_ .»..r, .4.
.$__, 1;‘, _.

I‘\'(Ii.f“ifiii1,ii‘iii1ii. ii.

FARMER AND MANUFAC’l‘URl'3R-  industries are located outside of the

Comparative Financial

Shown by Census Returns. 

s. B. n’c1nici1EN.

jlarge cities, as the Carnegie works I
1:esu|t,.- aglat Homestead, near Pittsburgh,
Pa., and the Pullman car works at ‘
§Pullman, near Chicago, Ill._, and

hence do not come within the clas-

- ‘ 1’ sification for cities. All of these con-
In a former article I spoke OflS1(l€1‘RtlOIlS tend to the conclusion

the relative productive value of:

that the statistics as reported and

capital invested in farm property 1 published are, for the great manii-

and in manufactures, and raised:

the point that by the use of ma-1'
chinery in manufactures a givenl
amount of money thus invested?
would yield a much greater per-;
centage of profit than the same;
amount invested in farming. ‘
I haie before me the Compend-
ium of the tenth census (1880).
which gives statistics both of i1ian- 3
ufactures and farming. There is,7
of course, a recognized want of ex-
actness iii the figures given, and
the best that we can do is to seek
to draw some conclusions from gen-
eral averages. Just let us look a
little into the matter of manufact-,
uring. For the purpose of illus-'
tration I have taken the cities of
Boston, Detroit and Chicago, the
states of Massachusetts and Mich-
igan, and the United States as a
whole. The balances, according to
the census report, show as follows
for the year 1879:
CITY OF BOSTON.
Capital invested $47,348,384.
Value of products’ $130,531,993
Wages paid_____ $24,924,009 ,
Cost of materials 81,668,160, 106,612,169

. , ,,_,_,_,._,-2.4.. :4,‘

' Net proceeds fiPiIiv‘idcnd of
55 P91‘ Cent ————————— -- $25,919,324
CITY or DETROIT.
Capital invested $15,594,479

Value of products $30,181,416
Wages paid _ _ _ __ . $6,306,460
Cost of materials_ 18,150,995 24,457,455 -

Net proceeds or dividend, 37

per cent ______________ __ $5,723,961
CITY OF CHICAGO.
Capital invested $68,836,885
Value of products $249,022,948
Wages paid _ _ __, , _ $34.653.462

Cost of materials 179,209,610 213,863,072

Net proceeds or dividend, 51
per cent ______________ __ $35,159,876
STATE OF M.-\5S.»\CHL'SET'l‘S. ,l
Capitalinvcsted .-$303,806,185
Value of products
Wages paid,____ $128,315,362
Cost of materials 386,972,655 $515,284,017

$631,135,264 :

Net proceeds or dividend,

35 percent ........... _. $115,897,267
srxriz 01‘ .viici1i1;AN,

Capital invested $92,930,959
Value of products

Wages paid , $25,313,682

Cost of materials 92,900,269

$150,715,025

118,213,951

Net proceeds or dividend,
35 per cent $32,501,074
'riii: UNITED 5'1‘/\"l‘F.S.
Capital invesied $2,79o,272,6o6
Value of products $5,369,579,191
Wages Paid _ _ . . . $947,953,795
Cost of materials 3,396,823,549 4,344,777,344

Net proceeds or dividend,

39 per cent____ ____ $1,o24,4o1,847
In the foregoing computations
no account is taken of the depre-
ciation of plant, insurance, taxes,
losses, etc. Let us make the liber-
al allowance of 20 per cent from
the net proceeds for these items,
and there yet remains a divi-
dend oii the amount of capi-
tal invested of 15 per cent on
the lowest average above shown,
and on the highest 35 per cent, or
an average of 223; per cent all round

on the six bases of computation.
The figures for the cities as above
given are taken from the schedule
of manufactures of 20 principal
cities as found on pages 1030 to
1097 of Part II of the Compend-
ium. It is a fair conclusion that
manufactuiers may not have beenl
overwilling to give statistics of their:
business, and thus disclose their!
ratio of gain. 
Car building, for instance, is an 5
important industry in the city ofl
Detroit, and it is not reported at,
all in the schedule for that city.i
In other cases the most productive‘

‘ farm machinery.

facturing industries, in their net.‘

results far short of what they ought
to be. To which may be added

also the practice of watered stock-

in manufacturing corporations, by
which the capital invested is in

;many cases no doubt, made to ap-
pear largely in excess of what it
, actually is.

It were a work of supererogation
to enter upon a coinputatioii to
show what. are the net results from

3 the farming industry. This is well 3

understoodby the systematic farmer
himself. But yet if we can deduce
from the census reports some fig-

ures that are consistent with those,
ithat are known to most farmers, it

will afford a double fortress of facts.

In Part I of the Compendium is
contained the chief farm statistics.
Those that we shall consult. are
contained mainly on pages 684 and
685, under the heads; “Value of
farms, including land, fences and
buildings;” “ Value of farming im-
plements and machinery;" “ Value
of live stock:” “ Cost of building
and repairing fences;” Cost of fer-

t._ilize'.'_s purchase_d:’-’»; fj.§§ti_m'-*,’£':;=g..‘.'
" Hutu; UL an mrm pro“(Iuc1.i‘o‘ns, stain,

consumed or on hand, for 1879.”
The value of live stock is given in
a separate column, but it can hardly
be construed as belonging with the

ltotal productions for 1879, as the

value of the live stock on a farm is
necessarily the accumulation of
several years. It is fair, there-
fore, to conclude that the value of
farm" productions “ consumed" in
1879 is merged in the value of live
stock for that year, so that the o_ne
balances the other.

, On pages 660 and following are
given classified schedules of farm

proiluctioiis for 1880 8.lJ(l~. other
fyears, including under head of live

stock, horses, mules and asses,
and working oxen. i\Vl1ll.'l1 pro-
portion of these are employed as
draft animals on the farm it would
be impossible to tell, but whatever

their value may be should be added 1

to the total of capital “ invested, to-
gether with the value of farms and
For the purpose
of computation we will assume
that two-thirds of the horses,
mules and asses and the entire of
the working oxen, should be in-
cludcd under this head and will
estimate their value in round num-
bers at $50 each.

There is no report of the value
of the labor expended in the pro-
ductions of the farm for the year
in question . This must be esti-
mated in order to reach an approxi-
mate balance. Part 2 of the com-
pendium, 1) 1356-7, purports to
give the total number of persons
engaged in the various occupations
in the states and territories includ-
ing farming. Probably as fair a
way as any to reach a result will
be to take the number of persons
so said to be engaged and estimate
the value of their labor atsay $1
per day for 300 days. With this
preliminary explanation we will
venture upon some coiiipiitatioii
for th ree states, choosing an eastern
a west-middle, and a western state
and the United States as a whole.

THE S'1‘.~\'l‘E OF NEW’ YORK.

Value of farms____ _ _ _ _ $i,056.17().741
Value‘farin i1nplements,_-_ 42,592,741
Value draught animals_ , _ _ 22,495,950

Capital invested; _ _ _ _ _ _ _, $1,121,265.43;
Value of products_,__ ____ , $178,025.69;
Building and repairing

fenccs____,  $4,915,017
Cost of fertilizers. ., _ 2,715,477

'.-11111, AND SHOULD BEFIRST 1MPROI’E]).”

 
  

FEBl1llAllY 15, 1893.

Net proceeds, 5 per cent_ _.
THE sT.\’I‘F. 01-‘ MICHIGA.\‘,

Value of farms.___ ._ _ ,, , $499,103,181

‘ Value farm iinplemcnts_-___ 19,419,360

' Value draught animals_ _ V _ 14,669,650

55533-193-J91

‘Value of products__. _ ,___ _ $91,159,858
Building and repairing

Capital invested_- . ..,_

fences . ___ , ___ _ $:.975_644
Cost of ier1ilizers_ 300,995
‘ Labor ......... - . '.-1.095.700 $75.37-1.3.19

Net pi‘oce(:ds, 3 per cent_ , $15,7S7.5i9

T111-: .s'TATJ'.‘ 01: KANS.-\S_

:\'alue of farms___ ____ ,, $235,178,936
, Value farm impleine;i1s____ 15,652,848
Value drziiiglit aniii '1is5_ ,3 17,439,45

Capital in\'csted_ _ , , , , _ , A‘I2—(I)S,271,_2I3:
.'\'aluc of products_ i_ __,, ,, .-352,240,361
Building and repairing
fences____ ____ , . 52,627,142
,‘_ Cost of fcrtilizei-s_ _ 5 61,713
: Labor .......... -- 61.824000 $61.57-‘.855
52,240,361
Apparent deficit, __, _,_. _ , $12,332,494
THE UNHEI) 5'I‘A’l‘ES_
Value of farms__,_ ,___ , $io,197,o96,776
Value farm implemcnts._ 406,520,055
Value draught animals. , , 454,992,050
Capital invested__4 _ _ , 3 __ $i1,o58,6o8,8S1
Value of products__ ,_ _,__ 2,213,402,564
Building and repairing
fences ______ __ $77,763.473
Cost of fertilizers 23,586,397
Labor ______ __ 2,301,147,900 $2,4o7,497,77o
_ ., 2,213.4o2,564

    
 

   

are consistent with the general
estimate of net results from the
farming industry. The figures in
the last two tables are startling.
Of course they cannot hold good
in fact, but with the most liberal
allowance they show that farming
in the west and in the country at
large yields no profit. And in
all of the four tables no account is
taken of taxes, value of seed used
nor other incideutals.

The two items, values of draft
animals and of labor are reached
by computation as previously
explained. It is believed that
they are both placed as low as
lthey will bear. The labor item is
J the more important factor of the two
and it seems needless to multiply
;words on these points which are
,3 necessarily involved in uncertainty.
1' \Ve trust the main purpose of

‘this article, namely, to show the
fdisparity in net results between
,' rnaiiiifactiiriiig industries so largely
,‘ using labor saving machinery and
jfarming has not been lost sight of.
l Let us close with a brief summary,
taking the United States as a
whole:

Farina.

Mnnufacvires. ‘
4.005.907

Number reported 253,852
Capital in-

vested ____ $2,79o,272,6o6 $1 1,053,608.33!
Number hands

€lYlplO_\‘Efd _ _ 2,732,595 7.070.493
Value of prod-

ucts.-.--.-$1.972.755.642 332.212.402.564
A veragc prod-

uct to each

hand employed $720 $5513

The value of manufactured pro-
ducts given above is exclusive of
the value of materials used which
is deducted from the gross sum of
$5,369,579,191. If we compute the
value of labor at $5300 all round,
those engaged in manufacturing
(men, women and children), by
the use of machinery give their
einployes a margin of $420 each
for the year while the farm laborer
with the aid of draught animals
and suchmachinery as the farms r
users gives to his employer 13. mar-
gin of $13.

The reader will make such
further analysis of the figures
given as he may deem profitable.

The question arises “ What are
you going to do about it?” That
;is the nut that the social econo-
l mists are invited to crack.

Detroit.

: Labor _ . , _ _ _ , _ _ _ 1 13,238,000 $120,868,494 
1 __ 9
357.1571?“ ,

Arm"?  $‘94»°95~*99.
ire figlAl§ lTSb two taoies

 

EDITORIAL OBLIQUKITY.

1

The .N0rthwes2‘crn CIn'1'stz'an Ad-
irocafc, published in Chicago, is
.the greatest of Methodist papers
_publisl1ed in the west. The issue
3 of December 21, notes with evident
satisfaction the fact that Mr. Phil-
jlip D. Armour of Chicago, had

transferred to a board of trustees a
two hundred and fifty thousand
dollar manual training school “to
complete the circle of beneficent
‘activity contemplated by the Arm-
our mission." T /l(’- Norf/1.z1'csIm'n
"of only a week earlier date, coni-
‘menting on the will of Jay Gould,
' uses the following strong language:
1 “ The pirate might have give $10,-
000,000 easily to Bishop Hurst for
'that university in Washington, but
4 we are glad he did not. No chan-
cellor or trustees could afford to
jaccept $50,000,000 accumulated as
 Gould gathered his gains. It would
‘demoralize young men to possess a
diploma from that source. It were
as well to endow the Sunday schools
of a nation by dividends from
American houses of ill-fame.”

The Mr. PhilipD. Armour above
referred to is unquestionably the
Philip D. Armour of dressed beef
notoriety. The reader not skilled
in drawing fine distinctions will
naturally ask, wherein was there
such a difference in the business
methods of Jay Gould and Philip
D. Armom-‘that Pno jchanoellor or

gift 1 from the former, i'wiii‘i1'§"d;:
action of the latter in establishing
a benevolent institution is to be
approved? Apparently the chief
difference between them was one
of opportunity and ability. Jay

his own selfish ends, did it.
Philip D. Armour has the opportu-
nity and ability to crush out, wreck,
the country butchers, and, for his
own selfish ends, does it. He is
able to and does undersell until he
has destroyed competition.

Legislatures have been as power-
less to defeat Mr. Philip D. Arni-
our’s detestable business methods as
they were those of Jay Gould. The
cliaiacterization of Jay Gould as a
pirate may be just. He certainly
had wonderful nerve which stood
him in good service to the end.
He gave not, to again quote from
;the 1\"0rflzu'csfei'n article, “a dol-
ilar to any library. school, public
park, hospital, art gallery, museum
or other institution for the benefit
of men.” So far as the world knows,
he knew nothing of conscience or
remorse. He continued his rob-
beries until downed by the disease
that carried him off. “ He died
with his boots on.”

Mr. Philip D. Armour may not
have Jay Gould's nerve, and he
seems not entirely devoid of con-
science. W'e are told that he scat-
ters money with a lavish hand to
those in need. This may all _be
true. It is possible he quakes with
fear, and is trying to make amends
by completing a “circle of benefi-
cent activity.” He may even hope
to bribe the keeper of the pearly
gates. But it matters not to what
good uses he may put his wealth.
It is a question of methods of ac-
cumulation, and the methods by
which Mr. Philip D. Armour ac-
cumulates his gains are essentially
the same as those by which Jay
Gould accumulated his. \Vhy then
should Mr. Philip D. Armour’s
gift of a two hundred and fifty
thousand dollar training school be
regarded with favor, while 11 gift of
millions by Jay Gould, had he
made such, must have been spurned?

The ten thousand farmers in
Michigan who read the GRANGE
VISITOR are by far too intelligent
to allow the inconsistency of any
minister ‘ or church journal to

1110117111). 412.

weaken their respect for, or faith
in, true religion, but they will not-
fail to note that the “ almighty
dollar” held closely in front of some
ministerial eyes, does not fail ut-
terly to hide many crimes against;
humanity, even sins against heaven.
R. L. HEWITT.

DO WE SLEEP 1’

Believing that an exchaiige of
thoughts, suggestions. methods,
etc.. for iiiteresting and advancing
the interests of our Order will be
for the interests of all, I would
suggest some few thoughts, hoping
they may call out Otllt‘l'S.

The report of our Past Master
that "the Order in our State is
seemingly at a standstill." is a re-
port that should awaken every true
member to a sense of his own re-
sponsibility, that the fact that
there are no sI'(mrIsi'i'!l plans for us
——-we must either advance or de-
cline—should arouse every one
who has stood at its altar and
pledged his fidelity, to intense
action.

I can not bring myself to believe
that the Patrons of Michigan have
not the persevereiice and ability to
keep the work and Order progress-
ing. I believe, too, that oneireas-
on why many Granges become
weak or dormant is the indifferent
way in which the work is done.

To illustrate: Many Granges call

ient, without regard to the law-
ful hour; then again they are
closed late. All through the ses-

sion there is a slackness evident.
I am reminded here of a Grange

Gould had the opportunity and§W11iCl1’I “'35 01103 V1'Sll‘i111‘-L T119
ability to wreck railroads, and, for;PT0f-T1‘?m1 “'35 t‘XC‘9He11t: but the
Mn , Master did not happen to be inter-

ested, aiid so folded his arms upon
the table, and bowing his head,
actually slept while the members
Went. through the exercises.

There is a fatal disregard of 13.11
parliamentary usages in too many
Granges, though of course great
care must be taken not to make it.
oppressive. Lecturers should keep
pace with the times, and be ready
with the new and novel as well as
the practical subjects. Its a good
plan to have what is called by
some surprise programs, where
only certain members who take

out.

