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DON'T TELL IT.
Your neighbor's name,
•Or your friend's fair fame,
And what befel it,
In deed or word, *
Ybu may have heard.
Yet pray don't tell it.
If kept within,
This rumored sin
May* prove a but>ble^ .
If told again,
Like tbe thriving grain,
Twill soon grow double.
Instead of peace,
If strife increase,
Then try and quell it;
Think wh'at you will,
Of good or ill,
But pray don't teH it.
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[For the Indiana Farmer.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY.
As I liave not read the report of President Owen and have no knowledge of the
plans of the Board of Trustees of this
institution, Iain neither able nor willing
to try to defend either the one or the other
from the attack of yonr " Humbug"
correspondent. But there are some assumptions in his article, which it seems to
me, require a passing.notice. In the first
place, he assumeV that the plan proposed
by Mr. Owen ■*' is as good as tlie law,"* by
which I suppose he means-that said plan
wjll and 'must be adopted by the Board of
Trustees without a change or question—a
very poor compliment indeed, to the intel-
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and, without doubt, very wide of the truth".
In the next place, after giving a list of
the scientific professors recommended, he
asserts — with a most " Harrowing " affirmation—that he cannot see how any or all
of these are going to fit a young man for
anything useful. Then when he comes to
the practical part—to the farm and its
management—he asserts with theairof an
oracle, that "the amount of .agricultural
knowledge to be derived from a farm
superintendent cannot be more than what
• a hired hand would get of his employer."
Yet in the onset he tells us that he had
" thought that a four years' course at this
institution would, teach the boys " a great
many useful things.   Now, if the profes-
' sors of science cannot teach these things
and the practical farmer, acting as superintendent of the college farm, eannot do it,
■then "in the name of my grandfather's"
common sense, I want to know of this
" Humbug " how he supposed it was going
to be done at all. It seems to me that the
animus of his production is to be found,
not in opposition to the report alone, but
in opposition to the college under any
management, either good or bad. It is
too late in the day to argue the question
as to whether it was wise or unwise to
establish such a school, because it is established, located, and endowed, and the
buildings are fast verging toward a state of
completion. It only remains for the people ofthe State to see that it is so organized and conducted as to answer the design
of its creation. To enable them to do so,
it would seem that they ought to know
what those to whom they have entrusted
the work are proposing to do, and the
whole plan ought to be calmly and fairly
discussed and judged by the people, and
this judgment should be, and I doubt not
would be, treated with due regard and
respect by the Board of Trustees. "*
Thos. Jones.
}Vea Phwis, Tippecanoe County.
[For the Indiana Farmer.*
SUGGESTIONS ON FAIRS..
In looking over N.o. 11 of the Indiana
Farmer, I noticed an article from the
pen of our esteemed friend and brother,
-  S. Deal, of Tetersburg, Indiana, entitled,
" A Suggestion to Farmers," which in my
opinion,   though  short,   embraces   some
excellent hints to the farmer and agriculturist.   First to inaugurate a better system of management of our county fairs;
the plan that Bro. Deal proposes is a very
good one, and is as follows, to-wit:   That
every farmer should use his best endeavors to get the best productions from the
soil he tills, and offer his best specimens
at the county fairs as. the proceeds of his
?Iabor, with an account of the manner of
^cultivation, etc., and.thus make it strictly
Ian agricultural fair and let it be known
pthat it is to be conducted in this way, and
our county fairs willjbe attended with bet- j
ter success than while conducted on the
old plan of gambling, horse: racing and all
such vices as are calculated to draw 1-jrge-
ly on the immoral.^ By so doing,* very
many of our best citizens who aro opposed
to fairs on the ground of these immoral
characters, would become honorable members-of agricultural societies, and aid materially in; bringing out the resources of j
the soil. Let me ask how or in what way!
