PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
THE SEASON. 
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of animal* rr> hand for *4V. w ronmured with previous *0MOQ9. for 
publication under IbU hiad-—Ena, 
llnmilton, Hancock Co., HI., .Inly 28. — 
Weather extremely hot; scarcely nny min since 
April. Haj% wheat and oats very light. Pota¬ 
toes one-fourth crop; some pieces not. half that. 
Corn good color, but very small.—o. w. p. 
Grccnsluirg, Westmoreland Co., Pa., .Inly 29. 
—Very hot weather, the mercury ranging from 
90” to 97' In the shade since the 1st of J uly. This 
week we have had more rain than any other 
week in this year yet. Very line growing 
weather. All crops arc better than last year, 
except wheat, which was about as good. One 
week more, aud all the hay and oats will be In 
barns or stacks. No fruit, except a few apples. 
Raspberries and blackberries plenty. Wheat is 
*1.25 per bushel; rye, 85c.; oats, 50c.; barley, 
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wheat, killing some pieces entire. Quality good. 
Other grains are promising. Fruit, prospects 
good. Poach trees somewhat injured by the 
winter storm, but we have sufficient fruit: wild 
fruits in variety aud great abundance.— ji. n. c. 
Fond dn Lnc, Wl».. .Inly 2*.— Haying passed 
off slow: large quantities nf lmy spoiled. Very 
hot nearly every day since JuuelStb; never had 
better corn wea thcr and corn never looked as 
well as now; a large breadlh is planted. Harves¬ 
ting commenced last week ; wheat average crop, 
thin on ground, but well tilled and qualltygood. 
Will get. some potatoes. Norway oats are look¬ 
ing finely; quality will be good. Wheat, fst.10; 
oats, 50o.; wool, 38^c.; butter, 18c.; eggs, 
10c.—Cl. 15. 
Vougbumille, PtUimni Co., O., .Inly 25.— Wo 
had no rain from the last of April till the 9th of 
June. Corn is very good, all taeseled and silked 
—seine large enough for roasting ears; oats 
good; hay, half a crop; wheat thin, but. very 
heavy headed; some heavy threshed -yield mid¬ 
dling; wheat, $1.28} corn, 90c.: oats, 50c.; but¬ 
ter, 10c.; eggs, lie.; haying mostly done; oat 
harvest, commenced; there Is a larger breadth 
of corn this year than for years before. Cows 
There seems 
M. D. K. 
July 29.— 
as 
SATURDAY 
HOUSE OF HOHENZOLLERN, 
If the reader looks on the map of Prussia, he 
will And a little strip of a province southwest of 
t hat of Wii tcmburg, and lying between it and 
Radon, called llohenzollern. Its area is four 
hundred and eighty square miles. Count Thas- 
8Illo is said to have been the founder of the 
house of Holienzollern. In 800 A. D., he built 
t he castle of Zollcre, afterwards called Zollern, 
and finally llohenzollern, whence his descend¬ 
ants derived their patronymic. I it 11051 lie fami¬ 
ly divided into two branches, Frederic IV. 
founding the elder or .Swabian, uihIJvonkad I. 
' the younger or Franconian Hue. in 1570 the el¬ 
der or Swabian line, was subdivided into the 
branches Hohernzoliern-Sigmaringen aud Ho- 
hernzollern-Hechlngen. In 1115 the representa¬ 
tive of the younger line received from the Em¬ 
peror SioisMiTNi) the investiture of the elector¬ 
ate of Brandebourg, thus founding (lie reigning 
dynasty of Prussia; for it Is from this house the 
present King of Prussia descended. A treaty 
was made between the two houses, stipulating 
that should the male Brandebourgs become ex¬ 
tinct, the HoheuisoUertis should succeed to their 
wealth and titles. In 1831 a compact was made 
betweeu the t wo families, which declared the 
King of Prussia chief of the Joint Houses, and 
in 11119, in accordance with this compact, the 
reigning princes of the two branches of the 
House of Hohenzollirn, ceiled to the King their 
respective rights and principalities, the repre¬ 
sentatives thereof receiving annual pensions 
tberefor, at the same 1 i me retaining t heir estates, 
and the titieof Highness, but without the power 
to exercise any act of sovereignty. 
