Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-04-23

tGfs So Wv ttttyf tFt Olt OHACt N0A tkhttt :
D. farmera have cause TO c0mplaii
or murmer against the Government
or against the laws passed 10 Con
gress since the Republican party
came into power? Laws which lift
cd tho Agricultural branch of tht
Government up FROM an insignifoan
appeCdage Of the Patent Office anC
made il al independent and efficient
Department ? Laws which protect
with q judoious tariff everything tbs
farmer raises or can produce ?
OnO thing more is wanted, and
that il the passage of an act 10 ona,
ole each farmer DO whole country
who desires =, an opportunity 10
avail himself 81 The annual report Of
the Agricultural Department, work
That has become indispensable to
every thrifty tlller of The soil abound.
ing as il does 10 practical information
pertaining TO his calling that can be
obtained nowhere else.
OUR PROGRESS IN FRUIT RAISING.
Lutte, in fact almost no attention
Nas paid 10 fruit raising previous to
t1e Revolution. The first apples
y er. raised 90 Governors Island, 10
he barbor Of Boston, in 1899, from
which it IS recorded 10 history, ten
fair plpplns were brought, there b..
lng not one apple or pear tree plant
"a in any part of the country but
upon that island" The orchard pre-
dacts, according to the last census,
have now risen to tho annual value
OF $40 600 900. And here again the
Agricultural Department comes in
with its cooperation in behalf of The
farmer ia iLa introduction Of new va
rotias and in pointing ont the best
fer different species and varieties Of
fruit, and discovering the best means
of protecting fruit and fruit trees
against tho ravages of worms, in
aecte, and other enemies, IS well as
indicating the most effectual mode OF
destroying the enemy after the at
tack has been made. Here to u-
dicious law OF Congress gives the
fruit-gf0 ger G protection OF o duty
OF ten per cont. on foreign fruits.
gresn, or dried, and twenty five and
thirty-i9e per cent. ca preserved
imported fruits, aud q high duty on
grape wines OF foreign manufacture,
az protection to grape. growers and
manufacturers If native wines
OUR DAIRY Products.
With inferior stock, no grass, no
hay an. no winter shelter, the dairy
pio@uct was uncomfortable for many
vos a en- cows were brought over
II Z Z gland aud Holland and not
"a lii e : tho Revolution was the
d.iry --u.o.ont meet the neceAgi-
tics Of the inhabiJants except to a
worry Omitted extont. With thospirit
Of improvement in the breeds OF
mitch cows camo also an increase in
the products of the dairy. Now the
Ayrcsbires, and the Jers Us, and all
othor superior breeds have become
numerous and the dairy product has
grown TO q vast proportion. Tue re-
port Of the Agricultural Department
for 1872 says: at is quite within
bounds TO say that the butter pre-
ducts of tho country Is fully 600 600,
900 pounda, aud that the cheese ex-
ceods 2O0O00,O00 pounds a year."
and adds "lho dairy business Of
this country has developed with
such rapidity and to such degree
of importance, with the aid of the
highest intelligence and tho applica-
ton Of the most consummate skill. as
TO be regarded az one of the highest
triumphs Of modern agricultural. Its
annual products amounts TO over
100000 900, and the capital invest
sd u ii does not fall short Of 500.
100000.
Horo TOO The fostering care Of the
Government is shown 10 tho protcc-
ton Of Tho farmer by the imposition
Of duty OF four cents per round on
butter and cheese, which c9mpels the
Canadian farmer to make deposit
70 that amount in the aub-tTeasury
Of the United States for each and
every pound of butter or cheese he
sells ia our markets, while the
American farmer carries the entire
proceeds OF his sales to his wn peck
st for bis own exclusive use.
TUE HISTORY OF OUR IMPROVEMENT
Is AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS
AND TOOLS.
Il i exceedingly Interesting 70
trace The progress OF our improve
menls in this department from the
old wooden to the polished steel
shovel; from the good plow, with
out particle of iron or steel, TO the
finely finished east-iron pl0w with
steel coulter and mold board, and to
Tie steam pillow now coming into use
with the certainty Of general intro
duotion on all our great p-airies and
broad farms at no distant day. Ii
would be interesting, and instruct
i7e also, to see one OF the old wood
co farm carts, claiming not an ounce
Of metal in any part CT lis construc-
lion, sllugside Of the finely finished
and neatly painted farm carts Of the
present day or the old sickle AID
throshing fail in contrast with the
Mccormick reaper and the threshing
mill !; but space will not admit Of G
detailed statement in this connection
q the great improvements made 10
every kind OF agricultural imple,
,aents and tools. and more especially
tbs rapid strides made within tbs
memory Of the present generation
Allow us to say, however, that after
improvements began to be made, the
farmers introduced the newer anc
better implements with great mis-
gieings. Many farmer chung {
Lis old wooden plow, asserting tina
''cast iron poisoned The ground anC
spoiled the crops"
The Patent Office, by protecting
inventors 10 the ii lie TO the results c
their genius for a given number O