VOL. XVI1l,?dl‘Ii).21.i???i?

0HIO‘S EXPERIENCE.

;session of the National Grange
'that will be entirely practicable,
with provisions for each State
Grange to be an auxiliary of the

parent society.
Sj>rir1g6m'a, Olzia.

How the Grange of that State has
Succeeded in Co-operation.

S. H. ELLIS, MASTER OHIO STATE
GRANGE.

The Ohio State Grange at its
annual session in 1874, instructed
its executive committee to employ
an agent to arrange with business
houses and manufacturers for
direct trade at first hands, as nearly
as possible. An_ agency was
established at Cincinnati, with Col.
M. H. Hill as agent, and the next
year a branch agency at Cleveland,
with Bro. E. J. Ensigne as man-
ager. An immense business was
done through these agents, amount-
ing to several hundreds of thoii-
sands of dollars. And the plan
was very beneficial to those mem-
bers of the Grange who availed
themselves of the business. But
it was expensive to the treasury_of
the State Grange, as the salaries
of the agents as well as other run-
ning expenses were paid by the
State Grange. Afterward a per
cent was collected from the bus-
iness done through the agents.
But finally houses or stores were
procured and stock purchased and
carried, credits were given, and the
agencies were finally discontinued,
after the State Grange had spent
several thousands of dollars.

— —-. .CzROYiIIH .0F C0.-OPERATION

Meantime many cooperative asso-
ciations had been formed among
the Patrons in various counties in
the state, buildings rented, pur-
chased or built, and general
Grange stores started in probably
one-half of the counties in the
state. During the seventies and
eighties, merchandise was con-
stantly on the decline, so that all
business had to be run on declin-
ing prices. Many old established
business houses were forced to the
wall. Thus, with want of business
experience in some cases, and from
various other causes, these cooper-
ative enterprises were nearly every
one of them failures. Our State
Grange then adopted the plan so
successfully carried out by the

“THE FARMER IS

LANSING

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OF MORE CONSEQUENOE THANPTHE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

, MICHIGAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1893.

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IN KANSAS.

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Co-operation in Johnson County,

Kansas.

A. P. REARDON, MASTER KANSAS
STATE GRANGE.

The most notable cooperative
success in our state is the Johnson
county association, organized June
14, 1876.

From the outset the Roachdale
plan was followed in its purity,
including actual cash transactions
to the fullest possible extent.
Credit with responsible parties was
allowed not to exceed thirty days,
and never in excess of the mem-
ber’s share of capital stock upon
whichs such credit was a lien.

The store was opened July 27,
1876, with $800 of cash capi-
tal paid in by 60 members;
which has since grown to $100,000
held by 952 stockholders. The
sales for the seventeen years have
been over $3,500,000. Whereas,
the main store occupied only a
small rented room at first, the
association now owns a magnificent
building, built and equipped at a
cost of $50,000, three stories high,
118x120 feet. The association
owns all the real estate in which it
does business. Everything is in
perfect order and the system of
trade is complete and as a cooper-
ative enterprise is a great credit to
the enterprise and intelligence of
the Patrons of Johnson county.
The habits of thrift, economy,
foresight and calculation which
the success of this store developed
is of untold value to the patrons.
And outside of the 10 per cent per
annum allowed upon the capital
stock that has now reached the
limit of the charter, $100,000, thou-
sands of dollars are saved annually
to the farmers upon their pur-
chases, and the benefits that accrue
directly and indirectly by reason

Pennsylvania State .Gmnge’ .that of cooperation in merchandizing
of arranging with reliable business and banking within themselves.

houses and manufacturers, so that
members, under seal of the Grange,
could order direct and the houses
making such arrangements to
furnish goods, guaranteed to give
satisfaction, at wholesale prices,

and to pay a small per cent on the

business done into the treasury
of the State Grange.

MI‘Loul/1. K ansas.

“45 PER CAPITA.”

DANIEL STRANGE.

giving entire satisfaction. Our sure to keep it at par With 3013-” D
H. P

members are getting their supplies

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State’Grange nothing, but is put-
ting a snug sum into the treasury is implied above,

each year.
INSURANCE.
Our mutual property insurance
is a grand success. This has no
connection with the State Grange.
But mutual insurance companies
are organized in many of the
counties of the state under a gen-
eral state law provided for such
purpose.
I think it would have been much
better if we had in the start con-
nected a mutual insurance com-
pany with the State Grange, as
the Patrons in New Hampshire
have done.
We have not tried the mutual
life insurance business. But I
have no doubt but such a plan
might be devised as would be very
beneficial to such as wished to
carry life policies.
As to a loan and investment
association. A committee appoint-
ed by the last National Grange has
it under advisement and I hope

“I would cause the increase of the
currency by theluse of silvfir untill the t h h F
. . per capita circu ation reac es at east mus ave as muc as ‘rance
T1113 P1311 15 forty-five dollars. The limitation being although we have no use for it_

Endorsed by forty-five members of

traced directly to a selfish desire
to obtain what others possess, to‘
avoid paying what we promised
A change in currency values would 9
unquestionably yield this result,1
Lbut in the tussle the fighters can-I
not foresee that they would surely 9

be the bitten~the worst bitten. 

cAN’r BE KEPT THERE. ;
If I could cause the increase of
the currency by raining it down
from heaven till every man, woman
and child in the land had $45, no
power on earth or in heaven could
compel them to keep it. If it was
of the same value as our present
currency the average family has no
adequate use for it. They would
exchange it for commodities they
preferred. The average family
not having use for it, it would
float out of the land and we would
no longer have $45 per capita. If
it is not rained down from heaven
it must be formed or transformed
from the property we now have if
it is of any worth. No power on
earth is going to give us $45 per
capita or any fraction of this sum.
It must be the product of our
labor. What right have the law
makers at \Vashington or else-
where to compel§‘us to transform
any portion of oiir wealth into our-
rency unless we choose? If we do
choose to have more currency of
its present valuefwe can individu-
ally have it instantly by simply
parting with ’.,  of; other
property we have. if we‘ needed
and had use for $45 of present
value per capita we should have
them and hold them and keep them
as is evidenced in France.

MONEY AND CHECKS.

But are not gold and silver
products of our labor in mines as
well as our copper, iron, lead or
zinc?‘~ Why should we not rejoice
to sell them as well as other
products? Copper is used for
roofing. If we could find an
extremely cheap substitute which
would answer in our climate exactly
as well and leave us free to sell
largely of our copper, would we not
think it a grand acquisition? Is
not this exactly what we have done
for gold and silver? Ninety-five
percent of the commerce of the
country is effected without the use
of currency, by the use of drafts,
checks, orders, etc. In France it
is not so. A merchant never pays
a bill with, a check, but sends his
messenger to the bank for cur-
rency. We have found a better
way. Still men clamor that we

 

We prefer to sell our metals. Why
should congress interfere?

PAPER SUBSTITUTE.

present value. If it should be of
the same value there could be no
gain in it to individuals, for liow-
ever abundant, it would cost just as
much in labor or products to
obtain a dollar as now.

The demand is then for a cheap
currency, for higher prices; and
wherefore? What gain is there to
be in it? It is plain to the under-
standing of the most simple that if
money were just twice as abundant
and twice as cheap prices would
be twice as high. We would pay
two dollars where we now pay one.
Plainly when values were once ad-
justed to the new scale there could
be neither gain nor loss to any
one, and no object in making the
change if it were possible to make
it. But it is during the transition
period, while values are unsettled,
that some are going to gain and
others as surely will lose. It is a
juggling Scheme, then, for some to
get possession of what others own.
In short, it is a scheme whereby
somebody hopes to rob somebody.
In other words, it is a perversion
of the functions of government.

TO AVOID DEBTS.

But you say, while prices would
double, a dollar of the cheap cur-
rency would still pay a dollar of
debts. In other words it would
not pay a dollar. You are simply
asking congress to make it lawful
for you to settle your debts on
some _,new basis without paying
than. But you say, for thirty
years the laws have favored the
creditor class, and now you want
them to favor the debtor class.
By favoring the debtor class you
mean to make it possible to easily
pay your debts. Because you
have been robbed for 30 years by
more methods than you can ever
understand, you wish now for a
legal method of getting even in re-
turn. Now I understand you, and
the desire is more or less excusable.
But will increasing the currency
enable you to do it? Let us see.
First: “To have in this country no
debtor class and creditor class.
Each man is in his turn both
debtor and creditor, and there is
no possibility of your getting back
by this means at the men who
have robbed you. Second: VVho
clamor for. this change, the men
who now pay their debts, or the
men who cannot pay? You cannot
pay. Well, let us increase the
currency. What follows? Prices
advance. Very true. What prices?
WILL PRICES RISE?
Right here is where the shoe
pinches until you must take it
off or lie down. It is universally
known that in time of inflation of
prices the last of all commodities

What limitation? No limitation
“ At least $45 ”
implies any sum greater than this,
if I could “ cause the increase of

But it may be urged that govern-
ment paper makes a very cheap
substitute for gold and silver.

it does and so far as it is a substi- Well that the prices of everything

So

they will have matured a plan by

    

the currency” why name $45 per
capita?
$1045?

sion now popularly current among
the people would be at once cured
by hearing in mind a few funda-
mental, elementary principles, as,

pie to support the government, but

Or $145? Why stop with

Very much of the misapprehen-

First, “ It is the duty of the peo-

it is no part of the function of gov-
ernment to support the people:”
Second, “All wealth is produced by
labor, never a dollar by legislation :”
and Third, “It is the function of
government to prevent injustice
among its citizens.” This latter
function is often perverted. Laws
have been enacted and are now
clamored for simply to take the
wealth which some possess and
put it in the hands of others.
Labor produces wealth; law may
pervert its distribution. Much of

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labor, prices certainly not favor-
able to the laborer but might be to ing now how can you pay aught

gaggalfigr iighsdggiggeofsgflmllgolig then? The time never comes when

It is

NOT A RATIONAL DEMAND.

It is plain from the above
demonstration that the present
demand for an increase in cur- who might rationally desire a more so.

rency is not a rational demand, cheap currency the farmer and the the currency question and may

the present currency clamor can be

for an increase of currency of the laborer are the last.

to rise in price are farm products,
and the last thing of all to advance
is labor. We who have been
through one such era remember

increased
sponding increase in What you sell.
debts now how will you do it then?

sell instead of one and pay two for
all you buy. If you can pay noth-

an inflation in prices can benefit
the farmer.

WHOLE N0. 429.

HONESTY BEST.

Finally all of your debts, unless
more than fourteen years old, have
been incurred in dollars of the
present value, and honesty which
is the best policy demands that
they be paid as promised. If there
is any reason for cheapening the
currency now there will be the
same reason for cheapening it
again as soon as values are ad-
justed to the new scale; and so
again and again until it becomes
worthless, which is disaster in the
extreme and is the usual history
of currency cheapening. A de-
preciated currency can never con-
tinue. The other alternative is at
some time to restore it, which is a
process painful in the extreme, as
we remember well who witnessed
resumption from twenty to fifteen
years ago.

A HARD QUESTION.
Possibly the 45 members of the
Saline Farmers’ Club do not think it
a depreciated currency, but are sin-
(‘t‘1‘€ in saying it will be at par with
gold. They cannot rationally
think so. Gold has the same
value the world around, regardless
of any stamp placed upon it. If
the new currency is at par with
gold it will be just as difiicult to
get as it is now. An advocate
of the cheap currency told me that
he personally asked Gen. Weaver
how it was possible. He asked,
“If we double our currency, prices
will double?” “ Yes sir.” “ _
sliali get $2 a ‘ iishel for whoafi?’
“Yes sir.” “Currency can sti
be at a par with gold?” “ Yes sir.”
“England will not double her cur-
rency?” “No sir.” “How is it
possible that England can buy our
wheat at 352 when it is worth less
than one at home?”

“That,” said Gen. Weaver; “is
the most profound and far-reach-
ing question I ever yet have list-
ened to.” Of course it was the
first and simplest question a student
of economics would ask, but it was
a poser for Gen. VVeaver. Neither
he nor any living man could answer
it without first taking back what
he had just said. Of course he
and all his followers, if rational,
must know that a currency so
cheap that it requires $2 of it to
buy a bushel of wheat cannot be at
par with gold,silver,copper nor lead.

APPRECIATION UNJUST.

But you ask, is not an apprecia-
ting currency as unjust as a depre-
ciating one? Yes. Is not gold
appreciating? So it is charged,
but not established. Compared
with commodities it is and so it
ought. Commodities are becom-
ing cheaper, and so they ought
with our improved methods of pro-
duction. Two bushels of wheat
can now be raised easier than one
thirty—five years ago. It ought to
bring half the price, and so it does.
Ten suits of clothes can be made
easier than one thirty-five years ago.
They ought to bring 1-10 price but
they bring 8-10. Prices are against
the farmer, but for other causes
than the currency. Compared with
labor, the final test, gold is not ap-
preciating. A day’s or a year’s
labor would never purchase more
of it than to day.

Fifteen years ago when fiatists
were asked to name a limit to their
issue, they said a dollar of it should
always be the equivalent of a day’s
unskilled labor. Compared with
labor then gold is as cheap today’
as they wished their fiat stuff tobe-
Compared with commodities they
are cheap and so they ought to be.

There never was a time in the

In the meantime the world’s history when prices were
laborer has paid extra prices all so favorable to the working man,
these years before any increase in but considering our facilities for
wages came to him. Of all men production they ought to be much

This however is outside

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THE GRANGE visrron.

NOVEMBER 1, 1893.

Field and -Sfock.

FARM COLLEGES.

Details of Successful Farmer Educa-
tion.

[Portion of 11 paper read by Prof. “F. M. Hays of
Minnesota, at the meeting of Agricultural Col-
lege and Experiment Station workers in 1892.]

The country district school furn-
ishes the bulk of the school educa-
tion of the rural youth. By attend-
ing for a year, more or less, at our
excellent city high schools, acad-
emies, colleges and universities,
many of those who continue to re-
side on farms, receive further
school education and culture, and
gain many technical facts, useful
in their lives and business. Our
whole system of secondary and
higher institutions of learning, are,
in fact, doing an immense work in
educating farmers as well as other
classes. The influence of theliter-
ature of books and periodicals, and
of public speaking and of private
discussion, are wonderful factors in
moving forward the powerful mind
forces of our agricultural people.

IN EARLY DAYS.

leges. There is a strong disposi-
tion-and effort everywhere to not
only thoroughly prepare a lot of
men well equipped for professional
agricultural men, but to secure
students who will return to farms,
andto give thema training for their
future business that will simply
lead them on and not away from
the farm. We have no one insti-
tution to which we can point as a
model, for other states, or even for
its own state. We can, however,
point to some rather new features
in various institutions which are
apparently very valuable experi-
ments, often successful ones. We
have new arrangements of courses
of study, like the dairy schools of
VVisconsin, Minnesota and other
states.

These

Technical farmer education took ; and are of far greater moment than

on form in periodicals and in speech
making, and with the land grant of
1862, in schools. These journals ,
have grown into hundreds of gen-i
eral and class papers, with the fifty
experiment stations making copy
for them. They have also a con-
stituency of agricultural special-
ists, who supply a never ending
stream of useful facts. VVe may
have too many papers. But as with
cattle, when there is a surplus, it is
the scrubs which must go, even if
by means of score card and record
the farmers must find means of
making a division. We need more
editors and more publishers who
have an agricultural college educa-
tion. All here little need a recital
of the way most agricultural col-
leges started with their course of
study more scientific than was
found in literary colleges, and with
a minor amount of agricultural sub-
ject matter. The science was gen-
erally well taught, and was popular
with the students in these colleges.
Most of the men who taught agri-
culture had never learned the bus-
iness of teaching in these lines, and

ly, simple practical men of farm
affairs, or even in some cases where
they had good qualifications, as
things then were, in both science
and practice, they pretty generally
found a great load to carry, or even
could not see far enough to find
the load that should be carried. In
too many cases students found that
agricultural subjects were not
taught in a manner to fully satisfy
them.
ONE MAN’s WORK.

The agricultural technique in
these early attempts was often left
to one man, as much through his
fault as that of the teacher of math-
ematics, who may have had a need-
ed assistant. The poor professor
of agriculture struggled on, carry-
ing instruction in live stock, dairy-
ing, soils, crops, horticulture, for-
estry, veterinary, and if really un-
lucky he consented to take botany
and entomology also. The man
who tries to carry even a few of the
most allied of these lines has not
the highest success in really edu-
cating his students. The plan being
carried out by the ‘Wisconsin,
Michigan and other schools, where
there is a specialist in each of the
several divisions, of what the pro-
fessor of agriculture was formerly
expected to teach, seems wise and
brings results when practiced in
school and in station work as well.

EVOLUTION.

