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MOOSE’S RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
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PROGRESS 
IMPROVEMENT, 
THE BEGINNING OF BETTER TIMES. RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
IDEAL, LIMABI AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
B. D. T. MOORE, 
Fournier and. Conducting Ifiditor. 
WM. J. FOWLER, ANDREW S. FULLER 
.A.saociate Kditor*. 
HENRY S. RANDALL LL. D., Cortland VHIige, N. Y., 
fcoiroB or TM» Dwnnint or &»rr H»i siKiitr, 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Palls, It. Y., 
Editob or r»» Dicr^BTum or Dim llciuron. 
<3. A. C. BARNETT, Publisher. 
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INCLUDING POSTAGE, WHICH PUBLISHERS PREPAY. 
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to prepay after Jan. 1, 1875, under the new law,) to 
any part of the United State*, and the American 
postage on nil copies mailed to Canada. On papers 
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Orders and Registered Letters may be mailed at our 
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donor take free copies. Bpeeimen Number# 8buw- 
Bills, Ac., sent free. 
I The prosperity of trade depends on the con- 
\ ditinn of the classes who are engaged In pro¬ 
duction. In the United State*the agricultural 
j clae-. of producers far surpasses in Importance 
| any of the others. If tve can show that the 
condition of the farmers and planters is an 
Improving one It will follow that a correspond¬ 
ing improvement will before long be manifest 
in the general trade of the country. When we 
speak of men in rniiRseeof millions, as we must 
in discussing the affairs of such h nation as the 
United S tates, we necessarily have to disregard 
a multitude of exceptions to the general role. 
Taking the farmers and planters ns a class, wo 
do pity t hat there Is ample statistical proof of 
the fact that they are better off than they have 
been at any lime for tbiee years pint. We 
point, in the first place, to the quantities of 
wheat, corn. coLimi, beef, cheese, hams and 
bacon exported; in the second place to the 
prices obtained for these article-, not In the 
port of New York, but at. the places where 
they were produced, f. rthefanner has had the 
advantage for e ver a year of internal freights, 
low l-eyond precedent; in the third place to 
the lower rate of wages at which fanners and 
planters have tbU year procured their labor; 
and In the fourth place to the fact, which nat¬ 
urally follows from the three already men¬ 
tioned, that ttie Imports of tea, coffee and 
-sugar have been larger in the fiscal year, ended 
with June last, than in any previous year In 
the history of the country, Jn her dealings 
with the Uuitod States Great Britain has proved 
a good customer. While our import# from the 
British Isles have been enormously curtailed, 
our exports to those regions have greatly in¬ 
creased since the close of tha year 1872. In 
either one of the three calendar years (S73, 
1874 and 1875, we have Imuid a market for more 
grain In Great Britain than we ever did before. 
Much of that grain has gone to reduce indebt¬ 
edness, but, nevertheless, the farmers who 
produced it have been paid for It, ai d well 
paid for It, too. 
Our Agents Reporting Knvornblv.—Many of 
our Agent-Friends are already reporting favor¬ 
ably in regard to the Rural for 1876. One 
writes:—“I shall add at leaBt fifty to my club 
of this year.” Others talk about doubling their 
lists, and almost every letter is encouraging. 
During a recent trip over the Erie Railway to 
Rochester we had pleasant Interviews with sev¬ 
eral earnest Burallsts. Erabtus Darrow, our 
Publishing Agent (and a notably popular and 
successful bookseller! was in excellent spirits 
and reported a good prospect for the Rural in 
and about the Flower (Flour?) City the coming 
year. O, W. Sutton of Steuben Co., says he 
will Increase the Circulation of Mooke’h Rural 
in his section in 1876. J. J. GOO parked of Tioga 
Co. announces his intention to push the RURAL 
In that region. J. II. Knapp of Broome Cm, is 
already hard at work, and is confident of filling 
Broomo with Rural# for 1876. IV. A. Hart of 
Allegany Co., one of our most hearty and effec¬ 
tive friends, is now In the field on his Rural 
Campaign with headquarters in the saddle, lie 
believes that his neighbors will stand by him 
till the enemy Is conquered, of which, from bis 
popularity and former success, wo are confi¬ 
dent. On the whole the reports, verbal and 
written, which we have lately received indicate 
that the Old Rural is to have a large Increase 
of circulation and consequent augmentation of 
usefulness during the Centennial Year. 
gent rural population, and is indeed almost 
necessary for those who in agricultural mottoes 
would be always “ abreast of the times." 
