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-JUNE 23 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Practical Departments : 
Klk, Tito American. Sflfl 
('ream. Settlin/ Milk for . r«»n 
Milk MtrrOre.G notion's. 3!'fl 
Ml)k. How to Increase the Flow of. RIO 
Sheep. Ii"d*ci( of..3MI 
Sonne Lambs Asnln.391 
Duck*. . 391 
Kkb Stealing In England. 391 
Gape*. Wise on. .. 3di 
Cut-Worms.39i 
Watron Work*.The Mllburn.392 
Cultivator. The Advance.392 
Hand Plow, Allen'".392 
Ena I on, The Clinton Monitor. 89? 
Timber of British Columbia, The.393 
Rosewood. . 398 
Ltuhtntmr Hod Swindle™. 893 
Afrlctlltiiro.. 893 
N. V. State Former*’ Alliance. 893 
CooklriB. Philosophies in. 891 
Heel po* . 391 
Air Hath, The.. 894 
Appetite, May.. . 894 
Cuts, Treatment for. 891 
Nati*. After-Dinner. 394 
Answers to Correspondents!.... 391 
Editorial Page: 
Plain Talk, A.396 
Temperance Revival, The. 896 
Notes—Brevities.<196 
Literary - : 
Pont rv.397. 399, 4<KI 
Echo Canon... .. 397 
Story,. 897 
Miscellaneous.898 
Recent Literature. 893 
Ladle*’ Portfolio. 399 
Keitel Ink for tile Youn«. 4911 
Pussier . 4(0 
Snbballi fiendiop. 400 
News Postscript. 4 tn 
Mil rk els. 101 
Publisher's Notices. 4(1! 
Nows of the Week. .Iff! 
Everywhere.... . 402 
Personals... 40 ;l 
Humorous.404 
Advertisements... 395, 401, 403,401 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
ANDREW S. FULLER, Editor. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M„ Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editob or thk Dxpabtmknt or Daihy Hcsbawobv, 
G. A. C. BARNETT, Publisher. 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Dunne Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1877. 
A PLAIN TALK. 
Tjie XXXVfch Volume of the Rural in 
now drawing to k close. No time, labor 
or expense lias been spared to maintain 
its reputation as tlie leading paper of its 
class, and we think we are not exaggera¬ 
ting when we say that our efforts to ren¬ 
der it a necessity in every family have 
been appreciated throughout the United 
States and Canada, and not unnoticed 
even in Europe and Australia. 
While wc arc averse to following in the 
footsteps of many of our contemporaries, 
who use one-lull f of their papers to tell how 
good the other half is, wo may bo par¬ 
doned if, at this season, when one volume 
is closing and another opening, we point 
with some degree of pride to our labors 
during the past half year, and record somo 
few of the benefits which have arisen 
therefrom. 
A farmer, visiting this city during the 
early part of the year, stopped at our 
office to renew his subscription, Iu reply 
to the question how long he desired to 
subscribe for, he said :—“ Every year, as 
long as I live. I once got a hint from the 
Rural by which I made a hundred dol¬ 
lars clean profit, and am perfectly williug 
to subscribe till that is all used uj>, if 1 
live long enough, taking my chances of 
milking another hundred by it in the 
meantime. ” 
Mr. Robinson of Steuben County said 
he had a colt which he valued at fifty dol¬ 
lars. It fell sick and was given up by 
two of the best veterinarians of his neigh¬ 
borhood, and by himself counted as lost. 
On reading the current number of the 
Rural, he chanced upon an article wliich 
described exactly the disease with which 
his colt was afilicted and contained the 
remedy. He applied the formula, cured 
and saved his colt, and counts himself to 
have been profited Fifty Dollars by that 
one number of the Rural. 
These are but two of the many instances 
which have been brought to our notice, 
where the Rural has been worth far more 
than its subscription price to the sub¬ 
scribers. Of course it is a fact, patent to 
every man, woman and child, that our 
primary object, in publishing the Rural 
is our pecuniary gain. Should we, as 
many of our neighbors do, tell our read¬ 
ers that our first object is the profit and 
benefit of our subscribers, the statement 
would be greeted with an audible smile, 
if no worse. While our profit is the first 
object, wc are well aware that the only 
road to that profit is by making the Rural 
sufficiently entertaining and valuable to 
commend itself to readers at the price at 
which it is offered. A man cannot expect 
to sell his wares unless they are worth the 
price he asks for them. .So wc do not 
expeot to get subscribers unless we make 
a desirable paper. 
