MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JULY 28 
“PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conducting Editor and Eutolislier. 
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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1873. 
VACATION LETTERS. 
A Working Editor Out of Harness. 
It is nearly two years since I (Irat. wrote that, 
heading, and nearly two years since I have had 
a breathing spoil—two years of exacting labor. 
It is only the “ habit of work," now, that Impels 
to lake this pencil. Of course, I have no 
consideration whatever for those chaps in the 
Ruhai< office who have the “copy” to make! 
Nor have I any ambition in gratify; indeed, I 
have but little left. You would not have, if you 
were hanging in a hammock underneath two 
such apple trees for a canopy and with such 
glimpses of water and land as I get without a 
movement of my head. 
Two Years from the Country ! 
. Do you know what that means7 And how 
does the country look after two years’ absence ? 
lsil Improving? Are t here any marked changes? 
A few; not many. The maples have lengthen¬ 
ed, and the shadows they throw arc a trifle 
deeper. The old orchard trees look older and 
more iotlrm; the younger orchards are getting 
more mature and fruitful. The stones in the 
walls are a trifle more mossed : tie paint on the 
buildings more dingy: Hie gate fastenings are 
more worn : the barn floors need new planking; 
some of the battens on t he buildings need nails; 
the old wagons, some of them, need new paint; 
some have new wagons ; the snow in the hair 
Of some of my Old friends shows more than it 
did two years ago; the furrows in their faces 
are deeper; they walk slightly stiffer; the boys 
arc-taking the burl hens of care and labor, and 
are talking more thoughtfully of the manage¬ 
ment of crops and stocks, of wool and cheese, 
of transportation and Granges. Mary Jane, 
with whom I went picking pea* two years ago, 
has a new light in her eye. She does not aet so 
listless, wearied, and overworked. 1 hear that 
she is soon to have opportunity to build up 
that homo superstructure of which she talked 
so eloquently to me on the pea patch. If. is 
wonderful what a tonic love and hope is! Why, 
the moment I began to think that 1 might pos¬ 
sibly gel out of the sanctum for a few weeks, 
my work became easier, and it was quicker and 
better done! But talking upon this subject 
reminds me that yesterday I met 
A Lady from the West 
who has been here visiting her friend, whom 
she had not ceen in fifteen years. She has helped 
her husband to build up his Western home, 
worked hard, brought up her family of children 
and was worn out with care. She said to me: 
“ The moment I really began tn hope that I 
was coming hack to the old home, a new life 
sprang up within me; I grew- youngor every 
moment; I have grown more elastic ever since 
I left home. Instead of my visit making me 
restless and discontented, it will enable me to 
appreciate my own homo more than ever, and 
to settle down there contented. Even now I 
am heginning to anticipate the date and count 
the days that will intervene ere I start back. 
Sorry I came? No, sir I I am glad I It has 
added ten years to my life, because it has not 
only broken Hs monotony, but furnished me 
with new material, with which to weave happi¬ 
ness Into the web of the life of rny family.” 
How well I remembered those warm, relax¬ 
ing spring days on the old farm, when I was 
just largo enough ttr “ pick up stones.” What 
tedious, dull, back-aching, hand-rasping, boy- 
disheartening days time were ! But do I not 
remember "'hat force tt gave us boys when wo 
were told In the mornJng, 41 Boys, pick up a 
dozen good, large heaps of stone and t hen go a 
fishing the rest of the day I” 
How we did sling stone! 
Don't all this show that the motive for work 
must be our own pleasure and happiness or the 
pleasure and happiness of others whom we love ? 
is there not a lesson to W learned here as to 
the causes of discontent «n the farm ? Why do 
the boys and girls desire to leave home and the 
homestead ? 1 was talking with one the other 
day- the son of an old frieud. He was Inquir¬ 
ing about life, lit the city. “Stay at home, 
James," I said. 
“ But you went away, mid have come back an 
Editor. You nave made a name. You are re¬ 
spected, and your old friends here-defer to you 
as to some one who Is wiser than they. Is not 
that worth struggling and striving for—to re- 
ccivo such a welcome as you get whenever you 
come? Why, I might work here until dooms¬ 
day and receive no such consideration. Sup¬ 
pose you have worked hard? Haven’t you en¬ 
joyed a good deal? Haven’t, you jrowu iu 
knowledge, broadened In your Ideas of things ? 
Don’t you look at life and those who live from 
a different standpoint than you would if you 
had spent, your days upon a farm ? What object 
have I for work? To accumulate u few more 
acres; to get a few more dollars In the bank; 
to marry, and educate my children, who will 
leave me the first chance; to be known as tlm 
best farmer in town ; to drive the best team, 
milk the best, cows, keep th* best sheep,swino 
and cattle! Why, I tell you, I must have some 
other motive. It is all very well to say 4 be con¬ 
tented to tell me that L am making more 
money than you are. What Is money, unless 
we use it to increase our knowledge ana in¬ 
fluence in the world ?" 
