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. ‘ -‘ '—J. J. WOODMAN, Mich.
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L.~C. L. WHITNEY, - —
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J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - - Ypsilanti.
GEO. VV. WOODVVARD, Shelby, Oceana Co.
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THOMAS MARS, Berrien Center, Berrien Co.
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Special Lecturers.

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SCHOOLCRAFT, AUGUST 15th, 1878.

Farmers, Take Courage.

Bread and butter are the essentials of
life. “The king himself is served by
the field. The profit of ahe earth is
for all.” Farmers have a. great advan-
tage in this respect over merchants
and manufacturers. Fancy goods
may be a drug on the market, but
who can live without the products of
the soil‘? All the gold in California
and all the silver in Nevada will not
suflice to keep the soul and body to-
gether unless exchanged for bread and
butter. There is no occupation so
sure of a return as agriculture. The
risk of the manufecturcrs and middle-
men is tnreefold that of farmers, but
their enterprise is so great that they
seldom succomb to pressure until it
becomes crushing. To bring a realiz-
ing sense of his condition, and to stim-
ulate to do justice to himself, is the
grand purpose of the Grange. Join it,
cherish it, and live up to its principles.
In it is the farmers’ salvation.

Machinery and Labor.

The luxuries of yesterday are the
necessities of to-day. It would be
impossible for the hands of men aided
only by the simple mechanical imple-
ments, to produce those things which
we deem essential to life. The
houses in which we dwell, the furni-
ture in them, the varieties of food
we demand, the articles of personal
apparel and adornment, are in large
part the product of arts which employ
modern devices either in preparation
or transportation. Locomotion and
communication are wholly changed
in character by the inventions which
“annihilate time and space.” If at
the outset persons are thrown out of
employment by the introduction of
a new invention, no fact is plainer
than that the advance of mechanism
has contributed in the largest meas-
ure to the comfort of all classes. and
not least to the physical well-being
of the poorest of the population.

In the points which are regarded
as distinguishing civilization from
barbarism, the laborer ot to—day en-
joys many comforts which three hun-
dred years ago could not be found in
the palaces of princes. The rushes
of the parlors of Queen Elizabeth
were neither so tidy nor so healthful
as is the carpet in the humblest cot-
tage in this land. It may be that our
beds are less adaped to develop mus-
cle than were the straw and boards of
the past centuries, but few would go
back to the latter. Contrast the sit-
ting i'oom_ot' the average farmer, con-
taining its piano, its books, its sofas
and upholstered chairs and its sewing
machine, with the homes of any land
two centuries ago, and We may 10”“
something of what mechanical pro-
gress has done for the family and the
individual. The fabrics which clothe
both sexes and the garments made up
of them for poor and rich almost in
equal measure, are the gifts of looms
and spindles, of steam and metalllc
fingers, and, not ‘least, of the sewing
machine. Even our crops have be-

come too great to be reaped and gar-
nered without the help of elaborate
mechanical contrivances.

Modern travel is the creature of
the steam engine. Modern inter-
course has adopted the telegraph as a
necessity. To wage War on machinery
is. fii-st of all, to destroy the tele-
graphic key, to substitute the horse
for the locomotive, to harness the
man to the mill in place of steam or
water. It is to go back to the condi-
tion of labor when it could procure
only the plainest food and the crudest
clothing, and when its home could
hope for none of the treasures of art
or education. The triumphs of the
mechanic arts have step by step ele-
vated the working classes and opened
to them steadily new opportunities
for advancement. livery important
machine has been met at the start by
the bitter hostilities of those Whom
it threw out of work. Even printers
were disposed to wage war on the
steam press upon its introduction.
Yet the fastest presses are hardly
equal to meet the increased demand
for printing which they have inspired.
Machines create necessities even more
rapidly than they can supply them.
Beyond all question they have im-
proved the condition of the race, have
adorned the homes of all classes, and
the science which is their handmaid
and ally, has lengthened life and
crowned civilization with its chief
blessings and most enduring glories.

For the moment labor may suffer.
The handloom and the needles of the
knitter by the fireside became idle
when machinery first weaved cloth
and knit stockings. But the fabrics
and the hosiery which the community
now requires cannot be produced by
hand. \Ve must reduce our wants if
we are to go back to the old meth-
ods. And especially must the poor
man and his family have less of the
comforts which the loom and the
knitting-machine bestow, if the hu-
man hand is to provide for all that
they are to have. Society cannot
dispense with what machinery pro-
duces for it. Especially will the
laboring classes not consent to return
to the style of life which the destruc-
tion of machinery would make neces-
sary.

The increased demands of modern
life are the real cause of the pressure.
If we are willing to live even as our
fathers lived, it we were Willing to go
on with the homes which sheltered
them, with the personal apparel
which they wore, with the rate of
expenditure which they deemed ade-
quate, in thousands of cases the in-
come of to-day would show a hand-
some surplus. If the laborer were
satisfied with the circumstances of
the skilled mechanic a hundred years
ago, if the skilled mechanic asks no
more than the master manufacturer
spent at that period the cry of hard
times would be less loud and general
than it is. But the man of to-day
wants more. He has broader views
and has developed new capacites.
Not less, but more machinery is re-

quired to gratify them. And the ad-

_l Your: SUr::s<'i:irTio:<

( will Expire with No.
vance of the mechanic arts has thus
far been accompanied by the eleva-
tion of the mechanic.

Except during the abnormal peri
od of the war, the condition of the
workingman in this country was nev-
er on the whole better than it is to-
day. So far as it is worse it is because
he requires more now than he was
formerly content with for himself and
his family. Nor do we believe that
he either will or oiiglit to desire less,
or to adjust his standing to a lower
point He ought to wage no war on
machinery which has been the agent
of his elevation. Capital is bound to
recognize the fact of the situation,
and to accept a smaller Share of the
product of their joint efforts. The
fall of interest in this country has that
significance. \\'hen four per cent
brings millions of dollars to the gov-
ernment treasury, capital must be
satisfied with the same rate of divi-
dends in manufactures and all its
operations with labor. The effect
will be that money will buy more.
Labor will get its living fairly and
steadily. \\'ith a concession from
capital. and it must sooner or later
coine, machinery will bring even fur-
tlicr reductions of the hours of labor.
although it has achieved no little in
that direction, and every hour's work
will be rendered even more produc-
tive.——‘Wz's. Saute G2-«Inge ]j’ul[etz'n..

’l‘o Many Fences.

lr behooves farmers in these times
to cut off all unnecessary expenses in
the management of their farms, and
it seems to us that there is no better
way than is afforded in the removal
of unnecessary fences. They occupy
valuable land. They are in the way
of economical cultivation. They har-
bor weeds, and amount in many Ways
to a heavy annual tax on the hus-
bandman. In sections of the State
where but little stock is kept, and
where we would expect to find few
fences, many farms are needlessly
divided into small fields. Fewer and
better fences are needed, and our
most enterprising farmers are begin-
ning to find it out-.—I:";ccI»,r,m_r/e.

A CORRESl’O.\'DEN'l.' of :1 foreign ex-
change says that the only reliable
means ofridding the hen-roost and
pigeon—lot of vermin, is a preparation
of sulphur and carbon, technically
known as sulphuret of carbon. ;
bottle containing the solution will
last several days. and the cost of
it is small. Put two ounces of the
sulphuret of carbon in a bottle open
at the mouth, and hang it by a string
in the hen-roost. At the end of
eight days the.bottle should be refill-
Ecll The remedy is said to be infalli-

e.

Tm: following notice speaks for
itself : ‘ Office hours for listening to
commercial travelers. 7 to 11 ; solicit-
ers of church subscriptions, 11 to 1;
book agents 1 to 3; stationery ped-
lers and insurance agents all day.
VVe attend to our own business at
night."


 

 

. carts, plow and harrow, and a general

gasteifs
J: d.flIlVIOOD)IAN, - - - O

FARMING IN FRANCE.

séepartmcnt.
I W raw

\’Vhile examining the agricultural
products of France in the Exposition,
my attention was called to a very ex-
tensive collection of grain, grass, and
other products, all of superior quali-
ties, indicating not only choice varie-
ties and good cultiyation, but great’
care and skill in the selection and
arrangement. The exhibitor was
present and I had the pleasure of an
introduction. lle was a man about
fifty years of age, well-dressed, polite,
and seemed to possess a. good degree
of intelligence. The superintendent
informed me that he was one of the
largest and best farmers in this part
of F rancc, and had taken more first-
class premiums at the fairs, than any
man in France, and could give more
reliable information relating to prac-
tical farming than any other man he
knew of. I most cheerfully accepted
an invitation to visit his farm, some
fifteen or twenty miles from the city,
and arranged to do so the following
day. On arriving at the depot, with
my interpreter, we found him prompt-
ly on hand with his horse and cart
(the only team or vehicle used here
by farmers), and in French style he
conveyed us to his residence, which
was not as pleasantly located or in-
viting as I expected to find; but his
hospitality seemed to be genuine, and
I felt free to catechise him as far as I
desired. He owned six hectares of
land (nearly 1:") acres), which he valu_
ed at 30,000 francs—a little less than
$6,000. It consisted of thirty-one
detached parcels, all within one mile
of the village in which he resided.
He was cultivating wheat, oats, barley,
rye, peas, beans, potatoes, and other
vegetables; also grapes, apples,plums,
cherries and s1nall fruit. He raised
no stock, and had neither a pig nor
chicken about his premises. He had
one horse, 9. fine grade Norman, two

assortment of hand tools, for eradi-
cating weeds, stirring and pulverizing
the soil. IIe employs two men and
two boys to aid him in his farm work,
and pays them $12 per month for
men, and half that amount to boys,
with board. Hands furnishing their
own board get about $10 a month.
He said that labor was very scarce
and wages high, on account of the
young and able-bodied men being
drafted into the army. The work is
principally done by old men, women,
and boys. \\'hen asked if women
labored in the field, his robust, cheer-
ful wife exhibited her hands, as brown

and hard as a wood-chopper’s, to the
relief of the interpreter, and to my
entire satisfaction. \Vomen get about
half the wages of men. Day laborers
get from 70 to 80 cents aday,without
board. He said that laborers could
support their families well with their
wages. A day’s labor is 14 hours,
and a month 30 days. IIis system of
farming and rotation of crops were
about as follows :

1. First year, potatoes. For this
crop there are about 220 ordinary

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

loads of stable or compost manure
spread upon the ground and plowed
under. The surface is smoothed and
pulverized with the harrow, and.the
planting and cultivation are done by
hand labor. The yield is large and
the quality good.

2. After the potatoes are dug, and
all the tops and weeds carefully gath-
ered and placed upon the compost
heap, the ground is again plowed and
sowed to wheat, without manure.

3. \\'heat is followed by oats, bar-
ley or rye. without manure, and when
meadow is desired, seeded with lu-
CeI'l'l.

4. Land not stocked down, is again
manured and planted to either peas,
beans, potatoes or other roots or veg-
etables. The lucern is mowed for
hay, early in June, the second year
after seeding, again early in August,
and a third cutting in October, making
three crops of hay in one season. The
following spring the land is again
manured and planted to potatoes or
other crops.

The use of manure and a systematic
rotation of crops are indispensable to
success in far ming, and his system is

the one pr:rc.iced by the best farmers l

in this portion of France, and may
be continued indefinitely, producing
heavy crops, without any exhaustion
to the soil. He is confident that the
productiveness of the soil is improving
under his treatment. No plaster,
phosphates, or other commercial fer-
tilizers are used when stable manure
can be obtained. llis manure is haul-
ed from the city, about 15 miles, with
his horse and cart, costing there about
$2 a load. A Michigan farmer would
be inclined to doubt the unqualified
statement that a one-horse cart-load
is nearly twice as much as a two-horse
wagon load in our country, but such
is actually the case. The roads are
level and macadamized or graveled,
and are as hard and smooth as a pave-
ment, the horses are large, powerful
animals, and the carts are very heavy
and strong. Quite a large amount of
valuable manure is made in the com-
post heap. Litter and manure from
the stable, weeds from the field, slope
and refuse particles from the kitchen
and house are carefully preserved and
carried to the compost heap, which
was located in front. of the stable
door, and within ten feet of the sit-
ting room, window; and from the
odor which filled the room I judged
that it was losing considerable of its
value by the escape of gases, which
a practical farmer of our country
would arrest by the free application
of plaster.