The greater the number of subscribers 
we get the better and brighter we shall be 
enabled to makc> the Rural. We there¬ 
fore deem it but fair that we should call 
upon each one of our subscribers for co¬ 
operation in extendiug its circulation and 
conferring a double benefit, upon re¬ 
cruits of the Rural Brigade and upon the 
publishers of tho paper. If, therefore, 
you are pleased with our efforts and be¬ 
hove the Rural to be worth its subscrip¬ 
tion price, show it to your neighbors and 
ask them to try it for the coming half- 
year. They can subscribe with the local 
agent at their place for one dollar for the 
half-year, and will probably renew again 
at the beginning of 1878. In this way 
the circulation of the Rural will be ex¬ 
tended, intelligence and progress will in¬ 
crease and we shall be enabled to make 
the paper more valuable with each suc¬ 
ceeding volume. 
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THE TEMPERANCE REVIVAL. 
For many years past, at intervals, the 
friends of temperance reform have seemed 
to take fresh courage, and for a while so 
long as their fervor lasted have awakened 
public interest in certain sections, which 
soon weakened ; and thus the ebb aiul 
flow of the reformation has continued 
with little practical result. 
Early m our recollection were the 
Washingtonians, from whom much was 
hoped, but society was at last obliged to 
acknowledge the fact that drunkards are 
rarely reformed. “ Onoc a drunkard 
always a drunkard,” is a rule that has 
few exceptions. 
Tho Maine law failed to meet tho expec¬ 
tations and hopes of its advocates. Exhi¬ 
bitions of “striped pigs” and other ex¬ 
pedients for evading the penalty of the 
jaw became common. The women’s cru¬ 
sade of a few years past came in like a 
tidal wave, and like the tide went back to 
the ocean of in difference. Murphy is 
culling crowds about him wherever lie 
goes. So do Moody and 8 an key, but 
when they leave a town the excitement 
dies away, the drinker returns to his cups 
and the sinner to his evil practices. 
lu our immediate vicinity a new move¬ 
ment is on foot. The war is waged at 
present against so-called tippling houses, 
that is, the lowest class of dram shops. 
The law is said to be against them and 
the endeavor is to arouse public opinion 
to such an extent that the officers of the 
law may be compelled to do their duty. 
All tin's is very well. Every law should 
be enforced or repealed. But it does 
look a little strange to see gentlemen who 
are in tin? practice of taking wine with 
their dinners, both at home and abroad, and 
who provide it for tl t eir child ren and guests, 
hurling their anathemas at those whose 
purses allow them to stimulate only with 
the cheapest whisky. We know of those 
who have an utter abhorrence of the prac¬ 
tice of drinking “strong drinks” and class 
those who get drunk on rum, whisky, or 
brandy among the beasts that perish, 
while they hold him who oecassionally 
gets “elevated” on wine as only guilty 
of a little excess or a slight indiscretion. 
So far as consistency is concerned, they 
are not to be compared with the old 
gentleman we knew iu Wasbiugtonian 
tirueB, who, speaking at a temperance 
meeting in a district school-house, advised 
all the young people to be teetotalers. 
“ I am an old man,” he said, “ have been 
used to drinking always, and it is not 
likely I shall ever stop entirely ; but I 
tell you my friends I think very highly of 
temperance, and put a good deal more 
water with my spirits than I used to do.” 
We do not pretend to say what is the 
best way to put an end to the evils arising 
from the use of intoxicating drinks. That 
most of the misery, pauperism and crime 
in our midst is the direct result of such 
use admits of no argument. Notwith¬ 
standing the efforts made to prevent it, 
intemperance is increasing rather than 
diminishing. The result of the introduc¬ 
tion of beer as a common drink, has not 
been so satisfactory as was hoped. The 
use of wine and stronger drinks does not 
appear to be decreased thereby. Tho 
public is not prepared to support prohibi¬ 
tory laws, or even those that are but 
moderately restrictive, and until public 
opinion sustains reformers but little can 
be done. 
