Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1874, Page 9

_MARCH Yl vaw "~ THE PLOW UESTION.. ¥ 0 ""nh‘. Tk e Yo dres o Giarzoi iy il ;"Ef-m‘oi{q Avo Rspon- sl for.o{figStateof . Things of " WHIEH “Tuty" Now. . JIRTREN T Las PR 4 i t And Assorts dhat *Freo Tx'n(;le s a Kijling Blls T il Joar r.5nys & Good Word| ~for-Agents, 5.0f o Middiomnn, W “GRAND Pramrr, UL, Mareli 24, 1874, 7 Thie Chicago Tribune s’ R ywof the considerntlons prosontod my fubliskod‘in Tur: Trtnoxz of Teb, 28,1874, I nioty clintgo, that . tho fifmers thom- elvas dro, in tho main, responeiblo for. flie atli- tudo now assumed by the manufacturors of and tho denlors in agrionlinral implements, I charge 4hat they thomeglvos have not only rendered ab- lutely, nécesaary, but ‘that thoy hive® = *. 7, ACTUALLY [DEMANDED, : o -of : things now existing, and of d Mantifogturors. wero _thon osperimenting and * feoling their way.in whet was ac that_time s comparativoly now and untried ficldfor goniua K b, Dirivg theso early Years of trinl'and ‘exporiment, mantifacturers, made s practics of Placing their goody in the hands of busingss-mon lironghont. the.country, to bo.golil on commis- alon, -Tho ‘'manufacturor fixed. tlio prico, and, it #n implomont wag sold on timo, 1t was usually ab is risk,, Tho price of au imploment was uniform bt tho factory and throughout, the country. Tho " rost of transportation—which, of course, varied ‘at difforont pofnts, was added to this factory- prico, and was paid by tho purclinsor. In large Bicopes of country, whoro busicioss mey wore mearce, farmors froquontly noted s salosmen in thoir respectivo uolghborhoods. - The business ‘continued in {ho 'main in this ehapo,until the s _.GREAT FINANCIAL CRASK or 1857-'68 .came, and overwhelmed manufacturer and trader “in ono comnon, riin. Thore was not.n singlo Jmplomjent-mannfacturer in tho West, of any -protontlons, that cgeaped sorious ombarrassmant -during thoso ‘years 'of ~ financial , disaster, ‘and... soveral - -large... cstablichments ‘odme: hopelesely. bankrupt. - Somo,: despair— ‘ing " of * adequatc succoss and - rémuneration ‘in a businers attended with so many -tigke, and rrct*mrlup auch a‘marveious combizition of cap~ ‘ital; of businoss eapacity:aud cxperience, of mo- ~ohubical” geninse aud ekill, aud of consoloss and “untiritig- vigilanoe,” quit it in disgust. A fow survived, and, after years' of lubor,’re-ostab- lishod their busiucie, * I’ tho ‘meantimo, the financial orash hed dem- -onstrated tho etrors of thao old systom of deing “the buainoss,’ When the crush came, the manu- “facturers of implemonts found thoir means seat- +tored ovor ‘the: country in tho hauds ‘of- thelr. ‘ngents and of the farmors. Stocks on hand could not bo sold, and notes could not ba collect- | i and in which the spyurantls-high pricca y | -merating, middloman o making {oo much money nt thelr oxponno. . ha Maater of, the Ladoga Grawgo Lias rocontly snld: “Wo do not: compliin that tho manufacturera of -our mechinery nnd implo- nionts ronlizo too muich out of thom ; porhapn thoy do not, Wo only complaiy that THLY COST UB TOO MUOIL. Thoy aro hancled by p verios -of ngonts, : nono of avhom aro contont to ivorlk for triiling profita 3 and, svhen thoy como into our hands, thoy havo tho living af sovoral mon_taxod -on them for us topay.” That 14 to say, the farmors have proba- bly novor yot beer ablo to nacortain what tho profits of tho manufacturery of implomonts aro ond, thorofure, hoing in this® tuto of Whisutul ignorauce, - thoy . aro satisfled, with thelr piricor, © ' But tlio profits * of - - tho middlomen thoy knaw, or- thipk thoy know, all about; and, thorefore, thoy proposio to nbato thom a8 & uitsanco: Tho- prosont nrrangomont which has.been devised by the mnuufnoturers for distributting {mplemouts sinong the farmera {u'the rosult of “many yonrs of ‘expensive trinl and exporimont. "It s o systom of ' dolng busl- nokn thint haw boen rondorod necossary, and that was absolutoly demanded © . .. . 44 7w DY TIE FARMERS THEMSELVES, As T have heforo said, . a.large proportion of farmors ava suort of capltnl to carry on_their ‘businoss successfully. - Thoy have conseqiontly prossod tho dealor for -fmplomonts on time, 1f they could not got them from' one dealor on torms ta Buit, thoy havo gone to.-anathor; and the man that could glve tho longosb tima -hus rocolved thoir trade. ho ’ doaler, having been tlius compolled to sell on {ime, Lng domanded time-torms from the manufacturer.. Aud horein wo find the gorm of..tho wholo . system upon which the businces of. the manufacture and dis~ tribution of fmploments and machinery is found- which have boen charges .the doalers, .of which 80 much complaint has ‘boon . made, .hove bad their.origin,. It -hns for .many yonre beon ‘woll undorstaod, and taken for grantod, that tho farmers, or n largo proportion- of them, would insist-on buying their implements on timo; and that they 'would' practically pay for.thom’whon- eror it might suit-thoelt conveniouce, These Incts having-beon onco admittod, abd fully com- prehiended. in all. thoir bearings and import,. it *will be roadily undoratood, by business-men at lotst, why it Is thiit’ tho businesa, of dealing in ngricultural ‘imploments, which is so flattoriog 1 promixo,'aud o alluring to the inexpertonced, iu, in fact, ono of tho miost annoying, unromu- EVERY WAY UNSATIBFACTORY ‘departments of trade that man eyer engnged in. ‘I sponk knowiugly and deliborately, and from that acquaintancs with dotaily which loug expo- rrionco alono can give. ~And yo this systoni of busineen, with all of jts. admitted dofeccts, hus ipructically. placed within -the tonch. of overy farmer throughont tho country the implemonts thiat woro indispensablo to his succors; -and that Bave,: within; tho lust twonty-five yenrs, com- plotely rovolutioulzed farming,in o lnigo portion of our country, - The syatem is piacticablo, {lexiblo, and,. to n large extont, it moots tho necossities 'awd promotes - the sub- -stantial"* interosts - of - tho - entiro furm- ‘ing- commubity.. To tho. young farmer, just -commencing 1ifo, it tonders encoursgoment; -to -the ncody -and unforlunale, iv oxtends naist- " auco ; tn tho laborious, thrifty, and siugle-innd- ‘od farmor with lmiled meank,” it proffers nyail- -able'and timely resonrcos ; whilg, to the opulent and independent farmor, with amplo meong .in Land, it supplics.on an hour's notice, and af o liboral discount, tho. much-needed implomant | juat in timo to prevent threatening embarrass- ment and loss on the farm. - And yet To iUt UTHERE IS A DETTERWAY, : - Whenover furmen, or n. largo majority of them, suall kave consed to demaud that muddlo- " mon shall furnish them with eapital on whioch to Dbase and cury on their- farming. oporationa, in: the form'-of implemonts sold on' long timo;: wlicnover thoy shall be roady to pay cash for:| lmglnments on tho delivery of tho goods,—then, ' and not till thon, the-cost of implemonts to thom will drop Irom 16 to'25 por conti Then tho in- : toxost on capital, tho oxponses, the lossos, and " the wear and toar incident to- the business as -now conduoted, will bs -losoned--at least one- " half, -Then, and not till- then, the plow fhat now coaty thom £15 can _bo bought for §i3; the cultivator for which they mow pay £30 can bo bought for §35, and tho- reapor’ for which thoy now give their note, payablo two .yoars after dato, With.8 per cont iritarest nltor six moutha, and with 10por cont intorest after dato if not paid at maturity, can- be bought for 140, cash on delivery.. And then, when thoso glorious, golden days aliall bavo commo,~and may ‘all true Grangors. speed tho timo by valiant deeds -ng wwoll us by passing indignation’ fesolu~ tions,—tlon, 1. say, tho business of tho man incturs nnd. disiribution of agrioultural implo~ monts will be far more productive of net profit ,ed,‘and, in'many ' instances, sgents- became' fn- solvontl- T - T THE WEAR' POINTS * * i {u'thoold system of* domjg *the business woro about nu