“THE FARMEB IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE TH ‘THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED." V01. XV. N0. 20. PAW PAW, urea I890. Whole Number 356 THE GRAIEE VISITOR. PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY. (ist and 15th of each month.) Ar rue OFFICE or THE TRUE NORTHERN!-.R, PAW PAW, Micn. EDn'oR’s address, Paw Paw, Mich. to whom all exchanges, communications, advertising busi- ness,and subscriptions should be sent. TEILVIS 50 Cents ll Year, 25 Cents for Six Months. Subscriptions payable in advance, and discontinued at expiration, unless renewed. A. C. G-LIDDEN, Editor, PAW PAW. MICH. Under the October Maples. What mean these banners spread, These paths with royal red 1 So gaily carpeted? Comes there a prince to-day? Such footing were too fine For feet less argentine Than Dian's own or thine, Queen whom my tides obey. Surely for thee are meant These hues so Orient That with a sultan's tent Each tree invites the sun; Our earth such homage pays, So decks her dusty ways, And keeps such holidays, For one, and only one. My brain shapes form and face, Throbs with the mystic grace And cadence of her pace To all fine instincts true; Her footsteps, as they pass. Than moonbeams over grass, Fall lighter—and. alas, More unsubstantial. too. —3‘ame': Russell Lazuell. -»» — Pomona. [Paper read by Mrs. J. G. Averill, before Paw Paw Grange, at an entertainment dedicated to Pomona.) I was never before . invitedto assist a goddess in celebrating. It has been understood that when Pomona presided at any entertainment. Bacchus was always present and generally master of ceremonies; but since she allied herself to our noble order. in deference to its ultra temperance principles, she is sup- posed to have turned a cold shoulder to the jolly but riotous familiar of former times and to content herself with the aid of mortals who were of ordinary sobriety. In view of the honorand of the responsibility. of course the mortals feel difiident. Suppose I, for instance. ap- proach the topic assigned me in the practical work-a-day manner in which it would naturally ap- peal to one who had a bread and butter interest in it, could you expect the prosaic outcome to be a worthy offering at the throne of a Divinity? Then there is an embarrass- ment of riches in the very wealth of this my favorite subject. I intended to start out with the unqualified statement that the culture of fruit was the safest, most moral, dignified, honest, lucrative, aesthetic and enjoyable occupation ever followed; but when I remembered that the very first woman who undertook to handle fruit got into difiiculties that have affected her daughters unpleasantly even to this day, I weakened a little as to the safety. Then I thought of the rascally commission men, the constant watching and squabbling that ‘is the portion of the man who deals with them, andI reflected that some things had been said, too, about small boxes, baskets and barrels, about dishonest packing and marking by producers. and felt that there might be tricks even in our trade. Then bending your back until it nearly breaks, setting plants. hoeing them until the sweat of your brow is no figure of speech, scratching your hands and tear- ing your clothes tending berry bushes, draggling around in the dew to jar curculio. pumping poison to circumvent codling moth, crawling. on all fours by lantern light, to hunt cut-worms, 3 Increase of hurrying to catch a fruit train. or to get fresh strawberries to every woman in town in time for the noonday shortcake. or delivering fruit in a pelting rain. This may not strike one as exactly digni- fied, but the dignity comes in when by and by our fruit grower puts on his best suit and goes to help run a convention. or writes to his favorite newspaper all about his methods and experi- ments, and the resulting success- ers or failures. The yellows and the untimely frosts break the hearts of peach growers. the cherries get wormy and so do the currants. the late raspberries and blackberries are more than likely to be caught by the drought. the rose bugs may take all the grapes the frost and the cut-worms have left. until I cannot conscientiously insist upon the lucrative,—but do not expect me to modify another one of my adjectives——the aesthetic and en- joyable I shall cling to. The fiorist may dispute the first, but when I see a flower show more beautiful than a large apple orchard in full bloom, with its billows of fragrance, and showers of falling petals drifting upon the green turf below; or a bouquet that I like better than a well shaped cherry, pear or plum tree when it is like one great sweet sn_ow-ball. I may give up the point. i _ . Some of our artistic ‘ friends might prefer a bank of golden- rod. but they would have hard work to convince brother David Woodman or me if its superiority. Our flowers, you understand, although the sweetest in the world, are merely preliminary and gratuitous. If never a one appeared. we should still press the claim to superior beauty. Did any of you ever see a straw- berry bed loaded with ripe fruit. before any vandal foot had dis- turbed a leaf? Or a field of ripe raspberries or blackberries, or a cherry tree fairly blazing with its crimson glory, or a quince bush bending with its golden fruit? Above all did you ever visit a well kept trellised vineyard when the vines were loaded with red, white and purple grapes‘? Then if you want a dainty gift for a friend, instead of sending expensive hot—house flowers which will delight for a time but which no amount of care can keep from soon becoming offensive. seek out a basket of rosy cheeked yellow peaches, or of assorted grapes, a box of pink or purple plums, of sweet cherries or deli- cious strawberries and see if any lady will be too cultured to rejoice over them. When their beauty has been duly appreciated and their fra- grance has filled the room, bring on the sugar and cream and be- hold “the half has never been told.” Yes, although Flora rules over a beautiful realm, and the golden glories of the grain fields call our rapturous attention to the domin- ions of Ceres, I am content to re- main a faithful votary of our be- loved and honored Pomona. n__._‘.>_. This Country's Wheat Supply. Good authorities say that the surplus wheat this country has to spare the present season is not above -10,000,000 bushels and maybe less than that. The crop this year is conceded to be a light one, and the later reports indi- cate that it may be even smaller than was supposed a month ago. But the difiiculty will not be remedied by another full crop. have been the same as, often every year a la the supply (1 i like proportio 38,000,000 acre an be material- gnocrourn 15, lation makesl or demand, and» not insrease inyche number of stock hogs in theyeliminated from the sheep trade -It is doubtedinonntry at this time for fattgning ere long. There is more profit whether the--p$ent acreage of‘ l _ . l ly increased unl -as prices mater»; The Stock of Stock Hogs. The government estimate of purposes, is 97.3 per cent. as com- pared with that of the same time last year. Allowing for the diffi- lbe fed profitably all winter and sheep not. Wethers will be in ewes and lambs. If sheep feeders will try a bunch of lambs and a bunch of mature wethers ially advance. if’-I‘he old wheat: nnmes of getting at these esti. next winter, keeping strict but growing districtg-‘fall out as fastlmntes accurately, it mew be said i separate accounts of all outgoes as new ground other districts 3 that the number of hogs ';wai1ab1s ‘ and incomes. they will abandon is brought unde I ultivation. At} for the opening season is P1-antic. wether feeding in the future and the prices paid " A 7 wheat, it has,’ not been possilje to purchase? fertilizers necessliry for keeping‘ up the product. leave much profit. The c’ this year is estimated at only, A 5 bushels per crease in populaty f . this country will. in 1900. ctfiqnme all the wheat it can growlgand be calling on other count ' to supply a deficiency. But I same ten- dency of produc to fall be- hind the demanding evident all over the world." '{f~§.E‘.he stimulus which cheape’*r'tra.l ‘ j rtation and improved harves .machinery gave to wheatgro. T g has spent its force. It -camfi to localities where wheat hadfi never been grown to any largjsjextent, and by stimulating’to‘~ extra large seeding it suddenly brought wheat for a series of years lower than it was ever before known. This could not la;s5,._ --After two or three crops the - ield began to fall off, We susp-5-43 "h:tht,l1e de- creasing fertility of the north- western wheat fields, rather than peculiarities of the season. is the true cause of the lessened pro- duction this year. There may be a slightly better yield with a favorable season. but not enough to again bring wheat in our east- ern markets as low as it has ruled the past four or five years. It is evident that such small crops as 10.5 bushels per acre. or even twelve bushels do not pay, whatever the price. It is only by improved farming, largely increasing the wheat yield, that this crop can be either made to pay or furnish the wheat which our increasing population must soon require. If we had the an- nual wheat yield of English farmers, or about thirty bushels per acre. the present acreage would give more than 1,100,000,- 000 bushels, enough to supply our population for the next fifty years.—Amer2'cau Cultivator. :———-——¢-eo——-——— Thinning Out. When we grow a crop of corn and the plants stand too close together for all to do their best, we take out the poorest stalks, and the balance, having all the fertility in the ground, makes a good crop. We can sometimes thin out our cows in the same way and for the same purpose, to get a good crop—of milk. There are usually in an average dairy herd two or three, perhaps more, cows that do not yield near as much per head as the rest, and if they were disposed of and the feed they would have eaten given to the others, the total yield would more than, if the poor cows had been retained. But unlessd flpll feeding had been practice e- fore the thinning out occurs, there will be a falling off in the ylelda if the feed of the remaining cows is not increased. In view of the prospective high price of lgiralin the coming winter, it won e well to seebif we cannot sell the poorest cows and by better feed- ing of the others, get the _same quantity of milk, have it richer, and have fewer cows to care for.~. . ' done a year ago. "be in the direction of assisting "is gained by not commencing ——Stockman and Famner. ' -“weight for weight. Lambs can ally the same as a year ago. The‘ grain with which these hogs are _ to be ripened, however. is not nearly so abundant. and will: evidently not be so cheap. Those‘ who have corn with which to fat- ten their stock are certain to do much better with it than was? Hogs will cer-j tainly fluctuate more or less with- l in the next few months, yet no: one at all conversant with thel situation doubts that prices will‘ average better for the winter packing season than they did‘ last winter. By the way, these estimates, while by no means accu rate, are of very considerable value to the country, and the out- come shows that there is enough of approximate fact in them to make them quite useful. Any special facilities which may hereafter be afforded to the De- partment of Agriculture, should that very efficient institution in the collection of statistics of this kind.——Stoclrman and Farmer. -—’- ~ --'——-0-t-o———— -—— ‘ Points in Sheep. Feeding. In the first place, instead of feeding for four or five months, seventy-five days is sufficient. They will take on all the flesh in; the latter time that it is possiblel for mature sheep to do. Feeding‘, sheep four or five months is on a-1 par with feeding fowls a month to fatten them, when half the- time ' is all that is necessary, Feeders get into this rut because wethers can be bought cheaper, in the fall; and then they have a; crop of wool in the spring as well as a carcass of mutton. They forget that the wool is worth just as much on the sheep's back as it is off, and good salesmen usually get the value of it, too. And then, mutton will bring more in spring than any other time. This used to be the case more than it is now; but, grant- ing all these claims, just as much grain feeding until sixty or sev- enty-five days before selling. There is a waste of nearly half the grain when sheep are fed five months, as in the case of fowls that are fed a month. It must _be remembered that a ninety or one hundred-pound wether can- not be made to gain more than twelve to twenty pounds. no mat- ter how long fed. Sheep feeders would do better to step out of this rut and feed younger animals. The following well authenticated data ought to be convincing: Sheep of the age of seven to ten months, for each 100 pounds of digestible material consumed, made a gain of four- teen pounds live weight; those ten to thirteen months of age, made a gain of twelve and one- half pounds; those from thirteen to eighteen gained ten and seven tenths pounds, and those from one and one-half to two years old made a gain of five and four-tenths‘ pounds. It is seen that it is far more profitable to feed sheep of from seven to twelve months of age than to feed those that are older. Lambs are of quicker sale any time of the year than older sheep, and always bring better prices. feed lambs instead.—GaIen Wil- son. in Sz‘oc/czmziz and Farmer. o+——— — Crop Report for October. The returns this month indi- cate that the yield of wheat in this State this year was 23.670.-109 bushels. This total is arrived at by multiplying the number of acres in wheat in each county by the average yield per acre as shown by records kept by the threshers in the same county. and adding the products. The acreage is taken from the farm statistics as returned by super- visors last spring. The total acreage reported threshed in the southern coun- ties is 153,16-l acres, in the cen- tral counties 15,455 acres, and in the northern. 6,892 acres, a total in the State of 175,511 acres. The average per acre in the southern counties is 16.58 bush- els, in‘the.central 16.35 bushels, in the northern 14.02 bushels. and in the state, 16.48 bushels. The average yield of wheat per acre in the State was nearly one-fourth of a bushel greaterpin 1890 than the average for the period 1380-89, while the aggre- gate product in 1H90 was less than the average product in the J period named by more than 000.000 bushels. The average weight of the measured bushel of wheat is, in the State and in each section. .39 pounds. In a number of counties the average weight is 60 or 61 pounds. while in others it is 57. 56 and The number of bushels mar- keted is 2'105.7-l8, of which -190.- 702 bushels were marketed in the first or southern tier of counties: 353,436 bushels in the second tier;408,417 bushels in the third tier; 594,601 bushels in the fourth tier; 229.873 bushels in the fifth and sixth tiers and 28.219 bush- els in the northern counties. At 53 elevators and mills, or 10 per cent of the whole number from which reports have been receiv- ed, there was no wheat marketed during the month.» ‘The total number of bushels of wheat reported marketed in Aug- ust and September is 3,577,512. which is 1,328,169 bushels more than reported marketed in the same months last year. Oats in the southern counties yield 25.61 bushels, in the central 30.06 bushels, and in the north- ern 18.92 bushels. The corres- ponding figures one year ago were 31.97. 33.20 and 21.06. The average yield in the State for a period of ten years is 33.26 bush- els per acre. Corn is estimated to yield 50 bushels of ears per acre in the southern counties. 60 in the cen- tral and 62 in the northern, the average for the State being bushels. Potatoes in southern counties will yield one—half of an average crop, central counties 58 per cent and northern 90. State average. 