4.2!‘ E; Ilu ‘ VOL. XIX, NO. 5. > “THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.” \. J‘ J'- LANSING, MICHIGAN, MARCH 1, 1894. WHOLENO. 437. WHERE THEJONEY GOES. JOCHIM, HAMBITZER, BERRY, ELLIS, AND TURNER EVIDENTLY CON- SIDER “PUBLIC OFFICE A PRIVATE SNAP.” We have been perusing a most entertain- ing volume recently, and our readers may enjoy a few extracts from a book that will soon be famous. The book is that belong- ing to the board of State Auditors, and contains the precise copy of each bill allowed by the auditors during 1893. It shows that certain state officers have been bleeding the state treasury to an extent entirely unsuspected by the average citizen. And although the amounts are small, relative to the expenses of the state government, there is no hiding the principle, or lack of principle, displayed in seeking to get out of the state all the money possible. We have for a week past had most of the following facts and figures in our possession, but unfortunately for our enterprise, our date of publication did not come before the dailies secured a portion of the facts in the case. The Detroit Journal complains because its “expert accountant” was ill treated by the clerks of the board of Auditors, and that only a portion of the accounts could be secured. Our request to look at the accounts was courteously granted, and as the books are kept in a clear and fine manner, we had not the least difficulty in getting all the . information we chose. Mr. lIambitzer’s Bills. We present below the bills allowed Mr. Hambitzer, State Treasurer, during 1893. We have omitted a few minor bills that were for oflice, etc. All the bills for attending board meetings and extra ser- vices are given. ‘V6 use Mr. Hambitzer’s bills, as they were the first examined: Jan. 2, Board of Auditor-s——R. B. fare. Hancock to Lansing and _return ...................... .. $39 50 3 days hotel bills............_.._........._.. 7 50 Feb. 18, Board of Canvassers—R. R. fare. Hancock :0 Lansing and return ................... .. 39 50 2 data hotel bills .-. ....-..-...... .__. . .__-- 10 00 Jan. 25, Board of Auditors—B.. R. fare, Hancock to Lansing and return ...................... _. 39 50 2 days hotel blllfi . _ . . . . . . . _ . . . _ . . . . . . . . _ . -. 10 (N) Mar. 29. Board of Auditors——R. R. fare. Hancock to Lansing and return ...................... -- 39 50 (inlays hotel bil 15 00 Apr. 25, Sriite Board of from Lansing 39 50 Hotel 6 days. .- .. 15 00 25, Meeting board of Canvasser llancock to Lansing and return. 39 51) Hotel 4 days ...-......‘...-....-..__.--...... 10 00 May 16, Meeting buarrl of (anvassers—Rsilroad Llaucuck to Lansing and return ......... -. 39 50 iilotei 4 dip’; .E..; .i_.£ ...... --I--C ————————— .- 10 00 1-, 26, anti!) 0 ti -9 rr 1 ors an: anvassers. AD railrogd, Hancock to Lansing and return ................................... -- 39 50 Hotel 6 days .-..- _ —————— --_ --------------- -- 15 00 May 10, Board of State Auditors, railroad, Hancock to Lansing and return .. 89 50 ot ........... . .f. -A-- 10 U0 31, Meeting board 0 u Lansing and return ... . 39 50 Hotel 6 d':ly!l.__ ------------------------- -- - 15 (X) Junelfi, Expenses, Chicago and return to consult electrical engineer. f8lll'08dy 9“? --------- -- 35 00 Hotelfi davs ..-.----——-------2----—-——;--—-» 15 99 July 7, Special meeting b iard of Auditors, railroad Hancock to Lansing and return.-.....___. 89 50 Hotel l days ........... --’ --------- -- 10 00 7, Meeting of board of telephone and telegraph 2 25 22, Expenses examining of telephone and H mlegmpii 'l'i"'}i'£6feiiEi'¢iiié"""" 15 27, otel. etc., e esrap an ---- July , of Auditors. railroad Hancock to Lansing and return -'10 Hotel 5 days ......-.. - 11 50 21, Examining telegraph and telephone co - anies during mouth of July. railroad hotel. etc., Lansing to Chicago and uiiwaiikoe __. ........................... .— 111 70 One day‘s B&'Vlc(’5_i etc... 5 1-5 28. Expenses at Lanai 9 5° 30, Meeting of board, iipemms to Lansing andrelurn ....-....--.------——--------- 39 50 Hotel $10.00; sleeper.‘ $l.(])_ ____ .-_. ........ - . 14 00 Bop. 6-10, Investigating May s claim—railroad Ish- peining to Ironwood and return, hotel and liver)’ ------------------------------- —- 00 Two tnlegrums ..--.. - 3 35 27, Meeting Hf D08|'d. Lansing and return ....... _. 39 50 Hotel 4 «la s. $10 00: sleeper, $4.00 . .-- 14 90 Oct. 24. Railroad ancock to Lansing and return .. 89 50 Hotel 4 days, Sl0.U0:,v~|eep6I'. -00 14 00 Nov. 10, Threeudmeetings with State swamp land 12 00 b0 ---------------------------------- -- Bowl 3 dave ....... --—----, ---------------- -- 9 0° 29, Railroad Hancock to Lansing and return . B9 50 “°‘°i,.‘ ‘...“""..i"': """" "1.'.;.'.1 """ "i‘;‘iI.'.;a;; ” °‘-’ 1- o swam comm s D°°'27' F‘,’,~,93 ______________ __'f ____ _______________ __ 72 00 Mr. Jochim’s Travels. Mr. Jochim, Secretary of State, pre- sented approximately the same bills as Mr. Hambitzer for attendance upon meetings of board of Auditors and Canvassers. -\Ve give only a few of the bills, to show the methods followed. Notice the dates: ' b d t Cnnvassers. R. R. sleeper, Apr‘ 25' Meeuliiiie tldadnd) from Lansing via Chicago, including extras, $15.40 Hotel 4 dnyfl ------------------------------ -- Apr. 25, Meeting board of Additors, R. B. sleeper, and meals, to and from Lansing _______ __ $35 (Kl Hotel 6 days._.-....._._._.......... __. .__.. 15 W Apr. 26, Meeting board of Auditors, R. R. Ishpeming to Lansing and return.. ............. .. 35 00 Hotel 6 days _____________________________ .. 15 09 Sept. 7, R. ll. Ishperning to Washington and return 160 8:: Dec. 27. F0; board of swamp land commissioners 72 W 1 93 . _ _ _ . . _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ . . . _ . . _ _ . . . _ _ . . . ._ Mr. Berry’s Necessities. We have here a few of Mr. Berry’s bills, as Land Commissioner: Apr. 25, Meeting of board of Canvassers. railroad anderbilt to Lansing and return ..... .. $12 24 Hotel4da,\s _.._-........... ........... 1000 Apr. 25, Meeting of board of Auditors, railroad Van- derbilt to Lansing and return.._....... . 12 2! Hotel 6 days _____________________________ .. 15 00 Apr. 26, Meeting of board of Auditors. railroad Van- derbilt to Lansing and return _________ . . 12 24 Hotel 6 days . . . . . _ . _ . . . . , . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . .. 15 00 Aug. 26, Examining telegraph and telephone compa- nies during month of July, hotel, R. R. Lansing to(‘.liicago and Milwaukee, Wis. One day’s services and hotel _____________ .. :1 277 Sep. 1, Work from Aug. 27 to Sept. 25 ____ _. Sep. 15, 24 days work ______________________________ .. It will be noticed that three different bills were presented on April 25 and April 26, including railroad fare and hotel bills each time. The round trip rate from Lansing to Hancock is $32.35; Ishpeming, $26.70; Vanderbilt, $10.70. The difference between these amounts and those charged will hardly account for meals and sleeper, especially as Mr. Hambitzer included “sleeper ” in a number of his bills. We can not now prove that these gentle- men had railroad passes, but we do not believe they dare deny that they had them and used them on these trips for which they charged full fare. It may be significant that Marcus Peter- sen, clerk of the board of Auditors until recently, made out and approved most of these bills. Mr. Pete-rsen,’s salary was raised from $1,600 to $l,800, and he was granted an extra months’ salary, $150.00, by the board of auditors. It must be remembered ma‘.-ti... latte!- half of the year Mr. Jochim was drawing $2,000.00 salary, Mr. Hambitzer $2,000.00, and Mr. Berry $2,000.00. These salaries were sufficient to keep the gentlemen at the Capital, yet the state had to pay for transporting them to and from their busi- ness. They also accepted per diem for work on the swamp land" board, while the constitution expressly declares that they shall have no fees or perquisites whatever. Adolphus ioes Home. Attorney General Ellis drew at the rate of $3,000 per year during the greater part of 1893. He lived in Ionia and in his accounts the following item appears fifty times during the year: “ Lansing to Ionia and return, $2.05.” Once the entry is Lansing to Ionia $l.l5. The dates are about a week apart, usually Monday or Tuesday, and it is quite evident that when Adolphus drew nigh the bosom of his family, he also drew on the state treasury to pay for the pleasure. Here is a sample month, the items being picked from among other entries; Oct. 2, Lansing to Ionia and return .............. .. $2 (if- .. 13' ll .. .. ll .. :: M" g It 23. 55 H H H I‘ _ _ V ‘ . — . _ - _ _ _ . ” ~ _‘ 2 The total amount for the year is $103.65, not so large a sum as that drawn by the auditors, but the principle is precisely the same. Mr. Turner and His Son Harry. But the richest, juiciest bit of fruit on the capitol tree seems to have been picked by Auditor General Stanley W. Turner and his son, Harry 0. Turner. The auditor general receives a salary of $3,000 a year. Mr. Turner made his son Harry his private secretary at a salary of $1,600 per year. Mr. Harry Turner is also clerk of the board of review of telephone and telegraph lines, at a salary of $200 per year, and clerk of the board of control of St. Mary’s ship canal at a salary of $100 per year, a total of $1,900 per year. Mr. Turner and his son, then, draw in salaries $4,900 per year. But that isn’t all. The auditor general is allowed necessary ex- penses for traveling when absent from the Capital on state business. But Mr. Turner drew, in addition, several hundred dollars asper diein. His bills are not good in- dexes of his actual expenses, because they are not itemized as required of all bills against the state. It is rumored that Mr. Turner refused to itemize to any greater extent than he did. It is also rumored that the board of Auditors cut down some of his bills for traveling. The following are the bills, as allowed, as they appear on the books of the board of state Auditors: 1893. Jan. 9, Harry 0. Turner-— To Detroit to purchase linoleum for office, hotel hill and railroad fare, etc ______ .. Feb.15. Stanley_W. Turner- '1‘o railroad fare. hotel bill, and expenses in collecting railroad taxes ._...._. . expense to D -I roit. hotel and railroad 1 bottle machine oil _________________ ._ 14, telegran 3 ,______ ,_ , printing circulars .... .. Apr. 5, railroad fare, Grand Rap 6. hotel bill ____________ _. 19. Detroit and return... 20, hotel bill ____________________________ __ 25. Harry l‘urner—~ To railroad fare, Detroit and return. col- lecting mining tax__‘ ______________ ._ hotel bull _____________________________ _, May 30, Stanley W. Turner~ To services on various boards for months of January, February, March. April, May. hotel bills and traveling ex- penses _ __ 4 days examining telephone and tele- zraph_....... ._.__..._ fare Detroit and return and parlor car carriage, $1.54»; hotel, $12; street car, we 3. fare Baitle Creek and reIurn_._. . .... examining telephone and telegrapli.. . hotel. $7.510; hack. 50c; carriage, $l.7:').. 20, fare Detroit and return and parlor car 6 days examining telephone and tele- graplu. .. ______ .. 6 days hotel, $18; carriage, $2.75 . .... 28, at tending board meeting. railroad fare, hotel, etc., month of June .._.. Apr. 29, Harry 0. Turner- To railroad fare Chicago and return, col- lecting mining taxes ______ .. sleeper. $4; hotel, $12; car fare. 30c July 1, Stanley W. Turner- To telephone meeting and hotel bill ____ . . telephone meeting and hotel bill.. 7, Elllilmd fare, Detroit and return.. ac an :- O 8 St? 8E8§%2§;"u%§ y5—‘.‘V O‘-U"O3IFl\'« 4:».- UIO if. 518 '5‘388%"o‘8 ‘-5 June 9, i— N>— >4 be m cm. ‘.)l:DtChdpSU'l\'.« 5:: UIUIUI 15, hotel bill ______________________ _. 27, attending meeting and hotel bill ...-. No date, attending meeting. railroad fare and hotel bill, month of July. 1893...... paid for special tel in ..... .- railr are Grand u-E2‘-L-“L' 8 8.‘? 53188 289531 88 E June 27, 88 hotel. __.. .... ..._-___._.. ___-.__. .__. .. Aug. 25, expenses incurred in collecting spe- cific taxes of mining companies -.- 246. examining telephone and telegraph companies during the month of J uly, 1893, rail fare. per diem, and hotel expenses, from Lansing to .... -,C9:icv:'c.r.‘v.1 Miheruknc Wis _ .. ..- onl;a_gay’s service on board and ’hotel i ............................... -_ railroad fare, hotel bills for attending board meetings during J uly, 1893 ... paper and stationery ................ .. , collecting specific taxes, railroad fare Detroit and rel urn, parlor car .... -- hotel, $7; hack, 5Uc .................. _. 5, Detroit and return, parlor car, hotel bill, collecting specific taxes... .__.. 16 10 4 days services on telephone and tele- graph board.._..._ ._._....._.._.-.. 12 00 12, railroad fare to Detroit and return, parlor car ......................... .. 5 60 13, hotel bill, $11.50; hack, 50c . 15 00 21, witness in Parsell case, Ioni . railroad fare, $2: hack, 50c; carriage, $3.75; hotel, $2.50 .............. .. 7 75 28, witness in Parsell case. Ion $2.30; carriage, $3.50; hotel. $3 .. .. ... 8 80 9, visiting Jackson rison to inspect books. railroad are, $2; hotel, 54; carriage, $3.75; hack, 50c ....__.-._.. attending board meetings, railroad fare, hotel bill, etc., for September, except telephone board _ attending telephone board meeting, per diem, $3; he-tel_bill, $2.25 ...... _ . 5 25 expenses in collecting specific taxes from Iron King Mining Co ________ _. expenses Marquette and Pacific rolling mil .............................. .. No date, Harry 0. ’l‘urner~ To railroad fare, parlor car, Chicago and return, collecting mining taxes .... .. supper on train and hotel bill... ... expo-use at Hillsdale ________________ .. Oct. 3-6, Stanley W. Turner- To 4 days services on telephone board. ... 4 days hotel bills ....... ... .......... _- railroad fare, $4.30; carriage, $3.75: hack, 50c ......................... ._ 5 days services on telephone and tele- graph matters ..................... .. 5 days’ hotel bills 16, expenses collectiu mining Co. .... expenses, Merchan portation Co. ......_.........._...... 25, attending board meetings, railroad fare. hotel bills 24. ex 3 3&9 -5- [W5 Q 93 13.2 “J! 5 25 18 42 16 25 510 750 No date, .33 DD ‘CE N :3 r-i-4 n-I»- UJ KVKO P-‘(MC Ell 38 888 11-16, uses collecting taxes of Mountain ron Co. ........................... .. Swanzy Mining Co ............... .- -. 41 25, attending telephone board. hotel .__.. 5 4 days, 20, 21, 23, 24, and hotel ....... -. 21 21-23, Harry 0. Turner- To railroad fare Detroit and return, tele- phone reports . ................... .. 4 hotel. $7; parlor car 50c .............. .. 7 Nov. 2, Stanley W. '1‘urner—— _ _ To expenses collecting, specific taxes. De- troit, Cleveland, §aginaw,_Jackson. 29, services in collecting specific taxes, by order of the board of 8I.ldl_I0l'B-.. No date. expenses attending board meeting.--. 1 day telephone company ............ -. Nov. 24, Dec. 27. ..s§ E 8: see a as sea uses collecting specific taxes. ieconsin Central R. R. Co ....... .. services on the land board. 18 . Total ............................. -- $1.439 34 The total amount received by Mr. Tur- ner and his son during 1893 will come close to $6,000. There is no means of tell- ing how much of the expense is legitimate. Mr. Turner will no doubt claim that all his charges are entirely legal. Perhaps they are. But if so the people will soon see to it that such plundering is made illegal. -1 mt: This condition of things is not pleasant to contemplate. Next issue we shall hope to make comparisons with former years. The gentlemen involved may claim precedent for their actions. If they do, it will not justify the methods. And we doubt, from a cursory examination, if past records .W1ll begin to approach in amount those given above. Fa GRANGE T0 CONGRESS. VVASHINGTON, D. C., ' :7anmzr_y30, 1894. i To the Senators and Represem‘atz'1'es as- sembled in the Congress of the llnited States: GEN'rLEMEN—We, the undersigned, have been appointed a committee of the Nation- al Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry to urge before your honorable body such legislation as is deemed by our Order es- sential to the prosperity of the agricultural interests of our country, and in attempting to discharge this duty we find it necessary to emphatically object to some of the changes proposed in the agricultural sched- ule by the so called Wilson tariff bill, and in so doing We have iioth- ing to say for or against protection as a policy of the government; but as a revenue measure, every American citizen is inter- ested. \Ve deem it the true policy of the na- tional government to collect its revenues, as much as possible, from duties on im- ports, as being a system of taxation more equitable and less burdensome when justly distributed than direct taxation upon the industries and property of our people, thus leavingthis class of subjects to the states for taxation for the collection of their rev- enues, as they can not levy an import tax under the constitution of the general gov- ernment. Another reason why foreign trade should pay import duties is that our government must maintain wharves and warehouses for the accommodation of their trade, and this trade should justly pay for this privilege out of which it is proposed to gain a livelihood. - 1. e. ~..ii.'