§W® “THE F;iHd[E[f IS OF .7|I0It’E CONSEQAUENCE THAN THE F.-lltilf, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IJIPI?0l'ED." Vol. XV. No. 16. PAW PAW, lllICH., AUGUST [5, I890. Whole Niiiiiber 352. THE GRAN£: VISITOR. PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY. jist and 13th of each month.) AT THE OFFICE or THE Tart-: Noiirni-:I———§,. Slip-Shod Fruit-G-rowing. There are two classes of fruit- growers. The first, and always successful class, is composed of those who go into the business after full study of its require- ments and with the full determin- ation to meet them. This must involve, not merely knowledge of varieties and markets, and the kinds of fruit that can be most profitably grown. but also a hearty willingness to be prompt and energetic in doing the work that must always be incident to fruit-growing. The other class is composed of those who have somehow got the idea that fruit- growing is an easy business——that with fruit trees or plants set out the work of their owner is done until the crop is ready to harvest. Such men only by accident ever get a crop. Many of them go into fruit-growiiig merely because other farming has been unprofit- able. If they believe that the culture of fruit is any less exact- ing than ordinary farming, they are destined to make worse fail- ure in that. Not even in Eden was man promised any good ex- cept as he tended and dressed the garden that had been given him. That there was a time when fruit was left to care for itself, and when it sometimes bore enough under this neglect to ‘ as well. satisfy those who knew no better way, is true. But no branch of the head of the procession can achieve great success. This is fruit-growing. Yet that was not ,the easiest way, though it seem-' ed to avoid all work except that ‘of gathering and marketing the fruit. Time was. and within the mem- ory of many. when wild berries constituted the main. if not the only. supply of these fruits for cities and villages. The demand was not large enough to stimu- late increased production under high cultivation. berries grew, the absence of cost gin their cultivation must place‘ lthem beyond reach of compcti-f tion. Now, except for the. wlior- tleberry. there is no wild fruit gthat is not crowded out of the; market. not only by the superior‘ excellence of the cultivated ber- ry, but by its greater cheapness Costing nothing except picking, the wild fruit grows so scattering and small that it is not worth even that. It must be an extremely glutted market, or the fruit-grower be in an unfortunate location. if good crops every year do not yield him a profit, even when prices are low. The only drawback to this is sometimes an untimely frost or hail-storm. which de- stroys the promise of the year: yet. even in such seasons the fruit—grower who cultivates suf- ficient variety may pretty surely expect to succeed with some- thing. Insect enemies are much more numerous than formerly. but so ‘also the means of destroying them are better understood. The Lise of the force pump to spray trees with arsenical poisons, or with repellant emulsions. where poison cannot be used. is as nec- essary to the modern fruit-grower as the plow or cultivator is in or dinary farming. It requires study and skill to do this properly. but there is. happily, no branch of farming in which these qualities are not needed. We rejoice at this fact, for it is the necessary preparation towards greater suc- cesses than farmers or fruit- growers have ever yet achieved. There may be, and must be. temporary loss to those unable or unwilling to put brains into a business that has long been con- sidered one mainly of brute force. But the evil will cure itself. and is no more to be regretted than the pain which must always at- tend any upward development. As fruit—growing becomes more difficult. it will also become more profitable. and, with increasing competition. success will only be possible to those who devote their entire attention to this business. and their success will be greater than it could possibly be when some kind of success was within the reach of all.—A-m. Cultivator. T Light Brahmas. This old established breed of fowls was introduced into this country from China (it is claimed) about 1847 to ‘:32. At that time they were comparatively crude in their appearance and makeup compared with what they are at the present day. They were very awkward in their shape and ir- regular in their markings. But after having been in the hands of the most experienced breeders for one—third of a century. they have been decidedly changed and improved, not only in shape and color of markings. but in egg It was natur-N l ally supposed that wherever wild- ‘ful breeding and selection. until they are only about third or fourth in the list of great layers of the present day. and are al- most a nonsetter. They are large and fine in appearance~ body white. black tail. black stripe in ; neck. black wings. when opened. ‘and feathered legs and toes. They are very hardy and easy to rear. I believe it is claimed one can raise a greater percent of them than almost any other vari- ety. They grow rapidly: their liesh is tender and juicy up to a year old. making the finest of roasts. They are easily confined in yards or otherwise. making them an especially desirable va riety for towns and cities. A . four-foot fence will confine them at any time. When fully matured the males weigh 1:? pounds and the females 9-}. that is, when over a year old and in good flesh. Much more might be said of their good qualities had I the de- sire to spread out, but suffice it to be said that all in all they are one of the top varieties on the roost. (comparatively speaking.) for they generally roost low. and in thoroughbred point. of view they are the leaders. and will 1 breed a greater percent of stand- ard birds than almost any other variety known, and that under trying circumstances. F. J. Mar- sliall in .-llianu' I'u/l«-_1/ 1"urn2<'r. —----— -—~ 4 t > - — «- l A paper was recently read by fMr. Alfred E. Pease. M. P.. be- lfore the Cleveland Chamber of lAgriculture, of England. the , subject being. "Breeding Horses for Profit.“ Mr. Pease said in {the course of his discourse that 3 if he were a farmer who had de- cided to take to horse breeding. an(l wanted to consider the safest and surest way of making it pro- fitable. he should set himself to discover (1) for what class of horses there was the most con- tinuous demand, (2) what horses on the average commanded the best prices, (3) whether any of the breeds that it evidently would pay best to raise could be bred from animals that earned their livelihood in work on the farm. Mr. Pease‘s advice to the Cleve- land agriculturist was to breed carriage or general harness horses. This class of horse was, in his opinion, the safest and most profitable to breed over a series of years. It was inexpen- sive and simple, and they had in Cleveland a basis which could not be surpassed—he meant the Cleveland Bay. Many valuable statistics were given by Mr. Pease. who urged the Chamber in the interests of the Agricul- tural Department to ask for powers to prohibit the use of sires tainted with certain of the worst forms of hereditary un- soundness or. at least, to issue government certificates of sound- ness for stud purposes. also to do what it could do to discourage that pernicious system of short distance and 2-year-old racing on the turf, which has had such a deteriorating effect on the con- stitution and stamina of the Brit- ish thoroughbred. This could be done so as not to prevent the preparation and fair develop- ment of the 2-year-old. These matters were of national import- ance, and he should support the recommendation of the Royal Commission to increase by 365,000 the sum now at their disposal for the encouragement of horse- breeding. TI-IZEL‘ G-BANG-E VISITOR. August 15, 1890. Secrets. \Vould you fathom the secret of Natnre’s art, The spell of her m_\'stic measures; \Vould you learn of the hillside. heart to heart, The soul of her inmost pleasures? \Vould you know why the wind-flower's bloom is 5 brief, Or purple the violet's blossoms? Then come to her haunts for your soul’s relief And gather it home to your bosom! l ‘Where the grass of the meadow is long and free And tossed like -a summer hillow, Seek for some mossy stone and see How silken your dewy pillow. And list to the hum of the wandering gnat. The shrill of the locust's singing. And tell me one-half of the sweet tones that Their song to you ear is bringing! \\'herc the lily is tall or the bending reed Sways low o'er the steanilt-t‘s sighing: \\'here the snap—dra;:cn scatters its silken seed And the down of the thistle is flying; \’\'here the wild bird roams at its own sweet will. And the trout leaps high in the river: Come—tell me the secret of all and fill The soul of my soul forever! For the wild bird knows, and the seeds are full Of a mystical lore and knowledge: And its needs no dullnrd that learns by rule The sweet old dreams of college To render the science that dwells in all The Children of Nature's breeding, If you list to her soft. low, wooing call. To her mother tones give her:-ding! To her own she is fain and nothing loath To whisper the key-note in her. The miracle ever of daily growth And the spell of the charm to win her; The spell of the hills and the charm of the flowers \\’ith the day and the night dew gleaming; Ohl what a tnagical world is ours— How full of a sweet wild dreaming! ——'/71:‘ ]mI'l'/>i'm/¢'nt __..a¢—o — ~—- Summer Shoes for Horses. The condition of the horse's feet is a very important matter in the summer. for at this season there is apt to be neglect or for- getfulness of it because the wear of the shoes is less than in the winter. It is a curious instance of the too common habit of mis- judgement. that the shoes of the horse should be more thought of than his feet. and the foot is more often fitted to the shoe than the shoe to the foot. More- over. shoes are generally ill shaped. too heavy. and so fasten- ed to the hoof as to injuriously disturb the balance of the foot and change the whole bearing and stress and weight on the tendons of the limbs. There are times. as in the winter. when the roads may be icy and the footing unstable. and when. for safety. the rules which should control the use of shoes may be tempor- arilly suspended or violated to some degree. but this should be done with such good judgment and for as short a time as may avoid serious damage to the feet. It is a question if a horse needs to be shod at all in the summer. Very often the horse is in worse condition than if going barefoot. for the old shoes left from the winter are retained until they grow into the hoof. which be- comes distorted and bound and seriously injured by the compres- sion to which it is subjected. No doubt the use of a shoe weakens the hoof and softens it. but the cutting of the hoof to fit it to the shoe does more of this than the covering of the horn by the iron. But this need not happen if the shoe is of the right kind and is well fitted to the sole. The pur- pose of the shoe is to preserve the foot from undue wear and protect the sole and walls from breaking by contact with rough. hard obstacles. In icy weather the shoe may be armed with hard steel points to prevent slipping. but there is never occasion or need for the high calks usually attached to the toe and heel of the shoe. or to the toe or the heel only. If the horse is forced to walk on stilts. with the foot raised from the ground, the sole and frog become dry and wither- ed for want of the natural contact with the earth by which they are rendered tough and resistant to blows or pressure. The inner parts of the foot no longer grow because of the absence of the con- stant action which is intended by nature to excite the growth of new tissue. The hand of an artisan becomes hard and horny by this same sort of action. by pressure and concussion: and the musceles of his arm become hard and tough and much increased in volume by the continuous con- traction and expresion. Thus the training of an athlete greatly changes the form of the muscles and increases the strength of them many times. This is so well known that every farmer or other owner of a horse should at once realize the import of the fact that when the shoes are so; made or fitted as to raise the sole! and frog from the ground and to expand by pressure on the ground and contract when relieved from ; pressure. the vital action which i secures the change of old tissue into new and increases the vol-l ume and substance and strength 1 of it is’ prevented. and the foot‘ must practically die or shrink‘ and lose its form and strength. Hence a shrunken sole and frog‘ is followed quickly by a contract— ed foot and sole—for this nec- essarily sympathizes and follows the action of the foot-and also l weakened tendons. which. being unable to hold the foot in balance under strains. lead to concussions of the bones of the foot, and of the joints above it. Then follow the frequent navicular disease—— ringbone. contracted tendons. and spring knees. puffs. wind- galls. and other diseases of the foot and the limb. Not long since a great ocean steamer. with engines that were marvels of mechanical skill and of enormous strength and power. was wholly wrecked in an instant, and the great ship lay helpless on the waves. filled inside with a mass of broken steel and iron. shape- less and beyond recognition as the remains of an almost living example of prefect construction and easy exhibition of amazing power. One small part gave way. and as a row of bricks fall one after the other by successive force. the whole of the intricate me- chanism of the engine was broken into fragments and became a wreck. It is precisely so with an animal. “No foot. no horse.” expresses the idea. Unhinge the foot and the leg suffers and soon the whole animal becomes a wreck. As the loss of one pin may wreck a great engine. so the destruction of the horse’s frog may lead to the ruin of an animal. and all this may easily result from a mistake in using a badly constructed or ill fitting shoe. In England. France and Germany the art of shoeing is taught with as much care as the art of healing diseases. and sure- ly it is worth more to preserve. the horse from damage than tol cure or attempt to cure the dis- ease that may be avoided by skillful shoeing. The horses summer shoe should be a simple band of iron‘ not over a quarter of an inch thick. beaten out to a thin edge on the inner curve and at the ‘bind the hoof so that it cannotljand causing jars and strains on the shoulders and limbs. but by blows, concussions. slips and side strains to the feet. A bad road may be estimated as costing every horse owner at least $25 annually for each animal kept. in damage to it and in certain shortening of its usual life and work.