INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES 
ing well.—The Turf, Field and Farm says“IT. 
C. Page, Esq., editor of the Era, has sold his fine 
young stallion, Young Dexter, a handsome and 
speedy son of Hambletontan, to Dr. J. B. 
Elliott, of Brooklyn.” — Charles hi. Lester, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., has sold to Col. Frank 
D. Curtis, Chariton, N. Y., the Ayrshire bull 
calf “ Brigham Young." Sire, “Aleck Christie,” 
(82); grandsire, “John Anderson," (33); dam, 
“ Kittle Clyde," (520); granddam," Dolly 3d,” (65). 
We understand Mr. Curtis purchased this calf 
on account of the superior milking qualities of 
his progenitors. 
ended in the discovery that It was a put-up job from 
the first. I have sown a peck of the imported seed, 
and wiil have Maniples of the crop for comparison.” 
ltd...- not follow that it was " :i put-up job, ' tor Mr. 
Van Olim»a claims, if we remember right, to have 
produced t he Surprise oats from seed received from 
the Department of Agriculture. 
Mr. DUNLAP scuds us Mr. Van Olinda's ad¬ 
vertisement as hfs authority for the above state¬ 
ment, which claims that these oats were ‘‘acci¬ 
dentally discovered by C* If. Van Olinda, on 
his farm near Sandwich, Do Kalb Co., 111.” Mr. 
Dunlap adds“1 have no doubt that theseod 
came through the Department of Agriculture, 
and was not produced from wild oats in De Kalb 
Co.” It is our recollection that Mr. Van Olinda 
told us when he first, put tho Surprise oats on the 
market that the original plant vra&found among 
oats, the seed of which was obtained from the 
Department of Agriculture. We never knew 
that it was otherwise pretended, and there is 
nothing in the advertisement sent us to indicate 
such pretension. Whether it was a “put-up 
job ” or not. we do not know, but wc again assert 
that H does not follow that it was. 
We find in the April issue, 1807. a contribution 
by Wm. Cunningham, Jr., Fitchburg, Muss., in 
which he gives what he calls an efficient pre¬ 
ventive of the depredations of the squash bug 
and the yellow fly, to wit: —He collected from a 
floor lately covered with hops some of the flour 
of the hop, poured upon it boiling water and put 
in a little wheat flour to give the liquid an ad¬ 
hesive quality. With this composition he wet 
the plants with a mop of rags, and found the 
the bugs let them alone. Afterwards he found 
a strong decoction of the hop itself equally effi¬ 
cacious. 
We have only space for one item more to 
which we wish to call t he attention of (lie editors 
of the New England Farmer, because it may aid 
them in establishing the claim of that journal to 
a greater age than It is now credited with. We 
notice that, the present. New England Farmer 
claims to have boon “ Established In 1823.” But 
In the October (1800) issue of this Agricultural 
Register, we find an article entitled“ Method 
of Preserving Cabbages so as to have them good 
till late in tho Spring;” and Immediately under 
this heading the following in brackets, as hero 
given:—[“ Fro 31 the New England Farmer.”] 
Since it may be interesting, we give the article 
entire, us we And it: 
“Make a trench In the driest sandy ground, nine 
Inches wide and of equal depth: In which place a 
row of cabbages with tho roots upwards, cont iguous 
to each other. Kill the cavities about them with 
sente dry straw, and then dltovcl the earth up to the 
stalks on each side, almost us high us the routs, shap¬ 
ing it like Die root of a house. The cabbages will 
c.iino out In May as sound as when they were put In, 
and the outer green leaves will be lurried quite 
white. As they arc not ii|»t to keep well after they 
are taken out. two or three at. a time may bo taken as 
they are wanted for use,ami (lie breach immediately 
closed with straw and earth, us before.” 
Now, it the present New England Farmer was 
established in 1822, what was that New England 
Farmer published in 180(S ? Who edited and pub¬ 
lished it, where was It published, when and by 
whom was it established, aud when did it cease 
to exist? Perhaps some New Englander can 
give us some interesting information on this 
subject. 
PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
Danbury, Conn., Farmer* and Man’fg*. Soc.— 
Officers for the current year: Pres.— B. D. 
Morris. Vice Pres .—George E. Cowpertbw aitc. 
