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are about as well off where they are as they could reasonably 

 expect to be anywhere on the face of the earth. Let us, there- 

 fore, adorn our homesteads, improve our farms and beautify the 

 country about us, make better roads, build more for the future 

 and seek comfort for advancing age among our own people." 



Add to the above "Let us weed out the parasites that prey 

 upon us " and the picture and inducement is complete. Emi- 

 gration, the remedy thousands seek, will not help us ; for go 

 where we will, we shall find the parasite thriving as though 

 "native to the manor born." There he is ready to take root and 

 grow, ready to bite and to bleed, ready to sap labor and industry, 

 as here. 



Good men and true men are laboring for the advancement of 

 the laborer, socially and intellectually, but he heeds not their 

 well-meant efforts too often. And here the parasite comes in and 

 diverts the benefits to other channels, or renders them of no effect. 

 It instated that two-fifths of the Ohio Agricultural Reports, pub- 

 lished and sent out mainly at expense of farmers of the State, are 

 lying among the rubbish of stores and offices, where they have 

 been sent with somebody's compliments. The same authority 

 says very few of the Geological Reports of the same State will 

 ever grace the farmer's library. If it is said they would be no 

 better appreciated in the homes of the farmers and laborers, the 

 claim is yet good that they would then be where they were 

 designed to be. aud among proper owners. And being there, 

 involuntary combustion or ehance may strike a light, sometime, 

 which will make it unpleasant for the broods that are fastened and 

 pensioned upon the labor of the land. 



A far better record can be shown of our valuable State Reports. 

 We know, and thousands bear witness to the growing demand for 

 these annual volumes. The people are after them, not because 

 they are gratis, but for intrinsic worth and merit. They have 

 created a demand for themselves by helping elevate in the mind 

 of the farmer and laborer his appreciation of his calling. We note 

 it as a pleasing sign of healthy growth in the righ . direction, and 

 also as a move to" rid themselves of the human parasites that are, 

 and have been, preying too long upon them. 



Our duty is to make the laborer appreciate his worth and rights 

 and not only cultivate the beneficial and useful products of nature, 

 but the beautiful also, that our rural districts may bloom and blos- 

 som, and gladden the hearts of our fair country women, and 



