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“ PROCRES8 AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1873. 
THE RURAL’S SPRING CAMPAIGN! 
It is Pleasant and Profitable 
TO FORM CLUBS FOR 
tion ; and aggressive action with the purpose 
of righting a wrong is always a defensive act. 
We are not sorry, therefore, to see combination 
among farmers, We believe In it. We need to 
have developed a more intelligent sympathy 
and fraternity of feeling and harmony of action 
among ourselves. We want to learn of each 
other. The wisdom that the best of the profes¬ 
sion possess should become the common prop¬ 
erty of the whole. If we lack knowledge we 
want the most enlightened instruction from 
men who appreciate and sympathize with our 
position that we can obtain. Rut. beware of 
demagogues! They will bo found among farm¬ 
er* us everywhere else. They will seek the 
power which the united confidence of the farmer 
bestows. Smooth-tongued and oily, they will 
not hesitate to profess lobe the farmer’s friends 
for the purpose of obtaining something they may 
sell to the highest bidder among bis enemies. 
Combine in self defense! Combine to diffuse 
intelligent knowledge of wlmt will elevate the 
whole claw I Combine to protect each other! 
It Is legitimate and proper. To know what is 
best to do involves the necessity for combina¬ 
tion. There must be conference with each 
other. There must be mutual concessions, for 
the purpose of agreement upon action that shall 
promote the common interest and highest, wel¬ 
fare of all. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Agricultural Conventions In JVcw York State. 
—An effort was made at the late meeting of the 
Executive Committee of the Now York State 
Agricultural Society to Inaugurate a series of 
Farmers' Conventions in different part* of the 
State, under the auspices of t he Society to do 
something to awaken a more direct interest in 
the Society, and to establish more intimate 
relations with the farmers of the State. Hut 
there happened to be uJd fogies enough left In 
the Hoard to defeat any such project—modest 
men, who distrusted the power of the State 
Society to instruct or enlighten farmers in llieir 
vocation. We will venture to say that these 
very modest men, so far a* they individually 
are concerned, were right; but it. is very unfor¬ 
tunate for the State Society that it has so many 
such men members or the Executive Commit¬ 
tee. Probably none of I hem ever attended 
meetings of t he State and American Dairymen’s 
Association, nor any of the live Farmers’ Club* 
and Horticultural Societies in the Stale. Then 
iliey must have failed to see ( he real object of 
such a movement. It could not have been pro¬ 
posed with any hope that the State Society 
would be able to enlighten the farmers, but 
that the farmers might possibly galvanize the 
State Society and Its management into a condi¬ 
tion a little less like that of the hibernating 
bear. We imagine these modest men would lose 
none of their modesty by such contact with 
the farmers of the State ; and they might po*^. 
sibly absorb a new and progressive idea or two, 
of which there is not now too great a surplus 
stock among them. 
their resolutions to build up home markets by Heed and Implement list for 1873—From Wash- 
encouraging home manufactures. It is the minx & Co., Boston, Mass., their Amateur’s 
swiftest and surest way to independence of Guido to the Flower Garden for 1873—very elab- 
freight monopolies. orate and complete.— From It. H. Allen & 
**• (Jo., 189 and 191 Water street, New York City, 
A National Hallway Exclusively for Freight Descriptive Catalogue of Seeds and Grains.- 
j is now proposed between the West and the From M assey & Hudson, Chestertown, Md., 
J East. Of course, It is intended to be under the PHca List of Now Plants for 1873.—FromCnos- 
control of the Government, If (his were not a j MAX Brothers, Rochester, N. V„ Catalogue 
representative government, we should be op- an<i Guide to the Vegetable and Flower Garden 
posed to it; but since the people are the sever- r ° r -From R. D. Haw lev, Hartford, Ct., 
eigns, and it is to be built for the people, whose , ’ rire List of Seed and Implement Catalogue.— 
government Is little else than a corporation In *' rnm G. A. Law, Rosllndaie, near Ihmton, Mass., 
which all are stockholder* and have a voice ip I'-atalogue of Seeds, Bulbs and Plants. — From 
its management, wo see little objection to it, Luther Holmes, See. and Trcm., Schedule of 
although there are many who think we have Premiums of Mechanics’ and Ag'l Fair Asso- 
“too much government” now. On the contra- ^Dition of Louisiana; Fair commences April 23. 
