fititution of Life Insurance now tliKpenseH 
a goodly portion of it* benefits from their 
old homo, carrying cheer and comfort, to 
of the ruinous result* of the importation 
of American beef. The former can only 
be temporary, and hope can see its speedy 
time, is to be burned up, can find a crumb 
of comfort in an article published in the 
Polytechnic Review, the writer of which 
j eamus, The, Culture of. 
Jerusalem Artichoke AkhIii, The 
Chinese Yum* Oiieo More. 
Weevils. Van and iteun . 
a worse plight. Iu view, therefore, of the 
complaints of “hard times” among our 
farmers, it may be cause of content and 
encouragement to compare briefly their 
condition with that of the agricultural 
classes beyond the Atlantic. 
rieties of potatoes, and we do not wonder 
at it, if they have nothing better of the 
kind than those we have seen from abroad. 
At one time we imported, thirty-two sorts, 
and they were, with scarcely a single ex¬ 
ception, yellow-fleshed, coarse,and strong- 
eke out a scanty livelihood by a rigid 
system of thrift and spare dietary, im¬ 
practicable in this country, except among 
our economically omnivorous visitors 
from China. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
equally common on both sides of the At- 
P Tuhp-i'roo!Th«"™. EKT *. 229 ' ai) bc, the English farmers labor, just 
FoddeVo'in^ 229 now * uncler somR «P«cial causes of distress 
Smeiiem 00 *. H7ld apprehension. The cattle plague has 
^ again appeared among their stock, and, 
r^i id bf. Kari? t ... despite the most careful and stringent 
Cattle and Sheep Growing Swedes, eto. if'o'r.'.'.".' 2 1 precautions, seems to be spreading disas 
Calves. Huy Teafor. am . A* , . L . ' * 
and the dullness in trade are nearly Mouse at Baltimore, “What hath God insects grazing upon it like oxen on a 
wrought I” which has since become his- meadow,” We have read something like, 
toric. The Travelers lias preserved many this before, but have failed to find it truth 
Calves, New-Born.. ash 
A Woman v Acre So. 0. 232 
Truffles. California. , . jkm 
Culture. Onion,. ->32 
Rhododendrons. Budded. rvi 
Auratnm. Ijlllum.... 232 
trously in different parts of the country. 
More grievous, however, than their appre- 
of the notable features of the building. 
The library remains unchanged, and the 
family sitting-room is now used l>y the 
Directors. President Patterson ’ lias 
graced some of the apartments with his 
choice pictures, and altogether the build¬ 
ing is a remarkable one. 
The honored men who have dwelt herein 
could hardly have wished for a more 
heusions on this account, is their dread j honorable succession. The venerable in- 
in practical experience, even w.th an in¬ 
strument of high power ; still it is just 
J ioBsible that the leaves of the trees on 
3oston Common are better for “grazing” 
purposes than those of New York’s Cen¬ 
tral Park. 
-- 
The Earth Drying Up.—Those 
vindictive, w icked persons who rejoice iu 
the belief that the earth, at some future 
orttl'j.'hoppi-V*.' wintCT.\\\‘.V;; m ou ^ ) but the latter is certain to be 
q»io mi>w * ThV.'"^ ;;;;;;;;; jpj permanent, and fear exaggerates its 
spr,'r?^. N d oi'ru,;. r rVie;;:;;;;;;;: evil consequences. This reason for <iis- 
MmSSra:couragement and loss to the British far- 
rioV. bo° of.::v.: - .:::::.;i;:;;|!{ raer is ft » ource of pleasure and profit 
SparrowB*!'.. A ...’..-• gg to liis brethren here; yet we can sympa- 
Mi&Lif© or n .::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: l| thize with liim in bis distress while we 
rw!,™! 1 ,';'.!’ T, l$ '* > . r i“ tn ' ,f • ■ • • • ■•• ■ ■ ■•■ 2 % rejoice at its cause. 
LonMimnnvt'B, Dlfct for. 235 .. • 
Notes, liyuionic. 335 Neither the establishment of the new 
0erm » D E “l> ire , «* «'«■“< triumph, uor 
. „ S 6 ™ 8 " Kra l' ire - ita "US 88 * nor 
Notes—BrevjtieB. m the enormous unpost wrung from pros- 
Litkrauy: 
. 237 - ** if 
trate France* seems to have bettered the 
condition of the Teutonic fkrmer. To 
"wry... 23? wiiuiuoii ui T4ie Teutonic tarmer. to 
Miscellaneous... ov: . ... 
