PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
—.‘.he remedy as difficult, to provide. The in¬ 
surance rat needs killing, but who shall bell the 
cat—and bow? There is something the matter 
with the ‘'complicate machinery'* to which 
the Pacific Rural objects "that none can un¬ 
derstand,” but who shall say that this compli¬ 
cate machinery I* not indispensable, or who, 
al and social position, have recently J e-tocpt the expert in such matter, can be trusted 
to mend, or dispense with, it? No one denies 
that the present plans are as artificial as the 
locomotive or steamship, as the reapers and 
threshers, that have superseded the ancient 
methods of locomotion and harvesting, or that 
th'*y are as expensive in comparison with the 
of the organizations named to call out these 
men. They are needed. Properly encouraged, 
their experiments and researches will be made 
available for geueritl use. It is no reflection 
upon the ability of well known writers, that we 
urge this. 
honest men, content ■with leas money and 
glitter, so that individuality, independence and 
wholesome associations arc secured. 
Several «ons of wealthy parents, holding high 
commercial and social position, have recently 
left this city for the plains, to engage in farm¬ 
ing and stock growing. It is doubtful if it is 
ambition to make money simply’ which leads 
them to adopt Mil- life. It is ratln-r a desire to 
become landholders build up homes, enjoy 
what city life can never yield them, t hat Induces 
t his course. True, some of them may look upon 
Has simply an adventure; but the adventure 
will, we fancy, teach \vlmlcsomo lessons which 
will lastthmugh life. Many of them may fail; 
but the pride of most of them, and their intel¬ 
lectual vigor, will ultimately conquer a success. 
Such are the young men, and such the spirit to 
which wo must look for help In the development 
of American Agriculture. Capital and brains, 
combined with ambition will win finally. Wc 
do not undervalue the struggles of the plodder 
Who has neither education nor capital. But as 
surely as there in a Mississippi river, must this 
class of agriculturists die out and farming be¬ 
come both a Science and a Business demanding 
in Its conduct, capital, scientific knowledge and 
business ability. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
A Tmnciniiiou* Hop Revival may now be 
looked for. Already stories of the enormorous 
profits are being circulated, inquiries as to where 
roots and poles can lie obtained are made, and 
the folly of a few years since, when “ every one 
rushed into hops,” is likely to be repeated. Of 
course there are some who paid dearly for the 
whistle then who will remember their lesson. 
Rut their places will be filled by others who 
have yet to pay. by painful experience, for their 
knowledge. Our advice is, let no man “ go into 
hops" unless lie Is determined to stick —to 
master tho business in all its details and take the 
bitter with the sweet. Unless such is his pur¬ 
pose lie is tolerably sure of becoming a dis¬ 
gusted being. 
founder and Conducting Editor, 
CflAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER 
Annooiato Editor*. 
HENRY S. RANDALL LL, D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Editob o» tiik D*r*»r»i«NT or Sint it i' Hvibandky. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editob or mu Pbcabtmbnt or Daiby Hubbandbv. 
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:s by Weigh! 
Since the Butter and Cheese 
exchange of this city hits taken to inspecting 
eggs and compelling shippers to pay for such 
inspection, it. will do a still better thing if it 
proceeds to abardon the absurd—hay, the 
swindling—mode of selling by count, for the 
only equitable one of selling l-y weight. We 
call, also, tho attention <,>£ the National Butter 
and Egg Association to tld3 matter. Hero is a 
chance to inaugurate a wholesome reform. 
FALLACIES OF LIFE INSURANCE, 
Number XXXIII 
Cardens Sportsmen und n Farmer's Loss.— 
Col. Frank I). Curtis of Kirliy Homestead, 
Charleston, N. Y.. recently lost a valuable Ilam- 
bletonian mare, which was found dead in the 
pasture, having been shot through the shoulder 
by a careless sportsman. She was In foal by 
his stallion, "Saratoga." This statement of fact 
contains its warning to both farmers and sports¬ 
men which will doubtless command attention. 
Whatever be tho faults of prevailing plans 
of life insuring, it is pretty certain that inju¬ 
dicious meddling with the ancient and estab¬ 
lished order of things will do more harm than 
good. The present plans are the result, not of 
a stroke of inspired genius, but of many years 
of slow, laborious and valient labor and exper¬ 
iment. The faults are all on the side of con* 
servittism and safety, thingsworth the price of 
occasional blundering injustice. Human life 
cau be Insured in this way, and until it can he 
demonstrated by an unquestioned success that 
another plan Is better, the fruits of a couple of 
hundred years* experience should not be lightly 
cast, .aside. Thousands of other plana have been 
tried and rejected and this plan (that of paying 
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and ‘ Belmont Gardener' in 1837, then the only 
agricultural or horticultural paper published 
iu any State of the Union West of the Allegany 
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in advance enough beyond pci-adventure to 
meet all losses and expenses) only remains. 
Some of these experimental plans have been 
tried over and over again with the same Invari¬ 
able result. Every twenty years or so the plan 
of passing the hut around after a death occurs— 
is revived by some adventurous ami empirical 
party who Imagines himself a first discoverer. 
Oddly enough the simplicity and apparent 
cheapness of a scheme requiring *’ only a dollar 
or so when a member dies "nearly always at¬ 
tracts a considerable number of applicants lor 
membership. At first they are as enthusiastic 
as new converts are expected to be, but after a 
few months the frequency of assessments, the 
meagerness and uncertainty of the benefits re¬ 
ceived. excite distrust ol the management. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
RURAL BREVITIES 
Returning to the 1“ Old Rural.”—From neg- 
lect, or not being asked by an agent to renew, 
many have aforetime temporarily dropped the 
Rural and been Induced to try other and in¬ 
ferior papers. These usually summon their old 
favorite after a brief experience with the new 
Mglitfl, and from present indications we antici¬ 
pate a speedy return of all who have (uninten¬ 
tionally. in many cases,) strayed from the fold. 
