PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.", 
nave had I not had the purpose of winnowing 
some wheat from this chaff. I wanted, before 
I got bark to the detail and drudgery of the 
sanctum, to say something of the 
Value of a Home 
and of it.* compensations, however humble, un¬ 
couth. and incomplete, to one who has been 
tossed about the world, If you please, as I have 
been, for twenty years. Talk about a heritage 
for childrenTalk of laying up for them a 
competency with which to "start In lire!” 
Falk of 11 placing them beyond the reach of 
want! ” Let the boys arid girls look out for 
themselves I nut give them t he sweet, t he 
always compensating arid ever-attracting herit¬ 
age of a Home that they may confidently seek, 
sure of welcome and refuge, and let It be in t he 
sweet, pure, seclusion of 1 he country J Secure 
this to them, and you have wrought for them 
what they will most value and to which, both in 
days of prosperity and advorslty, they will sure¬ 
ly and gladly gravitate. 
Sell the Old Homestead 1 Why I had rather 
loso every cent I possess than to know that the 
old Home is no longer a family possession! T 
want my children and grand and great-grand¬ 
children to play under the chestnut trees I 
played under, eat fruit from the trees my 
father and I planted, sing songs beneath the 
roof where 1 first learned losing, and look with 
joy upon the sparkling and radiant waters of 
Ontario, which were the first my eyes ever rest ¬ 
ed upon. I want the spirit I inherited, and 
which was born in me on the Old Homestead, 
the attachment to place, to be tbe herftance of 
the generations that may hereafter call me 
“ ancestor.” Let your homes, men and breth¬ 
ren, mean all ibis to your children. The spot 
where a child is born should ever after be the 
shrine he should seek in his pilgrimages— the 
objective point in his life. Love of homo is 
synonymous with love of country. We never 
know a full-fledged patriot who did not Jove 
ins country because It was his homo. Keep the 
homes sacred and Intact if possible. Make It 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
that several manufacturers of reapers have 
notified their heretofore agents, that the Pat¬ 
rons have engaged all the machines they can 
manufacture for two years. 
Grange* nnd Politics. —If there was any'need 
of an illustration to what desperate measures 
politicians will resort to gull the easily gu I led, 
we have it in a score of Instances during the 
present political campaign. The terms “ Gran¬ 
ges" and "anti-monopoly" have been played 
upon and used l»y both parties to wheedle the 
Patrons and those engaged in the " Farmers’ 
Movement." into an indorsement, of their re¬ 
spective candidates. So far as we can learn 
this has not been successful to any extent sat¬ 
isfactory to the politicians, whereat we rejoice. 
I he Interchange of views at the Grange meet¬ 
ings and at the conventions of farmers has pre¬ 
pared right-thinking men to sec dearly that 
t he only way to reform is to reform as Horace 
Greeley said the only way to resume specie 
payments is to resume I Nothing has done so 
much to win our confidence in the ultimate 
success of the Patrons of Husbandry as the 
prompt disavowal on the part of its leaders of 
ail political (partisan) purposes. We would not 
have a Patron ignore political duty, but we 
would have him discharge that duty independ¬ 
ently (of all parties) and patriotically. 
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English Lecturers.—Wo are getting a surfeit 
of information concerning Great Britain and 
her institutions from English lecturers, who 
really care far less about enlightening us, and 
far more about filling their purses with the 
proceeds of their generally stupid, if not stale, 
verbiage upon matt ers that do not concern our 
people in the least. We have enough live, 
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in favor of a prohibitory tariff on lecturers! 
l be UIHOcs Should Seek the Man."—Wo no- 
t ice that one of the farmers’ convent ions avow, 
In a resolution, that “The office should seek 
the man." We should like to know that a tight 
is to be uniformly made on that point—that no 
man who seeks an office can bo elected. Tt is 
one of tbe misfortunes—nay, evils—of our pres¬ 
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t he office most persistently and spends the most 
money to get It. wins. We should like to see 
such a man defeated, every lime! We should 
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The Board of Trustee* of the III. Industrial 
University, it is announced, “have put a stop to 
all experiments in field and garden culture, and 
have, by resolution, given over the apartment 
in the new building devoted to agriculture to 
the professor of chemistry. They ore, moreover, 
discussing the propriety of disposing of the 
Short-Horns, Hereford.*, Jerseys. Ayrshire*, and 
Devons heretofore collected at great expense, 
and of selling the .University farm.” So they 
propose to concede that “farming will not 
pay,” we suppose. 
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RURAL BREVITIES, 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1873. 
