“PROGRESS AND IMPROVEIVIENT.” 
lore’s Efi New-Yorker, 
THK GREAT ILLUSTRATED 
RURAL LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
D. D. T. JVXOORE, 
C'ondnct.iiiK Editor and Proprietor. 
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1871. 
LAWS SHOULD BE ENFORCED. 
One of the surest wnys to secure the re¬ 
peal of mi unjust law is to enforce it rigidly, 
so lou<>- as it remains on the statute Looks. 
One of the surest ways to secure a disregard 
for all laws, increase crime and lawlessness 
generally, is to allow executive officers any 
discretion whatever in their execution. 
Among the municipal laws of Chicago 
once, was one prescribing the width of cer¬ 
tain signs allowed on the sidewalk and that 
no hanging signs should be allowed. The 
law was inoperative until Long John 
Wentworth was made Mayor, when lie 
gave notice that the signs specified as objec¬ 
tion able by the law, must be removed. No 
attention was paid to tills announcement; 
but one morning the signs were missing. 
They had been removed to and piled up in 
the Court House yard by I ho police, during 
the night, and could only be recovered by 
paying ihe tine the law imposed. Great 
clamor was raised against the Mayor, who 
retorted :—“ 1 did not make the law. You 
elected me Mayor, and 1 took an oath to 
execute the laws you, the people, had enact¬ 
ed. 1 found this law among others which 
I, by my oath, was bound to execute. I 
have done so. If you do not like the law 
repeal it; for ns long as it is a law and I 
am Mayor, it will be enforced.” It was re¬ 
pealed. 
To-day, in this city, we have another 
grievous crime to lay at ihe doors of officers 
who have not executed the laws. The great 
calamity, resulting in the death of a hundred 
men, women and children, ami the suffering 
of one hundred and fifty more, is due, ap¬ 
parently, to the neglect, willful or otherwise, 
of boiler inspectors to do their dill}'. The 
evidence seems to show that they have been 
too willing to allow boilers to hurst and 
lives to be lie sacrificed in consideration of 
“courtesies” derived from proprietors of 
steamers,&c. Now that Ihe public mind is 
aroused by the dangers wlijch it is apparent 
encompass the traveling public, facts are re¬ 
vealed which show the most criminal disre¬ 
gard of law on the part of those appointed 
to execute it; and there is a zealous effort to 
shut the door—after the horse is stolen ! Af¬ 
ter this sacrifice of human life, it is officially 
announced that the laws of the United 
Slates with reference to boiler inspection are 
to be rigidly enforced ! Why have they not 
been heretofore? Why are they not ahenytt 
enforced ? What are laws made for if not 
lo lie enforced ? Are they made by politi¬ 
cians that politicians, elected to office, may 
grow rich by blackmail from those whose 
interest it is that the law's shall not be exe¬ 
cuted ? 
This is the fair conclusion, warranted by 
nnd based upon the practice common 
among nil classes of officials. For if it is 
found that one man evades the Action of law 
nnd profits by it, another in the same busi¬ 
ness seeks the cause; finding it, lie applies 
the same soothing salve which prevents suf¬ 
fering and places him on n par with his 
competitor. This is the. practice—there is 
no gainsaying it nor use of shutting our eyes 
to it. Men seek election to our legislatures 
for the purpose of plunder of this sort—or 
of paving the way for it for their friends. 
Men who abjure political duties encourage 
j these thieves and swindlers, and buyers and 
sellers of blood, in their damnable work. 
And setting aside our sympathy for the 
slaughtered victims of these blood-bartering 
villians, and for those who survive, it. is lobe 
a blessing to the masses if lids sacrifice pur¬ 
chase future exemption from lawlessness— 
if the people can lie aroused to rescue them¬ 
selves from the venality and corruption of 
politicians who are ready to enact any law 
and allow it to become a dead letter, pro¬ 
vided they can profit thereby. 