.lanes' Scale Works.-During a recent visit 
to our scale-y friend, Gen. Jones, at Bingham¬ 
ton, N. I., we were enabled to disprove the 
statement made bv one of our daily oontem- 
porju ies that all manufacturing interests are 
dead. Though the General was at the time 
sunning himself in South Carolina, we are not 
certain that his ponderous Adjutant, Jackson 
did not surpass liig commandant In the exten- 
Gion of hospitalities. Seeing the foundry in 
lull burnt, and the workmen in the other de¬ 
partments all busy, we were goon satisfied that 
one manufacturing industry at least, Is not 
dead, and that even If flah are scarce next 
winter, scales will be plenty. Long live Jones 
and may he weigh moro with each succeeding 
year! ** 
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SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1875. 
PRACTICAL PAPERS PREFERABLE. 
The paragraph above, from the New York 
Tribune, state® truths which, if properly ap¬ 
preciated, would go far to restore confidence, 
and put the business of the country on a health¬ 
ful basis. It Is not strange that years of busi¬ 
ness depression have begotten distrust whtiili 
Is only slowly dispelled. While few- have been 
making money during the past few years,a ma¬ 
jority have been saving something, by the 
severest economy, from their diminished earn¬ 
ings. It makes little practical difference 
whether the wealth thus accumulated was pro¬ 
duced tlo* ly or rapidly—all the better, perhaps, 
if produced slowly and saved by rigid econo¬ 
my, because more likely to be carefully hus¬ 
banded In future. A sudden outpouring of 
wealth might produce a moro visible stimulus 
to business, but It would also excite specula¬ 
tion rather than productive industry, and thus 
lead to an unnatural pauic and depression in 
the near future. 
An educated and accomplished New-Yorker 
said to us recent’y“ 1 spent all of last evening 
reading your Rural New-Yorker, and have 
lo thank you forth* Instruction arid entertain¬ 
ment derived therefrom. Having never seen 
tho paper before 1 was surprised to find ao much 
practical and useful Information, ao well ar¬ 
ranged. In a single number, and came to the 
conclusion that If other agricultural Journals 
were equally valuable they ought to come to 
the front, especially just after Election when 
everybody ie disgusted with politics. IIstems 
tum« that papers which speak advisedly on 
practical subject# should bo preferred to parti¬ 
san Journals and the trashy, love-aud-inurdor 
weeklies which are so popular In both parlor 
and kitchen. Though not. a farmer or horti¬ 
culturist myself, but a life-long city merchant, 
1 found more real instruction in your paper of 
last week than I ever did before in any number 
of a periodical.” 
The friend from whom we quote the above 
emphatic expression in regard to the RURAL 
Nhw-Yuhkbr, I# by no means the oniy city or 
suburban man of intelligence who has talked 
in a similar maimer concerning its merits and 
usefulness. For, Btrange as it may appear to 
our readers in the country, this journal has a 
host of ardent friends and admirers among tbo 
commercial classes, many of whom have most 
substantially manifested their appreciation of 
its practical value. And right hero we w ish to 
say that, w hile the Rural’s original and para¬ 
mount object was and is to benefit, farmetc — 
the residentsof the rural districts of the various 
States and Territories of the Union, and the 
adjacent British Provinces—thousands of qi.y 
and suburban citizens have found it interest¬ 
ing, entertaining and instructive. In addition 
to becoming subscribers, many of this class 
have sent the paper to relatives and friends in 
the country, und otherwise given it their sup¬ 
port and encouragement. 
