TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
tractive one ; and tlie abundance of infe¬ 
rior grades of butter which may be seen in 
all of our larger cities as well as country 
villages, is conclusive proof that there is a 
great lack of practical information among 
the masses of butter makers, or a woeful 
indifference in regard to the returns from 
| capital and labor expended in its manu¬ 
facture. 
Pale, white, lard-like butter is, no 
doubt, just as sweet aud rioh as though 
coloring matter had been added ; but it 
is an old saying, that “fine feathers make 
fine birds,” and all will confess that there 
is something in good looks. On this 
point we will quote a good joke reported 
by the London Agricultural Gazette on a 
committee appointed to award premiums 
for butter shown at a dairy exhibition 
during the past year, as it well illustrates 
the power of imagination upon the sense 
of sight and taste. It says ;—“We are 
told on good authority, that at an English 
dairy Bhow, last year, one exhibitor show¬ 
ed samples of butter in two classes. For 
butter in tho-Jersey class he took the first 
prize, wliilo in the class for any variety 
his samples were unnoticed. The man 
declared that both samples were made 
from the same milk aud churning, the 
only difference being that the Jersey but¬ 
ter was colored. The judges declared 
this class to be of finer quality than the 
other*.*' 
Now it may be a kind of deception to 
color butter, but it is an innocent one 
which pleases the purchaser and consumer 
and adds money to the pockets of the 
maker. Poor butter and cheese, or poor 
anything of the kind, do not come from 
the want of obtainable information in re¬ 
gard to making such articles ; but from 
conceit, on the part of thousands of farm¬ 
ers which prevents them from spending 
the ten cents to learn how to make two or 
ten dollars. We know this is rather a 
hard thing to say about any class of our 
people, but the slow and small sale of 
works published expressly for the purpose 
of giviug the much-needed information, 
and the poor patronage which a majority 
of our agricultural papers receive, cannot 
fail to convince every observing man that 
the ten cent thrust of our friend G-is 
far too near the truth. 
that I would, I do not, but the evil which 
I would not, that I do and he seems to 
have been very much like men of the 
present century ; and who among ns is so 
nearly righteous that he does not Com¬ 
promise by— 
“Compounding sins he Is Inclined to 
By damning those he has no mind to?” 
There are but few individual rights that 
one is not at liberty to forego for the sake 
of obtaining concessions from others. 
When we have named the right to life, 
liberty and to the pursuit of any lawful 
avocation that may be necessary for the 
support of one’s-self and family, we think 
the list is exhausted. All others may be 
sold, exchangod or compromised at the 
will of the possessor provided, in so doing, 
he does not impinge upon the rights of 
others or the duty he owes to society. 
But when, as has‘been the case in the 
political history of our country, Compro¬ 
mises have been made affecting the inter¬ 
ests of persons not made parties to the 
contract and whose rights have not been 
taken into account., how cun they prove oth 
erwise than disastrous V -not immediately 
always, but certainly in the near future. 
As mankind is constituted, wanting that 
full desire for justice and uprightness 
that all approve in others, any attempt at 
Compromise is usually attended with an 
inclination on the part of each to over¬ 
reach and get the advantage of the other, 
if possible. From the time when Jacob 
and Esau made their little bargain to the 
present, it has been the same story. The 
rule is to give as little and get as much 
as possible. And so in general practice 
it sums up to tliiB—that, u Compromise is 
a bargain in which neither party gets all 
he claims, but in which one generally gets 
more than he deserves ; and it is usually 
proposed by him who thinks in that way, 
to get something, while by any other the 
probabilities are that he will lose all. 
That this is not as it should be, all will 
admit; how many will try to make it dif¬ 
ferent and better ? 
one, as was clearly shown in the history 
of the Tube Well published in the Bubal 
New-Yorker Sept. 30, 1876, the author 
of said article having had the best of op- 
portunities for knowing the bottom facts 
in regard to the chiim set up by the pat¬ 
entee. 
Bra eric ai. Departments 
Jersey or Alderney Cattle. 
Apparatus tor Factory and Farm Dairy. 
Heat in Cheese Making..... 
