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“THE FARJIIER IS OF MORE CONSE(,,)UENC’E TITAN FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

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JLANSING, Miciiair, JANUARY 1, 1893.

WHOLE N0. 409.

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SECRETARWS REPORT 1892.

{ i WORTHY MASTER AND MICHIGAN
-i PATRONS:—Of one theme we never
l weary, one word checks our ram-
} ' blingdiscontent, one thought brings
E ‘: congratulation. It is———MichIg(m.
l ‘ We hold close the thought that
' we call that State “our own” whose
two lake-locked peninsulas are so
rarely gifted in minerals, in timber,
in choicest, richest farming prairies
and pastures and that are intersect-
ed so plentifully by streams and
dotted with so many small bodies
of freshest water.
4' ‘ God blessed our State abundant-
ly in Nature, and man has used the
_, means so freely bestowed, well.
 1 Our large manufactories, our mines,
our lumber camps, our well tilled
fields, our cities and villages, all
speak of enterprise. But when all
this has been said, we know the best
is yet unspoken. VVe know the real
resources of any commonwealth are
no‘ in its bonded stocks, its lofty
pines, its mined ore, its sleek herds,
A  or even in the smoky centers of its
izietropolis cities, and their masses
. ‘f masonry. The man and woman-
‘ 0d of Michigan are her richest
' wer, and, as we have come up
ere to this beautiful building,
hich is a sort of symbol of Michi-
an’s naterial prosperity, we have
nstinctively felt
' “Our yeoman should beequsl.  1101118.",
I If we have pointed, -9
‘,t§h1ing1like' pride, toj

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to our societies and cl
promotion of social, mental, and
" religious culture, it has still been
- . with the sense that we have made
only a beginning along these lines.
As a whole, we have so far only
been building our homes. A few
- have swept and garnished their
3 hearths; not many have settled
" down to making the man superior
to matter, to earnestly seeking after
those “best gifts” that shall abide
forever. Are you not forcibly im-
pressed with this fact, my friends,
as you come together, December
after December, and find your
members barely holding their own,
and now and then diminished?
You know the bed-rock of truth
supports the principles of business
relations, social and educational
”» life that are advocated by the
Grange. You marvel that all ag-
riculturists do not see this as you
do. You recall your past, before
you entered the Order; yourecount
g the advantages the Grange brought
 you, the light it has been the means
of throwing upon your methods of
farming and modes of living; you
name over the staunch friendships
it has welded into your life; you re-
joice again in its festive gatherings,
and, finally, you turn to the effect
of all this on your individual selves
and you are glad that to you, at
least, the Grange came and that to
‘ you is given the privilege of testi-
B _ fying always to its benefits. Not
all farmers and their families will
come into the Grange but not a day
passes that does not evidence deep-
er respect and confidence in the ac-
complished ends and moving spirit
of the Order on every hand. May it
be our work to broaden still more
the cause for such confidence!
:,' . VVhen our efiorts to increase our
. numbers seem fruitless, we may
 well con the lessons of a custom,
sometimes said to prevail among
the Indians. One of them was once
‘asked why he put seven grains of
corn in a hill. “Well,” said he, “we
put in one grain for the crows, an-
other for the worms and a third for

   
   
    
   
   
  
   
    
 
   
 
   
 
     
  
   
    
 
  
   
   

 the squirrel and we expect the rest
Z? will grow.” Shall we not, like him,
“sow with a margin” and expect to
see only a part of the seed we cast
I is bring actual members into the

Order?

Condition of Granges in I/ze Sin/zr.
The ofiicial records of this body

 
  
    
    

    
 

    

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show that 248 subordinate Granges 1
have reported and paid fees and
dues to the State Grange in the
year ending Dec. 1st, 1892. Of
this number, 188 have reported for
all the quarters ending Sept. 30;
25 for the quarters ending June 30;
23 for the quarters ending March
31; and 12 for the quarter ending
Dec. 31, 1891.

Two Granges have been organ-
ized. They are Ruby, No. 696, by
Deputy A. ‘V. Campbell, in St.
Clair Co., and Kalkaska No. 697,
in Kalkaska Co., by Deputy A. E.
Palmer.

Three dormant Granges have
found inactivity too grievious to be
borne. The first was Olivet, touch-
ed, we must suppose, by the ardent
missionary fervor of the last State
Grange, for it revived seven days
later under the ministrations of
Brother A. D. Bank. In May Chick-
aniing, No. 383. was reorganized
by Bro. R. V. Clark, delegate to
this Grange from Berrien Co. A
few weeks ago, Oxford, No. 395,
,Oakland Co., sent for instructions
and new manuals with the inten-
tion of resuming work this winter.

Four Granges have given noti-
fication of having disbanded, name-
ly: Howell, No. 90, Livingston Co.,
Wyoming, No. 353, Kent C0,, Dal-
las, No. 505, Clinton Co., and Gun
Lake, No.6-13, Allegan Co.

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tive to this session.

Another Juvenile Grange was
organized this year by Talmadge,
No. 639, Ottawa Co. As no reports
of progress are required of these
children’s societies, no means are
at hand from which to state what
work the three that have been or-
ganized in our State, are doing.

A comparison of records shows
we have ten Granges with a mem-
bership of 100 and more. These
average Iiot quite 130 members
each. Twenty-three others, each
with a membership numbered be-
tween 75 and 100, average a trifle
over 81, leaving by far the largest
number with a membership of less
than 75 each. Some of these are
small, seemingly weak, yet strong
in the ustice of their cause, or they
would not pay dues regularly, as
they do, on barely enough to hold
their charters. To such as these
the State Grange has striven to ex-
tend every help possible. They
are centers of life. The use they
perform in the communities where
they exist may be none the less

effective because it is not showy.

“The best men, doing their best
Know. peradvenlnre, least of what they do;
Men usefullest i’ the world are simply used."

Let us “ never be discouraged.”
Faithfulness is success.
Official Transactions.
The receipts for the year ending
Dec. 1st 1892, have been:

Fees and dues from subordinate

Granges _________________ __ $3,699.95
Fees from sixth degree Incin-

bers -____________________,_ +9.00
Fees from organizing deputies 5.00

Supplies sold _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Interest on invested funds ____ _ _
Receipts of GRANGE Visn‘oR

since April 1st____ _

55456
2.56.00

360.74

$4935-25

Receipted bills handed in on

VISITOR account by the editor $45536

Total reccipts____ ____ ____ _ _ ,
l)ixImrsem(-nts.

Expenses of session of I891 ____
Expenses of Executive Commit-

tee _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Salaries of officers ___________ _ _
GRANGE Vxsrron bills paid by

State Grange order _______ __
Dues to National Grange____ _ _
Fees to National Grange on ac-

count sixth degree__-_ _ --__ _ ,
Supplies, expenses, etc ______ __
Lecture work

$5.390-41
$1,207.58

2 36.0:
7 50.00

1,397.46
579.97

24.50
472-30
279.02
I 22.86
19.13
7450
9-55

Printing _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Secretary’s Office expenses___
Secretar_v’s Otlice postage _ . _ _ __
Secretary’s Stationery ______ __
Miscellaneous expenses, Master's

expense, ()flicer’s stationery,

GRANGE VISITOR exposes paid

has beenaddedto
.¢......  .

14.0.26

Postage, Express, etc ,_ ____ _ _

I $5,313-14
by editor ________ _, ’

455-16

Total disbursement ______ __ $5,’,-68,30
Fm’n1¢r';‘Da

The-practice of " yrving a day

especially for I§ "iculturists has
been in vogue 154}-the Chautauqua
Assembly in Ne_gf‘:'ork for several
years, but it  : new departure
this year forth ,_ try‘ View Assém-

bly and  ‘tfftrons to at-
tempt '60 bring an great interests
of farmers upon platform where
every other vita question is dis-
cussed by its ft. ost adherents.
A year ago this ate Grange ac-
cepted an invitati. - o participate
in a Farmer’s Day,‘ 7 t be inaugura-
ted at the Bay  tar Summer As-
sembly. On Aug s;9th, in accord
with arrangement :.'_nade by the
Executive Comm",  at its meeting
in March, the 61‘ $9 was repre-
sented at Bay Vietby Bro. J. H.
Brigham, who Spke upon “The
Work and Aims  the Grange,”
Bro. J. J. Wood :11 upon “ Influ-
ence of the Far "upon Town and
City,” and by B C. G. Luce, up-
on “ The Farme itelations to So-
ciety.” ,

Some 200 iP 'i.liS and farmers

  
   

   
 
  

were drawn es [ally to Bay View
by this occasio ,'n .1 listened, with
othezse to th * '1 v

    

he considered lI'ariner’s Day a
success, the superintendent of the
Assembly answered “ Most assured-
1’. It wasa ood bu imzin . Please

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convey to the offic. rs and members
of the State Grange» the Assembly
managenient’s appreciation of the
efiort they made to attend and
assist in the success of the day.”

lVo)’l' 1'11 Slzborfliwzzlc Grzzllgcs.

In November 26 letters were sent
out to as many s w-retaries of sub-
ordinate Granges, selected with a
view to securing vv riety of member-
ship and location.

A copy of the letter reads:

Will you kindly answer the following
questions concerning _\ iur Grange for the
year 1892?

A reply before Ecc . is desirable.

I. How often does 5 )ur Grange meet?

2. Are your nieetirigs in the afternoon
or evening?

3. Do you o\vn a h: 1?

4. If so, is itin the - auntry or village?

5. About whatis _\ mr average attend-
ance?

6. What business h — occupied your meet-
ings?

7_ \Vhat subjects di cussed?

8. Do the young p - -ole take an interest?

9. Have the young,» .>eople had an even-
ing set apart for Hi; It to manage and ar-
range their own program?

10. Have you a lilvar ?

11. How did you I brain the books and
replenish them?

12. Is the GRAi~u.I~: VISITOR taken by
every family?

13. Do you have .« uress correspondent?

14. What song be. -1: do you use?

is. Is your comm; :.e on Woman’s Work
active?

16. What do yor do in co-operative trad-
ing?

17. VVhat amount has your Grange traded
in this way?

18. Will you su,I‘;f,=‘st improvements that,
in your judgment I: Wghl. be made in co-op-
erative trading?

Two chief pbjects prompted
these inquiries. One was to ascer-
tain what our H-ranges are really
doing. The otter; aim was to sug-
gest, perhaps, sw e desirable feat-
ures that might . ‘sonably be ex-
pected to be four»: n a live, work-
ing Grange, in the belief that “ We
seldom improve when we have no
model but oursel‘~ es to copy after.”

By COIIlp&I‘1S0i' of ideals and
actual methods, new ideas or new
zeal may be kindled. It may also
be a matter of encouragement to
some Granges to learn that, they
have done more 131 one direction
than others which excel them in
another way.

Eighteen replies were received
to the 26 letters. From these it is
found that two hold weekly meet-

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ings, all the others, semi-monthly.
The question of day or evening
meetings is answered by an even
division in their practices, half
meeting in the evening. One
Grange alternates its meetings, one
week evening and next week after-
noon. Another convenes in winter
in the afternoon, in summer in the
evening.

Ten of these Granges own halls
in whole or in part; six of them
having a country location.

Grange teachings all favor the
owning of the property used by the
Grange and experience clearly indi-
cates that prosperity is the better
insured by financial independence.
Note the report of Grand Traverse
Grange in the “ Postal Jottings” of
the VISITOR for Dec. 1, as a splend-
id instance. Note, also, while
speaking of that Grange, their ex-
cellent plan for assigning topics.
The average’ attendance of the
Granges chosen for examples is 30.
Besides the usual routine, a wide
range of interests is covered in the
answers to the inquiries concerning
work taken up. Every phase of
farm work seems to have been
treated. “Care of fruit and stock,”
“Use of Phosphates,” “Obnoxious
Weeds,” “ Seeds,” “ Potatoes—
their growth and Care,” “ Cost of
growing Grain,” “Marketing Farm
Produce,” “ Shall we hold Wheat
for a Higher Price?” etc. Also

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ten of these specimen Granges, four
of them having special meeting
set apart for them to manage the
program.

Eight report libraries, nearly all
small and two consisting only of
agricultural and horticultural re-
ports. Other books have been pur-
chased by contributions, fines, ap-
propriations from the treasury and
entertainments. The Visrroa is
making such tempting library ofiers
now that even small Granges need
not long be without the nucleus of
a good collection of standard books.

The twelfth question was strongly
put. “Is the GRANGE VISITOR in
every fa-rnily .9” But all readers of
our organ will bear witness it was
none too strong. Five answered,
“ Yes,” and one of them has two
copies in each family.

The next question brings out the
report of live press correspondents,
two of them inactive. An office
urged upon the subordinate Granges
of Michigan from time out of mem-
ory by the Masters of this State
Grange! How far do we live be-
neath our privileges! Not polished
rhetoric, not faultless pennianship{
but facts,4the most convincing a v
persuasive of all missionaries in
good cause,—these are what ever
Grange may, if it will, furnishi
Grange paper and its local press.
If we take occasion to mention
to the village editor that the
Grange discussed such and such

topics of public interest: “ Road
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Fair, ’ ‘ rus ,' ‘ mmitr .“
“ Taxation,” “ Tariff,” “ Free trade,”
“ Free Coinage of Silver,” “ Does
Protection Protect the Farmer,”
etc.

One Grange is taking steps
toward the formation of a reading
circle. One, only, reports consec-
utive work on one general topic.
This is Coldwater, No. 137, which
is spending its literary hour on
“ Early Colonial History,” The
program of the Coldwater Colum-
bian Day, published in the VISITOR
of Oct. 15, was a cre lit to the noble
sentiments in the Grange. I de-
sire to call the attention of the com-
mittee on Good of the Order to the
opportunities open to Granges dur-
ing the coming winter for an in-
telligent and profitable study of our
country’s history and progress and
ask that, so far as may be, topic
outlines for programs be suggested.
The course of “ Home Reading,”
described in the VISITOR of Nov, 15
as the Chautauqua Agricultural
Course should have the careful con-
sideration of every Grange in the
state, in its idea if not in its matter.
The time is present when the farm-
er, his wife, his son and his daugh-
ter must study, and that throughout
life. It becomes us to seek out
every method and adopt those best
suited to our individual bents and
circumstances.

But one secretary reports that
topics of the “ farm and household”
are discussed. Another names
“ Woman’s Work in the Grange”
and two others “ Flowers.” Farther
than this the province of the wo-
man on the farm is not invaded,
with the possible exception of
‘, Poultry Raising.” You will par-
don the criticism if I say that the
Grange that discusses only “Trusts,”
“Protection,” “Free trade,” “ Im-
migration” and such topics, is very
likely to answer " No,” when asked
if it owns a hall, if its meetings are
well attended, if its young people
are interested, if it has a press cor-
respondent, and a “ Woman’s Work
committee.” Good subjects in their
places, but the Grange that thrives
is the one that considers the men-
tal palates of its old and young, its
men and its women in making out
its bills of fare. The dishes must
be savory, varied and attractively
served.

The young people are active in

a, subj t ’ 1" week and next week
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interest is created through his no-
tice of these facts among outsiders.

