PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
threw a pinch of if. Into almost every garden ho 
passed—threw the &eed over the fence, feeling 
convinced that the plants when once recognized 
would not afterwards lie banished. His efforts 
were rewarded; and now for the few pence 
worth of seed I hue distributed he is enabled to 
ride miles In the midst of sweet odor. Up adds 
t hat if be used a public path he should, so far 
as sweet annual* are concerned, take care of 
himself. If others would do the same t hing we 
might have miles of ozone, pure oxygen, and 
health and happiness in place of the unsightly 
weeds t hat now disgrace onr public highways. 
New V’ork roadsides are not grazed. Whyshould 
they not bloom with odorous flowers? 
the flsh food. It has been found essential to 
the objects in view to thoroughly examine the 
feeding grounds by dredging operations, and 
Prof. Verrilii is considered an authority oa 
such matters. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
The drain Trade in England.—English pa¬ 
pers of date May 26, speak of the grain trade as 
being Arm at high rat.ee. The weather for the 
week had been unfavorable, botli in England 
and on the Continent. The main reliance is 
Upon America, both In England and France— 
the latter having exported in 1872 until she has 
a short supply. The truth is,both England and 
France arc short, and the prospect for a good 
market for American grain during the next two 
months is good. 
Conducting Kctitor mid Publisher 
CHA8. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
Aseot'iute Editors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Edith* OK Till D*i*aiitm*nt or Smtur Huhbamihv. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., little Falls, N. Y„ 
Editor or thu Dki'Aiiimicivt nr Dairy Hcabamdry. 
Honey Bct-s by .Mall.—Tito Assistant Post¬ 
master General having decided that bow can¬ 
not bo forwarded through the mails, It Is under¬ 
stood that General linn, eh, as attorney for the 
bee-keepers, ha.* appealed the case to the Post¬ 
master General, and the case is now pending. 
The objection to admitting thorn to the mails 
Is that tliuy sling the postmasters, and the 
honey leaks out and soils other packages. But 
t he bee-keepers claim that it was not necessary 
to open the package and let t he boos out where 
they could sting that the) could bo seen 
through the wire cloth In which they are in- 
rloBed, and that thorn i* no need of sending 
honey with bees so shipped—that a lump of 
sugar answers as well, it having been repeatedly 
tried. Properly enveloped in wire cloth, and 
the sugar and not honey supplied, we seo no 
reason why lines may not be sent by mall as 
well as plants. 
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Butler anil Cheese Exchange in New York.— 
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their business. Tho following are the officers 
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Tho Yew Jersey f'omilliNsIoncr* to Vienna, 
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Milk Tubes or Tent Openers.—S, F. G. Is in¬ 
formed that there are tubes made and used by 
veterinarians for opening t he obstructed teats 
of cows; but we cannot inform our corres¬ 
pondent where they are to be obtained. 
RURAL BREVITIES 
Salem, Oregon, is to have a steam plow man¬ 
ufactory. 
It is said asporting paper is soon to be started 
in Chicago. 
A three-year-old colt was lately sold at 
Ticonderoga, N. Y., for $7,500. 
The next New England Fair is to bo held at 
Mystic Park, near Boston. Sept . 2-5. 
ONLY 12.A5 per cent, of Hu? Inhabitants of 
Massachusetts are engaged in Agriculture. 
Patrons of Husbandry have Increased in 
Kansas within the last year from 000 to 6,<KX). 
A colon v of Friends, some thousands ill 
number, propose to settle in Western Texas. 
"A Subscriber" is informed that Burr & 
Suydam'b Catalogue Is an English publication. 
Tin; Texas Paclllo Railroad lias a land grant 
of sixty-eight million acres of the best land in 
Texas. 
The maple sugar yield In Northern New En¬ 
gland tills year is estimated at only about one- 
fourth of last year’s crop. 
Fall wheat throughout Canada is most seri¬ 
ously damaged. Much lias been plowed up and 
replaced with spring wheat. 
The Iowa Agricultural College can not ac¬ 
commodate all tlio students who offer. They 
now have 380. Last year there \ ere 250. 
