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“THE FARMER IS or MORE CONSEQ UENCE THAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST

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SCH()OLCRAFT.,MMICII.y, HAY 15, 1883.

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_%°Tlzz‘s graper as not (mt only as orr1or.*'-Jed
and paidfor in advance.

Om-cers National Grange.

M.4.s':z£-—J. J. WO0DMAN,}"aw Paw, Mich.
OVEREE£B———PUT. DAEDEN, . . . .Miss-imiippi.
LECTUEIB~—HENRY ESHBAUGH, Missouri.
STEWAED-—VV. SIMS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .K:-.nsas.
A552‘. SrEwAr.D——JOEI1\' J. ROSA, Delaware.
CILLP:/.:N—H. 0. I3ERVI}'1}S.. . . . .Maryland.
TEEAS‘JRER—F. MCDUV‘/ELL,. . ..\'ew York.

SEC'IIv—W. M. IRELAND, Was!1ing‘.o:1, D. C. _

GATE-KEEPEB—JA'S. V. SCOI‘T,. . Axkanszis.
Cause —IYIRS. J. J. WO0DMAN,. .1-Jiohzgan.

POMCNA—-MRS. PUT. DARDEN, Ifiississippi. ‘

lirnmullural Emslmenl.

STAY ON THE FARM.

Come, boys, I have something to tell you,
Come near, I would whisper it low;

You are thinking of leaving the homestead;
Don't be in a hurry to go.

The city has many attractions,
But think -of the vices and sins;

When once in the vortex of fashion.
How soon the course downward begins !

You talk cf the mines of Australia;

'l‘hey’ve wealth in the bright gold, no doubt,
But, eh! there is gold on ‘the farm, boys,

If you’li only shovel it out.
The mercantile life is a hazard,

The goods are first high and then low;
Better risk the old far": a while longer‘.

above twelve, but had some that stood
as low as four on the saccharometer.
There are izther good varieties, but the
above ‘five varieties I would recom-
mend; chief among them the Otihet-
ian and early Minnesota Amber.

The cane should be cut when the
most of the seed is in the dough. If it
get.-' too ripe the juice will dry up in
the stalk and get stronger, and if not
ripe enough the quantity of syrup will
I be less. The best way to strip it is to
make a wooden sword two or two and
a half feet long, and both edges sharp,
then strike down from top to ‘bottom
between the stalks and on the outside.
To top it, take all that growslon a hill
Lln'l:‘I,' your arm while it stamls, and

l)on’t be in a hurry to go !

The great, busy west has inducements,
And so has the business mart!

But wealth is not made in :1 day, boys’
Donlt be in a hurry to start!

The bankers and brokers are Wealthy;
They take in their tlrousunds or so;
Oh! think of the frauds and deccptiozf,

Don't be in a hurry to go!

The farm is the safest and surest‘;
'£‘l.e orchards are loaded to-(lay:
You are free as’ the air in the mountains,

And monarch of all you survey;
l Better stay on the farm_ 3. while longer,
| Though profit comes in rather slow;
! léemember you have nothing to risk,

boys;
Don’t be in a hurry to go}

Fnonr.-—Mns. I. W. NIClIOLS()N,New Jersey 9

LL21’ Assr. S'ri«:w-.2211)» Mas. Wx. SIMS,Kan

Executive Committee-

D. WYATT AIKEN, . . . . . ..Sou'th Carolina. ,
H. D. BINGHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ohio. -
DI-2.. J. M. BLANTON, . . . . . . . . . . . .Virginia. '

Omcers Mlchigan State Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gilead.
O. —A. N. WOODRUFF, . . . .
L£::.—JOHN PIOLBROOK, . . . . . . . . Lansing.

S. -8. A. TOOKER, . . . . . . . . . .'G:zand Ledge.

A. S.—A. B. CLARK, . . . . . . .. ..l\/Iorrice.

C.——E. R. WILLARD . . . . . . . .. ite Pigeon.

1. mus —-S. F. BROWN, . . . . . . . . .Schoolcra.ft.

SEC"-—J. T. COBB, . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoolcraft.

I-} K.-—ELIJAE BARTLETT, . . . . . .l)ryden.
C-mi.Es.—MRS. M. T. COLE, . . . .Palmyra.

POMONA.-MPJ3. LYDIA DRAKE, Plainwell. ,

FLOEA—MRS. D. H. STONE . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

L. A. S.-MRS. A. B. CLARK. . ...Morrice. 1

Executive committee.

WM. SATTERLEE, Ch‘n., . . . .Birmingham.
E. D, PLATT,....  ....  ....Ypsilanti.
JCHN PORTER, . . . . . . . . . . - .'G:}'e.ud Rapids.
THOMAS MARS, . . . . . . . . . .Be2'-rlea Center.
I. Q. A. BUF.RINGTON,. . . . .,. . . .Tuscola.
TEOS. F. MOORE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adria.n.
J. G. RAMSBELL . . . . . . . . . . - .T:vcverse City.
C. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, . . . . . .Ex-ofiicio.

State Business Agent.

TE-JMAS MASON, .......... ..or.:cago, Ill.
egg w_ 2111.5 , _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ . . _ . . “Detroit.

General Deppety...
JGF-.‘N HOLBROOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._.La.nsing.
Special Lecturers.

Thos. F. Moore, . . . . . . ..r1dr;e.r:. Lezyazvee Co.

M. L. Stevens, . . . . . ..Perrv, Slziawaaaee Co. _

Mrs  Steele, .. . .. . . .hIa.nt<.\:z, Wexfcrd 00.

Andrew Campbell, Ypsilanti, Vlashtenaw Ca. 
J. W. Wing. ._ .Ann Arbor, W'ashtena=,r Co. .

The Grain Market.

It 18 stated that the markets all over
the world are glutted. which {acts ‘Ii-3V“
ing become known last week, created al-
most a panic in Ll‘! erpool and Chicago.
The fall in the latter market was for too
time a decided one, and in the absence
of any immed1a.te_ foreign‘ demand it is
believed to be impossible to sustain
foreign prices On the 1st of April, in

Liverpool, the stock of wheat on hand.
was 5,300,000 bushels. against 2,838,000,

bushels on the same date last year; and
380,000 barrels of flour. against 1,800 bar-
rels. At the same date, the visible market
supply in the United States was 22,856,-
591 bushels of wheat, against 12.101.-
375 bushels on the first of April: 1382-
The com supply is also much larger than
last year, being for the United States,

17,788,249 bushels, against 9,600,651 bush- ,

els last year. and for Liyerpool, 440,000
bushels against only 68,432 bushels on
April 1st, 1882. The reports of good
crop prospecttlonly emba_rrasse_s the sit-
nation; they are greatly improved both
in the interior and in California. And
the reports from India are of an excel-
lent order. while those from Europe are
greatly improved. We are to encounter
serious competition in the grain supply
for the world from Russia and India,
with their increased railroad facilities,
than we have hitherto suspected.

CURRANTS AND PoULrnY.—pf late
years the crop of currauts that .orx_ner-
ly never failed, has often been ruined
by worms. It has been found. inva-
riably, we believe, that the best Wary
toprevent the ravages of this insect is
to allow the hens to run among the
bushes. Put those in having broods
of chickens and the worms will soon

disappear. ‘

INDIA is described as a country of
vast wheat producing capacity and it
is claimed that she can produce it
more cheaply than the United States.

. ..... Watervliet. 3

 Sc»rghum——tlze -Best Variety of Seed. lls Cul-
tunr and Manufacture.
About 221' years ago I Till.-PC-‘l my tires
, crop of sugar cane. Tb? juice was
5 pressed out in a cast imn vrzill \vitlLi.W1E-
 rollers. The ends of the ';‘8Il€S l"58.\'I -to
be mashed before they would enter the
écnill.

: Wide, the bctttim being cf sheet iron.
 The pan was set on an at :h and near};-,'
‘yfilleii with thejuice. Th-'.-u milk and
e~ss__gs, lime ‘water or soda was put in to
f- cleanse it.

The juice was boiled down to t/be
; proper lleizkness whi-3".) was s.s(.-s:-
tained by-cooling a little in asau:~e:.e_s
 rapidly asqsossihle.

"; Twent"~t—’nree years ago we did net
 know what soil was best adapted torlts
fgrowth, -no: what variety was best to
figrow, nor which was the best pan to
fivboil thcj  in. Urmr. these subjects
tour exp-22 lance may be of some user.-‘<>

-others. -
sorn.

I prefer ac/.'1dy -'0::.u».'., -new ground if
you have it. Never manure land for
sugar calm,-;:.nless youraisc on-cor two
other crops-on it before-:.*sii1gitf<;r the
‘cane. Plow deep where the  . 7.3
good and put the gran-r-.;Z in good or-
dcr; furr0w\’;~oth ways as you would
for corn and plant as soon as the
_grcund is warm, say from the llltb to
the 15th of ,‘3Ia_y.
from 8 to IE’ -seells in  hill, crwer
about a one-half inch <.‘<«»e._t,~_;, stamp on

than if the ground is loose.
man_r_.' cover the see-l to’; o‘:-,z-p, so that
it never comes up. ‘Nb-:n three or
fonr inches high, thin -cut leaving
from {Live to sever». stalks at a hill. and
cultivate same as corn.



The common S0l',‘,‘.,'0 or Chim-se cane
which was flrst introdticeéi. in this
country makes as good molasses as
' any, but -has a weak stalk and gener-
ally breaks down befo-e harvested.
Liberian is another standard variety ;
it has athickstalk, short joints,stands
-up well and makes good syru p, but us
too late a kind for this country. IL was
from the west coast of. Africa. Vom-
seana, or Oailnetian as itis sometimes
called is an exotic broughtio this coun-
try from South Africa; it is a good
variety, the juice is generally white
and sweeter than the juice from sorgo
or Liberian. It has a. tendency to
grain or go into sugar more than the
former kinds. The early Amber, some-
times called the eariy Minnesota.
is a variety of recent introduc-
tion and is supposed to be an accident-
al seedling. It is claimed to be a dis-
tinct and well defined vgriety and is
very rich irnsaccharine matter. The
juice generally stands from 8 to 11 on
the saccharcmeter. There is another
kind thatis raised in the west called
the early orange ; its juice is as
sweet as that of the early Minnesota
Amber, but ripens from two to three
Weeks later. This kind would suit
those best who want to do their wheat
sowing before they harvest their cane
crop. I never had any juice that siood

The boiling was done with a Z
_; pan aboutsix feet long and two feet ‘

In planting put,

it with the hoe, as it will star! sooner I
A good‘?

, with an upward stroke with a sharp 
 knife, c"I the seed of‘? bet Ween the first ‘
1 and second joint. Zsleverstrip or top 
! cane l:-More you are |"9fl.lly ‘.0 cut it. 
.:‘u2'-air cane can be kept from s‘,.-oiling !
from ‘the time you -cut  until winter 
sets :32), if after it is cut. ‘you haul it in 5
tbc=':.arn and set it up on the side of,
gthe threshing flour, or in some she-<l
’ where the rain and wind can’t strike
it. The next best place is to cut it up I
and lay it on 1-xiniothing to kc-cp it:
‘from the ground, and rake the leaves,’
and seed together and cover it, or cov-
! or it lightly v/‘E-tie straw-—never pile it
ll-up on the ground for it will heat anti
~$ spoil from the-.groui:.,i up.
' The rnschirerr I would recommcml
5 is the Victor mill maulifactured by the
l-‘Blymer Manufacturing Co., of Cin-
' cinnati, Ohir-., and is fifteen foot evap-
‘ orator, manufactured by the same
:.c01npany.
Paocirsc  Mr‘_‘.'.~'. UFAC’l‘E_'R.ZZN'-€.

I press the juice out with a three-
roller mills, -the two rollers where the l
cane enters: set  of an inch apart, *
so that thevcane may enter easly. The f
other roller I set :1 _» close enough to ’
press the j ui-cc ail out.
the juice runs into tubs, in the tubs I i
put a partition within threeor four in-—
ches of one-side and let the paztition

From the mill ’

two years ago, that the time was not
far distant when every farmer could
make his ouvu sugar.

The past season ‘the Champaign
sugar factory, of Champaign, Ill..
made 1:2-3,000 pounds of sugar and 22,- '
.300 gallons of molasses. And the Rio
Grande sugar factory, of New Jersey,
made .‘ll9,U0t’l pounds of sugar and
4U,*.M)(J gallons of molasses. Our north-
ern cane will adapt itself to our soil
and climate, from the British posses-
sions on the north, to the Gulfof Mex-
ico ran the south, and from the Atlan-
tic to the Pacific 0.-can.
fact is cozisidered that we are payliig

about $5 ll),1f>Oo,tlo(l in gold annually for ‘

sugar‘ to foreign powers, thus draining
our country of this large sum of gold
yearly it sczms that -eve--.*y true :35.‘-
riot might to sxteiid the mos: cordial
welcome luaruy indust"‘-" tliatproulises
to make thl‘.-:'C0IIlI1l4V.I'lIy on cut’ own
suit, and to kc»:-p this vast sum a:lu'~1ne
and «.lis:riE:.u’:s it among our own peo
ple. léazlam-1 St;-.">< 1;.
'J‘hree iliwaxs, Sr. Josepl) (,‘o., .\li«-ll.

Bazfibaroz:-3 Treatment of 2510 Horse.

There died la..‘.»=}_'«' in Lomlazn, Eug-
iand, 4:. §(3l1lllIH:g(j()\'l man. Mr. lid-
waral F. -Flower was best. ‘.'-znown in
I5DL’l1;tLl4:i():' his unccasing ell‘-.;rts to
prevent cruelty to lior.-‘+5; «lirectina;
his cspe«:i2.l efi'c«'.P:s to all list‘. the1‘.u.=ar-
ing rein. .\'ot.l:ing dissa,-o'.Irage:l him
in lxisv/ork r.-ireiform. W"v‘:.athe could

‘ Jhen the ,

‘Witness how soon they Will =1?-‘It'll
out their necks, as soon as they are
uncbecked, and fairly groan out their
relief from torture. This trreatment of
the horse is one of the barbarisins of
the day. And, it is all the result of,
false notions, sustained by false pride, I
that seeks its gratification in ahus
abusing the nobles-‘t animal that man
has in his seavice.
V. H.

Galesburg, May 1. lbbd.

5.-griculture Eighteen Hundred Years Ago.

Columella advises a farmer to build u
house near a spring that never dries: up,
and near "wood for tire and forage. If
Wells and springs mil let large ci.-terns
be provided for men and pot;-ls for cat-
tle. ‘Ilse worst of all is mar:-.l'. water.
which crerps and slides along ‘\'lTil n!
slow motion. ".1 n.-arch throws up :1ox- I
mus arnl pc-isonoiis streams, and bl‘-.:ed.~z

V It:' ls:-::{ls fcrth from the mud 2:12:11

)

skis and st rpents.’

'  refeu-nee to stables, he would
"anble ox-stalls for cattle, broke-n for
labor, one for summer and one for win-
£92‘. Tic would surround the cattle yards
vii’; high walls, to prevent exposure to
the fury of Wild beasts. “Let all the
st:‘.l‘.les be so (|l'tlt‘l‘é‘-Ll that no wzc'z«3r may
rut‘: into them. ’l'L=,e stalls for the (>.\'<.*u
must be ten,or at least nine, feet llrtzid.“
He recommenlls the division of a store-
house into “an Oil cellar, a place for the

ll arr.’-

I’ra-c'-ti«3ull_r ur ierstanding his .-ubjv.-on
he met every o'ujL-ctinu w‘tb an unan-
swehiille :«-"-"2r:ieni: from his own ex-
{2e;ri‘f::ce; 1' r

lied,
relation of  noblest (if rlomestivr ani-
mal}:-' that made hira olyiiiiplcm. his
cause and defend him, against this
outrageous —tiv.'-atment. 2-He was met,
o-n:ta;xe start, by taunts and jecrs from

run within one inch of the bottom of
the tub. Now, in the .-mall part-of the
tub, and within four inches of the top,
I put his faucit. I fill the big part of
the tub with-clean straw and let the
juice from the mill run into this straw
which ~csutchcs~all the leaves and course
stuff, and theclean juice uses izr the
small part of the tub up to the ‘laziest.
From the lance: it ruxs into a funnel
which sticks in a lead pipe that runs
it into the ciste:n. From the cistern
I pump it up-into the reservoir barrel
on which I have a buein with a fine
perforated tin bottom which strains
it clean. Elhrointhe reservoir barrel I
run it throuh 2. faucet into a pan.
Mypan is ~Coo';;’s plantation .3:-an,
No. 7, 55 feetllong resting on an arch.
The pen sl‘.o»1l(l have an incline of an
; inch toward the open end of the arch.
The chimney should be about five feet
higher than the length of the pan in
gcrder to swu-re  goo-:l draft. VVhen I
l-begin to boil I fill the pan with Water

z.=ha.t dignilawv. the London (joarchinan,
whs clairnod .1; at horses could not be
4.l1‘iR'<:I1lD. the great: city witbzm; the
bearing rein. And when Mr. Flower
began his cmaode in London, the bar-
barzzus use of the gag-bearing rei u was
near univerea‘. Few seemed in be
aware of Elie-cruelty z'i'\‘c:».'-ved  the
practice. Ana.’ it was only by persist-
ent adherence to his reforni that be
accomplished anything in it. Wrist
was at first callnd his "uor.~sense," af-
terawhile was called mos.’ excellent

horses might look “'smart’ without
being kept in tozture. Now and then
the.'.;car.1;g rein was loosened and the
horse was relievell somewhat. if not
freed from pain. Finally the :43Wspa—
pen-1 r.;lvoL-atcd the reform ax;-.' L4»-day
many drive wi.thoLz.‘. the “cheel; .‘=":'.‘u. ”

It is. surprising to see with what
cool ineliflsrence, ifnot scorn, m-: max:
of the tort‘, or he with the “mic surn-
out," will treat any -uggestisin to-

! and boil the waters short time until
the arch is hot. then I take a big cloth ;
and commence at the reservoir barrel "

!and shove the water ahead with the

i cloth and let thejuice follow. I move

Q the Water fast enough so trat thejuice

I is boiled into molasses by the time it

reaches the back end of the pan.

The W0l)t that is best for boiling mo-
lasses is basswood, elm, or old rai s, as
this fue-.’ leaves but few coals. The
reason I like the Cook evaporator the

Wards loosening the bearing ‘rein.
Talk about the .’1.umc:.mZty in the case
to him! He hasas much feeling for
has hor.-e as a Spanish inquisitur had
for his VHZUHI. Mounti.'.ng 3,12 mg seat
with the lines in his hands, ;and the
aniInal’sl1c-ad high in the air, what
does he care Whether the poor beast
suliers or LloL‘.’ “Let the galled jade
wince,” though her withers are wrung
with torture, its the “style” in l.el.« -;ic-
tim that he wants to exhibit. Li-3;/lo.’

best is this, it has more boiling surface .
for its size than any other pan and sets
out over the arch six inches on each
side, which makes coolingsides where
the scum can be taken olfreadily, and
on it you can toil juice in a shallower
body than on any other pan. Expe-
rience has taught me that the hallow-
er the body ofjuice is in the pan, and
the faster you can boil it, the ulcer
and clearer your molasses will be.

In gathering the seed you should go
in the field while the cane is standing
and cut the stalks off, and see that you
take your seed from stalks. that are
very juicy and have a pleasant, sweet
taste. Some stalks are half dry and
others as dry as corn stalks. If you
should take your seed from stalks half
dry, your next year’s crop would be
the same.

In conclusion I would say that I
think by raising the Otihetian or
early Amber, and carefully selecting
your seed it will come true what -I said
in the farmers’ institute in Centreville,

Does the man call deformifg st yle ?
Let him turn his horse loose in the
pasture and as he gambols offhe will
show you a style of natural movement
in carrying his head and arching his
neck that can never be produced by
the check rein. That beauty of move-
ment can only be exhibited by the
free, natural action of the horse. Look
at the modern flash reinsman, as he
drives along the street with his horse’s
head "checked up” so high that as the
driver sits in his seat, he can see the
animal's nose between his ears. The
poor beast is so hampered with the
gag-rein that he must carry his head
lhus tilted up in a stiff and mechaui.
cal manner, till hey look likcgir.-,fl'¢—'g
heads poking high in the air. H-;~.;nes
has hit cffthese horsemen:

“Ha, gather your reins and smack yI_;u[ thong
And bid your steed go faster;
He does not know as he scrambles along
That he has a fool for his master.”
The horse knows best how lo carry
his head and he wi:1doic gracefully if
you will let him have free use of it,

not do by talking to every acquai:i--
tance on his 1.0;-~ic, hedid by writing 9
pa‘.l’H._I3lllelS and letters to the papers. 5

no one no “riwlden. ‘
driven or liver; with horsr-is more than '
.\. nd «it was his low: and appre-

scnce, and pea; le began to see that;

wine and oil press, a wine cellar. a place
7 for boiling mush, hay lofts, straw and
chaff lofts, store houses and lmrn.-‘, some
for keeping moist 1.-hings and some for
dry things. Let the grunuries be
accessible only by ladders.” Ir; the
granaries he would have com-bi .-: dis-
tinguished bv partitions, that every sort-
of pulse may be placed separately by it-
self. "’l‘l;e walls are plastered with clay
well wrought with lees of oil, with which
are mixed the dry leaves of the wild
olive. This seems to be the most proper
of anything for preserving corn from re-
ceiving hurt from weavels and such-like
animals."

About the house should be "an oven and
a mill; two ponds at least, the one for the
service of cattle, and forgeesc; the other
in which we may steep lupincs, willow.-,
rods and other things which are proper
for our occasions. Let there. also be two
dunghills, one which may receive new
oil‘-scourings ."..nd filth, and a second.
from which the old dung may be car-
ried.”

He rcconlmends that th-;< bottoms of
the compost heaps be somewhat shelv-
mg. with gentle descent, in the manner
of ponds, both well built and paved, that
the moisture may not pass through, and
that if there be any seeds of thorns or
grasses thrown in they may parish and
not till the (£L‘.l'{l.’s with weeds.

‘Let him treat his farmers with civility
and show himself easy and gentle
towa-.*ds them. It is more tolerable to
have any kind of land in the hands of
farmers that are freemen than of slaves.
Slaves daily lessen the corn while they

are threshing it-. either by their knavish
tricks or negligence; for they both steal
it themselves and neglect to keep it
safely from other thieves.”

"it is mvopinion that frequent letting
of the ground is a bad thing. A farmer
that lives in town is the worst. From
such a man instead of rent, you may
have commonly a law suit.”

He has not a very high esteem for
slaves or daudics. “A bailiff must not
-be appointed out of that kind of servants
who have pleased with their body. nor
who have exercised any city trades, or
delicate crafts. This kind of slaves is
sluggish and sleepy, accustomed to ease
and idleness, sports and diverting fights,
to dire tipliug houses, and common
stews.” ‘

For a bailiff “one must be chosen, who
is hardened to rural labor and business
from his infancy. He must be past the
prime of his youth, but not as yet upon
the borders of old age. Let him be there-
fore of a middle age. of firm strength,
skillful in rural affairs."

He should know more than his ser-
vants, for he is, by no means, capable of
exacting and seeing work rightly done
and finished, who learns from one that
is subject to him, what, and in what man-
ner it must be done."

The bailiff must-know nothing of the
city or of any public ufl’airs, he must; not
be a rambler. “Lie must take care of
all the implements of husbandry, keep
them well repaired‘, double of what the

aninmls armed with mischieveus -tuigs. ,

‘ cl dirt, (;‘LlV(.‘ll(}IIl(5tl. posts of um ;

number of the servants requires. that
there may bc no occasion to bor-
row from neighbors: becfmsfi there
is more lost in the servaut‘s day’s
work. than is spent in the W109
gf things of this sort." The above
is good advice even to this day. He
recommends keeping Servimtfl neat.
rather usefully than delicately clothed,
with leather costs with sleeves, coats
made up of many patches and short
fl-Ockg with c.')WlS. I would sometimes
jest and in: mcrrr with them. and allow
them greater iiiucriy to lmve their lt‘*‘t5='-
1.lel;!;cmteu:1.l.1-lvisu with them con-
cerning any new work.-I. that I may know
what sort:-f_L;c'.~.i1is, and what stock of
1)l‘ll£l{‘llCt‘. on-r_v 01):: of them has. I ob-
g,_.,-,-‘. gut mar set 2tim;:tt!1nt\vul‘l{ mar’;-
williugly which they have been «'.-u-
',,,m..,1-,.~J-l :1, .r:.~.l \vl~.ivh, they think, has
l)r‘L’.'.‘ ‘.lll_l£‘,2‘l1\'r-Z£.‘I1 l:'.' illE‘l{' .ulvi(re." En-
la nmch 7:‘...-, mine the W-"rltl

W. J. l5Is.xL.

man imttzr-2
over.

1 Seed Potatoes.

The. vvritcrin the .’.«//M-,-l (fault-u., upon

the :.u:;jt,-at of fwcl; p:-‘.»-.mcs, very prop-
; ».—ri3 élbjectéi to 3iLL"pill,'.;‘ tum: I-<_-ed ill pits,
' 4)l‘(ltll(,‘X' wnrzrn, moi;-t ;-uituutirins, sin’.-.¢ it
induces sprout growth. tic ad\'oL‘utcs
broad. open shelves, placed sonn-what
clo.~ral“,‘ oi.-u abs‘-\':* the otircr which tnlinit
of ulargc quantity‘ of .‘~'t‘t‘(l potatoes be-
ing stored in any f:‘.:I‘-:~lZt"l hllt'1l,llll(l if
plenty of air be gin-n when the wentlisr
permits. the tlihvm will remain tirm uud
almost dormant until planting 'élIJ.1t:. ."-rnd
adds: It is an undoubted fact that a
seed tuber, it kept dry and not in an
airy place, will never throw a shoot
above an inch or so in length, and with
ita few partly developed roots. It is
on'_*.* win.-n kept sscludcd from light and
air or where there IS moisture, that this
growth 1.‘: made.

In relation to manure and cultivation
the correspondent says: liuw manure
should never be &Lp]Jll‘Jkl to land intend-
ed for the growth of potatoes, but the

Let all redundant moisture get freely
away from the roots, and rather induce
a niedluni-sized. l.l2\l'Ll-'\?.’(Jl)(l(‘-’l. baulm
than all course, succulent one. ’l'b«.- com-
parative freedom from (lll:l(.‘llS0 that has
in years past chumcterized certain kinds
arises from the fact that the huulm 15 of
a firm fibrous nature; and if such kinds
be grown in soil of but moderate quali-
ty, one free trom raw manure, a sound
crop may be almost assured. For a
first early kind intended for early
market or home consumption. good soil.
with -.1. liberal dressing of manure may
answer, as the crop generally is thiw‘
forced and lifted for immediate con-
svimptimz, but for all main crops manure
should be avoided.

Origin of Ensilage.

An ‘.ute,1'o:-illng contributior; to the dis-
cussion of this subject furnished by
Mr. L. I’. lluirliead, of Hilcreggen, who
writing to the N07’!/o b’re'lz.s/l .»l,r;2-zc4zJtur-
M upon the origin and practice of en-
Blltige. suys: “Sauerkraut! Yes, that’s
it. What is good for man is good for
beast. I'll try it anyhow. 80 thought
an old German farmer one wet season
30 years ago; only, instead of cabbage
he used grass. clover and vctchcs, omit-
ted the pepper corn.-, and used a pit in
the ground instead of the family barrel
or crool; (mlelze /uzyen,-). Some years af-
ter such words as ‘saltzllltter, (salted
fodder), sauerfutter, (pickled fodder),
and ‘vichsost’ (cattle salad), might be
heard among the farmers of Germany
and East Prussia, where the practice first
obtained a. hold, thereafter being
carried by emigrants to America, and
gradually finding its way among the
Dutch and 1‘ rench nearer home. About
1850 it came into noticsin Scotland.
John M. ‘Wilson, at that time an au-
thority on things agricultural gave so
full an account of it as to be well worthy
reproduction.” Mr. Muirhead quotes
the lengthy description which answers
to the method of curing grasses now
known as ensilage. Referring to Mr.
Sala’s recent note on the word ensilage
in the Illuxtraterl News, Mr. Muirhead
says: “It seems to be an Americamsm,
probably a corruption of the German
‘enisalzen,’ to pickle, or the Spanish ‘en-
salads’ salted, from which the English
word salad is derived. Possibly salad
pit for the receptacle. pic/.’lz'/lg for the
process, and cow .<m./ml for fodder would
be more satisfactory.

.. 
ENSILAGE, as the coming food for
cattle is attracting much attention
among the farmin class. With his
usual enterprise Mr. Denille Hubbard
prepared a. silo last fall and recently it
was opened and the fodder found to be
well preserved. The cattle took hold
ofiteagerly, and the only fault to be
found lay in the fact that afterward
they negle-L-..ed their ordinary fodder,
so great was their desire for this food.
Mr. H. is perfectly satisfie-l with the
resutt of the experiment, and next fall
will construct a silo 40x18 fee‘: and 12
feet de='p.—-film shall Statesman.

LUMBERMEN, who profess to be
posted, say that there is 18,000,000_O00
fee: of white pine now standing in the
lower peninsula and 5,000,000,000’ in
the upper peninsula.

deeper the soil is worketl the better. ‘


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MA Y 15. 1883.

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‘INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

The Grain Market— Stay on the Farm— Sor-
ghum—the Best Variety of Seed, Its Cul-
ture and Manufacture—Barbarous l'reat-
ment of the Horse-—Agriculture Eighteen
Hundred Years Ago—Seed Potatoes» Ori-
gin of Ensilage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

A Review-—Au Important Decisiou—Science
in Agriculture——A Retrospect--The Driven
Wells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

To Wool Shippers——Grovexnment and Agricul-
ture—W’yoming Grange, 353—A Response
—Discuss all Subjects that will Make Life
Better—Arraugements for Salt—The Illi-
nois Supreme Court Upheld the Rights of
the People in the Granger Railway Ca.ses--
Notices of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Beautifying Home—Bringing Shurbs Iuto
Shape—-Farmers and Politics——What Far-
mers Talk About --Requistes to Success
With Onions-~ New York’s Greatness-—
Wire Woi-ms—The Justice Court Appeal
Bill—Cougressional Lobbyist—Ticks—Her
Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Drunkard’s Lone Child—A Salutatory
Address—-Success-~Among the Granges. . -5

1 The Wheat Oi-op-Letter From Judge Black
-—Address of W. J. Beal, President of the
Society-—'l‘ransplauting Fruit Trees-—Pa-

Lpers on Horticultural Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . 6

On the Shelf-—Aunt Prue's Salutatory--
“Wheelbarrow Grange Members."—The
May Atlautic—The Markets—The Reaper
Death —Advertisements. .. . . . . . . . .

New York Agricultural Experiment Station-
Bulletin N o. xxxvin — How Oat Meal is
Made—Western Stock Raising—Advertise-
ments..       .. 

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J. T. Conn,

SCHOOLCRAFT.

A REVIEW.

The Nmth American Review for
May: is on ouria le. As usual the arti-
-cles are from able pens, from men of
extensive observation as well as great
learning. But this class ofmen dlfio.-i‘;
always have and always wi l though
occupying places where the light of
this nineteenth century must reach
them apparently under like favorable
conditions. But one important fact at
least partly explains the other fact of
difference of opinion. The mental
organization of no two persons is
alike-. And so we meet with acou-

1 flict = fopinlon upon many important
sulje-;-ts where equal or corresponding
facilities for arriving at the same con-
clusions are present. And the Review
-offers space to those who entertain
‘these diverse opinions to present them
for criticism or endorsement.

VVe r-; ad the Review with great satis-
faction aud we trust with profit. In
this number,the fifth paper is from the
pen of Alexander Winchell, pro-
fessor of geology and botany in the
University of Michigan, sunjcct:
“Communism in the United States.”

After setting forth certain obvious
‘truths, thatinequalilies ofmeutal con-
dition:- and opportunities must necssa
rilycause. the unequal DOSSLSSIOII of
property, that civilization itself car-
ried us away from the simple com-
muni in that belongs to and makes up
the condition of men in a i.»arbarous
state, he declares the purpose of his
article as follows: “It is proposed to
show that the communistic spirit is
gaining 9. firm foothold in the United
States, and that it threatens -to intro
duce chaos into the social fabric.”

In the consideration of this proposi-
tion tze professor has evidently in-
tended to go to the root of the matter,
and in so doing he has first referred
to the good intentions of certain or-
ganizations, that as he avers have a
spirit of communism underlying their
work.» “They utter no threats against
the peace of society, and the monoton-
ous mediocrit-y which has sustained
them has not beef) able to arouse into
action any natural law capable of pre-
s-rving them from threatened or ac-
complished extinction.”

From these inoffensive germs of
communistic principles we are re-
ferred to those of a different type
which embraces a large population
much of which is without organiza-
tion but entertains notions and is
armed with prejudices against capital-

ists, monopolies and moneyed cor-
porations of almost every kind.
The professor is especially severe
upon all those who are unfavorable to
our financial system,and declares “the
underlying motives communistic.”

In reference to railroad corporations,
after the mild remark that|“These,like
many other powerful corporations,
have numerous sins to answer for,”
he adds “Our communistic fellow
citizens seem unable to understand

that accumulated capital cannot afford
to conduct its operations at a loss, nor

at a much less profit than is earned by
cgpital in,general.” The miner is se-
verely scored for strikes "That reveal

a mere purpose to plunder the rich

under the pretense that they control
more than their ("bare of goods, and
that whatever can be seized goes so
far toward a fairer adjustment of

possemious. ”

Prof. Winchell has undoubtedly
had unusual opportunities to learn
much of men and the potent influences
that control them, and has surveyed
the field which he is describing from
a sort of exalted standp ..-int that has
given a tone of -wise con tidence to his
statements that will everywhere coin-
mand respect where his assertions are
unquestioued. But we take it that
with all his opportunities he has
rcachs (1 some conclusions for want of
information. He has huddled classes
together and .harged all with corn-
l11‘\.lLll!-.‘lIl from sheer ignorance. If a
prominent scholar is entitled to pity
for his ignorance, here is a case de-
manding charitable consideration.

