EW-YORKER. 
DEC. 45 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Practical departments: 
St. Gratlen. The Gardens of... 
Karin Topic*, Western. 
Topic*, Rural.'.... 
Vegetable* for Fanner*, More. 
Market*, Country. 
SHrlclIcta.. • • • .. ...22! 
Veterinary Surgeons, Karinor* a*. 
Meat Shull We Hat? What.. '.£2 
Grape*, Some.• •. . 222 
Pauiownln Imperial!*........•••• ::2;; 
Flower Garden, BttUm for the. :™ 
Catalogue*. Ac.. Received.S ’ 
•• A pple* me) Pear* for Various Section*”.3% 
Random Note*. —• .... tLi 
Garden Experience...... . .... ” '’ 
Hereford Cuttle In Ktigland. 
Oil Of Its 
WhRRtu Nbw« •<•••«••»•***".••••»#•*■... 
A Trip Through the Horse District of Orange 
County, N Y.•••• '•..:;S 
Sifting* from the Kitchen Fire. ”22 
Recipe*...*..." 
For the Holiday*.... 
Ilome-made Candy.152 
Chicken Soup. 222 
Note..... • “■..... ... . 
Bird*, Care of Called....“SS 
Fell that ed Kingdom, Jlie.:”2 
Ripening Process. Ihe.. :S* 
Rural Special Report*.... 
Dairy giilt*. The DlITerence In. 
Editorial Page; 
Village. Museums. 
When to Stop............. • • • • ••••-■• • 
Two Kemedle* for the Codling Moth. 
Notes—Brevities. 
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Literary : 
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Ladles’ Portfolio... •'* 1 
Fashion Note*... 2,,I 
Her Mother’s Secret... 2 .;- 
Shorten Sail... 2; 
A pother One Caught. 
BrlC-u-Briio. 
Ruud lug for the Voting... 
Mr. Brown’* Narrow Escape...• 
Letter* fron* Roy* and Girls.:;•* 
Bab hat it Beading...2; j 
Golden Maxims . ;;;;{ 
Puzzler... 
Puhllsber’s Notices...•*? 
Various . !«S 
Market*. .. . 
Answer* to Corrcnponaents. ;*» 
New* of the Week,.-.. 
Personals.. ... 
Wit and Humor.• • • - ,v;• -.c; 
Advertisements.381), ..»o, <WT,.ftftf 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. 
Addresi 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1877. 
We earnestly request that all tetters containing 
money, or any coimnunioalion intended for the 
Business Department of the paper he addressed 
to the Editor, the J’uhltsher, or Tuk Rural New- 
Yorker, and not to any individual. We cannot 
otherwise guarantee the prompt entry of names 
upon our books, or the acknowledgment of money, 
We are almost confident that we shall be able 
to present our Model Farm Premises for a 
Christmas present to our readers. We hope 
they will like it. 
VILLAGE MUSEUMS. 
Wanted, a dozen or more boys and girls to 
establish and maintain a Museum of Natural 
History in every town and village. 
In each large village or town a room 
should be provided in which to keep on 
permanent and free exhibition, in con¬ 
nection perhaps with a public library, 
specimens of every department of Natural 
History. Hero should lie found the male 
or female of every bird frequenting the 
looality, properly prepared, together with 
their nests and eggs, and of all the fishes 
that swim in its streams; pieces of the 
wood from every tree growing within its 
territorial limits, prepared to show its 
different character)’sties, as the bark, the 
grain ete.; specimens of the various kinds 
of crops raised, as wheat, rye, potatoes, 
corn etc.; of fruits and berries, of weeds 
and grasses, of rocks and minerals, of in¬ 
sects, noting particularly those injurious 
to vegetation, with speoimens showing 
their ravages ; in fact of everything, not 
too large, that flies, swims, crawls, hops, 
or grows within tho county. 
Such a collection as this could not fail 
to be of essential service to the general 
public. As nu educational institution 
for the young none could be better. If 
auy reader doubts the necessity of such 
instruction as could be had there, let him 
ask the next boy of sixteen he meets how 
many kinds of the forest trees growing 
within a mile of him he can name at 
sight ; or the girl of the same age, how 
many different kinds of birds she supposes 
visit her home every year ; or the first 
practical farmer to tell, of a dozen varie¬ 
ties of plants you may hand him, which 
are weeds and which grasses. The reply 
will doubtless prove an ignorance greater 
than would be supposed. 
