THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
flowers, have introduced more desirable farm¬ 
ing tools and machinery, etc., etc. 
This society, organized as a county affair, has 
already outgrown its original limits, and might 
appropriately be called the Central New York 
Agricultural Society. As we exhibit, com¬ 
pare, and admire our products, we are more 
proud of our immediate locality, love for our 
own county and State is increased, rendering 
us less likely to wander elsewhere in search of 
those blessings that cluster so thickly about us. 
When you hear people remark that they 
left better products at home, heed them not; 
they aie only the few grumblers that infest 
every community', and—except in rare in¬ 
stances—they' bavo nothing worth exhibiting. 
Communities who are really suffering for 
horse-races, ought to have them by all means; 
but under their proper designation: for they 
should not attempt to give them character by' 
misnaming them agricultural fairs. People 
ask, “What is there degrading about seeing 
that noble animal, the horse, show his speed 1” 
Tho bottom facts are that the trotting-track 
and race-course are where the gamblers, the dis¬ 
sipated, and the shysters of every description 
“do most congregate.” For one—and I am 
sure that the managers of our county society 
are almost unanimous in the same opinion—I 
would sooner see our organization go to “ eter¬ 
nal smash,” and have to assess its stockholders 
to pay its debts, than to have to make it a finan¬ 
cial success by a resort to horse-racing. 
“ He that would sup with the devil, needs a 
long spoon;” when once you give “ Old Nick ’’ 
half, he soon takes the whole. Nelson Ritter- 
THAT “DURNED” MULE, 
Sheep and Lambs 
For Sale, Including some very choice Yearling; Rams 
and Ram Lambs of apod pedlgrt?o. Prices very mod¬ 
erate for quality of stock. Write for particulars, 
stating number wanted. We have also for salo sev 
erul tine Oxford Dovro«. Address, 
W. Atlee Bnrpee <fe Co.< Philadelphia, Pa. 
JOHN M. STAHL, 
That mule is not proud. He is the descend¬ 
ant of an ass. He has no hope of posterity. 
His ears are the I’sncss of the Immense. His 
legs are as crooked as the ways of a Congress¬ 
man. His tail is like a scrubbed-out broom. 
He knows all this. He is full of original sin, 
and he knows it. His back is as hot as the 
business extremity of a bee, as sharp as a Phila¬ 
delphia lawyer, and he can bow it up till it is 
as round and sleek as—as—as—till it is round 
and sleek. His head is so big that he is very 
liable to tip up behind; and by a spasmodic 
twitching of the muscles his heels fly' out 
behind and knock every thing within 40 feet 
into the middle of the great Hence. 
This is all that can be said against the mule. 
He likes to have his own way, but so does a 
woman. He is more patient than Job. Job 
was never a mule. He would have kicked his 
wife’s toe nails through her skull, and his 
friends outside the attraction of gravity if the 
devil had made him a mule, aud put Young 
America to work him in fly time. He will 
work for IS bom's on the reasonable expecta¬ 
tion of food, aud then go out and feast on 
hazel brush and zephy'rs. Or, if he finds his 
appetite failing, he will chew up a manger and 
nine gunny sacks once in a while, aud some¬ 
times twice in an occasionally. He never 
fades away like midnight conceptions of pie; 
his ey e never grows dim, save when he sighs 
for oats; disease never tackles him, and death 
know s better than to fool around a mule. He 
is very friendly aud likes to shake hands with 
his northwest hoof. Ho does not “love to loll,” 
hut his friendship may prove fatal. Yet, not¬ 
withstanding all these good qualities, he is 
called that “durnedinule.” 
