VOL XIX, N0. 9.

IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN  FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVE .”

LANSING, MICHIGAN, MAY 3, 1894.

WHOLE N0. 441.

01110 PURE FOOD LAWS.

The substance of the pure food laws of
Ohiovis stated in the following circular
sent out by the food commissioner of that
state.

The law forbids making or dealing in—

1. Generally, any article which has mixed with or
abstracted from it, any ingredient which lowers its
quality, or is injurious; any article made in imitation
of, or sold under the name of another article, or
falsely branded, or upon which art has been used,to
conceal inferiority, or in which there is fraud or de-
ceit.

2. Drugs which differ from standard laid down in
proper medical works, or if below standard repre-
sented.

3. Meat, either of diseased animals, or tainted or
unwholesome in any way, Diseased or tainted veg-
etables.

4. Canned goods (from foreign countries excepted),
unless labeled with quality, name and address of
packer or dealer, and marked “ soaked,” if so.

5. Maple syrup, unless labeled with quality, name
and address of maker.

6. Selling of flour without branding with quality
and name of miller (or dealer.)

7. Milk. adulterated or from diseased cows, or
from which any part of cream has been taken, unless
can from which it is sold is conspicuously labeled
“ Skimmed Milk.” Cows mustbe properly kept and
fed.

8. Sale of cheese by Ohio manufacturers without
label of “ Ohio Full Cream,” “ Ohio State Cheese,”
“ Ohio Standard,” or “ Ohio Skimmed,” as law re-
quires.

9. Oleomargarine, if artificially colored, and unless
dealer, keeper of hotel, boarding house, or eating
place, post up sign of “ Oleomargarine sold (or used)
here,” and unless dealer gives to purchaser a label
with name of article and ingredients therein.

10. Vinegar, artificially colored, or containing drugs
or acids, or foreign substances, or less than two per
cent of vinegar solids. Maker of cider vinegar (un-
less domestic) must brand it “ cider vinegar.”

Ir. Wine, adulterated with alcohol, or distilled
spirits, except “ compound wine,” which may contain
not more than eight per cent, or wine not branded as
required by law.

I‘? R.ecogr~.§~.:;d mixtures, or compounds, unless

Pen ties vary from $io to $1,000 fine, and ten
days, to five years imprisonment.

THE FOOD COMMISSIONER.

The Ohio food and dairy commissioner
is elected by the people, serves two years,
and receives an annual salary of $1,500
and necessary expenses. He may have
two assistants at a yearl salary of $1,000
each; he may also emp oy necessary ex-
perts, chemists, inspectors, and counsel.

The duty of the commissioner is to in-
spect articles of food and drink and to
prosecute violation of the law. He and
his assistants have power to enter any
manufactory of food or drink, to examine
the books, to open any package, and to take
samples for analysis.

ANALYSES .

A year or so ago we published quite an
extended list of analyses taken from the
Ohio report of 1892. Below we give a few
as samples from the report of 1893.

:'All.¢pire.—Ash 9.54 r cent; consists of allspice, mustard,
shells, some product 0 wheat, and about 5 percent of mineral
matter.

A1lspice.—Ash, 4.7 per cent; allspice, about 75 per cent; clove
stems, 25 per cent.

Baking’ you/der.—Bicarbonate soda, 19 per cent; alum, 16.5
per cent; flour filling, 42 per cent; moisture, 20. per cent.

Cimramon.-—Consists of red and white sago, c iefly; roasted
cocoanut shells, and cassia.

C|'.nnamon.—Ash, 12.73 er cent; gypsum, to per cent; also
mustard hulls, red and wliite sago, cocoanut shells, and cin-
namon.

Clo1:e.v.—Ash, 3.7 per cent; fixed fat, 3.29 per cent; olive
stones, roasted cocoanut shells, and allspice, together about
66.66 rcentzcloves, about 33.33 per cent.

Cafiz.-Coffee, 50 per cent; chicory, 30 per cent; peas and
wheat, 20 per cent.

Cofilze —-Cofiee, 74 per cent: damaged cofiee, is per cent;
cofiee shells, 2 per cent; wood, 2 per cent; pebbles, 4 per cent;
coflee screenings.

Cajfee.—-Coffee, 30 per cent; chicory, cereals, and peas, 70
per cent.

Cream tartar.—Cream tartar. none; alum, 13.62 per cent;
acid phosphate, 14.9 per cent; gypsum, 26.04, per cent; starch,
45. per cent. '

m.¢,7er.—-Ash, 2.5 per cent; ginger, about 66 per cent;
wheat flour, about 3 er cent.

' .’lIu.ctard.-—Ash, 3. per cent; fixed oil, 7.6 per cent; mustard,
2: r cent; flour and turmeric, 79 per cent.

Imnzarenr1'ue.48 samples contained all the way from 30 per
cent to ioo per cent of other fats, most samples having less
than 15 per cent of butter fat.

Pe per.-—Consists of gvpsum, about 8 per cent; cocoanut
shel 5, corn meal, rice hulls, rice flour, cayenne pepper, and a
little pepper.

PBOSEOUTIONS.

During 1893 there were 136 prosecutions
under the law. Of these 83 plead guilty;
15 were tried and convicted; 15 tried and
acquitted; 2 tried and convicted but re-
versed on error; 2 tried and acquitted,
state not prosecuting; 7 dismissed at
defendants’ costs; 6 dismissed at state’s
costs; 6 pending in justice court. Of
the 136 cases, 36 were for violating the
law with respect to coffee; 34, oleomarga-
rine;13, vinegar; 9, pepper; 5, inger; and
the remainder divided among a lspice, cin-
namon, cotton seed oil, cream tartar, honey,
jelly, lard, maple syrup, milk, and wine.

EXPENSES.
The entire expense of the department

 

 

for 1893 was $14,706.25: This included
salaries and expenses of the commissioner
and two assistants; salaries and expenses of
inspectors; services of chemists, attorneys’
fees, etc. The receipts from fines and fees
were $4,312.10, leaving a net cost of $10,-
394.15.
CODIFICATION NEEDED.

A year ago there was introduced a bill
into the Ohio legislature, called the “ Clark
pure food bill.” Although it was merely a
bill grouping the existing laws on pure
food into one, it aroused the antagonism of
manufacturers and certain dealers, who lob-
bied so strongly against it that it was de-
feated. Such a measure will probably be
thf next step in pure food legislation in
0 io.

THE GRANGE AND PURE F001).

State Grange is Pushing the
Reform.

The Ohlo

T. B. SMITH, MASTER OHIO STATE GRANGE.

I suppose Ohio people are very like
other people—intelligent, law-abiding,
virtuous. Not one of them would take a
spurious coin or a counterfeit bill in
preference to a. simon pure one if they
knew it. Not one of them, if upon a jury,
and a forger or counterfeiter was on trial,
but would go as far as the evidence would
allow to convict; and our judges are dis-
posed to give this class of criminals the
utmost limit of the law. A great victory
is heralded over the country, and the
sacred rights of the citizens are vindicated,
if a gang of counterfeiters is lodged safely
behind the iron bars and their tools and

 ; _ 5 5 ’ dies are cixstrcred» Ohio  3l'€h_‘.T,§}‘¥..,
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h‘k’3‘ofli'er‘ peéple, bet.-.ause"while they do
not look upon the man who counterfeits
money with the “least degree of allow-
ance,” they are disposed to be very toler-
ant of the man who counterfeits bread.
Hands of holy horror are raised against
impure money but there are many apolo-
gists for impure food.

The State Grange of Ohio published the
first declaration against adulterated food
and made the first demand for the protec-
tion of the honest producer against the
dishonest compounder. Since that date
the Grange has waged war on every species
of adulteration; it has asked and secured
some wholesome legislation; it has spotted
the men who were sent to represent the
people, but chose rather to represent the
frauds. Some of them were defeated for
renomination, and others, having secured
nomination, were defeated at the polls.
Our legislative committee has frequently
appeared before committees of thehouse
and senate in behalf of more stringent
laws, and enlarging the scope of our dairy
and food commissioner.

Much good work is being done by our
present efficient commissioner. During
his first term of office he exposed so many
vile compounds and arrested so many
manufacturers of and dealers in adulterated
goods that they organized the state to de-
feat his renomination and re-election; but
his record was so clean, and the good re-
sults of his work so apparent, that he was
re-elected by over 77,000 majority. His
collection of samples analyzed and found
to be adulterated is marvelous, and almost
makes one tremble as he opens his mouth
to eat anything he has not raised himself.
Butter, honey, syrup, spices, cotfee, tea,
flour, vinegar, canned fruits, etc., more or
less adulterated, some wholly adulterants.

Our effort now is not to drive these mixt-
ures from the market by law, but to com-
pel every manufacturer of and dealer in
them to have them branded as mixtures,
giving the component parts that enter in.
We now re uire this to be done by manu-
facturers o fertilizers for our fields, and
why not of food for our stomachs? Soap-
stone has been found in buckwheat flour
and land plaster in baking powder; cocoa-
nut shells in pepper, and rice hulls in
ginger; cotton seed oil in lard and glucose
in honey; powerful acids in canned fruits
and preservaline in “shipped in meats.”
In drugs the damnable work goes still
farther, and it is a question now whether
life is not safer with the “roots and herbs”
of our grandmothers than with the drug
stores.

But in this as in other matters of reform,

agitation is the forerunner, and as we are
agitating we feel sure of a reformation.
Delaware, Ohio. -

HICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

FRUIT RIDGE, MICH.
To my Ca-laborers on the Farm of Michigan .'

In this day and age, the advantages to
be gained by organization and co-operation
are as essential to a high degree of pros-
perity and success in business, as is Chris-
tianity to good morals, or a school educa-
tion to advanced intelligence.

The day for working alone and single
handed is gone by. While we do not wish

Orncn or -run Mssrsn, ;

_ to show any unfriendly spirit toward other

classes, we realize it a duty to our own to
take advantage of all just means within our
reach to advance and protect our own
interests.

This calls for a unity of effort. Meeting
together, talking together, and working
to ether.

11 the light of today the eficacy of or-
ganization to promote good results in all
lines of improvement and progress cannot
be successfully denied. The only question
is, what kind of an organization shall we
have?

From the experience of the past thirty
years, or the entire period during which
farmers’ organizations have been known, it
must be admitted that the Grange, or more
properly the order of The Patrons of Hus-
bandry, has proven to be the most generally
adopted over the United States. It has
proven to be the most useful, successful
and perpetual, and today we come to you
with this time-tried, eflicient and perma-

 ,estshlished..omanizat.io§i»v «ml ask

your co-operati on in its behalf, and urgently
invite you to become members and workers
therein.

If there is a Grange near you will you
join it?

If you are a member of a dormant Grange
will you assist others in it revival of work?

If you have no Grange in your locality
will you join a movement toward establish-
ing_’one?

lease think the many propositions over
that I have laid before you.

I solicit your correspondence z-egarding
any features of the work of organization,
and hope to hear from you soon.

GEO. B. Horvrou.

TAKING THE CENSUS.

The law of 1893 re-enacted the census
law of 1883, by which a census of the pop-
ulation and industries of the state shall be
completed by June 30, 1894. A few words
about this census may be of interest.

The enumerators in the townships will be
appointed by the township boards, in the
cities by the common councils. They will
receive $2.50 per day for a. day of ten hours,
and ten cents per mile for going to county
clerk to get blanks. The canvass is a house
to house canvass as regards inhabitants and
agriculture. Manufacturing establishments
will also be visited, but only a few of the
most important facts will be secured, such
as kind of business, capital, number of
hands, value of product, power, and wages.

On the farms a census will be taken of
all products, stock, acreage, and value. As
many crops are raised only in localities, the
schedule will be so arranged that questions
concerning crops known not to be raised in
a certain locality, can be omitted. There
will be some new features in this census.
The number of pure bred cattle will be
found, also poultry statistics—value of eggs,
chickens, turkeys, etc., also acreage of corn
raised for silage, and number and capacity
of silos. The apiarian statistics will be
very complete. Fruit statistics will include
acreage, number of trees in 1893, of apples,
peaches, and pears; also acreage, product,
and value of product of vineyards and
nurseries.

The value of milk, and the butter made
on the farm, and butter and cheese made in
factories will be ascertained. Also record
of tile and open ditches on each farm.
About 1400 enumerators will be required,
as there is one for each township and assess-
ment district. In the compilation, electric
census machines such as were so success-
fully used in the last United States census,
and which were exhibited in the govern-

ment building at the fair, will be used. The
machine is so arranged that the statistics
of each inhabitant are taken on cards by
means of a perforating machine. The cards
are then run through an electric tabulati
machine, and as each goes through the tog
is indicated on dials. The use of these ma-
chines will save largely in clerk hire and
greater accuracy will also be secured.

THE FARl[ER’S POSITION AND VALUE.

The Toronto Empire says in a recent
issue: “ We believe that the grievances
of our farmers are entitled to every atten-
tion. Agriculture is the backbone of every
country, and especially of this, and those
who pursue that avocation may fairly claim
every consideration from the other great
interests of the country, since its prosperity
is the basis of theirs. It would be hard to
find two interests whose prosperity is more
completely interlaced than agriculture and
manufacturing. Practically speaking their
interests are identical.”

Again, the St. Louis Republic says:
“ In every land where men have divided
into occupations, the success of agriculture
measures the extent to which other indus-
tries can subsist. The return from agri-
culture furnishes the scale by which
wages and incomes are everywhere else
limited.

“ Employers may cut wages when they
have power. Trades unions may increase
wages when they are strong enough. But
the income from the farmer’s labor is the
general regulator.

“ In this country the farms are the mar-
ket for everything else. They support the
trades of the cities and the labor of the fac-
Liane»,
and domestic servants can be paid for any
length of time only when the product of
the farm is profitable. The richest gold
sands ever found would not be worth wash-
ing if agriculture were not worth pursuing.

“Profit on the farms then is the real
problem for every American, no matter
whether he ever saw a farm or not.

“ Our farmers must have profits or they
cannot buy from the merchants. The
merchants cannot buy from the factories’.
railroads cannot get freights, citigg, md
counties -.",.;;.“.3? r'c.‘.'.9r't- .’r-9:. ; to support
srl.‘-:‘.’.i=.«; the whole nation must rot and
crumble away.

“It would be supposed that the first
object of the dependent industry would be
to make strong and fat the industry on
which it depends. The first object of fac-
tory labor should be to give the farmer
every chance to dispose of products by
exchange. The merchant, teacher, and
lawyer should be ready for revolution
against anything which diminishes the
movement of corn, wheat and cotton to any
market.

CATARRH CANNOT BE CURE]!

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood
or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it
you must take internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucou ssurfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure
is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by
one of the best physicians in this country for
years, and is a regular prescription. It is com-
posedot the best tonics known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the
two ingredients is what produces such wonderful
results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials,

free.
F. J. CHENEY Sr CO. Props., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.

If a member puts nothing into the Grange excep
one dollar and twenty cents a year his returns wil
be very meagre, but if he renders a zealous service
to the Order in trying to build it up and make it a
power for good in the land his reward will be a rich
one in added experience and in the consciousness of
a personal duty faithfully rendered in assisting to
build up a higher and better manhood and woman-
hood among the farming population of our country,
—Grange Homes.

Tell your neighbor what the VIS-
ITOR does in the way of advocating
measures in the interest of the farmer,
and don’t leave him until he gives
you a quarter to pay for the paper
for the next eight months.