The Lecturer should be permit-
ted to occasionally purchase books
containing exercises suitable for
the meetings, at the expense of the

Grange. Lecturers would find it
to the advantage of members to
prepare a few questions for each
meeting to be answered by any
one who could. For example:
“What five distinguished persons-
have died during ’92 in U. S.?”
“In other nations?” ' “ \Vhat new

tion?”

specialty of .exliibits at county and"
the treasury. Oh! there are scores
of ways to interest and build up
the Order. Let us till the field,
’93.

Miss O. J. CARPENTER.

Dirnomlale.

 

(‘-LADSTONETS GREATEST EFFORT.

Gladstone’s speech in Parliament the

say the papers. He outlined the Home
Rule Bill asfollows:

Ireland is given eighty members in the
imperial parliament. These are to vote
on questions affecting Ireland but not
on those affecting England. The con-
stabulary is to be gradually abolished.
Ireland is to furnish her share of the im-
perial revenue by deductions to be made
from her own revenue. The Irish parlia-

elective.

part know what is to be brought .

books are receiving public atten- _ .4
Then again we should make a

state fairs, premiums to go into:

sow the seed, and reap a harvest in _

14th was the master eff-irt of his life, so ‘

ment is to consist of two houses, both

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THE GRANGE VISITOR. '

FEBRUARY 15, 1893.

Field and Slack. 

>_ --—-—-— ----———-———-

SILAGE FOR susrr.

‘.:":"“i‘.l1i§‘-‘.’.’-.‘.’.fi“ij"-.‘é‘.;

I am not invited here to talk
Iflmut silos, but as they are so indis-

nsable to the basis ofmy subject
Iecannot refrain from a few suggest-
ions about their construction, etc.

First, I say they must be very
strong and as near air-tight as you
can make them. If you have rats
they will try every possible scheme
to get your eiisilage. Then after
you have your silo all right, you
will have so much to learn about
filling it and feeding it out. [And
you will have to learn by experi-
ence and observation much that
you cannot learn from papers or
reports of professors of agricult-
ure. For in all reports that I have
read by the most reputed a1ithori-
ties, there is a painful absence of
positive instruction in the principal
and underlying facts of the experi-
ments.

Let us take as an instance one of
the lengthy and exhaustive reports
published in a recent Jllichigmz.
Farmer. I said exhaustive, but
I think that adjective out of place,
because there is an utter absence
in the report of the most essential

art of the experiment. There are
figures and fractions enough to
drive a common feeder or breeder
crazy! \Ve learn how many ounces
ofhay, how many ounces of stover,
how many ounces of eiisilage. But
how much do we learn of what
kind of ensilage, or what kind of
hay, or what kind of stover?

Wisely and well they say, “The
experiment. is incomplete.”

I would like to ask Prof. Shaw
flaow much real corn there was in
53.3 or 28.39 pounds of ensilage fed
to these steers? I wonder if he fed
them‘? I know there is as much
difference in corn ensilage as there
‘is in folks. I have seen it made of
corn that was nearly all stalks and
smut. I have seen it made of corn
very green, and of corn very ripe,
and of corn that had been cut and
shocked and half cured or dried
out. I have put it in the silo when
file ears would far outweigh the

filiii Léi lo Tnifiiily "Ell cdrn Ialifd. cob,
and from the same silo on the same
day the ensilage would be nearly
all stalks and husks. And if you
are not vigilant and active in fill-
ing your silo, and vigilant and care-
ful, and do not exercise good
judgment in feeding your silage

on will be likely to make mistakes.

he most important part of the
science is to know what you are
feeding. The number of pounds
alone leaves us nearly as much in
the dark as though the numbers
were not given.

I would like to know if Prof.
Shaw could certify that the steer
that died did not get twice as
much rca.l corn in his eiisilage some
days as he did other days?

I have been feeding corn from
the cutting box for nearly 20 years
and I know the tendency of the
corn and stalks to separate. More
of course in dry corn than when
the stalks are green.

And now the next advice I give
you in regard to filling your silo is
tokeep the silage thoroughly mixed
 it comes into the pit. It should
either drop in the center or be con-
ducted around with a spout com-
ing from top of the carrier and
thoroughly tread in the corners
unless your silo is round, as it
should be if you were building it
by itself. .

' Three years ago I made my first
experiment with the subject of my
text. I had looked in vain through
all. the silo literature I could find
for a report of some one who had
made a business of feeding sheep
from the silo. I was already equip-

for the experiment except the
silo; for I had fed my sheep on
«com from the cutting box for 15
years or more, taking it from the
shock throu h all the feeding sea-
son, and I be ieved it was along way
ahead of the more ordinary way of.
, ilizing the corn crop. I also be- '
-ieved if one-half the advocates
claimed for ensilage was true for
cattle it would be equally or more
-so for sheep, and I am -prepared§
today to tell you I think I was notf

B..,.....

smistaken.

' _ But there is one thing in the way l

daetween you breeders and myse1f,i
Jbecausel have made the most of:
-my experience with reference tol

making mutton, while I trust you?
ind rather be instructed in regard

you can’t wear a larger size than4." I»

mas."

to making sheep. While I have a
little experience of this kind, it is
not enough to base any formula of
advice or instruction upon.

The Hon. N. B. Hayes of my
locality, and well known in many
parts of the State as a progressive
farmer, and up with the times in
his business is quite a success-
ful breeder of sheep. He has two
silos about the size of my own, and
I don’t think he makes use of them
for his breeding sheep; although if
I were breeding to much extent I
should try the ensilage but for small
flocks I do not think it would pay.
Still I don't know. VVlien I com-
menced feeding my sheep ensilage
I had two silos—~-one filled with
ripened corn, and the other with
clover as the mower left it. I have

‘filled them both with ripened corn

every season since, because I think
corn far the most economical silage.
I am now feeding for the fourth
winter, and am -fully convinced it
is in advance of any other system
of feeding I have yet known; al-'
though during my first winter’s
feeding I lost more sheep by dis-
ease than ever before in the same
time. It seemed to be a brain
trouble and was very fatal. My loss
was about «I per cent of 600 or
700.

The next winter I fed more silage
and lost about oiie-lialf as many
sheep.

The next season 1 fed more silage
still, and, while I lost a few, the
loss was trifling. This season I am
feeding about 700 lambs. They
have been fed since Thanksgiving
almost entirely from the silo; a lit-
tle clover hay (it is only a little
they will eat when they have all
the silage they want), about twice
in three (lays. and barley straw for
litter and a change once in three
days. They are growing well and
make me happy and themselves too
every time I feed them.

I put 27 fine-wool wethers in
the barn with the lambs at the same
l time. These wethers were the only
sheep I had in the pens older than
lambs, and as the pens were some-
what crowded, I sold them last
Wednesday, and if the man who
weighed them in the barn made no
mistake they weighed nearly six
pounds more than when they went

,,_4__ 41 . _.,,, '1'“ v_; V‘ V“, t_.,-1 “-v
same as the lambs, but ate more
and gained much more.

In all of my acquaintances, I have
found only one man besides myself
who has made a business of feeding
sheep on ensilage, and this man is
A. O. Atkinson, of Freeport, Ill.
As soon as I heard of him I wrote
him a letter, and I will now read
you a part of his reply, and I con-
sider it far the best part of this
paper, and I know you will agree
with me:

“ I am glad to learn there is one
other man besides myself who had
nerve and enterprise enough to try
the experiment of feeding ensilage
to sheep. I have had the very best
results with 20 pounds gain in H0
(lays. Have had ten thousand
seven hundred head on ensilage at
once and gave them all the grain
they would eat in addition. Have
less loss by death than in the or-
dinary way of feeding.

“ Expect to build two silos this
summer, and put up two thousand
tons of ensilage.”

If I can catch up with such a.
man as that, I should calculate I‘,
was in sight of the promised land.

I thanked Mr. Atkinson for his
letter, and I thank him still. It
did me lots of good and gave me
confidence, and I think it not mis-
placed.

Mr. Atkinson seems to be a heavy-
feeder, giving with the ensilage he
says, “ all the grain they will eat."

I think he feeds two crops of
sheep to my one, and presume there
is more profit in that system of
feeding.-

I thank you for the honors be-
stowed and the favors conferred,
and in return I pray that you may
learn to make sheep from ensilage
that will make more wool and more,
mutton and at less cost than any
you have yet dreamed of. ;

u
!

 

Venerable Gentleman (patting;
Jamie on the head)-— -“ And howl
old is the little man?” 

Jamie (with pride)-— “ Ill be ten;
in less than five years." I l

Clerk: “ What size stockiugdol
you want?"

.vided with feeding floors;

WINTER CARE AND MANAGEMENT
01*‘ SWINE.

Pa icr written by A. II. VVarren of Ovid, Mich. for
I e State Swine Breeder’: meeting at Lansing,
Dec. :1. iSoa.

Ma. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW
SWINE BREEDEBS—-This is a sub-
ject that is talked and written about
until almost threadbare, but we
must meet it every day in practice,
and if constant discussion leads to
an occasional advanced step our
time is not all wasted.

Exchange of opinions is essen-
tial to advancement in swine breed-
ing, as well as in all the other
breeds of improved stock. and with
this for my excuse I will proceed.

As cold weather approaches in
November, it is very important for
the health and thrift of swine that
extra care and attention should be
given them. Those who have not
piggeries or housing should at
least provide dry yards or a field for
them to roam in during the day,
and a comfortable, dry, well littered
shed for them to sleep in at night.
The larger and older swine should
be kept separate from the smaller,
especially from pigs under six
months old, and a few only should
be allowed to nestle in the same
place at night. For the sake of
wariiith they will huddle closely
together, or pile up one on top of
the other, and if the smaller ones
happen to be at the bottom, where
they are sure to be, they are often
smothered or crippled. I have fre-
quently seen where not more than
a dozen thus lie at night, from one
to three come out all stiffened and
sore, this making a continual and
considerable loss in the whole herd
during cold weather. all of which
can easily be remedied by proper
assortment and a little attention.
But if a breeder has conveniences
so that he can, and has not too
many brood sows to look after, I
should put each brood sow by her-
self, as sows of this class should
not be fed all they will eat, and if
fed together some will get too much
and others not enough, while all in
their greed to get more than their
companions will eat too rapidly,
and therefore imperfectly inasticate
their food. VVhen food is not prop-
erly masticated, it is as a rule in-
sufficiently diges nd therefore

.--1---4:-,,»—i . -,1 IL. +i,,._
breeder has never noticed the diff-
erence in the rapidity with which
some eat, where several are fed to-
gether, and the same animals fed
separately, such persons should try
the experiment and be convinced
of the assertion here made. By
feeding and housing separately the
breeder secures the following ad-
vantages: the hogs are healthier,
eat more slowly, and" hence econ-
omize food, avoiding injuries and
abortions.

Hogs that are kept for breeding
purposes should come into winter
quarters in good condition. If the
brood sows are allowed to run down
in flesh and rough it through the
winter, after the old-fasliioned way, 3
but without the range of the forest, %
thenuts and bulbs of plants they’
gathered, cannot be expected to
give much of a return at the spring
farrowing. The old-fashioned way
of wintering sows was well enough
for the old time hog, and the man-
net of putting them on the market,
but with the improved hog if we
could have the timber range of
forty years ago, and added to that
the improved method of keeping,
we would have healthier and more
vigorous swine. But as the range
is gone we must try some of its
advantages in other forms. The
advantages were varieties of food
and the exercise they received in
collecting them.

The great failure with the aver-
age swine grower is in the one
ration of corn for continued feed-
ing. This is all wrong; they should
be fed a variety of foods, such as
ground barley, oats, rye, peas, and
mill feed, and if you should add a
little oil meal so much the better,
as I consider oil meal one of the
best foods that we can give to our,
swine in Winter, given in limited;
quantities, mixed with other soft‘
foods. They should always be pro-
these
should be under cover when pos-
siblc. On this floor should always
be found 1! box of charcoal, salt
and ashes, which they can help
themselves to at any tiuie.

I prefer the "separate lot and

expensive in proportion to the room
it afiords. Farrowing sows kept
in such a house are by reason of
the noise made by other occupants
kept restless, irritable and nervous,
which is apt to result in disaster to
their young, meaning a finan-
cial loss. The separate lot, with
its shade for summer, separate
feeding floor and small, warm sleep-
ing pen affords her quiet, health
and comfort.

As this is the month that most
of our breeding is done, I think it
proper to speak of the boar in this
connection, as the sire is consid-
ered one-half of the herd.

Each boar should have a yard by
himself ; I would prefer him located
in rather an isolated place, away by
himself, and not allowing other
pens or swine around his quarters,
but I would not have him so far
away, however, as to make it in-
convenient in caring for him, and
having easy access to him while in
use for breeding. His quarters
should contain a small grass lot
enclosed with tight fence, not al-
lowing him to see or observe any-
thing traiispiring around his lot.
Give him a careful handling and
schooling, for there is much in this
in forming his disposition as an
aged boar, which is one of the
great essentials in all well regula-
ted breeding establishments. His
food should be during the breeding
season corn and oats, with plenty
of clean water to drink.

VVlien I find a sow in heat. I
drive her to the boar yard, give
her one service and return her to
a pen by lierself, until the heat has
passed. _

In breeding young sows for the
first time, I quite frequently breed
them at the first of the heat,
and then again at the close of heat,
as they frequently fail to get a
good service the first time on ac-
count of pain or fright.

After they are safe in pig they
should be fed so as to be on a con-
tinunl gain until farrowing time;

lshould by all means prefer a sow
to be fleshy at that time rather than
poor.

Now as I have tried to bring the
hog through winter and to farrow-
iiig time in as good shape as pos-
sible, will leave the subject with
Jvr -- fnr (Iis:(-_11Rsir\v\ .. ,

.\ SINGULIR I-‘ACT.

It is a remarkable coincidence
that there has been the widest flue-
tuation and the greatest fall in the
prices of those staples thatare most
largely speculated in. ‘We refer to
wheat and cotton. The depression
in the price of wheat is out of all
proportion to the market value of
oats, ‘corn and other cereals that
are not speculated in so largely. '1'/re
Amcricrm. A _(]1'iculf'm'isf’.s* review
of the official returns of the 1892
crops and their value shows that
both cdrn and oats still maintain a
fair average price compared with
the previous decade. Wheat, on
the contrary, is returned as pos-
sessing the average farm value of
20 cents per bushel less than dur-
ing the ninth decade, while its pres-
ent value is _nearly 43 cents per
bushel less than in the decade 1870»
1879.

This is a fall of fully 25 percent
compared with the average price of
the last decade, and 40 per cent
less than the value of wheat in the
eighth decade. This fall in the
price of wheat, is due to something
more than the supply; for in the
past three years the United States
wheat crop has averaged but little
over 454,000,000 bushels, or only
8‘—.’~,000,000 bushels above the aver-
age crop of the previous decade.
It hardly seems probable that pres-
ent abnormal low prices can re-
main permanent, but their exist-
em-e is a matter of grave concern
and worthy of the most careful
scrutiny of causes——.-1 m er1'c(m A {/-
1*iculh1.ri.~.-i.

 

USEFUL HINTS.

The following schedule sent out
by the Experiment station of the
Agricultural College, Guelph, On-
tario, contains some useful hints
in regard to butter-making: (1.)
We do not consider that we know

something new is being discovered '
every month. Not only from our
own work are we continually learn-

l-‘mlflll Sleeping P9115 10 the large ing, but also from the observation

Willie: “About No. 20,Igiiess.”,5h0la’ house with its multiplicity of a . ‘ll 5 u- - 2 ~
Clerk: "‘VVhy, my little man,‘P9US: with 01' Wlllhmlt Small 1033- iildt llfzgiirh  ltlfift’ fnaliesiieleilcsi

Willie: “These are for Christ-;

My objection to the large house is,

that it is not as comfortable, is
; noisy, not as healthful, and is more vation ration; (4), nm. expect a cow

than 200 pounds of butter in a year;
(3), nor put the dry cow on a star-

everything about butter-making as, '

to make something out of nothing;
(5), nor keep our cows in an ice-
house, hog-pen or dungeon; (6).
nor allow them to go a whole year
without carding or brushing them;
(7), nor depend upon pasture alone
for a supply of summer feed; (8),
we do not allow the milk to stand
very long in the stable to absorb
foul odors; (9), we do not neglect
to strain the milk at once after
milking; (10), nor set the milk in
deep cans in well water, without
ice; (11), nor mix sweet cream
with cream to be churned less than
twelve hours before churning (the
cream is ripened in one vessel,
which holds the cream for a whole
churning); (12), not add scalding
water to the cream; nor guess at
the temperature with the finger;
nor take two or three hours to
churn; (13) nor gather the butter
until the “ dasher stands on top,”
and then dip it out of the butter-
milk; (14), nor add coarse salt by
guess; nor work the butter into
grease; (1:3), and finally, we do not
send our butter market wrapped in
old rags that may have seen other
service in the home.

