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“THE FARJIER IS OF .11 ORE C0. ISEQUE- 'CE THAN THE FARJI, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IJIPROVED."

VOL. XVII, N0. 14.

LANSING, MICHIGAN, JULY 15, 1892.

Wool.

HOW SHALL IT BE PUT UP AND SOLD?

Letters From Leading Wholesale Houses,
“'00! Growers, And Local Buyers.

(Continued from last issue.)

We have no more letters from
commission houses but present
some from growers and buyers.
The following are from the

Growers .

These are the questions asked:

1. What is your customary
method of putting up wool? Do
you grade in any sense of the word?

2. Have you sold to local buyers
or do you ship to wholesale hous-
es‘? Why do you prefer your
method of sale?

 Do 011 think that farmers as

3’ . .
a rule p11t 11p their wool in the
best manner? VVould it pay them
to do it better?

4. \Vould it be practicable for
growers to skirt their wool. sepa-
rating tags and etc, and to sell in
two or three Grades?

5. Do localobuyers generally buy
wool on its merits‘?

6. What is the cause of the an-
tagonism between the growers and
the buyers?

7. \\'hat remedy would you sug-
gest for the difliculty‘?

GEO. W. STUART.

1. Our customary method of
”.»putting up wool is to put into the

.- ‘ fleeceall except heavy tag locks, not

grading it in any sense.

2. Have sold both to local
buyers and wholesale houses; three
years at \Vm. Peter’s factory, Co-
lumbiaville.

3. I do not think as a r11le farm-
ers put their wool up in the best
manner and think it would pay
them to do it better.

4. We have tried the skirting
plan this year. Shipped to Philadel-
phia, have not got returns yet.
VVe made three grades: ”fleece,”
“fribs” and ”skirtings,” and “heavy
tags.”

5. Very few local buyers buy on
its merits.

6. The antagonism between
growers and buyers is a lack of
knowledge on the part of both of
the value of wools, “condition” and
“quality” as well as the uses made
of the different grades by manufac-
turers. There is no doubt but that
some. and a good many, wool grow-
ers practice fraudulent methods in
putting up their wool for market,
and as in all other business matters
seriously cripple that confidence
which ought to exist in all business
relations. In fact I believe the an-
tagonism existing is more charge-
able to the wool grower than to the
buyers, not so much from a lack of
honesty as through ignorance of
that higher plane of business meth-
ods. and real value of their product.
Good goods will find a ready mar-
ket, and command good prices,
while poor find a begging market.

7. My remedy is:

a. To stop washing, when the
question of washed or unwashed
fleece is done away with.

b. Better methods of putting up
either by skirting or grading, but
above all have the fleece as repre-
sented. I believe the local markets
the most satisfactory when confi-
dence can be fully established, and
hope to see the time when this will
be the case. I believe in the mid-
dle man and think better satisfac-
tion will be found, both by the
grower and manufacturer, when
intelligent local dealers are able to
handle the wool, paying for it at
time of delivery, and agreement
made either at the barn or Wagon.
There are risks attending the
shipping of wool to commission
houses, and I doubt if the plan will

be found satisfactory to the average
wool grower, but until some im-
provement is made upon present
methods more or less wool will be
shipped to wholesale houses. This
may be profitable with large ranch-
men but is not at least satisfactory
with small flock masters.
Grrmvl Blmzc.

RICHARD DOUGHEBTY.

1. I keep my sheep dry through
winter and tag the wool early; put
it up with a box, with six strings
of common wool twine, taking
sweat balls an(l refuse and put them
with tags and sell without any
other grading.

2. I generally sell to local
buyers, because I know just what
I am doing'and my money all comes
at once, which is not generally the
case when sold on commission.

3. No; and it would pay I think
to do it better, certainly if all
would do so.

4. No; always separate tags; no
other grading unless perhaps when
sheep are kept in large flocks.

5. They pretend to do so but
generally get very desirable clips
below their real value as compared
with less desirable wools and thus
many times discourage the careful
farmer.

6. The cupidity and selfishness
of man, his lack in judgment and
proper discrimination and some-
times his dishonesty and a willing-
ness to overreach his fellows.

7. This is most diflicult to answer
satisfactorily but I would sug-
gest that farmers be instructed
through the VISITOR, the M1'chz'gcm
Farmer, and by the local buyers,
how to care for their sheep, how to
shear and tie up their wool, and
then let the latter give credit to
those who do it well by paying them
liberally and by making those who
do otherwise feel it by obliging
them to take a lower price or sell
elswhere and tell the reason of
such discrimination.

Three Rivers.

L. D. WATKINS.

1. It is my custom to put up the
entire fleece, less sweepings and
tags.

2. Some times ship, usually sell
at home. This year _to Clinton
woolen mill company, 10,609
pounds fleece at 20 cents, no dis-
counts, and 649 pounds tags at 9
cents. Two clips.

3. I believe as a buyer and
grower that our farmers as a Whole
put up their wool at least as well
as they do in Ohio, or any other
state.

4. Skirt? No.

5. No.

6. The cause is not dishonesty
or intent to deceive the buyer, and
I indignantly repel any such state-
ment or inuendoes. There is no-
where a more honest, intelligent
clean-cut class of men, engaged in
any industry or profession, than
the farmers of Michigan.

7. I believe that all this uproar
about condition of our wool, is to
get this year’s clip at less than its
value.

The whole matter stands thus:
Ohio wool averages about four
pounds less per fleece than ours, on
account of less oil and less density
of fleece. Still ours bring the
grower more than twenty-five per
cent more than Ohio fleeces each.
I will admit that there is a class
of wool that was found all over
Michigan that has undoubtedly
lowered the standard of our wools.
I refer to the wrinkly short wooled
Merino that was in fashion some
years ago. The entire fleece was
in no way more valuable, or would
net more scoured wool than tags.

Finally, don’t consign your wool
to any man or firm or commission
to sell for you. If you do so as

Tags? Yes.

, world over.

a rule, you are lost. The moment
your wool leaves your hands you
can never know what becomes of
it, or what it sells for, or how it is
graded (thrown). You may de-
pend on one fact: the writer has
had experience on thisline.
Jlcmchesfcr.

W. J. GARLOCK.

1. I shear all the wool from the
sheep before they go out to grass,
putting each entire fleece. tags and
all, in a package by itself, rolling
the inside of the fleece out and
winding enough twine around to
hold it in place. Do no grading.

2. For 10 or 12 years have in-
variably shipped to wholesale deal-
ers, they furnishing sacks, and
advancing two-thirds to three-
fourths the clip value on receipt
of bill of lading. balance at sale.
Think I always get as much and
sometimes more than local buy-
ers prices.

3. As a rule I think the farmers
put 11p the wool in very fair con-
dition and doubt if much more
could be realized with more care.
Think more is lost from raising
short, gummy staple than from
poor conditioning.

4. No, not by any means. Far-
mers are not wool sorters, and
only a part of the dealers are.

5. A few do and a good many
do not. ',

6. There are many causes, chief
among them is lowjvool values the
Wl'L:':;i.ra:.ool brought
81.00 it could be bought and sold
with the eyes shut; now it is finer
work to handle the clip and realize
a margin.

7. That is a hard question.

Candidly, I think wool growing
in Michigan has passed its hey-day
of prosperity.

Howell.

GEORGE E. BRECK.

1. My sheep are always kept
free of dirty tag locks, and sweat
locks are put into each fleece with-
out grading. I use a small linen
wool twine, taking pains to make
the fleeces look as neat and com-
pact as possible.

2. For two previous years I
have shipped to commission houses
in Boston. This year I sold to a
buyer from a distant town who
claimed to have a contract for my
particular grade of wool and he of-
fered me the same price I had re-
ceived net by shipping for the two
years last past.

After it was announced that I
had sold to a buyer from another
town, our local buyers were very
anxious to buy and claimed they
would give as much or more than
he had paid for mine.

In many respects it is more sat-
isfactory to ship. It is no more
trouble, as the wool is more easy to
handle when sacked, and you feel
you get all your wool is worth if
you have confidence in the com-
mission house.

3. \Vith a few exceptions, I be-
lieve the farmers of this commun-
ity have put up their wool as well
as could be reasonably expected.

An examination of a large num-
ber of clips leads me to believe that
it is skillfully and nicely done.

I do not believe it would pay
them to do it better. Of course in
this conclusion I exclude all men
who are naturally dishonest and
seek by various schemes to cheat
the buyer.

4. I do not believe that at the
present time it is practicable for
growers to skirt their fleeces or to
undertake to grade.

The great wool markets of our
country are close at hand, compar-
itively, and the grades in each
fleece are so averaged in estimating
the value of each fleece that prac-

tical results are the same in our

present system as would be obtain-
ed should each grower try to grade
his own.

There is no absolute standard
for grading, and when each grower
has done his grading to the best of
his judgment, the buyer who is
always ready with excuses would
find some reason for not being sat-
isfied. I

5. Local buyers do not buy wool
on its merits. This is illustrated
time and again. The fact is that a
small per cent of the wool growers
know the difference in quality and
grade of wool. A pound of wqol
is a pound of wool, and a fleece is
a fleece with too many. '

6. Antagonism between buyers
and growers arises from two sources.
one of which is indicated in my
answer to question No. 5. First.
growers are not close judges of the
quality of wool and from their
limited experience can not be; and
second. buyers take advantage of
this and use their art to make the
grower believe that his wool is not
as good as his neighbor’s for which
he has paid more; the buyers thus

taking advantage of the better in-'

formation which they have both as

to what the price ought to be and

the quality of the particular lot of
wool, and thus the grower becomes
suspicious of them as a class.
Overreaching on the buyer’s part
and suspicion on the part of the
seller have caused the open breech.

7. In my opinion wool growers
will do well. to keep their-.wool free
from chaff and hayseed and burs;
in fact, keep the sheep as clean as
possible. Shear early, without
washing, and ship to a reliable wool
commission house in Boston or
Philadelphia.

I have for some time been dream-
ing over a plan in which large
quantities of wool could be stored
in some central shipping point and
then thoroughly advertised among
the manufacturers and wholesale
dealers, that it be graded by an ex-
pert hired in common, and sold at
auction to the highest bidder; and
think it could be made practicable.

Paw Paw.

H. C. MOORE.

1. I do not grade it. I shear my
sheep in April, before turned out
to grass, so they do not get dirty.
I tag my ewes in March and when
I shear my sheep put the tags in
the fleeces, as they are just as clean
as the wool on the inside of the
legs of those I shear.

2. I have always sold to local
buyers, have not sold it this year,
will ship it myself next week to a
commission merchant. I do it to
save the money the local buyer
would make on it, and I have
learned that it does not pay to let
some one else do my own business
for me and get big pay for doing it.

3. I think as a rule the farmers
intend to put up their wool in a
proper manner. Of course there are
some that do not. It is generally
done up after several shearers in a
rapid manner, and perhaps there
is some wool goes in that would
not if they had more time to look
it over.

4. I have heard men say who
have skirted their wool and sold it
in two or three different grades,
that it did not pay, as they did not
get as much for their clip as when
they put everything together.
When wool is bought as it ought
to be perhaps it would pay to sep-
arate it into different grades.

5. I know the local buyers do
not buy wool on its merits. Per-
haps some do but they are mighty
scarce. As a rule it makes no dif-
ference how much delaine a man
has in his clip, it is bought at X
prices so that he would make a
profit on it if it was all X wool.

I have seen buyers get on a load

WHOLE

of wool an(l ask if it was washed.
They could not tell the difference

between washed and unwashed

wool. And I have seen them

throw out (and discount one-third ),

some of the choicest fleeces in a

load, because it was yellow, as they

said, when the fact of the matter
was it had a butt‘ oil and no more
of it and no heavier, but a great

deal better wool than lots of the
fleeces that had a white oil. And
the man that owns the wool. nine
times out of ten won‘t say aword, and
will let the buyer gull him. Why?
because he has got to sell it and he
might as well let this buyer fleece
him as some other. as this dis-
counting is a custom they have
adopted. and he knows it.

6. I think the cause of the an-
tagonism between the growers and
the local buyers is answered in the
above.

Between the grower and the
commission merchant, if he sells
his wool or consigns it to him, is
this, he never knows what his wool
is sold for and never will. He is
completely at the commission
merchant’s mercy. His wool may
grade 2». large per cent of delaine
one year and the next year have
scarcely any from the same sheep.
But I believe this method of sell-
ing wool is far preferable to selling
to the local buyer.

7. I believe there is a remedy
for all these difliculties. I hardly
know how but something like the
following:

There could be warehouses or
suitable buildings rented by the
farmers at different points in the
wool growing districts and an ex-
perienced man hired, or paid by a
commission to weigh in their wool
and grade it and give them credit
for the number of pounds of each
grade and do all the business
necessary to be done in such a
place. After a certain number of
pounds had been taken in notice
could be given to different factories
that they had so many thousand
pounds of the different grades for
sale. When the sales were made
checks or drafts could be given (in
the names of those who had weigh-
ed in their wool) by the purchaser.
I have given one thought in regard
to a remedy and believe that some
such a method must be soon adopt-
ed. It would do away with the
middle men who are bloodsuckers
to the farmers’ and save them
thousands of dollars. They do not
sell their wool on its merits or get
what it is worth an(l never will un-
til some such method is adopted.

lV0rth Fm'7m'nyton.

H. H. HINDS.

1. N 0 Michigan growers grade
their wools.

2. Have always shipped my
wool to eastern markets. with two
exceptions, and then I put a satis-
factory price on it at my barn and
it brought the price I asked,

Prefer that method for it is then
graded and sold on its merits.

3. No. It most certainly would
if they were selling to a judge of
wool.

4. The tags and unmerchantable
wool should go to market by itself
and not pollute the merchantable
and high priced stock.

5. No. A large per cent of the
local buyers are not judges of wool
and, besides, they usually buy for
a certain rate per pound and any
heavy undesirable wool that would
not absolutely be rejected by the
parties for whom they buy, is the
most desirable for them to handle,
as it weighs more and brings a
larger commission.

6. I do not know as there is any

antagonism between growers and
local buyers. This is a free country

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

JFLY 15. 1392.

Field and Stock.
i.i.\'c0L.v SHEEP.

H. A. D.~\‘.\'IELL.<.

Although these sheep have been
bred for some years by a few
breeders in Michigan they had no
register till February "J1, and are
comparatively unknown to the
great mass of the farmers of the
state.