That durued mule must be ‘ ‘broken;” that is, 
he must be clubbed till he doesn’t know him¬ 
self from his maternal grand-mother; worried 
and tantalized till editing a paper would be a 
relief; whipped till demons bide their tearful 
faces and angels tremble with compassion; 
cursed till the recording angel calls for a re¬ 
bate; seared because he fears, and dumbfound¬ 
ed because he is ignorant; his ribs thumped 
with a chestnut rail; his mouth aud his body 
lacerated till he looks like an animated, bar¬ 
ber’s pole; driven till he sweats like a negro 
at electi n, aud pants like a Berkshire hen 
laying a goose egg; vexed till he caracoles, 
jumps, summersaults, prances, blasphemes, 
squeals, and finally spreads himself out like a 
mustard plaster, raising blisters as big as a 
biscuit in the twinkling of a hoof; kicks like 
greased lightning on a bender, bis legs 
flying out in five directions at once, till the 
harness is kicked into molecules and not enough 
of the wagoD is left to found a remark upon; 
till the remaissof his tormentors are scattered 
over four counties and half the town lots in 
the moon; and yet nob a word of his woes 
is said in extenuation of this sublime exhibi¬ 
tion of his unlimbering qualities. 
My r friend, if you have a mule treat him de¬ 
cently. Show him that respect you do your 
wife when you 1 ave gone to the field and left 
no stove wood cut, and she meets you with all 
the fire in her eye that ought to be iuthe 
stove. Don’t beat him and he wont kick you. 
A mule kicks because he is afraid or else 
because his soul has been soured with a black- 
snake whip. Do not be prejudiced against 
him because he is a mule and ugly. Of all 
animals the mule suffers most from prejudice. 
He is really a docile, tractable animal when 
treated fairly. You needn’t absorb him in your 
affectaons, as it were, but remember that he is 
dust and liable to make you dust if you try to 
pound his ears down his windpipe. Aud re¬ 
member that begets hungry and has a sense of 
goneness, aud that oats cheer up his internal 
revenue department. A span of mules rightly, 
humanely treated, make the best farm team in 
the world—strong, willing, never sick, small 
eaters. Such a team will make you hug your 
wife every" time you think about them; but if 
you own a mule and spoil him, you had better 
hire your coat tails to knock your brains out. 
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LARCEST 
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LOOK FOR THEM. 
If you wish them strictly first-class and none other 
Address, 
'DERMADOR 
GOOD FOR MAN 
BEL-AIR, MARYLAND. 
BLUE VALLEY HERD 
Inflanimatton of all kinds. Diphtheria, Wounds, 
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Swelling of tho Olands. Inflammation of tho Eros, 
Broken Breast, Frost Bites, Chilblains, Piles, Bee 
Stings and all tores. 
One hundred recorded Thoroughbred Cattle, best 
families of Short Horns. Excellent Individual merit 
arid colors. Six hundred Hlsdl Grades, best herd In 
tho state. St ck for sale. Address rno through tho 
mall, or call at tho Blue Valley Brink, ill>wilint* 
tan, Kansas. Will. P. 111(11 N BOTHA HI. 
GOOD FOR BEAST 
Fresh Wounds, Gulls, Sprnins, Bruises, Cracked 
Heel, Ringbone, Poll Evil, Wind Galls, Spavins, 
Sweeney .Founder, Lameness,Sand Crocks, Scratches, 
or Grease, Mange, Horse Distempers, etc., etc. 
Cures Garget, Sore Teats and Bags. 
and all sores avp swellings is cows and Ox us. 
For more ex tended remarks and for a large number 
of testimonials voluntarily sent to us by tile persons I 
whose signatures are attached, we refer jou to our 
Circular Pamphlet around each bottle. 
We would ray to l.lvery Stable Keepers make It a 
point never to be without this great remedy Il ls a 
cheap, eftleient and STTtE medicine. With this " Der 
mador,” there Is no such word as "pul." It never 
blisters, but cools. Price 25 and .'0 cents. Sold by all 
druggists. 1). RANSOM, SON A CO., 
Bull.tie. N. \ , 
VIRGINIA 
Co-operative Stock Farm 
( 1 A TT I, E.—Registered Jersey Cattle of best butter 
strains a special tv. The largest herd in Virginia, uud 
most successful at the Va, state Fairs. Bred on four 
farms. Sll EH I*.—Cotswold and southdown Sheep. 