These colleges have been suc-
cessful scientific institutions from
the start, but their evolution into
schools of agricultural technique
and practice, has proven a longer
and more painful operation
than was dreamed of in the start.
Some institutions are on a better
basis than others, and in that they
have some successful features
worked out under their own ex-

rience, and in their own way.

ince the experiment station fund
increased the study of the techni-
calities of practical farm affairs,
there has been a general division
of labor and increased interest,
which has resulted in much ex-
perimenting and upbuilding along
the lines of arrangement of course
study, and of the subject matter
taught by teachers in lines gener-
ally allotted to the agricultural
department or" division in the col-

Inany experiments in our stations.

T0 TRAIN TEACHERS.
The agriculturist’s work, so far

as what he shall teach, and how he
shall teach it, depends much upon
the class of students he has, and
What they are expected to do with
their training.
duty of a college and its professors
of agriculture in a given state to
make, by encouragement and spec-
ial instruction, a lot of agricultur-
ists, dairy teachers and live stock
instructors for the home institution
and those of other states, though
that is a very important secondary
line.
this on, of the division of the work
his department represents is, I be-
lieve, to educate young men who
will farm and become models for
their neighbors and teachers of
others.
who enter is enough to have choose
other professions than farming.
These colleges of necessity had to
educate men to be teachers and
experimenters during their earlier
history, and greatly to be honored .
are those states which have sent
out in other states so many useful
men.
must be continued, but hardly as
the over-topping object of each in-
stitution.
ted as specialists are largely a means
to the two ends of teaching and
experimenting, and we must depend
upon this class largely for the men,
who,
shall develop and broaden the sci-
ences of agriculture.

It is not the main

The main great duty from

Thirty per cent of those

The production of these men

These men who are fit-

by experimental research,

To MAKE FARMERS.
The other purpose of the college

is to give to the would be farmers
education in the farming business.
I realize that I have taken radical
ground, but the change wrought
in Minnesota by a school experi-
ment heroically tried there has con-
verted me into this belief.
Porter, who helped start the idea
and the movement there, has so
much faith in it that I see he is
developing a similar school in Mis-
souri.
agriculture course in Minnesota,
instead of degrading education, has
become the pet of the farmers of
the state, and the faculty and stud-
ents of the collegiate department
of the university of which it is a
part, are also proud of it.
school to meet a certain purpose,
and it fills the place for the young
man who will be a farmer, much as
does the high school, the business
college, or even a law school for
the general business man or the
lawyer.
the farmers’ winter course fulfills
each its distinctive purpose for
some dairymen and farmers who
want to attend the school only for

Dr.

The two years’ school of

It is a

So the dairy course and

a short time, as does also the col-

lege course meet the wants of the
young man who wants the broader
culture of a college course before
taking up the management of his
farm, or the one who wants to pur-
sue the professional work in agri-
culture.

COME DOWN A LITTLE.
To really carry out the suggest-

ions above made, that we come
down from our high perch and
teach the farmer what he wants,
not a little depends uppon the sev-
eral men who teach the division
usually distinguished as agricult-
ure, including, of course, horticult-
ure, etc.

Young men who have

Short winter or farmer’s,
lecture courses, the school of agri- 3
culture, as in Minnesota and Mis- §
souri, and doubtless other re-ar- J‘ Which We can point as 8 model for
rangements more or less supple-
mental to the original straight
four years’ college course.
experimental courses and schools
have grown up to meet a demand
coming from the people, or a dire
necessity on the part of the insti-
tution, to accomplish something,

grown up into practical farmers,
who keep in touch with the work
at home during vacations, and who
are at school largely as a business
venture, count mainly upon- what
they get in this division to help
them in their work when they go
back to the farm, and many of our
former short students have confirm-
ed the truthfulness of the above
assertion by so stating a few years
after their return to their business.
There is great inspiration, too, to
the teacher who gets close to these
boys’ lives and purposes, in the
questions and pointers they will
give in class, and when working at
practicums; also when they return
after a year or more on the farm
since leaving the school.

NO MODEL.
\Ve have no one institution to

others to follow. What would be
best in one state would hardly fit
any other. But we have now ample
examples of successful features of
various colleges from which any
institution not in satisfactory con-
dition can select patterns with
which to add to or reconstruct an
almost model institution in each
state. And further experiments
that must result when we supple-
ment the four years’ course, will
add more successful features from
which each institution may select.
True we have not had enough men
who have had successful experience
in the various technical lines to man
so many model institutions with
model teachers, but these men are
rapidly being made. The raw ma-
terials come generally in full stat-
ure from the farm, and are being
moulded by special courses and
secondary courses, and kiln burned.
to a finish in the useful function of
assistant college and station work-
ers. Some of them stop underdone;
others come out over-cooked,
cracked or warped, but there will
be suificient of the true rounded,
cylindrical shapes which will fit to-
gether, and through which the clear
filtered stream of agricultural
thought will run from the soil to
the spring where the farmer can
drink from the crystal fountain of
knowledge.

DIVISION 0“ ‘IABOR.

A review of the‘ present develop-
ment and differentiation is in order.
Colleges like that in Wisconsin
have grown from the one professor
idea to a position where a dozen or
more men work in as many lines
which apply to practical agricult-
ure. These men leave to other
university departments the general
field of science. Even the lines
of agricultural chemistry and agri-
cultural physics. are there being
more or less divided to separate
men, and two or more men repre-
sent as many parts of dairy manu-
facturing, and as many more dairy
stock. Close division of labor all
along the line is absolutely neces-
sary. These close specialists are
bound to make their work go. They
will evolve text books, methods of
practicums and other indispensa-
ble machinery of farmers educa-
tional work.

PURPOSES.

The several purposes now being
looked at in one or all of the many
colleges, may be classed under the
following heads:

First, The general education of
men, because they are men.

Second, The advancement of
sciences which underlie industrial
education. The government as-
sisted the states to make provision
for these general classes of work
elsewhere. Agricultural college
funds are nowhere suflicient to
carry even agricultural work, and
that in mechanics, which rightfully
belongs in these institutions. If
we can get talent to profit by, use
the funds to help the people, part
of whom will return to their indus-
tries, there is where most of the
money belongs. Much, however,
has been done along these wider
lines of education.

Third, Technical science, the
object of which is to amass facts,
and develop appliances and men who
shall work along industrial lines,
I place in this class.

Fourth, In the fourth class I
place special schools, as of dairying,
practical mechanics, veterinary,
domestic economy, etc.

Flflh, In the fifth class I place
the schools of agriculture and short
courses, which are adapted to the
wants of the young men and young
women who want an education of
the high school, academy or busi-
ness college grade before settling

down on the farm. These last
named schools fit most of our busi-
ness men for life, as do the schools
of medicine prepare doctors, and
schools forfarmin g, 11 ot neccessarily
schools for professors, will like-
wise fit our farmers to keep up
with the agricultural procession of
their generation, and it is nearing
the two minute gait.

Siacth, In the sixth class I place
farmers’ institute, and allied works
as a most valuable part of the col-
lege. Here also facts can be given
the farmer interested in the broad-
er, more complete work of the school
courses.

ized attempt would attach rural
district schools in some way to«
schools of agriculture. This might<
allow of some agricultural lessonsfi
to be taught in country schools,§
and some stimulus to make the
country school prominent as at
stepping stone or leading string:
into these agricultural schools of a I
secondary grade. l
ADVERTISING THAT COU:\'Ts. E
If we fill up our schools of at
secondary class, and there repre-i
sent a course of study of which the J
returning farm boy will speak int
the highest terms to his neighbor
youths, we will find plenty of stud-
ents interested in getting on a bet-
ter basis before farming. You
might even get so many of these
short course graduate students,
that those who would continue in
the college course, plus those who
now enter from high schools, would
far outnumber your present nuni-
ber of college students and gradu-
ate students. You would thus in-
crease the popularity of your col-‘,
lege course, and besides do the
work that farmers would now at
once demand you must do if they
thought you could do it. That.
boys can be taught much of how to
live, in a two years’ course, as well
as much technical knowledge, I

in the case of students in Minne-
sota as I have learned that many
colleges lead from the farm.

INJJRODUCING NEW FEATURES.

education of the to-be farmers was
concerned, our colleges of neces-
sity began at the wrong end. They
did not well know what was wanted.
The farmers generally agreed that
schools as thorough as any needed
by professional men, must be sup-
plied to farmers’ sons, who, of all
men, need and are worthy of a
knowledge of many things. The
school men who had charge of af-
fairs naturally were ambitious to
have high collegiate courses of
study. In getting ready teachers and
experimenters, and in developing
the science and education, they
have done wonders. Several have
made an especial efiort to get as
many men in other stations as pos-
sible, not always regarding quality
as much as should have been done.
It strikes me forcibly that we now
have reached the point where a
strong push can be made to turn
part of these developed forces into
channels which will bring hundreds
of thousands of the future farmers
into the popular systems of instruc-
tion in schools of agriculture.

TWO MORE.

VVe have some answers to our
questions of last issue, received too
late for publication:

1. Universally; by the unpre-
cedentedly low prices the farmer
receives for everything he has to
sell. Cause, not suflicient circula-
tion.

2. It should be repealed.

3. All of them. Believing that
by thus electing they get a better
expression of the wishes of the

people.
T. H. Coox.

.:Zm'uc_1'.

 

1. Very generally. They farm
less as wages are high in propor-
tion to produce.

2. Favor the repeal.

 Three-fourths at least.

OSCAR PERRY.

Orion.

The great need of the majority
of our farmers is more manure, yet
thousands of tons go to waste every
year from improper care. All ma-
nure should be liberally mixed with
absorbents, and kept under cover
until you are ready to apply it to
the land. In no other way can you
prevent the loss of valuable prop-
erties. Manure thown out and left

have been as clearly demonstrated —

So far as the immediate school I“

through the winter, has not very
much value by spring. A small
lean-to, sufficient to cover and pro-
tect it, can be cheaply built, and
will more than repay its cost in a.
single season.——Farmer’s Home."

 

Wheat will in future occupy a
more prominent place than hereto-
fore in hog feeding because it has
been found to be a better all-round
food for growing pigs than corn.
The price of wheat will measurably
regulate this, however, even though
a more profitable feed. because of

the facility for handling and the
g‘fact that it generally commands a
Seventh, Possibly some organ-

cash market. It contains three or
four times as much bone and tis-
sue-forming constituents as corn,
and is, like milk, a better all-round
foo(l.—~——(7ol7n(m’s Rural World.

Do not look far away from home
for the chances to make money in
specialty farming. The same op-
portunities exist right where you
are that you think can be found a
thousand miles away.---Farmers’
Review.

MICHIGAN STUCK CBHEEDERS.

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.
PROFIT MEANS MUTTUN ) 
AND AND
[088  Wlllll l .
\‘-'c Czin furuisli nnytliing‘ inn \\:.nt in the
Slirnp.-‘hire Sliccp line.

\Vritc, or cuun‘, nr both.

H ERBERT \V. SKI’ .Vl FOIII),
l\ll)§('()\\’, ‘Mich.

EUGENE FIFIELD
BAY CITY, MICE
Si14:(c».,~‘(ir to .\IEl’iRIl.l. .\' FlFll‘:l.l)
linpnrtcr lll'l(l Ilrectlcr of
HEREFORD CATTLE
and SHROPSHIRE SHEEP
Choice stock of lvotli kinds formic.
:ll')l(‘. C0rrc.~poii(lciicc solicitcd.

HIGH CLASS SH ROPSHIRES.

Priccs reason-

I ll:l\'t.t l0()ll1l}‘lOl‘ft‘(l\'\31l.rlll]u’ cu cs ziuil 2:, \'e:irling
r-.i1n.<. Some of these L-\\'c.< l1:l\'L' now 1».-mi bred to
the l’\E.~L stock Y.'lill.\ in liu_3l:in<l. and the Others to
our own best l‘2U1]$. Thu l‘:l:l1.\' \\'ill \\'ci_'_rl1 from
275 to 300 pminds and Sllclll‘ from 12 to 15 pounds zit
nuiturity, and the ewes “ill we-i4_»;h from ISO to 2m
niu(l.< :iuLl slicxir from 0 in 12 pounds at ni:itL1rity_
Orders by mail given cziref-.1? attention.

TH E “'ILL()\V.§‘,
Gen. E. Breok, Propr. Paw Paiy, l\Iich.

SPRINGDALE FARM

LANSING, MICHIGAN
JAMES M. TURNER, Prop

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

FOR SALEK._¢

A few good pigs from the Ilillsdnle Countv
Herd of Polun China Hogs. Can furnish

pairs or tries not akin. Inspection of our herd
solicited, or write, describing closely what
vou want, and Stltlsfilttloll will be guaranteed.
Stork rccnrdecl in O. I’. C. R.

JOHN BOWDITCH
Eillsdale. Michigan

II. iii. HINDSI

Stanton, Montcalm Co
Breeder of

Shorthorn Cattle
American Merino
and Shropshire Sheep

BLACK MEADOW FARM.

Standard-bred Trotters
_Shorthorn Cattle
Shropshire Sheep
Berkshire Pigs

F. R. BAKER, Detroit.
69 Buhl Block.

Oakland Poultry Yards.

Eggs for hatching per 13. Barred Plymouth
Rocks, Rose Comb White, and Single Comb
Brown Leshpi-us. $1.00 to $1.50. White Wynn-
dottes and Light Brahmas, $l.50,Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys, $2.00 per six. _

My yards are all headed by big?-scoring males.
hens and pallets score_90 to 95. y stock has won
premiums at all the principal shows in Michigan.

JAMES MILLER, Jr., Beddow. Mich.

COLBY STOCK FARM.

Rsmbouillet Sheep, Galloway Cattle, and P9,-_
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, Consr, MIon..
or L. B. TOWNSEND. IONIA, MIau.
M. H. WALWORTH
HILLSDALE, MICH

BREEDER OF

ESSEX. VIIITUHIA AN|] SUFFOLK SWINE

Also American Merino Sheep of choice quality

SI-IROPSHIRE HALL

STOCK FARM

Has no on sale 50Registersd l‘ Rama,
25 Regihtered yearling Ewes, yfigg lilgportgd
Ewes and Rams. 1893 importation to an-in

in July.
L. S. DUNHAM,
Concord, Mich.

SHROPSHIRES FOR ’93

Imported. Registered and Unregistered
References: ex-Gov. Winans and C. 8. Gregory,
. Dexter, Mich.

Choioe Yfifirlinz Ram and Ewe Lambs for sale

Write for
Catalog.

to pile up against the barn, and so

catch the drippings from the eaves

Terms reasonable.
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NOVEMBER 1', 1893.

 

  

THE ORANGE VISITOR.

 

 

 

 

ATRONS’

PA'I‘B.0NS' PAINT WORKS have sold Ingersoll Paint to the Order P. of
H. since its organization. House Paints and Cheap Paints for Burns and 011»
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
looking well. prove them the most durable.

AINT

MICHIGAN PATRONS “Buy direct from
Factory” at full Wholesale Prices and
save all Middlemen’s Profits.

o. w. INGERSOLL, Prop.

Oldest Paint House in America
241-243 Plymouth-st., Brooklyn

ORKS

lngeisoll's Liquid Rubber Paints
Indestructible Cottage and Barn Paints

Sample Color Cards, “Coutidentiai" Grange
Discounts, Est mates and full pan-ticulnro
MAILED FREE. \Vrite at once.

I"os'l'al cloflings.

[We desire to mzikcthis department the Grange
news column.
spondents will favor us and all Patrons by sending
ii frequent notes about their Grange work, brief
jottings concerning some topic discussed, or plans

for work. Let us make this column of special in- ‘v

hrest to Patrons.’l

THE MASTER

of Rhode Island State Grange says:

" Will say, must say, the VISITOR is very
much read and enjoyed by myself and
family.
am?

"Truly yours.
*‘ A. M. Batcnsk.“

Sister Mayo has been working in Cass
and Berrien counties.

 

Bro. J. ]. \VoOdman, and Bro. and Sister
Hinds were guests at a dinner given to
Gov. Rich at the fair

THE HARVEST.

Passed to the brighter life at his home in
Battle Creek township, Brother Harvey J.
Dubois, at the age of 68 years. He was
one of the early pioneers of his township.
An upright and honorable citizen, a worthy
member of Calhoun County Grange, he
took a deep interest in the welfare of the
farmers and of the betterment of their con-
dition as a class.

rain Work.

« CONDUCTED BY “TYRO.”

Open -to all. Contributions and solutions solic-
ited. Addrcssall matter concerning this depart-
ment to I-‘. Airriirii l\IF.TC.-\LF, Surrn .\L‘WORTll,
N. H.

