THE 
RURAL NEW'YORKER, 
A National Journal for Country and Suburban Homes, 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
Address 
Conducted by 
BLBKRT 8. CARMAN. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
No. 84 Park Row, New York. 
SATURDAY, DEC. 10, 1S81. 
Seven Yearly Subscriptions with 
$14 ENTITLE THE SENDER TO THE RURAL 
New-Yorker for one year free, 
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BONANZA FARMING—AN ANNOUNCE¬ 
MENT. 
The series of articles under the general 
title of Bonanza Farming will be pre¬ 
sented in the following order. First, a 
portrait of Mr. Oliver Dalrymple. It is 
due to this gentleman to say that he 
promised to furnish our Western special 
correspondents his photograph only after 
several peremptory refusals, aud finally 
with great reluctance. The second of the 
series of illustrations will be Breaking; 
the third Back-settiug ; the fourth 
Seeding; the fifth Harrowing; the sixth 
Harvesting, and finally Thrashing. The 
illustrations, with carefully-prepared ar¬ 
ticles, w ill be begun, if possible, Decem¬ 
ber 31st. Our correspondents wrote us: 
“ We received our notes for an exhaus¬ 
tive review of all the bonanza farming 
o 
interests under Mr. Dalrymple’s man¬ 
agement, which, he informs us, ‘is 
the first time ’ he has ‘ ever given them to 
the public’; that ‘all other writings 
touching upon the subject have been 
from desultory information, and most of 
it wide from the truth.’ He remarked, 
upon separating, that ‘ having yielded to 
our solicitations on behalf of the Rui’sal 
New-Yorker, he believed the forthcom¬ 
ing series of articles would prove the 
most interesting and profitable of any¬ 
thing upon the subject yet published. ’ ” 
Mr. Dalrymple is doubtless the largest 
wheat raiser in the world, and as such 
the commercial as well as agricultural 
world must feel much interested in the 
proposed illustrations and articles. Mr. 
Dalrymple’s portrait will be executed in 
the best manner and printed upon heavy 
supercalendered paper as a supplement, 
similar to that w'hich accompanies the 
present number of our journal. 
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We give this week as a full-page sup¬ 
plement an excellent original drawing by 
our artist, Mr. Scranton, of the head of 
the Jersey cow Lady Rushmorc. It is 
worth preserving as an ideal type-head of 
this beautiful and popular breed of ani¬ 
mals. 
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Judging at this time, we shall be en¬ 
abled to send out our present Free Seed 
Distribution in time to meet the needs 
of all, 
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Tiik Rural New'-Yorker controls the 
greater part of the seed of the new 
variety of celery, which has been named 
Goldeu Heart well, ottered in our next 
Free Seed Distribution. The value set ■ 
upon it by the single firm which owns , 
the balance may be judged from the fact 
that it will be offered for $18.00 per 
pound and no less. 1 
All are invited to send for our Fair 
Number of 44 pages of this size. This 
explains our Free Seed Distribution—our 
, two thousand dollars’ worth of premiums 
offered for the best yields therefrom. It 
presents a number ot original illustra¬ 
tions of cattle, swine, new fruits, etc., 
and finally our premium lists for 1883. 
The new Rural posters and specimen 
copies will also be forwarded free to all 
applicants. 
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Many of our friends in renewing their 
subscriptions have occasion to remark 
upon the crop prospects or to send us 
other valuable notes for publication. We 
would thauk them to write such matter 
on a page separate from that which re¬ 
news their subscriptions, with name and 
address on each page. Then one page 
may be banded to the subscription clerks 
and the other to the editors. When both 
communications are written together, one 
or the other has to be neglected or re¬ 
written. 
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The attention of all our readers is 
called to the discussion of the regular 
meeting of the Youths’ Horticultural 
Club of the Rural New-Yorker in this 
number. Parents should lie especially 
interested, and we call on them to encour¬ 
age (he children in the work in which so 
lively an interest is shown. Is there a 
better way in which a love for horticul¬ 
tural pursuits can be created? Horticul¬ 
ture and agriculture arc but different 
forms of the same thing, and the Rural's 
aim is to present teachings in such ail 
agreeable form to our young people as to 
create an early fondness for the pursuit. 
