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PROCRE8S AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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D. D. T. MOORE, 
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SATURDAY, MAY .31, 1873. 
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“SHALL WE GO WEST?" 
For the hundredth or more t ime tbfs ques¬ 
tion comes to us from two young men who are 
anxious "to make for themselves places in the 
world,’’ and are looking lor some favore . spot 
largo enough for them, we suppose, flence, 
they ask the Rural New-YORKUR, “ filial I we 
go VVest ?" We cannot kn(>w t he eireuinstances 
and conditions under which they ask this ques¬ 
tion. Assuming, however, that they are ambi¬ 
tious, full of courage, willing to work hard, 
deny themselves, be economical, wo cannot 
understand why they need go W eal in order to 
secure permanent success. It these young men 
are skilled mechanics, artisans, manufactur¬ 
ers, there Is certainly field out West for such. 
But if their object Is agriculture, whv not stay 
at In me? There is certainly field enough here 
tor all effort, and compensation is as sure as it 
is anywhere. Intelligent labor will win its way 
anywhere, and secure honorable place for every 
man who employs it to win oiie. The East, out¬ 
side. the cities, Is not. so crowded with intelli¬ 
gent, enterprising, industrious and economical 
young farmers, that there is no field or scope 
for their abilities nor reward for their enter¬ 
prise mul industry. 
But one thing Is necessary; and that one es¬ 
sential to success is rare—we mean patience! 
A steady, continuous growth, even though slow, 
is as sure a* a more rapid and brilliant one, 
which is almost, sure to be cut back by a win¬ 
ter-killing disappointment. Patience! Perse¬ 
verance 1 Tne thorough mastery of any busi¬ 
ness and comprehension of the character and 
material with which one is to work, is the first 
step to success. If a young man has a good 
character, a good reputation, the confidence of 
his fellows, he had far butter remain where he 
can use such capital—whore he can build a 
superstrucl ure of success upon such a founda¬ 
tion—a foundation already laid and established. 
Wherever he goes this foundation must be tail. 
It often requires years to do if. Why leave one 
that is ready to build upon and go through this 
part of the process of building again? We do 
not advise It. We believe that the experiment 
has resulted in more failures than successes. 
It is not necessary, if one does stay at home, 
that he plod all hi* life as his ancestors have 
done nor as his neighbors may do. The fact 
that there arc such surroundings only makes 
the field the more inviting to the ambitious, 
and the assurance of distinctive success (lie 
m< ”o e< rtain. 
As we have often written, try to fill the place 
you occupy first. Grow to It., Lot the growth 
be slow, If it. must be, but. let it. be certain. 
With every accession of power, every thrill 
that comes of triumph over obstacles, will eomc 
increased power, enlarged opportunities for ita 
employment, and the honor which comes of a 
life of probity and usefulness! Stay where you 
are, young me 3 ; fill the place you arc in first; 
if you grow out of it.be assured you will always 
find room to grow. Don't get false notions of 
what “success" Is! It is not simply the accu¬ 
mulation of property 1 It is the building up of 
character. Influence, reputation, and the crea¬ 
tion of a Home in the best sense of that word. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
It Depends upon Whose Ox is Gored.—A 
Trade paper of New York City has been rather 
ostentatious in its expression of sympathy with 
farmers in their efforts to relieve themselves 
from onerous burthens. It has been especially 
virulent towards railway monopolies. But now 
that one of Ite trade patrons—a grocer—com¬ 
plains that the farmers of the West include, in 
their crusade against railroad extortions, a co- 
operative movement for purchasing supplies 
from wholesale houses, thereby Ignoring the 
retailor*, this violent reformer cries out In tills 
style : —" Against this we. most emphatically 
protest. Gentlemen fanners, we, both mer¬ 
chants und farmers, are both In the same cate¬ 
gory as against the railroads. We respectfully 
suggest that, you will not strengthen your case 
by antagonizing the retail grocers and country 
merchants. They arc an absolute necessity 
for yoy. The price of t heir goods is increased 
to you byrullroad extortions. If you succeed 
in getting your grain to market at a cheaper 
rate they will also get their goods at a choaper 
rate. Let the fight be made unitedly. Let every 
man who hus anything at stake stand side by 
side, and do not let us gel to fighting among 
ourselves." 
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Vienna and the Exposition.— Jackson S. 
Schultz of New York, an energetic and distin¬ 
guished merchant, lias been appointed United 
States Commissioner at Vienna, in place of Gen. 
