$1; flour, $12 per bbl., and very waree. In fact, 
we arc in rather a bad Hx. We are a little like 
the boy at school when he was asked at noon to 
join in a (tame, lie declined, saying, “I can 
neither bet tier play, for I have neither money 
nor marble's.”— o. s. a. 
Hotlalla, Mo.. Mnv 89.—Rain ! Bain ! Rain I 
Such a Spring. 1 presume, never before was wit¬ 
nessed in Missouri, for water, at any rate. Very 
little fall wheat in—looking badly; oats, half 
crop sown, doing well; corn, very little planted, 
and most all that is in t he ground will have to be 
replanted. Grass bids lair to make a heavy 
yield. Peaches, apples, cherries .strawberries, 
etc., make a promising show now. Wheat, $1.75; 
corn, 50c.; oats, 40c.; hay, $10; strawberries ripe, 
and selling readily at 50e. per quart. Raining 
this 9 a.m.— Joe. 
Trenton, Oneida Co., IV. V., .lane 1.—Mean 
temperature for the month of May, 54° 29”. 
Highest point attained, 78°; lowest, 85°. Num¬ 
ber of days on which rain foil, 10; amount of 
rain fallen, 4 18-100 Inches; white frosts5th, 13th, 
14th, 15th and 16th. First violet the 12ih. Snow 
disappeared in the “Gulcl.” on the lands of 
Post Curry, In South Trenton, the 22d. Swal¬ 
lows came the 19lli. Frost entirely out of the 
ground the 20th. One day of thunder and light¬ 
ning. Prevailing winds, west; 12 days of east 
w i nds .—htohks Ba it nows. 
Artcfttn, Lowndes Co., Miss., May 28.—We 
have just laid a tine rain, after a dry spell of 
about six weeks. The dry weather killed out 
the oat crop, and a good deal of corn died from 
being sucked to death by the chinch bug; but 
the corn looks fine now after the ruin. We com¬ 
mence planting corn here about the first of 
March, and cotton about Ibc lusl of March and 
the first of April; the latter crop Is in good fix, 
and looks tine. The people through this part of 
the country have planted a good deal of clover 
since lint war, and it does finely down here. 
Can any one of i he Kura i. readers tell me wheth¬ 
er or not the old clover, where there is not a 
stand, if turned under next winter, will come 
out again, (the object being to sow more clover 
where there is not, a good stand)? There is a 
great scarcit y of tenants and la mi laborers here. 
There Is plenty of land through the country to 
rent, and to sell cheap, and on gnod terms. We 
want good, honest, and Industrious farmers to 
come, and will hail their entiling with delight. 
I have in my employ a good many colored peo¬ 
ple ; like them as laborers, and intend to keep 
them, if I can. 
with a call. Chicago, ho says, is rising out of its 
ashes with marked rapidity, and the paper with 
which he is connected is more prosperous than 
over, tie had just returned from the Agricul¬ 
tural Congress at St. Louis. We asked what was 
done there. He replied“ O, they resolved and 
re#nhv ,&!" Well, it is a good thing to resolve, 
because the process involves a study of what 
need* to be done; and it is a necessary prelim¬ 
inary step towards doing it 
rights. Bui a Labor Union whose object is to 
compel the skilled artisan to work for the same 
wages per day il* the unskilled, and permits him 
to work a no greater number of hours, albeit the 
necessities of his family may demand of him 
longer continued dally exertiou for their sup¬ 
port. is unjust oppressive and depressive In its 
influence upon Industrial enterprise. Such labor 
combinations do the most grievous wrong to 
For If the rate of wages 
“ PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
those engaged hi them 
per day, fixed by such Union is no higher than 
the minimum earnings of the poorest workmen, 
the most industrious and skillful workmen have 
to share their earnings with such as are not capa¬ 
ble of earning as lunch. But if 1 tie rate of 
wages is us high as the maximum that can lie 
earned by the best workman, then the employer 
and all who buy ills goods, are defrauded to the 
extent that poor or unskilled and incompetent 
workmen are permitted to receive such maxi¬ 
mum wages. Hence, view it in any light we 
may, such regulation* are wrong. 
