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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Practical departments: 
Hemlock, The Weepine. 37 
Harvest Home*, Knalieh. 87 
Clover Huy, Curlntr. 38 
Artichoke, The Jerusalem . 38 
GorBe, Furze or \v hl»... 38 
Fertility. Effect ot Dairying on.. 3 
Churn. How to...... 38 
Sheep Fanning. Commencing. 3!* 
Amerlcun Reel Again... 31) 
Stock, l.ook to Vuur..— 30 
Jute unit It# Uses—. 39 
Scientific and useful Notes. 39 
Correction, A. 48 
Zinc Collar Pad. The... . . 40 
Hogs, Kheuniutlnni in.... 40 
Poultry Note#.. 40 
Poultry si ml Potato Ueetlcs. 40 
Hired Men, Concerning:. 40 
Ground Mole, That... 40 
Garden... 41 
Gooseberry, Roe '# Sued line.. 41 
Cactus Family. Mom on the. 41 
Clematis.Iackmanni . 41 
Luntana# .. 41 
Rtclous Glbsonl... 41 
Catalogue*, Ac , Received..,,.... 41 
Economizing Steps..... 42 
Recipe#.!. ........ 42 
Feather Red, The Other Side of the Old. 42 
Two Meals a Day . ... 42 
Nap, Take a.... 42 
Disease Feeders. Funerals as. . ....... 42 
Poison Ivy. Remedy for... 42 
Malaria, Marsh. 43 
Answer# to Correspondents. 43 
EDITOIUAj. PACK! 
Wards, Our Refractory. 
Debt, Get out of. 
Notes—Brevities. 
Literary : 
A Fish Palace—No. 2... 
Coney Island. 
Story. 
Poetry... 
Miscellaneous. 
Recent Literature. 
Ladies' Portlollo. 
Reading for the Young 
Puzzler. . .. 
Babbath Reading. 
Markets. 
News of the Week. 
Everywhere. 
Personals........... ... 
Huinoroux. 
Publisher's Notices... 
Advertisements. 
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THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
A A <1 rr»fcw 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1877. 
We take pleasure in announcing that we shall, 
next week, begin the publication of a serial of 
rare interest, entitled “ Paullne.” It is from 
the pen of Mr. L. B. Walfoed, whose charming 
story, “Mr. Smith,” will doubtless be remem¬ 
bered. 
Oue young friends should give their special 
attention to “ Uncle Turn's letter, iu this issue. 
The man nor and matter is equally interesting 
and important. 
We shall begin in next week’s Rural a series 
of articles entitled “Practical Notes from the 
ment “rich in plunder,” and the wound¬ 
ing of about a baker’s dozen of our Wards, 
while Poor Lo has industriously patroled 
the entire region, taking stock here, 
ponies there, and to diversify the monoto¬ 
ny of killing more white men, women and 
children, he has sent to their celestial 
home a bout load of twenty or more inof¬ 
fensive Chinese. It will be seen, therefore, 
that the odds arc in favor of Chief 
Joseph. 
If it costs as much to kill an Indian as 
is stated, the sooner we sell two or 
three more tons of 4 per cents, the better. 
It may be as well, just hero, to look 
into the causes of the latest outbreak. 
Not a great many months ago, Joseph 
was a peaceable fellow, lie was not a 
“ treaty Indian,” but nevertheless bowed 
to the inevitable, and retired with his 
family and a few followers to a quiet val¬ 
ley where life was a dream, and 
“ The world forgetting, 
Was by the world forgot;" 
or nearly so. Our ex-Presideut hod assur¬ 
ed him that lie should not be disturbed, 
and then, for somo unexplained reason, 
disturbed him. Joseph submitted and 
moved on, until one day a few members 
of his band were met by a party of en¬ 
lightened settlers, who coveted the ironies 
the Indians had in their possession. It 
was the merest pastime to wantonly kill 
the Indians and take tho stock, and J o- 
seph was, of course, a degraded savage, to 
resent a trifle like that. 