The standard calls for a sheep of
the following description: (‘ousti-
tution—Body deep, back wide and
straight, wide and full in the thigh,
large bright eyes, skin soft and
pink, 25 points. Size————)Iatui-ed
rams not less than 250 pounds in
good condition, matured ewes 200
pounds, 10 points. Appearance-e
good carriage and symmetry of
form, 10 points. Body-—well pro-
portioned. good bone and length,

many new varieties come seeking more work; Work in the busiest
admission to the list, and improve- time for the fruit grower and farm-
ments in size, color, productiveness er. “There an apiary is run for.
or quality, demand our attention. comb honey much attention is
Man is ever striving for the ideal, necessary to keep sufficient room
nor will he be satisfied until straw- in the sections and yet get the
berries grow on bushes and of the greatest possible per cent of sec-_
size of Baldwin apples. tioiis completed before the honey
Those of us who can recollect season is closed. Much attention
the old strawberry bed of our child- is always required to regulate
hood, off in one corner of the ;.{Fl1‘— swarming and at times during a
den, neglected, overgrown with good season it is almost impossible
weeds and grass. when two or three for the man who has much other
quarts of rather indifferent berries business on hand to control the.
every other day were considered a swarming fever.
splendid yield, can now contrast To keep bees sufficiently crowd-
the rapid progress of modern ideas ed in the brood chamber for the
in fields of ten acres with the liiin- rapid production of surplus in the
dred of busy pickers. and yielding sections, and not allow the bees to
thousands of quarts each day. Xor swarm is a problem that requires
is the fruit the same; it is larger all the ingenuity that the specialist
and finer and is handled differently. can muster~to say nothing of the
Then we were contented to let the , man whose energies are divided.
~ beds take care of themselves, never For extracted honey each hive ‘

thinking of care or renewal; now.
they are carefully lioed, cultivated
and mulchcd. and after one, two or
three crops have been harvested
the bed is plowed up. A grower
of berries now rotates, sets say a
half acre each year, and after the

broad hind quarters. legs standing
well apart, breast wide and deep,‘
15 points. Head—should be cov-~
ered with wool to the cars, cyesi
expressive. ears fair length, dotted
or mottled in color, 10 points.
Neck--mediumleugtli, good muscle, , . . I ‘ 1 1 “W
well set on body, 5 points. Legs— , thml crop 1.3 -‘“5?‘t lvelfif 1) 0"_5_,|lip
broad and set well apart, good t.h‘i bed’ .haVlm“5.‘d“a3S Em  1“
shape, color white but some brown  full l’(i”n"'-‘*3? blfinw ta 0 0,3. mjt
spots do not disqualify, wooled to hm .Cml"5’ 5011"’ mt. Om" Y ‘ trail,’
the knees, 10 points. Fl:-ece——of l)f’r”°S can be S‘? . i“. an? “{9}? 1
even lciigtll and quality over body, 3 1“ hell tile -5'r(.m_m, 15 In ‘com, mon
not less than eight inches long for 1 mt 11. 15 1’1'ef°“‘ J6 .to aft QOEH3.
one yparvs gmWth_ 10 1,,,’intS. and vigorous plants in tile spiiiig
Quality of wool—~~—ra.ther fine. longlthat th93.1}1ay be m.i='O°‘ gr0“t_1
Wool, strong lustrous fiber. no ten- , find c"mht1Oi1f0_r  Elle 
deiicy to cot, 5 points. Total 100 I Wall‘ Plain "1 “ills me at ap'”,t’
poinm ‘aeighteen inches in the row.’ Two,
The Liiicoliis are natives of Lin- men? and ‘L ho-.V t“ d""p1Ehe_P1imtS" I
coliisliire, England, a low level ; ca.“ 5°C)“ put’ 1“ mfejha 5“ re’ 011162
Country, ynid we claim that they 3 Wlth a S_l.mde .I?1£fi‘l’Ses‘ nitov 
will keep thrifty on lower ground .‘s’1'0“11d “lth 111*’ 00'” 3411‘ “P1151
than most any other breed. They ' bad?’ ‘lnd forth’ th? Othfir (flops tlle ‘
are the largest sheep known, and mots 1“ the °p"nm¥5 ‘°“ 11 to me:

1 - , . :crown of the plant and firms with‘
the Centennial report on sheep. Cultivate thoroughly; 

and wool says they are the fincst of: 1115 foot‘ _ _ I _ ‘ __ _ _
an long “.001 Shet,p_ The fiber Of I soon as the ground freezes‘ U)\ 81.‘
the wool is quite wavy and more htihtly Wlth 3. mulch ‘if ‘°’tm_“'_Q1.
lustrous than any other with which  “'1” hay imd "1 _the spr.mg_d1a“ H I
I am ,,(:(1uaimed_ In breeding ietween the row  It will keep the

qualities they are second to none, 3 bellrlfs dean a1thOu.5h the Common 1
actice is to cultivate after the

twins being the rule in matured pr

should be provided with a second-
story, the same size as the first
story, and filled with extra wide
combs. \Vlien the honey flow is
over, the second story of each hive
can be stored away and used for
the same purpose in succeeding
years. As soon as the second story
becomes filled with honey it can
be quickly extracted and the combs
returned to their place above the
brood nest. In this way all sur-
plus can be readily removed and at
the same time the double hive,
when not allowed to become filled
with honey, gives the colony ample
room for work and hence does
away with a large part of the
swarming tendency.

Thus with bees rim for extract-'
ed honey there is secured three of’
the principal drawbacks to bee;
keeping as an avocation, which
may be summed up as follows:‘

first. case and rapidity with which }

preparation can be made for the}
honey season; second, the small?
amount of work required to give
the bees ample room during the[
honey flow; and third. the almost,
complete abolition of the swarming 3

fever. These three requisites
bring bee keeping into harniony
with any other employment,

d,,mS_ Males Weighing5U0pOundS picking is over and then let the,
being not very uncommon attest
the size which they attain.

One ram thirteen months old,
owned near Caro, sheared 17
pounds and weighed 256 pounds
after fleece was off. The entire
flock of ewes owned by J. J. Eng-
land averaged 14 pounds. ‘V. S.
Allen of Saranac reports his six

berries take care of themselves. ; and at the same time make it
But it pays to do it right. By cross I yield a handsome profit when a
fertilization, selection, and care, , good season is at hand, and also
strawberries have increased in size E what is almost as good requires no
and beauty,‘ while by abundance preparation ‘a':.‘: but little time
the prices they sell for have de- when a poor season is in vogue.

creased in size and beauty. Larg- For several years we have found 1
iiess of fruit is had at the expense 8 ready arket for all our extractedj
of flavor, for the standard of excel- honey in the quantity at ten cents
ence in flavor in most fruits is per pound. Our comb honey has

 

imported ewes as having sheared
100; pounds this season, the ewe
Empress shearing 22:‘; pounds.
They carry more clear white oil
than any sheep except the Meriiioes
which makes the wool particularly
valuable for certain purposes.

The demand for these sheep ex-
ceeds the supply, orders coming in
already from Nebraska, Ohio and
other states.

In conclusion I will say that
having bred Leicesters, Merinoes
and Shropshires, I am better pleas-
ed with the Lincoln sheep than
any other breed I ever owned.

Elva.

THE OLD S'I‘R.»U\'BEl{RYl BED.
W. H. PAYNE.

" Doubtless the Lord could have
made a better fruit than the straw-
berry, but doubtless he never did.”
Yet how many people in the
world have never yet tasted this
luscious fruit that will grow any-
where in the temperate zone and
under the most adverse circum-
stances.

There are thirteen ways of pre-
paring this dainty fruit to tempt
the appetite, beginning with one
time and two movements as they
pass from the vine to the mouth,
and ending in strawberries in
cream, and in short cake, each
better than the other and all fit for
the diet of the gods.

Scarlet, fragrant, luscious berry!
too much of thee is just enough.
There are many varieties of this
fruit, which is not a fruit at all,
from the overgrown and ill-shaped

Sharpless, as large as a tea cup, to
the modest wild berry in the
meadow. Of some 500 tested var-
ieties only about 100 have stood
the test and many of these failing
to be best, in various parts of the
country, and on different soil. On
the sandy soil at South Haven the
Wilson, Crescent, Cumberland,
Sharpless, Miner, Bubach, Haver-
land and VVa.rfield have taken the
lead and still keep it as commer-
cial berries, although over 100 var-
ieties are being tested at the exper-
imental plats under the eflicient
care of T. T. Lyon. Every year

found in the smaller kinds. Thus
the Delaware is the standard for
excellence in grapes, and the Seckel .~
in pears, and the small wild straw-l
berry has been the standard for‘
flavor since the Creator made it for

Adam and Eve in the Garden of

Eden. Butunfortunatelyexcellence

in flavor does not sell fruit in the

open market; the eye is the judge,

and berries of large size, perfect in

color and shape, put up in neat and

handsome packages are what get

the best prices and sell the fruit,

rather than quality.

Every family should have its
own strawberry bed. Take care of i
it yourself and in so doing find in l
it health, happiness, enjoyment,
and luxury that cannot be bought.

South Ifarcu.

COMB’ OR I-IXTR.\C’l‘l'}D
HONEY~—“'l-[ICHZ

CHARLES B. COOK.

This question is by no means a
new one. Since many varying cir-
cumstances combine to throw the
balance first on one side and then
on the other, it is highly probable
that the question will never be any
more settled than it is at the pres-
ent time. First class comb honey
will always sell at a good price,
while extracted honey may
go slow at any price. How-
ever, there are many difficul-
ties to be met with in the success-
ful production of comb honey;
obstacles that tempt many honey
producers to concentrate their
efforts in the line of extracted
honey.

The last five years have fully de-
veloped the fact that honey sea-
sons are less reliable than the
weather. In case a season is poor
enough to render the comb honey
crop practically a failure, an apiary
run for extracted honey will prob-
ably produce a light crop. Thus
where poor seasons are a matter of
common occurence, the apiarist is
more certain of a crop that will help
pay expenses if extracted honey is
the specialty.

Again, apparatus for comb honey
is more expensive and demands

been placed 011 the home market
at prices ranging from twelve to
eighteen cents. At these figures
extracted honey pays best in our
locality; and especially since our
colonies run for comb honey often
fail in poor seasons to produce :1
pound of first class honey, while
the remaining colonies run for the
extracted honey have never failed
to produce a partial crop and
usually a paying crop.

It must be remembered that the
race of bees and varying localities
enter so largely into the combina-
tion that it is dangerous to lay
down any rules by which we may
solve the question, comb or ex-
tracted honey. which?

()u'oss0.

 

PLOWING IN GREEN CROPS.

I am asked if I would advise sow-
ing Hungarian millet to be plowed
in for fertilizing a field to be seeded
to grass in September, and I can
answer most decidedly that I would
not. I have never had much faith
in the economy of raising good
fodder to be plowed in to enrich
land. It is too expensive a. fer-
tilizer. It is better to feed it
first to profitable stock and then
get two profits, one from the
animals and another from the
manure made while feeding. A
crop of millet growing through the
summer months will extract from
the soil about all the available plant
food the soil contains and cannot
give it up to the succeeding crop
till it has itself become thoroughly
decomposed, which will not he in
season to help the grass much this
year. And if the grass fails to get
a good start sown in September it
might about as well not have been
sown at all.

Turning in green crops for ma-
nure is a popular practice in sec-
tions where wheat raising is the
chief business of the farm and
where a crop of wheat cannot be
grown without manure oftener than
once in two or three years. We
are being taught now that clover
and other plants producing root
tubercles are capable of gathering
nitrogen from the atmosphere and

so by their growth the fertility of
a soil may be actually increased.
Millet 1S iiota member of this class

of plants and can carry to the soil I

nothing of special value as a fertiliz-
er but what it has taken from the soil
during its period of growth. Clover.
beans and peas turiied in will iii-
crease the fertility of soils after
decomposition, but even these are
worth much more fed to stock
and the iiianure saved to apply to
the land.

I have no doubt that man could
exist on the earth without the aid
of farm stock. but at the present
time and with existing ideas and

habits, it is far better to encourage .

the keeping of all the profitable
stock a farm will carry. and to feed
all the fodder grown rather than
turn it under for nianurc. There
is a great amount of vegetation
grown that man can not utilize as
food till it has first been converted
into animal food by the live stock
of the country. The study of the
farmer should be how best to util-
ize this material. Turning under
is not the best way. -Nczr Eng}-
Imzrl Fm'mcr.

PRIZE l‘ISS.\Y.

()rrici5 or THE A.\IEIiI(,‘.\.1\' Ji:i:-
siav C.—\TTLE (,'l.l']:, No 1 l3iio.ii»-
\\'_»tY, Nizw Yoi:i{, JL'I\'I5. 1-5'92. lie-
lieving that the dissemination of
reliable inforination regarding Jer-
sey cattle will be of great value.
not only to all dairy owners. but
also to every fariner and every milk
and butter user in the land. the
American Jersey Cattle Club has
decided to offer fifty prizes for ac-
ceptable essays on Jersey cattle. In
these days of keen competition the
successful man must not only con-
sider cost but quality of product. It
is claimed for the Jersey cow that she
meets both of these requirements in
the dairy better than any other
breet, and that her real merits,

even at the present time, are iinper- .
fectly understood. Consequcntly it T

is contended that many dairy far-
mers, from lack of knowledge as to
cost of production and quality of

product, are losing money that‘

might be made if their present
cattle were replaced with Jerseys.

It is also believed to be a fact
that in very many cases quality is
sacrificed to quantity, and that milk
and butter consumers, through
lack of knowledge, are paying ini-

reasonable prices, quality consid-3

ered.

At a meeting of the Board of
Directors of the American Jersey
Cattle Club. held May 4, 1892, it
was directed that fifty prizes of $23

each should be offered for accep-.

table essays on Jersey cattle. This
competition is to be governed by
the following rules:

1. Si‘is.IEc'r, JERSEY CA'rri.i:.-
Anything pertaining to their his-
tory, value, usefulness. care, treat-
ment, pcculiarities of product, etc.
It is desired that these essays
shall cover as far as possible all

the points on which present owners, _

intending buyers, persons who do
not but who could profitably keep
Jerseys. consumers of milk, butter,
etc., would naturaly desire infor-
mation.

2. SIZE. No essay shall contain
less than 600 nor more than 900
words.

3. TIME.—All essays must be
subniitted on or before September
1, 1892. They may be sent earlier,
and the committee request as
prompt attention as is practicable.

4. C0:\‘DiTI01\'s.——All essays sub-
mitted are to be the property of
the American Jersey Cattle Club,
regardless of prizes. No essay will
be awarded a prize unless it is con-
sidered by the Committee to merit
publication.

5. CoMPETiToRs.——Forty of the
prizes are open to competition by
men. Ten of the prizes are open
to competition by women, and, in
view of the great interest taken in
Jersey cattle by women, it is con-
fidently expected that many will
submit valuable essays.

6. A\V'ARDS.— Prizes will be a-
warded and paid within sixty days
after contest closes. ‘

7. COMMITTEE.--VVellknowngen-
tlenien will act as judges in this
competition.

8. SUGGESTIONS TO NEW WRI-
TERs.—Write plainly and only on
one side of the paper. Write sim-
ply, just as you would talk. Don’t
criticise or attack other breeds.
There is more of value to be said
about the Jersey than can be put
in any one essay. Don’t try to
cover too many points, take one
part of the subject and make it
complete. If you wish to write

more. put in another e.~;sa_v. Com-
petitors may submit as many essays
as they choose.

Should you desire circulars for
your friends, they will be sent on
application.

Address all (‘()111l)111lll(‘8.Tl(_)I1S on
this subject to the Anierican Jersey
Cattle Club. No. 1 Broad\va_v. Xi-w
York. N. Y.

Yours truly,
R. A. Sn-.i.i:i.

1’rc.s'1'r/crzf.

 

THE F_\R.VIER AND THE WE.\'l'li ER
Bl'lH*I.\l'.

fl‘l['«)Ililln*-l'.1l}'('t‘I]il1l‘}'.‘

rendered it impossible to make the
weather S€‘I‘\'ir‘c of very great value
to the farmer. In the inaiii its
work has been the preparation of
the familiar predictions, which
have been made for large areas.
At prcsciit the areas selected are
single states. The predictions are
made by an officer in \Yasl1iu}_:toii
to whom obsei'vatioiis are reported
from a large number of statioiis
situated in various parts of the
country. He glaiiccs over these
rcports. noting the [)l£li'l'S wlu-re
rain has fallen. and the network of
tempcratiircs and baronietric press-
ure: sees how the conditioiis have
been changing since the last pre-
dictions were made: and, perhaps
with scarcely time to weigh the
reasons for his conclusions, inakcs
up his predictions in regard to the
weather of the iininediatc future.
He can give but a small amount of
time -——perhaps two “ll-111144-Q to
each state. *1‘ is  *
The work of forecasting the
weatlicr must be divided. aiid. in
addition to the general predictioiis
from Wasliington. we must have
local predictions prepared by
officers in cliargc of small districts.
Such ofiicers have already been
‘appointed by the Secretary of
Agriculture, and their niiiiibe: will
doubtless be inci'cased when the
usefulness of their work is shown.
.Tl1lS however. can not be fully de-
‘l)101lSt1'2lte(l until, by the clieapen-
ing of telegraph and telephone
,ser\'ice, and by the exteiisioii of
, free mail delivery, effective means
5 are foi1ii(l for carrying the predic-
j tion to the farmer in time for his use.
{The present work of the local ob-
jservcrs is of service in perfecting
;their methods. and their forecasts
re of great usefulness to the farm-
j ers who can be reached; but their
3 full value can never be realized un-
ltil it is possible to put tlieiu
;promptly into the hands of all the
ifarmcrs who can use them.