"The Perfecl Horse’’—how to breed, train, 
shoe and drive him by Rev. W. H. II. Murray, 
is soon to be published by J. It. Osgood & Co., 
Boston. 
Frederick Law Olmsted has accepted the 
commission offered him by the Government to 
superintend the embellishment of the Capitol 
grounds. 
M. B. Ratkham, Paincsvlllo, Ohio, has cut 
down his peach orchard of 3,000 trees, nearly all 
of them having succumbed to the severity of 
last winter. 
Col. W. S. Kino of Minnesota, has sold to 
Messrs. Chapman and Carr of California, ton 
Hhort-Horns, including the bull Old 8am and 
two imported cows, for $10,000 gold. 
A CAT and bird show lias been opened in Glas¬ 
gow, Scotland. The rat depart ment is divided 
into thirty classes and many of the animals are 
described as remarkable for their size and 
beauty. 
A farmer says it is safe enough for all prac¬ 
tical purposes to calculate that 512 cubic feet of 
hay in mow will weigh a ton. He recently test¬ 
ed the mutter and found the rule remarkably 
correct. 
A. It. N., Brownsville, Texas, asks us to state 
to her RURAL friends that she lias been pre¬ 
vented by sickness from returning their many 
favors i he past ten months, but remembers and 
will remember every one. 
The farmers of Carroll Co., Ill., in convention 
assembled, recently, forcibly resolved that the 
“ increase of Congressional salaries in these 
hard times is an infernal outrage upon the 
working people of tho country." Their heads 
are level. 
Mu. Geo. E. White, the well known dealer 
in fertilizers, advocates a greater division of 
special manures—such as the applications of 
potash to potatoes, clover, tobacco, etc.; of 
SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1873. 
The lMiiI«<lcl|iliii* Outi-militl.—The New York 
Tribune of June 0, has this paragraph :—"There 
is another complaint that the Philadelphia Cen¬ 
tennial is in t he bunds of a Ring of Pennsylva¬ 
nia politicians. ’Tile Georgia newspapers assert 
that the Commissioners from that State, who 
were appoint ed by t he notorious Gov. Bullock, 
are not residents of Georgia but of Pennsylva¬ 
nia, and therefore cannot properly represent 
the former State. This is tho second complaint, 
of the kind that lias been made. Although In 
the case of Indiana it has bheu met by the 
resignation of the Commissioner and the ap¬ 
pointment of a resident of tile State, yet this 
was not done till considerable comment had 
been made in the public press. It seems strange 
that Such cases should occur at all, and their 
repetition will load to a natural suspicion that 
there is some truth In the assertion that the 
Exhibition is in the hands of a Ring." 
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Imports nml Exports—We have received from 
the Bureau of Statistics the following atato- 
ment:—Imports the month ending January 31, 
1872, $55,304,708; domestic exports, (specie value,) 
$61,011,744; foreign exports, $1,832,500. The im¬ 
ports during the month ending Jan. 31, 1873, 
wore $51,003,088; domestic exports, (specie val¬ 
ues,) $48,87b,869 ; foreign imports. $1,271,767. 
Imports the seven months ending Jan 31, 1873, 
$379,172,501; domestic exports, (specie values,) 
$329,306,257; foreign exports, $16,970,762. Im¬ 
ports during the same period of 1872, $338,934, 
868; domestic exports, (specie values,) $274,010, 
815; foreign exports, $13,093,880, The total value 
of foreign commodities remaining jti the ware¬ 
houses of the United States, Jan. 31, 1873, was 
$68,995,690. against $70,426,185, January 31, 1872. 
Making allowance for the difference in the 
warehouse account, the Imports are in excess 
id the combined values of the domestic and 
foreign exports, duringt.be seven months ended 
January 31, 1873, to the amount of $.85,335,731, 
while for the seven months ended January 31, 
1872, the imports exceeded the exports by $28,- 
218,783. 
Economy In Children's Shoe*—Has been se¬ 
cured, ns many judicious parents are aware, by 
1 he Introduction of metallic tips. Shoes made 
with these tips are very durable, lasting, it is 
claimed, two to three times longer than those 
without; thus, while adding only five cents to 
the cost, they Increase the value from one to 
two dollars per pair—an item worth heeding. 
