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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
355 
NEW JERSEY. 
,_rlington..Mt. Holly.Oct. 7- 8 
Cape May.South Seaville.Sept. 9-11 
Cumberland.Bridgeton.Sept.. 17-18 
Hunterdon.Flemi ngtou.Sept. 23-25 
Sangerfield & Marshall. Waterville.Sept. 16-17 
Vineland. Cumberland Co.Sept. 10-11 
NEW YORK. 
Antwerp.Jefferson Co....Sept. 3-5 
Booneville.Oneida Co.Sept. 10-12 
Camden.Oneida Co.Sept. 10-12 
Cattaraugus .Randolph.-■—- 
Chautauqua.Jamestown.Sept. 16-19 
Chemung.Elmira.Oct. 2-4 
Chenango.Norwich.Sept. 24-26 
Columbia. Chatham.Sept. 16-18 
Columbia.Hudson.Sept. 30-Oct. 2 
Corning.. ..Steuben Co.Sept. 24-26 
Cuba.Allegany Co.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Delaware..Delhi.Sept. 30-Oct. 2 
Duchess.Washington Hollow..Sept. 16-18 
Duchess Eastern_... Amenia.Oct. 7- 9 
Erie.White's Corners..Sept. 30-Oct. 2 
Garrattsville.Otsego Co.Sept. 9-11 
Genesee.Batavia.Sept. 17-18 
Gowanda.Cattaraugus Co.Sept. 25-27 
Greene.Cairo.Sept. 24-25 
Hammond.St. Lawrence Co.Sept. 25-26 
Iroquois.Versailles. Sept. 15-19 
Jefferson.Watertown. ... Oct. 7-9 
Lenox.Oneida.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Lewis.Lowville.Sept. 16-18 
Monroe.Rochester..Sept. 16-19 
Montgomery.Fonda..... Sept. 17-19 
Niagara..Lockport.Oct. 2-4 
Northwest’nOnondoga.Baldwinsville.Sept. 16-18 
Orleans .Albion.Sept. 26-27 
Oswego..Mexico.Sept. 16-18 
Oswego Falls.Oswego Co. .Sept 23-26 
Otego.Otsego Co.Sept. 16-19 
Otsego.Cooperstown.Sept. 23-25 
Oxford.Chenango Col.Sept. 24-26 
Queens...Mineola.Oct. 1- 3 
Rhinebeck.Duchess Co. Sept. 9-11 
Sandy Creek, Richland, 
Orwell. ..Boylston.Sept. 11-12 
Saratoga.Ballston Spa.Sept. 9-12 
Schenectady. Schenectady .Sept. 9-12 
Sehenevns.Otsego Co.Sept. 15-17 
Schoharie .Schoharie.Oct. 6- 8 
Seneca. Seneca Falls.Oct. 7-9 
Steuben.Bath.Sept. 25-27 
St. Lawrence.Canton.,Sept. 17-19 
St. Lawrence_- Gonverneur.Sept. 9-11 
Suffolk. Riverhead.Oct. 1- 3 
Ti.ga.Hillsboro.Sept. 10-13 
Tioga.Oswego.Sept. 16-19 
Tompkius..Ithaca.Sept. 23-25 
Ulster. ..„ .Kingston.Sept. 17-19 
Waddington.St. Lawrence Co.Sept. 9-11 
Warren..Glen’s Falls.Sept. 9-12 
Washington. Sandy Hill.Oct. 7-10 
Westchester.White Plains.Sept. 9-13 
OHIO. 