follows, to-wit: ; . . TFurst—Well-established and rolinble business ‘mon did not like the agency-business, - For vari- “oiis reasons, moroovar, that ean bo fully ‘com- Zprobendet! unly by the initiated, tho-business of “solling implements was poonliarly ‘repugnant to |- 4the ordinury country merclisit. “Some of theso ~wns Iaborious, Toquiring much vigilntico, ~a- con- “siderablo information, o gooddeul of talk, nlurge “atorage-raom ; and that it did not readily biend | -with tho ordinary indoor-trnddo of, the -country- ‘merchiant ; whilo, withal, the protits Werc small |- od unromunorative, ;- L .. Sccond—Tho agent, being anxious to mako his ‘commission” as woll' as to meot the expectations ;of the munufacturora“ as to tho ‘amount of s “snles,did not always make safs eales., In tho dotails of* tho trade, n1so, it often happoncd that “the intcrestaof the principal nud tho ngent outho “1’ contliot, * e e T + Third—This pystem also placed tho moans of -the manufoturer largely in tho Lands of mon to" “whon ho'wij an entaro stranger and Lo whom li ~could riot got nccess in cases of emorgundy ;' and ‘sath whom it was aldo .quita impracticabla for “him'to make any of thoso' numerous shifts and pompromises known to the'conntry trado, where- v-slow and doubtful. papor i criticel tmes-is endered sceuro and available, ¥ This form of doing the business luwinF - thus proved to bo entirely unaatistactory to both porties, andescessively Linzardous to the manu- neturoy, . YW o % ‘" A NEW BYETEM RS iwag gradually "dovised and “introduced: Tho manufaclurer dropped tho-agency-system o n “lurgo extont, and adopted the plan“of setling to *dealors at o liberal discount from rotall prices at ‘tho factory. This errangoment! at oncg presont- * ed induccments for mon of capital and of ‘busl- Tuesr-capacity ‘to engago “in the ' business, ;end to “devotoe -to it thut exclusivo attention that its growing imi:orlnuco demandod. It was, ~bowover, still well undorstond thnt" farmors could not he inducad to pay eash to ‘any consid- erable extent for agricultusal implements, 'he “ponseqgnice was, that tha whole business of the Tmantfurer nlgl of tho dosler had to e reor~ :ganized upon the’ old-timo basis, ' Both tho manufncturor and dealer must bo able to com- - mand largo capital ;. tho mannfasiurer muat tako the'risks of solling to the doulor, and the' desler f sollivig to tho Earmor. -+ - gt Under this arrangement, whon' an . implomont ~ledven the factory, it In sold. It is tenoic s sold t 5 muck loss Prico to_the mamifaothror than -ander tho old form of domg businessy but; on " the otlier hond, it s sold bayohd -all contingon- “ete3, ond st n fair profit, und with comparatiye- Iy hittle risk of loss.” Thus the business of: tho msoufucturo of agricultural {mploments ' was +dinally placedraponn - ¢ et TR T . FEASIDLE, BAFE, AND RUBSTANTIAL DAsts, ‘But this point was not~attdined without larga ~toncesslons Lo the dealer iy the form of discount ~'on factory rrlc = e On the other hand: the dealer zivas his orders * to'tho tinnufucturer in the facoof -all ‘the risky of tlio “Hensons, of the -crop,. of “fluctnating rlces, of an overstovked marlket, and 61 violont _;pompotition; rud with Lito full knowlodge of tho #Fact that at'least throo-fourths of the sfock thut - lio my succaed in Selling will 'ho dold on‘timo, “and practically on Tong tnd indefinita_timo nb that, 1o mattor what the timo specified in- notes 7 and mortgagos may bo. “Lhug itwill bescon thet the riuks of tho busineesof tho manufacture and distnbution of -Implermonts have' beon *largaly ~transforred from tho manufactirer t = L TO THE DEALER, " - . =-Lwoild horo add that,: while tliia’ material chungo in tho form of doing husincss” hns Loen countmmnted; and thero~ iave: been great im- provemonts ‘mude ‘in tho 1unlity, finish, and sorking-capacity of most implemonts, tho cost of =imploments to tho farmer is now but fittlo if any - bigher than it was twalvo'yoars ago, 1f therobda - slight advanco, tlio incrense is by no moansequal 10 tlio Jargoly-increasod cost of tho lnbor. and -aterisl consumed in construction; =nd of ox- s penses incldent to all businovs-transections, . ‘Tho dealor puts s largo shavo of responsibility, ind moro capital. into tho businoss, and takos his' »shances for u largor whare of tho prolits,: Tho + monfacturer knows tho denlor, and o has, tho * means of knowing all sbout hlu laancial ooidie: +-Hon and bis respousibllity, . On the othor, Land, Y thedealor kuows porsonslly tho inost of Lis ons: -tomers;and ha has overy fucility, formuking' himsolf acquainted with Lo oxtont'of. their ros wponsibility, o uses onro In handling hingoods ¢ :ho oxotclaes eaution, prudence, and vigllanwo in vidispauing.of them,--bucauso on him hipne yest Il the vonsequonees of nogligouca‘or s misgake, Now, an 1 undeisiand it, tho furmom lhu!l no faulc with the wholesalo prices of the manuface juzers, Lhoy sinply mako tho point that the easons ave found in tho facts, that tho business |« | of ‘Lue TrinuNE, as'oxcollent articlos Luvo ap- {0 both munufacturer and dealor, aud ' FAR MORE' SATIBFACTORY avory wey, than it now i, * In'conclusion, Mr. Editor, I cannot forbear expressing tho most profound conviction nttored in my former articlo, and stil entortained that tho subject-matter under discussion has, after all, n third side, and that.thut side Ja well worthy of consideration.. . MipprEMAN, Farmer on Free ‘Trades & Hicgony. Grovr, Coles Co,, I, March 29, 1874, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc & - Bm: A grent deal has boen written in your valuablo” paper about farmers, middlemen, and ploywmakors,—each, party, ywith die regard. to solt-interoat, doubtless thinking the coise thoy take -right. Tho knights of ‘tho auvil seem to think thoy have tho farmer under their Loel; tho middleman thinks that, under his manipulations, the malker and user of tho plow get unlimited ndventages; ‘while tho farmer is “screoching lustily agdivet tho plncking by two at ono timo, Instead of losing o much time wrangling over tho matter, we should laok:out for u remedy, and,'if not applicablo just now,.to put such dif= feroncea'out of tho queetion in future.” If tho farmera #e¢ Do curo, it is not tho fault peared from timo to timo on Freo U'rade, which, "X am eorry to oo, the farmors are slow to im- bibo. - It might Do .neccesary for all parties to | know, that, if thio, bruyo " twonty-ono who will die on gory combingtion's broast bofore selling o plow to o customer, wera wiped out to-morrow, _the 'community would ‘suffor little, or at most ohly & tomporary loss. ' b s v ‘Iho arlicles which appeared in Tiz Trinusn Intoly about English and Americani” plows wero substentially corroct. ‘I'ng American imple- ment is Gy fosk i T DENISD TOE TLMES; | moro fitted, 1n.my opinion, te brig out. the gy- -rations, of tho nimblest dancing-uiaster than to do anything dignified with the vame of ‘ good _plowihg. I think any Europesn msnufacturor |+ of ‘agricultural imploments would _supply such “glip-jacks” at $60 per .dozan:. I dou't think tlhero .18 a good breaking-plow made in this Stato, ' I biad to sond to Obio for one' lately. It is trie that, il this alluvial soil, without o vock, stono, or an acro of- stiff clay, whero the morest soraichiug, mikes.an yérsgo crop, oy piloh, -Jerl, and shovel along ‘st a ”great rate, hitting whoro .thoy..don’t mniss ; and, ss might be ox- pected from such widuo. exertion, tho tritla of steel, wood, pig-iron, and round bolts fluds an curly resting-placo in" somo fonéo-cornor,—not lustlng . ono-fourth the timo a good frticle should snd outing twico ga mugh. -It is Very generully put forth that the farmer iis such‘s jyoor, necdy follow that, if Lio only can got.tho.aiticlo o timo, uhy other considoration 18 Siot noticod, .This I8 not fact, ' I have farmed . vory extousively, and almost ‘invarinbly pay agh, and fid I can do no boltor than my noizhe bora'do on six months’ time. - I kuow middle- men ave not I tho slightost dnxious abiput