Sec— L. P. Treadwell. Assisi. Sec's.—A. C. Seeley, 
B. E. Cowperthwaitc. Treat —Jacob MerritL 
Kr. <*>m. — Jlenj. D. Norris, L. P. Treadwell. 
Jacob Merritt, Nathan Seeley. J. F. Beard, S. H. 
Bundle, C. H. Crofat. also fifteen honorary' Vice- 
Presidents. The second annual fair is to be held 
at Danbury. Oct, 5—8. Thelist of premiums em¬ 
braces the whole range of “ Agriculture. Horti¬ 
culture and the Useful Arts.” the exhibition of 
trotting horses Included. Also a premium of 
five dollars for the best ten shade trees planted 
this year by the roadside, not less than thirty 
feet apart, and two dollars for the second best. 
Nebraska Hiute Ag. Soft.—We are In receipt of 
the premium list for the fourth annual fair of 
thlsSoeiety. to be held :if BrownsvilU Sept.20 23. 
The Board or Agriculture of this young State is 
made up of live and reliable friends of “pro- 
gressund improvement. Their list of premiums 
compares favorably with those of older States. 
The. officers of the Board for the current year 
are ns followst Pres.— K. W. Furnas, Browns¬ 
ville. Vicc-Prt:s'l <- Alvin Banders, Omaha City; 
J. 8. Morton, Nebraska City. Sec. - - 1). H. 
Wheeler. Plattamoutb. Trcas — L. A. Walker, 
Nebraska City . Managers— F. A. Tisdel, H. 0. 
Minlek, B. W. Kennedy, Geo. Jennings, Alvin 
Sanders. 
Mansnchimelt* Agricultural Sncinlc*.—The New 
England Farmer says“ According to the Secre¬ 
tory’s statistics, the twenty-nine Agricultural 
Societies ol’Massachusetts, received in 1800, $10,- 
$131 from the State treasury, and paid $30,734 in 
premiums to 5,000 persons. These Socle lies owe 
$110,701. aud value their real and personal pro¬ 
perty at $400.35;;, besides permanent funds 
ginOUnting to $272,221!. Premiums to the amount 
of $19,319 were offered tor live stock, of which 
$y, 20 l were for horses. Total amount paid for 
“ farm products,” $.5,989.” 
Jrffiwitun Oo„ IV. V., Fanner’* Club.— The 
wiile-uwitUe fat mers of this.-ter ling agricultural 
county, l hough late in the season, have duly or¬ 
ganized a Farmer’s Club, which la to hold month¬ 
ly meetings for discussions pertaining to agri¬ 
culture, horticulture, pomology and subjects 
connected therewith, and what relates to rural 
improvement. Ulfieen- were elected as follows: 
Pres. Ct.i i-i Eami s. t in. Pres— J. Dlmick. 
Sec. and Trcas, -J. Stearns, Jr. The next meet¬ 
ing is to be held at the Commercial College, 
May 28th. 
Northwestern Dairymen’* AH*ocinllon.— A\Te 
have the fourth annual report of this organi¬ 
sation, including the proceeding's of the fourth 
..i.._ tt’bv t*„l, it 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
It LEAL, LITEEAEY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. mOORE, 
Oonctu.etiiiK Jdlclitor and ^Proprietor. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
SUBSCRIPTION — Three Dollar* a Year. To Clubs 
and Agents. Five copies for $H: Seven, and one free 
to club agent, for $19: Ten. and one free, for only 
$2.50 per copy. As we pre-pay American postage. $2.70 
is the lowest Club late to Canada and $3.50 to Europe. 
The best way to remit Is by Draft or Pott-Office 
Money Order,—and all Drafts and Orders made pay¬ 
able to the Publisher MAY UK MAILED AT HIS RISK. 
Remittance!! In Registered Letters may also be made 
at our risk. 
Advertising —Inside, 75 cents per line, Agate 
space ; Outside. $1 per line, each Insertion. For Kx- 
tra Display and Cuts, a price and a half. Special and 
Business Notices, $1.00 and $2 a line. No advertise¬ 
ment inserted fur less than $3. 
DT As the Rural closes eight days In advance ot 
date, to secure proper claasillcalion Advertisements 
should reach the New York Office »t least ten days 
before the date of the paper in which they appear. 