The local press is a power. Its
editors want the news that you
withhold. People can be reached
by brief items in this way, into
whose homes you are not invited
and with whom you may never have
spoken.

A variety of song books is re-
ported: Five reporting the use of
the latest, The Grange Melodies
One uses the Opening Ode cards.

Evidently our choice of Granges
was unfortunate, so far as the V170-
man’s \Vork committees are con-
cerned. One is active, one moder-
ately so. The rest inactive or none
appointed.

The replies to the questions rela-
tive to co-operative trading are
mainly interesting as showing how
far Michigan Granges have tended
away from a sheer money value of
membership. One had a small
grocery in connection, others trade
somewhat in one or two directions,
such as selling wool, buyingmachine
oil, binder twine, plaster, seeds, etc.
One small Grange reports about
$400 tradingin groceries and binder
twine. A little special correspond-
ence discovers that Huron county
Granges are availing themselves of
co-operative buying to a considera-
ble extent, sending to Boston for
boots and shoes, to Port Huron for
harnesses and oil, to Lenawee Co.,
for plows, to Akron, Ohio, for oat-
meal and to Chicago for hardware
and sundry other goods.

Yet on every side we see eviden-
ces that the teachings of the Grange
in co-operation have had least of all
to do with buying and selling per-
ishable goods. More than all has
its work been to change the watch-
word of “ bread to brotherhood,”
as some one has happily said, which
means the binding together of hard
working, care-bent, isolated men
and women into circles of social,
keen-brained brothers and sisters.
How true that,

“ Not from one metal alone the perfectest mirror
is sbapen. _ _

Not ‘from one color is built the rainbow‘s aerial

r ge.

Instruments blending together yield the divineqt
of music.

Out of myriads of flowers sweetest of honey is
drawn.”

Thanking you for the uniform
courtesy and many kindnesses re-

respectfully submitted.

ceived at your hands, this report is'

  
 
   
  
  
 
  
   
   
 
  
    
    
    
     
   
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
  

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THE GRALGE VISITOR. ‘JANUARY 1, 1893.»

Field and Stock.

MEETINGS OF BREEDERS.

amine sheep to be shown at thel THE BEST BRAED 01’ SHEEP FOR
Columbian Exposition. l MUTTOZ  WOOL.
On motion of Mr. Break it was Read at the ,,,.,,,¢i‘,ig»t Breeders of Improved

shires, that the Merinos ate $11.00
worth of feed in a given time, and
the Shropshires ate $10.00 worth,
The Merinos gained 21 per cent
while the Shropshires only gained
ten per cent.

Mons. Beuvardin’s report in
France finds the Bambouillet
Merinos to gain 20 per cent more
than any other breed, which is, I
think, more reasonable than the
Iowa report of fifty per cent for
American Merinos.

It is conceded everywhere, that
either breed of Merino sheep has
a higher degree of uutritirve capo-
bzlzty than any other breeds. The
gain in wool of Rambouillet Mer-
inos is reported at ten per cent over
the Shropshires in 7Beuvardin’s re-
port at Rambouillet.

As to cash value of wool, the
Iowa experiment station says, “the
Merinos gave $3.00 per head while
the Shropshires gave but $2.62 per
head,” which comes nearer together
than the Rambouillet Merinos I
have compared to the imported
Shropshires. I find the difference
to be 30 per cent in favor of the
Rambouillet Merino of wool in the
green.

As to scoured wool the Shrop-
shire gives 40 to 45 per cent, while
the Rambouillet gives 45 to 55 per
per cent, or seven an(l one-half per
cent the most.

The Rambouillets are bred to as
great a weight as the Shropshires
as I have seen rams weighed in
breeding condition at 300, 302, 325
pounds, and ewes that would aver-
age 170_ pounds by the hundred,
some weighing over 200 pounds,

The average price of scoured wool
is quite an item. Rambouilletwool
scoured is worth now 60 cents, and
Shropshire wool scoured is 42%
cents. “

resolution of the Van Buren coun-
ty stock breeders, asking the
approval of a. bill to be presented
to the legislature, providing for
inspection and licensing of stal-
lions kept for service. A commit-
tee was appointed to report on this,
and on their recommendation it
was laid on the table.

Prof. Harwood of the Agricult-
ural G llege, spoke on “General
purpose.cattle.” There is a mis-
understahding of the term general
purpose. It is not meant to in-
clude a “ little of everything,” but
specially for general use. The far-
mer is a general purpose man. In
Michigan he needs general purpose
cattle. Asked what he‘, considered
general purpose cattle, said: “The
Holstein-Friesian of milk-beef
form; the Brown Swiss, dairy
Shortliorn, and dairy Red Polled.

Mr. Ball spoke of live stock at
the World’s Fair.

Hon. J. J. Woodman of the
State Commission, spoke of the
importance of an exhibit from I
Michigan. There is no money
available in the hands of the com-
mission. It was proposed to ask
the legislature for farther appro-
priation.

Secretary Stevens of the Com
mission wished an expression from
the association of the amount
needed. A committee consisting
of Geo. E. Breck, A. A. Wood, H.
C. Farnum, L. \V. Barnes, and W.
E. Boyden, were appointed to con-
sider the subject, and reported in
favor of asking for $14,850 to aid ‘
in making a live stock exhibit at
World’s Fair.

Edwin Phelps of Pontiac, read a
paper on beef cattle for Michigan.
“ There is Iiot much (litference be-
tween several breeds for beef pur-
poses. No breed has a monopoly.
Cross-bred cattle are frequently
the very best beef animals.” His
favorite breed was a well fed
animal. “Good feed and care
produce fat animals.”

Dr. W. J. Beal spoke of grasses.

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resolved that the committee be re “ggkofif mflisb ML _ Y 0m“

quested to examine all sheep.oifer- .1-hi S Sub-eat is one that ever
gldefoaimeeglliiliigslipn and decide if breeder of Jsh l is interested ii
The follgwing ofiicers were Agl Sheep I-He thm1111tt(l1(l%ndW0(;1
'_ . . seep. A slepsou emu-
Lessiter, Cole‘ sgcretar and trees an sheep is th block’ 3-5 the legit"
iirer Geo E’ Breck yPaw Pawilimate end of H cattle IS beef‘ It
execiitive ‘committee ,L S Dun’ is my opinior that all breeds of
ham Concord‘ C’  Waldo. Sheep to be pmfitable In the highest
Graéd Led e_ j 11 ‘B1  G 1 ’ degree, must lea mutton breed, in
' g ’ O H a 6’ fies’ our climate 3131 state. The sheep

burg John Abbott Lapeer' H. that is V61 4 - , - -
7 ’ ’ -y prbfitable in Michigan
VV. Mumford, Moscow. may not -be so on the range.

nous THE srocx BREEDER AND American M¢‘l“° breeders make
w00L GROWER our PRACTICAL w00lthee11d Swghts not mutton: as

BENEFIT FROM MEMBERSHIP IN *0 quantity, f<1‘ Some W911 known
  breeders ha,ve.S311ght to pI'0duCe

the most woo} possible, from the
least weight ofanimal. They make
the wool busuess pay too. The
Southdown bieeders claim to have
the best qualiy of mutton, and to
produce sheep for mutton exclus-
ively, and the’ make it profitable.
The Shropshie men have a sheep
that they clam is profitlible for
both mutton aid wool. It is larger
than the Soutdown and has avery
good fleece ofcoarse wool. They
Inake  pay )0th W8.yS. But the

Shropshire W England a mutton

Slim-thorn Breeders’ Association.

 

Shorthorn cattle breeders met
in the senate chamber. Called to
order by President W. G. Boyden.

President’s address.

Secretary reported
$4.25. I

Dr. Miles’ address, as per pro-
gram, advocated breeding for a
specific type.

Discussion. Mr. Ball said the
milking qualities were being talk-
ed of. He favored breeding for
beef cattle. Asked Dr. Miles if he
would breed for milk and beef.

Dr. Miles replied that the most
important thing was to so breed
that a uniform type is secured.
Set up a type for yourself and
breed for it.

The secretary read a letter from
F. Hart Smith, giving prices of
steers sold in Buffalo, netting
$114.42 per head.

Mr. Turner opened the discus-
sion on the type of Shorthorn best
adapted to Michigan.

We think cattle are low, but it
would be easy to get a vote by a
company of farmers that all farm
products are too low.

The character of the breeder is
of great importance.

Did Iiot believe in
purpose animal.

Nearly all Shortliorns are good
beef cattle.

Mr. Stuart said a breeder needs
asmany types as there were buy-
ers, for all wanted a different type.

Thought that certain families of
Sliorthorii bulls might be used to
cross on dairy cows.

Believed in cattle for special
purposes.

The type now bred is all right;
breed them the best we know; be-
lieve in them, and we shall find
them adapted to the wants of

expenses

 

H. H. HiNDs.

The agriculture list of today is
confronted with market conditions
that have been gradually approach-
ing since the close of the war in
1865. It may may be fairly stated,
in brief, that we have now reached
the point of high tide in vast aggre-
gate agricultural productions. The
general stock breeder is already in,
and the American wool grower is
about to enter the open markets of
the world. Competition along
these lines is simply intense. The
careless, shiftless, expensive pro-
ducer is no longer in it. None but
the most perfect and accurate agri-
cultural impleiiient can be longer
employed. The cost of production
must be materially lessened, in
order that the agricultural product
can be sold in the over-supplied
markets for a compensating price
to the producer. ' For instance the
Secretary of State for this common-
wealth has on former occasions
shown by compiled statistics the
average cost of producing a bushel
of wheat in Michigan. \Vheat is a
leading farm crop of our State and
yet the market price of that cereal

sheep_ I not hear the claim
when I was t re, that they are a
wool sheep_—‘rit in Michigan they
shear a good Fece-

The breediis of Rambouillet
Merinos, c-la'¥.‘t;o have a sheep as

the general

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

large as the hropshire that will
shear more ured wool than the
American M ino of equal quality,
that it will
readily as tli

ten at any age as
outhdown, and pro-
(luce more fl pro rata to feed con-
sumed than English breeds, in
the same tim and that for breed-
ing early lahbs, or for coupling
with grade Mrino ewes, is equal
to the Shr-olshire for lambs for
feeding. .

The breedrs of the Dishley
Merinos, 3, bred formed by cross-

'ro l’.ECAPITULA'I‘F..

The Rambouillet and Shropshire
are of equal value as to mutton, as
to quality and as to quantity. As
to wool by the fleece the Rambouil-
let exceeds the Shropshire by 20

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Michigan.
Mr. Wood said most
cows were good milkers.
Mr. Ball would not cont» -_le that
Shorthorns were unprofit.-«Ule. He
would breed them for the same

1} pe that has m_ad« ‘hem famous-
- v

Sliorthorn

H.

has actually fallen below the aver-
age cost of production, if the statis-
ties are reliable. It is at once ap-
parent that the only wheat grower
that is winning in that line is he
who grows the maximum number
of bushels to the acre at the mini-
oll w this,

The best and most beef for the
least money. Breed Shorthorns
and breed them pure. Bree
Shorthorns for beef; Jerseys for
butter; Holsteins for milk.

Dr. Mills did not believe in
crossing breeds.

Mr. Wood said Mr. Ball was
mistaken in saying that Sliortliorns

c _ _
line‘ of thought fartherf a is
true of wheat is true of our other

(1 general agricultural products, and

is particularly true of our live stock
industries. The only successful
stock breeders and wool growers of
the present times are men and
WOI'.4?ll endowed by nature with a
fair amount of old-fasliioned horse

were not bred for milk. The dairy ,
herds of England are all Short.-3
horns. ‘I
Mr. Stevens, secretary of thei
State \Vorld’s Fair Commission,l
was present, and asked to know‘.
how many Shortliorns would be,
shown in Chicago. ‘
On motion, the officers were re-l
elected. t
On motion, adjourned. l
Members—~H. H. Hinds, VVm.
Ball, B. Peckham and son, John
Lessiter, J. M. Turner, W’. 
Boyden, \Vm. Gaffney, John Mcz

Kay. ,

SHROPSHIRE BREED ERS‘
ClA'l‘l0N.

President Hinds called to order
December 21, 1892. The Presi-
dent said there. are 200 breeders of
Shropshire sheep in Micliigan.
One-fifth of the membership of
the American Shropshire Associa-
tion belongs iii Michigan. They
have imported more than one-lialf
of the Shropshires imported in 1892.
The public sales in Michigan have
in ct with better prices than in any
other state. So that the pros-
pects for breeders of Shropshires
are very bright.

Owing to political changes we
are about to enter the markets of
the world with our wool crop.
Under these circumstances breed-
ers of Shropshires are in as good
condition as breeders or growers
of any breed or class of sheep.

Shropshire rams make the best 1

cross on the common flocks of the

State increasing mutton and wool..

Secretary Beck reported the fi-
nancial condition of the Associa-
tion.

The question of exhibiting at
the World’s Fair was discussed.

Mr. John Lessiter was selected,

to be recommended to the State‘

commissioner as State Superinten-

dent of sheep.
'1‘. A. Bixby, of South Haven,
was added to the committee to ex-

.\SSO- 1are paying
got the County, State,
1 Associations

4

sense, and who make their business
a matter of the most careful thought
and study, and who run it steadily
and constantly and who do not let
it run itself at all. These people
are all in school and their lessons
are learned from their own ex-
perience and the experience of
others. They are careful readers
and good listciiers, and when they
have learned something beneficial
in their calling they cheerfully im-
part it to others. They buy and
read the daily papers. They are
patrons and students of the best
agricultural and stock breeding
publications of the times. They
members, or should be,
and National
representing their
breeds of stock. They attend their
annual meetings and participate in
their regular discussions. In fact
they let no good opportunity for
acquiring a. better knowledge of
their business pass unimproved.
Among the many schools whose
doors stand ajar for the stock
breeder and wool grower and the
adult members of his family is the
Grange. The chances of his ac-
quiring slothful, intemperate, and
neglectful habits, or loosing interest
in his calling from frequent attend-
ance at its meetings are infinitesimal,
while the probability of his imbib-
ing knowledge, love and ability to
better pursue his calling are monu-

mental. What the Stock Breeder
and “Tool Grower needs is the best
education possible along the lines
running parallel to his calling. He
‘is not a calamity liowler in any
iseiise of the term. If he is not al-
lready a member of the Grange, he
‘should join at the first favorable
1

opportunity.

 

l(1‘rAl.l.0WAY ()A’l"l'LE isaaiiiiaiasv
' ASSOCIATION.

1
7

President, R. G. Hart, Lapeer;
vice-president, R. B. Caruss. St.
Johns; secretary and treasurer.
Thos. Wycoff, Lainsburg.

"""I"?i‘h1 ec

ing the Bamh-‘uillet on Shropshire
ewes, claim tohave the best sheep
in existence fc mutton and wool,
but my observtion places them of
less value for \OOl than the Rain-
bouillet, but . saw lambs at six
months we' 0 IJ0l1I1dS-

comparison of values lies between
the Shropshire and the Rambouil-
let, as to mutton, as to quality and
quantity, as to value. for crossing on
other breeds, as to miittou and wool,
as to nutritive capability, and as to
cash value of wool. As to mutton,
I am not able to find any diferetice
between the breeds as to qizality or
quaiitity. Both breeds show well
marked quarters of equal weight
on the block. Both claim the same
per cent of dressed meat to live
weight. I have seen both liaiig
side by side in the Christmas mark-
et. and I could not designate one
from the other only by the bone.

