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VOL. XIX, N0. 2.

ANOTflER SCORING.

Secretary Morton was interviewed by
the Washington, D. 0., Evening Star, in
regard to the action of the National Grange
requesting his resignation. Mr. Morton is
reported as saying:

“ The Grange is an independent body.
he no objection to that or any other independent
body attending to the purposes for which it was cre-
ated. It is subject _to criticism whenever it devotes
itself to any other purposes. And only to those
Grangers and Granges who have been instituted for
other than agricultural advancement can any of the
language used in the remarks at Chicago on the 16th
of last October be applied. The gentlemen who ap-
plied and fitted these remarks to themselves have no
cause for self congratulation. VVhat would they
think if farmers who formerly belonged to the
Grange should pass a series of resolutions inquiring
what became of more than $200,000 that the Nation-
al Grange alleged some years since it held in the
form of government bonds for the benefit of the
Order? Of course, it is understood that the reply to
such a resolution would be that it had been returned
to the State Granges in each case, and then the ques-
tion would be: \Vhat did the State Graiiges do with
it? How much of the $200,000 ever reached the
the original donors or contributors of that sum 9“

These charges Bro. J. J. \Voodman de-
nies in a communication to the Star, very
emphatically. After showing that Mr.
Morton’s attempt at hedging on his re-
marks at Chicago is unavailing, and show-
ing, by figures from the books of the
National Grange, that Mr. Morton’s alle-
gations concerning the supposed $200,000
squandered by the Grange are false, he
closes by thus paying his respects to the
Honorable Secretary:

“ The charge or intimation that any State Grange
squandered or misapplied this fund has never before,
to my knowledge, been made. I will state, for the
honorable Secretary's special benefit, that it was not
intended that this dcnatlozi he ‘returned to the orig-
fllal UVH-‘uh UL CUl1LllUU£U£-4, . if P W(ilI|'J"'Ak1\U AL
ceived less than ten cents each; and if any one claim-
ing to have ‘formerly belonged ‘o the Grange’ in
Nebraska is solicitous about that ten cents,’ I am
certain that the State Grange of \lebraska will re-
fund it to him with interest, upon . roper application,
provided that a receipt in full payn ent for the same
will be given to the State Grangt It will be seen
that the amount of National Gmnge funds ‘ re-

turned to the State Granges’ was 3. <4,8i 1.36, instead
it. As all the

There can

of ‘$200,000,’ as Mr. Morton sta..-
financial transactions of the Nation’ ' Grange are in
its published proceedings, consequcr lly accessible to
every one desiring information frolr ”hem, it is difii-
cult to understand how any sane 1:.-ll could make
charges against a great brotherhood of agriculturists,
which he ought to have known and coiftl have known
were false in every particular, and to so distort fig-
ures as to make an intimation of financial corruption
appear $145,188.64 more than the actual amount
involved, except through ‘ profound ignorance,’ or a
willful intention to misrepresent.”

PATRONS 0|!‘ MICHIGAN.

Another year's work is before us. Once
more we are to consider plans through
which we hope to build up and make
stronger, the Order in our state. There
are thousands of farmers with their fami-
lies who should be encouraged to join with
us in our efforts to advance our class to
their proper sphere in intelligence, useful-
ness, and influence. The National Grange
and most of the State Granges have recently
met, and never in the history of Grange
work has there been more general interest
displayed. The petitions, memorials, and
resolutions presented were numerousand
the discussions thereon were spirited md
earnest, fully showing that farmers are
reading, observing, and thinking uponall
the questions of the day. Never was there
a time when farmers see more clearly the
importance of organization.

UNITED EFFORT NEEDED.

The Granges of Michigan have but tu
make one united elfort and their strength
will be greatly increased. Shall we do it?
This question should be taken home by
every Grange and every member. Yes,
fellow Patrons, let us make a strong pull
all together. Let us begin at once. Time is

recious. The winter will soon be gone
and field labors will again demand our at-
tention. For the next three months the
meetings of every Subordinate Grange and
especially every Pomona Grange in the
state, should devote a good portion of their
time to actual work preparatory and in ex-
ecution of plans for a general Grange ex-
tension. The members should resolve
themselves into a committee of the whole
to go into the field and talk and act Grange
principles. Let your light shine out bright
and clear and many will be attracted
thereto.

SOME ARE SLEEPY AND INACTIVE.

The trouble, and the only trouble, with

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1-A1‘b1NG.a MICHIG;-”:N, JANUARY 13, 1394- WHOLE .-N0. 434.
9VeI‘y Sleepy or dormant Grange in the state S -h b 11 t‘ ,1 t’   P PTO" TWO P P3" 7 "W  7  0', (W7:
is the don’t care and helpless attitude of the willhfromutihibmliontifiidnhe senltalfiihhdmvithrild ltilfiiii;1rf11(:\; lo emtphflS]Z.P -hf“ muses tn W-lh-1 ch
members relative to Grange work. The oflice as the exigencies,of the Order may as at Lisnenl “Web Eh’ fiirfseht actuilty
condition, usefulness and prosperity of demand, and the funds at the disposal of that the farinei'inamlit)icsth Ox-Se Wllhfbeiieve
every Grange is wholly, in the hands and the Lecturer will admit. Seeking God’s More I f tl P0 h ([1: 90"“ 0 5 “.7/'
keeping of its own members. If a Grant“ blessings upon our elforts may we labor s ite bf am hbl 108-6 W‘  'ehhVeLflmh In
is healthy and useful its own members ut to th f h - . ’ .’ p ’ posh] 9’ “W7 lnhvlmhlh "luhdhrs
, _ _ _ 7 _ p ge er ort euphfting of humanity, and on the part of men com 31' 1 1 t d
it in that condition. If a Grange is do‘='— the dawn of a better day for the prosperiliv in the cond it f bl' ‘p ffi iwe y un me
mant and nearly useless, its own members and happiness of the American farmer ‘i once andi fin 0- pflthmfa d1rS'.t'h“ Wes’
are wholly responsible. The members make Yours fraternally ' will u‘ti D 1-,:]em‘e 0 , e,E"her,111 P“l1l"1CSr
or ruin every Grange in proportion to their ' ALPHA MESSER countr‘ I mta 1 y pro‘: finhficilsfll to the
united efforts for or against. L 5. ')v V g" ’ _ y El 31-‘gel’ . Oh the
. . . - 90 W 07‘ 1 cl zonal Grange. othei hand capital need fear no illerritiiiiat
_ No power within reach can keep a goru. — 4-‘ olislau ht on th "Iht f ' ‘hf 6
live Grange unless its members ale willing MORTON HFDGES hands if _ ling 5 Oh —i.h°pe”’~‘ ht the
to unitedly work for success. ._- I ' who tin W0 0 owl} t Hr (iwn hhomes’
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Grange in Michigan increase it.s iiiember- those Grangers and G-ran0'es who have of the littl "t l th I
ship and to see many new Granges organ-— ' been instituted for other ‘align agrir-ultural face th Q -‘a $3 Possess. In the
ized. It will do all in its power to bring advancement can any of the language used ever’ tehh ohtf ls :10" eihhm’ H1 .heh°°Veh
about this result. It cannot do this alone, in the remarks at Chicago be applied ” loved, liiro-uh  .1]. 1. nliuhc-an fitlzell who
it can only help you to make your success This construction may he the proper tion VV:l,]('l)1'1nl,1l1}/ l)t1h [ uliseh th‘t;”queS-
.‘—{re3te"- Let “5 maktt 3 SW01}:-’ pull all one, it inav be what the Secretary intended These Irl{1(’-‘]11Sl)11te,(i(z‘]11,¥ (fillet S:nt(imr' t d
together. GEO. B. HORTON. to say a“ (‘hit-ago But here is what he ex ' L I i If 0 " ' men an
‘. , - *‘ ~' ' - - I ~ pressioiis of scores of writers and speak-
.t i ‘: . . - , ,
FROM THE NATIONAL LEiiTURER- 1 1:‘ AS[?1)0:l'ic8u farmers have foes to contend with afhofiraihebgiii ti?)elilrlht;hhlfSl?,eE:l:l"ljeI:sofi
— -, tlieyar notth t lf tth -lg’ “ , ,’ ; .“"S.
To proclaim the truths and principles the Wl'):El3,].10l3:h:%ln‘f1Il‘il‘alD0?:—(;$$32l8lJOI“:f?:V:h0(l- know here‘)? thty Speah’ and mhluddng
which underlie the Order of Patrons of era in swine, nor the drouth, nor the chinch-bug. men 0 the lhghest rank "1 €?VeI‘y calling-
Husbandry and to keep them constantly The mostinsidious and destructive foes to the THE PRESENT INCUMBENT.
b f h 7 _ . farmer is the professional farmer, who, as a _‘pro- But what shall We say of the expression
e ore is e minds of the people, has been. motor of granges and alliances for political f h . Q . . -
and now is, the work of the Lecturer cl‘ ‘ purposes. f_aI‘l1]St_lI8f8rmer. It is triie that Ameri- O t 6, glhsetlllt. kfircleftar of Agrwultur-6’
the National Grange. That this work has 1‘ “““t.f3’mt%l‘f° ‘.5 ‘9°h“@d ‘ma lb?” "3 the "W9" aaguo ab lfn Nth Ii: ml" 1?/“ral from 11.13-
been wen and now done in we  that :::.::3::.; .3264: i::.° “::1‘2.:’.£ §i’.°.i?.‘. ..’2“Z§‘.‘f.“-".{’..‘:.““ El.-“S  ‘fit. I9  -“°“t"‘°“ 1“
have passed, the records will show, but is not bziaed on gregpsi-iousness. He will not sug-. th lcagoy, (“it lteksuppoie hlmself among
with all the achievements of the past, with ceed better by torming granges and alliances. °-3° W °~ ‘ - “° ’‘°W ‘ 9 Wm“ °i““m‘
an unbroken record of progress on every which generally seek to attend to some other em orgamzatlohsh Or Was he chtermg for
page of its history the grand mission of bhE"h°.“5 thhh f’“'mh‘8s ‘“1df"°‘l“9“t1Y PYOPOEO '0 the. hpproyhl .°f.th" dlshhected ahd the
,, , 1 , 7 run railroads and banks and even propose to es- anti-organizatlonlst when he said “ We
the Grange in educating the farmers has tablish new systems of coinage for the govsrn- an d. t d th t f G ’
only just begun; and 3,5 I see the mggni- men .. than he will by individual investigations of Auim ‘rs an V -,_a+§ S0 gr’ gauges and
tude of the iporkdbefore me and as its fr" °°°h"'*""° q“°“h°h9'" m  .i0r%ahM.h'.'Q,1]£,- ave- een f°-‘,"’d
me. P0ssi'fii'il1'l'es are Opened‘ 11';‘.‘.‘ 1'" “'*"~‘1'1i15‘1‘J'-his5-TR” “"1'r"'I¥{'11T¥Z""‘fi“i“h° ithanh ~‘“'-J?"-‘   ' ‘hi: hihh Iwh-‘hr
ion, I should feel like shrinking from part of Mr. Morton. ‘ .WO,k;f,*}°,‘g‘§,;e mg ‘pa1§,a‘_;,Yce 03:18 '-diesfl
th t k b - - - - _,_*_W,_j_? _ 1
o: .ZZ,..o§.°.“..‘.‘f.Z ‘Zfi‘1‘i§’.‘“,?§’§§£I‘.f.f°d‘i1fel « comm. §g,,g,g§f";§,';,1§;;,f3:,§;.:;:;, 7,3; g;,:_j;;°.€
not feel assured of the hearty cooperation ‘ , .- Li ’ ' I '
and support of the Lecturers, Masters, In the early days of the Glfiantiey and and t$?.]fh1D,l Everygodh except the mem-
and other Officers of the Subordinate, many years before the formation of the “grist tglmseerves, un e(11'5l7O0(d. perfectly well
Pomona, and State Gmnges throughout many newer farmer organizations, the t_ 8 fef ‘ rangetfin iilliance o1~ganiza_
the 1,md_ with such support, and the Grange took a great interest in the Agri- £23: bzenhlclygthf 11 (liogg gut the chhhtrg
cooperation of the entire membership cultural Department, and centered much , , . 0 9 Y, 9m3gO8‘1eS 311
of the Order I feel ins ired to 0 for strength and lnfiuenceinfavor ofmethodsof pohthhhhsr Who: i°1_'P°11t_1C31Pu1'PO5e5h3VO
Ward in the “fork with th}; firm befiif th ,1; widening its field of usefulness and of in- cfihdescfillded 90 J01“ their ranks and teach
- c u ,3
our united efforts will be crowned with cheaslhg Its means of shppoht’ appmprlate t Ejgm W at they Ought to say and do’
abundant success. Individually we can do with the .mhk Of 38‘1‘1°111tu1'O 111 Other OO‘m- rothertfatronr and hglghbor. farmer’
but little in advancing the interests and tnesiwhhe an earnest struggle W825 entered compare - ese vmws an (-:0-milder the
. . _ to muse Its standard of mdwlduaht to fact, that in the course of political events,
battling for the rights of the tillers of the . 37 ah men from some other cam f -
soil, but collectively, with entire harmony equal Wlth other departments of g°v.erh' in life are so he uentl nlg .051. grfhessmfi
of thought and action we can meet and ment. And all other causes combined - _ H Y 99 O0 O - roug
conquer all opposing forces and Show to were not equal to the influence of the P‘3r59h”'1 favormsmv 01' 9' reward Of P91117-
the world that the Americaii farmers are Grange hhd ‘ts membership i.h. changing ma] Influence’ to fin Phe ex-fined posmons
. . _ It from 8 De lected com 1. “X1118 of the and perform the official duties of a depart-
moving gradually forward in assertin g 9 3 ry -

. . . . . _ _ g De fitment of Inte - d in th ment for the benefit of, and representative
their rights and improving their condition I.) . . nor’ coope .8 of a mat indust of the 6 1 d
in all the lines which relate to their social, liateht Ohio? bhhdlhg’ ho the.exB'1he(i P051‘ in’ Vafiance with riheir -udp (zap E’ and
educational’ political and material adv&nce_ tion now enJoyed, with its chief sitting at , h _ J gm 11 an
ment the royal communion table of government W15 .95 hhd to the exclusion °f th°s9 better

' CORRESPONDENCE WLICITED advisem_ qualified and deserving from_ among the
I _ . * ' THE FIRST SEGRE.I.ABY_ representative members_of their own ranks,

t is the desire of the Lecturer of the Th fl t . b t f th. 11. h . and by life and occupation identified with
National Grange to keep in touch . e rs mchm eh 0 18 lg 90.81" the Department, its industry and its
with the membership of the Order in all tlfoh ll)! Wolhiihhd plfh’ lost ho. ihportiflhtllfiy people.