But what we roost desire to impress upon our 
readers, as a commentary upon the text fur¬ 
nished by our friend, is that the Rural New- 
Yorker is not only beneficial to practical 
farmers and horticulturists in the real rural 
regions —away from populous towns — but of 
value to every,’city, village, or suburban resi¬ 
dent who cither cultivates a garden or is 
interested iu any branch of soil culture. It Is 1 
also an authority in the matter of domestic 1 
economy. Many city women aver that the 1 
Rural is worth ten times its subscription price 1 
as a guide and instructor in domestic affairs, 
and we have often received cordial acknowl- 1 
edgments of the same. 
That journals like the Rural should be pre¬ 
ferred tq partisan and ephemeral ones by all \ 
discriminating people, in both town and eoun- a 
fry, is too obvious to be urged by argument, 1 
and we trust the Agricultural Press will soon y 
attain and long maintain its proper position— v 
the front rauk In American Journalism. a 
PETITION FOR CHEAP POSTAGE. 
Due of our subscribers wri to* as follows: 
Liability Of Seedsmen.—A decision has Just 
been made in the Court of Common Pleas in 
New York olty, which le of great importance 
to seedsmen, farmers and gardeners. In the 
case of Van tv yck vs. Allen, Judge Robin¬ 
son has fired the rule regulating the damages 
to which a seedsman Is liable for selling In¬ 
ferior seed. Ho held that the plaintiff was en¬ 
titled to as much damages as he might reason¬ 
ably have expected from the crop of the kind 
or vegetable the seed of which be supposed he 
was buying; ir«p, however, the cost of the care 
and trouble he expended after lie discovered 
the eroi was not of the kind he had a right to 
expect. Of course tin*re is great difficulty In 
deciding bow far the failure of a crop results 
from inferior seed. The seedsman is often 
blamed for what is really attributable to the 
carelessness or ignorance of the planter; but it 
is nevertheless good law and sound reason l hat 
the man who sells infeiioraeed for good should 
be llatilc for damages which can he reasonably 
proved to have resulted from his fraud. The 
amount of damage must depend upon various 
clrmiinstances, and be determined by a com¬ 
petent jury. 
Give U* Vo„r Correct Address.-Though we 
aim to be correct In printing hotb the names of 
subscribers and post-offices in our mailing de¬ 
partment, mistakes occasionally occur, albeit 
generally from tbo error of correspondents If 
agents and subscribers will promptly flo Uf y U8 
of any mistakes in either the address of a 
post-office or mime of a subscriber, the same 
will be speedily corrected and ail further 
trouble or annoyance avoided. Please “ make 
a note of it.,” and pray don't blame us for other 
people s blunders. We are a? good and accurate 
as we know how to be. but cannot rpell the 
names of peof.lo and places correctly unless 
properly advised. Examine the printed ad¬ 
dress on your paper and advise us at once if 
even one letter is wrong. 
The Rural Praised.— “ Beware when all the 
people praise thee!” Of this we are frequently 
reminded of late, for various letters anl papers 
speak In the highest terms of the Rural and 
us Contents. P<>r example, a subscriber at 
Fort \Y ayno, lud., who threatens togot up a re¬ 
spectable club for the Rural next year, writes, 
under date (.rOct.20, In this wise:-" A number 
of copies of this week’s paper would bospleudid 
to show my friends. 1 have seldom read more 
excellent or Impartial advice about, going on a 
farm, than you give to tho would-be farmer on 
the second page of this week's Is,mo. The two 
essays about plowing under clover are also ex¬ 
cellent.” 
Mays vifd.1t. Kv., Nov.8rii.1875. 
Editor Rural New-Yorker :-l take up 
my pen to thank you fur your remarks on 
” Cheap Postage” on page 304, Vol. XX.XII, No. 
