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in the civilized world in whicli wise sanitary regulations are adopted and enforced. To 

 some this will appear as a hasty and ill-considered assertion ; but it is made after taking 

 much pains to study the sanitary systems of the cities in China, Continental Europe, and 

 Great Britain, as well as in our own country and South America. It w"ould fill a vol- 

 ume to give a satisfactory review of this interesting subject. In our humble opinion, 

 neither the public health of cities, nor the paramount interests of agriculture and horti- 

 culture, should be left to the fitful cupidity of soulless companies or of private citizens, 

 for the manufacture of artificial manure ; but the whole matter should be properly 

 governed by legislative authority, in order to escape the dreadful penalties of neglect, 

 and prevent the temptations to commit fraud, and profit by misrepresentations. Exag- 

 geration in everything is crushing the life out of all truth in society. Fashion is every 

 where planting the prolific seeds of falsehood, which Uabit will water in coming yeai-s 

 with many a bitter tear. 



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AGRICULTURAL JOURNALISM. 



There are some forty or fifty agricultural journals in the United States, a large majority 

 of which are conducted with equal fairnesS and ability. A few. however, are controlled 

 by mercenary and unscrupulous men, who, conscious of their own want of integrity, 

 are prone to regard all others as dishonest an<l intensely selfish as themselves. They 

 look upon the masses as born to be duped and cheated by the false pretences of the 

 cunning and the gifted ; and, therefore, they study duplicity and craft as the surest 

 means of success ; and finally, they have for their trade what is known out of New Eng- 

 land, as " Yankee smartness." It is alw"ays unpleasant to come in collision with such 

 men, for they assert falsehoods with an air of confidence and sincerity, that one who 

 does not know from other sources of information that the truth is not in them, is easily 

 deceived, and regards them as entitled to all confidence. Such characters are the more 

 to be avoided when it is possible, because they wield an educated command of the voca- 

 bulary of blackguards, and rely mainly on oftensive'' epithets in conducting an editorial 

 controversy, as they lack every virtue that goes to form the gentleman. 



Little Rhode Island has recently turned out a specimen of Immanity in the person of 

 one William S. King, editor of the Boston Journal of A</riculfurc, who answers to 

 the description we have given. We shall iw)t bandy epithets with him, but, as in the 

 case of Thomas Ewdank, prove beyond all controversy, in due time, that said King has 

 uttered and published false and calumnious accusations against tlie proprietor of this 

 paper, in order to obtain the Agricultural Clerkship of the Patent Office. Whether he 

 is likely to succeed, or has succeeded, we are not informeil, not having been in Washington 

 for some six weeks. 



We did not seek the task of collecting information and ])reparing for the press the 

 last four annual reports on American Agriculture, of which Congress has printed, and 

 ordered to be printed, five hundred and forty thousand volumes. Having a large job 

 printing and newspaper establishment that required our personal attention, to say 

 nothing of the two agricultural journals with which we were connected, our willingness 

 to serve the farming interest at the federal metropolis involved, at that time, a pecuniary 

 sacrifice ; and we are now happy to return, after an absence of nearly six years, to our 

 own Western New York, to labor while life shall last for the advancement of Agricul- 

 ture and Indust^'ial Education. It is not our present purj)Oso to give to the public at 

 any length, the views we cherish in reference to industrial education and agricultural 

 journalism, in a republic where more than a moiety of the voters are farmers. To per- 

 Buado farmers to unite in forming State, county, and township societies, and make all 



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