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 "Agriculture is the Basis of "Wealth No. 41


 Every traveler has experienced costs $600,000. It is a drive of twenty- Jefferson on State Banks.In The Culture of Oats.

 lightness of pocketbook after one five miles, over hill and mountain, to a speech by Judge Clark, of: KditorFsrmer and Fruit Grower: ,
 round: with the Pullman car monopoly. girdle this property. It will take six Texas he said I send you an extract from a Canada 
 Hence the following is likely to be years to build the house, which is 375X : ,
 on oat production which I
 "his sentiments:" 192 feet. The ceilings of the banquethall We can recur again with profit to paper ,
 When it took three days .and four will be 65 feet high. The house the utterances of Mr. Jefferson as a regard as .one of the most excellent ,..
 nights to make the trip from Chicagoto will have four floors and 120 rooms, test of the Democracy of this State papers -I ever saw on that subject.
 Denver the Pullman Company and can't be run by a cook and a boy to bank declaration in the street-car stable Let me say in connection with it, that
 charged $7.50 for a birth for the trip. chop wood. Indeed, Mr. Vanderbiltwill platform. IrT terms of absolute severityand : for oats to do well in South Florida
 Today the trip is! made over the Bur. have about 100 servants about denunciation. he reprobated the they should be sown at farthest by the
 lington in two days and one night, him when he is keeping house." system of State banks and did not middle of November. From the mid-
 and Sir George M. Pullman stillcharges ) t hesitate to stigmatize them as public dle of October to the middle of No-
 $7.50. It used to take two: The College-Bred Flunk. robbers and swindlers. He even wentso vember is verysuitable. The finest I
 nights and a day to run from ..Omahato At a meeting on the fair grounds far in his condemnation as to urge have ever produced were sown the
 Denver, and $3.50 was the price Worcester, Mass., recently, Presi- most vehemently and continually that first of November. But this article I
 of a sleeper in those days. Now the dent Needham said he heard a woman in the interest of the public welfarethe send you will give highly importantitems
 Union, Pacific runs the trip in one say she did not think an agricultural States should surrender this rightto on the crop in a number of
 night, but Pully nails the public for college the place for her son. "Oh! charter banks, claiming that it wasa other respects.
 $3.So, just the same. This sort of the name," she said, sneeringly. Her blot left in our State constitutions, S. W. CARSON.
 thing exists all over the country, and other sons had been educated in a first- which, if not removed speedily, would Midland PIa.
 has called for a bit of calculation froma class college, and this one must grad end in their destruction. I quote some The oat crop is one of the most usefulof
 student of Poor's Railway Manual. uate from such a college. He con few of his many expressions upon this all the small grains, and under the
 He-estimates that in sixteen years, at tinued: "I asked her how the sons subject: best cultivation may be made one of the
 the present rates Sir George chargesthe had turned out who had graduatedfrom "Bank paper must be suppressedand are most not profitable.sufficiently But studied.its requirement When the
 railway companies for the use of the first-class college. She said circulating medium be restoredto character of the grain is well understoodwe
 his cars, he can own all the railroadsin they had not turned out at all. 'How the nation to whom it belongs." find that it is equally exhaustive of
 the country if he so desires. This old is the first one?* I asked. 'Thirty- "The State Legislatures should be the soil as any other grain, but while it
 being the case (and we have no doubts two! 'What's his business 'He immediately urged to relinquish the requires good feeding, it is remarkably
 about ,it), it would seem that the has no business.' 'How does he live?' right of establishing banks of discount. generous Moreover,in under its the return best method to the farmer.seed

