PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 1 ' 
until I‘riday, no that on the great days of the 
l air—Wednesday nod Thursday—the grounds 
were thronged with visitors. The receipts at, 
the gate on Wednesday were reported at $8,000, 
and on the next day at $0,000 ,50 that the at¬ 
tendance must have been largo, as many were 
admitted on life, annual and other tioketB not 
paid for during the Fair. The aggregate receipts 
will probably be over $15,(XH). [One of our re¬ 
porters estimates Die receipts al nearly $20,000, 
as ho says we have not made allowance for 
tickets Hold by the Erie Railway Co. (which ran 
trains frou. the City to the Fair, whoso tickets 
were not counted in receipts at gate.j 
The Exhibition was commendable through¬ 
out. Some former Fairs have been more Jnrgc- 
ty attended, but we do not remember one 
"'Ithin thirty years which proved more inter¬ 
esting and generally satisfactory. This is say¬ 
ing much, we are aware, but when the 00 m- 
slonaljy he returns the favor, so we are even on 
that score, and we are confident neither does it 
with ** malice aforethought or prepense.*' And 
tlie fact that we sometimes differ slightly ren¬ 
ders hl« commendation of the KuRALmure val¬ 
uable and it is sincerely appreciated. The Major 
has been wiser than we have In some (If not all) 
respects, especially In not changing the form or 
style of the Telegraph for years, except perhaps 
in enlarging Its dimensions. At the solicitation 
of friends we some years ago changed the style 
and page-size of the IUntAt,, which for e. while 
proved injurious. We lost some subscribers 
who mbsed the familiar appearance of the na- 
It is now .5.412.377, against 5,788,634 in lfitll anil 
Tho population 
1841, when it amounted to 8.198,853, showing a 
loss in the ten years, including the famine of 
184i, of 1,08:..,%«, most of which was by emigra¬ 
tion to the United States. This steady outflow 
while it has made Ireland numerically weaker, 
has really placed its people in much better cir¬ 
cumstances, and has been of great, advantage to 
this country. Ireland had in 1841 too many peo¬ 
ple for their own good-a population nearly 
twice as large as that of New York on about 
two tbIni 9 the area. With the present redue- 
tion in Ireland’s population the wages of isv,,.. 
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er and Conducting Kditor, 
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Too Young.—A political paper lauds one of 
its candidates as follows: 
"A young planter in the very vigor of young 
manhood, wUh not a single imprint of Time 
upon his person.” 
Hadn't this very juvenile person hotter stand 
back awhile? It is commonly reckoned Im¬ 
portant that a candidate should have his eye¬ 
teeth cut, hut here is one who from the descrip¬ 
tion seems not to have cut any teeth, not to 
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Lame Horse.-(T. M. B.)—It is impossible to 
advise what is good for a lame horse whose 
ailment is so Indefinitely described as “ iame- 
ness, Tho fact that this lameness has con¬ 
tinued a year already makes a cure more doubt¬ 
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surgeon, who may he able to locate the trouble 
ami give relief. 
111c Iiilnuis Ntnic Fair was held In Ottawa 
the week ending Sept. 17. The display proved 
equal if not superior to previous years, hut the 
weather being unfavorable, made tho Fair a 
failure financially. The display of live stock 
was very large. In horses the Clydesdales car¬ 
ried Off a great many first premiums which have 
heretofore fallen tu tho Norman breed, and in 
our opinion it was well deserved. We saw two 
of them which weighed 2,400 lbs. apiece. The 
Agricultural flail was well filled. Haskell 
made a large display of vegetables, seed h, etc. 
3 he show in Floral HaJI was larger than usual, 
aud It was found necessary to build some 
temporary sheds outside to accommodate all. 
SATURDAY, OCT. 0, 1875. 
THE. HEW YORK STATE FAIR, 
The N. Y. State Agricultural Society, through 
tlie efforts of its officers, members und local 
Constituency, made a grand and exceptionally 
successful demonstration at Elmira, last week, 
for which it and they are entitled to public ac¬ 
knowledgment, True, the Society has had a 
chronic habit of holding good exhibitions—such 
as have proved profitable to both itself and the 
people—from the time whereof the 
moat of our readers runnet h 
RURAL BREVITIES 
„,P. lT . R B n, Ar \ Tb ft 1 -offering the Rural for 
thirteen 4V eek* at only Fifty Cents—is noticed 
at length on page 244 of this paper. 
Baltimore will this reason pack 17,000,000 
cans of peaches; fifty firms arc engaged in the 
business, empioyiog 15,000 to 30.CKAI hands. 
Crawford, Erie, Mercer and Venango Coun¬ 
ties, in Pennsylvania, contain 101 cheese fac¬ 
tories, producing annually 9,557.700 pounils, 
Tiil New England boot, and shoe business 
Is active just now; the factories of North 
Adams turn out about 1,400 pairs of shoes a day. 
Tiiey are trying to acclimate the Florida 
cedar tree in Germany, as it furnishes the only 
Kind of wood suitable for the manufacture of 
lead pencils. 
Guano was first brought to this country 
from Peru in 1825. The demand for it has 
since increased so much that whole islands 
have disappeared under the pick and shovel. 
It Is claimed that Utah is destined to become 
one of tbe finest wool-growing territories in 
the Union, the mortality among the sheep 
there being Jess than In any part of the country. 
Partridges destroyed the buds 
to all who aided In its inauguration and man¬ 
agement. We ought to say kind words of and 
about, the Officers and various Eimirians, but 
cannot. Next to the Society’s managers the 
people of Elmira are entitled to special credit 
for their efforts to render the Fair a success— 
especially the Dally Advertiser and the Daily 
Gazette, ns well as the Husbandman (that 
issued a spicy daily edition during the exhibi¬ 
tion). which made a good point for the P. or 11. 