IN TIIE FIELD.
At the time of the great revolution
in France, and the “Reign of Terror,”
a very large portion of the real estate

was owned by the church and the
nobility, and paid no taxes. The
revolution changed the order of
things, and the large estates were
confiscated by the government and
sold to individuals in parcels suited
to the means of the purchaser; and
under a law subsequently enacted the
real estate descends to the heirs of
the deceased, and must be equally
divided between them. This subdi.
vision has been going on for nearly a.
century, hence the reason for the
small parcels owned by different indi-
viduals. The lots are generally ob-
long, although some square pieces
may be seen._ Passage-ways are laid
out almost as regularly as the streets
in our \Vestern villages, and the sub-
divisions have been made so as to
leave each parcel accessible to the
passage-ways. This has resulted in
cutting the original lots into long
narrow strips, some of them less than
six feet wide, and thirty or forty rods
long. The lots will vary in size from

,wheat and other cereals.

less than a single rod of land to a
third of an acre. It is seldom that
larger pieces are seen, although I was
informed that one farmer a few miles
away had succeeded, by exchanging
and purchasing, in getting two hee-
tares, about five acres, into one com-
pact farm. The corners of the lots
are marked by stones set in the
ground, and the division lines are
perfectly straight and maintained with
great accuracy. Every foot of land
even to a few inches of the cart tracks
in the passage-ways is cultivated like
a garden, and at least two-thirds of
the whole land under cultivation is in
No corn
is raised in this part of France. In
cultivating these narrow strips of land
plows with double or reversible mold-
boards have to be used, so as to turn
the furrows all one way, reversing
them at each plowing in order to
keep the ground level. Iloeing and
weeding are done by hand, and a great
many women are seen bent nearly
double, pulling weeds or digging and
stirring the soil with a very short-
handled hoe, used with both hands.
t;no\'.'1>;<: tutors.

_\ heavy wind had swept over this
portion of the country a few days
previous, and blown a large portion
of the grain down, causing serious
damage to the crop; but heavier and
better crops I never saw. The stand-
ing wheat would average about five
and a half feet in height, with head
heavy and long. The berry is plump
and of excellent quality. and mostly
of winter red, or amber variety.
Oats and rye are much taller than
the wheat. I was shown a field of a
new variety of oats, which had recent-
ly been introduced, and which very
closely resembled the “Norway oat.”
I gathered a few stalks and brought
them to my room. They are seven
feet long, and by actual measurement
one half inch in diameter. All this
variety had defied the storm, and was
standing straight and beautiful. - Bar-
ley is extensively cultivated and
heavy. Of root crops, potatoes seem
to take the preference. The potato
bug has not arrived here yet, and
there is no insect; to prey upon them.
The tops were rank, covering the
ground, and were att-aclied to line
growing tubers. The average yield
of wheat grown by my informant was
stated to be 50 hectolitres per hectare,
or nearly 75 bushels per acre. Oats
were said to yield from 75 to 80 bush-
els per acre, and barley from 30 to
35 per acre. Harvesting is done by
hand. Where the grain stands up
well, the cradle is sometimes ‘used,
but most of the grain is cut with the
scythe and sickle. Every head is
saved. The threshing is done by
small two-horse machines, to which
all the wheat in a neighborhood is
hauled, and the straw sold from
the machine. The wheat is generally
sold to the millers and buyers, and
the bread used 111 the families bought
from the baker’s carts, which make
their daily trips from house to house.

Vegetables are produced in great
abundance for the city markets, and
hauled in carts from many miles away
although railroads center here froni
every direction.

VVINE GROWING AND DRINKING.

The French people are great pro-
ducers and consumers of wine. Vine-
Y?-1‘d§ are generally planted upon the
hill-sides, and rough places, though
often to be seen in the rich valleys.
The vines are set about two feet apart
each way, and supported by a single
Sta1§°- Thei’ are cut back , every
spring to within afoot of the ground
so that no large vines are allowed td
accumulate. ’1he yield is said to be
VETY 19-'8"? and the. fruit excellent.
From the first pressing of the fruit,

the strong and high-priced wines are
manufactured. The pomace is then
saturated with water. and pressed.
and from this the weak claret, or 19,.
ble wine, is produced. The wine is in
common use. and placed upon the ta.
dles here as tea and coffee are in our
country. There is but little alt-oh(,1
in it, and I always dilute it, to about
one part of wine to two of water. The
strong wines are not placed upon the
table, unless especially ordered and
paid for extra. Branny is extensivelv
manufactured from wine and cider.
I am confident that the French peg,
people spend more for wine and strong
drink than they do for food, and the
working classes more than tor £00.}
and clothing.

Farmers are as much addicted to
strong drinks as other classes. Wine
is fed to the children ; and when the
Cognac is brought forward, in enter-
taining guests, they also partake flllll
hobnob with the rest; and yet, with
all this drinking, it is claimed that
habitual drunkenness is uncommon.
I notice that some of the vines are
showing signs of blight or disease,
but the real cause I have been unable
to learn.

CROPS NUT J.I.\UlJE T0 l~'.\ll.L'l{lI.

Crops are not liable to be l[l_il1l'etl
by drouth or excessive rainfalls, and
wheat does not kill in winter. Snow
seldom falls, but the frost penetrates
the ground to the depth of four or
five inches. The common white yel-
low-headed grub worm is the greatest
pest to growing crops. \\'here blight-
ed heads of wheat or other grain were
seen,‘ this worm was invariably touup
preying upon the roots. Peas and
beans seem to be injured by them
more than the grain. \\'hen I stated
to my farmer friend that we Were
troubled with the same worm in the
United States, and em )loyed the )l‘’.\'
and fowls to exterminate them,I he
shook his_head and responded, " No
fence, no pigs, no chickens; we have
to dig them ourselves.” Wheat is
sometimes injured by rust and smut.
and the wind often blows it down.

l.L'.\[BEl’. .\xn 1~‘L?r:I..

There seems to be a large amount
of woodland in France, but in this
portion it is mostly included in the
numerous great public parks. The
Bois de Boulogne, adjoining the city.
has an area of 2,200 acres; Versailles
more than double that amount. St.
German contains 8,000, and Fontaine-
bleau 40,000 acres; all within twenty
miles of the city. There are other
large parks, the extent of which I
have been unable to learn. As a gen-
eral thing, farmers have no woodland.
Houses and stables are made of stone
and brick, and fences are not used.
All the cuttings from vineyards and
fruit-trees, roots from old vineyards,
stems of coarse weeds, are carefully
collected and tied in bundles for fuel.
Dead and decayed trees from the parks
are dug up and cut into wood, which
sells for about $6 a cord, including
limbs and roots. I‘eat is dug and
used in some portions of France. Soft
coal is used in this city, and costs
about $512 a ton.

rRo1«‘I'r.3 or FA run x (.1.

In looking over the widely separat-
ed parcel of this man’s farm, I was
enabled to see hundreds of pieces of
land, belonging to other farmers in
the village, with growing crops, none
of which indicated better cultivation
01' promised a heavier yield than his ;
andI am satisfied that he is the best
and most thrifty farmer in that local-

it)’. He gave me the following as ~

the result of his farm operations in
1877 :

Ilis land was all in crops; and the
value of the same when sold was
nearly $1,800. After paying for ma-

 

 

  

  

 


 

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and other expenses, including the sup-

,.,,,-r, of his family, he saved $381),
which would seem to be a good mar-
gin for so small a farm; but when I
l’Ol’lSlll€I' that pent up, humble dwell-
ing, with its small rooms, scanty
furniture, and cheerless surroundings,
together with the plain fare upon
which the family subsist-, I can under-
stand how that amount can be saved.
,\ farmer of our country who lives
and dresses as well as' most of them
0,0, would fall irretrievably into debt
on his income.

’l‘liere seems to be a good degree of
_.-ocialiility and intermingling among
these farmers and their families. They
generally live in little villages, hud-
tiled together, and are thus brought
into daily contact with each other.
Their small estates, so out up and
mixed up, tend to develop the essen-
tial iirtues of patience and forbear-
ance witli the foibles of each other, in
cultivating their land and maintaining
division lines. Altercations among
neighbors and hind-owners are not
common._ l‘l.“tvI‘.ll village or hamlet
seems to be a community of itself.
They are social, generous, peaceable,
law-abiding, hospitable and seeming-
ly contented with their lot. Their
shelves are nearly bare of books, and
periodicals are seldom seen. .\s a
rule they stay at home and conse-
iiuently see and know but little of the
great world around them. These con-
clusions have been formed from my
own observations among the farms and
farm houses, and from information
obtained from the lips of fariners.
They apply to this portion of France.
\\'hen l see and learn of more exten-
sive farm operations in other sections
l will endeavor to see and note them
with fairness. The following would
seem to be a tleparture in that direc-
tion : .

I was introduced to a gentleman
from the extreme north of France.
who is largely engaged in farming and
manufacturing sugar from beets He
owned 200 acres of land in 50 detach-
ed pieces, which is the largest farm in
his locality. lle estimates the value
of it at about $1500 pei- acre. He rais-
es cattle. horses, and pigs. llis field
crops; are cereals, leguminous pants
and sugar beets, of which he makes
the beet a specialty. He also owns a
Ifnactory for the manufacture of sugar

roni the beets. He has produced
2,ffUl) lbs of sugar from a single crop
raised upon one acre, but that is above
the average. He pays the hands upon
his farm 50 cents a day during the
summer, and those in the factory 70
cents a_day in winter, hands furnish-
mg their own board in both cases.
\\ ouien are paid hall the wages of
men. . In his locality twelve hours
constitute a day’s labor. He says that
the laborers can live well on the wages.
H_6 pays an annual tax of $900 for
his land, about one-half of which gees
to the government, and the other half
t0 the highway fund. The roads are
all either paved, macadamized or grav-
ed. Commissioners are appointed by
the government to construct and re-
P311‘ the roads, and they have full
control of the work and the funds. He
has cleared as high as $9,000 in a sin-
818 year from his farm and factory, and
Some years has made nothing. The
f0“0v_Ving will indicate his system of
rotation of crops: First, sugar beets;
second, wheat; third, beets; fourth,
0395. rye, barley or grass. He always
maniires his land for beets. He uses
large quantities of guano and phos-
phate, and considers them valuable for
Wheat and other crops. No plaster is
used.
LABOR AND FINANCES.

France is a beautiful and rich-coun-
t"3_’a and her wealth comes from hei-
soil and factories. The soil is clay

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VISITOR.

loam, and although it has been under
constant cultivation for hundreds of
years, is richer and more productive
now than when the timber was first
cut away. The soil has but little rest,
but it  well fed. No farmer thinks
of raising crops without fertilizers and
a systematic rotation of crops. The
late war with Germany left a national
war debt almost overwhelming, but
which has been wiped out in a time so
short as to seem almost incredible ;
and the American statesmen and finan-
eiers stand aghast and wonder how it
has been accomplished. There can be
but one solution to the problem. The
French Republican statesmen, who
were called to recognize the govern-
ment, understood the true theory of
political economy. They realized that
natural resources, undeveloped by la.-
bor, could never produce wealth, that
a nation to be prosperous must protect
its own labor, and develop its own re-
sources; and become not only a pro-
ducing, but a selling nation. lleiice
legislation was so directed as to en-
courage and stimulate all of the pro-
ductive industries of the country; and
France has been turned into a great
workshop, producing not only to sup-
ply the wants of her own people, but
for other nations, and receiving their
gold in exchange. Labor has been
employed, and the nation has received
its reward. The finances of the gov-
ernment are in the best condition, and
the circulating medium is gold, or its
equivalent. .\l.-iy not the free traders
and tariff tinkers of our country learn
a. lesson here .’

