MOORE’S RURAL WEW-YOR 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 , 1873. 
HOW TO KEEP THE BOYS AT HOME. 
The New Hampshire farmers have been dis¬ 
cussing how to keep the boys at home. The 
r-oipes for doing 1 his are somewhat amusing, 
t hough some of them ure sensible. One farmer 
thought the best way to keep them at home 
whs for farmer* to keep at home themselves, 
teach their children at work and work with 
them. But did he forget that all work nud no 
play makes Jack a dull boy? We have seen 
many boys driven from the farm and from all 
love of farm life by Just this steady routine of 
drudgery and work, unillumlnated by a holiday, 
nor relieved by a horae-ltfo of sesthdie pleas¬ 
ure. There Is, In one sense, too much work and 
too little play—too much work and too little 
compensation. The boys feel this; and it is 
not the education they receive through drill 
of daily and persistent labor that proves to 
them that the contrary is the fact. 
Another farmer said that to keep boys at 
home they “ must bo t aught that I hey are some¬ 
body, and not mere hewers of wood and drawers 
of water, as they are now." This farmer was 
nearer right, than the other. But he was not 
altogether right. The boys should not simply 
bo “liittght that they arc somebody;” they 
should be made "somebody" of. While they 
should be taught eelf-respeot, they should be 
furnished with the power and cultivation which 
commands self-respect and the respect of others 
They should be taught how to use their brains 
as well as their muscles—that a farmer is not a 
machine, merely, but a thinking, reasoning en¬ 
tity. They should he cultivated not only in the 
art and profession ol agriculture but In all so¬ 
cial accomplishments that will enahle them to 
" l'eel at home" in any society in which they 
may be thrown. There should he no sneers at 
them because they ape the polish of the profes¬ 
sions, or trades, or commercial classes. If they 
imitate, it is because there is something worth 
imitating. The instincts of hoys lead them to 
at tempt to secure the highest approval of their 
fellows. A farmer may ns easily be a polished 
gent leman as a lawyer. His only disadvantage 
is isolation. But it is one way to keep the 
farmer boy at home—to see to it that ho has 
cultivated and congenial society—that, his so¬ 
cial nature is fed; that his awtbetical nature 
has nourishment; that he has chance to win 
social position and wear the honors which real 
worth will command. 
Another farmer said “boys ought to be en¬ 
couraged. Stock ought to be entered a.t Fairs 
in the boys’ names. Let the girls own poultry 
and make money out of it if they can. Let 
them dress as finely as other girls," &c. Qf 
course, the boys ought to be encouraged and 
the girls too. But it is not necessary to let the 
boys enter stock at the Fairs In their own 
name; nor that the girls rear poultry of their 
own, though that Is well enough. But the boys, 
when they get of an age when they are likely to 
become restless though youthful ambitio.., 
should be taken in by the father as partner-s¬ 
and the girls, too, for that matter; give them 
opportunity to exercise their own judgment 
and act at diecretlon. Give them responsibili¬ 
ties—make them feel that, their Interest lies in 
the direction of the exercise of their own rea¬ 
son, Judgment and sagacity - that upon their 
nets depend the reputation of the firm of which 
they are a part. Children are driven from homo 
because they nro treated either as servants or 
hangers-on. They have no Individual Interest 
in affairs— nor Joint interest either. The indi¬ 
vidual interest should be absorbed in a joint, 
interest. It. is far better that John Brown Si 
Sons should take a premium at a Fair, so far os 
cohesion of the family 1 b oonccrned. than that, 
John' Brown’, Ren., should allow John Brown, 
Jr., to enter a bull in his own name and win a 
premium. The effort should be to make the 
mutual interest paramount t.« the Individual 
Interest. Family rather than Individual pride 
in success Bhould be promoted. 
But we have consumed our space. There was 
a groat deal of nonsense talked In this discus¬ 
sion. Take It as a whole, it seems to us appa¬ 
rent that the only w;«v for farmers to find out 
how to keep their boys at home is for the boys 
to hodd a convention and tell them how 1 
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WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT 1 
wk arc not advocates of centralization. We 
protest against any legislation which benefits a 
class separately. Hence we believe that if one 
class of our fellow citizens Is to be educated 
at the expense of the whole people, all classes 
should have the same privilege. But if the 
telegraphs can Do better controlled by the 
General Government, for the benefit of the 
people, than they now are, the Government, 
should control them ; so of the railroads. The 
people, as a whole, are omnipotent in the con¬ 
trol of public affairs. They can and ought to 
say who shall be their executive servants and 
what, their executive servants should do. If 
this Government, was one born of "Divine 
right to rule,” that right inhering in any royal 
family or person, then wo should most certain¬ 
ly demur to centralization of power. Bui wo 
believe In Ihe Divine right of the people to rule 
themselves—in the sacred will of the majority 
to control. We rIbo believe In minorit y rights 
and minority representation. But we do not 
Indorse factiousness in a minority. Men may 
honestly disagree. But the theory of our Gov¬ 
ernment is that the People are the sovereigns. 
