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PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
.MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
'J A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
EOllAL, UTEtAEV AND FAULT NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. OTOOB.E, 
Conducting Editor and Jr’utoliHlier. 
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HINTS FOR THE SEASON, 
One of our correspondents asks “ Why can 
you not give us some‘hints for the month’ 
occasionally? It would do us good.” Of course 
we want to do our readers “ goodhence, we 
are perfectly willing to give “ hints." Let us 
see:—It is now the middle of June, as we write. 
It is not to bo supposed that any farmer, no 
matter how wide his eyes may be open, nor how 
thorough a farmer he may be, nor how enthu¬ 
siastically he may go about his work every 
morning, incited thereto with a desire to see 
t hings ship-shape, watch his crops grow and 
become ” master of the situation” in the Fall, 
when the Harvest Home is reached, can “ see 
things" half as well as an Editor imprisoned 
within four walls, shut up with correspondence, 
newspapers, books. &e., culling, sifting, correct¬ 
ing, writing, and preparing therefrom informa¬ 
tion for that same farmer and his family, to be 
read and enjoyed when the day’s work is ac¬ 
complished. Of course not! Hence that farmer 
should be frequently told that the weeds should 
be kept down 1 It is true it is a startling bit of 
information, and novel, withal; but neverthe¬ 
less, the wise Editor knows that it should be 
written; accordingly it is, much to the farm¬ 
er’s edification, and he wonders that he never 
thought of it before! Here the Editor might 
rest from his labors; for has he not given the 
farmer, his sons and hired help all t he employ¬ 
ment they will require lor at least a mouth ? 
Can it be expected that they will do much more 
than keep down the weeds during the month 
from the 15th of Juno to the 15th of July ? Ought 
they to be expected to do much more ? 
But if a man pays for a paper and it only gives 
him that amount of " advice” a month, or only 
j a single “ hint” of this character, wifi he take 
it next year? Certainly not. Accordingly, he 
should be advised to keep the hoes and culti¬ 
vators going in his corn, potato, beet, carrot, 
broom corn, sorghum, cotton, tobacco and 
other fields. True this is, in a measure,synony¬ 
mous with his firsl. ‘‘hint," hut not altogether, 
if the reader stops tp think about It for a mo¬ 
ment; for the hoc and cultivator are not alone 
used to kill weeds, as the farmer will doubtless 
remember, but to stir the soil In order that the 
growth of plants may be promoted. It is aston¬ 
ishing, too, how few people there are (outside 
an Editor’s sanctum) who know this Important 
fact! For there are some who seem to think 
i that if no weeds are in sight, there is no need of 
culture. Indeed, there are some who really 
believe that the less the soil is disturbed after 
plants take root, the better for the plants and 
the crop; and some people preach that doc¬ 
trine, alt hough t here are a great many facts in 
the shape of recorded large crops that go to 
unsettle this theory. 
We don’t “hint” that our readers should tnilk 
their cows more I lian three times a day—unless 
it is necessary In Individual cases in order to 
save the milk ; and even in such eases, for the 
sake of their own convenience, we should hint 
that they coat, the ends of the tents of such an 
animal with collodion; nor do we positively 
insist that, it is best to milk cows more than 
twice a day; they certainly will not do it unless 
they are fonder of the business than we ever 
were. But we do insist that ft is someone's 
duty to milk the cows and milk thorn clean, and 
put all the strippings into the milk sent to the 
factory; and not to coo I such milk by pouring 
water into it. though It Is certainly desirable 
the milk should be cooled before flic cans are 
closed and shipped. 
We iiint, too, that young calves should not be 
allowed to bawl because they are hungry; nor 
pigs be allowed to squeal for the same reason. 
They should be taught better manners; their 
mouths should be stopped; it. is an annoying 
habit, which results in afflicting sensitive souls. 
We know that there are some farmers who get 
used to such music and seem to enjoy it : but 
it does not follow that it is the best music to 
which they can listen, nor that it. is healthy 
exercise for the calves and pigs. 
One hint we should like to give; and this we 
do without compulsion—of our own free will 
and accord, to wit:—That now that the “busy 
season” is at its bight, the farmer shall occa¬ 
sionally reflect that his strength uud comfort 
depend largely upon the food he eats,the con¬ 
dition of t he clothes he wears, and the quiet 
and comfort of the home when ho rests; and 
that this food, these clothes, and the quiet and 
comfort, he enjoys there, cost a pood, deal of la¬ 
bor, eare and forethought; that it costs any wo¬ 
man who bears him children altogether too 
much to be economical, and that It is the be6t 
economy to have in the bouse all the help that i:> 
necessary, even if that help has to be a man ! 