58 per cent. Winter apple estimates are. in southern counties 23, central 36 and State 27 per cent of average crop. G. R. OSMUN. Secretary of State. ‘ . TI-IE G-RANGE VISITOR. Oct, 15, 1890. Summer's Done. Along the wayside and up the hills The golden-rod flames in the sun: The blue-eyed gentian nods good—by To the sad little brooks that run; And so Summer‘s done, said I, Summer's done! In the yellowing woods the chestnut drops; The squirrel gets galore, Though bright-eyed lads and little maids Robhim of half his store; And so Summer's o‘er. said I, Sumtner’s o‘erl The maple in the swamp begins To flaunt in gold and red, And in the elm the fire-bird’s nest Swings empty overhead; And so Summer's dead, said 1, Summer's dead! The barherry hangs her jewels out, And guards them with a thorn; The merry farmer boys cut down The ripened yellow corn; And so Summer's gone, said I, Sum'mer‘s gone! The swallows and the bobolinks Are gone this many a day, But in the mornings still you hear The scolding. swaggering jay! And so Su|nmer‘s away. said I. Summer's away! A wonderful glory fills the air, And big and bright the sun; A loving hand for the whole brown earth A garment of beauty has spun: But for all that, Suintner‘s done, said I, Summc-r's done! TO GET THE BEST BEEF. Beef Producing Qualities of Differ- ent Breeds of Cattle Killed in Detroit Recently. An interesting test of the beef producing qualities of several breeds of cattle was made yester- day afternoon at the abattoir of the Michigan Beef Co., on Dix avenue. The test was conducted by Eugene Davenport, professor of agriculture at the Michigan Agricultural college, and his first assistant E. A. Burnett, the use of the slaughter house and em- ployees being tendered through the courtesy of the Michigan Beef Co. Nine bullocks were killed, all of them of pure breeds but one. The cattle, with the exception of two. were raised by specialists in each breed through- out the State, the idea being to let each one do the best he could, and abide by the result. A few years ago a similar test was made, but only one specimen of each breed was killed. and the test was on this account consid- ered of no practical value. In the test made yesterday two ani- mals of each kind were killed, thus making the results more ac- curate. The cattle were all fattened under conditions as nearly simi- lar as possible. all having been fed for the purpose after reach- ing a weight of about 600 pounds. All of them were of choice strains. being eligible for regis- try. and several were exhibited at the State fair. They were weighed at 10 o‘clock. and the shrunk weight. upon which the percentage of dressed weight is determined. was ascertained. The killing. although done with dispatch. took somewhat longer time than usual. the weight of the offal. hide, tallow, liver and dressed carcass being taken im- mediately after killing and com- pared with that of the corres- ponding parts in the others. Everything that could possibly be utilized was saved. So far was the economy carried out that a bystander remarked that it seem- ed a pity that no use could be made of the breath. The test will be of use to farm- ers and breeders generally. A large number of Detroit butchers and some from a. distance were present and watched the opera- tion attentively throughout. The following results will be 0 interest to cattle-raisers. showing the differences between the breeds tried, and variations in the breeds themselves: Jumbo, breed. Galloway; age, 29 months; shrunk weight at 10 o'clock. 1,250 pounds; dressed weight. 79Tpounds. Colby. breed. Galloway; age. 29% months; shrunk weight. 1.580 pounds; dressed weight. 877 pounds. Horace. breed. cross between Galloway and Hereford; age. 2*‘ months; shrunk weight. 1.370 pounds; dressed weight. 5-577 pounds. Walton. breed. Holstein; age, 31-} months; shrunk weight. 1,540 pounds; dressed weight, 970 pounds. Nick, breed. Holstein; age, 30 months; shrunk weight, 1, 530 pounds; dressed weight. 985 pounds. Milton, breed, Hereford; age, 33 months; shrunk weight, 1,590 ,pounds; dressed weight, 1.073 pounds. Boy. breed, Hereford; age. 26;; months: shrunk weight, 1. 330 pounds; dressed weight, 842 pounds. Bennington, breed, Shorthorn; age, 26 months: shrunk weight, 1.470 pounds; dressed weight, 97 1 pounds. Disco. breed. Devon; age, 24 months;ishrunk weight, 1,140 pounds: dressed weight, 712 pounds. The carcasses were then judged according to the butchers’ stand- point by five experts, Milton, the 83-months—old Hereford, was judged best; Disco, the 2-l—months— old Devon. second; Horace, the 24-months-old Galloway and Hereford. third: Bennington. the 26 months-old Shorthorn. fourth. The beef. pronounced by those who know. to be one of the finest lots ever cut up in Detroit. has been sold to Hammond. Standish & Co. and to W. H. Perkins & Sons. It will be left in cold storage for eight or ten days. and then judgment will be passed up- on its qualities for the table.— D<’troit Tribznze. Expensive Middlemen Ignored. The last bale of Amoskeags (grain bags) I had bought cost $16. 50; B. want-ed 933 more. The last Starks cost $18.50; B. asked $4 advance. This was more than I could stand, but if it had been but 50 cents a bale, there was an- other side to the matter. Was I to meekly give up and be whip- ped into line and obliged to be a middleman to do for me business that I could just as well do for myself? I have a bank account in Cleveland as well as friend B. and can send a check for what I want, pay 25 cents freight on. say, three bales of bags. and pocket a nice little profit. Well. I did not move into line. I thought of the telegraph and telephone. and Uncle Sam's mail that a farmer could not be shut out of, and they were put to work in a hurry. and I had all the bags I wanted in good sea- son, and Messrs. ———, of Cleve- land, did not even get the whole- saler’s profit. I wonder if they ever heard the story of the man who dropped the little goose to catch a larger one. and lost them both; $22.50 for a bale of Stark bags? Why. I sold a neighbor -10 the other day for 20 cents each. I use several hundred shipping tags in the course of a year. Be- ing in Cleveland the other day, it occurred to me that I was nearly out. and I went into a retail store to buy 200 or 300. I bought 500 in Akron last fall and paid :20 cents per hundred. This advance in price set me to thinking. I looked at my watch and found I had over an hour to spare, and I declined the 25- cents-per-hundred tags, forced all the brass possible into my face. and started out to see what could be learned in this line. My face boldly led me into offices where I knew many tags must be used for shipping. and my tongue put the question: “Where do you buy your tags?” After some rebuffs. one gentle- man kindly told me where I could buy them at wholesale. I went to the place. When I inquired of a man who met me at the door. he eyed me rather suspiciously, and said: "We do not retail tags.” Certaily not; if you did I should not be here." was my reply. “Third floor to the right says he.” There I found tags put up 1.000 in a box, for 50 cents a box. Why, it almost took my breath away. but I tried to look as though I had bought in that way all my life. All this took, perhaps, 20 minutes; 10 cents a minute seemed to me pretty big pay, and so I started out on another line. I wanted a few balls of fine hemp twine for sewing up sacks. I went into a retail store, and they asked 18 cents a ball. I looked at the man as though surprised that he asked so much, and he put a ball in the scales and said: “Yes. that is right. 18 cents a ball.” I had sometimes paid that. and at oth- ers 15 cents. I concluded it did not suit, and put on “ cheek" and started out again. Result: in 15 minutes a package, six balls, for 54 cents, or 18 cents a pound, just half the retail price. All farm- ers will not want these same goods, but what can be done in these lines can also be done in many others. I was an entire stranger to all these parties, and what was done was within the reach of any man with any busi- ness talent about him. The re- sult to myself of the disclosures in this letter will probably be an attempt to shut me off from buy- ing the articles named. and oth- ers. in Cleveland: because. for- sooth! I am only a farmer and not a dealer. But little care I. for the freight from Cincinnati. or Philadelphia, or New York, is little more than that from Cleve- land. It is hard for a bird to break out of his cage, but after he has once got a taste of free- dom it is a difficult matter to catch him.—T. B. Terry. Sena.f;' Ingalls and Jay Gould. Senator Ingalls in his reply to the time—worn declaration that the rich have been growing rich- er and the poor poorer. said in his most satirical and witty vein. after denying the accusation and establishing its falsity: Mr. Jay Gould and I started out in life about the same time. He had a patent mouse trap and I had the sheepskin of a‘ lawyer. He set his trap in Wall street and came very near taking the earth with it, and I want to say to you with all confidence to go no farther that the only reason I have not got so much money as Jay Gould is that I didn‘t know how to get it. I have examined the revised statutes and every statute enacted since my majori- ty was attained and I have failed to discover any legislation that prevented me from acquiring $100,000,000. It’s too late now. I have often wondered what would come to pass if some great equitable statute of justice for redistribution were passed, so that on a given date, say the first of July following, every citizen of the United States should have his $875.30. I have a very shrewd suspicion that within six months from that time we should find very much the same condition of things as now. Some men would be riding in Pullman cars and some would be walkinggalong by the side of the tracls, Vflth their entire earth- ly possessions in a bandana trunk with a pinlock. looking for a dry culvert for a bedroom and some men would be in the penitentiary, and some would be sif ting down in the fence corners waiting to see the procession pass by. and over all. loud and clear would be heard the voice of the leather- lunged demagogue. who gets his living by the perspiration of his jaw. rather than by the sweat of his brow, denouncing the wrongs of labor again. Family Communism. A man and his wife are part- ners in business, and can have no separate interests. VVhatever is for the best good of one must be for the best good of the other. Selfishness, which is the bane of all our lives. should find no place between them. There should be no "mine" and “thine," but they should feel that each has an in- terest in all that interests the other. I think there should be a common fund for the necessary expense of the family, and one should have just as free access to it as the other. Then there should be a clear understanding between them as to (not his but their) business. so that they may know just how much they can af- ford to spend and still have enough left to meet the necessary obligations; and you may depend upon it, the wife will be just as careful as the husband about any extravagance: but in order to do so. she must know just the state of their affairs, and everything in a business line should be freely talked over between them. Then when she sees something which she is satisfied comes within their means, simply say .that it is needed. and get it—not going to her husband as though with her finger in the corner of her mouth and her eye cast down. saying: "Could you’ possibly spare me half a dollar to get a calico dress with? I don’t see how I can get along any longer without one." and feeling herself more of a ver- itable beggar than the tramp who asks for bread at her door.——Mrs. Allen Dunn. Are not great men models of na- tions? For what is a state but the many's confused imitation of one‘? What Shall We Do with the Straw ‘P The threshing season is here again, and early and late the whistle of the steamer is heard. An important question for the farmer is that which heads this article, for I believe that one of the greatest wastes of the farm is to be found in the way a large percentage of the farmers man- age their straw. In a wide breadth of country the straw this season is unusual- ly good, as it is free from rust and has been secured with little rain. Such straw is valuable for feed, and practical experience on the farm and chemical analysis agree that good bright wheat straw is worth about four—fifths as much as average hay. and that the only thing necessary to keep horses or cattle in excellent con- dition. with no other rough feed than straw. is to give a little larger grain ration and one a lit- tle varied. Give a horse a small ration of bran and oil meal in ad- dition to his corn or oats, and the animal will winter just as well on good bright straw as on timothy hay. Many of the best farmers of my acquaintance, and many who keep excellent teams. always in good condition. never feed hay except during about two months in the spring when plowing; and one of the most successful farm- ers of my acquaintance, who keeps a herd of thirty or forty sh9rt—horns. eight or ten brood mares and forty or fifty sheep. feeds no hay, and publicly stated that no farmer can afford to feed hay when it will brin $8 per ton and upwards in the market. On this farm all straw and corn fod- der is chaffed and fed as chop, and the grain is ground and mix- ed with it. There are many farmers of my acquaintance who allow their straw to go to waste, and feed a hundred or more dollars‘ worth of hay each year. which might as well be sold. The trouble with straw for feed is not so much that it is deficient in food value as that it is not well balanced and is unpalatable. Both these de- fects are easily remedied by feed- ing as chop and giving a suitable grain ration. Even when fed long. in mangers or from stack, stock will do well on straw if the grain ration is plentiful and va- ried somewhat, and warm shelter is provided. Since baling machines have be- come common there is a demand for straw and a market for it. While it is better to sell it at the price offered, which is usually less than one dollar per ton. than to leave it in the field to go to waste. as is the practice on many farms. I do not think any farmer can afford to sell straw at one or two dollars per ton. It is worth more than this to make the stock comfortable and to save liquid manure. During the winter every ani- mal on my farm has a good warm bed of straw each night, and my barnyard is so thoroughly cover- ed that no animal ever sets foot in the mud. Thus all the liquid manure is saved. Every pleas- ant day all winter our cattle are turned into the barnyard to the straw stack. and, no matter how well they are feed with grain and hay, they always eat straw from the stack. and as they pull down enough to make it dry under foot. the cattle are often more com- fortable at the stack than in the stable. When we need straw in the barn we cut down a section of the stack. and with this we bed our horses and hogs. I nev- er leave a stack to stand over summer. but by the middle of March I tear down the last of it, and either house it or spread it in the barnyard. There is still another use to which straw can be put on the farm that I believe will make it not more than a ton value. and that is as a mulch. Often the yield of wheat can be increased several bushels to the acre by clo- ing this, as it not only furnishes winter protection, but appears to also,fertilize the crop. The best time to apply this mulch is dur- ing the first freezing weather of fall or early winter. The straw should be spread evenly—not thrown down in bunches. It not only protects from wind, but also prevents the frequent alterations of freezing and thawing which so reduce the vitality of the plant and often kill it. The effect of a mulch of straw on pastures is to bring the grass forward much earlier in the spring, to thicken up the swardand greatly improve it. If one has a permanent pas- ture in which there are poor spots, cover them with a mulch of straw and it will bring them up to the average. Each year that I try it I become more of a believer in the efficacy of cover- ing or shading land in order to set chemical forces at work to enrich it. I no longer leave a heavy stubble standing on a field tl1rough the autumn. or a growth of clover or weeds. but I pass over the field once. or twice if necessary. with the mowing ma- chine and cut down the stubble, Clover or weeds. so they will lie flat and cover the land. Every farmer must determine for himself what is the wisest use to make of the straw. but no one can afford to make no use of it.