MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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want no distinctive Farmers’ Party, named as 
sucfli and seeking only the farmers' especial 
interest, thus arraying other classes in opposi¬ 
tion. We want no political business, nor social 
action to increase class feeling and prejudice 
farmers against other men engaged in other 
equally honorable callings." The Rural Nirw- 
YORKUit has given its voice against all class 
legislation. It has warned Its readers that no 
special legislation for a class can he made tol¬ 
erable by another class gaining power and leg¬ 
islating for itself. Legislatures should not have 
the constitutional power to enact special laws 
favoring either clause*, corporations or individ¬ 
uals. All special legislation. If any, should be 
referred to the local Legislatures, such as 
Boards of Supervisors, municipal bodies. See.; 
and in most such rases, enactments granting 
special privileges to any man or class of men in 
a localit y, should oc submitted for Indorsement 
to the voting citizens of t he locality Interested. 
Wo are glad to road an address so sensible 
and judicious as that our friend MORROW send* 
us. We have dated our faith that this *‘ Farm¬ 
ers’ Movement" is going to do Agriculturists 
great good, by directing their thoughtful atten¬ 
tion to matters of which they have been Igno¬ 
rant through list lessness, and yet which actively 
concern their material and social prosperity. 
The fruits of the ‘‘Movement," are beginning to 
be seen iu the increased discussion of topics of 
Political Economy, which it is the duty of 
every producer to master. 
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER i, 1873. 
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A TRIAL TRIP : 
NEW QUARTER—NEST VOLUME. 
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of families, preparatory to the commencement of Us 
next Volume in January, 1871, we make the following 
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will gratify and benefit their friends bysendiDg them 
the best and Cueapest American Weekly op 
its CL a 8S? Aomi is the time to respond. Shall we 
add ton, twenty or fifty thousand to our edition on 
the 1st of October ? 
DANGER TO THE FARMERS’ MOVEMENT. 
G. E. Morrow of t he Western Farmer has 
been talking at the Dane Co., Wig., Fair upon 
the "Formens’ Movement.” He very sensibly 
says that “The greatest danger to this Move¬ 
ment is from within—not fzvrn without. If it 
fail of doing good ; ,f tills Interest in the ques¬ 
tion discussed die away, leaving farmers iu no 
better condition than before, it will bo because 
they have consented to he led either by narrow¬ 
minded, impracticable men, seeking blindly u 
good end through inadequate means, or else by 
hypocritical, vicious men, seeking only tbeir 
own advancement. Something more than zeal 
is needed in a leader. Something besides pro¬ 
testations of Interest may be needed to prove 
sincerity. There a e already loo many would- 
be leaders, bringing contempt on the cause 
they profess to advocate, by their pretentious 
ignorance, their Indiscriminate denunciation 
and their empty threats. Wo uoed here, as In 
every discussion, full and accurate information, 
careful study of each question, anxious only to 
find the truth and a willingness to hear and do 
full justice to the other side. 4 
The above is a compendium statement both 
of the danger and the true policy of the “ Farm¬ 
er ’ Movement.” Politician- are like crows 
about a decaying carcass—they are gathered 
together whenever they see opportunity of 
spoil. They are brimful! of zeal—to get to the 
soup whenever they once scent its fragrance. 
Mr. Morrow wisely says, in denouncing spe¬ 
cial legislation as a curse, “ For this reason we 
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Thu Rural New-Yorker has repeatedly 
urged the organization of Farmers’ Boards of 
Trade, or the establishment of regular market 
days at the nearest market place for the sale 
or exchange of Agricultural products. Dis¬ 
cussing the question of how far middlemen can 
2 be dispensed with, the Vermont Farmer urges 
that the difficulties in the way of dispensing 
. with them ” may bo overcome to a great and 
profitable extent by co-operation In buying and 
soiling in large quantities, for cash,” and adds: 
I I One of the best ways of doing tills, in many 
cases, is by establishing markets In the railroad 
towns. This, tl; seems to us, ought to be one of 
the very first measures put on foot, by the co-op¬ 
erative societies. It brings sellers together 
where they may see each others’ products and 
compare them, and have a constant and practi¬ 
cal demonstration before their eyes of the 
actual differences of quality, and the conse¬ 
quent difference in the prices obtained and iu 
the comparative case of selling. In short It 
gives that mercantile education to the farmer 
lhat makes him a match for the middlemen, 
and enables him Iu dispense with nil but his 
really necessary and useful aid. This mercan¬ 
tile knowledge, the knowledge of grades and 
qualities and corresponding marketable value, 
is really essent ial to success, and would produce 
a wonderful aggregate to the farmers of any 
State where It is carried fully into efloat. 