—Hcnr_a/ Smvartl. in N. Y. Times. ‘-4 Object Lessons. The State or Territory that has not within its bounds one or more experimental stations. has drop- ped behind the times. A good many of the experiments made are not at all directly profitable. The fellow who gets so full of stand-up drinks at a bar as to make of himself a sort of mon- grel brute —~ha~lf mule. half hog. half ass. and altogether a disgust- ing spectacle. has done himself a deal of harm and nobody any direct good, but he is still useful as a scarecrow to frighten young people off that track. So the director of one of these farms allows weeds to grow on one plot. while he keeps all the rest clean. just to furnish an ob- ject lesson to those who will not be taught in any other way the necessity of killing out those weeds. if the profitable crop they are mixed in with is to be made to pay its way and the land itself kept in proper heart for the sus- tenance of future crops of useful plants. Or the experimenter may put science and practice along- side. and put a learned professor and a thick-skulled steer to dem- onstrate each in his own way the worth or worthlessness of certain varieties of food applied in cer- tain ways. There is not in any state to-day a more valuable institution than its experiment station. especially if it is conducted with a proper blend of science and practical common sense. which. I am glad to say. is generally the case. A confirmed crank may. and does. occasionally get in his hand. and say or do something calculated to bring ridicule on the institu- tion he. for the time. misrepre- sents; but “accidents will happen in the best regulated families." and that sort of man is soon found out. put down at his proper valu- ation. and “fired out" as quickly as circumstances will admit. I am sure that the average fitness for their position of our force of state experimentists is as high or end. and nailed with four nails N on each side. To fit the shoe to : the foot nothing more is necuedl the sole to a level bearing. tak-' ing off the most of the toe where the growth of the horn is the most active. and in accordance with a careful view of the leg and hoof as the horse stands on the level ground before the foot is touched. But few horses need any shoes in the summer. They are better without them. Con- tact with the ground will wear down the walls of the hoof and toughen the sole and heels, and act on the frog so as to alter- nately expand and contract the foot. thus exciting the circula- tion. increasing the vascular tis- sue. strengthening the connect- ive tissue. the tendons. and the bones. making a firm elastic be- tween them. and renewing growth which may have been checked. by the binding of the hoof during the past winter. Every man should watch the feet of his horses, more particu- larly at this season. The feet of the colt should be frequently rasped on the edge of the sole to prevent elongation of the toe and the unbalancing of the foot. throwing excessive weight on the heels. The sole should be kept level to avoid side strains. Older horses should be relieved of their shoes and left in pasture at night so that the wet grass may bathe and soften and cool the hoofs. A pasture can well be afforded if for this training alone. but the cooling effects of the grass is also exceedingly; beneficial to the feet. it is tol the whole system. with which they sympathize more than is commonly thought. One other point should be touched upon. This is the roads. A road incumbered with loose stones or with bedded stones projecting above the surface may do much harm to the horses which travel on it: not only by than to rasp down the edge of lW211kS 0f1ife- higher (a good deal. in my opin- ion.) than the average of the men who are public figures in other Being sensible as well as learned men. they are also getting pointers all the time from the observant practical farmers whom the state calls in to advise with them as to their course of procedure. I never miss a chance of look- ing over these experiment sta- tions. I go there. in fact. for the same reason that I go to church —sure that if I go every week I will always learn something that is worth knowing. For some kinds of teaching. once a month is not too often to go to school. I have been to two of these schools within one week. just to see if the teaching of the crops on one place was confirmed or partially contradicted by the ex- perience of the other. The man who goes only once a year to an experiment station has about as much chance of getting the sub- stance of its teaching as the boy who goes once a week to school can have of making a creditable pass in any standard. Of course it is very much a case of eyes and no eyes. Some states very wisely send an attendant around with the vis- itors to explain the purpose for which each plot is there. I have seeds out myself at different sta- tions. public and private. and as the result of the observations of skilled reporters, I am able to tell in a single season whether their alleged merits are the result of special treatment at the hands of the seller. or a happy accident. or a profitable addition to the useful grains of the area on which they are being tried. Let me give a case or two in point: I had lately a sample of “fifty- day” corn from Greece, which. if a success. must prove valuable in latitudes too high for ordinary varieties. One man brings me a plant from his plot that has made impeding the passage of vehicles a yard of growth in a few weeks from that seed. Another tells me his lot had “walked away" from others sown on the same day. and at two experimental stations I see that. so far, it leads the race. If it keeps the lead. as I hope it will. those. samples. all tried by reliable men who know nothing of each others worth. will prove of far more value than the most glowing eulogium by a profes- - sional seedsman. done in the way of business. _ . If I had my way. I should call upon every seedsman and florist to demonstrate on a plot. in full view of the public. the value of the eulogiums he publishes in his annual seed catalogues. by keeping on that plot specimens of what those seeds will. in his skilled hands. produce. An object lesson of this sort would help to modify the big talk of the catalogue, and at the same time moderate the criticism of the amateur who wants to sad- dle on the honest seller the blame justly due to his own want of skill. Every reliable seedsman would. I am sure, be prepared to have the value of his seeds tried in this way on a model farm. and might confidently rely on getting. in public patronage. the value of all that this practical advertisement would cost him. On every department of farm work the experiment station sup- plies object lessons of the most valuable kind. The press drill against the broadcaster and the older drills: one press drill against another; on different va- rieties of soil, cultivation. and climatic environment. can here be tested beyond the possibility of cavil. The boasted extra yield of some special variety can be tested. first in the field and afterwards on the scales. against well-known varieties. not for one season only. when the change will help the record of the newest comer. but year after year. which is the only proper method. for some sorts actually gain on their first years showing. while others. with a big first showing. degenerate very fast. We want to welcome every- thing, and put its merits to the proof. as the test of time shall determine. I had lately in the I<'urnm".- Ilcricur a pretty long talk on weeds. and have strongly urged that harrowing once or twice over recently sown grain. till it was three or four inches long. would kill no end of crop weeds. Last week. on one experimental farm. the manager invited me to see how the plan worked with him. I advocate cross harrowing. with a light iron barrow. on hard land; or. if it is soft loam, with a home made wooden one. the teeth of tough ash or hickory. and not too long. My friend found it easiest to run along the plots on which he wanted to apply the test. and there were foul seeds enough to make the test a fair one. I could scarcely. without the object les- son there to prove it. have be- lieved that one harrowing would kill so many weeds as those plots proved was possible. Some wheat plants would be torn upon broad- casted land. but. sown with the drill. the grain would be quite safe from the harrow. In fact. I am told by others that wheat rather likes the harrow, even if spring sown. Very few now neglect to harrow fall wheat in spring. My friend ventured to improve upon my advice. He went over several plots of peas in the same way and says he killed very few of them. though the weeds got badly hurt. The old standard farmers. who visit that farm in scores, can sometimes knock me over on argument when I invite them to "speak in meeting." but even Peter Hardhcad owned up when he had walked carefully over that plot and had been pri- vately assured by the foreman that one round of the harrow had made the difference. He is as honest as he is obstinate. and will not shrink from some day admit- ting that a book farmer may sometimes have something to tell that a real farmer will find it good for him to know. The worthy soul imagines that all the wrin- kles I pick up going round my big parish, and write about here, are theories hatched up here in my office. and put in print. be- cause I live by "book farming” and must say something to earn my living. For object lessons that friend Hardhead and his numerous re- lations cannot but read and un- derstand. I put the experiment station ahead of all other devices. and hope to go back there myself scores of times. whether my teacher is a learned professor. who knows the Latin names of everything, or a keen-witted and observant farmer. who does not know one half the words in Web- ster‘s dictionary. but knows well how to use his eyes. his head and his hands. and can read in a plowed furrow as well as I can in a printed book.—"i\'m'2‘/ucc.————?— .Time Proves all Things. Mr. O. W. Ingersoll. Dear Sir:——I am not now in need of paint, that purchased of you some years since being as bright and solid as the day put on. I can certainly recommend the Ingersoll Rubber Paint as the most durable made. Fraternally Yours, En. R. MEESE. [See Ad. Patron's Paint Works.] Are Women Careless of Money. N 0 Woman. at least in America. has any such talent as a man has for spending money. She spends for what she believes to be beau- ty‘—for raiment. books. jewels, decoration, furniture, marbles—rarely for what does her serious harm. He spends most for his vices. for the things that hurt him greatly. He is apt to gamble, to speculate. to bring evil to others from his love of pleasure or of gain. He will get rid of more money in a month than she would in years. She would. however. ignorant of it, be appalled by the sums he dis- sipates. She is constitutionally conservative; big statements of any sort are likely to alarm her. Unless desperate or frenzied. she invariably stops short of ex- tremes. She trembles and turns pale where he, iii the flush of egotism, moves undisturbed. Nearly all the talk of woman’s carelessness of money is idle. The opinion cannot be sustained. It is mainly the echo of misap- prehension. Where she is even partially enlightened on the sub ject. she is prone to be very cau- tions of its use. Her tempera- mental tendency is to the. oppo- site of carelessness. ~-.,///21 ills 1[t')u'a' ]>’)‘(;l('H. . ,_‘.,*. , The July (.'luzm‘rmr,umz intro- duces a new and permanent de- partment. the "lVoman‘s Council Table," to be especially devoted to the discussion of woman’s in- terests. The editorial article on The Advancement of VVoman is significant as the expression of conservative opinion. We quote the following: “Women know that the new era has strengthen- ed them in every particular that the alarmists have declared that it would weaken. They are the better physically because of their new training to think. The worst physical enemy woman has ever had has been the narrow- ness of life which gave her so little to think of that she had endless time for worry. * * She gains in physical force with every step toward intellectuality and spirituality. Nor does she harden her heart toward human- ity and despise the home. The whole question of the home, in- stead of being ignored, is being treated with scientific care and, unsparing devotion. * * The experiences of the past de- cade have proved the higher education to be most valuable in the very lines where it was pro- phesied it would do the greatest harm.”