 

 

 (‘Ll .\"l'0.V l’0.VI0NA.

«‘ The Pomona G range of Clinton
'3

1 County met with Yictor (i‘rraiige
lJune Htli, but owing to the con-
itinucd wet weather farmers were
‘ busy with their corn, and there
; was not as large a number present-
! as was expected.

 The welcome address was given
,by Mr. Oliver Freeman. and was
 very appropriate to the occasion
'and was responded to by Mr. J.
W. Ennest.

Mrs. C. A. Wlhitlock gave a
very nice recitation in her usual
good style.

Mr. J. VV. Ennest gave apaper
on "The duty of the farmer to the
road in front of his farm.” He
thought it was the duty of the
farmer to keep the roadside in the
best possible condition, the
brush and weeds cut and the
rubbish out of the road. He said
you could tell who was the best
farmer by the way he kept the
roadside.

Miss Millie Bloss played a very
fine instrumental piece of music.

J. \V. Beckwith gave a paper on
the question“ Should aliens own
property in the United States?” He
said aliens bear none of the burdens
of developing the country, but reap
the benefits of the labors of the
citizens, and in acase of war or riot
cannot be compelled to help defend
the property rights of the country,
but they asked of the government
what they were unwilling to give,
viz: equal rights and equal re-
sponsibilities with no burdens.

Mr. Freeman thought the alien,
must pay their share of the taxes
for building school houses and the
support of the government, so let
them come; the Yankee would take
care of himself.

Mrs. Henry Mulder gave a very
fine reading.

The Grange closed in due form,
and all left for home thinking they
were glad they came to Victor.

0. L. BECKWITH, Lecturer.

Iiitlic past. good reasons have

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THE GRAXGE \ ISITOR.

ROIS’

)IA.\'L'I-‘ACTYREK OF

I.\'GEI{S()LL’S LIQ

IIII) RUBBER PA INT.

Ten Thousand P. of H. and Farmers testify they are Best and
Cheapest. \VRITi: rs ,-ixn S.\.\'l: _\IOI\'l-ZY.

I"I{0.VI A DI-lI’I'TY LE("I'['REIl. 
On Monday, June 20, I started‘
on my first trip among the Granges.
in the capacityof Deputy Lecturer. }
The field chosen was in Ionial
county, the Granges being Pionald, 3
Banner. Orleans and \Voodardl
Lake. I expected to be met at}
Ionia by some member of the fra- l
ternity. but recognizing no one at E
the depot a call was made at the’;
postotfice. where my letter to Bro. 
N. Eldridge, the master of Ronald '
Grange was found, hence a short;
trip by stage to his residence was‘
necessary. 
{onald Grange is in a very pros-
perous condition. The members
evidently consider it one of the
established institutions of their
township. It was organized in
1873, meets every two weeks. and
has never missed a meeting except;
on an occasional stormy night. It 1
has a library of 190 volumes, ex-l
elusive of public documents. The I
Grange owns a large and well fur-
nished hall, erected some fifteen
years ago. It was built by sub-
scription and cost about $121 it).
The membership is 104 and average I
attendance 4.5 to 50. A meeting
with closed doors was held in the
evening, which was well attended.
In the same township with this
Grange is a literary society that
was organized thirty-three years
ago. This society has a large hall
one mile east of the Grange hall.
The meetings of the two societies‘,
alternate. T

Banner Grange, the next. visited,
has 74 members and an avarage
attendance of 35. It has this year
taken into the Grange 35 new
members, a niajority of whom are
young people. A large number of
the GRANGE \'1siToRs are taken
here. This Grange ownes a large
hall with a basement in which are,
a dining room and kitchen. One
of the features here is a small stock
of groceries kept for sale in a room
provided for the purpose. This is
not only a convenience but has
also been of some considerable
profit to the members, as the
groceries can be retailed at lower
prices than arecharged iii neigh-
boring villages. A meeting in the
evening with closed doors was first
held, at which the unwritten work
was exemplified. A public meet-
ing followed which was largely
attended.

Orleans Grange, with a member-
ship of 17 in good standing; the
owner of a neat, commodious, and
furnished hall worth, with grounds,
$800, situated in a fertile and bean-
tiful section, peopled with rich,
intelligent and apparently progres-
sive -farmers, is dormant. An
Alliance exists here but is not strong.
A literary society is having some
success. TheGrange would probably
long ago have ceased to exist had
not the property interests made a
continuance of the organization
necessary.

\Voodard Lake Grange is situa-
ted in the country near a beautiful
lake of the same name. The
membership is small, only about
25, but active and hopeful. Every
family in the Grange has the
GRANGE VISITOR. This Grange,
like the others visited, owns a fully
paid for and furnished hall. A
large library has been collected
which contains many of the best
publications of the day.

I was cordially received at every
point, the membership evidently
approving of State Grange visita-
tion and inspection. The feeling
was very fully and freely expressed,
however, and without dissent, that
a public meeting should be held
at each point visited, and afterwards
a secret meeting if thought neces-
sary.

1 was most hospita bly entertained
at the homes of Bros. N. Eldridge,
C. E. Higbee and Mont Spaulding,
Masters of Ronald, Banner and
Orleans Granges respectively, and
of P. L. Hoyt, Secretary of IVood-
ard Lake Grange, and my visits to
them will long be pleasantly re-
membered.

ROBERT L. HEWITT,
Deputy Lecturer.

TheiEnglish elections resulted by a

—

T. G. Carlisle of Hesperia Grange
No. 195. who was a charter member
of that Grange. is mourned by his
brothers and sisters of the Order.
Alppropriate resolutions were pass-
er .

—

S'I‘.\TI-I l£Il.l.\'GI‘I Sl'PI’LI EC.

The newly revised Digest of
Laws and Rulings is now in stock.
Send also for sample copy of the
Opening Song Card. Granges in
all parts of the State are using
them. See price list of supplies.
.li-zxxir. Bi'ELL,
S'ccre/ru'3/ Slate Gl‘(l1?{](.’..

 

WE WISH THEY ALL DID IT.

Si:_u.\iIT CITY, Mich.
I have been Lecturer of our

Pomona Grange for the past
four years. I find it much
easier to get up , a program

now than formerly. Ive have more
members who are willing to take
part in the exercises, more good
writers and speakers. This is
largely the result of education in
the Grange. A resolution was re-
cently passed in our Pomona rec-
ommending every Grange in the
district to follow the example of
Grand Traverse Grange and to ap-
propriate money enough out of its
treasury to supply every family

copies of the \'Isi'roR. This res-
olution was passed immediately

after Bro. Piainsdell’s remarks.
Fraternally yours,
E. (l. LADI).

 

WE ENJIIYEID THIS LE'l"I‘EI{.

L.-\\\'I:l~‘..\‘('F., Mich.
Enrroii Yisi'ron—I would like to
say a word for Lawrence Grange,
as it has not been reported of late.
Our IVorthy Master, C-. Robinson,
who is serving his second term and

us this year. Although I have
nothing very flattering to say of
our Grange work just now, as the
constant and incessant rains seem

to have dampened the ardor of our j

work, as well as the farmer in gen-
eral. It surely is not because the

new spring hats, as invariably there
is a better attendance with them
than men.

I like the tone of your paper
and have procured eleven more
subscribers to add to your list.

Mas. ABIAH BU.\’I\'ELL.

 

THE CHILI)IlE.\' WERE “IN IT.”

CoUaTLA:\'n, Mich.

This Grange is alive and at work.
IVe had a Grange feast the 28th
of May. Five candidates were iii-
structed in the fourth degree.

\Ve feel quite encouraged, al-
though when our Grange was weak-
est the few that gathered at our
hall never lost hope or faith in the
Grange.

June 13, Cliildren’s Day, was
observed in our hall, four schools
taking art in the exercises. They
did wel , reflecting great credit on
their instructors. Each teacher
conducted the exercises of her
school, which consisted of singing,
recitations and dialogues, etc.

The tables were spread, the chil-
dren served first, as it was their
day. Children seemed to be the
order of the day, and they seemed
to enjoy ‘it. I vote that it was a
time to be long remembered.

N. A. BURCH,
Lecturer.

 

A UNION llIEETIl\'(w‘r.

Plymouth, June 25, 1892.
ED. GRANGE VISITOR.

Superior Grange No. 68 united
with Plymouth Grange, June 25,
for the purpose of observing Chil-
dren’s Day. They met in the bean-
tiful grove belonging to Henry
Root in the township of Plymouth.
The crowd began to gather at ten
o’clock, and by two oclock a large
number were in attendance. The
exercises of the day were opened by
music from Superior Grange Band.
which furnished music at intervals

small majority in aliberal victory.

during the day. Superior Grange

belon<rin<-' to the Grange with two?
D «"5 3'3

is a very efficient worker, has thus :
far failed to appoint a reporter for -

ladies are afraid of spoiling their‘

 

INT

Cheap, lmlestriit-tilile Paiiits for

B.\Il.\'S AND 0l''I‘Bl'II.I)I.\'lalS.

, choir. assisted by Clarence Stevens
of Plymouth Grange. also furnished l
some selections to which all listened I
with pleasure.

Prayer was offered by Arthur‘

. Stevens of Plymouth Grange. A l
few well chosen remarks were made l
by Nathan Bradner of Plymouth

.Grange and -I. H. Hanford of

‘Superior Grange, after which we
listencd to an eloquent address
from Bro. A. -l. Crosby of Novi.

'. Lecturer of the State Grange.

He spoke many truths, and we
all went home feeling encouraged
I to try to be better (lrangers.

A vote of thanks was tendered
to the speaker. and all who so
kindly assisted in making the day
a success.

After an hour or more of pleasant
greetings and social converse. the
crowd dispersed, having spent a
very pleasant day.

Mus. C. S. SAYLI-IS,
Lecturer.

 

STILL A LI YE.

The following will show that
jAlaiedon Grange No. 289 is still
;alive. and, though not booming, iii-
1 creasing its membership.

Sunday, June 19. was the day
fixed by them for Children’s Day.
Instead of being selfish. and hold-
ing it all by themselves, they iii-
vited little people from outside the
-‘Grange to join with them. This
they willingly did. and though five
school districts were represented,
there was but one failure on the
program, and this was no fault of
‘'the one who failed.

The exercises consisted of eight-_
een recitations and selections. with 
music. etc.

IV e believe this is the proper
method of transacting such meet-
ings, for though the day was a
rainy one, the hall was filled as full
as comfort would permit. Every-
30116, both l1t*5l!‘.r.'.".'§ and speakers,
were well pleased, and left feeling
the little people had given them a
grand entertainment, and planted
for themselves a seed which will
burst forth into a tree of self-
-iesteem and confidence in their own

owers.

i Alaiedon Grange, we are sure.
has lost no friends, and we verily

believe has made many.
A. T. s.

THIS WAS A PICNIC.

Peninsula Grange No. 1365)’,
Grand Traverse county, observed
Children’s day by a first-class din-
ner at our hall, to which all the
children within our jurisdiction
were invited, and afterwards a free
excursion on the steamer, Lou A.
Cummings, chartered by the
Grange for that purpose, across the
bay and return. Also many of
them enjoyed rowing on our beauti-
ful and safe harbor.

The day was perfect, and nothing
occurred to mar the perfect enjoy-
ment which, I am sure, all con-
fessed. This is the way to recruit
the membership of the Grange, for
though many old farmers still
sneer at the Grange, and profess to
be unable to see any good resulting
from its existence, these young
folks will not forget the many good
times they have enjoyed at our
invitation.

Our Grange is out of debt and
owns a fine hall, the only public
hall in this place, with a dining
room well stocked with dishes, ex-
cept knives and forks, and we are
trying to supply that lack with
those made of aluminium. Silver
is too expensive, and steel rusts.
This is the reason of our choice in
the matter of cutlery. Our mem-
bership is but 33, but we think
there are but few Granges of equal
size that have accomplished more
good in the past six years than ours.
We discuss at our meetings all
public questions (except religion)
and occasionally have open meet-
ings. WM. D. BAGLEY.

A GRANGE PICNIC.

 

The Patrons of Huron County
met recently with Colfox Grange
for the annual picnic. It was an
immense gathering of members

OFFICE: 243 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, N. Y.

and friends of the organization.

WI

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The lllinost cure is o-X6-r(‘lsNl in the selection of
the nietais u.-rd. and onlv the \'l'I'_\' lwst c nality is
purchn.-s-d. Each lll(l(‘Iillil' is thoroug ily well
made and is fitted with the utniost nicely and
exzictn:--.~. and no lll£l(‘Illll¢' is permitted by the
iiisps-(‘tor to go out of the .-hops until it has been
fully test:-d and proied to do perfect work, and
to run lightl_v and '.vi\‘hout iioiiw.

The (‘liii~auo.\‘iiig<-r .\1:ichine- has a vnrv import-
ant iiiipruw-iii:-ii: in ii I.(>us4- liiiliince heel. so
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the eloquent and accomplished ora- '
tor of far reaching fame, was
present and carried her audience
into rapturous applause in her dis-
cussion of “( )ur Rural Homes” and
iiicidently the Grange home. Her
beautiful remarks will linger long
in the minds of those who listened

to encourage them in the battle of, _

life and will tend to soften the
couch upon which they rest their
weary limbs and smooth the rugged
path over which they are jo1iriiey-

ing through life. '

One of the exciting events of the
day was the contest between Miss
Dot Leonard and Miss McTaggart
for a gold watch. Miss McTaggart
won. This is the score:
McTaggart raised 898.87;
Leonard t_'~‘(l0.9tS. The total receipts
of the picnic were about $100.00.

The supper was all that could be
asked for on such an occasion and
demonstrated that farmers wives
know how to cook and show that
farmers have their full share of
the good things of this life.

The young people enjoyed the
dance in the evening. The day
was all that could be asked for and
the picnic in all respects a success.

A UNIFORM FOR THE (J0-EDS.

Mrs. Jenness Miller, the great
advocate of dress reform, recently
lectured before the woman’s league
in Ann Arbor, and quite captivated
the ladies of the University by the
sensible and elegant costumes
which she exhibited to illustrate
the principles of her inventions in
dress reform. It is now suggested
that the co-eds adopt a uniform
style of dress, selected for its com-
fort, grace and utility. Mrs.
Miller is preparing a design for
the co-eds of Nebraska and Iowa
universities, and the result of the
experiment at these institutions is
awaited with much interest here.
Should the new style meet with
success, Mrs. Miller will be asked
to design a Michigan dress-.

She was from Boston. She re-
marked proudly: “ No member of
my family was ever known to break
his word.” “No,” replied her
husband, “although some of the
words are big enough to stand

   

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THE GRANGE VISITOR

Published on the 1st and 15th of every month.

Kenyon L. Butter-field. Editor and Manager,
LANSING. MICIL.

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Are you going to Bay View? If
you are, good for you! If not,
why not?

 

If anything is wrong with your
paper, if the label is wrong, or the
paper does not come, or the wrong
address is given, or if you get two
papers, please inform us at once.
Mistakes are always liable to occur
and we are only too glad to correct
them.

VVe give the full text of the plat-
forms of the People’s and Prohibi-
tion parties this week. They will
bear careful perusing by every man
and woman who sees the VISITOR.
Take the pains to compare them
with those presented in the last
issue. VVe had hoped to make a
comparison ourselves this issue but
our space forbids.

 

 

IVOOL.