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Field and Stock.

WIDE TIRES.

Mars/tall, Mic/1., April 24. 1894.

EDITOR GRANGE V1si'roa—In reply to
your kind letter requesting my opinion as
to the merits of the wide tire wagons, their
benefit to the highway, and how best they
could be brought into general use, I beg to
say that I am a friend to good roads, their
protection and practical maintenance; a
firm believer in the wide tire for both
farm and road. And as an earnest some-
what of the faith within me, will say at the
outset,I was using the four inch tire wagon
on my farm three years prior to the passage
of the so called “ wide tire bill” by our
legislature in 1882, have no use for a nar-
row tire since, other than for light spring
wagon or buggy. Tince the passage of the
bill alluded to, the wide tire has been on
trial. The law relating thereto was not
mandatory, but intended simply to intro-
duce and encourage their use.
, Twelve years have rolled by and these
benefactors to horse, farm, and highway
have rolled themselves into public favor in
-spite of the narrow bladed “ back number”
who, believing Andrew Jackson still presi-
dent, freights his produce to market in “the
good old way,” with dished wheel and
tire ground to an edge. An instrument as
proportionately destructive to a road bed

at certain seasons of the year as a sulky
plow set for an eight inch furrow let loose

over the same course. ,
NOT A PAIR TRIAL.

In this trial of the wide tire for the past
twelve years, we haven’t have a strictly :
square deal, the judge having been preju-
diced and the jury selfish. In the first
place we are a people quite given to follow-
ing old ruts and not taking kindly to new
things any way. No one expected the
manufacturer to enthuse to any great ex-
tent with this new measure which menaced
the disposal of his stock of narrow tire
wagons and felloes on hand. Owners of
narrow tire wagons also, not circumstanced
or otherwise disposed to change, were gen-
erally hostile to the wide rimmed new
comer, and extremely slow of conversion.
And finally: This trial to have been en-
tirely impartial, should have been had over
two separate road beds, equally good, bad,
or indifierent, the wide tire or roller on one,
and the narrow tire or roller cutter on the
other, then let it be a survival of the fittest.

The number of wide tire wagons now in
use and the condition of the road bed where

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principally used, would seem» to 

that the wide tire is all right and has come
to stay.

Now if we will look after the grade, get
out the water by turnpike or tile, spread
on the coarse gravel where obtainable, the-

on coming wide tired rollers will do the
rest.

Thanking you for your kindness, and
trusting the VISITOR will, as in the past,
encourage the discussion of all questions
relating to our interests as a whole, I am
‘“ Very truly yours,

NEWELL J. KELSEY.

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DAIRY NOTES.

1. N. COWDREY.
A cow should be milked quickly and
uietly. Let her know you are master. but
don’t keep her afraid of you.

Your cows should have all the freedom
that it is possible for you to give them.

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THE enaiveii ‘VISITOR.

48 degrees. Salt in the grain, so the salt
will be more evenly distributed, about an
ounce of salt to a pound of butter. Do not
work enough to destroy the grain, but
enough so that when you cut with a knife it
won’t break. There is a certain medium
between where butter will break and its
being salvy. If you strike this medium,
you are all right. This is the most par-
ticular job in butter making, and experience
is the only way to determine it.
Ithaca.

CARE OF SWINE.

The care of breeding stock has a great
deal to do with the thrift and growth of
young swine. The dam for six weeks be-
fore the birth of the pigs should have lit-
tle if any corn or meal; middlings and bran
with a small amount of oil meal should
form the bulk of her feed. Few farmers
know the virtue there is in bran as a
feed for swine. It will cause the sows to
give plenty of milk and will cause pigs to
grow muscle as well as fat. The best pigs
we ever raised were fed equal parts of mid-
dlings and bran with a handful of oil meal
in each feed. We once fed a sow sixty ears
of corn per day, and wondered why the
pigs did not grow, and why they looked so

stunted; that was twenty years ago and we

have lived to find out the reason.

The dam for four weeks before birth of
the pigs should have plenty of exercise, and
when so used we never had one show any
desire to eat her pigs.

Every man must choose a breed that suits

i him, but with the experience we have had

with Poland Cliinas, Berkshires, Victorias,
and Chester \Vhites, we have settled on
the latter as the best all around, quick grow-
ing, easy fattening of any we ever owned.
They can be fattened at any age over three
months or kept as store hogs and fattened
as heavy pork the second fall. Many farm-
ers have not yet learned the value of an acre
or more of clover for pasturing the hogs;
fully one-half the feed of growing pigs
should be clover, and one of the most pro-
ductive acres of this farm is the hog past-
ure. And many a man who never tried
it would besurprised to see the greed with
which ho s will consume clover hay in
winter. urnips, sugar beets, and even
carrots are eaten with a great relish in
winter and are very healthy.
D. A. H.

0 UR POULTRY INTERESTS.

Very few people seem to recognize the
importance and magnitude of the poultry

valuable still; to say the kind of food,
treatment and breeding, etc., which from
a standard of dollars and cents will make
them more valuable.

Our agricultural college ought to be
able to furnish such information. The
farmers ought to be taught what will make
their poultry of the most value to them just
as much as they are taught what will make
their fruit trees put forth the most buds in
May and yield the most beautiful fruit in
November.

POULTBYMAN.

EASTERN MICHIGAN GRAPE NOTES.

R. L. TAYLOR.

e

To one who has become acquainted with
the requirements for the successful culti-
vation of the vine and with its wonderful
capacity for the production cf fruit, it is a
constant wonder that it remains practically
a stranger to the great mass of our homes.
The grape has rightly been called the ban-
ana of the north. We have no other fruit
which we can produce so abundantly and
with such certainty and ease. Laying down
the tenderer kinds makes them secure
against the eifects of winter, and spraying
and bagging will prevent injury from in-
sect and fungus in cases where that is
threatened. The vine begins to produce
fruit almost as quickly as the strawberry
plant, and if given a little care will con-
tinue to do so as long as the hand that
planted it lives to gather the fruit. Danger
from an occasional late spring frost seems
to be about the only thing which may not
readily be provided against, and-tliat danger
is not great. Of course pruning and cul-
tivation may not be neglected, but to what
other labor, owing to the vigor and grace of
the vine and the wonderful abundance and
splendor of the fruit, does the horticulturist
have such an enticing invitation? I am
sure there is no other fruit whose produc-
tion gives such universal satisfaction and
delight.

GRAPES NEED GOOD CARE.

It may be that the reason the vine is so
seldom seen in a prosperous condition is
that “ a little care” is too generally under-
stood to mean no care at all, and so it is
stuck into the ground in a tough sod, or in
the shade of a tree or a building, and left
to itself. Give it the cultivation which a
good farmer gives his corn, on ground
which would produce good corn, and it will
surely respond heartily. And then if you
would render this disposition in it perma-
nent, the knife must not be spared. Another

interests. \P.Qziltr-y..ea<.-hihitiens, .eo:n.r;s..'.}l‘}*'*i=v reaserg-I  wh-ywthe ea-l—ti*.=atienef-the

called “chicken shows,” attract very little
attention ordinarily, and those who do give
the matter some attention are usually
called “chicken cranks.” The people do
not understand the importance of poultry
culture; nor do they comprehend the vast
interests involved and the progress that is
being made. The poultry interests in the
United States in dollars and cents exceed
those of any other product. More money
is spent in the United States for eggs and
poultry than for wheat and flour. We an-
nually import from Canada hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth. People as a

-3 general thing are beginning to realize this,

and the farmers are giving these mat-
ters more attention.

Canada has an experimental poultry
farm and the states are beginning to make
appropriations to aid the fanciers and those
engaged in poultry culture. Our own state
agricultural college is giving the matter

I consideration, and we hope the day is not

VVhen it is possible, use deep setting ,

cans about 8 inches in diameter and 16
inches deep. It is not necessary to have
cream gauges on them, but plain cans, made
by your tinner. .They should have covers
large enough to slip down over them easily,
and extend down into the water so to exclude
all dust. Ventilate by having a fine wire
screen placed in the top of the cover.

Make a cheap place, where, when you
pump water for your stock, it will first run
through tanks in which your cans are
placed. I used an organ box in which I
placed my tanks, which consisted of a
kerosene barrel cut in two.
arranged that when I pumped water for the
stock, a complete change of cool water
would be had around the milk; the milk
would stand 36 hours in the warmest
weather and not become sour. Have a
similar can to keep the cream in, which is
also kept in the tank.

Use a barrel ch um, and temper the cream
to 62 degrees. You get just as good butter
but not quite so much as if churned at 58
degrees, but will save time enough in
churning to make up the loss of butter, if
you have to do the churning by hand.
Churn till the butter forms in grains about
half the size of wheat kernels, and draw

cold water in the churn, and revolve a few
times, draw ofi the water, and continue
until the water becomes clear. The water
should be cold enough so that the butter
will keep in the granular state through the
different washings. My well water is about

far distant when it takes hold thereof and
gives the farmers of this state some practi-
cal teachings and help in this great indus-
try. Measured by the standard of dollars
and cents to the farmer the poultry indus-
try deserves the careful attention of our
agricultural colleges in every state, and the
time is at hand when they must do this.
The fine limbed and beautiful Jersey cat-

" tle have been made more valuable to the

I had them so «

farmer by the dairy departments in our
colleges. The delicious fruits of our or-
chards and the finely shaped trees owe
much of their productiveness and beauty
to the experiments of our state institutions.
COLLEGE HELP NEEDED.

The wonderful improvement in all agri-
cultural pursuits is largely indebted to
the agricultural colleges. And why should
not the poultry interest receive some atten-
tion under the tutelage of the state? There
have been great improvements and there is
room for still greater advancement. The
magnificent fowls of today are way ahead
of those of former times in beauty and
practical utility. The hen of earlier days
laid two or three dozen eggs a year, while
now the hen that does not lay twelve or
fourteen dozen a year with fairly good care

. given her ought to go into potpie at once.

The same improvement has taken place in
eating qualities and sizes. These improve-
ments are not the result of accident, but

1 the result of patient study of years in
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breeding and feeding. Left to themselves
they would amount to nothing more than
the wild ducks that come and go, and
the quail and partridge that roam our
fields. The brain and hand of man have
made them what they are. It still remains
however for others to make them more

grape is not more popular, is the poor
quality of the grapes generally offered in
the market and of the varieties usually rec-
ommended for planting.

One would hardly expect to popularize
the apple as a dessert fruit by the distri-
bution of the Ben Davis; no more should
it be expected that the grape will attain
the popularity it deserves by the consump-
tion of tne Talman and Concord grapes as
they are usually sent to market.

The following notes give some of the
results of my observations of the grapes
mentioned as grown here, in connection
with which it should be remembered that
some varieties take a different relative po-
sition in ripening in different localities and
to some extent in the same locality in
different years. I mention first those that
have appeared to me to be most valuable
for this locality and about in the order of
their ripening.

' VARIETIES

Green Mountain After fruiting thisjfor
two years I give it the first place among
very early grapes, both for produz-tivenes
and quality. It is a white grape, bears fair
crops of long, graceful clusters. It has
shown no disease and ripens at the end of
August.

After this come the two black grapes,
Early Victor and Cottage, and there is not
much to choose between them. Both are
healthy, both yield well, and neither is of
very good quality. I prefer the flavor of
the Cottage, though the Victor has less and
softer pulp.

The Eldorado is a white, very early grape
I could not dispense with. The clusters
are very beautiful, of good size, and of the
finest quality. It is the earliest grape of
very fine quality that I know, and has so
far been healthy.

Massasoit is the earliest of the Rogers’
grapes I have tried. It bears good crops
of loose clusters of large berries. The
quality is very good, but the vine is liable
to suffer from mildew.

The Worden, for present use, is every
way unexceptionable, except that it is not
of fine quality. However it suits most
tastes, and to my taste is decidedly prefer-
able to the Niagara, which it excels in
health and rivals in productiveness.

The Delaware is the standard in quality,
and when well matured it is hard to say
that any other excels it. It is healthy ex-
cept for a liability to leaf blight which can
and for success must be prevented by spray-
ing with Bordeaux mixture. With me the
hardest thing to overcome is the cracking
of the berries caused by the too great com-
pactness of the clusters at the time of
ripening.

 

MAY 3, 1894.

The Brighton ripens about with the Del-
aware, and while hardly so highly flavored
as the Delaware and Ionia, _it must yet be
put in the first class. No vine here excels
it in its great crops of magnificent clusters.
Its greatest defect is the lack of the keep-
ing quality. It is somewhat liable to mil-
dew. ‘

The Lindley, the Norfolk, and Rogers
No. 30, are all showy red grapes. The
Norfolk is the brightest red and the most
showy, and is a wonder on account of its
color as the Brighton is on account of its
magnificent clusters. All are very good
quality but Lindley is the best, and besides
is a good keeper. In the winter it is one
of the best. The first and the last should
be sprayed to guard against mildew.

The Eumelan is a grape which should be
better known, and so far as I am acquaint-
ed with them it is the best of the blacks;
indeed to my taste it is among the best
though it is usually rated a little lower
than that. It is a fair yielder and a good
keeper, but will often require care to pre-
vent mildew and rot.

Moore’s Diamond. Though highly rec-
ommended generally I am at a loss where
to place this grape. I have not found it
very productive and the quality is not the
highest, though much better than that of
Niagara. It is a handsome grape and a
fair keeper. Its habit of growth is such
that the new growth is liable to be broken
by the wind.

The Salem, the Agawam, and the Mer-
rimac, are three of Rogers’ best. The first
two are dark red, the last black. All bear
good crops and all are excellent keepers.
The Agawam it the best cropper and is
excellent for culinary purposes. In qual-
ity the Salem is the best, and if well kept
till March, as it may easily be, it has hardly
a rival. All are somewhat subject to mil-
dew.

The Duchess is a white grape and of
the first quality. It is very productive, of
long, very compact clusters of medium
sized berries. The vine is very vigorous
and healthy except that it sometimes shows
a little mildew. I could not spare this
grape.

The Vergennes is productive of fine
clusters of large copper colored berries.
It is desirable as a long keeper, but I find
spraying indispensable to success on ac-
count of a tendency to leaf blight.

The Niagara is very productive, of large,
handsome, very compact clusters of white
or greenish berries. I should call it hardly
second class in quality, though it seems to
suit many tastes. For culinary purposes
.it--isdespicable, and though it seems to
keep pretty well it is really a poor keeper
for it soon loses its flavor, and its flesh its
proper consistency. I have no use for it
except for market.

The Eaton I have not tried a sufficiently
long time to determine fully its adaptabil-
ity to this locality, but it promises well. It
is healthier, and to my taste decidedly bet-
ter than the Niagara and ripens about with
it. The berry is black and very large and
juicy. It is less pulpy but more acid than
the Worden.

The Ulster is a red grape of the highest
quality and flavor but it needs to be thor-
oughly ripened to “tame” the acid of the
fruit. The vine is rather a slow grower
but very healthy, and the clusters are of
moderate size. Further trial is required.

The Catawba, the Iona, and the J effer-
son are the last to ripen here and do not
always fully mature. They are all red
grapes. The first is of second quality but
a great yielder of fine clusters. The other
two are of the liighest quality and every
lover of the grape should try one or both
in some favorable locality. The Iona does
well on the south side of a building if the
soil be well cultivated and cared for.

