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VOL. XVIII, N0. 16:

OUR DEMANDS.

EDITOR GRANGE VIsIToIz——The
hard labor of haying and harvest-
ing has delayed me in availing
myself of your kind permission to
say a few words in reply to the last
article of Brother Ramsdell in
the VISITOR. I would say to
Mr. Ramsdell that in giving some
reasons why I dissented from
some of the conclusionsof the re-
port of the executive committee
and incidentally of similar ones
in his article on “silver and
wheat,” directed against the
worthy lecturer of the National
Grange, who is, I trust, abundant-
ly able to take care of himself,
I did not intend it as a “reply to
Judge Bamsdell.” Those were the
words of the editor, not mine, and
I would further remind Brother
Ramsdell that he should not con-
clude that every one who disagrees
with him regards him as a liar, as
the sweeping remarks in his clos-
ing paragraph would seem to im-
ply. He says I did not propose a
remedy for the ills we are suffer-
ing. I said reverse the policy that
has caused our losses, that is, restore
silver to its position as a unit of ac-
count and standard of payment,
open the mintsto its free and unlim-
ited coinage on equal terms with
gold,and issue full legal tender treas-
ury notes until the aggregate
amount of coin and notes so fully

interest will be as fair for the bor-
rower as for the lender, and that
figure should be as low as our com-
petitors in Europe must pay. Every
dollar of the product of our farms
must go into the markets of the
world in competition with the
farms of Europe that are run with
cheap money, and 6 per cent to 12
per cent money cannot compete
with 2 per cent to 3 per cent
money. Brother Ramsdell says his
statement was too broad; certainly
it was, and decidedly too thin.
True, supply and demand govern
prices. Ability to pay is the
essential point in demand, and
ability to pay depends on the
volume of money in circulation.

Brother R. complains that Cleve-
land is not executing the Sherman
law as it was intended to be exe-
cuted. I believe he is exactly. The
charge applies with equal force to
Harrison. Bear in mind, brother,
that the Sherman law was framed
by the enemies of silver money.
They enacted the law, and have so
far executed it, and today the ene-
mies of silver are demanding its re-
peal. It was a sham and a fraud.
Sherman says it was an expedient
to prevent free coinage and to pre-
vent certain senators from aban-
doning the party, andhaving served
its purpose he wants it repealed.
The grange demands an increase
in the volume of money by the is-
sue of treasury notes, and is oppos-
ed to all banks of issue, state or
national. The friends of free coin-
age almost to a man agree with the
grange. I cited acts of each and
every administration from Grant to
Harrison, showing that they were
utterly opposed to the demands of
the gran and we can have no
hope of - at their hands. Their
proposition is, that “ gold shall be
the sole legal tender money and bank
notes, state or national or both, the
sole currency of the nation.” There
seems to be no middle course, we
must choose to support one propos-
ition or the other. The grange
concedes to all its members perfect

we naturally expect that profession
and practice will agree. I for one
cannot see how a man can pose
before the grange as an advo-
cate of more money, an op-
ponent of the sin le gold standard,

bond and bank po icy, and then give

LANSING, MICHIG

  
  

IV} =  FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

   

g AUGUST 15, 1893.

his vote as a citizen for a policy
directly the reverse of what he says
he wants. I like to see a man vote
the same way he talks. Brother B.
says neither Brothers Torrey nor
Working can “grind with water
that has past.” If he had said ‘saw’
I should have recognized his Alma
Mater at once. In the words of

the immortal Patrick Henry, “I”

know no way of judging the future
but by the past." And judging
by the past I would ask what there
has been in the policy of the sever-
al administrations for the past
twenty-five years to justify the
hopes with which the brother has
been pleased to solace himself and
the grange?

I challenge the brother to show
one single act in that time that gives
any assurance that the demands of
the grange will be granted. Nearly
twenty years ago Senator Chandler
declared in the senate “that the ob-
ject of their policy was to increase
the purchasing power of money
and reduce the value of all other
property. That land is too high.
Land should come down so poor
men could buy homes of their own.
There is a. class of persons who
prior to and durin the war were
living upon limite incomes suEer-
ed by the increase in the value of
labor and its products. It is their
turn to prosper now.” The policy
prevailed. The purchasing power
of the dollar was increased until
now the farmer must "176 two
bushels of wheat for a ollar in-
stead of getting two dollars for a
bushel of wheat. Brother Patrons,
how do you like it? Do you feel
like throwing up your old hats and
hurrahing for the single gold stand-
and policy he advocated? If you
do, don’t whine any more about
low prices for your farm, or its

products.
0. A. Tonnsr.

Lansing.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.

[Tl1l> address of welcome delivered by Mr. .\I. VV.
Scott, at the Patrons of Husbantlry and Tc:.u‘liers'
Union Association of .\'e\vay o and Occzma coun-
ties, at Hesperia, Feb. 24. and y :3. unanimous vote
of the meeting was requested published in the
GRANGE Vxsirox. Press of other matter has de-
layed its uppearzince but has not tlccreuscd its
valua-.]

MB. CHAIRMAN, PATRONS AND
TEAcHEI2s~—That history is surely
at fault which tells us that the sages
of ancient Chaldea were the first to
teach that inexorable law of nature
that “Light is life——darkness is
death.”

In the earliest ages, with the
first intimations of reason, man
found and recognized that princi-
ple, exemplified everywhere, in the
mental and moral, as well as ani-
mal and vegetable world.

Grains buried for ages ‘in the
darkness that enshrouds the tombs
of the Pharaohs, burst again into
all the vigor and beauty of life,
when returned to the light that
first brought them into existence.
Everywhere around us plant life is
ever struggling upward for light.
Beneath the bosom of “mother
earth,” the acorn lies buried in its
tomb; but the returning summer’s
sun dissolves the icy chain that
bound it down. Light above, and
the germ of the oak bursts its
prison walls, shoots upward
through the rich mold of the for-
est, reaches out its arms to clasp
the beautiful light around it,
gathers food from earth, air and
rain, and towers, at length, the
giant “king of the forest.”

Night spreads its dark pall over
the face of the earth, and the teem-
ing life of an animate world is still
and silent as the recesses of the
tomb. Mornin (lawns, and child-
hood’s merry s out, the -neighing
horse, the lowing kine, the hum of
bees, the melody of the birds, are
the voices with which nature
rings out her songs of praise for
Heaven’s returning sunlight.

 
   
  
   

In obedience to , ‘laws of evo-
lution, nature gafifi her animal
creation that w ,  she denies
to the mineral and..;. getable world
—a finer organizat?~.m1§~——brain and
nerve power. lfiiifit, indistinct
and undefined at firsit,Ibut carrying
with them methods" of growth,
expansion and reproduction.
Hunger taught the-~—fia_i1imal to seek
food, pleasure taught’ him to seek
warmth and light from the sun.
Pain taught him to ward off danger
and prolong his existence. Hence
there came growth in nerve
power, the brain gradually enlarg-
ing its capacity to transmit and
use that power. .

Doomed at first to creep along
the surface of the earth, he turned
his eyes upward to the light.
Saw food everywhere above and
around him. Made a faint effort
at first, and grasped the food. The
effort and its resulis ave him
strength for a greatere ort. An-
other and another. Use developed
his powers. Thougljienlarged his
capacity to think, until at length,
he stood erect, the “lgrd of crea-
tion.” 

A world of beau i’,‘ as well as
danger was around _im. He saw
,the “ orb of day ” sinking beneath
the horizon. And iiight -came.
The beauty vanished, but the
dangers increased. ;_g,Hence he
learned to value the.-5-'ght. And
became conscious ofgzg ‘egpower
reason. ‘r-"J '  ' ’ ‘ ~-

The light that guided his
thoughts upward for his food,
pointed out the dangers that sur-
rounded him, made him con-
scious of joy and pleasure, gave
him also his first ideas of time.

The diurnal and annual revolu-
tions of the earth were far beyond
his powers of comprehension: yet
the results of the one he learned to
call day and night, the other the
years, and their changing seasons.

When mid-summer came, day by
day he watched the sun slowly
sinking from the zenith towards
the poles. Its rays became oblique,
their warmth diminished. Clouds,
storms and frosts followed the
receding light and heat. Birds
forsook their homes. Insects
buried themselves in the earth.
Wild beasts fled to their caves.
The foliage of the forest, the herb-
age at his feet, the flowers of the
field, he saw them all wither and
die at the touch of winter’s icy

    

hand. Over the mountain and .

valley he saw the “ice king”
spread his mantle of snow, felt
his sharp pangs pierce his flesh,
and turned, to solve, if possible,
the problem of desolation.

He looked again. Spring re-
turned and nature seemed to repent
the ruin she had wrought. The
aureola of light that encircled the
sun grew brighter day by day, as
he turned backward over his path-
way. Plant and bud and flower
came bursting from the bosom of
the soil to greet his returning kiss.
Birds sprang from bough to bough,
bathed their wings in the waters
that came dancing over the pebbles
of the purling streams, and sang
once more their old notes_of mirth
and gladness. Clothed in its
mantle of living green, the forest
forgot the dark hue of winter and
blossom and stalk told of the com-
ing fruit and the golden grain of
harvest.

Another world, teeming with
activity, life and joy, seemed to
have sprung up above and around
him. Unable to fathom the mys-
terious transformation, the first im-
pulses of his nature were those of
wonder, joy and adoration. To
him that which seemed to bring
day and ni ht, summer and winter,
light and ife, he soon learned to
associate with his first crude ideas

of Divinity; and in the gratitude of

his heart he built and dedicated
his temple to the sun, and
brought his offerings to the “ altar
of light.” Today as we study the
traditions and the history of the
past we wonder at the superstitions
and the credulity of the age that
bowed in adoration and worship to
the sun. With the same environ-

ments, surrounded by their world‘

of twilight, would you and I have
done less? Could we have done
more?

Patrons, teachers and friends,
we too, are worshipers at the
shrine of light. To the same altar
we bring our tributes and our
offerings. Gathering in our
temples to welcome the light that
the closing years of the nineteenth
century have brought within our
reach. VVelcoming the means of
knowledge that our schools have
brought to the doors of the hum-
blest citizen of our common country.
Welcoming the social, moral and
intellectual development that the
Grange has brought to the farm,
the farmer and his children.

And,while we remember with
thankfulness and gratitude the
fruits that the ages have been
gathering in store for us, we turn
from the past to welcome the feast
that is before us. Looking at our
program, a “bill of fare” richly pre-
pared by deft hands and thought-
ful brain, chide us not for our
anticipations of a royal feast. Old
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quickly and eagerly formed, the
warm fraternal clasp, the answer-
ing smile from glowing check, the
light that flashes from eye to eye
at the interchange of thought with
thought, surely we have a repast
at which all may drink eagerly,
deeply of the “ wine of life.”

Appointed by your committee to

perform a pleasing duty, I have
only to remind you that this is
your feast, to which no words of
mine are needed to make you
welcome. But when we remem-
ber that even a quarter of a
century ago, nowhere within the
range of our observation or knowl-
edge could such a meeting as this
have been possible, it would hardly
be in keeping with the motives
that have brought us here today
did we not attempt to give, at
least, some feeble expression to
the glad welcome with which we
greet this meeting of teachers and
Patrons.
Coming here, as we trust with
something of the inspiration of
the gospel of better schools, and
the gospel of better farming, we
welcome you for the revelation you
bring to us of a better and high-
er future for our schools and for
our farm life. And with this op-
portunity for a wider and more ex-
tended fraternal greeting we wel-
come you, one and all, for the social
pleasures you bring to us.

The Hon. John Johnston of Mil-
waukee, at one of the Wisconsin
farmers’ institutes, of last winter,
said that “with a good education
and a good wife, success was always
certain.” And as we are here to-
day, as we trust, in the interest of
education, with good wives, mothers
and daughters, surely you will not
call us visionary if we promise you
a successful and pleasant institute.
And here allow me to remind you
that the Grange was the first or-
ganization in the history of the
world to recognize and carry out
the principle of the equality of
woman, making her eligible to ev-
ery position in the order, from the
subordinate grange to the master’s
chair in the national grange. *And
as this is a union of “school and
grange” we shall expect the full
benefit of the best features of both
school and grange and ask from
mother, wife and daughter her best
efforts, her best thoughts to aid us

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WHOLE N0. 424.

in these our humble efforts to help
make our world better, life happier.

The union of school and grange!
And we are guests at the “marriage
feast.” Of the methods by which
this was consummated, how, when
and where the proposal was first
made, how eagerly the offer was
accepted, as well as the pleasures
of the courtship that followed,
some one else, perhaps the
secretary of the board of school
examiners of Oceans county,
Brother McClure, can tell you bet-
ter than I can. We only know that
we are here today by invitation,
hoping that the union may be for
life, that there may never be any
grounds for divorce, and that the
teachers’ and Patrons’ Columbian
institute of Oceana and Newago
counties may be perpetual.

The union of school and grange!
And who is there to forbid the
bans? They are our schools, the
schools of our children. Practical-
ly the only schools for the farmer’s
sons and daughters. And why
should we not councel together in
their interest? We can but hope
that the results may prove the rev-
elation of more effective work, a
closer union of interests, better
schools.

The school and then the grange.
What could be more appropriate?
We leave the school and its teach-
ings in early life to engage in the
arduous toil of the farm. The grange
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where the schools have left it. We
graduate from the schools almost in
our infancy. From the grange we ex-
pect to graduate only at the close
of life. The light that guides us
there points us to a practical busi-
ness application of the lessons of
the school.

Following that light the farmer is
taught the value of the friction of
mind with mind. Taught and made
to understand that we live in an age
of progression, an age of mechan-
ical appliances, an age of steam
and electricity, an age of pro-
gressive methods of labor that de-
mand better methods of farming,
better methods of cultivation for
soil and brain. Taught that it is
an age of organization and combi-
nation, of sharp competition in
every calling and occupation. That
along all the lines of life, both men
and methods are struggling for
supremacy. That the farmer must
fall into line and “keep step to the
music,” or eventually be relegated
to the rank of serf or tenant, as
he has been in every land but ours.

From the standpoint of the
grange there comes to him a new
and broader view of the principles
that underlie the social, civil, polit-
ical and economic questions of
the day, and better fitting him to
fill the proud position of an “Amer-
ican citizen” in all that the term im-
plies. Methods and inducements
are held out to him, that tend to
develop to their full capacity all
the faculties for usefulness that
God and nature have given him.

This is the work of school and
Grange. How well they succeed
depends upon what we make them.
Hence we are here to-day for coun-
sel and consultation. ' Here to wel-
come the fruits of the past and look
forward, if we can, to the achieve-
ments of the future. Here to
study the failures of the past and
to prevent, if we can, their repeti-
tion in the future.

Continued next issue.

1 cent a week! That’s all the Vrsrron
costs. Who says he “ can’t ajford it.”
Yoiu. can’t afiord to be without it at that
pnce.

 

“I notice that you don’t call on the
Byngs girl any more. Why is it?” “The
last time I was there I asked her if she
had an hing I could take home and
read an she handed me a book on how
to keep house on $300 a year.”—Indian-
apolis Journal.

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AUGUST 15, 1893.

Field and Siock.

THE EXPERIMENT STATION.

What it May Do For Bee Keepers.

HON. R. L. TAYLOR.

Bee keeping has been carried on
for thousands of years but it is
only within the recollection of liv-
ing men that it has passed out of
the mediaeval, which was probably
also the pre-historic stage. It is
natural then, that in this, more per-
haps than in other rural occu-
pations, there should be questions
pressing for solution. It is much
that these questions are being pro-
pounded, questions for which until
recently there was no basis, and
this very condition gives promise
of certain and valuable results. It
is as if the gates were just opened
and the apiarists were crowding
forward to see what a view of the
inside would reveal. The interest
thus exhibited will be sure to ob-
serve and secure what is of value.

What the station may do for this
class is to undertake the solutions
of these questions that are upper-
most, by investigations which the
members of the class cannot well
undertake separately. For instance,
in the matter of diseases of the bee
‘there is much to be learned. It is
well known that foul brood, the
most dreaded of these diseases, is
caused by a bacillus which is liable
to convey the disease to any hive
which it may enter. It is known
that it may be carried from one
hive to another in honey. May it
be so carried in wax? May it be con-
veyed by a hive put into use again
which had before contained the
brood combs and bees of a diseased
colony? If so, how may they best
be disinfected? Whether the dis-
ease may be conveyed in wax made
from combs from an infected col-
ony and so carried from one part
of the country to another in comb
foundation,is a question of especial
interest and demands speedy and
careful attention.

Again it is a mooted question to
what extent it is profitable to use
comb foundation in the brood
chamber. Of course a single ex-
periment would not ochtk; it, but i£-,,
carefully pursued on a'somewhat
extended scale, the truth can be
made known. At the station this
season an attempt in this direction
has been begun with twelve colo-
nies. Four swarms were hived on
comb, four on comb foundation and
four on frames with starters only,
and it is quite certain the results
will be instructive. Then there is
quite a large variety of comb foun-
dations used. These are distin-
guished by difference in weight as
well as by difference in the shape
of the septum and of the side
walls caused by differences in the
machines with which it is made.
Now some bee keepers select the
extra-thin, some the thin and some
the medium; others choose that
with a fiat bottom, others again
want that of the natural shape, and
in almost every case the reasons
for the choice are purely fanciful.
Which
is least objectionable in the honey,
and, by the use of which do the
bees secure the most honey? By
proper experiments the station
should be able to tell bee keepers
what is the truth in these matters.
It has been assumed that it is more
profitable to have very strong col-
onies rather than moderate ones
during the time when the crop is
being gathered. The station ought
to be able to say definitely in time
whether this is a sound assumption.