Sufficient replies have been re-
ceived so that we have in this issue
as large and valuable a series as in
the last issue. \Ve were aware
when we started the inquiries,
that it would be too late in the
season for any benefit to result
this year. But the fact that most
growers have been thinking the
question over again during the
past few weeks, will make them
more interested in our replies.
We hope that every reader of the
VISITOR who is a wool grower will
keep these two issues for future
reference. If the articles are
carefully read many valuable sug-
gestions will be obtained. \Ve
had intended that a sort of resume
of the articles should accompany
this last series of replies. but again
our space said us nay.

 

COJII M E NCEM EN TS.

The annual crop of high school
and college graduates has been
harvested. Full of hope and vigor
they go forth from the field of
their pleasant labors to take up the
burdens of this practical work-a-
day world. It is a favorite theme
for the editors at this season, this
matter of “ sweet girl graduates ”
and nascent oratory. But it is one
of the finest sights we witness.
The future, a sealed book laden
with such wonderful possibilities,
these youth eye without fear.
Strengthened in mind by opportu-
nities that never came to youthful
mortals before, they stand as young
gladiators ready for _ battle.
Armed with the strongest weapon
of our modern life——brains, they fear
no competitors. No doubt many
air castles will fall in ruins, no
doubt many ideals will be dragged
in the dust ere they reach mature
life; but to most of them will come
a greater satisfaction in living, a
greater usefulness to their fellows,
because of their training and cul-

ture.

THE MICHIGAN STATE FAIR.

"An advertisement of the Mich-
igan State Fair will be found in
another column. This is one of
the oldest State Agricultural
Societies in the country and is con-
trolled by a body of intelligent en-
terprising farmers.

That this society organized in
1849 has been of untold value in
developing the agricultural,
horticultural and industrial inter-
ests of the State need not be said.

The premium list, while never
sensational with big premiums, has

always been liberal and so varied
and attractive as to reach all
classes. The awards of its Judges
have been uniformly fair and im-
partial; hence exhibitors have come
to be confident of fair treatment.
It has always excluded every thing
objectionable to respectable people
and no disorder has ever occurred
on its grounds during the Fair-
The low excursion rates this year
will enable people to attend with
little expense. If you want a
premium list write a card to the
Secretary.

RATES TO BAY VIEW.
The first objection always men-
tioned against taking any trip is,
“I can’t afford it.” Oftentimes

this objection is valid. But the
matter needs to be weighed care-
fully and looked at from all sides
before an adverse decision is ren-
dered.

The tourist rates to Bay View,
which are given every summer
from all points in Michigan, are
one and one-third fare for the
round trip, tickets good until Octo-
ber 31.

Patrons going to Bay View
should not fail to inquire for tour-
ists rates.

Excursions will be run from ad-
jacent points, such as Traverse
City, Charlevoix, Kalkaska, Man-
celona and Cheboygan.

In some cases one-half rates can
be had, and mostly two thirds of
full rates. This is so nearly half
rates that the difference is not very
material, especially when such
tickets enable the holders to stay
until October 31, while the half
rate tickets expire August 31.

VVhen the advantages of the
place, the meeting, and the journey
are considered, one needs to con-
sider very carefully which is the
more valuable to him, the experi-
ence, education and the re-creation,
or the few dollars expended. The
so called prudent man may weigh
in favor of money, but the truly
wise man will give all he can to the
other side.

 

PLATFORM PROHIBITION PARTY.

The Prohibition party in national
convention assembled, acknowledg-
ing Almighty God as the source of
all true government and His law
as the standard to which all human
enactments must conform to secure
the blessings of peace and pros-
perity, presents the following decla-
ration of principles:

CIVILIZATON’S GREATEST FOE.

First, The liquor trafiic is a foe
to civilization, the arch enemy of
popular government and a public
nuisance. It is the citadel of the
forces that corrupt politics, pro-
mote poverty and crime, degrade
the nation’s home life, thwart the
will of the people and deliver our
country into the hands of rapacious
class interests. All laws that under
the guise of regulation, legalize
and protect this tralfic, or make the
government share in its ill-gotten
gains are “ vicious in principle and
powerless as a remedy.” We de-
clare anew for the entire suppres-
sion of the manufacture, sale, im-
portation, exportation and trans-
portation of alcoholic liquors as a
beverage by federal and state leg-
islation and that the full powers of
the government should be exerted
to secure this result.

Second, N o citizen should be
denied the right to vote on account
of sex, and equal labor should re-
ceive equal wages without regard
to sex.

THE FINANCIAL PLANK.

Third, The money of the coun-
try should be issued by the general
government only, and in sufficient
quantities to meet the demands of
business and give full opportun-
ity for the employment of labor.
To this end an increase in the vol-
ume of money is demanded, and no
individual or corporation should be
allowed to make any profit through
its issue. It should be made a
legal tender for the payment of all
debts public and private. Its vol-
ume should be fixed at a definite
sum per capita and made to,‘ in-

crease with our increase in popula-
tion.
THE TARIFF TIMBER.

Fourth, Tariff should be levied
only as a defense against foreign
governments which levy tariff upon
or bar out our products from their
markets, revenue being incidental.
The residue of means necessary to
an economical administration of
the government should be raised
by levying a burden on what the
people possess instead of upon
what we consume.

GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF RAIL-
ROADS.

Fzflh, Railroad, telegraph and
other corporations should be con-
trolled by the government in the
interest of the people and no higher
charges allowed than is necessary
to give fair interest for the capital
actually invested.

Sixth, Foreign immigration has
become a burden upon industry,
one of the factors in depressing
wages and causing discontent,
therefore our immigration laws
should be revised and strictly en-
forced. The time of residence for

naturalization should be extended

and no naturalized person should
be allowed to vote until one year
after he becomes a citizen.

AGAINST ALIEN LAND OWNERS.

Seventh, Non-residents should
not be allowed to acquire land in
this country, and we favor the lim-
itation of individual and corporate
ownership of land. All unearned
grants of lands to railroad compan-
ies or other corporations should be
reclaimed.

Eighth, Years of inaction and
treachery on the part of the Re-
publican and Democratic parties
have resulted in the present reign
of mob law and we demand that
every citizen be protected in the
right of trial by constitutional tri-
bunals.

Ninth, All men should be pro-
tected in the right to one day’s rest
in seven.

Tenth, Arbitration is the wisest
and most economical and humane
method of settling national differ-
ences.

Eleventh, Speculations in mar-
gins, cornering of grain, money
and products arirbtlie formation of
pools, trusts and combinations for
the arbitrary advancement of prices
should be suppressed.

Twelfth, We pledge that the
Prohibition party if elected to
power will ever grant just pensions
to disabled veterans of the union
army and navy, their widows and
orphans.

Thirteenth, We stand unequiv-
ocally for the American public
school, and opposed to any appro-
priation of public moneys for sec-
tarian schools. \Ve declare that
only by united support of such
common schools, taught in the Eu-
glish language, can we hope to be-
come and remain an homogeneous
and harmonious people.

THE OLD PARTIES ARRAIGNED.

Fourteenth, We arraign the Re-
publican and Democratic parties
as false to the standards reared by
their founders, as faithless to the
principles of the illustrious leaders
of the past to whom they do hom-
age with the lips, as recreant to
the higher law which is inflexible
in political affairs as in personal
life, and as no longer embodying
the aspirations of the American
people or inviting the confidence
of enlightened, progressive patriot-
ism. Their protection against
the admission of “ moral issues,”
into politics is a confession of their
won moral degeneracy. The decla-
ration of an eminent authority that
municipal misrule is “the one con-
spicuous failure of American poli-
tics” follows as a natural conse-
quence of such degeneracy, and is
true alike of cities under Republi-
can and Democratic control. Each
accuses the other of extravagance
in congressional appropriations
and both are alike guilty, each
protests when out of power against
the infraction of the civil service
laws and each when in power vio-
lates those laws in letter and spirit;
each professes fealty to the inter-
ests of the toilin masses, but
both covertly truck e to the money
power in their administration of
public affairs.

THE TARIFF NO ISSUE.

Even the tariff issue as repre-
sented in the Democratic Mills bill
and the Republican McKinley bill
is no longer treated by them as an
issue upon great and divergent
principles of government, but is

mere cateringto different sectional
and class interests. The attempt
111 many states to wrest the Aus-
tralian ballot system from its true
purpose and to so deform it as to
render it extremely difficult for
new parties to exercise the right
of suffrage is an outrage upon pop-
ular government. The competition
of both the parties for the vote of
the slums and their assiduous court-
mg of the liquor power and sub-
serviency to the money power has
resulted in placing those powers in
the position of practical arbiters
of the destinies of the nation. \Ve
renew our protests against these
perilous tendencies and invite all
citizens to join us in the upbuild-
ing of a party that has shown in
five national campaignsthat it pre-
fers temporary defeat to an aband-
onment of the claims of justice,
sobriety, personal rights and the
protection of American homes.

 

PEOPLE’S PARTY PLATFORM.

Preamble.

The People’s party of America
in their first national convention.
invoking upon their action the
blessing of Almighty God. puts
forth in the name and on behalf of
the people of this country the fol-
lowing preamble and declaration
of principles: The conditions
which surround us justify our co-
operation: we meet in the midst of
a nation brought to the verge of
moral, political and material ruin;
corruption dominates the ballot
box, the legislatures. the Congress,
and touches even the ermine of the
bench. The people are demoral-
ized, and most of the states have
been compelled to declare the
voters at the polling places in
order to prevent universal intimid-
ation or bribery. The newspapers
are subsidized or muzzled, public
opinion silenced, business prostrat-
ed, our homes covered with mort-
gages, labor impoverished, and
the land concentrating in the
hands of the capitalists. The
urban workmen are denied the
right of organizing for self-pro-
tection; imported paupeiized labor
beats down their wages; a hireling
standing army, unrecognized by
our laws, is established to shoot
them down and they are rapidly
degenerating into European condi-
tions. The fruits of the toil of
millions are boldly stolen to build
up collossal fortunes for the few,
unprecedented in the history of
mankind, and the possessors of
these in turn despise the Republic
and endanger liberty.

BREEDING TRAMPS AND MILLION-
AIRES.

From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice, we breed
the two great classes~—tramps and
millionaires. The national power
to create money is appropriated to
enrich bondholders; a vast public
debt payable in legal tender cur-
rency has been funded into gold
bearing bonds, thereby adding
millions to the burdens of the
people Silver, which has been
accepted as coin since the dawn of
history, has been demonetized to
add to the purchasing power of
gold by decreasing the value of all
forms of property as well as human
labor, and the supply of currency
is purposely abridged to fatten
usurers, bankrupt enterprise and
enslave industry. A vast conspir-
acy against mankind has been
organized on two continents and is
rapidly taking possession of the
world. If not met and overthrown
at once, it forebodes terrible social
convulsions, the destruction of
civilization, or the establishment
of an absolute despotism. We
have witnessed for more than a
quarter of a century the struggles
of the two great political parties for
power and plunder, while grievous
wrongs have been inflicted upon a
suffering people. \Ve charge that
the controlling influences dominat-
ing both these parties have per-
mitted the existing dreadful con-
ditions to develop without serious
efforts to prevent or restrain them.
Neither do they now promise us
any substantial reform. They
have agreed together to ignore in
the coming campaign every issue
but one. They propose to drown
the outcries of plundered people
with the uproar of a sham battle
over the tariff, so that capitalists,
corporations, national banks, rings,
trusts, watered stock, the demon-
etization of silver and oppressions
of usurers may all be lost sight of.
They propose to sacrifice our
homes, wives and children on the

altar of mammon. to destroy the
multitude in order to secure cor-
ruption funds from the million-
aires.

BACK OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE.

Assembled on the anniversary
of the birthday of the nation and
filled with the spirit of the grand
generation who established our in-
dependence, we seek our indepen-
dence. \Ve seek to restore the
government of the republic to
the hands of "the plain people,"
with whose class it originated. ‘Ye
assert our purposes to be indenti-
cal with the purposes of the nation-
al constitution: “To form a more
perfect union, establish justice, in-
sure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and secure the
blessings of liberty for ourselves
and our posterity.” \Ve declare
that this republic can only endure
as a free government while built
upon the love of the Wllolc people
for each other and for the nation.
That it cannot be pinned together
by bayonets; that the civil war is
over, and that every passion and
resentment which grew out of it
must die with it, and that we must
be in fact as we are in name, one
united brotherhood of free men.
Our country finds itself confronted
by conditions for which tlierc is no
precedent in the history of the
world. Our annual agricultural
productions amount to billions of
dollars in value. which must within
a few weeks or months be exchang-
ed for billions of dollars of com-
modities consumed in their produc-
tion. The existing currency sup-
ply is wholly inadcquate to make
this exchange. The results are the
falling prices. the formation of com-
bines and rings and the impov-
erishment of the producing class.
\Ve pledge oursclvcsthat if given
power we will labor to correct
these evils by wise and reason-
able legislation in accordance with
the tenets of our platform. ‘V9
believe that the powers of govern-
ment, in other words, of thc
people, shall be expanded (, as
in the case of the postal service) as
rapidly and as far as the good
sense of an intelligent people and
the teachings of experience shall
justify, to the end that oppression,
injustice a11(l poverty shall even-
tually cease in the land.

THE REFORMS DEMANDED.

VVhile our sympathies as a party
{of reform are naturally upon the
side of every proposition which
will tend to make men intelligent,
virtuous and temperate, we never-
theless regard these questions as
important, as they are subordinate
to the great issues now pressing
for solution, and upon which not
only individual prosperity, but the
very existence of free institutions
depend; and we ask all men to first
help us to determine whether we
are to have a republic to administer
before we differ as to the condition
upon which it is to be administer-
ed. Believing that the forces of
reform this day set in motion will
never cease to move forward until
every wrong is remedied and equal
rights and equal privileges securely
established for all the men and
women of the country, we declare,
therefor,

The Platform Proper- ,

First,—That the union of the
labor forces of the United States
this day consummated shall be
permanent and perpetual. May
its spirit enter all hearts for the
salvation of the Republic and the
uplifting of mankind.

Second,—Wealth belongs to him
who creates it, and every dollar
taken from industry, without an
equivalent, is robbery. “If any
will not work neither shall he eat.”
The interests of rural and civic
labor are the same; their enemies
are identical.

Third,——We believe that the time
has come when the railroad corpo-
rations will either own the people
or the people must own the rail-
roads, and should the government
enter upon the work of owning and
managing all railroads we should
favor an amendment to the consti-
tution by which all persons en-
gaged in the government and
service shall be placed undera civil
service regulation of the most rigid
character, so as to prevent the in-
crease of the power of the national
administration by the use of such
additional government employes.

THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.

Vile demand a national currency
safe, sound and flexible, issued by

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the general government only; a
full legal tender for all debts,
public and private, and that with-
out the use of banking corporations;
a just, equitable and efficient
means of distribution direct to the
people, ata tax not to exceed two
per cent per annum, to be provided
as set forth in the subtreasury plan
of the Farmers’ Alliance, or a
better system; also by payments in
discharge of its obligations for
public improvements.

(A.) VVe demand free and un-
limited coinage of silver and gold
at the present legal ratio of sixteen
to one.

(B.) \Ve demand that the
amount of circulation medium be
speedly increased to not less than
$50 per capita.

(C.) lVe demand a graduated
income tax.

(D.) ‘Va believe that the
money of the country should be
kept as much as possible in the
hands of the people, and hence we
demand that all state and national
revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the govern-
ment, economically and honestly
administered.

(E.) \Ve demand that postal
savings banks be established by
the government for the safe de-
posit of the earnings of the people
and to facilitate exchange.

TRANSPORTATION.

Transportation being a means
of exchange and a public necessity,
the government should own and
operate the railroads in the interest
of the people.

( A.) The telegraph and tele-
phone, like the postoffice system,
being a necessity for the transmis~
sion of news, should be owned and
operated by the government in the
interest of the people.

.LAl\'D.

