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TABLE OF CONTENTS, 
PKACTICAJ. I'l'.l'A RTM KN’TS : 
Rntdish Conservatories. 
A Woman'i* Acre—No. 7... 
Resurrection Mower. The... 
Garden, Miitchlnsr Colors In the. 
Horticulture in Colorado. 
Gardens, Making. —. 
Hose, Henutv of Glttsenwood.. 
(Incumber*. Tape-worms In.. 
Milk Itoom, A Novel-Fancy Butter and IIIkIi 
Prices... .. 
Milk and its Products. Chemistry of —— 
Milk. Burnrtr Acid for I’reservInR... 
I! n I less Oats Ayam, The. 
chufaor iCarth Almond, The.... 
Celery. Turnip-Hooted. ... 
Fherp the Malnstnv of AjrrietiRure. 
Poultry, Diseases in. 
Fowl Thieves..... a. 
Combs, Frosted... 
Cahbatre Butterflies . 
Cocoa and Chocolate Manufacture.. 
Iron Works. The South Bend.... 
Plow*. Field Trial Of. 
Saw-Mill*, Cheap............................ 
J f o useken id n n l ten i s..... 
Bacon, Curing and Keeping. 
Ueolpos.. ... .■ 
Grapes and Wines of California.. 
Ulcerated Tooth. Treatment for an...,,. 
Htnall-Pox, Sensible Treatment of... 
Dwarf Ponrs, Puckers from.. .. ... 
Peach os, More New........... 
BniTORiAi, Pare: 
Fitted to 1)0 a Farmer,. 
Kindness that Kills. 
Re no Wed Geese. 
Notes—Brevities. 
Litkjiauy : 
Poetry.........258, 254 
Story.. .... 
Miscellaneous.25! 
Recent literature... . 
Thought* for Thinkers. 
Sabbath Rending. 
Radies’ Portfolio .... 
Reading for the Young. 
Publisher's Notices. 
News of the Week. 
Everywhere. 
Markets..... 
Personals.. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
Humorous.. 
Advertisements. 257, 258, 25 
RURAL NOTES 
The Rural’s Premiums.—I have 
to acknowledge receipt of your esteemed 
favor of the 22d, also of the “ Webster s 
Unabridged ” by express, for which I 
hardly know how to thank you. In my 
humble efforts to obtain subscribers to 
the Rubai. I had only thought of doing 
good to my neighbor by placing in his 
hands the best agricultural and horticul¬ 
tural journal combined, confident that if 
he would carefully read and act upon its 
well-timed suggestions, ho would be sure 
to realize beneficial results. I had no 
thought that T was also doing a service 
for the Rural that entitled me to a re¬ 
ward, but so it seems and I appreciate it 
all the more, coming unexpectedly from 
such a source. My efforts in behalf of 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
I’UBUSHED EVERY SATURDAY 
KINDNESS THAT KILLS, 
ANDREW S. FULLER, Editor 
When we see parents working early 
and late, scarcely taking an hour in the 
year for recreative pleasure, in order that 
they may do more lor the children, who 
are growing up about them in compara¬ 
tive idleness we feel impelled to say, your 
parental love is natural and we would be 
the last to advise its restraint, but are 
you certain you are letting it work in the 
right direction ; are you sure that all this 
self-sacrifice on your part is not directly 
injuring instead "of benefiting your chil¬ 
dren ; are you not killing them by your 
kindness and depriving them of the oppor¬ 
tunity of learning in their youth to de¬ 
pend upon their own exertions. Look at 
this matter fairly and see if you really be¬ 
lieve you are doing them service, or if in 
the struggle for life they will be able to 
successfully compete with others who are 
in their youth doing something toward 
earuiug a living. 
Solomon says “train up a child.' 1 
When we train a viue we bend it, and 
twist it and force it to take such position 
as we believe will best ensure its growth 
andlieulthy maturity. Without this train¬ 
ing it, would lie on the pound and be 
trampled under foot or if perchance, by 
force of its nature it reached out, and 
caught some support, lifting itself there¬ 
by into the sun-light and air, it grows at 
random and will never attain the position 
either of use or beauty, of its more fortun¬ 
ate sister that underwent the training. 
Set two trees side by side; give one 
proper attention by straightening its stem, 
cutting out and shaping its branches and 
pruning in its shoots, while the other is 
left unattended, anil the difference will 
be noticeablo the first year, while the 
beneficial effect becomes more and more 
apparent as the trees grow older. Had 
vines and trees voices they might cry out 
against this hard treatment, as boys and 
girls do when compelled to work or study, 
and the kindhcarted gardener might, be 
induced thereby to let them have their 
own way to their future injury. 