Allen.Lima.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Ashtabula.Jefferson.Sept. 9-11 
Athens....Athens.Sept. 24-26 
Auglaize.Wapakoneta.Oct. 1- 3 
Belmont.St. Clairsville.Sept. 17-19 
Browu.Georgetown. .Sept. 2-5 
Brown.Ripley. .Sept. 23-26 
Butler.Hamilton.Oct. 7 
Carroll.Carrollton.Sept. 30-Oct. 2 
Central.Mechanicsburg.Sept. 9-12 
Champaign. ... .Urbana.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Clarke. Springfield.Sept. 23-26 
Clermont. ..Boston.Sept. 9-12 
Clinton.Wilmington.Sept. 16-18 
Columbiana. New Lisbon.Sept. 23-26 
fcoshocton..Coshocton.Sept. 23-26 
Crawford.Bucyrus.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
jDarke.Greenville.Sept. 23-26 
Defiance.Defiance. Sept. 23-26 
Delaware.Delaware. Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Erie. . .Sandusky City.. .Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Fairfield... .Lancaster.Oct. 15-18 
Fayette.Washington.Sept. 8-6 
Franklin.Columbus. .Sept. 16-19 
Gallia.Gallipolia.Oct. 1- 3 
Geauga.Burton. Sept. 23-25 
Greene.Xenia ..Oct. 8-10 
Guernsey.Cambridge.Sept. 10-12 
Hamilton.Carthage.Sept. 3-5 
Hancock.Findlay.Oct. 1- 4 
Hardin.Kenton.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Harrison.Cadiz.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Highland.Hillsboro.Sept. 24-26 
Hocking.Logan. Oct. 9-11 
Holmes.Millersbnrg.Oct. 1- 3 
Huron.Norwalk.Sept. 9-12 
Jackson.Jackson, C. H.Sept. 24-26 
Jefferson..Smithville. Sept. 24-26 
Knox.Mt. Vernon.Sept. 23-25 
Lake.!.Painesville.Sept. 16-18 
Licking....Newark. Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Logan.Bellefontaine .. ..Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Lorain.Elyria. Sept. 16-19 
Lucas.Toledo.Sept. 24-26 
Mahoning.Canfield.Oct. 7-9 
Marion....Marion. .Oct, 8-11 
Medina.Medina. Sept. 24-26 
Meigs.Pomeroy.Sept. 5- 6 
Mercer.Celina.Oct. 1- 3 
Miami.Troy.Oct. 1- 4 
Montgomery.Dayton. .. Sept. 23-26 
Morgan.McConnellsviile..Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Morrow. ..Mt. Gilead.Oct. 1-3 
Muskingum. Zanesville. Oct. 1- 2 
Noble .Sarahville.Oct. 8-10 
Ottawa..Port Clinton.Oct. 7- 9 
Pataskala. Pataskala...'.Sept. 24-26 
Paulding .Paulding.Sept. 16-19 
Perry.New Lexington.Sept. 17-20 
Pickaway.. .Circleville.Sept. 16-19 
Portage .Ravenna.Sept. 23-25 
Preble.Eaton.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Putnam.Ottawa.Sept. 24-26 
Richland.Mansfield.Oct. 7- 9 
Ross.Cliillicotlie.Sept. 9-12 
Sandusky.. .Fremont. Oct. 8-11 
Scioto.Portsmouth.Sept. 16-18 
Seneca. Tiffin. .Sept. 24-26 
Shelby.Sidney. ...Sept, 16-19 
Stark.Canton...Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Summit.Akron.Oct. 7-10 
Trumbull.Warren.Sept. 16-18 
Tuscarawas.Canal Dover_ Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Union. . .Marysville.Sept. 17-19 
Van Wert .Van Wert.Sept. 25-27 
Warren.Lebanon.Sept. 10-12 
Washington.Marietta. ... Sept, 17-19 
Wayne.Wooster. .Oct. 7-10 
Williams.Bryan.Sept. 16-18 
Wood. . Tontogany.Sept. 30-Oct. 2 
Wyandot. .Upper Sandusky.Sept. 23-26 
Liun. 
OREGON. 
Albany_ 
.Sept. 23-27 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Berks..Reading.Sept. 16-19 
Bucks.Newtown .Sept. 24-25 
Chester..West Chester.Oct. 8-11 
Doylestown_......Bucks Co.Oct. 7-10 
Lehigh.Allentown. .. .. .Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Montgomery.Ambler’s Station.Sept. 16-19 
Northumberland.Tnrbotville.Oct. 1- 3 
Oxford.Chester Co.Oct. 1-3 
Union Agricultural.Burgettstown.Oct. 7- 9 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 
Barnwell.Barnwell.—Nov. 24^26 
Peedee.Cheraw.Oct. 16-17 
TENNESSEE. 
