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ilnb us trial topics. 
OUR FARMERS’ HOMES AND 
THEIR SONS. 
BY HORACE GREELEY. 
I hear with regret, but without surprise, 
the mind be amply fed, though the body 
should fail in consequence to be sumptuously 
clad. There Is not a day-laborer in the land 
who, unless specially preyed upon by sick¬ 
ness or other calamity, may not have a cheer¬ 
ful, intellectual evening breside if he will. 
A good Bible, to begin with, in fair-sized 
type, will cost him not more than the price 
of a day’s work; and, if he will give the 
earnings of two weeks in each year to the 
foreknows the evils that wfll result from ' would take the place of bones, but found i 
soil exhaustion. In the same wav he will '“Uielcss. The French Academy of soi- 
- - 2i once experimented upon the solubility of these 
sober truth, no more necessity for our carry- „ 
ins Uie burden of heavy tana on oui fcr TO 
and other property, and on what we con- i * *. forming etiemical combinations and 
sume, than there is that we shall use plows i<te as plain, ioolj, that'YimV i^osu^iciffefuJ^if 
and rakes so weighty us nearly to kill our raost assimilable as plant food." 
patient oxen. Heavy taxes, for the support Two propositions are here advanced, one 
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that the abler and more intelligent of our supply of his mental needs and those of his of an excess of politicians, arc part and par- of w 
farm-bred youth dislike their fathers’ calling, family, he will soon have a fireside library ced of old fogy, white slavery which the is > in 
and aspire to live by professions, or trade, sufficient for tits modest wants. Jlow many 
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or speculation—in short, by anything else 
than farming. I wish it were otherwise — I 
hope it may be; but it never will nor can, 
without an enlargement of the attractiveness 
of our average Farmers’ Homes. 
I Judge that the estimate would be liberal 
which would make the average cost—one 
give a third of their earnings to Tobacco and 
Strong Drink, who would consider the devo¬ 
tion of two weeks’ earnings per annum to 
the feeding and culture of their minds an 
extravagance not to be thought, of? 
Our farmers’ sous desert their fathers’ 
homes and shun their fathers' calling, not 
Coming Farmer will abolish. His highest 
duty and best interests alike demand the 
careful cultivation of bis knowledge of men, 
tilings, principles and natural forces. “ Pro¬ 
gress and Improvement’’ in rural arts and 
sciences do not mean that the farmer shall 
j of which is eminently true, while the other nous su,:m tanco, neither its solubility nor 
is, in our opinion, completely erroneous. It an . v tbing elso will be of value. Nitrogen is 
is true that, in order to be available by ' 48 nitric acid and nitrate of copper 
plants, manures must be soluble; but we I880 ^ ul)Ie * But nitrate of copper will kill in- 
uttcrly deny that the source whence any Ste . of nourishing a plant. But, it might 
substance has been derived has, of itself, any r<:a( ^iy happen that a purely mineral com- 
efi'ect on its value as a manure. Soluble P 01,n(l possessing great solubility might be 
phosphate of lhnc, potash, or ammonia have more VM Biabl*.* than a less soluble organic 
but this arises, not from the quality of the 
super-phosphate, but from the character and 
amount of the foreign mutter present. 
In all cases the value of a manure depends 
upon the amount of plant food present, and 
upon the availability of that food, as deter¬ 
mined by its solubility and the state of 
chemical combination in which it exists. 