This hint is given with the greatest seriousness 
and emphasis. It. is regarded by l he Editor who 
gives it the most, important hint for the month. 
It means that whatever can be done t o lighten 
the labor, relieve from care, facilitate the work, 
and add to the comfort, quiet, rest, peace of the 
wife, will be the most efficient agencies in pro¬ 
moting the progress of farm work. Now, if our 
readers And these “ hints” useful and profitable, 
we may be induced to give more. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Special Scientific Studies for Women.—The 
N. Y. Tribune has the following: 
To the majority of young women we doubt 
whether special scientific studies will be of 
much practical use. In the now popularity of 
these studies lies 1 lie danger of a headlong and 
indiscriminate seizure 01 all sorts of ologles, 
which will only bewilder an unprepared mind 
and take time which might much better be 
given to other intellectual work. 
If this opinion has any validity at all, as ap¬ 
plied to women, it is equally forcible as applied 
to men. But we do not agree with it in either 
case. We do not believe that any danger exists 
“of a headlong and indiscriminate seizure of 
all sorts of ologles” by persons, male or female, 
who take up special scientific study; on the 
contrary, those who do not arc, as a rule, the 
most fickle In their attention to any ology ! Is 
ignorance essential to stability of character or 
continuity of conviction? If it is, give us in¬ 
stability and incontinuity and truth! We be¬ 
lieve in special scientific studies for men and 
women. Because a man holds the key of a 
singl 1 safe and knows the combination of Its 
lock, it by no means follows that he will be¬ 
come a lock-picker or burglar! The danger 
lies now in the fact that there is far too little 
special study and far 100 general superficiality 
among both men and women. 
Oh! How Mud He \Vu&!—Who? Why, that 
gray-headed old ” Daily Rural Life” of ours ! 
He came Into our office Saturday to get his 
boxes of beetles and letters. We banded them 
to him; and with all the eager unconscious¬ 
ness of propriety or pain that a boy exhibits 
when he catches his first flab, he tumbled over 
“Webster’s Unabridged” on to the floor, and 
squatted down upon it like a Turk upon an 
ottoman, out with his big jack-knife, ripped 
open the wrappings from u tin box, and the first 
thing we were conscious of he was tearing 
away at his hair like mad, and gazing with ma¬ 
lignant eyes into the opened box, uttering 
words which it is unlawful for any but mad men 
to utter 1 ” What’s the matter now, old Daily ?" I 
“Matter!” he responded, “matter enough! 
Why can’t people learn something—especially 
after one has taken pains to tell them ? Here’s 
this box all the way from Montana, with noth¬ 
ing but paper in It and a dozen Calosoma, alive! 
The cannibals! Don’t every man know that, 
they live by eating other insects? Sec how they 
have been eating each other up! and 1 don't 
know how many other rare things there were 
in this box which t hey have consumed ! Why, 
they have oaten the paper too! Why didn’t 
that good follow first kill them with chloro¬ 
form, Or by dropping them Into a bottle of 
whisky, and then send them to me, packed in 
sawdust? Oh —!” And then the poor old 
fellow collapsed, and we saw him disappearing 
out of the door, his few, stray, white locks 
flying In the wind as if they were as excited as 
he was. It will be well for the man who sent 
those beetles to look sharply for the next “ Diary 
of a Ruralist!” 
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How the Farmers of Iowa Do!—Illustrating 
the wonderful discretion, good jndgment, sound 
sense, and know-their-own-business character¬ 
istics of some men. «c quotethefollowingfrom 
a let ter written to the Iowa Homestead by N kl- 
son V. Woodman of Johnson Co., Iowa. He 
says; 
About a week ago some meir came Into this 
county peddling goods, and their way of doing 
business wns thisThey would bring into the 
farmer's house an armfull of goods, and sell 
only by t he bolt and on time, by the farmer giv¬ 
ing his note ; but they would not sell less than 
$55 worth to a man. They were keen,sharp 
fellows, and sold in this neighborhood in farm¬ 
ers in amounts from £00 to and $800 worth 
toon many as seven farmers, :.u I the farmers 
gave t hem their notes, “ drawing feu per cent, 
interest,due in six months.” Not, 011 c of the 
men who bought of them tmt. what would take 
25 per cent, lees than what they gave, although 
t hey thought at the time of purchase they were 
doing big things. All that I have seen say they 
had no Intention whatever of buying the goods 
when these chaps came, but they talked t hem 
into it. There were four of the scamps together, 
and they go through the county and meet some¬ 
where n'n Saturday and start agaiu on Monday. 