Van Buren, removed. He is authorized to re¬ 
store those of the suspended Commissioners 
v ho arc not taintcL with corruption. So far as 
the Exhibition is concerned, if reports are to tie 
credited, the Vienna Exhibition has not so far 
proved successful. The Viennese were in too. 
much of a hurry to empty the pockets of stran¬ 
gers, arid t he report of their exorbitant chargos 
spread far and wide. The bills of fare at the 
hotels have been Increasing from day to day, a 
dollar and a-linlf being the latest charge for a 
tolerable breakfast, and twenty cents for get¬ 
ting boots blacked. Americans will be inter¬ 
ested lu the announcement that the proprietor 
of a hotel built expressly for t ransatlantic visi¬ 
tors openly avows hte intention to get all his 
money back during the season of the Exhibi¬ 
tion. Extort ion seems to be the order of the 
day In Vienna, and, after all, it may not have 
been all native corruption that Infected our 
I Commissioners. 
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Rural Book* for Japan.—A request from 
Japan for some of our publications was post¬ 
marked Yokohoma, April 33, and received May 
33 —beingonly one month on Its journey, which 
was by the way of San Francisco, where it 
arrived (as per post-mark) May 15. We com¬ 
plied by sending copies of Randall’s Practical 
Shepherd, Willard’s Practical Dairy Hus¬ 
bandry. The People’s Practical Poultry Book. 
&c., &c. The Japanese are becoming a progres¬ 
sive and pract ical people, and wo take pleasure 
in aiding them by promptly responding to all 
orders for books, papers, etc. As evidence that 
"the world moves," we may add that within 
the past year we have filled orders forthe above- 
named practical works from Australia, Russia, 
England, and othor foreign lands. N. B.-We 
still have a few copies left for American readers. 
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The Situation in the West.—At the recent 
meeting In this city to organize the American 
Cheap Transportation Association, an Iowa 
delegate thus graphically described the situa¬ 
tion of Western farmers: 
" What are we farmers to do? Wo can raise 
plenty of grain, but have to give the railroads 
lour bushels to take one bushel to market, we 
work from daylight until dark, and can't get 
enough real money to dress ourselves decent!v; 
we mortgage our farms to help build competing 
lines of railway which promise us cheaper 
freights, und us soon as finished they go, or are 
forced, into combination with the former mo¬ 
nopolists. We cannot afford to hire labor, and as 
fast as our boys get big enough they leave usfor 
the cities. One of my boys is twenty-one. and 
lie is clerking it in the town, getting forty 
dollars a month; my next hoy is eighteen, and 
ho told me the other day that he meant to look 
out for a place, because t here was no encourage¬ 
ment fora young man to stay on a farm, for 
enough produce couldn't be raised to pav taxes, 
and farmers are getting deeper and deeper in 
debt every year. Well, what is left to us ? Shall 
we put our wives and daughters into the field 
and work them like beasts, the same as the 
Poor ignorant foreign creatures are which come 
to us from ths old country? 1 tell you, sir, 
' something must be done to remedy this state of 
affairs:” 
Something must be done; and farmers must 
doit. Among other things they must do, is to 
cease raising grain for foreign markets. We 
know this Is “easiersaid than done," but farm- 
| era of the West have got to come to it. They 
! may do something to relieve themselves by re¬ 
ducing freight tariffs. But the nearer the source 
| of production they bring the markets for their 
produce, the better will be their prices, the 
larger their profits and the surer their compen¬ 
sation. Every boy who leaves the farm to work 
In a shop, enhances the price of grain, by dimin¬ 
ishing the amount produced. Are there not 
too many farmers ? 
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The Tree or Debt—At a Grange meeting of 
Patrons of Husbandry in Iowa, Mrs. N. J. 
Brown read a paper, from which we make the 
following extract: 
There now stands In our path to barricade our 
way a bilge, gnarled, unsightly tree which I 
shall call debt, whose widespread branches and 
deep, thick roots present a Herculean task to 
clear away. We have so far been climbing to 
the top, cutting off a twig here, a branch there, 
or giving it the go-by altogether. Now let us 
advance upon the grim monster with a will, de¬ 
termined that it snail succumb to our power. 
Let t he steady stroke of every Patron resound 
until it Is totally exterminated, and to aid In 
this let us economize. Home interestshaveton 
long been laid a sacrifice upon the altar of fash¬ 
ions. We should reverse the sacrifice until the 
manacles of debt arc loosed and the captive set 
free. 
