The Rural New- Yorker employs special ar¬ 
tists and jirescnts portraits fmm life of farm 
animals , rural architecture, farm hcljJS, new 
fruits of all kinds, new grains and garden 
plants. She hundred engravings, or there¬ 
abouts, a it published annually. 
Cornell University 
AT ITHACA, H, Y. 
Jfcirm topics 
THE EXPERIMENT FARM OF THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Was founded partly on Land-Script donated by Con¬ 
gress, and ts bound to teach, besides other 
things, all the branches relating to 
HENRV STEWART, M. D, 
Journalism is advancing with rapid strides. 
,\ first-class newspaper no longer waits for 
news to come to it; it goes abroad every¬ 
where, even into the highways and by¬ 
ways, as well as into the great haunts of men, 
and gathers news of all sorts wherewitii to 
supply" the public craving. Secular and tech¬ 
nical journalism are alike in this ]tositiveneed. 
But among tho-class of newspapers known as 
agricultural journals a new departure, which 
is creditable as a mark of enterprise and hon¬ 
est endeavor to secure the most exact and 
freshest information, has been made by the 
Rural New Yorker, which is the first and 
as vet the only agricultural journal that lias a 
Icon as a part and parcel of its editorial office 
and as a laboratory or work-shop in which the 
edbnr can test and experiment on and prove 
certain important questions which arise, and 
which require actual demonstration in the field 
and garden for their accurate solution. The 
experimental farm is, in fact, as necessary now 
to an agricultural journal as the telephone and 
the telegraph are to the ordinary newspaper. 
The Rural Farm is, in fact, the only'experi¬ 
mental farm in complete and successful opera¬ 
tion in the State of New York. Its purposes 
and mode of management may perhaps best 
be learned from an account of a recent visit 
to it, 
It is located on Long Island, within sight of, 
and, in fact, bordering upon, the Atlantic 
Ocean. It is a quite level tract of sandy and 
gravelly soil, neither rich nor poor, but in such 
moderate condition of fertility as to show in 
a very marked manner the action of manures 
and special fertilizers. The farm is de voted whol¬ 
ly to the experimental growth of plants, veg¬ 
etables and common farm and garden crops. 
[It may be well to remark that fruits of all 
kinds, including grapes, strawberries, raspber¬ 
ries, currants, blackberries, and all ornamental 
t roes and shrubs hardy enough to endure the 
climate, are tested at the “Rural Grounds.’ - 
situated in Bergen County, New Jersey, IS 
miles from New r York. For such purposes the 
Rural Farm is not well adapted.— Eds.]. New 
varieties of seeds are sought and vested: promis¬ 
ing varieties are crossed in the hope of produc¬ 
ing some improved sorts, and new methods of 
cultivating and fertilizing are tried. All sorts 
of questions which may arise in the actual 
practical working of a farm are here encoun¬ 
tered and solved so far as the opportunities of 
time and place and soil will permit. Upon 
starting on a tour over the farm one might see 
a crop of millet sown to test its value as a 
feeding crop or as a green manuring crop, anil 
also its availability" for this purpose upon soil 
in ordinary condition. Then follow strips of 
different kinds of sorghum; the “Wild Com 
of America,” the Soja Bean; a row of enor¬ 
mous peas [Telephone.— Eds.]; rows of many 
kinds of sweet corn to test their earliness and 
comparative value. Potatoes, cabbages and 
other garden vegetables were next met with. 
Large plots of field com, each under some spe¬ 
cial condition, which will doubtless soon be 
described and the results relat ed in the columns 
or' the Rural, were then examined. Plots of 
many ilifferent kinds of wheat, of oats, of 
wheats crossed with other varieties to produce 
newv kinds, followed, AIL this is very easily" 
related, but the time and attention required to 
give even a cursory notice to all these things 
are by no means trifling. 
But what days and w eeks of labor and thought 
were involved in the actual work done—in the 
scores of plots, small and large, all staked and 
numbered to correspond with records made in 
a book so that every result could be set down 
without mistake and verified. This work nec¬ 
essarily falls upon the editor, who undertakes 
to control it; it is his actual hand-work as well 
as head-work which is necessary for the fulfill¬ 
ment of all the purposes for which the 
work is done ; for experimental work cannot 
be delegated to a hired man or even to an as¬ 
sistant, It is as much the editorial work of the 
editor as the writing out of the results when 
they have been ascertained, or the first concep¬ 
tion of the w ork that is to be done. 