THE SEASON, 
[Wk ww it Information, briefly, concerning the Mason, pro^reM o 
the work. teiiijNtraitir*, crop, price* of form produce, stock, labor 
and land*, and careful ettiumte* of tha amount of grain and number 
of animals oil hand for aalo, as coaioared with previoui season*, for 
publication uhder thin head.—Kr>n, Kuo At.,] 
Condition of Winter Grain.— The CommIeeioner 
of Agriculture's Report upon the Condition of 
the Winter Grain for April Is at hand, and is 
t hus gummed up in his Introductory paragraph: 
The April returns relative to the appearance 
Of winter wheat and rye and other cereals are 
very complete, and represent every section of 
the country in which the crops are grown. They 
picture n small and slow growth, thinned Sn 
plucc< by winter-killing, weak and unthrifty in 
spots, from loss of vitality by long exposure un¬ 
der loe or to freezing winds; but, with thee©ex¬ 
ceptions, vigorous, of good color, and ready to 
start, under the influence of n genial spring.Into 
luxuriant and healthful growth. These blem¬ 
ishes arc neither general nor very murked in lo¬ 
calities where they appear, with occasional ex¬ 
ceptions of severe freezing. While the appear¬ 
ance of wheat w by no means ns promising as it 
was last year, tho difference is due more to back¬ 
wardness of growth, caused bv late planting, 
followed by an early winter, which allowed of 
little more than germination before cold weath¬ 
er set in. than to Injuries from freezing. The 
mild weather and light snows of the winter 
wheat region were accompanied with few sud¬ 
den changes in the earlier winter months, while 
the colder and rougher wen liter of later winter 
was attended with heavier snows, which fur¬ 
nished valuable protection at a critical season. 
The regular returns were prepared about the 
first of April. Tito tenor of the later informa¬ 
tion gives assurance of a general ami rapid ame¬ 
lioration. which may yet result, the season favor¬ 
ing, in u Due crop of winter wheat. 
Boole’s Mill. Henderson ('«., Ky., April IT,— 
Yesterday morning the snow had fallen to a 
depth of lour inches, the main body of which 
soon disappeared. A severe; snow storm ensued 
in the evening which lasted about one and a half 
hours. This morning snow began to fall at a 
rapid rate and continues to fall with Increasing 
rapidity. The weather has been beautiful dur¬ 
ing Hie month of April until the present; the 
fruit will undoubtedly bo destroyed, as tin* ther¬ 
mometer stands below freezing. Wheat is 
worth from $1 to $1.25; corn eighty oenta, and 
scarce la the country; oats, seventy-five to 
eighty cents; potatoes, sixty cento to $1: milch 
cows, $30 to $50; horses, $135 to 200; hay, $20 per 
ton ; tobacco, $8 to $12 .—l. r. m. 
No Mildew In Michigan. — H. E. B., South 
Haven, Mich., writes the Journal of Horticul¬ 
ture us follows:—”Ou one of our lake shore 
sand ridges I set out, two years ago next March, 
on a new clearing, without trenching or plow¬ 
ing, flvo thousand grape roots, of the following 
varieties: Delaware, Iona. Isruelln, Allen's 
Hybrid, Dhma, Norton's Virginia, W'eh aw ken, 
Martha, Jouime. and Black Hamburg. They 
have all grown finely, without rust or mildew, 
notwithstanding the extremes of drought the 
first season and wet this year. So mild are our 
winters that, the vines arc not taken off the trel¬ 
lis. Even Black I lumburgs do not winter-kill. 
1 picked unfrozen Delawares December 1.” 
Leroy, Minnesota, May A.—The weather since 
April 4th, has been splendid lor any kind of out¬ 
door work. The mercury has ranged from 32' 
to 90 above zero. But little rain. Grain is near¬ 
ly all sown. More corn and potatoes will be 
planted in the woods this year than last, and less 
grain sown, while about the same utnount of 
wheat, oats, &c., will be put in on the prairie. 
Wheat is worth 70c.! oats, 50c.; corn, 50c.; pota¬ 
toes, $1; wild hay, $4 per ton ; timothy, 10. 
We are having a nice rain to-day—the first heavy 
t hunder storm this spring. The trees are nearly 
all leaved out, and apple, plum trees, &e., arc in 
full bloom.—i. u. it. 