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parts of the c.ountry,.and to this end cor- aidh‘:m1i1::;pOgr1th%f 1f:r:’feP;;e(::d1°,3l(§r 0: Question: What will you say? Is there
respondence is solicited from the ofiicers . . _ no necessity for support of association
and members of State, Pomona, and Siibor- iganlzahohs’ and’ as 8 mefhber. of the organization and education? ’
d- t G , _ - 11 h L _ Grange, took every opportunity within his ’ . .
ina e ranges more especia yt c act E . . . . Then, of duty, aid and assistance—are
urers—upon all subjects which relate to reahh ° hssocmhhg Whh. the m°mbers.m t 'b t' ' htf I h 9
_ thel t d 1, th h h you con ri u ing your rig u s are.
the welfare of the Order and the interests . I thee mgsnhh pom mg ewhyw 10 y,,3,-1a,,,(,‘_ A_ J _ CROgBy JB_
of the rural population. The Lecturer hm mlhd cohcelvhd that,‘ ,W°,h1d hung the —————e ’
may not be able to answer all of these lot- Dephrtmeht ahdhh hhxlhhnesi the expelh‘ A HANDSOME TRIBUTE-
ters, but the writers may rest assured that iheht Stahohh’ Wlth the t1hers.°f the 5011’ _
all communications will receive careful lhto the closest and '-host reclpmchtl I915’ The fhhtrlnl County bar Iieceutly R33§ed
consideration’ and that all suggestions for tions of work and study, ever holding _up resolutions in token of tlieir appreciation
the good of the Order will be most gladly the fhhmer 8'5 hh eqhal lh chhzeihshlh with °f,Jhdge R3’,n5d‘?1hs Sewlces 35 Judge Of
received with his associates in other callings in life. thirteenth .(‘,11‘c111t.. Among other things
WE MUST USE THE pREsS_ MR. RUsK’s CHARACTERISTICS. the HI-esolutionshsaid: t hi i f H I
. . . . _ “ e was one w 0 was ever wa c u 0 ie we -
It shouldf bp our plan to use the newspa- This important position was next filled fare of the people’ who practiced economy and ,m_
per press 0 tie country, so. far as may be by one who came from the farm and the gain, in the conducting of his mum, wmmut the
deemed practicable, in keeping the objects farmers’ organizations, retaining through sacrifice of efiiciency; one who ha-“ever iudged right-
and aims of the Order, together with such his life, though raised to many positions °°“S‘,>' b‘?i‘”ee_" ‘}“‘“ 3”‘? his "',"”‘,e' “O the 5”3“ge1‘
facts as may be of general interest, con- of public respons.ibility,_his strong affili_a- :1i::t,;:,:’v,1,t,,hdh;,I:,',., hI§‘,Z‘,§‘.‘{Z1%,.;‘.} 
stantly before the people; and in this con- tion to the intelligent tillers of the soil, needs 01- the rich manvs weam,_ Unbiased and um.
nection I wish to suggest that the local and his broad views of their relations as prej}Idi_c<§d he porformed_his duties and h_e lays aside
press in all parts of the country can be citizens and their duty in the times, can be ‘hfi ,3IE‘,:h°."h €”“”‘e ““.St3f‘“°d ""‘d ““5hh‘°d-
itilized for the good of the Order by the well taken from his pen as found in the hi hereiouixifl of _t-{"5 wufrth-anfi ”‘§ -rgcordf °£,.a
‘sicturers and correspondents of Subordi- North American Review where he well lyg can-W ear M X36850 - is wun ‘hi g-mun’ is
y , igh ability, and his eminent qualifications; and
nits Granges to a much greater degree knew they would be read by some of the While he leaves the bench. he Still retains the great-
thin in the past, by furnishing more short, most intelligent of people, by great think- est '°.5P‘?°t and e5‘°'?‘“ 0‘ each member 0‘ the O3!’
Bhlrp, spicy items relating to Grange ers and writers, as well as people high gfligfggtzmlffa  ;‘g;‘:K‘f°1 that’-71e.V We
nieutings, progress, prospects, etc. The in national rank at home and abroad. «However ably his successor may fill his place up-
papers of the country, espcially the agri- Secretary Rusk said: on the bench, we cannot help feeling the loss of him
Cult ral papers, are nearly all very friend— “ To every patriotic man, the first sug- glhgigyears °1‘dS§”i°°_i“ t:h5.t°,‘1’“”,:‘.aS “hide it Seem
ly  the Order, and would gladly print all gestioii from passing events or changing ha: e,,::e,,°,‘;:,he  ;¥,‘d 
such natter that could be furnished them, conditions of affairs of his country, is the position withfortitude andpatience;whose dignity
and 3 we make the advance in Grange duty. It will be unnecessary for me to call and position have ever been marked with fitness and
work which we so fondly anticipate we attention here to the wide spread move- fgahglitg’-)’,f1i§1°‘hed hi mist °"."hde"’t° kl“d“e55-
must not neglect any means within our ment among the farmers of the country willie: ,fe“has :o°f:,:g,r°a:3"S::§a'" °°°"§y the hem“
. . . . . . . . y grace , the mem-
reach to accomplish the object sought. toward more active participation in public bers of this association will gladly welcome him."
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Field and Stock.

THE F.-\lt.'!l}‘)R’S FRUIT 1}AR.l)EN.

I’-. M. KELLUGG.

The farmer’s fruit garden can and should
be made the source of more real pleasure
and enjoyment to the family than any
other field on the farm. Beginning the
fore part of June he should have his table
liberally supplied with strawberries (and
cream) until about the 25th of June, when
strawberries and raspberries come together
for a few days, and the latter holds the
diet till blackberries in August, and these
will lap over on the early grapes, and the
feast of these may be carried on till past
Inidwinter.

Oh, we have no time! We farmers have
something else to attend to! Bosh! The
work that occupies your attention is not
worth half as much to you in cold dollars
and cents.

A fruit diet means cooler blood, better
digestion, better brain power to manage
your business with. Besides its all free!
You can beat the doctor out of enough to
pay all expenses for work and plants. There
is not an eminent physician in the coun-
try wlio will not admit that a very large
share of the ailments of the people will
yield more readily to fruits and fruit acids
than any chemicals he can prescribe. As
a matter of food it is cheaper than hog and
hominy.

Let us estimate for a family of six, niak-
ing abundant provision for canning, so we
can have fruit the year round and dona-
tions to the preacher and less enterprising
neighbors.

VARIETIES.

Select the place where the rows will be
as long as possible, so the cultivating can
be done with a horse. Let us have three
rows of st-rawberries, 50 Warfields and 50
Haverlands. These are pistilates, very
early, well tested, and succeed almost every-
where and the most productive varieties
known. They must have a fertilizer (male
plant) set next them, and to get a good
variety and seasonable we set 25 Beder-
wood and 25 Wilson by the Warfields, 25
Jessie and 25 Daytons with the Haverlands.
Now we want a row of very late berries
which we will mulch heavily with straw
and chaff when it has frozen in the fall, and
allow it to remain till the others are well
in bloom and then rake off enought to let
them come up through it; they will fruit
fruit fully two weeks after the others are
gripe.

Earle. The Dew is the largest berry in
the world and we want a dozen to surprise
our friends with. Make rows four feet
apart and set eighteen inches apart in the
row.

The patch is 150 feet long and twelve
feet wide. If you give good fair cultiva-
tion and have procured strong, vigorous
plants from new beds that are free from
exhaustion, no family of six can begin to
eat the fruit. If you go to some old run
out beds for plants, set at least two or three
times as many. New plants from an old
bed are old plants with new roots. They
are always low in fruiting vigor.

RASPBERRIES.

For raspberries, make two long rows;
one red, the other black. For reds, set
25 Hansells, 25 Cuthberts. Blacks take 12
Johnson Sweet, 12 Palmer, 12 Older, and
12 Gregg——the earliest and latest, as well

as best.
BLACKBERBIES.

Twenty-five Western Triumph or Sny-
der for early, and 25 Taylor Prolific for
late. Add 25 Victoria and Cherry currants
and ten Downing or Houghton gooseber-
ries. If you have a snug corner and plenty
of straw to keep down the weeds and grass
you can put them in anywhere. Treat all
suckers as weeds.

FOR GRAPES.

Set 6 ‘Wordens, 6 Concords, and 6 Aga-
wams; the latter can be kept past midwin-
ter. Of course there is a long list of other
varieties to choose from, but these are old
and tried and rarely fail.

'The children can pick and sell enough,
after family supplies are taken, to buy
school books, shoes, and strings.

I submit that it is downright cruelty to
deprive a family of such a luxury when it
can be had so easily.

How much would it cost to buy this
fruit? Well, about seventy-five to a hun-
dred dollars, but to buy fruit means for the
farmer to go without. How has it been in
the past?

ltmia.

HORSES AND BARB WIRE.

A. W. HAYDON.

They must have herded their stock in
Christ’s time or he would surely have given
some general guidance as to fences, as he
did for other exasperating conditions in
life. Nothing so interferes with a mau’s
enjoying his religion as poor fences.
Nothing so “stirreth up wrath,” or to
translate into more suggestive modern
phrase, “makes a man so hot,” as to have

_ For this row set ,fifty ,G.ai3dy, A25 ,
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

his stock break into his crops. without it is
to have his neighbor’s stock break in. If
they shoi'ld do this repeatedly, nothing
lays bare so quickly the difliculties of that
command about “loving thy neighbor as
thyself.” Nothing so increases the chances
of future punishment as a combination of
unruly stock and poor fences. If you
would “be wise unto salvation,” my
brother‘ Patrons, keep good fences, if you
try to keep stock, especially horses.

If you are good Grangers and are mind-
ful of the precept, “Whatever we do let
us strive to do well,” let me advise you to
use barb wire. If not, to let it alone. Prop-
erly put up, in connection with some other
kind of fence, it is safe, cheap, and perfectly
effective. In a pasture surrounded with it
the stock must remain until called for.
Like the woman who consoled herself on
the burial of her husband with the reflec-
tion that she “would at least know where
he was nights,” so you can go to sleep with
a mind free from care and anxiety. If you
have dreams they will be blissful ones of
“green pastures” and “cool waters” and
“cattle feeding on a thousand hills,” and
not of a wild stampede of a million horses
through your standing grain; nor will you
be disturbed by little Boy Blue blowing
his horn to call “the sheep from the mead-
ow, the cows from the corn.” Sweet secur-
ity~—you know where they are nights.

“ \Ve learn wisdom by experience,” is an
old saying, but to be wholly true it must
be our own experience, not that of some
one else; so it is doubtful if others will
profit by the conclusions of the writer
after using barb wire for many years.

SHOULD BE TIGHT.

To be sure and safe for horses it should
be high enough so they will not try to
jump over, far enough from the ground
so they will not stick their feet through,
and near enough to the ground so they
will not crawl under.

To stop all kinds of stock use panels or
rail fence at the bottom, and two barb
wires above, securely fastened to posts
firmly set three rods apart. This work
must be well done or horses’ tails will be-
come tangled in the wire and they will run
off with a whole string of it. The lower
wire may be fastened to the top rails and
should not be over three or three and one-
half feet from the ground, the other wire
twelve to fifteen inches above. Patent
smooth wire fence can now be had at small
cost, which would be better and sure to
command a healthy respect if a strand or
two of barb wire were used near the top.

gai"hTénts' eixliafeEtTi’ie swei=.t”p"e'_!<."11n“ie
of carbolic acid for years before I learned
how to use barb wire. But I have never
had a horse injured upon wire properly put
up, neither ha.ve I had serious loss even in
the days of my carelessness, except the
trouble and expense of doctoring up the
victims. For reinforcing an old rail fence,
so you can put your trust in it, there is
nothing like it.

Decatur.

SHEEP HUSDANDRY.

C. M. FELLOWS.

The present low price of wool, and cor-
respondingly low price of sheep, is giving
anxious solicitude as to the future of the
sheep industry of our country. Many seem
inclined to neglect or abandon this indus-
try entirely, and the sales of sheep and
want of care are already telling upon the
flocks. As a people we are not stable
enough in our habits or principles of farm-
ing. If any product brings a high price,
each one makes a rush to secure or pro-
duce that commodity. We all acknowl-
edge the force of that true business prin-
ciple to “buy when a thing is low and sell
when it is high,” yet we are slow to put
this principle into practice, but the reverse
rather. I am not an old man, yet I can
remember two very low depressions in the
sheep market. I have not the exact dates,
but think it was about 1816 to 1850 that
thousands of sheep were slaughtered in
Michigan just for their tallow and pelts.
A company in Saline fixed a vat in their
slaughter house where the carcasses were
thrown in and steamed until the fallow was
separated, the carcass was then thrown to
the hogs. Whole flocks were thus de-
stroyed. Only a few years passed, however,
when sheep advanced in price and every-
body wanted sheep. Breeders in Vermont
had been wise enough to preserve and not
destroy their flocks and a lively trade at
once sprang up with that state, and men
in Michigan paid fabulous prices for sheep
fitted up to sell. Yet some of these pur-
chasers laid the foundation for some noble
flocks.

THE SAME STORY.

But reaction came and another depres-
sion followed, yet the industry did not
suffer so badly as before. At the begin-
ning of the war wool and sheep were very
low, but advanced with all other products
as the war continued, and again receded at
the close of the war.

In 1876, I made my first purchases in
Vermont, paying six to ten dollars per head
for sheep accepted for registration. Sheep
steadily advanced in price until 1883, when

I paid from $30 to $100 per head for ewes,
and prices accordingly for rams. During
these years I could hardly get sheep from
Vermont fast enough to supply the demand,
even at these prices. Since 1883 sheep
have steadily declined until now “they
are a drug on the market.” But if
“history repeats itself,” and we believe it
Will, there is “a better day coming,” and
the man who holds fast to a good flock of
sheep will reap his full reward by and by.
And the man who is wise enough to pur-
chase now will soon be at the bat, for the
sheep will have their innings again.
Illancllester. 7

SWINE NO'l‘ES.

A. H. WARREN.

No matter how goodldie breed, if proper
care and feed be withheld the pig will do-
generate.

There is nothing lost in looking at the
logs while they are feeding, as there may
be disorders that can be detected then bet-
ter than at any other time.

Hogs of the same size should be kept
together, for if all sizes are grouped to-
gether, the larger and stouter will get more
jhan their share of feed, and in sleeping
lhey are liable to overlay the smaller and
veaker ones, thus injuring them.

As the breeding is now about done for
_1he spring litters the best of care should be
given the sows, which means a variety of
feeds, such as will give bone and muscle,
always avoiding a continual corn diet, as
good vigor and development are necessary
70 get good offspring.

Pigs need a great deal more care when
hey are small than they do afterwards,
although it is a mistake to neglect them at
my age. Still the small ones need especial
care, as we can not expect them to give a
:1 liberal return for feed consumed, if they
are put in cold and damp quarters.

Uniformity in a herd of hogs is gratify-
ng to the eye and mind and shows the
ikill of the breeder or feeder.

The high prices asked by some noted
h‘eeders for improved sires are often ahind-
nnce to many farmers in the road to sue-
ess, but as the sire is considered one-half
cf the herd don’t stop for a few extra dol-
l.rs on a superior animal, as the first pro-

i.l.l,. more. than ,f".0II1‘QP.Il£8.t9 for the
extra amount paid. '

Crowd the fall pigs as fast as possible,
for spring will soon be here and with it
usually the highest prices of the year.

A pig that is stunted by overfeeding is
no better than the one stunted by under-
feeding, and should have no place in the
breeding pen. Inbreeding in hogs should
not be tolerated, except by the skilled
breeders, and then they do it at a great risk.

The profitable hog is the one that is
ready to turn off at from seven to ten
months of age, weighing from 200 to 300
pounds.

To the beginner: Start with a few
hogs, increase your herd by judicial selec-
tions as you gain experience, stick to them
through thick and thin, and my word for it
yog gill never regret your investment.

‘()1 .

CATTLE NOTES.

Scrub breeding and scrub feeding make
the poorest kind of cattle.

While you can lower a thoroughbred
animal to the level of a scrub by starving,
you can never raise a scrub to the level of
a good thoroughbred by any system of
feeding. This is a rule which cannot be
made to work both ways.

Every branch of live stock industry has
enjoyed its “boom,” with the exception of
cattle. It now looks as though their turn
was coming.

Good beef cattle are bringing a fair price.
A choice steer, Weighing 1,130 pounds, sold
at 4% cents per pound in the Detroit yards
recently.

The difference between a good feeder

and a poor one often means the difference

between profit and loss.

Too many, farmers forget that their livj

stock are simply machines to convert the'
fodder and grain into fat or milk. If We
feed just enough to keep the machine r '1
ning, we waste our fuel, but if we p h
them to their full capacity, the greater ill

be our profits. E

Breed your cows now for fall calve If
your stables are warm they pay bet for
several reasons:
time to care for them during the
months.
higher price at that time of year.
The calves are ready to pick their

First, You have more
inter
Second, Dairy products lting a
Third,
n liv-

  

JANUARY 18, 1894.

ing as soon as grass comes. Fourth, Your
cows will be nearly dry and you will have
no calves to feed during your most hurry-
ing season.

The state of ‘Michigan is undergoing a
dairy craze just now and it will probably
last some time, but the owners of good
beef cattle should take a second thought
before sacrificing their herds. Beef will
bring the highest price of any of our farm
products within two years.

' FARMER.

SE EDS.

The \Vestei'n Mich. Farmers’ Club calls
attention to the allusion made in Cleveland’s
message as to the cutting off of free samples
of seeds. After a great deal of correspond-
ence I have the promise of 400 packages
for distribution in Newaygo county, and,
judging from the applications I am receiv-
ing for them, they are appreciated. But
with a man as Secretary of Agriculture who
knows little and cares little about the
farmer, the farmer cannot expect that his
interests will be consulted. I hope that
every Grange in this state and every
farmer organization will petitiontheir sena-
tors and congressmen to oppose the cut-
ting off of the appropriation for the dis-
tribution of seeds as recommended in Mr.
Cleveland’s message. He ‘says our agri-
cultural colleges should make the experi-
ments and advise the farmers what seeds
are best for them, while we all know that
the distribution of these seeds has given
our farmers some of the very best varieties
they now have, and which they never would
have had in any other way. I believe they
desire them, and I know they are entitled
to them, and, if they assert their rights, will
have them.

GEO. E. HILTON.

OUR ROAD LAW.

I am sorry to see our State Grange,
with some subordinate organizations, at-
tacking the county road system, which if
carried into operation in any county would
benefit the country people and the
Granges in far greater proportion than
which their tax would be as to the total
cost, as the county town would pay at least
half the tax.

In our county (Grand Traverse) the
county town would pay 45% of the entire
cost of construction of county roads, and
do it cheerfully. upon the basis of mutual
benefits. Yet our county road laws at a
special election last August were knocked

dut by [U6 negative majority by the votes’ "

of country towns which would have re-
ceived greatest benefits, caused partially
from lack of a full understanding of the
workings of the law, and materially
through the Grange organizations.

If the road taxes we have paid in Mich-
igan, for the past fifty years, had been
properly expended and paid in cash, we
might today have thousands of miles of
excellent macatlamized roads to boast of.
Will we travel in the same rut for the
next fifty years?

REUBEN GOODRIOH.

ECONOMY NEEDED.