Or rather than question your neighbors, 
suppose you ask yourself : What do you 
know of the world about you ? While 
stopping at a little village on Lake George 
a few years ago, we beard a lady visitor 
ask of a resident, the name of a beautiful 
wild flower she had found on her ram¬ 
bles, and all the information that she re¬ 
ceived was that it was “ some kind of a 
blow.” It is lamentably true that habits 
of observation are too little cultivated 
among our rural population. This can 
bo overcomo, to a great extent, if a little 
interest can be awakened, and i‘s effect 
will show itself not only in the pleasure 
acquired from the fact of knowii g, but 
the knowledge will manifest itself in prac¬ 
tical ways, eventuating in larger and bet¬ 
ter crops. 
No particlo of knowledge of anything 
good or bad, can be obtained that cannot 
be put to a good and practical use if its 
possessor Las a will to do it. Therefore, 
no opportunity should be lost for acquir¬ 
ing it, or for furnishing facilities by which 
it may be acquired by others. 
But how is such a museum to be estab¬ 
lished ? Easily and inexpensively, if 
you who take an interest in the matter 
will call a meeting of the young people 
of your acquaintance that you think would 
work with you. Our word for it, they 
will join heartily in the enterprise. The 
work should lie divided iu sections. Sec¬ 
tion A for Birds, B for Fruits, C for In¬ 
sects, and so on, appointing to each sec¬ 
tion those whose tastes will make the 
labor of working therein a pleasure in¬ 
stead of a task. As soon as a few speci¬ 
mens are ready, hold meetings for the 
purpose of talking about them, and it will 
soon be found that no more pleasant way 
of spending an evening can be imagined. 
This work once begun, a spirit of .com¬ 
mendable rivalry between the sections 
will arise, urging all on to activity and 
thoroughness, and in a few weeks the 
nucleus of a complete museum will be 
established. 
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WHEN TO STOP. 
It 18 a great thiug to know when to 
stop. So few possess the knowledge t.) at 
it. becomes a trait that distinguishes the 
owner from the ruck of society. Some 
have the gift of continuance to an alarm¬ 
ing degree ; when it would Beem as if they 
must have exhausted themselves, they 
return to their mutton with exasperating 
monotony, or they keep straight on, with¬ 
out coming back, switching off from one 
rail to another without losing headway to 
any appreciable extent. 
Men who have bobbies are of this class. 
All interminable talkers are inclined to 
dwell overmuch on their own affairs. It. 
may be hard for us to listen—it is hard, 
iu fact—to the vuporingsof some tiresome 
fellow who has a scheme or grievance all 
his own ; but the compensation for loss 
of time comes in the reflection that the 
auditor is rivaling .Job, and that at least 
/a knows when to stop. There are public 
speakers (we have all heard them) who 
have no appreciation of the art of leaving 
off. After they have said all they have to 
say—and this may not be much—they 
begin over again, rolling iu the same ruts. 
Occasionally a puint is reached where 
you think the breaks must be applied, a 
thought which ouly proves your mexpe- 
rieuoe iu regard to the speaker. The ag¬ 
gravation is somewhat enhanced -when, at 
certain intervals, you are iuformed he has 
“little more to say;” or he “fears lest 
he may weary his hearers, ” and fondly 
conclude tho remarks presage an ending, 
when they are merely a metaphorical 
slutting on his hands, as did the Irish¬ 
man, that a better and fresher hold may 
be taken on the subject. 
Writers of books are, to a great degree, 
possessed of this evil, much to the profit 
of the paper manufacturer. There is a 
limit to human endurance and when it is 
reached, it is well to stop. If there is 
anything to say, say it briefly, even at the 
risk of sacrificing your eloquence. The 
dictionary is, at tunes, most interesting 
reading, because of the uncommon short¬ 
ness of the stories. The slang of the day 
lias neatly crystali/.ed tho nearly univer¬ 
sal repugnance to proloxity, and lest wo 
may be hoist, by our own petard, we shall 
cease before the reader shall condescend¬ 
ingly intimate that we had better “ hire a 
hall’.” 