There is one plan wo should like 
to see tried not, by the way, original 
with us. We believe a great amount of 
the drinking done by young men arises 
from tlie habit of treating. Half a dozen 
meet in a saloon, and one invites the 
others to “take something.” Being 
invited they don't like to decline, and all 
drink. Boon, another feck it necessary 
to return the compliment, and they drink 
again and so on, and when they have all 
drank six times, it is a wonder if some of 
them haven't more than they can carry. 
We should like to see some of the young 
men who read the Rural start, societies 
with a pledge that, we will give. They 
may call them the Rural Temperance 
Societies, if they like, and our belief is 
that if they are once started they will be¬ 
come popular and do more good than any 
others yet organized. 
Let the pledge read as follows :—We, 
who subscribe our names hereto, solemnly 
pledge ourselves to drink no wine, beer, 
cider, or spirituous liquors at the invita¬ 
tion of, or which shall be paid for liy an 
other ; and further, that we will invite no 
person or persons to drink with us, nor 
pay for any thing that he or they may 
drink. This wo promise on our honor. 
If it be tkonglit best, for the sake of 
giving a trial, the time during which the 
pledge shall be binding may be limited to 
one, two, or three years. Who will stai-t 
the first society ? 
[Wc would say privately to our young 
lady friends that they could do worse 
things than to interest themselves in the 
encouragement, of this movement, j 
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NOTES. 
Hope for tho, Russians. — Until 
quite recently the bulk of tlie grain im¬ 
ported into England came from the South 
of Russia, mainly from the Crimea. With¬ 
in the last few years, however, tlie impor¬ 
tations of cereals from this country have 
increased so vapidly that, they are now far 
ahead of all others. Our consul at Odessa, 
iu a late communication to the State De¬ 
partment, tells us that the Russians are 
sadly alive to this reverse of fortune. 
They sec, without, any demonstrations of 
joy, that the grain trade with America is 
a progressive one, and that there is no 
hope of their ever regaining the position 
they have lost. ’Tis pleasant to find 
them acknowledging that the cheapness 
and fertility of our virgin soil, our favor- 
alile climate, our excellent system of ag¬ 
riculture, our substitution of machinery 
for human labor, and our spirit of enter¬ 
prise combined with our aptitude for Dis¬ 
organization are so many proofs that their 
own antediluvian agricultural processes, 
ignorant labor and wretched management 
ean never enable them to compete success¬ 
fully with us iu the markets of the world. 
The consciousness of their own failings 
affords excellent grouuds to hope for im¬ 
provements among them, and this hope is 
vastly strengthened by their just appreci¬ 
ation of our multitudinous virtues. 
- »♦♦ 
Honest Eggs.—There is much com¬ 
plaint among the grocers of Maine about 
the smallness of the eggs brought to mar¬ 
ket by the farmers. It is said that the 
sharp Yankees finding that eggs were 
eggs every time, whether large or small, 
have gone into raising the smaller breeds 
of fowls such as the Balt on. Greys, Ham- 
burgs and Bantams which are small fowls 
requiring little food but are great, layers, 
therefore good on the couut iu the egg 
basket, but light ou the weight side of the 
ledger. Of course no one for a moment 
would accuse the honest Maine farmer of 
cheating iu eggs, but somehow the light 
weight breeds are becoming very popular, 
much to the loss of those who seek a 
supply in Ihe markets. It is just possible 
that the Maine liquor law has had some¬ 
thing to do with the popularizing of small 
eggs, the regulation morning dram being 
too small to properly cover a large one. 