The notes t hey sell to the bank or somebody 
who w ill buy, and that is the last that will be 
seen of t he rascals. 
There! If here is not proof that the farmers 
of the West are a keen set of men, know what 
they are about, know how to conduct their own 
business and are capable of instructing others 
how they shall conduct theirs, we should like 
some one to furnish such evidence! Such men 
would be usoful counsellors for some Grange or 
other! 
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Market Fairs in Kansan seem to be a success. 
For instance a correspondent of a Kansas 
paper, writing from one of the interior towns of 
that State, says the farmers “ hold, every Satur¬ 
day, what they call a * market fair.' Every 
farmer brings his produce, or whatever he has 
to dispose of, to this fair, where he will And 
purchasers ready to buy. They generally meet 
in the public square at this place or in the bot¬ 
tom near town, where they spend the day in 
trading, buying and selling. For instauce. 
should a man have a small plow which he wish¬ 
es to exchange for a larger one, or a yoke of 
oxen which he wishes to trade for a horse—in ( 
fact, whatever he has to sell or trade, he brings 
it here, and, with little trouble, finds an oppor¬ 
tunity to trado or sell, I am informed that this 
has proved a valuable modus 0 perandi, and that 
the farmers are highly pleased with it.” 
Migration of English Fnriuers to America.— 
J. J. Mecei writes the Edinburgh (Scotland) 
Farmer, that “Farmers as well as their labor¬ 
ers, are finding out there is a more profitable 
field for their capital in the United States than 
in England, and that they can take a position 
there as land owners with less capital than they 
can here as tenants.” Accordingto Mr. Mechi, 
this migration Is chiefly to North Carolina and 
Virginia, and much commendation is bestowed 
upon the faithfulness and industry of colored 
laborers, who are said to work harder than En¬ 
glish laborers would under similar circum¬ 
stances. Evidently, Mr. Hechi thinks favor¬ 
ably of settlement here, judging from the tone 
of his letter, and has received satisfactory re¬ 
ports from those who have settled here. 
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Gen. Garfield and Farmers.—A Washington 
dispatch saysGen. Garfeeld has been in¬ 
vited to deliver an address before an agricultu¬ 
ral society in his district. He proposes to take 
as a topic the relation of corporations to future 
National politics. He is of the opinion that 
this topic will be as much of a keynote to the 
political future as Slavery has been in the past. 
He does not think, however, that the farmers' 
Granges, as at present organized, have met this 
question in a proper manner, or have sought to 
get a logical solution of the situation. He will 
endeavor to remedy this deficiency.” We may 
expect plenty of prescriptions for farmers from 
political doctors the coming six months. 
Catalogues, Etc,, Received.—From Col. D. S. 
Harris, Soc'y, Cleveland, Ohio, Ninth Annual 
Report of Ohio Dairymen’s Ass’n.-From E. 
W. Carpenter, Sec’y, Prem. List of Fourth 
Annual Fair of Montana Ag., Mineral and Mech. 
Ass'n. 
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Hop Prospects.— From the hop regions of 
New York the reports are encouraging; also 
from Wisconsin up to June 7,theKilbourn Mir¬ 
ror asserting“ The hop vines in this vicin¬ 
ity are doing splendidly. Reports from all the 
growers round about are encou rrglug; the pros- 
j pect is flattering for an excellent yield.” The 
: Watertown (Wis.) Republican, June 4, however, 
says“ We learn that the frost of several nights 
. last week had a most damaging effect on the 
[ growing hops in this section, killing a large 
number of vines, and setting at rest all expec¬ 
tations of a fair yield this season." 
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Kotten Fruit from MiMnissippi, — Mr. WIL¬ 
LIAM Raines, Hickory, Miss., under dale of 
June 0, wrote that ho had sent us a box of Early 
Harvest and Red Astrachan apples, aud Made¬ 
line pears. To-day, .Tune 10, tltebox has arrived. 
There Is not a sound apple in the box and the 
only sign of pears is a few pear stems which we 
fish out of a mass of rottenness. While we ap¬ 
preciate the kindly motive which prompted our 
friend, we don’t hunger after such fruit at the 
rate of $2.25 express charges, per peck. Fruit 
, is not so rare in our market as to warrant such 
j extravagance, on our part, often. 
