MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.' 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
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grain; and as there was a good supply in the 
hands of farmers and comparatively little stock 
In this city, that trade alone would set other 
things In motion. The farmers had done well 
on hogs, and the demand for lard was good. 
With the railroads bringing the grain to mar¬ 
ket at a low rate for freight, and with u steady 
export , bo saw no reason for any depression of 
feeling. The price for wheat would not be high, 
but he believed a market could he found for it 
at a fair rate. 
The President of ( lie N. Y. Produce Exchange 
said to a Tribune reporter a few’ days ago that, 
“the export trade during Spring for corn, bar¬ 
ley, oats, etc., would be very good, and the 
I prospects were very encouraging. Ah several 
I European countries had had a very large wheat 
I crop, the prices for wheat must necessarily 
range low If the American farmers expected 
to compete with other nations for the market 
of the world. If the farmers were determined 
to hold hack their wheat, they would find that 
instead of being gainer* by the operations, 
they w ould really be losers. Taking the whole 
prospects of the produce trade for the Spring 
at a glance, he f<jlt convinced that they had a 
healthful look." 
The Improvement or prospect above noted, 
of course extends to Other bra nches of produce, 
provisions, etc. For example, dealers in dairy 
produce report a brisk revival of the trade of 
late, though prices have not been so high as 
they reached last fall, aud It is yet too early to 
correctly judge In regard to Spring transactions 
or prospects. 
On the whole, we regard the outlook more 
cheerful and encouraging than at any time 
since the panic, and tr all work with a will, 
—exercising proper judgment and economy,— 
what are now indications will prove realities, 
bringing a return of prosperity to the whole 
People and Country. 
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DOLLARS AND GENTS, 
The time that is worse than wasted trying to 
reform this wicked world, trying to make it 
over to suit our own crude standard of excel¬ 
lence and perfectness;—trying to pluck the 
ress the students had made In their studies, as 
well as with theirgeneral deportment. Virginia 
has made liberal and judicious provision for the 
education of the colored race. Although nine- 
mote out of our brother's eyo;• trying to provo teen-twent ieths of the taxes are paid by the 
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SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1875. 
A BETTER BUSINESS OUTLOOK. 
After a disastrous business season of long 
continuance, and a Winter of rsmarkable sever¬ 
ity, (which still "lingers in tho lap of Spring,”) 
it will be good news to our readers, near ami 
distant, In both town and country, to learn that 
the prospects for a revival of trade and return to 
former prosperity, are more encouraging now 
than for many months. There are many indi¬ 
cations of decided Improvement. The adjourn¬ 
ment of Congress has had a favorable effect in 
financial circles, causing capitalists arid specu¬ 
lators to breathe freer, and giving confidence 
of at least temporary relief from any disturbing 
element from legislation. This confidence will 
tend to benefit all classes of business. Mer¬ 
chants and manufacturers in New York and 
elsewhere have been doing a cautious, conserv¬ 
ative business, which lias had a tendency to 
improvement of a substantial and lusting char¬ 
ter, It Is generally believed that the Rubicon 
is passed.—that, after two seasons of great de¬ 
pression, tho Spring trade will be good and 
followed by a gradual, If not unusual, activity 
inmost kinds of business. Indeed, an exten¬ 
sive trade Is anticipated in various branches of 
business, and many leading dealers report a 
great improvement in their transactions during 
the past two weeks over the corresponding 
period of last year. There is, in fact, a wide¬ 
spread reeling of confidence, and a general 
belief that better times are being Inaugurated. 