This done, life upon the farm will be 
viewed as something besides drudgery 
and young men will stay upon the farm 
for other reasons than that they cannot 
find employment elsewhere. 
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Our arrangements for giving prompt 
attention to entering names upon our 
subscription lists are now as perfect as 
w T e can make them. Of course, the Rural 
cannot be responsible for the mistakes of 
others, or enter names when they are not 
written legibly or—as “in some cases 
—not at all. Those who subscribe for 
the Inter-Ocean, New York World or 
Detroit Free Press and Household in con¬ 
nection with the Rural New-Yorker, 
may feel assured that their names will 
be forwarded to those journals at once. 
It will be remembered that by arrange¬ 
ment with the publishers, alf who sub¬ 
scribe for such combinations are not. re¬ 
quired to forward us the six cents for the 
seed distribution. The Rural New- 
Yorker and the Inter-Ocean for one 
year, $3.75; the Rural New-Yorker 
and the New York World for one year, 
$3.75; the Rural New-Yorker and the 
Detroit Free Press and Household, $3.00. 
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Country Roads. —Our country roads 
are by no means such as one can point, 
to with pride. There is money enough 
spent over them to make them passable, 
if not excellent, roads. The system is at 
fault. The annual road work has been 
done, and the roads are now left to take 
care of themselves until next Spring. In 
most cases repairs have been made with 
ditch scrapings, sods, or soft earth from 
the road-sides; the loose stones which 
plentifully cover the roads have been 
left ou them, and occasional water bars— 
those horrible arrangements for draining 
the slopes safely—have been made to offer , 
more obstacles for comfortable travel. But 
the Fall and Winter are the very worst , 
seasons for the roads, and they require ; 
more repairs or precautions then, to pre¬ 
vent damage, than at any other season. 
\Y ith our wretched road system no work 
will be done now or during the Winter, , 
nor until next Spring, when a few neigh- «■ 
bors will gather to work out their road ( 
tax, and ten men will manage to do one , 
mans work in the very worst manner j 
possible. And this is why wo have such ( 
miserable roads everywhere, and especi- ; 
ally where the country is at all hilly. Pray, t 
let us give this matter a little of the atten- . 
tion it merits. 
ol grape vines; 38 of raspberries; all of 
i the old aud promising new kinds of cur¬ 
rants and blackberries. As to orna- 
1 mental trees, shrubs and hardy herbaceous 
plants, it would be quite a task to count 
them. Our object is to test everything of 
promise that is hardy enough to endure 
the trying climate of the valley in which 
the Rural Grounds are situated. As to 
the value of the reports thus made from 
experience, those who have read our 
special numbers and the paper in general 
attentively are the best judges. It is 
always a cause of regret to us that in¬ 
formation so presented is not accessible 
to our new subscribers. 
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GREAT DECLINE IN OUR EXPORTS OF 
DAIRY PRODUCTS. 
Last year our average export of cheese 
was something over 2,000,000 pounds a 
week; the average this year is scarcely 
over 1,000,000 pounds a week. Last year 
the exports of butter averaged from 450,- 
000 to 500,000 pounds a week; this year 
the average does not reach 350,000 pounds 
a week. For the week ending November 
34, 1880, our exports of butter averaged 
334,007 pounds; of cheese, 3,004,577 
pounds; of oleomargarine, 455,780 pounds. 
For the week ending November 23, this 
year, our exports of butter were 148,030 
pounds ; of cheese, 1,234,700, and of oleo¬ 
margarine, 208,530. Even of the above 
amounts of butter and cheese exported 
this year, there is no doubt that a large 
proportion consisted of bogus products. 