GIVE MEN WORK 
VACATION LETTERS 
Gras* Culture—No one who'rides through 
New York State, after an absence of a few years, 
can fail to notice the increased proportion of 
land in grass as compared with the amount in 
former years. Associated dairies and cheap 
corn and wheat In the West have wrought 
a marvelous change. The whole country lias 
become or js rapidly becoming pastoral. Flocks 
and herds and the fruits of the vine and orch¬ 
ard are taking the place of the corn, wheat and 
potato fields—although the last-named crop Is 
extensively grown. But all tills suggests an 
improved system in the managi-mcnt of grass 
lands. On some farms the periodical plowing 
continues to be done, although the re-seeding 
follows with the second crop—first corn or po¬ 
tatoes, then wheat, barley or oats and grass 
seed. But there must be a better way of treat¬ 
ing grass lands. Who has found it out ? 
it is the best way to give alms—to give men 
work to do. There is a stir and an ominous 
mutter of preparation among the charitable 
organizations of the cities to take care of the 
poor; there are appeals to the Benevolent for 
means to make preparations adequate to mset. 
t he anticipated increased demand for help con¬ 
sequent upon hard times. The misfortune is 
that these ministrations to humanity too rarely 
take the right, form. A man will give a thou¬ 
sand dollars to some charitable society and 
discharge a hundred or two men from bis shops 
because he lias nothing for them to do. This is 
wrong. Where the help is not needed, the 
hours of ench should be made shorter and the 
burthen of non-employment divided. 
If, as is apprehended, there is to be a deart h 
of employment, in mills and manufactories, it 
will be the farmers’opportunity to get much 
work done cheaply, provided these unemployed 
men and women can be Induced to leave t he 
cities. If they cannot be so induced, the cities 
should give them employment on their vast 
systems of public works, at a low rate of wages. 
This work, that must be performed, can be 
accomplished economically, and those who 
would otherwise be a tax upon the charitablv 
NO farmer will grow rich by thn Rale of 
wormy fruit, filthy grain, small potatoes, or 
butter weighted with rock. 
Dn. Gkeooky, Regent of the Illinois Univer- 
elty, bus returned from Europe, and is reported 
as approving the recent changes made by tho 
Board of Trustees. 
Tub salt of Itomnnto Spring, Kansas, is pro¬ 
nounced by Prof. MtrncK “ To lie t he purest and 
best for every purpose of any manufactured in 
the United States." 
Tm; total receipts at tho New York State 
l air at Albany are reported at $ 10,000— one- 
fourt h ol which go t<, the Association on whose 
grounds tiio Fair was held. 
Benton Co., Iowa, has an association of 
farmers, "To promote the breeding of flue and 
pure-blooded stock.” It is to make a public 
exhibition and sale of its stock annually. 
The Kansas Bee-keepers hive resolved “That 
we regard the action of tho Postmaster-Gener¬ 
al, in ruling that bees are not mailable matter, 
as an unlawful Interference with our rights." 
The average number of fattening cattle in 
the country is put down at Hi per cent., and 
their condition 97 per cent., as compared with 
what ought to be the average number and con¬ 
dition. 
A California* deliberately talks about a 
wagou load of melons in market that averaged 
over 50 Jbs. each, and “quite a number that 
weighed 70 lbs. and upwards I" flow far “ uu- 
wards 1" * 
The Grange movement In New England seems 
Lo be most popular in Vermont. That State 
has 37 granges, Massachusetts lias five, and New 
Hampshire four. Connecticut and Rhode Is¬ 
land have none. 
A sale of • Golddust" stock was recently 
held on tlie larm ofL. Horsey, near Louisville, 
Ivy., at which 38 colts were sold, averagin' 1 ’ 
$340.65 per head. Two or t hree stallions brought 
$1,650 and $1,700, respectively. 
It is stated that the total loss by the cot¬ 
ton worm in the Southern States, sometimes 
amounts from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year, 
and that tho loss by its ravages of a quarter of 
a million ol bales is deemed a light affliction. 
yrx hoard a well known gentleman in this 
i o itemove me Burden of Monopolies. —While 
we do not regard the following recipe as entirely 
adequate to do this, it is good as far as it goes 
• l, ld accords with lews hitherto frequently ex¬ 
pressed in the Rural New-Yorker. Rev. G. 
H. Twojiblt, President of tbe University of 
Wisconsin said in a recent addressLet them 
[farmers] become thoroughly persuaded that 
the burdens of which they complain cannot be 
removed by anathematizing monopolies, but 
only by encouraging industries which will at 
once diminish the cost of transportation; se¬ 
cure a better distribution of capital, stimulate 
education, give labor to a larger number of 
people, and enable them to supply their own 
wants, and the initial work is accomplished.” 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder is quoted as au¬ 
thority for the statement "That there has 
never beon such a crop of pears, and of such 
excellent quality, in New England as the pres¬ 
ent crop, which rivals in excellence and abun¬ 
dance the boasted crop of Caljfox-nia.’’ 
To aid In tanking Church Parlors attractive 
to tbe young, supply them liberally with games of 
Avilude. If tbe sewing circle or sociable is to meet 
at your house, get at once Avilude, or Game ol Birds. 
Sold by all dealers, or sunt post-paid, on receipt of 
seventy-five cents, by West & Lee, Worcester, Mass. 
“ Entertaining and instructive.”— Zion'* Mould, 
