The Portland daily press., 1869-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
Moore's Rural New Yorker,

MO0fe'E Rural NeW-YOrker,
W. AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY
Rural, Literary and Family Newspaper,
E-. d. ID. 4. MOORE,
Conducting Editor and Proprietor.
CHAs. D. BRAGDON, GF. WILCOX, A. A.
HOPKINS, Associate Editors.
HENRY S. RANDALL, LII. D.,
Editor of the Department OF Sheep Husbandry
X. A. WILLARD,
Editor of the Department OF Dairy Husbandry.
DANIEL LEE, NJ. D.,
VI Tennessee, Southern Corresponding Editor.
THIS JOURNAL is designed to be UNSURPASSED I'm
value, Purity and Variety OF contents. Its con-
ducors earnestly labor to render 1t Reliable Author
ity on the important Practical and Scientific Sub
jects connected with the business of those whose in
terests it advocates The aim is to make it emf
nently Instructive, Useful and Entertaining as
FAMILY JOURNAL, by adapting it to the wants and
tastes of all people Of intelligence and refinement.
Ii embraces more Agricultural, Horticultural Sci
ehtlnc, educational, Literary, News and CONNER
cai mater, with appropriate Illustrations, than any
other Journal rendering it by far the most com
plete RURAL, LITERARY, FAMILY AND BUSINESS
NEWSPAPER in the World
vol. AA OF the RURAL, for 1862 is printed on a
QUADRUPLE SHEET, comprising Sixteen Large
Double Quarto Pages of Five Columns each! This
is double the original size Of the paper, and renders
the MURAL by lar the Largest and Cheapest las it
mas long been the Best and Most Popularl journal
Oh us class. AS some indication of what single
number contains read the subjoined table of
Contents of the Rural for Jan. 2.
RnFnl Arr
Description of Circular Mansion, with Engraved
Elevation and Plan; Our Designs and Desires 8
Field Culture.
How to Manure Best with Clover; The Farm
workshop; Cotton Culture In the South: Wheat
Its Present and Future Production; Premium
Ae'"0o oioP'
Farm Economy.
Cattle Racks and Feed Boxes, illustrated: y Grain
sewers; subsoh Plow; Cheap Cement Wanted
Sheep Husbandry.
New York Wool Growers Association; Change in
the Wool Market; Com'r of Agriculture on Rect
procity; secured Fleeces; The Winter; Sheep
A'oi"tuie'.'''''. .........................
Dairy Husbandry.
Dairy Product Products A Review Of the Dairy Interest
ter in Winter; How Butter is Flayored: The
Country Cheese Market; Daryman's Associa-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Pathological.
A Chapter on Grab Apples-Fruit FIR Ex,rsm.
Northern Lattudes, illustrate y The Catawba
Grape; Table Grapes-Is their culture overdope?
what did During the Week in my OrcharJ and
Garden; Illinois Grape Growers and Wine Maxi
Review Of The City Grape Market for 1885,
F Fomiel0g a al Gossip' INCLUDING Hybridzing
Thorn, Origin of Peach Pears Recommended by
hsres Ths stan sS%set Protecting Straw
about ripening Fruit, Wild Goose Plum .........s
. ....-. Horticulture.
The Pansy (Illustrated.) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
& Arboriculiure.
Trees in the City-A Remedy Suggested for cater.
pillars; The Sycamore Recommended for Shade
anu anu INC Ahantnus denounced; About Chest
Horticultural Notes.
Missouri Horticultural Society; Hotbeds: Rean
Planter; The Experimental Garden at WASH
lngton; Adams County Ill) Horticultural So
'''''''''...'........
The Ponltry Yard.
This Department; Model Poultry House: films.
tratsd u Common vs.. Improved Fowls: Pigeon
eod pTulEy sso%arhe First Exhibition Of the
sylVania Poultry Society. ..........,,,,' IN
The Apiarian,
Bee Cuiture1lmproved Honey Emptying Machine
tllustrated); Singular Migration OF Bees. 10
chronological.
The Seed-Corn Maggot Qllustrated); 10
Hygienic Information. r..- q.
fhyHsIology ana Hygiene; Seasonable Suggestions
10 prevent ana Cure Coughs, Colds, etc.. IL
Scientific and Useful.