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Grange* of Patrons of Husbandry.—An offi¬ 
cial statement of the number of Granges of the 
Patrons of Husbandry in the country previous 
to May Hi, 1873. shows the following in the 
I States:—“ Arkansas, 15; California, 8; Georgia, 
hi; Illinois, 431; Indiana, 142; Iowa, 1,507; Kan¬ 
sas, 128; Michigan, 24; Minnesota, 219; Missis- 
| elppi, 112; Missouri. 245; Nebraska, 190: Ohio, 
47; South Carolina, 118; Tennessee, 13; Ver¬ 
mont, 22; Wisconsin, 140— making an organiza¬ 
tion, in the United States, of 3,377 granges, with 
an aggregate membership of over 2,000,000.” 
File and Preserve nil Business Papers.—This 
is what we advise farmers, many of whom are 
careless In this respect:—Take a receipted bill 
fur everything you purchase. Cancel and pre¬ 
serve the notes you pay. File nil receipts. Keep 
the tax receipts you get. Keep and file all busi¬ 
ness letters. Make copies of the business let¬ 
ters you write aud file them. This course will 
save every farmer money; and money saved is 
us good as that which Is earned. 
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The Late John Htuari Mill.— On the next 
page we give a portrait of the late John Stuart 
Mill, whose death, with brief biographical 
sketch, was recently announced in these col¬ 
umns. .4 review of the life of Mr. Mill would 
doubtless Interest some of our readers; many 
are familiar with his history and works. Ho 
has made a profound impression upon the pub¬ 
lic mind and the Influence of his work is not 
yet ended. 
lion. Hiram Sibley’s Donation to Cornell I'nl- 
virslty. — Hon. Hiram Sibley of Rochester, 
writes to President A. D. White as follows: 
“To show my feelings regarding Mr. Cornell 
and the University In reference to these charges, 
I hereby add a donation of $30,000 to t he $20,000 
given by me last month to the department of 
Mechanical Engineering." This makes Mr. Sib- 
leY'-s entire gift to that department 4 00.000. 
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Garden Snails, already prepared and cooked, 
are now publicly sold in the streets of Glouces¬ 
ter, Eng., and appear to And ready customers. 
This Invasion of the monopoly rights of British 
beef producers has been made by French sail¬ 
ors—the French having for some time been 
snuil caters. It would be interesting if some 
one would tell us how snails are cooked. 
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Passport* for Those Going Abroad, W. G. 
M. is .informed, are not necessary in England 
and France; but if one goes to Austria, Italy, 
Egypt or Palestine, he will find a passport a 
great convenience; and ho will certainly save 
himself trouble by obtaining one ere he leaves 
this country. 
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A Chromo of the Yosemite, given to subscrib¬ 
ers to The West, is a beautifully colored and 
apparently truthful picture—alone worth more 
than the price of the paper. We are Indebted 
to the publishers of The West for a handsomely 
framed copy. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
There are now three hundred and forty 
Granges of Patrons of Husbandry in Missouri. 
All except nineteen of these have beeu organ¬ 
ized since the first of February last. 
It Is estimated that the farmers of Iciwa alone 
have already saved $150,000 by buying their ma¬ 
chines directly fro 11 the manufacturers through 
the Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry. 
The man who produces the largest yield to 
area cultivated, with the least expense, and 
increases the fertility of the soil, is the most 
scientific farmer, however Ignorant he may be 
of the fact. 
We see it asserted that the veteran agricul¬ 
tural writer, Levi Bartlett, has reaobed his 
80th birthday. He is probably the oldest agri¬ 
cultural writer in the country, and has always 
been a sensible one. 
Kansas is importing plants direct from Scot¬ 
land. consisting of larch, spruce, Scotch and 
Hungarian firs. ash, birch, oak and elm plants; 
also several varieties of Holland, Portugal and 
rhododendron evergreens and roses. 
The State Legislature of Vermont provides 
that freight wagons carrying more than three 
tons in weight, and. lees thno four, shall have 
the rims of their wheels at least four inches 
wide, and if carrying more than four tons, five 
inches, 
B. B. W. ,s informed that a young gentleman 
may or may not wear kid gloves at a country 
church ; it will make him no moie nor any less 
a gent leman whet her he does or not; if lie does, 
a dark or light, but not a gaudy, color is the best 
to choose. 