Of course if it is combined with some delete¬ 
rious substance, neither its solubility nor 
anything else will be of value. Nitrogen is 
valuable as nitric acid and nitrate of copper 
is soluble. But nitrate of copper will kill in¬ 
stead of nourishing a plant. But, it might 
readily happen that, a purely mineral com- 
cmbellish his homestead, feed and fatten his tlie samc value, whether they be derived C » m P 0l,n ^’ , We wo ’ dd give more for a ton 
farm stock, and enrich his meadows and flo,n apatite or from animal excreta. Be- . ni,rn £ cu ‘ n riie form of a pure mineral, 
grain fields, while his mind starves into per- fon: discussing this general question, how- mtmte ot Koda > for example, than for an 
feet stupidity. To raise dwarf pear trees is ever, we beg to make one or two remarks 011 ®^ ual amonnt ’he same element in the 
wmeu would make the average cost—one homes and shun their fathers’ calling, not farm stock, and eurich his meadows and froin ^patito or from animal excreta. Be- imn) gcn 111 the form of a pure mineral, 
hundred dollars—of the embellishments of because they hate work, as is often unjustly grain fields, while his mind starves into per- forf: discussing this general question, how- nitrate of 6od *» for example, than for an 
the homestead, of our American farmers charged, but because they revolt at the pros- feet stupidity. To raise dwarf pear trees in cver * we beg to make om or fm remark* on, equal am0,mt of the same element in the 
w*rth $5,000. So far as my observation poet of mental stagnation and sterility. If allowable, but to propagate dwarf intellects the alleged facts of E. W. S. form of leather shavings; and tliis simply 
may be trusted, a week’s work in planting oxen are to be their associates all day, they in a nation where every voter is a sovereign Tn tlje firet place we doubt his right to bcftause tl,<umc would be immediately soluble 
and protecting Shade-Trees is more than has would prefer a more intellectual companion- absolute and with no appeal, is madness bring the ponderous authority of the French an(1 tbe other wtinfld not. Bones themselves, 
been given, in the average, by our farmers, «bip for the evening. But, the day’s work Social, moral aud political evils must be pro- Academy forward in support of his doctrines un,C8s reduced to very fine powder, arc not as 
M ho have owned and cultivated the same ended and supper eaten, there is too often vented, on the principle that, the prevention We,liavc always been under the impression va,uab l<; asan equivalent amount.of phospho- 
farm for the last twenty years. not even a fresh newspaper in the house of disease Is the perfection of the healing art. that the Academy, like the Royal Society of r ' cacdd in a soluble form derived from mincr- 
A city man buys a place in the country, to be read; if there be a weekly village It is much more rational to prevent the col- England, and all bodies of a similar charac- a,8 ‘ On0 °f the most scientific formers in Cen- 
and at once begins to adorn and cmbel- gazet te, that is too generally deemed suffi- liding of two steamboats on the Ohio river ter, do not give any opinion upon questions ,r alNow York once told us that a number of 
lish it. He increases the number and the cienL But no—it does not satisfy the boy and of two railway trains, than to encour- brought before them. Individual members years a £° be applied several tons of broken 
variety of its fruit trees; he puts down a who has had ten or twelve Winters’ and age such disasters, that, our skill nmy be make experiments and advance theories— bones to a field of his and failed to see any 
strawberry bed and some grape, vines; he nearly so many Sumkners’ training in our shown in embalming the dead, or in the use some very queer theories at that. But is iniu ‘ediate benefit. He thinks, however, 
sets shade trees about the house and along American schools: lie needs a more gener- of other jxmt nun-tetri remedies. ' E. W. R. sure that, the Academy, or any sec- that k( can now sec Butt during all these 
the highways; he begins to grow asparagtiB ous and varied men t;ti diet, even though Young America has a large excess of mus- ^ on it, pronounced an opinion on tliis i°ng years the bones have been doing a good 
I Home of the alleged facts of E. \V. 8. 
In the first place we doubt liis right to 
bring the ponderous authority of the French 
Academy forward in support ofhis doctrines. 
form ot leather shavings; and this simply 
beca use the one would be immediately soluble 
and the other would not. Bones themselves, 
unless reduced to very fine powder, arc not as 
valuable as an equivalent amount of phospho- 
and other delicate vegetables; in short, he ho does not clearly ree<*gnize that need. In cular energy as compared With his cultivated f l UC8ti «n ? E. W, 8. will of course perceive 
makes the place attractive and habitable to its absence, his home artemg vacant, dreary, common sense. This is shown in the fact lkc difference between the private opinion 
the extent ofhis means. The neighboring repulsive; he flies from it to the nearest that in the great Southwest nothing is so of the member of Assembly from his district 
farmers, if asked by their children or others grog-shop for society and solace, and hi time popular as an open, free fight,; and even in antl ,,ie expressed opinion of the body of 
why they do nothing of the sort, usually drifts away to some village or city, where he my own precinct voters go often to the polls which he forms a part. The one is law, and 
answer, “ It is very well for B., who has lots can Aud more and readier stimulus at once ai med with long knives and revolvers, pre- other isn’t. This is a small matter, but. 