MELLOWINH AND I)II’l{0VING
(‘LAY SOIL.

Something like a year ago I gave
in the Country Gcnllcnzmz my ex-
perience with the southern cow
pea as a green manure for corn.
The field is one of tough, yellow
clay, on the brink of the river
bluff, over which some iceberg had
pushed all the top soil, the result
being a success——so far as makirg
this area of two acres about worth-
less for cropping. As a last resort,
in 1890 the field was well plowed
and fitted, and sowed in cow peas
J uiie 20. To my surprise they
made fine growth, the roots, like
clover, going down one and two
feet. Just. before the frosts, the
peas were turned under, the ground
dragged, and a bushel of rye sown
to the acre to keep the soil from
washing. In the spring a light
dressing of stable manure was
spread and the field again plowed.
The result was, that an ash heap
was the only comparison, and this
friable condition remained until
after the cutting of the ensilage
nnrn crop, which was as fine-a
growth as one would wish to see.
This year, to prove that these cow
peas did have value as a green
manure, the lot was put in shape
as well as could be, between show-
ers; and without any further appli-
cation of manure was again plant-
ed to ensilage corn about June
20. The soil continued mellow,
and the crop this year was even
better than last, though planted
full three weeks later. The result
has been such that I am going to
use cow peas as a catch crop, and
this single trial seems to show that
this deep rooting pea, that in 70
days attains a growth as large as
can be turned under, is a good ally
of clover, and the farmers of the
north can use it largely as a ferti-
lizing crop to increase the stores
of available fertility for the farm.
~-Jolm Gould of Ohio, in Count-ry
Gcrlflmilan.

IN KALKASKA .

At Excelsior Grange, No. 692,
we installed a set of young officers
and the outlook for this Grange is
better than for some time past. Our
own Grange, Boardman Valley, No.
664, have their officers installed
and are ready to take up the work
with renewed vigor. “What can
we do for the VISITOR ?” is made a
special order of business for the
next meeting. Friday evening.
Jan. 13, we installed the oflicers of
Clearwater Grange, No. 674, at an
open meeting and oyster supper.

January 14 we met with Kalkas-
ka Grange No. 697, but so many
are knocking for admittance,
the time was spent in conferring
the third and fourth degrees. They
expect to have their oflicers in-
stalled at a public meeting the
evening of the 28th, and serve an
oyster supper afterwards. A con-
test has just been organized, and I
think the VISITOR will feel the
etfects of it soon.

L. L. TAYLOR.

 

_ A great sensation has been caused
in Jerusalem by.the introduction
of the electric light into a new and
flourishing tlouring mill lately
started close to the Damascus Gate

The Arabs and Jews are much
puzzled ..to account for a light in a
lamp in which there is no oil, and
gaze upon it with wonder.

 


 

I

FEBRUARY 15, 1393.

 

EHE GRANGE VISITOR. A - l 3

PA'l‘BONS' PAINT WORKS have sold Ingersoll Paintto the Order P. of
H. since its organization. House Paints and Cheap Paints for Burns and Out»
buildings, 10.000 Farmers testify to their merits. Grange Halls, Churches, School

Houses, Dwellings, all over the land, some of them painted 15 years ago, still
oolcing well. prove them the most durable.

MICHIGAN PATRONS “Buy direct frorii

F'“3l°"y" fit full Vfiicilesale Prices and
save all Middleman‘: Profits.

0. W. INGERSOLL, Prop.

_ Oldest Paint House in America
241-243 I‘lymoutli—st., Brooklyn

ORKS

lugersoll’s Liquid Rubber Paints
Indestructible Cottage and Barn Paints

Sample Color Cards. “Coiifldn-ntial" Grinng
Discounts, Est nines and full ])z|l'tIcl1lflI‘D
MAILED Flirjn‘. \\'x'itc at once.

l
P0513] J0]-~fin§s_  price and without competition.
,_,,, __ ; Then was the great day of Eng-
RIVERSIDE GRANGE NO. ins, jlisli yeomanry. And if men could
met Jan. I4, and installed oflicers: Master,  have had political rights in the same
tEa1:;‘F.V1'\ICr3;>°l‘};I L€C1Lé'=Tvk“- 1:1‘ adlcyt; §e°l‘€-  measure tha.t_ they enjoyed indus-
pe; louowéd. 6"’-" °° ' ‘ " °—‘S 3‘ ‘“‘l" 3 trial liberty, 1tCl31'lI-8-l_Illy would have
stbeen 8. happy time in the history
ELK LAKE GRANGE N0~ 459- ;of the world. We wonder at the
The regular iiieeting _was held _]aniu1_r_\‘  amount of loss and misery IIOW in-
21. Bro. and sister Leighton of Old l\Iis- ; curred by strikes and lockouts and

sion delegates to the State Grancre wercl - - - - -
,,,,,,,:,,,, and made 3 report of the ;,.,’)Ceed, ; the industrial situation as depicted

r

ings of the State Grange, delivered the an. 5 by such Writers as Bellamy for the
nual word, exeiiiplified the unwritten work, ; present and Ignauus Donuelly for
insialled our oflicers, and we had a good  the future This Separation of in_
social time gcncrallv. g '
* ———— ,« terests was soon to be severed,
FABM1-‘<'GT0N GRANGE N0 367- 3 and paradoxical as it may seem, by
held installation services and oyster supper  the invention of labor saving ma-
°“,tl‘e."5‘v C: -l--l"‘°l‘°‘°" 0‘ l,3‘““‘"gh“'“v Q chinery, which marks the first (lif-
othciuting. The large proportion of younggf - - f } 1 b ,d ‘ -
people at this Grange always makes things 1 erfentlatlon 0 t 1e_ B‘ 0.1- an caflpl’
lively. italist. elements ‘of society. With
(“LEAD GR ‘NGE N0 400 . tlieincreasetl power to produce yarn
‘ ' ' 1b I the s inning eniiv must follow
3 P n J -

has a membership of about of, all wood ;‘ - _ _ _ _ _ r , _
live members. \Vill confer the thirdband  an lnueused Pnwel ,t0 “e:dVe’ then I
fiourth degrees on four at our next ,,,eC,i,,g,  followed the adaptatioiiof the steam 

making liiteen in all this year. We ln66t}e1]g‘iX1efO1'l)0Wer (the use of the
regularly every two weeks. Feb. 25,we.Ste,,m engine was known before

‘th'.l".lld“;\ tTl)'h'.‘5 - - -
‘1‘§:rP‘,)ex;1,;ees_".l.p 3-‘ H C m‘ 3 ‘t 3‘ ; this but there was no use for it in

Cm, ,_,, C,,,,,,,,,.,,,_,_ Elie economynolf the p1~§>\«p,1l1llg 111-!
mm, Tabi,ha>__Ma‘.), Bonmw ustry )coal tie (ls were opened up to ,
1)r_ Tho,-mongm,-e R, I;,,,,,,,._,-_ * provide for the fuel for the eiiginesg
l)€Zl..\Vl1ltE—- \V. ll. Olmstcad. ‘and then l)e-gar} Englancrs great- 
Je“”““- Le°—N°”“ B”Cl‘““' I ness in an industrial sense. Some 3

Anna Stecle—EtlielHa<lley. _ ml ,1 _ I _ f ,
Bridgetmlna Wheeler‘ .men more s irevu am mole ore-,

All fourth degree members are cordially 

 

 

committee when determining the
payment of a bonus to 8. certuiii
factory to locate in their city. If,
it was a. factory where the compe- 
tition was so great that starvation‘
wages would be paid the factory
was not wanted, for it would be of
little benefit to the merchants of
the city if only the burest iieces-
sities were demanded, and in case
of sickness or misfortune the sup-
port of the city would be necessary
to prevent the absolute misery of
the employés.

Here was it pmt,-tical expression
of Ric‘.ia.do’s law by 8. man who
probably never heard of the law in
question, or of its author. He how-
ever knew by actual experience of
the operation of the law of cause
and effect. Unoccupied lands, eni-
bracing the vast domain of the
United States, and even lands
owned by corporations and private
parties which can be had for a mere

nominal sum,have tended to prevent

this congestion of the laboring,

classes, and another reason un-‘_
doubtedly is the diversified indus- .
tries and the vast amount of in-?

ternal traffic, tliere being about the
same number of persons employed
in transportation that. are eiigaged

2

I

invited.
This Grange voted to furnish the VISITOR ‘«
to each family among its members. '
BELL BAILEY, /.a.'z‘/r(r:'I'.

 

HOPKINS GRANGE NO. 390.

The Ol’llC€l'S are. Master, Frank Andrews; 3
Lecturer, Anna Chamberlain; Secretary, 
Grace Edgcl.

Dll£D——D€C. 30, I892, VVorlh_v Sister C.
Robinson,a worthy and much esteemed
member of VVatson Grange, No. I54.

S
PGLITICAL ECONOMY.

n JAMES N. MCBRIDE.

III.

The present condition of produc-
tion with capital and labor as
separate factors is of comparatively
recent date. And at the present
time there are good writers who are
ready to risk the prophecy that the
capitalists as we know them will not
continue another century longer.
Something over one century ago
there was practically no competi-
tion in the sale of goods. The
guilds and custom had established
the market and thus the price con-
tinued with littlevariation. I speak
now particularly of manufactured
goods, not the product of the farms.
Society was almost stationary,
trade was communal, i. e., the prod-
ucts of the town were made there
and consumed there also.
green hides were brought in from
the surrounding country, cured and
tanned at the village taniiery, the
shoemaker and his apprentices
made the leather into shoes which
were worn out within the commu-
nity. The weaver made the cloth
from wool which was grown in the
neighborhood and the tailor made
this same cloth up, into clothes
which were in turn worn’ within
the parish. George Eliot’s writ-
ings give us some excellent pict-
ures of rural England in those days.
The work that is now done at the
mills of Manchester was then done
at such places as are described in
the “ Weaver of Raveloe.” There
was 8. bright side to this life that
is still treasured, not only in the
literature of England, but is also
handed down from father to son,
before the relentless strife began
between capital and labor. In the
home of the weaver there were a
number of apprentices, however
not more than the rules of the
guilds would allow; these begin-
ners in the trades worked alongside
the master, ate at his table and slept
under the same roof. A patch of
land belonged to the master work-
man, ii cow or two and a pig were
kept; for we find the capitalist 3.
worker with his men and also a
landlord and little wonder it is that
we find no quarrels between the
classes just mentioned,for our work-
man could not Well quarrel with
himself the capitalist. Under the
rnlesof the guilds the products of
the weaver were sold at a. fixed

§a.lso several other changes of im-l ed and more laborers still serve to

own the machines but Worked them , this law is the opposition to further

;.for the owners were called labor—jimmig1-;,t,ion among the labor ele-l
; ers, and those that were at the lieadf ment, the hordes of Italians, Hun- E
of the enterprise, the owners, Were; g:‘.1'lHllS and Poles. and more par-T

Called <5apitaliSfS- lticularly the Chinese, because
This Cllallge in England effected: the labor market is now overcrowd-

The -

iportance in the makeup of society.
Wealth or high social standing had
* heretofore attached itself to the
and holding class, and the rich V
manufacturer which we know sol
imucli about at the present time
was then unknown. The merchant
to be sure had made some wealth,
but the possibility of a Carnegie
was tllel‘. not thought of. COi1lpz- ,
tition among workmen fixed tliel
price of labor hence we have the
famous “iron law of wages” as
enunciated by Ricardo. It is scarce-
ly possible to take up the writings
of any of the socialistic school
of writers but what reference is
made to this law, a brief explana-
tion of which is now in order. Since
Ricardo found the condition of the
laboring classes varying from those
Well cared for to those in the ex-
tremes of poverty, on the very verge
of starvation, he assumed that the
least for which a. laborer would
work would be that which would
barely support life, and while not
directly stated by this author it
must naturally follow that compe-
tition would reduce the condition
of living to that of the lowest. The
exceptions to this condition would
E be where the philanthropic rather
than the commercial spirit found,
rule and sway. The reports toj
Parliament preceding the passageé
of the factory acts would certainly:
give souie color to the observations
of Pticardo. The sanitary condi-
tions of the factories were abomin-
able; there was no occasion for 8.
chaiige since with the sickness or
death of an cniployé his place was
quickly filled. With the passage
of the factory acts these conditions,
were clianged for the better, then
the orgniiizations of trade unions,
similar and the parent of the pres-
ent brotherlioods of today, brought
about many reforms. With the
growth of the labor classes the
government used its power to ex-
tend trade in every direction. The
aggrandizatioiis of England in all
parts of the world were in the in-
terests of trade extension and inci-
dentally to provide work for her
laboring classes. The Ricnrdian
“iron law of wages” is much like
the law in physics that a body in
motion will move in a straight path
unless impelled from that course
by the action of some outside force.
There are many of us who know of
factories paying their employés
such small wages that it is with the
utmost pinching that the wolf is
kept from the door, especially if
the operative has a large family,
yet there are many who would deny
or waive the operatioiiof this law.
,I well remember the consideration
that was once given to this matter
in the discussions of a citizens’

depress it. The intense feeling
agaiiist the mitliracite coulcompan-
ies is augmented by the fact that
the most degraded foreign laborers
are employed, and these work at
wages that forbid competition. The
common laborers around any great
factory are mostly foreign, partic-
ularly in thefggat iron works. It
is not from ‘the mere fact that a
man is foreign born that he is ob-
jectionable, but it is because he
will uiiderbid the native workman
and also underlive him and do this
in an already overcrowded labor
market. It is this ragged edge
that Ricardo speaks of that must
always be somewhere near the point
of starvation we will all fight, and
we will fight from the outside first
before we will wage war internally.
Hence immigration is opposed from
the principle of self preservation.
No more potent argument was used
in the late campaign than that the
American employer of labor was
protected from European compe-
tition but that labor was in no such
way absolved from the competition
of European labor and the number
of emigrants that each year entered
the United States was seemingly.
appalling. The Chinese have iiotl
the varied vices of many other emi-
grants, but the one insupernble ob-
jectioii is, that they bring the plane
of competition so low that the law
so often mentioned seems very near
us if we are laborers. The differ-
ent relations of capital and labor
will be continued in aiiotlier arti-
cle.

Newlierg; Neighborhood.

We comineiiced a revival of our
Grunge in the way of a. contest
early in the fall, to end the first of
February, and we h_ave been very
successful in the way of new mem-
bers to our Grange and subscrib-
ers to THE VISITOR, and we haye,
reachezl out until we have taken in ‘
almost every family in the juris-
diction of our Grange. We only
started in June, 1891, and now
have about 60 members_in our
Grange. The deputy In _ this
county was not appointed till in
September, 1892, but he has got ii.
fair start on one or two new
Granges and also on one dormant
Grange, the latter being put In
working order. The weather has
been very unfavorable for the last
few weeks or these Granges would
have been at work, but if the
weather permits they will be heard
from. We have a call for the pur-
pose of organizing a county Grange
this month and _hope to plain
work for the revival of Grunge

work in the county.
E. J. Srovnn.

WI llMll IN

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Including one Year's Subscription to this Paper

We have made such arrangements as enable us to
ofler the Chicago

SINGER SEWING MACHINES

at the above low rates. This machine is made

--. after the latest models of the Singer machines,
and is perfect the simile in shape, ornnmentatiob
and a peamnce. All the parts are made to gun
exact y_thesame as the Singer. and tire construe
of precisely the same materials.

The utmost care is exercised in the selection of
the metals used. and only the very best unlit: is
purchased. . Each machine is tlmrong ly well
made nnd is fitted with the utmost nicety and
exactness. and no machine is permitted by me
inspector to go out of the shops until it has been
fully tested and proved to do perfect work, and
to run lightly and without noise.

