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Officers National Grange.

M.xsr1:n~S. E. ADAMS. Minn.

0vERsi5ER—J. J. WUODIWIAN, Mich.
Lnrri'nnn—M()R’l")IR \‘.’II1TEIIE.‘- T‘, 22 J’.
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FI.oRA—MRs. JAS. T. MOORE. Maryland.
LADY ASSTISTANT STE\\'ARD—MISS CARRIE A.

H.-ILL, Kentucky.

Officers Michigan State Grange.
Paw Paw.

- Tecumseh.
Muskegon.

- - - Pontiac.

.—W. H. MATTISON, - - Ionia.
C.—SALMON STEEL, Bear Lake, Manis’e Co
T.—S. F. BROVVN, - - Schoolcraft.
SEC.—J. T. COBB, - — - “
G. K.—A. N. WOODRUFF, - Vlfatervliet.
CEEES.—MRS. C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon.
Pomona;-Mas. W. T. ADAMS, Grand‘Rapids.
FLORA—M.I-LS. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.-—1\Z[ns. VV. H. MATTISON, Ionia.

. .-—J. J. VVOODMAN, - -

Executive committee.

F. M. HOLLOVVAY, Chairman, - Hillsdale.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - - Ypsilanti.
GEO. W. VVOODVVARD, Shelby, Oceana Co.
C. G. LUCE, - - Gilead, Branch 00.
WESTBROOK DIVlNE, Belding, Ionia Co.
THOMAS MARS, Berrien Center, Berrien Co.
V\"1I. SATTERLEE, Birmingham, Oakland Co.
J. J. WOODMAN, J. T. COBB, — Ex. Ofiicio.

State Business Agent .

J. M. CHIDESTER, - - - Detroit.
J. H. GARDNER, Centreville, St. Joseph C0.

General Deputy.

C. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.

Special Lecturers.

Thos. F. Moore, . . . . . . Adrian, . . . . .Lenawee Co
Geo. VV. Vl'oodward. .Shelby. . . . . . . .Oceana Co
Samuel Laugdon, . .Bowen Station,. . .Kent Co
E. C. Herrington,.. .Four Towns,. .Oakland Co
M. L. Stevens, . . . . . . . .Perry. . . . Shiawassee Co
L. R. Brown, . . . . Rawsonville, . .Washtenaw Co
Andrew Campbell, . .Ypsilanti, . . “ “

Mrs. Salmon Steele,. .Bear La.ke,. .Manistee Co

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Grange. VVe shall also send a copy
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Rotation of Crops.

BY DR. G. W. Ul\'DER\V'OOD, OF HILLSDALE.

The subject assigned me,—“ The
Rotation of Crops, in Farming ”—is
not a primary idea in agriculture, but
is rather a necessity devolved upon
him who would be a successful culti-
vator, and is the result of long con-
tinued experiment and uniform human
experience.

In England, and on the continent
of Europe, it has long been understood
among that class who own the sod and
cultivate it by the “sweat of the brow”
of other men, and not by their own
personal labor, that success in hus-
bandry must depend upon giving to
the soil in some form what is annually
taken away in cultivated crops. In
this country, in the older States more
particularly, the same great funda-
mental truth, in all successful farming,
is admitted.

The census tables show that the
wheat crop of New York, in some
counties has fallen in its average so
low as seven or eight bushels to the
acre where formerly from t/L-irty to i

_fo7'l3/ bushels were produced. Lands I
once deemed absolutely inexhaust-
able, have been cropped almost to
barrenness. Large sections in the
State of Virginia. and Maryland, for-
merly as productive probably as any
found on this continent, by a course
of culture not guided by a correct
knowledge of the science of husband-
ry, have become utterly unproductive
and been abandoned by the original
Cultivators A succession of tobacco
crops raised by shallow plowing, with-
out artifical manuring, or a proper ro-
tation with other products, exhausted
the surface soil and compelled the
proprietors to seek fresh fields.

A subsequent, more thorough and
intelligent system, by those who be-
came at length the owners of the soil
and the laborers upon it, has shown
that it was only -WITH UNREASONABLE
DEMANDS UPON HER, RESOURCES, that
Mother Earth had refused to comply,
for the same lands by deep plowing
and a judicious rotation, are now
yielding a. rich return for the labor
and capital invested.

It is not probable that any soil has
yet been found of such inexhaustible
fertility, that it will stand, without
artificial aid the constant draft from
year to year, of any one crop—with-
out protest and rebuke, to its unintel-
ligent and unsagacious cultivator.

It was not long since that a farmer
of Hilsdale county informed the writ-
er of this essay, (as a quasi apology
for the failure of his wheat 1.-rop,) that
he had come to the conclusion that he
must give up the raising of wheat, or
resort, to the practice of seeding with
clover and the use of plaster. The
reason for this conclusion doubtless
was that his exhausted field had given
him to understand this, in most un-
equivocal language, in its refusal to
honor his fourth annual draft on the
same field in a crop of wheat. It is
not always that the indifferent farmer
reasons so correctly as in this in-

stance, as to the cause of his failure ;
because generous Mother Earth seem-
ingly so reluctant and so unwilling to
disappoint her children, that it is only
BY DIMINISIIED PRODUCTION that she
usually acknowledges her diminished
resources, and not, as in this instance
by an absolute protest.

What then is the fact and the situa-
tion as it regards the farmers of Hills-
dale county '2

The farms of this county have not
been cultivated, on an average, at best
twenty-five years. Can it be affirmed
with truth, that on the whole, these
farms are as productive to-day as they
were ten years ago? Far from it.-
As was stated yesterday, from
the platform, that in 1863 Hillsdalc
county ranked the tenth in the State
in the production of cereals, and in
1877 is the fortietlz, what other con-
clusion can we reach, than that our
farms, by negligence and unskillful
management, by thriftless and " slip-
shod” ways are being reduced to
worthlessness, until other and more
resolute men are found to induce
more thorough cultivation? Doubt-
less the practice of the annual prod-
ucts from what so recently was the
virgin soil, without though of paying
back for that taken off, constitute the
sum total of this great agricultural sin
and blunder. The desire to secure
immediate returns induces superficial
culture, and so impoverishes that
land which should be firmly held to a
systimatic course of ever increasing
fertility. Do you ask me, how this can
be done. So far as the limits of the
subject assign me permits me to re-
ply, I answer a. proper rotation of
crops. But it is plain to be seen, that
any system of rotation, practiced up-
on an already exhausted soil, would
fail to prove a. remedy. Our farms
might be rotated to a lower level than
they now occupy. Rotation of crops
may delay and defer the dreaded cat-
astrophe, on a soil not already ex-
hausted, but it alone can never re-
juvenate and restore it. to its pristine
fertility. Rotation of crops may be
auxilliary and should be, in the great

‘work of restoring the soil, and this is

a matter of the deepest concern to
the intelligent farmer. He well un-
derstands that while he may have
gained a. knowledge of its necessity,
from experience alone, it has for its
basis the science of agricultural chem-
istry.

He may, or he may not, by actual
chemical analysis of the soil which re-
fused longer to produce wheat, have
ascertained that soil was now desti-
tute of the wheat producing qualities;
but the soil itself told him the same
story before making his experiment.
The exact place which a proper rota-
tion of crops fills in successful agri-
culture, is the place which foresight
and prudence holds in the manage-
ment of financial afl'airs,—which nev-
er draws its check where it has no
deposits and never overdraws it where
it has. '

The intelligent and prudent finan-
cier keeps well in hand, and fully un-
derstands the nature and extent of his

cash resources; not more so, however,
than the equally intelligent and equal-
ly prudent farmer understands the
qualities of his soil and what he can
do with it. He knows what with rain
and sun-shine and God’s blessing up-
on his labors he can produce—the
kind of crop that will succeed——and
its probable amount. His knowledge
may be purely scientific—gained by
careful and repeated analysis of his
soil, or it may have been gained by
actual acquaintance with that hard
master, but faithful instructor, experi-
ence. If his knowledge be limited to
the results of his experience on his
own farm, it is easy to see that his la-
bors may not be so successful on anoth-
er and a differently constituted soil,
Hence it is a. well-known fact, which
many now before me can attest, that
in achange of location from a farm
situated in what was once heavily
tirnbered lands. with a dark and car-
boniferous soil, to one situated in
those lands known as the “openings,’.
with a calcareous, or an alluvial
soil, good farmers, sagacious and suc-
cessful cultivators, have not always in
their first efforts been as successful
in either the one or the other as on
their old farms. A man oi‘ industry
and ordinary intelligence, in a course
of years on a certain farm, with a. cer-
tain kind and variety of soil, comes to
know how to handle that farm as he
can handle no other not identical in
its chemical constituents. Hence no
certain and invariable formula, for the

rotation of crops on one farm can be

given that would be equally good on

another; or, if given. would be avail-

able in a soil so variable in its chemi-

cal qualities, and so suddenly chang-

ing from one kind to quite another,

(Often on the same 40-acres,) as is

found in Mich. He may doubtless

with advantage resolve that he will

never follow one crop with another of
the same kind on the same field; but

the crop that should succeed; the ab-

solutely best crop for the place and

the situation, only the agricultural

chemist, with his certain knowledge,

or the successful experimenter, with

his probable knowledge, can fully de-

termine.

Dr. Miles said that this question
covered the whole ground of agricul-
ture. He said that absolute exhaustidn
of the soil was very rare indeed; that
when the soil appeared to be exhaust-
ed, a chemical analysis would show
the elements necessary to plant life
in abundance. He would arrange
the rotation of crops so as to get a
thorough cultivation of the soil. He
thought this order as good as any,
corn, turnips, oats, wheat, then two
crops of clover in succession. He
said the expensive summer-fallow
should not be indulged in.

J. R. Muflitt asked which was the
best to raise, timothy or clover?

Dr. Miles repled that clover was
worth $24 per acre for manure, and
timothy $9. He said it was the crops
that draw most from the soil that
were best for the land, are the ones
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take a large amount of elements in
plant growth from the soil, and are
worth $32 per acre for manure. He
urged the practice of a regular rota-
tion of crops. _

In reply to Mr. Muflitt, Dr. Miles
said that timothy did not draw the
same element from the soil as oats.

Joel B. Norris asked if there was
any loss of manure by top-dressing in
April or May, and Dr. Miles replied
that there was not. Draw manure
when most convenient and spread it-
as drawn.

A. G. Baker asked, what crop should
precede wheat.

Dr. Miles replied, oats, as they left
the soil loose.

   

Fattening a Calf’,

A lady correspondent, writing to
the Germantown Telegrap/la giVeS _l191'
method for fattening veal calves w1tli-
out feeding the cream with the
milk. The method is nothing new,
yet there may be many who never
practiced it.

My principal object is to show
farmers and others that they can raise
or even veal their calves without
giving them the new fresh milk from
the cow. The best food to fatten a
calf, without whole milk, is oil meal,
molasses and skimmed milk for the
first two weeks, after which a little
oat or barley meal may be used. A
calfmay be made to weigh from one
hundred and twenty to one hundred
and forty pounds at four weeks old,
never having had any new milk after
the cow’s milk was good. The oil
meal should be scalded and allowed
to form a thick mucilage before:mix-
ed with the skimmed milk. The mo-
lasscs may be added directly to the
milk, and the whole may be given
blood warm. The proper quantity
to give a young calf is a tahlespoonful
of oil meal the same of molasses,
divided into three parts for one day’s
feed, added to the milk. After the
first week the amount may be increas-
ed, and at the commencement of the
third week a spoonful of oil meal and
molasses may be given at each feed;
a quart of boiling water being turned
on the meal over night, and also in
the morning, to form a mucilage, and
a spoonful of cat or barley meal may
be added, but this should be cooked.
At present prices the whole will not
cost more than a dollar for five weeks,
and an early calf of the weight men-
tioned will bring from ten to twelve
dollars.

Questions for Discussion in the Grange.

For the present we suggest the
following:

1. What crops, raised by the mem-
bers of the Grange in 1877, paid the
best, taking into consideration the
time and labor, expended upon them?

2. Should manure be hauled out
during the winter? If so, should it be
left in heaps or scattered broadcast?

3. Will it pay to use gypsum (land
plaster) at the present price, upon
our wheat fields?

4. What are the three most paying
crops now grown by the members of
this Grange, taking into consideration
their exhaustive nature and the con-
dition of the soil after the crop is re-
moved?

5. Will it justify a member of the
Grange to make improvements on
borrowed capital?

 

“ The St. Joseph County Mutual
Protection Association against Horse
Thieves.” has voted to pay $1,000 for
the apprehension and conviction of
any person who shall steal a. horse
from any member of the association
-—Coldwater Reporter.

Night-caps are a relic of barbarism.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

gusfefs Eepsrfment.

PAW PAW

J. J. WOODMAN, - ' ’

Bro. T. A. Thompson at Paw Paw.

