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Legitimate Agricultural Fairs.

From the Western Agricnlturst.I
The Success of honest, legitimate
agricultural fairs last year was remark
able. We have carefully noted the re-
suit of the several fairs we were able to
attend. Where the fair associations
admitted gamblers in ali the various
forms, with horse racing and betting as
a prominent feature, they did, as a
rule. come out in debt, while the fairs
that excluded gambling and racing
made money over and above their pre-
miums and expenses.
The Shelbina (Mo.) Fair and the
Newark (Mo.) Fair, both were honest
agricultural fairs that excluded gam
bling. Each made $1,000 over and
above premiums and expenses. The
Camp Point (lll.) Fair and the Fairbury
(Ill.) Fair were model fairs that each
cleared 81 900 after paying their liber-
al premiums. We might mention 9TH
ers equally successful, while the gam
bling fairs in several good counties
nave tailed to make money enough TO
pay their premiums.
Agricultural fairs ought to be for the
advancement of improved stock, agrl-
culture aid mechanic arts, but when
gamblers and the fast horse element
capture the association, with the ac-
Comparing side shows agriculture gets
a black eye. The young men see and
learn more of gambling than of agri-
culture, more of harm than of good
Readers, look now to the directors OF
your fairs for this year; attend your
winter meetings and elect good men,
and give the fast-horse men back
seat. Don't stay at home and grum-
BILE about your gambling fairs. Our
agricultural fairs have mission, and
the right kind of officers can make
them great benefit to the community.
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very moist, clayey soil, but enc free
from stapnanr wnter

very moist, clayey soil, but enc tree
from stagnanr water.
The peach produces fruit Of a much
finer quality when planted upon light,
high land with a southern exposure.
1t is also much more hardy and longe-
lived than upon stronger soil and
more northern exposure.
The grape delights in high, light,
stony soil and produces its sweetest
fruit in the driest parts. On ve:y dry
SOILS mulch OF old hay, leaves. brush,
ETC.. during the months OF July and
August will be found very beneficial,
but should be removed in September
to allow the vines to more fully ma
ture wood and roots before very severe
weather.
Currants and gooseberries succeed
best in the soil advised Tor the
ounce.
II sRasberries and blackberries are
more hardy if planted on light sandy
loan, but if large berries are desired a
mulch must be used In July. On more
moist land mulching is not needed but
the canes are more liza BILE to be winter
killed.
The different varieties OF strawber-
ries succeed upon great variety OF
soils; on moist land the berries are
generally larger, fewer in number and
of inferior quality, while on light land
more and sweeter berries are produc.
ed, but they will be smaller. To over.
come the last difficulty heavy mulch
ing or thorough irrigation must be re-
sorted to.-Onr Country Home.
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Soil for Fruits.

The best soil for the production of
the apple is deep, rich, moist loan
with sandy subsoll, although it sue
ceeds moderately well upon any soil
not too dry.
The pear delights in deep, rich
warm loan, with clay subsoil.
The plum requires deep, moist
soil, but there must be no stagnant
water in il
The cherry grows best In rich.
warm sandy loan. lfa mulch of
leaves, straw or brush is put around
them they will be very much benefited
by it.
The ounce should be planted in a
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Fowls in Orchards.

