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PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
nice little sum of #U2,5g3 1 B48.30; and, with the 
facilities the press affords for the dissemination 
of truth, it would be quite as well off politically, 
far better off morally, and the people would be- 
Kin the year 1873 with a far larger capital of 
faith in each other and in the future of the 
country. 
about one-half > rop . 
Eggs, 28c.; butte\ 30to 
potatoes, 90c.— a. t N 
Holland, Ottawa 
Hay was a good croi 
condition. Whcatisr 
varieties have turned 
rletiosare generally" 
justed and eaten by tin 
ing from dry weather and f 
$10 per ton, i 
40c,; early potatoes are half 
ably represented. Congress has made no money 
appropriation to defray the expenses at tending 
the collection of American manufactures nor 
of the Commissioners appointed, hence Hie cost 
of transportation of articles for exhibition must 
be liquidated by exhibitors t he Austrian Gov¬ 
ernment having made arrangements with steam¬ 
boat lines (and expects to do so with railways) 
for large rebates of freight rates, fieri. T. B. 
Van Buren has been appointed United States 
Commissioner, and has au office at No. 5 Cham¬ 
bers St., N. Y. City, where exhibitors should 
apply at once and have assigned them space and 
exhibition permits. Artielcs must he addressed 
“To the Director-General of the World’s Fair, 
at Vienna, 1873.” 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
ostly harvested; bearded 
°it fair, while other va- 
V a mvleratc crop, being both 
- '' w^vil. Corn Is suffer- 
*** are oats. Hay is 
wheat *U&, flour x 9 pei . bbl„ oats 
t il <-r 'o, being dam¬ 
aged by Colorado beetles, as well n-p v drouth ; 
potatoes are $1.(10 per bushel, with afajing mar¬ 
ket. Trade is dull and money is very scarce, 
being held b.v a few, and loaned at extravagant 
rates of interest This county is well settled, 
but is subject to drouths, and the population 
suffer much from malarial fevers. Fruit in 
abundance is raised. Peaches promise a guud 
yield. Apples a moderate yield. The opening 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
CJoiidueting ICditor and l J uljlin>ier 
Patrons of liunbuildry nml Newspaper Adver- 
tlament*. -One of the Granges of the Patrons 
ol husbandry in Iowa is undertaking the work 
of lVorm by adopting the following preamble 
and neolution: 
.! ,no ,.° r ,hc most serious causes of 
comphfcit, the fanner has is the misrepresen- 
th( ,1 refoi\ reS< ’ ,,l ^ t,< ^ bim in advertisements; 
ItemlvA That wo as u Grange will give our 
^vpon Ad influence to such newspapers and 
{heir cobSi 1 ' - ' ViU , ••'fvertisements b! 
theii coluiAjs. unless satisfied of the good char¬ 
acter of thl advertiser and his ability to per¬ 
form all he fay promise. 1 
We reoogntV the right of any man or class of 
men to adopt tod act upon such a resolution as 
that fflvcn Hut tin*pwper whtch attorn pta 
tl.e task of me<W the ideas of sueli men will 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER 
AxHOciate 111 cl i tors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL, D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
KpiTOU O* THD OKRA UTMHNT OP StlKfcP HURBANDRY. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little v alls, N. Y., 
Bpitoe. op tiik Department op Dairy Hvvbandicv. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
CoitHKNPflN DING Eoitoii. 
Special Journalists, An editor of u special 
Journal, recently suspended for want of sujv 
port, thinks that, agricultural papers, as a rule, 
on the ground ol common courtesy, ought not 
to admit to their columns articles purely horti¬ 
cultural, and (hat horticultural Journals should 
not admit articles pertaining directly to the 
farm, so that the farmer might be compelled to 
support t wo Journals (or a dozen) instead of one. 
This broad-minded horticultural probably 
grows apples and peaches; why should lie not, 
"on the ground of common courtesy,” stop 
growing peaches and let his neighbor monopolize 
the market! He would have the man who sells 
linen goods refuse to sell silk goods, and rice 
I'nmi. The grocer should confine himself toone 
lira, of goods, and fifty grocers should lie suji- 
•portod whor* one is! We do not wonder that 
i tie paper suspend,., i that had so liberal aud 
comprehensive a genius to edit it! 
PUBLICATION OFFICES: 
No 5 Beekman Street, New York City, and No. 82 
Buffalo Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
WESTERN BRANCH OFFICE: 
No. 75 North Side of Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Gndsen, Trim., duly 17. We have the best 
crops here this year (so old farmers say) that we 
have eve/ had, with the exception of 1855. Corn 
i» in i^ndltfou lo roast.; cotton never better; 
beads'* and apples plenty; farm hands get 
froi* J$18®22,ij0 per month.—w. A. w. 
/be Crops of Croat Britain, according to ud- 
/ices received to July 15, are generally excel- 
b'Ml. There Is little or nothing complained of 
in this respect that will affect the prosperity ( ,f 
the British agriculturist. 
I’lu* Tobacco Crop of Connecticut is reported 
very uneven, someof it having been set as many 
as four times. Home of the planting was as late 
The Iona State Agricultural College is r , 
ported prosperous. During the term wide 
closed July lit, two hundred and fifty student, 
sixty-five of whom were ladies, received Ut 
struetiorb Ten more applications foradmMbi 
next term arc on tile and accented. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
The Western Uuralist has been removed from 
Jefferson City, Mo., to HI. Louis. 