 question to-daf is : Shall Sir GeorgeM. 'On his father.' [Laughter]. Nowif Most of them will comply on patriotic ing the land to grass or clover, or both,
 Pullman own the railroads (and that young man had gone to the principles, under the convictions of this is found to be the most favorable
 the.people to boot), or shall the people agriculturaL college: or to the tedhno- the moment; and the noncomplyingmay crop of all that may be used for this pur
 'own Sir George and the railroads? logical school they would have devel. be crowded into concurrence by pose. As compared: with wheat, whichis
 commonly considered the most exacting -
 oped some ideas in him. Let me tell legitimate devices." of all the grains on the soil, we find
 Stipendiaries. you, my friends, that the name of the "The system of banking (State that an average crop of oats takes more
 ". Just outside the main exit of the hall college is the least possible consideration banks) we have both equally and ever fertility from the land than an equiva-
 of the United States House of Representatives in the building up of a vigorousand reprobated. I contemplate it as a lent yield of wheat. This is shown by
 the taken from the
 in the Capitol, are the railed. youthful manhood. Educationis blot left in all our constitutions, which, Rothamstead following reports figures, showing the com-
 off,offices of the Western Union Telegraph something that comes to men like if not covered, will end in their destruction position of the dry matter of forty-five
 Company. It is a common sightfor physical growth and strength, from which is already hit by the bushels of oats and thirty bushels of
 visitors to here get their closest within, not from without. Pile up your gamblers in corruption, and is sweep- .wheat respectively:
 glimpse of law-makers. Some of them text-books mountains high, range your ing away in its progress the fortunes Pounds.Oats. Pounds.Wheat.
 are always standing about (while the tutors and your teachers by the hun and morals of our citizens. Ash .x
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 House: is in session) dispatching or re dred and surround your victim, if "Everything predicted by the ene- NltrgenSulphur. ..... 52 8 46 8
 .ceiving telegraphic messages. And it victim you like to call him, in the mies of banks (State banks) in the Potash.. 38Soda 3ttJ! -
 is also a common sight for the eye of hope that you'll make a great man of beginning is now coming to pass. Lime. 13 7 10 '
 the observer to follow a quick transfer him. You may elect him to the Leg- We are to be ruined now.by the delugeof Magnesia Phosphoric.Acid....;. 30 9 33 7
 from a neat, leather bound, little book islature or you may get him a seat in bank paper, as we were formerly Chlorine .6 I
 of a "telegraphic frank" to the Sena- Congress, but in the first associationof by the old Continental paper. It is It is thus seen that 3.978 pounds of
 tor's or Congressman's dispatch. These people that he mingles with they cruel that such revolutions in private grain and straw of the oats take more of
 will know fortunes should be the of every element of plant food from the soil
 books are furnished Representatives by at once the amount of at mercy than
 4,183 pounds of the grain and strawof
 the "courtesy" of the Western Union avoirdupois in the man; they know avaricious adventurers, who, insteadof wheat except the three pounds of
 Company, and'when their contents are just what he is worth. You can't de- employing their capital, if any they phosphoric acid which the wheat takes
 consumed another is promptly for-i ceive the public mind. In a great, have, in manufactures, commerce and more than the oats. This: is very different -
 warded. The custom-for it has intelligent, popular country, like ours, other useful pursuits, make it an in- from the prevailing opinion of farm-
 ers, who are to believe that oats i
 not to be deceived strument to burthen all the inter. apt may
 grown to be one-is almost universal. men are by the I be grown on much less fertile land than
 Few statesmen fail to avail themselvesof name of the college at which the man changes of property with their swin- wheat. The result is that one very rarely i
 monopoly's sop to Cerberus. It follows has graduated. No; thank God, dling profits-profits which are the finds a really good crop of oats, and the
 therefore, as shadow substance under this free government of ours, price of no useful industry of theirs. quantity as well as the quality of.thfc
 day and night, that men who are the in this gfeatest of all great countries, I am an enemy to all banks grain profit produced to the per acre is And rarely of any
 stipendiaries and recipients of a cor with its great free people, every man discounting bills or rates for anything growers do secure grower.excellent and yet some most
 poration's favors will exact no legislation stands for what he is worth. 'Take care but coin." profitable crops of this grain by the best
 too irritant to it. By such methodsare of yourself,' says the popular judgment These quotations from the great ex method of culture, based on the requirements -
 the helpless rendered more so, and If your learning helps you, we pounder of Democracy could be, ex- of the plant. We read of or sometimes -
 the public wronged.-National Econo- are glad of it. If you get anything out ofa tended at great length, but there is no I bushels see to a yield the acre of seventy-five of grain weighing or eighty t
 mist. diploma, get it, but the true straight. necessity for further evidence as to his nearly twice the average of the ordinary
 forward way is to follow in every idle views. Every prediction he made as crops, and there are a good many cases
 The Times-Democrat flunkily in- moment some industrial study or some to the inherent rottenness of the State in which oats are really the most paying
 forms us that "George W. Vanderbilt, !industrial work. That's the way.we banking system was completely verified crop grown on the farm. The reason
 in increasing his stupendous estate inN make American citizenship. That's the by their subsequent careers*, and character why this is as uncommon an exhaustive is first crop, that is not ita

 orth Carolina, Biltmore, puts together way we lead the world. multiplied calamities came upon the generally known; second, that manure is
 his own and mother's maiden name. < 1 I people ,because of a disregard of his very rarely given to it, and, third, that
 The estate comprises about ten thou- Why weary your throat and patience i prophetic utterances. the procuring of the best kind of seed i*.
 with that wretched when bottleof
 cough, a
 sand and is about commonly neglected.
 acres, two thousandtwo *in
 hundred feet-above -the sea. It promptly Dr.Bull's? Cough Syrup- will,- tur you' yerltebls* .dmfly ue4tdze,.lox. BS CZAJC'. quite- The careful fact fj that This grain' r.pnirs4









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