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KURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
JleglHteriiiK Jersey Stock,—A. R, Day, Wash¬ 
ington Co., N. Y., writes the Rural Nkw-Yoiik- 
eio—“I have thoroughbred L’otswold stieop, mi 
Alderney bull cult, nnd an Ayrshire now. 1 
find that they must be ‘ honked* (ns thov call it) 
In order to make them of more ihn.ii ordinary 
value. To whom should T address an applica¬ 
tion, and how shall I proceed in order to accom¬ 
plish the desired object? Wlmt will ho ihe 
probable expense?" Although the mutter has 
bean talked of by shepherds, wo do not know 
that there Is any general record kept of the 
pedigree of any kind of sheep; nor do wo know 
of any Ayrshire het‘d-book in this country. We 
doubt If tbcrolsany. Rut there is a "Herd Rog- 
ixier" of Alderney or Jersey cattle, the first 
volume oT which is before us mid has just been 
received from Up* American Jersey Cattle Club. 
The officers of this Club ur©:-President, Sam¬ 
uel J. Shahplekk, Philadelphia, Pa.; Treasu¬ 
rer, Thomas J. HAM),31 and 33 Brnatjwny, New 
York city; Secretary, George E. Waring, 
Newport, It. 1.; Executive Committee, J. How¬ 
ard Hill, Maryland ; t.’UAPtdss M. Beach, Con¬ 
necticut: Andrew Robeson, Miisaachuseits, 
In order to become a member of this Club, It is 
necessary lo be recommended by one or more 
of its members as a Valuable and careful breed¬ 
er; then the election proceeds, and three ob¬ 
jecting votes reject the applicant. It elected, 
1 he initiation fee Is(50. A pedigree of an ani¬ 
mal belonging In a member of the Club is regis¬ 
tered for $ 1 ; approved pedigrees of animals be¬ 
longing to those who me not members <d the 
Club ill e inserted for §2. January 1.1871, there 
were ninety-three members of tins Club. Our 
correspondent should address the Secretary, 
whose name nnd address Is given above, in re¬ 
lation lo registering Ids bull naif, and forward 
tile pedigree complete for the approval of the 
Ex eta 11 ivo Com mi I lew of I lie Club. The volume 
before us contains the pedigrees of 339 bulls 
and 1.427 cows. Then* arc also (wenly-one ex¬ 
cellent photographs of prominent animals. The 
Register is admirably primed, and sells at $5 
(and forty-eight cents additional for postage if 
mailed), nnd tuny be had by addressing the 
Treasurer or Secretary, as above. 
we find a communication, signed F. A. Don¬ 
aldson, St. Josephs, Mich., dated July 4, which 
indicates that the party arrested was not caught 
in ihe act. Because we desire to do no ono an 
injustice, we copy the letter, as follows: 
I notice you copy from a Jackson, Michigan, 
paper an item stating that. William Cornell 
(his name is Cornwell) laid been arrested for 
girdling Grekn’s orchard, at Benton Harbor. 
All the evidence ihey found against the man. J 
am informed, is tliai Green had given lulu good 
reason lo feel spilefiil towards him. Mr. Corn- 
well has been living here for a number «f 
years, and must have seen the statement pub¬ 
lished by ihe County Register of Deeds, ilmi the 
sulool the orchard to Mr. Hunter was genuine; 
and it does not seem probable that a man of 
ordinary intelligence would rim Ihe risk so 
many times of being ealiglu in u great crime 
when there was so little probability ul' injuring 
the one besought to be revenged oil. It sorip- 
to me that the course pursued towards Mr. 
Cornwell w»» about as had as girdling trees. 
Had he been a stranger, and likely loeseape, his 
arrest on suspicion might have been excusable; 
but as he was not, there was no good reason for 
putting him in jail before finding some evidence 
against him. A motive is a very good starling 
point for detection of crime, but It la no evi¬ 
dence of guilt alone. 
