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•XII.—REPOET OF FISH-COMMISSIONERS.410-417 
XIII.—PRACTICAL PAPERS. 418 
Currency. By lion. Wendell Phillips .. 418 
The world afloat on the sea of experiment. 418 
Repeated experiments have led to progress. 419 
What was impossible in 1700 is easily clone in 1850. 419 
The people to be trusted in currency matters. 420 
Place where, and time when, to decide the success of most cf man’s 
eflorts—Finance plan—three things to be secured. 421 
England could not hold to a specie basis. 422 
Fine illustrations of a specie basis—Important financial plans.. .422^126 
Business men of the nation to hold the currency helm. 425 
Our nation needs double the currency of older and richer nations. 427 
Amount of currency of 1870 too small for 1876. 428 
Our note-currency little to do with prices.429,430 
In developing our new country we work at a disadvantage by high 
rates of interest—We never really had a gold base.431, 432 
A debtor nation always a slave of his creditor. 432 
General business cannot be profitable with money at high rates of 
interest. 433 
Dress. By John Bascom ) LL. D . 434 
Let us trust that truth will drive us into obedience. 434 
Food, shelter, and dress the primitive necessities. 435 
Claims on the market of one little argosy of fashion. 436 
No absurdities can plead more antiquity than those of dress. 437 
Foolish ordinance of society accepted as if it were a decree of 
heaven—The Chinese foot the typical fact of fashion.438, 439 
Women have been slower than men to accept the sober laws of 
taste—A martyr to philosophy.440, 441 
Rings, bracelets, &c., remnants of barbarism. 442 
Fashion takes to itself a model from the camel and dromedary... 443 
Society dependent on the tricks and artifices of dress. 444 
The precept of the apostle—a sound basis. 445 
Simplicity and individuality pleasing in dress. 446 
Beauty will remain from century to century. 447 
A perfect love of a thing. 448 
Society is a system ol delicate dependencies and reciprocal respon¬ 
sibilities. 449 
Dress is to social influence what language is to national intercourse 451 
A Farmer’s Orchard. By J. C. Plumb .452-463 
Present condition.452,453 
Causes. 453 
Remedies—Mulch for drouth. 454 
Winter, spring, and root killing. 455 
Winter-mulch—Insects and vermin. 456 
Enrourage the Entomologist. 457 
Natures’ helps—Poisons, canker-worm, codling-moth.458,459 
Injury from farm-stock—Effect of pasturing. 460 
Too rich soils—Orchard site and culture.461,462 
Why not have a complete orchard. 463 
The Proper Advancement of WOman. By Mrs. Fannie B. Den¬ 
nett .463, 468 
The ballot may or may not be a help to woman. 463 
Her hands too full already. 464 
More time to read, rest, and think needed. 464 
Much time consumed in useless fancy-work. 465 
Intelligence—Strong moral principles and quiet home-influence 
great powers in moulding society. 466 
The Grange offers encouragement to farmers’ wives. 467 
Let woman ask for more time to cultivate the higher and nobler 
attributes of her nature... 
468 
