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MOOSE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PROGRESS 
IMPROVEMENT.' 
MOORE’S RUSAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL IT,MIRTH A TED 
EIIEAL, LITERS HI'AND FAMILV NEWSPAPER. 
D. n. T. moons, 
Founder and Conduotinc Editor. 
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(SATURDAY, CCT. f.0, 1875. 
A HINT TO AGENT-FRIENDS. 
The Beat Time to Work for the Best Paper 
and Best Premiums ! 
The Agent-Friends of Moore's Rural,— and 
It has sevoral thousand ecattered throughout 
this fruitful land, including the adjacent Brtt- 
tlsh Provinces,—arc reminded that November 
and December are (he best months in tbe year 
to work for the Best Premiums offered and the 
B 'f t Paper of its class. Agents who begin early 
will find It mud) easier to form Clubs and se¬ 
cure Premiums than it usually is at a later 
period, after the canvassers for other and Infe¬ 
rior papers have taken the Held, Our most suc¬ 
cessful Agents are those who open the Cam¬ 
paign early nnd vigorously, and continue It 
persistently as long as any subscriptions arc 
obtainable In their respective districts. 
Now, therefore, Is the Best Time to Work for 
the Best Paper and Best Premiums. Any one 
disposed to act as Agent, and not advised as to 
the merits of the Rural or the value of lis 
Premiums, will he promptly ftirnisbod with 
specimens and lists. We hope that, all of our 
Agent-Friends will commence clubs at once, and 
each prove so successful as to secure at least 
one valuable Premium. They can eafc-lv prom¬ 
ise that the Fifty-Three Numbers of Moore’s 
Rural for the Centennial Year, 1870, will be 
worth to any careful reader many times the 
price of subscription. 
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BUSINESS FAILURES AND THE CROPS. 
The Mercantile Agenoy of Messrra. Dun, 
Barlow & Co. have Just Issued a report of the 
failures of business men for the nine months 
of 1875 to the 1-t of October. The report Is not 
encouraging,showing the number of failures to 
be 5.331, with liabilities of 8131,172 503, against 
4,871 failures and $116.427,000 liabilities for tbe 
first nine months of 1874. These figures show 
plainly enough that the. era of prosperity, so 
long looked for, has not. yet bBgun.and that t he 
disastrous panic of 1873 bus not yet spent its 
force. Tbe w orst feature of this business de¬ 
pression is the paralyzation of Industry, the 
enforced idleness of thousands of men who 
would gladly work and upon whose labor tbe 
country must depend for a return of business 
prosperity. We got Into tbe trouble originally 
by Indulging In speculations,building railroads, 
etc., when we ought to have worked at. some¬ 
thing immediately productive. The bard times 
continue now mainly because ermfidenoe is 
destroyed and few men dare embark capital In 
even tbe most safe and profitable enterprises. 
Messrs. Dun, Baklow & Co. regard It as a 
cheering fact that the present year’s crops are 
going upon the market unusually early. From 
this it is Inferred that during the coming three 
months business will be better, and the failures 
fewer than In 1874. But these early sales have 
t.een generally made at low prices, and unless 
> the crop of 1875 1* larger than usual the relief 
can be only temporary. The effect of forcing a 
deficient crop on the market during the two or 
* throe months after harvest, is to unnaturally 
stimulate trade, with an equal reaction after 
the effect of the stimulus has parsed away. Tt 
would Insure a much more healthful business 
through tbe year, and be better alike for farm¬ 
ers and commercial men. If crops were sold only 
as demand was created for them. Instead of be¬ 
ing bought up and held by speculators. In tbe 
present instance It is probablei bat much of our 
1 surplus of wheat has already been exported, 
and the advance In prices between now end 
next harvest will be made, not by our own pro¬ 
ducers, the western wheat growers, nor yet by 
American merchants and middlemen, but by 
the English consumer. The large exports of 
wheat by the few States having any to export 
this year, may very possibly have left our own 
supply short. It would not be strange if we 
were compelled before next harvest to Import 
’ at high price* wheat to take tbe place of what 
‘ wo Imve Improv dent y sold. We hope to sco 
i a different policy adopted by our Kouthern 
, friends in marketing their cotton crop, li de¬ 
livered only a* needed by manufacturers for 
use. It will probably bring a handsome advance 
' on what It can be sold tor to speculators on a 
flooded market. 
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THE FAST MAIL SERVICE. 
