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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
BEG. 41 
“PROGRESS AMD IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
LURAL, LITERARY AMI FAMILY 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Founder and Coiuluotin/' Editor, 
WM. J. FOWLER, ANDREW B. FULLER 
A enooiate Editor*. 
HKKRY S. RANDALL LL, D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Eoitob or th* Dirttrat.T or Shikp Hniimor. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Karros or th■ DmwuKNT or Daisy Hosrakdbt. 
(>, A. C. BAH NETT, Publisher. 
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SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 1875. 
TO ALL 0UE EEADF.ES. 
AGENTS, Subscribers, aud Cons’f nt and occa¬ 
sional readers—Indeed everybody wlio mayyead 
this paragraph —are invited to ahl in enhancing 
the circulation and benefits of tbeltunALNEW- 
Yorkkh so far as consistent with their views, 
coDvenlcnoe and engagements. Every one who 
has a will can find a way to do t.lbs, and we trust 
that thousands now addressed will kindly man¬ 
ifest their approval of this Journal and its Ob¬ 
jects. The RURAL’S Winter Campaign is open¬ 
ing gloriously, and bids fair to l»e continued 
successfully by Agent-Friends ail over the 
country; but it, is not too late (In tact just; the 
time) to st art new clubs and make additions to 
oldones-lor this Js the best month in the year 
to obtain subscribers. Wo claim to furnish the 
Beat Paper of it a Claw, and certainly give the 
Best Premiums for Clubs, and therefore confi¬ 
dently ask the Ir.lluenco and encouragement of 
every friendly reader in behalf of the Rural, 
Literary and Family Weekly of A merica. 
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WESTERN NEW YORK NOTES. 
severe weather and Insect enemies. Wo think 
also that the root of wheat is better grown than 
its top, and that, it is really bttter than it looks 
t o be. 
Potato shipping from Rochester ceased sev¬ 
eral days ago on account of danger from frosts. 
The price declined to 15c. per bushel for Peer¬ 
less and Sfr/jSSis. for other kinds. The crop of 
Monroe County Is not larger than last year 
prohabJy not 90 large. Fewer potatoes have 
been bought, but farmer* have stored a good 
many and will sell them during winter and 
spring. With polatois rotting considerably no 
one can afford to hold them long; but probably 
the producer cm as well afford to do so as any¬ 
body. Some of the new varieties which prom¬ 
ised favorably last year are turning out. badly 
this unfavorable season. The Late Rose is 
coarse and watery and I* rotting badly ; it looks 
enough like Early Rose to Injure the sale of 
that variety. RrowncIPs Beauty I* also rotting 
In some localities, but Is of rattier better quality 
than the Late Rose. On the other hand the 
Peerless, which is usually regarded as a rather 
coarse potato, la this year excellent and more 
free from rot Ilian any other variety. One or 
two more such reasons ought to make this a 
favorite potato with consumers, as It already is 
with farmers on account of Its size and produc¬ 
tiveness. By the way, the past cool, moist sea¬ 
son is very like the usual English summer. 
Wouldn't the Peerless be a good potato for En¬ 
gland 7 or, is English soil too rich and strong 
for this variety ? 
Writ ing of cool summers remind* us of grupes, 
which, like corn, Is a crop that has suffered 
from a lack of heat. Late varieties, like the 
Catawba. have not ripened perfect ly, even In fa¬ 
vored localities of the Hamuiondsport and Vine 
Valley vineyard*. Still, In this poorest of all 
grape seasons—so cold that much of the corn 
has not fully ripened—there are good crops of 
early grapes, Hartford Prolific, Delawares, Sa¬ 
lem*, &o. it Is a good test of earliness to find a 
variety which thoroughly ripened Its grapes in 
1875. 