2. We believe it u grievous wrong to the labor¬ 
ing man to deny him the right to work as many 
hours per day as he chooses (ir lie can get the la¬ 
bor to do), and for such price as h<* pleases to 
take. And it is equally wrong to compel an 
employer to pay the same price for unskilled 
labor that he docs for skilled : or to insist that 
he shall run his machinery only a given number 
of hour*, provided if is in his power to find men 
willing to keep it constantly running. Nor is it 
right or just, to dictate to men who work by the 
piece how many pieces sliall constitute a day’s 
work and insist, that their day’s work shall be 
confined to that number. Is skill and deftness 
and experience to count for nothing as capital 
to the laboring man V MubI John Brown, who 
by long experience has learned to accomplish 
double the work in a given lime that JOHN 
Smith can do, work half his time and loaf the 
balance, or be double the length of time doing 
hi* work that he need t«> t»e, in order to protect 
alow John Smith and enable him to earn as 
much as the swifter John Brown V When La¬ 
bor Unions attempt such dictation they do great 
wrong to the laboring classes; they block all 
progress and suppress all incentives to excel. 
3. The effect ol diminishing the hours of labor 
for a given price will be to destroy enterprises 
employing labor altogether, or to force an ad¬ 
vance in the price of the article produced, 
which in turn will open a field for competition 
to foreign producers or compel a rise in the 
purchase value of whatever Is given iu exchange 
tor the articles the cost ol producing which is 
thus enhanced. In other words, diminish the 
hours of daily labor without decreasing its cost 
per day, and the ability to produce Is diminished 
and the cost of production correspondingly 
enhanced. And it should be remembered thut 
the price of labor, if there is no overproduction, 
governs (he price of whatever is consumed that 
a short day’s labor in u workshop means one 
equally short on the farm; or, that the farmer 
must receive in exchange for hi* twelve hours 
labor i» one day, the \ aiue of a day and a halt s 
labor by (ho artisan who works eight hours. 
This Is the practical result In the end. The im¬ 
mediate effect may not Vie apparent, but the 
action and reaction of labor movements are 
sure to result in settling down to a common 
level finally. 
4 . it cannot safely be asserted that too much 
labor, in (fie aggregate, 1* performed in this 
country; but it may be assorted that too few 
labor; and if all did labor who ought to, it might 
be desirable that each should labor fewer hours; 
then a better division of the hours of labor 
might result. For jf all who ought to did labor, 
ConduotiiiK Editor and Proprietor 
Formers Poisoned by Wild Parsnip, or Cow- 
hone.—Five young men near Flint, Michigan, 
were plowing in a field and ate of the root of 
wluit they supposed to bo Sweet Cicely (Onnior- 
hiza UtnyMyHr-), which is a fleshy root with a 
spicy, agreeable flavor. In a fow T moments the 
one who find ate of the root fell in n spasm and 
•tied. Immediately l woof the others were taken 
with spasms, whereupon one of the others 
mounted a horse and started to the house, a mile 
away, to gel help. He had to ride about a mile, 
and on reaching the house fell from the horse, 
but succeeded in giving the alarm. The farmer 
mounted the horse and started for the Held, and 
arrived there to find three of his sons lying dead 
within the space of ten rods. The fourth was 
still alive, and the father gave him some tobac¬ 
co, which resulted in violent vomiting and the 
suvitig of his life. The one who rode to I lie 
house will probably recover, according to a 
correspondent of the Detroit Tribune, from 
which paper we gather these facts. It Is sup¬ 
posed they ate of the root of the Wild Parsnip, 
or Cowl bane, (Archcmora rtpu/ti,) n very poison- 
ous plant. Wu give these details this prominence 
as a caution against eating roots, plants or fruits 
which are not. know n beyond peradventure to 
be tion-poisonous. 
CHAS. D. BRAGD0N, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
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Herbert’s “Hints to Horsekeepers" price $1,75. 
