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The R. N.-Y. 
jtaper, the miller and the mechanic papers 
published in the interest of their particular 
business, but ihe great majority of farmers in 
the United States, satisfied with their present 
knowledge, unmindful of the wants of their 
children, or their own needs of mental 
development, do not take any farm paper. A 
little missionary work is needed 011 the part 
of those who believe in the value of agricul¬ 
tural literature, to induce every farmer to 
become a subscriber to an agricultural paper, 
and most of them who have any taste for 
reading, will become interested in its dis¬ 
cussions, and loth to part with its visits at 
the end of the year. 
Sugar Run Pa., j. w. 1 . 
THE FAILURE OF THE DISTRICT 
SCHOOL. 
CHAS. B. COLLINGWOOD. 
J F the school is a failure it is usually on ac¬ 
count of a poor teacher. If the teacher is in¬ 
competent it is usually the fault of the school 
fticers. If the school officers are inefficient 
it is the fault of the voters in the school dis¬ 
trict. Thus the blame for a poor school rests 
with the people. The people like to shirk this 
responsibility, but it belongs to them and they 
must bear it, 
A good school costs something; it costs 
momy and it costs time. Money is usually 
spent, but not quite enough: a little more 
would secure a much better teacher for the 
full year; a little more would furnish the 
school house with modern appliauces; a little 
more, judiciously expended, would make the 
school-house and grounds more attractive. 
The cost of time comes hardest. It is so easy 
to find excuses for not visiting the school. 
The success of the school depends somewhat 
on your personal effort. Visit the school, vis¬ 
it it often, visit it intelligently. 
All this you may say is true enough, but 
‘•how shall we have the best school?” Fust 
and most important, elect good men or 
women for school officers In some places a 
position on the school board is held in little 
respect, and any man will do. This is wrong, 
in some respects, members of school boards arc 
the most important oflicers you have to select. 
Should all the school districts in the country, 
for the next 25 years, elect competent men 
or women, who were thoroughly alive to their 
duties, every office in our government, from 
the President down, would have a worthy in¬ 
cumbent. Select, then, officers who under¬ 
stand how to give your child au education 
and who will take the time to attend to the 
work. This is of vital importance.an error that 
can hardly be remedied until auother school 
meeting. 
Tho matter of liberal appropriations bas 
been touched upon. Don’t be stingy here 
Run the school as you would any other 
protitatde business. Tools for the farm cost 
more than formerly, so do those for the 
school-room. A school room without good 
black-boards, maps, globes, dictionaries and 
reference books, is like a farm with tumbled- 
dowu fences and worn-out tools. 
Now then, you are started with good school 
otficeis, a liberal appropriation and a public 
sentiment alive to a good school. The next 
most important business is iu the selection of 
a teacher. Your oflicers will understand the 
needs of your district and will endeavor to 
secure some capable, earnest teacher, who will 
nut be always looking forward to the end 
of the term, and who will not measure his 
work by the amount of pay he receives. At 
all events hire the same teacher for at least 
a year, and if possible secure the same 
teacher for a series of years, it will pay in 
many ways. If the teacher is the right kind 
he or she will find methods of interesting 
the parents. 1 lius the district school is in the 
hands of the people of che district and its 
success or failure will be measured by their 
intelligence and interest. 
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CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Germination of Seed Corn. —Bulletin No 2 
from the Tennessee Experiment Station, con¬ 
tains results of Prof. C. S. Plumb’s experiments 
with seed-corn. 
Grasses for Pastures and Meadows.— 
Prof. J. W. Sanborn, of the Missouri Experi¬ 
ment Station, issues Bulletin No. 35 with the 
above title. “ In the fall of 1883, ” he says, 
“ in pursuance of a policy of re-organization 
of the farm system into a fixed rotation, 50 
acres of ground that had been for many years 
uopped with corn after corn until badly 
worn, was sown to a mixed variety of pasture . 
