PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT 
Professor of Agriculture, and the new Board 
is resolved to have one, at the expense of 
Latin and Oreek, if necessary. An effort Is to 
be made to secure Dr. Manly Milks of Mich. 
Ag. College. A committee has been appointed 
to correct and amend the course of study, and 
so to arrange it that hereafter every’ student 
will have to study one or more branches rela¬ 
ting to agriculture and the mechanic arts. 
the most display, medals have been given to 
fifty exhibitors—to about one of every three of 
the competitors. The discussion of merit and 
the decision of the awards will conclude on 
Monday, the 18th instant, and the pronounce¬ 
ment be made next day, as stated. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
RURAL ROTES AND ftUERI 
Management of Insane Asylums. - VVo know 
sufficient of Insane Asylums from those oi our 
own acquaintance who have been inmates, and 
from published reports of investigating com¬ 
mittees to Know that there Is Indeed In this 
country some such means of communication 
with tho outside world or the authorities as Is 
provided hy the Belgian Government. The Bel¬ 
gian Government has recently ordered securely 
locked letter boxes to bo placed In all the In¬ 
sane Asylums of the country, public or private, 
In positions where they will he easily accessible 
to all tlic Inmates. They are designed to allow 
complaints and suggestions to bo made to tho 
authorities In a way Independent of any of the 
officers or attendants. No one connected with 
tho institution can have access to them. They 
are in charge of the Proou/feUT dv ROtOf I he dis¬ 
trict. ami the letters they contain arc taken to 
him weekly for examination. The complaints 
made are investigated, and if any one claims to 
he sane, he Is ordered to be examined by modi* 
cal experts. Abuses are corrected. The sys¬ 
tem exerts a wholesome influence, and tends to 
secure proper management In all its details. 
Hallway Complication*. — The Chicago Tri¬ 
bune says“ The Railroad Commissioners of 
Illinois have given an opinion that the pro rata 
principle of the new Railroad law must be ap¬ 
plied to freight shipped from other States after 
It reaches the borders of Illinois, whether it he 
tn t/raruntu across the State, or destined for any 
given point within the State. At the same time, 
information comas from Dcs Moines of an opin¬ 
ion shortly to he announeet^by one of the 
Courts of Towa, to the effect that freight eon- 
tracta made in Iowa to any point in Illinois, 
over roads operated in both Iowa and IJlinois, 
will ho binding. Irrespective of the legal rates 
In Illinois.” 
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AgninKt Tolmeco,—The Hon. Chak. W. GOD- 
akd of Brooklyn, late Captain of the Port of 
New York, and now President of the Florida 
Improvement Company, recently delivered, in 
the former city, an able and eloquent, lecture on 
tho Use of Tobacco, in which he demonstrated 
Its deleterious influence. Oapl. Godard makes 
n most, logical and unanswerable argument 
against tho use of the vile weed, and ought to 
be heard and hooded hy every elicwor, smoker 
ard young man In America and elsewhere. His 
lecture, published at. length in the Religious 
Herald, should lie widely road, and hut for the 
pressure upon our columns we would publish it 
entire. We wish Capt. G. could have an oppor¬ 
tunity to lecture in every lyceum throughout 
this land of cliewors, smokers and snuffers. 
A Long-Time Subscriber to the RuRA L Nkw- 
Youkek— Mr. George Fknn— writing us from 
the little but luscious (in a peachy sense, at 
least,) State of Delaware, says " I have been a 
reader of arid subscriber to your paper from the 
first publication of it, ami have received many 
valuable premiums (Including Webster’s una¬ 
bridged) for raising crops therefor when living 
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Dealer* in Adulterated Guano in this city 
and neighborhood have been enjoined against 
selling or dealing In anything purporting to be 
Peruvian guano. In consequence of action Insti¬ 
tuted in the name of the Peruvian Government. 