The (‘hicagosinger Machine has a very import-
ant improvement in :1 Loose lance Wheel.
constructed as to permit winding bobbins wit —
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PLATE. l_7OU‘T:l‘ER. izI.\_'nEi_:. Boiisitgs. s<'I<i«:w l)l{1\’ER: GAUGE.
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8:4-it :;lE;P,r:'1flIl‘(l_ X: l(‘.|lIl'lRl‘|9(l i_rIi\fii superior style. It hn.-I veneered cover, drop-leaf table, 4 end dmweré,
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the ‘n0I£0y:;_ - 1) mac iirie not siiasfactory to a subscriber. we will allow returned and will refund
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name of freight station if different frrirnppifeill-kialiiloe zislfddesgy frelaml rpcewer to pal chdrgsls‘ (“Va

'[‘his Mar-liiiic will be sent for $1030 Casli and I0 N(‘“’.S]]])..

llallded became the OWDOFS Of the  in agriculture in the United States. ‘ sci-iptioiis to the Vlsl TOR at 50 cents (“l('ll
2mach1nery.an<1th0se who dld notf Another cvide'1ce of the truth of: - '

Address, with the money.

TBBSTOFFERYET.

room or Grange why not take this oppor-
tunity of securing one at a remark-
ably low rate. We are offering the famous

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as a premium to those who‘will secure us
« new subscribers.

Here is What the llunufutturers Say for it-:

    

size than our Compenion No. 2. The action
is easy, responds quickly to the touch, and
is in all respects as tine quality as the actions
in our larger organs. The bellows is capa-
cious, pumps easily, and a child can supply
wind to the reeds without difliculty. The

lead a number of voices. It contains the
swell. .

It is made with strong, handsome lamp-
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octave. over all, 39 in. Length of fioct-ave. The cases are made 1“ dark hard wood:
over all, 4:’) in. Depth, 15 in. Weight.secure- finished in Oil and hand-rubbed.
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price that gives us more satisfaction than this new Companion No. 2.

Anal Here is What the Publislierx of The l'outli’s Companion says of it:
41 Temple Place, Boston, Mass” May 3, 1890.

DiMEivsIoNs——Heiglit, 42 in. Length of

E. P. CARPENTER C0.:
Gentlemen—VVe have used organs made by your company for several years.
They have given us entire satisfaction. Yours truly, PERRY, lVlASON & Co.
The Youth’s Cownpanion

Lansing, Mich., Oct. 2.0, 1892.
I can recommend it to
H. R. PATPENGILL.

And Here is Wliait “l’at" Says of it:
THE‘. GRANGE VisIToR—The organ you otfer is O. K.
teachers for their school-rooms.

Every school house should have an organ. Get the pupils interested, and
the parents, and the schoolboard and you can easily get one. We will sena
this organ, which-sells tor 30.00, with bench and a 216 page instructor, for
Sixty New Subscribers at fifty cents a year, and 10.00 cash, receiver.
to pay freight. The organ weighs, ready for shipment, about 140 pounds
You can“: do better than to try for this splendid premium.

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who is the inventor and manufacturer of DOW’S l‘Al’0NIZlNll INSTRU-
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sixty pages, illustrated, fully describing the operation and advantages attend-
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Dow's "aponizing Instruments. with instructions, post paid, per set, . . $2 50
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[)ow’s Book. “Capone and Caponizing,” and this paper one year. 85
Dow's Instruments, Book, and this paper one year, . . . 275

For 8. club of fifteen new subscribers we will give as a premium 8. set of Dow’:
Caponizing Instruments.
For a club of twenty new subscribers, Dow‘s Instruments and Book.
For five new subscribers, a copy of “ Dow’s Capone and Caponizing.”
Postage paid on Instruments, Book and Paper, in all cases.

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5 ADAY(Farmer preferr_ed) p
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i of Eliot's works.

 

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

FEBRUARY 15, 1893.

THE .GllANGE VISH on

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

Ken-yon L. Butterfield, Ftlitor and !\i'.inav.>;ei',
LANSING, Ml(?H..

To _W_hoin all_ exchanges. coiniruinications. adver
using business and subscriptions should be
sent.

l"F.Rl\’[S 50 (‘cuts a Yesir,  Cents for Six
Monllis. In Clubs of 20 or inore -10 cents
per year each. Siibscriptions payable in
advance. and discontinued at expiration, unless
renewed.

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oney Order or Draft. Do not send stamps.

E’ ' *-'“'w w * ’~'A4—?'-‘—*: * '**'§- ' W * -—‘*:’:

Entered at the Postofiice at Lansing, l\Iich., as
Second (‘lass Matter.

0ur olfers.

I. For one new name for one year we
will send a copy of Blurb I)’¢'az(l}'.

II. To any one sending in 5 Imzc sub-
ccribers for one year we will send the Vis-
!TOR one year fr:-c.

Ill. To any one sending in 15 71611.’ sub-
scribers for one year, we will send the set

IV. To any one sending 30 new sub-
scribers for one year we will send Dicl<cn’s
complete works.

V. To any one sending 30 new subscrib-
ars for one year and $5.00 we will send a
Webster or Worcester Dictionary. Or we
will send the same for 60 new names.

VI. For 60 new subscribers for one year
and $1000 we will send the Companion
organ. Or we will send it for 120 new
subscribers for one year.

Do not send stamps.

Send in your names as fast as you get
them, with the inonev, stating what pre-
mium you are working for.

Begin now.

The contribution in another
column on “Editorial Obliquity”
was sent in for last issue, but was
crowded out. The substance of it
had previously been sent to the
Advocate but received no attention
from the editor. Perhaps there

was too much truth in it.

 

In view of the fact that Great
Britain has officially declared Cana-
dian cattle liable to convey con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia, the
United States Department of Agri-
culture has announced a quaran-
tine and inspection of such cattle
entering this country, and has made
Buffalo the port of entry.

 

Several leading gentlemen of
Washington, D. C., are endeavor-
ing to procure aid from Congress
in preserving some of the historic
landmarks of that city which are
being ruthlessly destroyed by the
advancing business interests. The
house where Lincoln died will be
one of the first to be secured from

harm.

 

The Dctroff Tribune complains
because many of the cultured and
intellectual people of that city, who
had attendetl a certain fasliionable
hall. did not manifest the same
eagerness to hear a nritablc his-
torical lecture by John Fiskc.
’Twas ever thus. Men and women
of all ages and clinics and condi-
tions so often fail to use their
highest advantages. So with
individuals. VVe waste our sub-
stance, perhaps not in riotous liv-
ing, but in thatwhich ministers not
tothe highest that is in us.

 

The scene when PI‘eSl(lt“]1t-t’le(.‘l;i
Cleveland and Governor McKin-

to master a book. A large num-
ber of persons have sent for the
description of the course, and sev-
eral thousand circulars have been
sent to Granges and farmers’ clubs.
The work ought to be started at.
once, and thus the mistakes of the
present season can be remedied for
another years work. And then
there’s nothing like a start.

Lecturers who have a dcartli of
material on hand for programs
can very profitably take up some
one ofthese books as a study for the
entire Grange.

A ROA I) BILL.

Representative Hilton, who by
the way is an enthusiastic Patron
of N ewaygo county, has introduced
a carefully prepared bill which is
designed to cover all the questions
at issue. There have been an
extra number printed and he will
be glad to send a copy of the bill
to anyone who desires to make a
study of it. He is also glad to
get suggestions as to What the
people want in road legislation.

 

THE U N1 VERSI TY TA X.

The Michigan University (le-
sires the one-twentieth mill tax
raised for its benefit made a one-
fifth mill tax. Such a bill has
been presented, and seems to meet
the approval of the press gener-
ally. It is a well known fact that
the facilities are overtaxed, that
the University professors are com-
paratively poorly paid and we
believe that our lfniversity should
receive the most generous treat-
ment, not as a matter of pride but
as a matter of direct value to oui'
people. Whether quadrupling the
tax is necessary might be ques-
tioned. But there is one point
that it seems to us ought to be in-
sisted upon by our legislature, and
that is an increase in the tuition
of foreign students, 1'. e.. those not
residents of Michigan. At pres-
ent their tuition is slightly more
than that of residents. It ought to
be made considerably higher. We
can’t quite afford to educate the
citizens of other states while our
own need it, and especially in an
institution already overcrowded.
And this would probably not

debar many. For almost anyone
who can afford to come along dis-
tancc to enter our University
could afford the extra tuition. It
would be justice to our own young
men and woincn and to our tax-
payers.

OUR LEGISL.-l ’1'1l''E ' PROGRAM.

 

The last State Grange committed
itself to the following state legisla-
lion:

1. Road improvement.

‘.2. Salary of $500 per term to legisla-
tors.

3. No free passes to legislators.

4. A tax on inheritances.

5. The establishment of a ladies’depart--
ment at the Agricultural College.
6. Not less than nine months school
each year in every district.
7. Uniform text bo0l‘c.s published by
the state.

‘ley sat. side by side and joined,
with the assembly around Gen,
Hayes‘ bier, in reciting the Lord‘s;
Prayer, was an illustration of the;
power of a common feeling of;

|

respect and reverence which oblit- ,
crates political lines and teaches‘
-the spirit of brotherho0d.~——-E373. ;

It ought not to be anything:
worthy of comment that such al
-scene should occur. Too many,
ties are broken, too many relations
xsnndered by party views. We
believe that the spirit of brother-
hood is gaining, however, and that
political lines are fading more and
more in the general relations of

life.

____._——-:____..._

NOT Too LATE.

7Some may delay about taking up
‘the reading course work because
it is getting late in the season.
‘But that is no excuse for one who
qantsto learn- There are nearly
two months left of spare time for
the average farmer, long cnough

 

8. A sum not to exceed S-l(¥,t,l)t) per
year to carry on farmers’ institutes.
9. Granting the fraachaise to women.

Bills have been introduced
covering the most of these subjects.
Every Grange should exert its in-
fluenco by petition in favor of some
one or more of thesevmeasurcs. If

[they are worth having they are
And members’

worth working for.
of the legislature are glad to know
what their constituents want. The
Grange also belienes in the elec-
/tion of U. S. Senators by the peo-
lple; in a pure food bill. It also
i wishes instead of a repeal of the
l mortgage tax law, an amend-
lment inserted, so that it shall be
lillegal to make any evasion of the
intent of the law by the lender in-
sisting that the borrower shall pay
the tax. The probability seems to
be that a repeal is imminent unless
vigorous action is taken at once by

the Grauges.

THE M ASTE R’S COLUMN.

To County Deputies and Grange
Workers.

Reports from lecturers in the
field say that much of the good
results that might and should fol-
low their labors is lost through a.
lack on the part of county deputies
and of the order to make sufficient
preparations before they (the lec-
turers) visitthe county, and that too
much dependence is placed upon
the advent of the lecturer to ac-
complish the grand results for the
order that is contemplated. This
should not be. The county (lep-
uty should, through the working
members of his county, have the
work to such a stage of advance-
ment, and all meetings so thor-
oughly advertised, that when the
lecturer comes it is all enthusiasm.
With the work at such a point and

members to all existi1igGrH.nges.
You can encourage and revive dor-
mant members and Granges, and
with the field thoroughly worked as
described, many new Granges may
be organized.

If the patrons themselves wait
for the lecturer to first create in-
terest even among members of the
order the probabilities are that
the expense and effort devoted to
the work will be lost.
Now, brothers and sisters, let us
awake to the work and the grand
opportunities presented. Let. us
all unitedly, in meetings and out
on the streets, work and talk for
the Grange. If you will do this
you will feel repaid for your effort
in the new interest and growth
that will follow.

Every Grange should devote
meetings to revival work before
and after a lecturer’s visit, and
thus you will not not only reap
but you will gather up the sheaves
wherein is centered the result of
all f.)r1nci' labor.

The county deputy has full
power to do all the work in hand.
He should proceed with all revival
work on his own account, and
when the State Lecturer comes he
will be found a valuable assistant.
If a county deputy succeeds in re-
organizing or organizing a Grange
before the coming of a lecturer, it
will be so much tlie"‘i;'$i7tc—i for each
Grange, for they can then have a
lecture to support them in their
new work.

ltegartllng Lectiircrs.

Several counties express a prefer-
ence as to who they desire to have
visit their Granges as lecturer. All
the lecturers who are in the field,
and those who have so ardeiitly
and faithfully performul such
work for the order in the past have
each. special calls. I regret. that
in exccutiiig the work, all can not
have their special choice for tho
rcasoii that system and a clear,
dctiiiite plan must prevail to make
the lcctnre work possible in point
of expense. \Vhole counties and
countiesadjoining must be placed
in one field for one le-‘cturer to-
work. In this way and no other
can the expense for each Grange
be brought down to so small an
amount as is now required (-‘3'.’-.5l))
in the regular lecture course. It-
is my (lesire to satisfy all, in this
particular request, as near as pos-
sible, and? will thoughtfully con-
sider all letters addressed me on
the subject- -

li‘roin. the Field.

me from. deputies, of what they

-are doing in the line of revival

work, and the prospects in store-
for good results. Go on, brothers
and sisters, your works will follow
after you. The cause you repre-
sent is just, and the world will be
the better for your labors.

The Children.
Take the children to the Graiige

to become members. From a large
portion of the correspondence that

"in the Grange, and making inquir-

ren and young people.

the best Granges of the state

his assistance you can add new-

Many choc-riiig reports come to -

and encourage all young people

comes to me from earnest workers

ies concerning best ways and means
to increase Grange interest and
inembcrsliip I discover that but
little attention is paid to the child-
There can
be no surer way to dormancy and
death than through such neglect.
The children can be admitted dur-
ing the literary part of the Grange
exercises. Young people are the
soul and inspiration and the life of

Compared with a home life anima-

tion abounds where a large family
of children and young people are
made contented around the family
altar, and kind parents care for
their many wants and seeming
‘fancies, and with well directed};
iinaternal indulgence watch over

those who are soon to take their
places in the busy fields of life.
Parents are most successful and
and their children become the best
and most useful people, Where a
strong tie of companionship exists
between them, thus preserving that
close relation which makes it pos-
sible to exert a strong and healthy
influence. The Grange that can
get a good attendance of young
people, and has the ingenuity to
entertain, interest and instruct
them, is surely on the straight road
to success, and it may be con-
sidered as having attained that
high position.

l
l

GEO. B. HORTON.

 

(IALHOUN (OUNTY GRANGE.
On January 12, the new offi-
cers of Calhoun County Grange
were installed by “Tim. Godsmark,
our representative to the State
Grange, in a very creditable man-
ner. On making his report of the
recent session of the State Grange
Mr. Godsmark did not go into de-
tails of the work done or results
accomplished, but gave his im-
pressions of the caliber of the men
and women that composed that
body» — the advancements they must
have made, and the results of the
work of the Grange for the past
twenty years upon the men and
women who have availed themselves
of its benefits.

Mr. Godsmark is a young man,
and also young in Grange 'work;
but he is one of the new recruits
that feels the need of action on the
part of the farmer, and has entered
the ranks ready for duty. Many
will remember his wife, who gave
us the two line solos at the State
Grange. Mrs. Godsmark is con-
sidered among the best of Michigan
singers, and materially aids us
whenever it is possible for her to be
present at our meetings.

Calhoun County Grange is a
power in our county. Through the
organization a fai'mer’s institute is
held every winter in Battle Creek,
and one of the questions to be met
is to find a hall large enough to
hold the audience. ..

Twenty years ago the first farm-
er’s institute was held in our county
under the auspices of the State
Board ‘of Agriculture. The com-
mittee of ai'ra1igeme11ts said they
needed a woman or two on the pro-
gram if they could find any who
would aid the work. The county
was caiivassed, and two farnienf
wives, after much pa-rsuasion. were
induced to a-l-low their names to be
placed on the program. And now,
afterthe wo1'k-o-ftlic G1.‘uiigc.woineii
(farmers’ wives) are plenty who
can not only l11l'M:’lllgL‘lltliy entertain
an audience, but they are able to
plan for the same- and if called up-
on, preside at our meetings.

We feel that to fai'ni.ers’ wives
the Grange has been the grea.tcr
boon.

