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APRIL U9 
“PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” I 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
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D. D. Z. MOORE, 
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SATURDAY, APRIL ID, 1S73. 
A NEW QUARTER, 
AND A GOOD TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! 
Aoknts, nnd all others of our readers Interested, 
are advised that a New Quarter of the RURAL New- 
YORKER commenced April A. Our friends whose sub¬ 
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season. Hoe notice under heading of "The Rural’s 
Spring Campaign,” on page 200. 
THE EVIL OF IMPATIENCE. 
The anxiety to obtain Immediate results, 
overrides all considerations as to future and 
permanent profit with a large class of men in 
every vocation, almost. It leads to Koine most, 
grievous mistakes and often to results that are 
fatal to any hope of substantial success. This 
impatience to realize is surely o.linructorisMo of 
farmers. This opening spring, with Its plans, 
.projects and work, will reveal in each neighbor¬ 
hood the class of men who arc laboring for an 
income regardless of the future, and another 
class who sock to derive Income without Im¬ 
pairing or trenching upon their capital. The 
line which djfides these classes is dearly de¬ 
fined. Thetr methods are as distinct, as their 
motives are (VssluUlar. One class forecasts; 
the other does nut, One class succeeds; the 
other has tin permanent success. One class 
rolls about like a stone, gathering nothing; the 
other gathers slowly, but as surely as the sea¬ 
sons come and go. One class is fickle; the 
other, stable and persistent. Out' class gains 
strength st.-adily and continuously; the other 
expends and exhausts all resources to “ make a 
big strike." One class walks st cadi l.v forward; 
the jther runs like the wind for a while and 
falls, utterly incapable of further exertion. 
One class lakes no risks that will imperil per¬ 
manent success; the other risks permanent 
success for immediate gain. 
While the same distinctive classes exist in all 
professions, we arc speaking of them as they 
exist among farmers. This impatience devel¬ 
ops evil for those who indulge in it in the fol¬ 
lowing forms; 
1. It results in a man’s taking risks which 
agriculture, as a business, will not warrant. 
2. It sacrifices the fertility of farms and their 
permanent value without adequate return, if 
other than immediate prosperity is concerned. 
3. It begets fickleness of purpose, and is one 
of the causes which Inspire men to rush out of 
one branch of business into another, such per¬ 
sons rarely succeeding in any, 
4. It disqualifies a man for his business by 
making him restive, uncertain as to results, 
vacillating In his Judgment, and hence reckless 
in his ventures. 
5. It is antagonistic to a stable, reposeful and 
enriching home life, deranging all Idea of per¬ 
manence in the minds of the family, breaking 
In pieces without scruple what haa been put 
together, dissipating what has been gathered, 
and destroying all cohesion in domestic life. 
In short, this evil of impatience is one of the 
blocks in the way of progress in agriculture, as 
well as ill morals and social science, 
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PRICES OF FARM LANDS. 
The March Report of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture contains a table with returns from a 
proportion of counties in each State, showing 
the per cent, of Increase or decrease in the 
value of farm lands since I8fl8. Tills table is 
both Interesting and instructive and worthy of 
study hence we copy It here : 
No. ot Coun- 
States. 
ties report- 
Ine'se. 
Dec’sc. 
lug. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Maine. 
. 3 
13 
New 1 liuupshtre. 
. 1 
11 
Vermont. 
. 7 
23 
Massachusetts.. 
8 
Connecticut. 
. 2 
13 
New York... .. 
. 28 
34 
New Jersey. 
. 8 
28 
Pennsylvania. 
32 
Maryland ., . . 
i7 
Virginia . 
. -II 
25 
North i '(irollna. 
. 34 
17 
South Carolina. 
38 
(.curgm .. . 
. 38 
15 
Florida. 
. 7 
47 
Alabama... . 
42 
Mississippi. 
. 25 
44 
Louisiana. 
. 12 
29 
Texas.. 
50 
Arkansas. 
. 13 
20 
Tennessee. 
. 35 
5 
West Virginia. 
. 18 
20 
Kentucky. 
5 
Ohio.... 
. 40 
30 
Michigan. 
00 
Indiana. 
%\ 
Illinois.. 
. 44 
37 
Wisconsin . 
41 
Minnesota.. 
85 
loWII. 
70 
M issourl. 
2fi 
Kansas-. ., . 
. Ill 
175 
Nebraska . 
175 
California. 
1(1 
< irogon. 
