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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARCH 6 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHED EVERY BATURDAY. 
CONDUCTED I)T 
ELBERT S. CARMAN. 
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Adrtreflg 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
78 Duarut Street, New York. 
SATURDAY, MARCH. <>, 1880. 
REMOVAL, 
On and after May 1 at of this year the 
Rural New-Yorker will occupy its new 
quarters, No. 34 Park Row, corner of 
Beekman Street.. We are glad, indeed, 
to leave our present gloomy building—to 
which we have been held by a long 
lease—for one that, being half windows, 
receivesa full share of air, light, and sun¬ 
shine. The location is one of the most 
prominent m this city, being diagonally 
opposite the City Hall Park —directly op¬ 
posite the Post-oilioc on Park Row and the 
World building on Beekman Street. Such 
a location is in keeping with the status 
of the Rural New-Yorker, which, 
whether its financial standing, its influ¬ 
ence, or its actual paid-up circulation, 
one or all, is considered, ranks to-day as 
the first landcvMural journal of its class 
in America. 
NOTICE. 
is now given that all of our yearly subscribers 
who, having applied for our seeds aud sent the 
required amount of postage Bturnpa, shall not 
have received them by the 18th ,lust, will 
please notify us to that effect. The Raspborries 
will be sent as Ihe weather permits. Sub¬ 
scribers will notify us of the non-receipt of 
these later. 
Several subscribers who take the Rural 
with the luter-Ocean have sent us stamps for 
plants and seeds. We would state that our 
arrangements with the Inter-Ocean are such 
that ull who forward their subscriptions 
through that journal are not required to pay 
postage on our “ Free Plant and Seed Distri¬ 
bution.” 
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For the last time during the present sub¬ 
scription seuson we announce tint our Pre¬ 
mium Lists, Plant and Seed Supplements, 
Posters and specimen copies will be Bent free 
to all applicants. Those renewing their sub¬ 
scriptions would promote the interests of the 
Rural New-Yokkkk if they would at the 
same time forward the subscription of a friend 
or neighbor. 
We trust that the strawberry Chapter 
of this week’s Rural New-Yokkkr will 
givb timely and all needed information 
respecting the preparation of the ground, 
culture, varieties, etc. There are many 
new sorts of good promise not mentioned; 
hut why mention them so long as they 
have not been tested over a wide range 
of country. There are also many old 
sorts not mentioned. Full lists of'these 
will be found m the catalogues an¬ 
nounced in our advertising columns, and 
(hose to which special attention has been 
called by editorial notes elsewhere. Half 
of one’s success in small fruit culture 
depends upon a selection of kindB adapted 
to the soil and climate. The Rural has 
done all it could thiiH to assist its readers 
in a pursuit full of pleasure and profit. 
Next week we shall place before them a 
somewhat exhaustive chapter upon the 
Raspberry. 
-- 
Farmers, is it not worth your while to 
experiment more than you have done? 
Suppose upon six little plots you sow six 
different kinds of beets and find that one 
of the six yields more and keeps better 
than the others. Suppose you plant six 
different varieties of corn on little plots 
aud lind that one variety will yield more 
than the others. Suppose you "how differ¬ 
ent fertilizers on separate little plots— 
ashes or potash salts for potash ; dissolved 
bone-black for phosphoric acid; nitrate 
of soda for nitrogen, etc.- and you find 
that oats, spring wheat, potatoes or any 
other crop thrive notably better on ono 
plot than on the others, will not Such ex¬ 
periments pay you ? Years ago it was 
by such experiments we were induced hi 
sow Clawson wheat.. Tt was then known 
only to a few. Years ago we paid throe 
dollars for a pound of Early Rose pota¬ 
toes, and we raised this potato for two 
years before its great value became gen¬ 
erally known. Ho, latterly we have raised 
Beauty of Hebron potato. Mold’s Enno¬ 
bled Oats, theKinver Mangel and Doura. 
It lias paid us to experiment. We re¬ 
spectfully submit, that it will pay you . 
Spring is upon ns; there iH no time for 
delay. Prepare your test plots and se¬ 
lect your seeds ! 
ance. Such a measure is urgently needed 
by the West, the Middle States and the 
South as a safeguard for their untainted 
herds, as well as by the East for the 
prompt suppression of so deadly a source 
of disaster among their cuttle. More¬ 
over, every State, county and township 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from 
Canada to the Gulf, is deeply interested 
in the eradication of hog cholera aud the 
other contagious stock maladies whose 
suppression it. will be the duty of the 
Commissioners to devise. Let all, there¬ 
fore, join earnestly and unitedly iu 
support of the establishment of this 
much-needed organization. 
