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OOBE'S BUBAL HEW-YORKER 
MARSH 24 
“PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.’ I 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Agricultural Societies for the prettiest babies, 
he adds: 
But, this idea should he enlarged and extended 
to the whole family. Let something like t he 
following appear in the premium lists of all 
agricultural societies:—for largest number of 
healthy hoys in one.family under 20 years of 
age, *10; for largest number of healt hy girls in 
one famllyunder SOyearaof age, *10; for largest 
number or both in same family, *10. Let size, 
healthy appearance and good behavior he made 
part or the conditions. There is as much dif¬ 
ference In the breeds of men us of other ani¬ 
mals, and their improvement deserves encour¬ 
agement as much as any other breed of animals. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1874. 
OUR ROCHESTER OFFICE. 
REMOVAL TO DARROWS BOOKSTORE, 
67 EAST MAIN STREET. 
Tun Rochester Office of the Rural New- 
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E. Darrow, and his courteous and capable as¬ 
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tisements at our usual rates. The Rural’s 
friends in Rochester and vicinity—and indeed 
throughout Western New-York, Canada, &o., - 
who have occasion to visit, the Metropolis of 
the Eden of America, (Rochester,) will p'eaae 
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Willard’s Practical Dairy Husbandry, the Peo¬ 
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RURAL] NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Premiums for Children.—It will be remem¬ 
bered by our rerders that in one of our “ Yaca- 
tlon Letters’" last year, we broached the sub¬ 
ject of tho Importance of more attention to 
the improvement of men and women physical¬ 
ly, by greater care in breeding and rearing 
childnon. We referred to the fact that less 
attention was, apparently, raid to this import¬ 
ant matter than to the breeding and care of 
other animals. Wo notice that this subject is 
now taken up by a writer in the Indiana Farm¬ 
er, who lias evident ly been thinking in t he same 
direction, and who says; 
Premium 4 * are paid on all kinds of farm ani¬ 
mals from the horse to the dog, nod on poultry 
and fowls from turkeys to canary birds. And 
this iaail right ami proper; hut why cot at the 
same time give at least equal encouragement 
to tho production of human animals ? is not. a 
hoy as valuable as a call, or a girl as important 
as a goose ? 
After showing the relative importance at¬ 
tached to men and women by the State and [ 
approving the premiums offered by certain 
HtatUtiral Bureau.— It is n significant sign of 
progress in husbandry t hat farmers are begin¬ 
ning to pay attention to and valuo statistics. 
The merchant has always looked carefully aft er 
figures. He has studied them and found the 
collection and study of statistical statements 
absolutely essential to the successful conduct 
of his business. The Statistical Bureau or the 
Department of Agriculture at Washington has 
done the best, peri tape, it could do with the 
means furnished, to give to the farmers of the 
country approximately correct statistics and 
estimates of crops. Jive stocks, prices, &c. Bui 
the difficulty lias been to secure the needed 
working force to furnish the same. Now we 
notice the assertion that the National Grange 
of t he Patrons of Husbandry is maturings plan 
for the formation of a Statistical Bureau for 
the collection and dissemination of Informa¬ 
tion in regard to tho condition of crops through¬ 
out the country. This Information is, of course, 
to be lor the exclusive benefit of tho Patrons 
oT Husbandry; hut the facilities for collecting 
the information through the 11,000 to 10,000 sub¬ 
ordinate Granges, and for disseminating the 
same thereby will work groat, good to agricul¬ 
ture generally. Wc are therefore glad to know* 
that this movement is inaugurated. 
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Wants Our Opinion. — A “Jersey Boy,” 23 
years old, “no greenhorn at farming,” with 
about $3,000 capital, thinks of purchasing a 
farm of 40 or 60 acres near Philadelphia or Bal- 
tlmore, also near a town of 2,000 to 3,000 inhab¬ 
itants, producing milk and farm truck for said 
town, running the milk in himself or having it 
done and disposing of his produce himself, tusks 
our opinion of his scheme, if he has capital 
enough and his chances of success are pretty 
good. Our opinion is that he cor succeed ; but 
whether he has capital enough to buy and pay 
fora farm In the locality he proposes and of 
the size he names and stock it properly, seems 
to us doubtful—though there may be such 
chances. He is also sensible enough to ask, 
“ What good agricultural papers are published 
In or about Philadelphia and Hal*.)more?" Wo 
replyThe Maryland Farmer in Baltimore; 
I he Practical Farmer. Journal of the Farm and 
Gardener’s Monthly in Philadelphia, and the 
Germantown Telegraph, Germantown, Pa. We 
have no doubt of this lively "Jersey Boy’s" 
success! 