of money, and easily gets more, to cut such for body and for soul. He is lost forever pared to join in the sports of the day. then it is well to be correct in such tilings, 
a dash ; but we must live by our farms, and to the farm, because the farm made no Young America possesses tremendous physi- In the second place, mineral phosphate of 
can’t afford to spend half we earn in orna- proper effort to retain him. cal activity; and as a safety valve let him Bme« very largely used in England in the 
ntenfing them.” Those who say this are I submit that the farmer in middling cir- build another railway to the Pacific as soon “anofecture of artificial manures, and even 
often richer than their city-bred neighbor, cumstances who pays ten dollars per annum as possible. In the meantime, let men of 8Uch a chemist as Voeeckkk does not indi- 
and could do all he has done at half the for periodicals, and a like sum for additions more mind and feebler muscle put their ag- cate that, they arc inferior to the phosphates 
cost: they would do it if they supposed it to his library, has fed the minds of his family ricultural schools and colleges in perfect drived from bones, except iu so far as they 
would pay. They resist the contagion of as frugally as he can possibly afford to do. working order. These new institutions liable to be mixed with a greater amount 
his example, not for want of means, but for U his farm is paid for and its product is greatly need sound and well-arranged Text of foreign matter, suclt us clay, carbonate of 
want of perception, of faith. worth $1,000 per annum, he ought to raise Books for the study of boys who are the bme > elc - Bee Voelcker’s article, “Ma- 
Now, 1 admit, that the reward of well- the twenty dollars to filly ; but, knowing as hope of the nation — the coming farmers. ] mres, Artificial,” in the supplement to Ure’b 
doing in the matters above indicated is not I do that one-half our poorer farmers do not Who wiD write these text, books? An agri- Dictionary. 
years ago he applied several tons of broken 
bones to a field of his and failed to see any 
immediate benefit. lie thinks, however, 
that lie can now see that during all these 
long y ears thebonos have been doing a good 
work, but. the process lias been very slow. 
On the other hand, an English farmer invests 
in super phosphate made from minerals in 
the spring; upplics it to Ids turnips and gets 
ADULTERATION OF SEEDS. 
We have no disposition to impugn any 
man, or make a public plea of prosecution 
realized in au instant increase of the farm’s take even a single weekly newspaper, and. cultural engineer must teach them howto Bel 
annual product. The farmer who should own less than a dozen volumes (other than harness steam to the plow to the best advan- illt0 1 
spend five hundred dollars this year in judi- school books) in all, I am afraid of uskinj; tage. Ho must show them how to double mi 
cious tree-planting and kindred improve- too much. If I can but induce every farmar the value of rain and enow that fall on every they 
ments, would receive no return in this year’s to inquire and consider why his pursuit is so* form, by utilizing the apparent surplus to *‘ l y < 
or next year’s crop. Yet even lie, if buying generally disliked and avoided by our boys, irrigate rand fertilize, as a sure prevent ive of l il(: 81 
this very farm, would give enough more lor tliis paper will not have been written in vain, drouth. Water enough drops from the i s P cciI 
take even a single weekly newspaper, and 
own less than a dozen volumes (other thaji 
school hooks) in all, I am afraid of uskiup 
too much. If I can but induce every farmer 
of the nation—the coming ftrmere. nm^Artillebl,” in the supplement to U«e'» m „d ra for ^ in ^° or 'oM™ 
Who win wnte these text books? An agri- Dmo worthless seeds have long b™ prac IsJ 
culwral engineer must teach them how to . «■« two propositions am , BO carcf „,| hava " 1 
htirnfntiQ CilVulin 4r\ 41. e,1»..e it. . I *1 mfn wllmh fllfi nen 1 a4r\ ^.4* T? Itr ' U I IJly it ft l<) 
into which the general statement of E. W. 
S. may be divided. Every gardener knows 
the value of liquid manures, and the. neces¬ 
sity of having all plant food soluble. At 
the same time we believe that plants have a 
old seeds the appearance of new crop, as’of- 
ten to mislead good judges. The working in 
of a quantity of old seed, whose vitality lias 
long since departed, and, by oiling or some 
Other process, giving it a bright color, in- 
it because of these improvements to defray 
their cost twice over; and what is true of 
him is emphatically true of most people. 
Tiie farm tints embellished is icort/i more 
than it was; its newly planted trees are 
SCIENCE WITH PRACTICE—II. 
