The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-22
Farmers, Sort Your Wheat.

At the present time, when there will be more
or less grown wheat in every county in the state
the farmers can do much TO abate injury to our
great product by carefully throwing aside every
sheaf of grown wheat and not allow it to be mix
ed with the good wheat. Good wheat will COM
mand a high price. OF that there can be no
question. There is great DEAL of good wheat
raised in the state, yet so severe is the CONNER
cial standard of the quality, that if the farmers
mix one hushel of bad wheat with ten bushels of
good wheat it will grade the whole as No. 2, and
perhaps may sink it so low to be counted
among the rejected.
1t would absolutely be better economy for the
farmers to destroy every bushe of bad wheat
than to allow it TO be mixed with the good. Let
every farmer bear in mind to keep what is good
by itself and to sever the bad from the good
Just as carefully as he would separate tares from
wheat.
farmer informs us that this is not difficult
to do, for the most of the grown wheat is on the
east side of the shock. AS the storm came from
the northeast, the sheaves on the west side
uniniured, and if the farmers thrash these with
out mixing it with the other portion Of the shock
they quite certain to obtain No. wheat. 1t
seems simple and easy to divide the poor
from the good, that we suppose 1t will be uni
versally done; but the passion of avsrice ia
strong, and too many farmers will be tempted to
throw in a shesf of doubtful wheat and thus sink
the grade to No. 2, or perhaps rejected. We
have no hesitation in saying, that if the farmers
show brains and good Judgement in sorting their
wheat, they can save at least million OF dollars
in value to the crop of the state. The wheat
which has commanded 1920, is wheat of the
very first quality. Such wheat the farmers
should strive to send to market this season, for
it is more remunerative than any other. A
small crop at two dollars will pay much better
than a double crop at ninety cents, for that is
about the value of rejected wheat 1t will be
90, had
in feeding their stock, or selling it to ba convert
ed into whisky,
In 1868, Mr.. Greeley appeared in the Fri
bune as an unqualified peace man now when
peace has been secured. no man In the coun-
try, Thaddeus Stevens always excepted, is of
q more terocious temper toward all ex-rebels
than he. The platform on which he stood in
'63 had, with others, these planks in it, and
they are hereby commended to the soles of
his shoes to-day: "That tho war was waged
for the ends that loyal democrats approve )"
''that from first to last. the president made
the preservation of the Union, and the restor-
alton of the rtghttul, constitutional authority
of the government the pOle-star of his course"
"that his power over slavery flows entirely
from the rebellion, and will die with it :"
shat each rebel state aUiH recover all the poo-
er it eUer had over the status of it's own people
by the simple and salutary process of ceasing
to be rebel and becoming once more loyal p
And few others in the came temper and
similarly shaped. Now what has happen
ed to change these plsnks since the war p
The war stopped, but not until the authority
of the constitution was acknowledged. The
war being ended by the obedience of the reb-
81 states to the government of the Union, each
of those states RECEIVERS it's power over Its
own affairs, simply from ceasing to be rebel
and becoming once more loyal. Here is the
very platform the conservative party stands
on to day. This is exactly what was aimed
a. in the war. The National Union Conven-
tion adopted these very principles as their
own. Why, then. should not Mr.. Greeley and
those for whom he speaks stand by their own
deliberate professions? Not from anything
in the conduct of the south since certainly
not from anything wrong in the action of the
north; but simply because the radical lea
ders in congress have increased their de-
mands so as to enlarge their power. They
do not work for restoration for the sacredness
of the constitution, for permanent peace and
prosperity, but for themselves at the head of
a selfwilled dynasty Boston Post.
Montana territory has gone democratic by o.