A Maine View «if Horse Itncing at Fairs, mill its 
Effect upon Industry.—There Is rill hoi too niiieli 
truth in the following complaint by a corre¬ 
spondent of the Maine Farmer:—"Our fairs nnd 
eatth - shows are fast dwindling lo Joek.v clubs 
and horse racings. Trials of speed introduced 
to ‘draw the crowd,’ are occupying far ion 
prominent a feature <>r Our State and county 
fairs. They have the tcudonoy to drive out that 
better class who attend for information and ob¬ 
servation of the purely agricultural. Our lead¬ 
ing crops, were it not for the special legislation 
that raises Ihe premium on wheat, are almost 
Ignored; such enormous sums as ono, two and 
even three dollars being the leading premiums 
cm potatoes, garden vegetables ami all Ihe vari¬ 
ous grains exeepiing wheal. Premiums, or 
raiher prize-, for trotting, range from live to 
fifty dollars, and ulitjn much more, breeding 
mares, stallions and draft horses must be con¬ 
tent ivitli being far more useful and with a very 
trifling sum in the shape of a premium. Speed, 
cruelty, gambling and a large train of evils that 
attend, is held up and encouraged, mid bears 
away the lion’s share. And this by a society 
that professes to have for its object I he advance¬ 
ment of agricultural interests, and encourage¬ 
ment of the mechanic arts! —that pretends to be 
a raftte rhmv!" The correspondent does not 
seem to appreciate tlie filet that it is the racing 
Hint, “draws" the people. When he. or any 
other naan, can grow grains, vegetables nr fruits, 
cattle, sheep and swine, the exhibition of which 
will put. as much money into ihe t reasury of I he 
Societies as a last trolling horse, then there will 
be a change. Evidently people like to see n 
horse go fast, or they would not bo attracted by 
such a spectacle: and what the people like ami 
arc willing to pay for, will bo supplied to them 
even by the moral, high-toned imumuersuf fulra 
—to be sure it will 1 And what arc the pumpkin 
growers going to do about it ? 
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Wlmt do We- Advise* ? Ho A RDM an. Detroit, 
Mich., writes the Rural New-Yorker I am 
a young married man, have always lived in a 
city, and have not a large capital. I ha ve a great 
desire to go on to a farm of perhaps thirty acres, 
belli on account of ill health and because ol a 
taste for llrnl branch of business. 1 should in¬ 
tend to raise fruits, berries and poultry. 1 have 
read both pro and con, and can hardly decide 
whether it will pay lo venture or not. Will you 
he so kind as to give me your views on the sub¬ 
ject ?" Our views arc that if you have gumpUnn, 
are a business man. willing and able to work 
hard* choose a good location and kumv the l/usi- 
ne&s you tuay succeed, if not, it will be much 
like putting a man who never saw a steam en¬ 
gine In tin* engineer’s place on an ocean steara- 
shipnnd expect him to run Hie machine; ho 
would probably blow the whole concern to 
flinders; nnd you are as likely to “ burst up.” 
'Vo cannot conscientiously advise a man to at¬ 
tempt to do what lie dues not know how to do— 
especially it be lias a family to support. Some 
men in like circumstances with yourself have 
succeeded; toil hundreds have failed. It is not 
an easy road to travel, even when a man knows 
it. well; and it is a hard road if oue is not 
familiar with It . 
Tlie Bruton llnrhor, Mich., Pencil Orchard 
Vandal. -In onr issue of June 3d we staled, on 
the authority of Ihe .Tneksmi Patriot, that Wil¬ 
liam Cornell had been pnuglii repealing the 
operation of girdling the M artin Green poach 
orchard, which was girdled live times Iasi year. 
In Tilton’s Journal of Horticulture for August 
A New Departure in Fanner’* Working Co*, 
tnmeg. a correspondent of a Western paper re¬ 
cently discovered some men at work in a field, 
clad only in a shirt and a skirt similar to those 
worn l>.y woman. He interviewed them, and 
they defended their new costume in I his wist*: 
" We can thus do more work, without the bad 
effect on our bodies of the sue, and without Ihe 
severe sweating and the adhering of pant-, the 
skirls being light and loose. We wear skirts in- 
i stead of pants in nil our heavy work, and some 
of our neighbors do the same. We hope the 
time will Clime wln-n every working matt will 
wear the clothes must convenient and easy tnr 
him. without reference to hii old and foolish 
custom, that men -hall not wear any clothes 
similar to the present female apparel. Why 
should wo not be allowed to dress like females, 
il we choose? Would there be anything wrong 
in it ? The old Jews, Christ and His disciples 
were similarly dressed, and it was the custom 
tor font* hundred years; and are we any better 
for wearing pants? No, sir." 