— W. F. Brown. in 1v‘(u'mer'.s' I:’eL'icu'. _ 1,. +< r .. The October number of Demo)‘- estis Family ilIa_r/(1:-.'ine takes us visiting again. this time to the palatial residence of Senator Hearst of California: and when one has looked through the magnificent illustrations, one feels quite at home “upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber." The young folks will all be interested in “The Game of Golf for Ladies," which is quite new on this side of the water; and old and young will read with interest and profit the curious facts about animals em- bodied in "Disguises in Animal Life,” and soft-shell crabs will be invested with a new interest after one has read about “The First Armor—Wearers.” In fact. every page is as good as it can be. Demorest's Family Magazine is the ideal magazine. But this month there is a special attraction; the new List of Club Premiums. Not only is there a host of handsome as well as useful articles offered, includ- ing material for an elegant silk dress. but the more than liberal offer is made that if this generous list does not include the thing or things desired the prospective getter—up of a club may write to the publisher stating what would be liked better, and special terms will be made for the coveted article. The offer is unpreced- ented: anything from a paper of needles to the complete furniture of a house being obtainable with- out paying out a cent! Publish- ed by W. JENNINGS DEMOREST. 15 East 14th St., N. Y. - o >~- One day a group of millionaires. who were sitting on the piazza of the United States Hotel, at Sara- toga. began to poke fun at Emory A. Storrs in great glee. because he had just confessed to them that he was not worth any money, and that he spent everything that he had made as fast as he got it. Suddenly he turned upon one of his would be tormentors and began: “You rich fellows appear to think that money-makingis an intellectual process, and that the wealth acquired by you proves that you are a very superior kind of men. You are very much mistaken. There is nothing in- tellectual about acquisitiveness. It is merely an animal trait. It is less highly developed in you gentlemen than it is in the chip- munk. The beaver is very much your superior in this regard. Where are the rich men in history '? There are two only who live in the legends of literature-—Dives, who ‘survives .on account of his fortunate connection with a pan- per, and Croesus. because his name has been used by poets merely as a synonym. Gentle- men, where are the stockholders who built the Parthenon? Doubt- less in their day they sat around in Athens and spoke of the fine work that Phidias was doing for them. But. gentleman, where are the stockholders to-day. and where is Phidias?“ He went on in this quaint way for fully half an hour, and when he had finish- ed even the millionaires did not seem to think that they had the best of it, but rather to realize that a man, to live in the affec- tions posterity, must do some- think more than amass wea1th.—— Farmer's Friend. *4 Oct. 15, 1890. TI-IE C3-HANG-E VISITOR. 3 .A'I'ZE{C)INI"$ MANUFACTURER OF INGERSOLL’S LIQUID RUBBER PAINT. Ten Thousand P. of H. and Farmers testify they are best and Cheapest. WRITE US AND SAVE MONEY. AIJNTT Cheap, Indestructible Paints for BARNS and OUTBUILDINGS. OFFICE: 243 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ()IF{ IKE. Beautiful Sample Color Cards and Book o’ Instriictioiis——FREE. We Guarantee Satisfaction. A Vacation Acquaintance. In a fair bucolic Aidenn I have found a rustic maiden Who is not with learning laden And who little of our modern culture knows. Yet she has so many graces Caught from quiet sylvan places That to me her dainty face is Like the shyness and the beauty of a wild wood rose. Her neglected education . \Vould cause a consternation Should she join in conversation VVith a polished maid from Boston town, I think, For her mind is not discerning And she has but little yearning For the deeps of psychic learning~— But her satin cheeks are tinted with a bright pure pink. She's btit poorly read in history; Brownings verse she thinks a mystery, And she never plunged the bistoury Of her mind into the problems of the day. She could scarcely write a treatise On the times of Philoctetes, But her laughter low and sweet is. And her breath‘s a whiff of clover and of nE\\' mown hay. She can't read a IIIIC of Schiller Nor Diimas. the great ink-spiller- She knows iiothing of Hugh Miller. And she only studied grammar fourteen weeks; Shes not lt,‘:‘il‘llL‘(‘l the art of slayiiig Victims by piano playing. But her voice has notes betraying Something like a blickbird's chuckle Wllcll she sings or speaks. And she oft has iii-oods revealing Depths of purest. iinest feeling Till you rind her presence stealing In its freshness and fullness on your own; So one sighs, I ween. in wonder, Plucking meadow grass asunder. If he sees there. hidden under Beds of timid little flowers that are all full blown. And her power of pleasing varies; She can make a pie of berries Or of luscious English cherries That is better than your mother ever made. And so, take it all together, I am somewhat puzzled whether I have left my heart in tether \\’ith that pretty country maiden in the sweet, cool shade! —- Cwrgt‘ //urlim . < Unpleasant Truths Ably Stated. The historian. John C. Ridpath, of Indiana. recently gave the following address at the com- mencement exercises at DeP2i-iiw. Thoughtful Americans know his assertions are lament-ably true, and the question. "What shall we do about it?" has long been on the minds of true Patrons and patriots: What. then, is the modern political party? Practically it is an organization of a few men in a great State, constituting a sort of close corporation. having one single ulterior end in View. and that is their own advantage. In order that such a body of men may get power, it is necessary that they profess something. What their profession is depends exclusively upon what they think is best calculated to take the country in. There are always lying about the surface of human society certain questions in which the people at large. from patriotic or other consideration, are likely to take an interest. The party maker searches diligently among these questions to find one or more which he thinks are likely, if fanned with a little fallacious discussion. to break into a flame. So the question is taken up, and all the elaborate machinery which a century of self interest has in- vented is immediately put into operation to create or penetrate an issue. People are actually made to believe that the interest of the country depend upon the decision of this question or that question by their votes. They are made to believe that that sub- lime product of reason and eterni- ty called history is created by drum majors and central com- mittees. They are taught that they should leave theircornfields and workshops in the village and rally at once to the call of some peripatetic demagogue who is hired, out of a currupt fund, collected from the beneficiaries, to go about the country explain- ing and perorating about the ‘ burning issues which now divide the American people.” And yet the preformance in the public square is at present. and has been for more than half a century, the dominant fact in American society! Of course, orators and teachers go about telling you something else. They say that our public schools, our churches. or our railroad enter- prises, or our great cities, or our marvelous industries. or our ex- pansion as a people from east to west. from north to south. are the dominant facts in American society. But it is not so: that is, it is not so as things go. The dominant fact in American society is that political meeting. That is the thing to which every other element of influence and power in the public and the private life of the United States bends an humble, and I am sorry to say a patient, knee. That is the thing which, beginning far back in the history of our repub- lic. under the modest name of convention. at length gained an independent life of its own. grew and expanded until its jaws were full of dragons‘ teeth and its throat sufiiciently enlarged to swallow at a gulp every form of opposition that appears in its pathway. That is the thing that has gone wallowing and sprawl- ing and roaring through the United States. crushing and de- vouring and devastating the land, living on the fruits of industry. gathering the rewards due to en- terprise. and blasting, not only the blossoms and fruits. but the very branches and stem of Amer- ican culture and American man- hood. Let all honest citizens take counsel, plan and act against the giant evils! ...___,.,_- Occasional Poetry. I have attended a large nu1n- ber of celebrations. commence- ments. banquets, soirees and so forth. and done my best to help on a good many of them. In fact. I have become rather too well known in connection with “occa- sions." and it has cost me no lit- tle trouble. I believe there is no kind of occuremce for which I have not been requested to con- tribute something in prose or verse. It is sometimes very hard to say no to the requests. If one is in the right mood when he or she writes an occasional poem it seems as if nothing could have been easier. “Why, that piece run off jest like ile. I don‘t bul- lieve,” says the unlettered appli- cant to himself, “I don’t bullieve it took him ten minutes to write them verses.” The good people have no suspicion of how much a single line, a single expression, may cost its author. The wits used to say that Rogers—old Samuel Rogers, author of the ~“P1easures of Memory" and giver of famous breakfasts—was accus- tomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. It is not so bad as that with most of us who are called upon to furnish a. poem, a song, a. hymn, an ode for some grand meeting, but it is safe to say that many a trifling performance has had more good, honest work put into it than the minister's sermon of that week had cost him. If a vessel glides off the ways smoothly and easily at her launching, it does not mean that no great pains have been taken to secure the result. Because a poem is a11 occasional one. it does not follow that it has not taken as much time and skill as if it had been written without immediate. accidental, temporary motive. Pindar's great odes were occasional poems. just as our commencement and phi beta kappa poems are, and yet they have come down among the most precious bequests of antiquity to modern times. —0liver IVcmlell Holmes. ---- -—4-—<~- The Power of the Grange. The Grange is one of the most important orders or institutions existing in the country to-day. I do not pretend to say that it contains the most learned men or the most noted women or people who count their wealth by the millions, but I do say that it con- tains more good,» honest people than any other organization. This is to be clearly seen from the nature of their occupation. They are obliged to stay at home and are not exposed to the vices of the city as much as those of other occupations. When the man of the city is through with his days labor he goes to vice in some of its many attractions presented. while the farmer goes to bed. But the farmer has not been a person who has in the past in- sisted upon his rights——he has always voted for the person whom his party has put in the field. Well. that is all right if the can- didate is a man who will look out- for the farmers’ interest; but they are not always certain of this, and are voting rather for the interest of their party than for themselves. Now here is a place where the Grange is of great importance. Why? Because the farmers have more votes than any other class of people. and votes are things which make senators and repre- sentatives to Congress. But don't understand me to be in favor of a new party—far from it. but I do think that we should insist that men are put in oflice in both parties who cannot be bought for a penny and who will diligently work for the passage of such measures as will benefit the farmer and not help to run over the well filled pockets of monopolists and speculators. We must say to a man when he goes to Congress, here, you vote for such things and such things or we will not vote for you; we must also see that bills for the change of such laws as do not favor us are introduced and voted upon. There are many Jr!-ws which the Grange has been instrumental in passing, but there are many more which demand attention. We furnish a large per cent of the freight carried over our rail- roads; we should see that laws are passed which will favor the farmer more and make charges more uniform for certain dis- tances traveled. Then there is the tariff, un- , doubtedly many changes can be] made upon that which will great ly benefit us. There is also an-; other thing which the farmers? are not noticing and which I con- I sider is a very black cloud in our‘ horizon and that is the great amount of foreigners who are coming to this country. If they were good, peaceable people and willing to work, it would be dif- ferent; but they are not. All who have come to this country yet. manifest a. disposition which is dangerous to society and hurt- ful to the interests of a country. But we must not be too forward in these matters, but must con- sider them in a quiet manner and carefully study to see what changes can be made which will be most beneficial to all. These are subjects for our educated farmers to grapple with.—Om' Grange Homes. A New England Pointer. VVORCESTER Co., Mass.—Mr. O. W. 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MICH. ¥?Remittenc,e_s should be by Registered Letter. . . Money Order or'Drait. _._.__.__.,<_._._.. Entered at the Post-Office at Paw Paw, Mich., as Second Class Matter. . - To Subscribers. _ Remittances maybe made toj 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. ---——————<+c——r Sheep in the State. An interesting compilation of statistics is sent out by the State Department, showing the num ber of farmers in each county, and the number and per cent of those owning sheep, also the average number in the flocks of those who own them. Taking the twenty-eight coun- ties comprising the southern four tiers, the flocks average 38; but only 48 per cent—less than half— of the farmers have sheep on their farms at all. It perhaps is not safe to assume that the 52 out of every 100 who do not own sheep, might keep the average number on their farms. for many small farmers do not keep sheep for the very good and substantial reason that they have not the pasturage for them, but 38 sheep to the average farmer is not ex- cessive, and if these flocks were increased to 46, and the remain- der who have no sheep, kept average flocks of 30 each. the number of sheep in these coun- ties would be more than doubled. The middle and northern coun- ties are lamentably short in the number of sheep which ought to be grazing on the waste lands of that part of the state. Taking the 13 midland counties of Bay. Huron. Gratiot. Isabella. Mecos- ta. Midland. Montcalm. Muske- gon. Newaygo. Oceana. Saginaw. Sanilac and Tuscola. only -10 per cent of the farmers own sheep. and their flocks only average 15 in number. Mecosta and Mid- land counties have but 10 and 11 sheep respectively in their aver- age flocks; while they ought to average three times that number and then there would be room for flocks of 1,000 each to be herded in every township. North of these 13 counties mentioned, the flocks average 10. on only 16 farms in every 100. The possibilities of the sheep in- dustry in the State, is shown in paucity of numbers in the above exhibit. Our 2,000,000 sheep might well be doubled, without adding one to the flocks in the southern part of the State. The plains land of the 16 counties which comprise this district, of over 2,000,000 acres, can be util- ized in no better way than to be- come one vast sheep ranch. The conditions are extremely favora ble, even if they have to be mov- ed 50 miles out to the grass lands to be wintered. The animals be- come extremely fat on the short and varied herbage, and it ought to be the locality where the feed- ers and drovers of the southern part of the State could draw their supplies for feeding and for market. At Reed City, 05- ceola county, on the G. R. & I. R. R.. we recently saw a couple lot deck loads of as fine fat sheep 20 different varieties,each cluster [The Township t_ I 10D. ‘ as can be picked up in this State , properly labelled. so that the eye, Unit School Ques- or in Canada. . Cull sheep from‘the taste and the intellect were! AT» the C0mi11£' Session of the the south become vigorous and“ fleshy. pastured on these plains lands. The lands and the sheep both improve by this reciprocal feeding , and treatment. The problem of increasing the fertil- ity of_ Jack Pine lands must be solved ‘by using isheepias one—— and the most important one-—of the factors in its solution. and those who recognize this earliest, will reap avaluable harvest of profit in the venture. .,___.,.._.