In time the Iudians retaliated, but not 
fin ding the original perpetrators of the 
crime they thirsted to avenge, they mur¬ 
dered a selected assortment of men and 
women who were guiltless of auy outrage. 
Hence the war. 
Chief Joseph says ho appreciates the 
gravity of his position, and expects to be 
killed along with the rest of his band, but 
that in dying he docs not propose that his 
enemies’ undertakers shall have a sin¬ 
ecure. 
It will be seen, then, as in most of our 
troubles with the Iudians, the provocation 
has, iu the first instance, been supplied 
by the pale-faces. What with our Indian 
agents, contractors and treaty-breakers, it 
is no wonder we have to sacrifice such 
men as Ouster, Rains and Canby, and 
the pity of it is, we shall have to continue 
to sacrifice life until we learn to deal hon¬ 
Farm," by our old Associate, Mr. Wm. J. 
Fowler. 
estly with the Indians. 
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OUE KEFRACT 0 RY WARDS. 
We have scarcely had time to forget the 
horrors of the Custer massacre when we 
have tidings of the death of Lieut. Rains 
on the Pacifio coast, killed while bravely 
charging the hostiles at the head of a 
handful of soldiers. This time it is Chief 
Joseph, or as wo suppose he might be 
termed in the Indian vernacular, Old-man- 
not-afraid-of-the-U. S. At any rate he 
has taken up arms regardless of conse¬ 
quences, and up to tho present time has 
not only defied the American Eagle, but 
administered some very heavy blows on 
the heads of its representatives. The 
regulars have proved inadequate in num¬ 
bers to meet tho exigencies of the case, 
and the President has issued a call for 
volunteers. Latest advices represent tho 
savages as having been beaten back from 
their advanced strongholds, and in retreat 
toward the Camas Prairie, and yet un¬ 
official reports relate how this demoralized 
band of brothers are constantly receiving 
accessions from the hordes of friendly In¬ 
dians that are clustered round about the 
theater of war, and notwithstanding our 
success, as graphically telegraphed by 
that renowned strategist, Gen. Howard, 
the ignorant barbarians, by some Iiocub- 
pocus, continually flank our army, and 
commit miscellaneous depredations any¬ 
where from 75 to 100 miles in the rear of 
the so-called aggressive force. The net 
results of the war so far have been the cap¬ 
ture by our troops of an Indian encamp¬ 
GET OUT OF DEBT. 
Advices from nearly every State in the 
Union assure us of the exoellent condition 
of the crops, and of favorable prospects 
for the future. The prices, too, lor farm 
produce are, as a rule, considerably higher 
titan during ordinary years, iu which the 
harvest has been equally abundant. A 
large yield of cereals and other agricultu¬ 
ral products has generally eutailed low 
prices, in accordance with the iuevitable 
laws of supply and demand, The Euro¬ 
pean War, however, is likely to prevent 
this customary effect, during the present 
year. Of the supply of grain needed by 
Great Britain and other countries which 
do not raise enough for sell-support, a 
large proportion has, iu past, years, been 
furnished by the South of Bussia. The 
ports ou the Black Sea, whence this wa6 
exported, arc now blockaded by the Turk¬ 
ish fleet, and supplies from this source 
can no longer reach the customary mar¬ 
kets. 
The demands on this country are sure, 
therefore, to be much larger than usual, 
and howover abundant, our crops, this 
cause will probably keep up prices until 
the close of the war. It would bo highly 
unsafe, however, for farmers to speculate 
on a long continuance of this, and conse¬ 
quently to hold back their produce in ex¬ 
pectation of higher prices. The tendency 
of modern warfare is to a brief, vigorous 
campaign or two, and an early peace; and 
immediately on the cessation of the pres¬ 
ent hostilities the prices of our cereals are 
certain to fall. 
The only safe course, therefore, is to 
sell at ouco, at a fair figure, and leave to 
others the uncertainties and risks of spec¬ 
ulation. By following this wise practice, 
there is a fair prospect that the financial 
pressure, under which our farmers have 
been lately groaning, will be lightened 
during the present season, and it is much 
to l>e hoped that the lessons iu economy 
and thrift which necessity has, in the last 
few years, forced npon them, shall not be 
forgotten on the advent of better times. 