Egg Preservation.
The preserving of eggs in any man-
ner has met with but partial success,
and, in most instances, total failure
up to the present time, but now
Chicago takes the lead as usual, and

is able with improved machinery that _

has been tested within the last few
Weeks to desiccate from five to twen-
ty thousand dozen eggs per day in
such a manner as to keep them for
any number of years in any climate.
The amount desiccated could be
doubled with little expense, and, in
this maner immense quantities will
be canned when the market is low.
The eggs are preserved simply by
evaporating that part which causes
decomposition and decay, leaving
the yolk and albuman, or the egg
itself, in a rich golden colored granu-
lation which can be used in cooking
at any time by adding water or milk
according to directions, to the desic-

‘carted egg, in which it readily dis-

solves in from three to five minutes.
The difference between this egg and
a fresh egg cannot be detected, as it
is nothing else than a fresh egg. By
this method it is impossible to pre-
serve limbed eggs or eggs that are
even slightly stale. England and'oth-
er countries import millions of eggs
annually, and their importations in-
crease with each successive year.
The shipping interests and the armies
of the world will find one more lux-
ury added to their bill of fare. The
\\'est now competes with the Eastern
and Middle States and Europe in
almost everything pertaining to the
table, and this will only add one
more article to the list.—P7-airie
Farmer.

—All over this broad union hund-
reds of thousands of people are asking
the conundrum why is it called a
“Commencement ” instead of a finish-
ing, or words to that effect.

—A few years ago all our railroads
were importing rails. Now all this
has changed, and the rail manufactur-
ers of the United States are exporting
coiisiderable quantities.

Over Production.

Many are complaining of over pro- '

diiction, and crying out against all
kinds of labor-saving machinery as
the cause of the present stagnation of
business, and some people are so
short-sighted as to believe that labor
can never again be so fully employed
until the machinery, to which they
ascribe their ills, is put out of exist-
ence. They do not see that under the
present condition of things a. large
part of the earnings of labor is devoted
to the payment of interest and taxes,

consequently cannot be used to buy ,
the goods they would be glad to have. 5

In support of the theory, among other
things, it is said that with improved
machinery one man can make as many
shoes in a day as fourteen men used
to in the same time. Then they say
thirteen men must remain idle. This
is not the fact. The demand has kept
pace with these increased facilities
which have reduced the price so poor
people are not now reduced to the
shifts they once were, of mending and
doing so much without. The work
done with sewing machine is immense,
and yet there is as much hand sewing
as ever. And so it is in all depart-
ments of labor; as labor-saving ma-
chinery increases the facilities for
production, prices are reduced and
the wants of the people multiply, and
the present apparent over production
is but the want of means to buy.
The _’I"imes in an elaborately written
article very conclusively shows that
no decrease in production can induce
better times. Below we give an ex-
tract from it which is worthy of seri-

. ous refleet-ion :

“All the talk about creating pros-
perity by doing less work, arises from
the assumption that too inuch is pro-
duccd—tliat there is too great an
abundance of exchangeable and useful
products. How is it possible for any
human being to assume such a thing
is a mystery. It is hardly possible to
find a man woman or child, that has
enough of everything. The great
mass of the people would gladly
double their consumption if they
could. Very many would gladly con-
sume more food, and most people who
have food enough would be glad to
improve its quality. There is hardly
one person in a hundred who would
not double his consumption of clo-
thing, aiid more than double his sup-
p‘y of furniture and articles of per-
sonal use and adornment, such as
Watches and jewelry, if he could afford
to do so. There are very few people
who would not be glad to spend more
than twice as much as they do in
building dwellings and improving
their surroundings. If it were possi-
ble for once to fully satisfy the Wants
of man, supplemented by all theaid
he can possibly derive from machine-
ry—from the forces of nature reduced
to service—-will never be able to sat-
isfy his wants. It is the very fact
that human wants are not supplied--
that protection is notequal to demand
——thatimpels our labor reformers to
write essays, and make speeches in
favor of reducing the hours of labor.
They have not enough themselves,
and they see others about them who
have not enough, and they imagine
that somehow they and these others
can get enough by assuming that
there is too much in existence, and
thereupon producing less.

The real trouble is, briefly stated,
that things are not produced in due
proportion. Relatively too much of
some things and too little of other
things are produced. The result is that
exchanges are clogged, and production
is arrested It is because production
is arrested, that men who depend
Wholly upon their personal efforts
cannot find, employment at good

i

l wages. Every man and woman alive
i could work early and late, Sundays as
Well as week days. without “gorgiiig"
the markets, if only he or she knew
; exactly what to produce. The reason
,l why things are not produced in due
,:prop0rtion, and the means by which
i production can be maintained in due
 proportion, are not siihjects of dis-
t cussion in this article. The present
3 object is to point out that general
 over production is impossible, and
, therefore that gen&al prosperity can-
 not be created by reducing production
9 equally at all points.——Ilz'rego Rural.

The (xirange an Influence.

Some l’atrons seem to think, or at
least their actions would lead us to
believe, that the Grange is meeting
certain times in a certain room, going
through certain formalities, doing so
much routine work, then going
home ; locking up their thoughts and
principles when they turn the key in
the door of the hall, only to be
opened and aired when the next
meeting day comes around They
speak of the Grange as a place, or as
an organization, a body of men and
women-—not as the exponent of great
and living principles. They speak of
the body not the soul, of the church
not the religion, of the school not the
education. Of what use is the church
without the better life, the school
without the use of the knowledge
gained? or the Grange without the
practical application of its principles
in our daily lives and business?
Some members of the Order would be
surprised if we should tell them that
there are to day farmers who have
never been initiated as members of
any Grange, who are better Patrons
than some of those who had taken all
the degrees; yet such is the case.
The first are believers in, and act on
the principles taught by the Grange,
the others like some church members
—atteiid the Grange meetings and
when outside, they know it not judg-
ing from their acts.

If in your business as a farmer you
are not using more brains than for-
merly; if you are not buying and
selling through Grange channels, and
on the co-operative plan; if you and
your family are not more social than
before: if you have not made your
home more brighter and attractive
within and without, to your children;
if you are not a better citizen and
looking to your duties more closely
as a citizen; if you do not feel a
greater interest in your neighbor;
ifyou are not striving for a higher
and better life, if in fact you are not
financially, mentally, morally and
socially a better man or woman, bet-
ter to your neighbor, your country,
and your God, the Grange is only a
form and not a bright and living
principle.-—Dz'r2'go Rural.

THE members of the Grange are
beginning to understand that there is
something more than dollars and
cents to accrue from the Grange.
They are beginning to talk of sub-
jects concerning the farm. They
are beginning to study their calling
and are trying to profit from the ex-
perience of each other. Already they
have learned some good lessons, and
we are encouraged to believe that
seeds are being sown at every meet-
ing, which will bring back fruit an
hundred fold.—Farnzer’s Friend.

IT is related that a western tourist,
to whom an Italian monk was show-
ing a consecrated lamp which had
never gone out during five centuries,
gave the flame a decisive puff, and
remarked with a cool complacency,
“ VVell, I guess its out now.”


  

 

 

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SCHOOLCRAFT. .\.l,'(}. 15, 1875.‘.

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gcrtetarys éepartment.

- — - - SCIIOOLCRAFT.

Officers and members of Subordinate Granges
in corresponding with this office, will please
always give the Number of their Grange.

_____  __.,_L.,_._. . . ._.

IBLANKS.

Blanks that are sent free from this office on 3

application are 2

Blank Quarterly Reports of Secretaries of Sub-
ordinate Grnnges.

Blank Quarterly Reports of Secretaries of I’o- I

mona. Granges.
Blank application for
Granges.
Blank applications for Membership in Pomona
Granges.
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

Representation in the National Grange.

An article in the Ilusbcnul/I/zcm of
July 10th, in relation to State rep-
resentation in the National Grange as
fixed by the present constitution, has
been copied in several Grange papers
and fully endorsed by several of the
representatives of the large States.

Writteii for the purpose of opening
a discussion of the question of repre-
sentation, Bro. Armstrong insists that
the harnionious relations which have
heretofore existed between the several
States can not continue if those States
which contribute but a trifling sum to
the N ational Grange treasury, are un-
willing to accede to such modification
of the present representative system as
will give proportionate representation
to the great body of the Order. No
plan is suggested — nothing recoin-
niended—but attention called to the
subject, in the hope that our leaders-
our best thinkers, may come together
at the next session of the National
Grange fully prepared to present some
feasible plan that shall command the
hearty support of those into Whose
hands the great interests of the Order
are committed.

It is not wise to shut our eyes to
the fact that the inequality of the sys-
tem adopted by‘the founders of the
Order, though accepted through the
few years of our existence in obedi-
ence to our respect for existing law,
is in violation of the fundamental
principles of that form of‘ government
under which we have been reared.
That the situation is beset with diffi-
culties is manifestly true.

But we have faith that the fraternal
spirit which has so generally pervad-
ed the sessions of our National Grange
will repress every revolutionary im-
pulse on the one hand, and on the
other inspire the majority with a de-
termination to make such concessions
as will secure the Order from internal
dissensi0I1S-

In another column we give an arti-
cle from V. E. Piollet, Master of the
State Grange of Pennsylvania. He
comes to the consideration of this

subject in a spirit of fairness andi
kindness, but with a positiveness of‘
statement that indicates determinerlt
resistance to the present system. I

W'e are glad to have this matter"

:brought before the patrons of the,

country so long_ before the meeting of l
the National Grange. A full and free i
discussion in those States that l'(‘_j€C-tr

ed the amendment proposed at the ~

, session of 1877, must secure a re-
lversal of that verdict if the larger
, States are no inoi'c exacting than be-
fore in their terms of settlement.

We are not yet prepared to believe

this matter so)/zc have been not only
disposed to be just, but more have
been generous. Let none forget that;
we have proclaimed to the world this
promise. “ We shall constantly strive
to secure harmony, good will, vital
brotherhood among ourselves, and to
make our Order perpetual. We shall
earnestly endeavor to suppress per-
sonal, local, sectional, and national
prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry, all
selfish ambition. Faithful adherance
to these principles will ensure our
mental, moral, social and material ad-
vancement.”

“'15 commend the attention of all re-
fiective readers to the article on first
page from the \Visconsin State Grange
Bulletin. The relations of capital and
labor must be better understood by the
great mass of the people, and this end
will only be reached when those who
pass for intelligent, well-informed peo-
ple, by reading articles like the one we
have spread before our readers, have
come to look at the subject from a stand-
point higher and broader than we find
they occupy to-day. This seems to out
rank all other questions prominently
before the American people, more im-
portant, though attracting less atten-
tion, than that of finance.

The Communism, about which we
hear so much, will disappear with a
better, a. more intelligent understand-
ing of the relations which labor and
capital bear to each other and their mu-
tual dependence on each other. The
article referred to is opportune, and
should be well considered.

\Vi: find since the Ladies’ Depart-
ment has secured them a placcin the
VISITOR that they are quite as much
interested in the paper itself, and in
extending its circulation, as their
brothers in the Order. 1f we are to
judge by the number of their commun-
ications, we can safely say they manifest
a greater interest, for from them our
supply has been ample. We have faith
in committees of ladies that undertake
to accomplish any good work. If the
Work of increasing the subscription list
of the VISITOR had been committed to
the sisters by the last State Grange,
rather than to the Masters, to whom it
was ordered sent free, the chances are
more than even that we should now be
printing a larger edition.

VVE occasionally receive aquarterly
report and a money order in payment
of dues, from a secretary, in different
envelopes by the same mail. To such
we would suggest that that sort of can-

tion is quite unnecessary. Send the

TH E"  i,V',l_S_IT(_),]3.g

dues with the report, whether by money
order, registered letter, or draft, and
save one postage.

GrR.\.\’GEs delinquent in reports
from Secretaries f'or quarter ending
.\la.rch 31st, 1872:

17, 3:3, -50, 52, G2, 87,, GS, (39, 77, 79, 86,
94, 97, 102, 112, 13-3, 138, 1-11, 146, 179,
181, 182, 187, 197, 208, 209, 228, 236, 2-12,
245, 2-35, 264, 265, 282, 287, 2288, 307, 308,
309, 313, 320, 321, 329, 334, 342, 34-3, 359,
371, 378, 383, 38-3, 386, 411, 418, 429, -i3],
4-17, 448, 4-30, 4-37 -160, 468, 478, 492?, :)t_l2,
.304, .505, see, 52-_, 523, 526, 534, 55?»,5-7-1,
.355, see, 570, 593, cm), 604, 60.5, 611.

