Vol. M . No. 30.1 Rochester, Ky
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Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection TWO DOLLARS .A. "PROGRESS .AJNTD IMPROVEMENT.' [SINGLE NO. BXDTJR CENTS. VOL. M. NO. 30.1 ROCHESTER, K. Y. -FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1861. {WHOLE NO. 602. this country what PAXTON is in England; men MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, estimate him not so much by his knowledge and AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY description of fruits and fruit trees, aa by his endeav- AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND PAMILY JOURNAL ors to introduce correct ideas of landscape garden- ing; of the construction of elegant and commodious CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, dwellings; and of a higher style of life in the pursuit With an Able Corps of Assistants and Contributors. of horticulture, to which science he was devoted. The art of agriculture does, in the grander modes, D. BBAODON, Western Corresponding Editor. what landscape gardening does in the narrower; and there can be no reason why the most ordinary farm Tn RURAL NKW-YORKBR is designed to be unsurpassed in Value, Purity, Usefulness and Variety of Contents, and unique in Essex county should not borrow something from and beautiful in Appearan.ee. Its Conductor devotes bis per- a higher style, to improve it and enhance its value. sonal attention to the supervision of it*various departments, The time may be distant when in this country we and earnestly labors to render the RURAL an eminently shall be obliged to cultivate as carefully and scrupu- Reliable Guide on all the important Practical, Scientific and other Subjects intimately connected with the business of those lously as is needful in older and more thickly settled whose interests it zealously advocates. As a FAMILY JOURNAL countries, yet there can be no excuse for neglecting It is eminently Instructive and Entertaining: — being: so con- to obtain the greatest advantages from agriculture ducted that it can be safely taken to the Hearts and Homes of which lie in our power." people of intelligence, taste and discrimination. It embraces more Agricultural. Horticultural, Scientific, Educational, " The garden in the sacred Scriptures is spoken o Literary and News Matter, interspersed with appropriate and as man's first residence, and it is the garden which ii beautiful Engravings, than any other journal,—rendering his last and highest effort in civilized life. The farm it the most complete AGRICULTURAL, LJTBRARY AND FAMILY KSWSPAPKB in America. can be a garden full of all manner of trees and herb good for food and pleasure. Your most productive farming opera'ions cease to wear the aspect of wha would have been the case not many years ago. A well laid out and carefully cultivated garden rank; among the highest efforts of artistical skill. In i AGRICULTURE AS AN ART. the useful, ornamental and essential all combine. In one department may be found the forest trees; in THERE is no business demanding such varied another the kitchen stuffs; another herbs and per acquirements and such extensive knowledge — none haps flowers. Every superfluous plant is there an that aff«rds such fall scope for the highest intellectaa unsightly weed, and is carefully extirpated." powers—as that of farming. The farmer has to dea "Nicety of operation in sowing and weeding HEREFORD BTJLL " CHANCELLOR," with the works of nature, created by an All-wise studying the character of the soil; adaptation of this Imported and. Owned "by Mr. Thomas Aston, of Klyria, Ijorain County, Ohio. Power—an Almighty hand — by that same m/steri or that manure, to this or that fleld; will pay as wel ous power that set the flaming comet on its rapid as the same means in the garden. We see this in instructive reading to those who consult their chron- to the lingering desire of the writer on that ho THERE BE COMES. course, and whose -ways and works are past finding what is called market gardening, and the most ready icles. They show that science, taste, and successful July day! out The farmer has to deal with the earth,—learn its I hear the bleating of sheep and the who-whoop of returns are from such farms as pursue the course industry have been brought to bear upon agriculture. This was no make-believe, art-made park. It wa different characteristics and capabilities, and its a clear, strong voice ringing in the soft evening air, which improved husbandry recommends. But no art They mark the degree of mental culture and refine- nature's unadorned, yet most adorned work—th adaptation to the various plants he cultivates, the and waking the echoes among the oaks and lindens. can successfully be pursued without a science to aid ment to which the farmers of the country have leafy realm of the Cattle King of McLean County, way to remedy its defects and appropriate its riches. I jump from the top of a barrel under the shade of a LUU assist; to prompt the labor, and to point out the attained.' Let our common school teachers, I His herds and flocks roamed or rested here undia The air and the seasons, too, must be his study; for course." locust tree, where I have been seated writing the repeat, understand that they are expected to commu- , turbed, drinking from the pure Sugar Creek, or gra foregoing. There he is. It is not easy to mistake they materially affect his interests, sometimes giving ," It were hardly to be expected in a country like nicate such knowledge or go without employment, ing on the lawn in the openings. My horse starte the proprietor — the veteran cattle lord — not be- him a golden harvest, at others bringing rust and ours, so young (and yet so old,) but with so many and my word for it, you will find them all apt and fit suddenly,.and a hundred grunts from as many hogs cause of any proud, or haughty demeanor, any blight upsn his crops and prospects. He must know vocations open to its inhabitants, seemingly more for the task." startled me. A few moments later and I emerged on assumption of dignity or power. But those shoulders something of vegetable physiology,—and the more honorable and easier of pursuit than agriculture (but the prairie and found flocks of sheep, droves o are bent with a burthen of care. The step has lost the better,—for every day. during the growing season alas! too often the reverse,) that the same careful WESTERN EDITORIAL NOTES. horses and mules, and herds of cattle and swine, its elasticity; the man of sixty-four years, thirty- he performs work for the growth of his crops, solicitude for its advancement should have yet arisen dotting the landscape on the east as far as the eyi seven of which have been employed in the accumu- founded on the laws which govern vegetable life, and here as abroad. The foresight and prospective wis- ISAAC PUNK —AN ILLINOIS CATTLE KING. could reach. In the edge of th,, timber on my lef lation of this property, has reached the age of without this knowledge he labors in the dark, or dom of our greatest and most distinguished patriots "HAVE you ever visited ISAAC PUNK, B.?» asked stood an old log barn surrounded by a score or two service, when, while be steps regularly and firmly, follows the leading of those who may be as ignorant have strongly recommended some action in our a friend with whom I sat, talking, on the piazza of of large seedling apple trees, loaded with fruit. he walks with his right arm resting in his left hand, as himself. He should know the best means of institutions of learning towards the enlightened pur- the Niccolls House at Bloomington. Away to the right and west, in the edge of the grove, behind his back, his head bowed —when he has growing those plants that are valuable, and the best suit of agriculture. But the precise method of "No, sir; will it pay?" I discovered the yellow barn the woman said passed the summit of life and is traveling the down way of destroying those that are noxious. inducing the stucy of farming as other studies are " Of coarse it will, and he will be glad to see you." should see; no other buildinrs were visible. Fol grade. He leads his fine gray horse to the gate, ties This would seem to be enough to require of one sought, is a difficult question to solve, and may not The matter was settled; we determined to ride ten lowing instructions, I rode towards the barn. I had the bridle to the saddle bow, and turns him loose. man, for the successful prosecution of one profession, be easily pointed out. I do not pretend to offer any miles south-west of Bloomington, and talk with one rode on this Illinois farm nearly four miles, when and yet the farmer cannot stop here. He must know plan of my own, from ignorance of what has been of the earliest settlers and largest land-holders in the found sundry wagon and cattle trails converging LET US LOOK AT HIM. somewhat of the habits of the hundreds of insects done, and from inability to devise such. Yet it State. towards one point Sundry civilized sounds were Dress has a moral effect upon a man's conduct; it that prey upon his crops, and threaten their destruc appears to me evident that the first obstacle is our Having passed the station Shirley, on the Chicago, issuing from the :dge of the grove west ef the yellow is to a certain extent an index of his character.