Northwestern Dairymen’s Convention. 
Canadian Dairymen's Convention... 
Preparing Poultry for Market. 
Guinea howls for the Table. 
Shropshire Down* ve. Merinos. 
The Chula for Jlogs. 
Artiohokes at a Discount. .. 
Plant Early Potatoes Only. 
The Much-Abused Crow. ... 
t A Pleasant Lesson in ZOi’U'ity.. 
Beth Green nn tho flume Laws... 
Audubon, the Naturalist. 
Agricultural Depression In England. 
Bronslnir Copper.. 
The Digestions of Plante and Animals the 
Same... 
fihcoptn France. 
Preserving the Skin of Animals. 
Agricultural Resources and Prospects of Cali¬ 
fornia -.. 
Proflts of Farming In England. 
A Brown Dye........ 
Utilization of Paris Sewage. 
Scott's Cnvb Apple . 
Another spring -What to Select... 
i Miscellanea . .. 
Notes .... 
Saffron Culture in the Abrimi. 
*' Going to tin- Dogs". 
How Pate de h'oio Gras is Made. 
Recipes.. 
Fr(tnh Air. 
EDITORIAL PAGE: 
Ten Cents for Two Dollars.. ..... 
Compromise.. 
Notes— Brevities. 
LrTF.HA ii v: 
Poetry.,...,,....93,04 
Storv..... 
Miscellaneous.. 
Recent Literature. 
Bahbntli Rending. 
Ladles 1 Portfolio. 
Rending for t he Young... 
Pulrllsher’a Notices... 
News of the Week. 
Markets. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
Personals.. ... 
Everywhere. 
Educational Notes..... 
Humorous.. ... . 
Advertisements.9", 98. 99, 
Clematis by Cuttings. — Bv an 
oversight, an error occurred in the Flori- 
cultural department of our last week’s 
issue in regard to propagating the Cle¬ 
matis by cuttings, and this is corrected 
in the present number (page 00) by Mr. 
Samuel Parsons. The Editor has prop¬ 
agated the Clematis for the past, quarter 
of a century or more by green cuttings 
taken off in summer, as described iu all 
good works on Floriculture, and therefore 
regrets that contrary teachings should 
have appeared iu the columns of the Bu¬ 
bal New-Yorker. 
The Kural iu Georgia.—J. J. P., 
one of our esteemed correspondents resid¬ 
ing in Atlanta, Ga., writes that about as 
important a service as he can render his 
country and the coming generation, is to 
induce persons to subscribe for and read 
the. Rural Nfav- Yorker. We wish there 
were more persons of the same opinion 
scattered over the entire United States ; 
still, we are thankful for tho many thou¬ 
sands wi io show a similar spirit by their 
actions. 
Making it Rain.—A correspoudent 
of the California Farmer calls upon all 
the farmers of San Joaquin Valley, with¬ 
out distinction of party, to come together 
aud agree to try the power of powder in 
producing rain. “Now,” says lie, “let 
there be a glorious cannonading, not for 
a day, but for a week, if necessary ; not 
for Haves or Tilden, but a hundred guns 
for Main.” Col. Hardee can count on 
one more convert to his concussion theory. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 
Nebraska Farmer, is the name of 
a new monthly “ devoted to agriculture 
and kindred subjects, ” published by 
Messrs. McBride & Clarkson at Lin¬ 
coln, Nebraska. The first number evinces 
care aud discrimination in the selection 
of matter aud excellent taste in tho me¬ 
chanical department. The field is broad 
and we heartily wish them success. 
Associate Editor 
ELBERT 8. CARMAN 
KITRAL NOTES 
X. A. WILLARD. A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editor of ttii Difabtmxht of Daih* IIuob.ndiiv. 
Rather Fishy.—Mr. Pratt, State 
Fish Commissioner of Illinois, is reported 
to have said that “ The State contains 
500,000 acres of public water, every aero 
of which, if properly stocked with fish, 
will yield more food than an acre of cul¬ 
tivated land." Wo havo often seen it as¬ 
serted that fish was excellent brain food ; 
but we had no idea that it produced such 
prodigious results as the above. Wo envy 
the Illinois boy of tho future, when ail 
those 500,000 acres of water are “prop¬ 
erly” stocked with fish. No corn hoeing 
then ; no, not much, while there are acres 
of fish to be harvested. Bless the boys 
of the fishy future ( for of oourse Mr. 