There is something peculiar about, the ripen¬ 
ing of corn this year. Pieces planted one or 
two day* earlier than the aver ago have ripened 
most of the crops, while those later planted | 
wi re cut off. As several farmers remarked, 
“One day's difference iu planting has mnde 
fully a week's difference in ripening." Of course 
much depend* on other circumstances. The 
earliest plauted piece of corn Is apt to be on 
warm, dry and rich soil, while late planted will 
be on cold, wet and poor. Rut the farmer who 
planted one-half a field on Saturday, and on 
Monday finished pla iting, knew no inch differ¬ 
ence, yet the first planted was tally ripened, 
while the last was fully ten days later. Our 
theory is, that corn needs a few days of boat at 
the critical period of ripening, and falllutfibi*, 
will not mature with a much longer period of 
moderately warm weather. Other crops will 
iuhture with warmth, hut corn needs heat at 
its coring and maturing periods. We have no¬ 
ticed the same peculiarity In grapes, especially 
the Iona, which, in a hot season, Is a really 
eaily variety. 
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secure this, and the answer to the only possible 
objection that can be raised against it, In the 
words which we quote again with emphasis: 
“There Is no tax our people will more cheer¬ 
fully bear, provided they can feel certain the 
money can be judiciously expended, than that 
made necessary hy providing cheap and first- 
class postal facilities throughout the entire 
extent of our magnificent domain.” 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The National Grange, I* of H. —On a preced¬ 
ing page we give, from a special correspondent, 
cd Interesting synopsis of the first week’s pro¬ 
ceedings of tho Annual Meeting of the Nation¬ 
al Orange. The sessions continued until the 
evening of Dec. 2. Wo subjoin a synopsis of 
what transpired at the closing session, as re¬ 
ceived by telegraph: 
A resolution was adopted counseling a spirit 
of fraternity and forbearance among all the 
members, and the suppression of all race, local 
and sectional prejudices and selfish ambition. 
Mr. Aiken of H. C. offered a resolution “That 
the currency question I* rapidly becoming a 
political question, and therefore should not be 
entertained by this Grange." A resolution was 
adopted requiring the Secretary to have primed 
25,000 copies of tho proceedings of this session 
and to send of the same to each State Grange 
as many copies as there were subordinate 
Granges In July, 1875, under the direction of the 
Executive Committee, and not less than ten 
copies to any State Grange Master. Mi. Moore 
of the Finance Committee submitted a resolu¬ 
tion, instructing the fiscal agent of the Order In 
New York to transfer certain stocks amounting 
to $15,000, to the Executive Committee of the 
National Grange, to enable that Committee to 
pay the various donations to the State Granges 
granted at this session. Adopted. Mr, Max¬ 
well offered a resolution in regard to co-opera¬ 
tion, Instructing the Worthy Master to continue 
a correspondence with English co-operative 
societies and extending friendly greeting to all 
such societies. Adopted. Adjourned sine. (lie. 
Dnlry Exhibition in Germnny.— The German 
Dairymen's Association, organized in 1874, will 
hold its first annual exhibition in Fraukfort-on- 
the-Main, Every kind of dairy product will be 
on exhibition, as also the implements and ap¬ 
pliances used In dairying. The exhibition is to 
be held in fcbe Halls of the Frankfort Agricul¬ 
tural Association. German dairymen have 
been somewhat behind tho tiuiea, aud even the 
celebrated Holstclns were surpassed, in some 
Instances, by the product of Swedish and Dan¬ 
ish dairies. The German friend who furnishes 
the above facts, has also promised a report of 
the proceedings of the Association. 
“The Rural'* Dairy Department \* alone 
worth many times tho price of the paper to 
any ono specially engaged in dairying, or in 
fact to any farmer who makes butter and 
cheese, and It's a conundrum to mo why all 
such don't take it." So writes "A Twenty- 
Vears' Reader of the Rural," and we will not 
attempt to gainsay his assertion—for we do 
think our Dairy Department, by Prof. Willard, 
the aide author and lecturer (as well as best 
authority) on dairy husbandry, Is of special In¬ 
terest and value to both the classes named 
by our correspondent. 