' VVe are justly proud. of Calhoun
County (.l-range, and not at all ego-
tistical when we say we think it
the best. Count-y G-raiige in the
State.

V\'l~.S'[‘ E R.\' i‘0l\I()N.\ Gliilfliivti.

 

\Vcstcrn Pomona Girziiigc held
its annual meeting with Talinadge
.Grangc Jan 26 and 27. The meet-
ing was called to order by \Vortliy
Master M. Smith.

As this was the liouie Grange of
Western l’omona’s. Worthy Master
M. Smith, we hurl kl. double Wol-
come.

The questions to be discussed
were as follows:

“What system. would you rec-
ommend for country road build-
ing,” T. \Voodard.

“ Can the-Grange do n;ore than
it is doing to bring country schools
up to the dcsiicd standard, if so
what is it?” C. ('3. Lillie.

“Spring care of orchards and
small fruits,” M. S. Smith.

“ \Vou.ld a school to teach house-
keeping be practical?" Mrs. Thos.
Wilde.

There was not time to do these
queztions justice. -The last ques-
tion was left for next meeting.
The others had all to be crowded
into the afternoon meeting. We
had a large meeting, and the dis-
cussions were interesting, if we
could only have had more time.

There was a class of six took

ness of this degree the officers for
the ensuing year were elected. The
morning meeting was" too short for
the business to be done.

All through the sessions we were
favored with music when called for.
Any one that has ever heard Tal-
madge Grange choir knows that we
had a treat every time. . ’
There is :1 Juvenile Grange in
connection with Talmadge Grange;
this seems to be just the thing
where there are enough children
among the members to make it pay
to start one. They have quite a
large membership and seem to
think it a success. Children be-
tween the ages of eight and four-
teen are admitted. A lVorthy
Matron has charge of the meetings.
I think there ought to be-more of
these Juvenile Gran ges.

Oflicers for 1893 are M. S.
Smith, Master; Mrs. Thos. VVilde,
Lecturer; Mrs. H. J. Austin, Sec.

HILLSDALE POMO-NA.
Hillsdale county Grange met in
VVheatland Grange Hall February
2, one of the stormiest days of
the season. After dinner and the
usual opening the master appointed
a committee on womau’s work,
Sisters Perrin, Phillips and Nich-
ols. Sister Alice Pease gave the
welcome address overflowing with
cordiality and good will, responded
to by Biother Haughey in his

happiest vein. Greeting song
by VVheatland Grange, choir

sang from “Magnetic Melodies,’-’
rightly named. Paper “Poultry
Raising,” Brother McClaiie, fol-
lowed by discussion. To those
adapted to the business the returns
are larger than in any other branch
of farming. Select reading by
Sister Perriii, “One day's exper-
ience on the farm,” a humorous
description of an accumulation of
work, mishaps, and company that
cause one to almost believe in “ the
almost total depravity of inanimate
things” as Mrs. Stowe has ex-
pressed it. Most housekeepers
have seen such days. Paper by‘
Brother M. H. Walworth, subject,
"Uniformity of Text books in our
Schools, to be furnished by the
State at cost price.” This paper
was followed by an animated dis-
cussion; nearly everyone agreed
that text books ought to be uni-
form, and all certainly believed that
the prices of text books are enor-
mous and 8. serious burden. VVe
look for a decided revolution in
this direction soon.

Mas. H. A. HUNKEB.

KEN’l‘ C0l'N'l‘Y.

A special meeting of Kent
county Pomona Grange No. 18,

was held at Harm-.0-n y Grange
Hall Feb. 1. with about forty
meinbers pi-cscn t. The meeting

was called to ort-lcr by the \V.
Master, H. C. Dennisoi-i,at half
past clove-ii o’clock,. and from that
time until noon, reports of G ranges
and other business including the
installation of the chaplain. filled
the time, when an iiiterniissio-n for
dinner was taken. \\-"hen the
Gm.-ige was again called to order
.\lessr.~:. {och and Randall, dele-
gates .rom the Grand Rapis. trades
union addressed the niccting; they
desired to become acquainted with
the farmers and asked the Grange
to join with them in their celebra-
tion of Labor Day in Sept. next.
After some further business of the
Grange, including the secretary
and treasurcr’s reports, Bi-other
James Martin, the delegate to the
State Grange gave an intcn.-sliiig
report of the State Grange. i
The \V. Master a.1l1_i(_il.11lC¢,‘{l his
committees for the ensuing year
and asked the secretary to report
the chairman of each to the
GRANGE Visrron. Coinmitteee on
credentials, J. H. Martin, Grand
Rapidsmommittee on by-laws, H.
G. Holt, Cascade; committee on
finance, Mrs. Martha Edison,
Grand Rapids: Committee on good
of the order, 0. G. Merriman,
Alto; committee on chaiity, J.
Best, Grand Rapids; committee on
grievance, J.‘ Preston, Grand
Rapids; committee on women’s
work, Mrs. VV. T. Adams, Grand
Rapids.

“The Method of Drawing Jur-
crs,” ‘ Road Making” and “ Home
Decoration” were discussed, music
and recitations being interspersed.

The next meeting will be held at
Rockford, March 1, at which time
the discussion of “ Road Making”
will be continued, also “Our Com.
mon School. System,” and the
“ Press” will be taken up.

-the fifth degree. After the busi-

MERTIE. PRESTON.


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_ FEBRUARY 15, 1893.

 

THE GRANGE "VISITOR.

The Lecture Field.

:L€Ct|ll’l‘l’S of Pomona and Suboriliiinte Grzinges
will confer afavor, by sending their P, 0. ad-
dresses to me. that I may he able to send to them
direct when desired.

1’/l.\‘i/mitt, .lI."i'/1.

A. l. Cimsiir, lk.
I

Hints to Pomona Lecturers.

It is much easier to give advice
than to follow it yourself. In the
two years I have been Lecturer, I
have learned perhaps more by my
failures and shortcomings than by
my successes. Iwill therefore give
my idea of a Lecturer’s duties Witl1-
out any regard to what I have
practiced myself. Before proceed- .
ing. I will ask the brothers and
sisters of Inghani county to

“R--prnnch me not, though it appear,
While I true doctrine teach.

I wholly fail in my career
To practice as I preach.

“ You guide post through countless days,
To Landon pointed on,
Nor once has quit the angled ways
And up to London gone."
-—D. Robinson.

First of all, the Lecturer should
be well versed in Grange Work.
The more he knows about the
Grange at large the better can he
do the work assigned him. If pos-
sible, visit the Ponionas of adjoin-
ing counties and see their plan of
work. As a rule, in Pomona
Granges, we shut ourselves up too
much. We think our Grange -is
all there is and know nothing of
what the others are doing. They
may have much better times and
more lively programs than we and
yet we do not take advantage of
their successes and profit by their
failures.

Know the Granges of your own
county. If possible, visit each one
in their subordinate meetings; get
acquainted with their members.
Induce th: best workers to ]()l1l
the Pomona. Grange. Pomona
Grange is, at the best, a very
changeable body. A few old stand-
bys go to all the meetings. All
others are new. \Ve see them only
when the Pomona comes to their
Grange and they feel as if they
had no special interest in its work.
Let us then find who are the best
workers and get them im‘eresz‘ed
in the Pomona Grange.

' One of the great drawbacks to
our Pomona is that We do not meet
often enough to keep interested.

ould the Lecturer not arrange

he program and do his best to
get the Grangeto meet once a week
or two weeks at most in winter
season? Let_the program be short
and interesting. Have most of it
in secret session for the drill
and help of the Subordinate

Grange as well as yourselves.
Have two or three good lively
papers from some of your members
in open session. Have the rest of
the meeting for the good of the
Order. Two short meetings will
do more good than one twice as
long when everyone gets tired out.
As it is now, the Pomona meeting
is often considered the great event
of the year. Before the meeting,
everyone is looking fOWill‘tl and
Working for it and after it is past
they have no energy to do anything
more. This is especially true of the
weak Granges that the Pomona is
expected to help. The large ones
will get along through anything.
Of course all this makes a large
amount of work for the Lecturer
but the rest need do no more than
if the meetings were held once a
month, for the work will be dis-
tributed among all the members.

Try to get the members inter-
ested first of all in their own
Grange and then in the Pomona,
for the Siibordiiiate Grange is
after all the Grange and Pomona
simply an auxiliary——the high
school as it were of the Grange
educational system.

The Lecturer should be well
posted in the degree work through-
out the first five degrees and see
that the subordinate work is cor-
rect in each Grange. This will
give uniformity to the work in his
jurisdiction that will unite the
Granges as nothing else can.
Encourage intervisitation for the
purpose of conferring degrees and
thus stimulate a strife among the
Granges as to who can do the best
work. Uniformity, precision and a
strict adherence to the ritual, con-
stitution and by-laws, and to par-
liamentary rules are to the Grange‘
what faultless tactics are to the
soldier. It is a pleasure to belong
to a well drilled Grange as it is to
a well drilled military company.

All officers should be present at
each meetingbut especially is this
true of the Lecturer. He is the
5‘ push” of the- Grange during its

at the meeting to make suggestions
and receive instructions.

Not the least of his duties is to
make the literary programs both
interesting and instructive. To be
interesting they should be varied
and this is by no means an easy
task. An ingenious Lecturer how-
ever will find means of so varying
his programs that they will be a.
credit to his Grange. To be in-

structive the subjects should be?

well chosen, well handled and well;

(li'scILs.~'('(l.
tended simply to bring the subject
before the meeting while the dis-
cussion brings out the important
points and corrects the errors.

Series of articles might be so
arranged as to present some sub-
ject in a connected manner so that
it could be properly treated without
becoming tiresome, which would.
be impossible in any other way.
Have them arranged in a sort of
“continued in our next” plan. VVe
have started a series in Ingham
county on the subject of Botany.
The first paper presented by Mr.
Hicks of the Agricultural College
has been published in the VISITOR.
We hope to have the next pub-
lished as they come on. VVatch
for them.

Brother and sister Lecturers, you
have before you a field worthy of
the best efforts you can bestow to
the Grange. The Work is hard and
often discouraging but persevere
and your success will be your
reward.

Fraternally,
J. H. F. IVIULLETT.

2537 State St., Chicago, Jan. 1893.

 

l\'l'IWS N0'l‘ES.

POO R DE LESSEPS.

As a result of the governments investi-
gations into the Panama scandal, Ferdi-
nand Dehesseps, his son Charles. and
the famous Eiffel, are each sentenced to
imprisonment for live years. The poor
old man has been stricken with paralysis
and it is questionable if he will recover.
A few years ago he enjoyed the highest
distinction, he was honored and beloved,
he had d me enough to have satisfied a
great ambition. Today. because his
ambition led him too far, because of
weakness rather than viciousness, he is
tottering into the grave, ruined and hope-
less. Yet the pity of a sometimes char-
itable world Wlll cover his bier when he
dies.

**>l=

A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

Newspaper report has it that an alli-
ance has been completed between Rus-
sia, France and the United States. If
true, it will be a new departure. It
sounds big, any way, to say we are in the
“Triple Alliance.”

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LOT’l'F.l{Y VVILL NOT DOVVN.

The indications are that the New Or-
leans lottery company will move into
Honduras, and practically manage ihe
poor little republic. In return for a
million dollars a year and a per cent of
its revenues, the lottery company expects
to get from the Honduras government
full use of the mails.

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.\ NEW DISP ENSATION.

The appointment of Judge Jackson to
the supreme bench is not without polit-
ical precedent, but it’s very.very rare. It
is stated that Judge Gresham is to be
Cleveland's Secretary of State. If true,
it would seem that a new day is dawn-
ing for us. Of course, 1.here’s politics in
it all. But modern politicians don’t do
that way. usually. D. B. Hill and Matt
Quay wouldn’t do that way.

>l~

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An island with a large foreign popula-
tion who were teaching the people polit-
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restore royal supremacy; a body of na-
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who refused to sign a new constitution
which she proposed; a mob who at-
tempted by force to aid the queen,—this
in brief is recent Hawaiian history. At
thisjuncture, however, a committee of
citizens took charge of affairs, declared
monarohial rule at an end, established
a provisional government with an
American at its head, and sent repre
sentatives to Washington to knock for
admission. These delegates have been
recognized by President Harrison, the
United States flag has been raised over
the government building in Honolulu,
and the outcome is awaited with interest.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

FEBRUARY 15, 1893.

Ladies’ Department.

THE LIGHT OF STARS.

The night is come, but not too soon,
And sinkin silently

All silently, t e little moon
Drops down behind the sky.

There is no li ht in earth or heaven
But the col light of stars, _

And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.

Is it the tender star of love?
The stair of love and drezuns?
0 no! frmn that blue tent above

A liero’s armor gleziins.

And earnest thoughts within me rise
VVhcn I behold afar,

Sus ended in thc evening skies,
T c shield of that red star.

0 star of strength! I see thee stand
A smile upon my pain;

Thou beckonest wiih thy inailéd hand.
And I sun strong agziin.

Within my breast there is no light
But the cold light of stars; _

I give the first watch of the night
Po the red planet Mars.

Star of the unconqnered will,
He rises in inv breast;

Serene, and resolute, and still,
And calm, and self-possessed.

And thou too, whosoe’er thou art

' That rendest this brief PSEIIIH,

As one by one thy hopcs depart,
Be resolute and calm.

0 fear not in :1 world like this.
And thou shalt know err long,
Know how sublime .1 thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
—I.4m;rjrIl«711'.

 

. WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE.

It was so different from what I had
anticipated, so fireside-like and in-
formal, and then so helpful and
opening in its suggestiveness of
what may be. Just because this
was true and because you might
not read it if you knew, I have
purposely avoided telling you in
the heading that this is a little re-
port of the Michigan \Voman”s
Press Association which met at
Charlotte a few days ago. If the
lady readers of the VISITOR fancy
“Press Association” means only for
printers, blue editors and such
sanctum folk, they should have
been listeners at this small gather-
ing of paper women—women who
write for papcrs—to have found
how much of common ground there
is between them.

Who has not experienced a de-
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household periodicals? Have we
not all “wished we knew” the form
and face of our favorite nom-de-
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she talkative or quiet and, finally,
does she look as if she knew halt’
whereof she writes? Who can plead
not guilty to such queries? The
force of personality is present in
literature as everywhere else, and
nowhere, let me add, does the force
of character count more than here.
Even the slightest inkling of a
personal fact about an editor or
writer attracts us to his or her work.
We cherish bits of information
concerning any author, Whether
world-wide or local in reputation,
as so much added material for the
imaginary character or features we
are gradually putting together.

Women editors, reporters and
managers of papers are not yet so
common but that to meet twenty
of those of our own State was to
mark the occasion in one’s calendar
of special days. My admission into
this little group of feminine jour-
nalists came through the courtesy
of its president, Mrs. Belle M.
Perry. VISITOR readers have special
cause for interest and pride in Mrs.
Perry, for she began her writing on
this paper by occasional contribu-
tions to its ladies’ department.
Her favorite topics were the care
of children, health and hygiene,
and many of you may recall the
fresh, plain thoughts she always
gave in her articles. Later she be-
gan editing a household department
11] her husband’s paper, The Chur-
lotle Tribune, which she still con-
tinues, She fills her department
with reports of good things she,
reads and hears about women, per-
sonal sketches and incidents, and
choice quotations from best books;
she secures practical, short articles
from her friends and readers and
clips the very best from the con-
stant supply of periodicals that
come to a newspaper office such as
the most of women never see or, if
they do, have no time to sort over
for themselves. '1‘he woman who,
week after week, does this for the
readers of a local paper is doing a
wonderfully beneficient work. Few
of CB realize what it is to do this;
we overlook the patience, the tedious
carefulness it requires to sift even
a few good and helpful items out
of page upon page of the reeking
criminal records and head lines
shouting with foul corruption that
fill up the ordinary city newspaper.

This feature, the field of the
women editors of home departments

in local papers, ‘impressed me as
never before as one most hopeful
and as yet but hardly entered upon.
Another such editor, and one of
whose work I hope we may all
know more, is Mrs. M. E. C. Bates of
the Grand Traverse Herald. This
paper has unique editorship——a
sort of prophetic combine, I fancy,
of what all future local papers are
to have—composed of the whole
family, father, mother and daugh-
ters; “even the cat,” declares Mrs.
B, walks through the paste pot and
dips a paw in the ink now and then.”
Mrs. Bates is most zealous for a
household column and children’s
corner in the local paper, which is
often the only reading besides the
Bible and almanac that finds its
way into too many homes.

