Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection TWO DOLLARS A. YKAR.] •* PBOGRE8S IMPRCXVEJMIBIIST.' [SINGLE STO. WOTJH CB3NTS. YOL XH. NO. 17.} ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 27,1861. SWHOLE NO. 589. often as they thus show themselves, and you will can be grown to advantage for this purpose. The FIG. 1 FIG. 2. MOORE'S RURAL TOT-YORKER, destroy them. You need not look in the Almanac to system is new and comparatively untried in this AN ORIGINAL WXEKLT find 'where the sign is,' or pay any attention to the country. We are only expterfmenting, and have AGMCULTPRAI, LITERARY AND FAMILY JOURNAL moon, as to where she is, or what her age may be. much to learn. It is a fine field for experiment, and CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOOBE, But remember your thistles are in the earth. Their farmera should try the matter for themselves, instead roots are'in its soil, and its top must and does draw of depending upon the statements of the few who With an Able Corps of Assistants and Contributors. a part of its nutriment from the atmosphere; and by have given it their attention. For winter, roots are THB RURAL NEW-YORKER is designed to be unsurpassed in cutting off the top, you deprive it of this nutriment, of great service, as well as corn hay, which can be Value, Purity, Usefulness and Variety of Contents, and unique and as a consequence, the thistles starve and die. grown cheaply, with proper culture. Of course corn and beautiful in- Appearance. Its Conductor devotes his per- meal, hay, and other ordinary winter feed, must not sonal attention to the supervision of its various departments, I have had some experience in this matter, and I and earnestly labors to render the RURAL an eminently am fully satisfied that one summer's attention to a be neglected or undervalued. Whoever adopts this Reliable Guide on all the important Practical, Scientific and 'patch of thistles' will use them up, be it wet and system, we think should make proper preparation other Subjects intimately connected with the business of cold, or warm and dry, sign or no sign, moon or no for steaming winter feed. those whose interests it aealously advocates. As a FAMILT JOURNAL it is eminently Instructive and Entertaining*— being moon, even though they have as many lives as BUN- so conducted that it can be safely taken to' the Hearts and TAN'S 'Giant Despair,'who is said to have had as Lucerne. Homes of people of intelligence, taste and discrimination. It 'many lives aB a cat.'" EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKER:—Will some of your readers embraces more Agricultural, Horticultural, Scientific, Educa- From our own experience, we are satisfied that give me a little information about Lucerne grass—how to grow tional, literary and News Matter, interspersed with appropriate it, and what are its advantages; whether it is suitable for and beautiful Engravings, than any other journal,—rendering if every Canada thistle is chopped down as soon lawns, and the same time good for cattle?—INQUIRER,. Zewfc- it the most complete AGRICULTURAL, LITBRABY AND FAKILT as it makes its appearance above ground, it Um,N. r,1861. NEWSPAPER in America. will soon perish; but if allowed to grow several LUCERNE is one of those plants that is almost FOR TERMS and other particulars, see last page. inches in height before being cut down, the leaves invaluable under some systems of culture, and about will accumulate sufficient of needed air - nourishment _—. -_-,—„ to act of Congress, in the year 1861, by worthless under others. It is a perennial plant, and 5 D. T. MOORE, in the Office of the Clerk of the District in the roots to enable them to send out a new stock Court for the Northern District of New York. of shoots, and thus the evil continues and increases. with clean culture and a rich deep, soil gives an C3r~ Our only object in copyrighting this paper is to secure Successive plowing produces the same effect, but it enormous amount of food, either, for green feeding or what every honorable journalist wiQ freely grant—proper must be thorough, and done at the right time. They hay. When soiling becomes general, Lucerne will credit for articles selected from its pages. Any and every may be destroyed in any hoed crop, and for this be very popular for summer feeding. It will give a journal is at liberty, and invited, to copy freely, by crediting good cutting several times during the summer, and each original article or illustration to Rural New- Yorker. nothing is better than corn or potatoes. Every farmer should consider himself fully empowered, by make from three to eight tuns of hay. It does not virtue of his occupation, to wage a continual war attain maturity until the third year after planting, against this invader, until it is entirely subdued. though it will give lighter crops the two first years. It is unfit for lawns. Nasal Diseases — Horse Distemper. AND NOTES. EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKER:—Will you inform me, through THE DAIRY.