RURAL BREVITIE8. 
CHEAP POSTAGE DESIRABLE. 
Crops in Western New York are mostly cared 
for, excepting corn, which has been delayed by 
the large quantity of potatoes grown In some 
localities. Going southward from Rochester 
via Genesee Valley aud Erie Railways, we found 
work generally further advanced as wo left, tho 
section around Rochester, where potatoes are 
a main crop. Kvary where we hoard complaints 
that corn was poorly ripened, aud though the 
growth of stalks was fair the crop of grain is 
materially shortened by cool weather in July, 
A ugust and September. The season ns a whole 
has been unusually cool, and where corn has 
ripened it has been done on the smallest amount 
of heat t hat corn ever matures on. Most of 
the soft corn will be fed to stock, but it. is not 
strong food. Wo suspect that, the stalks also 
are not so nutritive as when the crop has thor¬ 
oughly matured. Possibly in a warm season 
the stalks are better before tho ripening grain 
has taken the nutriment from them ; hut this 
year has been ho cool that the corn plant has 
taken less t han usual from the soil. Will some 
of our readers report to the Rural whether 
their experience in feeding corn stalks this sea¬ 
son justifies tho above conclusions? 
Since wheat sowing the weather has been 
cool and wheat has made a poor growth. It 
does not cover tho ground nearly so well even 
as last year, as that season, though dry, was 
warm. It Is however probable that wheat will 
stand the winter better—iu fact, we hope never 
again to have so bad a season for wheat as the 
winter and spring of 1875. With good weather 
henoeforth there Is growth enough for a good 
crop, though of course a poor fall growth ex¬ 
poses the plant to many more dangers from 
Two sentences in the Report of Postmaster- 
General Jewell, which somehow got out be¬ 
fore its delivery to Congress, are especially no¬ 
ticeable. We quote: 
It I* desirable on all accounts that, our coun¬ 
try should be settled by intelligent people, and 
with (Ids end Iu view the pioncois should on Joy 
frequent and regular mall communications with 
Mu* more populous sect Ions. Pr.ibably there is 
no lux our people will more cheerfully bear, 
provided they can feel certain the money has 
been judiciously expended, than that made nec¬ 
essary by providing first-class postal facilities 
throughout the entire extant of our magnificent 
domuin. 
And yet the Postmaster-General advises ouly 
the reduction of postage on printed matter, 
leaving the high rates on other tblrd-ola*s mat¬ 
ter which now’ oVeiate only for the benefit of 
Express Companies, unaffected. It is not only 
true that there is no tax the people will mote 
cheerfully bear than that made necessary by 
low rates of postage, but the Postmaster-Gen¬ 
era! forget* to say that, we have to pay higher 
taxes because tho Government charges such 
high rates of postage us to diminish the re¬ 
ceipts. The people are taxed double, once in 
Increased postage and again to make up the 
postal deficiency. 
The postal revenues Increased last year only 
a trifle over one per cent., which Is less than iu 
many years before and less than the inoroaso In 
wealth and population. In other words, with 
In creased postage Wo are becoming less a read¬ 
ing people, and the Interchange of Thought and 
Interests between different sections is growing 
more restricted. This Is a end beginning for 
the Centennial year of American l^dependence, 
when we had hoped to find people of every seo- 
ti»n more lree in their intercourse with each 
other. 
Why does not. the Postmaster-G-eneral tell the 
country frankly that theslow Increase in postal 
receipts Is caused by an actual decrease itt rev¬ 
enue from plants, seeds, and other third-class 
packets which, by the present, suicidal policy, 
have been turned over to the Express Compa¬ 
nies? This Is a fact of sufficient public noto¬ 
riety to entitle It. to a place In the Secretary's 
official Report. Why is it ignored ? 
The great convenience of cheap postage for 
letters, books, papers, and all kinds of light 
paokages, is the popular demand. The Post¬ 
master-General has himself given the key to 
The Centennial. Every week we have new 
luid encouraging developments relative to the 
great Centennial Exhibition. Since our last 
the Centennial Commissioners have decided 
as to the principal actors In the opening exer¬ 
cises. They have selected lion. Wm. M. 