Wo remember, many years ago, that it was 
the fashion among farmers and their sons, to 
wear long tow Mouses, or " frocks," ns Ihey 
Were Until called, and that it was a practice 
among certain boys we knew intimately, during 
the hot. June and July days, while at work in 
the buck fields hoeing corn or making buy, lo 
divest themselves of shirt and j'a fits and substi¬ 
tute these long loose blouses. We have tin- 
most indisputable testimony as to tlielr greater 
emu fort, a 0 d in its light can fully appreciate, 
the argument ot Iheseadvueutcsof anew work¬ 
ing costume for farmers. 
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The Military Education of the Agricultural 
Hudeiii. ;u the Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, ul Amherst, is not, according to the report 
I of ihe Committee of Visitation, neglected. 
Captain Henry E. Alvohd, U. H. A., has been 
detailed by I lie Secretary of Warns Instructor of 
Military .Science at Hits institution, and lias 
brought (lie whole si udeni force of the College 
under regular military organization and drill ol 
high Order. At the recent commencement the 
corps gave an exhibition drill as light infantry 
filld lighl artillery. This drill was highly com¬ 
mended. The commandants of companies were 
each required to take command of the tmitalkm 
In turn, and are said to have acquitted them¬ 
selves like e*. ier:ins. • 
Our List of Fairs.—After an extensive corre¬ 
spondence and careful revision, we present the 
readers of .‘ho Rural New-Yorker, this week, 
a list of Agricultural Fairs to be held in the sev¬ 
eral States, i ho current season. For want of 
space in this department.of our paper, Ihe list 
is given on our News page, where the reader 
will find the most complete array of Stale, 
County, District and Township Fairs yet mini-; 
public. Ibil as we know this list eminot he en¬ 
tirely lull or may contain errors, wo desire to 
receive additions, corrections and changes, so 
we may present a fully revised list, about the 
first of September. 
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Obituary.—The death of a promising young 
journalist is announced— that of Charles Cal- 
lis Western, the founder and originator of the 
American Journal of Mining and >>i the Manu¬ 
facturer and Builder, and oue uT (he firm ut 
Western & Co., publishers in this city. He was 
hut i wenty-nine years of age, talented and high¬ 
ly esteemed by those ot the profession who know 
him, and beloved by Ids more intimate friends. 
Wo greatly regret die death of one so promising 
and useful In thesphero of industrial journalism. 
Whitney’s Excursion to tlio Pacific.—Iu our 
notice of Hus excursion, wenmitted, iiceidental- 
ly, from the list of names of excursionists, that 
of ltev. Daniel D. Curry, D. D., editor of the 
Christian Advocate. Il will bo seen that Ihe 
party is to bo a disliugiilshed one. It is no Junk¬ 
eting trip of men seeking only sensual grnl idea¬ 
tion, but is composed of men who cannot help 
laboring pro Iiuiin imhlico wherever they may 
happen to be. We wish them much profit and 
pleasure. 
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F. R. Elliott, the experienced landscape gar- 
doner of Cleveland, Ohio, and well known to 
tho readers of the Rural New-Yorker, has 
1 ern employed by the Trustees of the Ohio Ag¬ 
ricultural College, to lay off the grounds for 
that Institution. We learn that tt is the inten¬ 
tion of Mr. Elliott to make the public park of 
the college farina complete album of ihe native 
(rocs of Ohio; also of native shrubs, flowers, 
plants, etc. 
Oar Corresponding Editor. — The American 
Farm Journal (Toledo, O.) for August has this 
drive at our venerable associate:—"Col. S. D. 