Since tbe establishment of the fast mall line 
between New York and Chicago, aboutn month 
ago, it has become evident, as we then predicted 
that It would be a very Inconsiderable con¬ 
venience to the public. The train leaves New 
York before daylight In the morning, and for 
several hundred miles inland, it canDot deliver 
letters any sooner than the trains which leave 
the evening previous, and which naturally take 
the bulk of correspondence. In fact, the mall 
seems to lie chkfiy of service In forwarding 
large editions of New York morning papers, 
and some Western Journals, possibly also In¬ 
fluenced by this rivalry, say that tbo hours of 
leavlngNew Ycrk city were fixed mainly for this 
purpose. Worst of all It appears that the huge 
packages of morning papers dlrcoted to news¬ 
dealer* along the route go free of postage, at 
that Is the announcement of some of them to 
their agents. The government thus seems to 
be furnishing unusual facilities for delivering 
papers free of cost which would otherwise go 
by mail and pay it, .or carrying them. It Is 
really strange how differently a government 
will uct In conducting itsbusiness as compared 
with a private Individual, Certainly no shrewd 
business man would be trapped Into working 
against his own interests In this manner. We 
need scarcely wonder under such management 
that the Post Office depatt merit Is not self- 
sustaining. 
Calls for fast mail lines between other cities, 
east, west and south, are coming fast, nnd pos¬ 
sibly many may have the Impression that tbe 
experiment has proved a success. As t he dally 
newspapers are most benefltted by these fust 
malls, they are quite clamorous for the Im¬ 
provement. But fast malls between smaller 
Cities are impossible, because they do not fur¬ 
nish enough mall to make it profitable to run 
a special train. It Is not probable that it will 
be thought advisable to run a fast mall from 
New York t i Boston, or Washington, and cer- 
talnlp not to New Orleans. The advantages of 
this system are therefore confined to a limited 
section of country, and there they are of 
doubtful utility. 
Tbe Postal Reform which the people will ex¬ 
pect of Congress Is, first, a repeal of tbe law 
enacted last winter doubling tbe rates of post¬ 
age on third class matter, and, secondly, re¬ 
ducing letter postage from three cents or two, 
or possibly to one. The success of tbe postal 
card system demonstrates the need and advan¬ 
tage of cheap postage. A reduction of postage 
would benefit every person in the oountry, 
reaching even to tbe humblest and poorest, 
and we believe it would make the postal de¬ 
partment inure nearly self-sustaining thau It Is 
at present. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Rural Work on Election Day.—Agents and 
readers of tbe Rural who wish to say a good 
word and do a good deed for it will find an ex¬ 
cellent opportunity on election day Id all those 
States which, bold elections the first Tuesday In 
November. Borne friends in former years have 
sent us clubs of ten to fifty or slxfy taken on 
that day. Our offer to trial subscribers, three 
months for 50 cents, is open, and It Is not too 
late to OBiivass for them, whllesome will doubt¬ 
less subscribe for the 53 numbers of the Rural 
duriug tbe Centennial year. If you wish to do 
something for tho Rural election day, send at i 
once for specimen copies to use in obtaining i 
subsortbere. To show tbe Rural Is the best - 
way of advertising It and the one most likely to 
secure subscriptions. 
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The ICpizootic Disease.—Eplzooty seems to 1 
be among equities what bay fever is among hu- 1 
mans. Since the genoral prevalence of horse ] 
distemper in 1872, tbe country has never been t 
entirely free from it. The wet, cold weather i 
this fall Is probably one reason for Its greater 1 
prevalence now. and the fact that it is unusually < 
worse at the beginning of fall and winter, indl- t 
cates sudden cold as one cause. It is probably 
true that some hoises had their constitutions 
Injured by the severe attack three years ago, 
while many more have suffered from use of 
drugs nud medicines. Tbe simple method of 
treatment, entire freedom from severe work 
with only a little exercise dally, and tbe use of 
bran and other easily eaten and laxative food 
Is probably the best for every body except tbe 
borxe doctors. We have known horses to be 
killed outright by drugs administered by Ignor¬ 
ant furriers under pretext of curing some dis¬ 
ease, and at the best the horse is apt to be 
much Injured. The Country Gentleman gives 
tbe following successful method of treatment.: 
When the eplzooty prevailed so extensively 
three years ago. we bad full experience in the 
benefit of palliative treatment, and none In any 
other. As soon as the first horse In tbe neigh¬ 
borhood waa attacked, our working team, 
wbfch was busy fall-plowing, was fed a peck 
each of scalded bran, with a double handful of 
scalded meal with It, every dnv at night, a3 hot 
as they would eat It. Although they were at¬ 
tacked, the disease was ho mild tfcat. except 
one (lav, they never ceased work, and recovered 
in a few days, no other treatment being sivon. 
The bran mashes were kept up until all cough¬ 
ing had ceased. 