Brother T.A. Thompson commenc-
ed his labors in this State as advertis-
ed, By giving a public lecture at the
Court House in Paw Paw at 2 o’clock
P M. of the 20 inst. and a lecture to
members of the Order, in the Grange
Hall in the evening. Both lectures
were highly interesting and instruct-
ive; and were listened to with marked
attention. The universal verdict

seemed to be, that every Patron and.

Farmer should hear him. Patrons
give hima cordial Welcome and full

houses.

The Wool Growers’ Convention at
Kalamazoo.

The following lrrbin the Ifalamazoo
Gazette will be read with interest by
all the farmers of Michigan.

“ The State Wool Growers Conven-
tion was in session at the Court House
Yesterday. They resolved to do up
their wool this season. tag locks and
all, and if home buyers refused to
pay full price for it, to combine to-
gether, and ship in large quantities
direct. One such shipment would
probably suflice to open their eyes
on that question.”

As no such proposition was intro-
duced or discussed, it is fair to infer
that this reflection on the intelligence
of the Convention, is but another at-
tempt to make ridicule of anything
attempted by the farmers of the coun-
try for the protection of their own
interests; but such back-handed hits
have ceased to hurt, and our farmers
will not be intimidated by them.

The Convention was called for the

purpose of considering questions re-'

lating to the wool growing interests
of the State; and if possible inaugurate
a system, by which wool, like other
products, should be bought and sold
upon its merits. The resolutions pas-
sed by the Convention appeared in
the last Visiron. Similar Conven-
tions should he called in every
Wool Growing County in the State '
and the work marked out by thié
Convention perfected and put into
general practice.

The Tariff Bill.

The bill now pending before Con-
gress seems to have been drawn pure-
ly in the interest of speculators and
importers, wholly ignoring the rights
of the people, and the industrial in-
terests of the great North-west, Its
authors are representatives of capital-
ists of seaboard cities, having no in-
terest or sympathy with the produe-
tive industries of the country.

Some idea of the practical opera-
tions of this measure, should it be-
come a law, can be inferred from the
following extract from the late dis.
cussion on the bill in the House :

“Representative Wood, of New
York, read a lelter from Withington &
Co., of Jackson, Mich., in which the
firm stated that they required no pro-
tective tariff to enable them to com-
pete with foreign manufacturers of
steel pitchforks.”

“Mr. Conger, of Michigan, arose
and announced that Withington &
Co._, were prison contractors, having
their work done at thirty-two cents
per day, and asked Mr. Wood if he
Eng/Lt. to reduce the working men of

merzca to the level of convict labor-
ers: in order to enable manufacturers

to compete with the pauper labor of
Europe.”

A glance at the bill reveals the fol-
lowing facts, which should be under-
stood by every farmer: It not only
reduces the duty on foreign wool, and
woolen goods, but entirely removes it
on flour manufactured from Wheat,
and reduces it to an insignificant sum
on all other agricultural products,-
thus admitting flour from Canada and
other nationsfree ,' and all other farm
products nearly so, This is “ Recip-
rocity,” with the advantages all ac-
cruing to the Canadian farmer.

Under the present law, the duties
are levied on foreign wool, by placing
a specific sum upon each pound im-
ported, called a “Specific Duty,” and
in addition, a per cent upon the cost
of the wool at the “Port of Entry,”
called an “Ad valorem Duty.”

These duties on the different grades
of wool are as follows: On clothing
wool valued at 32 cents or less per
pound, 10 cents a pound, and 11 per
cent ad valorem, equal to 12% cents a
pound. The rate fixed in the bill is
8 cents a pound, a decrease of 4% cts.
on a pound.

On clothing wool valued at 32 cts.
or over, 120 a pound, and 10 per cent
ad valorem; equal to a specific duty
of 16% cents a pound. By the bill the
duty is reduced to 10 cents a pound-—-
a reduction of 6% cents a pound

On washed clothing Wool valued at
32 cents per pound or less, 20 cents a
pound, and 22 per cent ad valorem,
equal to a special duty of about 31 cts.
a pound. The rate fixed upon this
grade by the bill is 16 cts. per pound;
a decrease of 15 cents a pound.

On Washed clothing Wool valued at
32 cents or over, 24 cents a pound,
and 20 per cent ad valorem, equal to
a specific duty of 34% cents a pound.
Twenty cents a pound is the rate
fixed in the bill,--—a decrease of 14.3,-
cents a pound. d

On second clothing wool valued at
32 cents or over, 36 cents a pound and
30 per cent ad valorem, equal to a
specific duty of 51% cents a pound.
The proposed rate is 30 cents a pound,
a decrease of 21% cts. per pound.

On combing wool valued at 32 cts.
or less, 10 cents a pound, and 11 per
cent ad valorcni, equal to a specific
duty of 13% cts. per pound. The bill
reduces it to 8 cts., a decrease of 5%
cents per pound. '

On combing wool valued at 32 cts.
or over, 12 cts. a pound, and 10 per
cent ad_valorem, equal to a specific du-
ty of1e% cents a pound. The duty
fixed by the bill is 10 cents a pound,
a decrease of 5% cts. a pound.

On carpet wool valued at 12 cents
or less, the present duty is three cents
a pound, and the bill makes it 

Carpet wool valued over 12 cents,
the present duty is 6 cents a pound,
and the bill makes it 5 cents.

On woolen rags, shoddy, etc., the
present duty is 12 cts. a pound; in
the bill it is 10 cents.

The average reduction on all of the
gladesa is 28% per cent; and on the
different grades of clothing woo],
about 10% cts.‘ on each pound.

It IS now stated that a substitute
for_the bill has been proposed, which
strikes out the Specific duty, and im-
poses a straight ad valorem tax of 35
per‘ cent on all grades.

This seems to be an ingenious dodge
on the part of the friends of the meas.
use, to silence the opposition of the
farmers by deception. Fair as the
substitute may seem at first glance
yet a careful examination of it, will
satisfy anyone that its effects will be
more injurious to the Wool Growers
ail?-)_l13%1e G0V.eI‘n'ment, than the origin-
3. _l . While it would not very ma-
terlally Change the specific rates in
filetgllla on the first four grades of

0 mg wool, or on combing and ear.

    

pet wool, yet the duty on second
clothing wool would be ClCCI;C2lS8(l 23
per cent from the bill, and 60 per cent
lower than the rates in the present,
law. The duties on shoddy, flog-ks,
etc., which ..9]t0Z'(f(Z be pro/u,bu‘0r_v/,
would be diminished 21 per cent
from the proposed rates fixed in the
bill, and 35 per cent from the present
l:'LW. Q

It is also evident that a governnient
ofiicer would find it quite as diflicult
to ascertain the price which importers
pay for their woolin foreign Countries,
as it is for supervisors to find out the
amount of money and credits on
which some persons should pay taxes;
hence the government as well as the
people would be swindled. Some idea
of‘ the depressing.influence upon the
market, ‘for agricultural products,
which this measure will have if en.
acted into a law, can be formed from
the following statistics:

In 1857, a very similar bill in the

interest of free trade, was passed by
Congress, and during the first four
years of its operations there was ex-
  
.2 ,-;.:. us . ' . ,: .n aver-
age price of $1.15 per bushel, and 20,.
478,542 bushels of corn at an average
price of (34% cents per bushel.

During the last four years—1874-5.
6 and 7 — there has been exported
under the present law, which is some-
what protective, 219,485,838 bushels
of wheat, at an average price of 9512;")
per bushel, and 183,677,581 bushels of
corn at 67% cents a bushel; and this
too, during a period of the greatest
financial depression in the history of
the government.

What the country needs is legisla-
tion to stimulate, and not depress,
the productive industries. and give
em loyment to both ca Jital and labor.

1l‘)arniers can no longelzr be deceived
in these matters, and should not tame-
ly submit to the passavre of the '1‘ariIl'
Bill Without putting fobrth every effort
to defeat it. Conventions should he
called, and resolutions of condemnin-
tion to the odious measure passed.

Digest of Laws and Exiles.

\Vith this number closes the Laws
and Rules of the National Grange.
The next number will contain the
By Laws of the State Grange at its
last session; to be followed with the
rulings of the Master and Executive
Committee of the State Grange.

Digest.

The following are the rulings and
decisions contained in the Digest re-
cently revised and published by the
National Grange : Preserve these
nuuibers for future reference :

CHAPTER VII.
or Tiii-3 RITUAL AND DEGREES.

1 The Ritual adopted by the .\'ation:il
Grange shall be used in all S‘.1l'>Ol‘(llll;1tB
Granges, and any desired alteration in
the same must be submitted to, and re-
ceive the sanction of, the Katioiizil
Granger-Cons., art. iv.

2 Persons not members oftlie Order
should not be permitted to obtain or
read the ritual.—-Decis. 58.

3 The practice ofselling Rituals of our
Order to any person who may apply fol‘
the same is dangerous to our‘ best inter-
ests, and should be pro1iibited.~Pro. Ttli
Ses., p. 77.

4 Subordinate or State Granges can-
not omit or change any pan. of the Hit-
ua1.——Decis. 97.

5 Children can be admitted with
their parents to the Grange only when
80 young as to be unable to understand
what may be done or said. Upon this
D,0l_n.t the Master must be judge.--D3‘
cisision 82.

_6 There are four degrees in the Subor-
dinate Grange. viz:

l;‘irst—-Laborer (Man); Maid (\Vom-
an .

Second—Culitvator (Man); Shepherd-
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Third——Harvester ( Man ) ; Gleaner
t\Voman).

Fourtli—-Husbandman (Man); Matron
(Woinaii).

7 No Grange gliall confer more than
two degrees on the same person at the
same nieeti1ig.—-Cons., art. viii, sec. 7.

8 Degrees may be conferred at either
regular or special meetings. At special
meetings called for the purpose of con-
ferring the First, Second, or Third De-
gree, it is not necessary to open in the
Fourth Degree. A Grange may close
t'rom any degree in which it has been
sitting.——Decis. 9.

9 A Grange can sit in difl"erent De-
grecs during the same meeting.—Decis.

_’b.

10 A Grange may ballot fora caIidi-
date and confer the First Degree upon
him at the same meeting.—Decis. 24.

11 A member can not remain in the
Grange when it is open in a higher De-
gree than such a member has taken.-
l)ecis. -3:2.

1;’ No vote can be taken in aSubordi-
nate Grange on any question except in
the Fourth Degree.—Decis. 11.

13 A Grange may confer Degrees and
transact business under Dispensation
the same as under a Charter ———Decis. 5.

14 The Fifth Degree can only be con-
ferred in the State, County, or District
Grange, when sitting in that Degree.—
Decis. ‘.95.

15 All members of the State Grange
are entitled, as a matter of right, to the
Fifth Degree.—Preamble to Cons.

16 All Fourtli-degree members elected
by the Subordinate Granges, as provid-
ed in the law establishing County or
District Granges, are entitled to the
Fifth Degree.—Pro. 8th Session, p. 97.

17 There are two Degrees in the Na-
tional Grange, ‘viz:

Sixth—Flora (Charity), to which all
the members of the Natioiial Grange
are entitled, as a matter of right;

Seventh—Ceres (Faith), to which
those membes of the National Grange
who have served one year therein may
be admitted, upon application and elec-
tion.-—Preamble to Constitution.

18 Any Fourth-degree member in
good standing is eligible to the higher
Degrees in the Grange within whose
jurisdiction he may rcside.—Cons., art.
i, sec 2.

19 The Seventh Degree has charge of
the secret work of the Order.—Pream.
to Cons.

20 Members the Seventh Degree are
honorary members of the National
Grange, and are eligible to office there-
in, but not entitled to vote.——Pi'e-ainble
to Constitution.

21 Members must be attired in the
proper regalia of the Order while the
Grange is in session. The sash is worn
from the right shoulder to the left hip,
the pouch in front.—Decisi0n 57.

22 The wearing of the regalia is one
of the established usages of the Order,
and is obligatory upon all members ex-
cept when a member claims exemption
on account of religious convictions, he
may be excused by vote of the Grange.
——Pro. 8th Ses. pp. 91 and 142.

_ 33 A Grange that refuses to provide
itself with the necessary regalia is liable
to loss of its Charter for violating the
law and usage of the Order.—Dec. 108.

24 The signs of the degrees are never
to be given except in the Grange.-
Decision 56.

25 In the exemplification ofthe secret
work, the interpretation of the written
law of the Order, the decisions of the
Master must be respected and obeyed
until reversed by decision of the Master
of the State or National Grange, or by
action of the State or National Grange.
—Decision 67.

236 Officers of Granges should stand
when delivering lectures or instructions
to candidates.——Decision 116.

27 The burial ceremony is intended
only for those who desire to use it. Its
use is permissive and not mandatory on
the part of the National Grange. Those
brothers or Granges who do not wish
to use it upon furieral occasions have
"0 “slit to object to its use by those
who do.——Pro. 8th Session, p. -14.

[THE END.]

Tun grasshopper has at last found
his sphere. A Massachusetts man
preserves him in mucilage and uses
him for bait.