. drops from the power of dissolving ™ch bo,hoses iures oniv so &r'u* ihe huvrrvoil. 
a year to fatten ell , «» their warns, an,I certain ex. ffof he» l s.t * Ti 
Iv disiriRnl inn periments and observations made hv . 1 ie puid , tor, as tv hat 
The farm thus embellished is worth more m or. p. lee. the Coming Farmer. | power is much greater than is usually sup- 
than it was; its newly planted trees are The proper cultivation of common sense U is impoatihle to consider the law of the * P 0Bwk But tliis is “theory.” Solubility de- 
property as truly as the soil is, and will in applied to agriculture, and the careful study increase of the human family in the United P cnt ^ upon two things— the chemical con- 
time have a salable value of their own. of the natural sciences in the same connec- States, and ace it multiply our race ten-fold i stitutiou and the physical condition of bodies. 
clouds in the course of a year to fatten all suitable to their wants, and certain ex- 
our fields; but its monthly distribution may perimenta aud observations made by us 
be improved. Irrigation will do much for leave little doubt in oiir minds that, this 
the Coming Farmer. I power is much greater than is usuall v sun- 
does grow comes pure aud true, lie may 
naturally conclude there m ils something in 
the soil, the heat, or rains, etc., to prevent it 
all growing. In this case the loss is in the 
early part of the season and can he remedied; 
but. when seed is all good so far as the vege- 
rather than a material profit on the outlay. 
I profoundly desire that farmers’ sons should 
love their paternal homes; and, to this end, 
I would have those homes made worthy of 
a proud and fond affection, I would have 
each possess a distinct and individual char¬ 
acter, reflecting that of the family which in¬ 
habits and embellishes it. 1 would have its 
buildings adorned, constructed and painted, 
with reference to their peculiar location, 
elevation and relation to others within sight, 
so as to form a harmonious and pleasing 
landscape. No farmer is so rich or so poor 
that he can really uflbnl to leave lus build¬ 
ings unpainted in our climate; for timber 
grows dearer twice as fast as paint does. 
A poor man may have a home to love and 
be proud of — nay, lie may render a small, 
cheap home attractive by beauty without, 
and comfort within. He may do this at 
very small cost, by devoting to it the odd 
hours of days broken liy inclemency or by 
visits; an hour or two each evening, when 
not too weary, will soon tell, if wisely im¬ 
proved. For my own part, l could not 
sleep through bright, moonlit,’ hours on a 
high duties and paramount interests as a lius-r C0 . uat, T °toHfcain three hundred and fifty 
bandman and tiller of the ground, must give m ‘dion souls, or ten times its present num- 
to his intellect mid moral sense a large and Nothing but the lack of food and rai- 
bandman and tiller of the ground, must give 
to his intellect and moral sense p large and 
useful development. He will not only do 
his own thinking, and think wisely lor him¬ 
self and posterity hat furnish ideas to govern 
with equal wisdom the minority in other 
classes, who, as a permanent minority in the 
body politic, will be in fact hid subjects. It, 
would be found as difficult as undesirable 
t,o abolish the principle that the majority 
shall rule; and with free trade in land, the 
time is very remote when a majority will not 
have a direct interest in land for farming and 
gardening purposes. A unity of occupa¬ 
tion, thought, study and interest, will lead 
t<J an equal oneness of power and action as 
its final result. 
The whole country suffers now from ex¬ 
cessive taxes, and recently from a terrible 
civil w-ar, in consequence of the failure of 
ment is likely to check this wonderful 
growth; while the increase of capital, and 
case evidently depends upon the differ¬ 
ence which exists in their chemical rela¬ 
tions to water. On the other hand, lead, 
when existing in masses of some size, is a 
very incorrodible metal, lasting lor centuries, 
advance of art and science, are almost sure evcn wheM folly exposed to the air; while 
to exceed the multiplication of our species. 