__. From some experiments tried at the University of Wisconsin to test the value of bone meal and ashes. along with corn. for ian exclusive diet for fattening lhogs. with a view to determining their efficacy in -strengthening the bones of the animals, the fol- lowing results were attained: 1st. That the effect of the bone meal and ashes was to save about 130 lbs of corn. or 28 per cent of the total amount fed in producing 100 lbs of gain, live weight. 2d. That by feeding the bone meal we doubled the strength of the thigh bones; ashes nearly doubled the strength of the bones. 3d. There was about 50 per cent more ash in the bones of the hogs receiving bone meal and hard wood ashes than in the others. ’ A careful examination revealed no difference in the proportion of lean to fat meat in the several carcasses. The. figures in the appendix show that the bone meal and ashes seemed to have no effect on the weight or size of any of the internal organs or the weight of the blood. The effect is evident only in the building up of the bones and aiding diges- tion. These experiments point to the great value of hard wood ashes for hog feeding, and show that they should be regularly fed. Bone meal seems to build up somewhat stronger bones than ashes. but ashes do the work well enough. and usually cost nothing with the farmer. Where they cannot be obtained. bone meal is strongly recommended. These figures show most plain- ly that Indian corn of itself can- not build strong bones. and must be supplemented by ash material from other sources. They point most plainly to one of the causes, at least. of hogs becoming “too fine" and lacking bone, a com- mon complaint in the corn grow- ing sections of the west. A series of entertainments are in progress’ at the regular meet- ings of Paw Paw Grange. The first of these was at the last meet- ing on Friday evening of last week, and was dedicated to Pomona. The season for many of the fruits has not been pro- pitious, but grapes abounded in all their varied colors and quantities decorating all the oflicers’ desks, and massed in profusion on Pomona’s altar. We present two of the papers read at the meeting, in this issue, and have more in reserve. After the mental repast, the fruit was destributed with a lavishness, beyond the capacity of members to consume. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Smith contributed this bounty from their large vineyard south of town. This was the measure of their large heartedness and an example of their style of doing things. Mr. Smith has marketed 124; tons of Concord grapes this year from 1,000 vines, and this is only a part of his vineyard. The editor wishes to acknowledge the receipt of a basket of grapes from this source, containing over. each delighted with the gift. Such delicate tokens of remem- brance carry with them some- thing besides color and fragrance and titillation to the appetite, and the recipient appreciated all the delicate sentiments ac- companying the present. ——<+>—-—— We have announced the candi- dacy of some of the well known farmers who are up for Congress or for the State Legislature. We are now out of the “announcing" business. Some of our friends take exceptions because all the farmer candidates are not men- tioned. and charge us with par- tisan zeal for a special and select few. We are glad there are so many farmer candidates, and hope the best men may win. We were not concerned before, but fear now that an investiga- tion of the 8th page of the VIS- -ITOR may reveal the fact that more obituaries of Republicans have been inserted than of Dem- ocrats, or vice versa. and so stir up the ire of some thin-skinned soul who is looking for a mole hill to metamorphose into a mountain. I On this side is Sylla. and on that, Charybdis, but the Ulysses of the VISITOR is bound to steer clear of both rock and shoal so long as each fail to beckon to- ward a safe harbor. —— If you have a desire to see how lucky you can be on achance game, take a bright new half dollar. toss itup, and if it comes down either heads or tails up, send it to the VISITOR for a year‘s subscription. This is safer than to invest in a lottery ticket or in a “fish pond“ at a social. , Neiisther the health nor the moralsvare corrupted like tossing up for the cigars or for drinks. Returns come in regu- larly 24 times a year, and if the luck is tested immediately on reading this paragraph, five ad- ditional dividends will be sent. We are glad to note the prompt- ness which some of our friends have manifested in re- sponding to our offer of Oct. 1st, viz: The VISITOR for the bal- ance of the year and until Jan. 1st. 1892, for half a dollar. We consider the offer avery liberal one. and every Grange in the State ought to appoint a solicitor and urge upon every member the importance of sub- scribing for the paper. As the days go by, the opportunity be- comes less valuable. One paper is already lost to new subscribers. See offer in Oct. 1st issue. ED. VISITOR: It has been a little over a year since I left Michigan, and of course I have‘ not attended a Grange meeting since, I suppose that there are Granges in Iowa. but they are so far away, that I can not get track of them. I would be willing to go 50 miles to attend a Grange meeting once more. I find lots of dead Patrons all around, enough to make a good live Grange, if they could only be brought to life again. They say that the Grange is all right. but for some cause it died. They have a “Farmers’ Alliance” here, that ‘meets, as the lady said. “Steady by jerks." Ihave attended some of their meetings, the last time I went. only one member appeared. I suppose that women belong to them. but they are conspicuous by their abscence. I have not taken the VISITOR this year, more‘s the pity, and so do not know what you are doing. Have the P. of I. gobbled the Grange? We have none of them here. If this meets the eye of any live Patron in Iowa, I should be glad to hear from him. A. FORD, M. D., LeGrand, Marshall Co., Iowa. Legislature another effort proba- ‘bly will be made to secure the ipassage of a “Township Unit" School Law. Most of the mem- ibers of the Grange understand this matter thoroughly. The bill introduced two years ago was studied and discussed in nearly every Grange in Michigan. It was advocated by its friends because it would be beneficial to the rural districts. The Grangers of the State. after discussing the question and understanding it. opposed it strenuously, for it was evident that what ever the intent of the law might be. its effect would be to benefit the village schools at the expense of the rural districts. Therefore we opposed it. Our philanthropic friends will be on hand again this winter as anxious as usual for our welfare. and at this time. the farmers of the several Legislative districts should see that our propective law-makers understand this ques- tion. I have written to those candidates whose addresses I could obtain and the general opinion of those I have heard from, is against the measure: I have not written to the candi- dates nominated by the Patrons of Industry nor the members of the Grange on the Democrat, Re- publican and Prohibition tickets. ‘Knowing that such candidates are on our side. Prof. Orr. Schurtz, candidate on the Republican ticket for State Superintendent of Public Instruction says: “Should I be elected, I would not favor any Legislation in that direction be- cause Iam satisfied the people are not in sympathy with it.” I have not yet heard from Ferris S. Fitch the Democratic candi- date, but probably shall in a day or two and in the next number of the VISITOR shall give his views with such other information as I can gather on the subject that will be useful to our members. JASON WOODMAN. - » 4 - - «-4-o—g————~ The Sparrow Bounty Act. A “The next legislature should. and doubtless will, thoroughly amend the English sparrow boun- ty act.“ I quote from Bulletin 62 on the English sparrow, by A. J. Cook, of our Agricultural Col- lege. The principle reason given by Prof. Cook for the required amendment to the law is the "ter- rible slaughter of our useful birds, which. without doubt, has been very common and wide- spread all through the state.“ Besides the important one just named. many other reasons might be given why this law should be repealed. Does the law accom- plish the object for which it was enacted? This law has been in force since 1887 in this " state. "and has been found an expens- ive method of lessening their number." In our county the fig- ures in the treasurer’s office show the amount paid for sparrow or- ders for the fiscal year ending in July last, to be $2,569.69. and the number of sparrows beheaded was 85.656. We may reasonably conclude. from the facts given by Prof. Cook, that a large part of this number was made up of such val- uable birds as " the song sparrow. red polled linnet and evening grosbeak.” which are protected by a fine of $5. This is not sur- prising when we remember that the bird killing is usually done by boys for the sake of the rich bounty offered, who neither know nor care as to the kind of bird killed, and as Prof. Cook says: “Far too many of the town clerks in Michigan do not know the English sparrow's head from that of the linnet or thrush.” In the Bulletin referred to above, a communication is given from Midland county, in which is stated that 15,697 sparrow heads had been presented and that the “most of these birds were killed in the field. They are about one half as large as the English spar- row, and sing and fly like yellow birds.” It is remarkable that out of the 31 states and territo- ries over which this bird is dis- tributed, only three legislate against it, four do not protect it, while over 20 deem the sparrow of so much benefit that the laws give it “ the same protection that is offered to other birds.” 1 ‘This fact indicates that the spar- row has not yet lost all its friends. Another serious objection to the bounty, when large, (and three cents for a sparrow is not small) is that it may become the means of increasing their number in stead of diminishing it, bo prop agating for profit. Ii is reported that where rewards are offered for the destruction of poisonous snakes in India, “ the natives there are beginning to breed and raise poisonous snakes for the sake of getting the head money offered.” P, H. D. Barry County. — ’ _Who Should Store The Wheat? Is it policy for the farmer to store his wheat in the mills and elevators‘? Now, I may be wrong in my views, but it seems to me that the farmer that stores his wheat with the miller on the con- dition that when he. the farmer. gets ready to sell he will take the market price. right there and then he delegates all the power and control he possesses of advancing the price of his wheat to the hands of the miller: he places himself at the mercy of the miller to be forced to take just what he has a mind to give him: then growl be- cause the miller will not raise the price of wheat when he has. per- haps. converted the wheat into flour, sold the flour, and is using the money without interest. Quite an object for Mr. Miller to advance prices, eh? On the other hand. if all the wheat unsold that is stored in the mills and'_ elevators were in granaries on the farmers‘ farms, there would then be an object to advance the price when the de- mand would justify, because the farmer would have his wheat in his own control, and he could then demand and get as much for his wheat as it would bring in any other locality with freight added.—J. M. Arm.s't2'(»n_(/. in Colo- razlo Farmer. ~ Beef, H05: and Dairy Exports. Washington, Oct. 13.—The chief of the bureau of statistics reports that the total value of the exports of-beef and hog products from the United States during the month of September. 1890. were ‘-310.795.5972 September. 1889. 37:'~7,872.69l; during the 11 months ending Sept. 30. M90. 8l08.58T,0-13: 11 months ending Sept. 30. 1859. »‘c‘9l.‘-315.-189. The value of the dairy products were in September, 1890. $l.l‘_‘2.;')l9: in Sept, 1889. $83-L954; and for the nine months ending Sept. 30. 1890, «7>‘6.67-1.139; nine months ending Sept. 35, l8H9. -'$‘T.T'.')4.i-371. Salt. We should advise no one to in- vest heavily in the stock of the proposed salt trust. says the .S’1)rin_(1n'eltl L'nion. Although it may have $25,000,000 of capital. it cannot control all the salt in the world nor even in this coun- try. A remarkable vein of rock salt was discovered in 1887, at Hutchinson, Kansas, and eight large companies are already at work there and several more in other localities, and the product has captured the Kansas City market. and promises to supply the whole west. This salt vein is three hundred miles long. twenty-five miles wide and four hundred feet thick, and consists of the purest quanlity of rock. salt. The salt is not obtained in ‘Hutchinson by mining. but by means of bored wells, into which water is pumped, and when thoroughly saturated with salt is pumped out‘ again and evapor- ated. The process is simple and cheap, and there is no limit to the supply. - The Plowman had the curiosity to find out how many bushels of salt there are in the above vein. The number of bushels is approximately 6.000,000.000.000. enough to give to every man. woman and child, besides every head of horses, cattle. sheep. hogs, mules, etc.. in the United States a peck each every year for about a hundred and twenty thousand years. As our popula- tion is increasing the supply from this source might run out before that time, but by being economical in its use the stock will last long enough so that we need not be worried about our immediate descendants having a salt famine.——Westeru Plowman. Oct. 15, 1890. 5 The Highway Cow. The hue of her hide was dusky brown, Her body was lean and her neck was slim, One horn was turned up and the other turned down, She was keen of vision and long of limb. With a Roman nose and a short stump tail, And ribs like the hoops of a home-made pail. Many a mark did her body bear; She had been a target for all things known. On many a scar the dusky hair \Vould grow no more where it once had grown; M any a passionate, parting shot Had left on her a lasting spot. Many and many a well-aimed stone, Many a brickbat of good size, And many a cudgel swiftly thrown Had brought the tears to her loving eyes, Or had bounded off from her bony back \Vith a noise like the sound of a rifle crack. Many a day she had passed in the pound For helping herself to her neighbor's corn; M any a cowardly cur and hound l-lad been transfixed on her crumpled horn; Many a teapot and old tin pail Had the farmer boys tied to her time-worn tail. Old Deacon Gray was a good old man Though somewhat tempted to be profane \‘\/hen many a weary mile he ran To drive her out of his growing grain; Sharp were the pranks she used to play To get her fill and get away. She knew when the deacon went to town; She watched him wisely as he went by; He never passed her without a frown; And an angry gleam in each angry eye; He would crack is whip in a surly way, And drive along in his one—horse shay. Then at his homestead she loved to call, Lifted his bars with crumpled horn, Nimbly sealing the garden-wall, Helping herself to his standing corn, Eating his cabbage one by one, Hurrying home when her work was done, His human passions were quick to rise, And striding forth with a savage cry, \\'ith fury blazing from both his eyes, As lightnings flash from the Summer‘s sky; Redder and redder his face would grow, And after the ereature'he would go. Over the garden, round and round, Breaking his pear and apple trees, Tramping his melons into the ground, Overturning his hive of bees, Leaving him angry and badly stung»,- Wishing the old cow's neck was wrung. The mosses grew on the garden-wall, The years went by with their work and play. The boys in the village grew strong and tall, - And the gray-haired farmers passed away, One by one, as the red leaves fall; But the highway cow outlived them all. —CIu'm_g'o Ledger. _:__—<—+¢? Purposes of Farmers’ Associations. What with the Grange. Al- liance. Farmers’ Institutes and many other organizations of farmers. all questions in which they are interested are being thoroughly discussed and kept .