Industrial School* for the Indian*.—Ex-Gov. 
W. F. M. Abnt oT New Mexico, once an Editor 
of the Prairie Farmer and one of the Western 
pioneer agitators of the subject of establishing 
Industrial schools in this country, was recently 
in this city, and is seeking the aid of the Gov¬ 
ernment to establish sucn schools among the 
Indians, with the purpose of making them 
good citizens and self-sustaining. lie exhibit¬ 
ed woolen and silver manufactures by the Na¬ 
vajo Indians, and insists that if one-tenth the 
money spent to keep up the military establish¬ 
ment which chases and kills Indians were em¬ 
ployed in securing to them Justice and helping 
them to become skilled in labor-as he fur¬ 
nished evidence could be done—he says the 
right of suffrage could soon be safely given 
them, and they could be governed and treated 
as -American citizens. Gov. Arny is an honest 
enthusiast in every good work he undertakes. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
are ecoaomical, for they save time, which is 
money, and also health, the failure of which 
subjects you to doctor’s bills. 
Remember that a good education, mental 
and moral, la a better heritage for your sons 
and daughters than riches, and therefore see to 
their education and training while they are 
young aud susceptible. Do not wait for thM or 
that event or accumulation, lest you lose the 
golden opportunity. And mind this, that a 
center-table or book-case covered or Ailed with 
good rccuUno matter— pure, Instructive and en¬ 
tertaining—is not only one of the beat educa¬ 
tors, but among the best preventives of that 
npr.ciea of Idleness which leads to bad company, 
dissipation and immorality. 
But wo have digressed from our purpose 
when writing the heading of this article. 
Though Intending to allude to the family our 
thought wt»s to Impress upon farmers the ne¬ 
cessity of seeing to their premises and maturing 
plans for the ensuing season of uctlvity. In 
brief, to so make their arrangements as to pro¬ 
duce more, at a less expense, than beretoforo- 
so that whatever the devastations in some 
localities, or the changes In Republics or King¬ 
doms, they would still be Sovereigns, enabled 
to assist the needy In t heir own land and pro¬ 
vide (for a consideration) the wherewithal to 
feed and clothe the peoples of other countries 
that may be desolated by revolutions, famines 
or other calamities. 
PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
Western Fruit Distributing Asa’n.—Too late 
for notice in our last Issue came an announce¬ 
ment of an important meeting In Chicago to 
Inaugurate a movement which, if faithfully 
prosecuted, must prove profitable to both 
growers and consumers of western fruit. This 
movement will have culminated, probably, ere 
this reaches our readers In tbo organization of 
an Association of fruit growers, fruit dealers 
and others interested In the sale of fruit., with 
the object, solely, to obtain reliable informa¬ 
tion in relation to tho commercial part of the 
fruit business—Includlngthecommerclal stand¬ 
ing, reliability and responsibility of fruit buy¬ 
ers, commission men, etc., In tho Northwest, 
the places where each resides, the population 
of the towns In which they distribute, tbe 
railroads and express routes by which the place 
Is reached, the riamea of producers of fruit, 
acres each cultivates and kinds produced, etc., 
etc. It la proposed to gather all these and 
kindred facts and embody them In a directory 
for the use of the members of the Association. 
The magnitude of the fruit Interest in t he We3t 
and the business importance attached to this 
movement is Illustrated by the fact that nearly 
all the railroads leading to Chicago have prof¬ 
fered either free or half-fare tickets to the fruit 
growers and dealers who may dctlro to at tend 
tho convention, rruit growers and dealers In 
the Bast might, with profit, we thlfik, imitate 
this action of their Western brethren. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
Flounder and Conducting Editor 
CflAS. D. BKAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
Aefcociato Editors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL LL, D., Cortland Village, N. V., 
Editok o» to* D*fabtmkkt o» Sb*«p HmumoBY. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Palls, N. Y„ 
Editoa of tub DbcisiiibnI of Diiir Kdriaydoy. 
Foreign Wheat Trade.—Our latest mail ad¬ 
vices from the English markets indicate an 
unexpectedly short supply, light arrivals from 
abroad aud a consequent advance in price of 
wheat, with a very firm market. How soon 
arrivals may change this feature it islmpossible 
to say, but dealers arc calculating largely on 
California shipments and basing their predic¬ 
tions of satisfactory supplies upon the reported 
stock in store In New York City. 
U. A. C. BARNETT. Publisher 
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Visit the Aetghhors.—If there i3 not a Farm¬ 
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(modestly tendered, with the belief t hat sorno 
one will be grateful if it Is heeded) 1b that each 
reader of the Rural Nuw-YORKKR devote two 
or three evenings in tho week (at least one) to 
visiting his neighbors (take the wife and chil¬ 
dren along) and talking over farm and house¬ 
hold matters with them. It will pay! 