X.
ORIGINAL PL"/.'/.l.E.\',
.\’o. 51.-Diurmmd.

I. A letter. 2. French Eng. (1707-175,1 1>’ij.) 3.
Threads of metal. 4,. l’:iinter. (1705-1810, B17.) 5.
Village _Elase~Lothringen, Gcrinany. (I>’1j.) 0.
Concussion of the land. 7. An evergreen plant. S.
Silks or threads nntwisted. 9. Fancics. io. 'l‘o\vn
Loir et Cher, Fr-mice. (Iii/'.i ii. A letter.

Braol‘/VII, .V. I”. PHIL 0. SOP!-KER.

.\'n. _;_>,—.Vx:;v St;-/1’ Diimio/id.

i. A letter. J. A Turkish arrow. 3. Equal \".ilne.
4. Evenings. 5. A term in music. 6. Leveled. 7.
Pertaining to certain glands. 5. To walk iiiinblv
over. 9. Turbulent. in. Ccntipcd. (0!:.v.) ii.
Private. iz. A basket. (()ir.v.) i3. Brushwood and
thorns for repairing hedges. J4. To eat. i5. Enact-
ed. x6. A word foundin the iigth Psalm. i7. A
htter.

W/zite Ho1r.<e,/V.  CAL\'i_‘v'.

/V0. 53.—Apoco/ix.
Be light and cheery-hearted
If _vOu can.
Mourning never joys inipartcd,
Be a man.
As the moss that grows in the TOTA L path
Makes it softer to use
So :1 little fun ONE natures light with
. Pleasure that all would choose.
Bug/mmtan, 1V. 1'. FRANTZ.
_\'o. j4.~—.S‘lur.

I. A letter. .:. A prefix. 3. Pertaining to Aaruii.
4. A Spanisli dance. 5. A stringed instrument
med by the ancient Hebrews. U. \\'roth. 7. A
genus of serpents. 5. Part of A letter. ii. A letter.

W'titi-rmun, Ill. Soi.ux_

.'Vo. ;5.—[Ir.i.'ug‘o/.1.

i. Elapsed. .3. The girdle of a Jewish pricst_ 3.
The gar-pike. 4. Pertaining to the mechanic arts.
5. A cognomen. (RA 1'». Ascertaincd the duration
Of. 7. To yield.

Hlrlerlmm, I//.

4V0. 50.-1.2/I I1’/lumliuid.

Across: l. A vault in the tlank of :1 bastion. 2.
A vegetable alkaloid. 3. An animal haying an ob-
bn body. 4. Carbonate of baryta. 5. An arbor-
ize st.one_ 6. One of a sect of apostzites.  A
mineral found in France. 3. A kind of lace. ( 65.)

Down: I. A letter. 2. Vlfcll. 3. A purgative
iuit. 4. The middle of achurch. 5. A species of
pepper. 6. An optical instrument. 7. Denoting a
Grecian ulf. S. The fossil intestines of fish. 9. A
variety 0 angite. io. A species of silk stuff. (06-53)
11. Growing out. i2. Mud. 13. Some. i4. A
musical term.  A letter.

COLL'.\lHl.‘\.

Park 5111?. M YS'l'.~\GI')GL I-..
ANSVVERS T0 BRAIN WORK vii.
No. 32. No. 33. DECANTER.
R R ECANTED.
REP
REPLY N 0. 34.
REPLICA NAC A RAT
REPLICATE ADAMOLI
REPLICATION CASEB A G
PLICATION AMELI TH
YCATIUN R0 B I NET
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EON T IGH TEN
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No.[35. M isi:R—Ai3Li-:.
N O. 36.
DARUVAR
FEVERET
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REMA STS
SOR:I TE S
RAVENED
RAMESES

SOLVERS TO BRAIN WORK Vl AND VII.

Phil 0. Sopher and Sappho, 8. Mysta—
gogue, 7. Remardo and Calvin, 6. Wal-
demar, I. P. _I., Alumnus, Lucile, G. Race,
R. 0. Chester, Miss Chief, 5. G. Whizz,
H. Ennis, Black-eyed Charley, Vetturino,
F lactum, Zaida, 2. Adelante, Nancy Lee,
Lily May, Dainty Dell, Grace Darling,
Winnie VVinn, Canadian Boy, Picturesque
Pete, Gloria, Proteus, Lorraine, California,
Diamond, 1. Total 30.

PRIZE VVINNERS———FirSl, Phil 0. Sopher
and Sappho; Second, Mystagogue.

PRIZES.

For first best list of answers to Novem-
ber puzzles, the VISITOR one year. For
second best list, “ Boar-wIu'zzardgeoz's1'e” one
year. Our solving list is booming, as will
be seen above. “ Calo" has changed his

Lecturers, secretaries, and corre- '

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.gentlemen in the conduct of the

no»: to “ Calvin” and is about to open out a
weekly department in a New Jersey paper.

“ TY R0."

NEW YORK INSURANCE.

In New York there is an asso-
ciation known as “ The New York
Organization of
Cooperative Fire Insurance,” the
object of which is to foster and

the mutual fire insurance com-
panies, by enabling them through
the annual reports of such com-
panies to the central organization,

methods of insurance, and also in
keeping records of the same, also
by endeavoring to secure by com-
bined effort and influence just and
and proper legislation, whenever
needed, for the protection Of the
legitimate interests Of such com-
panies.

The membership Of the associa-
tion consists of one delegate from
each mutual fire insurance com-
pany in the State of New YOrk;:
and the annual fee from each,
company to the Central Organiza.- 
tion, to entitle it to membershipi
therein, is $5.00.

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT.

The annual address of the;
president Of the association sayszl
The history of this organization 
from its inception to the present}

time carries with it all the vindi-,

cation that it needs at our hands;
The demand for such an institution l
to stand as a barrier between Our;
local organizations and theirl
natural enemy had long been felt?
——that it has proved its right to?
exist will not be denied. 3

Proper association of honorable;
men engaged in legitimate under-
takings cannot but be of advantage
to all who participate and come
within the influence of such
association.

What has been the experience of
you gentlemen, who for a term of
years more Or less extended, have
been doing this work of keeping
in motion the machinery of this
cooperative effort? Have you
seen any good results? In your
judgment should this organization
be perpetuated in the interest of
the local associations and their
members who are the benefici-
aries?

Whatever‘ may be the judgment
Of others, I have no hesitation in
saying that I believe, that so long
as any considerable number
Of local associations in this
state continue the business Of fire
insurance on the cooperative plan
substantially as now pursued,
there is great necessity for con-
tinuing this organization in all its
force. * * * * * *

But the most important feature
of our organization is the
educational branch through which
the farmers of our state
are learning their own ability
to protect and defend themselves
in matters of business. As you

affairs committed to you demon-
strate to your neighbors your
ability, through the medium of
cooperation, to do those things for
your Own benefit and protection
which in the past you have paid
extravagant sums to Others for doing
for you, they catch the idea and
are able to see the new relation
existing in the community and
are obliged to concede that the
farmer has reached a highter level;
that he is coming to know himself
and to realize his Own importance.

FINANCIAL REPORT.

The summary of the financial
statement is as follows:
Whole number of companies re-

 

HURON POMONA. “ STILL IN THE RING.” l

Huron County Pomona Grangef EDITOR VISITOR——The Patrons
met at Colfax Grange Hall Oct. 5. § of West Handy Grange No. 613
Quite a. number took advantage of  are not all dead as was proved Tues-

the first opportunity of meeting in l day night, Oct. 10, by about 60 of

the new hall, which we were pleased  them meeting at the home Of Benj .
to find so well furnished. A new  Bowers and giving him a genuine
Organ has been added to the list. isurprisa The ladies brought re-
We did not propose to send a. dele- vi, freshments, which were served at
gate to State Grange. We feellabout 10 o’clock, after which one
deprived of the privilege according of the brothers in a few well chosen
to the present by-laws, and ll0pe,WOI‘dS presented to Mr. Bowers in
the Grange at the next session will l behalf of the company some very
reconsider the matter. Reports 5 fine presents. After 8. few hours
from Subordinate Granges were i spent in social chat by the Older
quite favorable. A good program { ones, and games by the young peo-
was rendered. Bro. McKenzie,  ple, all returned to their homes
Master Of Colfax Grange, wel. ; congratulating themselves upon be-
comed Pomona, and Wm. Pang- l longing to so good an Order as the
man, Master of Pomona Grange, E Patrons of Husbandry.

responded. Bro. Joseph Donald-; Our Grange is in a. very good

' 1
Farms in Isabella Bounty
AVER/\(‘-E ABOUT 5E\'l£N'l‘\' ACRES EACH.

Beautiful homes, large barns. fruitful orchards,
neat cniintry school houses and churches, thriv-
ing villages and ‘.1 handsome city, prove the
prosperity of the people. The schools and col-
leges of Mt. l’le:is:i.nt are excellent. Oats, clover,
sheep, potatoes and fruits for gciicral farming‘
corn, hay and rich pastures for dziirying an
stock raising, have made many farmers well 03:
Others are nrosperiiig, and so can you. Unim-
proved larids, vziluablc timber lands, pnrtl im-
proved farms, and farms highly improve , and
choice city property for sale forircally low prices.

For saiiiples of LltZSl,‘l’lpl.l()llS of such pro rty
as vou inay desire and feel able to huv, lfnse
address (T()()K‘S REAL ESTATE AGE CY,
.V[t Pleasant, Mich.

T he Hand-Made Harness 60..

OF STZINTON, IVIICI-I.

E. D. H.iwLicr, Pres. WM. H. OWEN. Treas.
0. MOORE, Sec’y.

Retail their own make of goods at ZU/I0/«‘.\’(I/E firitc
VVe make a specizily of $20 double team work har-
ness and :1 $10 single harness. \\'e guarantee satis-
faction, and prcpzlj-‘ freight on five sets. By per
mission we refer to Hon. H. H.Hindz-i, of Stan-
ton.

 

son, Of Wadsworth Grange, was
called On to open a. discussion con-
cerning Mutual Fire Insurance,
which he did by reading the charter
and by-laws of Oakland County
Mutual Insurance Company. This

was discussed and we think in the ,
near future Huron county will have ,
8. mutual fire insurance company. i

Resolutions and discussions were
interspersed by music and singing

zby Miss Brown, Mrs. Soper and
Mrs. Williams read a ;
beautiful piece of poetry. The‘

Miss Elliot.

evening program was Question
Box and songs by John Garfut,
Wm. Bisset, R. Nugent
Andrew Huffman. An invitation
was extended to Pomona to meet
with North Burns Grange in De-
cember, which was accepted.

Mus. R. NUGENT,
Secreiary.

 

LENAWEE COUNTY GRANGE.

and i

lcondition, nearly all Of the mem-
; bers trying to contribute something
to keep up an interest in the
meetings. Literary exercises form
a part Of the program each even-
ing. A few weeks ago we had a
review Of the work in the rituals,
and we found that although we had

    

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At last 3 medical work that tells the causes. ,
describes the elrects. points the remedy; This
is scientifically the most valuable, art tlcally
‘ the most beautiful medical book that has ap-

      
     
         
         
  

    
   

, been Pronolmced 3“ eXcee§1i_n_g1y i 3°i'i§i3§a‘ii'ayiiiii‘ia‘c.-as 3’:’i‘iii' $21? ”si'§3.§’3'i'i%§
well conducted Grange by visiting 0 “WC 8'9 "°*"°““ ”°"‘“‘Y~ ‘"1

Grangers, there was plenty Of Op— l
portunity for improvement, which 
we shall endeavor to make.

The VISITOR is found in nearly
all Of our homes, and we think each
issue is better than the last.

By the way, where is that broth-
ler that wrote “ a. man’s ideas?” If
, he is not completely annihilated
[by the criticism he has caused why
,does he not wield his pen again in
defense of himself?

6 rted Life who would atone for ,

Q and at-oidfiiltjtureffigaua should write for this 0
WONDER L L 1' LE hoax. g
It will be sent tree. under seal, while the em- ,

tion lasts. It convenient enclose ten cents to .

pay postage alone. Address the publishers,

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A GRANGER. Sneomim

 

Surgeru

Oliver, Eaton C0,, Mich.

AN UNTAXED PEOPLE.

Met October 5, with Fruit: The P9091‘? Of the State Of New
Ridge Gmng-e_ There was a very g Ork have reason to be proud and
good attendance, with quite a  l13PPY 0V91' thegll‘ P°51t}0_11 111_1'9g31"d
number of visiting members from : l'.0 taXeS. ' Their C0.l].dll3lOI1 II} 
Over the Ohio line. The hall waslrespect 15 Somethmg the like Of‘

very finely doc.‘;rate(l, indeed weiwhich is 1105 known in 311)’ Othel‘

I make a specialty of Castrating the Ridg-
ling Horse, and Spaying the Kicking
Marc. I Castrate Colts without the use
of ropes. cords, clamps Or fire irons.
Spay all kinds Of domestic animals,
Capon Fowls; Dehorn Cattle, File

Horses‘ Teeth and I will 0 any distance ,

provided a club of su cient size In

found our Worthy State Magterlfitalie. Nearly all departments of

secured to pay me. I guarantee satis-

busy as a. bee, trimming the walls

artistically with grains, grasses, _
We thought 5 the shape Of taxation.

what 9, 1655011 in beauty for ianling are some ‘Of the features of the,
members of the Qrdel-_ After an:,state’s financial condition, as Out-;

and autumn leaves.

abundant dinner there was sing-
ing by the Grange.

The welcome address Of Bro.
Horton was responded to by Mrs.
B. G. Hoig of MOI‘eHCl Grange.
Bro. Graham Of Madison read a
paper on the “ Single Tax,” which
called out a very spirited discus-
sion participated in by Bros. Hor-
ton, Moore, Dowling and Others.
Bro. Horton introduced the follow-
ing resolution which was adopted:

“Resolved, That in the opinion Of
Lenawee County Grange a single tax On
land would make the Ownership Of the
soil undesirable; and that the Operation
of such a tax system would gradually

turn land out to commons and in time
destroy our whole social system.”

Hattie Moore Of Medina read
a. very interesting paper on “ The
Kindergarten.” It contained
many good points and created
some discussion. Sister Mary
Allis gave a recitation. The lect-
urer proposed for discussion the
question “ How will farmers be
benefited financially by the
World’s Fair.” Bro. Deyo of
Fulton county, Ohio, thought the
question hardly fair, as farmers
and their families have just as
good a. right to recreation as any
other class of people. But he
thought that a wide awake farmer
would get many ideas that would
help him financially. Some said
that twenty years of travel would
not give them the knowledge of
foreign customs that a. ten day’s
visit to the exposition would.
There will also be a common bene-
fit to all the participants.

Reports from the Granges
showed a healthy condition and a

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companies _ _. $140.597.733-00 -
Average amoun 161600589 postponed tonext meeting. Reso-
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plgte fepor‘::_!_1_?_s _______ _f _____ ,_ so fifth degree was conferred on ten
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Amaze mom“ r°I>°1't9d 138* 3 Grange then entertained the
years by the80compa.niss ______ ._ 119371.352 d- Th-S P m
gotpi I  ex$pie(i,ids6as§._§é;;.s, 599.868 8.11 181106. 1 0. one W88 GS-
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the state government are run With‘ 5 faction in all cases or no charges Write
out any expense to the people in for ,,«,,c,,],,,._
The fOllOw- . HM» 

    

'ned by Governor Flower: The: 9 § ‘V
executive department yields morel  
‘iin notary fees than the total ex-‘

' 35.0tharIizoI, . “fianntalrlnu

ipenses. The fees taken in the. 3 TON $
Yoflice of the Secretary Of State are: 6“ TRl'’“'FREmHT P“D'wARRA"TEn

gdouble the expenses Of that Ofi‘lC€.l. 053,00,” ‘E, THOMPSON’ Bm'qhamt°”' M Y
=The work Of the Attorney GenerallJ‘ L“ POLLD’ Agt" Paw Paw’ Mich’
brings to the state millions of dOl- ‘
lars. The State Treasurer has sol,
‘~ deposited the state funds as to earn 
in interest more than three times 
the amount Of the expenses Of his]
Office. The expenses Of the Rail-’
road Commission are paid by the
railroads, of the banking depart,
ment by the banks; of the insur-

ance department by the insurance‘

,cOmpanies; and Governor Flower;

' promises that the Operations Of the ,
corporation and inheritance tax    w 
laws, the latter of which will yieldl

three million dollars to the state l Iii l_’.V’(‘.I‘y Graiig-e tllYl'(_)llg‘ll0llt the
this year‘ W111 soon make du-ect , lgiiitcil States. VI rite at once
taxation on the people there a thingitor tiill particiilars. Address

Of the past. The enactment of thei FRAT],a,_R§_I;,I;¥ 

DOTED inheritance tax l8.W IS 8. start  @111 reply to this adv. mention this paper,
in this state toward something like; - - —  — ~ ~~- —

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I NOVEMBER 1, 1893.