I have tried many others which have been
recommended, but some have not been suf-
ficiently tested, and others, such as Moore’s
Early, Jessica, Lady, Hayes, Pocklington,
etc., have been found wanting. Jessica
has been supplanted by Green Mountain,
the others are not productive here. Be-
sides Lady ripens unevenly and cracks
badly and Pocklington seldom ripens fully
and when it does it falls far short of the
reputation it has in some other localities.

Poughkeepsie is a fine little grape, much
like the Delaware but earlier. It is pro-
ductive and of excellent quality, but so
liable to mildew that it must be sprayed.

If I were asked to name twelve varieties
for family use none of which I should like
to be without, I should name the Green
Mountain, Eldorado, Eumelan, Worden,
Delaware, Brighton, Lindley, Salem, Duch-
ess, Ulster, Iona, and J eiferson. If I were
required to dop six I should retain Eldo-
rado, Eumelan, Delaware, Brighton, Salem,
and Duchess.

For commercial purposes in our ordinary
markets probably Early Victor, Worden,
and Niagara would be best for this local-
ity, but it might be well to add the Concord

or the Eaton.
Lafcer.

 

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not very big, but it has fii-steclass arti-
cles by first-class men. Show this to
your neighbor and ask him to take
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MAY 3, 1894

1‘HE GnANeir.‘_ visi'ron.

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Woman’s Work.

PANCAKES.

How dear to my heart is the food of my childhood
When poor hotel dinners recall it to view;

The chickens, the partridges shot in the wildwood
And all kinds of jam that my infancy knew.

The plump fat old turkey with cranberries nigh it,
The mince pies which often I ate with such joy,
But best of them all and I cannot deny it,

Were those good buckwheat pancakes I ate When 9-

boy.
Those good buckwheat pancakes, those excellent
pancakes, _
Those unrivaled pancakes I ate when a boy.

That old pancake griddle I hailed as a treasure,

For at noon or at night, when returned from my
toil,

I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure,

Far better than food that you roast, bake or boil. _

How ardent I seized them with countenance glowing,

And unto the table did bear them with joy,

And soon to my mouth mighty fragments were
going

Of those good buckwheat pancakes I ate when a boy.

Those good buckwheat pancakes, those excellent
pancakes

Those unrivaled pancakes I ate when a boy.

How nice from the griddle right hot to receive them,
To swallow them quickly and then call for more,
Not even ambrosia would tempt me to leave them,
When once they had entered my mouth’s open door,
And oft when pursuing my way through life’s wild-
wood,

A learning a bit of its sorrow and joy,

My fancy returns to the scenes of my childhood
And those good buckwheat pancakes I ate when a

bo .
Those gzod buckwheat pancakes, those excellent
pancakes,
Those unrivaled pancakes I ate when a boy.
——Grand Traverse Herald.

_____._,.__
OUTINGS FOR WORKING GIRLS AND
CHILDREN FROM THE CITY.

DEAR SIsTERs—At the last meeting of
the State Grange your state committee on
Woman’s Work carefully considered the
feasibility of giving the tired working
girls and the poor children an outing of
ten days or two weeks in our farm homes
this coming summer.

A resolution was introduced and
adopted to this effect, and now through
the VISITOR we appeal to you for the ful-
fillment of this plan.

It is useless for us to urge upon you the
importance of this movement. Think of
the tired out working girls in shops,
factories, and kitchens, who have no place
to go for rest and recuperation; or if they
had, have not the means to pay their board.
Think of the little children who never have
a chance for a romp in the woods and
fields; who never saw fruits and flowers
save in the markets, and even then know
nothing of eating as much as they want
orxgathering the flowers and having them
for their very own.

Do not cherish for a moment the thought
that the times are hard, or that we now
have all that we can do. An extra plate,
knife, and fork, and an extra cup of milk
are all that is needed; for there is not a
farmer’s table in Michigan but has enough
on at each meal to comfortably feed one
more, without any extra work or expense.

A good sister with heart and hands full
of the work of a dairy and fruit farm
thought at the first, when this subject was
brought to her notice, that‘ she would be
glad to take a poor child for a couple of
weeks, but could not think of it in fruit
time. After she knew that a little boy
from the city came into 8. friend’s home in
the country, and with hands and arms full
of grapes, pockets full of peaches and
aching to hold more, as with a joyful face
he turned to his benefactor and said, “Now
I guess I know what Heaven is like,” she
said “I want one of these little folks just
when Iam busiest, for that is when the
fruit is at full.”

Sisters of the Woman’s Work commit-
tees of Pomona and Subordinate Granges,
will you not take hold of this work? Find
out from your Patrons how many will take
girls or children and set about making
your plans at once, for the summer time
with flowers and fruits will soon be here.
The Patrons on the east side of the state

, may correspond directly with Correspond-

ing Secretary of Children’s Free_ Hospital,
402 J eiferson avenue Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. Royce will doubtless make arrange-
ments for girls and children from Chicago
on the west side of the state, and we Wlll
make arrangements for some one at Grand
Rapids to supply the Patrons in the cen-
tral part of the state.

As to expense. All the expense to us
will be taking care of them while with us,
as the associated charities of the cities
make arrangements for transportation.

“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one
of the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me.” MARY A. MAYO-

LEAVES FROM OLD OAKS.

OLD OAKS FARM.

April 23: Standing at my window just
now, watching the moon come up through
the trees, for the hundredth time those lines
went through my mind.

“While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke,
Gently o’er the accustomed oak.”

I think Milton must have had a great oak
between his window and the east, too, and
have seen her _many a. night “check her
yoke” among its strong, bare arms. The

rising moon and the sturdy outlines of that
old tree are so connected by life-long asso-
ciations, that if I saw the one come up'over
the ocean or prairie, I think the
branches of the other would be very dis-
tinct in my eye.

May 1: Our orioles came today and in-
spected their last year’s home, that still
swings in the elm near the kitchen door.
Mother has listened for them since the blos-
soms began to burst. They and Sir Scarlet
Tanager seem to fancy that their orange
and red flashes will not kindle the white
snow of the cherry and apple trees.

The blue bird, “ bearing the sky on his
back,” is guarding his box on the clothes
line post. The meadow larks, the blue jays,
and dear plump robins make medley music.
They take time to be delightfully compan-
ionable before they settle down to house-
keeping in earnest.

A would be taxidermist loitered down our
road this afternoon and shot a blue jay; at
dusk we heard its mate calling for it. I
would not have thought its unmusical
screech could have taken on so pathetic a
tone as it did. I have lately learned to
recognize the ja.y’s clear-toned whistle but,
like many people, he delights most in his
com laining note.

hy is the blsckbird not more of a pet?
He is such a jaunty fellow and his song,
or “ split whistle,” as Thoreau calls it, is so
very odd and sweet. We common observ-
ers call every bird’s note “ a song,” I sup-
pose. But, actually, the term observers
doesn’t apply at all to us who live among
the birds, whose days begin with their
mstins and are closed at their vespe-rs.
There are more than three hundred varie-
ties of birds known to make their homes,
more or less of the time, in Michigan. An
attempt to name all of these that the aver-
age person knows is too humiliating to be
written even here.

True, our state affords a wide diversity
of climate and conditions, of water,_ forest,
and prairie; but how many can point out
more than twenty differently marked spar-
rows, or fifty Warblers, or a dozen swallows
or woodpeckers, or half as many Wrens or
larks, and name them? Most of us would
stumble at a third or a quarter of these.

I met Mr. Gay in the road yesterday, and
in five minutes he told me of more birds he
had seen in a half mile walk than I would
have expected to have seen (or probably
should have seen) in a fifty mile drive. He,
having been given eyes, has a peculiarity of
making use of them.

It is said of Thoreau, that because he had
used his eyes he was “able to tell every
farmer more than he knew before of his
own farm, so that he began to feel as if Mr.”
Ehoreau had better rights in his land than

e-I’

I'm afraid many of our farmers think the
only right they have in their land, worth
considering, is named in their tax titles!

RUTH L. RESTLY.

WORK FOR THE SEASON.

At the first warm breath of spring the
thoughts of the housekeeper naturally turn
to a general cleaning and renovating of the
entire dwelling and its contents.

Do not tear up the entire house at once,
thus creating a long continued nightmare
for every member of the family, from the
eldest to the youngest,——but begin either
with the cellar or garret, and only try to
clean one or two rooms at a time, not more
than one if you have to work alone. First
empty a room, clean it thoroughly, and
when it is perfectly dried and well aired,
return the contents, being careful to have
every article clean before being returned
to the clean room. A thorough sunning in
the open air is very desirable for all bed-
ding, carpets, and curtains, whether their
use is to be continued or they are to be
packed away until next winter.

THOROUGH WORK.

If there is to be new paint or paper of
course it requires more time and labor, but
one room thoroughly done gives more gen-
uine satisfaction to the tired housewife
than three or four only half done and left
to be finished the next day.

“ One thing at a time
And that done well
Is a very good rule,
As many can tell,” l
and this rule applies to housecleaning as
well as to 8. great many other things.

Those who not only have to clean house
but also have to move, through the very
uncertain weather, over bad roads, are to
be pitied, and still I have known such an
occasion to be turned into a regular frolic.

If we are only granted health and
strength we can go through our spring
work and be ready for the summer with its
share of work and pleasure.

But house cleaning is not the only work
expected of the feminine part of humanity
at this season. In many families she is
expected to rake the dooryard, and perhaps
help plant and care for the garden. Such
work as this, if taken in moderation, is
really beneficial to a woman who has been
confined to the house through the long,
dreary months of winter, and is a pleasant
change from the drudgery of housework.

TIME FOR CULTURE.
Perhaps your spring sewing is not all

done, or you have some to do to prepare
for the hot days of summer. Undoubtedly
if you are a wife and mother, you find
enough to do at all times, but don’t allow
yourself to become a slave to your work,
and so taken up with the washing of dishes
and making of beds, that you have no time
for self improvement, for if you would
keep up with your friends, and show your-
self worthy to associate with people of re-
finement, it is absolutely necessary that you
spend some of your time in reading, enough
at least to inform yourself as to the most
important events transpiring in our coun-
try from day to day. Then if you are
blessed with some one God-given talent,
never, unless your health fails, allow your
housework to hinder you from cultivating
it. You may be obliged to struggle along
alone for want of means, but do not forego
the pleasure the study will give you,—even
while engaged in doing “the work of the
season.”

CLARA A. BRIGGS.
Sand Creek.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To clean kitchen and pantry well take
unslaked lime, pour boiling water on it,
cover with an old carpet. When slaked,
thin with hot water; one pint of lye from
wood ashes, one gill of granulated sugar;
it will not rub off.

Take care of smoked hams for summer
use. Cut up the same as for cooking, then
pack in stone jars solid, within two inches
of the top. Pour melted lard over top;
when cool lay on a thin piece of muslin,
cover with salt, and keep in a cool place.
Will keep till October.

To keep beefsteak in hot weather lay in
a flat pan, turn sour or coagulated milk on
it; change every morning.

Take care of your feather beds for sum-
mer. Lay them out in a heavy rain; when
dry hang them on a line in the store-
room, you will find that a good renovator.

With all the rest of the spring work don’t
forget to have a few flowers to gladden the
heart. The lesson of the pansy is evolu-
tion and progress; the motto is union, cult-
ure, and peace.

L. W. B.

SUGGESTIONS.

Already the thrifty housekeeper has be-
gun the spring cleaning and renewals, and

- Ell-‘: finds that for health and beauty some

of the old paper must be removed from the
walls. She wishes a good job done or per-
haps there has been some contagious disease
which requires extra care to make the room
perfectly wholesome. To remove the old
paper, make a thin paste and apply to the
paper with a whitewash brush three or four
breadths at a time. The paste applied hot
will soften the paper so it can be easily re-
moved with a knife. Then wash the walls
with hot soda water and your walls will be
smooth and sweet as when first plastered.

Wash paint and glass with a trifle of
kerosene added to suds and they will clean
easier and leave a nice gloss.

A pinch of salt added to the coffee keeps
the aroma from evaporating so quickly.

Let the spring winds into the cellar part
of the house, ventilating, cleaning, and dry-
every part thoroughly. It should be done
before any the rest of the house is cleaned,
thus insuring perfect freedom from mold
and dampness if the drains are in perfect
order, giving a fresh smell to the Whole
house that well repays the tired housewife
for all her care and labor.

Perhaps every one is not of the opinion
of Sister Mayo that soap making is such
“picnicey” work, especially when it is like
the old lady’s jelly that would not jell. For
all such would recommend the following:
, One pound Babbitt’s Potash dissolved in
one quart of boiling water; add one quart
cold water, then five pounds rendered grease
warmed; stir constantly until it curdles,
pour into mould.

X. Y. Z.

THAT COMPOSITE COLLEGE GIRL.

There was recently an article in a. lead-
ing daily, which called attention to the
manikin of the composite college girl shown
in the anthropological building at the great
fair.

She was lop shouldered, her waist was

several inches too small to be perfectly -

natural, while important internal organs
were crowded out of place——in fact she was
askew generally. So it seems from a sani-
tary point of view the average college girl
is all wrong. It is curious to ima 'ne what
her children, if she has any, wil be like.
She will probably have a tough time of it,
taking it all round, bringing them up.
Chicago's “ I will,” then, was not college
bred. Or, if she was, she- took a. severe
course of gymnastics along with the other
“ exercises.”

There was a little story told me the other

day, which the teller vouched for on his
word and honor to be a fact, incredible as.
it may seem. I will give it here soonecan
see what outdoor work, or ymnastics, when
persistently followed, wi I sometimes do,
for the so called weaker sex.

He said that one morning a stout German
woman, the mother of thirteen children,
was working in the wheat field, with all
helping as they were able. About ten
o’clock she went into the house. She did
not make her appearance again till 4 p. m.,_
when she went to work binding grain as usu-
al. When all hands went into supper the
woman said to my informant, holding up a
small bundle with an air of pride: “ See
what I've got!” It was a new born baby.

It is unnecessary to add that this wonder-
ful woman had not been through a college.

What wonder that fun is sometimes seen
poked at the sweet girl graduate in this
wise: The Boston college girl (¥3)n’1i§Im$ry.

The Juveniles.

JENNY WREN’S CHILDREN.

Up three pairs of winding stairs

\Vith leafy patterns carpeted,

There you’ll find, if you are not blind,
Little brown babies in a brown bed,
Whispering together some secret deep:

“ Peep, peep, peep!”

Nightcap and gown of the finest down,
Crazy quilt of sunshine and shade,
Pillows of moss and thistle floss,
Where five little drowsy heads lightly are laid,
Softly singing themselves to sleep:
“ Peep, peep, peep!”
——Toulh’.¢ Companion.

TIIE MERRY MILKMAID.

On my mother’s sewing table stands a
quaint little image unlike anything else I
have ever seen. My mother bought it at a
church fair in England when she was a
young girl, and I am sure it would charm
the fancy of any needlewoman.

The figure, to begin with, is a slender
doll about four or five inches high, with a
china head and pliant body, ending in
china arms and legs.

Having possessed yourself of such a doll,
around her legs wind fold after fold of cot-
ton batting until they are covered so thickly
as to make a dress skirt stand out, and so
firmly as to keep the doll upright. Wind
only a layer or two around the body, so that
it will taper up to the waist line.