casly down, but scem "to’ profer solling on timo; and that favmors who will. got no reduction for cash carvy their motiey omo with thomn again, It seoris tlio plow or cultivator fs mado . TO T AOLD ON TIME, and priced necordingly, -+ |, ‘o farmor is in uo m:i; pratectad ;. tho laho) fug-mon «~ is not - frood “from foreigu- .com- petitors; ‘bub thess supotcilionn plow-mak- ors, - knowing - we can't Import. n: lubor- saving implomont, .think they can laye.it ll their own: way.:- Thoy .shoulil learn wisdom in time, or they will haston ovents, ringing: vom- ‘potitors -to " tholr Vory doors, and, inntcad of rlrnsnlng at jmmonko.” fortunes in n fow yoars, ave to loarn: compotition s tho lifo of trado, nnd bo eatiufled with the modorata, atondy, nn sure rownrd.of houost industry whieh (his ' pro duative bolstoriig up ia. very ill-caleulated to brang homo to (hem,, : . ¥ T "Thera 18 not ono farmor in thounand who 'fs ' not, a4 ho should.bo, in favor.of Lowe munufae-: -turas ; but whon, instead.of dealing couccaously; . with thelr patwons, awd. giving hanest artlolos- ab. falr pricos, manufactiirery resort to combination, nlmost coorcion, they. .forfolt. nuy . leanings: towards consldoration, and it should ‘be n mattor: of indjfforence to tha furmor if hio gots the arti- oles o wauts froni Eugloud or. Garraany, Ilussin! or Thnbuloo, . o . oe < Tt 1 - favorlte fiaime with somo hewspapor- writerg and-political supirants, to descaut on the dangor tp this oountry.of.tha o o - . 1172 s Y PADREILADOT OR EUNOPR:'Y. j This pahiper-machinery fu, bowevor, vory ao- coptable_and usoful whoun it comos fu flosh and bones, If it camo in manufacturod wieel, iron, and woolon goods, it wonld bo in every respeot very' welooma to tha farmor, reducing hia ox- pensos grontly, and adding to his comforts vary much; alko, giting him o vory oloar iuglght into the diffotence botieon- solling choap with buy- Ing dear, nud rolling chenp with buying oheap, "Mlio consumption of our aurphus produco i vory much dopontlent on thin “pauper-labor”y it is tho Amorienn farmor's . best friond, and nny ntonsure to benetls it will inovitably inorenso tho demand for whint wo have to goll,” It Ins bean reported lately thay n-thourand per waok of Amorican opotntives havo loft hora for tho shores of tho Old World. - Thoy know whnt they woro doing;- Ao that,‘whils the’ ownors of Anterican mills and manufactoriod nmnss thoir mifliony Apeattily, tho workers don’t gol- moro puy thau faymora’ hands, if na muel, X prosime, . - Farmors, this I'rotootive Tari {s a mockory, doldbion, and onars,—n thing. gotton up to rob the “many for the'bonoflt of " a fow, Jtaflroad- nbuses, compared to it, aro triflon, . Mannfag- turra mny threaton; #f it i aboliuhed, thoy and thair handn, instend of using up your . proiuce, will go'to farming, and inerenno the produsta of tho goil Ra muok that ruinous prices nunt follow. Not ono bit of it; thay havo too much room Lo oomo down; have unlinted rosources, dislnice, and tho clmn{man food at their doors, which i3 amplo protection ; and will huvo, in il probobil- ity, to.como to tho bard-pan of giving honest EOods at nn honost price ; but no workshopy will ba -stopped, no fires blown' out,—not one. B~ hgltoned natives, Ve £ : . .- ADOPT FIEE TRADH; this ono will bocoms equally libornl, Why delay about it ?'. Let Freo 'I'rade nnd oqual justice bo tho battlo-cry at the noxt oleotion, and the vie- tory is yours, ‘Tho result will bo inereased prog- pority ustond of ruin. Respoosfully, - . B W, A, Gngr; N: B.—Iam no Englishman,—no Grango: havo ' bean ab no” farmors’ meating ; am_moroly an obsorver of avents ; -have ‘lived -with Froo ‘L'rado ns woll as Protootion; havo whistlod aftor Twroponn na Woll'ny Amoricnn plows ; -may .an- pliro totho nnmo of n practical farmer; end, without prejudice, can in no way soo that the farmor hns-Jookod for ono lata moro thou simple justico to bimsolf. : A Farmer on Agontsi, Unrox Tows, Livingstou Co,, Til,, Aarch 20, 1874, Tu the Iiditor of The Chiéago Tyibunos Bm: Sowmo of tho communications sent to you speak of tho ngents for selling agricnlturnl imploments as “n band of roguos,” 4 littlo bot- tor than vobbers,” Now, I'am a farmer, nnd ma in full sympathy with tho" farmers, DBut- I belioyo'in jristico. ‘Thereforo I cait novor agres with any ono holdwng such viows a8 tho above. Bomo of thoso writors any, * Do nway with local agonts, and deal direct with the mpnufaoturing companies, oud pay eash.’ This is B IDLE TALK; . for any rousonablo man’ kuows wo are not yet #blo to'pay cash for all wo pur- ‘chaso,’ Thereforo, ngents and othor middle- mou oro as necossary to tho farmor as his horso or cow. How wany farmers nro thero to- doy. that owe their first start in lifo to thoso samo - agents that many now abise and con- domn ? - L hold it is au “inestimublo boneft to three-fourths of-tho farmers, that thoy have an opportunity of purobnging thoir farming implo- monts; and whiting until they can _raise a crop bafore having them -to-pay Tor. I spenk from expevionco; fur 1 havo only to look baok o fow yeurs, wheu I was starting out npon life's doubt- Tul voyage, without money, and n comparative seranger. And Lwill over tomember- wiih fool- inge of gratitudo tho nygonts that thon ausisted mo, and waited until I raised o crop and paid them, Aud thore uro howsnnds to-day, whoso yaiced nro-lost in the buay whirl of life, who will Dbear witness of tho truthfulnoss of my wsser- tions, ‘Ci:ut the farmers aro imposed tpon by some, i6 o trulh that none will attemps Lo dony. But tlmy wil ¢ . NOT LESSEN THESE WHONGS ‘by quartoling with aud abusing all othor classos of men. No, wa aro uot yet m o conditiou— canuot afford it, nt this early dny to act in this ~manoer; 80 sny nothing of justico. Are wo ‘;olug to pattorn afrer tho wild savago of .tho -Iar Waest, who, when Lo imngines bim- solf wronged, spares ‘neithor friond or foe? ‘When tho" farmers have inid aside such foclings of hatred ; when thoy learn to distinguish friend fiom foo; when thoy are willing to rocognizo overy Lionost man, 1ot his trado bo what it moy, —then,- and not till ‘thon, can_they -hopo to trinmph. = o. F. THE FIELD AND STABLIE. Luxation of the Patchla, or noe.Pan —Fhe Treatnient of u Dislocntion vf the Patella, or of SoxCaliod Zong Btifled,” When of Short Standing, From Our Own Correspondont, MANUATTAN, Ran,, Murch 18, 1474, A LUXATION OF THE PATELLA, OR KNLL-PAN, © JANEsviLur, ‘Wis,, Murch 18, 1874, By, # VETERINARIAN V—S11 luve boen o coustant reader of your articies’{n TuE TRINUNE for rover. years, and liko tho information thoy give very mici, “Wilt you b so kiud na to give mo & littis sdvice fis re gurdto the Lest treatmont of o youug 'colt which 5 suffering from tlie dlrlocation of thio tlfle-Soint, When about § or 4 montlis ofd, I “shut him i & cow=atuble, ‘and, in passtug througls the stauchions, he bruised the stiflono thet o woft bunch,'about tho'sizo of n mon's flst, came juat below tho ofut, It scems to contalnn Aluid, The bone glips around very casily by a alight presauro of the haud, Tho fujury s of stoul four months' standing, -Have douo nothing'for it, hoping it would como out ail right fn thuo ; but it goth 10 bute tex, and, If anything, tho auimal {s more Iuino than at “firat. L'min, rospecifully yours, © - J. B, MISon, Answer to J. B, AMinor: A luxation of the "patolla, or knoe-pan, aithough casily enrod whon now, must bo cousidered as *almost inourablo vhen it {8 of four months' standing, and attonded with, or fucilitated by, alarge, morbid oxpunsion ‘of 'the capgular ligamont, whick “fastons the patella to tho fomur, closos tho joiut’ botweon these two bones, and containg, in the cavity tius formed, tho &ynovin, or tho lubricating fluid of the joiut. In your eado it may bo still worse; for it‘ia poseiblo that tho colt, by’ pasiiug through tho stanchions, ot ouly bruiued tho knce-pan and its ligaments, but also broko one of theso transversnl bands fosteudd'to tho ferur, which atronghten thio