The ag {cultural Interests of the country are 
also looking up, and must participate largely in 
the anticipated prosperity. A city paper says 
that “ the large supply of cereals in the grana¬ 
ries of the West and the Improvement in the 
European markets—noticed elsewhere—will 
load to an export demand, at better prioes, and 
a good business In grain means a revival of 
business and active employment to railroads 
and others." Another says the feeling among 
produce dealers is one of encouraging hopeful¬ 
ness, as the opening of Spring has brought a 
revival of business and caused many articles of 
trade to move that had lain dormant during tho 
past few months. The in privity was said to 
have been caused principally by impediments 
to navigation in the harbor, and not by any 
actual depression uf business: aud now that the 
harbor is freed, a lively exporL trade is looked 
for, A prominent South st. grain dealer thinks 
the prospects of a good export trade this Spring 
are encouraglug. The demand from abroad 
would be very fair, especially for corn and 
All this wrangling politically; all these com- 
■ binations and counter combinations; all these 
Laborers’ Unions. Farmers’ Associations, Gran¬ 
ge*, Farmers’ Club*. Agricultural and Horti¬ 
cultural Societies; all these Boards of Trade in 
town and country; all these Cheap Trnnspor- 
r l at ion organization*. Dairymen’s Conventions, 
&e., &o„ have for their object the quicker and 
easier acquirement, the saving or retaining, the 
. getting more and giving out leas of dollars and 
cents. They »re the spur to human action in 
all that relates to the material, and mucli that 
Palate* to the educational and moral, t hese lat¬ 
ter days. Scarce a social Interest exists that is 
not dependent upon, if not directly baaed upon, 
this factor In political economy. Wo despoil 
each other to get money. We growl at. each 
other because we cannot get more than we do. 
We hunt, out all sorts of devices and harness 
m rselvea to all sorts of schemes and ent erprlses 
in order to accumulate what is foolishly called 
“filthy lucre." Those who affect to despise It, 
to speak indifferently about It and those who 
labor to aequire it, are regarded as either fools 
or hypocrites —and very properly too. The 
higher moral motives for living and labor which 
some affect— motives far above the simple ac¬ 
quirement, of wealth—are all very well and in 
some cases, no doubt, honestly entertained, but 
we never happened to meet any such persons 
who w ere not tenacious of their money rights, 
careful as to their expenditures, and quite wlll- 
ingthatthelrrevenuesshould steadily increase. 
This is not asserted reproachfully. It is as¬ 
serted as a fact, aud Is the outgrowth of a 
condition of things that renders it a necessity 
that cannot, and ought not to he Ignored. The 
fault to lie found with such people, if any is to 
be found at all, Is that they are deceiving them¬ 
selves wantonly if they suppose they deceive 
other people by sucli pretensions. 
Now, wbat, has this to do with Agriculture 
and Rural Life’/ ft hag everything to do with 
it. There is not a farmer nor a farmer’s family 
whose struggle has not always been to get dol¬ 
lars and cents; and we doubt if there ever will 
be cue, so long as the earth is habited and cul¬ 
tivated and man has to cart, ids bread by the 
sweat of his brow. But the strange thing Is— 
and It is what astonishes us—that notwithstand¬ 
ing the duration of time in which this struggle 
lor dollars and cents has been going on—that 
notwithstanding generation after generation 
has participated in it and each succeeding one 
has had both the accumulations and experience 
nf tho preceding ones to aid it, so little has 
been ready learned of the true mode of acquir¬ 
ing-that we arc to-day in a chaotic condition 
as relates to this matter, and every man is look¬ 
ing with distrust upon his neighbor, or upon 
related and interdependent classes, and each 
man’s baud is raised against his fellow. 
How mauy sensible, substantial, uniformly 
successful business men can you write down as 
belonging in your neighborhood-- men who 
have steadily accumulated money honestly, 
without speculative adventures, who owe no 
one and who go right on prospering? If you 
can find such a farmer, study him and his meth¬ 
ods of doing business—of managing his farm 
aud business affairs. One thing wifi be found 
as u feature in bis economy, w r e are sure—that 
is, he does not run iu debt; that he lives within , 
his income and pays as he goes along; that he 
.studies and has mastered his vocation in detail i 
and omits no attention to detail that can yield i 
him profits; that lie utilizes every resource; I 
that he attends to his own business first and all I 
of the time! < 
every one else wrong but ourselves:—trying to 
catch in our net some one else’s fish while we 
let those that legitimately belong to us Blip by 
down the stream; trying to straighten the 
crooked way* of other people regardless or the 
paths we are making ourselves;—we say the 
time that is thus worse than wasted, If ap¬ 
plied by each would-be reformer to the stric test 
oversight of his own affairs, wmuld do more to 
reform this world in all essential respects than 
ail the reform organizations that have existed 
or are likely to exist. In other words, if each 
person will earn the dollars and cents he needs, 
take proper care of and make use or them, he 
will have little reason to complain of the rest 
of the world, and precious little time to do It 
in if he is bo inclined. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
“A Covert Editorial.’’. The sol f-a.*sumed dig¬ 
nity (or unconscious cowardice) of some people 
is absolutely terrific. It Is overwhelming. Il ls 
liable to react, sometimes, and render the per¬ 
son uncomfortable. But it has Its uses. It 
affords an Immense amount of fun for those 
who look on and appreciate tho ludicrous. For 
instance, Mr. Fuller, Associate Editor of this 
journal, wrote an editorial upon the " Distribu¬ 
tion of the Grape Louse” which appeared in 
these pages some time since. Mr. Charles V. 
