THE BUBAL HEW-YO BiKEB. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PRACTICAL DlCPARTMBNTS: 
Ferns, Cultivation of... 
Shrubs. Pruning Deciduous. 
Canada. WhilTn from. 
: TreeB Dropping their Fruit. 
Rose, Gbrontic C« oblige... 
California Indians. Trees and Plants used by... 
Butter, To Make (rood. 
Dairy Produels, The Outlook on. 
Horses Colic In.... 
, Horse Brooding. J adielous. 
Lambs Spring..... 
Sheep Dm..... 
Engine. The Book-waiter. 
! Engines lor Front., Farm. . 
U. S. C(Milennial Commission. A Scandal in Con¬ 
nection with the. . . 
Poultry Fating Potato Bugs... 
Chickens, Pigs and..... 
Caterpillars, Wtlnging. ••• 
Beetle, The New rurpet— . 
Bee-Keeping, Successful. 
Answers to correspondents. 
Flowers. Knack In Arranging. 
Keelpes.-...... 
Useful Hints... 
Sleep. 
Ailments, Spring. . 
Hair Grow. Making... 
Hygienic Notes..... 
Humboldt. Tcnn., Crops About. 
Editorial Pacjk: 
Where to Go....... 
Hegira, The July. 
Notes—Brevities...... 
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Story... 
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Miscellaneous. .. .. 
J,tidies* Portfolio. 
Bending tor the young 
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Sabbath Beading........ 
News Postscript.... 
Markets.. 
Publisher** Notices... 
News of the Week. 
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Personals... 
Humorous. 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
ANDREW S. FULLER, Editor. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M„ Little Falls, N. Y., 
EdITOB OF THB DBFABTMBKT OF DilBY IIUSBiNDBY. 
G. A. C. BARNETT, Publisher. 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
i78 Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1877. 
WHEKE TO Q0. 
Americans are proverbially au uneasy 
race, always seeking to better their for¬ 
tunes by xnoviug about from place to 
place. In confirmation of this, we are in 
receipt of letters by almost every mail, 
written by unfortunate persons who seek 
advice in regard to the advisability of 
going somewhere to find that “land of 
promise” which thay have long been 
seeking, but have never yet found. 
Residents of Texas are looking to Cali¬ 
fornia, or perhaps Oregon, as a desirable 
place in which to seek and find the de¬ 
sirable residences for which they yearn. 
Virginia, of late, has come in for a goodly 
share of inquiry, but, at least, one man 
who now resides in the Old Dominion 
thinks of going elsewhere, for not long 
since he asked us what we thought the 
chances were for a man to make money at 
farming in Maine. “ Go West!” has long 
been the popular cry ; but when one gets 
there, he will meet with just as many dis¬ 
contented people as anywhere else, and 
he need not be surprised to find a goodly 
number of families packing up their 
household goods preparatory to “ going 
East. ” Like a community of ants, some 
are going one way and some another, and, 
it would seem, with less reason than that 
which actuates the little insects in their 
movements, for these do really stick to 
their homes, while many people do not, 
but spend their lives in seeking one. 
All this uneasiness arises from a lack of 
close observation and sound reasoning on 
the part of the masses, for did they pos i 
sess these qualities, the fact that there 
are successful men in every community 
would show them that the chances of 
prosperity in the various occupations and 
localities are pretty evenly distributed. 
The Astors, Stewarts, and Vanderbilts 
build up colossal fortunes in New York 
City, but we would not hold up these as 
inducements for young or old men to 
flock hither and try to do the same. Men 
have gone to Colorado, Texas, California, 
and other of the new States and Terri¬ 
tories, and there made fortunes in a very 
few years; but while a few have been 
successful, hundreds have remained as 
poor as they were when first starting out 
for these lands of promise. The old ad¬ 
ages about “rolling stones gathering no 
moss” and “sitting hens never getting 
fat" have representatives in every com¬ 
munity, and for our part, we have yet to 
find the place where everybody is rich, 
comfortable, and contented. There is 
doubtless room for a choice of localities, 
and it is foi’tunate that all do not clioose 
alike, for were this so, we might find 
some States deserted and others over¬ 
crowded. 