Above all things, tho first, use every man 
should make of returning prosperity is to 
get rid of indebtedness. It. is the boast, 
of the American farmer that his position 
is one of the most independent in the 
country, but this vaunt can never be 
truthfully uttered by those iu debt. 
This is the modern form of tin: Old 
Man of the Sen which never allows rest or 
comfort to the wretch who trudges under 
its weight. Its pressure, too, is soon 
likely to grow heavier, on account of the 
contraction of the currency certain to re¬ 
sult from the approaching return to specie 
payments, and on this account alone, if 
on no other, prompt measures should be 
taken by every sensible man to clear oft’ 
all forms of indebtedness at the earliest 
possible moment. 
NOTES. 
A Suggestive Example.—During 
the last, six years Bussia, with a popula¬ 
tion aggregating 85 millions, imported 
foreign sugar to the amount of only $650,- 
000 per annum, the remainder of the vast 
quantity consumed throughout, the em¬ 
pire, having been manufactured from beet 
roots. During the same period the United 
States with a population of 88 millions, 
and a large domestic production of cane 
sugar, has sent out of the country, every 
year, au average of §200,000,000 to pay 
for Iter importations of foreign sugar. 
Were manufactories of beet-root sugar 
established throughout those districts 
favorable to the culture of these roots, as 
thickly os they are to-day in similar re¬ 
gions in Europe, this vast stun might an¬ 
nually be kept at home to eDrich the en¬ 
terprising manufacturers, their numerous 
workmen, and a multitude of farmers who 
would find a profitable market for their 
roots at the factories, and for other farm 
produce, among the operatives. The 
thing has been a success elsewhere and 
must be here, when capital shall bo con¬ 
tent with a moderate but certain interest. 
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Opium Cases.—A deat.li in Texas 
seems to have resulted from pills taken as 
au opium cure. It is a most natural 
thing that people who have surrendered 
themselves to this captivating though 
terrible habit, should when first they 
catch a glimpse of the despair anti death 
to which, however circuitously, it surely 
leads, should grasp at any straw of hope 
that, is offered for disinthraUment. Na¬ 
ture, led astray by slow steps, is equally 
slow in finding its way buck. It is too 
ready to join hands with the corrupter 
and to insist, upon a continuation of 
friendly relations. Substitutes for such 
evils are but a change of evils, aud we 
might just as reasonably hope by the use 
of medicine to be able to transfer our love 
from an object which inspires it to one 
which does not, as to core the Opium 
Habit by the pills which arc advertised 
all over the country. Force of Will is 
the only medicine to which we can look 
with the least hope of assistance. That 
is our opinion. 
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A Possible Remedy.—Virginians 
claim that since the whipping post was 
re-established iu their State most of the 
jails have remained empty, petty crimes 
have almost ceased and vagrants have be¬ 
come scarce in the streets and on the 
country roads. Upwards of a dozen years 
ago, robbery by gurrotiug was outrage¬ 
ously common iu English cities, and after 
many protests from mawkish philanthro¬ 
pists, a law was passed enacting the ap¬ 
plication of the lash to the ruffians who 
perpetrated outrages of this kind. The 
burly scoundrels who brutally assailed 
inoffensive citizens, and laughed at the 
chances of imprisonment., wept and cringed 
under the sting of the “cat,” and soon 
this form of crime became a thing of the 
past. If the outrages committed by 
tramps, accounts of which reach us from 
every part of the country, shall continue, 
it may become necessary to resort to this 
heroic treatment to put an end to them. 
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Oleomargarine. —In Europe Oleo- 
margerino is openly sold, no longer under 
the guise of butter but under its legiti¬ 
mate name, and the. signs Margerine and 
Butterine are as common as those of 
sugar aud coffee. Those who have used 
it prefer it to the commoner sorts of 
butter, and its growing popularity will in¬ 
evitably check or prevent the exportation 
from this conn try of all inferior qualities 
of that article. If American manufac¬ 
turers and dealers in this novel product 
manage their business on honorable prin¬ 
ciples, their wares will soon doubtless, 
obtain a permanent foothold openly in 
onr markets, where they will speedily 
supersede all the poor grades of butter, 
which even at present, are often a drug in 
the market. It behooves our farmers 
and dairymen, therefore, to pay every 
attention'to the manufacture of a quality 
of butter so excellent that this new com¬ 
petitor can never match it. 