AGRICULTURAL AND POLYTECHNIC 
INSTITUTES. 
Does it Fay to Go to Fnrmer’s Meetings ? — 
One fanner writes us I agree with you that 
a great ileal can be learned at these meetings 
of Industrial Societies, and that when one can 
spare tho money it pays to go. Rut It Is also a 
fact that comparatively few farmers can afford 
to expend £30 to £&0 to attend one of these 
meetings. Railroad fares and hotel expenses 
cat the marrow out of a £50 bill before one 
knows it: and then what becomes of tho taxes ? 
My experience is that half tho sum expended 
in taking the best agricultural and other papers 
will furnish me with more than the same 
amount of the same and other kinds of Infor¬ 
mation, and I here Is where the economy is. 
unless the meeting happens to be near at 
hand." That 1* one view and a forcible one 
to take of the matter; but there Is a gain in 
attending mcli meetings that papers cannot 
supply, resulting from personal contact and 
conversation with the most intelligent men 
engaged in a specialty. Questions are suggested 
that would not otherwise be and answers are 
obtained from men who would not answer 
through a paper. Resides, there is the stimulus 
of example. I.lie magnetic planting of seeds of 
enterprise and desire for Improvement which 
can only come of this personal intercourse. Of 
course tbo quec-tum of financial ability to ad 
vance the money a a an investment must always 
be considered ; but 1 hat the investment is near¬ 
ly always profitable to the intelligent, wide¬ 
awake man, is a fad established by abundant 
testimony. 
It is announced that the bill introduced in 
Congress, January, 1874, by Mr. Lowndes of 
Maryland, “To aid In establishing Agricultural 
and Polytechnic Institutes in the severalCoun¬ 
ties of the Slates and Territories and the Dis¬ 
trict of Coluuiliia,” and which appropriates 
£5,000,000 to aid In the establishment of such 
Institutes In every County or school district, at 
or near tbe capital thereof, is to bo urged to its 
passage at this session of Congress. It requires 
t he Commissioner of Education, under the di¬ 
rection of tho Secretary of the Interior, to 
apportion one-half of the £5,000,000 upon tho 
baa'.s of tlvo entire population and one-hulf In 
proportion to the number above ten years una¬ 
ble to write, as stated by the Into decennial 
census, u awards a share Su tho apportion¬ 
ment to each State, Territory or tho District of 
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Rural Life.—Somebody preaches a whole ser¬ 
mon in this single sentencePure sweet 
milk and butter, fresh and perfectly ripened 
fruit, homes and carriages, roomy dooryards, 
tho lovely society of birds, pure air and tho 
quiet and retirement of couotry life, are looked 
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East Main St., (Darrow’s Bookstore, Osburn 
House Block,) Rochester, N. Y. 
Still Returning to the Rural.—Mr. J. T. 
Bowers, of Rockingham Co., Ya., writes (Dec. 4) 
thus:—“Send me worth of inclosed in late 
numbers of tho Rural. I can do without it no 
longer, and will renew my subscription ior a 
year by Jan. 1st; was a subscriber for five years 
previous to this; can’t see how I did without 
it this long." 
jn such brauches as “foster agriculture and 
manufactures, develop mining r«wo*j.rc®si end 
benefit commerce," under regulation* devised 
by the Commissioner of Education, tbe Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture and tho Chief 6'gnal- 
Officcr. 
It makes each apportionment payable upon 
the warrant of theCommlssioucr.of Education, 
countersigned by tho Secretary of tho Interior, 
to the State, Territorial or district officer au¬ 
thorized by law to receive it. Such officers are 
required to report to the Commissioner of 
Education, on or before the 30th of June next 
ensuing, a detailed statement of the moneys 
disbursed or atilt unexpended. Tbo term 
“school districts" Includes cities, towns, par¬ 
ishes or other subdivisions designated by law 
competentto maintain institutions of learning. 
It requires lhelmmedlate apportionment and 
disbursement of each Ktate. Territorial or dis¬ 
trict share ; the portion derived from each half 
of the entire appropriation is to be locally dis¬ 
tributed upon its own basis of distribution. 
It makes tbe embezzlement of these funds a 
felony punishable with ft fine of double the 
amount embezzled, or Imprisonment not ex¬ 
ceeding three years, gives the exclusive juris¬ 
diction in such coses to the U nited States Cir¬ 
cuit courts, with power to compel by writ tho 
performance of the duties specified, or to re¬ 
strain their undue performance. 