De Kalb.Smithville.Sept. 24-27 
Haywood.Brownsville.Oct. 1- 5 
Henry. Paris.Oct. 23-25 
Hickman.Centerville.Oct. 14-17 
Humphreys.Waverly.Oct. 14-18 
Jefferson.Chestnut Grove.Nov. 7- 8 
Lauderdale.. . ...Oct. 27 
Tipton.Covington.Oct. 14-18 
Washington.Jonesboro.Oct. 1- 3 
Weakley.Dresden.Oct. 1- 4 
Western.Jackson.Oct. 28-Nov. 2 
TEXAS. 
.Gonzales...-.Sept. 30-Oct. 3 
Gonzales. 
VERMONT. 
Caledonia.St. Johnsbuvy.Sept. 23-25 
Chittenden.Essex Junction.Sept. 16-18 
Leamville. Morrisville.Sept. 17-18 
Ludlow.Windsor Co.Sept. 16-17 
Wardsboro'.Wardsboro’.Oct. 7 
Washington.East Montpelier.Sept. 17-18 
Windsor.Woodstock.Sept. 23-25 
VIRGINIA. 
.Campbell Co.Oct. 21-24 
.Sept. 2- 3 
Lynchburg 
Salem. 
Salem . 
WEST VIRGINIA. 
Berkeley Co.Martinsbnrg.Sept. 9-12 
Monongobela Val.Morgantown.Oct. 1- 3 
Wood.Parkersburgh .Sept. 23-26 
WISCONSIN. 
Adams.Friendship. 
Buffalo.Alma. 
Columbia.Columbus. 
Dane.Madison. 
Dodge.Juneau. 
Fond du Lac. Fond du Lac. 
Grant.Lancaster. 
Green..Monroe. 
Green Lake.Ber in. 
Jackson.Black River Falls 
Jefferson.Jeffrrson. 
Kewaunee.Kewaunee. 
Lafayette.Darlington. 
Northern.Oshkosh. .. Sept, 
Outagamie 
Pierce.Prescott. 
Portage. Amherst. 
Racine.Burlington. 
Ripon.Fond du Lac Co. 
Rock. ..Janesville. 
Sauk ...Baraboo.. 
Sheboygan.Sheboygan Falls.. .. 
Vernon .Viroqua. 
Walworth.Elkhorn. 
Oct. 1- 2 
Sept. 18-19 
Sept, 16-18 
Sept. 18-20 
Sept. 10-12 
Sept. 10-12 
Sept. 16-18 
Oct. 7- 9 
Sept. 16-18 
Oct. 1- 3 
Sept. 25-27 
. 29-Oct. 3 
Sept. 17-19 
Sept. 18-19 
Sept. 10-12 
Sept. 15-17 
Sept. 9-13 
Sept. 16-18 
Oct. 
Oct. 
1- 3 
1- 4 
“The Farmers’ Movement.”—“The Farm¬ 
ers’ War.” 
In an article last month upon the Patrons of Hus¬ 
bandry, we omitted to state, as was our intention, that 
the Granges are quite distinct from the Farmers’ Asso¬ 
ciations. The Granges are in a manner secret organiza¬ 
tions, while the Associations are open ; the membership 
of the Granges is confined to those who pursue some 
branch of husbandry, while the Associations are 
open to all who choose to join. By the constitution 
of the order political discussions are excluded from 
Granges, while the Associations "are made with an 
avowed political object. While it often happens that per¬ 
sons belong to both these organizations, the two should 
not he confounded. One can hardly take up a paper 
without seeing one of the headings given above. The 
movement is especially active in the Western States, 
and those participating in it are in “dead earnest.” It 
meaus primarily and principally not only a protest 
against the general management of the railroads over 
which the farmers send their produce to market, hut an 
actual revolt. While the platforms and resolutions at 
the numerous meetings denounce various public abuses, 
the main point in them is an unconcealed hostility to the 
“ railroad monopoly.” The war is fairly opened in Iowa, 
where the Farmers’ Anti-monopoly State Convention 
have nominated a State ticket. The movement has now 
become highly interesting, not only to producers hut to 
consumers. If the movement has no other effect than 
to make farmers do their own thinking, and to make 
them see that whatever abuses exist are largely dne to 
their own indifference, it will do great good. We say 
“ their own indifference,” for it has been too much the 
case that farmers (and others too, for that matter), have 
voted for whoever was put up by the party to which 
they belonged, without considering whether they were 
voting for the best men. Hence we find purely agricul¬ 
tural districts represented in legislatures by lawyers, 
merchants, and those who get their living by politics—in 
short, by anybody but farmers. 