Popular Scientific Lectures-The Telescops and
Its Revelations; Useful and Scientific Notes I'll
Domestic Economy,
Preliminary Table Talk, ............. II
Editorials. &c.
Vol. xX-Prefaratory; Good Morrow Explanatory:
me Press and the Rural; New York Farmers
Club, including the following topics-Sweet Corr.
Keeping Cows Clean in the Stable Sowing Ever
green and European Larch Seed, Chinese YAM A
Tree 9 Named, Wines Use Of Plaster, Use of Lime,
WIN stone, Grinding Axes, Value of Fish, Guano,
o 10 W ahCeu' ''.'''... .'...'.............1 ~
Rural Notes and Queries.
Notice to Contributors; Information about lands
Wanted; Restraining Unruly Horses: An Hon
est Seed Merchant Wanted Convention of Presi-
dents of Agricultural Societies; Swine Breed.
ers Convention; Bookkeeping; Missouri State
Board of Agriculture; OHIO Ag'I Convention:
Matching Eggs by Steam. Observation-Disclosures
The Reviewer.
New Publications Reviewed .~.................13
Historical.
The Mormons Qllustrated)... .13
Stories for RuraIists.
The Vincents Or the Mystery at the Blue Springs 10
Art and Artists.
The Latest Art Gossip. ID
Ladies' Portfolio.
Madame de stael: Cosby Paragraphs. .....15
MODES and Manners.
Ihe Latest Styles; Skating Costumes. .........16
Sabbath Heading.
RELIGION at Home and Abroad; A Tennessee Sun
's oonooi' .........................1
News Department..
Domestic and Foreign News. IA
The Markets. ....
reports OF Latest Live Stock Grain pror;s;or
Fruit, Wool, and Other Markets. IL
Personal Items.
Fifty-tour Paragraphs. .... 10
The News Condenser
Sixty-one News Items. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For Young People.
Reading for Farmers Sons: Susie,s New Do,I. Tho
A io"i Aeii Olus. .........................2 20
The Puxzier.
Miscellaneous Enigma; Anagram Problem: Ilus.
trated frlze Rebns; Charade. Northumberland
Poetry.
Woman's Aspiration, page 10, The Sunset Land.
page 10; The Old Years Will and Testament
fase i'' DispoSihg OF People, page. ..........20
illustrations,
Circular Mansions Front Elevation and princina,
Eloor Cattle racks and Feed Boxes q fgures); in
iantado Ewes; Crab Apples 70 fgures); Pansy, Nat
house e. fgures)- Centrifugal Honey-Comb Emit
e Err PHYSIOLOGY, &C.. q fguresl: Mormon RI or
HI Camoia; One Mothers Four ear. Old, Prize
The RURAL has Seven Editors and many Social
Contributors several of whom are recognized "a the
Best Authority on the subjects upon which they
write-such as the Hon. H. S. RANDALL, LII. D..
(author of"The Practical Shepard" &C., and Pres.
ident OF the National Wool Growers Association
who edits the Department of Sheep Husbandry, and
a. A. WILLARD, (author and lecturer on Dairy
farming,) that OF Dairy Husbandry. In addition to
articles from its Editors, the RURAL for Jan. con-
tanning contributions from P. BARR, author of
The Fruit Garden;" F. R. ELLIOT, author of
"Western Fruit Book; T, c. PETERS, Fx-Pres't
N. Y. State Ag Society; j. H. GRIscoM, NJ. d. au-
thor OF "Animal Mechanism" &C > w. CowLEs,
d. President Elmira Female College; C. v RIP
Ely, State Entomologist OF Missouri; DIR. DANIRK
LEE, OF Tenn; Mrs. E. F. ELLET, MARY A. E.
WAGER, and other able and brilliant writers.
The RURAL is not monthly Of only Il issues q
year, but Large and Beautiful WEEKLY of Fifty
Two Numbers-and though ITS SIZE Is NEARLY
DOUBLED, its price is not Increased!
TERMs-Ony So Year-less to Clubs. Single
numbers for sale by all Newsdealers-prce Eight
Cents. The Trade supplied by the New York News
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