1885 
THE RURAL RllMfORKlR, 
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BEN. PERLEY POORE. 
Ben. Perley Poore, whose portrait we 
give at Fig. 220, was born November 2, 1820, 
and was reared on the Indian Hill Farm, near 
Newburyport, Massachusetts, which has been 
handed down in the family for six genera¬ 
tions. When a boy, he witnessed the intro¬ 
duction of Scotch farming by his father, who 
sioB, and after his return, in 1847, from five 
years of European travel, he became a Wash¬ 
ington correspondent. This has enabled him 
to pass his Summers on Indian Hill Farm, 
and to improve its fertile acres. During the 
palmy days of the United States Agricultural 
Society' he was its efficient secretary, manag¬ 
ing its great fairs, and ou several occasions 
he has delivered agricultural addresses, be¬ 
sides contributing largely to the agricultural 
press. In I860 he received the premium of 
$1,000 for his 20-acre plantation of forest trees, 
the seed of which he planted where they 
stand. This plantation was fully described in 
the Rural of November 3a, 1882, page 796, 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
The St. Johnsvillk Agricultural 
Works.—A catalogue containing illustrations 
and full descriptions of several styles of 
thrashing machines and separators,from those 
large enough for a steam engine or 10 horses, 
to those adapted to be run by a two to four- 
horse tread-power; also tread-powers large 
and small, lever powers, mounted or down. 
The firm also make circular wood saws of 
several sizes; also drag saws for cutting 
of the work accomplished by the Commission¬ 
er during the first year. It is hoped that with 
the ammended law, the manufacture and sale 
of bogus dairy products may be entirely sup¬ 
pressed; but at the same time it behooveth 
every dairyman in the country to try and 
improve the quality and quantity of the gen¬ 
uine products, so that the prices will not be 
unreasonably high. 
Chadborn & Coldwell Manufacturing 
Co , Newbergh, N. Y.—Circulars of4he vari- 
ious lawn-mowers made by this firm, among 
which are the Excelsior with a large roller, 
which many think almost indispensable to the 
best keeping of a lawn; also.'^the Excelsior 
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BEN. PERLEY POORE. (From a Photograph.) Fig. 230. 
in 1843, received from the Massachusetts So¬ 
ciety for the Promotion of Agriculture, its 
premium of $200 for the best managed farm 
in the State, another premium of $50 for his 
experiments in under-draining, and numerous 
premiums'from the County Society for stock 
and crops. 
The younger Mr. Poore, the subject of our 
llustratiou, ^adopted*,journalism as a profes- 
by the late Dr. John^A. Warder in one of his 
valuable series of articles on Forestry. Mr. 
Poore has kept up the herd of white Short¬ 
horns, established by his father 60 years ago, 
and the collection of antiquities gathered by 
him at Indian Hill Farm makes it interesting 
to the antiquarian, as well as to the farmer 
and the forester. He is a genial, w hole-souled 
man, with crowds of friends all over the land. 
stove-wood, bolts, ete. direct from the log. 
This is an old house, and has a good reputa¬ 
tion, and the catalogue will be sent to all who 
address them at St. Johnsville, New York. 
The First Annual Report of the New 
York State Dairy Commissioner, with 
accompanying documents. We are under 
obligations to J. K. Brown, the Commissioner, 
for.this report containing a very full, account 
with side wheels, and the Clipper made in the 
same way. There is also a special paper called 
the Lawn, which contains many valuable 
hints upon the making and care of lawns. 
Talks Afield, About Plants and the 
Science of Plants, by L. H. Bailey, Jr., 
published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; price 
$1. This little book of 170 pages, treats of 
botany in a clear, interesting manner, The 