“GRANDMA, why don’t you keep a
servant any longer? ” “ Well, you see,
my child, I am getting old now and
can’t take care of one as I used to,
you know.”

From Elmira Farmers’ Club Discussions.

HARRISBURG, Poinsett Co., Ark. 1

April 4th, 1878. J

W. A. Armstrong, Secrez‘ar_9/ Farmers’
flab.‘-

VVe have a flat, level, rich country.
Much ditching is needed. Is there
any horse-power ditching machine
known to your Club? Respectully,

J. M. STEEL.

C. B. TOMPKINS As cheap and
effective a machine for ditching as I
have ever seen made I made, some
years ago. I presented one to my
father, who had a long ditch to make,
in some places as much as four feet
deep, varying from that to two and a
half feet. After doing the work an
estimate of the cost was made, and it
was only about ten cents a rod,

The implement was nothing more
than a plow with narrow shares stout-
ly constructed and fastened to the
beam with a forward projection to
make them enter readily the hard
earth in the ditch. The handles were
made to adjust as the ditch deepened.
A long whiiiietree was used with a
horse on each side of the ditch. As
the plow passed four or five men were
required to shovel out the loose earth.
It was kept going over and over until
the proper depth was reached. If a
flat stone was in the way it had to be
dug out—it would not break the plow
but it had to be taken out because it
was an obstruction that the horses
could not loosen that was all. The
Ditcher is now made by Messrs. Rum-
sey & Almy, Trnmansburg, N. Y.,
who will no doubt be able to furnish
farther information.

HowELLs, April 11, 1878,
IV. A. Armstrony/,Sec. Fa2'7ners, Club.‘

There has been some discussion by
your Club about raising corn and
millet for fodder. I will give you my
plan which may not be the best, but
it suits me better than any I have tried;
I commence drawing manure in the fall
and continue as fast as it is made, un-
til the land has a good coat. I prefer
to put it on my land as fast as it is
made. In so doing I get the liquid
with the solid. I plow the land in
May six inches deep, turn the furrow
over, but not flat; when plowed I
hitch three horses to a double barrow,
and with the driver’s weight on it,har-
row the ground the way it is plowed
then cross it, then harrow it the
same way as at first. On the first of
June I barrow it twice, once each way,
clean it of roots, stones or other ob-
structions, run slight. furrows across
the field two feet apart, ,_from
north to south if practicable, then
scatter in the furrow common corn at
the rate of three bushels per acre,
harrow it in the same way it is furow-
ed, and roll with an iron roller. I
have no trouble. with weeds as the
corn comes up quick and gets the
start of them. The 1st of September
it is fit to use. I commence cutting
and hauling it to the barn and feed
my cows once a day, if my grsss is
good ; it poor then 1 feed twice a day.
I cut it all before frost and do not
stand it in large stouts. Tie a. band
around the tops of the stout. I feed
it until winter, if I have any then,
which I often do, I bind it in sheaves
and draw it to the barn. I prepare
the ground for millet the same as for
corn, except furrowing. Sow half a.
bushel of seed per acre; and cover it
with Thomas’ Smoothing Harrow.
When the seed is ripe I cut and cure
as hay. Feed once a day to my milch
cows with hay. G. W. CORWIN.

The Club approves the thorough-
ness of preparation with which Mr.
C01'win gives the ground. If he will
report observations of the feeding
value of millet raised by his method,
the work will be accepted with pleas-
ure. .

TI-IE (i':l3‘{aAN(}E VISITOR.

List of Appointments for Meetings,
as Arranged by T. A. Thompson.

May 1, Sherwood, Branch Co., Mich.
“ 2, Bronson, H U -I
“ 3, Allen, Hillsdale Co., “
“ 4, Coldwater, Branch Co.. “
“ 6, ‘Jonesville, Hillsdale Co., “
“ 7, Church’s Corners, Hillsdale Co., Mich.
“ 9, Tecumseh. Lcnnwee Co., Mich.
“ 10, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.
" 11: Belleville, Wayne Co., Mich.
“ 13, Wya_ndotte' It :1 H

May 14. Redford, Wayne County, Mich.
" 15, Scjo’ U u H
“ lfi, Unadilla, Ingham Co., Mich.
“ 11, Waterloo, Jackson Co., Mich.
“ 18, Norvill, “ H “
“ 20, Springport, “ -‘ H
“ 21, Homer, Calhoun “ H
“ 22, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich.
“ ‘23, Bedford, “ U U
“ 24, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co.. Mich.
“ 25, South Haven, Van Buren Co., Mich.
“ 27, Plainwell, Allegan Co., Mich.
“ 28, Berrien Centre, Berrien Co., Mich.
“ 29, To be arranged by Thomas Mars, in

Berrien County.

H u u

T. A. THOMPSON.

How The Farmers Are Bwiiidled.

Never sign a note, the payment of
which depends upon the performance,
by the payee, of some contract, even
though the payee gives you such a
contract.

Mr. Slickun comes around the
neighborhood. He is a very genteel,
fine-looking, man; of good address;
never swears, don’t smoke——unless
you smoke, when he will treat you to
the best of Havanas. If you are a
temperance man, he is a temperance
man also. He has found out all your
characteristics and opinions, and
knows just where to attack you. He
has a nice thing for you He wants
you to buy the right to sell his patent
back-action, reversable, non-combusti-
ble, and non-explosive, something or
other. You need not pay a cent down.
You may give your note for a year,
and he will send on the machines.
He gives you a contract, stating that
if the machines do not come, or you
do not succeed in selling a certain
number, your note becomes void.

You Sign the note, and he gives
you the contract.

Your machines don’t come, but you
feel safe, for you have the contract.
You think you will loose nothing.

By-and-by you getaletter some-
what as follows :

DETROIT, June 15, 1877.
Mr. Takenin,

Dear Sir :—-I hold a note against
you, given to Slickun & Co., for one
hundred dollars, which was due April
1, 1877. Please call and settle.

Yours truly, JonN JONES.

You call, armed with your contract,
and show it to John Jones.

“ Hem” says Jones, “Contract! I
haven’t got anything to do with the
contract. Here's your unconditional
note, sir! I am a bona fide holder,
and want my money.”

And you have to pay it.—[Law for
the People.

‘The Way :1. Thing is Done is What Counts.

An old negro who was asked if in
his experience prayer was ever an-
swered, replied: “ Well, sah, some
prafrs is ansud an’ some ins’t—’pends
on w’at you axes fo’. Jest arter de
wah, w’en it was mighty hard scratch-
ing fo’ de cullud breddern, I ’asarved
w’en ebber I pway de L’od to sen‘ one
o’ Massa. Peyton’s fat turkies fo’ de
ole man, der was no notice took of
de partition ; but w’en I pway dat he
sen’ de ole man fo’ dc turkey, de mat-
ter was ’tended to befo’ sun up nex’
mornin’ dead sartin l”

Never condemn until both sides of
a story have been heard.

Do not for the sake of appearing
genteel, spoil a silver spoon when
eating pie.

Willard c. Flagg.

VVe commend to our readers the
following graceful tribute of respect
which we find in the Ilusbamlman of
April 17th. In our County many will
remember Mr. F lagg as the gentleman
who read a. very able paper at the
first Mass Meeting of Patrons held in
Kalamazoo in the autumn of 1873.

To Bro. Armstrong’s recognition
of the services of one so faithful for
a life time to the best interests of his
County and his fellow men, no word
of ours need be added :

“DEATH or AN E)IINE.\"I‘ AGRICULTURIST.

“We doubt not that many of our
readers have already seen the an-
nouncement of the death of the Hon.
Willard C. Flagg, a man long promi-
nent in agricultural circles and one of
the most distinguished citizens of the
State of Illinois. A brief biographical
mentions him as the son of a farmer
of Madison county Illinois, where he
spent his boyhood working upon the
farm and attending the local schools
of the neighborhood. Ambitious of
acquiring a thorough education, we
next hear of him at the classical high
school of St. Louis, from which he
went to Yale college, where he grad-
uated with high honors in 1854. Re-
turning to his father’s house, be im-
mediately assumed management of a
portion of the estate, and to the time
of his death pursued the round of an
enthusiastic, devoted, and successful
experimenter in agriculture and hor-
ticulture. His labors were not con-
fined to the farm alone, but with voice
and pen he was constantly endeavor-
ing to raise the standard of agricul-
ture in this country.

For many years Mr. Flagg was the
horticultural editor of the Prairie
Farmer, and conducted that depart-
ment with signal ability. For nearly
a similar period of time he has held
the position of Secretary of the Illi-
nois State Horticultural Society. At
the inauguration of the Illinois In-
dustrial University, he was elected
Corresponding Secretary, which office
he filled up to the time of his death.
He was also trustee of the same in-
stitution at different times, and has al-
ways taken a deep and absorbing in-
terest in its welfare. He was no less
devoted to genuine reform in munici-
pal, state and national politics, and
was always found working for the
best interests of the whole people. In
him the National Agricultural Con-
gress loses its hard-working, enthu-
siastic and unselfish President, and
"various literary and scientific associa-
tions are now called to mourn the loss
of one who can not be replaced. In
the hurried issues of the press, we
who conduct it, are in the habit when
a. public man dies, of dashing oft‘ a.
few words of kindly eulogy, yet we
would fain linger longer over such a
life as this, which no mere handful of
words of ours can fitly commemorate.
Willard C. Flagg will long be remem-
bered by all who knew him as one who
never deviated from the strict path of
moral rectitude. He was an honest
man, one who loved truth and justice
for their own sake. Throughout his
busy and anxious life he never swerv-
ed irom the line of duty, and in all
his public acts as well as in his private
walks his character was without the
slightest stain.”

- “A MAN who’d maliciously set fire
to a. barn,” said old Elder Poyson,
“and burn up a stable full of horses
and cows, ought to be kicked to death
by a. jackass and I would like to be
the one to do it.”

 


 

  

 

SCHOOLCRAFT. MAY 1, 1878.

A §2i:'r2tary’5 @2ptttfllt2tlf.

J. T. COBB, - - - - SCHOOLCRAFT.

Ofiicers and members of S_ubordinate_Granges
in corresponding with this ofiiqb. W111 P1935“
always give the Number of their Grange-

,’ BLANKS.

Blanks that are sent free from this Office 011
application are :
Blank Quarterly Reports of Secretaries of Sub-
ordinate Granges. ‘ _
Blank Quarterly Reports of Secretaries of P0-
mona Granges.
Blank application for
Granges, _ _
Blank applications for Membership in Pomona
Gran es.
Blank Bonds of Secretary and Treasurer.
Blank Election Reports of Sub. Granges.
Blank Certificates of Election to County
Convention.
Blank Certificates of Representatives elected to
the State Grange.
Blanks for Consolidation of_Granges. _ _
Blank Applications for Certificate of Dimit.
Blank Plaster Orders. _
Blank Certificates of Incorporation.

organizing Pomona

T0 CURRESPONDENTS.

\Ve must decline “Resolutions of
Respect” from Montcalm Co. ‘

We are perhaps unfortunate in not
knowing the good people Whose vir-
tiles are so highly extolled by the
Committee ; but we think the matter
is overdone and calls for too much
space, as it can interest but a few of
our people.

Too many of our Correspondents
forget that printers object to “copy”
written on both sides of the paper.
Write on but one side if you hope to
be on good terms with the printer.

Contributions.

It costs but one cent for a postal
card on which to write out the result
of some experiment, or give some in-
formation or suggestion on farm mat-
ters, which may be of great value to
the readers of the VISITOR; besides,
the habit of communicating what you
have reason to believe will be useful
to your fellow farmers will do you
good.

Of course we want longer communi-
cations than can be given on a postal
card, but short ones are always ac-
ceptable. If you have apprehensions
about your style of composition and
shun this work, lest your way of tell-
ing what you_ know may not be all
right, do not let that deter you, for
where we think we can materially
improve the composition we do not
hesitate to attempt it.

Of course many articles go to press
as received from the writer, and I
may add that many of them present
subjects for discussion in the Grange,
well worthy the attention of every
member of the Order. The Ladies’
Department since the enlargement of
the VISITOR, we have become quite
proud of. Of contributions the supply
is good, and, in quality highly cred-
itable to the sisters who have gener-
ously come forward to aid in the great
work of the Grange. It is very
gratifying to find so many Patrons
willing to contribute to our columns,
for of our class little has hitherto been
expected in this direction, and we
see in every effort of this kind the
advancement of the farmer, and we
feel that such advancemenut——be it
little or much—is a permanent one.