Looking in another direction we
find from the very expectancy with
which new claims and investiga-
tions are regarded, and the eager-
ness with which supposed truth is
received, especially in matters
where there is a promise held out
of a saving of labor or trouble, that
it would be desirable that there
should be a place where new in-
ventions in the way of apicultural
appliances will be promptly and
impartially tested, thereby saving
individuals large amounts in the
aggregate for what proves in the
end to be useless traps; as well
as introducing to them really
useful implements which otherwise
would be neglected from a fear that
their purchase would prove a use-
less expense. Already in this line
experiments have been made with
the plausible inventions known as
the non-swarmer and self-hiver—
experiments which should save the
bee-keepers of the state much

money if they will only read the
published reports of their workings.

The foregoing may serve to give
an idea of the nature of the work
which the station ought to per-
form, and a hintto those interested
of what benefit they ought to de-
rive from it. Of course other items
of work should be undertaken as
the favorable season of the year for
them comes on and a watch kept
for the rising of new questions
which seem to deserve considera-
tion.

Lapeer.

SHOULD THE COLLEGE HAVE
AN APIARY.’

C. H. HOYT.

It is to be regretted by every one
interested in the welfare of the
College that the management has
seen fit to have the apiary removed
from the college grounds.

Without doubt the bees are in
competent hands and the experi-
ments made with them may be of
some benefit to the bee keepers of
the state, yet it seems to me that
the proper place for all experiments
in agriculture or related sciences is
at the College, where the students
have the benefit of them.

N 0 one thing has more fully and
practically illustrated the fact that
the science taught in the class room
is directly available in practice than
has Prof. Cook by demonstrating
in the apiary what he taught in
the class room.

In this case at least, it was theory
practically and successfully carried
out.

The students as a rule have been
deeply interested in the work in
the apiary and a great number of
them have become skillful apiarists
even with the poor equipment that
our enthusiastic professor had with
which to illustrate his methods.

Bee culture at the College has
drawn many students there. I could
mention one who is now a professor
in an agricultural college, who
came there solely for the purpose
of making a study of bees.

Another of the students, Mr. O.
L. Hershiser, who is at present
superintendent of the bee and honey
exhibit from N. Y. State at the
V_Vorld’s Fair, and who is one of
 ‘pest posted apiarists in the
country, was led to study bees by
having charge of them while at
college.

Our College had the distinction
of being one of the few schools
where apiculture was taught and I
believe taught more successfully
than in any other school in the
United States.

The management of the college
would have done better by giving
the apiary‘ a better equipment and
placing means of relieving the pro-
fessor of the extra work the apiary
makes, at the disposal of the
College. It would not necessitate
theaddition of another instructor
for in most any class some senior
would befitted to instruct the
under classmen in the science
of apiculture.

There may be a few good reasons
for this change but it seems to me
a serious move in the wrong direc-
tion.

I rring.

 

SELF HIVERS.

J. H. LARRABEE.

There has, perhaps, during the
past two years been no device for
the saving of labor in the apiary
that has received the same atten-
tion at the hands of editors and
contributors to the bee journals as
have the devices of various pat-
terns, for the self hiving of swarms.
And amid the greatest discourage-
ments they still talk self hivers.
N 0 practical success has yet been
reported. Single instances are on
record where swarms have been
hived but it yet remains to be made
a success in an apiary through a
season.

All self hivers aim at hiving the
swarm in a hive near to the old
colony, into which, by means of the
bee escape, the queen has found
her way while the swarm was in
the air.

This hive has been placed beside,
above, below, or in front of the old
colony, with success varying in pro-
portion to the facility with which
the returning bees are enabled to
discover the whereabouts of their
lost queen. For this reason the
Pratt device seems to have come
nearest to being a success.

Good reasons are easily found
why the various schemes have

failed. The presence. so near the
swarm, of the old colony with its
honey, brood, andgyoung bees, must
attract a large pfoportion of the
swarm, causing them to desert their
queen. Then in 1. large apiary the
mingling of swarms in the air will
always be encountered with any
device that may he invented, as
two or three swarms will often re-
turn to one hive, leaving some
queens confined in the hives with
no returning bees to keep them
company. The influence of the
presence of the old colony so near
to the hiver can only be overcome
by cutting off in some manner all
communication between the two,
at the same time opening a new
exit for the old colony. If the
hiver could be out off automatically
from the old "colony while the
swarm was in the air, leaving the
bees to return to the hiver, suc-
cessful self hiving would be the
result. To the one whose invent-
ive genius attains these results, all
honor.

Many earnest minds are still at
work upon the problem and a suc-
cessful outcome may still be hoped
for. In the meantime swarm
catchers of various designs with
the queen trap (so called), are sav-
ing an amount-of labor over the
old method «if clipping queens
wings.

Lansing.

COMB HONEY.

Management of Bees in August.

HON. GEO. E. HILTON.

During this month the manage-
ment should be just the reverse of
June and July. Then as fast as
colonies were well at work in the
first super it should be raised
and another placed under it giving
them all the room they could well
occupy, which has a tendency to
prevent swarming and to keep all
the working force in one hive, thus
economizing both bees and supplies.
To carry this still farther when a
swarm did issue instead of hiving
it on a new stand we carry the
brood to a new stand, fill the parent
hive with frames filled with founda-
tion well wired, replace the surplus
cases and s_-‘the, .the, swarm down
in trontlof he hive they came out
of (we never handle hives, as , we
can handle bees and brood more
satisfactorily.) This moving brood
serves a double purpose, it returns
all the field bees to the old stand
and when the queen hatches there
are not bees old enough with the
brood to lead out a second swarm,
consequently we have none.

This method you will see leaves
all our ,old colonies at this time
with two supers, one of them may
be completed or nearly so and the
other partly filled and some of the
sections finished. Every beekeeper
desires as few unfinished sections
at the close of the season as possi-
ble, and it is policy now to get all
the unfinished sections into one
super. To do this we will remove all
finished sections from supers and
place all the unfinished ones into
one and close them down. If your
colonies are strong it will make
them hang out, but never minds the
swarming fever is over now and
you can crowd them without fear
of swarming, just the opposite of
June and July. By this method, if
there is any surplus coming in at
all you will getinearly all your un-
finished sections completed nicely
while if given too much room at this
time you will have a great many
sections partly filled and nothing
fit for the market. We used to
think these drawn or partly drawn
sections valuable as baits or starters
in the spring, but from experiments
made last year I have decided they
are.worse than useless. The present
season there has not been a section
on my hives that was ever there
before, and in my sixteen years
experience I never raised as fine
comb honey as this year. There is
much morethat could be said but
time and space will not permit now.

Freemont.

HONEY EXHIBITS AT THE WORLD’S
FAIR.

H. D. CUTTING.

So far but few states have com-
plete honey exhibits. New York,
Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Min-
nesota and Iowa have their exhib-
its installed, yet they contemplate
changes as the new crop of honey
comes in. Michi n’s exhibit is
with this sea-

now being install

son’s crop. It will occupy a case
25 feet long, 8 feet high, 5 feet
wide. To make this exhibit the
honey was loaned by the Hon. B.
L. Taylor, Lapeer, 500 pounds of
comb honey; Hon. Geo. E. Hilton,
Fremont, 1,000 pounds comb honey;
Byron Walker, Evart, about 1,300
pounds extracted honey; M. H.
Hunt,Bell Branch, extracted honey
and some fine beeswax and comb
foundation; Walter Harmer, Man-
istee, extracted honey; D. G. Ed-
miston, Adrian, 300 pounds extra
nice extracted honey; J. H. & A.
L. Boyden. Saline, extracted hon-
ey; H. D. Cutting, Tecumseh, col-
lection of samples of different va-
rietics of honey also honey candy.
T. F. Birmingham, Abronia, sends
a fine collection of the bee smokers
and honey knives made by him.

In all Michigan will have a fine
display of honey. While laboring
under a great‘ disadvantage in re-
gard to the small amount of funds
granted for this department, Mich-
igan will not be obliged to play
second fiddle to all the states.

New York gives their superin-
tendent of the honey exhibit $1,-
000 and pays all expenses for him
and one assistant to remain during
the fair. Ohio’s superintendent
has orders to “ go ahead and get
up a fine exhibit” regardless of cost.
Illinois granted $3,500 for their
honey exhibit. They will occupy
four cases. They have not begun
to install their exhibit as yet. Mr.
Stone and Mr. Hambaugh are on
the ground getting cases ready for
ths honey, etc.

Michigan has $500 for their ex-
hibit and when about $230 is paid
out for the cases to exhibit in you
will see that the superintendent is
obliged to “ cut all corners” to save
expenses.

The honey exhibit is in Agricult-
ural building on the balcony at the
eastend. Nobee keeperin Michigan
should fail to see this exhibit. It
is an object lesson long to be re-
membered. It will be the largest
collection of honey ever seen in
this country, and will comprise
many varieties of honey from this
and foreign countries; the many
different packages and manner of
putting up for market. And you
will see at a glance why some honey
producers can get from three to
five cents more per pound for their
product than some other less
posted and careless honey producer.
You will have an opportunity to
sample the different varieties of
the celebrated honeys of foreign
lands, but so far I have found no
foreign honey that will compare
with good well ripened Michigan
white clover and basswood honey.

It is too early in the season for
many bee keepers to arrive, but
we have met many from differ-
ent states, and as the season advan-
ces they will continue to come.

In October the North American
Bee Keepers’ Association will hold
their meeting which will bring
together the leading honey pro-
ducers of this country and many
from foreign lands. It will be the
largest meeting, without doubt, of
honey producers ever held in this
or any other country. The attract-
ions are many, the expenses small
compared to what you will see and
learn.

Now don’t fail to visit the honey
exhibits in Agricultural building.
Canada’s exhibit alone will repay
your exertion of climbing the stairs,
and then many of the finest ex-
hibits are on the balconies.
Chicago.

THE GOOD QUALITIES OF THE
CHINESE.

These Chinese laborers are in-
offensive, peaceable, and law-abi-
ding. They are honest, keeping
their contracts, doing as they
agree. They are exceedingly in-
dustrious, always ready to work,
and always giving satisfation to
their employers. They do not
interfere with other people. They
cannot become citizens. They have
no voice in the making or in the
execution of the laws. They at-
tend to their own business. They
have their own ideas, customs, re-
ligion and ceremonies———about as
foolish as our own; but they do
not try to make converts nor to
force their dogmas on others.
They are patient, uncomplaining,
stoical and philosophical. They
earn what they can, giving reason-
able value for the money they re-
ceive and, as a rule. when they
have amassed a few thousand dol-
lars, they back to their own
country. T ey do not interfere

with our ideas, our ways or cus-
toms. They are silent’ workers,
toiling without any object, except
to do the work and get their pay.
They do not establish saloons and
run for congress. Neither do they
combine for the purpose of gov-
erning others. Of all the people
on our soil they are the least med-
dlesome. Some of them smoke
opium, but the opium-smoker does
not beat his wife. Some of them
play games of chance, but they are
not members of the stock exchange.
They eat the bread that they earn;
they neither beg nor steal, but
they are of no use to parties or
politicians except as they become
fuel to supply the flame of preju-
dice. They are not citizens and
they cannot vote. Their employ-
ers are about the only friends they
have.——From “ Should the Chinese
be Excluded? ” by Col. R. G.
I ngersoll, in North American Re-
view for July.

Persuade your neighbor that the
VISITOR is a high tone paper. It does
not descend to cavil and bickerings. It
is practical. It seeks to elevate. It tries
always to be helpful. It is worth the
money.

MICHIGAN STOCK BHEEDEHS.

All those who wish to purchase pure-
bred stock of any description, will find
it to their advantage to correspond
with some of the following well-
known breeders.

P MEAN
,'l,9§‘,'T  “lit?” EWHIGH?

“'4: can fnrni.~;h zll‘l_\‘ll“llng you want in the
.\‘lirop>’liii'c Shccp line. \Vritc, or cmnc, or ‘moth.

HERBERT “'. LVIITDIFORD,
)[os('u\\', Mich.

EUGENE F IFIELD
BAY CITY, MICE
SllCCC\.'S()l’ to .\Il-IRRILL & FIFIELI)
Importer and Ilrecdcr of

HEREFORD CATTLE
and SHROPSHIRE SHEEP

Choice stock of both kin(l~ for sale, Prices reason-
able. C0l‘rt:.~'p0xi(lCn('L‘ solicited.

HIGH CLASS SHROPSHIRES

\‘\'c now offer jg }'c:1i'liii}_r Ruins and 150 _\'c21rlin_<,:
E\\'f:.\ from the flocks of Blessrs. l’i0\\'Cl1-‘]()ll(.‘>’,
Berry, Buttnr, Inge and Evan ill eminent Eng»
lish lircctlcrs. Tlicsc zirc griiml sheep, and are
offered at l‘CllS()l|:ll|lL‘ pcivcs. Send for critziloguc.
Fourth Annual Auction Sale Tluii-sday.
Septeinbc-1' 21st. Sheep reserved for sale will
not be sold pi'iv:itcI_V.

 

THE: WVILLOXVS.
Geo. E. Breck, Prop. Paw Paw, I\[i1:h.

SPRINGDALE FARM

LANSING, MICHIGAN

JAMES M. TURNER, Prop

Shorthorn and Hereford Cattle
Clydesdale and Standard-Bred
Trotting Horses, Shetland Ponies
and Shropshire Sheep

FOR SALEL4

A few good jiigis from the llillsdulc Countv
Herd of Polzuu (‘iiin-.1 Hogs. Can furnish

pairs or trios not akin. Inspection of ourherd
solicited. or write, dcscrihin closely what
you \\'ll.ll[,ilI1(.l satisfziction willllie guzmintecd.
Stock recorded in O. P. C. R.

JOHN BOWDITCH
Hillsdale. Michigan

H. H. HINDS

Stanton, Montcalm Co
Breeder of
Shorthorn Cattle
American Merino
and Shropshire Sheep

BLACK MEADOW FARM.
Standard-bred Trotters
Slmrtliorn Cattle
Shropshire Sheep
Berkshire Pigs

F. R. BAKER, Detroit.
69 7Buhlr Block. 7

Write for
Catalog.

Oakland Poultry Yards.

Eggs for hatching per_ 13, Barred Plymouth
Rocks. Rose Comb White, and Single Comb
Brown Legh_orns. $1.00 to $1.50, White Wynn-
dottes and Light Brahmas, $1.50, Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys, $2.00 per six.

My yards are all headed by hi§h—scori males,
hens and pullets score'90 to 95. [y stock as won
premiums at all the principal shows in Michigan.

JAMES MIL ER, Jr., Bedtlow. Mich.

COLBY STOCK FARM.

Rambouillet Sheep. Galloway Cattle, and Per-
cheron Horses. All stock pure bred and regis-
tered. Two Percheron Stallions for sale at a
bargain. Spring Rye for Seed.

Address. L. F. HOAG, COLBY, MIcu..
or L. B. TOWNSEND. Iosu, Mics.

M. H. WALWORTH
HILLSDALE," MICH
BREEDER OF

ESSEX, Vllllllllll AND SUFFOLK SWINE

Also American Merino Sheep of choice quality

SI-IROPSI-IIRE HALL
STOCK FARM

Has now on sale 50 Registered 1‘ Ram ,
25 Registered yearling Ewes, y:la8I)lllJng]po1'tgsd
Ewes and Rams. 1893 importation to arrive

in July.
— L. s. DUNHAM,
Concord, Mich.

SHROPSHIRES FOR ’93

Imported. Registered and Unregistered

References: ex-Gov. Wi and C. 8. G
.15'f.?;'?..., Mich. "‘°"‘

Choice Yearl Ram and Ewe Lambs for sale
Terms reasons M, 0,

 "xr‘xzL'l5’:l%“«'ia“ £‘n’6’E,

P. O. Dlxrn, Mmn.

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THE

if AUGUST 15, 1893.

GRANGE VISITOR. , 3

AIN'T ORKS

,MICHIGAN PATRONS “Buy direct from    

Factory” at full Wholesale Prices and
save all Mlddlemen’s Profits.

. TRONS’

PATRONS' PAINT VVORKS have sold Ingersoll Paint to the Order P. of
H. since its organization. House Paints and Cheap Paints for Barns and Out-

limes’-...

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

0. W. INGERSOLL, Prop.

Oldest Paint House in America

Indestructible Cottage and Barn Paints

Sample Color Cards, “Confidt-ntial" Grange

Dir-zcmiiits, Est unites and full particulars

241-243 Plymouth-st., Brooklyn RIAILED FREE. “'i'Ite at once.

horses the worltcil has ever seen. =
The entries consi erably exceed the j f f
figures formerly given out and will i u P  ® 

exceed the barn space being pro-Q

looking well, prove them the most durable.

-7-u.-~..-...-....... ......—u-uwvz

E postoffice, war and navy, all have
‘ exhibits that are intensely interest-
ing and that are constantly throng-
ed. N 0 American citizen should -

Postal J0H'in§s.

