and should result, and has often resulted. We 
call the attention of our readers to the good 
that may bo done, at small cost, by just such 
joint action—to the fact that It Is so easy to 
jointly lift a load of care from the shoulders of 
an afflicted brother and plant not only seed in 
his ground that will produce a harvest, but hope 
in his heart that will go far to recover him of 
all physical ills and mental depressions. Don't 
wait to be a Granger in order to do this! 
alive, presenting banks of beautiful green for 
tbe eye to rest against—of such shade of green 
as no other of our hardy evergreens equal, in 
our judgment. Tt is plain that the Hemlock 
ought to and must bocornc the popular ever¬ 
green hedge plant, of the Northern States. 
None excel it in grace and beauty; none sur¬ 
pass it in hardiness; and no one bears the use 
of the shears better. 
PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
These were mostly purchased in Buffalo, are 
two, three and fou* years old; have been se¬ 
lected with great good judgment, the cost aver¬ 
aging about $.'55 each, and will go into the mar¬ 
ket this fall and early winter, when they will, 
most of them, firing $80 to $90 each. 
It will be remembered by those who were 
readers of the Kukal Nkw-Y 0HKBH then, that 
this paper of the date of Feb. 5,1870, contained 
portraits of four fat steers, fed by Mr. Ayrault 
on this farm, that weighed, respectively (live 
weight), when slaughtered, after exhibiting in 
Now York City three weeks, 3,220, 3,255. 3,315 
and 3,310 lbs.—a total of 13,103 lbs.; their net 
weight was, respectively, 2,101. 2,122, 2,307 and 
2,170 lbs.-a total of 8,820 lb*. In the KuRALof 
May 7,1870, we gave the weight of these animals 
at three years old, and successively each New 
Year's day thereafter up to the time they were 
brought here for slaughter. 
We mention these facts in order to say that 
we saw on the farm, Juno 20,1873, a pair of steers 
and a pair of heifers that promise to show as re¬ 
markably (if not more so) on the scales, when 
the time comes, as did these. We never saw, 
anywhere* finer animals than one steer and one 
heifer of these four. We do not go into the de¬ 
tails of their feed and the cost thereof now, for 
obvious reasons; but our readers may be sure 
that Mr. Ayrault is not feeding his stock for 
fun. He means business, which means money 
profit. By his process of grazing and feeding 
stock, he makes his farm pay him from 7 to 14 
per cent., per annum, on the investment. With 
a different treatment of his pasture lands, we 
believe he will do better, for, in our judgment, 
they are far below t heir maximum in the pro¬ 
duction of pasturage—we mean below the max¬ 
imum they may reach without materially add¬ 
ing to the investment. But while there Is no 
ostentatious show in the management of the 
furm, the grass lands and the land in corn and 
other crops illustrate intelligent management, 
with duo regard to profl. ; and probably there 
is no other mode by which this furm could be 
so well kept up at so small an expense, and with 
so good practical results to its owner. 
A Horse Fever. 
But there is a horse fever raging In the neigh¬ 
borhood. Evidently Mr. AYRAULT has felt its 
influence. The high prices which some of the 
Dutchess County farmers have been gelling 
for good horse stock has quickened Its devel¬ 
opment, and an Association has been organ¬ 
ized (of which Mr. Ayrault Is President), and 
land has been purchased, is to be improved, an 
excellent track made, and premiums, offered 
that shall draw thither, not only from the Hud¬ 
son River counties, but from ot her parts of the 
State ami from other States, the beat stock of 
all kinds, horses particularly, that can be got 
together. It is to be a sort, of nti Eastern State 
fair—with the addition of the trotting feature, 
which Mr. Ayrault insists is legitimate, since 
the design is simply to encourage, in a legiti¬ 
mate manner, the breeding of trotting stock 
for a market that is now poorly supplied in 
proportion to the demand. 
Evidently it is believed by Mr. Ayrault and 
others that these grazing lands can be put to 
more profitable use in the production of such 
stock, than grazing cattle or growing corn or 
grain. A knowledge of, taste and market 
center for good horse stock is to be created. 
From $00,000 to $80,000 are subscribed already 
with this object. Live men and those who are 
financially and otherwise competent to put the 
project through in good shape, are interested 
in it, and we may expect to see a remark¬ 
able impetus given to stock production of all 
kinds, in the Hudson River counties, through 
Its agency. _ 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
RUEAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
Conducting Editor and .Putolinlier 
Herd Hindis. Ac.—Will you please state in 
your paper, where I can get tbo American Herd 
Book ? Also, how is the proper way to proceed 
to get stock registered therein, and what the 
price of the book is? Also, is there any book 
giving history of Jersey stock?—A. B. C. D., 
Sprinufkkl, Mam*. 