The best place to go is where inclina¬ 
tion leads, provided circumstances will 
admit of our doing so. As for remaining 
there, inclination and conditions must de¬ 
termine. 
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THE JULY HEGIKA, 
“ The roses climb the garden wall, 
The buds are past their blowing, 
The sntniuer’s balmy breezes call. 
And we must soon be going 
Every means for leaviug the city seems 
now to be fully employed. Railroad 
trains and steamboats are well laden and 
the amount of luggage and impedimenta 
generally that accompanies the traveler is 
simply enormous. The baggage smasher 
is in his glory, The desertion of the city 
for the summer trill soon be accomplished. 
Mountain resorts, country hotels, rural 
boarding bouses and eea-side shelters are 
rapidly filling up and the demand on 
Washington Market for fresh vegetables 
and spring chickens with which to supply 
the tables of liostelries within a radius of 
a hundred miles is rapidly increasing. 
Whole streets in the fashionable quarter 
will soon be abandoned, or at least look 
so, as the front blinds of the houses will 
be carefully kept closed until frost comes, 
whether the residents be at home or not. 
God made the country, man made the 
town. And however much one may be 
attached to the pomps and vanities of city 
life, it is with a feeling of joy and grati¬ 
tude that the green fields of the country 
are sought. This is particularly the case 
with those whose youth was spent there, 
and whose attachment to town is an sd'ter- 
growtb. In such cases “the expulsive 
energy of the new affection ” is seldom 
strong enough to overcome the love that 
grew with their growth and strengthened 
with their strength, and there is almost 
always a hope, or at least a dosire to some¬ 
time return to country* life. To be sure, 
this desire is often the child of imagina¬ 
tions. Memory shows the bright places, 
while time has dimmed our recollection 
of such things as were unpleasant; and 
we often see those whom fortune has 
favored to such an extent pecuniarily as 
to enable them to live where they choose, 
fitting up splendid establishmcuts in the 
country, as unlike the rural homes of 
their boyhood as possible but in which 
they think they will be content to spend 
the*rest of their days, only to be disap¬ 
pointed in the result, and return after a 
few years to their city life with its cares 
and anxieties. 
llut it is of those who go to the country 
for only a few weeks in the summer that 
we commenced to write. Did space and 
time admit, it would be an agreeable oc¬ 
cupation to divide these into classes, and 
consider the reasons why they go, the 
amusements they choose, the lives they 
lead, and the results usually obtained. 
We are of opinion that a close inquiry 
would show that the number who really 
go for rest and quiet enjoyment is pro¬ 
portionately small, and that fashion exerts 
her power here as elsewhere. We are 
confident that hut few of the number can 
find in the hotels or boarding-houses to 
which they resort the physical comforts 
they leave behind them. It is not our 
lot to reside in a palatial mansion, but 
common as is our abiding place, we doubt 
if there is one out of town where we could 
be more comfortable. 
To us the great drawback in going to 
the country is the sleeping arrangements. 
Balmy sleep isn’t usually so balmy in a 
strange place, and those who invite sum¬ 
mer boarders, as a rule, don’t furnish 
woven wire springs and hail* mattrasses. 
We are not over-given to sleep, but what 
we do in that line we like to have contin¬ 
uous, and during the hours devoted to 
Somnus, willingly dispense with the atten¬ 
tions of the musical mosquito, the agile 
flea, and the sanguinary bed-bug. If we 
want the cooling breezes, the reviving 
baths, and the glorious surf of old ocean, 
Coney Island and Rockaway are but an 
hour distant. A pleasant ride, a never 
tiresome sight and a healthful plunge are 
all to be had between supper and bed¬ 
time. Our parks and boulevards are 
really more enjoyable than the fields and 
dusty roads of the country ; and as for 
our food, there is no place in the world 
where the variety to choose from is so 
great, or the quality better than in our 
markets. 
