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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER, 1874.
Work on Hand.
For this month and till the 15th of Novem
ber for the latitude of Atlanta, and till the 15th
of December for southern counties of Georgia,
attention should be given to the seeding down
<,f l an d to wheat and oats. Of course due at
tention has been given to getting in the crops
of corn ami peas. As we pass on to speak of
grain sowing let us say, that if corn is allowed
to take a moderate rain after being pulled and
heaped in the field, or if it should be sprinkled
quite copiously with weak salted water, as it is
heaped up in the crib, the shuck will undergo
a heating process which will kill the weevil
and make the forage far better and more rel
ished by stock. This we have tried again and
again without the least injury to the grain.
One word about peas. Plant a bunch pea by
all means, if this great crop is valued as it
should he. A task to the hand picking peas
from running vines, is about one bushel a day
—or rather we should say —was the task when
negroes got their living in some other way than
by pic-nicking or. railroad trains, and with
four-dollar cast-iron shot guns. But by pull
ing the vine (a hill at one motion) and thresh
ing with a flail, five bushels a day can be saved.
Let no man anywhere on earth attempt to rival
the dairy man, in quantity and quality of milk
and butter, who feeds on the southern cow pea,
if the rival does not use this lentil which it
seems Providence intended for the dairy.
But let us get back to our grain sewing
Break your land, if at ail stiff, first with a double
turn-plow, followed, if possible, by a long
scooter. Harrow while the freshly turned
up clods will yield to the implement, for soon
air and sun will so harden the clods that they
will not break up as they should do. Apply
what stable manure and ashes you have on (op
of the lands, also the superphosphates. Then,
last, we wan', for the fine, plump heads, while
we know that the theory is that ammonia is
tlie “ dominant''for wheat. After the grain
lias been soaked in bluestone i>o hour* —two
ounces of bluestone to each bushel of wheat—
with water enough to cover the grain one inch
deep in (lie tub, sow at the rate of five pecks
of sound grain to the acre, if sown broadcast. If
drilled, three pocks is an abundant allowance-
Now put in the grain with a short straight
shovel, or a common hull tongue, just deep
enough to fairly cover manure and seed. We
do most emphatically protest against deep cov
ering of small grain.
'have heard of crops failing year after
year with reasonable and indeed with unusual
care having been expended in preparing for
wheat, simply because the seed had been buried
too deep. Let wheat and oats come up near
the surface and then shoot down the roots into
a mellew soil which our double turn-plow and
long scooter bad already prepared for that re-
sult. But tliis is net really the favorite —our
favorite process. In our maturest judgement,
we say both wheat and oats should be drilled.
The reasons are, you will better prepare the
seed bed; it will take less manure, and, better
yet, you can give your grain one plowing at
least. Tliis is the time, too, when the last half
of the allowance of manure given to the crop
should be applied, say the middle of March.
We have been informed by books and friends
of foreign travel that the drill system is be
coming more and more the vogue in Europe,
and especially in England and Scotland. It is
our opinion, first, that drilled wheat will es
cape rust or suffer only in a mitigated degree,
especially if salt lie used. Secondly, tlie grain
will in all instances be heavier; and last hut not
least, that the saving in seed grain would run
the State Government every year, if we can get
an honest man like Governor Smith to hold
the reins.
Let oats be sown by all means in October, if
it lias not been done in August. It does the
oat crop as much good to steep the seed for
blast, as it does wheat to steep for smut. Long
has it been a mooted question among farmers,
as to the injury or benefit from sowing oats so
far as the land was concerned. Both parties to
the dispute are clearly right and both clearly
wrong. If the man who contends that oats do
not hurt land, and that the crop is rather a
“ recovering” crop, and if this individual sows
his gr.iiu in the fall, then he is right and no
mistake, for his crop takes seven months to
mature. But if he sows in the Spring we have
no faith in his faith, for the crop taking only
about four months to ripen will exhaust, and
does exhaust, the fertility of the soil. Here is
just the explanation to our minds of all the
disputing and doubts on that question.
