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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV 10 
THE 
RURAL NEW'YORKER, 
Conducted by 
ELBERT S. CARMAN, 
Address 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
No. 34 Park Row. New York. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1883. 
Now, don’t try to ripen pears or apples 
in a warm apartment. They will shrink 
up in spite of you. 
North of the latitude of New York 
and Chicago you may still plant fruit and 
ornamental trees, if you like. . We should 
wait until Spring. South of New York 
we should plant now, if it were conve¬ 
nient so to do. 
One of the characters in Le Sage's 
novel of “Gil Bias,” is Doctor Sangrado, 
who practiced blood-letting for all sorts 
of ailments. Monopolies do not pretend 
to be physicians but might they not well 
be termed Dr. Sangrados? 
All of our friends who desire to help 
to increase the circulation and influence 
of the Rural New-Yorker, are now 
solicited to send for posters, premium 
lists, and specimen copies. All will be 
sent gratis with our best thanks. 
The Summer hog-packing season ended 
with the last day of October, and the re¬ 
turns hitherto collected of the Western 
packing for the season show an aggregate 
of 3,770,000 hogs, agaiust 3,210,000 last 
year, or an increase of 17 )4 per cent, 
in number. Moreover, there was a 
large increase in the average weight 
of the hogs marketed, approximately 
amounting to 18’■> pounds per hog. On 
this basis, the hogs packed in the West 
since March 1 have aggregated 905,000,000 
pounds gross, against 710,872,000 pounds 
last year, or an increase of 27 per cent. 
The stocks of hog products in the coun¬ 
try, although not so low as last year, are 
still only of moderate proportions, except 
barreled pork, which is in rather liberal 
supply. 
An English poultry breeder asserts that 
a cross of the cock of the Indian Game on 
common hens, produces the best table 
fowl he has ever eaten, and he has tried 
nearly eve”y other sort. These half-blood 
Indian Games make an extra-full breast of 
meat, which cuts like cheese, and has the 
flavor of the pheasant. The other parts 
of the fowl are. extra-firm and tender in 
flesh of a very superior quality. All 
American Game fowls and their crosses 
are celebrated for the superiority of their 
flesh, but il‘ the Indian birds so much 
excel them, they are well worthy of im¬ 
portation. Bred pure, they would not be 
profitable except by selling the chickens 
at high prices, as the hens lay only a few 
eggs, and then want to sit. Game cocks 
crossed on the large Asiatic breeds of 
hens make a great improvement in the 
flesh of the half-blood chickens which 
still attain a large size. 
We notice by our exchanges that the 
miserable scoundrels who lure pure girls 
to the city to lead lives of shame, are 
active again, particularly in the West. 
Their victims frequently come from coun¬ 
try places, and are lured to cities by 
tempting offers of light employment at 
high wages, only to find nameless sin. Oh 
country girls. you that, are as pure ub the 
air you breathe, buds of womanhood 
glistening with the dew of truth, lovely 
in all the thrice precious charms of vir¬ 
tue, we implore you in the name of the 
joy of earth, which prostitution ends for¬ 
ever; by a parent’s heart, which it would 
break; by heaven’s peace, which it for¬ 
ever bars; by all that is good and pure; 
by angels’ care and God’s great love, 
which it roust forfeit, do not go to the 
city unless to friends that you can trust 
will never let your feet take the first step 
to ruin. 
A committee representing a prominent 
agricultural association recently visited 
one of our agricultural colleges, especially 
charged with the mission of determining 
why there were not more agricultural 
students. A member of the committee 
incidentally remarked that, while he had 
no sons, no one of his daughters should 
marry a farmer unless the farmers took a 
different position in this country. Is not 
this feeling and its expression in the 
presence of farmers’ sons, one great reason 
why so few desire an agricultural educa¬ 
tion? Why should a boy wish to spend 
time and money in fitting himself for a 
business which lus father considers looked 
down upon and less desirable than others? 
If other callings are more desirable, more 
remunerative, more highly regarded, why 
blame either the colleges or the boys for 
the small number of students of agricul¬ 
ture? If it be desirable that there be 
more such students why discourage by 
sucli remarks? 