are the farmers or any other class of persons (except those who run all over the
country to gobble it up) benefited by
offering and paying large premiums for
fast trotting or pacing, which are carried
off out of our treasury", ■ on old, lousey
looking horses that a respectable farmer
would not give one hundred dollars per
dozen for; but instead of fast horses let us
have best trotting and pacing, style, carriage, and speed considered; let it be the
between those giant hills which seem to
stand as sentinels over the little town and
inhabitants? I think.any one well repaid
to climb to the top of one of those high
hills, and looking away offdown the valley,
view the beautifula»-jhery, fields of golden
corn waving' in m ' \. wind, interspersed
with fields of gre-^yrj-ow'ng wheat, with
herds "of horses. ciiCzh ar-d sheep in the
pastures busily nip""*"''..--, *..hat "grass Jack
Frost has, Irfi "j*.-* *V : seeming to vie
with each "oilier V. *. ."-ia]] -*.-<*fure the
greatest qn>*;'.h* ■■_,_..- • *'"" '.'•'-<_.«♦ makes
another cali ..;,,_ *•-*"."'■- '<j', te high
hills covered wit ■ r - * •;*■kind of
forest trees, ^ h--->« f«< '.;■•.__,*. Las been touched up by Jaek-'Frost's matchless colors
of every shade, from the pale^ye'low ofthe
sugar tree to the deep-blood'red of the
black gum, but t1; sturdy black *p'Iie
stands out in bo'u relief, his ever dark
green dress, seeming to defy Jack Frost to
five by sixty feet, two stories high, and
four schoolmasters ; one furniture factory;
and Green Walnut Grange, No. 132, the
first organized in the county, and is in
good running order, composed wholly of
farmers ; and what speaks louder than all,
our order and community send in the
largest club for the Indiana Farmer of
any village in northern Indiana, and has
done so for two years past, and we are on
the gain. Jamks Lowry.
REFUSES TO DEAL WITH THE
GRANGES.
By the request of Noah Grange, No. 374,
Shelby county, we publish the following
correspondence between the Secretary of
that grange aud the Dayton Aughe Flow
Works, Dayton, Ohio. It seems strange
that business men will act in such an un-
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actual merits of the horse and nice work
that shall command the premiums, instead
of the adroitness of the owner. Another
objection to the.management of many of
our fairs is in the class" ngoff ofthe different
departments ; for instance : A premium is
oflered for the best hog of a certain age,
there may be a Poland-China, Berkshire
or Chester White, and perhaps other varieties, how can a committee decide in such
a case ? But let each breed be classed off
separately and premiums offered for each
class, and then you will see three times the
usual number of hogs on exhibition; consequently the competition being great, the
people will visit the exhibition en masse,
and our fairs will be a complete success;
and on the last day ofthe fair, instead of
the fast trot or paee_ let us have a stock
sale, and our exhibition of premium stock
in tbe ring, etc., which will result in more
real benefit to the agricultural interests of
the county than all the horse racing that
could be gotten up, say nothing of the bad
influence of the latter. Let me suggest
that the Patrons of Husbandry use their
influence in bringing about a reform in the
management of all our fairs so that good
may result therefrom instead of evil.
W. A. Maze.
Sharpsville, Ind., Nov. 24,1873.
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[For the Indiana Farmer,
SOUTHERN INDIANA.
change its color, but it only serves to make
the contrast more beautiful. As we pass
along every rock and tree looks familiar
to ns; but like the people, some have
grown taller, some large and older, while
some have passed away altogether; some
wave their branches at us seeming to bid us
welcome, while the wind passing through
tops of others, seems to sigh and moan as
if mourning for the departed ones, how
vividly it brought to mind those beautiful
lines:
"How dear to the heart are the scenes oi our
childhood,
"When fond recollections present them to view."
This being our first attempt at contributing, we make our obeisenee;
Mrs. L. B. Peck.
Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 4,1872.
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[For the Indiana Farmer,
MARSHALL COUNTY.
Visiting the southern part of the State
recently, I was surprised to find so many
farmers, some very enterprising ones too,
not one of whom was taking the Indiana
Farmer. Some said they thought they
would subscribe for it. I was asked a
good many questions about the granges. I
told them to get the Farmer and they
would learn a great deal more than I could
tell them. There are plenty of farmers in
the valley, to organize a grange,-and have
it convenient to all; some thought it a
political scheme, some a woman's right
concern. _ I told them they were very
nraeh mistaken, that .they were a long
ways behind the times.
Who, in passing south on the L. N. A.
& C. railroad, does not remember a valley
enclosed on two sides with high rocky hills,
or the little village of Providence nestled
Argos is situated in the south part of
Marshall county and one hundred and ten
miles north of Indianapolis, on the I. P.
and C. railroad, in what was once one ofthe
finest walnut, popular, ash, butternut,
sugar and beech and all other kind of
timber common to any -other timbered
country; but our timber is almost gone,
and it stands us in hand to take care of
what wc have left, and make it go as far
as possible. Our fine timber has given
way to improved farms in a fair state of
cultivation. Our staple products are wheat,
'corn, clover-seed and hogs; this country
is a good potato country when the bugs
don't take them, and a very good quality.