King William I. of Prussia, 
an admirable portrait of whom we give else¬ 
where, is t he second son of Frederick William 
III., and was born March 22,1797. He received 
a careful education. Joined the army at an early 
ago, was engaged in the campaigns against 
France In 18!8aud 1811. In 1810, when his brother 
Frederick William IV. ascended the throne, 
lie became Governor of Pomerania, afterwards 
sat in the Prussian Diet and supported, vigor¬ 
ously, the absolutist parly, in consequence of 
which, during the revolution of 1848, he was 
compelled to tleo to England. Ho was, however, 
elected to the Nat ional Assembly, and returned 
after a tew months, taking tittle part in political 
quarrels. In 1857, his elder brother, the King, 
having become incapacitated for business. Wit,. 
LIAM was commissioned Regent. January 2, 
1801, lio ascended the throne ; October 18, 18(11, 
his coronation took place. He was married June 
11, 1829, to MARIA Louisa of ia.\o-\Voimar, by 
which marriage he has t wo children Frederick 
William, the Crown Prince, (who married 
Victoria, the Princess Royal of England,) and 
Louisa, Grand Duchess of Baden. The chief 
events of Ills reign have been the Danish war, 
his quarrel and fight v illi Austria, the Luxem¬ 
burg negotiations with France, and the present 
quarrel with Fiance on account of 
Prince Ltupnlil of Ilolienzolle rn - 8ig- 
ninriiigca’s 
candidature for the Spanish t hrone, as a pretext. 
Prluoo Leopold, whose portrait we also present, 
is the eldest sou of Charles Antoine, the pres¬ 
ent Prince of the Sigmarlngen branch of the 
House of Hobenzoilern. Ho is thirty-five years 
old. 1 n 1801 bo married the second sister of the 
King of Portugal, by whom he had three sons. 
Ho is a tie voted Roman Catholic, and is said to 
be of placid disposition, studyingaud practicing 
religions duties v illi zeal, uml having no appar¬ 
ent predisposition to military life. The Prince, 
though of the same family ns King Wellliam, 
. Is related far more closely to the Fnortffi Ktn- 
(■ peror, as his grandmother on his father’s side 
^ was Marie Antoinette Murat ami on the 
mother's side, the Duchess Stephanie of Baden, 
a nee Beauhaknais, the adopted daughter of 
Napoleon I.; while to trace his relationship to 
jr" the King of Prussia, it is necessary, as is above 
V shown, to go back considerably more than five 
a centuries. 
are wort h $35@50; hogs, 8c. per lb. 
to be plenty of hogs and cat tie. 
Doweny Htnilon, Odor Go., Iowa 
The people of this entire neighborhood arc 
near all praying Tor one thing—rain—ns they 
often are. We have had n very dry season, no 
soaking min since April. Weather very hot. 
Small grain thin on the ground, but of a supe¬ 
rior quality ; gardens all parched up ; early 
planted corn on old ground, looks well, but on 
new ground has commenced “ firing ” — the 
leaves are dead from the ground half way to the 
top of the stalk; very little rruit of any kind; 
do not think there will be one-third of a com¬ 
mon crop or potatoes, in this and adjoining 
counties.—ti. o. n. 
Hop Prospect* in Ot*ego Co., X. V. — The 
Cooporstown Journal, In u recent issue, says: 
“The hop crop will mature from a week to ten 
days earlier than usual this year, which will be 
favorable to the grower. The effects of the se¬ 
vere drouth are seen in many yards; others 
more favorably located are looking well. Com¬ 
pared with the past few years, the yield will bo 
a fair one, unless the present drouth should con¬ 
tinue; a few days more of hot, dry weather, 
would certainly operate unfavorably. Dealers 
begin to show some Interest, if no anxiety, and 
some of them would doubtless bewilliug tu con¬ 
tract for the new crop ateighteen to twenty-two 
cents, but growers will be in no haste to sell. 