Apparently laudable in lt9 object this bill 
deserves tho careful scrutiny of and candid dis¬ 
cussion by the people. Pa=*t and present expe¬ 
rience with Congressional appropriations for 
Educational purposes does not awaken a very 
sanguine hope that. Ibis scheme will “pay.” 
We have great faith in local educational effort 
—in that kind of effort which results from a 
consciousness of need and profit, rather than 
thut which only exists because Government 
furnishes a certain sum of money to be spent* 
“and we may as well have ft as others.” This 
“paternal Government" business does not ac¬ 
cord with our ideas of tho duties and privileges 
of a free people. It is another moans of central¬ 
izing power which, however insignificant and 
even beneficent it may appear, it seems to us, 
ought to lie resisted. We may change our views 
on this subject when we have had more time 
to consider the tendency of the bill and have 
beard more fully the arguments ot those who 
advooate its passage. Such, however, are our 
first impressions. 
RURAL BREVITIES 
Note that we prepay postage on all copies of 
tho Rural sent to regular subscribers. 
Have all your neighbors who ought to take 
it subscribed for the Rural? If not. give them 
an Invitation. 
Daniel Baker, an extensive farmer and 
dairyman of Erie Co., N. Y.. died at East Ham¬ 
burg, Saturday week, aged 83. 
The South Argylo obeoso factory, Washing¬ 
ton Co., N. Y., made 34,850 pounds of cheese 
the past summer, which sola at 14V4 cents per 
pound. 
Back Numbers of this vqlume (from Jan. 2) 
will lie supplied to all new subscribers or re¬ 
newals for some weeks to come, except where 
specific dirotions are given to the contrary. 
Michigan is sharing the fate of New En¬ 
gland. Her rural population is decreasing, 
while the cities are growing in numbers. The 
population of tiie State is 1,338,808, an increase 
sinee 1870 of 152,028. Ten of the oldestagrionl- 
Lurakcountles show lees population than they 
had four years ago. 
Major. Poore, in his rural rend niece ncea of 
the late Senator Sumner, says that Mr. S. en¬ 
joyed trees like an Anglo-Saxon Sylvanus. A 
successful experiment' In re-clothing a bleak 
New England hill with its former covering was 
regarded by him with great Interest, as he 
watched tho growth year after year. 
We aro indebted to Mr. E Welles Clarke 
for a copy of Ids litt le hand-book of groin ta¬ 
bles, showing the cost in sterling, free on board, 
of wheat and Indian corn; also freight, and 
equivalent tables, together With the rules regu¬ 
lating the grain trade in tho city of New York. 
It Is a very compact and convenient work. 
Dairymen, and others Interested, should not 
forget to rememher the Annual Convention of 
the American Dairymen's Association, to be 
held at Utica. N. Y., Jan. 12-14. Prominent 
gentlemen will deliver addresses and the meet¬ 
ing will no doubt prove ono of the most inter¬ 
esting and important ever convened by the 
Association. 
The Great Lifting Squash— the squash 
that lifted 4,120 lb?, at the Mass. Agricultural 
College — was recently exhibited before the 
Mass. Board of Agriculture, the manner of its 
exploits detailed by Pres. Clarke, and finally 
the “hard, knobby and misshapen*’ fruit was 
sawed in two by the distinguished President 
and the seeds thereof distributed to the ladles 
present. 
SATURDAY. JAN. 0, 1S75. 
THE OUTLOOK FOR 1875. 
Department of Agriculture aud Seeds. —The 
Gardener's Monthly says;—“It mo happened 
that the writer recently had tho opportunity 
of a conversation with a high Government offi¬ 
cial, who is in a position to know what baa 
been done by this Department since it - forma¬ 
tion, and he asserts that no agent has ever been 
employed by any commissioner to go to Eu¬ 
rope to purchase seod.” Without being able, 
now, to name the agent employed by a Com¬ 
mission to go to Europe to purchase seed, from 
facts that have at various times come to our 
knowledge during the past fifteen years, wo 
believe that the “high Government official” 
referred to either docs not “ know what lias 
been done by this Department since its ferrn.i- 
tlon” or, knowjjig, deliberately stated what ho 
knew to be untrue. His of little consequence, 
however, how or where the seeds are or have 
been obtained; the whole seed business of tho 
Department is a swindle and outrage upon 
taxpayers and an insult to intelligent agricul¬ 
turists. 