A very poor oats country. We have some
good grass" land, but the cultivation of
timothy hay is much neglected; there are
some small marshes and cat swamps that
would be well to be drained, and exchange
the ague they produce for 'timothy and
red top hay, and save the money we pay
the doctor and buy tile with it. Our
average of wheat in the south part of the
county, acording to the threshers' report,
was nineteen bushels per acre; our corn
'from forty to forty-five, not so good as
last year; our hog crop was good, and a
better breed than former years; we have
but very little, improvement on the breed
of cattle, some young bulls this season.
Argos has a fine brick sehool-house, forty-
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business like way, and the fact that the
company does so only demonstrates the
necessity of co-operation and organization
on the part of farmers to resist the oppression that has been practiced upon us
in the way of commissions. The communication of this plow company is not only
plain, but insulting; and we say to farmers, let the Dayton Aughe Plow Works
Company eat and wear their plows until
they become more reasonable. You will
receive a circular in a short time telling
you where you can buy at manufacturers1
prices without the commission:
Noah Orange, No. 371,
Noah, Shelby Count y*. "
December
Editors Ind. Farmer—jS/j-s.-—At a meeting held
In November, it was ordered that tlie Secretary
write to the Aughe Plow Works, Dayton, Ohio, to
see if they would sell plows to tlie granges at
wholesale prices. We received their answer, and
it was ordered that the Secretary send a copy to
the Isdiana Farsiek and one to tlie Cincinnati
Enquirer for publication. Leander Fox,
Secretary Noah Orange, No. 37J, Noah, Shelby-
county, Indiana.
The following is.the reply received by
Secretary Fox from the proprietors of the
Aughe Plow Works:
Dayton, O., December 9,1873.
Leander Fox, Noah, Indiana :
Dear Sir:—Inclosed rind our bill of prices for
plows to all but agents. We don't intend to cut
off our heads to gratify the granges. We purpose
to let the farmers have a living, and we ask the
same. We have hardly an agent but what purchases from £200 to $000 worth of plows In a season, and we have one or two who purchase 83,000
worth in a year. We don't purpose to leave such
a trade to sell a few farmers $100 worth. There Is
not a manufacturer in Dayton that will have anything to do with the grange movement, as far as
we can learn. Farmers now owe our agents hundreds of dollars, but say they will not sell their
wheat and corn at present prices, and so keep us
waiting. We have to pay SS00 cash to hands every
week, and for steel and lion In sixty days, and to
get money we have to go to bank, and why 1 Because the farmers don't pay agents. We pay forty
cents per pound for butter and thirty-five cents
a dozen for eggs, that in the country can be bought
for half. And why is this? Because farmers sell
to hucksters, anil they keep up the prices. We
intend to turn over a new leaf next season with
agents. If our agents sell plows, they will nave
to pay us within ninety days, or else we shall stop
our trade with them. We can't do business this
way. The way farmers have done since the panic
commenced has led the people here to suppose
that none of them had a hundred dollars. If you
only knew what we have had to contend with,
you would understand better what we mean. We
have written plainly, for I am satisfied of this: If
farmers will not buy plows only on the grange
movements, they will have to do without.
Yours truly,        CHAS. Fakkott,
Editorial Botes*
GENERAL TOPICS.
Granges everywhere report growth and progress.*
Hancock county has sixteen granges, and ali
are prospering.
Hereafter our office will be No. 76 West Washington street, where we will be happy to meet our
friends wheu visiting the city.
The meeting of tlie State Teachers'Association, .
in session in this city last week, wa-s largely attended, and very interesting and profitable.
The proceedings of the late meeting of the
Stato Orange will be sent to all granges In tlie
State, so far as the names oi the Secretaries can
be learned.
The Passenger tariff on one road leading from
this city, the C. C. O. * I. or " Ueo Line," lias been
reduced since the 1st inst., from four cents per
mile to three cents.
We invite attention to the advertisement of It.
H. Slimnway, Itockford, Illinois, seeds, plants,
etc. Tills is a large, complete and reliable establishment and is well worthy of patronage.
