PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
to Government will be vastly increased; for 
practically, they are worth nothing now. 
While we are opposed to land grants to cor¬ 
porations, and to the disposal of the public 
lands, a* they have hitherto been disposed of, 
subsidies, except in cases where there Beema 
to be a direct ami immediate gain from their 
increased development, wo see no reason to op¬ 
pose this magnificent scheme; for there Is to bo 
no monopoly fastened upon settlers which shall 
hereafter retard their progress, or repress their 
enterprise, or defraud them of the fruits of 
t heir industry. These treeless plains ought t<» 
be covered or studded with forests, if forests 
will grow upon them. The risks taken by this 
Association, in attempting to develop thorn 
upon those terms, may or may not be great; but 
If success Is certain, we know of no cheaper or 
more certain mode of enhancing the value of 
these millions of now uninviting lands. 
We notice, among the name of Directors, Dr. 
Jom.n A. Warder of Ohio, Rorert Douglas 
of Illinois, and S. T. Krosier of Kansas 
readers, who succeeds the late Horace Gree¬ 
ley as presiding officer. 
He is reported as saying;—“My instructions to 
my agents In Chicago are. never to putin market 
for me a package of my fruit, which I cannot 
warrant In good condition: fori hold myself 
personally responsible to every purchaser that 
every package shall be what It purports to be- 
in good marketable condition; but, as yet, I 
have never been called upon to refund the 
money on a single package.” 
Study the Home Market.—We have so often 
answered questions as to what we would advise 
people to cultivate, that it almost seems a work 
of supererogation to repeat; but we remember 
that what a man wants to knowta just as im¬ 
portant to him as If no one ever knew It before, 
and the answer Is as valuable as if no such In¬ 
structions or suggestions had ever been made. 
We give this general rule, which will answer a 
half dozen Inquiries on our table. Learn first 
what your soli wili produce, and then study the 
wants of the market upon which you must de¬ 
pend for the sale of your produce—and the 
nearer home you can find that market the bet¬ 
ter and try to produce the best of its class of 
articles, and sell them as cheaply (retaining a 
reasonable profit) as any one else can. This Is 
in brief the law which should govern producers 
in selecting crops to cultivate, or stock to breed. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conducting Editor and Publisher 
A 8 nd Picture—A correspondent in St. Jo¬ 
seph s Co., Ind., remitting Ids subscription for 
the Rural for 1873 writesI am an Inhabitant 
of Indiana. A farmer ? Tea—farming in the 
Northern part of that beautiful snipe of coun¬ 
try called “St. Jo. County," almost on the lino 
bordering the fertile county of Stark. Well, I 
am on the sand knobs, surrounded by marshes, 
infested by cranberries and fever and ague. It 
wall be four years in March since I left my native 
State with my family (wife and two children) 
and $«00 in pocket—old York State. To-night 
finds me sitting by a good warm fire writing 
for your much esteemed Rural New- York¬ 
er; property and children have passed away_ 
are counted among l ho things that were. I 
know of nothing that will help as muqh to 
cheer the broken circle ami aid in cultivating 
this poor, light soil, as your paper.” 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
Associate Editor*,. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Editor ok nut Dri'*rtmb<(t of Siikkf Husbandry. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editor cif tiis Dudartmrkt of Dairy Husbandry. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
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Obituary—Miss Caroline A. Howard._\Vc 
learn with regret from the State Republican, 
Lansing, Mich., of the death of Miss Howard 
from congestion of the lungs, January 13th, the 
thirty-sixth anniversary of her birthday. She 
was the daughter of the late Sanford Howard, 
Secretary' of the State Board of Agriculture of 
Michigan, was educated at the New York state 
Normal School at Albany, and was, at the time 
of her death, a clerk in the office of Superinten¬ 
dent of Public Instruction in Michigan. She 
was talented as a writer, and many of our read¬ 
ers will remember bar contributions to the Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker —both of poetry and prose. 
She also contributed largely to many other first 
class publications, and bad won u worthy dis¬ 
tinction (us a poetess and story writer. The Re¬ 
publican says of her personal character: 
“Miss Howard was of a refined, sensitive, 
sympathetic nature; ambitious to benefit the 
world with noble Ideas, deeply religious without 
cant or pretensions, charming In conversation, 
and one of those cordial but unobtrusive friends 
whom vou are oh POj/S glad to sec. An unfortu¬ 
nate deafness, caused by scarlet fever when she 
was a little child, seemed no impediment to her 
acquisition of knowledge or her ability to Im¬ 
part it. 8 ho was a constant sufferer from dis¬ 
ease, yet her cheerful spirits would preclude 
one from supposing it.” 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
Heath of Luther Tucker.—At the last mo¬ 
ment, before going to press, we ieurn, with pro¬ 
found regret, of the death of Luther Tucker, 
the veteran editor and proprietor of the Country 
Gentleman. We must defer notice of the life 
and services of Mr. Tucker until our next issue. 
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City Clerkships. 