Evartu as orator, Prof. H. W. Long yellow an 
poet, and n grandson of Richard Henry Lee 
of Virginia, as reader of tbo American Decla¬ 
ration of Independence. This announcement 
most give very (funeral satisfaction, for the 
ability and popularity of the orator and poet 
arc such that, their selection will meet univer¬ 
sal approval. Speaking of the Centennial we 
notice that tho German Federal Council has 
passed a resolution adding 100,00(1 mark* to the 
sum already abutted to facilitate and promote 
tlio display ol German product* at tho Phlla- 
d clphia Exhibition. Also that the municipality 
of Paris has contributed |rt,0fi0 toward the sub¬ 
scription to send a dot ntatlon of French work¬ 
men to our Centennial. 
Barrel* made of Paper.—It 1* very probable 
that paper will soon, and largely, supercede 
wood ns a material for barrels. The paper la 
made of straw, is very strong, and tho barrels, 
biting of a uniform cylinder, can be stowed 
a’vay without- loss of space. No hoops are re¬ 
quired, though they may be used where rough 
h iuditng Is expected. In some recent experi¬ 
ments paper barrels have shown remarkable 
strength, and resitted heavy inside pressure 
without bursting. They arc not only mode water 
tl pht, hut impervious to air or moisture, saving 
their contents from being affected by odors iu 
cellars or the holds of vessels. The cylindrical 
form, also, gives great advantages in Handling 
the barrels, rolling in a straight lino, while the 
sttvc barrel, from its shape, always rolls on one 
corner. 
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Live Stock at the Centennial Exhibition.—A 
circular lias been received from the U. S. Cen¬ 
tennial .Commission, giving the arrangements 
for the show of Live Stock at the International 
Exhibition to be field in Philadelphia next 
year. This display will be exclusively In the 
months of Sept, and Octooer, as follows:— 
Horses, mules and asses, Sept. 1st to 16th. 
Horned cattle, Sept. 20th to Oct. 5th. Sheep, 
swine, goats and hogs, Oct 10th to 26th. Poul¬ 
try, Oct. 28ib to Nov. 10th. Living fishes will 
be exhibited iu fresh water andsalt water aqua- 
rlivs. Awards will be made for excellence in 
each department. For further Information ad¬ 
dress A. G. GOSHOKn, Director General, or 
Burnet Lanuretii, Chief of Buereau of Agri¬ 
culture, Philadelphia. 
Deer are rulniog the vineyards in El Dorado 
Co., California. 
Tobacco equal to the best Havana, has been 
raised In Fresno Co., Cal. 
Over 212.000 head of cattle have been shipped 
or driven from Texa*. the present year. 
Double the average of small gTain will be 
sow n In Texas t his year over any past year. 
Many people In Pictou, Nova Root!a, are In a 
starving condition from failure of the fisheries. 
Thb Umatilla (Oregon) Indians have on their 
reserve 8,000 horses, 2,000 head of cattle, and 150 
hogs. 
Rend us the names of your friends, near or 
distant, who do not take the Rural, and we 
will mail them specimens for examination. 
Young People are reminded that we offer 
them handsome premiums for clubs. See back 
numbers for list, or send for documents. Mauy 
of our young friends arc ulready at work. 
M. W. Terrill of Middlefleld, Conn., has 
sold nearly hi- entire herd of Short - Horns. 
Most of them have gone to Iowa. He received 
nearly $10,000 for twenty-three head, Including 
several calve*. 
The peach crop of Delaware sold this year 
for $1,250,000. Of this sum $260,000 was paid to 
the farmer--, the remaining four-fifths going 
Into the pockets of tho transportation com pa¬ 
ntos and tho middlemen. 