But While we well know that it is
impossible for even scholars to know
- verything, it is at least prudent for
such men more than others, to forbear
an expression of opinion before an en-
lightened public in a positive manner
upon any subject before fully under-
standing it. Ifthe professor had not
accepted the street talk of eight or ten
years ago as the gospel of the Grange,
and had learned nothing and forgotten
nothing since, he would not have ut-
tered such nonsense as this.

“The American communistic spirit
has attempted crude organizations ii.
trades unions and grangerism” * *
“Grangerism is mild trades-unionism
on the farm. It has its fancied wrongs
to right and its crude methods for
righting them. Its leading effort has
been through gross weight of num-
bers, to force legislation in its own in-
terests. It seeks to impose burdens on
railroads, banks and manufactur-
ing corporations. It establishes so
called agricultural colleges, conceiv-
ing such institutions to be simply
high schools for the education of far
me-rs’ boys as a class. A; guards with
jealous eye all expenditures for higher
learning, for science, art and public
enterprises. Fear of its numerica;
strength ovcrawxs public ofliicers, and
whips into subserviency the aggregate
wisdom of our legislatures. It has the
hue 0’ communism. It is unwilling
to leave business to spontaneous ad-
justment through the operation of its
own laws. It demands more than t- -
laws of nature bring it. It frames 1 .-
dcmanazs under the promp ings of
greed, and not on the ba--is of PCOULIH‘
ical science. It is deaf to the wisdom
of philosophers and statesmen, and en-
forces its will by the accident of 5
msjozity. This is the spiritof Anicri
can communsm. These assuredl) arr
not the controlling motives of most 0!
our farmers; but they are the motive.-
which prompt the Granger spirit ii
the cla-=s.”

And here the professor's arraign
ment of the stupid, wicked Granger
ends. We marvel not that with ad:
these baleful influences added to ihr
catalogue of communistic organiza
'./ions and crude notions entertained by
such large numbers of people that the
professor forebodes “a threatening
chaos to the social fabric.” It is no.
our purpose to examine specifi
cally the charges preferred against Ill:
great body of the piople but rather i-'~
show that to the meager few loyal in-
telligent cilizens not yet tainted with
communism, must be added that largr
body of farmers who are loyal to tht
principles of the Order. \Ve may no:
furnish evidence that will be satisfac-
tory to the complainant in this case.
but there are large numbers of peopl.
who like h m at one time looked wi¢l.
dislrust upon the Grange but who, un
like him, with a better acqualntaum
have outgrown their narrow prejudices
and recognize in the Order a consisten
adherence to its“Declaration ofpurpos
es” which enumerates among its spe
cific objects the commendable purpose

‘To develo a better and highe:
manhoxd ant womanhood.” “Tt
sys ematize our work, and calculate
more intelligently on probabili
ties.” * In our business I'rl&llOI]S wt
desire to bring producers and con-
sumers, farmers and manufacturers
into the most direct and friendly rela-
tions possible.

We wage no aggressive W3I'f8l‘e-
against any other interests whatever
On the contrary, all our acts, and all
our nfi’-iris, so far as business is con
cerned, are not only for the benefit of
the producer and consumer, but also
for all other interests that tend ti.
bring these two parties into speedy
and economical contact. Hence wu
hold that transportation companies or
every kind are necessay to our success.
that their interests are intimately con
nected with our interests, and harmo
nious action is mutually advantage-
ous, keeping ln View the first sentence
in our Declaration of Principles of ac-
tion, that “Individual happ?}leSS de
pends upon general prosperity.”

We‘ shall, therefore, advocate for
every State the increase in ever}
practicable way of all facilities for
transporting cheaply to the seaboard,
or between home producers and con
sumers, all the productions of our
country. We adopt it as our fix-.d
purpose to open out the channels in
nature's great arteries, that the life-
blood of commerce may flow fretly.

We are not enemies of railroads
navigable and irrigating canals, or of
any corporation that will advance our
industrial interests, nor of any labor-
in classes.

11 our noble Order there is no com
munism, no agrarianism. _ _ ‘

We are opposed to such spirit and
management of any corporation or en-
terprise as tends to oppress the people
and rob them of their just profits.
We are not enemies to capital, but we-
oppose the tyranny of monopolies.
We long to see the antagonism be-
tween capital and labor removed by
common consent, and by an enlight
ened statesmanship worthy of the
nineteenth century.

It-s declaration recites in regard to

EDUCATION.

“We shall advance the cause of edu-
cation among ourselves, and for our
children, by all just means within our
power. We especially advocate for
our agricultural and industrial colleges
that practical a; rlculture, domestic

science, and all the arts which adorn
the home, be taught in their courses
of study.”

VVe will not take space 10 quote far-
ther from this noble Declaration of
Pur;osee prormlgated as the funda
mental principles of the Order by the
National Grange in 1874. Since this
declaration was made to the world
nearly a decade of years have passed.
More than half the time since the
initiatory idea of such an organization
had take shape and to show that it
has not drifted away from these prin-
ciples we quote from the address of
the .\Ia.~t«.-r of the Xati-'.-nsl Grange
elclivcreql before that bo.’_y at its last
annual session in .\'ovem‘oer, 15:82:

“The great purposes which we aim
to ?lCC<I)lpllsll cannot be too often
l‘t‘[)t.‘at<:d or too vv= ll understood. We
aim to make the daily lives of our
men and women better, and noblcr,
and truer, and holicr, and happier; '0
encourage education, social and moral
culture, and a better development of
the noble fxcultics of our natures; to
provide for ourselves and our families
comfortable homes, unincumbered
farms, and a fair remuncraion for our
labor; to beuutifg-x our homes and in-
crease their attraction for our children,
and their love for them and our pro-
fession, and thereby induce the boys
to stay upon the farm; to prevent
family jars, dissensions, and separa
tions - to lessen neighborhood strife
and disagreements, and prevcntlita-
gation by providirg for the settlement
of matters of difference between
neighbors by arbitration in the
Grange; to increase the profits of our
farms, by better cultivation, greatsr
diver. ity of crops, closer study of the
market, and better understanding of
the laws of trade; to “systematize our
labor,”and our business, and “prac-
tice economy in all things,” discarding
“the credit system, the mortgage s ;s
tem, the fashion system, and every
other system tending to prodigality
and bankruptcy ;” and thus bridge
o’er the chasm between labor and its
results with joys and blessings, which
make labor pleasant, healthful and
honorable, and the laborer contented
and happy ; to encourage home manu
factures, «‘tl.tl every branch of pro-
dnc ive indusiry, bringing the profiucer
and the consumer into the closest and
most intimate relations, and thus
create a home market for <.-ur surplus
products; to encourage the building
of railroads and canals, and the im-
pmvemeait of our rivers and harbors,
and thereby secure cheaper transports
tion for our products to market - and

1

to demorstrate to the world that agri-
czlturc is a .-zciez cc, and farming a
profession, and all who are eng.-~.ged in
it closelyjallied by interest and sympa-
thy, and can :10-operate in an organi-
zation for their own mutual benefit
and protection, as well as thv:-so
engaged in the other avocatious oflifr.
Such is a brief summary of the princi

pal objects a’ d purposes we are
endeavoring to accomplish, and are
accomglishing through the influence
of our organzation.” ‘

And this scientist, relying on his
scholarship and his literary position
to protect his real ignorance, .*ecla.le:-5
that this “has the hue ofcoinmunism.”
Does he refer to a single act where his
“grangerism” has sought “To impo e
.burdens on railroads, banks and
manufacturing corporations.” No,
we have nothing but this bald, naked
assertion, too ridiculously false. to be
worthy of notice‘ but for the position
of its author and the high char-
acter of the magazine he has
used as a record of his ignorance.
VVhen or where has the Grange taught,
practiced, or in any way rec-ignized or
approved of the usages and practices
which have made trade unionism odi
ou.-I? When or where has the Grange
sought “To impose burdens on rail
ro:-ads, banks and manufacturing cor-
porations?” When or whe-.e has the
Grange imitated the vicious practice
of some of these corporations and kept
a paid lobby to influence lt-gislation?
It is true that members of the Order
have joined with other citizens, often
taking the lead, in petitioning Con-
gress and legislatures to enact laws for
the better protection of the peo_ le
against the rapacity of railway maria
gczs who have assumed to set aside the
fundamental principle of governmen--
tal control, substituting therefore the
piactice of charging “what the traflic
will bear.” It is true that in defense
of their rights the Grangcrs of the
west did appeal to the courts, and vin
dicated their claim by a decision from
the highest judicial tribunal in the
land. Was that communistic?

So far as an rquivalent answer to
the charges preferred against “Grange
ism” is required, it would be suificient
to put in a flat denial, and there rest
the case, forno attempt was made to
substantiate the accusations made, and
we cannot account for the recklessness
of the professor in this blind indiscrim
iuate assault. “T he Shakers, Fourier-
ites,Onelda perfectionlsts, etc-.., While
belonging to the “dangerous classes"
of communistic tendencies, “with no
threats against the peace of society,”
are credited with “That monoto
nous mediocrity” which foreshadows
their extinction. Not so with “grain-
gerism.” “It frames its demands up-
on the promztings of greed * * is
deaf to the wisdom of philosophers
and statesmen, and enforces its will
by the accident of a majorily.” The
Profe3sor’s Grangers area had lot, and
he turns from them as one without
hope.

The article in question is vigorous
in style and is not without merit, but
its author has mistaken the activity of
an earnest effort to improve and edu-
o to the agricultural class in all that
goes to make up the law abiding,
prosperous intelligent citizen, for a
blind, headlong, organized attempt to

( oerce or intimidate legislative bodies,
and set aside “the wisdom of philoso-
phers and statesmen.” Assuming to
dissect society he has assigned to the
many, those qualities that foreshadow
the disintegration of governmentib
self.

There are many. points in this arti-
cleentitlel to notice. In short there
are texts on every page. But we have
already devoted sufficient space and
all the time We have to spare to this
subject, and for the present we leave
Prof-:.'-38')!‘ Winchell to enjoy his exalt-
ed position as best he may, while he
looks out upon the cosnxnon herd of
uncultured liumsziity that he sees be-
neath him, who he would fain have
us believe are without sense to com-
prehcndor culture to appreciate the
digniay of scientific attainmonts——this
blind :3‘-rups->11, =,hat in its stupid,
mis‘.llrca:Le«l strength is to pull down
the pillars of our national fab-
ric upon ‘ts own devoted head.

AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

On another page is an article Llipped
from the Chicago Tribune that settles-
an important and long contested prin-
ciple relating to the rights and powers
of railway corporations. This prin-
ciple established by a decision of the
United States Supruue Court, ren-
dered on Monday the 7th inst., is of
vital importance. This suit was com-
menced in 1873 and has been ten years
on its devious course from the justice
of the peace up to the highest tribu-
na' of the nation. '

The Legislature of Illinois had un-
dertaken to limit passenger fares on
the railways of the State to a maxi
mum of three cents p-r mile and a
statute to that etfect was then in'force,
but for short distances it was gener
ally disregavded. The regular fare for
adistance of six miles between two
stationson the C. B. & (4,. It. R. in
Illinois was fixed by the company at
twenty cents. A passenger tendered
eighteen cents, and refusing to pay
the ad-liéional two cents, the con-
ductor thereupon attempted to eject
him from the car. lomplaiut was
made before a justice of the peace-
against the conductor for a s..ult aux:
battery. resulting in his conviction
an d a fine of $10 and costs. The con-
test wus then carried up through all
of the State courts and fin2.~l'y to the
Supreme Court of the United States on
the ground that the State law fixing
9. maximum rate of charges for pas-
sengers on railroads in the State was
in violation of the constitution
of the United States because
it impaired the obligation of
contracts contained in the various
charters under which the corporation
existed. As in most other railroad
charters, the power was expressly
given to the ryrmpaliy to establish such
rates of tolls for colyeyance of passen-
gers and property as the company
might from iliue to time by their by-
laws deterininc. It was urged by the
company that this provision was a
contract upon which they had relied
in the construction and operation of
their road, and any subsequent law
depriving them of such rightsmust
impair the -’=l)li_-.;a1.l0l1 of a contract.

The Uni.‘r.ed States Supreme Court
decided against the claims of the coni-
pany and hold “that grants of immu
niiy from lrgitimate governmental
control are never to be presumed."
This is in afiirmai cc of many decisions
of State courts, and the principle is of
essential importance in‘the solution of
the railway problem. The power of
the State to regulate charges made by
common carriers has been established
by repeated decisions and has always
existed as a necessary power of State
government.’ The railway company
may have the power under the pro-
visions of its charter to liinke by-laws
regulating and fixing its own fares.
But such charter provisions are held
to be made by the legislature and ac-
cepted by the company in full View of
the power possessed by the State to
legislate upon the same subject.
If it were‘ proviled in the char
ter that the company should ave
exclusive control of fares and rates and
that the government should never in
terfere with such cox.-=;.:ol, 9. question
would arise which is not c=:.=nsidc-red in
the decision of the case to which we
haye referred. Such a question, how-
ever, is not likely to arise. although
legislatures do sometimes attempt to
bargain away for all time some of the
most important powers of legislation,

The decisions of courts have long been
in harmony upon the question of the
governmental control over the whole
subject of transportation by common
carriers,having the right of eminent do-
rnain.Still the railway problem is beset.
with the most serious dilliculties and
dangers which are not likely to be soon
cleared away by legal wisdom or by the
decisions of courts. To check the en-
croachments of monopolies, to prevent
unjust discrirninations, to make the
rates of transportation depend prima-
rily upon the cost of service,-——these are
questions for the exercise of the highest
statesmanship, and unfortunately that
quality is shown in such small per-
centage in legislative bodies that need-
ed restraints upon the greed of grasp-
ing monopolies are not likely to be
imposed until the most serious evils
have been infllcted.

There is one feature of this matter

outside of its merits worthy of note.
The fact that Orangers first made a
stand and pitted :heinselves against
u.-urping corporations that from weight
of organization and resources were
dsily and hourly trespassing upon the
rights of the people, gave prominence
to the Order, and christened ail thai
class of cases as the Granger cases.

SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE.

From VV. J. Be-al, Prof. of Botany
and Horticulture at the Agricultural
College of Michigan We have rr.-ct-iv:-d
a copy of the proceedings of "The So-
cie-'y for the Promotion of Agricultural
Science." Thisisa pamphlet of 133
pages .-.ud covers the work 1-flhe soci
ety since its organization in Boston in
August 1880. Its second meeting was
held in Ciucinna i in August 1881.
The third in Montreal August l88'.l,and
the fourth is set down for August next,
place not named. The general ol-jccts
of the Association are fully expressed
in the name it adopted. That our
readers may get a-more exact. idea of
the broad field of investigation tuul
this society proposes to explore the ad-
dress of its president W. J. Beal at the
Cincinnati meeting, which we give on
our sixth page.

Those who participate in the work
of the society are prompted by no mer-
cenary motive. That the ulterior re-
sults of the projectors of this society
will be met, no one will doubt who
gives this pamphlet careful examina-
tion. The farmer who gives thought
to his profession will find much to in-
struct, in the papers that met the ap-
proval of the committee on publica-
tion and are found in those pubislied
proceedings.

The publication of the v i>roceediI:gs
cost money. The society cannot :-.li‘ord
to distribute them with .1 COlnp€'l‘:v&
tion. Any enterprising ’:\ri\u~1' w ll
make a paying lnvesiruc. f i»_‘, .-ending
fifty cents to W. J. Beal, l.~u..~iz:g for
:2. copy. Granges can 9.1." ly order S:
for the use of theirinembenu.

A RETR0SPECT.~

The YouLh’s Departzm wt of lilt-
VISITOR. like life ifsot’, has had ii.-
vicissitudes. Instituted by Uncle-
Nine to encourage the G range mem-
bers oi the Order to improve by writ
ing. the VISITOR was the vehicle so
lccted to carry out the ol-just and add
another to .-he educational features of
the Order. The purpose was mistaken
by some. and quite a vigorous attcmjt
was made to convert it into a chil
dn.-n’s department. This irregulanky
was corrected, but we smn found that
we were not yet fixed upon a.perman-
cnt basis, for without notice, formal I-r
infor“usl, the project-.-r and ostensible
ulitor of the department appa1‘cntl_\
forgetful of the responsibility of his
self in.-posed obligation sought other
fields of labor and left the Youth’s De
partment to care for itself. This it did
for a time,vez*y creditable, untzl we ii‘.-
vit~ d “Aunt Nina” to assume the edi-
torial guarcliansliip of Elli." department.

Ft-r a while Aunt Nina was a pro
nouuced sue (-ss. \V'nat work she did
was well done. Who is Aunt Nina?
has been asked, to which we only an-
swer, the guesses and cuisjectuns
touching this question have all been
wide -of the mark. Now that she has
deserted us without so much as kindly
bidding us farewell, we will charitably
utter no word of censure, but remem-
bering only the good things she has
said, turn from the past to the pres
ent, and introduce to the youths of the
VISITOR of whatever age, the future
editor'of this department, Aunt Prue.
May she not weary in well doing.
Here is a broad field well preparcd for
successfulculture. In it are large op-
portunities that if well improved wll
bear al~uu<laut fruit. We commit this
work of guidance to new hands ho; e-
ful of the best results.

A1‘ Grand Rapids a few days since,
we noticed-9.1 the agricultural ware-
house of Phillips, lliynion & C0,, on
Summit street, our old friend F. C.
(Jnllius of Cas‘-opolis, iillr: general agen!
for the justly celebrated Empire
ltcaper and Twins Binder, mzmufac
tured by J. F. Sciberiiig Akron.
Ohio, which we found 7.‘v[ess:'s. Phillips
Boynton & Co. are selling this season.
tlaviig for the past two sea-
sons used this Binder, upon our
farm, and having seen and known of
its being used by several persona;
friends, good farmers, we know
that it has always given complete
satisfaction, and do not hesitate to in-
vite our fa mer friends to give it and
its work a careful examination. Some
of the features p.culiar to the Empirt
Binder are, the spokes instead of be-
ing made of wood, and liable to shrink
and swell, and thus become loose, are
made of wrought iron, and run dire,-I
from the center of the hub, to, and rest
in cast iron blocks attached to the in
ner surface of the felloes of the drive
wheel, these cast blocks not only pre-
vent the'spok.s from chafing, but also
strengthen and protect the felloes.
The spurwheel which drives the entire
machine, is cast to the spokes, and is
entirely protected from dirt and sand,
by its position directly inside,and near
the center of the drive wheel. Both
ends of the machine are raised and
lowered simultaneously and instanta-
neously, by the simple and easy move-
ment of asingle lever, and this can

be done while the team is in motion,

on s- lf-bi nders.

enabling an elevation over obstacles
22 inches high. The reel has four 111C-
tions at will, by use of a single lever
an up and down, and a furivard and
back motion. The pitman runs direct
from the crai.k shaft to the sickle head,
thus doing away with a sw.-y bar and
its three \'Xtl'& bearings usually found
The Empire is guar-
anteed by the maiiufacturcr and agrnt
to w igli from 30!.) jnuxixls to -300
pounds lighter than any competitor
in the Unit:-:1 States. These advan-
w< uld :-eeiu io invite farmers
who gurpose purclza.-ing Twine Bind-
ers to give the lfimpire 21-. examina-
tion be-fore coiIc'eu(li::g- 3 ;»u-“(:ha,se,

THE DRlVEl\l Snails.

7'- r4 4
..:.g.

A late number of the lVr;rl:{2/ Times
of Hnrnelsville, N. Y. gives an ac-
count ofa meeting of “earnest and in-
dignani ci':Ez~—ns” to consider whether
they will submit to Elie demands of
the ‘driven We'll fiends." The result
of [he meeting was a local organiza-
tion to resist payrrciit of royalty.
The membership fee was fixed at one
doll:.r. The uioveuicnt was popular
and ths:<-.-ditor expresses the opinion
that very Iiltleof the money will he
wanted in defence, which we construe
to mean that the “fiends” referred to
will leave that dlstrl--t as they did
M.chigan over a year ago.

’l‘iii-: tide is turning. The connuon
sense of public opinion sccins at last
to luivc rczwlml a United States (‘-ourt
as the following t’(llt<)l‘l:l.l from the Chi-
cago 'l‘ribui1cnf the tcuth inst, goes to
sliow.

.\lr. (ir¢~en‘s 1'o_\f:il1y druninicrs S(‘t‘ll1
lilu-I)‘ lU('nli1(‘lU grief in this spt-cinl
line of labor, but the class of men
who t.‘.llgil_l_,"1‘tl in this busim-ss wont
tnltc to Imm->'l work. The-ir ingsnuily
will lw llll'l‘(‘l(‘(l to \\'o1'k up :uio‘.lu-1'
st-In-iiic of gs-tl.i11_-.5 soim-lining for noth-
ling‘.

’l'hc l'uiiml -‘litlifii. (‘ircuit (‘curt in
sm-‘slur: :21 [has l\Ionws)’cstc1':l;iy ulc-
(".tl1*(l tlw long-pcn<ln1g«lri\'c—\vu-ll (,‘:lSt‘.~l.
.lu«lg«- .\‘lu-r.«.s' rczul the Upllllllll, in
\\'lu<'h llIL‘1’():ll'l (lt‘l‘llll‘t‘S that H1":-en's
putt-ht is null :uul \'oul; li1'.~'t,l‘or 2llv2lll-
<l«.1un«-ni, hv l1.-xvi11g;;,'i\'e=i1 it to tlu- pub-
iiz- for .\x\'(‘l'ill yr,-:11‘s bclorc upplyiiig
j'or;1 p;i‘u»n:; .~u~.-niial, for priority of ll.\'t‘,
oths-2' zuul .~im:l:x1‘(l<-\‘u-a-.s‘ lmving ln-vll
in use n1;my_y<-;i1's before his allrgcd
<lis'(:overy; lllll'tl, for want of nova-liy,
ll1t‘..\lll\\':llll{L‘t: \\ cll, so «-ullwl, and Olllvl‘
(l(‘Vl<,“.‘S lutving l>(‘t'll liswl long prior.
'l‘bc l‘t‘-l.\‘.\‘llt‘4 l the patent is also dc-
clun-d void fortlw rt-u_son th».t it gmnls
othc1'2uul b1‘o:ul«-1" claims than tl1cor1g-
inu]. Tlusls :1. _"l‘t‘.'ll, Vl(’l(>l‘y for the
l':u'inc-1‘snl' Ihc W:-st, who lmvc lung
bemi ainiuyyml and pi-i'si}<'Iitc(l by vc.\':t-
lious and blzu-knuul suits forcing l.ll('l1l
to pay tt.\t<)1'l1o11:Ll6.'(ll-lmuuls [opt-i‘5n1l.~l
who bud no Villltl 4-lmm on Lhcni for il.
cent.

VVE call attention to-day to the fol-
l(:’Wllll admiral-lelis: of businrssuun
of ()‘rl‘>xn'(1 Rapids, who appreciate ti 8
VISITOR as an medium of communica-
tion between themselves and the far-
mers and we can vouch for the honor-
-abledcaliiigszif each: A. H. Fowle
.5; Co., dculers in wa;l papers, p-ints,
o:ls etc.; Hunt & Davi:-, who
have perfect abstracts of all the prop-
erty in Kent courty; Ex-.\I:a_yor
Steketee, who from his <.’eterminati::n
to execute the temperance law in
Grand Rapids, has 9. national reputa-
tion ; Arthur Wood, whose buggies
are distinguished all over the State,
for the excellence of the material used
and reasonable prices; The e. le-
brnfed book concern of Eaton & Lyon,
whose increasing trade has driven them
from their large double stores on
Canal and Lyon streets, to still more
commodious quarters on Monrie
street; The reliable agricultur.-.1 house,
0: Beth & Co., as well as the elegant
harness emporium of Fred Varir-,
whose goods are unsurpassed in excel-
lence and beauty, and who will not be
undersold; also of VVm. G. Bea.-kwith,
who for many years was register and
assistant’ register of d€‘f.(.lS for Kent
county, and whose opinion upon secu-
ritiis, titles and mortgages is genera ly
-ought hr, and found accurate; and of
the. Parker Br: s., who-so handwoik in
the various d»-paztments advertised
cr.n:»‘.ot. be surpassed; while our old
fr’-end D. L. Rogers still continues his
cxt.a_-nsive law and patent practice as
will be seen by his card. Of all this
list of advertisements there is not one
who does not stand high asa business
man and a citizen, and we are proud
of th-sir appreciation.

MCCALL & DUNCAN whose adver-
tisement of the Acme Creamer has
been in the VISLTOR for a year or more,
for the purpose of introducing their
Creamer and Butter Cooler into new
territoi y, will sell a creamer to theflrst
purchaser in any town where they
have no agent at the johbing price
which is . large disc->u t on the retail
price. Farmers who ave use for a
first class creamer should correspond
with this firm for prices.

WE take pride in calling the atten-
tion of Patrons to the 3dVeI‘l.lS4.'lJ1L!1t
of Messrs Spring & Co., Grand Rapids
M_ich., in zhis issue of the VISITOR.
They are doing a manufacturing busi-
ncss, and offer to raruiers and their
families the opportunity of purchasing
as fine fabrics at as moderate prices as
can be purchased, and the attention
of their army,.of assistants is most
polite and thoughtful.

Do not overlook :the bill printed on
fourth page restricting suits from ap-
peal to the circuit court.


I

M AY 15, 1883.

______§___________
TO WOOL SHIPPERS.

The season of shipping wool is at
hand. Fenno & Manning we believe
last year gave very general satisfaction
to their customers, and we think this
method of disposing of their wool crop
will be continued by those fariiiers who
tried it as an e.\'periment before, and
that each year the business will in-
crease. The revision of the tariff by
the last Congress has had a daiiiaging
effect on prices of this staple. .\ianu-
faeturcrs and speculators will no doubt
use tli:it as a leverage to depress prices
to the very lowest point. After refer-
ring to the sluggish and iiiisatist’ar;toi'y
condition of the wool market and the
trade in woolen goods, Fenno arid
M.uii1ing in their weekly circular of
the 5th inst. say:

‘Taking the various features of _the
situation therefore into C0llSlil£.‘1'&illt)ll,
we should advise our frieiids in tlie
country to be very moderate in their
_views this season; to get their wools up
lll as attractive shape as they possibly
can——for the most attractive parcels
will always sell the quickest and best-_-
aiid to send what they propose to ship
as early as possible to market.

\\'ithout any notice to that effect we
presume that the standing committee
of the State upon this interest 11. Ship-
maii of." Grand Ledge, A. C. Glidden of
Paw Paw and Geo. Van Aiken of Cold-
water can supply sacks on demand. it
will perhaps be reiiienibered that this
wool coiniiiittee were rather in favor of
washing wool but this is a matter so
(liflicult to deiiioiistratc which is the
better way, that we express no opinion
upon the siibjeet. hit we do advise
eoiisigiiing wool to Feiino Ix Manning
1“L‘\.lt‘.l'£ll street. Boston. Lest shippers
overlook this matter of iinportaiiee we
herewith print their card of iiistriic-
tion to

SllIl’l’l;‘l:S.
should mark ea-_-li sack plainly with
nuinber and gross weight and. iiiitials
of owner's name; and also (it sacks
have not our stencil mark on them), “F.
& M. llostoii, Mass,” fill out tire in-
voice to (‘Iil‘l'(:'>‘pUll(l with marks on the
sacks, gl\'illj" owner‘s name, also the
marks, llllill-)€l‘.5_ and gross weight of
eai,-h sack in detail. and send it to_iis by
mail with a bill of lading or railroail
receipt. _We would request that ship-
pers avoid as far as possible packing
Wool, beloiiging totwo orniore differei_it
parties, in the saiiie sack, but wliere it
is iiiipossible to avoid this, great care
should be taken to separate the. difi'ei'-
eii-. lots in the sack by a partition of
strong paper or cloth, to mark the sack
planily so_ that we can tell to whom
each lot 111 the sack belongs, and_ to
note on the iii_voice the number of
pounds of wool in the sack belonging to
each party."
_______________

AND now ihe manufacturers and
owners of Evaporator.-i are called upon
to pay royalty to the Alden Evapora-
ting Company. Their first suit for
infi ingement has been brought against
Boweii and Patten of Spencerport.
New York. ’l‘iiis suit has developed on
short iioticu an organization to resist
the claims of the Alden Comp ;ny,that
proposes to fight it out if it takes
several summers. VVe know nothing
0. the merits of this cae, but from the
disposition of the holders of patents to
demin-i in ire than the fair thing, we
hope this organization is strong and
will successfully resist every effort to
get something f)1‘ nothing Rochester,
N. Y. was the place of organization
and future work.

__.__________,_____

FP.0.\[ the Alabastine Co. that supply
the Patrons of Michigan with plaster
we have notice that from this time for-
ward they will be able to promptly fill
all orders for plaster. The 5,000 tons
that they succeeded in getting out last
fall was not enough to supply the de-
mand and there has of necessity been a
break in filling_ orders until the late
spring enabled the Co. to get out more
rock. With the added facilities which
will be made this year, in future the
Company will be in the very best con-
dition to meet every demand.

ON the 5th and 6th of June a field
trial of implements and a general ex-

‘ hibition of the same will be held on

the fair ground of the West Michigan
Agricultural Society. near the city of
Grand Rapidu. This trial and exhibi-
tion is under the direction of the
Farmers’ Club; the established repu-
tation for energy and liberality of this
club is a guaranty that this meeting
will be worth the time and necessary
expense of attendance. They don't
do things by halves at Grand Rzpids.
Farmers who have not learned this
fact can do so by attending this field
trial in June.
______________.

THE Ladies’ Department; in the Visi-
TOR of May 1st was of such unusual
excellence that it is expected to cover
the full month. We might perhaps
have found room for some communi-
cations if we had found such on our
table that were really desirable. But
we suppose this season of house—c1ean-
ing must excuse all contributors to this
department. We hope some will find
time before the first of J unc to provide
for this page.

Too late for this number we received

a communication reviewing Prof.

Winchel1’a article to which We have
givcn some attention. Mr. Winchell
probably cares little for criticism with-
out it comes from what he considers

his level. It he does, it is fortunate
that his article did not appear where
the general public would see it. This
communication will appear in the

next VISITOR. ,

I

dummnniratinic.

Government and Agriculture.

J. T. Cobb.--—It is a little encourag-
aging to not"ce the leading writers in
agricnltural papers are taking a united
view on the “railroad question.”
Han. Ban Parley Poore has b-.-en for
many years, one of the most promi-
nent reporters in Washington. He
says in a recent number of the Amen’
can Gull’.-‘valor, printed in Boston,
l\I-as.-2.

“Our vast railroad system by
which individual;-i control millions,
has grown_ up within the past fifty
years, and presents at the present time
the great problem to be solv -d at the
ballot; box by the American people.
The railway kings claim that they
mike presidents, secure the appoint-
ment ofjudges of the Supreme Court,
elect senators and representatives, and
control State legislatures. The agri-
cultural, the manufacturing, and the
mercantile interests of the country de-
man i relief and protection. This, 1C‘
IS asserted, can be given by an act of
Congress based on the Raagan bill.”

He makes the following good sug
gestion as a step towards reform.

“While representatives are enjoying
their vacations during the coming
summer,it will be well for their for-
mer constituents to obtain from them
pledges that they will give such a
measure their hearty support. Eva-
sions and equivocations should not
be received, but a good honest promise
exacted. A year from next fall, every
representative who can secure a re-
nomination, with the exceiti-.n of a
few in the cities, will wan farmers’
votes, and they should be plainly told
that to obtain these they must sup-
port those measures in which farmers
are interested, ”

The open letter of W. A. Henry, a
young professor of agriculture in “H5-
consin, to the commissioner of agri-
culture, seemed to be a bold move.
The professor wrote well and I see the
article is much quoted. While on a
visit to the Agricultural College last
fall Dr. Loring told some of us that
the experiments on sorghum at the
Agricultural D.-partment. had been
very expensive, not well conducted,
and that further experiments were
not needed. “Who has ever seen any
good sorghum sugar?" He did no’.
have any faith in experiments on this
subject. (It did not agree with his
former statements on the question.)
He was down tn Professor Collier and
emphatic slly down on about ail the
good work his predecessd had in»
augurated. Tris way of getting
notoriety by spending time in be-
lit.liug General LeDac is small busi-
ness, and looks too much like low
political work. Time and criticism
seem to have caused him to change his
tactics. “Oh, yes” he “always :-eliev'ed
that SJi‘gZ‘.ll[1l was in big thing.” And
now he has put in a man who knows
how and We shall see something done.
This is his talk, after turning out the
ablest chemist, Dr. Collier, a man
without an equal for his zealous and
valuable work on this question.

It is really too bad that our great
nation cannot have a capable man as
head of the Agricultural Department
and keep him there. There are two
strong reasons why some of our most
capable men refuse to lo‘. their friends
urge their names for the place.
The uncertainty of remaining long in
the position ; second, the small salary.
Good experiments need considerable
time for planning and completion.
There is too much politics about the
place for substantial success.