The land, including all the
natural resources of wealth, is the
heritage of the people and should
not be monopolized for speculative
purposes, and alien ownership of
land should be prohibited. All
land now held by railroads and
other corporations in excess of
their actual needs and all lands
now owned by aliens should be
reclaimed by the government and
held for actual settlers.

The Supplemental Platform.

WHEREAS, Other questions have
been presented for our considera-
tion, we hereby submit the follow-
ing, not as a part of the platform
of the People’s party, but as reso-
lutions expressive of the sentiment
of this convention.

1. Resolved, That we demand a
free ballot and a fair count in all
elections and pledge ourselves to
secure it to every legal voter with-
out federal intervention through
the adoption by the states of the
unperverted Australian or secret
ballot system.

2. Resolved, That the revenue
derived from a graduated income
tax should be applied to the re-
duction of the burden of taxation
now levied upon the domestic in-
dustries of this country.

3. Resolved, That we pledge our
support to fair and liberal pensions
to ex-union soldiers and sailors.

4. Resolved, That we condem
the fallacy of protecting American
labor under the present system,
which opens our ports to the pauper
and criminal classes of the world,
and crowds out our wage earners;
and we denounce the present inef-
fective laws against contract labor
and demand the futher restriction
of undesirable emmigration.

5. Resolved, That we cordially
sympathize with the efforts of
organized workingmen to shorten
the hours of labor, and demand a
rigid enforcement of the existing
eight hour law on government
work, and ask that a penal clause
be added to the said law.

6. Resolved, That we regard
the maintenance of a large stand-
ing army of mercenaries, known
as the Pinkerton system, as a
menace to our liberties, and we
demand its abolition; and we con-
demn the recent invasion of the
territory of VVyoming by the hired
assassins of plutocracy, assisted by
federal oficers.

7. Resolved, That we commend
to the thoughtful consideration of
the people, and the reform press,
the legislative system known as the
initiative ad referendum.

8. Resolved, That we favor a
constitutional provision limiting
the oflice of President and Vice
President to one term, and provid-
ing for the election of senators of

the United States by a direct vote
of the people.

9. Resolved, Thatwe oppose any
subsidy or national aid to any
private corporation for any pur-
pose.

 

WOOL.

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and the grower is not compelled to

sell to the local buyer.

7. The grower, if he produces
and sells a first class product,
should never sell either at home or
abroad unless his wool is graded
and sold upon its merits to a party
that knows enough about the busi-

ness to properly grade the stock!

Any man who is putting his own
money into wool will be very glad
to take a clip of wool and grade it
in his wool house and buy it in that
way.

There can be no reasonable argu-
ment advanced for putting a single
ounce of string on a fleece of wool,
except just what hard twine is
needed to hold it together. It is
entirely worthless when it gets to
market and the manufacturer esti-
mates it as he does other foreign
matter that he cleanses out. It is
equally idle to argue in favor of
putting tags and cheap, low priced
wool ' in a fleece of high priced
wool. The manufacturer who is
seeking high grade wool is not
using the low grade, and, if com-
pelled to buy it mixed with what
he does desire, will put a low
enough price on the mixture to

protect himself. He is not com-
delled to buy what his business
poes not require, and if he buys
this undesirable stock he does so at
a low enough rate to protect him-
self. No grower would tear up a
black fleece and mix it with the
white ones expecting to get more
for it. If he did he would be
greatly disappointed. Sold alone
and the black fleece will go to
a manufacturer who can use
it, and this is equally true with all
other merchantable stock.

It is entirely practicable for
farmers growing as many as, say
100 fleeces of wool annually, to ship
to eastern commission houses and
have their wool graded and sold on
its merits. I have shipped a good
many small lots for other parties
myself and never heard of a case
yet where the transaction was un-
satisfactory. The careful, success-
ful, wool grower, producing high
quality of wool of any of the pres-
ent grades, should be against pres-
ent methods. They all favor the
producer of inferior stock. Mich-
igan is producing some of the best
wools of the world. Let us put the
business on a higher plane.

Stanton, Zlfich.

L. W. BARNES.

1. I shear last of April and first
of May, unwashed, and put clean
tags (that I consider fit to sell at
all), into the fleece, tie it up nicely
wlith good twine. Do not grade at
a l.

2. Have sold both ways—to local
buyers, and shipped to commission
men. Either way is O K when
one gets a square deal. Like to sell
at home at the barn, if I have a
buyer that is a good practical wool
man, a good judge of wool, and
will buy according to merit. Pre-
fer to ship rather than sell to the
average local buyer, who knows no
more about wool than the average
farmer does about managing a
woolen mill, a large mercantile
business or a great line of railroad.

3. No; do not think farmers as
a rule put up their wool in as good
condition as it should be. It ought
to pay them to do it better; so too
it ought to pay a manufacturer to
make good goods, that are just what
they are claimed to be, with no de-
ception; but they make a great
deal of poor goods that are not
what they show to be on the out-
side.

4. Do not think it practicable
for growers to skirt and separate
their fleeces into two or three
grades. Under the present system
of buying they do not know how
the manufacturer wants it separa-
ted. I believe it to belong to
another line of business. It might
be well to keep tags and loose trim-
mings separate, and put them in
sacks. It would be less work than
to put them in fleeces, but buyers
take the advantage and do not pay
much for the tags, or more for the
fleece without them in.

This year a friend of mine kept
tags out of fleece, and had to take
five cents a pound for them, good

clean tags, while his neighbor

_'with no better Wool put} tags in f
‘fleece and sold to same buyer for‘

just as much per pound as he would ;
; pay for the fleece without tags, thus ,
, paying the man a premium for put- :
1-‘ting his tags in the fleece. How;
Scan they expect the growers to ‘
Tkeep tags out while they buy in,
9 that manner? I
g 5. No; they do not buy wool:

on its merits, as a rule.
6. Think it is the result of the‘
‘wrong method of buying wool that 3
. has been practiced by so many in— 5
icompetent local buyers, who do!
;'not discriminate between good and f
jwell handled wool and that which f
E is poorly grown and badly handled. ‘
‘ 7. Shear all sheep without wash-
ing, and not too late in the season;
tie up fleeces nicely and honestly,
using good fine strong twine, if the
manufacturers and dealers will
furnish such in the market. Sell
only to good practical wool buyers
who understand the business of
buying and handling wool. If you
have not such a local buyer, ship
toa responsible commission house
in your own name and have it sold
on its merits. Have nothing to do
with the average local buyer who
spends his time and energy de-
nouncing the wool growers as a
class, as being dishonest and dis-
reputable, instead of improving
and fitting himself sufficiently to
properly buy and handle wool, as
he might, to the credit of both him-
self and the grower.

Byron.

Buyers.

The following answered these
questions:

1. Have you found any consider-
able percentage of improper ma-
terial in the wool offered you for
sale? If so of what nature was it?

2. Do you think wool growers as
a rule put up wool as carefully as
they might?

3. VVould it pay in dollars and
cents, the way wool is bought to-
day, for the wool grower to skirt
his wool and to present his clip
for sale in lots of two or three
grades?

4. \Vhat is the cause of the
present apparent antagonism be-
tween grower and buyers?

5. What plan would you suggest
as a remedy?

JOHN L. BENJAMIN.

1. I find more or less sand and
dirty wool not l1alf washed, and the
buyers are more to blame for it
than the farmers,because the buyers,
generally speaking, will not pay
but one or two cents more for good
conditioned wool than they will for
that half washed, so the one who
does his work well makes a loss of
from three to seven cents per pound.

2. Not one in fifty puts his wool

up as good as he did a few years
ago.
3. I do not believe the growers
of wool will average to do better
until they all quit washing, keep
their tags and sweat locks out of
the fleeces, do them up with smaller
twine, and use a larger box.

4. I am not aware of any bad
feeling between the honest growers
and honest buyers.

5. I would advise all to quit
washing their sheep. Then I would
try to buy wool of all kinds on its
true merits and on honor, doing
justic to both the growers and the
manufacturer. At present it takes
an expert to grade WO0l. So many
do not half wash it, it would be
worth more to the manufacturer if
it had never been washed at all. I
have bought wool for forty consec-
utive years, this season included.

Romeo.

E. C. ROBERTS.

1. Less than ever before, as
growers in this locality have been
pursuaded to sell their tags un-
washed, separate from the fleeces.
The principal trouble this year has
been poorly washed and damp tags
in the fleeces. Tags should never
be put in fleeces.

2. Yes, the wool grower raises
wool for profit. Eastern specula-
tors have been buying in Mich-
igan for the past six or seven
years through local dealers, paying
a commission for the service. And
these local dealers working under
instructions to “get the wool ” have
flooded the country with inexperi-
enced and wreckless—often times
drunken and half fool buyers,
who have driven from farm to
farm as though the devil was after
them, and bought wool regardless
of condition or quality, all at the
same price——bucks, tags, heavy,

dirty, light, clean, all at the one

: ties to blame.

the contrary, local buyers of ex-éperience to do so.

price. And it has been a race to see  wool if thus properly prepared, if
who should win in the great Ameri- 5 the staple is good, will bring more
can game of getting something for i in any good market than if sold in
nothing. The farmers are not togthe barn.

blame; if people want to pay them  I do not think it would pay the
2:) pr cenhts flog (iulriig balls, ttheg  groweg to skirt his wciol or to try
cer a1n y s ou a e it. n gto gra e it, as most ots are too
Boston wool dealers are the par- i small to pay for the trouble. many
{dealers could not grade it, and few
3. No; my friend Mr. Rich tofgrowers have had the necessary ex-
If a clip is
perience do know the merits of 3 partly half blood and partly fine,
wool, and buy on its merits. ithese grades, if desired, can be sold
lVhile the average grower with F at a price on each, but it would be
from ten to fifteen distinct grades impracticable to try to grade a lot
In his Cllp will insist it is all alike, I of, say one hundred fleeces, of fine

and believing that would not skirt,
sort and grade uniformly. Leav-
ing the same condition of general
mixtures as now obtains.

4. There is no more antagonism
between grower and buyer than
between seller and buyer of any
other commodity.

5. Let eastern buyers and spec-
ulators withdraw all orders on
commission and buy only bunched
lots from dealers. Competition
will then regulate the business as
certainly as it does the grain bus-
iness and every man will get
full value for his wool.

Lapeer.

JAS. B. COBB.

1. I have found less percentage
of improper material in wool this
year than heretofore.

2. ‘V001 growers, as a rule, do
not put up wool as carefully as they
might.

3. The way wool is bought in
Michigan todayIdo not think it will
pay in dollars and cents for the
wool grower to skirt his wool for
sile in lots of two or three grades.

4. The cause of so much fault
being found with Michigan wool
was mostly from stuffing fleeces
with unwashed tags and pulled wool
and poor washing.

5. The plan I would suggest as a
remedy,as lo11g as they pretend to
wash, do itthoroughly, keep all
inferior wool and tags out of the
fleeces, use smaller twine and less
of it. If twine cost more than
wool the twine question would soon
remedyjtself.

Ifalamazoo.

WM. MCPHERSON JR.

I am interested in the matter
both as a grower and a buyer. VVe
raise on our own farms from 5,000
to 10,000 pounds annually and I
have been a buyer of wool every
year since 1858.

In regard to the percentage of
improper material in the wool of-
fered in this market we have found
of late years only a very small pro-
portion “stuffed” with unwashed
tags or dead wool. The greater
proportion of wool is now properly
or reasonably well put up.

The great failure in the prepar-
ation of wools for the market is in
their not being thoroughly washed,
or if thoroughly washed the sheep
are allowed to run ten or fifteen
days and sometimes longer before
shearing. This defeats the object
sought in washing, namely, to get
the dirt and grease out of the wool,
which, if the sheep are allowed to
run many days before shearing,
often gets in nearly as bad a con-
dition as before washing.

This is the main cause of com-
plaint between the seller and the
buyer, the seller insisting that the
wool was well washed while the
condition of the fleece is clearly
unmerchantable. This is particu-
larly the case when the wool is
from sheep that are fine, well bred
and well kept.

The seller of such an ill condi-
tioned lot of wool will many times
claim that the dealers are not pay-
ing value, when a large portion of
it would be considered strictly un-
merchantable in any market where
wool is sold on its merits by grade.

To get wool in a good condition
for market the sheep should be
thoroughly washed and then turn-
ed into a clean pasture and not al-
lowed to get wet after washing.
They should be sheared as soon as
they are thoroughly dry, in not
less than five nor more than seven
or eight days after washing, The
fleece should be tied not too tightly
with two strings each way, or two
strings one way and three the other.
The tags should be put unwashed
in bags and sold with the wool at
value, as the absence of tags is
liable to cause a suspicion in the
mind of the buyer that the fleeces
may be “stuffed.” When ready
for sale the wool should be taken
to the nearest market where there
are enough buyers to mak e a strong
and lively competition. A lot of

wool into two or three grades.

In reply to inquiry in regard to
the present apparent antagonism
between grower and buyer, I know
of none except that which is caused
by the difference of opinion as to
the value of badly washed wools. to
which I have already referred, and
that occasioned by the practice
which has grown up among the
growers the past few years of in-
sisting upon selling their wool “at
the barn.”

I think the best sales are made
by the grower putting his wool in
the open market, where he would
have the benefit of competition and
know the exact state of the market
on the day of sale. The dealers
would thus be saved the expense of
men and livery rigs to ride the
country and could and would pay
that much more for the wool on the
market or other buyers would take
it. and thus all cause of complaint
would be avoided.

Howell.

P. YOORHEIS, JR.

1. Yes; have found a good deal
of foreign substance inside of
washed fleeces. It is composed of
unwashed tags, sweat locks and
damp or wet wool and skirtings. a
large per cent of the latter this
year, so much that a pile of wool
would heat in a few days, also
cause a shrinkage of fifty pounds
to a carload (weighed in and out
on same scales), in a period of one
week. There is also too much
coarse twine or rope used in tying
up wool.

2. No; not as rule.

3. I think not; for neither buyer
nor seller would know how to grade
it to suit the manufacturer’s pur-
pose, or know its true value, with-
out experience.

4. I think both wool grower and
wool buyer are to blame for the
existing feeling between them;
also for the low position our Mich-
igan wool holds in the eastern
markets. v

In order that a correct idea may
be formed of the condition of the
present wool clip I make this state-
ment. Out of 80,000 pounds of
wool purchased from farmers this
season, 40,200 pounds was washed
fine. The latter was sold at my
warehouse in Boston; 11,000 pounds
of this graded as unmerchantable.
If properly washed and put up
there should not have been over
3,000_ pounds of the latter on
account of breed of sheep.

Often inexperienced buyers are
to blame for the existing state of
things as they have paid some
farmers as much for their poorly
washed wool as they do the neigh-
bor for well washed, honestly put
up wool of the same grade when
the latter is worth three to five
cents more per pound. I think
wool has been bought on its merits
in our market this season more
than formerly. Fine wool from
sheep that had been in the water
selling as low as 14 cents per
pound and as high as 26 cents.
Medium, from 18 to 32 cents for
washed.

5. The best remedy would be for
no one to wash their sheep. I
have never been able to get a car-
load of unwashed wool before this
season in our market.

Have now about 25,000 pounds
bought. The growers seemed well
satisfied to market their wool this
way.

As I am a wool grower myself I
will advise others to do as I do.
Shear your sheep early, before
turning to grass, without washing.
Keep the tags and sweat looks out
of fleeces and tie with small hard
linen twine. Ask a good market
price for your wool. If a local
buyer will not give it, send for
sacks and ship to a reputable east-
ern commission house.

Pontiac.

 

Twenty-five thousand young chris-
tians met in New York at the annual
gathering of the Young Peoples Societies

of Christian Endeavor.

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JULY 15, 1892

Ladies’ Department

THE H.\l'SEI'll) GETS THERE.

I was once the tool of oppression.
And as green as a sucker could be;

And monopolies banded t<_ii-591118!‘
To beat a poor haysced like me.