-~—La(lz'e.s" Home Journal. An amusing story is told of Miss Catherine Beecher, elder sister of Mrs. Stowe and of Henry Ward Beecher. This lady once wrote an article on ‘Free Agency’ which was published in the Biblical Re- ])0sit0'ry and has been pronounced by competent critics the very best answer to Edwards on ‘The Will‘ that has ever appeared. An eminent theological professor, of New England, visiting a distin- guished German theologian, said in the course of conversation, ‘The ablest refutation of Edwards on ‘The Will’ which was ever written. is the work of a woman, the daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher.’ ‘You have a woman.‘ fairly shrieked the astonished theologian. holding up both hands in amazement. ‘who can refute Edwards on ‘The Will’? God forgive Christopher Columbus for discovering America!’ In many French villages boards are set up bearing the following instructions: "Hedgehog: Lives upon mice, snails and wireworms, animals injurious to agriculture. Don’t kill a hedgehog. Toad: Helps agriculture; destroys twen- ty to thirty insects hourly. Don’t kill a toad. Cockchafer and its larvae: Deadly enemies to farm- ers: lays seventy to one hundred eggs. Kill the Cockchafer. Birds: Each department of France loses yearly many mil- lions of francs through the in- jury done by insects. 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To Subscribers.‘ Remittances maybe made to us by postal note. money order. or registered letter. If you re- ceive copies of the paper beyond your time of subscription. it is our loss, not yours. We aim to send every number of the paper for the time paid for. then strike out the name if not renewed. Renewals made promptly are a matter of much convenience. and we respectfully solicit such. that no numbers be lost to you. Advise this office at once of a change in your address. or if numbers fail to reach you. The Plains Land of the Northwest. It may seem unfitting for an expression of opinion from one who only sees a country from a car window, or from its rear plat- form; but a thousand miles of such travel. with the same im- pressions constantly recurring, we believe to be a fairer estimate than that obtained from preju- diced residents, or from boomers or real estate agents. These latter are welcomed and flattered for what they seem to do for a new country, but in the end they are sure to over do it. and the bubbles that seem so shining while they are growing. inevitably burst. and there is a reaction as restrictive as the abounding prosperity seemed in the opposite direction. We shall have occasion. in another article, to allude to this feature of mod- ern progressive pioneer enter- prise. After leaving St. Paul we soon enter patches of prairie lands. with some good timber along the streams. but as we proceed. tim- ber and trees disappear, and a long and wide stretch of rolling or fiat plains extend to the horizon. broken here and there with the shack and straw shed of the homesteader. with here and there a more pretentious struct- ure. showing evidences of pros- perity earned here or elsewhere. Along the railroad, for ten miles each side. the railroad company owns every other section. Which. may restrict the occupancy in some degree; but on the other hand, the advantages of railroad. communication and proximity to its stations ought to make the improvements as plenty as in the interior, not- withstanding the smaller amount of land available for free settle- ment. After passing the syndi- cate farms at Fargo, not one quar- ter section in twenty has an occu- pant. At several places along the line where. the maps show stations, a sign board nailed to two upright posts on which is painted “Edendale, ” or some such euphoneous title, is all the evi- dence of civilization which ap- pears. At one place an unoc- cupied school house kept watch over the sign manual of the im- aginary town. either waiting for the boomer. or standing as the epitaph of the boomed. Along the Red River of the north and its tributaries the crops seem to indicate a fairly productive soil; but nowhere. after we left St. Paul until we arrived at the irri- gated areas, did we see a stool of red clover. Plowing succeeded crops with the evident intention of getting out of the soil, what- ever it contained, as quickly as possible. The highest estimate of the yield of the standing wheat by any of the party was 18 bush— tle and horses are seen every .Private enterprise will carry els per acre, and more than ' half mile or two, from 25 to 50 in a 'water to arid lands as fast as is of the estimated yields were ten bunch. looking sleek. fat andneeded by the demands of any bushels. After leaving the valley of the ' permanent streams the soil is thinner and less productive. doubtless caused by lack of rain to induce and encourage vegita- tion. The cuts along the road indicate the quality of the soil. and we were seldom off in our estimate of its ability to produce. We passed one night on the trip over the plains, with Bismarck as the midnight point, rising at daylight to get a View of the bad lands of Western Dakota. These are only a modification of the plains land, worn down to a lower level as the down pour of the melted snows of the mountains rush through the channels to the Missouri river. The tops of the buttes evidently were once the level of the plains—a table land with higher banks along its mar- gin, which are now the foot hills of the mountains. For two hours we rode through this hoodoo val- ley—the strangest contortion of strata, which appears to be piled one on another in a delirium of chance. Cones and buttes and caverned hills in colored cos- tumes compel the road to execute a curved dance around their bases. Hooded gnomes and giant elves are figured in colored dress and in various shapes. Many theories have been ad- vanced to account for the pres- ent aspect of this valley. The more general one is that given not long since. to the effect that this was once a vast coal field, which was fired by the Indians. and has burned out. leaving these pockets of burned clay standing as monuments of aboriginal folly. Our study of this problem does not lead to this conclusion. The different colors are not produced by fire: they are deposits of col- ored clay. and are not uncommon in the mountains and hills but are not usually found in such variety as here. \Vhat are now the domes and buttes were depos- its in the original strata. of greater density and compactness than that which has since been washed down the Missouri. Sand storms have doubtless had some- thing to do with this sculpturing process in rounding out the curves and scooping the caverns, while the rills from melting snows have grooved out the col- umns and thus formed this gro- tesque exhibit. Many of the images are capped with sand rock, harder than the substance beneath, so that a hood or um- bre1la—like covering projects large enough, seemingly. to topple over the whole structure. Not a green thing is growing in this valley of desolation. The soil seems to dissolve into a solu- tion and run down stream, to discolor the waters until they are discharged into the sea. Here is a small area left, belated as it were, from the formation period of the continent. The elevated plains are being washed into the lower valleys. Nature, which is not limited for time, when it takes a contract for doing a piece of work, will eventually level ofi these standing columns, mix their solvents and enrich some lower level with the solution, to become fertile plains for a future I"otC0. At Glendive the Northern Pa- cific strikes the Yellowstone, Whose muddy waters, coming from the plains, tell the story of the disintegration going on. Along either bank to the table land, and beyond, stretches the sage brush plains of Montana- the sheep and cattle ranges of the Northwest. Groups of cat- ! contented. to any farm-yard of Michigan. Herders say that feed on the plains is the best for several; ‘years’ and that the cattle will iof four weeks of travel along the average of better quality thanl ‘ful scenery. for some time in the past. They are now being gathered with a view of cutting out the mature steers to be sent to market. Prices on the range are $36 for three and four-year-olds and 9522 for two-year-olds. at an average of 1200 pounds for the former and 800 pounds for the latter. Mature wethers bring here to go to Iowa and other middle VVestern States for feeding pur- poses. These would stand at about $4.50 in Michigan, so that our feeders can see that there will be no big money in feeding western sheep at those prices. The plains land of the North- west is not confined to the land along the rivers. but up on the higher levels lie some of the best grazing lands of this extensive herding country. These plains grow a short, nutritious grass in separated tufts between the sage in sufficient quantity to sat- isfy the animals, with no very extensive ranging between the night and morning feeds. The appearance of these plains from a little distance is very desolate indeed. Sage. of an ashen grey hue. with a background of sand. gives the appearance of complete barrenness. The edible grass has now changed from green to brown, and is not distinguished from the sand at a little distance. the nutrition. however. is still retained and stock eat it as read- ily as before. On all the mountain tops. be- tween the highest peaks. lie vast reaches of plains land where stock is grazing_. and in the lower places wild grass is cut for hay. No habitation is visible. except here and there in the hillside a tem- porary shelter is made. or a tent is pitched for the herder. Salt Lake valley presents the most extensive system of irriga- tion met with on our trip. yet here we found it not entirely suc- cessful-some very large crops and some very poor. A heavy second crop of clover. or alfalfa. offset by a field of oats being harvested with a mower, too short to be gathered into sheaves. In Boise City, in Idaho. we saw the most marvelous change in production where irrigation was practiced. Here a desert waste of sand and sage brush coming square up to a field of second-crop clover that would yield two tons of hay to the acre. Some of these upand plains are very fertile when irriga ted, but not one acre in a thousand can be successfully farmed in this way. Many futile efforts in this direction were met, where, either from lack of water or fertility. or both, the enter- prise had been abandoned. We are more impressed than ever with the futility of National aid to irrigating enterprises. It all has a flavor of “boom" in its demands. where no real practical necessity exists for such expedi- tures. Every third man in the west seems to have some scheme incubating, through which he expects to realize a fortune; albeit, it must be fertilized in some way "by eastern capital, brought in by the tender-foot contingent. National aid to level the Rocky Mountains might change -the climate to relieve this arid region by bringing rain cur- rents from the Paciffc Ocan, but no other scheme will be effectual. The cattle are of 3 high grade. and would be a credit l locality. <—§4—>—-—~~— Returned. On VVednesday afternoon we arrived home, after an absence route of Americas most wonder- Members of our party, who had traveled in Eu- rope. say that no grander views are found there than can be seen in our mountain "ranges. The “VVonderland“ of the Yellow- stone Park has no rival on the face of the earth. We shall give a paper on this in tne next issue of the VISITOR. "Mountain Min- ing Towns" will follow. and then a resume of the agricultural re- sources of the West. We shall give our readers the unbiased impressions. as seen with open eyes, desirous of finding out the truth, and shall not bore them with an extended diary of daily events. We find the VISITOR nearly ready for press. Its make-up has been entirely under the di- rection of Mrs. Gould. to whom we are greatly indebted for the labor which has made it possible for us to make the trip. We feel the responsibility of our position more and more, and determine anew that the VISITOR shall compel the esteem of its readers. ___..>__ _ Benton Harbor Grange Picnic. Remember. everybody is invit- ed to participate in this four days‘ gathering. listen to the speeches and contribute to the general enjoyment. ———-—¢o Michigan Crop Report Aug. 1,1890. The average yield of wheat per acre as estimated by correspon- dents oii the first of this month is in the southern counties 14.06 bushels: in the ce_ntra1 counties 13.78 bushels. and in the northern counties 1-1.55 bushels. These figures represent the average of the estimates of all the corres- pondents reporting from each section. and the estimates are based on the total acreage sowed. as returned by supervisors. and on examinations made when liar- vesting and stacking. In addition to the foregoing. 218 correspondents in the southern counties and 23 in the central have furnished reports of actual threshings. The number of jobs reported threshed in the southern counties is 1.184; acres, 25,801: bushels 481,543, an average per acre of 18.66 bushels. The number of jobs reported threshed in the central counties is 81; acres, 825: bushels. 16,174: an average per acre of 19.60 bushels. These averages. it will be noticed, are very much higher than the averages as estimated by correspondents, which may be accounted for, in part, at least by the fact that while the averages. as estimated by corres- pondents are based on acreage sowed, the averages as shown by threshings are in many cizses based on acreage harvested. It is but just. however, to state that the August estimate of correspon- dents, is usually a conservative one. Correspondents this year state that the crop is turning out better than was anticipated. The final reports will show the yield to be somewhere between the two sets of averages given above. and the lower are doubtless the nearer accurate when the yield is c_alcu- la-ted on the acreage sowed. In quality wheat is fully up to the average. In the southern counties, of 512 correspondents reporting the quality. 