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Fruit at the New Jersey Stale Fair.— In a pri¬ 
vate note Mr. Secretary Quinn (alluded to as 
the "Knight of \Vaverly”ln a recent Rural) 
gives us facta and figures about the fine display 
of Fruit at the lato exhibition of tbe New Jer¬ 
sey State Agricultural Society. He says:—" We 
bad, without a doubt, far the beat display of 
Fruits and Vegetables ever brought together 
In our State. You can, to some extent, realize 
the dimensions of our fruit tables and tbe com¬ 
petition. when I inform you that there were 
74 plateB of Seckels from the same number of 
exhibitors, entered for a single premium; 69 
plates of Bartletts, aDd 64 of Duchesse, with 
other leading kind* In proportion, AH of the 
fruit was of large size and superior In quality. 
The tables were overloaded with fruit from the 
gardens and orchards of men who grow it for 
pleasure and profit. Last year the whole num¬ 
ber of entries In the Horticultural Department 
amounted to about 700; this year, in the same 
department, the entries came within a fraction 
of 1,800, which Is a fair Index of tbe growing 
interest In horticulture from year to year." 
Frozen 1‘cnclics for the Kngllnh Market. —We 
are told on high authority that 
“ A little nonsanse now and thou 
la relished Pjr Hie wisest men.” 
Some lot our agricultural and horticultural 
exchanges fail in properly labeling their non¬ 
sense. with tbe result of possibly entailing se¬ 
rious losses on tbetr readers who may take it 
for sense. Here, for example, la so old and 
trustworthy a Journal as the Weekly Tribune, 
which copies approvingly a recommendation to 
preserve peaches and even watermelons, by 
freezing. Of course, fruit will not decay; but. 
the Irish Farmer’s Gazette, from which the 
Tribune quotes, adds that "if allowed to stand 
far a day or two It will be found suit and melt¬ 
ing enough." Little doubt of that, good friends; 
but won’t somebody inform the Tribune what 
would be tbe quality of fruit which bad frozen 
solid, and afterwards become " soft and melt¬ 
ing?” Somebody has, probably, been perpe¬ 
trating a "sell” on our contemporaries, who 
did not discover tbe J oke. 
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W estern New York Farmer# believe In using 
potatoes as food for stock when the price Is not 
high enough to warrant selling. In years of 
good prices the small potatoes are largely used 
as feed for stock, frequently boiled and fed to 
hogs, and In some cases sliced raw as succulent 
feed for milch cows and ewes in spring. It Is a 
a fact however that small potatoes which start 
from a second growth of the roots and fall to 
mature are less nutritious than large, well 
ripened tubeis. Any unripe potato contains 
lessstaren than when fully mature. For the 
same reason they are less valuable for seed, If 
small potatoes are well ripened, as many of 
them are, they will doubtless prove as nutri¬ 
tious as any, and that they are valuable feed Is 
tbe testimony of the beet farmers. Mr. Dewey 
of the Western N. Y. Farmers’Club, estimates 
their value when cooked for hogs at 25c. per 
bushel, whenever corn is worth one dollar. 
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Continued Storm# in Europe. — The serious 
floods whloh prevailed In some parts of tbls 
oountry, a few weeks ago, continue In Europe, 
and probably other parts of Northern Europe. 
Recent dispatches from Englaod report tem¬ 
pestuous weather, and much damage done by 
rains and storms. Information of disasters hy 
wbioh twenty-five lives were lost has already 
been received. The greater loss, however, will 
probably be In a poor seeding. England Is Dear 
the northern limit of successful wheat growing, 
though It Is always near this northern limit 
that the best orops are produced. Any unusu¬ 
al Increase of oold and wet weather Is always 
regarded re a national calamity, and tble Is es¬ 
pecially true of the two crltloal periods of 
wheat growing, tbe seeding and harvesting. 
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The Wheat Market. — The Northwestern 
wheat crop has been generally marketed early 
this year, and with some wheat from the South 
has kept the foreign and New York market 
pretty well supplied. We notice, however, that 
there has beeu a decided firmness in foreign 
markets, caused In pait by poor seeding time In 
England. More than one-half the surplus wheat 
of the oountry, which tbls year is unusually 
small, has been marketed three months after 
harvest and we think at a considerably lower 
price than roust prevail before the next harvest 
is gathered. Tt lx just as evident as It was two 
months ago that England must buy largely of 
our grain products; but it is not clear that this 
country can spare a great deal more without a 
material advance In prices. 
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Mr. Charles D. Drngdon, for many years the 
leading associate editor of Moore'b Rural, 
but forced from that Influential position last 
Bpring by broken health, consequent on long- 
continued overwork, sends to Col. Moore from 
bis country home a recent letter, the tone of 
which indicates that he Is In that merry mood 
which means Improved digestion and absence 
of pain. This fact will please his host of 
friends, who hope to se,' him at no distant day 
again engaged in tbe line of work In which he 
has made himself so favorably known.—2V. Y. 
