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# varala to grow whert | is a public benefactor.\ _ Waamuo'mnfsept. 10.~—The September report Jof; agrichiture \ abettepxi dotfipdng wheat than - nth ago, 'The im; ra erfge yield of the crop, so ilo. of threshing are reports ljahnehelfi. per acre, The thresh- rna impzozementin Missouri In the Middlé and Eastern percentages af July are not ma- uged. In the South the harvest was disappointing 'and rain injured the product inthe shock. The returns Audi- yield of about 12¢ bushels > cre. 'The entire wheat product. appar- ehtiy exceeds that of last . year by 80,000, 000 to 90,000,000 bushels.~ Corn has de- clined from 81 In August to 77. The Joss west ol—Indinna is.coused by drought. In the South “antic states there has beech 'on the gulf coast a: slight friprovendent, except in Texas, where «drought has reduced -the condition. The presentcrop: prospect with no further de- eling;/is 10 per cent. worse than last year and indicates:over 21 bushels to the nore, or nearly 1;600,000,000 'bushels. The cotton returns allow a vigorous condition of the plant, with Jsteness and deficiency in fruiting. , There has been improvementsin most of the,states, with decided decline in Texas and a little in Arkansas.\ The ro sults of threshing: make the condition of oats at harvest 91, a small reduction from earlier expectation. The average of barley is 98, indicating an average crop. Buckwhent averages 90. Potatoes have declined from 88.8 to 81.4 from effects of local drought, In New York the decline is froin 97 to 89, and it is heavy fu the dry aren of the West, The condition of tobacco averages 82. The numbers of fattening hogs sreapporently less by nbout 6 per cent, with some reduction in the average weight. .' -. Onre of Manure. ,_ We hope to Impress upoh farmers the mocessity of allowing their farm-yard ma- nures to undergo a thorough process of fermentation, ond to completely rot or earbonize before making use of them in Aho In order to niske our meaning -486¢8 clear, let it be remembered that: Ast: It/freshly made manure be put into the soll-tho:aline and:nitrogenous portions wfllbawaLQd away by the first fall of 'rain, and 2ost. 2d. If the manuro bo allowed to thor- ~<qughly ferment, the nitrogenous matters will remain fnsoluble in tho:soll, and will liruabaheidatlbc «disposal of the plants weady-for. assimilation. . . ;, Mower-[mentors have atrivon with inthepast fow years to- persuado them- alves and tho world that tho-total aban- dohirent of fatm-yard' manuré, sud the sole employment of chemical fertilizers) would resultin fmmenso-économy and in wreaso production; but in neatly, every chan withln'onr knowledge, where the ge duction of these theories has prevailed «vet common senso, : ithe-result has been, to. say the least, discouraging. . What manures of every Kina aro. necessary, we have always admilted ard shall always propound;- but that they profitably and usefully .Yeplace on the farm, 14 s proposition ts “53> Sonsusy milkers .yill suddenly be- ilkers. Probably nothing Two cows. Then there is the exlra‘inveai, ment -and the extra libor of caring 'for ° fwo instead of 'one, 'all of which. makes: quite dn increase in cost of producing milk. There, will be, according to the' used. in producing food, a differ: 'ened of $20-to 40 in the cost.of the 4001- pounds of butter, - whether derived from 10c on each: pound, of buttér, enough to make #ll.the difference between. profit s and loss or profit apd, no 'profit. If one man can live by getting 200. pounds: of butter pur cow in ays r, another can grow, rich by ~getting-400- pounds, But -when: we came to divide annin and get but 100 or 125 pounds a year per cow, which is about the common average, the difference in the cost will then bé' three times ns great-at the'above rate $60 to $80 on 400 pounds, 12¢ to 18¢ on each poun{L This makes dairying an up-hill business, on a steep grade at that. Itis the-dairynien who. keep these unproductive cows who com- plain most of hard times, and that dairying does not pay. It is the same as 'keoping twa sheep or two piga for the product of ono, This is farming on the shares with destiny. The way out of the difficulty is to in- crease the product of the individual an} mal-to put, as if were,. two animals into oneskin. No matter what breed you have, something further is needed to reach the best results. Good blood lies at. the bottom for a . foundation, but it is not everything. Feed: ing and general care and management have us much to do with increasing the product of individual as breeding or blood, But it must not be forgotten that undue forcing ghortens the life and usefulness of the cow very rapidly. Adopt u standard of say 400 pounds as the- butter product per cow in a year, and then work for a herd that will reach it. Find out which your best cows are; weed out the poor ones and breed from the best-until your herd approximatesor reaches your standard, This is the way to meet the hard times and to get a profit even at low prices. Increasing the pro- duet and chenpening its cust is the only door opening to relief, -| National Btock- man. 