Riley has written and published a reply to It. 
He says, in IiIb Introduction to his article, 
" From the context, I took [it] to bo from my 
excellent friend. A. K. Fuller, one of the 
Editors of said journal [Rural New-Yorker,] 
and which I have since ascertained to be from 
his pen—preferring to reply openly to the indi¬ 
vidual than to a covert editorial." Which 
means, we take it, that it was either less worthy 
of notice because it was editorial, or that Mr. 
Rilev wib afraid to reply because it was "a 
covert editorial.’’ We had supposed scientific 
men to be diligent search ore after truth and wil¬ 
ling to discuss facts and elicit truth, no matter 
in what form presented or by whom. In this In¬ 
stance, it seems to amount to this, that Mr. 
Riley more than Intimates that so long as he 
did not know who was the author of the edi¬ 
torial. it. was unwtJHhy of reply ; ao Boon as ho 
had learned the author’s name, it was worthy. 
Twcedlc-diim; tweedle-dee! If Mr. Riley 
would but regard bis personal dignity, or an 
ostentatious display of it, of less Importance to 
the public than to himself, and dignify ills 
writings by the infusion of a little more modesty 
and a less distrust of the motives of men who 
express opinions adverse to his,—and who are 
whites, nearly one-half of the school fund Is 
applied to the support of colored schools, of 
which there are over one thousand in the St ate, 
while measures have been taken for greatly 
extending the educational facilities which the 
colored youth already have. 
A .Yew York htntc Convention of Farmers, 
—The propriety and practicability of calling a 
State Convention of Farmers Is being discussed 
In Western New York', The definite object of 
: such action (if ( here is onej Is not yet stated; it 
will lie. probably, w hen t he formal call is made, 
If it is made. If such a Convention is to be held, 
■ it is to be hoped It. will not bo simply a fault¬ 
finding gathering, whereat all the ills that 
farmers are heir to may be rehearsed, without 
some definite ami Intelligent proposals of rem¬ 
edies. The call should state distinctly the topics 
to be considered and the objects to be pro¬ 
moted ; then a Convention may amount to 
something. 
The Colorado Potato-Beetle Scare still con¬ 
tinues in England. Well it may, for undoubt¬ 
edly it will find its way there, even if the 
authorities prohibit the import of every Amer¬ 
ican-grown nmcr. There are a thousand ways 
in which tlie 10-lined beetle Is as likely to 
roach England and Ireland as by means of po¬ 
tato exports. What our English and Irish 
brethren should do is to watch for Its appear¬ 
ance vigilantly, have a good supply of Paris 
green ready and destroy it at the outset. It is 
their only salvation. Prohibiting the importa¬ 
tion of American potatoes will not keep the 
pest from their potato fields. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
More wheat was sown, last fall, in Arkansas 
than in any previous year. 
Cattle are dying from starvation in Wash¬ 
ington County. Arkansas. 
Tue Delaware peach-growers report tho crop 
in good condition so far. 
The bamboo tree has been introduced into 
California, and thrives well. 
In Hungary sheep are fed upon tobacco in a 
green state, and they llirive upon il. 
At a poultry show in Elmira, N. V’., a goose 
hatche t in 1803 is the principal curiosity. 
Muskingum Co., O., produced la. l year 701,033 
pounds or butter and 512,7U1 pounds of wool. 
The number of sheep last year In Australia 
was 55,400,000. It has doubled in twelve years. 
It is said that not a single graduate of the 
Kansas Ag’l College has become a farmer since 
1807. 
enl'tled to their opinions ns he la to hie, so long ’ . , , 
“ tho *, th 7 r ; ,ct8toba,:k thom ’- * KSTSe n to as "2 k ofT/m 
the public will be lea> likely to exaggerate the Soil.” ue 
length of his ears and believe that be is at work In- Oonira Posta rv.„.w„ r .i ,i.„ „ , , 
for thegloriflcntion of Charles V. Riley rather destroy a million dollars’’worth 1 of property 
than pno bono publico. every year. 
forthegloriflcationofCnARLES V. Riley rather 
than pro bono publico. 