THE GRANGE VISITOR

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

Kenyon L. Butterfleld, Editor and Manager,
LANSING, MICH.,

'l‘o_w_hom a.ll_ exchanges, communications, adver
hllailg business and subscriptions should be
can .

Ofllce, 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
renewed.

?‘Remittances should be by Registered Letter,
oney Order or Draft. Do not send stamps.

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

OUR PLATFORM.

Believing that the Grange of Michigan
needs a brief but comprehensive state-
ment of its purposes, we propose the fol-
lowing as the platform upon which the
Michigan State Grange and the GRANGE
Vrsrrou shall stand and work; and we
invite discussion and criticism of the
same by Patrons of Husbandry and all
others truly interested in the farmers’
welfare, to the end that the Granges may
go forward more unitedly and with more
definite objects in view.

OUR OBJECT

is the Organization of the Farmers
for their own Improvement:
Financially,
Socially,
Mentally,
Morally.
WE BELIEVE

that this Improvement (‘an in Large
Measure be Brought About:

1. (a.) By wider individual study and
general discussion of the business side
of farming and home keeping.

(b.) By co-operation for financial
advantage.

2. (a.) By frequent social gather-
ings, and the mingling together of
farmers with farmers, and of farmers
with people of other occupations.

(b.) By striving for a purer manhood,
a nobler womanhood, and a universal
brotherhood.

3. (a.) By studying and promoting
the improvement of our district
schools.

(b.) By patronizing and aiding the
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment
Stations in their legitimate work of
scientific investigation, practical ex-
periment, and education for rural
pursuits.

(c.) By maintaining and attending

~farmcrs’ institutes; reading in the

Reading Circle; establishing and using
circulating libraries; buying more and
better magazines and papers for the
home.

4. (a.) By dilfusing a knowledge of
our civil institutions and teaching the
high duties of citizenship.

(b.) By discussing, advocating, and
trying to secure such state and nation-
al laws as shall tend to the general
justice, progress, and morality.

Do not forget to send us postal
jottings. _________

You may be interested in “The
Tide of Affairs.”

Notice our premium offers. Read
its provisions carefully. It is very
liberal.

We have an advertiser’s depart-
ment this issue. Read the first
note in it.

 

How is your VISITOR agent do-
ing? Is he not going to send us
at least five new names this month?

We have several articles this

issue bearing on insurance and

cooperation. They ought to inter-
est all Patrons.

Do you always read page seven?
We try to place there the new and
practical things that the experi-
mentalists have for us.

We had hoped to be able to
speak editorally of several other
important things, but our space is
too limited, and we shall have to
defer to another issue.

The F. H. R. C. is a Grange in-
stitution, in that it would not_have
existed today except for the efforts
of the Grange. Therefore Patrons
should respond quickly in taking
up the course. The secretary in-

forms us that applications for
books are coming in quite rapidly.
Don’t wait to begin. Now is the
time.

    

A friend of the VISITOR, some-
what inclined to literary work, has
kindly consented to help us by
quite frequent contributions. _ The
articles will appear under the
name, “The Philosopher.”

December 1 we expect to issue
a special woman’s issue. The
woman’s work committtee will have
entire charge of the issue, and they
have secured articles from such
sources as insure a splendid num-
ber. All who would like extra
copies should send in their request
as early as possible. It will be a
fine number to circulate among
your neighbors.

SPECI .1L TO DELEGATES.

Notice our advertisements of
Lansing firms. Prepare to trade
with them. They are reliable and
We shall beglad to have you patron-
ize them. You will help the VIS-
ITOR and yourself by so doing.

AID TO THE VISITOR.

We recently sent out an urgent
appeal to the Masters of Subordi-
nate Granges, asking them/to push
the work of canvass for subscrip-
tions this month. We have urged
action of this kind so many times
that we hesitated to speak again.
But we do feel that if all
Patrons would only get to Work
with as much interest as a few
that we know, the VISITOR could
soon be put soundly on its feet.
We hope our appeal will be met as
earnestly as it is given, and that
our friends will make extraordi-
nary efforts in behalf of the Vls-
ITOR.

THE COLLEGE LANDS.

The office of the Land Commis-
sioner attempts to show, through
the State Republiccm, that the en-
dowment fund of the Agricultural
College can be used for permanent
improvements, but is neatly met
by the Republican by a quotation
of the law, and by a statement of
the two facts that the national
government has never granted aid
for the improvement of realty
owned by the state, and that these
appropriations to the College have
never before been questioned.
Meantime the Cadillac Brews
and Empress repeats its former
statement, but neither it nor the
Land Commissioner has yet re-
futed the arguments stated in our
last issue.

ARE YOU GETTING READY?
In our last issue Worthy Master
Horton made a strong appeal to
delegates to begin preparation for
State Grange. He said :
“Delegates elect, you should
commence at once to prepare your-
selves for the work before you.
Upon you, and you alone, depends
the character and ability of the
coming State meeting. It is for
you to devise and place before it
its line of work. All this requires
thought, and that the session may
be fully up to the standard of for-
mer State Grange meetings, I urge
upon delegates and all Grange
workers to be well prepared for
the work.”

We hope these wise words are
being heeded. We hope that the
important questions suggested in
our Lecturer’s department are be-
ing discussed. Delegates should
come to State Grange knowing
just what they believe on these
topics. It seems to us that Sub-
ordinate Granges should devote
all of their time between now and
State Grange to the discussion of
questions upon which they wish
State Grange action.

PAST AND PRESENT.
It is delightful to have a glori-
ous past. This is true of nations,
of institutions, of individuals. It
is true also of organizations, like
the Grange. When you can point
with a degree of exultation to your
own record, or to the history of

your party, or to the heroic deeds of

your patriotic forefathers, you have
indeed reason for congratulation.
So when you, a member of the
Grange, call up the record of that
organization, and point to its con-
servative course, its magnificent

_achieve-ments, its minor but im-

portant influences, everybody will
rejoice with you that you have
such an opportunity.

But the fact is forced upon us
more and more emphatically that
we are not living in the past, but
in a vigorous, throbbing, rushing
present. We have nothing to do
with the past, except as it has
built for us. We owe the past a
debt of gratitude for many bless-
ings, and we are obligated to pay
the debt by worthy labor in the
present. Our duty is to do today’s
business, to meet today’s problems.

This well applies to the Grange.

It is our privilege to be able to
show a proud record. But the
past never asks us to meditate long
upon the deeds already done, but
ever urges us to new responsibili-
ties. Surely we have enough be-
fore us that needs our best efforts.
We do not lack for work. Impor-
tant questions keep forcing them-
selves upon us, and we must act at
once.
The Grange is justly proud of
its achievements. Yet the real test
is, how are we meeting today’s de-
mands? What shall be our an-
swer, Patrons?

VVHAT SHALL BE DONE?

It is quite a general impression
among farmers that there is need
of certain forms of legislation for
their benefit. They feel that the
law, or the absence of laws, fre-
quently works against them. And
one does not need to go far in a
farming community to discover a
wide spread belief that something
should be done to minimize the
alleged discrepancy.

But, in such a tour among the
farmers, one will also discover that
the sole reason fortheir complaints
is not personal. There is a higher
motive. Farmers, almost more
than any other people, have time
for meditation. And, perhaps be-
cause of their superior training in
local politics, they think much
about public affairs. They are
quick to recognize the evils that
grow in the body politic, and, as a
matter of pure patriotism. desire to
see wise changes in the interests of
more perfect government. As a.
consequence,much of their thought
and effort is directed toward the
subject of legislation.

Now the Grange exists, in part,
to express, in a united and effective
manner, these patriotic views of
the farmers. It believes in broad,
just, pure legislation. It believes
also that if the farmers will organ-
ize they can much more success-
fully carry out their ideas of legis-
lation. This purpose is legitimate
and laudable. No one can con-
demn it. Men of other lines of
business than farming consider it
useful and proper.

As a matter of fact, however, the
farmers do not very readily unite
for their own interests nor for the
public welfare. Even the Grange,
for a number of years past, has not
engaged very extensively in the
business of influencing legislation.
Although there are many questions
pressing for solution, we too often
sit by, criticizing, fault-finding,
resolving, but doing little or noth-
ing to aid in their settlement.

Shall this inaction continue?
Shall we not rather bestir ourselves
to see what results we can efiect?
The very activity will warm our
blood, rouse our enthusiasm, give
new zest to Grange work, attract
attention. We do not mean that
we shall savagely pitch into every-
thing that does not suit us, nor bite
at every shadow of a wrong. But

we should accept as ours a few

high and important lines of re-
form, and fearlessly concentrate
our energies in their advocacy. We
shall then win the respect of all
good citizens, gain the confidence
of farmers, enlarge our labors, and,
in greater degree than at present,
accomplish our mission.

The time to begin is now. We
might just as well decide at this
next State Grange what these im-
portant measures shall be. We can
have a strong legislative committee
appointed, who will agitate the
questions, so that when the legis-
lature meets we shall be able to
express in sound terms the wishes
of a large and conservative body of
citizens. And, if our work is done
well, the legislature will listen and
heed.

Patrons, which shall we do?
Shall we drag through another
year, and let go our opportunity
for good aggressive work? Or
shall we rise to our privileges, go
heartily to work, and strive to ac-
complish something worthy the
vocation wherewith we are called?

WHAT FOR P‘

Would it be impertinent for a
friend to ask you the reason you
had for joining the Grange? If a
friend should make the inquiry
what would be your reply?

This question should not be a
difiicult one to answer, yet we
fear there are some Patrons who
would be at a loss just what to say.
And we are quite certain that there
would be a diversity of answers.
Some might acknowledge that they
joined hoping for financial gain,
trusting that by cooperation they
could secure better prices for their
products and purchase supplies at
a discount. Some might lay stress
on the social side of the Grange.
Others may have expected that the
Grange would be of benefit in
securing needed legislation.
Probably a good many would ex-
plain their action by the propo-
sition that “The Grange is a good
thing.” It would be quite inter-
esting to get one hundred replies
from as many Patrons on this
subject.

It would also be a. matter of
entertainment, and of instruction
perhaps, to inquire of those farm-
ers in Grange neighborhoods
who are not Patrons, why they
have not joined the Grange. No
doubt their replies would difier as
widely as did the others. Per-
haps some have never been asked.
Others may say that the Grange is
dead. Some will not join a secret
society. Others think that it won’t
paywtoo expensive. Some con-
sider that they are just as well
off outside the gates.”

It is this diversity of purpose
among Patrons that lead us to for-
mulate our platform. We thought
that it would tend to unify the
differing ideas of Patrons as to the
purposes and aims of the Order.
For we believed that, if the mem-
bers of the Grange were at one in
their endeavors, outsiders would
soon understand us better, and
would have fewer reasons for not
joining. So we hope that our
platform will be discussed, and if
worthy, adopted.

“

DANCING IN THE GRANGE.

Testimony derived from the in-
quests held over several dead
Granges showed clearly that
dancing was the immediate cause
of their demise. It is very
unfortunate that a mere pastime,
with which the Grange has noth-
ing to do, should prove so fatal to
life. And this condition is doubly
unfortunate because it seems so
unnecessary.

For ourselves we do not object
to dancing. Nor would we con-
sider it any more out of place in 19.
Grange hall than checkers or blind

man’s bufl’. We need the young

people in the Grange, and we want
them to have a good time. We
think that dancing, properly con-
ducted, is only not harmful, but
is a genuine, charming, healthful
recreation.

But there are Patrons who would
disagree with us. And they have
as good a right to their opinions as
have We to ours. They think it
impolitic to have dancing in the
Grange hall.
other Patrons who believe that
dancing is wrong and morally
harmful, and who will not listen
for one instant to a proposition
allowing it in the hall.

‘When this is the case in any
Grange, we consider it not only
unwise, but wrong and rlisloyai for
the advocates of dancing to force
their views upon the Grange, and
to insist on dancing, Grange or no
Grange. There are instances
where this extremity has been
reached, and we repeat that such
action is disloyalty to the Grange.
The Grange is not organized for
such a purpose. The partisans of
dancing have no moral principle
at stake, while they do trample
on the beliefs and sacred convic-
tions of their brothers and sisters.
We cannot condemn too strongly
the spirit that is bound to push

,this question through when the

disruption of the Grange is the
foregone consequence.

One new name a week from each
Grange will soon make the VISITOR a
weekly.

THAT BANKING CASE.

Our readers may remember that
last spring we had something to
say regarding the failure of the
Central Michigan Savings bank of
Lansing. At that time we stated
our belief that the banking law
had been grossly violated and_ that
the case should be investigated.
We thought that it was a matter
of state importance whether the
banking law could be broken with
impunity. And although we be-
lieve that the VISITOR was the only
paper in the state that insisted that
the law had been infiinged and
that a thorough investigation
should be had, our position has
been justified by recents events.
At the instance of the Commis-
sioner of Banking, the cashier of
the bank has been arrested for per-
jury—charged with swearing to
false returns in his report to the
banking department. It is to be
hoped that the case will be pushed
to the utmost, for, as the Commis-
sioner says, it is a very vital thing
to know that the sworn returns of
a bank shall be accurate and true.
We may not be able to frame laws
to make men honest; we can at
least, by punishment, show that it
does not pay to break the law.

But this affair should not end
with the cashier. The directors of
the bank are legally responsible for
the conduct of the affairs of the
bank. They can not shift their
responsibility upon the shoulders
of any one else. Only last week
criminal proceedings were begun
in New York, against the directors
of the Madison Square bank of
that city, holding them responsi-
ble for mismanagement which re-
sulted in the closing of the bank.
The president was arrested for per-
jury, one director was charged with
forgery, and the remaining direct-
ors accused of a misdemeanor in
violating the state banking law by
failing to do their duty as directors.
Our own state law is quite explicit
on the same subject, and it ought
to be determined by this Lansing
case just what responsibilities di-
rectors have, and how far they are
culpable for mismanagement.

It is due to Commissioner Sher-
wood to say that he has not only
done his full duty, but that he has
acted with judgment and wisdom.

November is the month when we want
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The Lecture Field.

Lecturers of Pomona and Subordinate Granges
will confer ahivor, by sendin their P. 0. ad-
dresses to me, that I may he ab e to send to them
direct when desired.

Tfisilantx. Mich. A. I. Cuossv. In.

HOW TO BOOM THE GRANGE.

I. Get the VIsI'roR into every family in
your neighborhood.

2. Begin a Grange library and keep
adding to it each year.

3. Use the local papers constantly to ad-
vertise meetings and to explain the objects
of the Grange

4. Hold occasional open meetings and
take your neighbors.

5. Strive to get the best people in your
community to join you.

6. Help to get a Grange in every town-
ship in the state. ‘

7. Remember the Declaration of Pur-
poses and the Visiron “ platform.”

“Are t/tern’ am’ rzddiffmts or rorrerfimza‘ /0
lo the above ."’

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION.

The following topics have been
suggested in recent letters from
leading Michigan Patrons, as es-
pecially important for Granges to
discuss at this time. Many of them
are questions that will come up at
State Grange and the legislature
for action. and it will behoove Pa-
trons to be well informed upon

them. Some of them we can’t dis— -

cuss too often or too much. Lect-
urers will find these topics, or di-
visions of them, of help in getting
up Subordinate and Pomona
Grange programs.

SPECIAL REQUEST.

We should like to ask as a matter
of special interest, that when any
of these topics are discussed, a
brief, concise account of the gen-
eral opinion expressed be seI1t
us for publication. We are sure
that such will aid materially in the
advancement of our work. Short
articles on these topics will also be
acceptable.‘

Can you suggest any additional
topics‘?

TOPICS.

I. \Vhat changes can well be made in
our laws for the Collection of delinquent
taxes?

2. Our criminal laws should be so amend-
ed that prisoners will be graded according
to the degree of crime committed and kept
separate. And that those imprisoned for
the first offense should be kept separate
from those incarcerated for second or third
offenses.

3. VVe should have a State Board of
Equalization elected by the people.

4. \Ve should have a code of,laws for the
government of cities.

5. The state constitution should be so
amended that bills of a general character
shall be published for a certain period be-
fore the convening of the legislature.

6. How can we as citizens do more
efiective work in the primaries?

7. No more appropriations for expensive
institutions, or higher salaries, until all our
property is equably taxed.

8. How can we help the enforcement of
existing laws?

9. Should we not have at least $10,000
per year for farmers’ institutes?

Io. VVhy we do not send our boys to the
Agricultural College.

