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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
tUBAL, LMBAKV A Ml Mill MiWSPAPBR. 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Founder anil ConduoliiiB JCditor- 
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Associate Kditore, 
HENRY S. RANDALL LL, D., Cortland Village, N. Y.. 
Er.iToa of mi Dni’.ctwm or bnxv Ha bahory. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y„, 
EDITOR OF FFI DsriKIMKXT OF D AI u t Horbandrv 
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SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1S75. 
MOORE’S RURAL ADVANCING! 
A Bright Outlook for the Great 
Centennial Year! 
GREETING TO EVERYBODY. 
The Rural, New-Yorker will, wo are as¬ 
sured from present indications end facts, have 
an immense accession of subscribers duringtbe 
ensuing few months. Its Agent-Fr euds in all 
parts of the country seem to be Imbued with 
the right spirit, and determined to work with a 
will lo augment the Rural’s circulation un i 
usefulness. Every mail brings us words of 
cheer and encouragement. Agents report most 
favorably as to their prospects, while many 
subscribers and others daily apply for speci¬ 
mens, etc., with s. view of forming clubs. The 
outlook is therefore very cheering for the Cen¬ 
tennial Year-daring which we shall publish 
Fifty-Three Numbers—and stimulates us lo re¬ 
newed and greater efforts to improve what has 
long been pronounced the best Rural, Lit¬ 
erary and Family Weekly on the Continent. 
We cordially greet the host of friends and 
strangers who are so generously und efficiently 
interesting themselves iu behalf of the Rural's 
circulation—thanking each and all for the kind 
exercise of influence they are manifesting. 
The Best Paper and Best rmniuens is win t wo 
claim to rcrnlsb, and al) familiar with the Ru¬ 
ral and its liberality In rewarding those form¬ 
ing clubs will admit its correctness. Non-sub¬ 
scribers receiving this number—and we seud it 
to several thousand in the hops of securing 
their subscriptions and aid in Its circulation 
among friends are invited to examine it criti¬ 
cally, and If approved give It their support ana 
encouragement. Our Premiums for the Cen¬ 
tennial Campaign are certainly more liberal 
than those of any other paper, and every one 
who forms a club for 187(5 will be substantially 
rewarded—receive “Good Pay for Doing Good.” 
Many circulate the Rural solely to benefit 
their friends and neighbors, without regard for 
Premiums, but we wish to reward all for their 
efforts. 
December is the Best Time lo Work for the 
Best Paper and Best Premiums, and we trust 
every ouo disposed to form a club will begin at 
once -Now—prosecute the canvass vigorously, 
and report carly and o/fett, so that we can get 
as many as possible in type lor mailing ma¬ 
chine before the now year and volume com¬ 
mences, Our invitation is to all— everybody 
Inclined to benefit themselves and promote the 
interests of community hy exhending the circu¬ 
lation of tbe-Leading aud Most Useful Journal 
in its Sphere, 
When Alexander the Great was master of 
the known world he asked DiOOENES what 
favor ho should grant,“Only that you should 
stand out of my sunlight,” said the cynical 
philosopher. Of all the benefits that, the great 
conqueror could bestow, the only one for which 
the philosopher cared was that he should not 
obstruct those greater blessings which came di¬ 
rect from Nature and from God. The position 
of t he American farmer is an equally independ¬ 
ent one. Of late years politicians of both par¬ 
ties arc trying to conciliate him, and anxiously 
inquiring bow they shall further his interests : 
but if one sentence were to tell all that Arnett 
can farmers demand of their Government it 
would be that of Diogenes, “ Stand out of our 
sunlight.” Almost the only demand which the 
farmers of the United Stat es have ever made is 
that the Government shall not discriminate 
against them. Other Interests have oiten 
knocked at the doors of Congress for peculiar 
favors and protection. Farmers have only 
asked that Government shall be administered 
economically, and that the burden of taxation, 
which will ultimately fail on their broau shoul¬ 
ders, shall be made b* light as possible. The 
producers of the country, whether as Tanners 
or engaged In othsr industries, are the final 
bearers of the burden of taxation, and they 
alone have been the only classes o» whom the 
distribution of its proceeds has never fallen. 