A young man writes the 
Rural New-Yorker from the farm as fol¬ 
lows “ I am not satisfied with my life here. I 
feel that 1 am worthy of something better. 
What do you think of the chances for getting 
a good paying position in some good mercantile 
house in your city. Please answer.” This 
young man evidently expected a private answer 
to his letter. We think proper to answer it. here. 
The “ chances for getting a good paying posi¬ 
tion in some good mercantile house 0 are very 
few. We know young men who work from ten 
to sixteen hours per day Tor $10 or $15 per week, 
out of which they have to pay from $7 to $10 per 
week for board if they get it in a decent family 
or boarding-house. This affords but -mall mar 
gin for clothing, which the necessities of Ihc 
case, not to say the temptation to imitate others, 
render expensive. Thus young men are tempted 
to ruin their reputations, acquire habits of pec¬ 
ulation, learn to be unscrupulous, and end, 
finally, with becoming adventurers, if not crim¬ 
inals. We do not. assert that all young men 
drift, info dishonest practices, but the tempta¬ 
tion is very strong; and t.he hope deferred for 
those who are honest makes tin: heart sick, and 
they speedily find themselves longing for t he 
quiet, peace and comfort, of the country homes 
they have left- No word of ours shall Induce 
a young man to leave the home life in the coun¬ 
try for city life. True, many have done so and 
succeeded; but at what cost! Were they any 
happier? No! Did they secure a position which 
gave them richer compensation in all that 
makes life desirable? No! Were they more 
contented and belter satisfied with their ac¬ 
quirements here than there? No! Wo there- 
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t utniogucM, etc., Received.— Fro in Briggs & 
Brother, Rochester, N. V., a gorgeously got- 
ten-up Quarterly Illustrated Seed Catalogue and 
Guide, very finely illustrated and containing 
much practical Information to guide those who 
plant seeds and cultivate plants. . . . From 
Alfred llitt nr; km an & son, New York City, an¬ 
nual descriptive catalogue of vegetable, flower 
and field seeds. . . . From I’etkr. Hknder- 
kon, New York City, Spring plant catalogue for 
1873; also his seed catalogue. 
in English papers. As has before been stated in 
these columns, the laborers who refused during 
harvest to help the tenant farmers save their 
crops unless their wages were advanced a shil¬ 
ling or two per week, are now being paid off by 
tbeir employers in the same coin. In other 
words, the farmers have struck, and discharged 
from their employ, during the Winter season, 
these very men, who were dependent upon their 
weekly wages fur their own and their families’ 
support. Tiie poorcrops this year in Great Brit¬ 
ain, the great losses from unfavorable weather, 
and the action of the laborers during harvest, In 
some sense excuses this action, if we take into 
account the natural resentments of human na¬ 
ture. One paper states that In a few of t he ru¬ 
ral districts, which it names, “400poor wretches 
have been turned adrift to starve or seek parish 
aid. I hts will doubtless teach them, as the 
farmers have been taught, the lesson of mutual 
dependence, and the advantages and necessity 
of co-operation on the part of employers and 
employed. 
Iona Agricultural College.— Suel Foster, 
Muscatine, Iowa, who is known to the agricul¬ 
tural press of the country as a sort of chronic 
fault-finder with moat sublunary matters relat¬ 
ing to agriculture and horticulture, says of the 
above named college“It is surely the model 
Agricultural College of tho United States.” 
That f« the most comprehensive and compli¬ 
mentary sentence we ever knew our honest 
friend Foster to write. It must mean a great 
deal, and awakens » groat desire on our part to 
visit that college. 
SATURDAY, FEB. 1, 1873. 
TO ALL OUR READERS 
Agents, Subscribers, aud indeed ail who read 
this, (u-e reminded that the present is a most 
favorable season to obtain subscribers for the 
Rural New-Yorker. While Agents are form- 
ing or adding to clubs, we hope others—especial¬ 
ly new subscribers, and those receiving the paper 
at post-offices where but one or two copies are 
taken—will kindly endeavor to augment our 
circulation. Many of our readers are so situated 
that they can readily form or add to clubs, and 
wo shall be prompt in recognizing and reward¬ 
ing all such efforts. 
Rack numbers of this volume supplied to new 
subscribers, unless otherwise ordered, but sub- 1 
scriptions can begin now or at any time. Reader, 
ploase refer to Publisher’s Notices, &o., (under 
heading of “ Publisher's Desk,") on page 84, and 
to Premium List, (headed “Good Pay for Doing 
Good 1 ”) on page 80, and then see if it will not 
pay you to act In accordance with above re¬ 
quests and suggestions. 
i HiroiiH 01 iiu»hnn«iry anil Women.— Do wo 
men become members of the Order of Patrons 
of Husbandry < Are they admitted to full ineir- 
S'R.-mW . 1 P K k.'' “ ”■ 1 “ k ° to 
Yes. they are, In every respect, so far as we 
have knowledge or information, placed upon 
the same plane as regards rights and privileges 
wlthm the organization, as men ; and hundreds 
of farmers’ wives and daughters have become 
members of the Order. 