Sucli products as cannot be marketed in this ! 
way could often be sold by the agents of co-op¬ 
erating farmers, where sound lots of ascertained 
quality could be guaranteed, with such sure 
certainty, and at a higher price than under the 
present custom. For instance, the surplus oat 
crop of twenty-five farmers, graded according 
to quality, and sold by sample to a single large 
consumer or dealer by the car load, would al¬ 
ways bring a number of cents a bushel more 
than when marketed separately. 
In purchasing, every art icle of large consump¬ 
tion can be bought in wholesale lots, for cash, 
better and more uniform in quality, and cheap¬ 
er often by fifty per cent., and always by a good 
margin, than they ever can be got of the retail 
store keeper: and there is no difficulty about 
doiug the business quickly, cheaply, and with¬ 
out any risk of loss, if the proper means are 
taken. 
Supposing the co-operating farmers of Ver¬ 
mont succeed in carrying out the principles 
outlined above, what would be the result as 
affecting the present class of middlemen in the 
State? In our opinion it would reduce their 
number from fifty to enty-flve per cem. But 
it, would do more tnao this; it would release >< 
large amount ef capital now employed oy then; 
in traffic altogether unprofitable to the com¬ 
munity at large, even while it may bo profitable 
(o themselves. Tills capital must have employ¬ 
ment, and some of it would probably go to ttie 
cities; but much of it, we believe, would be l 
soon invested in manufacturing enterprises ' 
that will build up home markets for our farm- < 
ers. Particularly will t his be the case if th* ( 
farmers themselves will invest a portion of i 
their profits, arising from co-operation, In the * 
same business; cither directly, or indirectly, - 
bestowing water power, and offering other fa¬ 
cilities to all who desire to establish mechani¬ 
cal Industries among them. s 
■ must pay, at least, ten per cent, for money, 
while one doing the same business in New En¬ 
gland gets his for six. in old England for four, 
and in Germany for three. Beyond doubt this 
state of things will exist during the present 
■ generation. 
Let us ask our intelligent contemporary how 
loug lands will continue to “ double in value in 
three or four years ” if the present condition of 
producers continues? Suppose the manufac¬ 
turer of t he East does pay but C per cent, for 
his money, at present rates of transportation of 
the raw product and food for his operatives, 
and of the manufactured goods to the West, 
cannot the Western manufacturer, on the 
ground, compete with him, with cheap food, 
without transportation taxes, with cheap fuel, 
&c.. and pay ten per cent, for money? They 
have been and are doing so and have made the 
New England era feel this Competition. As to 
foreign competition, our contemporary will 
serve its constituency better by laboring loss to 
secure cheaper transportation by which English 
or German operatives may lie fed cheaper with¬ 
out putting a dollar more in the pockets of 
Western producers, and more vigorously to 
shutout foreign goods from competition with 
our own and thus aid In building up home 
manufactures, increasing t.ho number of non¬ 
food producers to be fed at home, and keeping 
our money circulating In our midst. It is the 
most direct, blow that can be struck at trans¬ 
portation monopolies—the building up of home 
industries and shutting out foreign competition. 