The following Arms are reported as having been 
so enjoined L. i t. Cox e A Co., Geo. E. White, 
Gko. Ricardo Sc Co., E. H. Reeves & Co. and 
Robert C. Reeves. 
Prof. II. E. Colton, late Agricultural Editor 
of tho New York Tiinoa, after being ill, nigh 
Unto death, partially recovered and went South 
for his health. Having been greatly benefited 
by his stay In West Virginia, he started homo 
and had scarcely been on the train two hours 
before flic car in which ho was sleeping jumped 
the track, broke in pieces, rolled down an em¬ 
bankment, breaking Mr. Colton’s collar bone 
and otherwise seriously injuring him. We are 
glad to say that he is so far convalescent, as to 
be around again, 1 ut wo arc sorry to loarn that, 
his misfortunes have cost him his place on the 
Times. We hope that he mny speedily enter 
upon some work where his well-known ac¬ 
quirements may he made useful pro bono imb- 
lico. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1873, 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES, 
Dr. MoCosh and the Relatione of the State 
to Education Reviewed. 
Training French Agricultural Pupils.—These 
pupils arc taken from the Agricultural School 
at Guynon and allowed to travel In certain dis¬ 
tricts famed for special culture, accompanied 
by their professors. This one means of acqnlr- 
lng a sound practical education la found to be 
excellent. • 
DR. MoCobh, in bts address before thu Nu- 
tional Educational Association, at Elmira, is 
reported as having said some things, at, least, 
that were sensible, and which deserve attention 
and emphasis, tic opposed the bill before 
Congress, last winter, granting more of the pub¬ 
lic lands to the so-called Agricultural Colleges 
of the country, and for tho following reasons, 
which we summarize: 
L The purpose was narrow and sectional. 
These ” agricultural” schools were not accom¬ 
plishing so great a good a* to entitle them to 
8ich an endowment. Before such an endow - 
ment, should be granted, there should be special 
inquiry what they arc, what they are doing, 
what numhor of bouo .fide agricultural pupils 
they arc (raining ami have trained, and as to 
t he mimberof those who turned their attention 
to agriculture, 
2. In Scotland agriculture is promoted by 
magazines and lectures, and not br special col¬ 
leges. In Germany there are lint’six Agricul¬ 
tural Colleges, ami somo of them are very feeble 
institutions. 1 f a youth desires to he a scientific 
agriculturist, let him go to a scientific institu¬ 
tion with a chair of agriculture attached, and 
let him learn the art on the farm. 
3. To the plea that these ore more than agri¬ 
cultural schools, that they me schools of science 
The Hoomhc Tunnel had been opened, up to 
July 1, 20,024 fcot, leaving a distance of 1,407 feet 
yet to be opened at that date. During the 
month of June, the headings had been advanced 
an aggregate of 267 feet. 
bending IMseaned Meat to Market, is proper¬ 
ly and promptly punished In England. A rich 
cattle dealer named John Pollen, described 
as” a highly respectable man," had a cow suf¬ 
fering from hlp-disonsc, slaughtered her, care¬ 
fully removed the diseased hip and sent the rest 
of tho carcass to London, with tho following 
memorandum to the consigneeThree quar¬ 
ters and a loin of beef, very wholesome. The 
bullock (it was a cow) hurt its leg. Please sell 
best you can." The authorities’ attention was 
called to this moat; it was condemned, the 
“highly respectable” Mr. Pcllen arrested and 
sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. We 
like that way of dealing with such characters, 
however “ highly respectable.” 
RURAL BREVITIES 
The Pennsylvania Agricultural College opens 
its fall term August 22. 
A national Convention of Pork Packers Is 
to be held in Chicago Sept. 10. 
Tub potato disease is reported as destroying 
the crop in some parts of England. 
It is expected that the Ontario Provincial 
Agricultural College will be opened to students 
in October. 
M. T. Austin, Texas, is adviRod to purchase 
the “ Practical Shepherd." It will be of the 
moat service to him. 