Troy, l*n„ May 8.—Fine weather. Grass on 
the jump. Cows leaking their milk. Old hogs 
and pigs scarce, the latter worth $5 at four 
weeks old. Small grain all in: busy plowing 
for corn. Wheat, $1.1(1; oats, 43c.; corn, 80c.; 
clover seed, $11; Timothy, $8.50; butter, 33c.; 
eggs, 30c.; beef, live, $7.50 per liuudred; pota¬ 
toes, 25c.; cows, $(J0@85; horses, $I25@300 
each; land, $30(R150; hired men, $10@20; 
boys, $8@13 per month; girls, $3 per week. 
Money plenty with those who work, ami have the 
Rural every Saturday.—E. b. 
Charleston, Fob- Co., III., May 3.— April, for 
I he most part, warm and pleasant; maximum 
temperature, 33d, so • minimum temperature, 
16th, 31‘; warmest days, 18th and 34th—mean, 
70 1-3’; coldest day, 10th—mean, 35 2-3*; monthly 
mean, 54'. Snow, 4 inches on night of 15th ; rain 
and melted snow, 1.92 inches; clear 58 per cent; 
cloudy, 43 per cent. Prevailing winds north¬ 
west and northeast. Farmers have been busy 
the past week planting corn : weather very dry 
at present season u week earlier than last year; 
fruit prospects good.— c. a. 
Vancouver, 4.'lurk Co,, Wash. Ter., April 25.— 
Have had a warm winter and a great deal of 
rain ; snow fell March 1 to the depth of two 
inches; all gone in forty-eight hours; weather 
now line, and crops look well. Wages here are 
$25@30 per month ; improved farms from $2.50 
to $26 an acre. Plenty of lands to enter, and 
good homesteads yet, with timber that will make 
eight rail cuts, eleven feet long, to the tree, and 
the tree not over two feet through at the base. 
Cruelty li> Anlmnl* In Cnlcutin is discouraged 
by penalties that Indicate an advanced state of 
civilization there. Every person who shall cru¬ 
elly and wantonly beat, ill-treat, abuse, torture, 
overdrive, or overload, or cause to be beaten, 
ill-treated, abused, tortured, overdriven or over¬ 
laden, any animal, Is liable to a line of one bun¬ 
dled rupees. Every person who i hull incite any 
quadrupeds or birds, whether domestic or wild, 
to light,or shall bait any animal, or shall aider 
abet anyone in so doing, W liable to a fine of 
fifty rupees. Heavy fines arc also imposed for 
allowing a diseased animal to go at large, or to 
die upon a ptiblio thoroughfare, or to be em¬ 
ployed at any work, if unlit to bo so used. 
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1870 
The If iglit* of C hildren.— We delight to com¬ 
mend what Is* good und wort hy, hence wo want 
to urge any of our readers—especially parents— 
who may hereafter have opportunity to bear 
Mrs. Celia Bun leioh'k lecture on “The Rights 
of Children,” to improve It. Mrs. Burleigh is a 
modest, intelligent, clear - headed, womanly 
woman, who bilks, on tho stage, good, sound 
practical sense. Her lecture is entirely free 
from flippancy and pedantry. It Is evidently 
the work of a mother who has studied, compre¬ 
hends and loves her own offspring and children 
generally. Especially every mother, and every 
woman who hopes to become one, 6hould hear 
this lecture. 
A HORTICULTURIST’S LIBRARY 
We went to Wood,side, late one afternoon, 
recently, and spent a night with Andrew 8. 
Fuller whom some people call “the veteran 
horticulturist.” If a largo experience, critical 
observation and study.aud abundance of bard, 
practical work make a man a “ veteran,” he is 
one. But so far ns years go some folks would be 
astonished upon comparing their Ideal with the 
real Fuller. 
Wc spent an evening in his sanctum and 
among his books. The fact Is one evening is so 
short a spuoo of time in which to loiter there 
that wo can give no adequate idea of what his 
library contains that will afford pleasure and 
profit lo the practical student. Wo did not at¬ 
tempt to catalogue the old and rare works upon 
horticultural specialties which have been ac¬ 
cumulated, aud which have helped their owner 
to study i he contents of his grounds In the light 
of the Past as well as the Present to speak of 
what has boon dono with as great a degree of 
accuracy os he speaks of tho results of his own 
observation and experience. If wo were to name 
the few of these works we had time only to 
glance at, not. otto In a thousand of our readers 
would be the wiser, lor the reason Unit probably 
they never heard of them and would not know 
their value without a more extended review 
than we can now give. Among other works 
which attracted our especial attention was 
“Tint MEDiCAt and Agricultural Register 
for the years 1806 and 1807. Containing Practical In¬ 
formation on Husbandry; Cautions and Directions 
for ttie Preservation of Health, Management of the 
Sick. Ac. Designed for the Use of Families. Edited 
by Daniel Adams, M. B. Boston: Printed by 
Manning A Coring.” 