The United States Geological Sur-
vey gets plenty of mon-.y and goes
quietly on from year to year. The
matter of plans and the naming of a
competent director for the survey was
referred tothe National Academy of
Science whose suggesti ins the govern-
ment authorities adopted. The same
body would be amply competent to
name a good man as commissioner of
agriculture. ‘

The Society for'the Promotion of
Agricultural Science a select body of
men directly devoted to the interests
of agriculture in its highest sense,
would also be able boselect a good
man. This plan would throw the
place more out of politics and it would
be more likely to run on smootly, like
the work of the Smithsonian Insti-

tute.
W. J. BEAL.

Wyoming Grange, 353.

It has been our pleasure to attend,
by representative, the last few meet-
ings of this Grange and although not
asstrong numerically as some Othfir
Granges, yet it is successful in making
its sittings and discussions very in-
teresting. One feature of their pro-
gram under head of “Good of the
Order,” is that a sentiment or item of
some kind is required to be given,
recited, not read, by each member
present. And there are often quota-
tions of the very highest order and
choicest moral sentiments. The re-
suit of these quotations or original
sentiments has been to get verbal in-
structions in the Grange from those
who have heretofore been entirely
reticent.

“Where does the Dew come from”
is an apparently simple little ques-
tion, but has been a theme of
discussion in its time for 8.
number of sessions of this
Grange. Let our brothers and sis-

ters of Subordinate Granges, grapple

First,

TEE GBANGE VESITQB.

with this little simple interrogatory
and see where they will land. VVhen
this question was first asked VVyom-
ing Grange, the general supposition
was that the interrogator had mistaken
men and women for children of im

mature age. But as it has continued
and the works of German and French
SCi¢:*Iltl:'lS have entered into the dis-

‘ cussion opening the great field of the

res;-iraaioz-, transpiration, and perspi-
ration of plants, and their prob -ble or
possible relations to the dew, together
with the discussion of all the bearing
of the “dewpoint" upan the distillation
of the atmosphere, it will be found
a comprehensive theme and re-
plete with interest and instruction.
\Ve would suggest that Lecturers or
Masters of Grange.-i ask the members
“VVhere does the dew come from?” and
then see how much the first off‘-hand
opinion is borne out by subsequent in-
vcstigation.

An article by Bro. I. B. Hamilton
on the duties of farmers outside of the
simple question of crop raising, discuss-
ed fully the transportation question
and was the most complete exposition
of reasons Why farmers’ interests are
neglected in legislation, that has ever
been read before that Grange. At
some future time, when your corres-
pondents curtail their communica-
tions we will give quotations.

A Response.

111:‘. Editor.-—I have read the arti-
cles written by our friend, Thomas J.
Hilier, on the question of appeals,
with interest, for I am anxious to hear
a reason, or read an argument show-
ing why the right of appeal from jus-
tice courts in civil cases for small
amounts should not be abridged.

‘I fiid in his articl: of April 1st, a
few lines addressed to your correspond-
ent “Civilization”. If the article
written by me and published in the
VISITOR of I“:lJI'U8:l”_}' 1.-‘.», had been
carefully reviewed by him and an ar-
gument made showing that the posi
tion taken by me was not analogous
to the position taken by the VISlT()R,
and that that position is untenable,
then this article would not have been
written. I have been taught that “an
argument. is an act. of reasoning or ra-
tiocination. It consists of two parts;
that to be proven and that by which
it is proven. It occurs to me that
if our friend would exert his logical
faculties to frame an “argument show-
ing the position taken by the visrroa
to be untenable instead of personally
reviewing the editor or 831110 corres-
pondent: The object sought in this
discussion might be accomplished.
In the article referred t.o he says: "i
have very littl; respect for a man who
writes for a paper whose readers are as
intelligent as the readers of the V151-
TOR, and is ashamed to sign his own
thereto, and if these were not ear
marks to the article that clearly prove
the writer A. H. Briggs, I should
waste ;.o time in replying thereto.
He evidently thought tht the an-
nouncement, that he did not agree
with me would settle the question
without giving a reason therefor".
Now, Mr. Editor, whoever “Civilizi.
tion” may be, he “knew that the read-
ers of the VISITOR are intelli
gent,” and that they care more
for the thoughts and arguments
advanced by a correspondent than
for his name. I do not consider
that my name attached to an article,
almost wholly made up by quotations
from the “compiled laws” of our
Suite, is of any importance whate er.
I am at a loss to know why our friend
could attach any more importance to
the article, if written by A. H. Briggs
than if written by someone else. The
facts remain the same and the statute
quoted, is an argument in support of
the position taken by the Visiroa
in this discussion, which our friend
Hiller does not try to answer.

“If there were not ear marks” in the
article written by our friend Hiller (be-
forereferred to) “that clearly prove”
that the justice of the peace therin re-
ferred to, “to be” Thomas J. Hiller,
“I should waste no time in replying
thereto.” When I read this portion
of the article referring to that justice, I
remembered the Pharisee in the par-
able. “And he spake this parable un-
to certain which trusted in themselves
that they were righteous and despised
others.” “I thank Thee that I am not
as other men are, etc-—St Luke 18: 9,
Iuse this method of answering our
friend because this parable teaches a
beautiful lesson and because quota-
tions are his favorite methods. Per-
haps if that justice had been more or-
thodox, and in his study of theology
had learned the lessons taught in the
parable mentioned, possibly he might
have been elected to a third term.

I stated in a previous article that I
did not wish to enter into a discussion
with friend Hiller, not because I
feared his arguments but because I
detest personal, newspaper controver-
sies, and the readers of the VISITOR
must be convinced before now, that
his articles are aimed at the lndivii2-
ual instead of the question under dis-
cussion, and I take this method of ex-
pressing my views of this kind of cor-
respondence. I believe the VISI-
'I‘oB‘s columns should be open for a
fair discussion of all public questions
coming up before the people for ad-
justment, and which are proper ques-

tionsto be discussed in the Grange,

and I believe correspondents should be i

held closely to the subject they are dis-
cussing, and I believe the readers of
the VISITOR will endorse these senti-
ments. “CIVILIZATION.”

Adrian, Lcnawee county, May 7th,
1883.

Discuss all Subjects that will Make Life
Belier.

Mr. Editor.-——I am beginning to
think the Visrion one of the best, as
it most assuredly is one of the cheap-
est papers we have. It contains so
much good reading on a variety ofl
topics. and such a fund of information
for all, whether young or old, men
women or children, for those who are
not, as well as those who are Grange.-rs,
that it seems it should be a welcomei
messenger in the households 0.‘ all
working people whether rich or poor.

And I am pleased to notice that you
admit to its columns, articles on so
great a variety of subjects. The ques-
tion of temperance, and all others that
have a tendency to improve the minds
and manner , the habits and customs,
and build up more charitable and tol-
erant social relations, every thing that
shalt tend to “elevate the race,”
should have place, and be encouraged.
Our people have dill‘-rent views in re-
ga.d to the best manner to suppress the
great evil of intemperance, therefore
the subject should be discussed from
all standpoints, but we should be care-
ful in discussing it, and see to it that
we do so iii a. temperate manner. I
liave'known something of, and watch-
ed attentively the resul‘ : of the great
Variety of legislation on the liquor
questi an in Michigan, for nearly forty
years, and must. say that I have little
faith in suppressing drunkencss by
means of any legal enactments. The
best plan I know of is to keep it out
’)f])Olltl(:.-3 entirely; and make a con-
tinued porsevering eflbrt to change
the minds, habits and customs ofsoci-
ety, so that it will be considered dis-
hono.able to use it as a beverage, 8...
any time or place, by any person or
class of persons.

Strive to create a controling senti-
ment that shall not only Inatxe it iin-
popular, bu; a disgrace to be seen at
any place where any klud of intoxi-
cants are sold as a. beverage, unless the
person has business there. Keep away
from all places wlie*e gamblers and
liquor drinkers resort, make it lone-
some for those engaged in all such
business, and they will soon -eek other
and more lion orabi : occupations.

My a= [4—*l‘.’..lI'ril war a p-rrticularly -lr-- wn
to this, as wel as other kindred sub-
jects, on reading the article entitled,
“How to elevate the race,” from the
pen of Levi \Vood of Richland, in the
Visrroa of April 15th. Let u have
more on the subjects alluded to in that
article. Believe as you please, but

Aer R.I(iHT.

Grattan, May 4th, 1383.

______________.____

3.

in the charters of the various compan-
ies which were merged into the Clii-
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
company by consolidation. This court
holds:

1. That grants of immunity from
legitimate governmental control are
never to be presumed. On the contary,
the presumptions are all the other
way, and unless an exemption is clear-
ly established the Legislature is free
to act on all subjects within its general
jurisdicti-in as public interests may
seem to rtquire. A State may limit
the amount of charges by railroad com-
panies for fares and freights unless re-
strained by som * contract in the char-
ter.

:2. That in the present case there is
no such restraint. The State, it is
true, has given the B )8I‘(l of Directors
of the rail cad company “the powe
to establish such rates of tolls for cori-
veyance of persons or property as they
shall from time to time by their by
laws determine”; but such by-laws
must no:. he repugnant to the Constitu-
tion and the laws of the State. If the
State had not the legislative power
to regulate the charges of carriers for
hire the ease woul: be differ iit; but
that case has been settled, and the
amended charter which this company
secured from the Legislature must be
construed in the light of the establish-
ed power. The judgment of the Sn-
preme Court ot‘ Illinois is affirmed
with costs. Opinion by Chief-J ustice
Waite. Justice ll .rlan concurs in the
judgment but not in the opinion.
Justice Blatchford did not sit in the
case.—Chz'cago Triburic.

Tin-:Ri~: are doubtless more dead-
beats and swindlers in VVashington
than in any other city of its siz- on
the face of the earth. The Washing-
ton fraud is peculiar of his kind, a law
unto himself  seeks the capital
because of its special advantages for
his special variety of dead-neatisni.
Very oiten, too, he goes there iol-.-ra
bly hr-nest and industrious, but find
ing himielf stranded and out of em-
‘pl .yinent the weak elements of his na-
ture coin to the surface and he sets
his wits to work to get loans that he
knows he can never pay. He gets iii-
to the habit of eternal credit, and nev-
er gets out of it, to the sorrow of his
creditors. Then there is the Govern-
ment dead beat forever hanging on the
felloe of the wheels of Government
trying to get a lien on some ofiiwe or
other. One of the worst Washing-‘.on
dead beats is he who does his dead
beating on a good inherited name.
The more honored and well known
the name the easier the game. Rich
fathers get tired of idle sons, and re-
fuse to pay their drafts even at the
risk of causing a friend €Il1i)ai‘l‘aH5
merit. Mike beli:-ve newspaper cor-
respondents are _much feared dead
beats in \Vizs-iliington. If all the mon-
'ey owed by dead beats in that city
were applied to the payment of the
National debt, Columbia and Uncle
Sam woul.l be square with the. world
in short meter.

A COUBTEOUS ’.\lANNni¢.—-Brusk penpl-2
underratc the imp(>rtiir.:ce of a ;=1en...:n;':
manner. Look beneath the sin-face, they
say, to the roots of character; pay no at
tcntion to outward appearance, to voice
or gesture, tone or manners; they may
be all deceptive, and they must be all
superficial; it is what is said or done and
how it is said or done, that is alone de-
serving of notice. On the other hand,
there are some to whom manner is every-
thing. Each new acquaintance has to
puss the ordeal of their criticism. Is he

Arrangements for Salt.

Bro. Cobb.-—At a recent iiieetiiig of
Colon Grange, it was voted that the
agent of said Grange should correspond
with the State Execiitive (‘ommittce
and use his influence to have arraiige-
nieiits made with some salt firm, for ag-
rieiiltural salt for the Patrons of‘ this
State.

Itmany other Gi'aiig«-s use as iniieli
salt as Colon Grange it would seem to
be as necessary to make arrangeiiients
for salt as for plaster, in fact. more so
for we use five car loads of salt to three
of plaster, and the demand is increasing
largely.

Brother Patrons from other Grauges,
let us hear from you, in regard to this
want and use oi' salt. Do you wish such
arrangements made or do we stand
alone in the matter. iy 1llU\'l1lglIl tlils
direction early, all necessary plans
might be completed in time for‘ the
coming fall, and for future use.

A. S. Puovi‘, Agt.

Colon, May 7, 1883.

_.._________

The Illinois Supreme Court Uphold the
Rights of the People in' the
Granger Railway Cases.

A decision was rendered by the
court to-da in the so called Granger
case of N Buggies, plantifl" in error,
against the People of the State of Illi-
nois. This case arises out of the facts
below set forth. The 18th of March,
1883, Morgan A. Lewis, a passenger on
a train of the Chicago Burlington &
Quincy Railroad Company, tendered
Neal Ruggles, a
company, 18 cents as fare for his trans-
portation from Buda to N eponset, a
distance of six miles. This was at the
maximum rate of three cents per mile
prescribed by the statute of Illinois
then in force. The conductor demand-
ed 20 cents, which was the fare fixe-i by
the railroad company. Lewis refused
to pay more than 18. and the conduc-
tor thereupon attempted to eject him
from the car. For this act the conduc-
tor was prosecuted before a justice of
the pe me upon a charge of assault and
battery, and was fined $10 and costs.
The case was then carriodpup through
the State courts by successive appeals,
the railroad company sustaining the
conductor and raising the question of
the right of the State to interfere with
its business by fixing rates of fare and
transportation. A decision was fin-
ally rendered in favor of the State by
its highest court. The railroad com-
pany thcreupon appealed to the Su-
preme Court of the United States, up-
on the ground that the act of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Illinois of April 15,
1871, fixing a maximum rate of charges
for the transportation of passengers on
railroads in the State was unconstitu-
tional and void because it impaired
the obligation of the contract contained

conductor of that"

polished, courteous, graceful, dignified?
Then they are ready to receive him with-
out further question: he bears the stamp
of their order. is rough, awkward or
shy? Then they care not to examine
the kernel that may be hidden under so
unattractive a shell. Both these views
are imperfect and mistaken. though each
contains enough of truth to make it
plausible. To depreciate or ignore fine
manners is essentially absurd. Their
char.=.i is irresistible, even to those who
fancy themselves proof against them.
Yet it is not so much in themselves or for
their own sake that they delight its in
the promise of something better and
deeper. They are signs or symbols of
character, feelings, affections, thoughts.
and it is to this that they owe their value
and their charm.
______________________

I STAND for the perfect freedom of
are press now and forever, and Want
to see it frank and fearless about men
and things, no matter who gets hurt.
Here the newspaper often does a work
befo e which the pulpit quails and
falls back. It can do and has done a
peeilei-s Work in grapr-ling with pub-
lie and personal corruption within the
last ears. We need such papers and
we ave them. They set the great
white throne of judgment up ever
morning against these festering evi s
that afflict our life.—Robert Col;/er.

..—.__—:_.__j.:_____.

Asa Grange increases in member-
ship it increases in usefulness, power
and force, just as the little snowball,
as it rolls on down the slope, acquires
momentum in its course, and develop-
ins» into huge pro ortions until .t be-
comes an irresistible avala iche. No
ordinary power of evil can resist the
good influences of in numerous mem-
bership in alive, well-ordered, active,
vig 'ous Grange. '

________________

B ROWING money at ten per cent to
puti to business that nets about the
same, Fmuch like the IrishIiia.n’s cut
ting on the top of his blanket and sew-
ing it on the bottom to make the blan-
ket longer.

__________
NOTICES or MEETINGS.

The regular quarterly meeting of
the Western Pomona Grange, No. 19,
will be held with Lisbon Grange No.
313, May 24:11 and 25th, 1883. All fourth
degree members are invited to at-
tend.

J AS. G. VAN SKIVER, Sec’y.

The next meetin of Kent county
Pomona. Grange wi lbe held at Whit-
neyville Grange hall on Wednesday,
May 23d, at 10 o’clock, A. M.

- W. T. REMINGTON, Sec.

Alto, Kent county, April 23, '83.

The Van Buren county Pomona
Grange holds its next regular meeting
in the hall of Hamilton Grange on
Thursday. May 17th at ten o’ulock.
All Patrons are invited to attend, a
good and interesting time is expected.

J. E. PACKER.

The next meeting of Barry county
Pomona Grange will be held at the
Thornapple Grange hall Friday, May
2-5th, 1883, C()ll.1L€'l]ClDE at 10 A. M.
An intere.--ting programme has been
prepared for the occasion. All 4th
degree members are invited to meet
with us. \V. H. OTIS, See.

Hastings. April 19, 1588

A regular session of Van Buren
County Grange, will be held at Hamil-
ton Grange hall on l\ia_v seventeenth,
at which the following programme
will be presented : Piper, A. C. Glid-
den; Es.-ay, Mr.-. C. B. Charles; E.-‘say,
Orville Packer; Paper, J. C. Gooldg
Sheep Husbandry, Discussion led by
A. W’. Hayden. Open session in the
afterno Ii to which the public is in-
vited. JASON \VooD:iiAN,

County Grange Lecturer.

Newaygo (‘ouiity Pomoii
l\'o. 11, will hold its next meeting at
the Ashland Grange hall May :_’9il;
and 30th, with the following programs
of exercises:

TF1-J.<1iAY, MAY 9TH.

Opening and weler.nie—l-_v L. Rein-
oidt.

“The best breed of hogs for our cli-
mate and Inarket”——()-car Blood and
Tlieodore Taylor.

Si-leet reading—~Mrs. D. I). Hop-
pnck. '

"Ancient agr.eulture”—-l)r.
W. M4.-i\'abb.

"Modern improvenients in agricul-
ture"—l<Zssoy by Mrs. Jennie Mallory.
\Vi:nNi~:si-Av, MAY 30TH.

“Our coniiiion .-ieliools”——\V_ ts‘. Mer-
rill.

Select r(ading—-'l‘. H, S.‘uart,

“Econoiny iii fai‘ming”——A. Terwii
lager.

‘ ‘W'liut crops are benefiited by the use
of ;. lastei‘”~-\Vin. Hllllllai‘.

M, W. Seo'r'i‘,
Lecturer (‘oiinty Gruuzce.

a Grange

John

The next Inc etiiig ofthe Sliiuwasi-ee
Co. P(l]lll)I’}i (iiaiigi-, l\'o_ 3], will by
held in l"»:iry (irziiige hall in the vil-
lage of Perry, 'l‘iu~.-day. May :29, 1:453,
I-urn-Ineneing at :2 o’I-ls ok 1'. M, sharp.

I)i-ciissioiis: “How can the Patrons
dispose of the coming wool crop to
their best iiiIerest‘.”‘ “VVhat are the
l.e>«t ant; (-lieapi-st fertilizers for the
fuiineri-i U: us-e‘.”’ For the sisters:
“Ear-Iioiiiy in the kitchen.”

The fifth degree will be conferred on
a nuiiiber of candidates at the meet-
ing. Ll~;wis S. (v'imi»,u,r;,

H: cretary.

’l'l;e following is the }-ro,<_- mm orme
Allcgan ('ounty (iraiigr~ to be held
May 31, 1883:

()pening address by Bro. E N
of Moline Orange.

Address, "‘VVliy an;
Sister C. B
Grange.

Address, “liealthy homes. How to
make and keep them,” by Dr,
M. Chase, ()f,sego Grange.

Address, “}’rejiidiei~ an obstacle to
prcg ess,” by Sister L Diake, Plain-
weli Grange.

Addres.<=, by Bro. M. Eldred, O sego
Grange.

Gr-.od iziusie will be a part of the
regular exercise:-:, and a good and
profitable time may be expected. The
fi'th degree will be conferred on a

. Bates

we here.” by
Jewett, of Allegan

large class. A. J. STARK,
Secretary.

Clinton county Pomona Grange,
No. :25, will hold its next regular
meeting at the hall of Essex Grange,
in the village of Maple Rapids, May
23, coinnienciisgat 10 o’clock A. M.
Subject for‘ discussion : Is the present
protective tariff’ of this country detri-
men tal to the laboring people?

Fourth degree memberi-s are corcially
invited to be present and join in dis-
cussion. There will be an evening
session for the purpose of conferring
the fifth degree.

Hl~jNRYN WEBB, Sec’y.
I"ieWitt, May 3, 1883.

Hillsdale county Pomona Grange,
No. 10, will hold its next meeting
Wednesday, June 6th, 1883, at the
Fayette Grange hall, in the village of
Jonesville.

PROGRAMME.

Music by the choir.

Questions for discussion :

Cutting, curing and storing hay.
Time of cutting, manner of curing
ensilage. Opened by C. B. Coryel e.

Reading by Mrs. Mumford.

Q,uestion.—“Which is the cause of
the greatest anxi-ty to parents, the
training of the girls or boys.” Opened
by brother or sister H. M. Ward.

Initiating of members.

JOHN MCDOUGAL, Sec’y.

The next meeting of the Allegan
county Pomona Grange, No 33, will
be held at the O.sego Grange hall, on
May 31st, at 10 o’clock A. M. sharp,
where the fifth degree will be confer-
red. Wefalso invite all fourth degree
members of Allegan county, in good
standing, to be present, and join raid
Grange. Fraternally,

D. S GARDNER, Sec’y.

The next meetin of Ionia County
Pomona Grange will be held at the
Orange Grange Hall, Tuesday, June 5,
1883, commencing at 10 A. M. continuing
two days. The questions of a co-opera-
tive store in Ionia and the building of
a Pomona Grange Hall upon the fair
grounds at Ionia, will come before the
meeting. An interesting program has
been prepared for the occasion. All
Patrons are invited to meet with us.

E. R. Wii.LiAi~is, See.

The next meeting of Kent county
Grange will be held at Whitneyville
Grange Hall, May 2::d and the follow-
ing programnie will be carried out:

"C-ultivating and liarvesting grain
crops’; by H. ‘r. llolt oi’ Cascade.

“Making and repairing of higliways,”
by 113. Styles, of Paris.

"is the crow any advantage to the
farmer as an insect eater considering
his miscliicvious habits of destro 'ing
other iiisectiverous birds,” by M. uell
of Caledonia.

“The benefits of the Gran e to the
farnier’s home," by Mrs. I). P. ale.

Declaniation by Miss Rose Betterly,
of Alpine.

It is expected that a greater portion
of this program will elicit discussion
that will be of value to those present
and the nieinbcrs of the Order are gen-
erally invited to attend this meeting.

J OHN PRESTON, Lecturer.

Pleasant-, Kent county. May 9. 1883..


TEE EBANQE VISETQB.

lpai-ed it to a hedgehog. The cactusl Farmers and Politics.
: grandiflorus grows in a columnar shape  -——— 7 H L
[We find in the E'rp0‘m0'" the report of  ;;v&1.‘;tl11lCVPr:lpZ(;he:[’lda(§gll;?0l]ISOt:C(:If€)0ftH:§  tiislfilsyhlidiilge (l)lfI]t'1)JOel'5:l‘1‘[InIlr1:IlMLl:ll‘_l)e (13:23;
“m°efing 0f the Bertie" C0‘"1l'-V HOW‘  flowers’. The calyx, nearly one foot in l breed of sheep, frui. culture or fall
cultural Society at Benton Harbor !, diameter, is of a deep yellow, enclosing I feeding are oeing con-ill‘:-;red._ At one
March 19. 1g33_ An essay by M,._ W_ A_ l pure white ‘petals; these flowers _be-  of these meetings lately in discussing
smith and the discussion which followed  gin to open in the evening, blooui five I the :-iu_bject of farmers as politicians, a
' a or six hours, and close before morning l prominent member sp .ke as follows.
, never to open again. Many of the cac- i which seems quit—- to the point:
3 ms family are much improved by cul- g “I am reminded of how often I have
heard in this city and the surrounding
c iuntry, politicians in guise of law-
yers or professional men deliver politi-
cal addres;-"es. They talk to the far-
mers something like this: ‘VVhy sir,
ytu are the bone and sinew of the
country. You: place in life is an hon-
orable one. You are the backoone of
the country. Cincinnatus was taken
from the plow,‘ and all his and that.
They will come to your house, sit
down to your table and eat like h ath-
ens. They will brag of your wife’.-
cooking, kiss the baby, (laughter) and
tell you what a nice set of people you
are, etc. They go off and when elec-
tion comes you vote for them You
suggest even that we agrlculturi.-its are
capable of taking care of ourselves,
and how soon they will sneer at you.
I never had one of these men at my
horse, or met him in public, who
would not talk himself hoarse, and

MAY 15. 1883.

Her Way.

retrial the costs, it any, which he’
ought to have received in the first trial, ‘-
shall be awarded to him in addition to
his costs in such retri l: Pl‘O1‘i(fCd,
however, That the total taxable costs
of both trials shall in no case exceed
twenty dollars. The word township, j
whenever it occurs in this act, shall be ‘
construed ‘.0 include wards and dis--
tricls in cities.

Slit‘. fI.—All acts or parts of acts
conrraveiiitig the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed.

Beaulilying Home. The Justice court Appeal Bill.

"I dou’t see, for my part. why the
, Lord allows such people to have the
‘ handling of so much," said Mrs. Trewin,
with 21 snap of her black eyes across the
breakfast table.‘ "it's a great trial to my
feelings.”

“What '9" asked the doctor rather ab
sently.

"Dr. Trewin." vociferated the lady.
, "you don't mean to tell me that You
-haven‘t heard a word of all I've been
' saying?"

A little anxious smile iiitted across the
doctor’s countenance.

“I think, my love,“ said be, "you were
speakiuz of Miss Deborah Bither."

"l slioiilil say 1 was." responded his
wife with a spice of grim pleasantry in
her tones.

“I told you that when I called on her
yesterday with a subscription paper for
the Hewetts, who, if you will remember.
- were burned out lust month, and are in
very straitened circumstances, she re-
fused to put her name down for a cent.
, Shes money enough to buy out the
, whole of us, Deborah Bither has, and no
chick or child to take it when she's gone.
And I think it should stand her in hand

[Reported without amendment by
Commiitee on the Judiciary, and ord-
ered printed, and re-re erred to the
Committee on the Judiciary, March
28, 18.83. A bill to provide for the ap-
peal and final disposition of certain
civil cases brought into Justices’ Courts
in this State] *
SECTION l.—T/re People of the State 3
of Zlfichigan enact, That in all civil
cases hereafter brought into justice:-1’
courts in this State, where the judg-
111'.-lllt shall be less than fifty dollars, .
exclusive of costs. a-iy party to such T
judgment, who shall deem himself ag-
grieved thereby, shall not take any ap-
peal or special appeal thereof to the
circuit court, neither shall such case
be taken up by certiorczr-i, but such
party may appeal therefrom and have
su--h cause transferred for retrial to
any justice of the peace of the same
t rwnship in which said cause was
tried, or in case there shall be no um I
er justice in such towns .ip then to
soniejustice of the peace of an adjoin-
ing township in the same county; or
he may elect that such cause shall be
referred to three arbitrators, residents
of the township in which such case
was tried, such arbitrators to be chos-
en as follows: The plaintiff shall se-
lect one, and the defendant shall select

we think will interest, and ought to
profit our readers.—ED.j _ _ _ .
Home is home let it be ever so honie- 3 t1"'“t1°‘-" Th? Kesthehc m.m‘1 “RV. -“ff
1y_ Almost the entire human family has 1 turn to the broad and plebian disc of tlljd
some particular locality designated by Sunflower f0’ 1”‘ 1d.e*11°f beauty‘ ‘.15 ” 9
the simple name of home; and almost ; ancient fire worshippers turned to the
invariably our attachments and endear- .‘ g1°W“"'*”‘°e. 05 the Sm} ‘*5 Ehg” god. °f
ments for this particular spot increase ! 8'°d5- 31“ “ll; depifftfnfllllt Od ecgmtlog
and strengthen as our distance from the  much ' B9‘-if 5 “V03 5k‘, 9” t9'5‘§“‘vt 3’:
same is enlarged and the time of our sep- ' 8,5 Woman .9‘? mo” pfitlencfi 9'“, ‘as e ,
aration is prolonged. As all planetary 3 5”“ m’“‘- ‘t "3 3 Worl‘ "3 Whwh ‘me In“
bodies have a center of g,.,.‘v,,.V 0,. mo and should excel, and as a change from
tion around which they revolve ’ so the he’ “ldmr habits Of Me‘ would “dd
human family forever radiates around b€‘““-*5’ helmh and "‘t"’9gth t0 he’ 5”‘
the central nucleus 3 home got only tem. Without the direct light and heat-
: ' * . ,
man. but many, if not all. of the lower  ll“; 31:3 the M59 Wmfld not blush “‘"
creation, have a like instinctive at_tach- 3 1 7 tflomflf M H d a vote of
ment to the place of their nativity. th “k m0 "0" U ‘If-q* ‘?t“h ifm the ].n_
There is hardly a question but on:-hm.» telglstisnzagaggglen . .i mi .
gratory birds return to us from eir , '
winter quarters at the proper Mme‘ Wm, Mr. Mead thought that the poorer and

or lay and  or   ”°.‘i’°.".f.?'.3.‘.f.f"l‘i.‘.3‘.§‘l”l.f..l‘.;’..'§l.‘Zf:.§fi2§2
the very spot where they were reared or wd 0 rs: circuiifstances would love them
passed the previous season. 3 "5 ‘

The various species of ruminating ani- Mr" W‘ A’ Brown Bald he enjoy ed the

Congressional Lobbyist.

A ‘sVa-ililngtoii correspondent writes 1
thus ro ./u.~'!z'c»“: A great deal has been 3
said and writ‘(~u about civil service rt-,- 2
form, and :5 great ado is made about ,
subjecting the clerks holding minor‘
positions and performing merely c.leri- ~
cal duties, to conipel.iti.Ve examina- '
tions, as though that was the panacea I
for all the ills of the body politic.

That is like trying to purify the
main stream while its sources or.
springs are left foul and impure. It;'
has long been known to observing
persons that the Departme:.ts are;
mainly liosiiitals for broken down 2
P"“l-“3‘9v“5”5“1“‘}"3 MN Memlfieffi l to make righteous disposal of it while
who have voted for party measures, _ she can; shouldn't you '3”
and, failing to secure a renomlnation, ' 1);, Trewjn maintained a discreet gi-

male that range over the vast grassy ‘’‘’5‘’“7 Very much‘ Home should be 3
plains of the earth have their habitation
fixed in nature, from which to separate
would be annihilation. In short, every
zone and distinctive locality has its pe-
culiar adaptability to the various forms
of animal and vegetable life. The fishes
of the sea have their abiding places, and
no locality is more p:sitively known
among fishermen than the home of cod,
the herring, the salmon, and even the
whale. The love of home, therefore. is
not confined to the human race but
ranges through the entire animal and
vegetable creation.

Among, mankind the love of home is
almost universal. The aborigines of
this country, although roving and mig-
ratory in their character, have yet .9.
strong and tender attachment to the
home of their childhood and graves of
their ancestors. I have known a poor
old blind woman of the Wyandotte tribe
to travel nearly athousand miles on foot,
to see, if only in imagination. the place
and scenes of her old home on the banks
of the Sandusky. It is somewhat peculiar,
yet not at all strange. that people hav-
ing been reared and living in a
wild, mountainous, rugged barren
country, have a much stronger home
attachment than those situated and
living under much more favorable‘
circumstances. In our own country the
pioneers are among the most generous
and liberal of our race. Their associa-
tions are mainly with the wild and ma
jestic beauties of nature, free from the
little petty strifes, intrigues and decep-
tions of a shop-keeping community.
Artificial ornamentation with them has
but little thought. Nature adorns
their rude homes and cheers them in
their rugged pathway of life decoration.
as well as art. is 9. growth; not always
the result of civilization and refinement,
for the native savage of the western
plains is often loaded down with the
various trinkets (eagle’s feathers, jaw
bones and elk horns) of his rude decora-
tive art, and according to his status or
advancement in civilization, I think he
exhibits fully as much good taste as
many of our shining lights. in church
and state. After one or two generations
of mankind have passed away and left
the country comparatively stripped of its
beauties, it becomes a matter of the ut-
most importance for the people to adopt
some plan by which the original har-
mony of the same may be Id part
restored. In no way can this be so
effectively done as in the adornment of
the highways and our respective homes.
In this work a large expenditure of
means and labor is not required. A
small beginning, with a steady addition,

' here and there, will soon make itself
seen and felt by all around. In a rural
district a large, stately mansion, without
any accompanying adornments, is far
less an object of beauty and admiration
than a neat little cottage well and taste-
fully surrounded with lawn shrubbery
and flowers. The one is the result and
idea of money, the other of taste. No
color has a more hvely and beautifying
appearance than green. It ever reminds
us of the joyful and innocent days of
our youth. In summer it is the universal
garb of nature, without which all ani-
mate nature on land would perish inside
of two years. It gives strength, health
and vigor to the age; in summer Dro-
tecting and shielding it from the glaring
heat and light of the sun. in winter from
-the strong reflected light of the snow
and ice. Our evergreen slirubbery is.
therefore, not only beautifying, but use-
f .
ulilext to green shrubbery in the orna-
mentation of our homes, nothing, could
take the place of flowers. V Here we are
only supplying or restoring what has
been destroyed in the development _ of
the country. Nature has been lavish
and profuse in her floral arrangements.
hardly arod or foot of the earth’s sur-
face where vegetation grows but is set
to flowers, and millions upon millions
blossom and decay where no human eye

place where the young could be taught
a taste for fine art, and a love for the
beautiful; that many had a natural taste
for some special art, and home should
be a place where it could be educated
and brought out.

' Mr. Knisely asked if it was really a
fact that those who live in rough and
rocky lands love their homes more than
those who live under sunnier skies. and
lately read of many New England towns
where the young left home almost alto-
gether and sought fairer climes and
more fertile soil.

Mr. Smith thought it was because
New England was full, over stocked, and
the young were obliged to go elsewhere,
but believed it was a fact that there was
a fascination in the bold. grand scenery
of the mountain home which never was
lost or overcome.

Br. Brown said the remarks of the
gentlemen had brought to mind thoughts
of his early home, and he had often
thought of the beautiful mountain near
it. from whose lofty summit a picture of
surpassing loveliness ever lay spread
out: it was a scene never to be forgot-
ten, and in later years he had loved
to recall it.

