“THE FARJIIER IS OF III ORE C'ONSEQUENC'E THAN ’

   

FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IJIIPROVED.”

VOL. XIX, N0. 17.

LANSING, MIClIlGANj

OUR STATE INSTIT UTIONS.

The University, Normal School, Agricultural
College, and Mining School.

We have completed the description of
the state departments that belong more
particularly to its government, and we shall
now proceed to a series of brief descrip-
tions of those separate state institutions

classed as educational, penal, reformatory,
and charitable.

We wish again to remind our readers
that our articles on these topics are but

bare outlines. But we trust that there has
been interest enough aroused, so that we
shall have frequent questions asked us
concerning the various departments and
institutions. \Ve invite such questions,
whether they relate to the duties or con-
duct of different officials, departments, or
boards or to the expenses of any depart-
ment or institution.

In describing the four educational insti-
tutions of the state, we give little regard-
ing their history, courses, or advantages.
We merely summarize a few facts easily
secured, but which many people do not take
time to look up.

 

The University.
NUMBER or STUDENTS.

The following is the number of students
enrolled in the various departments dur-
ing the college year 1893-4. This in-
cludes graduate students.

 
 
 

Literary Dep’t ................................... ._ 1427
Medicine and Surgery _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ . _ . . . . . . . . . _ _ _ _ . _ . . _. 382
Law Dep' . _ . . _ _ _ _ . . . . . . . _ . . . _ 607

 

' 2,688
De.-duct for names counted twice ..................... _. 29

Total ................................................. . 3.559

Of this number 1,400 are credited to
Michigan, leaving 1,259 students from other
states and countries. VVith the exception
of the literary and law departments, about
half of the students in each department
are from Michigan. In the literary de-
partment 894 of the 1,420 students are from
Michigan:-considerably over half; and in
the law department‘ 179 out of 597 are
credited to Michigan,——considerably less
than one-third.

In his report of 1891 Pres. Angell made
note of some phases of the growth of the
University since 1871. We extract a few
of the more interesting figures:

  
  
 
 
  

1871. 1891.
Total teaching force ...... .. 36 130
Total students ....... .. 1.110 2.420
Literary Dept ........ .. 458 1.170
Medicine ____ _- 315 375
Law _________ _ _ 307 581
Pharmacy ._... 91
Homeopathy __ 71
Dentistry . . _ _ . . . . . . . . . . .. 13%
No. of women ......................... .. 34 443
No. of states and territories represented 26 44
Foreign countries represented ........ .. 12
Percent of Michigan students _ . . . . . .. 46% 48%
No. of courses ......................... .. 57 378
Current expenses ...................... -. $81419 $205,637

The number of women students in at-
tendance in 1892-3 was as follows, out of a
total of 2,778 students:

  
    

 

Literary department ................................. . - 514
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - . . - - - - - .. 71

w . . _ _ _ . . . . . . . . . - . .- 2
Pharmacy ... . . 3
Homeopathy ................ -- 14
Dentistry ................... .. 7
Total .................................................. -. 614

There is nothing to show the occupations
of the parents of the students now in the
University. In 1886 Pres. Angell gather-
ed a few statistics on the subgect. From
1,406 replies he found the occupations of
the parents of that number of students to
be as follows:

Millers ................ ..
Commercial ti-svelsrs_.
Dentists ................. _.
Common laborers ...... ..

The total number of graduates
University is about 12,500.

COST OF THE INSTITUTION.

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The University treasurer’s report for 1893
shows receipts as follows:

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State Treasurer _________________________________ _ _ $181,004 54
Miscellaneous sources.-. ..-.. . 142.688 54
Gift for hospitals._,___._ _____ ,_ z5,(Xx) 00
Balance in treasury July 1. 1892. 13.949 04
Balance overdrawn J une 30, 1893 _______________ _, 13,234 56
_ $375,986 08
Disbursements were ___________________ _ _~, _____ _ _ 375,980 68
Among miscellaneous receipts were
$122,357.56 for students’ fees. Salaries

paid for same period aggregated $202,099.-
87. At present the pay roll is larger. The
following are the salaries paid to professors,
assistant professors, instructors, janitors,
and other employés:

GENERAL PAY ROLL.

  
    
 

President __________________________________________ __ $6,000
lnrofessor  -.... 3,300
8 @ $3.000___ 24.000
10 2.700. 27,000
16 2.500.. 40,000
1 .. ..... 2.300
3 2,200.. 6,600
14 2,000.._ 2a,m0
ii 1000... 17,600
1  1.500
6 1.200.. 7,200
5 1.000 _ 5,000
33 900. 29,700
1 _____ . . 750
1 ..... .. 700
3 600.- 1.800
11 500.. 5.500
2 400.. 800
5  - 1,500
3 25.0.. 750
8 200.. 1.000
2 196... ________ __ 392
4 175 _. _________ __ 700
1   ........ -- 150
2 140._ _____ 280
'1' 100., _____ _ 700
4 . 72,._._..___ . ____ __ ___ 283
Engineers. carpenters. etc. (6) ____________________ _. 5,400
Total No. 170; salaries for year .............. .. $219,510
HOSPITAL.

Physician ___________________________________________ __ $500
Pharrnacist." 000
Nurse _______ __ 500
“ . _ . . 720

3 nurses @ $ 225
9 “ 00 _____________ __ 450
1 nurse 20 per month... _ 240
1 _ .. g .. .. ___ 216
2 firemen  $500 ......... .- 1,000

Total for year _________________________________ _ 
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL.

  
 
  
 
 

Physician ___________________________________________ __
Nui-an_. . . _ 3,
2 nurses @ $240 ____________________________________ __ . 1;‘
1 nurse ______________________________________________ _, 300 .
Total for year _________________________________ __ $1,318
DENTAL COLLEGE.
Dean .................... .. $2.200
3 professors @ $2,000 _ 6,000
1 instructor . _ . . . . . _ . _ . _ __ 900
2 assistants @ S500... _____ 1,000
1 assistant... _____ 300
Clark.   .____ 400
Janitor _______________ ._ 550
Total for year ................................. _. $11,350
Total salaries ______________________________________ __ $236,662

In 1836 the general government set apart
72 sections for University purposes. The
income in 1893 from the interest on the
fund obtained from the sale of these lands
was $38,475.76. This the state pays out
of its treasury. The sixth mill tax on the
present assessment is $188,333.83. Thus
the total income from state sources is ap-
proximately $225,000 per year. This, it
will be observed, does not pay the salaries.
The taxpayer contributes approximately 20
cents on each $1,000 of his assessment, for
the support of the University.

'l‘lie State Normal School.
The number of students in the Normal
School for ten years is as follows:

 

About 2,500 have been graduated from
this school.

The Normal School has a small fund
arising from the sale of lands granted by
the state. The interest on this fund in
1893 was $4,143.10. The last legislature
appropriated $50,110 for 1893, and the same
for 1894. There was also appropriated
$20,000 for a gymnasium.

The salaries paid at the Normal School
are as follows:

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The Agricultural College.

The number of students for 1892-3 was
355, as follows:
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120

   

JIPTEMBER 6, 1894.

i There are about 700 graduates.
5 2L,_:I'he following is the pay roll.

 
      
 
     
    
      
   
  
   

   
 
 
  

Nident. dwelling and .......................... -- $3.200

— Illrofessor. dwelling and _ . . _ . _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _. 2,000
1 professors, dwelling and $1,890 each... . _ 8.600

3". 5 professors, dwelling and $1,500 each_. 9,000
5 -profeesoi-......_  .  1.800
9.?“-~professor, dwelling and .......... . . 1,800
~.—~ nrpfessoi-..-.     .  1,500
. assistant professors. rooms and $1,000 each... . 0,000
1 instructor. rooms an _____________________ _ _ 750
Instructor ________________________ __ __ 900

"1 instructors, rooms and $500 each. 1,500
gr uretary. dwelling and ....... _. - 1,800
distant secretary. room and . _ 600

I ibrarian. rooms and _______________ _ _ _ 325
F Iieman of farm. dwelling, board and, 600
F-irenian of garden, rooms and _ ______ _ 750
lioleuian of iron shop, room and .._. 500
Fmauian of w_o shop ......... .. 750
.,dwelli and .............. ._ 540

One assistant florist, rooms and.... . 360
Cffi consulting botanist. rooms and,___ _ __ _ __._ 1,000
019 consulting eritoinologist. room and ......... _ _ goo
Fghassistants in experiments, rooms and $500 2 om
One assistant in experiments, room and._._ _ _. 600
One assistant in experiments. room and __ 300
0fl.8_8BB1Bl'8!:|t in_ experiments, room and _ 1,000
Eslneer. dwelling and ................. , _ 600
Fireman _______________________ __ 330
Herdsman, room, board and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ‘ K __ 420
Tw0Jan1tQrs,rooms_and _______._______,____ _____ 648
One clerk in mechanical department, room and  420
Totals ......................................... -_ $46,728

Of the above $35,303 were paid from
college funds, the rest from experiment
station or other sources.

"The following are some of the chief

items of expense for the year 1892-3:

  

Farm department ........................ ._ $1,905 29
Idarden department _ _ . . . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ __ 2,557 as
=5tiide,nt labor . . . . . . . . . _ . . . _ . _ -. 4,897 31
Salaries __________________________________________ __ 35,303 00

The legislative appropriation for the
two years, 1893 and 1894, was $33,725, for
purposes as follows:

  
   
   
 
 
  
 
  
 
  

 

'l‘ca.m_ and harness for farm __________________________ __ $200

Eiencing ...................................... __ 200

’Drainage_._._..__.....___.. 500

Mechanical department. 500

Walks and roads.-. _ _. _ 3,500

Team for garden ______________________ _. zoo

, Repairs of building heating and water 10,000

Equipping botanical laboratory 1,000

_ .“,:issum cases ................ .. 225

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Rooms in agricultural laboratory. 500
Gallery in library... __._-

Addition to dwelling 500
Hospital building..- 2,500
Sewerage system _ _ 1.000
Onthouses ....... ._ ‘

Student labor ________ ..

In 1893 the college received an income
as follows:

Legislative appropriation ...................... __ $16,362 50
Interest on land grant of 1862. _ _ . _ _ . . . . _ . . . _ . . _ _ .. 35,039 70
From U. S. government for experiment stations 15.000 00
“ “ “ act of 1590 ____________ ._ 18,000 00
Total ______________________________________ .. $87,902 20

Students’ fees amounted to $7,182.96.
These fees go to various funds for general
and special purposes of expense.

The college costs the taxpayer on an
average of about five cents for each $1,000
of his assessed valuation.

The Mining School.

There were 92 students present in 1893.
The appropriations for 1893-4 were
$110,000. $35,000 of this sum is to be

used in the construction of an engineering

 
  
  
 
  

building, the remainder for current
expenses.

The pay roll is as follows:
Director __________________________________________ _. $4,000
5 professors @ $2,000 . . . _ . _ . _ . . _ _ . . _ . _ _ . . _ _ . _ .. 10,000
1 instructor ______ . _ 1,800
1 -- __ 900
Secretary.-_._ 1,000
Librarian. _. ___. 720
Janitor .... -- -.-. 1.200
Engineer ________ __ ..-- 780
Stenographer ........ _. . 480
Carpenter @ $3 per day .............................. ..

The pay roll for March, 1894, was

$1,880.97. That probably is an average.

We have in the above given a few figures
that we thought would interest our readers.
We have made no attempt to describe the
institutions or to tell of their advantages.
We do not even claim that the above
figures represent complete financial state-
ments. They are good as far as they go;
and if our readers desire more of the de-
tails we hope they will ask for them. We
shall be glad to look them up.

 

Under any tariff system, the number of
sheep re uired for mutton purposes in the
United ‘States must increase with the
growth of population. The diminution of
free lands in the west, and the many dis-
appointments which have been suffered by
settlers in certain sections beyond the
Mississippi, will inevitaby draw attention
in the near future to the cheap agricultural
lands of New England and the southern
states:-American Wool and Cotton Re-
porter.

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WHOLE NO. 449.

TAXATION IN MICHIGAN.

E. J. WRIGHT, TAX DEPARTMENT, AUDITOR
GENEBAUS OFFICE.
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The invitation to contribute a series of
articles upon “ Taxation in Michigan” has
not been accepted without a full realization
of the responsibility assumed. The sub-
)BCI3 is a broad one, and to treat it in such
manner as to be of value involves the risk
(which I shall not seek to avoid) of in-
viting both inquiry and criticism. Even
before this first paper was begun Bro.
Butterfield has opened the battle by firing
at me a dozen pertinent questions, any one
of which would require a week’s research
before it could be intelligently answered,
while some are indeterminable and can
only be answered controversially.

The purposes of taxation are generally
well understood, yet many misconceptions
relative thereto are widespread. Aside
from the interest upon the educational funds
which were created by the disposition of
lands granted by the general government,
and which have been to a large degree the
foundation of one of the grandest public
school systems with which any common-
wealth was ever blessed, the people of
Michigan have practically no state debt,
and literally none requiring taxation to pay
interest, the entire bonded indebtedness of
the state being $10,992.83. Including the
educational funds, the entire burden of
state debt in 1890 was but $2.54 per capita,
so that it would require taxation, in some
form, of less than 18 cents per capita to
pay the interest at 7 per cent, which is the
highest rate paid upon either of the funds.
Scarcely less satisfactory is the situation

pf the state when its minor political divis-
ions are considered, ‘i'ne'»..,....i.;.....i. R, ti

county, municipal, and school debt, ess
sinking fund, being but $8.09 per capita,
only eight states having less. Half the
states have each from twice to nearly ten

, times Michigan’s public debt per capita.

‘MICHIGAN OUT OF DEBT.

The inconsiderable burden of debt sus-
tained by the people of Michigan is in
large part borne by those in the larger com-
munities, $6,591,191 of the total of $5,510,-
439 being the indebtedness of 23 cities
having over 350.000 of debt each, and more
than one-fourth of the entire public debt
being that of the city of Detroit, whose
debt is $2,215,226. “Then the debt of the
smaller municipal corporations are added
to the debt of these 23 cities, it leaves but
a very small amount, and of this remainder
the burden rests most largely upon the tax-
payers of the cities and villages. This
analysis will be further considered in later
papers. For the present it is only carried
far enough to be suggestive. The figures
are from the United States census of 1890,
which, for the purpose of these articles,
will be the source of all statistics and
estimates unless otherwise stated.

\Ve have seen that for the payment of
either principal or interest upon Michigan’s
public indebtedness the requirements of
taxation are exceedingly light, andin large
part borne by the larger cities. Taxation
may, therefore, be confined almost en-
tirely to such as is necessary for the pres-
ent needs of the state and its several po-
litical subdivisions. As for the state the
tax levy exceeds actual present require-
ments only to the extent to which its new
elemosynary institutions are constructed of
sufficient capacity to provide for the near
future as well as for immediate demands.
The levy for the current year for all
state urposes is less than $1.50 upon each
$1,000) of the last state equalization, or a
fraction over 75 cents per capita, based
upon the state census just completed.

THE STATE TAX.

The state tax is levied to provide for so
much of the expenses of the state as are
not received from other sources. The net
disbursements from the state treasury for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, as
shown by the last published report of the
auditor general, were $3,418,028.92. To
provide for the expenditures of that year
a tax levy of $1,419,201.61 was made. Re-
ceipts to the several educational funds,
fees paid at the several state offices (which

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' THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1894.

Field and Stock.

WHEAT GROWING IN MICHIGAN.

M. T. COLE.

“ Can we decrease the wheat acreage in
Michigan permanently, and what shall we
raise in its place?” You ask my views on
the latter part of the question.

In the GRANGE Visrroa of August 2, Mr.
Ball of Hamburgh answers the above ques-
tion very briefly, but right to the point.
I agree with him exactly in the first por-
tion of his article—namely——that we should
decrease our acreage of wheat. and shall
not disagree with him as to what _we shall
raise in its place, but may advise other
branches of agriculture than those men-
tioned by him. _ _

As he states, surroundings, conditions,
markets, tastes, etc., must govern to some
extent the business the farmer must pur-
sue in lieu of the decreased acreage of
wheat. While I am a great friend of clever,
yet the raising of timothy hay has _proved
very profitable to many farmers in this
county. The price remains a bout the
same as in former years. Oats are a fair
crop to raise for profit, and if we abandon
a portion of our wheat growing it would be
well to raise more oats, as we would need

the crop for seeding purposes, also the
straw for bedding in the stables and for ma-
nure. There is always a ready market for
oats, and they are a nice crop to handle and
require but a short time to grow.
DAIRYING.

Dairying is a very important industry
in this county. I presume there are more
dairy products sold in this county than in any
other county in the state. For six or seven
years we have been producing milk to ship
to distant markets, and are well pleased
and well paid with the business. Where
there are canning factories not too many
miles away, peas, beans, sweet corn, toma-
toes. or squash can be raised with profit.
They are not as safe a crop, though, as
cereals. I have not mentioned the corn
crop, but we can well raise a few more
acres of corn. Corn is one of our most
important crops in this locality. \Ve like
it more and more every year.

Mr. Ball mentions the poultry. There
is nothing, in my opinion, that pays so
good a profit on the farm as poultry if
proper care is given. VVinter is the time
for the farmer to make money on fowls, as
so many neglect them during the cold and
stormy months that eggs nearly always
command a good price.

SOME F"*‘“DI-ES.

A prominent farmer, living a few miles
from here, remarked to me not long since
that he had rather have one acre of rasp-
berries than 50 acres of wheat. He sold
this year 170 bushels from three acres of
berries. More than half of them were sold
at home. A successful farmer, living about
three miles from our place, produces milk
for shipping purposes, raspberries, and
strawberries, besides doing a general farm-
ing. He has, I think, nearly three acres
of raspberries, and perhaps one-fourth of
an acre of strawberries. I presume that
more than three hundred dollars were re-
alized from the berries. He is also raising
six or eight acres of tomatoes. There are
many farmers owning very much larger
farms than his but his sales probably are
larger than any other farmer in the town-
ship. His son has started a pigeon ranch,
and will probably make a pretty good thing
selling squabs. There is a farmer in a
neighboring town who has a pigeon ranch
of 2,000 birds. He is making money out
of them too.