But do you never go for a vacation in 
the country ? ask you. Certainly : and 
with pleasure. We go for chaDge not 
rest. We are glad to look upon new 
scenes, to meet new people, and get from 
them new ideas, to visit old friends and 
revive old associations, and to come back 
feeliug stronger for the work before ns. 
Wo reverence the country, country life, 
and country people, and rejoice every day 
of our lives that we were country born 
and bred ; but we have also a regard for 
the city—the great heart of the body 
politic," tho great organ of circulation 
through which flows the current that 
gives life and health to the country. We 
go to the country whenever time and cir¬ 
cumstances admit, and return to the city, 
when we must, not as to a work-house or 
prison, but to our borne and to our duty. 
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NOTES. 
Hard Times.—For tho past three 
years we have heard little else in com¬ 
mercial circles but complaints and com¬ 
ments on the hard, dull tunes, and while 
theories have been abuudant, as to causes 
their authors fail to tell us when there is 
to come a change for the better. A 
gentleman of our acquaintance said a few 
days since that he had over three hundred 
thousand dollars which was paying him 
only two per cent, per annum. “But,” 
said he, “can any one tell me where I 
can safely invest it at better rates ?” The 
shrinkage in the value of real estate has 
made capitalists eveu mistrust and avoid 
loaning money on mortgages, a kind of 
security which was formerly considered 
to be one of the best. The whole nation 
seems to be taking a rest after the exciting 
race in which all took pari during the 
war, and this is the only explanation we 
can give of the present hard times. 
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Tea Culture in America. —Hun¬ 
dreds of experiments have been made in 
years past with the Tea-plant in various 
"parts of the United States for the purpose 
of ascertaining if it was adapted to our 
soil and climate; and although in many 
instances they have proved successful, so 
far as the growth of plants was concerned, 
still the high price of labor has hereto¬ 
fore prevented extending its cultivation. 
Of late, experiments in Tea-culture have 
attracted considerable attention in Cali¬ 
fornia ; but the same difficulties which 
have attended it elsewhere in this country 
prevent any considerable progress ; and 
the Pacific Rural Press, in referring to 
the subject, very pertinently remarks, 
“ We have no room to believe, from the 
present quality and price of labor in the 
State, that we can produce tea profitably.” 
A remark that is true of it everywhere in 
North America. 
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The Barn Prizes.—The $100 in 
three prizes, offered hi the Rural of 
March 10 for plans of a “ General-Pur¬ 
pose Barn,” have been awarded and 
checks fur the amounts forwarded to the 
lucky winners, who probably will have 
received them ere they read this announce¬ 
ment. Next week we will give the names 
of these fortunate gentlemen and other 
competitors, also a very full report by the 
examining committee, who have spent 
much time and labor over the numerous 
Ilians and essays sent in for competition. 
This report, we think, will prove both in¬ 
structive and interesting to all parties 
concerned in the prizes, as well as to a 
majority of our readers. 
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Stamping* Out Luseets.— Mr. An¬ 
drew Murray, a noted entomologist of 
England, proposes to organize the entire 
agricultural community into a force for 
stamping out noxious insects under the 
direction of some competent authority, 
who is capable of giving the necessary 
instruction therefor. Tins would be a 
good move in any community where the 
necessary knowledge eould be distributed, 
and must certainly work well with such 
large and well-known species as the Colo¬ 
rado potato beetle, grasshoppers, and the 
like. We would like to see some such 
move made in the United States, and it 
might easily be done by issuing circulars 
of instruction from the agricultural soci¬ 
eties of the different States. 
Florida English.—A writer in one 
of our city cotemporaries criticises its 
editor for not understanding “Florida 
English,” inasmuch as the said editor 
was ignorant of the fact that, ‘ ‘ down 
South” the ground squirrels, known 
almost everywhere else as “ Gophers,” 
were called" “Salamanders.” Now we 
see in one of our dailies that another 
Florida man writes about the laud tortoise 
under the name of “Gophers,” which 
compels us to think there should be no 
more outcry against scientific names, 
while common local ones are so puzzling. 
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BREVITIES. 
Field fires are causing almost as great losses 
in California as the forest fires in the Eastern 
States. 
