Without any os! eolat ion* pur- 
poses, with only an aim to unite tho Hural taste 
of the city and suburbs and create a nucleus 
about which those engaged in, or partial to, 
Rural pursuits, might gather and become ac¬ 
quainted with each other, the Club has pros¬ 
pered beyond the expectations of its most san¬ 
guine friend*, and promises to become an estab¬ 
lished central feature here. 
A NATIONAL, ILLUSTRATED 
OoiidviotiriK liiditor and Publish.©r 
Flying Machine*.—It Is stated that an aero¬ 
naut named Donaldson is now constructing 
a scries of balloons with which ho proposes to 
cross tho Atlantic next. Bummer, starting from 
Now York city. Declaims thata (lying machine 
la a possible success—as possible as the steam¬ 
boat or locomotive, and that It doe* not simu¬ 
late a bird’s movements more than tho steam¬ 
boat does thoso of a fish or a locomotive those 
of a horse. Wo have faith tn the ultimate nav¬ 
igation of the air, and hail w r ith encouraging 
words any enthusiast who attempts to solve 
the problem how to do it. 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
AHBoc>iutc Kditorw. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Editor oi nut Pjlpartmk.nt ov ,Snifter I! urban dry. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y„ 
Editor o» thk Ditr.AHTMic.sT Daily Husbandry. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
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licet Sugar from Illinois.—A sample of the 
beet sugar being manufactured at Freeport, IIU 
to which wo alluded on page 10, Rural New- 
Yorker of Jan. I, ha* reached this office from 
Mr Ro&enstiel. It Is a lino sample—bettor in 
our judgment, than most grades of cane sugar. 
Mr. R., In a private note, says:— 1 The beets in 
this locality aro more free fromacids than thoso 
grown in any country in Europe. I think there 
Is a bright future for the manufacture of beet 
sugar in tills country.” 
Hpolllng n Mutch.—No one can get fire from 
a match without spoiling It so no great move¬ 
ment in favor of reform ©an succeed without 
somebody is hurt.. Tho farmers of the country 
hitvo been and are hurt by the oppressive tariffs 
of railway combinations, f.r.un warehousemen, 
and unscrupulous legislators. This is creating 
a spirit of Inquiry among them such as ha* 
never before been awakened in this country— 
or any other country for that matter. No mat¬ 
ter whether tho specific objects aimed at by 
such inquiry are attained or not , groat good will 
result, from tho meeting, mingling with and con¬ 
sulting each other. More than ono remedy for 
the troubles in which they aro Involved will lie 
suggested, and there will tie a broader compre¬ 
hension of the business relations of producers 
to the rest of tho world established in their 
minds. This awakening among funnel’s In con. 
sequence of the friction which railroad brakes 
upon their prosperity create, will kindle a fire 
which we feel confident will not quickly die out 
nor be easily extinguished. 
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Beet Sugar In California.—The beet sugar 
experiment, in California seems to have been 
successful. The Sacramento Valley Beet Sugar 
Company laut year cultivated nearly 1,300 acres 
in boot*; till*year 1,000 acres are to be planted. 
The Rural Press says that t he sugar front these 
works now in use in San Francisco haa not its 
equal in tho best, cane sugar from tho refineries. 
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AVhat a blessed faculty Is that which enables 
a man or woman to say No, and then *• stick 
to itl Of course, one who practices the posi¬ 
tive, must also learn to think before he speaks, 
else tie will bo unjust to himself as well as 
others, 
The Trnimportnilou of Cattle. — We seo it. 
stated that the House Committee on Agricul¬ 
ture are ready to report a bill in relation to 
transportation of cattle t hat provides that cat¬ 
tle shall not bo confined In cars, boats, etc., for 
a period longer than twenty-four hours without 
unloading for rest and food, for a period of at 
least six hours. 
No one class of our people need to ac¬ 
quire this habit more than farmers, and when 
they have become accustomed to uso tho word 
more frequently and emphatically than t hey do 
at present, itinerant peddlers and agents will 
find their occupation gone, oral least slightly 
less remunerative. 
Tho patent gate orbee-hivo man calls on the 
farmer ami asks him to purchase K« wares, or 
tho right to use them; the firmer, knowing 
that he does not actually need them, says no; 
but tim smooth, oily tongue of the agent soon 
gets a decision In hi* favor, and there are two 
salt-* effected inst ead of one— for tho farmer Is 
sold and the agent sells hla wares.' When we 
glance over the list of patent gates boo-hives, 
ox-yokes, churns, fences, and 11 thousand and 
ono other worthless things that have been sold 
to farmers, and urc at the present time being 
hawked about the country, we cannot help 
urging every runn to try and acquire the habit 
of saying No I 
There maybe one or two better churns than 
t he old-fashioned one used by our grandfathers, 
but how many thousands of worse than useless 
things have been sold under the name of “ im¬ 
proved patent churns!” The same is true of 
nearly all of t he smaller implement* used about 
the household and farm; the inventors, manu¬ 
facturers and peddlers of the same havlug flour¬ 
ished amazingly, simply because farmers could 
not or did not say. No. All the vile nostrums 
that are dist ributed through the country were 
sent there by the manufacturers simply because 
they know tho weaknesses of the masses; and 
sw indlers of all kinds, from wluo-plant peddler* 
down to counterfeit, money dealers who send 
boxos of sawdust to their dupes, flourish for 
the same reason. 