But sow oats, sow oats. If you wish to secure
as natural, and as good feed tor vour horse as
you will get with the cow pea for your cow,
then sow oats. We believe that it is three
times cheaper than corn, and infinitely' health
ier. Besides this, as a market crop it is only
second, if indeed it is second, to a good hay crop.
la;t the sheaf oats stand till thoroughly dry,
then bale in a cotton or hay press, and the en
tire bulk brings in all our markets, we believe,
what the best of iiay commands. Now the
frost has caught us, dig sweet potatoes. We
say' caught us, for we feel a high resolve if our
influence car. bring about the reform, never to
stop dinning the instruction into unwilling
ears, that we should never wait for frost before
digging sweet potatoes. Let the planting out
of draws be over by the 15th of May, and then
our crop of potatoes will be fully rijie before
ordinary frost time in October. You had just
as well undertake to get foolishness out of an
abolitionist as to get frost bite out of a sweet
potato. Then dig be ore frost, and cure your
Tines for the second beat cow feed that we have
in the South. Gather sweet potatoes with the
same care that you would apples. Haul up
and make a raised bed upon which put dry
sand or stalks of straw. Place a stake in the
Centre of the spot upon which you intend to
make your banks, which you must raise high
enough to support a board shed to protect the
h -ap from winter rains. Now pile up your
potatoes around the stake till you have thirty or
forty bushels ready to be covered with three
layers of corn stalks carefully laid up and down
your bank. Next lay three inches of straw —
pine or wheat straw—and then fully three
inches of dirt well packed on the heap. Now
cover with boards, using your centre stake for
a support for your shed. Draw the potatoes
as you use them from a small hole at the bot
tom of the heap, just large enough to admit the
hand and arm taking care to stop up well with
a wisp of straw. We have a dozen ways to
save potatoes, many of these ways good, but this
is the best as we have given it. Cellars have
proven with as a delusion and a snare. The
plan as given above is almost certain of success,
provided always, that the potato has not been
frost bitten. We say again, that in our Agri
cultural dispensary we have no medication for
a frost bitten potato.
Duties ot Masters.
Now is a fit time for every officer of the
Grange, after the busy work season with its at
tendant cares is past, and the leisure hours ap
proach, to consider and carefully review the
weighty responsibilities with which they are
commissioned. Tire Grange has already pass
ed the era of its enthusiastic formation. Theo
retically, its principles and its machinery for
work have been accepted by the million, but
solely with the view that it promised the best
means to accomplish certain great ends. Its
period of brilliant inception and promise
must now be followed in the order of growth
by one of work and t!.e realization of practi
cal results, or the orguaization will wither and
die.
The subordinate Grange is the life and cen
ter of the organization. The Master is its
executive officer, and much more, its cementing
ami its motive power.
Thoroughly versed himself in the works of
the Order, he must instruct others and see that
every officer and every Patron knows and does
his part. It is esseatial that the work of the
Grange should move on quickly, smoothly,
and spiritedly, or it ceases to interest and in
struct. Besides, the Master must bear in mind
that the social features, the principles and the
great ends and aims of the Order should, if'
possible, have a leading share of the time and
attention at each meeting. Questions for the
good of the Order arise at this period of its
growth of vital importance, and require full
discussion aod careful consideration. As ex
ecutive officer, it is peculiarly the duty of the
Master to so regulate the proceedings that no
feature of the Grange should predominate or
monopolize undue time and attention. To
this end, strict punctuality, of himself espe
cially, is greatly conducive, in fact indispensa
ble. The duties of his position call for some
knowledge of parliamentary law, of impar
tiality, and a knowledge of human nature in
its administration and in the appointment of
committees, and in the bringing out and foster
ing all the talent, good sense and knowledge of
facts, etc., which the Patrons of the Grange
may possess.
But underlying all, he must feel an interest,
a love and devotion to the Grange and its
great purposes and ends, not indifferently, but
with a will to do, to work, to spend time for
it. This spirit in him will be contagious, will
reach all the members, and draw in kindred
spirits to join the Grange, and so add to its in
terest, growth and power.
As representative in the State Grange, he is
called upon as a statesman to act in the discus
sion of new, great and vital questions; he
should have a statesman’s knowledge of facts
and principles, that his actions shall be for the
good of the Order.
Finally, in him is entrusted ia a peculiar
manner, the good name, the work and the suc
cess of the Order, both in his own and in the
State Grange. He ought to he a shining illus
tration of its principles in his own business
and life.
Our Romes.
Who can tell the worth of a true home?