'The Natlonal Live Stock Journal says if oue sets about, building upa herd for slaughter thero are, points he need not. be over nico about. among these is color, The shipper or butcher will buy a good white steer ss quick as though he wero of 'any other color, while the breeder recognizes no merlt a gs Sufficient to watrant [thouse of s whith buil fa mis'herd. © iate i -do- ~ 'Owing to the trouble cpl-climbing trees and the tisk of bees. leaving for.-parts un- known, and the general hard work sud'ex- citement at-swarming time, under old: methods;. tlousands<of farmers in- good honey focalities are without bees, Lelng unaware. thit- under modern trestment climbing frees is not for, andthe bees do not. get. into- the woods unless J.coarse hand 'madé, paper. whi one cow or two, in a 'year-equal to bc to | : har ydispense with them' after years of firelt‘ use poorly printed ome: kind of bluish. plainly the > coarseness of the . p and probably ong-li@lé \of thet w ed on only one side, the other being blank The contrast between the papers of those times, or even those of our: youth. mpar- ed with those of to-day is truly wo derful. 'But even -in our boyhood days- newspapers hind come to forn a considerable part with the well informed portion: of society. 'We. 'have fa former papers alluded to the even- ing: gatherings of all the neighborhood to obtain the imformation of the newspapers taken by my grandfather, Some instan- ces of the benefits of such information to the farming community we remember even in those early times, some of which we will rglate. , One evening our neighbor, Mr. G, said he had sold his oxen. \Who bouvht?\ in- quired my grandfather, \Mr. W., the drgver, und what was strange, he with- out bantering gave me all I asked him,\ naming the price received; \Boef has advanced,\ says my grandfather, \and ho would have readily paid you ten dollars more if you had asked it.\ \Oh how I do, wish 'could afford a paper that I might Keep better posted,\ said Mr. C. \You could have paid for several by what you lost on those fat cattle,\ quietly: remarked my grandfather, \Be jabers,\ said Irish 'Pat, one of the individuals often forming the fireside party, \\me kin tell yo the loss of not reading.the papers. 'The ould ship coming and going is told in them, The devil a bit did I know it.ond meself and brodder hod to stay in the city on ixpense fourteen whole days and nights, we might have saved by read- in],r justufuv lines in ' em. Bad luck to us.\ Dutch Joo anid, \Vwas the news of the papers gave him his wife. But for them he never should have known such a good fraulin lived. I raw in a New York paper that my old neighbor in Germany had arrived from Bremen on the vessel that had just came in, add of course I went and hunted him up, and he had two fine daughters and I just went in for the eldést &nd that is how I came to have such n nice tyoung wife. It is all from reading the papers.\ **Not reading them then' has gone bad with mie,\ sald Jim Folinson, an clox of nearly forty, who Lad.as yet.never 'had the pluck to maity. Whiehmark in the apt dry. way' it came, 'dauséd a-roar! of laughter, after which my. gmndi'alher read to thept. the .current news from his lest .papers'as ususal. , : The influence of an intelligent public pm forgood cannot be over- eslfxim Bo too of an. improper gue .for, évil. paper. which will- invariably: publishes only what it believes to. <be cof- recmmd of a proper, ictal infl enoetis t | fils firmness, whic doteony credit C Variably‘pny; for [if he tends It, 19 .of receiving many fold its cost ev. ‘ryyenr . _. We do not say believe all you . read or 'try to practice all the. whims adviked, by 'no ments, Wo no fore exgect to believe -| like others than we do 46 look like them,\ but a kdowledge 'of their dead will mot lessen the Importance: of our own,. 'We may learn our faults, and our errors, our misthkes and our failures, as well as our snideess by understanding others. They becomes sort of mirtor, the reflection of which fs often: very important to our selves. The increase of journnlisnim om- country has been unprecédently rapid. The first newgpaper was published in 1690. The first political paper in 1788, The first daily paper in 1784. The first religious paper: in 1814. 'The first agricultural paper in 1818. The first illustrated paper in . 1853, and the first comic paper in 1850, « The census reports give the number published in the United States'in- 1850 os 2,520, with a circulation of 5,142,177. In 1870 the number had dncreased to 5,871, with a cirenlation of 20,842,475, In 1879 the number of journals had increased to 9,147, with a corresponding increase in circula- tion. Huhhiesdlctionnry of the world gives the publication of papers in the United States and Canadas, in 1880 at 10,181. A single issue gives 20,077,588 copies, male tng for a single year 'the Immense number of 1,838,478.502. If theso were piled in sinele shects they would make a column over forty-seven miles in height; or if placed end to end, estimating them to nveraze forty-one inches in length, they wonld reach (for one year's issue) over forty soven times around the earth, or five times the distance from the estth to the moon. Buroly there is a power in newspapers and a weight and length ton, over and above that shown by their avordupoiaf To print n single fssue of: the 10,181 papers, there must be handled nearly five millions of pounds of type, or if counted in pleces 2,998.7176,000. 