As to crossing on other breeds
the Shropsliire has done more in
the last ten years to fill the farm-
er's pockets with the iieedful than
any other breed-v——-and in my opin-
ion than all other breeds combined.

But since the Ranibouillet breed
has started in this direction I have

sell for mutton, but persists in
keeping his lambs for wool because
there is so much more money in
them for that purpose than the
grade Merinos. There will soon be
some of the finest flocks of breed-
ing ewes ever seen in the state. by
enterprising young men who are
building up flocks with the Ram-
bouillet breed. These will take the
places of the old worn out flocks of
grade Merino ewes. I have seen
lambs at six months weigh 100
pounds of the dross of Rambouillet
ram on Shropshire ewes.

I will speak of one experiment
made in Ionia county by Mr. Ham-
ilton. He made a cross of a Shrop-

At the saint’ lime he united the two
ties of blcx, a Rambouillet Merino

rain and g: Ile Merino ewes; same
number, and in every respect equal
. in all conditions and fed the same.
lAt the time the lambs were twelve
l months old they were accurately
weighed, fifty of each, and the Ram-
bouillet lambs weighed twelve
1 pounds more than the Shropshires.
.and the lambs were wide apart as
lto wool value too; _at least 20 per
l

 

cent in favor of the Rambouillet.
AS TO NUTBITIVE CAPABILITY

I find in December report of Iowa
experiment station,
American Merino with the ,Shrop-

 

per cent in weight.

let exceeds the Shropshire by 7%
per cent.

per cent.

-gfimmmfima. ..A.s..t9 .I1.1ltILtiV..€°-.°§.P,§hi.1-i.f‘.-.3’ ten per.

not heard of a single complaint,-
and nearly every breeder will not’

shire rain on 50 grade Merino ewes. ‘

comparing the

“In manufacturing much profit
comes from small savings,” inti-
mating that farmers do not always
practice that. Grasses may be
bred so as to improve them as wel
as stock. He urged its importance
and showed improvements he hfxd
made, with different varieties.

Mr. JolinLessiter shicfhé p ac
ticed heavy seeding with a variety
of grasses. Liked orchard grass.

F. B. Mumford of Agricultura
college, read a paper, “ Some sug
gestive experiments in sheep feed-
ing,” which we shall publish. He
favored roots for sheep.

l\Ir. Phelps knew of a flock of
breeding ewes, fed on roots, which
lost their lambs; the next year fed
on grain raised their lambs. Sev-
eral members had fed ewes roots
with no bad results.

Mr. Geo. E. Breck read a paper
on sheep for mutton and wool.
‘V001 growing is no longer profit-
able. Mutton and wool combined
make sheep profitable. The Slirop-
shire is the idéal mutton and wool
breed.

As to scoured wool the Rambouil-

As to cash proceeds of wool 80

As to twin lambs equal.

cent in favor of the Rarhbouillet
Merinos, pro rata as to food con-
sumed and mutton and wool pro-
duced.

As to precocity, early maturity
and fattening qualities equal.

As to lon_r/cvity and rigor 50 per
cent in favor of the Bambouillet. l

lVith these" figures before you I
leave you to judge for yourselves
as between the two breeds, as to
which is the better breed for mu!-
ton and 247001, and I leave these
figures to the consideration of
An1er’z'c(1.-n illcrino breeders who
claim that the Rambouillet Merino
breed, afterbeing bred one hzmdred
years to make the best mutton and
wool sheep in the world is a fail-
ure, when the rains weigh 250 to
300 pounds at maturity and ewes
150 to 200 pounds shearing from! H. A. Daniels read a paper on
15 to 22 pounds for the former and l the same subject, favoring the
10 to 15 pounds for the latter with , Lincolns for that purpose.
fifty per cent scoured wool. ; Thos. Wlyckolf also read a paper
lgiving figures to show that the
lliauibouillet Merino is the super-
_ ‘_ llative breed for that use.

(Pile ASS()(flHll()ll Of Bl'ee(lerS Of‘: L_ ‘V_ Barlles read a paper on
Iinproved Stock met Dec. 20. “The, best breed of Swine for

Tht‘ *ltl€‘I1d31W<‘ W35 fail‘: but 1101? Micliigan. and the comparative
what it should be in a state like jmpoftrmee of Swim, b,-ee(1ing_"
M1('l11g_a11- , _ The Poland China is his ideal, and

PY9Sl(lt§I1l.  tlld IlOl. pI‘L‘l)H.l'8 he  s\Vingb1-geding-‘hasmany
an address. He called attention advantages in quick returns and
to  ()l)j€Cl; Of this IISSOCIHIIIOD. the (V-On(Su]I1ptlOn of ‘many Waste
which is to increase the interest products
in lIllpI'OV9d bI'e€'(lS Of 1lV€ StOCk. ()fic91'S “'91-e elected as follows;
All farmers raise stock and only President, G90 E_ B,-eck, Paw
good stock pays. The scrub must Pa“;
|§§"- He also 5P"k" Of the lmP01’t- Vice President. W. E. Boyden,
lance of a live stock exhibit at the Delhi M1113

 
   
     
 
 
  
 
   
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
 
  
  
  
   
  
 
  
  
 
   
 
 
 
  

Breeders of Improved Stock.

W0Tld’S F331‘: Very lime P1“3P9~1'3' Secretary, I. H. Butterfield,

tion having been made in that Lapee,-,

<li1‘€('ti0U- Treasurer, Homer A. Flint, De-
Dr. Grange of the Agricultural troit.

Directors, C. F. Moore, St.
Clair; J. C. Sharp, Jackson; Geo.
W. Stuart, Grand Blanc.

Merino Breeders.

college, spoke on “ Special (:0I1f01'--
mation of different classes of
lhorses.’ To keep pace with other
‘nieans of transportation we must,’
improve that by horses. 1st. Im-§
prove the vehicles. The pneuuiaticl
sulky has reduced the trotting rec-l

7

 

()lfi<~ers electeWw‘ere: President,
G. VV. Stuart; Secretary, E. N

0rd considerably. 2d. Improve ] Ball; Treasurer, J. E. Smith.
lthe roads. 3d. Improve the Committee on exhibiting wool at ~
animal. A horse should be well‘Chicago: H. R. Dewey, A. A.

trained. He can do more and bet-‘Wood, Wm. Badford. This was
ter work. He must have beauty ma(le a standing committee, wit
of form, and endurance; and of a power to act.
form adapted to the use designed. A committee of three was ap
Dr. Grange gave a minute descrip- pointed to select 100 sheep for
tion of the conformation of a per- exhibiting at the World’s Fair
fect horse consisting of VVni. Ball, A. A.
Arhm: M Hayden presented a Wood, Geo. W. Stuart.


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JANUARY 1, 1893.

 

.1‘HE GRANGE VISITOR. 3

Postal Joflings.

WHEATLAND GRANGE, NO. 273.

elected Albert Pease, W. M., Alice Pease,
W. L., Lydia Clark, Secretary.

WHITE OAK GRANGE. NO. 2-11,
elected C. F. Patrick, W. M., G. H. Proc-

tor, \V. L., Anna Patrick, Secretary.

HOPKINS GRANGE, NO. 890.

We are in a prosperous condition with 50
paying members and taking in new ones.
Have two meetings a month and have lit-
erary work that is very interesting The
children take part in the exercises, it makes
them feel that they are helping the Grange
and they all like to come. Through the
summer we had ice cream socials and this
fall we had a mush and milk social that
was well attended. \Ve own our hall. We
will send all the names we can for the Vis-
ITOR.

WATSON GRANGE. NO. 154.

We have about 50 members and hold our
meetings on Saturday evenings nearest the
full moon and in the afternoon two weeks
from that time. Our exercises are ques-
tions for discussion, medley exercises, etc.
The question for this evening is concerning
the strikes. We had the honor of sending
from our Grange a delegate to the State
Grange.

The beciure Field.

BROTHER AND SISTER LECTUBERS:
-Following the instructions of
the last session of our State
Grange, it is the intention of this
department to strike out some-
what on new lines and endeavor to
bring about something of a sys-
tem of our work with a special en-
deavor to unite our efforts that the
greatest good may come from the
works of those who labor, while
we would spread the lessons and
experiences of the more successful
Granges to the aid of the newer
or weaker ones.

I am encouraged by the hearty
assurance of assistance and coop-
eration received from every oflicer
and deputy of the State Grange;
and am pleased to inform you
that if you will earnestly work
to fill the very important places
you have accepted you will have
our ready and willing support
and help, while we know very well
that from the most of you, we too
can receive something to carry to
the rest as the free offerings of
ready thought and willing hands.
column mav at all
times be replete with something
fresh and bright, as well as season-
able and practicable, I ask of all
that you send to us for selection,
or ready prepared to the editor,
your suggestions of topics and
programs of meetings and various
outlines of work in your Granges.
And in taking from this store-
house for your use, we will expect
you to modify and add to it with
personal thought and tact to con-
form to your surroundings and
the lines of your previous work,
never forgetting that you can set
the stakes for greater achievements
higher and reach them every time
by your increasing strength.

Lecturers, the work of the
Womaiis’ Committee goes so near
in line with yours that you should
see to it that the master of your
Grange does not defer the appoint-
ment that you may partake of their
ready help, dividing time with
them so as to have no clash in the
year’s arrangements. We suggest
that you go about it at once and
somewhat divide or map out the
work of the year, and thus having
a skeleton of a plan you can fill it
in, and constantly have something
to work to. Some of our best
working Granges are divided, at
the beginning of the year, into
sections, by the Lecturer, who
picks from the Grange as many
good workers as they desire to
make selections, from five to
twelve. Then these, as captains or
leaders take the list of all the mem-
bers (including themselves) and
draw them off into groups which
shall have the work of entertain-
ment at some future meeting to be
designated in advance by the Lect-
urer. But in every way the cap-
tains plan and manage the work of
the meeting assigned to them with
the aidof their crew, making and
executing their program in all of
its details. Also you may set
apart a few dates for meetings of
especial features. As the winter
is a good time for donations, de-
vote one with its attractions, even
calling in outside help to work up
a contribution to the Temple of
Ceres, and put the meeting in
charge of the Woman’s Committee.
Have an anniversary day dating
with the organization of your
Grange, and the more of these
yearly family reunions you have,

the pleasauter they will become,
when you can issue cards of special
invitation to all the old members
who may have dropped out and
some other friends.

Flora must have a May day.
Children’s day under the auspi-
ces of the Juvenile Grange, or
Woman’s Committee, if you have
not this pleasant annex. Then
will come‘ Independence day with
its appropriate topics; Ceres and
Pomona should each fill the time
set apart for them; our National
Anniversary, December 4, and the
like, all come in dressed in special
attire, and each worth all the ex-
tra effort they cost, for the harvest
they bring, and no more asking,
what is your Grange doing?

It is a great assistance to have a
list of the names and addresses of
Lecturers. How many of you will
send them to me by postal card or
otherwise? Now do not think this
is all very good for somebody else,
it to some extent certainly means
you.

Wishing you all a Happy New
Year. A. J. Caossr, J B.

RESOLUTIONS.

At a meeting of the Eaton Rap-
ids Grange No. 360, on Dec. 3d,
the petition of the Pope Manufac-
turing Co. in favor of a national
road department was read and
discussed, and a committee ap-
pointed to draft resolutions ex-
pressing their opinion on same.

WHEREAS, There is at present a great
cry raised by bicycle makers and riders
over the present condition of our roads, :1
class of men who pay little or no tax and
would like to dictate to those who do the
amount, and manner in which it should be
expended; and

\VHi~:Ri~:As, We believe that a road de-
partment at Washington or at the World's
Fair will be of benefit only as a means of
supplying fat jobs to a few more hangers
on; therefore, -

RP.¢0l7‘ed, That we are opposed to the es-
tablishment of a National road department
or of any increase in State taxation for the
building of highways.

F. A. OSBORN,
C. S. CARR.

CoImm'ttm.'.

SPECIAL MEETING.

Western Pomona Grange No. 19
held a special meeting Dec. 1 and
2 with Olive Center Grange. WW3
had hoped for a full attendance at

this meeting of Pomona mambo

but the misty weather, with the‘

probability of rain before the
meeting was closed, kept most of
them at home. A few of them
ventured to drive about thirty-two
or thirty-three miles, and they felt
well paid for their venture. I
think they expected quite a crowd
by the looks of their dining room.
I heard one brother say that it was
no use to try any longer, there
seemed to be just as much left to
eat now that he was ready to go
home, as there was when he came,
and he had been there two (lays
and did his best at every meal.

Meeting opened at one o’clock
the first day, with a cordial Wel-
come to Pomona and all visiting
members present, by the \Vorthy
Master of Olive Center Grange,
Bro. Fellows. The meeting was
then turned over to VV. M. M. S.
Smith.

Our Pomora lecturer disappoint-
ed us very much by not being
there with a program, or sending
one if he could not be present.
Bro. Alward of Georgetown
Grange acted as lecturer. The W.
M. made a good choice when he
placed Bro. Alward in the loc-
turer’s chair for that meeting.
Bro. Alward ought to have a vote of
thanks from every Pomona mem-
mer present, for helping out of that
difficulty so nicely. But if we
lacked for a program, Olive Center
Grange did not.

lVe can not say too much in
praise of this Grange. It is one
of the best, we believe, in the state.
Composed of young members,
mostly, each one striving to do all
he can to make his Grange one of
the best of the Order, feeling that
each member has a personal inter-
est there and that they must main-
tain themselves, they Work with a
will-a condition we do not find
everywhere we go.

Their program consisted of
readings, recitations, music, and
three essays which I had promise of
to send to the VISITOR.

1 had the honor of stayingover
night with the VV. L. of the
Grange. I found him to be wide
awake to the work, and although
he had been a member of the
Order only about six months, he
understood his business and acted
accordingly.

We bade good-by to Olive Center

Grange knowing that they are on
the road to success, and with the
feeling that we "had been right
royally entertained.
Mas. H. J. AUSTIN,
Secretary.

 

WHEATLAND GRANGE N0. 273.

Called to order by Worthy Mas-
ter Oaks and opened in the fourth
degree.

The regular order of business was
called after which a short recess
was declared by the Worthy Master.
The meeting was called and the
secretary read the essay “Highway
Legislation,” by S. S. Bailey, in
the last copy of the GRANGE Vis-
ITOR, and a discussion of the same
followed. Our Patrons did not agree
with the principles defined in the
essay to insure the needed improve-
ment in our highway. Thought
our present laws good enough, if
properly enforced. It was remarked
that the subject would be agitated
in the coming legislature. Some
thought a good many articles in our
papers written in regard to road
making were written by men that
never worked on a road and did not
know how to build one. Some
thought perhaps the bicycle manu-
facturers were interested in that
direction for their own benefit. In
regard to the three per cent bonds
it would increase our taxes and the
most of us think our taxes high
enough at the present time, and if
we could have good energetic over-
seers that would put the same
amount of muscle and mind in his
road work he does on his own farm,
and see that all others do the same,
and when you get a good one retain
him, so that what improvement was
made one year would not be torn
down the next, avoid all work in the
fall, make a narrow turnpike, use
gravel freely, and we would see that
our roads would be greatly improv-
ed, as we all know they are very
much better than twenty years ago
and have been made so by our pre-
sent system of work andlaws. Vot-

ed to invite Pomona Granges to '

meet with us the first Thursday in
February. Conteinplate having a

cheese meeting in the evening;.

thought perhaps it would be a good

subject as there isggfactory a short
 -~ .1--.i...
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would like to learn more about the

business.
Mas. A. A. PEASE.
North Adams.