There is hardly a locality where some
new farm industry will not pay. It is
useless to sit around and mourn over past
prices of wheat and wool and cry hard
times. The bright, intelligent farmer is
ever on the alert to obtain information in
reference to products not raised by himself.
This is no time to abandon agricultural
journals nor cease to attend farmers’ insti-
tutes and other agricultural gatherings. If
we are only interested we can gain useful
information wherever we go. The future
of agriculture seems to look somewhat
cloudy, but surely the clouds have a silver
lining. The fine farms and beautiful farm
homes scattered all over our grand state
indicate that agricultural pursuits are not
only pleasant but profitable.

Palmyra.

TREATMENT OI" COWS DURING SHORT
PASTURE.

I. N. OOWDREY.

Almost every farmer fails to provide
means to bridge over the period of short
pasture that is almost sure to come during
the latter part of July and the entire month
of August, and quite frequently on through
the month of September. Experience has
taught me that there are several reasons
why this thing occurs. One reason is, he
thinks he hasn't the time; then he hates to
spare the ground, simply because it is out
of the usual order of things; then pasture
being good in the spring, it seems not to
enter his mind that there will be a shortage

at any time during the summer. I have
been right there myself; it’s more neglect
than anything else. It simply requires a
little extra etfort; and, once a farmer ac-
quires the habit of doing so, he will always
provide for such emergencies.

Today pasture in the fields is nothing
but a crisp. Hundreds of cattle are actually
suffering from the flies and nothing to eat;
getting poorer every day, scarcely giving
enough milk for family use, when they
ought to give an abundance and to spare.
The milk is not so good; children, chickens,
pigs, and in fact nothing is so good as when
you have plenty of good sweet milk, a lack
of which affects the pocket book and the
machinery all the way through.

SWEET CORN SALVATION.

I would recommend sweet corn as the
very best green feed to help through the
period of short pasture. Then I would say,
take your cows off pasture entirely, and
keep them in the stable, away from the
flies, with plenty of good fresh water.
Feed them all they will eat up clean, th(iEe
times a day. Have your corn patch cl e
to the barn. Cut enough after supper e 11
day to last through the next. Don’t , .
stingy and pull any of the ears 03 exc
what you wish for table use. Rememb r
you raised this for the cows, and give them
all of it. This is four times cheaper than
pasture, not counting the great gain in
-milk, which will make the pig’ tails curl
tighter. , -

A half acre is plenty to plant for each
cow. Don’t sow it, but plant it so you can
cultivate, and assure an abundance of good
ears. Sowed corn, if it becomes dry weather
will wilt badly, and often not amount to
anything, besides not being nearly so sweet.
It may be the easier to sow it, but it is not
so good and cheap in the end.

A SUCCESSION.

I would plant a succession, but plant it
all at the same time, by planting the earliest
to the latest. Plant about one-fourth of
the patch to Cory’s early, one-third to early
Minnesota, and the rest to Stowel’s Ever-
green. This is more business like, and
you will have it off your hands at the same
time, and not be bothered by so many
different plantings.

I would plant only one way by drilling,
but if you are a little slack in cultivating,
or think you have too much else to do, you
had better plant in rows both ways so it
can be kept clean easier. Plant the Cory
two and a half feet apart each way, if
planted both ways; early Minnesota, two
and a half by three feet; and the Evergreen
two and a half by three and a half feget.

Arrange It so tiie two and. a nan: toot rawgt .

will extend the same way through the
entire patch. This will enable you to
cultivate both ways while the corn is small,
keeping all the weeds out of the rows.

If your corn is planted early, and in the
above manner, it will give you green corn
for the table from the last of July till the
frost kills it. And cows treated in this way
will give four times the amount of richer
milk than if left in the dry pasture fields.
It would be well to give a small quantity
of clover hay to each cow once a day.

IN THE STABLE.

I tie with a rope. Have a feed rack built
from the ceiling down, instead of from the
floor up. Let the slats for the rack be
three inches wide, and be placed about four
inches apart, and be nailed to the wall in
front of the cow, about two feet from the
floor, and extending out over the cow at an
angle of forty-five degrees, and then nailed
to the ceiling above. While the cow is
standing in a natural position, feeding at
the rack, place a four inch square piece of
timber directly in front of her hind feet,
extending across the stall, and nail to the
floor. The floor may be level. Put in the
bedding, and it will last till it is worn into
dust, and your cow will keep as clean as if
in a pasture field. The cow in lying down
will soon learn to step forward to avoid
the 4x-.t.

Try it.

Ithaca.

DOES SWINE GROWING PAY‘!

I do just as this paper says.

A. H. WARREN.

There is no domestic stock kept on the
farm that is so often in favor, out of favor,
up and down, as swine. Every farmer will
stick to his horses, his cattle, and his sheep,
year in and year out; but this year they will
try the red hog, next year the black, and
the year after the white breed, and then
for a change will drop them altogether for
a year or two. Swine diseases scare one
out of the business, high priced corn and
low priced pork disgust another, and so it
goes. Farmers who crib their corn in forty
dollar horses and one dollar sheep, grumble
that hogs don't pay. It is no wonder that
hogs don’t pay those who make them the
scapegoat of the farm. As a rule nothing
else pays on a farm where hogs don’t pay.
And again, as a rule, when nothing pays
the hog is held responsible. I hold, and
experience has proved my claim, that hogs
handled intelligently one year with another
are the best paying live stock on the farm.
With the same care as to breeding. feeding,
and marketing, they will yield a better

profit than horses,cattle, or sheep. A prom-
ising gilt, purchased in the fall for $20,
ought at the least to raise six good pigs the
spring following. The pigs when eight
months old, together with the dam, at a
very low estimate should weigh 1,500
pounds, and at $5 per hundred give you
$75 for care and feed, less the purchase
price and interest on the same for one year.
Will any other $20 investment in live stock
yield as well? Each one must answer for
himself.

Care and breeding are as essential to great
success with hogs as with horses. Their
needs should be as closely studied, their
wants as fully supplied. But the man who
goes into swine raising when hogs are high,
and goes out of the business when prices
are low, and changes breeds with the
changes of the seasons, will always have
ample reason to complain that hogs do not
P3)’-

Finally, to be a successful swine raiser,
the first qualification is to have a liking
for the business. Then you should know
to a‘ certain degree the care and manage-
ment they should receive, and with experi-
ence you will learn much which you cannot
learn by any other way. Then in selecting
a breed attend the fairs, look each breed
over carefully, note the good points and
the bad ones, if there are any, ask ques-
tions as to their age. prolificness, etc.
Then choose the breed that suits you best,
all things being considered, give them
proper care and management, stick to them
through thick and thin, and you will never
regret your investment.

Ovid.

POULTRY NOTES.

The poultry is now beginning to moult.
Feed them a little richer food and get
them over their moult before cold weather
comes this fall. Hens that moult early
make good winter layers.

Keep the males away from the females
until the hens moult. The hens are weak
when moulting and will moult better if
not annoyed by the attention of the males.

Now is the time to gather up dust for
dust baths for the fowls this winter.
Gather a couple of barrels full. It will
keep your chickens free from lice this
winter and add 25 per cent to your
egg production. It is the best thing
to preserve the droppings. Scatter it
under the roosts and it takes up the am-
monia from the droppings, and makes a
first class fertilizer. You can keep the

droppings thus preserved in barrels or in
any dry place. It loses its strength if it

gets wet.

As your chicks grow larger and crowd
together in the small coops, see that they
do not get too crowded, and move the
coops around in fresh places. Plenty of
room and clean quarters is what they want.

Keep the late chicks by themselves so
that the older ones can’t get their food
from them. If the late chicks are not
given the best of care they won't amount
to much. When the cold weather comes
they will stop growing, and if not in full
feather, will catch cold and be a source
of annoyance all winter.

Begin to make preparations for the
poultry exhibit at the county fairs. Pick
out your best cockerel and pullet and get
them tame, so you can handle them. Feed
them a little extra, and show them at your
county fair. That is the way to learn
who has the best chicks. You will learn
much and help the industry. If you have
some that you think are extra nice, and
the best in the state, send them down to
the State Fair at Detroit in September
and find out how much better chicks some-
body else has.

Don’t overlook the poultry exhibit at
any of the fairs. If you raise poultry you
will always find something there to inter-
est you.

POULTBYMAN.

DISPOSING OF THE SURPLUS CROP.

GEO. E. HILTON.

The time is now at hand when we should
begin to arrange for our exhibit at the
county fairs. And I hope every county
fair in the state will have a honey exhibit
this fall. Space can be secured by ap-
plying to the managers now. And al-
though there may be no premiums offered,
if you make a good exhibit this fall you
will have no trouble in getting premiums
for another year. I urge this course be-
cause there is no better way to advertise
and sell your honey. You can probably
get permission to sell the last day, and per-
haps all through the fair, providing you do
not sell your exhibit until the last. To sell
successfully at fairs you should have hun-
dreds of small packages that you can sell
for five cents each and upward. The Can-
adians have little tin receptacles, holding
an ounce, that they give away, and it in-
variably sells from one to ten pounds of
extracted honey. Then to introduce their

comb honey they have plates and a one
pound section of honey on each, cut from
corner to corner, leaving 2; of _the comb
sticking to each side of the section, these
they sell for five cents each, thus realizing
20 cents a pound for their comb honey _be-
sides sending out the best advertising
medium in the world. “Their_ cry’ 15.
“Honey on a stick, five cents a lick. 'I
don’t know that it has ever been tried in
the states but we see no reason _why it
will not work. In fact I know it will, and
it makes a much more healthful sweet for
the children than the poisonous candies
offered at such places.
A BUSINESS TRIP.

Now perhaps there are localities where
fairs will not be held. In that case, in the
fall it is an excellent plan to take a horse
and wagon and a load of honey, and go right
through the country. Get acquainted with
your neighbors who live outside your _im-
mediate circle, and you will be surprised
at the amount of honey you Wlll sell, and
the amount of pleasure you will realize. I
like to get all the pleasure I can out of my
work. It shortens the days and lessens
the burden very materially. _ _

Perhaps some of you will ob_]ect to this
latter plan because it_ savors so much of
peddling, but after trying it once you will
find it a real pleasure and a rest from the
usual routine of work, and you are doing a
good at the same time, and disposing of
your honey at home at remunerative prices.

PREPARING FOR AUTUMN.

By the time this number of the VISITOR
reaches its readers, the main honey flow
will be over and you should begin to crowd
the bees down by removing all the finished
sections of comb honey from the two supers
now on the hives, and putting all the un-
finished ones into one super with a View of
getting them finished up and avoid carry-
ing over so many unfinished sections. This,
too, has a tendency to make the bees store
honey in the brood nest for their consump-
tion during the coming winter. This may
seem a little early to prepare for winter,
but it is the safer way. There are those
who recommend and practice extracting
the honey and feeding sugar syrup for
winter stores. I cannot recommend this
plan. By feeding nothing but honey you
will hear less about adulterated honey.

Fremont.

EATING FRUIT.

R. M. KELLOGG.

The question is, are both city and coun-
try people eating more fruit than formerly,
and is the consumption keeping pace with
production? Unquestionably the con-
sumption of fruit is many times as much
as it was ten or fifteen years ago, and in
future will occupy a larger place in the
dietary list of the family. There is no
question that the diet of “ hog and hominy”
of the past must give way to the more
palatable and cooling fruit ration, espec-
ially diiring the summer months. /. The
present improvements in evaporating and
canning fruits must make it the year
round necessity.

Farmers are fast learning that they do
not need a large plot of ground to grow all
the berries they can eat. Properly fit a
piece ten by thirty feet and stock it with
strawberries free from exhaustion, and give
it Just a little care, and a family of six or
eight cannot eat all the fruit during the
season. _Twice the ground will furnish the
raspberries, and the same with blackberries
and grapes. It only requires a little com-
mon sense and a trifle of exertion to secure
these luxuries, and people are fast catching
on to this idea; and as an evidence of this
we need only cite that all agricultural
]01lI‘I18.lS, as well as many county papers
now have a regular department, and fre-
quently the first page devoted to the fruit
interests with elaborate and carefully writ-
ten practical articles by experts. Whereas
ten years ago scarcely any of them gave it
more than “ a passing remark.”

FRUIT AS MEDICINE.

Not only is this true, but all our medical
colleges are impressing students with the
idea of prescribing a fruit diet as a cure
for many of the ills the human family are
heir_to. Prof. Vaughan, ‘now dean of the
medical faculty of the Michigan University,
in an elaborate paper read before the state
horticultural society, pointed out a long list
of diseases that would succumb to a diet
of fruit acids and sugars more readily than
to any other mode of treatment.

A few years ago all ships leaving port,
especially for the Arctic seas, regarded
scurvy as the terror of the voyage, but now
no such thing is known. The ship carries
a bounteous supply of canned and pre-
served fruits, which forms a large part of
the rations for the crew. Prof. Vaughan
asserted there were many families con.
stantly attended by physicians, who, if put
on a fruit diet, would scarcely know them-
selves in a few weeks, and the doctor would
lose his job.

.We may cite the large increase of nur-
series for the propagation of plants and
trees. Fifty years ago the number of nur-
series in the United States was very meagre

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1894.

 

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

7

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

Ofloen National Grange.

MASTER--J. H. BRIGHAM ________ __QElta. Ohio
OVlB8l’.ER—E. W. DAVIS .... ._santa osa, Cal.
Liw'rUi3itu—-ALPHA MESSER.--_ hoster, Vt.
S-rr:wAan—M. B. HUNT  _____uaine
Ass"r S’1'EWABD—A. M. BELCHER Rhode Island
CHAPLAIN—S. L. WILSO.\'___,.. .-_Mississippi
Tniusuai:a—hIns. F. M. mCDOWELL__..N. Y.
Sl0Rl:'.l‘ABY—JOHN TRIMBLE Washington, D.C

Glmxm>sa—w. E. HARBAEJGH. __.Missouri
Cl.nEs—MRS. M. S. KRONE ____ . _Pennsylvania
POMONA—M HS. M ARY BEARDON ..... _.Kansas
FI.oBA—MRS. ANNIE L. BULL .... __Minnesota

LAD; A_ss"r S1'i:w’D—ltIBS. AMANDA HORTON
Michigan.
Executive Committee.

LEONARD RHONE..Center Hull, Pennsylvania
B. B..HUTCHlNSO.\'_-_--_-. ___, ._._,_Virginia
J. J. WOODMAN _________ __Paw Paw, Michigan

Ofllcers Michigan State Grange.
MAsriin——G. B. HORTJON

  

STEWABD-—A. P. GRAY..__. A
Ass"r STEWARD-J. H. MARTIN, Box 442, Grand
R8 d9 permanently.

CEAPLAIN-MARY A. MAYO ____ __Battle Ciiiek

Tnnsunsn—E. A. STRONG ________ __Vicksburg
8r.csii'rAizr—JENNIE BUELL ______ ..Ann Arbor
Gan KEEPER-GEO. L. CABLISLE._ _ka

Cl'.BES—MARY C. ALLIS .............. .. an
FLORA—M.RS. SARAH A. ST. CLAIR._Butter1_iut.
POM0xA—MBS. A. A. LEIGHTON.._Old Mission
L. A.S'1'n:w’i)—MRS. J .H. MARTIN Grand Rapids

Executive Committee.

  
 

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F. W. REDFEB ________ -_
G. B. HORTON. %
JENNIE BUELL.
Committee on Woman’: Work in the

  
    

Grange.
Mrs. Mary A. Mayo ................ "Battle Creek
Mrs. Mary Sherwood Hinds . ......... --Stanton
Mrs. Belle Royce. ...................... ..Bamda
General Deputy Lecturers.
MARY A. MAYO __________________ _.Battle Creek
HON. J. J. WOODMAN .... .. aw aw
HON. C. G. LUCE.-..- Goldwater
HON. PERRY MAYO_. ..Battle Creek
HON. THOS. MARS.--. Berries Center
JASON WOODMAN_- .._._Paw Paw
A. D. BANK ______ _. ..Lans1n8
C. L. WHITNEY ..................... -.Muskegon

County Deputies.

p_ H, sgebbms ______ __ ____Atwood, Antrim C '.
C. V. Nash_____ __Bloomingdale, Allegzin “
R. B. Revnolds_ ______ _, nla_nd, Benzie “
' ____Dowlmg, Barry
._.Union City, Branch “
___.Buchanan, Berrien
____St. johns, Clinton “
Battle Creek, Calhoun “
harlevoix, Charlevoix
Charlevoix, Charlevoix “
______Dowagi2i.c, Cass
_ Eaton Rapids, Eaton
Isaac Ru55e11__ _______ __Alma, Gmtiot “
john Passmore__ ______ __Flushing, Genesee
E. O. Ladd____Old Mission, Grand Traverse
Mrs E. D. .\'okes___._\Vheatland, Hillsdale “
R ‘BL B,-own __________ __Sa,n(l Beach, Huron
D: H. English____ ___Chandler, Ionia.
[~.‘_ \v_ }{avens____ Fitchburg, Ingham “
J. A. Courtright,,_ Duck Lake. l’~*Ck_50n "
Robert Dockery __.__Rockfo{d. Kent “
James Greasen__ Kalkaska, lxalkaska “
Hiram Bradshaw orth Brancl_i,.Lapeer "
Fred Dean____ Brighton, Livingston
E. \‘I. Allis__ ___.-Xdrian, Lenawee “
__Crvstal, Montcalm “
D, R. Van Amberg_ __Bear Lake, Manistee ‘
Jessie E. V\ illiams___ _Big Rapids, Mecosta
. S. Lawson _ _ . _ _ _ . _ __D1sco, Macomb
'ill G. Parish. ____Flat Rock Monroe “
T. F. Rodgers, _Ravenna. Mbskegon “
W’, VV. Carter... ___Ashland, Newaygo "

 
   
  
  
  
 
    

  
 
  
  
   
  
  

   
  
   
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
 

A_ J. C1-osby,___ ___ Y silanti, Oakland “
Robert Alward__ __I-Iu sonville, Ottawa "
R_ 1.{_ Ta)-10; ___,_Shelb ', Oceana "
D. Murlin____ Vernon, S iuwassee “
A. W. Canfiel _ "Hartsufi, St. Clair 
Wm. B. Langley nterville, St. Joseph H
Robert Treby. Birch Run, Saginaw
M. C. Kerr..- ____.C:-irsonville, Sanilac ‘:
Helen A. Fiske____._Lawrence. V11“ 3W5“ :,
qohn E_ Wilcox _______ _:___‘PlylI‘l0llt'l1, Wayne “
{phn A. McDougal___,\ psilanti, V\ ashtenaw

_ C_ Non-i5_ ___________ __C-adillac, \\ exford “

Revised List of Grange Supplies
Kept in the office of Sec‘y of the

Michigan State Grange

t. 1;. ‘d ecei t of Cash Order.
uE>‘:1:esi?!t1lieoSle£(i>ef£i):Slub‘<)J1iEdinatspGrauge, and the
signature of its Master or Secretary.