capsniar ‘.llgumeut, #od” keop the patollalatorally in its propor pluoe. ' If vo, a porfect ccovory will bo impoasible. If you can avail yowsell of tho services of a compotent voterinary surgeon without {ueurring groat espenso, I would adviso you to- fak such o ono to oxamine your colt, and, according to cirenmstencos, to . undortake tho troatmont, espacially if tho colt is avalueble animal. If you caunot, I would ad- visa you to apply, about txwice o weok, just bo- low and ot tho sides of tho kuce-pan, but not abora tha Ramo, a liniment composed of ono park . of canlharides nnd four paris of ofl, bollad to- gother for about half an Hour,” This' liniment muat bo rabved In sufficiently with tho haud so 8 to bring it into a thorough contact with the skin ; and tho applicationis'of ' the same may bo repented, from timo to timo, till tho dosired ro- sult has boon nccomplished, or till it has becomo ovident that no euro will bo effoctod, The colt, dul;i!;g such & trentment, should be kopt in the stable, . - In:connection with the nuswor to your inquiry, it may not bo out of pluzo to doscribo briafly TUE TREATMENT OF,ADISLOCATION OF TILE PATELLA, . OI OF BO-CALLED “ BEING BTIFLED)” WIEN or ;' BHORT ETANDING. i b A dialocation of the patelln is offacted, in most ‘cages, by n suddon and violont contraotion of “those musclos which fasten to that bone, sucl ng veetus fomoriy, tho vastus extornus nnd internus, and tho orureus, but espozially of the anteri or ‘head, or poition of tho bicops fomoris, swhich draws tho patella away from the aptious lue groovo, or_trochlon, of tha ' fomnur, or thigh- “bone, and’ Jodgos tho same_ upon the externpl «ominngo of thut irochles, or urticulse surfaco r tho patolln, . ‘I'his, of course, is passiblo only -whon the contraction of thosemusclos is o sud- :don_ono, and - strong ouough to ovorcomo the ustural teusion of - thoso liguments which, undoer vovmal conditions; lieep tho patelin in it pro{mr :pluco. Bnoh i Inkntion or dsslocation of thoe ]mlnllxl may ho perfaoct, or bo jraperfect, In the.| uster coso, it s ofton wuiliclont _to roplaco the patallu to its propor-position, it. - the antagonists of thoso musoles named abovo are oxoitod to ack, or to captract thomselves, rathor suddonly ; in othior words, by eausing tho horao to kiclk, or by pushing iho weight of . tho ynsuspooting unimal mldllmllfy Trom tha sound hind leg upon the luma ouo, ~If, Lowaver, tho Jaxation -1 o porfoct one; auothor' modus-oporandi. Locomos: nocossary, In such & caso, tho oporator ncods an apsist- ant, . who, standlng - noar ‘tho forelog of Ao horse, lus fo 0 hold of - iho hind foot of th Inme log, autl ling’ to raiso thet 1foot us 1anel forward, and s high, and aa noar -up to tho olbow of. the foreleg, us ho possibly can, in order fo, rolux, the powerful musolen in=, ‘yertod i tho kueo-pan, 5o us Lo ongblo tho opora~ or, who tukos his position a Jittlo .behind apd &b, «tho uido of tho lamo log, to dislodgo the patelly from tha exterunl eiaingnes of tha lower ond of ,;lxo|{ompr, wud to push it back iuto it former “positian, e A Ty AR Ax o dislocation of the’ patelin is not poasible withoul o relaxation of at lunst somo of its liga- ‘mouts, aud us thosolignments cannot obsain, im- E " Not (or 30 15 per Busbel) How_they can modiataly, tholr normal {onsions acain, subuo. quont.disfocntions of tho palella will fraquontly mako thoir npponrance,’ sometimen with - vory nhort time after. the, patelln has beon raplaced ‘to itd ' normal position, Thorofore, although such subsoquont dislocations are much " enalor romovod than tha {itni ono, n--the contraction of tha mueclos will offor much logs rénistanco, it will'bo advisablo to koep tho pationt quiotly.in the ntablo afior the aperation hns boen’ performed. If sovoral djs- locations hayo talan placo, of, what 4 the. samo, i[ tho Hyameits lieva bacomn vor{ rns laxod, or linve bean #trained considoiably, 1t will Lo nocansery to Apply Fomo silmulants or eountorirnitants, rospactivoly, just bélow and at tha gidos of tho kues-pan; that is, to wash thoso parts with an nstringent dacoction,—of onk-bark, or of toxmontilla, for, instanco;—or to, tub in goma spirits of camphor, or.soma tineturo of eantharides! . In snolt a cann, it will bf,uuuml nat only td kewp tho horao-dn the stablo, btk also to tio the samo in such & woy a8 will prevent him from lying down, YVrremyAunidy, e THE FARM AND GARDIEN, Shipping Corn to Now YorkesThe Old and 1o’ Now, AucntsesLndla the Grangerus=ho £10wsIling==Noy Minckbored Transuctions, of the the Ellinols’ Stite SocketieswmForestaI'roc. Prativg fn Wiscansinediast 61 Apa Ploss=ContirysSeod §or the Pratrices No. 0 and Pain-Ilidler . Mediciness Erogross with SpringetVors, rom Our Aarieultural Correapondent, 2 T onasratay, T, Murch 23, 1874, finco the boginning of tho Farmor's Moye- ment, thero haa baon » steady effort making to cut down commissions to thoir lowest polut, in ordor to renlizo tho highest roturns to.the farmor.. Th mony casas tho thing Lns ovor- ronched itsolf, and thie feriior, in becoming his own middlomian, - 5 MAELOST NMONLY, | o Ther, again, tho agents of tho Clubs and Granges Lavo 1ot boon sufciontly export, or rather educatod to tho business, to.do tho best, or ag woll s tho oll commission-mon would bavo dono, The result thus shows . that the-old: [ svalom is tho vory beat {hut hos a8 yot beon do- vised ; and that the now olass of Club and Qrangd ngonts and' purclinsers will, a8 & genoral thing, prove a failare. This §s in the very na- fura of ‘things. In tho first pluce, thoro fs nothivg new in thomodo or doing business thio sollinig oud " tho . buying aro the samo; and {t"'is nmot probable that tho mow agonts will bo any ‘more honest than tho old, “whilo thoy lack the exporionce that long practico and sequaintauce with both bisyor and seiler huve given thom.. e - Our fafmors ob this point proposed to pay " ONLY ONE COMMILBION on their érop of cotn, andl’ that ono ab the end ‘of tho route, at Now York City, Tho corn was shippod Fob, .12, nud sold i Now York on ths 4th of March, On che 10th returns of salo wero mudo, and & singlo eheel ‘toturned for amount due. Ten duys wero lost in collecting tho chieck, making thitty-two dnys ocoupied ju tho salo of tho corn and rowurning tho ‘monoy. Thoy wero offerod 48 coutd per bushel aftor tha corn was on tho ears, or ‘lhoy ‘might ship” through on tho contract of tho middlemen. According to their figures, tho corn’ would not them 562 conts ot lenst. DBut lhey ‘did not tako info decount atl’ the' little items that go to muko up the charges on singlo shipmonts. To show thoso clements, T will givo THE NILLS na they eamo back fr Quo car, 18, - T8 conts, n tho consigneo : 32456 busbiels, sold at: 3 280,07 - $11.60 Net (or 38340 Dar BUSLO. oo vevvroesereres SI28,67 Four cars, 83,413 1bw, 1,471 36-56 Lisho _st7do., . 1,147.88 Toid. frelpht, 4 catw, from Bavoyto Chome “paln, b Inilos ... 