--well before the public at the present time. Several of our farmers‘ organizations have proved themselves by years of valuable work to be well managed and capable of doing much good. but it is a serious question if many of the new converts to the Alliance are not more conspicu- ous for zeal than knowledge. and in many cases the prayer, “Save me from my friends" would be appropriately offered. It is no time for ranting and appealing to prejudice and pas- sion. and yet this is undoubtedly just what is done at many farm- ers‘ meetings. It is my convic- tion. based on observation ex- tending over fifteen years. that legislative bodies are ready to listen to famers. and willing to grant them, as far as possible, reasonable demands. The trouble with the farmers has been that instead of going before the agri- cultural committees of legislative bodies, with argument, and thus securing a respectful hearing, they call a meeting and some hot—headed speakers proceed to harangue the people in a most inflammatory style. In many 10- calities this class of men came to the front in the history of the Grange movement. Where this was the case a class was attract- ed to the order who brought no strength to it. and soon there was a great falling off, until in counties where there had been fifteen or twenty subordinate Granges they dwindled to one or two. On the other hand, in lo- calities where there were wise leaders and the Grange was start- ed and run on an educational basis, it has continued a power for good. The only Alliance meeting that I have attended as yet was ad- dressed by several speakers. whose object seemed to be to make the farmers as discontented as possible. and to create the im- pression that no class was so op- pressed and abused. and that it was all caused by hostile legis- lation, and could be cured if farmers unite politically. One speaker pawed the air wildly. and shouted. "Revolution! Revo- lution! Revolution!" and one would think that the serfs of Russia never had such griev- "farmers. TI-IE VISITOR. l ances. There is a grain of truthl l to a bushel of falsehood in all such statements. and all the men who.thus attempt to inflame the passions of farmers against other classes. are their enemies, and there is more danger of harm coming to the farmer from these pretended friends, than from open enemies. Every organiza- tion which helps the farmer must do it by the slow method of education. and nearly all the evils which encompass him are only to be cured by the old—time virtues of industry and economy. by improving our methods of work. by greater wisdom in sell- ing and the application of thor- ough business principles to all that we do. There are some wrongs that can only be righted by legisla- tion. but these should be discuss- ed dispassionately. and when we agree what is needed we should send a delegation of intelligent men to lay the matter before the proper committees of our legisla- tive bodies. In the meantime We should “go slow" in the organiz- ing of new parties. but should watch carefully to see that the old parties unerstand what we want. and then cast our votes ir- respective of party for the man who will look after our interests.‘ The farmers of this country have a common interest with all other industrial classes, and the busi- ness of selling the products of our farms and furnishing us with needed supplies is as necessary and legitimate as growing the crops. and that man is a. demi- gogue whose rallying cry is. “Down with the middlemen.” I firmly believe that there are bet- ter times ahead for the farmer, that prices will be better for some years to come than they have been for several years past. I also believe that if we are wise and prudent, we shall be able to shape legislation in most cases so as to relieve us of injustice. In what I have said I am not criticising the Alliance or any other form of organization among 1 am glad to see the farmers organizing. and am a member of every organization near enough_ to me so that I can attend its xneetings,.butI do criti- cise some of the methods, and deprecate the fact that in some cases farmers have allowed old political soreheads to speak to and for them, that they have made speeches only calculated to anger the farmers, and have pointed out no rational remedies for exisiting evils.—- Walilo F. Brown. in Com2t'ry (Ic12tIoma72. , _,- Farmers are taking more inter- est in politics than ever before. and it is right that they should do so. It is their duty as citizens to take an active interest in politics. But at the same time. they should not ‘stem to the demagogue who is trying to make them believe that politics can cure all the ills that agriculture is heir to. It is well for him to attend to politics, but not to leave other things undone. On this subject, Huwrd‘s Dairymcm has the following pointed re- marks: “How are you going to cure depression in agriculture, when the actual depreciation in the productive capabilty of the land from what it was. in the state of nature, is greater than the depreciation in the prices of general farm products between war and soft—money prices. and now. Legislation cannot evoke good crops out of a soil that lacks manure and judicious cultivation. But thereare lots of men who would rather howl and carry a banner with some strange device imprinted upon it, than to make a compost heap and apply it to soil gaping for food. and there are lots of demagogues who will egg them on. Depressed agri- culture stalks in vengeance over land that is deficient in phosphoric acid. nitrogen and potash." And the following. from the best woman farmer in the state of New York. is right to the point: "After Congress has done all that can and ought to be done; after Legislatures have done all they can; after Farmers’ Al- licances have done all they can, the farmers prospects will de- pend upon the farmer himself. the attention he gives to every detail of his work. the thought and the brain he devotes to it.” ——St0ckman and Farmer. Fruits. [Read before Paw Paw Grange, by Mrs. E. Woodman.] ’ A good way ‘to measure our appreciation of the good things we have, is to try to imagine what * to do without them. Just call to mind, if you can, what a large share—very large share——of the comforts and pleas- ures. the luxuries and. delicacies of life. are dependent upon our supply of fruits, from the earli- est strawberry. which ‘is hailed with such delight, down through the whole season’s list. and picture to yourselves what one year would be without them, and I imagine we will all send up our most devout thanksgiving and bend the knee in grateful hom- age to Pomona. queen of our greatest blessing——Fruits. Flora, beautiful Flora. brought us lovely blossoms. bright and sweet, but after all. were they not largely promises for the future fruits which Pomona now gives us with such a lavish hand‘? Every country and every clime has its appropriate supply of fruits, from the lavish profusion of every imaginable form of lus- ciousness that are found in our semi-tropical climates, to the few snow-berries of the Arctic re- gions—— each is eagerly sought after and dearly loved. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” sayeth the" good Book. and both ‘literally and figurative- ly this is true. Does not the va- riety and excellence of the fruits produced oftimes proclaim the superior farmer and husband- man? And figuratively, our deeds are fruits of the thoughts and impulses that govern all our ac- tions. and there is no measure so accurate, none so just. with which to measure our frail humanity. Words are but leaves —prom- ises—flowers;-while deeds are the fruits of our daily efforts. Let us see to it, then, that they be sweet and wholesome fruits——not bitter. crabbed, dead sea apples. There are sgme people that cu- riously remin us of some species of fruit-trees. Their lives seem to be full of leaves— some blos- soms. perhaps, but the fruits are few and not of much excellence; while others. perhaps not so well situated as to soil» and climate. (opportunity and resources.) suc- ceed in perfecting crops that are an honor to themselves and of whose excellence all will gladly testify. In after .years our children will give a prominent place in their memories of home and childish pleasure to the fruits that each recurring season brought them there. for youthful appetite gives a zest that ever excels that of maturer years. and the early ap- ple tree. the sweet cherries. the grapes and the pear trees. will outshine everything. even moth- er"s doughnuts. in tneir memories of “ye olden time.” Let us give more attention to the care and cultivation of the various fruits that are so easily raised in this climate. It certain- ly seems as if the comforts and pleasures of this life could be in no way so easily increased. A whole seasons labor in plowing and sowing, in cutting and thresh- ing, only gives a crop of wheat which, when sold. only returns a little more than it actually costs, and that too ‘often goes to buy more land on which to raise more wheat, etc., while a little piece of ground, with less labor, dc- voted to the culture of the vari- ous fruits. will be a constant source of pleasure to every mem- ber of the household, and perhaps their friends and neighbors. Lenawee Co. Pomona. Grange. Lenawee Co. Pomona Grange met Oct. 2d with Tipton Grange. As the hall was too small to ac- commodate all who attended, the meeting was held in one of the churches, which was well filled with an appreciative audience. The program. including an ad- dress by Mrs. Mayo, was one of the best furnished in a long time. Macon Grange is entitled to great credit for the rich entertainment which they furnished Pomona. Where everything was so well done it is somewhat difficult to select any one for special com- ment. All who heard the words of welcome by Mrs. Wilson will remember with what judgment and care they were selected and how gracefully her well-balanced sentences were delivered. ~ the hearty welcome, Dr. Howell. in his response to said we were all workers in the laborato- ry of nature. Holding up a lit- tle bunch of autumn leaves. he called attention the fact that they were crystalized sunlight; that through the agency of the sun‘s rays water had been brought to the trees and by means of which they had absorbed the nutrition of the soil; that the sunlight had transformed this newly-absorbed material into the bright-hued leaves which he held before us. Mrs. Mayo, though not feeling well, gave one of her best ad- dresses, and from the hearty cheers of her audience she must have felt they were in full sym-. pathy with her in the sentiments and truths she so clearly and for- cibly laid before them. She began by stating some of the benefits of the Grange. in en- abling men and women to live better lives. Before the Grange organization. how very few farm- ers’ wives could be found who could address an audience as one had done in the fitting address of welcome. She also referred to an old farmer. granger. whom she had heard speak to a large audience at Columbus. 0.. whose interesting speech was superior to that of Secretary Rusk. These were specimens of the fruit of the discipline of the Grange Forty-two per cent of the people of Michigan are farmers, and they pay two-thirds of the taxes, while only one-tenth of the offices of trust are filled by farmers. While in Michigan but few new Granges have been organized. the order is progressing in the other states. New York reports 1-12 new Granges. Mrs. Mayo closed by appeal- ing to the members to sustain the order and the community would be benefitted. Songs and recitations followed. Miss Mary Allis. Lecturer of the County Grange. on request. gave a selection from Norwood in her inimitable manner. P. H. DOWLING. MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE, Secretarys ofiice, Schoolcraft. Oct. 1. 1890: At a recent meet- ing of the executive committee of the Michigan State Grange for the transaction. of business. the following resolution relating to free passes was presented and unanimously adopted. and the secretary of the State Grange was instructed to present the resolution to all the candidates aspiring to a seat in the State Legislature of 1890. and ask for an explicit and definite answer thereto from each and every candidate. answers to be direct- ed to this office before the 20th of October if practicable: I{v.S‘olL‘('(l. That we are in favor of a law to prohibit the use of free passes by all State officials. and that we will support no man for either branch of the legisla- ture who will not pledge himself to work and vote for the passage of such a law. The following resolution was also unanimously adopted by the committee: . Resolved, That we areopposed to the repeal of the so—called mortgage taxation law. and favor a law that shall assess the value of the mortgage to the owner thereof in the township or ward where the property is situated. We also favor such a change in our tax laws as will compel no person to pay taxes on a greater interest in property than he real- ly owns. J. T. COBB. Sec'y. o The sand of the seashore is composed of many minute parti- cles, yet these tiny little grains. when properly prepared, bind our strongest buildings, unite the brick of the highest walls and furnaces, defy the restless waves of mighty oceans, and teach us the flight of Time. So the Grange. composed of coherent though tiny particles. as they may seem to be. is uniting in solid phalanx the farmers of the land. is arraying the intelli- gent and thoughtful agricultur- ists against their oppressors and is presenting an immovable bar- rier to fraud. corruption, decep- tion, ignorance, intemperance and vice. Can you. as a loyal citizen. as a helpful husband. as a moth- erly matron, as a progressive cit- izen, refuse to lend your aid, presence and influence to such an order? Will you longer refuse to help a fraternity that stands for Home. for Country and for God? You have a solemn and imperative duty to perform in this matter. fellow farmer! Your neighbor cannot. if he would. do it for you. It is yonr duty to help the Grange, and that at once. Not next month; not next year. but right away—NoW.-R. W. Davis. Master (}aIi_forne'a State Grange. The Pomona program at the Grange last Friday evening was especially fine. while the hall was bright with autumn leaves and redolent with ripened fruit, dis- played so temptingly in pyramids and various other designs that it required great self-denial on the part of some to await the gener- ous invitation to “ Help your- selves." One large design, com- posed of a background of purple grapes with the word “ Pomona" in white grapes. must have been especially pleasing to the eye of the fruitful goddess in whose honor these arrangements had been made. The Ceres program has been postponed for one week. ——Paw Paw '1‘/‘up Nor!/mater. 