, PLEASANT LAKE GRANGE-I.

0u:V‘?,,'(:‘l_ff1ty°‘,‘\§:lS‘:e’:‘°Eh Ea‘ l§:‘fkl;‘1?me“;’: ‘ devote less than a day to the gov- vided. The progressive, thrifty livei -- ...--A- ‘
have measant meefi’,,gS_' A'n Seem ‘,0 e,,_ eminent exhibit. stock grower can_npt afford to miss ;
7 joy themselves and are glad when Grange Directly north of the govern- this great exhibition. Bemembera
night C0m€S- Last Saturday night We COW ment building and across the la- the dates. August 21 to September ‘  I S      U

£23.?£15Qfiiieindfiiiuiifxeieiiifs.33 3 30°“ ls tile fisheries building‘ I
After making them full-fledged i need 1flV1l3e 110 0119 to go there as

9, horses and cattle. 1
ALMA HINDS,

 

brothers. ' ' , IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUYING
Gran ers ice cream and cake were served to ‘ apparently ever one oes without 0 08 Sec ' .

g . . 3.’ g 5/
all. Our Grange is small in numbers but invltatjon and wlthout standing up-
all good working members. They all on the Order of going. A perfect ‘ ‘ MUDDLEIL

}. “strive to do well.” VVe would appreciate
one of our Deputy Lecturers very much, _
and think if one would come and give us a the l18.I'1‘0W passages running along

good lecture it would be :1 benefit to our the sides of pools containing the
Grange, for we are “way Off” with the my  fish. Here 8ag3.lIl the gC)V6I'l1-

r h f l V 1
0 us 0 peop e Conbmnt y throngs EDITOR GRANGEVISITOR-—Il1aVe,

been interested in the articles in 3
the VISITOR on the single tax ques- ‘

written work.

 ’-'.9.‘.~\ -‘ .-

%

ANNA T.\vi_oR,
Lm'I‘m'r'r.

 

W'heatland Grange 273, held a session 1

July 21, with but few present but had
avery enjoyable time. Voted to have
an ice cream social at our next regular
meeting for the benefit of the children
and the children are to furnish the liter-
ary entertainment. VVe anticipate its
being a success for we have generous
Grangers to furnish the cream and an
abundance of children for the literary
work. ALICE PEASE.

-Brain Work.

CONDUCTED BY “ TYRO.”

Open to all subscribers. Contributions and solu-
tions solicited. Address all matter concerning this
department to F. ARTli1.l( .\IET(:Ai.i=, SOIJTII Ac-
wokni, N. H.

V.
ORIGINAL PUZZLES.
A70. 2l—C7_I’]’I17,gfI‘(1III.

AIRKDZUPFSXZSOT SOK KZIXOSDZTFT
YZDD KPDZOPSFP R0 UR‘.\'U\VYl’T, ST-
RIZEPT, 'l'SO_]I'/.TI_}PT SOK SOD QPXNZ.\lS-

XRIT TNIPEZPT.
VV/lite‘ Iiollse, .V. 7.

No. 22.—-Double Letter Ezugrzazrr.

CALO.

The veering flaws scour ed ocean dark
“And smote to foam’ its troubled breast,
As the ghostly form of “ :1 periled bzirk"
“VVallowed between” the wild \ vcs crests;
And the warning cry of the storm-to d ALL
Joined with the rout of the breakers white,
As the heavy sky like a dismal pull .
Fell down on hope in its rayless night.

No shi could live in -(,1 storm like this,

\V iere the shccted sn.o\v on the billows fell.
And the stinging ice-winds madly hissed
To the black rocks there a funeral knell,——

O! The direful LAST, from a peaceful PRIME,

 

To the hungry jaws of u hapless fate,
That lurks where the surges dash and climb,
And v-awn for their prey insatiate.
Sa rm, AV. H.
Av”. 23.—Dianmm1'.

Pnorecs.

3. A vessel in a
6. Neglect. 7,
,S. Ornaments in

X. A letter. 2. A m‘.imm:1l.
plant. 4. Splendor. 5. Shane.
Bringing out of a tent. (ob:-*.)

cornices. 9. Instruments of curbing. 10. A con-
stellation. ii. A letter.
Park .S'ia'e, I//. .\Iv.<'rAr.oGL‘i-:.

‘V0. 24 —.‘l[o(:[' Algz-l'v7‘tI1'r Exam/vl¢'.

jgrrjc +2 Zrplig—3 ‘ The title
Cz—1 » mid author of
Ng\\‘kuc——2 M—H)Epgsxx—4 l :1 popular book.
Saul/1 Acwart/1, .V. 11. Li-Ls.

N0. 25.—5qu1zr:.’.

U1. A crooked leg.(Un:ibl. 2. A P. O. of Indiana.
. Italian painter; 1625-1713. 4. Exziltuiion. 5.

\Vashings. 6. Tension. (Dungl), 7. To forbid.
Bangor, Pa. T. IIINKER.

Na. 20.-— T ram‘/~o.~*1tim1.

A bachelor rough and PRIME was he,
Yet none there was too low to be

Beneath his aid in time of need.

He never held a. LAST, indeed,

’G:iinst any man. Few ever knew

Him lon and not become friends true.

1>’au,-,rar, 1511. JACK O’ LANTERN.

soi.vai<s T0 Nos. x AND ii.

(,'omffi/cte.~‘.' Rcmardo and Calo, Lorraine: In-
rlomf eIe.c—-Columbia, Mystzigogue, Phil 0. Soph-
er and Sappho, 7. Chance 6. Lucile and R. 0.
Chester, T. Hinker and jack O’L'.mtern, 5. Dor—
othy Doolittle, 4. Solon, 3. Mamie]. Dickey, Pro-
teu5,0ldcastle, Zaida, Fl-actem, Adclante, 2. G.
\Vhizz, Black-eyed Charley and H. Ennis, I.
Told! 2}.
Prize-winners.’ I.
mine. 3. Columbia.
PRIZES.

Culo’s .1[yxlir .8’/zarex 6 mos.. for first correct so-
lution to the crypt. For other prizes see Brain
Work [I]. Answers must be sent by Sept. 10.

T YRO.

Remardo and Culo. 2. Lor-

 

NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS.

The general government puts on
probably the finest and most com-
prehensive collective exhibit em-
braced within the boundaries of
Jackson Park. The government
grounds are unadorned with floral
decorations. In fact they are or-
namented with the implements of
war and paced by the dignified and
intelligent looking soldier. They
may be termed severely plain but
yet exceedingly beautiful, lying
along the shore of Lake Michigan.
The government building itself
while plain is substantial and tru-
ly beautiful. Within it is filled
from floor to purliii with exhibits
that collectively show the progress
of civilization in this country since
the government was founded and
especially the great progress made
in agriculture, mechanic arts and
the manner of carrying on the bus-
‘apes affairs of government as at

Auant conducted at Washington.
ed, ggdepartments are represent-
‘dture, treasury, interior,

 ment is the most extensive exhibit-
} or. In fresh water fish the show is
entirely successful. In salt water
fish almost a failure, as might be
anticipated, owing to the (lifiiculty
in renewing their native element
so far from the sea. Aside from the
general government the states of
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin make
fine exhibits of live fresh water
food fish. The latter state exhibit
is likely to be withdrawn owing to
difierences between the state gen-
eral commission and the state fish
commission relating to money ap-
propriations to carry along the ex-
penses of the exhibit.
ALMA Hmns,
Secretary.

Occupying a. large space, nearly
8,000 square feet, covering the
south west corner of the great
Agricultural building, are the col-
lective exhibits of the joint associa-
tions of Agricultural Colleges and
Experiment Stations. Here the
progressive agriculturist with his
wife, sons and daughters can find
more food for thought on objects
connected with their calling than
can be found grouped in any other
portion of the grounds. Modern,
progressive and scientific treating
of subjects pertaining to agricult-
ure, stock breeding and feeding
are elaborately illustrated. The
general government as well as the
States has spent thousands of dol-
lars at the stations in investigations
and experiments for the benefit
of agriculture, and they now bring
up specimens of their work for in-
spectiou. Even domestic economy
is not neglected here as Inotice
one case is fully equipped with
women’s and children’s apparel,
supplemented with materials in the
culinary lines of sufficient variety
to equip a table at a Grange pic-
nic. This bread, cake, etc., has
been in view for weeks and still
looks “fit to eat.” I am told it is
not wooden bread either. This
collective exhibit should not be
neglected by any of our people. It
is now about all completed and in
place and will be of great interest
from now on.

In the great dairy tests going on
here the final results have at last
been figured in test No. 1, which
was for the profitable production
of cheese. In this test the by-pro-
ducts were taken into account and
the awards were made on the cow,
and cows showing greatest net pro-
fit. Whey was credited at 8 cents
per hundred, and loss and gain in
live weight was computed at 4?; cents
per pound. In this test the two
strictly dairy breeds as all have an-
ticipated have come out ahead.
The Jerseys first, the Guernseys
second, and the Short-Horns--the
only general purposc breed show-
ing—coming out third. In individ-
ual cows the results are diflerent
and carry some surprises. In best
five cows in test the Jerseys got
four and the Short-Horns fifth.
The Short-Horns also get the 10th
and 13th, the best Guernsey coming
in 14th in the individual list.

The construction of the acres of
barns for the great horse and cattle
show which commences a week
hence progresses slowly. The barns
will hardly be done in time, but
the wide-awake fine stock breeder
will be here on time with his con-
tingent in excellent fit, and although
he will show his American right to
protest against the conditions as he
finds (;ihB1I.l],.l16 lwill make the Ibest of
ian mil 3. arinterin
with his among iillpllzliae same wheg
time is called. This promises to
be the finest exhibit of cattle and

tion and I think I must have got}
the thing muddled in my mind and 
I would like to have the matter‘
cleared up a little. I have not read 
Henry George and do know just 1
what his theories are. If a single 
tax on land is the best thing I want 
to know it and advocate it. Per-
haps its application to a practical
example will make it clear. I own
a little place of two acres in the vil-
lage of Climax.

ment up to $1,000. I have person-
al property assessed to me and live
on the income derived from the
practice of my profession. My
taxes are $8. My neighbor
S. has a farm of 200 acres
assessed at $10,000.

sessed on personal property to the
amount of $8,000, a large part of
which is money at interest. His taxes
are $144. Neighbor E. has a farm
of 320 acres on which he is a. good
deal in debt. He has no personal
property assessed to him. The
farm is assessed at $16,000, of which
about $4,000 is for the buildings. His
tax is $128. Neigbor D‘. has a long
lease of a village lot worth $200 on
which he owns a. mill worth $8,000.
His tax is $65.,‘-3“ Suppose we four
are the only taxpayers in town as
the addition of more will not change
the principle. Suppose our taxes
to be reapportioned on the single
tax theory. Will Mr. Underhill
kindly tell us how much tax each
one of us should pay, and why?

It seems to me such a reappor-
tionment would lay the heaviest
tax on the man least able to pay it
and would have a tendency toward
confiscating his property. It seems
to me the tendency of the system
is toward the ultimate confiscation
of all landed property. While the
process is going on and after it is
accomplished who is to bear the
expense of government and how is
it to be apportioned? VVhen the
community at large owns the whole
or a part of the land will that part
be free from taxation? If not, what
part of it will I have to pay? If a
man pays nothing on his personal
property for the support. of the
government, ought the government
to protect him in the possession
and use of that property? Suppose
my neighbor S. gives his farm to
his son or sells it and moves into
the village into a house which he
rents for the purpose and lives on
the income of his personal estate
and thus on the single tax plan es-
capes taxation altogether. He then
contributes nothing whatever to
the expense of maintaining law and
order, to the support of public
schools, to construction of high-
ways or any other matter of public
welfare. If then a thief breaks in
and steals his money or his watch,
shall the public be at any expense
or trouble to catch and punish the
thief or restore the property? On
the single tax plan my neighbor
would pay no tax on his mill. Sup-

se then some one sets fire to it.
Shall the public try to put out the
fire or punish the incendiary? If
so, why? Should I be called on to
pay a share of the expense of
catching the thief and restoring
neighbor S’s money when he pays
nothing for having it done and
would not be called on to pay any-
thing to protect me or my property,
if it should be stolen? Please ex-
plain these things, friend,'Underhill.

F. HODGMAN.
Olimaav.

Hurry up, and get that (me new sub-
scriber.

Althougli \\'c li-ave sold :1 grind many of the

The assessed val- »
ue of the land is $200 and the?
buildings on it bring the assess-3

Of this 
amount about one fifth or $2,000 is ;
for the buildings. He is also as- §

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they lnuc gix cu s:i’Li.~faction, we believe that
we urc nu-.kin;_r :1 still better offer.

FOR

$21.00

WE WILL Sam) A MACHINE WELL NAMED

THE COLUMBIAN

The Coluunbigin is :1 strictly high grade sewing
mucliine \-.'ith zill modern improvements.
Sup-crb mccliuuism, graceful design hand-
snni: finish, light running and noiseless. In
fact, all the desirable fcutures contained in
other \\'cll-known modern style machines are
found in the “C0lumbi:ui.l’ Improved and
Sllnpllilbtl by the the best mcch:mic:il talent and
it st:u.ds the poor of all other sewing machines
on the market.

FULLY WARRANTED FUR TEN YEARS.

. As :iddition:il evidence of the general super-
mrity and wearing qualities of the “Colum-

ull lost IHUEYOH "Ill luc-

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and :1 Book of Instructions.
pose of a competent teacher.

and ornamented, giving it :1 rich appearance.

zittaclinient ron(lcrs possible :1 crfcct control of
is entirely obviated.

sewing machines.

tle is threaded.

venient of any.

walnut woodwork.
freight station if different from postoliic address.

We prepay the freiglit.

Address. with the money,

All wearing p-.irt.~ urc (“isc-liardcne(l steel, posscssiizg _L'l'L".llZ (luru
' All parts are fitted so :iccur.iLely
ml us ezuy running as fine mljustmcnt :1ud best uiecliunicul skill can produce. No
expense or ti 2 is >1):lX‘t‘(ll() mukc them perfect in every respect. as every machine passes 11 rigid
ins )CCl.l()Il by competent men before leaving the factory.
hmcnts in :1 velvet-lim:d CELSC, scnt free with czich machine:
-,, I llcmmcr Set (4 willtlis) zmd llinder, x Brziidcr (Foot and Slide), 1 Tlircud Cutter_
Each machine is sup licd with the following :Ld(lition:il uccessorics: i Hemmer and Feller (one
piece), [I Needles, 6 Bo ibins, I Screw-Driver, ()il Can filled with oil. Cloth Gauge and Thumb Screw,
The Book of Instructions is profusely illustratcn, and zuisxvcrs the pur-

Thc llllpl‘O\‘(‘(l ziutomzitic bobbin winder is so Sim

as our Instruction Book is fully illustrated. showing how to do all kinds of func
meuts. The self-llircaidiug shuttle is so simple that with two motions of the hzui

Price including one ye2ii"'s subscription $21. Sent by freight, charges prepaid.

bum,” it i.~ \\'}1l’T:lXlIc(l for ten years. The
“ Cnlunibizui” will out~\\'c:ir any two of the
highest iri::c-(1 scxvivig machines in the world.

lwility, zmd by the turning of :1 scre\v
tlmt these machines urc abso-

I Tucker, 1 Rulller with

The Bzilzixice-\Vliecl and many of the tine parts urc nickel-pl.1tc(l, with other parts finely enameled

ple that :1 child can easily operate it—\vinding the
thread automatically on the bobbin as evenly and regularly as the thread on :1 spool. This valuable

the shuttle tension, zuid all zinnoyance resulting

from shuttle thread breaking w iile the machine is in motion, which is common to many machines,

A self-setting needle and self-threading cylinder shuttle are used in the “ Columbian” high arm
They are so simple that any one can can easily operate them in :1 few minutes’ time,

work with :ittach~
b:ick\vard the Shul-

The‘driving-wlieel on this machine is admitted to be the simplest, easiest running and most con-
_ The machine is self-threading, has the very best. tension, and is made of the best
m:iteri:il, with the wearing parts hardened, and is finished in .1 superior style. It has veneered
cover, drop-leaf table, 4 end drawers and center Swing (lrawer and finished in oak or

Give name of

The lllacliiiie is shipped subject to your approval, and if not
eiitirely szitisfactoi-y will be rcturiied

-AT OUR EXPENSE

Gould finuthing be Falrsr?

IT IS VVARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS.

GRANGE VISITOR, LANSING, MICH.

I
Farms in Isabella County
A\’I£l(AGI-‘. ABOL"l‘ $E\'EN’l‘\' .-wuss F..\Cll.

Beautiful homes, large burn», fruitful orcliurds,
ncut cnuntrv school houses zmd cliurchcs, thriv-
ing villages and :1 lmndsoiiic city, prove the
prosperity of the people. The svliools and col-
leges of Ml. Pleasant are excellent. Outs, clover,
shcep,pot:1toes and fruits fur gcncrzil farming;
corn, ll1l_V and rich pastures for duirying and
stock raising, have made many flinncrs well off;
others are wmspcring, and so can you. Unlin-
proved lam s, vuluablc timber lauds, purtlv im-
proved furms, und fzirms liwlily improve zn
choice city property for sale for really low prices.