We would not exclude a minority from an ex¬ 
pression of their will nor from the exercise of 
their sovereignty. But if the American people, 
as a whole, think the public Interests would be 
bettor served and conserved by Government 
assuming control of railways and telegraphs, 
we shall make no demur. The Government 
of this country rests with, inheres In and be¬ 
longs to the peopled governed. It is a mutual 
agreement, to submit to the will of the ma¬ 
jority ; and so long as it is so the minority must 
abide the agreement. If the majority abuse 
their power through their elected representa¬ 
tives and executive officers, the majority will 
become the minority and evils will or ought to 
he oor.eeted. Let us not lose sight of the loot 
that we are ruled by a oompact which gives do 
man other than representative power; and the 
will of the people is that power. 
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STATISTICAL STORIES. 
bear. We might give other equally interesting | 
figures—these are the more salient, and we sub¬ 
mit them with the hope they may benefit 
somebody. 
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MR. JOSEPH ARCH’S MISSION. 
Mr. Arch came to this country to see what 
he could, and learn all that ho could before 
advising English farm laborers to come or not 
to come hither. Hft has “done" Canada, but 
has not “done" the States. Ho expects to “ do” 
the Stator next year. He has told the ubiqui¬ 
tous American Interviewer what lie shall say to 
the English laborers when lie gets back to En¬ 
gland concerning Canada (and the States so far 
as ho has seen them) to wit: 
T shall say:—If you go there you will find good 
land for fanning; you will have to work hard ; 
and, r can say with regard tn the States, that 
land Is cheap, and there is also land there well 
cultivated, where (he laborer could spend two 
or three years with good, intelligent, farmers. 
You can make your own choice which you will 
go to. 
Doubtless that. Is not all Mr. Arch will say. 
He will enter into details concerning Canada 
which he will not be able to furnish Ms constit¬ 
uents concerning the United States. Yet lie 
says he will return to England a thoroughly 
impartial man so far as the relative merits of 
Canada and the United States are concerned. 
He asserts there are something like 100,(XX) men | 
“ looking up to him.” 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
City vs. Country.— If discontented farmers, 
farmers* wives, sons and daughters, who think 
the delights of city life something worth real¬ 
izing, could walk through our streets to-day 
and read one-thousandth part, of the misery and 
apprehension that haunt the hearts of all class¬ 
es and are making lines on their faces, they 
would thank GOD for the peaceful seclusion, 
and abundance gathered in the garners, of their 
homos. Thousands of men and women are at 
the beginning of winter, suddenly thrown out 
of employment! Few, comparatively, of these 
have aught laid up in store. Young women 
fiock through the streets with restless, eager, 
anxious eyes, with lips quivering with fear lost 
they fall to obtain employment that shall give 
them food and shelter. Boys and girls of the 
country 1 bo grateful for plenty and shelter. 
You will, perhaps, never know how to value it 
until you want and cannot get. either. How 
many Of these in the city are country born ; 
and bow many would gladly go back to the 
homesteads for refuge, and yet may not have 
the means to get there! Farmers! Thank God 
for t he harvests and that you have unsold food 
for your families! You have reason! 
Beet S*ugnr in Wisconsin .—The Milwaukee 
Seebote regards the effort, to manufacture beet 
sugar in Wisconsin, profit nbly, " a hopeless fail¬ 
ure." The Sauk Co. factory erected for the ex¬ 
periment is reported as standing idle aud for¬ 
saken and the proprietors would gladly dispose 
of It. to any one who desires to experiment 
further. It is said soil and climate are neither 
of them adapted to the production of beets 
with a sufficient quantity of saccharine matter 
in them to render the business profitable. 
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Cornell University Exhibits, at the American 
III*!. Fair, surface plates that are admired for 
the nicety of their workmanship. They are 
from the Sibley College (of the University) of 
Mechanic Arts and are made under the super¬ 
intendence of Prof. Sweat, who is disciplining 
the students in the manufacture of tools of 
precision, of which these are an illustration. 