0hurch’s Bug Finish. Bug Finish is an important and valuable discovery. as it affords a way by which Paris Green, the most efiective 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 sufiicient 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 heavy 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. - -——<—o~>————~-- Consumption Surely Cured. To THE EDlTORZ— _ Please inform your readers that l have 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 ran: to any of your readers who have consumption. if they will send me their ex- press and P. 0. address. Respectfully. T. A._SLocuu. D. D., 18x Pearl St., New York. THE c+1=2.A1\rc}E VISITOR. Oct. 15, 1890. Sabies’ Department. October. Brief grow the waning days; the poplars shed Their serried showers of crimson o'er the path, And gathering swallows, on the river brink, Twit their daparting notes. The dusky bats Begin to congregate beneath the eaves, Dreaming of winter sleep; the lazy pike Bask on the river's surface. reveling In the last warmth of summer. On the elms, The speckled starlings gathering, loud hold A noisy council; and the blue-barred jays, \Vhite-banded magpies, and spruce jackdaws join To swell the clamorous chorus. On the bank, The warm south bank—purple shine forth the bells Of autumn violets, last lingerers, VVhen gone the flowers of summer! So oft shines A virtuous life, unrecognized. unknown, By a censorious world! Close in. the days, VVith gray, yet golden twilight; winter comes. Comes on apace, and his white-shrouding snows Again shall shortly till the slumbering earth? —Cu'uzn1('n‘7': f7mn'Im/. ‘M _ _. 0 My Picture—Ga.1lery. I own a gallery large and wide. \Vith arching roof and tinted walls, \\'hcre pictures hang on cv'ry side. And softened light upon them falls. And oft I View my dainty treasures And see a halo ‘round them shine: They nearly all recall some pleasures Connected with the “Auld Lang Syne." Some landscapes here so bright and fair Arc seen in Snmmer-sunlight's glow‘, Again. the moon1ight's tints so rare Shine on the quiet scenes below. And portraits, too. are on my walls- The faces of the young and old; Some pleasant scene each one recalls, Like list‘ning to a tale twice told. \\'l1t-rt-'cr l go upon the earth. My pictures follow at my will; And if I've sorrow, if l've mirth, They cause exquisite ]>l('..'lSllI‘t: still. .\l_\‘ ll’L‘t’l.'~’lllt‘S I will al\\'ny.~’ keep. For tl1c_\' are hung in I\lt'n1'ry'.~;liall. And when I wake. and oft in sleep. They rise bcfot'c me without call. 'l‘lu>y'rc richer gems than wealth can buy, For cacli l1asliist‘ricsp1'izcd liymc. I sometimes look at them to sigh- I often gaze in childish glee. Xot wealth of lnd could make me part With what l‘\:e hoarded since my youth; .~\l1t:<‘tion draws them to my heart- They'rc dcar,bec.iuse they're drawn by Truth. Old age comes on with quickened strides, And leaves my youth so far behind I soon shall have naught else besides The store that is within my mind. Then think you not that I shall gaze With loving eyes upon my store? Remembrance turns to Childhood's days, And lives again its scenes all o'er. —.lIuuzI'e Let’. {Extracts from a paper read at Benton Harbor Grange Campmeeting by Mrs. W. H. Duane, of Pi1est0n(:.l\li(‘h.] I will commence my subject by saying: We need more farmers in the highest offices in the land; men who are interested in what concerns the farmer; men who have mixed brain with the soil; men of thought and culture; men who look beyond just the dollar in the hand. We need honest men: men who. as the lamented Garfield said. stand four sides to the wind: men who will so con- duct themselves in our legisla- tive halls that they cannot be carried off their feet, either by flattery or intrigue. We need men on the farm who can do more than simply toil and grum- ble. and wonder why the boys of today are not as content on the farm as they are. A certain farmer recently took some wheat to mill, and. even before he got fairly in the house, began finding fault with the amount of flour received, and when his wife referred to the im- proved quality, accused the wo- men of being so particular that they helped to keep up the trusts. She thought he liked good bread as well as any one and did not like to have things thrown in his face any better than she did. The fault did not lie with the women. but with the farmers who would not combine to break the trusts. And so the song ended without a refrain. lVc need men who have the courage of their convictions; not those who try to restrain their boys from the use of the filthy wood while they, with their only remaining tooth. perhaps, gnaw off a chew right before them; while their pockets and breath have been perfumed with it for half a century. I wonder what they base their hopes upon! These men are fcarfully afraid the wife will not train the boys to reverence their fathers; and they complain that these boys do not treat their mothers with the respect due them. But that les- son should be taught chiefly by cxample—and that from these same fathers. A short time since I read of a man who took his twelve-year- old son to task for not protecting his mother from the insulting language of a tramp, to which Johnnie replied: “Why, papa, I ’ “Because it wouldn't be wicked was playing in the back yard and i thought you had come back, for: "I did not suppose any one else would dare talk to mama so.” Another little boy told his mo- ther he "should be glad when he grew up to be a. man like papa.” When asked why, he answered: for me to swear then.” What children need more than anything else is fathers worthy of the name. On the other hand they need, as mothers, women who are men- tally and morally strong enough to counteract any inherited incli- nation to evil habits. The world needs boys who have been taught to look at the moral as well as the money side of a question; boys with more wisdom than their fathers had, because their part in life‘s work will be more complicated; boys whose aspira- tions rise higher than just to be like other folks. The boys of today are the men of tomorrow; and not only so. but the men under whose rule we will be obliged to live. Our young ladies, too. need to take lessons in houskeeping as well as book-keeping, for sodden potatoes and poor bread will soon sour a husband's temper. and do- mestic bliss will go to the winds. But above all. they should turn away from every young man whose breath is ever wine-per fumed. no matter what it costs: though his address be ever so pleasing. his hands shapely and his attire faultless. They should never marry a man thinking to reform him: it costs too much- they cannot afford it. Does any one say: Nine-tenths of us would be old maids‘? Well. better so; yes. a thousand times better than to be the wife of a sot or a de- mon. Just form yourselves into a. trust. utterly refusing to re- ceive the attention of any such. and you can do more than any political party extant toward abolishing the rum traffic. My fellow women: the men who inaugurated this Grange movement did a grand thing for you and I, and if I could stand in their presence I would make them my best bow. In this or- ganization woman is man’s equal. The Grange has done a grand work. and the reason why even more has not been accomplished is that some Patrons are like Peter walking on the sea: they begin to doubt, and then to sink, and then to prophesy: that the Grange will go down. We cannot afford to let the Grange go down. Many more ought to unite with us and form a mighty phalanx whose strength shall be equal to that of Gibral- tar—irresisible. VVhat we need first. last and all the time, my friends. is the Grange. — . — M o>—— — . . . Literature in Schools. The notion that literature can be taken up as a. branch of educa- tion, and learned at the proper time and when other studies per- mit, is one of the most farcical in our scheme of education. It is only matched in absurdity by the other current idea, that literature is something separate and apart from general knowledge. Here is the whole body of accumulat- ed thought and experience of all the ages, which indeed forms our present life and explains it, existing partly in tradition and training, but more largely in books; and most teachers think, and most pupils are led to be- lieve, that this most important former of the mind. maker of character, and guide to action can be acquired in a certain num- ber of lessons out of a tex-book! Because this is so. young men and young women come up to college almost absolutely igno- rant of the history of their race. and of the ideas that have made our civilization. Some of them have never read 3. book, except the text-books, on the specialties in which they have prepared themselves for examination. We have a saying concerning people whose minds appear to be made up of dry, isolated facts, that they have no atmosphere. Well, literature is the atmosphere. In it we live, and move, and have our being, intellectually. The first lesson read to or read by the child should begin to put him in relations with the world and the thought of the world. —0/Larles Dudley Warner, in Atlantic. The Good Old Times. With those of a certain age it‘ is a fashion to decry the present and extol the past. That "old things have passed away and all things become new" is to them a. constant affront; that there exist those who look upon these changes with complacency and even approval is a. never-ending irritation. “There are no times like the old times When you and I were young," voices the sentiments of their hearts, and they cling to old-time customs and ideas with a loyalty and tenacity which is almost pa- thetic—albeit somewhat exasper- ating at times to the younger generation. With a view to ascertaining whether or not the charge of ret- rogression is well founded. I would call attention to a few household appliances. ancient and modern. That I may do this more forcibly, let me take you back to the time of our grand- mothers and invite you without further delay into that sanctum sanctorum of the housekeeper ~ the kitchen. We see the broad. open fire- place. famed in story and song. but the breaker, nevertheless. of many women‘s backs. The crane. with its projecting arms, is hung over the fire. From the hooks hang kettle and pot. while on the hearth stands the oven or bake-kettle. with its iron lid and tin reflector. A trivet. or three- legged. cast-iron stool. is one of the modern improvements of the time. and offers a more substan- tial support for coffee-pot and frying-pan than the treacherous coals. the addition in many kitchens of a. capacious brick oven. the cook must work out her own salvation. The oven was placed at the side of the chimney, and was heated by having a fire built in it. When it was sufficiently hot the coals were removed and the en- tire baking of bread. cakes and pies put in at once or in install- ments. according to the prefer- ence of the housekeeper. They were removed when done with a long handled baker's shovel kept for that purpose. In southern kitchens, where fresh baking was done for"t:a.cl1 meal, these ovens were more rare than in the north, but the bake-kettles and refiectors were in more common use. The first of these utensils. call- ed variously according to the 10- cality. oven. bake-oven ‘and bake- kettle, was a round. flat—bottom- ed. cast-iron vessel. having short legs and an iron top, with a han- dle in the centre. and was used in this wise: The loaves of bread, northern “Johnny-cake." or southern “corn-pone." were put into the oven, the top was put on and covered with coals. and the whole set over coals pulled out on the hearth. There it stood until the bread was presumably done. Whether the cooks judgment as to the time of taking it up was unerring, or what was done in the event of its not being so, are questions that an older head than mine must answer. The tin reflector was a con- trivance for baking by refiection. It consisted of two sheets of tin, the lower one slanting upward toward the fire. Two short legs in the front and two long legs in the back kept it in place. The ends were closed, and a grate coming out from the point of convergence made a resting place for the pan of biscuits. The open side was placed in front of the glowing fire, and the biscuits, enveloped in the re- flected heat, were in time cooked. I recall the appearance of a pair of waffle irons used under the old dispensation. They looked much like a pair of in- dented shovels, the long handles enabling the cook to stand at a. safe distance from the fire while turning them from side to side. Meats or fowls to be cooked were fastened to a hook from the center of the fire-place, and turned from time to time until done, or roasted on a spit. A lady. speaking of the old-time roasting, said: "We boiled more than we roasted;” and who can wonder? Now compare all of this with the modern range‘—the Riverside for instance—with its large ovens, warmingcloset and reser- voir all adjusted to a woman's With this equipment. and lheight. and furnished with broil- ! ers, steamers. toasters. wade- irons. mufiin-pans. croquet~bas- kets and the numberless contriv- ances for the convenience of the cook, and tell me, do you sigh when you are cooking, for the "good old times?" The cook stove and range should unquestionably be ranked first in the list of household im- provements, if not, indeed, when we consider the number benefit- ted, first in the inventions of the age. * No. the world moves——for the housekeeper as well as the scientist. It is a good age in which to live; a good age in which to keep house. Domestic science has taken wonderful strides in the last half century. It may take greater strides in the next. May we all be there to see!— Orqwoline H. iS'ta)tlc_I/, in 1l1a_I/Home Jla/rer. -4--————— -o t 9- —4 .-—— Her Shoes and Stockings. That dear, old English poet, Sir John Suckling. never would have written about the famous feet that. like little mice, peeped in and out from under a petticoat, unless those same little feet had been neatly clad. Whenever the shoes or stockings of a character in a romance are mentioned, it is always in a most picturesque way. and one always thinks of that willful coquette. Beatrix Es- mond. with her high-heeled. red slippers and clocked stockings: of Mary Stuart, with her black satin slippers and black silk stockings, and of Anne of Aus- tria, with her gold-embroidered shoes and lace stockings. rich in the same bright thread. Down South. the dnrkey mam- my quickly tells the little maid whom she has in charge, that "a really lady neve1"lets her stock- ings crinkle, or her shoes look rusty;" and. after all, the old darkey believes in the same rule- that of being bicn. clm.ussc€—that the French consider the requisite to good dressing. No nice girl ever went with a hole in her stocking; but sometimes one will grow a little careless, and the stockings will be allowed to wrinkle and look untidy; grow- ing more careless, the buttons will be left off the shoes, it will be counted at great trouble to keep them bright and glossy and a pretty woman will be. like a peacock, very lovely until the feet are seen. Now most of us have to take care of our own shoes, but there is always an easy way of doing even an un- pleasant thing. This is it: No matter whether your shoe is kid or patent leather, do not attempt to get the dust or mud off with water; instead. for cleaning im- plements, have a soft rag and a jar of Vaseline; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands; for while you are using the Vaseline it is really protecting them and a hot water bath afterwards will make them as smooth and white as usual. Just put your finger in the jar and daub a. little here and there and everywhere over the boots; then take your cloth and rub it in well; it will remove every vestige of dirt and dust, and your shoe will come out shining like new and as soft as possible. Give the buttons the same treatment and do not trust to anybody noticing that one button is off. Don't let your shoes get run down at the heel; the very minute they begin to show it march them off to the cobbler. who for a few pennies will make them stand square and straight on the world again. The feeling that comes when the feet are properly dress- ed gives a curious sense of being costumed properly; and I know a bright little girl who declared that after she had freshened up her boots and sewed on three buttons. she always went out feeling like new. Just reme1n— ber that it is as easy in the end to be neat, as it is to be slovenly, and that nothing so entirely be- trays the lack of thought or the lack of refinement in a woman as the sad and solemn sight of stockings drooping from very shame, shoes dull and dusty. and buttons that, to commit an Irish bull, attest their presence by their absence. —4————¢o—>—~—~ ——- Hints for Health. Study physiology and get ac- * -)9 -)(- * * quainted with each member of that most wonderful of created things——the human body. Know the ofiice of every organ, and what helps and what hinders its proper performance. Eat plain. simple food, well cooked; eat slow; chew thoroughly; don't eat more than you can digest and as- similate; let meals be at least six hours apart. Exercise three or four hours every day in the open air. Wash or brush your Whole body every day. Don't stay in a swampy, malarious country; keep away from stagnant water; drink no unboiled water that you don‘t know to be free from drainage of barnyard, cesspool, privy and swamp. Don't work beyond your strength; put your coat on when you get through: avoid draughts. especially when warm. What- ever you omit, attend regularly to the wants of nature; if you be- come constipated, eat less; eat more ripe fruit, whole wheat flour. corn meal. bran porridge and figs. Avoid stimulants of every kind-~go very light on tea and coffee, if you can't give them up entirely. Work hard if neces- sary. but don't worry.