“ doubleflr&t-class ” freight. and for which they 
charge accordingly. And they cau transport it. 
to Chicago by teams at about half the charges 
made by the railways. For Instance, Irom Os¬ 
wego, Kendall Co., a distance ef perhaps 45 
miles, more or lcs3,5.000 pounds of this freight, 
each way by rail, costs $45. Two teams carried 
the same freight each way at an expense of 
$23.50. The result, is that “ teaming ” is coming 
iuto rogue again, and railways will have to 
compete with them. 
we hare made no apology; and the silly attempt 
of the Western Rural to make capital by mis¬ 
representing the Ruiur. New-Yorker goes far 
to prove that It U too demagoguish In Its ten¬ 
dencies to bo honest. It has a miserable way 
of confessing a humiliating exposure of Its own 
ignorance or Insincerity. We are sorry to be 
compelled to such a conclusion, as it has forced 
us Into, concerning Itself. 
PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
stoves that are uunocwwary and wearing and 
tearing nearly four-fifths more kitchen appa¬ 
ratus than they need to, when three of these 
women, at the most, could do all the requisite 
cooking, If It was all ooncentmted In one kitch¬ 
en, furnished with suitable appliances, and do 
It better. There la, aa a consequence, at least 
four-fifths more of worry, labor, not to say 
fret, than there need" be to render these five fam¬ 
ilies comfortable so far os the Indoor work Is 
ooncoruod. 
And so it goes I It Is waste 1 waste 1 waste 1 
notwithstanding all the economy these good 
people practlco--w3ste of capital, time, labor, 
machinery, comfort, peaoo of rulnd, vitality and 
prosperity, because there la not this concentra¬ 
tion and co-operation. There la no mistake 
about It. I um glad tomo here are beginning, in 
a small way it la true, to recognize something 
of this. As an Instance, one man does most of 
the mowing for some neighborhoods. Men who 
own machines let them stand In the barn, pay 
74 cents per acre for mowing, and use their own 
team and labor to secure the crop. They find 
It pays. Other truths will dawn In time. The 
Bubjcct Is by no means exhausted, and I shall 
rcour to It again provided I am not lured to for¬ 
get it by the delights which came of “ going-a- 
fisliing," which I am going to do within an hour, 
provided the boys have got worms and “•Dob¬ 
son" enough for halt. 
▲ NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
r». D. T. WOORE, 
Ooadattiag Editor and 3r , u.'blii*lier, 
“ Counselor* for the Uranges."—The Boston 
Cultivator prints the article under this head in 
our Issue of July ID, entire, and comments at 
length. It says; 
The same tricks have been played on farmers 
in this section, within a few miles of the * Hub.’ 
and patrons, too, of the agricultural press, If 
not of * husbandry.’ When such a farmer came 
to our office and’told his doleful story of now 
he lmd been defrauded, etc., we asked bjra, 
‘ How came you to > ign such a note V ’—like the 
above, which bad got into n hank In Salem, said 
farmer having been notified ol the fact—ami he 
said, * Well, 1 think lie had a power over me !' 
Ay, thought, wc, a power indeed! but. it was that 
only and only that of sharper over sharp less, 
i he former having the power to make the latter 
believe white 1* black or black is white, Just as 
should for the time being beat promote the 
sharper s Interest in victimizing him whom be 
had Hi his power. It is the desire and hopa of 
buying cheap that leads so many farmers every¬ 
where, both East and West, to invest In tho 
promises of these swindling venders of worth¬ 
less wares. 
The machine that the swindlers in Eastern 
Massachusetts otfeied for sale, or rather the 
right for manuf.-c turing and using, referred to 
above. It was claimed, would mow. reap, rake, 
pitch, lift rocks from their beds, dig po atoe?, 
otc., etc.. Which, of course, sahl larmers be¬ 
lieved or else they would not have invested 
therein to the amount signified In the notes to 
which they severally affixed their signatures. 