Harris, now of tlie Rural New-Yorker, is a 
eireulaling medium, passing as l rue coin every¬ 
where. Ho turns up unannounced. West and 
East, and we imagine is just as warmly greeted 
by his poet friends in New York, or the planters 
of the Soulh.us by Hie manufacturers of the 
East or Ills legion of farmer friends iu Hie West." 
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A Wisconsin Farmer's Wool Clip,—The Chicago 
Evening' Journal, July 29, contains the follow¬ 
ing paragraph " A wool house of this city re¬ 
cently bought iho “clips " of a single Wisconsin 
wool grower, the total weight of which was 
10,300 pounds. The price paid was fifty-six cents 
per pound, making the snug little sum of $5,765, 
Who would not be a farmer.” 
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Opium Culture in Tennessee,— Dr. J. W, Mor¬ 
ton of Nashville, and the Rev. Fountain E. 
Fitts of tho same neighborhood, are said to 
have been engaged for several years in the cul¬ 
tivation of opium in Tennessee, and have suc¬ 
ceeded this season in raising fifty lb seventy-five 
pounds per acre. They obtained their poppy 
seeds from Calcutta and Smyrna, and expect to 
be handsomely repaid for their experimental 
labors. 
Drill for Sowing Mangolds, Turnips, Etc.— 
[ James Dods is informed that we happen to 
know by experience that Emery’s Seed Drill 
01. L. Emery, Albany, N. Y.,) is “adapted to 
I tho sowing of mangolds, turnips, pens, &c." 
There may be others ns good, but we know this 
is a good one. 
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The Chief Clerk or Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, R, T, McLain, and Acting Commissioner 
since the departure ol Gen. < 'apron, is to give 
place, the telegraph announces, to (LB. New¬ 
ton of Philadelphia, who has, we believe, held 
the position before. 
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Ohio Agricultural College—The Ohio Farmer 
says the ©on tract for the erection of the main 
college building has been awarded to Kan- 
macher & Stark or Columbus at $112,480. They 
are to furnish material and complete the build¬ 
ing by Nov. 1, next. 
THE SEASON. 
Weeping Waters, Neb., July 20.—Our spring 
wheat will average about fifteen bushels per 
aero; Iris been damaged very much by chinch 
bugs; fall wheat will gonbout twenty bushels; 
il bus been a powerful success for the past four 
years here. Corn looks well and promises a very 
heavy crop; barley is also very heavy anti pays 
well. Weather cool, and plenty of rain for 
crops.—x. x. x. 
(joinbar, O., July 2«.—The season sn far has 
been very favorable to crops. No storms of any 
consequence vet. Oat crop good. Wheat crop 
moderately good. Corn promising n good crop. 
Pot atoes good. About Ini If done harvesting 
hero. Markets dull. Flour, $7.50(318; wheat, 
$1.23; corn, 60@75o.; green apples, 0(J@>75c.; but¬ 
ter, lIKjlKic.; cheese, 20 c.: eggs, ttMlflo.; old pota¬ 
toes, 50@;60c.; now, $1.75@2. No dairy started 
here yet.- Buckeye. 
Di'Oiiimiowoe, \\ ta., July 26, — Weather very 
warm and dry; no rain for I lie past four weeks, 
but vegetation does not suffer to any great ex¬ 
tent as yet. Harvesting will be pretty much 
over this week; quality of grain very good and 
promises to be abundant in quantity. Potatoes 
noi much Infested by ihe bug; early potatoes, 
of rare quality ibis season, turnout well, and 
bring $1(21.25 per bushel: butler, 10@l2c.; eggs, 
Me.; cheese, 10®18c.; other products quiet at 
present, m. u, 
d "dry, lawn, July 25,—Harvesting nil done 
here; people are now stacking, "'bent, only 
half u crop; barley ihe mime; corn looks well; 
oats are very good. Wheat, 85u.; corn, 28e.; 
oat . 30c.; potatoes. Ijftc*.; bin ter. 15c.; eggs. 10c.; 
farm hands, $20025 per month. First part ol 
the season very warm and dry. Wc had a few 
days, since Ihe 4th, of very hot weather; tlie 
highest point was Off- It is cool and pleasant 
now ; harvest ten days earlier than usual. The 
crop of forage for eat lie is very promising. 
