INDIANA FABMER.
Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, mechanics and the  Useful Arts.
D. P. Holloway, V. T, Dennis,)
K.T.Eeed.—Editors.        j
RICHMOND, JUNE 15, 1855.
Utolloway & Co., Puhlishsrs.
i    Vol, IV No.   10.
The Agricultural Bureau.
The Agricultural Bureau which has been
attached to the Patent Office at Washington,
is to be discontinued in a week or two, the
appropriation for it being exhausted.
So it seems that the only beggarly pittance
which Congress in its wisdom has seen fit to
vouchsafe to agriculture, is about to be cut off,
and the farming interest left to take care of
itself. The agricultural attachment to the
Patent Office has, during its brief period,
been of very considerable benefit in the collection and distribution of seeds, and in gathering up and disseminating a large amount of,
information upon the various practical and
scientific subjects connected with husbandry.
Although a good deal of its time ami money
has been expended without a proper knowledge of its requirements, owing to difficulties
inherent in its organization, yet these could j
easily have been remedied by care and good J
management, and the system instead of being
starved out, might have been fostered and developed until it would have been one of the
most important departments of our government. It is a most humiliating thought to
the great Agricultural interest of the United
States that while millions of money aro squandered in useless flummery and gewgaws, the
public treasury robbed by Congressional enactments to appease the maw of rascally politicians and corrupt speculators—fat offices and
large salaries created to reward favorites and
conciliate rivals —that amidst all this prodigal
and indiscriminate uso of the public treasure,
none have been found in our National Councils to even acknowledge the existence of an
interest upon which four-fifths of all our
' wealth and revenue is based. It is not idle
to say that one inch additional depth of ground
turned rip by the plow throughout our whole
farming country, would yield an increase of
agricultural products that, if sold at the present rate of prices, would buy up tho votes of
a clear majority of our incorruptible and profound Congress, and carry, in the hands of a
good political trickster, any measure through
that body, from the purchase of Cubd to the
sale of the Bunker Hill Monument.
What would this boasted Union be but for
its agricultural interests? Where your revenue for State or General Government? But
here is the question for farmers: whose is the
fault that these thing3 exist? So long as you
allow yourselves to bo duped and humbugged
by noisy politicians and demagogues—so long
as you cast your votes for men who by their
impudence and pretence, bring themselves before the people as candidates for office—so
long, in fact, as you blindly shut your eyes to
your own wants, and lend yourselves as willing
tools to forward tho selfish purposes, and advance tho personal fortunes of pretenders and
insolvent politicians—just so long you may
expect to see profligacy and corruption in high
places, and a more than Cimmerean darkness
cover the wants of tho laborer and the husbandman. Farmers should take this matter
into their own hands at once, and apply the
remedy which is so completely in their power.
Teach these upstart lawyers and trading politicians who haunt your county seats and State
Capitals, that the man for your suffrages must
be of the soil, and. wed to its interests, and
you will have no more difficulty in getting a
proper recognition of your wants and rights.
When you draw your purse to pay your taxes,
ask yourselves what proportion of the money
will go towards fosjpring the great master
spirit of National prosperity—Agriculture.
w. t. D.
The Wheat Crop Again—Time to Cut it.
Harvest will soon be on us again, and seldom ot never has its approach been watched
with greater interest. It is not too bold an assertion to say emphatically, that the granaries
of the country, nay, of the whole world, aro
all but exhausted. Should tho present wheat
crop be as light as the last, flour could hardly
fail in a twelvemonth more to be 825 per barrel—a price altogether out of the reach of the
poorer, and even the middling classes.
But as yet, we see nothing to discourage
us. Accounts of the wheat crop from various parts of the country are nearly all of a favorable character. In this section of country, as we have before said, the prospect never was better. It is true that the fly has been
at work again, but we have heard of no field