A sudden change in the weathertook place last
Sunday night. Tlie week previous had been remarkably pleasant. Tho weather on Monday
morning was nearly 50 degrees colder than on
Sunday.
We take pleasure in calling attention to the
advertisement.of. Moore's Rural Xeiv Yorker in
this mfmber. The paper is one of the largest and
best of its class in the country, and well deserves
the high reputation it has gained.
We ran short of copies of tho la.st number of
the Farmer, although several hundred extras had
been printed. Our list has been increasing much
more rapidly than we anticipated. We print Ibis
week a very large extra edition, and will be able
to supply all demands hereafter.
Opb space will not admit of our publishing the
names of all the officers of granges. Wo desire,
however, to publish the name of the Master and
Secretary of each grange. Please send them in.
Oive the number, name and posto/llce of your
grange, and then the names of tlie M. and See.
A majokity of tlie questions.asked of tho Master or Secretary of the State Orange In regard to
tlie work of the order of Patrons of Husbandry,
can be satisfactorily answered by reference to the
code of "rules and regulations adopted at the late
meeting of the State Orange, and published in
the new edition of the constitution,
Oub Puzzle Department is in charge of Prof. D.
Eckley Hunter, of Princeton, Ind., a gentleman
of much experience in providing amusement of
this kind for the children. Prof. Hunter desires
to have all the children study out his puzzles, and
a.s many tut find them out send answers to him.
Answers will be given to puzzlesthe second week
after they appear.
The railroad companies have put upthe freight
rates between New York and the West. On first-
class from Indianapolis to New York the rate
has been raised from 71 to 95 cents; second-
class, from (X! to 85 yonta; third-class, from 57
to 71 cents; fourth-cla.ss, from 18 to 07 cents;
fifth-class, from a to S>> cents. The closing up
of water transportation is the occasion of this increase of rates, but it is difficult to see thejustlce
of such a movement whilo the wages of employes
are reduced from ten to fifteen per cent.
The great strike of railroad engineers on the
Pan-Handle road and its leased lines has been tho
topic of greatest interest in the daily papers during the past few days. The company cut down
the wages of its employes ten per cent., without
consulting them, and discharged those who were
sent by the Brotherhood of Engineers to remonstrate with them. This offended the Hrotherhood,
and hence the strike. The company is filling the
places of the engineers that have left their employ, gradually, but so fur they are unable to ru
more than a small part of their trains witli regularity, and the prospect'ahead is still gloomymut
unsettled.   No one ea» predict the end.
Meeting of the Executive Committee of
the State Ohanoe.—The following officers of
the State Grange and members of the Executive
Committe assembled at Indianapois, January 1st,
KCA: Henley James, Marlon, Grant county, W.
M.; Russell Johnson, Valparaiso, Steward; 0«*o.
H. Brown, Rensselaer, Jasper county, Treasurer;
M. M. Moody, Muneie, Secretary. Executive Committee—David Yeoman, Rensselaer; A. Poor,Valparaiso; J. T. Graham, Crawfordsville; J. ti. A.
Newsom, Elizabethtown, Bartholomew county;
J. F. Hall, Gienhall, Tippecanoe county. Tlie
committee examined and approved the bonds of
the Secretary, M. M. Moody, the Treasurer, O. II.
Brown, and tlie State Purchasing Agent, J. O.
Kingsburyof thiseity. Thecoinrnittee also made
arrangements for obtaining correct crop report*
from the granges in different parts of the State,
for the benefit ofthe order; and authorized the
Secretary to pay all reasonable bills for tlie *-ur-
rent expenses of his office, and also authorized
Messrs, Billingsley & Williams, of this city to a<-t
as commission agents for Ihe sale of proddee f«r
granges and members of Ihe order in the State
upon condition of their filing a bond for the sum
of $.j0,(j00 for the faithful performance of the!
ties. (The conditions have since been coi
with.) Tlie aecounts of the Treusnri'i* ami
tary were road and approved. During (he meet
ing, the newly elected oflleers of the state Orange
who were present, were installed into tbeir r>'- *
spective offices by P. M. John Weir, The cause It K,
prospering everywhere in the State. The number
of granges is now over Hun, and still rapidly increasing. Arrangements are being made for pro-
coring agricultural implements, sutving machines, etc., from first hands, and at the J*>w'**t
rates, and a large business ifi ex.wted to I.
next season through tho pun-liti-dug ag**
this city.
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