.n‘ners of -our Order, of course: difier in their views upon the details of equitable tariff legislation. It is not the duty of the Order to interfere with the free exercise of the rights of our members as citizens. When the people at the ballot box decide any issue raised by the political parties on general principles, our Order cheerfully accepts the situation, and only insists that the policy thus endorsed shall be fairly car- ried into effect without any discrimination against the farmer, or any class or interest in our country. When the people decided for the pro- tective policy at the polls we asked con- gress that in the proposed tarifi revision agriculture should receive the same con- sideration as did other interests. Our de- mands were respectfully and fully consid- ered, and,with one exception, all that we asked was incorporated in the tariff laws of our country, and the farmers were largely incidentally protected in the Ameri- can markets, and as a result realized better prices for hay, barley, vegetables, potatoes, beans, live stock, poultry, eggs, tobacco, fruits and many other products, which were not oppressive to those engaged in other vocations. In the change of the political situation of our country our farmers had reason to believe that in the revision of the tarifl’, placing it on a new basis, it would be so adjusted that duties would be imposed largely on luxuries and such products as might be imported that would directly come in competition with American agri- cultural productions and American manu- facturers, which were essential to give em- ployment to American labor and capital. In fact this was guaranteed in the Chicago platform of the present party. The legislative committee of the National Grange, at the special session of congress advised the committee of Ways and Means, of the importance of taking care of the agricultural interests in drafting a revised tariff bill. Had the committee reported a bill in strict conformity with the decision of the people at the polls we should have nothing to say against it, but because the proposed legislation is very unjust, in so far as it pertains to the farmers, and unfairly dis- criminates against the interests of agricult- ure by virtually abandoning the New En- gland, New York and coast trade to Canada and other foreign countries, by reason of proximity and cheap water transportation, which in effect bring the producers in for- eign countries closer to these markets than Continued on page 5. .. v- ‘.3’ .4 -..L.._..._ . £:?.i'sdv:l" .9?-.' - ' “ THE GRANGE VISITOR. .........,...........--...,.,a....,....s.a.¢up-971.1572: 4»: ..»~.:..e. ~ MARCH 1, 1894. Field and Stock. BEE KEEPING. I-[IVES AND FIXTURES. To the beginner in bee keeping perhaps there is no one thing of more importance to him than the hives and fixtures he is to use. If he has no settled convictions as to whether he is going to winter on summer stands or in the cellar, I should advise him to take the advice of some friend of experience as near his locality as possible, for there is as much difference in locali- ties in wintering as in the amount of honey gathered. When I commenced, some years ago, I had neither experience, convictions, or friends that had practical experience, that I could apply to, and if I had the money that I have expended in experiments it would add largely to my profits. But now with my own experience and the in- formation that I have gleaned from others, I am fully convinced that for Michigan and other states in this latitude there is noth- ing equal to a chafl’ or double walled hive for both winter and summer. The bees seem to make the best preparations for Winter so far as concentrating their brood nest and capping their stores. It is seldom we have a winter so severe that bees do not have several cleansing flights during the winter. This is very beneficial to them, and particularly so in case. their winter stores are not first class. lVith the knowl- edge I now have, I have adopted the hive illustrated below, and with me and the hundreds of others whose unsolicited tes- timonials I have it has been a success for the past ten years. HILTON'S IMPOVEI) C-HAF‘1"‘ HIVE. (cLosr.i).) The next important feature about a hive is early spring, and with the many and sudden changes of this latitude the double walled hive plays an important part as the bees and brood are at all times protected. Bees remain more quiet in the spring and are not attracted by every glimpse of sun- shine as they are in single walled hives, to be caught by the chilling winds of spring never to return to the hive; then I believe bees wintered on summer stands are more hardy in the spring than those wintered in the cellar, and as a result there is less spring dwindling, which is more to be dreaded than wintering. Then the surplus cases are better protected from the sudden changes in spring and fall, and from the intense heat of midsummer. Bees will enter them earlier in spring, and finish them later in the fall, and when it is so warm that hardly a bee can stay in a single walled hive for fear of melting the combs, and will be clustered outside the hives, those in double walled hives will be at ness, utility, or durability, to the dove- tailed hive illustrated below. IMPROVED DOVETAILED HIVE. These can be had with either one or two surplus cases for comb honey, and contain movable frames for the sections. By re- moving these, two comb honey cases make a super for extracting purposes. The cases can be used either on the dovetailed hive or the double walled hive, there being room enough in the upper portion of this double walled hive to receive two of these cases, as the lower story or brood nest, which can also be used for an extracting super. VVe hive by placing it in the upper story of a back end. Fro/170711. ,GEo. E. I'IIL’I‘01\'. have also demonstrated that a colony can . be successfully wintered in the dovetailed . chaff hive and making an entrance at the 1 magnificent loin and ham; in fact they put on meat where it is of most value when cut up on the block. As breeders they are second to none; a majority of the ewes raising twins and not a few having triplets; and they furnish milk enough to grow the lambs very fast. The Lincolns delight in rank herbage, as their native Lincolnshire is mostly a reclaimed marsh, therefore we claim they will do better on low land than any other breed. The popularity of the breed is shown by the growth of the association; with nine members December, 1891, we began to reg- ister, and December 21, 1892, had 197 ani- mals registered, while in December, 1893, we had over 1,000 registered, 52 members and 40 stockholders, and the association declared a 28 per cent dividend at the last annual meeting. As a breed for crossing on other breeds I can say from experience that I verily be- lieve there are no two breeds that cross as well as the Lincoln and the Merino; al- though those who have tried it say they cross very successfully on the Leicester and Shropshire. In crossing on the Merino I have found the second cross superior to the first, which is not the case with other nint- ton breeds crossed oii the Merino, as the 1 second Lincoln Merino cross hold their i weight of fleece and of the very choicest i quality. Such wool was quoted in the * Chicago market last May at and 26 . cents; it was six inches in length with a LINCOLN SHEEP. H. A. DANIELLS. I have been asked why I have faith in Lincoln sheep, and why I regard them as especially the sheep for Michigan‘? I might answer the first question in a few words, viz: Iliave found them the heaviest shearers of choice fine, long wool of any breed. As a mutton breed they are in sheep what Durhams are in cattle; a large animal with good front, a good crimp, and very fine for that length. I wish we had 200 more flocks of Lincolns in Michigan. The plate is a good representation of the English bred Lincoln ram Lord Stanley, N0. 565, owned by H. A. Daniells, Elva, Michigan; sire Uniformity, who was the sire of three rains that sold for over $800. Lord Stanley was bred by H. Duddiiig, Riby Grove, Lincolnshire, England, and in good flesh will weigh 350 pounds. His lambs can be picked out by their resemblance to their sire. WHEAT IN lN(1‘rH1\llI. Geo. H. Proctor of White Oak, Ingham county, in replying to our queries concern- ing wheat, says that in that part of the county they are raising less wheat than formerly. In place of it the acreage is being put into beans and hay. Rye is used a little in rotation and farmers are going into the specialties to a very limited extent. BILL NYE ON FARMING. Many theories have been advanced by editorial farmers for the hard times among agriculturists, but I incline to believe it as a falling off in the use of bran. I have a piquant little tafl’y-colored Jersey cow on my country seat who was, a year ago, a men- tal and physical wreck. She suffered from insomnia and life seemed to her altogether unlovely. Her only remaining offspring had been kidnapped, and was said to have been in the soup——mock-turtle soup. She pined and fretted a good deal, and this preyed upon her vitality, impairing diges- tion and threatening her with hollow-horn and early death. I got her a large quan- tity of bran and made a pleasant and sooth- ing mash upon her by means of it. At first she would insert her nose in it up to the top of the lower eyelid, and then look- ing far over the purple hills, she would blow this bran mash across the state, and what did not go up the sleeves of my over- coat would cliink up the barn and freckle our family carriage. But after awhile she ate it almost greedily and soon the birds sang again in her sorrowing heart. She forgot her grief, had no more acidity of stomach, flashes of heat or sinking. ring- ing in the ears, dizziness or tired feeling, and now she is perfectly well. Last fall she ate. not only her three meals a day, but also a scarlet geranium belonging to my wife, a Mackinac straw hat of mine, two yards of brocaded ribbon from the costume of a young lady from Chicago, who was pattingher on the head, four dollars’ worth of gladiolus bulbs, a child’s shirt, and a dish of blanc mange which was cooling on ' the rain-water barrel for the pastor. Hon. Justin S. Morrill said in 1858: \Vhen a money pressure overtakes the country, like that through which we are just passing, in searching for its cause no one thinks of charging it upon agricultu- rists. They are not only lll(l11StI'l1)11S, but frugal. Thrift is their cardinal virtue. They do not produce, vend or consume luxuries. They hasten slowly and go un- touched of all epideinical speculations. But when the crisis coines~—when commerce, manufactures, banks, and even government itself, quail beneath the St0!'lD—*8.ll eyes turns to the hardy tillers of the soil foy relief. They stand, as they always stand. with enough for themselves and something to spare. The agriculture of the future will de- velop possibilities in the way of increased production that are almost undreamed of now. Some of these days we shall see in- tensive methods applied to the production of grain crops, with results that are now hardly imagined.—]lIr1.7'7ze Farmer. For pity’s sake don't think of stopping the visits of the GRANGE Visxrok to my address. Find pay for current year enclosed. WM. Ann.-zusox. LIVE STOCK STATISTICS. . . . Thinking that it might be of interest to many to preserve some statistics relative to the number and value of the leading kinds J‘ work especially if the covers are raised - - - - - f - - - three’ or four inches to admit of a cimula of live stock in the United States, we give the following table, taken from the report 0 the statistician of the department of . 1 . ' agriculture. ‘ tion of atmos here around the sur lus 1 , . . . . cases’ and at fill; same time shading tfiem Estimated number of animals on farms and ranches, total value of each kmd, and average price, January. 1894. from the rays of the sun. The cut below ""‘“""" 1 "7"" l illustrate, and as the covers are an Horses. Milcli cows. Oxen and other cattle. Sheep. Hogs, hinged at the back of the hives there is St3t°7eDdT°r1'i°°|'i°5- —"‘ ";;;,_f ' ' ‘ ” Ave” Map ”’ "‘ A ” A,m_ “ “eh 1 no danger of their sliding olf or being number. age Value Number. age V6166. Number. age Value. Number mice Value. Number. age Value blown olf by the Wind. I will say more ___,_._,. _ .-_. ‘’"°‘’ ‘’"°‘’' ""°° _ °'‘°°' 3130"‘ 5“1"Pl“S ‘"1595 in ‘“‘°the¥ article» 85 Maine ...... .......... .. 116.604 903.07 $7.854,453 177,602 521.37 43,795,355 190.523 424.37 63.181017 929.927 $2.05 6671.955 79.995 33.69 3695.476 these are important factors in the pro- New Hampslure ....... -. 56.741 57.53 3.267.145 112,535 21.31 2.455.479 91,993 22.69 2.107.333 115.471 2.33 274.811 -,,7;_-,.. 1042 533,151 d t. f h Vermont. _____________ __ 94,525 54.54 5,171,851 245,022 25,25 3,212,055 152,631 19.67 77,008,164 280,170 2.16 604,779 76,263 9.11 395,032 nc ion 0 oney. Massachusetts.. . 65.760 73.03 4,302,531 179,135 32.50 5,739,338 36,422 26.71 2.309.504 51.441 3-65 147.1041 63.890 11.34 724,622 I -. . . , .,.‘ .. . ,'. . .- 1_-~ 1 7- ~ . _-.1 .1 ",. HILTO\"S HIVE 01:17:14: SHOWING HID 4’~‘.’.‘.i°‘.?§..t£’駑."‘ ' ‘ 337% 133'??? tit} §3“#4’ 332377 %.‘1'3;§3 577%? ziéééic‘. 3'32 1%.’? W31‘. #3 %"3“=i§’lé 4 1 ’ 1.7 1. New York 71.31 50.466294 1,572,413 25.73 40.537531 706.597 26.16 19.134969 1,233,051 2.35 3.961.335 6.56.605 9.02 5,9lU.680 TONS IMPROVED 1‘ SUPER. Ne~wJersey,-- 35.27 7,105,037 90,734 35.20 6,713,137 52.611 29.11 1,532,272 77,571 4.03 235,177 131.630 10.34 1,931,330 Pennsylvania __________ _. 63.77 42,053,101 9344,33; 25.55 23,975,660 737,919 21.04 15.960.9_1& 1,417.49} 3.07 4,530,700 1,033,517 8.78 9,077,133 Delaware _ - 50.53 1.484.924 33.336 24.50 923,932 26,544 17.74 462.924 12.313 9.13 40,963 51,167 9.30 199,234 M_aryjla_nd.. 63.97 3,641,027 147,526 23.63 5,436,039 112,644 21.79 2,454,633 145,446 3.03 447.373 323.732 7.10 2,345,475 Virglnu} 56.04 14 074.339 276.617 13.03 5,601,235 411,006 15.10 6.206.936 433,462 2.55 1,241,651 920,223 4.41 4,000,044 North cam _ 72.20 0 712.005 271.794 14.99 4,119,162 366,463 11.15 4.306.446 376,309 1.49 559,195 1,644,966 3.09 5,323,916 som6_(.1uo1ma_ 31.92 5.190.353 125.619 20.47 2.571.421 167.663 12.10 1,995,691 73,331 1.53 124.690 767,521 5.43 4,16 .,-790 Georgia ............... _. 73.47 7,736,699 312,342 16,44 5,141,473 521.645 9.719 5.3.-1J,_z6t$ 411 . I69 1.717 616,037 1.7 91,567 4.16 7,454,353 Florida ................ _. 66.40 2,200,374 114,332 13.65 564,062 375.931 8.225 3.lI_1..£93 l12.8b§ 1.7? 202,335 353,07 2 38 971,513 f1'1':.1..$p1 ".-7-72%‘; §'3.‘5"4"1';‘i“2’ "5‘.1'Z7é3 lit? §’3i‘l'§3‘l 2§'%‘.»'.§§ 3'23 i'Z%§‘§33 i‘t§'§§; tit 5.;’4‘1"4’§.3 l"'s’%i'”t§ 3'2‘? §'i””’33'7' 1 Louisiana. 46.24 6,047,731 175 734 16.50 2,900,436 591.131 9.06 3,544,504 194,273 1.52 270,634 606, 3 3.75 3oi9904 ; Texas ____ __ ._ , 27.20 32,203,376 303251 13.34 11.439313 6,591,787 9.50 6 601,340 3,314,405 1.311 5075.165 2,55.5.1.59 4.29 i0'973‘i42 Arkansas ______________ __ 45.58 3,958,305 333 597 10,713 3,535,730 654,376 7 02 4.593.263 228.2410 1.34 307,054 1,547,639 3,21 4'95l'39& 7 Tennessee 334.406 56.94 19.339662 3511499 16.45 5.73-. 59 57: 216 10.44 0.006.704 510370 1.61 930.952 193 .049 4.30 0’-,. .-‘ 7 West Virginia.. ‘ 163.312 46.46 7,586,792 132,265 19.15 3.490.375 3531376 15.20 5,367,721 765,i05 2.12 1.619.772 ’407,314 4.35 1j99§§7l£ 1;, Ksntucky.-_-_ 430.941 56.24 24,237,842 329,552 20.39 6.719.565 599,004 15.72 9,417,597 1.I6.t.U98 2.41 2,797,433 1,794,649 4.79 3,595,403 .» 01,110 .: 54.35 47.403255 767.735 25.94 19,915,016 803,236 20.59 16,760,631 9,735,704 2.26 3,506,725 2,350,333 6.40 15,010,303 e M1ch1gan-- 503.7’ 60.22 335.949 468.711 29.27 13.250460 472.397 20.10 9.494.154 2,392,617 , 2.29 5,469,525 7.11.766 7.16 5,161,405 50.31 331.935 656 932 24.16 15,372,635 901,001 20.11 13.17zs.747 972.345 2.39 2.34-7.6514 1 315.633 6 63 12,033,324 43.40 56,799,355 1,039,121 25.12 26.102720 1 553.333 13.66 .9M,2ti6 1,032,926 2.37 2,450,632 3.4.2.454 7.01 29,933,664 57.17 27.193113 737,390 24.34 19,165,073 779,224 17.52 13,651,693 066,376 2.16 2,304,225 930.23 7.37 7,317,171 59 43 29 640,542 577,196 19.42 11,209,146 773,033 13.74 10,637,365 511,939 2.19 1.123.129 565,967 7.33 4,131.216 7' ‘ 43.73 59,792,200 1,273,231 23.57 30,127. 5 2.731.335 19.79 54,064,497 775,222 2.54 2.004.724 5,906,179 3.24 49,103,713 93.25 33,569. 734,341 17.67 13,363,110 1,350,175 15.20 23.120059 1.000.953 1.91 1,014,023 3,709,511 4.86 13,005,671 , 40.42 33,421,979 663,914 19.15 12,140,739 973,322 16.54 32,713,134 323,392 2.07 635,739 2,240,774 6.33 15,364,373 1 41.03 29.lt16,808 535.530 19.61 10,501,361 1,613,223 16.70 26,971,631 277.052 2.31 013.014 2.036.961 6.05 16,511,931 éifiié ‘3:i§3'§§’“ $73 1353 ‘3:§§i:3%‘.i é§3:.“séé l3:1‘1‘4’ liifiétfill 3:53 723137: ‘$91279’ 31:23 "2%f"f§é 1 _ A 7 26.00 5,103,703 361419 24.67 393,157 1.056.952 15.73 10,627,979 2,730,003 1.76 4.397.695 39.333 9.72 3691036 , }’;V6’1‘3'£"..‘.i’.