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Dims. V. Riley Receives a Gold Medal from 
ihe Minister of Agriculture and Commerce ot 
France.— 1 The Minister of Agricult ure and Com¬ 
merce oi France has forwarded, t hrough the 
French Consul at New Orleans, to the State En¬ 
tomologist, of Missouri, a gold inedal awarded 
“in appreciation of discoveries in Economic 
Entomology ami especially of services rendered 
to French grape culture.'’ Tho medal Is de¬ 
scribed as “ of gold, very heavy mid handsomely 
finished. It is round, probably an inch and a 
half in diameter, and bears upon its face I he 
head of the Goddess of Liberty, in bas-relief, 
with the words:—Repubiique Francaise.’ Upon 
the reverse is:—* Mr. Riley, a 8t. Louis, Missou¬ 
ri. Services Rcndus a La Viticulture Francaise, 
1873,' encircled by ’Ministere del’Agriculture et 
du Commerce.’ " 
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The Annual Report of Ihe New Jersey Stale 
Ag. Soc. for 187 3 has been received from the 
Corresponding Secretary, P. T. Qcinn. This 
Report includes the annual address by the 
President, the reports of the Corresponding 
Secretary, Reoordiug Secretary, and Treasurer, 
and the following papers.—“New Jersey and 
the West," “The Breeding and Raising of 
Horses in New Jersey," “ Cranberry Cult ure in 
New Jersey," “ Large Fruits," “Garden Deco¬ 
ration and the Plants to Use,” " Rotat ion of 
Crops,” "Frui's and Vegetables for Garden 
Planting," “Marl,” “Farm Cottages,” “Barn- 
Yard Manure,” &c„ &c. These are practical 
papers. The Report is a credit to New Jersey 
and the Society. 
Wonts Information About Kansas.—A young 
Californian asks “ Kansas,” the writer of a let¬ 
ter In the Rural New-Yorker of Feb. 14, from 
Oxford, Sumner Co., Kansas, tho following; 
"Suppose a young man, a mechanic, were to go 
to your Stat e, intending to sett le on a farm and 
has no practical knowledge of the business, is 
willing to work and lias $3,000 capital, what 
course would you advise him to pursue the first 
year and how invest his money in stook, &e.; in 
a word, what can and should he dona the first 
year." There ara many others besides this 
young Californian who would be glad to read a 
practical and careful answer to this inquiry. 
Pampered to heath.—Referring to the death 
of the Eighth Duchess of Geneva (the $40,600 
cow) A. B. Allen in a note to the Tribune 
savs: —The fault is, breeders of fine stock 
pamper them to death in order to make a^hand- 
some show of their cattle. The only wonder to 
me is, that a single drop of Duchess blood is | 
kept either here or In Groat Britain. Mr. Bates 
of Yorkshire, the celebrated breeder of this 
family, told me when I visited him, that he 
would not do this under any consideration : 
and I found bis superb i erd of over 60 head 
were fed and treated no better than any good 
farmer would feed and treat ordinary cattle." 
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Women Wanting Farms. —Mrs. C. W, Rab- 
betil Nantuc, Conn., referring to an article In 
our Land Department, from West Virginia, wc 
believe, in which It is said not many women are 
seeking locations there, writes: " I know of 
more than one woman in this State who has 
been looking for a suitable location for some 
time, and yet hardly know where certainly to 
find it. There arc widow* with daughters, 
wives with poor health, or having husbands 
with poor health, who would be clad to know 
just where they could find such a location as a 
! small farm where the whole familv might work 
| at raising bees, poultry, vegetables, and fruits, 
paying a reasonable rent for a term of years, 
with the privilege of purchasing it when they 
Could. Most farms for rent. North an 1 South, 
arc too largo to be t horoughly cultivated. If 
farms were, many of them, smaller, there are 
more who would look for them. I should he 
glad, for one, Mr. Editor, to know where there 
was such a farm and opportunity as I describe." 
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National Forestry Association.—W. C. Flagg, 
in the Prairie Farmer, advocates the organiza¬ 
tion of a National Association for the Promo¬ 
tion of Forestry for the purpose of National 
discussion; “for the causes that produce or 
prevent forests are far-sweeping in their range, 
and need observers from all quarters to tlx their 
prqper value and effect.” This proposed or¬ 
ganization has oncunerit; it proposes a single 
specialty as an object of organization, whereas 
the American Horticultural Society would 
vainly attempt to cover Mm different specialties 
of Forestry. Orchard Culture, and Floriculture. 