GRANGE VISITOR——O11e thing seems cer-
tain, and that is all mining, lumbering and
manufacturing will _be decreased in
amount and will be done at less outlay in
money fo labor performed. More people
must get heirhving at first hands. They
must fee - their own Jersey cow for milk
ang but t1',ff¢:e(Llmth_eir own fowls for teilggs
an me ', a eir own pig, raise eir
own ca age and beans, and wear their old
clothes twice as long as formerly. By
living that manner a small amount of
cash illt siztfiiceii '(I‘1he foplly way1to_ gag

money in o e an s o e peop e is
pay i out either for wages or for material
for e. If thelabor will not bring money
to buy beans, the labor must raise the beans.
If labor will not command money. to buy
butter and milk, labor must provide feed
fo the cow. The nearer the whole popula-
ti :1 istothe source of all the supplies needed
t support life the less money will do. In
_ ew of the condition of the labor market,
does seem that there should be calls for
may pieces of land such as could be used
’,)y people of small means to provide a

diving from.
’ C. M. C. Cook.

  

Mt. Pleasant.

IMPURE CLOVER SEED.

EDITOR VISITOR———I think that some
means should be adopted to secure a better
grade of clover seed than is now supplied
to the farmer by the trade.. I find by ex-
amination that some specimens of seed sold
us by dealers in the southern part of the
state contain but a small quantity of pure
seed, the rest being weeds or grass such
as grow wild in the locality where the
seed is raised. This is becoming a very
fruitful source of evil and is fast seeding
our land down to weeds and foul grass. '

E. B. WARD.

C/mrlevoix.

A weekly Visrroa is what everybody wants,

  

  
 
  


 

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Woman’s Work.

A NEW YEAR’S REVERIE.

The Old Year is dead! Lo, 21 New Year ap ears!
For the New we have smiles, for the Old on y tears!
Farewell Ninety-three? \’Vhile thy death we deplore,
VVc hail the glad advent of young Ninety-Four.

In sadness and silence, with locks that are sear,

VVe ather to bury the late Old Year; A

Bcsi :3 his pale form, while enwrapped in his shroud,
Stand the young and the old, the poor and the proud,

Ilow vast and how varied, who now throng the tomb!
Some faces are bright, and some darkened with glooml
Antithcsis strange oft our lives here befall,

Orange blossoms today, and tomorrow the pull!

A pendulnni’s swing, ’twi.\;t :1 smile and a tear

Now buoyant with hope, now cost down with fear,

Is life's checkered scene in this brief world of ours;
Green spring, wztrm summer, ripe autumn, dead flowers?

How many who started with the year’s young life,
llavc finished their course and thus ended the strife!
In th’ grave of the past \ve‘l1 burv our sorrow,

And hope brighter (lays will yet dawn on the morrow_

A bird on the wing may thus carry a seed

That yet may pcrchance a whole continent feed:

So let us live while the years Come and go,

VViththis thought in view. “ VVc shall reap as we sow."

Let th’ words that \ve speak and the deeds that we do,
Be both prudent and fair, kind, honest and true;
Then for the future we’ll have little to fear,
That the present will be A flu/‘/vy .V(:z' fear,
I. CoI.I.ncR.

- Baffle‘ Crack, 1lIz'rl1,, 71111. 1, 1894.

WOMA N’S W0 RK.

We feel assured that by this time the
Granges of the state have elected their
officers for the year 1894, and most of them
are installed.

It has pleased our State Master to again
place us on the state committee on wo-
man’s work, and we now appeal to you
Masters to name at once your local com-
mittee on woman’s work. The county
committee of Pomona Grange-s will lend a
hand to the committees of Subordinate
Granges. '

It is very necessary that these commit-
tees be appointed at once, and we should
much like if the secretary of each Grange
will forward to us the name of the chair-
man of such committee..with their post-
office address.

“Te have as our colaborers, Mrs. Mary
Sherwood Hinds of Stanton, and Mrs. Belle
Royce of Baroda, Berrien county, both
eager, earnest workers in G1'an<_:e fields.

Mrs. Hinds is also a member of the
permanent committee on education, and
will materially aid in that line.

Mrs. Royce will have cliarge of the
southern part of the state, Mrs. Hinds the
northern, and we do our best to look out
for he interests of the central portion.

Mrs. Hinds of Stanton is too well
known by the Patrons of the state to need
any formal introduction. Suffice it to say
her fertile mind and ready hand will
greatly aid us in the work.

Mrs. Royce is a stranger to many, but
she brings to the aid of the committee
years of work along educational lines. Her
anxiety to help in the work is only limited
by opportunity. She is a lady of broad
thought and earnest purpose for the right,
and will be found a leader for all counties
who are fortunate enough to reside in her
jurisdiction.

Masters, please do not neglect to appoint
your committees, and secretaries at once
forward us the name and address of the
chairman.

Any and all communications sent to us
will be gladly received and command our
immediate attention.

Yours for the work,
MARY A. MAYO.

i.sAvi:s'rR0M 01.11 OAKS.

OLD OAKS FARM,

Jan. 1, 1r3.v4.—-" No more before nor behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here.“

Jan. 3.—The papers come in with in-
creasing tales of want and workless thous-
ands. Poverty is a new problem to us.
Perhaps, in the end, the balance will yet
be made good and the visible losses we
mourn will come back in treasures that
“neither moth nor rust doth corrupt.” A
spasm of straitened circumstances we
may exchange for quicker thought for those
who must always live so; some lopped-off

, luxuries may vacate for deeper love; a few

comforts give way for condolences to those
who need them, and out of a nation’s pov-
erty may spring a patience and the power
that makes the world akin.

Jan. 6.——We all went to Grange last
night, even to Ichabod, who had come
home unexpectedly. There was a full
attendance. Our election comin so early
in December, and the officers ing in-
stalled at a special meeting, we start in
well with the new year.

Mrs. Gay rode with us and we slipped in
a good visit by the means. As Maude T.
does not return to school until today, she
was present and gave her usual prompt,
vigorous help at the organ when asked to
do so. The new dress she was making
when I called isabeauty. It just matches
her hair; even the silk trimming catches
the “ gold gleams ” among the brown, and
a knot of schrimp pink ribbon at her
throat brought out the tint of her cheeks.
Brother Hilarius called her a “brown
study” in it. It is made of hop-sacking
and severely plain, skirt without trimming,
round waist with sleeves only slightly
exaggerated at the top, 8. plain V, that

hooks over the closing of the waist, is
edged with China silk rufiies, cut bias and
made double, an inch wide and secured
between the lining and outside by two
rows of stitching; the high collar, sleeves
at the wrists and eclges of the narrow belt
are all likewise finislled with very narrow
frills of silk and stitching.

A paper by Mr. Grotzinger on “The
coming farmer,” followed by discussion,
occupied most of the evening. The for-
eigner and his methods, he said, are to
possess in time the farms of this land,
smaller farming, closer confinement, more
system in making every foot of soil pro-
duce to its utmost, more work under glass
and reduced expenses must come.

That started the ball. Mr. Dreg was on
the defensive and others joined him. We
have, they claimed, the coming farmer in
training; he is going to learn to use more
machinery, to water his garden by the turn
of a faucet, to weed with an implement,
dig potatoes ditto, irrigate his fields, and
be master of broader situations.

Mrs. Gay reminded the speakers that
the future master must be fitted for such
mastery and he would need vaster sums of
money than farming at present would
guarantee.

Mr. T. urged a better understanding of
farming from a business point of view.
At which, Thos. B. was on his feet in an
instant and said flud, he believed, was the
keynote of success, namely, to run a farm
as a business, just as mines and mills and
manufactories are run.

Some one suggested that too many farms
are already run as our mills and mines are
being run (?) today; after which we
drifted into the usual habit of commend-
ing thc agricultural press, of extolling the
Grange, of patting farmers’ clubs in gen-
eral on the back, of advocating the making
of homes beautiful to keep the children on
the farm, and of exalting the Agricultural
College to the pinnacle of practical utility
to the future farmer.

And then our Hil delivered his favorite
argument. He said: “ All this is fine,
first-class ~--tlieoryl But it isn’t a rule that
works. The homes, beautiful within and

‘without, filled with books, papers, pictures,

and company, in accord with our idea of
agricultural progress, are not the ones that
keep the boys and girls on the farm.
These homes become ‘empty nests,’ while
the farmer who takes only his local paper
is the man who sees his family settling
down to his own calling about him. There
are the C. boys, you all know them, both
Agricultural College graduates; one is a
lawyer, the other an insurance agent. ‘Io
more ideal farm home exists than theirs.
Hon. B., eloquent pleader for the future

. farmer, has no son on the farm. Our

neighbor writer for agricultural papers
sent his sons to the college, and one is now
a teacher of agricultural education in
another state, it is true, but not an actual,
unsalaried farmer, while Hon. G. was for
years a member of the State Board of
Agriculture, but kept his boys away from
a. college of any sort, and now has not only
his boys, but all his girls, in homes of their
own on farms near his. You all know
plenty of such cases. I tell you, there’s a
screw loose somewhere in the application
of our principles!”

No reply was made to this. I had
hoped Ichabod would speak. He wrote so
often of his rhetoricals at the college last
fall, I felt sure he could quite distinguish
himself on this subject, as he would be
perfectly at home on it, for, though of
course he doesn’t expect to be a farmer, I
thought he would at least urge the idea
that coming farmers must look to the wide
field of scientific research and the bound-
less wealth of beauty in all her forms that
his noble calling would throw open to him,
and not merely count his returns in sordid
cents. But he sat dumb as an oyster, and
I was disappointed.

At the close of the discussion, the Lee-

‘turer said: “ We have with us our esteemed

friend, Mr. Ichabod Restley, at present
teacher in the Dobson district, who has
kindly consented to favor us with one of
his own productions, an “ Essay on Man.”
Ichabod looked more glum than common,
and I was disheartened. He slowly came
forward, adjusted the light, addressed the
Grange and, with great difficulty, drew a
huge manuscript from his pocket, then
turned and solemly took his seat, showing
on his back as he did so two great, white
letters, “S. A.”

A “library social” was announced for
next Friday evening.

Jan. 9.——Sister Pris’ long domestic letter
today contained the two recipes I liked so
well when with her, viz.: Common tea
cake——Two eggs in cup filled up with
sweet milk, one cup sugar, one and a half
cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking pow-
der. For layers or loaf.

Brown brea.d——Two cups sour milk, one
egg, two teaspoonfuls brown sugar or
molasses, one tcasponful each of soda and
salt, three cups graham flour. Mix all at
once very lightly; bake one hour.

I have both ready for tea with excellent
results.

RUTH L. RESTLEY.

We want your renewal.

WORDS OF PRAISE.

Miss E. L. Shaw contributes the fol-
lowing to a Battle Creek daily:

The special woman’s edition. of the
GRANGE VISITOR, for December, is worthy
of notice as an exceptionally well edited
and interesting niimber of a paper which
is always good. This particular issue, as
its name implies, is a woman's number
throughout, made up of contributions from
many well known women writers of Michi-
gan, and edited by that indefatigable
worker for the advancement of all women,
Mrs. Mary A. Mayo, superintendent of
woman’s work in the State Grangewher of
the large heart and the unstinting hand,
who has made the getting out of this special
number a labor of love. When Mrs. Mayo,
as the head of the state committee, with
some misgivings as to the success of the
project, asked the women of the press of
Michigan for a1'ticles more or less in the
interest of women’s life in the rural dis-
tricts, she was met half way, and with such
hearty appreciation and cordiality that her
hands were soon filled, and her “special
edition” submerged in “copy.” Hers was
then the task to select, arrange and edit
this mass of matter, a task which has been
ably done. The regular semi-monthly edi-
tion of the GRANGE VISITOR is always
elevating in tone, and is the worthy organ
of a most worthy organization. the Michi-
gan State Grange.

VVc(I(.'.si1'c fl.‘-(if you 7'cn.cwp7'0n1.pl‘l;'/.

EQIK-\L Rl(1lH’l‘S l’R.\(,l'l‘I1‘.\l.LY DEMON-
S'l‘R.\'I‘El).

MRS. LUKE C. COLBURN.

I Written for the \\'oinan’s l<I<.lition.g

In this land of immense (lifét-flt)L‘cs, of
grand. wild scene-ry, and snow-capped
mountainsz, of beautiful moonlight, deepest
shadows, and Italian skies, women vote.
Yes, we vote! Not only are We giantetl
the privilege of casting a ballot, but the
state L-(institution says there shall be no
distinction of sex in office-holding. Then,
too, both sexes must be able to read this
same constitution and be resi-:lcnts of the
state one y:=ai' before the right of sutfragx-
is theirs.

For twenty-three years the state of ‘V3’-
oming has granted this blessed privilege
to woman. She has figured in every law,
be it good or bad. Yet has she not been
an active member of every legislature
from Moses till today? And does it seem
hardly reasonable for any rational thinker
to believe that if every woman qualified
for voting, did have the right of suffrage,
that it would materially better the condi-
tion of this country, or in any great meas-
ure benefit woman? She is too nearly
akin to man, and the better educated she
becomes, the more she reasons like him.
Therefore the best informed and thinking
women, like our best man of today, will
not be in politics, and the affairs of state
will be no better than now.

COMPLICATES ELECTIONS.

One bright, progressive woman told me
that here it simply complicated elections,
making them more expensive, and the
results were no better than it‘ she had
remained away from the polls.

Another said, “Oh! if women would
only confine her political efforts to school
management, how much better it would
be!”

And a very common remark is, “Yes, I
vote. lt’s my duty, you know. when the
privilege is given me.”

It has been the observation of the older
residents here that in the case of the for-
eigner, the wife invariably votes the same
ticket as her husband. And in but a very
small percentage of the families is there
any difference of opinions. Where there
is any, however, it does not cause family
jars, as we have often heard predicted in
the east.

To test the strength of this statement,
I’ll relate a little incident that happened
in territorial days, when a woman was
elected Justice of the Peace. She per-
formed her duties with dignity, and fined
the ones who were brought before her
for being overly intoxicated. One day the
husband was brought before the magis-
trate, charged with drunkenness. He was
treated like his brothers——fined.

FEW WOMEN IN OFFICE.

There are but a very few women in po-
litical oflice. To be sure many of the
county Superintendents of Schools are
women, but the salary is small, only about
six hundred dollars per year, and any man
qualified for the position can earn a. much
better salary at some other occupation. It
is not an enviable position at best. Long
journeys over hot plains, over hills, through
valleys, and across rivers, and a two hun-
dred mile journey has been made ere the
round of the schools has been completed.

As among men, so are there office seek-
ers among the women, for what money
there is in the position, regardless of fit-
ness for the task. But the educated, pro-
gressive woman does not seek ofiice. We
have one brilliant example of where the

office sought the woman. This is the case
of the Secretary of the Board of Regents
of the University. She performs her
duties with a spirit of manly pride. and
broad thought, is a refined, cultur.m:l. edu-
cated woman.

Our circuit court stenograplicr (a Mich-
igan girl) is equally as brilliant an exam-
ple; eminently qualified, reticent, dignified;
and every lawyer and judge of this state
acknowledges her superior ability for her
work.

Therefore after a residence here of two
years, and many siiggestions from older
and wiser heads, this conclusion is reached,
we, as a nation, are not yet ready for
woma.n’s vote. The woman is not prepared
for voting, and when she is prepare-d she
will have enough sense to see that her
ballot is not needed. But if she» insist
that she must vote. there is but one
reason why she should—she- is a human
being endowed with reasoning powers. If
she demands the right she should be given
it at the sacrifice of all her privileges.

Laramie, lVyoming.

A ‘Sl7l~‘l"RA GE LE'l"l‘l-I R.

Iwritten for Woman's E<lition.5
l:lUzz.\RnsvILLir. S'r.\r1o.\', (
October 14). 185-3, 5‘

311' DEAR OLD FRIEND, l">'A)[ANTHA J ANE
—--I once more take my pen in hand to
write you a few lines, to let you know that
I am well and hope you are enjoying the
samc blessing, and that I .'-1111 still your
friend, although you and I do not think
alike on a variety of subjects. And this
is one of the many things I cannot under-
stand, why women do not see matters more
alike. As I said before, when writin;: you
a. let-tr-.1‘, of course you would riot be expect-
ed to umlcrstand about some of the great
political problcins just now helm: solved—
tarifi’-revision,» and rt-peril, I-onditrional or
otherwisv. But living as you do in an
intelligent ('OIl1I11l’lI1li_V_, _y<.'!l‘. must have at
lcztst read .»<oniei«hing._r of what the law mak-
ers and law givcrs of I‘vi:i«»iii;.;aii h:7«.vc done
for the women of our state. Why they
should require of women l1lO‘t’r? than they
do of Incn, I do not uncle‘-rstaud,--— €Hl(l, Sa-
mantha, this is one of the queer things
that to me is inconsistent and wrong. You
will pardon me if I quote a few lines from
a woman’s paper, the “Union Signal”
(VVhitc Ribbon), printed in Chicago. It
is from an argument against woman
suffrage in Washington, delivered at
Chautauqua. August 9, 1892. Says Dr.
Buckley of New York, “If women are
entitled to vote, all the Roman Catholic
women of the country will be entitled to
the right. What will become of our public
schools, under these circumstances, in all
of the cities and towns where there is a
large Catholic population‘? All the color-
ed women of the south will have a vote,
and there are millions of them. All the
foreigners will have the right to vote as
soon as they are naturalized. All your
domestics and servant girls will have the
right to vote.”