§"' 104"7~.=.1 33%’ %'§3i"9‘6"§ 7.7433 3.4% 1523773 33.7% i;=."§‘§ l%'lé§"’%é l'§3§'3§§ til §%'é35‘ iZ‘f.’3i 7&3 l‘1i“”1‘§‘1’ ' —- -- - - ~. . ' . .1» . . .. . . .-. - .- . .' .' :1 » New Mexico. .-_. ___..-_, 92.963 15,150 1 46335.07 132100 20,20 363,000 1,224,546 9.14 11,556,533 2,911,131 1.26 3,639,169 27,521 7.43 2,",1',:,§0 Arizona ................ -_ 52,697 21,75 1,140,160 143475 1750 260,: 649,502 11.25 7,:<)n6,z5143 691,246 1.75 1,209,631 19,530 7,25 “.333 U 11.... 69,112 21.94 1.'I6.265 56'43 13.00 1.010.574 9.-1,5144 11.59 4,075,332 1.907.519 1.61 3093.450 51.350 3.6 ; ‘ \. 55.793 23.60 1.i16.764 13Ii96 ' 29.90 533,143 2.79.075 17.97 3.300.732 573.077 2.14 1.774.162 11.790 14.i5 73:22; * ‘ . l3§'3%”§ 21%’ §‘?.137°6% 132%‘-3 §§"7’3 5‘1"?‘7"l*“2 i.7§“?$Z $633 3'f;§"?.‘§’3 3.-£."';’}.‘.§ $73 }'é33"'31‘. 12967? ‘éti’ §“"‘?“" Were I compelled to use a cheaper hive, ( , f 235607 2939 6917.713 110,993 2135 A::i5fl:9£l7 3041.543 14,97 12I041;277 2,5z9;7.517 1275 7'.13.4‘,403 2161747 34765 I 95,l1l'%§ ' ' - .. _ ‘aiornia ............. _. "11:L636 4198 21,562,919 329,161 25,132 8,493,937 925,578 16.17 14,901,151 3,918.15 1.51 .U74.6Z-5 431,663 r,:7 2,4,7‘ - . 01' d‘d_I feel that I could Wmt“ S“°_"e5S Oaklahoma ...... .. 29.515 39.50 1.1b5,8l3 20,275 13.00 364,950 121,219 15.50 1.673.691 16.222 3.10 66.266 21,153 535 mjifié .* fully in the cellar or any other winter 3 1'€P051t°"Y7 there 19 “° h1Ye 1“ my mmd Total _____________ .. 16,081,139 447.33 $169,224,799 16,457,400 621.77 $358,998,661 36,603,163 614.66 $536,759,747 45,043,017 $1.98 $89,186,110 45,206,493 55,917 $270,334,625 ‘,~ that compares favorably, either for cheap- 4, ,4- la MARCH 1, 1894. FHE GRANGE VISITOR. Woman’s Work. THE WANDE RER.’S RETURN. ‘Twas in ms’ huddin manhood, I left in father's home And loving friends he ind me, in distant ands to roam; he world was wide before me, I sought to view it o’cr, And gain whatever fortune it had for me in store. “Y hopes were high and ardent, they held me like a spell, As to my friends and loved ones, I said a long -farewell; And father said " Good bye john, \Vh|‘YC e’er you go be true, And never give us reason to be ashamed of you.” Full forty years had vanished, long years of toil and gain, And never to the old home had I been back again; My friends were not forgotten, we dwelt so far apart That they were but a memory engraven on the heart. ‘fliose years have left me wrinkled, my hair is thin and gray; I'm visiting the old home but do not care to stay, For all are gone who loved me, there's no one left to cheer: The place is home no longer, for mother is not here. The me_rry brook is swirling and babbling sweet and low, Just as it swirled and babhled those forty years ago; But fencrs block the pathxvaiy, the rustic bridge is gone, And so are all the oak trees that stood upon thedzixvn. My father's old log cabin no lon rer I can find; There's little that I used to love, t iat now is left behind; A finer house, and larger. usurps the cabin’s place; And all I meet are strangers, not one familiar face. My parents both are resting upon the shining shore. And brother Pom went sailing -we never saw him more: And \Villie was at soldier, they left him with the slain; And Kittie wed :1 doctor—we never met again. The world has used me kindly, l"\'e money and to spare; A loving wife to cheer me, and children strong and fair. l’\'e house and lands in plen , and neighbors kind and true, And flocks and herds and gr-.iin fields, as fine as ever grew. But still, ’iiiid all the blessings that crown inv worldly lot. My heart kept backward turning to fatlier’s liunible cot; To satisfy its vearnings, l’ve wandered back again, But oh! there's no one here now who used to meet me then. Though things have sadly altered zind nothing is the same, And some dear drezims are shuttered, I‘ni more than glad I came; For, bzick to wife and children, my heart turns strong and true: How dear to me my blessings arc,—before I never know. _ —F. Honn.vi \>:. Climax. KINDNESS. Kindess will go farther and yield more happiness in this world than all the haugh- tine-ss we can possibly assume. How much easier, too, is it to act kindly to our fellow men, even to the useful and faitlifnl do- mestic animals about us, than to infect a. rude and boisterous demeanor, Which is sure not only to make others despise us, but on reflection, to cause us to despise ourselves. A kind, sympathizing word from the lips falls like oil upon the rufiled waters of the human breast. And this is the great secret in the success of business, why some are successful and others unfor- tunate. And this should be impressed upon the mind of every one, that nothing is more valuable and more easily purchased than good nature. Any one with a pleasant disposition finds friends everywhere and makes friends where people of a contrary nature see only enemies. Good nature is one of the best gifts of providence. Like the pure sunshine, it gladdens, enlivens, and cheers in the midst of anger and revenge. It is good nature that elevates, purifies, and exalts. The re- verse degrades, debases, and destroys. Who will not strive to possess this glorious trait of character? A kind word may fall like drops of rain upon the drooping flowers. Every kind act you bestow will have its influence and eternity will reveal it. The kind charity you have bestowed upon the poor beggar; the tears that you have wiped away; the glass of cold water you have lifted to parched lips, have had their effect. You will remember them in the hours of affliction and death. If the angry and revengeful person would only govern his passions and light the lamp of affection in his heart, that it might stream out in his features and actions, he would discover a wide difference in his communion with the world. Let any person put the question to himself, whether under any circumstan- ces he can resist continued kindness, and the voice of affection will answer that good is omnipotent in overcoming evil. Sometimes people think very little of the value of a bow or smile, or a friendly salu- tation. Yet how small the cost, and how often great the return! A nod, a kind look, have gained more friends than wealth and learning put together. Be kind, for memory is an angel that comes in the night time, and folding its wings beside us, si- lently whispers in our ears our faults or our virtues and either disturbs or soothes our repose. Every great and noble feel- ing which we exercise, every good action which we perform, is a round in the ladder which leads up to Heaven. How sweet the remembrance of a kind act as we rest on our pillow or rise in the morning! It gives us delight. Who will not try to be kind? VVho will not try to do good? VVho will not visit those who are afliicted in mind and in body? Who will not make kindness 9. stepping stone to Heaven‘? REBECCA E. RIGELMAN. Acme Grange. EDUCA'l‘l0N. MRS. AMELIA PEAKE. What a wonderful meaning the word education implies, and how many people there are that do not give it the considera- tion it deserves, especially parents! It seems to me that if parents have an ed- ucation they would appreciate it enough to see that their children are educated, and if they have none, I should think they would see the need of it every day, so that either way they would be very much interested in the child’s gaining one; yet there are some that seem indifferent about the mat- feet. I If it were possible for the young to un- 3 derstand how much they would appreciate ’ an education when they are more advanced l in years, many there would be' that would I grasp it while it was within their reach. I sometimes wonder what the children of today would do if they had the difiiculties to encounter that the children of fifty years ago had. - One of our great statesmen, and I think it was Lincoln, did his “ciphering” on 9. board, with a. piece of coal for a pencil, and the light of an old-fashioned fireplace in place of a lamp; but those days are gone by, and I think there has never been a time when so much thought was given to the best methods of instructing the young, to a thorough education, as the present, and this is as it should be. There are a. great many people who, hav- ing passed the age of going to school, can gain useful knowledge by spending a. few moments each day reading some good book or paper. Some say they do not have time to read, but my dear sisters, we might say we did not have time to eat, or sleep, but we usually take time for that, and we can just as well take a little time to read. I think we will be just as rich, live longer, and know more what is going’ on in the world while we do live. Domestic economy is by no means to be omitted from a complete education. We sometimes hear the remark made that a. great many of our criminals are foreigners While I do not wish to dispute that I will say that whether foreign or American born, they are largely ignorant people. A great many financial failures are caused by the party, or parties, not being educated for the field of labor they have entered upon. It used to be thought that if a person didn’t know enough to do anything else that he could be a farmer, but it has been proven that they are not the most successful. No person expects to become 3. lawer, preacher, school teacher, or phy- sician, without first fitting himself for the situation, and the farmer needs to be fitted just as well. When we take it into consideration the amount of pleasure and amusement to be obtained from a. knowledge of music, and also the number of different occasions on which it is appropriate, it by no means should be left out of a complete education. Last, but not least, let us gain a knowl- edge of the laws of health. A sound mind cannot long be maintained in a sick body. It is my impression that the health jured by the parents not being educated in regard to the laws of health. The human system is nothing more than a ma- chine, and more complicated than ever gotten up by human hands. All the bolts, bars, cogs, bands, etc., about machinery have a duty to perform. Just so every artery, vein, tendon and cord, has a duty to perform in the human sys- tem, and if any one gets out of order the whole system is affected. The better care a. person takes of their health the longer livelihood they are blessed with. To be content with the present would prevent all progress, so let us all feel that “ New occasions teach new duties, 'l‘iincs mzike zincicnt things uncouth, He must then be up and doing, W ho would keep abreast the truth," Porllmzd. LEAVES;'Fl{OllI, OLD OAKS. OLD OAKS FARM. Fchrimry 21. Mother proposed We give all the bedding in use a wind bath today, as the heavy blankets and comforts must , be on duty several weeks before the spring cleansing and packing away; so, forthwith the Re-stly’s “ bed ’n beddin’ ” flopped for three hours in the breezes and sunshine. lVe treated our wool work dresses, that the cold has forced us to wear for 8. while, in the same way, and as I pinned them to the line I fancied I saw scent of broths and smoke of griddle cakes waft over neighbor Gay’s cornfield. Before the sun went down we brought all in and after warming them, put things to rights. For all the four winds of heaven have full play in the chambers every morning, they are wonder- fully freshened and sweetened. “ Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.” Febrimry 27. \Vith the ironing came an “ ironing day bill of fare” today. Beans formed the basis. For dinner, they were baked till dry and browned over in a. shal- low pan; we had, also, potatoes scalloped, and cabbage sliced and dressed with one half cup of vinegar, one-half cup cream, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one egg, one tea- spoonful _ mustard; boiled together until thick. For variety in the dessert, instead of fruit jelly with boiled custard, was sub- stituted coffee jelly made by pouring enough hot coffee to thicken it over a tablespoon- ful of corn starch wet with cold water. We sweeten, boil a moment, cool. put a spoon- ful to each plate of custard and serve with cream. For supper, beans again, this time “ Bos- ton Bake.” super ultra best dish for cold weather and easy to prepare when we must have a fire most of the day anyway. After parboiling the beans for dinner, took out two quarts into a crock, added a half cup of of some whole families of children is in_;:. molasses, li. dust of pepper, four ounces of salt pork, filled the crock with water, cov- ered closely, baked all day, not allowing them to cook dry. Cucumber pickles, canned cherries, and fresh bread finished our tea. We have been reading aloud tonight about Miss Peabody who died a few weeks ago. Such an energetic enthusiast! Such a fearless reformer as she was! What a wide, rich range of acquaintance with peo- ple and movements her ninety years offer- ed her and how she improved it! I am glad to even read of such people. It touches the hem of their lives at least. This item from the Boston Transcript is interesting and well to make a note of, viz: “Not all the story of Elizabeth Peabody was told at the time of her death. It is known to many of her friends that she was engaged to be married to Nathaniel Haw- thorne in her youth. Hawthorne had not yet met Sophia Peabody, her younger sister, who afterwards became his wife. He was instantly attracted to her upon meeting her, however, although the two young peo- ple strove against their mutual affection. It came to the knowledge of the elder sister, who told them at once that her heart had room for them together as well as sepa- rately, and she proved it in her life and by her devotion to them. Sophia Peabody made the famous bust of Laura Bridgman, and the sum of money she received for it from Dr. Howe paid for her wedding tros- seau. Elizabeth Peabody was the heroine of Mrs. Browning’s well known poem, ‘ Ber- the in the Lane.’ She outlived by many years the sister for whom she ‘ sewed the wedding gown,’ and was 9. living heroine, instead of dying like the elder sister in the poem.” RUTH L. REsTLr. LIFE AT ANN ARBOR. All the best things in the way of mental feasts are spread for Ann Arborites. If they are not, no one misses them. One must choose what he will have and what he can take along with the work-9.-day life V that comes to most of us. When the woma.n’s suffrage convention appeared on the menu card, fealty to the Grange whispered, “ You are in duty bound to take that,” and I took it, or a taste of it. Misses Susan B. Anthony and Anna Shaw were chief speakers to crowded houses two and three times a. day for about half a week. The town had an opportunity to be converted. Many were. VVomen had their .«--way that week. For myself, I had never heard it suffrage speech. I had wondered why the Grange voted every year, without a dissent, in favor of woman’s vote. I went to see if these women could tell me why it- was so. Perhaps they did. If they did, it was by looking at the question from a dif- ferent point of view from my friend, Mrs. Colburn, in the VISITOR of January lb’. They asked for the ballot, not because women would vote all alike, or all right any more than all men do;—not because all women wanted to vote, or would vote, or were prepared to vote, any more than all men; not because all sin, and suffering, and injustice would be done away with, but because of citizenship, of equality in the home, and the unstableness of laws affect- ing her until she has a voice in making them. I had had an idea that these lead- ers claimed the dawn of millenium will come when we vote, but they did not, only the justness of their right to vote, let come what would. They urged that no woman, with all the privileges she wants, should debar other women from their simple rights by their indifference to this question. Miss Shaw convulsed her audience in tell- ing that the young people whom she mar- ries (she is 9. minister, you know) always live happily together. Their extreme felicity, she explains, is due to the fact that any man who is willing to be married by a woman will be willing to make con- cessions and so live amicably with a. woman. Whatever the personal verdict on the mere question of voting, by those who heard these two witty, zealous women, may be, I predict their coming here will stir up musty law books until there is a. better understanding of such subjects as the fol- lowing, which, also, I suggest for topics for Grange programs, viz., rights of hus- band and wife; property rights of woman, including her clothes and burial lot; right to will away children; rights of parent and child, Michigan statutes relating to women, number of women taxpayers and amount of their taxable property; and, is it the justness of law or the goodness of men that protects women in many cases? Mr. Louis F. Post, of “single tax” per- suasion, with his interesting bride, has lately made Ann Arbor a. center from which to go out to lecture in other cities of the state. He says Michigan is well up in his ideas. Ex-Gov. Luce represented the farmers here in 3. series of addresses being given on the various vocations of life be- fore the Students Christian Association. He had a bright and interested audience who gave the very closest attention to one of his happiest speeches. JENNIE BUELL. l l The. Juveniles. MORNING AND EVENING- I send him away in the morning “When the sun is low in the east, And he does not mind our parting, Does not mind it in the least, For, in the school-room, I tell him Is the place for a boy to be, So we say good-b with many :1 smile And he throws ack a kiss to me. But oh‘ at last in the evening VVhen the sun is low in the west, I see him coniin home to me, My dearest am my best! I forget what I say in the morning, And I think we both agree That in mother’s hip by the fireside is the place for a. boy to be. liar/!rr‘.