Cows tin; worth from $25 to $40; work oxen 
from $100 to $150; horses from $100 to $200 .—h. 
B. R. 
Manchester, Mich., July 31,—A drouth pre¬ 
vails here; all iu ms since July 3d have been dry 
ones. The character of the corn crop is last, 
being fixed ; in many places it is withering and 
drying up. The Premium Sanford com is a 
failure*. The Treadwell wheat yields 18 to 30 
bushels per aero; White Amber,28 to 33; Diehl, 
in some eases, a little ahead of the Amber. The 
straw is vary heavy, and threshing progresses 
slowly 400 bushels per day for n 10-horse power 
is a good day'a work. The Surprise oats prove 
to be thick hard Shelled, with ■unall meats, ami 
yield 22 bushels iter acre; barb v oats, 31e. to 
15c. bush.; common White,25e. to40c. bush.; ill© 
hitter have a better straw tor feeding than 
either of the former. Early Rose potatoes ure 
of an excellent quality . Il is feared that the 
Colorado beetle will wholly destroy the later 
varieties. Peaches nnd apples continue to fall 
off, and will be mighty scare© it the drouth eon- 
tin ues.— c- T. E. 
East Jnffrey, Cheshire Co., \. II., July 31,— 
The season is cool and dry, very unfavorable for 
the corn nnd liny crops. Potatoes, burly, yats 
and wheat are looking well. Too dry for winter 
rye, nil hough a fair crop will be harvested. 
Pastures are furnishing u good supjrly of feed, 
fully up to Hie average. Huy crop \ cry light, 
but of excellent quality; very solid and nutri¬ 
tious, containing but little water. Ilfiy is sell¬ 
ing out of tbc. field for $25 to $30 per ton. Wost¬ 
ein corn is being delivered here at 85e. per bush. 
New England will want half a mil lion bushels’to 
make up the. deficiency in the hay crop. Owing 
to tliedry weather onr swamp and swale lauds 
nr© better than usual; this, in connection with 
a good potato crop and n good supply of straw 
fro in Ihe cereal grains will be of great service to 
us in the support of our stock I becoming winter. 
Our apple crop is a failure. Pears tire bearing 
well. Strawberry* crop was light; wild berries 
abundant. Tlie currant worm is much less 
troublesome than last year, and the same may 
he said of All fruit destroying worms and insects. 
Potatoes, ryeaud barley worth $1 per bush : but¬ 
ter, 35c. per lb; pork, “cheaper than dirt," 6 ) 4 'c. 
per lb., although htteksfe/* sell at I8@30o.; lard 
the same.—L. X,. p. 
Joneslmrg, Montgomery Co., Mo,, July 25.— 
The weather here for the last fifteen days has 
been very warm and much of the time dry. 
Thermometer ranged 90’ to 98% F., from eight in 
the morning till five in tho evening, with but 
little breeze. Last night a heavy storm passed 
east of us, and it is much cooler; thermometer 
81° at 12 M. The dry season hits injured the liny 
and outs crop materially iu this region; About 
half a crop te realized only. Wheat has turned 
out well. Coni was never larger than now in 
this county, nnd promts©? a heavy yield. The 
potato bug is doing great mischief, and unless 
we got heavy rains soon the crop will be very 
light. The grape crop bids fair to be ft great 
yield. Those interested in bee keeping are re¬ 
alizing large profits, and a lively Interest is mani¬ 
fested iu thisdiroction. But little attention lias 
been paid 10 choice varieties of fruit, but tlie 
many orchards of young trees look thrifty and 
henll h.v, and l lie older ones a re “ loaded down 
of apples, especially, there will be a large yield, 
and this wiJI be true of pouches Where they have 
had “half a chance." Borne are ripe and on sale. 
Poultry is being brought to market at $3@3 per 
dozen; eggs, 10c. I notice some Black and White 
New-Yorker isawakeuing an interest in m . ln " 
of these things lo which so little attention h , 
heretofore been paid.—j. w. w. 
