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‘PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.* 
PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
A Special Rrqnmi. — We frankly nsk all Us 
friends to aid In extending the circulation and use¬ 
fulness of the RURAL. Thousands of its old sub¬ 
scribers are already doing this, and we trust the 
hosts who are joining n» standard In all parts of the 
country will dons and their neighbors the favor to 
introduce the paper to notice and support, in their 
respective localities. Friends, jilease show your 
neighbors and acquaintances the Model Kural, Lite¬ 
rary and Fhtnily Newspaper, and invito thorn to sub¬ 
scribe. Though our daily receipts probably largely 
exceed those of any other Weekly In America there 
is still room on our books for more — and Now U the 
Time to make Addition*. 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
No. 41 Park Row. New York City, is the 
location of the principal Publication Office of the 
Rural New-Yorker, and all Business Letters, &c. 
should be addressed to 
2>. D. T. MOORE, 
No. 4-1 l > arlt Row, Now Yorlc. 
Agents and others will please note this address. 
D. D. T. moORE, 
Conducting Kditor and froprfetor. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
Subscription —Three Dollars a Year. To Clubs 
and Agents, Five copies for $U; Seven, and one free 
to club agent,for <19: Ten, and one free, for $S—inly 
td 30 per copy. As we pre-pay Arntvican postage, $2.70 
Isthe lowest Club late to Canada nil $3.50 to Europe. 
The best way to remit is by Draft or Post-Office 
Money Order,-and nil Drafts and Orders made pay¬ 
able to the Publisher may be mailed at his risk. 
ADVKitrisiNO — Inside, 75 cents per line, Agate 
space: Outside. #1 per line. For Extra Display and 
Cuts, a price and a half. Special ami Business Notices 
charged according to position. No advertisement in¬ 
serted for less than fit. 
Form Clubs Now J And if you. Reader, cannot 
form one. join with or help a neighbor or friend to 
accomplish the laudable object. Don't wait until 
other and Inferior papers occupy the field. “The 
early bird "—you know the rest. 
A lieu nest.— All non-subscribers Into whose hands 
a number of the Rural may fall are requested to 
examine It carefully, noting Its Size, Rtyle, Contents, 
Ac., and then decide upon the MERITS of our claim 
that it is the Lament, Bait and ClUdl'iSt Journal o/ it* 
Class (» the World. Now Is the best time to Act—to 
Do Good, for which we give Good Pay. 
Tin- Tturnl an a Present.— Our readers are re¬ 
minded that In all cases where u Subscriber sends the 
Rural Nkw.Yoiikeu to a relative or friend, as a 
present, we only charge the lowest club rate-$2.S0 a 
year. The lowest price for copies thus sent to Cana¬ 
da is $2.70 and to Kurope $3.50. 
New Subscriber*.—By the term new subscribers 
In our Premium List, wc mean,as therein stated, per¬ 
sons who did not take the Rural during the year 
1803. A change of Initials, or to the. nume of some 
other member of an old subscriber's family, does not 
constitute a new subscriber by any means, and can¬ 
not be so counted. 
How to 11 cm It. The best way to remit, tor clubs, 
ns we have often stated. I- by Draft. If $20 or over, 
sond by draft, as there Is no risk. For smaller 
amounts Itts best to send by I*. O. Money Ordcv,—but 
ir you cannot do that, send In Registered let ters, di¬ 
rected to D. D. T. MOORS, 11 Park Row, New Fork. 
Additions to (Tnkaare always In order, whether 
In ones, twos, fiver, tens, or any ether number. A 
host of people ar« dropping other papers about these 
days, and onr Agent-Friends should Improve every 
occasion to secure such us recruits for the Rural. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1870. 
THE RURAL’S PROGRESS. 
Our Premia in*. - Agents entitled to Premiums 
urc requested to designate what they prefer fin coses 
where they hare a choice) nnd notify us bow and 
where to sand —whether by Freight or Express, and 
the name Of Station or Office. 
Howto Help the Iturnl.— There arenumerous 
ways in which its friends etui aid in circulating the 
Rural. First, show the paper, or talk to your 
friends about It, or both. Get up a club, or aid some 
friend to do so —or induce your P. M. to act as agent. 
Tin- Itiii-nl is Not n Monthly. — In presenting 
the claims of the Rural, do not forget to say It, is 
not a monthly of only 12 issues a year, but a Large 
and Handsome WEEKLY of Fifty-Two Numbers. 