Late cablegrams tell us that between 
four and five hundred persons are pros¬ 
trated by trichinosis in ten villages in 
Saxony ; that the disease is spreading ra¬ 
pidly, and that the deaths are “20 per 
cent' of the number of infections.” Yes¬ 
terday’s cablegrams say 75 sufferers are 
in a hopeless condition and deaths are oc¬ 
curring daily. The German doctors are 
represented as saying that • * the disease 
will become epidemic, if it continues to 
spread,” as it has been doing lately. 
Either the doctors are very ignorant of 
the nature of trichinosis (and as they are 
Germans this is hardly supposable), or the 
telegraph operators have blundered sadly 
—a supposition not at all unlikely. As 
trichina?, only enter the human organ¬ 
ism by the eating of the meat in which 
they are bred, such words as “ infection ” 
and “ epidemic ’’ are misapplied in refer¬ 
ence to trichinosis. Although American 
hog products have been excluded from 
Germany for the last eight months, it is 
not at all unlikely that Bismarck and his 
subsidized press will seek by this out¬ 
break to foster the distrust of American 
pork which it has been the Chancellor’s 
policy for some time to create and 
augment. 
When, in 1793, Eli Whitney invented 
the cotton gin, by w r hich the lint is sepa¬ 
rated from the seed, the cultivation and 
manufacture of cotton received a marvel¬ 
ous impetus. The device effected a com¬ 
plete revolution in the cotton industry, 
and, if the latest accounts are true, a 
similar revolution is likely to be wrought 
by a cotton-picking machine with which 
experiments have lately been successfully 
made in South Carolina. - A telegram 
from Charleston lasl Wednesday tells us 
that the first hale of cotton ever picked 
from the field by machinery was exhibited 
at the Cottou Exchange in that city last 
Tuesday, and the staple was pronounced 
by cotton men to he in as good condition 
as hand-picked cotton. The machine is 
the invention of a “master machinist of 
South Carolina.” Its present capacity is 
found to be a ton of seed cotton every 
day of ten hours, and its inventor be¬ 
lieves that its capacity can be doubled so 
that it will pick two tons of seed cotton a 
day, which is equivalent to, say, three 
bales of lint. Even should this machine 
fall short of the sanguine expectations 
entertained of it, its production is pretty 
sure to remain an important event, pre¬ 
saging the speedy appearance of a still 
more ingenious device for accomplishing 
the same work—long a desideratum in the 
world’s cotton-raising industry. 
INTOLERABLE LANDLORDISM. 
A courLK of specimens of the “ human¬ 
ity” of landlordism in Great Britain have 
just been made public, that will not tend 
to popularize recent attempts to establish 
British landlordism in this country. In 
the Island of Skye a crofter had been re¬ 
duced to abject poverty by light crops, 
heavy rents, and other causes. He was a 
peaceable poor fellow, had paid his rent, 
and had kept clear of the anti-rent agita¬ 
tion which has lately disturbed the island, 
A few months ago lie bought a couple of 
cart-loads of turnips, ostensibly for his 
cow, but subsequently it transpired that 
the wretched fellow had no cow, and that 
for several weeks his family had been sub¬ 
sisting exclusively upon the turnips. As 
soon as the miserable fact came to his 
landlord’s ears, that noble gentleman, 
filled with horror and disgust that one of 
his tenants should have the audacity to 
be reduced to semi-starvation, at once 
gave him notice to quit! The other ex¬ 
ample was given at Peamore. Devonshire, 
a few weeks ago. An estate there has been 
farmed by the present tenant for 23 years 
and bv his father for 33 years before him, 
and Sir Stafford Northcote’s bailiff, who 
has just been over it, reports that he 
never saw an estate in better condition of 
cultivation. The tenant, however, has 
lately received six months’ notice to quit, 
because he had the impudence to com¬ 
plain of the destruction of his crops by a 
flock of 40 peacocks belonging to the “lord 
of the manor!” He has sold off his 
stock, but it is estimated that under the 
most favorable circumstances he will 
leave at least $2,500 of his money in the 
farm. Of course, neit her of these instances 
can be taken as fair examples of the average 
landlordism of Great Britain, though 
probably neither would be considered 
very unusual in the sister island. Both, 
however, show the gross abuses inherent 
in the system, and it is by extreme 
instances of a vicious system that public 
indignation is generally aroused to right 
the evil which, were it not for such start¬ 
ling cases, might continue to oppress the 
people for generations. It was the Shel- 
bys and Legrees that made slavery in¬ 
tolerable. 
THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION. 