Lawyer-Making.—A New England 
contemporary complains of New York 
City's making two or three hundred new 
lawyers every year, and wonders how they 
arc to get a liviug in such au overcrowded 
field. That editor would soon be satisfied 
on this point if he would step into one of 
the city lawyer’s offices and get a deed 
drawn. One-half hour’s work, at the 
rate of $20 an hour. Now do you won¬ 
der ? You citu easily see that five clients 
would support one of those brand new 
lawyers. Our editorial Solomon goes 
further, however, and avers that tho oc¬ 
cupation of the farmer is not overcrowd¬ 
ed. This sounds like Horace Greeley’s 
old cry of “ Young man, go West! ” 
which sent, many a good fellow to ruin or 
the devil, or both, when he might have 
staid homo and been happy. So farmers 
are scarce, arc they ? Well, what is the 
price of butter ? 
-- 
Disease of Orange Tr<;cs.—The 
orange and lemon plantations of Italy 
have been subject to a destructive disease 
for tlie past, ten years or more. It is 
known by the name of “ cogna ” and the 
losses from it, of late, have been so severe 
that the subject has at last attracted the 
attention of the Italian Government, 
which has offered a prize of twenty-five 
thousand livrea to the discoverer of a 
practical and effectual method of pro vent¬ 
ing a further spread of this disease. 
---- 
Prices Gauged by Quality.—The 
members of the French Agricultural So¬ 
ciety have decided that, for the future, 
the prices paid for beet-roots should be 
regulated by the density of their juice, 
instead of, as heretofore, by mere weight. 
This is as it should be in all farm pro¬ 
ducts, as il will make agriculturists study 
to improve the quality of their crops, as 
well as the quantity. 
-- 
BREVITIES. 
A late shipment of 500 boxes of raisins to 
to lliir- city arrived In a sweated condition, and 
were sold at 00 cents per box. Bad packing or 
a leaky vessel was probably tho cause of this 
damaged condition. 
I’uort.R say Unit times aro bard, yet wo are 
obliged to leave over some advertising tliiR week 
to prevent the encroachment* upon tho space 
devoted to reading matter. IVe welcome Bitch 
hard times and will endeavor to insert tho omit¬ 
ted advertisements next week. 
At a late meeting of an agricultural club iu 
England, a butcher declared that all American 
beef was tainted and unfit to he fed to dogs on 
its arrival. This kind of lying will not avail, 
even if it comes from a J English butcher glory¬ 
ing iu haristocratio patronage, as the ready sale 
of our beef in English markets abundantly 
proves. 
The Farmer (Eng.) savs that much ado was 
made last summer by our Yankee cousins about 
their famous rat beast at Philadelphia, which 
was guaranteed to weigh 2,488 pounds. Even 
these fair proportions have now been thrown 
into tlie shade, an ox belonging to Signor Bkr- 
docchi of Parma baring been slaughtered which 
turned the scale at over 2,75(1 pounds. 
William Rennie, seedsman, Toronto, Canada, 
appears to have imbibed tho true English spirit 
as to the value of root crops, especially that of 
turnips. His hat of tlie varieties of this valuable 
root cultivated for seed, is not only very com¬ 
plete, but shows great care iu selection. His 
prices are also very low, and owing to favorable 
international postal arrangements, ho is enabled 
to Bend seeds by mail to the United states for 
one-fourth what it costs our own seedsmen. 
Depredation's upon the timber lands of tho 
Government have been carried on for a long 
time wit h impunity. So firmly established has 
this practice become, iu some parts of the coun¬ 
try, that citizens, regarded as highly respectable, 
engage in it openly, employing large capital and 
building saw-mills for preparing the timber for 
market. The Secretary of the Interior has em¬ 
ployed special agents to look into the matter, 
and they leave made largo seizures of logs in 
Louisiana and Minnosota. 
The inhabitants of the droughty regions of 
California are reported to be leaving, with what¬ 
ever t hey can take a way with them. This hfigira, 
to other'parts of the State has caused a great 
depression in the price of labor, as hundreds of 
half-star ved laborers are only too glad tu work 
for their board. A few more such droughts in 
California and grasshopper' raids on this side of 
the mountains, ought to be sufficient to convince 
people that there are desert places on this Con¬ 
tinent, as well as elsewhere. 
BIS J .MESS NOTICES. 
The lte.*r till for Harness ts the celebrated 
Vacuum Oil, made at Rochester. Nh Y.. and sold by 
harness makers everywhere. 