No Traveling A gem* are employed by us, but 
any person so disposed can act ns Local Agent, on 
his or her own nuthorlty, and secure premiums, etc. 
8*how Hill*, Specimen Number*, «fcc-> sent 
free to all applicants. If you want such documents, 
let us know and they will be forwarded. 
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OPINIONS OF THE PEOPLE. 
A. T. H., of Holden, Mo., after making an Inquiry, 
adds “ 1 take your paper besides ten others, and 
think it is ahead of any of them.” 
A.C. S., Of AmorleuK, Miss., writes:—“1 enclose 
three dollars to renew my subscription for the Run A i, 
Nbw-Yoricbr for 1870. 1 would not be without It for 
thirty dollars a year." 
In renewing his subscription S. M., of Pluttsmouth. 
Nebraska, says:—" 1 w ish to say that l uni more than 
p leased with the Rural New-Yorker, and its up¬ 
right, straightforward, manly course." 
in a recent letter, S. ,T. B., of Genesee Co., Mich., 
says:—"The Rural reminds me of the Bible, for 
you can look over the old numbers and always find 
something new , in fact, one never gets tired read¬ 
ing the Rural.” 
E. W. I*., of Yates Co., N. Y., writes:—*• No one of 
the papers I take—eight tn all -begins to contain so 
much plain, practical Information as the RURAL 
Nicw-Y orkich. it's mu paper, every ttmo and if I 
could take only one, the Rural would he that one.” 
A. D. M,, Silver City, Idaho, writes: — “ Inclosed 
please find $3. for which send the Rural for 1870. 1 
learned to love yonr most excellent paper when u 
mere boy, living with my parents in the good old 
Stale of Michigan ; but for the last eleven years have 
been a wanderer on the PaciBe Coast, and am non¬ 
living In the mines and mountains of Idaho. Still 
the Rural la a welcome visitor and well read. Sond 
it along." 
K. K„ of Butler Co., Ohio, writes: — “ The Rural 
comes regularly, and is my weekly friend. 1 pass 
many evenings in perusing its well filled and ably 
edited departments. Have had experience with all 
other agricultural papers, and must say it is the best 
of them all: and why—because It Is a Weekly and 
not a monthly: all monthlies arc too far between 
numbers. The variety of its reading makes It inter¬ 
esting to all. The Rural is gaining friends in this 
vicinity. Will do all I possibly can for your paper. 
Success to the Rural ! ” 
G. P. 8., Of Chevry Hill, Nebraska, writes:— “1 
have taken your most valuable paper for the past 
two years, and have every number preserved, and 
Intend to have them bound for future reference, 
M v late residence was in Illinois, but I have removed 
to ibis fnr-otT country, with the intention of malting 
it my future borne, and feel the need of your paper 
m >i-e than ever before. Indeed I would rather lose 
my best cow than be without ii. if you will please 
send me some show-bills, specimon numbers, &e., 
i will doa.ll in my power to increase your circulation." 
R. T,. R.,of Waynesboro, Ga„ says:—"I consider 
the U: ii .vi. the best of Its class, These three things 1 
believe ought, to bo in every householtj, vis: a Bible, ! 
Webster's Dictionary and .Moore's Kural New- 
Yorker. The necessity of Die first and second no 
sensible person will pretend to deny, and a moment's 
consideration will show any one the advantage of 
possessing the third. It contains something of ad¬ 
vantage to everybody, of whatever vocation in life. 
Us judicious lessons in the moral vineyard, as well 
as Its sage instructions for the culture of the vine, 
render it of great value to the moralist as well as to 
thevintager. It is inestimable. Send me the bills and 
specimen numbers, and I will try to form u club. 
The Rural Is the paper for the times,” 
For the information of its hosts of ardent 
friends and well wishers throughout the coun¬ 
try, wc take pleasure in briefly reporting that 
the Rural New-Yorker is limiting very decided 
and rapid progress. Our daily receipts are not 
only larger than evor before, but we have other 
mid most grati Tying ovideucca of the increasing 
popularity, usefulness and acceptability of this 
Journal— especially in the very complimentary 
Opinions expressed in business letters, mid by 
our friends of the Press, who are the best Judges 
of journalistic merit. While we have large 
aooossions to our subscription list in localities 
where the Rural lias been Jiberally taken for 
years, the influx of new subscribers from places 
and regions where it has hitherto had only a 
limited circulation, is especially encouraging-. 