Every careful reader has observed
that many articles both from Brothers

‘ and Sisters show culture and a clear

understanding of the subjects discuss-
ed. Notably among these arti-
cles is one by Geo. Pray in the last
VISITOR, under the head of “Why

TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

Not?” The enquiry “WhY Should
not farmers be represented by farm-
er?” in an Agricultural State, IS in
pertinent one. To me it seems not
only a, proper question to raise, but
an opportune time to press it upon
the attention of the farmers of the
country, whether they are Grangers
or not. _ _
It cannot be denied that the Agri-
cultural interests of the country are
quite as important as any other ; nor
can it be denied that in the affairs of
government that great interest has
always occupied a subordinate po-
sition. In the law making bodies the
representatives of this interest have
been few in numbers, and overshad-
owed by the representatives of other
classes. The question of ability of
farmers to represent farmers conced-
ed, there is no question as to what
course duty and interest alike demand
that we should pursue. Our rights
will be respected whenever we de-
mand they shall be—not before.

How it rains. As we write, this is
the sixth day of continued rain, and
no weather prospects except of still
more rain. But the falling rain is not
all we hear, for the grumbling farmer,
forgetful of growing grain and grass,
and the promise of abundant crops.
almost ensured by these continued
genial, fructifying April showers, is
thinking only of cornfields drowned
and work delayed——of the June grass
growing so nicely in his plowed field
——of the harrowing and cultivating he
has lately done—laboi' lost, on land
now flooded.

Well, what are you going to do
about it? Why let it rain, and enjoy
the prospect of more grass and more
grain. And, when fully rested, with
the hired man, clean out the cellar and
make the house more healthy; put up
some shelves and hooks where needed;
go to the barn and put everything in
order. Do jobs that have been post-
posed, like repentance, until some con-
venient season, and anticipate some
work that surely must be done some
time in the future. You might, per-
haps, profitably devote a little time to
the preparation of an essay to be read
to your Grange, or, better still, be
putting in shape for the publisher of
the Visiron, your views upon some
subject--your hobby—whatevcr that
may be. Do not for a moment sup-
pose that rainy days are necessarily
lost time.

The farmer who has nothing to do
on rainy days but to go to town,
talk horse, politics, and finance, and
spend a little money, (that really be-
longs to a creditor,) is the farmer most
likely to have a mortgage on his farm,
the interest on which, whether due or
paid, often amounts to as much as the
principal.

T0_kn0W./Z01/J to improve the rainy
days is an important element of suc-
cess to the farmer, though it does not
follow that every farmer shall devote
all his time, good weather and bad, to
manual labor. On the contrary, he
who best knows how to turn to good
account all kinds of weather, will have

.the most time to spare for use in any
way that interest or inclination may
direct. Let it rain.
~__—____.___i___

FARMERS will read with interest the
brief letter from Prof. Cook, Written
before the rainy week, which has cer-
tainly put in a stay of p7'0ceedz'72.gs to
the mischievous work of the little
female depositors, described by the
professor. We shall expect from him,
for our next VISITOR, some farther in-
formation on this point.

Does the female fly withhold her
deposit of eggs during this weather,
so unfavorable to her business, to
commence again without loss (except
in time) of her ability to work injury

to the crops? Of course the growing
wheat, stimulated by these copious
warm showers, has secured an im-
portant advantage, and by its} 1'3-Pld
growth, and advanced condition for
the season of the year, seems likely to
get the better of its industrious enemy.
Let us hear from Prof’. Cook more
about this matter.

On the subjects considered by ‘the
Elmira Farmers’ Club, at its meeting,
April 24th, we find that of coloring
butter for market received more atten-
tion than is usual for any one subject
by that body of farmers, who have
became so famous. The subject was
ingeniously handled by the advocates
of “color,” but we think they did not
make out a case.

How to apply hen manure with the
best results had been considered at a
former meeting, and was again called
up by a letter from a cori'espondent—
the conclusions reached seemed to be
that it should be well mixed with dry
earth, before using, rather than ashes,
and the ashes taken on the meadows.

White lead was recommended as an
application for galls on horses, while
nearly all made the point that the
ounce of prevention, by attention to
the fitting of the collar, and then keep-
ing it, and the shoulder clean, would
make it quite unnecessary to know how
to pad and doctor galled shoulders.
To toughen the shoulder when healed
a strong decoction of white oak bark
was recommended.

For patches of Canada thistles, Snap
Dragon and Quack grass, President
Hoffman recommended strong brine,
plentifully applied. My own ex-
perience with salt on Canada thistlcs
has been satisfactory. Those who
have experimented, I think, favor the
use of salt in a dissolved condition,-
say it is more effective. Where
quack grass has taken possession it
was advised to make no attempt to ex-
tirpate it, but turn the land over to
pasture and meadow.

From our friend Alonzo Sessions, is
a letter, concluding with these in-
quiries, which certainly interest Mich-
igan farmers:

1st. Can a farmer afford to buy com-
mercial manures who does not make
good use of the manure made on his
farm?

Ed. W'ould it not be wise to give the
matter of the preparation, care, hand-
ling and application of the manure made
on the farm more thought, more discus-
sion, and more careful, reliable experi-
ments in order to determine, if possible,

the best methods to produce the desired
results.

3d. \Vould it not be wise to devote
some portion of the farms attached to
agricultural colleges to experiments in
the use of all kinds of manures, by all
practicable methods, until the truth is
so well established that there will be no
excuse for doubt or conjecture, and we
can know that there is some degree of
certainty as to the result ?

The questions are answered in part
by President Hoffman, by a, recital of
what he saw on the Cornell Farm.——
Thirty-three plats of ground had been
planted in corn for three years, each
plat receiving a different fertilizer each
year; the object being to test the
relative value of each. This is to be
continued some years longer. So far
stable manure seems to make the best
showing.

Twelve quart pails were recom-
mended as the best sized vessel for
dairymen’s use.

“The_ advantages are, let, there is
less surface of milk exposed to the air
than _in pans, and consequently less
liability to dry the cream; and, 2d less
labor in handling.” '

The pails should be set on the floor
of the cellar as likely to_find the best
temperature.

Seed potatoes-—cut or uncut, and
how many eyes in a hill, closed the
discussion for the evening. The pre-

conclusion, that more than four eyes
or less than three was too much or too
little. The President of the club,
however, insisted that with one wliole
potato in a hill, he had been most
successful for 25 years.

Kalamazoo Young Ladies’ C00llll1gCllll).

During the winter a young ladies
amateur cooking club was organized

in Kalamazoo, and has been in suc_
cessful operation ever since, the last
meeting, having been held last week
at Mrs.’ Silas Hubbard’s. The club has
16 members, mostly young unmarried
ladies. Meetings are held once in two
weeks, at which a supper is prepared,
each member furnishing some article
of food of her own cooking. and in this
Way a very nice bill of fare is the re-
sult. The President assigns the work
to each, and all cheerfully obey——f‘o1-
instance the young lady who furnished
cake for the first supper is delegated
to make bread for the next, and so
through the whole catalogue of edi-
bles, she makes her way; in course
of time, obtaining a knowledge of
cooking in all its branches. Those
who have partaken of their Supper:
bear witness to the excellence of the
work performed, and the graceful and
elegant manner in which the vianrls
are served.

A SiiEEi>-siii:.iRi.\'«; Fl-ISTIVAL and
Basket Pic Nic, under the auspices of
the Kalamazoo Agricultural Society,
will be held at the National Park,
Kalamazoo, May 23d, opening at 10
o’clock A. )1. The programme reads:

lst. Free entrance for everybody at
the gates.

2d. Competition free in all depart-
ments.

3d. No charge for anything anywhere.

Fillowed by a premium list and an
invitation “to the ladies of the county
to attend the Festival and participate
in the arrangement, and ultimately
dispose of an elegant Free Lunch.”

We are not advised as to who is to
filI')li8]L the “Free Lunch,” but pre-
sume some of our Sister Grangers
may have an invitation that will in-
terest them more than the one that
appears in the notice of the Secretary
of the K. C. A. S.

“'1: notice some of our Grange and
Agricultural papers have a free ad-
vertising coluinn, Where brief notices
of not more than three or four lines,
of Wants and articles for sale have an
insertion without charge. To Patroiis
who wish to avail themselves of this
opportunity to bring to the notice of
their friends their productions or their
“wants,” we offer space in the Visiroi:
for “ The Good of the Order.”

SINCE the appeal of the special com-
mittee for more diligent work on the
part of the friends of the VISITOR, We
have received 200 subscribers, Which
proves two things: that 2007'/t‘ will (ell.
and that enough work has not been
done.

Patrons, what are you going to do
about it?

Granges delinquent in reports from
Secretaries for two or more quarters:

Nos. 68,121, 138, 14l,1G0,2:’»4,‘245-
250, 288, 376, 446, 534, 5:37, 539, 579,
605.

This list does not include those dor-
mant Granges that have not reported
for a year or more, of which there are
quite a number, who seem practically
dead, though they have not formally
surrendered their charter.

Southern politics leaning to agricul-
ture.
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gent 5
 GARDNER. - CENTREVILLE.

Not many days since I saw a finely
dressed gentleman riding in a nice
spring wagon, with a covered seat and
:1 nice team of horses, who had some
plows, which he was delivering to
farmers as he passed over the country.
I thought: who pays for this fine
team and wagon to carry plows around,
and pay the gentleman fifty dollars a
moiitlito do it? Not the plow maker?
oh, no; he adds the cost of all this to
the cost of making the plows. Is it
not passing strange that men of sense
and good iiitillect will be so blind to
their own interest. Complaining of
hard times, low prices and lack of
money, and yet pay :1 _g'e22t/e772.(m

3.30 a month, and furnish a team and-

carriage to bring plows to their doorsf
Think of this, Patrons and farmers.

It is useless for your agents to make
terms and purchase iinpleinents when
you neglect Ito avail yourlselves (if
them. You isteii too nine 1 to suci
gentlemen who approach you, and
urge you to buy their goods,‘ paying
alter harvest, at high prices with high
interest; forgetting that crops may
fail, or that prices may be lowei' than
at present. A word to the wise is
sui‘!-icient.

I can furnish the Challenge, two
horse. seven shovel, riding cultivator
for $27; and the Brown, two horse,
walking, four shovel cultivator for
$17. All wanting them must send
casli with their order, as some who
have purchased goods fail to remember
that they have to be paid for on re-
ceipt of bill.

Best make of farm wagons, warrant-
ed, for $51 and $52.

Wool twine by the bale or 100 lbs.
at 8% cents :1 lb., if ordered soon. It
will probably advance before long.

Choice coffee is how 20 cents a lb.
by the sack of 13.5 lbs.

I can furnish the Kalamazoo
Diamond Iron plows; Dodge steel
mould board plow; Battle Creek iron
beam chilled plow; Union City, Jones-
ville, Mishawaka and South Bend
chilled plows; and I think that this
list of different makes is enough to
select from for any soil or use.

I have a lot of “A" sugars on hand,
which I will sell at Detroit prices.—
Nearly all kinds of domestic goods in
stock; also, boots and shoes by the
dozen or single pair. Fence wire,
steel drag teeth, shovels, spades, forks
and hoes on hand. or bought on cash
orders. free of any charge or commis-
sion over cost, as I am working
gratuitously now for those who avail
themselves of my services.

at will Preserve Butter for a
Year.

To three gallons of brine strong
enough to hear an egg, add a. quarter
Of 3 pound ofnice white sugar and
One teaspoonful of saltpeter. Boil the

Fine, and when it is LOld strain care-
fully, Make your butter into rolls,
and wrap each separately in a clean
White muslin cloth, tying up With a
String. Pack a large jar full, Weigh
the butter down. and pour on the

fine until it is submerged. This
W111 keep really good butter perfectly
Sweet and fresh for a. whole year Be
Careful not put upon ice, butter that
Y_0l1 wish to keep for any length of
“me. In summer when the heat will
not admit of butter being made into
1'°llS. pack closely in small jars, and
“slllg the same brine, allow it to cover
_t 6 butter to a depth of at least four
"lobes, This excludes the air, and
answers very nearly as well as the
method first suggested.-—1)uc/26-‘>‘8

Grmer.

Brine tli

4' TI-IE GRANGEWi7IsIT6ii.

“How to Make Money."

To answer this, I start on the sup-
position that it means how to get or
accumulate property; as money is
only a measure or representative of
property.

_ I have read in the Chronicles of an . '

Ancient Sage, “that the hand of the 7
diligent niaketh rich.” This was writ- ‘
ten in ages long past and gone, but I
am of the opinion that it is still true;
for in the words of a wise man “there g
is nothing new under the sun ;" and
at this day we are claiming as dis- 9
coveries methods and practices known j
to the ancients in centuries past.

It was the saying of an eminent ,
Philosopher “ that the true secret of '
money catching—the certain way tol
fill empty purses—-and how to keep,
them always full; that two rules well y
observed would do the business. I

“First, that honesty and iudustryl
must be constant companions; second, 1
spend one penny less than your clear l
gains each day. Then your pocket
will soon begin to thrive; creditors
will never insult you, nor want op-_.
press, nor hunger bite you.” The 
way to wealth is as plain as the way i
to market; waste neither time nor r
money, but make good use of both. ‘
Wvithout industry and frugality noth— v
ing will do, and with them every thing.
Be punctual and just in all dealings;
never keep borrowed money beyond
the time you promised to return ll. ’
Then you will be men and not hide
your faces at the approach of any
one.” ~
A wise man known as Poor Rich-p
ard, said :

“ He that by the plow would thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.”

