TABLE OP CONTENTS, 
fortune delights to favor, and the scoffs 
of those who think themselves by all odds, 
higher bred, and that they “have forgoL 
ten more than the others ever knew, ” etc,, 
etc., will never have much weight in ob¬ 
liging “fortune ” to be more discriminate 
in the distribution of her favors. 
Wo would advice our young friends 
who aspire to an early “ independence ” 
(whatever that may mean), to perform 
the work set them—no matter what it is 
as well as they know how j and when 
the same work is again set them, to do it 
better than before and, if possible, in 
less time. Never take for granted that 
you cannot improve on previous efforts. 
Many imagine that if they accomplish 
mean work in a manner satisfactory 
to their employers, they will only bo 
kept at it the longer. Selfishness, if no 
higher motive on their part, urges a 
directly opposite course. The emnlover 
within the reach of even those heretofore 
addicted to the reading of trash almost 
exclusively. These cheap editions are 
meeting with an enormous sale. News¬ 
stands in city and country are loaded with 
them Great rivalry in the issuing of 
them lias sprung up among a certain class 
of publishers. Its immediate effect lias 
u en to compel the well-known publish¬ 
ers of standard works of fiction to lower 
their prices materially, and only copy¬ 
righted works are sold at the old price's 
ings, and, not least, that clearness of 
skin and polish which betoken refine¬ 
ment ; and do not all these features 
educate the eye and fascinate the imagi¬ 
nation ?” We have heard much of the 
refining influences of flowers, etc., etc.— 
aud we believe in them heartily ; but as 
to potatoes “ fascinating the imagination 
and educating the eye 1” Well, perhaps 
tins is true also—only we cannot quite 
assimilate it all at once. 
PR-A CTICAL DEPA RTMENT8 *. 
Premium Plan of a General.P 
ron ’,,-. Vi A r i ','!" re '** « Fertilizer—No.: 
Cellars, Aljo't Hoot. 
JottluuA a; Kirby Homestead....."..."" 
Cora. Manuring f->> , . 
Cottage. A On,-Story.. 
Geranium*. Wlnterlmr ... 
Flowers far fit. Garden*... .".'.‘.'I. 
Gardeoirur Pee.Talks. 
Extiicts hom.' 
cataloirne*, *r\, Heeelved 
Graoes and Other Mutters, Some...'.;;;'.'.. 
Caterpillars Tho Web. 
1 nmighia from a Farm. 
Briefteis . . 
Filterlnir Orlnklrnr Water.'.'".".. ". 
lie"u,Js" I ‘"' y uehUon - TI| e Feather Bed 
J>1 m e. So rnetli t'-'ifatiout,"..",. 
Cattle. To Ascertain the.' 
Kura.1 Kp**dti| J<e|>nrt».. 
Cow*, Kail Treatment of.. *. 
Hooey, (»rout Vlelde of.. . .* 
Dteaiu engines. Trial of. 
kdxtobial page; 
To OnrYoumt Friends. 
Cheap Novels. . 
Notes—Brevities.‘ 
Litkrahv ; 
Poetry... „ 
Btorr. .. 
Monutonr Bonnean... 
Brlc-a-Hrsf. . 
Mlscellane m.v .. . 
Recent literature..” 
Books Received.. 
I adies 1 Portfolio. .. 
Cast Down, but not Destroyed.., 
llie ( liemote! Litl Us Abolish It. 
Scraps troju aNota-Book 
Keadlna for the Vodnic 
That Nall in llv Hoot... 
Letters lrom Buys mid Girls....’.’.’.'.' ". 
Puzzler... . 
Sabt/atb lieftdtnir ',* 
The Heart> Relation to God",";.". 
Mark ot*. . 
Answers to Correspondents_. 
Puniisiier’* Notices... 
News of the Week. . 
Personals.. 
Humorous. . 
Advertisements..... 27i's> n 
Fungoid G c mis.—Professor Lister 
of King’s College, lately delivered an 
address upon fermentation and putre¬ 
faction, as affected by the introduction 
and propagation of fungoid germs, or of 
other bodies capable of exciting fermen¬ 
tation and decay. His experiments, the 
results of which were shown to the andi- 
ence, proved conclusively that, provided 
fungoid germs, bacteria or other ferment- 
generating bodies be carefully excluded 
blood neither coagulates nor putrefies’ 
milk remains sweet and-so-forth. The 
bearing of all this on the generation and 
spread of various fevers, diphtheria and 
on tbe healing of wounds as well as plant 
diseases, is very apparent. 
mis DusmcsH, as many 
of its patrons will prefer to own a book 
when it costs no more to own than to 
hire it. Of course it is to bo hoped 
that the ultimate result, of all this will be 
to give to a class greatly in need of it, a 
literary taste and standard of some value • 
but, it remains to be seen whether a con¬ 
summation so devoutly to be wished for 
will be attained. 
NOTES 
The Hornet Raspberry. - Mr. 
); H - * ALOONHr of the Cambridge Botanic 
Gardens, writes us My neighbor, 
Mr. T ATEHsoN of Oakley, grows the 
iloruet liaspberry in preference to all 
other kimlH, because it is a perpetual 
bearer. Ihe fruits are red, finely flavored, 
ot goodly size, and produced in the 
great,list abundance from the early sum- 
m, ei frp^t, in October or November. 
* iiuiiH uj curly Bummer sir** 
An Appreciative Public.—A New 
York contemporary, speaking of “La 
Grand Duchesse,” says “ In short the 
opera is the essence of moderately adult¬ 
erated deviltry from beginning to end 
And this is what the public like.” 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
brevities 
The cotton crop is, according to the Dep’t of 
Agriculture, as large as it was last year. 