For samples of descriptions of such property
as vou m:iv desire und fuel able to buy. ilcase
address COOK'S REAL ESTATE AGENCY,
Mt Pleasaiit, Mich.

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Catalogue
FREE.

  
     
   

4: sis
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GTON $35.0thsrdzes- poniomolylon
on TRIAL-FREIGHT PAID-WARRANTED
’JSGO0D & THOMPSON. Binghamton. N. .1‘
J. C. GOULD, Ag't., Paw Paw, Mich.

150 1"El'VV IIOUSE! PILAJK3.
, _ lftyou are thinkin about
buil ing. dont fail to uythe
new book for 1893, Palltaerts
Model Dwellings, containing
plans and specifications of 150
ouses, costing from 3400 to
$33,000. It contains 128 pages,
size 11x14 inches. bound in
1- cover, $1.00; in cloth,
. . llgajled to anyaddress
on nacei t of rice, by
-- J. S. O ILVI . Publisher,
- 57 R036 St., New York.

WOOL!

Farmers who can bunch two or
three thousand pounds of Wool
will find it to their advantage to
correspond with C. Ainswortli,
Grand Rapids, Mich. As I ship
direct, the grower saves the com-
mission paid to local buyers.

0. AINSWORTH.

    
 
 
 
 
 

G. BYRON STONE
Veterinaru

in \ .4‘-4 Surgeru
Oliver, Eaton Co., Mich.

Snecialist

I make a specialty of Castrating theRidg-
ling Horse, and Spaying the Kicking
Mare. I Castrate Colts without the use
of ropes, cords, clamps or fire irons.
Spay all kinds of domestic animal,
Capou Fowls; Dehorn Cattle, File
Horses’ Teeth and I will go any distance
provided a club of sufficient size is
secured to pay me. I guarantee satis-
faction in all cases or no charges. Write
for circular.

FOR SALE.

In the fzunous fruit belt of .\Iichig:Ln, Ocean:
County. Fzirm 200 acres, 130 clc-aired, two farm
houses, Lhi;ue bums, two granzirics, two good
wells, zoo apple trees bearing, ioo bcziriug plums,
S00 plums one to three years out. No waste land,
:md :ilIhc:1\y grass, grain or plum and pear land.
One and one-half miles from court house in Hart
the county seat.

Forty acres, fair house, good packing house,
wind engine and good water. Four thousand
trees planted from two to ten years. Peach,
plum, apricot, apple and cherry. Sold 2,000
baskets peaches in 1392. One and one-half miles
from water transportation.

Address, E. D. RICHMOND,
IIART, OCEANA Co., Mica.

Illfi Hand-Made l'lfll’ll658 60.,

OF BTRNTON, MICK.

E. D. mwnm, Pres. Wu. H. Owuit. True.
0. Moon. Sec’:/.

Retail their own make of goods at wlmlesale rice
We make a special of $20 double team wor har-
ness and a $10 sing e harness. We guarantee satis-
faction, and prepay freight on five sets. By 1'

mission we refer to Hon. II. H.Hinds, of 8&-
ton.

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AUGUST 15, 1893.

THE GRANGE VISITOR

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

Kenyon L. Butterlleld, Editor and Manager.
LANSING. MICHI7

To whom all exchanges, communications, adver
tising business and subscriptions should be
sent.

Office, Room 19, Old State Building.

TERMS 50 Cents a Year, 25 Cents for Six
Months. In Clubs of 20 or more 40 cents
per year each. Subscriptions payable in
advance, and discontinued at expiration, unless
lens .

?'B.emitta.ncss should be by Registered Letter,
oney Order or Draft. Do not send stamps.

. Entered at the Postoflice at Lansing, Mich., as
Second Class Matter.

v

Grange Headquarters

At the “’orld’s Fair. Chicago. Rooms 9. IO, in
Live Stock Pavilion, near southwest corner of the
Implement Department, Agricultural Building

Miss Alma Hinds, Office Secrctar}.

Call there for all information of interest to
Patrons, and for :1 badge of identification.

Try a contest.
Bee keepers should read page 2.

Samantha is on the “home

stretch.’ ’

What shall we do to get the
young people?

Make the Grange indispensable
to each member.

It is about time to plan for fall
and winter work in the Grange.

Patrons will regret to hear that
Worthy Lecturer Crosby is on the
sick list.

Sheep men will be interested in
the article on “Sheep Parasites”
in this issue.

There is no time like today to
get a subscriber to the VISITOR.
Tomorrow may be too late.

In last paragraph of Bro. Bene-
dict’s silver article, in second line,
“country" should read “county.”

A New York brother says that
the fire insurance plan is the back-
bone of the Grange in that State.

Samantha is a great book.
Many have profited by our gener-
ous olfer, and all of them are glad
of it.

Times are close but not so close
that your neighbor can not afford
to invest a quarter in the VISITOR.
Tell him that, friend.

A revival means interest, hard
Work, energy. It may not mean
eifervescence, talk, enthusiasm.
Steady growth is the best evidence
of revival.

The Woman’s Work department
of this issue is conducted by Mrs.
Emily Horton of Coldwater. The
general subject is “ Woman’s work
at agricultural fairs.”

Some fear the Grange because it
is a. secret organization. We never
heard of Grange people doing any
thing very bad though, even in
their secret meetings, did you?

If you can’t get Samantha, and
your Grange doesn’t want it, why
can’t you and two or three neigh-
bors combine, each getting a few
new names, and then pass the book
around for each to read? Try it.

Suppose we make Oct. 1, our
opening day for fall work. We
can just as well do two months of
solid work before State Grange as
not. Usually it is wasted. It de-
pends a good deal on the officers
whether it shall be so this year.
Lecturers, let us wake up.

The drouth is doing much dam-
age all over the state. It seems to
be the worst in southern portions.
One Patron writes: “ The drouth
is doing lots of damage, besides
the insects. There are three kinds
of squash bugs, two kinds of
cabbage worms, two kinds of
potato bugs, and a legion of grass-
hoppers.”

Don’t forget that one of the
duties of a Patron is to support all
good things belonging to the Order.
The VIsIToB is a good thing; it
belongs to the Order. It is your
duty to support it.
your duty and you will find pleas-
ure in the added interest you will
have in the paper.

OF INTEREST TO WORKERS.

The offer of Samantha for a
premium holds good only till
Sept. 1. That is, any names
mailed after Aug. 31, can not get
credit for Samantha. Do not for-
get this.

There are but two more weeks
left for work for this valuable prize.
There a good many who have a
few names, but not enough for the
premium. In order to complete
your list do alittle hustling during
the next week or two, and send re-
sults to us. C

Now for a last rally of the Samantha
men.

F. H. R. C.

During the busy summer months
the Farm Home Reading Circle
has been on a vacation. But now
that that there are signs of the
approach of autumn, the Circle
will revive. The college committee
on the Reading Circle has been
depleted by the departures of
Pres. Clute, Prof. Harwood and
Mr. Clinton. The board at its last
meeting appointed Pres. Gorton
and Prof. Mumford to fill the
vacancies, and gave the immediate
management of the Circle into the
hands of Prof. Mumford. The
course will be somewhat revised,
and will then be pushed. Fuller
announcements will appear in due
season. In the meantime be pre-
paring to take up one line of the
work for this winter in dead
earnest.

Attend the big picnics and work for

the VISITOR.
AN EXPLANATION.

Some of our friends have found
fault because in certain cases the
articles sent by them have not yet

l been published, though the Grange

requested it.

‘Ye want to say in explanation
that in the first place our space is
limited—we can use so much and
no more. Second, we have always
given preference to subjects of
present importance. For instance,
during May, discussion of the road
bill was important, while a general
article on “Education” is just as
good now as then. You see we as-
sorted the fruit with reference to
that which would keep and that
which would not, and of course
used the latter first. That’s good
husbandry, isn’t it? We try to
publish all the good things sent us,
or the best parts of,them. We use
the waste basket very little—a few
friends think too little»—consid-
ering the size and arrangement
of the paper. So please do not
complain if things do not “ come
your way” at once.

Shall it go for tobacco or
the VISITOR.

AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.

Fairs are not what they once
were. They used to be gala days,
almost as important as circus days.
A few larger fairs now take the
place of many smaller ones, and a
smaller proportion of the people
attend. People grow tired of look-
ing at the same style of exhibits
year after year, with little that is
new to attract. There is not now
so much for them to learn, and
their curiosity is more easily satis-
fled.

There is no good reason why fairs
should not be popular, successful
and instructive. There is no doubt
that they might be made to serve
a very useful purpose in education-
al lines. Indeed if they are not
educators they are useless.

25 cents.’

 

Don’t forget‘

A county fair, conducted along
high and intelligent lines, should
be a means of improving the
quality of the farming of that sec-
tion, of breeding better stock.
The ' social and amusement
lines could also be cultivated and
various intellectual exercises pro-
vided. Some of these possibili-
ties are discussed in the excellent
set of articles in this issue on the
Woman’s VVork page. They have
been collected in Branch county by
Mrs. Emily Horton. They ought
to be read by every man interested
in fairs.

Some people think the VIsITon is only
for members of the Grange. It is for
everybody interested in farming or
farmers.

SH OR T 00 URSES.

We publish in the current issue
letters from four colleges which
last winter had short courses in
agriculture. The verdict of the
four is in favor of the plan.

Shall we have a. short course in
agriculture at our own agricultural
college? Is it a desirable thing
for our farmers’ boys? Are the
farmers of the state ready to stand
back of such a course? Would
they send their boys to study in it?

The argument for such a course
is the same one that led to the es-
tablishment of night schools, and
readingcourses. These are recogniz-
ed as imperfect educators, but they
enable people who would otherwise
be deprived of almost all educa-
tional advantages, to gain help, di-
rection, incentive. Thousands of
boys and girls, of men and women,
get a start in this way, get azva7ccn-
ed. No one of intelligence will
advocate the abolition of the four
years’ course at our college. The
idea is not to furnish a. substitute
for such a course. It is not in-
tended to try to do for a man in
three months what four years
scarcely can do. The argument is,
can we not in this way reach a
great many  farmers who are
hungering for knowledge but who
do not feel able to spend so long
a time at the college? Wie could
not expect the short course student
to become educated in that time.
But we might expect that three
months of solid work would give a
young man a wonderful impulse
in the pursuit of knowledge. He
would come in contact with brainy
men, he would read standard books.
he would learn how to study, he
would call up a thousand questions
that he had not thought of before.
He would go back to the farm a.
new man mentally—not because he
is educated but because he is awake.

Educators object to the short
time for the course, but they must
face the practical question, is not a
four years’ course too long for
many of our boys who are eager to
learn? They must lay aside the
ideal education for all students and
adapt their methods somewhat to
conditions.

The Grange of Michigan has de-
clared in favor of a short course
at our college, and has pledged
itself to stand by it, if established.
We want discussion of the subject,
and suggest to elcturers that they
put it on the program for debate,
soon. Let us also have the views
of all who have thought at all on
the subject. '

Economyiis not in saving but in wise

spending——for instance, spending 25
cents for the VISITOR.

The August number of the North
Ameriam Review contains two articles on
“The Coming Extra Session,” the first by
Senator Vest of Missouri, who writes from
a Democratic standpoint, and the second
by Senator Dolph, of Oregon, who pre-
sents the Republican view.

 

A Leading Question.—Miss Pinker-ly——
“ Isn’t it a pity that all the good looking
people can’t be bright, and all the bright
people good looking?” Young Tutter—
“ Yes, indeed it is, Miss Pinkerly. But
tell me, if you had your choice, which
would you be?”—Lz'fe.

 

Only two weeks left for Samantha.

in

IMPRESSIONS OF THE FAIR.

The fair is beautiful. The site
is charming, the landscape garden-
ing is superb, the architecture is
almost ideal. Lake Michigan is
restful and restless, hence appeals
to varying moods; yet it is always
beautiful. The lagoons, the islands,
the flowers, have been so arranged
that the most material of people
can hardly fail to respond to the
beauty of the scenes. And_when
in the evening the electric light
adds its brilliancy the effect is al-
most entrancing. Even to one who
knows nothing of architecture as
an art the buildings are beautiful.
Whether you can or not glibly tell
that such and such a building bears
traces of the Romanesque style and
such another one is wholly in the
Italian, Renaissance, you can enjoy
the beauties of all the buildings.
Though most of us could not tell
wh y, we will love to look at the gold-
on door of the Transportation build-
ing. We will admire the statuary,
though we might not be able to
name Diana. The fair certainly
is beautiful, and it becomes more
and more so as one observes and
studies it.

The magnitude of the fair is a
secondary impression in point of
time. At first you do not realize
the extent of the grounds; you do
not appreciate the size of the build-
ings; you do not comprehend the
vast scope of the exhibits. It is
only when you have wandered
from one end of the grounds to the
other; when you have in your mind
repeatedly viewed and measured
and compared these buildings with
others you know of; when you have
taken building after building in
course, have seen exhibit after ex-
hibit until feet, eyes and brain are
exhausted; when you have noted
the beauty, the richness, the inge-
nuity, thc multiplicity, the variety
of it all, that you really begin to
understand the stupendous magni-
tude of the fair. But you will find
it unsatisfactory to allow yourself
to dwell long in such a mental
altitude. You will want to get,
down on the plain where things
assume their normal size. You
will need to study the things you
can understand. You will want to
feel that you have mastered some-
thing there. Otherwise there will
be a feeling of awe, of insignifi-
cance, but not a satisfying sense of
growth and profit.

The fair is decidedly cosmopoli-
tan in character. There is some-
thing from everywhere. Scarcely
a country so insignificant or so bar-
barous, that it does not offer some-
thing. This, of course is to be
expected of a world’s fair, but it is
a feature not easily or always at-
tainable. You are constantly re-
minded of the brotherhood of man.
You perceive everywhere the evi-
dences of common interests, com-
mon hopes, common destiny. You
are constantly surprised at the ex-
cellence of many foreign exhibits,
you marvel at the richness of others,
you wonder at the ingenuity of
still others. Everywhere you are
confronted with foreign aspects and
people. There is too, as wide 3.
scope in the range of industries as
could be imagined. Everything
man does or has done, it would
seem, is represented in some form
er other. How did he do it? You
grow reverent and charitable and
hopeful. You will now believe
more fully in the “parliament of
man, the federation of the world.”

 

The fair is, nevertheless, perme-
ated with Americanism. That too
might be expected. The American
methods are everywhere present.
These two attributes combined, the
decided cosmopolitanism of the fair
and its distinctive Americanism,
make one of the most charming
features for the thoughtful person
to contemplate.

The fair is an unanswerable
argument for the evolutionist. In
every department—in transporta-
tion, in electricity, in agriculture,
in the war exhibits, in ethnology,
there is presented most vividly the
evolution of lower into higher
forms, the constant progress of the
race, the cumulative wisdom and
force of age and experience in all
departments of human endeavor.

 

 

As on every occasion when peo-
ple gather in large numbers, it is
of great interest to watch and study
them. You will notice that the
visitors at the fair are apparently
comfortable circumstances.

They have the appearance of thrift.
For the most part they are a very
intelligent looking set of people.
They are decided y good natured.
You hear very little fault finding,
you are not threatened with anni-
hilation if you happen to tread on
a big man’s toes—he seems to have
expected that such an accident
might easily occur. It is a gentle-
manly crowd. Few people tipsy,
very little swearing, scarcely a dis-
turbance of any kind. Yet it is
not a familiar crowd. Nobody pays
any attention to you, whether you
wear diamonds ora sombrero. They
came for other things. Yet it is
not a surly crowd. Very frequently
you can enter into a pleasant con-
versation with a stranger who has
a common interest with you in an
exhibit. It is an everyday crowd,
made up of the middle classes, who
are there for instruction and are
not on parade, and exhibits the
average virtues of the bulk of our
American people.

 

But the fair is not perfect. There
are some elements in it that are
unsatisfactory. For one thing you
are disagreeably impressed with
the temporary nature of the thing.
It will thrive but for a season and
then be but a memory. The build-
ings appear solid, eternal, but they
are nothing but huge shells. You
feel that it is all but for a day, that
you must see it now or not at all.
There is much of the human in it
all—showy, frail, perishing. There
lacks somewhat the divine in it—
substantial, enduring, everlasting.

Still you can overlook this un-
pleasant characteristic, because
you know that in spite of it there
is so much in education, develop-
ment, incentive, that will endure.
But there is another feature much
more obnoxious and much more
persistent, and that is the all-per:
vading money spirit. Everywhere
there is something to sell, and al-
most always at high prices. In
some way you feel that all this sub-
tracts from the educational and
enjoyable aspects of the fair.
many people are glad to serve you
if you will pay them for it. There
are too few attendants to explain
exhibits and too many who want to
sell you something. Quite likely
from the nature of the exposition
this feature cannot be avoided;
however if the animus of the fair
had been different we are inclined
to believed that this characteristic
would not have been noticed. The
fair is being run primarily to make
money, and you feel it and know
it at every step.

 

But do not miss the fair. See it
as long as you can and get out of
it all you can. It will do you good
a11d not evil all the (lays of your
life.

FRUIT NOTES.