Worthily spoken! Let the women of this 
country resolve that there shall be no debts 
contracted ; that iliey will only have what can 
be paid for; that t hey will tolerate no man who 
has bills payable outstanding, and tliprc will at, 
once dawn such an era of prosperity ns this 
country has not yet witnessed. There will be 
far less talk of cankering cares, of suffering, of 
oppression, of the hardships of farm life. And 
It, is easy to keep out of debt—far easier than to 
get out whon once In. 
Gross Cruelty to a Horse. —One of the mOBt 
fearful instance* of cruelty to a horse that we 
remember to have seen recorded, is one recent¬ 
ly reported at York, Eng., tlie details of which 
are given by an officer of the Society for “ Pre¬ 
vention of Cruelty to Animals." He found the 
animal with both fore legs broken at the fet¬ 
lock joint, one foot being completely off and 
I he ot her hanging by a piece of skin. The large 
posterior bone of both legs was smashed into 
pieces, and witness ultimately found a piece of 
bone from the pastern on the road over which 
the horse had traveled. <_>nc of the stumps of 
the horse’s legs was much worn by contact with 
the hard road, and there were cuto on the ani¬ 
mal's hind legs and body, as if from a whip. 
Witness deposed to various blood stains on the 
.road, covering a distance, of over four miles, 
ami showed by these that one of the fetlock 
Joints had broken and that the horse had then 
been driven on till the other gave way, when 
the foot came off the first broken leg, and, after 
that, the blood marks on the road showed that 
the horse had gone on two “ stumps ” for a 
considerable distance." 
No Clans Monopolizes Honesty. — We fre¬ 
quently get letters pitching into middlemen, 
commission dealers, &t\, &c., holding them up 
as the veriest knaves on the footstool. Weil! a 
knave is a knave the world over. We find little 
difference betweenthe knave who doesbusinesa 
in a commission house, and the one who culti¬ 
vates a farm. Our irate fri :nd who asserts that 
ho “don't believe farmers cab get their just 
dues from middlemen " might be more indig- 
uant than he la, if he were to go among commis¬ 
sion men and hear the stories they tell of the 
tricks practiced by farmers, with a view to de¬ 
ceiving and swindling thoir customers. Farm¬ 
ers should not flatter themselves that they mon¬ 
opolize all the honesty floating around; nor 
does any other class of men. Where an honest 
man is found be is a good fellow to stick to, 
whether a commission merchant or farmer. 
How (lie Rural raves Money.—A subscriber 
writes, May 16“ I wish to say that one Item 
in to-day’s Issue of the Rural New-Yorker 
saves me at least £27; for inside of five days 1 
would, in all probability, have spent that much, 
and possibly more, lor articles which I flud I did 
not want, but hare already and did not know It 
until I read to-day's Rural. I refer to the arti¬ 
cle entitled ‘Gentlemen's Clothes.’ I beg to 
suggest that an item of that kind, about four 
times a year, would increase the value of the 
Rural, if possible, many fold." Our corre¬ 
spondent will have seen that we appreciate the 
propriety of paying attention to fashions for 
gentlemen in our columns. 
Lunar Farming. —A correspondent writes: 
“ I would like to know what your (or the read¬ 
ers of the Rural) ideas are in regard to ‘ lunar 
farming.’ We often hear about persons not 
killing their pork until the increase of the 
moon, for fear it may shrink In the pot; and 
other foolish notions in regard to the moon's 
effect on vegetation. What do you think about 
it?” We. cannot open our columns to a dis¬ 
cussion of " lunar farming." It has been ex¬ 
tensively discussed heretofore in agricultural 
papers, and we never knew it to profit any one. 
We find that people who believe in it, as a rule, 
know too little about terrestrial farming. 
The Rural Club of \cw York held its May 
Meeting and ate its May Dinner at Delmonico’s, 
Tuesday Evening, May 20. About thirty mem¬ 
bers and guests were present. President S. B. 
Parsons presided. Chas. D. Braodon read a 
paper upon Rural /Esthetics, which was dis¬ 
cussed by Messrs. Roberts, Such. Hurlburd, 
Williams, Smith and Hexamek. After the 
discussion an enjoyable social time was had. 
The tables were beautifully and profusely dec¬ 
orated with flowers from the gardens and con¬ 
servatories of Dr. Hexamer and C. L. Allen. 
The meetings of the Club that are to follow 
during the Summer are to be held out of doors. 