Now, Samantha, when I can be convinc-
ed that Catholic women, colored women,
foreign women, or servant girls, are any
worse than men who are Catholics, colored,
foreigners, or domestic servants, or who
are sometimes white, and Protestant, and
American, then I will say no more in de-
fense of woman sufirage, in Viiashington
or elsewhere. There are difierences in
women as there are differences in men.
‘What a difference between the poet of
peace, Whittier, and the product of beer
and passion, John L. Sullivan, and yet
both exercise the ballot, and engage in
government making. And does political
power make one less gentle or the other
less animal? VVas Elizabeth Fry degraded
by being constantly, as it were, in contact
with crime? Political power would not
have made her loss a philanthropist or
minister of mercy.

But I fear, Samantha, you will tire of
my subject. But there is one thing more
I want you to remember. It is this, it is
about these men who so strongly oppose
the right of franchise to us women, and
are not willing to lend a hand to help roll
the “ woman suffrage car,” if it does make
out to get there, will take great credit to
themselves and talk long and loud of what
they said, and how they knew all the time
it was sure to come. Of course if there is
an inch gained or a point made by the
patient, prayerful eifort of women, men
will be as much benefited as women. Of
course there is plenty of work for all, but
more especially does our Order give an
opportunity to women. It has for its ob-
ject the prosperity of its members and the
world at large. Here the women occupy
the same platform in common with the
men, and might by united effort be a
power for good, not only in the Order,
but in all the avocations of life. Let us each
look forward and not back, up and not
down; and above all, in this great cause,
lend a hand.

Yours for progress and right,
E. SMITH.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

JANUARY 18, 1894.

THE GllAl\ltl§, VISITOR.‘

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in OUR WOBK.

The following has been approved by the State
Grange as a fair statement of the objects the
Grange of Michigan has in view and the special
lines along which it purposes to work. \Ve hope
every Grange in the state will work earnestly in
all of these departments, so that by a more united
effort we shall rapidly increase our numbers, ex-
tend our influence, and attain more and more com-
pletely those ends which we seek.

OUR t)BJE(,"l‘
is the Organization of the Farmers for their
own Improvement.
Financially,
socially,
Mentally,
Morally.
WE BELIEVE
that this improvement (‘an in Large Measllre
be Brought About:

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

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

2. (a.) By frequent social gatherings, and
the mingling together of farmers with farmers,
and of farmers with people of other occupa-
tlons.

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

3. (a.) By studying and promoting the im-
provement of our district schools.

(b.) By patronizing and aiding the Agricult-
ural Colleges and Experiment Stations in
their legitimate work of scientific investiga-
tion, practical experiment, and education for
rural pursuits.

(c.) By maintaining and attending farmers’
institutes; reading in the Reading Circle;
establishing and using circulating libraries;

buying more and better magazines and papers
for the home.

-1. (a.) By diffusing a knowledge of our civil
institutions and teaching the high duties of
citizenship.

(b.) By demanding the enforcement of ex-
isting statutcs, and by discussing, advocating,
and trying to secure such other state and na-
tional laws as shall tend to the general jus-
tice, progrcss, and morality.

Renew now.

How is that big VISITOR list coming on‘?

We shall resume “ The Tide of Affairs”
as soon as time and space permit.

Secretaries, please be prompt in send-
ing in renewals for the VISITOR, from your
Grange.

May it not be possible toflstop prize
fights in Michigan? A little “mill” is
just as bad as 9. big one.

You will notice that we have changed
and enlarged “ Postal Jottings” and now
have 19. “Grange News” column.

How many Granges are soliciting con-
tributions for the miners? Clothing is not
now needed, but food can be used in Dick-
inson county.

You will be interested in “ Leaves from
Old Oaks,” on page three, from the pen of
“ Miss Restly,” who wrote for the VISITOR
some years ago.

We have a. practical farm page this week
and hope to maintain the standard the
year through. Do you know of any other
farm paper in Michigan with proportion-
ally as much original farm matter as the
VISITOR?

If lecturers will frequently tell us what
they are doing, their plans, results, and
any little items, they may be able to help
some brother lecturer. We shall be glad
tohave just such material for the Lect-
urers’ Department.

RENEW.

Do not. forget to renew. It is very im-
portant that you do it now. Is your time

out? Look and see. You will do us a

very great favor by renewing promptly.
There is such a demand for VISITORS that
unless you renew soon you are liable to

miss a copy.

DO NOT NEGLECT.

Do not neglect the VISITOR campaign.
If you do not secure the names soon it
will be too late. We know it will take
Work, but we must rely on you for it. We
cannot urge too strongly the need of get-
ting your very best agent at work now at
once, securing new names for the VISITOR
list. Some Granges are appropriating
money from the treasury to send eight or
ten copies of the VISITOR to families out-
side the Order. That is a good plan and
will help in gaining new members. Do
not neglect the VISITOR.

NECESSARIES OF LIFE.

The economic definition of necessaries
is, we believe, that they consist of food,
shelter, and clotliiiig. But the term is a
relative one and in these days has a differ-
ent meaning to diffe1'ent people. To the
very poor the old definition is complete.
To the rich man much more needs to be
added of umterial things. To the scholar
books are necessary. And as xrr-. progress
and our lives grow more complex the nec-
essaries of life increase.

There is still another way of approach-
ing the subject. Man has a threefold na-
ture, physical, mental, moral or spiritual.
The economic definition quoted provides
only for the first. In a sense, all that is
absolutely necessary is that life be sustain-
ed. Yet it is not all of life to live. If man’s
mental and moral natures remain undevel-
oped he is better dead. He but cumbereth
the ground. So we believe that there are
necessaries of life that pertain to the full
development of man’s grand powers.

What practical bearing has all this talk?
Much, everyway. We too commonly re-
gard travel, books, friends,
churches, as semi-luxuries. They are nec-
essaries. People deprived of them die in
those parts of their nature which are most
important. In this sense good schools are
absolutely necessary, and they should be
supported as such. Books are necessary.
People think they can get along without
them, but they can’t if they view life ariglit.
First class papers and magazines are nec-
essary. Many try to do without them, but
never without hurt. Society is necessary,
for man is not a. hermit. And so we might
enumerate many things that, while they
are often regarded as something that can
be done without, are really, in the right
view of life, necessary to man’s best living.

The Grange is broad enough to appre-
ciate this view, and advocates the full and
complete development of man’s powers.

THE SENA TORSHIP.

The Detroit Tribune strongly advo-
cates Gen. Alger for the United States
senate. We have nothing to do with the
question of who shall have the oflice, but
there is a sentence used by the Tribune
in its editorial on the subject that opens 8.
legitimate field for us to discuss. “The
'1‘/ribune has a candidate for the senator-
ship this year * * * and it will advo-
cate the election of members of the legisla-
ture favorable to his choice.”

The Tribune evidently believes in
electing legislators to elect a senator. It
announces its purpose of pursuing a policy
that will choose men, not primarily to
make laws, but to favor a. certain man for
office. We don’t blame the Tribune
particularly, that’s the way it is done, that’s
practical politics; and We don’t especially
blame the gentlemen who desire the sen-
atorship, for using such methods. Success
depends on it. It was the method pursued
last winter, it will be the plan followed
this year, and probably twenty-five years
from now it will be just as much in vogue
as now. But that doesn’t make it right.
It is an entire perversion of our govern-
mental system. Of course good legislators
may be secured under this method, but it
stands to reason that when a man is asked,
“will you vote for A as senator?” instead
of “how will you vote on questions of tax-

schools,

ation, liquor control, public expenditure,
good roads?” that many inferior men will
be chosen. The chief business of the leg-
islature is legislation, not election of sena-
tors. But‘ in politics the greater duty is
subordinated to the lesser. Men are elect-
ed to vote for senator and incidentally to
make laws; they should be elected to make
laws and incidentally to vote for senator.

There are two ways of reducing the evil.
One is to pass such election laws as shall

effectually prohibit any man from contrib-
uting large sums to campaign expenses.
Such a law of itself would be a good thing
for other reasons. And just as long as
wealthy men, with political aspirations,
give heavily of money for the campaign,
just so long will they be able to die-
tate the personel of the legislatures to
their own satisfaction. The other way to
mitigate the wrong is to elect senators di-
rectly by the people. This would be the
more effective, but is a reform of so diffi-
cult a nature that some other means must
be utilized for the present.

In the meantime We leave it with the
voters to decide whether they shall demand
some reform on these lines.

OUR IVORK.

“We believe in the wider individual
study and general discussionof the business
side of farming and home keeping.”

It is beautiful to think of the meadows
fragrant with the freshly cut buy, the full
uddered kine lowing in the lane, the soft
evening breezes Wafting to your ears, over
hill and dale, the tinkling of sheep bells.
Very beautiful, and very true, these pict-
ures and others, for nowhere is there bet-
ter opportunity for nature worship than
on our farms. But the sentimentalist, as
soon as he takes the plow handles, strikes
the rocks of necessity, and his swelling
phrases turn to suppressed mutterings.

For farming is 3. business. Men farm
for money. They plow, not for poets’ de-
light, but for dollars. They swing the
cradle (we use “ cradle” for poetry’s sake),
not for the rythmic motion, but for bread.
Some people forget this, apparently, when
talking of and to farmers. But the farmer
(qesn’t forget it. Waving fields of grain
‘are much more beautiful to him with wheat
quoted at one dollar a. bushel than when it
is fifty cents. The bleating of lambs, as
they skip on the hillside, arouses much
more pleasant emotions, when wool is 30
cents 8. pound, than when it is 15 cents.

Any man who farms must look first to
the dollar and cent side of it. And the
Grange, if it does its work thoroughly, will
take notice of the business side of farming.
And the Grange does notice it. We be-
lieve that the business of farming should
be improved. Farming ought to be fairly
remunerative for the efforts put forth; and
the Grange proposes to help make it so.
We believe that certain aids in this en-
deavor can come from outside, from legis-
lation, and from experiment. The rest will
have to come from the farmer himself,
who must make a. wider study of his busi-
ness.

How can the farmer make this study‘?
By reading, by experimenting for himself,
and especially by discussion with other
farmers. Here is where the Grange can
exert a practical influence. Lecturer’s hour
should frequently be occupied with the
topics of crop cultivation, stock raising,
markets, etc. It would indeed be a fine
thing if the State Grange could have a
very able committee who should keep these
questions stirred up, and should themselves
make a special study of the conditions con-
fronting Michigan agriculture. But the
Grange can now do very effective work in
the way of discussions and talks, and it
must do this class of work if it does its
full duty.

TWO CRITICISMS.

In another colum we print two letters,
each commenting on what was our “plat-
form,” and which now goes by the title of
“ Our Work.”

“ Not a Farmer ” suggests that it is in-
consistent to seek a universal brotherhood,
and to urge that farmers mingle with
people of other occupations, and at the"
same time to exclude from membership in
the Grange all but farmers.

In the first place farmers have the same
advantage in organizing that other occu-
pations have. Bar associations, press clubs,
medical societies, printers’ unions, are not

likely to admit farmers. In other words,
from the standpoint of self interest, the
farmers are entitled to an exclusive organ-
ization.

Now, as to mingling with people of
other occupations, we believe this is ad-
vantageous to both part-ies.. But it does
not necessarily imply that other people
than farmers must be admitted to the
Grange. The Grange stands for a set of
purposes of special interest to farmers,
and in order to meet with other people we
do not need to allow those of indifferent
or antagonistic interests within the gates.
Indeed, we believe that, being organized,
we can secure better facilities for the
acquaintance we desire and can discover
to our city friends much more effectively
the needs and capabilities of the former.

The same argument applies to the
brotherhood query. Brotherhood, like char-
ity, begins near the hearthstone. The first
step is that a man shall learn the needs of
those associated with him. It is not much
of arural brotherhood that tries to save law-
yers from future punishment, much as the
work may be needed, but neglects the
minds and hearts of the farmers. And
then, as before, being thus organized and
educated as farmers surely are in the
Grange, we believe they will acquire a
broader outlook, will appreciate as never
before the great world problems; and in turn
the busy and sometimes unthinking urban
dwellers will sympathize, as they never
would have done except the matter had
been called to their attention by a farmers’
organization, with the struggles and aspira-
tions of the farmers.

As our correspondent suggests, the sub-
ject grows broader and deeper; but we
have perhaps said enough to indicate our
position. If he will note our editorial
page during the next four or five
months, he will find as a complete an ex-
planation of “Our VVork” as we are able
to make.

Mr. F. Hodgman intimates that “Our
Work” expresses editorial rather than
Grange sentiment. That is not so. The
editor originally drafted the platform, but
it was quite remodeled from suggestions
obtained from our leading Patrons and
was unanimously approved by the Execu-
tive committee. It has also had the ap-
proval of our National Master. ‘Vs must
very briefly notice some other points made
by our friend Mr. Hodgman.

Because the Grange antagonized 8. certain
measure concerning our district schools, it
does not indicate antagonism to the
schools. But if Mr. Hodgman will care-
fully review the proceedings of the last
State Grange, he will not even assert that
the Grange occupies a neutral, not to say a
negative position on this subject. We
have a permanent committee on Education,
one member of which will make it her
special work to study the district schools,
and to work with the Superintendent of
Public Instruction in their behalf. The‘
plan is so comprehensive that one commit-
tee in each subordinate Grange will make
this Work a large part of its business dur-
ing the year. The plan worked well last
year and much good was done.

When the circulation of the VISITOR is
touched it bears on a. tender spot. _ But we
think our correspondent exaggerstes the
condition. We never have claimed that
more than one-fifth, or at most one-fourth
of the Grange families do not take the
VISITOR, which comes under his “agricult-
ural papers.” We are after that one-fifth,
of course. And while we can’t prove that
most of the Patrons do take agricult-
ural papers and other standard reading,
we are willing to assert that three-fourths
of them do, and “challenge proof to the
contrary.”

As to roads. We must say that we re.
gret the action of the last State Grange, on
this subject. But we believe, knowing
something of the personal opinions of our
leading Patrons, that the present law has
many friends in the Grange, while we fur-
ther believe that when the law is fully
understood, it will either be amended in
points to which there may be valid objec-
tions, or receive the entire approval of the
Grange.

In conclusion we want to say that if all
the conditions aimed at by “Our Work”
existed, we might perhaps need no Grange.
The Grange has a. mission, in our opinion,

 


 

 

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THE GRANGE V ISITOR.

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It doe- .... exist for its own sake, but
because it has a work to do. And its work
will not be done until all farmers are pros-
perous and thrifty; until they “measure up"
in all respects with any men that tread the
earth; until our schools and colleges give
to the farmer the training he most needs
as farmer and citizen; until the man on the
farm receives his rights, appreciates his
opportunities, and stands on the pinnacle
of his capabilities.

We shall be glad if any of our readers,
not Patrons, will criticise or inquire in
any way they can. We believe in the
Grange, and believe that when fully un-
derstood it will draw the support of thou-
sands of farmers, and the sympathy and
appreciation of thousands not farmers.
And if we can by any explanations “help
this condition along, we shall be much
gratified.

FROM THE MASTER.

MASTER'S OFFICE, 
FRUIT RIDGE, M1iH,, -
_“farmary 1, 180.1. 5

The usual process followed by counties
in selecting suitable persons to be appoint-
ed as county deputies, is so uncertain and
consumes so much valuable time, that I
have thought it to be for the best interests
of the Order to recommission all who
served last year, to act until new names
were recommended, and in case of fail-
ure on the part of any county to make such
recommendation, the extension of time
should cover the whole year. This is not
intended in any way to interfere with the
rights of counties in choosing whom they
want for local deputies and counties should
proceed as usual to make such selections as
the best interests of the Order will war-
rant, and forward the names to me My
experience in the year past has demonstra-
ted the fact that the county deputies have
the real welfare of the Grange resting up-
on their shoulders to as great an extent as
.any other class of Grange workers, and
from their knowledge of their own people
in their respective counties they can do more
in organizing and reorganizing than any
other persons. This being true it is very
important that active, willing workers who
really have the interests of the Grange at
heart, be selected. There are many in the
field who did nobly last year. They should
be continued. If the county deputy is
qualified to speak in public fairly well, so
much the better, and in such cases an ex-

, change of lecture work between adjacent

counties would be profitable in several
ways. It would be educating new speak-
ers for the field, and would extend the
usefulness of many of our active members.

I have just issued and sent out to all
deputies, special circulars asking their as-
sistance in certain lines of Grange exten-
sion work. I sincerely hope that all local
deputies will respond to the call and that
all Patrons will lend assistance for the
purpose of strengthening our lines and in-
creasing our membership.

GEO. B. HORTON.

The beciure Field.

IIOWBTO BOOM THE GRANGE.»

1. Keep bringing the young people to the front.

2. Work for the best interest of the Grange and
you will soon find that it is working for you.

3. See that the VISITOR is read in every family
in your neighborhood, then remember to send in
the news items frequently. ,

4. Use the local papers constantly to advertise
meetings and to keep the objects and work of the
Grange before the people.