ry, we think we have too little,and that private ri10 va ® ue Purdy’s Smai.i, Fruit In- 
corporations control that little too effectually. ^truoto tt, advertised in our columns, maybe 
- The above proposition is not new, however. iud f . d fr °"' 1 he ^Bowing subjects which it 
Tor we published an aide communication on the ^ in * : -? maU 1 r, ‘" for >’ , '»niiy; Advice 
subject in the RURAL of March 5. 1870 . and in ' !Sfiw '’ C(!ln “ ere; " bat w e AV ould do w ith Ten 
commenting I hereupon saidThe arguments | , V ° r °.! : J ‘®. H, ’ rnc5 ot th ® * “rnicr! Profits of 
adduced will, we think, lead many of our read- ' , m '!. * ruf '“’ in Making Small Fruits 
era to coincide In the views expressed and con- Marketing FTuits; Gathering the 
elusion arrived at by the writer, and tr> fa vr>rrli/» I !: ruJt \ l run flint I » riches Quickly, 
ers to coincide in the views expressed and con¬ 
clusion arrived at by the WTiter, and to favor flic 
construction of at least one great, double-track 
Freight Road between the West, and tide-water, 
as a means of speodily and cheaply transporting 
the immense produce of our AV astern States to t 
Eastern and Foreign Markets.” 
The Relative Nutrition of Bean* and Pens.— 
“Many interested ” ask us to decide which are 
the more nutritious food beans or peas. It is 
not an uasy question to decide. Some beans 
are richer than pens in nutritious substance, 
and I'tec verm. They arc so nearly akin in value 
in this respect, that some chemists class them 
together In their descriptive analyses, Just as 
botanists put them in the same family. The 
difference in nutrition depends upon variety, 
soil, culture, and local and climatic circum¬ 
stance*. We du nut know of any analyse* made 
where the circumstances of soil, culture, &c„ 
were the same, with a view to determine the 
comparative nutrition. A n examination of sev¬ 
eral analyses, however, shows that, In a major¬ 
ity of CMOS, peas exhibit more nutritive ele¬ 
ments than beans; but the fact Is, that certain 
varieties of beaus are found to yield more nu¬ 
tritive substance than certain varieties of peas. 
Hence, we must take the general average of 
analyses in deciding It) favor of peas. Peas, as 
n rule, have loss husk, less water, more legumin, 
albumen, &c., much starch, more sugar and 
more oil. 
EXTRA INDUCEMENTS 
A PREMIUM OR CASH COMMIS¬ 
SION TO EVERY ACENT! 
From Feb. 22, 1873, and during the. Rural’s 
Spring Campaign, (if not longer,) Every Agent 
can have, either a Premium or Liberal Cash 
Commission, as preferred. Send for Supple 
me.nt containing full particulars as to both 
premiums and Cash Commissions. 
Fast- ,7 1 asters, Mc. rch a n Is, Ma nufact urers, 
Mechanics, Clerks, and indeed, most persons 
engaged in Stores, Offices, Factories, Shops, 
Ac., can easily form clubs without leaving 
their places of business — while Farmers, 
Clergymen, Teachers, Pupils, (both Oiris and i 
Boys,) and many others, can make it pay to 
canvass their towns or neighborhoods. 
SEND FOR THE DOCUMENTS ! 
FARMERS, COMBINE! 
A correspondent of the Rural New- 
Yorker asks: —“Do you advise farmers to 
combine ? ” That’s all he asks. If he had speci¬ 
fied the object of the combination, we might 
give, perhaps, a more satisfactory answer. We 
are, however, in favor of farmers combining. It 
seems to us the only hope for them. We do not 
mean, thereby, that any fanner should lose In¬ 
dividuality or surrender his Independence; but 
that he should combine with his brethren to 
co-operate for mutual protection and profit. 
There is the same necessity for it there is for 
the massing of on© army against another— for 
defense or. aggression. The weaker must suc¬ 
cumb to the stronger. The numerical strength 
in with the farmers of the country; but the 
compact organization is always more powerful 
in proportion to its unity. Ton men are often 
better than fifty provided the ten are united 
and the fifty are fighting without direction and 
each on his own hook. 
We have before said, in these columns, that 
we do not advocate combinations for aggressive 
action, except to right a wrong. We do advo¬ 
cate combination in self defense—for protec¬ 
An Indignant Contributor.— You should have 
seen him I—our veteran old “ Daily Rural Life” 
—as he came rushing into our sanetum the other 
morning, his wide-rimmed felt hat looking as 
if he had just emerged from a whirlwind, his 
long white iiair (of seventy summer*) and ven¬ 
erable beard looking like old Boreas himself. 