On the first Monday of December, 1884, 
over one year from date, the World’s In¬ 
dustrial and Cottou Centennial Exposition, 
inaugurated by a resolution of the Na¬ 
tional Cottou Planters’ Association of 
America, will open in New Orleans, La., 
not to be closed before May 31, 1885. It 
was the original idea of the Association 
to have only a cotton exposition in com¬ 
memoration of the centennial anniversary 
of the first exportation of cotton from the 
United States, which occurred in 1784; 
but later, the Association reconsidered its 
intention and decided to make it an inter¬ 
national exposition, open to all nations. 
In order that this Exposition should be 
supported in a proper manner, considering 
the national character and magnitude of 
the undertaking, on Februaiy 10, 1883. 
the Congress of the United States passed 
an act of approval, extending the encour¬ 
agement of the National Government to 
the enterprise, which will assume propor¬ 
tions second to no exposition yet held in 
the United States. 
New Orleans, as the metropolis of the 
South and the cotton country, is a most 
fitting locality in which to hold an expo¬ 
sition the object of which is to celebrate 
the anniversary of the entry of cotton 
into the commerce of the world; to de¬ 
velop the latent resources of the Southern 
States; to display the industrial and 
agricultural products of a portion of a 
great country making rapid strides in the 
line of progress; and to more firmly unite 
the bonds of friendship and brotherly 
feeliug between North and South. 
Everything is being done that can be 
done to make this exposition a success. 
Funds in abundance have been collected 
for all necessary buildings and other ex¬ 
penses; representatives of all nations have 
been requested to invite their countrymen 
to participate and compete; all goods in¬ 
tended for exhibition will be admitted 
free of duty; each State in the Union will 
be represented by one Commissioner; 
various Southern States are voting aid 
appropriations; free warehouses will be 
established for the accommodation of both 
domestic and foreign exhibitors desiring 
to transfer exhibits from other expositions; 
the grounds and buildings will be located 
convenient to all the railway lines, and 
steamboats plying on the inland waters of 
the valleys of the Mississippi, Ohio and 
Missouri. 
Whatever can be classed under the head 
of agriculture, horticulture, raw and manu¬ 
factured products, ores, minerals, woods, 
furniture and accessories, textile faeries, 
clothing and accessories, the industrial 
arts, alimentary products, education and 
instruction, works of art and pisciculture, 
are considered proper objects for exhibi¬ 
tion. A leading feature will be a national 
exposition of women’s work, under (he 
management of a commission, consisting 
of two women from each State and Terri¬ 
tory of the Union, the object of whieh 
will be to practically develop and illus¬ 
trate the field of women’s work, and en¬ 
large her sphere of usefulness in the 
domestic economy and industry of the 
world. To illustrate the peculiar re¬ 
sources of the South, special exhibits of 
cotton, sugar, rice, jute and other fibers, 
in all their conditions of culture, manu¬ 
facture and preparation for the market, 
will be made. 
As this Exposition is to be held under 
the joint auspices of the United States 
Government, the National Cotton Plant¬ 
ers’ Association and the city of New 
Orleans, it must surely be successful, con¬ 
sidering the agents intrusted with its wel¬ 
fare, and the object in view. Misfortune 
and disaster have caused sad havoc in 
times past in the Southern States, but the 
result of these is rapidly disappearing in 
the developed agricultural interests and 
manufacturing enterprises, combined with 
the improved methods introduced from 
other States and countries. 
In 1784, 71 bags of cotton were shipped 
to England, where they were seized on 
the ground that America could not pro¬ 
duce so great a quantity. In 1792, 304 
hales were shipped. In 1853, when “ Cot¬ 
ton was King,” the crop was estimated at 
1,600,000.000 pounds, valued at $128,000,- 
000. Thirty years later, after having gone 
through many reverses, with the last sea¬ 
son a poor one for crops, it is probable 
that the Southern States will produce 
nearly 6,000,000 bales, of 490 pounds 
gross weight, which will not only clothe 
the greater portion of the people in civil¬ 
ized parts, but will yield in the neighbor¬ 
hood of 2,500,000 tons of cotton seed 
more than will be required. 
This seed, if properly treated, may be 
converted into 105,000,000 gallons of cot¬ 
ton seed oil, 1,500,000 tons of oil cake or 
meal, and 1,700,000 tons of hulls, which 
should yield 800,000 tons of paper. No 
small industry this, and surely one that 
should be well represented in the coming 
exposition, as wo have no doubt it will, 
considering that it lias been placed in the 
front position by the National Cotton 
Planters’ Association. 
