The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 | Page 8

of the same town, 206 bushels from four and a half acres,
while the town farm crop averaged forty-three bushels per acre. That
raised by Mr. Flint was winter wheat, and Spencer's White Russian. A
Meredith correspondent of the Laconia Democrat says that eight farms
adjoining each other, in that town, have produced this year 524 bushels
of wheat. Reports from all sections of the State show that a great yield
of wheat has been secured wherever the crop has been sown. Perhaps
by the time the prairie skinners of the Northwest have spread over all
the wheat bearing land this side of the Rocky Mountains, they may
begin the New England States and travel the continent over again.
Correspondent Farm and Fireside: There is nothing so much needed
about many houses as good walks in paths that must be used daily.
There is hardly an excuse for not having them when either brick, gravel,
or timber can be had. A good walk through muddy yards can be easily
and cheaply made by placing poles side by side, a short distance apart,

and then filling the intervening space with gravel, or with broken corn
cobs, or with sawdust. Oak planks will last many years, if turned over
occasionally, and this also counteracts warping. One of the best of
walks through a level barn-yard can be made by cutting off short pieces
from logs, a foot or more in diameter, and setting them upon end in a
shallow trench. Such a walk from the barn to the kitchen will always be
clean, and there will be less to disturb the temper of the women folks of
the household, to say nothing of the good effect upon the men folks
who take pleasure in lightening the labor required to keep everything
neat and tidy within doors.

AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS.
[_Officers and members of farmers' organizations of all kinds are
invited to send for publication in this department notices of meetings,
time of holding fairs, and other pertinent information. We desire to
make of it a weekly bulletin that shall be looked for with interest by
members of clubs, granges, fair associations, and agricultural and
horticultural societies._]
The Maine State Grange has elected the following officers: Master,
Frederick Robie, of Gorham; Overseer, H.E. Gregory, of Hampden;
Lecturer, D.H. Thing, of Vernon.
At a meeting of the Wisconsin State Grange resolutions were passed
requesting the Legislature to separate the State Agricultural Experiment
Farm from the State University, and to locate it in an agricultural
district.
At the Vermont State Grange's annual meeting at Brattleboro,
December 13-14, 1883, 72 granges were represented. For the first time
since the organization of the grange its doors were opened to the public,
and the State Board of Agriculture met with it. Worthy Master
Franklin's address revealed a healthy condition of the Order in
Vermont.

The meeting of the Massachusetts State Grange was an excellent one.
Master Draper was again re-elected. The committees' reports and
discussions revealed a hearty interest in and sympathy with the
experimental station and the agricultural college, but the present system
by which the college trustees perpetuate themselves was sharply
criticised, and a change in the law was recommended. It was also
"Resolved, that as Patrons of Husbandry, we recommend such a change
in the law as will withhold the State bounty from all societies that
permit liquor selling or gambling at their annual fairs."
The annual meeting of the Michigan Grange last month was largely
attended. The Secretary's report showed the grange to be in good
condition. The committee on the agricultural college recommended the
admission of girls to that institution. Reports were adopted
recommending the restoration of the duty on wool, so that it shall equal
that on manufactured woolen articles; urged that taxpayers be required
to make oath to their assessments; recommended the continued
fostering of the sorghum industry; condemned the extortionate
practices of many millers in the State, urging co-operative mills if
necessary to remedy the same, and asks the appointment of a
committee to draft a bill similar to the Reagan bill to remedy some of
the evils of transportation.

DIDN'T NO. 38 DIE HARD!
New England Homestead: "The eminent men"--George B. Loring,
Daniel Needham, Charles L. Flint, Benjamin P. Ware, and George
Noyes--composing the late Massachusetts grange No. 38, couldn't
appreciate what had happened to them when the State Master's action
in revoking the charter of their grange was sustained by the National
Grange tribunal. So Brother Ware hied him to Barre, last week, to bring
the matter up before the State Grange at its annual session. No doubt
the "eminent men" supposed that the presence of the Hon. Mr. Ware
would alone be sufficient to cause the State Grange to tremble and
humbly beg pardon for their Master's action