Mr. Nowden: We should educate by
fixing up nice homes, make them attrac-
tive with flowers, music, literature; the
beautiful things of art and nature should
be combined. Would plant trees along
the highway in straight rows, but would
not conform to any set rules for planting
in the grounds about the house.

Mr. Whitehead-said our education did
much toward forming our tastes. The
; Pennsylvania farmer puts bay windows
in his barns. The man of the far west
lived in his dug-out. perhaps, because
he was obliged to. We find many wan-
dering tribes, who have no home. nor
any love of home, because they have not
been so educated. The Swede brings
with him a bottle of earth that, while
thousands of miles away, he may still
have some of his mother earth with him.
Think we devote too much time and
energy to laying up the mighty dollar
and neglect things of far more conse-
quence.

Mr. Thayer said the subject under dis-
cussion was one on which much might
be said. The houses where we spend
our lives and where our minds to a great
extent are moulded, were of great inter-
est to us; believed the one who built a
beautiful home, or who planted flowers
along the roadside. where those passing
could enjoy them, were as much public
benefactors as he who makes two blades
of grass grow where only one had grown.

Mr. Brown thought it often the case
that the humble cottage, surrounded by
beautiful flowers, shrubs and trees, was
far more pleasing than the stately
mansion only admired as a beautiful
piece of art. Thought, perhaps, none of
us did what we might or, perhaps, what
we wished in the way of beautifying our
homes.

Bringing Shrubs lnto Shape.

Before the buds start this spring is
the time to imparta symmetrical form
to ornamental shrubs. It is quite com-
mon to allow them to assume any
struggling or distorted form that a
naturally crooked growth may give
them, added to any one-sided tenden-
cy occasloned by imperfect growth in
the nursery roe before setting out.
Some of the finest shrubs, like Japan
quihcy and lorsythia have this strug-
gling tendency, and a few minutes’ at-
tention will b:ing them intoacam-
pact and even form. In order to “re
vent a check to their vigor. cut back
the branches which are too long,before
the buds open. If much out of shape
this work may be done in two or three
successye years. Avoid the stiffness
sometimes resulting trom shearing,
and allow a natural and graceful out-
line. Nearly every place, new or old,
may be improved by setting out orna-

untilyou are tired telling you what
‘we’ will do if you will give us the
power. Farmerl are somewhat to
blame tor the acts of congress in lg

iiorlng our rights. They were so taught
in the old countries being placed in
servitude, and I thank God that in my
day the farmers are proposing to re-
lieve themselves fro-ii this serfdom;
that they are coming to stand up for
their rights. (Appia .se). I know
pretty well how the machine is run.
They will come here and compliment
you just as long as they can get your
votes, and no longer.” '

What Farmers Talk About.

A: the -farmers’ clubs nowadays
the discussions are not confined en
tirely to the details of prsctica‘ farm
work, though these of course, are not
lost sight of For instance, here are
the questia us lately treated by essay-
ists, and then discussed by members,
of a New England farmers’ club:
“How can farmers best improve their
social and political standing?”
“Pleasure and profit of farming.” “is
it for the best interest of farmers to
have a protective tariff? “Money at
interest compared lo investments and
improvements on the farm.” “Fail-
ures of farmers due to their credulity
in adopting new crops and new meth-
ods which are mere humbugs.” “Are
the rights of farmers in their lands
sufficiently protected by law?” “Does
it pay a. farmer to build silos?” To be-
come citizens in the, highest sense,
and to be capable of holding any po-
sition of the highest trust and respon-

sibility is becoming the ambition of
the farmers of to-day. it is of no use
for them to be eternally complaining
of the evils of legisltaioil and the laxi-
itv of laws so long as ti-e farmers
themselves take so little intelligent
part in legislative afl'airs.
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Requisiles to Success Wilh Onions.

Onions differ from most other crops
in not requiring a rotation. In some
places the land has been in onions an-
nually for half a century. It the crop is
to be grown for the first time. newly
cleared land is best, and next to that, soil
which has been in corn or potatoes. A
good. deep, rich loam. is essential, as is
heavy manuring. Fifty loads of stable
manure to the acre are an ordinary
manuring and may be supplemented
by ashes, bone, flour, or guano, as a top
dressing. The seeds should be sown
very early; should be of the previous
year’s growth, and from a reliable raiser.
The rows are a foot apart, leaving every
seventh for a path, and from three to six
pounds of seed are sown to the acre. On
land not before in onions. thin sowing is
better than thick. After sowing roll the
surface. Some sow an ounce ortwo of
radish seed with every pound of onion
seed. The radishes come up in a few
days and mark the rows so that a bana-
cultivator or push-hoe can be run close
to the rows even before the onions are up.

New York's Greatness.

New York State has a tenth of all
the American people, an eighth of all
the whites, and nearly a fourth of all
the city or urban people. It is the
second agricultural btatc, or only sec-
ond to Illinois in farm produc is, lead-
ing Ohio $20,000,000. New York farms
yield $10 an acre. Illinois $3. It is
the second barley State. the third oats
and rye State, the first buckwheatand
hay State, and it raises one-fifth of all
the potatoes and four-fifths of all the
hops. It raises one-sixth of all the
fruit, one-third of all the cheese, one-
seventh of all the butter. It is the
first manufacturing :5tatein the Union,
paying more than a fifth of the total
wages. Iis manufactures aggregate
nearly $1,000,000. It still leadsin ship

point a ti
such suit

was tried
tor.

rendered

such arbi

made on

the afii ia

a bond fo
provision
First, I
less than
double th
Second,
parties, 1;
iice, the

name of t
Thz'7'd,

the same
such cou
board of
amount o
Fourth,
appellant

bonds or

city.

pose.
by the ju
arbitrator
as herein
to and be
acted for

trol of
the peace.

and such
vided by I

the same

one, and the two thus chosen

SEC. 3.——The
the provisions
so within fix e days after the rendition
of the judgment, deliver to the justice

shall ap-
iird. In ca-e either party to
refuses to select such arbitra-

tor, thejustice before whom such case

shall appoint such arbitra-

In case the parties to such suit
cannot agree upon any justice of the
peace before whom to have such re-
trial, then such case shall be retired
by arbitrators to be chosen as herein-
before provided, and the

judgment
upon such retrial, or the

judgment rendered upon the award of

trators shall be final and con-

clusive upon such matter, and no ap-
peal or special appeal shall be taken or
allowed therefrom, neither shall such
judgment be removed by certiorari to
any other court.

SEC. 2 -—The party appealing under
the provisions of the preceding section
shall, within five days after .he rendi-
tion of the judgment, present to the
justice an affidavit made by himself,
his agent or attorney, before any per-
son authorized to administer oaths,
stating that such judgmtnt is not in
accordance with thejust rights of such
party as the person making such aili-
davit verily believes, and in case there
shall be any object on to the process,
pleadings, or other proceedings, and
the decision of the
which would not be allowed to be

justice lh -reon

the trial of the appeal. the

same may be set forth specifically in

vit.
party appealing under
of section one, shall al-

r recognizance lo the adverse

party in conformity lo the following

3:
t.shall be a penalty of not
fifty dollars and not less than
c amount of the judgment,

excluding costs;

It shall recite thejudgment

so faras to exhibit the names of the

hecharacter in which they

prosecuted or defended before the jus-

amount recovered, and the
be justice;
Itshall contain a condition

that the appellant will prosecute his
appeal with all due diligence to a de-
cision in the court or board to which

is appealed, and that if a

judgment be rendered against him in

rt or upon the award of the
arbitrators he will pay the
f such judgment including

all costs with interest thereon ;

It shall be executed by the
with one or more sufficient

sureties, or by two or more suflicient
sureiies without the appellant; such

recognizances may be taken

by thejustice by Whom the judgment
was rendered, or by any other justice
of the peace of the same township or

SEC. 4.—Withln ten days after ap-
peal s ail be duly filed,
shall file his return of such
the justice before whom such retrial is
to be held or with a member of a. board
of arbitrators appointed for such pur-

the justice
cause with

SEC. 5 ——In the retrial of such cause

stice or board of arbitrators,

thejustice of the peace or the board of

s shall, in all cases except
otherwise provided conform
governed by laws now in

force, or which may hereafter be en-

the regulation and con-
courts held by justices of
The arbitrators herein pro-

vided shall receive the sum of one
dollar and one half per day each while
engaged in the trial :fsuch cause, and

fees for issuing subpoenas

and other process, and swearing wit-
nesses and other acts as

are now pro

a. -', for justices of the peace

in like cases.
SEC 6.—The arbitrators shall have

powers in issuing process,

or re-election. must therefore be pro-
vided for by an appointment as the
heads o Departments or Bureaus, or
given a place elsewhere. How exten-
sive this practii-u cxisls
by the followin
per here:

()fthe one hundred and forty’ Mem-
bers retired from the ast Congress,
one hundred are applicants for a Fed-
eral appointinent. One of the ‘lame-
duck’ Members, in eloquently plead-
ing for a place, said, “I must have a
place; I cannot earn my living with
out one.”

Twenty year’s experience and obser-
vation here has shown me that the
most inefiiclent, if not the most cor-
rupt, lieads of departments and Bu-
reaus have been this very class of
men. I might specify cases, but it is
unnecessary. Moreover, this is gener-
ally the class of officials who make the
decisions in favor of the railroads and
other monopolies, as against the
rights and interests of the .public.

A very large proportion of the Sena-
tors and Members who fail to get re-
turned, or to secure appointments, of
late years settle here at the National
Capital, and hang out their shingles
as attorneys, which means professional
lobyists. These men, under the
rules of the House and Senate.
have the run of the floor during ses-
sions, and hence possess unusual facil-
ities for their work. Nearly every
st heme of any importance before Con-
gress i~ represented by from one to a
half dozen of these ex-Members and
Senators, many of whom are living
here in splendid style, having line res-
idences in the “West End,” which is
the court part of the city, where near
ly all the Senators and Cabinet oflicers
and most of the Members, reside or
have rooms, and where, of course, it
is convenient to work up their jobs
and schemes, sometim-’-s in private
confab, and at otheis over their din-
ners, wines, cards, etc. It is there
that the real legislation in reference to
all suchm tters is mapped out and
agreed upon, the proceedings in the
two houses being merely the formal
part of the work.

Another instructive observation is,
that when the heads of the bureaus,
after having done the work required of
them by the monopolies and great cor-
porations, have to leave. these con-
cerns generally take them in, or other-
wise provide a good place for them.

So, too, as the papers show, from
time to time, many of the influential
Senator and Members are retained as
counsel and attorneys for the railroad
compa .-ies and other corporations—
not unfreqiieuily leaving their duties
in the Senate or House, to appear for
them, not only in the Supreme Court,
but also in the courts elsewhere. Is it
any wonder that, under suchastate of
affairs, these corporations control the
leg elation of the country in Congress
as well as in the State Legislatures 2‘
What else can be expected ?

It strikes me that if this state of af-
fairs is ever to be remedied in any
other manner than by revolution and
bl nodshed, it must be bya civil service
reform, commencing with the Presi
dent and coming all the way down
through Congress and the Depart-
ments. How tli.-t is to be accom-
plished is l00 big aquestion to be dis-
cussed in a brief newspaper article;
but I think enough has een said to
convince all thoughtful men of the
necessity of some kind of a remedy,
and that soon, too.

Ticks.

There is an insect called the tick. Its
peculiar trait is catching on and holding
on. It is .almost unnecessary to say
that their traits are suggestive of
the politician. The tick usually inhabits
the rural district and lives on the public.

If a- person should lie down under a

may bejudged -
g. from a Sunday pa- ‘

lence. He swallowed his coffee and left
the table; and presently his wife viewed
his departing figure through the elms,
as he took his way toward the village
olfice.

“He's the strangest man," said she.
when she had brought her work-basket
to the breezy keeping room window; “a
body never can tell what he does or
what he doesn’t think. But I’m sure he
can’t but see that Deborah Bither is
the closest fisted old maid that ever
lived.”

_Her gaze wandered out through the
window and up to the great red-brick
house on the hill. There were broad
acres on all sides of it; uplands and
orchards, just now giving promise of
an fl.bl1l]d:Iltllui'VL5Sl. It was the finest
estate in the county, and Miss Deb-
orah Bither was the mistress of it all.

The earth is the Lord’s and the full-
ness thereof," murmured Mrs. Trewin,
breaking her thread with 0. jerk. “Deb-
orah Bither ought to remember that. It
goes against my grain to see anybody so
stingy."

She sewed steadily for about an hour.
and then, folding away her work, she
put on her bonnet and shawl.

“I’ll go down and see how Mrs. Hew-
ett is getting on." said she. “She needs
,p1y(iliipat}iy and help if over anybody

i ."

She walked rapidly down the street
until she reached the little low house
into which the Hewitts had moved with
the remnant of their household goods
that they had saved from the flames.
Through an open window came the busy
,‘ hum of a sewing machine, which ceased-
‘ as she entered the door, and Mrs. Hewett
caime forward to greet her.

‘And how are you getting along?"
asked Mrs. Trewin, settling her portly
form in a rocking chair.

"Oh, nicely now, thank vou." was the
quick response.

“I was out with ii. subscription paper
ifor you, yeat.=rda",” continued Mrs.
Trewin. “Has Deacon Gregory brought
it in yet ?”

“No-n,” hesitated Mrs. Hewett. A look
in which perplexity and pain were min-
gled crossed her face. “I am sorry to
have given you so much trouble; I think
we shall be able to get along now. Oh,
Mrs. Trcwin,” her voice trembled be-
neath a weight of tears. “don't think me
ungrateful, but indeed, I—I cannot bear
to a beggar.”

“Tut, tut!" exclaimed the doctor’s
I wife. ‘ To my mind, it should be a duty
* and =-. privilege to help a neighbor who
has been unfortunate; and everybody
seemed to feel it so excepl:—" she
stopped with a shrug and a grim closing
of her lips, thinking of the red brick
house on the hill and of its owner.

“I am sure we shall get along now,”
reiterated Mrs. Hewett, hopefully. ap-
parently not noticing the break in her
visitor's remark.

"I wish you may, truly,” answered
Mrs. Trewin. She looked an interroga-
tion point at the bright new sewing
machine by the window, with the heap of
unmade clothing near it. Mrs. Hewett
saw the glance and answered it with
tears in her eyes.

“Oh. yes! I’ve all the work I can
do now; and the machine is a perfect
godsend. I’m to pay for it when I
can.”

"Why—what——where did you get it ?”
asked Mrs. Trewin.

"Let me tell vou,” the little woman
smilingly said. “Yesterday. only yester-
day, it seemed to me that I must give
up. I rebelled, oh, so fiercely, against
the harshness with which I thought
God had treated me and mine. At
this dark hour who should come
in but Miss Bither. She had just
heard of our—necessities. She stayed
an hour or more. and you cau’t think
how she cheered me up. It was she who
sent the machine, Mrs. Trewin; and be-
sides giving me all her 0VlI] sewing to
do, she will get shop work for me from
town. She has given John work on her
farm for the summer; and we’re all so

compelling the attendance of witness-
es, adjour ing trom time to time, de-
terminlng upon the questions of com-
petency and relevancy of testimony,
and in all other matters pertaining to
the trial of such causes as are now

shady tree in the summer time, half a
dozen famislisd ticks fasten on him and
refuse to let go under any circum-
stances. Unless they are removed at
once by some strong power. they bury

mental shrubs of which they are now
deficient, pro .ii§d the space they are
to occupy is not lready crowded, and
without encroaching on desired
breadths of clear lawn. A few kinds

building, and owns a third of our ma-
rine. It holds a third of the registered
national bonds. It produces a sixth
of the agricultural instruments, one

sixth of all the bakery products, one-

ever beholds them.

“Through every zone through every land.
The greet the eye, tliey fill the alt

ith perfume sweet. _
rom ocean strand, from mountain top.

happy, and relieved and everything!
and you won’t think us ungrateful if we
do not accept the—the subscription. and
we can get along without it. Here Mrs.
Hewitt broke down entirely, her blue

‘ll and len and desert brown

Thtelylllldbd the vsandering home to God.”

In this work we need but imitate the
beautiful in nature. Every city of any
pretentious now has its parks where_the
harmonious beauty in nature is exhibited
side by side with the lavish profusion of
her art and the uncouth squalor 0f be!‘
poverty. Nowhere in nature do we_ find
a greater contrast between the comliness
of form and the richness and grandeur
of color in the same growth or plant,
than in the strictly floral department.
The cactus family, of which about sixty
species have-been described. are 3 Pe-
culiar illuatration of this fact. In their
native state they flourish in the most
sterile and rocky soil, in warm latitudes,
and are natives of this country. Their
stems will creep along the surface of
the ground, or grow erect in angular or
columnar form as much as 60_feet high.
mostly leafless but covered with spines,
bristles and hooks; the rugged and un-
oouth storing up and retaining large
quantities of moisture. which in a time
of drouth is eagerly devoured by the

may be named which are among the
fines. ornamentals: Deutzia gracllis,
or crenat-a, Weigela, viburnum plica-
tum, spiraea. prunfolia, Persian lilac,
prunus triloba, purple barberry, silver
bell, hydrangea, and th- hardy azaleas
and hardy rhododendrons. The strong
growing roses are not to be omitted,
provided they can have a good breadth
of mellow, rich soil.—C’ountry Gentle-
man.

AGOOD sign of the times is that so
many young men in starting to farm
adopt improved stock, and the)’ b?-
come enthusiastic, earnest_ and ambi-
tious, which alone will bring succe_SSy
and all the more certain on the high
tide of improved stock breeding. Stock
of some kind is essential to successful
farming, and improved stock brings
the best profit, quickest_ returns, _ and
gives a charm of prosperity and digni-
ty to the farm.-— Western Agrtculturzst.

A NEW YORK farmer declares that an

half of the men’s clothing and two-
thirds of the women’s clothing, one-
fifth of the foundry and machine shop
products. one-fifth of the furniture

one-third of the hosiery and knit
goods, 9. quarter of the jewelry, half of
the millinery and lace goods, two-
thlrds of the pianos, one-half of the
paints, half of the perfuinery and cos-
metics, one third of the books and pe-
riodicals, one-quarter of the soap and
candles, one-half of the refined sugar
and molasses, one—slxth of the chew-
ing and smoking tobacco and snufi",
and one-half of the cigars.

Wire Worms.

A correspondent of The Country
Gentleman says: _ _

“Being troubled with wire worms
one yearI was advised to soak my
seed in a solution of copperas and salt-
petre, using one-fourth of a pound
each to_a bushel of ears of common
eight-rowed corn. The result was that
my seed all grew, and I lost none by

conferred

signed by

judgment

him.

before the

in such re
amount n

bitration .

like cases:
in four days alter the trial of such
cause, file their award together with
the papers in such case, with the jus-
tice before whom such case was first
tried; said award shall be in writing

upon justises of the eace in
such arbitrators sha l with-

a majority of such arbitra-

tors, and the justice of the peace shall
within two days thereafter render

thereon in accordance with

the determination of such award, and
shall thereafter have the same’ control
of such judgment as he would have
had if said cause had been tried before

SES. 7.—’I‘he costs and fees in the
retrial before a justice of the peace, or

boar . ofarbitrators shall be

the same as now provided by law in
justices’ courts, and the taxable costs

trial shall not exceed the
ow fixed or which may here-

after be fixed for trials of like case in
justices’ courts except per diem of ar-

SEC. 8.—When costs are awarded to

their heads into the quivering flesh of
the victim, and continue in office from
term to term. If they are ultimately
wrenched from their positions. they im-
mediately catch hold and hang on some
fresh place. It has sometimes hap-
pened that a‘ tick is detached by force
from the body politic, in which case he
usually carries enough off in his mouth
to last him for some time. When the
tick first comes into ofilce. he is in very
poor condition, but as his victim groans
he also grows. until he becomes so very
much expanded that one might infer
that he would drop off, but he never
does. The leech, to his credit be it said,
drops ofl‘ when he has gorged himself,
but the tick never gorges himself. No-
body has ever known of a professional
politician having enough. He is per-
fectly willing to die in harness. When
an ox or a cow acquires too many ticks,
the poor animal gets weak, thin and ex-
hausted. So when the officeholders are
unusually hard to fill up, the tax payers
become weak and the treasury exhaust-
ed.-Tearas Sittings. -
__._________________

eyes swimming in tears.

Then the better quality of Mrs. Tre-
win’a heart came uppermost. She drew
the little woman’s head down upon her
breast and soothed her as a mother
might a child.

“I’ve got back all faith in God—aud
man,” said Mrs. Hewett, smiling through
her tears, “andI never mean to let go
my hold on it again.”

“Amen!” ejaculated Mrs. Trewin.”

At the dinner table she related to the
doctor the sum and substance of Mrs.
Hewett’s recital.

“I am sorry I misjudged Deborah, and
I intend to tell her so,” said she. “But
she might have said she meant to help
them. And why can’t she do thingslike
other people?”

Dr. Trewin pared a potato in si-
lance.

"I suppose it’s her way.” continued
his wife musingly. .

“It's a very good way,” said the doc-
tor. — Ada Carleton, in Sunday school
Times.

- the country; and from the
 :%g£g of their shapeles_s atoms
the flowering buds make their appear-
ance These flowers vary in size, shape

(1 color being pure white. deep scar-
flog pa}-ple. The cactus melocactur,
the great melon thistle or Turk’_s 03?

rows from the crevices of rocks in the
fiottsst and dryest parts of America, so
fantastic in form that Pinnaous com-

acre of the Hubbard squash will fatten
more hogs than the corn that can be
raised on the same ground. He has
gathered from six to eight tons from an
acre.

l\/IANKIND is altogether too previous.
Lots of people are preparing them-
selves for the next who havu't begun
to make themselves fit to-live in the
present world,

the wire, and I never saw corn have.
so dark and vigorous a color before.
Since then, I always soak my seed
twelve hours before being shelled.
Some farmers exterminate them by
hunting them out in the hill and kill-
lng them by hand; but this is slow and.
tedious work and is liable to be slight-
ed by hired help.

the appellant in the retrial of such
cause the fees and costs paid by him to
the justice on the appeal of such case
shall be awarded to him in addition to
his costs in such retrial: Provided,
however. That the total taxable costs
of both trials shall in no case exceed
the sum of twenty dollars, when costs
are awarded to the appellee upon such

THE British government declares its
purpose to relax no effort to bring the
plotters of dynamite destruction to a
speedy punishment.

FRIEND, beware of fair maidens!
when their tenderness begins, our ser-
vitude is near.—- Victor Hugo.

IT is pleasant to know that the big
bridge between New York and Brook-
lyn is a suspension and not a failure.

BUDS are like some ptetentiollfl
merchants. They swell at first only
to burst and leave soon after.


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MAY 15, 1883.

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fllummunitatinio.

THE DRUNKARIYS LONE CHILD.

Lonely and sad to- night I do roam,
Not even a kindred, not even a home;
Tired and weary I onward pursue,
Striving but vainly for something to do.

Only an orphan, helpless and poor,

Seeking a shelter at door after door,

Urging, so pitiful, to earn my own bread,

Since father and mother now rest with the
dead.

Once I was happy, and, like you to-night,

I laughed with the gayest my heart was so
light.

But the demon Old Alcohol, came to our door,

And that is the reason I am homeless and poor.

My story is long, it is sad, but it’s true,

Perhaps God will help me to tell it to you :

VVho knows but ’twill save some soul from the
brink

Of bitter inteinp’rance and maddening drink?

My father and mother first in London did
meet,

My mother had always looked pretty and neat,

And father, he too looked the gentleman fine,

Before he had tasted the bright, sparkling
wine.

They loved one another and soon they were

w

Their station in life was one high and well-
bred.

Comforts and plenty abounded in store,

Their door was e'er open to comfort Grod’s
poor.

Alas ! the scene changes, and how sad to see
The great calamity that fell upon me 1
Twelve years have passed since first they were

we
And to-iiight I'm on the street begging for
bread.

One night my poor father so delirious did rave,
., He shook my poor mother and no help could
’ save;
I saw she was dying, and loudly did cry,
But help seemed so far off, and no one came
nigh.

Iran for some water, and bathed her poor
ea ,

But erelhad finished, she sighed, and was
dea ;

My father, who always was kind without rum,
Was doomed to the galiows, and there he hung.

Aged ten. I am left alone, and most wild,

An orphan, but only a poor drunkard’s child,

Oh! mother. could we but join our prayers
to-night,

As we were accustomed when home was so
bright!

0 pause, gay companions, nor revel in drink,

Now in life's bright morning, arouse you and
think.

Ere manhood is gone— and oh ! at what cost !

Your life, it is blasted, your soul, it is lost I

0, would I could warn you by using the pen,

To strive to live nobler, not enter again

The brilliant saloon, which looks cosy and
neat

But sooii you're a beggar, cast into the street.

God blight it! and curse it ! not leave it to
reign, _

To cause the poor children such sorrow and
pain!

They tell me we live in the land of the free.

It certainly did not seem so to mother and me.

Look at the stately and palacelike dwellings

That line with their grandeur the pathway I
tread;

fancy the comfort and warmth of the hearth-
stone,

The plenteous board with the wine and the
bread.

I see the heads bowed with a reverent mean-
ing
A blessing is breathed o’er the beautiful fare.
Will it rise to the ear of the Pitiful Father,
Or die of the cold, like the vagabond’s prayer?
___________.__

A Salutatory Address.

[The following is a copy of the salutatory
address delivered by Bro. Hiram Andrews
before the Oakland Pomona Granrve, No.
5, held at the hall of Davisburg Grange,
April 10th, 1883.]

Worthy Master, Brothers a'nd Sisters.
Could I look into the future and fore-

see what the final result and end of
all things would be, then I could por-
tray to you the future Work of the
Giange. We often, and I may say are
continually wishing that we could fore
tel what the future will bring to pass.
But an allwise Providence has so ar-
ranged all things that we can know
nothing of the future. The past and
the present is all we know to a certain-
ty. Yet in n is endowed with certain
faculties. Among them are his reas-
oning powers by which he can reason
from c-use to effect and thereby ap-
proximate the future result of his
plans. The question, “The future
work of the Grange” implies one
fact. that is that there is 21 Grange in
existenc -. Now in order to approximate
correct conclusions as to what the fu-
ture work of the Grange will be, we
must know what a Grange is and what
its purposes are. Then, knowing the
origin, objects, and purposes, of its or-
ganization we can reason from cause
to effect, and arrive at some conclus-
ions of its future.

The word “Grange” is of English
origin and originally meant to farm,
but in modern history is applied to or
means a farm. The Order of P. of H.
was formed and organized in 1867, at
Washington, D. C., by the farmers of
the U. S., and the name "Grange”
was adopted, as it represents the farm.

The aims, objects and purposes of
the organization of the Grange, are not
for selfishness, or for selfish aggran-
dizement nor to antagonize other in-
terests, but to educate each other to
ahigher manhood and womanhood,

mprove the attractions of home, cul-

‘ tivate stronger attachments for our
pursuit, educate to accomplish better
results, and become conversant with
all questions of political economy, and
the affairs of government, to learn how
to co-operate in all things pertaining
to our interests and the general wel-
fare, so as to accomplish the greatest
good to the greatest numbers.

The subject does not require. nor is

i
’§
i it my purpose to enter into, an elab-

,.

or-ate history of the grrat work and
good that has already been accom-
plished by the organization, both
financially and in educating the farm-
er to a higher manhood. But it is my
purpose from knowing the objects,
aims, and work that the organization

has already accom plished to endeavor
to point out some of the futuie work
of the Grange.

First, Th" farmer should be so edu-
cited as to add dignity to labor. The
farmers and their children should be
educated to feel, realize, and know
that the labor performed in raising
and producing agricultural products,
is the most dignified and honorable of
all employments. Would he who crea-
ted aud holds all things in his hands,
have assigned man to anything undig-
nified? Instead of man being left idle
and inactive, the creatorin his infinite
wisdom and goodness assigned him
to a higher dignity and greater use-
fulness than to be idle and useless up
on the earth. Hence labor then must
have been dignified, and is it less dig-
nified now‘? Only so in our imagina-
tion. Our family, habits, early train-
ing, education and prejudices may
have inculcated in our minds, the no-
tion that labor is undignified. But
imagination is not proof, prejudice is
not argument. Habits or opinions
conceived in error, however honestly
formed or firmly fixed, remain errors
nevertheless, and cannot change the
fact that labor is dignified. Indeed
our prosperity and well-being, yea,
our very existence depends upon labor
for without labor all would perish.
Labor produces the happiness, pros-
p rity and Welfare of the people. Any
element or cause that can produce and
distribute such blessings as these so

universally and so bountifully is no

ble, elevating, and of high rank, and
therefore dignified. A professor of
religion may prove to be a hypocrite,
yet true religion remains pure. So
with labor it bears the same dignity
now that was given it in the begin-
ning and we by our acts, examples
and precepts are to make it more dig-
nified and remove the erroneous idea
that it is undignified. One of the no-
ble characteristics of man is that he
earns his bread with dignity by the
sweat of his face. It is known to be a
christian virtue of woman that she
dignifies the labor of her own house-
hold. Through the lack of the right
kind of education, labor among the
agricultural class to a considerable ex-
tent is degrading, and it should be
the work of the Grange to correct this
erroneous idea by early education and
training of the children of the farmer
by example, precept and influence.

Second, Another very important
work of the Grange is to educate the
farmer and the laboring classes of the
people in political economy. . The his-
tory of our civil government for the
past few years fully demonstrates the
importance and even the necessity of
the people being better educated in
these branches. An honest and wise
management of governmental affairs
is necessary and can only be obtained
by a general diffusion of knowledge
upon political subiects. :armers cer-
tainly need polifical training and a
better knowl dge of the affairs of our
government and a clearer understand-
ing of the duties we owe the republic,
as well as a more earnest desire to dis-
charge in a more worthy manner the
obligations they impose. To secure
this we must strive to become better
educated and more enlightened. Vote
for honest men not part-y. Men whom
we have every reason to believe will
use their influence for the passage of
such laws as will favorably effect and
protect all classes. Our future pros-
perity depends upon our education and
ajudicious use of the ballot. The poet
says:

“There is a weapon surer set,

And better than the bayonet,

A weapon that comes down as still,
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
And executes the freeman’s wi-ll
As lightening doth the will of God.
And from its force no bolts or locks
Can shield, it is the ballot box.”

It is an old adage and a true one,
that if you want any thing well done
you must do it yourself. So if the
farmer wants laws that will protect
his interest he must make them.
When you employ a lawyer, the first
thing he looks after is his fee, and if
you employ lawyers to frame your
laws you need not complain if they
are so made that he gets his fee before
you know the law. The farmer needs
this ; olitical education, and the
Grange should assist him to obtain it.

Third, there is a large field for work
financially in the Grange. I have al-
ways been reasonably successful in the
financial management of my own
private afi'airs.but I must acknowledge
myself entirely incompetent to even
point out the way for a successful fi-
nancial course for the Grange to pursue.
Yet I will make a few suggestions which
in my experience have proved success-
ful. We have already learned much
through the Grange, and yet there is a
large field for future work.Itis both wise
and economical to adopt the ready pay
system. That is, buy nothing in the
ordinary expense of the farm or house-
hold that you cannot pay for when the
purchase is made. If debts are con-
tracted they should be for property
that is not perishable, such as land or
any property that can be sold at any
time to pay for itself. Never pledge
the income of the farm until you know
what it is. Save money enough to
pay a year’s expense ahead. On the
first of January you have secured all
your crops and know your income for
the past year, and by a careful inven-

gnn esasegvisisos.

much money you will have to use the  or otherwise. The facts are that he
coming year, and if it has een a year i has been paying out all the year little
of prosperity and vourincome has been i by little, and has kept no account and
large you can lay by a portion for the ‘ therefore does not know how much’
future, and perhaps indulge a little ,!the cost has been. But when he sells,
more in some of the luxuries of life, ,| the money looks large, so he says that
or use a little :0 make home more , he has made a fine thing. I think if
attractive. On the other hand, if ow-  he had kept debit and credit accounts
ing to the failure of crops or other E he would have been disappointed at
causes, your income has been light, ithe result. The farmer needs to un
you can so arrange your expenses for , derstand better the actual cost of the
the coming year as not to run into ! products of the farm, then he would
debt. The farmer needs more edu(~a-  know better what to raise to realize
tion in disposing of what he raises, g the greatest profit, and what system
And in buying for the house and iof farming would pay best. There are
farm, farmers should co operate and la great many things that the farmer
buy and sell in large quantities. They g‘ must take into account before he can
should better understand the laws ofé determine what to raise, and what sys-
trade, the laws of supply and demand, gtem to pursue. Such a-' location, dis-
and what their produce is worth in the tancc from good markets, the climate,
market, also the cost price of wheat allalvlalififl 05 SOUS t0 the different
they have to buy. They should al- 9 kinds of grain etc.
ways support home industry and in-, The Grange by its co operative in-
stitutions when they do not demand  tluence and example should assist the
more than a just and equitable com farmer to obtain a more thorough
pensgtjon, for thereby you assist (he‘kl.l0Wl€(Ig(-: Of Ill.-l 0CCllp2iIl011. OUI‘
laborer and the manufacturer and I children nee.i education in the right
create a, home market for the produce 3 direction. Few Of us are aware Of the
of the farm, and all are mutually bene- l88!iug effect Of early education and
fitted. training on the character of our boys
“york on the ‘farm Should be Bystenp and girls. “’Tis education forms the
atized so as to accomplish as much as °°mm°n mind J.”-3‘ 35' thetwig is bent
possible with the help at your mm_ the tree's inclined. Ifyo.i want your
mand, having 8 place for everything, |sons and daughters to l0Vr: and honor
and everything in its place. Tools  ““"‘l “C5 3'0“ must be" 1 “"3 ‘W13
keep clean and bright, ready for ,,se_ 1 in the right direction. I will not do
All branches of industry connected I t“ Send them [0 eouegh‘ V" V‘ the idea
with farming need more ed,,Cat,-,m, ; instilled in their minds 1' ,:n:i infancy
more economy, and better systems that,’ up» “mt if they 03“ P339 -‘rough C01‘
z,.e,,__e,. financial benefits may 1.8.! lege and grad -ate with iwonor, they
sult. ’l‘o illustrate, farmer A, buys  “re "39" Prepare“ ‘O ‘ "'e_ Without
a reaper. He prides himself upon do- W°1'k- This kind Of 9” ‘ “mo” ls flu‘
mg 8 big dayis Work He hustles thel ing our land with profes- anal thieves,
machine into the field, runs it beyond , bl“'8l5‘1'S: and dmflefi in -.‘ :iety. Chil-
its capacity, has no time to watch that i ‘ken Should be taught 1i""m mfanc-Vv
,_ve,.ything is in its place_ Goes out ll by example, precept and counsel, that
in the morning and in oiling me ma_ ,- farming was the first occupaion God
chine finds some lime thing out Of} required of man, that all other indust-
order_ But all hands are in the field i ries are dependent upon it,that it is the
and there is no time to fix it. Thinks . ‘o"“‘t wurce {mm which Welmh is de'
it will go. Runs it all through harvest i riW‘d' and that the labor to sustain an
in that reckless Way Then leaves it ‘ industry upon which allothers depend,
out in thesun and rain, and at the end ' is the m‘’“ noble’ dignified’ and mm’
of three years his reaper is used up and ' “Fame of 3“ °°c“p9‘“°n“‘ Gwe the

tory you can tell very nearly how

he has kept himself in a worry and
fret all the time he was usi- g it.