“He that rises late must trot all
day to overtake his business at night."

“Drive your business and let it not
drive you.”

“ What signifies wishing for better
times; we can make the times better
to ourselves by industry and frugality;
there are no gains without pains.”
“ Diligence is the mother of good luck
and God gives all things to industry.”
W'ith our industry we must be careful
and oversee our aflairs with our own
eyes. and not trust too much to others.

“A man if he knows not how to
save, will keep his nose to the grind-
stone all his life. Away with expen-
sive follies, and we will not have much
cause to complain of the times." Poor
Richard said, "'-that many a little
makes a mickle, and that a small leak
will sink a great ship.”

“The artificial wants of mankind
are more numerous -than the natural.
A plowman on his legs is higher than
a. gentleman on his knees." If you
would know the value of money go
and try to borrow some. Pride is as
loud a beggar as want and more saucy.
When you have gotten one fine thing,
you must buy several more that your
appearance may be all of a piece.—
What is the use of this pride of ap-
pearance; it can not promote health,
or ease pain, it makes no increase of
merit in the person; it hastens mis-
fortune; it is insanity to run in debt
for superfluities. Creditors have bet-
ter memories than debtors, and are
great observers of set days and times.
Among ancient nations the borrower
became the servant of the lender;
and the debtor the slave of the cred- "
itor, Let us preserve our ireedoin,
and maintain our independence. Be
industrious and free; be frugal and in-
dependent. Avoid debts as you would
a pestilential disease. Get what you
can and what you get hold. It is the
stone that will turn your lead into
gold or greenbacks. Many would live
by their wits without labor; but they
generally break for want of stock;
whereas industry brings comfort, plen-
ty and respect. Let honesty be as the

5 the VISITOR in regard to the manage-

i that the plants would do better at the

breath of the soul, and never forget earth should 1

to have a penny when all expenses,’
are paid. 

Communicated by Father Abram, A. D., 1768. l
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@aInltlIlIiiL‘£1fiUIl.$’.

The Hessian Fly.

AuRicULrvi2.Ii. COLLEGE, 2
LANSING, April 19th, 1878. 5'
Dem‘ If/'0. Cobb .'

Knowing the general interest in the ?
Hessian Fly, I drop you the following ,
unwelcome facts:

The “flies” commenced hatching,‘ in
quantity, about here, seven or eight
days since, and now fairly swarm in
the wheat fields. In the morning the
females are readily detected by their
red bodies, the color being due to their

{stock of eggs still within the ovaries.

In fact they look not unlike very small
mosquetoes after they take their fill of
blood. At night they are black, like
the males, though they may still be
readily told by their claspers, which
look not unlike a pair of blacksmitlfls
pinchers.

They are now busy laying their stock
of tiny red eggs. which are visible on
the leaves without a glass, if one looks
closely.

' ihedge—growers in
' treatment.

The future for wheat looks dark, yet
there is hope in the many little black,
trim, active, four- winged parasites,
which, though less numerous than the
flies, are still very plenty. It is a cori-
tlict between fly and parasite; we can

only hope that the parasite will tri-‘

unipli. Very truly,

F. I. C(ml\'.
HEDGING.
(isagr 0raiige—-Honey Locust.
Having had inquiries from readers of

merit of hedges, I have concluded to tell
through its columns what I kn'ow of it.
’I‘o hedge, or not to hedge, is a question
that must and will be settled by each
individual farmer for himself.

The plant most generally used in this
country for the purpose, is the Maclura
or Osage Orange. Being a native of a
more southern clime, it is not fully
hardy. Yet good hedges have been
formed with it in Southern Michigan
and in New York. If the hedges do‘
get killed to near the ground, it will
again throw up shoots from the bottom
and grow thicker than before.

I take it for granted that every farmer
who sets a hedge wants it to live and
grow into a fence. A little intelligent
thought will contribute to this result.

know an intelligent Granger who
prepared for planting a hedge by turn-
ing two furrows together. The land
was a stiff sod, and of course was not
broken at all under the turned furrows.
On the top of this he set his plants, and
the result showed that he had not used
his intelligence to good advantage, or
that the subject of planting hedges had
not been 'i"n.(el[2'_gem,‘l_y discussed in the
Grange to which he belonged.

To have the best success the ground
should be prepared by deep plowing and
thorough cultivation the year previous
to planting the hedge. The strip should
be eight feet wide; and in plowing be
sure to plow it all up, and not cover any
that is not plowed.

The plants are usually 6 to 9 inches
apart, making 22 to the rod for the
last named distance. I havea theory,

distance of twelve inches, by their roots
having more room.

The method of planting I have found
the most expeditious, was described to
me by an Illinois hedge-grower, and is
as follows:

Set a line where the hedge is to be
planted, drawing it tight. Mark with
a hoe handle, or some pointed stick,
along the line, which may then be re-
moved. Have your plants in a pail of
water, and your spade bright and sharp
so it will enter the ground easily. Stand-
ing with your face to the end of the
line, where you wish to commence, set-
ting the pail on the right hand side of
the work. Get your spade at right
angles with the line you are to plant, so
that the middle of the blade will be on
the mark. Run it into the ground at an
angle of about 45 degrees, raise the
handle with the left hand, and with the
right put the plant under the spade,
which may then be withdrawn, letting
the earth fall on the plant. Stepping
backwards, continue setting in the same
manner, at the distance you desire. The

; of it, which promise well.
= znlvantage of being perfectly hardy. It

plants—-this is very essential to success.
The ground on both sides of the hedge
should be well cultivated and kept clean
of weeds for three years. Heavy mulch-
ing with manure might do as well, and

1 perhaps better, than hoe-ing.

There isa difference of opinion among
regard to the after
Dr. VVarder says: “Cut
as near the ground as you can after one
year’s growth. In July cut again, five
or six inches above the last cut. ’l‘riin
twice a year, making your cuts an inch
or two higher than the last, until the
hedge is at the proper height. If your

vpluuts have lived and grown well, a

pretty thick bottom may be made on
this plan.” But I am inclined to think
a better one may be had by letting the
plants grow for two or three years, then
lay them in this manner: Commence
at the end and cut the stems of the
plant about half off, close to the ground,
(some say just below the surface), and
lay them lengthwise of your hedge. at
an angleof-15 degrees, oneover another,
until the whole is finislied. It will
sometimes be in-cessary to put on a
weight to hold them in the right posi-
tion This will make a close bottom,
and till all vacancies when not too wide.
\Vhen grown two years more, trim to
the required height.

The Honey Locust has come into use
for hedges, within a few years. I have
never planted it, but have seen hedges
It has the
does not sucker like the Yellow Locust.
- H. COLLINS.
VVhile Pigeon, Mich.

(.‘.i{i:i<cH’s CORNERS, 
Hillsdale, Co., Mich., -
April 15th 1878.
Brother J. T. Cob!) .-

Enclosed you will find seven dollars,
$5.50 to be applied on fees and dues, and
51.60 for three copies of VISITOR.

Wheatland Grange is virtually strong-
er to-day than ever before, we were pro-
nounced dead by people outside the
gates. \Ve called on a physician who
felt our pulse, examined us thoroughly.
and pronounced our pulse strong‘, body
sound, with back bone and Grange
principle enough to carry our Grange
along in spite of the strong opposition
around us. Some took courage and we
resolved to build a hall. A short time

| ago we turned out, hauled ourstone and

gravel, liewed our timber, sent our
Agent to the pinery, bought our pine
lumber and shingles (he made anice
saving for us), and every thing is now
on the ground, foundation nearly laid,
and frame nearly ready to raise. Our
hall is to be 25x50, with 14 foot posts.
VVe hope to have it done and ready for
Bro. T. A. Thompson to speak in on
the seventh of May. He has made an
appointment here on that day, and will
give us a lecture in the afternoon and
in the evening, and we hope all Patrons
in this part of the county will come and
hear him.

()ur Grange finds it pays to keep a
small stock of groceries on hand. A
little over a year ago we started with a
capital of one hundred dollars; with
that we have bought eleven hundred
and forty-seven dollars of stock during
the year, with a saving of at least 30 per
cent; which makes a total saving of
over three hundred dollars.

Two of our brothers wanted cultiva-
tors, Brother Gardner recommended
the “Challenge Sulkey (}ultivator”—
seven shovels, made at Tecumseh.
They sent and got them this spring,
have used them some and praise them
very highly, claim they are the best
made and work the best of any they
ever saw, and we think we can recom-
mend them to all Patrons that wish to
buy. \Ve have found that as far as we
have bought tools or wagons on Bro.
G-ardner’s recommendation that they
have been first class and have given
good satisfaction. And now I would
say to all Patrons stand by tliose that
stand by us and those that deal with us
fairly. Fraternally,

JAs. H[f)Il’}[RI~I\', See.

A paper in Rochester, says the idea.
of teaching every girl to thump a.
piano and every over grown boy to go
to Detroit as a book-keeper, will make
rutabagas worth $40 per bushel in
less than 241 years which will be a good
thing for those who know enough to
stick to farming.

—The pin—back dress show symp-
toms of going out with the tide.

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Earths’ apartment.

APRIL SUNSHINE.

The blessed April sunshine, doth quicken to
new life
The myriad forms of beauty bright, with which

the earth is rife.

\Vhere all seemed late, so bleak, and bare,
Devoid of coniliness,

The merry sunshine, sweet and fair,
Comes with its warm caress ;

Calls forth leaf, blossom, bird and bee,
And lades the fragrant breeze

With soul-inspiring melody-
Natui-e’s sweet harmonies.

Even so the sunshine of a. heart,
Vilhere pure affection dwells,

\Vhose every action, word, or thou-.;li’t,
Sweet charity impels :

Dotli waken in the human soul,
The germs of beauty rare ;

(E'er power of darkness gained control)
Placed by the Maker there.

And much that is both good and fair,
As the result we see,

In lives oft rescued from despair

By love’s sweet ministry. ANNIE.

House Cleaning.

Having read in the G’RAI\'UI£ Visiror.
“Aunt Sue’s” spicy recital of her
early experience in house cleaning, I
should opine that it happened in the
“dark ages” long ago, and not in this
enlightened age of the world, where
order and intelligence prevail. I
would likewise give my experience.-
Spring house-cleaning is a wearisome
task, but it is not altogether without
its pleasure, and in the satisfaction it
brings when it is all over with. and
things are renovated and made to
look almost as good as new, we are
Well repaid for all the inconvenience
we have been put to. I would tell
Aunt Sue, and all the aunts, mothers
and sisters that read the VISITOR my
mode of operation. As I do my own
work, and for that reason have to be
methodical in order to accomplish all
I have to do, and still find time for
reading and some little ornamental
work, which I am very fond of, I
hardly ever have house-work to do in
the afternoon, only the ordinary work
of cleaning up after dinner and dish-
washing. I commence my cleaning
in a very moderate way. First of all
I take everything out of my clothes
presses in the chambers; shake every
article and air them; sweep, dust and
wash the shelves and floor and let
them dry; put fresh paper on the
shelves, and put the things back
again, That is work enough for one
morning, and still have time to pre-
pare dinner. Iii like manner I over-
haul every closet and drawer in the
chambers, and then take one room at

a time every morning till all are.

cleaned. Then I brush winter clothes,
furs, etc., that have to be put away
securely from moths, etc. In like
manner I clean the closets below and
bureau drawers, I find this a pleas-
ing occupation, for I am sure to find
some old—time remembrance, some ine.
mento received in my girlhood, that
carries me back in memory to the
h3l’P.Y 10584180» and my heart feels
young again,and I live over scenes Iona
passed, but still green in IIlel1'101‘_y’cS’
cell. How sweet and dear those old
time memories are, and I can but
fondly linger over them, and it is hard
to come back to the sterner realities
of life, and begin the toil of cleaning
again; though I think I am stronger
after those little episodes to battle
again with toil. I take one room at a
time, and first take down the pictures
(of which I have many, being a lover
of the beautiful in nature and art),
clean them and set them carefully in
another room, likewise dust and wash,
if need be, the ornaments and set

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I .
lthem away; take down the. curtains.
iremove all dust from furniture and
5 place them all in another room; take

‘, up the carpet; remove thedust, sweep
,‘down the walls; tack strips of paper
ion the border of the wall paper. to
i protect it from being soiled in white-
,washing the ceiling. 1 use Spanish
lwhite for whitewa_sh, not lime, as it
l stains the paper, and spoils the wood-
iwork it touched with it. (There is
i no danger of the whitewash brush be-
,ing laid on my pet pictures, or the
sleeves of my silk dress soaking-in it.
And.if “Squire Frost,” or any other
,squire and his family, should come
5 there is a room ready to receive them
;in. and the process of cleaning will
' not be very much hindered.) When
ltlie carpet is well shaken, it has to
‘ wait till the men come to dinner, and
then I get help to put it down; and
then comes the pleasant part of house
fcleaning: the arranging of things to
my taste—looking with complacency
upon the work of my hands. And so
I continue on till every room in the
house has been renovated. It takes
me some time to accomplish all, for
my house is large; but I never get
E weary, and the burden does not seem
so great. A

I hope “Aunt Sue” will favor us
with her present method of house
cleaning in her new house. I would
tell her that I have had some ex-
perience in hard-finished walls. Some
years ago we built a new house, after
a plan of my own drawing. I had an
eye for convenience and labor-saving.
Our house was considered a model
farm house. The walls were all hard-
finislied, and some were like a mirror,
they were so highly polished. It was
before it was thought stylish to use
oiled wood or black walnut, so it was
painted white inside and out; but the
walls were so purely white and glossy
they soiled easily and kept me con-
stantly cleaning, and I became quite
disgusted with them. 'We had a
chance to sell, so we let it all go,—the
house I had taken so much pleasure in
planning to my taste, and the farm my
husband had taken so much comfort
in tilling and bringing to a high state
of cultivation. \Ve sold all. Yes;
sacrificed it to hard-finished walls.
We have a. good house now; conve-
nient, though not modern; a good
farm in a pleasant situation, and we
are satisfied with it. It is no ways
likely I shall be called upon to plan
another house, but if I should I
would have no painted inside wood-
work and no hard-finislied walls, at
least not so smooth.

