THE RURAL NEW-YORMER. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Practical Departments: 
Z Turnip Culture . . 
Korupe Plum. One More. 40,; 
Coin. Hunt Id ml of.. ■■ - . 
Aurleullure, Commerce, unrt Manufacture. » 
Haying. Klurly. •Jjj* 
Witter for OuW8, Abundant-. «»• 
CiirliiE t t'fi.Hi. :im< 1 Improving the Product . f(Hi 
Sheep In Kun*n*... IT/ 
Aacont Omits. Habits of.. 407 
Cattle lri Texas. 407 
Chink*. Jieserled.. . yh 
Dank* Laying.... *}}j 
Sttnwberrlcs. A Word About. 40S 
Potato Huntle. Bogus, .. ’OH 
Pecan Not* ftottlnp..... 4ns 
JtccH. Rminirk* about... 4P8 
Hce«—Swanoine. Mow to Manage. 4tfc 
KvmIoIIiiO, Tim Theory of . 4U» 
Dried Pin r ts. To Preserve the Natural Colors., ins 
Poi table Engine. A New..... 409 
Milk Pa n, the Champion. 409 
llitrveder, Bradley's No. 2. 4U9 
Bird-Temper . 4W 
Bertroi'in. Spare.... ’] 
Reclpeii ...4 0 
Useful Hint-. 410 
Infectious Diseases, Spread of. tin 
Garters.. *)!! 
A lo wers lo Correspondents. 410 
Forming iu Japan. 4U 
KnlTOHIAb PA or: 
One Hundred and One. 112 
Apple* of Sodom. 41* 
Out of Work . 412 
Notes—Brevities. 412 
BlTERAUY: 
Poetry.413. 415, 416 
Rtory .... . 41S 
Miscellaneous. 414 
Iteccnt Literature. 415 
l.ndloh' Portfolio.... 415 
Beading tor the Young. 416 
Pursier. . 416 
Ssbl.nl li Beading. 416 
News Postscript. 417 
Mi»rlret,».... 417 
Publisher's Notices. 418 
New* of the Week. 4 8 
Kvatywhpro. 418 
Personals.. . 4 IS 
Humorous... 4211 
Advertisements...411, 417, 419, 420 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
ANDREW S. FULLER, Editor. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editou of tux Department of Dairy Husbandry. 
Ci. A. V. BARNETT, Publisher. 
A r \ 1 1 rAfifl 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1877. 
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE. 
Before another number of the Bubal 
New-Yorker reaches our readers, the 
first “ Fourth of July” in our second cen¬ 
tury as a nation, will have come and gone, 
with all the fun, frolic, burnt lingers, and 
powder-scented atmosphere which gener¬ 
ally prevail on this, our national birthday. 
Did we count time as many of the ancient 
nations, wo would use the numerals 101 
instead of those now employed, but it is 
perhaps better as it is, for governments 
are rather unstable structures at best, sel¬ 
dom existing longer than is necessary to 
make a dot upon the scroll of time, al¬ 
though the period may appear wonderfully 
long to those who live in it and take an 
active part in makiug its history. 
How best to celebrate the day in order 
to keep its memory green, is a question 
which admits of discussion; but as we 
gained our independence by the use of 
gunpowder, perhaps this is a lit material 
with which to perpetuate its memory. 
Yet to make a noise, burn powder, build 
bonfires and form similar exhibitions in 
order to express our patriotism and joy 
over an event, would bettor become a less 
intelligent people, still as we have not 
learned a more rational method of express¬ 
ing our gratification, perhaps it is ivell to 
continue iu the good old way for some 
time longer. 
Of course, we would not do away with 
our usual overflow of patroitic feeliugs on 
“The day we celebrate;” for of all the 
anniversaries which should bo held most 
dear to the people of the United States, 
that one which commemorates the day on 
which our forefathers proclaimed their 
freedom from, and disobedience to, a for¬ 
eign power, should be considered not. only 
sacred but held in grateful remembrance. 
Not that the mere act of disobedience of 
laws is generally commendable, but in the 
history of nations instances will sometimes 
occur, when acquiesence and submission 
to rulers are more criminal and disgrace¬ 
ful than open resistance. 
