THE RURAL WEW-YOBK 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Practical Dzpartm iintr: 
r'AirrlP.xiltnre. Windmills In.293 
Windmill, Tin; Now Iron Turbine.294 
Farming. Amateur. 29* 
Spring, On the Farm In. 294 
Scarecrows... 294 
Manure. Stable Duns A Perfect.291 
Oleomargarine Annin....... 294 
Rutter. <‘n|. .rlntr. 295 
Parkins Milk f«u Market to Avoid Shucking.... 295 
I Rutter PAchni>oM.Influence of Attractive.295 
Cows. Remedy for Kicking,..295 
Sheep, Welch Mountain.. 29.' 
1,umbs. Docking and Castrating.295 
Difference*, Adjusting. 295 
Till) . '.’95 
On IM vti tor. Tile.... . 393 
Jlirds. Migration of— What Guides Them.293 
Geese. Instinct of Wild... 293 
Matnmnl.s. North American. 290 
Skin*. To Cure Bird. .. 290 
Hats m Possession of a County.290 
Woodpecker, The.... 298 
Poultry. Spring Work With . 293 
Poultry Wintered In Stables with Cattle.29? 
T.onglcornu, The. 297 
Insects Destructive.... 297 
Fruit. Notes on. —No. 1 299 
Use and Ornament. Trees for. 299 
A Woman's Acre— No. 10. 21*9 
Plant*. My House. 299 
Diamond, The Use of the. 299 
Bread, Rides far Making Good.299 
Recipes... 299 
Digestion. 299 
Colds in Spring. 299 
Koitorial Page : 
Tote, Shall Women.. 300 
Crime, and Intemperance..... 300 
Notes—Brevities.300 
I.mrjtAUY; 
Poet ry.298, 301, 502,1 
Fashion... i 
Htory...f 
Recent. Literature. : 
Books Received. i 
Sabbath Rending. : 
Miscellaneous.302,! 
Rudies' Portfolio. : 
Heading for the Young.303,: 
Publisher's Notices.! 
News of ttic Week. : 
Markets. : 
Answers to Correspondents.J 
Personals.; 
Educational Notes.; 
Humorous. / 
Advertisements. 305. 301, 307, * 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
ANDREW S. FULLER, Editor. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Emm or th* DcrABTuasT or Duby Humsimr. 
G. A. C. BAltNETT, Publisher. 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1877. 
SHALL WOMEN VOTE? 
This is a question which lias been agi¬ 
tated more or less for many years, and 
will probably continue to be discussed 
until the women of the United States are 
permitted to exercise an elective franchise 
on an equality with the men. For our 
part, we say God speed the time, for 
there is uo good reason why an intelligent 
person who is amenable to a law should 
not have a voice in making the same. 
This is the true principle of a republi¬ 
can form of government, and the fact that 
in the United States only one-half of the 
people have been permitted the exercise 
of suffrage, merely shows our weakness to 
that extent, which, if continued, must 
certainly work to the injury of what its 
founders intended should bo a model form 
of government. 
Of course, it is not our intention to 
argue this question upon precedents, nor 
to take the statements of heathen and 
mythological oracles for guides, because, 
if we are what we pretend to be — a civil¬ 
ized, intelligent, and free-thinking peo¬ 
ple ; a people who claim to grasp subjects 
of public interest and dispose of them in 
a wav which shall return the greatest 
good to the greatest number, without re¬ 
gard to what older nations may or may 
not have done, then we have nothing 
whatever to do with the opinions or prac¬ 
tices of those who lived in earlier times 
and under entirely different circum¬ 
stances. 
There is a higher law than precedent, 
and it is one founded upon natural law 
aud common sense, and we claim that 
there is no sense or j ustice iu a law' which 
permits a man to make a slave of his 
mother, wife, or daughter, or gives him 
the power of controlling their persons or 
property. Yet this our free Government 
not only permits, but insists that sox is a 
qualification sufficient, in itself, to give the 
male the domineering power over the fe¬ 
male. 