The railroads and old party bosses
Together did sweetly agree. _

And they thought therz-,‘d be little trouble,
In working a hayseed like me.

And at every election they fed me
With talfy as sweet as co_uld_ be.

But when they clected their ticket.
They forgot a poor hayseed like me.

They sold theiiiselves out to the banker. ’
And thought it would be 21 finefspree '

To steal all the greenbacks and silver
And rob such a iiayseml as me.

They went into league with the devil,
For the sake of a high license fee,
But never a cent of the I'r_"1’1t'*‘
Has come to a lla)'5(:'9(l like me.

But now I have roused up a little.
And their greed and corruption I see.
And my neighbors are waking aro_uiid ms’.
And I find they’re all ha,v.~¢.-e<ls like me.‘

And so we have formed an alliance.
From oppression were bound to be free.
And the ticket wc vote next election.
Will be made up of liziyseerls like me.
~f.'ottou Pltmlor, Ala.

 

THE I-‘ARNIER.

Lines read atva session of Court-
land G-1'a,ngey, )0, .')()3, B.Il(l' VOt(%(l
to be sent to THE GRANGE \ isiroi:
with request for their publication.

Who is it buys. or hires fl farm.
\\'ho works with his strong right arm.
As if he knew it would not harm?
A young farmer.

Who is it that will succ_.>cd._

And have cash in hand in time of need.

And for that farm will have the deed.‘
A thrifty farmer.

Who is it, in spring. buys corn and wheat,

And all his family and stock do eat, D

Hay, corn, and oats,‘ and be.am-"n and meat
The improvident farmer.

Who it rises in the morn.

And wishes he had ne er been born. _ I

When he finds cattle and swine in lilfi corn:
It is the fcnceless farmer.

Who is it with potatoes plants his field,

Who finds that they .‘~'IHi|ll profits yield, '

By which his heart to work 11% nearly stecled.‘
The luckless farmer.

Who is it when app!-ar potato bugs.
Buys Paris gr!-cn then water draws and lugs-'.
Who whips his horses and break the tugs.‘
It is the sturdy farmer.

Who isit that in gaiiibling stocks \vill not take

part. _
Whose word is a bond. and true his heart. I
Who in the road of trickery will never start.“
is the honest farmer.

Who is it does his work arrange,

So himself and wife can attend thc(1‘range,

And thinks it from labor a pleasant change.’
The wise farmer.

Who is it whose heart with joy is ripe,
Who will be thankful the rest of life.
But the industrious prudent wife
Of that farmer?
-—.-l Good Pulron.

 

WH.-\'l‘ COI\'S'I‘lTl'TES A MODEL
IIIISB.-\NI).

[Read before (iratiot I’oiuona.]

I am, at the outset of this article,
fully aware that I am representing
what might be termed the 11iipopu-
lar side of the question; the very
heading will bear me out in
making this assertion. \Vhat con-

stitutes 8. model husband‘? I doubt:
not in the minds of the gentlemen 1
in this audience, there linger such “
“model wives :

thoughts as this,
are the first great element.” N ot-
withstanding she has always been
looked upon as the weaker one as}
far as intellect is concerned. yet:
when it comes to the true test ofj
clia.racter, where do these noblej
minded lords of creation seek for
something good and genuine to
copy from? And so I say again
model wives are one great factor
toward making model husbands.
There is in the nature of man, or
in the circumstances in which he
is conditioned, something which
leads him to recognize a superior?
being. \Vhat that something is.l
is not important in our present
inquiry. Whether it be a. consti-
tutional instinct inwrought by the
maker; or whether it be the effect
of tradition, descending from the
first worshipers, through all the
tribes of the human family;
whether any or all of these be the
cause the fact is the same, man is
so constituted that he will u'orshi'p.
.The character is true of him in
whatever part of the world he may
be found, and in whatever condi-
tion. It has been true of him in
all ages of which we have any
record, either fabulous or authen-
tic. Man is not only a. cultivating,
but he is a cultivable being; he is
created conscious of imperfections
and capable of culture. But we
understand human nature could be
perfected only by following what
to them appears to be a perfect
model of human nature. Hence:
A model husband condemns every-
thing in "himself which is unlike,
and approves of everything which
is like that character. The ten-
dency of this is to lead him to
abandon everything in himself and
his course of life which_ is condemn-
ed by the character and precepts
of his ideal, and to conform him-
self to that standard which is ap-
proved by the same criterion. As
man is constituted, no power on
earth can move his affections to an

‘out infringing upon more impoi‘-,»
, tent duties. Remember there are ‘good practical education ; they need
:m:iny little duties which a I118I11lt- on the farin as well as in the
ican discharge. which will make the profesion.
;labor of his wife lighter and more ed our eyes much in this direction.

Look around and see if‘The masses Hrc better educated.

jlife will be depends largely on tlic f

lency of character. The fact, then, for school give them the parting
is apparent. that the conduct of injunction to do right and let them
man’s life is influenced by what he know that we are united with the
believes. Therefore if he believes tcaclier in discipline, and we will
his wife possesses all tlieseq1ialifi- generally observe obedient. and
cations the battle is nearly won. studious scholars in our schools.
“'0 hold it the special duty of In the last school days of our child-
the model husband to prefci' his ren careful parents select the
home and seek to niakc it attract- school which in their judgment
ive. The love of home is _genci'- will best fit their child’s mind to
ally ate-st of cliamctcr. Another bear bright fruit in the future.
special duty of the model husband Every June a great army of young
is to love his wife sin«':c1'cly. ardent- men and women go forth from the
ly and suprenicly. Before he mar- schools of our land. diploma in
ried her he consulted her tastes, hand. to battle with the stern
l1c1' wishes and her judgment: 1‘+?Elllll6S of life. They are only
surely if he love her she is still fitted to begin its great work. The
worthy of the same confidcnce. seed has been planted and if not
, Do not say as I lieard H gentlcinan watched and carefully tended will
say. he consulted his Wifc and did not bear good fruit; weeds of evil
as she said ( if she agreed with him). are ready to spring up which must
A neglected wife is thc most dis- ' be kept out or they will choke the
consolate creature in the world. tender plants of right;and here
Another duty is to help his wife in comes the influence of careful home
the home when he can do so witli- ‘training.
Parents, give your children a

The Grange has open-

cheerful.
you cannot carry some wood or than lI1fOI‘I11€1‘t1II1€‘S and many of

some little act of kindness lightenlsity of a better education to take.
the labor of the faithful wife. To any position in society.
my mind a genuine model husband used it will be the best dowry we
should be as the poet says: can leave them.

Genreel in persoiiagc.
('onduct and eqiiir-age,
Noble, by heritagc.
Generous and free:
Brave. not romantic.
Learned not pedantic:
This should he be.
Honor maintaining.
Meanncss disdaining,
Still cntertainiiig.
Neat but not finical.
Sage but not cyiiiciil,
N:-vs-r tyriinniczil.

But ever true.

l\IR.~'. L‘. L. .\I1')iroP.D.
]1‘h(¢ca, JI 1}-/1.

‘tioii, ciicoiii-age them to have an

, industry.
3is honorable; we shall then add
‘digiiity to labor. Girls as well as
‘boys need to know the value of
money, and they will better appre-

gcizite its worth if earncd by their
‘own hands. and if left to battlc
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i ing of the great Sphere they have 1 the world and a ray of sunshine in

entered. \Vlia.t their destiny .i1i‘°111'11°111‘*5-

)Ir..<. W. M. BEAL.

manner in which they are ‘rra.incdi "l']"’”"’-

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Children are apt scholars and re-3 H0[~_gj.;KgEpHR_

ceive lessons each day from us; — —
either for good or ill. VVe may not; The branclics which treat of food,
always perceive how soon a child?clothing. ventilation, exercise. and

Ifright1yle\'en their foes safe, once they

. , came inside their ates.
Give them tlien; g

the best education and accomplish-’
nients your circumstances will al- ‘
jlow, try to ascertain the tastes‘
; and train the mind in that direc- »

1 possesses some loveliness or excel- ren take their books ‘and start out‘

_ , exam le of
coal. bring in some water. or by us feel the want and see the neces-I p

‘occupation by which they may,
jgain a livelihood with their own
Tcach them that labor.

ex'e‘rcise‘Z' “rind ‘ consequently ‘less
medicine’? To work more with the
plants in the sunshine, and pre-
pare a simpler desert for dinner‘.’
The educated liousekceper will
have more to think of than mere
gossip and fashions. With her
l{1l0Wlv(l‘__’,‘€‘ of litcrature, and her
special iiitei'cst in womanis work.
she studies not only thc stziiitlartl
authors. but grasps the best
thoughts of current writers on
practical subjects. \Vhile she gives
her l)e:-st attention to ,her lionic.
she lives not simply in one small
sphere, but rcziclies out for thc
culturc that will prepare her t0bc-
conie fitted for higher usefulness
in the world and enable her to be It
power for good unliinited. Kun-
sus Colic‘!/c 1mII4.~‘h'i(I/fsf.

HOSI’I'I‘.\l.lTY.

u

’ Ilse hospitality one to rinotlier
and without grudgiiig," said Peter.
And Paul sends similar instruc-
tions to the Roinaiis and to the
Hebrews. So that it secms cvident
that it was considered rather ini-
portant. Is it not today quite as
much so?

The old Saxons give us 8. good
hospitality. They,
with their fierce untamed natures,
were under its control as to make

How pleasant it is to listen to
the tales told by old people of the
universal welcome given to
strangers when they were young.
No sendiiigfrom housc to house
in those days.

lVliere can we find the wide-
spread hospitality of which they
tell us. True, the necessity for it

is not so great now as then. Yet

we are so apt to draw within our-

selves and make only our friends

‘ houses they at last found some one 2.
who was willing to keep them for f
Of the places where ,

welcome, taking no thought for
thosc who need or wish 8. word of
welcome.

Not so very long ago this case
caine under my observatioii and- it
is needless to say iniprcsscd me
very strongly. A young iniiiister
and his wife started to drive from
some point in llonroc county to
Hillsdalc. thinking they could go
tlirougli in one day. However

nightfall found them still in thisf
county, themselves very tired and .

their horsc nearly exhausted.
After applying at some half dozen

the night.

they were refused lodging but one

I had any excuse save the one, .
“\Ve never keep straiigcrs.” These 3
people were perfectly respectable‘
lIl.8.pp€‘fl.1‘&1lC€. and as we afterward 3

discerns the difference between  cleanliness are very importaiit, and.

right. and wrong, but I think it isi
much younger than many believe‘
and if the will is early subdued the
child is much easier taught in the
right. Patience is one of the
things needful to keep the love of
the child, for there are so many
questions from these curious minds
to answer that many times we
weary of them, but think! this is
the manner their minds develop
and grow. Then let us be careful
how we answer these questions, for
our children look to father and
mother to be in the right. “rash-
ington ever cherished and practiced
the teachings of his mother during
his noble life, and Garfield said,
“\Vhat I am I owe to my mother.”
Although all parents cannot make
presidents of their children, they
may imitate the example of these
noble women and leave one which
if followed will make them
noble and useful men and women.
We should make home pleasant
and attractive for them and enter
into their games and sports and
they will not seek other places of
amusement They are children
only once in our homes and that is
only for a short time. Time rolls
on and they are of age almost be-
fore we are aware, and we realize
they must begin the work of life
for themselves. Give them then
every pleasure your judgment
thinks best While young and in
after years they will look back on
the scenes of their childhood’s home
as a beautiful painting hung on
memory’s wall, the colors growing
richer and deeper as the years
glide by.

Cultivate a taste for good read-
ing. We cannot be too careful in
the selection of literature. Much of
it does not deserve a place in our
libraries, and our young minds are
influenced much by what they read.

bear directly on the physical wel-.

fare of all.
has had the
thorough course in domestic econ-

training, she will understand the
art of properly preparing and serv-
ing wholesome and well-cooked
food, and she will feel supreme in
her kitchen. This kitchen, too, as
well as the entire home, in the
convenient comfort and beauty
which it yields, is largely the pro-
duct of her welliiiformed mind.
She believes firmly that to work in
the kitchen with as few utensils as
possible is unwise or impracticable,
just as her husband finds it impos-

sible to do scientific farming with-
out the necessary implements. In
proportion as the number of work
hands in the field increases her help
within the house needs to be great-
er; for this fa.rmer’s wife realizes
that although there are less acres
in the farm, and less money in the
bank, there is more comfort in the
home wh en the mother’s hours from
“sun to sun” are not all occupied
by the household work, and more
social life in the family enjoyed,
if some time is reserved for rest
and self improvement. Should
you chance to make a call at the
home of the ideal farmer’s wife,
the rooms you would find pleasant,
neat and airy; probably you would
notice the large Windows and fire-
places which, while they provide
sunlight and fresh air, lend cheery
warmth and comfort; thus where-
ever it is possible comfort, conven-
ience, and beauty are combined. The
flowers are also a. source of much
pleasure on this farm. If the
opportunity for a course in fioricul-
ture was never enjoyed, by careful
study and close observation (in the
course of time this art will) be
quite perfected, and very satisfac-

Life is said to be a. school from the tory results will be obtained.
cradle to the grave. A little is Certainly the care of flowers de-
taught us each day and we learn mands much labor, but is it not

object until he believes the object

as long; as we live. As our child- Wiser to take more fresh air and

If the housekeeper;
advantage of a3
‘cause us to lose any of the sweets
omy in addition to her mother’s?

learned were just what they repre-
sented themselves to ho. Does it
work us any injury to ext-entl hos-3
pitality to such people? I)0cS it’

of life to impart a feeling of home-
likeness to strangers in our midst?
Does it do us any good to form

ob‘s'e‘r‘v‘ed ‘the table verysimply ar-
ranged for the family dinner. His
friends returned and in an hour he
was in vitcd to the table on which was
spread an elaborate dinner, the
flushed faces of hostess and her
daughter testifying to the labor of
preparing the lllvfll. Said hc, “ All
that was left of the dinner asI
had seen it on the table was the
bread and buttci‘ uiid tliese only
could I eat with anydcgrec of com-
fort because of the work I had
caiiscd."

C0nt.i'ast this with tho case of
the young lady who invited a
straiigcr to spend at her home the
hour between two scrvices at a
cliurch. Shc livcd alone with her
mother and had once seen better
days. \Vlien invitcd to the table
the giicst saw that it coiitaincd
only brown breml, butter. clicesc
and ten. After :1 short, silent prayer

the daiiglitcrsiiiiply rciiiarked. “\Ve V

are poor. sister. but such as we have
we are willing to slmrc with our
friends. tru.<tiiig to God to keep us
from ivaiit." These two instances
were taken from books but illus-
trated my idca so well that I could
not refrziiii from using thcin. I
once heard our dear sister, Mrs.
Mayo, say 1‘f‘S})€(‘il1]f_{' ii certuiii
house, "It is such fl rest to go there.
they are not always cooking and
niaking one feel as if she were
causing trouble." And I thought
thcrc was quite :1 scrinon in that
one sentence.

John \\'csley. fully rcnlizing the
efficacy of riglitlytcndercd hospi-
tality.oftcn used that of his own
home in place of thcinuch used and
much abused tracts. when he saw
young men uiiduly attrm-tetl by
glitter of evil resorts. Hc is said
so have won many youthsiiito better
ways by there instilling into tlicir
iniiids purcr tlioiiglits and higher
as1ii1'atioi1s, imikiiigu good lifcscein
so much gi'aii«lci' and more satis-
factory tliat the other lost its
cliariiis. proving again what has
bcen proved niiinlicrless time-.~: lic-
forc and since-, tlizitliospitulity may
and should be uscrl as one of thc
sti'oiigcst allies of (‘l1i'istimiity.
The more liospitziblc n. pcoplc,
a church or any orgnnixatioii
wlizitsoever. the inorc casily will it
gain entrance into the he-arts of
; the people and the inorc widespread
‘ its power for good.

