Moore's Rural New-Yorker, New York City, January 5, 1878, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1 (Whole No. 1458), the first issue of the 1878 volume of this weekly rural and home affairs newspaper, published by the Rural Publishing Company. Folio-size issue measuring about 11.2 x 16.1 inches, with an ornate "Excelsior" masthead. Used with toning, fold lines, edge wear and small chips.

The front page opens "The Herdsman" with "The Tenth Duchess of Geneva," the story of the famous Shorthorn cattle line, illustrated with a large engraving of the cow, plus "How to Organize a Stock Farm" and "A Barn for Straw" by W. J. Fowler.

Page 20 carries the full-page holiday cartoon "After the Holidays" signed Alfred Crowquill, a "Wit and Humor" column, and the paper's premium offer of the steel-plate engraving "Ought and Carry One." Advertisers include J. Estey & Co. reed organs of Brattleboro, Vt., Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines, Bliss's Select Garden Seeds, C. G. Gunther's Sons furs of Fifth Avenue, and Sandwich Manufacturing Company corn shellers of Sandwich, Ill.

A handsome Gilded Age farm and family weekly for agriculture, livestock and advertising collectors. Pages have not been checked one by one for completeness.