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THE EDITOR'S DRAWER 



PUEBLO, COLORADO, has a population of 

 38,000. 



THERE is still money in high-class, thor- 

 oughly broken carriage horses. 



THE fifth session of the National Irriga- 

 tion Congress will be held in Phoenix, 

 Arizona, early in December, 1896. 



THE Pottawatomie tribe of Indians in 

 Southwestern Michigan will have $104,- 

 000 distributed among the 240 surviving 

 members. 



THE new officers of the Indiana State 

 Board of Agriculture are: President, W. 

 W. Hamilton; vice-president, James E. 

 McDonald ; secretary, Charles F. Kennedy ; 

 treasurer, E. J. Robinson; executive com- 

 mittee, Aaron Jones, Charles Downing, V. 

 K. Officer. 



AFTER all, Max O'Rell is something of a 

 wise man. When he said that the reason 

 the sun never sets on the British Empire 

 is because the great orb cannot trust an 

 Englishman in the dark where there is 

 any land he can possibly covet, he hit the 

 nail on the head. 



How to stop the adulteration of ex- 

 tracted honey was one of the subjects vig- 

 orously discussed at the recent meeting of 

 the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, in Chicago, and it was decided to 

 ask that a law be passed by the State 

 Legislature and also by Congress. 



OFFICERS elected by the Illinois Grange 

 were: Worthy Master, Oliver Wilson, 

 Putman county; overseer, S. G. Atwood, 

 Winnebago county; lecturer, Alexander 

 Kedy, McLean county; chaplain, T. J. 

 Crowder, McLean county; steward, J. W. 

 Whitson, Schuyler county; assistant 

 steward, J. E. Siler, Wabash county. 



CHEAP newspapers continues to be the 

 watchword. The New York World, prob- 

 ably the greatest newspaper on the conti- 

 nent, has just reduced its price to one cent 

 a copy. In announcing this change it 

 states that it is the intention to set up a 

 standard as to how much a newspaper can 

 give for one penny and not how much can 

 be charged for a minimum amount of news 

 and information. 



A CALL has been issued for a meeting of 

 the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial 

 Union of Kansas, to be held in Topeka, on 

 April 9, 10, and 11. The meeting is for 

 the purpose of organizing a State Co-oper- 

 ative Congress, and representatives from 

 every co-operative association in Kansas 

 and elsewhere are invited to attend and 

 discuss practical methods of co-operation. 

 The call is signed by A. Wardall, pres- 

 ident, and S. D. Cooley, secretary. 



CHAIRMEN of standing committees in the 

 Illinois Farmers' Institute are as follows: 

 Agricultural Education, Prof. Eugene 

 Davenport, Champaign; Agricultural Ad- 

 vancement, Col. J. W. Judy, Tallula; 

 Education of Farmers' Children, S. M. 

 Inglis, Springfield; Dairy Husbandry, 

 John Stewart, Elburn; Horticulture, T. 



E. Goodrich, Cobden ; Live Stock Breed- 

 ing, J. M. Thompson, Joliet; Finance. F. 

 M. Palmer, Clinton; Transportation, C. 



F. Mills, Springfield. 



AMONG those present at the session of 

 the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, in Chicago, were: President C. C. 

 Miller, Merino, Illinois; E. R. Root, Med- 

 ina, Ohio; W. J. Finch, Jr., Springfield, 

 Illinois; J. Roorda, Thayer, Indiana; M. 

 M. Bald ridge, St. Charles, Illinois; Mrs. 

 N. L. Stowe, Evanston, Illinois; W. Blume, 

 Edison Park, Illinois; George Thompson, 

 Geneva, Illinois; Christian Schrier, Peo- 

 tone, Illinois; A. N. Draper, Upper Alton, 

 Illinois; W. C. Lyman, Downer's Grove, 

 Illinois. 



THE following officers of the National 

 Reform Press Association were elected for 

 the present year at the fifth annual con- 

 vention held at Dallas, Texas, in February: 

 President, Paul Vandervoort, of Nebraska; 

 vice-president, Frank Burkett, of Missis- 

 sippi; recording secretary, C. Resell, of 

 Missouri; corresponding secretary, J. A. 

 Parker, of Kentucky. Executive Com- 

 mittee, J. H. Ferris, Illinois; Charles X. 

 Matthews, Indiana; S. Peters, Texas ; Abe 

 Steinberger, Kansas; Miss Mary E. 

 O'Neill, of Missouri, editor of Reform 

 Ready Printer; W. S. Morgan, of Ar- 

 kansas. 



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