5. Hold occasional open meetings and person-
ally invite your neighbors to take part with you.

6. Begin a Grange library and museum, then
add to it each month.

7. Don’t give up until the best people in your
community join you.

8. Be sure that every member has something
doing. _

9. Open and close your Grange on time.

10. Remember the Declaration of Purposes and
“Our Work.”

. A. J. C.

F. H. R. ‘El.

Mo'I'ro—“ Begin; keep at it.”

EXPENSES.

There are no expenses connected with
the course except the purchase of books.

The expenses of correspondence, postage
and printing are paid by a legislative ap-
propriation. The publishers have in near-
ly every instance given the circle very fa-
vorable prices on all books. All orders
must be accompanied with the quoted
price. Money may be sent by express
money order, postal note, postoffice money
order or New York draft. All orders
should be made payable to the secretary.
Address all -communications to

' F. B. MUMFORD,
Secretary, Agricultural College, Mich.

DIPLOMAS.

Anyone completing a book may obtain a
blank from the secretary, upon which the
reader will make a report on the principal

subjects treated in the book. If the re-
port is deemed satisfactory the reader will
receive a certificate. A certificate will also
be given on the completion of each class.
Any three of the classes constitute a course,
and on the completion of the work in three
of the classes, the reader will be entitled to
a suitable ‘diploma. It is recommended
that a class be taken up as a year's work;
in this way the course will be completed
in three years. The reports are not re-
quired, and anyone may read without send-
ing in reports or taking examinations of
any kind.

THE COURSE.

We expect to print this course each is-
sue 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 Secretary of the circle,
stating that they have secured books of
us and wish to take the course. Other-
wise they will get no credit for their
reading. VVe do not care to handle the
books except as premiums. If you want
to buy outright, send to F.. B. Mumford,
Agricultural College, Mich.

CLASS I. SOILS AND CROPS.
Price, postpaid

First Principles of Agriculture.~Mills¢£' -Shaw.
(pp. 1-116) ............................... -_ ...
Soils and Crops.~—llIorr¢m: :2 Hunt-.. .-.
Talks on Manures.~—Ha.rris ____________ ..

Silos and Silage.—Coolc _________________ -. ...
Land Drainage.——-illiles ____________________________ ..

CLASS II. LIVE srocx.
First Principles of Agriculture.——Mills¢f: Shaw.
(pp. 116-250) . _
Horses. Cattle, Sheep and Sw1ne.—C’ur(i.9 ____ -.
Stock Breeding.~Miles .-.. ... .. .
Feeding Animals.~stewart _ . . . -
* Dairyman‘s Manual.~Stewarl ...
Shepherd's Manual.— Stewurt.... ... ...
Harris on the Pig.—~ Harris ........................ . .
Horse Breeding.—Sanders . . . _ . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _.
oLAss III. GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

Practical Fruit Grower.-Mayriard_ . _
How the Garden Pays.—Greiner .... __
Ornamental Gardening.- Long. . . __

Insects and Insecticides.— Weed . _ _ . _ . . . ..
Gardening for Pleasure.—Hender.<o .....-
Winter Greeneries.—Johnson . . .
Propagation of Plants.~—F'uller_. ...
Home Floriculture.—Ra*c,fo'rd .......... _.

GLASS IV. HOME MAKING.
Helps for Home Makers .......................... ._
Anna Mai-ia’s Housekeeping ..................... _.
How to Win.—IVi'llard ................ .. ...
The New Womanhood.—J. C. Fernald___.._..-_....
How the Other Half Lives.——Riis.__. .-.. --.. ...-.. .
CLASS V. POLITICAL SCIENCE.

Elements of Political Economy.—Ely ............ _.
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NOTICE.

The State and National proceedings will
be sent promptly to those Granges whose
Secretaries have reported names and post-
office addresses of their Master, Secretary,
and Lecturer for 1894. Has your Secre-
tary done this?

Can any one secure a copy of the pro-
ceedings of the second session of the State
Grange and send me? It is very much
needed and will be thankfully received.

J ENNIE BUELL,

Secretary.
Ann Arbor, Boa: 137.

OF INTEREST T0 THE GRANGES OF
MICHIGAN.

While the Order in the past few years
has been doing a good work, and untold
benefits to the members have been the re-
sult, we have let go one very important
feature of cooperation, that of buying and
selling together, and in various ways of
acting together for mutual financial benefit.
Conditions have very materially changed
since the Grange first made an efiort to
benefit its members in this particular line.
Then the Grange was compelled to act the
part of a merchant and dealer and invest
its own money in trade enterprises. Natur-
ally enough, with combined opposition, in-
experience and the uneducated condition
of the farmers in thus working together,
these new departures were nearly all
failures. These ventures, although disas-
trous in the first sense, were of great bene-
fit in another way. The seed was sown
and from that time commenced a new edu-
cation.

AS IT USED TO BE.

Previously the farmers knew no market
for buying or selling past his nearest local
village. Where his produce was consumed
and from what countries his wants were
supplied, with first costs, intervening prof-
its, cost of transportation, etc., were a
blank to him.

No mercantile dealers or manufacturers
outside of his local town sought his trade.
He took whatever price was olfered for his
produce and paid the price asked for sup-
plies he wanted in return.

In those days the farmer’s sphere was
narrow, and in sublime ignorance of the
great world of traffic outside that bought
and sold for him, he plodded along, not
realizing that a new light was about to
dawn upon him and that the line fences
were to be let down.

TIME HAS WROUGHT A CHANGE.

And today the farmer’s market in which
to buy and sell is as broad as the world.
He may now have opportunities and ad-
vantages in this line equal to those of any
other class of people. If he lacks enter-
prise and courage to act let him make no

complaints. Manufacturers, wholesale and
specialty dealers are numerous who seek
the farmers’ trade. The mails bring us
daily illustrated trade catalogues, solicit-
ing pamphlets, circulars and personal let-
ters, all asking for trade. We have but to
make our selections from the list, make
trade contracts, and concentrate our pur-
chases to get substantial advantages. New
York, Pennsylvania, and all of the New
England states have these trade contracts,
and of such benefit have they been to the
Order that in all of those states the
Grange has prospered as it never did be-
fore. Granges in every township, with
from one to five hundred membership, is
the rule in those states.

THE MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE ALIVE TO
THE SITUATION.

At its last session our State Grange care-
fully considered this feature of cooperation,
and placed the matter in the hands of the
Executive committee with instructions to
proceed at once with investigations and
making contracts. It will necessarily take
some time to get started right, with the
right kind of contracts, and to select the
best houses with which to deal. With such
men as Brothers Thomas Mars, H. D. Platt,
and Perry Mayo, as a sub-committee to give
special attention to this matter, we feel as-
sured that in the near future we can com-
mence to report closed contracts. There
is such a wide range of articles for which
contracts will be sought that new additions
to the list will continually be made. The
contracts will aim to cover not only the
lines of groceries, boots and shoes, and
housekeeping supplies, but the long list of
specialties that farmers need from time to
time, and among which may be named
fruit trees and nursery stock, garden and
field seeds, phosphates, binding twine,
fodder twine, sewing machines, washing
machines, farm wagons, harness, etc.

The Patrons of Michigan may feel
assured that the State Grange will do all
in its power to carry out the principles set
forth in Article 3 of the Declaration of
Purposes.

GEO. B. HORTON.

TWO CRITICISMS.

MR. EDITOR—IT.i late numbers of the
GRANGE VISITOR you give prominence to
“Our Platform.”

You state “our object” to be “the Or-
ganization of the farmers for their own im-
provement,” and as a means to that end
you give what “ we believe.” Your Grange
(as it is commonly understood) is for farm-

“era only, but in 2 a of your creed you pro-

pose to have farmers mingle “ with people
of other occupations,” and in 2 b you seek
a “universal brotherhood.” Are,you not
a little inconsistent in all this, and are you
doing as you would be done by?

Your Grange is a close communion af-
fair, and one who spends a good part of his
time in a store, or an oflice, or a shop, is
proscribed. He is not allowed to join and
yet you seek to be his brother.

You want farmers to mingle with people
of other occupations, presumably for the
farmers’ own good, but the good that farm-
ers have is locked up behind closed doors
with pass words, signs, and grips standing
sentinels. Isn’t that a sort of a dog in the
manger way of doing things?

It is as it should be that farmers should
mingle with people of other occupations,
trades and professions, and get what profit
they can. It is all right to labor for a uni-
versal brotherhood, but to be consistent,
ought not farmers to be willing to admit
others to their meetings so that others
might profit by mingling with them?

And how can you truthfully say that you
believe in a universal brotherhood when
none but farmers are admitted to your fra-
ternity?

I never had more pleasure or profit in
the same length of time than when attend-
ing a farmers’ institute, and even there the
main talk was not by the common, every
day, practical farmers, but by profession-
als, each in some special line; men who
were no more “ the horny handed sons of
toil” than the most dainty dude in the
land. What would these institutes have
amounted to if farmers alone had conduct-
ed them?

Those of us who belong to the proscibed
classes have no wish to be where we are
not wanted, but we could profit by ming-
ling with farmers, as you hope they may,
by mingling with others, but you seem to
be willing to receive, though not to give,
and how can there be a universal brother-
hood if the universal is limited to farmers
alone?

You want books, magazines, and papers
to be more common. Very few farmers
write books, or for the magazines, or for
the papers, and would not those who do be
better prepared to write in a manner more
pleasant and profitable to the farmer if
they were permitted to attend their meet-
ings?

The subject grows wider and deeper the
further I go and this must do for a starter.

Yours,
“ NOT A F.A.aMEa.”

EDITOR or THE GRANGE VIsiroR—I no-
tice in the VISITOR your platform and

invitation for criticism. With most of the
platform Icaii most heartily agree, but on
the whole it strikes me as representing the
editor rather than the Grange, or at least
in some points it does. For instance,
what evidence have we that the Grange
has any desire for the improvement of our
district schools. Has it ever proposed or
advocated a single practical measure for
that purpose? If so, what measure, and
where and when? If there is any such
measure, I am ignorant of it and wish to
be enlightened. On the contrary, are they
not on record as opposed to practical
measures proposed by others for their im-
provement. As I understand it, the
Grange not only offers nothing itself for
the improvement of our common schools,
but opposes the efforts of others for that
purpose. If I am wrong I would be glad
to be set right.

Again, as to buying more and better pa-
pers and magazines for the home. Good
land! They do not half support the VISIT-
OR, to say; nothing of any other paper or
magazine. I do not believe that Over one-
fourth of the members of the Grange take
any agricultural paper or magazine what-
ever and I challenge proof to the contrary.
It is a good thing to read in the editor’s
platform, but I fear it has no existence as
an active, living principle of the Grange.
If there is any such thing tucked away in
the declaration of principles it lies there
dormant.

Now as to another thing not in the plat-
form. The VISITOR has been a consistent
advocate of good roads, but in that it does
not represent the Grange. The Grange as
a society not only offers nothing itself for
the improvement of our road system, but
it actively opposes everything proprosed
by others. If I am wrong in this will
some one please point out an instance to
the contrary in evidence?

F. HODGMAN.

Climax.

WELL TO KNOW.

A writer in the Outlook for Dec. 23,
1893, writes of the vote on eqal suffrage
lately taken in Colorado. She gives the
attitudes of the various classes of citizens
toward the question. The farmers, she
says, were largely in favor of the extension
of the franchise. , They saw nothing revo-
lutionary in the law itself, nor in its tend-
encies. They found nothing novel in the
principle, because the Grange, she adds,
“admitted women on full equality with
men over twenty-seven years ago.” i

The Educcitional Library is a little
book valuable for every woman to own,
that was published last fall by the edu-
cational club of this city. Although the
“woman’s law” has been declared uncon-
stitutional, the parliamentary rules and
other matter given in this leaflet will
amply repay every Grange Woman for
securing a copy. The price is five cents,
the publisher Miss E. Cora DePuy, Ann
Arbor, Mich. VVhen you have read it you
will discover that even our gentlemen
friends are not above dismally mixing par-
liamentary regulations sometimes, and
also, that you can recognize when they are
right, as you may not have been able to do
before.

J. B.

Ann Arbor.

NOBLE HELP.

Sylvan Grange No. 393, Cranston,
Oceana county, raised eighteen and a
fourth barrels of flour and forwarded it to
the destitute miners of the upper penin-
sula. Many outside the Grange contrib-
uted to the donation, for which they will
please accept the thanks of the Grange.
Much credit is due Brothers A. B. White,
E. D. White, A. Brady, and Master Taylor
for their time and efiorts spent in behalf

of the sufferers.
V GEO. C. MYERS,
Secretary.

CROPS FOR 1893.

The following is an estimate of the pro-
duct and value of the leading crops for
the year 1893, made by the United States
Department of Agriculture:

Yield. Bushels. Value.
“ $591,B2l.327

 
 

Corn .................... -. l.619.490.131

Wheat - 396,131,725 “ 213,171,381
og,t.g._ 638,554,850 “ ,576, 2
Rye _ _ 26,555,446 ‘ 13,612,222
Barley ..... -. -. _ 60,869,4 ‘ 28,729,386
Buckwheat .. . 12, 133,311 ‘ 7,074,450
Potatoes .... . - . _ 183,034,203 ‘ ‘ 108,661,807
]]3y _________ _- ---- 65,766,158 Tons. 570,882,812
Tobgcco ________________ .. 488,028,963 Pounds. 39,155,442

$100 REWARD, $100.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn
that there is at least one dreaded disease that sci-
ence has been able to cure in all its stages and that
is Catarrh. 1-Iall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu-
tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda-
tion of the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for
list of Testimonials.

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

@’Sold by Druggsits, 75c.

Renew today.


l‘l:[E GRANGE VISITOR.

JANUARY 18, 1894.

ATRONS’

PATRONS’ PAINT \VORKS have sold Ingersoll Paint to the Order P. of
H. since its organization. House Paints and Cheap Paints for Barns and Out-
buildings, 10,000 Farmers testify to their merits. Grange Halls. Churches. School
Houses, Dwellings, all over the land, some of them painted 15 years ago. still
looking well, prove them the most durable.

AINT‘

MICHIGAN PATRONS “Buy direct from
Factory” at full Wholesale Prices and
save all Midd1emen’s Profits.

O. W. INGERSOLL, Prop.

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

ORKES

Ingersoll‘s Liquid Rubber Paints
Indestructible Cottage and Barn Paints

Sample Color Cards, “Confidential” Grange
Discounts, Est mates and full particulars
MAILEJ) FREE. \Vrlte at once.

MICHIGAN STUCK BHEEllERS.l(i0l|e§e and Sfaiion

An those who wlsh t0_pu_rChaSe_ pure‘  The Professors at the Michigan Agricultural ‘I
bred stock of any dggcnptlon W11] find ; College have kindly consented to answer all;
_ _ ’ 3 llV].lp0l‘t8llC questions asked of them through the i
it to their advantage to correspond ~. VISITOR. i
with some of the following well- ‘

known breeders.

V;ALl7l‘I T)VI‘lElVil00l)V SISEDS.
There is not the slightest doubt
T of the advantage of sowing seed of
‘ the first quality. Light grades of
. wheat or of any other grain are

H. H. A HINDS I

Stanton, Montcalm Co
Breeder of

Shorthorn Cattle
American Merino
and Shropshire Sheep

ELACK MEADOW FARM.

Standard-bred Trotters‘
Shiirthorii t‘-itttli-.
Sliropsliire Sheep
Berkshire Pigs

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

Oiiklauid Poultry Yards.

300 Fine Chicks iii li:ii'd tiiiii: [)l‘i(‘rfa. Bilrrctl
Plyinoutli Rocks. \\'liilu \\'_\;mdotic.~. R. 1‘. \\',
and S. U. B. l.e_;linrii>, Golden \\’\';iiiil4ittc.~;, Buff
Lcghoriis. Iiidiun (i;inic.<, lllltl Bron/.c 'l‘iirl\c\‘.~.
\\'ill sq-ll in any qiiiiiility in suit plll‘Cll2l~UI'>,. C

.VlIllIll‘lI{ IiI{().\'..
lietlilnw, Mich.

Write for
Catalog.

COLBY STOCK FARM.

Ranibouillet Sheep, Galloway (Ii-ittlo, and Per-
cheron Horses. All stock pure bred and regis-
tered. Two Percheron Stallions for sale at 8
bargain. Spring Rye for Seed.

Address, L. F. HOAG, (‘oLB\'. l\iicH.,
or L. B. T()W.\'5END. l0.\'I.\. llici.-i.