For the foundation on which the doll is
to stand, cut a piece of cardboard in a cir-
cular shape with a diameter of three and a
half inches.

Now cut a piece of fancy flowered silk
with length the height of the doll and
breadth a little more than the circumference
of the cardboard. Sew the piece together,
and then shirr the top edge to fit around
the shoulders, not the neck. Also gather
it in snugly around the doll’s waist, and cut
two holes for the arms, leaving enough
cloth to shirr down like short sleeves.

Cut a piece of fine white flannel or cash-
mere in the shape of an apron and fasten it
over the front of the silk gown by means of
a few concealed stitches. Tie a narrow rib-
bon around as a belt to hide the ed e. This
apron is for sticking darning nee les and
other coarse needles.

Fold a square of turkey red twill or scar-
let cloth crosswise into shawl shape and
place it over the shoulders of the doll, se-
curing it there by a few hidden stitches.

Now fasten firmly a strong bodkin or tape
runner across the back at the shoulders.
This forms the milk-pail yoke. From each
end of the yoke suspend a. large spool of
white cotton thread, these representing
milk pails.

Now stand the milkmaid firmly on the
cardboard, turn in the edge of her gown to
the right length and fasten it around the
entire circle of a row of pins placed very
close together.

There she stands, all dressed, excepting
her tall hat. This hat is made of a “top
thimble” thrust through a close fitting hole
in a round piece of colored cardboard, leav-
ing enough of the cardboard to extend
about the head like a hat brim. The hat
may be secured upon the head by a drop
or two of melted sealing wax, and is to
serve as a “rest” or holder for your own
sewing thimble.

You have a good pincushion of the milk-
maid’s stufl"ed out gown, a cushion for
large needles of her white apron, a cushion
for fine needles of her bright scarlet shawl,
and a holder for your thimble, while her
pails give you two spools of cotton, with
the ends concealed, yet loose enough to be
easily found. You can hang a pair of
scissors on a. hook attached to her belt, but
though this makes of her a very complete
“needle-woman’s friend,” it detracts from
her appearance as a. milkmaid.—Elizabeth
Palmer Matthews in Inter Ocean.

The women and children of the farm
have their share in the VISITOR.
Has your neighbor’s wife heard about
the strong and sensible articles that
appear on this page‘? Show some of
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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. We 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 Farmers for their
own Improvement,
Financially,
Socially,
Mentally,
Morally.

WE BELIEVE

that this Improvement Can in Large Measure
be Brought About:

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

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

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

(1).) 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 diifusing 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 na-
tional laws as shall tend to the general jus-
tice, progress, and morality.

Now for another VISITOR campaign.

We have some more pure food material
this issue.

Brother Redfern has something to say
on the salaries question, on page seven.
What do you think?

Our lecturers’ department is getting
interesting. Lecturers will please notice
our request to them.

Page two gets better and more practical
all the time. We wish our readers would
write more for that page than they do.
We should like your experiences given in
brief, concise form. Take any topic that
occurs to you.

We give considerable space to papers
on the liquor question. In discussing this
problem let us not forget that the great
question with us is not so much, “What is
the best solution?” as, “W” hat can the
Grange do to help solve the problem?”

“ KICKING” AND VOTING.

Some one has observed that while the
farmers claim that they outnumber any
other class of voters, in the same breath
they complain of maltreatment and neglect
by legislators. The observer thought that
was a strange position to take. And it does
look a. little that way.

Here in Michigan, for instance, the
farmers, if not in a majority, have votes
enough so that when they choose they have
things pretty much their way. About a
third of the members of the last legislature
were classed as farmers. Yet after adjourn-
ment, as is usually the case, a cry went up
that the farmers’ interests had been almost
entirely neglected.

The trouble is that the farmers will not
pool their strength. If the farmers would

make up their minds what legislation is
necessary for their interest, and then de-
mand it of the respective parties to which
they belong, they would secure precisely
what they want. The farmers have a chance
this year to do this very thing, to get what
they believe they deserve. Will they do

it? Oh, no, they won't do it; but we wish
they would try.

THE INHERITANCE TAX LAW.

There is a provision in the Michigan
constitution that all property taxation
must be uniform. There is also a provi-
sion that specific taxes must go into the
primary school fund. The inheritance tax
law, if considered a property tax, violated
the former provision, and if a specific tax
violated the latter provision, because it pro-
vided that the tax should go into the gen-
eral fund. This law is a good law and
should bere-enacted, if possible, so as to
avoid the constitutional difficulties. It
may require constitutional amendment,
however, to make the law workable in our
state; and such a move is open to objec-
tions.

ANOTHER CAMPAIGN.

Two years ago we obtained nearly a
thousand subscribers during May and
June, by our low offer. We think it wise
to repeat the offer during the same months
of this year, and the proposition is fully
explained on other pages. We want to
say just a word to Patrons about this olfer.
We are entering upon a campaign for the
VISITOR that will end either in putting the
paper on a substantial basis or in decid-
ing that there is no use in trying to
push it further. This offer is a starter.
We ought to have a. thousand more names
before July 1, and we can have them if
our loyal and true friends will once again
come to our support.

A GREAT NEED.

We have many important questions
always pressing for settlement. Some of
our people are interested in one problem,
some in another. Yet it seems difficult to
concentrate enough force to carry out any
given reform. Most of us in suchgmgttgggl
do not live up to our beliefs. We believe
in woman suffrage, but we don’t help the
suffragists; we believe in downing the
whisky business, but we don’t even de-
mand the enforcement of existing liquor
laws; we tell each other what the legisla-
ture ought to do, but we don’t write letters
or “talk turkey” to the members. In
other words we are really very careless of
the public welfare. If we would spend
less time in telling what ought to be done
and more in helping to do these things,
reforms would come more easily. It seems
to us that one of the greatest needs of the
day is that our people who believe in
better government and better laws shall
set their faces like flint toward reform, and
never flinch nor falter until they win. We
must secure the electric elbow touch of
organization, choose wise and brave lead-
ers, utilize patriotic newspapers for
trumpeters, plan a comprehensive cam-
paign, and fight it out on these lines if it
takes a lifetime.

CITOOSING SENATORS.

There is a growing feeling that the
United States senate is not in close touch
with the masses. There also exists a
pretty well defined belief that this is due
largely to the methods of selection, by
which the senators arc in reality not de-
pendent upon their constituents. So there
has developed a strong sentiment, among
the farmers perhaps more especially, that
United States senators should be selected
by direct vote of the people. This move-
ment has great difficulties confronting it.
A long and hard struggle will no doubt be
necessary to accomplish it. But it would
seem as if a step toward a more popular
choice of senators could be taken by the
method of allowing party state conventions
to nominate their candidates. A conven-
tion of eight or nine hundred delegates is
fairly a representative one, and would be
less easily influenced than a legislature.
The candidates would appear in the cam-
paign, just as ordinary candidates do, and
such contact with the people would do the
successful man worlds of good. Of course
the legislature would still have to vote for
senator, yet the vote would always be a
party test. But it would rarely be, as it

run salsa-‘.3 VISITOR.

now sometimes is said to be, a contest of
wealth and brains, with odds against
brains.

The present would seem to be a favor-
able time for Michigan to try this plan.
There would not be likely to be any severe
struggle engendered in any party, and the
principle of the thing could be advanced
as the true reason for its trial. Why don’t
the people, who are supposed to rule, de-
mand this measure from their particular
party conventions?

The above was written before the death of
Senator Stockbridge, but the value of the
practice advocéted remains unchanged by
any new political conditions that may
arise because of this sad event.

ARE FARMERS INTERESTED?

In another column correspondents
touch the liquor question, and bring us
to face the inquiry, has the Grange, and the
body of farmers through the Grange, any-
thing to say on this liquor question? Or,
as we have stated the query in the lecturers’
department, can the farmers aid in solving
the liquor question, and have they any
interest in the matter ? We all know full well
that the problem of liquor drinking is get-
ting to be pretty serious. The old ship of
state has 9. big consignment of whisky
aboard, and she is rolling too much already.
There seems to be a serious difference of
opinion as to whether that portion of the
cargo will have to be thrown overboard, or
whether by a little better packing of the
casks their presence will cease to be a
menace to the vessel’s safety. But the
problem does not lessen as time goes on,
and spasmodically efforts are made at solu-
tion, so far without much avail.

Now, should the farmers aid in the mat-
ter? The cities do not seem to be very
successful in dealing with the question.
Should we try to help them out? It
may be argued that this business does not
very directly touch the farmers; the great
harm is done in the cities; theirs is the
burden and they must settle the matter
as best they can. But is that position
logical?

_.,, jYl;en___the farmers go up to the capitol

to demand legislation, they invariably
argue, in effect: We are half the popula-
tion, or more; we possess more wealth than
any other class; our business is the funda-
mental one, for we feed you all; and we de-
mand proper recognition. These are good
arguments, though sometimes more con-
clusive as arguments than as means of
securing legislation.

But being true, does it not follow that the
reverse is true; that what seriously affects
the cities, must‘also have its effect upon
the farmers? Is a disease liable to confine
its ravages solely to one-half the body?
Even if it could be clearly shown that the
direct injury to the farmers, materially and
morally, by the liquor traffic, was of little
account, would it not still remain true that
the horrible results of the business in the
cities must necessarily eat their way down
to the farmers‘?

We don’t believe that one-half our peo-
ple can support such a cancerous growth
as the liquor traffic, while the other half
keeps in the bloom of health.

So much for the interest. What shall
we do? Does anybody know? Will some
wise one answer? All the VISITOR has to
suggest about the whole matter is, let us
as a Grange talk over the question, calmly
but earnestly, and see if haply we may not

find a duty and an opportunity for great
service to the cause of right.

A BLESSED WORK.

It is rarely that Patrons are called upon
to do as noble a work as that outlined by
Mrs. Mayo on the woman’s page of this
number. We who have never breathed
aught else than God’s free, pure air do not
realize what that means to those who have
never breathed it. We to whom the green
grass, the growing crops, the budding
trees are common things do not appreciate
the feelings of those who revel in such
surroundings for the first time. The
country is a new world to many a poor
child of the city, a long step toward
Heaven.

This work appeals to us as Patrons,
because we are taught to feed the hungry.
Here are souls hungering for higher food
than bread; and we have it in our power

to bestow the blessing. Such work too,

MAY 3, 1894.

will give the Grange a higher standing
among people who have heretofore had in-
complete ideas of its work. It appeals to
us as Christians, for is there more than one
answer to the question, would our Master
do this work? It appeals to us as men
and women, because it means help for the
suffering, rest for the weary, drink for the
thirsty, liberty for the imprisoned. Doubt-
less many a housewife will deem the
burden greater than she can bear. But
the reward will be great. No one who
shall bear whatever of sacrifice may be
involved will ever regret it. Rather the
memory of it shall be as the breath of the
morning, and the blessing of it as the dew
of the evening. And helpful as the exper-
ience will be to those who receive the
hospitality of our farm homes, we venture
to say that the greater benefit and the
higher joy will remain with the givers.

OUR WORK.

“We believe in diffusing a knowledge of our
civil institutions and teaching the high duties of
citizenship.”

We fear that he average young man,
when he casts his first vote, possesses
rather a meagre knowledge of civil gov-
ernment. If he has been brought up on
a farm he probably has a pretty fair no-
tion of township and county government.
But of state and national government he
is apt to have crude ideas, except perhaps
as regards the chief elective officers. And
the city boy is usually not so well posted
as the country lad. Even if the young
voter is a high school graduate, or has had
a college course, it is not altogether un-
likely that he does not know the duties of
our state officials, nor the names and pur-
poses of our state establishments. While
we regret this defect in the education of
our citizens, we believe that there is a no-
ticeable improvement in the schools, in this
respect, and are confident that the fault
will be remedied in time. A more serious
thing is the fact that so many of our
grown up voters, foreigners mostly, know
absolutely nothing about our government.
They do not even appreciate its principles,
to say nothing of its forms. However, if
the stream of immigration can be checked
long enough to allow us to Americanize
those who have already come, we can in
time also strengthen this weak point.

But a condition really more dangerous
than those mentioned demands notice.
Among those who are well versed in our
institutions are many who neglect their
plain duty of upholding those institutions.
They know how to vote and for what to
vote, but they don’t vote. Others, who
may vote, do it merely as a perfunctory
obligation, but take little interest in the
candidates or results. Unfortunately some
of our finest and best man have this fault.
Their public conscience seems to be asleep.
They don’t seem to realize that they are
doing wrong, that they are unpatriotic.
Yet we believe that this is not too severe
a judgment upon them. We are accus-
tomed to think of patriotism as a. virtue
which belongs to the heroic days of War,
and which is needless during the piping
times of peace. Such is not the case.
Patriotism is just as fully in demand today
as it was when Sumpter was fired on.
There are civil contests torlay that require
as much bravery and almost as much
sacrifice as did Gettysburg. We have no
drum and fife to inspire, but “the flag is
still there,” and it means just as much as it
ever did; its folds are just as dear as they
ever were. But our sentiments are asleep.
We need rousing. Perhaps we need some
civil crisis, the shadow of some dire catas-
trophe, to rally all patriots once more, not
to the bloody field, but to the polls. At
any rate, patriotism should be defined very
clearly to our young men, and the duties
and responsibilities of citizenship should
be written on the hearts of those who are
just entering the fields to glean.

The Grange is exerting a positive influ-
ence in these directions. The discussion
of public questions occupies a good share
of the energy of the members; and inevi-
tably the young men are taught the ins
and outs of government. Moreover the
Grange persistently urges its members to
attend primaries and to vote. The Grange
never asks a man to withdraw from his
political relations. On the contrary it
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THE enanen vrsi'roii.

duties——the high duties of citizenship.
ldo young farmer can make a mistake in
Joining the Grange. Its teachings" are to-
ward his elevation as a man and as a
citizen.

The editorial page discusses live
questions in a brief, plain, concise
way. You can read it 16 times for

25 cents. So can your neighbor.
§‘SoepI¢e6.

The becfure Field.

0!‘ INTEREST T0 LECTURERS.

 

We publish replies already received to
our questions of last issue. We reprint
the questions and trust lecturers will con-
tinue to respond.

1. How often do you meet? On what evening and
at what hour? At what hour do you usually
close?

2. Do you have a literary program at each meet-
ing? Please name a few topics that you have re-
cently discussed with profit.

3. How much heed does your Grange give to
the strict enforcement of parliamentary rules?

4. Does degree work occupy a prominent part
in your Grange work?

5. How frequently do you have public meetings?
Do you ever hold meetings where your friends who
are not Patrons are invited by your members?
What is your opinion of the value of either of these
kinds of meetings?

6. What plans have you for increasing your
membership?

 

HADISON GRANGE, NO. 384.

1. We meet once in two weeks. Begin-
ning April I, we meet each alternate
Saturday evening at eight o'clock, and
continue doing so until October 1, when
we meet each alternate Tuesday evening
at 7:30. Literary work closes at 9:45
sharp. The meeting closes as soon as con-
venient after that.

2. We never fail to have some sort of
literary work. If because of absence of
members or any other cause the regular
program fails, the lecturer tries to always
have something short and interesting
which some person or persons volunteer to
read. A question box has proven very

various topics of which the following
seemed to call out many remarks from the
members. “Should the A. P. A’s. be
encouraged?” What is free coinage of
silver?” “Would a Grange fair be benefi-
cial to us?”