Amerirnn Homological Kociety 
The next 
meeting of the American Pomologlcal .Society, 
as we have already announced, is to be held at 
Boston, September 10th to 13th; and from Mr. 
K. R. Elliott, the Secretary, we learn that ef¬ 
fective measures are in progress to bring out a 
vast amount of intelligence and practical in¬ 
formation, as well as inducements for a grand 
exhibit of fruits. Elegant rooms for the meet¬ 
ing, its discussions and display of fruits, will be 
furnished by the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society; and a.s Boston, in her suburbs, has an 
abundance of gentlemen’s places where money, 
art and taste have been expended in the growth 
and bloomingof all varieties of trees and plants, 
in the arrangement of groups, the massing of 
Flora's gems, there will be unusual inducements 
to Western and Southern horticulturists to be 
present at the coming Fall exhibition. Mr. 
Elliott has recently been visiting Boston! 
gathering some of the seductive items to florists 
and fruit men, perfecting a business programme, 
preparing requests for essays, lists of premiums 
to be offered by the liberal Bostonians, etc., etc., 
of whieh he promises us a word or moro for a 
future number. 
me Medium for Vdvertlslng.-BLAIR Broth¬ 
ers, Lee’s Summit Nurseries, Lee’s Summit, Mo., 
write us under date of Jan. 14,1873:—“ The ben- 
eflts resulting from our advertising in the Ru- 
nAL New- Yorker have been such as to forbid 
us withdrawing our card, even for a short time. 
Me hold that judicious advertising consists 
chiefly in the superior quality of the medium 
chosen for tho purpose.” 
Sanctum PeftonnU.—We are glad to receive 
calls from our Industrial friends. During the 
past week, F. R. Elliott of Cleveland, Ohio, 
has Called upon us. As Secretary of the Amer¬ 
ican Fomologiual Society, he is East, preparing 
programme (as elsewhere noted) for tho great, 
meeting to be held in Boston in September. 
Ho Inis been interviewing the pomologists, 
and speaks enthusiastically of the prospects for 
a good and profitable time at the Society's 
Twenty-fifth Anniversary— 1 ’. T. Quinn has 
The New York Fanner*’ ( luh has degener 
ated into an axe-grinding anti hobby-riding es 
mainly kept alive by the agricul 
tural editors of the city paper- in order tha 
with m ?- v stlifr to till up their column: 
4 n n mi ~ llty I >oor It is. most of it.- 
Vermont Farmer. 
DnAT is what some- of the Agricultural Edit¬ 
ors of New \ ork City think, too. Brother Hos¬ 
kins has an apparently level head! 
GROWING TREES ON THE WESTERN 
PLAINS. 
There is organized a Western Forest Tree 
and Hedge-Growing Association of Kansas, 
which has secured the introduction of a bill in 
Congress, which bill, if adopted, grants one sec¬ 
tion of land for each mile of distance between 
Fort Dodge in Kansas, and Pueblo, Colorado, to 
tho said Association, on condition that it shall 
grow eighty acres in forest trees on each and 
every section of lund so granted, and shall put 
into cultivation an experimental farm of not 
less than forty acres once in fifty miles between 
the points named, and cultivate upon said farms 
all the varieties of seeds and grains suitable for 
that climate, and shall keep n correct journal 
of all their experiments in growing seods and 
grasses, and the different 
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. 
varieties of trees 
grown by them, with their success or failure— 
a copy of said journal to be furnished the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture once in twelve months. 
This seems to us to be one nr the most sensi¬ 
ble efforts to get a subsidy of Government land 
that has eoine to our notice. True, tho grant of 
land Is large. But the bulk of that lund Is now 
worthless, comparatively: that is, it Is a portion 
of the barren plains on which nothing now 
grows. If this Association succeeds in develop¬ 
ing forests there, and in establishing the fact 
that grains and forests can be profitably grown 
on those lands—which will be proven or other¬ 
wise by tho experiment—the value of those lands 
A PHYSICIAN, in a communication to a Buffalo 
paper about the Horse Epidemic, says“ Exter¬ 
nally 1 used and would recommend Dr. Trask’s Mag¬ 
netic Ointment to the throat, around the ears and on 
the forehead. This ointment contain# tobacco and 
lobelia, and operates upon the mucous glands of the 
head and throat by causing an increased flow of secre¬ 
tion from them, at the same time by It# relaxing effect 
removing the stricture and giving almost instant re¬ 
lief to the cough and breathing.” it ts kept by all 
Druggists. * 
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THE WAKEFIELD EARTH CLOSET. 
Get Descriptive Pamphlet at 36 Dey St., New York. 
The True Principle In Marketing Produce.- 
John Clat, a fruit grower in Southern Illinois, 
has got hold of the true principle for a producei 
to adopt and live up to. It is as sure as sunrise 
that the man who adheres to it will prosner 