This is notably true in regard to the Southern 
and Pacific States, from many sections of which 
wc are reoeivitig unexpectedly large lists of new 
recruits for the “ Rural Brigade." 
This large, general increase of the Rural’s 
circulation gives the paper greater influence 
and power, and proportionately augments our 
responsibility. It will be our constant endeavor 
to use this power wisely and well —to further 
the best interests of the increasing thousands 
of our readers. For the very generous and sub¬ 
stantial manifestations of approval and support 
wc are constantly receiving—and which abun¬ 
dantly prove, what we have aforetiino asserted, 
that no paper on the Continent has such ardent, 
influential, working friends—we return grateful 
acknowledgments, with the assurance that such 
warm and universal appreciation of the Rural 
will incite us to still greater efforts to render 
it, increasingly valuable and acceptable to its 
myriad of supporters. 
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“AN INFINITE DEAL OF NOTHING.” 
Commenting upon and oommending our re¬ 
cent, article upon “Attractions at Fairs," the Bos¬ 
ton Cultivator says, and with good reason : 
“ Of sneakers employed to address farmers at fairs, 
it Is with some who talk most, as with one of the 
characters In the Merchant of Venice, of whom It wits 
said, 'Guatiano speak* nn infinite deal of nothing— 
more than any other man in all Venice, Hi* reasons 
Hlear two (trains oi wheat hid In two bushels of chair; 
you cliull seek all day etc you fiml them: and when 
yon have them they are not worth the. search.' Gra¬ 
tia. sot) arc not rare In our day ; and they are Usually 
elected by Drove who arrange tlm programme, so 
truthfully sketched by our contemporary.” 
Wo remember that some .years sine* a well- 
known politician in a Western Slate was run¬ 
ning for Congress. His political friends, in a 
doubtful county, so manipulated matters us to 
secure to him an invitation to deliver the Annu¬ 
al Address at tho said county's fair. He deliv¬ 
ered It. Jl was of course published in thecounty 
paper of his political denomimition. Soon after 
its appearance he sent “his man" around with 
it to the Editor of I he Agricultural paper having 
ft large circulation in that Cong ressional District, 
asking its insertion therein. The would-be Con¬ 
gressman's " man " was politely informed by the 
Editor that the columns of the paper could not 
be lumbered up with such silly twaddle-that If 
he (ihe Congressional candidate) hoped to in¬ 
crease his chances for Congress thereby he had 
failed; for every farmer in the #)istrlqt who 
might have heal’d, or should read, the address, 
would ihereafter give an audible grin whenever 
the said Congress ual candidate's name was 
mentioned. And the Editor voted the ticket of 
ilie party to which this candidate belonged, and 
was uot unf riendly to the gentleman personally. 
Wo mention this to show how these things are 
done. Who over knew a politician to refuse to 
deliver an agricultural address at a fair? We 
never did, albeit the distinguished gentleman 
could not toll a head of rye from one of wheat, 
nor a pumpkin from a turnip 1 They are always 
ready, and talk so glibly of “ the Dignity of L i¬ 
bor," as if it was au original and never-before- 
thought-of theme! 
It is about the time of the annual meetings of 
Agricultural Societies, and plans are to be laid 
lor tho coming campaign. Tins subject of who 
shall deliver the address is to be considered. 
Choose tho man who is best known in the county 
as a successful farmer, and whose success is due 
to his good, straight common sensenud Industry. 
Let him talk in his own plain way as a Christian, 
a brother and a farmer. Advise him not to go in 
for ‘•highfalutin." Let him give good, practical 
advice, and tell his neighbor how he does things, 
and what he has discovered to he the farmer’s 
needs. It may be said he will not “draw”— 
which is equivalent to saying that the country 
has more “ natural born fools" among its farm¬ 
ing population than it is entitled to! If fairs 
are to be made profitable in the best, sense, the 
more meat, with nutrition in it, that cun be con¬ 
centrated in an Annual Address the better. If 
it is expected to get such nutrition out of a poli¬ 
tician, or a professional lecture-monger, there 
will be great disappointment. 