The mother w ho tenderly cares for her 
babe through many a watchful day aud 
night; guides his wayward feet through 
tender years up to manhood, instilling 
into his heart all the nobleness her own 
character may possess, finds on the dawn 
of his twenty-first birth-day that lie is 
given the power of becoming her master 
for weal or woe ! 
Will any one who has a spark of manli¬ 
ness in liis heart say that this is right or 
justice to the one whom lie calls mother? 
Taxation without representation has long 
been considered by a large class of men 
as a good, commendable cause for rebel¬ 
lion ; but if it is legitimate for one sex, 
why not for the other ? Shame upon a 
man who w r ill hide himself behind the 
accidents of birth aud do a mean act be¬ 
cause the laws of the land permit him to 
do it without fear of punishment! Hut 
tin’s is just what we arc all doing, year 
after year, when we vote away the widows’ 
wealth or mite, and our mothers’ and sis¬ 
ters’ means of subsistence, and all this, 
too, without giving them the remotest 
opportunity of saying how much or how 
little, or when and how it shall be taken 
or disposed of ! 
But let it be understood that the Rural 
New-Yorker takes uo part in wlmt is 
called the “ Woman’s KighLs Movement,” 
neither is it the organ of any of the “isms ” 
or “ schisms” of the day, which are far too 
frequently only hobbies for bringing ob¬ 
scure persons, or those with only one idea, 
into public uotiee; but it is the advocate 
of the largest liberty compatible with 
good government, without regard to race, 
color, or sex. 
If, as some have claimed, women are 
not so well qualified to exercise the elec¬ 
tive franchise as men, then let us all join 
in giving them the light required ; for it 
should bo remembered that noble men 
can only be born of noble mothers, 
whether they happen to be bond or free, 
but let no intelligent man longer insult 
his mother or sisters by placing them 
lower, iu this respect, than the millions of 
freed slaves of the South, or the hordes 
of bigoted, ignorant paupers annually 
landed upon our shores from Europe. 
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CHIME AND INTEMPERANCE. 
A fresh impetus has been given to the 
efforts of temperance advocates to re¬ 
strain the liquor traffic by a recent decis¬ 
ion of the Court of Appeals iu this State, I 
the substance of which was given in our 
news columns, week before last. Indeed, 
it is observed that there is a revival of 
the temperance agitation, quite general 
throughout the country, resembling, in 
some places, the “crusade” carried on iu 
Ohio a few years ago. 
The continual alternation of zeal anti 
activity with apathy and indifference, in 
the work of supppressing drunkenness, 
leads one to suspect, what his own obser¬ 
vation all around him will fully confirm— 
that little, if any, substantial progress 
has been made toward the abatement of 
an evil universally admitted to be most 
fruitful of disaster to society. To what 
extent this may be attributable to the 
stujhdity of the methods adopted we will 
not undertake to say. It is certain that 
these often have their origin in the do¬ 
main of sentimentality and pseudo-re¬ 
ligion rather than in that of common- 
sense and reason. We are well aware 
of the enormous difficulties to be encoun¬ 
tered in any attempt to solve the problem, 
and have only ventured into the field in 
order to make a suggestion which, if 
wanting in novelty, at least seems to us to 
have the merit of practicability. 
Although the law, strictly and properly 
administered, will not tolerate leniency 
toward criminals on account of intoxica¬ 
tion, yet it is well known that judges aud 
juries have sometimes listened with ap¬ 
proval to such a plea urged in mitigation 
of crimes and offences of all descriptions. 
The responsibility of a man or woman 
who siets under the influence of liquor, is 
lessened, so it is alleged, and punishment 
should be proportioned accordingly, Iu 
this way it not infrequently happens that 
I the criminal lias his offence wholly con- 
j doned, or is adjudged a jxmalty ridicu¬ 
lously inadequate. In fact, just in pro¬ 
portion as the rigor of the law is relaxed 
| is lie invited to break the law. 