285 report it ‘*good." 199 “average? and 28 -*bad;" in the central counties 94 correspondents report it "good," 50 "average," and 2 “bad;” and in the northern coun- ties 61 correspondents reported it “good,” 42 “average,” and none “bad.” A number of pieces of wheat were cut in the southern two tiers of counties the last days of June; in Berrien, Cass, St. Jo- seph and Branch. harvesting was quite generally begun from the first to the fifth of July, and father north and east. from the seventh to the tenth. In the third. fourth. fifth and sixth tiers of counties wheat was mostly out between the fourteenth and twenty-fifth of July. The number of bushels of wheat reported marketed in July is 904.8-11; and in the year ending with August 1, 1-1.917.271. The wheat reported marketed in July doubtless includes a small amount of new wheat. Oats yield in the southern counties 29 bushels per acre: in the central 31 bushels and in the northern 27 bushels per acre. The grain is light in weight. and may not be safely estimated at more than three-fourths of an average. One month ago the outlook was for very nearly a full average crop. The hay crop of the State is fully up to the average and it has been secured in prime con- dition. The average condition of corn in the southern counties is now 73 as compared with 91 July 1. In the central countes the con- dition is 92 and in the northern 101. and is practically the same in both sections as one month ago. The average condition of po- tatoes in the southern counties is 62. in the central 81, and in the northern 91, a reduction in the southern counties of 34 per cent, and in the central of 14 per cent. during the month of July. , Apples now promise only 23 per cent of an average crop in the southern counties, -15 per cent in the central. and 37 per cent in the northern. The de cline in the southern counties since July 1. is 23 per cent. and since June 1. 67 per cent. There is not a county in the southern section. and probably not a single locality. that will have one-half of an average crop of apples. The small yield and light weight of oats. and decline in condition of corn. and potatoes. are due to severe drouth during July. The drouth has also in- juriously affected meadows and pastures. and clover sowed this year. The condition of newly seeded clover is now only 88 in the southern counties as coni- pared with 104 on July 1. The rainfall in this section of the State in April and May was largely in excess of the average or normal. In June there was a marked deficiency and in July a still greater deficiency. The average rainfall in J uly. in this section as recorded at the stations of the State Weather Service was 1.14 inches. This is two and oiie-tenth in- ches below the normal. These figures. however, very imperfect- ly indicate the severity of the drouth. There was no general storm during the month. Local showers occured on the 1st. on the 12th to 14th, and on the 24th and 25th. At some stations the rainfall was quite heavy, while at others only a few miles distant there was litt1e.or no rain at all. The heaviest rainfall at any sta- tion was below the average or normal for July for the entire section. It rained on the 3rd and 4th of this month in all parts of the state except the extreme southwestern counties. The aver- age rainfall during the past week is 1.12 inches, or one-third of an inch above the normal. This is sufiicient to save corn and pota- toes and revive meadows and pas- tures, but the benefits would have been much greater had the rain come two weeks earlier. In the southwestern counties above referred to crops are suffering se- verely. In a few instances corn has been cut and cu red for fodder. GILBERT R. OSMUN. Sec‘v of State. The Hillsdale County Pomona Grange will hold its next meet- ing with Litchfield Grange, on Wednesday. September 3rd. A good programme may be expect- ed. The address of welcome will be given by L. B. Agard. Master of Litchfield ‘Grange, and the re- sponse by the Master of Pomona Grange. Music by Litchfield Grange. J. E. WAGNER. Lecturer. \ August 15, 1890. THE GRANGE VISITOR. 5 Qommunications. Farmers’ Basket Picnic. August 6th and 7th one of the most successful farmers‘ basket picnics was held under the aus- _ pices of the Pomona Grange of ‘Van Buren county. at Hartford. The forenoon session of the 6th consisted of social greetings and short extemporaneous speeches from Master Thos. Mars. Lectur- er Jason Woodman. and others. interspersed with music by the glee club of Paw Paw. All did themselves great credit at this informal meeting. The afternoon session was opened with music and prayer by Rev. G. E. Prater. of Paw Paw Grange. L. H. Titus, Esq.. of Hartford. with well chosen words welcomed the Patrons and farm- ers to their beautiful village. which was followed by a song of welcome. Hon. J. J. Woodman respond- ed in behalf of the Patrons and their friends. I need not tell you he did it in his usual happy manner, which called forth earn- est applause. which was sudden- ly checked by the appearance of the glee club. who rendered the greeting song in such a manner was to elicit a fresh burst of ap- roval. Sadie Jennings and David Mc- Con each recited very nicely. A solo by Mrs. G. E. Gilman so filled her hearers with admira- tion that they stood transfixed 4‘ till Hon. Cyrus G. Luce was in- troduced. which brought them back just in time to greet the governor with hearty applause as he arose to address them. The governor's address of over 1% hours was clear. logical and pointed. but was too short, as was evidenced by after remarks. By request the governor gave a recep tion at the close of the afternoon exercises. when about 1.000 per- sons were formally presented. The evening session was very complete and enjoyable, consist- ing of recitations by Mrs. G. E. Gilman and Harry Myers, of Paw Paw: papers by Mrs. A. U. Barnes and Walter Gage. of Law- rence. music. etc. Space forbids giving each the justice due. On Thursday to the array of speakers announced were added Hon. E. N. Bates. of Allegan county. Judge J. G. Ramsdell, of Traverse City. and Hon. C. J. Monroe. of South Haven, each of whom occupied a portion of the time very acceptably to the audience. To the regret of many the dinner hour cut Hon. J. J. W'oodman‘s remarks somewhat short. The afternoon session was ta- ken up with addresses by Hon. J. H. Brigham. of Ohio, master of National Grange. who spoke on general topics. and Judge Rams- dell. who dwelt on political econ- omy and its proper application as a remedy for the present depres- sion in agriculture. The quality of these addresses was manifest in the fact that each 6 9‘ received hearty applause. The music of the session was by Paw Paw Glee Club. composed of Messrs. B. A. Cumings. C. VV. Reynolds. C. H. Butler and G. E. Gilman. with Miss Grace Wood- man as organist and Mrs. G. E. Gilman soloist. By the several encores they received we feel they were appreciated. Miss Maggie Croger gave a sample of her inimitable whist- ling. Taken all in all it proved an oc- casion of enjoyment and will re- sult in good to the participants. J. C. GOULD. — —-—-—~—---—v CLIMAX, Mich., Aug. 11. ED. VISITOR: Just now the people in many parts of Michigan. Indiana and other states are suffering from the effects of a drouth. which very seriously reduces the crops over a large extent of country. So far as a considerable part of the drouth affected country is concerned it is entirely needless that the farmers‘ crops should suffer in this way. There is nowhere in those parts of the arid regions of the west that I have visited any larg- er percentage of the land that is susceptible of irrigation, or has a. better supply of water_to do It with, than right here in Mich- igan. Why farmers should suffer their crops to be parched up and destroyed or greatly damaged. year after year. by the drouth. when they have the means of saving them. I can only explain by the theory of ignorance. Per- haps they do not know or have never thought that it could be done. It is a fact. however. that there is a great deal of land in Michigan so situated with ref- erence to the streams that it is a very simple and easy matter to irrigate it. and as our seasons run on an average it will pay big interest to do it. It is not every farm. of course. that can be irri- gated. but what is the use of let- ting crops dry up. season after season. when the land can be ir- rigated as well as not. The sub- ject of irrigation was discussed at the last convention of the Michigan Engineering Society. Their Annual containing the re- port of that convention and a general description of the man ner of irrigating ought to be of interest to every farmer in the state. F. HODGMAN. Zloticcs of meetings. Berrien County Pomona Grange. The meeting of Berrien County Pomona Grange and the second annual Farmers‘ picnic. will be held on the fair grounds at Ben- ton Harbor. Aug. 26. ‘.27, 28 and 29. The outline for the meeting is as follows: Aug. 26—Forenoon.~—Business session of Pomona Grange. Afternoon» Address of wel- come. Col. L. M. Ward; response. Thos. Mars. W. M. State Grange. Addresses by prominent Patrons of the county during the remain- der of the afternoon and evening. Aug. 27—- Horticultural Day-— In charge of Rob't C. Thayer, of Benton Harbor. Forenoon—-Papers and discus- sions on horticultural topics. Afternoon —Address by Hon. Perry Mayo. Evening—~Veterans‘ camp-fire. by the veterans in blue. in and out of the Order. Aug. 28-Young People's Day. Forenoon—A gold medal con- test. conducted by Geo. F. Com- ings, of St. Joseph; papers, dis- cussions. recit-ations.&tc., by the young people of the subordinate Granges. Afternoon— An address to the young people. by Jason Wood- man. Lecturer of the State Grange. Evening—Question box; dis- cussions and recitations on the grounds. and a business session at Benton Harbor Grange Hall. Aug. 29th —Grange Veterans‘ Day. Forenoon~Addresses and dis- cussions by the long—tried and true in the Order. Afternoon—Address by Gov. Cyrus G. Luce. To Patrons and Farmers. with their wives. sons and daugh- ters, within reasonable reach of Benton Harbor, either by railroad or steamer: You are invited to come into camp at this meeting and unite in one grand rally for the cause of nobler manhood and woman- hood throughout the land. The grounds and appurtenances are ample to accommodate all who may come. The Patrons of Ber- rien county bid you welcome. An effort will be made to secure special rates on railroads and steamers for this occasion. R. V. CLARK, Lecturer. Buchanan. Mich. —-c Allegan County Council. The next meeting of the Alle- gan County Council will be held at Monterey Grange Hall. Sep- tember 2d. The program will be as follows: Music on call. Address of Welcome -—Sister Mary Knoblock, Monterey. Response~Sister Minnie Ed- gerton, Watson. Recitation~ Henry St-ockwell, Trowbridge. Essay~Frank Hickock. Alle- gan; subject. Mixed Help on the Farm, Indoors and Out. Music—Choir. Paper——N. W. Houser, Watson. Essay—S. C. Foster. Trow- bridge. Recitation— Nellie Eggleston. Monterey. Essay~Henry Edgerton. Wat- son; subject, Home Life. Essay—C. A. Jewett. Allegan; subject. VVeddings and VVedding Presents. How Can the Farmer Better his Condition——T. A. Strong. Monterey. Adulterated Food——Drs. Chase and Amsden. Recitation — Augusta Watson. There were some papers left over from the last meeting that will be called for. and short dis cussions on all papers are allow- able. The meeting at Trow- bridge was quite a success and. judging the future by the past the one at Monterey will be a success also. Come one. come Kent, all who are interested in the work. N. A. DIBBLE. Committee. QUINCY. Aug. 12. The next meeting of Branch County Pomona Grange will oc- cur at Batavia Grange Hall Thursday. Aug. 28. The following questions will be treated by papers and general discussions: How do the profits of the farm compare with other occupations? Wheat culture and which is the variety best suited to our soil? Do farmers have sufficient help to insure the greatest in- come from their farms? Leaks on the farm and in the house and method in the house- hold. Good music and recitations will be interspersed. Every Pomona member pres- ent will be expected to respond to roll call with a quotation and name its author. JENNIE L. KENNEDY. Lecturer. Van Buren County Grange will hold its next session with Wood- man Grange. Aug. 28. Follow- ing is the program: 10 a. m. to 12 m. ——Reports from subordinate Granges and miscel- laneous business. 1230 p. m.