TWO REMEDIES FOR THE CODLING MOTH. 
The well-known German pomologist. 
Dr. Edward Lucas, says the London 
Garden, 1ms recently eallcd attention to a 
simple method of guarding against the 
ravages of that tiresome insect plague, 
the caterpillar of the Apple or Codling 
Moth. It is dependent for its success on 
the fact that the moth most frequently 
deposits her eggs between the leaves of 
the calyx, where the grub afterwards 
commences its attack on the heart of the 
apple. Observing this, it occurred to 
Mr. Krausz of Stuttgart, the discoverer 
of the remedy, to try the effect of cutting 
off the calyx, quite low down at its base, 
as soon as* the apple should have attained 
the size of a hazelnut. 
Mr, Ivuai’sz experimented on some 
hundreds. In a few instances the cutting 
slightly damaged tho calyx-tube, ihe 
wound soon healed over and became 
covered with a yellowish-green, cork like 
substance, eventually closing the tube 
and creating an impassable barrier for 
the insect. The shape of tho apple by 
such treatment was somewhat altered*, 
rendering the variety less easily distin¬ 
guishable ; but the slight diminution in 
length resulting from its adoption, is 
more than compensated for by increased 
thickness, total absence of grub, and, 
consequently, finer appearance generally. 
We do not remember that the Rural 
New-Yorker has ever given a positive 
remedy for the Codling Moth. If it has 
we have forgotten it. Wo will give one 
now. 
As soon as the moth, the gomiino, 
perfect, insect, makes her appearance— 
watch her ! Mark those calyxes in which 
she deposits her eggs. Then carefully 
collect them. A microscope of moderate 
power will in this process be needed. 
But the cost of the microscope is not. to 
he considered. When they aro all collected 
destroy them. Some will prefer one 
method of destruction—some another, 
A series of experiments would determine 
the quickest, cheapest and most humane 
method. 
This plan would require rather more 
time than that of Mr. Krausz —but if 
everybody would give himself up to it iu 
earnest for a few years, no doubt the 
Codling Moth would deposit her eggs 
somewhere else ! 
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NOTES. 
A Cheap Paper. —Some of our 
friends who are trying to get up clubs 
for the Rural write us that though it is 
acknowledged to bo this, that and the 
other, its price is too high ! We have 
been thinking for the satisfaction of such 
persons that it might be well to offer tho 
white paper upon which the Rural is 
printed for twenty-five cents per annum, 
thus supplying the demand for cheap 
periodicals. A paper thus sent out 
would have one item to commend it, viz., 
it could do no harm! Still, just such 
paper could be procured of any druggist 
or at any first-olasB grocery or confection¬ 
ery store for about the same price, thus 
saving postage. Seriously—it is our in¬ 
tention to raise rather than to lower the 
prioe of the Rural New-Yorker, though 
should we conclude so to do, we have 
some faith that those good friends who 
follow us through the New Year will 
deem that an advance in its prioe for 1879 
was simply a thing to have been looked 
for. Wo have no need whatever to dis¬ 
parage the Rural as it has been for tho 
past 30 years—but we may say that its 
future as may in part be judged by the 
present, will far eclipse its past, and this 
our readers will etiroly find out if they 
and we live long enough. Meanwhile 
we hasten to wish them a Merry Christ¬ 
mas’ and a Happy, Happy New Year! 
May they and we meet with the success 
for another year that each deserves and 
may those who speak a kindly word for 
the* Rural or who endeavor to enlarge its 
sphere of usefulness, have occasion to 
feel that they neither spoke idly nor 
acted injudiciously. 
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Paulownia Imperialis.—It would 
seem that this tree, of which a sketch 
from life is given on page 385, is quite 
unmindful of any equilibrium between 
roots and stem. Cut down to the ground 
year after year, it yet makes a growth 
through the summer which averages a 
foot or more per week. Its immense 
leaves and their arrangement upon the 
stem—the long, heavy petioles which 
well support, them during wind and 
storm and its tower-like aspect, are char¬ 
acteristics that commend this form of the 
Paulowni.a to those who are pleased with 
odd-looking plants. 