The statistics of imports of dutiable articles 
for the fiscal year of 1873, as compared with 
those of 1872, are interesting reading. For in¬ 
stance, in 1872 we imported living animals to 
the amount of $3,46!), 654 ; in 1873, only $3,327,- 
U53 worth; but why import living atdmalB at 
all? Our exports of living animals iu 1873 
amounted to $2,555.1114 — a balance of trade 
against us on this account of #712.038. Of bar¬ 
ley we imported Id 1872, $3,4(81,607, and in 1873, 
$2,002,081 —a decrease of $440,330, Of course we 
exported no parley these years, which we should 
have done instead of importing it- What is the 
need of importing barley and growing com, 
, which is a drug on the market at 10 or 15 cents 
per bushel? Hadn’t farmers bettor sow more 
barley and plant less corn ? Then again, iu 1872 
we imported $2,317,172 worth of rice; in 1873, 
$2,304,661- Why not export rice Instead? We 
can at least supply ourselves with the article. 
Is not this a suggestive hint, Southern plant¬ 
ers? Then think of importing wheat into this 
country 1 Who would have believed it; and 
yet the figures show that in 1872 we imported 
$2,188,680 worth, and in 1873 $2,538,275—the ag¬ 
gregate of iwoyears’importations being $1,726.- 
964. But this is not so bad es it might be, for 
in 1872 we exported $39,915,000 worth of wheat, 
and in 1878 $51,452,254—a total in two years of 
$90,367,314. But why import wheat at all? Of 
course, wo suppose it .amo from Canada, and 
because or high transportion it was cheaper to 
import It than bring it from the West. In 1672 
we imported of cotton and cotton manufac¬ 
tures, $25,307,447, and in 1873, $35,201,317-an ag¬ 
gregate in tw'o years of #00,508,764. But we ex¬ 
ported iu 1872 of the same $182,988,925, and in 
1873, $230,190,595, or a total of $413,170,520. But 
why import over sixty and a half millions of 
dollars’ worth of a fiber, manufactured or other¬ 
wise, that we can grow and manufacture our¬ 
selves? Again, we Imported of flax and its man¬ 
ufactures, in 1872, $22,630,243, and ill 18m, -21,- 
586 , 062 , ao aggregate in two years of #44.186,295. 
But we onn grow flax and manufacture it! V\ r e 
need just such a diversion from corn grow ing 
to make us happy. We did not export any flax, 
and yet we might have done so 1 But we for- 
j<)Hf,>h Arch.—A friend of ours called the 
other day upon Joseph ARCH, the representa¬ 
tive and ageut of English laborers. Judging 
by his account of the interview Mr. Abch bat 
come bltber with the Idea thoroughly Inbred 
that w’e are a pack of swindlers. Incapable of 
tolling the truth, and are to be " looked out for ” 
at every turn. Our friend is a gent leman well 
known as connected with the agriculture of 
the State and called upon Mr. Arch as a matter 
of courtesy ; but he came away, as he expreseed 
it, “ simply disgusted." Whatever may be Mr. 
Arch’s abilities, be evidently is not blessed 
witli a superaboundlng knowledge of human 
Dature. tact, nor good breeding. He knows too 
much to bo ablo to learu much, especially in 
this country. 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
- The Southern sugar cane crop is a good one- 
full average. 
Hors are becoming an Important -at least a 
promIslng—crop In Oregon. 
For the common Mission grape California 
growers get about- $20 per ton. 
A CARROLL Co., Iowa, farmer is planting 
10.000 white oak trees—so It Is asserted 
California has organized 1(M Granges of 
Patrons of Husbandry within six months. 
Mrs. Louise Knapp la informed that we do 
not know where she oan get the plant sire names. 
Thk total number of Granges of Patrons of 
Husbandry in tho United States, up to Sep. 20, 
w^as 6.460. 
Maine is agitating the question as to whether 
it shall have a State Dairymen’s Association. 
Why not? 
It is announced that- Italy is to send us an 
invoice of farmers next year. Weill don’t we 
need ’em ? 
Mrs. Gf.o. Moulton is Informed that we can- 
i not tell her whero she can obtain the plants 
she names. 
The wheat deficiency in Franoe is placed by 
different authorities at from fourteen to twen¬ 
ty-four millions of bushels. 
The Wisconsin State Grange of Patrons of 
Husbandry holds its annual meeting at Ion du 
Lac the second Tuesday In January. 
A. A. Hopkins, our whilom associate, now 
editor of American Rural Home, called upon 
ur-, and we were glad to know he was happy aud 
self-satisfied. 
Some of the Iowa Patrons of Husbandry rec¬ 
ommend the taking of agricultural statistics 
by (own assessors, to be compiled for publica¬ 
tion by a titate Commissioner of Statistics. 
The Agricultural College of Missouri Is re¬ 
ported aa having over 100 students iu tue 
" practical working ©lassos," and more than 50 
others studying Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, &c. 
A OOR respondent asks Tor the experience of 
our readers as to the advantages aud disadvan¬ 
tages of fall-plowing lands likely to be closed 
to winds aud frosts without the protection of 
anow. 