We have given the tit le page above. It was a 
monthly publication. Fully one-half (and in 
6ome cases more) of the space is devoted to agri¬ 
culture. The first article in the first Issue Is up¬ 
on fruit trees—their state of decay, Ac., which ts 
attributed to injudicious pruning. Tho asser¬ 
tion is made that “the prunlngof trees especial¬ 
ly, as is too generally practiced, Is truly harhar- 
OU8, if it he allowable so to speak of wounds, 
mutilations and bruises.” Tho “ rotten, hollow, 
decayed state of almost every (orchard) tree ar¬ 
rived at maturity" Is contrasted with forest 
trees in which are seen no deformities nor symp¬ 
toms of disease. How nature provides for tho 
healing ol such wounds is shown, und William 
Forsyth's discovery of a composition to aid 
nature in t his work (for which the British crown 
presented him with £4.000) is given. This com¬ 
position consisted of “one bushel or fresh cow 
dung, half a bushel of lime rubbish from old 
buildings, half a bushel of wood ashes, and a 
sixteenth part of a bushel of pit or river sand. 
The three last articles to be 6ifted flue before 
being mixed, then worked together with a spade 
aud afterwards with a wooden beater. Then the 
rotten or dead wood is out out. tho edges of the 
bark rounded off smooth and this composition 
laid on one-eighth of an inch thick and the sur¬ 
face powdered with dry wood ashes and the 
ashes of burned bones, and rubbed smoothly 
with the lit*trels until the surface is smooth.” It 
was long supposed that it was this plaster’s 
chemical effect healed the treo; hut modern 
horticulturists know that Its only agency was to 
keep air from the decayed part and enable na¬ 
ture to do the healing; and that any substance 
(grafting wax, gum nrabic, Ac.,) which excludes 
the air, is equally efficient. 
We find in the April number “The Natural 
History of the Horse Bee,” by Rev. Rowland 
Ghebn. given in detail, accompanied with pre¬ 
ventives and remedies for the hots. In the June 
issue, common salt is given as a certain aud 
almost instantaneous cure for the stings of bees. 
Clear, strung lime water, used to wash the bed 
frame, joints, &e„ of a bedstead Is asserted to 
be au effectual bud bug exterminator. Eggs, it 
is also stated, may be preserved two years by 
putting into n tub eight quarts of unslnked 
lime, half a pound of salt and two ounces of 
cream of tartar, mix in water to bear au egg 
with its top part above water. Pack the eggs in 
this composition. 
annual meeting nl Kenosha, \Vis., Feb. 8. 9 and 
10,1870. Tills is an interesting and valuable re¬ 
port. The fifth annual meeting is to be held nt 
Elgin, III., Jan. 3,1871. Any person may become 
a member of the Association by sending bis 
name and post-office address, with $2, to It. It. 
Stone, Secretary, Richmond, 111. 'Thus he may 
obtain this report. 
CArnlinn Ilori. Hoc. A society with this name 
was recently organized at Wilmington, N. C., 
and the following officers elected : J’rcs.— W. 
8tkkle ol Richmond. V. Pres'ts.— J. H. Dancy 
ol Edgecombe, aud L. A. Hart of New Hanover. 
Sec. arid i'lras.—J. A. Engelhard of New Hano¬ 
ver. K.r. Cum.— J. A Dancy of Edgecombe; L. 
Froelieb of Duplin; T. S. .Memory of Columbus; 
H. K. Horne ol Cumberland; John D. Taylor of 
Brunswick. The first fair is to be held the 
second Thursday (11 ih) of August. 
Monllii* And I’oinpry, ft. Y., Ag. nml Mech. 
Assoc.-This Society to stimulate good culture, 
and an interest in I lu-ii labors, offers premiums 
a- follows: For best, vegetable gnwlen $2: 
second $l; best fruit garden $2; second $1; best 
flower garden $3; second $1; best three trained 
grape vines $3; second (l ; best kept vineyard of 
lift.v vines or over $3; second $1. Entries are 
limited to tho first ot June. 