We claim that such a condition of affairs 
did exist in our history a hundred years 
ago, and brave and honest men embraced 
the opportunity of founding a government 
upon more liberal principles than any 
which had previously existed. That it 
was not perfect, wo have since learned ; 
still, we honor them for a noble attempt, 
and our progress and present prosperity 
are but the out-growth and result of Die 
far-sighted wisdom of a handful of men 
whom we honor by calling them “ revolu¬ 
tionary patriots.” 
Let us keep memory active by devotiug 
the “ Fourth of July” to patriotic amuse¬ 
ment, not forgetting to inform the risiug 
generation why and wherefore the day is 
set apart for such purposes, for it is only by 
instilling the seeds of patriotism in young 
hearts that noble fruit can be gathered in 
later years. 
♦ 4 - »- 
APPLES OF SODOM. 
On the arid shores of that Eastern Sea 
whose origin was a chastisement and 
whose existence is a warning, old travel¬ 
ers related that there grew a tree laden 
with fruit marvelously beautiful and 
luscious to the eye ; but when the pilgrim, 
wearied by a journey across the scorching 
sands that encircle the lake, sought eagerly 
for refreshment from the juices of this 
deceptive fruit, instead of the anticipated 
delight his mouth was filled with bitter¬ 
ness and ashes. As in the case of many 
another venerable myth of olden times, 
modem investigation has thrown not a 
little doubt, even on the existence of this 
Dead Sea Apple, but. the moral lesson it 
illustrated is entirely independent both of 
the nature of the phenomenon or even of 
its existence. Little need of a pilgrimage 
to the scenes of Holy Writ to discover 
that many of the objects from the owner¬ 
ship of which we have expected keen 
gratification, turn out to bo sources of 
trouble or vexation when actually in our 
possession. In this way there are few 
amoug us who have not. lasted the flavor 
of the apples of Sodom, and it hardly 
lessens our distress to reflect that often 
our own thoughtlessness, imprudence, or 
misconduct has either caused or sharpened 
our disappointment. 
How many have looked forward with 
joyful anticipations to some holiday ex¬ 
cursion or festivity the arrival of which 
has brought them only weariness or dis¬ 
gust ! And these feelings are often the 
results of some trilling annoyance, some 
petty miscarriage of our wishes, which 
shortly afterwards, is either forgotten as 
iusignifieant or remembered with a smile. 
Then, again, many a man has been so 
confident of augmenting liis bliss by 
purchasing an addition to his acres or 
making costly improvements on his home¬ 
stead Unit he has borrowed money and 
often mortgaged his land to obtaiu it, in 
order to increase his pleasure in this way, 
but in nine cases out of ten lie finds that 
he has taken a large bite out of an apple 
of Sodom, and that to get rid of its bitter 
after-taste will take long years of labor, 
hardship and anxiety; for happiness 
gained by indebtedness is nearly always 
illusive- There are not a few farmers 
who have expected help and satisfaction 
from the ownership of a mowing-machine 
or some other expensive agricultural im¬ 
plement., and then when, at length, the 
coveted treasure has come into their pos¬ 
session, use it so carelessly and leave it 
exposed so negligently to injury from the 
weather aud preventable accidents that, 
the thing soon becomes either entirely 
useless or a source of constant trouble 
and vexation. Surely these too have 
learned the taste of Dead Sea apples ! 
How many a father aud mother have 
yearned as ardently as Hannah of old to 
be blessed with children, rejoiced at their 
birth and for years dwelt with lingering 
delight on the help and consolation their 
darlings would be to them in the year's to 
come ; yet have through neglect, undue 
indulgence or harshness, so reared them 
1 that instead of joy and assistance their 
■ mismanaged offsprings have brought them 
only sorrow and distress ! Cruel is the 
r fate that forces these unhappy parents to 
eat, in their old age, of the bitter iruit 
which their own wretched hands have 
t cultivated to maturity ! The rank soil iu 
5 which revenge flourishes most luxuriantly 
is especially productive of Dead Sea 
apples. How much worry, plotting, liti- 1 
gation or even crime is often incurred to i 
accomplish man’s vindictive or spiteful f 
designs, whilo the pleasure, derivable 1 
from the fulfillment of these is, in nearly > 
every instance, confined only to anticipa- i 
tion, and leaves an after-taste whose 
bitterness is greatest when life’s end 
draws near. While a well-assorted mar¬ 
riage, to which, in addition to love, each 
partner firings a due sense of the solemnity 
and obligations of wedlock, and a spirit,of 
forbearance and compromise, is sure to 
yield content and happiness, a union lack¬ 
ing any of these conditions is not at all 
unlikely to bo fertile in Dead Sea fruits. 