Browne's Phonographic Monthly is a 
handsome and well conducted journal devoted 
to the interest* of Phonography and Phonogra- 
phers, ami published bv L. L). Scott- Browne, 
737 Broadway, New York. 
A. A. Hopkins of the Rural Horne, showed 
his pieaaaut poetical phiz in the Rural Sanc¬ 
tum lata week, eti route to the “ land of steady 
habits”—indicating that lie controls himself if 
he could not be State Controller. 
OrKiCKKs of Agricultural Societies and Clubs, 
Granges, &o., can, If they will, materially aid in 
augmenting the circulation of the Rural. 
Scores ot such are already forming clubs ; how 
many others will kindly do likewise? 
Renew early ir you would secure the unin¬ 
terrupted Continuance of the Rural to your 
address; and pray don’t forget to ask friends 
to Juin inn In sending lor the Fifty-Three Num¬ 
bers which vvn shall publish during 1876. 
Ik Prof. Wilkinson’8 advertisement, laat 
week, our printers (the fellow*, who are respon¬ 
sible for all errors, you know,) made the price 
of hi* Treatise on Dairy-Room Construction 
read $1.50 when it should have read flity cents. 
Holiday Presents will be plenty this year 
among our Agent-Friends and other* who form 
clubs for the Rubai.. Our list comprises many 
art,ides appropriate tor presents. Induce a few 
of your friend* to take trie Rural and thus se¬ 
cure a Premium. 
The Rural is a very good present to send to 
a friend, and It plousuiitly reminds the recipient 
of Mie denor lltty-two times in a year next 
year llfty-tl roe times, Any subscriber can send 
It to a relative or Irlend. as a present, at our 
lowest club rate—only $2.15, including postage. 
Remit Early and OrrilN for next year's 
Rural. If Agents will do tails it will enable us 
to get rnaoy thousand names in type for mailing 
machine before the first, number for I87ti j 3 
published, so that those who subscribe early 
will receive the paper promptly and without 
waiting for the slow coaches. 
Why don't you give more Grange news? I 
reud all you print with Interest, and as 1 never 
have visited any Giange but ours, depend upon 
papers for what is going on in the Order,” &o. 
Thus writes a Western P. of H„ to whom, aud 
others of similar mind, we answer that it is our 
purpose to give more attention and space to 
matters of interest to Patrons during the Cen¬ 
tennial Year. Wait and see. 
A large sale of Short-Horns, Draft Horses 
and Cotawiiid Sheep, was field in Toronto, Doc. 
41,h. The total sum realized was $76,000, and 
the three highest prices wero $4 600 for Seven¬ 
teenth Duke of Airdrie, bought by A. McKlin- 
TOCK of .Millersburgh, Ky.; $4,000 for Kirkielgh- 
ton Duchess Eighteenth, bought by H. Coch- 
kank Campion, and $3,700 for Oneida Ruse, 
bought by B. B. Groom of Kentucky. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
The Vermont Mlata Dairymen’s Association 
is to hold its winter meeting at Rutlahd, from 
January 19th to Slat, 1876. Among the speak¬ 
ers announced are the following:— Wm. Bland- 
ing of New York ; L. S. Hardin of Kentucky’; 
T. 8. Gold of Connecticut: E. W. Stewart of 
Buffalo, N. Y.\ Chaw. A. Crumpton of Vermont, 
and X, A. Willard of the Rural New-York¬ 
er. The winter meetings of this Association 
have always been largely att ended, and we have 
no doubt the coming one will prove as inter¬ 
esting and profitable as any that have preeeed- 
svta , vl aCe i t VT t,belBg A cough, cold or Sore Throat, 
easy of access, and having the heat of accoiuo- which might be checked by a simple remedy, like 
dation for the large number of persons which ' Brown's Bronchial Troches” if allowed to progress 
we presume will be present on this occasion, may terminate seriously. 
BRIDE & CO , 
769 Broadway, N, Y.. want agents for the best money¬ 
making article in the world. Send for particulars. 
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