~‘ Tuungr Pgop[¢r_ Lir'ri.i:-1 iidvsis. LADY——Wherefore dost thou, little mouse, Steal the sugar in my house? Mouse-—Dearest lady, oh forgive, I’ve four children, where I live: Very hungry still are they; Let me have it, lady, pray. The lady looked on with friendly eyes, And said: “ Well Mouse, you may keep your prize, For I am going, just like you, To feed my child, who is hungry, too." So Mousie ran off, oh! with what speed, And the lady went gziily her child to feed. —Fr0m I1ey'5 I?/zymes. OUT OF THE POPPER. Lucy Hayes tipped out a popperful of corn just as her mother entered the room. “ How very pretty it is, mother!” she said, offering 3. heaping handful. Her mother smiled and nodded. Then she went to the closet and brought Lucy two little packages, one of pink and one of blue sugar. “ These were left from the last birthday celebration,” she said. “ There is not enough left to decorate a cake. but plenty to color pop-corn.” If well done, crystallized pop-corn is as nice as candy. Have your corn well pop- ped, no hard kernels or unpopped corn it it. Boil a cup of sugar in a. third of a cup of water until it strings from the spoon. Drop in a little essence of any kind, and pour it all over the dish of corn, having some one else tossing it about with two forks while you do it. When cool, it should be dry enough to put in candy bags, each bursting, flower-like grain glittering with its sugar coating. The children made a dish of the white corn first; then colored half of the remaining candy with pink‘ sugar, and half with blue, as their mother had suggested; then tossed them all to- gether in a glass platter, and piled it high with glistening red, white, and blue. “ Give me a dozen of your largest ones,” said Mrs. Hayes. “My embroidery scis- sors too, and the sharp penknife in my gork-basket. Then bring me your paint ox.” She looked over the handful of pop-corn eagerly tendered her, and selected one with five petals, or branches, as you might call them. The middle one turned up, and the four others made clumsy little legs to support the rounded top. Two snipps of the scissors, a little trim- ming of the sharp penknife, and the front of the popped corn looked something like a. la.mb’s head. The legs were made more shapely too, and then a few touches of brown and pink paint made eyes and nose for a. very small sheep indeed. The children shouted, “ Mother! how cunning!” and watched with eager interest as she made a dozen more, and set them in a bunch together. "‘ You must make great flocks of them, children. It will take more than one rainy day to get enough. Part of you can work at the flock, and the rest must build sheds and pastures of those brown kernels that didn’t pop we-ll.” rm...--ti] “ But how, mother?” exclaimed Lucy. “ See, they are as slippery as if they were varnished.” Her mother sent into the kitchen for some flour and water, and mixed them into a stiff dough. “ This is our mortar,” she said, gaily. On a board, she laid out a long, narrow shed with dough, gently pressing in the kernels of corn afterward. A tiny pinch of dough here and there, and the corns ir- regularly placed, laid endwise, sidewise, on end, and flat, made a. very pretty imitation of 9. stone wall. When finished, it was put into a slow oven until the dough was stiff and hard. ‘ Roofing with pasteboad, with imitation shingles painted on it, and surroundingthe open sheds by similiar stone( ?) walls to make yards, with pasteboard troughs, and gates cut from pasteboard to imitate bars, made the whole thing 8. very cunning and accurate picture of their father’s stock yards. The lambs and sheep were not so accu- rate, of course; but they did very well, and furnished amusement and occupation for many hours. And the corn that was not made into balls, or sheep, or fences, or sheds, or crys- tallized, or eaten fresh from the popper, they put into the coffee-mill, and after it was ground they moistened it with cream and sweetened it with sugar to make no- cake. Ever eaten any? Try it.—Jessie W. Morton, in Harper’s Young People. . .. . e.2r1I’.£dD11‘J‘fz -4-»... . 4 THE GRANGE VISITOR. MARCH 1, 1894. THE! oalipp VISITOR. Published on the first and third Thursdays of every month. Kenyon L. Butte:-field, Editor and Manager. ‘LANSING. MICH. To whom all exchanges. communications, advertising busi- ness and subscriptions should be sent. Oflice, Room 19, Old State Building. TERMS 50 Cents a Year, 25 Cents for Six Months. In Clnbs_of 20 or more 40 cents per yea_r each. Subscriptions payable in advance, and discontinued at expiration. unless renewed. E‘Remittan(-es should be by Registered Letter, Money Order or Draft. Do not send stamps. §‘1‘o insure insertion all notices should be mailed no later than the Saturday preceding issue. Entered at the Postofiice at Lansing, Mich., as Second Class Matter. ®"°Nnx'r ISSUE Mason 15. OUR WORK. 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. VVe 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 OBJECT is the Organization of the l~.‘:u'mers for their own Improvement. Financially, Socially, Mentally, Morally. WE BELIEVE that this improvement. (‘an in Large Measure be Brought. About: 1. (a.) By wider individual study and general discussion of the business side 01 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- tions. (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. 4. (a.) By diffusing a knowledge of our civil institutions and teaching the high duties of citizenship. (b.) By demanding the enforcement of ex- , isting statutes, and by discussing, advocating, and trying to secure such other state and um. 110w and then 8. man who tackles the thief. tional laws as shall tend to the general _ius- 3’ tice, progress, and morality. Renew.’ ber. ren in the VISITOR. \Ve suggest to the Detroit .Iourna.l that ! next time it send a farmer, instead of an “ expert accountant,” to look up the books at the capitol. The Michigan Jersey cattle breeders association appointed a committee consist’ ing of John I. Breck, J. N. McBride, Prof.- C. D. Smith, as a legislative committee, to act with the legislative committees of the State Grange and farmers’ club. THE CONTEST. The contest has closed and next issue we will announce the result. The contest was an experiment and has been fairly success- ful. No doubt if the hard times had not come on the result would have been even more gratifying. HAS YOUR BROTHER RENEWED? There are quite a number of names that We were obliged to cut from our list during January and February. We know that many of these, if not all of them, are Pa- trons who still want and need the VISITOR, and we suggest that the master of each Grange make a careful inquiry soon, to ascertain who do not take the VISITOR now, and if there are any such, urge them to re- new at once. NEWSPAPER SEYIALS. The committees on Woman’:-3 VVork in the Subordinate Granges are urged by the state committee to hold newspaper socials ‘ for the benefit of the GRANGE VISITOR. The state committee feel that they can do no better work at present than in helping to put the VISITOR on its feet. They sug- gested a plan in the last issue, and we hope that the Woman’s Work committees of all the Granges will take this labor upon them- selves and work heartily for the support of the VISITOR. DO YOU VVANT LEGISLATION? Though it is almost a year before the next legislature shall convene, is it not good policy for the Granges to be discuss- ing subjects that need legislative action? We suggest that lecturers choose the res- olutions passed by the last State Grange, on legislative matters, and make them the basis for discussions. The Grange of Michigan should know next winter just what it wants of the legislature, and now is a good time to begin making 11p our mind. Let us hear the result of your discus- sions on these topics. PRIZE FIGHTING IN JIIICIIIGAN. The following appeared in one of our dailies last week: DOWAGIAC, Mich., Feb. 2I.—About fifty sports at- tended a prize fight at Townsend’s hall, three miles from here, early this morning, in which Kelly of Grand Rapids completely knocked out his opponent, lloadly of Benton Harbor, in the t\venL_v—fifth round The purse was $50 and gate receipts. The Benton Harbor man was badly used up. This is one of several prize fights which have been report.e(l in our state recently. The law against prize fighting is quite stringent and we suggest that the powers that beexercise a little courage and shrewd- ness, and see that the law is enforced. The first section of the law reads as follows: “ Any person who shall hereafter be a party to, or engage in a prize fight, or any other fight in the nature of a prize fight, in this state. or who shall aid or abet therein, shall, on conviction, thereof. be pun- ished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not exceeding five years, nor less than one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, nor less than two hundred dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court." THE GOVERNOR'S ACTION. The action of Governor Rich in removing the board of state Canvassers was right. No matter what the decision of the su- preme court may be, the governor could do no other way and do his duty. And it can be said that, almost without exception, men of all parties are ready to defend his action. He has been kind, but firm; friendly, but immovable. The people of Michigan ought to be proud of their chief executive. It is easy to cry stop, thief! But it’s only So it is easy to cry fraud! Corruption! Turn the rascals out! But it requires “sand,” and a rugged vertebral column to R d P_ f ’%’l’"’:j in this mun , call down crime in high places, especially ea 10 ‘ ’ la“ S gr 10 9 ‘ - when the delinquent is your personal and 7 — ~ ~ f h 3 political friend. And vve think that Gov- We have a short epartment or t e ‘« “Juveniles,” that may interest the child- Served commendation ernor Rich’s action demands our unre- VVHO IS RESPONSIBLE." It is a puerile excuse that the board of state Canvassers endeavored to advance as a reason why they were not guilty of gross neglect of duty. They asserted that the V Governor delegated duties to subordinates, ’ and that indeed it was foolish to expect state officers to perform personally all of the duties required of them by law. It is true that the bulk of the work in the departments must be delegated to clerks. But who is responsible for the quality of the work done? The clerk? What nonsense! Every time 9. public offi- cial requires a subordinate to perform any duty, no matter how important, the official himself assumes full responsibility for its faithful fulfillment. The canvassing board “ supposed” the returns had been made out correctly. But the returns were not correct. They were false by so great a dis- crepancy that it is hard to account for it on the ground of clerical error. Yet the false returns were signed by the board. If any- thing was wrong, their’s is the blame. Even if the law did not explicitly in- struct them to personally canvass the re- turns, they would still be responsible for errors. MANAGEMENT OF INSTITUTES. No doubt farmers’ institutes are difficult to manage so that every one will be per- fectly satisfied. But we don’t believe that there is any excuse for the bungling man- ncr in which some of those of the past win- ter were directed. In several cases the local committee had not been properly in- structed, and attendance was consequently _ ...M ....»-.--.---...-.u-.»;...-.- :-I.-.-cam/-um-»-am. aw» ........... “ms . ... meagre. In many instances the college professors did not know Monday morning where they were due that week. In one case an institute was announced in the press on dates that would bring it on Sat- urday and Sunday. And when the presi- dent of the college stepped off the train at the place on Friday, according to his in- structions, there was no institute at all arranged for. At another place the college professors were all a day late because of improper notification. If the board of Agriculture expects to give satisfactory service at the institutes they must take more pains in their management than they did this winter. “LET N0 GUILTY MAN ESCAPE.” ments for crimes against popular sovereign- ty. These indictments were not made for fun. evidence to warrant the action. tice is not yet done. be done until every man indicted has had a full and fair trial; until every innocent man has been proved guiltless; until every guilty man has received sentence of pun- ishment commensurate with his offense. But us- otherwise, will operate during the trial of these men. Politicians may see party ruin staring them in the face; the natural sym- pathy of our citizens will go out to these men, hitherto of good repute; and witting- ly or unwittingly, these factors will tend to be influential. But justice must be done,—done for justice’ own sake, and done for the sake of that “ free ballot and fair count ” which are the very corner stone of our liberties. WELL DONE. There is a good deal of meaning in the work of the Ingham county grand jury. A score or more of our average citizens have for three weeks been endeavor- ing to place the blame for a very serious political crime. By the aid of an able and conscientious prosecuting attorney, they have at last arrived at some very definite conclusions. The chief glory in their work is not so much the fact that they v ‘ '«\l\lAi~ have made the indictments, as that it has been an exercise of popular power, for right ends, without fear or favor. It is an illustration of what the people can do. It is a triumph of democracy. We hope sons to be drawn from this investigation, will be thoroughly impressed upon every thoughtful citizen. Let us apply the same broad spirit to all our acts as citizens, doing our highest duty to our state and nation irrespective of machine politics. OUR WORK. “ “To believe in striving for a purer man- hood, s. nobler Womanhood, and a universal brotherhood.” The Grange has a strong moral element in its makeup. It has no religious creed to promulgate, and never allows religious differences to arise among its members. ality, in righteousness, in truth. Faith, hope, love, fidelity to duty, are taught by precept as the cardinal virtues of it good Patron. No earnest, aspiring man or woman can be 8. member of the Grange without being impressed with its moral teachings. For in the Grange men learn to look upward into the face of God, for- ward into a more glorious life in the “great hearts of those who need love, sympathy, and protection, and outward upon the stern duties that demand rugged effort and con- tinued loyalty. Naturally with such principles the Grange has found a work to perform. And that it has met the situation is best proved by the testimony of those who for long years have sat in Grange halls, and have there imbibed these high thoughts. There are today thousands of living witnesses to the noble precepts of our Order. And just as clearly, if the Grange really holds to the truths announced above, there is yet a great work for it to do. Men are still ruled by selfishness. They are still in thralldom to prejudice. They have not yet broken the chains of appetite and pas- sion. \Voman has not entered into her full emancipation. Her rights of person, of property, of labor, are not all granted. \ The grand jury has returned ten indict- ' No doubt powerful forces, political and : that this lesson, the chiefest of all the les- , Nevertheless, the Grange believes in mor- 2 Grange above,” neighborward into the: Unquestionably there was plenty of J And justice will not ; She is not ma.n’s equal, either in sentiment or in law. Class distinctions are still strong. Class prejudices are easily arous- ed and are tardily allayed. Brotherly love languishes and dies. Suspicion, wrong, deceit, too often prevail. Thus, brothers and sisters in the Grange, we have a noble work to do. Our mission is to elevate, to purify, to uplift. Let us be true to our call. Let us seek that plane of living where men are all strong in pur- pose and pure in personal thought and deed, where women are all delicate in sen- timent and true to their own nature and destiny, where a. man’s a brother because he’s a man, be he priest or banker, farmer or mechanic, rich or poor. This is 3. part of our work as a Grange. This, indeed, is our highest work; for what is there nobler than to aspire and to labor for the reign of truth and righteousness? EDUCATION IN PATRIOTISM. We attended the \Vashington birthday exercises at the Agricultural; College. They consisted of 3. very suggestive talk at the morning chapel, delivered by a talented Lansing pastor. But we thought, how in- adequate a celebration of this holiday! To our remembrance, the college has not prop- erly observed a single legal holiday in seven years, with perhaps two exceptions. The excuse always is that there is so much vacation that the time of the student must not be further robbed. But we do not View it in that light. We believe that these holidays are educational. They are the sabbaths of pa.triotism—days when we should cease from our labors and take a look at our institutions, our history and our condition as a nation, and our duties as citizens. And why should not our colleges, which should be the conserv- ators of the highest forms of patriotism, take time to observe these days in a man- ner befitting the college and the day? This subject might perhaps not demand so serious consideration were it not a lamentable truth that there is dire need of instruction in the sort of patriotism re.