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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1373. 
LOVE OF AGRICULTURE. 
A young man writes us that he haw always 
had a great desire to become an agriculturist, 
but he is not quite sure whether he should like 
it or not, and asks whether we would advise 
him to leave a fair salary in a respectable mer¬ 
cantile house and go on to a farm whether wc 
think lie could succeed or not. This is one or 
many such conundrums that come to us every 
year, from young and old men. Wo reply ; 
1. We do not ad vise a man successfully en¬ 
gaged in one business to leave it for another, 
unless a question of health or the happiness 
and future of his family is involved. 
2. Success will depend upon willingness to 
work, patience to loam and wait, and upon tho 
love of the vocation, which may lie inspired by 
pursuing it, as well as upon the intelligent ob¬ 
servation and business system with which It is 
pursued. 
3., The boat agriculturists are those who are 
most in love with Die pursuit of agriculture. 
The love of agriculture as a pursuit is born or 
the cJ»se3t attention to it and study of the 
wonderful processes involved in production. 
One reason, we think, why there is not a more 
enthusiastic devotion to it as a pursuit is that 
it is regarded a merely manual exercise und as 
not. involving mental effort. The scientific 
man wuo takes up any department of science 
as a specialty, falls in love with it because his 
zealous iuvestigalions into ilie roason of tilings 
opens to him new and interesting paths to pur¬ 
sue at every'stop, it is so with furui expert- I 
Helping English Laborers to Come Hither.— 
Last week we alluded to the fact that Mr. Arch, 
through hla agent, asks American farmers to 
advance tho mean* to bring English farm labor¬ 
ers hither. Ho give* as a reason for this de¬ 
mand that the Dominion Government and 
1 Authorities of Ontario, Canada advance suffi¬ 
cient fund* to reduce the passage of adults to 
only .£1 per head ; and because t ids is done, our 
farmers, who need skilled labor as badly as 
Canada, are expected to do the same thing. 
Wc hopo there is not an American farmer ver¬ 
dant enough to do any such thing. Two-thirds 
of these English laborers that Ontario will im¬ 
port, will Und tlicir way to the States ultimate¬ 
ly. "Skilled labor!” Yes we do need skilled 
farm labor ; but it requires three to five years 
for “ skilled " EngJLsh laborers to get their con¬ 
ceit knocked out of them and their stubborn 
John Bullishness softened into adaptability to 
American habits mid methods. If we pay for 
getting them here thoir national vanity will 
load them to suppose that wc cannot get along 
without them. The experiment, has been made 
of importing English farm laborers into some 
of the Southern States; but we have yet to 
learn of a single instance where it has resulted 
satisfactorily to t he importers. If Englishmen 
want, to come hit tier Jet them pay their own 
passage and take their etiances with the rest of 
mankind. Otherwise they will have no appre¬ 
ciation of the advantages offered lu re to those 
who are not satisfied to stay at home. 
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Horse Epizootic Again—Dr. W*. EIoknk, 
a western veterinary surgeon, says, in a recent 
number of the Western Farmer, “There is 
every Indication that, without great care, we 
shall have another visitation of an epizootic 
which .seems to tie of a worse and more fatal 
type than the one we passed through last year 
and which made itself so terribly felt.” This 
opinion is based upon liis knowledge of the 
condition of many horses throughout the 
country. He adds: 
I am afraid, if groat precautionary measures 
are not observed, wo shall have another visita¬ 
tion which, if not of so universal a nature, will 
be worse, ranch worse for those whom the 
malady doea attack* I would t*ho 
strictest sanitary measures good food, clean¬ 
liness, a bountiful supply of pure air, care in 
working, above all, promptness in socuringlhc 
best aid as soon as the disease shows itself. 
The symptoms of the disease are that the 
animal la taken with a cough ; throat seems 
sore, sometimes swelled ; animal discharges 
from tho nose; seems cold; loses appetite. Dr. 
Horne says: 
I would recommend, as soon as the throat 
| becomes sore, that either a strong blister be 
applied or a very powerful liniment — equal 
parts turpentine and oil well mixed, and well 
rubbed in; and to stop irritation anti cough, 
give geisemlmim one dram, fluid extract lobe¬ 
lia two nriiins, a few drops over the tongue at 
a J n ™;, ? ften ' “ ,ir ! wash mom h and nostrils 
wit h I ildsui A Co. s Broniu Chloraluru, one to 
eight of water. Give apart from the other 
meuiotne. half an ounce Tilflen’s lodo-lirotulde 
Calcium Compound in one oz. water; this Isa 
powerlul alterative. 
while hundreds of plantations are lying quite 
idle, being eaten up with taxes, and their broad 
acres fast growing up to weeds, and retrograd¬ 
ing to the condition in which De Soto found 
them.” 