Pratt’s fish will be hungry all the time 
and take the hook in fair weather, and 
not compel the boys to go a-fishing on 
rainy days when tho ground is too wet 
for hoeing coru. If the boys of Illinois 
do not send Commissioner Pratt a gold 
fish studded with diamonds, to hang on 
his watch-chain, they are ungrateful little 
wretches, and should never again be per¬ 
mitted to buy a fish-hook. 
G. A. C. BARNETT, Publisher, 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 1877 
A beef canning establishment is about being 
put np in Oregon to use up the surplus stock, 
and put it in a form to be readily and cheaply 
shipped to distant markets. 
Pictures of the Colorado Potato beetle are 
being hung np in the trans-Atlantic Bteamer 
offices, also in the vessels, with requests to crush 
the ” varmints" whenever and wherever found. 
This is a foreigner’s idea and a good one. 
Sib John Lubboch is credited, in a contem¬ 
porary, with quite a long description of I be way 
the American bee-hunter proceeds in finding the 
home of wild boe6, which shows that the author, 
whoever he may be, knows little of bee-bunting 
in American forests. 
Mrs. F. G. Edwards of San Francisco, Cal., 
having received a gold medal from the Califor¬ 
nia Rifle Association for her excellent shot at a 
one thousand yard target, we shall now expect 
to see the ladies ma remng around with Creed- 
moor rifles on their shoulders, looking for tar¬ 
gets and gold medals. 
The Germantown Telegraph is highly pleased 
with what it calls the American system of awards 
adopted by the lato Centennial commission. If 
our contemporary can devise, invent or suggest 
a more nonsensical, frivolous or unsatisfactory 
one. we will be ready to contribute our mite to¬ 
wards awarding a leather medal for the dis¬ 
covery. 
The quantity of American beef of late sent to 
Englana has had a very depressing influence 
upon the foreign markets ; so much so, that it 
is reported that some of it might be resbipped 
back again without loss. Steady, gentlemen; 
as you have a good thing in this foreign demand, 
it .would be well not to overdo it at the very 
outset. 
B. A. Proctor, the English astronomer, an¬ 
nounces that four hundred millions of meteors 
fall upon the earth’s imfaco every year, these 
bodies weighing from a few grains up to many 
tons. In this way he claims that the earth is 
actually growing larger, which may be true if 
Mr. Proctor has not ruado tome mistake in bis 
calculations. 
$> One by one the roses fade, and one by one; we 
observe with sorrow, divers and sundiy publish¬ 
ers are compelled to apologize for having inserted 
au advertisement of a bogus Texas Land Co. In¬ 
cidents like these furnish irrefragable proof that 
the average publisher is so free from guile him¬ 
self that ho never—no, never—suspects it in 
others—especially when an adv. comes from an 
agent who is abundantly able to pay his bills. 
The ducats first, the apology thereafter. 
TEN GENTS E0K TWO DOLLARS, 
In going through one of our New York 
City markets a few days since, we had 
occasion to call at the stand of a dealer in 
butter who lias quite an extensive retail 
trade among the residents of this city and 
its suburbs. While casually glancing 
over the various tubs, pails and firkins 
opened for the purpose of exposing the 
contents to customers, we were struck 
with the great, preponderance in number 
of pale, lard-like samples, over the few 
rioh, golden, attractive ones. Iu the oourse 
of our conversation we asked this ques¬ 
tion :—“ Mr. G-, why do butter mak¬ 
ers send such white - looking butter to 
market, when itv is so easy to give it a rich 
and attractive appearance?” “Surely,” 
replied G-, “ but did you ever know 
a farmer who would spend ten cents in 
order to make two dollars ?” Then point¬ 
ing to a firkin on liis counter, he said, 
“ that is sweet and excellent winter-made 
butter, and had there been ten cents’ 
worth of annotto added to give it a color, 
I would have paid five dollars more for 
the liuudred pounds, and then made more 
profit on the investment than it is possi¬ 
ble to make as it is.” 