[ Our advices from both agents and subscribers 
in various parts of the country are most cheer¬ 
ing, hosts of them promising substantial help 
in the future. As an instance in point, an old 
friend in Bteubou Co., N. Y., writes for our 
Premium List and some extra copies of the 
Rural, and adds: " ) ears, ago, when i lived 
here, we always had a good club for tho Rural. 
i left in ’CO. Came bank here last year, broken 
down in health,—have consumption. But 1 
shall try to do something for the Old Favor¬ 
ite for (5. Many friends of the Rural here, 
who have strayed away after new lights, and in 
some cases, I fear, false gods, I hope and believe 
will be willing to plight their faith anew at the 
old altar, where the incense is pure and the 
worship ennobling.” 
The sweet potato crop of Illinois is larger 
than ever before. 
Wanted to Know -What newspaper pays its 
Club Agents better than the “ Old Rural.” 
Ex-Postmaster General Ckeswkll has 
raised $2,500 worth of peaches on his farm this 
year. 
The Northern Wisconsin Poultry Ass’n holds 
its annual exhibition at Oskosb the fid week in 
December, 
The N. FT. State Board of Agriculture has de¬ 
cided to hold two meetings for farmers in each 
cotUUt y this season. 
Tnr; manufacture of cotton is extending in 
Georgia, there being now In the vicinity of 
Augusta seventeen establishments. 
Moore’S Rural gives no cheap ebroraos, but 
furnishes every subscriber Fifty-Two Interest¬ 
ing and Instructive papers every year. 
A joint stock company baa been formed in 
London with a capital of $1,000,000, for the pur¬ 
pose of Importing lve cattle from Texas. 
The Petersburg, Vn.. papers state that the 
peanut crop this year will be an unusually large 
one, and that the quality is most excellent. 
Save Postage on next year s Rural by sub¬ 
scribing before Dee. 1, according to our offer. 
The Connecticut State Board of Agriculture 
is to bold a three days' session at Woodstock 
commencing the third Wednesday iu Decem- 
SATURDAY, NOV. 14, 1874. 
FARMING FASHIONABLE, 
ana most stupid vocations the sons of men 
follow. We see good to come of I his tendency 
on the part of young men of Intelligence, cul¬ 
ture and wealth towards agriculture. This 
class have long been content to be absorbed In 
some one of the so-called learned professions, 
or have engaged in banking, insurance, rail¬ 
roading, polities or commerce. Money-makiug 
and social position have been the goals for 
which they have struggled. The dulics of their 
chosen vocations and the exactions of society 
have been 
sating. 
onerous and not always compen- 
The uncertainties of commerce, the 
crowding of the professions, the competition 
in and hollowness of the systems of insurance 
and banking, the uncertainties of values of 
railway stocks, the natural demoralization, of 
all these classes of business, based as they are 
upon a false system of ethics, pract ically if not 
really; the consequent falseness, hollowness, 
vapidity and disintegration of society and the 
depression of social standards, hare tended to 
disgust and alienate the more thoughtful and 
intelligent of the young men in our social and 
commercial centers, and to reconcile them to 
any life and vocation that would give them 
freedom from social exactions they quickly 
learn to despise, independence of thought and 
action, absolution from torturing and uncom¬ 
pensating cares, health and undisturbed happi¬ 
ness. The physical education and development, 
which have these later years become fashiona¬ 
ble among our city men, have helped to this 
restiveness under the restraints of a social sys¬ 
tem which requires only Inanity to satisfy its 
demands. For the thoroughly healthful, vig¬ 
orous man, physically and intellectually, can¬ 
not, be inane nor tolerate tho intellectual and 
physical imbecility of others. 
Political distinction has ceased to be worth 
seeking. Statesmanship has been draggeddown 
into the dirty pool of partisan subserviency un¬ 
til there is not a clean shred in its mantle 
“ Honorables” liavo become as common as mos¬ 
quitoes in June, and are not always synonymous 
with ability, integrity, or even a reputable repu¬ 
tation, socially. Hence the question is. whither 
shall the young man go? The answer is. (no 
matter with what ridicule it has been met,) 
“ young man, go West 1” There the young men 
or the class of which we speak are going. They 
are not only glad to go, but their wealthy and 
seusible fathers are glad to aid them in going— 
The Pacific Rural Press says:—“The future 
prosperity of the Grangers upon this coast de¬ 
pends very much upon the wise or unwise 
counsels which prevail at our next State meet¬ 
ing. Second to none of these important ques¬ 
tions is that of life insurance. Should this 
body meet and separate without bringing into 
existence a full-fledged life insurance com¬ 
pany, we shall feel that one of the most im¬ 
portant matters has been omitted. Surely the 
pure and humane teachings of the Grange will 
lead to the development of a plan which, with¬ 
out being burdensome, will enable us to secure 
our wives and Rule ones against want when 
the strong arm which now supports them is 
pat ah zed by t he rude shaft of death. What we 
want is pure and simple mutual aid." 
Thus far the Pacific Rural Press discourses 
wisely. " These are words uf truth and sober¬ 
ness," which find tin echo in the heart of every 
well wisher of tho beneficent feature of life in¬ 
surance. This is the great desideratum, the 
purpose, perhaps incompletely attained, of all 
life Insurance. The faults are easily detected, 
