Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-01-31
Miscellaneous.

In South Africa raw hide is used as .
substitute for all kinds of cordage. II
is made into drag ropes for the wagons
headstalls for the oxen, brides for the
horses, cordage for matching the hut
slips for bottoming the beds. chairs and
stools.
What avails a mans right to posi-
ton, or his integrity of purpose, if there
is not a corresponding integrity of &C.
ton? If man has a right to posi-
ton, let him go to work and make him.
self the very best man for it, and his
claim will be recognized, and even if he
does not fully succeed in reaching the
desired standard, the earnest attempt
spect, and will create an influence for
his class that in time the ordinary po-
itical rabble will be unable to over
throw.
1t should be an object with all to
raise the YIELD of their harvests to the
highest possible maximum. No man
should rest content with raising the
poorest crops or the meanest animals in
the town. The times in which we
live demand that our farms should pro-
duce more and at less cost. Agricul-
ture is the greatest of our American
interests. 1t should be the pride and
aim of each individual farmer to con-
tribute his best effort towards making
the nation prosperous, thereby insuring
comfort and happiness to each and all
of its citizens.
Milk newly drawn from the cow has
temperature of about 80 degrees F,
which is considerably reduced before
it reaches the dairy. 1t has almost
Away a slightly alkaline taste which
it gradually looses on exposure to the
air. Itcontains, in every 100 parts,
about 81 parts of water, parts fatty
matter or butter, parts of peculiar
sugar, called milk sugar, st parts OF
cheesey matter or curd, and three
fourths of a part of mineral matter.
Butter gives it an oily richness, sugar
its sweetness, curd its thickness, water
its refreshing properties as a drink, and
salt its peculiar flavor.
Whenever farmers acquire the habit
of thinking they cease to class them
selves with the opposers of progress.
Therefore let progressive men go on
with their achievements, developing
new ideas and multiplying large re-
suits. Every extraordinary yield,
whether of butter, of beef or grain, is
a strong fact and standing argument.
Let this argument be continually and
everywhere repeated, until farmers dis
cover the necessity of employing mind
as well as muscle in tilling the soil,
until they are brought to understand
that thought ia an instrument more
valuable than machinery, more potent
than steam; that it is a fertilizer more
powerful than the best manure, yet
equally valuable fcs every crop, and in
every branch of industry.
Education, cultivation and Legislation
each have their advocates as the special
means of improving the condition OF
the agricultural masses. This much at
least is true, that cultivation and legis-
lation will be the better if based upon
education, since that man who is not a
good cultivator himself, cannot be
good legislator for his class. When
the agricultural class says "There
should be more farmers in our legisla-
tive halls, since the interests of agri-
culture are so closely connected with
the general prosperity of the country"
they tell a truth that the candid pro-
fessional man readily admits. Yet
some of our best and ablest farmers
declare that they are not competent to
legislate against the representatives of
various corporations.