II. Beneficiary organizations within the
Grange.

12. Farmers‘ Loan Associations.

13. Can we as farmers aid in the solu-
tion of the liquor question?

14. Shall the Grange continue to work
for full woman suffrage?

15. How can we improve the sanitary
conditions of our homes?

16. How shall we regulate foreign immi-
gration?

17. Shall we not raise the qualifications
for citizenship?

18. We must urge the study of our con-
stitution and teach more love for our flag.

19. How does our financial condition
compare with that of European farmers?

20. Are we extravagant?

21. Why do many foreigners make
money in this country farming, while we

. mortgage our farms?

22. Shall we revive a Mortgage Tax
Law?

23. What are we going to do with our
new road law? .

24. Can not Michigan sustain a success-

ful state fair?

FOR ST ATE GRANGE.

Many delegates come to State
Grange not knowing what ques-
tions are to be brought up for dis-
cussion. New and unfamiliar mat-
ters are often introduced and as
there has been no time for thought
they are accepted or rejected with-
out much discussion. There is dan-
ger that such action may not rep-
resent the sentiment of the major-
ity of the Grange, as it ought.

It has been suggested that, as a
help in remedying this, the V18-
ITOB publish a list of topics which
will be introduced at the next
session of the State Grange.

TO DELEGATES.

In order to make this idea of
value, several thin are necessary:
1. Delegates an those» who ex-
to introduce subjects, should
send them to the VISITOR for pub-

lication, at as
convenient.

2. Lecturers should make it a
special point to see that all of these
topics are well and thoroughly dis-
cussed in the Subordinate Grange,
that action, favorable or unfavora-
ble, be taken on them, and that
the delegate to State Grange be
informed as to the action taken.

 That delegates give special at-
tention to the study of these topics,
between now and State Grange,
and seek to find out just what the
Patrons in their jurisdiction think
of each topic.

TOPICS.

1. A beneficiary organization within the
Grange.

2. The choice of two or three import-
ant subjects of state legislation, which the
Grange will push during ‘the next few
years, VVhat shall they be?

3. The formation of permanent commit-
tees on Education and on Legislation; the
former to make a study of the entire prob-
lem of agricultural education; the latter to
carry on a legislative campaign for the
farmers. 9

We have heard the above sug-
gested as topics. VVe trust dele-
gates and others will send in more
topics in time for the next issue of
the VISITOR.

early a date as

Mo'rTo—-" Begin; keep at it."

AIM.

The primary object of the F. H.
R. C. is to promote agriculture and
kindred pursuits. The circle offers
a systematic course of reading. It
furnishes books through the sec-
retary at greatly reduced prices.
It acts, in a limited manner, as a
bureau of information on agricult-
ural subjects. All cannot enjoy a
course at the Agricultural College,
but no one is so situated that he
cannot cultivate habits of observa-
tion and study. The aim has been
to supply a course which shall fur-
nish practical information and
assist those who desire to secure
some knowledge of science as ap-
plied to agriculture. It is believed
there many who are ready to em-
brace the opportunities offered by
such a course.

YOU CAN READ ALONE.

VVhile it is recommended that
Granges, Patrons’ Lodges, Al-
liances and other farmers’ organi-
zations form ‘circles for reading
and discussion, yet the great value
of the course will manifest itself
to those so situated that reading
in circles would be impossible.
As the name implies it is a “Farm
Home Reading Circle.” Do not
let the coming winter season pass
without taking up the work in one
or more of the classes.

THE PRACTICAL FRUIT GROWER.

This book is the first in the class
on Horticulture. It deals with all
the fruits, both large and small,
as concerns practical methods of
culture, diseases and insects, and
the best varieties. Farmers, who
do not at present raise much fruit,
will find it very valuable in getting
hints for growing fruits for their
own use. But it is especially val-
uable to the farmer who raises
some fruit, but not as much as he
might, and who, if he knew how,
would give more attention to his
fruit garden.

By the use of small but clear
type, the publishers have been
able to present as much matter in
the space of 112 pages as is con-
tained in some of the more preten-
tious books, on kindred subjects,
that retail for two dollars, and thus
they are able to offer it by special
arrangement through the F. H. R.
C. for thirty cents. Prof. Taft, of
the Agricultural College, who is so
well known in Michigan as a prac-
tical man, says of this book:

For the use of the average far-
mer or fruit culturist, Maynard’s
Practical Fruit Grower will be
fully as valuable as most of the
high priced books. As its name
indicates, it is a " practical” book
by a practical man, and it treats of
the various methods of propagat-
ing, planting and caring for orch-
ards and small fruit plantations,
in so plain and comprehensive a
manner that its instructions can be
readily understood and carried out.

The chapters giving descriptions
of the more common insects and
diseases of fruits, with the remo-
dies, will be especially valuable.

Prof. Maynard has for years
been engaged in fruit growing on

a large scale, and the methods

recommended are those he has
found successful in actual practice.

 

THE COURSE.

We expect to print this course
each issue for a time. Books will
be sent when chosen as premiums,
the same as any other books in our
list. Those who may order from
us, should however send their
names and addresses to the Secre-
tary of the circle, stating that they
have purchased books of us and
wish to take the course. Other-
wise they will get no credit for
their reading. '

cuss 1. some AND (more.
Price. postpaid

 

 

to elect representatives to this
meeting should report the names
of such representatives, that proper
credential blanks may be sent to
them.

All parties attending the State
Grange sessions are entitled to the
special railroad and hotel rates.

A rate of one and one-third rail-
road fare may be secured by ap-
plying to the ticket agent for a
certificate showing that a full fare
ticket has been purchased to Lan-
sing. This certificate, when prop-
erly countersigned by Secretary of
State Grange entitles the holder to

,a return for one cent a mile.

Take notice that this certificate
must be obtained upon buying your

1. First Principles of Agriculture.—M1l.l.:. _ _ _

rt‘-Shaw. (pp. 1-116) ............... .. $0 50 tlcket, or tnckets 1f you comg ovgr
2. Soils and Crops.—Morrow (9 Hunt ____ _, 75 ' ’
3. Talks on Mannres.—Ha1-ris __________ ,_ 1 16 two roads and buy IIl0I'€ than one
4. Silos and Silage.—~Cook ....... _. _ . 15 ticket
5. Land Drainage.—Miles. _______________ __ 67 '

omss II. LIVE srocx. JENNIE BUELL,
F‘ t P ' ci 1 of Aqricultu .—M'll , ,,
1:1: -sharii]. P9235. 116-250) "3 ' 8 no Secrefmf/'

Horses. Cattle. Sheep and Swine.-—

0urez's.._. .._.__. _._._
Stock Breeding.—Miles._.
Feeding Animals:-Stewa
Dairyman‘s Manual.—-Stewart .
Shepherd’s Manual.— Stewart. _________ __
Harris on the Pig.—Harris ____________ , _
Horse Breeding.—Sanders___.. __ _____.

CLASS III. GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

Practical Fruit Grower.-Maynard. . ___ 30
How the Garden Pays.—-Greiner ______ __ 1 16

   

."".“$*° 5"’ '1"
*-

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v-v-tr-Ir-h-h-r-4
-5- Caili-5-‘*1
Oaggu.-lw‘-It

. Ornamental Gardening.-Long _ _ _ _ .. 1 34-
. Insects and Iusecticides.— Weed...
Gardening for Pleasure.--Hender<o
Winter G_reener'ms.—Johmron ..

   
 

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*-

 

Propagation of Plants.—-Fuller. 1 00
Home F'loriculture.—Rea:_ford _________ __ 1 13
CLASS IV. HOME MAKING.
1. Helps for Home Makers _,, 60
2. Anna Maria's Housekeeping _ 60
3. How to Win.—VVL'llu.rd....___-_ -.___ '75
4. The New Womanhood.——.l. 0. Fernald. . 95
5. How the Other Half Lives.—-Riis .... _. 1 25

OLASS v. POLITICAL SCIENCE.
1. Elements of Political Economy.-Ely” 1 00
2. Political Economy.-—— W:1.llcer 20
3. American Commonwealth.-Bryce. (2
vols.) _______________________________ __ 2 70

- * Any one Electire.

ATTENTION! STATE MASTERS!

Reduced Railroad Rates to the
National Grange Meeting.

I have just received definite
answer from the secretary of the
Trunk Line Passenger Committee
of New York, to my application
for reduced fare to Syracuse, N.
Y., for delegates and members of
the Order, attending the National
Grange meeting to convene there
on the 15th proximo. The re-
duction is one fare and one-third
on the certificate plan, as hereto-
fore. “Each person availing of
it will pay full first-class fare
going to the meeting and get a
certificate filled in on one side by
the agent of whom the ticket is
purchased. Agents at all impor-
tant stations are supplied with
certificates. Certificates are not
kept at all stations. If, however,
the ticket agent at a local station
is not supplied with certificates
and through tickets to the place of
meeting, he can inform the dele-
gate of the nearest important sta-
tion where they can be obtained.
In such case the delegate should
purchase a local ticket to such sta-
tion and there take certificate and
through ticket to place of meeting.
Going tickets, in connection with
which certificates are issued for
return, may be sold only within
three days (Sunday excepted)
prior to, and during the continu-
ance of the meeting; except that,
when meetings are held at distant
points to which the authorized
limit is greater than three days,
tickets may be sold before the
meeting in accordance with the
limits shown in regular tariffs.
Present the certificate to the sec-
rotary or other proper officer of the
organization at the meeting, that
the other side may be filled in.
Certificates are not transferable,
and return tickets secured upon.
certificates are not transferable.
On presentation of the certificate,
duly filled in on both sides, within
three days (Sunday excepted)
after the adjournment of the meet-
ing, the ticket agent at the place
of meeting will return the holder
to starting point, by the route over
which the going journey was made,
at one-third the highest limited
fare by such route. The return
ticket will in all cases be closely
limited to continuous passage to
destination, and will be marked
delegate on the contract and each
coupon thereof. No refund of fare
will be‘ made on account of any
person failing to obtain a certifi-
cate."

J. J. Woomun,

Sec’y. Em. Com. N. G. P. of H.

GENERAL NOTICE.

According to the by-laws of the
Michigan State Grange, the an-
nual session will convene at Lan-
sing, in Representative Hall, Dec.
12, 1893.

Secretaries ofcounty conventions

NATIONAL GRANGE.

Delta, 0., Oclnbrr '12, 1893.
To {/18 Illewzbersof l/to Order of 1/1!’ Patrons
of Hzzsbrzndry, Grr’elnzg.'

The National Grange will assem-
ble in annual session, at the city
of Syracuse, N. Y, on the first
VVednesday after the second Mon-
day in November, being the 15th
day of the month.

The indications point to one of
the most important and interesting
meetings ever held by that body.
It is the privilege of every member
of the Grange to bring whatever
may seem to be important and for
the “Good of the Order ” to the
attention of the highest legislative
body of the Order. Such subjects
should be reduced to writing and
submitted through the State Mas-
ter. I hope all will feel free to
avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity.

SEVENTH DEGREE.

The sixth and seventh degrees
of the Order will be conferred in
full form at this session. The
sixth on Thursday afternoon or
evening, or both should the class
be large. The seventh will be
conferred on the afternoon and
evening of Friday the 17th.

All members in good standing
who have received the degree of
Pomona are entitled to these
degrees, if application is made in
due form, accompanied by the fee.
If there are fourth degree members
in attendance who have not receiv-
ed the degree of Pomona and
desire to obtain these beautiful and
impressive degrees, arrangements
will be made to accommodate them.
All should, however, try to obtain
the fifth degree in the Pomona
Grange of the county or district in
which they reside.

Patrons, come to Syracuse and
visit us, we will be glad to see you.
Reasonable railroad and hotel rates
will be secured and everything
which the wide awake Patrons of
New York can do to make your
stay pleasant and profitable, will
be done cheerfully.

Fraternally yours,

J. H. BBIGHAM,
./'|Ia»‘frr Natiortal Grange, P. of /I.

 

LIST OF COUNTIES
from which new names have been sent
in the Grange contest:

Kent __________________________ -- 12%
Kalkaska. ______________________ __ 11
Branch ________________________ -- 7
Ingham _______________________ _ . 6%
Huron ____ .§ __________________ _ _ 3
Benzie ________________________ _ _ 3
Allegan _______________________ - . 2}-5
Lenawee ______________________ -- 2
Wayne____._._______--__-___._-_ 2
Sanilac ........................ - - ‘.3
Berrien ....................... - . 1

 

LIST OF GRANGES

which have sent in new names for the
Grange contest. Please correct errors

at once.
New

Granges. names.
Bowne Center No. 219 ........ _ _-.- 81/2
Butler No. 88 __________________ ._ 7
Clearwater No.674---__---------- 6
Capitol No.5-10-_--__---_--_----- 6%
Excelsior No. 692 ______________ -- 5
Alpine No. 348 ................. _. 4
Bingham No. 667 ______________ -_ 3
Inland No. 503 ................. _- 3
Bradley No. 669 ________________ _ _ 2%
Rome Center No. 293 ___________ -- 2
Charity No. 417 ............... -_ 2
Wyandotte No. 618 ____________ -_ 2
Mt. Taber No.43 _______________ _ - 1

NOTICE.

Patrons have responded to my
former request for State Grange

proceedin s until the desired file
only now Iacks copies for the years

’74, ’76, ’80, ’81 and ’89. Can some
one else supply these? If so they
will kindly confer a favor by for-
warding them to me. with names
and addresses attached.

J ENNIE BUELL.

Amt Arbor. Sec’_'y Sfale Grange.

 

PREMIUM LIST.

RULES.

1. At close of contest each Grange
securing more than four new names will
be allowed to choose such premiums as
it may wish, to the value of 20 cents for
each new full year subscription obtained.
2. A new name is one not on our list
August 1, 1893, or later.

3. Two six months’ subscriptions count
as a full year.

4. List is subject to addition.

  

PREMIUMS.
Books.
Our price
Law made Easy ___________________________ _. S1 50
Samantha at Saratoga _____________________ _. 1 50
Glimpses of Fifty years.—IV£llard __ _ . 2 25
Dairying for Profit.—J(mes ______ _. __ 30
The Nursery Book.—Baileu _______________ _ . 1 W
Horticulturist‘s Rule Book:-Bailey ...... __ 1 00
The New Potato Culture.—Carman _______ .. 75
The Business Hen.—Collingwood _________ _. 75
Spraying Crops.-Weed ___________________ ._ 1 (X)
How the Farm Pays.——Henderson It Crozier 2 50
Gardening for Profit.—Henderson ........ _. 3 00
Ten Acres Enough ________________________ __ 1 (I)
Thought and Thift.—Hill ________________ .. 50
Weeds.—Shaw. .__. .___ .__ . __ . . .._ ,__._.__.. '15
Wood’s Natural History. (800 pages, 500
cuts) ___________________________________ ._ 2 00
Shakespeare’s Complete Works, a fine
edition  ___. ._____-._.__ ___..____..- 3 00
Irving’s Works, 10 vols., cloth ____________ __ 5 C0
Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales, 5 vols,
cloth ____________________________________ __ 3 50
Barriers Burned Away.—Roe ______________ __ 50
Christopher (‘olumbus.—lrvina __________ ._ 1 (II
Main Travelled R0ads.—Hamlin fim-land.
cloth _____________________________________ __ 1 00

A Spoil of OlIice.——IIamlz'n Garland. cloth.. 1 00
Is this your Son. My L0rd?—(z‘-ardner, cloth. 1 00
Pray you, Sir, Whose Daughter? —(r‘arduer,

cloth ___________________________________ __ 1 CI)
Railways of Europe and America. cloth__.. 1 25
Bondholders and Bread Winners, paper___. 25

LIST OI’ (‘0LL'MBL'S SERIES.

Any book of the Columbus series 60C.
These standard works are in line cloth
binding, large clear type, embossed in gold
and ink. They are not the cheap editions
offered, but are books that usually retail
for 75 cents. “"6 are able to offer them as
premiums for 60 cents each. The follow-
ing is the list:

Arabian Nights.

Child’s History of Englaxid.-—I)i(,(-om.
The Deer .Slayer.-—Coo_/>¢-r.

East L_vnne.—-l[r.~‘. II. lllzor/.
Grimm’s Tales.

Ivanhoe.----Sco//_

Jane E_vre.---l>’ronIr.

john Halifax, Gentleman.~—1lIu/ucA'.
King Solomon’s Mines.—I{ug_ganl.
Last Days of Pompeii.~Bu[::'r’r.
Last of the .\lohicans.—-Coo/vcr.
Lorna Do0ne.—BZar/mmre.

Last Essays of Elia.——[..mz/2.

Oliver Twist.—Did-vns.

The Pathfinder.- -Cooper. ‘
The Pioneer.——Cuo;‘m'.

The Prairie.~Cooj5er.

Robinson Crusoe.-—1)c Fow.
RoInola.~Grorg«: E/fol.

Sketch Book. -Irving.