I believe that oftuntime-.4 what
appears like coldness is but 8. feel-
ing of timidity or of diflidence so
‘strong as to be almost uncoiiti'0ll-
‘able and wcpass by without speak-
ing the word of welconic, fccliiig
it but not spcziking it, yet carrying
out the full spirit of l’etcr’s words to
i"'Usc hospitality one to another
without grudgiiig.”

E.\iii.v G.-\_\‘I)I2R.

 

THESE FIT ’I‘Hl-I BABY.

London Tid-Bits offered :1 prize
of two guineas, for the best defini-
tion of a baby. It was awarded

ourselves into a clique. as we com- for the answer given below:

monly call it, and make outsiders

A tiny fcather from the wing

feel an air of chilliness when thcy;of love dropped into the sacred

come in contact with us ?

I number among my dearest
friends 8. good lady who at a
straiige church gave the one word
of welcome extended to a stranger
that day. If a stranger comes
among us can we not throw off
our cloak of reserve and give him
a. word of welcome or at least of
good cheer? He may be able to
give us 8. pleasant thought or a
good idea even though he appear
unprepossessing.

Hospitality to our friends. In
what does it consist? Is it in being
welcome to run in at back doors?
Not exactly. That may sometimes
be convenient but it is not always
pleasant. Nor is it necessary to
insist on ultra formal calls. True
home hospitality it seems to me
consists in making our friends
welcome when they come to see us
whether we have expected them or
not; giving them our company, for
which it is at least supposable they
came; making the eating a second-
ary matter; doing the best we can
without overworking ourselves or
overworrying our friends as well as
ourselves; giving them the credit

‘lap of motherhood.

Among the other excellent ones
sent are thc following:

The bachelor’s horror. the moth-
er’s treasure, and the despotic
tyrant of the most republican
household.

A bursting bud on the tree of life.

The latest edition of humanity
of which every couple think they
possess the finest copy.

The unconscious mediator be-
tween father and mother and the
focus of their hearts.

A quaint little craft called In-
nocence, laden with simplicity
and love.

A curious bud of uncertain blos-
som.

A thing we are expected to kiss
and look as if we enjoyed it.

The smartest little craft afloat
in home’s delightful buy.

A mite of humanity that will
cry no harder if a pin is stuck into
him than he will if the cat won’t
let him pull her tail.

A little stranger with a. free pass
to the heart’s best affections.

A padlock on the chain of love.

A soft bundle of love and

at least of not considering their trouble which we cannot do With-

stomachs such important objects
that they must be pampered re-
gardless of feeling or expense. 
A gentleman once accepted an
oft repeated invitation to dine with
some friend at any time when he
chanced to be in town. Finding
his friends absent for a short time
he was conducted by the servant
through the dining room into the
parlor to await the return of his
friends. In the dining room he

out.

The sweetest thing God ever
made and forgot to give wings to.

A pleasure to two, a nuisance to
every other body and 8. necessity
of the world. _

That which makes home happier,
love stronger, patience greater,
hands busier, nights longer, days
shorter, purses lighter, clothes
shabbier, the past forgotten, the
future brighter.

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l.\'0Cl'LA'l‘10.\' FUR H015 CHOLERA.
I

From Farmers" Bulletin No. '\ L’. S. Dept.
._ .‘igricur.ture.
1 It has been apparent for some
'time that inoculation as a preverit-
ative of hog cholera was a failure.
; But in spite of this it has been ad-
lvocated by interested parties for
ltheir own purposes. and has been
jll.1(lt)I‘S€‘!.l by a portion of the agri-
lcultural press in terms which are
iinexplicable to those who know
fthe facts. The cases in which in-
‘ioculation has been performed with
llittle or no loss have been publish-
{ed as proving the success of the
!operation, while those in which
!heavy losses have occurred have
lriot been mentioned until the
information reached the public in
other ways, and then there has
]been an attempt to explain them
}away.
1 It is due to our farmers that
 they should have all the facts—that
they should know all the losses
and failures which occur. To hold
these back and advocate irrocula-
;tion is to practice ririsrepr'eseiita-
,tlO11 and deception. and to lead
ifarrners to try a method, alleged to
be protective, but which is liable

to destroy their entire herds and irecessary to prevent the spread of 7 with

lmake the loss for that year $2,359,
1 2-3. Deduct a loss of three per
{cent of all the hogs in the state as
,caused by ordinary diseases, and
jwe find that this would amount to
‘O1-38,2-30 hogs. worth $1,178,962.
Deiliictiirg the losses caused by
lordinary diseases frorri the total
?losses from all diseases and we
:l1a\’(.- 31.180963 left to represent
lthe loss from both hog cholera and
‘swine plague. Take from this orie-
tliird. to represent the loss from
swine plague. and we have remain-
; ing. as the loss froin ling cholera.
labout the sum of -$‘8i)tl.000. To
prevent this loss by inoculation,
as we have seen would require
$2,tiI$7,tl00. or more than three
~ times the sum to be saved.
In the above calculation we were
considering inoculation when prac-
jticed as a private enterprise, with
,a charge of 30 cents per head for
]‘the operation. It has since been
1 proposed that the virus and instrii-
=inents should be supplied by the
gstate experiment stations and that

iwitli trials with ruminants and
jwitli the pig. it would seem quite
; probable that the old and persis-
fteiit argumeiit in favor of mixing
lhay and grain is not sound.
 The second trial reported in this
fbulletin covered feeding of cut
against whole hay to horses. This
trial also covered two periods in
3 which the foods were reversed with
‘the sets in order to determine
'Wl1t1"[l1e1‘ any cliange of weights
, found was due to the individualism
{of the horses, or whether it was
due to the system of feeding. The
two periods covered from August
10th to lleeeiirber Iilst. As in the
other case, we will not review the
tabulated data that accompany the
;bulletin. This trial was very de-
icisively in favor of the cut hay.
‘The difference in weight of the
ilrorses was 115 pounds in favor of
fcut clover for the four months and
a half covered by this period. The
food fed was clover. and the author
points out the fact that clover hay
and lucerne, unlike tiriiotli_v hay.

the farmers should perform the do not present sharp solid (-11tti1)<_{

1 operation themselves.

This would edges.

The

results are decisive.

. no doubt reduce the inoculation to and in accord with those of a trial
L’-)<'c11ts El lleiul for the time and irrade by the lridiaira l*Ixperiment

trouble involved in the operatioii.

Station with cattle. Director San-

tlre e.\;pressage on the instruments _ born points out the fact that these
and virus. and the precautioiis ‘ trials, coveriiig nearly a year’s time

four llI)l'St’.\', showed that

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q~§,‘,,:§}?,I,},R_i.; , Tgom, __y,ci‘§§i},‘,'§:; Clmlnnimv Ar -------- --i I; Q? r 2 1-; ,1;  cost .52-),1;)0,000. The total loss which die frorri it. The hog crop- A 5”‘) ""5 l *4" -
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GATE KEEPERv('iE0. L. (7.-\1tI.ISLE .Kalka.ska
(}suns—MRS. W. E. WRIGHT Goldwater
'. '. . STUART.. ____FI'l‘1110Dl3
FLOBA—l\iIKS. C. C. POORMAN..,_B:rtt1e Creek
L. A.Srr<:w’i)—MRS. W. E. STO(‘KI.\'(i‘r_..Clielsea

Executive Committee.

   

     

    

Sleeping cars for P_etoskey and Mackinaw on

No. 3 from Grand Rapids.

Nblpeping cars, Grand Rapids to Chicago, on
o. .

Vslgeping cars, Grand Rapids to Cincinnati, on
; O. ).

Nos. 1. 4, 5 and 6 daily south of Grand Rapids.

All other trains daily except Sunday.

(V P & T(‘._\L. L(O(‘K}VgODa

E. BAKER. Agém. Kaiamaioo. mm a“ S

   

Favorite
Lilies
to me Siiiniiier
Resorts

J. G. RAMSDELL, Chn ......... ._Traverse City
H. D. PLATT.  ___....Ypsilanti
F. W. REDFERN Maple Rapids
H. H. DRESSER ............ .. it-clifield
H. H. IND ____. .St-anton
B H. TAYLO . - __. .... ..Shelby
BM1§g§T0N .............. - -B--Fruit(Ridge

. . ‘. . - errien ‘enter
JENNIE BUELL. i E’*‘0‘fi°‘° i ____ ..Marcellus

General Deputies.
Hon. C. G. Luce ..................... -_(‘ioldwater
Hon. J. J. Woodman . _______ ..Pa.w Paw
J. T. Cobb _ . _ . _ . _ . _ _ . _ . . . _ . . ..Schoolcr-aft
Jason Woodman ......... ..Paw Paw
Mary A. Mayo ...................... -.Battle (‘reek
Special Deputies.

A. Luther.. _____ __Barry (‘ounty
E. W. Allis ..I.enawee County
Sis. E. D. Nok , Hil1sdale(‘nunty
Samuel Bi-uce._ . __.... Jones. Cass (‘ounty
J. D. M. Fis . ..(‘oldwater, Branch County
R. V. Cla.rk__._ Buchanan, Berrien County

 
  
  

or Northern

T. F. Rodgers ...... ..Ravenna, Muskegon County
Isaac A. West ____ ._‘.\’ortli Branch, Lapeer (‘ounty
‘ ‘ __..Eastport, Antrim County
_ Hudsonville, Ottawa County
Wm. Clark ______ _-Charlevoix, Charlevoix County
Committee on Woman’s Work'in the
Grange.
Mrs. Mary A. Mayo ________________ ..Battle Creek
Mrs. Mary Sherwood Hinds _ .-..Stanton
Miss Mary C. Allis ....................... ..Adriau

 
 

 

Revised List of Grange Supplies
Kept in the office of Sec'y of the

Michigan State Grange

And sent out p0st—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 hundred _____ __$0 75
Secretary's ledger .................... __ . 85
Secret;ary’s recoi-d_.__.-__.._.....___.._ ._ 85

urer’s orders, bound, per hundred ____ . . 35
St-:creta.ry‘s receipts for dues, per hundred. _ _ 35
Treasurer’s receipts for dues, per hundred. _ . 35
applications for membership, per hundred. _ 50

ithdrawal cards, per dozen ______________ ._

Dimits, in envelopes, per dozen._. . .. .
By-Laws of the State Grange, single
10¢; per dozen._..._.._
“ Glad Echoes,”
25c; per dozen ________________ ..
Grunge Melodies, single copy. 40c;
Opening Song Card, 2c_ each; 759 per 50: 100.. 1 35
Rituals, 7th edition (with combined degrees).

 
  
  

 
 

 

  
  

  

25¢ each ' per dozen ..... .., ............... __ 2 75
Bituas, 5th degreeuset of nine...__ _ 1 80
Bituas, Juvenile, single copy... _ _ 15
Ritua.s. Juvenile. per sol: .......... .. _ 1 50
Notice to delinquent members, per 100.. . _ . _ 40
American Manual of Parliamentary Law.-_. 50
Diglest of Laws and Rulings .......... __ _ 25
R0 books.._-..-.....-...‘.....__..__.. 15
Sample package co-operative litera.ture.__._ 18

Write for pricespn gold pins badges, working
tools, staff mountings, seals, ballot boxes and any
other grunge supplies.

Address MISS JENNIE BUELL,

Sec’y Mich. State Grange.
MABCELLUS. Mien.

GERMAN__4
HORSE AND
COW
POWDER

In of the highest value _to horses, cattle. hogs, and
poultry. It assists digestion and assimilation
and thus converts food into muscle, milk and fat
which otherwise would be wasted.

MORTIIVIER WHITEHEAD Says: “ Ger-
man Horse and Cow Powder pays many times its
cost. in keeping all k_inds of farm stock in good
health I have used it for years on my farm, buy-
ing a barrel at a. time.”

It is manufactured by Dr. L. Oberholtzer’s Sons
<2 Co., Phcenixville, Pa.. and sold at ‘

Wholesale Prices—viz:
Bari-e1s—201bs in bulk, 71/ac per pound

Boxes —60lbs in bulk. 8c per pound
Boxes —30lb—51bs pack. 10c per pound

By ALBERT STEGEMAN. Allegan, Mich.
THORNTON BARNES, No. 241 North
Water St.. Philadelphia. Pa.

 

_Micl1igai1

'l‘l{A\'EKSl*I CITY
ELK RAPIDS
CHAl{l.E\'()l.\'
PETOSKEY

BAY YlE\\'
l\IACI{I.\'.—\(‘ ISLAND
'l‘RA\'ERSE BAY

_R_asoR'rs

CHICAGO
and WEST MICHIGAN

RAILWAY
DETROIT
LANSING

and NORTHERN

RAILROAD

The West Michigan is now in opera-
tion to Bay View, and is the

ONLY All. RAIL LINE T0 GHARLEVOIX

‘Through sleeping and parlor car ser-
vice from Chicago, Detroit, Lansing and
Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Bay View.

THE SCENIC LINE

Over forty miles of beautiful lake and
river views north of Traverse City.

Try it when you go north this summer

FRANK TO\Vl\'SEND,
Gso. DEHA\'EN, Agent, Lansing.
Gen’l Pass’r Agt., Grand Rapids.

AGENTS
WANTED

To Canvass for

THE
GRANGE
VISITOR

Terms Liberal

and

Send For Terms at Once

from disease during the year 1888
was E§,10-3,000 hogs, at an average
value of 85.79 each. This would
make the total loss of swine from
all diseases 817,$lb‘0,0t)0.

In order to estimate the loss
from hog cholera ive must deduct
from this sum the losses from or-
dinary diseases. such as animal
parasites, exposure, overci-owding,
and improper feeding, which are
always acting and do not produce
epizootic diseases. These losses
were estimated by the statisticari
of the department in 1886 to be
about four per cent of the total
number of hogs, but as this may
be considered rather a large esti-
mate we will, in our calculation,
take three per cent as the average
loss from such causes. This would
amount in 1888 to 1,509,000 an-
imals, valued at $8,737,000, and
deducting this from the total loss
of swine we have remaining 89,243,
000 as the losses from epizootic
swine diseases. In the present
condition of our knowledge we
must admit that there are at least
two entirely distinct epizootic dis-
eases of hogs, which have been re-
ferred to in the report of this bu-
reau as hog cholera and swine
plague. The exact proportion of
the losses caused by each of these
diseases is at present unknown,
but if we admit for the purpose of
this calculation that but one-third
of the loss is caused by swine
plague we have remaining a loss
of $6,163,000 for the year 1888,
which can be attributed to hog
cholera. To prevent this disease
by inoculation, as we have just;
seen, requires the expenditure in
cash of $25,150,000, or more than
four times the amount of the ac-
tual losses. In addition to this
expenditure there should be count-
ed the time required of the farmer
in handling the hogs at the time
of the operation and giving them
such precautionary care and in
practicing such disinfection as is
required to make this operation
at all successful. I

‘We should reach the same coir-
clusion if, instead of estimating
the loss and expense for the Whole
of the United States, we should
take a single hog raising state, as
for example, the state of Illinois.
According to the statistician’s esti-
mate there are 5,275,000 hogs in
Illinois, and to protect those by in-
oculation would cost $2,637,000.
In the year 1888 the total loss of
hogs in that state from all diseases
was about 316,500, with an average
value of $7.45 each, which; would

is practically‘ an aiiiriial crop.
many cases hogs are sold at six to
eight months of age. Now, it is
very plain that to subject animals
marketed at this age to an opera-
tion which stops the growth of all,
01' of a considerable proportion of
them for one or two months, is to
deprive the farmer of all chance of
profit from this industry.
Fl‘IEl)l.\'(i‘i HORSES.

Bulletin No. 13 of the Agricul-
tural Experiment Station of Utah
has been received. This bulletin
reports the results ofa feeding trial
of horses by the director, J. \V.
Sanborrr. It reports the result of
a trial in a direction that the Arneri-
can Exper-imerit Station literature
is almost silent upon, viz.: the
feedirrgliorses hay and grain mixed.
and feeding cut against whole hay
to horses.