. 5 
45 
Utah Territory. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Sandwich Islands Farming —CHARLES NORD- 
HOFF writes to the Tribune that the Islands are 
worthless for common farming purposes. Farm 
produce can bo grown only where it is almost 
impossible to transport It to market. Wheat, 
barley and oats are now brought from Califor¬ 
nia. AVheat is subject to attacks of the weevil, 
and i here is a blight, upon almost all other agri¬ 
cultural products. Coffee trees have been at¬ 
tacked by an Insect, and most of the planta¬ 
tions are abandoned or devoted to sugar pro¬ 
duction. Silk culture lias part.y failed for the 
same reason, The orange grows and hears In 
only a few fa vored localities. There is not much 
grazing land, and grasses are not as nutritious 
as those of California. There is no market fur 
stock. Cattle are shot, skinned, boiled down, 
and bides and tallow sold. Sheep are only val¬ 
uable for their wool. Market gardening is un¬ 
profitable. There are thirty-two sugar planta¬ 
tions on nil f he Islands, and considerable land 
left capable of producing large crops of cane. 
Wit h few exceptions, t he cost of shipping sugar 
from them is enormous. The sugar is sent, to 
market in small kegs, which indicate stormy 
landing places and difficult handling. The 
shooks for these kegs are from Boston, the 
islands having no useful timber and but. lit t ie 
wood of any kind. What there is, is difficult of 
access, lie regards these Islands worthless to 
the United States except as a naval station, 
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An Agricultural Hotel. In London there is 
an Agricultural Hotel, owned and managed by 
an Agricultural Hotel Company. According 
to a recent, showing, the receipts the past year 
have amounted to LT8,01fi 8s. fid. an increase of 
£1,888 12s. Id. on those of 1871. The surplus of 
net profits the past year, were £1,597 5s. led., 
which, with accumulated profits, enables the 
declaring of a dividend of £3.10 per cent, free 
of income tax on the original capital. Tito 
report states that the business had so Increased 
t hat 1,(158 visitors had been refused accommo¬ 
dation the past year, in consequence of the 
hotel being full. Hero ts an Idea for flic Pa¬ 
trons of Husbandry to act upon In large cities. 
The extortions of American landlords are pro¬ 
verbial, and the cost of visiting the large cen¬ 
ters of trade, in consequence of hotel exactions, 
prevents many farmers from looking after their 
business ns they otherwise might do, and places 
Ihein in I lie power of commission men. Why 
cannot, a Farmers' Hotel Company and Ex¬ 
change be organized in each of the large cities? 
If it was done and conducted upon sensible 
principles, with the primary object of supply¬ 
ing good accommodations for farmers at ren- 
sonaLde prices, it would, in our judgment, prove 
a success here as it has in London. 
Condition of Kansas Farmers. According to 
a Leavenwort h Co. delegate to the Kansas State 
Farmers’ Convention, t hings are not lovely In 
that State, lie is reported as asserting that 
“Kansas farmers were an impecunious com¬ 
munity.*’ In his county corn was selling at 
twenty cents, but they hud a largo city in their 
midst which afforded a market. In the more 
remote parts of the State, what remained of 
the corn crop after supplying the winter’s fuel 
was still standing on the stalk, and there was 
absolutely no demand fur it. Agiicultural 
writers tell them to buy slock, as it does not 
pay to send corn to market. They might as 
well tell a sick man to get up and walk. Thou¬ 
sands of farmers in Kansas had not money to 
buy necessaries for their families. Half of 
them could not pay their taxes. To Dickenson 
Co. he knew of 1,100 warrants being Issued in 
1 wo days against defaulting tax-payers. Could 
these men subscribe stock to build elevators 
und employ agents to hold t heir grain till the 
market was relieved of lt.s depression ? We do 
not learn, from the report, that any one present 
answered the final question. 
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The President of Cornell University’s Man¬ 
sion. The It haca Democrat thus describes the 
President’s mansion at Cornell University: 
“ Hon. A. D. White two years ago gave not ice, 
at a meeting of the Hoard of Trustees of the 
University, nf his intention to donate $50,000 to 
the University. Thirty thousand of this amount 
was to b« used in building on the University 
grounds a President’s bouse, to be occupied 
only by the Presidents of the University, “lie 
remainder of the donation was to go to the 
library. The plans of Hie building were drawn 
and immediately the work began. The building 
is now about finished and it. is a monument., not 
only to the donor, but til t-ho architect who de¬ 
signed it, and in its completeness, to the care¬ 
ful workmen who constructed it. The building 
is situated In the rear of Hie University build¬ 
ings on an eminence overlooking town, lakeand 
valley. The architecture 1s In pure English 
style, with tittle departure from It. The front 
is toward the campus, and the yard before the 
dwelling will be beautifully arranged. In front 
a tower rises, the top of which is over Jive hun¬ 
dred feet above the level of the lake. The spire 
terminates In a couple of finals of much beauty." 