Washington, \Vo«h. Co., Kansas, July II.— 
In the Rural New-Yorker of June 25,1 notice 
the following: — “State papers are complaining 
of too much rain in Kansas." Now, iu Northern 
Kansas there is a loDg-continued drouth; uot 
two inches of rain have fallen m eight months. 
Also, “The coal fields of Kansas are estimated 
to contain 200,000 square miles." Now. the 
whole surface of the Slate is less than 80,000 
square miles. Wheat here is ready to harvest; 
less than half a crop; corn la ready to die; gar¬ 
den vegetables are nearly all dead. Many who 
arc here wish they had never seen Kansas, and 
declare that Kansas newspapers lie in regard to 
the weather and forests, to keep up, if possible, 
the tide of imigration. Thousands of acres are 
now so dry ttiat Ore would run furiously in 
them. 'Tls true this is not so all over the State. 
—c. w. w. 
Ogden, I'luh, July 21 .—Crofts in general look 
very well after the grasshopper war we had to 
puss through about two months ago. Tt really 
seemed doubtful il we could raise any grain this 
year, as these pests hutched out very early 
and ate down thousands of acres of grain before 
they got their wings. Since they could fly, which 
wus sometime in May, they seemed to gather 
themselves into great herds, I wo or throe miles 
square and as thick us they could fly. I have 
seen as many as one thousand acres of grain 
eaten down in one day. Of course a good deal 
of it came up again; but the crop thinned out all 
over, and in some places eaten altogether. One 
morning, about the end of May last, I went out 
to get my horses up, und was astonished at hear¬ 
ing a noise around me which seemed like thirty 
or forty ■wagons'going over a rough road. On 
looking up. I discovered the air full of grass¬ 
hoppers—so much SO that t.he-sun oould hardly 
be seen. Presently they commenced to eomc 
down and when they wore near the ground, if 
you waved your hand through the air, you could 
get it lull of them. This was on Saturday after¬ 
noon, and by Sunday night you could not, find one 
acre of good graiu in the settlement, and there 
must have been not less t han 1,500 acres of good 
wheat before they came. 1 had about six acres 
eaten to the ground; but. some of it came up, 
and I now bare about half a crop. They were 
also very destructive among fruit trees; iu some 
places they ate both leaves and blossoms; later 
they ate the fruit — Subscri her. 
— For other Season items see pnee 117. this No. 
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People in the South, and ot her distant regions 
where mall transportation is slow and uncertain, 
who wish to procure the Rural promptly and 
regularly, should avail themselves of the facili¬ 
ties afforded by News Agencies. The New York 
wholesale news-dealers supply News Agents in 
the most distant localities with groat dispatch 
and promptness through the fm ilities furnished 
by the Express companies, so that this Journal 
winy be obtained while yet damp of almost any 
periodical dealer in the United States or Canada. 
Hence, those desiring the Rural New-Yorker 
in localities where mail facilities are meager aud 
unreliable, can secure it regularly if they have 
access to news-dealers. Indeed, many of our 
subscribers, in remote sections, have adopted 
the plan of obtaining their papers through these 
sources. For example, a subscriber in Gonzales, 
Texas, (in a note accompanying an article for 
publication,) writes: 
“Do not think that beoause our name does not 
appear on your list of subscribers for current year, 
that we arc nQI. a entuttunt reader, anti patron Or the 
Rural. Not so. for wo could not be without it. 
Last yonr we received the paper direct from your 
office per subscription. Tins year we supply our¬ 
selves from our News Agent at this place, wo pre¬ 
fer this, owing to the superior facilities which the 
News Agent has for gelling Ids papers through, per 
Kg press, over the mail facilities, which are fur from 
infallible In this region.” 
This letter from Texas, about receiving the 
Rural through nows agencies, reminds us of 
the following notice touching the same matter 
from the Houston (Texas) Daily Times: 
"Moore's Rural is the most valuable journal 
published north of the once Mason uml Dixon's 
line. Its emulation Houlh Is perfectly immense. 