Porcelain ballot marbles. per hundred.

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'I‘!easurer’s orders, bound. per hundred
8ecreta.ry’s receipts for dues. per hundred..-
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A plications for membership. per hundred__
ithdrawal cards.1>er dozen -------------- --
Dimits, in envelogxss. D01’ '-101911-, -------- - -.-~-
By-Laws of the tats Grange. 5111810 0011186.
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4‘ 13d Echoes," with music, single copies.
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0  So Card, 2c each; 159 p'er 50: 100.-
Rituals. ichiidition (with combmed degrees).
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Bituals. 5th degree,
Rituals. Juvenile. single CODY-
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w ‘ f ' on gold pins badges. wor ng
mo1:‘:mgr:Ei)¢§lnciiEings. seals, ballot boxes and any
other grunge supplies.

NIE BUELI4.
Addmu Miss JEN Arm Anson, Mica.

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AVERAGE ABOUT SEVENTY ACRES EACH.

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sheep potatoes and fruits for general farming:
m ‘hay and rich pastures for dairying and
(s:€ock raising, have made many farmers well ofi;
others are rospermq. anfi 50 ‘1"“:iy°“'mU“::‘I:
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the shoulder fibre in the grain fed
lot was five inches as against 3.76
in the other; in the second trial
four inches as against 4.2 inches,
and in the third it was 3.3 inches
against 2.9 inches. T he second
trial showed no appreciable differ-
ence in this particular.

FAIRPORT, N. Y.

I think we all like to get away
from home occasionally to visit our
sister states, and compare them
with our own beloved Michigan,
but few of us care to remain away
After the novelty
of new scenes has worn off, the
majority of us are only too glad to
get back to “Michigan my Mich-
igan.”

August 57th, ere the morning star
grew dim, I boarded a fast train
at Charlotte, Michigan, for the
east, and some time after the
evening star had disappeared from
view I landed safely at this place,
coming by way of the Grand Trunk
to Suspension Bridge, and then
by the West Shore, via. Buffalo.

All through central and eastern
Michigan crops were suffering for
a good heavy rain, and the most
of the way through Ontario it was
the same. In Eaton county oats
were all harvested before I left.
Through Ontario harvest was in
progress, and here in Monroe
county oats are not all cut yet.

All crops are looking fine except
a few fields of onions. A good
many fields of late potatoes are in
blossom at this writing and the
tops are green and luxuriant. A
great many potatoes are grown
here, also cabbage and onions,
and one misses the broad fields
of wheat, oat, and corn that are
so common in the southern and
central parts of our own state.
But I suppose the change will
come to us in time. Our farmers
will learn that they cannot compete
with the natural wheat and corn
lands of the west, and will then
turn their attention to other crops
for which our rapidly growing
cities will supply a ready market.

‘One who is only familiar with
the branch lines of the great rail-
roads cau scarcely have any con-
ception of the amount of traffic
over the main lines. The N. Y.
Central, with its four tracks, and
long, heavy trains passing every
ten or fifteen minutes—trains half
a. mile 1ong——gives one a new idea
of what a strike and tie up for a few
days means for a great railroad
centre like Chicago. I am not far
from the N. Y. Central, and can
see the trains passing at all hours.
Sometimes one, sometwo, and occa-
sionally three locomotives go puf-
fing along with a long string of
freight cars, and one train follows
another at frequent intervals.
While the trains quickly transport
the perishable products to market,
the lazy canal boats creep along
at snail pace with their loads of
freight. One looking upon the
amount of traffic between the east
and west is led to speculate on how
long it will be ere the 8 feet in
depth of the Erie canal will be
changed to 20 or 24, and great
ocean liners sail from Chicago
across southern Michigan, to But-

alo and through the enlarged
Erie canal to the Atlantic. Speed
the day! Being outdoors for fif-
teen minutes this afternoon I saw
three long freight trains pass, and
later watched the famous Empire
State Express, drawn by the big
locomotive that was on exhibition
at Chicago last year, go flying past.
This famous locomotive has, for a
short distance, run at the rate of
112 milesuan hour, and goes at a 90
to 100 mile rate nearly every day
in its run between New York and
Buffalo. Truly this is an age of
progress-—ra.pid progress too.

Members of the Grange in this
state are mourning the death of
the State Master, Geo. P. Cush-
man, which occurred at his home
in Norwich, death coming to him
suddenly while in the hay field,
July 31.

Grange Day brought together
a. large number at Thousand
Island Park Aug 13. On the 14th
about 1,000 people greeted Gov-
ernor Flower, probably one half
of them being farmers. Among
other things the governor spoke
about roads, 3 subject that is also
interesting to some people in
Michigan. One who has driven
about much in this part of the
state would be inclined to agree

with the governor in his plea for
good roads. In Michigan we have
mud sometimes——here sand—like
t-he poor——they have always with
them. For repairs they use gravel
that is about one fourth cobble
stones—the result can be im-
agined. I admit our roads can be
improved but Michigan does not
stand alone in that respect. Some
of the worst hills here are planked,
and are thus rendered navigable
for loads. Road machines seem
not to have struck the country
districts, so the track winds along
between green banks, a. yellow
stream of sand.
APOLLOS Loxc.
Aug. 16', 18.9}.

Grange. News.

Correspondents. and all Patrons indeed, are re-
quested to send us postal curds giving‘ some news
iottin«r,—anytliing of interest to you. It will inter-
est ot iers. Please also send short answers to
some or all of the following questions. Hel us
to make this the most vziluable column in the "IS-
ITOR.

1. How is your Grange prospering?

2. Have you munv young peo le?

3 \\'hat do outsiders think 0 your Grange and
its work.’

4. \\'hat difi-lculties do you meet.’

5, \\'liat are your prospects?
ti. \Vh'.it is most needed in Grunge work in your
vicinity?

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

POSTAL JOTTINGS.

I have not written anything. about De-
Witt Grange for a long time. But I must
write now and tell how we are prospering.
VVe initiated seven in the hird and fourth
degree, Saturday evenin July 28, and
took in two members by demit. Among
the number were some of our best farmers.
Have we not reason to rejoice? In the
evening ice cream and cake were served
to nearly a hundred people.

Our Grange sent for 1,200 pounds of
binding twine. It gave universal satisfac-
tion.

We have nearly 70 members in good
standing. The attendance is good and we
expect to have interesting meetings at every
session_ \Ve have just purchased hand-
some new badges.

Bath Grange entertained Pomona Grange
July 28. Owing to the very busy time the
attendance was not large but the session
was very interesting and all present were
glad to be there.

Yours fraternally,
MRS. C. L. PEARCE.

Montcalm Grange, No. 318, is still alive,
and although quite silent outside its hall,
there has been renewed interest in its work
the past six months. Our meetings con-
sist of a sprinkling of literary work but
principally of important questions that are
deposited by any membsfi of the Order
who desires information on any subject, in
a question box. The questions are handled
in a practical way. Some of the questions
handled are: “ What causes the financial
depression of business?” “ What is going
to be done to care for the poor the coming
winter?” “VVhere does the dew come
from, above or below?" “Which is best,
shallow or deep cultivation of crops in
a drouth?” " What is thought of scarlet
or crimson clover for this latitude?”
“ VVill clover catch better if sown deeper?”
Also the popular question of the day,
“ The carpet bug," as well as a new rem-
edy for the old pest the potato bug, in-
troduced by the master of the county
Grange.

VVe regret that we haven't more of
Montcalm farmers to exchange practical
ideas with, for in this way agriculture pro-
gresses.

A word in regard to the Grange as an
organization in existence as well as the
the strongest. The outlook is more prom-
ising than ever, both financially and edu-
cationally, as there have been in the first
five months of the current year 125 new
Granges organized.

. M. PARK]-IURST,
Master of Montcalm Grange.

I wish to say here that our meeting held
at Hopkins in June was a grand success.
Those good Patrons and friends in Hop-
kins treated us kindly, cordially, and very
hospitably, doing everything, in every way
to show their fraternal good will, and it
was highly appreciated by all. Some very
good papers were presented. and if the sen-
timent or discussions on them were dis-
tasteful to any, no one made a sign. The
writers and speakers were very much in
earnest, as indeed the times require every
one to be. Opinions may differ, but there
could be no intellectual growth without
some difference of opinion, and if a person
is truly honest in expressions in different
lines of thought, forbearance, is to my mind
charitable courtesy. Our meetings are
noted for the general good feeling with
which they are carried on and create quite
an interest in those outside of the Order.
We anticipate another good and profitable
time with Bradley Grange September 4.

Whilel am speaking of our county meet-
ing I will say a word about About Allegan
Central Grange. We are doing fairly well
for the season of the year. We are bold-
ing our own and gaining of the two. We
observed Flora’s meeting on the 16th of
May, and Ceres’ meeting was held July 18.
Both were well carried out and we quite
enjoyed the change. We shall celebrate
Pomona's meeting September 19.

N. A. DIBBLE, Sec.

We have failed to chronicle until now
the birth of another Grange in Michigan,
Twelve Corners, No. 700, in Berrien
county. Brothers C. H. Farnum and R.
V. Clark were chiefly instrumental in
this organization, and in recognition of
his services the former was elected
master.

CERES MEETING AT KEENE GRANGE.

Keene Grange, No. 270, held a well at-
tended and very interesting open meeting
on the evening of August 25, Sister Frank

Abbot (Ceres) presiding. The following
program was carried out in full.

Singing—“Sowiug the _seed," Grange choir.
Rea_ding—“Brevity of life." W. M. Foster.
Recitation——“The poor man’s sheaf.“ W. L

ng—“ sweet Katrine.“ Miss Nancy Frost.
Pap-er—“ Dame Ceres and her relatives.” Mrs.
Wm. Campbell. ‘Instrumental 1nusic—Bister Kit-
tie Frtisy. S_ingiug—“Where hast thou gleaned
t_o-day,'choir._ Paper—The secretary. Recita-
tion—" The wind across the wheat." Sister Mc-
Ag-ili_nr. Recitat1on—“ The Utopian farmer,” A.
IV. hues. . Instrumental 1nusic—Messrs. Foster
and Higgins. Ifel‘-lt.“.[10n—" When the frost is
9D “I8 Dlllnpkln." Ceres. Sinz_ing—“Bringing
in the sheaves." Choir. Reading—-“The inde-
p_sndent farmer." Mrs. . Foster. Recita-
tiun——" The s_had_ow of thy wings." Sister
Mp Arthur. Singing- “ Under the shadow of thy
wings." Brother Clark, Sister Campbell.

This is the second public meeting held
this summer under the auspices of our lady
_ol’ncers. p In June we held :1 Floral meet-
ing, Sister Jennie Hunter (Flora) having
charge. Lpon each occasion the hall was
very beautifully and appropriately decora-
ted. lxeene Grange is still alive and active.
Our young people stand ever readv to
render eflicient aid.

Mus. VVILLI.-\.\I CAMPBELL.

OBITUARY.

Sherwood Grange, No. 96, passed ap-
propriate resolutions in memory of their
brother Lewis B. Osborn, who died from
an accident July 25, at the age of 38 years.
Brother Osborn left a wife, to whom the
Grange extended the right hand of fellow-
ship and sympathy in her loss.

 

Van Buren county Pomona Grange held
its last meeting with Covert Grange Aug.
16, 1894. The afternoon was an open
session and well attended. Mr. Showdy of
Hamilton, gavea paper on “ Silver,” Mrs.
J. IVI. Fisk of Lawrence, 3. paper on
“ VVoman»suffrage,” and Mrs. A. Stephens
of Paw Paw, a paper entitled “ Lighten-
ing woman‘s work." All of these papers
were fine as was proven b_v the animated
discussion they aroused. Those attending
declared it one of the most interesting
meetings that Pomona ever held.

The next meeting will be the annual
meeting, held with Lawrence Grange in
November, 1894.

JENNIE BUSKIRK, Sec’y.

Danby Grange, No. 185, is prospering
the same as usual.

Sister Nellie Mayo of Battle Creek,
gave an elocutionary entertainment at Dan-
by Grange hall, August 17, and it was pro-
nounced by those competent to judge to be
very fine. Her mode of delivery was clear
and distinct, and showed that she had given
much time and study to the work. She
was engaged to give another entertainment
in this locality August 27, clearly illustra-
ting that the first was satisfactory to all
present. At the close of the former enter-
tainment the ladies of the Grange served
ice cream and cake. The audience was
not as large as anticipated, although the
receipts of the evening were $1 1.67.

Last spring when Siste: Mary A. Mavo
suggested through the columns of the Vis-
ITOR, that Flora, Ceres, and Pomona each
conduct a meeting, Danby Grange decided
to act according to her suggestion. Ac-
cordingly Sister Maud Turner conducted
the first or May day meeting with a flower
program, and later Sister Edna Kellev con-
ducted one with a grain program, and ye
correspondent has charge of the next meet-
ing with a fruit program.

MR5. AMELIA PEAKE.

STATE FAIR AT DETROIT.

The Great Exhibition Opens on Mon-
day, September 10.

The forty-fifth annual fairof the Michi-
gan State Agricultural Society will open
on Monday, September 10, on the grounds
of the Detroit Exposition Company, and
will continue until Friday, September 21.
This is the only general fair or exposition
to be held in the state this year, and every
effort is being made to have it excel all
previous exhibitions in the history of the
Society. The premiums aggregate $13,000,
and this amount of money will undoubted-
ly draw together the finest display repre-
senting the agricultural, horticultural, man-
ufacturing, mining, and household interests
of Michigan that has been seen in years.
Detroit manufacturers and merchants will
make large and attractive exhibits. The
live stock premiums have been greatly in-
creased, and a magnificent display is assured.
The races occur on Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, of the first week, and on Mon-
day, Tuesday. and Wednesday of the sec-
ond. There are three events on each day's
racing card, and the purses aggregate
$4,500. Entries close September 4. Bi-
cycle races will take place on two days of
the fair, the dates not yet having been fixed.
The art exhibit is in charge of Prof. A. H.
Griffith, director of the Detroit Museum
of Art, and the finest collection of paint-
ings ever shown at a Michigan fair may be
expected. There will also be special out-
door features to be announced later, and
altogether, it will be the greatest exhibition
Michigan people have seen in years. All
the railroads will give half rates to Detroit
during the fair, with still lower special ex-
cursion rates on certain days. Steamboat
excursions will also be run from various
lake and river points.

WHEAT EXPERIMENTS.

[Bulletin Indiana Station.]
SUMMARY.

The results of field experiments
with wheat at this station may be
briefly summarized as follows:

1. Varieties of wheat are found
to differ materially in their adap-
tation to a particular soil or 10-
cality, and hence the farmer must
determine for himself what varie-
ties are best suited to his condi-
tions.

2. Under proper treatment
wheats have maintained their yields
and quality in the same soil for
years. It is therefore unnecessary
to change wheat every few years
to prevent “ running out.”

3. As a general rule, which has

0

had but few exceptions here, the
yield of Wheat has steadily in-
creased with the increase in quan-
tity of seed up to eight peeks
per acre; but the increase from
thick seeding has been most marked
in unfavorable years character-
ized by severe winters.

4. Sowing as early as the 20th
of September has generally pro-
duced better yields than any later
(late. In very dry years it has
been found better, however, to wait
until the ground is sufficiently
moist to insure prompt and vig-
orous germination.

5. VVlien grown in rotation with
other grain and grass crops wheat
has yielded over 3-3 per cent more,
on an average, than when grown
continuously on the same soil or
in alternation with another grain
crop. '

6. Experiments with early and
late harvesting of wheat indicate
that, when the grain ripeus nor-
mally, there is a steady increase
of grain up to full ripeness, al-
though the weight per struck
bushel may be greatest when the
crop is harvested in the “dough”
stage; and that the yield and
Weight per measured bushel are
both reduced by allowing the crop
to stand until “dead” ripe.

7. A net profit was realized
from the use of acommercial fer-
tilizer on the wheat crop of 1893-
-1; but in previous experiments
such fertilizers have frequently
proved unprofitable on the station
farm.

8. Fair profits have been real-
ized this year from the use of
fresh horse manure up__on the wheat
crop, and this is infaccord with
the results of previous experiments
in this line, although the profits
have usually been less than for
the present year.

 

MAGAZINES.

The discussion regarding the ‘* A. P. A”
movement which has been treated so fully
in the North American Review for some
months past, is conluded in the September
number of that periodical by the Right
Rev. John L. Spalding, Bishop of Peoria,
whose article is entitled “ Catholicism and
Apaism."