Illinois Industrial University, —In our issue of 
Nov. 1, we gave currency to a statement by the 
regular correspondent of the Country Gentle¬ 
man that the Board of Trustees of this insti¬ 
tution “have put a stop to all experiment^ in 
field and garden culture, and have, by resolu¬ 
tion, given over the apartment in the new 
building devoted to agriculture to the professor 
of chemistry. They are, moreover, discussing 
t he propriety of disposing of tho Short-Horns, 
Here fords, Jerseys, Ayrshlres, and Devons here¬ 
tofore collected at great expense, and of selling 
the University farm." A correspondent of the 
Prairie Farmer, referring to this statement 
says: 
How win® this correspondent to know these 
t ilingsi he Regent or the l niversity, the Pres¬ 
ident of the Board of Trustees, and the Superin¬ 
tendent of the I urm have each denied any 
knowledge of slich intention*, i am well con- 
v ip cod thore hnvo no official rccotuoiond- 
tttions of the kind, lint on the oilier hand, the 
practical in&eroitJ* of tho university have boon 
uppermost in tho minds of tho officers, from 
the highest to the lowest. None know this 
bett er than t lie students, all of whom are now 
required to take at least two studies deemed 
‘closely related to agriculture and the me¬ 
chanic arts; and the spirit is such among 
them that tins i-, cheerfully compiled with. 
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Tea Adulteration*.—The New York Bulletin 
saysIf the public will have their tea at a low 
price, there will always be found men who will 
mix this low priced trash with tho better sorts 
to enable them to make a profit on their sales 
and ut the same time undersoil their neighbors, 
.and no Government surveillance can prevent 
it. We liavo no “Adulterations Act” of the 
English description in the United States; but 
we have, or ought to have, a guarantee against 
tho imposition* complained of in the high 
character of tho importers. The worst adul¬ 
terations of foreign merchandise, so far as New 
York is concerned, according to tho testimony 
of the Board of Health, take place, not at the 
place of production, hut here at home, after it 
lias beon passed lb® Custom House. It is cer¬ 
tainly a very vile proceeding on the part, of the 
Chinaman to put Iron filings in our to®, but wo 
liavo people in New York who can and do boat 
him at that. The grievance is one of long 
standing, but if ever an effective corrective is 
to be applied, wc are Inclined to think it must 
be by quickening the moral sense of the seller 
rather t han by clamorous invocations to “ Gov¬ 
ernment.” 
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Partin’* Steam Plow has recently had a trial 
in California and Judging by the reports, with 
success. The Sacramento Record say*: 
The machine was set in motion on » wheat 
stubble field. The soil was a stiff clay, or day 
adobe. The grain had been bunded, and it was 
soon found t hat the eight-gang plows brought 
iroin Illinois were not adapted to the work to 
wtiieh they were put, and they were detached, 
and in their place was subst ituted a large t hroe- 
gang plow' and a two-gang plow, each plow cat¬ 
ling a twelve-inch wide furrow. These plows 
were put down five and six inches, and the 
engine with forty pounds of stoatn, walked off 
easily. A drag was thou also attached, and 
twelve nidi got on tho frames of the plows, 
tuid the drag and tho plows were sunk in from 
ten to twelve inches, and with eighty pounds 
of steam she pulled them along as easily. This 
ly issued Catalogue of the institution, as thus 
employed21 farmers, 7 fruit growers, 4 engi¬ 
neers, 4 druggists, 2 mechanics, 7 business 
agents, 8 lawyers, 1 clergyman, l physician, 1 
editor, 12 professors and teachers, most of 
whom arc connected with agricultural colleges 
and several of whom have charge of farms or 
gardens. 
Ca»h and Economy vs. Credit In the South._ 
The Mississippi State Grange of Patrons of 
Husbandry are doing a good thing; for it, by 
resolution, requires the Lecturer of each sub¬ 
ordinate Grange to submit to the Grange of 
which he is the lecturer, the following Pledge 
of Economy: 
Each member of this Grange is hereby 
pledged to the strictest economy in the man¬ 
agement of Ids farming and other business, un¬ 
til lie places them on a cash basis. 