1!), and to suggest rli not asking too much) that 
you print a short Form of Petition which your 
readers may copy, circulate l’ur signatures and 
forward to their Congressmen. This will be 
putting the “demand of the people" into tangi¬ 
ble form. 
Youre respectfully, G iso.T. Byland. 
In accordance with this and other sugges¬ 
tions, wc ha7o prepared a Form of Petition to 
Congress for a Reduction In the Kate# of Post¬ 
age. This is a subjaot. which vitally Interests 
all classes of citizens, not alone nor chiefly for 
personal gain, hut from the important bearing 
which cheap post age has in promoting popular 
Intelligence, and the ready interchange of 
thought and feelings between all portions of 
the country, on which the success of Republi¬ 
can and Democratic Institutions depands. Our 
readers are requested to obtain as many signa¬ 
tures as possible to the following form of Peti¬ 
tion and forward it to their Congressmen: 
To the Forty-font th Omgrcm; 
The undersigned, citizens of the United 
States, would respectfully but most earnestly 
petition your honorable body to repeal tho 
amendment to the Postal Law passed by the 
last Congress, and restore the cheap rates of 
postage on third class matter which were estab¬ 
lished before said amendment was made. Cheap 
postage for Books, Periodicals and Newspapers 
is pro motive of Popular Intelligence and eun- 
not he safely abandoned. Tne cheap postage 
»n Plants, Seeds and other third class matter, 
is a great, convenience to the Agricultural pro¬ 
ducers of the country, who have not often 
troubled Congress with requests for favors. 
Having once for a short time enjoyed this con¬ 
venience, and believing that it can be re-estab¬ 
lished without detiiment to any public in¬ 
terest, we ask it at your hands. 
Your petitioners would also urge a revision 
of the present high rates of Letter Postage and 
a reduction of the same to one cent per letter 
or two cents, as due regard to the interests of 
the mail service may suggest. Any increased 
deficiency in the Post-Office Department re¬ 
sulting from decrease of Postage rates will be 
cheerfully accepted by the American People, 
as it has previously been much more than 
counterbalanced by benefits justly distributed 
among all classes of citizens. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. And 
your memorialists will ever pray, &c. 
American Mniiiifnciitre# in Europe.—There 
is a new thing under tliesun. A cargo of Amer¬ 
ican jion has been sent to London, and more 
recently American plain cotton goods have boon 
sold in competition with those of Manchester, 
and according to report at prices which yield a 
satisfactory profit. This, as an evidence of 
American skill and inventive genius is satisfac¬ 
tory ; hut wc foor It means that in the business 
prostration which has prevailed during the 
past two yeai^s American labor hne become so 
cheap t hat England no longer enjoys this ad¬ 
vantage in competing with us In the world’s 
markets. If we rau make goods cheaper or 
better and stronger fur the same money than 
English manufacturers, the fact shows that our 
labor market has indeed "touched bottom,” 
and every change henceforth must be an ad¬ 
vance. When our market is depressed below 
that of any other the whole world is reaching 
outward to help us upon our reet. Under such 
conditions foreign capital will flow hither until 
an equilibrium has been established and Amer¬ 
ican prices are at least as high as those of other 
countries. 
Agricultural Lectures and Discussion*._The 
next Country Meeting of the Mast. State Board 
of Agriculture Is to be held at the City Hall in 
Haverhill on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and 2. when 
addresses and lectures will be delivered by 
prominent agriculturists, specialists and scien¬ 
tists, to bo followed by discussions. Among 
t*’0 speakers are the lion. Q tco. B. Loring, who 
is to make the opening address, Hon. Levi 
Stuck hr idol, President Chadhourne of Wil¬ 
liams College, Rov. Wm. H. II. Murray, and 
Chas. L. Flint, Sec’y of the Board. 