Tribune. 
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American Devon Herd Book,—Mr. HORACE 
M. SESSIONS, Its Editor, announces that tbe 
fourth volume of American Devon Herd Book 
will be published this year, "or as soon as a 
KiifllcienI, number of pedigrees are received to 
warrant it." Tedlgreea will bo received until 
Dec. 1st, 1875. Mr. Sessions’ address is South 
Wilbraharo, Mass. 
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Several Wheat Field* near Newborn, N. C., 
remain unreaped because of rattlesnakes. Turn 
hogs in and they will cat both wheat and snakes. 
A great many harvesters Insist on keeping 
wblsky close at hand during harvest time "on 
account of snakes." Usually, however. It re¬ 
sults In greater trouble from snakes than before. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
Sheep are selling in Fresno Co., Cal., for 75 
cents each. 
The eplzooty extends to the principal cities 
of the Pacific slope. 
A Grange store with $60,000 capital has been 
opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
A Cheese Maker is wanted at Maukato, 
Minn., as will be seen by an advertisement. 
The Wisconsin Indians prophesy a mild win¬ 
ter. because the bears are not seeking their 
winter sleeping places. 
The English people eat. 4!4 pounds of cheese 
per head to 114 pounds per head oonsumed by 
tbe people of the Halted States. 
The Cuban embargo on American potatoes 
has naen taken off, and potatoes can now be 
sent to that Island as In previous years. 
Twenty cigars per bead are annually manu¬ 
factured for every man, woman and child In 
the United Slates. Forty years ago two was 
tbe average. 
Six hundred million dollars are annually 
spent for alcoholic drinks in Great Britain. Of 
this sum more than one-half is spent by the 
laboring classes. 
The broom corn crop In the Connecticut 
valley Is said to bo an excellent one this season, 
and at present prices It is quite aa profitable to 
raise aa tobacco. 
Onions sown for seta last September should 
be gathered now, or at any time before deep 
freezing. L’t them dry two or three d tys be¬ 
fore storing for the winter. 
Eighty five cows and calve* have died 
recently at Morristown, N. J., from disease 
caused by eating tbe half-decayed aftermath 
on the overflowed meadows. 
The grain trade of No.v York, this year, 
shows a decline of 18.7T2.5I9 hushols, as com¬ 
pared with last year. Baltimore and Philadel¬ 
phia have gained over last year. 
The Michigan Farmer reports athree-year- 
old steer while) weighed 2,300 pounds when 
turned out to grass last spring. lie belongs to 
Mr. Beach of Livingston Co., Mich. 
Mr. Geo. W. BUNGAY of this city, an able 
writer and speaker, is again in the lecture field 
and will respond to invitations to address Agri¬ 
cultural and Literary Societies. 
A new hog disease has broken out In Mis¬ 
souri. There Is no sign of illness till the hog's 
head begins to swell and the animal shows 
signs of itching and dies within a few hours. 
No remedy has thus far been discovered. 
Georgia istalkingnf establishing the culture 
of tea. The soil and climate are favorable, but 
tne difficulty Is that labor costs too much. In 
China help ousts ten cents a dav. Wo cannot 
compete with that even by help of the tariff. 
Take a Rural In your pocket when you go 
to Election, and after discharging a freeman’s 
duty, “ go for" the best men of both parties as 
subscribers—a matter In which, " repeating ” Is 
creditable rather than criminal. How many 
will kindly act upon this hint ? 
The Butte (Cal.) Mercury tells of a flock of 
sheep being brought down from the mountains 
and turned Into a wheat, field. Over one hun¬ 
dred head died in one night from eating wheat 
and drinking water. The wheat swelled to 
6uch an extent that the f-.tomaoh was complete¬ 
ly torn apart. 
A Jury which had been detained several days 
bearing a trUl of a c-asa In which a blind cow 
and a drv one were Involved, recommended 
that the dry cow be awarded to the lawyers and 
that they take turns In milking her until they 
had obtained their pay. It Is not often that tbe 
proverbially stupid juryman shows so much dis¬ 
crimination, aa well as wit, as in this decision. 
The lasr. United States Census shows that of 
tbe whole numher ol persons—12495.923—en¬ 
gaged In all occupations, 5,623,471. or nearly one- 
br If, were employed In agriculture; and from 
thi it 1 r safe to assume that about one-half of 
all the people of the United States, of all ages 
and both sexes, are supported by the tillage of 
the soli, 
BUSINESS NOTICEST 
With all the competition In soap. Dobbins’ Elec¬ 
tric Soaounade by Cragtn tt Co., Philadelphia. Pa.,) 
la first In popularity, because It is pure, uniform 
and honest. Have your grocer get It and then try 
it at once. 
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