There is nothing on earth equal to it, and I
often think, nothing which gives us so trne a
type of life in Heaven. Nothing can do what
home can to elevate and purify the world;
nothing makes man so strong and steadfast, so
firm in principle and manhood ; nothing makes
women so true and noble, so gentle and wo
manly, so lovable. ’Tis the pure, happy
homes scattered up and down our land, out of
which come loyal, honest men and women, iu
which our hope lies, and which will do more
to free us from the evils and woes of intemper
ance and corruption in their multiude ot forms
and phases than ail the laws and politicians
can ever do.
Make the roots pure and right and the tree
will be vigorous and healthful. Homes are
the roots of national life. If these be pure,
our national tree will cast off all unhealthy
growth, all corrupt branches, and become in
time good in every part. Woman is the
Heaven-appointed home-maker, and here sho
will find a work broader, grander and more
beautiful than any other, though I would by
no means disparage any of* her efforts for good
wherever and whenever made.
So, Isay, God bless the homes and their in
mates, and make them all they are capable of
becoming —make them many and blessed
everywhere.
A wrieer in this paper presents a rule for
the improvement of cotton which may be found
important.
The State Department of Agriculture.
We reproduce in this number of the Grange,
the several circulars issued by Dr. Janes, Com
miteioner of Agriculture, and addressed to a
wide range of intellectual and social influences
in behalf of the great interest over whioil the
law has placed this Department of tli* State*
Government. It would be a dull and unob
servant mind, indeed, to which arguments
would have to be addressed, to prove the vast
good which it is in our power to secure fo the
most vital interests of the State of Georgia, by
simply doing otu duty as individual co-workers
with the earnest minded man who has been
called to act as State Commissioner of Agri
culture. We are sure that from this day a
brighter career will begin for our agriculture,
if devotion, industry and intelligent effort can
accomplish this result. We know Dr. Janes
well, and feel assured that he stands ready to
make any sacrifice of himself, if by so doing
he can lift from the dejection and decline that
now’ marks our agricultural industry, this
greatest and most sustaining of all our interests.
He has well said, that he has a right, as a mosi
reasonable service, to expect every son of Geor
gia who loves his State, and for whom the Dak
paitment of Agriculture was created, to come
promptly and freely with his contribution tft,
the great fund of information which it is
purpose to collect. We were struck with the
presentation of the argument which Dr. Janes
makes in his address to the Patrons of 11 us*
bandry, when he says, “ If we can gather here
in this Department as into one grand reservoiu
all the rills of valuable facts and
which the individual lives of the Patrons of
Husbandry in Georgia are hourly furnishing,
we could place the Agriculture of this State by
the side of that in the most advanced section
of the world.” We believe this is entirely and
profoundly true. We do not lack ideas, meth
ods, or investigating minds, but we do lack
that associated effort that is power everywhere
and in everything, where human beings labor
and aspire. Dearly has the isolation ru un
aided and dissocial enterprise of our farming
population cost the entire State. We venturi?
endorse, without reserve, what Dr. Janes says,
that if all the important facts and processes non*
daily used in our husbandry could be collected
and digested they would make a body of practi
cal agricultural knowledge which would aston
ish the world. A more energetic set of men Jo
not exist than the large multitude of Georgia
farmers and planters. They are generally in
quisitive, laborious, and while too conservative'
to make good gulls, or to be running from old
and tried things to untried new ones, no one
can fairly accuse these men of a want of inves
tigating mind or enterprise. We have often
attended their consulting assemblies and their
formal conventions, and we are very sure that
no other interest, or any profession whatever,
can on such occasions convoke a nobler and
more honorable representation. But the trouble
has been that the rods have never been gath
ered into a bundle, and the division of safe and
valuable ideas has been too extreme. there |
has been too much dispersion of agiicultiftsf
information for the amount of it, and it is Dr.
Janes’ purpose to localize the light we have.
We implore every friend to whom this number
of The Grange will come,to make it his pecu
liar duty to come up to Dr. .Janes help. At a
glance any man can see what immense labors
are imposed upon him. We should say that
the just conception of the labor had not oc
curred to the framers of the law organizing the
Department. Yet success under Dr. Janes is
cartain if those for whom he labors will grate
fully and energetically respond to his generous
exertions. W T e also believe that the tax-payers
ol Georgia would spend the public treasure as
willingly and generously in sustaining this
branch of the Government as any other what
ever. For our own part we do not hesitate to
advise our Legislators to vote the last dollar
that may be needed, and that can be returned,
to our pockets by such a liberal interest, in
sustaining the agriculture of the State. For
that is the basic interest—the all-supporting
power by which the rest of .us must live at
last. It fills a patriotic Georgian with graves,
concern to see how many of the tillers of this
generous soil are depressed and hampered.