Sl\ ! \ I-’,.—Berkshire. Poland, Chinn the Jersey Rod 
and Essex breeds. 1*0 I I/PR Y .—Pure bred laud 
and water fowls of all the lending varieties, and eggs 
lu season. Special reduced rates on nil stock chipped 
by express. Reference can be had to our whole com¬ 
munity here, where we have always resided. 
Address A. P. or HI. B. ROWE, 
FKEDKRicKsmmo, Va 
Hair restorative in the world is Hall’s 
Hair Kbxkwkr. It cures all discuses of 
the scalp, aud •stimulates the hair glands 
to healthful action. It stops the falling of 
the hair; prevents its turning gray: cures 
baldness, ami restores y outhful color and 
freshness of appearance to heads already 
white with age. The following are a few 
illustrations of what is done by 
Importers and Breeders of 
Selected from over 1,500 Birds, all bred from the tet1 
Strains. 
200 CHOICE COCKERELS 
For Sale after October 1st, Pairs, trios und breedi- g 
pens mated for best results, I rices reasonable at d 
satisfaction given. Address 
FRANK A. POLLARD, Harvard, Mass. 
HAIR RENEWER 
fi3T Mrs. Hunsberry, S-/4 Franklin Ave., 
Brooklyn, At 1"., after a severe attack of Ery¬ 
sipelas in the head, found her hair—already 
gray—falling off so rapidly that she soon became 
quite bald. One botile of Hall’s IIaik Re- 
xeweb brought It back as soft, brown aud 
thick as when she w as n girl. 
ATT* Mr. KSSLINO, an old farmer, near VTar- 
erve, I/nl., had scarcely mu hair left, and what 
little there waa of U had become nearly white. 
One bottle of Hall’s Hair Benrwe it stopped 
its falling oul, and gave Him a thick, luxuriant 
head of hair, an brown und frcoli us be ever had. 
K3* Mrs. A. T. Wall, Gr< rvfrhi, Cheshire, 
F»q., writes; “Ihave found the greatest ben¬ 
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having restored my hair, which was rnpily fall- 
ing on, and returned Its original color/' 
8T3~ Du. Emii, Beit, Detroit, Mich., certifies 
that ‘'Hall’s Hair Hlrkm'Kji is excellent for 
hair growing, nml gin „ back the natural color 
to faded and gray hair." 
Mrs. 8. E. Elliott, Glenrille, TF. Ya., 
says: "One botile of Hall's Hair Renewer 
restored ray hair ha its natural, youibful color.” 
No injurious substances enter into the 
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und it docs not make the hair dry ami 
brash v, like the so-called restoratives com¬ 
pounded willi alcohol. 
Buckingham’s Dye 
FOR THE 
A 1ST X) 
SinnlI Yorkshires 
BREED FROM THi WINNERS. 
Send for PROCTOR’S ILLUSTRATED HERD-BOO K 
containing list of prizes won. 
BACC’S HOTEL FARM, 
UTICA, N. Y. 
aiHnsf"W 1 r .w 
CLYDESDALE AND CLEVELAND BAY HORSES. 
Door Village, Lu Porte Co., Ind. 
A cnolce lot now on hand, and another shipment Is 
expected soon, selected by members of the tirm. 
Call and see them or write for prices. 
CHKS-j 
•TER HOGS. Send for description! 
of this famous breed, Also Fowls, 
I/,.- U. SILVEIt. CLKVKL&til>, O.J 
lASSITTS M. CLAY, breeder of pure SOUTH DOWN 
i SHEEP. White-Hall, Kentucky. 
Is. in four respects, superior to all others. 
1st—It will produce a rich, natural 
color, brown or black, as desired. 
2d—The color so produced is permanent, 
cannot he washed off. and will not soil any¬ 
thin'' with which it comes in contact. 
3d—It is a simile preparation, ami more 
convenient of application than any other 
hair or whisker dvc. 
41 h—It contains no deleterious ingre¬ 
dients, as do many preparations offered 
for like use. 
PREPARED BY 
E. P. HAIX & CO., Nashua, N. H. 
Sold by all dealers in medicines. 
yucuny. ''“ 1 ui illu. 