I would say to every sister that if
you are to have a new house, draw the
plan to suit yourselves. But I must
stop or I shall “ talk too much.”

Fraternally yours,
AUNT l\IAi<<.;.iiii»;'i‘.

Yi=siI.AN'i‘I, April 20th, 1878.
ll’o7t/z,// Bro. .l. T. Cobb:

Our Ul{A.\'GE Visrroii is to us a wel-
come one. Aside from the pleasure and
encouragement we find in the perusal
of its columns, we prize it because we
believe it will aid much the noble work
in which we, as Patrons are engaged,
\Ve hope no members of our Order in
this State will fail to avail themselves
of the benefit to be derived from the
THE Visiroi-i.

The Ladies’ Departinent we feel es-
pecially interested in, and we hope it
may continue to call out the efloiis oi‘
the Sisters in the Grange, in such a way
as may be a help to themselves and
others. If I thought anything I might
write, would do any one half as much
good as some things which I have seen
in THE Vis1'roR (contributed by my
Sisters in the Grange.) have done me, I
would surely make the attempt; I think
if, as Betsey says, the ladies do not
keep the space allotted to us filled with
something better, I may make the trial
any way. Fraternaliy, ANN11g_

   

An untidy person cannot make good
butter.

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Mothers.
The subject I have chosen for my
' “M thers.” ,

eslgdltlfirst list me say, it is over thirty
years since I attempted, lo V‘3"‘tn'“‘ev9£_
essay to be read In Publlcy “"13 “not
being an adept in the business, ca

read to you such an one as many of 0111‘.

t ‘ each, in turn Will
Ii1::etIlIec(tlaill((3int1g3iirte1i1f them, Whellliel‘ ll?
be one or ten, we will know we have
tried to make this Grange an amusing

‘ ‘ v iie.
an1d bsisitiniicotvlidestpeak of our childhood
home. As we look back to .those.days,
the first impression, almost invariably,
is our mother, though she, perhaps.
passed over the'river long ago ; yet hf“
teachings still live. VVe can see her in
memory’s picture, as she moved among
us children with often a saddened yet
sweet expression. It was to her we’
went with our petty troubles, and if
they were smoothed with a kindly hand
do we not know that they were cured
easier than if she had given us a slap
in the face and unpleasant words? 1 es,
we know if we were led by our better
natures to do right, it then left no thorn
to mar the sunlight of our homes. Then
let us learn a lesson from it, and when
we are the mothers and have the re-
sponsibility of moulding the character
of those entrusted to our keeping, that
we always let the moral, instead of some-
times letting the baser part of our na-
tures govern our actions.

It is no light thing to know just how
much to indulge our children, or how
far to restrain, or how to adopt ways
and means to govern aright the varying
dispositions and temperaments; and
when the mother fully realizes this fact
her burden is greatly lightened, for she
will then strive to let her better judge-
ment dictate.

I have heard mothers say: “I was
a fair scholar when I married, but I
have forgotten all I ever knew, for I
have raised quite a family, and had so
much to do I had no time to look in
school books.” I think this is a wrong
way to do. I feel it is just and neces-
sary, when our children begin to learn,
we should show them we take an in-
terest in their mental work, and if we
do really feel an interest, as their years
and knowledge increase, so will ours,
and for the time we spent in aiding them
to get their lessons we receive two-fold

ay.

p A mother’s Work covers a broad field,
but the sphere in which she moves may
be great or it may be small; her ex-
amples may be a blot casting its dark
shadows over her family, or they may
be a blessing carrying with them holy
and noble influence. Mothers too often
educate themselves to look on the
dark and gloomy side of life. If we
would only resolve to make the most of
our surroundings we would be the gain-
ers for, it would lighten our tasks and
help to bring brightness to our homes.
VVe should ever strive to cultivate the
moral as well as the in'tellectual part of
our natures ; for where harmonious or-
der prevails, the storms and tempests of
unrestrained passion cannot wield their
poisonousinfiuence.

Our children are like a musical iii-
strumcnt; if we play continually on
the discordant notes, it brings forth dis-
cord, sours their disposition, makes
wrangling and bitterness of feeling with
the whole household; but with these
discordant notes let us strike on the
common cords in the order they should
come, and then pleasant music will be
the result.

The mother is truly a sculptor, and
the structures she has to mould into
characters should be handled with care,
knowledge and wisdom.

lVo7'f/2_i/ Brother J. T. Cowl.-if

Nothing would ever have induced me
to try to write anything for your inter-
esting paper but fear of the discontinu-
ance ot the Ladies’ Department. I
have stood trembling just outside this
department for some time, and now if
I may be permitted, I will come in as
boldly as though my name ranked with
Fanny Fern's and Grace Greenwood’s

Perhaps a word or two to the young
housekeepers, at this season of the year
on house-cleaning, would not be amiss:
Don’t, sisters, I beg of you, try to clean
the whole house at once. thereby mak-
mg every member of the family fretful,
cross, and uncomfortable, and yourself
so nervous that should friends chance
to call unexpectedly, you are ready to
fly with anxiety.

And even the old house-dog which is
commonly so good natured and friendly,
after taking one peep in at the half‘

open door, gives a low_ growl and starts
for the barn, while his_firm, dignified
step says very plainly in a. “doggish”
sort of way, that he intends to keep out
of the reach of the broomstick and mop.
handle, until things are again set to
rights. Let me repeat, don’t_try to clean
the whole house at once, or in a day, as
though your life depended on finisliiiig
before you slept.  better ‘plan is to go
moderately about it, and if you clean
and set to rights one room a day, you
will get through the whole affair with-
out losing your patience, or kicking the
cat either. But that which Wlll pay
you most of all, will be to hear your
“better half” say: “W hy my little
woman, what have you been about‘)
If it were not for the clean, bright look
pervading the whole house. I should be
tempted to think you had not cleaned
house this spring, so quiet have you
been about it‘.’ \Vhy, b ess you, when
mother cleaned house we knew it, and
came to our meals with fear and trem-
bling until it was over with.

Nearly every man within the circle of
our acquaintance, thinks his mother did
everything about right; and when your
husband tells you that you have done
better than his mother, your cup of
happiness niust indeed be full, and you
will not regret having taken this plan
for house-cleaning. Fraternally,

J1'.\‘().

Springport Grange, No. 45.
lVOI'(‘hg/ Bro. Cobb:

Although a stranger to you, and the
readers of the VISITOR, I am a sister in
the Order and love the Grange so well
that I never let anything but sickness
prevent my attending our Grange meet-
ings, though I live four and a half miles
away. I have never offered anything
for the Ladies’ Depaetment before; but
if you will give me a little corner in it,
I will try and prove myself worthy.

I find much good advice from the
sisters, that I love to read, especially the
hints on house-keeping. The all-im-
portant subject seems to be, “ To accom-
plish the most with the least labor, and
least disturbance of the harmony of the
household, and save time for mental im-
provement or social pleasure.” As it is
now time to clean house, it will do no
harm to discuss the question a little, as
every one has a way of her own.

As Aunt Sue has told the sisters to
ask the Grange for their way, I will, as
one of the members, give my method:
I begin on Monday morning by baking
bread, pies, cake and cookies enough to
last till [get tlirough,—for I doiilt iii-
tend to be very long about it. Then I
prepare a nice pan of baked pork
and beans, so that I need do no
cooking if the parson or deacon and
family should come, (which they are
sure to do). I have often thought it
would be a splendid idea to putup a no-
tice on the gate, “ No admittance for
six days.” Now we are ready to clean.
I begin at the top of the house and clean
and put in order one room at a time,
till I go through.

I have often been in houses torn up
as Aunt Sue describes hers to have been,
and have wondered if the good woinaii
would ever get through alone. It really
surprises me to see how easily and
quietly I get through, and the good
nature that prevails among the sterner
sex. Bui the idea of a man being cross
and disagreeable because his wife is
cleaning house any more than his wife
to be so because he has to do his harvest-
ing and she must necessarily do more
cooking, and have more men to \\'ait_
upon. Better for them to use a little of
their precious strength in wliippiflg
carpets and moving furniture, etc. Try
it, brotliers.

\Ve all know that oil cloth will pr?-
tect. our carpets, but as that we buy 15
V'el‘y expensive and of poor quality,
W1” 19“ you my way of making some
that is good and cheap. Buy some
"‘—’l‘.V heavy factory or drill, sew together
what you require; then stretch it upon
the side of a building, or on quilting
frames, 'ver,i/ tight, and paint it wltll
.Y_€l10\V paint; put on three coats, PU"
ting a little varnish in the last one, am
when thoroughly dry it is readv for use,
and will wear four or five years". If 3'0“
have never tried it I think you will be
pleased with the result, if you do so-_

Now, we are done with cleaning
house, let me say a little about our com‘
mon work. Too many house-keepers
make themselves so much work by
having so much around in the after-
noon that should be done in the mom‘
mg. It is much easier to do the bakiflgv
churning, and ironing in the morning.
and if the ironing is too large for one
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TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

morning. You have then the whole
afternoon to rest; or, perchance, your
husband may be going a few miles away
to look at some fancy stock, or to the
neighboring town on some business,
then by the time he is ready and drives
up to the door you are ready too. And
if not invited, never mind, just step out
in such a confident way that he really
imagines he has given you the most cor-
dial invitation iii the world, and will
enjoy your company as well.

This has been the experience of over
:20 years house-keeping, and I have al-
ways got along nicely.

Fraternally yours,
SISTER AGATHA.

An Evergreen, Fruitful Tree,—Syiiibolic
of the Grange.

This tree is not of spontaneous growth
like the forest evergreens, for the seed
was planted by O. H. Kelly, I)ec. lth,
1867, in \Vashington, D. C. For a long
time ’twas only a slender stalk, and
very few of us, if any, ever thought of
its maturing and becoming a tree of
such enormous size as it is to-day. And
why has it become such ‘.’ Because it
was matured by Hope, and was strong
in Faith, as its heavenly tending indi-
cates.

\Ve no longer behold it with wonder
and amazement, with its wide exteiid-
ed arms ever ready to dispense Cliarity,
(one of its richest fruits) in all cases
when needed. And the true Fidelity of
its dit‘l'erent members or parts, is appa-
rent by the union of the whole and
every part, each ‘being necessary co-
workers for the grand result of its
growth, naniely: Ifltlucatioii or Knowl-
edge. Hence, I will call it a tree of
knowledge; but not like the dangerous,
fatal one placed in the Gardeii of Eden,
that tempted our first pareiits, but the
knowledge that lies at the fouiidatioii of"
human happiness, and one of the first
steps taken in climbing the tree, is to
choose betwten knowledge and igno-
ance, at every step, on every part. of the
tree, to the topmost twig, written in
golden letters.

llut,  we saw from the little seed
the slender stalk, so with the inind——the
soil in which is planted the seed of
knowledge, and in striving to procure
it, let us reineinbcr that it ranks far
above wealth; will add more to our
happiness, and lit us better for a life of
usefulness at home, and to the world
generally. But why, do you ask, do I
call it an evergieen tree‘? It is not- be-
cause of its color, but, that it is ever
adding new verdure, blossoms and fruit;
even amid all the blighting storms of
ages and eternity, it will doubtless live
and grow, only a little plaster, or some-
thing of that nature, may be needed oc-
casionally, to show to the outside worl(l
its beautiful strength and productions.

In the formation of a tree, we have
the roots, the body or trunk, the branch-
es, branchlets, twigs and leaves. ’l‘he
world at large are permitted to behold
the tree, and to know something of its
fruits, but, to know nothing of the
workings way down deep, among the
roots, which can only be found on
Grange soil, emblematic of the secret
part of the Order.