STRAWBERRIES FOR MISSOURI.

{Bulletin Missouri Station]

1. Best ten varieties, all things
consdered, named in order of earli-
ness: Michels Early, Crescent, M.
A. C. No. 23, Greenville, Haverland,
Shuster’s Gem, Miner’s Prolific,
Ontario. Bubach No. 5, Parker
Earle.

2. Ten varieties producing the
largest fruit: Barton, Princess,
Greenville, Ontario, Middlefield,
Excelsior, Buchley’s Seedling,
Logan, Great Pacific, Haverland.

3. Ten best, quality alone con-
sidered: M. A. C. No. 23, Hender-
son, Jersey Queen, Grccnville,
Hart’s Minnesota, Chas. Downing,
Eureka, Haverland, Excelsior, On-
tario.

4. Ten most productive varieties:
Shuster"s Gem, Crescent, Green-
ville, Parker Earle, Michel’s Early,
Bubach N o. 132, Haverland, Miner’s
Prolofic, M. A. C. No. 23, Bubach
No. 5.

5. Ten sorts freest from rust:
Boynton, Princess, Stayman’s~No.
1, Garland, Haverland, Crawford,
Crescent, May King, Stayman’s
No. 2, Walton.

Nofe.—Rust is not sufficient in
any of the varieties in the first list
to seriously affect their value.

6. A list that will be found valua-
ble for the home experimenter: The
first list given, and Beder Wood,
Barton, Bubach N o. 132, Buchley’s
Seedling, Crawford, Crimson Clust-
er, Daisy, Excelsior, Great Pacific,
HarIand’s No. 1, Hart’s Minnesota,
Lida, Miami, Middlefield, Parry,
Riehl’s No. 1, Saunders.

7. Straw is a better winter cover-
ing for strawberries than leaves.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

JANUARY 1, 1893.

in GRANGE VISITOR

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

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TH NEW’ YEAR.

We begin volume eighteen of the
GRANGE Visiror. with this issue.
Very properly we have designated
it a “special Grange" edition. lVe
had hoped to have had still more of

purely Grange matter, but were:

disappointed in the non-appearance
of a. few communications of that
sort. We had also hoped to ini-
tiate several new features in this
issue but the busy times of the sea-
son seem to have made this impos-
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many good words spoken of the
VISITOR and we trust that the com-
ing twelve months will mark an era,
not only of great improvement in
the qiiality of the ‘paper’. but as
well in its financial success. Much
of the latter depends upon the
efforts of our readers.

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higher up among papers of its class,
and of making it still more worthy
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in responding to call for contribu-
tions and in seeking subscriptions.
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complish little; with it we may be
able to do much. Let us work to-
gether to make this year the most
successful and prosperous of any in
the life of the Visiron.

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OFFICERS AND THE VISITOR.

It is a lamentable fact that a
large number, fully half we fear, of
the out-going Masters and Secre-
taries of the Subordinate Granges
do not take the VIsiToR. It ought
to be a standing rule that no man,
or woman, shall be installed into a
Grange office unless he has the

then be true to this fundamental
principle. We are so apt to daily,
to wait, to shrink, or to shirk. Let
us not be guilty of these. Let us
be up and at work early and late.
We have a noble work; we are not
ashamed of it; then let us be at it.

Read the Master’s call and obey
at once.

 

THE STATE GRANGE.

Among a number of important
resolutions which were adopted by
the State Grange aside from those
cf technical interest which are men-
tioned elsewhere in this issue, was
one favoring the payment of $500
to our State legislators, irrespective
of the length of the session. Other
matters were also touched, reports of
which will be published. But the
most noticeable feature of the senti-
ment of the Grange was the una1i—
imity with which educational mat-
ters, and especially those concern-
ing purely agricultural study, were
decided. ;

The Grange committed itself in
favor of an appropriation of $10,000
per year for carrying on farmers’
institutes, so that one can be held in
every county. It committed itself
as favoring a short winter course of
agricultural instruction at the Agri-
cultural College, and pledged itself
to secure students, if possible, for
the same. It favors appropriations
for the establishment of a ladies’
department at the same college ,

It proposed to the College that a 1
reading course be established, and
thanks to the energy of the Grange
a course will be ready in a few
weeks. Of this we shall speak
later.

“To speak of these matters in this
collective way to show what a live,
strong meeting the State Grange
was. Think of the possible
consequences of good to the

entire farming class of Michi-
gan,__ young and old, if these

projects are in any sense successful,
think of the tremendous impor-
tance of the questions discussed and
the possible results that may flow
therefrom. From this standpoint
the State Grange of 1892 has
wrought a wonderful work, the
value of which will perhaps not be
appreciated for many years to come.

 

THAT SENATORIAL QUESTION.

It seem a little queer that the
State Grange should have so em-
phatically rejected the resolution
endorsing Mr.Luce for the senator-
ship (for that is what it amounted
to) and yet the GRANGE VISITOR,
oflicial organ of the State Grange,
comes out in active support of him.
Had we not so much confidence in
the VIsITOR’s editor we would sus-
pect he had received one of those
1 “his friends will provide” circulars

land taken the. hint. As it is, we
.presume Mr. Butterfield, like some
other well-disposd people sees only
Mr. Luce and not the cabal of mil-y
lionaires who are backing him and
qwhose personal interests he Iieces-l
lsarily must subserve if elected.‘
l And perhaps he had not seen that
one of the series of zisinine circulars
lwhich declares Mr. Luce is not

 

 

nate and Pomona Granges. That
there is need of such work is plain.
We hope to discuss the various
phases of the matter from time to
time.

 

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NOTICE.
Secretaries "of Subordinate
Granges please notice that at the

[State Grange they were requested

to report the name of the chairman
of their Committees on VVoman’s
Work to the Secretary of the State
Grange with the names of Masters
and Secretaries.
MARY SHERWOOD HINDS,
Ohairmtm of C0’rnm1'f1‘ec on
ma.n’s Work.

Wo-

 

FROM OUR NEW IlIAS'l‘El€.

Having been elected to the lioii-
orable and responsible position of
Master of the State Grange of
Michigan at the recent representa-
tive session of that body at Lan-
sing, I come before you through
the columns of the VISITOR to make
an acquaintance with all members
throughout the State.

I desire first to assure all that I
enter upon the duties of the oflice
with a keen realization of the im-
portant duties involved, and that it
is my most eamiest desire to per-

form tliewoil.‘ Jthe vporferrt satis-

faction of all and to the best inter-
ests of the Order.

The Grange holds today a re-
spected and responsible position in
the consideration of the people and
the welfare of the States best iii-
terests.

In this organization we have a
sacred trust to guard and keep.
The noble and self sacrificing men
and women who have in years past
stood so firmly by the principles of
justice, and progress, and a higher
position for the farmer and his
family in the social, educational
and influential fields of life and ac-
tion, are justly entitled to our most
thankful consideration.

The accomplishments of the past
twenty-five years or of the years
since the agitation that resulted in
the organization of the first Granges
in country communities, are won-
derful and far reaching. The in-
fluences at that period set to action
were not and could not be confined
to the Grange, and the entire farm-
er’s population has recieved great
and untold benefits. Today we
stand the peers of any class of peo-

ple. and have become wiser and
better farmers, and the laws that
govern the world of business and
formation of policies of government along the line.

mant should be revived and!‘
brought into healthy action. New
Granges should be organized inl
every country community where
none exists. Let us consider our‘
Granges as we do our schools and
other institutions which are of bene-
fit to the progress and prosperity
of our community and support them
by liberal contributions of time and
money. “No excellence without
labor.” is true of this as well as the
other good and beneficial agencies
employed to improve our homes
and our families. The Grange is
the medium through which you may
bring to your homes in the country
those things which are enjoyable,
elevating and profitable to people
who live in towns and cities.

Now, Patrons of Michigan, let us
awake to a full sense of our duty,
and as we love our homes, our fam-
ilies, and our chosen profession let
us unitedly press forward to the
work of a grand and sweeping
Grange revival. The harvest is
ripe and awaits our coming. Be
prompt and faithful in attendance,
encourage your neighbors and
friends to join you. Canvass your
county and if any dormant Granges
are found assist and encourage
them to go to work again. Also
sow the good seed in suitable places
for new Granges.

In pursuance of this work I am
now laying plans to assist you and
1 to give you all the support that the
‘ State Grange can afford. You
l must be the workers and those who
‘I are sent to your county will act as,
lhelpers. A good active and earnestl
{person is needed in every county‘,
{at once to act as local deputy or]
iagent for this work. A means of’;
~ prompt communication must be had. 
l It is the duty of all County Gran ges. I
' at their first meeting, to suggest!
the name of a person suitable toi
act in this work and forward atl
once to me for confirmation. This
can only apply to those County
Granges that will meet in the very
near future. for the entire efliciency
of the Work depends upon having
arrangements fully made and work
in progress at an early date. so that
it may be completed before spring
shall put the farmer into the fields
for his summer’s labor. An early
call will be made in every county
flieire -Ga-smges exist, through your
representatives to State Grange for
a conference, at which time revival

work in your county will be dis-
cussed and a suitable person select-
ed to receive the appointment of
deputy.

If you do your part, a lecture will
be delivered in every Grange hall
in the State during the next three
months; also special work calculat-
ed to encourage and stimulate all
members to the accomplishment of
better results. The ardent and
devoted men and women whose
voices and earnest appeals so many
of you have heard from the public
platform are willing to do all in
their power to assist. First of all
thorough arrangements must be
made and in this every Patron has
a duty to perform. The matter
should be brought before every
Grange for consideration so that
when the lecturer shall come, you
will have every member out to hear
him, also as many neighbors and
friends as will fill the hall. Inas-
much as this general work is in
lprogress it would be well for all
contemplated county or district
Grange gatherings to be held at the
time of this visit by the lecturer,
and make it one grand ovation all

STATE GRANGE NOTES.

Did you attend the State
Grange? If not we extend to you
our sympathy. It was a. very pleas-
ant and in every way harmonious
session. Weighty questions of leg-
islation were discussed and han-
dled in a masterly manner, but
when it came to the hired girl
question it proved to be too much
for the wisest to solve. One broth-
er stated he had made a standing
offer of a cow, bed, forty acres of
land and a piano, but with all
these inducements was obliged to
do his own work. It was sug-
gested he add a husband to the
list

Among many old-time familiar
faces was that of Jason VVoodman,
who called our attention, with
considerable pride, to the fact that
silver threads were appearing
among the gold, but even this fail-
ed to make him appear venerable!

Invitations were extended to the
State Grange to visit the Reform
school and Agricultural college.
Every kindness was shown to those
who availed themselves of the
opportunity. A few took occasion
to visit the firm of Robert Smith
& Co., State printers and binders,
and were shown around by the
genial senior member, and saw for
themselves where the VISITOR is
printed.

The session was one of the most
enjoyable ever held. Harmony
ruled over the entire four busy
days. The delegation was made
up, as last year, of almost entirely
new representatives; but they ac-
commodated thcmselves to work
readily and developed some most
promising material before the week
closed. New members expressed
surprise, no less at the amount of
business transacted, than at the
cordial social sphere that prevail-
ed in the Grange, the committee
rooms. the corridors and hotels.

Members were met at Lansing
by the announcement of the death
of Sister J. T. Cobb, at Schoolcraft,
on Monday morning. The sense
of personal loss, the thought of
the lonely home and sympathy
for the husband, whose presence
was missed for the first time in
this State Grange, drew close the
bonds of fraternal feeling ,at t‘-‘O
outset, nor were they broken dur-
ing the week.

Upon assembling, Tuesday
morning, a. telegram, assuring
Brother Cobb of warm sympathy, ‘
was sent by the Grange. A beau-
tiful floral design of “Gates
Ajar” was selected as a token of
regard for Sister Cobb’s memory,
and H. D. Platt, member of the
executive committee, and the pres-
ent secretary were deputized to
represent the State Grange at the
funeral Wednes(lay morning.

Sister Cobb and Sister W. K.
Sexton of Howell, who also has
entered the other life since last we
met, have both been in the State
Grange as lady officers or helpful
social factors at a larger share of its
meetings its organization in 1874.

Despite the hard work of the
session, many pleasant relaxations
were interspersed with the routine
of reports, motions and resolu-
tions. A choir from Branch
county, and sweet singers from
Calhoun. Montcalm and Traverse
counties, furnished music upon
every call, while recitations, rich,
witty and pathetic, abounded at the
presence of Miss Susie Mars, Mrs.
Mary M. Maybee of Mason, and

Patrons, do your

Miss Mary C. Allis, the Grange’s

It

VISITOR in his home_ Sewrea pep ~ S 01 e1 y a farmers. candidate. 7 _A yle_  ar1e_n1<_1i lllongpr a blank tlo pad _Th1zli.t dirity] and you will surely reap a re- popular favorite.’ . _ _ .,
haps but in three cases out of five, 7“ no as Ben acwmp 15 16 m ’ 6 Wm ' I ‘ mong famlhar Vlsltnlg facesa

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P t h far fails to See 9”" "Z? ( a Thesel GED. B. HoRTo.\'. ‘often welcomed, always welcome,
any a. you w 0 so .