——Paper by A. U. Barnes. of Lawrence. Recitation by Mrs. Lottie War- ner. of Paw Paw. Paper on Public Highways. by J. C. Gould. of Paw Paw. Recitation. by L. Healey. of VVaverly. Paper. by David Paw Paw. Music will be interspersed and other papers and recitations giv- en. as time permits. Mus. J. M. FISK. Lecturer. ——o->--~ Early Fall Work. Many persons. in their fear of an early freezing; sow seed of the Flat Dutch and Purple-Top Strap~Leaf turnips too early. These turnips can be grown very quickly. and are only good when so grown, like a radish, says a contributor to Gcuwlcn and Forest. If sown early they grow too large for table use. and are worthless for any purposes but stock feeding and only‘ little short of worthless for that. Flat turnips, grown rapidly in the cool autumn weather to about the size of an ordinary biscuit. are good enough for any one. When grown on a large scale I have never found it profitable to sow in drills or rows. For sow- ing broadcast I plow the ground and give it a heavy coat of manure on top, then harrow so as to slightly mix the manure with the surface soil, sow the seed and roll. The most difficult thing is to sow the seed uniform- ly without getting it too thick. This is best accomplished by roasting a lot of old and worth- less seeds of kale, cabbage or turnip in an oven until certainly dead. One part of good seed is then mixed thoroughly. with ten parts of the dead seed. This seed is then sown as uniformly as possible all over the ground. at the rate of about ten pounds of the mixture to the acre. and this scatters the good seed thickly enough. The sowing may be done any time in August, the lat- ter half being better than the first, and in the latitude of Vir- ginia September is early enough. Still. unless plenty of manure or fertilizer is used. the crop will not be of the first quality for table use,..a quick growth being essential. For late use in winter and towards spring these flat tur- nips are not desirable. and if none of the Long White French turnips were sown early in J uly. a crop of Robertson's Golden Vilboclman. of Ball. sown the first week in Aug- ust. in drills, well enriched and carefully thinned and cultivated will make a good crop of a very superior quality for win ter keep- 0‘ mg. (7 W re Your Eyes Open‘? Many an uncultured country boy or girl wonders where the city people find the laughing brooks, the beautiful flowers. the soft summer breezes." and the thousand and one beautiful things which nature has provid- ed for the inspiration. education and enjoyment of her children. These boys and girls haven‘t had their eyes opened to see the beautiful and good by which they are continually surrounded. They think it necessary to go away to the town or city to see beautiful things: and so it is. in a measure; with many men and women who have an earnest desire to do. good in the world, but they can see no opportunity in the narrow sphere in which they move, and they are utterly surprised when some real worker cames along and points out the opportunities for disin- terested labor which are pre- sented on every hand. God places no man or woman in any sphere of action without giving them opportunities for perform- ing labors of love if they so de- sire. The trouble is, they close their eyes to their own surround- ings. and dream of great and good deeds in some far-off land— to the benighted heathen, it may be. while all about them are con- ditions of humanity which are continually asking for their love. sympathy or encouragement. - {.?—.¢~-~¢————----- — -- The Dime Novel Cure. A trustee of the Providence public library has undertaken to cure the small boy of his interest in the dime novel. and can be said to have succeeded. He has met the antecedent with its con- sequent. He has gathered into a scrap book the adventures of the boys who read dime novels. and has made it his business in a quiet way to ask the boys one by one who are interested in these stories to spend an hour or two in reading. not the imagina- tive story. but the way in which the small boy has attempted to realize how boys ought to live and what they ought to be allow- ed to do. It is said that the dime novel boy usually reads the scrap-book. which is rapidly in- creasing in size as the fresh ex- ploits of the dime novel adven- turers are added to it. about two hours. He then lays it down in disgust. and nothing can induce him to return to those stories again. He asks the person in charge of the reading—room for a better class of books. This cure of a disease with its own poison has been so effective in Providence that the trustee in question is thinking of taking out a patent for the process, lest other libraries and the heads of families and the guardians of the small boy generally may approp- riate his invention without due credit. The scrap-book alluded to is called “The Dime Novel Illustrated.” and it is suggested to this gentleman before he goes much further that he should put his scrap-book to press, secure his copyright at home and abroad. and stand up for honors as the only man in the world who has so far succeeded in outwitting the average American boy. by giving him a sufficient antidote to the evil which. in the form of devilish literature. he is anxious to take into his mind and heart. to make him abandon these stories in disgust. He is the first among moderns to give point to the old saying, “Look on this picture and then on that.” and it is the other picture that is powerful enough to wind up the dime novel business. These are the days of realism in literature. and this man. going further than Mr. Howells or Mr. James. or even M. Zola. has substitued the pastepot and scissors for the imagination. gathering his hor- rors and tragedies from actual life. in the firm belief that if truth is not stranger than fiction. it has a wonderful power at the right moment over an awakened mind.—B0ston Herald. The Good of the Order should be the first in the mind and heart of every Patron, and he should study how best to aid the work that is doing so much for him. No member can afford to be idle or listless. because the interests at stake are too momentous and important. and the success al- ready achieved renders certain a final triumph if we only concen- trate our efforts and labor with unabated zeal to plant a Grange in every district in the state. The idea is not Utopian. We are not given to the promulgation of visionary schemes. and when we say this work can be accomplish- ed. we make the statement after mature deliberation and careful examination. It would be an in- sult to the intelligence of our farmers to say that they will knowingly oppose that which is for their own advantage. The opposition to the Grange arises from a misconception of its ob- jects and purposes. If these are once properly explained and com- prehended, farmers will no longer hesitate about becoming mem- bers. The first duty. then, is to educate the people and create fa- vorable sentiment. This can rea- dily be done if the proper means are employed.—1v'arnm-‘s Frieml. Church’s Bug Finish. Bug Finish is an important and valuable discovery. as it affords a way by which Paris Green. the most effective of bug poisons can be safely used. It was discover- ed by the inventor of Bug Finish that by grinding and uniting Paris Green into a base-like Gypsum. as is done in making Bug Finish. the Green would not effect the vines or make the po- tatoes Watery. Every consumer of potatoes will testify to the fact that late potatoes, as a rule. are watery or soggy and quite un- palatable, as compared with the mealy potatoes we once had; it has now been proven that this is caused by the use of Paris Green in water. or by applying particles of clear Green in any way. such as simply stirring it into plaster. lime and other bases. whereby the plaster simply acts as a car- rier to distribute the Green. and the small particles of Green go on the vines in a clear state: during certain stages of growth. the clear Green inters the fiber of the vine and effects the potatoes. as ex- plained. A very thin dust of Bug Finish on the vines or trees is sufficient to kill all of the crop of insects then existing on the vines. and it remains on the vines for many days. except where very licavy rains occur and sometimes until other crops of the insects are hatched and distroyed. Bug Finish is composed of Sulphate of Lime (Gypsum) with a little rye flour to make it stick. with one pound and six ounces of Pure Paris Green to each 100 pounds of the above mixture. the whole compound is reduced very fine and thoroughly combined by patent process. so, that every grain of the whole mass is suffi- ciently poisonous that a small amount will kill any insect the same as though it had eaten pure paris green. hence only a very slight dust is necessary. making it cheaper than any other known preparation. unless it is Paris Green and water, and when the expense of handling and ap plying so much water is consider ed the Bug Finish is fully as cheap. and if the difference in effective- ness and QUALITY or POTATOES is taken into account, Paris Green and water will not be considered in comparison at all. Bug Finish is also a fertilizer. will help the growth of the vines. instead of retarding their growth, as does water and Green. espec- ially when the water is applied in the middle of the day. One pound of Bug Finish will prove more effective than six times the amount of plaster and Paris Green as mixed by the farmers. In addition to the sav- ing in this way. its saves the time of mixing. is safe to handle and does not injure the potatoes. No farmer should allow a pound of clear Paris Green to be brought on his farm. ALABASTINE Co.. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. _.j_¢- Consumption Surely Giired. To THE EDl'roR:— Please inform your readers that l lmvc a positive remedy for above named disease, By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been perma- nently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your readers who have consumption, if they will send me their ex- press and P. 0. address. Respectfully. T. A. SLOCUM. D. D., 181 Pearl St., New York. TI-III‘; G‘r]R._A.ZN'G-I-I‘: VISITOR. August 15, 1890. iabies’ Department. Life in the Farmer's Kitchen. When the first rosy tints of the mom Overspread the dull easterly sky. And the clock on the mantle doth warn That the hour of arising draws nigh, How we long for just one more wee nap Ere we turn to our duties again; But we know that the longing is vain, \Vhen recalling the crowd of faint men That will settle around our spread board With content just three times in the day; So we hush the clear baby's first wail. That the gooduian may still sleep away. Now the fire in the stove we will light, And the chicks at the door must be fed, There is breakfast to get and the milk \Ve1nust skim and will then mix the bread. All the house must be swept and full well .\lu-st we wash all the dishes we use; There are children to bathe and to dress, And we have not a moment to lose. For the hands of the (‘lock do remind, As their circuit they tirtzltrssly fill. That the hours do not wait at our call Nor the sun at our bidding stand still. \\‘u must cookies and (‘rullcrs prepare, Thcre'll be calls for light doughnuts and cake, \Vith fresh pics and crisp tarts for the tea, Then the broad and the biscuit must bake. There are pens to be picked atid prepared, And potzitt-cs to dig and make clean, There is uieat to be cooked are we dine. And nice sauces and gravies l ween. If the wind should prove wayward and blow In a. \va_\' that all liouseivivcs provoke, Down the chimney direct on the fire. Then the stove in the kitchen will smoke. And <0|l1(‘. agent all smiling will Colilt: \\'ith smotnh tongue and ubiquitous way To 1iL‘l'SlSlt?llli_\‘ pratt- of his wares, \V'ho will give you no chance to say nay. So the morning will go, and the work And the worry wt- all will zigrce Must be patit ntly bmnc, for full soon ()'t:r the field \\'t‘ii kiimvii forms we shall see. Soon the tztlilt-s:1g.'iiii must be spread, An inviting L‘i(‘1lllt‘iUlil ill'St\V(.‘SL‘lZ(.‘. And sxilistriiitially (‘O\'t'l' with food All prepared to man's huugerappeast.-. At the dish:-s a sigh of rt-lief \Vith soft winds of sweet summer will soar, That the i]L‘a\'lcSl burden is past, The “ blcst hour of our dinner" is o'er, lint lllt‘l‘8 still is no rest for our feet. For tht- ironing now must be done; Tlit:rc's some mending awaiting our hand ’ To accomplish cre set of the sun. And again we shall note by the clock, As the hands point the liotir of four, That the kettle must now be put on And a meal iuiist be gotten once more. Yet again there are dishes to wash, And to place on the shelf in array; \Vith more mending and chickens anti milk The long day will at last pass away And the evening come silently on, To the weary atid worn bringing rest, And the dew-sprinkled mantle of night Give refreshment to earth's glowing breast. Oh! the glow that the artist doth give To his pictures of country life fair, Is <:aug'nt from a hammock in shade, \\.'liile in idleness sojourning there. If you really would learn the full truth, And lit sire the (i(‘l«'liiS of sucli life; (live no ht ml to the lair suiniut-r gut-st. but go sctk out the far:ucr's tircd wife. -4- ————;— The Book in a. Woman’s Hand. I do not know whether these words will be read by those of our American women who are careless or thought-less enough to buy this unhealthful litera- ture' I hardly think they can be found in any large number among the ./'uzzrmtl sisters. Then why are these words written‘? To en- roll you. my dear reader, each and every one of you, among those who will use all the influ- ence which you can exert. over others. to stem this tide of injur- ious literature. If these words fall under the eyes of one wo- man who will be convinced that she cannot afford to read a sug- gestive book. their mission will be fulfilled, It is for the perpet- uation of everything that is pure and elevating in womanhood. of the maintenance of everything that is sacred to the domestic circle, that I say no woman can afford to either buy or read a book other than that which has in it and about it the purest mor- al atmosphere. A bad book makes every immorality possible; just as a good book will stimu- late the lofticst thoughts and ambitions. A woman’s life and feelings are colored by the pages which she reads. A book in which sin is gilded, no matter how cleverly it is done. should be shunned thoroughly as the vice which it represents. It is always well for every Woman to remember that her reading is the greatest key to her character. The company a woman keeps may sometimes be imposed upon her, and it is therefore not al- ways safe to judge her by those who surround her. But her reading is the result of choice, and therefore the book in 21. W0- man’s hand is a direct index to her character. There is no self- respccting woman in America who can afford to read a book with an unclean purpose. She cannot afford it for her own sake. her family, her friends or her sex. Besides, what benefits is derived from such a. book? It can teach a woman nothing worth know- ing, therefore. it is unsatisfac- tory, and the time spent is Wast- ed. She cannot refer to it in conversation; therefore it is use- less. Then where is the good to be derived? And there certainly is no object in reading a book unless we can learn something from it. On the other hand it is harmful because it is impure. A woman may say: “Oh, I can read these books, and they have no effect upon me!" Not apparently; but unconsciously they do: most as- suredly. And every woman of common sense knows that what I say is true. It cannot be other- wise. The mind thrives by what it is fed. just like the body. Why not turn to all the good and healthful books which are con- stantly published? Ignore the unhealthy and they will die of themselves. and with their death will American literature and American womanhood be the greatest beneficiaries. —— Lmlius-‘ Jrmrna/. , , _.