It is not. difficult to perceive the great prac¬ 
tical usefulness of such a work; of the accu¬ 
mulated years of waiting for success or for 
failure in work which it may save to numbers 
of individuals w ho might feel desirous to make 
the same sorts of experiments und to test and 
pr ove the same sorts of quest ions. It makes 
the journal, which is intended for “the 
Fann, and Garden, for the Rural and Suburb¬ 
an Home,” a real, practical thing; pre¬ 
cisely" what it is intended; in fact, a me 
dium for conveying fresh, precise, tine and 
accurate new's of events in the farm, garden 
and orchard as soon as they occur and as they 
may" happen. The readers of the Rural New- 
Yorker are certainly" to be congratulated 
upon having all the benefits which may accrue 
from such a farm and such a work in the hands 
of an intelligent, earnest and most persevering 
experimenter anil careful worker. 
International UxlilSittlon, 
Melbourne, Australia. The competition 
in Sewing Machines proved very keen, and 
great interest w as evinced both by represen¬ 
tatives of the makei's and the public in the re¬ 
sult of the trials. 
The machines w T ere removed from the stand 
and wi re submitted privately to the Jury, 
and their various qualifications explained by" 
skilled operators. The Jury" then retained 
possession for same time, and at their leisure 
examined the workmanship and material, 
testing the latter for hardness by' use of a file. 
Among Domestic Machines the highest place 
was awarded to a machine comparatively new 
in the Melbourne market, though by no means 
untried elsewhere, and known as the Davis 
Vertical Feed Sewing Machine. 
Ill this machine the feed apparatus is entire¬ 
ly" removed from the usual position beneath 
the table of the machine, and is attached t° 
the head. 
It consists mainly of a vertical bar placed 
close to the prosser foot and which receives 
suitable vertical and horizontal motion from 
mechanism contained in the head of the ma¬ 
chine. 
We find the other points entirely novel. 
First. The pressor foot, instead of being 
continuously urged downward upon the w ork, 
is lifted slightlv at. the instant that the for¬ 
ward motion takes place. 
Second. The feeding is accomplished while 
the needle Is in its lowest position, and the 
needle partakes of the forw ard motion of the 
feed bar, pinning the tw o plies together and 
causing both to advance equally. 
The machine is also provided with a very 
complete series of adjustments for counteract¬ 
ing the effect of wear, and an improved auto¬ 
matic bobbin winder, and in ail its details is 
carefully and judiciously" worked out. 
Owing apparently to its peculiar feed mot ion 
the Davis machine possesses an astonishing 
power of passing over seams and other ii re hi¬ 
larities. and accomplishes with the greatest 
ease a remarkable v ide range of work. 
It is also provided with a very ingenious 
and novel set of attachments adapted to work 
in unison with the new feed motion and en¬ 
abling vejy complicated operations to bo per¬ 
formed with facility, and in many cases 
dispensing altogether with the necessity of 
guiding the work by hand. 
It w as at first supposed by- the jury that 
this excellent performance was in some meas¬ 
ure due to the special skill of the operator. 
Tliis view was, however, entirely negatived by 
the faet. that a change of operators in no way 
impaired the result. 
The Davis machine is made for either foot 
or hand power, and performed equally well in 
each case. 
To it the Jury awards the first order ol’ 
merit as being prominent for simplicity, con¬ 
venience, efficiency and rapidity" both as a 
treadle and hand machine. W. C. Kernot, 
Chairman Jury" 37.—,4dr. 
In the full course in AGRICULTURE, there la no 
charge for tuition. The students in that course 
are bound to pursue certain studies, viz: 
Mathematics, English Composition, Gor¬ 
man, Free-Hand Drawing, Chemistry, 
Geology, Botany, Horticulture, 
Entomology, Veterinary 
Surgery, and Physics, 
besides working in the fields and attending 
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Inflammation of all kinds. Diphtheria, Wounds, 
Bruises, Burris, Sprains, Rheumatism, Bora Throat, 
Bweljing of the <5lands. Inflammation of the Eyes, 
Broken Breast. Frost Bites, Chilblains, Liles, Bee 
Stings and all sores. 
They may also study anything else lor which they 
have time. There are 
TWELVE COURSES OF STUDY 
GOOD FOB, BEAST 
Fresh Wounds, Gall., Sprains, Bruises, Cracked 
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Sweeney, Pounder, Lameness, Sand Cracks, Scratches 
or Grease, Mango, Bone Distempers, etc., etc. 
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and all Sores and Swellings >u Oowa & Oxen. 
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TRY AND PHYSICS, CIVIL ENGINEERING, LITERA¬ 
TURE, MATHEMATICS, MECHANIC ARTS, 
NATURAL HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY 
SCIENCE, SCIENCE AND LETTERS. 
For morn extended remarks and for a large number 
of -testimonials voluntarily sent to tin by the persons 
Whose slgnaturra are attached, wo refer you to our 
Circular pamphlet, nrpimd each bott'o. 
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Students not seeking degrees may select their 
own studies, and special students may devote them¬ 
selves to one or more. 
Students may enter at any time. For full inform¬ 
ation apply to the Treasurer. 
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