In talking about “ specifics ” a Jersey man says 
that he has found one, and that is Paris green 
for the potato beetle. 
The James Veiteh strawberry is highly praised 
by Borne of the English gardeners, and it is Baid 
to to a tirst-rato sort for forcing under glass. 
Southebn peaches arc already in our market, 
but for size they may be classed with the variety 
of bean known as 41 ono thousand to one,” and 
below the average at that. 
A scientific expedition around the world is 
proposed, requiring two years for its consumma¬ 
tion. Here is a chance for old or young men 
who have money, leisure and curiosity. 
Ornamental-leaved walnuts are coming into 
vogue in England. One of a fine cut-leaved 
sort, and another with a weeping habit are 
announced among the choice trees for lawn and 
shade. 
Lady Those, the celebrated trotting mare, 
died at the Fashion Ntud Farm, Trenton, N. J , 
on the morning of July 1. She was over twenty 
years old, and had trotted in fifty-two races, 
winning forty-three of them. 
Some genius, with no corn to hoe or grass to 
mow. has been spending his time in figuring out 
the amount of salt in the ocean, and makes out 
that there is enough to cover the entire bed 
about four hundred and fifty feet thick. 
The production of silk in the United States 
appears to be on the decline in spite of all at¬ 
tempts to revive and encourage sericulture. Iu 
I860 about twelve thousand pounds of cocoons 
were raised, but in 1870 the production had 
falien oil to a little over twreo t housand pounds. 
The plum curculio is said to he ravaging tho 
peach orchards of Maryland this season, some¬ 
thing which was never known to occur before. 
If this insect should take to the peach and work 
at it as freely as it has on plums, peach growers 
may as well cut down their trees, and save them¬ 
selves further trouble. 
Floatino apiaries are proposed 44 Ont West,’’ 
as it is thought, by their use, a man may com¬ 
mence with the opening of flowers in spring, and 
sweep both banks of the Mississippi of their nec¬ 
tar up to St. Paul, Mum., by tho beginning of 
winter ; then float down again, and be in readi¬ 
ness to repeat the operation again the following 
year. 
A German statistician has compiled, from 
official sources, an abstract of the average pro¬ 
duction of grain in the more important countries 
of the world. According to this statement Rus¬ 
sia is ahead of ail other nations in its yield of 
cereals, leading the United States by 3TH,U5u,uuu 
bushels, or nearly one-fourth of tho entire pro¬ 
duction of this country. Germany comes next, 
with less than one-half the amount produoed by 
us, and id closely followed by France, while Groat 
Britain yields loss than half the production of 
her industrious neighbor across the Channel, 
and Austro-finugary holds a position nearly mid¬ 
way between the two. 
In our advertising columns will be found the 
announcement of Messrs. J. Zimmerman & Co., 
Mansfield, Ohio. They make a Fruit and Veg¬ 
etable Dryer that lias some special merits. It iB 
made of a substantial frame of hard wood, cov¬ 
ered with galvanized iron, arranged with a two- 
inch space between each rack and dryer for a free 
circulation of heat through the fruit. The fur¬ 
nace is made of cast iron, in which can be used 
either coal or wood. It is portable, fire-proof, 
economical, labor-saving, and altogether such a 
contrivance as is especially useful at this season 
of the year. Explanatory circulars may bo had 
by addressing the firm. 
44 Thb proof of the puddidg ” seems to justify 
the results anticipated in the cases of the 
Messrs. Williams, St. Jobusville, N. Y. They 
inaugurated the season on the " cash” system, 
and have greatly increased the sale of their 
threshers. It is undoubtedly advantageous to 
the farmer to have his cash in his pocket when 
he intends buying an implement, us he not only 
saves money,'but the annoyance of preparing to 
meet obligations, which generally fall due when 
least convenient. Tho Williams Thresher is too 
well known to require special mention, but we 
do wish to accentuate the firm's plan of doing 
business, which is a commendable one. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
The Best Oil for Harness is the celebrated 
Vacuum Oil, made at Rochester, N. Y., and sold by 
harness makers everywhere. 
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