The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-20

he does not own a single rood of earth,
is Just as eligible as the man who owns
a thousand acres. The constitution
says that an applicant for membership
must be engaged in agricultural
pursuits, and have no interest in con
fiict with our purposes. The constl-
tuition does not say that he must own
the land he tills; he must be engaged
in agricultural pursuits. The employe
ON the farm, known as the "hired
man." is entitled to membership as far
rs agriculture is concerned; and if he
tolls upon the farm all the time, how
can he have an interest in conflict with
our purposes? OF course the employee
ought to be man of good habits, and
one that can be trusted. With these
qualifications, God forbid that any
thing like caste or strata in society
shall keep him out. The writer of
this well knows the honest laborer on
The farm-patrons, do not ignore him.
We are sure YOU will Motive are
sure you have not; for the trusty man
at your pillow or with your stock is a
farmers friend indeed and with your
selves make up the bone and sinew of
the class of which the order, to be
permanent, must be composed. Farm
owners, if you find your help compe
tent, upright, useful and to be trusted,
encourage them-whether male or
female-to enter the grange. Once
there, their interests are your interests;
what they save helps you, what they
learn is for your benefit as well as
their own. Further, the ties of the
grange will make them more compe-
tent, upright and useful, if possible,
than they we're before, and besides
they will be more likely tostand by you,
and remain with you, than were you
to make them feel as though they were
but little better than your cattle. May
God bless the faithful farm laborer,
say we; we know Allah will help the
farm owner who treats his help with
the consideration that one ought to
treat every person who has living
soul.-Fdrmer's Friend.
A DOMESTIC TRIAI.-Nothing is
more trying to the mistress of a house
in any grade of life than to be COM
PEELED to "wait dinner" for the con-
venience of tardy guests, to say moth
ing of the discomfort inflicted on other
visitors. The busy people of the
world are the punctual people; the
man whose every moment IS worth
money to himself and to others always
manages to be on time. 1t is hard
that such persons as these should be
compelled to waste long time in wait
ing dinner for the arrival of some
man or woman whose unpunctuality is
merely the result of an impertinent
want of forethought. The proper
mode of treating such persons would be
to ignore them altogether. If, when
the dinner hour arrived, dinner were
served and the cavaliers were COM
PEELED by their late arrival either to 90
without dinner or to sit down in the
middle of the feast-no bringing back
of earlier dishes allowed evil of
careless lateness would soon be rem
edied. $50 sorry to be late," ought
to be met by so sorry we couldn't
wait, but glad to have you Join us at
this stage" If ladies would take this
matter into their own hands, this habit
of late arrival, which is positive
social nuisance, would soon be cured.
THE JAPAN PEA.
The Japan Pea has withstood the
drought Of twelve weeks this summer
better than any other crop known.
Even when crab grass succumbed, it
held its own.
When one has worried himself to
death to get a stand of cotton and
failed, let him fall back on this as a sure
card. Ordinarily the product is from
ten to fifty bushels per acre. The crop
is easily gathered, easily threshed,
weevil proof, good for horses, good for
hogs and cattle, and good for the table,
though l will qualify the last assertion
bysaying that; L find them as calloused
oysters of diminutive size might be
supposed to be. They are to be soaked,
then boiled until the woodpile is used
up, and the patience of the cook is ex-
hausted. After this is done, some like
them well. A second edition, however,
in the way of brown baked dish, after
the fashion of the down east pork and
beans, does away with the dyspeptical
objection. 1t is recommended to
boarding house keepers as a dish for
those who turn up their noses at less
substantial cookery.
After so much mouthing and nosing
all around for something to renovate
old soils, why not the Japan Pea? Its
stalks ane frliage are more abundant
than those of cotton and 1 believe the
crop utilized with cattle and hogs, is
fully equal, taking everything into con-
sideration.
As crop to under, it certainly has one
advantage over the COW pea; the seed
can qe raised abundantly. But does it
derive the same amount of atmospheric
nutriment, is the Observation-Disclosures,
IN the Rural Cdroliniat for November,
JOINT STOCK COOPERATIVE FARMING
COMPANIES.
The sea islands and the whole coast
region of South Carolina are fast re-
verting to barbarism or becoming a
wilderness. A semi-tropical climate,
fertile soil, railway facilities in some
parts, and fine rivers, inlets and bays
everywhere, render this region one of
the most attractive and desirable in
the whole country. 1t formerly brought
wealth to the owners of its soil, and rev.
enue to the State. 1t is being grad
ually abandoned, because the system
under which it was formerly cultivated
has been broken up, its people impov-
erished, and its labor demoralized.
Those who own the lands can not now
cultivate them with profit, and find