Now we are more charitable than Mr. 
G-in our opinion of farmers in gene¬ 
ral, for there are some who will spend ton 
cents iu order to make two to five dollars 
on a hundred pounds of butter or other 
farm products : but we must confess that 
a glance through the markets of this city 
impresses upon us the fact that there are 
far too few who do spend the ten cents. 
There is no need, however, of any poor, 
white or yellow butter being made, or 
ever reaching market, for it really costs 
but a tnile more to turn out a sweet and 
attractive article than a poor aud unat- 
C0MPR0MISE, 
For some weeks past, one could scarcely 
take up a New York paper but the word 
Compromise would be tho first to catch 
his eye. Iu the columns of Congressional 
News, it was set out in large letters ; on 
the Editorial page it shone brilliantly in 
nearly every article, nml in the Finance 
departments we have been told over and 
over figaiu that trade would revive and 
business be brisk just, so soon as the Com¬ 
promise bill should be agreed upon—or 
defeated, ns suited the political complex¬ 
ion of the Editor—and we have been ex¬ 
pecting thut the word would be substituted 
for the usual heading over the announce¬ 
ment of marriages. We have stood apart 
from the controversy, not because we have 
not our own opinions on the question, but 
because we have other duties to our read¬ 
ers than to endeavor to teach them what 
ive believe to be right in politics. “ Let 
the cobbler stick to his last,” is an old 
saying and a good one. The field we are 
endeavoring to occupy is sufficiently large 
for us, and we have no ambition to enter 
that of politics. But aside from its use 
in matters of State, the word is a good 
one. As we would define it, it means re¬ 
linquishing a light for the sake of gaining 
thereby some advantage, Society is made 
up of Compromises. Each individual 
unit thereof relinquishes some portion of 
his inherent right for the sake of gaining 
protection, sociality, business facilities, 
and all the other benefits that society con¬ 
fers. Ho agrees to abide by such rules 
and regulations, oalled laws, as by the 
majority of his associates shall be consid¬ 
ered for the best good of the whole, not¬ 
withstanding they may, in some instances, 
interfere with his pleasure, his comforts, 
or his rights. 
Life is a succession of compromises be¬ 
tween desire and duty ; the apostle writes, 
“ The flesh lusteth against the spirit and 
the spirit against the flesh, The good 
The Semi - Tropical.—The Editor 
of this handsome aud interesting monthly, 
published at Jacksonville, Fla., ought to 
be a good-natured fellow, considering the 
mild and healthy climate iu which lie re¬ 
sides ; but we fear that something has 
gone wrong with him of late, for he ac¬ 
cuses us of “ acquiring a chronio grudge 
against Florida,” neglecting no opportu¬ 
nity of giving it a disparaging notice. B ut 
he adds that in spite of all this, Florida 
“steadily advances in popular apprecia¬ 
tion and prosperous development,” It is 
quite evident to us that Mr. Harrison 
Heed has not thoroughly investigated 
Col. Hardeb’s concussion tlieoiy, else lie 
would see that the results he names are 
in great part due to the hard “knocks” 
we have given the State, for which him¬ 
self and other residents of the "Land of 
Flowers” should give ns due credit. 
The l>riven (or Tube) Well.— 
The owners of the patent upon the Driven 
(or Tube) Well, are likely to find it a 
rather difficult matter to collect the roy¬ 
alty which they claim as their due upon 
each and every well of the kind through¬ 
out the United States, Iu some of tho 
Western States associations have been 
formed among farmers to resist the col¬ 
lection of royalty, and we now learn that 
the same course is being pursued by those 
of Central New York, and we can only 
wish them success, as their cause is a just 
As the Liver is Easily Disordered, more 
or less Bilious Distress prevails at this Beason of 
the year. Dr. Jayae’B Sanative Pills restore the 
Liver to healthy action and remove all Bilious¬ 
ness.— Ex. 