It Is passing strange that men and women 
who possess any Intelligence can, fora moment, 
suppose that any country quack or city quack 
doctor possesses opportunities or t ho brains to 
concoct a medicine of more value or potency 
than tho thousands of learned men who grace 
the profession. Tho same Is into in regard to 
plants; and If farmer* will remember this one 
thing, that no traveling agent over did intro¬ 
duce a new plant, fruit, or vegetable, they will 
bo duped loss often. When any one calls on 
you «nd pretends that he has something new, 
that our regular nurserymen or florists do 
not know all about, *et him dowm jt* a swin- 
-A 
Tax on Bow- Cotton. — The returns at, tho 
Treasury Department show that tho amount of 
lax paid into tho Treasury on raw cotton 
amounts to $08,073,388. Of this amount New 
York paid $887,013.68 tin cotton roccivod in bond; 
Georgia about $11. 000, (XXI ; Alabama and Loui¬ 
siana eatli mvit £10,000.000; Mississippi over 
$8,000,000; Tennessee over $7,000,000, and Texas 
over $5,000,000. This tux lias been declared un¬ 
constitutional by a decision of the Supremo 
Court, and there are two bills before Congress 
providing for refunding tho tax. This decision 
Is a sad comment upon the character ©1 our 
legislttllon and the wisdom of our legislators. 
It Is to be hoped that if this tax Is refunded it 
will benefit those who paid It; but it Is to bo 
feared that It will not—that It will go Into tho 
hands of political schemers und jobbers, and 
load to regret that It ever went out of the United 
State* Treasury. 
RURAL BREVITIES 
Hop farmer* are happy—10 to 55 cents per 
pound for their product makes them so. 
J II. M., Box 440, Raleigh, N. C., wants threo 
splendid cows in full flow of milk. Who's got 
'em? 
W.. Plymouth, Mich., will probably find Phil¬ 
osophic, al and Chemical Apparatus by address¬ 
ing lion (check & Goebeleh, 4 Murray street, 
N. Y. city. 
I>R, M. IV, Philips is tho Professor of Special 
Agriculture in tho University of Mississippi, 
and lias charge of the State Experimental Farm 
its Superintendent. 
W. F. Child requests some of our readers 
who have a good and convenient smoke-house 
to furnish the Rural New-Yorker a plan 
thereof for publication. 
C. G. Thompson Is Informed that wo do not 
know where Eticharls A tnazonha, illustrated in 
>ho Rural Oct, Ml, can bo obtained. Wo do not 
know that it haa been introduced in this 
country. 
We see It stated that fully three-fourths of 
llic jack stock of Kentucky have died from the 
epizootic influenza which lias affiicted the horses 
of the country". Other States where mules aro 
bred have *ullered badly also. 
The New York State A gri cultural Society will 
have held it* annual meeting beforo this paper 
reaches our readers. It will bo lute-resting uext 
week to note whether there is developed auy 
regenerative or resurrective power in it. 
Buyers of clover seed In Michigan aro re¬ 
ported by tho Farmer to bo making heavy con¬ 
tracts at $5.15515.36, and are “quietly picking up 
all tho lot* they can get." I* clover»uedscarce? 
Lot us hear about it and prices from our corre¬ 
spondents. 
It. S. V. is advised to purchase and road Wil¬ 
lard’* Practical Dairy Husbandry if ho desires to 
enter upon the dairy business in Spring and bus 
had no experience In It. It la the only standard 
work on tills subject la till* country. It may be 
obtained at I his office by remittin $3. 
M. M. is informed that we shaL be glad to re¬ 
ceive condensed reports of practical discus¬ 
sion* by Farmers' Clubs. We arc al w ay* glad to 
receive whatever will help our readers to a bet¬ 
ter knowledge of what to do and how to do 
what they wan to do—no mat ter from whom 
or wbtt sect 1 01 of country it, comes. 
SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 1873. 
TO ALL OUR READERS 
Agents, Subscribers, and indeed all who read 
this, are reminded that the present is a most 
favorable scasou t.o obtain subscribers for tho 
Rural New-Yorker. While Agent.* arc form¬ 
ing or adding to clubs, we hope others -especial¬ 
ly new subscribers, and those receiving tho paper 
at post-offices where but one or two copies are 
taken—will kindly endeavor to augment our 
circulation. Many of our reader* are so situated 
that they can readily form or add to clubs, and 
we shall bo prompt In recognizing und reward¬ 
ing all such efforts. 