For copies of the American Short-Horn Herd 
Book, or to secure a registry therein, apply to 
its Editor, Hon. Lewis F. Allen, Buffalo, N. 
Y. We believe the price of tbo work is $10 per 
volume. The American Devon Herd Book can 
be had, wo presume, of its Editor, H. M. Ses¬ 
sions, South Wilbraham, Mass.—price $3. There 
is a Jersey Herd Book, or rather “ Herd Regis¬ 
ter of the American Cattle Club,” which con¬ 
tains a history of tho breed. Its price is $5 ; for 
sale at this office. 
CHAS. D. BRAGD0N, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
Amiociate Jdditors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Editor ok tbe Depubtme.it or Sheep HuiJBiMDBy. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editor of the Dei-a BTME'T nr Deikt lilTEBAMPStV. 
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Subscription.—Single Copy, $2.50 per Year. To 
Clubs;—Five Copies, and one copy freu to Agent or 
getter up of Club,for $12.50; Seven Copies, anti one 
froe, lor Hti; Ten Copies, and one free, $20— only *2 
per copy. As we are obliged to pre-pay the American 
postage on papers mailed to foreign countries, Twenty 
Cent# should be added to above rales for each yearly 
copy mailed to Canada, and One Dollar per copy to 
Euiope. Droits, I'ost-Oflioo .Money Orders ami Regis¬ 
tered Letters may be mailed at our risk. C 9~ Liberal 
Premiums to all ( lull Agents who do not take free 
copies. Specimen N umbers, Show-Bills, Ac., sent free 
I I Mill LUO ULUJ* tv M i K l> 11 V." IV vi 11' ■ I “ ill VOIIIT'., II1TJ- 
met ically sealing the name, and then boiling tins 
cans until the corn contained therein becomes 
completely cooked, and for a longer or shorter 
period. 
Sometimes the cans are punctured, after being 
well heated—say ten minutes—which is an es¬ 
cape for the confined air, the cans being im¬ 
mediately resealed. When the cars are not 
punctured their ends w ill remain pressed out¬ 
ward after cooling, and yet t ho corn is perfectly 
preserved. 
fid. A now and useful improvement, in pre¬ 
serving green corn, consisting of the application 
o 1 the process described in the second claim, 
without regard to any atmospheric air that may 
he in the can and contents. 
4th. A new and useful improvement in pre¬ 
serving vegetables in hermetically scaled cans. 
The validity of these claims has been tested 
in the United Stutes Supreme Cou T of tho 
State of Maine before. Judge Clifford who has 
rendered a decision recognizing the validity of 
the first two and a dismissal of the hill as to the 
second two, thus refusing to recognize their 
validity. This result lias alarmed ti o dealers 
in hermetically sealed goods li this city and 
elsewhere, and has resulted in an Association 
called “The Packers and Dealers of Hermeti¬ 
cally Settled Goods Defence Association," which 
has raised and is raising a fund xith which to 
carry the case to the United States Supreme 
Court at Washington for final decision. This is 
a case of great importance to those who grow, 
can and consume fruit. It should receive the 
vigilant attention of all three classes. Its im¬ 
portance is indicated in a letter we have seen 
published from a New York firm who deal in 
the goods put up under this patent, who say 
that parties buying any other corn except that 
put up under these patents “ will Incur the same 
risk as the packer who Infringes." Thus it will 
be seen an attempt Is being made to exclude all 
other brumls of canned corn from the market, 
nr compel packers to pay a royalty. 
Hop Matters nnd Prospects. The late rains 
have improved hop prospects in Madison Co., 
N. Y. In Michigan there is no old stock of 
hops on hand, and the growth of the plants la 
not as promising as last year. Generally, tho 
hop prospect is far better than was anticipated 
early in tho season. Tho London market is firm 
und excited in consequence of tho precarious 
condition of the crop. In Belgium markets are 
firm, and the insects ate affecting the crop. 
English hops are being re-shlpped to Liverpool, 
and our own markets are dull, and will con¬ 
tinue so as long as the prospect of our hop crop 
continues good. 
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Buffalo Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
Interesting to Wool Grower*.—The announce¬ 
ment of Mr. S. N. Goodai.e, in our advertising 
department, (page 22,) under the heading of 
“New York Exposition and Sample Sales of 
Wool,” will naturally attract the attention of 
wool growers. If properly carried out, as we 
trust it will lie, Mr. Good ale's new method 
must prove advantageous to both wool growers 
and manufacturers. Tbo plan is certayily 
worthy of a trial, and Mr. G’s long experience 
in handling wool ought to enable him to render 
it a success. No wool grower should fail to 
read the announcement. 