108 reijght: (o Now Tors, 800 Blovating, Xo. Welghing., 0. Commissfon, 3¢ per ecnt. .. A0 670,84 Tlho Joss ou the one-car 18t was 3 laying out of the monay ono.month, ou the fowrcar lot was $120.54, Tho quedtion arises at once, How would tho douler- making the 48 conts nirer MAVE MADE MIMGELE WHOLE, 1 in the premisos? In the it plave, ho bns -8 dvaw-bucl on freight, aud tho Eastorn: line pro- posed to refund him ouc-lalf of the e m‘b}!lfllfi chargos for tho 414 miles: commission-charges” would- be 1 cont - bushel, instoad of 2¢ porgont! In' this way Lo would bavo - mado. himuelf good by-n doduction of charges. Bay what you will, these largo ships pors can and do net botter rates than {lio small shippers, and they know - just whore to cut down expentos. . £ the same corn had boan * BIIPPED TO CHIOAGO, 1ho chiarges would have beon ab follows: Oulg car, 3246l b, frolght 10 141600 per Tho loss Comuiselon, 1 jor b s $35.40 Contra, 933 24-260 bu, markot-prico March 4, 64 conts, ., $160.55 Net (or 44 couts per bu). .. fvense, $146,09 The loss would have boon only ‘$14.46 ; .and on the four-car lov would have boon 59,41, On Satarday, the 16eh, new corn.sold in Ohi~ cago.at 0 conts, and &t Buvoy stulion at G5 cents, Tolona tho same, and at Chompaign at 52 couts, ‘fhe corn whipped nt Tolons goes oast vin Champaien. That ig, it makes o short haul of ninc nuloy north ou tho.Tllinois Central, and thon oast yin Indianapolis.” T'ho denlors . nt. Toloun arg the partica purchasing at Savoy. ay 8 conts o bushol moro thun tho Champaign denlors, aud ship over the same line, to which is added chormous eharges for Lho nino miles, is one of tho mysteries of railroad, Whito Line management. But the broad fact 18 thero to confront the sitple-minded : Grangor, The same day, corn in Now Yorls was quoted at 89@90 conts. , ‘Laking tho aboye froight-bill ps o criterion, tho corn 1n New York would net 51 2-10 cents por bushol 'to’ the Grengor who dosired to alip aud bo his owir middleman. . It is but fair to say that, sinco the'l6th, corn hus ruled ub Bavoy 2 or § cents loss, and now tho rato is but 1 or 2 conts above the price at Ohampaign, . Lho fact is becoming anparent that einco the falllng-off in recaipts, the lincs uro : TRIVATELY MIDDING AGAINST EACIT OTIER. Whothor the Illinois Contrul could got the corn from Lhis part of theStatoat any prico, asagninst tho Enstern lines, 1s o question, but one thut would do thom uo barm in trying. Tor 130 milos tnoy charga over 16 conts per100 pounds. TEight to 10 conts would secure’ most of it, tuke ing tho rogular Ensternratos a8 ‘a basis, Thoen our farmera profer to ship to Chicago, 'Thoy srot tho daily markot-quotations; and could tako' od.. Jantago ot thiem but i shipping to Now York, tho pricos mny vary lardoly bofore the goods ars suld. Thon corn is sold in Now York withoub inspection. * ‘ho day the flve cars wore sold, the | quotntion waa BL cauts, yob tho salos rotmrnod woro at 78 conts, T'or tho summor ut lonst, corn shou)d go from this part of tho Siate : 7O CHICAQO § g W and no doubt that tho Iliinois Contral Tajl- roud would flud it to its advantage to seo that it isnoz ovorchurged. Othor busingss would fol- lx;’\{ the corn, end, on tho whole, might bo profit- ublo, S s A e An the Now Yol Sun of o lato_date is an ln- stunco of shipplng wheat from Nobrasks, with no bottor result than tho five curs of corn. men- tiened. . = Af uny farmor thinks that he enn do better in '10 sulo of his produce than .good, fair uslos- faan can for Lim, he ig at Iiberty to . try . it, for thisin o froo country, , Thore aro. mony nbuses 1o bo corrcoted.; Lutany attempis to do without Bonrds of 'Prade, . commission-mon, and mer- chinnts, will prave o pignal failure, Among the Tollncies of the Gruugers. js thoe - purchuso of goods ub ratail at wholesnlo prices. K The war making on {ho i . . - 80-CALLED. ILOW-RING, ig'n war of. domugogues for political crqialml, sicoking tho sympuihios snd voron of the Urans gord, In tho end it will fail, . This county Los a conceded Ropublican majority.of 1,600, and yot that party darod uob.pug up a tioket at” the st clpotion, " Thero i vo war at this poiut on the Plow-Ring,~the Grangers buying sucl goods us planso thoim, but witheut. vegard to who mado: %lmm, pmvhlnd that . the price s satisfaotory, Bowoe, tnlut .cattemply,; Liye . Jeon . puglo ity o iholesalo “purchiao of goods, but trade hies gono back to Ity oll ohaunely, and fmplo- mouts ro purchased of the regular doalers, *| forest-bolta of tho prairic strcoms. Beth dodlor told mo yestordny thnt his snlessitico Jan, 1 linve boen latgor thair i any provious year, and that ninc-tonthn of them havo }oon cash fn hand; and this liouno denlw in the goods of tho vo-callnd xing manufacburord. Ho much for buncombe. Good ¥ounlu and low prices will tako the load, howevar domngogues may blustor, HEW BLAOKHLRRIER, . To say that mout of tlio .now blnckborrlos thnt aro put on tho. murkob avo nyrant humbnuga,in uaing’e mild tornt., I uog tho Missotisl Mamimoth Yol fiuron in respoctabils nuraory-cataloguos. . Ib 1s impousiblo thiit thena nurasrymon linyo, baon asloop for thg past thrno or four yoars, sineo thiy avindle hasbeonoxposod, I hinvo soveral lettors of inquiry in regard to the Suvdor blnckbory, but pornpnally I kiow nothing.of t. - A friond by whouo judgmont Thave tho highost confidencs, aud who visited n FlnuLnuou of it Inst sumimor, " snyn tho_fruiv small, and that it did not moet his expeototious, and ho .con- cluded not. .to Invest dn it Some plant-peddlors. offer tha plants . at 84 por dozoi, 820 por. 100, or. $150 par 1,000, Plants may bo'hd of rogular nurorymon ab 81 vioe dozen, 88 per 100, anid R20 por 1,000, Thay wero safd to hinvo originated near. Laporto, Ind., whoro plants muy bo had at low rates, Itis probablo that'the plant is hardy in many loca., tlons, but may not be of any gront valuo on ox- posad pruirio-gardous,. Tho Binck-Onp family of raapherrios will be found moro desirablo in all such places’ than. tho. biackborry. It would bo woll to. go. slow. ou any uow binckborry, soveral af which are now on the market. Wo must boar [in mind thab tho ownors of a new frult, or the inventor of a patont, are liable to be triflo en- | thusingtic, and wo may discount thoir opinion soyeral per cont, . . Georgo B, Morrow, Bocrelary of tho ' WIECONSIN' TATR HORTIOULTUIAL SOCIETY, - has sont mo the Wransoctious of that Socioty for tho yoar 1879, It i o nico volume of 200 pagas, i and cannot foil to Lo of grest insercst to tho | trao-planter, the orchardist, and gardener of tho i State. Tho anous: mootmg for 1874 waus hold (tho flrst woek in' Fobruary, of -which thoro !is a full ropoft. Of course, no Auch 'boolk would Lave beon turned out: by the Btato Printors *in go short.a time, - In the*biatory of ' Stoto Hortteulturnl Transaotions, this work hos Dboon prosented in tho shortest “Bpnco of Limo. Tho worl cen Lo had of the Secretury at Mad son _for 81, which onittles the person vo mem- i borship, Fonigr . Wisconsin pays a bounty on - £ FONEST-TREF, TLANTING ¥ of 82 per ennum per acre,—limiting the planting, to sheltor-bolts, not exceeding one-tilth of .tho whole tract, und of troos that-grow not loxs than 60 foot hiyl This include arbor vitw, asly, Delsun-fir, basswood, Looeh, biveh, buttornut, codar (probably red -cednr), black eharry, chest- nut, colfeo-tree, cucumber-troe, eim, hnckborry; hemlocl, hickory, larel, - lochst, mapls, oalk, qiuo, nl)rm:a !ul‘p-lran. end walnut. It is doubtful it the coilea-trco, the oncumber, and tho tulip will grow iu any part of. the Stato,—ut least not_on tha opon prairio. - . Tho Lwo -lutter firuw in tho forests of Iudinun nnd Michigan, ut do uot reach such n : Northern poink in uu; o them rofuso Lo grow.at this point. K Tho wintor of 1872-3 was vory destructive on orchiard trees. ‘Thio eausa of this was attributed to tho drought'of the provious sonson nd tho long-continued cold of .the winter, but the orch- ardists are not discouraged, sud hope by the nid of their shelter-belts to. produce at Joast s par- tinl supply of the more_ hardy fruite, such as np- los, poars, grapes, and plums,- - THE LIBT OF APYLES RECOXDMENDED, i8: Totorski, Duchoen of Oldonburg, Hags, Plumb’s Cider; Snow, Walbridgesitod Astraciiau, Rittor, Wostfleld, Sock-No-Further,- Don Davis, ‘I'olman 8weet, St. Lowrence, Willow Twit, and Pownuliee. Tho fonrth, sixth; eighth, and four- teonth aro littlo, if any, known outside of 4Viscon- sin; but whother .they are - local roedhgs, or some . unrocognized varioty, is uncortain. Tho Huas applo 18 known farthor wouth ns Tull Queon, 1 have fruited it for about twonty yenru; it is & vory showy-red applo, of the sutimn list ¥ i,.beulucuv "hon.- again, his | with us, but will probably keop long mto winter 1 Wisconsin, _ ¢ v b - Those Btata meetings are far more usaful than mont peoplo beve given thom eredit for, Thev aro the expouonts of tho yoar's exparionce, and point out the effects of eoil, culture, and variotics of.trecs and planis on (climto, - The apple-list, that embraced mora than a thousand varietiea n tho first plantings, is.now. reduced to s list of fourtoon that could be agroed upon® for gemeral plauting, Four of tuese aro not known in the bools ; whilo the second, third, fifth, soventh, ainth, and twelfth have a raputation in Iillinois. : . . -GRATES. > .The Tjst is made up of Delnwaro, Concord, Lindly, Wilder, Salom, Agnwam, Jencavillo, Wor- den, and Eumelan. 