N. Y. Horticultural Society.— 
The Btirring interest that was manifested 
by the members of the N. Y. H. S. dur¬ 
ing its eleotion last week, though perhaps 
a trifle too much of the politician animus 
was apparent among some members, 
proves at. least, that the Society is awake, 
and that there is little danger of a less 
vigorous administration of its affairs for 
tho next year than has been very appar¬ 
ent since’ its inauguration. Mi’. David¬ 
son was re-elected Secretary by a major¬ 
ity of one. As an evidence of a just ap¬ 
preciation of his energy and efficiency, 
we should like to have seen a larger ma¬ 
jority. 
A Good Beginning. — Traverse 
County, Michigan, is comparatively new, 
and is situated near the north end of the 
Southern Peninsula. This year the own¬ 
ers receive diplomas for the best in tho 
State, one for bearing pear orchard, one 
for bearing plum orchard, one for bearing 
cherry orchard, one for bearing plot of 
red raspberries, and if one apple orchard 
had been a little older it would also, very 
likely, have taken a diploma. A few 
years ago a diploma went to this county 
for a Delaware vineyard iu bearing. 
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Rhododendrons, though hardy, are 
liable to drop their flower buds unless 
protected from winter winds. Stakes about 
them and a slight covering of hay, are a 
sufficient protection. Our most ex¬ 
perienced nurserymen find evergreen 
boughs stuck around yonug evergreens 
whose hardiness has not been fully tested, 
of more utility than a closer protection. 
Straw or any other material bound closely 
to evergreens, will do more barm than 
good. 
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BREVITIES. 
Tarred paper is recommeded for lining poul¬ 
try-houses. 
THE Brighton Grape gains in favor as it be¬ 
comes better known. 
Henry A. Drf.er of Philadelphia, is in love 
with Delle de Chatenay. 
People of Bergen County, N. J. drink Hem¬ 
lock tea for Malarial fever. 
Lord A- Taylor rend a free catalogue of all 
their goods on application. 
In these times of oconomy—why not combine 
Savings Banks and Barber Shops ? 
Mr. B. K. Bliss has produced a button-hole 
bouquet, that needs to be seen to be appreciated. 
As tho early bird catches the worm, we wish 
otu’ friends a Merry Christmas! Now, sub¬ 
scribe. 
Late in fall is hotter for pruning than now. 
But a good enough rale is to prune whenever 
you have a sharp kuiko and time to use it. 
“ Tue Rural New-Yorker has of lato taken to 
calling itself ‘ The Perfect Family Journal,’ and 
sets forth that those who take it through 1878 
will find thereafter that they cannot live without 
it.— Exchange. 
The American Cultivator asks — “Have you 
ovor observed that a rich heart and a rich purse 
rarely go together ?" Why should they ? A 
rich heart is enough for any man. Let’s be 
liberal and give the rich purse to tho wornon, 
Mr. Haul says that Idesla polycarpa haB 
passed through'throe winters uuinjurtd, This 
is a Japanese plant bearing small flowers in pani¬ 
cles followed by large pendulous clusters of black 
berrioB. We have uovor seen this tree and hope 
it may prove an acquisition. 
Celery taken from the trenches iu quantity 
may he preserved iu the cellar by placing the 
root ends in moist sand. Knowing this, country 
or city people who buy celery by the single 
bunch or so. might just as well buy it by the 
dozen bunches, thus saving time, trouble and 
money. 
In the times of Washington , “ few men bad 
virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” Now, 
the highest bidder pays lus money and be takes 
his choice. After civilization has had a few 
more year* to work out its bemlicent aims, we 
may confidently expect that virtueB of all sorts 
will sell for a cent a-piece. 
BUSINESS NOTICES._ 
The Youth’s Companion. —For judicious edit¬ 
ing, select and popular contributors, and sprightly, 
enter a i ing reading, the Youth’s Companion lias 
no su .) * i r among the Youth’s publications. 