—NO. VI. Canada Thistles* the columns of your paper, how to ewe the horse distemper? Is the disease contagious? If so, can I prevent other horses CHEESE. EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKBH:—Will you inform me how to taking the disease-after being " exposed."—S. HOWE, Shingle HAVING in previous numbers endeavored to show destroy Canada thistles? I have discovered a small patch FIG. 3. House, Pa., 1861. upon my farm, on new ground, and among stumps, and am how important it is for the dairy farmer to pay the anxious ioflesfroy them.—C. P. P., Gaines, Kent Co., Mich. IT is rather difficult to prescribe a certain course utmost attention to the food of his cows, as well as to rivrPRcrvrKD P^LTEJST HARROW. for the treatment of " Distemper," as so many of the their comfort, we proeeed now briefly to condense IK answer to the inquiry of our Michigan friend, and compile suoh instructions in regard to the manu nasal diseases affecting the horse are thus called. All IT affords us pleasure to introduce to the agricul placed horizontally, as shown in figure 2. By turning we cannot do. better than collect the experience of facture of cheese as may be necas*a*y to enable the catarrhal affections, as common catarrh, epizootic tural public, a valuable improvement in one of the t&e part wr* the links, g, g, up to a position at right eminent botanists, and practical farmers, which has novice to carry it on successfully. \ heretofore been given in our columns. We doubt or epidemic catarrh, laryngitis, bronchitis, or other most important of farm implements—viz: an.Oscil- angles with the other section, the links may be con- not he. will here find a successful mode of carrying diseases accompanied by nasal discharges, are very The cheese zone is much more extended than that lating Harrow, recently patented and assigned to Mr. nected with the hooks by inserting them in the space on a war Against. this pest frequently classed under this common title. With of butter, for good cheese may be made where, from CHAS. ELLIOTT, of East Kendall, Orleans County, N. at the point of the latter, and When both parts are Dr. DARLINGTON, in American Weeds and Useful the first of these, (and which is often only a simple the peculiarities of soil and climate, good butter Y. An examination of a model of this harrow, with returned to their working position, disconnection Plants^ says:—" This is, perhaps* the moBt execrable cold, elevated by dignity of name,) there is no danger could not be produced. Its profitable manufacture the assurances of those who have used it, convince us cannot occur, although the greatest freedom of weed that has yet invaded the farms of our country. of contagion from exposure. With the second, as its depends upon so many contingencies, that it can that it is an improvement which will be appreciated motion iff obtained. The sections may rise and fall The rhizoma, or subterranean stem, (which is peren- prefix indicates, this peculiarity is one of its distin- never be made a leading farm product outside of the by practical farmers. It combines several advanta- together, to follow the undulations of the ground, or nial an<} wry tenacious of life,) lies rather below the guishing features. We give Dr. DADD'S manner of New England and the Middle States. ges over the common harrow. Perhaps we cannot one may move up or down vertically independently usual depth of furrows — and hence the plant is not treating simple catarrh, as follows: In this State it is usually made on the confines of better state these advantages than by giving the above of the other. A corresponding liberty of longitudi- destroyed by common plowing. This rhizoma rami- If the weather be cold, let the animal have com- the grain and dairy regions, or where spring grains illustrations and quoting (from the Letters Patent,) nal motion is secured by the position of the hooks, fies and extends itself horizontally in all directions, fortable quarters, and a good bed of clean straw. A can be successfully grown, and yet where good pas- the main portion of the inventor's own description h, h. The attendant may, at any time and place, — sending up branches to the surface, where radical blanket may be thrown over the body, and the legs turage is easily accessible. Herkhner county is the of the construction and operation of his improve- detach the parts of the harrow by simply turning leaves are developed the first year, and asrial stems should first be welLrubbed with a wisp of straw, and great cheese county, more cheese being made in that ment, as follows: one half to a vertical position, either for convenience the second year.