Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-30

BTOLlerS. lct US va ENAAiSS SA-N> 1
or knowledge is power.
eternal vigilance is the price OF liberty.
Free trade and Farmers rights. s-
Railroads make Q fail per cent. on S4o,-
100 per mile. When assessed ior taAa-
ION they are valued at 50, ,OUo.
we will vote for no more robbers.
No more Republicans, no more Demo
Gratis. We want and must have honest
men TO fill our public POSITIONS.
Farmers to the front; pohteians take
back seats.
The hand that holds the bread.
LET ali farmers be united, for in union
% Corn must go up, monopolies must go
In God we trust. Equal rights.
Death to monopolies. A tair renumera-
tion paid in honest labor.
CORPORATIONS must obey the laws as
well as individuals.
FARMERS STEAMBOAT EXCURSIONS.
The Agricultural Societies of the lake
shore counties west of Cleveland have |
alopted the excellent custom of having |
a steamboat excursion and picnic each |
season Just after harvest. This year, by
agreement, the three counties, Erie,
Lucas, and Wood fixed ON the same day,
Aug. 18th, and going with different
boats, met together for grand social
convention picnic at the grove on Put
In-Bay Island. Being at Toledo, with
the committee of the State horticultural
Society, we accepted an invitation to
Join in the excursion and festivities.
Two large steamers left Toledo with
the parties from Lucas and Wood coun-
ties, numbering over thousand per-
sons, nearly all of them farmers with
their wives and children; each family
carrying along a basket of eatables for
the picnic, and each steamboat having
band of music. The weather was fine,
and a pleasant trip of three hours
brought us to the beautiful Bay, where
two large steamers had already arrived
from Sandusky and Huron. and an
other in sight coming from Vermillion,
and still another from Kelley's Island,
making four steamboats, from Erie
county, and six in all from the three
counties, bringing concourse of about
five thousand people, all of them in the
very best of humor, and prepared for a
good jolly time.
Several acres of the grove were soon
spread with table-clotl1s, and these COW
cred with incest eatables of which fami-
lies and groups of friends feasted abun-
dantlv. Then rambles and boat-rides,
or social chat with speeches and music
filled up the allotted three hours, when
the steamboat whistles called all aboard,
and the six steamers, with flags flying
and bands PLAYING, were soon homeward
bound.
The Lorain County Society had their
annual picnic the past week at Black
River Harbor, with pleasant three
hours steam boat ride on the lake.
We hope the Lake and Geauga far
mers will be able and disposed to adopt
this very pleasant and rational mode OF
giving themselves and their families &
day of recreation after the tolls of har.
vest, when our harbor facilities are i'm
proved as they promise to be in another
year or two.
And now, as our county Fairs are
near at hand, there should be a genera
determination not only to attend, bu
for every one to do some thingto make
the fairs interesting and instructive
and then every member should attent
the meeting for business and election o
officers, so as to give new life and spiri
to the societies. Let younger men b.
elected as officers, if the old ones ar
1G7 nv.6 lot vn1a h
adopted by which our farmers shall a
least become better acquainted witt
each other, and derive some benefi
from social intercourse and the inter
change of views and experience. l
this cannot be done otherwise, let u
have the Oranges.
HULLESS OATS HUMBUG.
Wehaye received letter from com
mission house in Milwaukee, containing
a sample of Hulless Oats, and after des
cribing the variety of oats as something
new and highly valuable, inviting us
accept the agency for the sale of tn
same, at the moderate price of So pc
package of quarts and only one pack
age to farmer, as the supply is limited
Not yet, gentlemen; it is too soon
play that game in this market. We re
cognize the article as an old acquaint
ance, having sold some bushels of it fo
experiments when In the seed trade {
Rochester as much as thirty years agt
and after full and fair trial several loca
tiles and seasons, it was abandoned 6
too tender and unreliable to be wort
cultivating. 1t will be found notice
in the papers of that time, also in Ems
lish books on farming, but not as pro-
of any value. We think western fal
mers will get along with ''Ramsde
oats'' for some time to come.
BOYS AT EARS.
A writer in the Mirror and Farnsar b
lieves that prizes should be offered
fairs to be competed for by boys. Z
at agricultural exhibitions and let the
have the principal part of its arrang
ments. For judges in that department
would assign men of character,
well as of good judgment. But this
rough outline; You can fill it up be
ter than can do it. think such
course would have a good effect.
would operate as an incentive to actio
to many a boy. These boys will
men before many years. By attendir
fairs and taking an active part in then
while still in youth, they will becon
far better acquainted with each 9TH
from remote sections, and will gain
knowledge of the worth and capacity
men in after years, and sometimes, to
that knowledge may prove of inestim
BILE importance.
BREAKING COLTS.
A correspondent writing to the Rur
Neeo Yorker says: The gentling
colts should begin when they are but
few weeks old. Frequent handling al
occasional salting or feeding them fro
out your hand and stroking the
necks are all good practices. From tv
to three years old they should be accu
toned by degrees to the saddle and br
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