Now if the habitual practice were, on 
i the contrary, to regard the fact of intoxi¬ 
cation during the commission of a crime 
as an aggravation of the offense, and to 
make the penalty more severe in conse¬ 
quence, wa believe a most important step 
towards the diminution of butli crime 
aud intemperance would be taken. Cer¬ 
tainly, that class of reckless men who 
seek to drown their sensibilities and con¬ 
science l>y means of liquor, as a prepara¬ 
tion for robbery or violence, would think 
twice before doing it, and petty crimes 
might be expected to materially decrease 
with such a prospect for intemperate 
criminals in view. We would then have 
the law so changed that the judges could 
exercise no discretion in this matter, but 
would be compelled to assume the ground 
outlined in this paragraph. 
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RURAL NOTES. 
The Turco-Russian War. —It is 
announced that war risks are demanded 
by the London Insurance companies, and 
that the Russian batteries on the Baltic 
are bemg repaired and armed, and torpe¬ 
does prepared iu readiness to be placed by 
hundreds in the Gulf of Finland. These 
reports show that Russia and England 
are distrustful of one another, and good 
grounds may exist for the prevailing be¬ 
lief that the latter power will, before long, 
be arrayed on the side of Turkey. This 
event would undoubtedly be the signal to 
all the nations of Europe to choose between 
the two belligerents, according to their 
views uf their respective interests. Thus 
the world may see within a few weeks the 
beginning of a struggle unparalleled in 
the magnitude of its consequences by any 
of modern times. The duration of such 
a war cannot be foretold, but the direful 
effects may be easily imagined by our 
people, who have hud every variety of ex¬ 
perience resulting from a great and bitter 
contest. Fortunately we are so far away 
that we may look calmly and philosophi¬ 
cally on, and perhaps, later, contribute 
something toward a general pacification. 
Our Boarding-House.— Bids for 
two-aud-a-half million dollars’ worth of 
supplies have been lately opened in this 
city, which is au indication of what it 
costs to board our Indian subjects out 
West. These vagrants, like most of the 
vagrants aud tramps iu the older Stales, 
expect to get fat aud live off the more in¬ 
dustrious portion of the community, and 
this they do through the soft-hearted seu- 
timentidiest.s, who think it is cruel to make 
a person work against his will. When 
“Poor Lo” has had a good rest, gets fat, 
and feels like “cutting up capers,” we 
shall, uo doubt, hear of the poor pioneer 
and hia family losing their scalps, and 
threats will again me made of a general 
Indian border war. Humanity iu the 
treatment of the Indian, and even in pity 
for their degraded condition, may be all 
well enough for those who are at a safe 
distance, but, at close quarters, it does 
not work well, except in giving greedy 
contractors n chance to make money with¬ 
out much labor. 
Death of Col. Harris. — Colonel 
S. D. Harris, for many years editor of 
the Ohio Farmer, died at his residence, 
iu Hudson, Ohio, ou Thursday morning, 
April 20, iu his sixty-sixth year. At one 
time Colonel Harris occupied the posi¬ 
tion of Agricultural Editor of the Rural 
New-Yorker, and wo may add that 
throughout his life he has been identified 
with either one or more agricultural pa¬ 
pers, aud his pen kept busy iu dissemina¬ 
ting useful information, gathered both 
by study and practice. Although his 
life was a busy one, still his genial man¬ 
ners and broad intelligence made for him 
a host of friends, a large circle of whom 
he has left behind him to mourn his loss. 
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Slaughtering: The Birds. — The 
Berlin Presse speaks of the wholesale 
slaughter of birds now going ou upon the 
small migratory species as they wing 
their way to the northward over Upper 
Italy, whence they are dispatched to Ber¬ 
lin and other large cities. The destruc¬ 
tion is not confined to edible birds, but 
“everything is fish” that comes to the 
hunters’ nets, aud, if the meat of nightin¬ 
gales wall not sell iu market, their skins 
and feathers will. Thus the slaughter of 
the innocents goes on just as it does in 
the United States in violation of law and 
reason. 
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The Decline of the Grange.—Ac¬ 
cording to the annual report of the Na¬ 
tional Grange, the Grange has suffered a 
severe decline during 1876. Over 9000 
granges have gone out of existence, and 
the membership has fallen off 180,000. 
In Missouri the memberships was 80,059 
iu 1875, and only 42,529 iu 1876. The 
principal decline is iu the Western States, 
whore the order is the strongest. At the 
east there was neither gain or loss during 
the year, tlio membership remaining 
about the same in '76 as it was iu 75. 