Sabbath Rea«uiiB....’7.7.7...238 support their huge standing army and 
Portfolio.**.,,..,,,,,,,,,,,, oqcj , ,i .. , 
Beading for the voun«... ^19 meet other expenses, tlie people are loacl- 
Publishcir's .NoUoes. . Zii\ „ i • , , 1 . 
News of tuo week..7!!"“!7.7.! sJo 0< ‘ Wlfc h a grievous burden ot taxation. 
^' ] l Here a singlo instance will show the ex- 
Answers to CorreBjjtindentsl!!”!!”"",‘ tent of this hardship. A freehold farm 
Ad?e.’u^;„n^:“ of 200 acres, which yielded, in 1870, a 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
rUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
ANDREW S. FULLER, Editor. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M. t Little Falls, N. Y., 
Epitok or TUB Dkpabtment or Dairy Husbakory. 
G. A. C. HARNETT, Fnbllehcr. 
Add corjo 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
• 78 Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1877. 
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FARMERS. 
To those in distress there is a cheap 
sort of pleasure in contrasting their own 
circumstances with tlioso of others in even 
ed with a grievous burden of taxation. 
Here a siugle instance will show the ex¬ 
tent of this hardship. A freehold farm 
of 20*.) acres, which yielded, in 1870, a 
return of $1,000, paid, in direct taxi s, 
$330, or a third of the income. In addi¬ 
tion to this, an indirect tax was levied on 
every .implement for farm or domestic 
uso, as well ns upon all clothing and pro¬ 
file widow and orphan; and its younger 
accident branch binds up the wounded 
and cares for a multitude of sufferers 
from casualty ii the world’s rough ways, 
and altogether we cannot imagine a more 
appropriate final use for a memorable 
structure than that to which the one in 
question lias been dedicated. 
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Swiss Watchmakers.—The Swiss, 
who have so long supplied almost the en¬ 
tire world with watches’, have, of late, 
found that they were beiug driven from 
the field by the American machine-made 
article. They are not, however, a people 
to be easily discouraged, and it seems 
that they are about putting into practice 
the old adage, that it is quite lawful to 
learn even from au opponent, and will, 
therefore,.introduce American machines, 
or improvements upon them, for m aki ng 
Swiss watches. With their long expe¬ 
rience and cheap labor, the Swiss manu¬ 
facturers will be very likely to turn out a 
superior article at a low figure, and thus 
regain their lost trade, and perhaps some¬ 
thing more. 
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English Game Laws.—The Game 
claims that the water ou this mundane 
sphere is gradually drying up, and if it 
continues to do so for a few millions of 
years more, the earth will be as dry as a 
puff-ball. It is some comfort, however, 
to know that the condition requisite for a 
good bonfire is to be so long delayed. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
The slave of thousands (ems)—The compos¬ 
itor. 
Exthejie dullness in the country markets is 
the general complaint in our English exchanges; 
what is termed dull times is therefore not con¬ 
fined to the United States. 
A man out in Oregon says that he has discov¬ 
ered that ticks on cattle are developed from oak- 
grnhs, which, if true, would render Dakvtjt’s 
man-monkey theory not a very hard one to be¬ 
lieve. 
Wk notice tha t t hose of our contemporaries who 
are so very particular to have all their original 
matter headed “ written expressly " for the- 
are very much given to appropriating articles 
without credit, which were not written for their 
columns. 
Twelve millions annually to provide luxurious 
rooms for Custom-house jo lingers. Itud fifteen 
thousand to the Agricultural Department, is the 
visioiiH purchased, ilk their price was iu- laws of England seem to be a uever-end- wa - v do things in a country where the farm 
A . . . .-V A . rt-Af.-w.-. A*..* I . . A.aI.. A a I I . Y . .. .. ' . . 1 . . A 1 
creased by importation duties. Instead 
of helping the farmer to carry this heavy 
load, his sons, perhaps, either were serv¬ 
ing their three years in some military 
garrison, where they made demands on 
him for additions to their scanty pay, or 
had emigrated to this country, leaving his 
old age saddened by their absence. Yet 
this man’s position was fortunate, in con¬ 
ing source of discussion in and out of 
Parliament. Lord Malmesbury, we no¬ 
tice, defends these infamous laws, by say¬ 
ing that they are a blessing to the whole 
people, and especially to the tenant far¬ 
mers on Iris estate, because he sometimes 
gives them a dead bare or rabbit for their 
Sunday dinner. Tin's uoble, or ignoble, 
lord is almost as generous as the master 
who, having two boiled eggs for break¬ 
fast, gave the broth to a favorite servant. 
trust with that of the neighboring teuaut. I It certainly must be very consoling to a 
farmers, who, besides bearing the weight f&npGT* after he lias had whole fields of 
of taxation, had to pay rent to their land- ^ min ‘J^kroyed by such pests, to have 
ouc or two of them given him for a Sab- 
10 , bath meal. 
