Every year marks an advance in the direc...

Every year marks an advance in the directou of more scientific farmiug. Tho constantly sharpening competition, togetbcr with the accoinpanying fall of prices and the necessity of renewing exhausted lauds, make this iroperative. As a resnlt farmers are giving more and more atteution to the study of means whereby the productiveness of the farm in all lines may be increased and made to render the greatest returns the time and money expended. In response to this need, experimental and practice schools, dealing with all phases of farm economy are being established and are constantly broadening their sphere of nsefulness. Among the best of the schools of this class may bc ïnentioncd the Michigan Agricnltrial college and the Wisconsiu Daiiy school. This latter school in the novelty of its purpose and un usual methods and equipment isinost interesting. Like all teehnical schools it is expensive, but the advantages resulting to the dairy interests of the state are considered adequate retumfor all it costs. The main building of the school cost $40,000 and is equipped with an office, a room with lockers]where the students keep their work clothes, bath rooms, a laboratory and lec'tute room, class room where instruction is given in farm dairying, a cneese'making room and a large creamery room. The equipment of each room is complete in the line of what is needed for that department. The créam room for instance has a half dozen large eeparators, of the Tmost improved pattern, for stndy and practice. In addition there are churns, butter workers, etc. In the cheese room there are eight vats, eteam heated, with a capacity of three hundred pounds and complete cheese making apparatus. the school day begins at i 8 m the morning and the first exercise is a lecture, af ter which f ollows the practical work. While one section is instrueted in milk tpsting another is delving in the mysteries of the creamery. The school uses in its work about two and a half tons of milk per day. The school wlil accommodate one hundred students and the course of study extends over twelve weeks. The institntion is providedwith a corps of eight lecturers and nine teachers. When a stndent has passed all his examinations lie may become a candidate for a dairy certificate. Before he can secure it, however, he must work two full sessiou8 of seven months each in a cheese factory or dairy, during one of which he must have full charge and be responflible for the cleanliness and general snecess of the insttuton. He must also make monthly reports and submit to inRpectton by an authorized inspector. Having fulfllled satisfactorily all reqnirements, he receives a certificate. Finally there is a dep;vrtment of farm dairying in which students receive in struction in practical farm darying. Here they receve instruction also on feeding and breeding of dairy stock and general farm management. This is undoubtedly one of the most successfnl schools of its kind in America. Advocates of free coinage of silver on the ratio of 16 to 1, while claiming to want the white metal restored to the position, and consequently the value, it had before the act of 1873, make the etrongest point of their argument the allegation that such a policy would enable the debtor to pay his debts with half the effort he can now - in otherwords their financial scheme is based upon class distinctions, without reference to the underlying interests of the whole people. Again they evidently overlook the iact that silver with the value restored to it that it had before demonetization, and cheap 50 cent dollars are incompatible. The silver of those days was not cheap money, neither would there be any advantage to the debtor, ae such, in the restoration of such conditions now. It would not furnish any relief to him who is striving for cheap money. Then, eilver restored to its market value would be of no advantage to silverites, as money, nor do they desire silver on a parity with gold. There would be no advantage to silver men or debtor3 in this over existing conditions. What they do want, according to their own words, is cheap or 50 cent dollars with the government fiat on them ing their reception m the payment oí a dollar of indebteduess. But even this wonld not be an umnixed advantage to the farmer debtor and others who are had in raind as debtors in oommon parlance. According to the sacred writiug of the nltra free silver men, "Coin's Financial School," this class of debtors does not owe to ejcceed one sixteeuth of the total indëbtedness. By far the greator part of the rernainder is owed by the great railroads. It has been estiniated that the payment of their obligations in depreciatod silver wonld be a saving to them and a corresponding loss to others of something like $3,000,000,000. The sanie process of scaling would overtake the pensioner 'who would have his pension cut in two ; likewise the person who holds an accident, life or flre insurancc policy, would flnd it shrinking to one-half its present value. Savings deposits would be paid back to the one who earned them in dollars worth onehalf as mtich as those deposited. It should be remembered also that the pnrchasing power of the dollar would only be half as great as now. From all these illustrations it will appear that this nioney question must not be settled from a single point of view alone, or from the effect that it may ■ have on a certain class of people only, but rather from tho broader view of what will be of the greatest good of the whole people. A policy which will advance the interests of the United Satees will be for the welfare of the people. The Argentino Republic is becomiug a great exporter of meat. Last year she shipped to England 1,675,600 frozen sheep, 00,000 live sheep, 29,000 quarters of frozen beef and 28,000 live bullocks. Her climate is such as to enable her to produce and fatten cattle and sheep more cheaply than any other country. On account of the rich native grasses that cover her and the mildness of her winters, but little artificial f ood is required. The best pedigee cattle from England have been introduced during the past few years and these Shorthorns and Herefords have been crossed with the native criollo cattle, producing a magnificent stock weighing on the average more than 1100 pounds. The best of the flocks are sent to England. Many are also sent to Brazlian ports. The valuo of these shipments from Argentne ports last year was upwards of $5,000,000. This' Argentne beef is not held in as high favor as United States beef,, and does not sell for as much - there being a difference of from ld, to ljd per potmd. It has not as bright a color and is not as rich as the cora fed meat, being purely grass fed. Nevertheless it is of good quality. The Argentine sheep are better and command the same price as Canadian sheep. Let the silver statesmen who insist that silver is a barometer by whch the prices of all other commodities are accurately gauged, rise up and explain the recent rise in the prices of cotton, beef, petroleum and wheat. Since the first of March cotton has gone up twenty-five per cent. The advance has also been accompanied by an advance in the manufactured product . The rise of petroleum has been even more sensational. Cash wheat has gained ten cents and beef is out of sight. . Pig iron is likewise up fif ty ceuts a ton. Is this due to the depreciation of gold or to the appreciation of silver? Let the silverites show the application of their theory to these conditions or admit that the rising market is a heavy blow to free silver coinage.