During the dry season I sup-
plied my 600 pear trees with three
buckets of water every other day.
The trees are not cultivated but
have been mulched for the last 10
years. The result of mulch and
water in the improvement of the
quantity, the size and the quality
of the fruit is very satisfactory.
Bartletts, Flemish and other
varieties bear every year. My
water supply is from a ravine
which divides my land into two
parts. The water is lifted into the
orchard by a hydraulic ram into
large tanks from which the distri-
bution is carried on by wagon.
My Gifford pears are ripe now.
The first shipments of these best
early pears of good size to Detroit
were on the -1th and 7th inst. This
pear has borne every year since it
began. Apples are very scarce in
this vicinity. Peaches are promis-
ing. EMIL BAUR.

Ann Arbor, Aug. 7.

STATE or OHIO, CITY or ToLEDo,
LUCAS COUNTY. i '98‘
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
CHENEY & Co., doing business in the city
of Toledo, county and state aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of HALL’s CATARRH

JURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1886.
3 sm l A. W. GLEASON,
~»~ Notary Public.
Ha11’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Sand
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & 00., Toledo, 0-
ll$‘Sold by druggists, 75c.

So‘

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AUGUST 15, 1893.

 

rHE GRANGE VISITOR. 5

THE NATIONAL LECTURER.

a Appointments in Michigan.

The following is the final assign-
ment of dates and places for Hon.
Mortimer Whitehead.

Aug. 14., Bay View, Emmet countv,
“ 15, Kalkaska, Kalkaska “ '
“ 16, Bear Lake, Manistee “
“ 17, Ithaca, Gratiot “
“ 18, Fremont, Newaygo “
“ 19, Grand Rapids, Kent “
“ 28, Lansing, Ingham “
“ 29, Bawbeese, Hillsdale “
“ 30, Orion, Oakland “
“ 31, Lapeer, Lapeer *‘

A R-EJOINDER.

EDITOR GRANGE VISITOR-The
opening statement in “Farm
and Home,” as it appears in Mr.
Vorhees’ article, is entirely mis-
leading.

As, measured by the value of
of land, farmers and mechanics
are but light holders of land. Mr.
R-obinson’s report answers the
question for this state. As Michi-
gan, so in every state.

A paper that is so swift to accuse
Mr.—George with “aiming at con-
fiscation ” cannot be well expected
to make any clearer statements.

Yes, farmers now pay “double
taxes.” Why?

He is taxed on his land value;
taxed at every step of improve-
ment and a load of indirect taxes
that comes in nearly all he buys.

In place of this we propose that
he shall be taxed only on his land
value, alone. Awful, isn’t it?

Blind indeed are they who ex-
pect to better matters by a greater
tax on personal property. Can we
reach it any better way than in
the past? Can we do by oaths
what the Roman empire failed to
do by torture‘?

Actual returns show a falling
off of personal property in Chicago.
That is as sworn to.

A few months ago, a hole in the
ground, not fifty feet square and
half filled with rubbish, in Sydney,
Australia, sold for more than would
purchase a hundred thousand acres
of the choicest farming land in
that country. And this is but one
of many similar cases. The work-
ing farn1er’s lands are not valu-
able.

The very offer made me by Mr.
Vorhees plainly evinces this.
What folly then to talk of the
“confiscation of the farmer’s lands”
by the single tax.

Taxes, now. are according to a
man’s energy and industry. We
propose that they shall be meas-
ured by his opportunity.

Land is the great basis of all
opportunity. He Who controls the
land controls the welfare of his
fellow men. That control is as the
value of the land. I’ll tell you
what we do propose to confiscate:

It is the power of some to live
on the labor of others.

Land -and exchange are the
opportunities of all labor; but all
exchange is secondary to land.
Both must be as free as possible
to the users. All exchange
monopoly rests on land monop-
oly. The power of all monopoly
of exchange rests on a land-fran-
chise. The earth is our mother.
Her children are divorced from
her bosom, when they only have
access through the will of another.

Of what use is the land specula-
tor? Does he produce a blade of
grass? He but controls the means
of labor, and says to his fellows,
you may labor only by my per-
mission. Content yourselves with
a bare subsistence.

The single tax will destroy his
power forever.

Sincerely yours,
L. UNDERHILL.

 

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SHEEP PARASITES.

About a year ago we published a letter
from Dr. Grange, State Veterinarian, on
the above subject. At the present time
there are so many queries on the subject
that it has been suggested that we repub-
lish the article in question. We do so
therefore in hopes that it may be of benefit
to many sheep growers.

Owner or ran STAT! VETBBINABIAN,
AGRICULTURAL Comma. mom.
August 26‘, 1892.

To the members of the Stale Live Slack
Sanilary Commission.‘

GENTLEMEN—-From recent investiga-
tions by your order, as well as reports from
difierent parts of the State, I am led ‘to
believe that many flocks of sheep are in-
vaded by parasites, in the shape _of round
and tapeworms, to, in some instances,
quite an alarming extent, as large propor-
tions of young flocks are carried off with
them and even some of the older animals.

While in the advanced stages of the dis-
ease little can be done by way of effecting

a cure in the rrfajority of cases, yet in the
early stages proper remedies save many
animals that would otherwise perish; and
on the other hand a great deal can be done
by way of warding off an attack when we
are familiar with the causes and do not ex-
pose our animals to them. So to bring the
subject before those interested in sheep
breeding I address this communication to
you describing somewhat briefly the causes,
symptoms, teatment and prevention in
order that you may give it wider circula-
tion.
"rm: ROUND woRM.

The first of the worms to be described is
a thread like creature, that in southern
latitudes produces a disease known as loin-
briz. The worm measures when mature
from say half an inch to an inch in length,
and is say a little thicker than a stout horse
hair. They are to be found in innumerable
quantities closely adhering to the lining
membrane of the last stomach of the sheep;
and when the sheep has recently died, close
observation will reveal the worms wrig-
gling about with the most eccentric con-
tortions; their color at this time is rather
of a reddish chocolate hue.

The life history of the worm is thought
to be of a simple nature; it being generally
conceded by investigators, that the eggs of
the female are carried off through the
bowels of the sheep, dropped upon the
ground, and when washed out of the ex-
crement b_v heavy rains or otherwise. are
devoured by other sheep and hatched in
their stomachs, where they produce eggs,
and thus keep up the circulation of the dis-
ease.

THE SYMPTOMS

which these little worms produce are not
very well marked from other parasitic dis-
eases of the bowels, but when they appear
in large quantities they produce general
languor, a tendency to drop behind the well
sheep of the flock, with hanging head and
drooping ears, and an expression of general
debility showing that something is decidedly
wrong. The bowels may at first be cos-
tive, but usually give way to diarrhea.
\Vith such symptoms a post mortem of
one or more animals should be made, when
these worms will often be found in large
quantities in the fourth or last stomach.

TRE.\Tl\IlZNT.

There are many good remedies used in
the treatment of vermicular diseases. so
much so, that it is hard for the writer to
form an opinion as to the best one, but one
which is good, easy to obtain, and conven
ient to handle, is spirits of turpentine.

To proceed take one part of spirits of
turpentine and add to it 16 parts of sweet
milk; shake well and use as :1 drcnch. The
dose of the mixture for lambs from 3 to 6
months old is 2 ounces; from 6 months to
i year, 3 ounces; and from I year up-
wards 4. ounces. One dose will often be
sufiicient, if not repeat it in say 3 days. To
give the medicine let an assistant place the
animal upon its haunches, holding it be-
tween his knces face outwards; open the
mouth and pour the medicine slowly down
from a long necked bottle or horn.

PREV ENTIUN.

Separate l‘l€‘.’lllll_‘,' from unhealthy sheep,
feed them fi'oin racks and water them from
troughs; in other words do not allow them
to eat or drink anything which may have
been contaminated with the excrement of
affected sheep.

THE T.»‘\l’E \\‘OR.\l.

The second worm is of the tape worm
order, differing very much from the last
one in every particular. I have alwavs
found them in the small bowel comnionlv
called the gut, It varies in length from h
few inches to 20 feet, and is say % an inch
wide at the widest point, tapering gradually
towards the ends, the head or front though
being considerably smaller than the tail(?)
end; it is made up of innumerable seg-
ments, which when passed out of the bow-
els in a single manner, frequently adhere
to the pellets of f(‘LCal matter and resemble
little white maggots. Sometimes several
feet of a worm will be voided at one time.

The life history of this parasite is not yet
thoroughly worked out, though valuable
testimony goes to show that unlike most
other tape worms, it is not necessary for an
intermediate host to keep up the circula-
tion of the disease, but that they pass from
sheep to sheep through consumption of the
eggs with the food. These worms like
other varieties are more destructive to
lambs than older sheep, and they often in-
vade them in large numbers. I have
counted as many as eleven side by side,
giving the appearance of entirely blocking
up the bowel.

THE SYMPTOMS

which they produce vary with the individ-
ual; sometimes nothing appears to be wrong
when all at once the animals will be affect-
ed with colicky pains, diarrhea and death
in a few hours; again other animals show
general symptoms of distress for some
days, the belly becomes swollen with gas,
fceces yellow and slimy or hard and pel-
lety, usually having segments of the worm
upon it; the animal becomes debilitated
and things go from bad to worse till death
closes the scene. Some strong animals
are able to resist the ravages of the para-
sites and eventually make a thorough re-
covery. Post mortem will reveal, when
the bowel is split with a knife, a white tape
like looking object which no doubt will
prove to be the worm.

These worms are often present with
the thread worms, and even other varieties
in the same animal at the same time.

The disease is very destructive to lambs
and yearlings.

TREATMENT.

As turpentine is alike destructive to tape
as well as round worms the same line of
treatment adopted for the other disease will
answer for this one, indeed the one dose
will often cause the death of both the
thread and tape worms and cure the disease.

PR EVENTION.

At this writing I have nothing to add to
what I have said concerning the preven-
tion of the first disease as the worms are
taken in, in the same way, the same meth-
od of prevention will answer both cases.

I am, gentlemen,

Yours respectfully,
E. A. A. GRANGE,
State Veterinarian.

.....J

TOOLS AND THE MAN.

Property and Industry under the
Christian Law.

By WASHINGTON GLADDEN, author of
“Applied Christianity,” “The Lord’s
Prayer,” and “Who Wrote the Bible?”
16mo, $1.25. ,

Conrmvrsz The Christianization of
Society; Economics and Christian Eth-
ics; Property in Land; Property in Gen-
eral; The Labor Question; The Collapse
of Competition; Cooperation the Logic
of Christianity; The Reorganization of
Industry; Scientific Socialism; Chris-
tian Socialism.

Dr. Gladden is a man who is always
listened to with respect, and when he
writes on a subject so much in the
minds of thoughtful men as that of
Christianity in its relations to social and
economic questions, he commands atten-
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In ten chapters he sets forth in par-
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applied to current conditions of property
and industry. He states principles and
illustrates them by example, so that his
book escapes the peril which assails
treatises in which a multitude of facts
liable to be revised in a year or two are
stated and principles deduced from
them. The chapters are devoted to (1)
The Christianization of Society, in
which the general laws of Christian life
are laid down, formulated especially in
the Law of Love; (2) Economics and
Christian Ethics, in which the author
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ing economics as a. pure science; (3)
Property in Land, a criticism in part of
Henry George’s theory; (4) Property in
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study of the mutual rights and duties of
employers and employed; (6) The Col-
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to pointing out the increasing vogue of
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growth of a new social condition under
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“By the study and observation of many
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law, when rightly interpreted, contains
the solution of the social problem. I
believe that Christianity not only holds
up before us a beautiful ideal, but that
it presents the only theory of industrial
and social order which can be made to
work."

Clearly, simply, and earnestly written.
his book will do much to bring about a
better understanding of Socialism by
the Christian, of Christianity by the
Socialist, and of Christian Socialism by
them both.

“"9 commend it to thoughtful readers
of the Visiron.

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REPORT OF WEATHER BUR-EAL’.

."\"n/'1/mrn Srrlimz-—'l‘he crops are rcpm-1.
ed as having done well during the past
week in this section, although rain is
needed. \\'heat and hay are all secured
and a good crop, especially hay. Ont harv-
est has begun and :1 fair crop is expected.
Corn and potatoes are holding their own
but would bc much improved by agood
soaking rain, Buckwheat and barlev will
yield about an average. Millet is light in
some counties. In the upper peninsula the
hay crop is being secured and the yield of
berries is unusually large.

Cmzlral Secz’1'on—A lack of rain in this
section during the past week has had an
injurious effect on cereals and root crops.
Oats arcripeuing too fast and are being
damaged by grasshoppers. Midge is in-
juringclover seed and will make the crop
light in some counties. Corn and potatoes
hold fair but are needing rain. Pastures
are getting in bad shape and in some lo-
calities farmers will have to feed fodder
soon. Early peaches are coming‘ into
market. Quality average. Apples are
scarce and small.

Soul/zcrn Serliwz—Dry weather has in-
jured most of the crops except in the south-
western portion where the ground is still
in fair condition. Pastures and meadow
lands are nearly ruined. In Washtenaw
county the grasshoppers have damaged
oats considerably and are eating binding
twine. Corn and potatoes are standing the
drought well. Oats are mostly all secured.
Clover is a fair crop, but second growth is
in need of rain. Fruit in this section, ex-
cept apples, holds out well, grapes espec-
ially, will be a good crop. In Kalamazoo
county celery is in splendid condition and
peaches promise well.

Summary-—The unfavorable conditions
of the weather for the past two weeks have
had a noticeable influence on the crops.
Barley, buckwheat, clover and pastures
have suffered most. Corn and potatoes,
while damaged to some extent, hold on well
and are in shape to mature rapidly with the
first general rain. Grasshoppers have also
begun to do some injury,and it is fortunate
that the larger crops were mostly out of
the way before they became numerous.

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THE Gnanon VIOSITOR.

‘AUGUST 15, 1393.

Woman’s Work.

OLD SAWS RESET.

[Read before Helena Grange >No._ 676, and sent to
GRANGE Visi"roi< for publication by request of
Grange.]

There are saws and old sziyings o’er which sages

have sung, _ _

That com: home to our hearts like some ripples of

son 1', _

They play round our fancies, or t‘L)ll‘ik,‘ on with a

s
‘ll

ru.
A bird in fhe hand is worth two in the bush.

There's :1 \.'t‘l’V' oh‘. saw and we’re free to admit,
No matter [l'lt“Sll:|pt_' we can dress it to tit:

Keep a stiff upper lip, and always be merry;
Do not cut any more than you're able to carry.

by giving them a. department alone
at the fair?

Science and art are now uniting
their labors, and are drawing mu-
tual aid from each other in our
schools. A new era is dawning
upon the pupil in school. His in-
tellect will come to the aid of his
hands while preparing this work
to be placed on exhibition at the
fair, and he will appreciate with
dignity and pride the responsibil-
ity that rests on him if he expects
to receive a reward for his work.

There are men in all ages with broad banners iiii- if

u et
\Vho would’ own if they could half the wealth of‘:

.
the world; ‘_
But our ]‘ll‘t:(‘L*])[ is plain, keep your door safely 5
latched— !
And don't reckon your IShl(‘l-(€l1.~ before they are l
hatched. l

“Fe should give unto others our pleasures to share,

And be willing to work, when there are burdens
to bear; _

Do not leave to others, worl\' always brings wealth-

VVould \‘(7\l have it well done you must do it your-
self

Though the coiiflicts of life seem to block up the
way, >
It’: a feast, or 21 famine, but they don’t come to

stav
\Ve‘\'e pfl.\,'S'(l them, and mi.<.~’d them, and came
safe to the stile: . ,
Don't you know that a iiiis:-' is as good as a mile.’

Now its al\\':i\'s good iiianiicrs arid shows good
common sense, . . .
To know where \‘oi1'ru staxitliiig, on which .~lLlC of

the fence: _
To iil\\'ll_V5l15l\’C nioncy in the pocket to pay,
And where therc’.< a \\'lll there is always a way_

There are two laws in the world voiitcmiiiig for.

ri it.

Bv their colors we know them. there's a black and

‘ a white;

You've heard them both argued until by them
your bored,

It inaikes a very great diff’i'cncc whose ox is gored.

As we roam o‘cr the earth. ‘or sail o‘t-r the seas,

And meet many fine fares all so :lllXl(l'.l\ to plczisc.

\\'ho never sec'troii|\lc.~'—rior from tiziiigers will
tlee~

And tlicr::'.~' none half >1) blind as tlio.~c \\ ho won't
SCC.

There are tales that are told just as if they *.\'ci'c

true
Though (Y.l‘.t‘V' seem to contiict, and quite often
I ev do;
Yet the nie.iniiigi:- plain, ill1lt\\'llCl‘t‘\'Cl' we main-
The longest \\'a_\' round is the sliortcst ivay home?

If the weather is foul still more often ’tis fair-

And the sadder our .\0l’l;[S the more ,~'\vc'ctiicss they
hear:

And the deeper our sorrows the richer our days-

It’s a very poor rule that dou’t work well both
ways.

They say the old saws are just 11> wise as they
seem, _
And are charming and bright, as :1 beautiful

emu-

Aud that gold always glitters, and sunlight rc-
fleets-

And that bcautv and wealth always cover defects.

Friends give their rulvicc and tell us all that they
know,

Be content with your lot and don’! hurry things so;

Better stay on the farm though you suffer some
loss-

A stone that keeps rolling never gathers the moss.