There lie stood, with his eyes (lashing like phos¬ 
phorescent lire, and grasping ;i wonderfully 
beautiful bouquet. ‘‘There,sir!" said he,“read 
that letter! somebody think* me an arrant, old 
humbug that. I cannot and never did grow a 
flower. Mra.‘Dally Rural Life’Is in hysterics. 
I can’t and won’t standfsnoh an Imputation on 
my character. I’m too old not to know what I 
write about, and have lived too Jong In l ids 
wicked world not to be able, to do all I say 1 do. 
Mrs. ‘Dally Rural Life’ send* you these (lowers, 
with her Indignant compliments to that infernal 
Doubting Thomas ; and she wants you to print, 
’em. Will you do it, sir ?” Of course wo would; 
and the old Hurricane thrust under our deli¬ 
cate |nwo a hunch of Saffrnno rose buds, Le 
Purit.S and Dr Grmnv carnation*. Zonule Gera¬ 
niums, Begonia Fuchslauldes, Cupheas, etc. 
How could we resist him and withhold the evi¬ 
dence of hi* Inmost industry and good faith 
with our readers? The fact is, we feared the 
venerable old fellow would out our and our 
readers' acquaintance if we didn't apologize, 
which we now most humbly do—though for the 
life of us, we don't know why! 
Cheap Transport a (ion to Tide-Water by rail 
is loudly called for by Western farmers, and the 
States intermediate between Illinois and the 
seaboard are called upon to pass laws fixing rea¬ 
sonable maximum rates for transportation of 
freight and passengers, so that Western farm 
products may reach Eastern markets at a price 
not five times the cost to railways for the ser¬ 
vice. Then it is urged upon Western farmers 
to support home trade* and home manufac¬ 
tures. If the high rates of transportation of 
grain to the seaboard only result in turning the 
attention of Western farmers to building up 
home markets hy diversifying their industries, 
some of them will live to thank railway monopo¬ 
lies for the protection of high freight torjffs; 
hut railways are so much interested in securing 
traffic that It is to their interest to crush out 
home manufactures by affording remote manu¬ 
facturers cheap facilities for putting their goods 
in competition therewith. We hope Western 
farmers have hack-bone enough to adhere to : 
Haw Sugar Full ol Aonri SaccharL—Prof. 
’ Cameron of Dublin and Dr. Hass all of Lon¬ 
don assert that one of the components of raw 
sugar 1» the A cart sarchari, an insect of which 
' Prof. Cameron asserts he found in ten grains 
1 weight of sugar no fewer than 500, many of 
: which were large enough to he visible to the 
naked eye. Ha say* It I* no exaggeration to 
affirm that there cannot bo less than 100,000 of 
these insect© in every pound of raw sugar. Dr. 
Hashall found considerably over 100 living in¬ 
sects in 15 grain* weight of sugar, or at the rate 
of 42,000 per pound,and a Dr. Barker estimated 
L700 in 45 grain* weight, or at the rate of 208,000 
per pound. It will lie a gratification to sugar 
consumers, however, to know that refined 
sugar* do not contain these Insects, since they 
cannot pass through the charcoal filters in the 
refilling process, and because refined sugar* do 
n»t contain any nitrogenous substance upon 
•which they can feed. It is also a satisfaction lo 
know that they are absent from maple sugar. 
— ■ m i-— 
Statistician Dodge „f the Department of Agri¬ 
culture called upon us the other day. He is 
(though a young and handsome man yet) grow¬ 
ing grey in the service of the Department. We 
didn't get much out of him concerning the De¬ 
partment matters; nor did he suggest to us 
that he was the fittest man on the footstool to 
fill the office of Commissioner of Agriculture. 
Indeed, 1m didn't Ultimate that he would be 
happy at all if ho was deprived of Ids regular 
daily diet of figures and facts. Hut since he has 
gone, we have heed thinking whether it would 
not be a good plan for Judge Watts to resign, 
and allow President Grant to apply the Civil 
Service Reform to that Department, and pro¬ 
mote Mr. Doduk to the position of Commis¬ 
sioner. Fact is, we don’t happen to know any 
j better man who islwailable. We make the sug- 
| gestion to Judge Watts, most respectfully; and 
we want it distinctly understood that Mr. 
Dodoe, nor his friends, nor his friends* friends, 
over gave us an intimation that lie ever thought 
of desiring such an infliction of responsibility. 