We cannot toll our correspondent at Arkadel- 
phia, Ark., where Sultan fowlseitn he purchased. 
The Secretary of the Interior has authorized 
the withdrawal from agricultural entry of ill 
mineral lands. 
The subscriber at Germantown, O., will prob¬ 
ably be able to obtain what he seeks by address¬ 
ing I'.. G. Storke. Auburn, ,\. V. 
' J '” R proposed cattle show under the auspices 
ot the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 
of Agriculture, haH been given up. 
„,a l ^^ W .-. ST ' 4 Ff' FEH % informed that we do 
not know the address of Dr. G. Robinson; he 
had better address the Scientific American, X. 
Vermont has thirteen Granges of Patrons ot 
Husbandry, and others arc being organized \ 
provisional organization ol a State Grange'has 
been effected. 
I* c - y- 8- Wilson will turn to page 279. 
I ITHAL NICW-5 ORKEK April 27, 1872, he will find 
formation he asks lor concerning Castor 
SATURDAY 
POLITICS AND POTATOES 
politics to do with potatoes, or vice verm f Very 
much. itness: A correspondent, whom wc 
will call John Brown, because he docs not want 
his name mentioned, writes: “Potatoes have 
escaped the bugs, and look finely; and Wiscon¬ 
sin is going to east its vote for ULYSSES 8. Grant 
and Henry Wilson in November." Another 
correspondent from another State, whom we 
will call John Jones, writes:—** Potatoes- espe¬ 
cially tin- early varieties have suffered from 
the bugs; t he later varieties w111 make a g w ,„l 
crop, and ‘ Honest old Horace 'will be Hie next 
President." We might continue to quote from 
tin; letters of correspondents to prove how plain 
it is to us that there Is, in tln-nmnlsof tin- Viner 
it-an people, a close connection between Politics 
and Potatoes. 
We agree that, there Is, too! It is proper to 
say, however, that we know many of the Brown 
and Jonhs families who think as the two Johns 
do whom wo have quoted. We admire them for 
average. Pasturage Is above average in the 
New England States, except 5fas.sacau.Hct.tJs and 
Rhode Island. None of the Middle States show 
average, except New York. The Sout h Atlantic* 
States arc below average: the Gulf States, ex¬ 
cept Florida, are above. The other States about 
equalize each other. Clover shows a general 
average condition, while Timothy is below aver¬ 
age condition, except in the States immediately 
west of tin* Mississippi,which range from average 
to r , per cent above. The apple crop in the New 
England, Middle, and Western Slates is almost 
uniformly above average. Some of the South¬ 
ern States show depreciation, but the general 
crop promises to lie above average eonsidcrjibl. 
Dakota. Col. w. Wilnoh Roberts, Chief 
Engineer of t lie Northern Pa •file Railroad, has 
I a careful examination of the 
mad across Dakota, from the Red 
ri, a distance of 2WI miles, 
grass lands all the way, and 
wheat growing, will 
” Mauraises Ferres" 
maps have not been 
ood springs were found 
ie railroad eontractors 
just completed 
line of tlie . 
It Ivor to the Missou 
He found splendid 
thinks farming, especially 
be very successful. The 
and alkaline plains of the 
found on the route. G 
in several places, and th 
get good water any where by digging eight or "ten 
feet. A good part of the route is over rolling 
prairie, where there is line pasturage but no 
trees. Tile streams however are fringed with 
iImlii-i, and the banks ol tin- Missouri arc ver\ 
heavily wooded. The soil is shown in the rail¬ 
road cuttings to be rich and deep, the underlying 
strata in several cuttingB proving to be gravel, 
which insures natural drainage and immunity 
trorn danger of fever and ague. The located 
Unesare a succession of tangents connected by 
easy curves, the first tangent west of Red River 
being 52 tnilos long. The grades are geuerally 
v cry light, the levels long and frequent, aud the 
difficulties and consequent cost of construction 
much less than was supposed. Track is now go¬ 
ing down at the rate ot two miles per day, and 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Now fa the Time to Form Clubs for Voi. 
XXVI., which commenced July 6th. Clubs for the 
volume may be made up at hnir the rates per year, 
and Free Copies or Premiums allowed In proportion. 
( tubs for either a volume (six months) or year arc In 
order,-or part may be for six months and part for a 
year. Club papers sent to different offices, if desired. 
>ln»ler id Agriculture. The University of 
Missouri, which embraces the Stale Agricul¬ 
tural College, has an honorary degree entitled 
“ Master of Agricult ure,” which it has conferred 
upon a gentleman whom the Rural World calls 
“ one of the best, farmers in tho State Ron. J. 
W. Harris, Itoeheport, Mo.,—who has also re¬ 
ceived the $100 prize offered by the State Board 
of Agriculture for the best cultivated farm in 
the State. We rather like this new degree. An 
equally significant, compliment iaconveyed with 
it to that ol LL.D. conferred recently upon the 
two presidential candidates. We hud rather be 
M. A. than A. 51. We do not value titles and 
degrees much; but this action of the Missouri 
University is so much in accord with the spirit 
of Farmer Garrulous’ article in the Rural of 
April 20, page 258, that we must commend it. 
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Get Descriptive Pamphlet at 36 Dey St.. New York, 
I lie World’s Fnir, at Vienna, Austria, will 
open May 1, 1873, and close October 3L The 
Burnett’* Coconino gives new life to the hair, 