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The Brooklyn Swill-Milk case, 
just concluded by the acquittal of the de¬ 
fendants Gaff, Flklsch.man A- Co. who 
let out stalls by t he week to cattle owners, 
cannot fail to leave the impression upon 
tho public mind that tho above named 
firm are constantly committing a crime 
against morality, even if the technicalities 
of the law allow them to go scott-free. 
Few of onr subscribers can appreciate 
the enormity of this offence because their 
own cows are generally fed upon the best 
food the laud affords. Still it should 
serve as a reminder that too much care 
cannot be taken in feeding and watering 
live stock with only that which is whole¬ 
some and pure. It is to be hoped that 
Mr. Burgh trill eventually be able to 
change the law or overcome its technicali¬ 
ties, so as to bring these monsters of 
cruelty to the judgment which they so 
richly deserve. 
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Russian Trotters.—Last week there 
was a public exhibition of Russian trot¬ 
ters, at Fleetwood Park, near this city. 
The attendance was mainly composed of 
people interested in racing, many of whom 
were sorely disappointed on finding there 
M ould be no competition and, consequent¬ 
ly, no opportunity for gambling. The 
animals, haring been a long time out of 
training, Mere too fat to be in good trim 
for speed. They are larger and more 
heavily built than our trotters, and would 
probably lmve but a slim chance, even 
when in their best condition, in compet¬ 
ing over a mile or two with our American 
rattlers ; yet in a steady, uniform pull of 
four or five miles, the latter would bo in¬ 
evitably beaten. The foreigners, are, 
therefore, more serviceable but less showy 
than our own overrated flyers. 
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BREVITIES. 
Michigan' lias a poet horticulturist, aud he 
Hatli-a-way of his own of expressing himself in 
print. 
As San Francisco has forty-one breweries, 
there is no necessity for the young man to go 
(y)e&st. 
Just at tins season, the city man delightedly 
calls to mind the existence of a country cousin, 
and, to make up for past forgotfnluess and neg¬ 
lect. visits him for a month with his wife and 
eleven children. 
An article on the “ Cultivation of Corn,” 
which appeared iu our last issue, was credited, by 
mistake, to the Scientific American instead of to 
the Scientific Farmer, in which excellent paper 
it was first published. 
At tho Thorn Hill Agricultural Society’s Fair, 
there was exhibited a new sieve for grading corn 
aud wheat and taking from the grain all foul 
seeds, as well as evening the wheat. The sieve 
can be made to fit, any famiing-miU. 
A Main St., Hartford, sample room presents 
a dubious sign A standing afgn reads, ■’Mitch¬ 
ell's sample room, 1 but a transient sign ot lager 
beer has been placed over it so as to obscure the 
first four letters of the proprietor’s name. Let¬ 
ter lot it he there. There could not be a more 
appropriate name for a rum shop than “ Hell’s 
Harnple Ituorn. ” 
Notwithstanding the complaints of “ hard 
times," heard on every side, the business failures 
iu the United States, during the last year, wore 
tar fewer and smaller in amount than those in 
England or Canada. Tho necessity for economy 
has been strongly impressed upon all classes, and 
lias had a salutary effect iu curtailing expenses 
and speculation. 
It has been proposed, of late, iu England, 
that horses should be imported from this coun¬ 
try for the uso of theiintish cavalry service. We 
shall rejoice to fill all orders for horses for this, 
as well as for auy other purpose, the more bo, 
perhaps, as judgiug from England's recent dog¬ 
ged adherence to a " peace policy,” there is little 
prospect of the animals being used for belliger¬ 
ent purposes. 
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for a good man, with cash, to take a share in a well-es¬ 
tablished Nursery business. Address P. O. Drawer 
247, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
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