The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-03-20
MIDDLE MEN.

Some peopledu not practice what they
preach. The naain object of oranges, IL
is said, is to do away with middle men,
and bring producers and consumers,
manufacturers and final purchasers, TO-
gether. The following, with the re-
marks under it, we take from the New
Orleans Rake, an agricultural paper. It
will be seen that the organ of the grang-
ers in this State, makes use of middle
men in the outset. This is very well in
ordinary business, but some grangers
will be surprised to know they are un-
Willingly fostering a thing which they
condemn and of whichthey are trying to
getclear. They way to stop the thing is
tokeep everybody out OF the oranges but
genuine practical farmers, whose sole
business is farming:
fCoNFIDENTIAL.)
Dear Sir:-You will perceive that Our
Home Journal and Rural Southland is
an organ of the Patrons of Husbandry.
IT is the largest Weekly Agricultural
journal published that is adapted to the
South, employing the combined talent
of the " Rural Southland and "Our
Home journal" as now united in one
paper. With the view OF giving the
best practical talent and advocating the
true interests of the Tillers of the Soil,
we hope to place the paper within the
reach of all, and hereby appoint you as
Special Agent of this paper for your
Grange, with authority to take subscrip-
tons for same ut Club Rates of So so
and you retain so cents Oh each, sending
us so 90 net. Thus your members can
all get the best weekly paper III the
South for 80 so, at the same time allow
ing you pay for your work. We hope
that your brother officers will cooperate
with you in getting up a large club in
your Grange. Show the sample copies
sent you, and commence the work ut
once, so that all can commence with the
1st of January, 1874. Yours truly,
JAS. I'll. HUMMRL, Publisher.
The above was handed to us by a true
brother and member OF the State Grange,
for publication, forthe purpose of show
ing how the official journal proposes to
hire the officers to fleece their brethren,
and foist upon them a paper that has no
interest or sympathy with them only SO
far as their money goes. We leave our
readers to judge for themselves as we
consider comment entirely useless upon
such a document.-INew Orleans Rake.
ALEGAL SQUARE.-The wiseacre who
knows more abbout other peoples bust
ness than his own, will discover ON re-
ferring to the law, with an unbiased
mind, that "a square consists of the
space of ten lines solid agate, provided
that the standard for the measurement
Of all printing and advertising shall be
qainiOn type or its equivalent Now
9 the space of ten lines solid agate is Just
t~hree-fourths of an inch, and in that
space just eight lines of minion will no.
Eight lines of minion, the length of the
lines being thirteen ems plea, standard
measurement contain 1874 ems ; and 1874
ems in any other type is the eQaiarG-
Tent of 1874 ems minion, the amount of
ems in illegal square. Nonpareil type
is smaller than minion. Weset adver-
tisements ID nonpareil. We have been
giving one inch of this type for square.
Twelve lines Of it will go in the space
of an inch, and contains three hundred
and twelve (312) ems. The difference
between this and a legal square is one
hundred and twenty-eight (1281 ems.
Those who do not want to pay for our
square a pay for the legal one, and re-
ceive eur thanks for doing so.
S0UND ADvIGE.-We invite fhe ar
tention Of all, farmers especially, to the
article from the New Orleans Rake, en-
titled " Defamatory Notes. and to the
{ Address to the South" approved by
the National Grange. Both Of them
tell our farmers exactly what they
ought to do. The editor OF the Rake
learned to use the rake and other
agricultural implements from the time
lie was first able to handle them. He
is d man of sound sense, d practical
man, and one we'll yersed in what he
about. He Is no political kid
farmer. His opportunities have
given him Il full insight into this grange
agency Business. IF the grange busi-
ness is 20 diverted from what it was in
to do, as to relieve our farmers
a little evil and saddle them with d
big one, they had better remain as they
are, and work out their own material
as we stated last week.
Political STATIsTTes.-The last an