Farms r B buys a reaper just like A's.
He is a. careful systematic farmer. He
carefully looks his machine over be-
fore he takes it into the field. Then
runs it carefully and steadil ,watcliing
every part and sees that it is kept in
good order. At night looks it over
and sees that all is r-ght for. the next
day. Thus by system and steady labor
he accomplishes as much as A, yes,
even more in the same time. All in
a quiet easy way, and his reaper will
last from seven to ten vears. These
are extreme cases. but they will serve
to illustrate the financial benefits :0

be derived from care and system in.

farming. It is not what a man earns
that makes him wealthy, but what he
saves. There is plenty of work for the
Grange to do in all of the various
branches ofindustry, connected with
farming, which may assist in finan-
cially bettering the condition of the
farmer.

Fourth. The benefits that may be
derived from the future work of the
Grange in educating the farmer and
his family in all the various branches
of industry connected with the inter-
est of the agriculturist is of far more
importance and of more value than all
other interests combined. The farmer
needs more education in political
economy and civil government, so
that through his influence just and
equitable laws will be made and money
monopolies controlled. Railroad com-
panies should be compelled to adjust
their tarifi" ra es so as to be just and
equal to both the shipper a.:d the car-
rier and to all localities and sections
of the country. Taxation should be
revised and equalized so that the pro-
ducer should have to pay no more
than his just proportion of the tax.
Our patent laws need revising to pro-
tect the innocent purchaser. Our tar-
iifl ws should be made just and equi-
table to all. Agriculture in all its
branches needs the fostering care of the
farmer, who is directly interested, and
he should be educated to fill positions
of trust, or any office in our govern-
ment, so that he may discharge the
duties they impose with ability and
honor.

The farmer needs more education
financially. He should become con-
versant with the laws of trade, the
laws of supply and demand, the cost
of producing any given article. What
it costs to raise a bushel of wheat, oats,
corn, or to make a pound of beef or
pork. Then he will know just what
they should be sold for to make a fair
profit to the producer. The manu-
facturer knows just what it costs him
to make an article, and it should be so
with the farmer. A farmer has a flock
of 300 sheep, he shears them and finds
they average six pounds per head,
making 1,800 pounds. He sells it at
35 cents per pound and receives $630.
This sum of money looks large, and
he concludes there is more money in
raising sheep than anything else he
can do. While the fact is he does not
know whether he has made money or
not. He has not computed the .inter-
est on the cost of the sheep or the val-
ue of the pasture,grain and hay it takes
to keep them, neither has he compu
ted the labor in caring for them, and
marketing wool, or the loss by death

0

children practical education in all the
industeries connected with farming.
This should be combined With a scien-
tific and business education. This
principleshould be taught our children
from early life. That it is necessary
to become educated both theoretically
and practically, in order that they can
perform labor more intelligently, sys-
tematic-ally, and economically. Edu-

cation should be one of the most im-'

portant features of the future work of
the Grange. Much of the future wel-

-fare and prosperity of the Order de

pends on the educational advancement
of its members. Education is the
gathering in of such information as
may improve our intellect and lead us
to a better and more correct under-
standing of all questions pertaining to
our interest, to agriculture and its
science. The customs of trade, the
laws of supply and demand, questions
of politi- al economy a d the affairs of
government". With these questions
properly understood, we will become
bettei farmers and more useful citizens.
exerting gr ater influence morally,
socially, and politically.
____________________
Success.

Success has reference to the favorable
or prosperous termination of anything
attempted—the attainment of a proposed
object. Whatever our occupation, suc-
cess in life cannot be obtained without
unremitting labor. Ability and willing-
ness to labor are the two great conditions
of success. In the absence of ability.
work is prosecuted to a disadvantage;
while on the other hand, he who has the
ability but will not apply himself to the
work, will not be successful. The sculp-
tor sees his ideal in the block of marble
before him, but cannot be successful in
bringing forth that which he has con-
ceived until he applies himself diligenty
to work with chisel. The inventor, with
a knowledge of the science of mechanics.
which constitutes his ability, acquired
by study and, in some cases, with the
assistance of natural gifts, produces those
inventions with untiring perseverance
which are of great benefit to mankind.

It is said by philosophers that ability
is obtained, in a majority of cases, by a
persevering study of the branch of busi-
ness to be followed. Writers who wrote
very poor stuff at the beginning with
careful study and long practice, have
obtained eminence in their sphere. Or-
ators who have broken down in their first
speech, have become the greatest ora-
tors in the world.

' Success in a measure depends upon
the promptness I50 secure opportunities
to grasp the tide at its rise, a great deal
of what is called “luck” is nothing more
or less than this, but something more
than this faculty is needed, we must
know how to avail ourselves of the op-
portunities.

Success is not attended without difli-
culties and obstacles, they may be con-
sidered our instructors if successfully
handled. One obstacle overcome teaches
us to avoid others of the same character
and if they cannot be avoided we meet
them to a better advantage

The success and prosperity of a nation
depends, first. upon the government. A
good government is essential, it consists
of that organized plan of operations by
which justice is established and secured
to all, which signifies that no person or
class of persons have special rights and

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privileges on account of caste or social ; located about nine miles northeast

distinctions which others could not at-
tain. We believe that the terrible
revolutions and insurrections of monarch-
ies and despotisms of the old World, are
attributed to that government which
does not secure equal rights to all Tax-
ation without representation caused the
American colonies to revolt against
Great Britain.

Under a despotic government the
laboring classes have to submit to the
tyraunies of their rulers. The fruits of
their toil are appropriated by their
rulers and the “so styled nobility.”
The nobility are not entirely exempt
from trouble, although their revenues
are vast, enabling them to live in the

;0f Lansing, on the M. C. R. R. The
;building up of this Grange wa- not
F th- result nfauy tidal'wave or cyclone
 but is the fruit of mature thought and
j careful observation which hat: brought
_'about the conviction, that it is a duty
10 organize and help carry on toe
[great work of reform.
‘ And now having spread the fruits
 before you I will give a brief outline
?of our work and the condition of the
,‘ Order in Oceans county.
 The Pomona Grange of this county
 had instituted a serie- of meetings to
be held at Hart, Shelby, Sylvan
{Grange and Flower Creek, commenc-
fing the 230th of March, and I accord-

highest state of luxury,_yet they are sub- 7 ingly left home on the 19th and ar-

ject to the whims of the despot and lia-

ble to be executed or exiled and their’

l

'rived at Shelby the same
and

evening,
was met at the dopnt by Bro,

estates confiscated and given to whoever  VV00dW3Fd. Lecturer Of the Pomona

among the nobility the ruler shall de-
cree.

§Grange, who now resides at Shelby,

lbut has previously been engag-d in

Second. We consider education oneifafmiflg 1363!‘ the Village. Bro. VV.

of the principle elements of success in
the prosperity of a nation. A brute is
controlled by force; man in his unedu-
cated and immoral state is controlled by
a fear of the penalty of the law; if all in
a free government were to be governed
by that fear, the law-making and inter-
preting powers would be in the hands of
the evil disposed, and the result would
be anarchy and vice. According to the
records of history the laboring classes of
the old world were governed through
their ignorance and fear of terrible pun-
ishments‘. The rulers and their minions
were the stronger, and disobedience of
their laws was quickly punished. Some
of the methods of punishment were the
guillotine, block, wheel. rack and

other terrible instruments of torturei
yet the fear of these punishments was’

insufficient to prevent the riots and in-
surrections which the history of France
furnishes an example. When people
become educated morally and intellect-
ually, thev can be governed without fear
of the penalty of the law. Law then is
for the purpose of protecting the honest
and upright from the attacks of the
vicious and depraved. The despot
knew that to educate the masses would
be to overthrow his supremacy, but by
keeping them in ignorance his dominion
will be secure.

The name of America to the down-
trodden people of the eastern continent.
is like the “Land of Promise” to the
Israelites, as shown by the tides of omi-
gration that reach our shores. Why is
America to them like a "haven of
refuge?” Because we have the three
elements of success for a natiou’s
prosperity. viz: A good government,
education and resources. Phillips sug-
gests a possibility of the downfall
of America. referring to the ruins
of Egypt, Greece and Persia. If
we might present a theory, we would say
those nations lacked the first element of
success for continued prosperity—good
governments. The higher classes were
educated. The ancient Greeks were
celebrated for their philosophers. orators
and sculptors. Their resources were un-
surpassed. but they were taxed to their
uttermost to supply their governments,
and in time became exhausted. The
fruits of the soil are our resources. It is
necessary for our interests to look after
them. This matter has been studied,
the result is an organization for promot-
ing the agricultural interests — the
Grange. We predict good results from
the Grange if successfully handled.
The conditions of success are plain to
every thoughtful member. Work dili-
gently to became better men and women,
mentally. morally and financially, and

success is assured.
WALTER H. DAVIS.

Among the Granges.

It has been so long since I have re-
ported to the VISITOR that you per-
haps have the impression that I am
side-tracked somewhere for repairs.
But such is not the case. My excuse
for not writing is, that my work has
been so disconnected, that I thought
it better to wait and make a more con-
centrated report, or in other words
boil it down.

Since my last report I have suc-
ceeded in ‘ organizing two new
Granges, both strong and healthy,
composed of members that enter into
the work with a full and thorough un-
derstanding of its requirements and a
knowledge of the aims and objects of
the organization, that is doin - so
much for the farmers. ‘

The first was organized on the even-
ing of April 5th, and is located in the
township of Claybanks in Oceana
county, and contains 43 members, and
has adopted the name of Lake Shore
Grange, being ignorant then of the
existence of the Michigan Lake Shore,
located in Allegan county. This
Grange is in the midst of a go ~d agri-
cultural district. whose fine farms,
good buildings and splendid young
orchards, both apple and peach speaks
well for the country, and the enter-
prise and energy of the inhabitants.

One very encouraging feature is that
the sentiment of the people in the vi-
cinity is entirely favorable to the
Grange movement, which may be
taken as a guarantee that the. num-
bers of Lake Shore Grange will not
decrease if it is properly conducted.

The other Grange was organized on
the evening of April 12, at Bath, Clin-
ton county, and comprises 40 mem-
bers, and adopted the name of the
village where it was organized, and is

jserved as a soldier in the war for the
[ Union and did efficient service for his
lcountiy, and was also through trie
,Dlast»-r war at Grandville, with the

{Ex cutive Coniiiiittee of the State_

,Grange, which if I remember right
!was bloodless, but served to try the
| metal ofour leaders.

I Our meeting at Hxrt in the after-
lnoon of the 120th was not a complete
success owing partly to the fact that
{the multitude failed to put in an ap-
- pearance, but nevertheless there were
lafewof the faithful present, and al-
I’ though Hart Grange is now dormant,
)1 do not believe it can long remain so,
, but like “Truth crushed to earth will
 rise again.”

I remained over night with Bro.
Gurney, who was once a member of
the Grange and still has charge of the
implements, and is anxious to see
1 them again brightened by use instead
jof rusting through neglect. Bro. G.
! has a large farm a short distance east
of the village with a very fine house,
{also a large and conimodious farm

well arranged for the care and mun-
,:agement of stock, in which he takes
‘quite an interest, and but some flue

animals among which is s Shorthorn

rcow, the “Belle of Lansing,” pro-
cured from the agricultural college
farm.

The next morning we returned to
Shelby and assisted in the installation
of the ofiicers of the Pomona Grange
then in session at the house of Bro.
‘Woodward. This Grange is well
managed and is doing a good work.

In the evening we had a very good
meeting at Shelby and became ac-
quainted with a number of the mem-
bers of Fraternal Grange which is lo-
cated at Shelby and is apparently in
good working order, the greatest dis-
advantage. they labor under is, they
have no hall of their own but hold
their meetings at the houses of the
members, yet they have got the true
grit and in time will remedy this do-
feet.

A greater part of the next day was
monopolized by a snow-storm that
added five or six inches of the beauti-
ful to two and a half feet already
there, but in spite of this, Bro. Sweet
came with his horses and sleigh, to
take us to our next appointment,
which was at the hall of Sylvan
Grange about five miles from Shelby.
Here we had a ho..se full of interested
listeners that were anxious to learn
more of what the Grange was doing
outside and many that were not con-
nected with the Order expressed their
desire to enter the ranks of the work-
ers.

Sylvan Grange is all right, has a
hall of its own, with a good member-
ship, and carries a small stock of
goods which are sold to the members
at their meetings and quite a saving
is made thereby. Bro. O. K. White
is Master of this Grange and is a true
Patron. He represented his district in
the Legislature two years ago in a
very creditable manner. We accom-
panied him home and remained there
a greater part of the next day, then in
company with a sleighload of neigh-
bors we started for Flower Creek,
where our last meeting was to be held.
The night was bitter cold, but when
we arrived at the school house. we
found it well filled, had a rousing
meeting and secured twenty-six names
for a new Grange, appointed a com-
mittee to solicit more, and set the time
for organizing. "these were the ini-
tiatory steps that resulted in bringing
into existence the Lake Shore
Grange.

Early the next morning we bid
goodbye to Bro. White and family
and took the train at Greenwood for
home, feeling that the Grange in
Oceana county was left in good hands,
with Bro. Barry as Special Deputy
and a host of good, actiye workers its
success is guaranteed.

' Now, Bro. Cobb, I don't know but
I have mistook the symptoms, but I
believe the outlook is encouraging.
The farmers are giving their attention
to the work as they have never done
before and are imbued with a spirit
of investigation that is lighting up
the dark places and making plain the
path of duty, which speaks only of
progiess and prosperity to our Order.

Jomv HOLBROOK.

Lansing, April 20th, 1883.

 

MISTAKES, like broken glass, look

all the worse for being patched.

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6

EEE &BAl€&E VESIEQB.

MAY 15. I853.

TIIE WIIEA1‘ C-R01’.

77,000,000 BUSHELS SHORT OF LAST
Yr_'AR.

The May Report of the Department of Ag.
rlculture—A Discour-aging Outlook,
but Better than the Guesses—
Trying to Pump Information
B.l'ore Hand.

WASHINGIJN. May 11.-—'I‘lie May crop
bulletin of the department of agriculture
was issued late yesterday afternoon and
confirms the gloomy views regarding the
the growing crop of wheat which have
been entertained by many. The statis-
tician complains of the pressure which
has been brought to bear, for 10 days
past, on the emploves of the depart-
ment to gain information regard-
ing this bulletin. None of its
bulletins has ever been so eagerly looked
for and grain gamblers have brought
every kind of pressure to bear to get
some idea of the nature of the report.
Even prominent politicians and con-
gressmen havc lent themselves to this
endeavor. The May returns on wheat
are materially lower as compared with
those of April. This is owing to frosts
and a backward season. The average as
compared with April is 77 for New York;
Michigan, 83; Ohio, 62; and Illinois, 66.
There is a further loss from the plowing-
up of large areas. The reduction in Mis-
souri is from83 to 80; Indiana, 75; New
Jersey, 101—about the same as April.
All the remaining northern States show
an improvement since April. This is true
of the Pacific coast and of nearly al.‘
the southern states—Conn-ecticut, 9);
Pennsylvania. 95; Delaware, 85; Mary-
land, 99; Virginia, 97; North Cnl‘0l1l.l&i,
96; Bout; Carolina, 93; Georgia, 97;
Alabama, 98; Mississippi. 92; Texas, 87;
Arkansas. 86; Tennessee, 88; West Vir-
ginia, 90; Kentucky. 81; Kansas, 91;
California, 77; Oregon, 72. This is an
improvement of 15 points for California
and of 17 for Oregon. The average con-
dition of winter wheat is 83}; against 80
in April. The loss in area from replant-
ing in other crops may be assumed to
reduce the prospect to that of April 1.
In 1879 and 1880, the general average
was 99; in 1881 it was 88: in 1882, 102,
and in May of last year 100. In former
years there were no May returns. Two
years ago the average declined to 80
in July. Last year it increased t) 104
at the time pf cutting. It should be
understood that, in the department re-

‘ports of the condition, 103 means a medi-

um groth with full stand and healthy
plant. The Ohio and Illinois state re-
ports compare with last year‘s crops
thus: Ohio reports 56 for May compared
with last year, and 62 compared with av-
erage crop. Without regard to the spring
wheat breadth, the present prospect for
the Winter wheat area, in considera-
tion of the reduced condition and acre-
age. is 20 per cent less than in May last.
representing a loss of about 77,000,000
bushels. This is a smaller reduction
than many had expected, as the
backward season and u'ifaVorable
reports ‘at an earlier date had led many
to place the shortage under last year’s
crop at 100,000,000 bushels. The spring
wheat area will not be complete till May
15, and will be reported June 1. The
statistical agent for Dakota makes the
probable increase 30 per cent. The-
agent for Minnesota reported 86 per
cent of list year's area already planted.
An increase of 15 per cent is reported in
Washington territory. It is not prob-
able that the increase in the spring
wheat area will more than make good
the losssof the winter wheat acreage.

Reports from London agents show
some improvement in last month. The
small acreage sown in England has been
considerably reduced by fields being
plowed up and sown to barley. In
France and Germany rain and higher
temperature are wanted. There are
prospects of a reduced crop on the cou-
tinent owing to frost and ii reduced
acreage. In Austria-Hungary there is
a prospect of a medium crop.

Lazisiivo, May 1l.—[ Mich. Pi-ess.] -—Re-
turns for the May crop report have been
received by the secretary of state from
872 correspondents, representing 665
townships. Five hundred and fifty-six
returns are from 381 townships in the
southern four tiers of counties. The
month of April. like April. 1882, was
cold and dry. Vegetation made little
growth. At Lansing the average tem-
perature was 46 degrees. The averave
temperature the first nine days of May
was about one degree higher than last
year and the average lowest night tem-
perature for the same time five degrees
higher than last year.

The rainfall in April last year and this
are nearlythe same. The rainfallthe first
nine days of May was 3% inches as com-
pared with less half an inch in 1882.

Wheat is winter-killed to the extent of
one-fifth the acreage seeded. This is five
per cent more than the winter-killed as
estimated April 1, and twice the amount
killed in the winter of 1881-2. The con-
dition of wheat not winter-killed in these
counties is 79 per cent of the condition
one year ago. In the counties north of
the southern tour tiers 15 per cent of
the acreage seeded is killed. The
condition of the rest is 90. These fig-
ures indicate a yield of 7,000,000 to 10,-
000,000 bushels less than in 1882.

The bushels of wheat reported mar-
keted by farmers in April is 438,347
bushels; reported marketed since Aug.
11,763,447.

v About seven per cent of the clover
acreage is winter-killed. The remainder
is in good condition. With fair weather
until haying the clover crop will doubt-
less be good.

Horses, cattle, sheep and swine are in
a healthy and thrifty condition, though
a trifle below the average perhaps.

Apples promise 92 P01‘ 0911* “Dd
peaches 66 per cent of the average crop.

Letter From Judge Black.

From Justice.

I thank you for the admirable letter
of the R v. M . Crosby which you
vote kind enough to send me, and I-
improve the occasion to congratulate
you upon the boom which anti-mono-
.-oly is getting. \Vhen your league
was formed ICSS than two years ago it
-‘ecmel to be going out on a forlorn
nope; now the people are rushing to
dis rescue of their rights with a spirit
iliat reminds one of th- old days when
Jackson led them. Mr. Cros‘oy’s letter
is a Collll-lI‘ilHg Slgil that behind the
battle of I1lel‘r5 partisans there is a re-
-zz-.i'ved moral force which may be
:'.()l]'.ltEd to intervene before the worst
comes to the worst.

Be not, however, over-confi lent of
fiiia. success. This monopoly dragon
rias many heads and power of multi
plied reprorluclioii. Everywhere and
at all times the rights of properly have
sufl'-:red from its dreadful depredations.
In this country the -Ievices are innu-
.-ne-rable by which it appropriates to
itself the earnings of labor, the
products of Ian" and the profits of
legitimate commerce without right or
title, excl pl; what it gets by corrupt
legislation and the favor of a vicious
Government.

VVhat makes it most formidable is
Ihe high character of the men who
support it and the g-iod faith in which
they act. Monopolists never feel ai
count about the righteousness of the
ayslem WIll~'ll builds up Liieir colossal
fortunes. H )W they manage their
consciences I do not in ow; and they
ihemselves are not able to tell; but
they do itsuccessfully. Azi English
gentl.-man of Luge estate declared
that ever after the repeal of the
corn laws, he knew and felt that it
was a most infamous outrage on hii
iiianity and _j’lSIil\e to tax the bread of
the poor for me purpose of. swelling
I.'|elDCOI1.l-: of the rich; bu‘ he has not
thought so before the repeal; while
the corn laws were making a large
jreaily addition to his rents, he was
able by some mysterious piocess to
reconcile a warm sup ,orl. of them
with his duty to God am to man. Mr.
Aiiies spoke will‘ entire frankness.
when he -aid, concerning the gigantic
fraud of the Union Pacific Riilroad
Company, that he never dreamed of
anything wrong in the business or
heard a suggestion to that effect from
any of his associatei. That was be-
cause they were getting, or expecting
to iret, a hundred millions by it.

“A gift lindeth the eye and perve: 2-
eth the judgment of the righteous.”
I have known hundreds of large manil-
facturers who got their laboraz starve
iion wages, and sold the products in a
monopoliied market at double price;
and all of them, with one single ex-
ception, bles.ed the tariff‘ which ro-
Lecled them in the practice of t eir
double €Xi.()l‘IIOL.l. Gov. Stanford, of
California. is a perfectly honest man,
but he believes that the pile of un
counted millions, which he has won
by desol-ting thclanll and scourging
Lheindusfry of the country with his
railroad monopoly, is as jllelll " acquir-
ed as if he had earned it by the sweat
of his face. Moreover, he has publicly
avowed his conviction that tile tltftlit
hig-iway between the oceans, built and
equipped at the public expense by
public aufhoriiy, for the public use,

enefi. and beliooi", is the private prop

erty of himself’ and his associates who
are appointed to nianagi it as ag~nts
of the public; and he will acknowledg-;
ilO right of the public which may con
flict with his proprietiiry dominion.
And to this doctrine other good men
with similar interests devoutly say,
Amen! They do not see what is pal-
pably plain to impartial persons, that
an Admiral of the navy niight as well
claim to be the owner of the fleet he
commands and use it to levy for his
private chest. "as much as the traffic
will bear” upon all the comm srce of
ihe seas.

This faithhin the moralk and legal
goodness 0.'t eir cause ma ‘es mono
polists active and gives them a power-
ful influence. They are very sincere,
respectable, greedy, rich, strong and
unscru ulous in the use of their
strengt .

They have modes of operation which
you can neither adopt nor counteract.
The popular insurrection which threat-
ens to defeat them at the coming elec-
tions may crip .e but it will not kill
them. Tlieya reassert their control
over your representatives as boldly as
ever; and hope successfully you may
judge from what has happened in Pen n-
s lvania. Our constitution declares
t at railroads and canals are public
highways, devotes them to the use of
all the people upon equal terms, for
bids all manner of fraud and favorit-
ism, all extortion, all oppressive ex-
actions, .iid all discrimiuations be
tween persons or places. It then
express] ' commands that the General
Assemb y shall carry these provisions
into effect by appropriate legislation.
Wu elect our legislators and regularly
swear them, not merely to support,
buttoobey the constitution. Never-
theless, arguments which monopoly
alone knows how to use have con-
vinced Lhat this part of the constitu-
tion ought to be treated with silent
disregard; ,and the abuses of railroad
power not only go on but get worse
and worse.

The actual consequences resulting to
the country from the measures of the
monopolists have not, I think, 'been
truly represented or properly consid-
ered. For many years all legislation
has been partial to large capitalists,
and correspondingly injurious to the
rights of land and labor. To what
pernicious extent this system has been
carris-(I I need not say, for it is seen
and known of all men. Itcunnot and
it will not come to good. Artificial
regulations of that character have
riever,;since the beginning of the world,
‘wad any effect but a bar: one on the
..f»rD(9l'3l condition of the society that
iried them. But the monopolist in-
-list that they have changed the naturc
ol things and enriched the masses or
me people by,the simple process of
filchinir from them the fruits of their
:.oil. They loudly cry out that the
whole country is in a state of bound-
less prosperity. They get this brag
inserted in political platforms wher-
ever they can, and thunder it from
.-very stump, on which they are per
miticdtospeak. But it is false. They
themselves are, indeed, superabun-
Iantly rich; and, invested as_ihey are
with the privilege of plundering their
fellow-citizens, why should they not
no rich. But for every millionaire they
have made a thousand paupers. The

relations between workmen and em-

   ..- . ..;

ployers have never been so unsatisfac
tory as now. Lsibnreis are complain
ing everywhere of inadeqiiaie wages;
and the complaint is true without
doubt. Ti.-e law ought to secure them
a living rate of .- .«.::ipen.-iation; bu
capital has got labor by the throat and
will not staff’ r a1iyi1.ii:g to he done for
its reli-:1". Agriciiliure is scarcely bet-
ter ofl. '1‘-Iefarmer who fills his own
acres can make but the barest living
The c- rrying trade of the world has
passed away from us into the hands of
our gr:-at rival simply bu-au.-e our pre-
posterous leg slation will not permit
us to buy Ships abroad or buld them.
at home, without paying a tax on the
material, which Elll.i:AIlCt'S their oust;
an-i by reason of tliis—fhat i.- to say,
frorii sliei-r i.-.abilil_v Ix.» carry ii or get
it carrie d by f.lieni-ares: W-ay—w: have
lost when. was, and s on d be now, the
richest })()i'(lOI.l of our foreign com
memo. is all this A()SS and suflbriiig
oftheindustrious classes to be ignored?
If we ~sLin.;a1.e the grosperity ofa
country only by {lie ovelgrowii for-
tunes of iiilliviiiiials, 1 speviallyfavoreai
by the law, ilieii Irvlaiid is prosper us
as well 2.8 Aiiicrica; for Lhere, as here,
the legal l.ll:L('-ll.ll'(.l'_)' la in perf».-ct order,
which .vi.i..kes the riwl‘. richer while it
grimls me p .o=' down info deeper PrlV-
eriy. Biittiir-re as he-re. the lines of
Gol-fsniiiii are ~ v+-r true and everwise:
Hard fares the state, to hasteiiiiig ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay
Rev. Howard (Jrosoy says he has
voted the Republican lickei llculiusc he
believed it to represent virtue and p('--
litical wisdom. I uni a D.-inr cial,
with sentiments of izn.-pealiable revel-
cries for the foi::.d:rs (4 {hr pai'.y, and
stroi g aliacliinent to the true and good
men who, in liter} '-ars, str ggled so
faitlfiily :.-‘ill agair f such fearful odds
for }NfI'*eIi'iaI Illflfl‘ )5 ‘did the right of
locar st-I!‘  i'iiiiie:i-'. But I am 31
I):lll' -cm ace-.rdi' 3' .n my UV.-‘ll dl,-fiiif
non 2.1” I) r-_io:’-..:iv:_\, wliicli is tlii: The
UUI1li|(lIi .-l ii -1 and ('<|l’l1IL1-l.'l liones-‘y
ofa f)‘t:i- pl -'i;;l..-, Sl}l;iIlv.(l within co‘i.s1.i—
lutioi al iiimv.-. in II]? making and ad-
Illlnli-«tl'&Y.lUl1 of i he laws. I trust I am
as ready as Mr. Urosoy to deli ruiice
any yoiiiicul « lgilld-.ll ill, :.iiiet;iei' ii
be his i.-. niliie, \-hicii goes into open
partneisliip with lI1dUI.lpI'll1ClpI.:(lIll‘l1l
called by him ".\l-iiivpoly, Gm-co‘,
Trickezy it (‘o ” J H. BLACK

Address of W. I. Baal, Prssidcniotflie Society.

Ciciiflcmc/1 of tlw lS'oci'(,ifg for the Pro-

'2/l()I'1'.()IlUfzI_Q7‘I(‘l1Ut£I‘(!7iSEi()77t:(‘.'—'I‘I1lS
is our second :i1iiiii:i1 iiiuetiiig. .\s;i
Society, we lizivr,-' no g1‘c2it i'ecoi'il to sii.~.:-
tziiii us, as we ll2l\'Lf only just fziirly 01'-
gziiiizcil for :1 begiiiiiiiig. A few iiii-ii
linvi-, voliiiiteci'cd to found 2111 :issoi-i;i-
tioii for the piirposc of a<lv;iiii-iiig agri-
cilltiiriil science. We have come to-
gether for \voi'k—tlie }ll'L‘SCllLilllL)ll of
pzipersiiiidilisciissiiig Lliciu, for milk-
iiig our 01‘g:llllZ2tllO11 more (-oiiiplcte,
for jiidicioiisly adding it few nieiiibers
to our iiuiiibci‘, which now only ainoiuits
to :1, all told. J udgiiig from other as-
sociizlioiis and coiisideriug that the
iiieiiibeis are widely scatteied in V3.1’-
ioiis IHIYIS of the United States, we have
no i'c;i.<o1i to expect iiioietliziii -ll) 01‘ 50

.pi-i‘ CHII of these will ever be present

zit any one meeting.

The objects in iiizuiy l'L‘.\,pPClS differ
froiii tliose of any other society ever
f‘o1‘iiied in this (-oui1‘.1‘y. The field
\\'lll(,'ll we intend to o<-ciipy is iicurly
new. It is not ii i1;ir1'o\\', sliiilloiv, lull’-
rcii field, but lJl'U‘.l(l. deep ziiid fertill-.
and if well lllled is sure to produce an
iiliiiiidziiit liiirvcst. We should agree
ziiid dclliiitcly outline the objects of
the society and tllvll iidlicre to the plan.
It sceiiis to lll(’ that our legitimate work
lies Ill the direction below specified.
l’ei'li:i}>s I liiive iiizitle it too IJTUHIIZ \'l>i'_\
likely I Ilil.\'e omitted some iiiiportziiit
points.

I. To ‘eiicourzigc the f'oi‘iuzifioii, co-
operzitio-ii and support of agi'iciiltui'iil
expei'ii‘i1c1it stiitioiis.

II. To try to liscemiiii wliiit experi-
ments in agriciiltui'e are most needed.
and iiidii,-rite the methods of conduct-
ing‘ them.

Ill. To discover and define the best
nictliods for uiiiforni stiiiidiirils in the
analyses of soils, fertilizers and vegeta-
ble prodiicts.

IV. To discover and define the best
methods of stiiiiipiiig out piirlisites illld
C0lllL1lgl0l1S diseases of‘ all domestic an-.
imzils.

V. To eiidezivor to find the best coin-
biiizitioii of foods f'o1'gi'owing or fatten-
ing aiiiniiils iii the various parts of our
country.

VI. To niiike discoveries and extend
the zipplicaitioli of science in diii1'yi1ig.

VII. To,expci'ii’iiciit iii I-lSI1 culture,

VIII. To investigate insects wliicli
2l.1'el]ljlll'l0llS 01' benelicizil lll2l;{‘l'lCllll11l‘€',
and discover‘ iiiiproved remedies for
those wliicli are injurious.

IX. To lezirii and point out the best
nietliods for testing each kind of a;'_rri-
cultural seeil, to ascertiiiii its vitality
and purifi .

X. To make investigations _in veg-
etable pliysiology, especially with ref-
erence to leiiriiiiig how to keep plants
in healthy and productive conditions.
To study fungi which infest cultivated
plants and point out remedies.

XI. To advance the subject of im-
proving crops by the selection, cultiva-
tion, crossing and hybridizing plants
for seed. _

XII. To encourage agricultural sur-
veys iii the states and the nation and to
discover new modes of conducting them.

XIII. To encourage agricultural ed-
uation to encourage andapprovev good
work done by any one in_ the Dnited
States Department of Agriculture.

XIV. To encourage collecting and
improved methods of ari'_zu1 1118 and
presenting statistics lll agricu ture.

XV. Finally, in every way to en-
courage and help each other and others
who are not members, in origiiiiil re-
search in all that pertains to science in-
agriculture.