The Degree of Matrimony. - The Elmira 
Husbandman chronicles the marriage, in a 
meeting of Chemung Valley Grange, of Mr. Du¬ 
bois Maybe, und Miss Emma Krause. There 
was a large attendance of the Grange members. 
The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. 
Clark of the Lake St. Presbyterian Church. 
Isn’t this having rather too much solemnity 
for a Grange meeting?—it being “a solemn 
tiling to get married.” 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
♦ ^ay crop of the Uni:ed States bus more 
than trebled tn the last 30 years. 
About Credits. -The Rural Nkw-Yorker Is 
more extensively copied than any other journal 
of its class, and in a great majority of cases due 
credit is given. Ws are, however, annoyed by 
seeing some of our exchanges taking turn to 
half a dozen of our articles without any credit 
and sometimes using them as original. This 
does not make much difference In the first place, 
as papers adopting this policy are generally 
little read; but when wc find these articles 
quoted in respected and influential Journals 
and miseredited to the papers which stole them, 
the evil becomes unendurable. We have our¬ 
selves been misled in the same way, oniy to find 
that we had been giving credit to the thief in¬ 
stead of to the original and proper owner. From 
personal experience we know how aggravating 
such miscredlts must seem to our brethren of 
the press. Barring mistakes and unintentional 
oveislghts, we aim to properly credit all arti¬ 
cles not original, and hope this policy will be 
followed as generally as it certainly should be. 
The Indiana State Horticultural Society is 
to hold its next annual meeting ut Terra Haute, 
J-fCC. *1. 
Prof. Carr of California has written a book 
entiled “The Patrons of Husbandry of the Pa¬ 
cific Coast.” It Is highly spoken ol by Cali¬ 
fornia editors. 
The Prairie Parmer has news of the preva¬ 
lence of hop cholera in the vicinity of Des 
Moines, Council Bluffs and Oskaloosa, Iowa, 
and Omaha, Nebraska. 
Dr. E. S. Hall, a noted horiioulturist. Presi¬ 
dent of ttie UJ. State Horticultural Society, and 
formerly state Horticulturist, died at bis resi¬ 
dence in Alton uu tbeStb iust.. aged 59. 
E. M- S., Neenah, il ls., (an old schoolmate 
from whom we are glad to bear) is advised to 
advertise the landed property he mentions in 
the Rural and elmilxr Journals of wide circu¬ 
lation. 
The Patrons of Husbandly of New Jersey and 
1 epnsylvonla have made arrangements with 
coat transportation companies of Pennsylvania 
by which they will save $2 per ton in the pur¬ 
chase of coal. 
Good Words for the Rural.—A correspondent 
writing from Crystal Springs, Mississippi, writes 
as follows:—“I have been taking your valuable 
paper nearly one year, and remarked to my 
wife a few minutes ago that i would not be 
without it for leu dollars a year. In it I find 
all to 1 uterest me and also my family,” 
The Southern Former, one of the best among 
the many excellent Southern rural journals 
with which we exchange, is to be enlarged, 
appear in new dress in quarto form, and be 
published a3 a weekly Instead of monthly after 
the first of next January. It is a gratifying 
proof of the prosperity of Southern farming 
that these improvements are warranted, and 
we hope that its veteran "P.”— Dr. M. W. Phil¬ 
lips. an agricultural writer Tor forty years—and 
other able editors, will be properly sustained in 
their efforts to make the fair southern lands 
“hud and blossom as the rose." A weekly 
journal comes none too often for an Intelil- 
The Annual Meeting of the National Grange, 
1. of H., held at Louisville, Ky., this week, is 
attended by a representative of the Rural 
New-Yorker who will furnish a synopsis of 
the most important proceedings. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
BKI9E & CO, 
709 Broadway, N. want agents for the best money¬ 
making article tn the world. Send for particulars. 
Sudden changes in Ilic vreatber are produc¬ 
tive of Throat Diseases, Cougha and Cold#. There 
is no more effectual relief to be found, than in the 
use of “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches." 
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