The literary passions of a literary man
are always interesting and they are pecu.
liarly so when an author of such renown
as William Dean Howells tells of them.
The tenth installment of Mr. Howells‘ lit-
erary biography under the title of “ My lit-
erary Passions” appears in the September
Ladies’ Home Journal. Next in interest
to Mr. Howells’ contribution comes a page
devoted to “ The Daughter in the Home,”
by Mrs. Burton Kingsland, Mrs. Hamilton
Mott and the editor of the Journal. A
particularly helpful article in response to
the question “ VVhat Are Building Socie-
ties?” is contributed by Mr. Addison B.
Burk, so widely known as an authority up-
on the subject. Mrs. Van Koert Schuyler
writes most earnestly on the subject of
women “Living Beyond Their Strength.”
The fourth paper of Mrs Burton Kings-
land's series, “ A Daughter at Sixteen," is
given.

The September Atlantic is a fiction
number, containing a dozen short stories of
the highest merit. Anything that appears
in the Atlantic is first class. and this num-
ber but proves the statement.

The two most important topics editorially
treated in the “Progress of the \Vorldl’
departmentof the September Reviewof
Reviews are the new tariff law in the
United States and the war between Japan
and China in Corea;other matters receiv-
ing attention in this department are the
proposed increase of our army and navy,
the problem of speed at sea, the trend to a
fixed wage scale in England, the movement
for jury reform in the United States. the
use of the term “ Anarchist” as an epithet,
the Alabama election, the latest phases of
British politics, the Evicted Tenants bill,
Mgr. Satolli’s decision against the liquor
business, the advance of science in Amer-
ica, aud the death of George Inness, the
foremost American landscape painter.

Judge VValtei‘ Clark, the Associate jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of North Caro-
lina, writes in the September Arena on
“ The election of senators and the president
by popular vote, and the veto.” judge Clark
is in favor of the election of senators, bv
popular vote, but is opposed to the exteri-
sion of the principle to presidential elect-
ions, as he believes it would imperil the
republic. But he considers the powers of
patronage and the veto vested in the presi-
dent anomalous and dangerous, and would
have them curtailed.

The complete novel in the September
number of Lippincotfls is “Captain
Molly,” by Mary A. Denison, and deals
with the philanthropic work of the Salva-
tion Army. The heroine, a banker’s
daughter, leaves a luxurious home to dwell
for a time in Paradise Flats, and tries, not
without success, to alleviate the miseries of
her neighbors there, the hero follows her
in disguise, and the tale comes to an ortho-
dox end.

The three short stories are of unusual
merit. “josef Helmuth’s Goetz,” by Fred-
erick R Burton. is a weird tale of a too
imaginative musician and of a violin
which imprisoned a human soul. Will N.
Harben does his very best work in “ The
Sale of Uncle Rastus,” a sla.ve whose de-
votion to his master assumed a unique
form. “ On Second Thoughts,” by Lalage
D. Morgan, is a love story with an uncom-
mon ending, for the young lady's heart
was finally controlled by her head.

 


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THE GRANGE V ISITOB.

 

SEPTEMBER 6, 1894.

Notices of Meetings.

H URON POMONA.

The next regular meeting of Huron
county Pomona Grange will be held with
\Vadsworth Grange, September I 3. Fourth
degiee members are invited.

Mas. B. Ncocxr, Sec’y.

KENT POMOXA.

The next meeting of Kent county Grange
will be held with Cascade Grange, on Sept.
12. The morning session will open at 10
o'clock and will be devoted to special work
of the Grange. The afternoon session will
be an open meeting with the following

program.

Music by C:i.~c-.idc Grange.

Discussion of county road law (by reqiiesll. Led
by Brother }l.C. Dennison.

'Hoine training of children, Sisters II. G. Holt,
and S. C. Peterson.

Music by the choir.

Strikes and strikers, S. C. Peterson, R. Dock-
erv, and Edward Ciiiiipcaii.

Recitation, Belle \':iiiderhoFf.

Solo, H. G. Holt. ‘
Need of political eclucatinn for farmers, Brothers

“~eS1eyJ0hn5ori, I._. R. Davis and Brass.

Voltinteer recitations.

Doxology by the (;range. '

It is expected that members will carry
their own lunch.

Win T. ADAMS, Lecturer.

cxarzoizits’, FARMERS’ AND TEACHERS’
GROVE MEETING, oLi.\'nER’s
GROVE, BE.\'O.\'A, sarca-
DAY, SEPT. 8.

io A. M. Music.__
io:o5——Pr.i_ver,_]. Ix. Fletcher.
IO’I0—.\Il1SlL'. ‘
io:i:,—Greeting, R. H. Taylor, Master Sylvan
‘ Grange. _
io:4o—Response, Neil .\IcCalluin, Hesperia.
Recitation, .\Iiss Tillie Schmidt.
.\lusic.
i2:oo——Picnic dinner.
Music.
itoo P. M.——Recitation .\Irs. May Robertson.
1105-Address. “ Farmers often lose more by
negligence than they inake,”_]udge 

Russell.
I135-*.‘I\lSIC. _
i'4o~“Thc ii ‘ritten poetry of country life,”
\\', F. aylor.
z:oo——“ Conditions necessarv to government by

the people.” This subject to lie treated
in the form of (1 round table discussion,
each speaker bein alloweil five minutes’
time. The following named ladies and
gentlemen are expected to help in this
(iisciission, D. E. McClure, J. G. Farrell,
Antlrew Bracly, Arthur Scott, Mrs. Ar-
thiir Scott, Abel White, Wm. 11. Barry,
\V. _l. Tenna t, Mr. and Mrs. S. V.
\‘\'alker, Mr.: Mrs. M. \\'. Scott, Rob-
ert \\'alton_
5:00-‘Music.
“ The spade and the book,” 0. F. Miinson,
principal Hesperia schools.
3::o—Recit:ition, II. .\I. Royal.‘
3:*,o—-“ The hope of the nat n is in her schools.”

‘ Tobe treated by I lit: Decker, Henry

\\‘illnian. Miss Vesta B. Smith, A. 1;.
Sauter’ and Geo. C. Myers, in five minute
addresses.

3:55—Music. Adjoiirnniciit.

The Hesperia visiting friends will be en-
tertained, while on this side of the county,
by their friends here.

D. E. McCLLiiu-:,
O. F. Muxsox.

Coiizmittee on Program.

gr. LLAIR AND S.~\.\‘]LAC.
The St. Clair and Sanilac Pomona
Grange wil‘; meet with Rural Grange,
Forester. road on \Vednesda_v, Sept. 19, at

io o’clock a. m. Opening address by
Worthy Master M. Kerr. After dinner,
reports of subordinate Granges, and then
the following
PROGRAM:

“ Co-operzition,” by S. A. Terpeiining.

“ Dairying ” by D. \Vooley.

Essay, by . F. Carlton.

Recitation, by Mrs. A. Maynard.

“ Grape culture.” by Samuel Martin.

“Grange work,” by S. A. Coon.

“County roads.” liv _]onatlian Maynard,

“ Small iits,” hv Wm. Sanderson,

Recitation, by Lihbie Terpenning.

“ Benefits of organization," by 11. B. Little, and
H. Caiiipbell.

Recitzitions, by john Kerr, Edith Templeton,
M‘ McLean, \\'illie Little.

“ Iorticulturc,” by F. \V. Templeton.

BY Coiiiziiirrcis.

 

Opening a watch case with a knife or
fingernail is needless in our day. The
Keystone \Vatch Case Company. of Phila-
delphia, Pa., furnishes free a handsome
watch case opener which makes, besides, a
pretty charm for the watch chain. If you
can’t get one from your jeweler, send to
Philadelphia. This Company is the larg-
est of its kind in the world. and makes all
kind of cases. Its specialty is the Boss
filled case. ]as. Boss invented and made
the first filled case in i859, and many of
the cases then made and worn since are
still intact. Later the Boss patents passed
into the hands of the Keystone Company,
which has the sole right to make these
cases. It has also the sole right to use on its
cases the patent Non~pull-out bow or ring,
which prevents loss of the watch by theft
or injury to it by accident. The Keystone
Company does not retail, but all jewelers
sell the Boss and other Keystone cases.

 

MAGAZINE NOTICES.

An article gathering together “ \Vorld-
wide Echoes of the Parliament of Relig-
ions," by the Rev. John Henry Barrows of
Chicago, who was chairman of the Parlia-
ment,wi1l appear in the September Forum.
The books, articles, lectures, and addresses
that have been published and delivered
about the Parliament during the year since
it was held in almost every civilized lan-
guage, would fill many volumes. Perhaps
no previous meeting of men anywhere on
earth was ever so much discussed within
the first year that followed it. Dr. Bar-
rows sums up the results of this year of
“ echoes.”

THE HISTORY’ or TI-IE
Patrons of Husbandry.

BY 0. H. KELLEY.

The Executive Committee of the National
Grange has placed a limited supply of the above
work. in this office. for sale. The book contains
441 pages, is DI'lI1_t6d on good paper. well bound.
and has several illustrations. It, is ahistory of
the Order from 1366 to 1873.

Price per Copy, 75 Cents.

On receipt of the above price, ii copy will be
sent by mail to the party ordering. Address

JOHN TRIMBLI-I, Secretary,
512 F St. N. W., Washington, D. C.

IOSIA DISTRICT FAIR

Will be held October 2-5.
Montcalm, Kent. Eaton, Barry, Ingham,
Clinton and Gratiot counties. Competition
in live stock department open to the state.

Open to Ionia,

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Wiison over the narrow tire. and can be attached
or de_tticlie_d byone man in twenty minutes. In
ordering give diameter of wheels. Address

E. E. WHIPPIE, St. Johns. Mich.

The I-Ioiiey Creek Grange i‘\'nr-series have
been under contract with the State Grange of
Ohio for over ten years. and have dealt exten-

sively in Indiana and Michigan also. Special
Dljlces sent to anyone under seal of the Grange.
Give us a trial. We can save you money. Address

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In writing mention THE GRANGE Visiroiz.

will be much more extensive than had been hoped for.
are by far the largest in the state,
to find room for the anxious exhibitors.

fair ever held in this state.

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tly and you will be sure to see everything whenever you come.

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come at as early a date as possible.

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THE STOCK EXHIBIT; the stockmen are turning out
in liberal numbers with their best stock.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES; will be well represented.

EVEN LZSRGER THEN WES RNTICIPKTED!

THE MIGHIGHN STHTE FHIR FOR 1894

yet the officials of

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The grounds of the Detroit Exposition Company
the fair have been at their wits’ end ~
You can count on seeing the biggest

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THE FISH EXHIBIT; The Michigan Fish‘ Commission
will have a representative exhibit.

THE INDIAN VILLAGE; really a most interesting and
instructive scene.

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A ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION; made by the same man
whose collections at the World’s Fair attracted so
much attention. Vr

MISS LILLIAN CODV; the famous female sharpshooter

and rider of unbroken and “ bucking” horses. She
will ride any horse brought to the grounds.

PARKS OF ELK AND DEER.

CARRIAGES AND VEHICLES; can’t find room to show
it all they want to.

IMPLEMENTS; are fairly packed into the grounds.
This exhibit is simply immense.

THE ART EXHIBIT; a loan exhibit, and itself worth
going purposely to see.

  will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the first week, and Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday of the second week. The dates of races are Sept. 12, I3 and I4. and I7. 18 and I9.
REMEMBER THE

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If you want to know any thing more write the

SECRETARY, Exposition Grounds, Detroit, Mich.

I-lalf fare on all r.oads. Special excursion rates on var-
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SEPTEMBER 6, 1394.

IRREGULAR PAGINATION

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THE GRANGE wisiron.

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0011989. Michigan. Remember there is no
expense in joining the course. The books
on y are paid for, and these are furnished
to members through the Agricultural Col-
lege at greatly reduced prices.
F. B. M.

HIS IMPRESSIONS OF MICHIGAN.

Eniron GRANGE Visiroa——In compli-
ance with your reasonable request I will
give you a brief synopsis of my impres-
sions of Grange work in Michigan during
my brief but exceedingly pleasant visit to
the state. In the first place I must say
that I was somewhat surprised at the mag-
nitude of some of the meetings. I under-
stood full well that Michigan was a strong
Grange state. I knew that such staunch
and able exponents and defenders of the
Order as Brothers J. J. Woodman, C. G.
Luce, Thomas Mars, Geo. B. Horton, and a
host of other able men and women also
would implant the truths and principles of
the Order firmly in the hearts and minds
of the people, and I am more than pleased
to know that these truths and principles
found permanent lodgment with so many
of the intelligent rural population in the
state.

It is not in the least surprising that in
the early days of the Order, when its mis-
sion and power for good were but imper-
fectly understood, many who joined the
Grange for various motives were disap-
pointed in the results, and lost their stand-
ing as members. This was the sifting
period, and while the process reduced the
membership it by no means proportionately
reduced the real strength and influence of
the Order, for the best element of the mem-
bership remained and used their efiorts to
increase its usefulness and to enlarge the
sphere of its influence. And that they
were eminently successful in their laudable
endeavors is shown by the successful meet-
ings which have been held in the state
during the past two weeks. The meeting
at Bawbeese park was the largest of the
series, and the Agricultural College picnic
was next in point of numbers; the others
were not quite as large, but none the less
successful. As local correspondents will
doubtless give a report of each meeting, I
will not occupy your space with details,
but I do desire to say that the programs
which included the local talent at all these
meetings were without exception interest-
ing and very profitable, and plainly showed
what the Grange has accomplished in the
social and intellectual culture and develop-
ment of its members. To those who have
been close observers of Grange work for
many years, it is apparent that this grati-
fying development has been greatest dur-
ing the most recent years, and that at no
previous time in the history of the Order
has the work been as satisfactory as it is
today. And judging from this fact it is
reasonable to conclude that much better

work and more satisfactory results may be

achieved in the future.

I can see no reason for discouragement in
Grange Work in Michigan. It is true that
climatic conditions the present season
have not been as favorable to the farmers
of Michigan as in some former years, and
they deeply feel the results of the general
business depression, short crops, and low
prices, but all this, hard as it may seem,
may not after all be the greatest of evils.
Existing conditions in all parts of the
country have not been favorable to the
greatest material prosperity of any class.
It is possible that the present “hard
times” may be the means of directing the
attention of farmers to causes other than
climatic which have a direct influence on
their prosperity, not only in Michigan but
in all other parts of the country. From
my observation I feel sure that the mem-
bers of the Grange in Michigan are coming
to the front as thinking men and women,
and it is gratifying to know that their
thought is being directed in social,
financial, economic, and political lines, all
of which foreshadows a higher social and
intellectual culture and development,
greater material prosperity, and a better
understanding and appreciation of the
rights, duties, and responsibilities of
citizenship.

The Grange in Michigan at the present
time calls for an unlimited amount of
earnest, untiring, self sacrificing work
from its members, and I believe that this
will freely be given for the interests of
humanity and for the welfare and future
prosperity of one of the most progressive
states in the union. May God bless the
work of the Grange in Michi an.

Yours fraternal y,
ALPHA Massaa.
Berrien Center, Sept. 3.

Brother Messer adds the following in a
postscript: .

I go from here to Columbus, Ohio, and
will be at state fair the 5th and 6th, then
attend meetings in the state until the 15th
inst., inclusive, next to Kansas for ten
meetings, beginning the 18th, reaching
home Oct. 1 or 2. Oct. 5 I begin. a
series of ten meetings in Vermont, with
Dr. Bowen of Connecticut as chief
lecturer.

THE BAWBEESE MEETING.

August 22 found 15,000 people assem-
bled in Bawbeese Park, under the auspices
of the Tri-State Grange Assembly, to wel-
come Brother Alpha Messer to his first
appointment in the state.

The vast assemblage was called to order
by State Master G. B. Horton. Brother
T. F. Moore, one of the pioneers of the
state and Order extended greeting.

Mrs. B. G. Hoag gave a paper on “Health.
home, and happiness.” She would banish
for our girls their cotton stockings and
the pancake hats for winter wear, and a
diet of cake and pickles, and lay the foun-
dation of health on hygienic principles.
She would have home what God designed
it to be, the most sacred place on earth,
sending out its beacon light of hope and
peace to the weary traveler, the influence
of which is felt while life lasts, and by
combining good health and a good home
only happiness can be the result.

Miss Lucie Conklin presented a well
written paper on " America, my America.”
[This will appear in the VISITOR soon-
ED.]

Leaflets containing the words of “ Amer-
ica” were distributed among the audience,
and under the leadership of Prof. Thomas,
the Hillsdale college band accompanying,
the audience poured forth the grand old
song with a volume and fervor seldom
equalled.

In assembling after dinner State Master
Horton, in a short paper, stated the ob-
ject of our meeting and some of the re-
sults we hope to attain.

In a paper on “ “fork and workmanship,”

Mrs. H. A. Hunker started with the build-.

ing of the pyramids, when the workmen
were obliged to serve receiving neither
clothing or wages, following to the build-
ing of Windsor castle, whose builders re-
ceived the king’s wages which were a mere
pittance, thence coming to our own times,
discussing the recent struggle between
capital and labor, referring to it as a strug-
gle of morals which must be settled by an
equitable division of both.

The main speaker of the day was intro-
duced as “A typical New England Yankee.”
He responded by saying he was proud to
be a New Englander but he came to us
as an American, knowing no east, no west,
no north, no south; he came in the name
of the common people, having great faith
in nature’s noble men and noble women.
It was his object to discuss Grange princi-
ples, naming financial, social, and educa-
tional as the important features standing
in reverse order of importance. The fi-
nancial feature should not be used as a
means but as an end. \’Ve need the social
part to bring us together that the friction
may rub off the sharp corners and bring
out the polish. Intelligence is the great
moving force in this country. Organiza-
tion is founded on the solid rock of edu-
cation. In the Grange, which is the farm-
ers’ school, we learn more of financial
knowledge, more of our business, and more
of the duties of citizenship.

Immigration is not a partisan question,
but one which affects us as a whole. Only
23 per cent of the immense tide flooding
our shores is desirable as citizens. The
sentiments of the speaker were emphati-
cally “America for Americans.” By obser-
vation he has come to the conclusion that
the farmers do not have proper or equal
national representation. The nearer legis-
lation gets to the soil the closer it comes to
God’s plan. What we want is more men.
In congress there are about 250 lawyers
and 12 farmers among 356 members. Would
we have witnessed the scenes of the last
twelve months had these figures been re-
versed? The time has come for us to do
our own thinking. Character building is
what makes men and women. We best
represent the plan of the Creator when we
exercise the faculties of our mind and body.

