The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-11-07
TERRA.CULTURE AND M0ORE'S
RURAL NEW YORKER.

ID. II. L. Moore on being crOss-ex-
amined by Hon. III. F. Holcomb, on
September Goth, 1861, was asked if he
(Moore) had ever heard Professor
Comstock lecture on Terra Culture.
"NO,"-WAS HIS RELUCTANT
REPLY. Said Moore should have
added: 81 told Russell Comstock |
would, but l did not keep my promise. ="
During more than one hour on that
day, said Moore pretended to explain
Terra Culture to Mr.. Holcomb, his old
correspondent, to prevent Mr.. Holcomb
from hearing tie Disclosure on the
said day at Jackson, Mich. Said Moore
was sin peck Of srouble'' when he
found that Mr. Holcomb would go and
hear the Disclosure OIL the said day,
and Judge fer himself. At this Lecture
Mr.. Holcomb stated to the company,
that said d. D. r. Moore, of the Rural
New Yorker, was as ignorant of the
principles and practice of Terra Culture
as the child unborn.
On October 10th, 1861, for the i'm
provement of his family and neighbor-
hood, some FIVE miles south of Jackson,
Hon. III. F. Holcomb raised company
of more than 90 persons to learn Terra
Culture. At this Lecture Mr.
(whose name will hereafter be given
said that he was Nurseryman by
Trade, and had often seen Rochester
Nursery Trees snap off like pipe stem
when hit with the whiffletree while
cultivating them; each showing its
heart to be dead and rotten in the
center of the tree near the ground, where
it broke off; which unsoundness he
never could account for, until hearing
the principles of Terra Culture ex-
planned on that day; and that he now
saw why trees which received COMMON
ROCHESTER NURSERY CULTURE could
never have sound hearts, nor be made
perfect trees; nor be made worth as
much as good seed, such seed as they
came from. Hence the opposition of
d. d. +. Moore's Rural New Yorker
which is printed for a CIRCULAR for
ROCHESTER NURsERYMEN; one page
of which has always been devoted to
their interest, headed Horticulture, p"
with engravings of fruits, flowers, DC.
The. Nurserymen claim to receive
fye millions of dollars annually for
trees such trees as Terra Culturists
consider worthless trees. With this
powerful enemy, claiming to have a
capital in nursery plants aud trees at
Rochester, N. Y, of Twenty Millions
INf h,ltorC ttr-n Thousand 81
land, | have had TO contend since the
year 1852. Since then, annually or
quarterly the said NURSERY CIRCULAR,
called "THE RURAL New YORKER, {"
has contained columns of printed mat
ter and engravings to oppose and ridi-
Guile Terra, Culture, arithoM erer giring
one idea Of 1t. Who has paid said
Moore for all this? They, the Nurse
rymen, who hired, bought, said Moore
and gave him a circulation of 5000 to
commence with, as their mouthpiece,
to recommend damaged trees as perfect
trees, may know that it is impossible,
while Russell Comstock lives and has
his health, to suppress Terra Culture !;
but they hope to retard and prevent its
general diffusion among the people, to
keep their customers in ignorance of
it, because Terra Culturists know those
damaged and understandable trees by
their external appearance as soon as
they see their roots aud trunks.
Every person who entered an article
for Il premium at the Jackson County
Fair this Fall received during the Fair
one of the Rochester Nurserymen's
Circulars, "Moore's Rural New
Yorker" hence the large circulation
of this Child Like Paper"
To increase the circulation of the
Rochester Nurserymen's Circular, said
Moore sells it to some club agents at
half his advertised price, as many Edit
ors know.
Recently Mr.. Holcomb received a
package of 25 Rural New Workers, and
soon after a Rochester Nurseryman's
agent appeared at Mr.. Halcomb's farm
to sell trees. Mr.. Holcomb, Mr.. Lewis
Snyder, Jr., and others purchased; and
Mr.. S. complains that his Rochester
Trees are most all dead which is the
general complaint wherever / have
lectured, = from the Hudson to the Mis-
sissippi Rivers, and from Canada to
Virginia, inclusive.
Mr.. Snyder says he has two fruit
trees which cost him SIS; because all
the rest of the Rochester trees which
he bought with them soon died. On
reading this article, j. j. Cole, ESQ.,. of
Lawton, remarked that -"six years
ago he paid $a2 in gold for Rocherter,
N. Y, Apple, Pear, Cherry and Peach
Trees, and now has only four of the
lot of trees living; and he estimates his
damage at hundreds of dollars. The
rest of the trees died in one or two
years."
Russell Comstock has never heard of
Rochester Agent attempting to sell
trees in the same neighborhood more
than one year, excepting in one in
stance; and he never knew nor heard
of community who were satisfied
with their success in making Rochester
Trees live. "Ihey most all de-" is
the universal complaint.
Russell Comstock would advise all
who buy Rochester Trees to reserve
the privilege of annulIng the con-