The body or trunk I will calla syin-
bol of the National Grange; the main

branches, the State Granges; the
branchlets, the District or Pomona
Granges; the twigs, the Subordinate
Granges; and the leaves, l will denomi-
nate the individual members belonging
thereto. This noble tree is not prized
forits fruits only, but for its shelter,
shade and ornament; and many thous-
ands there are, who, from the storms
and seething trials of life, have found
itashelter and shade; and as for its
ornament,—-’tis found in the name and
proven by the badge.

Already do we see some of its fruits,
ripening for the harvest, while some
are only opening into the sweet-scented
blossoms. But much depends upon the
different relations of all parts of this
tree. \Ve should all be guarded, and
keep a close watch that no contending
enemy of the soil, injure the fine ten-
drils of the root, and sap its very founda-
tion. Also, that the destroying ele-
ments of factions, jealousies or monopo-
lies, do not injure or impede its growth;
and lastly, though not least in import-
ance, are the use of the leaves: They
aflbrd the necessaries t‘or the very life
of all the other parts, being the organs
of respiration and digestion, exhalation
and absorption. Therefore every leaf
of the tree has a work to do; and each
should see that they are not blown
about by every breeze, but get a firm
hold, that we may stem every storm,

each one fitting us better to fulfill our
mission, the dependence of the other
resting on us.

Some leaves, and even some twigs, in
failing to do the work assigned them,
are considered useless and injurious
growths, and the pruning knife re-
moves them from the Fraternity, while
some too, for want of energy, we see
deaden and fall off, and are seen and
heard of no more; and some, having
fully performed their mission here,
leave with us tokens of their faithful
labors, and blessings on this noble tree.

If we fit our sons and daughters to be
the peers of the most worthy and best
of our land, and command from all the
respectthey deserve, then we have a
great work to do. It would be well for
each of us to guard well our actions and
sayings, that there be found no useless
or unsound fruit, for on the tablet of
the mind we write for everiasting good
orill, what storms can not Wash out,
iiortlie slow moving ages of eternity
obliterate. So shall the tree be known
by its fruits. JENNIE A. Pom).

IVIARILLA, Manistee Co., April, 1878.

Pontiac, April 23d, 1878.
IVO/‘I/1_y BI‘0. 0011(7) .'

Inclosed please find $1.00, as payment
for two GRANGE Visrrons. I have
never felt justjright to receive the VISI-
TOR free, even if my husband is Master
of Grange No. 283, as the paper has
such a struggling time to maintain its
position as a semi—monthly. If all
Patrons would only see and feel what is
for their interest and take hold and sus-
tain sucli a valuable paper, then it might
not be amiss for us to get it free. I
would not have it changed back to a
monthly, and of smaller size for any-
thing. It grows better each number,
and we hail its arrival with pleasure.——
You may put down one fifty cents to
the credit of the VISITOR you send to
Gilbert H. Shattuck. The other num-
ber you may send to my address for the
present. I want one to keep, at home
for our own use, or to give away to
Il‘l'.‘lltlS.

A friend writes me, with an aching
heart, that their Grange has gone down,
although a faithful few strove hard to
keep it up. She says she only missed
four meetings in four years; and yet
she has been obliged to give up as there
were not enough faithful ones to sus-
tain it. I thought, perhaps if I should
send her some of our good GRANGE
VISITORS, and let her see how much
alive we are in Michigan, it might give
her, and others of that community,
new courage. I hope never to see the
day that our Grange is pronounced
dormant.

\-Ve are getting along very well,—oc-
casionallay taking in new members;
have a paper read once a month by one
of the ladies. Expect Bro. Thomas F.
Moore, of Adrian, to address us the sec-
ond Saturday in May, and Bro. T. A.
Thompson the last of May.

If you have the two April numbers
you may date my subscription from
April 1st, if not, from May 1st.

Yours Fraternally,
MARY SHA’1‘TUCl{,
Pontiac Grange, No. 283.

B’/'0. J. '11 Cobb .-

I find no words to express the plea-
sure I take in reading the VISITOR.——
VVe are living in a new country, where
we see but little of the world so to us
the VISITOR is doubly dear. ’

I have not ventured to speak before,
partly because of natural modesty, and
partly because of early instruction,
which taught me to keep silent in the
presence of my superiors. But now I
feel it is my duty tip s(a1y sotmethmg. 33
you have been so in as .0 give usa
corner in the VIsI'roR.

I do love to read ‘(;l\Ifirrz1a.l’s,”ati1d‘I‘Al_inht
K t "” letters an a t eres . wis
“lgeetsbey” would tell us just how she
does her work, that she can be “ready to
go whenever ’tlieIteamt geef, or aIll5]’bf1>1dY
comes along.’ ‘vein ure osay s e as
not got a regiment of_little_ ones to care
for, or she could not find time to_go.
have, and I scarce ever find tiraietlto
make a friendly visit or atten ie
Grange, although it Isa pleasure to do
so I do not think it is right for ta
mother to leave her children at home 0
care for themslelvesi{andfleave€_her wlofrli
undone, for tie _sa e o visi mg.
venture to go, I find I have to work the
harder to made up_ lost time, and there
is always “something neglected or some-
thing lost.”d Nowfiit there 11: any 6:813:

th d f ‘n ousewor we, _ o
:d:ls,0th:;.)t. hglrega houseful df children
and poor health, would like to know.

“Betsey No. 2,” might tell us some
more of the unnecessary work.

I believe with her, that it is economy
to bake by the quantity. If it will be
acceptable I will give a receipt for
cookies: Four cups of sugar; two cups
of butter (or meat gravy) ; eight eggs;
four tablespoonful of water; vanilla or
nutmeg. Tliese cookies are as nice
when six weeks old as when first baked.
I might say a few words about our
Grange, but time will not permit.

Kind wishes to all.
Mus. (itimxcizii.

To the Sisters Known Tliroiigli our
Visitor.

As our last talk—borrowing the edi-
torial plural just to begin with,—was
minus a headline, we have one this time
long enough for both. If we are to re-
present Maple Grove, and no one else
seems inclined, we must have due re-
gard to appearances or Maple Grove will
not thank us for becoming sclf-rep1'csen-
tative.

Those unknown, yet well known sis-
ters, we like them all. Fell in love with
“Myra” at first sight, and would en-
dorse every word she has said, thus far.
“'0 miss the sparkle of “ Betsey No. l,”
without which the Visrroic would
never be complete, and we are happy to
welcome No. 2, and the other new sister
who, fortunately for us, could not speak
to her satisfaction in the Grange, and so
has been forced to choose “a more ex-
cellent way.” I think it is not always
the want of ideas that keeps as silent in
the Grange, but oftener the lack of prac-
tice in speaking in early life. Recita-
tions are very little to the purpose, 
they give no exercise in the expression
of our own thoughts. I feel verymuch
at home in the Grange, but do not ex-
pect to ever say anything to the pur-
pose on any siibject there, and so I talk
here, where I can.

I think our differences of opinion re-
sult mostly from difference in circum-
stances. I sympathize with Betsey No.
l,  it has always been hard work for
my husband to read aloud when he was
tired. Learning this early in our mar-
ried life, we never expected it of him;
and as it was hard work for me, too,
little of it has ever been done. VVhiie
N0. 2 is reading aloud, No. 1 is, no
doubt, busy with those things, which

being done, will permit her to “go wlien- '

ever the team goes;” so, both are well
employed, and each has a right to her
choice.

I kept a strict account of all incomes
and outgoes for many years, but have
backsliddeii. The plan of a separate
purse I never tried ; was quite to roman-
tic to think of such a thing at first, but
later in life saw it to be a plan that
worked well where it was adopted, and
consider “Myra’s” statement of the
case so truthful that most farmers’ wives
must surely “second the motion.”

Sister Betsy how did you get my re-
cipe for cake? which, leaving out both
milk and cream, was my mother’s rule
forty years ago, and how much longer I
do Iiot know. She called it, “One, two,
three, four cake.” Experimenting my-
self, I added the cup of cream, and
found that it was “too much of a good
thing”; and changed to half cup of cream
half buttermilk, when I thought it per-
fect; liglit as a feather and rich as the
daintiest epicure could ask, but so ten-
der that it required very careful hand-
ling. I have never seen it excelled, but
would like it plainer now.

Yes; we make our cookies by the
quantity, but when obliged to have
young girls manage matters, as has been
necessary so often, the quantity did not
last long.

About the trimming; I have a very
sensible niece—to Maple Grove I will
say it is Miss Helen Maynard—who has
ideas of her own about most things, and
has expressed some of them in this
wise :

“ To trim, or not to trim ; that is the question.

VVhether ’tis nobler in the mind to suifer

The purse contractions so much trimming gives
115,

Or to take arms against a. sea of rufiles

And by opposing, end them. To shop——to call—

And say we scorn the fashions,

And the ten thousand needless things tleinarided;

To shop—to call—to call perchance on some
fine lady

Whose dress is trimmed ; aye, there's the rub.’

For in that call what looks may come,

What scornful looks at our plain costume ;'

’Twill make us vow we’ll trim it.

For who would fuss and fret, waste time and
money

0’er useless things, did not some woman's scorn,
Contempt of flippaiit clerks and silly misses
Make cowards of us all. VVe bear the trimming
ills
Rather than fly to others that we know too
well.
This is the calamity that makes

Slavery to fashion of so much of life.-

For who would headaches bear and sideaclies too,
\Vhile bending over ruifles, folds and puffs,
VVheii she could he: quietus take

By simply quitting it.” E. A. S.

GRATTAN GRANGE, No. 170.
lVorthg/ Bro. Cobb .-

By your permission I will try and an-
swer my sister, Hrs. Patron’s kind, but
secret talk in the VIsIToR of March
15th.

Sister, I am glad toliave you my friend,
but I must confess I am wholly in
the dark as to your whereabouts, but
knowing you take the GRANGE VISIT-
on, I will try and have a little talk
with you. Now I will suppose you are
in my sittiiig-room, and have told me
your secret, and I have listened with
interest. Now I am sorry, Sister, ion
do not enjoy the Grange and its bene-
tits. I think you are losing valuable
opportunities by Iiot attending the
Grange; we must sow if we reap. But
perhaps you think you have reason for
staying away; but, Sister, there is no
object. worthy our attention but calls for
thought, time, and money. I think a
good Patron thinks much, and is not
afraid to use a little time and money for
the good of the Order. Sister, I think
you are charitable, but I think you have
had you feelings hurt; that is not to be
wondered at when we have such a di-
versity of characters and opinions in
the Grange. Perfection belongs not to
mortals, and I advise ymi to go to the
Grange and take an interest in it, for I
see by your letter in the VIsI'I‘0It you
are capable of doing much good. I
think private members can do just as
much good as otficers, and sometimes I
think, more. Sister, I would rather be
a high private than an unqualified
ot'I’l(*er.

I would like to ask you some ques-
tions. Do your members discuss ques-
tions, write essays, and have select
readings in the Grange‘? If not, I

would recommend it. VVe find it very
beneficial in our Grange. \Ve have a
question box on the Lecturer’s stand,
where we deposit our qustions for dis-
cussion, which takes place after the
routine business is done for the evening.
I tell you, Mrs. Patron, I am a full-
blooded Granger; always at the Grange
in season, and have never had an ex-
cuse to stay at home unless obliged to.
I think that I am so far along in years,
Imiist be dilligent, and I guess my
sisters think so too, or I would not be
writing fora paper. The reason I have
given my address was, I thought per-
haps some of my better qualified Sisters
at home would write, but not a word
yet; I guess, Mrs. Patron, they will
wake up when_they see this. I would
like to call you by your real name, the
one you now have is too cold and for-
mal. Farewell, Sister Patron, now don’t
forget to write for the VISITOR and your
affectionate AUNT KATE.

Li'rcHi«“I1«:i.n GRANGE, No. 107,‘:
Hillsdale Co., April —, '78. I
Bro. J. T, Cobb: '

I have looked long to see some com-
munication from Litchfield Grange, but
nothing has appeared, and so I thought
to try my hand.

VVhile our Grange was under the
charge of a Freeman, it became very
rude and boistrous, so much so that it
was necessary that we appoint or elect
A. Gard to take charge of the Grange.
The said Gard done his work well, but
needed more help, so it was thought
best to have the Sisters appoint or elect
a Gard to look after their interests; so
with two Gards at the head of the
Grange we are getting along nicely.

As there was room for improvement,
andagood chance to sow some more
Grange seed, we selected too fine look-
ing Gardners to select the best of seed
for the members of the Grange to sow,
that will bring forth an hundred fold.

Brothers and Sisters, try to choose
wisely and cultivate well, and while we
are cultivating the soil, do not forget
the mind, for a cultured mind will
make us better men and women, and
elevate our moral, social and financial
standing among our fellow men.

With a VVhit-comb to watch the gate
and smoothe the ruffled hair on our
pate, we now numberjust eighty-eight.