——Hugh T. If/‘on/.'.s'. in IV. Y. Tribune. —————-—-¢$> Recipes. I’of((fo Pu_1‘f?s.—~Sha.pe hot mash- ed potatoes into balls about the size of an egg. Have a tin sheet well buttered. and place the balls on it. As soon as all are done. br:-tsh over with beaten egg. Brown in the oven. and serve on a hot platter. garnished with parsley. (X/u'c.s'c ()mcl¢>f.—FO111‘ eggs, one teaspoonful of salt. two table- spoonfuls of milk. ‘one table- spoonful of butter. Beat the eggs. and add salt, and milk, and three table-spoonfuls of grated cheese. .-l/rplc Slmzt-bu//.s-.—C0Ok rice about three-fourths done. Pare and core apples and cover with rice (after putting in the center a little sugar. nutmeg, and butter) a11d wrap in a cloth and boil one- half an hour. Remove cloths and serve. (.-‘lamp Pound Cake. One scant cup of sugar, one—half cup of butter, three eggs, and one cup of flour; flavor to suit taste. Raisin Pu_[iIs.—~Two eggs, one- half cup of butter. three teas- poonfuls baking power, two teas- poonfuls sugar, two cups of flour. one cup of milk. one cup of raisins chopped fine. Steam one- half hour in small cups. VVill be eaten with sauce. C'I1star(la .S'ub.s;H'f2/f«> for (j.'/‘er/2:1. —Beat up the yolks of two eggs with half a pint of milk. sweeten and flavor very slightly. then pour into a jug: place this latter in boiling water and stir till quite hot. Allow the preparation to become quite cold. then serve it as cream for puddings, fruit pies. preserved fruits, etc. Daivity (,"oo/.'ies.~Two cups of sugar, one cup cold water, pinch of soda dissolved in water. one teaspoonful of vanilla. Roll thin as possible. Lemon Pie.—One teacupful of powdered sugar, one tablespoon- ful of butter, one egg. juice and grated rind of one lemon, one teacupful of boiling water, one teaspoonful of corn starch, mix a. little cold water, cream, butter and sugar together and pour the hot mixture over them. and when cold add the lemon and beaten egg. Bake with two crusts. -:—-—<+>—~—- It is the petty details of life that prove tiresome and wear us out, rather than the larger. It is the little affairs that worry and work ‘inischief in the nervous system. Lives of simplicity will secure the most freedom from these, details, with consequent ease of mind that is conducive to health and long life. “Keeping up with the times” is what makes a. good many of the details of these modern days. --—~—<-o>—4- 4- -- Is not the average farmer's wife earning money all the time‘? Does the farmer work any harder than his wife, and is not her work just as necessary for the profitable carrying on of the business as his? Then Why should she not have an equal interest with him in the disposal of the income‘?- Mrs. Allen Dunn. Never light a sick room by means of a. gas jet or a kerosene lamp burning low. Nothing im- poverishes the air sooner. Use sperm candles or tapers which burn sperm oil. usm. -_ Oct. L5, 1890. "I"I-IE.‘ G-RAIWG-E VISITOR. Do you want ‘ the BUYERS GUIDE? Weight, - - 2 lbs. Pages, - - - 540. Illustrations, - - 8,000. Articles Priced and Accurately Described, 30,000. Most people say that it is worth 3 to them as a Reference Book, asit enables them to make a comparative estimate of the Value of everything they buy. Sent upon receipt of 15 cents (stamps or otherwise), to pay postage or expressage. MONTGOMERY WARD 6:. Co.. I I I to I I6 Michigan Ave., "TH: ORIGINAL wNou:uu.: Guns: susru House." CHICAGO. PRICE LIST 0F SUPPLIES Kept in the Oflice of Sec’y of the Michigan State Grange And sent out post-paid on receipt of Cash Order, over the Seal of a Subordinate Grange, and the signature,of its Master or Secretary. Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundrrd ...... ..$ 75 Blank book, ledger ruled, for secretary to keep accsunts wilh members ___________________ __ 1 ()0 Blank record book (express paid) ........... __ 1 00 Order book, containing 100 orders on the treas- urer, with stub, well bound ________________ . . 50 Receipt book, containing 100 receipts from treasurer to secretary, with stub, well bound. . '50 Blank receipts for dues, per 1:10, bound ...... __ 50 Applications for membership, per 100.... 5U Withdrawal cards, per dozen _ . . . _ _ . . . . . . .. 25 Dimits, in envelopes, per dozen ............. .. ‘)5 By-Lags of the State Grange, single copies, 10c ; _5 per ozen ................................. . . 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History and Objects of Co-operation ......... .. 05 What is Ccroperationi ............. .. Some of the Weaknesses of (‘tyopera Educational Funds; How to Use Them. Associative Farming ................. .. The Economic Aspect of C<»operation_. Association and Education . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . .. 03 The Principles of Unity ....... . . ... . _ 01 The Perils of Credit ......................... .. 01 01 Fundamental Principles of C0-operation .... .. Address, J. T. COBB, Secly Michigan State Grange, Schoolcraft. Mich. GERMAN HORSE AND COW POWDER Is 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 (‘ow 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. 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CH,u>x,,u:.- —A_ J. R()S1<;___, ____S:il:uio, Texas. Tnrmsrxr-:n—F. .\i. .\icDOW‘EL_._Penn Ynn, N. Y. S1-:ckr;r/u<\‘—-J()I>I.\' TRIMBLE. Washington, D.C. GATE I{r:1~:1>ax<—A.E. PAGI-;._.Applr.-ton City, .\Io. CF.Rr;s——MRS. J. H. liRlGHAM._ ....l)elta. Ohio. Po.vmxA—Z\IRS. J. M. Tl-I01\iPS()N.____JoIiet. Ill. FLURA—l\lKS. J. 1%. I%AlLEY..___Conchatta. Miss. LADY Ass’T Sr;-;w'n—l\IRS. N. B. DOUGLASS. Sherborn. Mass. Executive Committee. . J. \VOODI\IAN.. . _ . _ ._Paw Paw, .\licl1ignn. EONARI) RHO Center Hall, Pensylvania. X. X. CHARTIERS . . . . ..Fredcricksbnrg, Virginia Ofllcers Jlichignn State Grange. l\rlASTER—THOS. .\lARS ........ _.Berrien Centre. Ovl-:Rsi-:1-:R—PERRY MAYO. ...Battle Creek. LI-:c'rL'iu-:k—JASO!\’ WOODMAIV '. STI-:WARD—A. E. GREEN ......... ._Walled Lake. Ass”: SrnwARn—MRS. P. MAYO...I3attle Creek. TREASURI-:R——E. A. STRONG ......... ..Vicksburg. SEER!-2TARY—-J. T. COBB . _ . . _ . _ . , _ . . ..Schoolcraft. GATE KEI-:1-'1~.R~Gl-JO. L. CARLlSLl:‘_...l\'alkaska. CERI-:s-MRS. THOS. MARS .... ..Berrien Centre. PoMoNA~—MRS. JNO. PASSMORE ____ ..l-‘lushing. FLORA—-M RS. A. GUNNISON...North Lansing. L. A. S-n:wARn4MRS. ROBT. WILEY..__.DaiIy. Executive Committee; THOS. ‘MARS, I E 05 ~ I ...Berrien Centre. 1.1". cons, { "' cm 7 Schoolcraft. General Deputies. MRS. PERRY MAYO . . . _ _ . . . . . . _ . ..Battle Creek. JASON WOODMAN..... Paw Paw. A. N. WOODRUFF . . . _ _ _ . . . . . . _ . . . . . ..Wutervliet. Special Deputies. Reuben Straight. ................. ._HilIsdale Co A. B. Brown... _....Sheridan, Montcalm “ A. E. Palmer_. ka, Kalkaska and Antrim " George R. Bowser. ...... ..Dowling, Barry “ H. G. Holt .................... ..Cascade, Kent " Committee on “’oman’s ‘York in the Grange. Mrs. Mary A. Mayo ................ ..Battle Creek. Mrs. A. Gunnison.... .North Lansing. Mrs.]ohn Passtnore ................... ..Flushing. Michigan Grange Stores. A. STEGEMAN, Manager .............. _.Allegan. E. R. OSBAND. Manager........ North Lansing. 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Dl'.A.F0 "IAIN , 1 ll . 14!]! It ., N .Y . Where She Comes. With heavy elders overhung, Half hid hid in clover masses, An old fence rambles on. among The tangled meadow—grasses. It makes a shade for lady-fern \Vhich nestles close besides it: \VhiIe clematis, at every turn, And roses almost hide it. In shade of overhanging sprays And down a sunny hollow, By hazel-ccpse, and woodland ways. The winding fence I follow; By rose, and thorn, and fragrant dew, In search of something sweeter- The orchard-gap, where she comes through, And I go down to meet her! The sunlight slants across the fence, VVhere lichens gray it over, And stirs a hundred dreamy scents From fern, and mint, and clover; But though the air is sweet to-day. I know of something 5“'€€l€r: That she can only come this way. And I am sure to Inset her! And so. while chipmunks run a match To tell the wrcns who‘s coming, And all cross the brier pateh There sounds a drowsy humming- The hum of lioney-seeking bees- I seek for something sweeter; A gap. axxicviigst the apple trees, \\/here I am going to meet her! ——C/zlU‘l:‘.t l>’. (iu1')I_;'. 1'71 St’/uh’:/1/M7‘ S(r1'/ind)‘. “...... _ Progress of American Steel. An interesting feature of the recently published statistical re- port fo the American Iron and Steel Association is the increas- ing percentage of steel in the total production. About one- third of the bar “ir0n" now man- ufactured in the United States is steel, so is nearly half of the plate and sheet iron, and 40 per cent of the cut nails and spikes. The rolled iron product. other than nails. only increased 74; per cent. last year. while the rolled steel product, apart from rails, increas- ed 32 per cent. It needs not to say that steel rails are now re- placing those of iron on all the railroads which are efficiently managed. After that change is completed, what then? Will the next reform in order be whole- sale substitution of aluminum for the ferric material, crowding that out of the way as the latter is displacing wood for many structural purposes? It is not im- probable. Clay is much more plentiful than iron ore. and re- cent experiments at least indicate it as possible that the new metal will ere long be furnished as cheaply per unit of volume. if not of weight, as its elder brother. Such a change would revolutionize not a few of our manufacturing processes. and perhaps some of the habits of the civilized human being.— Metal! uml I'Ii.s'r'71 ’/.e2'1‘Im_(/. ~ _<.>_ , John Ruskin. Noble old John Ruskin. one of the cleanest. loft-iest and most, useful men who ever wrote in the 1 English tongue. is dying. like l Dean Swift's tree. at the top. “Great wits to madness oft are’: near allied." and Ruskin’s mind‘. has been failing for several years ', with his physical health. until now it is necessary to restrain‘ him in order to prevent his mak- ing away with himself. Nobody will lay his violence at the door of anything but his ill health, for he is a man whose whole life has been an incarnation of high ideals and good impulses. He has taught beauty to the lowly who knew nought but use. and usefulness to the learned in beau- ty; he has made the world more harmonious and life more worth living to all who read his works. The world has never seen a more courageous critic in all the his- tory of art. Rough and harsh if not wrongheaded as he was at times. his voice was like that of an inspired prophet. even when his judgments were most severe; there was a lesson of truth con- cealed in what he said, no matter how prickly the shell that held the kernel. If he hated shame and conventional fetiches, he al- so discerned genius in obscurity and hauled it out for the admira- tion of the world. America owes him a tribute of love and venera- tion for drawing the attention of Europe to some of her greatest pELlIlt€I'S.~—E.I‘. —-—-—j+ Progressive Knowledge. Some one says: At ten years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal; at fifteen he knows as much as his father; at- twenty he knows twice as much; at thirty he is willing to take his advice; at forty he begins to think his father knows something, after all; at fifty he begins to seek his advice, and at sixty—after his father is dea.d——he thinks he , . I was the smartest man ever lived. Why some Men do not Succeed. Two of the most successful men on the North American conti- nent were recently asked the question, “What are the causes of poverty?” One replied, "Ig- norance and incapacity." The other said that the prevalent cause is "The number of young men who are wanting in decision and fixity of purpose. If they get into a good place at the start, they should stick to it, knowing that by perseverance, industry. and ability. they win promotion in due time as vacancies occur. But they see or hear of some one making a fortune in VVall street, or in ranching, or in mining, and away they go to try their luck. When they lose, as they do in ninety-nine cases out of a hund- red. that is the end of them; they can never settle down to ordinary ways of earning a living after that, and their descent is rapid." This reason hits the nail square on the head. Go where we will, we will find men who commenced life under the most favorable cir- cumstances. but who are such complete financial wrecks that there is but little hope for their reformation. They may be hon- est and temperate; they may even possess natural ability of a high order, but-. lacking in steadi- ness of purpose. they will never succeed. Had they sufficient will force to stick to one thing, no matter how disagreeable it might be at first. were they con- tent to advance slowly. they would have no reason now to talk of the "luck" of those who have pushed forward into the front ranks. Another cause of poverty is a lack of self-confidence. Many men seem to have no faith in themselves, consequently no as- sertiveness. no independence, no pluck. and no push. They are afraid to stand up and speak for themselves. preferring to lean on others. They are afraid to make an investment, because of the possibility of failure; they are afraid to tell what they can do, as they might make an error in doing it; they are cowards in every sense of the word. This is often the result of early train- ing. Aboy. naturally timid. is kept in the background so persis- tently. and his mistakes are so severely criticised. that he grows up into an entirely useless man. Push and fixity of purpose will always bring a. measure of Sue- cesS.—.S'/. [.121/is .l-Iillcr. not >-— - T--~ —— Agricultural College Men in De- mand. The progress of scientific in- vestigation and the multiplica- tion of experiment stations are beginning to demand men quali- fied to do original work in vari- ous lines of science. especially in agricultural science. The Mich- igan Agricultural college prides itself upon the work its gradu- ates are doing in answer to this demand. and the recent meetings of the scientific societies at Indi- anapolis prove that the college has ample cause for the pride it has in its children. The flrst of the Indianapolis meetings was that of the society for the pro- motion of agricultural science. The membership in this organ- ization is limited to 50. and at present there are but -10 mem- bers. The qualifications for mem- bership are very high. and evi- dence of the difficulty there is in entering the ranks is shown by the fact that of 15 men proposed at the last meeting. but 3 were voted eligible. Yet of these 40 members 11 (or more than one- fourth) are professors or gradu- ates of this college. One gradu- ate. Prof. Bessey. was president last year and was re-elected. Of 25 papers presented before the society, 7 were read by M. A. C. men. In the meetings of the Ameri- can Association for the advance- ment of science. an organization less exclusive than the former. but ranking as the chief scientific body in America. M. A. C. pro- fessors and graduates took a very prominent part. Prof. Cook, D1‘. Beal and Dr. Durand read papers and Dr. Kedzie was elected a vice president, thus being chairman of the section of chemistry. During the progress of the meetings, M. A. C. professors were consulted by men from oth- er colleges relative to recom- mending graduates of this col- lege for various positions. Calls thus came from Arizona experi- ment station for two men. and for one each from Virginia. Ten- nessee and Mississippi.