In other words, abandon, as impracticable and 
vicious, in the present condition of things in 
the West, free trade doctrines and adopt and 
preach the doctrine of self-protection os a Gov¬ 
ernment policy, just as every man practices it 
as a personal policy, who does business in this 
country. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
New Quarter—A Trial Trip'—Another Quar¬ 
ter of the Rural Nkw-Yorkkr commences 
this week, from which date to Jan. 1,1871, it will 
make an Excursion or Trial Trip, carrying pas¬ 
sengers (subscribers) at the low rate of Fifty 
Cents each. During this trip the fast-sailing 
craft will travel over the whole of this Conti¬ 
nent, visit several foreign countries, aud make 
thirteen points or pom, at eaeli of which all 
on board (every reader) will be furnished a rich 
repast of Practical Information and Intellectual 
Entertainment. “Carry the News" to ull your 
neighbors and acquaintances, not forgetting to 
advise them that an Excursion Ticket lor the 
whole Journey costs Only Ftyty Cental A large 
number have already secured passage, but we 
expect many thousands will be added, for the 
vessel is of ample dimensions to carry all who 
apply and perfectly seaworthy, and hence safe 
for everybody, “All aboard 1" 
— Seriously, and aside from metaphor, the 
Rural New-Yorkek this week enters upon a 
new Quarter, offering t he Thirteen Numbers, 
On Trial, at the low rate aforesaid. We hope 
to make each cue of the thirteen Issues worth 
the price of the whole, and will thank our 
friends to make known the offer to ail of their 
friends. By so doing they will benefit those 
who subscribe, and greatly Increase and widen 
the circulation of what, we trust is their Favor¬ 
ite Farm and Fireside Weekly. Ln the be¬ 
lief-founded upon facts. Indications and our 
faith in those now addressed—that there will 
be a large detuaud for t his Quarter of the Ru¬ 
ral, we tills week add several thousand to our 
regular edition, in order to supply the thirteen 
numbers to as many as possible. 
The \«mv York Mntr. Fair now in progress, is 
a creditable one, though we have seen better in 
this State. The live stock departments em¬ 
brace many line animals, but, as a whole, this 
feature does not reach the usual excellence. 
The show of milch stock is large and excellent. 
Farm implements machinery and manufactures 
are notable features. The accommodations for 
the Fuir are admirable. We have never seen 
the buildings excelled in excellence and adap¬ 
tation to the purposes designed. The floral 
display by two or three firms is good. Leave 
Rochester out and it would be meager indeed. 
The fruit show is also sparse and Rochester ' 
makes tlie hula of it. Judging by the crowd on 
tin? grounds the 27th, receipts will be good.— 
C. v. u. 
Arch was beautifully caught. But what else 
can we really expect from a man who is carried 
off his legs by such fulsome flattery as this’ 
Mr. Arch is going over to America and Canada 
to report on their capabilities for agricultural 
emigrants. There are speculators in these 
countries more seductively eloquent, than even 
Mr. Butt, so that Mr. Arch, so easily led iuto 
" Home Rule." is sure to fall into their meshes 
and will be certain to recommend those who 
ought, to stay at homo to try the pleasures of 
life abroad. 
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Suggestion* for Col ion Planter*_We have 
frequent opportunities to talk with intelligent 
planters from the South,’.who deplore the fa¬ 
natical (almost) dependence; upon the cotton 
crop which obtains, asserting that, with all the 
money there is in the crop, it is steadily impov¬ 
erishing the South, because planters am Icipate, 
this year, next year's crop and at the time of 
marketing it find it hypothecated to iho factor 
who has advanced them money upon it where¬ 
with to buy fertilizers, food for the family, 
hands and teams. ,Wc axe’glud to know i hat 
there is gradually coming a reform. Bunco we 
copy with pleasure the following from an arti¬ 
cle in the Plantation by N. il. Davis, Green¬ 
ville, S. C.: 
The high price of cotton continues to he a 
sore temptation to the planter in debt. Those 
who have resisted, the temptation, and have 
diminished their cotton acreage one-half or 
in creased their stock and 
provision crops, hare been uniformly success rul 
and will continue to be more and nmr<‘ pros¬ 
perous 3-cur after year. Those who Mill v(eld 
to the temptation, and plant more cotton than 
they can cultivate on a cash basis, are losing 
money, time and labor, and will continue to 
lose until they come down to common-sense 
farming, which means the raising of everything 
on the farm anti buying and selling Tor cash, 
leaving the cotton crop, at the close of the 
year, clear net profit. 
This Is good common sense ; but it is not only 
common sense, but the experience of every man 
who lias tried It. wherof we have abundant 
testimony. 
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Statue of Robert Fulton_As it has been 
proposed to erect a stat ue of Roiiert Fulton 
on the battery at New York it would be desira¬ 
ble to obtain the best likeness that could be 
produced. There is a portrait, by Benjamin 
West taken while iu Paris and prior to Mr. 
Fulton’s success in steam navigation on the 
Hudson. This picture could probably lie ob¬ 
tained for the occasion, which would secure a 
true likeness and perpetuate the fame, of an 
American artist with that of the illustrious in¬ 
ventor. West visited Mr. Fulton frequently 
while in France and by their Intimacy became 
convinced that the steamboat would yet trav¬ 
erse the river and the ocean.-R. M. Ludlow, 
Oak Burn, nmr Hudson, A. Y., Sept, 28, 1673. 