What would be thought, of a Manufacturers’ 
Association of any sort which, at its annual 
meeting for the exhibition of tlie products of 
the skill and capilal of its members, and for the 
discussion of their specific interests, should send 
for and listen to some spouting politician, or 
silver-tongued sen t imentulist, who 1ms no knowl¬ 
edge of, or interest in, tho Object of the organ¬ 
ization? Such organizations,, so far ns wo have 
observed, select, some one of their own members 
wllli u reputation for superior sagacity, for ex¬ 
act and extended knowledge and capable of 
giving wholesome advice upon the interests in¬ 
volved in tho specific industry. These men meet 
to prosecute business and to conserve their 
specific interests. So should fanners. If, how¬ 
ever, Agricultural Fairs are to be only exhibi¬ 
tions of buffoons, and places for gambling, 
racing and riot, where men go for sensual pleas¬ 
ure and for a holiday simply, that Is another and 
distinct matter. It seems to be what managers 
are driving at and what farmers expect. But we 
doubt whether it pays in any sense. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The Franking Privilege, Wo see that a propo¬ 
sition j* before Congress to abolish ibis privi¬ 
lege. Wc hope it will be abolished. It Is a 
constant fraud upon the people. It enables 
Congressmen to do what .John Brown or Rich¬ 
ard Rok would be sent to the penitentiary for 
doing. For Instance, here comes from Wash¬ 
ington, this morning, n letter from a person who 
desires to not as correspondent for the Rural 
provided we pay him liberally. This letter is 
not. from au M. O., nor is it upon any business 
relating to Hie Government directly or indi¬ 
rectly. And yet It comes in an envelope under 
the frank of T. Bouts, M. C. Now if the editor 
of the Rural New-Yorker should attempt to 
use stamps which had been once used in pay¬ 
ment of postage he would probably, and prop¬ 
erly, be prosecuted by the United States for so 
doing. But here a member of Congress aids 
and abets In defrauding tho Government, and 
actually swindles, in ono instauce, the Post- 
Office Department of nine cents- Undoubtedly 
ho does it in a hundred other cases. The Rural 
Nkw-York eu has to pay cash for postage stamps. 
But it has the same right to expect a member of 
Congress to furnish it franked Government 
envelopes, for its mail matter, that tho Hon. T. 
Boles, M. C- or any otlvi, M. C., has to furnish 
such envelopes, sof ranked, to men to use in any 
way except m tho Government’s service. Ills 
time these abuses were corrected, and this sys¬ 
tematic fraud upon the Postal Department was 
slopped. We say let the Franking System be 
abolished: and all honor to the men who secure 
Ha abolition. 
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never realized the enjoyment there was in living 
until I came here. There Is a senso of freedom 
on the.se broad prairies tliat one cannot possess 
in the Eastern States. As for tho beautiful, 
everything in nature is beautiful, and I think 
nature has done more for Minnesota in regard 
to beautiful scenery than for any other State In 
the Union. Other States may have more grand 
scenery, but Minnesota is beautiful; and she 
lends beauty to those who will abide with her, by 
giving Diem heal Hi.” 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
.Market Prices of Products and Land*.—Let. our 
readers all over the country send us, in conneo- 
lion with season items, ihe market prices of 
farm products and of farm lands in their re¬ 
spective localities. This will prove a most use¬ 
ful means for forming Judgment as to the 
advantages localities offer for settlement. And 
with this knowledge, generally diffused, the 
basis for general co-operation among agricul¬ 
turists is laid. Please do nol forget iheso 
in reporting to our Season Department. 
Norway Oats.—On another page will be found 
a. stunning manifesto concerning i hese oats. We 
are bound to Bay that so far as evidence concern¬ 
ing their merits conics to us, it is in their favor 
almost allegeUmr. Some doubt whether they 
will prove valuable as a feeding oat; but such 
doubts are exceptional. Others doubt if tho va¬ 
riety is new, and call them identical with tho 
old Poland variety: but these are exceptional in¬ 
stances, and it may be that they come from men 
who have been deceived In their purchases of 
seed. We arc bound to regard the balance of 
testimony In their favor as indicating that they 
possess superior merit; ami it is well known that 
the Rural never gives opinions for the sake of 
securing advertising. 
Comparative Sweetness of Eastern nmi West¬ 
ern Grasses. —The Agricultural Editor of a oily 
daily reports himself as saying at the Farmers’ 
Club (no one heard him) that “As wc go West 
the sweetness of the grass declines somewhat, so 
1 lie people of the We.*Lorn Reserve cannot make 
as high flavored eiiccsc, though as good in other 
responds.” This is the OOuipictest nonsense. The 
sweetness of the grass does not decline “as we 
go West” If ii dues, why (lues it not affect the 
comparative quality and quantity'ol’ beef pro¬ 
duced? And the higli-fluvured cheese of tho 
East is due rather to greater skill in, und con¬ 
veniences for. manipulating milk than to any 
lack in its composition. This, too, is proven by 
the successes of skilled dairymen West. This 
Eastern wisdom concerning Western industries 
and interests would be overwhelming if it were 
not so often ludicrous. 