3. I think we are at least up to the
average in this, perhaps as strict as some
would deem advisable.

, 4.. No, we do degree work only when we
have a class to initiate. Not as much
attention is paid to this as seems to
me for the good of our Order. Because of
the frequent change of oflicers (yearly)
there seems a reluctance to learn the work
as we should.

5. Our public meetings are rare. To
the second part of the question I would
say perhaps once or twice a year, aside
from children’s day. As to the value of
such meetings, I am undecided. The
latter may be more desirable than the
former. With us, however, I am inclined
to think that if such meetings were fre-
quently held we would not gain in mem-
bership as much as we now do because of
the perversity of human nature which
makes us want that which we cannot too

easily get. -
6. Individual elfort we find most
effective.
EMILY GANDER, Lecturer.
Adrian.

WOODMAN GRANGE. NO. 610.

1. We meet every other Saturday even-
ing, open the meeting between 7 and 8
o’clock and close between 9 and 10 o’clock.
2. We do unless we have initiating on
hand. Our last subject was “What can
we do to create an interest in our Grange?”
3. Not much of any. 4. It does not.
5. Last winter we held a series of eight
open meetings in which literary work
took a prominent part. They were
well attended by those who were not
members of the Order. 6. Our Grange is
situated in the country, and we let the
candidates pay their fees in wood, and we
have taken in a good many that way.

WM. G. ADAMS, Lecturer.
Gobleville.

BANGOR GRANGE NO. 60.

Enclosed please find program for liter-
ary part of our work.
The Program.

FEBRUARY 17, 2 P. )1.

Lincoln Day—Lincoln as a. boy; A8 E statesman;
Anecdotes of1Lincoln; Selections from his writing.
MARCH 3, 2 P. M.

Plans for the season; Points for butter makers;

Essay.
MARCH 17, 2 P. M.
Longfellow Day—Early life of Longfellow; As
an author; Selections from his works.
MARCH 31, 2 P. M.
Is the “agricultural schedule” of the tariff
advantageous to the American farmer? Does
it lighten a woman’s work to move to the village?

y. APRIL 14. 2 P. M. _
Talmage Day—-Early life; Asa public speaker;

Selections. V
APRIL 28, 2 P

MAY 19, 2 P. M.
Irving Day-Youth of Irving; Irving as an
author; Selections.

Juan 2, 2 P. M.
Shall we raise any stock? If so, what kind?
Are evening sessions desirable? Essay.

JUN: 16, 2 p. H.
Bryant Day—Early life of Bryant; Bryant as a
poet; Selections.

JUN: 30, 2 P. If.
Shall we market our wheat as soon as thi-eshed?
Life insurance——Is it desirable? Essay.

JULY 14, 2 P. M.
Mark Twain Day—Biography;
Essay.
This answers questions one and two.
Our_Grange is very particular in regard to
parliamentary rules, and when we have
degree work we try to follow ritualistic
directions.
Several times during the year we invite
our farmer friends to visit and eat with
our Grange; we believe our Grange is in a
good healthy condition.
‘Each family in the Grange is furnished
with a copy of the Visiroa at Grange ex-

Selections;

pense. We believe the Grange has come
to stay.
0. B. CHARLES.
Bangor.

THE ELIQUOB. Q UESTION.

EDITOR GRANGE Visi'roa:—Under the
head of “State Politics” in a recent
VISITOR, I noticed the following: “King
alcohol reigns well nigh undisturbed.
His crowned head lies easy. We pursue
our ways, and he follows his work of dis-
truction. What are we going to do about
it?” Yes we pursue our ways, which lead
in the same direction as his ways, and
when the two ways meet and become one
way, the outcome of the meeting is the
saloon. In my view of the case, we the
people are in the same boat with the
saloonist. And the pot cannot call the
kettle black, nor vice versa. Now will
some “good Patron,”_ or other good citizen,
show us how a saloon keeper is as respon-
sible for the results of his business as those
who license him. Is the partaker of the
stolen property less guilty than the thief,
if he knows the property is stolen? We
stand behind the purchaser of a license,
clutching the three hundred dollars he has
paid us, and virtually say to him, go and
make paupers, criminals, drunkards, and
the like out of our citizens. This may
seem harsh language, but is it not true?
Are we not putting the bottle to our
neighbor’s lips through this license system‘?
How can we love our neighbor as ourselves,
when we authorize another neighbor to
sell him liquor, the sum of all villainies?,
Have we forgotten that grand maxim of.
the Bible which bids us do to others as we
would they should do to us?

But why pursue this line of the subject
further, all of average intelligence are
aware of the enormity of our besetting sin,
the disgrace of our boasted civilization.
A Christian people, which we claim to be,
closing their ears against the cry of their
“brother’s blood” shed through this
license system.

WHAT SHALL wa no?

But what are we going to do about it?
That is the question that stares us in the
face. It is a question we cannot dodge,
one that will not down. When we were
called upon to put down the rebellion, we
harnessed for the fight, we shot that way.
So we must shoot at this king alcohol.
We must tear the crown from his head
which lies so easy. We must treat the
saloons as we do glandered horses, dis-
eased peach trees, or mad dogs, destroy
them. Public safety requires it, and pub-
lic good demands it. Is not a man as valu-
able as a horse? If so Why not use the
same precaution to protect him? I believe
nine-tenths of the country people are at
heart in favor of suppressing the saloons,
and when they will rise in their might,
and declare the saloon must go, the pro-
cession will start. And it rests with you,
Patrons, farmers, and other good citizens
to fix the time. I was surprised that our
last State Grange did not report the saloon
among its grievances and ask legislative
action thereon. Has the saloon become so
insignificant in our state as to be ignored
by our State Grange? Or had it not “sand”
enough to grapple with it? Through the
whole Grange proceedings the saloon is
not mentioned. One might infer from that
that the saloon was all right. Yet 0. A.
Vanderbilt of Branch. county, did present
a resolution relative to intoxicating liquors,
and for aught I or Brother Vanderbilt
know the committee to whom it was
referred forgot to report.
D. WOODMAN.
Paw Paw.

 

LIQUOR CONTROL.

[Part of a paper read at Hillsdale Pomona by‘ Mrs. H. A
Hunker. It is of special interest from the fact t at on May 14
Hillsdalc county votes on local option.]

In the VIsIToB of March 15 the question
of liquor control is stated thus: “ King
alcohol reigns well nigh undisturbed. His
crowned head lies easy. We pursue our
ways, and he follows his work of destruc-
tion. What are we going to do about it?”

Reign—to possess or exercise sovereign
power or authority, or uncontrolled domin-
ion. , Who crowned alcohol king? By

reign, and are his subjects such by force or
voluntarily? These are a few of the ques-
tions that presented themselves upon read-
ing the statement. To my mind it is most
humiliating to hear and read in nearly
every speech made or article written on
this subject, such an admission as this.
Yet who can deny the truth of it? Just
now a strong effort is being made to work
up a sentiment in favor of high license as
a means of controlling the liquor traffic,
which being interpreted in the light of
former experience, means legalized saloons
and revenue therefrom, and broken law as
well. Local option is declared a failure,
and why? An item in one of our county
papers reads thus:

“ LOCAL OPTION IN BRANCH coUN'rr.”
CoLnwA'riiR, Feb. 24.—-Steps are being taken to
again vote on local option in this county. Local
option has been in force two years and is adead letter,
as no effort is being made in this city and county to
enforce it. There are at present fourteen places
where liquor is known to be sold, ten of which are
located in the business section of the city, and do
business the same as when a. license law wasin effect.
A man from Ohio is negotiating for the rental of a
‘brewery, which has been closed for two years on ac-
count of local option, and now has men at work har-
vesting ice for the summer. If the question is again
‘voted on it will be defeated by a large majority.
How can a law be said to be in force
which is declared to be a dead letter be-
cause no efiort is made to enforce it? And
what is true of Branch will apply with
equal force to our own county. Will not
local option do quite as well to break as a
license law? Or why should it not be en-
forced?

Hon. 0. B. Grant, justice of the supreme
court of Michigan, in a recent address on
local option from a legal standpoint, deliv-
ered in Hillsdale, said: “ Nearly every
provision had been tested by the courts and
held valid. No law upon the statute books
had been so generally disregarded as the
law regulating the liquor trafiic. The rec-
ord is known of all men. The history of
the liquor traflic in this state is written in
disgrace, a disgrace to the saloon keepers
themselves, to the olficers who are expressly
charged with its enforcement, and to citi-
zens whose apathy has made the disgrace

possible.”
HARD TO REGULATE.

The advocates of license talk briskly
about “ regulating” the business. Do they
realize that in so doing they are the tools
and henchmen of that most unscrupulous
class known as saloon keepers? Creatures
who if they prosper in their atrocious and
vile business know that children shall suf-
fer for food, for all the commonest neces-
- -ix-:ies, that they will be robbed of all that
makes life worth living; this business that
has no pity for youth, no respect for age,
that despoils love, honor, and affection of
its dearest objects, and makes hope impos-
sible to its victims.

In a single year seventeen out of thirty-
two aldermen in the city of Detroit were
saloon men. What were they there for, to
enforce the liquor law? No, indeed! Think
too of saloon keepers serving as jurors in
the city courts. The saloon is ever a cor-
rupting influence in politics. How often
have we read magazine articles entitled
“ The saloon a factor in politics,” or “ The
influence of the liquor interest in shaping
legislation.”

THE SALOON IN POLITICS.

A senator from our own state said at a
public meeting in Detroit, “ There can be
no permanent municipal reform till the
saloon is driven out of politics;” and it will
never be driven out of politics or anywhere
else by license, high or low. The saloon
keeper and his friends care nothing for
party lines. They will vote first, last, and
all the time for the candidate who they
believe will be conveniently blind to their
violations of law. We often hear the term
“ respectable saloon.” What makes it re-
spectable; attractive rooms, music, and fine
furnishing? These things are all to be
found elsewhere and in places not devoted
to the despicable and villainous business
of destroying mind and body, yet men say
“ respectable saloon.” The proprietorpays
high license and he allows nothing boister-
ous about the premises, only strikes the
first match that starts the conflagration
which is to rage and destroy farther on.
His business is just as legal as any, and he
can and does say, “ The drinking was ac-
cording to law.” ' ,

Statistics are dry, if interested you can
look them up for yourselves. Compare the
amounts paid for liquor, bread, and educa-
tion. We saw it shown on the chart in
Scipio Grange hall. We wish that such a
chart were hung in every school house,
postofiice, railroad depot, and other public
places. Just one question. Shall we then
do evil that good may come? _

Fight this tyrant with your ballots; do it
in your own parties. Surely there can be
found in every party men to fill positions
of trust and honor who have not either
actively or passively yet crowned alcohol
king.

A PLEA FOB REFORM.

Men and voters, if in the near future you
are called on or given an opportunity to
ss by our suifrages on this question of

money, every farthing. Place beside it
the suffering, poverty, pauperism, misery,

unhappy homes, and the burden of paying

for criminal trials, a very large r cent of

them resulting from this horrib e, desolat-

ing traflic; and then ask yourselves, “Is

thy servant a dog that he should do this

thing?” Vote for no man who will not

openly pledge himself to use his influence

and power against liquor and its rule in

every form.

Out of the heart aches and heart breaks
inflicted on the mothers, sisters, and wives

of this land of boasted liberty, inflicted
by the unscrupulous liquor men whether
wholesale dealers, saloon keepers, or officers
who neglected duty and used their posi-
tion for personal emolument, came the
woman’s crusade and the woman’s organiz-
ation known as the Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union with this motto adopted
for every place and every race. “ For God,
and home, and native land.”

In behalf of those of our own sex whom
this monster has despoiled of life’s hopes
and sweetness, let me say: By the purity
of our womanhood, by the consecration of
our wifehood, by the devotion of our
motherhood, nay more, by the sacredness
of the promise, “The seed of the woman
shall bruise the serpent’s hea ," when this
question is presented to you for solution,
decide it from the standpoint of right and
wrong. “ Quit you like men.”

 

THE ONLY WAY.

EDITOR Visiroa——In your issue of April
15 you ask, “ What do you think of the
liquor question?” Perhaps it is presump-
tuous in me to suppose the question ad-
dressed to me, but although comparatively
young I am deeply interested in the sub-
ject.

I believe there are but two or three
methods proposed for the solution of the
problem. The most popular one is “regu-
lation.”
tem is being tried in South Carolina. The
third method is suppression.

No one will deny that the first system
has had a thorough trial. Will anybody
say that it has been successful? You might
as well talk of regulating the small-pox or
a cyclone. Is there a regulation on our
statutes which is enforced in our large
cities with anything like thoroughness?
The Swedish method may prove better
than the first. But I believe there would
be as much opposition to the adoption of
it as to that of su pression. Indeed, in
South Carolina, the egislature was elected
to enact a prohibitory law, but gave the
people the dispensary law instead.

To my mind the only way of handlingthe
liquor business is to pursue the policy of
total suppression. This method has been
tried quite thoroughly in the state of Maine.
For over 30 years there was a prohibitory
law on the statutes of that state, when, by
a vote of three to one, the people placed a
prohibitory clause in the constitution.

I hope to see a very thorough discussion
of this question in your columns. It is of
more importance than tarifi, finance, or all
other questions combined.

Fraternally yours,
J. L. DAvis.

Crosby,

QUESTIONS FOR FARMERS’ CLUBS.

Highland, Mich, April 30, 1894.

EDITOR GRANGE VISITOR--The _ follow-
ing list of questions has been prepared
for general discussion by the various
Farmers’ Clubs of the state, in conformity
with the resolutions adopted at the state
convention. The design is that every such
organization in the state shall discuss the
same question each month, not to the ex-
clusion of their regular program, but as
supplemental to it. In this way a more
general expression of opinions on the
questions can be obtained, and concerted
action in reference thereto can be secured
when necessary.

A. C. BIRD,

Secy. Mich. State Association Farmers’
Club.

MAY—" Is the Agricultural College fulfilling
the purposes for which it was established, and
what are the proper relations which should exist
between the college and the farmers of the state?

JUNE——Farmers’ organizations; what are their
proper objects and by what means can these ob-
jects best be obtained?

J ULY—W0uld the passage of a law for the prop-
er grading of wheat, and the appointment of a
state grain inspector, be beneficial to the farmers
of the state?

Aucusr —How shall farmers’ sons and daugh-
ters be educated, and where can it best be done?

SEPTEMBER—Sl10llld not a law be passed by
which the consumer of bogus butter shall be ab-
solutely certain that the representation is not
pure butter.

0c'roBis:R—Outlook for the profitable feeding of
stock for market the coming winter.

N ovEMBsR—Naturalization and immigration.

DEcEMnna——Needed legislation—state and
national.

J ANUARY—HOW can our state association of
farmers’ clubs accomplish the most good?

Fii:nRUAav—-Pending legislation—-state and
national.

 

 

Be sure that every Patron in your
Grange has the VISITOR. Make him
try it eight months for a. quarter.

icense, 0 not look with greedy _eyes upon

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The coming farmer; How shall the farmer
adapt himself to the present times? Essay.

whose leave or consent is he allowed to

thelmoney that license will bring, blood

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BULLETIN NOTES.

PLAN TING POTATOES LATE.