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mous. We happen to know that that firm 
has charged $25 as its lowest price for 
the right to manufacture a single evap¬ 
orator, Hence it is but fair to assume 
that that has been their profit on the 
patent alone, at least on the larger sizes 
of evaporators. Jf Congress, however, 
now righteously refuses to extend again 
a patent for whose second extension no 
reason can be given except the continu¬ 
ance of a great, monopoly, and the further 
enrichment of a firm already an immense 
one- we say if Congress refuses a second 
extension of that, patent, the price of these 
evaporators will bo at once immensely 
reduced. There will then be no valid 
reason why one of them should not, be 
found iu every sugar camp, and the qual¬ 
ity of the maple product be at once vastly 
improved. The evaporator is nn absolute 
necessity for sorghum. It, is an immense 
improvement for maple. 
Then, if some of our huge fruit-con¬ 
ning establishments, always idle in April, 
would buy aud can immense quantities 
of only the very choicest maple sirup or 
“ maple honey,” aud push it through 
the channels of trade just as they do 
their other canned goods, the problem 
would bo solved. Furmers would be 
forced to make the best, and would get a 
fair price, The eauuers would make a 
fair profit from their otherwise iclleestab- 
lisraents, and the consumers could always 
find the best “ ample honey” at their 
grocers’, and tho whole maple product of 
the country would be used as a rare deli¬ 
cacy, instead of being degraded to a sim¬ 
ple sweetener of cakes and pastry. 
BREVITIES. 
Tub Raspberry will he treated very fully 
uext week. « 
Mr. Bateliara writes us that lie never felt so 
eneouruged about agricultural progress in 
Ohio as at this time. 
Wk believe that Mr. Wm. Crozier was tlie 
first, to Introduce Webb’s New Kin ver Maugel 
iu this couiury, illustrated on our first page 
two weeks ago. 
There is a new Pelargonium (Geranium) of 
which we think a good deal. It is culled A. 
Ballet. The tlowers are double, pure white, 
and last a long time. It. 1 h admirable for 
bouquets. 
Mn. G. W. Fuller, (of Minnesota) teJls us in 
a late communication that a Clapp,s Favorite 
Pear on mountain ash roots, lias stood their 
climate for eight or nine years without injury, 
while Flemish Beauty on pear stock, lots been 
top-killed more than once during this time. 
Accoroino to experiments of the Ontario 
School of Agriculture (Canada), by adding 
ifcfi.40 worth ot bone dust to farmyard manure 
the crop of wheat was Increased $7.20 pel 
acre; By adding uitratc of soda the value of 
the crop was increased $10 00 . Lucerne Is 
deemed profitable, having a season from April 
to October- 
Tub Dublin Farmers’ Gazette says that Irish 
farmers tor some years past have nsed largo 
quantities of artificial manure on credit. That 
source of fertility is now shut, out because the 
local merchants who supplied tho manures 
will no longer give credit. The Gazette sug¬ 
gests it would have been well if reductions of 
rent bad been made in tho shape, of genuine 
high-class manure instead of money. 
Farmers, wo tell you. we advise you, wo 
rbo of you to plant a bed of Strawberries the 
coming spring, if your garden is not already 
supplied with this delicious little fruit. Have 
3011 no time? Prepare a plot lour feet square, 
make tho ground rich aud mellow. Buy or 
beg one dozen plants of Whurpiers, Charles 
Downing or others spoken of on our first page, 
if the second year you do not enlarge the plot 
and lind, time to take care of it, tho Rural 
New-Yorker hereby agrees to pay you for 
your lost lime. 
(Mir ad vet Using oolumus for the next seve¬ 
ral months will, we think, be found of unusual 
interest to our readers. They will show for 
themselves that we exercise all possible care 
to exclude frauds aud ull aniionucumeutH cal¬ 
culated to deceive. We would tbuuk our read¬ 
ers if they would promptly inform ns ol any 
unfair dealings ou the part of those whose 
advertisements are presented. Wc hold our¬ 
selves under obligations to investigate such 
complaints aud to expose those against whom 
they are ascertained to he well founded. 