- ferred to. Our colleges graduate too many men who shirk the responsibilities of the ballot. The college man ought to be 9. liv- ing embodiment of patriotic devotion. He ought to speak and act on the highest plane of civic duty. He ought to be a shining example of the true politician——a man who studies his country’s needs, who takes his place in the ranks of voters, and who conscientiously works at the primaries and the polls. And it will do immense good if the students in our colleges shall take a little time, if need be, from their , Greek, and conic sections, and chemistry, 1 and study their duty as future citizens. We recommend to the Agricultural Col- ? lege the suggestion that it take the initia- tive in this matter, a.nd that in the future, by an afternoon or an evening program participated in both by students and out- siders, all of these patriotic holidays be observed. IVATCIIJlI.—‘lN, IVIIAT OF THE NIGHT? Some of us are too prone to drift along in careless indifference as to the tenden- cies of our government. So long as we are not personally inconvenienced by some political act we are apt to pursue our way in silence. We are glad to think that things are going well, that we have a model government, and that public matters ar- range themselves about as nicely as could be expected. But occasionally we are aroused from our slumbers by ominous sounds, and are led to inquire if all is well. Our own common- Wealth has had some such awakenings re- cently. Most of us had held a very high regard for our supreme court. We had thought it above the contamination of pol- itics. It seemed impossible that it could stoop toward methods for personal ends. But it did. It disgracefully lobbied for an increase in the salaries of its members. It not only asked members of the legislature to vote for the bill raising the salaries, but asked many members why they opposed the bill,-—summoned them from the legisla- tive hall, before its august presence, and inquired: “Why do you oppose this bill increasing our salaries?” And obviously endeavored to influence their votes on the subject. iVhat a spectacle! And as if that shame were not enough for a whole decade, our dreams have again V H . «:14.-. -..,\,,.,~_‘,_,,‘ MARCH 1. 1894. "6! THE GRANGE VISITOR. 5 been disturbed, this time by the prostitu- tion of the ballot in the highest electoral tribunal, the board of state Canvassers. Be they guilty of crime or of negligence, the will of the people was grossly over- turned. We perhaps expect fraud in cast- ing ballots and in the local counting, but that the board of last resort should fail to register the people’s will was astounding. And we cannot help but ask, whither are we drifting? Is personal honor dead? Cannot we trust our public servants? We are not surprised that men hail their friends on the street and discuss in earnest tones these disgraceful proceedings. But, citizens, you have a remedy. Make it your business to do your full duty as citizens. Attend every primary if you can. Do not dare help nominate a man who is not the soul of honor, no matter how good a fellow he may be. Do not dare vote for an improper candidate, if one is nominated against your will. Do not smirch your high privileges by voting for a man _who has once betrayed you. The Lecture Field. SUGGESTIONS TO LECTURERS. There are no two ways about it, lecturers are harnessed. Pomona’s in the lead, with subordinates pulling right by the wheel most iiobly. All eyes are turned that way. Masters, though lifting lustily on the load with one hand, do crack the whip with the other. The sisters and brothers of the oflice seem fairly vieing with each other in discharge of duties. It is a noble contention, for it is emulation of “who can best work and best agree.” There will be no shirking very soon without being tried by a grand jury. The spring months must be cariied with no lack of zeal. And appeals come to suggest new incentives, and something yet untried, over which we have studied and pondered long. And know that our imaginative powers are not even equal to those who are working with us. And we have endeavored to spread the varied re- sults of your tact and skill in reach of those inquiring. So we repeat, send to us or the VISITOR a synopsis of any new work tried which you like. Subjects are innumerable, and come to each other by watching the programs, practices, or plans. Our most successfal lecturers are of that commanding turn or power, that they do not say, “will you,” but they lay out the work, give it around and say “ you do this,” and we all realize in the Grange, that excuses are “ruled out” as “ no good.” Do not hesitate to delegate the full arrange- ment and control of some date to an assist- ant. Let him choose his help and run it. He may bring out in “lecture hour ” mem- bers you could not. We feel to caution lecturers not to make programs too long, but succotashy; every one put on, want to be called. Avoid too many important topics suitable for discussion in the same pro- grams. Better that you should divide the subject, giving sub-topics to different per- sons to lead out, thus allowing the com- pany to give a subject a more complete handling, and allow all who wish it a chance to give their thoughts. They will feel that it is disposed of and that something has been accomplished. lVe cannot be too careful and bring out siib- jects for all sides of the house. We are raising something besides “stock,” and cultivating something better than cabbage heads. The young cannot easily be driven into debate, but may be successfully led. Masters should not excuse" lecturers or their assistants from taking charge of their programs even in public meetings. In open meetings our invited guests should often be called upon to take part, notifying them early of your assignment. This rests Grange talent. We would be glad to see a suggestion of our National Lecturer carried out where it can be. Under charge of the county lecturer let each Grange furnish a person or persons to go around a circuit of three to six Granges and entertain them, thus forming for each Grange a sort of lecture course which would give one or two appoint- ments per month, and could be arranged without expense, and where tried proves quite successful. The “spirit moves” all along among frrmers just now. Move with it. The clubs are forming and not claiming to assume the position of the Grange as a complete association, they have a field aux- iliary to the Grange and should be taken warmly by the hand. A. J. 0. Thanks to the Grange thejfarmers are doing their own talking now-a-days and some of their thinking too.—~Our G range H omcs. The fraternity of the Grange begins to assert itself and farmers are beginning to trust each other far more than in the past. —-Our Grange Homes. F. H. R. (-Z. Mo'r'ro—“ Begin; keep at it.” SOILS AND CROPS. One of the most interesting books un- der the class “ Soils and Crops,” is the second book in the class, which bears the same title. “ Soils and Crops” is a book of about 300 pages, in good type and binding, illustrated, and written by two men, Geo. E. Morrow, professor of agriculture in the university of Illinois, and Tlios. F. Hunt, professor of agriculture in the Ohio state university. It attempts to “give a brief statement of the elementary principles and chief facts on the subjects of which it treats,” and was especially designed for a course of reading for farmers. It will be found to be a good book to follow the read- ing of the“ First principles of agriculture” as it deals more fully with a special branch of the general subject of agriculture. This book can be obtained from the secretary of the course, Prof. F. B. Mumford, Agricult- gfal College, for 75 cents, regular price The best idea of the scope of the book can be obtained from glancing over the following TABLE OF UOI\"1‘E‘.\'TS. . Plant food and growth. SUilfi—clm-‘I-5lfiI'illl4>n. composition. origin. uses. Soils~physical properties. Suils-—iniprovement by inamiring. Sl.IIlS—'IlIl[)I'1lVt‘IIl5‘I.li, by drainage and irrigation. 'l‘il!ai:e—-objects and I]'lPIl\d -(ls. . R-umtion of or-1-s—reasoiis for. . Faun crnps—classitication, reasons for choice, im- hrovenn-nt. \Vl.eat~history, production, uses, structure, composi- tion. . VVlieat—relations to climate. soils, manures. . \Vheat—varie-ties, culture. harvest. dist-ass-s. (‘orIi—history, use. structure. composition. . Cornevarieties. climate,-. soil. manures. . (‘orn~culture and harvesting. Oilbi —liist-rry, uses, VdI‘leI«lB.-i, culture. . Barley and rye. . Grasses—histor_v. production, uses. culture, harvesting. . Grasses—\'aris:ties. . (‘lovers—-history. uses, culture. varieties. . Silage and forage crops—corn, sorghum, millets, com- frey, dnra 21. I-’utatoes—histnry, culture, varieties. 22. Root crops—mangels, beets, iurnips. Z3. Suxar plants, cane. sorghum and beets. 24. Fiber crops—cotton, flax, hemp, jute. ramie and sisal. 25. Miscellaneous crops—nuckwhsat. tobacco, broom corn. field peas. 26. Weeds-injury. dissemination and eradication. l\'«i-I‘-IF-‘D-II_-it-Ihnlb-It-AV-I c:Df‘.c~Id'._v'd—:..'.n93 imp -rtation to arrive in Jl]I_\‘. _ L. S. I)UNlIA.\I, (‘olivur(I, M i(-Ii. snnorssniias FOR ’93 llll}ltll‘l.I‘tI. lit‘§5lSlt’I't‘tI and hlll‘l‘j.'I§lt‘I't‘lI References: ex-Gov. Winalxs and (‘. S. Gregory, Bunk:-r, Dexter, Mich. Choice Yearling Ram and Ewe Lambs for sale Terms reasonable. We pay half of freight or OXD|‘988- VALENTINE B1103» P. 0. DEXTER, Miss. A. II. \VARI{EN Ovid, Mich. Breeder of IMPROVED -ll‘ CHESTER WHITE SWINE And Lincoln Sheep. A choice lot of stock for sane at farmers’ prices. Breeding stock all recorded. Reduced prices on full Pigs. Write, I‘ come and look me over." If you \Vant First-Class MERINO SHEEP WHITE BRONZE TURKEYS bred from prize winners, of the Dark Bronze, at the Indiana and .\1ichi-gun state Fairs. also at. the Tri- Statc Fair at Toledo. vou (‘All get thcm of C. M. FELLOWS. saline, Mich. G. BYRON STONE Olivct, Micli., Sp€L‘l.IIl~,! iii czisirxitiiig colts ivillioiit use of rope,-s, cords, clamps, or tire ll'l)lL\. \\ riti: for Circiiliir, \Vith the brief that double walled Hives are the best. for this lati tuule. Send name and address for my illustra- ted catalog of every-, thing needed in a prac- tical Apiary. I keep nothing but the best. and sell at living prices. mu STUNG, Gollege. and Station. The Professors at the Michigan Agricultural College have ki_ndly consented to answer all gnpoi-taut questions asked of them through the ISITOB. AGRICULTURE IN RURAL SCHOOLS. PROF. THOS. SHAW. In the discussion of this question three propositions at once present. themselves to the mind. The first is, should agriculture be taught in our common schools? The second is, can it be successfully taught? And the third asks, if it can be suc- cessfully taught, to what extent is this practicable? SHOULD IT BE TAUGHT? To the first question I unhesi- tatingly give the answer yes. Ag- riculture should be taught in our common district schools. It should be taught‘ for the reason, first, that it is the business of the great mass of the people who live in rural dis tricts, and it is likely to be the work which will engage the atten- tion of the niajor portion of the iyoung people brought up in the same, notwitlistnitdiiig the uninter- 1'uptc(l exodus of these to the cities. It is certainly fitting therefore, that the young mind should be early instructed in the first principles which underly the successful prosecution of that Work. \Vhile such instruction is being imparted, 9. two-fold object is gained. The mind is trained and strengthened on the principle that all study in early life is helpful in securing this end, and While this is being done, information of 8. very prac- tical charscter is being imparted at the same time. It should be taught for the reason. second, that it is 8. great, deep, wide subject, which those who pursue will never fully master, hence they cannot begin to study it too soon. Those who first commence to study it,-— other things being equal—will come to know most about it. It should be taught; for the reason, third, that the study of the elemen- tary truths which underlie the great superstructure of successful farming, is very likely to lead to further study and investigation. Owing to its very nature, a taste of this study is likely to whet the ap- petite of the young mind, so that it asks for more, and is not likely to be satisfied until it gets it. In this respect-, the study of agricult- ure would exercise a very different influence on the young mind, from the study of grammar for instance. The general introduction of ag- Address GEORGE E. HILTON, 5 E Fri-inont, Nlirli. ‘‘ ALSIKLE CLOVER riciilture into our common schools in the country would soon fill our ag1'iciilt1i1'al colleges so full of students tluit others would have to be built to receive the overflow. is brsv tor hlxcliigavi. Hardy and docs lint. fre-vzu, ll‘ Should be taught‘: f0u1'lh~ for out. ~ Mr. I allcr. of Syracuse Iariiivrs‘ Club i-':«.j.~:‘ the rt\aS('_\[l that the kX}()‘\\’11e(l()‘t| nn- “I like Alsihe. it has no dirt and cattle en: it} "‘. l.“ 1 parted would be greatly helpful to F‘“’t'°l”" “Bike “aj"lbI’;L], the farmer of the future. It. would ' " i ‘ . r 4 ‘ ' \ Box 43_ FLAT ROCK’ ,‘,’ICH. i be greatly hclptul to him thougl. Mention Gauss Visrroa. ; he were not able to pursue flll‘ll]<-'1‘ Strawberry, Pear, Apple. the study of agriculture. He would Bl khc _, . -' ‘ Currants, (iii-ebeii}, l’«ach.Che:.tnut {get fulldamental punmpli S’ and Asparugi1s,(1'rrupes, \Valnut. gem ,thcse would be greatly helpful. f""“”‘1"’~’““' i How frequently we see farmers J. S COLLINS’ SON, IVIOOFCSIOVVII, N, J, _ _ _ _ ~~~—— » —--—-———--—— ltrying to dig out biennial weeds, 1 l ; instead of simply cutting them off j below the crown. The latter mode ;of attack will serve the same end lets the former, though it requires much less labor. These funds.- lmentals are greatly important, and {they would be taught. at the rural l schools. Many reasons may be ad- lded to those given, and all of them 3 important reasons. The Salt That's All Salt Is the salt every one should use. The im- purities in the other kinds are uselas. of course, but dangerous also. The lime, CAN IT BE TAUGHT? To the second proposition, can agriculture be successfully taught in our district schools, again I un- hesitatingly answer yes. The es- sentials to the accomplishment of this end are, first, a suitable text book, or suitable text books; sec- ond, the ability on the part of the teacher to use such text books skillfully; and third, much unanim- ity of desire on the part of the people to have such teaching in- troduced. I say suitable text books, for it is questionable if so broad a subject can be compressed into one book, even though ele- mentary principles only should be dealt With. If this feat is a possi- ble achievement, one book would be better than two, or than a larger number. The teacher should be able to use such a text book skill- fully. This he cannot do Without giving the subject careful study. He is not likely to do so unless an cxainiuation in agriculture is re- quired of him as in other things. .~_\.gi'ic11lt11i'e will not be carefully studied by the givat mass of the t<-in-lie-rs, so long as it remains op- tional with them whctherthcy will study it or not. Those who do not give the subject careful study will not cure to teach it, nor will they be competent to do so. Unless there is unanimity of desire on the part of the people to have agricult- ure taught in rural schools, it will not be so taught. It will never be generally taught in these schools unless its teaching is made com- pulsory. The experience of On- tario, C-anadu, shows the correct- ness of the statement just made. The minister of education author- ized the teaching of agriculture in the rural schools of that province several years ago. A text book, “The first principles of agricult- ure,” was writtc-3:-.