Elmira had its first State Fair in 1855-just 
twenty years ago-and the show and people 
were a sight to behold, as we can attest from 
observation. As we remarked to President 
Diven, last week, there has been a great i/n- 
meniory of 
not to the contrary'. 
But Its greatest Fairs have heretofore usually, 
if not always, been held on the lino of the Cen¬ 
tral Ksilroad-at Albany, Utica, Rochester and 
Buffulo-so that the extraordinary success of 
the recent exhibition was a surprise to many. 
1 he Rural New-Yorker, however, predicted 
a success, for two weeks ago, after alluding to 
the efforts of President Diven and his aids, it. 
said that an unusually large am) fine exhibition 
might be anticipated. And we added: — 
“Southern, Western and Central New York 
ought alone to make a grand demonstration, 
and with the aid of other sections of the 4 Em¬ 
pire,' this year’s State Fair should equal, if uot 
excel, even its most successful predecessors. 
No section of the State has improved more in 
rural affairs during the past decade than the 
‘ Southern Tier,* and it is expected that tbe 
producers of that progressive region will mani¬ 
fest the true spirit of ‘Progress and Improve- 
•• Milk ns a Fertilizer ’’ (l)-Tbe author of the 
old saying, 44 Never cry for spilt milk," has been 
discovered. It can be none other than a cor¬ 
respondent of our esteemed contemporary, the 
Country Gentleman, who seriously advises the 
use of milk as a manure, applying it diluted to 
gardens, door-yard aud house plants. We won¬ 
der if this writer ever heard of a plan some¬ 
times adopted by old-fashioned farmers which 
consists in feeding milk to pigs and calves and 
using their droppings as manure? If heshould 
evVu happen to learn this fact, we may expect 
to hear of another highly Important and val¬ 
uable discovery J In ail seriousness, such non¬ 
sensical bosh as recommending milk for ma¬ 
nure Is a fair specimen of the “ advice to farm¬ 
ers” too often found in Agricultural journals, 
which has not unnaturally disgusted thousands 
of sensible men with,” book farming.’’ 
1 aktkldoeh destroyed xbe buds on many 
apple trees in Vermont last winter, which is one 
reason assigned for the small crop of apples 
this year. The partridges were unusually 
abundant aud severe weather drove them to 
this kiud of food. 
A California paper says that a well-known 
plant called “ rattle-weed,’’ which crows there, 
intoxicates horses. A herd of lifty r untamed 
horses in Monterey County were recently so 
muddled by it that they allowed persons to 
approach them without making any effort to 
escape. 
A gentleman writing from America to a 
friend in Edinburgh, on Aug. 2, says that he 
saw the potato bugs about teu days ago, at 
least eight miles out on the Atlantic, and they 
appeared to he bound for Scotland. Some of 
rural notes and queries, 
Praise or the Rural that is Appreciated,— 
"Beware when all the people praise thee!" is 
an Injunction of which we have often been re¬ 
minded of late, for a great many people and 
papers have been writing and printing good 
tbi ugs about the 44 Old Rural," in response to 
which we ought to, and do. tender grateful ac¬ 
knowledgments. But the following from Ma¬ 
jor Fkeas, the veteran editor of the German¬ 
town Telegraph, 
Considerably Mixed. —Our esteemed contem¬ 
porary, the Michigan Farmer, came to our table 
recently in questionable shape. On the title- 
page the date was plain enough, 44 Detroit, Sept. 
81, utterly oblivious of the well-known adage, 
“Thirty days hath September,” Ac. O 11 tbe 
editorial page the date Is tbrlce repeated Sept. 
7, while on the Inside— 44 You pays your money 
and takes your choice”—Sept. 7, Sept. 31, and 
Sept. 13! This is too bad, and we must call 
brother Johnstone toacoount. We have heard 
much of tertible floods at the West, but did not 
think our friend of the Michigan Farmer would 
so soon imitate Father Noah in planting a 
vineyard and making merry with the fruit 
thereof. Somebody's garment to oover this 
resultant nakedness is badly needed. 
t . - -- Some of 
them appeared to he perfectly at home on the 
waves. He asks if they have not arrived yet. 
H. Nicholas Jarcuow, formerly editor of 
the rurmer Zeitung, is uow conduting an 
Agricultural department in the New-Yorker 
Presse, a German paper published in this city. 
Inis is a new feature for German journalism, 
and must commend the New-Yorker Presse to 
the large number of German-speaking farmers 
in all parts of tho country. 
causes us to bow low, for the 
reason that its author is an able expert in Jour¬ 
nalism, and therefore knows whereof lie affirms, 
while hie Independence and impartiality are 
such that henever puffs or palavers on any sub¬ 
ject ; 
Nothing gives us more pleasure than to 
??« rfeularly that old and tried Triend. 
the Rural New-Yorker. it never loolad 
handsomer or possessed more real value than at 
Hi)* to“«>! ana we may add wsa never more 
prosperous. It is true now and then it hits us a 
t HI' H8 ,fc supposes, straight, 
out wo like It none the worse for that.” 
If we give Brother Freas a little rap occa 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
NO ONE 
who has once tried Dobbins' Electric Soao (made by 
Cragin & Co., Philadelphia. Pa.,) falls to see its won- 
dertul economy. Ask your grocer to get it, and give 
it a trial. 
1 opulatiuii of Ireland.—A recent census of 
Ireland shows the population to be less than in 
1821, when the first official census was taken 
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