As a society, good works for an lioii-
orable iiiuiie are yet to be won. if they
are ever won. Our aims are high and
with united earliest ef'foi'f., :1 grziiid f'ii-
ture is before us. Even at this early
dziv, we have the united interest and
CUI‘(Il2I.l support of all the iiieiiibers. 0 ur
most valuable work iiiay not attrzict
public attention, but let not‘ _tliis le_;id
to discoiirageineiit. 01.11‘ £tl1lllS not for
display or attractiiig lzime niiiiibers by
flowery speeches announced 111 pleas-
ing programs. _

\\"e have orgaiiized in tliciiiost pros-
perous times in the wholeliistory of our
great nation, when science and its ap-
plications are progressing with unpar-
alled rapidity. We may well regoice
that we live in such ziiispicious times
and take pride in this noble uiidei't2ik-
ing which may accomplish some good
for agricu1ture—-an lioiiorziblc business
in which over half‘ of our people are en-
gaged and in which all are deeply in-

terested.

Transplanting Fruit Trees.

I have just read an article with the

Love heading, copied from illussa

r:liu.~e(t.s 1)t0’I.’gh77lCt7'l. In it are some
theorr-tical ideas, so erroneous, I dei-in
it best to refute them with actual
practical ex»--rience. Tl’l€"i1‘.‘.ill1p‘>ll’iI
iii:-.de by the article ref.»:i*ri.-(I to is, that
i.-.i1i:.ture requires a loose soil for tree 5,
=r ;:ilariL«i. Lo thrive, therefore i’. is
contrary to nature to 1-toss the sill
f‘ii'ni".y arouiio the roots. It -s an i_ii-
porfaiil fact I admit, to renliz; the
best resulis in franipiiiig lives or
plants iiiat the siirface should ixever
be traiiiplr-d, but left loose, and kep‘
so by Il‘£-qllenli stirring. But it isof
he iitniosi. llIJ.p(.i'?alI(3-v‘ tliatlhe .~_-i.-il
slioiild be pI‘E'S.-9€'iI vvry firmly aroiiiid
the roofs.

\‘Ve once sci eight lll1I“l(ll‘Hl pear
trees when lilo ground was so ilry,aiid
hard, we were oliligeil to pUIlI‘.(l the
soil around the roots firmly with a.
pounder, prepared for t.‘e purpr)s(-_ IL
would almost seem to injure the roots.
but experience taught us it was neces-
sary, and the result was, everyone of
the eight hundred grew, and did fine
ly. I veniure-. lo say had they been
planted according in the plan given
in ihe article Spoken of abo If), every-
one would have failed.

I was sorry to see such an article in
one of our leading agricultural pfl.§2Hl‘.*,«,
for such articles in print are the cause
of great loss and discouragement to
the no‘/‘ice many tirnr-s. As the man-
ner of transplazitiiig is ‘-'~.'ery iiiiportaiif
with iree or plant I will give briefly
my made, wl.icli from long practice,
I am sure will give .-ati:-‘factory resulzs,
ll carel’iili_=,' followed.

I take it for givsnte-l that the ground
has been Well prepared. After niakiiig
the hole suflicien: ly large to Lake the
rools in WlY.ll0llt craviiniiiig, wi.l.~ ti
.’<lIl3I'p . knife cut off‘ all broken or
bruised roots, as a smooth out heals
much more readily. Place the tree in
the hole no deeper than it was before
taken from the nursery. Fill Ill
around the roots with line soil, say
two-thirds the amount taken out, l’l}i*ll
press very firmly with the foot, and if
the soil is very dry and -l’.i..l.py us: a
poundcr, so as to nuke it flrsll and
fine. Then turn in a half pail of
water. allowing the wz=.'.ei' to settle in
around the roots, trier. fill in ihe . al-
aiice of soil, and leave loose, never
tramping the surfnc: aft.-i’ setting.
This plan should be followed with all
small pl -iits as well as frees.

Never put manure of any kind next
the roots, but spread on the surface
afer the tree is set, as it will serve a
II i'..lble[‘-Hl'j)!)>I.‘ lI‘.Pf(‘, f;-wd the room,
and act is a. . ulcli to hold the moist-
ure. J. N. S’l‘l£ARNS.

Papers on Horticultural Subjects.

From Farm Dop’-.‘.l‘l’.111l:5!)t of the Grand Rapids

Democrat, Secretary Garfield editor.

s.\i.iLL 1«‘i:L'i'rs F()l{ l’l{(>l’l’l‘.

1Ve 1'i'eqiie1itly hear lll(‘1l say that
Slllilll friiits don’t pay, and that they can
buy tlieiii cheaper that they can riiisc
them; while l’i'esidciit (lliiiiei says he
can and does grow 1‘iispbe1'l‘ies as cheap-
ly as corn. not counting the ,L‘2tlll6l‘l]lg
(kl. bushel of 1‘2ispbei'i'ies is worth about
ten of corn), and we know by actual l‘.\'~
periciice and obsei'\’zitioii here at home
that we can produce from one to two
hundred bushels of Sl.1'£lWl)e1‘l‘leS per
acre, and if well grown will iiizirkct at
10 to 15 cents per quart. Now piittiiig
it at 21 moderate yield and it faii price,
say 100 bushels to the acre and 10 cents
per quart we get $212!) froiii an acre. To
be dediicted from this will. be the ex-
pense of picking and Inzirkctiiig, say 2
cents per quart, $64, the cost of culti-
vation, which is estimated at $12 to
5515, call it .5510‘, making ii totzil expense
of $80, leaving a profit of $240 for the
acre. What farm crop will iict us as
much? Of course, the first year you
have to buy your plants (unless you have
them), lay out of the use of your ground
and cultivate without any returns. Af-
ter the llrst year you can grow your own

lants.

Recollect this is not put at an extrav-
agant yield nor high price. Take fine
varieties, on rich sollaiid good l0Cd.l'.l0ll,
and under high cultivation they tell us
an acre can be made to produce $1,000.
Then at Graiid Rapids we have ii mar-
ket for a fancy article at a fancy price.

Now. why this difference of opinion
about small fruits payiiig? The fact is
we get just the crop we work for. Tile
man whose strawberries don’t pay gen-
erally has little or no faith in them;
prepares his ground accordingly, select-
ing the poorest sand, which he knows
wont produce anything else, goes to
some old worn out St1"d\Vl)C1‘I‘y patch
that was taken from another whose
parents and graiidpaiciits, yes, and
great graiidpai'eiits were abused and
starved, and tears up his plants. A

lziiit is a plant to him, no matter about

ts pedigree. Not so with his horses
and cattle. He takes these worthless
plants home and stuffs the roots in the
ground all doubled up in _a bunch; per-
haps some of them sticking out, some
too deep and some not deep enough;
lets all the old leaves and riiniiers re-
main on, and leaves them to take care
of tliemselves. The coiiseqiiencc is
lllzllly die and leave large vzicancies,
and what do survive be nearly or quite
liiiislies us he ciirelcssly runs tlirougli
them with his cultiviitor ii time or two
in siiiuinei‘. This is his first yeiu"s
trcaitiiieiit, and the second is like iiiito
it; he does not do iiiiyfhiug but growl
because there is no crop. No wonder
his sti".i\vbe1'i'ies doii’t pay. Let him
pick up some sci'awiiy nubbins of corn
for his seed, of no iiiiitter what kind,
give it a siinilair chalice and see if he
caift buy his corn clieaper than he can
raise it. When he talked about buying
what sti‘iiwberries he wzuitcd he had in
mind getting zl. quart or two new and
then during the season, not thinking if
he had grown them his family would use
ii pcckor more it day, and thus save his
pork and beans, besides the enjoyment
he would get himself out of a better
living. Contrastadiniier where pork
and potatoes predominate, prepared _by
a. discouraged wife, with one of which

line liiscioiis StI‘il\\’l)t‘l'l'lcS as the center

of &l.il1‘zl.L‘tlOll with a big s1i';lwbci'r_v
SllUl‘lL‘ill{t’ iii the bzickgroiiiid. ’I‘lii~i'e is
:1 look of pride and s;iti.~'f‘;u'fioi1 on that
wifc‘s face. Tzilk iiboiii snizill fruits
for profit. Ile1‘i-is wlieri: it comes in.
The lllilll who (laws lllillit‘ .\'tl'il\\'l_icl‘l‘lr.‘:<
pay L:ll\'L‘>‘ L‘.\'ll':l pziiiis in ‘c-uricliiiij_r and
[ll'L‘pill'lllg‘ his In-st locnfioii: gets his
pl.uits from \'i_'_‘,'()l‘iI'il.\‘ st-ii-k. on-ii if Ii»-
uloi-s Ilil\'(‘ in pziy two or llll't‘t‘ iteiits it
plain; lizistlii-iiiivcll 1il;iiit+-d with flu-
Isoots >'I)l'l‘&Ul out lll good slizipe. and the
i'ooL< so l'ii'1iiI_\' I|l't.‘>'\t‘ll ziroiiiii‘. tli.-iii
that Ill‘ i-.~.ii‘i pull up zipliiul by a single
Ii-ill’; i.-ills off all full growii l(‘;l\'(‘>' :i1iil
1'lllllli'l'S. :i1iil II: n wci-k 01' ion il:1_\‘s
sl:ii".s lllf,’ (‘ulll\';llU1'illlll keeps it going
iill .~:.iiiiliiei' Ill l(*2l>‘l once :i we-ek; llI(‘I{,\'
off" all lulossoiiis ilicfirstsiliiiiiil-1'.:iii«l if
lieiviiiils i-xlm lill'gt' fruit. l\'\(‘}bs oil‘
iill l'llIlllt‘l‘.~'. In the fill] wliuii i‘. l'i'i-L’/.cs
up he gin-s Illl‘lll ii liglil iiiiilcliiiic of
Sl.l‘£l\\'. li:i_\' Ul‘ .<<,IlllL‘ (‘<);ll'.\'C lll«llr‘1'l£lI to
keep flu Ill 1'i'oiii f'1'iil-xiii: out lll lllt'
.\‘[Il'lll_‘_:': when \\'al.l‘lll \\'l‘2l\lll'l‘ (‘<iIllf‘\‘ Ilt‘
(‘llIlk,‘I' di'a\\'s if froiii <)\'<'l' llll‘ L‘l'()\\'ll of
mu ,. pl ml or l(‘l>‘ ii Iclllillll fill zifii-1'
friliiiiig. or ii-iiio\'c.~' ii l‘lltll'I-'l_\ illlfl
giws lIl(‘lll oiw good i-iililviitilig and
liocilig about Ilw IIISI of April, :iii«! lll"Il
puts his iiiiili-liiitg lliI.l'I\' on to keep
his l»i~i'i'ii-s (_'I(‘Iill illlll ,<,:i‘oiiilil
moist. 'I‘li~ sli‘;i\\'l»i-i'i'_v is ill l'<-i-.l-
(‘l’ on w'.iLvi‘. (‘.\‘}>(‘(‘I:lll_\ \\'Ilt‘ll
friiifiiig. .\l'lvi‘ his plaiiifs :ii'+.- illroii§_:li
friillliig, lic lilI\(‘$ oil iill Lliix lllllIo‘IllIl,E!
élllll gin-.-; lllf‘lll tliowiigli (‘llIIl\'iliIi)l/l
the 1‘eiil2iiiiili-1' of the h'(‘2l.\(.lll.\\‘I1¢'ll Ilt‘
'1iiilll:lii-s its bi-f'oi'c. The (,‘(>Il.\'t‘illIv"Il1‘(‘>‘
£ll'L‘, his lJ\,‘l'l'It'.\' zirv lill'gt,‘. liolll nut in
size, 1ll¢‘:L.\‘kll.ll to pzick ziiid llllll'I\'i‘I_ mid
Ill fiii-1 liis fruit st-lls its;-If zit ii lilgli
]>1'ii-c. lligli (‘llIll\':llI()ll lll fruit grou-
lllj.," is tlii-roziil l1l.\'II(‘(‘f‘.\‘.\'. I Il.‘l\'i‘I:lI\'l’Il
lll(' >’ll'il\t'lM‘l'l'y siiiiply Ioi‘ illii.~'Il';i'iio1i
illltl ll()l 'l,i-<*:iiis<- it. is flw Illil.\'I ]|l'()IlI-
iililv of tIii- siiizill l'i'iiiI.<. lids}!-
I)i‘l'l‘I(’.'\‘ aux: t!\'(‘ll IllUl'(‘ }-i'olil;ibl«- in
the lUIll.‘,' riiii, itllil lll some I('.\'[>f'|:I.\‘
pri-I’¢.-1‘:ibli-; not its pi,-i‘i.~li:iblo. lllill'i*
1,f.l.\il_V (‘III-l\'ill4t‘il, :i.~ .\'.llv";llll¢‘ .‘l.\ \\’Ill':lI.
2LIliI if not ill, :1 fail‘ priv.-, (‘Jill luv -~\';:i>—
Ill':Il(,'(i. (lii<- iliiiig is ilI\\':l_\.\‘ lo '..«- ~~:li<I
of siiiiill f'1‘iil1.~': 'l'lii-i."1'<i\\'i-1*min <‘HllllI.
with propui" ('&ll't‘. on an iiiiiisiiiil l‘l'-zip.

l’w:ii'.<. SIIIIIIPS. ]N'iIl‘Il(‘>'. IlliI!ll.\'. I-ii-.,
full to bring zl ll2ll‘\'1‘.~'I (lIli'I|lllll">. bill
l)(.‘l'l'll‘.\'(IU not fiiil om .\‘f'£l.\‘Hll in ten;
illlll \\'IlL'll lll'.'_\' p:ii'li;ill_\' l';iil Ill" liiglii-1'
pi'ii-cs lll2lI{l' 1):l.l’Ilill or lot.-il riiiimiiil.-'
fortlii-slil;llli'l'o1i. ll~i'3’i«-s. foo. (‘2lIl ‘me
i'2ii.~‘ci: in oiw }'(‘:l.l' or I-is.s.:i1'fn-1' i»l:iiifiiig.
but for lIll' l:ii'_g'e friiiis Hill‘ iiiiisi wziii
lIll'(‘(‘ or foul’ yl,-;i1‘s Ill lt,‘2l.\l. ziliil wlii-ii
the ()l'l‘ll ll'lI<‘>'l Il1I1)1N‘ll>'lHj_;'i‘I2l I'iiIlvi'oi,»
now iiiiil lIl(‘Il iiiosi of his ('iilIllil‘IllIil'.~
liliw the saiiiii-. \VIl(‘ll El iiiziifs liilfilllilll
for siiiiill friiif growiiig is good lii- llliil
Il(’lI('l‘ utilize it for zill it is \\'oi'lli.-—(z'.
G. l))("II/IPH.
iiissii_\l*i2ii .v\l’I’I.I<2.\‘ —S()l{(llll’.\l .'\‘(l'l‘E.~_

I am very gliul to note the ]il‘&I(‘ll(,‘&ll
topics you 2lllll()llll(‘f‘ for ilisl,-iissiiili Ill
tho lIUl'tlClllIlll'il.l sol-iefy. I1 is ;i pleas-
ure to g'dlIl(‘l' '.\liist_I will of tllt‘ incl-t-
iligs Lliroii-,:li the pl-i'iis;il, tlioiigll I (‘illi-
iiot iitti-lid llll,‘ iiicctiiig:-'.

I would like like to we one qiilrstioii
(llb‘Cll.\'S(‘(l zit sonic Ill,ll'I.I(,‘lllllll'ill ;:;itlii-i'-
iiig or lllI'1l1lf.1'll flip Ilil]ll‘l'SI Wluit is lllt‘
cause of the iiii.-‘sliiipcii iippli-s so1iuiii-
crous dlllUll;.Z,' ('U1'l:llll \'1LI‘l(‘tl(‘S lzisf st-:1-
son I’ I liclicw that El. Illf‘L‘lIll,'.:‘ of >'oci+--
ties in I’oiiti:i<-, tlil-iniiise was gilt-sso-ll ill
by Mi’. htoiit zis lli‘lllj_‘.' the sting ill’
piiilcL1ii‘c of," soiiiu lllh'(‘(‘l. Siiiw then I
lizive tiikcii 2|. flaw spi-ciiiiciis llll(l(.‘l' PX-
:iiiiiii:iLioii and I find. i1iv:iri2ibl_\', tliiit
tllf‘ ftilllsi‘ of [lie tliilllilgff oi'igi1i:iLi-ll lip-
])=.‘.I‘t‘.lltl)‘ zit the core of llit‘ Zllllllt‘, as
l.Il()ll}.1'll the (‘;£_L:' of" .\'UlllU insect Ililtl bvci.
ill-posited \\'lIIllIl tlil- ‘tiling fruit or
soon ziffé-1' the full o‘ tlic lilllrlfilllll.
TIl(,‘ll(‘U lIl(‘l'(‘ is ii \\'l‘ll.-(l(‘IlIl(‘(I ti';i<-<- of
the (-oii1'si- ol’tl1el:ii'v:i ()lll.\‘l(l(‘, f'olIo\\'—
lug the lll(:l'i‘2l."»L‘ Ill size of lIl4' fruit. guil-
erzilly fei'iiiiii2iliil;: in illl 0l).3‘(.‘lll‘t‘LI exit
at ii point of (ll'}ll'L‘SSI0ll Ell. tlio Slll'Ifi(ft‘
offlic £l1)plL‘. lIU\\‘t’\'(:‘l‘, lll sonic (321 s
the cliziiiiicl lll:ll‘l{lllj.;' the oilt\\':i1'd 111:4-k
of the worm l.'(‘l'llllIlill(‘S :it some little
di-ptli below the siiiface, zis tliougli an
exit lliltl been 2llI(‘(‘tt‘(l lit ziii i-zirly stage
III the gi‘o\vfliof' flie1'i'iiil,ziiiil lizid bi-i-ii
closed over iiiilloiitgrowii. I Il2lV(‘ not
been able to recognize any iiisect re-
lllélllls in any of my l3X2tIlllll€tI.lUllS, but
with ii good glass I feel siirc flint I
should find my supposition correct.
Next your I shall keep pretty (5IOS(‘
\\':itcli of the iiisects visiting the apple
blossoliis and the young fruit, ziiid hope
to make sure of the cause of the iliiiiiiigc,
be it what it iuay.

[Our own llllpl‘t'SSlUll is that our C01‘-
respoudeiit is 011 the wroiig ll‘2lCI\'. It is
the opinion of the most ciirefiil ()lJS(.‘l‘\'—
ers that the large proportion of one-
sided apples last year was due to i1ii-
perfect lel‘l.lllZEl.tlUll of the blossoiiis iii
the Sprlllg.-El)l'1‘()l{.]

There is another topic I wish to see
disciisseil; that is, as you iiiziy guess,
the sorgliiiin question. I think that
the interests of the state and the proba-
bilities of‘ ii crop of great profit will
iviiriuiit the ugiiiitioii of that question
on every possible occasion.

The great siiccess zittziiiied by the lljo
Grziiide sugar conipainy of New Jersey;
by the Uliainpagne sugar coiiipniiy of
Illinois, and by the many snuiller ex-
periiiieiitcrs tliroiigli a wide range of
soil and climate lll our country prove
me practicability of rowing the ziinber
cane and working it or sugar in paying
quaiiitities; beside, the State invites us
with a bonus of two cents per pound
to an earnest effort to establish that in-
dustry as a part of‘ our State economy.

I will add in this connection that a
committee of the Genesee county liorti-
cultural society have under consider-
ation the project of establishing a
sugar refinery at Flint. I hope to be
ab e to tell you of some progress in
that direction after the next meeting of
that society:-O. H. Ilusted, of Ilolly.
SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING CURCULIO.

The questioiiv was recently asked:
Why shade trees for curciilio in the
morning, as recommended by the books
when the insects are doing tllt’l1' work
only in the \\'Zl.I‘ll'leI‘ parts of the day. -

Mi‘. McCl'.itcliie of Ludingtoii respond
ed: "To be sure the curculio must have
it \\'zll‘lll enough so he is not numb in
order to pursue the object of his life.
Still iiitlie days of early suininer he
can get at biisiiiess very early in the
iiioriiiiig. This past season, llowcver,
we lizid 1'ei'ii.irk:ibl_v cool nights, so the
C‘ll1'(3llllL)l‘elIlilllled quiet until the sun
was well up. Wiirni mornings it is best
to be at the busiiiess of catching pretty
early. while on cool days the best suc-
cess is bad in the middle of the day.
some judguieiit is required even in so
small it niatte-1' as this. In cool weather
the Rainsom chip process may supple-
ment the sheet in catching the “little
Turks.”

Iain peculiarly situated. My plum
orchard is isolated from all other plum
orchards, and hence my plan for catch-
ing ciirculio, although not enera1_ap—
plicable, serves me well. Vhen it is
time to gather the annual crop of cui'cu-

' plows‘

lio. I do the whole liiisiiiess at 21 single
job; Ilizit is. I g0U\'(‘l‘lll\' t‘Illll't‘()1'(‘ll£l1'(l
.<1I1llt‘lllill'lllllg and sliiikc ofliill I can
y:-1. l'<illo\\'iii_«.: this lllllll(‘(ll2ll(’l)' by an-
oilii-1' l'UIlll(I :iiid this by third uiitil I
;_:e-[ lltllli‘ III the Sll(‘(‘lZ lllflll I lizlvc 110
l'iirtlil~i‘ li'oiibli- fliiil )1-:li'. (lf (‘Ll1ll‘>‘€ I
lllltlt‘l‘>'l:iIlll that this pl-iii will not 111]-
sm-i' (,‘.\'L‘(‘]ll Ill ;-. l‘;l>'t‘ like lll‘. own
\\li<-re no Hlllvl‘ oi'i-li:i1‘ds ;ii'i- lIL‘ill' at
Ilillltl."

(lpiiiioiis v;ii‘_\' £llllUl|j.1' ll1i- In->'l O1‘-
rll:ii'<li.~'ls .'l.\' to lIl(‘ (l:llll1lg‘i' iloizc bv the
(‘lIl'1‘lIl-.U£lll(I lllt‘ bi->1 llli‘lIlU(I.‘~ of fi_u'Iit-
iii: flw iiisi-<-ls. Tllcic is .\Il'. hiililli of
Il-.-iitoii II2ll'lml'. ii lllilll of lolly: oily.-ri-
irim-. \\li«> l't'lll;ll‘I{(‘(l io ll.\'lll:lll>\\'C1'
to this sziiiic llll(‘>IlUllSlll>SlElIllI1lll\'115
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we-I .~'lu»u-I iii 1l1i- iiiiildli: of lllt‘ din‘.
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iiiiiy lw gnllii-1‘:-«I \\'lIIlIilll lroiibl.-_ 1
do linl li4‘>‘li;ll(‘ lo .~':l_‘.' lliiit flw (‘lll'('ll-
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plv will SIl£ll\'(' l-ll‘ iliv (‘lll'(‘llllU lIlt‘ll
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will full oll':iiiil1li<- liiili iii \(‘I' 1'l1Ii‘ll:
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lI1lllll' soiiiv _a’.i-ul points upon lllt‘ :lllU\’L’
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lo\\‘ }>l'l1‘i' of In-u-.~' In 5_"i‘o‘.\ lIl(‘lIl ll);
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vul. \\'i:Ii 9 -Il fr]: lmilv to lll:llU‘ “but is
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HIIUH IIUlI_\ iil Ill‘.\'l. ‘

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Ii)lll'<Il' Il\'(‘ side llI‘£llll‘Il(‘..w' lII.\"lI'IIiIlIl’(l
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fosiii_;'l<- liiiils, and by ;ii'i':iii;_iiiig llic
cut 2iwo1'illli;_i; to lIl(' \\ :l_\‘ Illf‘ liiiils jioiiil
ll ii1iif'ol"iiili«-ml Hill Ill‘ pliiiiiii-«I. The
triliik Slllilll I luv ('(l\'(‘l'(‘(l. oi’ lI(‘Il(‘l' :~IIII,
_\\';i.<lii-«I with so:i1v:<iiil:-iii’. time of 1il:iiit—
lug.
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At 21 giiilii-i"iii',: of 1‘i‘u‘if r,-;i'o\n-r- in
tlil-soiillimii1-ziitol lIl(‘ Mailr ilil-1'ol-
lowiiig llisigiissiiiii lil‘llll_'.,"Ill mil .\‘:.1,,L-
good poiiifs:

.\Il'. l’l«-i'soii of Iliidsoii IHUI Ill‘-'_’I‘lI up-
on t_lii- Int-oiling flu‘ (Il'.\'Il'ilI)IIIl_\ oi [urc-
lizirliig with lIll‘f.1I'(’£lll‘.SI (.‘:ll‘(‘ lIl‘.‘ ]\I’l(.'f‘.H‘
l'oi'ili<- Iii-i-.~‘.f'o1li' ll'i'i'.s‘ ll(‘lll;l' :1 il;i_\"s
work f‘oi'om- lllllll in [ll2lllLlll_i1‘. \\'Il('ll
.‘.Ii'. Iiyoii i<-iii::i'l<«-ll, I Iii-iirfilv :i,«,'l‘c<'
with Mr. I’I(‘l‘.\'tlIl :1.» 11» the Ill:]i<Jl'l:lll('t‘
of IIH‘ lllllI‘:ilIj.'Il 1:11-1.:;l':llioii of the
Ill iilsil-li in so‘. ll'(‘i‘>'. lllll I
\\'oiilil;;osllll fiirflio-1‘tliiiiilii-:iiulii.:ikc
the IlHI<‘> us l2ll';_f<' as the (Jl(‘Il£ll'(I, is
ollii-1' \V()l'lIS, lll<il‘lrllgI1I)' 1il'(‘Irlll'(‘ fllc
\\ Ililll‘ :ll'L‘2l.

Ml‘. Sill-ii 2l>'l\'1‘lI, \\‘ullI<l not siilmiiliiig
I)!‘ ll(‘ll(‘,I' lllilll the iiii-Lliod of digging
Il(II".\' and fitting lll(‘lll so iiil-i,-l_v ‘r

.'\Il'. l’ii-1‘soii—.‘\'o, I tliiiik not. I wiiiit
lll(‘(tI'(‘£llIl of the soil wlicrc iIl(‘ roots
will .-it once l:ll\(' Il(lI1I of it: and this
Hill 0111)‘ be .\‘L‘('lll’('(I by pi'cp:ii'iiig the
IIUIVS :is I Il2l\'t' IIlfIl(‘1ll(‘4l.

.\[i'. I'HlI(:l' I \\'0lll(I subsoil tlicii plow
iigiiiii, tlirmviiig flu: siii'f':ice (lll'L toward
iiiy liiic-s of ll't.‘(‘>'. .

J. .5‘. \\'ood\\'2ii'd—l (.‘L‘l'Ii|.llll_\' should
not dig holi-s :lll(I piiy so Illll(‘ll2lllL‘ll~
tion to fertiliziiig i-lose about the tree.
Wliy, gciitleiiimi, lll six iiioiitlis from
the llllll: El tree is SUI. iii the spring the
roots will be zi loiig \\'ll_\' outsidv of the
llUl(.‘, if the tree docs zit illl well. I
don't believe in foediiig ii little pig very
high, and ivlicii lie gets to it (,‘(‘l'talll
stage briiig him down to o1'diii:i1'y diet;
I don’: believc Ill pziinperiiig a boy un-
til he gets iiitoliis teens and then all 2!.
once subiiiit llllll to the hardsliips 0
life. In the slime \\'kl_V with ii tree;
wziiit it to have the kiiirl of feed lit the
start tlizit .I can give it through its life.
So I would fit the ivliolv zircii. of an or-
clliird or fitiioiie of it.

Mr. l’iei'soii—l (-oiif'i:ss tliiit I cziiinot
zigrcc with the geiitleiiiliii. It is a. good
thing for it tree ivliilc eiiduring the
shock of tniiisplzliitzitioii to have it little
painperiiig, to have its food of the best
kind and witliiii i'cad_v access. lly this
iiieaiis it will rapidly gain the vigor
ll.eC€SS2il'_V' to push out for its living.

Mi‘. Ti'acy—We are apt to f'o1'gi-t" how
soon the roots get away from the body
of the tree, and how soon there are few
feeders close to the body. Long before
the first growing season is over the roots
have reached out and are feeding out-
side of any hole a man will ordinarily
nizike for it. Unless one has given
special litteiitioii to this subject of roots,
he will be surprised at the distance they
reach out. I have had a. tile drain
stopped by parsnip roots three and a
half feet below the surface of the
ground.

Mr. \Voodw:i1‘d—I have set 11 iiuiiiber
of orchards, and have been fairly suc-
cessful; and my practice has been based
upon knowledge I received bv having
it l‘d.lll‘()il(l bed cut through .'«l.lluOl‘('Il§il'(l.
I then f'oiiiid that apple tree feeding
roots were priiicipzilly out from once to
once and ii half the height of the tree,
and there is wlii-re I put my fei'tili'/,ei's ;
there is where I iv-aiit my ground in
good tilili for the newly tI‘1l.ll.\‘1)la.lll’.€d
tree.

Mr. I’iei‘son—Clzi_v soil is rliffereiit
froiii sandy soil in its reqiiirements.
Upon the forine.-i‘ I certainly should
not dig the holes.

Mr. Stoive-ll——lii Micliig-(‘in we are
very much troubled with the bores if
d. tree has a siiddeii check. I have
thoiiglit it wise to have ii very nice bed
in which to place newly transplanted
trees, so as to have as little check as
possible on account of the borers.

Mr. Reynolds of Monroe had set five
orcliards, and believed emphatically in
fitting the entire area of soil alike,
putting it in excellent condition. ’

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BUYING. cheap goods and bu ing
goods cheap are terms that cannog be_

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MAY 15, 1883.

afluutlp-’ Qiepaiitnzent.

ON THE SHELF.

BY MARY D. BBINE.

Lost! a dear old

(When mothers
know,)

She W13 always on hand with the children
then,

Telling them stories again and again.

She helped the mainmas, and sang rhymes
withoufmeasure.

And for wee, fretful babies was always a
treasure

’)h, where is she gone to! does anyone know,

A"he little old woman of-long ago?

woman of long ago,
and fathers were babies, you

Her dress was peculiar; she wore a mob cap,

And her little high boot-heels went ti, ity-tap.

And she rode a big goose when she sailed
thro’ the air,

And she liked the children her good times to
share.

Oh, the babies they loved her in auld lang

ayne,
And the booksellers thought her “remarkably
fine.”
And never it nurse half so merry as she,
Oh, where can that dear little old woman b.?

(BEl’LY.)
Who’.-1 asking for "Mother Goose,” I wonder?
Who cares a penny where I may lie?
In this new age my style's gone under,
N0 baby now-days cares for me.
I’m only “Mother Goose,” old-fashioned,
Laid on the shelf, t e style no more,
For where I used to shine in splendor,
Kate Greenawagz now has the floor.
--- Good C/tl‘€'7'.

Aunt Prue's Szlutatory.

Dear Nizces and I-Vcphcws.-—A.s the
ditur has told you who I am and why
_I am here, I can imagine you turning
with regret to your department to
make the acquaiitance of “that new
Aunt.” You are perhaps apprehensive
that she will iirove crotchety and
tro .blesome,aud Aunt Nina was neith
er; so you will scold her for tics rting,
which makes you feel better than to re
sign yourselves to this new intlict ion.

Having long been a reader of the
VISITOR, I already feel acquainted
with you, and think you soon w ll
wi 11 me. Please do not Let Aunt
.\’i’na’s desertion cause your interest
in the departnient to wane.

I think your “picnic” an improve
ment upon the entertaiiiin-.enls usually
cla.-:—sed under that head, for tiiougls
not invited I was an unobserved,
highly entertained spectator, and hope
it will not be the last the of the kind
I shall attend.

AUNT PRUE.

-’-Wheelbarrow Grange Members.”

[From the annual report of the Lecturer of the
Ohio State Grange, presented at its session
Dec. 1882.]

As I have trave led I have very care
fully studied the character and coIidi-
tion of the Grange, and have fouhd
the study both interesting and instruc-
tive.

I still occasionally meet 21 Grange
that does not seem to l.lIJ‘..l(:I'l3l'.;AD(I the
nature and object of the Order. Th».-
meinbers seem still groping in the
dark, unable to give a reason for their
faith. Were more light given to these
Gr-uriges, they in‘ght theniselves be-
come sources of light to all around.

I i1:‘.ve- met Ciraiiges whose I116-I]_ll)€‘lS
are continiially lamenting the depart.-
ed glories of their early days. The};
have much fault to lint! with Ih’~li'
members for non sittc-ridance. Tliey
complain bitterly o’ the blindness and
dullness of the farmers around them.
they can talk of nothing but the glo-
ries of the days departed, when their
hall would scarcely hold their mem-
bership, and they had iniziatioris
every night.

Alas, for such members ! They are
like unto the Israelites of old, who
were forever looking back to the go
ries of the kingdom of David and Sol
omou and I.lCleI'.ft.’I‘8 could not see the
brighter glories of the kingdom that
was offered them. They do not tinder-

-stand that the prosperi'y of the days
departed was a delusion and a snare,
and that the prosperity possible to-
day is as much in advance of that
“l hich they once had, as the ripened
fruits of Septeinber are superior to the
fragrant blossoms of May.

such Granges do not advance. No
one can go forward with face turned
backward. He who attempts it must
stumble and full. Onward, brethren l
Let the dead past bury the dead. Our
work is for the present and the future.
Leaving .hose things which are be-
hind, let us press forward. There are
wrongs to make right, mistakes to
corrict and lives to brig ten. Up and
to the work 1

I have found yet another class of
memb: rs. They much resemble a
wheelbarrow, which never moves un-
less some one pushes it. so likewise
these members must have continual
pushing. They must be urged to come
to the meetirgs; they 1.-.ust be coaxed
to do their part. It is push, push,
push, if you would have them move.