Northern ft. V'. Hurt. Sue,—The enterprising 
hurticuli ii i i»la In Northern New York, at a meet¬ 
ing recently held at. Watertown, organized a 
Horticultural Society, named as above, and 
elected officers as follows: Pres.- H. W. Eddy, 
Watertown. Vfca-Pres'ts— Lorenzo Baldwin, Or¬ 
leans; L. D. Gluey, Rutland. See.— R. ,J. Holmes, 
Watertown. Trcas. —C'has. Wilson, Watertown. 
ftew York State Poultry Soc. — A regular 
meeting of this Society will be held the after¬ 
noon aud evening of July 13 in this (New York) 
city. In behalf of the Society the Executive 
Committee invites officers of other Poultry So¬ 
cieties and all other persons interested in poul¬ 
try, pigeons or pet animals, to attend that 
meeting. 
Ithaca, ft. Y,. Fnnnrrv Club has recently' re¬ 
organized and eloqted officers as follows: Pres — 
Ezra Cornell. Vice-Prat. — Win. W. Ayers. 
Treat.— O. B. Curran. Cur. Scc.—L. B. Arnold. 
Rec. Sec. - H. D. Cunningham. Directors— Jos. 
McGraw, Henry Krum, Prof. Caldwell, P. B. 
Crandall, Mr. Benedict aud Mr. Brewer. 
Jefferson Co., ft. Y., Ag. Soc. — This Society 
has, for years, ranked as one of the must active 
and efficient in the Suite, embracing as it does 
among Its members many of the most promi¬ 
nent and skilled farmers and agriculturists of 
the county. We observe Its annual Fair is set 
down for the 71 b 9th of September next, at 
Watertown, we presume. 
Hi. Lawrence Co, (ft. V.) Ag. Soc, offers a pre¬ 
mium of fifty dollars for the best dairy farm ; 
fifty dollars for tlie best grain farm, and titty 
dollars for the best improved farm. 
The llazel Green (WIs.) Imlustilnl Society 
bolds a Spring Fair at Hazel Green, May 26 and 
27. Pres, —H. D. York. Sec.—Si* C. Major, 
W iiiiii* Co., Me., Ag. Soc,—The twenty-third 
annual Fair of Hus Society is to be held at Bel¬ 
fast, October 4th to 6tii. 
The Michigan State lloretr Breeders' A*»’n holds 
an exhibition at Jackson, Mich., June 14-10. En¬ 
tries close June 4. 
The Bantam, O., Ag. Soc. will hold their 
twenty-second annual Fair September 6th to 9th 
next. 
The Maryland State Ag. Fair is to be held 
September 27-30. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
Silk Experiment*.—1 1 is slated .nat J.Q. A. 
Warren appeared before the Congressional 
Committee oil Agriculture theother day, to urge 
an appropriation of $3,000 to enable the Depart¬ 
ment, of Agriculture to distribute cocoons and 
encourage experiments in silk culture. We 
trust snob experiments will be tried with the 
oak and ailantbus eating species of worms us to 
establish their real value here. The public 
money is often appropriated to less profitable 
uses than it. would be If employed to determine 
whether we can produce our own silk or Dot. 
Iluw the Burnt Is Introduced. — Many of its 
subscribers aid in extending the circulation and 
usefulness of the Rural New-Yorker by show¬ 
ing numbers to their neighbors, sending them to 
distent friends, or giving us their addresses, with 
requests to mall specimens. By this klud atten¬ 
tion on the part of its admirers, tho Rural is 
frequently Introduced to those who not only 
BUbSiTibeblif induce their friends to do likewise. 
Two letters by this morning's mail are from per¬ 
sons who are kindly acting in behalf of this 
journal. One is from a lady in Dallas Co., Ark., 
who writes:—“ Our subscription ts out, and I 
write to renew it at once. None appreciate the 
Rural more than my husband and myself. As 
1 have not an opportunity to canvass for the 
paper at present, I send you a list of names of 
persons who may probably take II. Send thorn 
specimens.” The other is from a gentleman in 
Macon, Oa., and reads:—” Some time since 1 saw 
a notice of your Rural, and thought I would 
ascertain if the fluffing It received was really 
deserved. I called at our nows depot, procured 
a copy, and now I receive it regularly through 
that source. If It is one day behind, there is 
sure to be ‘ a fuss in the family.’ So you can un¬ 
derstand how the Rural ts appreciated by us. 1 
generally send a copy to my stop-son, a planter 
near Minola, Louisiana. He will probably make 
different arrangements before long.” 