There was something particular-
ly attractive to me in this motherly
woman’s earnestness and longing
to reach out with help toward the
loneliest, isolated farm women; and
the more so when I found she is
one more of those good members
of Traverse City Grange that we
keep meeting and hearing of. She
told me how well Grange women
can speak where others tremble at
rising to support a motion, and how
her eye and interest are on our
VISITOR. .

Mrs. Kate E. Ward of the A llcgan
Journal, Mrs. Nora A. Godfrey of
the 14'recpo'r't Herald and Mrs.
Etta Gee of the Imlay Oily Times
are also editing household columns
and alert for every means to in-
crease their usefulness.

The presence of Mrs. L. H. Stone
of Kalamazoo was a benediction;
now in her seventy-seventh year,
she is known as the “Mother of
Clubs” and probably not the hum-
blest woman’s club i_n the State
but owes its incentive for being
somewhat to this venerable, bright
woman. Her belief is that “What
does one woman good, does every
woman good, and what does every
woman good, does every man good.”
The association’s motto is one of
her remarks, “Let us as womenlearn
to put down self and work for a
cause.” At this meeting itwas voted
to place a portrait of Mrs. Stone in
the IVoman’s Building of the
Columbian Exposition as the con-
tribution of the association to the
exhibit.

It was a pleasure to meet Miss
E. L. Shaw, now of Good Health,
but who, years ago, with her friend
Miss Ella Farnum, began the edit-
ing of Wide Awake on a farm eight
miles out of Battle Creek. It sends
a thrill through one, doesn’t it, to
meet the actual person Whose in-
fluence has touched your life, per-
haps long before it dawned upon
you there was a person behind the
influence?

There were bright young ladies
who gathered with the rest in the
church where we met and where
the Nineteenth Century Club of
Charlotte dined us so admirably.
They made a merry circle about
the coal stove in Mrs. Pcrry’s
cheery parlor, delightful girls,wide-
awake, full of life and spirit, and
quick in wit and repartee; with not
a morbid speech on their lips, just
as they must be who clip and col-
lect from the wide, wild field of
news and cluster what they gather
into figurative nosegays for all
sorts of people. Even though

“ \\ e gather posics from other mcii’s flowers,
Nuught but the thrc'.1dth;Lt binds them is ours,"

it is a laudable, a fascinating occu-
pation nevertheless, and one of the
very best open to girls.

There was Miss Mabel Bates, the
“ winsome” daughter of the T rav-
crsc Herald; the Misses Myrta and
Jessie Castle of Youtlfs Inslrucfor
and Review Herald of Battle
Creek; Miss Florence M. Brooks
of the Jackson Patriof, whose re-
tiring nature together with her suc-
cess as a city reporter, rout all
theories of the necessary mannish-
ness of the profession; then Miss
Georgia Kidder, refreshing, a host
in herself and society editor of the
Kalamazoo Telegraph ; and others
there were whom inexorable “ space
forbids to mention here.” One
more must have room however, the
tiny slip of a secretary, Mrs. Eth-
lyn T. Clough, editor and proprie-
tor of the Brooklyn Erponent, who
eight years ago, upon the death of
her husband, added his duties to
those of a mother of four young
children. And yet she, in respond-
ing to the toast, “ The Woman Ed-
itor,” refused to claim she is “bright-
est and best” who so ‘lately has
been welcomed by great hearted
men of the profession to a place
among them. To me it seems she
voiced a just warning to advocates

i . . A i
of woman’s. work in any l1ne:l It requires much bravery to facei

LOVE NOT ALL.

“ Let us do well, if we are able, i an armed foe, but more to meet the! . .
but it is neither becoming nor just  thousand little struggles that come j . Blltit is 110i file m“1'fl!1tY 0f 1t»
to overrate our work simply because  almost every day, that seem of lit- ‘ It IS the aft 0f 1t “'0 We at P1‘ 95933

it is woman’s.”
J ENNIE BUELL.

TWO MISSESS.

 

How many of our Grange sisters
have little ones in their homes and
what do they do with them this
winter weather when it is either
too cold, too wet, or too windy to
play out doors. I believe a little
child has a right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.

I have two little ones, Miss Do-
as-i-can, and Miss Do-as-you-do,
who, in the exercise of their liberty,
and the pursuit of their happiness
make a tremendous racket, and de-
range my housekeeping to an un-
bearable degree. Something had
to be done and this was what I did.
I have a large garret 18x32 feet.
The large sitting room stove and
kitchen range below, and chimney
and stove pipe in the garret make
it very warm and comfortable.
Each successive housecleaning had
sent its installment of disabled
housekeeping utensils; there was
the coffee pot with a broken cover,
the tea pot without a handle, the
sitter that no longer sifted, the
chair that might prove treacherous
and other things to match. All
this I decided should be the undis-
puted property of the Missess D.
I carpeted part of the floor with
old sacking, a little door with four
sticks of wood for legs, covered
with a red spread, was the table.
A large box fitted with a straw tick
and pillows was the bed, part of the
rounded heads of salt barrels sc-
curely nailed for rockers to small
boxes made doll’s cradles; thus fur-
nished, the little ladies were given
permission to work their own sweet
will. If Monday they wash their
doll’s clothes till they look as if
they had been drawn_ through a
mud-hole, Tuesday may find them
busy all day with their blunt point-
ed scissors; if on Wednesday, a pot
of paste and a roll of wall-paper
engage their attention, Thursday
morning will bring Miss Do-as-
you—do to the kitchen door with
her little tin pail, and “a little
water if you please, we wants to
make pies;” if1Eriday they mas-
querade in poke bonnet and stove-
pipe hat with spectacles and cane,
Saturday will be a general house-
cleaning day with a noise like dis-
tant thunder. Of course all this
requires refreshments as well as
advice, so the ventilator over the
kitchen stove serves as elevator
shaft for cookies as well as general
intelligence ofice.

Thanks to Jennie Buell and Mrs.
C. H. Pike for their helpful arti-

cles.
Mas. Joan R. CA.\Il’BELL.

EVERY DAY.

A mother with her house full 0
boys and girls, heart full of love,
and hands full of work said: “ Let
me tell you what is the hardest. It
is the keeping at it every day and
every day. There is no respite
when one thing is done, one gar-
ment finished another crowds itself
along, and so it seems every day is
crowded full. I am anxious to
make something out of my life.
Anxious to fill the measure of my
days full, but how shall I; how
can I?”

This one woman represents so
many. With limited means, so that
she must be mother, housekeeper,
servant——all in one—~her hands
must be busy, her feet weary. And
yet let every such woman remem-
ber when her heart is touched with
this wonderful gift of God——motlier
love——when all she does is for love’s
sweet sake, she is doing her best
work.

It is in the every day of life that
the world’s best work is done. It
is in daily tasks of faithfulness,
unselfish serving, sweet patience,
and quiet cheerfulness in our own
quiet, sheltered world—home, that
the woman lives to her highest.
And who can say that the un-
eventful, unpraised every days of
such lives are, not radiant in the
sight of God.

Because they have made the
world a little better by their lives?

These every days of life, what re-—

vealers of character they are. What
strength of purpose is found in

the every day attempts to meet the T‘

plain common day that is full of
the same old tasks, duties and cares,
and make the day a bright happy
one for the family. »

itle importance that we need put no
iarmor on. The keeping sweet-
tempered month after month of
;ordinary days amid petty annoyan-
ces, frictions, cares and disappoint-
ments, rcquircs much grace, pa-
tience and love. " Be thou faith-
ful and I will give thee a crown
of life."

CHAPLAIN.

 

ANOTHER VIEW OF COLLE(a‘zE LIFE.

Much has been said and Written
of late to encourage young people
to attend college. Now that colleges
have opened and young men and
fwomen have entered upon their
lye-ar’s work who will sound a note
{of cheer for those who must stay at
home?

Some of these forzcgo the privi-
leged course for the sake of aged
parents or helpless brothers and
sisters, who need their support.
;Still others, though possessing an
lintense thirst for knowledge, are
‘content to stay at home thata
brother or sister may go. If a
family is large and the income
small, some members must earn the
money to help the others through.
In one of the eastern states is a.
family of nine children. One
(laughter has already ('Ol11pl(%tt’(l a
college course. Two of the sons
.are in college. Three younger sis-
ltcrs are working at their books
lwith a possible view to hi_<_;'licr

among the hills are a son and a
daughter who save all their hard
earnings from the farm, to keep
their youngest brother in college. A
few years ago this son, against the
wishes of l1isteacl1e1's, left his much
loved books and worked by the

school. Many a young man or
woman now holds a college diplo-
ma because some one——a father, a
brother or an uncle~———chose to be
the “ power behind the throne.”

VVhile we commend those who
complete a. college course, we ought
not to forget those noble young
men and women who, though long-
ing for the same privilege, never-
theless consent, for the sake of
others, to take a humbler part in
life.

College training is not the only
training, and they who earnestly
try to secure it, but are unable, may
lack none of the essentials of true
character. Indeed, could we un-
lock hearts and read motives, we
would, doubtless, find that many
of the truest heroes are those who
never shared the experiences of
student life, nor wrote their names
with high sounding titles. We
would find them scattered here and
there upon the farm or in the city,
in the home or in the shop, work-
ing out the problems of life with
all the heroism of conquerors, and

sciousness of having done what
they could.

But there is courage in the
thought that the avenues to knowl-
edge arc not closed to those who
must remain at home. The Chau-
tauqua movenient comes as a sol-
ace both to the young and the old
who have been deprived of school
privileges. \Vith a small outlay of
money and't.ime each day, the four
years’ course may be accomplished.

Thousands of people, including
many who wish to review their col-
lege course, are availing themselves
of its advantages. For onc who
desires to continue his studics. ad-
vanced courscs are provided, reach-
ing out indefinitely. Through the
Chautauqua movement mothers
find their burdens lighter, the
young have their thirst for knowl-
edge satisfied and feel themselves
linked with men and women of the
highest intelligence. _

Indeed, the abundance of choice
periodicals, thc supply of good
books and the privilcgcs of circu-
lating libraricsw all invite the
young to extended fields of knowl-
edge.

After all, the true merit of worth
is not social or intellectual culture.
He reaches the highest degree of
excellence who makes the most of
his opportunities.—MRs. E. 1).
PRICE in Mussuchuscfls Plou_(}l1-
man.

 

Teacher (to the class in chem-

istry): “ What does sea water con-
tain besides the sodium cliloride
that we have mentioned?”

: Bobby Smith: “ Fish, sir."

courses of study. But hidden away ‘

month o1i the farm, in order that;
his younger brothers Iniglit go to?

with no other reward than the con-'

idiscussing. So far, whatever has
fibccn saidihas been said solely with
.3rcfcrenc'e to that phase of the re-
llation of the sexes which can be
fprescnted without apology to Ang-
llo-Saxon ears not educated up to
,‘Contincnt.-il mode-s of speech and
 thought. Love, innocent legitimate
jlove. is not all there is in life; it is
fonly a small part comparatively,
Eofits experiences. Thcrc is a great
!deal of happiness outside it; there
larc rewards, there are pleasures,
'there is satisfaction, with which it
 is entirely unassociated. There are
lsorrows which cause its kecnest
ipangs to seem but pin-pricks, there-
iarc desolations which make its sen-
gtimental griefs appear contempt1-
ble. Compare a broken engagement
;with~~a cancer; a faithlcss lover
{with the oncoming of blindness.
{Fancy from which a man would
isutfcr most. the coldness of his
lmistrcss or the loss of his good
Ename. Poverty grim and real is
lworsc than the worst disappoint-
; incnt in love that ever was felt or
lpcnncd. Family disgrace, spiritual

jdoubts. the awful tears that par-
Ecnts shed, the loneliness after be-
‘rcavcnient-, the dreariness of old

1age,n1n(lncss, august and inevita-

: ble death, -~how trivial beside such

.facts a.s.tl1c.<e. look the misunder-

gstandings of lovers, “the partings

 such as press the life from out young

hearts," the mzinifold sentimental

3 sorrows. so called. of the heart!

_ This, no doubt, is slaying the
;slain. \Vc all know these truths,

, but the people who propose to write

3our stories for us seem not to re-

jmcmber them, and young and im-

I mature readers suffer by their lapse
fof memoi-y.—MIa1AM CoLEs Hm.

 ms, in February Lippinc0t{’s.

 

 

ONE OF US.

The C/z(ztrloh‘c Triburm pays a
compliment to our \Vorthy Secre-
tary as follows:

Miss Jennie Buell. a student in
the University of Michigan, and
lately re-elected Secretary of the
Michigan State Grange, is a writer
of more than ordinary ability. For
several years she was assistant edi-

is not a woman in Michigan in
whom there are better editorial pos-
sibilities. She is still a frequent
writer for the Visitor and has con-
tributed valuable articles to Good
Hoztsc/rccp 1'12;/, A mcricmz A {]r1'cult-
zlr-isf, PVom(m’s M ((_(/(zziue and
Anzc'I‘ic(m (}([.’I'(l(3’)1. In the absence
of Mrs. Jones, of the M1.'(I-Cmztzl
lI(’.Ilf magazine, Lansing, Miss Buell
read her most excellent paper on

the Tone of Public Opinion,” which
article Mrs. Jones has consented
to have printed in the next issue
of the Tribune.

l’I('KlNG FLAWS IN WOMAN.

 

Let us, my friends, you of my
, own sex who may read these words,
try and pick all the flaws we choose
in woman, and what good does it
dd? writes Edward W. Bok, in “ At
Home with the Editor,” in the
February Lm.’ics’ Home Jourrml.
\Vc always come back to her, and
glad we arc of the privilege, too!
Nervous‘? But yet how calm and
steady when the right time comes.
lllogical? But yet how certain
the intuition, how unerring the
instinct! \Vi1hout judgment? But
yet how safe her counsel. how sure
her guidance! Never a leader?
But what a helper! Timid? But
ye-t what a sweetheart! Unsysten1-
atic? But yet with what neat pre-
cision is marked the training of
her children! Dressy 1'’ But yet
how she can wearhcr gowns! Never
ready? Rarely for the theatre, but
yet how ever ready with her sweet
womanly sympathy in time of trou-
ble! Fond of pretty things? But
yet how they lwcoinc her per-
son, her room, her house! Expen-
‘. Well, bless her, yes! but

sivc 9
the clieapest article for the money
ever created! And long may we
love her to brighten our homes,
make wise our children, make men
better than they are, and life the
better worth the living! And we’ll
love her, too, for the enemies she
has made.

 

A bright Chicago schoolboy, re-
cenily cxamined in physics, said
that paper was chiefly made of
wood, the supply of which in ust
soon approach cxhaustion. “ Then
what will the world use as a substi-
tute for wood ‘?" asked the teacher.
I " Paper!" cxclaiiiied the boy.

tor of the Grange Visitor, and 

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Nearly a. million

households use it

as a. reference book.

A million purchasers learning how
to make {our dollars do the work of

five.
Sent only upon

in stamps to pay the postage.

zeceipt of 15 cents
(550

pages, 30,000 quotations, weight two

pounds.)

MONTGOMERY \VARD & CO.,
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Officers National Grange.
n.-ismz—J. H. BRIGH.-ml ........ ..Delta. Ohio
OVERSEER—E. W. DAVIS__ ,,.Sunta Rosa, (‘a1
Lito'i‘uima—l\lOR.‘I‘IMER wHiTi«:ii_i«:_iD _ _ . _ 

1618 Q. Sn. N. W.. Waahiuztqn. D. (-
srswAan—-A. E. PAQE ____ Appleton city. 910-
Ass"r SrEw.um—0. ls. HAl.4L.....Pawnee, heb.
CnAi>LAir<—CHAS. Mc )ANlEL, New Hampshire
TREASURER-F. M. MCDOVV EL_Penn Yan. N. 
Sl:oaE'rAnv-—JOHN'I‘RIl_\lBLE.VYashmgton. D.(,
Gun Kn:ici>ica—\V. H. NELSOI\.----- Tfinnefifisw
CEar.s—MRH. J. H. BRIGFIAM '__Delta. Qhio
PoMoN.i~.\1RH. E. BOWEN....»_....Cnnu9ct}cu§
Fi.nsu—MRR E. P. WlLS()N. .....M1ssiss1nin
LAD! Ass"r S1'icw‘n—MRS. N. B. DOUGLASS__

Sherborn. Mass.