Then another resolution requires tho Lec¬ 
turer “ to keep constantly before the members 
of his Grange, by lectures and otherwise, the 
great difference between cash and credit prices, 
and the impossibility of cariying our. the ob¬ 
jects of the Order without the practice of the 
cheapest economy, until the farming interests 
are put upon a cosh basis.” Now, if this is 
done and the planters of Mississippi once ig¬ 
nore the credit system and pay cash as they 
go, they w-iil telicvo themselves of the greatest 
burden that ever weighed them down. Wo 
commend the same policy to all farmers in all 
States. 
The Rural Club of New York recently ate a 
good dinner at Dei.mONICO’s, listened to an in¬ 
teresting, carefully prepared aud valuable ad¬ 
dress by J. K. Dodge, Statistician of tho De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, upon “ Agriculture 
in the Old World,” bad a pleasant social time, 
and adjourned. Mr. Dodge's paper deserves 
more space than wo have thus far been ablo to 
afford it, but we hope to make liberal extracts 
from it hereafter. 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
The Illinois State Farmers’Association meets 
at Decatur, ill., Dec. 18. 
Dr. A. G. Chase has dissolved his connection 
witli the Kansas Fanner. 
A State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry has 
been organized in Texas. 
Vick’s Floral Guido for 1874 has reached us. 
It is very ncao aud complete—as usual. 
The Texas Farm and Home is the name of a 
new agricultural monthly published at Calvert, 
Texas. 
Another new agricultural paper has ap¬ 
peared, called Tho Valley Farmer, published at 
Tuscurabia, Ala. 
.Stanislaus Co., Cal., has 230 farms of over 
five hundred acres each—ranging from 501 to 
30,14s acres. 
The National Grange of Patrons of Hus¬ 
bandry meets In 8t. Louis, Mo., the first Wed¬ 
nesday in February. 
Pres. Welch of the Iowa Bute Agricultural 
College lias tendered his resignation, in order 
to accept a position in Arkansas. 
M e had suppor.td that all male members of a 
Grange wore hats; but It, is just, announced 
that" Granger hats arc introduced.” 
T. C., Collamer, Pa., is informed that we do 
not know that tho picture he speaks of is pur¬ 
chasable; nor if tt is, wnero it ,.an be obtained. 
We have from K. W. Bus well Secretary, a 
Thu Million Uollnr Telescope—A proposition 
for the construction or a million dollar tele¬ 
scope to bo located upon some of the high 
points of t ho Sierra Nevada has been noticed in 
these columns. Prof. Gko. Davidson, in a 
rcuont address before the California Academy 
of 3cionc.es made tho follow iug remarks ; 
" With a telescope of the largest, size and 
must consummate workmanship Hint American 
skill cun devise, properly located ten thousand 
Neglectful Patrons. — In Iowa there is com¬ 
plaint. .of the non-attendance of Patrons of 
Husbandry at tlie Grange meetings. Even th® 
officers are neglectful of their duties. In an- 
swer to such complaints, the Grand Master of 
Dio State Grange gives the following advice: 
Our advice is. especially in regard to the offi¬ 
cers, to bring charges against them Tor neglect 
of duty, and if found guilty, to depose them 
from their places und elect good and efficient 
men in their places. The non-attendance of 
and methods. Tt is the absence of just, such Uicnts and methods which those instruments 
stimulus for the mind that makes farm life a al no dl^ 
drudgery and monotony. V hen men learn to problems of creation that, are yet bovomfour- 
observe critically, see what they look at, and pwUV Such an outfit, andsuch provision have 
think of what they see on the farm, they will tbe objects of James Lick; and 
vain plrtl*v ii riH nhrtiinurl Lie - 
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION. 
There is no doubt that thousands of dollars 
may be saved to farmers in almost every neigh¬ 
borhood, annually, by a thoroughly co-opera¬ 
tive business organization-in the way of pur¬ 
chasing tarm implements and machinery, im¬ 
proved stock, groceries, employing labor, etc., 
.uid in tiic sale of produce. But such organ¬ 
ization must l c built up upon and conducted 
according to tho strictest business principles. 