M. H. WALWoR'rii
HILLSDALIC. MICH

ESSEX. Vltldllllfilllill llllflll swiii

OF THE BEST

Also American Merino Sheep of choice quality

SHROPSHIRE HALL
STOCK FARM

Has now on sale 50 Registered yearling Raine,
25 Registered yearling Ewes, also imported
_Ewes and Rams. 1593 importation to arrive
in July. -
L. ., . DU NHANI,

(‘on(-ord. Mir-Ii.

snnorsiiiiiiés run ’93i

lniportril. Registered and Unregistered

References: ex-Gov. Winans and C. 8. Gregory, l
Banker, Dexter, Mich. i

Choice Yearling Ram and Ewe Lambs for sale ,
Terms reasonable. We pay half of freig t or i
°XD1'995- NTI BROS.,

P. O. DEXTER. Mich.

TCi“i.Cwfli%i}iii~fl

Ovid, Mich. ;
Breeder of IMPROVEDi
CHESTER WHITE SWlllEl

And Lincoln Sheep. _ A choice lot of stock‘
for sale at farmers‘ prices. Breeding stock alli
recorded. Reduced prices on full Pigs. Write, 3
or come and look me over.

‘n .-—--....p_; 51 :

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MERINO SHEEP?
3

WHITE BROlfiZE TURKEYSI

bred from prize \\'inuer.~., of the Dark Bronze, at the
Indiana and Michigan State: Fzrirs, illSiJ1|i. the Tri
State Fair zit Toledo, you can get them of

C. .VI. FELLOVVS. Valiiie, l\Ii(-,h.

G. BYRON STONE
Oliyct, Mir-li.,

Specialist in aistrziting r-nits without HM: of l’0p€.\.
cords, clamps, or lire ll’()|l.~, \Vritc for rirciilar.

|Nt:lIBATORS&BBO0DEli§

Brpoders only $5. Best and cheapest for
raising chicks; 40 iirst premiums; 3.
testimonials ; send for catalogue.

6.8. SINGER, Box , cmilngion, I7.

Because E
It is so Pure!

That‘: the great reason why you
should know about our salt. It re-
quires the best to produce the best.
The good mrmer realizes this with
his seed; shall the butter maker be
less wise? Our salt is as carefully
made as your but.ter—inade express-
ly for dairy work; and bright dairy-
inen everywhere and their butter bet»
ter mode and their labor better paid
when they use

 Diamond Crystal
Dairy Salt.

No matter what brand you have
used, just give this a fair trial. It
is iii-st in fl&V0l‘,fll’8t in grain, and
first in purity. Whether for dairy
or table use. you will and it to
your advantage to bcaoquainted
with the cult {have All self.
Write us.
DIAMOND CRYSTAL
SALT C0.,
St. Clair, Mich.

;light because they contain a per-
tcentage more or less great of small
land shriveled grains. These do
‘i not have the vitality that full sized,
Eplump grains have, and many of

them fail to germinate, or they pro-
‘duce but weak‘ plants. Under-fa-
‘vorable circumstances such seed
imay do well. When the condi-
:tions are all that could be wished
1 for, the yield depends chiefly upon
;the number of plants in a given

area, other things being equal; and
since a bushel of given weight will
lcontain a. greater number of small
or partially slirivel grains than of

plump and heavy grains, it is evi-

dent that they will fall thickerou the
, ground, and when nearly all grow
Swill produce a. thicker stand than
ifrom the same weight of heavy
,'seed. The theory which some
‘ farmers still hold, that a bushel is

a bushel when used for seed, no

_ ~ matter What its quality, is not only

fallacious, but is disastrous to those
who put it into practice. It is
chiefly owing to a lack of care in
selection of the seed that we hear
aof varieties “running out,” and it

is only by selection and good cul-
;ture that any variety can be
= brought to its highest standard.~
3Rep0rt Kansas Board of Agri-
9 culture.

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MAIZE EXPl'}RIMEN'l‘S.

[Bulletin Pennsylvania Station.
‘ l. The ensilage of maize may
Jconsiderably increase the digesti-
“bility of the crude fiber of the
green material.

2. This result is only obtained
when the loss by fermentation is
so large that the crude fiber is at-
tacked and is at the cost of a de-
creased digestibility of every otherl
important ingredient. l
 The albuminoids are especial-
ly affected by ensilage, a considera-
ble proportion of them being con-
verted into less valuable forms and
the digestibility of the remainder
being reduced sometimes nearly or
quite to zero.

4. Such silage may be consider-
ably more digestible than poorly
cured fodder, except as to the
albumiiioids.

5. Field curing seems in every

‘case to decrease the digestibility

of the fresh substance.

6. When the processes are suc-
‘;cessfully conducted and the losses
lsmall, eusilage and field-curing
‘both decrease the digestibility of
,tlie fresh material somewliat, and
. to about the sauie extent.

THE l£.iB(JOCK MILK 'l‘ES'l‘.

Pi-ecaiitiomi in Using it.

1 Bulletin Illinois Statiou.]

1. Au acid having 1.82 sp. gr.
1 should be used with milk at 60° to
‘70° F. If the acid is stronger,
cool the milk to a lower tempera-
ture. Somewhat weaker acid can
probably be made to work all right
by warming the milk.

2. When measuring the acid
into the test bottles, hold the bot-
tle at an angle that will cause the

ter of the bottle. If properly
poured into the test bottle there
will be a distinct layer of milk and
acid with little or no black color
between them.

3. Thoroughly mix the milk and
acid as soon as measured into the
test bottle. A better separation
of fat is obtained by mixing at
once than by allowing the two
liquids to stand unmixed in the
bottle until enough tests have been
measured out to fill the centrifuge.

4. After five minutes whirling
of the test bottles in the centri-
fuge, add hot water until the test
bottle is filled up to the neck only;
run the centrifuge one minute,
then fill the neck of the test bottle
with hot water and run the cen-
trifuge another minute. Adding
the necessary hot water in two
portions is often a great help in
getting a clear separation of fat.
VVhen the test bottles are taken
from the centrifuge they are put
into water at 140° to 160° F., and
the per cent of fat read at that
temperature.

5. Too low results will be ob-
tained if the centrifuge does not.

have sufficient speed. The ma-
chines have to be watched, as con-
stant use wears some of them so
that the speed designed by the
manufacturer is not obtained.

6. VVhen testing skim milks or
buttermilks which have a very
small per cent of fat (two-tenths’
of one per cent 01' less), the read-
ing of the per cent of fat should
be made immediately on taking
the test bottle from the ceu’tI'ifugc.
If this is not done and the test

1 bottle cools before taking the read-
ing, the contraction of the liquid

in the bottle will often leave the
fat spread oi*ez>~§l.iie inside surface
of the measuring tube so that it is
not seen but has the appearance of
being only 8, dirty tube. If read
when taken from the machine, the
small globules of fat can be seen
and estimated.

BERRIES ON THE l*‘AI{‘;\I.

|Bulletin Cornell Station.l

1. Black raspberries can be made a.
profitable farm crop when grown for
evaporating purposes and gathered
by the aid of the berry harvester,
regardless of proximity to markets.
An average yield with good culture
is about 75 to 80 bushels per acre.

2. An average yield of red rasp-
berries is about 70 bushels per
acre. An average yield of black-
berries is about 100 bushels per
acre.

3. Majority of growers find low
summer pinching of blackberries
best for most varieties.

4. Growers are about equally
divided in opinion as to whether
red raspberries should be pinched
back at all in summer. If pinched,
it should be done low and early.
The canes should be made to branch
low.

5. Evaporating red raspberries
has not yet proved profitable.

6. There seems to be no imme-
diate prospect that blackberries
can be profitably grown for evap-
orating purposes.

7. Berry canes which made their
entire growth after July 6, stood
the winter as well or better than
those which grew through the
whole season.

8. Removing all young canes
from a. plantation bearing its last

lacid to follow the inside Walls tolcrop of fruit materially ll1(‘l'(‘aS€S
_  the bottom of the bottle, and not ‘the yield.
drop through the milk in the cen- 9

9. Raspberries and blackberries
can be successfully grown under
glass, but require artificial polina-
tion and a comparatively high tem-
perature.

10. Under ordinary conditions,
thinning the fruit of raspberries
and blackberries, other than that
done by the spring pruning, does
not pay.

11. Cutting off the bearing canes
early in spring does not induce
autumn fruiting of raspberries.

12. Frequent spraying with water
throughout the blossoming period
did not interfere with polination
and subsequent fruit production.

13. The only remedy for red-rust
is to dig up and burn at once every
plant found to be affecteil. Cut
away and burn all canes affected
with anthracnose pits and spray,
the plantation with Bordeaux u1ix- i

ture. Root-galls weaken the plants 
causing them to appear as if suffeiu i
ing from poor soil. Removing the.
plants and burning the roots is the i

only remedy.

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A DAIRY BULl.E'l‘li\'.

Bulletin No. 5 of the Bureau of A riiinal i
lndustry, now in press, will be ready for i‘
distribution, it is expected, by the mid- j
die of January. It consists of a report‘
on the Dairy Industry of Denmark. by;
Prof. C. C. Goorgeson. of the Agricult- 3
ural College of Kansas. A preliminary.
report containing many interesting facts
relating to the conditions of agriculture
in Denmark, the importance of the dairy
industry, increase in Danish butter ex-
ports, with some particulars as to the :
methods employed on some of the farms, j
and including a very interesting account
of the Milk Supply Company of Copen- i’
hageu, was issued by the Department
last spring. The present report consists
of 133 pages, covering the some subjects
as the preliminary report, only in greater
detail as to methods of dairying, treat-
ment of the butter, packing for market,
together with detailed reports on several
of the principal dairy farms, and the co-
operative creameries. Prof. Georgeson
also treats of dairy bacteriology. the con-
struction of ice houses. and devotes sev-
eral pages to a description of the dairy
cattle in common use in that country,
and the improvement which has taken
place in them as the result of more care-
ful breeding for dairy purposes.

Applications for copies of this report
should be addressed to the Chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, United
States Department of Agriculture, Wash-
ington, D. C
HORR KEEPS IT UP IN THE ’I‘R[-

BFNE.

VVhile the American people have never
seen a time during which they did not
have a large array of burning public ques-
tions to discuss, there certainly never has
been an epoch, since the Revolution, ex-
cepting that of 1861, which has given rise
to more striking issiics than the present.
The Trilume disciisscs ilic Silver, Tariff,
and Elections questions and admirably.
That great paper fills zi field of its own,
and does it well. ‘ Readers can subscribe
both for the Tri/mm‘ and for this paper, if
they desire; and the two mzikc an excellent
political outfit. The 'l'ri'1uu;w‘.»' inzirket re—,
ports are superb. Our nictropoliiuii c0n- l
temporary deals with nzitioiial questions 
with remai‘kable force, 1ll)llll_\‘ zuid Courage. 1
For 50 years it has been :1 tiglitcr and is no i
less so now than it ever was, 1: hits with 1
a good hard slick and scldozz; misses ihcl
mark. It believes that agitation, discus-
sion, and thorough exploring of public
questions are the only path, which leads ‘
to a wise and patriotic solution of them,‘
and Roswell G. Ilorr’s ably prepared and
exhaustive articles in the 7'rz'l7m/v, on the ’
Tariii, Silver, Labor, Wages, etc, will help .
any citizen to decide rightly on the issues l
of the day. It illustrates the news of the 3
day profusely. The Trz'lmne’s_ prospectusl
in another column tells the story more fully. 1
Republicans in this county will do well to iv
subscribe for the Trilmne this year in combi- t
nation with this paper. An illustrated 
premium list will be sent by the Tribune, 7
free, to applicants. Sample copies are also 2
free. .

Fly paper is gradually being withdrawn 3
from circulation.—Pi/tslmijgr Clzrailicle,

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PULVERIZING HARR

AGENTS
WANTED.

ow, CLOD CRUSHER AND LEVELER i

Is adapted to all soils and all work for which a
Harrow is needed.
Flat crushing spurs pulverize lumps, level and

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smooth the ground,while at the saline time curved
coulters cultivate, cut, lift and turn the entire sur-
face of the soil. The backward slant of the coul-
iters prevents tearing up rubbish and reduces the

draft.

Made entirely of cast steel and wrought iron
and therefore practically indestructible. 1
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CHEAPEST RIDING HARROW ON EARTH \
——sells for about the same as an ordinary drag— :

eight dollars and upwards. l
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( at my expense if not satisfactory. ,

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MENTION THIS PAPER.

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MILLINGTON, - - - - - NEW JERSEY. I
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You .Dye In won‘t freeze. boil or wash
3° ffllnutes out. No other will do it
Palckagfe to coior 2 lbs, by4maiii)_lIJ cts.‘;x6, tiny
co nr— or woo or on on, ic. .ig pay gen s..
Write quick. lllmziiini fIi.i~' l"l1lP‘l‘.
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6 l‘lfll°ll688 60..

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OE‘ STRNTON.

E. D. HAWLEY. Pres. Wu. H. OWEN. Treas.
O. Moons. Sec‘;/.

Rctzril their own inukc of goods :it T/,7/ill/¢'.\‘(I/8 price
\Ve make a speciiily of $20 double tciuii work liar-

factioii, and pn-pity freight on fivr-sets. By per
mission we refer to Hon. H. H. Hinds. of Stan-

we
I _ ‘c'7~?*‘<‘$
3 TON $35.0thncIil0§i>ori«‘?iAl.vlioI

DH TRIAL-FREIGHT PAIII-VIARRANTEE
assaon & TIIOMPSGIV, Bingliamton. N. r

J. 0. GOULD, .\gt., Paw Paw, Mich.

What is this

‘, .

anyhow

It is the only bow (ring) which
cannot be pulled from the watch.
To be had only with ]as. Boss
Filled and other watch cases @
stamped with this trade mark.
A postal will bring you I watch can opener.

Keystonewatch Case Co., ,
PHILADELPHIA.

ARi>ENTEii7iiisANs

are strictly Hizli-(Pr:-ide instruments, and

sold at L()\\' PRICES, quality considered,
for L‘a,.ch or In.smIImivnt.v. and delivered at
your home, freight paid. Send for catalogue of
new designs to

E. P. C-A RI"F..\'TEl€ ('U.VIl’.-\NY.

Home office: BRATTLEBOR0. VT.. U. S. A.
Western Oflice: J. Howard Fame. 207 and 309
Wabash Ave... (lliicago. Ill.

THE NEW iiiduiiiiiiiii BADGE

Adopted by the National Grange Nov. 
12593,1s manufactured by
THE ‘Vl‘IlTI*lIIF.AI) S’ HOAG C0,,
Newark, N. J.,

Under contract with the Executive Committee
of the National Grange. Sample sent to any
Secretary under seal of Grange. free of charge.
Write for catalogue.

I Eciiliiiiib coLi.EcrioN. if

10 Gregg Raspberry. 10 Souhegan
Raspberry, 1|) Turner Red Raspberijy,
10 Lucretia Dewberry. 10 Parker Earle
Strawberry, sent on receipt of $1.00.

Write for price list of Nursery Stock
in general.

(This ciiilcctiuii \\ill (‘ll.l'|‘JC iicxi, i.~~uc,)
\voL\'i-;i:i.\' E .\'l'l{.~‘l-1l{\'.l’aiw Paw, Mich.

risiiriani iiiiiiiiooni

How _attained—how re-
stored —— how preserved.
0rdina.ry_works on Phy-
siology will not tell you ;
the doc t ors ca.n’t or
won’t; but all the same
you wish to know. Your

'- SEXUAL PIIWERS

are the Keyto Life and
1 its reproduction. 0111'
..k lays bare the truth. Every man who
would regain sexual vigor lost through folly
or develop members weak by nature or was
b¥disea.se should write for our seal
“ erfect Manhood." No
(in confidence).

ERIE MEBIBRI. 00., BUFFALO, it. Y.

*The staff members of the ErieMed1ca.lOo.
comevery highly recommended from the
cities the have visited and have been well
'°°°“’i‘i°r.. ”i‘i’“"’ii"""e. “‘S€.’.'i‘.';“%§;‘s‘i“e%
enou a. ow a an ppo n
oonsiiication ing their methods.-
Rauimore Her-a

Grange Visitor

State A.fi'a.irs.

BOTH FOR $1.20 A YEAR

To New Subscribers.

We will also furnish State Aiiairs to our sub-
scribers fnr 75 cents a year.

STATE AFFAIRS

Is a semi-monthly journal, which will keep you
informed of the transactions of the departments
of the State government and the decisions of the
Supreme Court in all important cases. It is
especially valuable to the Farmer who wishes to
keep himself well informed in public affairs.

Address GRANGE VISITOR,
Lansing, Mich. .

mess and a $10 single harness. \\'c gllllrzintec satis- '


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~0vicssici:s—M. T (‘OLE

JANUARY 18. 1894..

 

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

Oflioex-s National Grange.

DIASTER-—J. H. BRIGHAM ________ ._Delta. Ohio
0vicizsi.u.r.n—E. W. l)_~\V‘lS ____ __Santa Rosa. Cal.
LEO’l.'UREB——ALI"l‘lA Ml£SSER._..llochesi.er. Vt.
S'rnw.uzD—M. B. HUNT   __,__Maine
Ass"r S'1'EWARD—A. M. BELCHER Rhode Island
CnAi>LAiN—B. L. WILSON .. Mississippi
TREASUI-‘lEB—-M.B.S. F. M. MCDOWELL.._.N. Y.
Sl.oiui:rAnr—JOHN TRIMBLE,Washingt-on, D.C_
Gum: KEEPER—W. E. HARBAUGH. Missouri
CIBES—MRS. M. S. RIIONE __Pennsylvania
POMONA-M 88. M ARY HEARDON . _ _. .__Knnsas
FLonA—MRS. ANNIE L. BULL __..Minnesm.a
LADY Ass‘r S'ria;w’n—MRS. AMANDA HORTON
Michigan.
Executive Committee.
LEONARD RHONE..Center Hall, Pennsylvania

R. R. HUTCEINSON _.. __ . __..V_n-ginia
..Paw Paw. Michigan

 

Ofioers Michigan State Grange.
ms-mn—o. s. HORTON _________ _.Fruil§ iiidge

  

LIOTUBER-A. J .. CROSBY: Ilia‘.