‘_'\'ow fact without fancy often shows scanty store,

But fancy with facts reveals niany_ facts inore—

And in all the wide world thereis nothing more
true-

You should do unto others as you’d have others do.

Have we learned their lesson in our struggling and

sti‘ er
Don’t they tit all the changing conditions of life?
Then it's wisdom to he: theni;the wise always
knew it— _
Don’t climb up the hill before you come to it.

We would lead your finer fancies, and would win
vour sweeter smile:
Lr:t’s feturn to sober thinking only fora little while.
Keep Vour hearts aglow wit love, and the star of
ife in view,
Don’t you ever trouble troubles, ’till troubles
trouble you.
S.\.\lL'EL TKO'l".\lA2\'.
Alden, ‘fuzzy 24, 1803.

 

OUR SCHOOLS AT THE COUNTY
FAIR.

The question is often asked, shall
our-county schools enter the list
of exhibitors at our county fair.
Why not?

Is it not a place fitted to help
to educate our sons and daughters
to a nobler and higher manhood
and womanhood?

Who will fill the places now
filled by us if not the students of
our schools?

With the great improvements of
agricultural colleges on every side,

‘ would

This alone would be a greater
incentive to more careful study in
preparing his work.

With the liveliest anticipations
and highest hopes of success we
welcome our county
schools among the institutions of
learning of the State of Michigan;
and bid them God-speed and give
our pupils an active part at our

county fairs.
H. J. VV.

Girard.

 

HARMLESS SPORTS AND AMUSE-
MENTS AT FAIRS.

A desire to indulge in active
sports and amusements has evident-
ly been given to youth for the ad-
mirable purpose of promoting
bodily health and strength at a
period of life when niere mental
culture would dwarf the future
man. ,

Sports to be harmless must
neither overstrain nor impair the
body while they give health and vig-
to the mind by their recreative
power. With this aim in View our
schools and colleges are making
“Field Day” quite a feature of at-
traction and interest. And might
not our state and county fairs do
some good work by offering prizes
for best walking, running, junip-
ing, obstacle races and dashes.
\Vould it not have as good drawing
tendencies as the games of chance
which are so attrative to the young,
thus fitting them for the gambler’s
trade in later life? Would it not
be worth the while for individuals
to take this in hand and olfer per-
sonal prizes to boys under sixteen
and between sixteen and twenty
who would enter as contestants in
a named list of field sports and
amusements?

As our fairs are for the better
development of the various depart-
ments, the sports and amusements
ought not to be overlooked. While
the “merry-go-round” and like
harmless things are perfectly
satisfying to the childern, they are
not so to boys of sixteen and over;
let those of experience think of
and advance practical ideas.

Never was such thought given
to the young and never was it more
needed. COLDWATER.

 

REUNIONS AND REMINISCENCES.

The annual reunions held at our
county fairs (for such they should
be considered), are not viewed with
suflicient importance by many of
our farmers, and all will admit that
upon the patronage of the farmers
depends the success of our annual
fairs. I am sorry to state that in
some instances the attendance of
the latter is a compulsory one.
They feel it is their duty to go to

east, west, north and south, every
advantage awaits the youth of our;
land in educational pursuits. 
Allow a liberal space for kinder-‘,
garten to illustrate the younger}
ones’ work. Supply them with;
plenty of material and as the pupil‘;
advances you will see as he contin- ;
ues to use head and hands, many?
fine specimens will adorn the de-i
partinent from little ones of only
seven summers. .
I attended a fair not long ago;
where a large space was assigned
the school in one of the halls.
where nothing but the students of i
our schools were to place articles
for exhibition, and I believe this?
department held the passer-by.
with greater interest than any.
other feature of the fair. 3
Even little ones of not more than 3
five or six summers were nearly?
perfect in map drawing, and on
the tables were found books com-
posed of lessons in penmanshipp
map drawing, sketches from his-
tory ; languages were defined, people
of ancient dress were portrayed,
nearly all plants were traced and
named, and on the walls were spec-
imens of every kind of work of art
and skill of the youth of our
schools. Now this department
would certainly encourage the
young, and it seems to be right,
and why not encourage the same

help the the society along, or they
have an unusually fine specimen of
its kind to exhibit. To be sure
they should go to help the society,
but this should not be the chief
motive in attending; a common in.
terest in all that concerns agricult-
urists and tends to elevate and im-
prove, should draw them together-
Not only farmers but their wives
and families meet friends that per-
haps they have no other opportu-
nity to meet during the year, and
this one point should be a suflicient
reason to insure a large attendance,
for a year in many instances works
marvelous changes; as each suc-
ceeding year of our annual fairs
should present new ideas for the
benefit of these farmer’s institu-
tions.

A necessary element for oflicers
to possess is interest accompanied
by considerable enthusiasm, but
the farmers in the community need
to be equally well supplied with
these requisites to ensure success
and realize their expectations. By
consultation and comparisons
these gatherings may be made what
they were designed for, to stimu-
late and encourage farmers to
greater efforts among the active
members of these societies. There
is a fraternal feeling that the in-
different member fails to enjoy; a

common interest binds them to-

gether in a bond of friendship that
ofttimes works miracles in the way
of conceiving new and novel ways
of exhibiting old and common
things. And the more attractive
all exhibits can be made the more
anxious are the public to view it.

Looking backward over a period
of many years Branch county has
made wondrous strides in her agri-
cultural fairs since the first one
was held in the old white school-
house in Goldwater, and at other
places, until the society found its
present permanent location and
home.

In former years to attend a fair
was considered a great event, a gala
day in fact; but all things new in
time become stale, and it behooves
agricultural societies _ to bestir
themselves by inventing and pre-
senting some new attractions each
year. Amusements there must be
for young America demands it, but
it is difficult to determine just what
should be tolerated on our fair
grounds. And here again is
another point where officers and
patrons should be equally interest-
ed. If the great World’s Fair
proves such an educator, why
should not our county fairs prove
the same in a comparative degree?
Pioneer day as has been set apart
at some of our past fairs has proven
a souce of great pleasure and profit,
not only to pioneers but to the ris-
ing generation, recalling many ex-
periences incident to pioneer life,
comparing modes of farming and
living, both of which were instruct-
ive and oftentimes amusing, fill-
ing one with amazement at the
progress made in agriculture since
the days of yore.

These annual gatherings cannot
fail to be helpful, both to the
farmer and his family as well, for
the latter is as necessary to the
success of these as is the former.
A large attendance inspires the
oflicers with con fidence and a great-
er eifort will be manifested to ele-
vate and improve all parts of the
exhibit. Reminiscences of the
past will be be called up and com-
pared with later experiences, all of
which will tend to make the annual
fair 3. very fair fair.

MRS. J. F. BUTTON.

THE LUNCH BASKET AT THE FAIR.

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Tell me ye waters wild,

Whose billows ever play

Is there mids‘t ocea.n’s depths,

No island far away; ,
Where tired out cooks can find
From business cares a rest,

Where eggs and sugar are not known,
Some place with flour not blast?

From over the waves I hear this
answer come, We know of none,

you'd better stay at home, and at- p

tend your county fair, three whole
days. Leave your lunch basket on
the kitchen table, to solve the pro-
blem of how much rest, recreation
and economy it is supposed to con-
tain. Where is the rest for a busy
farme‘r’s wife, in running down
those two chickens? Chasing a man
around to coax him to kill them
for her? Then after all that comes
the dressing and cooking which is
no small item to a weary housewife.
And then those beans must be
baked, and pies, cake, doughnuts,
cookies, biscuit, pickles, tea, coffee,
etc., which the average lunch bas-
ket is sure to contain, must be pre-
pared by two tireless hands. With
what pleasure she could look for-
ward to this yearly meeting, if the
lunch basket and its contents could
be kept in the background, and
she could get out of that tiresome
rut of three meals a day the whole
year round, for a few days; and
then her larder would not be empty
if this capacious basket did not
have to be filled each morning.

Where is the recreation in pack-
ing all of these delectable viands?
Or in being obliged to sit in
carriages or on the ground to eat,
with the waves of dirt, dust and
flies rolling steadily and surely on
to that carefully prepared lunch to
make it more palatable? And then
the gaze, criticism, and witticisms
of the curious crowd passing by,
are recreation for them but not for
any farmer’s wife of whom I know.
Is it any pleasure to have all of
those soiled dishes to add to those
that must be washed after she gets
home at night?

Where is the economy in trying
to drink cold tea out of a bottle?
A few drops will surely be spilled
and that added to the grease spots
which are sure to appear, in caring
for and eating a dinner from a
lunch basket, will nearly ruin
the best dress of the poor misguid-
ed woman who is tr ' to econ-
omize in this manner. an we pre-
pare a nice dinner for six for much

less than $1.25? Fuel and every-
thing included, except the weary
steps the good mother takes in

preparing it, I don’t believe we,
can. And another thing I most em- I

phatically believe, and that is, that
there is no rest, recreation or econ-
omy in the lunch basket, for the
farmer’s wife at the county fair.
But all of these qualities would be
happily blended in one, if she could
take her family to the dining hall
on the fair grounds for their mid-
day meal and thereby be care-free
from this thought of what shall
we have for dinner, for one or two
days out of three hundred and
sixty-five.
JENNIE L. KENNEDY.

 

EDUCATION AT FAIRS.

The Ediicational Features of the
Agi'icultnriil Fairs, Wise
And Otherwise.

It would seem that the educa-
tional features will be wise or other-
wise as the board of managers may
elect.

The principal idea of the origin-
ator was uudoubtedly to bring those
interested in agriculture together
that they might compare products
from different localities, different
methods of production and various
products from the same locality.
Thus forming a channel of
communication for farmers and
their families.

The fairs are usually held after
the growing season is passed, the

harvest is done and the busy sea-

son is measurably over. It is the
time that the agriculturist can
with his family indulge in a vaca-
tion.

He has grown certain fruits and
vegetables with success, and would
like to compare them with the same
varieties raised in other parts of the
county. Corn and wheat that on
A’s farm with his methods were a
success, on B’s a few miles dis-
tant with the same treatment were
worthless or nearly so.

Perhaps Mrs. Farmer, who of
course is interested in horticulture,
has a plant, choice it may be, but
in the culture of it she is quite un-
successful. After comparing notes
with the owner of a thrifty plant
on exhibition she learns wherein
is her failure.

While her husband is getting
pointers in stock feeding and rais-
ing she is doing the same thing in
butter making, and if she is a close
observer she learns why, last year,
when she positively knew that her
bread was the best on exhibition
some one else bore off the first
remium.

Should they so choose, mother
and daughter may take a lesson in
art in its various branches.

There, too, one can learn to be
somewhat charitable and go home
feeling thatit is possible for a com-
mittee to be both competent and
unbiased. All of these are valu-
able educational featuies.

But when we go out among side
shows we find features that are
otherwise, for unless the manage-
ment has been very particular some-
thing will creep in, that to say the
least, will do the boys and girls no
good, except that “a fool and his
money are soon parted,” ditto cane
racks and the various lottery
schemes. '

Then there are the counters,
where under the pretense of selling
sweet cider, that other abominable
stuff, the likeness of which is
neither in Heaven above nor in the
earth beneath nor yet in the waters
under the earth, but which leadeth
down to death, is dispensed. One
of the difficult things to do is to
secure plenty of innocent amuse-
ment for old and young and at
the same time remove the stumb-
ling blocks from the path of the
chronic grumbler. B.

TEMPERANCE WORK FOR FAIRS.

The time is near at hand when
the county fair; will be the theme
of the day. It is a gathering
where the people are generally
more or less interested. The mer-
chant, lawyer, doctor, and farmer
in a general way are interested in
the growth and prosperity of the
fair.
displays reach out after the varied
tastes and enterprise of the people,
and all alike are interested to
raise the standard in different 10-
calities of their own respective fair
to a higher plain. In order to do

 

this, it requires much labor, tact,
thought and action, not only on
the part of the officers of the’agri-
cultural society to lay the best
plans for a good foundation, but

in the cooperation of the people in
putting them into operation. It
should be the ambition each year
to make this gathering of greater
interest than the one preceding
it by introducing new and varied
plans to call the crowds to the fair
grounds as a center of attraction.
lThus from year to year this hon-
ored organization is gaining in
position, respect and reputation.
We should always aim in this an-
nual gathering, aside from the
various displays in agriculture and
art, to throw about all a. healthy,
moral influence, especially so in
consideration of the young who
gather in large numbers, and have
looked forward with fond anticipa-

The many departments and.

tion for the coming of the county
lfair. Only a few years ago little
ior no attention was given to the
;evil of intemperance, and strong
‘drink flowed as freely as water at
most of our county fairs, and no
one thought to ask the members
of the association to prohibit it
until some of our thoughtful
women began to look about them
and realize that our boys, large
and small, as well as our girls,
were being contaminated with the
vile stuff, and could readily see
how much better ofi we all would
be if it were possible to keep it
off the grounds. By its presence
3. well meaning man became unfit
to take his wife and children home
at night, so these same thoughtful
women gathered courage to tim-
idly ask that intoxicating drinks
be kept from the fair grounds.
While the condition of things is
greatly improved, it does affirm it-
self in a disguised manner under
the head of soft drinks. John
Milton once said, “Reformers look
very small in the eyes of the
world, but very large in the eye of
God, they are so much nearer
Him.” So we believe every effort
of God’s people, man or woman,
for the amelioration of sin and
suflering caused by the great evil
of intemperance, is great in the
mind of Him who alone can ren-
der them victorious. It needs no
argument to prove to a thinking
mind that our county fairs come
far short of reaching the high
standard they might attain by ex-
cluding all intoxicants from the
grounds, even when clothed with
the garment of soft drinks. We
live in an age when few will deny
that intemperance is an unmiti-
gated evil, and the great question
is how can we best stem its tide,
for controlled it must be, or our
social happiness, our national
prosperity will be swept away and
engulfed in the sea of misery and
Woe. As a Branch county white
ribboner I write from a W. C. T.
U. standpoint, and wou.ld give an
outline of our work in the interest
of temperance at our county fair.
Each year through the kind court-
esy extended to us by the officers

headquarters upon the ground, a
pleasant pavilion is well seated,
where the weary may rest and par-
take of a cool glass of lemonade or
a refreshing dish of ice cream.
Our committee are vigilant in the
distribution of literature that the
seed may be sown, and thus in
creating sentiment it is hoped that
liquor selling in all forms and
gambling devices (which go hand
in hand) may be excluded from
the grounds. At an appointed
day and hour a Demorest medal
contest is held, previously well ad-
vertised through the papers and
by the use of little dodgers dis-
persed through the crowd and by
the aid of the band to call the peo-
ple to the place. A large con-
course of people listen to the
young people who will give to the
thinking public thoughts and argu-
ments in favor of prohibition of
the liquor traflic from the leading
minds of our nation. As a gen-
eral thing country people are not
to be caught with chaff. A noted
political orator declared that he
bestowed much more study and
care on the preparation of his
speeches for county fairs than
upon those for city audiences, be-
cause -the intelligent farmer will
go home and study over the speech

ing anywhere they were sure to
find it out. This is sufficient argu-
ment that whatever is given in a
literary way must be strong, log-
ical and indisputably true. ‘ From

for united effort on the part of
temperance people to exert them-
selves in the cause of God and
home and humanity at our county
fairs? IRENE S. CLIZBE.

of the agricultural society, we have"

and if there is a flaw in its rea.son- ~

this standpoint may I not appeal.

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AUGUST 15, 1893.

I‘HE GRANGE VISITOR.

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descriptions of 30,000 articles in common u.se,
a book that will show you°at a glance if you
are paying too much for the goods you are

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copy?

THE BUYERS GUIDE AND CATALOGUE ( issued
every March and September) is the book we
are talking about: you are not safe without a
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In V-l.‘lLl.Llg mention THE GRANGE VISTI03

OFFICIAL DIRECTOFIYIGRAND RAPIDS and

Oflloers National Grange.

M.ASTEB—-J. H. BRIGHAM ________ __Delt.a., Ohio
0VEB8EEB—E. W. DAVIS .... __Sa.nta Rosa, Cal.
L1w'rUnnn—MORTIMER WHITEHEAD _______ ..
1618 . St. N. W., Washington, D. C.
8'rEwAi?.I>—A. . PAGE .... _.Appleton City. Mo.
Ass"r ST'EWARD—0. E. HALL._.__Pawnee, Neb.
C1iAPLAIN—CHAS. Mo DANIEL, New Hampshire
TREASURER-F. M. McDOW'EL.Penn Yan. N. Y.
SI'.onii:'rAsx——JOHN ’I‘RIMBLE.Washington. D.C
GATE KEEPER-—W. H. NELSON, ____ _ .Tennessee
Cnni:s—MRS. J. H. BRIGHAM ___Delta. Ohio
. . BOWEN __. ._Connecticut
. ., . SON. ____ __Mississippi
Lsnr Ass": Srizw’D—MRS. N. B. DOUGI.ASS__
Sherborii. Mass.

Executive Committee.

LEONARD RHONE..Center Hall. Pennsylvania
J. J. WOOD N _________ ..Paw Paw, Michigan

 

X. X. CHABTIERS .__Fredericksburg. Virginia P

Committee on Woman’s Work in the
Grange.