Added, it must or ought to be conducted on a 
cash basis. No other co-operat ive plan, in our 
judgment can succeed. The trouble with all 
co-operative efforts of this character, so far as 
our observation and knowledge goes, where, 
there has been trouble, is that they have been' 
run upon the credit system. Added, tnere has 
been a failure to employ thorough business 
men; or where they have been employed they 
have not proven themselves disinterested 
vain glory, and obtained ids permission to an¬ 
nounce to the Academy bis intentions, whion 
I have faintly sketched in the preceding sen¬ 
tence. There wtU be no let or hindrance in 
carrying out his views; tba amp’est means are 
provided; the rarest skill has been invoked, 
arid the plana are taking definite and practical 
shapo. 
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Sugar Planting in Louisiana_A Louisiana 
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says: 
“ The sugar interest for this State has been, for 
tho last few years, a waning one. For sorao 
reason the sugar planters do not seem to make 
a success of the free labor system. It is prob¬ 
able that the fault, is not 60 much in the system 
as in the connection with it of the extravagance 
of detail whioh accompanied the old-time way. 
At all events, the fact is patent, that this most, 
profitable of all agricultural interests in ante¬ 
bellum times has of late been little better than 
a maelstrom into which many an unfortunate 
planter’s fortune has been engulfed. The num¬ 
ber who are really raakliv; money at it is few, J 
nil interest in Grange meetings beshould with¬ 
draw iroui t he Order. 
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Editors ns Officers in Grunge*.—Sometime 
since u Wisconsin Patron of Husbandry ex¬ 
pressed the wish that ths Order was rid of the 
editors belonging thereto. The Prairie Farmer, 
whose editor is a Patron, thinks the gentleman 
failed to remember the work done for the 
Order, during its earlier struggles, by the edi- 
tors who belonged to it; but it asserts that 
“ Had Mr. Brainabd said that he believed that 
sufficient journalists were holding offices in the 
Order, and that he wished they were well out 
of their official positions, we should have most 
cordially agreed with him." 
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'..“The Relation of Man to the Other Ani¬ 
mal*,’’ is to be tiie subject of six lectures, to 
be delivered in Washington tlie coming winter 
by Louts Agassiz, in which it is understood 
lie will attack and undertake to refute Dar¬ 
win’s theory of the evolution of species. We 
believe that Agassiz maiutains that all the J 
species of animal existence ore the result of 
special creations. J 
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The Michigan Agricultural College Gradu¬ 
ates, previous to 1873, are reported by the recent- 
Henry W. Evans, Bethel, Kan., is informed 
that, in our opinion, either of the terms, 
’ How’s your woman? ” or “ How's your wife ?” 
is correct. 
Wk have received copies of the Report of the 
Illinois Department of Agriculture lor 1872, for 
Which our thanks are due A. M. Garland, 
Secretary. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it is an¬ 
nounced, will address the Illinois State Farm¬ 
ers' Association, at Decatur, the evening of 
December 10. 
We »ee it intimated that there la trouble in 
the Iowa Agricultural College, it is too bad if 
it is true; tor we buve been very hopeful con¬ 
cerning that institution. 
J'ue young ladies at Vaasar College are re¬ 
ported as drinking 130 quarts of milk everyday, 
swallow Lxl Its. or butter, and 40 pounds of 
sugar for pudding sauce for one dinner. 
Mr. Nesmith, lately elected to Congressfroni 
Oregon, is called a genuine, unadulterated 
Granger, well skilled in Farliumentory usage, a 
ready debater and a bold, independent man. 
The cultivator manufacturers of the North¬ 
west recently met ut Chicago and are reported 
as “ unanimous in their desire to establish a 
uniform price-list and to rnuke it as low as 
possible.” 
The Union Pacific Railroad Company soid 
during the mouth of October, 1878, 10,351.82 
acres ut land, at an average price of $5.68 per 
?o 7 , ^ ^L\ UI ' QoLlUtl,l ^ $109,74^.86. Bales averaged 
Ld.dO acres to each pure baser. Total sales to 
Nov. 1st, 1873, 810,100.55 acres, at an average 
price of $4,52per acre, amounting to £3,705,201.-to. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
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and splendid card game of Avilude.cr Game of Birds, 
with its thirty-two beautiful pictures of birds and 
thirty-two descriptions. Unequaled as a game. A 
continual source of enjoyment and instruction. Sold 
byall dealers, orsent post-paid,on recelptof seventy- 
live cents, by West & Lee, Worcester, Mass. 