Executive Committee. .
LEON \l{D RH()NE..(‘enter Hall. Pennsylvania
-J. J. W()Ol)‘.\lAN_ __.__Paw Paw, Michigan
X. X. UHABTIERS .__Fredericksburg. Virginia

'Committee on Woma.n’s Work in the
Grange. _
RS. H. H. WOODMAN _.Pnw Paw, Michigan
HS. (1. Ei.i«:vi'.i BOWEN‘. woodsmckwoup.
RS. E. W. D\VIS. Santa Rosa. California

Ofllcers Michigan State Grange.
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T:1l::3UBEB—E. A. STRONG ________ _.Vicksburg
‘BEGBE'1'ARY—JE-NNIE BUELL .._ ...Ann Arbor
GATE KEEPER—GEO. L. CAHL1SLE__Kalksska
CEBEs_MARy c_ ALL[s ______________ _.Adrian
Fn0BA~—MRS A. ST. ULAIR._..._... Butt_eri_iut
{’oloNA—MBS. A.A. ,_.LEIGH'I‘ONOld Mission
L. A.S'rn:w’D-—MRS. J.H. MARTIN Grand Rapids

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Committee on Woman's Work in the
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Mrs. Mary A. Mayo ....... -. --Battle (‘NW
31135 o_ J, Carpenter _____ __ _.. Dimondale

General Deputy Lecturers.
MARY A. MAY()______-_Battle Creek
HON, J, J. \\'()ODMAN____,VI’ziw Paw
HON. 0. G. LUCE ________ __Coldwater
HON. PERRY MAYO____Battle Creek
HON. THOS MARS____Berricn Center
JASON VVOODMAN _ _ _ _ _ _ __I’a\v I-’.aw
A. D. BANK--- ._-_--___...-..l-ansmg
C. L. VVHl'l‘NEY ......... .-Muskcgun,

County Deputies.

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Helen A. I<‘iske____._Lawrcricc, Van lsurcn “
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Revised List of Grange Supplies
Kept in the office of Sec'y of the

Michigan State Grange

And sent out post-paid on receipt. of Cash Oi-uer,
over the seal of a Subordinate Grange, and the
signature of he Master or Secretary.

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred._ . _ ".81 75

$,'°.'2.""’   3?
re y'erecu ......... -- - ------------- --

Treosur-er's orders, bound. per hnnilred._._ . 35

Secrets:-y's receipts for dues, per hundred. .: 35
Treasurer’: receipts for dues, per hundred. . . 35
Applications for membership, per hundred. . 50

Withdrawal carda.p8l'd07-9lJ------  25
Dimits. inenvelo . per dozen.

Bylalclaws 05 the tune Grange. single copies,

; r oun...___.._..  . 

"GladpISchoes." with music, single copies,
fie; per dozen ............................ .. 3 00
Grange Melodies, single copy, 40c; per dozen 4 00
Opening song Gard. zc each; ‘:54; per 50:100.. 1 35
Rituals. 7th edition (with combined degrees).
a5ceach'perd0Zel-1.   
Bimglg, 5t.h degree,_set of nine ............. ..
Rituals. Juvenile. single com‘-. . . . . .. .
fiimggg, Juvenile. per set . _ . _ _ _ _ . . . ,_
lotioo to delinquent members, per 100.. . .
American Manual of Parliainentary Law _.
1)is‘i13sgo<())fu1AW8 find Rl1111188-----—----~------
ample package co-opernt.i.e literature..._. ‘
‘-Write for pricesgon gold pins badges, working
tools. stall mountings. seals. ballot boxes and any

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6'65‘.‘a'I3S3E7-$3

ANN ARBOR. ICE.

GRAND RAPIDS and
Indiana Railroad
J nn'y. 2'9. 189:}. —L‘.-antral Standard Time.

  

  

   

GOING NORTH. ‘No. I No. 3 No. 5 No
,P.M A.M. P.M. A.M
Cincinnati, Lv ...._..._:______‘ 8 05 910 . _...
Richmond .__.. ___...... 2 20’ 10 55 1145 ____ ._
: I P. M. A.M.
Fort Wayne, Ar ___..___ 6 00 2 15 3 O5 ____ _.
Fort, Wayne, Ly...  2 35 3 20 S 05
Kalamazoo, Ar.. ._. A. M. 6 05 6 50 11 40
Kalamazoo, Lv..._ j -l 20 3 6 25 7 I0 12 25
Grand liapids, Ar .....  6 45 ‘ 8 10 9 00 2 20
. P. M.
Grand Rapids, Lv ____ _.v 7 20 10 10 1 10  4 15
A. M.
Cadillac ______________  11 25 ; 2 30 5 00 9 00
. P. M.
Traverse City _________ ..f 1 ‘S5 ‘ .... _. 7 00 ____ __
Petoskey .................... ..i 6 35 9 15 .... ._
1 P. M.
Mackinaw. ..___; 8 05 1075 ____ __
GOING SOUTH. iN0. 21No. BN0. 4 No. 8
l P. M.‘i A. M. P. M. A iii.
Mackinaw City. Lv...__ 5 30 ‘ 7 10 12 30 .... ..
Pet.oskey.___ ___.__..... 7 03 5 S 43 , 2 05 ..... ..
Traverse City__ _._._._. ..._-_!11 00 1 -l 30 .... ..
lA.iii.  i>.iir.,
Cadillac ___,______._._,_i1'.’. 10 , 1 20 1 6 35 7 40
Grand Rapids, Ar._., _. 6 30 r 5 30 ‘10 40 ll 50
Grand Rapids, Lv ____ ._l 7 00 ‘; 6 00 11 20 Z 00
Kalamazoo. Ar .__ ._ 8 50 I 8 00 I2 55 3 40
Kalamazoo, Lv _._. _ 8 55 , 8 05 __,__ 3 45
Fort Wayne, Ar_.._ __ 12 40 [11 50 A.M. 7 15
Fort Wayne.Lv ._ 1 00 112 10 5 45 ____ _.
Richmond ___.______--, 4 20 , 3 40 9 15 .... -.
Cincinnati, Ar ________ _. 7 00 i B 55 12 01 ____ ..
P. M. i A. M. P. M. P. M.

 

Sleeping cars for Petoskey and Mackinaw on
No. 3 from Grand Rapids. _ _
Nslieping cars. Grand Rapids to Chicago. on

0

Sleeping cars, Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. on

No. .

Nos. 1 and 4 daily south of Grand Rapids. Nos.
5 and 8 daily south of Grand Rapids.

All other trains daily except Suudpiy.

. L. LOO WOOI_)
G. P. a T. Ag‘t, Grand Rapids.

The A

People’s of
. Lansing
Savings Mich

Bank

Capital. $150,000.00

VV. J. BE A L, President
A. A. VVILBUR. Vice President
C. H. OSBA ND, Cashier

“'6: Irllllslltl, ii general baiikiiig liusiiiess. Pay
interest on time (1\:p()S1l‘.S. If you have any bank-
ing business come and see us.

In writing mention Tint GRANGE Vrsrros.

   

1!‘ YOU THINK OF GOING
ANYlllF§.'ifiRT H

PUT YOUR '.’\lQL!lP.l_ES IN
WFHTING AND SEND TO

GEO. USHAVEN, iifiifi-.”iii5s?§Fé‘J.

FULL lNFOP..‘IiI‘TlOl‘l PROMPTLY GIVEN.

is stamped in the best watch
cases made. It is the trade
mark of the Keystone Watt/z
Case Company, of Philadelphia,
the oldest, largest and best-.
known factory in the world—
I 500 employees,capacity 2000
cases daily. Its products are
sold by all jewelers. It makes
the celebrated _7as. Boss F1!/‘ea’
Watt/1 Cases, now fitted with
the only bow (ring) which can-
not be pulled off the case—the

    

 
 
        
   
   
   

62011232 and Station.

OIL MEAL PRIIBLEM.

1 Answer by Dr. Kedzie to a query concerning the
value of oil meal, published In Grand Rflllldfi
Democrat.

Many stock feeders are puzzled
about the new process and old pro-
cess meal, and want; to know what
is the difference. So many inquir-
ies come to the College on this sub-
ject that I conclude that it is easier
to answer the question once for all
through the public press. The fol-
lowing letter shows what is the
information wanted on this subject:

Allegan, Jan. 14.

PROF. KEDZIE-—Will you be so
kind as to give me your opinion as
to the comparative value of the
“ new process” oil meal with that
of the old process? They tell me
that the new process oil meal has
the oil extractetl by means of chem-
icals. If that is so, would that
make it iii any way injurious for.
animals?

I can buy old process oil meal for
$28 a ton and the new process for
$26. At those prices which is the
best for me to buy?.

Please let me hear from you as
soon as may be.

G. J. S.

The old process oil cake was the
residue left from linseed after
the oil had been extracted by grind-
ing, heating and expressing the
oil as completely as possible; the
new process dissolves out most of
the oil left by the old process by
means of benzine. The essential
difference is that the new process
has less oil and fat than the old
process, because the benzine re-
moves very little besides the fat.

Perhaps the clearest way to pre-
sent the dilference is to compare

analyses of the old and new process
oil meal. The United States De-
pertinent of Agriculture has just
issued “ experiment station bulle-
tin No. 11; A Compilation of Anal-
yses of American Feeding Stuffs,”
giving a vast amount of informa-

feeders. On pages 146 to 148 there
are given forty-six analyses of oil
meal.

The new process meal has 492
per cent less fat (oiy9,8.4 pounds in
8 ton) and 3.06 per cent more
starchy substance than the old pro-
cess (or 61.2 pounds in a ton). In
all other respects the two kinds of
meal may be considered of equal
value.

The question is, whether the
difference in food value between
98.4 pounds of fat and 61.2 pounds
of starch is worth $2 more or less.
A pound of fat is estimated to be
worth 2!; pounds of starch for food.
Then 61.2 pounds of starch will
equal 24.4 pounds of fat. Sub-
tracting this from the excess of fat
in a. ton of old process meal (98.4
pounds, 24.4 pounds, 74
pounds) we find 74 pounds of
fat the measure of the dilference
in food value between a ton of old
process and of new process meal.
Are 74 pounds of fat (or its equiv-
alent in starch, 185 pound), worth
more or less than $2——the differ-
ence in price per ton?

It may be that for certain pur-
poses_ in feeding, e. g., to give a.
glossy coat to the animal, the fat
may be worth more than here esti-
mated, but for general purposes in
feeding the above estimation may
be used.

 

BOTS IN HORSES.

[Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station]

The common god-fly (Gastroph-
ilus equi) attacks the animal
while grazing late in the summer,
its object being, not to derive sus-
tenance, but to deposit its eggs.
This is accomplished by means of
a glutinous excretion, causing the
ova (eggs) to adhere to the hairs.
The parts selected are chiefly those
of the shoulder, base of the neck.
and inner parts of fore legs, espec-
ially, about the knees, for in these
situations the horse will have no
difliculty in reaching the ova with
its tongue. When the animal licks
those parts of the coat where the
eggs have been placed the moisture
of the ‘tongue, aided by warmth,
hatches the ova, and in something
less than three weeks from the
time of the deposition of the eggs
the larvae have made their escape.
As maggots they are next trans-
ferred to the mouth and ultimately
to the stomach along with the food
and drink. A great many larvae
perishduring this passive mode of.
immigration, some being, dropped

the results of a large number of -

tion of the highest value to stock W

from the mouth and others being
crushed in the fodder during mas-
tication. It has been calculated
that out of the many hundreds of
eggs deposited on a single horse
scarcely one out of fifty of the
larvae arrive within the stomach.
Notwithstanding this waste the in-
terior of the stomach may become
completely covered ( cuticular por-
tion) with bots. Whether there
be few or many they are anchored
in this situation chiefly by
means of two large cephalic hooks.
After the bots have attained perfect
growth they voluntarily loosen
their hold and allow themselves to
be carried along the alimentary
canal until they escape with the
feces. In all cases they sooner or
later fall to the ground, and when
transferred to the soil they bury
themselves beneath the surface in
order to undergo transformation
into the pupa. condition. Having
reniained in the earth for a period
of six or seven weeks, they finally
emerge from their pupal cocoons
as perfect dipterous (winged) in-
sects—the gad-fly. It thus appears
that bots ordinarily past about
eight months of their lifetime in
the digc stive organs of the horse.

According to Prof. Michener.
bots seldomwnot more than once
in ten thousand times-—«:ause colic.
They may, when present in large
numbers, slightly interfere with
digestion, but beyond this they are,
with these few exceptions, entirely
harmless. It is entirely useless to
attempt to dislodge them from the
stomach, and they will go at their
appointed time, which is mostly
during the months of May and

June.

 

PRUNING.

Bulletin Oregon Station.

In pruning large neglected
trees, to bring them into vigor and
fruitfulness they should not be
headed back in such a manner as
to divest them of all bearing Wood.
'When this is the case, it gives rise
to a greater production of young

Consequently they form 9. great
many more branches than are
needed, and in a short time they
become even worse than before.
This work is a loss of time. Such
trees should only have their
branches thinned out in such a way
that light and air can be admitted
to all its parts in proportion. The
higher straggling branches should
be taken out so that the trees can
be brought to a symmetrical form.

The time for pruning is from
the fall of the leaf until the buds
commence to burst in spring.
Never use the ax in the operation;
the saw is preferable.

RENEWING oi.» STRAWBERRY
BEDS.

Bulletin Minnesota Station.

As soon as may be after the crop
is gathered the bed is closely
mowed and all the weeds and
strawberry leaves are burned. A
plow is then run on each side of 9.
matted row and all but about one
foot in width of it is turned under.
The furrows thus made are filled
with fine rotted manure and the
cultivator set going. The plants
remaining are then thinned out
with 9. hoe and special pains
taken to cut out all weeds and old
or weak plants. This leaves the
old bed clean, with plenty of
manure close by, in which the old
plants can make new roots. The

plants soon send up new leaves ' i

which are much healthier than
they would be were the old foliage
allowed to remain, and if we have
an ordinary season an abundance
of runners will be sent out and by
winter the old bed will look nearly
as vigorous as a. new one. At the
time of this writing we have an
old bed of various kinds that has
borne two crops which we cleaned
up in July for a third, and it is
very diflicult to find on it a single
diseased leaf among the several
varieties with which it is planted,
and the rows are full of green,
vigorous plants and runners.

Instead

 

I never wean my pigs.

of taking pigs up in a. dry lot and

letting the sow run on grass, 1
would reverse the order and shut
the sows up in the dry lot and let
the pigs run on grass, taking
away from the sow all sloppy and
succulent foods, such as go to make
milk. The milk begins to dry up
and gradually fails, and finally the
pigs are weaned and donot know
it.———S. A. Clark before the Na-
tional Swine Breeders’ Association.

7

RA'l‘IONS F011 DAIRY COWS.

Bulletin Wisconsiu Station.

We are constantly receiving let-
ters from farmers asking for advice
in regard to the proper kinds of
feeds for milch cows and how to
combine them so as to obtain first-
class results. It is hoped this bul-
letin will assist those seeking in-
formation on these points.

The following daily ration may
be considered a standard American
ration for milch cows, in full flow
of milk, weighing about 1,000
pounds. Being founded on prac-
tical American feeding experience,
its adoption is-recommended as a
basis for calculation of rations for
milch cows under our conditions,
in preference to W0lff’s standard
ration, now generally used.

   

. lbs.
Organic matter __________________________ __ 25.6
Dggestible protein ________________________ ._ 2.21
Digestible carbohydrates _ 13.8
Dlgestible fat ___________ __ 8

Total digestible matter... 2-. 16:3
Nutritive ratio ____________________________ __

Applying our best knowledg on
the subject to the conditions pres-

‘ent in our State we further believe

that the following six rations are
worthy of trial; it is presumed that
they will meet the wants of our
farmers and that with the right
kind of cows, good results will fol-
low their feeding. Of course no
practical dairyman can weigh out
the several constituents of a. ration
each day for each animal in the
herd; let him use the scales in de-
termining What; certain measures
hold and use these for distributing
the food among the members of
the herd.