This list does not include those
dormant Granges that have not re-

1 , ,1 orted for a *ear or more of which
' the great body of the Order are uii- , P _) ’
willing to be juS,H.1.01_ We know that in , thei-e are quite a number, who seem

practically dead, though they have

not formally surrendered their char-
ters.

Do not forget the Allegan Co. Picnic
on the 21st, that we noticed in our last
VISITOR.

National Grange Representation.

Wrsox, Pa., July 13, 1878.

Editors Ilusbandman :—Your editori-
al of July 10, calling upon Patrons of
Husbandry to consider the propriety,
and expediency. of changing_ the con-
stitution of the National Grange, I re-
gard as timely and highly proper.
Proportionate 7'ep7'escntalz'on must char-
acterize the Natioiial Grange in the
future, orit will cease to be harmoni-
ous ; and I might add-—if its existence is
to be made permanent. The American
farmer can not be made to uphold an
organization that is in such antagon-
ism to our republican form of govern-
ment. Our brothers and sisters of the
States having small membership should
agree, without hesitation, to such
amendments of the constitution as will
constitute the national body with rep-
resentatives, male and female, from
each State Grange, based upon mem-
bership of Subordinate Granges in said
State.

The present mode of limiting the
membership of our National Grange to
Masters of State Granges and their
wives who are Matrons, has injured its
influence and limited its usefulness.
The propriety of permitting the States
to select liusbandmen and matrons as
representatives to the National Grange,
is manifestly right and ought to be
provided for. The National Grange as
at present constituted is a flagrant oli-
garcliy, and those who desire to rule
without any regard to the rights of
brothers and sisters, will come to be
understood, and finally their course if
persisted in, will break up our fraternal
association. \Vhat is desired between
this and the Richmond meeting is a
candid consideration of the question by
Patrons of the several States. It should
be the aim and desire of all to put the
National Grange upon an enduring
basis. The proposed alteration is no
reflection upon the founders of our
()rder who, in all probability, hit upon
the only course that would have event-
uated in the present colossal proportions
of the organization. \Ve have how-
ever arrived at the time when a wise
departure is absolutely required to crys-
talize the Order with aview to harmony
and permanency. V. E. PIOLLET.

IT is provoking to see farmers so
utterly dead to their own interests
and with so little regard for thé
promotion and Welfare of their own
calling. “hen the Grange move-
ment was inaugurated, it came to
the farmers with just what they need.
ed-—-just for what they had been in.
quiring_ for many years. Not: one
farmer in a thousand denies the facts
above stated, and at the same time
not one in twenty has put forth an
effort to aid the good cause.—Farm.
er's Friend.

A LITTLE stealing is a dangerous
part, but stealing largely is a nob1e
art; ’t1s mean to rob a hen roost ofa,
hen, but stealing thousands makes us
gentlemen.

gist: C

J. H. GAB.DNERa

 

ggenfs 11 érpartment.

- t'i:Nii:E\'Ii.i.i;.

In the Visiron of August lst my
article reads “ i\lason’s quart fruit
jars $14.50 a gross.” It was intended
to be Mason’s quart jars $12.00 and
two quart jars $14.30 a gross. Six
dozen of either will he sent at the
same rate.

I am constantly receiving orders for
the new Home Sewing Macliiiie, sent
on trial; if it fails to give satisfaction
return it; and it is kept in repair for
five years free of cost.

Kerosine oil, Michigan test, is 18(-
, per gallon; barrels hold about 50 gal-
llons. Salt at Saginaw can now be
' had for 75 cents a barrel by the cur
load of eighty barrels. If a short
report of the result of sowing salt on
crops was published in the next Vis-
ITOR, it would be instructive to all
farmers; and I would suggest that
such reports be made, giving the kind
of crop, soil, quantity of salt used
‘ per acre, and the increased yield it
any, or any other benefit resulting.

Best Cheese is now 7.} cts. a pound
at the factories, and will advance as
soon as the Weather becomes cooler.

“Many Patrons think they have the
same right to buy and sell where and
through whom they please that non-
Patrons have. They do not hesitate
to deal with merchants and niaiiuf:ic-
turers who have no connection or
sympathy with the Order, when they
might as convenient] y and as prompt.-
ly deal with the Grange stores and
agencies. They frequently go further,
and convert their ability to buy at
the Grange establishments into an
instrument for forcing other establish-
ments to come to their terms. \Vhen
told that such proceedings are in vio-
lation of their duty as Patrons, they
talk about rights and the conversion
of the Order into a despotism.

“It may be a man’s inalienable right
to buy and sell when and where he
cliooses——We doubt ifit is, but it may
be—-yet it is not certainly an inalien-
able right with which he may not part.
He is entirely free to enter into con-
tract to buy or sell at a specified time
and place and tliroiigli a certain es-
tablishment, and when he has entered
into such a contract voluntarily, he
can not lawfully refuse to live up to
it.

“The Order of Patrons is a co-ope-
rative association, and its success as
such depends in the unanimity with
which its members work together and
avoid competition. When a farmer
unites with it, he does so knowing
that it is a co-operative association
and for the purpose of reaping the
benefits of it. If, after he becomes :1
member, he concludes that he can do
better by patronizing establishments
run in competition with those of the
Order, or by operating one of them,
or acting as an agent for persons out-
side, the very best way he can in de-
cency do is to leave the Order in :1
constitutional manner. But since they
have come into it, knowing it to have
that character, they are in duty bound
to support the Grange stores and
agencies, and to avoid bringing them-
selves into direct or indirect competi-
tion with them.

CHOICE or BL'SINESS.—- Success is
dazzling. Men are so constituted that
e"€I'Yb0dy undertakes what he sees
another successful in, whether he has
aptitude for it or not. One prosperous
gold miner in California gives half a
continent a fever for seeking gold.
One successful general fills the dreams
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[)0N‘T LEAVE THE F..1RM

Come boys I have something to_ tell you ;
Come near, I would whisper it lovr :

You are thinking of leaving the honiestenrl,
Don’t be in a hurry to go.

The City has many attractions
But think of the vices and sins I

When once in the vortex of fashion,
How soon the course downward begins.

You talk of the mines of Australia,
They-"re wealthy in gold without doubt,

But, ahf there is gold on the farm boys.
If only you’ll shovel it out.

The mercantiie life is a hazard,
The goods are first high and then low.

Better risk the old farm awhile longer-
Don’t be in a hurry to go.

The Ureat stirring world has lll(ll‘.(‘t3Hl(:1fl.~'
There is niany :1 mart,

But wealth is not made in a day, boys,
Don't be in a hurry to start.

The bankers ‘and brokers are wealthy,
Thev take in their thousands or so;

Ah I think of the funds and deceptions-—
Don’t be in a hurry to go!

The farm is the sifest and surest,
The orchards are loaded to day ; I
You’re free as the air of the mountains,
And monarch of all you survey.
lie-tter stay on the farm awhile longer,
'l‘hou,c_r,h profits should come rather slow ;
llrainember you’ve nothing to risk, boys,
Don't be in a hurry to go 7 _
The (}'range B/U(cti'71.

:_‘r”roni the llus-l>an(lniaii.'§
How to Make Farming Profitable.

so as to make farming pay? This is
a question of great importance, for it
includes all questions that bear direct
ly upon our business, and affords a
wide field for thought and argument.
It is not expected in a (liscussion of
this kind that any one will bring out
all the points that tend to make farm-
ing profitable, and I will only, at this
time, touch upon such as seem to me
important, leaving to others the
chance for criticism and such argu-
ments as may seem to them applica-
ble to the question under discussion.

There are so many nice points to be
considered in arranging our buildings
and fences; so many little economies
to be practiced; so much thought to
be used in arranging for the proper
time to Work, and the manner of work-
ing the different soils that are always
found upon the same farm; so much
diversity of opinion upon the amount
of seed to be sown, and the manner
of sowing and harvesting; so many
theories upon the manner of making
and applying the manure, that the
best judgment must be used in order
to discriminate wisely and make our
business successful. The difference
between a successful farmer, who
makes a profit from his business, and
adds to his wealthas the years roll
on, and one who Works equally hard
but fails to bring success, is generally
due to economics in all things, and
the saving of time and expense by
judicious application of labor-saving
iinpleinents, and using such time as
can be found between the different
seasons of seeding and harvesting in
butting the farm in condition for suc-
cessful cultivation.

In the first place we should so pre-
pare our fields that no surplus water
may be found upon them. To effect
this all low places should be tiled.
as one of the first requirements. And
then our fields should be so arranged
as to be accessible from the buildings
Without loss of time in going to and
returning from them. Gates are nec-
essary, but in no instance should the
Old-fashioned nuisance of bars be al-
lowed, but instead cheaply construct-
ed swinging gate so hung as to be
evenly balanced, should in all cases
be used, saving time in opening and
°10Sing, and adding to the general
good appearance of the farm.

_ One of the heavy items of expense
in our system of farming is in keep-
mg the farm in small fields, for fences
are a heavy tax upon the owners with-
out corresponding benefits. They are
One of the customs handed down from

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3 former generations, which we can still

5 use if we will, but which we must dis— ,

5 pense with so far as we can, if'in these
1 times we wish to make farming profit-
able.
can be entirely obliterated, but so far
as we can enlarge our fields and save
, the expense of building and keeping
j in repair the middle fences upon the
.' farm it will be profitable for us to do
so. The cost of’ fencing material, the
time used in building and keeping
' fences in repair, and the land they
occupy, if fairly computed, would as-
. tonish most of us; and close calcula-
T tion of the cost will convince us they
are a drain upon our purses that we
. can not afford if we wish to make
farming profitable.
We raise in our section, corn, bar-
? ley, wheat and clover, and keep such
stock through the summer as may
seem necessary for the working of the
land and keeping the family in milk
and butter, and, perhaps, a small sur-
‘» plus of butter to put upon the market
when not required for use in the fami-
ly. It has been demonstrated to the
satisfaction of (lei:-vnirii whose inter-
csts have compelled them to study
the subject closely, that pastures im-

T prove by age, and if this to true, as I
llow can we best manage our farms ,
for us to separate such part of’ the

believe it is, would it not be economy

farm as is best adapted to pasture and
keep it for that special use? The
orchard could be fenced for the sheep,
and pigs, and the rest of the farm
that is devoted to corn, barley, wheat
and clover used in one field. There
is no necessity for fences to keep the
corn from the clover, or the barley
from the wheat, and in my opinion
good will actually result if‘ they are
all in one field, for the corn will pro-
tect the new seeding, so it will
be allowed to strengthen at the root
and have sufficient covering to protect
it from the winter, when, if there
were fences to separate it from the
corn, it would most likely be damag-

stock that would lessen its value for
the following year more than the pas-
ture obtained from it would be Worth.
It the growth were such that no dam-
age to the future crop would result

be so great as to make pasturing it
unavoidable, then a cheap boy could
be employed to herd the stock at less
expense than the middle fences could
be kept up for the year around, for
the purpose of having it in condition
to turn stock into only a few weeks
in each year.

This question of dispensing with
at least half our fences, is an import-
ant one, and I bring it out in this dis-
cussion for the purpose of bringing
the thought and attention of farmers
to this subject. If the cost of build-
ing and keeping in repair one-half‘ of

applied to tilling
enough may be gained and saved in
these times of’ pressure to help, in :1
measure at least, to make farming
pay.

Having said so much about dispens-
ing with a portion of our fences, I
will say further, that we should have
our buildings, stables, and yards so
arrangedas to save labor in storing
and handling our crops and in feed-
ing our stock in the stables and yards,
so that no food may be wasted and
no manure lost by soakage or drain-
age, unless ,it is passed off in such
way as to benefit the farm, instead of
being a nuisance in the highway. \Ve
should have good tools, such as will
do the most work in the least time,
and make horse power or wind power
applicable for all purposes in which
they can be used to advantage.