N, B. Mr. Fuller did not write this “Covert 
Editorial;*’ let Mr. Riley find out who did 
beforo he attempts a reply. 
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Potency of “ Hayseed ” Influence on Con¬ 
gress.— This is Illustrated by the restoration of 
the franking privilege, permanoiitly, in so far 
as it applies to the sending of the Roports of 
the Department of Agriculture and the trans¬ 
mission of the seeds furnished by the Depart¬ 
ment through the mails. So far as the trans¬ 
mission of other public documents nro con- j 
corned. Members of Congress have limited tbolr 
privilege, it is asserted in the dispatches, as to 
time, to the first of December next. But so far 
as seeds and Agricultural Reports are concern¬ 
ed, Congress, in view of political emergencies 
that may arise, seems to have been impressed 
with the political wisdom expressed by the 
Commissioner of Agriculture in his last annual 
report, to wit:—"1 believe It a matter of great 
political importance that these reports should 
go directly from the Representative to the con¬ 
stituent." It has acted accordingly and seeds 
and reports may hereafter be franked at will. 
Politic-laus are thus recognizing the potency of | 
“hayseed’’influence in politics; and although 
those who buy seeds have to pay for the seeds 
other men are too penurious to pay for. It mat¬ 
ters not so long as anybody regards it a compli¬ 
ment as a constituent to receive evidence of 
remembrance by the Representative in the 
shape of a package of seeds or an Agricultural 
Report under bis frank. Weill What is any¬ 
body going to do ahout it? 
Badgers are reported as havingkilled a great 
many lambs In some parts of California the 
present season. 
Within a radius of a few miles around 
Wheaton, JIL, 2,000 cows are kept for cheese- 
making purposes. 
Lord Clikden, a famous race horse, and one 
of the most successful of young English stal¬ 
lions, died of heart disease, Feb. 7. 
Mu. W. II. Fan m an's trout ponds at Maspeth 
L. I., were curried away bv the Hood, and 
thousands of dollars' worth of fish were lost. 
We do not know where our Illinois corre¬ 
spondent can get Peabody's Prolific Corn, uu- 
le s ihe seedsmen advertising In our columns 
havo It. 
H. E. Hooker & Bros., Rochester, N. Y„ 
furnish us their wholesale price list of fruits 
and ornamental trees, grape vines, roses, etc., 
for 187-5. 
Since careful drainage has become so general¬ 
ly adopted, our friends would do well to apply 
Lo A. N. Halley & Co.ofTlIe Mills, Indianapo¬ 
lis, Ind.,for prices, which will befurnmhed free. 
The Chinese Yam has a new advocate iu 
Indiana, who is evidently sending a circular 
letter, be-pralsing it, to the different agricultu¬ 
ral papers. It is astonishing how the spring 
sunshine revives old humbugs ] 
Young & Elliott, the enterprising firm of 
seedsmen, have removed from John street to 
Ao 12 CorUandt street. New York City, from 
which address their illustrated catalogue of 
valuable seeds will bo mailed free uponapplica- 
tion. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
Norma) and Ag’l College for Colored Pupils. 
—A committee of the Virginia Legislature re¬ 
ports very favorably in regard to the Hampton 
Normal and Agricultural College, designed to 
instruct colored persons in the branches of a 
thorough English education, and to prepare tho 
pupils to become teachers of tboir race. This 
college was fouuded a few years ago by dona¬ 
tions, mainly by Northern men, and to these 
donations, amounting to about $150,000, the 
State added an appropriation of $100,000. The 
college now has accommodations for 240 stu¬ 
dents, and a farm of 180 acres, cultivated en¬ 
tirely by the pupils, who are paid for the work 
they do. The pupils are between the ages of 
fifteen aud twenty-five, and many graduates of 
the institution are now employed as teachers of 
the colored schools. The legislative committee 
were most favorably Impressed with the prog- 
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If every ono of our readers would try Dobbins' 
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would, like us, become firm believers in its wonder¬ 
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Eckstein, Hills & Co.’s “ Pluenfx Pure White 
Lead” is the whitest, finest; has the best body nad 
most covering capacity of any lead in market. 
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To make your ileus lay, use the "Improved 
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The Etircku 10-yds. Twist for Button Hole 
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