___¢-¢___.;. ..,.. Wall and Vine. Is anything stranger than the human heart‘! Nature sends a frail. green vine creeping across the earth to reach a grim wall and cover its ugliness-—-to reach a (lead branch and cover it with life. ‘V9 bless nature as we see tliese things. and yet we do not realize that human hearts are doing the same. One day. months ago. a rosy—faced child looking from a window saw a queer old man go limping past. It tapped on the pane and the old man looked up. The sight of that sweet face opened his old heart-. and he went on his way feeling richer than for many a month past. He was the grim wall; the child was the vine. He passed again, and again the child was at the window. and for days and weeks they never ceased seeing each other. At each meeting the vine crept nearer to the wallw the wall appeared less grim and forbidding. One day the “wall" laid aside his old hat for a better one. Another day he had a new coat. Again he was clean shaved and the “vine" scarcely recog- nized him. No one knew the old man. but all knew that he was feeling the gentle. persuasive in- fluence of the vine.—E.r. .._-_.._.o 9 gm -7 — Don't Scold. The following lines from the columns of an exchange apply with equal force to fathers and mothers. Did you ever know a child who was always being nag- ged at that was not ugly? I think not. Children are largely what their parents make them by "pre- cept and example,” with a great deal of example and very little precept: Mothers, don't scold. You can be firm without scolding your children; you can reprove them for their faults; you can punish them when necessary, but don’t get into the habit of perpetually scolding them. It does them no good. They soon become so ac- customed to fault-finding and scolding that they pay no atten- tion to it. Or, which often hap- pens. they grow hardened and reckless in consequence of it. Many a naturally good disposi- tion is ruined by constant scold- ing, and many a child is driven to seek evil associates because there is no peace at home. Mo- thers. with their many cares and perplexities, often fall into the habit unconsciously; but it is a sad habit for them and their chil- dren. Watch yourselves. and don't indulge in this unfortunate and often unintentional manner of addressing your children. Watch even the tones of your voice, and, above all. watch your hearts, for we have divine au- thority for saying that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” _..._.<. Longfellow's "Evangeline" calls out this comment from Miss Wil- lard: “There is a prophetic in- sight; in the poet who sends the gentler nature out over the deso- late world seeking to find the physically stronger. Even thus does she go to bring man back from the Inferno of temptation.” August. All the long August afternoon. The little drowsy stream Whispers a melancholy time, As if it dreamed of June And whispered in its dream. The thistles show beyond the brook Dust on their down and bloom, And out of many a weed grown nook The aster flowers look, With eyes of tender gloom. The silent orchard aisles are sweet With smell of ripening fruit, Through the sere grass in shy retreat. Fluttering at coining feet The robins strange and mtite. There is no wind to stir the leaves. The harsh leaves overhead; Only the querulous cricket grieves And slirilling locust weaves A song of summer dead. —II'. /7. //uzualls. ————--~—<-O>j— -- Give a. Kind Word. Do you know a heart that huitgers For a word of love and cheer? There are many such about us, It may be that one is near. Look around you. If you find it Speak the word that‘s needed so. And your own heart may be streiigtlicried By the help that you bestow. It may be that S0lll(‘. one falters On the brink of sin and wrong, And a word from you might save him- Help to make the tempted strong. Look about you, O my brother, \Vhat a sin is yours and mine If we see that help is needed And we give no friendly sign. Never think kind words are wasted, Bread oti waters cast are they, Anti it may be we shall find them Coming back to us sonic day. Coming back when snrt-ly iiet.-dt,d. In a time of sort-. tli.~.tit:s.~'. So. my friend. let's give them frt:t:ly; Gift and giver God will bless. —/',‘."'t'11 Ii‘. /\'<'.t_77r}'t1', 1'): My //n.-'t.rt'.'t'{'/i‘. - < 3 > -- - The Value of Civility. There would be fewer brok- en friendships. fewer unhappy unions and family quarrels. were it not so much the cus- tom among intimate friends and relations to neglect the small courtesies of lif'e—to show less and less mutual deference as they grow more and more familiar. It is the foundation of misery in marriage, and many a serious and life-long estrangement has be- gun, not from want of affection so much as from lack of that del- icate and instinctive appreciation of the feelings of others which make a. person shrink from say- ing unpleasant things or finding fault, unless absolutely obliged, and in any case to avoid wound- ing the offenders sense of digni- ty or stirring up within him feel- ings of opposition and animosity; for. although many persons pro- fess to be above taking offense at honest censure, and even seem to court criticism. yet it must be very carefully administered not‘ to be unpalatable. Even kind. generous actions are often so un- couthly performed as to cause more pain than pleasure, while a reproof or denial may be so sweet- ened by courtesy as to do away with any sense of mortification or disappointment. Good breed- ing is always inclined to form a favorable judgment and to give others the credit of being actuat ed by worthy motives. It does not wish or seem to know more about people than they them- selves desire should be known, but it is always prepared. when necessary, to take an interest in the affairs of others, while self is not suffered to obtrude unduly.— Golden Hours. » Care of Closets. Closets are not only useful but a neessary part of a house. Most housekeepers think there cannot be too much closet room provid- ed. There are very many things which are properly put into clos- ets, and other things which never should go into closets. Of such are all soiled undergarments. Clothing that has been worn should not be hung away until properly ventilated. In this way two fertile sources of bad odors in closets may be excluded. Many hang their night clothes in the closet during the day. This also should be_ avoided un- less they have a thorough airing before being hung. If the closet does not admit; of a window, the door should be left open for a few hours every day to admit pure air. Some persons have ventilators placed just; over the door, but the outside air, if ad- mitted for a short time every day, will purify a closet; where only clean clothes are hung. No matter how clean the clothing in the closet may be, if there is no ventilation the clothing will not be what it should.——Det7'oz't Trib. G-rant Allen on Literary Women. The imagination of Mr. Grant Allen continues to be distressed by a learned phantom in petti- coats who tries to earn her own living, and is supposed to think of her sex. In a recent magazine article he records his fears that if the theories of the advanced women are not checked, the in- valuable faculty of intuition, which is a distinguishing feminine characteristic. will be educated away. with the direful result that men of genius will cease to be born. For the intui- five faculty pertains to Genius as well as to femininity. Genius does not st op to reason. It arrives. by a sudden and immediate pro- cess which it inherited frotn its mother. It knows. it knows not how. If only knows that it knows, as women do. It would be a dreadful pity to ‘have genius stumbling about in limbo for lack of a woman fit to lbe a mother to it. Let us hope it will not really come to such a forlorn extreme as that. Would it be inexcusable to derive the impression from Mr. Grant Allen's magazine articles, that learned as he is in natural history, his knowledge of the human fe- male is defective? To my mind she seems to be constructed of much tougher materials than Mr. Allen imagines. and the in- fluences that tend to make a man of her seein enormously overbal- anced by those whose tendency is to keep her a woman. For my part I am not a bit afraid but that when God made woman He ‘endowed her with persistence jcnough to maintain the charac- ;teristics of her sex. lVIonkeys Ema-y have evolutionized into !Herbert Spencers; but have the females of any species ever yet evolutionized into males? Of course there are masculine women: women afflicted from birth with mannish minds and predisposed to channels of use- fulness Which are more commonly navigated by men. Such women are not all Sally Brasses either. Some of them even presume to marryuand have children. But they are exceptional creatures, and are easily counterbalanced by the femitine men. The aver- age woman is a thorough-going woman. and is not to be educated out of it. You may teach her Latin, you may let her operate a typewriter, or teach school, or work in a factory. or dot off language by telegraph, and be- 3come as independent as you please. She is a pgrsisfeiitg fe- male still. If Mr. Allen will only stir up his males, and see to it that they are competent. faithful, and good providers, he may cease to distress himself. The proportion of the gentler sex who insist upon reasoning by logical processes and competing with men in bread-winning avoca- tions, will not be great enough to afford him legitimate distress. Take care of your men, Mr. Allen, and your Women Won't have to take care of themselves. And if they don’t have to, they won't do it. The fact that some Women who ha.ve no one else to take care of them are taught to take care of themselves seems a remote reason for alarm. A Woman even with blunted infanti- tions is better than a. woman under sex feet of ea.rth.—-G9‘eele'_r/ Trib. ——<-o—>—%— How to Clean Ornaments. Clean carved ivory with a paste of dampened saw—dust and a few drops of lemon juice. Lay it on thickly, allow it to dry, and then remove with a nail brush. Alabaster figures are cleaned with the following mixture: One ounce of borax and a quart of boiling water. When r-ool, wash the figures gently and dry with a silk handkerchief. If very badly stained, try a paste of quick-lime and wafer; let it remain on for a day, then wash off in soap and water. Olive oil occasionally ap- plied with a soft woolen cloth keeps buhl cabinets and ormolu ornaments bright; first, clean off all the dust. Bronze-s may be plunged into boiling Water until warm, then cleaned with soap suds and dried with old linen cloths. If this is ineffectual. try beeswax and tur- pentine, rubbed on and off with clean. soft; cloths. Sweet oil. and polishing with a chamois, is an- other remedy.—E/.r. meanly of the natural vocations. The Trained Nurse and the Nurse of Tradition. She is today as efiicient an agent in the saving of human life and the alleviation of human suf fering as the physician himself. There is no more resemblance be- tween the trained nurse and the nurse of tradition than between’ the educated physician and the "yarb doctor" of early settle- ments. The trained nurse is, in the first place, a woman of refine- ment, often a woman of culture. She is carefully educated in her‘ profession by an orderly course of study and clinical instruction, which fits her for functions that could not have been intrusted at all to the uneducated persons hitherto employed as nurses. She‘ knows what to do in all emer- gencies. and. better still. what not to do. She knows how to observe symptoms, how to relieve them upon occasions, and how to report upon them when the doctor comes. Modern science clearly rec- ognizes the fact that the treat- ment of disease consists mainly in putting and keeping the patient in the condition most favorable to recovery. It is the physicians‘ function to prescribe the condi- tion: it is the trained nurse who must create and maintain it. --4<.>_. Bathing. A There is a great deal to be gained. in both comfort and health. by keeping the skin clean. It will assist those who are healthy to keep their good health and strength, and will give more strength and life to delicate people. An intelligent study of surroundings and condi- tions 0ught.of course, to be made. A daily bath will not injure any one. however delicate, if properly taken. On the contrary, it never fails to refresh and do positive good. A week is the longest time one should do without it. Once a day is none too often. and is re- ally needful in hot, dusty, sum- mer weather. Some people de- rive the greatest benefit from a perfectly cold bath, while others find tepid water more suited to their condition. Many find the time more suitable for bathing to be just before retiring. By get- ting into bed directly afterward. and covering sufiiciently to secure warmth. 