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8nlt Cake in Rone Dust,—A correspondent 
of the Country Gentleman makes the following 
statement:—"In the catalogue of one of the 
moat eminent agricultural firms in Now York, 
commercial bone dust is mentioned as contain¬ 
ing a certain percentage of phosphate of lime. 
1 have not the book by me, and cannot, give the 
exact figures, but it was- much less than genuine 
bone dust contains. 1 called on them ; they 
told me frankly the boue dust was adulterated 
with salt cake, and showed It to me. How 
many farmers buying commercial bone dust 
know they are buying an adulterated article?” 
Rnron Liebig ‘‘In Hor Water.” — Brother 
Mkhan, in Forney’s Press, makes this startling 
announcement“ Baron Libbig is getting into 
hot water." Mow does our friend know? It is 
some time since Liebig died—long enough, we 
suppose, to have received commfinlCations from 
him. Has friend Mehan received such? Ifso 
it is gratifying to know that a man who dies 
gets Into hot water before he gets into a hotter 
place. Is It a scientific fact, Meh.AN ? 
Electro*. Wood t'ut«. Etc. — Publishers and 
others wishing illustrations for Newspapers, 
Magazines, Catalogues, Show-Bills, Etc., are 
reminded that we are prepared to promptly 
respond to orders for Eloctrotypes, Wood Cuts, 
Ac.. at. very reasonable rates. Our stock of cuts 
is large and varied, so that we can f urnish Elec¬ 
tros on filmost any subject. See back numbers 
and volumes of the RURAL for specimens, and 
for particulars address this Office. 
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Entomologist of A. Y. State Ag. Soc. — Wc 
notice that at the last meeting of the Executive 
Committee of the New York State Ag. Society, 
It was ordered “ that Mr. J. A. Lintxer be re¬ 
quested to take charge of the collection of in¬ 
sects in the Museum of the Society, and to im¬ 
prove and increase the same as he may have 
opportunity, and that a stipend of 1150 be given 
therefor.” 
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Five Hundred Dollar* llrtter Off Tor Reading 
Hie Rural —D. J„ New London, Howard Co., 
Ind„ writes“ I have been an interested reader 
of the Rural New-Yorker for over ten years; 
and 1 do verily believe l am over $500 better off 
in c ash to-day from having read it." We are 
glad of It. We hope you will see that all your 
neighbors learn to know Its value. 
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Attention is Called to the fact, elsewhere 
announced, that the Northern Pacific Railroad 
has determined to close its 7-30 First Mortgage 
Gold Loan of thirty million dollars, after which 
no higher interest than 6 per cent, will be paid. 
The few million# remaining of this loan can be 
had at the old rates of interest. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
The Aldino for June s full of good reading 
and beautiful engravings. 
The Central Michigan Fair is to be held at 
Lansing, Sept. 30. to Oct. 3. 
The besl three-year-old race on record came 
off at Lexington, ivy., recently. Time 1:13*4. 
Maine farmers anticipate a large hay crop 
this season as the result of the great fall of 
snow. 
Ththtt-six pounds of sheep manure are said 
to bo equal to 100 pounds of ordinary farm-yard 
manure. 
A farmer in San Joaquin Valley, Cal., has 
put In 38,000 acres of wheat and this, too, upon 
his own land. 
A farmer in Bucks Co., Pa., last year sold 
over $1,000 worth of produce which he had raised 
from 78 acres. 
Claremont, N. H., realizes $197 from the dog 
tax, and has paid $312 for mutton upon which 
they have subsisted. 
The Norwegians >f Wisoonsln won’t use any 
plow not made after the Norwegian pattern, 
which is one-Liandicd. 
Unlike heavily timbered countries the Kan¬ 
sas prairie has more springs after cultivation 
than in the wild state. 
The Michigan Legislature has passed a bill to 
establish a Board of Fish Commissioners, and to 
promote the propagation of valuable fish. 
Thayer Co., Nel>., is now receiving large 
accessions from the East. One hundred Indiana 
families located there in one week, lately. 
Winter wheat, the country through, is re¬ 
ported by the Agricultural Bureau to be looking 
better now than at the same time lust year. 
Over 20,000 quarts of milk are daily condensed 
in the cantons of St . Gall and Freiburg, Switzer¬ 
land. Most of this goes to the London market. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
Do not find fault with your Sewing Machines until 
you have tried the Eureka Machine Twist. It is the 
best, and will give perfect satisfaction. 
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