To sec the strong in thraldom ia a melancholy
sight. To see men who should be the almoners
of society iu need themselves is deplorable
These things ought not to be and need not be.
Soon plenty will bless the State, and a wiser
economy for our entire population will be the
rule and not the exception if the Legislature
and the people will stand by the State Depart
ment of Agriculture.
In closing we will add only this, that we
congratulate Dr. Janes on the fact that he has
surrounded himself with Bticli a corps of assis
tants,and that he has had theexcellent taste and
judgment to supply a number of most deserving
ladies in those labors of his office which are
peculiarly adapted to their habits and training.
We beg the Doctor to believe that we are in
earnest when we say we congratulate him on
being the first, or among the first, to inaugu
rate this just and proper role in official routine.
Dlreet Trade.
This beneficent enterprise is gaining
in the confidence and support of our
Order every day. So grand an undei
taking and momentous revolution in
Southern mercantile existence is not
the work of an hour. Patience is nec
essary, and our brothers must give it
their active support, so soon as their
circumstances will favor. Wise and
discreet and competent agents have
been appointed, and are now at their
posts, in Savannah and Liverpool, and
are arranging the details of their busi
ness. Agents, also, in the principal
cities of Georgia are being appointed,
who will receive consignments.
Utilize Rest Periods.
Though industry is generally regard
ed as a characteristic of the life of the
agriculturist, he, nevertheless, has many
periods of rest from the ordinary labors
of the farm. When such periods find
him worn down by bodily toil,we would
require the suspension of physicial la
bor, and recommend that the mind
should avail itself of. this opportunity
to gather knowledge from the many
sources of information within its reach.
There is no better suited to in
tellectual culture than those in which
the physical man claims rest as an es
sential to health. This may be attrib
uted to the fact that the brain is less
active during the labors of the hands,
and is consequently invigorated for new'
efforts and attainments.
There are also intervals when a sus-
pension of work in the fields is rendered
necessary for other reasons than needed
rest of man and beast. When this is
the case, we should look to and cousid-
Ler what needs attention outside of our
fields. Fences must be kept up, plows,
wagons and harness repaired, prepara
tions made for producing compost,
stables cleansed and improved if neces
sary, and everything about the home
put in order, with such conveniences
added as occur to the mind from time
to time.
After these details have been proper
ly attended to, we are assured, from
observation, that there will still he a
large unappropriated portion of the
average farmer’s time. By average
farmers, we mean such as follow the
landmarks of their fathers, and not
jjioso who keep pace with the spirit of
the age in adopting the policy of diver
sifying products. To this average class
we suggest a change of programme
which will enable them to improve these
.periods that may he now regarded as
surplus intervals to them.
There are interests and pursuits
‘"which seem naturally associated with
with agriculture. Such, for instance,
as the raising of stock, poultry, bees,
etc. Now, let the average Georgia
farmer add these to his present engage
ments, and he will have no wasted
hours. Fields, patches, stables, farm
implements, and all the present details
may be duly attended to, and tbe im
provement of stock, attention to the
’ apiary, etc., answer the purpose of ap-
pleasantly and profitably
many hours that are now spent in idle
ness.
- To the small agriculturist tiie apiary,
with very little attention, may be made
to pay more than the cultivation of
corn and cotton. It will require only a
small investment to produce, in three
years, as many as fifty stands of bees.
These can be successfully managed
while there is a neccessary suspension
of other labor—iu the surplus hours of
the average farmer —and ought to yield
annually a clear profit of ten dollars to
the hive, aggregating SSOO.
The farmer of small means who nets
five hundred dollars from his cotton
and com, is considered a success, and
yet each of these with almost no labor
or time applied, can add another SSOO
by giving attention to other interests
that are within his reach.
We do not ask a reduction of the
usual acreage devoted to the staple
products in order to engage farmers in
behalf of the items suggested, but we
invite their consideration with a view
to the utilization of periods of rest
which are now barren of profit. It is
strange that our people have so long
neglected these auxiliary interests, since
they furnished at the same time pleas
ant recreation and pecuniary reward.