21. refreshing sleep is likely to be enjoyed and all dau- gcr of taking cold obviated. When one is sick and restless. nothing so rests and quiets as a bath. Soinetimes a little salt in the water is enjoyed. and occa- sionally a dash of ammonia is in- vigorating and will. in hot weath- er. destroy any offensive odor. Whatever the time chosen. or method pursued, do not neglect the bath. for if “cleanliness," in this sense, be not “next to godli- ness,“ it is certainly conducive to health, strength, self-respect and good morals. :—?——<—o—€——T— How easily we can settle the question of duty for a tempted, tried. discouraged fellow crea- ture! and What a large margin we allow for our own weaknesses and follies ! God help us all ! What if He should so unsparing- ly and unrelentingly measure our motives and lives? What if our unworfhiness were the measure of His daily favors and recogni- fion? Alas! what narrow crea- tures we are!——E.r. A fine Illustration of the grow- ing popularity of women as pub- lic speakers is the fact that two of the most important courses of lectures at Chautauqua. this sea- son are to be given by women. while the address on the greatest of Chautauqua occasions, Recog- nifion day, is to be delivered by Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellsley college.- Evanston Bulletin. ..-____3.>_.__,,, If you want a good dressing for the dinning-room or hall or kitchen floor try the following; it dries hard, glossy and will not scratch: Good coach varnish. one pint; boiled oil, one pint; tur- Pentlney One-half pint, and mix. ——Ladies’ Home Journal. NOW. therefore, see that no day passes in which you do not make yourself a. somewhat better creature; and, in order to do that. find out first what you are no“-_ —Ruskt'n. T 5 3 I “s Spring-tooth Hauows: ‘ in nice shape for seetlin August [5, 1890. THE C3-.‘l.=?..A.1\'l'G-TE-.'£ VISITOR. r’ Do you want the BUYERS GUIDE? Weight‘, - - 2 lbs. Pages, - - - 540. Illustrations, - - 8,000. Articles Priced and I Accurately Described, 30,000. I L Most people say tlint it is worth $ to them as 3. Reference Book, asit enables them to make it comparative estimateof the Vulue of everything they buy. Sent upon receipt of 15 cents (stumps or otherwise), to pay postage or express-age. MONTGOMERY WARD 6:. Co., I I I to I I6 Michigan Ave., “THE ORIGINAL WHOLESALE Guns: sumau I-Iousz." CHICAGO. ‘THE EXTERMINATOR! ‘ Points of Merit THAT THE ~ ermina or HAS OVER ALL OTHER 1st. 11' \vill cut hard ground. ‘Ed. It will not (lodge or trail. 3d. It will EXTERMINATE weeds. 4th. It levels the ground and 0l':l.S(‘S all tooth in-.n'ks, leaving the s\ii'fuec cling But‘ back of the teeth. 9;, and is the only Spring-tootli llurr-nv that has :1 Lev- Sth. It is 2.3 per cent. lighter (lruft. \Ve make three Si’/.cs——7 beam, 6 ft.; 8 hcum, l5ft.l1 in.; lllln-:iiii,Sft.!.H1i. Qfé‘ For p1'ices, l(‘l‘lllS and other iliforintition, :1:l«l1'e<-1. WHIPPLE HARROW CO., “ fifth degree, set 0 by registered mail ...... __ “ combined degrees, per doxen ....... ._ 1 Blank “Articles of Association" for the incor- poration of subordinate granges, with cop of charter, all complete.... .... ...— .-—— -- 10 Notice to delinquent members, per I00 . . . . . . .. 40 Declaration of Purposes, per doz. 5c; per 100. . _ 40 American Manual of Parliamentary LaW.... . . . 50 “ “ etc. (Morocco tuck). 1 00 Digest of Laws and Rulings .......... .. 4" Roll books.......................... 15 Patrons’ badges (in lots 0:.‘ 15 or more). . 25 Officers‘ badges . . . . . . . . . . . . - . - — . - - — - - — - - - - - - -- 5" co-ornnarrvn LITERATURE. History and Objects of Crroperation. ._ _ _ 05 what is co-operation? .............. .. 02 Home of the Weaknesses of (‘o—operatio 02 Educational Funds; How to Use Them ()1 Associative Farming ............ .._— . "1 The Economic Aspect of Co—operat1oi 01 Association and Education 03 The Principles of Unity 01 The Peri1sufCred.it___._ .. 01 Fundamental Principles 1" Co-operation . . . . .. 01 J. T. COBB, Sec'y Michigan State Grange, Schoolcraft. Mich. Address, GERMAN HORSE AND COW POWDER ls of the highest value of horses, cattle, hogs, and poultry. It assists digestion and assimilation and thus converts feed into muscle. milk and fat which otherwise would be Wasted- MORTIMER WHITEHEAD Says: “German Horse and Cow Powder pays many times its cost in keeping all kinds of farm stock in good health. I have used it for years on my farm, buying a barrel at a time." . It is manufactured by Dr. L. Olu-rlxoltzer s Sou?! It Co., Phuznixville, Pa, and sold at Wholesale Prices-—viz: Barrels—z0lT-8 in bulk. 7* '20 per round- Boxefl # fimhs it it 8,: u it “ 30lbs—5ll’; pack. 10c. “ Bv ALBERT ST]-ZGI-3MA.\‘, Allegnn, Mich. 'riioit.\'ToN n.iR.\'i~;s. 310- 241 North vvater St.,Philudelphia, Pa. More kinds and sizes of Mills and Evaporators, T r Sorchuin and Sugar Cane, are made by The lilymyorlron Wdnrks l.‘o.,of(:incinnuti, (1.. than by auv other works in the world. They are the s-nip makers the Victor, Great Wrsu>rn and .'-"Mrs Jlillx, the Genuine Cook Eva orator. and the .A.1«!rmrui/: Coolc Evaporator. Sen for (latalnzue, Prices, and The Sorghum Hand Book for 1890. P’ St- Tohns, lfL:Lcb.- CONNER & OSBORN, Local Agents, Paw Paw, Mich. i PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES I BIGGEST OFFER EVER MADE ’ Kept in the ()fl‘ice of Sec'y of the I‘ WEBSTEWS DICTIONARY. Michigan State Grange; NEW YORK WEEKLY- , _ I The publishers of the well-known and popu- And sent out post-paid on receipt of Cash , i V w _ _ ‘ Urder, over the Seal of a Subordinate 1 at 5 [3 1‘'‘’1“*r' (‘range and the signature of its *_ flu ’ blaster or Secretary. ‘ ,l,‘-‘,r./ Km Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred . . . _ . . 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I>9}:‘_1“0y ll’_0i1.1k1;l ------ -- dress, post-paid, their paper for three months (“l;ffi‘§:;;3fi”Ca‘§,;”;§; ,‘;f)"Ze',f” 1’? _ _ ‘ ‘ ' ‘ ' ’ ' " and a hamlsome edition of \Vebster's Dic- Dmms, in em.e10l',,.,,Y per doZ'e',',_: _ _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ H -25 tionnry. bound in leather, 1615 pages—sizc or By-Laws of the state Grange, single copies, 1Uc: page 8x10‘; inches. size of book 4 inches thick. perduzeu..............:...-—.---—---,------- 75 weighv.9lbs.— “ Glad Echoes,” with music, single copies 25c; per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..v . . . . - - — - -- 3 00 The National Grange Choir, single copy Uc; per dozen __________________ _, 4 no Rituals, single copy... 25 ‘- per dozen . _ _ _ _ . ., 2 75 tor the low diaries of 84. exclusive of ezpreu charges on ictionary. The ordinary price of Webster's Dictionary is $12. A Webster's Dictionary is a household necessity. and we feel assured that no one will be without it now. Send in your orders to the ojflce of this paper at once, as the demand is great. and the supply limited. We will forward all orders to the publishers and uarantee to iurnish the New York Week y for three months and a handsome hound copy of \Veh. star’: Dictionary, containing over 1600 pages, or 54. Send Post Oflice and Express address. \’Vc have decided to add this paper to the above offer at $4.35. ‘ GRANGE VISITOR. Pmv Paw. .\Iich. “lllEl)XLY PAPER IN THE ll'0lll.l).— Edited. Printed and mzulo ready for the mails for furincrs and by lzirine-r's—iii sliori, PUBLISHED RIGHT OUT ON A FARM. Is the Gl{.~\.\‘GF. Nrxvs, esmblislicrl in 1876: and pub- lished semi-monthly at 50 rents per yezir. To in- trorlurc the GR.-t.\'(;s Ni-zxvs into io.ooo new homes during 1890, we Wlll send it, on TRIAL To NEW sL'Hsci———§ A Plea. for the Birds. “The bonny, bonny littlc birds- lt is their hour of need. They have no power to beg for life, It is for them I plead.“ There is no more exquisite creature in the universe than the living bird. perched dziintily up- on the swaying branch of an elm, while from the little throat pours forth at gush of melody that car- ries our heart with his. straight to the mercy seat of God. But the same bird dead, transfixed by the skill of the taxidermist, in the agonized position that could only have been assumed in the little creatures lingering death struggles. is at sight to make one shudder. I saw in zt milliner‘s opening at bonnet trimmed with at band coin- posed of twenty birds‘ heads. It seems hardly credible that any woman could be found with a. taste so depraved as to think this beautiful. but. alas! there are many who would wear it as proudly as the savage wears the girdle of sculps at his waist. and with as little thought as he of the suffering of which these tiny heads are the token. Let us look at it for :1 moment-twenty birds" lieztds. That means twenty little lives gone out of the sunlight: twenty happy voices hushed for aye ; twenty little bodies gasp- ing their life out upon the ground: fifty baby birdies starving in the nest; millions of grubs and worms feasting on our crops and fruit. and the story is not yet told. Who could estimate it? And the senseless vanity of one woman is gratified, and at what a. cost! “Do you realize the horror of it? Why, there are our own dear little birds that we love. the wel- come visitors for whose coming we wait so anxiously in the spring. When their first glad notes are heard what a thrill of joy it sends through every nerve. We scatter crumbs for them and hope they will build again in the old elm tree near the porch. How gladly we announce some morning that three little blue eggs are in the nest. Then. bye and bye. what a pleasure it is to watch the happy little mother as she flies to and fro with the food for her darlings. this! The blue bird who awaken- whose song was so sweet that we hushed our breath to listen, there they are~twisted into some fantastic shape and sewed upon at bonnet. VVoman, woman, you can no longer plead ignorance or thoughtlessness for your barbar- ity; you know the cruelty of it; you know that without the birds man could not live upon the earth; you know that were it not for the birds. the growth of in- sect life would be so immense that vo,g"etuti0n would be entirely destroyed—yet you wilfully en- courage this wholesale slaughter of our feathered friends, and knowingly sanction this wicked destruction of the beautiful war- blers who fill our groves and fields with their sweet melodies of love. . From the Atlantic to the Pa- lcific, from Canada. to Florida, the 5 agents of the millinery firms are And it has come to. gush of joyful melody, the oriole‘ ed us in the morning with hisiupon which to begin it. ceaseless in their work of death and destruction. From early spring until late fall, at all times and at all seasons, the lovely. helpless creatures are pursued with relentless vigilzince—snur- ed, trapped. hunted with dogs, shot. killed with air-guns. bean- shooters, stones, no matter what, so long as the bright plumage -can bring a few pennies into the hunter’s pocket. Some species of birds are al- 1‘ea.(ly extinct and others fast be- coming so. From this immense destruction of bird-life. but one result can follow. The punish- ment of our sin will fall upon our chiltlren when, without let or hindrance. the grubs and worms can destroy the crops, blight the fruit and leave the shade trees but blackened skele- tons to mourn the death of the sweet birds that were wont to build in their branches. The women of the land should rise up and protest against this outrage by refusing indignantly to wear the plumage, that badge of cruelty that is the symbol of so much suffering and anguish. "The human cry to God is still For ‘mercy. mercy,’ solely; The birds sing only, ‘God be praised,’ And ‘holy, holy, holy.’ " Out—Door Botany —— A Suggestion from Experience. "The foolish man," says Emer- son, "wonders at the unusual: the wise man at the usuzil;" while Lowell more wittily words the some truth: ‘-VVe think lightly of nature‘s penny shows, and esti- mate what we see by the cost of the ticket.” With what dismay would the average hay—maker be likely to open his eyes at all that Mr. Ruskin finds to say about so in- significant objects as grass blos- soms: “Minute, granular, feath- ery or downy seed vessels. min- gling brown punctuation and’m'//. H1 .-lm. (/u;':."i'II. r----—--— < c > ——-— Progress of American Steel. An int-erestiiig feature of the recent-ly published stut.isticul re- port of the 1-XlTl(;‘l‘l(.‘.iLll Iron and Steel Association is the increas- ing percentage of steel in the to- tal production. About one—thi1'tl of the bur "iron" now manufac- tured in the United Stutes is steel, so is nearly half of the plate and sheet iron. and -10 per cent of the cut nails and spiltes. The rolled iron product. other than nails. only iiiereused 7.