'I'he fhst on tho list eppoars to do woll in Wisconsiu, ny it is little dumaged by tho lenf-hoppovs; Concord is well spoker of 3 ‘and the othors.may do woll, but, for points south, Lieve nos given satisfaction, . .Becratary Galusha, of the ILLINGIS BTATE HONTIJULTURAL BOCIETY. bas also sent mo tho Trausactions for 1878,—a book of 862 pages ; n volume of nbout tho sizo of tho Stato Agricultural Ioports, - which: cost, for pupor, printing, aod binding, -about 1 & capy for au adition of 1,000 opiss 3 but. thon it o not dono by the State Printor, Tho binding | cost about 25 cents - & volume.. . Tho- Stato, by | allowing tho Socioty to managa its own printing, has shown ita.wisdom; by having the work dong thon the worlk is out in timo to bo of use to ihe plaoter. - 'hesa Transaations ave annual hand- Dbooks of IHorticulturs, and_their grent ~valuo consists in having them outin good soason, or befora the scason of planting, 'This -volume of Transcetions erbraces reports from many of tho largor Hortleultural Societies of tho Stato. - : Tho Socioty his given up tha idou of voling a lit of fruite, ind simply endeavors to give the facts in regard to any or all of them, leaving planters to be tho judge of whak is' Lest'to plant 1u each loeation, ‘Tno_book-can bo. obiained of Mr. 0. B. Galn- sha, Beeratary, Morris, 1L, at 91, which is the memborahip feo, Tho damagoe o troes in the winter of 1873 is Tully sot forth, CANARY-BEED. g AfoHeNny Couxcy, 1, March 18, 1874, Mt % RoBAL "—S1x: Tt apeats to me that cai sead Gught to bo grown on our pyiiries, ot least for homo use. Yor ‘the pust two ycars I hava sown & few sueda tn my flower-yxrden, und hiwo produced & sl quuntity of sead, "ho follogo of tho pluut fo rather prelty, but, naon orunmontal plant, it 1s inforlor to Bomo of the otlier grusses, Why not'gow it for u furme crop? . - MMas, M..1, Abont o dozen years. ago, wo -sowed 20 ueros of canary-seed. 1t did not prove o puying ciop, only 80 far au fo pay actual expense. - The dinle culty is, that the plant . requiros a warm, moist cliniato, liko the north shors of tho Mediterran- can or ity islands, [Clicro it producos n largo crop, ofien 90 to 40 bushols to tho nere. - Wo gioi it. for threo yeurs, sowlug 20 acroan yeat, though, on naow, clesn land, tho bost wo could got wna 8 bushels to .the nore. The plants grow vory woll, but the dry weathor preveuted their filling, and tho result was .a disappointment at tho timo of threshing. It i probable that it will do better on tho east shors. of Bake Michigan, or some location that alwnys offers a moiat cli~ mato. It should Lovo.n trial in Florida, among tho lukes and rivors, whore dampnoss is the rule: ‘Ihe duty on the,seed is about $1 a bushel, Tho sded waighs GO quuds to the. bushol, My orop wos muainly sold in Clicago ot about @ conts por pound, The straw. is_of no valuo for forago, LotiE too Lacd, and, besidos, 1t must be oxposo ta tho weather somo weeks, in ordor to thresh it, aud thot of -itgoll. destroys the forago valuo of tho straw. Lho crop is sown _and oultivated _ li¥e burloy,- snd harvested with.: o . barloy-fork.. ‘as it- cammot bo bound in sheaves, and i ran through the mu- chino looso, In,a web senson it will baroly pay exponses, but uot in a dry ono. I have ofton soon.it in flowor-gardons, and abont tho. lonse- grotundu whore tlio bird-cages have beon clonued ont.. ., . A : i Tho Gormon onuary-seed-in infovior to that grown in Spufu and ot tho islundu. 1t appoars o dolight ost iu u wurm, moist olimate, und, I shouid judgoe, o vich mucky soil. Tho olimato of Englind is too avol for it. t N0, 6 AKD PAIN-KILLER, . ‘Woonrorn CouNty, Iil., March 16, 1674, M, #RomAL"—BIn: A greal miny yers ago, our ¢hler” fuwily medicing was Dr, Thompion's Ko, 6, o “luve Tain-Killer that tasfes much 1o 16, hut 35 no better, 1€ us good, und tho drigglst chatges au «normous prico for it, * Our old ‘reliwbio No, U costs only a tritle, * 1 wish you could tell mo how £ make it 1wunt to got the suntorial and mako ¢ mysolf,. Cun full Kive nio g vecipo for o good, choup Jnfment? 1t v s yood thing tokeop womo of thoso cheap Temedes in (e hovgo, " 1nnbund sag thoy uzo of no use, but L eol Lettor to have them at hand.” - M, V, 40 M, i No. i is mado of gum ruynh, red pepper, and algohiol, or pure spirits: -Gam myirh, 4 outices ; guppicum (red pepper) of the druggiat, ws it is aunoh stronger than tho red poppor of our gar- dens, Lalf 2 ounce; and one quare of pure pitits, aralcohal, with hulfa pint. of water addod, if tho latter is ueod, By adding o thiy more or 1eas of opium, you binve tho whole family of Palu- Killors, trom that of Porry Duvis down, Devry Duvss lins beon dend many vonrs, buk his Puin- Willor dow't die, Muw, “ Rural™ was taught to venoruto No, 6 whenu childy but sho gives ib in vory light dosos, a8 sle hos not forgotton tho fiexy tenspoonful that hor mother ummfilernd ime portant, - Bui, in thoso dsys, molhers wera mora horoid in guving medicino-than mothers aro now= aduya,. [ canremembor -flglmu,( o doso of this 0, 0‘ Lut wan yaduced to- aybmigsion .by . being, old down by my mother's faot on my cheat, my mouth priod’ open with s spoon, and the burns ing liquid wens dowa my u{rom.' Bince thenl ut Jens than half tho cost of Stato- printing, and. hinvo lonned townrds ilomeapnthy, or at lenst tako No. 6 in sl doros, . "+ " w4 aooD LISTENT, Ono ounco of Inudnnum, ono of olive oll, ano of spixils af. mumonin, and one of -chloraform, Shako Yieforo using, aa tho lattor sinkn to iho bottomof tho vial. . It fn . wnmiug appljention, and hlintors If coverod with a cloth,” As Mra, M. Buys, komo uf theno simplo romacdios avo good in their [{hlun; but to koap dostngswitl thont is not o goa thing. Aud yot they oftan save un o doc- tor's bill and moro serious- slcknosn, - A cald ob dora throat, to which wa_of tho country ave lin- blo, 15 often checked ‘with soniathing of tho Rind 3 and yob wo should ot tha'quask-incdicinon alonn, ns agenernl:thing, as many of them' avo dotestablo. nixtures, - 1. know ‘that my ldy- frlends will thank mo for advising them” to go Hglt on all iinds of driga, L . . Bpring I faltly at hand, and all kindsof - _ : FARM-WORIC 2 avo In progress, 'ho wintor-whoat fs suporb, and a greator-brondth ls sown than ususl. The Tiog-crop lns hoon sold vory low, and a dlsposi- tlon to sell corn rathor than Lo foed 1t'is porcop- tblo. Onts hnd upring-whent nva linving nttone tion; and.a fair broadth of corn will, o doubt, Do planted, bub much lesy thun In 1872, “Thore ia o growing intorast-fn mixed crops, in which flax, potatoee, nud the grassos, bogin-to figure, | 'Thic fnquiry for frnit-treos {8 also improved, and tho damaged orchards will bo in-part replaced, Our. .ronding formers .- are planting. -but . a fow ° varioties of the ~ applo, while others no. putting in . auything that Ipoks wall find _promixes o varioty, . Penrs . and penchen have dono no badly that fow will bo lauted « 'Tho - 1llinels Contral, -in: addition to areh-plantivg, is to plant sovoral miles of Osngo hodge no an oxporimont. 