Warren Ledger in Warren, Pennsylvania

The Orchard Grafting Lesson and a Contrast in Public Honor

The writer rebuts farmers' myths about grafting and budding, explaining that scions from healthy trees produce fruit quickly and nurserymen remove suckers. A second thread contrasts Civil War leaders Grant and Buchanan, praising Buchanan for frugality and official restraint while condemning Grant as greedy and careless with public funds.