—1;‘.z'. _<..,_ From Steel to Aluminum. In all probability the day of steel is almost over. Aluminum will soon take its place. A metal as. little liable to tarnish in air or water, as little or less affected by acids than gold, twice as strong as steel and one-third the weight and as ductile as gold, aluminum offers advantages to the ship-builder. as it does to the bridge-builder. to the machinist and to all engaged in mechanic arts in which any metal is em- ployed. that can not be ignored. and the only thing that stands in the way of its substitution for steel and iron. and perhaps for copper. tin, lead and every other metal except zinc. which has uses peculiar to itself. is the cost of production from the ore. Aluminum is the most abundant of all metals contained in the earth's crust. being a constituent of all clays. (-I1(T a slight im- provement in t e method of re- ducing it will bring its cost down to such a point that iron and steel at present prices would be dear by comparison, because of the better use that can ae made of this lighter and yet stronger metal. Its cost now is sixty cents a pound. When it falls to ten. it will be much cheaper than steel at five cents. It is being manufactured in this country and in England, and earnest scientific minds are occupied from day to day in experimental processes of its reduction from the ore, with the view of produc- ing it in such abundance as will enable the substitution of it in all mechanic arts for steel. Any day the process by which this can be accomplished may be dis- covered and perfected: and the price drop to a few cents a pound. The vessels of war and peace will be constructed of it that will be stronger than steel ships and lighter than those of wood. the navigable waters of the globe will be increased very largely——some say two-thirds- by the lighter draught of the vessels, and the speed produced by engines of the same horse power as are now used in iron and steel steamers will be very much greater. The engines themselves may be made of alum- inum. and. being StI‘()llf.£9l‘. as well as lighter. would give. 21. power which no engiiu-, of the day can reach. In short. fl revo- lution in metal seelns to be at l1and.—Brrml‘l1/n (,'[1‘i.=.w2. __‘.,____ , ANIATEUR POLITICIANS. -'-R.c- foriners" are always sneered at by the professional politicians and their friends (and sometimes by people who would not like to be classed among the "friends" of the Boys) as nothing but "amateurs": somewhat as if an honest citizen called upon to de- fend his house against a burglar should be gibed at by the burglar as nothing but an "amateur" who ought to be sleeping quietly in his bed, and not thus clumsily interfering with the accomplished industry of "professionals." It may be suspected that neither the ridicule nor the mirth of the professional politician, and of his journalistic, business. or social partner, is quite as selfcomfort— ing and hilarious as it seems: for though the cynic is always under- estimating the virtue inherent in the individual and in the commun- ity, he yet occasionally has an unexpected lesson as to the weight of the kick of that myste- rious beast, Public Opinion, and thus a thread of anxiety is often Woven in the warp of his happy humor.——“’1’op1'(‘s of the Tinuz." in, The Ccntu7'g/flu‘ 0r'fnbr’r. Prof. Charles E. Bessey writes in the interest of the country boys. that while most occupations are confined to the handling and observation of some special line of objects, the farmer comes in Contact with “evei-ytliing." He asks whether the common school is doing its whole duty when teaching, ever so well how to read, to write, to use the language, to know the “lay of the land” in our own and other countries, and to count, if it does not also con- vey something fundamental about the soil, the plants, the animals, the air, the clouds. TI-IE G-BANG-E VISITOR. Oct. 15,1890. Political. The wily politician Is in prime condition For tooting his horn, And this great Yankee Nation Might owe its salvation To the day he was born. 1 I It may be luck at laying pipes and pulling wires, or peradven— ture it is the finger of destiny pointing him out as the coming man; anyhow, as the party nom- inee, he must needs tell of the ex- treme peril of the republic. and give them several broad hints about the best and only way to save it. The next step is out into the rural districts, and you can easily guess. from the gleam of his eye and from the swelling heave of his manly breast, that a sterling patriot is going to wade right in and do lils whole windy duty. \\’ith a smile for the lady, \’\'ith a kiss for the baby, And a grip of your hand; \Vith blariiey and with coaxing, And so craftily hoaxing He will canvass the land. Of course, fellow citizens. the noble nominee must be a sinion— pure patriot, with the true-blue love of Nortl! America packed away in his heart. or he could not be coaxed off from home to worry through the wear and tear of Congress. So, if you love the liberty your fathers walloped out of the king, why not crown your candidate with a blessing and give him your vote‘? The meek and loyal unit in the party is al- ways pat and prompt with his vote. and who knows what a stur- dy prop you may thus hammer in to bolster up the "The land of the free and the home of the brave." If you bolt with your ballot. Why, the great party mallet \Vill hit you a thump; And the papers will snicker At the rascally kicker— At the old Mugwump. However. it is a crumb of com- fort to know that the party ma- chine has no right to murder a man for an independent way of bossing his own ballot, and that, although missing Congress must make the poor nominee feel sick enough to die, yet the republic is not likely to totter off its base, and the country may even jog along as though nothing woful had happened. Wherefore, breth- ren. run your eye over the row of patriots who are up for Congress and judge ye which one is of the right kind of stuff for a states- man. Then don‘t worry about the party. but give the man your vote.# ’1'/mim/.s- lfwrtrlg/. in Peoria 1'!"/l)l»S‘4‘I'[.1If. ___,,__<->____ .. Report of Pomona Grange No. 25. The nieetiiig of the Clinton County POlll()lld- Graiige. held at the farm home of J. F. Clemens, Bath. was a success. The fore- noon was spent in viewing the stock and farm. and in visiting. The sisters helped to prepare dinner. and from their well filled baskets and Sister Clemens‘ chicken pies. :76 hungry grangers were fed. At 1:30 the Grange was called to order. Bro. J. F. Clemens and wife were elected delegates to attend the State Grange in December. The meeting was interesting and the speakers earnest. and the W. M. had to call a halt. for some were getting uneasy thinking of their long ride. After a hearty vote of thanks to Bro. Clemens and wife for their hospitable en- tertainment. a day of pleasure ended. REPORTER. o The Chautauqua Cir ole. This is the month in which to organize a Chautauqua Circle. If you will send to J. M. Hall, Flint. Mich. he will send you circulars telling all about this famous or- ganization. its course of reading. and how to begin it. There is nothing more pleasant nor more helpful than the habit of thouglit- ful reading of the best books. By its fellowships. aids and incite- ments. the Chautauqua Circle gives special inspiration and de- light in reading. » ————<+>————--- Give us more good cooks and there will be fewer children with stomach aches, fewer people with torpid livers, less demand for bitters to tone up the stomach, fewer men seeking saloons to down their dyspepsia and doctors and undertakers will grow poor. ——F. J. Grlmer. B. S., M. D. Notices of meetings. Kalamazoo County Pomona Grange will meet with Portage Grange at 10 o‘clock a. m. Thurs- day. the 23d of October. A good programme will be provided by the lecturer and a delegate to the State Grange elected. Fourth degree members are cordially in- vited. By order of the Executive Com. ————<+>-———-—- Hillsdale County Grange will hold its next meeting at Acme Grange Hall. Wednesday. Nov. 5. The forenoon will be devoted to business and the good of the Order. Afternoon devoted to lit- erary work. A good program will be prepared for the after- noon. All Patrons are expected to be present and help make the meeting both pleasant and prof- itable. J. E. WAGNER. Leo. The next meeting of Kent County Grange will be held with Cascade Grange on Wednesday, Oct. 223d. at 10 a. in., sharp. The following subjects for dis. cnssioii will comprise a part of the work of the day: Lessons of the past year——W. T. Adams. Growling and grumbling farm- ers——Mrs. J. R. Edison. Fall Plowing —Jonathan Best. Floricultui'e—Mrs. Moffet. A cordial invitation is extended to all members of the order. H. G. HOLT, Lect. The October meeting of Berrien County Pomona Grange will be held in Pipestone Grange Hall Oct. 21st and 22d. Business session at 10 a. m. on the 21st. The afternoon session will be open and it is hoped the farmers families in that vicinity will em- brance the opportunity to be present. Hon. Theodore Clark, of Pipestone, will address you in welcome. The remaining sessions will be devoted to discussions of subjects of interest to Patrons. It is desirable to make arrange- ments at this meeting for an aggressive winter campaign in our. Order. Every member is in- vited to come to this meeting with the oil of gladnets and the spirit of progress in the lamps. R. V. CLARK. Lect. (Dbituaries. LAWRENCE. WHEREAS, our Divine Master has removed by death our worthy brother, Stillman Law- rence, therefore, Iicsolrecl, That by the death of Brother Lawrence, Girard .Grange No. 1256 has lost an es- teemed member and the commui- ty a kind—liearted neighbor. 1ft’.S0lI.'t‘(l, That the Grange, in sympathy with the bereaved family, drape its charter for thirty days, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the GRANGE VISITOR for publication, and that the secretary furnish the family with a copy. G. A. RUSSELL, S. E. SPENCER, H. J. VVAGNER, Committee. ____A-,__ The following resolutions were passed by Silver Lake. Grange No. 624: Whereas, Death has entered our Grange and taken from our midst our beloved Sister Lottie Monroe. Therefore. Beawlverl, That in the death of Sister Monroe our order has lost a true member and faithful officer. That all with whom she has associated in the work of our order. will mourn her loss and cherish her memory. That, we show our‘ respect for our deceased Sister, and our sympathy for her bereaved family in her sorrow, by draping our charter in mourning for sixty day. lnscribing these resolutions on our record, and by sending a copy to the GRANGE. VISITOR for pub- lication. LILLIE M. HORTON, LIBBIE VVIGHTMAN, W1LLis WIGHTMAN. Committee. QUACKENBUSH. Superior Grange No. . 68, has been called to mourn the death of a highly esteemed Sister, Mrs. Rosa J. Quackenbush, who died at her home in Superior township Sept. 9th, 1890. Aged 47 years. Quackenbush. May 9th, 1865. Shortly after they moved to 1 Superior and the remainder of ; her life was spent among us. ', Her death occured four mouths‘ following the celebration of herl twenty—fifth anniversary. She was a Charter member of * this Grange. and her death has caused great sadness among us. She was an earnest and consist- ent member, sincerely striving in all things, and in every relation to do what was right. She was a loving wife and a devoted mother. and in se1f-sacri- ticing toils and cares, she spent the best of her years for the welfare of her family, and the remem- brance of this will cause tender- est sorrow to those who mourn in bereavement her departure from them. She leaves a sorrowing hus- band and two sons who will deep- ly fell the loss of a dear wife and kind mother. She was seriously ill but a few days, suddenly growing worse until she passed away and ended her suffering in death. In a large circle of acquaintances and friends she will be missed, among whom she was esteemed and beloved, as was shown in the large attend- ance and display of flowers at her funeral services. Her end was peace and she rests from her labors. Therefor be it. Iiesolvcd. That in the death of Sister Quackenbush this Grange has lost a true and faithful mem- ber. and though we bow to this dispensation of Providence, we cannot forget the loss we here sustained. Resolved, That the afilicted family has our sympathy in their bereavement and may they know that she held a warm place in the hearts of the members of this Grange as Sister and friend. Resolved, That the Charter be draped in mourning sixty days, and a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and to the GRANGE VISITOR for publication. VVe shall miss her in her home, As we view her vacant chair We shall miss her in our circles, Yes, weniiss her everywhere. She was loving, kind and thoughtful And tothose who knew her best She was all our hearts could ask for Trusting in her we found rest. Sleep,dear sister, naught can harm you, In your narrow bed of clay. Angels whisper, "look up yonder," Brighter shines a perfect day. Mas. B. D. GEER, I\Ii5 1 3 no Traverse City ...... _.ar 1 4’ 40 , Petoskey .......... ..ar T 5'! i D - . )Iiickiiiav\__...____.._ar-I915,134. ,. C. L. LOCKWOOD, G. P. k T. Ag't, Grand Rapid.-. E. BAKER, Agent. Iialuiiiuzoo. C. & G. '1‘. I:.—\1i.\\'.\Y. -Jan. 19, l890.—Ct-iitral Meridiaii Tiinc. Tl{AlI\'S W1-:sTWAR1>. No. .2 No. 181 No. 4 Exp Exp. ' Exp. Port Huron lv .... _. '7 16-uni 5 59am 7')~1pin _ 5314: 725 u H55“ . 905“ 805“ 945" . 935 “ 848 “ 1030 “ Lansing . 1030 “ 1000 “ 113!) “ Charlotte .... . 1100 “ 10 37 “ 12 l)5an.i Battle Creek ar. . ...... .. 11 30 “ 12 50 “ " “ Iv. . .2 05pm 1 00pm 100 -‘ Vicksburg .... 2 50 “ 1 48 “ I 48 " Schoolt-raft . 1 00 “ 1 58 “ 1 58 " Marcelliis ._ 1‘2‘2 “ 2'30 “ ‘2 17 " Cassopolis _. I 50 “ 2 52 “ '2 45 " South Bend. . 235 “ 3 40 “ 335 " Valparaiso . .. 4 00 “ 5 20 “ 5 10 “ Chicago ................ __ 6 25 “ 10 10 “ 7 30 H TRAINS EASTVVARD. No. 1 No. 3 No. ‘a Mail. Exp. Exp. Chicago lv ............. .. 8 402.111 3 15pm 8 l5pni Va.lpa.ralso...... . 11 25 “ . South -Bend“..- 1 00pm (lasso olls_..-.. . 1 50 “ ‘Marcolus _._... . 220 “ Schoolcratt .... _ . 2 42 “ Vicksburg ..._.. . 2 55 “ Battle Creek Bl’ ... . 3 45 “ it I‘ IV ___V. _ 4 05 ll Charlotte ......... .. _ 5 00 “ Lansing. ....... .. 5 3'1 “ Durand ...... -- 7 20 " 10 Flint .... ._ 8 00 “ Lapeei-.... . 8 55 “ Port Huron ____________ .. 10 31 “ No. 42, mixed, west, leaves Schoolcraft at 9:50 a. m., and No. 43, east, at 8:40 p. in. 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., Schoolcriift: W. E. DAVIS, gen‘l passenger agent, Chicago; W. J. Srxcnn, gen‘l iniinnger Detroit. 7 73 37553231‘ N sic pause in fze Worm 14 Eur the pm we of introducing our goods tlimughout the Country . and to advertise our llouse.we will for :1 short time send any rs/on one of the following instruments on recipt of cas to pay for Boxing and S111 ping. Itis expected that every person receiving one 0 these instru- ments will show it and inform others where he bought; it. We will only send one to each poison, We will send 9. 0 W $10 Ole Bull Violin for $2. u consisting of Violin Italian Strings, Ma, , le Bridge, Ebonlzed P052; and Tail-piece In- laid with enrl Snakewood Bowwith Ivory Trimmings Music Book of nstructlons. containing over eighty-five‘ pieces of Choice and Latest Selections of Music. all pack- edln anent strong Jun sio George ciw(isiy's°§‘nio, $3. _ . Maple She Sheepsk in Head, Silva ’ O plated Rim, etal Head rasceningg, ‘E’ taunnsti-ings. Book oflnstructions. Allinneatcase 33, $10 Celebrated Aimee Guitar, $3. Maple imitation of Roaewoodj-Ebony trimmings Patent Head, Pearl in- aid, sound Holeand Edge. Italian .Strlngs,Musio Book inatmng Caseta oitfil Note. send Stump for Catal .. s°i':"i:°.""fi'iico a cg cliicafloi iiiinoi‘f"°‘ ’ Three Oaks. Mich. ‘ YA «; ‘I ~r