Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1874 — We Must Have Manufactories. [ARTICLE]

We Must Have Manufactories.

Tho tendency of the Grange movement is to do good, and that it is already working deep revolution in the feelings and sentiments of the people, awakening the masses to the importance of. cooperation for mutual protection and the advancement of- the agr-iculural interest, no careful observer ban doubt. Farmers of the South and West are compelled to change their tactics, pull omt of the old nits, and strike out a new line of progress. -- High tariff, Eastern monopolies and combinations of money powers arc rapidly doing tbcTr work of enslaving the people. There is no earthly escape from the influence .■ ..ft. a A. , ■ „ . except through organization and CO-operatiou for the development of the great resources of the country; stopping the drain of money which necessarily flows to the East, lor articles that should bo -maife at home. The people apo now sorely fccHtig the v effects of tho evih They are-manifest in the scarcity of money in thp south, ar.d the abundance of it in the East. All our profits gone for manufactured articles and consumed in high tariffs and nothing,to bring it back.— Was tliere ever an appeal so strong, to L'lasti, for organization qi.id co

operation? The Grangers recognize the facts, and have begun the reformation which will work wonderful changes in a few years"— The question of establishing manufactories has been thoroughly dismissed and is uppermost in the feelings of all Patrons of Husbandry. The,country is ripe for any movement in that direction that, presents itself in a practical shape and promises success. — Tobacco Leaf. Prom careful experiments it has been discovered that plants slightly watered every day often perish, and always become .dwarfed ; whereas a good soaking given twice a week almost invariably proved very benficial. Thorough soaking of the ground two or three times a- week is much better than the same amount of water applied in driblets daily, only sufficient to wet the upper surface, but not the under strata of earth contiguous to the roots. Thirty or forty grains of quicklime dissolved in water is said to be a thorough remedy for the stings of insects, and far superior to ammonia or other alkali.