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In looking over the GRANGE VISIT-
OR, I see you want more subscribers in
order to enable the Grange organ to pay
its way. Brothers, be a little more tem-
perate in your tobacco and whiskey _in-
dulgences and you will be able to bring
the welcome Visrron to your homes.
It is a shame to think that 20,000 Pa-
trons can not or will not support a nine
by fourteen eight-page paper like ours.
Sisters, see what you can do. I have
been reading Aunt Kate's article in the
last number of the \'is1'roR, and must
say with her——Brothers, don't let the
VISITOR go back to a monthly.

Yours, I}. W’. Fl{l£l~J.\IA.\'.

Castrating Lainlis.

This operation should not be delay-

ed after the lamb is a week old. as '

there is risk or danger after that time.
The scrotum (in which the testicles

are enclosed has a lining membrane .

branc which lines the abdomen. If;
the operation should be delayed for 
several weeks and inflamation should i
follow castration, it is readily com- i

municated to the abdomen,and serious I
consequences are likely to follow. 
At a week old the entire scrotum and :
testicles may be removed by a pairi
of sharp shears, with very little loss 3
of blood, and the wound will readily 
heal. If the operation is det'erred :
until the lamb is several weeks old, 3
greater care is required. In such 3
eases the animal is held securely by
the operator and an assistant; the ,
scrotum is taken in the left hand, and 1
the testicle pressed toward the lower '
end, rendering the end tight and
smooth. A free incision is then made i
with a sharp knife at the end of the ‘
scrotum, cutting through t-he lining
membranes, the cords and vessels are
scrapen asunder (not cut,) and the
testicles removed.— ll'4./stern. 1‘t)l6l‘(l,l.

THE lilsaplein, biuivru.

Died on the 38th of February last, at her
home in South Riley, Sister ELLEN CUTLER,
aged ‘.29 years, an esteemed member and oflicer
of South Riley Grange, and by this notice for
the Grange, we desire to give evidence of its

hand and bereaved children. ,

Also on the 21st of February last, at South l
Riley, Sister ADALINE CASE, aged (31 years, a
member of our Grange. \Ve also tender our
sympathy to the aged husband.

FARMS for SALE,
VERY CHEAP:

Situated about 65 miles south of Ypsilanti,
in the township of Augusta, VVashtenaw Co.,
containing 200 Acres ct Land. A very
pleasant and desirable location; Well adapted
to grain raising and dairying——-a first—_class
Cheese Factory just across the street’ from it.

There is about 40 acres of good Timber upon
it: a fine Orchard of Choice Fruit, and pretty
good buildings. It is located within one-half
mile of a first rate District School. a Saw Mill,
‘ Post Office, Blacksmith shop and two Stores.

i This farm, having come into my hands by
f Assignment, 1 will sell either the whole or a
part of the same, at very low figures.
J. VVEBSTER CHILDS,
Assignee.

v7m. fi."ii.;RR1s.

(Successor to N. D. VVi«:'riiroRE,)

General Gunerative Grange Agent.

WESTERN BUSINESS A SPECIALTY.

aprl-2t

which is a. coiitimiat-ion of the mem-  No. ‘[8 Coroiidolet Street, New Orleans. :

Orders for Sugar, Molasses, Cofiee, Rice, and
all Southern products filled at VVholesale cash
prices. Consignments of Flour, Meal, Bacon,
Lard, Corn, Oats, Hay, VVheat, Bran, Apples,
Potatoes. Cabbage, Butter, Eggs, Poultry and
Stock solicited. i.:§§*"Send tor Circular.

;$1III I III

 
    

THE UNIVERSAL SEWING MACHINE

Make the CHAIN and LOCK STITCHES,

   

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And embrace all the good qualities of the old .
machines. No i‘v1(zc/21772.2 1.v c/mrtper.’ i\o .'|1!z- v
c/zine is better! (:'mzrrm!ecrl for five yrm*s.’£

Monev refunded if not satisfied.

Secretaries, send for specimens of the work, '

and circulars for your whole Grange.
O. R. INGERSGLL, of Patroiis’ Paint Co.
Front and Dover Streets, New YO1'K.

CONSULT YOUR INTEREST! l

JOHN c. MILLER,
Commission Merchant,

53 MARKET s'riu2E1',
CHICAGO, — — -

Is there in the interest of I’atrons and others.

VVill not only sell, but will till all 0i'dei's ,

promptly at Wholesale Price.

R E F E R E S C E S :
C. L. VVhitney, Muskegon,
Freeman Franklin, Buchaiiaii,f-g;
Thomas Mars, Berrien Center,
B. F. Pennell, Berrien Springs,

J. M. DEXVITT, )
1\IRs.J. M. Dl~J\V1’1‘T,
Joiix P. Miinnnx,
B. F. '.\I(7D0.\’AI.ii, a worthy member of Roch-
ester Grange, No. ‘.357, died April —-, I873,

-Coin. ‘‘

R. M. Goodwin, Union Pier,
i Henry Chamberlain, \Villiarn Cliamberlain,
‘ Three Oaks.
 George Bridgman, of Bridgman,
Thomas Mason and Wm. J. Nott, St. Joseph.

PRICE LIST of SUPPLIES

Kept in the oflice of the Secretary of the

MICHIGAN S T A T E GRANGE,

And sent out Post Paid, on Receipt of Cash 01'-
der, over the seal of a Subordinate Grmige,
and the si_r/)1.a.im‘e of its fiiastcr or Secretruqi/.

Ballot Boxes, (hard wood,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$l 20
Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred,.. . 60
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to

keep accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . . 00
Blank Record Books, (Express paid), . . . . . 00
Order Book, containing 100 Orders on the

Treasurer. with stub, well bound, . . . . .. 50
Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts

from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,

>-4>—4

Well bound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .50
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound,. . 50
Cushing’s Manual, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Applications for Membership, per l00,.. . . 50
Membership Cards, per 100, . . . . _ . . . . . . . . 50
Withdrawal Cards, per doz., ......... ..I 25
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
By—Laws of _the State and Subordinate

Grariges. single copies 5c, per doz.,. .. . . 50
New kind of Singing Books, with music,

Single copy lo cts. per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 80
Rituals, single Copy. .................. .. 15

" per doz., ...................... .. 1 50

Blanks for Consolidation of Grangcs, sent
tree on application . . _ , _ _ _ , _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _

Blank Applications for Membership in P0-
mona Granges, furnished free on appli-
cation.

Blank “Arti<_:les of Association” for the
Incorporation of Subordinate Granges
W1l3l1’COpy of Charter, all complete,. . . . . ll)

Patron 5 Pocket Companion, by J, A_ Cm-

m_9l‘. 010th, _60 cts., Moracco with tuck, . l 00

Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100. . . 40

Address. J. 1'. COBB,
SEC'Y Mien. STATE Gssnon,
SCHOOLCRAFT, MIC}-I.

 ran. SALE!
50 Swarms Italian Bees,

In Moveable Comb Hives.
FOR PARTICUARS ADDRESS

SOUTHARD 80 RANNEY.

KALAMAZO0, MICII.

WRITE FOR CIRCULARS T0
The PHELPS &. BIc.ELow
Wind Mill Co.,

Manufacturers of the

an is. as’

WIND MILL.

And Dealers in

PUMPS, PIPES,TANKS, &c.

Nos. ii, iii & l8 N. Bunlick St.,

KALAMAZ()O,MICH.

PATRONS’ PAINT COMPANY,
259 Front Street, New York.

Ingerso1l’s Ready Mixed Paints.
50 per cent Saved.

54 page book of colors, how to paint, select har-
monious colors, &c., mailed free on application.

ILLINOIS. i

TOOTHED WEEDING HOE.

VVALKER &. CULVER, - PROPRIETORS

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For further information and
C. L. VVHITNEY. Muskegon.

600
IE3’ SEEING HATS,

Triqinm-d in the Latest Styles,
A'.F.' PROM Socts. ‘I50 $3.00 EACH.

5 ©Q
LABES’ EJNEN SUITS,

Consisting of Basque. Shirt with Oven-skirt. cut
in! 'l‘rimmed in good style. which we will sell at
front SL235 to 83.00 per suit. Illustrated Price
Lists of Latlies‘. )Ii§.'~l('S’ and Cbildrelfs Hats. also
Descriptive Price Lists of Laiiies’ Linen Suits.
Dry Goods, Gloves. Hosiery, Notions. Carpets.
01E Cloths. futlery. fiilver and silver Plated
’“’aro. Jewielz-y,_$§ewing Machines, Croquet Sets.
lrlitiks, ’lrav‘e-hm; §31!,‘.’,_§3. Groceries, elc., with fun
particulars, SENT FRl'a“.'E to any address.

MONTGOMERY WARD 8.; ($0.,

22? and 22!) Wabash Avenue. Chicago, lll_

The Best WEEDING MACHINE in Use.
TERMS T0 PATRONS, Address

 

   

THE KALAMAZO0  E S S E X P 3  3;,

r

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i S    E A fine lot of Yoiiiig Pi,g's, de.:~w:eiiileil from Im-
|  g ported “NEGliO,” and .\__r:ricul'tiir;~.l Collegi-
5 Stock, for sale at reasonable prices.
Co2'r€..~ymn.de/ice So!/'cz‘i‘(:d and .Sm‘;'.~;fIIr:-

fin): Gu.ar(miec(l.
Address, H. H.\“'l.EY.
Burr U-ak, St. Joseph Co., Mich.

—on——

 HARROWI

Manufactured by

D. G. and H. C. REED & CO.,

H ALAMAZ()( ), MICH.

T0 .7l1a..s*fe/~.s- and Secr'efa7'z'€.9
07” .S'uZ20’/'(ZzT1w,z‘.c G'7“a72g"es.'

I have secured the privilege of appointing
Agents for THE AMERICAN HAY TEDDER
in this State. Every Secretary of a Grange
whose members will be likely to need one or
more of these implements, should write me at
once. I can send no machines into territory
l where the local agents are not members of the
I Order, nor shall I appoint any agent in the
locality of any Grange ordering two or 1110”

Sores Time aml I-7l[022c_2,I
TO THE PARMER.

———o
. _ machines. Order two to tire TEDDISRS. and
F01‘ Fllllllfll‘ PEll‘l1Glll&l‘S Sfillll lfll‘ Elllllllill‘. if you do not need them youx~se1\'es»'e11*he’“
O__ to some one who does, and put the profits into

your Grange Treasury. I sold the TEDDER to
W‘e refer farmers, by permission, to : i\Ir. Gardner last year.
TERMS CASH, September lat, promptl_\'-
Aimni-::‘~s .iI O.\'ci-1,

A. X. RUSSELL.

Burr Oak, Mich»

E. O. I'IU1\II’}{REY, Pres. of State Agric’l Society, 2
VVM. H. Cons, Pres. Kalamazoo Co. “ “
and 200 of the best farmers of Kalamazoo Co.,
who used this Harrow last season.

D. C. and H. c. REED is co. Efgfxp B__.,.h,S Nome Wm appem. ,, only

two numbers of the Visiroii — Fair Warnii1,{.{-
The object of the Manufacturer is to sell h1‘

Brother Patrons in Michigan : ~

., yourselves, we shall have to try the old W33‘-

HE VVISCONSIN STATE AGENCY has i
a fine Business Location,

At 214 WEST WATER s'r., 1
.11ILWAL'KEE, WISCO.V.\‘I,-‘\', i

READ VVHAT FARMERS SAY OF IT

Vifill do the work of ten men and do it Ifietwl
JAMES JoH.\'so.\', Sturgis, Mich"

Ann is MAKING

LARGE SALES Oi‘ PRODUCE DAILY.

Fon PATRONS IN VVISCONSIN.

VVe have everv facilit ' ‘ ' 4 ~ . . . ' .
for Patrons’ Who.Wm Shi t(I)011;slilI?l.(l)l]$ll1§;£gch.li.l‘:;1x1lt I Data). Um. HIMEBAUGH, Burr Oal». Mich

The Agent is under proper bonds ' will irfakg § By using the TEDDER last season. I Cut. Cured
Correct and Prompt Returns; will Mail Shi - * ‘md put hay in the barn in fine condition.
ping Tags and Market ,.ep0,.ts_ lye invite trigl same day. VVet weather does not bother 3 man
s/upments of am] m“t1'cles of Produce that can be 1 much if he has an America“ Tedder‘ -
sold to advantage in this city. ‘ CA1): HIMEBAUGH, Bronson; M‘°h'

the farmer as the mowing machine. _
\V. \V. SMITH. Noble. M101“

If it were impossible to get another, I would
not take $200.00 for my TEDDER.

Address L. G. KNIFFEN -3 1 have used an American Tedder 11)"’"r5"
ap,.,5m3 St t A i _ ‘ and it is nearl as good as when bought. _
a e gt , Mimi AUKEE, Wis.  J_  GARDNER, Centreville, Mich.

    

, Wares, and if you are not disposed to hell’ _

 

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Ithink it is as profita.ble an implenieutfoi  I