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The New Postal l,aw—The Postal Appro¬ 
priation bill approved March 3, 1873, contained 
the following clause : “ Provided, that all laws 
and parts of laws permitt ing the transmission 
by mail of any free matter whatever be and the 
same are hereby repealed from and after June 
30,1873.” 
Tbits abolishes the franking privilege held by 
Congress and so many Government officers. 
This abolishes section 36 of the act of March 3, 
1803“But the publishers of weekly news¬ 
papers may send to each actual subscriber 
wit bin tho county where their papers are printed 
and published one copy free of postage.” This 
abolishes section 45 of the same act;- “All pub¬ 
lishers of periodicals, magazines and news¬ 
papers which shall not exceed sixteen ounces 
in welghtshall he allowed to interchange their 
publications reciprocally free of postage; pro¬ 
vided that such interchange shall bo confined 
to a single copy of such publication." 
Tho laws remain unchanged which permit 
prepayment of postage on newspapers at the 
office of mailing or delivery, at the option of 
the subscriber, and prepayment by newsdealers 
“ upon their packages as received." No reduc¬ 
tion of postage has been made. Faunswoutii'h 
bill passed the House and failed in the Senate, 
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Ilium- Manufactures for Fanner*. Illustra¬ 
ting what we have so frequently urged—the 
importance that all the labor that can be ex¬ 
pended upon raw products should be expended 
at or Hear the place of production, and the profit 
thereof wit ness the following from the Elgin, 
Ill., Gazette, and contrast It with the condition 
of things in other districts in the same State 
where farmers depend wholly, almost, upon the 
sale of raw products for income : 
" Within a radius of ton miles around Elgin 
there arc probably eight thousand cows that 
are kept in dairies. These cows consume nearly, 
if not quite, 100.000 bushels of grain per annum. 
Add t>> this the horses, voting cat lie and oilier 
stock fed: the amount of ground required for 
paslnrngo, hay, and the natural waste land 
(which always forms a fad or), and it will be 
seen that the area given cannot produce (espe¬ 
cially if you add the amount needed to supply 
twelve thousand people) grain enough for do¬ 
mestic consumption, nnd this section becomes 
a consumer in extuos* of its production. The 
great staples hero tire milk, butter and cheese, 
and l lie annual shipments of those articles prove 
that the foreign commerce nf Elgin ts in as heal¬ 
thy a condit ion as any sect ion i,r our country. 
This product brings its pay every month, and, 
as a consequence, the majority of these farm¬ 
ers are in that pleasant state known as ‘fore¬ 
handed.' ” 
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Unlirorntu Wheat to the amount nf 12,000,000 
bushels had reached England between July 1, 
1872. and Feb. 20. 1873. March 21, flour in the 
London Markets wa ; Id. lower than at the cor¬ 
responding date in 1872; and while the stock of 
wheal ill. St. Petersburg, Odessa and Haiitzic 
was light ami prices advancing, the importa¬ 
tions from California had kept prices down in 
England. The movement in prices Ui Belgium, 
Holland, Spain and Northern Italy, is steadily 
upward. Thus. California ha.- been tho rc 
source upon which England has relied ; and 
we notice that California, wheat, by cargo, is 
quoted three to four shillings per quarter (of 8 
bushels) higher than any other wheat arriving 
there, and full llvo shillings higher than English 
wheat. 
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A Man in Ihe Miocene Period. It is asserted 
that the well-known English geologist, Frank 
Calvkut, has discovered, near Dardonelles, 
some remains which convince him of the ex¬ 
istence of man during the Miocene period. 
[Our readers will remember that this term, 
Miocene, Is used to characterize the Middle 
Tertiary strata.] Ho has met with a fragment 
of a bone, probably belonging either to the 
Hinothorlurn or a mastodon, on the convex side 
of which is engraved a representation of a 
horned quadruped, “ with arched neck, lozenge¬ 
shaped chest, long body, st raight fore legs and 
broad feet.” 'There are, also, traces of seven or 
eight dt her figure.-,, which, however, are nearly 
obliterated. In the same stratum he has also 
found a Hint flake, and several bones broken as 
if for tho extraction of marrow. Ho has no 
doubt as to the ago of the geological stratum in 
which he found t hese remains. 