Woman’* Suffrage has been elaborately dis¬ 
cussed in this city the past week by two rival 
Conventions, tt. yoma to be the aim now, nut 
to show that vC '.vian has a right to suffrage, for 
that is generally conceded; nor that she wants 
it, for (hat Is generally doubted; but that she 
ought to want it, needs lt.and that the good men 
of the country need the help woman can give 
them with ballots in their hands. 'Hits is tho 
burden of the present war cry of woman suf¬ 
fragists. The meetings have been largely at¬ 
tended aud, in some respects, interesting. 
Cotton Seed Husk'*, we see by tho English 
papers, have been converted into paper atone 
of the Lancashire, English, paper mills. An Eng¬ 
lish contemporary says:—“From this material 
being ready to hand, in largo quantities, os a re¬ 
fuse from another manufacture, the idea of 
ultilizing if In this way is a happy one, and 
merits the success it is likely to obtain,” This 
is worthy the attention of American paper 
makers. 
Everybody Doing a* Everybody Doc*.—A cor¬ 
respondent from Wisconsin says, “ Everybody 
is changing from every branch of agriculture to 
cheese making."’ Another says, “But. little 
wheat will be sown here t his year. Tho expe¬ 
rience of tho past season has proved a damper. 
What shall l do? 8ow wheat?” Another writes, 
“ I have my wheat crop of last year on hand. 
Would you sell now or hold it? Is not the low 
price of the staple the past season going to di¬ 
minish the breadth sown, and, proportionally, 
the crop of 1870?” The correspondents who ask 
such questions may find our answer to them, in 
a general way, in an editorial In Rural of April 
23, untitled“The One Crop System.” The Asso¬ 
ciated Dairy System is attracting tho attention 
of many farmers whose families desire to avoid 
the Labor of cooking for hired help aud the care 
of milk. Whether cheese manufacture is to be 
overdone remains to be seen. But the diver¬ 
sion of capital and labor in Hull direction will 
render other branches of husbandry more profit¬ 
able to those who continue to pursue them. 
We should have less hesitation In sowing a lib¬ 
eral breadth to wheat tin's year than last; and if 
we had a stock of It. on hand, and could hold it 
without embarrassment, we should not hesitate 
to do so; for we have observed In the past that 
there is never too much wheat grown to supply 
tho demands of consumers. A surplus one year 
is held by some one to meet a deficiency the 
next. If the producer does not hold this sur¬ 
plus a speculator does and profits thereby. 
The West Abend.—If one wants to be sure 
that the world moves he should look West for 
the Indication. The latest evidence of progress 
we have wo find in n Chicago paper containing 
a report of it meeting of tho North western Poul¬ 
try Association, lo which it Is stated that one of 
1 be members “ insisted on the adoption by the 
Society of some standard rooster." Wo shall 
look with some anxiety for tho specifications of 
that “standard rooster." 
Inquiries for Advertiser* to ftote.—H. L. M. 
asks where ho can purchase Sultan fowls or their 
eggs. A correspondent asks whore lie can ob¬ 
tain Bolton Gray fowls.— Edward R. Cook asks 
where be can get pure Dock-wing game Bantam 
eggs.—A. Wood writes: I want a hand cultiva¬ 
tor and seed drill; one with two wheels as a cul¬ 
tivator.—A correspondent asks where he can 
obtain a “pug mill ” for mixing meal paste lor 
stock, poultry, &c. 
The Woman’s School of lliirticaliareat Brent¬ 
wood, L. I., is now fairly opened. Miss Marwe- 
del requests us to say that any plants that ladies 
who have conservatories may have to spare will 
be gratefully appreciated If sent to berat Brent¬ 
wood to aid iu stocking the green house. Miss 
Maiiweoel confines her appeal to women; we 
urge every hort iculturist, who can, to help her in 
this respect. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
EMPLOYMENT. 
Light, Pleasant and Profitable. A sure way to 
make money. No risk. Books. Inclose stamp for 
particulars, 8. K. WELLS,389 Broadway, N. Y. 