On that part of the farm we use for

It is not expected that fences ‘

from pasturing, or the necessity should ,

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be saved, and the capital and labor;
vrequired for that branch of farming _
and inanuring,;

E we wish to make farming pay in these

; ing in green clover for manure, but '

‘upon our fields in such shape as to

K and it is also known that the land must

i in some such way 'as i have indicated,

plow-land, we shouldhave our regu-
lar rotation of corn, barley, wheat
and clover, and keep the land busy as
well as ourselves. There  no profit
in having the land lie in clover more
than two years. It is desirable to
plow our land while the clover roots
are still in the ground, for all the
real value there is in clover in its
green state for manurial purposes, is
in the root; and unless the ground is
plowed before they are frozen out,
their value for good is lost. I am,
not a convert to the system of plow- f

would much rather put the crop above
ground. in the barn for hay, to be
utilized through the stomach of the
steer, or sheep, and plow the land as
soon as the crop is removed. I think
the following crop of grain would be
just as good it‘ the green clover were
all removed and the bare field plowed,
and I know it would stand a better
chance for a catch of clover seed from
the bare land, than if’ the green crop
were turned under. Clover is one of
our- best crops, using the roots in
their full growth for manure, and the
hay for feed, and in that way pass it
again to the field as manure. VV. J.
F., in the Western New York corres-
pondence of the Com2tr_1/ Ge7ztleman,in
last week’s paper, rates the value of a
ton of clover hay for manure alone at
$11.00 and upwards. And yet he says
hundreds of tons of it have been sold
in Rochester during the last winter at
$10.00 per ton. I am inclined to think
he has over»r:sted its value as a nia-
nure alone, but 1 do think it worth as
much as that for feeding purposes,
and have it in the barn-yard still,
whether it be worth What he estimates
it at or less. In order to make farm-
ing pay we should raise all the clover
hay we can, and feed it on the farm.
It is not generally considered a pay-
ing business to purchase stock in the
fall and feed through the winter, tak-
ing such advancc as We can get in the
spring; but I believe it is true econ-
oniy, for it uses up our coarse fodder,
and all the refuse of other crops and
puts them in condition to go back

keep up their fertility, and in that
way help to make farming pay, as it
is an admitted fact that good crops are
necessary to make farming profitable,

be kept in good heart to make good
crops. VVhen the country was new,
and the soil filled with all the needed
elements of plant food, our coarse
gains could be sent away to market
in bulk, and we could still raise them
successfully, but a continued drain of
the lime, potash and other ingredients
that have been sent away in our
hay and grains has weakened the pro-
ductive power of our soils, making
more labor necessary to put them in
condition for the crops, and more un-
certain in their production; so that it

times of excessive taxation, we must
make a new departure. \Ve must
economize in time and expenses when
we c:in,and put back upon the soil

as much as we take from them. If
phosphates are necessary to f'nrtlier
enrich our soils, we must use them
Where they are proved bc-ncficial,
provided they can be purchased at
such rates as will make it an object;
but we must not be expected to pay
ten or fifteen dollars per ton for the
water they contain, for that is money
thrown away. W'e must study up
this phosphate question and find out
if ammoniated ground bone, the pot
ash salts, and the nitrogen can not be
purchased in a soluble state for what
they are worth, and ourselves add the
basis of the mixture‘ from the road
dust, or sand banks of the country,
and thereby save at least half the cost,

and in that way produce an article
just as good as any now on the mar-
ket. The Grange is a school for
studying and developing just such
questions as the one we have before
us, and we can all learn from one an-
other, and if then there is not time to
do the subjectjusticc, let it be con-
tinued until all have had full oppor-
tunity to express their ideas, and all
will be benefiited. W. G. WAYNE.

('ontentnicnf .

After all, contentment is more de-
sirable than ease, and the Grauges
should notbe so much absorbed in
their efforts to make the farmer easy
that they will forget to do what they
can to make him contented. They
should provide exercises and furnish
instruction that will make farmers
feel that not only is their calling
honorable, but also that it is as free
from care and permits as much rec-
reation as other callings. \\'hen
once they are convinced of this, they
will not so readily give up the occu-
patiou to which they have been rear-
ed and which they thoroughly under-
stand for one of which they have
little or no knowledge, as they do,
and they will be less ready than they
are to consent to the l'(lIlOVa.1 of their
most capable sons to the cities and
towns. It is certainly very impor-
tant that the downward tendency of’
farmers and their children be check-
ed, as important as that :1 large frac-
tion of the next (‘ongress be tillers
ofthe soil; and it will be checked
when farmers come to appreciate the
comparative comfortableuess of farm
life. They always appreciate this
after they leave their farms. \\'e
heard an ex-fariner say recently that
he had not lived so comfortably or
independently as on his farm, that
the greatest mistake of his life was in
giving up farming, that while a farm-
er he was not harassed with notes
and drafts, and could occasionally
leave his work for a day’s pleasure,
and that he would rather see his
daughters marry farmers than men of
any other clas., llis misfortune is
that he did not realize how well off‘ a
farmer is, until he had tried being
something else. Many other persons
have suffered the same misfortune.
If the Granges will keep it. from
striking still others, they will render
the farming class no trifling service.
—-(r'rcm_.r/e ]}uZlz'tzfn.

A nor‘ was recently sentenced to
the penitentiary in New Hamp-
shire for stealing two postage stamps
worth twelve cents. That boy will
soon learn better than to commit so
outrageous a crime, and when he
graduates from the State Prison he
will lay his plans to rob some bank
of'1$1t)0,000 or so, and then make a
comfortable compromise with the
directors for fifty per cent of’ the
amount; or, may hap, he will start a
nice savings bank with the modern
improvements in some confiding com-
munity, and at the proper time close
up the books with heavy liabilities
and no assets. In either of these
cases the New llampshire boy will
reap the reward of inter-prise, and
retiring with an abundant competen-
cy, live to a green old age, the only
blot on his reputation being that
miserable stupid and criminal act of
his youth when he stole twelve cents
worth of postage stamps.—.E.w:cIzange.

This kind of a word that turneth
away wrath will not turn away a
book ageut.—0at.s».

Swimming is useful so far as it
trains a. boy to keep his mouth shut.
———Pz'cag/une.


 

Qatnitiuniraliaiis.

FRIF..\'l)SHlP.

xv l.f;0.\ll.€ lll-.’.\'SU.\', 4 ll.-\l'l.Al.\' .\'o. lhl.

Pure friendship how eiidcariiig
\Vhcn hearts in unison heat,

And then, Oh, then, how cheering
When friends each other greet.

Then let us meet each other,
As often as we may,

Each sister and each brother
May help along the way.

The way in which we're \VLlll(lll_‘_;,
So rough sometimes ’tis true,

But then, there’s no use talking,
Good Patrons will go through.

To brighter fields of labor
Than when they first began 2

Each vieing with his neighbor,
To beat him if he can.

One object of the Grange is,
To feel each brotlier‘.~ care,

But then, what seems so strange, is
Tliat no more came to share.

And yet we are iiicreasing
In number, every day:

Outsiders, they are leainiiig,
To ridicule our way.

You all know how I wondered
At our worthy Overseer,

If sun shone, or it thundered,
You were sure to find him ll9l'¢‘.

liut now I am it Granger,
’Tis all made plain to me ;

I've friends now who were stmiigeis,
But never more will be.

There's now and then ii Judas,
Who falls out by the way,
lint they can not delude us,
If we but wat:h and pray.

(‘our-age, my fellow I’ntrons,
We never need to fear,
As long as worthy inatrons
Will give us hearty cheer.
l)ow.\<':i.\<', C.\:'.~' Co., i\liCii..)
.lul_v illlth, 1878. 5
Iiro. J. '1'. Co/11).‘
As the time is near when the three

gjarraagtandczirg.

Yl’.~‘ll..-\.\"l‘l, Aug. 1:’, 1978.
Jim. J. '1'. (.001; .-

The Br-llville Hraiige employed one
John Pay, a member of the patent right

association, to look up and report to:
them the facts as he finds them in the 
patent ofiice. on the patent gate claimed =’

to be owned by Josepli Bl('l{f0l‘(l :5: Co.,
? now Oliver Perry.
jportas he drew it from the books of
~ that oifice:
' Ai:s'i‘n.x<"i' or‘ i.i~:"r'i'i:Rs ul-' l'.»\'l‘l-I.\'T.

' -'tp,m3nt )’0_ .’,m;o3. granted to John C. i

Lee, of Seville, Ohio, Oct. 24, 186:}.

“This invention consists in the coin-
bination of the gate with the posts and
fence, one of the said posts being slot-

‘ ted to receive the end ofthe pannel that
supports post I3. pulleys G. U.

“ What is claimed by John C. Lee is
the arrangement of the pannels or gate
19. in combination with the morticed
post B, post A, strips d, slats d, and
for the purpose set forth.

“(iranted or allowed by commission-
er of patents to John C. Lee, niorticed

' ed post B.

“Also, (late F, slats d, strips d, post A,
, pulleys (’1.(x‘., if used in eoiiiiei-tion w.ith
‘ post B; but if not used in connection
5 with post B, there is no patent granted
3 on gate F.”

The farmers of Micliig:iii will see by
the "Abstract” that there is no patent
on the gate they are using, and the
claim is a fi'aud and a swindle.

Their patent —— post A. set in the

5 ground. Morticed post B. is connected
1 with post A at the top by a slat, the
lower end sets in a block of wood. The
.])().~.‘-t is so moiticed that the gate slips
. through it on pulleys G. (L, and then
’ in turning or opening the gate you turn
,5 the post with the gate.
' You will see by last clause in “ Ab-
, str-act” that there is no patent on hate
l<‘, without it is connected with post B.

The post is all that is patented, and

that is a swivle morticcd post that turns
- with the gate.
Yours, fr-atei'nalI_v, H.

Ar-i<i.\.\', .‘»lich.. Aug. rid, 1.\‘T.\‘.
Il'm-lliy Bro. (‘ebb .-

Iii the lsst number of the \'isi’i‘ou I
notice the coinmunication of M. L.
Thompsoii, C’l:illiJlll_'_,f‘\iO represent the
commission house of "Howard Bros. i
& Kendall," of l{ansas City, t\Io., and

parties will hold conventions for the l “Howard J3l'0S-3’ “I l-’J“'1‘€‘llC97Ki111i~?‘dS,

nomination oi senators and represen-
tatives in oui'St:1te lcgislature,l would
direct the :1tt.en‘iion of Patrons to the

fact that there are about 31.'),Gll() tarm- I lwllellclzll,

ersin the state and 1,600 lawyers.
32 senators and 100 representatives.
with only .'i farmers in the senate and
:28 in the asseinl_>l_v. With 10 law_\'crs
in the senate and '_’l in the lower

' wishing to know of the apple crop of‘

Micliigaii, and also your request for?
l’atroiis to inform you as above request-
ed. This informatioii would be very
and if the work could be
carried still furtliei‘ by getting reports
from all apple produi-ing states, it would
‘aid very much in helping farmers to
-make up their minds as to the best
thing to do with their surplus apples, -
and would be the means undoubtedly .

house, no wonder that f.-iriners are i 0l'SlI0\\‘l1l:: UP ‘lit’ 59*‘?->‘a Wlllcll Wlll be ’

compelled to pay an undue proportion
of the m.t'c.- which liiwycrs, corpora-
tions. and non-producers legislate in
their own interest. Tliis injustice
may be remedied if farincrs will only
assert their liberty and inaiutain their
rights by notityingthe leaders of their
respective parties that they must. be
fairly represented on the respective-
tickets, and it they are not, that they
will not support the nominee.