, \ ._ . . past is ours to guard today. _ _ _ _

. “_ “ W1°h.t‘° Say hm’ htfle 0“ Nils  achievements and the possibilities ‘may be; mentioned Hon. and Mrs.
his duty as to neglect his paper,‘subject. First, as we understand it, _J_ Woodman, Mr, and Mrs A_
will fail to see and perform his_duty ‘ the vote of the Grange was a matter

‘of the future are practically. and to; ‘J
a great extent centered in the Sub-5 IE. Green, Hon. C. G. Luce, Hon. -‘
- ' . . ‘ ' Gran es scattered over our‘ " ' ‘ ‘V . . T. F. Moore J. H. Forster Mr
in other respects. purely of wisdom concerning the Ordmate g_ , Died at his home in Cascade a , 9 -
. tt (1 t ,f th tth - ’ . ./ dM.R-.. ' . I
We  that of     H030? war :i:.:.i:...:a,.:?:..   .:l;;):~,t1s.,*.:.1.1;;. i§é’;F,;§?‘;:y,;,§f,;1;.f§,  gs... Wi.fr.1wi.i::
lect is not intentional, and we onlyity. to. 1'. nice. .- ecom, in oiirlgtate or Natlonal Grange, Tjlerelwhimeyvine Grange NO‘ 222. Hon_ D_ D_ B11611’ Jason VVO0d_
ask that the incoming ofliccrs shall I editorial we stated in substance that 1 would be no aoncent;-afgion of the  imam and E_ A_ VVi1dey_
'}S1TORlWe believed Mr. Luce represents,lbeSt21n(l most progressive thought? a i The address of the Master this

rally to the Support of the V ' f th c 1 itr in the interest of! " h f ll ’
and that such a live canvass shall be l more fully than any other candidate, ggricsltuory by)’ practical agricultm  3| E)L’I91*;1'y:fD3E(l1et1i‘(:er(;1d es; %E)lnl3erE’L0()sf' \

Huron (‘minty Pomona

 

made ia the neft th1ree_m()1\I}tliis that  1];he farming class<l*st.} So far a:.1Mr. - rists, and those who have 1. ts best.‘  Mars‘ For five years he has 00- 1
every range ami y in 1C11g8.l1§ l1(3l"1S(50IlC€l'l1e( in. was a \ve,!intt.,.estS at beam 1“ ‘t V.th B. } G‘ D“ mupied the chair and given to the
shall have the paper regularly. -‘ did say. Any one who assumes that‘, There would be no fountain head, 3 6 5“ 1_ IFS lam 1ange- -LC‘ l Order the strength extracted from
, _ , . 1. Llected as Master. \V1lliam~ . . ,
iwe said more slioiild put on the  from which could emanate and flow , Pmlgmam Lecturer Ellen PEmg_ ‘, arduous service in the ranks in
THE M.-iSTER~S CALL. , Spectacles of an ,,,,p,.ejudiCed Sp',,._ 1, out to all the farmers of the country I yflflflti fiecretflry, Mrisl R‘ Nllgelit‘ l§1‘eV1011S years. No sacrifice has .
Read the ringing can to action, a it, and read again. ‘V6 think Omlinatulred and suggestivepolicies foi'1ReSd1utiOnS were adopted favofinqilie spared that might debar the 
— 1 egis ative action. Va Change in the Grange bv_]awS $6 I force of his nature from the work; V

from our Masteum another c01umn'lIJ0Slti011 “'°n9l5l'ent- Herein our duty lies, we must‘. lwhatever untiring Zeal could de-

, that all Pomona Grangcs ma be . . .
.work for and support the home 4 rep1_eSen,[ed at State Grange, O3; SO‘\'lS6 or willingness execute, found

Read it twice or thrice. Note hisg ——————————
‘ . I ‘ = 1: El/V I EPARTJIE VT. ; - ' . .
words concerning county tltpllilespi 1 N ) ’ .Grange. These combined high! that “One shall have the privilege_ Bro. Mars ‘ready for it. The
lwarmth of his earnestness and his

do not fail to heed this part cs-3‘ \Ve begin the Lecturer’s l§_)epart-fscliools, debating and literary so-E Also that We fawn some plan _ -
peciauy Organization for W01-kislmentjn this number_ The mm andicietiesandpermanentneighborhood1 for Securing a low 1, at e of interestlcliaritable rulings have cemented ~

I . . - - is cials we must maintain and keep _ . ' t‘ b - ' '
Om‘ great need as an Order‘ 0 1" ' Smpe of this department W111 be’ 1n l iiiaprosPe,1‘ous and strongconilitiom l1i:3sI1):dl‘10C‘(13.S’ aslddellilads afiI\faer£,i’11‘l\ntg1‘(f 1 :7X1i:r1en%°.IIi1:‘I3I:e:sr‘:hi1‘l) 1‘n3l)Ill33’9f'15rI‘?‘1‘);‘ u
not possible. As he stepped out

esting program‘ {Of the highest office in their midst,

ganization is the Grange; or, thethrief, to unite and systcmatize thegrphose that are strong Should be]
Grange is organization.

I; El’. 11 S  WO1'l( Of l}llE‘. I49-Cl7ll1‘(3rI'S Of S11b0T(ll- l njade St1-one-(:,1-. the weak and (101--l
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he held the greatful honor and
congratulations of his co-workers
for what he has been to them and
and the cause.

“A day to toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend. is life too short."

George B. Horton, new Master
of the State Grange; a farmer.
prominent in Lenawee county and
in agricultural business circles of
the State, Mr. Horton needs no in-
troduction to farmers outside our
number, while within the Grange,
his successive terms as a member
of the executive committee have
made him already long valued and
depended upon for sound judg-
ment and fertile ideas. He brings
to this position the prime of his
manhood and a wide acquaintance
with men at large, he has sucsess-
fully encountered business and is
well schooled in Grange doctrine
and duty. We look for avigorous
advance of our forces under his
leadership.

F. W. Redfern retired from the
executive committee after a half
dozen years’ service. By his dili-
gent, careful consideration of every
matter of business his presence in
State Grange has upheld that
clear-brained ‘caution and shrewd
judgment that Michigan prides
herself upon in Grange circles.
Bro. Redfern, in the legislature
this winter, will be relied upon to
still represent his farmer fellows.

Bro’s. Mars of Berrien, Mayo of
Calhoun, VVright of Branch, are
the new members on the executive
committee, with H. D. Platt of
Washtenaw, re-elected.

The report of the executive com-
mittee has come to be looked for as
a valuable contribution among
papers on National issues. The
State Grange, recognizing this,
issues it in neat pamphlet form
each year and seeks for it as wide
adistribution as can be secured.
The present number abates none of
its former emphasis. VVe present
a portion in this issue.

More interest than for some
time was manifested in coop-
eration. A representative of the
Commercial Cooperative Union
was present and explained meth-
ods. No action was taken as a
whole but many inquiries were
raised concerning trade unions of
varipus states and natures.

A special committee on Agricul-

tural college and Experiment Sta-
tion was appointed, as used to be
customary years ago, to visit the
college and report condition, ex-
periments, etc.

The Committee on Education
opposed a unit school system, favor-
ed a uniform system of text
books published by the State and
furnished schools at least possible
cost, favored placing women on
school boards, attendance of wom-
en at school meetings, nine months
of school each year, more frequent
visiting of schools by parents, and
no interference of district school
laws by outsiders. The Grange
stood by the committee on every

int.

The ballot refused to ignorant
immigrants. The ballot extended
to intelligent women.——Seutiment
of State Grange throughout.

Our lady oflicers improved the
practical and poetical province of
their positions well this year. Mrs.
C. C. Poorman’s report, as Flora,
elicited comments of praise as
especially sweet-spirited and wom-
anly. Mrs. W. E. VVright, Pomo-
na, urged the utility, no less than
the beauty, of fruit upon the fam-
ily table. Mrs. H. H. Stocking

persuasively upheld more intelli-l

gent knowledge of the science of
agriculture and home keeping.

“The Three Marys,” of the
Woman’s Work committee,
brought tokens of heavy toil, be-
cause still in pioneer fields. The
sheaves will increase, surely, as
the subordinate Granges appre-
ciate the scope and value of this
work.

Bro. H. H. Dresser of Hillsdale

county, who was one of the retir-1 ry,
ing members of the Executive‘;

secretary. It would be impossible
tohave had more eflicient work done
than was accomplished by Miss
Buell and her assistants VVe are
especially indebted to the secretary
for the major part of these notes.

A few of the young people were
present. It would, however, be an
inspiring sight to witness the pres-
ence of one hundred or two hun-
dred of such, whether delegates or
or not, at the next State Grange.

The weather, more especially
the last two days of the session,
was perfect. Our thanks are due
to “Uncle Jerry” Rusk for this
dispensation, as he undoubtedly
ordered it.

At the hotels, it was “ Grangersg”
at the Capitol. they held sway;
everybody seemed to feel that an
important gathering was in pro-

ress.

About 50 candidates received
the sixth degree.

A large number of renewals and
several new subscriptions to the
VISITOR were received. The re-
port of the Executive Committee
concerning the paper showed a
deficit for the year, but intimated
that if properly supported by
Patrons it would very soon become
self-sustaining.

By vote of the Grange section 6
was added to article XI, page 18
of the State Grange By-Laws. It
reads as follows: -

“Any fourth degree member,
who shall make application to the
Ssate Grange for initiation in the
sixth degree shall. in addition to
the fee for the sixth degree, depos-
it with tl1e secretary of this
Grange one dollar, if a man, and
fifty cents. if a woman, being the
amount of Pomona Grange fees,
whii.-l1 amount shall be forwarded
to the secretary of the Pomona
Grange in the county in which ap-
plicant may reside; provided that
in counties having no Pomona
Granges, the fees shall be forward-
ed to such Pomona Grange in this
jurisdiction as the brother or sister
may desire to apply to for mem-
bership, a11d when elected, it shall
constitute his or her membership.”

No change ,was made in the fees
required, either to the subordidate
or state Grange treasuries.

A resolution was adopted oppos-
ing the granting of money by the
legislature for the purpose of aid-
ing a corporation in extending a
street railway from Lansing to the
Agricultural college. .

Is there not more than the one
farmer who lately said: “ Tell me
what books to buy for my family.
VVe can purchase but one or two
now and then but wish those to be
such as will interest us all. We
want to build up a little home
library?” “The Farmer’s Book
Shelf "’ will answer. What is that?
It is one of the features of that
Home College Course you heard so
much about at State Grange. Tell
your neighbors about it.

A visitor at State Grange for
the first time confessed: “ Why I
I had no idea of the breadth of the
Grange work. That reading course
plan alone is a wonderful field ! It
will come nearer and can do more
for farm homes than Chautauqua
itself. Then there is so much the
Grange can do in the common
schools that no other class can do
as well, and that must be done be-
{pro they are What they should

e.”

RED POLLED CATTLE BREEDERS.

President. J. F. English, Clarke-
ville; vice-president, V. L. Par-
sons. Saginaw; secretary and treas-
urer, J. M. Knapp, Bellevue; di-
rectors, J. M. Chase, Muir; Ezra
Brackett. S. Monterey.

 

AMERICAN RAMBOUILLWI‘ ASSO-
CIATION.

President, Henry Grinnell,
Franklin; vice-president, R. L.
Moulton, VVoodstock, 0.; secreta-
L. G Townsend, Ionia; treas-
urer, L. B. Townsend, Ionia.

 

urer, H. A. Flint, Detroit; exe-
cutive committee, M. L. Frink, W.
R. Montgomery, 0.‘ J. Bliss, J.
F. VanNorman.

 

Holstein-Friesian Association.

President, S. D. Seeley, Holly.

Vice President, J. Nickel, Hoyt-
ville.

Secretary, 0. L. Seeley.

Directors, John Miller, Swartz
Creek; F. E. Mills, Ann Arbor;
E. A. Sweet, Mason.

 

Swine Breeders.

President, L. F. Conrad, Wa-
cousta.

Vice President, H. W. Riley,
Greenville.

Secretary and Treasurer, G. H.
McIntyre, Iosco.

Directors, J. H. Banghart, Lan-
sing: A. Simpson, Boston.

 

THE MAGAZINES.
[See our Clubbing List with these Mag-
azines.——Ed.]

Among the short articles that will appear
in the North Americmz Review for January
are: “ Farm and Home Proprietorship,” by
Geo. K. Holmes; “ Students as Showmen,”
by ]as. M. Hubbard; ‘- Campaigning in the
“test,” by Wm. Dudley Foulke, and “ An
Uncut Diamond,” by Edward P. Jackson.

Christine Nilsson, the famous songstrcss
who now lives in a palatial house in Paris»
has prepared for publication a careful and
explicit article of suggestions on the voice,
which The Ladies’ [lame :'}’om‘)zul will
shortly print under the title “The Study
of the Voice."

The Detroit _70urnal has sent us a copy
of their incomparable Christmas Number,
together with the Art Supplement. \Ve
believe we’do not exaggerate when we say
it is the hzmdsomest numberfrom an artistic
standpoint of any put out this year, not
excepting the London and Paris Christmas
numbers, while from a literary point of view
certainly none excel.

 

The young men and young women who
aspire to obtain Academic or College edu-
cations, whose parents cannot wcll afford
them that expense, will be interested in the
work of Tim Cosanopolilan Mlzgazirle, which
has offered for the year 1893 one thousand
scholarships at any of the leading colleges
or schools of the United States, upon the
condition of introducing the magazine into
certain neighborhoods. Yale, Vassar, Har-
vard, Ann Arbor, Chicago, the Southern
colleges, the great schools of art and medi-
cine, all are alike open to the ambitious boy
or girl who is not afraid of a little earnest
work. Tlzc Comzopolitan sends out from
its New York oflice -n~¥.'=.ndsomely printed
pamphlet to any applicant, telling just what
is necessary in order to secure one of these
scholarships. The scholarship itself in-
cludes board, lodging, laundry and tuition-
all free.

The Breeder's Gazette has an elegant
Christmas number. Every man interested
in stock should take this paper. Notice our
clubbing offer.

bldiices of Meetings.

 

BERRIEN COUNTY POMONA.

The annual meeting of Berrien County
Pomona Grange will be held at Berrien
Center Grange halljan. 10, and 11. Pa-
trons of the county, this will be an import-
ant meeting to you. See to it that your
presence is registered there. A large class
will receive the fifth degree. Come from
every Grange and increase the number in
this class. There is now prepared import-
ant work for County Granges to do in this
State. Rally to this meeting and see what
there is for you to do. A good program is
in preparation.

R. V. CLARK.

 

KENT COUNTY POMONA.

Kent County Pomona Grange will meet
for public installation of ofiicers with Cas-
cade Grange Jan. 11, 1893. A good speaker
is expected.

. L. F. DOCKERAY,
Secretary.

BRANCH COUNTY POMONA,

The annual meeting of Branch County
Pomona Grange will be held at Coldwater
Grange hall Tuesday, Jan. :2, commencing
at 10:30 A. M., sharp. Beside the regular
business there will he the election and in-
stallation of ofiicers, the reports of retiring
olficers and of the delegate to the State
Grange, and a report from the contest ban-
ner committee. Dinner will be furnished
by Coldwater Grange. Let every Patron
in Branch county attend this _meeting and
help to make it the best of any’ the year
through. CARRIE L. Fxsxa,

Secrelary.

Committee, was one of the most‘;
valuable of that body. He was an }_
especial friend of the VISITOR and‘,
never failed to speak for it, and‘, president _I_ J_ England. ‘.ice_
was successful in getting subscrib- 3 President J’. T_ Gibson Dejnfield
ers, as well. His work on the com- 1 Out. SeC,.’et,,,.y and tréasurer H:
Ellittee W35 marked b)’ -“'“'°”glA. Daniels, Elva. Directors, ,Pat-
Judgment and sound sense- lrick Hudson, W. s. Allen, Fred

All were pleased to know tl1at;N_ E1“ pedi,,,.,.e Committee
Sister Mary Sherwood Hinds hasl, H_ N,.“a1_ ‘G ’
so far recovered from her severe’;
illness of the summer as to be able
to attend all the sessions of the‘;
State Grange. . President, J. J. Breck, Paw

About the busiest spot in repre- l Paw; vice-president, N. L. Milletts.
sentative hall was the desk of thelSaginaw VV.; secretary and treas-

l.lN(‘OLN SHEEP BREEDERS.

 

JERSEY BREEDERS.

LENAWEE COUNTY POMONA.