In France the small landed proprietors, -»♦♦- 
taxed as heavily as the farmers of Ger- American Potatoes Abroad.—It 
many, and whose sons are subject to a 18 that the English people go into 
wrilifnw _ecstacies over some of the American va- 
Probably the most striking difference lu the less prosperous countries of ported^Vreuch ^pohitoes liave°l l ^pu eprv^l with the florista’bustHew in New York City and 
in favor of Amcricnu farmers lies in the Europe the farmer's lot is still harder; to onstomors fo. several months past, and 
lact tliat, with a few rare exceptions, they but the merciful provision of Nature '"'hue some of them are dry and mealy, againnt such a waste of capital an<I labor, all to 
own the land they cultivate, while their which enables man to accommodate him- tlie * y a . re mabily of a yellowish color and produce *om«tMog which is neither food nor 
transatlantic brethren, especially in the to bis surroundings, has ordained rauk iU i ? aV 1 < ! 1 ’ being what L '■’ Ujin °’ 
Rn'iioL TnLo a . ,, ,, •’ „ , . ■ . . 7 we would call a first-rate article. Nbbhasju proposes to compel all men, between 
-Lsntisn isles, must meet all the expenses the measure of Ins happiness is not ^ the agon of sixteen ami «xty, to turn out awl 
our farmers are liable to, and iu addition necessarily proportioned to the extent of 1 1*.,...* qo,™ +i * l !il1 Stoppers for two days or more, at such 
rm-p Ig 41m v , , . _, i* ttWvkA . EicICrllJ |M Us Honey .—Qince the ill- time* and places as the bupervisors may deaig- 
* 1 ^ k 01 capitalists, who hold piospenty. Accordingly there are troductiou of the Australian Gum Tree nate. This would «eem to indicate that there 
the vast bulk of the soil, a yearly rental thousands in those lauds whose fortunes into California, the leaves, or hark, have lllir) hften some trouble from grasshoppers in 
nft.An hnnTrrr __ ... v -novnEi .. — __ i_i_ -j luj/iAm ii no n oovfoi'u the State, although Nobiftsksnu dislike to 
products exceed in value, all other industries 
combined. 
The Improved Mammoth Dent Corn, adver¬ 
tised by a party in Indiana, is said to bo a2?f the 
way from twenty to forty-rowed. We have hod 
ears of this with thirty-two rows, but would like- 
to seo one with forty. Who among our readeJ* 
can send us one ? 
The weather-wise Tice of St. Louis, Mo., pre¬ 
dicts a dry summer, and advises farmers to plow 
deep. This is good advice, surely; but there 
ure few persons so demented as to believe that 
Prof. Tick really knows what the weather is 
going to he next week or next summer. 
Another cultivator of grapes hss gone mad 
on “ hybridization,” and proposes to send out 
forty varieties, all under numbers, instead of 
naniCB, « la Rogers-, years ago. It is to be hoped 
he will get into a lunatic asylum, or some other 
safe place, before he can put his project into 
operation. 
The men who want to get patents on new- 
fruits and vegetables arc stifl persistent in ‘‘ bor¬ 
ing" some of our contemporaries with their 
twaddle, for it is nothing else. Yet there is not 
one of them who has ever been able to devise a 
feasible plan for obtaining what they term “pro- 
] tection " to the originator of new plants. 
I It is «nid that ten millions of dollars are in- 
I vested in land and greenhouses in connection 
with the florists’ business in New York City and 
its lubufbs. It is. therefore, very strange, that 
some fanatical utilitarian lias not raised liis voice 
against such a waste of capital and labor, all to 
produce something which is neither food nor 
clothing. 
Nkbhakka propones to compel all men, between 
the ages of sixteen and sixty, to turn out and 
kill grasshoppers for two days or more, at such 
times and places as the Supervisors may desig¬ 
nate. This would seem to indicate that there 
often heavy enough to purchase an equal would appear wretched, if contrasted 
number of acres in many fertile districts with those of our own farmers, but who 
in this country. In planting an orchard 
or a grove, in building a homestead, or 
in making any other permanent improve¬ 
ment, our farmers have the stimulating 
consciousness, generally denied to those 
in Europe, that they are thereby either 
increasing the value of their possessions 
for their own benefit, or that their chil¬ 
dren and grandchildren will gather the 
fruits of their labor and outlay. Here, 
too, the mere retention of the land, every¬ 
where except, perhaps, in some parts of 
N ew England, must inevitably, owing to 
the rapid increase in population, so aug¬ 
ment its value as to return, in the near 
future, a fair interest on its original coat. 