Reader, what of tho outlook—the prospect 
—for the present, year, not only for yourself aud 
family, but for the neighborhood in which you 
reside and the surrounding community and re¬ 
gion ? Have you decided to make progress— 
that sundry long-needed and mentally-prom¬ 
ised improvements shall be inaugurated in tlii- 
and that particular aud direction ? If so. “act 
well your part" aud spare no effort to accom¬ 
plish any laudable object to bo attained and 
upon which you have determined. 
There are many ways In which to lubor for 
yourself, family, neighbors and community at 
large; but as "charity begins at homo” your 
first aud most bounden duty Is to commence 
operations at your own threshold—in your lam- 
ily and on your premises. You will be derelict 
in your duty to them unless you sect j tho com¬ 
fort, happiness, education and innocent recrea¬ 
tion of your wife and children. In what man¬ 
ner, and to what extent, you can do this your 
situation and circumstances must bo the guide 
and monitor, in a great- measure; but we pray 
you to remember that, while wo admonish ail 
to keep out of debt, ami not live beyond their 
incomes, tbo pleasure of llfo docs not (or 
should not) consist in accumulation—in adding 
dollar to dollar, and acre to acre, with the vain 
hope, entertained by many a farmer, of owning 
all the adjoining land, no matter what depriva¬ 
tion or suffering may be endured in the family. 
Every well-to-do fanner who is a husband and 
father has certain duties aud obligations to bis 
family which should bo discharged now— not 
next year or at some Indefinite, futuro period 
when he shall have accumulated a certain 
amount of money or have tenured tho title 
deeds of this, that, or tho other farm or tract of 
land. For meantime—every day—the wife and 
children require comforts, conveniences and 
advantages in order to live properly and ud- 
vanoe their social, mentul and moral status. 
The truth is—and it is one so patent that no 
one need rise to explain or amplify thereupon 
—that the rights of women and children are 
ignored,or but partially recognized, in too many 
households in both country aud town. Pray, 
Mr. Farmer, Mechanic, Manufacturer, or what¬ 
ever your occupation or profession, why should 
you have all tbo labor-saving mac; ines neoea- 
s.try iu your vocation while your wife is refused 
a sewing machine, wringer and other aids to 
alleviate the wearisome toll and drudgery of 
housekeeping? Investments In such articles 
Well Paid for “flural” Work —An Agent- 
Friend in Saginaw Co., Mich.,— Mr, Wm. L. 
Blakeslbb— writes us:—“ I have been Agent 
for the Rural nino or ten years, and received 
from you during that time the following pre¬ 
miums:—Two Grover & Baker Sowing Machines, 
ono AYeod Sowing Machine, one dozen Silver- 
plated Spoons (largo), one dozen Knives, one 
Washing 31acblne, one Clothes Wringer, one 
Churn, one Gold Pen and Holder, and $50 in 
Cash." That is what may be considered “ Good 
Pay for Doing Good,” aud yet it is more than 
probable that many of our readers could do a3 
well, or even better by becoming recruiting 
officers for the good old Rural Brigade. How 
many will try ? _ 
X Valuable Hint to American Cities is con¬ 
veyed iu this brief item:—" In Paris there are 
contractors who pay tho city £120,000 per annum 
for the privilege of sweeping the streets per¬ 
fectly clean. The work is well done by men 
under tho orders of the municipal authorities, 
and the contractors are reimbursed by the sale 
of the mud and dust, which, when manufac¬ 
tured into fertilizers, is said to be worth 
£ 000 , 000 ." 
llow much do the citiesof New York, Boston, 
Chicago, etc,, make out of the mines of wealt h 
which their streets might furnish If properly 
husbanded? Perhaps the city officials may be 
able to answer, 
The Rural n* n Present.—Mr. A. 11., of Osh¬ 
kosh, Wis.. writes us in this style:—" In looking 
over the field for some article with which to 
make my only con a Christmas present, I have 
decided upon the Rural New-Yorker, Ju- 
cloaed find 1*. O. Order for $2.63. Please send 
by return mail,” etc. All our readers wishing 
to send the ftricAL, as ct present, are reminded 
that any Subscriber can do so by remitting the 
lowest club rate-only $2.16-when the paper will 
be sent a year postage prepaid. 
CREAMERIES AND CHEE8E FACTORIES 
Should send to 
WHITMAN & BURRELL, LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., 
for full Catalogue of all Dairy Goods. Some new 
things Just out. 
With all the compel it ion it tending tbe manu¬ 
facture of Soap, we cannot he p remarking that 
Dobbins' Eli ot tie Soap f- always first in popu¬ 
larity. Why? Because it is pure, unadulterated, 
honest and deserving. Ask your grocer for it. 