Clydesdale, English Draft, and Percheron-Nor- 
man Draft Horses, Trotting-Bred Roadsters, 
Coachers, and Shetland Ponies, Hol¬ 
stein and Devon Cattle. 
LARGE IMPORTATIONS ARRIVING WEEKLY, OF THE MOST PERFECT A NIMA LS 
TO BE FOUND. NO OVER-FED, PAMFERED OR WORN-OUT STOCK. 
O WP collection of Draft Horses uow embraces all the U4»lltig breeds In this class, affordingeael^eustomer 
^ ontmutd ontiortonlty for comparing merit*, and selecting suc-h a* id.-iwo him best^or Mich ns he 
Kibteif to bln section or purposes; or, as Is often t lie i-nsi , If In- desires to tit out n stable with rep- 
twnks be« sumo t , n different breeds, be cun be suited aft-dmdeland with the best of each Our 
ure argof One aud elegant. Our collection of Trotting Bred Roadster* Includes a large number of 
Cooehere nr largi.n ,,, {hl . richest nud most desirable trotting blood, of large size and perfect 
very promising >■ r |, rat ‘ t .,. endurance and speed. Our ln-rd of Holstein rattle, with Its recent 
add 1 tlon of ml nr g e lmpoito'iou, stand* unrivaled In Individual excel hue,- aud deep milking quality, and Is u 
r '^^ush!utod»nd r " nerd^of DevoesVas no' supeOor anywhere, cavli animal being a model of tho perfect fam¬ 
ily cow, for Which tin I!• rI b Ttotya. f ,, , s -/, "—Many years' experience tn Importing and 
.Wamn/ or Ad omit,w, Offe ■■ o Vnahllng eomimrlson of m. rim; the best of everything; 
broedlniG ImmOTsccmll^fions , ' nrtety^ r f ^ t .fcse proximity to all the great through railroad 
a world wide repuUittonfor falr urd l on * ” i„, sln ,.. s . rnr.s of transportation; and general faeh- 
!MeHWhleh P ^ *Yn* 1 OuV*icollections we aim to combine High Quality, Choice Breeding, Hardiness 
I.V.h vi t ill it v visitors welcome. Circulars free. Correspondence sollclte a. 
D.M.MACIE CO.,- 
SoTld-f®sma^ 
SENDTO H EADQUARTFRS 
,land-china swine 
^OXFORD; BUTLER CD 
HORSE-TROTTING AT FAIRS. 
“ Farmer,” in an article in a late Rural, 
evidently considers horse-racing necessary to 
tke success of agricultural fairs, I believe, 
and hope, that he is mistaken. Five years ago 
we organized a joint-stock agricultural society 
here in Onondaga County, New York, and iu 
the short space of time since then we have 
erected suitable buildings, returned to the 
stockholders $1.50 for every dollar they in¬ 
vested, and have on hand a sufficient reserve 
fund besides. Prohibiting horse-trotting has 
not proved disastrous in this instance. Our 
financial success, great as it has been, is of 
much less consequence than are the benefits 
gained in other directions. Our fairs have 
encouraged the breeding of better stock, stimu¬ 
lated the growing of choicer fruits and finer 
- ~^OJ*C£N. dARfiaaJl-S^Ul. HANCOCK. 
The followin'; Editorial Notice nppeared 
In the Oxlonl Citizen, of Oxford, Ohio, 
the home of tho P. M. Magic Company. 
“The D M. Marie Company, n few days since, ehippeil 
four fme pigs to Australia atwl ono to Nova Scotia. This 
firm Itaa a world-wide reputation. IX M. jingle, who is 
the originator of this breed, has been engaged hi this 
branch of the stock business fnr over forty years. This 
firm are the acknowledged leaders ami headquarters fur 
the Magic or Pntnnd-Uliitm Swine. They ship only good 
stork , und give satisfaction, «a their large and Increasing 
business testifies. Pardos from a distance can rely on 
getting number one pure breed stock when ordering from 
this long tested and responsible old firm. ” 
SpringI>o»*o, Crawford Co., Penn 
When you write, say you saw this advertisement In the Rural NewA orker. 