We do not misinterpret, the farmers of the 
United States in saying that their chief demand 
of the Government la such a reduction of ex¬ 
penses as will restore It to its original economy 
and simplicity. The great mass of Govern¬ 
mental expenses are for objects which do not 
benefit the people, except in tbe most Indirect 
way, and in iheae there should bs tha strictest 
economy and most unsparing retrenchment. 
In the very few departments of Government 
which ore conducted for the convenience of 
the whole people* greater liberality may be 
safely allowed. Yet, strangely enough, it Is 
just here, (uotably in the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment.) that politicians are making most streu- 
iinu efforts Tor economy. The cheap convey¬ 
ance, not alone of letters arid newspapers, but 
of other light mm! oasily-carritd article*, is a 
convenience which benefits every person in all 
sections of the country, and bus n I ready become 
to millions a necessity. While Government has 
the facilities for doing this such as are not pos¬ 
sible through any other machinery, It 1$ hard to 
give any reason why Itshould uotdolt, especial¬ 
ly as cheap postage will not seriously increase 
the always large postal deficiencies. By tho 
way, why la it that the Post-Office Department, 
alot e is sought to be made self-sustaining? No 
one thinks of making the War. Navy, Interior 
or State Departments pay expenses; but the 
moment we come to the Post-Office, there 1* a* 
hue aud cry from the'interested express, and. 
carrying companies aud i heir agents, that i. nclc 
Sam 8 Post.-Office should pay Its way and that, 
too, by incren-lng rates until it dues. By all 
menus make the PoU-Offictt self-sustaining if 
possible, by economy in ways which will not 
interfere with public l.vt«reet- and convenience. 
There F room enough, doubtless, for reform in 
tins direction. But. when It is proposed to make 
the Department p.»y its way despite all extrav¬ 
agance in administration by levying increased 
rates of postage on the whole people, there will 
oertalLly be a protest which Congressmen aud 
politicians cannot misunderstand ana cannot 
safely neglect to heed. 
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AN UNWISE LAW. 
People who waut money rn loan are ob¬ 
liged, at present, lo pay from 18to. 24 per cent, 
per annum and, lu some cases as high asUve 
per cent, per month- The more money we can 
eni.ioe litre tin*, better, therefore, for us. Hut 
aru Ive nut driving away capital? A Northern 
gentleman who resides here, has been lending 
out bis money at eight per cent, per annum. 
He re 1 used to take any more, as tie considered 
Hun was us high an interest as a pour man could 
afford to pay, am) high enough for bis profit. 
Would that we bail more conscientious men 
like this among us. Now,this gentleman in¬ 
forms un that lie has been taxed 454 per cent, on 
the money, viz.,-2',4 per cent, tor State aud 
County and two per cent, lor city tax, leaving 
him only 354 per cent, lor the interest on fits 
money. He baa resolved tooail in all the funds 
he Li«s invested here and send It to some other 
8 ate where no such law exists. Such a law as 
this, unless repealed or modified, will act dis¬ 
astrously to us.—Florida. Agriculturist. 