1t appears that some of our farmers
have Obtained double Advantage IN
keeping fowls, and we might say triple
Tor while they are made healthy and
productive they are kept from mischief
and made the means of destroying
myrlads of insects. A good plan is to
build a picket fence around the orch
ard five or six feet high and keep the
hens in the inclosure. This can be
done IN winter SO as to have 1t ready.
They are put in early IN hespring and
kept there until cold weather comes
in the fall having of couse house
conveniently situated for protection
nights and during storms.
By this method of keeping fowls all
the annoyance they usually make at
garden time are averted and they are
kept at little cost, obtaining most of
the time sufficient food to support
themselves, and OF just the sort to
make them lay profusely But per-
haRs the greatest profit obtained from
this mode Of keeping fowls arises from
the myriads of worms and insects de-
stroyed that are injurious to trees and
fruit; and this alone is enough to pay
any farmer for the extra trouble or ex-
pense from using the picket fence in
place of any other.
Another advantage arises from the
benefit given soil and trees by the con-
tinual scratching done, especially when
large flock are kept, and as many
as two or three hundred may be put
upon one acre, and retained where
they will be OF as little trouble as any
stock upon the farm.
So far as the damaging of fruit is
concerned, they will do no more harm
when confined il the orchard than
when allowed to wander out and in at
will and if i: is desired to keep hens
out of the orchard when fruit is ready
to gather, no means is more efectual
than a good picket fence.-Ti6uue
and Farmer.
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GLEANINGS.

Asparagus grows the best when in
deep soil. II the garden has but shall.
low surface of good earth a bed should
be prepared by digging out the poor
soil and filling in with better, or by
trenching up the subsoil, at least, which
will give GOODNESS in summer. Then the
manure must not be tainted, aspara.
gus being a gultton in this respect.
Moisture it must have, and old, time
gardeners provide for this by sprikling
salt over their beds, very good plan
where the soil will not retain moisture
enough without it. Regarding varie.
ties, thsre is more in treatment thar
in kinds The Giant strain will pro-
duce as good stalks as any newer one
A good distance to set asparagus is,
IN the low, nine inches and between
them three feet. The plants may be
three inches underground, and every
fall a good sprinkling of compost be
added to the surface ofthe bed. This
gives depth which suits the plant,
and, treated in this way, bed set out
this spring could be cut from to mod
crate extent next year.
The Nevada gold seekers have dis
coverd new use tor fowls The hens
are plcketed, and, being hungry, begin
to scratch and eat. After three or four
days, honest toll they are killed and
their craws examined for gold. AS
much as SIS has been found in one
craw.-San Franfisfo Aba. |
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MARCH BLIZZARD

TIE United States Government Census lust pub
Nshed. speaks of the Remarkable Success,F at
tending our Unique and Untiring Efforts >, in
pushing the American Agriculturist. II began the
current year with larger subscription list than AZ
any corresponding period in twelve ears. The
able corps of Editors. who have made the Ameri-
can AgricuIturist welcome visitor TO hundreds of
sill bending all their energies t. make the Journal
II possible. more Interesting and valuable than
ever. And you may rightly conclude thattt
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THE FARMER

In search of new home, where ne can Sc
cure better returns for his labor, should re-
member that the Wabash is the most direct
route to Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska,
and all points South, West and Northwest,
and that round "trip land-explorers' tickets
at very low rates are always on sale at the
ticket Offices. Descriptive advertising mat
ter of Arkansas and Texas sent free to all
applicants by addressing the General Pas
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THE TOURIST

Has long since chosen the Wabash as the
favorite route to all the summer resorts of
the East, North and West, and winter re-
sorts OF the South, as the Company has for
years provided better accommodations and
more attractions than any of its competitors
for this class of travel. Tourist Tickets can
be had at reduced rates at all principal
nfIinns of the Dnrnnnnu
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Taxes on Land,