Railroad Restriction* in Illinois.--’The Illinois 
Constitutional Convention has adopted some 
stringent sections relative to the railroads and 
railroad legation in thatState. It declares nil roll¬ 
ing stock and other movable property belonging 
to any railroad, personal property, liable to exe¬ 
cution and sale in the same manner as the person¬ 
al property of individuals, and prohibits the 
Legislature from passing any law exempting it 
from such execution and sale. It also prohibits 
the consolidation of parallel or competing lines. 
It empowers the General Assembly to enact laws 
“ establishing reasonable maximum rates of 
charges for transportation of passengers and 
freight,*’ and declares all railway." bcretofore,or 
hereafter to be constructed, public highways, 
tree to all persons for the transportation of per¬ 
sons ftrnl properly thereon, under sueli regula¬ 
tions ns may be prescribed by law. 
Rack Numbers ot this V«l. (from Jan. 1») 
can still be supplied, or Subscriptions may 
begin at uny time. New Clubs, aud Addi¬ 
tions to Clubs, are therefore in order. 
Improved Ntoek Movements. — GEORGE E. 
Shores, Waterville, Maine, recently sold 
Wm. P. Blake, West Waterville, two yearling 
Hereford heifers. Stately, by Compton Lad, 
dam Necklace 4thby Canadian Chief (2441 1 grand- 
dam Necklace by imported Patriot (2160); and 
Verbena 4th, by Campion Lad, dam Verbena, by 
Guelph (2023). John Claud, Philadelphia, Pa., 
has! made recent Imports ions of Buff and Part¬ 
ridge Cochins, Dark Brahmas and 11 ca elans.— 
Charles A. Myers. Auburn,N. Y., is importing 
Buff and Partridge Cochins und Dark Brahmas. 
Wc see it stated that W. M. & C.C. Parks, 
Waukegan, TIL, recently paid $600 for a trio of 
dark Brahmas imported : one do. Buff Cochins ; 
one do. Houdans, and a pair of Aylesbury 
duelcs.— Thomas Gould, Aurora, N. Y., has pur¬ 
chased of John H aven, New York City, hie en¬ 
tire stud of Lop-eared llabbi I a.—We learn that 
t he celebrated trotting mare “ Lady Thorn ” lots 
just been sold by Messrs. Me Mann & Welch, 
Philadelphia, Pa., to Mr. Smith, of the firm of 
Smith, Gould, Martin & Co., bankers, Now 
York City, for $30,000. She is reported as look¬ 
Ilow to Help the Rural,— There arc numerous 
ways fit which Its friends can 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. 
Jonesboro, Washington Co., Ten 11., May 9.— 
Our growing crops look vigorous, the weather 
favorable, and our corn mostly planted. Quite 
too touch of our corn ground has been prepared 
after tliu ancient mode—plowed with one horse 
and a shovel plow, and care taken that the said 
shovel go not down so deep ns to disturb the 
port ion “ belonging to the heirs."— JZ. 8 . h. 
Sedgpwick, Decatur Co,, Iowa, April IH.— We 
had a hard storm in March, but a harder one 
about the 15th of April. Ice froze to the thick¬ 
ness of an inch. Wheat sown during the fine 
weather in February has probably all rotted. 
The principal part of the small grain has boon 
sown.—if. c. m. 
Trenton, ft. .!„ May We have ail around 
here an extra good prospect for an immense 
yield of apples and peaces. The trees have not 
been so full of bloom as they now are for a 
number of years.—it. b. 
Additions to Clubs are always in order, whether 
in ones, twos, lives, tens, or any other number. A 
host of people are dropping other papers about these 
days, and our Agent-Friends should Improve every 
occasion to secure such as recruits lor the Rural. 
Send V* the Names ot such of your friends, 
far and near, as you think will or ought to take the 
Rural, and we will wail them Specimens, etc. 
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Show Rills, Specimen Numbers, Are., sent 
free to nil applicants. If you want Hindi documents, 
let us know und they will be forwarded. 
Origin of the Surprise Oats.—We have a note 
from M. id, Duni.au, (“Rural” of the Chicago 
Tribune,) with reference to the following para¬ 
graph in Rural of May 7th : 
“ Rural,” in the Chicago Tribune, says:—“ The Po¬ 
tato Oats received from the Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture are.no doubt, identical with the Sehonen 
and Surprise oats. So this Surprise oat humbug has 