PUtBflrld, Merrt mac € 0 ., pi. IJ^ July 17 .. 
though corn planting and wheat 80 wj ns ' Wc . * 
done earlier in Ihe season than any y cnr sjn e 
1846. with the single exception of 186ft, yet owin° 
to the very dry weather in May and June these 
two crops are not more forward than in the mV 
jority of seasons intervening between 1846 and 
the present lime. Hay crop very light; not 
one-third of an average crop, except or i,,\ v 0 
intervale farms, where the crop will equal that 
of Inst year, which was considered about two- 
thirds or an average one. Pastures that would 
| easily carry through a dozen head of neat stock 
eight years ago will not now furnish herbage 
for more than half the number of correspond¬ 
ing size. With the exception of strawberries 
there has been and promises to be an abundance 
of all small fruits. The apple crop will be very 
small. The high prices paid for early potatoes 
last year induced everyone to raise l hem tlj j s 
season. Those first, in ttie market sold for *3 
per bushel, while they are a drug at 90c. now. 
It being so dry cows, heifers nnd steers i mv o 
been rushed inro the market and prices are ] ow 
—ranging from 7c. to fie. per pound, dressed 
weight. Wo are having occasional rains now 
The older lambs sold Tor $5 per head; since the 
4th of the present month the prevailing price 
has been from $3 to $4. The outlook for hay 
being so poor the majority of farmers sold their 
calves to the butchers nt unremutieraLive prices 
—the figures even got. so low ns 3c. per pound 
live weight. Not a very good year for bees.- 
o. r. d. 
Da Quoin III., July 17,-Wenther hot, with a 
few showers, enough to start vegetation to 1 |fo 
again, but, not enough to wet 1 lie ground through 
since Inst March. July 8 Ut can be set down ns 
the hottest day ol the season. Thermometer 
75’ at sunrfec; 101 at 1 P, M„ in shade; 101 at 4 
I’. M.. and 97' at sunset. Harvesting all done 
here. Wheat nearly an average. Oats very 
light—some fields not worth cutting. Winter 
©illsgood. Corn in some localities very good, 
never better; very poor in some, never poorer! 
First, irredeemably injured by the drouth and 
then tho chinch bugs taking what was left-not 
leaving a stalk on the ground over which ihey 
had passed. Huy very light, but generally secur¬ 
ed in good condition. Gardens very poor. Pota¬ 
toes, hardly enough for seed and the hugs; have 
dug the first crop of our Early Rose and planted 
them over again. Apples scarce. Peaches, not 
more Until hulf a crop; not much in tested with 
cureullo this year. Wild goose plums a good 
paying crop. Grapes about, quarter of a crop; 
many otic and some two-year-old vines were 
killed to the ground. Small fruits did not make 
us rich bore this season. Fruit ami forest trees 
are making a small growth on account ol the 
sevot 0 freeze April 23d, when they were nearly 
in full lear. and iho hot, dry weather following 
through May and June. Wool growers are 
smiling; jt is selling hero at home to Western 
manufactories, without any grading, for <i*j@70c. 
per lb. So much for home industries.— a. d. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Excursion of Ohio 8tnti* Ilort. Soe.— Ere this 
paper readies our renders, IhisSocletv will have 
held its summer moetion and excursion in the 
vicinity of rievehmdatid East.Rockport. Doubt¬ 
less there will be a good tune and werogrpi Hint 
we could not have received the not ico in time to 
have placed it before our readers sooner. The 
Boekiy holds another meeting m Springfield, 
Wednesday evening. Sept. 27. ut, Hut time of the 
> tote Fair. I In* meeting l« for t hoespeeiuI pur¬ 
pose at inspecting new and mi., t. uils tluu mav 
be presented. 
Premium Lists Received, That ol Hie Mont¬ 
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See y, Dayton, O.Also that of theQueeusCo., 
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N. \ ..Hint o| Sieitheo Co., N. V., Ag. Soe., 
Reuben E. Robie, Hec’j, Ball), N. V .Thai ot 
the Newburgh Bay Hort. Soe., |>, A. Scotl,Sec’y. 
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