But you must be caref-.1 how you
push a wheelbarrow, or it will upset
an :1 all it contains be spilled. do with
these members. You must push very
steadily, push very carefully, 1 r al
most before you know it they upset
and a 1 their faith in the Grange and
their love for its principles are spilled

There
they lie, right in the way for every
one who comes along to stumble over.
Did you ever cross your yard in the
dark and stumble over a wheelbarrow
that had been upset and left in the
path? You remember that after you
had fallen < ver it, you picked yourself
up and were about to start on, but just
then the wheelbarrow ran between
your feet and you went over_ it again
backward; and when you tried once
more to rise you found yourself and
the wheelbarrow so tangled up that
you did not get thrr‘-ugh wrestling
with it for the space of half an hour-
and it was not a half hour of profound
silence, either.

J uat so with these wheelbarrow
members. You go on quite in the
dark concerning their presence or pe-
culiarities, till ou stumble over them.

 '. think all is well again,
( ‘I ifiilujigigi liliieiin they run into you and

' d in spite of vourself
:28 ggturldllibdznd tumbled in the mire

‘EH3 EBAXEQE ‘VISITOR.

of controversy till you think you nev-
er will get through.

If the Grange had a littany, one pe
tition should be:

Fro-11 bm:kwar11 looks, aid endless
talks, and self and s:rife,av11i wheel-
barrow ineinl-eis, goml Lord deliver
us.

In our country are two -lasae;-; or
we ils: [.1 one 1.-lri.~.s the water is «.21
tidn -l by a pump. and when you wish
some '.w.tc~r you take hold of the han
dle 8.1’-tl ,num;1, puuii-, pump, and the
old ;.-iiznp gro-iris and .-'queuk~.i
inoaizs, aiid aft:-1 much piinipinrg filth
gr1ai:i.'ig and squeakiiig and Lu')2Lllii‘1g_'
y- u :.re ewardt-11 with a tin cup 134..
1 I‘ .v.--.tei‘. tic arr: some members. Al,
the se:vice tiny give is given unw .‘-
liiigl,-1, grudgingly, eouiplaiugly, wit:
it gre-3.[ dad of groaning and 2-qiie la-
iiigaiid mo t1ll.'l$”,‘.i'.l(il the service "she:
oilimine-ti ct; l-l -e put in a Liz: c1;j-
zind would not hail‘ fill it.

'l"nere is a1-.o:h'-.2‘ class el‘ wells :‘r1..r;~.
which the water flm-.-'~« freely :-211:1 1 -:1
and wizite-r, day a‘illnlgilr1,W€l'W'fafl1—
er and dry. Asked or 1.11-mglgctl,
tusiriksd or untliaukeil, they ;.-on:
forth their strearn, ‘..1l-:::5sii)g all aroiiziu,
and their prrsence is known by th:
fresilncss a..d ‘oeauiy ih.-t .~.u‘.’.'ouii1.~
th-in.

I have ft-und many such inriniben
in the Grange, yea, my heart h:.s beet
made glad to see how the number is:
incrvaset. Men and women inn
whose hearts the dr ll of convi--tio:
l1 s fléllelfabeti deeply, who love thi
right and the truth for its own sake,
and love the Grange liecnusv-. they sew
in it that which is right and :1‘u«-.
They go patientiy forward, giving
time and strength to the work, Parllll.-‘
not for self, waiting not to coiisidcr
wlicther their work will 1 ring them
thanks or reward. They ask no r(--
ward but the con.-sciousness of baVl’1;_'
added to the l!l1l11UfI1ll)'1.l:1iiiia}v' mes»,

Blessings on such workers. a my
is the land wherein they abound, filo.-
shall they be without reward. To do
a good and unselfish deed, is in use 1'
a reward, for it makes the soul gr<‘\\-‘
broader and n« 1bler and grander.

“I hold this th‘ng to be grandly true,

That a noble deed is a step toward Gaul,

Lifting the soul from the common clod

To a. purer air and it broader view.”

And In.-my 1'. humble soul, who sell‘-
forgetling and by the world forgot,
to-ifs on, slied-l1:.1gl‘ght, lm',.p u:~.s.- am’
joy all around will, in the :.;r~ii1.ifz-._1,
W erein is rendered to eve.._'y .1111-. ax.-
ct.-nling to his dz-eds, be call-.:.i to coir-e
and fans a place above many anotlit-r,
who has rejoiced in the sun»-liine --l"
fflfllr‘, and whom the people l’mv+- du-
ligliteii to honor. -

I am glad to be able to tell ycii that
I have found a. marked imp:-inn ms=2;r
in the condition of the Grange. 0:’
the numerical gain you liuve a.!i'eady
heard. The gain I record is in charat-.
tor and work. I have found Grsngw.
that have been as good as dead and are
alive. I have found agloriou:-: ingath-
ering of the ,1. oun . 1 have ween more
music, more true raternityzintlugreai
deal more educational work tlisri l
have ever seen before. ‘

I can tell you where the Grange has
been despised, it is now respected;
that men who but 23. short time rgo
npposed it, DOW support it; yea, nioiv»,
that men in all‘ stations and occurs
tions of life are now looking to th~
Grange as the only means whereby
existing evils may be overcome.

I can tell you that the spirit of nar-
rowness, pr'jud.ce, and :~'elfi=.linc-ss i»
being cast out, and 2. spirit of pur-'1--1
patriotism, philanthropy, benevolent-e
and [1It‘.gl'e‘i5 is coming in, And wliru
5'-me one who is a stranger to the
Grange and its work me is me a.i:..i
a:=ks: "Is not the Grange about
dead?” lanswer “Nay, friend, it is
just lieginning to live.”

__.__.____________.____
The May Atlantic.

The May Atlantic C()lJ';.lI1l1’:S the re»
markablc t‘X(‘-'ll9lit;\: iittai‘-ed by tie
previous inemberoof c:ils_ves:r. 'i‘ho~~.~
who have read Mi‘. i{0Wells".-1 (ls-ligh‘
ful story, “Their Wedding Journey,”
will read. with poctiliav‘ zest his charm-
ing paper, “Niagara Revisited, Twelve.
years After their \Ve=.lding J- urney.“
Dr. Holmes contributes a Lhtte-page
poem, and one of the bat he ever writ-
ten, entitled ‘The Flanc-u1,—— Boston
Conimon, December, 1882, during ti":
Transit of Venus. ’ The Fiecond As:
of Henry J:-.nies’s comedy, “Daisy
Miller,” will have nhost. of reader.-.
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett has written .-1
very engaging l.WO‘£Iart story, “A
Landless farmer.” of which the first
part appears in this number. Chsrli s
Egbert Ci'sddock,wi1ose stories:-f East
Tennessee life have .-attracted so much
attentioii, contributes zinr:-ther, entitled
“The ‘Harnt’ that walks Chilhowe-2.”
“Colonialism in the United States” is
an admirable historical paper by Heri-
ry Cobot Lodge; “The Flood .3". the
Mlssissigipi Valley,” by Prof. N. S.
Shaler, cannot fail to enlisttiieini
mediate interest of many thousaiitls
who have a vivid recollection of the
ravages these floods caused; “The Rain
and the Fine Weather” is a v:.~:i,its.l
out~1.-oor essay by Edith M. I"li«.:ui;z.s.
Other poems. essayei, reviews of im-
portointnew iio-. ks, and rhr-«e bright.
short. essays in the Coni.ril:»ut..m..' (,‘l'.,ll>
concludv: a very inter:-sting Hufljber or
the Atlantic.

HOUGHTOM, MIFFLIN& Co., Boston.
3»

7

THE new count of the money in the
Treasury at Washington shows a sur-
plus of just four cents. It will have
to be carri. d as an error on the books
of the Department until Congress or-
ders some disposition of it.

THE MARKETS.

Gram Ind Provisions.

NEW YORK, ills. l2.—Flour, sales, 10,000 bbls.;
dull;sli htly in uy_ers‘ favor. Wheat %;@l/20
h_igher- ‘rm but quiet; trade largely, a ecul_a-
tive; 0. 1 white. $1.165/,; sales, 40,000 u. N0.
2 tr.-d June. $1.28%@l.23'/g; 208,000 bu. July,
$1.25%@$l.25%; 240,111) Ibn. Augn, $1 ?k3%@l.-
26%: ‘:8.',(XD bu. _r*ept., §l..27%@1 27%. Corn.
%@7i£c higher; fairly active; mixed western,
spot. 56@66%;' futures. 64%@69%. Oats. 3A@
also better; western i8@-56. Pork quiet, firm;
spot, new mess, $20.47‘/z@20.50. Lard, higher,
firm; steam rendered $12.12!).

DE'rBoI'r, May 12.—Flour, $4.85@5.00. Wheat,
rm; No. 1 white. $1.08?§; May. $l.08‘,’é; June,
$1.10: July, *1._l2%a bid; Aug. $1.135/g: Sept. $1.-
14%: No. 2 white, 98% bid; No. 3 white‘, 87%;
No. 2 red 31.16%; rejected, 77%. Porn, dull;
No. 2,58% bid. Oats, ensv; No.2, 14%; No. 2

Flour. Wheat. U07-n. Outs.
Beceipts............ 750 10,349 988 2,592
Sl:iipments.......... 650 819 3.907 none

Omonoo. Ma 12.—Wliea.t. active. higher;
regular, $1.13 ay; 1.14% June; $1.17 July,
31.1754 Aug.; 51.17% pt.; $1,173/. (_}ct; $1.12
year. Corn, higher; 55% May; reiected. 431/;

' white Hacked.

@47, new mixed, 52%@54; new high mixed.
56%. Oats. 41% May. Pork, 320.07% May.
Lard, 811.87% May. 1

and.

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l

I 6111

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1

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TOLEDO, May 12.—-Wheat, very firm but
dull; .‘7o.1white $1.1l%; No 2do 98*/g; reject-
ed. 81; No. 21-ed. cash, 31.16%; Jone. $117543
July or Aug.. $1.19: Scpt.. Sl.l_9=».;: Oct. 1.2073;
year $1.1fl%; No.2 $1 1'”,-5 : reJ1 cted. 9'1‘. Corn,
strong; high mixed, 63: No. 2, cash. 58%@58§§;
rcjectel 551/,; no grade, -13%. Oats. dull; No. 2
cash or June 44; rejectt d. -ll‘/g asked.

Groceries.

NEW YORK, may l2.—Butter, dull,
l1@25: Elgin creamery ‘5‘@‘ :
steady; Ii@l31/3. Sugar, firm
steady; moderate demand. Roe.
fairly active. Colfee, quiet. weak. Tallow

dull:8‘a@9~_%. Western eggs. dull, 1711;’.
CHICAGO WHOLESALE i>RIcEs—TIn1Es REPORT.

Sugar, stand. A .... . .8%’c Butter. dairy.. .1‘.'©22

granulated . . . . .. lllfic ex. crea.m'ry..2-t@.?t3
Dricd apple ‘V2100 ladle packerl.. 73
Potatoes, ‘. . . '50 Eggs, frc-sh...l5@l5l/7
Wool. med. unw. .. ‘.30 Bonus, h p. $1.50-2.00

west-
Cheesv
Molasses.
steady;

quiet

Live Stock.

(‘11i«'AIio. May 12. — Bog-, receipts — r‘i,.'i(t‘1;
w, weak. 5(g.lUc low;-r‘ light -§‘69()@T.l-ll;
‘ti Y,‘fl\’klY!g, $7.1 0: heavy packing
and i-i:iipp:n;,t,  ,. . tlattlegrecezpt-H,
l.2'U(I; fairly zuvive firm’ '.‘([)0l't‘1 ‘Ll t)-“':@6.ti(l:

grind to choice Si'1l[l,'l'Ii‘l{,’.t%5 8-"1@t5,.l5.

..____._.:_.__

THE REAPER DEATH.

ROSE-~-At a rrigular meeting of Mt. Hope
Gra xge. No. N7, the following resolutions
were adopted :

VVIIEIIEAS, It pleased the Great Easter on
the Jllts or March, 1883, to rcznove from our
midst our brother, the Steward of this Grange
DON MACK ROSE; therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of our Worthy
Broth-'.r, this Grniige has lost an affectionate
officer and a consistent worker; his family 1!.
kind and indulgent husband and father, and
the ct mmunitv a worth-y and useful citizen.

R-sol:-ed, That we extend to the bereaved
family our heartfelt sympathy in their great
iiillicti-1n

Resolved, That our Charter be draped in
mourning for sixty days, and a cop of these
res »lutions be sent to the Gas NOE JISITOB for
publication.

MlLES—Died at his home in Trent, GEO
A. MILES, March lith, 1838. In the death of
this hrotlier the community has lost an honor-
ed citizen, Trent Grange one of its most faith-
ful friends, and his family an affectionate
husband and father. Promnted by regard for
the deal and duty to the living, we tender
our bereaved sister and family our sympathy
and o«i1ndolence. As an ex, ression of our
loss, it is ordered that our charter be draped
with the emblems of mourning, that our Sec-
retary forward to our bereaved zzistvr a copy
1.»: these proceeiliiigs, and also to the GRANGE
VISITOR for pulilicution.

Trent, April ‘.20, lb” L5.

DEA.\i.—Dicd of consumption, in North
Star April llth. 18953. Nl;1‘TIE DEAN aged 20
years, wife of Arthur J. Dean.

VVHEREAS, She was a worthy member of
Liberty Grange, No. 391, and won many
frends umong us by her gentle Wll._‘,'l2, her
death is decp:y lariisiuted by us all, and,

VVIIEREAF. By her death our worthy l):0t3‘x'l'
has lost an affectionate wife, and our Grange
a Wortl._i and rc.-peered men ber: 'l‘hereroi'e,

Resmved, That a.-1 U. token of respect 0111
Chas ter be draped in niouri.ii:~; Ior 30 day s,
and t.lin.t a copy of l.llt,‘!'l‘ Fer,-'?l1l7.iOllB be pres-
ented to t.l.e liu.-iha.nd of the do cursed, a copy
piased upon the U’l'Vl1A«1(‘: recoruls and a copy
sent to t 1‘: (}EA:<orc Visiron for puzilication.

Nettie has 30111’, 3. cs she has let‘. us,
Here we see h -1- face no more,

Yet ‘tis God that iiath bereft us,
"Wu. may meet her on that shore.

BUSlI.—Die<rl at hit residence in the town-
ship of Bio-.1ii~.:ng<lrile, Van Buren county
Michigan, March 28th, 1853, in the 53d year of
his age. Bro. Wat. BUa1I of Woodman
Grange, No. tilt).

VVHEREAS, The great Master above, who
doeth all things well, and against whose acts
we should not murmcr, hath permitted the
Reaper Death to enter our social and irarernal
circle, and removed from our midst our honor-
ed and beloved brother, Therefore,

Ifesalmd, That in his early death, we have
1 st an esteemed brother, the community a
good neighbor and citizen, and that we ex-
tend to our sorrow stricken sister and family,
our heartfelt sympathy.

Resolved, ‘that our Charter be draped in
mourning for (50 days. That a copy of these
resoluti« us be sent to the GRANGE VISITOR
for publication. Also a copy be given the
bereaved friends.

KNAPP— Mas. SARAH KNAPP, wife of
Samuel Knapp, died at her residence in Pa-
viliou February 191%, 1883, aged 37 years ll
months and 19 days. She was born in Climax
in the year 1845. She leaves a husband, three
children, a brother and sister; has been a
member of Montour Grange, No. 49, three
years. Thus one by one they pass away.

Scotts, March 17, lh‘.‘i3.

PLUMMER— WHEREAS. It has pleased the
great Master of the universe to remove from
our midst our beloved Sister SUSAN B. PLUM-
MEB, who departed this life March 13th, lS83.
Therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of sister Plum-
mer. Lake Shore Grange has lost a worthy
member. the cnmmiiity a good neighbor, the
familyal-.1viig wife and indulgent mother,
yet we hope their loss is her great gain.

Resolved, That We sympathize with the
family of our departed (sister, in their sad be-
reavement, and commend them to the great
Master who is too wise to err.

Resolved, That the foregoing Iesolutionsl e
published in the GRANGE Visrron, and that a
copy of the same be presented to the family
of our departed sister, and that our chaiter
be draped in mourning for thirty days.

__._____Z__.
liiilieltl, Mass, Feb, 1.88:).

317- EdiI!or:—-We liave used the Pa-
trons Liquid Ri1l)lie1‘l’aiiits exte isively
for inaiiy years and it has give1il>e1'fect
s:itis1'actioii. I have used it peisoiially
and take pleasure in looking at the
beauty which it gives to ltli buildings.

Frateriially. W. B. Ki«:.\'n.\i.I.,

secv. b't:ite(.lra1ige. Muss.

[See Ad\'e1'tise1ne1it—EIii'ro1i.]

BIMEON HUNT. E. B. HUNT.
HUNT & DA 718’,
ABSTRACTS or TITLE or KENT co.,
REAL ESTATE AND LOAN AGENTS,
GRAND RAPIDS, Micn.
[Mention GBANGE VIsITon.] 15m(it

A combina-
tion by which
all farmers can
make Cream-
ar Butter as
we las keep it
in ii nite con-
dition until it
is marketed.

It saves two-
thirds the la-
bor. No ice is

. required as it
is strictly a
. _ 3. .J.. ___. A“ Jr cold water re-
frigerator. The cream is taken from the top and is
clear of sediment. The most: complete arrangement
for the Farmer and Dairyman in existence. Agents
wanted. Sand for circular and price list.
MCCALL 8: DUNCAN,
Schoolcraft, hiich.

ACME [llllilll and BUTTER COOLER

laprtr

SIEKETEES
Plll Wlliil lllfilliflllll

In Ca psule.-:.

This metliciiic is put up by the iindersigaied
in bottes and C1'l].-Hlllts It is put up in cup.
sules for the reason that many c-iiinot take
medicine in a powdered form In this way it
is vs-1' e-;s_\' to take. being ta~’to-less If taken
accorciing to directions the res-ult oi" the niedi-
cine will have the sum:-. ef‘-‘ect.

This mevliciuo destroys all kinds of worms,
including Pin Wt rms, and is the .;.;11,- emdiga.
tor of the Pin Worm known I.‘ l$'DlS1,l on.-
of the must powrrful Blood Puritiers known.
No physrc is I'H’1vllI'l‘d1lT‘P1' takiiig this medi-
cine Also used as a physio instead of pills,
being very mild in its operation.

In Capsules sent by mail on receipt of 51!
cents. In pow i- red form at 12-’: cents. Post
age stamps may be sent as pa; meut.

<:::a:o. C1. STEKETEE,
>()Llo' l‘l{l)i’l1’.il<I l UR,

(}r':uul l{:ipid:~‘, .‘I1'.i(-Ii.

Ask your Dr-i'.::i~'t tor S'.ck«3t1:e‘s 'o7oi'iii

I)t-siiwyt-r, all-.l tnlic no other.

_.\l.-ii!;1>::tint!-u.>‘.'i.~it1ii-.]

l5n.tit

——~—".T3I—IE-—-—

*wgQ.:11 _BUG~GY”

F-"3'I“.

I employ 1111 ;;.—,en‘:-:, pay 11.; (:0I}‘iIlll‘.L«l0nS,
but sell tiiieet ti 1- ~ 1ll11t:l~l, zit bottom prices,
believing; 311 1.‘ -.~ *' u.-*.al1li»liotl principle
“hat oz-e rna1i'.s ii as good as .'iu=itlicr‘s.
In bu\in,<_1; tlif. fl: ion are no? t>;peii-
mentiiig. pr) ’ sii-its, n1ir tnkirig the
wrrd of smo-'-»“-‘1‘n':_;iie<l :'_c,'ciits xr roving
pe1l1 lers

ERIC}! SEQPJ
33. 35 and 37 W..’§'l‘33IlT..OO S'I‘.,
C-I-Ii KN 1) R.\ I’ 1 I)S.
I li;l\‘(‘ ll.'l"'l one 1) l.lit-.<t- lill'j"'l|‘~' _/71' r //1'(1I‘.\’, and mu
lit-sirzily and rlievifiilly r (“Into l ’ll-"ll.
. lllfl.l.\"IiAl\ll‘l.
lflnitlt
“ The l'.::‘iii5 B or House
-31" lzll:':iigan."

Eatiiii, LYtll1&C{l.,
Bacltzellers xi S::.ticnci':i,
“'11! re-mo .Juue
list, 1) .‘1'~1.~;. 4.“ iiiid '22
.\l1.1iru.- S; «-t, 11 id will
. llt\'t5l 1:: ur .c.~t tun res
L l l l ll t
'~, ;i;.;...ii11e1ll$o1.l; Store in
I,  Il1t- State‘.
,_,,,,.,J.  uiiA.\'D iiAi>iDs.
.‘lu:ition Griiiigs Visitor
15-n.-tit

Farmers in want of

01.1113 iiuiii ilB1'lE PLANTS

Can get thein Oi Bro. IIENRY COLLINS, Kling-

era Lake. St Joseph 00., at -3 7- p r 1,000.
Order.» for 5,000 or more under seal of the

Grange and couutei's‘gn1 d by the Secretary

will be filled while the stock la.» ts at 81,75 per

1,000. H. COLLINS. St. J. sepli Co. Mich.
lémaylt

PA 3 KBZR B1{()TI~I EB S.
58 Pearl Sl., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Bell lliiiigiiig, Locksmith and General Repair Shop_

Locks repaired, Saws set and s|iai'pen9d,.-tc 1le:s tested,
repaired and made to work as good as new, Safes open-
ed when keys or combiuatii us are lost, - cks cleaned
and put in the best order. Cutlery ofiill kinds sharpen-

. All work warranted. Oiders by innil promptly
attended to. Mention Grmigc Visitor. l5n16t

VV 31. Gr. BEE(JIiVVlTl-1,

REAL EST ATE. LOAN and Tilt lllll-Jill‘,

28 (‘uiinl St., cor. Lyon, Grand lliiplds, Mich.

Special atteiition given to examining and per-
fecting Titles loaning money, etc.. Opinions
given on Abstracts of Title. Conveyancing
neatly and correctly done in all its branches.
Mention GRANGE \'1sii'ui1. l5m6t

E. V7. EETII (B C363”
DEALER IN
REED CR EAM ERS,

KEMP MANURE SPREADERS.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, MILL
MACHINERY, and .'lI[LL SUPPLIES.
39, 41 and 43 Waterloo St.,. Grand Rapids, Mich.
illentian “Grange l’i‘.n'tor.” ll5ni6t

, Blankets, Robes, Covers, Wlii

7

People who may reside at so great a. dis-
tance from Grand Rapids that they cannot
conveniently come to the city, can avail them-
selves of the most extensive and varied stock

of

DR

1::-wry 4-:11:-.v
I.-r5g_A2~<n_.--.

AND

cAR1>"i1:T1Ncs

of every description to be found in Michigan,
simply by writing us. Samples of nearly all
kinds of goods can be sent by mail.

All orders strictly attended to, and any
goods sent, not satisfactory, can be returned,
and the money paid for the same will be

refunded.

GOODS

SPRING 8: COMPANY,

FINE  

ismay 12:

WA

LL PAPERS

[ble-

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

ntinn the V1sm'oR.]

AND CEILING DECORATIONS.
PAINTS, OILS, and GLASS.
A. H. FOWLE & 60.,

37 North. Ionia. St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

[M»;nLi1;n (;‘B.A.\'<1i«: Visi'roic.]

/4
NOW IS THE TIME 1

To go west and select from 2,004‘ 1l1..‘l‘ acres of ,
lunds which I offer for sale in ?..- ‘met part ‘
of the west. But, before you go west, [)l'_8.l‘l5 I
look over the long list of lands which I now ,
offer for sale in Berrien county, Michigan. 1
This list comprises about 4,1 00 acres of fruit, 1
farm, and s'ock lands, among which may be
found tine fruit farms, with palatial residences,
and every vaiicty of fruits iritigeneous to this
uniivaled Lake Shore region. ,
A large number of small fruit farms, of ten -
to forty acre 1, located in the center of the
fruit-growing region, at prices from $25 per ‘
acre, and upwards. '
l,00ll acres of timbcred liinrls of licrt quality .
for fruit growing or general fa rming, situated .
alovg the line of the 0. ii: W.
tween $‘evensville and Bridgman stations.

These lands have but recently been placed on '

the 1nar.":-t, and c(n:-ist of some of the most ‘
desirable land in the State of Michigan, and
will he so (1 in lots to suit purchasers at  .0 to
 per acre, on favorable terms.

12,00” acres of iiooded, hill and viil-., on the
Lake. Shore, at prices from $2 to $4 per acre,
cash.
timber by the great tire of l8'.«'t, but are now
covered with a dense second growth of tirnlier,
schrubs, wild fruits and gi'ass1:s, and all favor-
ably locat-id for fruit growing, and have L-eon
proved well adapted to sheep and stock grow-
ing.

For maps and pamphlets dc~-:riptivc of
western lands, and iates to all western points,
or for bills and circulars giving lists of Michi-
gan lands, call on, or address

WW. A. HR()1N'N.

Emigrntioii and lII]IIllg’I‘1t1l<)Il Agent,

Fruit grower, and dealer in Real Estate,
Stevciisillle, Michigan.
laprtf

FRE I) VAI’i‘l:\T,
(‘Successor to F. MATTISON)
7 3 Canal St, Grand /?api'(./S, Mic/i.

HARNESS EMPOBIUM,

MANUFACTURES A FULL LINE or
Horse Clothing, Single Harness, Double
Light Driving Harness, and
Farm Harness,

All hand made, and of good s'ock. Also ll
gpod assortment of Express, Truck, Hack, and

rotting Harness, Riding Saddles, Bridles,
Martingales, Halters, Horse Boots, Surcingles,
s, Lashes, Har-
ness Oil, Soap, B1211 king, iigon Grease,
Buggy Cushions, Whip Sockets, Lap Covers,
Fly nets, Curry Combs and Brushes, Sweat
Pads, Fine Leather Goods, Collars, Trunks
and Traveling Bags in full stock at low prices.
Call and examine stock. l-3m6t

1,.\Iention Graiige Visitor.)

M. R. lt., be- '

' days.

These lands were partially denuded of .

l5IIl8.) 2t

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.
DEPARTURE or raA1.\:s iriiozu KALAMA1oo.
Tl.\ii-I-’t‘Aisi.E—.\tAi’ 15, 1882.

ACL'Ul.HIll()(l)ltlIlll lclivM,-
“ arrive»:

EV1‘lllll;; Fixprr;-is _
i‘llt'lil" l1l\pi':s's_
Mail , _..___ .. -_
Dxiy l’.,\'pt'i-sui. .,

llay lilxprc-ss,____
New York Expri-st-1,

Atlantic Bxprcsn,____ ,

New York, Allunllt‘
Evening I-lxpre-ii nest
cxcop! Saturdays. All
l-'1‘:-Zglit :r1v.iiis
K.-iliimiimo as follows :
No. :0 (in ~ll/ it 7:37.

WESTW;\ KI).

’ ’ ’"’A.Ta?.1T>.~i7.
1 5:91

arid Night Exprres.-1 cast dnl

other tmiu.-1 daily except Bun.
mrrying pit-«swig:-rs out from
No 250 (east) at :i:3- P. M., and

and Piiclflc li'xpres1s‘¢-fsftlnlly.
V

II. B. lxsinixri, Gen. Nlarmgur, her. gift,

J. A. tlsiim, !(1‘llE‘ll'lll F:

L. :3. &

K -. LA \| Azoo lll

‘t-irlii Agent, tlliirngu.
U W. Ilr7<i1ii.i<:s,tl. l’. .v T. A., (‘liicago

I.\/.E- S. R. R.

V1.~iIo.\' TIME TA l<li.vl..

'l‘ini1- l5 llllrillllas fzistv-r thin. K.'ll‘iI1l'lZ41' I

iitil

-. .lr'zri.l llapinls _______ __

.TllI'<‘(' ltivt-m-
, White Pigeon-
‘. Toledo ____ __

NU SUUTII.

” ”.\' I77: N 1' .9 11.
,Exprr-5.-J!/Ix &. 5l_
8(i’)Ayi 4‘.7.c‘1:*r’ ‘. W u
11.117 1- sin 1- , sic --
' ‘ ‘ . “ 1140 "
"1 Mn 11.

1‘ 1!") "

1.,

‘ 1 .1 *‘
i1;"> 411 Al
" '0 .111 I.

—. lillffnltr ____________ .. 3. 53121.7 110 7 4. H

GOING NORTII.

Lo. i;nnn11{f_IIj:__L___-_ 1?: 4.5 pm 12 2:.
Ar. Olevelnnd _________ --

Ar. Toledo ________ __
Ar. White Pigeon-

Ar. Three Rivers -

Ar. SchoolcrnfL-

Ar. Kalamazoo _

Ar. Allorrnn -

Gmnd lLapids--_.

All trains connect -it

main l!:.»e.

Ex ll‘: )1 l€x]:rese.; ‘V >

AM‘ . 5-ivl
735 " .700 " 195041
11201.43: 1050 “ ,lti00vu
,'r500 “ ‘ 3~i0rx,' 84-‘Al
ii , 415 In :u.(y‘) 4|

1 It ,12,,, -.1

_-_I.1o U0

'1-riinii I>igs}iii{{13i:u"{;ina on
A. G. Anson’,

Supt. Knlauiuzoo D‘ '1-ion, Kalamazoo.

R.

Corrcdtr.-(I Timc—Tnlile- April 22, 183.

'l‘R.AI.\'S WEST“/ARD.

DENIV S L. ROGERS,
Eticcessor to lliiiliiigiiiiie A’: Rogers,
Attorney at Law and Solicitor of Patents.
’1‘\VAMI.EY BLOCK,

28 CANAL b‘T., GRAND RAPIDS.

illlvllilull Glt.\.\GE Vl:dl’l‘UH.] limo‘:

GRAND RAPIDS 5; INDIANA R. R
.7i’a1si‘-wager Time 'l‘able.

,4, .._. 9__.

(JOTNG NORTH.
(_C:l;iilnis time.) i

STATIONS.  NO. 1.

I A I- .
Cincinnati ___-Lv..'_______-i 8 15 AIM 7 4*" 111,.
Richmond _-__ “ l 315 I-M,l1 I0 “ 11120 “ 1--
Ftwgis ‘ :

Kaluni:i7Tdr;:::Ar.]i ‘ 50 “ l 7 20 “ 1;‘ 50 pm

I g .
N0 3. I NO. 5.
, .

l,,,..

______ ,_, 1; 0:4 PM! 5 42 AM 1103.1:
Kalim1:izoo__-_Lv. “ 1, 740 “ 2 25 “
Grand ll:ipips_AI‘. - _. , ‘J50 “ 4 25
Grand R.ipitis-i.v.l 7 1111! ______ _-,1o 20 " 5 15
C-«dillac ____ _-Ar. 12 o5,ml__ . 3 15 1114,1010
Cadillac ____ -_Lv. j 3 30 “ ,l1 U0
Traverse Oity_Ar_l 1 5 55 PM ______ __
Petoskey ____ -_ “ ‘- _- __ ‘ 7 50 “ 415 AM
Mackinaw City “ |__: ___-I _____________ __, 7 to “

GOING SOUTH.

sm1io.»~§.‘ O,‘ . . ‘ N0. 4.“TrI0O.>6.fl’Ti‘lO.8.

Mackinaw City Lv;i_
Peto~skey _.__.- "
Trnveree Cily__ ,
Cadillac .... _-Ar.._

Cxidillaic ____ __Lv.‘_ _

Grand Rapids _Ar.i ...... __ ,
Grand Rapids_Lv.l 7 00 All _____ _L_‘
Kalamazoo ___Ar.i 910 “ l_- .
Kalamazoo ___Lv,, 9 U5 “ ‘
Sturgis ______ _- “ [I03]. “ ______ __1
Richmond _ _Ar. 5 00 em] 9 55 ml

i

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o
.>
S

105 AM

AL i’

$58883-.°».'i-‘h

4 35 Au ___
Ci'ucinuuti_-___ “ 7 40 “ ii

110 PM] 735"

No. 6 leaves Cincinnati and No 8 leaves Macklnnw
City daily, except Saturday. All other trains daily
except Suud-~y. '

Woodruff sleeping cars on Nos. 5 and 6 between Cin-‘
cinnati and Grand Rapids, and sleeping and chair cars
on same trains between Grand Rapids and’ Petoskey;
also Woodrutf sleeping cars on Nos 7 and 8 between
Grand Rapids and lllackluaw City. A. B. LEET,

Genl Pass. Agt.

'9

-’ No.
Surioys.

:i.'lllCi\_‘_(t) '

No.6. ; No. 3.‘
Flint

2. N0. 4. 
. Pacific ,1

Day

l’nss‘g‘r. Flxpre~ss.iExpru1.:- I"xpress.

. Battle Creei .’ '

‘ Battle Creek
Vicksburg __,
Srhoolcraft_ ,
Marcelliis

.:...:.v -M’ '
12:;-tot‘-’i;.& -

C,llI.l:l’ Crosi - '
Ar. Chicago ___-‘

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911 “ .
, 955 “ 11110
,1027 “ 1053
‘ll 30 “ ll '4 "
,‘l2U6 i>iu,1225 "i
100 “ . 115
120 “ '

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71:. -‘ , 800

TRAINS EABTWARD.

1

STATIONS.