> Some of the teachers introduced it, but only a small minority of them, and there the matter rests. The curriculum of studies is crowded. An exam- ination on the subject of agricult- ure is not required of the teacher, hence they are disinclined to vol- untarily introduce another subject which will add to their labors. Be- cause of the crowded nature of the curriculiiin their duties they regard as irksonic enough already. Two things must be done there- fore, before agriculture will be gen- erally taught in our rural schools. The teachers must pass an exam- ination on it, and its teaching must be made compulsory. T0 WHAT EXTENT? The question as to what extent agriculture can be successfully taught in our schools is not so eas- ily answered. First, it should only be taught in rural district schools. tliat is to say, its tcaching should only be niade compiilsory in these. b‘ccoml. in district scliools it would only be necessary to teach it iu the elementary form. It would not be easy to go beyond this, even though it should be deemed desira- ble to do so, owing to the V'EiSl'.Ilr‘l~‘S of the subject. And third, it would be 11ccessai'y to teach it in those schools where teachers are pre- pared for their work, otlierwise they should not be required to pass an examination upon it. Teaching agriculture in training schools for teachers, as things are at present, would probably give rise to difficulties of a more serious nature than the introduction of the subject into our common schools. These difficulties cannot be dis- cussed here, from want of space. They can only be mentioned. They include the want of suitable text books, the want of teachers capable to instruct, and the want of funds in many instances to furnish the latter. To say that this great question, which is forging itself to the front, is not attended with difficulties, would be to indulge in too hopeful a view, but to say that these difli- culties cannot be overcome would be far short of the truth. As cer- tainly as the sun rises in the morn- ing, in the opinion of the writer, the general introduction of the teaching of this subject in our rural schools is near at hand. SI. Ant/zany Park-, Zvlimz. Brain Work. CONDUCTED BY “ NANCY LEE.” Open to all. Contributions and solutions de- sircil. Issiicd tlic first and third 'I‘liursduys of eacli month. Siiliscriptioxts 50 cents per year. Address all ])ll7.I.IC inattcr to 'I‘iio.\1.-is A. l\Iii.i..\i<, goo, izth Street, Detroit, Mich. XVII. ORIGINAL Nu. 111.~.s'z;m.~.~ . '. 5. To cstulilisli. 2. A color. 5. Gr:-ck proper iuiinc 4_. Knncl~'.inf._r with :i liglit blow. 5. One- who is pcculi.trl_v dcxtrous and .’.Lm{. l and II are lctters. 2. A client. 5. Ram swiftlv. 4. Dwclled pcnnziiiciitlv. 5. An ointment. (‘. Made casv. 7. Planned. 5. American (‘oiiiiiiotlorc I815- :-s‘7o. 9. A dutard. 10. A I’. (). in Bn.-utliitt C0,, K PUZZLES. M i'sr.u;oG CE. y. .S‘.mI/2 Arr:-art/i, .-V. II. GRANITE Posizu. 1V0 Il;.~—D17ulv/e Letler Erttgprirz. A chcstniit is not “ bad in meat” If ’t\vnuId “ convey the" Mind's intent But ALL “ significant. or" sweet It carries its own compliment. But ONE, is such :1 fearful thing None care flll!‘lIll‘«.ll’Iy to know So ’ware the, of an angry sting When thou wouldst find the hon mot. Salem, N. I]. I"l(0TEL'S. 1V0. ?l4.—DI'mnunu'. l and II are letters. 2. The pulp of fruit. 3. The morscl of execration. 4 Resigns. 5. Viola- tion of :1 trust l’c))O>e(I 6. Town in Russia (I31/l. 7. .\ppurten.uiccs_ 8. Village I-icgc,Bclgiiii1i. (Bl/'). 9. EYLISES. io. Town Vurazoz-.i, Spain. I;’r0m('ly/I, N. I‘. ‘ l'mL 0. SOPIIER. No. I15.-~Trm'I.\’/‘usrl/, A ONE 'I‘\\'O iiiv TIIRIZE To the carrizigc for me. XVI). I’am_/rrt, V1. SOLUTIONS TO BRAIN WORK Ti~:Ri=.\i0I-. XIV. 8o.—For-ray. Sl.—Btltt€i‘lllIll(. S2.- Camlet. S3.—Camlet. S4.—Fr0-st_v. 5-‘... —Henceforth. SOLVERS TO BRAIN VVORK XII .»\.\’I) XIII Calvin, 15; \Vzildcmar, 7; Phil I). 503d: . er and Sappho, 5; Mystagogue, 4; l’rot«.-u.-. 1 Terfinop, Bourgeois, Milburn, 1\!,ll)<.'l, ll ‘ Ennis, Sylvester, Vc.-tturina, Eth ()\. , Dainty Dell, \Vinnie Winn, Grace l)ZlI‘il' , « Canadian Boy, Picturesque Pete, 9; IL-m-1 est, Zndia, Flactem, Lucile, R. (). Cliesiui‘. l Alumnus, G. Pace, Nyas, Giiidon, liugcuc. l K. T. Did, Damon, Nemo, 2; Ex. E. Lucy Date, I. i First prize, Calvin; second, \Valdcn\:I": third, Phil 0. Soplier and Suppho. r . MYSTIC PENCI LING-S. It is with regret that I am forced to give up the management of Brain \Vork, but owing to l)llSlllL’.\\ I am compelled to do so. 1 Turkey red on cotton thntwon‘t fret-zs,boIl orwsehout. Noother . will dmn Pecksgeto 30 "1 I n utgs calor2lbs..byininI.ll) _ cts. ' 6. any color— for woolorcotton.40o. Bigpn$Ageuts. rite quick. Mm- tion this paper. French ye Co.,Vassar, Mich- T he lland-Made Harness 60.. OF STKNTON, IVIICH. E. D. Hswuzr, Pres. WM. H. OWEN. Treas. 0. Moon. 8ec’y. Retail their own make of goods at :0/'/olgxm/2 price \Ve make a special of $20 double team work har- ness and a $10 sing e harness. \Ve guarantee satis- faction, and prepay freight on five sets. Hy per mission we refer to Hon. H. H.Hiuds, of Stan- ton. 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CARPENTER GRGANS are strictly lligli-llrmlv Instruments. and sold at LOW I’l{I(,‘l'2.\',qiialit_v consitlernd, I tender hearty lliaiiks to all \\'I‘l() have gjvggn me their support and hope that it be accorded in increased nieasure to my suc- cvssor. Long live Brain \V0rl-1 and Nancy Lee! GRANITE Posse. Itis with regret that we announce the rctircment of our worthy friend “ Granite Poser.” Lack of time is the cause, too bad. \Ve sincerely hope that all of “ Granite I’oscr's” old friends will continue to sup- port this department. \Ve will not make promises that we cannot fulfill, but will sav that if we receive the support that is ncedcd for this (or any department). we will do our part as well as we can. F‘-ir the two best lists of solutions to Nos. XVII and XVIII we will give six months subscription each to The Dvtroil Puzzler. lie sure and direct all communications in- tended for me as directed above. Subscribe. You know it is rather pleasing to receive a subscription once in :1 while. \Ve can use any amount of good squares. Solve. NANCY LEE. especially. is the cause of much kidney disease. Diamond Crystal Salt In much the purest, and therefore the best suit known. Made from the best brine, by the best process. with the best grain. and sold in the best. packa.ge—an air-tight and non-absorbent box. The fact that salt lscheap is no reason why you should not have pure salt. Ask for Diamond Crystal, give It a fair “AC” ‘lb y I 'e 55 .: ' Variety - of sizes = } suitable trial. Write us for further particulars. for _ Our Dairy Salt Is the standard of ex- an work. 3?. = " cellencc. and no butter maker should be without it. Address DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT 00.. St. Clair. Mich. PULVERIZING HARR WANTED. face of the soil. ~ draft. mt DUANE H. NASH, Sole MIL, XBNTION THIS PAPER. .2 ow, CLOD CRUSHER AND LEVELER is adapted to all soils and all work for which a AGENTS Harrow is needed. Flat crushing spurs pulverize lumps, level and smooth the gr=ouncl,while at. the same time curved coulters cultivate, cut. lift and turn the entire sur- The backward slant of the coul- ters prevents tearing up rubbish and reduces the Made entirely of cast steel and wrought iron and therefore practically indestructible. CHEAPEST RIDING HARROW ON EARTH -—sells for about the same as an ordinary drag- eight dollars and upwards. - l to responsible farmers to be returned sent on Tnal '1 at my expense if not satisfactory. N. B.-1 deliver free on board at convenient distributing points. MILLINOTON, - - - - ' I No. 80 I0. CANAL I'I'.. - CHICAGO, ILL. NEW JER8IV- for (141.91: or ’II.‘rfIIIlnlI‘Ilf.\‘. and deliverexl at _vom' home. frelgllt pitltl. Send fur catalogue of new dpsigiis to E. P. C.»\ IKI’Ii.VTEIl (lO)[PANY, Home oI'Iit‘¢>: Bil.-\1‘l'LEllUR(), V'I'., U. \Vv-stern Office: J. Howard Foote. 207 an Wabash Ave., Chicago. III. 9.5!.’ A. 209 GRAND RAPIDS and Indiana Railroad Feb’y ll, l89I.—Gentral Standard Time. GOING NORTH. No. l§No. 3 No. 5 No 7 P. M. A. M. A in. Cincinnati, Lv _______ __ 4 50 8 (I5 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ __ Richmond ____________ _- 7 35 ll 00 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ P. M. A. M Fort; Wayne,A.r _______ _. 10 55 2 15 __._ ____ _. Fort VVnyne, Lv___ .... __ 2 85 __,_ 8 05 Kalamazoo, Ar___ 6 05 ll 45 Kalamazoo, Lv.... ' 12 35 Grand ltapids. Ar__ _____ 2 15 Grand Rapids, Lv _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , ,, 4 00 Cadillac ............. .. 8 15 _, s 25 Traverse City.___ - 10 20 Petoskey .......................... .. 12 15 1 50 Msckinsw.Ar ........ .. .._. ..... mu. GOING SOUTH. No. 2N0. No. 8 : l Mackinaw City. Lv. Petoskey. ._..... Traverse City.- Cadillac ___________________ __ Grand Rapids, Ar._ Grand Rapids, Lv. Kalamazoo, Ar . _ Kalainiizoo, Lv... Fort Wayne. Ar._ Fort Wayne. Lv _ Richmond Cincinnati, Ar ________ _, Slee ing cars for Petoske and Mnckin No.7 fiom Grand Rapids. y '"' °" Parlor car to Mackinaw on No. 5 from Grand Rapids. Nslieping cars, Grand Rapids to Chicago, on O o No. 4 daily e_outh of Grand Rapids. All other trains daily except. Sunda . C. . LOCI{WOOD o. P. J; '1'. An. Grand Rapids. 4 4 " ‘By-Laws of the MARCH 1, 1894. THE GRANGE V ISITOR. ...._. .-._ , - .-- ---~ 7 Is a book containing illustrations, prices and -descriptions of 80,000 articles in common use, a book that will show you at a glance if you are fraying too much for the goods you are now buying, ‘.3-IORTH ANYTHING TO YOU? it worth the 15 CENTS in stamps re- quired to pay postage or express charges on a -copy? THE BUYERS GUIDE AND CATALOGUE (issued every March and September) is the book we are talking about; you are not safe without a copy of the latest edition in the house. MONTGOMERY W1-'-IRD & CO., I I I to I I6 Michigan Ave., Chicago In writing mention THE GRANGE VISITOR. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY Oflicers National Grange. MAs'rim-—J. H. BRIGHAM ........ _.Delta. Ohio 0VERRLl.B—E. W. I).-lV'IS__ Santa Rosa. (' . Li4'.c'1'UliF.!z~ALPl:lA MESS ___Rocliester. _Vt.. S'1‘Ew.Iwi)-—M. B. llU.\l'I‘ . ,,_ _._._M:iinc Ass‘"r 5'rr.\vAnn—A. M. RELCHER Rho_de_1sl_and (‘.uAPLu.\'--*4. L. WILSON ., Mississ_ippi TnicAsunr;i<--sins. F. M. M(7D0}7VE_l..L...,1\. Y. SEOBE'rAa\ —JOHN 'I‘Rli\lBLE,VV ashington, D.C GATE Ki r'i~i«'.u- -W. E. H.-\l*{BAUGH_ Mlsson_ri CEREs—l\l RS. M. S. IUIONE _.PennsYlV&!!18 POMONA— MKS. MARY HEARDON .... ,,‘,KBl1liflE| FLORA—M 2.5. ANNIE IA. BULL . ..__l!Iinnesot.a LADY Ass"r S"ri:w’n—llIRS. A MAN DA HORTON Michigan. Executive Committee. LEONARD RHONE..Center Hall, I’ennsylvz_mia R. R. HU'I‘(‘.HlNSON ______ _. Virginia J. J. WOODMAN ......... ..Paw Paw. Michigan Omoers Michigan State Grange. MAs'ririz—G. B. HORTON 0vics.sinr3——M. T. (‘OLE-. LEO'I'UBlI:B-A. J. , 8'ri:wAnn—A. P. GRAI Ass"r S'.l'EWARD—J. H. Fruit Ridge I spills CEA1-‘LAlN—-MARY A. MAYO , . .Battle (‘reek ’I‘imAsunii:n——E. A. STRUNII , ,._\ icksburg . Sxoiu:'1‘AaY-JENNIE BUELL . __Aiin .~\rbor GATE Ks-.i:Piin—GEO. L. CARLIsLl:...K:ilkzi.~_~lm Cs.nss—MARY C. ALLIS ............... ..Adr1an FLoRA—MRS SARAHA ST. (‘.LAIR..Butterniit Por(oivA—Mlt8. A. A. LEIGHTON ._.Old Mission L. A.S'rii:w’p—MB.S. J .H. MARTIN Grand Rapids Executive Committee. J. G. RAMSDELL. Chn ......... -Traverse Cit»: H. D. PLATIL ......... .. ..,.Yi>s3lantl THOg_ 1§1_.\1{5_ __ rrien center W. E. WRIGHT . oldvyater Batters‘; F3 ll‘ ‘£*.%”.l¥‘il‘\v ”‘l¥";l.‘§.".“il’.l:_§: FENNIE BUEIIII. l E‘ 0’fi°’° I .'.'.'f.Ann Arbor Conunittee‘on Woman‘: Work in the Grange. , in ________________ ..s m o k ill: N231 sl...;“.%‘.’..i Hinds _,__.‘T__s"....§§‘§’;.. Mrs. Belle Royce ........................ -Baroda General Deputy Lecturers. MARY A. MAYO... Battle Creek HON. J. J. WOODMA .I’aw Paw ON (1. G. LUHE _ .o1dwater HUN PERRY MAYO attle(3reek HON THOS. MARS ernen Center JAs0N WOODM Paw .8W A, 1), BANK _ __ ..........LansIns c_ 1,_ WHITNEY ..................... ..Mur-kegon County Deputies. D_ }I_ Swbbms ______ ‘_ ___At\vood, Antrim C_ V_ Nash _________ __Bloomi gd-ale, Allegztn R_ B_ Re)-no1d5_ ________ _, Inland, Benzic Geo. Bow-ser___ __,,_Do\vIing, Barry “ ames D. Stndley _Union City, Braiic I “ _ V_ Clark _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __Bucli:-inan, Berrien “ _ “,'_ Enue,-t ____________ __St. johns, Clinton “ ary A. Mayo____ __Battle Creek, Calhoun “ Wm. Clark _____ ,_ ,_Charlcvoix, Charlevoix “ E B. \-Vard _ Charlevoix, Ch:aTlC\;UlX “ M,.5_ Bing \\ ;|e Cassopolis. (,:iss “ A D. Bank,_ Lansing, Eaton “ Alma, Gratiot Flushin , Genesee ssion, Gran Traverse _VVheatland, Hillsdale Isaac Russell. R A Brown_____ ___Sand Beach, Huron “ D‘ H: Eng-1j5h__ _____ __CIiandler, Ionia “ F: W. Havens_- __..Fitchburg, Ingham “ _Duck Lake, Jackson ____ __Rockford, Kent Kalkaska, Kalkaska North Branch, Lapeer Brighton, Livingston ____Adrian, Lenawee , A. 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CRGFTT CROPS WTZILL S ‘F FRUITS AND HOW TO GROW THEM. BY R. M. KELLOGG, Proprietor of the RUSHIRE FRUIT FARM, IONIA, MICII. Everywhere endorsed as the most practical and finest work on strawberry, raspberry. blackberry and grape culture ever written. Beautifully illustrated with over sixty engravings. Send a postal card with the names and post- ollice adllrc-ss of thrre fruit growers and mention GRANGE VISITOR and get a copy FREE. Address R. M. KELLOGG, IONIA, MIOH. EDUCATIONAL E.\"I’l[USIASM. The Newaygo and O-.:-eana Teach- ers’ and Patrons’ Union Associa- tion held its third semi-annual meeting at Hesperia, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9 and 10. Mrs. Mary Robertson delivered the address of welcome. Mr. A. L. Scott read an excel- lent paper on “Free Coinage of Gold and Silver.” Discussion by S. V. Walker, W. N. Ferris, Neil McCollum and J. Mac-umber. Jared Macumber opened a dis- cussion on the question, “ Shall the State Publish Our School Books?” Discussion continued by O. F. Munson, D. E. McClure and W. N. Ferris. In the evening We listened to a lecture-by Prof. TV. N. Ferris on “ Making the \Vorld Better.” It was a. very stormy night and the roads were almost impassable, still the large church was crowded and many had to go away, they could not get in. All who heard this lecture pronounce it one of the best things they had ever heard, and would not miss an opportunity to hear Mr. Ferris again. SATURDAY MORNING. Mrs. A. L. Scott read an excel- lent paper on “Good Literature in Home and School.” She plead earnestly for good reading for the boys and girls, get bad reaxling away from the young by placing soniething good in its stead. An interesting discussion f0ll0Wt*(l led by Miss Jennie McColli1m, con- tinued by Miss Belle Becker, Prin. F. Stillsoii, and 0. F. Morison. Com. D. E. McClure read an exceptionally good paper on "Indi- vidualism in the teacher, farmer nnd legisle.t.oi*.” Prin. F. Stillson led in a very interesting discus- SIUII. Neil McColliim discussed the question, “ Should our jury law be so amended that 9. tliree-fourthsl verdir-t shall trike the place of a, unanimous verdi::t‘.“" Discussion! by A. L. Scott, Mi‘. Jewel, M1‘. Slocum, and Mr. Price. The weiglit of the a1'gi:'mt-lit .se<'=iii(-ll to be on the alfirmaiive side. In the afternooii 0.17‘. Manson lrozul a paper on “Tlie siiccess lour schools depend upon ll'lI.ellI- l lgeiit supervision and the Coopers-I tion of pupils, pfifents, and teach-;; ers." A lively discussion followedi by Mr. Jewel, Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. ‘ Winters and Com. ll~lcClu1“e. The recitations by Misses Zelma Anus and Elgiii Buiike, were very fine and deserve great credit. M. IV. Scott read a scholarly paper on “ Is free rural mail delivery practical?" Discussion by Neil McCollum. . The third and fourth grade girls from Miss Becker’s room gave two very fine songs. Mrs. Tibbits gave 3. recitation. Election was then held. D. E. McClure was re-elected President and O. F. Manson was elected Secretary. After a. vote of thanks to the people of Hesperia, meeting adjourned. Thus closed perhaps the greatest and most enthusiastic educational meeting ever held in Western Michigan. Long live the N. and O. T. and G. A. and its grand influence. M. Grange News. Michigan. POSTAL JOTTINGS. Brother E. O. Ladd of Old Mission, was quite seriously injured in a runaway acci- dent last week. Sister Mayo has been working in Tonia county. Prairieville Grange No. 256, mourns the death of their sister Helen Brainard, achar- ter member of the Order, and an efiicient worker in Prairieville Grange. Farmington Grange held a grand rally the 17th of February, their 20th anniver- sary. A meeting is planned by them in connection with the teacher’s institute to come off March 10. Thus the ball keeps rolling. Hesperia Grange, the largest in Michi- gan, adopts McClure’s Pupils’ Reading Course, Hesperia school does the same. VVe shall take action on the picnic rec- ommendation when Sylvian Grange in- vites the Grange and Teachers’ Association of Oceana and Newaygo counties to picnic with them. The Oceana and Newaygo Teachers’ and Grangers’ Association was a good meeting. VVe have held twelve teachers’ and Patrons’ associational meet- ings since State Grange—-aggregate atten- dance of Patrons 500. D. E. MCCLURE. Grattan Grange No. I70, met in open session February 8. There were not as many in attendance as we hoped to see, but the meeting was an interesting one. The topic discussed was, “ The best mode of plowing to obtain best results.” The! general conclusion was that for most crops deep plowing, especially sod, and that to be well tui'ned to prevent grass from growing up through the sod; to keep the furrows straight, and not too wide, say from six t ten inches. In plowing side hills would turn furrow up hill if possible, while others thought it made little difference which way it was turned. Most every one had their favorite plow. Some thought they liked the walking plow best, while others favored the riding plow, but all agreed that the plow must be a good one, and the man to know how to use it if we expect good plowing. Cali any one tell us why farmers don’t join the Grange more readily? Can’t they be made to see the point? Aoxr KATE. On January 30th members of Frater- nity Grange No. 5;! and some from out- side the Order, met at the home of the lecturer. A. simple menu was furnished. A royal good time was enjoyed by all present. Copies of the VISITOR were distributed and portions of Declaration of Purposes of the P. of H. were read, setting forth the objects for which the Grange was organized. We hope to gather some fruit from these socials. Next one to be held at the home of Brother King. They come midway between the regular meeting which is held at. Grange hall the first and third Thursday of each month at 1:30 p. m. CORN MEETING AT KEENE GRANGE. The olficers of Keene Grange No. 270 were installed by Amon Otis of Berlin Grange at an open meeting held the evening of Jan. 27. 