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Canada Dying Out.—An Ontario, Canada, cor¬ 
respondent writesTho times are hard, and 
your twenty-per cent, duty kills us. Canada 
will die out without tho States for their market.” 
Then let Canadians migra te to our rich Western 
States nnd live and prosper under the Eagle's 
wings. Our late war was u lively luxury which 
we are now paying for; and we cannot afford to 
bear the burthens it imposed und let our happier 
neighbors tuto our markets without they pay 
for the privilege. Hard as it is for them, it is 
just. We believe in this adjustment of burthens. 
Our bretheu across the line hud better migrate 
or annex! 
Whose Fowls Were They?- We are receiving 
inquiries of which ihis from Meadvllle, Pa., 
under date December 25, is a specimen ’“Iwish 
io correspond with some one who keeps for sale 
some of the varieties of chickens represented in 
your last paper. Will you oblige an old reader 
of yonr paper bj' directing me in the matter?" 
Will not some of the owners of the splendid 
fowls whose portraits we gave in Rural, Decem¬ 
ber 85, oblige our readers by advertising in the 
Rural? 
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Where to Get Freedom.- A Minnesota lady 
writes us:—“It is as a writer in the Rural says, 
‘until a person lives out West he does not know 
how independently, and yet how nicely and 
economically, one can live.’ I have lived in Min¬ 
nesota almost five years, and I can safely say I 
Improved Stork at Mass. Agricultural College. 
—Herds of the four leading breeds of improved 
stock, viz:—Ayrshire, Jersey, Devon and Dur¬ 
ham are to be placed upon tbe College Farm in 
accordance with a resolution of tho Trustees. 
Some of the enterprising herdsmen of New 
England have already contributed valuable ani¬ 
mals of each breed to the College Farm. 
Stock or Milk Leg.—S. S. Wyman, Millville, N. 
Y., asks if any Rural reader can give a remedy 
“lor what, some call a ’stock leg' or, as others 
call it, ‘milk leg.’” Ho is very willing to pay 
for such information if it is an effectual remedy 
Alsike Clover Seed, Those who have inquired 
for this article, and others wanting It, are re¬ 
ferred to the advertisement of R. H. Allen & 
Co., in this paper. 
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THE SEASON. 
[The dftnila as retr*rd* Season aud Crops are now of minor Imporfc- 
ajico. But it if of important* to farm«r* to know lb<? pric** pjtfd for 
lartn produro *1) nvor lb® Ri.kal Parish, us briefly, then, th's 
whiter, such il»m« conotnUng the ceuaou and tempuralurs as may lift 
of Itit ert-ht, ainL especially the prlcx* paid for nil kl/itls of farm Wo- 
duco, and such fact# at to lh« stork on baud Si m*v bo reliable. 
—£i>s. Rukai.,1 
MUsoiiIii .WiII m, Moiifarm Ter., lire. 3.—Boason 
has been dry, and crops abort and light. Wheat 
sells at tl.75<?t8Z per bushel; oats, $1; potatoes, 
OQe.; money tight and hard to get.—jr, m. 
Mnrgnrettvlllo, N. Y„D«sc. 20.—Oats are worlli 
85c. per bushel; corn, $1.50; potatoes, 75c.; hay, 
$16@f 18 per ton. The flood in October took the 
entire corn crop from Hie river flats, v\ here 
most of it is raised.—s. r s. 
Mankato, Mina., Dec. 'Tho Union reports 
the thermometer 10*below zero Dee. 23. the river 
closed and crossable by ream that day. Pork in 
the hog selling at $Ii>01O,5O, the largest brought 
to this market- weighing (113 pounds nut. 
Waterloo, Black Ilnnk Co., Iowa, Dee. 15.— 
The price of grain is low, considering tho in¬ 
debtedness of fanners, and money is in demand 
at 35 per cent. Wheat sells at 405J55C.; oats, 80c.; 
corn, 30.; potatoes, 50c.; barley, 30c. and little 
or no demand for it. -a. w. 8. 
