People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — They Are Powerful Agencies. [ARTICLE]

They Are Powerful Agencies.

Farmer’s institutes have proven a powerful agency for diffusing a knowledge of the best and most successful methods and practices of agriculture. The setting forth at the institutes of the causes of failure and conditions of success by practical men who have themselves been eminently successful, affords a strong incentive to effort and improvement which is meeting with general and hearty response on the part of farmers who have attended the institutes. All the varied interests of our county and town, all classes and all institutes, are interested. The business and professional men of our town were quick to note this feature of the work, and have given it their active support from the start. Although, as a rule, the farmers were not so quick to discern the real merits of the institute work, they now very generally understand and endorse the methods and purposes of this great movement, which is bringing good to all. Briefly summarized, farmers institutes have done much to allay the feeling of antagonism between town and country, which was so prevalent at first; to foster friendly relations among the agricultural classes themselves; to increase tbe general intelligence of the farming classes; to foster a desire for the more thorough education of farmers’ sons and daughters as a means to higher success and greater happiness on the farm; to point out the causes of failure and the conditions of success and thereby improve the methods of agriculture, to awaken a new interest and pride in agricultural pursuits; to lift the agricultural classes up to a higher plane of living and achievement and to a clearer recognition of the duties, responsibilties and privileges of the farmer as a business man, neighbor and citizen. D. H. Yeoman.

One of the positive forces at work in the reform arena. is the Coming Nation, by J. A. Wayland at Tennessee City, Tenn. It is a clean masterly paper nearly as large as the Pilot, without advertisements at 50 cents per year. Waylandisamanof means, who after a successful career in business, realized that the present system of competition and profits and monopoly was wrong, and he is now giving free his services and capital to teach a better and juster system.

The total production of silver in the United States in 1892 was $50,750,000 of the coinage value of $75,000,000; being about onethird of the total out put of the world. Of this amount one-half is used in the arts, leaving $75. - 000,000 to be added to the money of the world. If every ounce of it were coined into dollars by Uncle Sam it would take 44 years to equal SSO per capita for our present population, and by that time half of it would have disappeared, and we will number 150,00*0,000 people. We present tlie above without comment on the danger of being flooded with cheap silver and dishonest dol*