If this iucrense of mankind, as proved by 
eighty years experience, were not the result 
of natural laws, it. might be questioned as a 
fair indication of our future expansion with 
the same substance reduced to fine powder 
will take fire on coining in contact with the 
air, and will burn like tinder. The same is 
true of iron. The application of these facts 
to the practical management and selection 
the same free institutions and Continent of ol Manures is obvious. We think that, on 
rich farming lands. But no one finds a flaw this I )oiut al least there will be no ditlerence 
in God's law for our future increase; nor is opinion between E. W. S. and ourselves, 
man likely to abridge it. What, then, will Now for the other proposition. Some 
be the market price of good farms per acre Y (,ars a £° a learned Professor in New York, 
thirty-one years lieucc, with live-fold more " ho died a few years since, and whose 
capital seeking investment than we now eul °gy by E. W. S. will be found in a recent 
iiuuis ox nays broken by inclemency or by American formers in (ho North, South, East 10 “ ieu ‘ paternal acres. the same as that advanced by E. W. 8., only, 
visits; an hour or two each evening, when and West, to see their interests and feel their -*“*“*- as tke country parson would say, a little 
not too weary, wili soon teli, if wisely im- duties. Had their minds and consciences MINERAL COMPARED WITH OR- m °re strongly “ put,” Prof. Marks main- 
proved For my own part, 1 could not been fully alive to the doings of their public GANIC MANURES tained that anatom of nitrogen, phosphorus, 
sleep through bright, moonlit,’hours on a servants, ten, fifteen aud twenty years ago, - ’ potash, &e., was not fit for the use of the gradually increasintr knowledge of the rwmi* 
P ace as naked and forbidding os many that the collisions of antagonistic ideas attended by With the particular subject matter of the hi £ her orders of plants and animals until it and drop out the charlatan — V 
disfigure each rural township. a shocking loss of life and property could discussion between the editor of the Ger- I liad beeu “ Progressed ” by passing through ’_ 
ing of severe censure. 
We this year examined an acre or more of 
cabbage plants, the seed of which was all 
purchased at one time and in one paper for 
one kind; but the beads of cabbage when 
grown gave, almost every known variety, 
and a large number heretofore unknown. 
Our acquaintance with several large seed 
establishments, possessing proof rooms and 
houses, as well as grounds, for annual grow¬ 
ing of a little of everything sold, would 
never cause us to suspect that poor or im¬ 
pure seed could he sold; but when we see 
examples similar to the one named above, 
we feel that we do not know all the seed 
dealers. It is difficult, to imagine how any 
one desirous of retaining a good name can 
possibly consent, knowingly, to send out 
any but true and pure seed, and yet it is 
yearly done. To us it appears a point of 
importance to honest dealers that the dis¬ 
honest be exposed, but as in this age almost 
anything that gives notoriety to a man in¬ 
creases his business, it is perhaps wisdom on 
the part, of correct-dealing men to steadily 
pursue their honest trade, and trust to the 
The love of Beauty is Universal. Millions 
feci who do not clearly recognize nor con¬ 
sistently defer to It. The man never lived 
who would not have preferred tastefully 
painted to unpainted farm buildings; and a 
farm well fringed with judiciously chosen 
shade trees and ornamental shrubs to bleak, 
bare acres ot pasture and tillage. Though 
too many have sodden their souls in Whisky 
n it 4 1 * t 1 . . * 
not have happened. It is true that wars 
appear to come as natural events; so does 
the burning of one’s hand that is placed 
too near a fire; and it may be frozen 
where a. very low temperature surrounds 
it. These natural phenomena, however, 
do not prove the impossibility of avoid¬ 
ing the injury and pain incident to cither. 
Physical forces, so different in the dif- 
md Tobacco till they no longer clearly re- ferent sections of our almost, continental re¬ 
cognize and respond to the sense of the 
Beautiful, it still exists, and may he wakened 
to conscious activity. The God who created 
flowers and sunshine, waving trees and rip¬ 
pling brooks, adapted human nature to their 
appreciation and enjoyment. Let every 
rural home he beautified, though it, he a hut 
public, produce, unavoidably, not. only an¬ 
imals and plants peculiar to local climates, 
like the alligator aud live oak of the South, 
but human feelings, acts, and ideas equally 
local in their origin and nature. 
The Coming Farmer will study these cli¬ 
matic influences, and the feelings, acts and 
muntown Telegraph and E. W. 8., we do 
not. propose to meddle. The comparative 
value of lime from shells and lime from 
rocks is a subject of some interest to those 
wlio dwell in localities where both kinds are 
accessible; but in the recent article of E. W. 