Mr, G. W. Hthono, of Duvcuport, Iowa, 
who won 2d prize of the Rural Gore Premiums, 
sends us tho following acknowledgment of its 
receipt. The premium Consists ol a Feed aud 
Meal Mill, valued at $0f>, und contributed by 
the Challenge Mill Co., ol Batavia. 111. 
Davenport, Iowa, Feb. 16,1080. 
Editors Rural New-Yorker: 
‘•I hope you will excuse lue for not notify¬ 
ing you several daysugotbal 1 had received 
the feed mill, all m good order, and it is a 
splendid-looking null. 1 have not run it any 
yet, but shall in a few days. There are several 
of the same kind of mills In use here, aud 
they do good work. Please accept my thsuks 
for the liberal premium, aud in anything l can 
do to help tho circulation of the Rural you 
cun coumiuud me, lor 1 think it is the best 
agricultural paper in the world.” 
Mu. A. Thwino of Churdon, O., the winner 
of premium No. 7, also acknowledges the re¬ 
ceipt ol his prize as follows 
Eds. Rural Nbw-Yokkkr: -Corn-shelter, 
from Livingston &Co., received iugood order. 
It works very well.—Respectfully, 
A. TUWINQ. 
Last Thursday, Feb. 26th, a bill was 
introduced into the House of .Representa¬ 
tives of this State, by Mr. Hkinner, for 
the establishment of an agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station, with the object of pro¬ 
moting agriculture in its various branches 
by scientific investigation and experiment. 
The bill provides that the station shall 
be under tho control of a Board composed 
of a member front each of the different 
farmers’ clubs of the State and one from 
the Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, and the sum of $8,000 is appropri¬ 
ated for its maintenance. The Rural 
New-Yorker lias frequently advocated 
the establishment of an agricultural ex¬ 
periment station, not in this State only, 
but in every State in the Union, and 
more especially in all the older-settled 
States. One of the chief and most imme¬ 
diately beneficial objects of such an insti¬ 
tution would bo to lessen or prevent 
frauds in the sale of commercial fertiliz¬ 
ers, and in tho old States the need of 
these is much greater and their sale 
far more extensive than in the newer 
States, henoe the greater the benefits there 
of a reliable check upon fraudulent 
dealers iu these wares. Wherever such 
stations have boon already established, 
notably in Connecticut and North Caro¬ 
lina, they have been highly beneficial, 
mainly, of course, to the furmers of the 
States for whose advantage they have 
been founded, but greatly also to those 
of the entire country; for in those days 
of multitudinous agricultural periodicals 
an agricultural truth discovered or well 
elucidated in one part of the country, soon 
becomes tho common property of tho 
whole. 
ALL TOGETHER ! 
When, about a twelvemonth ago, the 
British Government placed restrictions 
on the importation of live cattle from this 
country, on tho ground that pleuro¬ 
pneumonia existed among some of our 
herds, many of the Eastern agricultural 
journals insisted either that no trace of 
the disease could be found in the United 
States, or that the typo which was 
proving disastrous in some sections dif¬ 
fered from that which was committing 
havoc in Europe, in that it was non- 
contagious and therefore not dangerous 
to tho health of our cattle generally. 
Most of tho Western papers of the same 
class either followed the example of their 
skepticslEastern contemporaries and bold¬ 
ly denied the existence of the malady, or, 
conceding that a few cases might be 
found here aud there in the Atlantic 
States, parsimoniously insisted that tho 
whole expense of stamping out the plague 
should be borne by the States iu which 
it was prevalent. ' Tho Rusal Nkw- 
Youkkr, obfuscated by no short-sighted 
policy of expediency, regretfully ac¬ 
knowledged the existence of a few scat¬ 
tered instances of tho malady in the 
States cast of the AlleghamoB, and fully 
awake to the danger to which the vast 
cattle interests of the entire country 
would be exposed from its oontiuuauco, 
strongly urged that effectual measures 
should be taken for its prompt suppres¬ 
sion, both by the States which suffered 
from its ravages, for tho safety of their 
own stock ; and by tho National Gov¬ 
ernment,, for the protection of tho herds 
of the whole country to which its presence 
among us was a standing menace. 