Michigan Bu lletin.—Generally,
better results can be obtained by
using the‘ second alternative—
planting later. By plowing early
in May and keeping the ground
well cultivated, the moisture from
the spring rains can be retained,
and an ideal seed bed secured. If
we plant early in June, the ground
being warm, the seed will vegetate
quickly and the June rains will
cause a rapid growth. The great
need of moisture will not come un-
til September, when there is an
increase in precipitation and a
lower temperature. That the late
varieties of potatoes are better for
this late planting, the results this
year, in our variety tests, well illus-
trate. The planting was done from
the 6th to the 8th of J mic, and
while the drought killed the early
varieties in from 58 to 65 days from
planting and the crop was nearly a
failure, the late varieties ripened
in from 85 to 120 days, witha satis-
factory yield.

POTATO SCAB.

llfichigan Bu.lletin.—-1. The po-
tato scab can be readily and cheaply
controlled. 2. Corrosive sublimate
is the best remedy known as yet.
Bordeaux mixture is promising.
3. Ground once infected with scab
will retain the germs for several
years, and treating the seed for
such ground will not be as effect-
ive. 4. The treatment causes not
only a more salable product, but
within proper limits an increased
yield. 5. Corrosive sublimate, 1
part to 2,000, seems to be as effect-
ive as 1 part to 1,000. The latter
strength is preferable, as the solu-
tion gradually loses strength. 6.
The best length of time to soak the
seed is about one and one-half
hours. A longer soaking may
lessen the scab still more, but it
reduces the yield.

 

LINES OF INSECT IMMIGRATION.

Ohio Bulletin.——There appear to
be two great highways which in-
sects imported from Europe have
followed in entering Ohio. Those
coming from north of latitude 45°
north, have generally entered the
state at its northeastern corner and
their spread southward has, as a
rule, been less marked than to
the westward, while those coming
from southern Europe have geper-
ally entered by way of the
Ohio valley and have a compara-
tively restricted northern distribu-
tion.

CONTROLLING THE INSECTS.

Ohio Bulletin.——For the Hessian
fly, late plowing is the most effect-
ive preventive yet discovered.
Burning the stubble is useful in
preventing the ravages of this in-
sect, as well as of the straw and
joint worms. For destroying the
chinch bug, Prof. Snow seems to
have used a fungoid, Sporotrichum
globulzferum, to considerable ad-
vantage. Fall plowing and rapid
rotation of crops are the best meas-
ures yet discovered for preventing
the increase of wire worms and
white grubs. Rotation alone will
overcome the western corn root
worm, and most cutworms may be
destroyed by laying down baits of
poisoned grass or clover.

CANNING THE INSECTS.

A large number of empty fruit
cans will be utilized at the Okla-
homa experiment station this year
as insect traps. After melting ofi
the tops, the cans will be placed in
out of the Way places, half filled
with sweetened water, and the di-
rector expects to trap all manner of
noxious bugs, beetles, and moths.
The director thinks that if all our
farmers would thus follow this plan,
in a year or so there would be a

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‘HOT WATER TREATMENT FOR SMUT
IN OATS.

Results from this work at the
Oklahoma experiment station show
an increased yield for seed oats
treated with hot water at 133 de-
grees Fahrenheit for ten minutes,
over the same variety of oats not
treated. Last year’s work of this
character corroborated the station
work of 1892.

PEAR SCAB.
Geneva, N. Y ., Bulletin.——1. In

these experiments pear scab was
successfully treated by dilute Bor-
deaux mixture containing four
pounds of copper sulphate to forty-
five gallons of themixture. 2. Com-
paring three treatments after the
buds begin to open and before the
blossoms open with two treatments
during the same period, it is still
doubtful whether enough benefit
may be gained from the former to
justify the expense of the extra
treatment. 3. In order to treat
pear scab successfully the spraying
must be done thoroughly and at the
right season. 4. The benefits of
the treatment extend to the tree as
well as the fruit, as shown by the
increased vigor of the foliage and
fruit on the sprayed trees when
compared with the unsprayed trees.

TO MAKE BORDEAUX MIXTURE.

Ohio Bulle1‘in.——Copper sulphate
(blue vitriol) 4 pounds——quicklime
4 pounds—water 40 gallons. Put
the copper sulphate into a cloth
sack and suspend in a bucket of
water, as it will dissolve more read-
ily than if put directly into the
water. Shake the lime and make
a milk of lime, which pour into the
copper sulphalgewsolution, after
which add the’ requisite quantity
of water.

FEEDING WHEAT AND BABLEY TO
HOGS.

Washington Bulletin.—Sum-
mary of this partial test would
seem to show: 1. With our com-
mon grade hog, half grown, one
pound of pork can be produced by
feeding from 3. pounds to 5 pounds
of grain. 2. he younger the hog
the less grain required to produce
a pound of meat. 3. That barley
chop alone is a more profitable
feed than wheat alone, pound for
pound. 4. That barley and wheat
mixed in the proportions of one to
two, respectively, are better than
either alone. At 3% cents per
pound for live hogs it is profitable
to feedwheat priced at 40 cents
per bushel, if no better returns than
five pounds of grain for one pound
of pork are made.

CORN FACTS.
[Bulletin Purdue, Ind., Stalion.l

1. The best yields of corn have
been produced from the earliest
planting—May l——but planting ten
days later has not materially re-
duced the yield.

2. With each later planting of
corn in 1893, the time required to
mature the crop was shortened, the
extreme range being 17 days in
favor of the latest planting. If the
more rapid maturing of the later
planted corn proves to be the gen-
eral rule, it will give substantial
encouragement to those who are
compelled to plant late.

3. As a rule the yield of corn has
been proportionate to the thickness
of stand, but size of the car has
been reduced by thick planting. It
is advisable, therefore, to plant
thickly for silage, while a. medium
stand will prove more satisfactory
if the crop is to be husked.

4. Better yields of corn have been
obtained from plowing eight inches
deep than from any less depth.

5. Shallow, level cultivation has
generally produced the best yield
of corn, but the difference in yield
from cultivation ranging from one
to three inches deep is compara-
tively slight.

6. Considerably better yields of
corn have been produced by grow-
ing this crop in rotation with other
crops than by growing corn every

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year on the same land. The aver-
age increase in yield of corn from
rotative cropping is over 16 per
cent.

7. Fresh horse manure has pro-

3 duced marked and lasting effect on

the yield of corn. The effect of
manure on the growth and yield of
corn was very perceptible in the
tenth crop after the manure was
applied.

8. High grade commercial fer-
tilizers and horse manure have, in
some years, greatly increased the
yield of corn, but as 9. rule the im-
mediate return (yield of the first
crop) has not repaid the added cost
of fertilization. The good effect
of the fertilization on yields of suc-
ceeding crops will, doubtless, in
many cases, result in a net profit.

9. The good effects of fertiliza-
tion are curtailed in both dry and
wet seasons because, in the first
case, the added fertility does not
readily become available, and in
the second case it is either partly
Washed out of the soil, or it pro-
duces a too rank—and consequently
unprofitable~—growth.

ARTIFICIAL RIPENING OF CREAM.

[Bulletin Storrs, Conn., station.]

The chief object of the ripening
of cream is to produce the butter
aroma, and this aroma, though very
evanescent, controls the price of
the butter.

This flavor the butter maker
owes to the bacteria; for by their
growth the materials in the cream

are decomposed; and the com-,
pounds formed which produce the‘

flavors and odors of high quality
butter.

Different species of bacteria vary
much as to the flavors which they
produce, some giving rise to good,
some to extra fine and others to a
very poor quality of butter. A
majority 0 our common dairy
species produce good, but not the
hi host quality of butter.

p to the present time the but-
ter maker has had no means of
controlling the species in his cream,
but has had to use those furnished
him by the farmer.

The bacteriologist can islolate
and obtain in pure cultures the
species of bacteria which produce
the best flavored butter. He can
then furnish them to the creamer-
ies to use as startersin cream ripen-
ing. This artificial ripening of
cream promises much for the near
future, although it has been ap-
plied only on a small scale at the
present time. The use of a pure
culture of a species from Uruguay
improved the flavor of the butter
of a Connecticut creamery over
twenty per cent, according to ex-
pert estimates.

Most species of bacteria in bad
butter are probably associated with
filthiness. Hence, a proper in-
spection of the barns and dairies
to insure proper conditions, espec-
ially cleanliness, will be a means
of avoiding much of the trouble in

cream ripening, and will, in many Bic

cases, result in an improvement of
the butter.

PROFIT IN CAPONS.

To the poultry raiser we would say we
know of no source of profit bringing larger
returns for the outlay than raising capons,
the profit in a great majority of cases being
over 100 per cent. The question of assured
profit is an all—convincing argument in any
line and pre-eminently so to the poultry-
men whose losses are added to from various
unlooked for sources. As an illustration:
Ordinary dressed poultry in the market
will bring from ten to fifteen cents per
pound. Capons readily sell at from twenty
to thirty cents per pound. When we take
into consideration that their cost is no more
——even if as much—than the cockerel, we
readily see the enormous profits derived
from caponizing. Not many years ago the
practice of caponizing was very little known
in the United States. Today it is exten-
sively practiced among poultry raisers
throughout the country. a growth convin-
cing in itself of the great profits derived
therefrom. We have given this matter of

profit close attention for a long period and N

find the results in all cases highly satisfact-
ory. It is now an established fact that
equally as fine capons can be raised in the
north, west or south as in New jersey.
They can be successfully grown anywhere.

New Jersey being the pioneer state in which_

capons were raised in this country, and
owing to the fame attached to the bird
this has given thatistate an enviable prom-
inence to outside poultrymen. Now, nearly
every state sends its capons to market. The

live poultryman is not slow as to his best W

~,nterests.—.—Geo. P. Pulling.

MAY 3, 1894.

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month. Subscriptions 50 cents per year. Address
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Ofloers National Grange.

M.AS’l'ER—J. H. BRIGHAM- .-Delta, Ohio
Ovsasn:n—E. W. DAVIS... R Cal
LEo'1'mzEs.—ALPHA MESSEB
'S1'EwAnI>—M. B. HUNT ‘ ..... ..
Ass'T S'rawAai)—A. M. BELL‘-HE
CHAPLAIN—S. L. WILSO

   
 

N._.. . . Mississippi
’.l‘air.AsUnEa—Miis. F. M. MCDOWELL....N. Y.

8iwnE'rAni—JOHN TRIMBLE Washington, D.C
GATE KEErEu—W. E. HARBACGH. .. .Missouri
GI'.BEs—MRS. M. S. REIONE .....Pennsylvania
POMONA—M RS. M ARY REARDON ..... -.Kansas
FLORA—MRS. ANNIE L. BULL . . . . _.Minnesota
LAi)_v Ass‘T ST1:w'i>—-MRS. AMANDA HORTON
Michigan.
Executive Committee.

LEONARD RHONE._Center Hall, Pennsylvania
R. R.HU'I‘CHINSO. ____.-__ ..., __--. irginia
J. J. WOODMAN ......... __Paw Paw, Michigan

Ofleers Michigan State Grange.

  
 
   

MAsTi:n—G. B. HORTON Fruit Ridge
0vEizsEEiz—-M. T. COLE , .. almyra
Ll0'I'UBEB—A. J. CROSB psilanti
S'l.'EWARD—A. P. GRAY.... A In

Ass’T STEWABD-J. H. MARTIN, Box 442.,

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CnAi>i:.A1N—MARY A. MAYO .... ..Battle Creek
'1‘aI:AsUiznii——E. A. S'1‘RONG..._ ..-.Vicksburg
SI:oari'Aiir—JENNIE BUELL ...... ..Ann Arbor
GATE Kiriirnii-GEO. L. CABLISLE..Kalkaska
CI:nn:s—MARY C. ALLIB .............. ..-Adrian
Fi.oaA— RS. SARAH A. ST. CLAIR..Butt_eri_iut
PoxoNA—Ml:t8. A. A. LEIGH’1‘ON_..0ld Mission
L. A. 8'i'rw'n—-MRS. J .H. MARTIN Grand Rapids

Executive Committee.

A. D. B K ........ .- ---.Lzmsins
C. L. WHITNEY ..................... -.Muskegon

County Deputies.
D_ H_ sgebbms _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __Atwood, Antriin St‘.

   
 
  
   
   
 
 
  
  

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R. B. Reynolds. ______ “Inland. 3611218 “
Geo. Bowser .... .. .,Dow_1ing. Barry “
kiiiies D. Studley____ -1; mon City, Branch “
_ v_ C)“ _____ __ _.__Buchanan, Berrien “
{.aW’. Ennert___ ____ "St. johns, Clinton “
ary A. Mayo__ __Battle Creek, Calhoun “
Vi/m. Clark__,__ _Charlevoix, Charlevoix “
E B. V‘Vard.____ Charlevoix, Charievoix “
Mrs. Bina \\ ilev _Cassopolis. Cass “
A D. Bank Lansing, Eaton “
Isaac Russel ___Alma, Grutiot “
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Mrs, E. D. .\'okes_____VVheatla.nd, Hillsdale “
R A_ Brown __________ __Sand Beach, Huron “
1):]-L Engjis-h______ ,____Ch-andler, Ionia “
F. W. Havens ____ __ Fitchburg, Inghzim “
_y_ A_ Courtright__‘__ Duck Lake, Jackson “
Robert Dockery ,. ____.Rockford, Kent “
James Greasen____ Kalkasku, Kzilkaska “
Hiram Bradshaw_ orth Branch, Lapeer “
Fred Dean ____ ,_ Brighton, Livingston
E. V)’. Allis_, _Adrian, Lenawce
Crystal, Montcalm “
Bear Lake, Manistee “
_Big Rapids, Mecosta “
_____ "DISCO, Macomb “
__Flat Rock, Monroe “

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.._Ash1and, Newaygo “
__l-Iudsonville, Ottawa “
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_Vernon, S iiawzissee “
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Centerville, St. Joseph “
Birch Run, Saginaw “
Carsonville, Sanilac
vrence, Van Buren
Vohn E. \Vilcox_ ._...Plymr-‘ugh. Wayne “
john A. McDougnI____Ypsilanti, W ashteuaw “
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W. W. Carter__
Robert Alward.

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

Michigan State Grange

1: out t- aid on receipt of Cash Order,
Aggxghe Sealnisf ap Subordinate Grange, and the
signature of its Master or Secretary.
Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred.. .
Becretary‘s ledger --------------- --
Becret.ary‘s record --------------- - -
Treasure:-’s orders, bound, per hun .

tar-y's receipts for dues. per hundred ..
Treasurer's receipts for dues, per hundred. .. 3:»
A plications for membership, per hundred. . 50
véighdmwal cai-ds, per dogen ............. .. 25
Dimits, inenve o , per ozen__ ........ .._... ‘
By—Laws of the Sfgste Grange. single copies,
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No. 120.
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PAR
PANES
PALAVER
PALATINES
PAN ATHENAEA No. 121. Rain-bow.
REVIEWERS
SENNETS
REARS
SES
A
SOLVERS T0 BRAIN WORK xvii AND xviu.
Calvin, 11; Granite Poser, 6; Frantz, 5;
Faraway,_]oel H. Hint, Broin Bones, Ur-
edge, Arty Fishel, Holly, Ernest, Cinders,
A. L. S., Mildred, Rowena, Nypho, Osiris,
H. S. Nut, 3; G. Whizz, H. Ennis, Bour-

: geois, Vetterino, Black Eyed Charley, Syl-

vester, Eth Oswy, Terfinop, 2; Lily May,
R. 0. Chester, Lucile, Dick Graver, I.
Prize winners, Calvin and Granite Poser,
six months’ subscription each,to the Detroit
Puzzler.
ORIGINAL PUZZLES. No. xxx.
.‘Vo.«'. 1;; and no, /)I1Imm1¢{:.

l. A letter. 2. A step, 3. Pastries. 4. Certain
words from the vocabulziry of .\Irs. Quickly. 5.

