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manufaciured from wheat raised this season, stone ground, 

 has been preferred to the roller ground flour. This flour 

 presents good evidence of having been improved through 

 the general improvement of the wheat, and it is hoped that 

 the plant has, in some degree, been rendered proof against 

 the ravages of the Hessian Fly. There are five positive 

 improvements, and two possible ones. 



I know of nothing more appropriate toward this im- 

 provement upon the farmers, than the address delivered 

 by Mr. Dudley W. Adams, to the Granges of Muscatine 

 and Union Counties, Iowa, in October, 1872: 



" When physicians meet in convention, as they often 

 do, it is customary for members of the medical profes- 

 sion to read papers for the entertainment and instruction 

 of the assembled M. D.'s. 



" When railroad men have a convention, such persons 

 as have had active experience in railroad business do the 

 talking and have charge of the meeting. 



"Editorial conventions are attended by editors, and 

 they, as firmly as any other class of people, are of the 

 opinion that they are capable of managing their own busi- 

 ness, and they are not in the habit of imploring the mem- 

 bers of other callings to furnish the brains to amuse or in- 

 struct them. 



"Shoemakers have organized themselves into the order 

 of St. Crispins, and consider themselves able to paddle 

 their own canoe. 



" Lawyers not only feel competent to address and prop- 

 erly edify conventions of their own profession, but their 

 modesty does not forbid them from rendering valuable as- 

 sistance to less favored classes by a free use of their surplus 

 talent. 



" But when the tillers of the soil have met in an ag- 

 ricultural society of any kind, it has been usually custom- 

 ary to select a lawyer, doctor, editor or politician to tell us 