The following from the Iowa
Homestead applies with peculiar force
to our own state:
Iowa has lost hundred thousand OF
her sons. They have left the home OF
their childhood and gone west. There
was plenty of land here for then, but
we had sold tito spectators who car
ed neither for them nor for the pros
perity of the State. Thus our own
soil which owed all Its value to the
labor of Iowans could not ne had for
the use of our brothers and sons, ex-
eept at price that they were unable
to pay. Not an acre OF Iowa should
have been sold except actual settlers
for improvement. But it is too late to
remedy that mistake now. hllth we
can do land justice requires that We
do no less) is to tax wild land fairly.
Fairly, l mean, to ourselves as well as
to spectators who hold ii. They do
nothing to make it rise in value and
they are not entitled to anyrise. There
is no effect without cause. No crop
without sowing. Land does not rise
by chance. The rise of Iowa land is
the effect. The labor OF Iowa men is
the cause. Who then are entitled to
the in :rease1 value of Iowa land?
The remedy is to tax wild land so 1t
shall not rise. The owners doEothing
to make it rise. 1t is an injury to the
community to have it rise and thus be
be unimproved. Il is an injury to the
State to lose the hundred thousand
Young men who would have stald here
but for this rise in the land. There.
fore tax the wild land discourage
speculation; tighten the burden on
labor and industry and encourage i'm
provements.
Study this question for it is one of
great IMPORTANCE. Millions of dollars
of rise" are involved in this each
year. Ask your assessor, your super
visor and your candidate for the legs
latute whether you are entitled to the
profits of yoIr own labor, or whether
you must give part to the Spectator
L. ]. KAssoN.
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Fifty-two Dividends
The INDEPENDEAT

OF New York, is Acknowledge 10 be what the Pa
Mall Gazette of London. saws II Is, zone OF the
ablcsI weeklies In existence II occupies two
beids--rsi gion and literary.
II Publishes eachwsek from Twenty-Five to
Thirty three per cent more reading matter than
any ofiis contemporaries. With the exception of
It's column of selections" every line In every
Issue Is New, Original MATER. written expressly
IT. ltpeys more each week for literary mat
ter than any three ofls contemporaries put togeth-
tors Of any periodical In the world Ii is nnde-
nominational in religion. and unsurpassed in lit
rrary ability. Its reviews OF books are unexceled
in journalism. Its Edit riais are fearless. Its de-
partmcnts of Science and Biblical Research give
valuable Information uuobtaiuet elsewhere. Its
Markets and Financial Reports and commercial
Articles are eagerly sought Tor by those wanting
correct Information upon those subjects. LIS ce.
partments for ''old aud young is filed with
stories and articles In prose and poetry.
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THE INVALID

viii find the Wabash the most convenient
route to all the noted health resorts of
Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and
that the extensive through car system and
superior accommodations of this popular
line will add greatly to his comfort while en-
route. Pamphlet descriptive of the many
celebrated mineral springs OF the West and
South sent free ON annlicatinn.
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Nor THE FAULT OF THE PICKER
Ell Elder Phillips, who was a jovial
soul, settled many years ago near the
headwaters OF the Susquehanna. He
was full of humor and ready with his
repartee on all occasions. Jack Rick
lit quasi parlshiorer who was more
punctual at the river than at church,
presented the elder one Monday morn
ing with fine string of pickerel.
Elder Philips thanked him graciously
for the gift, "But, elder" suggested
Jack, still retaining the fish, "those
fish were caught yesterday Sunday.
Perhaps yer conscience wnnt let ye
eaten" Jack" replied the elder,
stretching out his hand toward the
string there's one thing l know: the
ptekeysl acre not TO blame
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Good farming land is increasing in
value annually.
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THE INDEPENDENT

has twenty two distinct departments. edited By
twenty-five specialists. which Includes Biblical
pebes. Per sonalities. Ministerial Register. Hymn
Notes. School aud College. Literature. Religious
Intelligence. Mission. SUNDAY school, news Of the
week, Finance. Commerce, ins france. Stories
Puzzles, Selections asd Agriculture. Thirty-two
pAges In all.
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Parker Pleasant Worm Syrup Never Fails
0HIO-lNDIANA- MICHIGAN
WABASH
R GU ! E!
THE BUSINESS MAN

When he travels wants to go quick, wants to
be comfortable, wants TO arrive at destina-
ton on time, in fact, wants a strictly bust
ness trip, and consequently takes the
popular Wabash Route, feeling that he is
cure to meet his engagements and continue
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THE CAPITALIST