Lenawee County Pomona Grange will
meet with Madison Grange Feb’y 2, 1893
Call to order 10 A. M. After the business
of the fifth degree the ofiicers will be in-
stalled by G. B. Horton. The Worthy
Lecturer is preparing an interesting pro-
gram for the afternoon session which will
be public. This will be followed by a
fourth degree session. It is earnestly hoped
every Grange will be represented and pre-
pared to report. The fifth degree will be

F- conferred in the evening after which Madi-

l son Grange will present a program.

1 MARY C. ALLxs,

1 Secretary.
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THE GRANGE VISITOR .

JANUARY 1, 1893.

ADDRESS OF THE MASTER.

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS:

In compliance with the constitu-
tional provisions of our Order, we
have assembled to participate in
the exercises of the Twentieth An-
nual Session of the Michigan State
Grange. It has been my fortune
to be connected with this organiza-
tion ever since its existence, in
some capacity or other. I have
spent the best part of my life bring-
ing to bear all the forces at my
command to assist in building up
this grand organization of farmers,
farmers’ wives, sons, and daughters.
I have seen it in its infancy, in ad-
versity and in prosperity, and to-
day we are enjoying the fruits of
the grandest association, the most
far-reaching in its results and use-
fulness, of any in our land. Many
farmers’ organizations have come
and gone, but we stand a solid, liv-
ing monument of success for future
generations to enjoy and admire.
We are known all over the world
as the most conservative yet p re
gressive organization, and yet as
advocating advanced ideas for the
bettering of agriculture and the
world at large. VVe are taught in
our organization that we must be
economical in our rural homes, yet
not parsimonious.

CONDITION OF AGRICULTURE.

We are convinced that agricul-
ture cannot be fostered by tearing
down other interests, but only by a
broad comprehension of our business
and an intelligent application of
business principles, that we can suc-
ceed on the farms of Michigan, I
am convinced. No business at this
day gives to its occupants more
pleasure, time, recreation and home
comforts than agriculture in Michi-
gan. It is not necessary that we
become millionaires. This idea is
the result of a species of insanity,
not of the comfort, peace and happi-
ness that you find all over Michi-
gan, in the thousands of beautiful
farm houses and home surroundings.
We love ourcalling and will resent
all adverse opinions. At the same
time we know that we meet adver-
sity in our business. But this is
natural; all business is liable to the
same fate. In traveling over this
country I find millions of dollars of

A ca ital invested by intelligent peo-

ple in manufacturing plants that
have been superseded by other in-
ventions which meet the wants of
the people better, and the result is
atotal loss to the investors. This
state of things you will find on every
hand, and observation leads me to
this conclusion, that we are engaged
in the surest, safest and happiest
business in the land. Then let us
grapple with the situation lie
sensible men and women and not
howl calamity and adversity, a pro-
cess whicli will drive the boys and
girls from the farm sooner than all
other things combined. I am not
so hopeful as to say that there is
not a depression in agriculture,——
there is. lVlieat is below its cost,
horses are not remuiierative, but
everything else on the farm pays
a nice profit, and so it will be as
it is in other business. I am satis-
fied that our markets are seriously
affected by the great boards of
trade and their mode of buying and
selling, and we, through the Na-
tional Grange and the various State
organizations, have done much to
bring about a better condition of
things, and I fondly hope that the
present Congress will pass the Anti-
Option Bill and the Pure Food
Bill also. There should be stringent
laws enacted to prevent all manner
of adulterations, and combinations
to thwart the great laws of supply
and demand. And in our efforts to
secure this needed legislation, we
should receive the cooperation of
every loyal American citizen.

THE FINANCE QUESTION.

The Finance Question is one that
has had a thorough ventilation, not
only through our organization, but
by political parties of every kind
and dimension as well. No conclu-
sion or plan has been suggested
that to my mind is a better solution
of this great question than the one
now adopted. There is no class of
people more interested in the sup-
ply and quality of money than the
agricultnrists. I believe we should
have a sufficient amount of money
for the transaction of business. I
do not believe that either an inflat-
ed or contracted condition of the
circulating medium will bring pros-
perity. I believe that the increase
of money should keep pace with
the increase of population and busi-
ness. I think it is right that our

members should investigate this
subject thoroughly for themselves
and not take it for granted that any
theory advocated by the political.
party with which they are associat-
ed is of necessity sound. Money
has an important function to per-
form, and we cannot afford to make
any mistake in legislation in regard
to it. The land-loan and sub-treas-
ury scheme which Senator Stanford
and other lesser lights have advo-
cated, has through thorough inves-
tigation by the more intelligent por-
tion of our people, been relegated
to the rear, there to remain as one
of the lost problems of the age.

TAXATION.

This question has been one with
which all ages have wrestled and
our best statesmen have puzzled
their brains to devise some plan
that would equalize the burden, and
make all property to bear its equal
portion of taxation. But up to this
date nothing has been devised that
seems to solve the question. All
good loyal citizens should be will-
ing to pay their equal portion in
proportion to their wealth, let it be
money, stocks, mortgages or what
not. The genius of man ought to

until a solution is reached and then
enforce the law to the letter, if it puts
behind the bars every shirk in our
land. I trust you will give this
question your candid considera-
tion.
THE IRRIGATION SCHEME.

Many schemes are rife in the
minds of the people to devise ways
and means for the further expendi-
ture of money in various ways. One
I must call your attention to, which,
if carried out, will call for untold
millions of money—-that is the irriga-
tion of the arid lands of the west.
Syndicates have already bought up
large tracts of this land and are
now appealing to Congress to ap-
propriate large sums of money for
irrigating purposes, and they have
made a favorable impression on that
body, with the plea that it would
open a vast domain for the home-
less people of our country. The
facts are the poor would become
poorer, and the syndicates would
reap the benefits of the improvement
and become more powerful. We
now have all the land needed; our
competition is so great and profits
so small we cannot afford to increase
the competition by allowing this
scheme to receive our assistance in
any form.

FREE DELIVERY or MAILS.

Wliile I have had my doubts as
to the feasibility of this proposition,
yet it is butjustice to the people
in the rural districts that they
should have as many privileges at
the hands of the government as
our city cousins. We certainly
produce as much of the wealth and
are as important factors as they,
and we should demand that our
mail matter be brought to our doors,
or that they go after theirs. And
in this matter let us see to it that
justice be done and prepare our-
selves for the fight when the time
comes.

EDUCATION.

The Grange is and has always
been an educator. When we con-
sider that this beautiful land of ours
is dotted with commodious Grange
halls from center to circumference
we must know that the members
are being educated, and when we
know in the short space of time this
organization has been in existence
and see the progress it has made in
the farming districts all over the
land, we are doubly sure that the
members are advancing rapidly in
education. ‘Vs are not only edu-
cating the members but the rural
districts generally. In nearly every
county in the state we have organ-
ized farmers’ institutes where all
the people gather annually to listen
to and take part in the discussions
of the various questions pertaining
to the farm and home and the vital
questions of the day. We are per-
sistent advocates of our rural schools,
doing all we can to raise the stand-
ard and to make them more prac-
tical in every way possible. Many
of our halls are opened to select
schools, thereby giving the children
a better opportunity than can be
given in the district school.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Our organization is a unit in their
advocacy of our Agricultural Col-
lege and its grand work and woe be
unto the legislature that attempts
to make ita part of the University
or to take from it one single feature
of its usefulness. But we will hail
with delight and honor any legis-

be brought to bear on this question *

lature that will make appropriations
suflicient to enlarge its usefulness,
by providing ample provisions for
the admission of the girls on an
equal footing with the boys.

LEGISLATION.

One of the evils that should be
removed from legislative proceed-
ings is the caucus system, whereby
the mere partisan majority of one
may dictate the policy of the State,
control the election of United States
Senators, etc. It is this system
which enables men who have neither
character nor ability to obtain seats
in the Senate by the improper use
of the great wealth frequently ob-
tained by disreputable methods.
Abolish the system, and representa-
tives can no longer plead the can-
cus decree as an excuse for outrag-
ing and misrepresenting an indig-
nant constituency. Surely men can
be found for legislative positions
who will be reasonable and unite
on good men and measures, if left
free to act. I long to see the time
when men will be selected for this
most important position for their
ability, and not for the amount of
money they may have or control.

CONDITION OF THE ORDER.

The Grange is doing a grand
work all along the line; the eastern
states are leading rapidly; our own
seems to be on the stand-still.
While we have increased somewhat
in membership yet the increase
has not been what was fondly hop-
ed one year ago. It is true we have
had one of the worst seasons known
for years for the work in hand.
We districted the State, placed four
lecturers in the field, but the ex-
cessive rains and their continuance
late in the season prevented holding
meetings, and the presidential cam-
paign coming on later, occupying
the minds of the people to such an
extent that it seemed impossible to
prosecute the work. Our inspec-
tion service did not seem to meet
the real wants in every instance‘
We have many dormant organiza-
tions that ought to be rebuilt and
some plan must be devised by which
this can be done. If we could secure
some one in each county that would
take a live interest in the work it
might be accomplished. It will take
work and close attention to bring
about a genera~l*awakening in the
dormant territory. It is my opin-
ion that if the State Grange would
pay a small bonus to the deputies
for every new or resuscitated Grange
at the close of this year you would
see a general revival. I trust you
will take this matter into considera-
tion and act wisely.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

The Grange Visitor is a medium
for revival work and ought to be
utilized in that direction. If it
were possible for every Grange in
the State to subscribe for each mem-
ber, that of itself would stop the
decline in membership and assist
to revive the weak. The Visitor is
now in the hands of a young man
of energy and ability and through
his management the paper has not
lost any of its former reputation
as a live journal in the interests of
its patrons. The present editor is
agraduate of the Agricultural Col-
lege and an enthusiast in his chosen
profession. He is doing all in his
power to extend the circulation
and if we do our duty as well, there
will not be any question as to the
future of our paper.

THE ROAD QUESTION.

I call your attention to the great
question agitating the minds of the
people in Michigan at this time, the
Rural Roadways. The time has
come when some enterprising move
must be made to better the condi-
tion of our country roads. It would
seem to me that our Order is more
interested in this matter than any
other class of people, and should be
the first to move in that direction.
No state of its age is so far behind
in wagon roads as Michigan; yet
she should be first as she is in many
other things. I do feel the members
of our Order can make their power
felt and their influence extended
if they will give their aid to this all
important move. I cannot discuss
the merits of this question in this
communication but hope it will meet
the candid consideration of all our
citizens.

woMAN’s WORK.

\Voman’s work in the Order has
proved a success and when fully
appreciated will go a long way to
revive dormancy. Every subor-
dinate Grange ‘should have a full
committee at work with the lecturer

in preparing the programs, and

should keep in close touch with the
State committee.

In conclusion permit me to say
that I feel under obligation to the
Order for the very many honors
they have bestowed upon me and
for their long forbearance with my
many shortcomings, and for the
kind treatment received on every
hand throughout the State in their
subordinate organizations, and in
their pleasant homes, and family
circles. My life will be too short
to fully enjoy all the kindly treat-
ment received from the thousands
of patrons all over the State. \Vhile
I may have made enemies in some
instances, let me assure you that I
have always done what I thought
was for the best interests of the
Order and not to please personal
friends. And now I trust your de-
liberations may prove a success and
redound to the glory, honor and per-
petuity of our beloved Order.

Fraternally yours,
Tnos. MARs.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE ON
WOMAN'S WORK.

Wosrnr MASTER, BROTHERS AND
SIsTERs—Your committee on wom-
an’s work for the State this past
year submits the following report:

From the former committee who
had charge of the work last year we
received no plans for future work
or any suggestions to guide our
course for the coming year.

We counciled together and agreed
that a division of the State seemed
necessary, each taking such apor-
tion of the State as was most con-
venient.

We first turned our attention to
the GRANGE VISITOR, thinking to
make it a medium between the State
committees and the subordinate
committees. We earnestly urged
the Masters of county and subor-
dinate Granges to appoint a com-
mittee on woman’s work in each
county and subordinate Grange in
the State, explaining as best we
could the province of this commit-
tee and the work necessary to be
done.

Not half the Masters of the sub-
ordinate Granges appointed any
such committee. We have knowl-
edge of this from our service as
Grange inspector, as the question
is one we are obliged to ask in our
inspection work. Failure here has
been a source of failure throughout
all the year.

VVe were quite sure the columns
of the VISITOR would be available
for use by the State committee and
we were not disappointed. In nearly
every issue there has been an arti-
cle from some member of this State
committee. Aside from this, we have
each personally appealed to prom-
inent women, both in and out of the
Grange, for contributions to the
VISITOR on live subjects in which
the women of our land are partic-
ularly interested.

‘Vs have sent out scores of letters,
some in reply to letters received
asking for information in regard to
the work. Others written to silent
committees, with a hope to create
an interest in the work. The cir-
culars received from the chairman
of our national committee were
carefully read, digested and as
thoroughly explained in the columns
of the VISITOR as we possibly could
explain. These we sent out with a
liberal hand. Some, like Noah’s
dove, returned, finding no resting
place, probably for want of proper
address. Some, we fear, were con-
signed to the flames, thinking them
“only a circular” and never opened;
others were faithfully read before
the Grange but reported “no action
taken ;” others report “that when a
sufficient sum was raised to insure
the probable erection of the tem-
ple they were very willing to con-
tribute.” One Grange has contribut-
ed five dollars. The committee have
earnestly labored to impress upon
the patrons of the State the neces-
sity of an annual word for Pomona
Granges, thinking thereby they
may be materially benefited. Each
Pomona Grange has been petition-
ed to instruct their delegates to
work to this end.

VVe have asked for reports from
the committee on Woman’s VVork
in subordinate Granges where they
were appointed and though they
came in rather late the results were
very satisfactory. One report tells
us that through the efl"orts of this
committee one juvenile Grange has
been organized and is in good work-
ing order and very prosperous.
Thinking to follow closely after its
elders, it has held acontest which
was very entertaining, the forfeit

being the spreading of a feast to
which the parents were the guests.
The matron who is the guiding
spirit of this body of little men and
Evomen repoitts, ‘£It is: il1I‘pI‘ISi;lil]g
ow eager y ney iave a en up e
work; how anxious they are that
the work be well done, books pro-
perly kept, parliamentary law and
rulings enforced, all literary work
at its possible best, and the pledges
most sacredly kept.” Carefully train-
ed under this etficient matron in all
 Efisentizillglements p)f_Grangle1>
1 e ese c 1 ren are eing we
preplgred f}(1)I‘ lpll life. They are
tang t to t in and reason; to give
expression to thought in correct
language and proper deportment.
Theldrill in parliamentary law and
pub ic speaking ensures them self-
reliance, ease and grace of manner
and a polish that alone can be ac-
quired from a mingling in good
society.
Several Granges report quilts
pieced under the supervision of this

Woman’s Committee. sold and the.

money turned toward helping pay
the debt on their hall and in adding
to the sheds for their horses.

Others report a series of socials,
not an occasional social but a course
of socials, each following the other
at regular intervals, well planned
and well executed. Among this
series of socials came a good lecture
on “Three Months in Europe,” with
sterioptican views. These socials
and lectures have been the means
directly and indirectly of adding
more than thirty members to this
Grange, which was so fortunate as
to have such a good working com-
mittee.

