The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-09-11
Practical Results and Bene-
fits Of Oranges.

which paper was furnished US by
Pomaria reader, and their care
ful perusal is recommended:
Farmers arc familiar with the
fact that the largest productions
of the earth sometimes spring from
the smallest germs.
Three thousand years ago d few
tiny seeds, blown by the breeze,
| or borne by the stream, lodged in
the soil OF the Sierras. They
swclled and sproutcd: and little
spears, no larger than q blade OF
grass, sprang theretrom, Those
tiny sprouts, which an insect
might have destroyed, grew till
their taper points upheld the firm
ament. Having survived l. c
storms Of thirty centuries, the
giant pines Of California stand to-
day, the wonder and admiration
OF all whose astonlshed eyes wan:
der from the mountainous base OF
their trunks to their tops among
the clouds. What respect would
you have for the opinion, the judg-
ment or the taste Of him who
would turn from these old primeval
monarchs Of the forest, as beneath
his notice because they sprang
from an insignificant seed.
The grand old oak is none the
less majestic because its infant
form was enclosed within an
acorn's cup.
The friends of the order ask,
(and every one not controlled by
ignorance or prejudice, will grant
the reasonable request,) that it
shall be received and tried upon
it's merits, regardless of It's origin
or its authors.
The founders of the Patrons of
Husbandry claim little credit for
having originated the order. If
they had not done it, other and
perhaps ADLER hands would, doubt
less, soon have initiated some such
movement.
America would not have re-
maincd long undiscovered if Co.
lumbus had never been born. The
steam engine would soon have be-
gun to do the heavy hauling and
to turn the machinery Of the
world, if Watts and Stephenson
had never thought or experiment,
ed. The printing press would
soon have led the way out of the
darkness and debasement of the
middle ages, if Faust and Gutten-
berg had been apprenticed to some
other trade. The reformation
would soon have followed the dis
covery Of the art of printing, if
Martin Luther had remained faith
| full to the doctrines and practices
of the church. Reform, discovery
and invention are ever prompt to
respond to the calls Of necessity.
Thus, we are willing to admit,
was it with this order. The ne
cessity existed and cried aloud for
relief. The time had come for that
cry to be answered. 1t was in ac-
cordance with the plans and pur-
poses of Divine Justice and Equi-
ty that the great agricultural ia:
terests of this country should
rouse from their letharyy, break
their thrall, unitcdly to assert and
peacefully to conquer their indie
pendencc. The originators of this
order were but the humble instru,
ments employed to find the road
and point the way.
They are now willing to admit
that they then had an inadequate
conception of the magnitude enc
grandeur Of their work. .ey
bailded wiser than they knew
New forms and features, and new
elements Of strength and useful
ness are continually developing
themselves. Capacities and posi-
bilities which were not dreamed
Of or which we're only contem
plated as ultimate and remote
possibilities, have already becomt
practical and valuable features O.
the organization.
One of the most prominent O
these ideas was to enable the far
mer, who is the great consumer o
agricultural tools, implements ane
machinery, commercial fertilizers
&C., to purchase the same direc
from the manufacturer or import
er, thereby saving the various com
missions and profits of the agents
iobbers, wholesale and retail deal
ers, and middle-men.
The present system Of CONNER
cial exchange, through the inter
vention of an interminabfe line o
dealers and forwarders-standin!
between the producer and con
sumer-has, with the development
Of the country, gradually grow
into a gigantic evil, under whlcl
each are equally wronged; tn
one receiving far less and the 9th
err paying much more than a jus
price for the article exchanged.
For example, the manufacture
of an agriculturalim Implement wbicI
he can sell at good profit at tel
dollars, establishes the retail pric