The Orchard grass seed of Oldham County, 
Kv.. is stated to oe 80,000 to 40,000 bushels an- 
J \ « , , - •» .. __ !> ...ill-1?. fuYl 
Distribution ol Diplomas According to Popu¬ 
lation m Vicuna. —A Swiss paper has taken the 
pain6 to make a calculation of the proportion 
of diplomas distributed at Vienna to the popu¬ 
lation of the respective countries represented 
in the distribution. Of course such mathemat¬ 
ical ent erprise deserves recognition here ! Thus, 
Switzerland received one per 108,000 inhabit¬ 
ants; Belgium, one per 250,000; Germany, one 
per 410,000; Austria-Huogarv, one per 433,000; 
France, one per 462,000; Holland, one per 650,- 
000; Sweden and Norway, one per 655,000; Den¬ 
mark, wne per 900,000; Great Britain, one per 
1,222,000; Italy, one per 1,405,000; Russia (in 
Europe), one per 3,550,000. 
American Wheat In English Markets,—The 
Mark Lane Express says 1 “ American wheat 
has a quality this year that is most acceptable 
to the English market, and as our dependence 
is chiefly on that country our prices will be 
much influenced by her ability to supply our 
wants. The recent rise in France, and the 
i extraordinary high prices quoted in Southern 
Russia will be calculated to prevent any great 
depression; for nothing has occurred Li alter 
the facts as to the general yield, and we now 
have reason to fear that, as regards condition 
as well as supply, Germany will not be able .to 
do much for us this year." 
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Regulating the Price of Farm Products.—The 
late Northwestern Farmers’ Convention, held 
at Chicago, adopted the following resolution: 
Resolved, That this Convention recommend to 
the farmers of the Northwest that, in order to 
carry out in a practical manner t he spirit ana 
the letter of co-operation, they Mill hold 
from the market their live products until the 
price shall reach such a figure that the producer 
shall receive the legitimate fruits of his labor, 
and we consider $6 per 100 pounds, gross, u just 
and fair price both to producers?and consumers. 
The Orchard grass seed ox oianam county, 
Ky., is stated tone 80,000 to 40,000 bushels an¬ 
nually; but this year it Mill not exceed 15,000 
bushels. It usually brings the producer $1.50 
to $2 per bushel. 
Charles Downing, the veteran poraologi.-r, 
was welcomed In our sanctum a day or two 
since. He says this last has been one of the 
most remarkably flue Octobers be has ever 
knowa— no frost until late iu tho month. 
MR- Hummel of Our Home Journal, New Or¬ 
leans, who has visited us, speak - hopefully of 
the agricultural future of Louisiana and of 
the prospects of his Journal, lie believes New 
Orleans the great city of the continent. He 
ought to. 
For aught we can discover, the National 
Crop Reporter, which has been sent us. Is about 
as valuable to the farmers aud commercial men 
of the country as a tled-up bag of corn would 
be to a hungry hen. WV cannot conscientiously 
advise any one to luvosit $5 or $10 to secure it. 
A Nebraska Grange of Patrons of Husband¬ 
ry has "Resolved, That Me don’t wish to hear 
political speeches from, nor will we support 
for office, any of the men who exchanged their 
constituents’ interests in the State Capitals for 
an interest of their own in the Air-line rail¬ 
road." 
The Rural Club of New York is to have Its 
quarterly dinner at DelmoniCo’s Nov. 12. J. 
R. Dodge of the Department of Agriculture is 
expected to tell of what he has seen in Europe 
the past season. Hon. Marshall F, Wilder, 
P. Barry, Charles Dow mng, and other prom¬ 
inent members of the American Pomologioal 
Society are expected to be present. 
The results of the Indiana Fair and Exposi¬ 
tion are thus summed up by the Indiana I ar¬ 
mor 1 The total receipts at the Exposition and 
Fair from sale of tickets, refreshment, stands, 
entry fees, etc., are #52,170: total expenditures, 
including expense of bufldiug and improve¬ 
ments, about $1371000, leaving between $80,000 
and *90,000 to be paid by the citizens who sub¬ 
scribed the $100,000 guaranty fund. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
A Youth’s Publication.— For nearly half a cen¬ 
tury the Youth's Companion of Boston has been pub¬ 
lished. It was started tn 1827, and is to-day one of 
the brightest and most vigorous papers with which 
we are acquainted. 
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to the young, supply them liberally with games of 
Avllude. If tlic sev> iug circle or sociable Is to meet 
at your house, get at ooce Avilude, or Game of Birds. 
Sold by all dealers, or sent post-paid, on receipt of 
seventy-five cent-,by West & Li;e,W< .-eester, Mass. 
*> Entertaining and instructive.”— Zion’s Herald. 
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