Why not have an American Bornological, For¬ 
estry, Orchardlsts’ and Florists' societies, Just 
as we have American Dairymen’s, Sheep Breed¬ 
ers’, Short-Horn Breeders', Swineherds’, &c., 
organizations? There will he more hope ol 
usefulness from each. 
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Something for Americans to Win.—The French 
Society for the Encouragement of National In¬ 
dustry offers a prize of 3,000 francs for the sug¬ 
gestion of a practical plan lor diminishing the 
expense of harvesting grain the reapers used 
not answering the purpose. Also, a prize of 
2,000 francs, and a medal valued at 500 franc*, 
for tho beet plan of managing and utilizing 
mountain sides and slopes. A Iso, two prizes of 
2,000 francs and 3,000 francs, respectively, for 
best plans for i rrigation in inountainous regions, 
which are arid, by water from melted snows, 
and on lower regions, by t lie use of spring, r tin, 
and river waters In the formation of meadows. 
The Vermont Agricullnrnl College authori¬ 
ties, wo are glad to not ice, have decided to pro¬ 
vide for the young men of that State a. series of 
courses of lectures upon Agricultural Chem¬ 
istry, Botany, Fish Culture, Dairying, Book¬ 
keeping, and Forestry, to he delivered at the 
College next winter. This is sensible. Let 
practical men who have made these subjects a 
specialty be engaged and given time to prepare 
(being paid so that they can afford it), and let 
them go prepared to Illustrate their respective 
lectures fully, and the Vermont College will 
profit by the results, or we mistake the spirit of 
the farmers of that State. But it will not be 
wise to ask men to do this work gratuitously, 
or for so small pay that they cannot afford to 
do It well, as has been the case with some in¬ 
stitutions In such cases. 
The Portrait ol Charles Sumner on the ad¬ 
joining page is an excellent likeness of the 
dead Senator, a notice of whose death and of 
tbe leading events of his life will he found on 
our news page. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Cleveland, E. Tenn., March 1.—Never be¬ 
fore “within tho remembrance of the oldest 
citizen” have we had so mild and open a win¬ 
ter. Ye have bad no snow, not frost enough 
to kill some of the tenderest grasses, nor ice 
much thicker than a sheet of paper. At this 
time of writing the peach and plutn trees are 
in full bloom, vines rapidly budding, and the 
forests begin to look green. From Its appear¬ 
ance. a large wheat crop is very promising. We 
have wheat and oats a foot high already. Many 
are fearful that t he crops will be injured by 
late frosts. Last year our whole fruit crap was 
cut off by a killing frost on April 26. Judging 
from Lite past, such fears are certainly well- 
grounded. Farmers are rushingthings rapidly, 
preparing their land to plant corn by the first 
of April. Siuce so many Northern families 
have come and sottled in our town and county, 
the natives are paying much more attention to 
preparing their soil and fertilizing it. The 
Northern farmer is so rapidly increasing the 
fertility of his soil, and his economy is so much 
more rigid than the onceslaveholdingfarmer’s, 
that it puts energy into the younger yeomen of 
these parts. Prices of produce at this season 
run high. Hay, corn, wheat, and oats are 
shipped to the South; also, butter, cheese, 
chickens, and bacon; while eggs, fruit, and 
cotton go North. More than a hundred car 
loads of cotton pass this point en route for 
New-England every week. Northern Georgia 
last season put thousands oi bales of cotton on 
tho market. This spring farmers in t.hi6 county 
are preparing to put in 3,000or4,000 acres. Thus 
far March has been quite warm, no lire being 
needed most of the time.—A. s. R. 
Fayette, Seneca Co., N. V., March 9.— 
March opened fine; tho first three days were 
beautiful, but. to-day It blows and snows at a 
fearful rate. "Wo have had a very hard winter 
on wheat, and clover; frozen out bad. The 
frost Is all out (or was two days ago) and but 
few snow hanks. A great many changes this 
spring among farmers: many going to quit 
farming; say there is nothing made at it. I 
tell them to stick to it for better times are 
coming. Wheat, best, $1.70; corn, 75c.; barley 
for seed, brings $2; oats, 45c.; pork, $8.50; farm 
bands, $18 to $23 per month and board.— 
w. m. c. 