Iu short those who desire never to taste 
this nauseous product would do well to 
keep clear of improvidence, idleness, in¬ 
temperance and vices of every kind, for 
the fruits of all these will inevitably have 
the flavor of the apples of Sodom. 
—-- 
OUT OF WORK. 
This is the cry in every town and vil¬ 
lage throughout the entire country from 
Maine to California, and still there are 
two sides to the story, for nine out of 
every ton of the mou who cannot find any¬ 
thing to do, would not accept work at, fair 
wages if offered them. Asa good sample 
of their earnest endeavors to find work, 
wo may cite a recent instance occurring 
in Indianapolis, (Inti,) where several 
thousand men demanded work or bread. 
The proprietors of a stone quarry at Vau- 
dalia offered employment, to a largo num¬ 
ber of these, and free passes were given 
for the railroad. Eighteen accepted the 
passes, but only five used them, and not 
one of the latter went to work. Is it any 
wonder that business flags and capitalists 
prefer to loan money at three per cent, 
rather than risk it where they will be at 
the mercy of Trades’ Unions aud untrust¬ 
worthy laborers generally ? No sooner 
does a man get the foundation of a build¬ 
ing fairly under way, than the masons 
and other laborers employed strike, and 
force him to pay higher wages or lose that 
which he has already invested. 
A few days sinoe the foundation stone 
for a new silk-mill was laid in Paterson, 
N. J., and the next day the operatives iu 
all the other mills struck, dechiriug that 
if busiuess was good enough to insure the 
building of another mill, it was certainly 
good euongli to pay better wages in those 
completed ; and this is the way it seems 
to go iu all branches of business, the la¬ 
borer blocking up the path and prevent¬ 
ing a revival of trudo and better times 
generally. It looks very much to us as 
though it was the poor who were making 
hard times, instead of capitalists and 
“ bloated monopolies at least, we know 
it is so in this city, if not elsewhere. 
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NOTES. 
Annual Excursion of the N. Y. 
Press Club.—By invitation of the man¬ 
agers of the Montclair and Greenwood 
Lake B.B. Co., the Club, ou the 22d inst., 
made an excursion to Greenwood Lake. 
Leaving the special train at. Cooper’s sta¬ 
tion—the furthest point to which the road 
now extends—the party embarked on the 
little steamer Montclair, and after a de¬ 
lightful sail through the lake, lauded at 
the AYindemere House, where a bountiful 
dinner had boon provided, to which the 
Club aud invited guests, in all about 150, 
did ample justice. After dinner, many 
entertaining speeches were made by emi- 
, nent members of the press and the bar, 
and songs and glees sung by a quartette 
, club from Plymouth Church, Brooklyn— 
. as good a club, by the way, as can be 
, found in the country. The trip, mtroduc- 
, ing as it did, most of the excursionists to 
a section of the country of which they 
. were entirely ignorant., was a highly ei> 
i joy able as well as instructive one, for 
s winch the participants ure indebted to the 
oourtesy of the Bailroad Company, who 
5 were represented on the oceasiou by Vice- 
> President Yebnam, and to the excellent 
• management of Mr. Horatio C. King, 
r Chairman of the Executive Committee of 
’• the Club. 
> --- 
} The Musical Cicadas.—It’s amus- 
i ing to see how some of our Great New 
r York City Dailies wrestle with eutomo- 
i logical subjects, aud almost invariably 
a expose their ignorance thereby. Even 
} the staid and high-toned Tribune tried its 
t hand at entomology in a lengthy editorial, 
3 a few days siuce, and attempted to say 
l something tunny about the “ seventeen 
year Cicada,” asserting that the male 
“drums the wedding march, and seeks 
his mate who is similarly engaged in 
makiug hymenial music ” all of which 
showed tliat the learned editor did not 
know that the females could not. be 
similarly engaged for the very good rea¬ 
son that they have no musical apparatus 
with which to drum, sing, or fiddle, hence 
are ever silent. TVo wonder it he can tell 
us whether it in the male or female mos¬ 
quito that bleeds us ? Being a bachelor, 
it could not be expected that he should 
know, therefore, to allay any curiosity on 
fins point., we will inform him that it is 
the Miss and Mrs. Mosquito only that 
draw blood from our veins. 