Ration I.—~C0rn silage 40 lbs;
clover hay 8 lbs; wheat bran 6 lbs;
corn meal 3 lbs.

Cost of ration, 14.3 cents.

Nutritive ratio, 1: 7.4.

‘Ration II .—Fodder com 20 lbs;
hay 6 lbs; cats 4 lbs; shorts 4 lbs;
oil meal 2 lbs.

Cost of ration, 15.3 cents.

Nutritive ratio, 1: 7.7.

Ration I I I .——C0rn silage 50 lbs;
corn stalks (stover), 6 lbs; oats 6
lbs; malt sprouts 4 lbs; corn meal
2 lbs.

Cost of ration, 15.7 cents.

Nutritive ratio, 1: 7.6.

Ration I V.——Clover silage 30
lbs; hay 15 lbs; wheat bran 3 lbs;
corn meal 3 lbs; cotton seed meal
2 lbs.)

Cost of ration, 16.2 cents.

Nutritive ratio, 1: 5.8.

Ration V.—Tim0thy hay 10 lbs;
clover hay 8 lbs; wheat bran 6 lbs;
oats 6 lbs.

Cost of ration, 16.5 cents.

Nutritive ratio, 1:6.6.

Ration VI .——F odder corn 20 lbs;
clover hay 8 lbs; oats 6 lbs; oil
meal 3 lbs.

Cost of ration, 16.4 cents.

Nutritive ratio, 1: 7.0.

The-‘results given in the preced-
ing rations teach us emphatically
that heavy feeding pays. A cow
producing afull flow of milk should
receive over 70 per cent more food
than is required for the mainte-
nance of: her body; it is the excess
over maihtenance that brings profit
to the feeder.

The teachings of the bulletin
may briefly be stated as follows:

Keep only cows that respond to
good feeding.

Feed liberally, but not to waste.

Select such feed stuffs as will
supply a. fair quantity of protein.

Raise and feed more oats and
clover, use bran, shorts and oil
meal whenever needed and when
obtainable at a reasonable price.

GRAPES IN MISSISSIPPI.

Bulletin Mississippi Station.
1. Grapes seem perfectly at
home here. They grow and bear
well even on rather wet low ground.

2. Commnn vine diseases occur
but are not specially destructive.

3. Varieties well adapted for
general cultivation in the coast
are; Ives, Champion, Delaware,
Niagara and Concord; for cultiva-
tion further north we recommend
Moore's Early, Delaware, Brilliant,
Niagara, Eaton, Triumph, Rommel,
and Herbemont. '

4. The European varieties do
not give much promise of success.
They start too early and are sub-
ject to mildew.

5. The much dreaded black rot
is not known or least is not so
common as to be troublesome.

6. In the bitter rot or ripe
rot, we have a serious enemy. It
does not yield to treatment with
fungicides, but may be partially
controlled by methods of training
and culture. It continues to
develop on the fruit after it is
picked. It is aggravated by the

wet weather which occurs in July
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

FEBRUARY 15, 1893.

I‘lofice.s of Meefings.

KENT COl'.\”I‘Y P0i\I().\'/\.

The next session will be held with Rock-
ford Grange March 1 Morning session
opens at to A. M. We hope to see every
Grange in the county represented. Music
will be furnished by the Rockford Grange
choir. The subjects for discussion will be:

“The Improvement of our Highways,”
led by Bros.]ohn Preston and R. Dockery.

Essay, Sister H. G. Holt.

“ The Press,” led by Sister Martha Edi-
son and Bro. Best.

Recitation, Sister john Graham.

Essay, Sister S. C. Peterson.

“ Our School System,” led by Brothers
Norton and Holt.

All members are invited to take part in
the discussion.

VVM. T. ADAMS, Lecturer.

 

HILLSDALE COUNTY POMONA

will meet in G. A. R. hall at Hillsdaleo
Thursday, March 6, 1893. The fifth de-
gree will be conferred if candidates are pres-
ent. Meeting called to order at [0 o’clock
sharp.

Progrmil.

Music by members of Adams Grange.

Rep. Bathe) '5 joint resolution for :1 con-
stitutional amendment looking to a State,
county and township highway systern, prt -
sented and opened for discussion by Bro.
H. H. Dresser.

Paper, \’Vedding Aniversaries," Sister
John Bowditch.

Original Poem, Sister Belle Moore.

“ The Farm Iloine Reading Circle," Bro.
J. \V. Hutchins.

Recitation, Sister l\Iar_v Carter.

MR5. E. D. .\'oi;r.s,
Com//_i' Lc(I‘m'z’r.

IiL7R()_\‘ C()l'S'l‘Y I’O.\I0.\'A

will hold its next regular session with

VVadsworth Grange on Tliiirsd2i_v. Mai'cli

2, commencing at 10 o'clock A. M. All

members are requested to attend as therc

is important business to be transacted.
MR5. R. NL'oE.\"r,

.h‘(’(‘I'(‘/(l}:l‘.

ST. JOSEPH POZ\IO.\'A

meets at Centerville Grange hall March 2.
Installation of officers, reports from Sub-
ordinate Granges, and all other bLlSlllCS.\
that may come before the meeting. New
ofiicers, Master, Henry Cok; Secretary,
Mrs. Henry Cook; Lecturer, David Han-
shaw’.

Thermometer 4 degrees below zero.
Wheat in our community all covered with
ice. Farmers feel very mueh alarmed
about their coming wheat crop.

MRS. ll. COOK,
S 1 rrzrlurgy.

V/\.\' BUR EN POMONA.

Van Buren County Pomona Grange
will hold its quarterly meezing with Ban-
gor Grange February 23, 1893, at 10:30
o’clock A. M.

Business and reports.

At roll call each oflicer is requested to
report Will] a question from or remarks on
life and character of \Vashington. After
roll call as many members as possible will
take up the €X€FCl.~(‘_‘SZ

Singing by Grange choir, “ America.”

Dinner at 32 o’clock.

One o’clock I’. M., Paper, James V\'ceks,
Hamilton; ‘* Taxation, How Can it be Re-
duced?"

Essay, Mrs.  VV. Fisk, Tecumseh;
~ VVliat Qualitiestof the Mind should be
Cultivated and What Suppressed?”

Paper, “ Roads and Road L:1ws;” H~
Place, Lawrence.

Paper, " Fragments,” I\Ii's. C. B. Charles,
Bangor. _

Evening session, 6 o’clock P. M.

Conferring fifth degree.

Paper, “ Carp Culture,”_].Munroe, Law-
rence,

Lecture, Jason \Voodman,

Evening session in fifth degree.

Suitable rnusic and speaking will be in-
terspersed. All Patrons invited.

C. E. ROBINSON.

 

GRANGE AND 'I‘Ei\(‘HERS.
S//cllry, Jllir/1., Fe/1.11, 1893.

EDITOR Visi'roR—Will you please sav
that a Grange and Teachers’ institute will
be held at Hesperia, Friday and Saturday
Feb. 24 and 25, 1893.

A. L. Scorrr,
I). E. MCCLURI-1,
Commillce.

 

SPECIAL REPORT.
YORK Co. Pa., 12-24-'92.

DEAR SiR——Mr. N. Bish, David Weaver,
Ed. Kendig and Philip VVentz, all had
their buildings painted with Ingersoll’s
Paints during the past year, and are so
well pleased that they wish to make this
statement. I can say as a practical painter
of considerable experience, that these
paints are fully tip to all claims made for
them. I did the work for above gentlemen.

' G. A. G()I.RECIl'1‘_

(See adv. Ingersoll’s Liquid Rubber

Paints—ED.)

-I-pi riasT.pu§s rnm§ 

ll’ miles of \I . asant P. 0. An excellent
and handsome country. A live growing city,
low ;,_<ro population. Two rnilrozids, Norinal
school, business college, U. S. Industrial Training
School and high grade city schools afford educa-
tional privileges rarely equaled. Hm amid I?-ring in
Isabella county; l0.000iI('.rPii of unimproved la'xd<,
choice city properties, all for sale at prices much
below those in most other focalitics. affording
ood advantages. Now’ is the time to bu in
sabella County, in the center of lower Michigan.
For sam le descriptive rice list. :i(l(lrr.-ss,
C OK’S REA]. Z.\"I'A'I‘E AGFZ\'('Y.
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan,
—
800,000

 GRAPE VINES

Also Small Frnits,Ti-eon. etc. Bo-_=t rooted amok.
Gt-nnim-. r-heap. Two sample vines mailed for

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MICHIGAN. -——

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CALALOGUE %

 

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It Will tell you how to
make a Hot Bed and
Cold Frame, also how to
cultivate and care for
Vegetable and Flower
Garden. VVe want every
Farmer and Stock Man
to try our new Sugar
Beet Seed, for three
two cent stamps will send enough to plant 1’; row 150 feet long,
which will yield (if well cultivated) 25 bushels of the best possible
feed for milch cows.

 

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Our early vegetables have no equal In Americ -
our swells being grown in the extreme nor-I-h,leii4
unusual vigor and extreme earliness to the crop

ablfiztge. Cai-111-ots, ll3_e.-Ana, P
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l-they um the Giant‘. Tree Tomato, the Me ‘
Bainmn Melon and the First of All Carrot.

one Pkg. each above 3 sorts for 25:. with cats. 33:.
3'35 Pkg. early Vegetable Novelties $1.00.

FARM SEEDS

We are the largest: growers of Farm seeds in

America. Use 6,000 acres! Are headquarters to

every variety or seed known to the inrmer.

00,000 Bu. Rare Prolific Seed Potatoes.Tl‘lESE RARE NOVELTIES Z5‘
OUR MARVEL SPRING WHEAT was tested in _1B92 by several chom-

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N. .. Pa.. 0.. Miiui.a.nd Wis., and other states 30 to 40 u .-er mere. 1: is a

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future. as storms, draiighrs, I'8.ill!,Il1Set:l:4.

ON TRIAL POSTPAID.

10 Farm Grain Samples, Sc; with cats. me. 8 Field Corn :3a.mples 12c;

ll Clover and Gx-use samples 100: with catalog tile.
4 plrga. Rare Vigetnbles These 9 pkgs.—reta.il value D-.Iv-—wv send I‘or but
6 pkgs. Choice ower Seed. 140 to introduce our seeds. With Catalog for 22¢.

 
 
   
  
   
   
 
 
 
 
  
 

Our catulngiia appeals tothe farmer. It contains information worth thous-
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Snnthwnst corner (‘-apitol S nare. Lansiniz. Mich
Thnronizh and practical. ne of the finpiii’. snitv
pf roloms  the country, and a large’ wade a|wakio t
- - non ty apartments: (‘ommercia , s on mm ‘
Lansl ng, M  _ typowritinz. norrnaI.ponmansIiin. Expenses low. i

Don't decide to 20 elsewhere until you have sent ‘
for our ymr-book.
In writing mention Tim GRANGE VISITOR.

All cannot possess a

$10,000 Souvenir

(This sum was paid for the first World’s Fair Souvenir Coin minted.)

 in the shape of a coin, butmany can have fac-similos of this valuable work
1 of art—only special coin ever issued by the U. S. Government-—f0r $1 each.

Urzited States G02/emzmem‘

World’s Fair
Souvenir Coins-

T/ze Ofiicial 5ouvem7r
qf I/ze Great Exp0sz’tz'on—

5,000,000 of which were donated to the World’s Columbian Exposition by the
Government, are being rapidly taken by an enthusiastically patriotic people.

As there early promised to be a demand for these Souvenirs that
would render them very valuable in the hands of speculators, the Exposition
Authorities decided to place the price at

$I.OO for Each Coin

and sell them direct to the people, thus realizing $5,000,000, and using the
additional money for the further development of the Fair.

Considering the fact that there were but 5,000,000 of these coins to be
distributed amomg 65,000,000 people, in this country alone (to say nothing
of the foreign demand,) and that many have already been tal<en,those \vi::lii-
ing to purchase these mementoes of our Country’s Discovery and of the
grandest Exposition ever held, should secure as many as they desire at once.

and in order to make it convenient to"
and B‘.1lll(.\. It’ not for sale in your town, send $1.00 each for 110/ /ms ///an

‘ F S 1 Realizing that every patriotic Aniei'ic;m
him to get them, we have imdc {arrange
lllc‘lllS to have them sold throughout

/irr .*uz‘.»z.v. by l’0:.t-ctlice or Express Money-order, Registered Letter or Bank

Draft, with i:istruc:ions how to send them to you, a//r/mrgw: /w,mrz‘.«/, to

will want one or more of these coins,
Everywher

the country by all the leadiiig tVlcl‘Cll:lZ‘.l:S
Treasurer World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, Ill.

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solutely Guanintee to have the only perfect Creaniery known.
the user. Productivenes
i'aising a. finer
Guaraiitee GLASS for milk se
is non-porous, non-corrosive,
antee to save the cost of our Creamery
g users of our Creainers, and can substantiate the above fully.

H. A. BOWIE

   
    
   

         

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OUR ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE COVERS THE FOLLOWING

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I SIEHLZH hows SONS, New Canaan, conn.

E110 HATCHER IIADE

can show better results
Qvor 60 in successful 0 eru- 

two at Decatur. IllB.. i] one. ,
Tin greatest hutch ever uc- ’

   

Proprietor Canaan iioumiii GRAPE 
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WE BUILD %2§;i3.';°a'l.“u‘li fig’ ‘- l‘n'e°e"a°»'1i'e°§'l -
. olex uislte , andbestgrape :*'
HI-flw_flflwnH    flavor? ..ll\\ onihe market. .

W A Th Only Firm
Giving to customers cash discounts on orders. We alone
catalogue that best of all bush beans. the Warren and

that best of all early peas, the Excelsior. No
otlierfiecd (.'.italo;;ue_. of America or Europe.
' contains so grcata variety Qflseveral of the stand-
‘ arcl_v -tzctzib es, and, in addition, are many choice
vrirmties peculiarly our own. Thouuh eatiy
enlarg-zrl in hot the vegetable and flower seed epart-
mcnts w - solid our catzilncue FREE to all. The three

warrants still hold rznod. anrl_nur customers may relvupfin 1!
that the w-‘ll t".’II’llC('l reputation of our seed for resliness an

  
    
   

purity will continue in be Euarrled as a most precious part

our capital. J. J. H. GREGORY & SON. Marblehead. Mass-

coinplished, % chicks Iuitch- 
(id at 'Jn's_Iime, with it 2 (innum-

cgtv ahable Incubator.
Iiun reds o f testimonials.
K§'Incluso 4 cents in stunips
for new illustrated cntulugue.

 
  
  

 

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PAIlSONS “LOW-lJOWlI' WAGON 00.,
I‘lal'll'llll‘, N. Y.

Ir~".~\uI -tees TH!
RELIABLE 1NcUuA1‘u.u it I50-i()t.DI£It (1., tr ,Ncy_1m,

In writing mention THE GRANGE Vxsrron.

FENCE BUILDING
MACHINERY . . .

Largest line, best and
cheupestiu the wuild,
ARHIIB WIHIIPII. Sold
on trial. LA NE Bll0s.,
130! I3. lloIly.l|ch.

II I rmty. Thor nlyII'()ni'|ilLlD(‘2tl‘Kn(i\'\ ll
irge sir.” "' '|hl<'Ii quality. Original tree57 ywr
‘ ‘ r hl"‘lli/"I. $'.’(lfl(Jreul'w«-:1 from thefrutt:
tr"-I. Handsoriie illiistrntod lIl'n"hl(
“i *. =‘-'”TYl( 'llt|ll.(-'~‘l"..fl"(.‘(‘.. AGENT WANTS

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‘Perfect inflfligetfy  npd mangrgblo
ii . a nu : an
fonds. Send 55.10: mmi't:suiog§‘e'.

PRESSES OF ROBERT SMITH &-C0.,

100. Descriptive price Ii-t free.
LEWIS RUESCH. Fredonia, N. Y.

LANSING, KICK.

5]. II. IllEER.& BRO.. Ouhiey, Ill

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KIRKWOOD   -

‘ Lansing, Mich.

I. M. BROWN, Proprietor

Heated by steam. Rates $1.00 per dav. Per-pie attending; C( nveiuions can always find comforta-

ble room and accommodations.

Cor. Michigan-av and Grand-st. On’: two blocks from State Capitol.

 

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