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th# people, we are ready to offer rewadds,
though it be at the sserifice of muokbtha we
are entitled to as a legitimate tetarn for oar
labor-on the principle that it is ten times
better to do good to ten thousand farmers than
to ine thousand.
   To such friends of the FARMFER as arc influ-
 enced by that State pride which actuates us,
/iinmrt. w-et  -zilRnetrthi    rIfef



           NATIONAL AFPF

 Nothing of great importance has b
 The Army of the Potomac is no far
 Gilmore has gained possession of Moi
 Forts Wagner and Gregg, and is Dc
 the city ot Clarleston.
 In the South, events of great im
pired. Grant is in command at Nes



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rafspired in the Mot.
teaer than Culpepper
rris Island, including
wv about bombarding

portanee have trans-
. Orleans, and Bfanks



has sailed with a strong firce for some unknown point-
probably the month of the Rio Grande, where his services
are likely to be needed to protect the frontier of Texas.
Bosecralz has pushed into Georgia, and has just had a
terrible battle with Bragg's army, re-inforesd by-Joe
Johnston and troops from the army of Lee.
Two of Rosecrana's divisions are reported to have Dgiven
way, compelling him to fall back to Chattanooga, near
which place the battle occurred. Reports from Washing-
ton assure us that Burnuide, who has been carrying every
thing before him In East Tennessee, has reinforeed him
and that be will be fully sustained.
Gold has gone up to I.31i.



EDITORIAL MISCELLANY.



  The Prizes for.1804.-The attention of
everybody who would be glal to promote the
worthy and important objects for which this
journal is published is directed to our new
offer of premiums, as found on the 4th page
of covor, and to the description of prizes in
Horticultural Department.
  It seems absurd that the farmingpublic
should need anything in the way of prizes to
induce them to take a cheap. and valuable pa-
per devoted especially to their own interests;
but if by these means we may the more thor-



that the FAiUrEn is going ahead splendidly
I Some two thousand names have been added to
!our subscription list within tile past f("x



months, and there seems to be it growing dis-
position to give it the support it deserves  It
is true, however, that it does n6t afford the
tditor and publishers anything like a fair re-
muneration for tie effort necessary to keep it
up to even its present standard of excellence.
Nor can it, indeed, so long as the cdst of its
publication is so great as now, unless the sub-



scription list is further increased by the addi-
tion of some thousands.
  We have several plans for making the FAnu-
ER yet more valuable than it is, but we can
hardly afford to make thoe improvements
solely, or eves temporarily, at our own ex-
pense, and pecuniary ruin. Will not one-
fourth of the 80,000 farmers of Wisconsin
interest themselves more warmly than noew in
their own Home Agricultural Journal?
  The prizes themselves will prove to be of
more worth thun the price of the FAISBR, and
if we are to make not one cent, by reason of
a too liberal distribution of favors, it will. at



least, afford us great pleasure to have furnish-
ed to all parts of the State the beginnings and
the guides to in industry that is sure, in the
progress of time to result in the increased
happiness and economical advantage of the
great public of our favorite Northwest.

  Pine Ag. Soc. Diplomas.-* e are in-
debted to Mr. Pulcifer, late editor of the Co-
lumbus8Journa, for samples of the besatifnl
Diplom a executed by J. Sage & Sone, Bufalo,
N. Y. We know of no plaue in this country



oughly insure the wide diffusion of practical where work of this sort is
done better or
knowledge and correct social sentiment among Icheaper.



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