Swiss Family Robinson.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Three men in 21 Boat./*:7cru/mg
Tom Brown's School Days.

Two Years Before the Mast.
Willie Reilly.—Cm'lclo/1.

Any book of F. H. H. (‘.

When these books are ordered as premiums 10
per cent should be added to the price quoted to
members of the course, for postage and packing.

Jlliscellaneous.

Granges can choose from the list of supplies
printed on page seven of the VISITOR. We will
have to add 10% to the prices there given, when
ordered as premiums, for postage and packing.

ceiver to pay express charges... 6 .

The “Grange Token".._.._.......____...._._ 1 50
- SPECIAL PREMIUMS.

The “Gem“ ice cream freezer. re-% 3 quart’ $3 0.
' 5 00

An earnest Patron, who wishes to see
the VISITOR a weekly. has donated $25
for the use of the VISITOR in this contest.
This enables us to be even more liberal
than we had intended. And as a further
incentive to the securing of large lists
we will give these special premiums, in
addition to what the Granges will
secure by the regular offer.

I. To the Grange getting the largest list
of subscribers, in addition to the
regular premiums due them, we will
give the choice of
1. An elegant set of badges (for officers

and 25 members) made by the White-

head & Hoag Co.
2. An improved Companion organ.

II. To the Grange getting the second
largest list, choice of
1. A fine 20 foot flag.

2. Webster’s International Dictionary.

III. A special prize to each Grange in
that county which sends the largest
number of new names.

 

DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure Deafness, and that is
bv constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the mu-
cuous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed Deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its nor-
mal condition, hearing will be destrciyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in-
flamed condition of the mucuous surfaces.

We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.

[g'Sold by Druggists, 75c.

 

 

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“riéin onnrionvisrison.

NOVEMBER 1, 1893.

Woman’s Work’.

THE BATTLE IIYMN OF THE
REPUBLIC.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of
the Lord-

He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are sto : _ _ , .
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his tern-
ble swift sword; _
His truth is marching on.

I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred
circling camps; _ _ _
They have builded him an altar in the evening

(laws and dumps; _
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim
and flaring lamps: _
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel. writ in burnished
rows of steel: _
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you
my grace shall dea :
Let the Hero. born of woman, crush the serpent
with his heel: _
Since God is marching on."

He has sounded forth his trumpet that shall
never call retreat: _

He is sifting out the hearts of men before his
judgment seat: _
_ be swift, my soul. to answer Him! be
Jubilant, my feet! .

Our God is marching on.

In the beauties of the lilies Christ was born
_ across the sea.’
Withaglory in his bosom that transfigures you

an _me: _
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make
men free,
While God is marching on.

—Julia VVard— Hmre.

CULTURE.

[Prepared for Union (}r::pgc)b_v Mrs. \\'. A. Lott.

In the first place I will speak of
the cultivating of the mind, espec-
ially of the women of today. The
spirit of the times calls on women
for a higher order of intellect, and
the requirements of the women of
the future will be much greater
than they have been in the past.‘
A clear intellect and a well trained
mind have a moral influence. But
this we can possess only as our
powers are cultivated.

Wherever a cultivated woman
dwells, whether it be in the city or
the country, you will find refine-
ment. For a woman to be cultiva-
ted she must begin early in life.
The days of girlhood are fast fleet-
ing, and girls are women almost
before we know it.

IN THE GRANGE.

And in what better place can we
train our boys and girls for truer
manhood and womanhood than in
the Grange? How many times it
has come to my mind, if we could
only impress it upon our young
people, the good it would be to
them to join our ranks and there

_ learn the importance of being able

to fill each position without em-
barrassment and with honor to
themselves? How many times we
hear the expression used, “ I can’t,”
when young people, and in fact
those that are not young, are called
on to take part in literary work.
Now if these same persons had
been placed where they were
obliged to use their talent, how
much different would have been
their reply!

We should thank the all wise
Being for giving us minds that by
cultivating and a daily use can so
expand as to raise us far above the
brute creation. VVe do not have to
look back many years to see a great
many more advantages for people
to gain; not only good educations,
but they are not deprived of social
advantages as our forefathers were.

Of course people that live in the
city have the advantage of those
in the country to a certain extent.

I remember, when I was a girl,
we used to have each winter at our
schoolhouse, debates, and one of
the questions was worded some-
thing like this: “ Which is prefer-
able, city or country life?”

CITY OR COUNTRY .

Each week that we receive our
weekly paper and I turn to the
household department and read the
letters from the different pens, I
find almost invariably that those
who live in the city prefer the city,
and those who have spent almost
their entire lives in the country,
with perhaps a short time in the
city, prefer the country life. If we
are denied some of the social.ad-
vantages we have at least moral
culture on our side. Sometimes
when we as farmer’s wives perform
our daily routine of work without
much variation, unless it is to find
some new duty added, and perhaps
not blessed with the best of health,
we may feel as if there might be
an easier way of gaining a liveli-
hood than on the farm. And then
our thoughts will turn to our chil-
dren, and when we think of the
many snares set to catch the young,
especially in the large cities, we
ought to feel thankful that our
home is in the country.
In order to cultivate and enjoy
ourselves socially, morally, and in-

   

tellectually, we must have good
health; for no matter how brilliant
and cultured the mind, without
good health there is little success
or enjoyment_ in any pursuit or
calling in life.

 

THE’ HOME.

MRS. BILLA BABCOCK.

Home and its surroundings
should claim the attention of every
Patron and farmer in this broad
land. The home is not only the
place where we go to eat and sleep
and because we have no other place
to go to, but a place where, in every
sense of the word we should de-
light to dwell, and where the chil-
dren will be contented and happy.
Home should be made as attractive
and pleasant as possible. To make
happy homes does not require a
large amount of labor or expense.
It is in the reach of nearly all to
have pleasant and happy homes
with but little labor. W's can plant
trees and flowers and arrange them
with taste and order, that our
homes may be pleasant and beauti-
ful, be they ever so humble.
Home is a sweet word, but to
make a sweet home all must act in
concert to give to it both an external
and an internal beauty. Home,
with all that is dearest in the sacred
name, is the peaceful and cherish-
ed retreat, within whose sanctuary
bloom the flowers of happiness and
contentment that make it to the
intelligent dweller a consecrated
temple. Home is the first school
of childhood. Here children should
be early taught the first great prin-
ciples that constitute a noble man-
hood and womanhood—truth, vir-
tue, and integrity. Any one im-
bued with these will not fail to
labor to make a pleasant and bean-
tiful home where love, happiness,
and contentment reign supreme,
whether that home is a log cabin
or a stately edifice.
Home should be made as pleas-
ant and agreeable as possible, that
the children will be in no hurry to
leave it, and when they do go out
from their childhood’s home for
homes of their own, no matter how
far they may wander from that
sacred spot, sweet memories will
cluster around the dear old home.
Now let us all, as brothers and
sisters, strive, as we meet here in
our county Grange, to make our

able. Here we may exchange
thoughts on matters that most in-
terest ‘rhe farmer, and kindly greet
our brothers and sisters. Let us
all try to live in our Grange home
as members of one family, each
one trying to do his or her duty as
best we can. Let us set a strict
watch over our words and actions
that we may not do or say anything
that will ofl'end a brother or sister,
and may envy or jealousy never

enter our peaceful enclosure.
(imlrtlrz.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

[A welcome to Poniomi, read at Maple Rzipids, by

Sister Myrtellc IIoover.]
As the traveler across the arid
sands of the desert hails with de-
light the fertile oasis, so we, load-
ed with the cares and perplexities
of this busy World, love to throw
aside our burdens for awhile and
rest and refresh our energies in
these pleasant reunions, the oases
in our life’s journey. Nor is it for
the present only that these gather-
ings are gratifying. Our lives are
largely made up of memories, and
we shall love through the coming
years to look back to them as sunny
spots amid the lights and shadows
of the past. And then in our social
meetings, our personal influence
over one another’s lives is great if
we but know it.

INFLUENCE.

There is nothing that can lift
one up out of the darkness and
lead one forth into the spirit of
faith, hope, love and charity, like
the magnetic power of a good
example. Nothing that can inspire,
exalt and purify like the heal-
ing and helping of that beam
from the eyes of noble men and
women. If your life has been
broad and deep in its experience,
you have seen lives better than
yours, lives whose pure light shone
upon you from a serener height
than you could reach; just as the
drooping flowers some chilly morn-
ing have looked up through the
thick fog, and caught 9. glimpse of
the bright sun which scatters the

mist and opens the glad blossoms
to the warm life giving light.

meetings both pleasant and profit- -

wrapped around with fogs? Who
has not looked up from his 4 work
and seen no cheering sun above
him, nothing buta heavy leaden sky
hanging over his pathway? And
then, perhaps, you have almost
doubted the sun itself, doubted
goodness, almost doubted God, un-
til you have seen the fogs lift, the
clouds break away, and doubt van-
ish before the beautiful radiance
of some shining example.

I believe more and more that
what the world needs to redeem
and purify it, is not so much a
sound theology or a profound phi-
losophy as it needs holier, purer,
diviner lives; lives that shall be the
light of men.

LIFE IS REAL, LIFE IS EARNEST.

MRS. AARON BUSH.

The favorite poet of the masses
gives us this statement in one of
his footprints that remind us of
the true and beautiful thoughts
and aspirations of his life; and the
sentiments contained therein
strengthen us to study life’s his-
tory.

Life is like a book, and the new
years are new pages, and as we
prize books for the thoughts they
contain, so we look upon a noble,
pure life, for the work that is done;
and though a life may be short in
years, there may be crowded into
it so many noble acts and so much
grand, useful work, that it may be
a volume of great use. It is the
deeds that count in the pages of
life’s history, and the life of an
earnest, cheerful worker in this
busy World of ours is indeed a.
grand book that at last may rest
on the shelves of God’s great li-
brary.

LACK or AMBI'l‘ION.

How many we see around and
about us who seem to have no am-
bition to step up from the plane
on which they were born. There
is indifference and contentment
written upon the faces of those
Whose only aspirations seem to be
to clothe and feed the body, and
the mind grows dwarfed and ill-
shapen for want of mental cultiva-
tion. We have no patience with
the satisfiedperson. But don’t un-
derstand us to favor the grumbler
and growler. Far from that, but
we do like to see all anxious to
climb higher, and the greater the
exertion the better the mental mus-
cles are developed. Oh for a high-
er ambition among our young peo-
ple! If they would but wake up
from the apathy into which so
many seem to have fallen, and
make a good use of the health and
faculties with which they are en-
dowed, set a high mark and then
work to reach it. VVe believe that
a person with a strong will can at-
tain to anything he aspires; and
as the will power can be cultivated
by close application, then it lies
within the power of all to reach
the highest rounds in this ladder
of life. All true greatness is the
result of work.
;‘.‘2.‘;l'f.“.i‘§§§‘..“;“"“

But they, while their C0fl1l'.):llllUl’lS.Slepf,
Were toiling llp\\’£ll’(l iii the night.”

TOIL WINS.
The men whose great genius has
marked out the destiny of nations
are those whose every hour has
been filled with earnest toil. Gen-
ius lies not so much in the natural
ability as in persevering, system-

_atic development of mind and heart

which one does possess. Work
is the foundation of all true devel-
opment. That person who has a
love for it has within his hand a
lever which will raise his world.
What has it done? It has and does
span rivers, crosses seas, carries us
through the land at almost breath-
less speed; makes us near neigh-
bors, as it were, with foreign lands;
innumerable are the things it ac-
complishes. The worker also holds
within his hand the key to unlock
the door to wealth, knowledge and
happiness.
BE PRACTICAL.

Life is earnest. It is the prac-
tical mind that accomplishes the
greatest amount of usefulness. The
world does not ask of a man how
much do you know, but what can
you do? In this active, bustling
world, the space is narrow for the
drones and lazy ones, and if they
were crowded out, what would be
the loss to mankind? We see so
many living day after day with
seemingly no purpose in life, who

seem to be sailing down on a voy-
age to nowhere and for.no purpose.

Whose life is not sometimes '

Let us strive to make our lives
practical and they will be useful.
Let us be at the front in the bat-
tle of life, be ready to do the work
that lies everywhere around us and
not sit idly by waiting for great
opportunities.

’Ti5 better to weave in the web of lift: ‘.1 lvright and
golden filling,

And to do God's work with an earnest heart and
hands that are ready and willing:

Than to snap the delicate minute threads of our
curious lives asunder, ‘

And then hliimc Ilcziven for the tang]-,-.3 ends and
sit and grieve and wonder."

THE FARMER.

We who engage in the filling of
the soil for a livelihood can find a
a grand, broad road along the pro-
gressive line. The farmer should
be one of the best of scientists.
What untold advantages abound in
his surroundings! Nature in all
her beauty surrounds him, inviting
him to investigate more closely the
practical as well as the lovely, and
he who has the desire to delve
farther into the science of farming
must without doubt be doubly re-
paid for the effort, by the new les-
sons learned from the book of nat-
ure that every year sends out a new
edition bound in blue and gold.

 

AUTUMN.
OUR PHILOSOPHER.

J unel October! Which is my
favorite? I confess that I cannot
easily make the choice. VVhen
June is present, with its newness
and vigor, with its abundant con-
tributions of song and sweet odors
and bright skies,-—I surely must
share Riley’s delight and wish to

“ I.:i_v out then: and try to see

Jcs‘ how l£l.7._\‘ you kin bc!~——
Tmulvlc round and souse your ll(‘;l(l
In the clover-hlooui, or pull
Yer straw lizit zicrust yer c_v::s',
Tliinkiu’ of old chums ‘ut‘~ dead.
.\'l:l.\'h1: suiilin’ hack :it you
In l‘(‘.[\\'lXt the beautiful
Cloutls 0' gold and white Anti hlucl
Month :1 man kin mills‘ lo\'c——
June, you kn<)\v, I'ni tzllkiii’ nfl"

For June certainly is a glad and
joyous month. The cloud-ships
float most majestically then; the
sun sets most gorgeouslygthe moon-
light gleams most warmly. Then
the roses bloom their fullest; the
meadows smell their sweetest; the
birds sing their loudest; and hope
beams its brightest. June is the
month of youth, the month of love,
the month of promise. Yet in
spite of all the entrancing features
that argue for the supremacy of
J une—though I am willing to ad-
mit the possibility that my decis-
ion may be influenced by the ab-
sence of June herself-—October
seems to me the glory-time of the

year.

For I always feel that in Octo-
ber Nature is prepared to teach us
her wisest lessons. The work for
the year is nearly completed; and
ripe in her maturity, rich in her
experiences, she is worthy to speak
to the heart of the youth simple,
wise words. The brown nuts are
falling because they have done
with school and are ready for that
for which they grew. The forests
have donned their royal robes, as
becomes those who have borne the
heat of the day and have earned
the right to adorn themselves in
crimson and in gold. The birds
have locked the doors of their sum-
mer homes, and seek the sunny
southland. The squirrels are lay-
ing by store of food against the
winter’s need. And from the drop-
ping nuts we may learn that We
are ready for our true work only as
we are long in preparation. The
grandly clad forests may teach us
that the fullness of years should
not bring to us decay, but ripeness,
experience, mellowness, kindness,
glory. The departing birds re-
mind us that changing years will
call for changing habits and asso-
ciations. The busy squirrels sug-
gest that we accumulate rich treas-
ures of ripe thoughts and strong
deeds.

And I do not share the sad
thoughts of those who mourn be-
cause the sighing wind, the chang-
ing leaves, the brown grass, the
fleeing songsters, the sharp frosts,
prophesy the lonely winter. I do
not allow myself to think of the
coming days——those days that are
“ melancholy ;” dayswhen the bleak
trees shall stand shivering in the
heartless north wind, and the
scanty snow flakes. melting into
sleet, shall beat on the windows
their noisy arrival,————those days
when nature shall weep and sorrow
and wail for her departed beauty,-
I say I do not let myself think of
these coming sad days, but only of
the present glad days. And so, to
me, October is joyous. Were I

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disposed to extract from her the
secrets that she in her wise way
keeps striving to hide from me;
were I reckless enough to demand
of her that she unveil the future
for me, what should I expect but
sorrow and disappointment? But
if I am willing to take her at her
word, ready to listen to her_ coun-
sel, glad to heed her voice of wis-
dom, then shall I get inspiration
from her moods and strength from
her teaching.