SATURDAY, JULY 
START OF VOX, XXVIII, 
V Repeal of Dulles on articles that enter into 
i be manufact ure of commercialfer.llizers, such 
as sulphate of ammonia, sulphuric acid, nitrate 
sodi, nitrate of potash, common salt, &o., is 
urged by a correspondent of tho Rural New- 
Yorker. lie urges that tho Granges, Farmers' 
Clubs, and Town, County and State Agricultural 
Societies, should move in this matter. We sub¬ 
mit bis plea, in brief, to our readers. 
This number commences the Twenty-Eighth 
Volumo of tho Rural New-Yorker— a vol¬ 
ume which we hope to render especially val¬ 
uable to its supporiers and not devoid of inter¬ 
est to others, for we shall strive to benefit tho 
public at large. Our aim will he to make such 
a paper in tho future as every honest, intelli¬ 
gent and right-thinking man, woman or youth 
will, on perusal, approve,- and if we succeed 
in this endeavor shall be content. Horace 
Greeley, when tho chief of American journal¬ 
ists, said in his Tribune : 
“ Moore's Rural New-Yorker is not a sen¬ 
sation paper, a.nd may not win patrons so fast 
;is some 111 it are.; but. those it wins it keeps, by 
giving them the full worth of their money in 
instructive, wholesome, agreeable information 
with regard to Farming and Household affairs, 
with a goodly array of literary matter, markets, 
iic., &c. Wo presume that no man who took 
The Rural was over afraid or ashamed to be 
seen leading It, or hesitated to commend it to 
his neighbors.” 
To continuously render truthful these utter¬ 
ances will be our earnest desire and ambition, 
and if we fail it will not be for lack of disposi¬ 
tion or effort. But, as stated last week, we can¬ 
not succeed fully, or to the measure of our 
desire, “without the co-operation of friendly 
readers, and therefore bespeak the aid of such 
as can properly contribute to the pages of tho 
paper or otherwise further its usefulness. To 
these we appeal with much confidence, for cor¬ 
respondence, suggestions, facta, hints — any 
article or item which will add to the informa¬ 
tion and knowledge of our widely-extended 
parish of readers.” And we also bespeak that 
material aid necessary to sustain such an en¬ 
terprise, and which is particularly appropriate 
and requisit e on the opening of a new volume. 
All disposed to lend their timely Influence in 
the direct ion indicated, are assured their efforts 
will be gratefully appreciated by us and redound 
to the benefit of community. 
Nntionnl Agricultural Congress. — The New 
England Farmer of a recent date says: 
It would almost seem that tho old caution 
about riding a free horse to death had been dis¬ 
regarded by tho constituency of the National 
Agricultural Congress, which has Just com¬ 
pleted it* second session. Ttio expenses of the 
first year were some $1,100. The Secretary made 
an appeal to the Associations represented in the 
Congress for their portions of tfie tunds to dis¬ 
charge its indebtedness. The revolt was Hie 
receipt of only $100, tho balance being drawn 
Irom the private purses of the delegates. There 
Is something wrong here. Wuat is it ? 
This “National Agricultural Congress” has 
assessed the Agricultural Societies for its sup¬ 
port. Tbe Agricultural Societies of the country 
have, apparently, seen no good reason for Bup- 
poniogthis” Congress.” In that we think they 
are both practical and sensible. This Congress 
has not yet done anything that warrants any 
one in believing l hat the farmers of the country 
would not be just as well off it the Congress did 
not exist and had never hold a session. Wo 
have received, once a month, three or four cop¬ 
ies of the ” Official Organ of the Agricultural 
Congress.” We have never been able to discov¬ 
er that the Congress was created for any oilier 
purpose than to sustain this “Official Organ." 
This “organ” is about as necessary to the 
farmers of tbe country as a fifth wheel to a 
coach—not anymore so; and when our con¬ 
temporary says 41 There is something wrong 
here. What is it?” we answer that the wrong 
consists in t he attempt to make farmers con¬ 
tribute to sustain what is of no earthly use to 
them. We rejoice that they are too sharp to 
do it. 
Personal, —Mr. W. W. Sharpe, the reliable 
and successful Advertising Agent, of No. 25 
Park How, New York, has just returned from 
Europe, after an absence of over a year. His 
“troops of friends” will be glad to learn that 
he is in excellent health and spirits, and far 
more weighty than formerly. 
The Folding Ha by Carriage, advertised and 
illustrated in this paper, is a good thing for the 
rising generation, ft is neat, convenient, very 
portable, and in fact just tho vehicle in which 
to give tho little folks an airing, in town or 
country and they (tbo little folks) abound 
everywhere in this prolific land. 
Matthew Vassar's “Sprlneslde." 