The people of Southern Utah have already 
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A Western Agricultural paper publishes an 
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The next meeting of the National Agricultural 
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be held Muy 22,1873, at Indiana pulls, Ind. 
M. L. Hullivant, Ford Co., IU.. plants twenty 
thousand acre* of corn this year, and will em¬ 
ploy 17ft men ok his farm, all of whom must be 
unmarried, sober amt industrious. 
We caU the attention of those of our readers 
interested in dairy stock to an article iu our 
Herdsman Department from Mr. Willard. It 
wlU answer several questions received. 
The Cincinnati Exposition this year devotes a 
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X. A. Willard of the Rural New-Yorker 
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Seminary, June 1Mb. lilt It, 20 th. The school is 
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Brother Bedell of the Crown Point (Ind.,) 
Register, has a veritable help-meet, a* will he 
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compels us to condense, if not mutilate, Mrs. B's 
description. 
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his representations, and mulcted to the amount 
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is likely m lie followed up In this way. The ul¬ 
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large, and we hope they will continue to grow 
smaller. 
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from this port the 22d of Juue. The party is to 
be composed of our genial and distinguished 
Irish friend, Patrick Quinn, chief horticul¬ 
tural contributor to the New York Tribune, 
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seedsman of this city, a gonUemnn of equable 
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author of “Hoopes’ Evergreens," a gentleman 
well known as a nurseryman and enthusiusDc 
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Illinois, t he great grower of seedling evergreens, 
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Europo. They expect to return September 1. 
We have no doubt that their observations will 
enable them to enhance the value of their re¬ 
spective future contributions to our industrial 
progress aud prosperity. 
— W. W. Corbett, one of the editors and pro¬ 
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There is in progress, in New York City, one 
of the most extended and, In some respects (up 
to the time of this writing), successful labor 
strikes that has occurred in this country. The 
object of the strike among most, if not all, of 
the different professions involved in it, is to se¬ 
cure for eight hours labor the wages now paid 
for ten hours. The avowed object of this de¬ 
mand is not that, tnen do not earn enough per 
day, but they have to work too many hour* to 
earn it. They want more hours for relaxation. 
Some of them claim that they want the extra 
hours for mental improvement and aesthetic 
culture. They want (<> be with their families 
more of their time. It seems to us a fit time to 
express our opinion concerning some of the re¬ 
sults which grow out of the Labor Unions and 
their strikes, affecting both the prosperity of the 
laborers and the industrial progress of the coun¬ 
try. 
1. All labor Unions w hich seek to inform and 
protect those who belong to them in all Dteir 
rights, we commend—especially such as have for 
their object the benevolent and beneficent pur¬ 
pose of helping Die unfortunate, prot iding work 
for those out of employment, and making com¬ 
binations against real wrong or injusDce, and 
yet which do not deprive any on3 of Individual 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
Hancock Co., best Va., Jane 4,—We have 
had a very dry spring : only a few light showers. 
Wells and springs are lower titan ever before 
known. Wheat will not make more than one- 
fourth of a crop. Oats very short. Corn very 
backward, many fields almost ruined by cut¬ 
worms. Hay will not be more than one-ball 
crop. Apples are looking woJI—expect a full 
crop; peaches nearly all killed; grapes promis¬ 
ing. Corn, 65®70e.; wheat, $2; outs, 50e., rye, $1; 
hay, *20(5 25 per ton ; straw, $10.—u. b. 
l ppcrvltlc, Fauquier Chi., Vn,, June 3. —We 
hate had distressingly dry weather for more 
than a year. Never, within the memory of the 
oldest citizens, have we experienced such a cold 
and *lry spring. Wheat will be almost a failure; 
it will not get high enough to cut und save. The 
grass tleldB look very bare and dry—at a distance, 
most like plowed land—-entirely died out in spots. 
Cut-worms destroying all the corn that was 
planted on clover or 60 d land. Farmers are now 
very busy furrowing out to plant the second 
time. Medium supply of fruit; cherries very 
small and wilted from the drouth. The old crop 
of corn nearly exhausted; worth from 90c. to 
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