The Great Bench Show. —Our 
people are at last to be educated as to 
what are the good points of the best 
breeds of dogs. The Westminster Keunel 
Club of New York, will exhibit during 
this week, at Gilmore’s Garden, some 
1,500 dogs, representing the most promi¬ 
nent sporting and domestic strains. The 
Judges will include some of the most 
noted English breeders. We shall give 
a report of the Show in an early issue of 
the lioBAH. 
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Handsome Cliromos. —The Poul¬ 
try World, for April, contaius three splen¬ 
did colored chrorno-lithograph plates, 
each representing a pair of the following 
popular breeds of fowls;—Light Brahma, 
Dark Brahma, and Black Spanish. These 
are the first of a series which our enter¬ 
prising contemporary proposes to distrib¬ 
ute among its patrons, and they are well 
worthy the attention of poultry breeders 
generally. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
O. B. Galusha, a well known Horticulturist 
of Illinois, spoalis highly of the Turner Raspber¬ 
ry, as one of the best of the hardy nativo sorts. 
The New York Horticultural Society will give 
an exhibition May 2!) 81, of foliage plants and 
Rhododendrons, Azaleas, etc., at Gilmore’s Gar¬ 
den, in this city. 
The Nineteenth Annual Fair of the New Jer- 
soy State Agricultural Society, will bo held at 
WuvOrley Park on Monday, Sept. 17, 1877, and 
continue five days. 
That Prince of Humbugs, Edward Paybon 
Weston, has again been beaten in a six-huudred- 
inile walk, by Daniel O’Leary. How long will 
decent people patronize this donkey ? 
Da. Charles H. Allen of Chicago is said to 
have foimd the larval of the common hot lly in 
the body of a boy who had bathed, the previous 
season iu a pond in a pasture frequented by 
horses. 
A Mai.nl dairyman reports that he has a cow 
giving milk so rich that one pound of butter is 
obtained from every live and one-eighth quarts 
of nulk. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to state 
that the cow is a pure Jersey. 
The Telephone man, Prof. Gray, is iu danger 
of losing some sprigs of Ins laurels, as it is claim¬ 
ed that Prof. Charles G. Page of Salem, Mass., 
iirst discovered that sound could be transmitted 
through a coil of wire so long ago as 1837. 
Next l 
Solon Robinson, formerly Agricultural Editor 
of tiie N. Y. Weekly Tribune, is credited with 
having been the first to advocate a National Ag¬ 
ricultural Society, u design t hat has resulted m 
what is now known as the National Agricultural 
Congress. 
A uio’tleman residing at Des Moines, Iowa, 
thinks the inhabitants of that region will know 
all about grasshoppers before next July, without 
receiving any tutelage from Entomologists. Just 
so ; but is it’uot arather costly way of obtaining 
information ? 
It only costs twelve cents per bushel to ship 
wheat from San Francisco to Liverpool, ten 
thousand miles. This is about the rate we have 
to pay for sending freight from this city ont into 
the country tea or twenty niilds by railroad; but 
there is no opposition here, aud that makes the 
difference. 
The Los Angeles Herald estimates that, at the 
present rate of increase, in four years three 
countries in Southern California will produce 
annually lOO.OUO.OUU pounds of honey, valued at 
$20,00U,UUU. No calculation is made iu the 
above estimate for losses by droughts or diseases, 
which are likely to occur at any time. 
Business colleges are just now quite active, 
and, w e are glad to learn, well patronized. The 
old and well-known Rochester Business Univer¬ 
sity, under the skillful management of President 
Williams is more nourishing than ever, the at¬ 
tendance being 75 per cent, larger than any pre¬ 
vious year. We ore gratified to note this fact, 
aud hope farmers who appreciate the importance 
of their profession will see to it that their sons 
are well grounded in those principles without 
which no business can be fully and successfully 
developed. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
The Best Oil for Harness is the celebrated 
Vacuum Oil, made at Rochester, N. Y., and sold by 
harness milkers everywhere. 