Is our contemporary sure that this law is 
unwise? Would not the exemption of North¬ 
ern capital iroui taxation be more unwise, as 
ull injustice is, sooner or later, seen to be lack 
of wisdom? The rates of taxation are enor¬ 
mously high and should incite the people of 
Florida to greater care In electing their State 
and iocal officers. Instead of that tbe strife 
seems to be not to lessen taxation but to escape 
its burdens. The Northern gentleman who lends 
money at le&& than the usual high rate, makes 
a mistake, and inthe end benefits nobody. Be¬ 
ginning by being more generous than anybody 
else, he naturally ends by being less so. He 
will lend money at a low rate of interest,but in 
return he wants to escape his fair share of pub¬ 
lic burdens. The only legitimate way for re¬ 
ducing the outrageous rates of interest for 
money in Florida is to send money there until 
natural competition reduces rates to their true 
k vui. This we bopo will be done. In tbe uieau- 
1-ime, let the burdens of taxation fall alike ou 
all property, that all owners of property may 
bo equally interested in securing honesty and 
economy. The one class of property which can 
never escape taxation, is real estate. Any move¬ 
ment to exempt any other interest only throws 
additional burdens upon that. Only a few years 
ago it was seriously proposed in this State to 
exempt manufacturing establishments from 
taxation, and nothing but tbe indignant pro¬ 
tests from the farmers of New York State pre¬ 
vented tbe outrage from being consummated. 
It was gravely argued that manufactures were 
very important to the State, as if they were or 
could be more important than her greav agri¬ 
cultural interests. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Western New York Fnrmers’ Club.—A pleas¬ 
ant and interesting meeting of this Club was 
held In Rochester, Nov. 20. 51 r. F. P. Root pre¬ 
sided, and there was a fair attendance of farm¬ 
ers from Monroe and adjoining counties. The 
presentation of a fine basket of Beurre De An- 
jutj pears by Messrs. Eli.wanger & Barry, 
originated a discussion ou that fruit, of which 
more hereafter. The subject for discussion— 
the narration of personal experiences in farm¬ 
ing during the past year—was opened by the 
President, after whom various other members 
told what they had learntd by experience and 
observation. Mr. Root expressed his belief 
that there was steady and perceptible progress 
in farming In Western New York, aud regarded 
this as a very hopeful sign for the future. All 
farmers learn something each year and this 
knowledge can be increased by »u Interchange 
of expediences through Farmers’ Clubs and 
Agricultural Journals- As one fact In his own 
observation this year, he said that some barley 
sown on fall-plowed land, w hich was only light¬ 
ly cultivated in the spring, suffered much more 
from drouth than on a spring-plowed field. 
With a moist season this result might have 
been reversed, but he thought spring plowing 
the safer practice. Home discussion arose as to 
the policy of sowing wheat after a bean crop, 
and it. was generally conceded that beans arc 
not a good fallow crop. This may be partly 
owing to the f„ct that beans are sown on light, 
poor land, and usually without manure. Also 
to the fact that when plowed in the fall tbe 
bean crop leaves too light a seed bed for the 
wheat plant. Shallow cultivation after beaus 
rather than plowing, was recommended as a 
promising experiment. 
— It was voted to hold meetings of the Club 
hereafter ou tbe 1st aud 3d Wednesdays of each 
month at half past one P. 51. 
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IIow llie Rural may l>e Helped.—Mr. R. D. 
Hawley, tbe enterprising Seedsman of Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., sends us word that ho sees no rea¬ 
son vyby ne cannot send us a largo list of sub¬ 
scribers if we will furnish him with the neces¬ 
sary documents. Good, Brother IFawi.i.y. Our 
defective vision does not permit us,either, to 
see any reas >n why jou should nut, and tbe 
documents are sent. Seedsmen do get ideas 
occasionally, dou’c they? By thu way. we have 
no cogent objection to sending the documents 
to all seedsmen and others disposed to help 
tbe Rural toward securing a million of sub¬ 
scribers for the Centennial Year- N. B.—As we 
publish an Extra Edition of Thirty Thousand 
Copies this week fur circulation among Agents, 
and those wishing to become such, we hope no 
one will he modest about asking for specimens, 
etc. Their proper distribution will help the 
Rural amazingly. 