MRS. H. H. WOODMAN___Paw Paw, Michigan

MRS. C. ELECTA BOWEN. Woodstock. Conn.

MRS. E. W. DAVIS. Santa Rosa. California

Oiflcers Michigan State Grange.

MASTER—G. B. HORTON _________ __Fruit- Ridge
OvE3sr:i:iz~M. T. COLE ._-__.____ .. .___Palmyra
Lisoruizi-:i1——A. J. CROSBY. J R _______ __Yps1laut1
sTEWARD—-A. P. GRA ‘
Ass’r STEWARD—J. H. MARTIN, Box 442,RC:l‘a_!(1id
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CHAPLAIN—MARY A. MAYO ____ __Battle Creek
TBEASURER—E. A. STRONG ........ ._Vicksburg
Siwim'rAizr——JENNIE BUELL ______ ..Ann Arbor
GATE KEEPE‘R—GEO. L. CARLISLE__Kalkaska
C14;n)5s—MARY C. ALLIS .............. ...Adrian
FLonA——MRS. SARAH A ST. CLAIR. .ButternuI:
PoMONA—MRS. A.A.LEIGHTON_ _0ld Mission

L. A. STEW’D-—MBS. J .H. MARTINGrand Rapids
Executive Committee.

   
     

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Mrs. Mary Sherwood Hinds ............ ..Stanton
Mrs. Mary A. Mayo _______ __ -.Bat_tle Creek
Miss O. J. Carpenter ............... .. Dimondale

General Deputy Lecturers.
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HON. . G. LUL‘-E___. . Coldwater
HON. PERRY MAYO. attle Creek

HON. THOS. MARS... Berrien Center
JASON WOODMAN___ .. _
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A. D. BAN

(3, L. WHITNEY _____________________ __Muskegon
County Deputies.

D. H. Stehbins ______ __ 'At\\'oo(l, Antrim Co.

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V. Nash _________ -.Blo0nii -;'d:t|<‘, Allegan
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R, B, Reynolds_ _____________ __L.
Geo, Bowser V _ , _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ __Do\v.. 5, Barry
Union City, Branch “
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,__St. johns, Clinton “
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A. D. Bank .. _Lan.smg, Eat_on “
Isaac Russell__ .____Alma, Gratiot “

john Passmore __ Flushing, Genesee “
E. O. Ladd_.__Old Mission, Grand Traverse “
Mrs, E. D. Nokcs_,___VVlieatland, I-Iillsdalc “
D, fl, English _____________ ,_Chandler, Ionia “
F. VV. Havens,__ __Fitchburg, Inghazn “
J. A. Courtright_ _ ____Duck Lake, Jackson “
Robert Dockery, ______ __Rockford, Kent “
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Hiram Bradshaw ____ __Noifth Branch,_Lapeer “
Fred Dean _____ _. Brigl1to_n, Livingston “
I4. \‘/ Allis,____ ____Adrian, Lenawcc “

__Crystal, Montcalm “

D  Van Amberg__ :Bear Lake, Manistee “

   

Jessie E. V\ illiams ____ __Big Rapids, Mecosta “
J, s_ Lawson _____________ __DlSCO, Macomb “
Will G. Parish__ ___Flat Rock, Monroe “

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I-Iudscnville, Ottawa “
R_ H, Taylor ______________ __Shelb , Oceana “
D_ Mm-1in,__,_ ________Vernoii, S iawassee ‘
A. W’. Canficld__ _,__,Iiartsuff, St. Clair “

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W. VV. Carter,__

  
  
 

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Helen A. Fiske ____ ._La.wrc-nee, Van Buren “
John E, Vvilcox __________ -_Plymoutli. Wayne “
john A. McDougal____Ypsila.nti, V\'-ashtenaw “
R. C, Norris ____________ "Cadillac, \Vexford “

Revised List of Grange Supplies
Kept in the oflice of Sec’y of the

Michigan State Grange

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jnterest on time deposits. If you have any bank:
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Gollege and Station.

SHORT COURSES IN AGRICULTURE

Early in the summer we made
requests of the gentlemen whose
letters appear below, asking for a
brief outline of the short course
work followed by them the past
winter, and the results. We are
much pleased to be able to give so
full and complete replies.

 

Cornell University.

VVe advertised two weeks in ad-
Vance of opening our doors to short
course students and sent out cir-
culars, or rather small folders, about
the same time as the notice ap-
peared in the papers. Fifty stu-
dents presented themselves and
forty-eight were received. They
ranged in age from 16 years up-
wards, but most of them were be-
tween 22 and 26 years of age. Many
of them were well prepared and
with slight additions to their train-
ing could have entered -the uni-
versity. Their work was largely
in applied agriculture, dairy hus-
bandry and animal industry. The
instruction was given largely by
lectures and in order to keep them
interested we required them to
write up their notes at night in
books and hand them in when a
subject was completed. I can say
that we all felt that we had never
taught classes which gave such
marked indications of progress as
these short course men. It was
really a pleasure to teach them and
at the end of the term they gave
evidence of their unbounded pleas-
ure and satisfaction by the passage
of resolutions and personal com-
pliments to their instructors.
Several of them will return, some of
them to join the long course. \Ve
are preparing for one or two hun-
dred the coming winter and I shall
be much disappointed if we do not
have more applicants than we can
take care of. We charge $5.00 a
term incidental fees. This year we
shall open not only a short course
but a dairy course as well. The state
has given us $50,000 for a dairy
building and we hope to have it up
and fully equipped by January
first. -

Yours very truly,
I. P. ROBERTS,

Director.
Ithaca. N. Y.. June 13.

Purdue University.

For the past two winters Purdue
university has offered what is
known as a “ short course in live
stock husbandry and dairying,”
extending over two months of time.
There are certain features of this
course which are somewhat out of
the ordinary run of short courses
of instruction. The various mem-
bers of the faculty of the agricult-
ural school of Purdue university
gave lectures- which bore upon
questions pertaining to live stock
and dairying.

In addition to the lecture Work,
which occurred in the morning, all
of the students were obliged to
work in the dairy and in the
veterinary hospital, as well as to
judge live stock on the farm.

In addition to this it has been
our custom to employ a certain
number of expert stockmen and
dairymen to come to the university
and deliver a series of lectures. In
the last course Mr. Mortimer Lev-
ering, Secretary of the American
Shropshire Sheep Association, gave
four lectures on sheep. Hon. J. A.
Mount gave two lectures on the

practical handling of sheep. Mr. —

C. B. Harris, of Goshen, gave six
lectures on dairy cattle and their
management. S. E. Kelsey, of
Hopkins Park, Ill., lectured upon
breeding and feedin horses and
beef cattle. Cal usselman of
Auburn, Ind., gave a series of lect-
ures on swine; and Mr. Charles
Linton of Shabbona, Ill., gave the
practical dairy instruction. Only
the services of expert and practical
breeders and feeders were secured.

No entrance examination was
r uired.

n order to encourage attendance
in the course each county agricult-
ural society was given two scholar-
ships, which allowed each society
to appoint two persons to the course
who would be exempted from the
tuition and other charges which we
required. The tuition was $5 and
the laboratory and other necessary
charges for the course were $10.

In 1892 there were but 13 stu-
dents present in the course. In
1893 twenty-eight were present
during the entire session. Each

.4

class was full of enthusiasm con-
cerning the course of instruction
and, on the basis of our past ex-
perience, we believe that the work
is eminently satisfactory.

The same general line of work
will be followed another Winter and
we anticipate a much larger at-
tendance than the past winter.

Very truly yours,

0. S. PLUMB.
Lafayette, Ind., June 16.

 

The Vermont Dairy School.

The Vermont Dairy School has
for its main object the perfecting of
the work of buttermakers who are
already well versed in the art. No
attempt was made to do apprentice
work, most of the students coming
from creameries, and a few from
private dairies. The work of the
school can be grouped under four
heads. Daily lecfures were given
on the general subject of milk, in-
cluding its composition, secretion,
variations, adulterations, methods
of handling for various purposes,
paying by test, etc. Daily labora-
tory work was carried on in which
the pupil was taught to sample
milk properly, analyze it for fat by
the Babcock method, find its spe-
cific gravity and calculate the total
solids and the solids not fat from
these two determinations. Instruc-
tion was given in methods of de-
tecting adulteration and determin-
ing its character and amount.

The handling of milk by the
separator was shown daily, using
the creamery size of machines with
a thousand pounds of milk. and
also some of the smaller hand sizes
of machines. There were shown
in use machines of each of the prin-
cipal kinds in use in the state.
Instruction in this department in-
cluded the setting up of the ma.-
chines, putting them together,
starting, stopping, speed, capacity,
cleaning, in fact the whole subject
of the use of the separator.

Special instructors from the
mechanical department of the Uni-
versity gave the pupils lessons in
the care and use of steam boilers
and engines.

The handling of cream and but-
ter making involved some of the
nicest points that were brought out

‘in the school, and we were fortu-

nate in having as instructor 3. man
who thoroughly understood all the
little details that enter into the
problem . of fine buttermaking.
The best buttermakers among the
pupils were surprised at the amount
they found still to learn and were
very outspoken in their satisfaction
at the good they received in re-
turn for their time and expense.

We were very much pleased with
the results of the school as 9. whole.
There is satisfaction in teaching
Where you can see from (lay to
day that the student is learning
valuable lessons, that he himself
is also aware of the fact and is
correspondingly enthusiastic and
grateful for his opportunities.

Calls for buttermakers from
among the students began to come
almost as soon as the school start-
ed, and every one who cared to go
into creamery work has had ample
choice of location. The demand
for skilled creamery help not only
continues but is increasing, and
the wages paid for first class men
are quite high. At the present
time there are few branches of agri-
culture that offer better induce-
ments to young men than dairying,
provided the man is willing to make
a study of his business, to master
it in its details, from the scientific
side as well as the practical.

W. W. COOKE,

Prof. of Agriculture, University of

Vermont, Director Vermont Experi-

ment Station.
Burlington, Vt., June .0.

Pennsylvania State College.
Our short course in agriculture
proper opens early in January of
each year and continues for twelve
weeks. It consists of a series of

lectures upon purely agricultural

and horticultural subjects. N 0 at-
tempt is made in this time to give
the student instruction in history,
languages, penmanship, mathemat-
ics or mechanics, as we believe that
the success of the special courses
will depend upon the amount of
plain and
USEFUL INFORMATION

about farming and gardening and
the principles underlying these arts
that may be imparted to the young
man of ordinary intelligence when
brought fresh from the farm.
The lectures are divided into four;
ggneral groups,_ viz.; Agriculture,
lectures; agricultural chemistry

and stock feeding, 60 lectures;
horticulture and economic ento-
mology, 60 lectures; veterinary
science 24 lectures.

The student receives 20 lectures
per week which practically take up
the forenoon of each day. The
afternoon is devoted to an equally
important exercise, the practicums
which will be referred to at
length in a subsequent paragraph.

The lectures in agriculture cover,
as fully as the limited time will
permit, the subjects of drainage,
road making, farm crops——their se-
lection, rotation and cultivation,
breeds, breeding, selecting and
management of live stock, dairying,
farm management, etc.

Three afternoons per week are
given to practicums in this sub-
ject. Here the student plans and
designs farm buildings; learns by
actual experience how to take the
level of a field and lay out a system
of drains, to lay out roads, to score
and judge all classes of live stock,
to manufacture butter according to
the most modern methods, studies
the different varieties of farm crops
by sample from the experiment sta-
tion, etc.

In agricultural chemistry is given
instruction in the fundamental
notions of chemistry and physics,
origin and formation of soils, their
chemical and physical differences,
how plants grow, etc. In short as
much plant and animal chemistry
as the time will allow. The stu-
dent is thereby prepared for an un-
(lerstanding of the principles un-
derlying the manufacture and use
of manures, stock feeding, liandling
milk, milk testing, etc. all of which
are included under this head.

The practicums are devoted to
calculating and compounding feed-
ing rations for different purposes,
compounding commercial fertiliz-
ers and milk testing.

Horticulture and economic en-
tomology cover the ordinary fruits
and vegetables, their growth and
handling together with their insect
enemies and the best method of
combatting them. Practicums in
budding, grafting, layering, spray-
ing, etc. _

Enough veterinary science is
taught to give the student a fair
knowledge of the common diseases
and their treatment. One after-
noon in each week is devoted to
clinics. Here the student is brought
directly in Contact with the differ-
ent diseases, is required to diagnose
them and present a treatment.

The importance of the dairy in-
terests in the state and the need
for more specialization than is pos-
sible in the course above described
led to the 01'ga.nization of a dairy
course—divided into two sections,
one for the creamery men and one
for the private dairyinen, each cov-
ering six weeks and running at the
same time as the short course in
agriculture. In the dairy course
everything not pertaining to the
business of dairying, the rearing,
selection, feeding and management
of dairy herds, etc-.., is excluded.
This is essentially a {rude school
where the art is made a very prom-
inent feature of the work. Skilled
and experienced experts are em-
ployed to give instruction in the
most important subjects.

These courses are open to all
without examination or entrance
fee except an incidental fee of 155.
N 0 examinations are required at its
close and no certificates or diplomas
are ,€_,ri'anted.

RESULTS.

The attendance upon the short
course in agriculture has not been
up to expectations, but the indica-
tions now are that we shall have as
large a class for the winter as we
are able to accommodate. The dairy
school was crowded last winter al-
though that was its first year.

But this is not the most import-
ant consideration as there is not
the slightest doubt but what the
attendance may be made large
enough by proper management
and judicious advertising.

The serious question is, will a
young man coming from the farm
without preliminary training above
that gained in the public school be
able to get asufliciently clear knowl-
edge of the laws underlying the suc-
ccessful practices of agriculture to
enable him to at once improve his
methods and add to this learning
through the medium of the agri-
cultural press, experiment station
reports, farmers’ institutes, and his
own experience, so to form 3. con-
nected whole? If not the student
can not afford the expenditure of
time and funds, however small, nec-

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AUGUST 15, 1893.

 

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SHORT COYRSES IN .»\li‘rRICI'L'I‘I'Rl;

Peiinsylvaiiia State College.

(‘outinued from page 7.

essary to attend one of the courses,
and the college cannot afford the
expense of their maintenaiice,which
is great both in money and the
energies of the instructors. After
an experience with the courses in
two states widely separated I be-
lieve it can be done. Scores of the
men who have taken such courses
and gone back to the farm are will-
ing to bear witness to these facts.
We feel confident that these special
courses will in the near future be-
come a more important part of our
work than they now are.
Very truly yours,
H. J. WATERS,
Professor of Agriculture.
State College, Pa.. June 19.

Notices of‘ Meetings.

GRANGE .-\.\'D ’l‘l£ACHF.RSl Assocmriox, Ar
siiizrisv, )llClI., FRIDAY, SEPT. 1.

Dinner at Hedges llall, free to Grangers,
their wives and children, friends, and to the
Horticultural Society.

O_17r'rzI [{0I(.\‘€.

i : 30-Music, Cranston choir of Sylvan
Grange.

1245-" Apple culture," Neil McCallum,
Hesperia.

2: io—Discussion.

2: 3o—“ Home influences,” Mrs. Mary
Robertson, Hesperia.

2: 50-—i\Iusic, “ Marching through Geor-
13.“

g “ The future of peach and plum cult-
ure in Oceana CO.,” A. A. Adams, Shelby.

3: i5——“ How grading the farmers’
schools and reading good literature makes
the education of the farmers‘ children gen-
uine and cheap,” F. W. Jones, Claybanks.

3: 30——Discussion, led by O. F, Munson,
Bradyville.

3:4o—Music, “ Michigan, my Michigan."

“ The farmers’ enemies,” A. L. Scott,
liesperia.

4:oo—Discussiou led by Judge F. J.
Russell, N. Adams, \Vm. Barry.

Music.

:'cm'ng Srssiorz.

Music, Cranston choir.

Address of Welcome, major G. W.
Woodward, Master Fraternal Grange,
Shelby.

Music, Cranston choir.

Address, State Superintendent, Henry
R. Pattengill, Lansing.

Music, Cranston choir.

D. E. MCCLURE,
A_ L_ Scorr, Presiclem‘.
S ccrela ry.

HILLSDALE UNION MEETING.

The Union meeting of Lenawee and
Hillsdale counties will be held at Bawbeese
Lake, August 29. The following is the
program:

Music by \Vheatland K. O. T. M. band.

Call to order by Worthy Master
Haughey.

Music, Fruit Ridge Glee Club, Lena-
wee.

Prayer, Bro. Kirby.

Music, Glee Club.

Welcome address, Master Haughey.

Response, Mrs. B. G. Hoig, Morenci.

Music, Band.

Paper, Bro. VV. Hutchins, Hanover.

Recitation, Sister Mary C. Allis, Lena-
wee.

Music, Glee Club.

Paper, Bro. G. B. Horton.

Recitation, Sister Mary Carter, Adams.

Music, Prof. H. F. Nokes.

Recitation, Sister Addie Daniels, Lena-
wee.

Music, Band.

Address by Bro. Mortimer \Vhitehead,
Lecturer of National Grange.

Music, Glee Club.

Resolutions and business.

Music, Band.

The forenoon will be spent in greetings
and visiting. Picnic dinner for which
there will be tables and hot water upon the
grounds.