grasses for permanent pasture. The varie¬ 
ties were as follows : 
Kentucky Blue Grass . . . 3>£ lbs 
Oicbard Grass.3*4' “ 
Timothy ... . . 3 “ 
Red Top.. 4 4 
English Rye Grass (Lolhcn perenne ) 3 44 
Red Clover. 44 
Aliske Clover .... 1*^ 14 
White Clover. \% “ 
This mixture, sown without knowledge of 
the demands of our soil and climate aud 
limited at the time in number to the more 
available aud cheaper sorts from want of 
funds, has proven in a relative sense, very 
successful This county of Boone has very 
fine Blue Grass pastures, yet this section of 
mixed grasses, which is a part of a large pas¬ 
ture, a part of which has excellent Blue Grass, 
has proven superior to the Blue Grass and 
more to the taste of the stock. They re¬ 
mained for weeks on this 50-acre section 
while having tree access to the rest of the pas¬ 
ture, and although the season was an unusu¬ 
ally severe, or dry one, 52 head of cattle 
grazed upon it until the fall months without 
making use of the balance of the pasture save 
at long periods, passing weeks at a time, aud 
then only lor a mere cursory run over it.” 
Prof. Sanborn gives some interesting notes 
regarding 10 varietits of grasses and clovers 
in plot experiments. 
When to cut Corn for Silage.— Bulletin 
No. 3 from the New Hampshire staioii deals 
with this subject. It will be remembered 
that both of the previous bulletins from this 
station have had to do with the prestrvation 
or feeding of silage. The object of the ex¬ 
periments outlined in this bullttin was to de¬ 
termine the time, between seeding and ma¬ 
turity when corn is at its best as a forage 
crop. Several tables are given to show the 
weights, percentage of water, albuminoids, 
carbohydrates, ash, etc., etc., of vai ious varie¬ 
ties of corn at different stages of growth, 
and the following conclusion is leached : 
“All things considered, it is best to plant such 
varieties as will, in a given locality, produce 
plants having well-filled ears, the kernels being 
iu tnemilk, or, better still, in the 44 doughy ” 
state, aud to delay the harvesting until the 
plant shows evident signs of ripening, such as 
the turning of the lower leaves, the glazing 
of the kernels in the flint or the shriveling of 
the dent varieties. Up to this point there is 
a gain in two ways: first, an actual gain iu 
the dry matter, and, second, a loss of water, 
reducing the ratio between the water and 
dry substance to about that required by 
cattle, thus improving tho silage and reduc¬ 
ing the time aud the labor in handling. ” 
THE POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
There has been quite au excitement, in our 
neighborhood of late. Joe Hewlett is, just 
now, the greatest man of the age—iu his own 
opinion at least. New Jersey is in no danger 
of losing any part |of her representation in 
Congress if Joe is to outline the proper con¬ 
duct for young men. To make it short, there 
is a young Hewlett on hand. Both Mi's. H. 
and the baby are doing well. Joe 
felt so happy over his good fortune 
that he thought he ought to treat the boys. 
There is no beer to be bought in our neighbor¬ 
hood, so be had all hands take cigars—those 
of us who sinoke at least. Uncle Jacob is one 
of tho few non-smokers. He waited till Joe 
had told for tho tenth time about the baby’s 
wonderful vocul aud instrumental abilities. 
He waited till Joe started for home, though I 
am sure he would just as soon have the person 
about whom he talks on hand to listen. 
44 Veil, Veil, it vas gurious how somedink 
dot vas a very serious matter, vill somedunes 
gif us der wrong kind off feeling. Now den, 
here vas dot man dot vas spend money mit 
dreating der poys shust because dot leetle baby 
vas come in mit der vorld. Dot leetle baby 
vil haf more need off dot money some time 
dan dose fellers dot smokes dem cigars. Der 
beginning off life is almost as serious as der end 
off it. What vas more serious dan der idea off 
starting dot leetle life iu mit der troubles und 
trials off der vorld ? It vas shust so easy to 
start beeble wrong mit life by gifting dein some 
wrong ideas off der object off lifting. Effery 
body dot vas started wrong in dot 
vay, runs der risk off growing up mit a sour 
und unhappy obinion off der vorld. Off bee¬ 
ble could understand some off dese tings dere 
would be a different feeling ofer such matters. 
It was a serious ting ven ve starts out dot 
leetle, tender life dot vas haf to run mit itself 
against some off der hardest tings mit der 
vorld. Dem beeble dot spoils der characters 
off leetle poys und girls und brings dein up 
sour und disgontented, vas shust about as bad 
as dem beeble dot dakes human life. It was 
two classes off murder—dot vas all. It was 
unfortunate dot der vorld makes a distinction 
betweeu dem two classes,” small pica. 
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