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Vick’* Floral Guide for 1876.— That enter¬ 
prising Florist and seedsman. Air. James Vick 
of Rochester, has favored us witn advance 
sheets of the initial number of his Floral Guide 
for 1876. This number seems even more spfcv, 
lively and Interesting than usual. Besides its 
accustomed pages of i jstruction and advice to 
amateur florists, there is a continuation and 
conclusion of Mr. Vick’s trip to tho Pacific 
Coast, finely aud beautifully Illustrated and 
exceedingly interesting. Mr. Vick vigorously 
denouncea Lhe Increase of postage rates made 
by the last Congress, and we shall copy some of 
what he says on this subject in a future Dumber 
of the Bubal. We have only space at present 
to advise our readers to bs sure and ge‘. Vick's 
Guide for 187P, which we are confident most of 
them are iu the habit of doing without any 
prompting. 
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Officers of tire National Grange.—At the an¬ 
nual meeting of the National Grange, P. of H , 
recently held at Louisville, Kv.,(a report of tbe 
proceedings of which we are unable to give for 
want of space.) the following officers were elect¬ 
ed : Worthy 51aster—Judge John T. Jones of 
Arkansas; Overseer—J. J. Goodman of Michi¬ 
gan ; Lecturer—A. B. Bmedley of Iowa; Stew¬ 
ard -A, D. Vaughan ; Avs't Steward— Mobti- 
mer Whitehead of New Jersey; Chaplain—S. 
H. Ellis of Oaio; Treas.—F, M. McDowell of 
New York; Sec.—O. H. Kelley of Washing¬ 
ton; Gatekeeper—O. Dinwiddle of Indiana: 
Ceres—Mrs. John T. Jones. 
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ft emit Early aud Often.—If our Agents and 
others formiug clubs will promptly remit for 
what names they have ou hand, and lor those 
subsequently obtained as often as onceor twice 
a week, it will enable us to make a good ready 
for tue new year, and pn vent a great rush and 
some confusion in January. By complying 
with this request they will greatly facilitate 
our operations and benefit subscribers—for we 
can then get thousands of names iu type for 
mailing machine so as to forward the first 
number of 1876 without delay. Please note and 
act upon the suggestion. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
Fiftt-three numbers of the Rural for 1876. 
The corn crop of tbe United States Is valued 
at a sum equal to tiie national debt. 
This year’s crop of apples in Michigan sur¬ 
passes anything ever produced there before. 
„ ouaht to have, the Ru- 
form cltUMj** IV ° W 3 f 10 li, “eto subscribe and 
In Bell County, Texas, there is a farm of 4,500 
acres, Inc'oaed by one fenoo, and cultivated by 
bachelor owners. 
During the last three months 1,445 horses, 67 
dunk, ys and 5 mules were killed in Paris for 
public consumption. 
In ordering the Rural please write nil names 
m? 0 r ' omlc t0 Si vo Post-Office, 
County and State. 
Two hundred and seventeen varieties of Iowa 
apples are being prepared in wax and piaster 
for the National Centennial. 
COMPUM success Is said to have attended 
tbe attempt In Paris of raising and training 
zebras Tor domestic purposes. 
The E mira farmers' Club propose to arrange 
for a semi-annual cattle sale, to take place on 
the Htate hail* grounds in Elmira. 
The young people are at work for the Rural, 
several having already reported progress. The 
seniors must look to tbelr honors. 
New Richmond, West Virginia, is shipping 
walnut logs directly to London, where better 
prices are obtafuod than lu this country. 
On an Arkansas plantation recently 63 bolls 
were picked from one stalk of cotton. The 
cotton, when picked out, weighed hair a pound. 
A Kentuckian recently sold 30 head ofgrade 
Short-Horn steers. tw« years old—three next 
spring-averaging 1.4*2 pounds, lor $87.13 each. 
Tjijh No. of the Rural will bn sent to many 
who are not now subscriber.-, in the hope that, 
on examination, It will receive their approval 
and support. 
Tint Nebraska Agricultural College has now 
twenty regular st udents. The students in the 
AgrUiuliur.il department have a vacation in 
winter to enable them to loach school. 