Air. Heavens, the gentlemanly conductor of Ma¬ 
son s News Depot, In this eity. informs us that the 
lit hai. Nc" YnitKF.lt outsells any Journal on his 
table, tic takes one hundred copies regularly, and 
often sells them ull out the first .day. The Rural 
New-YoUK i n Is no embellished Agricultural and 
norilciilLiiiid work of great merit, nod its large de¬ 
mand iu Houston speaks well tor I be tastes of our 
people.” 
The moral of all which is that no one residing 
within reach of n periodical dealer need be 
without the Rural New-Yorker, a Journal 
that is fast becoming popular among and indis¬ 
pensable to City, Village and Suburban, us well 
as Country residents. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES 
self of the above big crow! The fact is he has 
not illustrated his Viigsquasb ; nor can he find a 
lively litter of pigs in it. No, sir; we are not 
disgusted! Wc are as serene a* if ull Yttukee- 
dom were one big pumpkin pie. 
The Rural New-Yorker mid the War.— While 
the Tribune, Sun, Evening Mail, and other Now 
York dailies, have noted correspondents at the 
seat ol war in Europe, and publish, or promise, 
frequent dispatches and letters, the Rural, al¬ 
though a weekly, is not behind any of its con¬ 
temporaries in giving a correct and intelligible 
summary of actual event* of the B Vii , with such 
portraits and maps as must prove of great inter¬ 
est to its readers. Our portraits (in this and 
former numbers) of noted characters connected 
with the war are not only the best given, but 
they are published as early as any of equal size 
and accuracy on this side of the Atlantic. 'That 
of Napoleon, In our issue of July 23, was fully 
aiweek in advance of the so-called illustrated 
and other journals, while those we present this 
week are probably tbo first flood portraits of 
King William and Prince Leopold which ap¬ 
pear in this country. Our Map showing the 
Seat of Avar between France and Prussia, (see 
Rural of July 30,) though not large, is accurate, 
and we have already furnished electrotypes of it 
for several prominent journals. "With these 
facts before them, our readers may reasonably 
infer that they will in fiiture be fully advised 
concerning all important eveuts and characters 
Of a war which promises to be one of the great¬ 
est which has ever disturbed Europe. 
Chinese immigration.— The Country Gentle¬ 
man copies our editorial on this subject, in Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker of July 16, and adds:—“The 
dimposition sometimes manifested to prevent the 
employment of Chinese laborers strikes us as the 
same spirit precisely, which, in other years and 
countries, has led to the violent, destruction by 
workmen of labor-saving machinery, and which 
no4v leads short-sighted trades' unions to do all 
in their power, by the restrictions they seek to 
impose upon employers, to increase the cost and 
limit the amount of production in the country.” 
A Bret Sugar Factory is likely to be erected 
by A. Ramsdell at Mead’s Mills, .Michigan. The 
farmers of Plymouth, Michigan, have promised 
to produce nearly three hundred acres of beets 
to supply it, and a committee consisting of U. 
Blaumvood, J. Allen. H- E. Cady, H. B. 
Thayt.r, W. A. Ramsdell, J. Cramer, J. 
Shearer, and D. Sackett, have been appointed 
to make arrangements for providing beets for 
the factory, &e. 
Electrotypes ot Engravings.— Publishers wish¬ 
ing to procure electros of engravings in this and 
previous numbers of the Rural New-Yorker, 
can be supplied on short notice and at reason¬ 
able prices. Our portraits of European cclebri- 
i ips are the best obtainable. See advertisement 
at head of last column, page 119. 
Too Marti Credit.—In the Vineyard Depart¬ 
ment this week is a letter criticising “ Mr. Full¬ 
er's system” of pruning and training vines. 
This is giving Mr. Fuller too much credit. We 
should like to have somebody, if somebody can, 
point out to ns any system of grape culture 
which can properly be called Fuller's, or to 
which be has laid or does lay nny claim as an 
originator. Wc never have found any. and we 
are tolerably familiar with Mr. Fuller's books. 
Nor have we ever seen anything In his writings 
recommending any one system as adapted to all 
localities, varieties and circumstances. And if 
we had, we should dislike to believe that there 
are very many men in this country fools enough 
to follow such recommendations. 
The Agricultural Editors’ Excursion l’nrty to 
Oallforiifn reached Salt Lake City, we learn 
from the Deseret Evening News of July 28th, 
the 251 h ult. They were announced to leave 
that place for the West the afternoon of 
the 27 th. 