Condoling. 6. A ccrtziin color. 7. Any sting ray.
 Hzisteneil. 9. A Smith. 10. A coinrmuid to oxen.
II. A letter.

Ba.-‘ton, .l[u.«'.v, II. S. NUT.

i. A letter. 2. A poet.
candles used in religious rites.

3. Crzines. 4. VVax
5. Direction. 0.

Pre-tsure. 7. A print. 3. Things peculiar to a
m2in’s self. 9. Protracts. 10. An old garment. ii,
A

letter.
I’ar1'Sidr, I1/.
JVO. 137.-C/mrude.
Out in the field at the break of day,
TOTAL so careless are we;
Heedless of clouds that so darkly mvziy
Gather for you and for me.
Seeds may be planted in soil or in sand,
Some may be cast upon the rocks,
PRIMAL TWO birds to the feast that's at hand.
TVVO in their numberless flocks,
So in this life are the hopes of the day
Lost by the side of t e streams,
Chances we miss as so idly we stray
Into the bri htness of dreams.
Philadelphia, $11.

N 0. 138,- Tm nsgfiosttia/1 .

The bird sings the sweetest after the shower,
The sun shines the brightest after the shade.
power
5, like the gems o beauty inlaid
In the far off heaven's celestial arch;
So the SECOND of doing some little good
Cheers oft the crowd in their daily match,
Brightens sad hearts as nothin else would,
Act in the present then, strive or that good.
Bing/mmlan, N. 1'. FRANTZ.
/Va. I3q.——C/turmI'x.

TVVO, THREE Iduineer’s regal son
Had high unibitions to pursue,—~
To reach them, blood like water rzin
And thousands he rcniorseless slew,
Detestziblc on history's page.

So great :1 wretch, the ages pass
The verdict, when such monsters rage;

They yerily c;in’t ALL, TVVO-LAS F.
PRl.\IE——rage and power, THAT BRL‘TL'.s, raised
From Actiuni’s decisive floods,
VVhen Antony in dire disin-.i_v,
Before Octavius reeled in blood.

Salem, IV. I].

1V0, 14o_———Sqmu'e.

M\'sTAGOGL' E.

CINDERS.

l’i<o'ri«:L's.

i. Manufacturing town of Prussia. 2. To plow
. 3. A genus ofhzinnless lizards. 4,. Set-
. English geologist 1790-1852. 6. Splint
.  Small instruments of steel.

Irzcrm, a. DAN D. LYON.

MYSTIC PENCILINGS.

VVe present a number of new faces to
Brain W'or/a in this issue; it is needless to
say that they are all welcome, and we hope
that they will continue to support this de-
partment. Thanks are due the Dizzmomi
Club for solutions. H. S. Nut, Dan D.
Lyon, Granite Poser, and Frantz, have sent
us excellent batches of “ cons,” all of them
are gems of the first water. Proteus, will
use yours as fast as possible. Some four to
eight line flats would help us out, try and
send solutions. Has Mystagogue quit solv-
ing? For the two best lists of solutions to
Brain VVoi'k XXI and XXII, we will give
six months’:subscriptions each to T/1e De-
/roit Puzzler. If you only have time to
solve one puzzle be sure and send it in.

NANCY LEE.

SALARIES.

EDITOR GRANGE VISITOR.——In-
asmuch as you have asked for
opinions from farmers relative to
the “increase of salaries,” I will
venture an opinion.

While I am not in favor of ex-
cessive salaries, yet I do believe
that “the workman is worthy of
his hire," and that wages or salaries
should be regulated by the value
of the services rendered. Farmers
as well as others, in hirin men
look to their fitness and abi ity to
perform certain duties. And every
farmer knows that an incompetent
man is dear at any price. The
officers of the state are no excep-

75 tion to the rule.
00

Where the fault lies is in elect-
ing men for “figure heads” and
trusting the main oversight of the
business in hand to subordinates.
To my mind it would be better to
fix the salaries of all heads of de-
partments at a. fair sum. To re-
duce the salaries of subordinates to
corresponding and proper limits,
and to hold the heads of all the
departments to a strict accounta-

bility for the manner in which
their work was performed.

“ Figure heads’? are not allowed
in business where success and the
economy necessary to insure it are
the desideratum. Surely the busi-
ness of the state is of as much im-
portance as that of individuals or
corporations. I am also of the
opinion that all state officers
should reside at Lansing. I am
not in favor, however, of giving
them the “ sop” asked for and so
shamefully lobbied for by the
members of our supreme court
during the last legislative session
in rder to secure such residence.

et it be understood that an
election to any state office carries
with it the necessity of a. residence
at_ the capital and men will not be
lacking who will accept the condi-
tions.

There is no question but that
some of our state oflicials are over-
paid. Witness the supreme court.
Each of its justices now receives
$7,000 per annum. What would
we farmers think of having to pay
9. hired man even a twentieth part
of that sum for his services‘?
Fourteen thousand bushels of
wheat at 50 cents per bushel, or
over 23,000 bushels of oats at 30
per bushel to pay the salary of one
of these men for a. year. Verily
the legal lore of our supreme court
comes high. I have read some-
where that “the quality of mercy
is not strained.” Isn’t there some-
thing strained in this high court,
or in their high salaries, or does
the strain come on the people who
foot the bills? But perchance a
day of reckoning will come when
the truth of the proverb, “they
who sow the wind shall reap the
whirlwind,” will again be verified.

I cannot close this article with-
out referring to one printed in the
last VISITOR and purporting to have
been written by the Hon. Enos
Goodrich. The article in question
is well and ably written and I con-
cur in very much therein said,
but his reference to the insatiable
appetite of the old soldier for more
pensions, and his unjust compari-
son, I must say are unworthy of
the man.

It shows that his sympathies
are not with the boys in blue, or
that age is undermining his intel-

lect.
F. W. REDFERN.
Maple Rapids.

CORPORATIONS DISCUSSED. if

Davisburg Grange No. 24-5, at
its regular meeting April 14, dis-
cussed the following subject select-
ed from the VISITOR: “ Corporate
power is greedy, aggressive, in-
creasing. ‘What shall we do to
make the beast tractable?” Two
papers were presented which by
vote of the Grange I send to the
VISITOR for publication—a.t the
discretion of the editor. A good
deal of interest was brought out.
A brief synopsis of the ideas ad-
vanced in the discussion I will en-
deavor to give below.

Brother D. M. Grover: Cor-
porate or organized power is right
in itself. It is only when organ-
ized power is all upon one side that
it becomes harmful. The way to
meet it is to bring the same power
to bear against it. God himself
teaches us to organize. The forces
of nature are organized forces.
The human body is itself an or-
ganization more complex and won-
derful than we can understand. But
certain forms of organized power
have become so grasping and far-
reaching, so aggressive that they
are crushing everything else out
of existence, and they will keep on
crushing and grinding until an out-
raged people arise in their might
and overthrow them. And the
more the laborer and wage earner
is ground down, the more severe
and terrible will be the reaction,
when it comes. A crisis is impend-
ing and is not far distant. A few
years ago I thought a revolution
was inevitable, but would not come
in my time, but these movements
mature rapidly, and it looks now as
if it might be in the lifetime of
every one here. The only hope of
the farmer is to organize against
the monopolies that are crushing
us and then to vote——as farmers-
for our interests as other organiza-
tions vote for theirs.

Brother B. J. Phillips: Well,
why don’t we organize? After all
these years of talk and agitation
and Grange work, why don’t we
come together? What is it keeps
us apart?

Brother E. J. Bigelow: We are

 

kept apart for political purposes.
Instead of using our reason and
judgment in these matters we allow
ourselves to be influenced by poli-
ticians for their advantage, not
ours. It is for their interest to keep
us divided and we permit it.

Sister D. M. Garner: Organ-
ization is the order of the day, and
there is great necessity for such
action on the part of farmers. It
is the only way to meet such
power as is now brought against us,
but I would have them organize in’
a Christian spirit, and not from
any feeling of spite or to obtain
any undue advantage; and we can
confidently feel that in the Grange
we are not doing this. In living
up to the principles of our Order
we are in no danger of encroaching
upon the rights of others.

Beautiful music was furnished
by Mrs. C. N. Landon, which with
recitations and other features of
Grange work, completed our pro-

gram.
Mus. JAS. TAYLOR.

[The two articles mentioned will appear
later.—-E11]

 

GRANGE ANNIVERSARY.

Liberty Grange No. 39, of North
Star, celebrated the twentieth anni-
versary of its organization Satur-
day evening, April 14, with an
open meeting, fully two hundred
being present.

The meeting was called to order
by the Master and placed in the
hands of the lecturer, who an-
nounced the object of the meeting
and in a brief paper welcomed
those from outside the gates.

The history of Liberty Grange
from its organization to the pres-
ent was given by Bro. L. J. Dean.
“The organization of a Grange at,
that time a new farmers’ organiza-
tion, was talked over at the town-
ship meeting held in April, 1874,
and it was decided to write Richard
Moore, organizing deputy, to come
and organize 51. Grange at North
Star, which was done and Liberty
Grange organized April 15 of that
year.” Brother Dean told of its
early struggles and successes. In
the twenty years of its existence it
has never missed a regular meeting
except on account of extremely’
stormy weather.

In an excellent paper entitled
“Woman in the Grange,” Sister
M. H. Crandell gave some good
reasons why the Grange is of bene-
fit to farmers’ wives. The farmer’s
wife need not be a mere kitchen
drudge. The Grange helps her
to better her condition socially and
mentally.

“ The Grange and what it has
accomplished,” was discussed in an
able paper by E. Franklin. He
gave its origin and purpose, and
spoke of its successes and failures.
The Grange tries to benefit its
members chiefly through the pro-
curing of the passage of just laws.
Local merchants and grocers are
recognized as a necessity, but in the
purchase of binder twine, agri-
cultural implements, etc., the
middleman can and should be dis-
pensed With.

Bro. Bove told “Why I like
the Grange,” in a paper in his own
inimitable style, which produced a
good impression on every one
present.

The remainder of the evening
was occupied with miscellaneous
literary exercises consisting of
recitations, dialogues, etc., all
interspersed with good music.

After thanking the audience for
their attendance and good order and
inviting them to “call again,” the
lecturer declared the meeting dis-
missed, when the visitors dispersed
well pleased with the evening’s
entertainment.

F. G. PALMER.

AN A 1 POMONA.

Allegan county Pomona Grange
met in Moline, April 19. There
was a. good attendance; also an
inviting number of well filled bask-
ets brought by the sisters. After
the usual opening exercises Bro.
Nash of Cheshire installed the fol-

lowing oflicers:

Master, John Jordan.
Overseer, J. V. Orton.
Lecturer, Mrs. S. Felton_,
Steward, Arthur Gilbert.
Asst. Steward, S. Feltoljh
Chaplain, Mrs. Judith Gilbert.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. A. Ely.
Secretary, Mrs. E. L. Orton.
Gate keeper, A. P. Congdon.
Pomona, Mrs. B. A. Brooks.
Flora, Mrs. Jerr Smith.
Ceres, Mrs. A. lade.

Lady Asst. Steward, Mrs. E. N. Bates.

The retiring Lecturer, Brother
Boot, made a. few remarks; among
the many good things he said were
that the Grange was ahead of any

school both for business and
parliamentary rules, and cited the
world’s congress for confirmation,
also spoke of its national reputa-
tion.

Dinner was then announced and
I think by the looks of the table
no one should complain of hard
times.

Afternoon session opened at 1:30

Worthy Master J ordan gave a
short address, after which Sister
Felton gave a right royal welcome
to all assembled. She said in look-
ing over the past eleven years of
Pomona work she could see where
many of the leaders had gone, leav-
ing only loving memories to us
who are left, yet saw no need of
being discouraged as the future of
the Grange was assured.

Brother Ely, in his remarks on
this paper, said it was the very best
of the kind he had ever heard read.

Brother Nash gave the response
in which he said many good things.

Sister Bragg of Wayland, gave
3. very fine recitation.

The question box was then open-
ed. The first question Was, “When
is the best time to shear sheep?”
Brother E. Smith thought that as
soon as the weather was warm
enough so they would not suffer.
Brother Fred Gilbert said his were
already sheared—-April 19. Brother
Boot said he was asked by a. neigh-
bor what he should charge a head
this year to shear and he told him
if they were pretty good sheep he
would shear for the wool. Nearly
all favored not washing the sheep.

The second question, "‘ When
and how to spray fruit trees?”

Brother Parmalee said i pound
of London purple to -30 gallons of
water applied in good weather after
the blossoms have fallen.

Brother Root said it would do as
well for Currants and rose bushes.

The last question, “Is there
any prospect for better times?”
was opened by Brother E. N. Bates.
Brother Slade and others joined in
the discussion, which called out
some of the best thoughts of all,
and while they differed both as
to the cause and remedy, still all
thought the prospect was encour-
aging.

The meeting closed without form.

One brother said at the close of
the meeting it was the best Pomona
Grange he ever attended.

MRS. E. L. ORTON, Oorres.

 

BOOR REVIEW.

Our Farming.

The Farmer C0., of Philadelphia, have
issued a two dollar book written by T. B.
Terry, and entitled “ Our Farming; or how
we made a run down farm bring both profit
and pleasure.” Mr. Terry is so well known
as a writer on farming that little need be
said of the book, further than to give an
idea of its general plan.

It is written in a plain and familiar style.
The writer gives many personal experien-
ces and opinions that, while not connected
with the raising of crops, fit in well to the
story. Each separate crop is treated sep-
arately, as well as such topics as mixed
farming, special farming, laying out the
farm, tile draining, manure saving, care of
implements, etc. Not only are the matters
of farm operations covered, but also those
other things that have so much to do with
a fzirmer’s success. There are chapters on
knowing what you are about, not all work,
a farmer's home, the small fruit garden,
the wife’s share, insurance, buying at whole-
sale, inducements offered by farming.

This book will be of special interest to
young farmers and to the boys who have
not yet decided whether to stay on the
farm. One of Mr. Terry’s avowed objects
-is to encourage and to enthuse. He says
he has had enough of the discouraging
things of farming and he wants to paint the
other side. A very good idea of Hr. Ter-
ry’s purpose and style can be gained from
the following extract. After telling how
poor he was when he started out, he says:
“ We often hear in substance that a. man
with money to do everything can make
money on the farm. This has often been
told me at institutes by men who were hard
up or just starting, and who thought there
was no sort of chance for poor men like
them. This is not true. Of course, with
capital one could get along much faster,
but a determined young man can work his
way up from the very bottom, in this
country, on the farm, even on a poor run-
down farm. To bring this point out clearly
and strongly I have told the whole story of
just how poor we were. It would be hard
to find a family starting with a poorer
chance than we did. I shall try to make
this point plain all through the book. VVe
had to earn our money before we spent it,
and with almost the poorest conceivable
chance to do it at first. /lake courage, my
young friends With good health, and
push, and a level head, there is a good
chance for you, and if your head goes
wrong some at first, as mine did, you can
level it up in good time, particularly if you
are fortunate in gettinga good level-headed
girl for a partner, as I was.”