In most legislatures every interest has many and able 
advocates except agriculture, and this, the greatest of 
ail interests, has but few if any. If anything is done 
for agriculture, it too often comes as a concession. 
Whether the present movement accomplishes all that 
is hoped for it or not, farmers will hereafter take a more 
intelligent interest in local and state elections, and will 
assume that influence among the law-makers that their 
needs require and their numbers and importance de¬ 
mand. So far as these associations look to the general 
good—not of agriculturists only, but of all, for we are 
all members of one body politic— so far are we in hearty 
sympathy with them. There is great excitement; the 
long pent-up feeling is now having sway, and words of 
moderation will scarcely he heeded. Still we would 
say that denunciation of one’s opponents never helped a 
cause. Some of the platforms and resolutions that have 
been sent to us are bitter almost to vindictiveness. The 
case seems to us as one calling for calm argument and 
the overwhelming logic of statistics and facts rather 
than for denunciation and vehemence. While our agri¬ 
cultural friends are wasting their strength in their vio¬ 
lent resolutions their opponents will say but little but 
he quietly at work, and only show their strength on the 
day of election. As we reach our readers but once a 
month we can hardly take an active part in this inter¬ 
esting contest. With the belief that much good must 
ultimately result from a united action of the fanners, 
we hope to see Farmers’ Associations and Clubs all over 
the land. The objects of these will, of course, differ 
with the locality, but in any case their discussions are 
likely to be upon matters that affect them most nearly, 
be it railroads, fertilizers, or what not. As a specimen 
of the resolutions passed by the farmers at the West, wo 
give the following from the proceedings of the farmers 
of Poke Co., Ill., which are much more carefully con¬ 
sidered and quiet in tone than many that have reached ns. 
Resolved, That we will support no man for office who 
is not, and who lias not been, in full sympathy with the 
leading interests of the producer and manufacturer, es¬ 
pecially as opposed to those who support monopolies in 
any form. 
Resolved, That our candidates must be men of integrity 
in every respect, with no entangling alliances that can 
in any way turn them from the paths of duty to the whole 
body politic. 
Resolved , That the doctrine of vested rights under which 
railroad corporations claim exemption from Legislative 
control belongs to a pa6t age and despotic rule, and as it 
can not exist without infringing on the rights of citizens 
generally, it has no legitimate place in the jurisprudence 
of a free people. 
Resolved, That many of our public officers are now re 
ceivin" enormous salaries for their services dispropor¬ 
tionate to the rewards of labor in the industrial pursuits 
of the people, tending to habits of extravagance at van- 
ancewith republican simplicity, increasing the burdens 
of taxation, and creating an aristocracy which will sooner 
or later undermine the liberties of the people; and w e do- 
mand a reform in that direction. 
Soaaliern Cow-Peas at tlie North, 
—A correspondent in Western New York writes : \\ oqld 
not the southern cow-pea do well here? I sow.ed- a 
package of seed this spring received from the Cultivator- 
office, Athens, Ga., but not a seed vegetated.”—-You 
probably sowed too early, before the soil was warm 
enough. Wherever good crops of clover can he grown it 
is not probable there is much to he gained by introduc¬ 
ing the Southern pea into our system of rotation. Bv$ 
it is a matter upon which we need experiments. 