So lung ti.cn as men will thQs suffer tin tuselves 
to be victimized, Just so long those fraudulent 
victimize! - * will travel the country, seeking 
whom they may defraud. So lone a* there la a 
market for ‘ wooden nutmegs’ Went, so long 
will they continue to lie sent thither for sale, 
for there is no win :lut for them East. When the 
demand for wooden nutmegs and wooden cu- 
Ct mher seeds out West ceases, tho manufac¬ 
turers of such wares will change their business, 
for such men only engage In what they deem 
will pay. 
Make Note*.—All soil cultivators—especially 
those now - engaged In the field, Orchard or gar- 
den-shoukl "mako n note" of every item of 
value, whether a new discovery or the result of 
experiment, that would be likely to prove In¬ 
teresting to their fellow rurallsts, and ere long 
(when at leisure) communicate the same for 
publication. t)uo of the most valuable features 
of the Agricultural Press consists in the facts 
and suggestions furnished by the practical soil 
culturists of the country. Will our friends 
“ make a note ” of this not very original sugges¬ 
tion arid communicate stich facts and discov¬ 
eries as they may dovelop for the benefit of the 
readers of this and other journals? 
0HA8. D, BRAGD0N, ANDREW B. FULLER, 
A DDOvinUi Ktllrora. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D„ Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Editok oh nil Dxi'aktmim of Burn- Hiamuttiur. 
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—The N. Y. Hci aUl says“ Iowa Grangers are 
now abandoning tho system of co-operative 
stores. They have tried the experiment to their 
satisfaction, and find it impracticable and un¬ 
profitable." We have seen no Intimation in the 
Iowa papers of such dissatisfaction with the 
co-operative store experiment; but. if it is true, 
it does not surprise us, since the same or a sim¬ 
ilar experiment was tried throughout the East 
fifteen years ago, and we don't know of a singlo 
ruse of satisfactory success. If our readers do, 
we shall bo glad to hear of It. 
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There has been a good deal of severe criti¬ 
cism expended upon this College and its man¬ 
agement by Pennsylvanians and by tho Press of 
.hat State. 8ome of these criticisms we have 
copied. The Practical Farmer, edited by Pab- 
cnAJ.i. Morris* has also commented unfavor¬ 
ably upon the College management. Last March 
the Penn. State Ag. Soc. appointed a committee 
consisting of George Beroner, George Rhey, 
Paschall Morris, Amos Karp and George 
Blight to visit this institution and report upon 
Its condition. Only Messrs. Morris and Blight 
have performed this duty, and in t he July Prac¬ 
tical Farmer we Uml an editorial by Mr. Morris 
(concurred in by Mr. BLIQUTJ wherein are given 
tne result of hla personal observations, be visit¬ 
ing the College with strong prejudices against 
It, We have not space for tho article entire, 
but tho following extracts will show that Mr. 
Morris has changed his mind, lie says: 
Every place was freely opened to us within 
doors or on tho farm. Wc mingled freely with 
tliestudonts, attended their recitations, and the 
conclusions arrived ai were that however defi¬ 
cient the management may heretofore have 
been the Institution under the present regime 
is in a flourishing condition and Worthy the 
support of the people of the State. How lur 
those agricultural ttollogds In any of the States 
are u success as regard* carrying out the Inten¬ 
tions of Congress ui making the land grant, to 
a* to introduce on Improved agricultural system 
and educate an Intelligent class of young men 
lor ilio business of practical farming, remains 
to beseem i but that Dr. Calder and his talented 
corps of professors are doing ell l hey can under 
the circumstances, and i hat. they ace reasonably 
eucce.fc.ful, wo have no doubt. 
Defects, radical defects in the plan of the 
building, which never should have occurred, 
are beiog remedied. Close ;o.d lark staircases 
are being opened to the light. Windows have 
boon opened, admitting tur and light to the 
corridors, which wore formerly dark and 
gloomy, so that the inside arrangements ore far 
bettor and more convenient than we had antici¬ 
pated. Wo looked in v.tln for the crack iu the 
main wall, of which we had heard. 