Can get the information necessary to secure
safe and profitable investments in agricul-
ture, stock-raising, mining, numbering, or
any Of the many inviting fields throughout
the South and West, by addressing the I'M
dersigned.
F. CHANDLER,
General Passenge. and Ticket Agent, st. Louis. No.
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THEINDEPENDENT

Is family newspaper of the hrs.-clas. snd is re-
eaRuiled as one or the great educators of .he land
Every one who wishes TO be well informed upon c
great variety OF subj cts should subscribe for it,
During the past year The independent, desiring
that It's subscribers should have stories by the very
best living authors, has published contributions
sew Thing etc. j. Dale. author OF .Guerndsle.,
The Crime ofHenry vane.' etc: Julia schayer au-
ihor ofTiger Lily and Other Stories''; Sir Samuel
D. III Hddeli. author OF The Senior partner
etc: Thomas Hardy. author OF "A Pair OF iiIue
~ es. Two on q Tower. etc, Edyaru Everett
Hale, author Of Ten Times One 10 Ten, etc: James
Tayn, the celebrated English novelist; Lucy c.
Llllle. Z Robinson. Fred d Storey, Henry W
Lucy, Harriet Prescott Spoford. Rebecca harding
DAVIS DAVIS sarah Orn- Jewett. Frank Stockton, II
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CoLoRED FRoyTlsPIEcEs.

Buy the November number for the chill
dren 1t costs only % cents. and all book and
news dealers sell it. The subscril ton price
is $500 year, and now is just the time to
subscribe.
fir specimen copy Of sT. NICHOLAS will
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
A Determined Struggle for the Succession
The President Besieged by the Friends
Of the Different Candidates.
Pressure to Which the President Is
Subjected by the SpOils-Hunters.
Dissatisfaction with the Plan for Removal
Of Fourth Class Postmasters-A Good
Story About Second Auditor Day.


Belief that the appointment WIN be Given
to Mr.. e. l.. Heddon.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-Four years ago next
Monday Mr.. Robertson was confirmed as collec-
tor of the port of New York. His successor is
expected to be announced each day, and the
President is bounded almost to death with dele
gates representing rival candidates. Twenty
New York politicians were at the White House
this evening to urge the claims of their friends.
1t is stated or the very highest authority to-
night that at present E. L. Heddon has the best
chance. Heddon is one of the best-known mer-
chants in New York, and is indorsed by the
business men without reference to party. 1t Is
the belief Of those on the inside that he will
secure the appointment He is not very actively
identified with any of the factions, but leans to-
ward the County Democracy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
ASSAILING THE PRESIDENT.
The Party Threatened with Ruin Unless
There Is Change of Policy,

The Party Threatened with Ruin Unless
There Is Change of Policy.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 25-The President has
been compelled to stand fire from all directions
during the last week. Not only have half of the
Southern representatives and senators urged
him to abandon his civil professions, but
he has been flooded with letters from all sources
insisting upon capitulation. He is told that the
policy which he has laid out will ruin the Demo
cratic party and that if he has any desire to aid
in its success in the future he must listen to the
prayers of his party associates. Fortunately,
the President is bull-headed and obdurate He
has set his mind upon the policy laid out, and he
will follow it in spite of all the PRESSURE at least
until he has been able TO ascertain the temper Of
the Senate towards the appointments already
made. He is heartily disgusted with Office
seekers, and the rival claims of those who crowd
him are so great that he is determined to cut
down the places at his disposal to the lowest
possible limit, in order that he may not be both
cred by the hordes of oficeseekers and their
friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
FOURTH-CLAss POsTMAsTERs.
Dissatisfaction with the Policy of Making
Removals Only on Charges.