Sensible parents should not remain indifferent 
to the merits of metallic-tipped shoes, for they 
are not only very economical, but look much 
better than protruding toes, and arc also much 
more comfortable. Their failure to avail them¬ 
selves of this mode of reducing shoe bills is 
probably from the lack of their attention being 
called to the matter—which we now do for the 
benefit of all interested. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES 
. “ Dead Ilea ” Dead.—Wo are rejoiced that 
the progre < c'v.lu. ition is fast crushing out 
the not'.<n that it is e ther honorable or reput¬ 
able fi-r any man to - ’t something Tor nothing 
—that, it is any one’s d y to give without com¬ 
pensation, or any 0110 ’s privilege live with¬ 
out. earning a living. When our civilization 
becomes more perfect, no loafer, gambler, men¬ 
dicant, or other person who has no visible means 
of support, will lie permit,ted to haunt our 
streets, loaf in public places, or play the drone 
in any way. Such persons will be at once ar¬ 
rested and compelled lo work put whore there 
is work for them to do. Then (lie industrious 
ami economical will not have to bo taxed enor¬ 
mous sums to support “ charitable institu¬ 
tions,” nor to feed the hungry and clothe the 
naked, who are made hungry and naked through 
indolence and dissipation of those who are 
bound by all natural laws to labor for 1 heir sup¬ 
port. We are led to say this by the gratifying 
announcement t hat at a recent meeting of rail¬ 
way managers in Ohio ago, it was resolved, unan¬ 
imously, to cancel all outstanding passes at t ho 
end of tliis month, and to refuse to issue any 
more after that date. This order is absolute, 
except with regard to tlie passage of employes 
over roads with which they are connected, and 
except in cases where roads are compelled by 
existing contracts to grant pusses. Clergymen 
arc no longer to be allowed half-fare tickets, 
and railroad officers arc no longer to exchange 
passes with each other. The roads upon which 
this desirable reform is to lie established are 
the Chicago and Alton, tlic Burlington, the 
North-Western, the Illinois Central, the St. ! 
Paul, the Bock Island, and Llic Ohio and Mis- 
iVHiionul Agricultural Congress. — We have 
carefully read Urn proceedings of this body, 
which recently met. at Indianapolis. Like its 
preceding session, at St. Louis, last year, there 
was a great deal said and very little done. 
How far its Influence will go to effect reforms 
and accomplish results which seem to be re¬ 
garded so desirable, is very uncertain. The 
general temper of the body seems to have been 
conservative; but the members refused to ask 
any favors of railways! This probably made 
railway officials feel bad insulted, perhaps. 
Take tho proceedings as a whole, they were 
IMn— that is a good word! We imagine the 
men who attended this Congross, asking them¬ 
selves, after they get home, Cui bona? We 
should really like some one of them to write us 
his answer to that question! 
The Notable Southern Man of whom we give 
u portrait and biographical sketch on llrst page 
of this paper Col, Jan. H. Powell of Alabama 
-is evidently entitled to honor and distinction. 
He is a representative Industrial Man. and as 
such is worthy of imitation, not only by young 
men in the South but all parts of the country. 
The sketch of Ij is life is full of interest to those 
who are striving to rise in the world by their 
own unaided industry, pluck and perseverance. 
Whother located in the East or West, North or 
South, let every young man read the sketch and 
remember the lesson it Imparts. 
The Work of the Fish Commissioners.- The 
joint expedition of Prof, Baird, United States 
Fish Commissioner, and Prof. Verrill, the 
Naturalist, of Yale College, has beeu located 
for this season in Casco Bay, with headquarters 
on Peak's Island, off tho coast of Maine. The 
Fisli Commission was originally established to 
investigate the causes of the decrease of the 
various kinds of edible fish along the coast, 
with a view of restoration; as the cause is sup¬ 
posed to be dependent in a great measure upon 
New Way of Distributing Seeds.—Here is an 
idea! Let our readers take hold of it! An 
English gentleman, whoso residence was on the 
outskirts of a large town, and who had to pass 
many gardens, said a whiff of the fragrance of 
Mignonette, here and there, determined him to 
have more of It. Consequently, the following 
spring, armed with a few ounces of seed, he 
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