1894. There was a large attendance and visitors as well as members pronounced it an interesting meeting. After the installation pop-corn bulls and apples were passed, and a social time enjoyed for half an hour. Then fol- lowed the enclosed program, which was well carried out, every one doing their best. (‘urn Song. Grange Choir. Mlllress of Welcmne. Worthy Master Foster. lie-.~'p0nH(*. A. A. Horton of Saran-ac. Roll (fall. responded to by Patrons with quota- :ions about corn. Hula. “ Sweet Indian (‘.orn," Blanche Lee. " History of (‘-orn," E. Haucorne. Duet. Misses Barber and llliddaugh. Paper. “Corn, its Uses and Abuses,“ Mrs. Wm. Uaiiipbell. Solo. “When the Corn is Waving,” Frank Daniels. k_Selcct Reading, “Tlie Huskers.“ Alberta Hos- ins. Instrumental Music, Alberta lloskins. Paper, Thus. A nriersun. Recitation, “Because he joined the Gruirge.” The Grange hall was very prettily dec- orated with corn used in various ways. As one entered the hall the first thing to attract attract attention was the word “\’l'r-Ii-,ome" in very large letters made oi" shelled corn on a dzirk background. It is not flI:l.‘r)S& 1*)‘ to enumerate the Various ways in wliioli the corn was used for decoration. Keene Grange has been in re growing, prosperous condition for some time; but we are hoping and working for greater advancement. MR5. \V. H. MOON. im\vi'r'F DeWitt. Grange is still alive and hold- ing its own. Last fall we cleaned our ’ hall, purchased new shades for our upper windows, and papered our upper ball over now. which improves its looks very much. The follcwing oflicei-s were elected for 1894: Master. Mrs. (‘. I... Pearce. Lecturer, Ellen l<‘(>.r‘;:;‘ii:-‘on. Secretary. -Jerome Dills. Chairman \VnmaI.\’s Work, Mrs. W. S. Dills. Our oflicers were installed in a very fine manner Jan. 13, 1894. by Mrs. Estella Dills. After installation apples, popcorn and candy were served. Several outside the Order were present. We have taken in one new member this year. At our next meeting we are to have an oyster supper. We have meetings once in two weeks. We hope soon to get time for more liter- ary work and discussions. Mas. C. L. PEARCE. A GOOD SUGGESTION. HESPERIA, Jan. 10, 1894. Enrron GRANGE V1sI'roR—At the last meeting of Newaygo County Grange, it was voted to give five dollars for ten sub- scriptions to the VIsi'roR to be sent out- side the Grange. I enclose the money and the names. but it will do but little good unless we can show that we are benefiting the members of the Grange financially. Comparatively speaking, but few of the members of the Grange read the reports of the National Grange, but most of them read the VISITOR. A series of arti- cles showing what the National Grange has done, and is doing, to influence legis- lation in the interest of the farmers,would add to the number of the Grange and lengthen the subscription list of the Visrroa. Mrs. Mary Mayo delivered an address to the members of the Pomona Grange held at Ashland, which was well received by all who heard it, both by Patrons and those outside of the gate. Many thought her address the best one we have ever had in Newaygo county. Our Pomona Grange is flourishing bet- ter than formerly, and with all the old ofiicers re-elected we hope to do better still. MARTHA M. Sco'r'r. HELENA GRANGE N0. 676. “ We still live,” but I am sorry to say it seems more like dragging out an existence. We find it hard to keep up an interest. I was glad to see in the VISITOR some steps have been taken to add some financial interest. I have long been of the opinion it is what We need; the most of our Patrons are seek- ing to be benefited on that line and I am sorry to say we have not been able to supply their wants. Some of our Pat- rons near to towns may not find it so dif’ricult to find a cash market for what they have to dispose of. Consequently they are able to buy where they can find the most advantage. But we are not so favored. The merchant sets a price on our goods and his own, but no cash at that. Then again the most of our mem- bers (:0l1}(\ to the Grange to be enter- tained, but not to ent<:rtm'n, thereby lr‘HVIIl}__{ the success of the Grutige on the few. Then we have been expecting to re- ceive some new inspiration from the delegate from our county to the State Grange, but he has failed so far to make his appearance. We have not even heard from him. I do think that no one ought to be allowed the privilege to attend any State Grange who is not willing to visit each subordinate Grange and endeavor to revive their flagging energies. I am glad to hear of the success of the VISITOR. Since I was at Lansing last I have endeavored to advocate its claims and have partially succeeded. I hope it will have, this year, received the patron- age it deserves. Grzo. SUDDES. FOR THE coon or THE orrpsrz. Davisburg Grange, No. 245, held its annual election of officers upon the sec- ond Saturday in December, that being our last meeting for the year. Most of the former oflicers were reelected. Af- ter the iniportant business of the session was completed, there still being some time to spare it was devoted to sugges- tons for the good of the Order. Worthy Master Divine set the ball rolling in a stirring speech, calling upon the mem- bers "collectively and individually to strengthen their outposts all along the line; to take hold with renewed vigor upon all forms of Grange work." He spoke of our success in the past and our hopes for the future, of the necessity for united &('I’.l()l] of farmers for self-protec- tion. The farmer must protect himself and he cannot do it by standing alone. Why should the careful products of our farms, our wool and hides,be thrown open to the coinpetition of the world, while the manufacturer of our necessary clothing, our boots and shoes, is care- fully protected. lie was follovied by Secretary E. J. Bigelow, who compared the congress of today with those of a few decades ago, when men were elected for their known abilities. Then we had such men as Daniel Welister,-Tolin C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and others. They were statesmen. Now our congress is composed largely of those men who can pay for the most votes. What atravesty upon our boasted independence and the honor and manh- ness of our voters. For thirty years there has been a steady retrogression in this respect. llui. the loading parties are corrupted and, as it consequence, witness the condition of our country today. All of the uiembers in their turn had some suggestions to odor and the re- marks were closed by Brother D. M. Garner, in a few spirited sentences. short and decisive. “There is no doubt,” he said, “that these times are grinding upon the farmer. It would seem that they were ground already about as fine as they would bear. but lllEl._\'b€‘. they will stand a few turns of the screw yet before the limit will be reached, but U. change will come, and it must come by united action upon the part of iariiiers. ‘We must not be so bound down to party. We must consider who is the man for whom we are asked to vote. If he can- not show a clean record, honorable and upright, he is not the man for our votes, let his party afiiliations be what. they may. As farmers, as Patrons, as individ- uals. let us be trne_to the best that is in us. At our next meeting we are to consider ways and means to render our Grange more effective. Nlirs. JAs. TAYLOR. l.\'Gll.-\M I‘OMO_\'.\. The lngham county Pomona Grange held a largely attended and unusually suc- cessful meeting with \Vliile Oak Grange on Friday and Saturday of last week, Feb- ruary I6 and I7. Officers were elected and installed for the ensuing year as follows: Master, A. '1'. Stevens; Overseer, Geo. H. Proctor; Lecturer, \Vin. A. Olds; Steward, F. W. Havens; Asst. Steward, Harley Angeli; Chaplain, john H. Forster; Treas- urer, K. L. Butterfield; Secretary, Mrs. Della Proctor; Gate Keeper, A. C. Law- rence; Pomona, Miss Martha Mullett; Flora, Mrs. Jennie Parinan; Ceres, Miss Fannie Oviatt; Lady Asst. Steward, Mrs. James Webb. Papers. addresses, recita- tions and music, were the order Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon, all of which furnished instruction and amuse- ment. The meeting cannot fail to greatly benefit \Vhite Oak Grange. CALHOUN COUNTY POMONA met at Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Chidister’s Feb- ruary S. The attendance was large. The program was opened with the question, " What would constitute a safe and reliable basis for our currency?” Mr. McDermid would coin gold or silver except for change. Would issue paper money, three dollars for each dollar of coin, redeemable in equal bullion value of gold and silver. Mr. Cliidister opposed specie basis be- cause it it resulted in frequent panics and consequent loss. Objected to national banks or any system that would continue the national debt and the payment of inter- est thereon. Cited the bank of Venice to show that money based on the credit of the government was safer and less fluctuating, Said that the notes of the bank of Venice were at a premium of twenty per cent. Mr. McDermid said the reason that these notes were at a premium was because they were redeemable in coin of full stand- ard weight, while the coin in circulation was not of full weight. Mr. Manchester did not think a specie basis necessary or advantageous, but that the basis should be the credit of the gov- ernment. Mrs. Mayo commented on the farmer’s institute, showing where it could be made better, and recalling to mind many import- ant and amusing statements. The program was enlivened by excellent music and varied recitations. The next county Grange will be held at the residence of Abram Minges, March 8, It will be newspaper day. Each one pres. ent will be charged a fee of ten cents to increase the circulation of the GR/mc,3~. VISITOR. Continued on page 8. .«- -........v: aw-““ -W'!.1.‘It&€m‘-s.¥.*¢~,~.v~'.i-,-.;.......,..,.. , ,_,,~( _ - , _ l‘l:IE GRANGE VISITOR. MARCH 1, 1894. H URO.\' POMONA. 'I‘he next meeting of Huron county Po- mona Grange will be with Hope Grange on Thursday, March 22. Morning session, order of business. After- noon, literary entertainment. Evening con- ferring fifth degree. A good time is ex- pected. Sec. Grangewldfiiews . Michigan. Continued from page 7. I0_\'IA POMONA. The Ionia. county Pomona Grange, for installing the ofiicers, was held at Banner Grange hall, Thursday, Janttary I7, 1894. The meeting was well attended,and a com- mittee appointed to see that a course of lectures be delivered through the count_v, and decided that Sister Mary A. Mayo, would be the one to entertain us if she would be at liberty through the month of February; commencing about the zoth of the month. LEt‘.'.l'URER. KENT couxrv GR.\Nct; N0. I8, held a special meeting with llar- mony Grange on February L}. The fore- noon session was devoted to the regular business of the Order. The following pro- gram which was interspersed with music at appropriate ititervals was carried out iii the afternoon: \Vords of welcome by VV. T. Adtiiiis, in behalf of II2ll‘lll()l1_\' Grange. Response by john Preston in behalf of Kent county Grange. Discu~:sion oti " Btisitiess depression and its effects upon farinc-rs," led by john Pres- ton, who \vas followed by S_ C. I)t,'l’_cl‘.\‘O[‘|, Mrs. A. A. \Vilson and others. It was generally conceded that each in- dividual must do his own thinking and not allow his party paper to do it for him; and he must work at the caucuses, and vote for principle instead of for party. Bro. Thos. Mars was then introduced and the audience listened attentively to an interesting address by the Past Master of the State Grange. Recitation, " St. Peter at the Gate,“ by Frank Woodard. Recitation, “So was I,” by Miss Sue Peck. An interesting discussion on “ American citizenship,” was opened by Jonathan Best, and many others followed. After recess Grange was again called to order in the fourth degree. The spicy re- marks by many of those present on the subjects of discussion in the afternoon and on kindred subjects were so enlivened by recitations from john Foster, a veteran in Grange work, by Mrs. May Woodard, Miss Sue Peck, and Miss Mertie Preston, that this session rivalled that of the after- noon in interest. A short session was held in the fifth de- gree, when, what does not often occur, a grandfather and grandson were obligated in the fifth degree. The next meeting will be held at Rock- ford on March zi. SI-:CRF.T:\RY. \\‘ESTEKI\' I‘OMOXA. The annual meeting of \Vestern Pomona was held at Ravenna Grange hall January 25 and 26. The meeting was called to order with a few words of welcome by H. C. Tuttle, Master of Raveiina Grange. The meeting for the afternoon was public. The hall was nearly as full as could be seated comfortably. M. S. Smith, Western Pomona Master, called for the program. The first subject, “ llas cducatioii done more for the enjoyment of the people than wealth?” A person with wealth and good common sense, has in their power the means of enjoyment, without any of what we term book education. On the other side agood education it rightly used, can bring to its possessor the best of cnjoytnent. But which had contributed to the enjoy- ment of people in general the most, was left undecided. The next question was, “ \Vould it be practicable for the farmer and his wife to have an annual vacation ?" This question was discussed by visitors as well as incin- bers. It led to another one, “ \Vhere would a farmer and his wife go to have an annual vacation?” Country air or scenes are not needed in their case. Perhaps some of your readers can study this out and give us the benefit. An original poem by Mrs. Bower of Ra- venna, was well received. _ Mrs. Cora Rogers of Ravenna, read a paper entitled, “ Is the woman of today physically and mentally better than those good fifty years ago?” The paper was and covered the ground to perfection. Decided in the affirmative. The next question, “ How can farmers better themselves under existing circum- stances?” by .‘.lr._]ohn Mcliitt of Ravenna. These discussions with music and recita- tions furnished the afternoon program. The fifth degree was conferred in the evening on four candidates, and ofiicers were elected. The next morning was given to installation and routine business. Our meeting as a whole was delightful and profitable. The ofiicers are Master, II. C. Tuttle; Lecturer, Mrs. Wm. Gilett; Secretary, Mrs. H. J. Austin. Indiana. Brook-ville, 17111., February 10, 1894. DEAR SIR AND BROTHER——I received a copv of the Visi'roR and circular, also re- port ofproceedings ofMichigan state Gran ge Please accept thanks. I am sorry to say our Grange is not prospering. Our mem- bers are mostly old persons and not able to attend. therefore we have but few meetings. I am too old to go about much, (am 78) but read your paper and gave it to a Brother and told him to keep it moving. We have a comfortable hall about paid for, and should prosper, but those who should take an active part, are fonder of reading trash than something in which all workers are interested; and unless the younger portion of the comtnunity take an interest in these things we cannot prosper. New York. The New York State Grange adopted the following resolutions: First —That the present system of high- way improvementinaugurated in the early settlement of the country and adapted to new and sparsely settled communities, is inadequate to meet the necessities of our population of the present day and should be changed. Srrroml, That a new system of highway improvement should be inaugurated to pro- vide for the construction of state, county and state roads. T/zird, That we endorse asystem of state roads, provided the personal property of the state is made to bear its proportionate part of the taxation neceseary for such roads. Fourll, \Ve endorse a system of county roads, made optional, so that those coun- ties of the state which desire to do so may avail themselves of its provisions. Fifi/1, \Ve endorse an optional system of township roads that shall provide for the payment of the road tax as other to\vn tax- es are now paid, and to be expended by a competent overseer of roads ifor the town in such manner as the town shall direct. Six//1, That we recommend the enact- ment of a law that shall provide for the use of wide tired wagons upon the higliways of the state. Peitiisylvaiiia. Brother Rhone. Master of the Penn- sylvania State Grange says: “ Masters and otficers of Grttriges must. be made to l realize that their duties are broader and 1, of a wider range than merely presiding at 5 the meet.ings; and that they are expected 1, to take charge of the entire interests and §()l'g£llliZil.l.l0lJ of the farmers in their re- jspectivo jurisdictions.” NIlS(‘t‘llfl.lIPOTl.