8., a subject is broached which is of interest 
to farmers in every locality. The following 
passage contains the views of E. W. 8., to 
which we wish to direct attention: 
“Hut. the moat important reason for the use 
ol r-tioll lime is (hut it. has untcmi mto or¬ 
ganic life/ which retjuiml it, to have boon in 
solution, and tills renders it more soluble and 
assimilable as plant, food, 't liis is not theory. 
Natural phosphate of lime from rock has ortfoi 
Ivc' ii reduced to powder and applied tu i hc soil 
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ana its only ornaments a rose-bush, a vine, ideas developed thereby, precisely as he will 
and a solitary, stately, overshadowing tree, study the origin and nature of the fire 
But let nothing be given to ornament that that may burn, and the frost, that freezes 
skull preclude fit regard to making it glad- him. The scientific farmer now prevents 
some and winning within. To this end, let the exhaustion of his fields because lie 
which we wish to direct attention: ' Primaries advocated by Prof. Mares. 
“ Hut the moat important reason for the use ^ b ' s do(: teine has never found favor with 
hmo.is ftiat It has entered into or- either scientific or practical men for the 
solution, and this mat"™ it' nmVe'smublc'mld s5m P Ie m,son that the fads are all against 
from*roekU^ri ^ ^.‘ Bh b r, ’ dlic ” d *««* feUkpar and pot- 
ix-cu reduced to powder and applied to ihc soil a,sl1 derived from trees produce the same 
m fertilizer, Ihii lound to Im? inert itrid m < 1 ,. ,1 , 
while phosphate of lime: from hone's is'onoorThe 10 ,avwnn £ lll ‘ growth of the vine, 
most valuable of manures, England Imported 4 Euzos who experimented inrarly in this 
m.. u BstK.mj.au, „J,„ e „ (IlrecUon , „„ lt , 1 W(T aaTwr. ncc Anrt 
the lmver forms. A particle of polash just “ TT/ 
set free from n.naa n f , robacco In JVnrth Cttrnlinii and Virginia.—The 
v, frond f p i blcLpat might be Tobacco treat - says that the cultivation of tobacco 
•' £° io i lichens, but very poor for In the above-named Statoa la so rapidly declining- 
clover and animals. Tl the, reader Will com- that it will probably be wholly discontinued 
pare these ideas with the sentences which be<jau8 ” of da unprofitableness. Those who 
We have ouoted from F W s- ,, T iii Planted largely last year are reported to have 
«... l i t oTV . V b -’ hC w,n Sec ’ ”rr-alt^-a enormous losses, and will plant no 
mink, that it requires no forced con- more hereafter until It shall beooftlc less ruinous 
struction to draw from them a doctrine very to doso.” The Maryland Farmer thinks these re- 
much like that of the Progression of the sult8ai ;e- duo to the changes and uncertainty of 
Primaries advocated W P,,.r \i,...» tlu ’ ,H b° r ’Wricot, and expresses the opinion that 
i™ iWltoc kdbYliul.JlAm. two-thirds of the tobacco produced in this 
i ms doctrine has never found favor with country will hereafter be produced in the West- 
*'Ve raiKlit, perhaps, be pardoned for nskinj: K. w. 
S. it il Is not the Ktmurul belief of geologists that all 
the carbonate of lime now found in the crust of the 
earth at one time “entered into organic life,” In 
other words, Is not all our limestone composed of the 
remains of animals? 
super-phosphate made from hones is not robbed ttio soil of Eastern farms, mid were 
superior as a manure for turnips to super- looking about for new fields upon which t 
phosphate made from the minerals so de- * >oat their depredations. No such men 
cried bv F W S Ti i« trim n,..t ;* . t wanted in Kansas, but men who would ma 
u eu by E. \\ b It IS rue that ft takes a proper return to its rich and fertile soil fc 
little mote ol the latter than of the former ; generous response to intelligent husbandry. 
ern States. 
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Roll Robbers \ot Wanted West.— Geo. T. An¬ 
thony of Kansas has recently laid down t.tio 
following platform, which will receive the 
indorsement of all Western farmers, lie want¬ 
ed no man to come to Kansas expecting to rob 
the soil mid not have 11 grow the poorer for his 
unprincipled theft. Too many men had thus 
robbed the soil of Eastern farms, and were now 
looking about for new fields upon which to re¬ 
peat their depredations. No such men were 
wanted in Kansas, but men who would make a 
proper return to its rich and fertile soil for its 