Sow your wheat, rye, oats —plant your
corn and cotton —put all things about
fae farm and house in order—but ex
hibit, also, as the result of your enter
prise and industry, improved fowls of
different’ varieties ; one first-class cow
at least, improved hogs, and an abun
dant apiary. Then, when you store your
grain and sell your cotton, you may
have in addition bacon, produced with
unobservable expense, fowls and eggs
for table use, and perhaps some for
market; milk and butter for the fami
ly and plenty of honey for family con
sumption, while the nice little sum of
several hundred dollars in cash may
be realized from the industry of those
little laborers that are willing to “work
for nothing and board themselves.”
The State Fair of the Georgia Agricultural
Society opened successfully on Monday, and has
continued to grow in interest, and attract larg
er and larger numbers of visitors each succes
sive day to the present writing. To-day,
(Wednesday,) the attendance is grand—be
yond that of any previous day. We will
give particulars in the next Index.
Deep or Shallow Plowing.
It has long been a mooted question in Geor
gia, whether deep or shallow ploughing was
the better policy. Upon this subject we have
heard many friendly discussion, and never kne w
the disputants to finally agree.
It occurs to us that what might be deep or
shallow ploughing in one kind of soil might
be the reverse in another. This fact was illus
trated to us most practically in our boyhood
thus: A gentleman moved from the exceedingly
rich valley of Sequaclie, Tenn., to a county
in upper Georgia,and became the purchaser of
a plantation having a thin gray soil. Having
been accustomed to deep ploughing in Tennes
see,' he was not only an advocate of it, indis
criminately, but practiced it for years on his
new land. The consequence was that each
year he cast up the clay, which by the process
of cultivation was mixed with the soil. Year
after year reduced the fertility of his fields and
surely, from the fact of the annual admixture
of the clay and soil. If he had been careful to
add enduring fertilizers, results would probably
have been different.
If we were asked for directions to destroy
the productiveness of land, we would reply,
mix the clay and soil annually and never
stimulate with godd manures.
Georgia and the IVcst.
Every influence that could he put in
motion to induce the people of the
Southern States to emigrate Westward
is operating. The immense quantities
of lands granted to railroad companies,
have afforded those companies facili
ties, in the way of influencing emigra
tion, that would never have been thus
employed, if the public domain had
been dealt with as in the more honest
days of the Republic.
There are now in several of the South
ern States (Jeorgia,perhaps,not an ex
ception—men who are paid by different
interests in the West to represent that
section of the .Union as an earthly
paradise, in order to seduce our people
away from their old homes. This is
legitimate, so long as these penny-a
liners confine themselves to truthful
representations of the sections they
describe, hut when,for filthy lucre, they
give false colorings, to the damage of
their victims, they are certainly most
reprehensible, and should be dealt with,
if possible, as prepetators of fraud.
Citizens of this State, who are es
tablished in comfortable homes, should
realize the fact that no country affords
for them greater advantages. Such as
these would be acting injuriously to
their interests, should they sever con
nection with Georgia and follow the
syren notes of paid correspondents to
the wilds of the West.
The average fertility of our soil is
equal to that of any State in the Union,
our climate is adapted to the produc
tion of a greater varity of valuable
products than that of any other section,
and here are all the advantages of or
ganized society, good schools, colleges
and churches.
Let our citizens consider well before
they undertake to assume the privations,
hardships and disadvantages of homes
in Western wilds.
Awakened Energies.
The annual fairs that have taken
place, and indications of those in pros
pect, evince the effects of awakened
energies upon the industries of the
whole country. Never before since the
inauguration of the Government, has
there been such a manifestation of en
terprise and industry as has been de
veloped during the last ten years. The
people have strained their energies to
overcome losses resulting from the war,
and have really accomplished more
than this.
It cannot be denied that since tbe
smoke of battles has cleared away, we
have boen aroused from that condition
of semi-repose, which, prior to the war
had enchained our energies.
In the South, especially, our achieve
ments are remarkable ; agriculture,
manufactures, mechanical industries
and educational interests have advanced
with most gratifying rapidity. The
first of these interests has enjoyed to a
greater degree than ever the l>euefits of
intelligent labor, and but for the trib
ute paid to an army of vampires, the
agriculturists of the South would be the
most independent class of our citizens.