\‘. Brother Mortimer Whitehead has been speaking to crowded houses at various points in Pennsylvania. He has been constantly in the field since Jan. 1. He has a pressing call to go over to England to assist in the work of industrial and financial reform now assuming large; proportions there. ~_‘ FORTUNE OR MISS-FORTUNE. If you have no employment, or are being poorl paid for the work you are doing, then write to Ijolinson 8: Co., of Richmond, Va., and they will show you how to transform Miss—fortune into Madame-fortune. Try it. BOOK REVIEWS. Our readers have no doubt frequently noticed fruit articles in the VISITOR from the pen of Mr. R. M. Kellogg of Ionia. .\lr. Kellogg has one of the largest small fruit plantations in central Michigan,and is contributing regularly to the VISITOR dur- ing 1894. He has issued at very interesting book on “ Great crops of small fruits and how to grow them." In an interesting an readable manner he takes up the subjects of sex in fruits, improvement, pleasures of fruit growing, does it pay? the fruit garden, how many bushels per acre, how many crops, the market, manure, diseases and pests, setting and cultivating, mulching, varieties. He speaks of strawberries, rasp- berries, blackberries, dewberries, Currants, gooseberries, and grapes. This is a very practical work and will be of interest to every one who has even a small “ patch” of small fruits. Notice Mr. Kellogg's ad- vertisetrzent in another column; it will tell you how to get this valuable book free. The C//in/‘gr; [21/er Ocean has in its Cir- culating Department alone nearly one hun- dred men and women, not to mention the carriers who deliver the paper to all parts of the city. before breakfast every morning. It may be mentioned that no kind of weather, however severe, is permitted to interfere with this delivery in any way. Of this large force, about one—half of them work through the day at ordinary oflice or clerical work and the other half begin late at night and work until about day light, pre- paring and addressing the wrappers, count- ing and wrapping the papers, " routing” and mailing the bundles. Their work is of the most diflicult nature and is done in the quickest possible manner, and yet so well is it done thatit seldom happens that asingle bundle or paper of its immense edition of nearly too,ooo reaches its destination on other than the right train and at the right time, unless delayed by accident. The sys- tem is wonderful and its operation almost perfect. The complete novel in the March num- ber of I.z'ppz'nrolt’.s- is “ A Desert Claim," by Mary E. Stickney. It is a charming tale of ranch life in northern Colorado. THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC. A larger volume than ever before. 7712 A/'ew Turk '1 ‘ribzute Almanac for 1894 comes to us this week. revised, rearranged, fresh- ened up to date, and enriched by the addi- tion of new features. The book contains an almost unlimited array of statistics on every conceivable subject which concerns the whole people of the United States, with much which interests only the politi- cal parties or other large bodies of men or women. There is no partisanship in the contents of T/ze Trilmne Almanac, and every one can accept with confidence its statistics of coinage, circulation, foreign, trade, elections, population, pensions, reve- nues, banking, divorce, marriage, sports, legal holidays, and the hundreds of other things treated of. The facts about prom- inent societies in the United States are given more space than usual. It is indexed thoroughly. Price 25 cents a copy. Ad- dress [The Tribune, New York] CLOVER SEED CLEANED AND IN THE CHAFF. As farmers sometimes wish to purchase clover seed in the chaff, or sow home-grown clover seed without;hullingit,tl1e relative value of the seed in these conditions should be understood. Examina- tion of several samples of such seed at the N. C. experiment station gives the following results: One hundred seeds of red clover in the hull Weigh 0.40 gram. The hulls of 100 seed weigh 0.10 gram. The weight of the bulls is J; or 25 per cent of the total Weight of un- hulled seed. Out of 100 apparent seeds in hull 28 seeds had no germ. Out of a weighed sample of un- hulled seedsi of the weight was chaff, dirt, and Weed seeds. In a sample of choice cleaned clover seed we expect to find the viability of seed 95 per cent. Real worth 90.25 per cent. Assuming that in the uiihulled sample as great a per cent of true seeds will germinate as in the sample of choice cleaned seed, We calculate the real worth of this sample as 38.85 per cent. Therefore in purchasing clover seed in the hull the price should never exceed 40 per cent of the price of choice hullt-d seed.——Ger- uld ]l[cCurIhy, N. 0. Experiment S/ufioiz. Alleged Jokes. - No one should expedt a square meal when making a round of the lunch houses. —/’ir‘¢I__i'mI(:. Everybody but the undertaker has an admiration for the man who never says die.—b’1{fl}1/0 C0//ricr. H “Necessity knows no law.” Being the mother of invention, she ought at least to know the patent law.——E.v. After people have done wrong it is us- ually said of them that they moved in the best society.—-A/r/u'smz Gloliz-'. “ If you don’t chase that man,” said one cow to another, “ l’ll get after him on my own liook."-I?oc/zcslr r Democrat. Toper—“VVhat shall I take, doctor, to remove the redness of my nose?" Doctor— “ Take nothing for three months.—~Hallo. Hecker: “How brown you are, old man. Been to the seaside?” Decker: “ No: I put on my face some of that stuff I use for my russett shoes."—I.r'/e. Mrs. Artlayer: “So her marriage turned out to be ahappy one after all?" Mrs. Stay- son: “ Yes, indeed_.,She got all the ali- mony she asked for."——1lIor1ern Society. “I notice that that Congressman talks a good deal about the farmer in his speeches.” “ Yes.” “ Does he know much about agri- culture?” “ Well, he has had hay fever.” - lVzt.\‘//iizgt/071 Star. A Disappointing Flower (ilardeii. Athing of a bloom or two, shriveled leaves. sticks and bare ground —smiled at by your friendswlaughed at by your family. Nearly all amateur gardeners have such experiences, but they can frequently be avoided by a wise choice of seeds. The products of the Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio, have a happy habit of taking root and growing under more than ordinarily adverse conditions. This firm has 28 greenhouses and 1,000 acres of ground,where are raised trees, shrubs, vines, roses, bulbs, plants, seeds, etc. They are making a special 50c. offer now that is well worth taking. An elegant annual of 168 pages will be mailed free on application to Storrs& Harrison C0,, Painesville, Ohio. REPORT FROM GR.\N(i‘rE NO. 32.3. Centre C0,, Pm, Feb. 10, 1894. BRo'rtii-2R PATRONS —About six years ago, I purchased and used of the O. \V. Ingersoll Liquid Rubber Paints, and am well satisfied with them, they look as well as ever yet. I find there are 21 great tnany Patrons who are afraid of this paint, simply because they have seen how poorly other brands of mixed paints turn out, and I write this letter to give my testimony that the Ingersoll Paints, give entire satisfac- tion. Very sincerely yours, Roar. A. HALL. FIRE. The fire which occurred in our office and manufactory yesterday will not delay us in any way in filling orders. We have already moved into more ex- tensive quarters, with 75 mechanics at their benches. All our departments are running in full force. Our supply of fine printed matter is temporarily out off, but this does not affect the good qualities of the “ Old Reliable” in the least. Before this is read we will be shipping Incubators and Brooders as be- fore. RELIABLE INCUBATOR & BROODER Co. Qui/4c_y, Folzruary 22, 1894, A CHANGE. VVe wish to call attention to B. F. Fost- l 50c.Tll|AL SETS of choice Seeds and Plants. Our nlijc-. -t in offeri ng thus cheap is to introduce our goods and secure yo.ir future orders. Please tell your neighbors aboutlts. Set U~:2 Be.-iiitiful Palms. 2 sorts. strong plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50c “ its p‘tIl'li;L‘lS <-lioice Vegetable Seeds. all different . . . . ..50c " pm-ltv-‘ts choice Flower ds, all different. .. Lovely Carnation Pinks, 10 sorts. . . . . . . . . . . . “ 0 ~10 Prim Vlnning Chrysanthemums, 10 sorts “ H-4 Superb French Cannes. 4 sorts . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ .l—10 Elegant. Evcrbloom‘ , Roses, 10 kinds . . . . .. “ K—8 Grand Large Flowered G:-aniums, 8 sorts. “ M-24 Fine Ctladioll, largo Flowering Bulbs . . . . . .. “ P—6 llartly Ornamental Flowering Shrubs, 6sorts. , , . “ R-6 Choice Grape Vines, 6 sorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ’ One-half each or any two of these sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Any 3 sets for $l.25, or 5 Sets for $2.00, Delivered at Your Postoflice Prepaid. Satllfactlon Guaranteed. Order these sets by the letters. send now from this advertisement. as these introducto 3%?-€,?e%:gé:;Pslll;9iI:r lcpuctztajlogue which contains 168 pages and will be sent. free with flrst. order. If nod: on to we oury ricen. byoy wautgnythlng in our line donot. fatlto send tot-lt, free. as we want z“ndred.‘"_“I Pt ‘I e ore or erintl elsewhere. It. In one of the bent Iuueds contains no ru Ions and full descriptions of one of the largest and moot. complete "0"" ‘'1 America; lncllldlnz many new rare and valuable novelties. We grow 75°'°°° n°'°' Y°3l'lY% lllally other clung: in largely. Are headquarters for the choicest Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Roses, Bulbs, Plants, Seeds,etc. 40th YEAR. 1.000 ACRES. 2s GREENEOUSES. LAST CALL. onman itow. THE STORES & IIIRRISOII 00., Box 308 Painesville, 'a;"6‘_F Ohio. .‘,,, . DS ARE THE BSTE we are the largest growers of (arm and vegetable seeds inthe world. e_at:. Oats: Barle . Corn. ‘lover Timothy. Grames, Pot.-at.oes.etc., in enormous quantities. 1,000. d P ts. 35 ltgs. earliest Vegetable seeds, enouxrli fora garden, on Vegetablese_eds.50c. Say. our Great Northern alt: rheurthe like! Pkg. ofthlsoata 10 Farm Seed samples._l0c. ith catalogue. 15c. Our great t-ntuloizue. I30 )'!£LS1‘l‘F for 51- postage. Write today. (1 cutalogiie free upon receipt of 8c in stamps. Is Dilieient from Others. 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, therefore. highly colored in either sense: and we have taken great care that nothing worthless be put. in, or nothing worthy be left out. We lnviteatrlal ofour Seeds. We know them because we grow them. Every planter of Vegetables or Flowers ought to know about our three warrants: our cash discounts; and our gift of agricultural papers to purchasers of our Seeds. All of these are explained in the Catalogue, acopy of which can be yours for the asking. J. J. H. GREGORY Gt. SON. Ma-bleliead, Mano i§:i3:iiiliP:i§iliiit.;355.5 60-00" I —IN USE- "—**'“—"" s AUTOMATIC MIXER. BARREL ATTACHMENT "T Endorsed by the l(*;l(llll;,', I‘llll'()I'l]OIO;.{lSIS (ll the U S, .\ valttable illtis. Book 1\\'Ut‘Ill $3.ti0) given to euyb [‘Illl'(‘.hll.St'l‘. §.\'I‘IS‘F_»\("I‘lON GIiARAl_V_TElj.|] , or Money llcfumled. Il1HS- BOOK 0“ bPm.\'m§_ F1-ea. Rapid sellers. One Agent has Z1l!‘eLl(lV solc 0 l I ) E _ BR“5=5___M ”'N 55 over 2,000. For ftill particulars and t§rms.1réh7lress v WILLSPRAY [0 ACRES PER DAY. P: c. C0. ~N_-—Y- GRANGE _DlF-IECTORY. Patrons Will Find Tliese Firms Reliable and Can Get Special Prices From Them. WE HAVE NO AGENTS Hut save you money on everything you eat. wear or use. Send 8 cents for ful catalogue. H. R. EAGLE & CO., 68 \Vabash Ave., Chicago. Mention Grange Visitor. The Smith Implz-nien_t& Buggy (‘-0.. 22 and 24 6 East 3d St. Cincinnati. 0. has a contract. with ' Grange of Ohio and Indiana to supply their state and furnish goods at wholesale rates when the For ten years I have supplied Pat]-0115 ::;2;‘;.°tr;::.::?.:.:2:.::“.£.‘:l.:l‘.:.‘.:*.;:“.;°i..2l.t at Husbandry with seeds under a con- tract with the P‘ A N O S Special inducements all the time «No ‘¢q‘fk-12$?- $J Water- gs .t.=...._..tSeeds Never Fail ! Why ? Because the light seed is all washed. out and what is lett. must row. One trial will convince ‘on. ata- logue and Garden Gui 3 FREE. Heman Glass, Seed Grower, Rochester, N.Y. igan. Write for catalog and prices. Y r T I Send for (‘-emlmznee. etc. Direct N G1 g6’ ‘ Weaver Org-an 8.: Plano Co. . , ORGANS Factory, York, Pa. Place seal and am now supplying Patrons in sev- nf your grunge on braouliitletfter 98,3161‘. Ornfsentd eral States on the same terms as those trat 8 CHI‘ lit) FBCIJTB 119 O speci H181] BC - ‘ . Y ' , urers’ prices direct to Grungers. 1“ new Yorlf} My dlscounts to Pdtrons are 10 to 33, 3 per cent from the regular catalog prices. Tlis Honey Creek Grange Nurseries have been under cotitrttct with the State Graiige of Ohio f '- t- s,. ll;' d:lt.‘t‘s"l" . IiizllllliilrzlnlilnNI:i2THg;llillflS(.i.ugpcillill Seeds F1135“ and True to hames :' ~ “"1 h*G.t,{'.C' :t'2l. :%:..*:.‘..*..:.. “S ‘ and can-eruity crested. Isaac Freenian & Son, Rex, Ohio. Glass’ Illustrated Catalogue and Dis- count Cirettlar to Patrons sent FREE on application. Address PATll0NS' Oil. WORKS. DERRICK OIL GO. l~. G. BELLAMY, Pi-op‘r. Titusville. Pa. Luliricating and Burning Olls of the highest quality,at wholesale prices. Try our Etit.e_Burn- ing Oil, made specially for family tine. Write for DERRICK OIL CO., Titusville, Pa. I-IEIVIAN GLASS. Seed Grower, Rochester, N. Y. prices. Address XICHIGAN REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Vnlage Property, HAV Il\(_} sold my horses _I wish to dispose of my 1.ot.a5.eand 7, inittot-,t;ir.,tu Entnll Rapids, Emmi co. , t,,°*“{1“€9_9< ‘;]“°,‘3 5c"E’l‘,“ f3,”"J8 ‘Of TEES’- Dwelling house and la-t ‘J, in Kt-it-lull. \':_iii Bureti co. "3 _(‘l‘ "D. H1 E 8 flies 8]) 6- 8 S0 0110 19 1 OX- Dwellingliouse (Hill in 1ll,iti Kt‘ntlull, \ an Bureii co. tension top cntnndor faintly etirrey. One set of Brick stureaiid lot in l.:iii.-iiig, .\'t-. 71:: 'I'urner street. surrey harness 1»lD(llIl‘lP but-{Hy harness. They can N 56 nflot-*5 l and L’. in ‘-)l”t‘}~ -1" “H1 ‘Hill. Grimm 00- he bought at agreat bargain, as they are of no use Store and NH“ ""F"”=I -“|“‘- 11l”"" ‘"1 to me, they have had but very little was will sell Store and lotin C(illIllll|l1'.\'lllk‘,.I.ll|"‘0‘l‘('4l. _ _ _ separate Apply M 0,3,. barn 262 East 37th Three acres at .~\rii >'t.-ttiuii, l).l|.}' _ cu. t,4n<-‘, fr-ttr and one-hall‘ miles from ' n I can Surprise You on Prices. Ovltl, Ulilituu t-0., knmvii as tlit- Scott fitrtti. One llIlllIll‘Ptl and t'tft_v~nine 3-in acres, three miles I »Write for circulars and state just what you want. or any Tools wanted on the farm. east of Verona mills, Huron co., known as the Redmun f u;f]l‘lI6‘l._\'-IOU!’ and 57-100 acres, near the South Arm of Pine Lake, Cll1U'l!t\'tIlK co., (in Sec. 2, Town 32, N. R. 7 West, knowii as tin: Stet-le furni. Eighty tl('.l‘(“l in l'rnsqtic_lsl5-co., described as N. X of F ‘ "" ° """' T"‘“‘ 1‘ ‘ RA Lust’ k"°wn“ the ‘ Farmers don’t feed ticks, but buy some er’s'change of ad. in this issue. He is pre- Bitlgdrr Wm: , pared to Save farmers money on anything co.l.Ti‘iiISii.fi ziiititiifi.iiil$:lIiiT2mii‘iifi=rTumner, Gratin‘ of H8ywurd‘s Sheep D1I‘- I Want an in his line. Read his advertisement, and write him. DO YOU RAISE POULTRY? Send to Mr. Geo. H. Stahl, Quincy, Ill., for catalog of Brooders and Incubators. It will pay you if you raise poultry. Elghtv n.t‘rI's in Township of Ferris Montcalm co., agent in every locality. Write quick. lI(‘SCl'iLl_l1lI3 s. i; of N. .4, ofSec. 23, ’rown ii, N. R. 5 West B. F. FOSTER, Allegan, Mich. Unlmproved Lands In Alpens. Ilenzie. Cheboygan, Glndwln, Grutiot. Grand Travt-rse, I-Iuron. Kalkuska, Leelaiinw, Monroe. Missaukee, Mnckitiaw, Mldlatitl, Mtiskegoii. Monttnor- encv, Newaygo, Osceola, Oscoda, Ottawa Roscouirnnn Saginaw, Srtnilnc, Tuscola and Wax ord Counties Mich., mid Village Property and Farms. For ducrlp tlonti, npyjly to i A AN SHELDEN t 00.. DETROIT, MICK. PRESS-ES OF ROBERT sntrrn & co., .__ .. LLANSING, nncn. “ a -/