In Europe, on the other hand, land has 
alieady probably reached its maximum 
value, as importations of products from 
other countries, where farms are cheaper, 
must prevent, for ages, higher prices than 
those at present paid for the fruits of the 
soil. 
enjoy a degree of cheerful contentment 
to whieb many of these are strangers, if 
judged by their complaints of “hard 
times. ” 
RURAL NOTES. 
'I lie Travelers,—The illustration of 
the “ Home Office ” at the head of the 
advertisement of the Travelers Insurance 
Go. iu this issue, lias au interest quite 
apart from commercial considerations. 
The mansion lias a cluster of historic as¬ 
sociations clinging about its venerable 
been recommended as a certain specific ’H*' 
for almost every known disease; more- ml 1 
over, even malarial fevers disappear from Em'uvthing nowa< 
a country soon after the planting of this JSSiSd*by®'tbte'hij 
most Wonderful tree. But it seems that misapplied'term. Ir 
even all this is not enough, for now we see our gin-mill kee 
are to have medicinal houev, gathered bv whisky." made from 
California bees from the flowers of this ales from the malt ol 
tree of life, the famous Eucalyptus ala- some iin ” In ‘ l uamc 
bulus. Alas! it.is to be feared that the Ax Indiana conte ; 
Tulipanuuna and Alarm multicaulis m **'XSJ 
lever were light, spasms, compared with xbi-i argument com 
this Blue-gum epidemic. showing what the en 
Prize Plans for Barn.—In our 
issue of March 10 appeared specifications 
of a general-purpose barn and au offer of 
balls. It was once the property of Oliver three prizes of $50, $30, $20, for the three 
Wolcott, Jr., and passed thence into the best plans for its internal arrangement, 
hands of Chauncky Goodrich and Henry April 15 was the date at which these had 
L. Ellsworth, who built the house as it to reach us, but the time has been ex¬ 
now appeal’s. Successively the mansion tended to May 1. Many excellent plans 
knew as owners such men as Charles have been sent in, yet we think that the 
Davies (the laathematician), Roswell 0. 
Smith, and Gov. Isaac Toccey. The 
property was purchased by the present 
ingenuity and experience of our farmers 
should suggest something even still better. 
msc prevent, tor ages, higher prices than '. .v 1 ' oU tUe Uc:lth ot Mrs. Toucan*. Those Grazing I nsects.—One of 
lose at present paid for the fruits of the „ ( N w E^lsworth-Saiith, tlie wife of one our New England contemporaries, in a 
>0. the fa , r “ of Scribner &. Co., was born burst of enthusiasm over the wonders of 
While the pressure in mnnnv U1 “, RRd liwas this lady who sent the Nature revealed by the microscope, de- 
piessure in money matters first message from Washington to Prof, dares tlial “each leaf has a colony of 
Enbrythixo nowadays must have a pedigr^— 
even varieties of wheat, oat* and rye are distin¬ 
guished by this high-sounding but generally 
misapplied term. Indeed, we expect ere long to 
see our gin-mill keepers advertising ” pedigree 
whisky," made from pedigree rye, and pedigree 
ales from tlie malt of pedigree barley. There is 
something in a name, after all. 
Ax Indiana contemporary argues that when 
Iht times are hard and work scarce. tLe Govern¬ 
ment should find hojdoi Ling f or the idle to do. 
This argument comes in very opportunely, as 
showing what the encouragement long held out 
for European paupers to come over and take a 
hand with us, has done for the country. Still 
there are persons who want to see more come, 
and then to compel the ” Government " to talc* 
care of them. 
When Mind and Body are out of sorts, owing 
to a Disordered Liver, try at once Dr. Jayne’s 
Sauativo Tills, a sure remedy for all bilious 
Affections, Costiveness, &c.— Ex. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
Hearing 1Lestored. — Great invention by one 
who was deaf for 2(1 years. Send stamp for partic¬ 
ulars. Jno. Gakmork, Lock-box 905. Co vine ton, Ky. 
- *** - 
Tlie Best Oil for Harness is the celebrated 
VACUUM OIL, mude at Rochester, N. V., and sold by 
harness makers everywhere. 