It is a cornnioii belief with liorse—
men that Wheir grain, especialy
meal, and more especially such
meal as corn meal, is fed to horses
alone or mixed with hay, it tends
to compact in the stomach and pro-
duce indigestion. It is believed
that it so far compacts that the
gastric juices do not have free ac-
cess to the mass of it. Futhernrore,
it is believed to be subject more to
the washing influence of heavy
drinking. In the latter respect it
is known that the horse's stomach
is very small, and that grain is
liable to be washed out of it, as the
stomach necessarily overflows with
Water.

As usual, the Writer fed two lots
of horses for nearly three months,
one lot with hay and grain mixed,
and the other lot With hay and
grain fed separately. At the end
of this period the food was re-
versed, and the horses were fed
some two months more. It would
be unnecessary to quote the figures
of this lengthy trial. Suffice it to
say that it was found that horses,
as in the case of cattle and pigs,
showed no disadvantage by the di-
vision of the grain and hay into
separate feeds. Indeed, in this
trial he found a disadvantage for
the horses on the hay and grain
mixed, they not maintaining their
Weight as Well. The author ascrib-
ed this result to the fact that the
timothy hay when cut fine with its
sharp solid ends irritated and made
sore the mouths of the horses, and
possibly induced to rapid eating,
as when the hay and grain were
moist they would be more likely to
eat more rapidly than when fed
dry. As this trial is in accord

‘[l‘l1‘()1ll Bulletin lhiriliie University Station.

, lniliaiiii.]
I cosr or srL.ioi:
There is rirucli diifereirce of

oppiiiioii as to the cost of silage,
for feeders view its cost from
several starrdpoints. Local con-
ditions of labor, real estate values.
fertility of soil, facilities for hand-
ling crop, etc.. play irrrportaiit parts
in cost of production, so that no
fair standard of cost for producing
a ton of silage can be given.

At this station, estiinatiiig on
icost of plowing, harrowirig, plant-
lirig, seed, manure, interest and
taxes, cultivating. cutting and
hauling from field, and placing in
a silo, a ton of silage will cost
about $1.50.

FEEl)IN(‘r v.-iI.L7i~.‘ or S1I.A(‘.E.

Considerable experimental feed-
ing has seemed to show that fodder
corrr* ivcll carer/,, and first-class
corn silage give quite similar re-
turns as food. Advocates of the
silo recoinmend its use as an ad-
junct of intensive. high-class farin-
ing. VVliere good silage is fed, the
following points may be classed in
its favor:

1. On the same area of land a
much larger number of animals
maybe maintained, than by airy
other method.

2. Silage is more succulent and
palatable than dried fodder.

3. Clover or corn may be placed
in the silo during damp Weather,
when it would not be possible to
field-cure it.

4. The silo is the most economi-
cal place in which to store a great
deal of food in a small space.

5. In a measure, silage is 11
green food adapted to yvinter use,
and thus serves as a substitute for
grass. \Vhi1e beef feeders were
not among the most enthusiastic
early endorsers of the silo, several
of the most successful feeders for
the show ring in the west at the
present time, have said that, after
once having used the food for fat-
tening, they consider it almost in-
dispensable.

6. Silage is fed with less Waste
than whole, coarse fodder.

IN CONCLUSION.

The remarkably wet spring of
1892 has materially lowered the
prospects for a full corn crop.
The chances are good, however, of
getting a good crop for the silo, be-
fore frost, and no doubt but that
the filling of silos on the farm the
ensuing summer will materially
assist in bringing the stock through
the coming winter in good condition

_ * Fodder corn consists of entire plant, includ-
ing ears.


THE GRANGE VISITOR. JULY 15, 1892.

{Michigan

MAN THE 3UTER1AL1ST- :from both counties. Let us have El NATIONAL.

_ 3‘ grand rally of Patrons. All wear] Cyrus W_ Field is dead
,3,.m,. ; your badges, and bring your Grange 

We may live without poetry, music. and art
We may live wi hout conscience. and live

1 .
, A Tonic
Two balloonists drowned in Bostoni and

 

 

A fine Catholic cathedral in Duluth
,was burned, including a magnificent
library. '

fed this question:
- . ‘ “Resolved Thatagricultural ma-
1 1 ,
N0*'Ces of Mee*'ng5' E chinery has injured agricultural; , 1
l ’ The matter of Sunday closing of the;

i1nt,§1r1estE;'H . f t} lWorld’s Fair will not be decided defi-'
t e 0 Owmg are some 0 letnitely until October.

0 inions: ! . «
PE F- Boswortho-I think that5callfi.P{§i2d°§Léfiiincifiifiisilil fiill
the use of much machinery has  be discriminated against in the inatterl
program for next issue. (taken away most of the incentives “ Of 081181 tolls l
C. E. ROBINSON, ,to young men to excel in any one Peoples Party Convention at Omahal

Lecturer. i branch of farm labor; and I think , nominated Gen. James B. Weaver for!

- - - .- ‘President and for Vice-President Gen. t ,_
in that way that 1n(l1Vldl1&l efl"ort§JameS G_ Field of Virginia. j

 

We mEE':li1:e.r£r'i;thout fi-iends;we may live with-  Melodies‘ “ARY C ALL“ } harbor on the Fourth. ‘ A  . ;
fi:*;l?lt::i‘.tér.:%“.*i*::.E:si::ha".2.°::t.... t ‘ 'secret2&~y. t..§3;“§2§i?.:I;$;‘§.:‘.%‘:’§§a.   i , ° : atg i
H9 mfigltitggvegiilllgiit boi>e—what is bone but de- l WE , . , . , .  St. Johns. N. B. was nearly distroyed  Th:-It S.the happy. 
He mggllllfgwithout love—what is passion but i ST MI?-ISIGIAR CLL B.  by fire’ s20'OO0*O0O 1053 reported ‘ Comblnatlon found In ‘
Butw lexi-ie.nigs?the man that can live without din- i The West Michigan Farnlersi r.r0rm.ld0eB .Sti1l Coqfinue to stir up I .  F .
ing? _Lucfle‘  Club’ at their last meeting, diScuSS_ , things in various portions of the country-_ , H  ’   
5 t

  to be held on its grounds at
_ lansing, September 12,13, 14, 15, It
physical benefit. A whole- '

some I f 1,‘ E _ _ , The Michigan State Fair is the
_ ' e r°5‘”_“g’ “IfPe"1Z-mg» 'Pcople’s Fair. It works solely for the
thirst quenching drink,

agricultural and industrial interests of
One package makes five gallons. the state. The Forty-Fourth Annual
Don't be deceived if :1 dealer, for the gakg

Fair promises to be the best of all.
_0f‘la_rgcr profit, tells you some other kind LARGE PREMIUNS
15 ‘J“SIasgood"—'tis{alsc_ Nojmjnaon “"“"‘*“" 

You drink it for pleasure, and get

vax BUREN POMONA.
‘Van Buren Pomona will meet
I « with Hamilton Grange. at Grange
hall, August 4. \Vill send the

 

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   — nsoucznlnms on All. RAILHOADS

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l
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. i

St. Joseph County Pomona, No.
4, will meet with Parkville Grange
August 4th. The following is the
program:

“ VVhy a Woman should be en-
titled to vote?” Sister Langley.

“ Man is not Woman’s supe-
rior,” Sister S. Cook.

Subject of his own choosing, Bro.
L. Theurer.

“ What variety of wheat is the
best to sow for a number of years
in succession?” Bro. H. Cook.

Mas. H. ‘ COOK,
Secretary.

BERBIEN POMONA.
Buchanan, Mich., July 8, 1892.
EDITOR GRANGE VISITOR:

By request of County Lecturer,
Bro. W.J. Jones, who is at present
on the sick list, I hereby give
notice to the Patrons of Berrieii
County that the third quarterly
meeting of Pomona Grange will be
held at the hall of Fruit Grange,
in Royalton on August 2. A good
program is prepared and all fourth
degree members are cordially in-
vited to be present. Secretaries
are requested to he punctual in
fowarding full reports to the sec-
retary of County Grange in ample
time for the meeting. \Vatcli for
program in county papers.

R. V. CLARK.

UNION MEETING OF LENAWEE AND
HILLSDALE POMONAS.

Adrian, illich.

Lenawee and Hillsdale County
Granges will hold a union meeting
in August.

Thursday, August 4th, to be
held with Rollin Grange at their
hall. Call to order in the fifth
degree at 10 : 30. After the dinner
hour a public meeting will be held
and the following program carried
out:

Opening song, Medina Grange.

Prayer. ‘

Welcome, Mrs. Viola Lamb, Rolf.
lin.

Response, S. E. Haughey, Mas-
ter of Hillsdale County Grange.

Song, Onsted Grange.

Essay, Mrs. \Vilson,
Grange.

Paper, “ Fall seeding,” Litch-
field and Fayette Granges; fol-
lowed by discussion.

Music, Acme Grange.

Recitation, L. G. Smith, Pal-
myra Grange.

Paper, “ Shall we be satisfied,”
R. A. Woolsey, Madison Grange;
followed by discussion.

Violin solo, Macon Grange.

Recitation, Adams Grange.

Essay, Moscow Grange.

“ Travel an educator,” F. F.
Moon, Madison Grange.

Music.

In the evening the fifth degree
will be conferred. All who come
will be entertained by Rollin
Grange for the night.

Friday, August 5th, at Beard-
sel’s grove, Devil’s Lake, 10 A. M.,
call to order and reports of Sub-
ordinate Granges from both coun-
ties. After dinner the following
program will be rendered:

Song, Wheatland Grange.

Prayer.

Song, Madison Grange.

Recitation, Pitsford Grange.

Essay, Mrs. Hoig, Morenci
Grange.

Tuba Solo, Howard F. Nokes.

Address, Mrs. Mayo.

Violin Solo, Emma Bailey.

Essay, South Jefferson Grange.

Paper, “Prohibition of Cattle
Grazing upon Government Lands
by large Syndicates_,” C. _A. VV1ll-
iams, followed by discussion.

Recitation, Addie Daniels, Ons-
ted Grange.

Closing song, from Grange Mel-

Macon

has been largely suppressed, ambi-
tion smothered.

IV. IV. J0hns0nAA class of
farmers are so inordinately lazy
and the use of machinery has
given them a chance to exercise

their inherent indolence until ruin

stares them in the face. I know
of a man once a prosperous farmer;
but when machinery came in
fashion, he being a progressive
man bought the best of machinery
until it was whispered around that
his farm was pretty well loaded;
and now another man owns the
farm and the former owner is glad
to get work by the day.

D. Neal—I do not see how
machines have been an injury. I
would much rather plow with a
sulky-plow and can do it better
than with a walking plow; and my
corn is best where the plowing was
so done, though it takes more team
work. I purchased my sulky last
fall and loaned it to a. neighbor to
plow a piece of bottom land and
it did it nicely where a walking
plow would hardly work at all.

G. S. Lindei'man—I must take
the negative of this question. I
believe that the mowing machine,
with the horse rake and fork, will
enable us to put hay in the barn
for one half what we used to do it
for. If a man has but little
meadow he may not afford a mower,
but several neighbors may unite
and own one; and just so with
a loader and other machines.

IV. \V. Johnson—-I came near
burning my fingers with a loading
machine, or had achance to do so.
A man came along with a model of
a loader, claiming it would load
hay, straw, manure and even stone.
A neighbor was smitten with the
novelty and bought the right,
giving $1,000, or his note, for it,
and when his eyes began to open
he tried to buy the note back, olf-
ering $500 and the right. But
the agent said no, and soon the
farm went to pay the note.

Moi’ Linderman——All machinery
may not be a fraud. The only way
is to give it a test before you in-
vest. Were you to go west you
would see the young ladies helping
on the plow or the reaper, thus
enabling a man and one daughter
to put 200 acres into Wheat and to
harvest it almost alone. Last fall
there were thousands of bushels of
wheat that could not be threshed
in season to save it even with the
help of the threshing machine.

President Pearsall—Perhaps
with less machinery to put in the
crop less would have been sowed,
and so all might have been saved.

— 

NEWS NOTES.

MICHIGAN.

About the usual number of accidents
the Fourth.

The Agricultural Collge lands will be
placed on sale about September 15.

The race for the republican nomina-
tion for governor is getting interesting.

How Geo. L. Yaple spoke at the
People's party ratification meeting in
Lansing.

The relay bicycle race from Kalama-

zoo to Detroit was made in 11 hours and
18 minutes.

Large gathering of retail furniture
dealers from all over the country at
Grand Rapids.

The consolidation of the large Detroit
car companies brings together 'a capital
of $8,000,000, and employs 5,000 work-
men.

Under the Richardson law the rail-
roads of Michigan are charged with
about $1,000,000 in specific taxes for ’91
and ’92.

Isaac Voorheis of Pontiac is dead.
The week before his death Mr. and Mrs.
Voorheis celebrated the sixty-fourth
anniversary of their marriage.

John L. Williams. a. wealthy and in-
fluential farmer of Wheatland, Hillsdale
County, died from consumption. He

odies.
We hope to see a large turnout

 

was one of the orignal settlers in Wheat-
land.

Chairman Campbell of the nationall
{Republican committee resigned.
i‘ successor has not been elected. Senator I

McMillan’s name is prominently men-
tioned.

The Carnegie iron works at Homestead
Pa. made a reduction in wages of a part
of their force of 3,500 men. This incited
the entire body to stand for their union
and they refused to work and would not
allow non-union men to work. The
company called in a force of Pinkerton
men to guard the works, but the detec-
tives were attacted by the infuriated
workingmen and several killed and
wounded. The State troops are now on
the scene and everything is quite. The
company say they will employ non-union
men and there will probably be more
trouble.

 

FOREIGN.

Ravachol, the French anarchist was
guillotined.

Stated that 1,000 Brazillians killed in
the revolution.

Cholera is increasing in Russia to an
alarming extent

Count Herbert Bismarck was married
to an Austrian countess.

The country about Mt. Etna is in
danger from that volcano.

Gladstone promises Scotland home
rule if she will but ask it.

The McCarthy section of the Irish
party appealed to America for campaign
funds.

Chinese missions are again reported in
imminent danger from the vengeful
natives.

In the recent English elections the
Marquis of Lorne was among the notable
who were defeated for parliment.

 

CONGTIESS.
3!.

Senator Palmer made a notable speech
against the Pinkerton system.

Judge Chiprnan argued in favor of the
bill for electing United States senators
directly by the people.

Senator Washburn made an elaborate
argument in favor of the anti-option bill.
He denounced in plain terms all fictitious
business.

The Sunday clasing question came up
but was not acted upon. The opinion
seemed to be that a partial opening, with
no machinery running, and perhaps re-
ligions exercises on the grounds, would
be desirable.

Senator Manderson introduced a bill
to create a national highway commission
to consist of two senators, five represen-
tatives, the Secretaries of \Var, Agricul-
ture and the Interior, the Postmaster
General, the Attorney General, and an
associate member from each state and
territory. Meetings are to be held in
Washington during the sessions of Con-
gress, in Chicago during the world's fair
and at such other places and times as
the majority may elect. The commission
is to investigate the needs of the country
in regard to highways and report to
Congress.

 

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April 1.9, 1892.
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Dear Sir——Some years ago I
used your paint, and my painter
said he had never worked so nice
a paint in his life. I have taken
pains to recommend your goods
and will do all I can towards their
sale. Fraternally,

THOS. A. WHEELER.

See ad.Ingersoll’s Liquid Rub-
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Our younger readers will be interested
this week in the advertisement of the
of the Fayette Normal University. Don’t
overlook it. for it will be well worth your
while to write for catalog and see the
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the Peerless.” J apan’s great sacred
mountain is called variously Fuji-no-
yama, Fuji-sam, Fujiyama, Fusiyama,
and Fuji plain and simple, but the first
two are considered the proper spellings.

 

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