President Gorton of the Agricultural
College, as substitute for ex-Governor C. G.
Luce , spoke a good word for the Grange
and the effective work being done. He
wanted the boys educated for the farm and
to see the farm and farmers’ home elevated.

The addresses and papers were inter-
spersed with recitations and selections by
the Hillsdale and Lenawee county glee
clubs and the Hillsdale college and Clay-
ton cornet bands.

MARY C. ALL1s.

LOOK OUT!

Eniroa Visiroa-—An impostor, giving his
name as C. H. Johnston, and claiming to
be a Patron of Husbandry and Master of
Fidelity Grange, No. 216, in Campbell
county, Kentucky, claimed to be a large
farmer and breeder of thoroughbred horses,
cattle, and swine, and while sleeping on
the cars was robbed of $35 cash and a
$650 draft received for a valuable stallion
he had just sold up in Wisconsin, which
had reduced him to the necessity of bor-
rowing ten dollars to get home with. And
as he wasa P. of H., he knew of no better
way than to ask some one of the Order
to do him the favor of lending him ten
dollars till he would have time to go home
and send it back, which he said could be
done by next Wednesday. So a brother

 feeling obligated to assist one in
distress, thoroughly tested him. He proved
himself an expert in all the workings of

‘the Order. V He got the money, but the

money has not put in its appearence again,
and -that was July 26. I wrote the sec-
retary of the State Grange of Kentucky,
and earned that there was no Fidelity
Grange in the State. No doubt he goes
from place to place under a new name
getting money to go home with. Will
the I ISITOR for the protection of others
of the fraternity publish this and ask
every master in the state to see that it
is read in his Grange?

He was a small, spare man, I think light
brown hair, a scar on one side of jaw and
chin, caused he said by a kick from a
horse he had just sold in Wisconsin.
Quick motioned, quick in his speech,
prompt to answer and quite nervous. Face
rough with spots resembling smallpox.

Fraternally,

S. A. SLADE.
Wayland.

TAXATION IN MICHIGAN.

Continued from page 1.

are a part of the state revenue, no part
thereof being personal emoluments), and
various other minor sources of revenue
contribute to the total treasury receipts.
Nearly one-third of the entire expenditures
of the state are derived from specific taxes,
the sources contributing in the last re-
ported year being the following: Railroads,
$849,696.82; insurance companies, $206,-
568.38; telegraph and telephone compan-
ies, $26,560.93; express companies, $2,636.-
44; river improvement companies, $1,937.-
63; plank roads, $904.53; car companies,
$73.41; total, $1,088,428.14.

I know of none who as a class are bet-
ter informed on many subjects than are the
readers of the GRANGE VISITOR, and I am
sure I shall not be charged with discrediting
their intelligence if I suggest that many
of them will be surprised to learn that
the necessity for direct taxation upon the
valuation of property within the state is
so largely reduced by the specific taxes
collected from railroads, insurance coni-
panies, and other corporations. I am led
to this belief from the frequency with
which I have heard advocated the policy
of the taxation of the right of way and
rolling stock of railroad corporations, “ so
that they might be required to contribute
to the public charges.”

WHAT THE MONEY Is USED FOR.

After taking into consideration the treas-
ury balance and the anticipated revenue of
the state from all other sources, the legis-
iaiiie appropriations are made, and these

form the basis for the state tax levy. Of"

the aggregate sum of $1,419,201.61 levied
in 1892, $718,550 was for the general fund,
from which was disbursed for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1893, $2,279,474.60,
of which $14,376.13 was refundings. The
disbursements include sundry appropria-
tions, awards of the board of state auditors
(for expenses of the executive departments
and claims a ainst the state su ort of
. g *. . .
the insane, expenses of the judicial de-
partment (including salaries of circuit
judges), legislative salaries and expenses,
salaries of state oflicers and clerks, expen-
ses of maintaining prisons and reforms-
tory institutions, transportation of convicts,
care and transportation of juvenile offend-
ers, coroners' fees, publication of laws, col-
lection of delinquent state tax, etc.
APPORTIONMENT FOR 1894.
The apportionment of the state tax for
1894, just made, is as follows:
Universit ...................................... ..
Soldiers‘ Home and Dormitory, current expenses
Normal School, current expenses and rspairs.,-.
State Public School. current expenses and repairs
itigricultural College, redpairs and improvements.
ichigan Asylum, buil ings and improvements.
Eastern Michi n Asylum. working capital
Mining Schoo , current expenses and improve-
ts.......... .... ...-....--.----..---.-..-
Inlclfiilsltrial Home for Girls. current expenses, re-
pairs, etc ....................................... --
Industrial School for Boys, current expenses, re-
in . t .. ............................ 
 lib:-gths Blind, current expenses, building,
to ............................................. --
Michigan State Prison. repairs and improvements
State House of Correction and Prison, U. P..
buildin and improvements-.. __ ..._._.. ._.
Home an Training School for the Fesbls Minded,
maintenance ................................. ..
New Asylum for the Insane. U. P...-.  .. ...--.
Publishi Proceedings of Bupt‘s of the Poo_r.__.
Re-compiling Records in Adj‘t Gensral’s Oflice..
Military purposes .............................. ..
State Board of Health .............. .- .. .-
Agricultnral Institutes ........................ .-
Board of Fish Commissioners, current expenses
General expenses of State Government. not pro-

vided for by special appropriations or received
from other sources ............................ ..

Total tax .................................... ..$l.689.185 89
‘ [To be continued]

AT THE COLLEGE.

By actual count, 3,090 people passed
through the gates of the Agricultural Col-
lege, August 24, to attend the Grange and
farmers’ picnic. Several hundred more are
estimated to have entered before and after
the counting was done. The larger number
drove in, some coming twenty-five miles.

The program as announced in the last
VISITOR was carried out, except that Sister
O. J. Carpenter was too ill to be present,
but sent a characteristic letter of regret.
Brother Messer gave much the same talk
as that reported in another column from
Bawbeese. His remarks were well re-
ceived.

The only drawback was the excessive
heat. As the addresses were held in the

armory, the heat compelled many to leave
before Brother Messer was through.
The picnic was voted a huge success.

EATING FRUIT.

Continued from page 2.
indeed, and what there was would now be
exceeded by several of our largest single
concerns. The nurseryman’s directory now
includes over twelve thousand firms and
individuals, many occupying a thousand
acres each.

is IT ovaanonn?

But the question is, are we not overdoing
the thing? The acreage of fruit has almost
doubled every year for a dozen years, es-
pecially in the far west. Go on Water
street, Chicago, ten or fifteen years ago.
There was scarcely ten per cent the fruit
handled as at present, and yet the market
was as often glutted as now. Railroads
have recognized the increasing demand by
constructing “ palace fruit cars,” and run-
ning daily at express speed entire trains
from the great fruit belts to the large
cities. Every small village is being sur-
rounded with fruit gardens, and yet the
demand is not fully met, and where there is
a surplus you will generally find it is of
inferior fruit. The demand is for a higher
grade of fruit, and growers are turning
their attention to varieties of better flavor.
They are learning that it is intensive horti-
culture that pays. They just begin to feel
justifiedin attracting “those city folk,” with
a quality of fruit so delicious and tempt-
ing as to form an irresistible force in open-
ing their pocket books. The market was

never glutted with fancy fruit.

As a further evidence of the large in-
crease in consumption of fruit We cite the
fact that notwithstanding the large increase
in production the past season,on the streets
of Ionia three quarts of the first strawber-
ries more than bought a bushel of Wheat,
and five and a half quarts would do it at
the lowest price of the season. Three
quarts of raspberries and five at the lowest.
It will take over four bushels of wheat to
buy a bushel of good Crawford peaches,
although the peach crop is unusually large
here. Get the prices in your own commu-
nity, and see if they are not decidedly on
the fruit side.

Aside from all this there is a fascination
and pleasure about fruit growing not found

in any other branch of agriculture.
Ionia.

PRICES OF WOOL IN CHICAGO.

September.
WASHED FLEECES.
Mionioss. INDIANA. WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS, Mrssonar, Ero.

Fina detains _____________________________________ __
‘>4-blood combing..

.“{i—blood combing..

Vq',—blood combing,

Common combing.

Fine (heavy) ..... __

Fine (choice) .... ..

V2-blood clothing._

913-blood clothing.-

la-blood cl6thing._

Common clothing.

Cotted. etc . _ _ . . _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ __
Black ____________________________________________ __ 12¢ to 14¢
UNWASHED WOOLS.

INDIANA, WISCONSIN. MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS. Missouar AND
mars oir Iowa, onasssn as Baionr Wooi.s.

Ungraded lots of unwashed from these States, with fine,
cotted burry. black and chafiy out. are worth from 1550 to
Ho. ong. coarse wool from full-blood Cottswold sheep
brings about_ lac. bhropshirs,_or wool from other sheep
grading msdium._ or a Shropshire and Merino cross when
shorn from yearlings, or other sheep showing a sound, well-
ozrown staple, is selling for We to 15¢. The shorter or tender
fleeces being worth ‘dc per lb. less. Full-blood Merino
fleeces. when heavy or soszy. brina about 9c to llc. and light,
hue Merino llc to 12c. We have a good. active demand for
the above wools. especially when strong and well-grown.
We quote market prices of Wools as graded by us for manu-
facturers use:

Fine delains ____________________________________ __
I/2-blood combing._ __ _
‘hi-blood combing._
hrblood combing..
Common combi

Fins (heavy) ._-.

Fine (choice)...

1/a-blood clothing..
9,3-blood clothing._
Fa-blood clothing. .
Cottod. etc .... __

Black ____________ __
Braid _.___,. ___ _
Burry and chafiy ._ __
Bucks __________________________________________ _‘

13c to llc
. 15c to 18¢
._._ 16c to 15c
_ 16c to 16c
- 14c to 16c
. 90 to llc
- llc to 12c
_ we to 14¢
. 14c to 16c

SILBEBMAN BROS.,
212 Michigan St.. Chicago.

So far as Pullman is concerned, we sus-
pect the real trouble is that the tenants felt
that they were too much taken care of and
had too little liberty. Pullman has been
held up as a model town; but tenants would
rather have their own worse way, than be
compelled to submit to the better way of
some one e1se.——New York Independent.

Instances in any number might be cited
to illustrate how an excited multitude, even
when the majority of it are persons of in-
telligence, has always something in it
partaking both of the puerile and the bestial;
of the puerile in the mobility of its humor,
in its quick passage from rage to outbreaks
of laughter; or the bestial in its brutality.
——G. Tarde in The Popular Sienoe Monthly.

BEWARE OF OIN'I‘MEN’I'S FOR CATARRH
THAT CONTAIN MERCURY,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense ofsmell and
completely derarige the whole system when enter-
ing it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on prescriptions from
reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is
tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Hall’s Catarrli Cure manufactured bv F.].
Cheney 8.: Co., Toledo, Ohio, contains no mercury
and is taken internally, acting directly upon thd
blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buv.
ing Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuirfe,
It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio,
by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.

E‘Sold by Drugglsts, price 75c. per bottle.


 

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1894.

ATRONS’

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

buildings. 10.000 Farmers testify to

their merits. Grange Balls. Churches, School

Houses. Dwellings. all over the land. some of them painted 15 years ago. still
looking well, prove them the most durable.

MICHIG.-i.\' PATRONS “Buy direct from

Factory” at full Wholesale Prices and
save all Midd1emen’s Profits.

0. W. INGERSOLL, Prop.

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

RKS

lugersoll's Liquid Rubber Paints _
lndestructible Cottage and BarnPa1nts

Sample Color Cards. “Confl(lentinl" Grange
Discounts, Estimates and full particulars
M.-XILED FREE. \Vrite at once.

MICHIGAN STOCK BHEEDERS.

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

 
  

 

  
    
 

lfiollege. and Station.

RUSSIAN THISTLE IN MICIIIb‘rAN.

[Press Bulletin, Michigan Station.]

This post, which is not a thistle.
but a first cousin to our common Lambs’
Quarters, or pig weed, has CI'0=BBd Lake
. Michigan and landed at Charlevoix.
5 Yesterday, Mr. H. D. Thompson, Botan-

 

 

CFRING I-IAMS.

M)’ ‘D099 0f C“1'in‘s' hams is tolit required 6.7 pounds of grain for‘

make a good brine, strong cnoughgthe grain-fed lambs to make one’ {gr-, ' 
“ ill f  

t0 fl°a5 3 POW“): boil and Skim it i pound of gain more than those that-“

of impurities, and when cold stir

in one pint of black molasses for; 3_ The feeding of grain bothl
Bvery 100 Pounds Of meal and  1‘ before and after weaning produced ; --W
ounce of saltpet-re to same amount. <, an average of 34 Cents. per head 2

Have brine enough to entirely

 

 the lambs fed grain since weaning.
tAs the average of the three trials

l had no grain.

l A no. 1 FARM
320-9 HARNESS

I Made of first-class stock Ind
- warranted. and all Hum-
llsde. We retail all our
Harness st Wholesale prices
and ship anywhere on op‘
pmvsl and gusi-sums sstis
faction

  

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HAND MADE HARNESSC9
_:UALlTV.*' STANTON, MICH.
Founded 1886. Incorporated 1892.

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

     