} per cent. last year. while the rolled steel product. apart from rails. increased :1-3;’ per cent. It needs not to say that steel rails are now repl2Lcin,g_r ‘thoseof iron on {Lll the i'uil1'ouds which are eificielitly 1’11ui1ug'etl. 1'\l‘t-t‘l'll1dl trliztiige is completed. what then‘: \\'ill the next 1'efo1'1n in order be whole- sale substitution of uluniinum for the ferric material. crowding that out of the way as the latter is (lisplziciiig wood for many st-ructural purposes? It is not improbable. Clay is much more plentiful than l1‘()I1 ore. and re- cent experiments at least indicate it as possible that the new metal will ere long be produced as cheaply per unit of volume, if not of weight. as its elder broth- er. Such a clizmge would revo- lutionize not a. few of our manu- facturing processes. and perhaps some of the habits of the civil- izetl human being. .lI<-Ia./I mul I‘.'i.s'("Il /.c[fI(u{/. <90- HEMP S1LK:—Mr. Nuyeinurzi Sukusuburo. udruggistof Hikonc. in Oini.Japa.n, has succeeded in converting wild hemp (yachyo) into £1. substance possessing all the essential qualities of silk. Nothing is said about the process. but it is asserted that trial of the threzul has been niude at the first silk-weaving estziblishnient in Kioto and other factories, with excellent results in every case. The plant in question grows on moors and hillsides. Its fiber is said. to be strong and glossy, in no Wise inferior to silk when properly prepared. Cultivation on an extended scale would )l‘O- sent no (lll'l'lCllll.l(,‘S. 1 _ __4__,-,_ _ HAPI>I1\'ESS.—Ti'ue liappiiiess is of a. retired 1ia.tu1'e. and an en- emy to pomp and noise; it arises. in the first place. from the on- joyment of one’s self. and. in the next, from the fricntlslnp and conversation of ti few select com- panions. Fulse liztppiness loves to be in a. crowd. and to draw the eyes of the world upon her. She does not receive any satisfaction from the applause which she gives herself, but from the ad- miration which she raises in oth- ers.—Ex. THE GRANGE VISITOR. '\ \. August 15, 18:30. MICKLEY. IN MEMORIAM. On the bright summer morning of June 8th, when the sun was gilding the eastern sky. our hon- and his family a more than ordi- narily kind and indulgent hus- band and father. Sister Harriet Morris next spoke as follows: Our hearts are sad to-night as we meet to give our tributes of respect to the memory of our departed brother. sessing. as he did. a naturallyl strong constitution and a giant intellect, he was capable of see- ing things in their true light. and this gave to him a broad under- tanding of the great subjects that came before the nation in the days of his prime. But let 2, Being it man of sterling integ- rity he always stood firmly for the right as he understood it. He was a kind husband. a lov- ing father. aii obliging neighbor and a worthy citizen. beloved and respected by all. He was a tidy and proggressive farmer. at once MONTANA, OREGON AND > WASHINGTON. A correct nirtp of the north west will show that the ‘.\_01’[lllt:l‘ll‘P£lClllC Railroad travcrs-es the central portion of Minnesota, 1\orth Dakota, Montana and Wztshingtoii for a distance of nearly 2,000 fllllt‘S; it is the only Railroad reaching janiestown. Bis- marck. Miles City, Billings, Livingston. Bozernan. Missoula, ‘Cheney. Davenport, Paloiisc City, Spragiie, Ritzville, Yakima, Ellensburg. TBCOUIE,’ ored brother. Chas. E. Mickley. Never again will we hear his us be admonished that all flesh isidentifying himself with the §ie.i'§siet.i."viisi'iiiiicfioiiiifliiiiiiiriiime nonhiwm h1‘8'c1th€<1 hiS last and passed OVGI‘ kind voice imparting to us wis- grass: the learned and the illiter— agricultural interests of his T“e,"'°"“§'" P-ascifipc isltlivdsgfrtést trans-cont? ‘ _ 1. __ ’ ‘ . . ‘ , l 7 V ~—, “ _ iieiitzi route min t. an an ‘i'ca oto H‘l- .~, the Clallx 11\€I' to the u11lx110WI1 dom and uiging us on in the good ate are boin but to die, and we neighbois. He became an active time. Anaconda. Deer L0dl-Ievxsfigokzille Lriiii beyond. His final illness was of short duration. he having been stricken with paralysis on June 2d. 1/Ie was not at first consid- ered in a critical condition. but work of ourorder. Never again will we feel the firm clasp of his hand in fraternal greeting. and our hearts cry out in sadness. gone. gone, forever! Knowing can but bow to the will of Him who doeth all things well. The natne of Chas E. Mickley is one long to be remembered. both in private and public life. Truly, and prominent Granger. oppos- ing monopolies and all forms of trust. rings. and combinations. He advocated that each man had a right and should enjoy the pro Walla V\/alla. Dayton and Portland, and the only one whose through trains reach anv portion of the new state of \‘Vasliin;,'toii. Land seekers purchas- ing Pacific Coast second class tickets via St. Paul and the Northern Pacific have choice front that point of free Colonist Sleeping Cars or Pullinan's~ Tourist Furnished Sleepers at charges as low as ( the lowest. the Vital parts Of the body pI‘0Ved him from my early childhood. a, great mans labors are fin— ducts of his own labor therefore. ai.-FooréiiizijegeiéiijftisaiiiiB:diieoiifiniiiiiiiifgaecigfi - - . - - - ~- , _ - _-2 dl.:1\' lP.."‘ -._ . to be affected and in a few days in memory I see him in so many hhed. 1g. .colmI. That in behalf of the ,‘,‘j,‘Z§‘,.,°,,;5;,,,,",_‘,fc‘,, a‘,,‘,,‘“,f,.§f;‘f,‘O,§;f‘ff;:,f§§,j{j§, the end came. He was during illness surrounded by his entire family who administered to his wants and gave all the comforts that mortals could bestow. Funeral services were conduct- ed at the home where this worthy pioneer had felled the lofty oaks. had raised the log cabin, traiis- formed a dense forest into one of the most beautiful farms, and later had surrounded his family places, this evening, as I saw him in life. One remembrance seems to be impressed just now more than any other. It was when our graiige was celebrating its anniversary and we were lis- tening to the program. Sister Eliza Russell (eldest daughter of Bro. Mickley) as Grange histori- an, was giving a list of our char- ter members and those who had crossed the silent river never to Tne services closed with suita- ble music, and the audience part- ed in sadness. feeling that they had lost a true friend. Suitable resolutions have been passed by the various township pioneer societies. and also by the County Grange. Charles E. Mickley was born in Northumberland county. Penn- sylvania, August 26. 1818. came to Michigan when 15 years He‘ St. Joseph county Grange, No. 4. We present this testimonial of respect to his memory. as we re- member his fidelity and faithful- ness as a iiieniber of our body. and extend to the relatives and friends our sympathy in their sad bereavement. 1i’c.s~nIi-ml, That our charter be draped in mourning for 60 days: also that a copy of these resolu- tions be transmitted to the family int: over I25 s_tatioiis in \‘Vasliiiigt_on. thus enabling persons scekiiig a lioiiie to C.\'£|llllllt.’ this vast terri- tory without incurring an expense of from 55.00 to $25_.oo in traveling on local tickets from point to point. , ' Insure for yourself comfort and safety hv having the best I1t.‘C0lllO(lIlll()IlS2ll’lU1‘l‘lt!(i, tlierehvavoidiiig change ot ca ‘, re-checking of baggage, transfers and lay .(\\'(:|"‘~‘ en route. Moxie)‘ can be saved by piii‘ch:isingtickcts yia St. Paul or Minneapolis and the i\O1'(lll:l‘Il Pacific. _l-or ‘.\l.'i_vs. Paiiiplilt-ts Rates and Tickets eiiqiiirt: ot V\'0lll’llL'i’1l’tfSt'rl(‘,l-\‘k‘( Agent, f1llV'l)lS!I‘l(‘! Passen- ger Ageiit of the Northern Pacific Railroad; or CHAS. FER. General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Paul. Minn 4 OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. With all the comforts and lL1X1l- return. I saw a look of sad- of age; worked three years by of the deceased and one to the __ A__ _, I _ _W___ mfifi ries Of it In0(le1'I1fa~1'1n home The ncss on li_is face and I knew the month on neighboring farms. GRANGE VISITOR for publica- (Iflit-er» xatioiiaiqaranze. day Was beautiful. but Sad were that he was deeply moved. He commenced clearing the fa,rn1 tion_ ~‘TA-Eii balai\i(l?..~Ti'*1§ia-‘iif Wisllel‘. Se1'\'iCeS Were C0n(1uCt- last time in our Grange I shook his township. Mr. Mickley was ‘V ,t1 , M ,, H. ,) f ,5.f',".‘,.",,l‘,f-‘§.*fi.‘,',:,{_9‘§_‘“,.T§‘,“f-‘ff ““{,"-"_'DC ed by the reverend geiitleinun to ha.nds with him and dished if he first identified with the Deiiio- ‘O, O1 15. ‘ E.’1f’“Elr ‘L5 55' 0 c’m—. 9\i'i‘i_\vl‘\l'l1’1‘)Jl:-'1.’ ) &11ani0n.whose risoii, and to this Mr. Mickley in thei,’.f,,,‘.0’,. ,,,'th0 (-,.,,,‘,,,e mg, ’rii;.L.-li§?§;"§7Eiifiéfix31$?}f’.'_'_‘.1f?{‘i'§i.EtZ?§i was a charter inetnber and al- heart is crushed with the weight was a, frequent contributor. He treat them “ith w,,teT,n1,t”0,,»: of Eflfriiliiili-i':3‘il’§ii)Bd$Eiiéiisiifisciioiiiicrifl‘ _' P ' . Y _ ' _. . _ V v V - . ._ ..‘.‘—-.:..‘. . __.'. a"as'a. ways a faithful Vi orkei. A geii— of giief. May the Heai enly Fa- became a member of the Repub- the G,.ange_ Sum,O,.t,ng men for ,§g;:;:i‘,*}~‘,§ST§*§)(§_- §,1A*S!__‘:‘f’,.‘f,,,.“,’é’a,,’._ audience assembled. Appropri- ate music was rendered by the , 71 . ruit Ridge. choir and volunteer remarks fol- teemed by those intimately ac- and in the senate one term. He Iedders 1.-r. COBB, ' ,' __ ._'§'fi§‘o§{Z'§§f§: 1 lowed. quainted with him. He was em~ was appointed by Gov. Baldwin General Deputies. B1'0- G90 13- Horton Said‘ lnently 3' Selfimade manwone of as 0118 Of the C0mH1iSSi0119I'S '50 CATARRH }‘,‘f§‘?5».;P{3v’f)‘§,YD§§‘§7{}° """"""" '-”“",3f* .c§fe“I' We have met to perpetuate the nature's noblemen. He was a locate the State Public School, ’ A. i\'.‘ivoonie1:f CORSET FACTORY F°r Mackinaw —————————— ..ar 9 15 6 45 3 10 ———— .. 5 own persistent efforts to improve ent. We saw Michigan in her liesolvezl, That we drape our warren Featherbone Co., c. L. LQCKWOOD, himself he won the way to honor, beauty, as God made her. We Charter, 60 days, and that a copy Three Oaks. Mich. E. BAKER Agenf-I§;lfn']1‘gzI3g_t- Grand Reinde- distinctioii and fame. His work walked together, side by side, all of these resolutions be sent to C & C T RHLWH was grand. and will live in the through that stormy road to her the VISITOR and to the Tinic.s';also Q J1" 19 1890 '&.(_I’m_fL, Me;_mi_m Tim‘, - u . 1 . t“ I I J. ( . hearts of his many associates present grand and I?fl3:tChleSS de- a copy be sent to the faintly. , ’ T,,A,xS wE_,»Tw_,,,,,_ (]l1I'l1'lg' Dill. lllell‘ llV€S, and In velopment. NO H1311 more t0 A precious loneiflrotn psnisdgone, No. 2 Nu. 18' ‘So. 4 history of our state and nation cheer the hearts of his CO-la.b01‘- §,‘f’,§§§ }‘S’i.a°c‘;n‘,};f,§e§;,:,,,g,, Plum Hess and Lowlmes ’ _1sx_p_._ _:s_xp_. EL forever. His was a ioetic nature ers than Hon. Chas. E. Mickie *. Which never can be filled- D S punnumulv __________ ,. 7 ism 5 5981]] 7241.11. ' l ' l' "‘rl l ~:r>c'illcd - - 1 - . I L 331 u 7 23“ 95% ‘~ and full of magnetism. He nat- Few men were more largely fa- 2;};{,T,o‘,§5,j§;]o§?;“,,;§‘g,f:e;,' ‘i1;§sl’1Xlr‘g;:1lic?1 l()£‘?le1j)1‘1-v}.:;;*:’2;I51H9{71"r13;J1: Fi‘,1,’j?f;;f- ‘ .,;,5 .. ,0, .. ‘,, 1,5 .. urally drew men to him. and the Vored by nature. He was a na- Ar=<1Ilw".L'“!‘w9°“!*'"3“‘<‘“5““°- f , 1 B, k H .d pg 16 D‘““.““-- - ”‘.’5 ii ““‘ii ‘‘,’.’’”fI ‘ T , ‘h V f 1 .g ' U tural orator and Often has h The soul is safe in Heaven. ers, (}l1( ac ‘ea. 5, imp S, Lansing . . 10.10 “ ,1!) “ €2.30‘ 3.~‘>'1'9‘?113;-P5 His unbounded good humor. on him with his God. May the les- ville Grange, No. 222, which was HAY PRESS ’ ' _ all occasions, was a marked char- sons of his life never be forgot- organized October 18. 1813. He 5~'°°=°A~vw"W~'°°"“:,!‘ 'B%‘.’~‘é‘$.%‘s“T’."~’E.‘i§€’s“r”¢.‘...t °3“°“g‘,’,,1,.‘;,jj"‘"fjjjjjj ff 3255" 13 $393" _ _ . fl , 4' ,_ Vulpar “ actcristic and gave ease to his ten. was also 3, member of the St, (S‘(;:l::lI.iIeil.s1d. ..... ._ %23p‘I‘n ;gl4}g&‘1‘l1 listeners. The sad news of his Bro. J. H. Grifiith contributed Joseph County Pomona Grange. Mm.§f1....jj jjjjjjf 2320 u ______ __ 111 ‘Z - . n I n u - ll " L death will touch a sympathetic the following letter from his He remained a steadfast member §‘,'§}3‘,‘K’a",‘,f1’;;‘f:__ -:3; .. -§-,;,'-.-.- .. chord in thousands of hearts, as home In Nebraska»: when health permitted. He was Bitttle Crack in‘. _ 2: 1: 3 3451:: the news will go out over the “Once more you are called to one of the old pioneers of St. C,,,,,,,,,,,, 5,,,,:: 927:: 325.: state. Farewell, Bro.‘ Mickley, mourn the loss of one of your Joseph county. He came to ,. ,3§,7,.. :33“ u v u I -0 v - 7 ‘ ‘ your work is done. and well done. most esteemed members. I feel Michigan in 183:, with his father s ggg ‘j 1; 1; gig ‘f Weary and worn you have gone that I should pay a brief tribute family and was the last survivor F s ,0 3, .. ,,,5,,,,, ,3, .. I to rest. Sleep on. and may all be well. We lose a steadfast friend, society an honest, influ- ential teacher. true reforms a fearless champion, the aspiring ally devoted in pioneer days to the development of his adopted to one whom I have known so long and so well——having known his every peculiarity for more than forty years. I can truthful- ly say that he was a good man—— two years. He also served in the same capacity in the State of that family. Brother Camp- bell identified himself with every. moral enterprise, and always contributed according to his ability, in a quiet manner, to the from one to three simple applications made at home by the patient once in two iveeks. E. R. 031'}.-\Nl). I\laii2i;.:er........ North Lziiisiiig. 12,000 ACRES GOOD FARMING LANDS, On Michigan Central, Detroit 8: Alpena and Loon Lake Railroads. A) prices ranging from $2 to $5 per acre. Titles perfect. Th:-se lands are close to enterprising new towns, churches, schools. &c., and will be sold on most favorable terms. Apply No. 42, mixed, west, leaves Schoolcralt at 9:50 a. m.. and No. 43, east, at 3:49 p. :11. Nos. 2, 3. 4 and 5 run daily. Tickets sold and baggage checked to all parts of Canada and the United States. For through rates and time apply to E. L. Crull, Local Agt., Schoolcratt: W. E. DAVIS, gen‘l ....,, . passenger agent, Chicago; W. J. SPICEB, gen'l to R. M. PIERCE. VVest Bay City, Mich. ) manager Detroit. , { young man a worthy example, faithful to every pledge. Pos- necessities around him. o,,,,,,W,cURTig,wl,i,,e,,,,,,e,M,c;,_ 2 ,1