The locution of the fmm i* in Nittany Valley, 
tho counterpart of many similar beautiful val¬ 
leys which abound among the mountains of 
Pennsylvania. It lm.3 u Strong m.d sill! lime¬ 
stone soil, specially adapted for wheat, mid 
having no water on It, and not calculated fur 
permanent pustwago like m ny of our lulls in 
On ester county. It lacks one Important element 
of a model and experimental farm. Wc were 
pleased to see, however, on the farm and 
through the section luxuriant flelde of clover. 
Tho growth of this, and plowing down as a fer¬ 
tilizer, would seem to be Indicated as a ready 
and effectual means of improvement . We could 
not divest ourselves of the idea that such soils 
by growing clover could be laid down in perma¬ 
nent grasses, and thus be more available as 
stock larins. We have never seen finer fields of 
clover In any Bcction. Corn followed by \\ heat 
the next season, and allowing the land to lay 
fallow, without an intermediate crop, would 
seem to be the common practice. Wc saw in 
various places our Kentucky blue grass 
prater. ttie) growing spontaneously, 
The new era of the College stems to us to 
have commenced with Dr. (.'aider and his pres¬ 
ent corps of professors. They have not been in 
office two years, have accomplished great re¬ 
sults in this short time, aud, considering their 
Inheritance of debt and odium attached to 
years of failure, arc until led how, we think, to 
the support of tne people. 
The female branch of the Institution, so tar 
as we could see, was also under good manage¬ 
ment, but our time was too limited to give full 
attention to every department. 
Kansas Agricultural College.—We recently 
published a resolution of the Board of Regents 
of this College, asking for the resignation of the 
entire faculty, agents and eraf loyea. Tho Kan¬ 
sas Farmer of August 1, says at tbo mooting Of 
the Board July Its, tho entire faculty were re¬ 
elected, but Dr. Denison declined a re-elec¬ 
tion. The Farmer BayB:— ll Wc arc not advised 
of the exact status of affairs, but we have some 
reason to believe that all is not satisfactory.’’ 
PUBLICATION OFFICES: 
No. 5 Beekman Street, New York City, and No. 82 
Buffalo Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
“ Tree* Bearing Human Fruit.”—A dispatch 
to a dally paper, concerning a meeting of the 
farmers of Scott Co., III., says of a speech de¬ 
livered by S. M. Smith, Secretary of tho State 
Fanners' Association: 
“The address woe very long and heated) and 
was listened to with eager attention. Ho eon- 
traided the hovels In which hundreds of farm¬ 
ers were forced to live with the palaces owned 
by railroad monopolists and middlemen, and 
prophesied that auay would come, If other rem¬ 
edies tailed, when if the farmers were hood¬ 
winked and swindled as they had been, he und 
his boy* und thousand' of other farmers end 
their buys would ride some of the villains out 
of the State, aud that many a tree would hear 
human fruit, lie believes, however, some other 
remedy would be found. The audience ap¬ 
plauded the sentiment," 
Tho farmers of the vVost better lock up such 
a lunatic, lie will do them and their cause ir¬ 
reparable Injury. No Blend of Agriculture or 
of Agriculturists, unless he is a monomaniac, 
would utter such sentiment*. Tht* man’s head 
is getting turned with the notoriety he nos ac¬ 
quired. He will do more to break down what 
he has helped to build up t han any ten of the 
farmer's' worst enemies can do, if he goes about 
the country ranting at this rate. It Is too bad. 
We are sorry. 
KtriUr among Hamm* Wheat-Growers.—The 
Douglas Co., Kan., wheat-growers assert “That 
It is Impossible for us to produce arid market 
wheat lor less than $1.25 per bushel," and there¬ 
fore have resolved not to “ sell ourprosent crop 
Of first-class wheat for loss than $1.50 per busb- 
ej," and that if they " cannot secure a fair and 
remunerative price for our wheat in this mark¬ 
et, wo will seek a market abroad." 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1873. 
VACATION LETTERS, 
A Working Editor Out of Harness. 
There is the same complaint in the country 
there was two years ago concerning 
Hired Help. 