One of the best evidences of better times is 
the ripple m down-trodden real estate. 
A stalk of Arundo donax cut down in the 
it URAL grounds last week, measured fourteen 
feet and eight inches. 
Unoallant on the part of the 8t. Louis Jour¬ 
nal: Clara Louise Kellogg says it takes her 
rally a year to learn an opera, but then she gives 
herself dead away by saying she knows and can 
king forty operas. ’ 
A Single Pound or Bone Dust contains 
according to the illustrious chemist, Liebig as 
muchi phosphoric acid as one hundred pounds of 
wheat. Hence the economy of utilizing every 
scrap of bone to be found on the farm. 
Manure to be efficient, must be as close to 
the surface as possible, in order that dm 
I'UHIISHED EVERY SATURDAY 
succeeded by a crop from the vines of 
this years growth, which bear un- 
eeasmgly til! the approach of winter. 
The tact that C. M. Hovky of Cambridge 
wlio is one of the most experienced 
pomoiogists in the country, has secured 
cveiy sucker these Hornets have pro¬ 
duced for the past two years, is recom¬ 
mendation enough for this desirable 
variety. I send to you to-day fOot. 20 th i 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1877, 
uji snaii endeavor hereafter to lind space for 
a column, or so, of extracts from tbe agricultural 
aud horticultural pres,, both home and foreign. 
The first of Prof. Stourbridge's Essays (third 
of the senes) upon “Barnyard manure as a fer¬ 
tilizer,” is presented this week. 
As promised, we give the barn plans which 
received the first Rural premium. The sennnd 
CHEAP NOVELS. 
There are numerous worthy persons 
who proclaim their belief that dancing 
can!-playing and novel-reading are insim 
uatmg and fashionable vices of a kindred 
sort,, which are more dangerous to the 
morals of tlieii votaries than coarser aud -*'***» " *v m, m,cu *urning stock; into or 
more generally recognized vices, aud they out of the pasture, instead of letting 
denounce them accordingly. They are ,h>xxr " o11 >•— “ U1 
able to adduce plenty Df reasons in sup¬ 
port of tbeir belief, some of which are 
not without considerable force. Aud yet 
the impression made by them on the con¬ 
duct of their hearers, is so slight as not 
to lie perceptible. These things are con¬ 
stantly practiced, with almost as much 
energy as if encouraged and approved. 
As to that species of literature known 
as the “yellow-covered,” or “ blood-and- 
thunder ” novel, we fancy no weight of 
opiuion or argument is needed to per¬ 
suade au ordinary observer of its utter 
worthlessness. Its faults are open, gross, 
palpable. Callow youths aud gushing 
females with a diseased longing for the 
sensational—the indolent, sentimental and 
weak-minded of both sexes—are alone 
appealed to in its pages. Its style is 
uniformly atrocious, its plot feeble, ridic¬ 
ulous or disgusting, and its aim nothing 
but, the creation of an appetite for more 
of its kind. 
Novels, however, are not inherently 
bad, and are by no means all to be con¬ 
demned. Some rauk very high in liter¬ 
ature, and the reading of them is no less 
pleasant and profitable than necessary to 
every one making any pretensions to cult¬ 
ure. These are more apt to provoke than 
destroy a taste for other excellent reading 
while the very reverse is tmeof th* 
irost. [The canes are full of berries 
EdT ] 01 Whi ° h are ripe aud P alata ble.— 
-- 
A Hint to Careless Boys and 
Men.—Io make breachy cattle an excel¬ 
lent, way is, when turning stock into or 
down all the bars,'tole^'two ovlhTet 
of the lower rails in their place, and then 
by shouting or beating to force the ani¬ 
mals to leap over them, This is capital 
tiaining for teaching them to try their 
powers of jumping where a top rail hap¬ 
pens to be oft’, aud having achieved suc¬ 
cess in this, to set all fences at defiance 
as inclination or the sight of an abundant 
meal of grass or gram in a neighboring 
held, may prompt, them. Another good 
way is to open a gate but a little way and 
by threats or blows compel the cattle to 
pass through it. Having learnt this les¬ 
son some of them will soon manifest a 
resol ate spirit to force their way into vards 
helds, or indeed into any place where a 
gate or a door may have accidentally been 
left open. 
TO OUR YOUNG FRIENDS. 
A costly mistake that many boys and 
young men make who are dissatisfied with 
their employment—whatever it may be—is 
to slight its duties. They deem themselves 
by nature aud education fitted for more 
“dignified" positions. They grow to 
hate their employers, and resolve within 
themselves to pay them off some day 
when fortune has elevated them to their 
rightful positions. They turn up their 
noses at their fellow laborers; “I am 
better than thou,” is apparent in their 
words and manners. Everything is done 
with an inward protest. They scoff and 
swear and hate all, within their pent-up 
hearts. • 
Such feelings never helped a young 
man on in life—they never will. Though 
Communications received for the week ending 
Monday, 22d inst. : 
A. J. Cook.—Annie L. Jack.—Lorenzo Rouse. 
—W. J. F. — Geraldine Germane. — Estelle 
Pierce.—Zena. — George Gardner. — William 
Falconer ; many thanks. —Mintwood.—Henry 
Hales —C. W. F.— John Rusticus. — J. F. Elsom.— 
James Taflin.—C. H.—A. P. S.—Enoch Spencer. 