W'hat can be more inspiring than
a. fair October day? A white frost
has given crispness to the morning
air. With the first fresh drafts
you breathe, there come new
vigor and new power. Your in-
spiration is of soul. As your lungs
expand again and again with their
full deep motion, you drink the
dew of God’s truth; your sluggish.
selfish heart beats more in time
with his throbbing heart of love,
and you feel upon your head the
touch of his hand of blessing. You
are a new man; you are born again.
You are armored for the strife. As
morning grows into noon and the
sun begins his oceanward journey,
the hazy air casts its spell about
you. You are lulled, and calmed,
and soothed. The inspiration to
action, gained in the morning,
gives _way to the inspiration of
mere living. And you are ready to
listen once more to your Father.
It is then that he speaks to your
strengthened soul the chief lessons
he would have you learn from these
wonderful days. For, from the
gorgeous tree, the flaming bush,
the glorious air, and the bright
sunshine, he would teach you so
to live that when the October of
your life approaches, you shall be
rich in nature, inspiring, happy,
beneficent, beautiful, as are his Oc-
tober sunshine, and colors, and at-
mosphere.

OCTOBER DAYS.

I):-licious days! Days thin. are born

Of Autumn, yet shrink mziterniil care.
And linger in the wzirm and soft

Embrace of summer. Days sweet and rare!

I‘:.\'l1l1CY‘rl.l1t days! The frosty air
Of morning sets the face zigloiv
\\'itli 'oyous vigor, and the blood
Exulls with l'lt.‘\\'CI', stronger flow.
Rich, ripe days! The crimson leaves,
The golden curs of com. the brown
And heavy nuts, the winter’s apples,
Arc resting in their prinie—full grown.

Soft, dreamy days! The far, blue hills,
The quiet forests, the languid mys
Of the warm sun, the southern breeze,
The hazy -.iir,—bring dreamy days.

.

Strong, wise days! Days that are old
In the lore of living. Young, eziger Ll:ly.i.'
Bursting with promise, afiame with hope!
Crown of the year! October dziysl

WHY OUR GIRLS LACK STAMINA.

If Nature be left to herself she
is to the last degree careful to sup-
ply an abundance of stamina to
growing girls. Not only are girls
who are really strong less apt to
contract disease than are boys of
the same age, but healthy young
women, if they contract a disease
will, as a rule, have the less violent
attack. In what is called the fever
belt in Central and South America,
more young men than young wom-
en of the peon class catch the ma-
larial fever. The deaths from yel-
low fever in such observed centers
as Rio de Janeiro are less among
the peon women from fifteen to
twenty-five than among the men,
and the percentage of those who
recover is larger, the exposure being
about equal. Now, recovery from
such a disease as yellow fever
means that the patient has a reserve
of strength Which, when the dis-

 

ease has run its course, is sufficient ‘

to bring the patient back to health.
Among these peon girls this re-

serve exists to a greater extent‘

than among their brothers. But it
is the fact that no such difference
is observed between the girls and
boys in this country. If anything,
the results show the girls less able
to endure any very exhausting dis-
ease. ’ I am unable to find any
reason for this reverse in Nature’s
methods except it be in the tax
which by our system of education
we put on these girls. It is true,
of course, that they are subject to
hundreds of influences besides that
of the schools; some of which are
to be found in society, others in
the press and jostle of American
life, others, again, in the many
sources of mental excitement which
have their effect on all of us. Still,
no one of these involves such a di-
rect tax on the energies as is found
in study, as our girls understand
the word, although their combined
effect must not be left unmention-
ed.——From “ American Life and
Physical Deterioration,” by Cyrus
Edson, M. D., in North American
Review for October.

  
    

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General Newspaper Advertising
Agents.

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has been rung out of the bow
(ring), by a pickpocket,

Every Man whose watch
has been damaged by drop-
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Every Man of sense who
merely compares the old pull-
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been made long ago!”

It can't: be twisted offthecase.
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Gollege. and Station.

The Professors at the Michigan Agricultural
College have kindly consented to answer all
ielnportant questions asked of them through the

ISITOR.

SHELTER OF STOCK.

|l3ullctin l'tiih Station.j

Horses blanketed at the Utah
Experiment Station did not thrive
as well as those unblanketed, blank-
ets being worn during the day as
well as during the night; cattle
wearing blankets required 10.73
pounds for pound of growth, and
those Without blankets 9.76.

During the same year, 1890-1,
steers fed in the barn consumed
2,375 pounds of food, gained 1.16
pounds per day, and required 15
pounds food for pound of growth.

A lot tied up, but turned out
daily, ate 2,337 pounds, gained 1.42
pounds each per day, and required
12.1 pounds food for pound of gain:

A lot fed loose in stalls ate 2,339
pounds, gained 1.73 pounds per
day, and required 10.4 pounds food
for pound of gain.

A lot in the open air ate 2,667
pounds food, gained 1.96 pounds
per day, and required 10.1 pounds
food for pound of gain.

For 1891~2 a lot in -the open air
ate 5,881 pounds, gained 471
pounds, and required 12.54
pounds for pound of growth.

Lot fed in box stalls ate 5,033
pounds, gained 349 pounds, and
required 14.41 pounds for pound of
growth.

Lot tied up ate 4,295 pounds,
gained 219 pounds, and required
19.5 pounds food for pound of gain.

During the winter of 1892-3, lot
in box stalls required 16.1 pounds
food for pound of gain. Those ini

'7 the open yard required 18.8 pounds ‘

food for pound of growth. Those
under open sheds required 20.9
pounds food for pound of growth.

Duringtlie win ters of 1891-2 and
1892-3 sheltered sheep made better
use of their food than those in the
open air.

During 1892—3 swine fed out-
doors and indoors at this station
gave greater gain for those that
were sheltered, being for 1891 31
pounds more-, but consumed 201-1
pounds more food. Food for pound
of growth outdoors, 6.91; indoors,
7 pounds For the past winter
those sheltered ‘required 16.1
pounds for pound of growth; those
unsheltered, 18.8 pounds for pound
of growth.

IMl’l'R.l’l‘lES OF CLOVER SEED.

[Bulletin Iowa St:ition._l

The clover growing area of the
United States embraces the states
of California and Tennessee and all
the region lying north of the par-
allel of 36° north latitude, between
the Rocky Mountains on the west
and the Atlantic Ocean on the east.
In this part of the United States
red clover has become an import-
ant agricultural plant. Clover
seed is shipped by the carload from
place to place and even across the
water.

It is a well known fact that clover
seed is one of the most impure
seeds on the market. The major-
ity of our troublesome weeds are
naturalized species, and not a few
of them have come to us in impure
clover seed. Constantly, farmers
are complaining that the seeds of
bad weeds have been sold to them
in clover seed, and it is true that
our seedsmen are largely responsi-
ble for the dissemination of Ox-eye
Daisy, Plantain, Sorrel, Fox-tail,
etc. So frequently has the atten-
tion of Experiment Station work-
ers been called to the question of
impure clover seed that some of the
stations have made investigations
and published the results in their
bulletins. Work of this kind has
been done at the North Carolina
and Michigan stations. Their re-
ports show that the subject is really
one of great importance. Prof.
McCarthy says, “Every bushel of
uncleaned clover seed contains
from three to five pounds of weed
seeds.” Again he says, “ Unclean-
ed red clover seed is probably the
foulest seed on the market.”

Experiments here show that on
an average the farmer buys in each
bushel of clover seed three pounds
of foreign matter, which is largely
made up of weed seeds.

 

FOR POULTRY l’EOPLl'}.

[Bulletin Geneva, N. Y.. Station.]

A pen of pullets kept without a

male, produced eggs at about 30
per cent less cost than an exactly

similar pen with which a. cockerel
was kept.

Another pen without 8. male
gave during the first three months
about the same proportionate ex-
cess of product over an exactly sim-
ilar pen with which a cockerel was
kept. After the development of
the feather eating habit the egg
product diminished, but during
eight months the total egg yields
for each pen were very nearly alike.

In each of the two pens without
male birds some pullets had begun
to lay from one to two months
earlier than any in the correspond-
ing pens in which male birds were
kept.

VVhilc “ feather eating” usual-
ly appears after feeding for any
length of time, an unvaried ration
deficient in some constituents, more
especially nitrogenous matter, the
habit has developed from idleness
or some unknown cause among
fowls having a. ration which gave
satisfactory results with other sim-
ilar pens of fowls fed at the same
time.

While the habit of feather eat-
ing can be cured sometimes by a
needed change of food and some-
times by methods similar to that
mentioned in this bulletin, no meth-
od which necessitates frequent
handling of fowls will be an econ-
omical one with ordinary stock.
The vice is very uncommon among
fowls that have exercise and a va-
riety of food, and it is most econ-
omical to prevent its appearance
by careful feeding, but as the
spread is rapid even under a ration
which does not ordinarily seem to
encouiagre its development, the vice
should be stamped out by the death
or removal of the first offender.

 

BABY SEPARATORS.

Can they Protitahly be Used in the
Private Dairy’!

lfiullctin lxiiliumi St:ilinn.]

It is unquestionably true tliat
much less butter is made on the
on the farm than should be, owing
to imperfect skimming. It is a
rare case for a. dairyman to know
how much fat he has left in his
skim milk. It requires proper
temperature and conditions in set-
ting, as well as expertness in skim-
ming, to secure so much butter fat
from milk set, so as to leave but a
minimum amount in the skim milk.
This fact is generally recognized
by dairy experts. The invention
of the cream separator, by which
through centrifugal force the fat
may be almost entirely removed
from the milk, made perfect cream-
ing possible. Today the centrifu-
gal forms a most essential part of
the economically conducted cream-
ery.

The cream separator has become
rapidly perfected, and at the pres-
ent time hand power machines are
made that perform work almost
equally good with those that re-
quire other motive power.

The modern dairyman, who
makes butter from a herd of ten
or more cows, in the opinion of the
writer, can profitably invest in a
hand separator. The losses of fat
from hand skimmings will pay for
a. baby separator in a surprisingly
short time. First, through butter
saved from the skim milk; Second,
through reduction in cost of pur-
chasing and maintaining outfit of
creamer and pans; Third, through
reduced expense for ice in summer.

To run a separator successfully,
one must familiarize himself with
its construction and work. If im-
properly managed, it will do poor
work, as will any other tool. The
Babcock fat tester and baby sepa-
rator are essential, if one is watch-
ing to prevent leaks in the dairy.

 

FACTS FOR FARMERS. '

[This is the way they talk in
North Carolina]

A bulletin was written to be
read by farmers. The subject was
one which all farmers wish to learn
more about, and was chosen for
that purpose. It was written from
the farmers’ stand-point and will
be supplied free to all farmers who
write for it. If you do not want
it, don’t send for it.

The bulletin is No. 79, of 24
pages, recently issued by the North
Carolina Agricultural Experiment
Station at Raleigh. Every man
who farms should become acquaint-
ed with the structure of plants and
the forces exerted by them in
growing; how they take up food
from the soil and air, and how they
store it away, and the best plans

,light for the feed eaten.

for their cultivation and care; how
stable manure may be preserved
and utilized; how lime acts upon
the soil, and what soils are most
benefited by its application. All
these are treated in a plain, prac-
tical way in this bulletin. Green
manuring is also fully described,
as well as the value of recuperative
crops and the proper rotation of
crops. Some may say that a dis-
cussion of these matters is not truly
experimental in their character,
and does not belong in the bulle-
tins of an experiment station. It
is pretty well settled, however,
from the favor with which the
farmers have received this bulletin,
that they appreciate its pages.

 

FEEDING STEERS.

Itfiullc.-tin K:v.ns;i.~ StaIion.‘.

1. The steers fed on the balan-
ced ration gained more rapidly than
any of the others, they were in
better marketcondition and brought
a higher price than any of the oth-
ers, and they consumed less food
per pound of gain than the others,
all of which confirms the results of
last year. But these factors do not
necessarily imply the most profit,
as the account proves.

2. A mixture of molasses and
corn meal proved to be a very iii-
ferior fattening material.

 The exclusive diet of oil cake
did not yield as good results as
either the balanced ration or corn.
The animal organism appears to be
unable to make use of so highly
concentrated nitrogenous feed to
good advantage.

4. Ear corn fed in the barn did
not produce as good gains as did
the balanced ration fed under the
same conditions, but, being a
cheaper feed, it proved to be slight-
ly more profitable.

5. The steers fed ear corn out of
doors gained at practically the
same rate during the experiment
as those fed ear corn indoors, but
they ate two pounds corn and 1.5
pounds fodder more per pound of
gain than did the indoor steers.
This confirms the results of last
year.

6. Steers which are tied up in
the barn, if not accustomed to this
method of handling, will fret under
the restraint for several weeks, dur-
ing which time the gain is but
From
this we conclude that good shelter
is favorable to economical feeding,
but it should not put the steers
under restraints to which they are
unaccustomed.

AN APPLE PEST.

[Bulletin \\';i.<hingI.mi Stutioml

To the planter of apple trees in
this northwest there is no more
serious pest than the woolly aphis.
It is an insidious foe, one that
creeps into the orchard and saps
the life from otherwise promising
trees, as stealthily as a midnight
marauder, doing its first and most
lasting work under cover of earth-
in darkness. In other words this
pest makes its appearance on the
roots of the young trees while in
the nursery in many instances,
especially in old nursery ground.

Having occasion to examine a
quantity of apple seedlings for
grafting purposes, it was observed
that the larger part of them had
twisted, tortuous and knotted roots.
Some were slightly abnormal; oth-
ers more so; while some were
simply monstrous. Upon closer
examination there appeared multi-
tudes of little knots or excrescences
of the size of a pin head and larger,
intermingled with the larger ones,
which latter ones were frequently
as large as filberts. This was rec-
ognized as the work of the woolly
aphis, and the whole stock as a re-
sult discarded.

Last spring while planting year- -

ling apple trees, purchased in the
eastern states, the telltale “ warts,”
as the workmen called them, were
found on several trees. It is need-
less to say the trees were at once
destroyed, as it is safe to take no
chances with such a foe.

Undoubtedly much of the trouble
from this post arises from its dis-
semination in this way~on the
roots of young trees. The average
planter is not familiar with the
appearance of tree roots. He has
not closely observed the difference
between the excrescences caused by
this pest and outgrowths caused by
local injury, as by barking in cul-
tivation.

A trunk differs from a man in that it
can be cornpletel strapped without becom-
ing broke.—Bufl'hlo Courier.

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Nolicesvof’ Meetings.

BRANCH POMONA.

Branch County Pomona Grange will
hold a meeting with Gilead Grange on
Thursday, November 9, commencing at
11 A. M,

The morning session will be devoted to
the regular order of business.

The afternoon meeting will be public and
a cordial invitation is extended to all inter-
ested. The following program has been
arranged:

Music, by Gilead Grange.

Address of welcome, by A. R. Bonney
of Gilead Grange.

Response, by W. S. Mowry of Coldwater
Grange.

“ Our new road law, what are we going
to do with it?” Paper. by A. ]. Warner
of Quincy Grange.

Discussion of paper by members.

Recitation, by Miss Carrie Fiske of Cold-
water Grange.

Music by Gilead Grange.

“ What interested me most at the Expo-
sition;” paper by Mrs. L. M. Bowers of
Batavia Grange.

Song, by Mrs. Minnie Bertram of Cold-
water Grange.

“ Gold and silver as currency ;” paper by
Hon. D. D. Buell of Union Grange.

Recitation, by E. A. Brown of Batavia
Grange.

Closing song, by Gilead Grange.

Mas. E. A. HORTON,
Lpclurrr.

Theifide or Affairs.

The long and disgraceful tight in the
senate seemsto be at an end, and the ad-
ministration has won. It is to be hoped
that the first thing the senate does on its
reassembling will be to amend its rules
so that the majority shall be assured of
their rights. The repeal of the purchas-
ing clause had become of less interest
than the question as to whether or not
the minority can block all legislation if
it so chooses. If the senate does not
soon place itself in position to enforce
majority rule, the people will feel little
like placing confidence in its delibera-
tions.

>I< =i<

Brooklyn has what might be termed a
model city government. When that city
politically "cleaned house” a few years
ago there were put into effect the ideas of
municipal reformers that power should
be centralized in the hands of a few men,
who could thus be held responsible for
deeds and misdeeds. Under Mayor Low
and men of his stamp. this idea was suc-
cessful. But it seems that the present
mayor is a scouudrel, and has created a
machine which the good citizens of
Brooklyn will find difficult to break.
This bit of experience emphasizes the
fact that good government depends far
more on the men entrusted with power,
than with the pagtticufilar form adopted.

an

The record of railroad accidents dur-
ing the past few months is startling and
suggestive. Perhaps, considering the
immense traffic, it is to be wondered that
there have not been more. But the roads
are partly to blame for this rush of
traffic during September and October.
If rates had been put down in June, the
traflic would have been distributed more
evenly through the season and could
have been handled with comparative
ease. Of course it is true that no one
more than the railroad officials wishes to
prevent accidents. The Battle Creek
accident will cost the Grand Trunk per-
haps many tens of thousands of dollars.
And yet. in it all, there seems to be a
lack of feeling of the sacredness of
human life. The loaded cars plunge on
bearing the fortunes of hundreds of fam-
ilies, and a little carelessness or inatten-
tion may mean we: fol; many.