One morning at five o'clock we started with a 
hospitable friend, Geokok Cohliks, to walk 
through “ Bprtugsidc,” the suburban homo of 
Matthew Vassar, the founder of Vassar Col¬ 
lege, it is situated south of Po'koepsie, and is 
as wild and beautiful a plane naturally as we 
over found in Eastern New York. The surface 
is varied, and the work of tills man, who loved 
Nature and respected, honored and was the 
benefactor of American women, seems to have 
been done with the idea that it would be sacri¬ 
lege to mar tho natural outline of his grounds. 
His attempts seem rather to have boon directed 
toward defining it—toward rendering the nat¬ 
ural beauty more apparent without destroying 
it. He was, at the same time, no mere fancy 
worKinan. The practical was kept in view. 
The homely, honest, practical character of tho 
man is exhibited in the grouping of the trees, 
the evergreen hedges, tho arrangement and un¬ 
ostentatious ehaiacter of the buildings, and in 
the laying out of the drives and rambles. Art 
seems to have been subordinated to nature— 
not nature to art. An excellent lesson may be 
learned by such a walk as we had this bright 
June morning in “Sprlngside,” by many of our 
pretentious landscape artists. 
The Evergreen Hedges at “ Sprlngside M 
attracted our attention—teaching a lesson it 
w'Jl be wise for those who plant to learn and 
remember. It is this: We saw hedges made of 
Hemlock and Arbor Vita, intermixed, much of 
it very closely trimmed. We did not see a live 
Arbor Vita? (ihere may have been, though) in 
any of these hedges. Whole sections of the 
Arbor Vi tie were dead; nnd wherever a single 
plant was seen dead in the midst of the Hem¬ 
lock, an examination showed it to he Arbor 
Vitae. Nor did we see a single dead Hemlock 
plant! Though as closely planted and rigidly 
trimmed as the Arbor Vitm had been, it was all 
To Prevent the Ravages of Grasshoppers, it 
is stated that in Russia It is done, or at least 
checked, by boys with fly nets, who are station¬ 
ed at the “ hatching beds," of the insects, who 
catch them when small and before they leave 
these hatching grounds. 
For Publisher's Notices, Ac., the reader is 
referred to page 20 of this number. And for 
announcement relative to Electros, Wood Cuts, 
&c., for sale, (aLd also about wood engraving, 
lithographing, etc.,) see page 21. 
RURAL BREVITIES 
B. J. Davis, CbeBtervillo, Ohio, desires to 
purchase a parrot that can tie taught to talk. 
Y. N. is informed he can get the article he 
asks for (Entomological Pins) of Queen &Co., 
001 Broadway New York City. 
Wm. M. Coryell, Fayette, N. Y., asks the 
merits, cost, &c., of the Blanchard Churn. Let 
the manufacturers inform him. 
Charles Music. Moroni City, Utah, asks 
where he can purchase some good forest tree 
seed; he does not specify what kind. We can¬ 
not inform him. 
W. E. B. asks Rural readers to tell him how 
to construct a windmill with power enough to 
run a foot-lathe. We should think he could 
buy one cheaper than be can construct it. 
No Granges Needed to feei ure Co-operation. 
—It is stated that at a meeting of a Kansas 
Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, it came to tbe 
knowledge of the members that one of their 
number h d been^fllieted with sickness and 
death in his family, and that t is work was be¬ 
hind. It was arranged by his fellow members 
to “give him a lift.” Early Monday morning, 
greatly to the bewilderment of the afllioted 
brother, who was scarcely able to get to the 
door of hia house, the neighbors appeared, and 
seventeen plows were soon running in his field 
and bis crops being put in in good shape. This 
was good I Had there not been a meeting of 
the Granges, and had there not been developed 
by such meetings a social, neighborly, brotherly 
feeling and sympathy, this co-eperation might 
not have been so easily brought into action. 
This is one of the good things these Granges are 
doing. But we want to say that where such an 
organization does nut exist, the same neigh¬ 
borly action, under such circumstances, may 
OUT-OF-DOOR NOTES. 
Ceo. Ayrault’s Farm and Stock. 
East of Po'keepsle, three or four miles, is 
Geo. Ayrault’s farm of four or five hundred 
acres—composed ol' intervale, upland and hills. 
It is a beautiful farm in its outline and aspect, 
with a commodious farm-house and excellent 
barns and out-huildlngs upon it, well watered 
and well cared for. It is devoted mainly to 
j>-“i s ng. Over 100 handsome steers are in its 
v.i-- fitting for the New York market. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
LYONS MUSICAL ACADEMY 
One of tha most thorough and successful Institu¬ 
tions of its kind. Students fitted tor teachers. Next 
School Year begins Sept. 10. Send for new Circular 
and Catalogue. O. S. ADAMS, Principal, 
Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