I confess 1 could not make Jakes understand 
how hollow is all that a professional man gets 
tn the way of reputation, nor what it costa of 
labor, care and torture to get, it. Because 1 am 
here loafing for a tew weeks, ho t hinks 1 have 
an easy life ! He cannot know what such lei¬ 
sure has cost me!. He docs not and will not be¬ 
lieve Unit. I would give up the whole for the 
quiet content, peace and delight of five years 
on a farm, with all the exacting labor, labor! 
What Is the labor of a farmer who Is Inde¬ 
pendently circumstanced, compared with that 
of the man who must weigh every word ho 
writes and everything he does because of its 
possible Influence Upon the public? 
I tell you, Brother Moohk, If a man wants to 
knowhow to appreciate an Independent lid'*, 
let liim attempt to serve the public awhile, and 
then go back to the quiet, and comparatively; 
Irresponsible position of n farmer. JIc’ll no 
longer sigh for fame, nor yearn for distinction, 
nor wish that, he may 44 see the world” again 1 
But the shadows and the dew are fulling ! In¬ 
stead of going to bed at one o'clock in the 
morning, as in the city, 1 shall be asleep when 
the clock strikes nine. I shall be up to hear 
the bird matins In the morning,uad will have 
breakfast about the time the milk curls and 
meat wagons and heavy trucks begin to shako 
the earth under your window to waken you. 
I’ve no desire to exchange places with you now ! 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
netting on the Price of Colton.—'The creation 
of h cotton exchange tn this city has resulted in 
the establishment of that vicious system com¬ 
mon on t,l)t* Gold. Corn and other exchanges— 
betting on the price of cotton. The effects of 
this practice are not confined to New York. 
All through the Southern States men are mak¬ 
ing advances to cotton growers, and pledging 
to pay them a certain price for their crop at a 
certain date. In other words they put up their 
money on the price o(' cotton within a certain 
time, with the privilege of realizing all they can 
from the sale thereof up to the date fixed. The 
result is tnnt they, as often as otherwise, gel 
disappointed, and in many cases have failed 
financially and gone Into bankruptcy. We 
know' a young man who told ue that he bought 
a certain amount of cotton in this way of a 
planter. He lost $500 to $500 on his purchase, 
and the total absorbed most of bis ready capital. 
It is a vicious system, of no real gain to the 
planter, creates fictitious values and demoral¬ 
izes trade. It is a species of gambling which 
ought not to be encouraged by planters at all. 
Cotton is, as a consequence of this system two 
or three cents per pound higher here than in 
Liverpool, and it is asserted that it is actually 
being re-shipped hero to meet contracts. 
we have to find with It is that it does not pledge 
its proclalmers to fight for freedom from debt. 
that, it does not recognize the fact that the 
evils under which farmers suffer are not. alone 
concentrated In monopolies, nor in’corrupt 
Legislatures and Congress. It Is, however, a 
good long step taken when farmers no longer 
consent to be the dupes and tools of politicians 
nor the machinery with which to perpetuate 
party power for the sake of party. The good to 
grow from this movement is that farmerii will 
discover their own power and how It may be 
used to clean out corruption from high places; 
the danger lies In the chances that demagogues 
may get control of that power and direct it to 
attain their own ends. This it will require 
great vigilance and w isdom to guard against. 
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Kaunas l*otltidnns and Uranges.—It is as¬ 
serted that a squad of local politicians at 
Leavenworth, Kansas, recently organized a 
Grange and applied for a charter. It has been 
a sort of a mystery why the charter was not 
granted promptly. We do not learn that they 
have yet been favored with It. Some inquisitive 
follow Interrogated a leading Granger on the 
subject, who said: 
“We must. <lraw Hie line somewhere. If wo 
admit Col. Coffin, we would have to admit Ltx 
Smith. If Smith were admitted, we would he 
obliged to admit Jim Legate. When LkGa’IE 
wji , admitted, ,M \rig SON would apply. If we 
admitted Makkson, Tow Johnson would have 
to be admitted and within less than two months 
every do-nothing individual in town would be¬ 
long to the order.” 
It. in astonishing what a number of persons 
think this 44 order one of the grandest reforma¬ 
tory movements of the age." Within three 
weeks we have been called upon by men who 
were anxious to know 44 all about it,” whether 
there was a Grange they 44 could get into,” and 
how t hey must go to work to get a charter. Not 
one of these men have any more intcrost in the 
prosperity of farmers than a partisan politician 
hits In telling the truth concerning an opposing 
candidate. They had got a notion that it was 
the wave thev must ride on and so their zeal 
was manifest. There’ll bo plonty of such fel- 
lowa before the next, election. 