IVonin Mottinn.— On page 93, last issue of 
Rural, is un article on this plant, which is 
printed “Pceonia MmUan." Every florist will 
understand that the it was mistaken for an n by 
the proof-reader. 
Patrons of Husbandry,—We are advised and 
take pleasure in announcing that the General 
and Special Deputies of the National Grange, 
in the States of Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee, Mis¬ 
souri, Kansas, Nebraska and California, will be 
convened in St. Louis, on the 20th in¬ 
stant. The State Grange of Missouri is 
to be organized at that time, and it is 
anticipated that steps xvill be taken at this 
meeting to fully perfect the organization of the 
Order ifi the Western States. Among the Gen¬ 
eral Deputies lately appointed, we notice the 
names of Norm an J. Colman. for the State of 
Missouri, and W. W. Corbett for Illinois. 
lletij. I). Walsh’s Collection of Insects.— The 
Prairie Farmer say-“ Wa are gratified instate 
that our efficient State entomologist. Dr. Li: 
Baron, acting under the advice of Gov. Palmer, 
has purchased tor the use of the State the very 
extensive cabinet of insects 4vbioh were collect¬ 
ed by the lute Benjamin D. Walsh. The price 
paid for the collection was $2,500, tvhich sum in¬ 
cludes the unpaid salary of Mr. Walsh for six 
months. An order for the money was drawn 
by 1 he Governor on the con tinge tit fund. The 
cabinet is temporarily deposited in the fire-proof 
building of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.” 
IMPROVED STOCK MOVEMENTS, 
Mrs. E. By ram, Abingdon, III., is reported as 
having recently purchased, in Kentucky, Invin¬ 
cible Duke, (83S4,) bred by Geo. M. Bedford, 
Paris, Ky., by Duke of Stoner (.6601;) dam Atosa 
3d, by Dunoan’S Airdrie, (2743,) at. $1,650. Becky 
Sharp, red. bred by J. M. Vanmeter, Lexington, 
Ky., calved March24,1868, got by Airdrie Duke, 
(5300,) dam Gorra by Preston, (6011,) at §1.500- 
Naiipie Logan, roan, calved June 11, 1868, by 
Airdrie Duke, (5300,) dam Lou Logan by Claren¬ 
don, (2631,) at $1,500. Louau Duchess, bred by 
.■Yus, c. Shropshire, Harrison Co., Ky.. red, 
enhed April 3, 1866,got by Duncan's Duke of 
Airdrie. (2743,) dam Carnation by imported Cun¬ 
ningham, (1415,) (12671,) at $1,200. 
Neeley Bros., Gi'eenbusii, 111., purchased at 
the McMillan sale the coav WenOnaand calf, 
paying therefor $3,000. They have lately pur¬ 
chased the entire herd of Wm. Lill, Chicago, 
111., embracing the bulls Balco and 2nd Dulco of 
Wayne, and twenty-eight thorough-bred cows 
and heifers. 
“The Perennial Mammoth Squash.”—Every 
Saturday, Aug. 13, has the following: 
It is nearly time for that perennial “ mammoth 
squash ” to make its appearance in the columns Of 
the rural press. Ahead ,,t all competitors, and with 
malicious suavity, 4ve lieg leave to announce that a 
marrowfat squash, measuring fifteen feet m circum¬ 
ference, and thirty-four feet in diameter, lias just 
been laid on our editorial table. Fancy the disgust 
of agricultural editors till over the country. 
The editor could not haVe seen the Rural 
New-Yorker of Aug. 6, when he delivered him- 
Cnlifornla Hops.- According to the California 
Funner, California raised about. 3000 bales of 
hops last, year. It is asserted that one reason 
why Californians do not realize better prices 
than they do for hops is that there is a great 
Jealousy against California Imps in the East 
on account of their superiority, aud that old 
Eastern Imps are frequently mixed with the 
former, and marked “California,” thus injur¬ 
ing the reputation or the Western product, 
whereas, if pure, they are superior in flavor 
and quality. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
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