'The type in use for the printing of these is estimated at ten millions of pounds of metal, and of the value of five millions of dollars. To grip this fagt growlog busluess and fix its immensity {o_the mind is hardly possible, And when we. remémber that its entire growth has taken place in legs than two. hundred years, ind that thenum- ber has more than'Hloubled within the past fifteen years, we lay down our pencil in surprise at the Ammeénsity of Amerfean journalism. \Bvory lézitimate branch of business, every calling duilfe, * évery soclety, associ- atlord, creed party, now : has. its news- foal eoqe‘étnnticipationsinthacircnlafing c giva. correct] F Imformation is notexpected, but onewhicli K paper. Orfans. Each; in tom look, and. ingupthaatmng points of its own.: party, d, Fand of its oficers and . candidates for office, Has the principal measures they ap- | 1 landaring a party, like slandering‘an vidual, while 1 In: the d its originator vith the accumulated force of its rapid speed of flight.. We,\ years digo, were with a neighbor riding\ past the store of the late , Timothy Sabin. He seeing us, and knowing we were going.into . a.neighborhood: to give,s political talk that evening. rau out into the street aud accosted us in this language: 'Boys, boys, do you know how to tall: | politics?\ Our answer was, \aot_very| ~ well, and we will gladly receive any sug- your own party, brag up- your own candi- dates for office, but don't, say 'one word. abount your opponents,\ was his. sage ad- vice, and turning. on his heels.he ren light-. ly back to his place of business, 'We have often since, for that was thirty or more years ago, noticed the soundness of his advice.. Trying to do injustice to an opponent, often awakes enquiry and in- vestigation of his character and: fitness, which, without such censure would pass without notice, and if the statement is fourid. untrue; all thestrength of all one has said is lost to such enquiry forever thereafter, no matter how true all else may be which was said in its connection with the falsehood. .~ This disposition to slander political op- ponents, or party, is the wenkest point of the political press, And itis strange that some men of sense in other things will per- sist in following it for all the time of their existence. Butsuch has ever been thecase, Let us quotes point of flustration. When George Washington was about to: retire from his second term as President of these United States, our quotation appeared in a paper of the opposition party, called the \Aurors and was in the following lan guage: ** 'Lord now lettest thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salva (j tlon,\ was the pious ejaculation of a man who beheld a flood of happiness rushing [In upoh mankind. If ever there was a time which would license the reiteration of the expression, that. time has now nrrlvéd for the man who is the source of all the misfortunes of our country, is this day re- duced to a level with his fellow\ citizens, and is no longer possessed of power to multiply ovile upon the United States. If over there was a period for rejoicing, this is the moment. Every heart in unison with the freedom and happiness of the people, qught to beat high-with exultation that the ngme of Washington from 'this doy, ceases to gives currency'to political fniquity, and to leag@lized . corruption. A. [now erm 4s now opening upon us-an era which promises: much- to the people, for public meakires must now {stand upon cannd ouger supported by a name: It i a subject of the that a. single imiividlxfii should hate. car- gmdomyou haye. to give us.\ | \Brag up |f their own merits; and. nefsrions projects, | greatest astonishiient ]\ all > kinds -of. I“ © rights of all regd but whet o ble ideas are \oB al papers. It too, has nch the .quict which always farpogrs in regard to such cure for such troubles. + The eivfllzmg power of the, press wrong influonee‘ and work evil' good to individuals and society . the public papers 'of our\ \cense.\ to-cater to the tastes. of the 'low anfi“tha victous, and' shall gssume the hig tone it ought, it can'and' A its improvement and, for papérs can become a mig! | aid in such réform. luff power limo—Heb we look snd of society, their influence for good écn'ibo- \L come immense, © Boclety improves-in the tatto of\ lts edu- cation in the right' direction. \It ¥étro. gmda; the same manner. \Hé tan that all aim forthe pro public good? Wedqnit theintexnpersto and victor