Our incredulous Eastern contempo¬ 
raries have since opened their eyes to 
the existence of the plague, aud our 
economical Western friends no louger 
rnsist that the danger to their own vast 
herds shall be averted solely at the cost 
of the few States that are already heavy 
sufferers from its presence within their 
borders. We trust, therefore, that all 
parties will offer a hearty support to tho 
bill introduced last Tuesday into the 
Lower House of Congress for the organ¬ 
ization of a National Board of Commis¬ 
sioners, whoso duty it shall be to prevent 
the spread of pleuro-pneumouia and other 
contagious diseases among our domestic 
auimuls, and to stamp out all such plagues 
wherever they may make their appear¬ 
THE MAPLE SUGAR AND SIRUP IN¬ 
DUSTRY. 
This is an industry of considerable, 
though not vast, importance in this coun¬ 
try. It is limited in its extent of area by 
climatic and other causes, and iu its in¬ 
crease, even in that nrea, by tho slow 
growth of the trees and the difficulty of 
reariug orchards of them. The part of 
our country on which the Sugar Maple 
grows naturally lies almost, wholly north 
of the 40th parallel of latitude aud ehiclly 
east of the west line of Minnesota, and 
only very limited portions of this area 
have such soil as to produce enough 
Maple trees to make the manufacture of 
sirup and sugar profitable. The chief 
of these localities are Vermont, parts of 
New York, a dozen or more counties in 
northeastern Ohio, and considerable por¬ 
tions of northern Michigan, Wisconsin 
and Minnesota. Further, Maples are 
not likely to be propagated and orchards 
reared ; for though they thrive splendidly 
when planted on many sandy and gravelly 
loams where they do not grow spon¬ 
taneously, yet it takes nearly fifty years 
from the seed to rear trees largo enough 
- 1 to tap profitably. Most men are not will¬ 
ing to wait so long for returns, and the 
land is probably worth more for other 
purposes. 
But though this industry is thus limited 
aud circumscribed, there is no reason 
why it should not bo developed to its full 
capacity in quantity and quality where 
Nature furnishes the facilities; that is, 
trees iu abundance and suitable climate. 
Yet, such is not, the ease. Iu Vermont 
the industry is probably developed to 
two-thirds of its full capacity, both in 
quantity and quality; in New York to 
perhaps half of both; in Ohio to less 
than half, especially iu quality ; while in 
the other States almost no attention, as a 
rule, is paid to quality, and probably not 
a quarter of the quantity is produced 
that, might be. 
As for quantity, there is certainly no 
good reason why tho maximum should 
not, Ixi produced. The trees are already 
on tho farms, and may as well bo tapped 
as not. The work comes at a season 
whim little other farm-work can be done 
by men or teams. The wood for boiling, 
with good apparatus, need not cost for 
average localities more than a cent for 
each pound of sugar, since much rubbish 
from old fences and fallen wasting timber 
can be used. 
But quality is the groat point. Maple 
sugar, as a simple sweet, can probably 
never compote iu price with cane sugars 
or sorghum BUgars—if tho latter prove a 
success. For cookiug purposes the pe¬ 
culiar tlavor of tho maple is a damage 
rather thau an advantage. Not so, how¬ 
ever, with the Birup. This is used ohioily 
with buckwheat or other pan-cukes, or 
as a simple delicacy, like honey, with 
warm biscuits or with bread and butter. 
And if made of tho very best quality, 
there is no possible sweet with so deli¬ 
cate and delicious a flavor. It is fit to 
have been the nectar of the gods, and it 
is universally appreciated by men when 
once tasted in its perfection. 
Now, we think it a waste of good mate¬ 
rial to make maple sap into sugar, and 
uso it for ordinary cooking. We think 
the entire possible maple product of tho 
United States, if made into sirup of tho 
very best quality, aud pushed through 
the channels of trade, like our canned 
goods, could be used as a delicacy and 
at a high price. But it would uced to be 
strictly prime, soldered, while hot, in 
quart and half-gallon and gallon cans, so 
as to retain tlavor perfectly, and then 
kept ou Hale in our groceries all over the 
land, like honey or canned goods. 
But how can such quality be attained ? 
Only by great oare and the nso of the 
best apparatus, fixtures and vessels. 
From first to last the sap should touch 
nothing but tin or galvumzed iron, and it 
should he boded in the (look’s patent 
evaporator. Here lias always been ono 
grwat obstacle—these evaporators have 
been HO very costly. Tho profits to the 
ono Oinoinnati firm that holds the monop¬ 
oly of the United States, have been onor- 