This will be the first really international 
industrial exposition in the South, and 
already attention is directed to it in all 
portions of the country. To the South¬ 
ern States, it means the beginning of a 
new era of prosperity in the condition of 
the agriculturist, the opening up of ave¬ 
nues for immigration, and the profitable 
investment of capital in local industries. 
BREVITIES. 
The plow is mightier than the sword. 
A friend, living in South Sutton, New 
Hampshire, writes that he has 16 varieties of 
grapes and the Lady was ripe first. 
What man of sense blames the country girl 
for attempting to catch a city man ? The lot 
of a Government mule is preferable to the life 
of some farmers’ wives that we know of. 
The problem of life is not to be computed in 
dollars and cents; its numbers are not the 
melodies of fame; itequanfcities are not the ca¬ 
pacities for pleasure; it is the question of the 
greatest good to the greatest number, and its 
solution, living for others and the right. And 
don’t imagine you can ever figure it. out on a 
lot of scrub calves whose sole subsistence is a 
straw-stack. 
Do not our schools make children untruth¬ 
ful 1 The teacher’s bRck is turned, A little 
boy titters. The teacher turns quickly around 
and fiercely demands. “Whodid that?” The 
child is frightened. To tell the truth is to be 
punished! To deny that he did it, is to escape. 
Is it any wonder the child tells a story? And 
as the twig is bent the tree Is inclined. An 
untruthful child, a dishonest roan. 
Stand up. We want to question you just at 
this season. The leaves are falling, but the 
price of plows is not. Is the breaking plow in 
the corner of the field, the corner of the fence, 
or the corner of the shed ? Is the scythe roost¬ 
ing in the cherry tree with the chickens, or is 
it keeping the garden gate on its hinges ? We 
will stop with that. We will not ask you 
about the balance of the farm tools and ma¬ 
chines. But we just want to whisper iu your 
northwest ear that the nights are gettiug cold 
and farm machinery may get the rheumatism. 
The large manufacturers of sausage in Chi¬ 
cago turn out. almost 130 bins of the article a 
day. the industry employing from 600 to 700 
persons, and the butehers make fonr-and-a-lmlf 
tons a day in addition. A good many are 
shipped to Frankfort, Germany, and then 
brought back to this country as genuine 
Frankfort sausages, worth twice as much as 
the American goods. When Lord Coleridge, 
the English Lord Chief .lust ice, was in Chicago 
the other day, he was asked to examine the 
mode of making sausage. “ No, thanks,” said 
His ‘Ludsliip,’ “ I eat sausage myself some¬ 
time*. ” 
A very desirable and useful bird to import, 
and acclimate in North America is a native of 
South America, and is called the Agami 
(Psopbia crepitans). We condense the follow¬ 
ing description of it from La Bawe Cour, a 
French poultry periodical: Placed with a flock 
of liens, it watches over them and their chick¬ 
ens as a shepherd dog does over a flock of 
sheep. Whether it would lie a match for a 
hawk it does not say, but. it would drive off 
crows, and prevent t hem from carrying away 
chickens. It would also play the part of a 
police officer in the flock it might be guarding, 
and permit no fighting either among the cocks 
or hens, compelling all to live in perfect har¬ 
mony with each other. The Agumi is also 
said to have the same fondness for man as the 
dog, and makes itself a useful pet to the family 
wherever kept. 
Morris Ranukr, one of the largest opera¬ 
tors in the cotton markets on both sides of the 
Atlantic, has just failed for a sum variously 
estimated all the way from half a million to 
two-and-a half million dollars. The cotton 
crop of 1882 was a phenomenal one, and 
early this year it was thought that the pre¬ 
sent crop might, equal it. Counting on a 
large crop here, Ranger made “short” sales 
to an enormous extent. The large crop has 
not been grown: prices therefore, instead of 
falling, as Morris expected, have been steady 
with an upward tendency, and the specula¬ 
tor’s downfall heratne inevitable. There was 
a flurry in cottou all over the world owing to 
his failure, but already the market, has re¬ 
covered from the depressing effect, and prices 
are again looking upwards. Last year's 
cotton crop was nearly 7,600,000 bales; but 16 
times that amount were sold in t his city alone. 
It is, perhaps, fortunate, that the gambling 
speculators should sometimes get a squeeze, 
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