Others have held socials, charged
a small fee, had a general “good
time” and also added several vol-
umes of choice books to their lib-
rary. Others have purchased a
much needed cook stove and other
articles of furniture, besides some
articles of beauty to adorn their
halls.

The great rallying of the year
has been Columbus Day. In many
Granges the VVoman’s Committee
had sole charge of the meeting, the
program, costumes, decorations and
dinner.

The result has been that more of
the early history of America and its
connections with other lands across}.
the sea, has been learned than ever
before.

Italy and Spain have held court
in many a Grange hall, and while
we have acknowledged all we owe
to these lands and the flag that was
first planted on the soil of a New
World, we know that the flag of
stripes and stars is our flag and to
it we owe our civilization, liberty
and enlightenment.

Through our committee on
VVoman’s lVork, one free hospital
for the sick and poor has been fur-
nished with flour suflicient for the
year’s needs. At the last report
thirty-six bushels of wheat had been
pledged toward the support of this
worthy object.

The cause of temperance has
engaged the attention of this
Woman’s Committee as several re-
ports from Subordinate Granges
show. These meetings were open
meetings and were held in counties
where a vote on local option was
pending. The exercises were of a
high order, and left an impression
for good on the whole community.

The work for the year has not
been all we hoped or all we plan-
ned. \Ve were much hindered in
having to wait so long before we
could know who had been appoint-
ed to work with us on this line.

Then we had to confess the fact
that much of our work through the
VISITOR had not fulfilled the pur-
poses we intended, because all
patrons do not take and read the
paper. But it was new work, and
it moves slowly, still we have such
a faith in the matrons of Michigan
Granges that we know as soon as
the work is thoroughly understood
it will not fail for want of workers.

Worthy Master, we beg leave to
suggest a few slight changes in the
appointing of this committee. In-
stead of changing the entire com-
mittee at the end of each year, ap-
point one new member each year,
thereby leaving a major part of the
committee who have had charge of
it and know its plans and neces-
sities.

Respectfully submitted,
MARY A. MAYO,
l\IARY SHERWOOD Hmns,
MARI’ C. ALLIS.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

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“ THE BUYERS’ Guioit.”

Nearly a million households use it
as a reference book.
A million purchasers learning how

to make four dollars do the work of

five.

Sent only upon receipt of I 5 cents

in stamps to pay the postage.

(550

pages, 3o,ooo quotations, weight two

pounds.)

MONTGOMERY \V.~\RD & CU.,

In to no Michigan Avenue,

CHICAGO.

In writing mention Tar; GRANGE Visrrou.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

Oficers National Grange.
MAsTr;a——J. H. BRIGHAM _______ __ Delta, Ohio
Ov'lzs‘a—E. W. DAVIS ....... __Santa Rosa, Cal
LEOTUREB—MORTIMEK VVHITEHEAD ...... _.

1618 Q. St.. N. W., Washington. D. (‘.
‘8Tn:wAizD—A. E. PAGE .__..Appleinu City, Mo
Ass"r STr;wARn—-O. E. H.-\LL____.Pawnee, Neb
CHAPLAIN—CI-IAS, MC DANIEL, New Hampshire
TBEASUBER—F. M. MG DOWEL.Penn Yau, N. Y
SEORE'l’ABY—JOHN TRIMRl.E,Washington, D.U
GATE KEEPEB—W. H. NEL _. _Tennessee
Cicnirs—l\lRH. J. H. BRIGHAM elta, Oluo
Poiu0NA~—MRS. E. BOWEN. .. _ _
FLHR.-\-MRS. . ON, .___,I\IlSSiN-\lY\pl
LADY Ass": STr;w’D—MRS. N. B. DOUGLASS__

Sherborn, Mass.

Executive Committee.
LEONARD RHONE..Center Hall. Pennsylvania
J. J. WOODMAN ________ __ Paw Paw, Michigan
X. X. CHARTIERS ,_.Fredericskburg, Virginia

Committee on Woman's Work in the
Grange.
MRS. L. A. HAVVKINS ____.Ha.wkiusvilIe Ala.
MRS. H. H. WOODMAN_..Ps.w Paw, Mic igan
MRS. ELIZABTH RUSS ELL.Vancouver. Wash.
Ofiicers Michigan State Grange.
MAs'rr;n-—G. B. HORTON _________ ..Fruit. Ridge
0vr:asi:Ea—M. '1‘. (‘OLE ___., ,Pa.lmyra
LEO'I'UREB—A. J. CROSBY, J Ypsilanti
S’I'EWABD—A. P. GRAY.____.. __.Archie
Ass‘T S'1‘EWARD—-J. H. MART ________ ,_
CHAPLAIN-—MARY A. MAYO,
'.I‘nEAsunniz—E. A. STRONG .
SnonETABv—JE‘.N'N1E BUEL ___Ann Arbor
GATE KEEPEB—GEO. L. CABLISLE_.K

  
 
  

   
  
 
 
  

  

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Cm;ir.s—-MARY C ALLIS ............... _.Adrian

POMONA-—MRS. A. ST. CLAIR" Butternut
B8. A. A. LEIGHTON.._

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July 3. ‘92.—Centra.l Standard Time.

     

   

 

 

  
 
 
 

GOING NORTH. No. iLNo. 3 No. 5‘No
P. M. 1 A.
Cincinnati, Lv _____________ __| 8
Richmond ______.. 2 20 ‘I0 :1
1 P. M.
Fort Wayne, Ar. 6 00 2 15
Fort Wayne, Lv .... __ 2 .
Kalamazoo. AL. A. M. 6 05
Kalamazoo, Lv._ 7 20 6 25
Grand ltapids, Ar. 9 20 8 10
P. M.
Grand Rapids, Lv ____ ._ 4 15 10 40
A. M.
Cadillac ______________ __ 9 00 2 15
Traverse City,_,____.__. 10 45 ____ __
Petoskey ____________________ -_ 5 45
Mackinaw, Ar ______________ __ 7 15
GOING SOUTH. No. 2 No olive 4
P.M. A.M l p M
Mackinaw City, Lv.__,_ 8 45 8 00
Patoskey_ __ ____________ _, 10 20 9
Traverse City ______________ __ 11
A.M. P.
Cadillac ______________ __ 2 15 1
Grand Rapids, Ar... ._ 6 20 l 5
Grand Rapids, Lv_, _ 7 00 6
Kalamazoo, Ar _ __ _ 8 50 8
Kalamazoo, Lv..__ - 8 55 8
Fort Wayne. AL. _ 12 40 11
Fort Wayne, Lv _ _ 1 00 12
Richmond ...__._ __ 4 20 3
Cincinnati, Ar ________ __ 7 00 8
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Sleeping cars, Grand Rapids to Chicago, on

J . G. RAMRDELL. Chn ......... __Traverse_ City No. . _

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S“:-cc’;-11 Deputies.

_ _ ,._Barry (‘-ounty
_.Lenawee (‘oiiiity
, Hillsdale(‘.oiinty
__ .Jones. Cass (‘ounty

A. Luther . _.
E. W. Allis _.

Sis. E‘. D. Nokes, Churc
Samuel Br_uce_.___

    

  
 
    
 

J. D. M. Fisk. . Goldwater, Branch County
R. V. Clark__ Buchanan, Berrien County
T. F. Rodger Ravenna, Mu.-ikegon County

Isaac A. West. orth Branch, Lapeer County
James William __ Eastport, Antrim (‘ounty
Robert A'.wa.i': - _ _ Hudsonville. Ottawa (louiity
Wm. Clara ______ _.C-harlevoix, (lharlevoix County
Committee on Woman‘s Work in the
Grange.
Mrs. Mary Sherwood Hinds .__.. .__ _._Stanton

..-Biattle (‘reek

Mrs. Mary A. Mayo _______ __
__ _ Dimondale

Kiss 0. J. Carpenter_.._.

 
  

Revised List of Grange Supplies
Kept iu the oflice of Sec‘y of the

Michigan State Grange

And sent out post.-paid on receipt of Cash Order.
over the Sealpf a Subordinate Grange, and the
signature of its Master or Secretary.

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred _____ __$0 75

Secretary's ledger ___________________ _. . 85

Secret.ary’srecord____,___,__.______.___. . 85

Treasurer's orders, bound, per hundred ____ ,_ 3':

Secretaryls receipts for dues, per hundred. . . 35

Treasurer’s receipts for dues, per hundred. . . 

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25

  

A plications for membership, per hundred .
ithdrawal cards, per dozen .............. ..
Dimits, inenvelopes. per dozen.___. ___.__.__.
By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies,
10¢: per dozen __________________________ __ 75
“ lad Echoes." with music, single copies,
25c;perdozen___..__.-.__-___..._..__,..___ 3
Grange Melodies. single copy, 40¢; per dozen 4 00
Opening Song Card, 2c each; 759 per 50: 100.. 1 %
Rituals, 7th edition (with combined degrees).
250 each‘ per dozen ______________________ __ 2 '75
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Rituals, Juvenile, single copy._ 15
Rituals, J uvenile. per set __________ _, _ 1 50
Notice to delinquent members, per 100.. . , , , 40
American Manual of Parliamentary haw. __ , 50
D tof Imwsand Rulings_,______,________ 2:’)
Rolbooks ______________  _______ ,. _ 15
Sample package cooperative literature. 18

Write for prices on gold pins badges. working
tools, stafl mountings, seals, ballot boxes and my
other arrange supplies.

dress MISS JENNIE BUELL,
Sec’y Mich. State Granite,
Arm ARBOR. Mien.

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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.
MORTIMER WHITEHEAD Says; " Ger-
man Horse and Cow Powder pays many times its
cost. in keeping all kinds of farm stock in good
health. I have used it for years on my farm, buy-
in a barrel at a time."
t is manufactured by Dr. L. 0berholtzer’s Sons
& 00., Phaanixville. Pa.. and sold at

Wholesale Prices~viz:
Barrels—2Dlhs in bulk, 71/in per pound

Boxes —601hs in bulk. Sc per pound
Boxes —-80lb-5lhs pack. 10c per pound

By ALBERT STEGEMAN. Allegan, Mich.
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In writing mention THE GRANGE Visrron.

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General Produce Commission Merchants

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TO ALL SHIPPERS OF PRODUCE—WANTED.
Butter, cheese, eggs, potatoes, onions. apples,
beans, cabbages. dried fruits, poultry. game. veal,
lambs, beef. mutton, pork, furs. hides, lts, tal-
low, honey, beeswax, broom corn. feat ers, gin-
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Send for our Daily Bulletin

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The Keystone Watch
Case Co. of Philadelphia,
the largest watch case manufactur-
ing concern in the world, is now
putting upon the ]as. Boss Filled
and other cases made by it, a bow
(ring) which cannot be twisted or
pulled off the watch.

It is a sure protection against the
pickpocket and the many accidents
that befall watches fitted with the
old-style bow, which is simply held

in by friction and can be twisted off
with the fingers. It is called the

and CAN ONLY BE HAD with
cases bearing their trade mark-

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Sold only through watch dealers,
without extra charge.
Ask any jeweler for pamphlet,

or send to the manufacturers.

  

REPORT or THE EXECUTIVE coni-
MITTEE or THE STATE
GRANGE.

Since our last annual meeting the quad-
rennial contest of parties for power has
passed; during this contest the Grange, true
to its declaration of purposes, true to its tra-
ditions, and true to the best interests of the
farm and home, has kept aloof from all en-
tangling political alliances. V5/hile other
farmers’ organizations have allowed them-
selves to be swept into the political whirl-
pool and there dashed to pieces by contend-
ing parties, the Grange allowed the utmost
freedom to its members in political affairs,
leaving the ballot to the conscience and

‘ judgment of its individual members.

Standing thus aloof from political allian-
ces, we claim the right to a candid and un-
prejudiced hearing before the legislature of
the stage and the congress of the nation.

VVhile we are organized in the interest of
agriculture and those engaged in that pur-
suit, we recognize that in our social relations
and economic interests we are as dependent
upon the well being, happiness and thrift of
every other legitimate and useful calling,
for the comforts and luxuries of life beyond
the products of our farm, as those callings
are dependent upon us for the necessaries
of life.

“Like warp and woof our destinies are woven

as
Linked in sympathy like the keys of an organ
vs t-

s .
Pluck one thread and the web ye mar,
Breakbut one of the thousand keys and a pain-

ing Jar
Through all will run."

It is our aim to gather up and mend the
severed threads and to replace the broken
keys which the mad rush for unearned for-
tunes have rent and destroyed. To that
end we call upon the legislative and execu-
tive departments of our government, state
and national, to protect us from unequal
assessments for taxation, unjust exactions
for transportation, fictitious competition in
the sale of our crops and fraudulent adul-
terations and counterfeits of our products in
the market. VVe also call upon congress
to consider carefully the needs of the couri-
try for a constant increase of currency, sulfi-
cicnt to meet the demands of a constantly
increasing domestic and foreign commerce
and to supply the drain which foreign capi-
tal exacts for interest, dividends and priii-
cipal on money and credits loaned and in-
vested here. Deeining the last matter of
primeimportaiice we first call your attention
to our

NATIONAL FINANCES,

During the past year, the so-called Sher-
man Silver Law which requires _the pur-
chase of 4.500.000 ounces of silver per
month, and the issuing therefor of legal
tender treasury notes at its bullion value
has added to the circulating medium 551,-
000,000. The product of our gold mines
not used in this art have added $20,000,000,
and during the year our exports have ex-
ceeded our imports to the extent of $202,-
000,000. If the people of this country were
free from indebtedness to foreign capital and
were the sole owners of American property,
the $2o2ooo0oo excess of exports would
have been paid for in money and that added
to the $20,000,000 from the gold mines and
the i55i,ooo,mo in treasury notes would have
given an increase in the currency of $273,-
p}00,oc}(l) rliurifnphthe year. {But unfortutnatel y

e w 0 e 0 e excess 0 our expor s over
imports was absorbed by foreign capital
in payment of interest and dividends on
prior investments and in addition thereto,
over one hundred millions in gold have been
drawn from the country for the same pur-
pose, so that, notwithstanding the excess of
exports of $202,000 000 and the influx from
the mines of $7i,00b,ooo, our currency has
decreased $29,00o000 during the year the
effect of which is how felt by an increizised
rate of interest and a decreased price of
prgdiicta. VVe capnot hctipe for this unprp
Ce ente excess 0 expor s over imports 0
continue, especially if a reduction of the
duty on imported goods, such as the people
have demanded in the late election should
induce an excessive increase in foreign
importations.

SHERMAN SILVER LAVV.