Granger, Allegany Co., \. V., Itee. 21.—It. has 
been the most productive season ever known 
here; everything is first-rate. Wheat, $1@$1.40; 
buckwheat, 00ii,70o.; oats, 40©45o,; hay, $10 per 
ton; apples, $3®$3 per bbl.; potatoes, 40e.; but¬ 
ter, roll, 30e., aud firkin, 33@38e-; beef, &@>10c. by 
the quarter; fresh pork, 12c. per cwt.—w. t. r. 
Troy, Pa., Der. 26.—We have had a cool sum¬ 
mer and a cold, wet falL Crops good and well 
harvested. But llttJe plowing was done in the 
fail. Hay, $12 per ton; wheat, *1.40: oats, 42c.; 
corn, 00c.; buckwheat. 70c.; pork, $12 per hun¬ 
dred, dressed; eggs, 80c.; butter very quiet at 
35@41o. A good number of whole dairies and 
some fall lots in this country yet. Young cat¬ 
tle, hay and coarse grain in abundance. Money 
tight, and labor in abundance at $1 per day and 
board.—D. B. 
Round Top, Texas, Dee. 22.—Weatiler for the 
past month rather ehangublo — cold, misty, 
warm, with rain,andouefreeze; nosnow. Crops, 
where well cultivated, very good. Col Ion about 
17c. 3R ®.; corn, 00c. f) bushel.; potatoes, sweet, 
50c. $1 bushel; Irish, 75o. V bushel. Vegetables 
rat her scarce, as we lmvo but few gardeners here. 
A good clmuce for l'ruii growers, nnd laborers 
generally; a good hand worth $1 per day aud 
led. Emigrants coming steadily. The universal 
cry is“ Labor, labor; more labor.”—s. h. c. 
Mill Creek, Berkley Co., W, In, Dec. 27.— 
We had a considerable fall of snow the JSth ulfc. 
Wheat crop of tbe Shenandoah Valley very 
good. Severe drouth injured summer crops. 
There is considerable immigration liero from all 
parts of the Union. Wheat is worth $1.25 per 
bushel; coni, 80c.; rye, $1; oat.s, 50c,; potatoes, 
$1; butter, 40c. Land, $5 to $100 per acre, gen¬ 
erally of excellent quality.— J. A. Goulden. 
Bellcfimte, I*a„ Dec. 22.—The crops of the 
past season were bountiful. Most of the corn 
was cribbed by the middle of November. A 
very small quantity remains yet in tin- lieJd, on 
account of cold weather setting in. Fruit was 
not au average crop, apples and cherries being 
the most productive. Wheat (red) is worth $1 
per bushel; barley, 80c.; corn (new), 05c.; oats, 
40c.; rye, 00c.; buckwheat, 75e.; clover seed, 
$0.50 to $r. Snow l'ell on the fit-hot December 
(o the depth of a foot, in a few days melted 
away. Another fell on the 18th to the depth of 
18 Inches—very compact; ground not frozen un¬ 
derneath—and the temperature continuing tniid 
aud this morning raining aivfl snow melting 
rapidly.—j. p. p. 
Apple ion, £t*gamie Co., Wis., Dee, 24 . —We 
have had our portion of wet weather the past 
season ; yet crops have been fair to good. Wheat 
was thought to be extra, but did not turn out in 
thrashing as well as was expected; corn light; 
oats good; bay extra; fruit extra. Potatoes 
good, but few planted, owing to the devastation 
of 1 lie potato bug List season; part of the crop 
was frozen, and they are now selling out of the 
groceries at $1 per busheL Whc-at, winter, 75e.; 
spring, 70c.; corn, Ba@$l; oats, 50@-52c.; pork, 
$9®$ 12 per 100 pounds ; lard, 25c.; cheese, 23c.; 
butter, 25@30C.; eggs, 2W&25c. Though winter 
commenced early, it lias been comparatively 
mild until ihe present. Thermometer fell to 
zero for the first lime on the20th ; 3" below on 
the 21st; went up to 18* above by the middle of 
the afternoon, and commenced snowing, with 
wind northeast. Snow is about one foot deep 
here, and one and a half feet deep fifteen miles 
south of this. Thermometer 10* below zero this 
morning, and at. 3 P. M, 20* above,—u. 
Deerfield, N. II., Farmers’ Club. — President — 
E. P. Chase. Secretary and Treasurer— H. O 
walker. Directors—J. Chapman, J. Dearborn. 