A pair of blue titmice and their descendants 
have used the saute nesting place fur more than 
ninety years at Oxbridge. Eng. n j-, , H Lottie in 
an apple tree which was lotc there in 1779. 
Prof. X. A. Willard of the Rural New- 
I uitKER 18 t o lecture flu the regular course) be- 
tore the Belleville (Jeff. Go., N. Y r ..) Literary 
Association, Dec. 2, on •• Specialties m Educa¬ 
tion. 
5lr. J. Y. JJiCKNEt.L, tbe popular poultry fan¬ 
cier ot Westmoreland, N. ¥., lias just Imported 
lias just Imported 
from Aylesbury, Eug„ several Aylesbury and 
Rouen ducks aud two Colored Dorking hens— 
all in tine condition. 
The National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry*, 
loaned last year If.w.’,800 to subordinate Granges 
through. Ut the Booth and West, to aid them iu 
recovering from lied pests. The membership 
now aggregates l.lIXf.OOd. 
Mogul's Rural for 1870-will comprise Firty- 
Three Numbers—itier*) being mat number of 
Saturdays in ilic Cunteuuial Year-arid we shall 
strive to make each issue worth the year's sub¬ 
s' ripLlou price to every careful reader. 
In several parts of Illinois the farmers have 
raised two crops from nearly all their I nds this 
aeaS'jii.the wet weather grass having sprung op 
on the waeat and oak stubble and among trie 
corn in such quantities as to yielu a heavy crop 
Of hay. 
The Secretary of the Ohio S-ate B >«rd of Ag¬ 
riculture has reports from twenty-six Jarmeis 
iu Different Counties, eaod ot wf uniraia-td forty 
or Ulore biuhel? of wheat per acre iu 1874. Trie 
largest yield repo.led wassixty-iwo ousael-,oy 
a farmer in Sandusky Co. 
Gen. James S. Brjsdxn says that the crops iu 
Nebraska mis year nas'e been enormous, and 
that the State Juts been fully restored to toe 
prosperity It enjoyed before the grasshopper 
scourge. All of the gram planted after too de¬ 
struction lu June matured peifectly. 
For the “Catalogue of the Officers aud Stu¬ 
dents Of the Lyndeu Literary Institution, Lyn¬ 
don Center, V .,” we are indebted to 5Ir. 1. W. 
Sanborn, Secretary aud Treasurer. From the 
contents of Its catalogue we jtiuge that the 
Institution Is Ootn superior aud prosperous. 
The Now York Enamel Paint Co., whose ad¬ 
vertisement appears in this paper, la supplying 
paint, mixed anil t ea jy fur use. smt iu ail bized 
packages to auy ad ureas. They claim lor It, lu 
addition to its lasting qu ilitieu and extra gloss, 
that it is very cheap. Upon application they 
will send a sample card free. 
The Convention of the N.Y. State Dairymen’s 
Association at Norwich,N. Y., (Deo.8-0.) prom¬ 
ises to betue largest gathering of dairymen and 
others interested in this branch of Industry 
that, has ever been had Iu the State. Norwich is 
on the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western It. 
H,. connecting witn the N. Y. Central R.R. at 
Utica, 
C. Bristol & Co., whose advertisement ap¬ 
pears in this paper, offer a stationery package 
on an entirely new plaD. How tlieycau giveso 
much lor so Rule .s one of those things *“ no 
fellow can find out,” but, as Mr. Bristol is a 
thorough business njan, be doubtless under¬ 
stands wuat he is about. His motto, “ Excel¬ 
sior,” refers to quality, and not price, we are 
assured. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
BRIBE & CO, 
7G9 Broadway, N. Y., want agents for the best money¬ 
making article in the world. Send for particulars. 
For Coughs, Colds nail Throat Disorders, 
use ” Brown'* Bronchial Troches having proved their 
efficacy by a test of muny years. 
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Chills auil Fever cured, without the use of In¬ 
ternal medicine. For particulars, see S. C. Upham’S 
advertisement on outside page. 
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