The products of labor in this depart
ment of our industries have been im
mense, but much of it has gone to feed
and feast men who live by their wits
instead of the sweat of their faces.
Thanks to the inauguration of the
Grange. The co-operation policy likely
to be perfected in practical operation
promises to work most happy results.
Anew ora is dawning in which the toil
of the husbandman will be rewarded by
the full measure of its products.
The National Grange meets in
Charleston, South Carolina, on the 18th
November.
Not Political, but Powerful.
While the Grange organization is not
a political party, and may never serve
as an auxiliary to the official advance
ment of any man, or class of men, its
power will be sensibly felt and observed
m the enactment of public laws and the
adoption of State policy.
In Georgia we have carefully watched
the movements of this organization,
fearing that it might lend its influence
to political purposes, but wo feel grati
fied that no action has been taken in
computable with their ostensible de
signs or their pledges. True, it has
been plainly manifest that certain am
bitious characters, being members of
the organization, have looked to it with
hope for the gratification of their as
pirations ; hut we believe they have
been left, wholly, to the operation of
other causes for their success or defeat.
Still, as we have stated, the policy
and public laws of the Commonwealth
will receive impress and shape from
this movement. It is both right and
natural that such should be the case,
since the organization comprises a class
of citizens of the first order of talent,
usefulness, experience, respectability
and wealth—men who constitute the
very cream of our population, repre
senting the most valuable and impor
tant interests of the country.
This influence has already accom
plished, through the medium of our
last General Assembly, the inaugura
tion of policies which must result most
advantageously to the resources of the
State. The provisions matured for the
establishment of the Departments Of
Agriculture and Geology, which, under
the direction of our have
been officered and put
would, perhaps, have been neglected for
another score of years had not the or
ganized agriculturists demanded imme
diate action. Now we, have the pros
pect of an early and faithful geological
survey of the State, which cannot fail
to facilitate the development of our
rich mineral treasures, and the practi
cal workings of the Agricultural Bu
reau will prove a most efficient auxiliary
to the promotion of the great interests
with which it is connected.
These items of legislation afford an
earnest of the good we may ex
pect from the influence of„ the Grange.
No one can apprehend any consequences
from this cause that will not prove com
patible with the welfare of the jieople.
Therefore, it is desirable that this body
of citizens will be prompt in tbe ex
pression of their views, in order that
existing laws, which may retard devel
opment, or affect the general conven
ience and prosperity, may receive im
mediate repeal, and such remedial leg
islation had as will meet the public
necessities.
For this purpose the columns of The
Georgia Grange are cordially tendered.
Pay np Your Subscriptions.
The friends and subscribers of stock
to the “ Direct Trade Union,” are ur
gently requested to pay up the second
installment on stock now due. The Ex
ecutive Committee have established
agencies in Liverpool and Savannah,
and some of the principal cities in
Georgia, and now need this installment
to advance on cotton to be shipped to
Liverpool. Let those who are now due
their assessments, not clog the wheels
of this great enterprise by any tardi
ness in meeting the same. Let us
prove to Wall street cotton gamblers
that the days of their gambling are
numbered. God grant the time may
speedily come, through rigid economy,
supplemented by this great inter
national artery, when the toiling farmer
can dictate the price of his own labor
Appointment of Deputies.
The following named Deputies have been
appointed by the Master of Georgia State
Grange, for the purpose of visiting existing
Granges and organizing new ones. To fa
cilitate matters, we give their post-offices.
Farmers proposing to be organized into
Granges, can address either of them for infor
mation : Rev-A. T. Leet, Ringgold; Wm.
Phillips, Marietta; J. H. Fannin, LaGrangc ;
Dr. J. P. Stevens, Leesburg; S. W. Baker,
Blacksbear; G. W. Adams, Forsyth ; F. D.
Wimberly, Tarveraville ; J. B. Jones, Hern
don; Rev. D. E. Butler, Madison ; M. C. Ful
ton, Thomson.
Having a personal acquaintance with the
above gentlemen, we do not hesitate to say that
their appointment is ominous of the rapid ad
vancement of our order in the State. They
are ail of them men of enterprise and intelli
gence, devoted to the interests of agriculture,
and will be found prompt and zealous in be
half of its great organization.
The total entries at the late Ohio
State Fair, which is the twenty-fifth,
amounted to 4,124. Receipts, $30,000.
Attendance, over seventy thousand.