J. K. Gerrish. 
Madison Co., III., Farmers' Club.— Officers for 
1870 i—President -Wm. A. Lauterman. Paddock’s 
Grove: Vw-President— 1 [. T. King, Moro; Treas¬ 
urer—J. H. Smith, Moro; Secretary— Jas. King, 
Moro. 
Stafford <*>., N. H., Yg. S«e. -Officers for 1870: 
President— Samuel 0. Fisher, Dover. 'Treas¬ 
urer—George S. Gilman. New Durham. Scerc- 
ta ?y~Xoah Tibbetts, Rochester. Superintendent 
—S. S, Chick, Somersworth. 
Ontario, Canada, Fruit Growers' Ass’n.— The 
winter meeting of thi* Society is to he held at 
Hamilton, Ont., February 3d, 1870, day and even¬ 
ing. Interesting subjects connected with fruit 
culture are to be discussed. 
The Shawnee Co. |Knn.) Hurl, nnd Pomologicnl 
widely was originated at Topeka Dec. Hth, 1869, 
with the foRowlngofficers:— PrcuLfynt —Nathan 
TUrvet, Secretary-W. W. Cone. Trcwntrcr- 
Jobn Armstrong. Meets first Saturday in every 
month. 
Don. Woe.—The annual meeting of 
this Society is to be held January 11,12. bland 
14, at St. Louis. The “order of business,” be¬ 
sides discussion, embraces tin: reading of im¬ 
portant papers by some of the eminent horti¬ 
culturists of the West. 
Adams Co., III., Ilort. *o<\—Officers for 1870: 
President -John Stewart. Vicc-PtfMhlr.nt.-T>. 
C. Wood. Recording Secretary— T. Butterworth. 
Corcsponding Secretary— Wm. Stewart. Treasu¬ 
rer—T. Sitiuock. Ddojatry to State Hurt. Sue.- 
IN m. Stewart and Ira Coe. 
Hillsborough H.) Ag. Son.—Officers for 1870: 
President- B. F. Hutchinson, Milford. Vice- 
I residents— J. Richardson, Lyndeborough; H. T. 
Morrill, Nashua: Ira Gage, Now Boston; Z. Ab¬ 
bott, Wilton. Secretary—i\ s. Averiil, Milford. 
Treasurer— F, T. Sawyer, Milford. 
Milk Producer*' Amodalion, Mn«*i. and 1*. H.— 
Officers for 1670 ■.-President- Gko. B. Lohing, 
Sa'em. Mass. Vice-Presidents -J. W, Roberson, 
Quincy. Mass.; J. A. Harwood, Littleton, Mass.: 
H. !•. r reneh. Concord,Mass. Secretary Daniel 
Rounds, North Wrenthara, Mass. ;Treasurer — 
Iiammon Reed, Lexington, Mass, 
The Ohio Dairymen'), Association holds its 
sixth annual meeting at Wellington, Lorain Go., 
O., Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 2« and 27. 
The Annual Address is to be delivered by Geo. 
Williams of Oneida Co., N. Y. Several valua¬ 
ble dairy papers arc to be read. An interesting 
and profitable meeting is anticipated. 
Salisbury. Mo., Association for the Improve¬ 
ment ot the Breed of Horses.— This is the name 
of a new association organized at Salisbury, Mo., 
of which the following named gent-lemon have 
been elected officers for 1870 —President—A, W. 
Morrison. VicG-Prcsidml-G. W. Williams. Sec¬ 
retary ~C. J. Kuox. Treasurer Lucius Salisbury. 
Randolph Co., III.. Ag. soe.-Offteors for 1870: 
President- Dakiel McIntyre. Vie* -Presidents 
—John Anderson Jr., M. E, Foster, Andrew 
Douglas, William H. Crawford. Executive. Board 
W. B. Taylor, G. Beoket, Henry Crawford, D. 
R. McMaster and S. M. Kelvie. Secretary and 
Treasurer—Ww. Addison. 
Pennsylvania Dorr. Soc. — Officers for 1870: 
President—' Wit. S. Schaffer, Vice-Presidents— 
Uoh-b Copo, J. E. Mitchell, Robert Buist, S. W. 
Noble. Corresponding Seoretary—Tho*. Meehan. 
Recording Secretary-- AAV. Harbiso n. Trcasurer- 
Honry A. Ducr. Pm/essor of P.otang — Tims. P 
James. Professor of Uni t. Chemistry—James C. 
Booth. Professor of Entomology—S. a. ltathvon. 