1n-1855 thoy planted 50.uiles ; but the work was 8o badly dono thet only a fow fow rods of tho fenco unow remain to toll tho talo of failuro, Loting hodging ont by contract is poor businoss. + A fow-yorts slnee, - largo number-of contracts -for -farm-hodgoes was nindo In this county, bub tho- contraots wora 50 drawn that tho profit vomo in tho flrst yoar, and; 08 was Iutondad ot the stort, tho ‘coritracts wero abandoned, -and tho farmots suod: for the firat pezment on the first yonr's work, . and tlioy. Il 1o poy it, Tho wholo was & awindlo,.and Iuvmots vhionld do their own hedgo-making, nnd #o should railvoad, compnnies, if thc{ want o good nedgo. B RUnAL, — b CORN AS.FOOD, ' i & s BucrLry, Il March 23, 1874, To the Edilor.of The' Chicago Tribuno: ; Coi~ealto and corn-broagd recipes:' Ono pint sour buttorniilk, huif o cup of molisses, hulf o tonspoonfiil of soda, half o ‘tenspoonul of salt ; stir In two-thirds corn-monl and ono-third whont~ flour, to make n stif battor; bake immedintely in o butterod tin, ~* S8l Anothior: Take one quart of ‘corn-meal § pour boiling wator on gnd web 1t thoroughly; when sufliciontly cool,: add half & cup.of hop yeast (brawor's yeast is proforable); one-cup of mo- lasses, . one toaspoonful of salt; thickon' with oither. Graham-tlour, rye-flour, or whoat-flour; nilx thoroughly ; then put it in o buttered pan lot it stand to rise; whun light, bake slowly, so a8 not to’ burn tho crust. Whou thoroughly douc, eat warm, with buttor; you will fing it most doliclous, Eote ¢ These nra Now England recipes., I do nob know whothor the Soutliernors con beat them or 10, © ot Mns, 1B Kenrooa. A SEA-SIDE TDYL. (N TWo FANTS) LARL If, s My thoughts ravert (o that wild night When winged Storm-Fioud cost the Llight Of urplintiage on Lier young lieazt, Auiil vorrow's foretustd dId Tmpar Untll, from Courts of the Moat Reaponuo lo Liew petitionluy cry. Watted, an Angel sought Eurti'a shore, d, Lipping us hor lory Leart's:doov, Tustalled himself her cholcest gupst, "I'nis miudetor of Ponco aud Ttest, Enlbagzador from Heaven seat, Fire issiouod apirit of Content To mald now rudiant, und to ma Veatal in her purity. Tlora's fair Kingdon: loy nbloony, . , Tu fragrant mouih of Teafy Juuo he fibrous cirrus wovo np Light Anct-work on cornlean sky § Onr cars tho duléat natea 1 dfivk Of tho siiver-throated hoteo-link, Greoting tho summior with bappy loy 3 Bl o rieh Ceather, In joyfal phuy, Chirp'd amd twitter'd fu dylvan ntiades Of gurgling olms, whoso soug obeyed . Tihe' fickie spirlt of the breczo, An it coquutted among tho trees; Ui lsuions et Tolld nlody, Lo phosphor-fosm Join'd winstzelsy, Blio eaught tho gleo of Naturo’s bloom, . M1 Truggraut bowers of augbiug Juno ; Her beatt grew light, Who wus to mo irest of Itarth's divinity o, Yo hier ruy hoart hud straniely watmed, Withiu ft dcop attaclinent formed § As soinetines, in youtl’s cmly glow, Wheu from tlio Licurt stongf eurre Attorica of love Wnoso throbbiug Dingnoctivaty a febrilo heat | Not platoulc is tho Lart “Thiat bleding lgs from Cupid's dart, Aud Tingers o'or i porfumiad tross ncestasy of piire caress | i ot Out of tho azura of the sky, An Pheobus shiues to'Teuctify, iy 11s tives to Larth dicecter yiell, ‘And ripor grows tho riphiing fuld, | And sillen growa Uyo tassliing corn, Av Jt greuta s Ty6 morn ulier morn; S0 hher lieurt blossom'd when early Spring Dissolved tho foitors of Wintor-Ki When chosed the gloom of Night a o rosy duwn of glim’cing Day ; iTio fiercer tives of Sauunut-tine Lovo's Phaabus, on her hieart did shiuc, Aud ripe, a8 o advane'd upace, Grov (e smils on lier sunny fice, The pink carnatlon on lor chicel Love's luuguego from soft oyas did upeak; iyun tacitiy suo gevo tomo. Lokens of love's captivity. wuy, Muslcal words from hor lips fell, it bound mo with o ngstic apoll,— Toll poft us chimos from drenm-lind woke, ‘As o'or my soul fmpazsionata broke The sweet, low voice, that gaged to mo, On soft Juno night, # down Ly the seu,” Unehill'd atfcotiond of her heart,— Yovo thut no hunin, power couldt part, ‘And thore, under tha erescent moon, ailing the uky fn clondless noon, ‘lrore, on Teesoy's (lde-kinsod flat, . Whero fricudly beacon of Barncgut It glote-worns. flamo givos, out aefur o elieur tho weiry murinory Tliore, whero tus Seliow sauds did gleam Wiiite, fn chasto Luna'y siiver heam, And whito-tusked Drealiora on the reef Buap und suarl with wolfish teotl ; “Choro where tho “ Hopo” had sunk from sight, A rosc another hopo this night, W Tlorn of devotivu, pura and Lig! 1t caino o comfort from the gy A comfort, to this Earthily shoro, O burnisbed wings it songht tho door Of uulock'd liewrts,~created thero “I'tha vision of a future fair;* A future liko to present scenes : Tope lur'd us ou to rosy dreams,— Vagariea fn which wo lived each day, Angl ne'era thought gavo of ‘decay Or ruthilosa chauge, that might consumo Our idol, nnd enanroud iy gioom, Tn cyproie-ehindes, Youtl's vistots right, Aud'turn the thoughtless dny to night, - ‘Aud turn the llvo(uk-urm:fhl ta gall, lien the Pust beyt reeall, X ummer-tio too faje o lyit, Thieso haleyon daya were quickly 'ho elalling winds, tho leaden sk; Bespoko a closing deatingy: * Death, in the yellow Autinnn, ehill'd hat Boart which mino with fer love thrill'd ; opo's altar strown with ashes lay, When Angels Loro from Earth away Thin lttlo sprito with golden hair, ith matchless grace of beauty rare,— Tyes woftly blue, that wero to me ¥ Ifeavouly iu thelr purity, This retrospect of by-gonp yonrs Howmothing ukin to childhoou's tears Bringa to my eyes: I breatho u aigh As to tho Paat fond mom'ries hie, Lhnt, Arlel-footed, o'er Lifo's fonm, Jizar Temnnlaceuco of Abat hono; . it ook my dreams In wott cnress, Wit velvat urmu g whymbions pross, And holl her form lu tendor clasp, * Memory's deathless, tendor rnsp,’ ' Drouta, T, + Ti0MPS0N A7 MunnAY, ——e IEemarkablo Coincalencos=A. Iible in the Momnch of o Codiivh, A fow duys ngo tho Scolsman mentioned that o Diblo bound jnn ealf and bearing the'name of #3Villinm Sim,” & Diudoo man, und the dato 1830, had boen discovored m tho stomach of u codfial, I'hiw fact wuas romurkablo enough, but still moro oxtruordinary is nnothor civenm- stanco connectod with tho uffair nluo roported by tha Seotsman, 'W'ho vory samo day on which the discovery wus made kuown {ho hoirs of the deconsed My, Bim aucceedod in obmmlng a warrant In the_outer houno of the Court of Sos- slon (fram the Lord Ordinary Muve) to uplift sovoral hundrads of poundi belunging to the said William S, who s dosoribed ju the proceedings ns o satlor, 8 native of Dundee, lnd gouo to sew about 183, and Lnd not kinco bodn fiourd of, Whoro cau bo littls doubt thut the Bible thus proserved in tho codflsh's stomnaeh bolonged to the loat W, Bim, of pasd; Dundeo, 5 ~Bartoriu 14 tho name of the futuro husband of Nollie Grant, and not Saleratus, as somu pu- pors havo ity FARMING IN COLORADO. A Reply to Alleged Mizstotos . menis.. o The Agricultural’ Resources of the Territory. - i sl azel: 10, 1874, o the I:dltor of The Clicaga Tribnnc: Si: In Tne Onickao Uninuss of Saturday, the 16th inst., 18 s lottor datod Canon City, Col,, in which the following passago ocenrs ¢ Taimingt tn Colorailo in a very umicerlain builnesa and eannol be deponded Mpoa @ means of lvelihood, Wheat, onta,.or corn.. cantiot ho rafsud williout n vaut awount of trouble and _oxpenso; and, by the Hmo fhi. farhior hus hitn irrigating.diiclies bufit ind tho rroune” ready for sced, ho, whilfnd- that i, fs" far choapos for Wjm to slip hin lreadstolfs from- tho Slates, . oven " at " (ho prosent okorbitant freight-clarges,, than 48 “nttempt to rerlaim thio nlkafl-sofls’ and dosert-snnds of Colorado, Thjo {ravelor may journcy - up tho Arkanaag Rtivor from Fort Lyon (o Punblo, and {rom tho Iatter ncross the 'Crinidad, and down inta New:Mexzico, untillio will find ouly n ruccession of - dororlod ranchor; und 1€ was tho samo way.up thy Platto, T oxporiment was madoe; but, withi corn af 26 cents o ponnid, nud whont'at 55 a bushel, thoy could ot make it pay, I Goloruda is auch a.splondid - sgricultiral country? if the soil i £o prolifia; if the minrket fy 80 unoxcoptional,~why ‘aro flicso ranchos deserted: and why 1 it that overynow-comer who hiag Deon educad intotho fdoa of tilling the noil throwa it up at tho end of six months, and engdges in mining or stogkeratelog 2. o, b e e ~Horo aro’ o P L 2 a o - §0 BIANY MIBSTATRMENTH 2 that It must be tho-writor haa beon in Colorado but’a short time, ‘or that he'ls incompotent ‘ta, ndgo-of-the condition of thoTarmitig, of tho peo: Plo, and of the