That the coming itvinter is to be one of
extreme hardship for the poorer people
is quite generally predicted. In every
lslrge (tliityghgrehare thousanlis of uner1n-
poye . n t ey arepeope asa rue,
who have no savings, depending on daily
labor for daily bread. The condition in

on, nopthol-n peninsula is sold to be weeks and the growth of vegetation is some-
Tno bnlk of the thing wonderful.
pooplo dopond upon the mines for lnbop time to put in any grain we are all ready
and they have to buy all tnolp food at to go to cutting hay as soon as the season

beyond description.

pretty high prices. The mines have been

closedlall summer, with no prospect of an
early opening. The people, consequent-
ly, find tnolnoolvoo with no money, no w_et that few people turned out to attend the
work’ nothing but 3 long oold winter of picnic advertised for that day, however

misery before them. *

III
The Michigan political science associa-
tion held a meeting recently in Detroit, Part Of the ‘3°““".Y than I was last 5PTi“gs
Tho tn,-oo oniof and feel grateful to you for bringing me

subjects discussed were treatment of here and showing me its many advantages;

which we attended.

criminals, dissatisfaction with the senate
and taxation.

issue to give a synopsis of the discussions

but hope that we may in our next.

This association aims to have broad _ , _
dlnononlono of ooonomlo and social toplos for information about the country, will be
by men who are authorities in their line, Pleased I0 answer all inquiries-
and thus to disseminate among the peo-

ple a knowledge of such questions.
xi: as

Woman suffrage in Michigan has been
found to be a constitutional question. the
supreme court having declared the act of active.

1893 invalid. The decision was not un

expected. But the women now know
just what must be done to secure their
desires—-the people at large must vote
The thing to do for the next Q_ w. INGERSOLL:
year and a half is to agitate the question
very thoroughly and then let the people
have a fair and square chance to express

on it.

their opinion.
* *

The assassination of Mayor Carter Har-
rison of Chicago is peculiarly terrible.
Although Mr. Harrison’s record is not
without blemish, he was a man of un- Paints.-—Ei>.]
doubted ability, and has represented
Chicago magnificently during the World's
Fair. Apparently without cause, in the build up the VISITOR?

Wo have not space this officials for their many courtesies shown

quiet of evening, he was murdered.
When such crimes occur and such crim-
inals appear we are tempted to ask,
whither are we drifting? Are we never
going to get away from those barbarous
times of murder and assassination that
have blotted history’s pages? Or is our
modern life especially productive of
cranks, lunatics and desperate criminals?

riiii MAGAZINES.

The November Atlantic has, among many
other interesting articles, one by Mr. H. E.
Scudder, on “School Libraries.” He
makes a clear showing of what the state
can do in the cause of good reading.

A famous man is always interesting
when he tells how he did the thing
which brought him his reputation, and
there is a particular charm about Frank R.
Stockton‘s narrative, which opens the No-
vember Lrldies’ Home ffournal, of how he
conceived and wrote his famous story,
“ The Lady or the Tiger?” what came of
its writing, and the condition of his own
mind at the present time of the correct so-
lution of the story.

The complete novel in the November
number of Li’/>[:z'urott's is “ An Unsatisfac-
tory Lover,” by Mrs. Hungerford (“ The
Duchess”). It tells, in the style which has
charmed so many readers, of an inauspi-
cious wooing and an interrupted courtship,
which at length led to a happy result——for
the lover did not alwas remain unsatisfac-
torv.

MARK 'r‘wAiN’s LAri~:s'r—RoMANci~: or AN

ESQUIMAU MAIDEN.
T /I!’ Cosmopolilzm presents for Noveiii-
ber several very unusual features. VVilliam
Dean Howells gives the first of the letters
of the traveler, who has been visiting this
country, from Altruria. We have read
Mr. Howells‘ impression of the Altrurian
but in this first letter we have the Altru-
rian's impressions of New York, with some
comments upon our government and
society, calculated to awaken the most
conservative minds. Another feature is
“American Notes,” by VValter Besant, who
was recently in America and is doing the
United States for The Cosmopolitan a la
Dickens. Finally, we have a new and
very curious story by Mark Twain, called
“The Esquimziu .Vlaiden's Romance." It
is in his happiest vein and is illustrated by
Dan Beard.

Among the short articles that will ap-
pear in the November number of the .Vorl/1
Anzcrimiz Ifcrviezu will be " The \Velch in
Politics,” by John E. Owens; “ Eggs, et-
cetera, in Congress.” by Erastus Wiman,
“A Tempting Theory in Practice.” by
Bessie B. Croffutt, and “ The Decline of
Ecelesiasticism,” by john E. Raymond.

 

A weekly VISITOR will strengthen the
Grange greatly.

OUR ADVERTISERS.

We ran an advertisement, a short time
ago, of the Dominion illustrated. We
knew that the magazine had formerly
been in good repute and inserted the ad.
We found out, however. when we came
to collect, that they were a fraud and
that they had fooled a great many pub-
lishers. We want to have everything in
our advertising columns straight and
square, and always regret exceedingly
when anything dishonest creeps in.

riii-: L‘./\_\‘AI')IAN NORTHIVEST,
La Dur, Alberta, j‘ul_y 24, 1893.

MR. A. R. Com-:, SAGINAW, MicH.:

DEAR SIK——I left the Canadian Soo
with my family on June 27, and reached
here in safety July 3.

Our car of effects came very promptly,
being only one day behind us in reaching
here. We are now settled on our own
land which Ithought a year ago, was a
wilderness, but today we have a postoflice
within a mile, and the postmaster says that
there are forty families that get mail from
our office, and a great many have not yet
got settled on their land.

A year ago it was the question how to
get the settlers for the land, today it is how
to get land for all who come. It is all
taken up about here that is surveyed, but
they are surveying as fast as they can, so
that no one need go away unless they are
very hard to suit.

It has been very wet here for several

As we were not here in

arrives.
We expected to have a grand time the
12th of July, but a heavy storm made it so

there were enough to show that we had
plenty of neighbors.
I am better satisfied with this particular

’ and I also feel grateful to the C. P. R.
me and the prompt manner in which the
car of effects was forwarded. You are at
liberty to refer any interested settlers to me

Yours respectfully,
Jonson D. SMITH.

(Signed)
Late of Strongville, Mich.

 

Your agent will need to be alert and
He oughtto have your help, too.

ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL.
lheslznorrlanzi Co., P~a., 4, 26’, 1893.

DEAR SiR——I have been using your In-
I make selection for another order.

Respectfully,
OHN G. Fox.

 

Can we rely on your help in trying to

    
 
 
 
 
   
 
     
   
   
   
   
   
   

destructible Paints some time, with the
best of results, and write again asking that
you send me Color cards, and prices, that

[See Adv. Ingersoll’s Liquid Rubber

DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT HAS
SCORE]! ANOTHER VICTORY.

A large consumer of butter salt who had
always used a certain salt which had borne
a high reputation for many years, was in- _
duced to try Diamond Crystal with a view
of using same if found more satisfactory .
His experiments were begun in januarg
and continued until the following Septem
ber, during which time he used about 30,-
000 pounds of Diamond Crystal Salt. The
first point they wished to settle was whether >
the butter would be any better and whether
the salt would hold the butter as long.
After careful tests for eight months these
points were decided in favor of Diamond
Crystal. Another question still in doubt
was whether the butter would weigh as
much after being salted with Diamond
Crystal as when salted with the other salt,
which did not dissolve so perfectly. One
of the principal arguments used by the ad-
vocates of the other salt was that it had
make-weight properties, which were so
great that if any other salt were furnished
without cost it would still bea great gain to
use the salt in question, even at the very
high price for which it was sold.

What dealer in butter is there who will
not say—all other things being equal——that
butter free from grit is worth one cent per
pound more than butter that contains grit,
or rather, undissolved salt. 224 pounds of
salt will salt 3,584 pounds of butter, then if
you gain 1 cent per pound on the value of
the butter it would mean a gain of $35.84
on every 224 pounds of salt used. Then if
you add the other gain in weight it would
be $42.84. This theory may not hold good,
but it is precisely the argument used for
many years past by the representatives of
the salt with which the above test was made.
Seju‘. 13. 1893,

 

FOR THE CHAMPION

WAGON.

MEDAL

Very satisfactory results are being real-
ized by a large number of our American
manufacturers of agricultural implements
at the World’s Fair. The joliet Strow-
bridge Co., joliet, lll., exhibit in the
Agricultural Building their Broad Cast
seeder and Peerless Feed Grinder. These
are both well known pieces of farm ma-
chinery and many good sales have been
made at the Fair. The Champion VVagon,
of which the Strowbridge Co., are special
agents, is exhibited in the Transportation
Building. The Champion, by the \va_v,has
captured the medal, which is a sutlicient
recommendation. They will send free to
anyone applying, circulars giving full in-
formation concerning the above named
articles. If interested address them.

HEADQUARTERS
FOR ALL
CONVENTIONS.

HUDSON HOUSE,

LANSING. )1 ICH.

A. 1-‘EARSALL,
J. A. PEARSALL,

Proprietors.

HOTEL DOWNEY,

LANSING. .V‘lI('H.

WE HAVE

150 GOOD ROOMS.

CALL AND SEE US.

H. J. DOVVNEY & S()N,

Proprietors.

CARPENTER ORGANS

are strictly High-Grade lnstrumentp. and
sold at LOVV PRICES, quality considered.
for Cash or Inatallmnmts. and delivered at
your home, freight paid. Send for catalogue of
new designs to
E. P. CARPENTER COMPANY,

Home oflice: BRATTLEBORO, VT., U. S. A.
Western Oflice: J. Howard Foote. 207 and 209
Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. ‘

~15?‘ RIBBON BADGES
AGENTS WANTED.
New Illuminated Catalogue.

Whitehead & Hoag

Newark, New Jersey.
FLAGS. FLAGS. FLAGS.

, on GIIIIIKEIIS BI STEAM
__ W 1-H" Excalsior Incubator.

77- Simple I'r.r/‘act, Self-R gu-
. ' . I Thousands in suc-
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feed to hatch 5 larger per-

.-._-.’ ceutnge of fertile eggs at
*‘ less cost tli ny other
‘ mwest priced
[ntcher made.
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Bend lie. for ‘
Illus. Catalogue.

 

Should know that
the first-prize butter at the
leading Conventions has been

salted

SALT.

preserves and holds the flavor of good but-
. ter longer than any other salt. It is free

1 from hard and fllnty substances and always
I dissolves just right. The leading butter

makers are using it and praising it. It will

pay you to fall in line. Packed in 2801b.

barrels—- 224 1b., 56 1b., and 14 lb. bags.
Sold by all dealers. '

DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT 00.,

 
 
 
  
  
 

with DIAMOND CRYSTAL
It is the purest salt made. It

   
 

ST. CLAIR. MICH.

i.ANsiNE§i=iRMs.

VVhen in Lansing attending State Grange you
may find it -.id\'-.iiit:igeous to do some trailing,
\Ve present lielow llie niiiiies of relizililc people,
who will treat you well. Call on them and see
what they have. and tell them that win §‘.l\V their
card in the Visrrok. '

MILLINERY g...
FANCY GOODS

At MADAME _SAV|C.NY’S

222 Washington Ave. South.

When in Lansing call on

A. M. EMERY,

And examine his line of

Books, Bibles,

Photo Albums,
Engravings,
Frames and

Holiday Goods

Special Prices to Grangers
I13 Michigzin Ave.

B. F. Siinoiis’ Store,

The most reliable

llry Bonds and Carpet

House in City.

Cloaks and Winter Wraps
At Low Prices.

Visit the Store when in the City.
Special lnduteiiients Mei-ed Eat-Ii Day.

If you need anything in the way of

LADIES’
MEN'S or
CHILDREN'S

Furnishing Bonds

Would be pleased to have you call and see what
I am showing.

Qualities and Prices Right.

ELC-IN MIFFLIN,

The Outfitter.

Sueclaclet and Eye-Glasses

I have the most complete stock of
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses in Lansing,
and make a specialty of fitting them to
all defects of the eye.

I have all grades of steel from 50c to
$2.00. Solid gold at $3.50 and $4.50.

I guarantee a fit in every pair sold.

I can make you see.

H. B. MORGAN.

GRANGE piiascronv.
Patrons \Vill Find These Firms Reliable and
Can Get Special Prices From Them.

ifn. EAGLE ".2 Co.,

Farmers’ Wliolesale supply House,
68 and 70 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Save
money on everything. Send six cents for full
cntzilogne.

The Smith Implement &, 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 uni'_l r 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 oflicial furnishers of badges, working
tools. seals. staff mountings. [ind all supplies.
Illustrated catalog on application. Send orders
to Jennie Buell, Secretary, Ann Arbor, or direct
to Palmyra, N. Y.

P' A N 0 S §.“.?fi‘?i3l9.li3‘é‘2.%1%“ ‘.:l‘.“’i°s.‘::.‘:.‘.’
AND * v - 

 %V;:p0ver Organ & Piano Co.

ry. York, Pa. Place seal
of your Grange on your letter paper. or send
trade card to secure benefit of special manufact-
urers‘ prices direct to Grangers.

 GEO. WOODLEY,

242 South Water St.,
Chicago, Ill. \‘Vholesale Lumber dealer. Solic-
its correspondence with incinhers of Michigan P.
of II. llllll Alliances who conteinplate building.
\‘\'ritt- for price lists.

Ths Honey Creek Grange Nurseries have
lice-n under contract with the State Grange of Ohio
for over ten vears, and have dealt extensivelv in
Illlllllllll :ind .\Iichi_s;an also. Special prices sent to
anyone under seal of lhe (Jr:-ingc. Give us a trial.
“K: can siive you iiioiiey. Address

Is-any Freeman 8: Son. Rex, Ohio.

PATI-l0NS' OIL WORKS. DERRICK OIL 00.
I4‘. G. BELLAMY, Prop‘r. Titusville. Pa.
Lubricating anal Burning Oils of the hi heat
quality, at wholesale prices. Try our Elite urn-
ing Oil, made specially for family use. Write for

prices. Address DERRICK OIL C0.,
Titusville, Pa.

Favorite
Lines

to the Summer
Resorts

of Northern
Michigan

TRAVERSE CITY

ELK RAPIDS

CI-IARLEVOIX

PETOSKEY

BAY VIEW

MACKINA() 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 GIIAIILEVOIX
Through sleeping and parlor car ser-

CO-OPERATION

the industrial world.

CO-OPERATION

tmnsactions. _ _
for investing and borrowing. is

CO-OPERATION

intelligent man who investigates.

soon, write, asking for a prospectus.
Address C. A. G0\VER,
Pres. and Geri'1 Manager.

has solved some of the most vexed questions in

is very rapidly coming into use in our financial
' The Building and Loan plan,both

pure and simple, and commends itself to every GEO. DEHAVEN,

When in Lansing, call at the oflice of the
(‘apltol Investment, Building and Loan
Association, in the I-Iollister Block, and learn
of its plan. If you are not com1ngtoLansing,

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.
TIIY ['1' WHEN YOU 60 NORTH TIIIS Sllflllllk
FRANK TOWNSEND,

Agent, Lansng.
Gen’l Pass’r Agt., Grand Rapids.

Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest

ichiel‘s Early. Clo

Jessie.
and. $1.00 per 1 .

and Curnherl

distance. for $1.25.
EARL H. DRESSER,
Jone:-ivllle, Mich.

STRAWBERRY PLIv7rs.

Parker Fm-le and Dutter. $l.25 per 100. Chas.
Downin , Haviland, Gandza Wilson, Bubach.
61° Seedling, Eureka, opened by railroads.

10 plants of each of above 12 named varieties,
correctly labeled and neatly packed to go any

2oo,ooo,ooo acres of wheat and razin lands open
for settlement in Manitoba and! the real. North-
west, including the famous Edmonton District and
the great Saskatchewan Valley, which are now

THE FINEST LANDS

to he had in North America, and good climate,
V‘I'here stock pick their living the year round and
thrive.

successful artificial hatching by the .
"lellshlo." The but, most dunble, . .
cutest operated . nude cl’ but met '

 

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FREE FARMS OF 160 ACRES

given to eve male adult of ei hteen
over; and evdryy female head of a familyyears Ind
S ecial rates given to intending settlers.

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

A. R. CODE, Gen'1 Agt.-,
Box 635. Saginaw, E. 5,, Mich.

LANSING, HIGH.

1-nnssns or nonnlu‘ sxrrn & co..

   
 
  
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
   
  
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
     
     
   
  
  
   
 
   
  
   
  
   
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
   
  
     
     
      
     
  

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