Back numbers of t his volumo supplied to new 
subscribers, unless otherwise ordered. Reader, 
please refer to Publisher’s Notices, &e., (under 
hoadlug of “ Publisher's Desk,”) on page (18, and 
to Premium List, (beaded “ Good Pay for Doing 
Good ! ”) on page 70, and then sec if it will not 
pay you to act in accordance with above re¬ 
quests and suggestions. 
The Vienna Exposition Bill, which appro- 
proprlutcs $300,000 to aid American exhibitors 
to exhibit their wares at tho Vienna Exposition, 
and pay a Commission for looking after their 
interests there, has passed tho Senate, and wo 
believe the House of Congress. This Is a good 
thing for Commissioner Van Bnren, whose zeal 
in behalf of himself has been rewarded. As wo 
have sakl before, we think the money thus ap¬ 
propriated mis-upproprlaiod, and i hat American 
inventor* who arc wiso, will be careful not to 
send their Inventions thither, for they have no 
protection whatever from the appropriation of 
their invention*, wit hout royalty or reward, by 
Austrian artisan*. Austria i* to gain and Amer- 
caus to lose tn this cute game. 
TOO MANY FARMERS.” 
Lotteries nnd Slate Fairs.—“For the relief 
of the Fair Ground Association” of Louisiana, 
it la announced that a grand lottery and distri¬ 
bution of prizes amounting to $37,485, Is to 
“give a new interest” to the Louisiana State 
Fair, to commence April 23. Why not lotteries 
at State Fair* as well as at church Fairs ? Who 
shall declaim against it 7—especially when raf¬ 
fle* arc legitimate so long as the object is n good 
one? We commend this newfeaturo of Fairs to 
peoplo who advocate racing at agricultural 
Fairs, and yet whose virtue would not permit 
them to attend a race on a professional race 
course! 
We now hear theory “Too many farmers;” 
that is, production ts too great in the country; 
which means that producers ol food are too far 
from the consumers of it, if It means auything ; 
or, that the consumers of it who aro not pro¬ 
ducers, do not produce for exchange what the 
farmer consumes. Why are the farmers In the 
power of tho railroads? Why do Illinois and 
Iowa farmers complain that it costs so much 
to send their corn to the seaboard ? Why must 
the corn bo sent to the seaboard? Because it 
must bo consuinod there, or shipped abroad for 
consumption. Tho effort of land and railway 
corporations is all expended in securing a claBS 
of Immigrants who want and will pay for and 
cultivate land. They do not oaro for the Intro¬ 
duction of n manufacturing class of popula¬ 
tion in tho country. It is tho interest, of the 
carry log trade to keep producers and consumers 
as far apart as possible: for it Is out of tho ne¬ 
cessities of both, thus separated, that these 
carrying monopolies fatten. 
There arc too many farmers in this country 
now In proportion to the manufacturing popu¬ 
lation. We believe In a protective tariff, be¬ 
cause we bcllovo in keeping our money at home 
and circulating hero. Wo do not believe i t isuny 
gain to any country to export raw material; we 
believe that ever particle of labor that can he 
expended in rendering raw material ready for 
use to the consumer should bo expended upon 
It at home. If this were so in this country, 
what a per cent, of our population would bo 
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. 
Importing Largely. — The Imports for the 
Spring trade are reported to he very heavy— 
which means that wo are not only paying man¬ 
ufacturers abroud their own prices for their 
goods, but sending our grai a thither In exchange 
at their own prices, with which to feed their 
operatives; and that is the reason why our 
farmers aro burning corn ami complaining of 
high freights. If we consumed only tho goods 
made at our own doors, railroads would have no 
chance to levy toll on the farmer’s grain; he 
would have a home market. To secure this 
should be the aim and effort of producers. 
HORSE EPIDEMIC 
A physician, tn a communication to a Buffalo 
paper about ttie Horse Epidemic, say*Exter¬ 
nally I used nnd would recommend T)r. Trask’s Mag¬ 
netic Ointment to the throat, around the cars and on 
tho forehead This ointment, contains tobacco and 
lobelia, and operate upon the mucousglands of the 
head and throat by causing un increased flow of Becre 
tfon from them at the same umo by its relaxing effect 
removing the stricture and giving almost instant re¬ 
lief to the cough und breathing.” Jt Is kept by all 
Druggists. 
Narrow Gauge Ilnilrond* lor Farmers.—gome 
years ago, in Illinois, an attempt was made to 
build a farmer’s narrow gauge railway through 
a rich farming port ion of that State. Whethoi 
it was ever coflsummuL. d we aro not informed ; 
THE WAKEFIELD EARTH CLOSET. 
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