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A New York Ntnte Park. It. is proposed to 
convert 834,000 acres, embraced In the counties 
of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Herki¬ 
mer, St. Lawrence and Lewis Into a grand Stal e 
Park. This Is what Is known as the 44 Adiron¬ 
dack region.” The last, Legislature created a 
State Park Commission, consisting of ex-Gov. 
Seymour, Patrick il. Ag in, Wm. B. Taylor, 
Gbo. Raynor, Wm. A. Wheeler, Verplanck 
Colvin and Fkanklln B. Hough. This Com¬ 
mission report in favor of the creation of this 
Park. It is recommended to establish It on the 
grounds of political economy, rather than for 
the purposes of recreation. It is not for the 
accommodation of pleasure seekers, but with a 
view not only to the preservation of timber, but 
that the water supply of the Hudson arid other 
outflowing streams may be kept up. It is not 
proposed to Inclose the Park, nor to improve 
it, beyond the repairing of a few roads through 
it; but. the Commission recommend that the 
wild lands owned by t he State bo still held in 
its possession intact. 
Mercantile Prize Ahs'ii. A correspondent in 5j( !J" 
North Carolina sends us a circular embracing a * u " 
schedule of prizes purporting to be destributed '{ !' 
by the above-named association—cash prizes to an at 
the amount of $955,000, and other prizes valued w 
-it $1,250,000, every ticket drawing a prize, and i woc 
asks if there is such an Association and if it Isa Duk< 
cheat, steal and Imposition, or reliable. We jj k 
know nothing of the Association; but we assure livelj 
our correspondent that we would just as soon m itt 
throw our money Into tho lire with the hope i ' ,:rm 
that it would be quadrupled or multiplied ten Th 
T housand fold, as to Invest money in any such 
concern as this with the hope of gain. It Is very 
sustained by credulous fools. Men who engage Mfii 
in such schemes are enriched by the desi.eof stock 
thousands to get something for nothing. Prob- aro *' 
ably not ono man out of 100,000, who send their <,att 1 
dollars to this Association, gets a dollars’ worth '^ HJ 
of value therefrom. We hope none ol our read- 
ers are such ninnys as to invest a cent therein, amuu 
education Is denaanded and must be provided. 
The spirit as well as the letter of the law en¬ 
dowing these Agricultural Colleges, must be 
observed. 
Eating Beef at Vienna.—Dr. Maddox, in a 
paper upon parasite worms, read before the 
Royal Microscopical Society, says that the five 
capped bljidder wurm Of Austrian oxen, is but 
one phase In the life of a tape worm, to which 
all who cat underdone beef in Austria proper, 
run great risk of playing unwitting, but unwil¬ 
ling gueBte. He. therefore, cautions all those 
who contemplate visiting the Vienna Exhibi¬ 
tion, to be extremely shy of eating beef which 
Is not thoroughly cooked. We trust that this 
timely warming may have a good effect upon the 
prices iif butcher's meat in the Austrian capital, 
during the sojourn of t he strangers now within 
its gates. 
Cattle Magna Damages.—Gov. DlX has ap¬ 
pointed Marsbna It. Patrick of .5131)11118, 
Lewis F. Allen of Buffalo, and Wm. Barnes 
of Albany, Commissioners to retry and rede¬ 
termine the award of the Commlssionners ap¬ 
pointed by the Supreme Court on the claims 
of Henry Rankin ami Henry Livingston 
against the State for cattle killed by order of 
the State Commissioners during the prevalence 
of the cattle plague a few years ago. 
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The English Lnborcr* who havebeenseduced 
to go to Brazil, arc telling sad tales of their life 
there. There is great dissatisfaction, and with 
much reason. From the quiet of pastoral lilo 
in England, and the comforts of cottagers’ 
homes, they have been lured to huts and a wild 
life for which they are as illy adapted as a lamb 
is to the wilds of Africa. 
A Hnw-Flsh has cut n Telegraph Cable be¬ 
tween Singapore and Penang, in the China Sea, 
breaking three out of tho seven wires. Thlsfact 
has been ascertained by .Mr. Frank Buckland, 
to whom was referred the tooth of some animal 
found embedded in the damaged cable, and who 
discovered that, it was the tooth of a saw-fish— 
Prietis antfguorum. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
The Japanese are importing Short-Horn cat¬ 
tle from Ohio. 
Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry are 
Increasing rapidly In Indiana. 
Horse- row ku for raking cranberries is the 
newest invention In that particular line. 