B'rI:wAnD——A. P. GRAY _____________ _ . ZI .__Archie
Ass"r STEWARD—J. H. MARTIN, Box 442,
pl 8

'CKAPLAIN--MARY A. MAYO -__...Battle Creek
TRO

N G ........ __ Vicksburg
Ann Arbor

TBl’.ASUBER—E. A. S

81ws.ii:'rAin'—JENNlE BUELL
Gun KEEPEB—~GEO. _L. CARLISLE_.Kallmska
Cii:s.ss~MAR)( C. ALLIS Adrian
FI.0kA——MRS. SARAH A ST. CLAIR._Bntternut
POMONA—-MRS. A. A. LE1GHTON._ .Old Mission
L. A. Sri=:w‘D—MRS. J .H. MARTIN Grand Rapids

Executive Committee.

 
 
  

J. G. RAMSDELL, Chn _________ ._Traverse City
H. D. PLAT1‘ . . . . . _ . _ . . _ _ _ _ _ . _.Ypsilanti
THOB. MARS  ..Berrien Center
W. E. WRIGHT , _____ __Coldwater
PERRY lIIAYO._ _. __Battle Creek
B. H. TAYLOR. _______ -_Sh _by
F. W. REDFEBN _______________ _.Maple Rapids

8. B. I-IORTOV, ~ _.__F 'tR‘d
JENNIE BUELL. l E‘ °*5°‘° ‘l ____.fnuxi Aibgi
Committee on Woma.n’s Work in the
Grange.

Mrs. Mary A. Mayo ________________ ..Battle Creek
Mrs. Mary Sherwood Hinds ________ ..Stanton
Mrs. Belle Royce. ...................... ..Baroda

General Deputy Lecturers.

 

    
 
   
 
 

MARY A. MAYO. .. . ........... _.Battle Creek
HON. J. J. WQOD .. _____ _.Paw Paw
HON. C. G. LI.iC~E._ ____. Coldwater
HON PERRY MAYO _.__.Battle Creek
HON THOS. MARS..- ._.BerrI'en Center
JASON WOODM-\l\ __. _._.Paw Paw
A. D. BANK _ . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . _ . ..Lans1ng
C. L. WHITNEY ..................... ..Muskegon

County Deputies.

D. H. Stebbiiis ______ “ Atwood, Antrim Co.
- _BIoomi ..‘d2ile, Allegaii “

   
  
  
   
   
  
  
 
 
 

R B Reynolds _____ __.. 'iid,Benzie “
Geo. Bowser_,___ .Dowi. 5, Barr “
James D. Studley_ nioxi City, Br-.inc i “
R. V. Clark____ _Buchnnan, Berrien “

. W. Ennert_,_ _St. johns, Clinton “
Mary A. Mayo. attic Creek, Calhoun “
Wm. Clark_. liarievoix, Charlevoix “
E B. \Vard harlevoix, Cll:ll'l€\'OlX “
Mrs. Bina \ _.___Cassopolis. Cass “

____ ,_Lan.<iiig, Eaton

__.____Allllll, Gratiot “
_______ __Flushing, Geiiesee “
E. 0. Ladd__,_Old Mission, Grand Traverse “

  
  
  
 
   
   
   

  
 
 
 
  
  
 
   
  
    
 
   

 

  

 

     
  

 

 

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THE GRANGE TOKEN.

The Grange Token is a beautiful work
of art issued by the Fraternity Fine Art
C0., 172 Washington St., Boston.
center of the design is the certificate of
membership. to be filled out by a fine
penman. On each side of this certificate
are represented the early spring and sum-
mer flowers, traces of corn and the fruits
all neatly arranged. The degrees are
also represented by an appropriate scene.
The whole makes a magnificent work of
art, well adapted to adorn any Patron’s
home. It is a picture 22x28 inches in
beautiful oil colors and on heavy White
paper, selling for $1.50 each.

See Pre'm.i'um List.

DAIRYING FOR PROFIT.

To THE READERS or THE VISITOR——
Now that dairying in its various branches
is becoming more popular with Michigan
farmers. they are solicited to buy various
publications to enlighten them in the
science of butter and cheese making and
milk production. Several have come to
my notice and all have merit, but no
book or paper have I read on this gen-
eral subject, so full of good, practical
thoughts and useful suggestions as the
book written by Mrs. E. M. Jones and
titled “Dairying for Profit." The author
also calls it a Lecture on Cooperative
Dairying and on Winter Dairying. Mrs.
Jones is the owner and manager of a
dairy farm near Brockville, Ont.. Can.
The book is in the Grange price list.

G110. B. HORTON.

See Premiimi List.

 

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Imitated by All. Equnlleil by None.

Pails of best White Cedar.
Gearing completely covered.

In the E

l Brain Work.

‘CONDUCTED BY “ GRANITE -Posse.”

Open to all. Contributions and solutions solic-
i-ted. Address all puzzle matter to F. ARTHUR

WORTH, N. ll.

XIV.
oRi(.‘ii\‘AL PUZZLES.
_-Va. .§o—Doz1bIe Ldter Enigma.

0 see, they “ ride in fine” COM PLETE—-

A dash of steel “ and horses” fleet

FIRST ravage,‘ then destruction’s blast

V\'ithout one spark of “ Mr:rcy’s LAST,”
Salem, N. H. Puorsus.

1V0. 6‘: .— C/tarmlc.

Hannah draws the TOTAL, clean-
Lets the luscious dregs a—run;
Glad to note the golden gleam,
As the g2il.hering(globules come.
Arms akimbo—red an bare
Hannah wiitclies all the si ns.
ALL, a rich and wholcsnlinc Tare,
Better than the reddening wine.

Splulters thick the nectared rill
As it in the crock descends,~—
Used to srive a docior’s bill,-
Gives a heziltliy dividend.
Sisters of that LAST, I TVVO,
Blessed for your humble part,
ONE in vain the muse I woo
Adequate to crown the art.
Salem, .\'_ H.

.Vo, .92. «Double Lvllwr Em'.r_rmu,

Study well the “ stable FINALS"

“\Visc and” provident, discreet,
’ Heed the lesson. man, I PRIMAL
5 ‘ Get ii look" but not COMPLETE. ,
i Salnn, .’V, II. PRO'l‘l.-Zl.'S‘.

.\'o. .§’;—I)i2u1r/r Le'tlz'V Em'.t_rmn.

A true “ alternation, a cute variation

Is “purpose and“ and work of :1 ONE
l A whirling projection with skillful “ connection”
; A warrant of forces to run.

, A simple permission, ii kind disposition
3, ls T\V(), when we lavish'or dole,
=, A stuff for the caring, and liI.(lI€S oil. wearing,
l \\'hcii rolied in original VVIIOLE.
‘. Sn/xni. ,\". ll.
5‘/V0. 84.—D(21I('/i-Latte)‘ E/zigrmn.
“ For biick of Sat
1 The Down—e Yankees “tIirivc"
‘Tween mziplc sap :u_id apple-jnck
" They store" l/wzr ,gue.\‘.- so hive.

l’xoTi~;L's.

PRO’l‘EUS.

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The hogs get lezin in summer green
And do gain on runs,

But yet their owners oddly deem
They're better to and ONE.

So autumn through, the gruiitcrs do,
Contended find the mast,

But reckon not when rooting’s through
How TOT.-\I. proves the LAST.

Sa/wit, N. H. PKOTEUS.

Na. 85,-Daub/c Letler Enigma.
(L.-\.\lEl\”I‘ or Asi~:L’s SP()L'SE.)
ALL silent, timeless, “ thou soft pipe,"
“ No more my Abel‘s” breath sh-.1ll thrill
“ Thine answering" notes with love so ripc
“ That, dulcet kissed” far Eden's hills.
Two swiiins, my “ husband gentle pure."-
His brother, Envy‘s moody slave,

i\-IE1‘c.\i.F, EDITOR OI-‘ Bi<.\iN VVORK, SOUTH Ac- 3

Now is the Time.

During J aiiiia-ry

and February is

our 'isitoi' Harvest.

Hence we want to push our CONTEST.

READ our Rules.

I-00!! at our Premiums.

1LI’E’()I]N"I.‘ an Agent.

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. Aiigiist. I, 1893, or

later.

3. Two six months’ subscriptions count as ii t'iill year.
4. To obtain prizes, full year subscriptions must be for 50

cents

each, half year for 25 cents each.

5. This is a Grange contest and is not intended for indi-

viduals.
they can do.

VVe want to give the G1-aiiges a chalice to see what

6. This contest is open to ANY GRANGE IN THE UNITED

STATES, with the exception

ot the special preniiuiii offer

below, which is open only to Michigan Granges.
7. CONTEST VVILL CLOSE MARCH 1, 1894.

ELEGANT Pnsiviiuivis.

 

 
  
  

 

  
  
 

 

 

   

Write for prices on gold pins badges, working
10013, stafl mountings. seals. ballot boxes and any
-other grunge supplies.

Address MISS J ENNIE BUELL,
ANN Anson. Mics.

WEBSTER’ S
IN TERNA TI ONAL

‘ A GrandEducatnr.
. , Successor of the.
“ Unabridged. ’ '

Ten years spent
in revising, 1'00 ed-
itors employed,a.nd
more than $300,000
E expended.

, Everybod
:_ should own mi;
2 Dictionary. It an-
swers all questions
concernin the his-
tory, spelling, pro-
», nunciation, and
_ _ meaning of words.
A Library in Itself. It also gives
the often desired information concerning
eminent persons; facts concernin the
countries, cities, towns, and nature fea-
tures of the globe; particulars concerning
noted fictitious persons and places- trans-
lation of foreign quotations, words, and
proverbs; etc., etc., etc.
This IVork 1's Invaluable in the
4 household. and to the teacher, scholar, pro-
fessional man, and self-educator.

Sold by All Ilooksellers.
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copy of Thought and Thrift. It proves
the author a close thinker and a fine rea-
soner as well as a great student of social

a shining light in Thedom and we are
proud of his support. Too busy to chat

alllld economic questions. He is botha 1£‘r‘E£;' H°pe for H 5015'” ‘mm an the

‘p ilosopher and philanthropist.” ‘

See Premium List. GRANITE PosER'
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fully ALL CASES and subjects known
In COMMON LAW.

A LAW BOOK for EVERY—DAY PEOPLE IN
EVERY-DAY LIFE, both business and d0I‘n{’.3lI(‘.,
teaching them how they may KEEP OUT OF
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Melville M. Bizclow, LL.B., author of standard legal
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Court in IVI'ass.; “ Milwaukee Sentinel”; “ Phila.
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The Weekly Courier-fournal, published
at Louisville, Ky., delights in keeping its
subscribers guessing. In addition to being
the greatest Democratic newspaper pub-
lished, it has been a pioneer in enterprises
that required thought and figuring on the
part of its subscribers. The Weekl ’s es-
timating contest on the election in I 2, by
which $14,400 in gold coin were distrib-
uted among forty-tive guessers, is a sample
of this. The latest guessing offer of this
paper is on the weather—that one subject
on which we all consider ourselves proph-
ets. The Weekly Courier-yournal pro-
poses to give $1,000 in cash to its subscrib-
ers who can name the coldest day in the
month of February, 1894, at Louisville,
Ky., and guess closest to the lowest tem-
perature on this day. The contest closes
January 31, 1894. Every new subscriber
who sends $1 can make one guess; and
every old subscriber who renews, sending
$1, can guesss. Send for a sample copy of
the paper for full particulars. Write at
once, as the time is short.

St Peter —-“ What right have you, a mis-
erable newspaper editor, to ask admit-
tzince P" Applicant-—“.My paper never es-
timated the cost of a trip to the fair. St.
Peter (opening the .gate)—“ Enter. the“.
and sit next to the editor of the paper. that
never printed “ Letters from the Fair.”-—
Pucle.

premiums, for postage and packing.

The “Gem” ice cream freezer, receiver to pay express charges-._-. l 6

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SPECIFIL PREWIIUWIS.

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 to Michigan Grangcs,
in addition to what the Grwnges 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 Mem-
bers) made by the Whitehead & Hoag Co., NeW—

ark, N. J.

2. An Improved Companion Organ.

II. To the Grange getting the
1. A fine 20 foot flag.

second largest list, choice of

2. Webster’s Iiiternational Dictionary.

III. A Special Prize to each

Grange in that County from

whose Siibordiiiatc Grauges shall be sent the largest num-

ber of new iiaiiies.

 


 

l‘I:IE GRANGE VISITOR.

JANUARY 18, 1894.

no+ac2ZT.¥TviZ;'ia.._§;;.

LENA'\\' Eli I’OMO.\'A.

Lenawee county Pomona Grange will
hold its meeting at Macon Grange hall on
February 1, 1894. The new ofiicers will be
installed by the VVorthy Masterof the State
Grange. Bro. A. j. Crosby is expected to
be present and address the Grange. A good
program will be prepared. Let every
member who is interested in building up
the Grange attend.

P. H. DowLiNo.
/Jr/11rm'.

.\IO_\'TCALM POMON A .

Montcalm county Pomona Grange No.
24, will meet at Montcalm Grange hall, in
the city of Greenville, on Thursday jan-
uary 25, 1894, at 11 o’clock a. m. The fol-
lowing ofiicers will be installed at that time.

Master, E. R. Banton, Carson City,
Overseer, G. H. Dyer, Ferris Centre.
Lecturer, Mary S. Ilinds, Stanton,
Steward, II._]. Beach, I‘r\fstal.

Chaplain, M. E. Chambers, Ferris Centre.
Treasurer, Geo. II. Lester, l'rystal.
Secretary, B B. Crawford, Greenvillc.
Gate I\'eeper,_]cronie Bentley, Stanton.
Ceres, Sister C. H. Thompson, Greenville,
Flora, “ E. Porter, Entrican,
Pomona, “ Ella Halconib, Crystal.

L. A. S. “ .\'l E. Chziinbers, Pt. Ferris (‘entri-.

 

A FINE OFFER.

Our readers will notice a line offer of
seeds by Hill, the Seedsman, of Detroit.
It will piiy you to use this offer, as he
makes a “ hard times,” price.

Grange 

Michigan.

POST AL _[OT'l‘IN(;'S.

Hamilton Grange No. 355. held fifty
regular meetings during ’93, and took in
over fifty members. The receipts of their
charity social for the miners was $27.

The Master is sending out circulars to
county Deputies preparatory to an aggres-
sive campaign.

’I‘o show the spontaneous interest in
Grange work in a new part of the state
where there never have been Granges or-

anized, the following clippings from the
awas Bay Ad-uomte of Dec. 25, are very
suggestive.

“ Last week we published an extract
from the very able address of the Master
of the State Grange, Geo. B. Horton. Be-
low we give sortie further excerpts, and
only regret that we have not room to pub-
lish the address entire. We have sent for
copies of the address, also of the report of
the Executive committee, for distribution
among those of our friends who are inter-
ested.”

Speaking of the State Grange meeting
it says: “ It is hoped however, that another
anniversary will see Iosco, Alcona, Oge-
maw, and Oscoda, represented by some of
their enterprising farmers. There is strong
probability that Granges will be organized
in the various townships of Iosco county at
an early date.”

The olficers of Pennfield Grange No. 35,
were installed January I I, at their hall. by
Sister Mayoin a very fine manner.

Master, A. W. Lee; Lecturer, C. C. Mc-
Dermid; Secretary, Loretta Poorman.

By the looks of the smiling faces we
saw, we believe our Grange is going to have
a revival for sure.

There will be a Farmers’ Institute, con-
ducted by the State Board of Agriculture
and a local committee, held in Battle Creek,
beginning Tuesday evening, January 23,
and lasting to the 25th. It promises to be
one of the best institutes ever held there.

State Lecturer Crosby installed oliicers
of Ypsilanti Grange, with that stalwart, H.
D. Platt, at the head.

Orion Grange No. 259, sends the Visi-
roa to each family represented in the
Grange. They recently sent a list of re-
newals of 24 names.

Bath Grange No. 659, elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year Dec. 23.
Master, B. Stampfiy; Lect., T. Richard-
son; Sec., Mrs. B. Stampfly.

We are holding very interesting meet-
ings and the prospect is good for adding to
our membership.

FROM O(.‘EANA.

The Oceana—Newaygo County Grange
and Teachers’ Association will be held at
Hesperia, February 9 and I(). Program
later.

Fraternal Grange No. 406, Shelby, has
moved into Hedge’s hall, where a pleasant
meeting was held january 13, at which
Abel \Vhite, Hall. Taylor, and Andrew
Brady made addresses.