Le. C'hicago_____ 9 10
“ C,RI&P Croselo 06
Redesdale___l l0 52
Valparaiso ._l 1 50
H1iskells__.,l2 O7
Stillwell ___- 12 40
South Bend. 1 28
Grangers ___ 1 48
Oaasepells -. 2 1:5
1lIarccllus___. 2 40
Schoolci-aft _, 3 01
Vicksburg -_,l 3 13

. Battle Creek: 4 00
.Balll0 Creekl an
Charlotte ___: 5 05

Lap - .
“ Imlay City-..
Ar. Port Huron.

l No.1.
' Mail.

1' No. 3.
;‘A:iancic
3 Express.

No. 5. 1
Night ‘
Expren
9 00 PI

Anal 5 30 Pl
957 “

.. I 623 ..

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“ V750 H 1120 «-

ml ______ __,1+i1 39“

“ 5 ______ __'f12l8Al1
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All trains run by Chicago time.

Nos. 3 ~n4 6 dis‘ y.

No. 5 daily, except Saturday.

All other tralns daily, except Sunday.

1'Trai*s stop for passengers only when signaled.

Pullman Palace cars are run through without change
between Chicago and Port Huron. East Saginaw Bay
City, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Bnt‘.l‘1ilo, New York, To-
ronto, Montrenl and Boston.

Gno. B. Run,

Traffic Manager.

3. R. 0Au.Awn.
Gvnonl Superintendent.

E. P. KIAIY, Agent, Schoolcr “ Mich.

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8

THE GRANGE 7331305.

New York Agricultural Experiment Station-
Bulletin No. XXXVIII.

From the Husbandman.
[These series of frequent reports are intend-
ed to inform the public of progress at the

Station rather than to give complete re-
sults.]

EXPERIMENT STATION,
GENEVA, X. Y., April 7, 1883.

The influence of the position of the
seed upon the plant has received ap-
paren tly less study than its im portance
deserves. In experiments carried on
with the butt, tip and centrav kernels
of the maize ear last season, the influ-
ence of position became extremely
marked, the tip kernels giving plants
which bore ears superior in number,
in length, and in total crop to those
grown from but or central seed. We
found later that this same fact had
been noted by others, and the evidence
carefully collected seems strong
enough to ]llStlfy our result as a cer-
tain conclusion. In Germany, Metz-
ger found that the butt kernels, from
foreign seed, retained ti e character or
the variety to the plant after the plants
from the tip kernels had already be-
gun to assume that charac er, which,
in the thi.d generation; all the grains
acquired. M. Chevreul declares that
the grains at the bottom of an ear of
corn are better than those at the top,
counter to the opinion of the majority
of observers. On the contrary, he
says the further melon seeds are irom
the peduncle the better they are. A
parallel observation is one quoted by
Darwin, where a Mr. Masters says
that the last peas in the pod of one
variety will revert to their origin
quicker than the seed taken from the
other parts of the pod. M. Giron de
Buzareingues has observed that the
seeds at the top of a spike f hemp
give more female plants in proportion
to the male plants than do those lower
down. Darwin quotes Le Coq as as»
serting that with Asters seeds taken
from the florets of the ciicumfcrence
have been found to yield the greatest
number of double flower.-; and Mr.
Chate says that in raising stocks the
upper part of the pod is broken oil“
and rejected, as the seeds in this por-
tion give 80 per cent of single flowers.
Bridgeman has noticed that the spores
from the lower, inner part of the lami-
na of the leaves of certain varieties or
Scolopendrium ferns, which were of
the normal form, uniformly produced
plants which were of the normal par-
ent form, while those produced on the
outer, abnormal part of the leaf, re
produced the special varieties.

It is a popuiar belief among garden-
ers that a. pole bean can be transformed
into a bush bean by the repeated plant-
ings of seed taken from the lower pods
of the plant.

The vitality of seeds from the differ-
ent portions seem to vary in some
species while not in others. Thus, in
some parallel experiments with the
terminal and lower kernels of wheat,
in the one case 99 per cent, in the
other 100 per cent, germinated. When
dried for seven days between the trial
and re-germin ated, 100 per cent. of the
upper kernels germinated upon the
seventh trial, and 92 per cent. of the
lower kernels. The influence of the
position of the seed upon its germina-
tive quality may be seen in the follow-
ing table, the conditions being secured
as near exact as possible. Thus, in the
wheat and oats, the kernels taken from
the same beads. Germinating trials,
the seed exposed on the surface; vege-
tafiion trials, the seed planted under
so .

NawYoax AGRICULTURAL g

Position of seeds.
Germ’tion Per Cen.
Germination 6: vegetation Low- Mid- Term-

of er. die. inal.

Waushakum corn, Flint

(Germination . . . . . . . . .

(V egetation)

(Vegetation)

(Vegetation)

White rice, pop,(Germina-
tion

J.____..,

80
80
95
9-3

9.3
92
100
100

100
98
98
82

H0
100
100

33

Bed rice, pop, (Germ’tion)
Minn. Dent (Germ’tion). .
Early Dent (Germination)
Sihley’s Pride of the North

(Germination) . . . . . . . . .
Blount’s Prolific(Germ’t’n)

Wheat. . . . . (Germination)
Wheat... . .(Germination)

100 97
O 12
99
98

100

Eésis

88 100
100 100

86 S9

Oats ..... . . (Germination) 94

Oats ..... . . (Germination)

Sorghum. . .(Germination) 6.3

In the case of the dent corns, some
were under-ripe, and the germination,
hence poor. Trials upon under-ripe
flints has very :. rong germinative
power, while tht contrary seems the
case with dent corns.

E. LEWIS STURTEVANT, Director.

_:_____________

How Oat Meal is Made.

The rapidly increasing use of and de-
mand for cat meal is creating a corre-
sponding inquiry for plump, heavy
oats. Hitherto American oats have
been too light and chaffy for making
meal. The culture of this crop has
been carele’s, and little attention has
been given to improving the quality
and weight of tre grain. Scotch and
Irish oats often weigh fifty to fifty-five
pounds to the measured bushel. Of
course we cannot hope to compefe in
our hot, dry climate with that of those

laces which is cool, moist and admir-
-ably suited to the growth of oats. But
as we sow we shall reap, and it has
hen satisfactorily proved that heavy
seed sown will produce heavy grain
for some years, and with good treat-
ment-that is, with manuring liberal-
ly and w_ hoareful culture of the soil
,the cm will deteriorate only very
slowly. ur neighbors in Canada pro-
duoe oats of forty-five pounds to the
bushel from seed of the same weight
imported from New Brunswick. So
that it is a question of seed and culture
with this crop, precisely as it is with
all others. If we desire to grow oats
suited for making meal we have a mar-
ket for the grain, and in any case a
a farmer should desire to grow_heavy
grain although he may feed his pro-
duct on his farm. As a hint_ toward
this result we give the following par-
ticulars regardivg the manufacture of
051; meal, taken from the American

“The first operation in the manu-
facture of the meal is the removing
from the oats all the cockle, small oats
and foreign seeds of whatever kind,
for if any of these remain the quality
of the meal is much injured. Black
om if even or good fil1811tY.g1V"- 8
hgdhppearance to the manufactured
meal, as it reappears in the form of

black particles, which to the tidy

housewife appears to be so . ething
much more uncleanly. After the oats
properly cleaned by sifting
they are next subjected to the opera-

have been

tion of drying. This is accomplished

in dry kilns, with special a paratus

construced for the purpose.
eration requires some care to
the oats from burning. As
sufficiently dry they are removed from
the kiln while still very hot, and stor-
ed in such a way as to have them re
tain their heat; after thus remaining
three or four days, and hardening,
they are ready for the shelling opera-
tion. This shelling is accomplished

his op-

by passing the oats through mill-
The pro-

stones of a special pattern.
duct that comes from the stones is
groats, or the whole kernels, dust, seed,
etc., and these must be separated ; by
means of a combination of sieves and
fans the groats are separated from the
other material, and are then ready for
grinding. For extra quality meal the
greats may again be shelled and also
passed through a brushing machine.
The grinding of them must not be
long delayed, as a few weeks’ expos-
ure renders them unfit for milling. In
grinding the groat, the great aim is to
avoid pulverization, and to have the
granules cut square of uniform size.
Oat meal is generally denominated by
the cut—-as pin head out, rough cur,
medium and fine cut-though the.-e
terms have different districts. After
the grinding the meal is passed
through sieves and the siftings graded
according to size.”-—0ur Young Peo-
ple.

Western Stock Raising.

The development 0 attle- raising
in the \Ve-t is still rapid y progressing.
English and Scotch capital is already
largely invested in the business, and
recent English papers tell of the for-
mation of a large number of other cat-
tle-raising companies, having chiefly
in view the prosecution of the indus-
try on our Western ranges. Of a list
of seventeen such lately-organized en-
terprises. representing a capital of
$2i),6-50,000, all but one intend to oper-
ate in this country. They have nearly
all been f4:l‘ln6(l in the last three or
four months, and in soliciting invest-
ment the prospectuses of nearly all
have dwelt upon the success of the
Prairie Cattle Company, which lately
announced a first dividend of over 7.5
per cent. These foreign cattle com-
panies, says t Rural £\'ew Yo’/'lcer,
are fast gaining control of the industry
in the far West, either by appropria-
ting large ranges or by purchasing the
herds and “plant” of American stock-
men. It looks now as if Uncle Sam's
wide pastures, from the gulf to the Ca-
nadian line, would ere long be doing
more for the enrichment of English-
men and Scotchmen than of Ameri-
cans.
the “cattle kings” toward smaller
stockmen and neighboring agricul-
tural settlers of native or foreign origin?
The land-otlice records, the columns
of local papers, the orservation of in
telligent visitors to the range, all tell
of high-handed mannerin which these
potentates often fence in large areas of
the public domain, closing public roads
that cross their illegally acquired
ranches, mix up small neighboring
herds inextricably with their own
multitudinous stock. depredate on the
crops of adjacent settlers, am; often at
the mouth of rifle or revolver forbid
intending settlers to take up the land
offered them ly the laws of their coun-
try.-Exc/lcmge.

"STAR-ROUTES,” about which we
have heard so much of late, are by
stage or horseback, and not by rail-
road. They were established by the
postmaster general upon petition from
inhabitants of the places to which the
route is to run. These stage or horse-
back routes are designated on the
books of the Department by three
stars.

___.______________.

WHAT is the chief element in the
triumph of bummerism of politics‘?
The indifference of honest citizensto
their political dutie.-.—iSt. L0u7IsPosl.

TREE BEAN.

PRICTES.

[Small Papers by mail postage prepaid,.l.5c.j

Seed 1 Pt sufficient to plant one-fourth acre,
60 cents. Postage 15 cents extra

Seed, 1 Qt. sufficient to plant one-half acre,
$1.00. Postage 30 cents extra.

Seed, 2 Qts., sufficient to plant 1 acre, $1.50.
Postage 60 cents extra.

GEORGE W. HILL,
DETROIT, MICH.

Webster’ lilllllili

“A LIBRARY IN lTSELF.” "°--*°-I *°~
._.______..

An ever-present and reliable school master

to the whole family.—- S. S. Herald-

G. &C. MERRIAM, & Co. Pub’s,
ismay Springfield. Mass.

$lO00 REWARD

For my machine huliinir and gleimjng in nu-
market Isinucli Clover seed in one
DAY as the ,

The designed purpose of the Grand Rapids

(Michigan) Commercial College is to prepare

the student for the practical duties of life.

Discipline of the mind, then, lies at the base of
and the question to
be answered is : How may the greatest degree

our scheme of education ;

of mental discipline be-obtained F
For further particulars please call, or fllclfil-“
stamp for College Journal. Address,
C. G. SWENSBURG. Proprietor.

ldecly . GRAND Bums, Mrca.

BEST MARK}! PIE.’
PEACH PLUM. PEA"lr{, Al’I’A.L¥:‘y
and other trees; .50 sorta
u'II......r:i.1.

§i’fiiwsEnm 

mmuig,Creeeent I{e1lfll('li‘_i/,5/I111‘ (us '

82 per 1000. aspberr-ies,B ack-
I£$:.'l'16E, Cl11TBnf8,‘§SWenB§!;’,B off grams

catcaah ' ‘or .a1alo<7ua_
J. S. COI.lficS¢,‘.Moorestown.l\‘. J»

preven t
soon as

juyl-tf.

In the arrogant dishonesty of

, :Michigan 11 years
ago doing good work.

Mills erected in

valve tanks. _ _
trations of diiferentjobs, stating kind of Work

Grange Seal Stolen.

Sign of Cautioh--An Impos-
tor Exposed!

Patrons, Some one unknown tr me
entered the apartment where the Seal
of the Knickerbocker Grange was,
and stole inipressions of said seal on
sheets of writing paper and one E. A.
Quart:-rman has been using said
sheets of paper with stolen seal on
signing himself “Yours fraternally.”
He was not a member of the Order
even. The seal is used by him in
various ways, to impose an inferior
paint on Patrons, making them think
they are buying the Patron’s Ingersoll
Rubber Paint. VVe have letters from
several who have parted with their
money for a worthless Paint in this
way. Masters, Lecturers and Secre-
taries will please make this fact
know to the Order by readingthis let-
ter aloud in Grange-s and public meet-
ings. Fraternally,

(). K. IN(lE}€.S()LL.

76 Fulton St. New York, 1’. M.
Knickerbocker Grange.

Alabastine

Is the only preparation based on the
proper principles to constitute a dura-
l-'- finish for walls, asi: .s not held on
the war with glue, etc., to decay, but
is a Stone ( ement that hardens with
age, and every aw ditional coat strength-

ens the wall. Is ready for use by ad-
ding hot water, and easily as plied by

anyone.

Fifty cents’ worth of ALA BASTINE
wil cover 50 square yards of average
wall witl. two coals .- and one coat will
produce better.‘ work than can be done
with one coat of 81 y other preparation

‘(:11 the same surface.

For sale by paint dealers €V€t!‘_'y‘Vv'iiY.‘l ~
Send for circular containing the tweiw
beautiful tints. l\Iv'*~'1.factured on'ly by

AI ABASTINE Cr.
M. B. CHUm‘PI, Manager.
Grand Rapids, Mic}.

The Kalamazoo Publishing 60.,

Iial alnazoo, )Ii(-11..

MAKE SPECIALTIES

BLANK BOOKS of all kinds,

IHANUFACTURERS’ C.-ITALOGISES.

PAIWPHLET WORK,

COUNTY RECORD BOOKS.

HOTEL REGISTERS,

BANK BOOKS.

CIRCULARS,

CORUVIERCIAL,
PRINTING.

BOOK AND JOB

OVER TEN YEARS
AGO we commenced
erecting WIND EN-
<;iNI-:s in this State.
To-day they are doing
better work than many
of the so-called im-
provements. We still
contract to force water
from wells or springs
to any point. All of
our work put in by ex-
perienced mechanics.
Buyers can have the
practical benefit of a
living spring put into
their house, thence to
difierent points for
stock by means of

Write for Lithographs, illus-

you want done.

B. S. WILLIAMS & O0,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

BEES FOR SALE.

FINE ITALIANS in ‘Langs-
troth hives.

Send for Price List.

SOUTHARD & RANNEY,

linziyit lirilarnrtzoo. Jlicli.

linziyom

GREEN\N‘0OD STOCK FARM.
I have for sale a few

CHOICE 1'0 UNG

OF PURE

POLAND CHINA BLOOD

That 1 have bred with care. Stock’ recorded
in Ohio Poland China Record. -

Farmers wishing stock of this kind will find
it for their interest to correspond with or visit
me. B. G. BUELL,
Little Prairie Rondo, Cass Co., Mir-h.

O

15i‘ebtf
oi fiv.i‘m<-rs iiml (ionic

To me -t the ileniztiids ,
for rolia F‘ .~€Pll, we tit-r in it to suit. IL .‘im1t_ed
(['i11i.llElI_ oi (‘.-Uni ITLLY .5 ELI-ICTED .-\.\D
Tl{()l:()l'<.‘.llLY Tl~1s'[‘l-II) Si-oil (‘oi'n. pur-
cliuswl and sole-(‘to-.' lv_V()l11‘ own .<{lt‘Ci1‘.l1i.,'.!€I1tS.

Send for C‘ll‘(:lll:Ll‘. prices tlllli sz:1i1pl(:s.

I~I1raxn. Efloley dc Co.,

SEEDSRIEN. (‘liit';i;:u. Illinois.

S])€’C11ll.})1'1C€S on car lots shipped direct from

Nebraska.

lapr-it

DAISWING CHURNS.
 :2.

SO IVA-

, Best and Cheapest. No

inside fixtures. Always

1'1t=!'ht side u . No dan-

ger cover fal his off let-

tin cream on the floor.

Lasiest to use. Nine

HZۤ11l21_de. Three sizes

Negshitt Butler

I’ r i n t e 1-. Every

churn and printer war-

ranted. Onc oi‘ ouch at

wholesale where we lmve

no agents. Send for cir-

" , eiiliirs. Agents wanted.
A full line of I_Dair -' linplciiioiit-z for form or factory.
VT. FAR.“ JIA ‘IIINE (‘0., Bellows Full.-, Vt.

1mar4t

NOW IN E.

All persons say their oods are the best. ‘We ask you to ex-
amine our Improved eller Positive Force Feed.Graln,
Seed and Fertilizing Drill and our Hay es. They
a.re‘asdgoCo_d :15 the besltédang Cam): sold a|s(chMeap. "Alli arecwu.
ran 6 . irc ars mai cc. 9 at (3 ng
Newark, Ohio. Eastern Branch House. flngentown. 32

p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Same without Breeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

been foreman for Mr.
now in order to build up a trade offers special
inducements to the

be attended to at once and goods may
turned at our ex ense if not found satisfacr
tory. Address a 1 orders to

New Harness and Trunk Slum.
T. KININMENT 8t 00.,

Manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in

Harnesses. Trunks, Blankets,
vv::::r1=-s, Etc.,
117 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

All work our own make and guaranteed all
Hand Made.

Farm Harness, white trimmed, Breech-
ing. Round Lines, Bum straps,
Spreaders, etc. complete , . . . . . . . . ..

Same without Breeching. . . . . . . . _

Same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 28.00

Same without Bi-eeching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00

Double Light Buggy Harness, white
trimmed 825.00 to 330.00

829.00
26.00

The same 'z[i'ci;iéé'rt}13iz3é¢i'.'.:f:s3o.0o to 350.00

Single Buggy Harness, with round
lines, white trimmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ 12.50
The same with Flat Lines . . . . . . . . . .. 12.00
Nickle Trimmed, $15, 316, $18,320, $25, to 850
We also make a fine Nickle Trimmed
Farm Harness, stitched 6 to the inch,
stock all selected, an extra fine arti-
cle, Breeching, Round Lines, com-
lets 36.00
32.50

Mr. T. Kininment for the past five years has
A. Vandenburg, and

Grangers of Michigan,
guaranteeing a better class of work than was

ever given to them by anybody.

All orders received under seal of Grange will
be re-

Yours very respectfully

T. KININMENT.
117 Canal Street
Grand Rapids. Mich.

lhe Stale llgriiulluial Eullege.

l5j11lly

This institution is thoroughly equipped,hav- ‘

iiig a. large teaching force: also ample facili-

,ties for illustration and manipulation includ-

ing Laboratories, Conservatories, Library.
Museum. Classroom Apparatus, also a large
and well stocked farm.
FOUR YEARS

are required to complete the course embracing
Chemistry, Mathematics. Botany, Zoology,
English Languages and Literature, and all
other branches of a college course except For-
eign Languages.

Three hours labor on each working day
except Saturdays. Maximum rate paid for
labor, eight cents an hour.

RATES.
Tuition free. Club Boarding.
CALENDAR.

For the year 18823 the terms begin as follows:
SPRING TERM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .February :10
SUMMER TERM May :22

September 4

Exarnintion for Admission, February ‘.20

and September 4. For Catalogue apply to

T. C. ABBOTT‘, President. or
Ii. G. BAIRD. Secretary.

Price. List of Supplies
Kept in the office of the Secretary orth-
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

Ami sent out Port Paid, on Receipt of Gaul
Order, over the seal of a Subordinate Grange,
and the signature of its Master or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred,..
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary

to keep accounts with members, , . . . .. l 0-
Blank Record Books, (Express paid),. . . 1
Order Book, containing 100 Orders on the

Treasurer, with stub, well bound,.. . . .
Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts

from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,

well bound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound,
Applications for Membership, per 100, . . .
Secretary’s Account Book, (new style). .
Withdrawal Cards, per doz., . . . .
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . . .
By-Laws of the State Grange, single

copies 10¢. per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
By-Laws, bound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . .
“ Glad Echoes,” with music. Single copy

15 cts. per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1
The National Grange Choir, single copy

40 cents. Per dozen........ .. 4 0
Rituals, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

“ per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
“ for Fifth Degree, for Pomona

Granges, per copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Blank “Articles of Association” for the

Incorporation of Subordinate Granges,

with Copy of Charter, all completa,... .
Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100,.
Declaration of Purposes, per doz., 50.;

per hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
American Manual of Parliamentary Law

15 It ll ll ll

(Morocco Tuck,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 00
Digest of Laws and Rulings, . . . . . . . . . .. 40
Roll Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Address, J. T. COBB.
Sac’? MICE. Sums Gs.Ai:au.
SCHOOLCRAFT. MICE.

M. 1-1. sMI'ri=.I’s

GRAIN GRADER,

And Seed Separator, the Best
Fa.-mtiug Mill in use.
Works Established at Law-
ton -in 1860.

Patented March 29, I870; Im-
provedinI882 and I883.

My mill is well known by the Side Spouts and being
marked: “Patented March ‘.29, 1870; Improved 1882 and
1883.“ None Genuine unless it has the side spouts and
so marked. 5

Farmers! you will have an opportunity to purchase
these genuine mills, improved this year of my agents.

This is the only Fanning run Manu-
factured iu Lawton, Mich., and any assertion
to the contrary is a falsehood.

__._.
Farmers, Beware I

Of unprincipled and dislionent tricksters. The fact
that counterfeit Fanning Mills are built and marked
in imitation of mine, and claimed to be manufactured
in Liiwton, Mich., when they are not, is un-
questionable evidence that it is a fraud, gotten up on
purpose to mislead. Farmers.’ do not be deceived and
purchase this Bastard Mill of irresponsible parties, but
purchase the Genuine “Grain Grader and Seed Sep-
arator, patented March 29, 1870," with spouts leading
through the side of the mill, ofmy agents.

Yours truly,

IIIYRONZ H. SJIIITII,

Lawton, Van Buren Co., Mich.

PATENTS.

LUCIUS C. WEST, Solicitor of American
an-~ Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent
Cause». Trade Marks, Copyrights, Assign-
ments. Caveats, anr Mechanical Drawings.
Circulars free. 16 Ports?! street,
aprlti KALAMAZOO, MICE.

FROM all varieties of Poultry-
 Circulars free. Send 10c for
New Book on Poultry.

OAK LANE,
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Dwight P. 0., Mass

ATRONS’

Rfanufacturers ofln
Paint. The only Pa
airorwater, the sun.
which destroy all
lit-ered freight paid to any
ed until delivered. .4 II
sent free Beautiful Color
structions how any one

P.-1Ii\’1' WORKS, No. 76‘

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hits that de
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ollier Paints.
depot in the country.
Paint users
Card of the Paint
can Paint.
FULTON sTRI'.'l;'T,

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fy moist or salt
burning can I’ ,
Pricr’s Ion-, de-
No cash requir-

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Addr

A55 'lii'".A..;S‘i}N.

General Commission Merchant,

181 South Water Street, CHICAGO,
BUSINESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

nupoomiiy lollolh Oonolg-iunanco or
F RUITS, VEGETABLES. BUTTER. E008,
WOOL, HOPE, POULTRY, GAME, VEAL,
Oman: S004. Rcw Fur; Eliidol. Pcltu. Tallcw. bc.

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IIIIDED IIEIT of the I. I. PIIODIJGE EXBIIIIGE ISSOGIITIOI.

ohm-fiend Fob. IOII. I877.

To Ptfrbno lull Chlppon.-—-This is the only Commission Home in

Uhhlcoursur

Dd and controlled by the Patron of Husbandry. The chief aim of this Agency is :

In. loan:-iv for Payment to Ihlpporl.

lid. ‘to chain the Highest fluke: price In! good: i-ooelvod. qunllw oonnldccl.

lid. Quick Salon and Prompt Payment.

Ihlppere In all States will receive equal benefits of thinunagament, thomuinou Hanger
being under Bond: for the faithful performance of the same.

Tllh Agency will an Order: for any goods in this market, at lowest possible nice. Oub

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Z131 IIPOITI. ITIIOHJ and IEIPPEO TAGI uni on 

W. E. GARDNER,
SEED GROWER

OF MOLINE,

Is still alive and selling a finer assortment of
seeds than ever before at prices to astonish
the natives. Many varieties below seedsniens‘
wholesale prices. Send for price list '

INSECT PUWDEBS allll FERTILIZERS.

The cheapest and best INSECT ANNII1ILA-
TORS, PALMss’s PLANT AND VINE Ps.0r1~;c-
TOR, and HAiiI:~.Ioi~:i2’s SLUG Snor, a profit-
able fertilizer for all lands, sure death to
all insects, harmless to man or beast. Only
-‘$7.50 per barrel, (200 pounds;) 25 lbs.,
$1.15; 10 lbs., 60 cents; 5 lbs., 555 cents: 1 lb..
10 cents.
be used on potatoes, vines, flowers, bushes,
and trees. Seeds ar.c warranted also.

To show that I mean business I will sell for
two weeks from date of this paper or while
stock lasts at the following extraordinary low
prices below general wholesale rates, viz:

Mammoth Pearl and Harlequin pot.-itoes,:

large, tine stock; and Red Brazilian Arti-
chokes, true zind improved, also White French
genuine, yield for me for two years 900 bush-
els per acre. Either at $1.1) per bushel, 50
cents per peck, 10 cents per pound.

California Dent, true 8-row»-1/, broad, deep,
yellow kernels; new, very scarce, extra quali-
ty for table oriield. green or dried. The ear-
liest Dent. 1 pint, 15 cents; 1 quart. ‘.35 cents;
1 peck, $1.00. Sibley‘s Pride of the North,
extra early dent com, 15 cents per qt; 4 qts.,
50 cents: I peck. 90 cents. Sweet Corn, the

earliest, medium, or late, 1 quart, 20 cents;  ,3

quarts, 75 cents.
White Silver Skin or Portugal Onions,

1 pound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22.10.
Red Wethersfield Onions, 1 pound,.. . . 1.50.
Yellow Danvers Onions, 1 pound, . . . . . . 1.25.

5 pounds of either, 10 cents per lb. reduction. 5
" u

1;) M M  u it
 U r.‘  u
100 H H 35 H

Other varieties in proportion. Boxed or
bagged and delivered at freight or express
oflice.

To show the extra large packages I put up
I will send upon request to every Grange a
sample packet free, of seed l.:(-pt over one sea-
son. Prices for seed by the quantity to Gran-
gers given by request.

§‘"Remember 25 to 75 ounces of choice
Beans, Corn, or Peas generally for  cents.

N. B.—-All seeds left 01:27‘ one year at half
price.
For full particulars address :

VV. I-I. GARDNER.

15feb MOLINE, Allegan Co., Mich.

PATENT IMP[{OVED

SPRING-TOOTH HARROW.

No breakage of Bed Pieces as ‘we do not
. Cut Thern.

THE BEST TOOTH HOLDER EVER INVENTED
Having flanges vs.-ist on each side prevents lateral
spring, thereby prevcntiiig trailing. It is Impossible
for the Tooth to get loose and w--air the woods on ac-
count ofits p('(.'llli‘(1l‘ construction.

Tried and Tested Successfully.
___,,__
Gives General Satisfaction.
———o
Adjusted by Inoviiig the Nibor licad Illl('ll€'4l on the
tooth from one depression in the casting to the other.
’1'0OT1{ CA .\'.VOT SLIP.

._.,,__.
Simplicity and Durability.

We use the best ofstccl [oil tempered}, and the best
of white oak in the construction of our implements.
All castings are made ofthe best iruu.

,§ \\ ith proper care one will last for years.

Farmers can save the price of one of these llarrows
in a very short time, in time and labor saved in going
over the ground, as once going over prepares and mel-
lows it up in such a condition to receive the seed as
would not be obtained in going over three or four
times with any ofthe ordinary Harrows. It is also the
best seed-coverer in the world. _

Ground prepared by this Harrow will yield a larger
crop than by any other agricultural implement, be-
cause it pulverizes the ground thoroughly, cuts the soil
from the bottom, shakes it up and leaves it in a loss
condition; in so doing it shakes out all grass, thistles
and weeds, leaving them on the surface in the sun
where they die much quicker than if half covered up.

This is our fourth year as manufacturers of SPRING
Tooru IIARROWB. We have made several improvements
whereby our Barrows do better work than last season.

Liberal discount to the trade. For terms, prices,
etc., address '

CHASE, TAYLOR6. C0., Manufacturers,
’ Kalamazoo, Mich.
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nrrriumn-1-rsnr.

All Pain (lured by First Treatment,

n@°ABSOLUTE CUR]-Pen
' VVAIIIIAIGTED

When Directions are followed For full in-
formation, Testimonials, Circiilars,etc.,
Address with stamp or apply to
PROF‘. (}E(.). M. RHODES.
Universal Dispensary, 351 Lyon St,

GRAND RAPIDS, M103.

3116011168 for all Chronic Diseases on lianil.
W1 Y

VVarmnte(l or money refunded. To -

the amountroqiiired; balanootobepaidonreedptel H11

THOMAS HABON, Business lnaga.

f

loerstnlfigliééiid 00w 0
P OWD E RS.

This powder has been in use for many
years. It is largely used l‘-y the farmers of
Pennsylvania, am. the Patrons of that State
have bought over 1tI‘..\,i.‘i« pounds through
their purchasing agents. Its composition is
our secret. The receipt is on every box BEA!
5-pound package. It is made by Dr. L. Ober-
holtzci» Sons iii. Co., Phoenixville. Pa. It.
keeps stock health} and in good condition. It
helps to digest and zissimlate the food.
Horses will do more work, with leer food
while using it. Cows will give more milk
ant: be in better condition. It keeps poultry
healthy, and increases the production of eggs
It is also of grez-' value to them when molt-
ing. It is sold at the low cst wholesale price
by R. E. JAMES, KALAMAZ00 GEO. W.
HILL .5: CO , 80 WOODBRIDGR S'r., llisraoir.
THUS. MASON, 181 WArim ST., Cmcsoo.
and ALBERT STEGEMAN, ALLEGAN. Put
up 1.. 60-lb. boxes (looseg, price EIGHT CENTS
per 1b., 30-l! boxes (of ‘ 5-lb. packages, TEN
Carers per lb.

LIFE“ INSURANCE

FOR PAT1{ON£3‘.
o
'1‘ H E

Patrons’ Aid Society of Michigan

WAS ORGANIZED 1)‘ DECEMBER, 1880,

I to give the Patrons of Michigan an opportu-

nity to belong to

it Home Institution of Life Insurance

that they could control. As its name indi-
cates, it is FOR THE MEMBERS OF OUR
ORDER AND FOR THEM ONLY.

Its Annual Meetings occur at the same
time and place as the annual session of the
State Grange. This feature was for the ex-
press purpose of provid-ing for a large repre-
sentation of the members of the Society at its
most important meeting of the year, when its
ofiicers are elected. and without special notice
any amendment to the laws and rules govern-
ing the Society may be made. ‘

The MUTUAL PLAN adopted by this Society
provides that an Assessment shall be made
ONLY when a member dies, and the
amount of that assess ent is fixed when a
person becomes a member, and cannot be in-
creased at any subsequent period. This as-
sessment is graduated according to age, which
is an important and listinctive feature of this
Society—one which should commend it to the
favorable consideration of Patrons.

If there are reasons why people should from
time to time pay a small sum from their in-
come or their euniings, in order to secure to
those dependent on them in an hour of need a
sum suflicient to bridge over the expenses and
wants incident to that most trying period of
life, those reasons hold good when applied to
the Patrons of our State.

Applications for membership may be made

0

JAMES COOK,
Adrian.

ELIJAH BARTLETT,
Dryden.

R. C. CARPENTER,
Lansing.

J. T. COBB,
Scboolcraft.

J. L. KENYON,
Marshall.

J. W. EWING,
Eaton Rapids.
W. B. LANGLEY,
Centreville.
GEO. W. EWING,

Ross.
A.  GREEN,
Walled Lake.
J. G. RAMSDELL
Traverse City.
A. N. WOODRUFF, GEO. PRAY,
Watervliet. Woodward Lake.
or to Local Agzmts they may appoint.
For By-Laws and Circulars apply to either
WM. B. LANGLEY. P1-es’t.
Or J. 1‘. COBB, §ec’y. Centrevilie,
(emu .-avlioolcralt. Mich.

j_}m__.-.,.._2._

FENNO a. Marminr ,

Wool Eummissiun Merchants;

117 Federal St., Boston.

Consignments Solicited and Cash Advances .
Made.

1~ish’s American lllcmual of

PARLIAMENTARY LAW

Is the cheapest and best.
so plain that every Citizen or Society member
should have a copy.

Circular of commendation free. Price by
mail prepaid; cloth, 50 cents ; leather tucks,
31.00. Postage stamps received.

Address, J. T. Coma, Schoolcraft. or

G-E0. T. FISH.

(Mention this paper.) Rocrnisrnn. N.

Fameriilllenllunl

GIVEN AWAY,

51 Acres of Land!

The above choice tract within one minute
walk-of New State Blind Asylum. Lansing.
Mich., and ly_1ng less than one mile from
New State Capitol Building. at a “give away"
bar in, it _closed at once, non-resident title

r set, no incumbranoe, small first payment.

orig time. come and see it. Address _
Post Ofioe Box 762, Lansing. Mich.

Y.

The subject is made '

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