The grasshoppers are doing great damage to 
crops in the western counties of Minnesota. 
At Mr. Dorsey’s sale of Gold Dust stock, 38 
head of horses brought an average of $582 each. 
Paris consumes ;i5<), 000,000 eggs annually, 
Greta Britain, 1,500,000,000, New York City 
100,000,000. 
The Kansas Farmer of June 15, says.300Farm¬ 
ers’ Clubs and 150 Granges arc already organized 
in that State. 
The Indianapolis Exposition Building is rap¬ 
idly approaching completion, and will be grand 
and imposing. 
Minnesota is telling of the coming grasshop¬ 
per—who is generally agrass whopper, too—and 
its devastations. 
A train of cars recently reached Pittsburg 
from Chicago, containing 1,500 dead animals, 
suffocated cn route. 
Thirteen Swiss bulls, cows and calves were 
sold for $1,914, at Waltham, Illinois, recently, 
sn average of $147.23 each. 
Wm. WARFfEij}, Lexington, Ky„ has sold a 
Iwo-thirds interest in the bull calf, London 
Duke X., six weeks old, for $1,000. 
Messrs. Chenkry and Whiting are having a 
lively debate in the newspapers, over the pro¬ 
priety of calling Dutch cattle Holstein and vice 
Agricultural College Pluwgettn*_New En¬ 
gland and New York have been boiling over 
with excitement because eleven boat crews 
from colleges within their borders have been 
training to see which could row a distance of 
three miles in the shortest time. Yale won ! 
Now why not let the boys ol the Agricultural 
Colleges of the country meet annually to com¬ 
pete for colors (or whatever else may be selected) 
to be awarded for the best day's work plow¬ 
ing—a regular Plowgetta! Wouldn’t It be just 
as sensible, as exciting, as muscle-developing, 
etc., etc. ? How many boys in our Agricultural 
schools know how to plow well ? We should 
like a census taken that will tell. 
The Formers’ Declaration of Independence, 
which we print in another column, will attract 
attention. This is a declaration against monop¬ 
olies, especially railway monopolies, corrupt 
Legislatures and an unsympathetic Congress, 
and of independence ol ali past political con¬ 
nections, resolving to give votes only.to such 
men as will promote the Interests of farmers. 
So far as this declaration goes it is temperate in 
language and wise Jn purpose. The only tuult 
The Agricultural College Endowment BUI 
before Congress at its last session, was thrust 
before the recent Agricultural Congress at In¬ 
dianapolis for indorsement. It failed, however, 
to get it. For that refusal we must commend 
the Agricultural Congress, as we did that at 
Washington. It is appareut that the farmers 
of ibis country are no longer In a humor to 
permit the squandering of the public lands 
upon these schools, simply that sectarian and 
classical scholars may profit thereby. It is 
come to pass that technical and professional 
THE California Farmer says the sugar beet 
I crop belonging to the .Sacramento Sugar Com¬ 
pany looks splendidly, and the profit will be 
very large per acre. 
Messrs. Scott, Ward, and Porter have a 
stock farm near Denver City, upon which there 
aro fifty head of Jersey and ten head of Ayrshire 
cattle—all Herd Book animals. 
The United States has become the leading 
cheese-producing country in the world; From 
an exportation of 1,000,000 pounds in 1852, the 
amount rose to 80,000,000 in 1872. 
Col. John W, Pornkv has accepted the invi¬ 
tation of the State Agricultural Society of 
Texas, to deliver their annual address at Mar¬ 
shall in that .State, on the 30th of September. 
At the June meeting of the Alton, III., Horti¬ 
cultural Society Dr. Hull said that the < ,'nllosa- 
mla beetle which he had been collecting for 
years, frees his orchard of all tent caterpillars. 
By nipping the eods of the tomato plants the 
fruit matures perhaps a week earlier. It also 
causes the plant to branch and produce more 
abundantly. This can be done now only with 
the late plants. 
The weights of the heaviest cattle competing 
at tho Birmingham (England) show for butchers 5 
premiums, were as followsHoreford, 2,387 
lbs,; Short-Horn, 2,50# lbs.; Devon, 1,875 Ids.; 
Scotch Ox, 2,686 lbs. 
BUSINESS N0TI0ES, 
Children, begin now to save your pennies, that 
when the long evenings come you can buy 41 Avllude, 
or Game of Birds.” If your storekeeper bag not got 
It, send scventy-Bve cents to West & Lee, Worces¬ 
ter, Mass., and it will bo sent by mall, post-paid. 
“Avilude is a superior game,”— Worcester Palla- 
clmm. 
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Ludiea.— The next time you buy a spool of silk be 
sure and get the Eureka. It is the best iu the mar¬ 
ket. Warranted to give satisfaction. 