Kansas Slate Vg. Soc.-Tho annual meeting of 
this Society will bo held at Topeka, January J2tli, 
at which time the newly elected officers will be 
inaugurated, and arrangements made ter hold¬ 
ing the fair l'or 1870, Meetings are also to be held 
at the Capital every Wedm-Adny evening during 
the Session of the Legislature, for public dis¬ 
cussion, casaya, lect ures, &c. 
Barnstable, .Mass., Ag. Hoc.—Officers for 1870: 
President— Charles C. Hearse. Vice-Presidents— 
erson. E.T. Cobb. fe. B. Phinney, H. Goodspccd, 
J. R. Hull, J. Mayo, J. 8. Parker, Win. Ryder, 
Z. Dot y. Delegate Slate Board of Agriculture— S. 
B. Phuiney. 
Entomological Society of Canada. The Coun¬ 
cil Of the Agricultural and Arts Association of 
Ontario, at their meeting on the offirsl Decem¬ 
ber, unanimously voted a grant ol' $100 for tho 
ensuing year to this Society. The Society is, in 
return, to furnish an annual report to the Asso¬ 
ciation, to form a cabinet of insects useful or 
prejudicial to agriculture, to be placed at tbe 
disposal of the Council, and to continue the 
publication ol' tho Journal, the Canadian Ento¬ 
mologist, _ 
Illinois Slate llurticullural (society. — Hitherto 
this Society has divided the State into districts. 
Northern, Southern and Central, and elected a 
Vice-President in each Congressional District. 
At tho last meeting it divided these districts 
ioto Beven sub-districts and elected Vice-Presi¬ 
dents in each sub-district only—Northern Illi¬ 
nois has two wtb-dis I riots land 2 (limits not 
given); Central Illinois 3 and 1 and Southern 
Illinois 5, 6 and 7. The following arc the 
officers elect:— PnsUUtd— W. C. Flagg, Alton. 
Vicc-L‘resUk>ds— sub-district i, L. Woodward, 
Marengo; No. 2, Samuel Edwards, La MoUle; 
No. 3, A. C. Hammond, Warsaw; No. 4, T. 
Montgomery, Mattoon; No. 5, J. W. Fletcher, 
Oentralia; No. fi. H. J. Hyde, Godfrey ; No. 7, 
A. M. Brown, Villa ltidgo; Secretaries— H, J. 
Dunlap, C’hainpaigu, and O. B. Gain-ha, Morris. 
Treasurer— Jonathan Huggins, Woodburn. The 
next annual meeting is to be held at Galesburg 
at a date to be fixed by the Execuliv e Cummittcc. 
Vermont Dairymens’ Association. — We have 
received the following notice of ihe first winter 
Convention of the Vermont Dairymens’ Associa¬ 
tion, to be bold at St. Albans, Vt„ Wednesday, 
Thursday and Friday, January 19, 20 aud 21: 
"Hou. x. A. Willard.D airy Editm-of the Rural 
New-Yorker, will deliver an oddrens on Dairy 
Farms ami Dairy Maiutgeinoni.' Mr. WlLLARO will 
discuss at length tbe Factory System as applied to 
butter making and cheese making, and will desc ribe 
all the latter improvements in both department;,. 
" lion. George B. Lobing, President of tlm new 
England Agricultural Society and President M the 
Milk Producers' Association ol Massachusetts and 
New Uinnp-sinre, will deliver nn address on the 
■ Breeding and Feeding of Dairy (stock,' 
*' Hon. Henry Lane of Cornwall, will address the 
Association on the • Cultivation of the Sugar-Beet 
for Stock Feeding. 
“ Several other gentlemen have accepted Invita¬ 
tions to be present and take part in the meeting, who 
have not yet informed ns of the special topics se¬ 
lected by them. 
“ Discussions on various topics relating to the 
management of Farm Dairies, will be he'd. Am.mg 
them we name:-A discussion on Milk Rooms and 
the best manner of setting milk for the production 
of butter; on the time when the milk should be 
skirumod, should cream be allowed to snur before 
being churned; on salting and packing butter; on 
butter packages. 
" A report is expected from sn eminent citizen of 
Franklin connty. on the subject of Establishing an 
Agency in Boston for the Sale of Butter and Cheese. 
"It 1 b expected that several railroads will permit 
us to issue free return tickets to persons in actual 
attendance upon the meeting, by the routes over 
which they paid full fares in corning. 
. „ „ " K. i>- Maso.v, President. 
O. b. Buss, Secretary .' 