H. H. HINDS ist to the Fish Commission party now _ lmore profit if soldin the fall than    & 
Stanton, Montcaim co encamped at._Charlevoix, sent the c‘on- 00Ve1' the m98-l3- _H3m5 fl1_1d Should‘ that obtained from the lambs that
Breeder of f.“1l‘“§,31°l"}u“‘5l “]’tth°1E(§‘lif:";“’t’iltr gig; 9'5 Should Sta)’ 111 the P1‘-'kl9 from were not fed grain. The average BENTON HARBOR. MICH.
1 a e. ricu ura o , e ' - , - _ ' ,~ 5 v  _~ _ , _
Sh°rth°rn cattle fociii young giants of the truss Russian four to SIX Weeks The? hang up “flue In the. £3111 of gath lamb 1n l \I\TH ‘:Ei:§ocii7iii§ii:SorsErIrii1;r.1o 1894
American Merino thistle. establishing. beyond adoubt. the "1 ‘?m°l‘° h°“5‘~’ and d’.‘““' When the 30% T906‘-lvlng grain before &11d'Cl*.wsica1- S~2ientific-,1lInsic- <‘vmmercia1-E1ocu-
and Shropshire sheep fact. of_ its appearance in our State. This dra-"led, Smoke Well Wlth hlCk°1'y after weaning, at $4.81 per h11n- sl§'E"(f‘l"‘l’:"‘)‘°';:1£e::":;::lf:';§’:e‘;:::::::3fygu
v;'1eedfisanh.ar1i1ni1i)al,gr1c1.iw1ngf;-omlonetg wood, corn cobs and green cedar dred, was ,3'5,|,_82 and the average ”,“,[.HEs Fppeciallljstsi f Pb _ 1 d
, 1'0 an ’ - - * - 1 t n _sica an
. H mm éaiisiilgéfiwn ‘r?-'3?-2“:-‘°a-ls‘-‘its--y Emfifil <“° Purl-.. “Lair  2:“ °f  W2: $”u.Wl1£: at  .*‘We°43:e?at:r~? . 7
‘ * ' ' ' * . ' - - - ll iem We 8. 0V W1 1 I11 - 6 same time ose ‘(la 3 no ‘A,’ ‘ ‘ ‘_ ‘yrnnastics. ‘ ISL enics, ’oice
 .- ,_ -V _ plant from two to six feet in diameter _ _. _ _ Cult _
Bl.aede:)‘olfd }§,“,;',‘,O.,ED and about half as high. When young: 135595 made lb"-‘k Vllth black PEP-E grain, at $5.81 cents per hundred Apparatus mgking iiiid Experimentation fol‘
 Q-zl» (‘||[-jS'[‘E|] wnm; swm; It lsuveray 131:3’ zggstenlfifiiéigviieglgflllilh P81‘: BOW them UP 111 0_0l?t0111 bagsrl pounds were worth an average of FE;*,“§f,';‘;;f,§‘uon°,‘,’J"“,§‘;-porting andTypewuung_
. 7’ SII13. ,1] IT 0 . ‘ ' ' "" . . ' ' ' ' ' -1 .
And Lincoln Sheep._ Achoice lot of stock me, the stems gmw rapidly’ branching 0” Pack them .d°“n Ill ‘.13’ 03} -33.10 per head, a dilfercnce in gciguglgéiflgzlgogggbghefigggilgagheuggggraityg
i-360$]:-(iiatlfgrliilbei-iii‘pxi-ib({;:sbn1il:ni1edf’Ii§sst(ll’lfiizil In all directions. and in place of leaves, “ME: _ A haul 15 1105 In Its i995‘? profit of 34 cents per head to the Wellesley. Northwestern, Cornell in all courses.
orcome and look me over. ' bear spines, one-fourth to one-half an _c0nd1t1011 “Hill 3‘~_ year 0191- Slm‘ credit of the lambs that received S0?t8ll_2EIJxtfl.'lL 8I‘;(!>c;1}t(i§:u‘.nelI.alfi»0(t‘l(iecllze: teSl1I‘I1l?l(I)lI(.3l'I;::
inch long. At the base of each clugtei ilar treatment will do for other E,-aim ticuiursadpfiresa ’ ' P
r ' ' 1 . fl . - ' - " . - . ... - -
If you want Fm,_C1,m gnigygfiéchlso ?a5!:’i:lcIl)18f>[:>l‘(13’iaH<l>(:‘é; lflipelllh parts, but btliin p1E(1.eSU1le9I(:lV 11107} 4. The results _of the three trials H30. J. Elli-tUllBE. .l. lll..Pll.lJ.,Prinr1pn|. 5
ME   E P ing a single, small seed. The home of Bgmam 1” “De 30 0nO'_ ' ' 51_1°W that '_['he1'9 13 P0 &P_PreC13_b1"   &  R R '
03 this plant is in eastern Europe, or west— 033931» difference In the gain made (iurilllg . .
Asa and thas a bad re utation in ' , ' t ' IN EFFECT JUNE 24. 1894.
WHHIE BRONZE TURKEYS ialllssiagiwheai field“ It ‘”“pmt‘°d“°ed THE “EULA-“ATION 0*‘ ARI" lr}1J1(fil:;mttli:t fhigiieniilricinbeizierfciiis  (‘0I\"G.‘E)_RTH
bred from prize winne-r.<. of the Dark Bronze, zit th_e inm South Dakota about seventeen years  . _  p 1 . , .
Indinnu 1‘ll'l(‘l‘l\IlL‘lil2iIl]’ State Fz1irs,:i1.~'o:itthe ‘fri- ago and at present is spreading rapidly LA- )5. fflttenulg and those that had not 1N0_5 N05 1 N0’-3‘ Nag
Sm: M”   Mich. in lialf a dozen neighboring states. This . ,, . . v . The difference in the cost of gain , _ ' P-94‘ -5- 31- '2 P- 31- ;
. - [Bulletin \\ yoniing bt.1uon.] . Lhicago ....... _. ll 51) 6 .10 3 30 __________ __
pest IIOUTISIJGS best on  land, but _ was more Inf”-ked, there be1ng an ‘P.M_ lP'M_l
will make itself at home in all sorts of 1. It seems quite clear from all average difilerence of 29 Cents“ per vermin ........  3 45 7 2o 3 4 as L ......... _-
- ‘1 ' ' ' ' - ._ , ' . ' P M. ‘ A.M.'
Hillsdale Lmlllty Herd 9°11v‘.l°“'1Sh1“8b°5""1d’YS°‘*S°“Fv“h°n the facts under consideration that huud 1 in favor of those that had Cincinnati _____ _.: s 30 ____  5 05 . -- . .... -. "
1 - . . growing crops cannot Cmwd 1‘ °“t‘ if the federal land laws are to re- nit - - Hichm0!=d---- 311 25 .... -‘I100
P0]a]1([ (.]11]|a §W1]1e...<V\ Spring plowing is favorable to the growth . . . no grain previous to fattening. ~ .-\.:11. A.M. ]ti>..sr.‘-
of the Russian thistle, because it Spends main unchanged, and the Lnited The “em ,9 Weekly gain per 1;‘oni_vayne __ : 2 05 as us; 2 5;» -.
Choice 5l0°k for 5319 at T°35°D**b1° a part of July and August in getting States is to remain the owner of head of the highs fed "ruin 1.9 °""""E" "  ‘ 15 “,3 151‘ .
prices, and Guaranteed as Rep7'esent€d- established, for flowering and seeding. the large bodies of public lands . I V '28q g 1 .--1 , pfl’ I\:a!ama‘zoo...____§ 5 30 1~;'i«I‘, 7 20}
JV0 B0“-BITCH Sheep are said to eat this plant until ‘It in the arid re ions then their m_ V10113  “as -_ ~ PUUW 5 ( “mug 19 gig-33 §:l?i1g:»1I5;; :32  lg ‘lg 
‘ ' H. ‘d I ". h becomes coarse and woody. Plowing. in 1 t. g b ’ d t k b jfattenlng, While that of the other Howard (‘.’ny_’__ :9 0;‘ 5 5'01, 
ill: a e. .Iic . August and ear‘). Septumber, before the c ama ion must e iin er a on _ y lambs was 2.95. The average cost _ ' ; - §_,_M_,
plant ripens its seed will tend to check the national government, for pr1V- of one hundred pounds of (rain was ggéefdagfilds W313 é  Q; 35 r.’
13- Th91aYg9h31’b0F5°11the 335‘ Show ate capital will not enter upon - - - - 5 - cadi11acy'” "1105 9 iii 9 2 2i
G_    of Lake Michigan will be the tirst points this Work under the Conditions $495 111 the lnsta-£199 ‘Of t_‘he .9-“T3-in‘  §p_;u_ _ ' .
_ _ ito bewatched in attempts made to pre- ’ _ d b h fed lambs, and he-1.61) with those grrtlvelr(se(‘1tr....g1f:«3 10 4» t F.) .............. -_
O]l‘Vet! 311611‘, l vent the landing Of this pest. A kIl0Wl- now prevalent’ and&nipoSe y t e  had no grain bgfore fattening M:(?§ine;v';'('.i"§‘_'_l 3 00  .7 $ “'"“ 
Specialist in czistr;-.'.ing C0lt.~\\'itl101iL use of ropes, edge 0f.t’he .enemy and of thf bfist means presenl f.edera'1 18!) . aWs' SlCB.I‘lSE‘(I. No 3 has sleeping car. Grand Rapids to Mack-
cor¢ls,cl:mips,or firciroiis. Write for circular. Of fightlng “I must be m3(e Down at  11113 the Llnted States re- v-  th e _- nt was inaw City, and sleeping car Chicago wPetoskey
«°”°e' Sma” patches may be best ‘.16’ tains control over the ublic lands 0' en 9 exp “me and Mwkim‘-W C.“¥- .
lstroyed by hand pulling, and burnitg . _‘ . . p. . . concluded and the lambs that had _N0-5118SS!96D1{Jgc8l'(‘Inpinuati to Mackinaw y
,1 — I 111 the 81'l(l I'€‘$_{l0n Ii? IS 1[1'lp0SSI- . ' - City. Parlorcar Grand Rapidsto Mack1nawCity.
Bier)’ Plant bl f fl . d t th 4£_[I&lI1 before fattening and those (OWG ROUTE
e or re states to a op e “ ‘. 1 L ~ -
i urn FOR SMUT IN WHEAT. communal principle of Victoria that 1139 not’ were refidl for mafketi §‘.\"o. 6',No. ~l‘No. 2-. * No.10
usmess h . _. . d. t .'t 7 t é the average profit from the former J’; fi;,§r'.‘l p,u.lA.m.*,ET
Y [Press Bulletin, Michigan Station] or  9 1r_“gaJ“°“ 15 “C ' 535 em 0 was 48; cents per head greater Mackinaw (‘itr.. 8 3-9 i 3 U0 , ....  9 15 ____ __
RAINY - P V . t . k. t f 'h t Cahfol-n1a_ » Petoskey------.. 12 25 . 4 15 t _____ .110 35 .... _-
uaav reientlon 0 Stln 111% Sm“ 0, W 93 - . than from the latter. The average 'I‘raverseC1ty.. . 10 40 1 6 on 1 6 00 mm. ____ __
UILDERS. _The severfi losses cfliuselddbyfihlgwheat 3. It. tllerefore, follows that the Wejqht,0ftheg1~ain_fedlambs when <21 Mac ————— ——Ar .I.,.u., ..........  2 15 
. . . l « 4 - ' ' . -- .  1 -M.
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. . . ment Station to conduct a series 0 maln 1 81 (1 nd unlnhabltel Raw cm. 2 35 1 8 50 8 43 3 3 35 8 00
m3t'31'l3l- L1ght,tr1mar1dgrace— ‘experiments directed towards the dis- M“ W 0.1319 8‘ d ‘d the others was 121.7 pounds per Big Ra 1.1.3.. _.: 395 i 917 920 140% 830
ful. Each vehicle proves the lcovery of some means of prevention. 11111955 the 31'1_ lands are C9 9 head, The former brought 75 cents {,.‘,",;’;’,*:f,._,,§,‘,‘({,;-A-,  11?  1(1) 38 l  lg 
veracity of our ad,-e,u5emem5_ I It IS known that tn? disease 18 pro- to the respective states, so that per one hund1_edpOundSm01,e than F ' ~ - E, pP.M_lA.MI 3
Let our handsome Catalogue lgfiiffcfgfifi g§§f,V§h,,? tfileswe-i:!:.ra{:te 1233 each. state may lvork Opt Ila Own those that had no grain before :   lli if .  l  "" "
continue the argument. Sent l~ . p , - P _ destiny under wise legislation. .- t_ .f 1- lSIurgi§ ________ __ 910; ____ __ 543 -‘ use ““ “
K‘ itself and that the smut p1ant_is propa ‘V b d ‘. t 1 t Vein e1 eec 111g.’ _ 5 Fun W,,yue__Ar 11 25 M. M_ 7 ,5 in 15
f1'€€- lgated from year to year by its spores '3 ‘We no 951“ 0 3(_V°c3 ‘3 6_ The «ran; feedmcr had aiF<_vrt Warne..Lv 11 45 ‘ 5 45 P ur.*12 35
i ‘ 'h' h dh e th h n k 1 s t o etlodinthis bul - ° ~ *‘ - ?Rwhmond 3903915 in
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Jonesville, Mich. lma "18 em M an ,"38Y 3'3 glvmg letin, but to call attention to the of the matmut of the lambs In‘ A. p. ;r>.m.
VNININIVNIVNI , a Sample. Of. ‘vheat 8‘ dlsagreeabl? and fact   8'9‘-ric-ultul-al resources ‘  . i .' Chicago ' - - - - - ~ - - - - - - —-V 7 1U 9 . 2 [)0 . . . . -.
gcharacteristic odor when present in any ' . . '.  h ‘.d I . the first two trials the grain-fed Detroit 13-I-:1, l _ O E ‘
I . :u0ticeab1euuamity_ Meauslolf preveu, and possibilities of t. e an region lambs reached an average of 125 - -------- .. n » 1 ................ --
  Sa‘/Hlgs Ba}-lkugtion are directed towards killing these cannot be fully realized and ut1l— pounds per head in Weight three aguugay nights Mackinaw City to Grand Rap_

OF LANSING MICHIGAN.
CAPITAL, 150,000.00.

MEAD BLOCK. LANSI.\‘(‘. ,
°”"~E5‘l FRANKLIN s'r., .\'0Ri:1i'L.i.\‘s1NG. 1

OFFICERS.

W. J. HEAL. President.
A. A. WILBCR. Vice President. I
C. H. Ossnzn, Cashier.

We transact a general banking business. In t
our savings department we receive deposits of ,
one dollar or over and pay interest thereon if left ,
three months or longer at 4 per cent. =

In our commercial department we receive ac-
counts of merchants and business men. We issue 1
interest bearing certificates of deposit. If you ‘
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State Normal School?
YPSIL.-INTI, MICHIGAN. 

The only iristitiitirin siipportcd by the State for
the exclusive prL‘p:ll‘:ltlOI‘i of teachers. Tuition free, '
Rooms and BO2lY'(llll'.{ in private faiiiiilics $3.00 to
$4.00 per week. Fiirnished rooms and club lio'.1rd-

ing at 3-'.:.oo to $3.00 per week.

The school has :i faculty of thirty. :1 practice
school of eight grades and 300 pupils, 9. \VL'lI'l
equipped Kindergarten, and large Libraries rind;
Laboratories.

Full courses lend to teachers’ life ‘certificates;
shorter courses to temporary certiticntcs.

School Opens Sept. 11, 1894.

Semi for catziloyize.

RICHARD G. BOONE,
BUYS A GOOD

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Terms: $20 down, balance

$1 per week

or 5% off for cash.

Agents wanted where we are not yet
represented.

r

8125 Bic cle (strictly high grade) $70
cash or $7 payments. Enclose stamp
for particulars.

VASSAR REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE

. adjacent plots.
‘. treatments were tried.

spores without injuring the vitality of

, the seed wheat.

In the autumn of 1893 wheat badly

5 affected with stinking smut was procured

for seed and small quantities subjected
to different treatments. were sown on
In all fifty-six different
One of them
was so simple and at the same time

3 proved so eflicacious in entirely extermi-

nating the smut without injuring the
vitality of the seed wheat that it is here
commended to the farmers for extended

’ application to the seed wheat this fall.

The treatment consists in soaking the
seed wheat affected with bunt, as stink-
ing smut is called. in asaturated solution
of lime for twenty-four hours then sow-
ing as soon thereafter as possible. The
seed should be thoroughly cleaned
through a fanning millbefore treatment.

To make the solution take ten pounds
of unslaked lime for each barrel (32
gallons) of the solution needed; shake it,
using just water enough to make a thick
pasty mass when thoroughly slaked; add
to this mass enough water to make the
32 gallons, which. when ready for use,
will present a milky appearance.

Pour the wheat into this solution,
keeping it thoroughly stirred mean-
while, and let stand for twenty-four
hours.

On removal from the solution the
wheat must be spread out thin to dry.
The drying may be hastened by throw-
ing on slaked lime and mixing. Care
should be taken that the wheat is not
allowed to heat at any time, especially
when wet.

Sow at any time thereafter, using
more seed to the acre than customary
as the kernels of wheat will be swollen
by the treatment.

The devices and utensils for treating
the seed may be varied according to the
amount of seed to be handled. When
only a few bushels are needed, good
water tight salt barrels, with a hole in
the side near the bottom through which
the water may be drawn off, will be
found very convenient. If larger
amounts of seed are needed it may be
well to makes water tight vat holding
30 to 40 bushels. Place it in such a
position that the liquid may bedrawn off
after each treatment.

The seed Wheat after such treatment
should not be put into sacks or bags
that have had smutty wheat in them as
the spores of the smut plant will remain
in them undestroyed. Scald the grain
drill and the bags with boiling water

VASSAR, MICH.

before using them for this wheat.

ized, until this irrigation problem
is solved by wise national and
state legislation.

 

GRAIN FEEDING LAMBS FOR
MARKET.

[Bulletin Wisconsin Station]

The following condensed results
have been obtained from feeding
lambs in this way in comparison
with the other method which al-
lows them no grain before weaning
or until fattening begins in the fall.

1. The feeding grain before
weaning produced an average of
61 cents per head more profit at
weaning time than that obtained
from the lambs receiving no grain.
The average value of each lamb in
the lot receiving grain at $5.66 per
hundred was $3.83 per head, and
the average value of the grain they
ate was 33 cents per head, while
the averagevalue of the other lot
notreceiving grain at $4.91 per hun-
dred pounds was $2.89, leaving 61
cents profit per head in favor of
grain feeding. The average of
the three trials shows that the grain
-fed lambs before weaning required
four pounds of grain for each one
pound of gain that they made over
the lambs that had no grain.

2. The feeding of grain after
weaning to lambs that had not re-
ceived any before weaning pro-
duced an average increase which
slightly more than paid a good
market price for the grain they ate
up to the time they were to be sold
in the fall. The average value of
each lamb in the fall after having
received grain from weaning time
was $3.66 at $4.00 P61‘ hundred
pounds and they ate 54 cents worth
of grain per head, while the aver-
age value per head of those that
had not received grain, at $3.81
per hundred pounds, was $2.96; a
difference of 16 cents in favor of

 and four weeks respectively before
; the others. In these trials the
‘average cost of this weight in the
5 instance of the grain-fed lambs was
‘ $2.68 per head exclusive of pasture,
while in the instance of the other
lambs it was $1.96 per head. This
diflerence in cost was largely due
to the heavy feeding of grain after
weaning, and when this was guard-
ed against in the third trial it
was found that the average of 113.9
pounds per head, which the lambs
that had no grain reached on the
conclusion of the experiment, was
made seven weeks sooner by the
lambs fed grain continuously, and
it was made at a slightly less cost.

7. There was no difierence in
the character of the meat in the
carcasses of the lambs that had
grain continuously and those that
had not.

8. The per cent that the lambs
dressed was about the same in all
lots, and no marked (liiference was
found in the weight of the different
organs of the body.

9. The feeding of grain made all
the fleeces of the lambs receiving
it more compact and smoother than
the others.

10. The grain-fed lambs sheared
in the three trials an average of 2.2
pounds more wool per head than
the others.

11. The greater amount of Wool
shorn by the grain fed lambs was
to an extent due to the greater
amount of yolk or oil it contained.
The shrinkage in the first two trials
was five per cent greater in the in-
stance of the grain-fed lambs than
with the others, and in the last
trial it was two per cent greater.

12. The wool on the lambs that
were fed grain continuously grew
to a slightly greater length than it
did in the fleeces of the others. In
the first trial the average length of

Continued on page 7.

idsuon .
nafzcicv. 2 has parlor car Grand Rapids to Cincin-

No.  has sleeping car Mackinaw City. Petoskey
and (1l'8lJ(I Rapids to Chicago. via Kalamazoo
and Michigan Central R. R.. arriving in Chicago
| at IIIU a. m. Parlor car Mackinaw City to Grand

Rapids.

5.9. b has parlor car Mackinaw City to Grand
Rapids. Sleeping car Mackinaw City to Cincin-
na 1.

No. 8 has buffet parlor car Grand Rapids to
glhicago via halamazoo, arriving in Chicago at

D. ID.

Eleseigggycglgéit tragp fépm MLa_ctkina‘v1v l(),‘ity lI‘18.5
_ r tom ac ina ‘ . t
to Grand Rapids. W I y an 6 05 ey
C. L. LOCIKIVOOD. Gen. Pass. Agt.

School the Entire Year. Students May Enter
at any time and Select their own Studies.

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Indiana Normal School and
Business Institute

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The Largest and Best Equipped Normal
School In the United States.

Notwithstanding the hard ti th t
is greater this year than ever bI:fa¢)sre.e 8 tendance

DEPARTDIENTS.

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Work, Teat_:liers' Training Class End Peiifgogyli
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Courses). Special Science. Civil Engineering
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raphy and Typewriting. Telegra hic and Review.
Each department is a school within itself, yet all
with the ex_cept-ion of private lessons in Music are
Included in One Tuition. Specialists as In-
structors are provided for each departnient.
Thréugh (tihe atteiigauce is large yet the classes are
sec ione so as contain on an ave
exceed 50 students. ' rage’ not to

The Commercial Department in conngcfion
with the school is everywhere acknowledged to be
the most_ complete Commercial College in the
land. It is supplied with the most extensive line
of oflices ever attempted b any business school
N 0 other institution 0 learning afar; fog.-
one ‘uition anything like as nulny subjects
from wh_ich t_o select. _ The best evidence that
the work is satisfactory is the constantly inc;-gag.
in demand for those trained here. Eicpenses
less than at any other place. Tuition I10
per term. Boar and furnished room $1.50
to $1.90 per week. Catalogue mailed free.