No p:irty can succeed without the 7c,,pi[,,1 of

i':iriner's votes. Therefore let the far-

party blowers and the vast amount of .

gonly for moderate transactions.

apple purchaser's.
We have here in southerii Lciiawec
an abundant crop of fine fruit, and
present indications show that nearly
all will be fair and free from worms.
As to the commission firms above rc-
fered to, should not think them reliable
Our '
,best commercial agencies report the
house of Howard Bros. iv Kendall, of
iliansas City, as “fa" business risks
* with from .<4,oon to .§i;,()oo capital,” and
the house of Howard Bros, of Law-
‘rence, Kan., as "limited credit with
>,"1,(N'l~‘) and under. This

 

,amount of credit and capital is very
iners take care of their interests and  l0W f0!‘ the aI110l_Int0f business claimed
Secure “mil. om, ,.ights7 ,.eg,,,.,uesS of E in the communication, and especially '

at this,tiine of “fashionable failures "
I hope I shall do the parties alluded

silly clap-trap that is published in ; to nomjusuce by i,,f0,mmgt1,ePa,,.0m_

partisan papers, in order to frighten
the tinzitl and secure their votes for
the party nominees, regardless of
their honesty or ability. The country
will be quite as safe, our liberties ‘
maintained, and just and equal laws :
will be enacted and better enforced if,’
farincrs are fairly represented accord- l
ing to their numbers and merz'z‘s. ‘

Fi'atei'iially, H. H. TAYLOR. '

Ri:si‘s'rir.n‘i xii.-—To bring a chilled 
or wet chicken or young turkey‘ to!
renewed life, hold it over a smudge 
or smoke from a. wood fire. This]

i
l

remedy will resusitate a chicken when
so far gone as too appear hfele

, of Michigan their commercial ratings. ‘

Yours, fraternally,
G. B. HuR'1‘0.\'.

 

Hll.I..<l)_iI.E P0.\I’XA GRANGE, .\‘o.1o,i
Jonesville, Aug. 7th, 1878, I
Inasmuch as certain parties are going
through the State extortiiig money i
from farmers, claiming to be the own- 
ers ofthe patent ofa certain gate used ex- i
clusively by the agricultural portion E
of the community, and also claiming5
that the patent was given some thir-‘i
teen years ago, and as it can be proven i
that the gate has been in use for thei
past twenty-five years in the State of:
New York and Michigan, therefore,
Resolved, That we, the members of
Hillsdale County Grange, P. of H., do
I

hereby caution the members of the

 

TI-IE7 "GR)L'f\rGVrE

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VIETTOR. I

l()rder in Hillsdale (70,, to beware of

l those parties and not suffer themselves 5

to be beat by them.
I Resolved, That we, the mem bers of
l this Grange, will assist, to the extent or
our ability, any member in his defence,

use of said gate.

published in the GRA.\'(ii-: Visirok and

county papers.
H. D. PEssEi.i.,
G. M. GARDNER, —(‘om.
E. J. Honcins,

YPSII.A.\"l‘l, Aug‘. Io, 197s.
Bro!/zer Cobb :

The farmers of this part of the state
made it so hot; for Bickford 6; (?o., that
they have sold their patent gate swindle
to one Oliver Perry, who claims to be a
resident of Flint, who, with his gang
of sharpers, have moved into the north-
ern counties of the state to operate.

I hope that the VISITOR and its ex-

changes, and all local papers will keep ‘

i
this swindle before their readers till all
are warned and prepared, by combina-

ition to protect themselves. To show

i the public what value John C. Lee,

3 who claims to be the original inventor,

.l placed upon the right of this State I am

‘informed that Bickford & Co., traded

i him an old horse and buggy for it. No

I further comment is necessary.

’ Yours, fraternally, ll.

\Yl£.'~."l‘ CxXSC(), Aug. 4th, 1878.
Wori'/23/ Sccr2'e(a2‘y Cobb .-
In answer to your request in the last

‘, apple crop in this state, I would say
i that we have the lightest crop in our
E town (Caseo), Alleg-an Co., that we have
ihad for a number of years. I am in
i the fruit growing business and am in-
terested in that crop, and have inform-
ed myself in regard to the fruit crop on
, this lake shore. The crop of fruit is
I light of all kinds except small fruit. I
, know of some old orchards that have a
 scant supply for the owners’ use.
I am informed by some of the travel-
ing repi'esentatives of (jhicago commis-
sion houses that the fruit crop is very

light from St. Joseph to Grand Haven. '

Yours, &c.,
S. M. HA.\ii.i.\',
Grange 404.
N<iu'i‘ii l..\_\‘.-'i.\'«:, Aug. T, '78.
Wort/i,y iS'cc‘y Cobb .-

Enelosed you will find a post-otlice
order fo1' the amount due the State
(;}range, and eight subscriptions for the
\'isi'ro1<—Sl2.S2 dues and fees, $4.00
subscriptions. These names have been
obtained through the efforts of a com-
mittee of ladies, Sister Holbrook hav-

: ing obtained seven of them.

Yours, fraternally,
G. S. Wii.LLi.\is. See.

Notice.

 

The fourth term of a school at South
lfoston Grange Hall will commence
bept. :»0th and continue three months.
The school is designed to fill the place
of a graded or high school,
vanced students can secure
vantages than a district school affords.

’l‘uition,$-}.00 per quarter; text books
same as formerly used in this school.
Board can be obtained at S.;2.0() per week
within convenient distance of the hall.
further particulars address the
teacher, Miss Eva \Vhite, Saranac,
Mich. It is expected the winter term

;will commence immediatey after the

ll0ll<la)'S- . C. ENGLISH.
Lowell, Aug. 10th, 1878.

Picnic Notice.

 

There will be a G!" P‘ '«.
S9-ulrdayv AUg- 3431. a‘ln§iesterlcIl:l:l<e?:

: The picnic will be on tl .
, longing to Mr. Pardee. 16 grounds be
I H1 ‘ an Buren, Cass and Berrien Coun.
,i ties are invited to attend;

All the Granges

body else who feels in need of a da
of rest and recreation. For speakef};
we shall depend on home talent. i

“What are y0t1Ii1_j2Iil i..;.» asked
a prison visitor of a. negro, u F01.
bor win money, sahf’ « who, they
dolfi‘ Pu}; men in .l3ll for borrewin
money! “ Yes: but you see I had
to knock the man free or four times
afore he'd lend to me."

where legal proceedings may he C01]?-1
menced against him on account. of his _

Resolved, That these resolutions be‘

VISITOR for information in regard tol

where ad- j
better ad- ‘

Export Trade in Cattle.

i In view of the fact that our present
l crops of cattle food promise a. harvest

of unusual abundance, it becomes at
1 once a source of congratulation that
the foreign demand for cattle, sheep
and pig; is likely to keep pace with
the prospective increase of :sup},1_\-_
The vast field opened for the fiIl'U]CI'_\
0f‘,\meric3, by the establishment of
ithe livestock trade with England,
has scarcely begun to be realized.
A hundred years ago not OIIC‘-K1113!‘
fter ofthe British public could be
‘ called habitual IIl(:fllZ eaters; now
the whole people, except some '_’,0Uo,
000 of the agricultural laborer-s, Still
too poor to obtain substantial food.
indulge in meat; at least once a day.
The very existence of prevailing low
' prices is having the effect of rapidly
increasing the consumption of meat
iabroad, and of introducing it as :i
fdaily food among those who have
] never been able to purcliasu the
. luxury before.

Iinportant legislation leaves British
inarkets open to American live cattle
I and closed to animals from the coun-

tries of Europe which have hitherto
i suppled .the market, which pi-activa—
 bly gives to our shippers a monopoly
; in the livestock trade. Uri-eat Britain
possesses about .‘33,UUO,ULIO head of
horned stock. Not—witlistancliiig that
gthe population of Englaiid is con-
' stantly increasing. giving rise to the
necessity for a larger supply of ani-
mal food, yet the number of live
{stock owned in that country was
i smaller by £2,310,000 in 1377 than it
i was in l8€.‘». The magnitude of this
l English market can be better appre-
fciated when it is known that Ire-
iland. with an area. no larger than
I the State of Maine, sends to England
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on an average of l,Sl.l0,tl()il head of

live stock every year, or exccetling
;‘ .'l4,0(.li> head per week. Hence it is :1
gsafe prophecy that this country,
; though yet in its infant;-_v as regards
.‘the export cattle trade, yrill, a few
years hence. ship f_’!).0lH| h ad of cat-
-tle per week instead of .';,i>i‘iI.',i :!.~' in
l present.

' In addition to the trade in live-

, stock, the exports of dead meat are of

iincreased importance. In H76 the
E quantity of American meats _,40l(l in
[London markets was :2,.\‘22,i0|l l|>.~‘..
fin 1877 it rose to ].:'>,5G8,(HlO lbs,
‘while the quantity sold there dur-
ing the first five months of the present
year was 2-l,-335,360 lbs. In 1875 the
value of the dead meat imported in-
to England was Sl»l,:3I35,1NHi; in I577
' it had arisen to —§"_’(l,5S5,0l'lll. About
8,-'3tlt),lHl!) head of horned stock are
annually marketed in Great Britain
, from their own domestic production.
l so that the present time the iinporta-
fl tion of foreign cattle bears only about
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eight per cent of the total consump-
tion. The trade in mutton with Eng-
land is capable of great development
when our American farmers give
i sheep husbandry that attention it so

richly deserves. In the first five
 months of 1877 England imported
' 2,132,368 lbs. of mutton, while in the
3 same months of the present vear she
% imported 7,940,912 lbs. Corn will be
I very cheap this fall, as the crop will
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be heavy and the foreign deuiand
light. Put it into fat beef, pork and
mutton, and a renumerative market
will be assured both at home and
abroad.——.-lnzerictm Czzllit-atoi-.

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f Ti-ism: is much criticisin in some
~' sections of the country of the irregu-
larity and exorbitant charges made
in the way of attornevs’ fees. Ac-
. cording to the Gvrap/u'c' “ fifty thous-
and dollars to the lawyer and $2,500
to the widow” is the way an estate
[was divided recently in New York
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TH E VVORLD VVANTS VV()ME.\l.

lu rtrply to “ The VVorlcl Wants .\Ien.”]
in’ Li-jrriiz i,i;sri=.R.

Tlic world \v2tnts wuinuii, too,
_\'o‘:»le, tried, and true,
\\'L’m liosirlc their husbands close may stand ;
Who in work or play
All the li\:eloiig' day
il.~-Jp him with (I willing heart and lmiid.

The world wants women, too,

l-‘or tlici'c’s work to do,-
\‘.‘i;vl; wliicli llL'f.'(lS a. stout heart and brave,

lull zifti.-1' years will tell,

That slie worked so long and well,
'|'i_\ iii; 1:l'lC€l(‘SS souls for God to save.

‘file u'<_-rld wants women, too,
Strong to dare and do,
Worltiiig for the good of everyoiie.
Heavy burdens bear
For those full of care
l“roin the early morn till set of sun.

Noble women, they,
Who from day to day,
_\n; doing here on earth their work of love ;—
At the peztrly gate
'l'lioy’li not have long to wait,
l‘ll‘(‘ 1licy‘r<- summoned to tlieir home al-ove.

\',',,.:i.n (ii-uizge, Aug. 3th, 1878.

llu.~l;ini«!r_v in the Past and Present.

lllll'atllL'L‘Sl.()l'.'~' labored uiide1' a disad-
miitzige in cultiveting the land, putting
ill the crops and gathering them, that
we, with the help of so much machine-
ry have but little idea of. The iinple-
ments of liusbandry our forefathers used
were rude and oftentimes ponderous,
and would be only curiosities now-a-
days. Their plows were little better
than pointed sticks, and often propeled
by niaiuial strength, though some must
have been strong and heavy to bear-
die drauglit of twelve yoke of oxen, as
in the time of Elislia, the prophet.
That plow must have been of ungrace-
ful foi'm and motion,_ had little of the
.~‘_Vlll't‘ll‘_‘,’ of theplows now in use.