Inquire into the history of men emi¬ 
nent for their success m liio, and you will 
find that nearly all of them were children 
of poor parents, and that from their child¬ 
hood they had their duties to perform 
and early learned to work in some field of 
profitable labor, by which habits of in¬ 
dustry were fixed that aided largely in 
ensuing their future prosperity. 
An indulgent father and kind-hearted 
mother who listens to the solicitations of 
a boy to be excused from labor are doing 
him an injury, for which both he and 
themselves wall suffer in after life. We 
would not have a child over-worked, nor 
put at labor that is particularly distaste¬ 
ful, but he should do something-. If he 
will not choose for himself, and lew chil¬ 
dren can choose properly, choice should 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M„ Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editor of thf Dii'abtmkkt or Daisy Hdsb.ndbt, 
G. A. C. BARNETT, Publisher, 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City 
SATURDAY, AFRIL 21, 1877, 
FITTED TO BE A FARMER, 
RENOWNED GEESE, 
In an old book on agriculture, w ritten 
nearly two thousand years ago, the author 
declares that he had known Professors of 
all kinds, even to those who promoted 
gluttony and taught the most contempt- 
able of vices ; but of Agriculture he says : 
“ I have never known any that professed 
themselves to bo cither teachers or stu¬ 
dents.’' 
While the world has progressed some¬ 
what during the period named, and Pro¬ 
fessor of Agriculture is not now an un¬ 
known title, still we must in all candor 
admit that a vast, majority of people be¬ 
lieve in (lie old saying, “ That any fool 
can be a fanner.” Doubtless, many of 
our readers will declare that, they believe 
it takes a smart, intelligent man to make 
a good one ; and, while we agree with 
them in this, we must still assert that 
actions speak, at least, as loud as words 
in this matter, and are overwhelmingly 
on the fool’s side of the question. 
Now, we propose to offer some facts to 
prove that the vast majority of farmers do 
not believe that agriculture is n profession 
requiring any special culture or educa¬ 
tion ; for if they did, their sons would be 
specially trained for the business, or fit¬ 
ted to become good farmers. There are, 
it is true, a few young men in what are 
called Agricultural Colleges, who profess 
to be preparing to become farmers; but 
they are so few in number that there will 
not lie enough to fill the positions opened 
for teachers, much less to furnish practi¬ 
cal workers in the field. 
When a man desires his sons to enter 
any of the learned professions, he sends 
them to college, or a good school, then 
gives them years in which to study the 
particular branch of science or art select¬ 
ed, never expecting them to become suc¬ 
cessful except through close application, 
and oft-times a long, tedious and labori¬ 
ous practice. If a man enters the minis- 
bo strange and wonderful a mauner, have 
come all of the thousands of 1 ’ Wild Goose 
Plums ” now scattered abroad over the 
haul. Of course, wo do not say that the 
above story in regard to the origin of this 
variety is true, in fact; indeed we are in¬ 
clined" to think there is not. a word of truth 
iu it. Nevertheless, we are sorry for the 
goose, because it is a pity she could not 
have lived to enjoy the fame so long at¬ 
tached to her name. Moreover, us she 
liked plums of a particular kind, and as 
these have now been disseminated over a 
wide region of country, a craw-full could 
be had almost anywhere. 
Then again, we are sorry for the hun¬ 
dreds ol’ men who have believed this story 
about the goose, and purchased trees of 
of this particular kind out. of pure sympa¬ 
thy for her ladyship. Wo use the word 
“kind,” instead of variety, because it 
would puzzle our most astute pomologists 
to tell which, among the many offered, is 
the genuine one, the history of which can 
bo traced back to that unfortunate goose. 
But it matters little now to the goose, for 
her memory will remain green so long as 
other geese live to tell of her sad fate, and 
eat plums bearing her historic name. 
But the wild goose which gave to the 
world the wonderful plum has, or had, a 
rival out in Oregon. The latter, however, 
did not eat plums ; consequently, no un¬ 
digested plum-stones were found in her 
craw; but the wicked farmer who lulled 
this goose found a strange-looking grain 
in her crop, and planted it, and, like the 
plum-stone, it grew amazingly, throve, 
and multiplied so wonderfully that forty 
bushels were raised on half an acre, but 
whether during the first, second, or tenth 
rural brevities, 
A Constant Cocoa, with Failing Strength, 
and Wasting of Flesh, are symptoms denoting 
Pulmonary Organs more or less lit-nou-ly afleut- 
ert. Dr. Jttvne’s Expectorant is a safe remedy 
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