Roil.t! « - b e ~Now, 80 far from’ farming. belog an uncortain, business in Colorado, it is more cortain then in ony State cast’ of tha Missour], for tho reason , that, by menns of h‘rl[illlion. the conditions aroe fixed, and, one year with -aunother; praing ‘of ‘gl Iinds can 'bo-grown with- an littlo Inbor as in the' Statos, whilo the prices are higher.” To sny that farmors falled to mnke thelr purauit pay with corn'at 25 "vénts o pound aid wheat ht S6 a bushel, is o wild absurdity ; for there aro plenty* of farmors Lecoming forohauded who aro cone tontwitli thelr lot by raisingg corn nnd whoat_at, loss than 3 .conts o pound. . Tho trnth is, your correspondont has got things terribly mixcd, aud Lie draws donclusions 1 1 most cnrio us way.” “Xiet - ng have tho facts, for thoywill‘do avary- body good and nobody barm : Colorado received it first immigrania-in 1859, who woro gold-sook- ors or spcculativo busincss-mon ; and not ona han in & hundred had any other idea than tb'got’ rick in's fow yenrs and Teétarn- to ** Americn.” That fln{u)lug conld bo grown ;- that - the " soil was of the lonst value ; that tho conntry was in tho loast dogzc fit for habitation,—ontorod u body's hend, for it wus s pact of tho Grens Ame: 1¢an Dorort, dovotod to” evorlnsting” desolatiori.’ It waa-hoped and believed' that gold could be Tound by the ton ; and that was onough, The Iind of. pooplo coming to auch &. owitry, with such an object, is onsily concoived ; . NOR GOULD BUCK DE EXPEOTED from men of indnstrious habits in & roglon thai: had such a reputution. , 2 . Whon it was found that gold was bard to_ gef, and that fortunos woro to Lo acquiced only a4 thoy aro acquired elsewhoro, by pornoveranco ind downright hard work, there was such o stampods eg, porbiaps, . novor was geon: anywhora boforo, As-many a8 20,000 men left Doaver during.one. woels, and tho rond down the Platto wasthrongoed* night aud day,-whilo many sullered and died 3 i fact, the whola road to the Missouri Rivor may o said to havo been lined with graves. Moan. while somo were eo utterly destituta that thoy conld not_go back, and others wore ashamed ;. and, a8 it had boen'discovored, by an oxperiment -mado ot Golden City, that vegetables and grain could bo grown by irtigation in_onoinious quati=’ tities, most of those' strandod meu went to. ranchiug. At -nbout tho same time it hoearn Inown that the grass of the Plaing had the e: traordinnry quality of furuirhing vich food ever day in tho yoar; und tho msook business was commonced.” Fou several yoars all kinds of favin _products . = * NROUGUT FANULOUS PRICES, H and it was not uncommon for a fow dores ia, bring in. several thousand doliars, Whether aiich rowards Love w favorablo intiuencs uputi tho farmor may bo disoussed. 1t s cortain: that | auch Lnbits_of *oxtiavaganco wore ostablishéd. that it was immatorinl whether o ranchman, ye- coived 2500 or ‘5,000 - for hia crops,—ha Fas soon in debt ; but it is eqully certhin that others savod thoir monoy, which was-investod in_im- provemonts and in_business, and to-day thora aro thousands of richmen, constuntly Ernwlng richor, who flist gota stact with toss Ligh prices, mon who, 10?69, '60 and '61, wero 1ot worth a; dimo. 3 5 2 ¢ “I'bus it was farming settled down a3 o regular, purauit ; but almont always it was cohneeted with. stockegrowing, us il still 18; and I may say that all of those originul meitlora—* fifty-ninors,” a4 thioy aro enlied=-ywno. possossed ordinary ability aud economy - < TAYE DECOME RICH,— : their farms Deing jmmensly productive, and their hords numboring by the thousand, . The other statoment, about-deserted ranches, is, in_tho sonso it is made, withont tho least foundation. *So far_ from this boing tho cuse, there 14 hardly a ranch in Colorado, with . only' modorate improvements, but what will soll quic] Iy-at 910 por acre,. That country plong the Ar- ianvns Valloy; which s said to be so, dozoricd, hns grontvaluo; and it was' the obtsining of Litlo to a large body of unimproved land by the Denver Ring, in an underhiand way, which led to:* the removal of Gov. Ellert and ‘the nomination of Gov. McCaol, a8 well a8 to the overthrow of the Denvor Ruyg itacll. I ventura to say that' thoro is not o singlo acro of Ind in tho Arfianeas , Vulloy, which cwn be irrigated, that can be bought for less than - $10 an acro, and this ro- gardless of fences or buildings, Thera is o scc~ tion of country, however, above Puablo, in the Yalloy of tho Fountain, whoro only o part of tha farms ave cultivated, for tho reason that thoro it ., not water cnough in tho stronm, whick is a emalj. ano, to irrigata nil the land ; and tho propriotors - hayo turned_thoir nttention to stock-growing. Indead, stock-growing is o profitablo that It s voforrad Lo farming by o groat muy, providing Bmy Dave capital. This Valloy of tho Fountain is positively & § * 'TIE ONLY BECTION of Colorudo whero furms have ceased to Lo cul~ tivated, and for the simple rcason that the farme ers misjulged ns to thar water-supply. On the * Dintto, from the-caiion to the. moutl of the CnclioIn Pondro, not & singlo .ranch . has boon derorted ; on_tho conutrary, improved farms nre held at from 10 to 20, 250 and 5100 anacre. Be. low the Cache.lz Poudre, no farms ever weit," oponed to bo desorted, Formorly thoro wero a groat many stuge-stations and_tnvorns, for thia. * was tho greatline of truvel; but, whon the Union Pacific was completed, all travel ceased,: and, tho Indians being. tronblesomo, tho wholé valley was deserted for n distuuco of 150 miles; andit may Lo said that, from 1869 to 1871, not a single wagon went chrough on ihis onco’ mosi: : imporiant thoroughtare, Within _two yonrs, however, men have ventured in, and largo herda of cnttlo bave boen kept thoro, and, now that the. Julosburg Railroad is to bo bullt up Luis valley to Denver, settlors are crowding in, ditches ave be. ings dug, towns Iaid out, mid 'tho most fertile valloy in America is to bo spoodily brought inta cultivation, - . I'ho writer referred to speaks of tho necessity - for recliming : 4 ALICALI-SOILS AND DESERT-GANDS " . . in almost the samo words that Lnstern writern use who bavo nover boen hers ; and, to ropidents..- of Colorado, the idea is simply ridiculous,. The.: alkali-rogion is not in Colorado at all, but in Wyomung, commencing firat iu tho Ditter oot . country, 1t s truo that- thero are somo littlo .* patehes of nlkali in low, moiat places, cspocially wlong the marging of 1ivors; and, on soms rivor-farms, thero may bo o fow incres of alkali in o hmndred. The worl of roolamation is con- gidered no burden; for, when reclaimed, it is.. oxiromoly fectilo, Tho Salt Lake Vallay ..con- taing 50 much atkali that alkali fields sro s whito as if covored with snow ;" but the psopla wash out theso snlts with wator, and then .thoy. lavo land so well suited for growing fruit and vegotables that it {8 worth from $100 to #3500 an acre. - T'his is woll known, ¢ Again, we are told about - ¢ desort-sand.” Good, " Thoro aro #omo sand-hilts in .o few:. Blweu, something like those beyond Chicago ; ut to'sny Lhat 1ho goneral character of the goll* - is ‘*dogort-sund” is absurd, . Why, tha whole : fuco of the country is exactly like a' newly-mown meadow, on which u S-year old’ steer £tfor tha Lutehor cun bo grown'for the cout of herding, oy $3 u year; and Lovo millionn of enttio are kopt th year round, meking Colorado the bost ntack-conntry in thae world, " Of courso thero is the wppenranco of a desort, i tho absenco of linbitations mukios wuch, Bub when you crova {)Iulmox amld dividoes aud come to tho valleys, .o ohio UTAUTIFUL GUEEN FIRLDY, . and neat favm-houses, und villages, and toiwns, and ehureh-spires, appenring wuoh :liko.a Pers slan seono, ~ Corlaluly tho umount of land that. ean boirvigated is lmitods and it {8 tor thiy reagon that lund,in the ol distant. future, late beeome the denrest luud in Ameriea, Now it ja chenp, but let nobody get tho dea that it ean b had *ar uothing, s m;g. u + - ‘ O ) J |