Additional advantages for the coming year with-
out increasing the expense of the gfiudent.

22d your opens september 4th

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are strictl H‘ h-G;-ad
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SEPTEMBER 6, 1894

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

  

3

Woman’s Work.

MORE FRESH AIR CHARITY.

Two articles in next to the last VISITOR,
are headed a “Protest,” the other by our
kind hearted sister, Mrs. Mayo, show
plainly that I have stirred up a hornet’s
nest in the camp. For throwing cold water
on the scheme of making our farm women
extra work in harvest and dog days, it is
insinuated that I am uncharitable; hardly
fit to be a Granger, in fact almost too sel-
fish to live.

I admit I may have gone too far in my
zeal to help the farmer’s wife, to whom I
have always been a true friend, and have
plead for her highest and best welfare
whenever I could, with tongue and pen,
and especially for her disenthrallment from
the terrible curse of overwork, which like
the old man of the sea, is dragging her
down, morally, mentally, and physically.
If so, will the kind sisters pardon me, re-
membering the truth, if I do not speak up
for the poor city waifs, it was a case of not
loving Caeser less but Rome more.

Mrs. Mayo seems to forget that the
“ scolding, fretting, and grumbling that
wear out so many farmers’ wives” are really
caused by overwork—she gets the cart be-
fore the horse.

It cannot be denied by any person who
will impartially investigate the matter, that
our farmers’ wives as a class are the most
overworked women on the face of the
earth. I do not mean here in northern
Michigan, nor in Michigan as a state, but
all over the United States, particularly the
great west, where, if a girl marries a farmer
she might better be his plow horse for all
the rest she can get. And the bigger the
farm, usually the more for her to do.

I have seen a slender woman getting a
meal over a hot stove, with the mercury in
the hundreds in her kitchen, carrying a big,
cross baby every step in her arms; while
another toddler was pulling at her dress
crying to be taken up. ~‘‘ 0,” she said, “it
is not the work; I could do that; but I have
to neglect my children so.” But the meals
must be got three times a day right along,
though the heavens fall, and she must be
the one to get them as long as she can
stand.

There is another young woman in my
mind whose husband is head over heels in
debt. They could not have things com-
fortable or convenient about the house;
babies came fast; lots of dairy work, cook-
ing for hired men, feeding calves, etc. No-
body but herself to do it all. She is likely
to break down, and they whisper it round
among the neighbors that her mind is
queer.

The above is no fancy sketch. Such
things are, alas! too common. It isn’t
every farmer who is rich and out of debt.
To the few who are, as I said before,
with hired help to do the hardest work, it
is all right and praiseworthy to import a
few city “ bummers”—but hold, I beg par-
don—-that is not the right word—sweet-
faced guests, I should have said. But there
are sweet-faced women in the country, too,
whose faces will be turned to vinegar and
whose hearts to gall and wormwood if some-
thing is not done to take them from the
rut of never ending toil. How would it do
to start a few home missionaries along this
line? Let us take some of our own poor
mothers with little babies——we who are
able~—let them swing in the hammocks
under our green trees, and enjoy the bliss-
ful rest from all labor for awhile, “blessed
and being blessed.”

We are Patrons, and pledged to do what
we can to help the farmer and his family.
Is it consistent to skip our own toilers and
give the city folks a rest? Charity should
begin at home. “He that provideth not
for his own is worse than an infidel.” _

To the sisters who criticise me, I dis-
like personalities, but it is only fair to say
in defence, we have never kept any resort-
ers for pay at our own house. I have al-
ways had help in our kitchen so I could
rest some hours each day as a rule. We of
Traverse Grange are not specially over-
worked, but when the subject came up
before our Grange, had there been an elo-
quent speaker present in its favor, like
Mrs. Mayo, several there would probably
have been persuaded, against their real
wishes, to take in “ visitors.” But as it
was, they all agreed they had enough to
do, and needed a rest themselves. If this
was being “ small of soul, narrow in opin-
ion, and niggardly in purse”—why, so be it.

E. M. VOORHEES.

Traverse Ciiy.

 

OPEN AIR CHARITY.

I find that some of the friends of the
cause who have planned to open their
homes have not been able to secure just the
persons that they desired, and some were
not able to get an at all. For this we
are very sorry. It is true that it is
hardly possible to provide just what each
one would like best, yet the associations
we- think have done the best they could.

Many of the secretaries who_ had charge
of the work and understood it are away
from their offices on their vacations, and
those left in charge knew little or nothing

l of the plans. When complaints like this
' have come to us we have tried to help
them out by applying elsewhere.

Despite all these hindrances, the work
has progressed better than we anticipated,
and the real good that has come to these
tired souls can never be told. Neither can
the blessedness be estimated that has si-
lently come to those who have wrought.

The following letter from a sick, worn
out mother who, with her two little ones,
aged four and five, found a resting place
in a dear friend’s and Patron’s home, tells
us something of the work.

Many A. MAYO.

August 4, 1894.

My only excuse for not writing you be-
fore is that I have been resting, neither
sewing, reading, or thinking, but just rest-
ing in this lovely place. I have read of
just such places and such people, but al-
ways supposed it half fiction. The good-
ness, the kindness of these people, I cannot
half begin to tell you.

Mrs. ———, is a lovely, womanly woman,
and Mr. ———, is one of nature’s noblemen.

I think this is a little bit of heaven, and
I know the babies are sure of it.

If you could only see them! Mr.
takes them with him over the farm and to
the barn. He is just delighted with them,
and says they ask him the strangest ques-
tions. M asked him if the cows were
the sheep’s mammas.

There is a pet lamb in the orchard, and
when it calls “ma-a-a,” the babies come
shouting “O, Mrs. , come quick; your
baby wants you!” Just now they are in
the cellar where the churning is being
done, and I hear them laughing and talk-
ing. You know this is the first time they
have ever been in the country, and every-
thing is so wonderful to them.

Tell the other kind friends what comfort
I am taking and what loving gratitude is
in my heart towards you all.

I cannot understand why God has put it
into your hearts to do so much for me and
mine. I know only too well how unde-
serving I am in almost losing faith in God’s
goodness by thinking he had forsaken me.

RONALD GRANGE AND FRESH AIR.

DEAR VisIToR—I have been requested
by Ronald Grange, No. 192, to tell your
readers what some of our members think
of taking city children for an outing of
two weeks.

There were 16 children sent through our
Grange from the Childrens’ Home in Grand
Rapids, mostly boys of from five to twelve
years of age. And it is only justice to the
Home to say that a nicer, better behaved
lot of little folks we never saw. The extra
work was not very much, as they were only
in the house to eat and sleep. We think
those who took children are happier for it
than those who did not. I mean those who
could and did not.

I am sorry that farmers’ wives have such
a hard time in some parts of the state. It
is so different around about this part of
Ionia county. I do not know so much
about other places in the county. If any
one thinks that farmers’ wives do not have
a chance to drop their dish-cloth and go
occasionally, we would invite them to visit
our neighborhood. They might wonder
how some of us knew where we lived.
Those who do not take from two days’ to a
wee"k’s outing by some lake are almost the
exception. Then there are two churches
that have a ladies’ aid society, each once a
month, but not the same day. We meet
around at different homes and number any-
where from 50 to 140, but usually about 75.
We also have socials in the evenings for
the benefit of the churches. We have
some tea parties. And last but not least
the Grange once in two weeks. This is
our summer round of pleasures. In the
winter we have in addition a large literary
meeting once in two weeks, dinner parties,
and evening parties. VVe are nine miles
from a large town and three from a small
town, and so we just have a city all by our-
selves, and a pleasant, happy, peaceful one
it is.

Mas. D. S. WALDRON.

Ionia, Mich.

SEEN AND SUGGESTED.

When the opportunity to spend the day
at the Battle Creek sanitarium opened to
me last week, I lost no time in acting upon
it. In the three years since my last visit
many changes have been made in that fast
growing community of houses, hospitals,
and homes, built and fitted up either for
the care of the sick, for the use of em-
plo es, or the teaching of scientific cooking
andy the paths to sound health. Especially
has the work for children grown there, as
everywhere of late. They have a childrens’
cooking class where the little ones come
into the class room kitchen and each, with
gas stove and tidy apartment furnished
with utensils, does real cooking under the
direction of a leader; and when done, the
tiny mistresses, if I remember rightly, eat
their self prepared meals together,—hap-
pily, I’m sure, if their dishes are successes,
but if not, I pray their misery may be com-
mensurate with their years!

The kindergarten, of course, is seen here

and the classes for skilling the hand in me-
chanical uses and exercises for leading the
body to develop evenly and sturdily. I
could not help thinking how many hints
could be picked up here in a day’s visit by
a mother to whom kindergarten methods
are a tempting enigma, but who thinks a
“ study” of it altogether tooagreat a task.
By all means let her visit the Haskell
_Home, 8. spick and span large new build-
ing at the edge~of town. Into this home
two hundred orphan waifs are to be picked
up out the slums of neglect and evil, and
transplanted to take root in new soil, in
fresh sunshine, with plenty of clean water,
wholesome food, and regular habits. Sixty
are already there and six of these are babies.
Every twelve children have a “mother”
who is expected, I suspect, to do a good
deal of one sort of mothering and desist
from much of other sorts, in short, to
mother on approved principles. Each
of these “ families” occupy a suite of
rooms consisting of the mother’s room,
opening into her childrens’ room which
contains six white double-decked bedsteads.
Each child makes his own bed and pins his
name to the coverlet so that both com-
fort and pride are spurs to his best doing.
Beyond the bedrooms is a sunny, homelike
sitting room.

But it is in the kitchen, the dining-room,
the school rooms, the bath and toilet rooms
and the workshop that your wonder grows
when you try to think of what all this
means to a child “ snatched from the burn-
ing,” from a place of passion and slime and
unsavoryness.

“Institution life” is not an ideal home
life by any means, but many a so-called
“ well brought up” girl or boy might with
profit have added to his bringing up more
of the order, neatness, regularity, habit of
occupation and self-control that must be
enforced here.

Haskell Home, I am told, is the fulfill-
ment of a long cherished hope of Dr. Kel-
logg, so well known as the sanitarium sur-
geon. His deep interest in humanity’s
outcasts is evidently no surface expression,
for he and Mrs. Kellogg have taken fifteen
little ones into their own home and hearts.
These are among the many signs of the
spirit that is moving. When we consider
the changes in the education of very wee
people and catch these glimpses of the
broad and deep philosophy of the kinder-
garten and see how it does not aim to form
but rather to conform to the child nature
and help it to unfold naturally, one can
but marvel that we did not know long be-
fore we did that “ Except ye become as
little children ye shall in no wise enter the
kingdom of heaven.”

[This was to have told you of a “ soup-
class” I attended but some how all I meant
to write is “in the soup” until nextTtime.]

FOR LOVERS OI‘ NATURE.

Nature studies, brimful of close, sym-
pathetic observations, are not so many as to
make “The Friendship of Nature*” by
Mabel Osgood Wright, uncalled for.

One need not read so far as the charming
chapter which tells “The story of a garden”
to know that the author has been initiated
from childhood into the “complete brother-
hood of birds” and that “the meanest
flower that blows" may become inviting at
her friendly touch. Although written in
the midst of the New England flora and by
the sea, where whitfs of salt air are felt and
flocks of water birds tly over her walks and
through her talks, this is a book to read
while out under the sky anywhere. Most
of our own birds flit and build in its pages
and our flowers blossom there, also. There
is nothing that makes nature lovers so
quickly akin as to find the self-same spring
beauty or hepatica, if it be east or west;
nothing. surely, except it be the first seen
gleam of the blue bird’s back or the same
thrill ‘at sound of the meadowlark’s
“Spring 0’ the year, spring 0’ the year.”

This writer delights in all the year out
of doors. She slights no season. I wish
her book, in its trim green and gold covers,
and with its gem-from-nature frontispiece,
might find its way to many a country home
library, if for no other reason than because
she has said in it: “The weeds and flowers
are mingled together along the roadside, and
the loiterer treasures many things that
the farmer casts out of his fields.” We
need more of the eyes of “a loiterer,”
sometimes.

 

BETTER THAN WAS EXPECTED.

Ann Arbor, Mich., August 19, 1.994.

Enrroa V1sI'ron—-—We received the ma-
chine in ood order, have given it a thor-
ough tria , and will say it surpasses our
expectations. It is as good and will do
as good work as any high priced machine.

Our neighbors say, “It is just as nice
and does just as good work as ours, and
ours cost $50.” _

My wife has used the White and the
Standard and she says this beats either.

Yours truly,
‘ U. G. DARLING.

Box 1453, Ann Arbor, Mich.

* Published by McMillan dz Co., 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
Price 15 cents.

The. Juveniles.

BIRD TI-IO UGHTS.

I lived first in a little house,
And lived there very well,

I tho’t the world was small and round
And made of pale blue shell.

I lived next in 21 little nest,
Nor needed any other,

I thought the world was made of straw,
And broodcd by my mother.

One day I fluttered from the nest
To see what I could find.

I said: “ The world is made of leaves,
I have been very blind."

At length I flew beyond the tree,
Quite fit for grown up labors,
—I don’t know how the world is made
And neither do my neighbors!
—-—Unknown, in the Child’8 World.

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN.

Whatever it may cost, one should learn
to speak the truth under all circumstances.
Too frequently, our boys and girls are
given—not, perhaps, to telling an out-and-
out lie, but to exaggeration. Recently we
heard a boy say to his companion:

“I’ve got sixteen things to do when I get
home, Hal, so I guess I can’t come over
tonight.”

Hal laughed as he said:

“You’ve got sixteen things to do, Jack?
Now be honest; how many really have you
awaiting you ?”

“Well, there’s the wood to be brought in,
the coal-box to fill, the horse to be watered,
and—and—that’s all I can think of now.”

“There’s something wrong with your
multiplication table. I never knew that
three times one made sixteen,” Hal said
jokingly.

“IVhat a fuss you make about nothing
Jack said a trifle testily. “You know I
didn’t mean I had just sixteen things to
do.”

“Then you should say what you mean,”
Hal answered as a last retort.

That is just the point—to say what we
absolutely know and mean; not to exag-
gerate in the least. It is the best plan to
pursue.—E.T.

'7!

TWO STORIES OF STORKS.

These two stories of the gratitude and
intelligence of two storks, were first found
in foreign papers.

About the end of March, 1891, says the
first story, a pair of storks took up their
abode on the roof the school-house in the
village of Poppenhofen. I

One of the birds appeared to be exhaust-
ed by its long journey, and the bad weather
it had passed through. On the morning
after its arrival the bird was found by the
schoolmaster lying on the ground before
the schoolhouse door.

The man, who, like all Germans, con-
sidered it a piece of good luck to have the
stork’s nest on his house, picked up the
bird and took it indoors. He nursed it
carefully, and when it was convalescent
used every morning to carry it to the fields
a short distance from the house, where its
mate appeared regularly at the same hour
to supply it with food.

The stork is now cured, and every even-
ing it flies down from the roof and gravely
walks by the side of its friend from the
schoolhouse to the meadows, accompanied
by a wandering crowd of children.

The other story tells of a stork’s journey-
ings. For years he and his mate regularly
built their nest in the park at Schloss
Ruhleben, near Berlin. The owner of the
castle, desiring to ascertain whether the
same stork always returned there, ordered
that a steel ring, upon which was engraved
the name of the place and the date, 1890,
should be fastened around the bird’s left
le .

gllast spring the stork came back as usual
to the park, and upon his other leg was a
ring of silver bearing the inscription:
“India sends Germany her greeting.”-Ex.

PUZZLES.

|_Al1 readers of THE GRANGE Visiron are invited to contrib-
me and send solutions to this department. Address all com-
uiunications relating to puzzles to Thomas A. Millar, 500 izth
St., Detroit, Michigan]
No. 1.-Crosvrvord.
In cow not in dog;
In wheel not in cog;
In ear not in leg;
In give not in beg;
In sell not in buy;
In live not in die;
In man not in girl;
In spin notin whirl;
In head, not in curl;
Now search these lines with care
And :1 president you’ll find there.

Howell, Ali:/1. GRACE Bun.
No. 2—Square.

2. Perfume. 3. A flower. 4. Draws.

i . Nobleman. THE BOY‘

Birming/mm, illicit.
Na. ,7.-Crossword’.
In babe not in child;
In tame not in wild;
In gave not in sell;
In answer not in tell;
Dear reader bear in mind
That an animal you must find.
Detroit, 1|! it/1. UNCLE .103-
PRIZES.

For the best list of solutions to the above puzzles we will

ive a nice book. Answers must reach us not later than
geptember 20.

THE MAIL BAG.

All our young (and old) readers are invited to contribute
and solve to this department.‘ If you only solve one puzzle
send it in to us and it may win a prize. Let every person sit
down and make some puzzles and send them to us. Items
of interest are desired at all times. Good prizes will he
ofiered for solvers;now let all our friends solve and contribute
to this department. Until next issue, good by.

N. W.


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THE Gaiijgiz VISITOR.

Published on the fii-st and third Thursdays of every month.

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

1'0 whom all exchanges. communications, advertising busi-
ness and subscriptions should be sent.

Ofllte, Room 19, Old State Building.

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

&‘B.emittances should be by Registered Letter. Money

Order or Draft. Do not send stamps. ‘
§‘To insure insertion all notices should be mailed no
later than the Saturday preceding issue.

Entered at the Postofiice at Lansing. Mich.. as Second
Class Matter.

§‘Nr:xr ISSUE SEPTEMBER 20.

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 ho e every Grange in the state will work earnestly in all
these epartments, so that by a more united efiort we shall
rapidly increase our numbers, extend our influence, and ('.Itt£l1l'l
more and more completely those ends which we seek.

out OBJECT

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

\\'e believe that this iiiiprovement can in large measure be
brou ht about: .

i. To.) By wider iqdividual st1l1¢}i{v and‘ general discussion of
the bu‘ine"s side of arming an omc 'eeping.