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A National Workingmen’s University, ac¬ 
cording to Nature, is projected in England, to 
bo founded with special reference to instruc¬ 
tion in subjects relating directly to Art and 
Manufactures — one in which complete and 
thorough instruction in all those branches of 
knowledge which are of importance to our man¬ 
ufacturing industry shall be given. It. is pro¬ 
posed to build ample lecture rooms, labora¬ 
tories, art museums, on the most extended 
scale; to create professorships, and to found 
scholarships by which artl/.aiis may bo enabled 
(olive during the years of their studentship. 
This central university is to be connected with 
other similar institutions scattered over the 
country in the foi l of l lie industrial pursuits, 
each carrying out In its locality the satue func¬ 
tion which the central one Is to perform, per¬ 
haps on a somewhat higher scale, for tho me¬ 
tropolis and the country in general. 
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National Agricultural Congress. -This organ¬ 
ization is to meet at Indianapolis, Ind., May 24. 
tiy the constitution of this body each State and 
Territory is ent it led to two representatives for 
every State organization engaged in fostering 
agricultural pursuits. Tho United Ntaton De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, Agricultural Schools 
and Colleges with an endowment of not less 
than $2(1,INK), and Agricultural and Horticultural 
Societies of not less than fifty members con¬ 
tributing to the support "f this Congress, arc 
entitled to one representative each. The pur¬ 
pose of the organization is to afford an oppor¬ 
tunity annually for an interchange of views and 
opinions upon all subjects affecting the inter¬ 
ests of Agriculture and its Kindred Industries, 
and to promote concert of action among those 
engaged in these pursuits, in all matters relat¬ 
ing to them and of national importance. 
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A Four-llnmlred Acre Sugar Bed Field has 
been seen, recently, by the editor of tho Pacific 
Rural Press, at. Davisville, Yolo Co., Cal. Tho 
beets wore in rows, about fifteen to eighteen 
inches apart, and wore up four or five Inches. 
Twenty-live Chinamen, with hoes, were "sweep¬ 
ing in broad platoon to and fro across the field, 
extirpating the few small needs that had made 
their appearance since plant ing." These beets 
belong to the Sacramento Valley Beet Sugar 
Co., which has 1,000 acres of them under culti¬ 
vation. 
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Postage on Transient Pnpers. It ought to be 
known by those who mail papers to friends 
that, if a paper weighs more than two ounces— 
as most papers do—It requires more than one 
cent to pay the postage; atul that if enough 
slump* are not put on, the papers are never for¬ 
warded, Papers weighing less than two ounces 
require a one-ccnt stamp ; over two ounces and 
less than four, a two-cent stamp. If you want 
the paper to reach Its destination, be sure to 
pay full postage. 
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Sugar Plantations in Louisiana are selling 
cheap, according to a Louisiana correspondent, 
who says: " The Met ! l ll place on Bayou Techo, 
La.,—1,400 acres, house, quarters, anil sugar, 
house, machinery, Ac.,— sold last week for 
$8,500! Looks lively for Louisiana. The Falconer 
Aimee place sold for $50,000, The machinery 
alone cost twice tho money before the war." 
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Importing Horses from Cuunda. A corre¬ 
spondent asks whether there is a duty on horses 
imported from Canada for work. Yes; we be¬ 
lieve the duty is 20 per cent, ml valorem ; on stock 
intended for breeding, our recollection is that 
1 here is no duty. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
Wk have several inquiries for spring rye for 
seed. Let those who have it advertise. 
8. S. Hammond is informed that we do not 
know who has Spring rye to sell for seed, but 
he can probably obtain it of any seedsman. 
TOM A. asks who manufactures a good subsoil 
plow, ora plow with a subsoil attachment. Ad¬ 
dress any of our advert isers of farm implements. 
.1.0. P. asks II. S, Goodalk to give his ad¬ 
dress, as he is anxious to purchase a small quan¬ 
tity of Silver-Hull buckwheat. This must be 
given in our advertising columns. 
Tm; Nebraska Tree-Planting Company lias 
purchased 2,fi(KI acres of land in Adams Co., 
Nebraska, upon which evergreens, fruit, and 
ornamental trees will be planted, 
E. K. WHITE is informed that the Report of 
the Department Of Agriculture for 1872 is now 
in press. Congress has provided tor the distri¬ 
bution of but 1,21X1 copies by the Senate. The 
Department of Agriculture will have none to 
distribute. Write to one of the CVS. Senators 
from your State for a copy; it is your only hope 
of getting one. 
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