Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — Important Suggestions to School Officers. [ARTICLE]

Important Suggestions to School Officers.

In peating a school room always avoid placing a small desk in front of a larger one. A scholar can neither sit nor write with ease when desks are so arranged. Desks of the same site should he placed in the same row; placing the largei desks in tiie ootside rows, aud the smaller ones in the inside. If necessary at any time to place a small desk in front of a large! one, a hack seat should lie placed between them, corresponding in size with the smaller desk, „ ’ As a matter of justice to the people, we would advise all trustee* to require a “warranty” to be attached under the seat of every desk they purchase. We are Convinced that this is about the only way a warranty will amount to much. Our reasons are that a trustee usually loses a guarantee, even if one be given him, and it is very seldom that his successor ever sees it, consequently when

d««k8 break, the usual result is that the trustee, not knowing whether the desks were warranted or not, buys new ones, as many haw done the past year. Furthermore, require a warrantee to be written as follows, and be sure the words “ ordinary or fair use” do not appear In it: FORM OF WARRANTY., “This desk is warranted for five years from the time of delivery. If it breaks in that time, or becomes rickety , we will upon notification, replace it with a new desk, complete, (not the costings only) free of all charges. (Signed) —Manufacturers.” Require the above “warranty' l to be given in aft cases by a responsible manufacturer. We propose to warraut every Bent Wood Desk in the above manner, and if one breaks or gels rickety, it is sure to be seen by the toucher or director that it belongs to us to replace it free of all charge* . if trustees allow themselves to be persuaded to purchase any manufacture of school (urnitare without such a warranty, they should be held s'rictly accountable by tiie people for gross carelessness. So much school furniture is breakiug in the country districts especially, that caunot longer be overlooked and passed by as an insignificant matter . We have, during the past year, had trustees to pay us fifty oollars and upwards for repairing broken coat iron desks with “bent wood.” All we ask is for you to purchase whatever desk you think best, but xchen you purchase any desk in tiie future, protect yourselves and your people as we suggest in the way of a practical “warranty.” \Ve clip the above from a circular issued by the Higgins Bent Wood School Furniture Company, of Indianapolis. There is so much sound sense in it, we feel called upon to give it the benefit of our circulation, and to call upon the people to see that more care be taken in the selection of good school furniture. Trustees should not at any price purchase furniture which tiie manufacturers cannot afford to artd will not “warrant” as above. School furniture properly made, and of durable material, should last (/raily years, and if the mailutaciurers will not fully warrant it for Jive years by attaching the warranty to each and every desk they sell they should not expect the people to encourage them in the manufacture of a worthless article. We hope there are no trustees in this State who will allow agents to persuade them at the expense of the people to purchase school furniture which will have to be replaced by the township for at least ten or fifteen years. We would further suggest that trustees at their May meeting pass a resolution not to purchase any desk unless every one has a “warranty,” attached similar to the above. — India,na Farmer.

From Messrs. B. Iv. Bliss it Son, Seedsmen, :>4 Barclay street, N. Y., we have received a Catalogue ot Potatoes Tor~Seed, in which is published the following directions for growing two crops of potatoes a year: Take good, sound, early potatoes, and cut them into single eyes. Allow these pieces to dry for a day or two, and then plant as early as the ground can be worked (a slight trust will not injure the potatoe after being well planted). With ordinarily favopUJo* weather the new crop of tubers will mature in from eight to ten weeks. As soon as they aie ripe, dig them, and after remaining a day or two In some dry and warm place, proceed to out them into single eyes' as before. Place the pieces thus obtained info pans or boxes containing dry plaster or gypsum. This absorbs the abundant moisture, which would otherwise greatly check the growth it it did not destroy the sets entirely. Allow them to remain in the plaster tor ten or twelve days, or until the eyes commence to start, when they are to be taken out and planted as before. In the latitude | of New York this is only appliea- | hie to early varieties, like the ; famous Early Rose, or Extra Early Vermont, which are of quick growth, and early maturity; hut in many parts ot the South, where the growing season is long, it may be practiced indiscriminately upon all varieties. A gentleman has raised two crops of Early Rose, a short time since, in this vicinity, the two crops yielding an aggregate.weight of twenty-five hundred pounds. He planted his pound, cut into single eyes, early in March, and dug his first crop about the middle of May. These were iheu treated as above described and planted the tenth of June, and the secoud crop dug the first of September. The yield from the one pound at the first digging was fifty pouiids, and the second crop of this increase was twentyfive hundred pounds, or over forty bushels. This method is within the reach of all, and there is no extra expense incurred for hot-bed sashes o or auy other forcing requisites. A

The best evidence we have that the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago : railroad will be built this summer, ! is, that work is now progressing I rapidly at the most important points | along the line between this city and Chicago; that the iron for the road has been purchased, and that tracklaying will be -commenced between Dyer and the Kankakee river in Lake county, within a few days.— Jjelphi Times: W. T. P. writes to The Union from Franklin, ind., April; 19th, 1875, that wheat from Indianapolis to Johnson county looks well; farmers here say that thekleet injured f it some, but to me, coming from Jasper county, it looks very promising. Hogs, which are a great staple staple of this county,

arc not so plenty* as common. PricM here in most cases range about the same as with you. Times quiet and close. Not much said of Grange or politics. Health is generally good. Miss Celia Wilkinson writes from LaPort'e under date ot the 21st instant that the winter wheat there is thought to be mostly killed. Of Miss Cynthia M. Bishop, whom we annouced last week was contemplating a visit to Rensselaer shortly for the purpose of lecturing, she says, “Having been a pupil of hers I am quite well acquainted; she is a finely educated woman, is counted an able speaker, and lectures on a variety of subjects.”