Call to order at one o’clock sharp, for
exercises in the large pavilion. V

Brother and Sister Patrons, make this
the one great day of the season, and rally
around your National Lecturer, and give
him a large audience.

Mas. E. D. Noxas,
County Lecturer.

\'A.\l BUREN POMONA.

Held with Paw Paw Grange August 24,
i893, io o’clock A. M.

Roll call, Response by each oflicer with
suitable quotation.

Business, Reports.

12 o’clock, Dinner.

1130, I’. M., Paper, “ Commercial tyran-
ny,” A. C. Glidden.

Paper, “ The influence of our young
people on the future of our nation,” Mabel
Parks, Lawrence.

Discussion, “The benefits of a beneficiary
organization within the Grange.”

Paper, Mrs. Headley, Decatur.

Paper, “ What shall be the next legis-
lative policy of the State Grange?” A. J.
Kinue, Decatur.

Music and Recitations will be inter-
upersed.

Evening Session 7: 30.

Entertainment by Paw Paw Grange.

C. E. ROBINSON,

Lecturer. “

CLINTON POMONA.

willbe held at Victor, August 30. The

program follows:
Address of_welcomo, I. C. Bronson.

-tion to Cleveland.

Song.

Paper, Dr. Knapp.

Recitation, Mrs. Stella Dills.

Poem, Mrs. W’. D. Holt.

Paper, J, \V. Beckwith.
I Paper, 0. Freeman.
l Recitation, Amanda Guiinison.
, Joint discussion on the “ Single Tax;” 
, \\'. Beckwith, Jerome Dills, I. D. Rich-
‘niond. J. F. Clemons.
i O. L. BEL'l\'\Vl’l‘li,
3 L«'r1‘/Ircr.

l Response, 0. A. Whitlock.
3
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 Smiicmtlza is not hard to get if you
{ will only try a little.

I
’ NEWS ‘NOTES.

 

The silver convention in Chicago was
well attended and was not backward in ex-
pressing its views. The demands were for
immediate repeal of the Sherman law and
the adoption of free coinage. The chief
criticism which the meeting drew out was
the intemperate words of some of the
speakers.

The meeting of Congress is attended
with great interest. The financial question
is the sole topic of discussion, and is bound
to provokea long session, and a hard fought
contest. '

>l< T >1:

President Cleveland’s message is con-
sidered an able, conservative document.
Its recommendations are the repeal of the
Sherman law and “ such other legislation”
as will sustain universal faith in the condi-
tion of our money.

* T =:<
Senator Hill has championed the free
silver men. thus putting himself in opposi-
Bourke Cochran, the
Tammany chief, has, on the other hand,
espoused Mr. Cleveland's views. Just what
this all means, the uninitiated are unable
to say.
:5

The result of the investigation into the
Victoria disaster, places the blame solely
on Admiral Tryon.

>i< >l<
The \Vorld’s Fair continues open on
Sunday, against the express wish of the
directors, and by order of court. The
affair has beena disgraceful muddle all
through.
* * >!<

Mills and factories continue to close
down. wages are being cut and many men
are out of employment. However, the fi-
nancial aspect of things is brighter. Gold
is being shipped from Europe in consider-
able quantities.

>l< >l<
>l<

Commencement at the Michigan Agri-
cultural College occurred August 9. The
graduating class consists of 44, five of whom
are ladies. The graduating orations were
of an unusual degree of excellence. Pres.
Clute gave a good resume of the work
done during his administration. It showed
that much progress had been made. Pres.
Clute has worked hard, and the College
has maintained its excellent character of
work under his guidance. The president-
elect, L. G. Gorton, has made a good im-
pression.

Chance for Our Readers.

If you can make eighty words from
letters contained in the word “l\ION-
TREAL” you can have afree trip
to the World's Fair and return, as the
publishers of that well known magazine,
“DODIINION ILLUSTRATED”
offer to pay expenses to Chicago and
return to the first person in each State
sending a list of not less than eighty
words as above. This is a popular way
of attracting attention to a leading pub-
lication. A host of other valuable prizes
will be given to successful contestants,
and every one able to send a list of
sixty words or over will be awarded a
prize. As prizes are equitably divided
among the different States persons resid-
ing in any locality have an equal oppor-
tunity of securing the free trip to Chi-
cago, or one of the other valuable prizes
for their State. The publisher of
“Dominion Illustrated” has already
given away in previous contests seven
upright pianos, four Shetland ponies,
two trips to Europe, two to World’s Fair,
and many other princely gifts. Thou-
sands of dollars are being expended for
the purpose of increasing our list of
yearly subscribers. “Dominion Illus-
trated” is the leading and longest estab-
lished magazine in British America
(larger than Harper’s, Century, Scrib-
ner’ or Cosmopolitan). We have no un-
fulfilled promises to explain, having
never broken faith with the public.
Send twelve U. S. two-cent stamps with
list of words for sample number of this
elegant and profusely illustrated (96-
pages) magazine, containing full particu-
lars of this liberal prize distribution.
Send promptly as date of postmark de-
cides. Address “DOMINION IL-
LUSTRATED,” Y. M. C. A.
Building, Montreal, Que.

 

THE LAKE ROUTE TO THE WORLD'S FAIR
VIA PICTURESQUE MACKINAC.

Avoid the heat and dust by travelin
on the Floating Palaces of the Detroit
Cleveland Steam Navigation Company.
Two new steel passen er steamers have
just been built for this pper Lake route,
costing $300,000 each, and are guaranteed
to be the grandest, largest, safest and
fastest steamers on the akes; speed 20
miles per hour, running time between
Cleveland, Toledo and Chicago less than
50hours. Four trips per week between
Toledo, Detroit, Alpeua, Mackinac, Petoa-
key and Chicago. Dail trips between
Detroit and Cleveland; tiring July and
August double daily service w ll be main-
tained, ving a. daylight ride across Lake
Erie. 'ly service between Cleveland
and Put-in-Bay. First-class stateroom
accommodations and menu. and exceed-
lfily low Round Trip Rates. The pain-
t equipment, the luxury of the appoint-
ments makes traveling on these steamers
thoroughly enjoyable. Send for illus-
trated pamphlet. Address A. A. Schantz,
G. P. A., Detroit & Cleveland Steam Nav.
00., Detroit, Mich.

TheWorld’s-Fair Grange ..

Corner of 93d Street and Saginaw Avenue, South Chicago.

T\V ZN TY IVIINUTES

NO OTHER BUILDING VVITHIN
PLENTY OF FRESII AIR.

ANN OUN DEMEN T.

RIDE FROM THE FAIR BY

500 F EET.
Q ti ET

ELECTRIC CARS.
NO DANGER FROM FIRE.
AND COOL.

5 (TTS. FARE.

In order to meet the popular demand for low prices whilefivisiting the
Fair, we have made a large reduction in prices for rooms at the Grange

Apartment. Building. To all Grange members and their friends we will make the following reduced rates:

Rooms with 1 double Bed,

$1.00 per (lay, 50 Cents em-li ])(‘l'SOIl.

Rooms with 2 (louble Beds, $1.75 per (lay, 44 Cents each person.
Rooms with 3 (louble Beds, $2.25 per (lay, 38 Cents each person.

Meals 25 Ceiits.

Suit of four rooms (three beds) furnished for housekeeping, $5.00 per day. Can make this suit five,
six or seven rooms (nine beds) for larger parties, and will make special rates to parties wishing to stay_a

week or more.

HOW TO REACH From the Fair grounds take a Grand Crossing & South Chicago Elect.ric:Car on

THE GRANGE.

Stony Island Ave. at 64th St. Fair gate.
off at Burnside or Grand Crossing, and take Electric Car to South Chicago.

If coming in by Mich. Central R’y, get

If coming in by Mich.

Southern R’y, get off at South Chicago station, and walk four blocks west on 93d St.
33.. C). III)tJ']N'M'IM'(3-,

93(l St. and Siigiiiaw Ave., South Chicago, Ill.

Address,

A GLIMPSE AT THE WORLIPS
FAIR.

The passenger entering Chicago from
the east by any of the MICHIGAN CENTRAL
trains will observe, after passing Kensing-
ton and Grand Crossing, that the tracks
are gradually elevated until, from a point
of view some twenty feet above the level,
he sees to the right an assemblage of domes,
towers and spires rising above the trees
between the railroad and Lake Michigan.
These are some of the colossal and mag-
nificent palaces of the World’s Columbian
Exposition, far surpassing, not only in num-
ber and magnitude, but in beauty and ar-
tistic harmony of design, any assemblage of
buildings that the world has ever before
seen.

First to be noticed and directly in front
of the railway station where the MICHIGAN
CENTRAL trains will enter the Exposition,
rise grandly the four square pavilions of
the Administration building, crowned by
its great dome, 260 feet above the groiiiid,—-
“almost as lofty as that of St. Paul’s in
London,” says Mrs. Van Rensselaer, “ and
almost as graceful in outline as that of the
Florentine Cathedral.” In front of it stands
the magnificent bronze fountain by Mac-
Monnies, facing the great basin in the cen-
ter of the great court, upon which front the
Agricultural building and Machinery Hall
on the south, and the palaces of Mines and
Mining, Electricity, and of Manufactures
and the Liberal Arts on the north. The
domes and towers of these buildings may
be seen in the distance, and particularly
the grert arched roof of the last named
building, the largest in the world. It cov-
ers an area of more than thirty acres—three
times that of the largest building of the
great Paris Exposition of 1889.

As the train approaches more closely to
the grounds, the Transportation building is
clearly seen to the left of the Administra-
tion building. It covers, with its annexes,
fourteen and a half acres of ground, and its
massive arched doorway,elaborately decor-
ated and known as the “ Golden Portal,” is
one of the most striking external features
of the Exposition.

Next to the left is the Horticultural
Building, a thousand feet in length, and
with a central pavilion, under the glass
dome of which is grouped the finest known
collection of bamboos, tree-ferns and palms.

Northward, and still nearer to the
train, is the Woman’s building, a chaste and
noble structure, first of all to be completed,
and the architect, artists and decorators of
which were all women. It will be filled
wtth the fruits of the genius, skill and labor
of the women of all nations.

Crossing the Midway Plaisance, which
connects Jackson Park on the east with
Washington Park on the west, and in which
are located a section of Paris, a street
of Cairo, Irish, German, Austrian and
Turkish villages, a Dutch East Indian set-
tlement, ice, sliding and spiral electric rail-
ways, and numerous other interesting feat-
ures, of some of which the traveler may
get a glimpse as he dashes by. On the
right, grouped at the north end of Jackson
Park, are the various State and Foreign
buildings of diversified architecture and
representing an expenditure of millions of
dollars.

No passing glimpse of the World's Fair,
however, nor the most detailed and glow-
ing description that can be penned, can give
any idea of its surpassing size and extent,
the splendid hannony of its design, or of
its rich artistic sculpture and decorative
features. Nothing but frequent visits and
careful observation can do it. But while
every passing traveler will surely resolve
upon this, he will also surely be thankful
that he is journeying upon the MICHIGAN
CENTRAL, the only Eastern line that gives
him such a passing view, or that takes him
directly by and in full view of Niagara
Falls, the great natural wonder of the world.

 

You help the VISITOR; that helps you,
because we can keep improving the
paper.

For Sale!

A LARGE

Peach and Plum Orchard
In oeeana County, near Shelby.

160, 120, 80 or 40 acres.

For terms and particulars address

THE GRANGE VISITOR,

Lansing, Mich.

  Diamond
Crystal
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For other information, address

 

AS won another well merited victorv.
At the '

The best butter in the show was salted with

Diamond Ur_vst.al Salt.

The best butter made from separator cream
was salted with Uiaiiioiul Ci-ysm] writ,

The best butter made from ;.'Hlllt‘l'e(l cream
was salted with Dianioml (‘i-ystal .\‘ult.

Butter which iiizule the liighest average
score In eiicli class iv-as salted with Diamond
Cr_vsta_l Hzilt.

This salt is flaky, has a coarse grain, dis-
solvesjust right. and is never found un-
dissolvcd in butter. It takes less to pro-
duce the same result, hence is cheaper.

BUTTER SALT——Packe(l in 280 lb. bbls.—
224 lbs.—56 lb. and i4 lb. liags.

TABLE SALT—Iii 3 lb. box—2%, 5 and 10 lb. bags, also lll 320 lb. bbls.

Can be obtained from jobbers and dealers in the United States and Canada.

DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO.,

      
     
        

DUBUQUE CONVENTION

  
    
       
     

St. Clair, Michigan.

 

GRANGE DIRECTORY.

Patrons Will Find These l-‘ii-ins Reliable and
(‘an Get Special Prices From Tlieiii.

H. R. EAGLE & CO.,

Farmers’ Wholesale Supply House,

68 and 70 \Va_bash Ave., Chicago. Save
money on everything. Send six cents for full
catalogue.

The Smith Implement dz Buggy CO., 22 and 24
East 3d St. Cincinnati, 0. has a contract with
Grange of Ohio and Indiana to supply their state
and furnish goods at wholesale rates when the
order comes under the seal of the Grange. We
extend the_ same invitation to the Grange of Mich-
igan. Write for catalog and prices.

A. R. HICKS & CO., PALMYRA, N. Y.

are the official furnishers of badges, working
tools, seals, staff mountings. and all supplies.
Illustrated catalog on application. Send orders
to Jennie Buell, Secretary, Ann Arbor, or direct
to Palmyra, N. Y.

Special inducements all the time
PI AANN1,o s Sgnd for (lgtalogueg,  Dirgct
0 RC-A N S i~.Z’€‘..‘.§.' yo‘}iET"i>.. E1233 seiil
of ‘your Grange on your letter paper, or send
tra 9 card to secure benefit of special manufact-
urers’ prices direct to Grangers.

 GEO. WOODLEY,

242 South \Va.tei' St.,
CIii(.~.ago,llI. \V'holes:ile Lumber dealer. Solic-
its correspoiidcncc with incnihcrs of .\IlClllg2lll P.
of H. and Alliances who coiitciiiplatc building.
\\'rite for price lists.

Ths Honey Creek Grange Nursei-ies have
been under contract with the State Grange of Ohio
for over ten vcars, and have dealt extensively in
Indiana and Michigan also. Special prices sent to
anyone under seal of the Grange. Give us ll trial.
\Vc can save you money. Address

Isaac Freemaii & Son, Rex, Ohio.

PATRONS’ OIL WORKS. DERRICK Oil 00.
F. G. BELLAMY, Prop’r, Titusville. Pu.
Liib_ri(:a.ting and Burning 0115 of the hi heat,
gualitiy, at wholesale prices. Try our Elite urn-
ing 0 , made specially for family use. Write for

prices. Address DERRICK OIL CO.,
Titusville, Pa.

AJAX DYNAMITE l

FOB. STUKP BLABIBING.
We are bound to txoduce our AJAX in your
locality. and to do so will sell CHEAP. Good:
.. need. No better sold. Try us on prices.

Ajax Dymmite Works, BAY GITY, Mich.

Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest

zoo,ooo,ooo acres of wheat and (grazing lands open
for settlement in Manitoba an the Great North-
west, including the famous Edmonton District and
the great Saskatchewan Valley, which are now
opened by railroads.

THE FINEST LANDS

to be had in North America, and good climate.
\Vhere stock pick their living the year round and
thrive.

FREE FARMS OF 160 ACRES

given to every male adult of ei liteeii years and
over; and every female head of a amily.
S ecial rates given to intending settlers. _ _

or maps, amphlets, testimonials of Michigan
farmers who liave been there, and further informa-
tion, address

A. R. CODE, Gen’l Agt.,
Box 635, Saginaw, E. S,, Mich.

ANO. 1.

Bedford Co. Pa., 6' 30393.
Mn. 0. W. INGERSOLL, DEAR SIR-
Pelolple are realizing that your goods are
A . 1 and not humbugs. Those who
have tried them are well leased, and a
good market is started. hen once used
I am sure many will order from you.
Feeling perfectly satisfied by my own
experience, I am
Fraternally yours,
. J. KEITH.
See advertisement Ingersoll’s Liquid

Rubber Pointa.——Ed.

Favorite
Lines

to the Summer
Resorts

of N ortliern
Michigan

TRAVERSE CITY

ELK RAPIDS

CHARLEVOIX

PETOSKEY

BAY VIEW

IVIACKINAC ISLAND
and TRAVERSE BAY

RESORTS

' CHICAGO
and WEST MICHIGAN
RAILWAY

DETROIT

LANSING
and NORTHERN

RAILROAD

The West Michigan now in operation
to Bay View, is the
ONLY ALL RAIL LINE T0 GIIARLEVOIX

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

THE SCENIC LINE

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

Send a stamp for new Summer Book.
TRY IT WHEN WI] 00 I0ll'l'll TlllS Slllllllll

FRANK Townsmm,
GEO. DEHAVEN, Agent, Lansng.
Gen’l Pass’r Agt., Grand Rapids.

AGENTS WANTED

In every Grange throughout the
United States. Write at once
for full particulars. Address
FRATERNITY FINE ART CO.,
P. O. Box 1572, BOSTON, Mass.
Xfln reply to this adv. mention this paper.

EVAPOIIATIIG Fflll

s'rANL's EXOELSIOR EVAPORATOI.
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PRESSES OF B03311‘ SHITE & C0.‘
LANSING, KICK.

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