Dissatisfaction with the Policy of Making
Removals Only ON Charges.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 25-Perhaps the most
annoying thing to members of Congress that the
Postoffice Department has done has been in the
issuance of the order directing that no post
masters of the fourth class shall be removed
unless charges are preferred against them.
This means, in other words, that these small
crossroads postmasters, who have, in some in
stances, held Office upwards of twenty years,
shall continue in their positions until they die,
or the receipts of the Office grow sufficiently
large to warrant its being made a presidential
office. Of the 49, 600 offices of this kind in the
country, vacancies have occurred in perhaps
5000 since the Democratic party came in. Sup
posing that charges are made against one half
the others, and that three or four
thousand more die, this will still leave
10000 Republican postmasters of the fourth
class in Office indefinitely, and it is naturally a
serious matter for the Democratic party to con-
template. 1t may be a good thing for civil serv-
ice, but as political move by those in power it
cannot be considered otherwise than an extreme
ly bad one and the Democratic congressman are
not at all backward in expressing their views on
this subject
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
THE CHOLERA RECORD.
Progress Of tho Disease in Spain-Hundreds
OF New Cases and Deaths.

Progress of tho Disease In spain-Hundreds
OF New Cases and Deaths.
MADRID. June 25.-Ihe official reports Of new
cases Of cholera and deaths from cholera in
Spain on Wednesday are as follows: In Madrid
there was total Of nine new cases and eight
deaths; the city Of Valencia has sixty three new
cases and twenty-five deaths. During the same
time there were in the rest Of the province Of
Valencia an aggregate of $40 new cases and 3l4
deaths. The city of Murcia had LOG new cases
and thirty four deaths; while in the remaining
parts of the province of Murcia there were 208
new cases and eghty-seven deaths. In the
province of Castellon de la Plana there were
ffty-nine new cases and thirty deaths; Glen
Pazuelos had six new cases and four deaths; the
city of Toledo makes a return of FIVE new cases
and two Deaths and the remainder of the prov
ince of Toledo fifteen new cases and eight
deaths Twelve cases of cholera and one death
have occurred in the Military Academy of
Toledo.
Senor Canovas del Castillo, the President of the
Council and Senior Romero Robello, Minister
OF the Interior, who started yesterday on a tour
OF inspection of the cholera-infected districts,
were received at the railway station in Murcia
by immense crowds of people, who manifested
the greatest enthusiasm over the arrival of the
the distinguished officials. The camps estab-
lisked for the reception of cholera patients were
visited and carefully inspected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
memorial in regard to the undervauations and
reappraisement, Of which the following Is a copy:

memorial In regard 70 the undervauationS and
reappraisement, Of which the following is copy:
Having seen the report of q committee Of
importers Of foreign dry goods, of which Mr..
DeForrest was chairman and that the said
meeting appointed committee to proceed to
Washington and state their objections to tho
proceedings OF the New York custom house In
relation to undsrvaluations and reappraisements,
and as the undersigned consider that the above
committee does not represent the class of mer-
chants who suffer most by the system Of under
valuations, but on the contrary Is composed of
gentlemen who are representatives here of for
eign manufacturers and who act as consignees
or foreign firms, and not as owners of the mer-
chandise they import; therefore we respectfully
call your attention to this fact, and the under
signed, as importers OF merchandise actually
purchased in open market abroad, desire to be
heard in our own behalf. We earnestly advo-
cate the present system Of reappraisements and
the reforms so recently adopted by the govern
ment, and we most heartily approve the efforts of
the government in its attempts to protect honest
importers in their legitimate business Should
you desire to hear us on this matter, we will ap-
point a committee to give all information
needed"
The paper is signed by Marshall, Field & CO.,
John N. Farwel g. Co., H. B. Cann & Co, e.
s. Jaffray g. Co., Bates, Reed g. Cooley, Lord e.
Taylor, Lee Tweedy & Co., Peffs, Wells & Co.,
and Herman & Co. Mr. Constable, of Arnold,
Constable 81 Co.. says they are in accord with
the paper, but don't think it will do any good.
The committee were informed that it was not
necessary for them to present any oral argu-
ments to the departments on this subject, but
that they could submit their views in writing
with the assurance that they would receive due
consideration