If anyone who does not favor the
Grange will stop to think what it
is doing in its educational work,
he will at once be convinced that
his antagonism or opposition. is

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I-‘HE GRANGE VISITOR.

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MAY 3, 1894.

Business!

We are Going Ahead
In Spite of Hard Times,

And Here’s the Proof!

During May and June of this
Year of Grace,

MDGGOXCIV

We shall offer the GRANGE
VISITOR to anyone for

Twenty-live tents

and will agree to send it eight

months for that sum.

8 Months for a Quarter.

lfi Numbers for 25 Cents.

A Cent and a Half for Eight
Pages of First-Class
Reading Matter.

This is a hard times rate.
is good for anybody.

It

We want to double our list
We
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during these two months.

getting one name at this rate.

We have usually given pre-
miums. This time we ask you
for help on the score of interest
in the welfare of the VISITOR.

The VISITOR is the only pa-
per in the State that discusses
fully needed State

for the farmer.

legislation

It is the only paper in the
State that has a broad and
progressive platform of agri-
cultural education.

It is the paper that presents
the views of the only active
farmers’
State.

It is the only paper that pub-

organization in the

lished certain unlawful doings
at the capitol.
It proposes to discuss those
questions that lie close to the
the

expenses of our State institu-

taxpayers’ pocket, viz.,
tions.

It is for the farmer from
first to last, and you can send

it to a friend

ll Months in a Uuallel.

Or you can help the good work
by getting your neighbor to
take it at the same rate.

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Noiices of Meetings.

WESTERN POMONA GRANGE

No. 19. The regular meeting of Western
Pomona Grange will be held with Tall-
madge Grange at their hall, May 24 and 25.
A special invitation to all.

PROGRAM.

“The best way to keep the boys contented and
ha py on the farm,” Mr. Lewis Fellows.

Essay, Mrs. R. Staufiers.

“ (‘are of orchards and how to grow better fruit,”
Thus. VVilde.

Paper, John Kellv.

“Education a cure for drunkenness,” Mrs. R.
Martin.

Tem erance son , Harley Hayes.

' “ Wliat can we est do to keep up an interest
in the Grange?” H. C. Tuttle.

“Which is the most useful education for farm-
ers’ daughters, musical, professional, or practical?"
Mrs. Homer Hayes.

Mas. EMMA GILLETT, Lert.

BARRY COUNTY POMONA.

The next regular meeting of the Barry
county Pomona Grange will be held with
Prairieville Grange on Frida , May 25,
I894. Morning session opene in the fifth
degree at io oclock a. m. A report of
otficers and Subordinate Granges will be
called for, followed with suggestions for
good of the Order.

Dinner at 12 o'clock.

Afternoon session called to order atz
o’clock in the fourth degree when the fol-
lowing program will be rendered.

Sin ing by the Grange.

Address of welcome, Bro. Brownell.

Response, Brother Henry Howard.

Singing by the Grange.

Quotations, by all members.

Pxaper by Brother Hammond, " The care of farm
too s.

Essay, Sister Howard.

Select readin . Sister Naomi Slawson.
Recitation, Sister Mattie Slawson.

Music, Sisterjennie Brainard.

Question, “ Is it rofitable to send our boys to
the Agricultural College ?”

. Paper by Brother A. C. Town, “ The hard
times, their cause and remedy.” _ _
Question, " Shall we send our children to the city
schools for an education?” Brother Chet. Honey-
well.

Selection, Sister Brownell.

Music by the Grange.

Question, “ Should the Grange use its influ-
ence to check the further progress of gambling at
the boards of trade P"

Ten minutes will be given for the discussion of
each paper. .

Recitation. Sister Reploglc.

Paper by Brother VVill Otis.

EVENING SESSION.

Grange called to order in the fifth de rec at 7
o'clock for the pur ose of conferrin the Ii th. Clos-
ing ln the fifth an opening in the ourth degree at
S o’clock.

“inging by the Gran e.

Suggestions for goo of the Order.

Question box.

Let all Patrons be present and take part

in the discussion of all papers and questions

and enjoy a good time.

GEO. R. BOWSER.
County Lecturer.

LOWELL DISTRICT COUNCIL.

The next meeting of Lowell district
council will be held at the Grange hall in
Alton on Saturday, May 12. The after-
noon session will be open to all. The pub-
lic generally, and especially the members
of Grattan Grange, are invited to be pres-
ent and take part in the exercises. Timely
topics for discussion will be:

“ Planting and cultivation of com;”
“Best methods of applying our highway
tax under the present system;” “ Life in-
surance." There will also be a question
box, select readings, songs, recitations, etc.
All come, and come prepared to take part
and have a good time.

WESLEY JOHNSON, Lect.

NEWAYGO COUNTY POMONA GRANGE

No. 11, holds its next session with Holton
Grange on Wednesday and Thursday, May
23 and 24. Open meeting both days. The
unresponded part of last program will be
called. New program as follows:
Address of welcome by Master of Hol-
ton Grange. Response by Wm. E. Gould.
What salaries should be paid our state
officers, and under what limitations? M.
Thompson.

Farm implements, their cost and care, J.
A. Zerlaut.

What is the matter with an annual ap-
propriation of $10,000 for Farm Institutes
in Michigan, Jas. Caldwell. Discussion
led by S. V. Walker.

Successful farming, E. G. Cilly.

How can the union of farmers’ organiza-
tions be made practical and beneficial?
Neil McCallum. Discussion led by J. H.
Macumber.

How to farm on sand, John Wiegand.

Recitation, P. H. Crawford.

When our Grange ship comes in, Mary
Robertson.

Farm drainage, Alfred Anderson.

The gold standard, or monometallism,
Wm. E. Gould. No discussion.

Farm loan associations, W. C. Stuart.

Recitation, Miss Annie Zerlaut.

Dehorning cattle,  P. Utter.

The need and value of commercial fer-
tilizers, Charles Proctor.

Why do we not send our boys to the
Agricultural College? E. R. Clark.

Recitation, Grace Hermance.

Effects and tendencies of modern politi-
cal and ofiicial corruption, A. L. Scott.
Discussion led by Calvin Lillie.

Will the county road system till the bill
for better roads? If not, why not? Am-
brose Phelps. Discussion by Geo. E. Hil-
ton, and J. E. Philo.

Recitation, Leona Fryoner.

Which is the more profitable, peach or
potato culture? Wm. Huntoon.

Bee keeping, Brother Viets.

Influences of flowers in the farmers’
homes, Sister M. M. Thompson.

Shall we have an income tax, or a well
enforced law of taxation of mortgages?
Geo. E. Hilton.

Grange, farm, home, and schools, Mrs.
Bertha Caldwell.

I The wastes on the farm, H. W. Craw-
ord.

Recitation, Adelhert Walworth.

The best breed of cattle for the Michigan
farmer, Frank Odin.

Question box in the Grange, Mrs. Bell
White.

W. W. CARTER, Lecturer.

 

OBITUARY.

Branch oounty Pomona Grange sends
to the Visrroiz resolutions passed in
memory of Sister Sarah Johnson, who
recently passed away.

Grange News.

Correspondents, and all Patrons indeed, are re-
quested to send us postal cards giving some _news
jottin ,—anything of interest to you. It will inter-
est o ers Please also send short answers to
some or all of the followin questions. Help’ us
to make this the most valuab e column in the IS-
ITOR.

1. How is your Grange prospering?

2. Have you man young peo le?

3 Vi/‘hat do outsi ers think 0 your Grange and
its work ?

4. What dificulties do you meet?

5. VVha.t are your prospects?

6. VVhat is most needed in Grange work in your
vicinity?

7. In what way are your members most benefited
by belonging to the Grange?

Michigan.

POSTAL IUTTINGS.

Alaiedon Grange No. 289 held an open
session Thursday, April 26. The programs
were neatly printed on heavy cards, and
consisted of a varied entertainment of es-
says, recltations, and music. The hall was
crowded, friends bein present from Oke-
mos, Meridian, and llliamston. In every
respect this open meeting was a great suc-
cess. Alniedon Grange, by the way, is one
of the liveliest Grnnges in Ingham county.

Grattan Grange is about to enter upon
the work of reviving its members. Aunt
Kate, do" they all take and read the Visi-
TOR?

Brother Gray of Grand Traverse secured
eleven names for the VISITOR during
March, and promised to get as many more
during April. He has kept his word.

Eaton Rapids Grange No. 360 is now
reaping the harvest of its winter’s work.
They have held a series of social meetings
at the homes of members. Regular meet-
ings have been well attended. The literary
program for each meeting gave food for
reflection and study. _ They have been able
to handle the current topics of the day to
their mutual advantage: have reinstated
four members, and have a class of nine
that have taken the second degree, with the
applications of six more that have been
elected for degrees.

Grand Traverse Grange No. 379 talked
about reading at a recent meeting. The
discussion was reported for the Grand
Traverse Herald, which published a full
column about it. The Traverse people
are “ business."

OUR QUESTIONS.

For Benton Harbor Grange No. 122, I
should answer about as follows:

Poorly.

No, only three.

Most of them think it doesn’t pay.

Old age.

Surrender unless we get out of the city.
Young blood and brains.

Socially and educationally.

R. C. THAYER.

VERONA MILLS GRANGE

T'.°“."'.“‘:'.“:'

No. 667 is doing fairly well, with a good
attendance usually. We have a literary
program each_evening,, which is generally
quite interesting. We hold our meetin s
on Saturday evening every two weeks. e
have a number of young people belonging
to our Grange. April 19 we had a news-
paper social conducted by the committee
on woman's work. Papers were read on
the following subjects: The making of
paper from the rags; The first newspapers
published;Children’s papers; Woman’s col-
umn in the newspaper; these with recita-
tions made quite a lengthy program; after
which lunch was served, each one present
paying io cents. As a result of our social
we find we can send twenty new subscrib-
ers to the VISITOR.

Mas. LAURA HUNT, Lecturer.

LAPEER COUNTY POMONA GRANGE

had a very successful meeting with Mont-
gomery Grange April i2. Quite a
lengthy program was carried out, the mill-
lng question especially being thoroughly
discussed. Mr. Mathews, a large mill
owner of Mariette, defended the interests
of the mill men by figures demonstrating
that they were giving the farmers a great
deal in the exchange of flour for wheat.

The sheep industry was discussed to a
considerable extent. Mr. A. Q. Stover
showing by charts the rise and fall in the
price of wool from 1869 to 1893, and some
of the causes for the same. The program
was interspersed with essays, select read-
ing, and recitations. The young people
of Montgomery Grange furnished some
splendid music for the occasion.

H. BRADSHAW, Lecturer.

BERRIEN COUNTY POMONA GRANGE

held a two days‘ session with Bentor Har-
bor Grange, April 17 and 18. There was
attendance from twelve Granges in the
county, reporting a membership of 486.

The afternoon of the first day was a pub-

lic meeting, at which time our hall was
filled tooverfiowing. A very entertaining
program, including excellent music, de-
veloped the fact of an intense interest upon
the live questions of the day. Perhaps no
keener interest was manifest than in the
subject of “ A progressive course of general
reading and study for district schools,” pre-
sented by school commissioner E. P. Clark.
He urged the step as a needed and practi-
cal reform in the district school and asked
the co-operation of Patrons in its adoption
and support. At the evening session a
committee of four was appointed to meet a
like commitee of teachers with commis-
sioner Clark as a joint committee to farther
consider the subject. Our session through-
out was marked by deep interest in all these
practical questions of progress and reform.
The Patrons of Berrien county send greet-
ing to the Husbandmen and Matrons
throughout the state, hailing you as friends
to every movement looking to improved
methods of education and better plans of
living.

We voted to hold a three days’ camping
picnic at Berrien Centre, in August, at
which Patrons from adjoining counties will
be welcome guests.

W. L. KANE, Secretary.

INGRAM COUNTY POMONA GRANGE

met with Williaimton Grange, April 20 and
21. The session began Friday afternoon.

Brother Wm. T. Webb, in his address of

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welcome, included extended remarks on
the interstate commerce law, a topic that
was fully discussed. In the evening the
question was, “Shall foreign immigration be
restricted by an educational test?” Lect-
urer Olds led the negative and W. T. Webb
the affirmative.

Saturday morning the Grange assem-
bled in Williamston Centre church. Sister
A. C. Lawrence of F itchburg, read a paper
on “What I saw at the World’s fair.” Prof.
Hedrick of the Agricultural College gave
an interesting talk on “ The money situa-
tion in the United States.” He was plied
with numerous questions, and the hazy at-
mosphere of the money problem was
cleared up considerably.

After a royal dinner the editor of the
VISITOR talked about “ The sort of reading
matter a farmer should have in his home.”
He advocated the increased reading of good
books rather than so many cheap papers.

an earnest talk on “ Grange temper-
ance work,” portraying the need of some
action toward this great reform.

Recitations were given by Pierce Proc-
tor of Plainfield, Mary E. Webb of Will-
iamston, and Miss Roby of Jackson.

Good music was a feature of the meeting.
Ingham Pomona is having some very in-
teresting meetings.

WM. A. OLi)s, Lecturer.

LIAGAZIN ES.

The prominent part which the Ameri-
can Protective Aseociation, or the “A.
P. A.” as it is now more generally called.
has taken of late in political affairs in
different sections of the country fur-
nishea occasion for two interesting arti-
cles dealing with that organization writ-
ten respeetively by George Parsons
Lathrop and Bishop Donne of Albany,
which appear in the May number of the
North American Review and which are
bracketed together under the title of
“ Hostility to Roman Catholics.”

There are several contributions to the
May Atlantic worthy of more than com-
mon note. One of them, “From Blomi-
don to Smoky ” is the first of a series of
four articles by the late Frank Bolles.
The papers represent his last studies of
nature, and were his last literary work.
They were all the outcome of a summer
excursion through Novia Scotia in 1893.
The memory of Francis Parkman is
honored by articles from his fellow his-
torians, Justin Winsor and John Fiske.
Mr. Fiske’s paper is the longer, and all
the space at his command has been used
to appraise and illuminate Mr. Park-
man’s work with extraordinary clearnese.

That $50,000 color press of the Chicago
Inter Ocean is being utilized in a unique
and instructive manner by that great
newspaper. It is being used to print a
“Little Paper for Little People” with
four full pages in colors, and beginning
with Sunday, April 29, this paper will
contain the first installment of a Child-
ren’s story, written especially for it by a
Chicago newspaper man, Sam Clover.
A unique feature of this story is that it
is to be named by Chicago school child-
ren after reading.

This with the “ Musical Supplement,”
a new art feature, makes The Sunday
Inter Ocean a most interesting and wel-
come visitor for every member of the
family.

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Westmoreland 00., Pa., Apr. 23, 1894.
Mn. 0. W. INGERSOLL:

DEAR SIR—-In your last letter you
wanted to know how prospects were in
regard to your paint. I will say that
they are very good. The paint you
shipped me I received, have opened it
and find it far he ond my expectation.

I have work in the painting busi-
ness for over twelve years or more; and
have nevergol: hold of anything to com-
pare with it at almost twice the price of
yours. I will need paint soon and will
send the order in a week or so. Kindly
send sample cards.

Yours respectfully,

Siuwni. Banner. |

Brother J. G. Curtis of Fitchburg gave as

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