It la asserted that things grow worse and 
worse, and available labor less and less. The 
young men don’t come around to hire out. Tho 
girls have to be hunted up; the farmer, when 
the wife or daughters “ break down" in conse¬ 
quence of their exhausting duties, having to 
lido all over town for two or three days at a 
time to find a girl who Is willing to “ work out," 
and then, ten chances to one, it exhausts more 
vitality to watch, direct and control her than it 
would for the wife to do the work herself. It 
Is a serious problem. O, for an automatic dish¬ 
washer 1 Ditto cooking apparatusI Dittoscrub¬ 
bing, scouring, washing a'd ironing machine 1 
Ditto, bed-making apparatus! Ac., &*:. 0, for 
a hired man that has some sense ox responsibil¬ 
ity, gumption, faithfulness I &c., &c. This is 
the burthen of whut I hear. Have 1 any sugges¬ 
tions to make? Notone! I’ve been watohing 
things, and can’t devise any mode or remedy 
worth patenting. The only one I can see that 
looks feasible Is that there shall farmers enough 
abandon t he business to enable the balance to 
offer wages that shall command all the good 
help needed. I said “ the ouly one!” No! 
There is one other which 1 expect to Sbe adopt¬ 
ed, In some form or other, if things continue as 
they are. What is K ? 
Combination of Capital and Co-operation 
among Farmers, 
There you have It! Want of capital is now 
the chief embarrassment, combined with a 
knowledge of how best to use it in farming. 
Labor here is too much diffused—spread over 
too great an area. There is too much capital 
wasted in paying taxes on unproductive lands, 
In buying superfluous machinery. Capital lacks 
t he concentration, consolidation and direction 
that would bring better results and more com¬ 
fort, leisure aud intelligence to those who ope¬ 
rate it. Here are five mowing machines on as 
many farms where one would do every particle 
of the mowing and when It ought, to be done. 
Here are as many reapers that lie idle eleven- 
twelfths of the year when one is all that is 
needed to do the work. Hero are five sets of 
dairy apparatus where only one is needed. Here 
are five farmers, with auy as many more sous, 
and perhaps six or seven hired men, struggling 
along in the hardest and most laborious kind of 
a way. Isolated from each other, half-doing the 
work because they attempt to do too much to 
do it well, who, if the) united their efforts aud 
concentrated their labor, and got rid of their 
unproductive laud, would live easier, make 
more money and bo happier. Here are five to 
ten women cooking 15 distinct meals per day, 
running five kitchen fires, burning up four times 
the amount of wood they ougLt to, using four 
RURAL BREVITIES, 
Geo. Brown, Brantford, Out,, is to sell 65 
Short-Horns Sept. 18. 
llUHRARD Bradley, onoof the earliest mem¬ 
bers of the Connecticut Poultry Society, is dead. 
Our Home Journal and the Ruial South¬ 
land, both published in New Orleans, have con¬ 
solidated. 
More than one thousand mortgagee on grow¬ 
ing crops have been recorded in the probate 
office at Butaw, Alabama. 
The farmers of the Blue and Kansas River 
Valley have inaugurated market fairs. Don’t 
yet know how they succeed. 
Tub Ea*t St. Louis (Mo.) stock yards embrace 
564 acres of laud, part Inclosed. Present capa¬ 
city, 18.000 cattle and 15,000 hugs. 
It is estimated that. Alabama pays $60,000 000 
p -r annum to the West for corn, meat, hay, &c., 
which might be produced at home. 
During the thirty days beginning July 29, 
$180,000 have been and will be trotted for at 
Cleveland, Buffalo, Utica und Springfield, Mass. 
The forthcoming sale of Mr. S. Campbell’s 
Short-Horn herd is at.ractlng great attention 
among herdsmen in both this country aud Eu- 
l’ope. 
Mr. A. C. Stevenson, President of the Na¬ 
tional Short-Horn Breeders' Association, sells 
69 head of Bbort-Horns August 13, at Green cat¬ 
tle, Ind. 
It is stated that Dr. Gregory, Regent of the 
Illinois Industrial University, lias been dis¬ 
placed or resigned, and Prof. Shatxuck ap¬ 
pointed Regent pro lam. 
Mu. McCandless, for two years Professor of 
Agriculture lo Cornell University, has been ap¬ 
pointed by ilie Ontario Government principal 
of the Agricultural College at Gudiph. 