--W-—'’ 
Looking Ahead.—From 1800to 1870 
the population of Englaud increased from 
ten to twenty-eight millions, and that of 
the United States from five to thirty-eight 
millions, and it is moderately estimated 
that among civilized nations the popula¬ 
tion now doubles iu each period of fifty- 
four years. The advances made in 
hygienic science, and tho comparative 
mildness of modern warfare are mainly 
responsible for this rapid increase, fright¬ 
ful in view of future consequences. It is 
a subject of not a little anxiety among 
provident. Englishmen of to-day, how the 
fifty-six millions of mouths which, in a 
short half century, will bo craving for 
food within the narrow borders of that 
country, can be satisfactorily filled, and it 
is enough to keep a philanthropist per¬ 
plexedly awake, o’ nights, to reflect on the 
difficulty of feeding the dense population 
of the earth a couple of thousand years 
hence. 
-- 
Flight, of Beetles.They have had 
quite a sensation in the village of Frank¬ 
lin, \Yis., in tho way of a swarm of bee¬ 
tles which lately passed over that, place. 
The Milwaukee papers make extended 
comments upon the occurrence ; but, 
strange to say, no one who saw or caught 
specimens of these insects seems to know 
their names or anything about them. 
Where are the entomologists of Wisconsin 
or t heir colleges and institutions of learn¬ 
ing? Are they too much engaged in the 
study of dead languages to learu anything 
about our most common insects. If some 
one will send us a specimen we will ven¬ 
ture to tell its common and scientific 
names. 
BREVITIES. 
The latest from the seat of war in Asia: The 
crescent is cross. 
Thirty-nine varieties of strawberries were 
shown at the June meeting or the Alton (IU-,) 
Horticultural Society, which was more than 
thirty too many. 
Some of our old farmers are looking about Tor 
models of the Thomas Smoothing Harrow, which 
was iu use prior to 1868. the date of J. J.’s 
patent, and it is just possible that such will be 
found. 
At the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society, to he held at Liverpool July 11, 
thirty thousand dollars arc offered in premiums, 
which in all probability will insure a good show 
of form products generally. 
Oub New England contemporaries report the 
h&v crop to be most abundant, and that it will 
bo excellent if gathered iu time and the weather 
proves tiue, all of wbioh is prospectively good 
news to farm stock and their owners. 
A Minnesota man reports that he has cleared 
the grasshoppers from three thousand acres by 
the use of a machine, aud now he only needs a 
fence high and tight enough to keep out new¬ 
comers, to be comparatively safe lor one season 
at least. 
tVfi have received from Mrs. B. Smith, Phila¬ 
delphia, a 20-page pamphlet of “Dairymen’s 
Receipts,” which is sent to all who desire it, we 
believe, for a 3-cent stamp. We speak of it be¬ 
cause of our surprise at finding so much desira¬ 
ble information, where we usually expect to find 
—an ad vertisement. 
A Western weather prophet liaB issued a 
synopsis of ‘'probabilities for I be remainder 
of 1877 and up to April. ’78. Of the truth of 
his predictiuua we shall lie able to judge as the 
time conies around, just as wo always have done, 
although oui prophet doubtless believes that 
“coming events cast their shadows before.' 
The Canadian Entomological Society sent a 
large collection of insects to the great Centen¬ 
nial Exhibition at Philadelphia. The Judges, 
however, did not examine it. but as “ sop the 
Commissioners sc-ut a two-dollar silver medal to 
our Caundiau friends as a reward for their labors 
in contributing so much to the Show. Uur en¬ 
tomologists knew the character of the Centen¬ 
nial Com mission-too well to bo caught with sop, 
hence kept their oolleatious at home, and had 
they warned others to do the same, there would 
have been a great hue and cry about “opposi¬ 
tion to the Show.” 
BUSINESS NOTIC ES. 
The liest Oil for Harness ts the celebrated 
Vacuum On., made at Rochester. N. Y., and sold by 
harness makers everywhere. 