The enormous decline in our exports of 
dairy products dealers here attribute 
chiefly to three causes: first, the very wot 
weather across the Atlantic has been very 
favorable for pastures there, and conse¬ 
quently the home supply of butter and 
cheese has been unusually large; second, 
the drought here has had the opposite ef- 
feet. upon the production of butter and 
cheese, and the supply having thus been 
cut short, prices have risen too high to 
admit of free exportation; third, adulter¬ 
ation in the manufacture of both our 
cheese and butter with lard or oleomar¬ 
garine has had a very demoralizing effect 
upon the sale of even the genuine products 
in Europe; while the large exportations of 
butterine and oleomargarine under their 
real names have competed with our genu¬ 
ine products in Great Britain and the 
Continent. 
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THE AMERICAN HOG VICTORIOUS. 
How great the evils a fool in high office 
can cause is shown by the results of the 
recent war on the American Hog waged 
by the lately superseded “ America-hat- 
ing ” French Minister of Agriculture and 
Commerce, M. Tirard. In February he 
began the campaign and straightway 
about half a dozen other wiseacres in high 
places in other countries joined him in 
his warfare. In face of their denuncia¬ 
tions and embargoes the exports, of the 
American Hog began seriously to decline 
in April, as may be seen by the follow¬ 
ing table of exports for the three months 
ending June 30, last, as compared with 
those for the corresponding period last 
year. 
April, May, June. 
Bacon and hams ,tbs . 100,702,010 222,61/7,ill 
Pork (middlings; . 19.aw.988 24 672 D51 
h ar 2 • ■-,•.. CS,565,698 125,970,2(18 
n L ' e £’ f T. 8h .1. 26,847,180 25,018,721 
R ef, salt or cured . 7.679,085 12,302 926 
C’ia-'VSL*. 85,187.232 82,258,036 
tile lands, in spite of ignorance, prejudice 
and stupidity, the American Hog shall be 
equally triumphant. 
We naturally look to those who in the 
past have been pleased with this journal 
to speak favorably of it to their acquaint¬ 
ances on fitting occasions. Those who 
are really interested 5u agricultural pro¬ 
gress arc ever ready to advocate the good 
cause and to this class we are indebted 
in a great measure for the influence 
which the Rural New-Yorker now en- 
jovs. We have labored in the past to 
make it a medium of trustworthy inform¬ 
ation to all; we have labored to render it 
worthy of the respect, confidence and 
friendship of all; and the success which 
has attended our efforts will enable us for 
1882 to maintain the Rural as good in all 
respects as it has been during the present 
year and, we trust, in some respects con¬ 
spicuously better. This we may promise 
without any increase of circulation. It is 
yet too early to hazard any estimate as to 
whether our circulation for another year 
will largely increase or not, The 
“ straws ” all point graciously, but such 
early indications are not. always trust¬ 
worthy. It is now or never, however 
friends of the Rural, that the work is to 
be done. We have sown our seed and we 
have now to await the harvest—anx¬ 
iously? Yes, very anxiously, A decided 
falling off in our subscription list would 
sicken the heart and chill us through and 
through! If the efforts which we have 
made through the past to instruct and 
please our readers have been ineffectual, 
then we confess our inability to please 
and instruct them. If the hundreds of 
reassuring, friendly words we have re¬ 
ceived mean nothing, we should pray in 
the future to be delivered from our friends 
—for their praises do but. lead us astray. 
As the success of a general is deter¬ 
mined by the battles he wins, so is the 
merit of an agricultural paper determined 
by the number and intelligence of its 
subscribers, unless indeed a circulation is 
gained by mere advertising, in which 
ease the patronage—always of a fugitive 
class (where there is little real worth to 
hold it) -costs more than it is really worth. 
While, therefore, we shall confidently ex¬ 
pect to hold our present circulation, and 
to be contented if we do, we yet indulge 
the fond hope that occasion will enable 
us to feel very happy over a considerable 
increase. Then we shall know that our 
readers really care for the Rural, and 
then, like good school children, who 
leave their school for the bright Summer 
vacation, we shall throw up our hats 
and clap our hands in joy, while with 
every encouragement we pursue the work 
of another year. Once again we bespeak 
the kindly aid of such of our readers as 
can feel that in aiding the Rural they 
are engaged iu a good work. The 
single subscriptions sent in by our old 
subscribers are one of our most powerful 
aids. Jt costs them little personal effort 
to secure a single subscription, while the 
results to the Rural iu the aggregate are 
immense. 