Sixty-six cut of eighty-five sheep were killed 
by a single stroke of lightning while lyinc in 
the shade of a burr-oak tree on the farm of W M. 
Brown, in the township of Petifield, Mich., a 
short time since. 
WALTER HANDY, Lexington, Ky., July 30, 
sold 45 Short-Horn cows and heifers at an aver¬ 
age price of $308.67, and 17 bulls at an average 
price of S162.94. The highest price paid tor a 
bull was $500; for a cow, *36G. 
The Union Pacific Railroad Company sola 
during the month of Jul y, 1873, acres 
of land, at au average price ot $0,732-10 per acre, 
amounting to $138^677723. Sales averaged 108.42 
acres 1 o each porchaser. Total Bales t j Aug. L 
1873. 756,644.57 acres, at an average price of $4.37 
5.10 per acre, amounting to $3,313,495.53. 
Parvln’a Si cam Plow.—A steam plow made 
at Tarmlncton, 111., was exhibited at some of 
the agricultural fair* of that State last fall. A 
new machine that la somewhat different from 
that exhibited then, though the principal fea¬ 
tures are the same, was tested on the fourth of 
July at Farmington. The test Is regarded by a 
correspondent of the Prairie Farmer u-s satis¬ 
factory in the highest degree. The trial was 
made cn clover sod. A gang of eight thirteen- 
inch plows was drawn readily with fifty pounds 
of steam, and made fair headway with only 
forty pounds of steam. Tho machine was 
managed with perfect ease In going forward, 
backing or turning round. The company are so 
well satisfied with the results that they Intend 
to manufacture machines for sale. It is called 
the Parvln Steam Motor. Tho next question to 
be decided is the economy of the apparatus, 
compared with the ordinary mode of plowing. 
To test this Mr. Parvin has contracted to plow- 
150 acres of laud at once, and will keep an ac¬ 
curate account of all the expenses of the work. 
Patrons of Husbandry and Politics.— The 
Dodge Co. (Wls.) Patrons of Husbandry, having 
issued a call for a State Convention of Grang¬ 
ers, to meet at Milwaukee, Ang. 21, for the pur¬ 
pose of nominating a State ticket, the Execu¬ 
tive Committee of the State Grange has adopted 
a resolution repudiating that action. The offi¬ 
cial circular of the Committee 6ay»The 
State Grange considers this action very unwise, 
and counsels all Its patrons to beware of the 
machinations of those who desire thus to vio¬ 
late one of the fundamental principles of the 
Order, by entering into the turmoil of political 
strife." Good for the State Grange of Wiscon¬ 
sin! Let It educate Patrons to comprehend 
their political duties and interests; but let It 
not surrender Its power to do good by joining, 
as an organization, in any political movement, 
whereby It becomes a partisan machine. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The Western Rural and ihe “ Counsellors for 
the Granges.”—We are very sorry to see that 
the Western Rural, which is frequently a sen¬ 
sible paper, has not the good sense to publish 
the evidence we adduced (In our issue of July 12) 
that it “ Did not know what It was talking 
about, or else wauttd to tickle somebody,” nor 
accept and adopt our advice to make the swin¬ 
dled farmers and Patrons of Husbandry of 
Iowa “Counsellor for the Granges." Evidently, 
the Western Rural lacks the candor and manli¬ 
ness which we had credited it with possessing. 
It professes (in a most unoandld manner) to 
" aocept. our apology for the farmers of the 
West." Having said nothing of or to the " farm¬ 
ers of tho West" for which we should apologize, 
BUSINESS NOi'lOBS 
The best use you can make of seventy-five cents 
will be to buy a game Ol Avilude, the most Instruct¬ 
ive and delightful game ever published. If your deal¬ 
ers have not got It send the money to West & Lee. 
Worcester, Muss., who will forward it by mall, I>ost- 
pald. . 
•• The hem ot its class.”— Boston Bvmlnv Transcript. 
Teams vs. Railways.—In Kendall, Du Page 
and adjoining countries iu Illinois, merchants 
and farmers who deal in aud sell butter, eggs 
and other products that railways class as 