Many Granges are pushing the Pupils’
Reading course adopted by State Grange.
We shall be glad to help all that wish any
help on this line.

D. E. M('C1.i:Rr..

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania organized 18 new (;'ranges
in 1893. The membership in the state is
about 25,570.

Worthy Master Rhone in his report to
the National Grange says, “ Our co-opera-
tive business system has been of untold
benefit to our people and an important
factor in maintaining the Order in our
state. It is indeed doubtful if the Order
could be maintained without it. It is cer-
tainly the easiest and best co—operative
business system known to any society in
the world. Through it farm implements
and machinery, seeds, plants, trees, and sup-
plies in general can be bought at a discount
of 25 to 40 per cent from retail prices."

I In his annual address to his own State
1 Grange Brother Rhone says:

1 “There are now five Grange fire insurance
1 companies in the state, carrying not less
= than $10,000,000 with losses paid in full.

‘V “ Where Patrons have not yet establish-
‘ ed these companies we would urge county
; Grange:-2 to take up the subject, and either
: arrange with some neighboring Grange

A l company or join with two or three adjacent

‘county Granges and form a fire insurance
‘ com pany."

“ ()ur Grange Inspection
working reasonably well.”

Regarding the large August picnics and
assemblies, the like of which Michigan
Patrons are urged to establish, he says:

“ The great meetings of the Patrons of
Husbandry at Vllilliarnsl Grove,Center Hall,
and Tioga have become regular annual en-
campments, and are of untold benefit to
the Order. At Williams’ grove a commo-
dious Grange hall has been erected, in
which the higher degrees of the Order,
that of Pomona and Flora, are annually
being conferred. This year an interesting
feature was introduced by presenting the
courts of the Subordinate Grange degrees
in full court robes and appropriate scenery
which inspired a new interest and enthusi-
asm in Grange work.”

VVell may the Patrons of the Keystone
state feel proud of their work. Let us in
Michigan glean from their experience and
go and do likewise.

Service

 

New York.

The state of New York has 604 live
Granges, with 35,601 members.

Two counties in_t—lie_s—tate have respect-
ively thirty and thirty-two Granges,

One Grange in \Vatertown has over
members.

500

There has been organized in the state
during the past four years 182 new Granges.

Master Gifford says: “ V‘\'hile ‘ve would
not place financial advantages paramount
to social, educational, and intellectual ben-
efits, we accept them as powerful auxiliaries
to Grange growth and perpetuity.”

Regarding fire insurance he says: “ The
Central Organization of Co-operative Fire
Insurance (a Grange organization) shows
that eiglity—seven co—operative farmers in-
surance companies, a large proportion of
which are within the Grange, were carry-
ing january 1. I893. $140,597,733 in
risks on farm buildings,”

“ Trade arrangements are made by our
Executive committee that are both satis-
factory and beneficial to all members who
avail themselve of the advantages offered.”

“ We have held many public meetings
during the year that have been largely at-
tended. Notably among them were the
Grange days at Chautauqua, at Thousand
Island Park and at Round Lake. At each
many thousand families assembled. The
fruitage thereof is manifested in increased
interest and inquiry in regard to the object
and purposes of the Order.”

“ Our system of Grange inspection re-
cently adopted, will no doubt prove of
great value to our Subordidate Granges by
establishing more uniformity of method."

Shall Michigan fall into line and make
use of those agencies which have done so
much for the Empire state?

THE WORLIPS FAIR FOR SALE.

LOOK AT IT. The Michigan Central
has arranged with one of the best publish-
ing houses in the United States for a beau-
tifully printed series of World’s Fair pict-
ures, to be known as the Michigan Cen-
tral’s Portfolio of Photographs of the
VVorld‘s Fair.

The original photographs would cost not
less than a dollar apiece, but the Michigan
Central enables you to get 16 pictures for
10 cents.

It’s the finest. It's the most complete.

It's the best. It cannot be beaten.

If you saw the World's Fair, you want it
as a perpetual souvenir of a memorable
visit.

If you didn't get there you want this to
see what you missed, and to fill your mind
with its beauty and glory of the White City.

Call on the nearest Michigan Central
ticket agent and he will furnish you with
the first part and tell you more about it.

 

SOLID AND CHEAP.

In some respects the Forum is our
leading magazine. It is always filled
with articles from the pens of our lead-
ing thinkers, on topics that are alive and
interesting. The following from among
the subjects discussed in the January
number will show the scope of the
magazine:

The Teaching of Recent Economic Experi-

ences.——David A. lvVells.
Principle and Method of the Tai-ifl' Bill.-
" L Wilson

I-)ec'line of the American Pulpit.
Are morals Improving or Deteriorating?
_Britisb Investors and our Currency Legisla-

tion.

Results of the Copyright Law.

The price of the Forum has been re-
duced from $5.00 to $3.00 a year and is
very cheap at that price. We commend
it to all thoughtful members of the
Grange. It is published by The Forum
Publishing Co., Union Square, N. Y.

i THE SE(‘.RE'I‘ARY’S OPINION.

l

l'Vyz1/Idottv, Zlrlir/1., Augr/.~*l 12, 1893,

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MR. 0. W'. INGERSOLLI
I In 1889 I as Secretary of Willow Grange
No. 188, Mich., ordered paint to paint our
hall, of the Patron’s Paint VVorks. The
paint was applied and today it is bright and
pretty as when first painted, the gloss fin-
ish the Rubber Paint gave has been coin-
mented upon and admired by not only our
our own neigbors, but by every one from a
distance. The painters from the city had
never met with such easily applied Paint
and seemingly knew nothing of it. Evi-
dently people know nothing of its qualities
in southern Michigan, as mostly poor fad-
ing paint as used in this vicinity.

Fraternally yours,
M. R. BRIGHTON, Sec’y.

[See Adv. Ingersoll’s Liquid Rubber
Paints.~ED.J

is.

LIST OF GRANGES
which have sent in new names for the
Grange contest.

LIST OF COUNTIES

from which new names have been sent!

in the Grange contest:

 

Ionia ......................... . . 136
Ingham ....................... - . 45%
Kent .......................... - - 21%
Branch ________________________ - - 18
Sanilac ........................ - . 17
Wayne-____.___________-__-_---- 13
Newaygo ...................... -_ 13
Kalkaska ...................... -- 11
Muskegon .................... - - 11
llillsdale ...................... -_ 9
Oakland ....................... - . 8
Clinton ________________________ - . 6%
Berrien _____ __

Lapeer ________________________ _ _
Calhoun.______.___....__._.._... 4
Huron __________ _ _ ’_ _ _' ......... - - 3
Benzie ________________________ - _ 3
Allegan _______________________ - . 2
Lenawee ______________________ -- 2
Manistee ...................... -- ‘Z
Char1evoix__-_ -_---___---_----.- 2
Macomb _______________________ - . 1
Shia.wassee.__-_--_ -_--_..-..-_-. 1
Mecosta ....................... _ - 1

BROAD AND TRUE.

T/2:: Outlook, published in New York,
with the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, as its edi-
tor-in—chief,ma.intains its high place among
thoughtful weekly journals. In “ The
Week" it reports and interprets current
history; its signed articles are written by
eminent and popular writers; its depart-
ments are many and carefully edited; it has
something every week for every member
of the household; it touches life on all
sides; it is cheerful, progressive, readable.

0
Farms in Isabella County
AVERAGE ABOUT SEVENTY ACRES imcii.

Beautiful homes, large burns, fruitful orchards,
neat country school houses and churches, thriv-
ing villages and a handsome city, prove the
rosperitv of the people. The schools and col-
eges of Mt. Pleasant are excellent. Oats, clover,
sheep, potatoes and fruits for general farming‘
corn, hay and rich pastures for dairying and
stock raising, have made many farmers well ofl;
others are rosperin , and so can you. Unim—
proved Ian 5, valuabgle timber lands, part] im-
proved farms, and farms hi hly improve , and
choice city roperty for sale or really low prices.

Fit samp es of descriptions of such pro erty
as ou ma desire and feel able to bu , goose
addyress C 0K’S REAL ESTATE A E CY,
Mt: Pleasant, Mich.

WE WILL SEND
By Mail I’ 80 cts.

The following varieties of Seeds:

repaid
for

2 varieties Beet that will plant 50 feet of row.
2 .. Carrot .. u 100 I5 ..

2 “ Cucumber “ “ 50 hills.

2 “ Watermelon “ “ 20 “

2 “ Muskmelon “ “ 30 “

3 “ 'on " " 100 feet of row.
I .. uamley .. .. .. ..

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2 “ lsimiiah -* :* 100 1‘ "
1 IA phage Lt . . ..

Z “ Squash “ “ 50 bills.

2 “ Turnip and Ruta Bagu

will plant 300 feet of row.

2 “ Cabbage “ “ 1,000 plants.

I " Cauliflower “ “ 50 “

1 “ Celery " 100 “

1 “ Egg Plant " “ 50 “

2 " gettuce “ “ 1,028 

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2 .. ,.o:;;,0 .. .. 500 ..

1 “ ' y :‘ “ 50 feet of row.
2 “ Choice Garden Peas 50 ‘_‘ “

2 “ “ “ s 50 hills.

2 .. .. .. Com 100 u

10 assortmeuts as above, by freight,
charges prepaid (at one time), for $5.35.
This offer good only during our dull sea-
son to March 1. Hustle around and
get up your club orders.

H|LL’S SEED STORE,

DETROIT, MICH.

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Michigan State Agricultural College.

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G()RT()N, P1'esi(I£-nt.

The institution has a teaching; force of twenty-five professors and instructors,
and is fully equipped with apparatus for Scientific investigation and Practical

Agriculture, and with machinery and tools for the use of students in the depart-
ment of Mechanic Arts. Library of 17,000 Volumes. Finest special laboratoriel
in the State.
(‘I 'l'I{.‘s‘I~)S EM BRACE:

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Dairyiiig. Iuritoniology, and Literatiire, Freiii-,h.
llorlii-iiltrire, Zoology, Engineering, Geririari,

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New

Granges. names.
Keene No. 270.- ____ __-- ____ _ __-_ 131
White Oak No. 241 ............ __ 38
Butler No. 88 __________________ ._ 18
. Bowne Center No. 219 __________ .- 17,15

Montgomery No. 549 ........... .- 13
Union No. 368.______-..,-___-_.. 11
Hesperia No. 495 .............. _- 10
Alumna No. 585______-__.._..__- 10
Adams No. 286---- -__-.-__._--.- 9
Orion No. 239 __________________ __ 8
Capitol N 0. 540 ................ -. 7%
Clearwater No.674__-______-_--_- 6
Excelsior No. 692 ______________ -_ 5
Grattan No. 170 ............... -- 5
Lapeer No.246___- _____----.---- 5
Danby No. 185 ________________ __ 5
Sodus No.  4%
Alpine No. 348 _________________ -- 4
Charity No. 417 _______________ __ 4
Pennfield No 85__________________ 4
Bingham No. 667 ______________ __ 3
Inland No. 503 ................. -- 3
Fremont No. 494 _________ -- --- - 3
Bradley No. 669 ________________ -_ 2%
Rome Center No. 293 ........... - . 2
Wyandotte No. 618 ............ -- 2
Pleasanton No. 55 .............. -- 2
Barnard No. 689 ............... -- '2
Bath No. 659 .................. -- 1%l
Mt. Tabor N 0. 43 ............... _ . 1
Cascade No. 63 ________________ -_ 1
Trent No. 272 _________________ -- 1
Rural No. 37 .................. -- 1
Cranston No. 393 ______________ -- 1
Bruce and Armada ............ -- 1
Glass River No. 688-_-_____.__--- 1
Forest No.361___-____-__-_-_-.-- 1

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tfliemistry,

\'eterinar_v,

lllochanii-s.

Military 'l‘m:tivs.

Va-xt term he;-,'i1is Dloiiilay, F4-bi'uar_v 19, 1894-.
For catalogue and full information address,

[RA H. BUTTER-FIELI). Secretary.

Agricultural College, Mich.

is a book containing

now buying.

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illustrations, prices and

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

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is it worth the 15 CENTS in stamps re-
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THE BUYERS GUIDE AND CATALOGUE (issued
every March and September) is the book we

are not safe without a

‘ copy of the latest edition in the house.

MONTGOMERY WARD & 60.,
I I I to I I6 Michigan Ave., Chicagfi

In writing mention THE Ginison VISITOR.

ROOFING

EL§"Loca.l Agents Wanted.

GUM-ELASTIC ROOFING FELT
costs only $2.00 per I00 square felt.
Makes a good roof for years, and any-
one can put it on. GUM-ELASTIC’

PAINT costs only 60 cents per gal. in bbl. lots, or $4.50 for 5-gal. tubs. Color
dark red. Will stop leaks in tin or iron roofs that will last for years. Try it.
Send stamp for samples and full particulars.

GUIVI-ELASTIC ROOFING (.30.,

39 and 41 Vllest Broadway,
New York.

GET THERE
ELI VCRADI

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81.00 stpaid. I:
snmpilxef pkg. " mgRTF

The person planting Salzer’s Seeds i_:eve.' knows of hard times,

because they double all yields! Try It for l‘ I. and be happy.
Vegetable seeds for the million. 35 pkgs. Earli
era of Farm

est Vcgetu tile seeds,
Seedsin the world. I-‘ll

Radish tit fnruse in I6 daysand cat-
alogue tor 7c postage. Catalogue alone, 50. for postage.

 

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It Is Intended to aid the plantar in selecting the Seeds
best adapted for his needs and conditions and in getting
from them the best possible results. It is not, thereto c, highly

Different from Otheri.

    

either sense: and we have taken great care that

nothing worthless be put In, or nothing worthy be left out. We
invites trial ofour Seeds. W
Every planter of Vegetables or Flowers ought to know about 0
rec wu-rants
rs to purchasers of our Seeds. All
talogue. a copy of which can be yours for the asking.

J. J. H. GREGORY O SON.

e know them because we grow the

; our cash dlscounts: and our gift of agricultural

of these are explained III

 

Marblehoad, Mano

FARMERS,
ATTENTION

I sell direct and ship to.all parts of
the United States.

I can Save you Money
Buggies and Harness

or any 'l‘ools wanted on the farm.

I am State agent for the Columbia
Scale and the Coniinoii Sense Post-
Hole Digger. I manufacture and
sell Hewit-t’s Autoinatic Adjust-
able Stock Rack.

I can Surprise You on Prices.

Write for circulars and state just
what you want.

B. F. FOSTER,
.-\lle,-rain, Mi('Il.

P. S.-—I want agents for Hayward’s
Sheep Dip.

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;World 3 Fair llrghesl Awards
gllledal and Diploma ‘AM,
‘on our INGUBATOI-‘I and

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I 2 O for us. l’:u-ties preferred who
have a. horse and can ve_t.beii

P E B W E whole time to our usiness.

Even s in is time will PM 59191!‘
special interest to farmers _nn lumen‘ sons, an

didl , ‘his announcement is of
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No. 5 mi sr..RicI-man-i.’Vn.

GRANGE gigrzcronv.

Patrons Will I-‘ind These I-‘inns Reliable and
Can Get Special Prices From Them.

WE HAVE NO AGENTS

But save you money on eve thing you eat, wear
or use. Send 8 cents for ful catalogue.
H. R. EAGLE at C0.,
68 Wabaeli Ave., Chicago.
Mention Grange Visitor.

The Smith Implement dt Buggy 00., 22 and 24
East 3d St. Cincinnati, 0. has a contract with
Gran of Ohio and Indian? to supply their state
and rnish goods at who esale rates when the
order comes und- 1- the seal of the Grange. We
extend the same invitation to the Grange of Mich-
igan. Write for catalog and prices.

Special inducements all the time

PI ‘Ago S Siegnd for Cgtaloguez.  Dirgct

ea er in .

 Factovry, Y¢:Ii-ska,‘ Pa. P122: sezl

of your Grange on your letter paper, or send

trade car_d to secure benefit of special manufact-
urers’ prices direct to Grangere.

The Honey Creek Grange Nurseries have
been under contract with the State Grange of Ohio
for over ten ears, and have dealt extensively in
Indiana. and . icliigan also. Special prices sent to
anyone under seal of the Grange. Give us a trial.
VVe can save you money. Address

' Isaac Freeman & Son, Rex, Ohio.

PATRDN6' DH. WDRKS. DERRICK Oil. 00.
F. G. BELLAMY, Prop’r, Titusville. Pa.
Lubricating and Burning Oils of the highest
quality, at wholesale prices. Try our Elite Buru-
ing Oil. made specially for family use. Write for

prices. Address DERRICK ()IL C0.,
Titusville, Pa.

     

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51?-E!-E Egg‘:

SIJLD tmnrn A GAIHITEE

that It is p\>.iIilVt‘l_\' sell‘-reculatinc
and will lmzch fully 80 per cent.
of fertile sums. or it can be returned
and money refunded. 11-
able in price. .\‘eIf.1{g‘u|a,|;in¢
BROODERS. Send 4 cents for catalogue.

H. M. SHEER di. BRO” Quincy, III.

Iglllrloglgifls BY STEAM

_ Excelsior Incubator.
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LANSING, KICK.