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Western v». Eastern Butter.—P. W. F. is in¬ 
formed that, so far as we know, there is lit- < 
tie, if any, distinction made in the price paid 1 
by grocers and consumers for good butter, 1 
no matter whether it come* from the West or 
the East. Doubtless much Western butter is 
bought of commission men under an invidious 
classification, and again sold as Eastern butter 
on its merits. There is no good reason why a { 
good article of Western hotter should not bring , 
as much par pound in this city as State butter ( 
of no better quality; and it probably does, as a l 
rule—the commission men alone being Interest- 1 
I3l»c oi Shipping Crates; A Plan for Laying out 
11 Fruit and Vegetable Garden of Twenty Acres; 
.A Plan for Laying out a Small Family Garden ; 
Stands for Gathering Fruit; Protection from 
Wind; Raising New Sorts; Manures; Liquid 
Manures; reparation or Soil for Strawberries, 
and Different Methods of Growing—same for 
Raspberries, Blackberries, Currants and Grapes; 
Fig Culture; Plan of a Fruit Drying House; 
Fruit Boxes; Packing Cases, &<•., &e. 
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Stamp Tax on .Medicine*.—A correspondent 
tusks if a revenue stamp is necessary upon med¬ 
icines that are not patented. We replyNo 
stamp tax is charged upon medicines com¬ 
pounded according to the United States or 
National Pharmacopoeia, or any formula; nor 
upon any medicine prepared according to the 
prescription of a physician or surgeon, unless 
such compounds are sold os proprietary medi¬ 
cines. If proprietary medicines, perfumery, 
\c., are stamped according to their retail value 
in the vicinity of the place of manufacture, no 
further stamps are necessary. 
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Semi for Seed and Other Catalogues. -Judging 
by the number of inquiries we get, asking where 
certain seeds &o. can bo obtained, all of our 
readers do not take pains to obtain the very 
complete, elaborate and instruct ive oced, imple¬ 
ment, plant and nursery catalogue* which are 
now issued by every prominent firm In the coun¬ 
try. The small price asked for theHe secures 
the possessor thereof a vast amount Of interest¬ 
ing und practical Information. Send for them. 
— — » M - 
Hop Culture the Present Season, — A corre¬ 
spondent asks: “What do you tit ink of the 
prospect to hop growers the corning season ? 
Can’t you tell u»?” Yes. Wo think It is a good 
prospect, provided everybody who grows them 
gets a crop of good quality. The stock left in 
hand at the close of the season will bo small, 
and hops must bring good prices unless an ex¬ 
traordinary crop is produced. 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
WE have inquiries for pure Cotswold sheep. 
>v ho has them for sale? 
H. W. WATSON is informed that we do not 
know tlie uudross of the parties he names. 
We have inquiries for Silver-Spangled Poland 
fowls or their eggs. Who has them for sale ? 
P. N. V. Is informed that we do not know 
where he can purchase a good Percheron stal¬ 
lion. 
Lord Dun moke of Scotland ha* recently im¬ 
ported three Short-Horn heifers from Ken¬ 
tucky. 
\V. B. R. is informed that, we learn the Ameri¬ 
can Vienna Exposition Commission is to leave 
here the middle of March. 
B. K. Bliss & Son. seedsmen in (his city, offer 
large prizes for tlie best crops of certain varie¬ 
ties or potatoes. Send for a premium list. 
It is asserted that from S.OOOJXX) to 10,000,000 
sheep are boiled down for their tallow, in 
Bueno* Ayrea, annually wool and hide* being 
a secondary consideration. 
New Jersey has State Poultry Society, 
chartered by the Legislature, of which Jacob 
Pent/, is President, Charles Ayers Secretary, 
and Henry R- Howe Treasurer. This answers 
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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 and would recommend Dr. Trask’s Mag¬ 
netic Ointment to the throat, around the ears and on 
the forehead. Tin* ointment contains tobacco and 
lobelia, and operates upon the mucous glands of the 
head and throat by causing an increased fiowof seere- 
ed in perpetuating a classification which orig- tlon from them, at the same time by its relaxing effect 
iDated in time* when most Western butter re- removing the stricture and giving almost instant re¬ 
ceived hero was only “ grease.” 
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Catalogues, «Scc., Received.—From VANDER¬ 
BILT Brothers, 23 Fulton street, N. Y., their 
Her to the cough and breathing.” it is kept by all 
Druggists. 
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