The Missouri State University (with which is 
connected the State Agricultural College) opens 
the fall term Sept. 15. 
Col. Harris disclaims being in any wise re¬ 
sponsible for the lame 1 lie Ohio Farmer is get¬ 
ting as a humorous paper. 
Tjib Ohio Agricultural College will begin, 
next month. Its first session with two depart¬ 
ments of study and six professors. 
The first halo of cotton of the season was re¬ 
ceived at Shreveport, La.. August 14. The first 
bale last year was received August 13. 
John P. Wrioht of Iowa o»n get a work on 
hop culture, which will give him the informa¬ 
tion he asks for by remitting to this office 40 
oents. 
A Northeastern Convention of Farmers 
with a view to an organization by which the 
price of farm produce may be controlled Is 
talked of. 
The first bale of cotton of the new crop, was 
sold by auction at Montgomery, Ala., August 14 
for 29M cents per pound. The worms aro doing 
much damage. 
'' J. H. E., Lewiston, I. T., Is Informed that 
Hodge’s reversible plows have been advertised 
In Rural New-Yorker. They are manufac¬ 
tured by Oneonta Manufacturing Co., Oneontn, 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
American Puuiulogical bocieiy.—A note from 
Marshall P. Wilde it informs us that the pros¬ 
pects that the largest and beet exhibition of 
fruits ever made In America will be made in 
Boston at the coming Quarter-Centennial mat¬ 
ing of this Society, are good. Large prepara¬ 
tions, East, West, North and South, are being 
made to have a full representation of fruit and 
of fruit-growers there. The Western States, 
Canada, and some portions of the South, are 
especially active in preparing an exhibit of 
their fruit products; and Boston and the New 
England States aro working with equal dili¬ 
gence to givo u worthy welcome to all who visit 
Boston September 10. 
VIENNA AWARDS, 
r mr r ney> nas raised a cert ain portion (say nne- 
half) of the necessary funds for the nmintaln- 
ance of a school. This, he thinks, would stim¬ 
ulate the erection of high schools all over 
America. And those schools would aid the Col¬ 
leges far more powerfully than a direct grant 
to them. These schools, so organized, should 
he open to all children, rich and poor. They 
should bp in convenient localities, so that all 
the population may have access to them. They 
should embrace every useful branch suited to 
young men and women under K! and 18 rears 
of age. 
5. nils he proposes for the Northern, Middle 
and Western States : ho would modify it for the 
Southern State* whore he finds, outside the 
great cities, there is little or no education pro¬ 
vided for whites or blacks. He proposes that, 
one-half of tho money allotted to t he Southern 
States should go, If the States wish it, to aid 
and encourage the States in establishing com¬ 
mon schools, and the other half reserved, as In 
the North, for imparting ji higher education to 
all who wish it. 
We agree, in the main, with the sentiments 
and opinions expressed by Dr. McCosh. We do 
not believe the General Government should 
A special dispatch from Vienna dated Aug. 
15, says;—Nine grand diplomas of honor, the 
highest prizes, have been awarded to America. 
The more prominent areas follows1st. To 
the United States Government for display of 
cotton and cotton products. 2nd. To National 
Bureau of Education. 3rd. To the State of 
Massachusetts. 4th. To the city of Boston. 5th. 
To the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. 
These four for excellence in methods and pro¬ 
gress of education and schools, fith. To W. A. 
Wood, of Hooaic Falls, New York, lor agricul¬ 
tural machinery. 7th. To Wm. Sellers A Co„ 
Philadelphia, for progress in iron manufactures, 
fith. To S. S. White, for dentistry, ttth. To G. 
U. Corliss, of Now York, for machines. There 
was too much competition nrnnng the exhibitors 
of sewing machines. No diplomas have been 
given in the section, but all have obtained 
medals of merit and for progress. In the ma¬ 
chinery department, where the Americans make 
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