VVe therefore earnestly protest against
the repeal of the Sherman Silver Law or
any modification of it which will in any
manner lessen the monthly addition to our
currency which the law now affords. A
failure of the monetary conference now in
session at Brussels to come to an interna-
tional agreement by which silver as well as
gold shall be used as money by all coin-
mercial nations, and the general demonetiz-
ing of silver which must result from such
failure, will necessarily produce astringency
in the European market and cause a return
of American securities, and a demand for
interest and dividends earned on foreign
capital that will tax to the utmost our abil-
ity to meet. There should, therefore, be
no reduction in the monthly addition to our
currency by the issuing of treasury notes.
Rather the amount should be increased to
supply the place of the increasing drain of
gold to foreign countries. We do not de-
mand an inflation of the currency beyond
the business needs of the country. The
business history of the country for the last
ten years has demonstrated that when un-
molested by financial panics, the natural
increase in the business and commerce of
the country requires an increase of currency
of not less than $100,000,000 per annum
The coinage of gold and silver and issuing
of silver certificates under the Bland Silver
law and its amendments and the issuing of
treasury notes under the Sherman Silver
Law, and the releasing of the pent up mill-
ions held as a surplus in the treasury, and
the influx of foreign capital for investment
here, and the excess of exports over imports
from i888 to 1892 added about one hundred
millions a year to the currency, and yet this
vast increase was only sufiicient to keep a
healthy business condition in the country
for those years and a fair and equitable rela-
tion between debtor and creditor. The vast
excess of exports over imports during the
last year has gone far to relieve what would
otherwise have been a dangerous contrac-
tion of the currency resulting from the out.-
flow of gold to pay foreign indebtedness and
the expenses of Americans in foreign lands.
One year‘s partial failure of export crops
would endanger a disastrous stringency
which the country should be at all times
prepared to meet.

To point out andcall public attention to
th e dangers that threaten us in this respe
C

we again call your attention to the vast
credit sum owing to foreign capital. The
170,601 miles of railroad in the United States
on the first day ofjanuary 1892 were bonded
for $5,235,295,o74 and were carrying stock
for $4,8o9,i76,65i; of this total of interest
bearing bonds and dividend paying stocks
of ten billions, forty-four million, four hun-
dred and seventy-one thousand, seven hun-
dred and twenty-five dollars, over four-
tenths, that is, over four billions are owned
by foreign people, and add to this the na-
tional, state, municipal and corporate stocks
and bonds other than railroad, and we have
a grand total of over six billions of indebt-
edness, to foreign capital upon which we as
a people are paying three hundred millions
in interest and dividends each year. Add
to this the annual expenditure of American
tourists abroad of from fifty to one hundred
millions, and we see clearly the danger that
confronts us.

lleretofore the reinvestment of the inter-
est and dividends here has prevented the

drain from our currency, but the draining
of three hundred millions in gold and value
of exports over imports during the year is
evidence of :1 change in the direction of
foreign investments. India, Africa, Aus-
tralia, New Zealand and the republics of
South America are offering more attractive
fields for foreign capital and we may regard
the annual outflow to foreign countries as a.
constant stream varying in volume with the
financial needs of European countries.

At our annual meeting in I889, we called
attention to this constantly menacing danger
and said: “ When the return flow of money
to pay interest and dividend on these bill-
ions of foreign capital invested here begins,
it will form such a drain upon the circula-
ting medium of this country as will, unless
prepared for by the course we suggest,
shrink the value of farms and farm products
so low that every farm mortgage will be-
come’ in effect a deed to the property.”

In our report of 1890, in speaking of this
subject we said: “ VVe believe it to be the
duty of the government so long as it deter-
mines for the citizen what should be a legal
tender for the payment of debts and settle-
ment of damages and through its courts
enforces such payments in the medium it
prescribes, to furnish enough legal tender
money to the people with which to transact
the business of the country without recourse
to borrowing foreign capital. VVC can see
no reason why a country of 63,000,000 of
people, unequaled in energy and general in-
telligence, possessing the most abundant
resources of any country in the world, and
producing five—twelfths of the whole w0rld’s
productions of the precious metals, should
longer continue the financial dependency of
Europe."

A GREAT DRAIN.

In our annual report last year in speak-
ing of this branch of the financial question,
we said: “ This drain during the last fiscal
year has amounted to more than the entire
output of gold and silver added to the bal-
ance of trade in our favor. This constant
outflow of money or its equivalent in prod-
ucts for which nothing is returned is an
annual tax upon the industry of our coun-
try and the greatest menace to our contin-
ued prosperity. How to check this increas-
ingindebtediiess and the consequent increas-
ing absorption of our earnings by foreign
capital is one of the difficult problems,
which our statesmen have to solve and one
to which their attention cannot too soon be
directed. In the meantime and until this
outflow for interest and dividend is checked
and reduced below the annual balance of
trade in our favor and the annual output of
our precious metals provision must be made
fora greater increase in our currency than
the present law permits."

Since the above was presented, nothing
has yet been done by congress to guard
zwainst the threatening danger; propositions

bzyond number have been before that body

and its committees, some of them having
merit, but most of them with :1 view to
private gain, regardless of the public good.
As such we regard the proposition to repeal
the law taxing State bank circulation and
permitting a reinfliction upon the country
of the most disastrous financial system that
has ever brought ruin upon a suffering peo-
ple. The lessons of IS37 and 1857 ought to
satisfy the most ignorant tyro in public fi-
nance, if he is honest, of the total rottenncss
of private bank circulation. As such we
also regard the scheme of the national banks
Io obtain the right to issue national bank
bills based on securities rather than national
bonds, and we reafliriii our unalterable op-
position to the issuing of money by either
state or national banks, no matter how well
secured or safely guarded, VVe regard such
issues asa dangerous surrender of the fuiic—
tions of government to private corporations.
It would give to these corporations the prac-
tical conirol of the money of the country,
and enable them to contract or inflate the
currency as their interests might require.

FREE COINAGE.

We also reaffirm our opposition to the
free and unlimited coinage of either gold or
silver for the reason given in our last report.
First, because if the government stamp of
coinage adds anything to the value of the
metal coined, the people whose credit gives
it that added value are entitled to the benefit
which their credit gives. Second, because
instead of increasing the circulaton as we
desire, it would contract it to the amount of
gold ndw in use, which would be hoarded
for the premium which a demand for gold
in payment for foreign imports and to for-
eign creditors would create. And third, it
would throw nearly the whole burden of
raising silver bullion to a par with gold upon
the farmers of the United States, for the
reason that more than two—thirds of our ex-
ports are of farm products. Our exports
would be paid for in silver dollars, they being

acted for imports, silver being
abroad.

The question then naturally arises, if we
oppose state and national bank issues and
the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and
also oppose as we have heretofore, loans by
government to individuals or corporations,
how is this increase in currency, which we
claim as necessary, to be brought about?
The surplus in the treasury is exhausted,
and the paying out of money collected from
customs and internal taxes can add nothing
to the currency.

Bankers consider that they are doing a
perfectly safe and legitimate banking busi-
ness when they keep on hand as a redemp-

ion fund, one-third the amount of their de-
1:

mand liability, and certainly the credit of the
government which is the whole people, is
as great as the credit of a corporation which
is but a small fraction of the people. One

hundred millions of gold now in the treas-

ury as a redemption fund safely floats at
par all over the world three hundred and

forty-six millions of greenbacks. This fact
demonstrates to a certainty that with a pledge
of redemption by -the government upon

them, treasury notes payable on demand can
be maintained at par with gold to the same

extent for every dollar in gold set apart for

its redemption. Upon this basis we now

have a specie redemption fund on hand in

the United States treasury, sufficient to float

at par treasury notes far in excess of the

amount which any exigency that the with-

drawal of foreign capital may make. We

therefore recommend that a system of coast

defense be commenced that when com-

pleted will make our coast impregnable to

any assailing power;thzit our navy be aug-

mented as rapidly as the government facili-

ties for naval equipment will permit, until

it shall equal in etliciency that of any other
navy in the world; that a ship canal be pro-

vided for from the Niagara to the Hudson

deep enough and wide enough to float the
commerce of the great lakes. That provis-
ion be made for completing the water way

from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan; for
a deep water channel from Lake Erie to
Lake Superior, and for the improvement of
the Mississippi river; that for these purposes
not less than $75,000,000 21 year should be
appropriated to be paid for wholly with
legal tender demand treiisury notes to be
issued for that purpose. Such an expendi-
ture would strengthen the nation, build up
and increase its international commerce, en-
large its business, give useful and remuner-
ntive employment to thousands of laborers
and afford clicaper fl‘al'lSpOl‘l(1ll0lI for the
products of our mines, the farms and the
factories, without adding a dollar by taxa-
tion to the revenue, or discrcditing in any
manner the financial standing of the govern-
ment.

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NAT‘L GRANGE or PA'l‘RONS or Husnmnnr,
OFFICE or THE LEGISLATIVE (TOMMITTEE,
514 F. STREET,
Washington, D. 0., Dec. 10, 1391.

To UNITED STATES SENATORS:

Geiitlemen:——The great mass of
our people believe that gambling in
farm products should be prohibited
by National legislation. The farm-
ers are practically a. unit upon the
subject, and we believe our wishes
should be favorably considered.
VVe know that the few people who
are making millions out of com-
missions upon fictitious sales are
opposed to such legislation. VVQ
also know that it is possible for
them to secure the assistance of
bankers and other business men,
who are either directly or indirect-
ly making money out of these
gambling operations. \Ve also know
that the opponents of such legisla-
tion are abuiidantly able to hire the
shrewdest attorneys to represent
theiii—-whilst we speak for men
whose aggregate Wealth may be
great, but who are scattered in their
humble homes all over our Vast do-
maiii~iiien who are struggling to
secure the means to care for and
educate their families and satisfy
the demands of the taxgatherer—
men who cannot afiord to contribute
of their scant earnings to maintain
at lVashiiigton, at great expense,
able attorneys to plead their cause,
and We, therefore, take this method
of making their wishes known, and
of asking you to use yourinfluence
and vote to secure the early passage
of the Washburn-Hatch bill, in
order that business may adjust it-
self to new conditions before the
new crop is ready to be placed on
the market. The solicitude mani-
fested for the farmers’ interests by
the opponents of this bill is, per-
haps, commendable (si'c.) but
should not be allowed too much
weight, when We consider that the
farmers are practically unanimous
in favor of the measure, and will ac-
cept the results cheerfully, knowing
that, if in its practical working it
is not satisfactory, it can be modi-
fied or repealed.

Very respectfully yours,
J. H. BRIGHAM,

a legal tender here, and gold would be ex- ',
discredited ‘ Xvegds
T

LEONARD RHONE,
JOHN TRIMBLE,
Legislative Committee ,

 

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hey multiply rapidly, they add to

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—

The members of Sturgis Grange
No. 332, through their committee
present a tribute of respect to the
memory of their sister, Sarah P.,
wife of Bro. H. C. Rawson, who
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FOR sALE\__ I

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Hillsdale. Michigan

H. H. HINDS

Stanton, Montcalm Co
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For the live ll.I:II'l1edIl]I.Ely before. and the live immediately IlfIEl' the middle. each a complete set of mosey’
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

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I I“Ul‘)0IIle third, 21 beautiful, solid gold pin, with Moonstone setting, sulialic for lady or gentleman;
Va ue, $1. .00.
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value, $1.50 each.
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entitling them to buy any and all hooks. music. pcriodi ills. and art RlI]l|)lll39. st wli |I8~'&I€ prices. sail ii copy oi’ our
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ing me (|l.lL‘SIIl)nS(:1)rl"i*C[Iy or llJCOI'l'el:lI_V. wall FIECEIVC ii copy of the cULU.\1.sUs .\iE.\iol‘.IAl.., a large volume.
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the greatest and Inns! DOITIIIRI‘ family literary iimgazlne for the money. published in the world. You are sure to
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advertisement.
 That you get your Columbus Meinorizil iiml your certificate and book citalogne by return mail,

l and as this coiiipctition closes the 251st (lay of December next the ot.ier prizes will then immedi-
ately be awarded by the committee appointed lor the purpose. and at once forwarded to the proper persons.

; _ Those IlVlllj.', at zi distance from our oflice stand as good a chance to get the
ll;ltSl‘.llli.‘ll llliiBtlldlllll.lll

. first or any of the prizes as those living in the vicinity. as we will number the
era as they are po e .

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Give your name and mlllress plainly, and address you
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Let. me Groalers Groal
III6 EXIiI°€IGIl0I"§IlIIfII°iIl0I°

“ 66135 T ll6l’6 Jllsl inc Same”

—
PHIL.\DELl‘Hl.\. .Dl-XI.

VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO.,
Bellows Falls, Vermont.

DEAR SIRs—-We have used four of your No. 1 U. S. Extractor-Separatqfs cozy ,
stantly since early last spring; part of the time as Creaiii Separators and part of
the time as Butter Extractors.

We received the same price from the commission Illtll for the Extractor butter
as for the ripened or sour cream butter.

The last of August and early September we
ran through those four machines 42.000 quarts
of milk, dry measure. per day, 21:; pounds to
the quart, which is 105,000 p0lu1(lS of
milk in 21 single (lay.

I have used ccnti'ifugal Separators of ,ditfcr—
ent kinds for over eight years, and I have never
seen any other riiacliiiie that could do as much
work as well and with as little care as these.

We stored our surplus butter in September and
October when butter was selling for 24 cents. We
sold it recently for 34 and 35 cents.

At the present time we are selling our tub
butter for 33 and 32') cents. and our prints for 35
and 38 cents per pound.

The ,<_{i'0at advantage of your machine over all
others is the easy adjustiiient of its beariiigs, and greater wearing qualities, its
endurance under very severe and continuous work. which is one of. if not the
most important point in Separators.

They were often tested ivlicii doing the most work and the
skiiiiiiied iiiilk sliowetl less than one-teiitli of one per cent of fat.

One man ran the four machines without help. I am satisfied one man can run
six or eight of these machines. they need so little attention.

EUGENE A. SAVAGE. Foreman,
No. 624 Race street, Philadelphia, Pa. Fxitiisas’ CREAMERY Co.

SEND FOR PAMPI-[LET FULL OF TEHTIMONI.-\L.\' OF THE SAME soar.

VERMONT FARM MACHINE 60.,

BELLOWS FALLS, VT.

1:’). 1892.

    
  
   
   

THESE MACHINES ARE Milne IN
TWO rlicioliv SIZES AND THREE
DAIRY SIZES . . . . .

We  The Only Firm

Uivingjo ClIS‘h'll'l_'l8l’S'CaSll discounts on orders. VVe are the
_ only ‘i_rm dlslributip: among patrons a ye.1r’s subscrip-
‘ - tiou_to ioo zigriculturalpspers without exacting any
equivalent. No other Seed Catalogue. of America
or Europe, contains so great a variety of several of
the f(£\lld3_I'(‘l yegetablps. and. in addition, are ma'ny
choice varieties peculiarly our own. Thou Ii great-
ly enlarged in both the vegetable and flower seed de art-
ments, we send ourcaialogue FR Eli to all. The t rec
warrants still hold good. and our customers may rely upon it
that the well ‘earned reputation of our seed for freshness an
purity will continue to he guarded as a'most precious part of our
capital. 1. J. H. GREGORY & SOI\. Marblehead. Mass.

OTEL - -
KIRKWOOD

Lansing, Mich.

       
 
  

 
 
    
 

I. M. BROWN, Proprietor

Hosted by steam. Rates $1.00 per day.
ble room and accommodations.

People attending c( nventions can always find comforta-

Cor. Michigan—av and Grand-st. On'y two blocks from State Capitol.

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