Liberty, Ind., March 2.—We have had a 
warm winter and a great deal of rain. Greatest 
floods on the 22d of February we have had for 
eight years. Corn last year was above an aver¬ 
age crop. Our best farmers cultivate about 20 
acres t o the hand when the single cultivator is 
used; and 30 acres with the double walking 
cultivator; 60 and 70 bushels per acre is consid¬ 
ered a fair,crop ami 40 bushels no crop at all. 
Tho prospect for wheat was never better than 
now. Many of our farmers are busy making 
molasses irom the sugar maple, tree. Farm 
hands are getting from $20 to $25 per month.— 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
P. T. QutNN, Newark, N. J., sends us his Plant 
List. 
Dinger & Conard Co., West, Grove, Pa., send 
us their Rose Catalogue. 
T. S. Hu BOARD’S (Fredonia, N. Y.,) descrip¬ 
tive catalogue of grape vines is received. 
Gardner B. Weeks’ (Syracuse, N. Y.,) de¬ 
scriptive list of dairy apparatus and supplies is 
before us. 
J. Howard McHenry, PiWesvillc, Md., sends 
us his catalogue of stock to be sold at auction 
on his farm April 8 and 9,1874. 
We acknowledge the receipt of the proceed¬ 
ings at the laving of the corner stone of Sage 
College of Cornell University. 
An esteemed agricultural contemporary says, 
“Animals are physically like human beings.’ 
Well, are not human beings animals ? 
O. A. Prnrv should address some of tho 
agricultural implement dealers advertising in 
our columns for information concerning a 
stump puller. 
In answer to numerous inquiries for a good 
windmill pump wc refer our readers to the 
advertisement of the Hartford Pump Co. on 
page ll»7 of this issue. 
Trichina, it ia asserted, In an area of 12.000 
acres in the Kaskaskia Bottom, III., has carried 
off 1.0,000 to 16,000hogs during t he pastmonths. 
Who would oat. pork ? 
Bickford & Huffman, Macedon, N. Y. f send 
us a pamphlet describing “The Farmer’s Fa¬ 
vorite or Superior Drill.” Those wanting a 
seed drill Bhould send for it. 
John Moon is informed that wo do not know 
whore the implement he asks about can be ob¬ 
tained. He should address any of the imple¬ 
ment dealers advertising with us. 
Washburn & Co., 100 Tremont St. Boston, 
Mass., have Jssued an elaborate and beautiful 
Cultivators Guide to the Flower and Kitchen 
Garden with a Catalogue of Seeds. 
Messrs. Grimes A- Meter, of the old and 
well-known Knox Fruit. Farm and Nurseries 
offer in this wcck's Rural an excellent, list of 
Small Fruits etc., at a moderate price. 
Whitman & Burrell, Little Falls, N. Y., 
send us a large sheet entitled ’* Little Falls 
Cheese Market Review," which embraces a cat¬ 
alogue oi their dairy furnishing goods. 
We are glad to notice that table fountains 
are attracting attention in this country, one 
having been patented, and we find it illustrated 
and described in an English paper. British peo¬ 
ple value such garniture for their-dining-room 
tables. 
W. D. asks what constitutes a barrel of 
onions? We do not know that there is any 
legal or market standard for a barrel of onions. 
What is usually considered a barrel of apples, 
potatoes or other vegetables is from 2)4 to 2$£ 
bushels. 
From 0. F. Davis, Land Commissioner, Oma¬ 
ha, Neb., we have received The Pioneer, a jour¬ 
nal devoted to the interests of all persons 
seekinginformationcoricerningtheFreeHome- 
stead and cheap lands In the West. It is pub¬ 
lished by the Land Department of the Union 
Pacific R. R. Co., and sent free to all applicants. 
Those who send us inquiries on this subject, 
should send for The Pioneer, Omaha, Neb. 
Again we urge that our readers, when they 
write to those advertising In the Rural New- 
Yorker, would state the fact to the parties to 
whom they write. The Bradley Manufacturing 
Co. of Syracuse, N. Y., advertise in this issue of 
the Rural the Carbart Patent Two-Horse Pul¬ 
verizing Cultivator, and to them we refer J. 
H. B., whose inquiries will doubtless he an¬ 
swered in detail bv their circular. This Culti¬ 
vator has an excellent reputation. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
Nearly every one has been made aware by notices 
of the press that the new elastic Truss really cures 
Hernia. It is worn with great comfort, and should 
not be taken off till the patient is fully cured. Sold 
cheap. Very durable. This Truss is sent by mail 
everywhere and Circulars furnished free by THE 
Elastic Truss Co„ 683 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
S500 per Month to Agents !—No risk. Terms 
free. LUDLOW & WILSON, Auburn, Ohio. 