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JVo Premium* —The Ameriman PomoJogical 
Society in session at. Boston has adopted l he 
following:— Resolved, That the American I’omo- 
logicaJ Society shall at no time award money 
premiums for the exhibition of fruits during 
any of its sessions. 
It I* understood, however, that this action 
shall not interfere with the awarding of the 
medal for meritorious objects. 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
IV. B. Wade should addross II. L. Emery, 
Albany, N. Y. 
Briggs & Brother, Rochester, N. Y., send us 
their quarterly Floral Work, a handsome, prac¬ 
tical publication. 
Vick of Rochester sends ns, per Charles 
True, a specimen of his New Japan Coxcomb, 
which illuminates the first page of his catalogue 
for 1873. 
Correspondents who write lo us for lists of 
reliable poultry breeders and dealers are re¬ 
spectfully referred to our advertising columns, 
whore their cards, should be found. Wo have 
no other Poulterer’s Directory. 
There are few Institutions that have weath¬ 
ered the late panic better than the Frcedraen’s 
Savings and Trust Co., which has maintained 
its standing in the Clearing Houso, and has uot 
sold any of its securities to meet the daily de¬ 
mand upon it. 
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Help Supply the Want! 
— The above from our Associate, and the re¬ 
port given uu page 230, indicate that the Thirty- 
Third Annual Fair of 4 the “ ancient and honor¬ 
able" N. Y. State Agricultural Society is already 
(we write on Monday) an assured success — 
whereat wo rejoice, for, with all her mutual 
admiration faults, we love her still. More anon 
— next week. 
MANUFACTURES IN THE WEST, 
Conceding the benefits to flow from the 
building of manufactories in the West, where 
coal and food are abundant and the raw mate¬ 
rial os available as In the East, the Prairie Far¬ 
mer says: 
So long as millions of acres of t he most fertile 
land on t he globe are to be bought at from $2 
to $5 per acre, with every prospect of its doub¬ 
ling in value iu three or lour years, capitalists 
will not put. their money into manufacturing 
establish meats. The great drawback to mani- 
iacturing iu the West is the high rate of inter¬ 
est demanded for money. A manufacturer here 
The Englishman, Joseph Arch of whose mis¬ 
sion to this country we spoke in Rural New- 
Yorker of Sept, (i, has been to Ireland and has 
got, in someway, identified with what is known 
as the “ Home Rule (t. c., ‘ Ireland for the Irish,’) 
Association.” This has aroused a good deal of 
feeling against him hy his English newspaper 
backers; and the Scottish Farmer of Edinburgh 
says: 
All along, any one without spectacles might 
have seen that Arch was a inan of profound 
conceit— one that, as stupidly as a gudgeon, 
would get hooked with a bait much less dex¬ 
terously thrown than that by Mr. Butt, viz., that 
Mr- Arch’s speech was “ beautiful, magnificent 
iu its diction, and noble in its intellect. 1 only 
wish that 1 heard such a speech in the House 
of Commons—and perhaps 1 may yet hear the 
same speaker make one there as good," Mr. 
WANTED.— Five Thousand Progressive, Live, 
Wide-Awake Men and Women, Young Mon and 
Maidens, Boys and Girls, to act as Agents for lUo 
Rural New-Yorker iu their respective localities, 
More than that number of our lens of thousands of 
readers CAN, if they WILL, obtain from ten to fifty 
or one hundred subscribers each, to commence now 
or with the new volume and year in January, Uow 
many of our good friends will respond favorablyV 
All who do so will be furnished with such Specimens, 
Premium Lists, Show-Bills, &c., as will enable them 
to profitably prosecute the canvass. Send jur the 
documents, which will be mailed free to all disposed 
to aot in earnest. Address this office. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
The long evenin','!* are now coming, and the chil¬ 
dren should have good games to help pass them 
pleasantly. Avliude, with its birds and their de¬ 
scriptions, is the best ever published. Sold by nil 
booksellers and toy dealers, or sent post-putd, on re 
ceipt of seventy-five ovnts, by West a Lee, Worces. 
ter, Mass. 
“From its meritorious character deserves the wtd- 
St circulation ."—Bmner of Light, 