But we lllH3(l not go back to the an-
cieiits t‘ur uncouth implements. Many
now living know that the tools used by
their fatlieis would ‘near a poor compar-
ison with those used in the present day.
Then the steel and gang plows now
used in the vast fields of the west was
not tlioughtof. In the past the grain
was all sowed by the li:iiid—full—a slow
process by the side of the grain drill,and
the broatl-cast sowcr; but then the
aiiiouiit sowed was liardly :1. tenth of
the 'pi'eseiitacreage. An oriental har-
vest-tiine was loiignnd tedius, lasting
iuaiiy weeks; but then, Boaz and Job
as liushandmcn would not compare
\ritli our modern farmer, who, with the
i_i;~:t-oi‘ li):it'llll’l€l')', ruslies through the
lieltl of grain. in truth this is an age
of pi'o;;i'ess. .

lean look back to liz1i'vest time in
my t‘atlier’s fields across the briney
llefép, when there would be twelve or
tittecn reapers with bright sickles in
 cititting down tliegolden, waving
s . ollowed by halt as many bind-
”."S- faiicy I can hear the noise of the
sickle cutting down the proud state-

.y ‘s’l'aiii and laying it in bundles
‘F0111 on the earth, as sometimes
human greatness is leveled by the

Sickle of time. I fancy too, I can see
the merry gleaners gatficr one by one
[heir stores‘ every act of clieerful labor
makes thein richer than before and
their little picnic at noon under ‘some
stately Oak whose friendly arms so
".lr°ng Spreaid broad to shelter them
"0111 the noon-tide heat ‘How merrily
l70ul<l the lauvh oro ]‘Ollll(l and fun and
Who be eiiioysedcl) ' -111 when the busy
harvesters were paltakiiig of their din-
,,0,,’ed°UI1EB:>t-sgaltll generally of ioast 01
went)’ Of pudding for dessert.
H1036 were bus ‘oil ' times which
child as I was (iii) Jrie‘\‘lm- be l'or¢rottenl
,.nl;t they are all things of the pait, like
‘*5: aliltl  (iplili1i(ii'tlLiOtliEttteiis1ee(ll 130
make the welkin rib -is the last; ‘sheaf
U” Was carried on tlig ( oint of the sick-
l,mi£ lifocession into ilie barn as the
,0 ;9:T](:‘Ino(f“ the tlloadls .[llaVl£1\:’)(;rLll(l3dfe:l1(‘);:'
The lIai'vi::tletiriiéi* cliéfxtlltiti ircscnt 
“'8 S€I'lOll‘lA'tfl'all' T Wrlrk lroni early
:_“°Fn till devvey eve. The enjoyment
' 93 When the work is done, if at all,

Oh,

and vegetables, with,

l
r

and the husbandnian looks with grate- 5

ful satisfaction at his well filled barns.

hoping in time to rejoice in a well filled ,

pocket—book.

»

The threshing in olden times iiiust‘

have been very tedious when the reap-
ers came bending beneath their loads of
gathered grain and cast them on the
threshing floor, which was composed of
earth closely" trodden down and
smooth and hard, or sometimes formed
of the solid rock Their threshing ma-
chines was a heavy wooden platform,
studded thickly on the under side with
bits of broken tlint and iron teeth.
Oxcn, well yoked, and by them it was
drawn back and forth. The straw was

then raked off‘ and the grain VVl[ll'0VV-.

ed by the wind. How different is
threshing now. The whistle we now
hear tells the story. The whack of the
flail is no more heard in our land.

The ingenuity of man has sought out

'many inventions; there is no retro-

grade, but progress everywhere. Every
year brings some new improvement to
lighten the burden of the tiller of the

soil. \Vith these facts before us, the,
Are we better than‘

inquiry arises:
were our fathers 2’ If not, why not‘)

AUNT Nl/\ RGARE’l'.

For the GR.L\'1}E Visiron.
Coinniunis Ill.

The conimunistic element in Ameri-
ca threatens to become, or has become a
formidable foe to the land-owner. Coin-
munism is of ancient origin. History
tells communistic doctrines existed with
the Hindoes and Egyptians, and Jose-
phus gives a limited account of a com-
in unistic society that was established on
the shores of the Dead Sea; but com-
munism in its present form began in
France at the time of the first French
revolution, and although its successive
piratical leaders have greatly added to
and modified the original theories, their
object is still the same, viz: To ignore
all property rights, and destroy the
foundation of society. They demand
an equal distribution of all property,
particularly landed property, which
causes the movement to be of vital im-
portance to agrlculturalists.

Notwithstanding all comznunistic ex-
periments have proved failures, there
have been, and are many philosophical
minds which believe in their doctrines,
but,judging from the past, should the
communists gain the ascendency, the

movement would be controlled, not by .

its philosophic followers but by the
recreant, the scum of society, which
would form by far the largest majority
of the so—called l‘ef0l‘lIlGl‘S. A. L. F.

Woinan’sr opportunities.

A ;\lall‘()l1 in the C’a,li_/'oi°niaPah-on,
in an able letter on “ \Voman’s Oppor-
tunities,” says:

“There are many reasons why wo-
men do not write more, the most cogent
of which is the lack of early training
in expressing their ideas, through the
pi'ess. Then, after assuming the cares
of a home and family, and answering
the demands of society, they have
enough to absorb mind and time with-
out beginning so late to write for pa-
pers, particularly when they have no
special incentive for doing so. The
Grange has shed a new light on wo-
man’s pathway, and this is her golden
opportunity to elevate tne standard of
woman hood socially and intellectually.
When the benefits to be derived from
the Grange are more fully appI‘eClat€<.l
and attained, the ‘.\Iatron’s depart-
ment’ will be well tilled.

“I never had much faith in ‘coriiers,’
not even corners of newspapers for wo-
men. If a woman utters a good
thought, writes an able article on taxa-
tion, irrigation, co-operation, or any
other subject that concerns liumanity,
why should she be doomed to a_ seat by
herself? Having been kept "1 ‘€013’
ners’ all their lives, denied the privi-_
Ieue of looking across the threshold of
sebret orders that the b1'others_liav_e_
founded, and called bold and ‘daring it
she ventured to step into a political con-
vention, woman has had limited op-
portunities to learn many things that
render tier self-sustaining and strong.
But now me gates of the Grange are
opened to her, where she is a welcome

PRAIRIE RONDE, Aug. 12, 1578.
Brother .7. T. Cobb:
As the (-‘range is foremost in it.-: ad-

vocac_v of the advancement of woman istrong,

to a higher social, business and pro-
fessional life, will you please give place
in the Visiron to a brief notice of an
event that we hope has a significance.

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and importance beyond the mere fact I
that there is one more l:w.'yei' in St. ,

Joseph county:
Mrs. Bishop (3 Aiidi'e\\'s, of Tlll'(:'L',
Rivers, daughter of Hon. 0. H. Fel-

law at the
county bar, Tuesday, August tith.
Mrs. Andrews is the fir:-t woman
licensed to practice law in the circuit
courts of this State. Her success will
be hailed with pleasure by all advocates
of universal sutfrage, since it will add
another proof of the capability of wo-
men to enter a profession formerly mo-
nopolized by men. A.

to practice St. Joseph

Orcrworkcd Women.

Here is it woman who froiii dawn

V till dark is busy with the agtual work

fol‘ a household, with

and ,mp,,1-tam, element, where she may i

. - ' rtance until she attains a 5
g‘°“'”‘ ‘mm ,#l’ut- one or two red peppers, or a

rank not excelled by man. Wasted
yeal-s may be redeiiied, and tliosc wliosfi
chances of education have been sma
may thank their ‘stars’ that a school
is opened where none are too old to
learn.”

its cooking,
sweeping, dusting, mending and gen-
eral moil and toil. There is never one
working consecutive hour lll which
she can, without a. sense of neglected
duties, rest absolutely. She spends
day after day in seclusion at home
without zuiything sparkling and iner-
ry to inspire her, with no very en-
obling thoughts, except in the direc-
tion of' religion, and her religion is
too aiten a compound of ascetic self-
denial and sentimental fervor, rather
than of high principle and holy love.
VVlien she is unequal to the perform-
ance of her tasks, she takes tea, and
as her nerves become more diseased,
more tea. Wit-li neuralgia pain seiz-
ing her in the beginning of that slow
decline which saps the life and happi-
ness of so many of our women before
they reach middle age, she is irritable.
Littlc trials cause her torture, and as
she sees herself constantly falling be-
low her ideal she loses heart, thinks
herself’ a. miserable sinner, and very
likely doubts her claim to the name
Christian. Doubtless she will gain
spiritual help by praying, but she had
better confess to a physician than to
a clergyman. She does not bear petty

l crosses with unfailing sweetness, and

perhaps says many a hasty Word of
which she repcnts, only to repeat the
fault again and again, despite her
prayers and struggles. lVhat ails her

is not temper, but tiredness, and tea, ,

and too hot rooms, a lack of variety
and cheer in her life. Doubtless God
could keep one in a holy and patient
frame of mind who COllSlE:l1'llly violated
every law of health, but there is not
the least warrant for believing that
He ever did or ever will do so, be-
cause if human suffering means any-
thing, it means that we are to learn
by it, not only spiritual truths, but
that t‘ne.soul and body are like yoked
oxeii—if one lies down the other
must, or be sorely cramped. No de-
lusion  more common than that ill-
ness is conducive to saintliness, and
that God sends sickness upon us to
make us holy. On the contrary, sick-
iicss is the penalty of wrong doing,
either by ourselves or our ancestor,
and in many cases should make us
asliained and truly peiiitent.

The «

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L.-\.S'l‘ week, at th: beginning of the
heated term, two eminent scientific
gentlemen of Burlington took a
healthy black-and-tan dog-
and immersed him in a. tub of pure
cistern water, into which a weak
solution of iced tea had been poured.
They held the dog's head under the
water fifteen minutes, although he
struggled violently, thus showing the
natural and instinctive aversion to a

,substance which intelligent human

most devout Christian will have the :
nightmare it he eats half a mince pic I

before going to bed, and a crusty

lows, of Prairie llonde, was admitted 5 beings blmdly and eagerly dunk’ and

when the gentlemen took him out of
the tub he was quite dead. If a. tea-
cupfull of weak iced tea, in a tub full
of water, will kill a dog, think for
yourselves what must be the effect of
a strong, undiluted cup of this dccoc-
tioii upon the system of a weak wo-

I man.—.I;’m-lingtmi _[1‘a.wl:e_7/e.

\\'iIi-"..t'r grains have a vitality which
resists intense cold. .\ sample of
the wheat left by the “Polaris,” in
1871-, in 81° 16‘ north latitude, and
exposed to a temperature varying
from that of summer to that of Win-
ter in that position for five years, was
sown last year by Dr. Sclianburg, of‘
the Botanic Gardens and Government
Plantations, South .'\ustralia, and out
of 300 grains 60 germinated and pro-
duced plants, three and four feet high,
with ears containing thirty grains
each.

The State of Michigan is equal in
area to the eight following States:
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jer-
sey, Vermont, New Hamshirc, Rliodc
Island, l\Ia1'_vland, and Delaware, with
District of Columbia, and enough left
to make another Rhode Island.

TIIE RE.-IPER, DEATII.

Died in Fztbins, St. Joseph County, July 29th,
after an illness ofsix weeks, CHARLES H. HAY,
aged 2: years, eldest son of James T. and Mary
Hay.

Itesoli-er], That the niembers of Corey Grange
No. 201, do feel that we have been afflicted
in the deaili of Brother Charles Hay, who
was called by the great Master above, on
July 29th ; we have lost at much loved officer,
the County Grange a. worthy member, the pa-
rents a loved and dutiful son, his brother and
sisters a beloved brother, and his associates :1
good companion, but that our loss is his gain.

Resolved, That our hall be draped in mourn-
ing for thirty days:

Rcsolred, That it copy of these resolutions be
sent to the GRANGE. VISITOR for publication
and a copy to the family of the deceased.

LUKE Pitniusn,
Lois PARKER,
Corey (}ran;_-;r~, Aug. 7), 137$. (,'GIIlll1llt€:€.

At it regulitr meeting of llellvilic Graiige, No.
2331, held Aug. Lid, 1878, the following preamble
and resolutions were unanimously adopted :

VVIIEBEAS, In view of the loss we have sus-
tained by the deceasc of our friend and associ-
ate, Bro. Tnozms QUICK, and of the still he:tviei.-
loss sustained by those who were nearest and
dearest to him, therefore be it

Itcsolved, That it is but a. just tribute to the
memory of the departed to say that in regret-
ting his removal from our midst, we mourn for
one who was in every way worthy of our re-
spect and regard.

Itesol-bed, That we sincerely condole with
the family of the deceased on the dispeiisation
with which it has pleased Divine Providence to
afilict them, and commend them for consolation
to him who orders all things for the best, and
whose chastisements are meant in mercy.

IE0.»-olverl, That this heartfelt testimonial of
our sympathy and sorrow be forwarded to the
family of our departed brother by the Secretary
of this Grange, and also to the Gnxxiin VISIT-
on for publiczttion.

lioiziax lticcs,

It. P. CLARK,

ALi»:x.-\.\'1>ER Roisii,
Bellville, Aug. .3th, I878. Committee.