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BREVITIES. 
THE RURAL’S EXPERIMENT 
GROUNDS. 
Attention is called to Professor War¬ 
der’s communication as to the “ Ozone ”( ?) 
method of preserving food, advertised in 
our columns and in those of the news¬ 
paper press generally by the Prentiss 
Preserving Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Professor Warder is excellent authority 
Our readers will await a reply to his 
criticism from the above company before 
they permit themselves to be influenced 
by the company’s advertisement. 
At the Rural Experiment Farm we 
have now growing 80 different kinds of 
wheat. Of the 77 different kinds grown 
last season, all were rejected that seemed 
to be inferior to the well-known kinds 
now in cultivation, while new kinds not 
yet offered for sale were placed under 
trial in their stead. 
At the “Rural Grounds ” (Bergen Co., 
New Jersey) we have now 106 different 
kinds of strawberries; 56 different kinds 
Inasmuch, however, as the decrease in 
our exports coincided in a great measure 
with a shortage in the domestic hog crop, 
the prices of hog products, instead of fall¬ 
ing off on account of foreign ill-will, 
rose from seven to nine cents a pound for 
bacon and ham; from seven to eleven 
cents per pound for lard and from six 
to eight cents a pound for pork middlings. 
The greater the opposition to the Ameri¬ 
can Hog abroad, the higher the value pat¬ 
riotically set upon him at home. Wbile half 
the governments of Europe were carrying 
on active hostilities against this splendid 
animal, not only by forbidding his 
entrance, but by grossly vilifying him 
among their own subjects, the latter, far 
more sensible of his merits because better 
acquainted with him, had soou reason to 
bemoan his absence, for iu June last 
Mr. Bridgland, our consul at Havre, 
reported that, prices of all meats in France 
had advanced from 25 to 60 per cent, 
within six weeks after the embargo on 
American pork. Small wonder there¬ 
fore that on the stupid Tirard’s exit from 
official life, the American Hog should 
have been invited back to France as he 
had already been invited to Spain on July 
10. Thus the two chief foes of this 
noble beast have already welcomed him 
as a friend to their tables, and the day 
cannot be far distant when in other hos- 
PnOFESSOR Beal says he has found two 
tubers in one hill pierced by June Grass in the 
manner recently tigured in the Rural for 
Quack Grass. 
In the Edicor’s Department of the present 
number of the Journal of the American 
Agricultural Association is the following : 
“The Experimental Farm of the Rural 
New-Yorker- an article on which wo priut 
in this issue—is under the direct personal 
management of the editor aud publisher of 
that journal, who resides upon it. The work 
which he is doing is of t ho most practical and 
useful kind, and we know of nothing being 
done of more importance to the general agri¬ 
culture of the country. It is performed in 
the most painstaking, Intelligent and scien¬ 
tific manner mid for the public good. 
An oppressive patent monopoly has just 
been exploded by the decision of Judges 
Drummond and Blodgett in the United Ktates 
Court at St. Louis on November 25, in the 
euse of the W ilson Bucking Company and 
Libby, McNeil Libby against the Chicago 
Pueking Company and the St. Louis Beef 
Packing Company. The question at bar was 
the vainly of certain patents for preserving 
meat in cans, notably the William J. Wilson 
patent and the John J. Wilson Cate nt, the 
former reissued iu 1875, and the latter 1877. 
The former patent was fora process of pack¬ 
ing meats by cooking and removing the bones, 
pressing the meat into cans so us to form a 
solid oako,uud then making the cans air tight. 
The other j ateut was for a cm of pyramidal 
form and peculiar construction which facil¬ 
itated the discharge of its contents. The 
court held both patents to be invalid; the 
lirst for want, of novelty, ns the process of 
packing cooked meat by pressure is old; the 
second because the kind of can patented was 
a matter of selection not invention; nor was 
if novel. By this decision the business of can¬ 
ning meats in any shape or style is open to 
free competition, and so it may be practiced by 
the farmer as well as by the regular pucker. 
Let the driven well extortionate monopoly go 
next “ where the woodbine twineth.” 