(6.) 3B_v:co-operation for fiiiancial advantage. . _

2. (}z]1.) By frequent social gatherings, and the ‘mingling
tqgether of farmers with farmers, and of farmers with people
0 0t er occupations.

$15) By strivilnbg fqlr ilhpllacl’ manhood, a nobler woinanhood,
an a universa rot er oo .

3. (r1.) By studying and promoting the improvement of our
district schools.

(b.) By patronizing and aiding the Agricultural Colleges and
Experiment Stations in their legitimaite work of scientific in-
vestigation. practical experiment, and education for rural pur-
suits.

(6.) Bvmaintainin and attendin farriiers’ institutes;read-
ing in the Reading Uircle; establis ing and using circulating
libraries; buying more and better in-agzizines and papers for
the home.

4. (a.) By difiusijng a knfoxvledge  our civil institutions and
teaching the high uties o citizens ip.

(Iz.) By demanding the enforcement of existing statutes. and
by discussing, advocating‘, and trying to secure such other state
arid! natioiiial laws as shall tend to the general justice, progress,
an mora ity.

Don’t forget the F. H. R. C. Begin it;
keep at it.

 

 

It is time to begin planning the fall
campaign in Grange work.

 

Our prohibition friends should be happy_
Michigan has certainly gone dry.

We are in receipt of the proceedings of
the last annual session of the Oregon State
Grange. The Oregon Patrons are alive to
the vital questions of the day. They have
been blessed with an exceptionally able
State Master, Judge R. P. Boise.

THE STATE FAIR.

The State Fair will this year be an
especially strong exhibition, and every
farmer will do well to attend. The exposi-
tion grounds in Detroit are very large and
commodious, but the ofiicials state that
they are crowded for room for exhibitors,
such have been the demands for space-
Attend the State Fair.

FALL PROGRAMS.

Lecturers should keep in mind the pur-
poses of the Grange, when planning the
fall programs. Remember that the Grange
has in view the educational advancement
of the farmers. Becollect the importance
of the district schools, of the Agricultural
College, of institutes. Don't omit to have
the F. H. R. C. explained. Remember
that the Grange will want to ask for legis-
lation this next winter. What is of most
importance? Consider that question. Don’t
forget woman’s work. Remember that the
salvation of the Grange is in securing the
best young people as members. Let us
have grand work on the programs this fall.

BOGUS’ BUTTER.

The state secretary of the farmers’ clubs
suggests the following topic for club dis-
cussion during September:

Should not a law be passed by which the
consumer of bogus butter shall be ab-
solutely certain that the representation is
not pure butter?

This is a. phase of the question new to
us. We have not chanced to hear of any
man who was imposed upon in his desire
to secure first class oleomargerine, by hav-
ing inferior dairy butter thrust upon him.
Inquiry at the oflice of the dairy and food
commissioner elicited the information that
so far in the history of the department no
complaints of this nature had been received.

If we may be allowed a. suggestion, how-
ever, we would recommend that the whole
question of our pure food laws be taken
up and discussed by the clubs. Our present
state laws do not seem to be producing the
results that were anticipated. It certainly
is necessary that we have greater powers
given to the dairy and food commissioner,
and that the existing laws be codified into
a compact, but adequate, pure food law.

     

 

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

TAXATION IN MICHIGAN.

We present in this issue the first of e.
a series of brief articles on “ Taxation in
Michigan,” written by Mr. E. J. Wright,
of the auditor general’s department at
Lansing. Mr. Wright has made a thor-
ough study of the subject. He has also had
much experience in the actual workings of
the tax system of the State. Thus he is
thoroughly versed at all points.

We are extremely. gratified that we can
present to our readers such a series of
articles on taxation. The subject is of
vast importance, and because of its intri-
cacy, often but poorly understood. Mr.
Wright will endeavor to explain it so that
it will be intelligible to everyone.

 

H US TLI NG?

Hustling is a slang word that has almost
ceased to be slang, so expressive is it. We
ca.n’t very well get along without both the
word itself and the action it represents.
Hustling is an essential now-a-days. Added
to the cardinal virtues of integrity, honesty,
study, perseverance, it rarely fails. With-
out it men will often fail, though possess-
ing many other requisites of success.

This is just as true in Grange work as in
any other. Many a Grange is dormant be-
cause it s blood grew cold from inaction.
Do your neighbors know that you have a
Grange? Do you keep talking about it?
Do you persistently urge them to join? Do
they know what grand things it is doing
for the farmers? The Grange can’t grow
unless it hustles. It must be alive, alert,
up with the times. It must advertise its
purposes and labors.

WAS THIS LEGAL.

March 23, 1893, the governor approved
a bill making a one-sixth mill tax for the
University. This law took effect August
27, 90 days after the session closed. On
May 4 he approved the following bill, to
which the legislature had given immediate

efiect:

The People of the State of Michigan enact,
That the State Treasurer be and is hereby author-
ized and directed to pay to the regents of the
University, in the year 1893, and each year there-
after. in quarterly installments, upon the warrant
of the Auditor General, the amount of the mill
tax provided for bylaw to extend aid to the Univer-
sity of Michigan, and that said treasury be reim-
bursed out of the taxes annually received from
said mill tax when collected, and said Auditor
General shall issue said warrants as in the case of
special appropriations: Provided, That in the
_\ear 1893 the first and second installments shall
be paid together on the first day of July.

In July, 1893, the regents of the Uni-
versity made a requisition upon the audi-
tor general for the first two installments
of the sixth mill tax. This was paid. $56,-
500, the amount of the twentieth mill tax,
was also paid during the year. So that
last year the University received an amount
equal to the sum of the one-twentieth and
the one-sixth mill taxes.

The usual custom in dealing with state
institutions is to advance the amount due
them out of the general fund, and then re-
imburse that fund when the taxes are col-
lected; whereas, the University funds aris-
ing from the one-twentieth mill tax have
never been paid until collected. Thus in
any event there still remained in the state
treasury $56,500, the amount of the twen-
tieth mill tax collected in 1892, and to be
paid in 1893. That payment was doubtless
legal. The question is, does the law quoted
above, taking effect May 4, apply to the
twentieth mill tax, which was the only one
in force when the law passed, or does it
apply to the sixth mill tax, which did not
go into effect until August 27? To a lay-
man it looks like a queer transaction to
pay out money under a law that has not
gone into effect. Yet in this case the
auditor general paid the University, on
July 1, $94,166.66, under an act that took
effect nearly two months later.

We do not know that this transaction in-
dicates any attempt to obtain money illeg-
ally; and it is possible that the authorities
can make the whole matter clear, but as it
has not before been fully presented to the
public, we deemed best tomention it, hop-
ing that the transaction may be made per-
fectly clear by those who have had to do
with it. We shall, with much interest,
await an explanation.

TO PATRONS.

By request of Worthy Master Horton
we print entire article IV of the -by-laws
of the Michigan State Grange. This
article concerns the election of delegates
to State Grange.

We suggest that this article be read in

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s

SEPTEMBER 6, 1894.

Grange at the next meeting, so that every
Patron may thoroughly understand it.
There have always been more or less fric-
tion and misunderstanding about the time
and manner of selecting delegates, and ap-
parently, in some cases, a misconception of
the duties of delegates after their return
from State Grange. A careful reading of
this article will obviate the trouble:

ARTICLE IV.
VO1'I.\'G MEMBERS.

SECTION 1. The voting members of the Michi-
gan State Grange shall be chosen from the mem-
bers, in proportion to one brother, and his wife
(if a matron), to each five subordinate Granges,
or the major part thereof, in each county; and
one brother, and his wife (if a matron), chosen by
gach county or district (Pomona) Grange in the

tate.

SEC. 2. Counties in which there are not the
major portion of five Subordinate Granges shall
be entitled to a representation in the State Grange
of one brother and his wife (if a Matron).

SEC. 3. The selection of voting members by
subordinate Granges shall take place on the first
Tuesday of October of each year, by a convention
of subordinate Granges at the county seat of each
county, unless the place of meeting has been else-
where located by the last preceding annual con-
vention.

Sac. 4. At the annual convention to elect rep-
resentatives or voting members to the State
Grange each subordinate Grange, not more than
two quarters in arrears for dues or reports to the
State Grange, shall be entitled to four delegates,
and no more. Such delegates shall be chosen by
ballot by the subordinate Grange which may also
choose alternate delegates. Each delegate and
alternate chosen should have credentials from his
Grange, signed by the master and secretary there-
of, and attested by the seal of the Grange. A
delegate can have but one vote in the convention.

SEC. 5. Conventions of eight or more Granges
may, upon the request of the majority of the
Granges entitled to representation, divide the
county or district into districts of contiguous
Granges, in which case the representatives of each
such district shall be elected by the vote of the
delegates of the district so made.

SEC. 6. A county or district convention shall
have the delegates of the majority of the Grange
entitled to representation present. before district-
ing or an election can take place. Failing to have
a majority of the Granges entitled to representa-
tion present, the convention shall, after organiza-
tion, adjourn to a fixed time and place, and senda
notice of such time and place to all unrepresented
Granges. The delegates present at the adjourned
meeting of the convention shall have power to
elect representatives to the State Grange.

SEC. 7. Conventions may elect alternate repre-
sentatives to the State Grange, or may empower
the representatives-elect to appoint substitutes
from among the masters or past masters of sub-
ordinate Granges in the district from which tney
were elected.

SEC. 8. The president and secretary of each
representative convention shall give each repre-
sentative-elect credentials certifying his election,
to be used at the State Grange, and said secretary
shall, immediately upon the close of the conven-
tion, forward a certified statement of the election,
with name and postoffice of each representative
elected. to the secretary of the State Grange.
Blank forms of credentials and certificates shall
be furnished by the secretary of the State Grange
on application.

SEC. 9. Each representative attending the
State Grange shall receive actual fare paid for the
distance traveled in going and returning by the
nearest traveled route. and $1.25 per diem for the
time actually spent at the Grange. The master
and secretary of the State Grange shall give such
representative an order for the amount on the
treasurer of the State Grange, which shall be,
paid at the close of the session.

Sec. 10. Each representative to the State
Grange shall, within six weeks after the close of
the State Grange, visit each subordinate Grange
in his district, give instruction and impart the an-
nual word to the masters of those Granges entitled
to receive it. [All Granges entitled to representa
tion in the convention, or reported as entitled to
it by the secretary of the State Grange, are on-
titled to receive the A. W. from the representa-
tive.

NOTICE.

. Ann Arbor, Mich., August 29, 1894.

The books of this office show at this
date the following Granges entitled to
elect delegates to the county convention
to be held on Tuesday, October 2, 1894,
by virtue of section 3, article IV, by-
laws of Michigan State Grange.

Allcgan-2 Representatives. 53, 154, 243. 296, 339, 390,407,
530-

Antriiii—1 Rep., 470, 676. _ N 4*
Barry—1 Rep., 127, 145, 256, 425, 472, 64.5.

Benzie~i Rep.. 503. N

Bcrrien—z Rep., 1+, 43, 30, S1. S4, S7, 104, 122, 123, 194, 332,

00.
7 Branch—2 Rep.. 33, 95, 96. 97, 136, 137, 152, 400.

Calhoun—i Rep., 66, 85, 129, 200, 292.

Cass-1 Re ., 42, 291, 695.

Clintou——i ep., 202, 2:5, 226, 358, 439, 456. 459.
Charlevoix—1 Rep., 6 .

Ea.ton—1 Re ., (>7, 134., 360, 619.

Genesec——1 ep., 33", )4. ‘

Grand Traverse—-1 Rep” 379, 469, 603.

Gratiot-1 Reg, 307, 391, 500.

l-Iillsdale—2 ep.. 106, 107, 1oS, 133, 269, 273, 274, 236.
I-{uron—i Rcp., 666, 667, 663, 630, 699.

Ingham——i Rep., 115, 241. 262, 289, 347. 540.

Ionia—2 Rep., 175. I74. KS5, 136, 190. 192, 207, 272, 640.
_]ackson—1 Rep.. 45. .

l\'alk9.ska—1 Rep., 674, 664, 976. 962.

Kalamazoo———1 Rep., 16, 24, 49.

Kent—z Rep-. I9. 63. H0. H3. 170. 219. m. 337. 340. 343.

6 , 634.
S I.apeer—i Re ., 246, 443, 549, 

Le1iawee—2 ep., 1 , 212, I70, 277, 279, 280, 333, 334, 509,
Livingston——1 Rep, 336, 613.

Macomb—1 Rep., 657.

Manistee-1 Rcp., 557.

Mecosta—1 Rep.. 362.

Mantcalm—i Rep., 313, 4.40, 441, 650.
Musk?-gon—I Rex». 372. 373. 546. 53:
Newaygo—I Rep-. 49+. +95. 5+4. 545-
Oceana.—1 Rcp., 393, 406.

0ak1=md—I R619-. 14!. 245. 157. 259. 267. 44.».-
Ottawa—1 Rep., 30, 112, 313, 421, 438, 639, 652.
Otse o-1 Rep., 632.

St. 0 air——1 Rep., 518.

St _Ioseph—i Rep., 12, 178, 215. 266, 303.
Saginaw-1 Rep., 574,,

Sanila.c—i Rep., 417, 566, 654.

Shiawa.ssee—-1 Rep., 160, 252, 638.

Van Buren—2 Rep., 10, 32, 60. 158, 159, 346, 355, 610.
Washtenaw—i Re ., 52. 56,68, 92.

Wayne—1 Re ., 7. 363,630.

Wcxford—-i ep., 633.

By the neglect of some secretaries, quite
a number of Granges stand now upon our
books disfranchised.

For the purpose of securing represent-
atives to all delinquent Granges we shall
add to the list all that may report up to

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the last moment practicable, and dele-
gates duly elected, who at the convention
show a receipt for dues for the quarter
endin March 31, 1894, on which is en-
dorse , “ Entitled to representation,”
should be allowed to participate in the
work of the convention.

The following Granges are delinquent
for the quarter ending March 31, 1894-
36, 39, 55, 65, 74, 76, 162, 182, 188, 275,
283, 339, 389, 424, 618, 624, 662, 677.

The following are delinquent for the
duarter ending December 31, 1893-410,
78, 168, 230, 247, 268, 332, 370, 395, 403,
463, 491, 521, 582, 669, 678, 690.

JENNIE BUELL,
Secretary.

The Lecture Field.

TOPICS FOR SEPTEMBER.

The National Lecturer furnishes the
following list of topics from which Granges
may select subjects for discussion. This
list will be appreciated by lecturers of
subordinate Granges.

SEPTEMBER.

How much and what should the farmer read?

Of what do the real luxuries of life consist?

What are the real enjoymerits of life, and with what class
of _eople are they mostly found?

V hat are the causes of decline in agricultural fairs in this
country?

To what extent should horse racing be permitted at agricul-
tural fairs?

What can farmers’ wives do to make agricultural fairs :1
success?

The farmer's home and how to make it hap y?

The weather bureau, is it of any value to armors?

What are the relative advantages of eastern and western
farming?

At what prices can farmers afford to raise corn, wheat,
oats and barley, when land is worth $50 per acre; when it is
worth $30 per acre?

. Of: what value to the farmer is a classical college educa-
tion.

I{o_w to make money and how to save it?

Is it advisable for a young man to run in debt for two-
thirds of the value of a farm with the present prices of land
and_f:1.r1ri products?

V\ hat is the difference between ccononiv and parsimony in
the iiianagciiient of a farm?

W hat is the best and most economical way to harvest corn
and corn fodder? -

\Vhat are the relative advantages of the “ Telford" and
"McAdam" systems of making roads?

IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS.

MONTGOMERY GRANGE. NO. 549.

1. We aim to meet once in two weeks
through the fall, winter, and spring months,
and once a month through the busy sea-
son of the year, on Saturday evening at
7:30 o’clock, or as soon as there is a
quorum present. Close about 10 o’clock,
owing somewhat to the business to be
done and interest manifest. 2. We try to
have something that will interest and also
profit each member present but have dis-
cussed no topics recently. 3. We have as
strict enforcement of parliamentary rules
as possible. 4. Degree work occupies a
prominent part in our Grange work. 5.
We held two public meetings within the
past year. We do. It helps show to
those outside the Grange that we are at
work. It also shows that we as an
organization need their help, for in union
there is strength. 6. By personal effort.

Mas. C. HUNTINGTON.

F. H. R. (-2.

FARM HOME READING CIRCLE.

The plan and scope of the Farm Home
Reading Circle are well known to most of
the readers of the VISITOR. The Grange
has from the very first recognized the value
of a systematic course of reading along the
lines suggested, and has officially urged its
members to take advantage of the opportu-
nities oifered by such an arrangement. The
course has now been established less than
two years, yet its readers number not less
than three hundred, scattered throughout
the United States and Canada.

The course is divided into classes, includ-
ing Live Stock, Soils and Crops, Garden
and Orchard, Home Making, and Political
Science.

The above classes embrace a. wide range
of subjects of interest to all engaged in
agriculture. The arrangement of subjects
is intended to be 3. natural progression.
The first books of each class take up the
subject in a general way and include a brief
discussion of the underlying principles;
the later books of the course are concerned
more with practical details relating to
the various departments of agriculture.
The books have been selected, in most
cases, with a. view to their practical value
as aids to those in engaged in the business
of farming. The books were written mostly
by men who have attained their knowledge
by long experience. The F. H. B. C. is no
longer an experiment, it is thoroughly es-
tablished and will continue to be a power
for advancement among farmers every-
where.

There are 9. great many farmers in Mich-
igan who do not know of the existence of
this course, and we are anxious to secure
the cooperation of those already members
in bringing it to their attention. If you
have not already availed yourself of the
opportunities offered and enrolled our
name among its readers, do so now. om-
mence early and it will be easier to finish a
s ecial line of work. If you desire to know
a 1 the particulars regarding the course, its
history, aims, advanta es, etc., write at
once to Secretary F. H. . C., Agricultural

KY

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