Wiiiaitisss, Our worthy Ilrotlicr JA.\U;'$ H.

 l’Iti:sco1"r, has by death been removed from our

temper next morning, and his spirit- ,1

ual agonies will not save him in the
future, unless he adds to his faith
knowledge.— 'W0nzr_m’s Joumal.

ODORS FROM Cooirrivo Piu2vi:N'rno.

few pieces of cliarcoal, into the pot
wlicrc hain, cabbage, etc, is boiling,
and the house will not be filled with
the offensive odor.

midst; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Bro. -ldlilffis H.

1 I’l'€8COl§t, the Grange has lost at faithful and ex-
1 emplary member, and his par-eiits and sister a.

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dutiful son and brother.

Resolved, That we, as a G1-aiigc, tender our
sincere sympathies to the bereaved family in
their afliiction. _

Resolved, That (1. copy of tlitse l‘r<S0lutl0l'lS be

iven to the family, and LL copy sent to tilt:
IRANGE Vl!~'['l‘0l!. for piiblicatioii.

J. H. ]‘lAl:l.\'(.‘,

M. D. Coon’,

E. E. MASON, .
Woodinan Grange, Aug. 11, "I8. Cmnmlttee.

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said a capitalist, the other day. ‘ \\'e
must be more economical. Ten years
ago I commenced working in a mill
in Gold Hill, at a small salary, and in
less than a year I owned the mill and
had some money in the bank.’ ‘ You
are right,’ returned a. listener, with
great entliusiasm. ‘It is possible for a
man to lay up two or three thousand
dollars a month on :1 salary of live
dollars a day; but he must be very
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at the new GRANGE HOUSE,

“OUR I-IO1\’[E,”
(Formerly Sheridan House.)
Corner MAIN and ROSE Streets.

E9519 .1li93lS.v 30 Gene

THOMAS MASON,

188 SOUTH VVATER STREET.
CI-IICAGOe - -
Respectfully solicits Coiisigiimeiits of

FRUITS. VEGETABLES. Bllllili. Eiiifi _
lspring Tooth Cultivator
§Pota.to and Other Bugs.

Poultry, Wool, Hides,
PELTS, TALLOW, and DRESSED IIOLIS.

c.nAm,1-Iocs, and CATTLE ‘

In Car Lois. Also,
1, (,".li1;’1o’1? in Car or (‘urge Lols.
Having a large and coiiveniciitly ariaiigml
House in the business part of the city, We are
prepare to handle goods in any qiiantity, and,
being on the SHADY SIDE of the street, can
show PERISHABLE goods in BEST CONDI-
TION, throughout the day. With

SUPERIOR FACILITIES,

and close personal attention to busiiiess, we

of your patroiiagc.
Orders for goods in this niarket will be filled
at lowest wholesale rates.

Cash must Acconnpnny 01-den-.5
to Insure Prompt Attention.

the Michigan Lake Shore Fruit Growers’ Asso-
ciation.
—REFERE1\l'C ES :—

Mercluuits’ National Bank, Chicago, Ill.

J. J. \\'oodman, Paw Paw, Mich.

J. T. Cobb, Schoolcraft, Mich.

C, L. Whitney, Muskegon, Mich.

R. C. Tate. Pres’t Mich, L. S. F. C». Associaiiuii,

St. Joseph, Mich.
W. A. Brown, Sec’y Mich. L. S. F. G. Ass'ii,
Stevensville, Mich.
RE’ Stencils, S/zipping '1'ug.s-, and ;l[r1)‘/;(:/ .’te~
ports /'urni'slied on apjiliealion.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. niayflll

PRICES REDUCED FOR I878.

INGERSOLLS’

BRUSHES and POTTERY PAINT.

$51» PER CENT SAVED.

1"re1g/it Paid on all Paints and Paris Green
to all Parts ofllie Cozmtr_a/; so it makes no dif-
ference where you live, you get your goods at
the same pL'lC8 as if YOU VVEBE AT THE FAC.
:ror.i'. Our Book,

“HOW EVERY ONE CAN PAINT,”

with specimens of 20 Brilliant Colors, Sewing
Machines, Brushes, Pottery, &c., mailed free
upon, application to PATRONS’ PAINT C0..
162 South Street, New York. _ '

Secretaries send for Circulars for vour wliolc
Grange. ”

T R U S T E E S :

Ssivr’L E. ADAMS, of Minn., Master “ u

EX. Com. National Grange.
MORTIMER WHITEHEAD, N.J., Lee. Nat.G1‘&llgE.
0. H. KELLY, Sec. Nat. Grange, founder of the
Order and Past Master Cal. State Grange.
M. A. WRIGHT, Author Deelai-:it‘n of Purposes.
M. D. DAVIE, Master State Grange, Kentucky.

5-TON STOCK SCALES,
$5 0 ..

FREIGHT PAID, AND NO MONEY AS K
ED TILL TESTED.

JONES, of Bingliamton,
BI.\'GrHAMTOi\’, N. Y.

Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
JONES, or BINGHAMTON :

My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have
subjected it to the most severe tests, and find it
not only correct in weighing large or small
amounts, but per/‘eveily reliable.

Yours, Fraternally,

inuylini

DE’l‘ROIT, - - MICHIGAN

[Signed] J. J. \V'OODMAZ\'.

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B)’ the Day or for Dleailsi

,Patron’s Commission House! I

General lmnmisslon Merchanl.

ILLINOIS. 

Also, Collecting and Distributing Agent ofl

READY lllllDD PAINTS AND PARIS liB.DEN.;

Patrons’ Paint Company. ‘

Ready Mixed Paints and Paris Green, 1

T. A. THOMPSON, Prest., Past Lee. Nat. Giaiige 

Hon. D. \VYA'rr AIKEN, S. 0., Chairman of the 3

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THE TWENTY-SECOND

And Others, Visiting KALAMAZOC,|

(IF ()UR———-

“Descriptive Price List” for the Fall of 1878 is
N

OW READY.

i It is the lllOSi cmnplctc work we ever published. Contains descriptions Illlll
* prices of all classes of goods, such as

NJ):-y (}or)(I.-. G'I()m?.s‘, Ilosiery, lVoh'on.s', Cm'pct.~', Oil Cloth.»-,

or fziinilv use. FREE to any :1drli'ess.

('ufIer_I/V, Silver and Silver Plated Ware, Wcttclies-, Jew-
eh-1/, Sewing iH(wl'u"ne.~', TrmcI.'s, Traveling Bags,
Pi pes, Tobacco, Cigrn-s, Teas, AW).

We also issiie Suppleinents containing prices _of GROCERIES. EU‘. '
LISTS " are ulninst indispensihle to those who desire to purchase any class of goocls ior pem;.,,,,l

These “ l’lll<‘l‘.

.M 0.N"TGO.ME1.’. 1"’ W’./EZRD Q“ 00.,

Tl IE KALAM AZOO

_..on ~—

g HARROWI

.\lanuI"actui'cd by

E D. o. and H. o. nssn & 00.,

l{ALAMAZ()(), MICH.

hope to merit, receive, and retain it liberal share ‘

lS:u.'es Time aml illoney
 TO THE FARMER.

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 F01‘Fll1‘il1Bl‘Pfll‘llGlllfll‘S said in lllllllllal‘.

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We ici-:1‘ fzii'iiiers, by llt'3l'l1ll.\'.\l\)Jl, to

E. O. I‘IUMl’IIR1’.Y, Pres. of State Agric’1 Society,
' \‘v')I. H. Conn, Pres. Kaluniazoo Co. “ “

who n.~'{—«_l this H:t1‘I'O\V' last season.
I). C. and H. C. REED tt (JO.

: ll'1'l] T1? F0]: ()1 .’.’(,*(.”l.;-l RS T0
The PHELPS & BiGELOW
Wind Mill Co.,

Maiiufacturers of the

 
    
     
 

' WIND MILL.
And Dealers in
PUMPS, PIPES,TANKS, tic.

Xos. ll, ill i‘ it i‘{. lliinlick Sl.,

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 Received 1?‘ii'st Award at Michigan State
hair in 1877,
And nnuiy of the Co. Fairs of the State. It is

Easily Dperalel, Simple. Durable and Cheap.

Qfhiugfiosedy each end of the Gate rests upon
8 00 . us removing all tendency to sag the
post. For Gate or Right, address the Patentee,

KARL E. RUDD,
Csssoroms, Mien.

July 1st, ISIS.

 KALAMAZOOJVIICH. '

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. a pound net: put up in l, 3}, :3 and 8 pound p
, :i_sres at llc ll. pound, less 2-)1)eI'(‘C‘lllZ, being .g:;,.

227 and 229 VVab:isli Avc., CHICAGO, |[,|,_

PARIS GREEN

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Put up in ll, 28, -31": :ind_l00 pound 1|f1Cl>({1g(-_<_ H1

' 40 cents a pound, less 2-) per cent, being .‘;O r-ts,

1;.

 

; a pound net.

On all ()i'.lers ol IOO Pounds and ()\'(-r,
“'c will Pay the Freight.

VH3 do not iveiglit the cans as so much l’:iri.<
Grrecu, nsull other iiia.iiLif;I.<:t1irr:i‘s do, In/I 3;/;~.«,
full mei_r//u' 0/‘ I’uri.s Green.

0. R. INGERSGLL, M:1iingci'.
Pzitroiis’ Paint C0., 16;’ South St.. ;\'. \'_
May‘, llltli, 1375’. iii

I VVIn. I-I. HARRIS,

(Successor to N. l). \Vi~;rironE,]

Gaiieiil fin-operative Grange lgeil.

VVESTERN BUSINESS A SPECIALTY.

, No. -18 Corondolct Street, New Orleans.

and ‘J00 of the best fai'inei's of K:il:i.ni::zoo Co., E

 as 
7:.’ e.o.e e

Orders for Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Rice, and
all Southern products filled at VVholes:ilc cash
prices. Consignments of Flour, Meal, Baucii.
Lard, Corn, Oats, Hay, \Vheat, Bran, Apples.
Potatoes, Cabbage, Butter, Eggs, Poultry and
Stock solicited. fsend tor Circulzir.

COLVINS’

EUREKA BEE - HIVE

and I~Io1-icy llac-l+:.~‘.
MADE ON AN ENTIRELY NEW l’L.\.\'.
A Great Advancement in B};lE-CUL'l‘l'lll‘..

l Gives UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION where-

l introduce d.

Sample Hive—Complete, - - $3.50.
Liberal discount on large Orders.

Address,
MCCALL &: V’VlLl.L\M§,

Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo ($0., Miflll

Eclipse Automatic Gate,  German Horse and low Puwdei.

It should he the aim of every farmer to ll‘l.’ll(l9

. his l10I‘S€S and cattle as handsome and usetu

‘ as possible. Nearly every teamster who drives
' ateani of very fine horses feeds C0l](lli10ll

Povvders, either openly or secretly. _

The German Horse and Cow Powder 1S_Uf
the highest value for stock. It aids digestion
and assimulation. It helps to develop all the
powers ot the animal. It improves its beimtl"
and increases its usefulness. It makes fat and
milk. By using it a. horse will do more work:
andacow give more milk, and be in better
condition, with less feed.

By giving poultry a heaped tablespooiiful
occasionally in a quart of chop, it will keel‘
the-m_healthy and increase the quuntity of 893‘-"
By giving hogs a. large heaped tablesp0_0!1f“l'
with the same quantity of salt, in a halt p€_
of sealded wheat bran for every four hogs, W'“""
a week you will prevent HOG DISEASE.

Put up in five pound packages, six package‘
in 21 box. at 12 cents a pound; or in six P““".
boxes at ten cents a. pound. The receillt 15
posted on each package and box. Made bl‘ r’
Oberholtzer, at his mills, No. 2 Fetter L8“?
Philadelphia, Pa. Sold by R. E. JAME;»
Kalamazoo Co—operative Association; N°' 
North Burdick St... Kalamazoo, Mich., Mlfl b-‘_
J. M. CHAMBERS, Illinois State Businefib
Agent, Chicago, 111., at the Lowest Wholesale
Price, when OTIIPTEII umler the seal '’
Grange, mayl5'“

M.4!<h<|J.-4.1.1.